Ballad of the Physics Police
Chapter 69: The Obligatory Big Fight Scene
"Crud!" Goku screamed, as the Z-Senshi surveyed the trail of blood and dead, rotting bodies of all sizes and races that Agony had left in her wake. He glanced around at his friend Kuririn, and his son Gohan. They had accompanied him to the last room where Agony had been sighted by a living person, and found that whoever they had been, they were no longer living.
Kuririn agreed with Goku's expletive and pulled out a mobile communicator that Bulma had rigged up. "Any luck on your end, Trunks?"
"The lavender-haired youth's voice crackled over the device. "If by luck, you mean trails of dead bodies, then yeah. We've had plenty of 'Luck'—so much that I'm sick of it. She's alive, Goku, there's not any doubt in my mind."
"'Fraid so," Goku agreed.
"Remind me to thank Erik whenever I see him, for making me forget the first time she killed me." Trunks said, not hiding both how emotionally distraught he was, and sounding quite queasy as well.
"How's you're dad holding up?" Gohan asked his friend, and, in another dimension, apprentice.
"About as stoic as ever. Thank Dende he isn't pondering suicide this time."
"I heard that," Vegeta's voice said.
"Guys!" The third team, consisting of Goten, Piccolo, and Pan, reported, with Pan as the spokesperson, "I didn't see it myself, but... Piccolo says he found a trail of FRESH victims with his blood scent. Get over here ASAP!"
"Right!" Goku grabbed his son and compadre and used Instant Transmission to quickly collect Trunks, Vegeta, and Yamucha, and arrive at Pan's location quickly.
"Follow me," the Namekian said.
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Unfortunately for Erik, (or perhaps for Agony) he found her first.
"Burning Penance!" Erik cried, unleashing a brand new attack on the spot—a holy charm that lashed out, burning as it went into Agony's face and exploded, blasting away her evil flesh. The flesh she had stolen from Ecks.
It healed, as always, and Agony charged Erik with her sharpened claws, lashing and slashing in a furious display rivaling the one Erik had used on her earlier. But Erik kept up with her, swinging the new Evil's Bane Katana that Dr. Fate had forged for him out of a mixture of Nth Metal and Molybdenum Steel. He also had been helped in other ways: "This ki upgrade that the Elder Namek gave me feels really good," he called Agony by his favorite expletive for her. "I can even keep up with you now!"
The two went into a flurry of cutting and slashing, their limbs and weapons blurring with motion. Erik flung his sword high, at Agony's head, but she blocked with her right hand and flung a sharp blade at him with the other, which he had to disengage and reverse to deflected. He drove his sword forward towards Agony's skull, but she leaned back, knowing what this blade could do to her.
"Don't you ever give up?" she asked, suddenly spewing a stream of blue fire from her mouth, covering Erik in it. "Oh, right. Let me answer that for you. NO!"
The blaze consuming Erik grew hotter as Agony willed it to. He rolled away, trying to put the blaze out, even has his hairs were singed by the heat. Curses. I should have seen that coming!
Suddenly, a soothing torrent of water poured on him. He looked up to see Garth, the former Aqualad, now called Tempest. Garth leaped up to avoid a dart from Agony and hurled a fireball at her—she welcomed it, subtly changing her perspiration to be flammable right before it hit, causing the fire to consumer her.
The pain gave her a spasm of pleasure and she walked forward, still burning like the hell wench she was. "She really does enjoy pain," Garth whispered.
"ARGH!" Erik jumped to his feet, right as Agony stepped into position. "INSANITY LIGHT!" Vengeance dived to the side of the hall and launched the attack, just as the door behind her opened and two adhesive strands lashed out and grabbed her by the ankles. The attack by Erik and the webs of Spider-man conspired to drag Agony into the SERAI room, where the other heroes were waiting. (Except for the Dragon Ball heroes, who arrived shortly later.)
Agony barely had time to react, when a Diablo Rogue attacked her with a holy sword, severing an arm and opening her up to a powerful kick from Spider-man. Agony flew up, suddenly feeling the painful wrath of over one hundred superheroes, and loving it. The tore into her, the League, the Avengers, et all...
