Issue 27: War of the Gods
Skyworld, Peter's Lab
BGM-Marvel's Spider-Man PS4 OST- "Spider-Man" (Main Theme)
Peter sits in the chair of his laboratory, unmasked as he tinkers with the "Heaven Arachnid Supreme" Armor he was given to combat what will be the decisive battle that'll determine the fate of all mortals and gods. Eight of the Nine Realms have fallen, and Pit's world has been almost devastated. Only Midgard, Spider-Man's Earth remains. If the D-Avengers fail, the whole universe will fall.
As he silently puts the finishing touches to his helmet, his eyes glance to his wallet on the desk, showing a picture of himself as a kid and his loving Aunt May and deceased Uncle Ben. With the soul-consuming power of the Nether Stone in Loki's hands, it's possible his deceased friends and family are being used to strength his power, lighting a silent but raging flame in his heart.
He reaches his hand for his wallet and brings it closer to his somber eyes as he thinks of all the people that died because of him, like Gwen Stacy, Harry Osborn, and of course his Uncle Ben. "I'll put you all back to rest…I promise." He muttered.
"Peter…" Ero manifest beside his partner. "It's time to go."
Peter puts on his serious face as he grabs his mask, "Right…" he said as he puts it on then grabs his armor as he walks out with Ero.
Palutena's Temple
The final battle is close to beginning. Most of the D-Avengers, Pit, and Palutena stand in her temple as they prepare for the upcoming assault. Sonic holds the Dream Stone in his hands, slowly closing his eyes to absorb its radiant power, transforming into the mighty silver-aura Ultra Sonic. Lucina and Weiss share the power of the ISO-Norn Stone together, and with Palutena's help, they absorb all its ancient magic to give themselves a major power boost, granting the swordsman her rainbow-aura "Great Lord Style Change" and the heiress the full potential of her rainbow-aura "Maiden Style Change".
They soon hear footsteps coming from the door and turn to pay attention to the grand entrance of their leader. They see parts of his new silver armor materializing onto his arms and legs. The black spider-symbol slowly materializing on the chest piece, surrounded by the decorative design of the black-and-blue divine accents. And as he slowly puts on his angelic-themed helmet, a blue halo of the spider appears floating behind his back, as the fully armored Heaven Arachnid Supreme Spider-Man opens his blue-colored lenses, standing straight to check his armor's HUD to see if it's working, and perfectly.
"Let's play god." Spidey spoke.
"Right." Pit nodded as he prepares to activate his fancy new toy, but Peter stops him.
"Hold it…" Spidey walks to the young angel to salute both his shoulders like he's being knighted. "Congratulations, Pit. You're an Avenger. Make me proud." He welcomed Pit to his team, more than impressed by his courage and bravery during their whole adventure together.
Pit is utterly speechless, feeling blessed to be honored to an incredible team of heroes and friends. He glances at Palutena, who smiles proudly for him, almost making him shed a tear.
"Wanna do the honors?" Spidey asked the newest member of the D-Avengers.
Pit wipes away the single tear in his eye. "Yeah! Avengers…" He jumps into the air as he materializes the Great Sacred Treasure to pilot. "ASSEMBLE!" They all strike a pose before they fly through the door to the Underworld.
BGM End
'The time has finally come, Avengers. This is the final battle. Good luck!' Palutena smiled.
"Thanks! We're SO ready for this!" Pit said.
'Hades plans to invade Earth at any moment. We deal with him, then we go after Loki!' Ero said.
"We'll get him this time! I know it!" Spidey replied.
'Hope you guys didn't get too lonely without me.'
"Viridi? What are you doing here?" Sonic asked.
'There's no way I'd miss the battle of battles! I made popcorn and everything! Phosphora and Dark Pit are also coming to assist!' Viridi said as she teleports them to the battlefield.
"We don't want you guys stealing all the fun!" Phosphora smiled.
"We're ending this, here and now!" Dark Pit declared as they defeated some more Belunkas and Chitauri, and just when the last Chitauri solider was destroyed, Hades suddenly flies out from the ground.
BGM-Kid Icarus Uprising OST-The War's End
"HELLO AGAIN, PITTY AVENGIES. AND I'M SURPRISED TO SEE DEAREST PHOSPHORA AND GOTH PITTY HERE TOO." Hades greeted with his arms folded.
"Hades!" Pit said.
"PIT!"
"Hades!"
"PIT!"
"Hades!"
"PIT!"
"Hades!"
"Can we JUST get this over with already?" Weiss asked, annoyed by the repetitive chatter as Hades sneezed.
"Excuse you," Spidey said, "But anyway…" He surrounds himself in his aura, bursting into energy as Ero materializes out of his body, roaring as a gigantic Man-Spider beast made out of blue energy with Spider-Man floating in his head.
"NOW IT'S REALLY ON!" Everyone yelled as Hades and Ero collides fists, shattering the ground for miles to come.
"ON TO VICTORY/ON TO DEATH!" They all exclaimed as everyone but Ero is sent backwards as he leads the charge against Hades.
"LET'S GO, ERO!" Spidey exclaimed as the totem god lets out a beasty roar, going in for a brutal swing onto Hades's face.
"I'VE ALWAYS WANTED TO FIGHT YOU, DIVINE DEMON!" Hades said.
"THAT MISTAKE WILL BE YOUR LAST." Ero replied.
'You're actually helping?' Viridi asked the beast god as everyone either shoots at Hades from a distance or Ero counters all of his punches with his deadly claw swipes.
"LET ME MAKE THIS CLEAR. I'M NOT ABOUT TO SIT AROUND AND DO NOTHING AT A TIME LIKE THIS. THE NINE REALMS ARE IN DANGER. IT'S MY JOB THEY AND THE WEB ARE SAVED." Ero replied.
"YOU REALLY THINK YOU CAN BEAT ME?!" Hades asked as he actually deflected Ultra Sonic's boost attack. "MY POWER HAS SURPASSED MOST OF THE GODS!" He fires demonic fireballs Phosphora, Lucina, and Dark Pit barely dodged away from.
"YOU'RE HOPELESSLY IGNORANT ABOUT MY POWER." Ero boasted as he swipes Hades's face.
"Ha! You can only get away with that once! When Ero and I team up, nothing can scare us! Let's go, partner!" Spidey smiled as he thrusts his right arm forward.
"KUMODAMA BARRAGE!" Ero unleashes uncompressed Kumodamas from his mouth in rapid succession, weakening Hades for Pit to fire a powerful explosive charged shot from the rifle of the Great Sacred Treasure while Sonic unleashes an ultra boost attack to the god's face for Lucina to slash, Dark Pit and Phosphora to shoot with their power, and Weiss summoning a storm of the Bolts of Balthakk that almost knocks Hades to his butt.
'Keep it going! You're slowing him down! Now's your chance to strike everyone!' Palutena ordered.
"SHUT YOUR TRAP. THIS IS MY FIGHT. I DON'T TAKE ORDERS FROM YOU, WOMAN!" Ero retorted while striking repeatedly with his gigantic spider-legs on Hades.
'You stubborn, no-good beast! I should've known you'd be like that!' Palutena retorted.
'And you still have a crush on him.' Viridi teased.
'No I don't! Let's focus on the fight!' Palutena retorted.
