Issue 19: Doom Beyond God
Skyworld...One Hour after the Aurum Invasion
BGM-Sonic Unleashed OST-Apotos Day
Thanks to the heroics of the D-Avengers and their godly allies, Pit's world has been saved from the Aurum invasion. Shortly after the war against the alien menace, the heroes return to Skyworld for some well-deserved rest.
Peter and Sonic are the first to quickly fall asleep when they laid on their beds, which makes sense after expending too much energy using their ultimate transformations during the climatic battle. Meanwhile, Weiss, Lucina, and Pit walk together through the halls as they approach their rooms.
"Finally, some peace and quiet." Weiss yawned. "I'm looking forward for some shut eye."
"After some rest, we can refocus taking down the Underworld Army. We're still in the dark of Loki's true plot." Lucina said. "We have the Dream Stone. What else could he and Hades be planning?" She asked.
"Who cares," Pit happily remarked. "We just stopped a threat that was bigger than the both of them! Taking them down will be a snap! And with Sonic's ultra transformation and Spider-Man's finalized forms, we're unbeatable!"
"Let's not overestimate our abilities, Pit." Lucina told him. "It was a miracle we stopped Grimadoom from destroying the world. This is the God of Mischief we're dealing with; who's trickery knows no bounds. We must remain vigilant for what's to come in the coming days."
"Right, right." Pit replied. "But you must admit, we make an awesome team."
Lucina smiled, "I suppose you're right. See later, Pit."
"Bye." Weiss waved as she and Lucina enter their rooms while Pit walks away to his.
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The angel hero walks into his quiet room where everything is dark. As he casually walks towards his bed, he doesn't notice a mysterious figure sitting on the ceiling, beaming his sinister red eyes through the shadows. As Pit gets ready for bed, he's ambushed by a web that wraps around his mouth and neck and is lift to the ceiling next to the cold mechanical menace. As his screams for help are muffled by the webbing on his mouth, the cold figure brutally stabs him in the chest to shut him up, causing him to bleed while he falls unconscious.
In Weiss's and Lucina's room, a hooded figure teleports in and whispers, "Chaos Control" to freeze time completely, giving him more than enough time to create a portal above the ladies and teleport them to unknown territory. He does the same thing in Peter's and Sonic's room, though Peter's spider-sense triggers to the danger in time for him to spring up until he was frozen in time and teleported away along with Sonic.
"We're set. How about you?" The hooded menace talks to someone through his earpiece.
'Almost complete.'
"Good. We'll meet you there." He replied before teleporting out of the now-empty room.
Palutena's Temple
In her chambers, Palutena looks through some old photobooks of herself and some of her Spider-Totem friends, The Bride and The Other from ways back. She relives the memories of hanging out with Bride. Her century-long date with Ero after he lost a bet to her, who was constantly annoyed judging from the pictures as he wanted nothing to do with the goddess of light. Palutena chuckled as she remembers those memories fondly, and knows that even though he won't admit it, Ero did had a good time back then.
As she looks through more pictures, she hears someone knocking on her door, "Lady Palutena." A voice belonging to Pit said.
"Hmm? Come in." Palutena allowed the young angel to walk into her private quarters. "Oh, Pit. What are you doing up? I thought you went for a nap?" She asked him.
"I was, but I got hungry. Thought I check up on you before I hit the kitchen." Pit replied.
Palutena innocently chuckles, "Same old Pit. I'm doing fine, thank you."
"That's great. Soo, whatcha reading?" Pit asked as he walks forward the flustered goddess.
"I-I-It's nothing! None of your business!" She retorted as she turns back to her shelves.
BGM-Megaman Maverick Hunter X OST-Encounter with Vile
"Oh, I'm sorry. Didn't think it was so sensitive." Pit said as he hides an evil smirk, quietly taking out a small blade as he approaches the flustered goddess's back, ready to stab her. Despite being flustered, Palutena quickly sensed the evil intent emanating from Pit and quickly block his blade with her staff before force pushing him away.
"You're not Pit! Who are you?!" Palutena asked the being disguising themselves as Pit.
The fake Pit smirks sinisterly as he stares at Palutena. "Should've expected this form wouldn't fool you for long." He said.
"I've known Pit for a long time! Now tell me who you are, imposter!" Palutena demanded.