And Agony drank the pain up. Superman darted down, pistoning his fists into her face, breaking bone and such. The pain let her re grow her severed arm, and she used the sudden healing to her advantage—thrown off the change, the heroes never saw her attack coming. Agony lashed out all five fingernails on the repaired hand, cutting through superheroes and spraying blood everywhere. As they looked around, the only death appeared to be the Diablo Rogue that had severed her arm in the first place.
Superman continued to fight, but it was clear Agony was recoiling less and less from his blows as her own chi grew stronger.
The Green Lanterns Kyle Rainer and John Stewart flew in to help, blasting at Agony with their rings, all the while Superman pummeled her with his fists, and occasionally blasted his heat vision into her face...
But nothing hurt her! And to make it worse, Agony was just LAUGHING the whole time, enjoying the brutality they were inflicting on her.
She enjoyed dishing it out just as much. Blasting up with speed rivaling the Flash, Agony began raining down bolts of red fire—her fingernails launching off and bursting into plasma, tearing through the superhero crowd. The ones that could erected shields for the others.
Never the less, when it was over, Tim Drake and Bruce Wayne staggered over dead, their insides oozing out in a pile of melted goo, unable to bear the assault not being metahumans and having no defense against the evil woman's assault...
"BRUCE!" yelled Superman! But rather than examining the body he knew was dead, he charged Agony, ready to pound the witch into submission—when he was cut short by Agony's grabbing his throat. She opened her mouth...
And revealed a green glow inside.
"HOW?" Clark asked, even as he felt the weakening effects. Agony breathed the Kryptonite radiation out on him, and Clark began to suffocate. The Green Lanterns attacked, as did Superboy, Iron Man, and the Silver Surfer, but their efforts were complicated when Agony erected an energy shield with a wave of her hand.
"I'm busy," she said quietly. Hurling Superman against the simulated stone wall of the holographic British castle that the SERAI was simulating, Agony coated her fingers in the deadly irradiated green substance and stabbed the nails into Kal-El's chest, and he screamed out in horror and pain at being violated. She continued to carve, none of the Superheroes able to do anything about her shield, even as the red blood leaked onto Superman's blue costume.
But Superman just refused to scream again. He saw the pleasure in his eyes, and determined to not give that to her ever again! Her fingers continued to cut and open, eventually allowing her to plunge her entire hands into Superman's torso, and the blood leaked out all the more. Agony began fluctuating energy and temperature at different points on her hands, causing the Kryptonian severe anguish.
"Go ahead," she said. "Let it out. Scream till your heart is content. You won't have one much longer."
Superman continued to refuse.
Agony began tugging at his internal organs, slicing through a rib, here, puncturing a lung there. Then she placed her right hand around his heart.
"SCREAM! SCREAM ALREADY!" Agony cursed and swore at Superman, demanding that he scream, that he show some reaction to the torment she was causing him, but he did not.
"I..." Clark said laboriously, "will.. not... humor... a sadist... lie YOU!" And with the last word, he looked up and red beams exploded from his eyes, tearing through Agony's face and knocking her away from him.
As Agony's head reformed, the suffering Kryptonian was horrified to hear her laughing—LAUGHING!
"Humor me," she said. "How much voltage does it take to kill a Kryptonian? Let's find out! One... Two... THREE!"
Agony used the powers of the Rogue she had killed and cast chain lightning, and continued to cast it. The red evil electrons crackled out, filling the air inside Agony's bubble shield with ozone and tearing through Superman's open chest cavity, pinning him to the wall. "DIE! DIE! DIE!" Agony screamed.
The heroes continued in their attempts to penetrate Agony's shield, but it was no use—she had grown too strong. And with Superman about to breath his last, she was about to get a whole lot stronger.
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"NO!" Omi screamed. "Superman is about to bite it! We have to do something!"
"If she can kill him, she can kill us!" GoChibi counter argued.
"Teleport in the medics. Send Dende. He should be able to heal Supes right up," Ryoko reasoned.
"OK. Sending medics." Omi said.
GoChibi announced, "The Captains Marvel are also prepped. I'm getting ready to drop them into the SERAI."
