Tales of The Cosmic War EXE Vol: The Secret War Beyond Good and Evil!

by Darth Necron

Five years after Ben Auro saved the universe from Chaos Zannacross Necron he is still helping try to guide the people to a better place alongside his lover Lacus Raystar. However they must reunite with their friends Mario,Cloud Strife, and others as everything they work for is threatened to unravel at the hands of the reality-destroying Incursion at the hands of the Beyonder!

34. Chapter 234: The Radiant Compassion

Chapter 234: The Compassion that Shines through the Everlasting Darkness!

As Lacus fought with everything she had to protect those she cared about, some of the people she cared about were unaware just how tense a spot she was in, for the moment at least.

At around the same point of time, right after King Atem finished having his extreme long distance call with Master Myers he had some people he was quite familiar with enter his throne room for a planned appointment, and it was none other than Lacus's parents and younger sister.

The shorter younger woman in a pink blouse with a blond ponytail was Sarah Raystar, the older woman in a elaborate regal green dress with her blond hair in a bun was Jane Raystar.

The man in a dignified white and blue noble outfit with a short beard was Lacus's father and a member of the Lylat Subcommittee that helped Atem run the Government, Erich Raystar.

A woman that was serving as the King's aide, the brown skinned Miqo'te female mage woman and a member of her group Seekers of the Sun ,Y'shtola, saw the Raystar's enter before she turned to the King." The Raystar's have arrived King Atem.

Atem looked up from a monitor and saw his longtime friend enter before he smiled."Welcome old friend. My apologizes for not greeting you upon arrival but as always I seem to be behind on my work."

"No worries your majesty." Lacus's father responded proudly." We all know even in peace time, no, especially in peace time how much a king of the universe has to go over. It worked out well, I had time to give my daughter a lesson while we were waiting. One that will hopefully be engraved in my youngest child's head long enough for her to do well in that job interview tomorrow."

Lacus's sister pouted as she put back a defensive,"Oh come on daddy, it's not going to stick if it's some a lesson that's as dry as the wall paper!

At least Ben tries to make his history lessons interesting, at least when he's trying to impress Lacus. Besides I got this in the bag, as long as KOS-MOS does not scare my interviewer again."

A armored blue haired android in a white dress, the android built to be the Raystar's devote body guard, KOS-MOS walked in before bowing to the King." I did not mean to impair your chances Sarah but Ward Burr's request did seem suspect."

"Ugh, Shion programmed you to interpret everything as flirting! Whatever, these guys will have to be blind if they don't see that a Raystar is the best fit for the Castle decorating department! Just wish I did not have to be part of this Sibyl System thing.

I know this is the big thing Ben, Lacus, their pal James and all the others have been working on but I don't want a "cymatic scan" of my brain! I mean come on I'm the sister of the angel savior, that should be good enough right?"

Erich saw the zeal in his youngest child's eyes before he sighed." The whole reason Ben's going for this plan is to show everyone, from the poorest to the richest is to take part in this. Sigh, please try and absorb some of your sisters humility by the time of the interview dear.

We don't want the public think we are getting arrogant and relying on seniority and privilege to give you a short cut."

"Your father's quite right Sarah." Jane uttered curtly." After all with no more wars people have even more time for gossip. Besides, no matter how many planets she saves there are still people who take any excuse to rail on poor Lacus while they sit around in their sofas. Ugh those ingrates can…nope, I did not come here today for bickering I came to discuss with King Atem here plans for the reception at Naboo."

"Ugh, when is Lacus going to be back home?" Sarah whined out." Your majesty I know Lacus has to do a lot of work going from planet to planet in her never ending apology tour."

"Dear that's not what her mission's called." Erich interjected flatly as he saw some of the King's men looking at his child." Whatever dad that's what it sounds like to me when you cut out all the politics fluff.

Seriously though your majesty, I know building ever lasting universal peace is super important but even if Lacus caused a lot of pain from all the stuff Brad made her do its not fair to overwork her this much! Can't she make it back for my party King Atem? Please?"

Atem glanced at his longtime friend the Dark Magician Mahado before the ruler of the Lylat Kingdom cleared his throat." I have no intention of keeping Lacus away from any vital part of her family's life Sarah but please understand Lacus and Ben have a task that's nearly as important as defeating Chaos Zannacross Necron. We will work it out but at the moment she's busy for the foreseeable future."

Erich noticed the man wearing the Millennium Puzzle had sight tension creeping up his face before he cleared his throat." What's the matter…is Lacus tied up in another incident like what happened just yesterday on Faykreed?

These cosmic anomalies seem to be being more frequent the past few months. Are you sure they are just aftereffects from Zannacross attempting to fuse the realms together?"

"Well I'd hate to bore your family with the scientific details but the crux of the issue is that Ben and Lacus and a few of the other Enji are addressing it at the moment so after this it should be ok."

Before Jane could say something one of Atem's generals, the blue and red Autobot General Optimus Prime walked in from the right and without even nodding to the new arrivals as he blurted out," Sir we just got a update from the Grand Master. The Schwarzwelt portal was just spotted increasing.

Its not the worst case situation yet but the God's of Destruction are on stand by encase Ben, Lacus, and the others are not able to defeat the Beyonder. We might want to alert the subcommittee to...oh? Well...that's just prime."

Atem saw Lacus's family have their jaw drop before he face palmed and cleared his throat." For the record I meant what I said, it's just that while Ben, Lacus, and the majority of are champions are indeed addressing the issue, said issue is extremely sensitive as in that if the public were aware of what is transpiring it would cause quite the panic.

Well, Erich I meant to tell you this in private but I suppose I can trust your family can keep this confidential."

Erich saw his wife look pale before he walked right up." Atem, what the blazes is going on? Your nearly acting like Zannacross has returned and is attacking us."

"Not quite but well, bear with me but the truth of the matter is that the first off spring of Cosmos and Zannacross that we are calling the Beyonder seems to have awakened from within the splinter reality he was slumbering and is trying to erase all reality out of a undying hatred for everything Cosmos and Zannacross created.

The truth of the matter is that he already destroyed all of existence with some sort of Incursion ritual but the situation is so dire that Cosmos and her agent the Supreme Kai of Time wound back time a week to give us a second chance before the Beyonder can grasp time better."

The Raystar family all had their jaws dropped before Sarah blinked."Damn, I just thought Ben and Lacus were caught drunk or something."

Jane cleared her throat before tugging Erich on the shoulder." I told you we should have set his majesty up with Lilandra dear. Despite what they all say the loneliness is clearly getting to him. With all due respect King Atem, this joke of yours is not in sync with my tastes."

Atem sighed again before pressing a few buttons on his throne." I assure you as chaotic as it may sound this is not some attempt at a joke. Here is all the data we have on the situation at the moment Erich."

The member of the Lylat Subcommittee quickly looked at the data he got, and after glancing over the footage from the Tri-Edge that showed the Beyonder destroying the universe, and the footage showing the Beyonder replicas of Bisley, Haltmann, the Reverse-Flash and the others fighting Ben, Lacus and the rest in front of Star Dream, and then showed the live picture of the portal between dimensions above Rieze Maxia.

Erich saw some of the angels stop Champa from blowing up a restaurant in anger before he swallowed."This, was not how I expected the day to go Atem."

"None of us were my friend." Atem answered glumly." But like always, we must adapt to life's narrative and not insist on sticking to the one we want, less reality sweeps us away."

Jane looked at the portal with horror before shirking out,"Why is there still any villains threatening us at all? I thought Chaos Zannacross Necron's defeat meant that every person with a heart that aligned with the darkness was defeated!"

"That is still true Jane, but I'm afraid this is one of those very nasty loopholes that even Cosmos and all the angels did not expect."

Jane saw all the King's staff looking tense before she moaned with frustration."No offense to Cosmos or anyone else but when promises are made and broken, its hard to keep faith up. Its one thing having Lacus go on good will tours and fix cosmic anomalies, but her fighting days were supposed to be done!

Even if it was to stop the devil himself from destroying everything, it was to much to bear to loose her, and now she's risking her life again when she was not suppose to?"

Erich sighed before he hugged his wife." I know its not fair my dear, but life rarely is. Lacus is not just important to us though, but to Ben, her friends and the entire universe. She has a duty to fulfill, and no matter how much I wish otherwise she can't neglect this duty no matter how difficult it gets.

But, don't despair Jane, no matter how much we worry Lacus has proven she is not so frail that she will shatter when the winds of malice blow."

"Maybe dear." Jane uttered tensely."But I mean, she's still recovering from saving reality from collapsing last time right? Did Cosmos give her back her full power?"

"As far as I know Lacus has not gotten back the Golden Imperial Crystal." Atem answered grimly." As tense as things are we still can't risk unsealing Zannacross so Cosmos is attempting to create replicas of both the Golden Imperia Crystal and the Divine Nova Blade."

"Even so." Erich stated." Lacus is still far safer with Ben and the Enji then she is hiding here. We just must have faith in them once more."

Sarah saw her mother looking pale before she smirked." C'mon mom, there was a time when I thought Lacus was going to crack under pressure but she's proven she can handle the pressure pull off the whole chosen thing! I know she can smack down whoever this Beyonder loser is!"

KOS-MOS looked over the data Erich was given before she glanced at the older woman." Based on the data the odds that Lacus, Ben Auro and the rest of the Enji can prevail are,"

Sarah cleared her throat before the Android could finish, and seeing the look the younger Raystar had caused KOS-MOS to pause before she cleared her throat." Well, I know the scientific details are not your forte Jane but the data does indicate that the Enji can prevail as long as things stick to the plan, no matter how slim those odds are."

As Sarah winked Jane squeezed her husband's hand tightly." Well, I had my doubts but Ben did overcome that lying thug Brad, and everyone to Zannacross himself so, as long as they are together, I know Ben will keep her safe. Still, if you don't mind I would be rather grateful if you could tell me as much as you can your majesty."

"Of course Jane. Heh, now I hope you understand why I tried to keep this secret, truth does not always bring happiness. But, we can have faith that our protectors can rise to the occasion to deal with this unpleasant truth."

The ruler of the Lylat Kingdom tried the best he could to calm some of his subjects the best he could, not knowing the situation was even worst then he expected because Lacus was not quite with Ben at the moment, and was facing one of the most brutal and powerful enemies she's had to deal with since Brad.

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Since the angelic Enji had flew in to her current enemies vision the man with many mouths eyed Lacus carefully, and licked his lips." So, this is the girl who made you all soft Midora? Piff…after everything Joie said you did I'd figured you would go for a more assertive woman but guess you're a sucker for the type that matches your momma eh? Tsc…you were weaker than I thought."

Lacus stared down Acacia before she pointed the Oath-Keeper back at him." He's stronger then you for being able to resist his basic instincts and not be consumed by them like you!"

"You can't fight destiny Angel. But I'll prove it when I make everyone that's believed in you have there hopes turn to despair when I peel your pretty flesh off like a onion and."

In a flash Midora burst at Acacia to punch him in the face. As his foster father went flying Midora had his energy explode." Talking to you is like talking is less productive then talking to a empty oven. Acacia…DIE! Meteor Burst!"

The head of the Gourment Corps had his Appetite Demon form around him before he unleashed a massive energy blast to hit Acacia in the back. The demonic man know as the "Crawling Chaos" roared as he was sent to the barrier around the planet, before he flexed his muscles and kicked the energy blast away from him.

He kicked it hard enough to go to the other side of the planet, and as it exploded with enough force to shatter a good chunk of it he glared back down at the planet below." You dare raise your hand against your father boy? Gourment Spank!"

Acacia swiftly unleashed a massive projectile that looked like a red hand of pure energy. Lacus saw the hand was the size of a continent like Australia and winced before she prepared to cast a reflect spell.

Before she could she saw Midora fly up. Her former enemy flew right up to the incoming attack before he calmly stated,"Gourment Luck."

Midora used the power he acquired from Joie to have the massive attack suddenly swerve to the right. Everyone saw the hand smash down in the distant, and crush a chunk of the planet in moments. Before the chunks of earth could even fall Acacia burst down to try and smash his target.

Midora counter struck Acacia to send him flying to his right, but before he could follow up he sensed something coming for him and swerved to see Joie charging for him. As the Black Swan's eyes glowed Midora snickered." That's right…I forgot to tell you just what my Full Course is Joie."

Acacia spat on the ground before howling out,"Look at me when I'm disciplining you boy! Gourment Punch!"

Acacia unleashed another massive fist of raw energy at the man he raised. But as it headed for him Midora's anger only grew." I'll rip every last one of your tongues out Acacia! Minority World!"

The aura around the long haired man flickered, before suddenly the massive punch of energy flickered as well, and swerved around. Acacia realized his own attack was heading for him and only had time to curse before it hit him and unleashed another atomic class explosion. Midora smirked at hearing a cry of pain before looking at his own fist." That was my brother's technique."

He raised his hand to prepare and attack more before Joie suddenly appeared in front of his face, with her knife pointed at his head." Even with Minority World you can't dodge this, at point blank range! Yes, the fact is I already hit you! Satan Hole!"

The Dark Chef held Cinderella right on the skin of her target's head and twisted the blade quickly, generating an enormous drill of air that went outside the planet.

However to her shock Midora was unphased by the spell, and the bearded man just swept some dust off his shoulder." When I first met Froese…that meeting was where it all begun. That, was my Full Course's "Hors D'oeuvre."

"I don't care, Planetary Rotary c, GUH!"

Joie tried to slice her target's head off, only for Midora to side step the blow, and smash his attacker in the face with a backhanded strike. As Joie was sent flying she coughed up blood and hissed out," What, he hit me?"

"Her charity…that was my Full Course's "soup". " Midora went on plainly. " Yes, the flavor of that very first soup I ate…even if I die I will remember that in the afterlife."

"Remember this instead you tool, Satan Drip!"

The agent of the Beyonder flew up and belched out another volley of acid at Midora. But to her shock her target flexed his muscles, and took the acid right in the face. He acted just like he was splashed with water before going on to say," My "Seafood" dish is the warmth of my first family. "

"What illusion is this, that's the gastric juices of the devil!"

"My Full Course's " Meat Dish" is the lingering feeling of her good night kiss on my forehead."