The Great Sacred Treasure flies around Hades, repeatedly flooding him with flurry of arrows from the chest cannon. "LET ME GET A CLOSER LOOK AT THAT SHINY NEW TOY OF YOURS." Hades said as he lashes out at Pit but was deflected by a large sword beam slash from Lucina, saving Pit's life.
"Lord of the Underworld, it's time for you to pay!" Pit declared.
Hades laughs as Weiss and Dark Pit fly around him like flies and tries to swat them as such. "YOU CAN BE AWFULLY CUTE, PITTY. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN I WON'T SQUASH YOU ALL LIKE GNATS!" He declared and tries to punch Pit. Phosphora charges up Sonic as a destructive ball of electricity and fires Hades, causing him to get his arm stuck to the ground before he could attack Pit. "DRAT, MY ARM IS STUCK!"
"Sucks to be you!" Sonic smirked as Ero creates two clones of himself, with all three great spiders firing a giant beam that blasts Hades through the air, but it was enough to dislodge his arm.
"ALL BETTER!" Hades quipped.
"I'M GOING TO SHRED YOU TO PIECES." Ero threatened.
"NOT IF I DO IT FIRST! HERE YOU GO!" Hades retaliates with a shredding whirlwind that knocks them back a few feet.
"Try harder, Hades!" Lucina said.
"Great Sacred Treasure, do you thing!" Pit combines his charge shots with Ero's Kumodamas to attack Hades, but he blocked their attack with a barrier.
"AVENGIES? I HAVE SOMETHING TO SHOW YOU!" Hades said, unleashing a powerful dark twister.
"Whoa!" Weiss exclaimed.
Pit's eyes widen, "No no no!"
'If you get caught up in that twister, it will tear you apart!' Palutena said.
"Sonic! Counter!" Spidey ordered the hedgehog to spin fast enough to counteract the twister with his own.
"SEE IF YOU CAN FOLLOW ME, HADES SO I CAN SEND YOU TO HELL!" Ero taunted as everyone runs to the opposite direction.
"PLAYING HARD TO GET, ARE YOU?" Hades joked as he sprints towards them, almost catching up. "GOOD THING I'VE BEEN TRAINING."
"Man, he's fast!" Dark Pit said.
'It's kind of like watching an elephant sprint.' Viridi remarked.
"Just keep at 'im!" Lucina and the others do everything they can to slow down Hades while Ero continues leading him towards a mountain.
Hades managed to dispel the troublesome insects and almost caught up to Ero as he bounces off the mountain before Hades could grab him. "NOW HEDGEHOG!" He shouted to initiate their plan. Sonic uses his matter-manipulative powers to quickly turn the rocky mountain into a mountain made of powerful bombs, causing Hades to gasp as they explode in front of him, weakening him for Pit and Ero to combine their charge shots one more from the air and devastate Hades.
"Eat teamwork, Hades!" Pit said.
Hades grunts as he pimp-smacks Pit aside, "SORRY, BUT I AIN'T HUNGRY AT THE MOMENT!" He grabs Ero's fist, surprising him as he gets punched in the face, grabbing him by the throat and slams him smashing to the ground.
Spidey felt the force of that knockback and wonders if he could keep this up. Fortunately, he feels two people touching his shoulders, turning around to see its Weiss and Lucina. "Where did you…" He wonders when they arrived in his spider-avatar.
"Doesn't matter. We're helping you out!" Weiss cut him off.
"Let's give you some of our power. Do it!" Lucina said as they transfer their energy into Spidey's.
"I get it…That's a good idea!" Spidey smirked.
With Weiss's and Lucina's help, Ero's body becomes shrouded in majestic red armor, similar to a Grimm Arma Gigas but with a cape, granting the roaring beast enough strength to break free from Hades's grasp.
'Whoa…' Both Palutena and Viridi said in amazement of the Arma Arachnid.
"WHAT THE…I DIDN'T KNOW YOU MORTALS CAN DO THAT!" Hades exclaimed in surprise.
"This is the power when mortals and gods work together!" Lucina replied as Ero roars himself a manifestation of the Falchion for him to wield and uses it to strike Hades repeatedly in one-on-one combat, leaving Hades no room to breathe or to counterattack from his merciless assault.
"Let me show you what my new armor can do!" Spidey manipulates the ground around Hades to grow a dense forest beneath him, trapping him with their thick branches. "We're not done yet! Viridi's gonna love this!" Spidey said. Ero stabs his sword to the ground as he prepares a giant Kumodama in play. With his enhanced connection to nature and additional help from Weiss, Spider-Man summons all the elements of fire, water, wind, earth, and electricity and adds their energy into the Kumodama, turning it larger and pinkish, similar to a Reset Bomb but looking more deadly.
'Haha! Nice! Give him a taste of what nature can do!' Viridi shouted, looking forward to this next attack
"Are you ready?!" Spidey asked Weiss and Lucina.
"YEAH!"
"DIVINE TOTEM: KUMO RESET BOMB!" The four of them, including Ero, yelled as the great beast fires the nature-powered Kumodama at the incapacitated Hades.
"OH MY…" Hades said, looking worried before he was hit, smashing him through the forest before unleashing a monstrous explosion in the sky that was so big and powerful it could be seen even from space.
Everyone stares at Hades as he falls down to the earth, looking exhausted. "What's the matter, Hades? You had enough?" Sonic smirked.
"OH NO! I'M JUST GETTING STARTED!" Hades retorted.
"I'M SURPRISED YOU LIVED THROUGH THAT. THIS WON'T TAKE MUCH LONGER." Ero said.
'Forget about them,' Loki privately talks to Hades through telepathy. 'It is time to invade Midgard. At once!' He ordered, making Hades smile.
"LET'S SEE IF YOU CAN KEEP UP!" Hades summons a portal and quickly enters it.
'That portal is headed for Spider-Man's world! He's about to begin the invasion!' Palutena informed them.
Ero disappears from the battlefield so Spidey can personally take command. "Sonic! Pit! Phosphora! Follow Hades and stop the invasion! The rest of us! We're taking the fight to Asgard!" Spidey ordered.
"Leave it to us! You can't run from us, Hades! Engaging pursuit mode!" Pit said as the Great Sacred Treasure shifts into a slimmer appearance and flies through the portal along with Sonic and Phosphora while the rest open up their own portal via their Webwares to transport them to Asgard to confront Loki head on.
With Pit's Team…
Through a portal that leads to the prime Earth-616, Pit, Sonic, and Phosphora pursue the Lord of the Underworld. "WHY, AVENGIES, I THOUGHT I'D LEFT YOU BEHIND!" Hades joked.
"Like I said, you can't run from us. Now when I've got the Great Sacred Treasure!" Pit said.
"And I'm all powered-up with the Dream Stone!" Sonic added.
"WHAT, YOU MEAN YOU TWO CAN'T KEEP UP WITH ME ON YOUR OWN?" Hades quipped, annoying the two as they continue their fight.
"It wasn't cool of you to disappear earlier. After all, this IS our final battle." Pit said as they start attacking various parts of Hades's back.
"OH, I WAS JUST GOING TO MAKE A QUICK VISIT TO THIS NEW WORLD TO DECIMATE A COUNTRY OR TWO." Hades replied.
"Probably so you could fuel up on souls." Phosphora said.