"Good." Omi glanced back at Celeste, who was growing worried...
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Having quickly recovered from using Insanity Light, Erik started towards the SERAI room, suddenly noticed that time had sped up inside, and to them, he was movign incredibly slowly. Indeed, it looked like Agony was about to kill Superman! That did not bode well.
"OH," but before he could finish swearing, Goku and the rest of the Dragon Ball Z gang blasted by them. "Goku!" Erik blurted.
"It's good to see you again, Erik" Goku said. "Though, I wish it were under different circumstances."
"Let's go make Agony feel her namesake," Erik agreed.
The Z-Warriors entered.
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"Now where are we going?" asked the Teen Titan Savior.
"I have a stop to make," Phil said, reprogramming the dimensional gateway, "before we go destroy Agony."
"If she is so terrible and bad, then how do you know your plan will work?" Savior asked.
"Yeah. Did the author tell you?" Ralph asked.
"Not this time," Phil admitted. "But I have a feeling."
Savior arched his eyebrow at the mention of the Author, but let it slide. He had enough of such crazy theories back home. "What part, pray tell, do I play in this, anyway?"
"Agony does not speak German," Phil said. "That is a problem my plan must overcome for this to work."
"I don't speak German!" Noel blurted. "And if you're thinking what I think you're thinking, it won't work. I've already tried it," he said, thinking of one Robert Candide.
"It will work on her," Phil insisted.
"You've gone insane," Ralph sighed.
"Always been there," Phil reminded him.
"Oh, yeah."
Savior was growing more and more uncomfortable.
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The three merged from the void between dimensions in a beautiful forest, filled with, as most forests are, trees. It also had quite a bit of grass and the like.
"Where are we now?" Ralph asked.
"The Fairy God-Mother's potion shop," he said.
"As in from Shrek 2?" Noel blurted, recognizing the familiar CG environments.
"Yes, from Shrek 2. Well, technically the correct term is Universe TY-32-324G-SK but... never mind that."
The two walked through the woods till they came across the potion shop.
"Rob was right. I don't believe it, but Rob was right." Noel could not believe it.
"Rob?" asked Ralph?
"The bane of my existence," Noel explained.
"Ah." Ralph said. "I used to have one of those," he said, thinking of Gertrude. He wondered how she was doing with Juan and that French Chateaus thing.
Using his badge to get him places, Phil reached the Godmother's private room in record time. "Hello, Godmother," Phil said. "Physics Police."
The godmother looked up from the potion she was stirring and gasped "Whatever it is, it wasn't me! I haven't done anything wrong!" She insisted, casting spells to hide certain ingredients she'd been using.
"No, you haven't," Phil said, "nothing we have jurisdiction over, anyhow," Phil walked over and placed a hand on her desk. "I need you to make me a love potion."
Ralph and Noel goggled. "A LOVE POTION! Phil, this is no time to think about your love life! People are dying!"
Phil cut him off, snapping in anger, "I know that. Trust me here. What is Agony's least favorite thing in the worlds?"
"Love?" Ralph answered.
"Love?" Noel asked confused.
"Exactly! I theorize that I—we can use a love potion as a neurotoxin
." He turned back to Godmother. "I'm going to watch you make it. It cannot—I repeated CANNOT—have any lust, or any other sin in it. That will only make Agony stronger."
"Oh, fine," said the ancient winged woman. "I'll get to work. But I expect to be well paid!"
"You will be. Just worry about taking care of that son of yours."
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Dende began to heal the severely wounded Superman, just before realizing that he didn't have any idea about Kryptonian physiology. Neither did his helpers, the Starcraft medic that had been beamed in beside him, and the young, mildly Force sensitive Jedi healer Chadra-Fan named Tekli.
The three went to work doing the best they could, but Superman was barely improving.
Ami Mizuno dashed over and began demanding answers. "What is going on? He's one of the best here! We need him!"
"I'm sorry," said the Medic angrily, "but I know nothing about this guys body. His insides are turned to mush, and I have no idea what is going on here. I'm doing the best I can to fix him, and it's all the green guy can do keep him from going brain dead." The medic paused a minute. "So you should just shut up and let us do our job."
