[Secession Studios – As Above, So Below]
残り:四の影/ Remnant's Four Shadows
End of Remnant, Episode 25: Counting Down to the End
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."
[Cues: Naruto Shippuden: Clash of Ninja Revolution 3 OST - (Hidden Leaf Village at Night, 2nd Half)]
A battle between beings who used time was something that most of the Resistance could barely keep track on given how fast both of them were moving. They were only able to see Towa throw Chronoa through a few buildings before flying after her. The Deadly Six jumped at the chance to attack their respective enemies, save for Harley…who was acting on impulse.
After getting healed up, Blade has gotten into the action having blasted Vilgax away from Ben with tri-colored eye beams.
"I have their laser vision. Which means I can fly!" Blade said as he floated up. "Hell yeah, no more walking for this-UGH!"
He was boasting and got punched into an abandoned car for being distracted by Harley.
"This will only hurt…a lot, little boy." Harley said raising her hand.
A rock hit the back of her head.
"Is that the best you got?" Harley said only to turn to get blasted in the face with a Laser Lance Mark IV from both Shirin and Halona.
Harley was injured but her skin started to steam to slowly patching her wounds up as Harley's face grew more crazed.
"That was our warning shot, you may want to look below you." Halona said before Harley looked down for the energy grenades to blow up in her face.
Blade was geeked over getting to use his eye beams for that. Despite her injuries, she ferally rushed out after Blade only for to be held by the back of her tank top by Mary.
"Master wants her alive, so I'll deal with her." Mary said before punching Harley into the asphalt.
Noire had awoken her aura and she was amazed with her new level of strength. Reining it in was a new challenge though, and it was something that excited her. She threw Harley accidentally making a sonic boom with her throw.
"Damn. I guess I threw her too hard." Mary said with a chuckle.
"I might be able to deal with that pesky pearl on your chest." Morgaine Le Fay remarked. "If the master wants her alive for capture. That is what we'll do."
"Well then, let's go get her." Mary said as the two flew after Harley.
"You're using Ultimate Echo Echo?" Ben asked as Albedo transformed into said form.
"Yes, a wall of sound made be able to crack that Voyd Pearl in theory. Gwen, can you try to hold him still?" Albedo asked her.
"I can try to." Gwen said as Ivory flipped over to her.
"I'll lend a helping hand, Red." Ivory said as her hands glowed with light shooting beams to restrain Vilgax.
Gwen did the same with her mana as Ben transformed to his Sonsarian form. It wasn't the evolved transformation that Albedo had, but Ben opted to back him up just in case.
"Wall of Sound!" Ben/Albedo said.
Albedo launched off sonic disks as Ben had make to make numerous clones of himself. The sonic disks released soundwaves as Ben and his clones did the same with their screams. Vilgax screamed as he could fear the pearl crack, but before it could crack further….a massive shockwave blew everyone away courtesy of Noire and Momoshiki's fight in the air.
[Abruptly Cues: Devil May Cry 3 OST – Battle 2]
"Yes! YES! Come on! Is that you got, you bastard!" Noire said excitedly trading fists with Momoshiki.
Momoshiki was strong to an insane degree, but Noire relished the challenge. He was now unrestrained and wanted to test his might on someone.
"You think you can stand to me, one of the Ōtsutsuki?" Momoshiki said fuming. "You lowl-"
Noire aimed at him with his outstretched index and middle fingers held together as Momoshiki's eyes widened as he was caught in a massive explosion. Momoshiki tried to absorb it, but it wound up burning him…much to the Ōtsutsuki's horror.
"Damn it, why is absorbing your chakra hurting me?!" Momoshiki roared.
"I assume my aura makeup is quite foreign, but even then, my semblance would leave it's mark." Noire said with a chuckle before zipping right in front of Momoshiki. "You just saved me the trouble of planting the explosive myself."
Momoshiki started to sweat as he felt his heart get heavy.
"Make it stop!" Momoshiki roared as he clutched his heart.
"Oh, don't worry, you won't explode." Noire said gently before whispering in Momoshiki's ear. "You'll just burn on the inside."
[Music Ends]
Momoshiki could feel his inside burning as he was falling and unable to hold his focus allowing his to keep in the air. He crashed on the ground seeing a nearby Naruto and crawled through him to leech on his chakra only for Sayah's foot on stamp down on Momoshiki's hand. Sayah even grinded it into the asphalt.