"Ugh, you goddamn Oedipus momma's boy! Satan Bomb!"

The Black Swan gathered energy in her hand and quickly unleashed a planet shattering energy blast big enough to be seen by space, only to be mortified to see Midora again shrug it off. " How the hell is he using Gourmet Luck so flawlessly when he's just learned it moments ago?"

"Heh my luck's at last evened out Joie. Now then…my Full Course's " Main" dish is her face, how it always looked over me with such kindness and care. Her smile, that is my " main" dish."

"Damn you Midora, you will pay dearly for being attached to such feeble things! Gourmet Luck!"

Joie screamed with rage as she tried to attack Midora with everything she had. But no matter how he was slashed or blasted at Midora just went on." And no matter whatever whenever…she'd always still be on my side…no matter how I was…I could never forget her encouragement.

Froese's encouragement is the salad of my " Full Course". She took me, who was such a fool…and straighten me out…guided me…and lead me on forwards, down the right path. Her teaching's, that's my "Full Course's" Dessert."

"Ugh, damn it all! Come on, GOURMET LUCK!" Joie seethed out as her spells failed to have any effect. As she saw her own aura wavering she glanced back down and saw Starjun giving Toriko a restorative potion to heal his wounds before she winced." No, did I really use up all of my Gourmet Luck on your damn lackey? No, I'm the envoy of Rabum Alal, I can't have my fate overwritten by a deluded heretic!"

"You don't understand true devotion you pathetic pawn!" Midora growled out furiously." Froese was always working her hardest to satisfy people's hunger. Family or strangers…it did not matter who. But for her to give it to someone like me.

She taught me the greatest flavor, the greatest love of all. Before I knew it, my stomach, an appetite was installed within me. And the only thing it longed for was Froese's cooking.

When she died, my appetite was thrown to the side and was lost. It was frustrated, with no outlet or no release…no way to satisfy itself… Feeling only a insatiable hunger within no end in sight… I became cynical and even now, carry that bitterness within me.

But I was reminded of that light, when I saw someone who matched her will. All Froese wanted more than anything else was peace…for everyone to be smiling, sitting around the dinner table from each other. That was Froese's dream."

Joie coughed a bit as her face was to the ground, till she looked up, with her face looking just like Froese once more. As Midora was caught off guard the face of the woman he saw as a mother uttered,"That dream can still come true my sweet child. But only Rabum Alal can make that dream a reality! Humans have proven they are to weak to make such lofty dreams like that become a reality.

Your hunger is enough to make you a Divergent Catalyst, so hone that and see things clearly to become a Dimensional Nihilo General to the one true master of all, and give the sinful impure world its final judgment! Then, as a family we can once more eat to are stomach's satisfactory fill. What choice will you make my dear Midora?"

Midora looked conflicted, and as his hand twitched a recovered Acacia blasted out from behind him to prepare to devour him.

Before he could Trunks and Shinryudramon both tackled him from the right. As the man with many mouths glared at those who intercepted his meal the Digimon glared back." Back off you hungry freak! You already had your fill for a life time!"

Acacia roared in fury before Trunks unleashed all of his power and unleashed a barrage of attacks from all sides to barrage Acacia fast enough to not give him enough time to strike back.

Midora saw how mortified Joie looked before he snickered."Oh, did you use every last drop of your precious "Gourmet Luck" to have Acacia bail you out? It would seem this Rabum Alal you worship so fanatically does not come to the aid of his failures eh?"

Before the Black Swan could respond Midora suddenly had his tongue burst out and grasp her by both her arms and head. As he squeezed out hard enough to hear cracking sounds before he calmly said,"My Full Course…will probably never be all brought together again…for all eternity.

After all…" Eating together as a family," just like Froses's dream…that's impossibly pure, genuine, and true dream, that is my "Full Course's last dish, the "dessert" . And now, time to finish this meal that is are relationship Joie!"

"Wait…Midora!" The Black Swan hissed out." Think about this carefully! Lacus Raystar and her Enji will just lead you to ruin! The only fate for fools that blind themselves in the light is to fall into oblivion!"

Midora saw Joie point Cinderella right for his mouth and quickly grasped her hand. As he crushed the limb his eyes widened." Joie, my Full Course is a souvenir for you to take with you to your death. I've got all the memories of Froese safely in the pit of my stomach.

And even now…they're still maturing and ripening an a unchanging savorless and flavor that even now continues to fill up and satisfy my body."

"Damn it all, to think you would be such a single minded fool Midora!" Joie hissed out as her eyes turned red." So be it, you can just be a part of the, UGH!"

While the Black Swan prepared one more spell, Shinryudramon had broken away from Acacia as the other Enji had bombarded the madman to dash forward and slice her arm off when she was distracted.

As Joie screamed in pain Ben's Digimon Partner glared at her."I think you cooked enough for one year lady!"

The Dark Chef gave the Digimon a hateful look as she desperately tried to pour her energy into a spell." Th…this CAN"T be happening! I've obtained the strongest Food Luck! I should clearly one of the worthy ones chosen for the new existence! I can't die on a shabby dish like this to as loathsome beings as you humans! I won't allow it, I'll make sure everything else is, GUH!"

Joie was cut off as Toriko, having recovered form his near fatal injury that Acacia gave him thanks to the Cure Water healing item his fellow Gourmet Kings gave him and chose the moment to knee Joie in the throat to cut off her ranting.

As he saw his target choke Toriko gave a angry glare at her." Humans may have their issues Joie…but just looks like the appetite that lurks in our souls, are more insanely huge then even you imagined! Time you cash your check!"

Midora saw the demon with his mother's face try something, and used the power of Minority World to make her aura back fire and for her to burst into flames. " Like it or not Joie, your done."

He prepared to finish her off when he felt a gust of dark energy and quickly jumped out of the way, before a tongue burst out to strike Joie. As it hit her a angry," Knocking!" Was pronounced before Joie, and the flames on her body froze entirely.

Acacia suddenly flew out of the smoke with a wicked grin on his face."Only I say when something's done around here boy! Just wait along here all frozen like this Joie. I'd prefer to keep my cook for the new world I tell yah what!"

Midora saw Trunks and a few others were coughed up blood on the ground before he saw Toriko looked determined."So, you understudies still want a piece of the meal? Well, at least you got guts."

Toriko saw his former enemy look amused before he sighed." Midora, I know your badass and all but there is something you got to know. In his current state Acacia's capture level, its over nine thousand! In fact its over thirty thousand!"

"Realizing how screwed you idiots are yet eh?" Acacia hissed out." To bad, far to late to back out of it now boy! Your luck's run out, and now your going to be part of my feast!"

"We still have some luck." Starjun uttered as he staggered back to his boss." I have some Food Luck to spar Boss."

Midora gave Starjun a approving nod before he saw Trunks and the others getting back up and smirked." Well, at least the ingredients I have at the moment are not that fragile. Also Toriko, when were you under the impression I gave a damn about numbers? They just reflect one's opinion, for I have an appetite that constantly breaks limits!"

"Heh, no offense Midora but I do to! No matter how hardcore Acacia gets I'm not giving up on the dream I and Komatsu have spent so much time working towards! Hey wait, where is Komatsu anyway? No, don't tell me Acacia ate him when I was not looking! No, you bastard!"

Coco grimaced before he cleared his throat." Not quite Toriko, truth is that the giant Frog eat him in the blink of a eye when we were distracted."

As Toriko looked stressed the injured Gourmet God to his right croaked weakly." Its ok Toriko, its less stressful in this stomach then you would think! I'm still cooking so don't worry about me!"

Zebra chuckled as he cracked his neck." Have to hand it to the kid, he looks like a shrimp but even being digested does not keep him down."

"Then we can't back down either guys, no matter how hard it, whoa!"

In a blink of an eye Acacia was in front of Toriko and Midora before he licked his lips." Are you done yet? Because devouring people with regrets gives me indigestion! Eh, screw it!"

Midora saw Acacia open his mouth and responded with his energy flaring up."Hungry Bomb!"

Acacia saw his foster child unleash a energy blast from his mouth and quickly bat it away, but while he was pushed back Shinryudramon charged forward." If your that hungry for seconds then coming right up toothy! Infinite Exia Ray!"

The hungry demon saw the Digimon's energy blast heading his way before he caught it in his other hand. At the same time Toriko unleashed his Nail Punch attack, Starjun attacked with his Flame Spear, and Trunks attacked from the left.

But Acacia caught the Super Sayian's strike with his tail, while blocking the other attacks with his knees.

He prepared to overpower everyone at once when suddenly a Flower Funnel flew in front of his face and shot a small beam right in his eye.

This caused Acacia to roar in pain and cause all of the attacks to hit him. But before the smoke even cleared Acacia showed how much damage he really took as he charged forward to attack.

Thanks to his third eye Starjun was able to see into the future slightly and dodged in time. Seeing this Acacia widened his eyes and had his front sabre-tooth like teeth extend to try and impale his targets.

However Midora was ready and used the power of Minority World to dull the blades impact. The moment Toriko saw his opponent was distracted he struck out with all of his strength to hit Acacia with his Infinite Nail Punch.

Acacia was knocked back two miles from the blow but after that slammed his foot down hard enough to cause a tremor before he burst back at his targets. As he did Midora smirked."Hungry Space."

Acacia winced before he realized Midora had previously eaten the space he passed with his "Appetite Demon" and was bound by the unstable energy. While he was bleeding Acacia just shouted out a livid,"No matter what space I'm in boy, I devour all! Gourmet Pantheon!"

Midora saw his former father figure unleash a barrage of massive energy fists his way, and used Minority World to try and reverse there aim. He then cringed at the realization that Acacia purposely unleashed the attacks without aiming, and that Minority World just focused the attacks on him.

Before he could try something else, a barrage of attacks unleashed by the Enji, the Persona users and even Ryūko and some of her Life-Fiber wearing friends collided into the bombardment, and send them flying in all directions, unleashing city leveling explosions with each impact.

Acacia saw Lacus protect Midora, Shinryudramon, Trunks and the rest of the group with a energy barrier from the energy fist that was not hit off course before growing furiously." Lets see how long your shinny walls can last against ultimate power! Gourmet Crush!"

A massive energy hand erupted out of the ground. As the hand made a crushing gesture the group hastily moved to avoid being both crushed and burnt. As Midora got out of the way he saw Acacia right in front of him with a wicked grin." You were my true target, Midora!"

The head of the Gourment Corps saw a massive energy fist coming for him with not enough time to react. As Acacia quickly went to crush his target, Toriko burst for him and unleashed his Jet Fork projectile attack.

As Acacia was staggered from the blow Toriko once more had his Blue Ogre Appetite Demon form again before he unleashed his Jet Knife attack to unleash a even larger energy blast. Acacia was able to deflect the attack, but realized he was cut in the process and sprouted a look of rage.

He saw the attack he deflected was powerful enough to carve a massive chunk of the planet up like a piece of meat was cleaved out to make a sandwich slice before he snarled at Toriko and spat at him.

The blue haired man dodged it as a reflex, but in that moment Acacia burst at him and slugged him hard enough in the face to cause him to spin like he was a tornado. A instant later Acacia smashed Toriko to the ground, and then bombarded him with blur like punches that caused the planet to tremble with each blow.

As Toriko screamed in pain his attacker hissed out,"Toriko, just what are you really boy? I felt that blow son! How you still alive after I whooped yah? Did your pals make you gag down a morsel of the Gourmet God to so you could try and mimic me?"

"No, I did not eat that ingredient yet, I swore I would not eat it till someone else did."

"Tsc…you still not taking me seriously? Enough, get out of my sight and into my belly punk!"

Acacia widened his jaw and suddenly had it become wide as a shark as he prepared to rip Toriko apart, suddenly Starjun dove down and pushed the blue haired man out of the way, and got his lower half devoured in the process.

Toriko widened his eyes in horror, and Acacia realized he missed his target and just snorted before he prepared to finish the job, till Midora smashed the man with the massive jaw in the face.

Acacia 's head swerved back, but as he did he lashed out with his tail to grasp the arm that hit him and pull it towards him. Before Midora could even attack his opponent bit off and devoured his hand.

Before he could go for a second "serving" a holy energy blast hit him in the face. Acacia hissed with hate as he felt his head burning, and glanced up to see Lacus glaring down at him form above.

Lacus saw her opponent lick his tongue with hunger, and just looked determined as she had her Flower Funnels barrage Acacia from all sides to distract him long enough for Trunks, Shinryudramon, Ryūko, Kirby and some of the others to barrage their enemy with a timed combo attack.

Toriko saw his new allies keep Acacia at bay before he heard Starjun moan and tensed up."Star! Are you ok Star?"

"T…Toriko…hurry and finish your Full Course while Acacia is distracted."

"Hang in their man, don't give up! Coco's got some Cure Water left and we seem to got some magic healers with us now so you can make it!"

"I…I don't think so. I think even if I had my compatible food, raw Gourment Luck, I still would not be able to recover. My cells, they feel like the vice of death is on them. That's, what it means to be devoured by Neo."

"Damn it man, why did you give up your life for me? I know we had the same enemy but we been rivals up till now!"

"Heh, maybe but I was enlightened since then. The ingredient that I been searching for, it was you that gave it to me."

"The hell you talking about?"

"About five hundred years ago, when the Chef Goddess Froese became pregnant with Acacia 's child she plucked her unborn child, placenta and all from her womb and encased it in a reinforced Back Channel spell before casting it to sea. Filled with massive amounts of Gourmet Luck and nutrients, the two kids were me, and you Toriko."

"Seriously?"

"It's a disgusting truth, but the truth all the same. We spent five centuries without aging, and I ended up taking most of that energy to be born first."

"Wait, we are seriously brothers? And, Acacia and Froese are our parents?"

Ryūko heard the explanation to and just groaned." Wait seriously? C'mon, don't rip off what me and Satsuki went through damn it!"

"Hey it happened to us first damn it!"

"Ugh, whatever."

Acacia heard what Starjun said and roared with raw fury. As he devoured a Flower Funnel he hissed out,"Seriously? The children I had with Froese survived? She hid them from me? Damn lying cunt…I'll devour her soul form the after life for fooling me! I'll devour you all!"

