[There Will be Brawl ST – The March to Brawl]


残り:四の影/ Remnant's Four Shadows

End of Remnant, Episode 21: Pay for the Present


[Mars]

Morale was dropping among Griseo's crew and going down fast. The mooks were all basically terrified of being slaughtered by the guy Griseo laughed off as a joke. The generals and everyone else were asking Griseo and Towa a simple question. CAN YOU TAKE HIM ON? Griseo did his best to play it cool citing for all Yuki's power…he was still one man.

"We have an army, people! Maniacs, killers, geniuses, and supervillains the likes he will never have nor seen! So here I say, I will defeat him. No, we will defeat him! Besides, Towa would easily be able to stop whatever army he could muster." Griseo said as she nodded. "So yeah, I can take him on. Especially with my ultimate weapon. Eggman, are you and your scientists completed with the Razor?"

"It's still unstable. Are you sure trusting Fawful to use this 'Dark Star' to surmount your power it is a good idea?" Eggman asked.

"Is it usable?!" Griseo snapped.

"Yes, but…"

"Good, then ready it." Griseo hissed. "And where's Luthor?"

"I'm he-"

WHAM! Griseo punched him in the face.

"You're late and I don't toler-"

Static from the loudspeaker interrupted them before a familiar voice was humming on it before speaking.

"I've coming at you with an announcement: Griseo's a limp-wristed little bitch. I just wanted to put out there for all to hear of how much of a cowardly limp dick he is. Pissing on my friends like a coward, do like it a man in front of them! But I guess all your boasting is to compensate for what little you actually have." Yuki bellowed as Griseo went red with anger.

A few caught off guard were trying not to laugh given Yuki was sounding unhinged.

"Because Griseo, I have no such issue in pissing all over you and Towa before smacking you across the face with it. I'd piss on your face, but you'd probably like it."

That got more people laughing, some red-faced, and Griseo furiously screaming he was not into that nor that he was impotent.

"Insolent bastard!" Griseo screamed.

"Insolent? Bitch please, you can't even keep Superwoman around. A real fine one she was…but she's jumped ship and fucked your group over…." Yuki taunted. "Isn't that right, Mary?"

"Sorry, Griseo. But he's just more of a man than you." Mary said before getting nothing but silence.

To say Griseo exploded was an understatement. His 'allies' promptly decided to get out of the room when he essentially had a temper tantrum wanting to punch the nearest face.

[-]

[Earth]

"Sweet Celestia, that was hilarious!" Rainbow Dash said rolling on her back laughing.

His little speech got laughs, looks of disgust, and people trying not to laugh at the crass.

"Good to know that even as a god, your humor is still intact." Ivory said as he swigged another drink. "But I didn't think you could actually hack the building all the way from here."

"I function as not only the God of the Grimm Slayers and the Silver Eyed Warrior. I am the God of Technology as well." Yuki said hauntingly.

"Speaking of divinity, you have responsibilities for that. I should probably run you through it. Dealing with followers, prayers, acts committed in your name, worshippers, your realm." Chronoa remarked as Yuki pouted.

"I think the guardians have it handled. I guess I should learn their names when I go back to the Spire." Yuki remarked. "Right now, I'm going to keep trolling Griseo. Not only am I going to demoralize him, but his troops. They're not going to get no sleep tonight."

Yuki's slasher smile went straight into deep laughter.

"Yuki, I have a complied a playlist of songs to troll Griseo with." Serena said before a screen appeared in front of it.

"Hard light…much slicker. Nice." Kelly said impressed. "Can you upgrade our scrolls?"

"Soon, Kel. I need to start trolling the crap out of Griseo and his men. When I'm done, Griseo will have gone mental hell and his allies will either flee or jump ship….or get killed by us." Yuki said before cracking his knuckles.

[-]

[Mars]

Karai (2k3) was someone who believed in mental discipline, but she had a limit. Nyan Cat, the damned song was playing full blast on the speakers through the building. And they could not stop it without nothing short of ripping the speakers out to which many cited was not a good idea. Griseo was already on a mode of pure rage about it, screaming at the scientists to fix it.

Then it stopped. Karai (2k3) closed her eyes hoping for some sleep only to open them to hear the sound of bowels being emptied into the toilet…the squelching sound of shit being excreted. She could hear the groans of annoyance and disgust. People were leaving to get out of the building to sleep somewhere else after a half hour of ass blasting…then it stopped leaving the building silent. Karai (2k3) went for the earplugs and downed a few sleeping pills.

It barely helped. By the next morning, Griseo was convinced this was Alqadr's doing, and he was adamant that it was his former friend that was screwing with him. Things only continued to deteriorate when Kukido shot the cook which forced someone else to handle cooking breakfast.

"This tastes like shit!" Konan remarked.

"Cooking isn't exactly my strong suit!" Livewire argued.

"Why didn't you order food?!" Griseo snarled before throwing the plate at her. "Go get us a caterer, you overgrown bugzapper!"