"Can someone break his legs?" Sayah said.
CRUNCH! CRUNCH!
"My day has come at last." Nora said happily.
Her hammer was damaged from breaking that guy's legs, but she'd thought it was worth it.
"Now crawl, you worm." Sayah said before spitting on his face and walking off.
Noire floated.
"You know what's the shittiest part? That Voyd Pearl didn't really make you stronger, that's just the placebo effect. No, Griseo is leeching off your strength. It even mutated you to be part Voyden giving you a crippling weakness." Noire said as his silver eyes flickered.
Momoshiki feebly tried to reach for Noire, but a blast of his Silver Eyes brought that to an end.
"These modern silver eye users don't bother to concentrate their blast range." Noire said with a sigh. "But I wonder what goodies I get from absorbing this douchebag."
Said power came crashing on Noire like a freight train as Noire screamed out for his silver eyes began to mutate along with the rest of him. Despite the pain, Noire was laughing mad.
Several streets over, Marinette and Adrien were tangling with Hawk Moth. Adrien did not want to have to kill him, but he could not let someone else do it. Marinette insisted on helping…and it seemed Cat Noir and Ladybug would have to stain their hands in blood even if they did not really want to. Hawk Moth was clearly going for the killing blow on the both of them.
Cat Noir had decided to appeal to his father hoping he would fight off the Voyd Pearl's influence, but Adrien did not exactly know what motivated his father to evil in the first place. He was kicking himself for not asking the Time Goddess for details.
[Cues: Grand Theft Auto III OST – Toni Cripani's Theme (Mama's Ristorante)]
"I feel weird just sitting in his empty restaurant watching people fight." Pibby said slurping up her noodles.
Pibby's trio and the Bebop Crew were having a meal at an empty Italian restaurant while the fighting was going on, helping themselves to the food.
"It's only six of them and that crazy time lady, who are all way out of our league." Spike remarked nonchalantly. "The others got it handled."
"And who were we to waste free food?" Faye said between eating. "Hey Merlina, pass me those breadsticks."
Merlina handed off those breadsticks only for Ed to tell Alloy Boy to duck. CRASH! Father was thrown through the window.
Alloy Boy was livid for the interruption, but that turned to fear as Father arose angrier, aglow with flames. Pibby sprayed him in the face with the fire extinguisher leaving him open….
SLING!
To be impaled on the end of a dark green sword courtesy of Blade to let Shirin and Halona behead Father with their swords. Faye was agape Spike was still eating like this was normal.
"Rex's BFS is so cool." Blade said ripping the sword out of his body before Blade's arm returned to normal.
Father's body turned to dust with the Voyden essence retreating to the three of them.
"What's happening?" Halona said staggering back.
"Wait, they're part Voyden?" Cael said before thinking it over. "Of course, this sounds exactly like something Noire would hide until the last minute."
He would have approached them, but Shampoo got there first.
"Well, this is most unusual. It seems these Voyd Pearls have mutated them into part or maybe even full Voyden." Shampoo said coming up to the three. "When you kill a Voyden, you gain it's power as your own."
"Hell yeah, we have Father's power!" Halona said excitedly.
"I assume you need to awaken their auras." Blade asked as she nodded.
Shampoo focused her aura as a bright blue circle formed on the ground around her and the three of them.
"It is through what we are able to endure that makes us stronger. I lay my hand on thee to release the power within to survive life's endless trials." Shampoo said as Halona and Shirin felt a rush of power come out of them.
"So, this aura thing…can I get a quick explanation?" Halona asked.
[-]
[Cues: Street Fighter 2 Turbo OST – M. Bison Theme]
Within the milliseconds of the battles the Resistance was a battle that raged between two titans of time within the timestream, and it seemed Towa had the upper hand.
"You can't touch me. You trained me too well!" Towa said dodging several of Chronoa's attack.
The Goddess of Time looked worse for wear given Towa had landed some critical hits on her.
"My power, speed….it dwarfs your entirely." Towa said backhanding Chronoa into the ground. "With the power I've obtained, I can't be…"
Towa started to hack and cough before looking to see she was coughing blood. And then 'Chronoa' turned to white dust revealing her to be a mere afterimage.