The medic fought back tears of confusion and frustration as she went back to work, not quite understanding the forces involved in this conflict.
"Fine," said Ami. She ran off towards the battle, where the three Captains Marvel—Captain Marvel, Captain Marvel Jr., and Mary Marvel—were fighting with the evil which Agony. Suddenly, the other Senshi were with her.
"We should help out," Usagi said.
"MOON PRISM POWER... MAKE UP!" She said, using her locket to transform into Sailor Moon.
"Mercury Power... MAKE UP!"
"MARS POWER... MAKE UP!"
"JUPITER POWER... Make up!"
"Venus POWER. MAKE up!"
Suddenly, the five teenage girls became the five soldiers of the Moon Kingdom. "On my mark," Usagi called, having grown a brain, and into her role as leader quite gracefully.
"Moon Tiara Boomerang!" The glowing Tiara lashed out, cutting into Agony's face just after it had been pierced by Mary Marvel's fist.
Spider-man swung in and wrapped Agony tight in webbing, and Captain Marvel continued his assault.
"I think that Tiara attack actually hurt her!" Makoto said.
"Of course!" Ami realized.
"I'm the Senshi of Love and Justice," Sailor Moon announced. "And if what GoChibi told us is true, then love hurts her!"
"Does that mean..." Rei thought aloud. "That Usagi can defeat Agony?"
Ami, being the only one who remember that Usagi had been stupid her whole life up until the time shift, nearly facevaulted.
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Unfortunately for the Sailors, Phil had other plans when it came to Agony's defeat. "Thank you, Godmother," he said, taking the potion and handing over 500 of the currency of Shrek's Universe—gold coins.
"You're mighty welcome," she said, testing to make certain the money was real.
Phil tossed the vile to Ralph. "Take that on out. I'll be on in a minute."
"Ah-HA!" Ralph blurted. "I knew you had an ulterior motive for coming here."
"Just go, or no Gargle Blasters for a week!"
"Fine. C'mon, Saver."
"Savior."
"Whatever."
When the two were gone. Phil approached the Fairy Godmother, and quietly asked for another potion... something for a bit more of a personal reason...
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The Z Senshi and Erik burst into the SERAI room, just as Superman fell to the ground, and suddenly medics were teleported in to help them, a girl in a white robotic suit, a small rat-like creature, and Dende.
"Is Superman dead?" Yamucha gasped.
"I still sense life in him," Goku said. "But his chi is low. Unless Dende can help him, he will die."
"We don't have the time to wait," Erik said. "Let's galvanize everyone. If we attack simultaneously..."
Suddenly, Agony lashed down a claw and grabbed Ma-Ti of the Planeteers by ramming a fingernail through his right shoulder and then hooking it back through the left one, and jerking the young South American man into her still formidable bubble shield. She began to torture him, and unlike Superman, he was screaming.
"NO!" Goku hurled a huge blast of chi at the shield—it exploded on the shield without so much as a rippled.
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Within the shield, Agony continued to inflict pain on the youth, and the youth cried out, wanting to die. But she couldn't have that yet; she was enjoying his pain too much. She slid a sharp fingernail across his hamstring, digging in deep...
"ARGH!" The boy cried, tears streaming down his face.
"Why don't you cry about it," she mocked. "There really is nothing ELSE you can do."
"HEE..."
"What's that?" Agony asked with a wicked smirk.
"ARRT!" Ma-Ti finished, using what strength he had left to hold his ring to Agony's face.
Amber waves washed over the foul demoness, and she cried out, hurt by whatever he contained.
"HEART!" Ma-Ti repeated more firmly, and the waves increased in intensity, washing over Agony and leaving her writhing in her namesake, still hovering above the shield.
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"NOW!" Goku screamed, both vocally and through a Telepathic link that someone had established between assortment of heroes.
The Z-Senshi cupped their hands, and a cacophony of Kamehamehas and three Final Flashes echoed out, and all the Marvel and DC heroes attacked in tandem, Iron Man with Missiles, Koriand'r with Starbolts—everyone with their own weapon or power. And a brilliant swirl of light and color flashed out as the heroes of twenty fandoms lashed out with their powers, blasting Agony's shield.
