So, I'm going to be honest. This story just about died. Now it is alive and well.
Chapter Fourteen: Scion, Part Two
When Scion had arrived in Brockton Bay, most everyone knew there could be only two reasons for it. A, an Endbringer was nearby, about to attack, and it was going to be one of those rare times he showed up before hand and simply stopped the attack before it could really get underway.
B, he was there for Saiyan.
When he started blowing up buildings, and literally pulling capes apart with his bare hands, they decided it was probably the latter.
In the first hour, several thousand capes showed up to try to stop him, hero and villain alike. He mowed through them like a lawnmower running over a particularly rough patch of grass. When they started busting out the capes from the Birdcage, things got more interesting.
It took him nearly eight hours of fighting to get into the city proper. These little apes were proving rather tenacious. They fought him with everything they could. Face to face, from behind, guerilla tactics, anything and everything to try and take him out. He'd already lost several moons worth of mass. It was impressive, if he was honest.
And he still hadn't even killed the majority of them. They were putting up a fight as if their very lives, and the lives of everyone they knew, were on the line. They were, actually. Still, the level of struggle he was having to face here was starting to remind him of that one other loss, and he began to get annoyed.
Then the tide shifted. Whereas he had been completely dominating the battlefield, even if he was killing only a few of the shard holders, it had become a struggle to gain any ground. The little apes were moving in a coordination that bordered on precognisance.
He'd be about to strike at some of the Blasters, and the Brutes he couldn't kill with that level of attack would get in the way. He'd start to open a hole into the black void of space to suck up those annoying Brutes and Shakers would clog it. He'd turn to a random target, going after Movers, and they just hid behind the Brutes. It was becoming truly frustrating.
Finding it to be a worthy moment to use it, he used his Full Path to Victory. to find out what he needed to do to end this annoyance.
He looked in the direction of the city outskirts. His ability told him he only needed to kill one ape. A little creature named Danny Hebert. If he did that, this entire battle would swing back to his side.
All he had to do was force himself through the lines of defense that would allow him to kill the insignificant gnat.
It didn't take long, now that he had a real target. he refused to be distracted.
Finally, twenty three hours and fifty seven minutes after his arrival, he had the precog in his hands, holding him in the burning remains of a brick building. He lifted the two of them into the air, wanting to savor this moment. Scion held the man by his skull, applying just enough pressure to be painful without killing him. Yet.
Then the little ape spoke.
"You're about to make the biggest mistake you can imagine," then he laughed, "Kick his ass, Taylor."
Scion frowned, then crushed the man's skull in his hand, his body dropping, not even the bits of liquified brain sticking to his golden skin.
"DADDY!"
POWER!
It crashed into him like an unholy wave of force. It tripled the damage that had been done to him over the last twenty four hours, in a split second. If he didn't have such prodigious regeneration, even his real body would be feeling the drain from that.
He looked at the source of the wave of force.
Well, he tried to. The light was too bright for even his eyes to penetrate.
Finally, after a few moments, the light began to recede.
His first glimpse of what had caused that light was an orange, red, and black blur. Then his proxy's head was looking up at his proxy's body as the world spun wildly.
-9001-
Unlike Scion, Tattletale had a front row seat to the spectacle of Saiyan exploding into energy and light.
That wasn't an exaggeration or a euphemism. Taylor Hebert, Saiyan, ceased to exist for a moment, her entire body turning into pure, grief filled energy.
Seeing as she knew exactly how powerful the girl had become since the beginning of their time in the chamber, she prepared herself for the end of this planet and the surrounding galaxies.
That didn't happen, though.
Instead she heard a familiar, tiger like growl. She blinked her eyes open, looking at the place where her girlfriend used to be, and saw someone standing there. Something.
It was standing at seven foot six, was covered in tightly packed muscle and wearing a torn version of Taylor's uniform. The only part that was completely undamaged was the butterfly sigil on the back. The humanoid's skin was reddish, tinted by the heavy chi that was surrounding her, except for her arms and legs which had turned orange with black stripes. Her fingers were each now tipped with an ultrasharp claw and so were her toes. Her hair was a waterfall of red glowing strands that seemed to fuse and separate with the shifting of the wind, almost like living flame.
