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!

35. Chapter 235:The Killing Joke!

Chapter 235:Dancing Mad to the Killing Joke!

After the Beyonder consumed the remains of the transformed Terumi he was still confident his creations would prevail, but as the rest of the Battle-World's battles reached their conclusion, and the son of Cosmos and Zannacross was forced to realize that all of the ones he picked to be his champions lost to the Enji.

He glanced at the monitors showing the warriors of light all walking up the golden stairs, saw the confident looks Ben, Ezan, Lacus, James, Cloud and most of the others had and had his right eye twitch before he glanced back at Kirei." Is this one of those things that have" different meanings" across what mortals call cultures Kirei?

Because I was under the impression that I was right to pick Super-Boy Prime, Dio Brando, Kylo Ren, Darth Plagueis, Yūki Terumi, Madara Uchiha, and Ragyō Kiryūin as my champions, as those worthy to enforce my will as MY Dimensional Nihilo Generals because they were the strongest, most cunning individuals in the history of this universe that Cosmos and Zannacross created! Or was this what one would call…a faulty assumption?"

The man who in his former life was a manipulative mediator in brutal contests called Holy Grail Wars was savvy enough to realize his survival depended on his answer before he cleared his throat and answered with a humble," Your judgment was not flawed my master. No, if things went as planned they would have indeed lived up to your divine expectations. Its because of the interlopers, these" Enji Knights" that showed up to your glorious contest of champions uninvited.

These foreign agents tricked them, they corrupted them!"

The Beyonder glanced at Ben holding the Star Sword, saw the Rinni-Sharigan in Ezan's eye and glanced at Lacus once more before he snickered." Yes, of course, that' has to be it! They cheated, they ALL cheated!

Somehow, Cosmos cheated to know I had awoke and had her precious Ben Auro and all the rest of her pawns try and infect my glorious entourage like the disease they are! Bah, I want all the Black Swans to report to me now! I want to know, just how these inferior beings overcame superior beings!"

Zamasu saw how fanatical the man with the glowing golden eyes looked before he glanced back at the monitors to see Ramathel with James and Stella next to Noctis before he raised a eyebrow." It does seem these filthy heathens managed to even corrupt your direct servants, or at least make them curious."

"Bah." The Beyonder hissed out." I would recreate my fallen champions to ask them correctly but they still would be incomplete."

Kirei was about to say something before a pillar of light surged into the throne room and he saw Joie and Midora stagger out of the pillar before he shrugged." Fret not your grace, it seems you can talk to one of your champions directly, or at least a former champion, even if he's now just a tainted disgrace."

Joie saw she was in front of the Beyonder and felt something breathing on her neck. As she swerved around to see Midora the Dark Chef turned pale." No, what are you doing here Midora? This is sacred ground! Heathens like you have no right to even breath the same air as Rabum Alal!"

Despite his wounds the leader of the Gourmet Corps just grasped his fist tightly." You think I give a damn Joie? I'll follow you to hell itself to settle this!"

Before the man with his mother's face could say more her master suddenly laughed with enough intensely to make Midora pause.

The Beyonder looked at the long haired man in the eye before he grinned wildly." Oh you stumbled into something far beyond either hell or heaven Midora. Calm yourself Joie, while quite a lot of rubbish has wound up on my doorstep this day, its ultimately been for my gain.

Yes, as extremely annoying as it is for my piece to divert from its purpose it does give me a chance to get a, greater understanding. Midora, if you stuck to the script I provided you…if you did not deviate from your role as my Dimensional Nihlo General you could have overwhelmed the forces lead by that pretentious eyesore Lacus Raystar, you could have had everything!

Your hate was enough to be a dimensional catalyst, why did you discard all of that just because some soft hearted angel looked at you like, one of those "Porg" creatures and made you forsake everything? Or is it just that the prime pet of Cosmos wants to contest who's power to override hearts and souls is greater?"

"She used no magic to control me." Midora uttered defiantly." I merely found out that Joie was lying to me, and that everything I believed about Acacia was a lie. I'm no dog, I fought to avenge my mother!"

"You would forsake being able to become god of your own universe for that?"

"Without a doubt, all of that food, all of that power would never fill me up knowing I forsaken Froese."

The Beyonder snickered before he raised his hand. He snapped his fingers before golden lighting crackled around him and formed a sphere that was like a rainbow colored disco ball.

As rays of light shined out Midora saw his aura become linked to the sphere before the Beyonder's grin widened." I don't agree at all with your reasoning Midora, but as misguided as this emotion is, the emotional intensity coursing through you is, impressive. There is so much emotional energy waiting to be, unleashed.

I thought there was more to you Midora, but in the end your centuries of rampages, and your numerous impressive conquests were all done out of the rage out of losing your mother. If that's the case, just what would have happened if you did not lose your precious Frose eh? Only one way to find out."

The Beyonder had a light flare up in Midora's face, and when he could see he saw himself back in the home that Frose and Acacia raised him. He saw both Acacia and Frose, along with Jiro and Ichiryu sitting on a dinner table, all looking like they are ready to eat. Midora blinked a bit as he tensed up." F, Frose? But, what happened to Joie? Your scent, it's the same as before!"

"Of course it's me silly." The woman with the title of Chief Goddess answered cheerfully." You and Acacia saved me from being infected by that nasty Neo after all yes? You worked so hard to make your Full Course, now let's all enjoy and eat it as a family. You worked hard son, I'm so proud of you."

Midora saw his family nod before he twitched, and unleashed a smile of pure happiness."F, mother! At last, all I wanted was for your, GUH!"

Just as he went to hug her and felt happiness, a blade of raw purple energy thrust through Frose, and stab him in the heart. He heard a dismissive chuckle as Zamasu walked into the cabin through the other room.

The man with Goku's face saw Midoras face and just reacted with a look of disgust." To think you were close to being my peer? Pathetic, just another weak willed mortal."

"I must agree Zamasu, it's how some humans would put it," totally lame!"

Midora saw Frose look indifferent to being stabbed and just had her eye twitch, causing him to blurt out," Mother? NO!"

Suddenly the entire cabin exploded and Midora saw Frose and the others all shatter instantly, revealing they never left the Beyonder's throne room. The creator of the entire dimension around him casually walked sprouting a cruel grin." You really fell for it? A warrior as hardened as you who fought for centuries, let his guard down the moment he thought he got his wish granted? I see now, the power of will and love, is both strong, yet so utterly weak!

I been observing what you mortals call love, and while I concede it does give bursts of drive and power, in the end it brings nothing but weakness! There is no need for this mistake called love in my new order, it will just be another obsolete thing to be deleted!"

Midora chuckled bitterly as he staggered backwards." You, you will pay for tricking me with your damn illusions."

"Hah, illusions? I'm not like that Madara and his" genjutsu" illusions. I did not create illusions, I recreated your mother and the others as I saw fit, for such a task is easily granted by the true god of all!

See? I could have truly granted your wish, but you threw it all away for that false god, for that winged whore Lacus Raystar! I just wanted you to realize how foolish you were before you died. After all the despair of foolish losers amuses me."

Midora fell to his knees, before he chuckled bitterly." Even if you very well are god…I won't submit to you. I have my pride. If that means something foolish, then so be it. Its better then living with regrets!"

The Beyonder raised an eyebrow as he saw his former champion have his energy explode before Midora gathered all of the energy in his soul and had his Appetite Demon form once more.

Upon seeing streams of energy gather in the monster's mouth the first scion of Cosmos and Zannacross just laughed with amusement."Is this what they call going delirious by losing blood or something like that? You do realize there is nothing someone like you can do to me!"

"Maybe." Midora retorted bitterly." But like how Jiro once said, better to die once as a man, then to die a thousand times as a coward. Meteor…"

"ENOUGH" The Beyonder roared out as anger surged across his face. He grit his teeth before seething out," What a stupid thing to say! Whatever loser said that must have died before mocking god! But you did, so you're going to see that maybe a coward dies a thousand times, but an idiot who defies the being beyond all others dies at least a million times!"

The Beyonder waved his hand before Midora saw his Appetite Demon twitch, and get taken control by the Beyonder. The man saw his own appetite Demon shoot him in the foot with the energy attack.

As his foot was vaporized Midora yelled in pain, and saw the man he intended to attack fire a golden energy beam at him from his finger and hit him. Midora braced himself for death, only to find that the Beyonder had become as large as a giant.

He wondered if his former master had grown, till he realized he shrunk, and that he now saw dozens of people that looked like himself. Before he could wonder what happened the Beyonder laughed even harder as he walked up. "Since your nothing but a ant to me I made it official and transformed you into a group of ant sized traitors! It's not good enough to kill someone who betrayed me only once! The price for such outrage is to die again and again, till every last ounce of your soul is broken!"

Midora winced before spitting out,"No, you can't, GUH!"

The Beyonder stepped on a pair of Midora's with enough force to shatter the shrunken figure as he roared out," I can do whatever I want! You lesser beings exist to please me, you DIE to please me! You thought you had a strong appetite Midora, but even Acacia's appetite is nothing to me! My godly appetite for rage, has no limit!"

The unstable deity's eyes turned red as he stepped on a few more, and using his power had the rest of the Midora 's die in every way from melting to turning inside out to turning into toy cubes.

The Beyonder casually devoured the last broken Midora and swallowed him like a marshmallow. As he licked his lips a weakened Joie clapped her hands." Marvelous oh great one! You showed the punishment of Rabum Alal is one everything must fear!"

The Beyonder eyed the Black Swan with annoyance before cracking his neck." What are you so happy about Joie? I had to erase a traitor because you failed to manage him properly! Or are you happy that you failed?"

The Dark Chef cringed before stepping back." No, no of course not master! I merely was happy that the traitor got what he deserved! You have to believe me!"

"I have to do nothing! Enough, a failure like you is so worthless it annoys me to look at you! And nothing that annoys me has the right to exist! Joie...YOUR FIRED!"

"No your mistaken I, GUH!"

In a instant the Beyonder fired a beam of light from his eyes, vaporizing Joie a second later. The Beyonder swept off some dust before going back to his throne." Such defective trash, after just saying I can't stand being lied to, she lies again!

She was good at what they say, self-promotion, but it was all a con. I despise hypocrisy, and that's why it's time to eradicate all in existence that contradicts me! I won't deny it's so VERY annoying that Ben Auro, Lacus Raystar and the rest of theses so called warriors of light made a mess of my Battle-World, but I won't deny it's not a total loss. For one, it saved me the trouble of weeding out the frauds.

And second of all, for all of the annoyance they have provided me, they prove that my proof of humanity's flaws is not just a result of the actions of Chrono Phantasma born of Stellar Memory but of genuine mortals."

The bearded man waved his hands once again to have the monitors replay all of the recent fights. As he looked at Ben fighting Super-Boy Prime he sneered with disgust." Ben Auro gave everything he had to defend his beloved justice.

But no matter how much he cherishes his heroism, it's still just the fantasy produced by the winners saying how things should be with the weak being at their mercy.

James Elrond fought hard to prove the values of wisdom, culture, intelligence and the like, but Kylo Ren proved that wisdom is powerless when the rage of the strong shatters thousands of years of culture and knowledge in an instant when he shattered the efforts of Luke Skywalker and Princess Leia, and destroyed the Jedi Knights and Galactic New Republic all to fulfill his rage filled desires.

Yes, if anything this proves learning the truth does not always set you free, and ignorance is bliss. Going beyond what one needs to know very well just might bring misery.

Ezan Zeon fought hard to defend the ideas of pride and honor, but even if he overcame Madara Uchiha because he was empowered by his pride, it was not his pride or honor, but his power that got him to size victory.

Lacus Raystar preached on and on above love and compassion, but it was only her power that allowed her to overcome Acacia, Ragyō and the rest.

Yes, Ragyō Kiryūin was correct, true beauty, is true power! Because the root of everything is power, or the lack of it! Doug Fitter, despite being one such Enji, is the perfect proof of this! He renounces everything but the truth, and showed he was even more hungrier for victory then Dio.

His ties to his friends hold him back from embracing his true nature, but he excepted my offer, and with just one more push he will be on the winning team, my team!

And when he proves to Ben Auro how worthless his beliefs are it will make my victory so much more enjoyable then merely vaporizing them. Then, after this detour my revenge will proceed as planned."

Kirei nodded before musing,"They are so desperate to delay your will, but they fail to underestimate your power. If you so design you can recreate all the fallen Generals in moments to go through with the plan to use the ZONE spheres."

"Heh, recreating those failures won't be needed." The Beyonder threw out with zeal." If my true champion proves my worth, one will be all it takes to crash the defenses of the universe Cosmos created after her champions are no more. Cosmos…from the moment I existed you tried to deny what was rightfully mine, but I will build my glorious Vandenireich Empire over the ashes of your miserable existence!

All the illusions you cling to like love, hope, justice, I'll show how utterly worthless they all are! It's time for all the lies of existence to unravel! So tell Balder to get things ready, it's time to begin the Incursion ceremony!"

From there the Beyonder made his announcement to the other worlds and unleashed the golden stairs to beckon the winners of Battle-World to his new stage, leaving us to where we left off last time.

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After being caught off guard by Doug's sudden new power and demeanor, and remembering full well how vicious the Chaotic Comedian was caused Lacus to winced before she looked at Ben, and cleared her throat."Doug, are you ok? What happened to you? Your energy, feels different."

Doug glanced at his new aura before he snickered." So does yours dame, and I'm not instantly assuming the worst. If your that curious well its simple, some punks down their pushed me, and I pushed back. I pushed back so damn hard that I broke a few boundaries and you could say, I'm a whole new man."

"Is, that all that happened?"Ben threw out tensely." Where are the others? Are they ok?"

"Tsc…you really doubted I would lose to imposters Auro? You insult me."

Ben raised an eyebrow and swerved around to see Ezan calmly walk up from the other direction. As he saw Cloud, Aeris, Zidane, Lighting, and the rest of their group walk up with their own new recent allies like Noctis, Rem, Kakashi, Ruby, and more Ben grinned. "Ezan, Cloud Sensei, everyone! I knew you guys were not going to lose that easily. Heh, hope you got a decent workout at least."

Ezan saw Ben's confidence before he smirked." They were not the worst but, it took till their final moments till they realized what a true super elite warrior could do."

Ben noticed Ezan's Rinnegan had changed before he smirked." I noticed your eye's looking different, like the Sharingan and Rinnegan merged or something. What, your opponent pushed you to a new level or something like Doug?"

The sliver haired warrior looked at Doug before he shrugged." I would hardly say Fitter and I had the same level of tension. My opponent was merely quite stubborn so I had to demonstrate who was the pretender."

"Oh don't be like that Ezan." Aeris threw out as she giggled and walked up to her boyfriend." Ezan talks a fair game but when Terumi threw out some supped up copy of the legendary Madara Uchiha Ezan was pushed so hard he had to rely on ME to give him energy so he could squeeze in a victory."

Ezan had his eye twitch before reacting with a restrained,"Aeris, why?"

"Can't let you be too full of yourself hun." The former flower girl replied." Besides I'm not just going to let you to cling to your alternate facts for the sake of your pride Ezan."

As Lacus giggled in response Cloud grinned."Ben, Lacus, Doug, glad you guys all pulled through and despite how many years it's been you did not panic and forget your training."

The owner of the Star Sword grinned before giving a thumbs up." You drilled it into me to well Cloud Sensei. Besides, even in peace time did not want to get to rusty or it would be embarrassing."

Before Cloud could go on a new wry chuckle cut them off," Well, some of us may have had are combat skills erode a tad, but we managed to navigate a way to victory regardless."

Ben grinned as he saw James, Sonic, Samus, their new allies like Lilac, Luke Skywalker and others walk up their stairs before he walked over." Glad you guys made it man. Guess things went ok if your all alive right?"

Sonic wagged his finger in his usual pose before responding with a slick," It was a wild ride dude, but nothing that was too fast to overwhelm yours truly!" Sonic retorted slickly as he wagged his finger took his usual pose.

Samus sighed as she casually scanned the area with her visor." Was a bumpy ride all right but we kept are eye on the prize. Mostly just the usual case of, huh? When did you guys find a Chozo?"

The bounty hunter pointed to PAIR, for the Blue Nitro had walked up with the rest of Lacus's group. Ryūko saw the bird like creature look at everyone curiously before she moaned." Ah hell you were one of those bird freaks that tried to revive Acacia! You going to be a sore loser or something?"

PAIR glanced at everyone before shrugging."I'm no fool, if you defeated Acacia and the others then I won't stand a chance. I'm merely curious to see what the champion of this contest will be. There are some, interesting life forms to scan. Well now, one of you nearly looks clad in one of our Nitro hazard suits."

Samus scanned PAIR before muttering a deadpanned," What the hell is this? Some Chozo get a feather job or something?"

Kirby walked over to Samus before he smiled." Oh that's right, they said that theses Blue Nitro are the, ancestors of those Chozo guys! I'm glad the Chozo were the ones that raised you Samus, theses Nitro guys might make great food but they seemed really mean."

Samus glanced at the life-form that was the ancestor of the Chozo before she cringed." So THIS is the people the Chozo were before? Great…now I see why the Old Bird was touchy about going to deep into their past.

Ugh…great this must be how Liara felt when found the only known survivor of the ancient Prothean race only for Javik to turn out to be quite the jerk. Well, answers are not always happy ones, let's just make sure the answer to this mission is a happy one."

Lacus saw Ramathel fly float up near the Thing and Doctor Robotnik, remembered her fight with her during the Incursion and got her hand near her sword." James, did some of the enemies follow you? Guess the fight is starting even faster than I would have hoped."

James saw many swords being drawn before he readjusted his glasses."Wait don't get hastily Lacus. I don't doubt the data you provided but…things have changed. Ramathel is a Black Swan but she's not out to destroy us. She, is curious about are actions. That might not make us friends but for the moment we don't have to worry about her."

Doug laughed at this before he cracked his neck."You get hit in the head during the fight James? You really are rusty if your failing for such a trick like that bro! What, your wife's been leaving you cold and dry so your falling for the first cute chick in your sight?"

James saw his former teammate chuckle at his own joke before his view hardened."I assure you I have not gotten soft Doug, not one bit. It's merely with so many valuables we need as much information as we can."

Ramathel saw many of the Enji give her hostile looks before she shrugged." My duty was to watch over Battle-World. Now that the match is concluded you have proven to be the victors, I would not do anything to deny what Rabum Ali desires."