This time it rippled, obviously surprising Agony, as, even through the pain Ma-Ti inflicted on her, her lustful eyes shot even wider in shock, and she dropped Ma-Ti as her shield collapsed. She didn't see him beamed out and over to Dende by the diligent girls back in the LRR. No, she was too busy, being consumed by the combined powers. She fired back with her fingernail darts, and extended her hair out in blade-like strands. But it was no use.
Agony rode the beams of power and heat all the way back to the simulated holographic castle.
KRRAAKOOOMM!
Agony was torn apart, her atoms shredded, her molecules broken to their components, and her entire body charred to nothing.
"WE DID IT!" shouted The Flash, Wally West.
"I don't feel her chi anymore," commented Kuririn.
"Does that mean... she is gone for good?" asked Nightwing.
Goku nodded and gave the victory sign. "That wasn't as hard as I thought it would be." Then he looked around. Bodies were scattered about, a quarter of the heroes dying.
"Yes. It was costly," Nightwing nodded. "But..."
"She's still alive," Erik stated. "I can still sense her."
"What?" Someone blurted.
"GET DOWN NOW!" Erik suddenly screamed. "THROW UP A SHIELD!"
The fingernail darts. The ones Agony had scattered allover the ground earlier. They had not been an attack; they had been survival!
Now they lashed throughout the room, cutting into undefended superheroes, and spraying their blood across the ground; everyone who could not find a shield from the Lanterns or otherwise was impaled, skewered. Many heroes keeled over dead, leaving only a relative handful standing as the storm ended and the blades that had wrought the carnage came together. Merging into one mass, the bloody projectiles assumed the shape of a human woman.
"That was fun!" Agony laughed, looking at the remaining heroes.
The Z-Senshi, Superman and his medics, and The Avengers, in addition to Nightwing and most of the League had survived thanks to the Green Lanterns, and Spiderman found himself in Jade's arms, covered by her green flame. Mary Jane is going to kill me if Agony doesn't, he thought.
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"How can anyone beat her?" Erik whispered to himself. "This is it. All of us are going to die here. Unless..." he looked down. The Nth metal blade in his hand. He could easily ram it through her brain and leave it there. She would be unable to heal herself; Nth Metal disrupted magical forces. And as his earlier fight had proved, even Xaxargas' magic was not immune.
"You'll have to get close enough first," Agony said, as if reading his thoughts. Erik was shocked for a moment, and looked back to see...
No. Martian Manhunter, Raven, and Tekli were all safe within the crowed. Even as he acknowledged this, the child of Phil beamed the three healers and Superman out of the room. It would be safe.
Erik let relief swell in him, and turned back around
And looked directly into the eyes of Agony, her face suddenly right in his own, her eyes staring back into his, and the consuming madness within them unnerving even him. "Get away," Erik yelled, lashing with Evil's Bane, stepping into the attack.
But with barely a flick of the wrist Agony drove a hand into Erik's gut as the evil woman pummeled his abdomen, and then knocked him away, causing him to slump against the ground. He felt unable to move. Has she poisoned me?
It didn't matter. It was all his fault. He had brought her here and here she would reign supreme. If even Superman couldn't find a way to stop her...
Suddenly, a red blur caused Agony's head to explode, and white and blue blurs followed it, slamming into the evil woman with intensity, knocking her into the high sky of the SERAI chamber and then laterally as the three continued to unload their pent up rage on her...
"The Captains Marvel," Erik smirked. "Always thought they were a bit too... good to take on Agony. And maybe that will allow them to do it…"
The three continued to assault her, with Captain smashing into her back, driving his foot through it and spraying her wicked blood onto Mary, who, in her fit of rage, did not care. CMJ flew circles around the combatants, blasting in for a destructive blow whenever they let up, and generally doing the most damage of the three.
But all the while, all they managed to do was distract Agony. She ENJOYED the beating, and that only made Mary Marvel even madder. In a blaze of fury, she pounded into the evil woman... And then was caught by the throat. "Thanks. I needed that," Agony said.