"Yes…boss." Livewire growled before leaving.

"Wapol, what's the status on hunting Alqadr?" Griseo asked politely.

"Progress is slow. However, we have another issue. People are deserting, and rumors are growing that they are joining up with Alqadr." The king remarked as Griseo's eye twitched.

"Sir, I-"

The speakers came alive with another song.

[Cues: Conker Live & Reloaded OST – Poo]

The jazzy beat mixing the rippling of ass just killed many people's appetites.

"Ok, I swear to whoever is hacking the speakers, I will tear their eardrums out!" Femme Fatale screamed throwing a coffee cup at the wall.

[Music Ends]

"I got it! I finally got it to stop!" Dr. Wily excitedly as the music abruptly stopped.

Everyone took a big sigh of relief…but that relief did not last long. Instead of music coming on the speakers, it was a dramatic reading…a piece of erotica no one wanted to hear about Dr. Eggman and Dr. Wily.

"My ears! Can't we have poop jazz back?!" Griseo wailed.

Alqadr had gotten a report from the spy in the building. Alqadr never figured he'd be a leader, but stranger things had happened. Simply put, the Ronin gangbanger he spared tried to escape the planet. It did not work, and he had saved her life. He was not even sure why at first, but he came to realize that having numbers would give him an advantage to surviving. Plus, he realized he could screw over Griseo's hold on the city though aiding the people of Mars to fight back.

"It seems our unknown troll is still fucking with Griseo, Alqadr." Ichika said. "Man, I'm so glad I left when I did. Thanks again for saving my neck."

"Don't mention it. And it's obvious that it's Yuki doing it…after he called him out. He's coming for him and if we can get on his good side, he'll be less likely to kill us." Alqadr remarked.

"Less likely?" Monkey Fist asked.

"I'm going to be honest with you, he'll probably won't kill us. The best thing for us to do is to stay the fuck out of his way when he shows up. We get a ship so we get out of his way…speaking of…which. Motor Ed, is it done?" Alqadr asked.

"Serious talk, it's been ready for a while! I managed to upgrade that cruiser she wrecked, I was adding a sick paintjob and an ice cream machine!" Motor Ed said excitedly.

"Wait, already?!" Alqadr said surprised as Motor Ed nodded. "Great! Thanks, I guess we can get the hell out of here before Yu-"

"He's here." Morgaine Le Fay said as the group all went pale. "He's in this universe."

"We're dead. We're all goin-" One gangbanger before Alqadr shushed that gangster.

"No, the best case for us to…is to go to him and join him. He's a God now, he needs followers." Another one said. "We offer to worship him, and he won't kill us. Or at least join his side in the war."

"That's not a bad idea." Morgaine remarked. "I detected a strong magical presence in this universe on this universe's Earth. My attempt to investigate it led to me being electrocuted…it felt feminine in nature, but…I'm certain."

"Fe…Maiden magic? There was a woman with him…if this is the case. This is the chance we're waiting for. Can you get into contact?" Alqadr asked her.

"I can try, but I need get out of the city." Morgaine said.

"Motor Ed, ready the ship. Ichika, recall our spy. We're leaving this dump today." Alqadr remarked.

[-]

[Earth]

"Your genius plan is pranking them?" Sakura asked annoyed. "That's stu-"

"Silence!" Serena remarked. "Don't you see he's psychologically torturing our enemies to make him less of a threat or do you want an enemy with more likelihood of giving us more casualties?"

Sakura immediately went quiet realizing that she made herself look foolish.

"I'm trying to minimize the possible casualties, but please…criticize my idea while you sit on your flat ass." Yuki sniped. "I am not giving Griseo a fair fight. Honorable means are for fighting tournaments or friendly battles. Besides, aren't you a ninja? It's in the job description to fight dirty."

"You walked into that one, dumbass." Lynn Jr said with a snicker.

Sakura flipped her and him off before storming off.

"You're just going to let her flip you off?" Noire asked.

"She's not worth the effort." Yuki said rolling his eyes. "Besides, while the psychological war is going on, we need to be readying our weapons for war for the day of attack."

"Still, this is childish." Salem retorted.

"Miss Daddy Issues wants to talk childish." Lapis (Kristal) asked. "Kindly walk that back."

"You know I can put you in the gr-"

"Not while there's blood in your veins." Lapis said icily.

Katara did not know how to feel about Lapis seeing blood bending as no big deal. It had creeped her out and reminded her of Hama…a bit too much. She supposed that unlike Hama, Lapis was not crazy. Team YUKI's fervent pragmatism and their level of cynicism was a bit off-putting to some of the more optimistic members of the bunch. From what those of that team's world said, Team YUKI was a product of their world screwing some wide-eyed kids into the people they saw now.

"Ok, I've worked on doing what I can fine-tune as much of our weaponry as we can." Dexter said adjusting his glasses.