Starjun saw Acacia lash out even more furiously before he coughed again." There is little time Toriko. What I been seeking all this time, is you. You…and what you have inside your heart…kindness. It's the true ultimate ingredient."

Acacia saw Starjun glance at Lacus before he snorted."Bah, even if my spawn lived after all, in the end I wanted to groom Chefs! Your useless to me Toriko, DIE!"

Toriko saw the monstrous man that happened to be his father charge through the others and dive right for the blue haired man, only for Starjun's body to start to glow white." Toriko, its thanks to you that I was able to identify the true nature of my Gourmet Luck.

There's no need to worry, your protected by a great appetite. I fought you many times, but not once did you turn a single shred of hatred or anger to me. Those pure battles were fun. So, farewell, my little brother."

Starjun's body suddenly turned to white light, and unleashed a shock-wave strong enough to launch Acacia back. Toriko saw the light go into him before he gasped." Something is burning in my throat! What, huh?"

The light glowed around him before suddenly it seeped off of his body, and took the form of a red ogre, his primary Appetite Demon. The blue haired man looked on at shock before he cleared his throat." What? Am, I dead? This, does not look like the spirit world."

The ogre just grinned before crossing his arms." This is real Toriko, I am, your appetite. You finally eaten your Full Course, and because of that I am strong enough to take physical shape on my own. Once you eat the Center, I will at last be complete."

"My appetite…the thousands and thousands of meals I had, I shared them all with you."

"That's right, 985,962 meals to be precise."

"Thank you, my beloved appetite. Its all thanks to you that I been able to experience the happiness…of discovering new flavors so many times then I could count. And it was because of this that I was able to meet so many people. So then, was it you who decided my Full Course?"

"No, that's where you are wrong. You decided your Full Course all on your own. And there will be many meals to come, so lets go Toriko, to the next meal."

The Ogre suddenly went inside Toriko's throat, and the chain reaction caused a explosion of power that caused Acacia's mouth to water." Damn it Starjun, I must make his appetite my meal! Guess you had a good cry out eh boy? Tsc…your looking really damn cocky aren't cha Toriko?"

Midora saw how confident the blue haired man looked before he widened his eyes." His Appetite Demon offered himself as food for Toriko? His Gourmet Cell's, they are surging with power!"

Toriko was crying after his brother's death, but as Acacia looked at him in the eye he had a detached look." Even these tears, have the finest of flavor."

"Piff…if that's the case, then how bought tasting my fist boy!"

Acacia charged to attempt to kill Toriko once more, but to his shock Toriko hit him faster then he expected, and was hit so hard in the face that he was sent flying around the planet in the span of a second.

Toriko did not even swerve around and just slammed his hand backwards to hit Acacia in the back.

As his opponent yelled in pain Toriko just took a calm breath."Just like how the pranks you use for play as a kid seem so childish once you grow up, this entire planet feels so small now. So, this is the divine power of consuming one's Full Course? All I need left, is the Meat Dish Acacia, so get ready to be served!"

"Tsc…what's this, you're getting full of yourself and think you got this all turned around you damn small fry?"

"No…from the moment I showed up the odds have been turned in my favor Acacia."

Acacia swerved around and saw Midora had gone up to Starjun, and that Torkio's brother looked weak but still looked alive, if frozen. This sight caused the man with many mouths to snort." You used Knocking to freeze him boy? Never thought you were the naïve type Midora, but guess this angel here's conned you good!

But then you always been good at all that stuff like pretending and hoping eh runt? It's too bad you let theses woman rip your balls out…from what Joie told me your rage was building mighty fine, it could have almost reached the level of my appetite I tell you what! But then you got second thoughts like all chumps do!

Heh, here's a quick thought for you so called heroes…why do you think we eat at all? Is it to eat? Is it so we can reproduce so we can leave behind are decedents? Hell nah…its simply because are appetite, our instinct drives us to! We may eat for the future survival of our own species. But we don't do it so we can share anything with anyone.

After all, appetite is in its nature selfish. It's a desire for something so great that it takes priority over everything! Even if you want to die, you still can't stop your hunger, your instinct! If your stomach is hungry…you eat.

In this universe you humans wear all your masks and lies, but the only truth is that " the sole rule that guides actions, humans again and again only humans are so absolutely driven by there emotions!"

Toriko glanced at his near dead brother before he took a deep breath."Acacia, I have one last thing I have to know. Were, were Starjun and I born out of love, or just appetite?"

Acacia glanced at the blue haired man before he snorted out a unflinching,"Appetite…without a doubt. Love's for dreamers boy. Just another emotion that may give a rush, but fades with time.

In the end, if something can't fill your appetite, its worthless. Be it love or anger, they all swell up…burst…become dust…and shatter! Even your rage could not hold up to my appetite Midora!"

Midora just chuckled before responding with a collected,"This rage of mine? To be honest I'm quite hopeful it would vanish one day so at last I could be at peace."

"HAHA! A peaceful state of mind is a dream boy! Heh, flavor is the same. The flavor of this planet, if not the entire god damn universe is already at its limit! Everything that builds up and accumulates will eventually explode and crumble away.

Except for flavor that is, that will never disappear! Flavor is again reborn. Unlike these pathetic emotions of yours. But there is just one emotion that I adore from you mortals. And its rage. After all, it's the purist emotion of them all!"

As his enemies looked disgusted Lacus had her light shine brighter before retorting with a firm," Your wrong Acacia, humans are not quite that basic! True, a hungry person will go to great lengths to fill that void.

However, humans want more then to just be full! I know from everything I seen, that they don't want empty hearts either! Maybe a psychopath like you can't understand it but the feeling of true love surpasses any food!"

"Piff…you got the mantra down well eh girl? You woman always do preach about that stuff again and again eh? Call it rude all you want but the cold hard truth, is that because you're the weak ones!

Females rely on love because they are to weak to sate their hunger like a man! Sure that's not always the case but even if some strong woman can fool weak men, the laws of nature are absolute!

And when hopes rip away to despair, that's the taste I like! If you think I'm full of it woman, then I'll prove my point when I crush you, and every last hope all of you have! I don't need anything on this world anymore, so you can all just die now! Gourmet Crush!"

Everyone braced themselves as Acacia had his muscles expand and his aura explode. But as the planet started to shake the man's enemies dread ran rampant as a massive pillar of energy erupted around him.

Lacus was tense enough as she saw that, but quickly grew alarmed as she saw pillars of energy form in the distance, and realized Acacia had formed a hand of energy large enough to crush the entire planet.

Shinryudramon saw the energy hand make a crushing gesture before he winced."Man, this guy's crazy all right, he's going to blow himself to!"

"Like hell I will you stupid beast!" Acacia roared out madly. " I can survive anything! So let me feast deviously on your despair! Heh, are you going to play hard to get? If that's the case I'll just feast on your ashes!"

Midora glared at the man he use to respect before booming out," Hump…still playing around with me? I can crush an attack like that is nothing! Meteor Laser!"

Acacia saw the man he trained have his Appetite Demon form before unleashing a energy beam large and powerful enough to shatter the planet shattering hand of energy.

Seeing his attack fail just caused Acacia to have a wild look form in his eye. " Thick as you are boy you are stubborn. I think, I'll feast on every last drop of energy you have left! Because it don't matter if it's a " natural" organism or a "artificial' lifeform or even natural disasters! They are all nothing but ingredients to me, things to be devoured! Your very soul, I'll devour every last drop of it!"

Acacia then took a deep breath, and inhaled to suck in Midora's aura. Trunks saw the aura go directly into his enemies mouth before he winced." No, he can suck in energy as well, like that servant of the wizard Babadi that Goku fought? Great, this just got even more risky."

Midora found his aura vanish entirely, and as Acacia saw his shocked look he grinned, and punched him in the face at the blink of a eye." Now that's more like it! Now with no more Gourmet Luck, I'm going to rub you out once and for all failure! You should be happy, your at last going to see your momma boy!"

As Midora was punched back he snarled with rage, and suddenly lashed out with his tongue to grasp Acacia by the leg to trip him. Seeing his target fall backwards Midora showed how much energy he still had left by bursting forward, and with only one hand smashed Acacia in the face again and again before he yelled out," Think you can make me afraid? Like hell Acacia! Hungry Tongue!"

Midora smashed Acacia deep into the pit that Acacia originally burst out of, and then had his tongue grow once more before smashing his opponent again and again with enough force to cause the planet to crack.

Lacus saw Midora was being relentless, but was bleeding more and more by the second before she grasped her hands tightly."No, after his energy got absorbed he can't go on much longer. We have to help him!"

"Careful Lacus, one blunder will cost us everything." Trunks put out tensely." Not only can he devour energy itself, but it seems if he bites something they can't recover. Maybe your power can overcome it, but we can't take that risk. Please, hold back while we handle this."

Lacus saw Starjun frozen at the verge of death before she looked determined." I understand your point Trunks, but I can't just stand by like some frail damsel in distress. I don't plan to just run in blindly, but we have to take some risk to get through this.

Lets see, I'll test things out by seeing if I can heal this guy. Time to see who's power is higher up on the hierarchy."

Milla, Terra and more of her friends covered her as Lacus prepared to see if her healing magic could override the effect Neo had on Starjun. Lacus tried to focus as much as she could as Midora kept up his barrage of massive tongue lashes.

Each blow was like a meteor impact, but Acacia showed how little damage he was really taking as suddenly Acacia had his jaws widen to be large enough to bite and rip off Midora's tongue. As Midora winced, Acacia had his snake like tail burst forward and stab his target through his right lung.

To top it off the snake headed tail swerved around and bit down on Midora's right shoulder. Acacia took great pleasure seeing Midora fall to his knees and strutted over to him." Listen well Midora…there are only two kinds of creatures in this world! Those that eat, and those that are eaten!

That very system, is the food pyramid that goes across the entire universe! Your high up their boy, but I'm on the top of everyone! You struggled mighty long but time to own up to the fact that you were never anything more then something to be eaten in the first place!"

Acacia prepared to lunge forward for a killing blow before Toriko suddenly dived down and unleashed a karate chop to slice off his tail. As he winced in pain Toriko casually ripped off the snake head on Midora 's body and glanced at his enemy before he grinned, and devoured the snake head.

Seeing his enemy snarl with rage just caused Toriko to grin." If there are only two types of creatures then guess your one of the guys that gets eaten to eh Acacia?"

Acacia snarled with outrage, but as he blinked Toriko unleashed a attack to smash him in the air before he could react.

The blow was powerful enough to cause a explosion, and as the ground shook Midora snickered." To think you could grow so fast Toriko, guess the others were on to something after all."

"Midora you, your wounds are."

"Do you remember who your talking to? This is just a flesh wound. You must focus Toriko, nothing else matters. If your just going to use enhanced physical attacks, your going to have to be on guard for Acacia devouring them. As you can see, anything he eats can not be undone so you have to attack him faster then he can shut his filthy mouth."

"Heh, sorry Midora but you got it backwards. I'm going to feed him my attacks on purpose! I could sense very intense stress from his flesh when I ate it, your attacks gave me a idea! He's so big on flavor, I'll give him a flavor so overwhelming that it will overwhelm him!"

"Toriko…did you think this through?" Midora threw out cagily as he eyed the younger man carefully. His response was a confident smirk." Its hard to explain, but I just got this gut feeling from the inner appetite inside me Midora! When so much is on the line I got to trust this feeling!"

"Heh…well your full of it but I won't deny your full of some flavor boy!"

Everyone tensed up as Acacia stomped back in the direction of his target. While the punch Toriko landed left a dent in his chest the fanged man had a wild look in his eye." No fooling, that was a damn good punch son! It was packed with such strong anger and passion, it was a mighty fine appetizer! So fine that I reckon I'm going to enjoy the main dish!"

"In your dreams Acacia! Lets finish this, and see who's going to fulfill there Gourment Dream once and for all!"

"Fufu…which one of us is going to grasp the Gourment Dream son? See here now, that's going to be who is the closet to being god!"

"Hell no, its who is the hungriest!"

"Don't matter, both of those things are me! Show me, just what your rage tastes like Toriko!"

"Gladly, time to be served Acacia!"

The two burst at each other and unleashed a furious barrage of punches and kicks. After this brutal exchange lasted around ten seconds before they both punched each other in the face.

As Toriko was knocked into the air his face just turned beet red."No, I'm just getting started! Flying Jet Fork!"

The blue haired man unleashed a barrage of energy forks that bombarded his target. But as a massive explosion erupted Acacia charged out of it. Toriko saw all of his target's mouths open wide before he smirked." You think you can eat me? Bring it on!"

Toriko tried to attack Acacia, but to his dread new mouths opened up on his opponent's body Toriko shifted his fists in time and tried to catch the teeth to prevent his hands form being devoured, but as he did Acacia pressed down hard enough to draw blood.

Seeing his son's fear caused Acacia to sprout demented grins with all of his mouths."Hahaha, HAHAHA! Its useless boy, even if your my spawn you still can't compare to me! No matter how much resolve you have, I'll devour it all! Enough's enough, die boy!"

Acacia prepare to try and rip his son apart till suddenly he felt a painful impact and realized Shinryudramon had hit him in the back with his Giga Drill Breaker attack.

The Royal Knight type Digimon saw his target was looking at him and glared back."Enough's enough jerk! Even when they say it's a all you can eat buffet, no one's really allowed to just eat everything! Your not going to eat everything, not on our watch!"

Trunks then burst at Acacia from above with his sword blazing with energy, but just as the Super Saiyan was going to slash him from above Acacia roared before and had tentacles burst out of his body to bind both men before they could complete their attacks.

Acacia squeezed till he heard cracking sounds and howled out," You don't get it whelps! I'm not like the trash you may have cut down, I truly can, and will, eat everything! No matter what tricks any of you have, I'll devour it all!"

"No you don't get it!" Shinryudramon roared out with determination." No matter how hungry you are, you can't swallow all that we can dish out freak! Shinryudramon, Mode Change to!"

Acacia was caught off guard as Ben's pal that was the reincarnation of the pal who betrayed Seiya had his eyes glow golden before he unleashed a shockwave powerful enough to shatter what was binding him.