Captain exploded forward, putting all the power of Zeus into a thunder charged punch that blasted Agony back against the wall of the SERAI chamber. And then he did something unexpected; he dashed down below her, grabbed her and began to crush her with his bare hands.
This move shocked everyone present, especially the wounded Superman...
"SHAZAM!" he screamed, and Lighting from the ancient wizard blasted down, striking Agony.
"SHAZAM!"
"SHAZAM!"
"SHAZAM!"
The other two Marvels drew close, hovering underneath Captain, and uttering their own words of transformation, reigned the fire of the Six Thunders down on Agony, burning through her body and leaving nothing but ash, in an awesome display of might and electricity.
Marvel dropped the charred husk of a body to the ground, and several of the still-living heroes dashed over to quickly finish the job.
But they weren't quick enough, as Agony recovered almost instantly, and drove a spear through the person who happened to get there first: Kuririn.
Erik looked at Goku's face as he watched his best friend die yet again. It did not flinch. In Goku's mind, giving that woman one hint of the pain he was feeling inside would be letting her win.
"NO!" Captain Marvel flashed over to Agony like a bullet, and the other Marvels followed suit, driving the evil monster away from the rest, and into a far corner of the SERAI room. "You won't kill anyone else!" Marvel screamed in rage. "YOU WON'T!"
He grabbed her, again lifting her above his head. "SHAZAM!" he bellowed at the top of his powerful lungs. The thunderbolt consumed Agony, and when it was over, there was nothing but vapor.
Which Marvel made the mistake of inhaling...
Suddenly, his neck began to bulge as the Agony vapor inside him began flailing about, her only intent to cause pain. Marvel cried out, and through himself to the ground at Agony's behest. Suddenly, through his every pore, Agony began to leak out, tearing flesh and blood off and taking them with her. And to make it worse, she left Captain Marvel alive through the whole process...
He flew up towards the ceiling before she was done... But she couldn't get away, and spikes of darkness burst forth, slicing through Marvel's flesh while the other two Captains could only stare, watching in horror as their leader was mutilated... Agony's body reformed itself, and she hovered near Marvel with an evil red glow around her. Marvel fell to the ground; he could fly no longer. Slamming into the ground, anguish wracked Marvel's body, until he was able to quietly choke out the world Shazam...
Lighting blasted down, and consumed Marvel's body, healing it and returning to its natural state, a child known as Billy Batson. Agony looked down on him with no pity, only contempt. Normally she would have taken great pleasure in the murder of a child. But today, she had bigger fish to fry. "Get out of my sight," she said bitterly, and hurled a fiery energy dart at the boy.
Thinking quickly, CMJ and Mary Marvel blasted quickly towards the bolt, determined not to let another hero and compatriot die...
And at that very instance, Agony blasted a dark telepathic energy into Superman through what little of her power was left in him, knocking the healers away. And with nothing keeping him alive, Superman also succumbed.
The bolt she hurled at the Marvels suddenly grew in strength exponentially, and it pierced the hearts of both Mary and Freddy before stopping. Billy gasped, choking back the tears that threatened to fall. He would never pleasure this demon in that way!
"NO!" he bit out, and fell into despair. The bolt exploded out, consuming the smaller Marvel's in a crimson flame. When it was over, only skeletons remained, and even those crumbled to ash when they hit the ground.
Breaking his vow, now Billy let the tears flow. But... That... wouldn't do! The monster, he hated her! He wanted nothing more than to see her dead! HE HAD TO FINISH HER!
And something deep with in Billy snapped, and he looked to the sky, lighting crackling around him. A lesser mind might have thought he was going Super Saiyan. But no, his powers were coming from elsewhere.
"SHA-ZAM!" the child bellowed in the voice of 1000 warriors, and suddenly, he was encompassed in an enormous beam of lighting; it permeated his every pore, it cast his body as a silhouette in its brilliance.
And he changed. He drew power from something wiser than Solomon, stronger than Hercules, more enduring than Atlas, more powerful than Zeus, more courageous than Achilles, and faster than Mercury.
KRAKOOM!
When the light and smoke faded, Captain Marvel stood. But he was not himself. His suit was a brilliant gold, his demeanor focused, unshakable. He was not the child Billy Batson anymore—that child died inside. He now was The World's Mightiest Mortal.