Finally, just above her godly toned buttocks, was a long, tiger's tail, with spikes coming out of the very end, like a stegosaurus.
"The fu-"
There was a deafening woosh of air when the being moved. The next thing that Tattleltale could make out was the head of Scion moving separately from his body.
She looked at the monster that her girlfriend had become, and yes, her power told her that that was indeed Taylor, Lisa could only gulp in fear and some arousal.
For Saiyan, she found herself surprisingly focused.
What should have been a berzerk, unthinking rage, was instead cold, calculated, controlled. She knew what she was doing, was able to plan each and every motion she made. She was even able to still use her power, the full extent of it, in this new form she found herself in.
After beheading the monster that had just killed her father, she looked down at her claws. She flexed the muscles in her fingers, causing them to retract, then extend. She did this several hundred times in a microsecond, putting her god like speed to full use.
When she was done toying around with her claws, she noticed that Scion was once again whole and glaring at her. He was simultaneously using a forcefield to stop her from hitting him again, and using an annihilation blast in one hand, about to fire it at her.
She smirked.
The black and white beam of death screamed through the air and hit Taylor in the left side of her chest, completely destroying her heart and everything in front of and behind it.
It healed in seconds. She thanked Scion's own regeneration, even if only at one fifth the power, for that.
She even managed to use a small amount of Parian's power to regrow the cloth. Then she cut her eyes to the golden man.
"My turn."
She broke through his shield like it wasn't even there, placed her hand inside his chest, and pumped him so full of energy that his body started to bloat from it. Then, putting her claws to her forehead, she teleported him to the other side of the universe.
A thousand years from that moment, the light of the hyper massive explosion would eventually reach earth.
"That was a little much, don't you think? I mean, just to temporarily destroy his proxy body?" Lisa said, floating up to be near the young woman she thought she had lost for the briefest of moments.
"Venting," Taylor said, her tone retaining some of the tiger's growl, coming off quite sultry, "How do we kill it?"
"I don't know, but I do know we have to get to his real body. You do too," the villainess said.
"I believe I can be of assistance," Alexandria said.
The two turned to her, and simply waited for the woman to continue.
"I have an aquaintance who can make portals to other dimensions," the woman told the two of them, "We can open a door to one of the worlds that Scion likes to reside in."
"Do it," Saiyan commanded.
"Door, Scion's Sanctuary."
A glowing portal of light opened unto an earth like never before seen. The plants writhed, the sky shifted, the winds howled. The air was stale, but breathable, and smelled of some horrible alien musk.
Alexandria pointed skyward, "There, that's him."
What she pointed to was the sky itself.
It was then that the two younger women realized that the sky wasn't shifting, it was the incomprehensibly large lifeform that was the true Scion, known by his real name of Zion.
"Feel free to break down and have a mental shattering," Saiyan said, glaring up at the monster, "I did."
Lisa looked like she was going through the same thing that Taylor had, so long ago, when her power started telling her so many things that she could not comprehend as a simple, empowered human. Blood started seeping from her nose, then her eyes and ears. If it didn't stop soon, Taylor was going to get her out of here and just do something to end this all that might end up being completely suicidal.
"There was a second one!" Tattletale suddenly said, turning to Alexandria, "What happened to it? Is it waiting in the wings to replace this one?" The hero started to open her mouth but the blonde continued, "No, that's not it. Is she dead?" the blonde nodded, "How did she die? Did you kill it? No? What happened?" This time she actually paused, waiting for the hero to speak.
"She crashed, into several alternate earths."
"Oh, is that all?" Lisa said calmly, then yelled, "Are you fucking kidding me?! How are we supposed to do that? Do you have any kind of idea what kind of force that thing," she pointed at the writhing mass that was the sky, "would create upon colliding with a planetary body?"
Scion, the golden proxy appeared, frowning.
"Great!" Tattletale exclaimed, "Now that's here too!"
Taylor finally spoke, her arms crossed under her chest, glowing with more power every second, "Hold him off, I have a plan."
"Ah, damn it!" The blonde streaked at Scion, blasting him with her Burning Shot. It didn't do much, but it gathered his attention for the time being.