"If I had trained you well, you wouldn't had fallen for that." Chronoa said.
Towa could only hear her voice.
[Cues: Dragon Ball Z Supersonic Warriors 2 OST – Hyperbolic Time Chamber]
"If it's one thing teaching you taught me was to never show my full hand. You impulsively betrayed me…before I could even show you that power." Chronoa said as her voice seemed everywhere. "You have no idea what it means to be a Goddess of Time. But the Brothers Douche do…why do you they restrained me?"
"Where are you?!" Towa said terrified trying to use her staff only for it be swatted out of her hand.
"Not just where but when. I can't exactly do this as good as when I unrestrained, but…"
Towa found herself surrounded by Chronoa, tons of them.
"Five minutes' worth of me is about what one me a second, so 350 of me versus one of you." Chronoa said as the 'clones' all glared daggers at her.
Towa extended her claws determined to fight but she felt that pain again with her heart as she fell down screaming in pain as the clones looked confused. She summoned her staff forcing herself up.
"Don't think this means I'll fall to you!" Towa said as she charged the clones.
Towa did her best to make Chronoa put in the work, but it was clearly she was not going to last long.
[-]
[Mars]
[Music Ends]
"Are you shitting me?" Cael screamed as Noire flew around with his 'new' abilities. "Ok, whose universe was the guy Noire killed from?"
"He's not from my universe, but I do know enough to give you the details on his abilities." Lincoln said as Cael asked about Momoshiki's abilities.
By the time he was done, Cael's eye was twitching.
"Let me get this straight, he can naturally fly, absorb energy, and his eyes let him see energy points in your body with a 358-degree range." Cael said as Lincoln nodded.
"So basically, Noire went from an asshole with one over to us, being near a God." Cael said as Lincoln nodded. "Of course, he is."
Noire landed on the ground.
"Holy shit, this is awesome. I feel amazing!" Noire said. "I need to get my hands on one of those ninjas to teach me how to use this power."
Said ninjas were currently very afraid. Given the Straw Hats had been picked up right before going getting to Kaido's doorstep, Domflango was not exactly a difficult fight. As for Kukido, she was getting beaten by a furious Lapis who was ready for her this time. Not that Kukido had backup this time…she was all alone while Lapis had plenty of people to back her up. Kukido attempted to suck the air out of Lapis's lungs but Lapis superheated the fluid in Kukido's head broiling her brain. Lapis got her breath back as Kukido fell down drooling and brain dead.
"Thanks for the wind powers." Lapis said before shooting her in the head to absorb the essence. "One good thing you did for me aside from dying."
[Cues: Metroid Prime 2 Echoes OST – Dark Samus Approaching]
It looked to be in the bag for the Resistance especially with Towa reappeared completely battered and unable to properly stand. She called for the remaining Deadly Six to come to her with was just Doflamingo, Hawk Moth, and Vilgax. Even though, those three looked worse for wear. Harley had long since knocked unconscious thanks to Mary and Morgaine.
"It's over, Towa!" Chronoa said reappearing back on the ground.
Towa coughed up more blood only for everyone (who could) sensed a disturbance in the air.
"What the hell was…"
The sky went dark as a meteor came down crashing near Towa and the three protecting her. The 'meteor' was actually a medium-sized Voyd Pearl which floated up and glowed before projecting out a familiar form around it before it began solid. Griseo opened his eyes with a grin.
"It worked." Griseo said before turning angry. "But the Razer suit was a complete wash. Most powerful Shredders, my ass! But that doesn't matter…I may have been forced to lose a card, but that doesn't matter. The Voyd Pearl I left behind is going to blow him and that universe up."
"So, Yuki kicked your ass so much, you have to retreat." Noire said. "I'm sorry, but if you couldn't beat Yuki, what makes you think you can take on all of us?"
Griseo started to sweat only for that to get worse to hear a yell.
"GRRRIIISSSSEOOO!"
"Correction, what makes you think you can take all of us?" Chronoa said smugly.
(A/N: And now we're all caught up, but what will Griseo do with his back to the wall?)
(A/N2: (Updated 7/25/2022) Aside from the usual clean up, I had Morgaine Le Fay get more involved considering she had agreed to join Yuki's side directly. This might end up meaning I have to rework some chapters in the sequel series.)