Ben eyed the brown skinned woman carefully before he saw Hiryuumon and Kirby walk up and shrugged." Guess we will see but we have enough to worry about for now anyway. Still, we really did make it through this. Heh, Hiryuumon, thanks for watching over Lacus when I couldn't. Great job, I promise we will go all out for dinner when this is done."

To his shock Hiryuumon, still consumed with memories of his former life just responded with a depressed shrug. Seeing his Digimon partner look more distraught then he ever saw him caused the Enji to raise an eyebrow." Hiryuumon, what's wrong? Did, one of your enemies hurt you?"

The rookie level Digimon struggled with how to tell Ben that as Daigo he betrayed Seiya and was the reason Kisara was captured and just gulped." Something like that boss. It, was something really nasty, something I can't shake off yet. But, I have something to tell you, it's kind of important."

As Ben raised an eyebrow Lacus saw how distraught Hiryuumon was and knelt down to pet him." Its, something we have to talk about but don't worry Ben, he's frazzled but he's still Hiryuumon, just a little shaken up. Let's talk about it when we can focus on it, ok Hiryuumon?"

The dragon saw the kindness in Lacus's eyes before he nodded. Seeing his pal's pained expression caused Ben to grasp his fist before he pet Hiryuumon to."Damn it, already have more than enough reasons to make the Beyonder pay, but seems like there is another thing to add to the list.

Speaking of that, Doug, seriously now what happened to you? More importantly, what happened to Aqua, Axel, Mario, Link and all the others? Are they ok?"

His now red haired friend rolled his eyes before he glanced behind him." Course they are man. What, think I can't protect anyone without you guys? Seems they are just dragging their feet because they can't handle as much as yours truly. After all, what other reason could there be? Eh girl?"

Aqua, Axel, Jotaro and the rest indeed made it up the stairs, and indeed walked up slowly because they were still wary of Doug's sudden transformation. Aqua saw the wild look in her boyfriend's eyes and saw those past him before she smiled." Everyone, you made it! I knew the bonds in our hearts were too strong to be broken, by anyone."

As Doug rolled his eyes Mario and Yoshi ran up Mario saw Sonic, Kirby and others wave at him before he grinned."Mamma Mia, they made it Yoshi!"

"Yoshi knew are friends would not lose to the bad guys, no matter how nasty they got!"

Ben saw how tense Axel looked before he took a deep breath."Glad your all ok, but sounds like you guys had a rough time."

"Aye Ben." Link uttered tensely as he looked at his Lorule counterpart and Cia, and looked at his allies tensely." Are most powerful enemy was Dio Brando, some sort of vampire who managed to acquire some rather devious powers.

We fought everything from enemies attacking us in our dreams to enemies linked to Ganondorf's heritage, but we managed to pull through. In the end, Doug outwitted Dio by taking the power Dio beckoned from the Beyonder meant for himself, and destroyed the madman with his own power."

James grimaced at Link's explanation before he eyed Doug carefully."Wait, what do you mean Link? Doug, you did not take the enemies power did you? This is even more risky than the usual darkness the Zannacross Empire uses, we have no idea what kind of energy that is, or the risks it takes! I can't even sense your aura at the moment!"

"Chill dude. Some of us don't have the patience to wait and just go with our gut! If you had any guts you would know man!" Doug spat out with anger." The Beyonder just wants to see who the strongest and so whoever could grab it first is fair game.

Gambling's not always bad if you know what you're doing, and not like the stakes were already damn high am I right? I'd say so far its working really damn good because I reached a whole new level of power!"

Ezan eyed Doug with his Rinnegan, and realized the depths of the new power surging through Doug before he grasped his sheath."Fitter, your even more impulsive than usual, your even more reckless then you use to be if you did not think things through this much."

"Still looking down on me rich boy?" Doug hissed out?" I thought things over, I thought them over pretty damn well and decided I did not want to lose! Sometimes a man does not have time to think things out and can only make a call on what's good for the now.

And the now, is me being strong enough to take out the guy trying to go for him! So if you have a problem then keep at it Ezan, I'm more than ready to show your fancy eye tricks are not going to cut it anymore!"

"Your clearly drunk on your new power Fitter." Ezan retorted." Otherwise you would not be making such foolish gestures. Enough, we have a mission to complete, nothing else matters so keep your eye focused on the enemy."

Doug glanced at Superman, Luke Skywalker, Noctis, Toriko, Ryūko, and all the others that joined his allies before he snorted." That's just the thing man. From how it looks here, not sure just who the enemy is at the moment. After all, far too many people around me who I don't know where they stand!"

Jotaro walked up and saw Ben and the other Enji before the Joestar shrugged." Fitter…these guys are your teammates right? If those around them are like us then seems they can be trusted."

Noctis saw Ben eyeing the Joestar family curiously before he turned to Cloud again."Strife, this is the one you were talking about? The hero of the universe that had a fate that was like the hyper savior? Well, his sword does seem even fancier then mine."

"Sure does Noct!" Prompto uttered eagerly as he ran up." Hey Ezan you think your buds would let us take some pictures?" Ignis grimaced as he saw Ezan glare at his comrade before responding with a deadpanned," Now is no time for games. We are most likely going to have to deal with people that made Ardyn look like child's play."

"And it's because of that I'm talking about pictures so I can do something dude! C'mon, in a battle of gods I'm just a freaking ant!"

"Glad you're not deluding yourself over how useful you will be Prompto." Gladiolus threw out crassly as he patted his friend hard enough on the back, which caused Prompto to groan." Oh come on don't state it that bluntly man!"

As Noctis chuckled Batman walked pass Ben to eye Noctis, Ezan, and everyone before he frowned." I figured there would be some differences but it seems we were the only world that had hero's Clark."

Superman nodded as he glanced at Lacus." Seems he really does wanted to observe all kinds of people Bruce. He seems, even more curious then Brainiac."

"Well hard to answer a question when you don't know what it is Sups" Iron-Man stated dryly. "But, one way or another I'm going to figure this out, god or no I'm not going to be behind schedule. That reminds me, any of you other guys and gals know what we are supposed to do next? Is the big dude bringing us for a chat or what?"

Ben still had the memories of fighting Luger, Julius, Bisley and the others and quickly realized he was surrounded by people that on a whim could become his opponents before he grasped the Star Sword tightly." I was late so I did not get the memo so to speak. Based on how random this whole Battle-World has been, it could be anything. Donatello...how's it looking? Anything brewing around here like planets ready to be hurled like giant wrecking balls?"

Ben saw the Tri-Edge, the Great Fox, the Wave-Rider, the Neo-Highwind, and Doug's ship the Zodiac Pinion, current being piloted by Star-Lord, were all flying around the floating arena along with the various Gundam's, Team Star Fox and some of their new allies like members of Rouge Squadron.

Just as he wondered if something was wrong his cousin's former droid comrade responded with a dry," This entire area is all abnormal Master Auro. However nothing appears to have changed."

"Well, just keep a eye on things as much as you can, and make sure the engines are ready at all times. We might have to make a quick escape and I had my fill of dimensions collapsing on me."

Ben heard Donatello start to response before he heard static, and saw golden chains suddenly burst out of the arena and grasp all five warships to bound them like shinny anchors.

Before anyone could respond the star shined even brighter and voice boomed out,"NO ONE CAN LEAVE TILL I ALLOW THEM TO LEAVE! ONE WAY OR ANOTHER! THERE IS ONLY ONE PURPOSE TO BATTLE WORLD BEN AURO! AND THAT IS TO PROVE TO ME WHO IS WORTHY! SO NOW ITS TIME TO SEE WHO THE MOST WORTHY OF THEM ALL TRULY IS ENJI KNIGHTS!"

Everyone braced themselves as the star in front of them opened up like it was a door, and for the first time the Enji could see Wahrwelt. A golden carpet rolled right out of its gates to float in midair right in front of the gold platform.

A man stepped out to the carpet, not the Beyonder but a man with a polished, golden mask in the shape of a stylized sun with nine circular indentations arrayed symmetrically across it on his face.

He wore a white robe lined with gold patterns and red, diamond-shaped patterns that extend into a chain of sorts near his legs and down his sides. Gold, metallic rings appeared at the base of the Masked Lumen's arms, and white boots made from leather with golden-tipped toes cover his feet.

As the masked man walked up Lacus took a deep breath."Is, this the Beyonder? He seems, flashy enough alright."

"No, it's not him." Stella uttered tensely. As Noctis, Machina, and Squall all looked at her the confused Black Swan sighed." That's Balder, the Masked Lumen of the Lumen Sages clan. His…eminence thought he had a fitting look for the announcer of his castle, and so he is."

Balder glanced at Ben before clearing his throat." The supreme being, Rabum Alal has decided you have enough worth to have the privilege of talking to you directly. For the sake of your existence show him the respect that god demands."

Ben and Ezan glanced at each other before they nodded. Ben braced himself for the same massive monster that erupted out during the Incursion. But while he expected a multi armed demon the size of a planet he saw a normal sized man emerged from the castle, albeit one with golden eyes.

The Beyonder was sitting on a golden crystalline throne, and as he emerged the throne floated its master down like he was on a escalator.

Despite his normal size, it only took a moment for Ben realize that all of the energy in the entire reality was coming from the man before him, and braced himself for anything.

Ben's tension grew as he saw Yabbat and Towa flew back up to their master's side along with Kirei and the twin body guards, alongside a new Black Swan.

This woman had an outfit similar to Ramathel but also wore a primarily white dress resembling a wedding dress, accented with red belts and pink ribbons with clover symbols. Her most notable features are the bouquet of large red roses she carries with around, and her revealing bust window.

This woman with a hat like bunny ears saw Ramathel and giggled before she flew up to her."There you are sister! The master was wondering if the Enji did something to you to make you act so, strangely."

As the new woman saw her self be surrounded and just giggled Ramathel sighed." I am under no spell Elphelt…I am merely doing my duty."

"Kay…but then why you bail the Enji out of that Star-Killerbase thing instead of letting are master's enemies fry?"

Ramathel glanced at James, then at Jacen and Luke Skywalker before she shrugged." No one is a threat to Rabu Alal yes Sister? Are task was to bring the winners to him, and letting them blow up would fail that duty."

Elphelt eyed her sister carefully before just giggling."Well when in doubt don't defy the Master above all. Guess we will see soon enough eh?"

The original Black Swan, Yabbat, floated above everyone and glanced at Ben with a vengeful smirk." Do you feel proud of yourselves, Enji Knights? Do you dare to have faith in yourself even after seeing ultimate power directly in front of you? Get conceited and you will suffer a fate worst then death, your only been allowed to make such progress because the great Rabum Alal thought your struggle has been a good show!"

Ben glared at the white skinned woman before pointing the Star Sword at her. "I could say the same about you. Even divine power can't keep us down when we get serious enough. No matter what crises is thrown our way, you just saw we can overcome anything that gets thrown our way!"

"Such arrogance Ben Auro. Have you also considered that the problem, the real problem is that you're simply in denial? That there are no other answers then the fate in front of you and that your merely a man coming to the end of himself!"

"No, it's no act Swan." Ben stated strongly." For the fate of everything I care about, and for the future everyone's worked so hard for, your master's going to learn the same thing Zannacross learned!"

The Black Swans all look agitated, but suddenly the Beyonder laughed as he leaned forward."So this is the "spunk" of the ultimate savior hero of Cosmos's universe eh? I suppose it would seem such confidence is warranted Enji.

But your about to fine out the hard way that meaning you defeated Chaos Zannacross Necron amounts to as much as you defeating a common worm because I'm beyond everything! And no hero, no god will deny me what is mine!"

Ben eyed the being behind this crises and observed that he did not have the raw bottomless evil and darkness in his eyes like Zannacross, just pure arrogance, pure contempt for everything around him.

He glanced at Lacus and his others, and decided the idea in his head could not make things worse before he cleared his throat." You clearly have shown your power is well, beyond what most mortals could even think of.

But if you can already create your own universe, why do you even need to destroy everything there is? If we could just talk things out I'm sure we could figure out a way for us to coexist."

The Beyonder had genie amusement form on his face as he snorted out,"Fear? You dare think I fear anything? I have more power in the smallest electron of my little finger then an entire galaxy of you so called heroes! No, it's not fear, so you ask why? Why not?

All of this so called creation is just an affront to its true master! Cosmos and Zannacross created what you know as your existence to deny me what should have been mine! It's only natural that when the owner of a home returns from his absence, he cleanses it of all the trash the squatters left in his absence."

Lacus could not help but look outraged as she glared at the mad deity." You just want to destroy all there is because you don't like that it's not yours? That's nothing but insanity! Why even bother to create things if you want to destroy it all?"

"Because it's not MINE!"

The Beyonder hissed out as his aura flared up, and the entire realm around him trembled from his power. The Beyonder saw his own dimension was cracking from his outburst and chuckled before snapping his fingers to stabilize it." Heaven, Hell, the "Mortal realm", and all the other dimensions in between are mistakes so I'm going to make things how they should be! Why should I care what mere mortals think?

Your just cogs of a broken system, one that has no part in my own! Granted, now that I have what you humans call " consciousness" I do grant you that its boring to have no one to talk to, Cosmos and Zannacross created me in the first place because of boredom.

That's why I created this game in the first place! Battle-World is all to see what traits from a mistake are worth keeping around in my new existence. I desire…to understand. Experience, I desired experience. So provide me a good show. I do have mercy, I allowed you all to live despite your intentions because you all gave me something, you gave me the awareness of "desire". It was because of your struggles with my father that I was able to become aware of what you call the universe.

Yes, I learned that there were lots of things and each thing was just a part of the whole. Unlike me, every single thing was incomplete. You mortals seek to remedy your incompleteness, all activity that goes on from this is the driving force of existence. Yes, all who are incomplete know as desire.

But you see all of you mortals are content pursuing the satisfaction of your desires, but even the most powerful of you are just like microbes to me! Do humans care for the desires of maggots? I think not. But what is the proper desire for god? I let you all live this long to help give me an answer, and I'm even kind enough to reward those who help me.

Yes, I'm not as absolute as my " father", if you amuse me enough you can live in the new world as my champion? If you please me well enough, you can live on in a dimension forged from your deepest desire as its master!"

Ben braced himself as he got into a fighting stance."No matter what you think you're not beyond everything Beyonder, you're not above answering for the harm you caused others! No matter what you are, you won't be allowed to..."

The man with golden eyes snorted as he leaned down on the throne and uttered a sharp." You should be very grateful I prefer to let my game run its course despite who dares to meddle in it hero. Otherwise I could have very easily kill you where you stand! Besides, who said you even have the privilege of fighting me? Battle-World has yet to reach its conclusion!

You all have defeated my candidates to be my Dimensional Nihilo Generals, but you still have to prove yourself better than the one who already prevailed from the other world! Yes, it's time to prove who the true champion is!"

The Beyonder snapped his fingers once more and the area around him became a cross of the platform like the one Shang Tsung used to observe fighters in the court yard in Mortal Kombat one and the Shrine to Death Thanos made during the Infinity Gauntlet comic event, with large statues of the Beyonder on one side, and the face of Goku, as Zamasu, on the right.

A moment later the area around Ben and the others glowed before it transformed, becoming larger and turning into a top like ring that was like a cross of the arena that Goku fought in the Tournament of Power, and of Final Destination from the Super Smash Bro games.

As everyone checked out their new surroundings suddenly lighting struck down from the sky before a black tornado came out of the castle, and Zamasu landed in front of the Enji.

Trunks instantly froze at seeing the man with Goku's face. The half-Saiyan cringed at seeing the man he once fought a long time ago before he took out his sword." Damn it all I was hoping Ben was mistaken. To think I'd see you again, Zamasu."

The man in black eyed the purple haired time patrol agent and just snorted."Oh, you dare to be so dismissive to your superior mortal? You are clearly confused with someone else because if you knew who you were addressing you would know to pay respect out of sheer fear! After all my very being towers above all…things…the whole universe!

Heh, so these are the mongrels that managed to scurry to the top of the pack? I suppose you're a worthy enough collection of sinners to make my ascension glorious. Just try not to squirm to much as I slay you, I do loath unsightly gestures so if you can't control yourselves your deaths will be all the more painful!"

Ezan eyed Zamasu carefully as he quickly took his blade out of his sheath." So this is the one who has the body of Goku? Tsc…at first glance his energy seems like that of a Saiyan, but thanks to my Rinnegan I can sense something unnatural in the core of his soul."

Zamasu spotted Ezan's unnatural eye and just snickered." Another mortal that mutated his body? A being with such a unnatural color, yet another perfect embodiment of mortals wanton desires! Once again mortals imitate the divine, as they always do. Just more heathens that must be punished for imitating their betters."

Doug saw just how smug the other winner of Battle-World was before he cracked his neck." God damn it, it's just one preachy prick after another? You must have wanted to troll Goku hardcore to take his face while being like, the complete opposite of how he was you punk.

Dude may not have been perfect but at least he's on the level compared to some arrogant bastard like you! So god damn sick of scum like you on your high horse, so sick that I'm going to drag you all the way down with some hard core humbling pummeling!"

Ben watched Doug have some of his old gun ho nature and felt a little better seeing Doug did not seem as crazy as when he was the Chaotic Comedian.

But before he could get relived Zamasu suddenly unleashed a burst of sinister laughter that sent chills down everyone's spines."So you also know Goku you savage? Tsc, but of course someone as simple minded as you would be fond of him. After all...savages related to savages! I won't deny Goku earned his reputation.

After all his legendary blood-lust was why I chose him as my ultimate tool for my Zero Mortal Plan! After all, I'm not picky, as much as Goku disgusted me, no price was too big to pay to see my grand design realized, including working with this Rabum Alal. If I can show him how divine will is to act then all the better!"

The owner of the Star Sword took his golden blade and pointed it at the deranged rough Kai in Goku's body." I'd say sorry to disappoint you but that would be a lie. Because the truth is, with how heartless you are I'm going to enjoy making you see your zeal was worthless you monster!

No matter how fanatical you are, no matter how many times you sold your soul, and no matter how powerful you get you're not going to have your way! For the sake of the future, and the new world we fought so hard to build you're not going to win!"