"What should I do?" Alexandria asked, knowing she'd only get in the way at this point.
"Get off this planet, but leave the door open," Taylor turned a very unkind smirk at her, "Don't worry, we'll turn out the lights when we leave."
Alexandria didn't even want to guess at the meaning behind those words.
At the same time as the triumvirate hero was leaving through the glowing door, three things were going on at once.
First, feeling that it might be important to record what was going on in the battle with Zion, Director Mother had three of the capes under her command, a Thinker with the ability to see all things at all times, a telepath capable of perfectly reading someone's mind on contact, and an illusionist to whom the telepath projected what he saw, create a simulation of what was going on in that world.
Second, Tattletale was zipping about, keeping anything that Scion, the false body, used from touching her. She couldn't copy powers like Taylor could, so there was no way she'd be taking an annihilation blast to the chest and just walking it off. Luckily, her speed was so far beyond the monster's that it wasn't even funny. With that in mind, other than keeping him from hurting her, she focused on destroying as much of his mass as possible. It wasn't doing anything to his main body in the sky, but it was obviously pissing him off.
Third, Scion once again activated his Path to Victory.
When he used it on the annoying blonde in front of him he was nearly knocked off his feet with the message that came back to him from it.
Nope.
For the first time in history, Scion/Zion had a thought that a human mind could properly interpret.
The fuck? No, seriously. What the actual fuck? He tried it again.
Nope.
He frowned, backing off from the blonde, deciding instead to target the other one, the one he instinctively knew to be the bigger threat. It was unlikely that he would receive the same answer about her. It would also prove that it wasn't malfunctioning or being blocked in some way.
He focused his gazes, that of his proxy and one of his real eyes, on the animalistic girl.
Oh, snap! You done fucked up, son! Fuck this shit, I'm out.
Scion nearly fell out of the air and Zion roared in pain as the shard that gave him his Full Path to Victory actually removed itself, and darted through dimensions to get away.
Luckily, he was able to recover in time for his murder.
"Tattletale," Taylor said, suddenly existing next to the blonde girl.
"Yes?" she looked up at the much taller girl.
"You should go now. I'll see you at my house for dinner."
The blonde didn't even bother to argue, just moving through the portal at speeds that anyone else couldn't track.
"First, let's see all of you," grasping four of Zion's dimensional travel abilities, she focused them all on him and with a grunt of effort, pulled the full mass of his gigantic body into this reality, then locked it in. She could feel the tendrils of his power trying to shut her's down. She destroyed them without having to pay full attention to it.
"Next, let's get you dead," She reached out with her hand and raked it slowly through the air, appearing to do nothing of consequence.
However, if you could see things from space, more than one would believe was happening.
From the very edge of the solar system, Pluto streaked in, glowing with the red of Taylor's Chi. It smacked into Zion, causing an explosion so massive that the human mind can't understand it.
It wasn't quite enough to kill the space whale, but she had never figured it would be. She pulled out her other hand, and raked it through the air as well.
Pluto was meant to stun it. Jupiter was going to be its taxi. The giant planet, that was only a few planetary masses short of becoming a brown dwarf, swiped by this alternate earth slamming into Zion and pulling him along like a bullet train hitting an old mac truck.
It then continued on its way, barreling into the sun, far off in the distance. Behind it, every single planet except for this alternate earth followed along.
Taylor watch with her Chi sense, pushed to the very edge of her limits, as the monster was burned and crushed an exploded as it was slammed into the star, then struck over and over again by the planets that were streaking in, one after another.
The whole thing took a total of thirty seven seconds.
In thirty seven seconds, Taylor had used an entire solar system, minus one planet, to kill an edlritch abomination.
She could see it when he died, when all of his shards spread themselves across the multiverse.
She frowned, looking down at her hands as she felt the star flicker and start to destabilize. She might have to go after those shards at some point. The sun wobbled then exploded. Thoughts for another time.
Taylor moved through the portal, the energy that gave her the power to kill a god leaving her.
-9001-
Yup. I just killed Scion/Zion with a solar system.
Power Levels!
Zion- 380,000/ 40,000,0000
Lisa-214,467,902
Taylor- WTF?!
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