[DOOM Eternal Soundtrack - Meathook]


残り:四の影/ Remnant's Four Shadows

End of Remnant, Episode 23: Fight for the Right Future [Part 2]


[Mars]

[Cues: BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle OST – Rushing Heart]

On the lower floors, it was an all-out brawl that the resistance was dominating.

"Winter, duck!" Weiss said before impaling a robotic droid with her rapier.

"Thanks, sister." Winter remarked before shooting down a pirate.

"Man, this is crazy." Yang said shooting down a few attackers. "But I have to admit, I don't think any huntsmen can top this."

"Yuki did become a god." Blake remarked slashing through two gang members.

"Ruin the mood, won't you?" Yang snarked.

For Summer, she was eager to be fighting again, especially with her. It was just like old time save for the lack of Grimm. With the last mook on the bottom floor down, Ben was looking for Blade alongside Albedo, Gwen, and Kevin.

"He's upstairs, come on." Gwen said before he followed up the stairs.

"Lapis and company are on their way to regroup. Shampoo, can you help me heal the injured?" Jaune said putting away his scroll.

"Right away." Shampoo said.

Funny enough, Calendar Girl came downstairs to everyone readying to jump her only for her to remark that she is surrendering. CASL had also went up to the upper floors looking to aid Yuki a bit more directly.

[Cues: TMNT2K3 Mutant Nightmare – Foot Ninja Battle]

A few floors up, Blade, Shirin, and Halona had several problems. Namely Hun (2k3) in the way of Katz. Blade's aura awakening had made him stronger, but he was still unskilled with it. It also did not help the three were dealing with backup of a more difficult nature. They had to wait until they could summon their Nanos again. Blade was restrained due to a man who boasted power to turn his body to candy, Shirin was struggling to fend off a ninja with a sword of lighting, and Halona realized her Rad Ripper sidearm was barely doing anything to a woman who controlled fire.

[Cues: Sonic X OST – Chaos]

"Did you really think your toy could stop me?" Volcana asked.

"Katz! You cocksucker!" Blade roared thrusting at his hardened candy restraints.

"You know this brat?" Hun (2k3) asked.

"Murdered his family and make the mistake of missing him." Katz said walking up.

"Murderous bastard." Blade snarled.

"Do you know how little that narrows it down?" Hun (2k3) taunted.

"Could be any of us." Gasparde said putting the squeeze on Blade.

Shirin was forced back against, and she looked at the dire moment before Aoi used his sword to break hers.

"I'd ask if you had any last words, but…" Aoi said before impaling her with the blade. "I don't think you'll be talking!"

The screams Shirin let as off as she was electrocuted reverberated through the room. Despite the pain and being impaled with volts of electricity, she mustered enough strength to cough out blood on Aoi's hand. The same hand he held the sword…without wearing a glove leading to Aoi getting a taste of his own medicine.

[Cues: Doom Eternal OST – Meathook]

Blade tried summoning a Nano only for blood to get his face. Katz shot Aoi and Shirin all while smugly looking at him. Katz's next few words was all white noise to Blade…he simply saw his closet friend was done. Ripped away from world and there was nothing he could do to bring her back. Something in him broke…pushed over the edge and something came out. A bloody scream as his aura glowed hotly...as the aura color went from gray to Fusion Matter green. Blade's green eye glowed and burned….leaving a terrified Halona fell on her behind, crawling backwards to the wall for safety.

[Cues: Doom Eternal OST – Cultist Base]

"I….I….will make you BURN!" Blade screamed as he exploded into greenish-silver flames around his body.

Black goop came from his pores to go all over his body, black with a green outline along his body and eyebrows, giving him a silhouette-like appearance…like Father much to Katz and Halona's horror. Blade's 'shadow suit' was stylized more to be double breasted to give a more mobster look even forming a fedora on his head. Blade turned to Katz who promptly was backing away, but Blade turned his attention on Volcona. She tried roasting him alive, but he tackled her before choking her with his burning hands.