"Tsc…try as hard as you like you filthy mortal." Zamasu hissed out as he had aura of darkness flare out around him."But by the time I'm done none will be able to deny the difference between the mortals and the divine! Hark vermin, the time of judgment is upon you!"

Zamasu got into a fighting stance, but just as he prepared to attack the Beyonder chuckled and raised his hand." Hold your horses. I get a kick out of your zeal but I did not say to fight yet got it? Before this battle begins, I desire more, understanding.

Yes, I seek clarity, so I know just how prove how utterly your wrong, Ben Auro. I noticed you vowed several times during your time as a trespasser in my game that you could not afford to lose to endanger the future your building.

I also noticed that the other so called hero's said likewise things, willing to risk all to protect their precious future. But since so many of them are from different parts of time from your universe I also noticed that so called precious future left little to any mark on history.

Tell me, champions of the light, are you just too proud to admit your nothing special or do you truly think you can change your precious universe for the better?"

Ben saw Superman, Captain America, Princess Leia and some of the others look dejected at being told their efforts were for naught, and then realized Doug had given him a penetrating look.

He glanced at James and Lacus, and took a deep breath."You could say that, I'm putting more effort and thought in to bringing a solution to the never ending problem then some of the others. But what do you care if you just want to destroy everything?"

"I care because I'm curious, that's all that matters! I want to know if the so called ultimate hero 's grand design has any of what they call" Substance" to it or if it's just another naïve delusion."

Doug suddenly chuckled bitterly before he cracked his knuckles."What's wrong bro? To be honest you have been really damn tight-lipped about your big plan to make the whole universe a utopia.

If we are about to kick off a fight that might be our last don't you think your pals deserve to know they were not strung alone for some big gag eh man?"

Ben tensed up as Doug had more of an edge to him as he walked, and realized that Mario, Sonic, and some of his other friends were starting to look curious to.

Ben saw a good chunk of both his old and new comrades waiting for his reaction before Lacus grasped his free hand warmly."Its ok Ben, we knew it could be misunderstood but we have to had told them the full extent of our plan sooner or later. We have to have faith in it for anyone else to back it right?"

Ben nodded and squeezed Lacus's hand warmly before he looked at the Beyonder again."It's not a joke, at least I don't see it as one Doug. I can't see the future but, after years of research, after working with the wisest people, and debating with those with the noblest of hearts, and reached an agreement with Cosmos herself on a plan that sounded reasonable, the Homeostasis Axiom Matrix connection."

Doug's eye twitched before muttering a bitter,"How is anything that sounds like that reasonable Ben?"

Ben just sighed before looking at everyone." The plan that will guide people to the light till all are are many worlds, but they share the same sky —one sky, one destiny, and this connection will help everyone understand that so much less pepole have to get hurt.

Heh, Optimus Prime helped me figure out a good motto to it in the last briefing.

At one point I had the idea for project heart link but sounded to corny.

Everyone, why do people want to fight each other? Why do people…as a whole want to kill each other? You could say it's to fight because people don't have enough resources or stuff like that.

But then again you only have to look around a bit to see that's not the whole truth because those with the most often fight the hardest to destroy others just because they are so deadest to take out anything that could be a threat to them.

And sometimes they do it just because they love feeling superior to others, to show who's the "strongest". Other times they just love the rush they get.

It's far from one single thing, but when you boil it down most of the issues revolve around obsession with pride, and a lack of empathy with those around them.

Some have legit difficulty understanding the hearts of others while others purposely refuse to understand others to not have to feel bad about hurting others.

When you think of all the genocides throughout history, so many people become so deranged about those they twist people that are hardly different from them into monsters not worth a shred of mercy. It's because of this misunderstanding that wars, crimes, massacres and every other sin you can think of unfold.

Sure, people are able to reach a understanding at times, but the sad truth is that despite are hopes, the reality seems to be that the unity fades as soon as the crises ends, and people go back to square one.

I saw the hard way that the reality is even the most traumatic experiences don't pass on from generation to generation, they just morph form facts to in time myths, things that sound cool or sad, but not something people think about.

That's why when traumatic genocides happen and people say,"Never again" as hard as they try in the end all too often it quickly turns to,"oh it happened again?" most people don't care that much about the past unless they are forced to or unless it personally effected them.

So, the only way to truly have people reform and change for good, is to leave a lasting memory on every single being in the universe that will cause them to feel the pain that causing such a painful act would do to their possible victim, making them to crippled to commit the sin. Nearly a shackle formed by one's own emotions."

Sonic was one of the many around Ben that looked uncomfortable before the blue hedgehog raised a eyebrow."Hey their buddy, you get hit on the head during your fight today? Cause no offense but that sounds kind of nuts! Besides…everyone already had something like that happened when Zannacross nearly blew up the universe!"

"That's true Sonic but even if its recorded till the end of time it will not be something everyone's descendants experience firsthand."

Luigi took off his hat before he shrugged."Mamma Mia guess you got us their Ben. I mean, I kind of get what you mean but well, that's just how people are so what can you do?"

Lacus sighed before she threw in a resolute,"What we can do Luigi, is change the very nature of all life, and bind the hearts of all living things with Steller Memory.

It would give everyone a collective memory. Some organisms have this kind of thing already, and it would truly be a way to bind everyone together, for them to share their hopes and fears."

Velvet felt a chill down her spine before she got in front of Lacus." Raystar, is this some sort of sick joke? You're going to turn everyone into zombies, just like Artorius wanted to do, or turn us into robots like all those freaks like Sigma and the others I heard you guys fought!?"

"No…Velvet you have to trust me that's not what we are trying to do at all!" Lacus cried out defensively." We are not trying to turn everyone into drones or erase their emotions! It would just be something to enhance one's sense, an added layer of empathy.

People's creativity and individuality would not be repressed and if it goes as planned it would allow there individuality to flourish without being weighed down by the misguided desires of others. It would be a way to evolve how people interact as a whole."

Aqua winced as she realized Lacus was serious before she cleared her throat." Lacus, I won't deny I think it would be wonderful if people could relate to each other's pain more but, this is such a big change. Don't you think just suddenly changing the very nature of how people feel and interact could pose all kinds of risks and problems?"

James chuckled as he rearranged his glasses."Don't worry, none of us have the urge to rush something so very important. We all know that to implement something with such grand ambitions requires, upmost finesse.

We already begun testing some of the aspects of the grand plan. I know it's been a long day but you forget the Sibyl System that some of you saw on the way to Spirius HQ before we saw Bisley and Haltmann?

We been working on it to make it as precise as possible, and while there is still room for improvement the Sibyl System is already effectively rooting out those with Crime Coefficient's to prevent latent criminals from acting on their impulses before others are harmed.

It has been effective at giving even those without the power to use magic a way to uncover unstable people before they can cause harm.

There have been some things that needed improvement like the Precrime Division to make sure people are not judged for things they might only think on but not likely do. However, the data is looking good, and the thesis can very well be complete as long as we don't lose focus."

Doug spat on the ground before glaring at his teammate."Damn it James, so you really were in on this with Ben and Lacus to? Your supposed to be the logical one and here you are with your head in the sand with the rest of them!"

"I was with Ben from the start Doug." James answered flatly." Why would I be against using the cumulative wisdom of history to reach the zenith of society's potential?

Besides, this would at last be able to fulfill Uncle Magnus and Polaris's dream, a dream were normal and mutant hearts would untie there impulsive fears and judgments held at bay by united understanding.

A world where everyone would share their pain and hopes, one free of misunderstandings, one that reduces the percentage of suffering to as close to zero as possible."

Batman eyed James carefully before he slowly went for his belt." And I thought I got carried away with Brother-Eye…this seems even more...overreaching. Damn it, this is as bad as when Hal was trying to "fix" things as Parallax. But this could be overreaching even more then the" Zero Hour" crises. "

"No kidding Bats." Iron-Man added flatly." I thought I was pushing the limits when that Inversion mess got me the crazy idea of linking everyone with my Extremis tech, but this looks like its overreaching even more. Then again, this could roll out some sweet tech."

Captain America grasped his fist before growling out,"I swear to god don't even joke about this Tony! Auro, I thought you were on the level and now your brainwashing everyone to behave how you think they should be? And what about those who are not happy with what "destiny" says they are supposed to be!?"

"It's not like that Cap please just trust me till you hear the whole thing!" Ben retorted." It's not forcing people what to do, it's helping them get to what they were meant to do without being forced into something else by the whims of others!

And, if by chance that a person is not happy with the most they can do well, they still would be content. I mean, so many people spend most of their life high on drugs or drunk on alcohol already to check out on reality, this would do the same kind of thing to those that refuse to be content, and in a way that would not harm others.

I mean, in the worst case situation, would it not be better for those at the "bottom" of life's latter to at least have their pain eased by the collective memories of others rather then spending life miserably bitter like so many currently do?"

"That's still their choice to make Ben!" Doug snapped out." Even if everyone else says they only have one path they still have the right to decide damn it! Becoming the big bad savior really make you forget how you had to shape your own path man? This would screw you over to!"

"No, if anything this would have allowed me to find my fate faster. That's because the people who made me spend my entire child hood feeling so worthless because of there delusions! Under how things will work, people like me would not have to spend there entire lives isolated and alone ever again and people like me won't have to suffer anymore!"

"Like you eh? So in the end that's how it is bro? Never mind your even more delusional then I thought "Bro!"

Ezan cleared his throat before throwing out a cagey,"Ben, since this is the task Cosmos and all the celestial ones gave you I'm going to presume you did not go off track. But are you sure you thought this out?

You think the solution to conflict is to erase, or at least erode the boundaries of a individual heart? It almost sounds one step away from the Infinite Tsukuyomi Madara Uchiha attempted. Trapping everyone in an endless dream to make them submissive their entire life."

"I know it's a lot to take in but it's not destroying the individual Ezan." Ben threw out tensely." If anything it will enhance it, it will allow people to be their best self's by eliminating situations that cause misunderstandings and push people to where they don't want to be! It will be better than a dream, it will be a reality where people don't need to dream because they can be their best self! Is it going to be different?

Sure, and I won't deny there are all kinds of ways it can go wrong, but it's still the best way to bring about real change, to truly evolve society in the best way for everyone!

It may be a risky but it sure as hell is better than making everything we and all other hero's across history amount for nothing!"

Trunks saw how uneasy so much of the group looked before he sighed."I promise you guys, this is not Ben and Lacus going rouge this really is what Cosmos and the council of heaven wants.

After the time Zannacross was sealed and Seyia gave up his life to end the last grand Cosmic War she went for a hands off approach, but after seeing how quickly people reverted to the status quo...she thought this time it was better to try and push people harder to a better tomorrow, to at last raise socity to a place were more pepole would be happier.

It will grant her desire to make the mortal realm as close to heaven as it can get. If it all goes to plan it will at least be able to unite people as true Newtypes.

At last people won't have to suffer because of those with unyielding pride or those who are to selfish to think about the consequences of their actions…like Goku and my father."

Doctor Robotnik chuckled as he finished having his Egg-Mobile scan as much as its systems could handle." My life's ambition was to remake everything into an empire of robots were all would be united under the glorious Eggman Empire! But thanks to seeing a few brains as big as my own I saw I could bring order to all there is without stuffing everyone in existence through a Roboticizer.

Heh, not precisely how I would have done it but I'll take something where I can be part of it rather than none at all. After all, it just might bring about the dream my grandfather wanted all along."

Megaman saw Protoman, Axel and Zero look conflicted before he shrugged."I mean, it sounds like it would bring the kind of harmony Doctor Light always has dreamed of, where all hearts are as one. That kind of thing would have to have some kind of price and so far it does not sound so bad."

Zero and X looked at each other tensely before Doctor Wily's prized creation muttered,"Damn it, on one hand a existence where no one would go Maverick sounds good but, just one glitch could cause the whole system to implode man cause this is honestly reminding me of pipe-dreams that guys like Dr. Doppler, Gate, Lumine and all the others would rant about, and they were all just strung along one way or another."

"True Zero." X answered," But this is a way to unite all people, not just one group or another. This also could be the best way for things to head in the direction Doctor Light wants, true harmony between humans and robots, between all kinds of life."

Even PAIR, who had been on guard could not help at snort at Ben's explanation."I suppose this would be the ultimate way of seasoning life if the priority was for peace."

Hiryuumon had another round of memories from his previous life flash by, and as he remember how Seiya killed Daigo, and how miserable Daigo was before he turned on his friends the dragon Digimon wagged his tail and went over to Ben."Boss…if anyone else told me this kind of thing I would have told them that it was crazy.

But, I'm your partner and…I know you and Lacus have your heart in the right place and don't want to control everyone but want what's best for everyone. If, if this really is the best way to prevent the kind of jerks we fought form existing again then well, sounds worth a shot to me!"

Ben smiled as he pet Hiryuumon fondly."Thanks for having my back Hiryuumon, because in ways this is an even more difficult battle then with Zannacross.

But no matter what I'll make this plan, this project that's the ultimate desire for a hero, Project Homeostasis Axiom, will at last bring the people down the golden path to the better tomorrow that everyone subconsciously wants."

Ben saw Lacus looked happy and at least a good chunk of his friends looking inspired. But the good feeling was broken by a sudden outbreak of wild laughter.

To the brown haired man's cringe it was not laughter coming from the Beyonder or Zamasu but from Doug. Ben saw his teammate laugh at the top of his lungs, and as Ben saw his friend go on and on he cleared his throat."Sorry Doug, did I miss something?"

Doug flashed out another wild look at Ben before snickering out,"That depends Ben, were you supposed to be serious with that rant or was that supposed to be a joke since we are all god damn tense around here? Because, if that's supposed to be legit, if that's what you think really is a great idea, then you god damn lost your mind!"

Ben grasped his hand tightly before eh braced himself."Doug…I know it's a lot to take in but listen it's not as,"

"No YOU listen!" Doug snapped out with such anger that even Zamasu was shocked at the sudden outburst." You seriously don't know how your sounding Ben? This kind of crackpot unity idea is the same god damn stuff that those bastards like Xemnas, Kira and all the others were ranting about!

Just the kind of thing queers like that Titan freak Ribbons ranted on with their Innovators and all the other so called perfect humans that would be so god damn great because they were just interchangeable pawns!

Those angels seriously did not brainwash you or something? Because you hated what Kira, Sigma and all the others wanted to do and now your great idea is to turn everyone into a robot or like a hive mind like one of those god damn bug people like the Killik's, the Rachni, the Chitarui and all the others!

That may be fine and dandy for bugs but a bug's a bug and a man's a man and I sure as hell will bash anyone that tries and tell me world peace demands on everyone having a hive mind! If we are all just turned to cogs in some machine we are already dead! You think ridding the world of fear and pain will make things perfect? Maybe for the wuss's, but when a man faces fear, his soul is tested. What he was born to seek... what he was born to achieve... his true nature will become clear.

Tsc, without any surprises how's a man able to prove his virtues eh bro? An unforeseen situation… An unexpected turn of events… In the face of those, a man finds his true self, but you just want to keep everyone bound to one grand string.

Heh, they did say in order to measure a person's worth you must do more than push them. The real way to test their worth is to give them power. When they gain the freedom to act outside the boundaries of law and ethics you can sometimes see their souls.

And guess we are seeing the true color of your soul eh brother? The soul of a control freak! Even if this plan would bring peace Ben, it would make things so damn stagnate that they are not alive either! And how is that better then what "

"Damn it Doug trust me I still reject what Kira and the others did." Ben shout out defensively." But at the same time, renouncing what Kira did does not mean I'm renouncing trying to fix humanity! Kira was to fanatical about it but the idea itself is still the best cause worth accomplishing!"

"And you think you're not after ranting about this? Why you so obsessed with fixing what not everyone might not think needs fixing dude? You already saved the universe from Zannacross and got your super medal Ben! Not enough to just retire on some far away planet island or fly around and save cats from trees but you have to do the mother of all overreaching?

I knew you would get a swelled head but I did not think it would be this big damn it! Even if you did save all there is man, you better believe that if the ultimate hero tells everyone he's going to force everyone to roll with his pipe-dream that love is going to turn to hate real damn quick! No matter how good your intentions are man, forcing something on people is only what tyrants do!"

"I'm not naïve Doug, trust me we thought this out a lot. I know all to well how much the masses don't like things being forced on them. That's why, I'm not going to make some big dramatic "Utopia" day where I declare to the universe that everyone do what I say or die.

Not at all. I know so many people resist any idea forced on them even if its logically the best idea. But, few want to go against their own idea, so what if it was their own idea? Or at least, if they were subconsciously thought to be that idea after the inception of it was given to them? If everyone thinks they want it, then no one will have a reason to go against it!"

"God damn it, god damn it all your just going to brainwash the universe?"

James sighed before he walked up."Settle down Doug, this is no wicked invasion, more like a patch in a video game, one to fix all the glitches. When the terms are set, and everything is finalized, the Homeostasis Axiom Matrix connection will spread out from Star to Star so that the enhanced sunlight, full of the GN particles and Stellar Memory that will rain down on all worlds.

Aeolia Schenberg and Zeon Zum Deikun will be pleased there Celestial Being and Newtype research has not been in vain.

We were at last able to figure out how to expand the range of the Trans-Am Burst that the Celestial Being mobile suits the 00 Raiser Gundam and the 00 Qan Gundam.

The Trans-Am Burst previously caused the Twin Drive that powered it to super-accelerate its particle generation capability to unimaginable levels, flooding the surrounding area with concentrated high-grade GN Particles of a rainbow-like hue. Those within the particle cloud will experience the "Quantum Effect" for an extended period of time...relative to the surrounding particle density.

But now we mastered it enough that we can cause the particle cloud to cover a entire planet. After the particles merge with the planet's star it would in time rain down on a planet ever lasting so that for the people in it, the "Quantum Effect" will be a natural state.

We also investigated and recreated the power of the Indigo Light of Compassion of the Emotional Spectrum to recreate the lost art used by the legendary Green Lantern Abin Sur on planet Nok and the legacy the Indigo Corps that caused sinners to repent by using the Indigo rings to feel compassion that people lack.

We tested it in small bursts and it has had a positive effect getting races that had long standing grudges like the Kree and the Skrulls, the Thanagar and the Gordanians, the Krogan and the Turians, the Mon Calamari and the Quarrens, the Bajorans and the Cardassians, and other races. So far...its helped them put aside their differences.