"YES, I WAS HOPING TO GREET SILKY ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN OF CORPSES BUT HE'S NOT EVEN HERE. I DIDN'T EVEN GET A PILE STARTED WITH YOU THREE HOT ON MY HEELS. WHAT KILLJOYS."
'Your hunger for destruction is as boundless as it is callous, Hades.' Palutena said.
"Plus, a "mountain of corpses"? Seriously?" Sonic added as they soon confront small versions of Hades's face on his back, avoiding their homing missiles.
"Are those…face guns?" Pit asked.
'Not just any face. Hades's face.' Palutena said.
"I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER EVERY DETAIL OF THIS LOVELY VISAGE. AFTER ALL, IT'S THE LAST FACE YOU'LL EVER SEE!" Hades said.
"Not as terrifying as Amy's when she's mad." Sonic quips while blitzing the demon faces in a single dash, ending with a powerful spin attack on the back that injured the god greatly.
"UGH!" Hades growls as he turns to face the persistent heroes. "RATHOG! THAT WAS VERY NAUGHTY OF YOU!" He said, unleashing a bullethell of dark arrows at his annoying enemies.
"Yow ow ow ow!" Pit winched from all the damage they're suffering.
"Hold on, Pit!" Sonic said as he and Phosphora barely dodges the hell of arrows.
"I can't! The Great Sacred Treasure is falling apart!" Pit said as a mighty explosion envelops him.
'No, it's…it's changing shape again!' Palutena said.
The Great Sacred Treasure emerges from the explosion unharmed as it shifts into a more humanoid form. "Mech Armor mode engaged!" This thing is so awesome." Pit said.
"Yeah it is!" Sonic grinned as they confront Hades again.
"YOU'RE STARTING TO GET ON MY NERVES." Hades said.
"We'll keep annoying you until you give up!" Sonic quipped.
'He's covered from head to toe in weaponry. Like a rainbow apocalypse.' Viridi said.
"I PREFER TO THINK OF IT AS MY DEVASTATION ENSEMBLE. I ONLY WEAR IT FOR VERY SPECIAL OCCASIONS. YOU KNOW, WEDDINGS, ARMAGEDDONS…"
"How about a funeral, like where we're sending ya?" Sonic asked.
"NOT VERY CLASSY, IF YOU ASK ME."
"Ugh…this guy…" Phosphora grunted.
"Tell me about it." Pit sighs as they proceed to demolish everything on Hades's body. The god of the underworld raises his right hand with a vortex to attack, but Phosphora destroys it with her lightning blast. He then raises his left one only for Sonic to strike it back down as a devastating projectile. He lastly starts shooting lasers from his chest, but with a large charged shot from Pit, they were demolished in an instant.
Irritated, Hades stops with the mindless shooting and backhands Sonic and Phosphora away while he grabs Pit with his bare hands, "OOOOAH! COME HERE!"
"Gah!" Pit grunted as he struggles to break free.
"PLUCKED AT THE PEAK OF RIPENESS!" A drill pops out of Hades's chest and slowly uses it on the Great Sacred Treasure. "NOW I'LL JUST DRILL THROUGH THE RIND TO REMOVE THE PIT!"
"Not happening!" Sonic rams into Hades's chest with a mighty aura enveloping his spin attack, forcefully releasing Pit from his grasp.
"Take this!" Pit unleashes a large energy sword and slices Hades in half.
"That gotta hurt!" Phosphora said.
"You're not HALF the villain you thought you were!" Pit quipped.
"THAT'S WHAT "YOU" THINK!" Hades laughs as he flies past the heroes and continues through the portal.
"How did THAT not finish him off? He's a freakin' torso!" Sonic asked.
"Doesn't matter. We have to catch up with him. Engaging ultralight mode!" The Great Sacred Treasure changes to the upper half of Mech Armor Mode but with golden wings and continues pursuing Hades. "Where'd he go?!"
'Up ahead! He's in New York City!' Palutena said.
"It's always there, isn't it?" Sonic quipped as they boost forward.
Prime Earth, New York City
Another day, another invasion hits the streets of New York City. Above the island of Manhattan, the millions of new Yorkers run for their lives when they saw Hades drop down below. Seconds later, Pit's team shows up. "So this is where Spidey's lives. But where's Hades?" Pit asked.
'Behind you!' Viridi said as they turn around and see Hades floating above Central Park.
"STILL STALKING ME, I SEE." With a painful growl, Hades uses his power to generate a new pair of legs. "THAT'S BETTER."
"What the…" Sonic responded.
The Lord of the Underworld then charges up his Darkforce energy granted to him by Loki, using his portal to bring his invasion force to New York. "GO, MY MINIONS! SHOW THE GOOD FOLK OF NEW YORK HOW WE PARTY IN THE UNDERWORLD!" He ordered. His Underworld army endanger the civilians. Frost Giants wreck the buildings. The Chitauri making a mess on the streets. And Mindless Ones continue to give their victims the one-eye laser treatment while they contend with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents who have arrived to quell the invasion.
"Hey! This is Spider-Man's home turf! No touchie!" Pit said as they confront Hades into battle.
During the battle, Sonic notices Captain Yuri Watanabe of the NYPD about to be slaughtered by a Frost Giant. He flies over and kick the giant, saving the captain's life. "Thanks, Sonic. What's going on?!" She asked the ultra hedgehog.
"Oh, you know. The gods hate us and wants to wipe us out," Sonic quipped. "Just keep the people safe while we deal with the big guy!" He ordered.
"On it." Yuri nodded as Sonic flies back to the battle against Hades.
"I'M NOT IN THE MOOD TO DEAL WITH YOU ANYONE. I WANT TO EXPLORE MY NEW HOME, STARTING WITH AVENGERS TOWER." Hades turns around to spot Avengers Tower and heads right for it.
"Why's he going there?" Phosphora asked.
"That's where we're keeping the other Exo Stones! We gotta stop him before he gets there!" Sonic replied as they speed off towards Hades.
On the rooftop of Avengers Tower lies the quippy archer hero, Hawkeye, sleeping on his lounging chair with earplugs blocking the sounds of the city under attack. Still, he was barely able to hear the giant footsteps approaching him and it was starting to get annoying for him. "Hey, could you keep it down? I'm trying catch some Z's…" He pulls up his sleeping mask only to be surprised of the giant smiling face of Hades so close to him.
"SORRY. DID I WAKE YOU?" Hades asked.
"This is gonna be one of those days, isn't it?" Hawkeye quipped.
Hades slams his fist on the side of Avengers Tower, just seconds before Hawkeye leaped off the roof. "I SHOULD'VE THOUGHT THIS THROUGH!" He yelled as he presumably falls to his death, but thankfully Ultra Sonic swoops in to save him.
"Nice of you to drop by, Hawkeye." Sonic grinned.
"Very funny, blue boy." Hawkeye glared as he's dropped off on a nearby rooftop to see the Great Sacred Treasure and Phosphora battling Hades. "Is that an angel piloting a giant mech?" He nonchalantly pointed out.
"Yup."
"Yeah, I'm still dreaming. What's going on?" Hawkeye asked.
"Loki teamed up with this guy named Hades and have almost conquered the Nine Realms." Sonic replied.
"Why am I not surprised? That guy has Loki's stench all over him." Hawkeye quipped.
"Where are the other Avengers?" Sonic asked.