"I want to hear you scream!" Blade crazily said as he burned Volcana's throat. "To give Katz a sample of what I'll do to him before I kill him slowly and painfully!"

Volcana was trying to fight him off as she struggled to breathe. All she could do is looking into the wide eyes of someone who clearly wanted to kill her.

"You want to breathe? Ok, let's stop that! Teewat Ligara." Blade said glowing with magically as he pulled the air right out the woman's lungs.

Volcana spent her last moment choking before he used his flames to asphyxiate her. Halona was scared…she had seen it before. The moments where Blade sent red and did not stop until what caused it was dead. Shirin had those moments too. Those were rare moments that reminded her how terrifying they could be, but this made all those moments look like tantrums.

[Music Ends]

Ben, Gwen, Kevin, and Albedo would arrive to horror show as Blade turned to Katz….and saw what Blade did to him. Blade grabbed Katz with a tendril that formed out from his back dragging Katz to him.

"Hun, help!" Katz screamed.

The brute bolted decided he'd go after someone else as Blade proceeded to choke the life out of Katz.

"Who's laughing now, Katz, c'mon laugh! I can't hear you!" Blade manically said as he squeezed tighter.

BLAM! A gunshot tore through Katz's head but not from Blade….but from Halona holding his dropped VICE 9.

"Blade, please. It's over…" Halona pleaded before Blade flung Katz's body into the wall before whirling on her.

Ben and company were ready to jump in only for him to stop seeing Halona's pleading face. The haze of anger was fleeting turn into worry as the tendril vanished as the shadow suit faded…putting him back in what he wore before. Halona dropped the gun falling to her knees, the weight of having taken a life herself weighing on her.

"Halona, Blade…I…oh my god, Shirin's…" Gwen said seeing Shirin's body. "I am so sorry."

"She had my back…I finally got revenge…but I lost my best friend." Blade said defeated. "I got the power I needed to fight back…but it was too late to save…"

A cough got their attention. Blade looked over to see what was only be a miracle being that Shirin was clinging to life as Aoi missed her heart by inches. His mind raced for a solution and had an idea before moving over Ben and Albedo.

"Ben, turn into a Chronosapien, Albedo…I need you to become a Galvan Mechomorph, go ultimate if you have to. Gwen, Kevin, Halona…guard the corners. Make sure no one interrupts the process. Albedo can overshadow Ben, upgrade his time controls for you both to use a time ray to reverse the damage on her reverting her to a half hour ago." Blade said astutely before seeing their stunned face. "Well, what are you waiting for?!"

They got all listened and got to it. Blade was thinking to himself on the matter of his abilities. He was drawing on it, boosting his intellect. He looked to both Ben and Albedo before closing his eyes. Ben and Albedo both worked on Shirin with their combined forces. Ben had never tried this…and he had not considering using Clockwork's powers this way before.

"Make a mental note of this." Ben thought.

"I will admit that was impressive of Blade to consider this. I didn't think he was that knowledgeable." Albedo said.

"He's sharp, but I wouldn't call him a genius." Gwen said as Halona give him a dirty look. "I didn't mean he was an idiot…just hot-blooded like Ben."

"And you ripping on Ben for being a dumbass isn't warranted." Kevin said as Gwen shot him a dirty look.

"What? Albedo does it too." Gwen snarked back.

"You both need to be keeping watch. One of those guys got away." Ben remarked.

They were all subtly unaware of what Blade was attempting leading to his faintly glowing eyes and circuitry lines forming on his right arm. Halona had swapped her broken weapon for a modified Static Edge rifle nervously looking around hoping for no trouble. To watch someone be injured in reverse was gruesome but the two managed to do it. Shirin took the breath clutching her chest asking what happened.

"You got impaled." Kevin said. "And Blad-what the heck is he doing?"