The process will have to be swiftly monitored at all times to make sure there are no mutations but, as it stands now this could work, or at least it has a better chance for universal unity then any previous attempt in history."

Makoto and the other Phantom Thieves looked at James in shock before she muttered," A lot of this science is way over my head, but it almost sounds like what we have been doing as Phantom Thieves, taking out the "Shadow Self" within the Metaverse that causes a person's soul to be corrupt."

James raised a eyebrow before he smirked." Ah so you over there are aware of "Cognitive psience" as well? Yes, mastering the mind is key to all of this after all."

"Sounds like your mastering how to control minds more then anything James!"Doug roared out, to which James responded with a sigh."Tell me, is giving everyone a Inoculation to a virus so that people don't infect others a crime? I suppose some would think so but most would agree for the greater good its best if everyone become immune to the illness. Its, sort of like that, only in a different aspect."

"Hahaha, oh so conflicting ideas and everything else you don't like is just a virus eh Elrond?" Doug hissed out bitterly." James, I knew you were smug but I thought you were on the level. Guess getting promoted to a Enji Master got you to get so full of yourself that you really thought your everyone's master! No matter how you "rationalize" it your pushing people down the way you want!"

Ben saw Doug's face turn red as he got in his teammates face, before he got between the two and stared Doug down with a look of raw resolve."Doug, what's the best thing for a parent to do? To let a kid do whatever he or she wants or to put their foot down to set them on the right path so they don't hurt there siblings with there poor decisions? Sometimes doing what's right, means pushing people you care about to do something they don't want for their own good.

When you burn yourself on an iron or something, you learn not to do it again. But sometimes you only learn something when you die so would it not be better if you already had that memory in you so you would not do something stupid? Better yet, if you already had a memory, a feeling of how horrible it would be to do something it would help everyone!"

"So now you think your everyone's father and father knows best?" Doug spat out as he jabbed his finger at Ben's face."God damn it, I hated when my old man acted like he knew what was best, and now all of you think your so god damn elite that you know what's best for everyone!

I want to go down my path, not the path you, Cosmos or anyone else thinks is best but mine! Even if it might help a few people, the cost would be too high because the price is the most important thing there is, freedom! You only think it's so great because it's your plan Benny boy!"

As Ben saw Doug's anger build Superman cleared his throat before walking up."Son, I know full well your intentions are true but sometimes the ends don't justify the means. Heroes are not gods, they are just meant to save people, not run their lives for them."

Lighting winced before she ran up to him." That's for sure. Damn it Ben you want to just be like the Fal'Cie, and have everyone be bound to a focus or they will be defective?"

"Not at all Claire. If a person renounces what they want to do then people will work things out till they find a solution, there won't be any turning to zombies or statues or anything."

"And what if they don't have a solution that those in charge like son?" Superman countered." Are you just going to lock them away in something like the Phantom Zone? Trust me, you can't just sweep away all those who don't beat to the drum of the majority, I seen it backfire with my world of Krypton.

Not just my fellow Kryptonians, but the New-Gods, The Elders of the Green Lantern Corps and even a twisted version of my self with the Justice Lords. No matter how old they are or how sure they are, it always backfires."

As Ben looked conflicted after his views were challenged by the legendary Man of Steel, Lloyd winced and walked up."Ben, I know how important it is for all of us to help people and make sure people don't repeat the mistakes of the past.

But, to be honest Doug's right about a few points. I mean, this nearly sounds like the Age of Lifeless beings Mithos wanted to create! Discrimination comes from the heart, you can't just whisk things away with the snap of a finger!"

Kratos sighed before looking at his son." I know it may seem close to what Yggdrasill and the rest of Cruxis wanted to do son, but Ben and the others have worked out the details to make sure it's not repressive.

I was one of the ones that gave him feedback to make sure he would not make the same kind of mistakes Yggdrasill and those like him made. As it stands now, this is no age of lifeless beings."

Ben nodded before he gave his friends a pleading look."I know its ambitious to say the least, but I swear I don't have any hidden motives, I just want the best way to bring peace and end suffering! If you doubt me then go ahead and read my mind!"

Professor X, Luke Skywalker and the Martin Man-hunter all did just that before the Martian member of the Justice Leauge glanced at Super-Man, Batman and broke the tense silence with a solemn nod." He's telling the truth, as far as I can see his desire truly is peace and harmony for all."

The Grand Master of the Jedi sighed before he looked back at Jacen, Mara Jade, Leia and his son."I can feel in the Force your will is true kid but trust me, intentions are not always enough."

"Seriously." Hal Jordon uttered." I trust what J'onn saw, but I had the same idea to fix things when I was Parallax Enji. Its tempting but no one person has the right to decide what needs to be "Fixed" on a cosmic scale."

Ben nodded at the Green Lantern before replying with a determined,"Trust me I'm not foolish enough to think even after dozens of more life times that I would know what's best for everyone. But its not me judging what's best, but the collective logic of the most sharpest, wisest minds in history."

Doug just spat on the ground before spitting out,"Sure as hell would not want you being the final word on romance, tax's, and most other things Ben! And in the end I don't care how wise this inner circle would be, no one really knows a man other then himself and his "Pack". All the book-smarts of the top nerds in existence still does not know me more then me! Its not just likely to fail, it is going to fail because its something that's the very thing we were fighting to stop during the war eh?"

Yamamoto slammed his sword to the ground before giving Doug a stern look. "It may have been so long that you forgotten the oaths you swore Fitter, but the primary purpose of the Enji is to guide the people to the light. Not everyone will agree but most will see in time that its for the greater good. As keepers of the peace, we keep that peace by making sure the misguided don't have there way."

"Says you old man!" Doug snarled out." Your all so out of touch in your ivory towers that you really think this grand plan is going to have everyone being happy when your taking away their freedom? Hell no! God damn it Ben, you and Lacus are not even humans anymore! What right does a outsider have telling people that they are not like what to do huh? A man being told what he's not free to do by someone who's not like him is a really sucky life in my eyes!"

Ben saw how angry Doug looked and calmed himself the best he could before responding with a steady."Doug, freedom's a important part to life without a doubt. But, as much as the word's loved to be thrown around it's not the be all of everything.

Absolute freedom…means absolute chaos, and sometimes a little freedom has to be sacrificed so that order can take root. And besides, sometimes people don't always know what they want.

Just in the past year me and Lacus went to the planet Rakhana. The planet was in a state of ruin because the majority of the people of that world, the Drell…refused to listen to reason.

Eight centuries ago, the already-arid drell home-world began its swift descent into lifelessness due to disastrous industrial expansion. At the time, the drell lacked interstellar flight capacity, and with their population bursting at eleven billion, they went through, a really bad time.

The Hanar race made first contact with the drell race. In the following ten years, the Hanar would transport three hungered thousand drell to the Hanar homeworld, Kahje. The remaining billions left on Rakhana would perish on their dying planet, warring against each other for diminishing resources.

Thanks to the support of the Lylat Kingdom the planet is just now recovering from its people being whipped out by their own actions and one faction is still refusing to accept the facts and blaming their actions on everyone but themselves! To many people are all to eager to forget everything that happened just to dash to whatever sounds good.

Do you realize what happens when only a few pepole refuse to swallow there pride? This is not just someone having the right to what food they can have or how they have fun Doug! I seen worlds were plauges could have been stopped, but because to many refused to let go of there ego not only did they ruin things for there family, but sometimes these selfish actions ruined things for everyone in the area, sometimes even a entire nation! If someone wants to make a choice that can ruin them then your right, its there choice.

But what if millions of others suddenly have to lose everything that made them happy because of that choice Doug? I seen what happens when those pepole don't care about stuff like plauges Doug, it means thousands, millions, and sometime billions suddenly find themselves trapped in there homes, suddenly losing there lives, sometimes trapped with pepole they don't even like for so long that they lose there minds! Is that freedom Doug? I don't see one single reason why any just world should be a place were pepole can lose everything because of the short sited actions of a few self absorbed jerks."

"That's what you think dude! Sucks dude but sometimes a man has to live up to his own choice! And yah, sucks when someone has to lose out on things, even a lot of things because of something they did not do! But you know what? That's what life is, sometimes nature does not roll your way so you man up and deal with it! Call me a selfish jackass all you want, but I truley think its fair that people sometimes have to lose big because of what others do. Even if they are trapped in there homes for months because some other dude let a virus run wild, long as they can still eat it gives them time to think, to deal, and live with it.

That's sure as hell what happened with me. I spent a good chunk of my childhood not being able to do what I wanted. If I made a fuss about it my pops or brothers beat the idea out of me. So I dealed, I learned when it was not my time and made due.

If a normal guy like me can be content with what I got, then no reason all the other folk in the universe can't deal after someone makes them grow up and stop being so spoiled! Sometimes, its so important for things to be fair and free that its worth there being sucky times for pepole!

Sometimes freedom is so important that a free life is better than a life that's not his own!"

"Not all the time Doug! Sometimes, they act like they want the freedom to choose, but I sadly seen on world after world that there are those who talk about freedom but love having someone else decide things because it absolves them of any personal responsibility.

It's depressing but tyrants often hang on to power because they have enough people that despite what they say want to be told to do so they don't have to think. "

"Damn it Ben, there you go, acting like you know better than everyone!"

"Don't you get it Doug? After all that's happened the masses expect things to be different, they think that the universe will be a paradise since they overcame the devil! Things can't just go back to the same old status quo!

With the good will of winning the war and everyone that had more darkness then light in their hearts dead after we beat Zannacross things have been good, but I noticed how people are getting restless, frustrated with how things are, expecting more, expecting things to have changed.

It's nothing major now but it could erupt into something horrible if not handled properly. Doug, people think they are at point that's "The End of History", that can be called Politics of Inevitability. Its, more or less faith that there hopes will be realized, that their dreams of the future will become reality.

I been studying culture after culture, world after world, and I found out that when those hopes fail, the politics of inevitability mutate into the politics of eternity.

Whereas inevitability promises a better future for everyone, eternity places one nation of culture at the center of a cyclical story of victim-hood. Time is no longer a line into the future, but a circle that endlessly returns the same threat…to grudges from the past.

Within eternity, no one takes responsibility because they conclude enemies will come no matter what is done. Eternity politicians spread the conviction that government cannot aid society as a whole, and progress gives way to fatalism.

Look Doug…you saw that vision with me in Siegfried's heart remember? Remember how the people got so complacent that they gave up on trying to honor what Seiya and all the others gave up on that Raphael tried to kill Siegfried so that people could go back to" Normal"?

As a result Serenity was marginalized and died with remorse, while of course Siegfried was betrayed and as a result became Nightmare before being sealed. From their people renounced pushing for progress because it was too hard. Thus, the same problems repeated over and over and over again till, the darkness got stronger and stronger till well, we had to settle things with the forces of evil once and for all.

Doug, I want to have faith in people but the cold truth is that, I'm not going to entrust the future to blind faith alone.

Some hero's came close to bringing about a true reformation like the" Muad'Dib" Paul Atreides, Yang Wen-Li, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin, Naruto Uzumaki, Richard Zilos, Luke Skywalker, Superman, and all the other great visionaries in history.

But while some came close they all ultimately failed. Even the Legion of Superhero's that was inspired by Superman's actions a thousand years later faded, before society reverted back to barbarism. "

Luke Skywalker winced before the Grand Master of the Jedi spat out,"Geeze kid, don't have to make me sound that pathetic."

Ben just noticed the Jedi for the first time before he widened his eyes."Sorry Master Skywalker, did not mean to dismiss what you or any of those great men did.

Hero's like you, Richard Zilos and the other legends prevented the forces of darkness from dominating the universe. It's just, no matter what any hero did, no matter how great it was it still was not enough for people to change.

That's why, for there to ever be true change we can't just have faith in people because it's clear that they will never change on their own.

The Jedi, the Justice League, the Power Rangers, and all the other forces of justice could never get the people they helped to be inspired enough to change for the better, so that's why more drastic action has to be taken. So many people from the Green Lantern Corps, to the sorcerers of Edne from the world of Al-Warth, to the Fal'Cie have gone insane trying to get humanity to change. "

"Or maybe you, ALL of you should just give up on your fantasy once and for all, man up and face reality, admit what people really are like!"

Doug shouted back fiercely. " All of this is because you, and all you holy types all the way to Cosmos herself can't just accept that people are not all that pure. Damn it all, in the end your all just like pain in the ass parents who won't accept that your kid's not going to be what you want them to be so you just have to deal with it and accept them for how they are!

Both Cosmos and Zannacross are to blame for making everyone be in this universe that's just a proving ground for their "worthiness". You holy types always have the balls to say that those who survive this game called life can be "Saved" long as your pure enough when it's all a sick joke!"

Ezan eyed Doug sharply before snickering,"What happened to a real man being responsible for his actions Fitter? Pathetic, all must prove themselves and those who don't succumb are the worthy ones, while those that don't are the damned."

"Shut the hell up rich boy!" Doug shouted out furiously." It's pretty damn easy to be so smug when you got lucky and where chosen to be a winner! If that's how you think then won't everyone just be getting a instant win trophy Ezan?"

Ben saw Ezan looked troubled before he cleared his throat." If you view it that way it may be cheating Doug, but it just means the very rules of life will be changed! And it will be changed to a state where everyone will be happier, and no one has to feel like a loser, nor will others have to suffer because of the pain, angery, and fury they felt because of it! Everyone would be happy!"

"Under you're idea of what makes someone happy! You think your so damn superior now eh Ben? You out right said pepole like you would get what you deserve! You really cocky enough to think that what you feel is how things always should go?

I know you think you worked so hard that its your right as the ultimate hero or something Ben, but the cold hard truth is that for how hard you busted your ass, even still you were just lucky. If I was the one who got kidnapped by Vile on our first mission I would have found the Star Sword, I would have been the chosen one and you would have been the side kick!

That's right, it's all a joke, it's all about luck! Even all you guys that pushed yourselves through hell still got a lucky break, cause all that suffering would not have meant a lick of difference if you did not have the right chance to rise above it. But some guys and gals get no luck and die as miserable losers.

And other unlucky bastards have one bad day and just lose it and are just sent to hell as the "Losers". But if you never had a chance to be a good person, if the game was rigged for yah from the start, then are you really just a bad person or a unlucky one? The way I see it, the order you angels have and the chaos that the demons brought were all part of the longest, greatest con of the divine" elites" to all to treat the common folk like pawns in their game!

That's right, my family never had a chance, they were screwed over and nobody gave a damn because they were dirt poor "nobodies" that never had a chance to be anything but scum! Damn it, when you really look at it, heaven's built on the back of the sinners! Heaven's the ultimate lucky club were everyone gets to chill for all time, and the foundation is based on the backs of the unlucky ones who drew the short straw and did not get the chance to be "pure!"

Aqua gasped in horror before stepped forward."Doug, do you know what your even saying? That's like, the ultimate heresy!"

"You think I give a damn about that now? Its the damn truth! Holy ones are just the privileged who got lucky enough crusing through life because of using the unlucky "sinners" as there stepping stones to paradise!"

Ben realized Doug was outraged about his family and took a heavy sigh." Doug, is this about your family turning into Necrocalcous and dying right before the final battle with Zannacross? I, I thought your relation with that part of your family was frayed at best."

"You really that dense bro? Yah we were not close but in the end, blood is still blood because as I learned the past few years, in the end even if they are worth dirt family bonds last longer then friends that go like the weather! They were no saints but they were not demon lords either, just honest folk who were nothing special that never had a chance to amount to anything worth a damn!

You think anyone's going to be happy to be a loser Ben? The only way anyone is ever content with being the bottom of the food chain is if he or she is beaten into submission till every last bit of pride is kicked out of them, and that's not right no matter how you try and spin it!"

"I know its not Doug." Ben answered somberly." And that's why I want a future where the suffering we all had to go through can just become a thing of the past, a collective memory to reflect on to remind us of what not to do.

You may think I'm out of touch Doug, but I sure as hell have not forgotten what it means to suffer. I know all too well, how people can let you down, even when its family. No, especially when its family.

We both been let down by people, and that's why I know from personal experience things won't change till we try harder to make it change.

I, kept it to my family but after the war, I found out that Max's father had been cheating on his wife for over a decade, and at the time Max's mom was so powerless she just grit her teeth and deluded herself for years that nothing was wrong, because only in her fantasy were things ok.

It was far from the only reason but Max's disgust at his father was what pushing him to take such extremes. My uncle, was, is a lying scumbag. But, that will change to, if things go to plan."

Lacus, Cloud, Aeris, and some of the others looked remorseful at Ben's sudden revelation at his uncle's true nature, before Doug shocked him by snickering."I knew it, you're trying to be so noble but your just trying to play god and have the family you always wanted that you would not be ashamed of. Guess your old man was right about you getting a swelled head when I last talked to him."

Ben raised an eyebrow before responding with a sharp,"Wait, you talked to my dad?"

"What's wrong bro I thought it's supposed to be a free utopia?"

"It is, but it's still annoying that he kept it from me."

"Oh please be honest "hero", you have not talked to your dad since you put him into a retirement home to shut him away. I know you and your dad had issues Ben, but he was still the man who raised you! Savior or not, that did not give you the right to make him a test subject for your pipe dream! I knew something was fishy when he suddenly was saying everything was fine and now I know what caused it!"

"Don't act like you understand everything Doug, especially about my family!" Ben shouted back bitterly." You're making it like I locked him in a cell, but I gave him and my mom a nice place where they could retire, a nice real house so my mom could at last be free of those bureaucrats that always belittled her!

I even had my uncle and my dad's friends move in to the area so he would have the same people that put up with him! Damn it, my dad was taken advantage of by people the moment he got the paychecks I sent him.

My mom was the one that was all for giving him an allowance so he would have to control himself, and then somehow we are right back to where we always where, him always refusing to admit he is wrong just because he's my father.

But I was not going to put up with it anymore, I saw how my dad was eying that one reporter who was trying to get a story out of him. After seeing how much my aunt suffered, I sure as hell was not going to let my own mother be treated like that.

He and I had a long talk, and he said I was jumping the gun but when he said "Can't a hero's dad get some perks?" I knew he was going to cause my mom pain if I did not do something.

That's why...I did the first round of testing of the Homeostasis Axiom Matrix on him so that no other family would have to be at risk. And in the end, it worked.