"Deep in space."
"Again?"
"Weird, right? They got the distressed signal from a mysterious alien race in trouble an hour BEFORE this whole mess started." Hawkeye said.
"Loki must have been behind it, to keep Earth unguarded." Sonic deduced. "So there's no other Avenger left?"
Hawkeye smiles, "Don't worry. We still have one who stuck around."
While Hades distract Pit and Phosphora with blue and purple energy balls, he takes a closer look of Avengers Tower, moving his giant eye behind a large window. 'COME OUT, COME OUT, WHEREVER YOU ARE, LITTLE EXO STONES. PAPA HADES NEEDS THEM TO BE THE STRONGEST ONE THERE IS…" He said.
"THAT'S WHERE YOU'RE WRONG!" A monstrous roar echoes from the tower as Hades spots a man in big tough green skin and purple shorts runs through the halls towards him. And with a monstrous punch to the eye, Hades is slammed down to the streets below. "HULK IS THE STRONGEST ONE THERE IS!" The Incredible Hulk shouted.
"All right! Hulk! That's all we need to turn the tides!" Sonic grinned.
"He sounds like an angry version of Magnus." Pit noticed.
Hulk clinches onto Hades's skin and relentlessly beats him down, much to the great annoyance of Hades. "GET OFF ME, YOU VULGAR CREATURE!" He smacked Hulk to a building.
Seconds later, he's being attacked by a stream of fire coming from a flying man encased in flames with the symbol "4" seen on his chest. "Sweet! Got out of the movies in time to stop an invasion! Best day ever!" He said as he continues attacking Hades with fireballs.
'Ugh! This guy sounds so much like Pyrrhon from the way he blabs his mouth.' Viridi said as the man in flames flies over to flirt with Phosphora.
"Johnny Storm of the all-time Fantastic Four, at your service." The Human Torch bowed to the electric girl.
"Mmmm. Not bad, hot stuff. But maybe you can do better, like that guy down there." She smirks as she points to another man on fire below, wearing a leather jacket and a skull for his head, using his flaming motorcycle and chains to whip Hades's knees.
"Ghost Rider! Stop stealing my thunder!" Johnny shouted at the Spirit of Vengeance.
"This is the demon responsible for the millions of souls that has disappeared from the Earth. I will deliver vengeance and make him suffer." Ghost Rider said as he continues to attack Hades alongside Hulk and Pit.
"Sonic." A voice enters Sonic and Hawkeye's heads, making them turn around to see the Sorcerer Supreme, Doctor Strange descend to meet them.
"Doctor Strange!" Sonic responded.
'So you're Doctor Strange.' Viridi said.
"Aye," Dr. Strange responds to Viridi, surprising her that he can telepathically communicate to her. "I am fully aware of the situation ever since the emergence of the Nether Stone disrupted the cosmic plane. We have to stop Hades and Loki before their actions extinguish all life in the universe."
"Waaay ahead of you, doc." Hawkeye fires a few explosive arrows at Hades, barely doing any damage.
"ARROWS? THAT'S LIKE THROWING PEBBLES AT A HURRICANE." Hades remarked.
"Then try THIS on for size!" Dr. Strange summons a storm of the Seven Suns of Cinnibus, combined with mystical blasts with enough force to topple Hades to the ground.
"THAT…ACTUALLY HURT!"
"Yield, Hades! You are nothing compared to the creatures I have faced! You made a mistake coming here!" Strange mocked him.
"Do you know how many gods we kicked their butt on the occasion? This is gonna be too easy." Hawkeye quipped as he fires more arrows at Hades as the united heroes proceed to overwhelm him.
Hades grunts from all this resistance that's actually putting him on his toes, "THIS IS EVER SO TIRESOME."
"Then let's finish it!" Pit exclaimed as he charges at Hades for a powerful strike but seconds before his attack reached, his opponent teleported away. "Wait-huh?"
"PIT! LOOK OUT!" Sonic exclaimed as Hades suddenly leaps down and claps his over the Great Sacred Treasure.
"BOOM!" Hades smiled. But to the Underworld Lord's shock, his attack DIDN'T finish Pit. Instead, the young angel managed to burst out of his grasp and land on the streets with a new mode of the Great Sacred Treasure, which has been transformed into something that of a Hulkbuster. "THIS WASN'T PART OF THE ORIGINAL SCRIPT!" Hades exclaimed as he thought Pit's toy would be crushed.
"Spider-Man altered the script in case you pulled something like that," Pit said, saying that Spider-Man built in an emergency form to the Great Sacred Treasure in case of immediate danger. "You're finished, Hades! Godbuster Mode, do your thing!"
Pit unleashes a plethora of repulsor-powered X divine missiles at Hades's face and chest, really putting the damage on the evil god. He flies up to punch Hades who collides his own fist at him, shattering all the nearby windows from their epic clash. Pit swings at Hades with the brutal punches of the Godbuster, nimble enough to fly away from Hades's attacks as he counters with repulsor beams. Sonic quickly joins the fray with a devastating barrage of homing attacks right on Hades. Hulk elbows one of the god's knees while Ghost Rider yanks down the other one with his flame chains. With him crippled, the Human Torch, Phosphora, and Hawkeye bring out an assault of their arsenal, all while Pit charges up his armor's reactor.
"Direct all power to ISO Beam!" Pit said.
"I WILL NOT LET THIS END!" Hades charges up his most powerful attack yet, ready to fire at Pit and the other heroes. "SINCE YOU'VE ALL BEEN SUCH GREAT ADVERSARIES, I'VE SAVED MY DEADIEST ATTACK FOR YOU ALL! I DO HOPE YOU ENJOY IT!" He said, sounding a little angrier and usual, mostly because he's been pushed to his limit by simple mortals.
"Think again, Hades! By the Crimson Bands of Cyttorak!" Dr. Strange binds Hades in his indestructible bands, causing him to lose focus for Ultra Sonic to pierce through his eyes, blinding him and causing him to bleed.
"HOW DARE YOU?!" Hades exclaimed in frustration.
"It's all you, Pit!" Sonic said.
The avenging angel screams out a powerful roar, unleashing the destructive ISO Beam from his chest reactor, vaporizing Hades's head clean right off.
BGM End
"Direct hit! Way to go, kid!" Hawkeye cheered.
"Told ya you would get your moment." Sonic smiled at the angel.
"Hehe." Pit chuckles.
"Hold the celebration. He is not done." Ghost Rider said, sensing Hades is still alive somehow.
Despite his head severed, the Lord of the Underworld is still standing, generating a new head composed of blue flames and orange eyes. 'You've got to be kidding me! There's no way he could've survived that!' Viridi said.
"It's the Nether Stone that's given him this strength. But he has exhausted its power with that stunt. He is weakened. He can't hold out much longer." Dr. Strange said as they notice Hades panting very heavily after using so much of power to regenerate his head.
"It's over, Hades!" Sonic proclaimed.
"You're terrorizing on our worlds is through!" Pit said as the united heroes rush in to combat Hades one more time while he's weakened.
Meanwhile…with Spider-Man's Team
While the battle for Earth has already begun, Spider-Man's team of heroes have arrived at their destination: Asgard, the golden realm of the Asgardian gods, but their home is looking less golden. It's night. Everything's quiet. Cold, as the realm is raining snow from the starry night sky.