Moments later he was at his full power, and as he pointed his new broadsword at him."Judgment Mode!"

At the same time Trunks once more unleashed his Super Saiyan Rage state to break out of his own binding, and as the Time Patrol agent saw his target glare at him he glared back." Acacia, your about to find the hard way that when you threaten all we hold dear, guys like us have no limit!"

Acacia snarled and prepared to attack, only for both men to hit him before he could even react. Ben's allies knew how ruthless there enemy was and tried to blitz the many mouthed demon so hard that he did not have time to counter attack.

Acacia was blasted around like a pinball in the sky before he snarled out and unleashed a barrage of massive Gourment Punches to try and blow his targets away. Seeing Shinryudramon and Trunks both slice the incoming projectiles in half before he snarled out," No matter how fast you slice, no matter how hard you wail, you can't stop the true ultimate nature of existence you stupid maggots!"

Acacia prepared to counter attack when he saw a light above and saw Lacus was charging at him. The Enji had her wings extend before uttering a firm." Acacia, as you die I hope your savage brain can comprehend that hunger is not the true ultimate power!"

"The more you spat on about love the more I'm going to drag out how long I'm going to devour you bitch!"

Lacus fired a holy spell in response, and Acacia responded by devouring it. He winced as he did, and had his mouth sizzle before he burst at her, as he did Shinryudramon appeared in front of him."Don't talk like that you monster! I won't let you hurt her, I won't fail the job Ben had for me if it's the last thing I do! Dividing Quantum Slash!"

The transcended Digimon unleashed a slash that was fast enough to shatter Acacia's teeth. As he roared in pain Lacus swiftly dove at her opponent and unleashed a palm strike to hit Acacia right in the throat.

As he coughed in pain her holy energy surged."I think you eaten more then your fill, so I'll have to force you to stop you from being to eat if I have to! Here we go again, Godly Sixty-Four Strike Deviation!"

Lacus struck Acacia with a few palm thrust, and as holy energy was driven into the demonic man's body he howled with rage. But before Lacus could follow up her attack she saw Acacia had even more mouths sprout up and backed up before she could get bitten.

Acacia smirked at this and unleashed a few punches at her."What's wrong angel? Realizing your not as high and mighty as you thought? Your light stings, but I'll drag you down from heaven, to the ground and into my gut! Gourment, GUH!"

Trunks cut him off with a kick to the head before he could complete the attack, and as he slashed off another set of teeth the Super Saiyan yelled," Give it up scum, she's not on the menu!"

Shinryudramon and Trunks both blitzed Acacia as fast as they could, and every moment Acacia was stunned Lacus unleashed another palm strike to slowly follow through with her combo.

Acacia got fed up and unleashed another Gourment Viking barrage to attack from all directions. As his targets all tried to push through his onslaught he grinned once more." That's right, no matter what your dreams or powers are, in the end all give in to appetite! Huh?"

Acacia saw Kirby, back on his Warp-Star and still with the power he absorbed from Android 21 before Kirby waved at the man who was even hunger then him."Your wrong meanie! Hunger is not as important as what the food means!"

Acacia just glared at Kirby with disgust before spitting out,"Your scent, is nearly like mine? Yes, you were the prototype, your my " brother" eh? What a joke, you're a defective reject! You don't know nothing about what's real!"

"Maybe I'm still clueless about things but I know what's right!"

"Oh, and what are you going to do about it puffball? My mouth is bigger then yours and so is my appetite!"

"Maybe but my heart is bigger! And what I'll do about it, Is this new power I got! Special Beam Cannon!"

Kirby made use of the power he absorbed from the vengeful pink android to use a move from her memories, and put his hand on his head. As Acacia wondered if Kirby was nuts and prepared to attack him, Kirby suddenly pointed his free hand, and unleashed the pricing corkscrew beam attack that 21 had learned from the cells of Piccolo.

The Special Beam Cannon hit him right in the head, and pierced Acacia's mouth and went through the other side of his head.

While the demon's body instantly started to regenerate, he was stalled long enough for Lacus to complete her attack. While he attempted to have a new mouth form to try and bite her hand she lashed out with her energy ribbon to grasp it and slam it shut before she completed her attack.

As she slammed Acacia to the ground with a roundhouse kick she pressed her commlink carefully." Everyone, hit him with all you got!"

Her allies new and old, and even the main cannons of the Wave-Rider all barraged Acacia from all directions. As a massive planet shaking explosion rocked out Lacus, Shinryudramon, Toriko, Kirby and Trunks landed near Midora.

Lacus saw her former enemy glance at her curiously before the head of the Gourment Corps spat out," I did not think you would be so repetitive as to use the same tactic as you did to me Enji Knight. What happened to that scent you had when you were fighting the Saiyans?"

Lacus shrugged as she rubbed her neck. "I could have used Persona Armatization again, but raw power did not seem like the solution here. I noticed, he almost seemed like he had a allergic reaction to my energy so it seemed worth it to rupture his power. After all, after finding out I could over power his cells it seemed worth a shot."

Midora raised a eyebrow but before he could commit he saw that Starjun was back on his feet, and that Lacus's magic was able to restore him even after Acacia had ripped him apart before he snickered."Well, I had my doubts but, at this point it seems your what you said you are. Frauds are infuriating, but its nice to see the real thing from time to time."

"Its hard work being a miracle, but I try and do what I can."

Midora smirked at her, but before anyone could go on a voice brimming with hate seethed out," Be divine will, a miracle or whatever you call it, nothing can stop me, NOTHING!"

Lacus and everyone around her tensed up as the smoke got devoured and Acacia emerged from the ground. While he was sizzling all over and had cracks over his body his face only had a look of raw hate on it.

He glared at Lacus and as his eyes twitched he growled out," All your little tricks put together mean jack in the face of the ultimate life form girl! You keep thinking you can overwhelm me but I tell you what I have no damn limit! I'll slurp every last drop of energy in Battle-World like its just one giant Milkshake! You hear that angel? I"LL DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!"

Acacia took a deep breath, and inhaled above him, unleashing the force of a tornado, if not greater from his mouth in the process. Trunks saw his aura start to be sucked into his enemies mouth, and saw all of his comrades, and the very Persona's from the Persona users be sucked in to Acacia's mouth.

Lacus saw clouds, and the energy from the Wave-Rider be sucked into the fiendish male in front of her before she grimaced."No, no matter how much of a fit you throw Acacia, your not having your way!"

Lacus cast a dozen energy barriers around Acacia to try and seal him off from everyone. It worked for a few moments, but her target quickly devoured the energy in the barriers one by one.

As he gained more muscular he once more had zits pop out all over his body. Toriko saw his father look more and more hideous and unstable before he winced." God damn, Acacia may have finally bit off more than he could chew!"

"That's my hope." Lacus responded as she wiped some sweat off her brow. "If my energy provides some reaction to him, I'm hoping I can give him some severe indigestion! I, I know it can work!"

Acacia had his eyes glow as he devoured more of the energy walls till he grew to twice to three times the size. Red energy started to drip out of his mouths as his gut slammed into the wall he burped some more before uttering,"It won't work you damn whore! This body, nothing can break it! Nothing! No matter how much it burns I can grit through it, LIKE A REAL MAN! I am the strongest of all, huh? What the, UGH!"

Everyone frozen as Acacia had a pillar of energy erupt out of his mouth, and a hand burst right out of where his heart would be.

As a Heiligenschein halo formed on his head purple a voice form inside his own cackled out," Hahaha, your body might be able to endure you filthy savage naked ape, but not your mind nor your soul! Your quite stubborn, but time for the true winner to take the spotlight! Now, Gudoero , God's Love!"

Acacia had his eyes twitch as a purple half infinity symbol, the same one on Super Boy Prime, Kylo Ren, Dio, Darth Plagueis, Madara, and Terumi formed on his forehead.

His entire body started to glow and swell up even more before fibers burst out of his gut, causing him to scream out in pain."What, what is this? No, NO! Stop clawing at my head! You can't control me! You can't, GUHH!"

Everyone was frozen in shock as Acacia had his body balloon even more to the size of a giant, his zits exploding in to more flesh as it twisted and turned, cracking and transforming, not only growing, but changing in shape.

Lacus saw that Acacia looked in pain before she sighed."Well, not that he does not deserve it...guess he had it coming."

The ground started to shake as his aura grew even more immense before Sarah suddenly cut in to the Enji Knight's commlink with a sharp,"Hey don't pat yourself on the back now girl! Look, Rip and Gillion are telling me that the Wave-Rider is detecting this blob bastard 's energy is going haywire! I don't get the high tech stuff but the big issue is that his brainwaves are going haywire, and it sounds like something is overwriting it!"

Trunks looked alarmed and saw Joie was still frozen."Wait, what does that mean? Is, the Beyonder taking control of Acacia directly? What, what the hell?"

More bursts of energy exploded out of Acacia's body, and he grew more and more till he was the size of a giant. At the same time, his body twisted, cracked and mutated and took a different shape, one that looked more like a woman.

Suddenly the being's back rippled, before large grey wings, each with a blue, pointed appendage, a violet jewel on the left wing, and a cyan jewel on the right wing, burst out of its back. Acacia moaned one last time before he lurched his head back, and suddenly stopped.

Kirby rubbed his head as he saw his enemy had clawed feet and hands now, and nearly looked like a nude woman with whitish pink skin, with her "sexual" organs armored up like Terra in her Esper form." Um guys sorry for forgetting things but, what's going on?"

"I'm as confused as you Kirby." Shinryudramon blurted out." But the best I can figure out is that this jerk swallowed something that caused him one bad reaction! Still, is this good or bad?"

The Digimon got his answer when suddenly a massive black aura erupted out of the transformed figure as its new wings extended. A burst of devious laughter erupted from the figure, before a voice, a female voice cackled out,"This means your doom you tackles vermin! Heh, and they dared doubt me when I said I was a man eater!

At last, after all the waiting, ALL the indignity, I at last have just what I need to get what I truly want!"

Ryūko felt a chill creep down her spine as she realized what the new voice sounded like before she blurted out,"No, no freaking way I must have got hit hard by that Acacia freak! Because, that sounds, that sounds like."

To her horror the figure stood back up , and what was the face of Acacia, now was the face of Ragyō Kiryūin. The devious woman's grin was now littered with sharp demonic face but while transformed it was still her's, with her rainbow hair reemerging from her head, though now in a more spikey variant like the witch Maleficent.

As a Heiligenschein star of energy vaguely heart shaped formed on her head she grasped her right hand tightly before bellowing out a fanatical,"Oh but it is my simple child! That sexist thug thought I was just another meal to him like all the other woman he devoured in his savage life. However, as I just made clear all who underestimate me are my prey!"

Satsuki looked at her transformed mother with horror as she looked at the remains of Acacia sizzling up around her." No way, even being devoured by that monster was part of your plan!?"

"Heh, it was not ideal but, any true winner knows how to adapt my weak willed off spring! At the start of this Battle-World Joie was impressed with my resolve and said I was worthy enough to be chosen for the Auswählen selection, and was given the fragment of Rabum Alal 's power to wield the Vollständig! My Schrift was the letter L, Gudoero or "God's Love!"

Joie, still paralyzed, rebounded a little and chuckled weakly."My hopes were first with Acacia, but I saw you had the drive and figured it could be fun to give a fellow gal a chance at the top. For while he had the edge in power he was complacent.

Meanwhile your raw drive was enough to be a Divergent Catalyst, one that could devour all others as long as the proper"seasoning" was added. Glad my woman's intuition was not misguided.

Our great master was curious to see the nature between the different types of mortals that Cosmos and Zannacross created, what most call " Men" and " woman". Beauty, passion, seduction, Rabum Alal was curious to see what type of this passion came out on top. Prove your version is the strongest and you will be rewarded beyond your most ambitious dreams."

"Oh you will see how big I can dream Joie. But my thanks for giving me a edge. I had my doubts but it came through and was glad to see that this new power would allow me to make anything my slave!

But, I was savvy enough to realize the likes of Midora and his "papa" might see it coming so I had to make sure I did not use my trump card wantonly. Thanks to having this power and the Life-Fibers infused into me I was able to endure being swallowed and cast Gudoero.

Acacia was a stubborn bastard, but thanks to you idiots weakening him I was able to succeed in taking him over, and to boot I made his very body fuse with my own!"

Lacus took a sigh of exasperation before she got back into a fighting stance."So for all your ranting about beauty your more about the beast eh? Well, your body at last reflects your heart at least Ragyō."

"Heh, you act like that was a insult but physical beauty is skin-deep. You think I'm not wise enough to know that what people see as a attractive woman changes from culture to culture, or from one time to another? And yet, what is always respected and adored no matter what era or nation one talks about is power!

In the end the truth is that true beauty, is true absolute power! I did what I had to in order to bewitch or distract my obstacles, and as I gained more power I just outright crushed those who defied me!

I stood by with a smile as I suffered so many, many indignities as I climbed the latter of power men made to suit there needs, but at last I climbed the top, and while it was a risky path, converting this dolt's body into my own, and allowing me to convert his Magatsuhi to my own allowed me to have the power to make my "Reason" become reality.

Yes, as Ordine Ragyō, I'm at last the divine being I knew I was suppose to be! It was the ultimate risk, for the ultimate prize! And at last I'll have the ultimate prize, my true wish granted!

Once I erase you all, and whatever dolts end up being the champions of the other worlds I will remake the world, the universe, in my vision! Yes, it's truly times up, for when I recreate reality, I'll see to it that its one where only woman, where only the female sex will exist!"

Kirby saw the mad look in his transformed enemies eyes before rubbing his head."A world, where only woman can exist? Wait I thought most people need to have a man and a woman to have a kid?"

Trunks shrugged before retorting with a uneasy,"Well, there are some life forms that can reproduce asexually like the Namek's, but they don't reproduce as often."

Suddenly Trunks was weighed down by a surge of power as Ragyō looked even more driven." Quality over quantity you filthy Saiyan ape! The grand experiment is over, and the judgment is that men is nothing more then a mistake! That's why its time for man's final reckoning! I'll recreate existence so that woman won't need men to reproduce, then at last we will be free of man's savage impulses whims!"