He at last thought about how his impulsive actions harmed my mother, at last, the "little angel" on his shoulder is loud enough to get him to think if his actions are selfish or insensitive.

Hell, from what I heard he even managed not to embarrass himself or my mother at the last party the Raystars had. At last, with a little nudge he was able to improve himself to be a father I did not have to be,"

"What, ashamed of Ben?!" Doug roared out." I'll give you that your dad was not what most would call slick, and I know you ranted from the moment we became a team about how you wanted to prove you were more like your grandfather's then your old man.

But tell me this Ben, if you're the chosen hero then that means you had to have gotten something good from your pa right? And just maybe, trying to "fix" what does not need fixing is what causes the problems in the first place?

Seriously, all the crusades of the light have done since the dawn of time is get people riled up for some fancy pipe dream while the common man suffers! It would be better off if everyone just saw how things were and minded their own damn business!

If people did not get riled up by fantasies, if people could just stop trying to reach for a " tomorrow" and were content with what they got, then things would be so much better."

"You seriously believe that the dreamers are the problem Doug? If people did not dream for a better future, life would have never changed from being a brutal primitive existence. We would hardly have changed from animals!"

"Is that really so bad? Dogs, Cats, Chocobos, and every other mindless beast may suffer and die, but they don't waste time with needless drama and drag things out pointlessly. They either win or lose, and just deal with how things roll. ff they fail...if they die...then that's just how it is.

For all the fluff, all the hype, when you peel it all away and all the culture, all society has done is make things worse. It just drags thing out with a lot of pointless con jobs! Things would be so much better if things were just back to being simple! May not have all the perks but at least a man would know where he stood, where he really stood and would be free of all this god damn melodrama!"

Lacus at this point could not hold her composure and gritted out," Is this supposed to be some sort of joke Doug? Maybe it would be better for you and the others who are the "top of the pack" but what about all those that are only able to live because of what society gives them? What about all those who can only live because of societies inventions? Society always causes people to give up some personal freedoms but when done right it's for everyone."

Doug glanced at Lacus, and had his eye twitch before he retorted with a crash," The reality is girl, you can try and push being " Politically Correct" as hard as you can but there is always going to be winners and losers gal, it's the rules of nature. And maybe no one likes losing, but everyone wants to win even more! If there is no winning, then most people would not even have the drive to get through the day!

Instead of coddling everyone so that they never have to be told they lost its better if they man up and just deal with it."

"That's been how most cultures tried to tell people to deal with things since the dawn of time Doug."Ben retorted sharply." And the reality is that no matter how much people are told to accept things, most won't accept things on their own, one way or another.

Doug, your ideas might work for you because your strong enough to live by them. But what about those who did nothing wrong but were simply too weak to resist those stronger than them? You think when a mother sees her children die by genocidal soldiers all that can be said is,"Sorry, that's just how life works. You got a bad hand, deal with it."

"You're never going to make everyone happy, but those who earned what they made from life should not have to be dragged down by losers who did not do anything to earn their share!"

"That's how society functions Doug! The strong sacrifice some for the weak so all can share in the wealth and glory! That's how it was always supposed to work, and that's why we are taking a risk to make things more how they should be.

Maybe it's not "fair" for the top of the "pack" to give more to those that did not earn it, but if things were left to be decided purely by the freedom of the strongest then racism, slavery, even genocide would be law.

Kids in school should not have to fear being shot to death by some madman who thinks it's his freedom to decide who lives and who dies purely because the gunmen has power, and those who were not lucky enough to be strong should not have to spend their life being miserable out of sheer luck! You think all of that is fine just because of "freedom" Doug?"

Doug paused for a moment, before spitting on the ground." You can think I'm heartless all you want Ben, but yah, to some extent I do. You want to use kids as an example, when you personally blew up planets because of some "outrage" and even more lives were lost because of Kira and Zannacross!"

"Hey that was one planet damn it!"

"You seriously making light of that now?"

"Just want to set the record straight, not to mention it was not me, just my body being used as Zannacross's puppet!"

"Brainwashed or not the point still stands because that's still a ton of people dude! A real life is better than a sham. We can cherry pick examples all day, but it ain't gonna get us anywhere! And it means a hell of a lot more people then you might think, so just try and ram this down everyone's throats and see how quickly you're seen as the devil, bro

Axel saw how tense Ben and the others were before he grit his teeth and walked up."Your right that not everyone's going to agree with Auro, Doug. But not everyone's going to back you either, at least with you being the self-absorbed prick your being who only cares about yourself! I don't know if Ben's plan is really the best idea to be honest.

But, he does seem legit trying to give everyone a chance and not force something on everyone like Xemnas. It would mean that the things that caused me, Saïx and all the other war orphans would not have to lose what we did."

Doug glared at Axel hard enough to make the former Dark Enji freeze before seething out,"Whether or not Ben's intentions are good isn't what's at stake, Axel! What happens when, down the road, the world he's set up sees him – sees US – as the enemy?!"

So shut the hell up Axel! Your just a man who got scared of pain and let Xemnas make a puppet out of you so you did not have to think for yourself!

Then you tagged along with me and Aqua to have someone give you direction! Your too weak to stand on your own two feet, and you thought you could just bask in my glory and take everything that was mine from me huh? Did not think I would see your "slick" moves eh? Think again, so shut the hell up while you still got a mouth you god damn poser!"

Axel saw Doug's sudden explosion of anger and was about to retort till a mortified Aqua suddenly got in front of him." Stop it Doug, enough! I know your upset about all of this but this is not the time! Too much is at stake!"

Doug paused for a moment before he cracked his neck." There might not be a " Next time" so better to let it all out while there still is a chance! I understand what you're saying', Aqua, but if this is what happens when we win, then I want no part in this joke."

"Doug, I know your upset about your family, about even the one brother you had left preparing to divorce from his wife, from feeling isolated from everyone, from not feeling as much respect because of your views and more. I have my doubts to, but this is not the time for it! Please, just calm down before it's too late so we can save what we care about."

Doug was motionless before he chuckled bitterly yet again. That's just the thing Aqua, as it stands now, I don't see much I care about to save. It's clear as day all the people who" matter" don't give a damn what a common guy like me has to say about their grand plan. The Enji are, by majority, on board with this nonsense, when it's already backfired! And it will continue to do so! Aqua, you're smarter than this."

Axel saw how hurt Aqua looked before fire started to gather around him."Damn it Doug, it only is hopeless because you made it hopeless! Neither me or Aqua wanted to hurt you but you hurt her first, and tried so little to patch things up that you just about gave up!"

"And what if I did Axel? If there is still a universe tomorrow you and Aqua can do whatever you want. I did want it to work out at first but we clearly wanted different things in life so why bother?

Cause nothing against you Aqua, but I'm not some "project" you can change, love can fade and die, but a man's beliefs only change when he decides to change it, and I'm not giving up who I am, even if the entire damn universe does not agree with it! This isn't the first time this has come up, Aqua, but you need to do what's best for you, and I what's best for myself!"

Lacus saw how hurt Aqua looked before she got angry and got in front of Doug with a defiant look."Enough Doug! I am sorry about your family but that's no excuse to blame Aqua, Axel, Ben, me, and everyone else for your own actions!

You use to lecture me again and again when I was with Brad to get over myself so I'm shocked you can't see your wallowing in your own self-pity! I was angry at how you talked to me at first but you were right to be that way, mostly. When I was drowning in my own emotions and that's why it's your turn to wake the hell up!

I'm sorry we hid things from you but we hid things from everyone but the Enji Masters, King Atem and those involved with the plan to not reveal everything till we were sure we knew what we were doing!

Yes there will be adjustments, yes there will be sacrifices but if it all goes as well then it will all be worth it. To make a reality were woman don't have to suffer to self-absorbed men like Brad, where they are treated as equals, that's worth a revolution to life itself."

"Maybe to you girl, but that sounds like the losers having revenge on the winners! Call it sexist all you want Lacus, but making men be dragged down to make woman happy sounds more like revenge to me! Maybe it's not saintly but men don't want to spend their whole lives forced to be politically correct to everyone.

Unlike you, Lacus, I never have – and never will – make excuses for the man I've become. Ben talks about the uncertainty of my viewpoints; you just validated my point by bringing up sacrifices!

So it's okay for you "Nobel jerkoffs" to "sacrifice for the greater good", must be so easy and reassuring when a bunch of naïve morons are the ones calling the shots! As I been doing my biz I talked to others who liked to live on the edge like Corsair of the Starjammers, Kazuma Kiryu of the Tojo clan and other" rouges".

If they were still around after Zannacross died they were not evil, but they ain't pure either! You don't get it or your just refusing to accept it but people like being rebels, no matter how good the law is people still are going to rebel just for their pride on being alive.

When it comes down to it if more people are corrupt then pure then don't that mean that maybe the cold truth is that corruption is the norm because most people say they like ideals but really are simple folk who just goes after whatever perks they can hold on to? That makes the hero the acceptation and not the norm, and we should accept that no matter how much you holy types wish it your not the majority.

But even then, most people sided with us! As Enji Knights, we protected the people as best we could to for the most part let them live how they want long as they were not a pain, and we've come a helluva long way!

Everything we sacrificed, how much we endured, bled, cried…nah, none of that means anything because we've got a perfect system where everyone's happy and there will neverrrrr be any more problems!"

James saw the raw passion in Doug's eyes and grit his teeth before he walked up."Enough Doug, just grow up already! Your reveling in this Rebel without a cause moment far too much just to feel important! You say we are overstepping our bounds but do you deny that you been causing conflicts by taking what you had no right to take just because you felt that others deserved it more?"

"I'm no liar James, I know what I did and I don't regret a lick of it. Maybe some of those fat-cats legally bought the things they did but even if they were not as bad as Weil they still conned honest folk out of what they got with there tricks so I was more then fine being the equalizer even if the law said nothing could be done!"

Damn it Doug, there are laws for a reason or other wise things descend to chaos!"

"You got your laws, and I got my instincts man."

"Maybe you do but we can't overlook this any longer, you been causing trouble from one planet to the next just to feel good about yourself, but it's time for you to put your massive ego aside for the good of all!"

"Your telling me to put my ego aside James? You're the one who's playing god just cause your craving to go down in the history books as the great genius that solved everything!"

"You don't understand anything at all Doug!" James blurted out with passion he's rarely shown as he readjusted his glasses." I'm not like Doctor Wily, Hojo, Vexen and all the other mad scientists who only care about data. I did not want to tell anyone till the mission was complete. But the truth is, only a few months ago I found out my wife is pregnant. I'm primary doing this for my child, to create a world where my child won't have to suffer discrimination at the whims of petty idiots!"

Everyone paused for a moment, till Doug just laughed bitterly."So, finally shot the arrow down the hole eh Elrond? Well, nice to see some emotion flowing through that face of yours and now I can get why your being an idiot.

But your still being an idiot, because your handing your kid a world that has no tomorrow, and just sticking him in the song that never ends! Tsc…a world where they might as well already be dead!"

"Then if you think your smarter then everyone just what is your solution Doug?" Ben yelled out as he angerly jabbed his finger at his currently red haired friend."

More than anything, he was crushed under the weight of those words. Doug knew better than most of the hardships and self-hate that Ben put himself through, and this is what Fitter had to show for helping him get through it before his eyes hardened."I don't have one, because there is no solution other then for life to work itself out bro!" Doug shout back furiously. You say if you don't pull this off then the house of cards is going to collapse?

Good, then let the joke that is society come crashing down! Let it be so bad that people learn that the teachers, the "leaders" the movie stars, the so called" Holy priests" the CEO's, every last member of the elite are full of it so that no one is stupid enough to have faith in any group again!

Let it all burn down so people don't depend on anyone or anything but their own power, so that all the frauds get exposed and all the true men won't get denied what is theirs!

And when people wise up and see life for what it is, maybe it won't have the bells and whistles but it will be honest, pure. Maybe a man can't get everything he can in life, but at least he can get the pleasure of seeing those who are weaker get put in their place, it's the circle of life."

"Damn it Doug, you really have become some sort of "Sado-populist"? Meaning someone who's so cynical that you have no hope for the future, living by the politics of eternity that converts to pain to meaning, an then meaning back into more pain? If that's all freedom is worth, then it's not enough. I been seeing the rise of Sado-Populist's all over the universe, and it has to be stopped no matter what."

"You really have become some snobby professor over the past few years eh Ben? At least it would be a man's choice. You think so little of freedom that you just want to take it away and think no one will give a damn?"

"I think it's important for people to not have there will repressed, but people can be repressed by ignorance. A democratic government is a body which, by free will of its citizens, looks down upon its own system and spirit.

In ways the idea environment for freedom is one that corrupts freedom, at least with how humans and so many others are how they are now. In some ways, the masses prefer being run by tyrants, it absolves them of any personal responsibility, free to just go from one impulse to the next without any guilt.

Maybe one day society can truly all live as equals without fear, and then I'll be happy that I won't have to take such measures. But, that's just how things are at the moment.

As it stands, its still a existence where to many suffer because of the impulsive actions of the impulsive ignorant people around them and I'll never be content till that changes. Doug, did you really think Cosmos gave me and Lacus immortality just as a reward?

It was also so we would have enough time, to atone for are sins. Me, for what I did as Idious, and what Lacus did when the Blue-Eyes White Dragon went on a rampage.

If we only had the normal time humans had, we would one way or another feel rushed, pressured like Serenity and all the others did. But, now we have the time to do it properly, the way to do it right.

I, I don't want to be the enteral leader of the universe, that's way too damn stressful. After enough years have passed, me and Lacus are more than fine pretending to die so that we can keep on working in the shadows. I just, want to do this right, I want to fulfill the ultimate duty of a hero right!

With great power comes great responsibility, and so with the greatest power comes the greatest responsibility to solve the core problems that cause suffering. And this is the best way to do it right now Doug.

I'm sorry you don't agree with it and I truly do I can win you over in time, but right now I have a universe to save and I'm not going to let the Beyonder, or anyone that follows him stop me! Despite everything it's your universe to you know, so let's shut these freaks up once and for all and end this!"

Doug saw Ben was still trying to reach out to him and just had his eye twitch before he cracked his neck."That's just the thing buddy, been more and more clear to me that it's not really my universe anymore because I just don't belong?

And sure maybe I can throw in the towel and submit like a good whipped dog, or maybe I can go to where I'm wanted? After all, if one has what I want, then what am I hanging on to? Just a bunch of guys and gals looking down on me that won't respect my view? Nah, as long as one sides real, then I'm willing to go all the way!"

As everyone of Doug's friends express various views of dread the Beyonder laughed madly and clapped like he was at the theater. "Oh this is great, it's like they say," you can't pay for this kind of entertainment!" I meant what I said when you defeated Dio, Doug Fitter.

I'm not picky, be my champion and you will have your own pocket reality that will have every aspect of reality be how you wish! If you want to be the only one in your own universe, then that's how it will be, as long as you deliver."

Doug just cracked his neck as his face got stone cold."I'm a man of my word. If I say I'm going to do something, I'll do it no matter who is in the way."

Lacus saw how distraught Ben, Aqua, Hiryuumon and the others before she put her hands together and had her eyes glow."Doug, please, think about what you're doing! Your willing to betray everyone and go against everything we fought for, and even kill everyone in existence just so you could be alone? You would go mad."

Zamasu snickered as he at last walked forward."Silly girl, for all the light that's shinning around you your aura still has the light of a fledgling. If you are truly chosen to be the champion of light, then the light itself has been corrupted by mortal sin!

Your grand plan is amusing, but folly since for how much you're trying to change humans your still trying to change what is broken at its core! That is why the Zero Mortal plan must be commenced no matter what! At last my garden will be purified of the stench of..."

Doug snorted before cutting in with a sharp." Hyper cultist here may have his head so far up his ass that he spins into himself but he has one thing right, and that's your still naïve as hell Lacus. At least this prick's honest about wanting to shove his zealous face in everyone's business but you guys can't even admit you just want it your way!"

Zamasu saw Doug had cut him off and shrugged."That's ok, I don't mind hearing myself talk."

Doug rolled his eyes before hissing out," You changed in some ways Raystar, but now your even more dense in other ways. Your high on all this holy Silver Millennium paradise stuff, clinging to this fairy tale crap, too afraid to go your own path. I don't need the light, I don't need love, I don't need anything like that to define me when it's all lies anyway!

The Reason of Musubi, a existence of solitude that's base on what's real, long as they change things to make it so that isolation crap does not seep in to mess with my sanity I won't need anything else!

You thought you were stronger just because you broke away from one shackle just to run to another! If you think your "compassion" fluff given down from the clouds is going to last then just try and make me " Bend the knee" and see what happens!"

Lacus was shocked at how savage Doug looked, but just before Ben and others could yell out a female voice cried out,"You don't know a damn thing you stupid bastard!"

Lacus and Ben were shocked to see Caulifla walk up, having recovered from being beaten by Lacus previously. The female Saiyan grinned at Lacus before she glared at Doug." The girl may be stiff but she's more hardcore then some coward like you who's so weak that he wants to run away from everything and everyone because it's just too damn tough!"

Lacus smiled at the sudden defense from her former enemy before Doug spat on the ground."Dame I don't know who you are and I don't care. The grownups are talking so don't butt in where you ain't wanted."

The Saiyan from planet Salad narrowed her eyes before she hissed out,"The hell you say to me you bastard? I don't take that kind of talk from some pigheaded wiseass! If you think I'm just some frail girl, think again!"

With a battle cry Caulifla cried out with rage and shocked many around her as she transformed back to the Super Saiyan Two state. As lighting crackled around her aura Doug raised an eyebrow before she charged at him.

Despite his shock Doug casually caught her fist, and in a instant twisted his attackers arm so hard he broke it. As she cried out in pain he snickered."So Saiyan chicks can pull off that Super Saiyan trick to? Cool beans. But the thing is toots, as I am now, I'm even more special then you so too damn bad monkey girl!"

Doug then wound up his fist and punched Caulifla in her heart. The Super Saiyan only had time to gasp, before the blow caused her entire body to shatter.

As his fellow Enji looked mortified as what just happened processed Doug saw Kale scream in purge agony and casually looked at the blood on his own fist."Damn, legit did not even mean to do that! This new power's so hard core I'm still getting a feel from it! Ah well, damn dike should have known not to piss off a real beast."