"We're here." Spidey informed his teammates.
"Is this really Asgard? It looks like a grave." Dark Pit remarked on how desolate Asgard is.
"Where are the people? Is anyone still alive?" Weiss wondered, worried.
"My Spider-Sense…It's picking up…Nothing." Spidey replied.
"No birdsong, no insects. Just the harsh winter that has overtaken this realm." Lucina somberly said as the white snow falls on her open palm.
'Loki must be inside the palace. Stop him and save Asgard.' Palutena ordered.
"C'mon. We don't have any time to waste." Spidey gestured his crew to follow him to the palace and as they walk his spider-sense finally triggers to something. "Now my spider-sense is picking up something." Spidey and the others notice a small army of what appears to be Asgardian warriors approaching them except something about them feels different, more sinister. They have been corrupted by dark magic, as evident with the purple aura and sinister glowing red eyes as they start throwing their spears at the heroes, forcing them to leap back.
"The Asgardians! Why are they attacking us?" Spidey asked as he webs up the corrupted Asgardians, and as he does he successfully dodges a sword swing from the all-seeing Heimdall, who's also been corrupted. "You're Heimdall! What's wrong with you?!" He asked as he's forced to fight him.
Nearby, Weiss and Dark Pit are forced into battle with the Warriors Three. "It's Loki! He must have used the Nether Stone to corrupt them! Put them under some sort of mind-control!" Weiss said as she clashes swings with Fandral.
Right behind the heiress, Dark Pit blocks an axe slam from Volstagg using his dual blades, then kicks him down. "They may be mind-controlled, but they're still weak!" Pittoo proclaimed as he flips from Hogun's mace and shoots him with arrow shots.
Not far, Lucina is forced into a sword-match with the corrupted Lady Sif, impressively holding her own against the warrior goddess. "I can feel them resisting! Lady Sif, break free from Loki's control!" Lucina said while blocking her sword.
"Stop…me…" Sif managed to speak through her corruption.
Lucina summoned the strength to deflect Sif's sword, twirling in place for a mighty spin slash that knocks out Sif. Dark Pit breaks free from the combined assault of Volstagg and Hogun and uses his staff to fire a powerful beam that sends them flying to a building. Weiss summons multiple ice blades repeatedly slash Fandral before finishing him with a slam attack. Finally, Spidey kicks Heimdall and grabs him by the leg with his mechanical spider-leg, pinning him down to the floor with thick webbing, then unleashes a powerful divine wind from his repulsors to defeat the remaining Asgardians.
"Hope they won't be mad at us once they wake up." Spidey quipped.
"Stealing the free will from his fellow gods to do his bidding. Loki is pure madness incarnate." Lucina said, visibly angered by Loki's mischievous actions.
"Let's head to the palace and put an end to this." Spidey said, but before they could take another step further they hear big loud footsteps slowly heading towards their direction.
"What's that?! More Frost Giants?" Weiss asked.
"Feels bigger." Pittoo replied. From the foggy snow, a humongous wolf made out of ice towers over the heroes and snarls at them. "Told ya." Pittoo nonchalantly said.
The giant wolf swipes at them but they were able to avoid its chilling paws. "What the heck is that?!" Spidey asked.
'Oh no! Has Loki gone mad? That's Hoarfen, the ice wolf!' Palutena replied as the ice wolf spews its icy breath, forcing the heroes to flee before they turn into an ice sculpture.
"We don't have time for this!" Spidey said, knowing every second Loki and Hades's forces invade his world.
'Agreed!' Ero materializes into his Man-Spider State and grabs ahold of Hoarfen's mouth. "I'LL HOLD HIM OFF! GO AFTER LOKI!"
"Right! Let's move, Avengers! Double time!" Spidey gestured everyone into the palace while Ero contends with the giant ice beast.
Ero chuckles sinisterly, "COME, GREAT BEAST. I'M EAGER FOR SOME MORE ACTION, IF YOU CAN PROVIDE IT." He taunted the wolf and lunges in for battle.
Asgardian Palace
"Does anyone have a plan how we're gonna take down Loki?" Weiss asked as they rush through the great halls of the royal palace.
"Smash his face in." Pittoo answered.
"An ACTUAL plan?" Weiss said while ignoring Pittoo's blunt response.
"The best I can think of is steal that stone away from him." Spidey replies while web-swinging.
"Easier said than done." Lucina remarked.
"I'll draw his attention and act as a decoy, while one of you try to take the stone while he's distracted." Spidey explained the plan.
'It's FAR from a perfect plan, but there's no other option.' Palutena said as the four united heroes confront the giant golden door that leads straight into Odin's throne room.
"You guys ready?" Spidey asked. With a fearless nod from his friends, Spidey kicks the door wide open as they all walk in to see Loki on Odin's throne, wearing a new red cape and a crown on his horned helmet, holding Odin's personal spear, Gungnir, which has been equipped with the dark Nether Stone on the tip of the weapon.
"I was wondering when you show." A calm Loki said to his mortal adversaries.
Spider-Man prepares a charged repulsor blast right at Loki. "Step away from the throne, Loki. Now!" He demanded.
"You DARE threaten me, mortal? Threaten the new king of Asgard?" Loki asked.
"You're not the king! Odin is! Now what have you done with him?" Weiss asked the god of mischief.
"Nothing much." Loki mentally carries the case where the All-Father sleeps and shows it to his enemies. "With a simple blast, I stole father's soul and absorbed it through the Nether Stone, where all that defied me sleep in. I'm now keeping his body as a trophy, where he forever sleeps and never wake up."
"You are mad! How could you do that to your own FATHER?! He adopted you! Raised you as his own son!" Lucina said, angry to see Loki retaliate against his father with cold vengeance.
"INSOLENT CHILD!" Loki exclaimed as he stood up. "It was ODIN who slew my true father and STOLE me as a child, only to treat me like a lesser being!" He then calms down as he slowly sits back on his throne. "But I am not a lesser being."
"Kinda are with that ugly mug." Pittoo quipped.
"Silence! Thanks to the Darkforce, one by one, each of the Nine Realms have fallen. Only Midgard remains, and I'm confident Hades will accomplish the task with little trouble." Loki said.
"Your dead wrong! Our friends will beat Hades, while we finish you off right here and now!" Spidey declared.
BGM-Dragon Ball FighterZ OST-Zamasu (Fused)
Loki chuckles from his amusing declaration. "What a funny joke. What can you do against an all-powerful god? I am the new All-Father of Asgard. The king of all gods in the universe. You? You are all mortals, and I know the truth." He said as he stands up. "You're all a grand mistake in the cosmos. You have doomed reality, time and time again with your "petty" wars and a complete disregard for nature. In order to save the realms from destruction, I will purge you all by my own hand! In the name of the gods who REFUSE TO DO IT THEMSELVES!"
"What the hell is he talking about?" Weiss asked as none of them really cares about the nonsense he's spouting
"That helmet really has a leash on your brain. Don't worry. We'll loosen it up for you." Spidey quipped, firing a divine repulsor blast Loki blocked with a dark barrier
"Primitive!" Loki fires a dark blast from his spear that scatters the heroes across the throne. "When the mortals are erased, a new chapter in the universe will be written, and its author will be ME, Loki!"