Toriko glared at the woman whose body use to belong to his father before he grinded out,"Lady I don't know what man did what he did to make you hate us but don't think I'm just going to roll over and die!

Acacia was scum but, your nothing but a god damn parasite using his body for your glory! No way someone like that deserves to be on top! Infinite Nail Gun Punch!"

The blue haired man wound up his fist and went right for his new opponent's chest. As she saw him coming she at once yelled out,"Blut Vene Anhaben!"

Toriko tried to attack Ragyō before she could unleash the spell, but as he struck her in the chest when suddenly the area he struck had a faint purple pattern tracing the veins beneath the surface of the skin shine with enough power to repel Toriko. As he was shocked Raygo smacked him to the ground with her massive claw.

As he landed hard enough to create a tremor she hissed out,"I'm not as fight loving as your dear daddy but, I have the means to defense against you savages. You think I care what a savage man like you thinks of my methods? I don't care to play by any method other then what gets me what I want, to change the nature of this broken system!

Men have made woman the scapegoats for there failures since the dawn of time, since Adam blamed Eve for his own sins! I saw from the other worlds that everything was like in my own situation, that woman were forced to be subservient to men just because most men had more muscles then most woman!

Haha, and for so long the only thing woman could do was adapt or die. There were those that rebelled, and some had more success then others but they were always, always the target of hateful men that could not stand woman being above them.

Yes, I admit, my own father...Majima loathed that he had a girl as his heir. He quickly destroyed everything I had so I could" focus" on my "rightful" duty.

When my mother at last protested, he lobotomized her for showing she was" mentally unstable" when in his eyes insanity was not properly obeying his will. I loath to admit for a time I thought this was just as life was and aimed to be a true heir. But my repressed desires got the best of me, and I fell for a man who's passion swept me away.

He wooed me, and in that romantic session I ran away with him. I soon found he had impregnated me. For a while he conned me into thinking we would really start a family together, but he got drunk from failing to get a job and hit me, causing me to lose my child.

I killed him in response, and my father covered it up gleefully doing it after seeing me return to him. He thought I had at last,"Grown" into what he wanted me to be, but I surpassed his shallow petty limits oh so soon.

After finding out the true legacy of the Kiryūin clan! I quickly steered my father into having a "accident" on a cruise, and took control of RAVOCS to take control of my destiny! I thought the Life-Fibers would allow me to shape the world to how I desired, but as I arrived in this Battle-World I saw that if I could win then I could aim for even greater heights!

And after breaking free of the shackles of the men who tried to keep me down I would never settle for anything but the apex of my desire! After all, no cost is to great to make my dream a reality! A dream where woman never have to be at the mercy of men's brutish whims again!"

As Ragyō laughed madly Nonon gulped before looking at her long time friend." Geeze Lady Satsuki...I knew your mom had issues but this is, well this is really damn crazy!"

The former student president of Honnouji Academy winced as she nodded." I knew most of her relationships with men fell apart quickly, but I always figured she was bitter because of father. To think, she was using him from the start, to think she was already this twisted."

Ryūko rolled her eyes before spitting out,"Harp out your sob story all you want but you're a god damn hypocrite "mom"! Sucks your own dad was a sucky dad but you were even more of a sucky mom! If you really cared about making woman better you would not have treated us like crap!"

"I know your to young to understand Ryūko but I truly did care! For you see, only someone with true love would go to such great lengths to make their children prepared for the true nature of the world!"

"Screw you, that's just a nutjob making excuses for being a asshole!"

"No, it IS the truth you ungrateful brat!"

Ragyō yelled out as her energy exploded with enough force to blow the Wave-Rider and the Nudist Sol off course and crack the entire planet." The weak pander there children because they are to afraid to do what must be done to win.

But I did what was required to make sure my off spring were strong enough to endure the cruelty of men! But it will all be over soon, every last one of those apes will get the judgment they deserve!"

Lacus saw the madness in her massive winged enemies eyes and took a few moments to feel her aura before she sighed with sorrow."I can feel your emotions seeping out of your soul, I'll give you that you truly were wronged, but your using it as a excuse to make everyone suffer with you.

If you truly cared about protecting your fellow woman with your resources you easily could have made a sanctuary for woman, like how Hippolyta created the island of Themyscira.

The angelic Wonder Woman Diana told me how her mother was wronged, but wanted to protect those like her so they could no longer be harmed.

You, you just want everyone to suffer Ragyō. I'm sorry you were wronged but, to prevent others from being wronged worst I'm punishing you for your wicked acts!"

Ragyō looked at Ben's girlfriend with sheer disgust before seething out,"Oh but of course the puppets of men defend them! You think I want to hide and be a meek amazon coward? You think I'm content just letting men get away with their legacy of injustice?

I'm just more ambitions then the rest of the cowards, and I'm not content with merely having sanctuary but ultimate vengeance! Your just a blind puppet, made to be man's servant!"

Lacus had flashes of all the abuse Brad gave her. As memories of all the other times men have dismissed her coursed through her mind she grasped the Oath-Keeper sword tightly before bitterly retorting with," You don't know a thing about me, because if you did you would know I'm not blind to the abuses of men! I suffered greatly at the hands of one very loathsome monster of a man.

He, he tricked me, killed those that I cared about and manipulated me for years, to the point that for a time I thought I could not live without his strength. I was on the verge of loosing everything, but Ben and the others that did not give up on me helped me see the light just at the end.

That's why, I know while there are so many horrible men out there, I know not all men deserve to suffer for the sins of the worst of them!"

"HAH! You were abused by one only to jump in to the arms of another? How pathetic you are Lacus Raystar! Even if this new man was not the same as the last one, he's manipulating you all the same! Men don't just use physical rage and muscle as their weapons you know!

Guilt, fear, even overbearing kindness is various ways of subtly coercing woman to behave how there repressors want them to be! Does not matter if it took a different shape, you just fled from one crutch to another to avoid facing the truth!"

"Your wrong Ragyō! I'm sorry your heart was broken but despite what you think true love does exist! I admit, I did become my lover's girlfriend just about right after he killed my last one.

But, maybe part of it was me feeling guilty for hurting Ben for so long, maybe part of it was the heat of the moment, with doomsday creeping right out of the corner, but while I did have my doubts, I knew deep down I really did love him and was willing to risk rushing things to do things right. True love leads to people being compete, its not something that should be erased just because of the scum that abuse it!"

"Your just a fool! Like how flowers always wilt, love always fades! In the end, only those who are too weak to attract to others stick together out of mutual weariness and desperation. Men with power, never are content! You really think that your beloved lover boy will never betray you? That this light will never fade?"

Lacus winced, and as she saw Shinryudramon, Kirby and her squad looking at her she remembered the times she had with Ben before she narrowed her eyes." I admit was worried Ben would grow bored of me a few times. Now that he's the savior, more then half of the woman in the universe wish she could be his wife.

Ben went to having most woman not even look at him to not keeping there eyes off him. It was, a transition but, one we worked on together. After we figured out the best way to come off as friendly but not" To friendly" its been fine. I did worry a few times, but whenever a girl was a little to eager to see him he just shrugged and would tell me why would he want to do something when he already had the love of his life? To him, he really does not need anyone else."

"Tsc...he may say that now but all men's gaze wonders after enough time and all with power will act on it!"

"I just have more faith then you it seems. I trust him when he says having more then one relationship sounds far to stressful.

Anyone can go crazy if they think of all the possible ways things can go wrong. But, I know it will work out, I know there are bonds that never fade!"

"Then you are a fool! It's the nature of man to betray, to treat woman like cattle for them to mount as a victory trophy!"

"Oh trust me Ragyō, I been around. I seen again and again, societies were men's hate for woman have caused such a legacy of suffering.

A few months ago me and Ben studied what caused Earth Prime to collapse into ruin, part of it was the majority feeling threatening by woman rising to power. Right before things went to hell, their was a election between a competent if flawed woman, and a horrible man that was the embodiment of sin itself. The woman was not perfect, she could put her foot in her mouth and a few other things, but she tried harder then anyone else, but people did not like the hard truths she had to say, and instead people as a whole went for her opponent. Even despite having no experience as a leader, many people went for him because they liked what he wanted to hear. Even if most of it was fake, to many people would rather listen to lies then face the truth.

In time, this man was exposed as the most corrupt leader the nation ever had, and on top of that he was a traitor. But even when the truth became crystal clear, this man's supporters refused to accept they were wrong, because they refused to admit a woman was right.

This boiled over, till the contempt for woman became so great that they unleashed a berserk rampage, that lead to war, and while there were other factors, the hate grew till it led to Earth Prime being completely unlivable.

Sadly, while it varies as I go to world to world I seen time and again this rageful explosion of men destroying everything rather then submit to woman. No, its even worst, just asking for being treated as equals caused so many men to erupt into a berserk rage.

I hate to admit it but at times a lot of Brad's across the universe, there are far to many men who seem to have a primal fury at the thought of being denied what they want because of a woman. Many worlds had men that were content destroying civilization itself, because they truley did not care if the world regressed as long as they did not have to concede anything to women."

Lacus saw her comrades, men and woman alike look distraught at her speech before Ragyō laughed with murderous glee."SEE!? Even you admit how horrible men are! Those who don't wrong woman are just to weak to pull it off and would do it if they had the chance!

They are all guilty of being a collective mass of lust and rage! That's why, they must have their final judgment, and reality must be reshaped by woman in a world where men get what they deserve!"

"Your wrong Ragyō, despite all that I just said I still have faith in men. Even if history is composed of the unequal savage relationship between men and woman I don't think the answer is for all men to die."

"Are you serious? Because you think we need them? They held power over woman across so many worlds for so long, if there is any justice then its only right men feel the fear and despair they made woman go through!"

"That's the easy answer Ragyō! It feels good but that would just make woman as bad as men and the cycle of hatred would go on till they would hate us enough to repeat the legacy of hate!"

"But if they all die then the cycle will be broken at last!"

"No, it would not. Because woman would then find ways to group each other, and without one scapegoat they would fine another. Don't you see? So many men have wronged so many woman, but that does not make all woman saints.

Woman have hurt woman of are investigation shown us that when women did go for revenge so strongly, it caused a massive backlash. And as much as I hate how men have treated me and woman, I can understand how men would react if he did nothing wrong but woman were out to make him suffer just for being a man, because I know I would hate if men wanted me to suffer just for being a woman.

The worlds that had the best progress in relations between the sex's were ones were both sex's worked together as true equals! Its a harder and longer goal to reach, but one that gets the best result! I won't deny men have hurt me the most, but when I was isolated, woman turned on me as well, purely for their own gain.

They were just as quick as men, if not more so to discard me like tainted trash, even the ones that I thought were my friends."

"Don't you realize that's because men hold power over us and force us to claw at each other like rats swarming each other for one crumb, for one ounce of power! But if we were to erase them entirely, we would not have to degrade ourselves and stoop to their level just to get crumps, when we have everything we would have no need to emulate are inferiors any longer!"

"Maybe your willing to risk everything for that theory of yours, but I'm not!"

"Well I don't give a damn if your to afraid of change to cling on to your shackles Lacus Raystar! Once I rewrite reality to make it so women won't need men to reproduce we won't truly need them for anything! Not even sexual fulfillment!"

"Even if that's true in a sense…to erase one half of are nature would be a mistake! Organisms were divided into man and woman because there were things neither could do without the other! Its ok, to not be able to do everything by one's self. It's okay not to feel `whole'. Even if you feel only partly complete, if you repeat that enough, it'll eventually be `whole'. A part... is better than zero.

Ragyō… you can deny it all you want, but you want to be loved, because everyone wants to be loved... needed by someone, so we look to others... By ourselves, we are lonely, so we try to draw together to live...That's what it means to be human...That's how people live.

A single hand cannot clap. If the purpose of existence was for there to only be one being, there would have been no individual thoughts, no collective unconscious."

Ragyō had her eye twitch as he energy grew enough to cloud the sky." Even if that is god's will, then that merely means god made a mistake, and I'll destroy god to! Your just a puppet programed to blindly believe what your masters tell you to like a good loyal bitch!"

"Your wrong. I'm not a holy woman of any sort. For as much as my body as changed, I'm still just a regular woman.

I get angry... I cry... I laugh... Although at times I can resent others, I also know how to love others... Loving whole masses of people at times... and loving just one person the rest of the time...

I am in supreme bliss when I'm embraced by the man that I love. Not because it's what "'I'm " suppose" to do, but because I sincerely enjoy the reaction that I get from his happiness.

Giving what I have to him, and receiving what he gives to me, we become one flesh... That is the moment when I am most at peace.

And for all the pain I felt by men, I still would not forsake men entirely for then I would miss that feeling. I do want to change the unequal relationship between men and woman but, I don't think all of how we interact is a pain.

I mean, I can't forgive sexual predators, but, at the same time I'm not mad at men for just being attracted to a woman. I never got how they could be angry about that, I mean, it's there nature to be attracted to woman right?

As long as they have enough control to not try and think the slightest response is a cue that we are going to make out, I did not mind being the center of attention when entering the room or something.

Heh, some just found it awkward but I always found it cute when Ben was head over heels for me, and maybe the magic can't last forever but it still means a lot to me that if we are just a day apart seeing me makes him swoon all over again.

The process is far from perfect but, in the end its something I think should not be purged from life, because when it's done right it's wonderful."

Velvet chuckled before adding," I sure as hell hate what Artorius did to me. I hated him so much, that for years the only thing I cared about was making him suffer even more then me. But, even for all that he did to me I don't want all men to go away.

Because having that pain go away is not worth losing Laphicet, punks like Rokurou, Eizen, Zaveid and others. Sure men have been a pain but they do have some stuff that make them worth keeping around."

Terra nodded before adding,"Kefka and Emperor Gestah made my life a living hell, they took everything from me and made me their slave.

When Locke found me in the Narshe Mines it could have been very easy for him to have his way at me. But he did not, he helped me because he wanted to do what was right.

But those like Edgar, Sabin, Cyan, Locke, Shadow, and the other men that would be my friend also risked everything to give me freedom.