"Good, I've been waiting for this day. To finally get revenge." Blade remarked.

"Is revenge really going to make you happy?" Gwen asked.

"Don't answer. I could feel his pain…he is like me." Yuki said getting up to walk over to Blade. "He has the right to revenge if it's justified. The question is…is it justified?"

"The woman was my aunt and she sold me and my friends out to my parent's killer." Blade said as Yuki glared at Gwen.

"I'm sorry, but that revenge sounds pretty justified, Ms. Tennyson." Yuki remarked.

"Killing her isn't going to make it better." Gwen snapped.

"Gwen, you don't get it. I've been fucked over by that cunt of the woman that's my aunt. I have to live with the dirty work she had manipulated me to do. I know it's different for people but killing her will bring me some level of peace." Blade snapped back hotly. "And I'm already living with the consequences of blood on my hands because of her…. this is probably the only time it'll mean something. With her gone, I can truly live."

Gwen was silent and uncomfortably backed off. Ben simply groaned internally for not seeing the signs sooner. They knew Shirin had issues as she had shown obvious signs, but Blade had the mask up quite tightly…enough to fool them all.

"I noticed you have silver eyes." Yuki said looking down at Blade. "Heterochromatic like mine."

"I used to have two silver eyes, but the time jump…along with exposure mutated me. Gave me a green right eye and bright green hair." Blade remarked before Yuki laid a hand on his hand.

"For it is through our silver eyes that light the path. It is through our force of will, we can rise above all to bring hope to the world." Yuki said as Blade began to glow. "I welcome you, new warrior. I release your soul, and by my shoulder, you can protect the life that is precious to you and serve death to those to threaten it."

It was a brief flash, but he had awakened Blade's aura. One could call he awakened Blade's Silver Eyes as his green eye flickered to being silver and back for a moment.

"Interesting, so you can make SEWs out of silver eyed off-worlders." Noire remarked. "I suppose seeing you are the God of Silver Eyed Warriors now, that's a given. But what will come of this is a new generation of SEWs with higher potential then the last batch."

"Well then, let's see what comes out then." Yuki said before looking at Blade. "And you may get a super cool semblance. A power to call your own…that will awaken."

Serena came pinged right front of them.

"Someone trying to contact us from Mars." Serena said as that got everyone's attention. "A magic user…"

"But I killed Tala?" Mary said.

"Clearly, you didn't." Shego snarked.

"She calls herself Morgaine Le Fay and she seeks audience with you." Serena said as Yuki calmed everyone down. "Shall I put her on screen?"

"Yes, but I'll deal with the call in private." He said as he and Serena left the group to take it.

Serena had formed a screen for her to be introduced to Morgaine Le Fay. A golden mask on the woman's face hides her apprehension.

"You seek audience with me?" Yuki asked.

"Not under Griseo's order. On my own. Me and a number of others had fled Griseo. Some from his mistreatment and recently…his decline in stability. Alqadr is our leader..." Morgaine remarked.

"The shark guy? Ok, so you all don't want to get killed and you all want to jump ship. What do I get out of this?" Yuki asked. "What do you even offer to me?"

"I offer my servitude. I know I cannot go back to my home universe and I'm not foolish enough to think I can face you in battle. I only agreed to join Griseo because he promised to aid in freeing me from my cursed state." Morgaine remarked before explaining a bit into detail about it.

"I see. I'd be willing to help you, but I will be holding you to your word." Yuki said sternly.

"Of course, Grimm Slayer. As for our group, several have expressed a desire to worship and follow you. But their loyalty is also to Alqadr, he has kept them…and me alive." Morgaine said. "So, we have a simple deal…"

A deal was made. Serena and Yuki returned to the group to let them know of the deal part of the conversation.

"You're just going to pardon, Alqadr?" Cael asked. "He-"

"Alqadr has managed to get a decent army of people sick of Griseo and is actively causing another headache for him. So much so, Griseo thinks Alqadr is trolling him. He's so hyper-focused on the shark man, he's forgotten about me. Buying all of us time and the element of surprise. Look, I don't like it either, but if I wanted to get his group on our side, I had to." Yuki remarked. "At this point, I'm not exactly shedding tears for him killing half of NDGO."

"This is fucked, but we need all the help we can get against Griseo." Ayla said with a sigh. "But if he decides to tur-"

"I'll personally tear his heart out and roast it if he thinks he can backstab us." Yuki said darkly. "With Alqadr's support, we can accelerate our plan of attack to high noon. So, get ready, we're going in deep. It's time to fight for the future." Yuki said as the wind blew his hair.

(A/N: It's go time, final battle begins next chapter. It's finally time to bring this story to grand close. I do want to announce that Our Anti-Hero Academia is going through a bit of a delay…due to certain canon reveals.)

(A/N: (Update 7/24/2022): I noticed that I never came full circle with Morgaine Le Fay, and that's going to be dealt with. I suppose this means that the chapters get changed…and this will affect the sequel series too.)