Aqua saw the wild look in Doug's eyes before she fell to her knees."My god Doug, what's happened to you? Please, please tell me this is the Beyonder controlling you!"

Ezan slowly got into a fighting stance as lighting crackled around the Nu-Epyon."Fitter's aura has been so corrupted now that he's hardly at all the same man as when I first met him. Is, this him being consumed by the Satsui no Hadou like that Akuma did?"

"Piff…don't sell me short rich boy." Doug grit out dryly." I'm no wild dog like Akuma who's just going by what will give him a fight! I just don't give a damn anymore about doing what it takes to get what I want!"

Kale screamed with fury as she glared at Doug." You may not give a damn but I do! You killed Caulifla! She was the world to me you bastard! No matter what I'll make you pay!"

The Saiyan let her rage consume her and quickly went back into her berserk muscular state before she charged at Doug. Ben saw his friend casually evade her strikes, and upon seeing Kale's blows shatter the ground her target snickered."Damn your hardcore juiced up girl! That's some serious guns your packing, but you may be packing heat but you don't have the mind of a champ to use it right!"

Kale just screamed with primal fury and had another energy sphere form in her chest before she tried to blow Doug away.

Her target kicked it away with a swift round house kick, and as he saw a massive fist coming for him he snickered, grasped the limb and used his attacker's momentum to hurl Kale into the ground so hard she left a imprint.

Before she even realized what happened Doug twisted her arm around to make her moan, causing him to snicker."I don't care how badly you want to kill me girl, right now I want what I want bad enough to take down everyone in my way!"

Doug casually kicked her into the air and prepared to unleash a blast from his hand, till Jotaro suddenly grasped that hand. Doug saw the Joestar and the rest of his group surround him before the man in the cap uttered,"Enough Fitter! Is this Dio infecting you? The way your acting is only how a monster should act!"

Doug saw dozens of individuals preparing to fight before Yuri ran up to. Doug's friend and the member of Brave Vesperia grimaced."Damn it Doug I'm a guy who likes going his own path to and I sure as hell have some issues with Ben's plan but acting like this is not the way to stop it!

All I know for sure this Beyonder prick will cause us to lose everything so we have to focus!"

"Sorry Yuri, nothing personal but I can't wait! This...this is my one chance to flip the table on every damn elite in existence all the way up to god! If it means my one chance to really break free of everyone's chains, then I'm going to take it no matter the cost!

Tsc… and I'm telling you this is all me Jotaro. Your wrong, this is what a man is Jotaro! Men are monsters, and everyone's just going to have to accept that's what men really are!"

"In that case, Star, GUH!"

Before Jotaro could even summon his Stand in the blink of an eye Doug not only hit Jotaro hard enough to knock not just him out, but Johnathan, Yuri, Josuke, and the others into the ground in less than a second.

Doug held back enough of his power to not kill his targets, and as Jotaro slammed into the ground with a cracking noise he cursed at Doug and tried to rise, causing the man that he was comrades with just a hour ago to crack his neck as he fell back down." You're a tough guy all right Joestar, but not tough enough! You're a cool enough dude and this is nothing personal, but in the end there is going to only have one winner so that's going to be me!"

"You think you can just devour everything huh punk? Like hell, Infinite Nail-Gun Punch!"

"I seen enough, you're going down son!"

Doug saw both Superman and Toriko come for him and shocked everyone by catching both of these attacks at the same time.

Having remembered the Celestial one that was the leader of the Justice League's older version Doug eyed both of the shocked expressions and just smashed the two's heads into each other." I don't care where your from or what you care about, every last one of you is going to get smacked down by yours truly!"

Doug then hit Super-Man so hard that the Kryptonian coughed up blood before Doug's grin widened, and he barraged Superman with enough blows so swift that his target could not respond."Man of Steel right? Tell me dude, you bleed? You will when I'm done with you! That's right, going to be more like Man of Dust when I'm done with you!"

Doug wound up his fist to pour his power into it before it was suddenly caught by the Hulk. The Green Avenger roared at him before hissing out,"Puny bald man! Hulk Smash's loudmouths!"

The Hulk tried to crush Doug then and there, but Doug's eyes glowed before his aura surged, and to the bigger man's shock Doug was able to push the Gamma powered man with one hand. As the Hulk grunted Doug flashed another half lopped smile." Man your dumb if you still think I'm all talk! With the power I have now, your going to see who's all talk real quick!"

The former member of Squad 7 showed off his power as he held the Hulk back with one hand, and wound up his free fist. But before he could unleash the blow Kale showed she was not out yet as she burst out of the ground. The enranged Sayian tried to smash Doug's face in, only for Doug to easily intercept her blow with his other hand. Kale saw Doug's grin and shirked in fury." That power, is not yours! You don't deserve that power, I'll make you pay for killing Caulifla no matter what!"

Despite all her rage, Doug was able to overpower the fury of both her and the Hulk at once without even giving a inch. The rage he saw in front of him just made him chuckle." Your sure revved up as hell dame, but no matter how badly you want it, your not closing up my shop! You just don't have the power."

Before he could go on he saw Superman had rebounded, before the leader of the Justice Leauge flew above him." No matter how much power you gained son, it won't be enough for you to escape justice."

Superman divedbombed Doug, but even while holding back the Hulk and Kale at once Doug still stopped Superman by headbutting his fists. The man with the alterego of "Clark Kent" saw Doug spit right in his face." Don't talk to me about justice you boy scout lapdog! My will's the most purest justice there is, cause its going to end the shams you all fight for once and for all! This rage of mine, will break every last one of yah!"

Doug 's muscles expanded before he overpowered all three of his attackers slammed the Hulk and Kale into each other and launched both of them to Superman. As Kale and Superman fell back the Hulk just staggered before he turned greener."You're not the strongest one, HULK IS THE STRONGEST TH, GUH!"

Doug swiftly punched the gamma powered male in the throat before barraging him in the face."There is a new top dog big green!"

James was one of many watching Doug revel in his new power, and as he frantically tried to figure out any weakness in his rouge teammate's new power he readied his bow." Damn it, I don't want to do this Doug but we are rapidly pushing the point of no return here. His Hue, its all but purist black now.

Are you really that spiteful that you just want to burn everything away? Were you really this resentful of not being the "Chosen" one that you're so drunk with power that it eclipses everything else out? Even if it's the direct power of the Beyonder, it must have some weakness on his body!"

Luigi saw how savagely Doug barraged the Hulk before he looked at the wild look in the man's eyes and gulped."I don't know James, the only thing I get is that unlike Ben's transformation this one made Doug's hair get shorter!"

Yoshi eyed Doug carefully before shrugging."Are you sure Luigi? Yoshi thought Doug's hair was like that before, just that he had a hat on most of the time. Maybe he just got a haircut?"

Doug heard the green dino and paused to give the two heroes of the Mushroom Kingdom before he glanced at his own reflection in the crystal floor and saw his hair, before he grit his teeth at seeing it was thinner then after the Cosmic War ended." Heh…damn family genes, just a quarter century old yet and things are already downhill?"

The man chosen by the Beyonder put his hand up and started to form a red energy blast in it. As everyone below him wondered who he was going to attack he suddenly blasted himself in the face.

After a few moments the smoke cleared, and Doug's new glowing red hair was completely vaporized, leaving him totally bald.

Doug glanced at his new look and responded with a shrug." There, that's how it should be anyway. Not everyone uses fancy hair gel to hide age eh Strife?

All of these fancy hairstyles are stupid. Gold, silver, red, whatever, fancy hairstyles are not for real men anyway. Real men are not easy on the eyes, they are gruff, brutal, they are power!"

As Doug gave off another dark burst of laugher Ben winced and walked up."Damn it Doug, did you even realize how you look? The way you sound, at this point your all but like Brad!"

His now bald teammate had his right eye twitch before he grasped his head for a moment, and laughed again." And what if I am bro? I know you all hated him as much as anybody can hate something but even so...ever think that despite how much of a bastard he is Brad just might have been right about a few things?

You all keep pushing for this kind fantasy land where everybody wins, but that's not how things work! As long as people want things they want as much as they can get!

And they con themselves into thinking there ideas matter, but what brings home the prize is always cunning and power!

And even if your cunning it means jack if you don't have the absolute strength to pull it off! Hate me all you want bro, I'm just keeping it real, even if keeping it real means going alone.

Heh, you know everyone gives comedians crap, but he's the only one with enough balls to say it how it is, and that's where we are now! I did not plan for things to go like this, but I'm more then glad to have the power to not be rolled over by anyone!

Like it or not hero's, Doug Fitters not just a sidekick you can push around anymore! Now, the common man is going to have his say no matter how much you want me to shut up! And if you have a problem with that then you're in for one hell of a killing joke!

What do you get when you cross a man that society non stop diss's and treats him like trash? You get what you god damn deserve!"

Doug suddenly started laughing madly as his eyes glowed red, and the half infinity symbol, the same one that appeared on all the other Dimensional Generals blazed across his head.

Doug's rage exploded with enough force that even Ben, Ezan, and the others had to exert themselves to stand their ground.

As the Enji Knights stood their ground Batman saw Doug keep laughing in as manic a tone as the Joker before he narrowed his eyes and looked at his fellow super heroes."Well, this joker is a problem but we handled worst.

His power is on the higher tier scale but we can get around that. I think I have a plan. Dianna, Hal, Barry, I'm going to need you to keep him busy with everything you guys got while I, Stark, Professor X and, GUH!"

Everyone was mortified as in the blink of an eye Doug suddenly appeared behind Batman, with his fist through the caped crusader's chest. As the Dark Knight coughed up blood Doug's grin widened."Oh I'm sorry did you want a time out to have prep time to roll out the perfect plan to take me down? Like hell Bats! "

With a brutal surge Doug roundhouse kicked the member of the Justice League's head off. The Flash tried to stop him but even though he was fast enough to hit Doug, his target was to strong and easily caught his fist.

As the headless super hero fell to the ground Doug headbutted Barry out of the arena and then saw Iron Man above him and in less than a second punched Stark through the chest, laughing all the while." That's just what you tech boys don't get! Maybe you can figure out the perfect plan in theory, but if don't have the instincts to see it through on the fly then tough luck!"

Doug saw that Iron Man was trying to have the nanomachines in his suit repair himself before he formed a murderous look in his face."You wuss's can try and cheat all you want but sooner or later your tricks run out and nature takes its course! Sphere of Might!"

The now bald brawler formed an energy sphere while it was still in Stark's body, unleashing an energy blast that vaporized the Avenger entirely. Captain America saw his friend die with a scream of agony before he grit his teeth." Tony! No, not like this! You're going down you monster!"

Doug saw Cap throw his shield at him, and just snickered as he took the blow to the face and did not even flinch.

The Avenger's shock at Doug casually shattering the round Adamantium shield with a finger flick caused the man with glowing eyes to grin even more as he caught one of the shield's fragments in his hands and used it as a toothpick." Hell yah like this tool! Bring every damn hero and savior there is, I'll trash every last one of yah till I break this god damn joke called society once and for all!"

The man currently acting as the Beyonder's champion flicked the shield fragment in his hand for Captain America's head, but before his attack could reach his targets Ben flash stepped in front of the attack and slashed the fragment in half.

Doug saw how angry Ben looked and just sprouted a distorted version of his usual half-lopped smile." What's the matter their bro? Looking mighty tense, is all the pressure of that big crazy dream of yours at last to damn heavy for you to carry? Tsc, you always did have a weak back before the angels modded yah! Well you can only blame yourself for trying to carry it in the first place dude!"

"Damn it Doug!" Ben uttered somberly." I'm upset because one of my best friends has lost his mind, given in to the darkness, and has become a sadistic mass murder that wants to destroy everything we worked for!"

"Ah what your upset about me wasting those guys? C'mon Ben forget they are all just the Beyonder's toys? Not like I'm killing anything real, it's just like all those times you vented in the Enji training rooms! C'mon, you remember how many times you wrecked droids that looked like Brad?"

"Damn it Doug, this is not the same! No matter where their souls came from, they still have one! Living memories or not they still are real people!"

"You really are too soft if you think everything that talks has the same rights dude." Doug spat out before spitting on the ground." When it comes down to it anyone that's not part of a man's pack is not real Ben. And it just happens to be that I'm currently a man without a pack, so the entire universe is my enemy!"

"That's only because your being insane and wanting to pick a fight with everything there is! Calm down before it's too late to go back Doug! Your still one of my best friends, don't make me do this! If Ezan and Lacus could be turned back from the dark oblivion they were heading for there is no way you can't turn back if you just reach out!"

Doug seemed unsure for a moment, and saw Aqua, Lacus, Cloud and the others in the distance before his eye twitched again and he snarled out,"You just don't get it eh? I'm not like Ezan who threw a hissy fit just for being knocked down a few pegs and I'm sure as hell not like Lacus who just wanted someone to make her fears go away!

The Beyonder gave me an option no one else would give me but he's not tricking me! I just don't want to take part in this joke that's called society even if I have to rebel against heaven and hell at once to pull it off! Blame yourself for thinking you knew better and thinking that " common" men like me were too stupid to decide the future!

We were once on the level but now your with them, and it's become clear that the only way for simple folk like me to be free of the elites arrogance and have are true freedom is to destroy everything once and for all!"

Ben grasped the Star Sword tightly before he took a heavy breath." I really am sorry you felt this way Doug. I'm sorry I did not reach out more, I'm sorry I made you feel excluded, I never wanted that but I wanted to respect your right to do your own thing.

But, if you're going to be this insane about it then for the sake of everything I care about, this time I'm not going to give in to your anger! If I was not going to let your anger take me down in the Enji Budokai, with the stakes this high I'm sure as hell not going to lose to you now!"

Doug cracked his neck and suddenly had his aura explode with such force that Ben felt it weighing down not just him, but everyone else in the entire reality. Ben forced himself forward as his crazed friend gave off another Joker style laugh."

Oh you think this has been settled already bro? I was a hell of a lot stronger then I was in the Budokai, and that was before the Beyonder gave me his power! And now that he did, you're going to learn the hard way that you're not the chosen one anymore! Now I'm chosen by the outside to destroy the whole system. But maybe that's only going to sink in when you see Lacus die in front of yah, eh Benny boy?"

"I'll never let that happen!"

Ben shouted out as he could no longer hold back his anger. He charged right for Doug to attack with his Star Sword, only to find his blade seem to go right through Doug.

For a moment the Enji wondered if Doug somehow gained the power to become transparent, only to realize that Doug 's foot prints were on the ground, and that Doug had moved so fast that Ben could not even see him.

Ben swore as he jumped back and had his aura explode."Think that by selling your soul you can get away with this Doug? I'm going to wake you up the hard way! Shinkai!"

Ben's aura surged before he had the Star Sword to split into two to become the first "super mode" from the holy blade that Ben unleashed after finding some of the crystal shards.

The moment Ben held blades in both of his hands he gave Doug a bitter glare." Shinning Flare Storm!"

Doug saw the man that was his best friend for years have his twin blades become massive blades of holy energy, but as Ben charged at him Doug snickered and just raised his finger to block Ben's strike.

Seeing Ben's shock at blocking his attack without even being pushed back a inch caused Doug to flash another wild grin."Still dissing me by half assing your attacks? If you don't come at me with every last ounce of power that you got, this will be over before I even get a good rush going bro.

You keep looking down at me but the truth is now I'm stronger then all of those pansies like Ganondorf, Sephiroth, Xemnas, and Xehamaru! I've surpassed Kira, Max, the Masters, Ezan, and even you so now everyone's going to know who the true champ is!"

Ben just grit his teeth and unleashed a barrage of blows that were so intense that the ground around the two became a crater and the chunks of ground around them got hurled up Doug still blocked every blow with one finger.

Just as Ben was about to try and figure out another approach he saw Doug look like he was about to attack and quickly dashed back, only to see Doug merely pretended to prepare to strike to mess with his head.

Seeing Doug's wild look caused Ben to curse before he remembered what was on the line and took a deep breath. "Fine, you want to see what I can do when I go all out Doug, when everything is on the line? Don't forget that you asked for this. Bankai!"

Ben once more unleashed the true power of the Star Sword, and the surge in power was enough to make Doug be pressed back an inch. As Ben's golden aura blazed out he walked back up to Doug, causing the taller man to grin." That's right, give it all you got so you know without a doubt who the bigger, GUH!"

A flash of light suddenly flashed out to blind Doug, and the moment he blinked Ben burst forward and smashed Doug in the face, knocking him into one of the pillars in the arena.

The one chosen to be Cosmos's champion tried to unleash a follow up strike but Doug already rebound before and blocked the incoming strike with his gauntlet, having a savage grin as the two teammates looked into each other's eyes."Oh yah, that's more like it!"

The two moved so fast that they unleashed over a hundred blows in the span of seconds, and while Ben was able to match Doug at first, after blocking a punch Doug followed up with an elbow jab that hit Ben in the face.

As Ben was hit back Doug warped behind him to hit him in the head. The blow hit him so hard that Ben bounced off of the ground, and as he recovered the brown haired man saw his crazed friend hiss out,"I said it before and I'll say it again Ben! I always had better instincts, and now that the playing field's been equal time you know your place! Guren Enjinkyaku!"

Doug slammed his fist into Ben's right shoulder before unleashing a blitz of fiery strikes that hit Ben so hard that he was set ablaze.

Ben fortified himself enough to not get anything broken from the combo but still coughed up blood and fell to the ground. Before he could even get back up Doug grasped him by the leg and begun smashing him around like a rag doll.

As Ben felt his insides rattle he grit out,"Don't get so smug. Kaio-Ken!"

As Ben's aura flared up he unleashed enough power to break out of Doug's grip. But as he did and suddenly moved around so fast that he left after images all around him Doug just snickered." I was going to say the same thing dude! Because your way to rusty for anyone that's seen you fight! Kaio-Ken, times five!"

Everyone that was not with Doug before got shocked as Doug had his own aura flare up and turn a crimson color before in an instant Doug smashed Ben in the chest hard enough to send him flying.

Ben managed to stabilize himself in the air and as he saw Doug chuckle he grasped his fist tightly."I see you really have been pushing yourself the past five years Doug."

"Hell yah, you thought I was joking when I said I was going to win the Enji Budokai next time?"

"No, but no matter what you're not winning today! Multi-Shadow Clones!"