They could have easily used my power for their own interests, they could have very easily have taken advantage of me to satisfy there sexual desires, but they chose not to because they knew it was wrong and wanted to do what was right.

It's because of what they and the children I raised shown me, that I know without a doubt men are not all deserving of damnation."

Muzét giggled as she patted Lacus on the shoulder." That's right, I would not mind if some men were smashed down a few pegs, or just smashed apart to be honest but honey with no men around, now that would just be dull."

Ryūko chuckled as she glanced at her allies." Sure as hell hated how perverted Miko's bro and dad got at times but, after I threatened to use my scissors on their nuts they got in line. You hear that mom?

We ain't like you and so scared of men that we won't feel safe till they are all dead! We're brave enough to keep walking along side the good ones while kicking all the bad one's asses till we get it right!"

"Ugh, that same pitiful "savior" feeling from my own child is so utterly depressing." Ragyō hissed out." Your all blinded by your own hopes and pride, strung along by a narrative created by men to excuse there oppression. You can't " Save" men because its in there very DNA! The only true way to change things is to erase them once and for all!"

"I have faith that there is a way to change things without erasing men Ragyō." Lacus shouted back defiantly." I have faith that men, that people as a whole can change if the conditions are right. So much lashing out is done when resources are limited, and people feel desperate to secure food and stability."

"Piff…you think only the poor abuse woman you dolt? Your head's even more in the clouds then,"

"I know that's not the only reason!" Lacus cut back sharply." I'm fully aware men in power so frequently abuse it to relish in that power. In so many cases, men, and well all who harm others don't seem to feel anything but pride at forcing there targets to bend to there will. So many twist logic in their heads to rationalize it in a way that sounds good.

Maybe, that's how humans have been since the start, but that will change, if the plan me, Ben, James and all the others can blossom then it will work, and people will at last evolve! Yes, if it all goes as planned everyone will share the same pain, the same memories so they can't delude themselves about what they done."

"And you call me crazy? I stomached your rambling long enough, but its time everything that spoils my grace vanishes!"

"So be it, I'll prove you wrong when I shatter your delusions, and at this point your face for good Ragyō!"

The rainbow haired woman narrowed her eyes before she slowly raised her hands to the air, and had her aura explode with such force that it was a combo of an earthquake and hurricane all at once." I'm going to enjoy ripping that smug face apart Lacus Raystar!

Yes, you're going to have to face the fact that now I have even more divine grace then you! My radiance outshines everyone! Cleansing Maelstrom!"

The ruthless woman with enough drive to be a Divergent Catalyst had her eyes glow, before lighting struck down for her targets. Lacus blocked the lightning bolt heading her groups way, and as Toriko moved fast enough to dodge the lighting bolt sent his way he grinned." A lot of this is over my head, but all I know is that I'm still hungry, and am not in the mood to be a meal!"

He and his Gourment Hunter comrades prepared to attack when suddenly the blue-haired man sensed something and saw that the cloud Ragyō magically created unleashed a downpour of blood red water drops.

As everyone dodged as fast as they could Ryuji deflected some of the incoming water drops with his Persona.

As the member of the Phantom Thieves' saw his friends combined magic spells were intercepting the rain he grinned." Screw you ice queen! We pushed through way to much crap to be scared of some bloody water! Even if its acid or something its not going to, huh?"

The blond haired man saw that the bloody puddle the fallen water hade made was rippling, and saw a blood Life-Fiber spike burst up for Ann. Ryuji only had time to push his blond haired friend before even having time to shout.

He took the blow in the knee, and as Ann gasped in shock he coughed before giving a weak thumbs up." Don't worry, knee may not be the best but if I could handle that one collapsing meta palace something like this can't, huh? My head feels, UGH!"

Ann, Ren, Mokoto, Morgana and the rest of the Phantom Thieves were mortified to see their friend roar in pain before his entire body turned red and he dissolved into red liquid. As he and some of the others hit died in mere moments Ragyō laughed madly." That's right, the goddess of the new era will tolerate no descent! Any who even dare to act like they are a rival to the beauty of god, will be returned to nothingness! See how fragile you mortals are in the face of divine wrath!"

Lacus glared at the giant demonic women before her holy aura exploded." You're going to see how fragile your divinity really is when I'm done with you Ragyō!"

Ben's girlfriend cast a wide energy barrier to protect as many as she could from the demonic liquid spell.

Shinryudramon saw the Fortune agent Tsubasa melt into red liquid after being hit before Lacus could cast her barrier. And as her friend Itsuki screamed in horror the Digimon growled at his target." You, your one really nasty witch! Woman or not, I won't forgive you! Verus Zenith Ray!"

The ascended Mega level Digimon burst up and unleashed a massive energy beam for his target's head.

At the same time Trunks fired of his Gallic Buster attack. Hopes of shutting Ragyō up were quickly vanquished as the Eldritch Abomination of a woman put her hands in the way of the energy beams, before lipstick glazed mouths sprouted out of her hands.

She casually absorbed both attacks before her grin widened." I don't need your chauvinist charity you eyesore! For all of its unsightliness, merging Acacia with me has allowed me to surpass all of you!"

Despite her size, Ragyō was fast enough to roundhouse kick Trunks before he could react and then had multiple faces seep out of her right shoulder and moan, before unleashing Life-Fibers out of there mouths.

Lacus saw the Life-Fibers all dive for Shinryudramon to try and consume her friend before she looked determined." Sorry to, well, sorry but not sorry to burst your bubble Ragyō but assimilating all of Acacia's strength's also gives you his weaknesses! Radiant Burst!"

The angelic woman unleashed another salvo of her most preferred energy beam with the hopes that it would erode her opponent one way or another.

But to her dismay Ragyō casually had the mouth in her right hand absorb the energy beam before her wings glowed." True as that may be angel, I'm a more advanced, refined variation of your previous more savage dance partner! And a true winner, knows how to turn weakness, into strength!"

Lacus braced herself as the orbs on her wings glowed, and seemed to redirect the energy that was absorbed into it.

Ragyō had her aura surge even more as a look of pure insanity formed." That's right, all pretenders must kneel before there master, or be eradicated, with divine grace! Oblivion's Embrace!"

Ragyō spread her wings, before unleashed a barrage of massive energy hands that were like Acacia's previous Gourment Punch attacks only purple. Lacus saw the attacks heading out in all directions and her, Shinryudramon, Trunks, Toriko and a few of the others combining there strength to repel the barrage, but Lacus saw a few more of the native Persona users and members of Nudist Beach get killed before she winced.

Ragyō saw Lacus's look of dismay before she sprouted a smug look." That's it, that look of realizing how foolish it was to oppose me was just what I was looking for!

The era of men and their pets is coming to a end, all who wish to kneel to there true master has one last chance to bend the knee before they melt into nothing!"

"Like hell will I never beg from you Ragyō!" Ryūko shouted out. She prepared to dive right for her mother's face before Satsuki tackled her." Calm down Ryūko! I want to stop her just as badly as you do but, one foolish gesture will end us!"

"I know but, we don't have time to play it safe! Lets just dog pile on her face and hit her hard enough till we shatter it!"

Nonon rolled her eyes at the remark before spitting out," Damn it transfer student without your Kamui bailing you out a idiot like you would have been so dead ten times by now! If she could regen from her injuries before she can do it now!"

"Damn it, I don't care how many things or souls she's absorbed with her Life-Fibers by now she can't be invincible!"

Lacus saw the female Dimensional Nihilo General spread her wings again and saw Trunks unleash a controlled Solar Flare to blind her to give everyone time. As she struck out blindly in a rage the winged Enji winced." Well, the Beyonder might have made her have no weaknesses, but it can't hurt to check. Sarah, you and Rip detect any anomalies we can make use of?"

After a few seconds she was relived to hear the White Canary respond with a steady,"Good news is that there might be a solution Raystar. Bad news is that it might be a pain in the ass to pull off. Rip's telling me your big drama queen 's heart is sending off a different energy signature then the rest. It, might be what's controlling the rest of the body or at least what's focusing its energy. If you aim for that it might make her unstable."

"Well…its worth a try. Just have to attack her in that direction without her noticing."

Kirby rubbed his head for a moment before he looked excited." Oh I know! If we attack her from the inside she won't see it coming! She's so big now I can fly inside her body to attack her heart directly!"

Lacus saw the pink member of the Justice Force looked determined before she grimaced." Did you think that through Kirby? Even if she's in control now, Acacia could devour anything that it consumes! Nothing could escape!"

"But this Ragyō lady was able to avoid being digested right? Sounds like its because she got special protection from that Beyonder guy! SO if you protect me with your magic I should be ok!"

Lacus saw Kirby look determined before she returned it with a look of anxiety." Kirby, we don't know if that could work. We don't know what kind of dangers would be in the inside of her body, just charging in alone inside her body, it's all but sending you to die!"

"Ah don't worry between being inside Nova, Dark Matter and a few other nasty monsters I'm good at this by now! Besides, if we don't try we are all in big trouble right?"

Ryūko saw Lacus's worry and smirked before she patted Kirby on the head." The little dude won't go alone, I'll go with him! Even if I only found out about a day ago this mess is all because of my mom so feel's only right to risk my neck to shut her down. Besides, your magic's been really hardcore so far Lacus, I'm willing to bet it will let us get the job done!"

Lacus saw Ryūko look determined before Milla walked up and cleared her throat." I know its risky Lacus but, the fact is our options do seem limited. If they are willing to take the risk we should honor their resolve yes?"

Yuna smirked before adding,"Don't worry Lacus, have faith in yourself and it will work out."

The brown haired woman took a deep breath before she nodded."Your right, I will make it work because no way in hell am I letting this melodramatic blowhard have the last laugh! Get ready, we won't have much time to pull it off."

Ryūko nodded before she glanced back at her mother." If this is our last stand I need to put everything I got, everything I can do! Satsuki, everyone, get ready, I'm going to use all of the Life-Fibers I can!"

Nonon saw that Ryūko had her living outfit start to glow before she raised a eyebrow."Hey wait, what you think your doing idiot?"

"Sorry, no time to debate this! I'm taking everyone's Life-Fibers into me! Senketsu-Kisaragi!"

Ryūko had her eyes glow, before suddenly Satsuki and all the others wearing Life-Fibers found there uniforms start to be attracted to Ryūko like a magnet, before there clothing was ripped off and collided and merged with her own Life-Fiber.

Ryūko 's hair suddenly turned bright red nearly like a Super Saiyan, and as her outfit started glowing and got more spikey Nonon shirked and covered her suddenly revealed body." Screw you Matoi! Your screwing us over for some crazy idea of yours!"

"This whole day has been crazy so might as well try and top it!"

Satsuki seemed unphased by the sudden change of events and just nodded at her sister."Just be careful Ryūko."

"Got it sis."

As the sisters smiled Ragyō recovered from the Solar Flare and saw her child's transformation, and reacted with a bitter chuckle." Oh Ryūko, still think you can play the hero? No matter how much you desperately try to grasp whatever power you can get your hands on, it will never be enough for you to surpass your mother!"

"That's what you think, but I think your full of it and want nothing more then to shut you up for good!"

Kirby summoned back his Star Sparker Warp Star before he got on it and took back out the Star Rod."She's right lady! Your to nasty to be allowed to eat any more then you have! So say your sorry or your going to be in big trouble!"

Ragyō saw Kirby and Ryūko both fly for her and ready there weapons before her eye twitched." I'll never apologize to my inferiors! Its unsightly for divine beauty to concede to ugly blemishes."

"Well good thing your already more ugly then that damn dog Guts! And your going to be even more ugly after I'm done with you! Let's finish this, Grand Finishing Move! Sen.."

Ragyō saw her daughter and Kirby both prepare to attack before she lunged at the duo. Lacus saw this and cast a energy barrier around them, just as she consumed them with the mouth in her right hand.

Lacus could feel the two's energy still pulsing form inside the massive woman but fledged outrage as she saw Ragyō laugh at her apparent victory." I'm starting to wonder if you were ever human in the first place Ragyō, because I seen cyborgs that cared more for their children! I'm starting to wonder if you even know what love is."

"Tsc, wrong again you twit, I know all about love! Everything I do is for love! After all, to fight is to love. Love for one's mate, love for one's spawn, love for one's parents, for one's friends, for one's god, faith is love, passion is love.

There is no part of life that's not done out of love! That's why battles are glamorous, that's why fighting is beautiful! I love conquest, I love victory, I know all about love!"

"Well you do love yourself a lot without a doubt." Lacus retorted in a deadpanned tone as she rolled her eyes."But at the same time, for all your confidence if you only love yourself then its because you don't have faith to love anything else. That's sad, but I refuse to let your insecurity endanger everyone else."

Ragyō saw how determined Lacus looked before she formed her most insane expression yet." You think you're so enlightened that you know my heart's desire you whore? Please, I'm afraid of nothing, I'm just wise enough to not waste time on worthless illusions!

I spent most of my life being chained down by the desires of man! And now I'll eradicate it once and for all! Enough, I can't stand the sight of you! Its time for every eyesore on this damn planet to vanish! Erebus Floraison!"

Ragyō put her hands together to form a black and purple energy ball. Her wings glowed before pouring energy into the ball till it grew larger and larger till it covered the sky.

Lacus saw her enemy look at her with a expression of raw hate." This entire planet is filthy, and since I don't need anything from it its time for it to be purged! Even your power won't be enough to stop my final judgment Lacus Raystar!"

Lacus saw how large the energy blast was getting before she put her hands together and had her aura shine out as much as she could push it." Your wrong, I will stop you Ragyō! I, am the one chosen to be the third to carry the Antitype Apostle bloodline in all of humanity.

That means I'm the one chosen to guide humanity to the future. For a while I was not sure what it was suppose to mean, what I could possibly do.

But, after spending a lot of time thinking about it, at last I have a idea on how to change humanity, how to make it better for both woman and men, for both attractive and the plain, for the smart and the dumb, for the elite and the common, for everyone. It will take effort, but nothing that matters is easy.

To unite everyone's hearts, and to erase the misunderstandings that cause suffering might be a tremendous task, but I know its not impossible! And I won't let you or anyone else stop that dream! And if you want to see the extent of my resolve, then I'll show you how fiercely I'll fight for it! So come out, Persona!"