"Quit with the yapping!" Spidey flies to the sky and opens his waldoes to fire beams of divine light at Loki, then uses his halo spider to unleash more destructive power that blows Loki back.
"You dare strike ME?! A god?!" Loki asked.
"Yeah! It's fun! Let me do it again!" Spidey morphs his right arm into a giant club and whacks Loki with it, quickly switching to a giant arm to stomach the trickster with a barrage of punches. When Loki had enough, he burst into energy and blasts the webhead with his destructive dark magic.
"That divine armor won't do you any good, not against the level I stand in." Loki proclaims.
"What sort of grinding have you been doing?" He quipped, using his armor to create a glyph that bombards the trickster with mystic storm of web bullets. Loki tries to defend himself but the force of the web storm slowly proves too much for him. One of the web pellets managed to hit his spear that holds the Nether Stone, landing right next for Weiss for grab.
"I got it!" She announced, but then feels the soul-shocking surge from the stone, burning her hand as she is forced to drop the staff so Loki can mentally retrieve it with a chuckle.
"Did you really think it'll be THAT easy? It may be a simple spell, but it's quite effective." Loki said, saying he put up a protection spell on the stone so no one else would use it.
"Then we'll just have to pry it from your dead body!" Dark Pit dashes forward with an Electroshock Arm and tries to uppercut Loki but missed, receiving a painful counter from Loki's spear. The God of Mischief turns when he hears Lucina's loud battle cry as she charges at him with her sacred sword.
"We won't let you get away with this!" Lucina strikes at the barrier Loki put up to block her attack.
"I can sense you're using the Norn Stone I intentionally gave you to defeat Medusa against me. Hah! Their power is just a grain of salt compared to me now!" He deflects Lucina to the sky and blasts her with a ray of dark power.
"Don't get ahead of yourself!" Weiss charges in and clashes with Loki. She quickly summoned various versions of Grimm to aid her but with a simple swipe from his spear, Loki vaporizes them into nothingness. The Huntress grunts as she leaps away to summon a mystic glyph under Loki to release the Spell of Vishanti, enveloping the trickster god in its magical power. She was quickly surprised to hear Loki laughing from within her pillar of magic as he uses the Nether Stone to absorb its power and redirect it at her as a devastating dark beam that knocks her across the room.
"Weiss!" Spidey cries out before flying to her aid. Loki waves his spear at Spider-Man, summoning four illusions of himself to simultaneously attack the web-slinging hero. And with their powers combined, they blast Spider-Man to the ground as he struggles to stand up.
"Do you mortals now know who you're up against?! I am the All-Father! My power has surpassed Odin himself! Grovel from my absolute divine power!" Loki laughed madly.
The heroes grunt in pain as they slow stand up from his dark assault. "His power scars the soul…It'll be hard to counter such power…" Lucina said as she can feel her soul has been mowed because of the Nether Stone.
"I might have a solution…" Spidey touches his allies and transfers his Aura Arachnid power to them, granting them an aura shrouded like a spider.
"Since when could you do that?" Weiss asked him.
"I re-read the instruction manual." Spidey quipped.
With his enhanced powers, Dark Pit fires a beam from his staff that managed to pierce through Loki's barrier and actually hurt the god. "Now this is useful!" He smirked.
Loki growls from being shot at and fires a large dark beam at his enemies, but Spidey has other ideas. "Na ah ah! Ain't letting you do that!" He uses his heavenly armor to actually absorb his power, convert it into light using Perfect Synchro and fires it back at Loki.
"How did you do that?!" Loki asked.
"This armor can do anything, after my tinkering." Spidey replied.
"I get it now. Perfect Synchro…" Loki said. "You're mortal, Man of Spiders, yet you've gained the power of the gods. That power belongs to ME! I'll absorb that "perfected soul" after I squeeze it from your feeble body!"
"You won't have to wait too long," Spidey shrouds his fists with his perfected aura, one covered in light, the other covered in darkness, both shaped like a spider. "I'll give you a full course right now." He said in a serious tone as they leap in to attack the God of Mischief once more.
Outside the palace…
Ero struggles with Hoarfen as the ice wolf pins him to the ground to try and bite his head off. "YOU'RE A FIESTY ONE! THIS MIGHT TAKE AWHILE!" He said.
"Need a little help?" A female voice spoke up as she blasts the wolf off Ero, allowing him to stand to see it was Lady Palutena herself who has come to his rescue.
"HMPH. DIDN'T THINK YOU'D SHOW." Ero said, slightly surprised she showed up to the battlefield.
"It was time I got off my ass." Palutena smirked as she repeats what Ero said earlier during the Aurum Invasion. Ero actually chuckles with a smile before they are confronted by the giant roaring wolf again. "Wanna work together for old time's sake?" She asked her spider friend.
"AS LONG AS YOU DON'T GET IN MY WAY." Ero replies as he starts punching Hoarfen directly while Palutena flies around as assist, pelleting the beast with energy attacks from a distance.
"I'm surprised to see you struggle." Palutena teased Ero.
"ENOUGH WITH THE BANTER, WOMAN!" He retorted, elbowing Hoarfen down then claws him from the jaw, sending him on top of nearby buildings. Hoarfen quickly stands on his feet growling, unleashing a stream of ice the two barely avoided, with Ero's arm having been frozen.
"Here." Palutena uses her light to break the ice on his limb.
"THANKS."
"Don't mention it." Palutena replied as they dodge from the wolf's snarling lunge. "This reminds of the times we fought similar beasts like this one."
"YEAH, BUT WITHOUT YOUR CRYING AND WHINING." Ero said.
"I was not whining!"
"THAT'S WHAT THEY SOUNDED LIKE TO ME." He said. And while Palutena scoffs, he buries his stinger to the ground so it could spread beneath Hoarfen and trap him in a web of his stingers. With the ice beast trapped, Ero brutally grabs it with his many arms. And with one mighty roar he throws Hoarfen straight through Odin's palace, briefly interrupting the battle between Loki and the D-Avengers.
"What madness is this?!" Loki exclaimed.
'Miss me?' Ero asked Peter as he returned back to his body.
"Starting to." Spidey smiled.
"Loki!" Palutena walks through the smoke to confront the evil god that has threatened her home and all the realms.
"Lady Palutena!" Lucina gasped in surprise to see her here.
"How dare you invade my realm, old lady?" Loki asked, purposely annoying her by making fun of her age.
Palutena's eye twitches as she growls, "You have some nerve when you've been doing the invading of realms."
"I do as I please. What reason would you come here for? It wouldn't be to fight me? You of all should know how powerless you are against Asgardians, especially its new king!" Loki said as he held his spear high.
"I cannot stand by while you spread your darkness throughout the realms any longer! It's my responsibility to protect my world and its people! I can't always rely on my friends to do my job! From today forward, I'll fight my own battles for the sake of peace!" Palutena said.
Loki laughs crazily, "The fact that you see mortals as anything close to friends is laughable, when they've been the cause of all your troubles!"
"I've seen firsthand of the mortals' potential, that under the right conditions they can prove to be a great asset to the world, and I am proud to call some of them my friends!" Palutena admitted.
"Then you can all die as one big happy mess!" Loki lifts his spear to the air, generating a large black sphere he throws at the heroes.
Palutena summons a large barrier to block the large blast but it quickly proves too much for her and almost breaks her defensives. "We got you!" Spider-Man and Weiss put up their defensives with Palutena's. With their powers combined, they were able to successfully block Loki's attack.