Blade was completely still, eyes opened and glowing. Then a green tendril shot out of his arm splitting into two smacking the Omnitrix symbol and the Ultimatrix as red and green electricity flowed on it…though it was clear to Albedo that his Ultimatrix was being hacked before it retracted back to him. The whir of nanites could be heard as a Trix of his own 'grew' out from the flesh on his wrist…which was not a pleasant sight.

Then it hit Albedo.

"That clever bastard. He's using Rex's nanites, my genius, and Computress's technopathy to craft an Omnitrix for himself." Albedo said.

"Wait, he has nanites?!" Ben asked.

"Remember, that he's been on the front lines. He's had the power of destiny." Gwen remarked. "He's been actively seeking out work…and did every job he got. Most people can't say they took on Fusion me and Fusion Ben at the same time. Or Fusion Vilgax…or hell even Fusion Jack."

Ben cringed at the mention of the last one…they had gotten plenty of soldiers horribly injured or killed. Grim being able to revive the dead did not exactly hide the trauma of dying. To their knowledge, Blade had 'died' four times. Once to Fusion Juniper Lee, Once to Fusion Buttercup, and twice to Fusion Jack. Ben remembered when Blade had succeeded…he was limping back…looking like he was knocking on death's door. But Blade had a widest grin over getting even.

"I never did ask…how long was Blade in the future for?" Kevin asked.

"A year." Gwen remarked. "I had done some digging on his background after he chose Ben as a guide way back then. He had turned 12 when he graduated. I should have looked into Femme Fatale…but I made the mistake of thinking she wouldn't done this to her own nephew."

"Please remind Tennyson of why he dropped the ball with Blade." Albedo chuckled out before the glow on Blade faded.

Blade was panting before his senses returned and he collapsed to his knees with his aura flickering.

"Blade?" Shirin said walking up to him.

"Shirin, you're okay." Blade said exhausted.

"You look exhausted…what happened?" Shirin asked.

"Well, I awoke my semblance…and I just used to make this." Blade said holding up his right wrist.

The watch resembled Ben's but instead of white and green…it was black and a darker green. Unusually, there was red circuitry patterns around the band.

"Totally worth the exhaustion…" He said before passing out with his aura breaking.

"Well well, that was impressive."

Noire came out the shadows dragging a battered Hun.

"He really is a lot like Yuki." Noire said before snapping Hun's neck. "Tempting as it would be to take him myself…to make him my apprentice. It would more fitting if Yuki were to do it. Take him to a woman called Shampoo. She'll be able to heal him up."

"I will assist in helping you to get down safety." Morgaine said arriving downstairs.

Ben picked him up. Not too far away, Ladybug and Adrien would face off against Mayura.

[-]

[Cues: Sonic Battle OST – Sneaky Bat]

The second to top floor had the lab that Griseo had put his people to focus on the Razer suit, but the scientists had plenty of reason to be afraid of it…namely the power sources. Towa had the room used for developing her magic…culminating in a sinister magic circle. Enel was restrained with sea stone bands while (Rise) Shredder and Tengu Shredder were in tubes connected to the armor. On Towa's side of things, she had a few people magically gagged and restrained floating around the circle. Alcina Dimitresu, Van Kleiss, the Lich King, and Malty Melromarc. They were recruited with promises of power to which Towa took advantage of to trap them for her own use.

"Harley, I must applaud you for your success. Your team has aided in mostly containing the threat." Griseo remarked. "And your idea to see the other lieutenants down as cannon fodder to buy us some time was perfect. Not like I'll be needed those fools soon enough."

"It's done." Wily remarked. "If you excuse me, we have our war machines to get to. It seems our respective enemies on the way up."

Dr. Wily, Dr. Eggman, and Lex Luthor took their leaves. They each no intention of actually fighting, because it dawned on each of them that they made a monster an even worse threat. Their plan was simple: Get the hell out, go home, and pretend they never got involved. They had gotten new technology to use for future projects as a nice consolation. Regardless of what side won, they wanted to be under the radar from either one.