Lacus once more took out a blue card from the bracelet Philemon gave her, before she poured all of her aura into it and cried out."Now, I'll pour everything into this! So come out,Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon!"

As the card shined with light she pointed it into the air, and a massive beam of energy erupted out. The light shot out above Raygo's energy attack, till it took the shape of a massive three headed dragon, the ultimate form of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon that Lacus once turned into after Brad forced Lacus to merge with a Advance curse seal of Necrocalcous crystal.

However, now that it was Lacus summoning the dragon out of her own power the dragon was altered, and now had the same energy markings and crystalline features that the Blue-Eyes Chaos Max Dragon had.

While the Neo Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon gave a thunderous roar, The Enji Knights and the others were relived to see Lacus casually fly on top of the center head of the ominous beast. Yuna saw Lacus confidently jump on top of the dragon's center head before she smiled." Lacus, you truly have pushed yourself to the limit to be all you can be. I, I knew you could do it!"

Ragyō saw the three headed dragon roar at her and just snarled back." You can conjure any thing you can think of, I won't kneel to anyone! I'll shatter anything and everyone that stands in my way! Hahaha, mirror mirror in the sky, who is the strongest most beautiful being of all? ITS ME!"

Lacus saw her rainbow haired enemy hurl the massive deathball at her, and she just responded by grasping her sword tightly and pointing Oath-Keeper at the attack." Ragyō…time to wake up! Ultimate…Perdition…Flare!"

The Dragon Master Knight fired a beam of holy energy just as the Neo-Blue-Eyes-Ultimate Dragon unleashed a trio of energy beams that combined with Lacus's own blast to combined into a gigantic rainbow colored energy blast.

The collision of the two projectiles unleashed a blast that nearly ripped the planet apart, but as the shock-wave knocked Ragyō back a few feet she slammed her foot into the ground before seething out," No, no matter what stands before me I'll make everything in my sight submit to my brilliance! DIE!"

Lacus felt Ragyō unleash enough power to push her back and she stood her ground. She reached out and could still sense Kirby before she smirked."Maybe you can Ragyō, but its often what we don't see, or refuse to see that brings us down. Time to see…who's the deluded one once and for all!"

Lacus poured everything she had into finishing Ragyō once and for all. And little did her enemy realize that some of the obstacles she thought she had already dealt with were quickly moving to help speed along her defeat.

To the duo's relief Lacus's barrier held and despite it being a bumpy ride the two were able to endure the trip. As Ryūko saw the pathway at last open she grimaced." Damn it, is this ride almost over or what?"

"I don't know miss…do you know what we are looking for?" Kirby answered tensely."

"Eh…not like we got a map but whatever looks shiny and important and, huh? Like that!"

The two entered a wide area that was surrounded by vein like pillars of Life-Fibers linked to a round purple rocky core. Kirby saw the area shine before he gulped." Is, that suppose to be a heart? That does not look like a human heart to me!"

"Who cares it looks like something that should be in pieces so lets end this already!"

The two prepared to dive right for the core, before it shined, and the crystalline sides split open to reveal a purple blob with strange colors swirling around its mass.

Ryūko glanced at her target's new shape before charging for it, till she suddenly heard a moan from the round object, causing her to grunt out," Oh come on, her heart's freaking alive now? What the, huh?"

She and Kirby were shocked to see three dark spots move about the surface of the core for a few moments, till it moved to look like Kirby's face. Kirby blinked, and saw the face in front of him blink back before he rubbed his head." Do, Life-Fibers make your heart a mirror?"

Suddenly the round object with Kirby's face giggled erratically as its eyes went wild." You, your soul is like mine, you and me, we are the same!"

Kirby widened his eyes in shock before he remembered what Android 21 said and tensed up."That's right, she said Neo was created from me. Are, you the core of Neo? Are you, my brother?"

"Hahaha…you, your like me in the end, so you should be a part of me!"

"Sorry, I can't do that, I have friends that I need help, and food I still have to eat!"

"No, you can be better then me, you should be a part of me, you WILL be a part of me!"

The round object, the Void Soul that was the core of Neo sprouted a insane face before it suddenly had ten triangular spikes protruding from its sides and a large hole opening in its center to reveal a single red eye.

Kirby gasped as he realized it now looked just like the Dark Matter before he sighed." Guess its not just nasty lies, the nasty Dark Matter meanies all came from me after all. That's, why, I'll make sure no one has to feel bad because of me again!"

The Void Soul's eye started to gather energy before muttering," All will be consumed, nothing can resist!"

Kirby looked determined, and the cells he gained from absorbing Android 21 gave him a idea on how to strike back as he put his hands back." Your wrong, even if your my brother I won't let you win! Ka…ma…ha…ma…HA!"

The pink member of the Justice Force gathered all the power he could muster, before unleashing Goku's trademark energy beam.

The two blasts collided and Ryūko saw Kirby was being pushed back, before she noticed the Life-Fiber like cables were pouring energy into the Void-Soul.

She grinned as she grasped the Rending Scissors tightly." No way I'm just waiting on the sidelines! Time for some hardcore surgery!"

Ryūko burst forward to slash one of the pillars in a instant. She was glad to see the desired effect and see the Void Soul's energy beam get weaker, but to top it off it made Ragyō weaker outside as well.

The being that was merged with Life-Fibers realized something felt wrong inside her, and had a eye open up in her heart to see Ryūko and Kirby. This caused her to shriek with outrage." Your still alive?"

"What can I say " Mom"? I got your tenacity! But now your everything's about to end!"

Suddenly the extra eye inside her own body glowed before a spike shout out of it to impale Ryūko. As her own child yelled in pain the monstrous woman laughed cruelly." What's going to end again dear? Did you mean your life? Because if you meant anything else your wrong!"

Ryūko coughed a bit before she chuckled bitterly." You're the one who's wrong, because your finished! Did you forget that because of the "Makeover" you gave me , the closer I am to dying the stronger I bounce back?"

Ragyō was mortified to see the Life-Fibers start to be absorbed into her child." What, you took that attack on purpose?"

"Yep…I gritted my teeth and took a dose of tough love from mother dearest. Dad's ultimate weapon was not some Scissor Blade! It was me and Senketsu! We don't have a limit to how many Life-Fibers we can absorb! Now its your turn to be torn apart from the inside out Ragyō!"

"That wretched man! Don't stop me Ryūko, your to young to realize how great world I can create! Don't let your nativity stop me form purging all the scum!"

"Just because you want to be lazy about things don't force it on everyone! Humans are humans, clothing is clothing, men are men, and woman are woman!"

"Damn it all! What's this nonsensical garble your spitting out!"

"Nonsensical is how we roll! Your precious dream is being rejected. DEAL WITH IT!"

"No, NEVER! I've transcended the likes of you, you will all submit!"

Ragyō had veins form on her forehead as she tried to crush everyone in her and around her at the same time. For all of her fury Lacus noticed her opponent was looking stressed before she grinned." All right, its working, we can do this!"

"No you can't, YOU WON"T!" The rainbow haired woman hissed out with renewed fury. She had more red projectiles try and rain down to whip out her targets before Aigis flew at her target's eye before the Anti-Shadow android aimed all of her weapons." The odds of victory are within reason Ragyō, and we will do anything to beat the odds! Go Athena!"

The android woman's shield welding Persona formed around her once more and hurled a lance at her target's left eye. Her target swatted the lance away with some life-fiber tentacles, but as she did Aigis had the largest energy cannon she could weld form in her hand and fired a shot, hitting her target hard enough for her to stagger.

As Ragyō winced, Labrys, who was able to be reprogrammed by Mitsuru and the others on the Wave-Rider before the next round of fighting charged for her former boss and gripped her ax tightly." Despite what I thought before, I'm not buying what your selling! Time for your punishment! Go Ariadne!"

Now that she was able to understand her true feelings Labrys was able to summon her true Persona, an armored woman figure. Ariadne at once unleashed a red lasso that bound Ragyō by her leg and caused her to stagger.

Shinryudramon saw Lacus struggling before he grasped his blade tightly." No matter what happened in the past, I want to protect my friends! I will protect my friends! That's right, there are Digimon around here still! Hey guys, you don't know me but I'm sure most of you don't want to be this nasty ladies meal so lend me your power!"

Using the power of his Judgment Mode Shinryudramon was able to draw in the energy of the Digimon on the planet that reached out to him. The infusion of extra energy caused Shinryudramon to have his aura surge and have two energy rings encircle around him.

As he channeled all of the energy into his blade he shouted out," Lady, I don't know nearly as much about fashion as you or Lacus but I know you need a serious makeover! Superior Verus Zenith Ray X7!"

Ben's Digimon Partner unleashed his enhanced energy blast to help Lacus, and Ragyō saw herself being pushed back. As she realized she was on the verge of being overwhelmed she hissed out," No, I did not endure so much, just to have it all be taken away from me by tactless savages! I'm Ragyō Kiryūin, I rise above all who stand before me!"

Toriko then charged at her before he wound up his fist." The way I see it, is that you and Acacia have both overeaten! So time to leave the table! Guys, give me all the Gourment Energy you have left!"

Midora, Starjun, and his fellow Gourment Kings quickly gave their energy to the blue haired man before his energy exploded, and he unleashed his ultimate Appetite Demon and transformed into a state of where he grew to have an extremely muscular frame and took the shape of a white demon.

The White Demon had wings on its back, long slick black hair pulled into a ponytail, pointed ears, and three scars on its face matching Toriko's.

It also had a sort of gem on its forehead and what seem to be piercings connecting the corners of its mouth to its ears and running down the center of its chin.

As Toriko finished his transformation he grasped his fist tightly before uttering a calm,"God's…Fork!"

Toriko shaped his hand like a fork before he struck Ragyō in the head. Her Blut Vene spell once more former around her skin to try and neglect the damage, but Toriko hit her so hard that it not only rattled her head, but caused where he struck to cause a crack in her body.

Mitsuru saw her opponent's eyes start to tense up before she looked determined."Now, give it everything we have! For Minato and all the others we lost, we can't lose now! Everyone, channel your energy to Ren! Entrust your strength and will to him and Miss Raystar!"

Ragyō saw all the Persona users direct their power to the leader of the Phantom Thieves before she sneered out,"Damn scum, you will all suffer greater then you can even fathom to image for defying god's will!"

The man with the nickname " Joker" just smirked as he felt his comrades give him power before snapping back with a defiant," In my eyes, if a angel abuses its grace then its up to a demon lord to make it answer for its crimes! Heh, what better way for a finale as a trickster! Go Arsene, no…reap judgment… Satanael!"

Ren ripped off his mask, and used his power as a Wildcard Persona users to direct all the energy into his Persona Arsene. It glowed before undergoing a dramatic transformation. Moments later it became a dark armored demon with many wings that was as tall as Ragyō. As the rainbow haired woman saw her new threat to the right she sneered out," No, I will not be judged by man, I will never submit to you male bastards!"

"You holler about how sinful we are when your projecting your own vices! Begone hypocrite, Sinful Shell!"

Satanael formed a revolver in its massive hand, before firing a massive energy infused bullet to hit where Toriko struck her, and blasted a hole right through her head.

Because of the Life-Fibers and the power given to her by the Beyonder she was able to still live through the attack, but it weakened her focus even more, including the Void Soul.

Trunks sensed Kirby's energy within his opponent and grasped his sword tightly." Lady, just take a hint and die already!"

The Super Saiyan poured as much of his God Kai into his blade as he could before he dived at his distracted opponent and slashed into her chest.

At the same time Kirby saw the Void Soul waver and put all of his energy into his attack." Sorry, but even if you are my sort of brother if your going to hurt my friends then you have to go!"

Ryūko slashed at the top of the Void Soul for good measure, and Kirby pushed forward with all of his will to blast through the opposing attack and hit the Void Soul. The demonic lifeform's face once more morphed into one like Kirby's, and gave off one last scream before it was vaporized.

This weakened Ragyō even more, and she screamed out in fury as she glared at Lacus." No, I refuse to lose to fools like you! I won't let, naïve twits like you keep the world of men alive! I won't let the lie continue!"

Lacus hardened herself as she focused her energy for a final push. "The world won't regress Ragyō, I won't allow it. But I'll make it a better place for everyone, not just one group. But for that future to happen, I'm liberating you from your ambition at last!"

Terra saw Lacus 's aura flare up before she nodded at her teammates."C'mon gals, put everything you got to help Lacus! Riot Blade!"

Milla nodded as she powered up as well." Right, ladies, for the future! Heavenly Crusader!"

The former disciple to the Summon sprit Maxell combined her power with her step sister and unleashed a thunderous divine energy beam.

The rest of her comrades fired off as well , and even Sarah had the Wave-Rider fire a beam meant to weaken the energy sphere of her target.

This combined push was the final straw, for moments later Ragyō was mortified to see her energy sphere be shattered, and franticly tried to push the blast back with her hands as she cried out a defiant," No, this must be a trick! I, Ragyō Kiryūin can not lose to such weak willed scum!"

To her horror Trunks busted into her to grasp Kirby and Ryūko and dash them away just as her hands were vaporized by the combo blast. Lacus gave her enemy one more sorrowful glance before she grasped her blade tightly." Sorry…but in the end you're the one who's been looking at reality through jaded lenses, good bye."

"No…NO! I can't lose here? All men must die. ALL MEN MUST…RAHH!"

With one last cry of outrage Ragyō will broke, as she was completely vaporized by the combination attack.

Joie saw every cell of the she chose to be one of the Beyonder's champions before she widened her eyes in shock. No…after all that, none of that could beat Lacus Raystar! Damn it, just what is she? She, can't truly be the champion of god can she?"

"I don't know Joie…I just know she's greater then you."

The Black Swan cringed as she saw Midora stagger for her. Despite all the injuries Acacia inflect on him, even with one arm he looked ready to rip off her head before he hissed out." Now that you have no one left to bail you out Joie, its time to throw out the rest of the spoiled trash!"

Having lost most of her energy herself, the Dark Chef winced before she staggered back. "No, don't think you can get away with this traitor! Don't think this changed a damn thing!