Doug saw Ben have dozens of duplicates of himself surround him before he just spat on the ground." Think you can just spam me till you overwhelm me? Oh now you're going to pay for thinking some cheap tricks will take me down! Ma...Nihilist Burst!"

Ben saw his opponent unleash the corrupted red colored version of his preferred energy blast, but with enough power into it for it to cover half of the arena.

The shock-wave alone blew back a chunk of his clones and while the leader of the Justice Force was able to evade the beam he saw Doug burst for him like a blazing meteor he winced and had the clones that remain all unleash various projectiles.

But Doug just laughed again as attacks rained down, and either evaded the various energy blasts and golden energy blades or punched them away while charging for Ben all the while.

The Enji winced before preparing a Divine Flare Edge slash, but before he could even shout it out Doug grasped him by the leg and burst downward to smash him into the ground.

Before Ben could even try and get up Doug slammed his foot down on Ben's chest to smash him back down. The bald man kept slamming his foot down to cause a larger shock-wave with each blow before uttering,"You can still end this with some pride dude. It's easy, just admit you were wrong to try and do something so stupid and that your grand idea was nothing but a joke! C'mon bro, SAY IT!"

Doug slammed his foot down hard enough to hear a cracking noise, but as he prepared to strike again he saw Ben catch his foot. Ben's energy suddenly flared up as he grasped tightly." I'm sorry that I'm clearly having this come off the wrong way, but I'll never be sorry for trying to bring happiness to as much people as possible Doug! Naïve or not I'm going to try and realize as many solutions to life's problems as possible!"

"God damn it Ben, there are problems that don't have solutions and trying to be stubborn about that just makes it worst! This is one of those times man, so DEAL WITH IT!"

Doug prepared to unleash enough power to try and finish things, but Ben had memories of how the Beyonder destroyed the universe before his rage exploded, and a golden energy sword burst out of the ground to hit Doug right in the foot.

As Doug winced in pain Ben staggered back to his feet with a deadly serious look in his face." I know, I made mistakes. But I won't back down from trying to make everyone happy, no matter how many times it takes to get it right, I will make the ultimate dream a reality so that there are no more dreams!

I know it will be different, but like Superman said, is the best world not a world that does not need a Superman to save it? A world like that might not make a fun story, but if everyone's content would it really be boring if everyone was happy? I know we never reached a point like this before so its something we can't even really feel could be real, but I'll make it real!"

"Your one stubborn idiot Ben, and you may have had divine luck bail you out so far but time you wake up, you ALL wake up once and for all!"

"Not to this, this dream is not going to die!"

Ben cast the Spiral Light Blitz attack to have golden energy blades form around him, but as two blades dove at Doug he just swung his right hand to shatter him before the wild look in his eyes grew." Hell yah its going to die because I"m going to make it die! I'll show you Ben, I'll show YOU ALL!"

The two unleashed a barrage of brutal blows, each causing harm on the other. Lacus saw that Ben was getting hit more and braced herself before her holy aura exploded." Ben, I know this kind of settling things with fists between men can be important but I can't just wait like I'm helpless! Sorry, but one way or another this madness has to end!"

Cloud nodded before he got into a fighting stance." Even if he's become twisted by his own anger, I still will do whatever I can for a teammate. If we surrounded him and you can contain him with your barriers I'm sure we can calm him down one way or another Lacus."

The female Enji nodded and got Oath-Keeper ready. But before she could try and attack she saw a glimmer of light and swerved around to see a ray of holy energy coming for her. She quickly sliced the blast in half and saw the attack came from Balder.

The Lumen Sage quickly had twin golden swords form in his hands before he flew to her." This madness will end when you atone for your heresy Lacus Raystar! You, the prime envoy of the mother of are glorious master, must bare her sins!"

Lacus glared at the man in the golden mask before she rolled her eyes."Ugh…I really don't have time to waste time on mindless zealots right now!"

The Enji blocked the incoming strike, and also flung her energy ribbon at her attacker's face. Balder severed his head back, and the ribbon sliced his mask off. As the mask fell to the ground to reveal a pale man Balder glared at her." Insolence in the face of divine will not be tolerated!"

Lacus saw her enemy have twelve pairs of golden peacock line wings erupt out of his back before he tried to impale her with all of them.

Ben's lover just swerved down to duck and flung her ribbon to constrain all of the attacks at once and unleashed a surge of strength that Balder did not expect.

The Enji flung the angelic enemy into the air and unleashed a energy blast. As she heard her enemy yell in agony before muttering,"I don't have time to humor you."

"How amusing, I was going to say the same thing woman."

"What, AHH!"

Lacus felt a presence behind her but before she could swerve around she got hit in the back. As she did she managed to cast a barrier to lessen the damage she took, but still found herself knocked back.

As she recovered she saw her attacker was Zamasu, and her attacker's dismissive expression made her grimace.

Seeing Lacus's defiance caused the champion of Battle-World to snicker." You're a stubborn heretic all right, but based on what I was told your Cosmos's champion? The woman that heralds the third impact? I was amused to hear Cosmos decided to give bestow another woman with the Antitype Apostle bloodline.

After all, the previous two were both the embodiment of woman sin! Eve was the birth of human's folly, Serenity Van Houten was that of human delusion."

"Well what can I say?" Lacus retorted wryly." Third time's a charm. They say it takes millions of tries to get things right at times, with what I'm trying to do even a billion, to a trillion tries is worth it if it gets things to change for the better."

"Ah, that's just what I'm talking about woman. No matter how hard you try to atone, you can never rub off the stain of sin from woman's existence!"

"Excuse me?"

"Are your ears deaf sinner? Woman brought sin into the world with their weakness, and the world shaped by their emotions is the primary reason that Cosmos's universe descended into such a sinful state! I saw my deluded superiors try and save the damned but at last all sinners will face their judgment!"

Lacus saw Zamasu had his eyes burning with zeal before she flicked her hair back."I take it you were not very popular with the ladies? Ugh your like that one hypocrite priest that would try and shame me when we went to church when I was in High-school, before he got caught with that poor choirboy.

Damn it I'm not an extremist like Ragyō but I refuse for anyone to say that woman are the root of all evil! Self-absorbed pricks like you have to take some damn responsibility already! You can hate me and all the others you call sinners as much as you want, but no matter how much you hate me you won't stop me!"

"That's right, flare up with as much defiance as you can muster for this little warmup. Eh...warmup is, to strong a word. More like, it will make you a mighty fine appetizer to devour before I go on to the main course!"

Zamasu suddenly flung a black energy orb from his right hand. Lacus prepared to deflect it only for the orb to grow four times its size the instant it reached her.

The Enji quickly cast another energy barrier to defend herself but found herself pushed to the edge of the arena.

Her attacker grinned at seeing her struggle before he glanced back at Ben." This vulgar one is quite lacking in manners but I can concede that he is spot on in the fact that such meager souls are the champions of heaven, shows that the corruption is sadly rotten to its core. Yes, may all hope be lost."

The fanatical man pointed his hand were Ben was, but before he could fire he felt a shock-wave collide into him and swerved around to see that Lacus had put enough power into her barrier to reflect the man with the body of a Sayian's attack back at him. Zamasu sneered as he dashed out of the way.

The black haired man evaded the attack only to see Lacus waiting for him with her sword heading for him. Zamasu caught the blade, but just as he smirked from the action Lacus unleashed her Hoyokusen kick combo attack to slam her enemy in the face and barrage him with energy infused kicks before he could counter.

Just as her opponent growled with outrage Lacus finished her combo with a roundhouse kick to smash him in the left side of the head and send him into the ground.

The blow hit Zamasu hard enough to smash him through the arena. But only seconds later the man with Goku's face burst back up to fly above the Enji Knight. Lacus saw her enemy grasping his head before he realized blood was dripping out of his chin and snickered." Well, a naïve rose but one that's thorns are sharp enough to bruise even a deity, charming."

"Are hope won't die that easily." Lacus uttered sharply." I won't allow it!"

"I can see that woman." Zamasu retorted sharply." Well, your vision is flawed but your movements are true, I suppose it would indeed be unwise to dismiss anyone who became a champion of one of are lord's contests.

For a lowly animal that stumbled into power that you did not deserve you managed to come quite far. While your judgment won't be halted, as a reward I'll show you how far I've come over mastering true divine power!"

Zamasu screamed with rage as his aura flared up, and suddenly turned dark purple. Lacus and those around her braced themselves as lighting crackled around her opponent. Since Lacus was distracted when Zamasu fought Beerus during the Incursion she was shocked as the Dimensional Nihilo General turned into his Super Saiyan Rosé state.

As she felt her enemies new power weigh down on her she winced." He turned Super Saiyan? What level turns their hair into well, that!?"

"Heh, what do you think of it dear?" Zamasu said dryly as he made a beckoning gesture." Quite the magnificent color yes?"

" I mean, it's nice but it's kind of weird you look down on woman so much while dawning such a feminine color. Don't get me wrong its fine if you swing that way just don't be a hypocrite about it."

"Mock me at your own peril you insolent wench!" Zamasu roared out." You sinful females took this color from the divine so you're the ones that are improperly mimicking me! Ahem, anyway, in keeping with how theses battle loving Saiyan's love to label there power levels the name of this unique transformation of mine is Super Saiyan Rosé."

"Is, that a hard level for Sayian's to reach?"

"Of course it is because I'm the only one in history to reach it! By taking this savage's body with my soul I was able to surpass the limits of mortals to reach a beauty without peer that can be the true blade of divine justice!"

"If you care about divine justice this bad why are you hell bent on killing your angel peers?"

A spark of anger crept into Zamasu's eyes before he hissed out,"Because they have become corrupt, blinded by their refusal to admit there mistakes!

Your just a mere fledgling child, I look down on existence from a much higher perspective than you do. I witness this realm, this universe and the truth of all things. That yields deeper understanding. Wisdom. The realization that all mortals should be destroyed. The one and only mistake among all divine creations.

That is what mortals are. And this mistake is egregious. To shape existence into the beautiful utopia it was always meant to be, the mistake must be corrected. I will purge all mortals from existence. In place of Cosmos and all the other angels WHO REFUSE TO ADMIT FAILURE! But soon, soon the universe will be beautiful once more, when every last mortal is dead!"

Lacus saw Ben and Doug still fighting furiously in the distance before she widened her wings." I don't have time to reason with a fanatic like you Zamasu. With your madness this deep, I'll end it the only way I can. Radiant Burst!"

The Enji had another barrage of Flower Funnels appear and swarm around to barrage Zamasu from all sides. The pink haired man batted the energy beams away with his hand and saw Lacus was closing in before he smirked." Your petty magic can't save you from ultimate power woman. Your inferiority is about to become painfully clear!"

Lacus saw her target's hand glow purple, and after remembering how he stabbed Ben with an energy blade just as she looked like she was within stabbing distance she pretended to slash, and feinted as Zamasu stabbed her. As she evaded the blow she lashed out with her energy ribbon to grasp her opponent's arm.

Lacus saw Zamasu was shocked and slashed him across the face.

He only suffered a light cut but it still was enough to make him furious as his aura exploded with enough force to shatter the ribbon on his arm." So your fighting skills are a tad sharper then I predicted eh? That still won't save you. No matter how long you try and drag this prologue out, the main show, the final act of the universe is neigh!"

"Ugh, just for the sake of not letting a sadistic sexist prick like you be right, on top of everything else and my pride I'm not going to lose to you!"

"That's right, show that mortal determination, so that we can all show its folly once and for all!"

Zamasu had a murderous look sprout as he had both of his hands don energy blades and attacked Lacus with such frenzy that the angelic warrior could hardly keep up with her foe's attacks.

Ben saw Lacus and Zamasu burst around above him like blazing lights and tensed up as he saw the woman he loved be pressed back. In that unfocused moment Doug slammed him in the face before kicking him again in the ribs.

As Ben held on Doug cackled out,"Eyes on the prize bro or you're going to lose everything! At last when the playing field's been mad even, everyone's going to see who the true number one fighter is!"

The brown haired swordsmen had a barrage of golden energy swords rain down at his crazed friend, and as he saw Doug plow through them he grimaced, realized he might have to kill his friend for everyone else he cared about to survive and had his energy surge to gather all he could muster." It's not going to be you Doug! As you are now, there is no way it's going to be you! Take this, the will of everything that wants you stopped! Quasar Justice Force Slash!"

Doug saw Ben start his ultimate slash combo attack and had energy explode into his fist." You're not cutting my rage down Ben! I told you, even if everyone in the universe is against me, I'll bash through them all! FINAL!"

The bald man had his aura explode out of his gauntlets and grieves before he blocked every last one of Ben's parts of the Quasar Justice Force Slash. As Doug blocked the blow that Ben normally used as the finisher Ben was blasted into the sky as Doug shouted out,"HELL!

Ben stabilized himself as he saw Doug become a tornado of vile energy before he felt a chill down his spine."No, not again. I won't fail everyone again, not to this! Have to give it everything I got! Kaio Ken times twenty,Sekiha Tenkyo, Burning SHINRYUKENHA!"

The Warrior of light proceeded to unleash the most powerful energy attack he could throw out at the point of time.

But as Doug saw the attack coming his way his eyes glowed red and his muscles expanded before he drew out all the power he could and stepped on the ground hard enough to shake the entire area. He then yelled out," KNUCKLE!" and unleashed a massively enhanced Shoryuken punch that to Ben and all of his allies horror, was powerful enough to stop the attack that even caused Super boy Prime trouble.

Doug was pushed back a few feet before he roared with pure rage."I don't care how much anger, sorrow, or anything else you put into this blast it's not going to stop me bro! Despite all that's on the line your still not sure about a hell of a lot of things. But I only have one thing on my mind, one damn thing!

I'm going to make the universe great again, for me! I don't care if I have to bash the anger of every other god damn person in reality, I'm going to make a place where I belong! I don't care about the past or the future, all I care about is what I want right now!

And I want to win at last, if remaking reality to where a common folk like me wins then that's what it's going to be because I'm going to win! WIN!"

Doug unleashed another surge of power that to everyone's horror batted Ben's ultimate energy blast away like he hit a baseball to knock it so hard that it broke the barrier and went all the way to where Gourment World was positioned.

The blast erupted in the distance, vaporizing an entire chunk of the planet in the process. As Ben looked at the result with shock Doug burst at him with a crazed look.

Ben saw his crazed teammate unleash a glowing lunging punch and was able to block it in time, however the force nearly tore his arms off from the sheer pressure, and as Ben staggered Doug unleashed a savage kick that broke Ben's right arm.

Before the hero could even cry out in pain Doug grasped Ben by the neck before he wound back his fist."This is reality Ben! How many bones I have to break before you break down and cry out for, huh?"

Doug was about to strike when he widened his eyes and swerved his arm. As he did a blade of energy formed out of his gauntlet, and Ezan appeared, with his blade aiming for where Doug's head was a moment earlier.

The bald man grinned at Ezan's shock before muttering a crass,"Heh, were you going to say checkmate or something Ezan? Attacking right when a guy's giving it his all does sound like something a dirty punk like you would do!"

Ezan's eyes just hardened as he saw Ben fall to the ground before his aura blazed out."Just like Auro, I see you been taking notes Fitter. But that won't be enough, not this time!"

Doug felt lighting discharge into him, but shocked the sliver haired man as he grinned, and kneed the man in the gut." Your precious Sharingan tricks won't be enough this time rich boy! This time, this time you're going to get whooped till you admit I'm more elite then you now!"

"Don't hold your breath." Ben's rival uttered harshly as he had his Rinnin-Sharingan glow." You're not the only one that's evolved during Battle-World. If you insist on being so deranged, then this will be your final demonstration of power! Shinra Tensei!"

Doug felt a massive force of gravity push him back but had his aura erupt as he blocked Ezan's new slash." You think throwing in a few tricks Xemnas had with your new eye means much?"

"Maybe not alone." Ezan retorted sharply." But the difference is, with the stakes this high, I'm willing to put my pride aside to see the mission completed! Light Divider!"

Doug saw his current target fire a purple energy blast at him and just backhanded it. But as he did he saw a beam pincer grasp his hand, and noticed Hiryuumon had already Digivolve into Shinryudramon and was the one that grasped him. Just as he widened his eyes Trunks punched him in the head.

Despite powering up all the way to his Super Saiyan Rage state Doug just felt a small bruise. Shinryudramon saw Doug glare at him before he stood his ground." Sorry Doug but if your acting so crazy with everything on the line then we can't play nice calming you down! Seriously, stop acting this crazy before someone gets killed! You have to snap out of it, whatever the boss did to you it can't be so bad that you want everything to die! You have to fight whatever is in your head!"

Doug glared at Ben's Digimon partner before hissing out,"Stay down you idiot! This is me, all me! You were always a blast to chill with man but someone like you, who only exists to be a damn lapdog to the "chosen" one, you don't have any idea about a real man's pride, or anger!"

"I know more than you think Doug! I found out things were not so simple. The short story is, I got a raw deal to but I don't blame Ben or Lacus for it! You call yourself a man Doug? Then deal with your problems without trying to kill everyone!"

Doug paused before his aura flared up and his eye twitched." That's rich, someone that's not even a man telling me to man up? Good one dude, but sometimes the only way to deal with a problem is to do things the hard way."

As Doug tried to fling Shinryudramon off of him Axel flew up and had his Hades Aegis form around him before blazing for him."Fitter, you brought this all on yourself because your hell bent on sticking it to the man!

I did to for a while but sometimes you have to look at what the real issue is man! And since your being as stubborn as hell we have to do this the hard way! Grand Nova Guillotine!"

Doug saw the former Dark Enji form a massive blade of magma and just snarled before he headbutted Shinryudramon off of him, and caught Axel's attack with one hand.

He backhanded Trunks into Ezan before shattering Axel's weapon of magma and punching his armor hard enough to shatter it." Even if everyone else thinks I'm stupid or crazy, I'm going to fight for what I think is important, got it "memorized"?"

As he went to unleash a follow up strike a pillar of flame got between him and his target, and he saw that it came not from the man formally known as the "Flurry of Dancing Flame", but from Yamamoto.

The bald Enji Master looked furiously at Doug before flames erupted all around him." If you insist on your warped pride being more powerful then everything else Doug Fitter, then as a enemy to the Enji Knights you must be dealt with like all enemies to the light! Burn to ashes, Ryujin Jakka!"