"Very well," The fake Pit slowly transforms into a puddle of liquid metal before menacingly remerging as the metallic overlord, Neo Metal Sonic.
"Metal Sonic?!"Palutena is shocked to see him so soon after the failed Aurum invasion.
The robot hedgehog wastes no time curling into a spiky ball and spin dashing the light goddess through her walls, outside the building to hover in the air and repeatedly fire energy blasts from his palm. Palutena quickly blocks the blasts with a frontal Reflect Barrier, leaving her backside susceptible to thick webbing that ties her up, then is brutally slammed into the ground by Neo Mecha Spider-Man.
"Mecha Spider-Man…?" Palutena barely spoke as she slowly turns to see the mechanized wall-crawler pinning her head to the ground. She protrudes large angel wings from her back, breaking through the webbing while Mecha easily jumps away from it as she slowly stands up, coughing.
"Don't forget about me, goddess." A voice belonging to Grimadoom the Hedgehog as he teleports right in front of his superior team.
"Grimadoom," Palutena glared at the hybrid hedgehog. "How could I forget about the monster who almost destroyed the world after throwing a temper tantrum?" She taunted him. "I'm surprised you'd show your face so soon after we stopped your invasion."
"That was all phase one. Phase two is the real kicker." Grimadoom grinned as he notices Palutena prepares to attack them. "Ah ah ah," He stopped her by simply waving his finger. "You don't want to hurt your little angel friend, do you?" He summons Pit, who is wrapped up in Mecha's webbing, into his hand.
"Pit!" Palutena exclaimed as she doesn't want to hurt him, so she growls and cancels her attack.
"And if you're hoping the Avengers would come to your rescue, I'm afraid to say they chose the most unfortunate time to endlessly travel through time. That's what happens when you're so exhausted after stopping an alien invasion." Grimadoom sassily said, saying that his true plan involved weakening his enemies for this moment to strike on Skyworld.
Palutena growls again, "What do you want?"
"You see; I've been trying to contact my beloved goddess for quite some time now." He started joking as he throws Pit to the ground, angering Palutena even more. "I kept praying for a chance to finally meet her, so the two of us could have a little sparring match. I've been really curious to see if the gods are truly the strongest."
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BGM-Final Fantasy 9 OST-Dark Messenger
He starts sounding menacing, creating a large sphere of dark energy and throws it at Palutena. She blocks it with a barrier, but the energy from that sphere is too strong for her and is eventually sent flying through her realm, crashing through multiple tall buildings, causing them to timber down on her fair sky world and its centurions.
From beneath a pile of rubble, Palutena burst out an explosion to free herself, panting heavily as she's confronted by the devilish Grimadoom and his sinister aura. "Now, before I'm done with you, I'm gonna teach you despair. Carve upon your flesh to show there is no hope." He threatened the goddess of light, prepared to decimate her into oblivion.
She knows she horribly outmatched, but Palutena stands her ground to protect her people and her world from Grimadoom's wrath. The goddess summons her halo and fires a plethora of light-based projectiles attacks at Grimadoom. With his astonishing speed, the hedgehog easily avoids her attacks, stunning her with a knee to the chest before flinging her to the skies with a diagonal kick as he gives chase.
In the air, Palutena regains her balance as she swipes at Grimadoom as he approached, only to be caught off-guard it was an afterimage she strikes, not the real one that appears behind her and kicked her away before quickly pursing her for a relentless barrage of speedy kicks and punches with no room to breathe. "What's wrong, Palutena?! Surely you can put up a better fight than this?!" He taunted as he straight kicks her in the chest. "I thought gods were all mighty! Hawkeye would give me a better challenge! Don't embarrass yourself!" He infused his fist with his aura and punches Palutena through the air.
'His power and speed are amazing. I can't keep up with him.' Palutena thought in her head. 'But, even still, I have to stop him. For everyone's sake!'
"Well?! I'm waaaaiting!" Grimadoom calls out to her. "Try to make me use half of my power." He taunted her, barely taking the fight seriously.
"I'll try, alright, and you'll be history! Heavenly Light!" Palutena spins her staff as she summons multiple pillars of powerful light from the sky to shine down over Grimadoom to vaporize him.