[Cues: Super Mario Galaxy OST – Catastrophe]

"Harley, I believe you are deserving of an upgrade in power." Griseo said before turning to Towa. "Towa?"

Towa whirled before zapping Harley with magic causing Harley's Voyd Pearl to react causing her body to form a hue of dark violet, her eyes to be pure red, a slight bit of bulk, and black tribal markings formed on her body. She could only cackle at it. Poison Ivy took a step back in horror.

"And you make its six." Griseo said snapping his fingers as five more in a similar state to Harley came out of the shadows.

Momoshiki Ōtsutsuki, Hawk Moth, Father, Kukido, Vilgax, and Donquixote Doflamingo. All under his control.

"Well, it seems Star Wolf have fled back to their universe. Gendo is at least keeping the EVAs and that goofy mech at bay with the MP-EVA units." He said looking at the monitor. "Good, then it's time we ready the armor and our escape."

He turned into liquid metal and went in the armor.

"Because we'll be doing the hunting once the time is right." Towa said getting into the circle. "For now, we shall ascend and cut off all loose ends. Starting with all in the building…and this planet. And you will be powerless to stop us."

Poison Ivy managed to get out the room before it locked down. She ran. She did not know where to, but she had to get away.

[Cues: Secession Studios – Dancing With Flames]

The loudspeakers would activate throughout the building as everyone could hear it. The screams. Enel screamed in complete agony with his power and haki being used to fuel the power needed for the two of them. The ground began to quake as the sky went dark crackling with electricity.

The Shredders in the tank screamed out as they could feel their very souls withering away with their essence going into Griseo and his armor as he was laughing like a madman glowing with the bleakest of auras…something everyone felt.

Blackest magic consumed Towa as the gags on the four burned away as they were screaming out in pain and in anguish.

"Any last words before I become a goddess?" Towa asked them.

The four had stopped screaming, holding it together, for their parting words.

"Be prepared." Alcina said. "To pay the price for your 'power'. It won't last."

"People will come to stop you." Van Kleiss said.

"Fuck you!" Myne said.

The Lich said nothing to her just giving her an empty look.

[Cues: Secession Studios – Veil of Shadows]

Alcina did not care if it was undignified or not, she spat on Towa's face before the four would turn to energy before swirling around Towa with both had begun their metamorphosis. Towa's body had grown to taller hitting eight feet tall before her white hair rapidly grew down. Her body bulked as her eyes became black with gold irises. Red tribal markings on both side of her face as two dark horns came out of her head. Her clothes to a black-and-gray robe and coat with gold adornments, a spiked purple cape, black studded gloves, and a gold band around her hand formed like a crown. Fangs grew out as her staff took new form as a scepter.

Griseo's body had bulked as the armor took shape thanks to the Voyd Pearl's influence molding it into a black, gold-trimmed suit of armor with the addition of a matching Mandarin style collar, two matching shoulder plates, a long black tattered cape, waist armor on both sides to which each a golden spike on each one, a black, gold-trimmed loincloth and baggy greyish-black pants and black and gold shoes. The center of his torso armor had a large Voyd Pearl embedded in the center dark purple markings spreading out from it. The Shredder influence came as the armored gauntlets formed Tekkō-kagi and bladed spikes on the shoulders as similarly spiked lower leg armor formed. Gun metal horns came out of his head.

"Now…now it's time, we make our exit." Griseo said activating a button on the console. The teleporter to the escape ship was activated. "And let this city burn. Speaking of which, how long until our secret weapon is ready?"

"Soon, it's pieces are loaded onto the ship." Towa said. "Shall we?"

"Oh yes, we will." He said before activating the self-destruct sequence.

[Music Ends]

Yuki skidded to a stop seeing the way to the third to last floor was locked down. He, Chronoa, and the others could feel the rising energy from the top floor, something dark and rife with hatred.