"What the—" Agony was cut off when Marvel blurred so fast it would have given Goku difficulty tracking across the 180 meters of distance between the two and planted his fist firmly through Agony's head; her proceeded to pummel her, then did a spin kick that drove her into the wall of the SERAI room, slamming in, and making a crater.
She looked up from her tomb, livid. Nobody did that to her, even if it felt good. And oddly, it didn't feel all that good. She still found it... enjoyable, the pain. But something about this guy annoyed her. Maybe even frightened her… The look in his eyes was unlike anything she'd seen since the day Erik had gotten his accursed sword…
She launched a thousand fingernail darts at the Big Gold Cheese, as sharp and as fast as her power would allow, and they impacted on his chest.. And bounced off, some even breaking as they fell to the ground.
Agony's eyes shot wide, and she cursed.
She inhaled deeply, and then... A flurry of red blasts of energy erupted from her mouth, streaking towards Marvel. He didn't move.
They arrived.
He didn't flinch. In a series of motions so fast it looked like the space between Marvel's right hand and the beams merely blurred gold briefly, and all the attacks were deflected, drawing a gasp of surprise from Agony.
But it was more than that when streaks of gold blasted allover the SERAI room, catching every blast he had deflected and blasting back towards its point of origin, slamming into Agony, tearing through her and causing the most horrible shriek to erupt from her.
She fell to the ground, broken, terminally wounded, and unable to heal, for she was damaged by her own attacks...
But she got up anyway, a chunk of her right bicep gone and burns all across her stomach. She was certainly in a bad way now, and everyone in the room was overjoyed. She cursed at Billy in words rarely uttered in his home, Fawcett City, and then walked forward, slowly drawing towards him, and having a great difficulty doing it.
She staggered forward, now only a meter from him, and coughed up blood.
Captain Marvel raised his hand to smash her across the room in anger; she couldn't take much more. She would be dead...
"Ah, Ah, Aahh," Agony taunted. "You hit me, and you undo everything you worked so hard for. Hit me, and I will heal."
Marvel said nothing, but lowered his hands, and merely glared down at the vile creature that had so willingly delved into abject wickedness. He despised everything about her, but could do nothing, but watch her as she stood in front of him staring at the ground.
"Now," she said, touching him with her hands on his muscled upper arms, as if to embrace him. A terrible shudder ran up his spine and throughout his whole body, numbing him and paralyzing him, and all the revulsion of the world couldn't hold a candle to the feeling in his stomach "I wonder if you can NOT hit me!" She said, and for the first time, she looked up at Marvel, her dark, evil eyes, projecting her consuming madness, her unending lust, directly into the depths of Marvel's soul. "Come on! Resist the urge to destroy me! I dare you!"
Sweat ran down the Captain's face, which contorted into a mask of horror as everyone who had died at Agony's hands, their souls tormented in her black heart, cried out to him in their anguish.
Pure evil.
"Do it!"
Marvel could only mumble.
Her eyes bared down on him more.
"HIT ME!"
The souls cried out in torment, her evil permeated his every cell, his ever molecule... He HAD TO BEAR IT!
Agony laboriously pulled herself up, and kissed him, her eyes just millimeters from his...
"AAHHHGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!" Captain Marvel's eyes would have fallen out of his sockets if they had gotten any wider, as the purest form of revulsion ran through his body, and he snapped, jerking his hand and smashing through Agony, tearing her body to shreds and sending the lower half into the wall of the SERAI room, spattering against it in a mess of blood and gore...
"NO! CAPTAIN MARVEL!" Goku screamed.
The black energy that powered the woman pulled her together, and Captain Marvel collapsed, having seen into Agony's very soul, and unable to do anything but lie on the ground, and stare vacantly at nothing.
She had broken him, and emerged victorious...
Erik swore with every word he knew at her, and some he made up on the spot. No curse in English or Klingon or Ryl or Elvish or the language of Mordor where the shadows lie could fully express how he felt. Neither could any action but one; her complete and utter destruction. He drew Evil's Bane and Redemption. It was time for VENGEANCE.