"Thank you, my friends." Palutena said.
"Anything for our favorite goddess. Now let's go treat this trickster to a pounding!" Spidey said as he smashes his fists together.
"My thoughts exactly!" Palutena remarked.
Loki roars and fires his dark magic at the heroes but they were able to jump away from the blast. "Here's some new glasses! Hope you like it!" Spidey blinds the trickster with webbing, allowing Lucina to slash at him enough times until Pittoo uppercutted him with the Electroshock arm, blasting him across with a charged arrow shot into Weiss's direction so she can pellet him with a rain of gigantic icicles, pinning him to the ground while Spidey and Palutena hover across from him.
"Ready?" Spidey asked the goddess.
"Let's go!" Palutena replied.
They both unleash their respective halos and strike a gigantic laser from each side at Loki, forming a huge explosion from their attack. "Did we win?" Pittoo asked. From the smoke, the five of them are painfully lifted by dark electricity as Loki emerges, scathed and angered.
"I think that's a no…!" Weiss replies as they all scream in pain.
'Wait! I'm sensing an outside force, a godlike force gathering power.' Ero said.
"What?! Who is it?!" Spidey asked.
'Can't say, but it's approaching the palace.' He replies.
As Loki relishes to hear the agony of his enemies, he suddenly found himself grabbed when the giant MEDUSA punches through the ceiling of the palace and reels him to her, freeing the heroes from their torture. "Huh?!" Spidey exclaimed.
"Medusa?!" Palutena said in shock. "But…we defeated you! Why are you helping us?!"
"LOKI AND HADES KEEPS REVIVING ME, BUT I WON'T PLAY THE PUPPET ANYMORE!" Medusa crushes Loki with her bare hands in an attempt to kill him, but she underestimated Loki's power as he unleashed a burst of dark energy that severely cripples her, destroying both of her arms in the process. "NO! HOW DARE YOU?!" She growled
"I AM YOUR MASTER, MEDUSA, AND I WILL REVIVE YOU AS MANY TIMES AS I DESIRE! BUT YOU'VE WORN OUT YOUR USEFULNESS!" Loki fires an all-mighty blast from the Nether Stone that swallows her whole and slowly vaporizes her into nothingness.
"By the gods…" Lucina whispered to see Loki be so heartless in killing another being.
Spider-Man growls as he slowly stands up in anger. "You monster! How could you do that?!" He asked the heartless god.
"She was your enemy. Why should you care?" Loki asked him as he descends from the sky.
Slowly, purple flames flicker around the enraged Peter. "All living things deserve to live! I can't allow you to take pleasure in other's executions no more!" He burst into majestic energy as he transformed into Aura Arachnid Mode while wearing the Heaven Arachnid Supreme Armor.
In a flash faster than anyone can comprehend, Spider-Man attacks the god of mischief with a flurry of relentless teleporting punches from all his sides, giving no room for Loki to breath or counterattack. Spidey then flip-kicks him into the air, attacking him with a plethora of aura-fist strikes repeatedly switched with the swift fast attacks of his spider-arms.
"Kneel!" Loki tries to blast Peter but he proved too fast for him, kicking him down with as a bullet from his web slingshot. While Loki's dazed, Spidey jumps into the air, and along with eight clones he created, summons nine Webshurikens each infused with a different element of nature, with two made of light and darkness, using his armor to power them up and throws them all at Loki, causing many huge explosions that almost brought down the whole palace.
BGM End
"Nice shot!" Weiss said to Spidey.
"Gotta love Perfect Synchro." Spidey said.
"Only you would be able to master its power and use it as a force of good. A prime example of humanity's potential." Palutena smiled, then sees Loki burst the smoke clear with his enraged dark power. "Buuut it's still not enough."
"I won't be beaten! Not by a band of mortals and their sorry excuse for a goddess!" Loki snarled.
"That's almost as insulting as calling me an old lady. This ends here, Loki!" Palutena declared.
Back on Earth-616
"GEHGAH!" Hades exclaims as he falls on top of a building, severely weakened and practically beaten by the united mortal heroes led by Sonic and Pit. "HOW COULD YOU…BEAT ME LIKE THIS…!"
"This is as far as you go, Hades! You've lost!" Sonic said.
"Give up now!" Pit said.
Hades chuckles, "IF IT WAS JUST YOU, PITTY PAT, I WOULDN'T BE HAVING SO MUCH TROUBLE…I NEVER IMAGINED THE HUMANS OF THIS WORLD…WERE MORE THAN CAPABLE OF PUSHING ME TO MY LIMIT…"
"Hmph! You got that right!" Hulk said with his arms crossed.
"Can I get the final shot on him?" Hawkeye asked.
'I doubt the arrows from the most "useless human" could kill him.' Viridi mocked the archer.
"Zip it, the kid talking in my head."
'I AM NOT A KID!'
While they bicker, Hades grunts and then teleports out of sight. "Huh? Where did he go?" Johnny Storm asked.
"I think he headed for Asgard." Sonic believed.
"And that is where we go!" Dr. Strange creates a magic portal that leads the heroes to Asgard.
Back on Asgard
The battle between Loki and Spidey's team brought them to the outskirts of the palace as they stand in front of the Rainbow Bridge that leads to the Bifrost. Everyone, including Loki pant heavily after an intense battle using all their might. Suddenly, the trickster god laughs, "I cannot believe it…you have pushed me this far…" He coughs before continuing, "Amazing…There is no other word to describe it…"
"That's kinda my thing." Spidey quipped.
To their notice and the heroes' shock, a weakened and beaten Hades appears out of nowhere next to Loki while Pit's team of heroes walk through a portal to converge with Spidey's. "Hey guys." Pit simply waved while still in Godbuster Mode.
"Johnny?" Spidey is surprised to see his fantastic flaming friend has joined the fight along with some of Earth's mightiest heroes.
"Sup, Spidey." Johnny waves before quickly zipping towards Lucina to flirt. "And you too, Lucy. Missed me?"
"It's nice to see you again, Johnny. We appreciate the help." Lucina smiled, innocently unaware she's being hit on.
Weiss walks in and smacks Johnny's head to the ground to stop him from flirting with the Exalt princess. "Focus on what's in front of you, flame brain." She told him.
BGM-Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 OST-Final Boss Intro
Hawkeye spots Loki and prepares an arrow shot at him. "If it isn't everyone's favorite dork elf. How's taking over the world and failing at it, Loki?" He taunted the trickster god.
"Surrender, Loki," Doc Strange steps forward. "The power you wield is beyond your comprehension! Give us the Nether Stone before it consumes you!" He demanded.
"BAH!" Loki points his spear at the sorcerer. "Your petty concerns won't work on me! The power I wield is MINE to command! I am its master, just like I am to all of you! Hades, finish them!" Loki commands the Underworld partner.
"DON'T YOU SEE MY BRUSIES? I'M HAVING A HARD TIME TO STAND BECAUSE OF MY SPRAINED ANKLE." Hades said.
Loki growls in frustration, "You are USELESS! Fine! I guess there is no other choice! You'll prove more useful to me…AFTER I've absorbed you!" He takes out the Nether Stone from his spear and points it at his useless partner.