"Can't you open it?" Chronoa asked.

"No, with the way it's wired. Any attempts to hack or interfere with will trigger a count-" Yuki said before seeing a countdown. "SHIT!"

"Explosives?" Chronoa said as the building quaked.

"Yeah, high-grade and planted in this building. Enough to take this entire building out along with a city block. We need to go now." Yuki said as before hearing beating at the door.

[Cues: Secession Studios – Annihilation]

"Yuki, it seems Griseo and Towa are escaping on a ship. I've managed to bug their ship, I'll let you know when I have full control of it. We still need to get out of here." Serena remarked through the screen. "Seeing they've activated, I might be able to disable it. I'll text everyone to get out the building and out of range before beginning work on disarming the sequence."

The beating on the metallic door got more frantic as Yuki simply turned himself intangible to go through it scaring Poison Ivy as he became tangible.

"YOU!" Poison Ivy said terrified. "You're the…but they thought…Griseo's screwed, isn't he?"

"Yes, he is. And so are you, if you don't choose your next actions and words wisely, Isley." Yuki said crossing his arms. "Because the building is locking down and I'm pretty sure I'm your only escape option."

"You're twisting my arm here while the building is going to explode! What's wrong with you?!" Poison Ivy asked him.

A screen pinged up in front of him again and he smirked.

"Because I'm smart enough to pull the plug on this janky security system. Griseo was stupid enough to activate the thing after locking the place down without a clause to activate the explosive if it's hacked. Honestly, he made a rush job." Yuki said as the door opened.

[Music Ends]

Poison Ivy just stood open-mouthed.

"So, what were you going to say, Pamela?" Yuki said with a justified look of confidence.

She immediately bowed.

"That it will be honor to serve a god." Poison Ivy said a bit frightened.

"Yeah, that sums it up. Now come, we must be leaving." Yuki said as she followed.

"Follower or serv-" Chronoa asked.

"Servant. Besides Dr. Psycho sold her and Harley out to me in exchange that I let him live, and I intend to collect. But it seems I'll have to get Harley later." Yuki said. "I was looking through the security camera footage. Griseo and Towa have mutated themselves…while enslaving your friend and a few others."

[Cues: BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle OST – Rushing Heart]

"Seems we got trouble. Someone is trying to reactivate the self-destruct procedure." Serena said as Yuki nodded.

Yuki was quick to move with Poison Ivy and Chronoa.

[-]

Cael never saw himself as the type to resort to hurling a desk at someone, but stranger things had happened. Copperhead was down for the count as a text came on Cael's scroll from Yuki.

"Ayla, Sulfur, Lunatin, we need to move for the exit and get a block away from it. Now." Cael said as his teammates followed him.

CASL would come down to the stairs to see Ladybug and Cat Noir in the middle of fighting two villains in the stairwell. Ayla jumped up on the railing to slide down to leap off it to shoulder tackle the first one into the wall.

"What the-"

Mayura was hit by a surprise sucker punch from Sulfur causing her to tumble and fall down the stairs with a resounding and loud crunch. Her transformation ended…and Cat Noir just sighed in defeat before taking the Peacock Miraculous from her. He wished Nathalie did not have to die, but…what's done is done.

"Thanks for the save." Ladybug said humbly.

"No time, we need to get out of here, right now." Cael said as everyone followed.

The Resistance would all get out of the building with Yuki making sure himself, Chronoa, and Poison Ivy were the last to leave. Yuki flew up into the air right above the building. Dr. Eggman and Dr. Wily had already escaped the building leaving Lex trapped inside as his ship decided to break down at the worse possible moment.

Controlling Griseo's ship through taking control of the autopilot, she flew them out as Yuki claps his hands together and created several dozen silver-colored atom-shaped energy spheres. He sent them off like homing missiles with one to each of the MP EVAs blowing them to smithereens before sending the rest down into the building vaporizing it…killing the remaining villains within. With telekinesis, he sent a brunt metal door right into the window of Griseo's ship and into the console to force a crash landing.