You may have deprived Rabum Alal of a champion or two, but that merely ruins the deigns of his game. Your still powerless to change anything, his will is still superior to all!"

"If that's the case then why do you look so mortified? Is it because you realized all your plans are crashing down?"

"Hardly! Just, need to make a few adjustments, and maybe reinforcements."

Joie's eyes started to glow, causing Midora to grit his teeth." Think you can just run away now? Forget it!"

Midora went to punch the woman with his mother's face right off but as he got up to her she cast her spell, and both of them vanished in a pillar of light. Starjun winced at this and dashed forward," Boss! Where, where did they go!?"

Before the others could answer Lacus had the Neo-Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon go back into her body before she landed back on the ground. She smirked for a moment before her aura faded completely. She was about to fall before Velvet caught her." Steady there Lacus. Would be a sucky victory if you died to pull it off. Plus like hell do I have to explain to Auro how we lost you."

"Heh, don't thank me yet." Lacus retorted wearily," We won the battle but no real idea if we won the war. I mean, don't mean to jinx us but depending on how much of a sore loser our " host" is he might just think this is the opening, oh?"

To everyone's surprise the sky suddenly brightened, before like with the others, the sun, that was still where the Beyonder was residing in surged with light. Suddenly a thunderous voice boomed out," THE NEXT PHASE OF BATTLE WORLD HAS BEEN DECIDED! THOSE WHO REMAIN HAVE ENTERTAINED ME WELL! NOW PREPARE FOR THE FINAL PHASE! PREPARE TO PROVE WHO IS THE MOST WORTHY OF THEM ALL!"

Like with Ben, James, Doug, and Ezan, Lacus and her comrades saw a pathway of pure light seemed to descend from the sun itself, and land directly in front of their feet.

As the stairs landed to the planet the Sayian woman awoke to see the battle was decided before Caulifa giggled weakly."Well, guess you could go all the way Raystar. Good, I won't stomach losing anything to champs."

Lacus blinked to make sure no one was around to pull off a " surprise" before she took a breath of relief. "Well, at the very least we fought hard enough to catch our breath. At the very least, the other " contestants" are down for the count."

Trunks, Kirby and Ryūko landed near her before Ryūko saw not a trace of her mother, or any Life-Fibers before she sighed."Man Ragyō was stubborn as hell. Guess no matter how crazy it was, she wanted her dream to come true really damn hard."

Satsuki thought of how her mother treated her before she grimaced." Ragyō, when I look back at it she never cared for anything but her dream, everything else, including me, were just accessories for that dream. She was just to fixated on her hate to be helped so this was all that could be done. At least, at last the Kiryūin name has regained its honor."

"The Kirijo name has been avenged as well."

Mitsuru uttered as she walked up with the rest of the Shadow Operatives."I'm glad we could avenge all the friend we lost to get this far. Though I must admit its likely we were only unable to pull this off because of you and your friends Lacus, thanks."

Toriko walked over with his friends before he grinned." Have to admit I thought you guys were just posers but you proved you have just as strong appetites as me! Its just…to bad we lost so many people to pull it off. Guess it could not be helped in a war world like this but damn it, I hate that I could not keep my promise to Komatsu."

Lacus saw the sadness in the blue haired man's eyes and was about to say something before everyone heard a ribbit. The group swerved around to see that Yaldabaoth was still alive. Just as everyone wondered if the giant frog was still hungry it moaned, and fell to the ground. Its mouth opened before Komatsu walked out.

The chief smiled as he ran to his friends." Sorry to keep you guys worried but the Gourment God 's guts are more comfy then you would think! In fact with all that he's eaten I had all the ingredients I needed to complete the Full Course! Since you guys won and all I'll be happy serve you all!"

Lacus saw her comrades looking uneasy before she cleared her throat." Thanks for that but I'm not sure just how much of a "grace period" are host is going to have. We better.."

Before Lacus could go on her stomach growled loud enough for everyone to hear it, causing the brown haired woman to blush intensely." Er…sorry about that. Guess, using all of theses new spells has left me, more then a tad hungry."

She was suddenly cut off as the Wave-Rider landed near her and Sarah jumped off the deck, greeting the Enji with a grin." Don't be ashamed to be honest Raystar! You kicked ass by going hardcore, simple as that. Hell, you worked so hard I think you more then earned a reward."

Sarah smirked and went to kiss Lacus, before the Enji looked shocked and quickly put her hand over the White Canary's mouth.

She then giggled anxiously before clearing her throat."Um, thanks for your enthusiasm Sarah but while I'm sure you're a great kisser I'm still committed to a single relationship."

"Ah come on, don't be so uptight girl! I'm sure hero boy knows you can get affection without your heart being stolen right?"

As Ben's girlfriend's teammates look flustered and Kirby and Hiryuumon looked confused Velvet rolled her eyes before spiting out a disgusted,"Seriously Lance? We won the battle but its no time to lose our heads! Besides, you that sloppy that you want to blow everything on something pointless?"

The White Canary saw Velvet's annoyed look and winked as she walked over." Oh if Ben Auro overreacts to something so harmless he's not that noble in the first place. I'm all for feeling confident but we still have a chance of dying here so want to have no regrets. But, if you think I'm barking up the wrong tree then fine I'll do something less pointless."

Sarah grinned before she suddenly kissed Velvet. As Magilou and Elanor's jaws dropped Sarah with drew to see Velvet looked shocked, only to mutter,"I'm, I'm not."

"Oh I could see the sighs girl, don't worry if we survive this I'll help you blow off that steam that's been holding you back."

Lacus saw Velvet looking flustered before she sighed." Ah well, at least this is not totally inappropriate."

"Glad you see it that way angel." Sarah threw out."FYI…noble as your speech to that ice queen was, parts of it about roles being what they were could be taken by some that you think all gay guys and gals are freaks or glitches or something, just saying."

"Wait no that's not it!" Lacus threw out defensively." I, I'm not like that but I have nothing against that kind of life style! I was just in a rush but what I meant to say is that no matter which group represses who, men or woman, gay or straight or bi or whatever, I don't feel that any one group should be on top but that all groups are equal! Maybe that's a fantasy but, I'll do everything I can to prove Ragyō wrong."

"Eh I know you're not just pulling an act Raystar." Sarah threw out playfully." I'm not really the ruler type but, after being a spy during the war I can say with confidence that most people are rather damn complicated. Even the types that seem simple have more layers then we want to think they do.

No matter how much we prefer it to be simple, people are not alike. Hell even siblings are not alike. That's why its so damn messy, to help some people is to hurt others."

Velvet looked deep in thought for a moment before she cleared her throat." Someone that I respected a lot once asked me why I think Birds fly. I thought about it for a while, I had nothing better to do while plotting revenge in the Titana Prison.

My answer was, birds fly because they want to fly. They don't need a reason. Even if their wings snap and they fall to their death, they don't fly for anyone's befit, they don't fly because they were ordered to. They just want to, for no other reason.

That being said, those that can't fly sometimes look at birds with envy, and hate. Some, can only react to those feelings with hate. I suppose, it would not be so bad if everyone had the chance to fly, so that no one will be left behind, would not be so bad.

Well, if anyone can pull it off you showed me today that you and Auro have the best shot Lacus. For now, guess its better to see if we can get out of this crazy reality alive."

"Crazy…reality?" Ryūko muttered while raising a eyebrow."What you yapping about girl?"

Lacus remembered how Luger and the others they fought around Star-Dream acted before she tensed and cleared her throat."Oh well its been one crazy time right? Still, did not come here to do things half way so, might as well see what's in store before they get impatient right? Besides, I, I bene holding it in but, I have to know if everyone else is alright."

Trunks nodded as he grasped his sword tightly." No matter what kind of enemy is waiting for us, even if they are stronger then a God of Destruction we will beat them!"

Hiryuumon looked at his paws before he winced." Maybe things can't be like they were before, but I can choose to not make things be worst!"

"You got that right." Kirby said cheerfully as he landed on the Digimon's head."No matter who I was, I want to keep eating and having good times with my friends! So c'mon on let's stop this Beyonder baddie's nasty doomsday party from starting!"

"Sounds like a plan to me Kirby." Lacus put out firmly." If everyone's ok, then lets get going."

Lacus saw her friends had her back before she walked up the stairs of light. Terra, Velvet and the other Enji followed her, and after a bit of tension Ryūko, Toriko, Mitsuru and the others followed her.

Lacus saw a giant platform of light at the top of the stairs before she braced herself, looked at her necklace and grasped it firmly."Despite everything they threw at us, we managed to come out on top. No matter how crazy it gets, no matter how difficult things are, I refuse to give up. I own everyone that died because of me that much at the very least.

I'm just glad we pulled through without losing anyone. If the enemies were this strong on all of the planets I have no idea how the others would fair. But, I have no idea if everyone was split up evenly.

What if? No, even if Ben was sent to a planet alone, I know he would not lose! He, he would not lose, he can't lose! I been trying to not think about it the entire time but if he was erased or something then I, huh, what the, this energy? I could not feel anything outside the planet before but, this energy, is it a trick?"

As the stairways of light left the remains of Gourment World Lacus started to feel new energies in all directions, but one energy stood out among the rest. As soon as Lacus made sure she was feeling things correctly she steeled herself, and powered up to dash up the rest of the stairs in seconds.

As she did she saw herself in front of a massive golden crystalline arena the only thing that mattered to her was seeing a man step up on the other side for it was none other then Ben.

The couple both locked eyes before Ben's looked overwhelmed with relief."Lacus…your ok!"

Lacus tried to keep her composure but could not help but get teary eyed as she smiled back." What's with that look Ben? Thought I was, going to die or something? Thanks for the show of confidence, you jerk."

She giggled softly before Ben dashed so quickly for her he left a cloud of dust that blew in X, Lloyd, Beck and the others faces. The two lovers embraced each other just as there comrades made it to the top before Ben muttered," Lacus, I'm so sorry I got careless. I'm just so glad your ok."

"Same here sweetie. We knew this would be a crazy day right? All that matters is that we made it. No matter what happened, I just refused to let my enemies make me break my promise to you."

"Same here Lacus. So, I take it you had some, oh?"

Ben noticed Toriko, Ryūko, Mitsuru, and in the distance even Kale and Caulifla walking up before he saw Kirby, Hiryuumon and the rest were not treating them as threats and raised a eyebrow." Oh, I see you made some friends during your tour of the place eh Lacus?"

His girlfriend saw Iron Man, Superman and some of the other members of the Justice League, the Avengers, the X-men and more run up before she giggled." I see the same with you. Well what can you say? Tried to make the most of things and make some friends among all the hassle."

Ben was about to say something before he noticed the bracelet Philemon gave her, and then realized her aura once more had traces of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon in her before he raised a eyebrow." I guess it's a no duh moment to say you seem ok if your walking and all but, everything alright? Maybe I'm still worked up but, something feels different."

"That's because I'm a little different dear but don't worry, had to push myself but it all worked out. No matter what, I'm never going to break that promise."

"That's right, because we are keeping that promise no matter what."

The two could not hold in there feelings any longer and kissed each other passionately. Lacus enjoyed the moment, but suddenly felt a hostile aura bearing down on her before she froze." What, what is this? This raw hate, I feel like I felt it before but not quite like this! Is, it the Beyonder?"

Before she could figure it out a gruff male voice cut in with a dismissive," God damn it, got to rub how perfect you two are eh hero's?"

Lacus quickly broke off as she and Ben looked at the voice, and saw it was none other then Doug. Ben saw his former teammate was at the top of his set of stairs, and while his face had his trademark half-lopped smile, there was a edge to it. On top of that, the two could not help but notice that Doug had lost his beard, and now had his hair blazing red with his new red aura.

As James and Ezan's groups arrived at the top Ben eyed Doug carefully before he uttered,"Doug…is that...you?"

"Tsc…forget what I look like already bro? Your acting like its been a year or something when it's just been a little more than one sunrise eh? Or is it just that the great universal savior forgets his bros so quickly now eh? Nah man, it's me all right.

Just, my eyes are open now, and now that I'm woke my eyes are on the prize! Seems like everyone made it, so how about we get this party started eh?

What don't tell me you two are tired already? Guess it's been a crazy ride for all of us am I right? But if your still being all low energy on me now you're going to regret it.

After all, high time the punchline is served to this grand joke, once and for all!"

Next time...at last Ben, Lacus, James, Ezan, Cloud, and all of there comrades are reunited. Happy as they are to see they all made it past the trails of Battle-World, there moment of relief is quickly soured as for defeating the candidates for the Dimensional Generals, they are given a personal audience with the Beyonder, and confronted by the Beyonder's Champion, Zamasu, the cruel villain that has the face and power of Goku!

But as bad as that is, things go from bad to horrible fast as Doug's repressed feelings explode, and Ben and the rest are forced to confront Doug's repressed anger that's been enhanced by the Beyonder's cruel desire!

Ben quickly is pushed to his limits both mentally and physically as he and Lacus reveal there plan to reform the universe at last, and is forced to face once and for all if one of his best friends is beyond redemption. Don't you dare miss out next time Chapter 235: The Killer Joke!

But first some Authors Notes: Firstly, for the small stuff Blut Vene was a skill used by the Quinces in the final arc of Bleach that vastly increased there defensive power, I just had the version Raygo had be a tad enhanced since she was the Beyonder's champion.

Speaking of that, Raygo's new form was a mix of Ordimon from the last part of Digimon Tri, with a tad of a mix of Persona 5's final boss and Rei's angel form in the End of Evangelion movie. Hopefully I did not take it to extreme but I was going for a bit of the nightmare fuel kind of vibe.

With Kirby the way he now had DBZ powers was to me inspired by how in the Kirby Amazing Mirror game he got his Smash move set after eating Master Hand , eating Android 21 is like a enhanced version of that lol.

Void Soul was the bonus version of the final boss of Kirby's Star Allies, though in the game proper it was the core of Void Termina, but since in this I had Neo be linked to Kirby it felt proper enough.

Lets see, that should be all the big ones, at last everyone's reunited next time, hope you guys like how it turns out. I know Lacus's arc was a tad longer then the rest but my hopes that the efforts to give everyone proper development paid off, let me know if you feel that way with a review and till next time everyone.