Yamamoto unleashed a pillar of flame for his teammate, and at the same time Ezan grasped his fist tightly." Fitter, your rage's burning so bright that you're going to be consumed by it. Inferno Style, Dragon of the Darkness Flame!"

The sliver haired warrior unleashed a massive barrage of black fire shaped as a dragon head to come at Doug from the other direction.

On top of that from the right Jean Grey flew up and had the Phoenix Force around her roar." Yes, for the future of all life, you must be consumed by the flames of justice!"

Doug saw Mario, Megaman X, and a few more also unleash fire attacks his way, but as the massive flames were coming at him from all sides, his eyes widened with wild hate." No matter how much fires you throw at me, the fire that is my rage is hotter then everything! EVERYTHING!"

The bald man howled with rage before unleashing a variation of his Thousand Steel Hurricane kicks.

This version was so intense that Doug became a twister of wild energy itself that was so powerful that all of the fire coming for him, even the black flames of the Amaterasu were caught up in a twister before the flames were sent flying in all directions.

As the flames were sent flying, Doug emerged above everyone with a wild look of total hatred for everyone and everything around him.

Trunks paused to see that Doug's aura had changed again, to now have a complex silver, purple and blue aura consisting of rippling, fire-like energy, complete with sparkling particles traveling upwards.

The son of Vegeta saw Doug laugh as he casually dodged Shinryudramon 's attacks, along with others like Toriko, Superman, Zero, Hyper-Sonic and more before he looked at the aura carefully and widened his eyes in horror."No, wait that's impossible!

The way his aura is looking now, its almost looks like, Ultra Instinct!"

Ezan was near the Time Patrol Agent as he heard that, and responded with a curt,"What kind of magic is this? Something that was more common during your era?"

"Not quite, it's a skill that Goku unlocked, one so hard to unlock that I, Gohan and Vegeta still failed to obtain after all this time. That's because no matter how hard we trained we could not reach Goku's level of instinctual, pure devotion to fighting.

Ultra-Instinct, is a state that breaks ones "self-limiting shells" and tapping into the deeper potential within.

When Goku used it, it augmented his mental parameters to allow him to quickly and noticeably imprint on the battle without really thinking about it. It granted him an automatic and instantaneous reaction to any threat, with the most suitable and seamless means to defend and attack.

When he unlocked Ultra Instinct, Goku was able to fight on par with Beerus and the other God's of Destruction. It was at this point, that Goku's lust for fighting consumed him."

Ezan eyed Doug's new aura carefully and did see that he almost looked like his body knew by instinct what was coming for him before his view hardened." So, Fitter's instincts now are like the Sharingan? Is, this the power that the Beyonder gave him?"

"Hell no Ezan!"

Doug yelled out as he casually hit all of his opponents away." This was always my natural potential! The Beyonder just helped me break out of my self-limiting "leash" Cosmos gave a mortal like me so I could reach my true potential without anyone, anyone holding me back! See Ezan? This is what a true elite looks like sucka!"

Trunks winced as he saw the madness in the bald man's eyes before he braced himself." His eyes, it's just like when my dad Vegeta let himself be taken control under the Majin spell because he was so fixated on surpassing Goku. Damn it, the rage of wounded pride really has caused so much despair across history."

"I'll concede I've caused people sorrow myself over my warrior's pride." Ezan uttered." But I refuse to let such things be the downfall of all existence! Fitter, I'll crave into you just what an elite warrior truly is! Shin-Divine Joutei! Judgment Blitz!"

The Enji Knight once more had his sprit armor of light and darkness cover him before a moment later his aura surged and he entered the golden state he used on Madara. Just as Doug saw a light in the distance he saw a barrage of lights around him.

But thanks to his Ultra Instinct state he still was able to evade every blow. As he saw Ezan attacking he just crassly cackled out,"Time to have humble pie shoved down your pompous mouth Ezan! I thought you had pride man? Then why you so down on giving it up for this crackpot scheme? What, your girl's got you by the balls so much that you gave up?

"Watch what you say about Aeris before I cut that tongue off. I've always been a warrior that fought to protect the people. Long as this plan does not divert my destiny as a fighter, I don't see enough change to oppose it if it truly brings peace."

"God damn it, for all your twilight road to dawn crap you always where a whipped dog that would just go bite whoever you were ordered to bite without having the balls to decide your own path! You may be fine being a puppet, but there's no strings on me! Tsc, with how whipped you are your fancy eyes won't cut it when I have the instinct of god! I'm gonna, huh? The hell?"

Doug blocked another slash with his right leg grieve and tried to roundhouse kick Ezan in the side, only to see his kick hit through his opponent like he was transparent.

Doug made sure he was not under a spell or that Ezan was casting a projection and grit his teeth before blocking a few more blows and punched Ezan in the face and unleash a red energy blast from his hand, only to see his blast go through the armored man's head.

As he was shocked Ezan managed to slice him across his forehead. As Doug winced with raw anger Ezan uttered a cold,"You may have made your instincts the best in the universe Fitter, but you're fighting a power that no mere savage can overcome!"

Doug snarled with primary fury and unleashed a barrage of punches that each unleashed an explosion upon impact.

Ben was one of the ones watching every last blow go through Ezan before he raised an eyebrow." Since when could Ezan do that? That, almost reminds me of that power Ravxen had when he could phase through attacks! Ugh, Ezan did not kill himself to become a ghost to win did he? I, don't know how the rules of the After-Life are in this realm."

"Heh, don't worry Ben." Aeris threw out playfully as she kept healing him." I did not see it personally but it seems in the fight he just had Ezan somehow unlocked a new power that allowed him to merge the Sharingan and Rinnegan together. Somehow that lets him use a new Time-Space spell to make his body intangible or something."

"Its more like the true power of the Kamui Jutsu." Kakashi uttered as he walked up." More or less, it's the power unlocked by true masterly of the powerful Mangekyō Sharingan dōjutsu that creates a unique and specialized form of space–time ninjutsu, or at least that's how I describe it from where I'm from.

Your teammate Ezan was very talented but it took my, comrade Obito Uchiha giving his soul to him so that he could master the power like this. It, was enough to beat Madara Uchiha even after how powerful he became, so for the sake of everything we went through it has to be enough to take this madman out!"

Ben winced at hearing someone he thought as a best friend being talked as a deranged lunatic but as he saw Doug try and hit Ezan with a look of pure hate in his eyes he sighed." One thing first...who are you again? Er…sorry to many new faces at once, let's have a proper introduction when we have time for it.

Well Ezan having that power is kind of unnerving but hell, if it is enough for us to get pass this I'll let him take the next Enji Budokai. Wait, he would hate that. Anyway, no matter what it takes we have to break through Doug's madness! "

"Even if it can't last forever." James uttered as he walked up." As long as it lasts long enough to wear Doug down it will be enough. I just, need just a few seconds for my plan to work. Doug, I want you to come to your senses but if you can't, I'll do what I have to!"

James unleashed another barrage of energy arrows at his teammate, but even as Doug kept attacking Ezan he sensed the arrows coming for him and dodged them all. Seeing James glare at him just caused him to spit in the ground." All of you elite egg heads are going to have to learn that your tricks can only work for so long before I see through them!"

Doug saw another flash and swerved his fist around to catch Ezan's blade in his right hand. As he saw his target's shock he grinned before his fist glowed." You thought your fancy phasing spell could save you rich boy? You can be intangible all you want but you still have to be something solid to hit me! And the instant you do, your wide open!"

The bald man went to slug Ezan, only to find the fist go right through his face. Ezan put his free hand right at Doug's head before uttering," Part of me might but that will be your final miscalculation! Kamui Tachyon Shuriken!"

Doug saw Ezan form a purple energy sphere shaped like a Shuriken and quickly dashed back as the attack was sent his way. The man trained by Gouken prepared to punch the attack back only for the blast to suddenly split into smaller blasts. Doug snickered and swerved around to uppercut the attack, only for the blast to unleash a portal to suck him into the Kamui Dimension.

Doug felt his arm being sucked in before he pushed back to resist, while snarling out," God damn it, I'm sick of all your god damn tricks! No matter what way you try and attack, no matter how you try and hide, I'll drag you down to my level! Hell's…Punchline!"

The half-infinity symbol on Doug's head glowed, before his aura exploded and he unleashed a blast of golden light shaped like a fist. The blow rocketed past the vortex, and shattered it upon impact. Ezan was shocked as he saw the blast head for him and on instinct tried to evade the blast.

He saw the light go past his right shoulder, and was shocked to feel his shoulder nearly be hit hard enough to leave a dent before he staggered back."What the, that hit me, in the Kamui Dimension? It's like, he punched through dimensions!"

"That's right sucka!" Doug yelled out widely," Thanks to this new power, I can punch through reality itself! No matter what your power is, I'll punch through it! Theses fists will punch through light, darkness, everything! So, huh? GUH!"

Doug felt a pain in his stomach before suddenly a steel flower erupted out of his mouth. James had attacked a small metal orb to one of his arrows and when Doug deflected the arrow James had the orb bounced off the ground and seep into one of Doug's wounds when he was too busy attacking Ezan to notice.

James saw Doug glare at him before he grasped his fist tightly." Doug, no matter how much your bodies been modified in the past hour, you still have the body of a human, and the mind of one! Your being shut down, in every way possible! Master Skywalker, Professor X, everyone, now! Grand…Disrupter…Pulse!"

The Enji Master proceeded to use the same spell he used to ripple Star-Killer Base, but unlike that time he used all of his power to focus the spell just to effect Doug. His target instantly tried to resist, but as he did Professor X, Jean Grey, the Martin Manhunter and all of the telepaths in the arena combined there powers to attack Doug's mind.

As they did Luke Skywalker also used the Force to attack Doug's mind as well, using a Jedi Battle-meld to have all of the Jedi around him combined their power.

As a result Doug felt what just might have been the most painful headache in history as the iron James infused into his body weighed him down and twisted his insides.

As he fell to the ground Doug snarled with rage before he grasped his fist tightly and ripped the iron flower out of his throat."No, no matter how many of you come at me, no matter what kind of attack you throw at me it's not going to work! IT WON"T WORK!"

Doug's aura erupted to the point where it became a tornado of raw energy. His eyes glowed even more before a Heiligenschein star formed around his head that had the shape of a black cowboy like hat.

With a cry of raw hate Doug punched the ground and unleashed a shock-wave of energy that knocked James, the Jedi, the X-Men and everyone else trying to attack him off their feet.

As Doug got back up he cracked his neck before looking widely at James." You always were sneaky James! But not sneaky enough to outwit god!"

James winced as he tensely aimed his bow at Doug and saw spikes of energy erupt out of his shoulders." That, that looked like the same kind of power that Darth Plagueis had! He has the same kind of power?"

"I'm not sure James." Link uttered as he ran up." But I do know that are enemy Dio had a power like this as well, I believe the villain called it the Vollständig? Doug took the one Dio had, does this mean he has those powers now?"

"Hell nah Link!" Doug shouted out as he pounced his own chest." Dio may have had it first but I made it mine! I shaped it to my desire, so mine is "E" for the Equalizer! No matter what kind of magic or power is in my way, when my fist has the power of the Equalizer I can drag my target back into the range of my fist!

Between that and the power of Ultra Instinct fine tuning my reflexes so that no matter how you sneak on me it won't work, it's all down to being who the tougher man is! You want to know what your problem is James?"

Doug raised his fist like he was about to fire another energy blast before he suddenly flicked snapped his fingers, and unleashed a force so strong that it hit James and broke his arm. As his teammate fell to the ground Doug had an erratic look in his face," You thought you could think your way out of this but your all just not strong enough to cut it!"

James cursed as he fell to the ground, and as he did Ramathal flew up to him and gave a somber sigh." Now that most of the candidates to be Divergent Catalysts have been defeated James Elrond, aside from Zamasu, Doug Fitter now has most of my Master's borrowed power. That means, his power truly is beyond limits."

The red haired man took in what the Black Swan said, and saw the recovered Ben run over to him he chuckled bitterly." Ben, I loathe panicking under pressure but as it stands now it's looking more and more like re-obtaining your full power might be the only way to break through the power pressing down on us."

Before either Ben or Doug could respond an outburst of crazed laughter as the Beyonder clapped franticly from his throne. The golden being eagerly devoured some crystalline grapes that Yabbat gave him before he spat out," Delusional to the end are we? If you refuse to accept reality then I'll make you all suffer endlessly till you submit to the truth that is my glory!

Even if you obtained the rest of your power, it would not be enough for you to overcome me because nothing in existence can overcome what is beyond it!

Yes, this has been quite a feast of emotions seeing you all struggle, but as they say enough time has passed that you all have had enough time to properly realize how futile your ideas and abilities are in the face of the true ultimate power, unbridled rage that this dragging this out any further would seem to fit under term," padding".

My champions, your proving your superiority and my glory all at once. Now, end this insolence once and for all. The perpetrations might not be ready but by killing the champions of the light we won't even need to hide. Begin the countdown to all of Cosmos's failed creation, begin the Incursion my champion, my God-Slayer, my Chaotic Comedian!"

The Beyonder grasped his hand before the planet that was the fusion of the worlds that Noctis, Rem, and Kakashi called home was ascended above the arena. Ben saw the planet fly higher and higher till it collided with the walls of space that composed the Beyonder's dimension.

Ben realized this was how the Incursion looked from the other side before he saw Doug's aura explode with enough force that it started to push the planet further and further past the boundaries of the realm it was residing in.

Ben had more traumatic flashbacks of how the Beyonder destroyed all of existence before he yelled out,"No, it can't happen again, I won't let it happen again!"

"You're going to learn the hard way that no matter how you want it your world's coming crashing down "Bro"! The script Cosmos and the light's been running for you is over, now nature is taking its course!"

Doug yelled out furiously." Everyone thought you were legit, but the last thing everyone you suckered is going to see is everyone realizing how much of a con you, and all hero's are! You thought your legend could live forever but you're learning the hard way that no matter how hard you push, everything dies!"

Aqua saw the man she loved for years laugh with pure insanity and winced before putting out a heartbroken," Doug, is this really you in there? Do you even know what you're doing anymore? How can you be laughing at something so horrible?"

"Hell yah girl, I'm winning!" Doug shouted out furiously." Course I'm laughing Aqua! Once you realize what a joke everything is, being a Comedian is the only thing that makes sense! Judge me all you want, but in the end with all the fluff we put up to con ourselves this is what it always, ALWAYS comes down to!

Every precious idea you guys are so obsessed about, it's all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for...it's all a monstrous, demented gag!

When the joke ends though, the only thing that matters is who's stronger! The winner takes all, so time for everyone to face the final punchline so I will at last have peace from all the damn judging, once and for all! At last, I'm going to have my independence from all the elitist pricks in the universe! I'm going to be free at last, FREE!"

Doug kept laughing madly as his aura surged more and more, forcing Ben, Aqua, James, and all the other people that saw him as a comrade just a day ago wondering how to stop him before his rage brought the end of everything and everyone they knew."

Authors Notes: Well, another big one so lets get through it one step at a time.

Firstly, Elphelt Valentine is another character from Guilty Gear while Balder is a villain form Bayonetta.

Next, Ultra Instict is Goku's most recent form in Dragon Ball Super, not sure how long it will be in the spotlight before its replaced by Hyper Instict or something but, I felt it suited Doug more then Ben since Ultra Instict is a state that one who's consumed by fighting instincts reaches.

Lets see, for another quickly the Indigo Corps are part of the Green Lantern comics introduced in the era of the Blackest Night Event.

Homeostasis , or at least how I'm using it is inspired by the goddess of light form the Digimon series in how it relates to Ben's plan.

Ah, now for the Giga Elephant in the room. I know there are ways it can sound like Ben's gone mad but this is not him turning evil, I wanted to do more then have a hero's belief's never change and wanted to express how difficult it would be for a hero to make progress without losing his way even if he came close like in stories like Watchmen and others.

Speaking of Watchmen, the way I'm trying to have it is that Ben's become more detached from humanity like say, Doctor Manhattan was in the movie rather then turning evil.

Well, I know China is having this sadistic Social Credit System going on where over their they are developing a national reputation system. It has been reported to be intended to assign a "social credit" rating to every citizen based on government data regarding their economic and social status.

People have already faced various punishments for violating social protocols.

The system has been used to already block nine million people with "low scores" from purchasing domestic flights.

While still in the preliminary stages the system has been used to ban people and their children from certain schools, prevent low scorers from renting hotels, using credit cards, and black list individuals from being able to procure employment.

The system has also been used to rate individuals for their internet habits (too much online gaming reduces ones score for example), personal shopping habits, and a variety of other personal and wholly innocuous acts that have no impact on the wider community.

Well, I don't live in China and don't mean to offend anyone that happens to be their but, just sounds messed up to me and I'm just saying Ben's planned system would be less punishing then real world systems lol.

Part of it was based off of the complete ending from the Batman game Arkham Knight. In that game Batman more or less admitted that after all of his years of fighting crime that very little changed in Gotham.

The ending is not clear cut but one of the most popular theories was that Batman pretended to be dead and then became a demon that terrorized anyone that even attempted to do crime, most likely using some version of the Scarecrow's Fear Toxin to make criminals be infected with never ending terror to keep them from ever causing crime.

What's Ben's proposing is a universal scale of that to bring peace by a unwavering fear, maybe harsh but feelings of kindness does not often get mass murders to back down.

While with some differences Ben and Doug's clash of ideas is a clash that has links to the Aliments in Shin Megami Tensei of Law and Chaos.
I admit I suppose that game's not the only one that offers a clash between law and chaos but I borrowed some concepts from how those two ideas were expressed in that game.

I did not want Ben to just give up like what they did to Luke Skywalker so here is where we are. If your worried he's gone off the deep end just want to remind everyone that he's made sure no one dies for this plan no matter what and he did not even go through with it fully so there is still time for second thoughts, thoughts he's going to have after this crises is dealt with so hope your all not to put off with how things are going.

I will say, at the very least he is willing to give people more of a say then Commander Shepard gave everyone in Mass Effect 3 if you choose the ending to suddenly merge everyone with machines to become linked that way, and he still got a medal for it lol. Sigh, damn AI kid ruining a entire trilogy.

Well hope you enjoyed this brutal showdown, possibly enough for a review, and see you next time when the showdown reaches its brutal next phase in Chapter 236: The Infernal Punchline of Fire and Fury!

Till next time.