"Is this all you got?!" Grimadoom smirked as he swerves pass all light rays towards Palutena for another kick, then spin attacks her multiple times like she's a pinball. She quickly warps away from one of Grim's devastating spin attacks, only to not expect Grimadoom to easily catch up to blindside her with a swift kick to the head. "C'mon, and amateur would've dodged that!" He continues taunting as he head-butts her. "You don't have the keen sense of a warrior, do you?!"
He flicks his palm and traps Palutena in a space-time bubble using Chaos Control, giving her no chance to escape. "While you've been cooped up in the heavens of your home, your "heroes" have risking their lives saving the sole people you "supposedly" sworn to protect, never truly understanding what we mortals are capable of. Maybe the Earth wouldn't have been so close to its destruction if you stepped up instead yelling at your subordinates." He taunted her, berating Palutena's role and duty as the protector of humanity. "You may be a god…" He charges up a dark beam directed at the trapped goddess. "But you're damn well not a hero." He blasted her out of her imprisonment, teleporting to elbow-drop her stomach, then stands still to extend his right arm and fires multiple, small, thin and very fast energy beams from his index finger, devastating Palutena as she screams in pain before the grim hedgehog charges a slightly bigger beam that knocks her out of the sky.
"Oh no. I'm not done with you yet." Grimadoom raises his hand to create an enormous dark cloud over Skyworld, commanding it to rain down a hell of energy beams that decimate everything in this holy realm. Dozens of Centurions are killed by the hell rain. Fires burst out of control, all while Metal Sonic and Mecha Spider-Man silently watch from the distance. Grimadoom laughs from all the destruction he has caused on this sacred land. "What a perfect day for rain." He joked as he continues laughing. At that moment, his spider-sense tingles as he's caught trapped in a large black hole, looking down to see it was Palutena that barely managed to summon it.
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"You're finished!" Palutena loudly declared as she shoots her Mega Laser that completely envelops the supreme hedgehog, forming a gigantic explosion in the sky, presumably killing him, or at the very least greatly wounding him. "Hah! How did you like that?" She taunted him as the smokes slowly clears, spotting a decapitated Grimadoom floating motionlessly in the air.
BGM-Dragon Ball Super OST-Unwinnable Battle
Then, much to her great horror and shock, Grimadoom's head slowly reforms itself, using his Symbiote DNA to recreate a new head that's as good as new. "Just for the record, I allowed you that hit." He sinisterly chuckled to the stunned goddess of light.
"What…What are you?" She scarily asked as she takes a step back, leaving Grimadoom to instantly appear to punch her brutally in the gut.
"I'm me," Grimadoom said before blasting her away. "Your fears taken form." He flies back up into the air as he cups his hands together for one last attack. "You've disappointed me. It's time I ended this little charade." He charges up a dark blue energy in his palms, aimed directly down at a weakened Palutena. "It's time to die! Chaos Hadoken!" He unleashes a destructive beam that overwhelms Palutena and burrows through Skyworld, hitting the earth down below, causing massive damage to the landscape.
The grim hedgehog joins his metallic partners as they notice Palutena somehow survived the blast, but bruised and deeply wounded. "Hmph. I guess you protected yourself at the last moment." Grimadoom deduced as he talks to the semi-conscious goddess. "Despite what I just said, that blast wasn't intended to kill you. Oh no, not yet. I'll leave that to my new pet." He whistles, summoning that same mysterious, one-eyed green creature that escaped the Lunar Sanctum a while ago. "Sick 'im, boy." Grimadoom commanded his new pet.
Palutena could do nothing but stare in silence as this weird creature starts wrapping itself around her body, with the last thing she sees is Pit's unconscious body next to Metal Sonic as her vision is then completely darkened.
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BGM-Kid Icarus Uprising OST-Opening
Spider-Man: Hey, it's Spider-Man. Whoa! What the heck?! We're traveling through time! Darn that Grimadoom. It looks like he sent us into the future, but how far? Where's Pit and Palutena? I hope they're okay. And what seems to be the problem with the Centurions? Why are they attacking people? Pit, is that you?! What are you doing?!
Next time on D-Avengers: God Mission:
The Ring of Chaos
Pit: Uh, guys! How did I get inside this ring?
KFX Here: At least eight more chapters left until this story is over. Now we're heading to the "Chaos Kin" Arc, where, if you know the original story, will be focused on Pit's and Palutena's character. I even plan on giving Ero, The Other, some more development as well. Hope you'll enjoy them, because this is when things really shape up to be a crisis.