[Music Ends]

"Status report." Yuki mused.

"All of the goons in the buildings have been terminated save for one trying to escape the building through the electrical circuits. She has been captured via Fiona's semblance. She won't be able to escape, and she's being studied." Serena said to him as he floated down to the ground.

From the wrecked ship, Vilgax had torn a way out for the rest to follow.

"When I find the bastard who did this, I am going to kill them, their family, their friends, and burn down the world their bitch of a mother shat them into." Griseo roared out before feeling a presence.

He and Towa turned to Yuki whose aura was flaring around.

"So, my mother's a bitch now…" Yuki sarcastically said.

"YOU!" Griseo cried out before seeing Chronoa and Noire among the Resistance. "But how did you gather an army that fast?"

"He didn't. Did you really think I'd sit this out?" Chronoa asked. "Towa, you always were an impatient brat."

"And both of you share the same program, you do a sloppy job of things." Noire said. "But here you are, all alone with no one left to help you? It's eight against a whole army of people wanting your heads."

"Ha! That's where you're wrong! I got the Glorft Armanda in space above waiting on my orders to attack." Noire said using a communicator putting it on speakerphone. "Now, I may not have my secret weapon ready…but I have you all killed."

They all braced for it, only for Griseo to get a call that the Glorft were not getting involved.

"What?! Why not?" Griseo asked.

"Because, you're an idiot for picking a fight with a literal god, and I'm an idiot for letting you convince me to join you." Gorrath said.

"You feckless squid! Get down here and help me kill them!" Griseo raved as a few people were chuckling.

"If you're so high and mighty, do it yourself. We're leaving without you." Gorrath said before hanging up on him.

"Some army you got." Yuki said. "I guess they can see how much a pussy you are."

"We need to…." Wapol said as his wife produced a fruit familiar to the Straw Hats. "The Rumble Rumble Fr-"

Luffy snatched the Rumble Rumble Fruit away from her.

"Gimme!" Nami said snatching it from Luffy. "Can I really eat this…and give up swimming…"

Nami brushed off the thought rather quickly as she liked being able to swim. Still, she decided to hold into it for safekeeping. Maybe one of the crewmates already with one can get a second fruit, she thought.

"Kill them all!" Griseo yelled, turning to his Deadly Six.

CLICK! Everything around them as the only ones aware of this was Yuki, his team, and Ruby. Towa seemed to be aware, but her movement was slightly slowed. Chronoa tossed Yuki a backpack.

"Store it and take it with you, you'll find it useful. A few power-ups and goodies from the worlds we visited." Chronoa said as he noticed her other hand on an odd stopwatch. "Don't worry about that."

With her free hand, she opened a portal behind Griseo telling Yuki to punt him through to finish him off there. Towa was trying to get her scepter out only for Lapis to paralyze her through her blood causing her to drop said scepter. He rushed over, using a kiai to jettison Griseo through the portal and give chase through it as it closed. The stopwatch's power expired, and time moved normally as Towa fell on her face.

"Mario, you've landed in this goddess's good graces. You'll be rewarded for this after the fight." Chronoa remarked.

"Where the hell did you send them?" Towa roared.

"I'd worry less on that, and more on me. My mistake was not putting you down when I had the chance to. I wish I didn't have to, but you're crossed the line, Towa."


(A/N: For those wondering, yes, all those people who were drugged or drunk out of their minds are dead. I can at least say that a few villains were smart enough to realize the building was going to blow and escaped which Griseo pulled the self-destruct button. But it's time for the final fights.)

(A/N: (Update 7/25/2022) For the Straw Hats, this would be right before fighting Kaido the first time. Considering what was revealed later, I decided not to have Nami eat the fruit as I planned. I realized it'd be more feasible that she feels it'd be more valuable to sell…to which one of her crewmates would rightly stop her from doing that.)