Hades laughs, thinking he was joking. "THAT'S A FUNNY JOKE…WAIT, YOU'RE NOT SERIOUS ARE YOU?!" To prove he's serious, Loki slowly disassembles Hades's body into nothing but atoms and slowly absorbs his very essence along with the Nether Stone to his chest. "NO…WAIT…LOKI…WE'RE PALS…WE CAN STILL…WORK SOMETHING…OUT…" Hades screams as he's completely absorbed.
With Hades's power and the Nether Stone fusing with his own soul, Loki unleashes a demonic vortex of dark energy that pierces the sky, possessing enough force to almost blow away the united heroes off the face of Asgard. 'I-I'm sensing something! Something dangerous!' Viridi said.
The energy coming from Loki slowly disappears to reveal he has transformed into a darker version of himself. He now wears a cloak with strange black markings as his whole body has changed to a white and purplish hue. His eyes glow a sinister hot pink. His horn helmet has fused with his head, looking a little more demonic in design, all while his head flares in a demonic red flame similar to Hades's.
BGM End
BGM-Avengers Infinity War OST-Forge
All the heroes look worried as they confront the reborn Loki, Nega-King of Asgard. "This feels wonderful," Loki calmly speaks with some dark echo filter in his voice. "Feast your eyes on your Supreme and Absolute God! May all who oppose FEEL MY WRATH!"
"What just happened?!" Sonic asked.
"He absorbed all the power from the Nether Stone!" Palutena answered, looking extremely worried, close to terrified even.
"Such intense energy! I've never imagined the darkness could evolve into something so sinister, it's unprecedented!" Dr. Strange said.
'It's absurd! He surpassed anything us gods are capable of understanding!' Viridi said.
"Sooo that's bad, right?" Spidey quipped.
Loki raises his hands crazily to the sky, using his absolute dark power to plunge each of the nine realms into chaos, forming natural disasters that could soon put an end to the world. "Now what is he doing?!" Weiss asked.
"Loki's plunging all nine realms into total chaos!" Strange replied.
'Even here! Natural disasters are happening everywhere!' Viridi said as her world is feeling Loki's tremendous power.
"NOT ON MY WATCH!" Hulk roared as he charges at the Nega-King.
"I'm with you, Hulk!" Pit pilots the Great Sacred Treasure and the two power-busting champions attacks Loki with all their might.
Loki calmly stands in place and simply catches their punches with the palm of his hands, surprising Hulk and Pit. "You animalistic creatures have no right to touch a god. That's disrespectful enough to be seen as sin!" From the palm of his hand, Loki annihilates the Great Sacred Treasure, sending an injured Pit back to his friends.
"Ow…" Pit groaned as he holds onto his right arm.
Hulk repeatedly punches Loki with everything he's got, not even able to make him budge as his dark power protects him from his blows. Having played around a for a moment, Loki releases a dark blast so potent at Hulk, it instantly knocked him to the others as his human self, Bruce Banner.
"Dr. Banner?!" Weiss turned to the weakened scientist.
Bruce coughs while lying half-naked, "Oh yeah, we're in trouble now."
"This guy just took out two of our biggest guns without breaking a sweat. Shall I request for a tactical retreat?" Hawkeye quipped.
"I second that." Phosphora said.
"You fools aren't going anywhere!" Loki charges his right hand with malevolent energy and raises it to the air, summoning an army of thousand Mindless Ones that share some resemblances to Hades, mostly the green crazy hair.
"Mindless Ones!" Strange exclaimed.
"Mindless Hades are more like it!" Spidey said as they are forced to fight the massive army of mindless stone warriors.
Dark Pit hops off a Mindless Hades and shoots it from the sky, dropping down to assist Ghost Rider as he whips his flaming chains at more monsters. "They may be beings with no soul, but their strength matches the original." Ghost Rider stated as he breathes fire on some monsters.
"Like one Hades wasn't bad enough!" Pittoo said as he slices his batch of rocky giants.
Hawkeye fires multiple arrows at once for Phosphora to enhance with her electricity, attaching themselves to shock the Mindless Hades before they exploded, but more just arrive to take their place. "More just keep coming! What should we do?!" Hawkeye asked as he continues fighting.
"We'll have to keep fighting until we confront Loki!" Dr. Strange replied, working together with Pit to demolish their green-haired rocky friends.
"This is SO how I not pictured things would turn out!" Pit remarked while attacking with his signature Palutena Bow.
In the air, Spider-Man fires a combination of his webbing and repulsor blasts down at the rock monsters but they've proved sturdy enough to withstand his attacks. "Bruce! We could use a little smashing!" He said while flying over the defenseless Bruce Banner.
"Sorry, Spidey! I seem to be having a thing!" Bruce replied as Loki has somehow blocked his way to transform back to the Hulk.
"No, these are the thing!" Spidey replied while he strikes his foes with his waldoes.
As Bruce was about to get blasted by a Mindless Hades, Palutena steps in and reflect the attack at it. "Stay behind me, Dr. Banner!" She ordered.
"I'll do just that!" Bruce said.
Palutena charges her staff with light and impressively destroys a good chunk of Mindless Hades with a few swings. Still, even the goddess of light can't keep this up forever when she gets blind-sighted by a blast from Loki that slams her head to the ground.
"Lady Palutena!" Lucina charges in to help her but was quickly overwhelmed by Mindless Hades.
Weiss tries to freeze as many monsters as she could before one of them could latch onto her foot and throw across the battlefield. Ultra Sonic boosts through Loki's forces until he was bombarded by Loki's power. Same thing with Spider-Man as he was hit with a powerful attack it forcefully put his armor into reboot and unable to access its divine abilities. "No no no!" Spidey cursed as he struggles with Loki's endless army of rock monsters.
Soon all the available heroes become overwhelmed by the sheer amount of monsters they can't stop, all while Loki laughs at their incompetence from the sky, relishing he has practically won. 'Guys! Don't give up!' Viridi said while watching from the sidelines of her home.
"We can't! There's too many of them! GET THEM OFF!" Bruce retorted as he gets his chance to be overwhelmed by monsters and screams his heart out in agony.
All seems lost, that is, until the Bifrost suddenly activates itself. From the dark skies ray down a beam of rainbow light, slammed smacking down the middle of the army. No one doesn't notice the hammer sparked with electricity fly out of the Bifrost and quickly proceeds to free everyone from their endangered state, killing all the Mindless Hades in its path before it returned to its owner, a silver-armored man with blond hair, wearing a red cape, and sporting a helmet with large wings as he walks out of the Bifrost.
The D-Avengers stand stunned. Part of Earth's heroes look relived to have some powerful backup. And the folks of Pit's world, including Viridi watching, stares in awe at the arrival of their mightiest new ally, a god of thunder who's might seems to know no equal. "HA HA HA! YOU ARE SO SCREWED NOW!" Bruce laughed at Loki.
The God of Mischief, despite his recent power-up, looks terrified to see his step-brother, who he can tell is brimming with anger from his stern eyes alone, looking like he's ready to demolish a whole country.
"LOKIIIIIIIII!" The God of Thunder yelled as he charges at his massive army alone, but he is not scared. No. He makes a mighty leap into the air as he shrouds his body and eyes in lightning so strong it darkens the sky. And with a mighty slam from his hammer, the thunder god absolutely demolishes everything in his sight, obliterating the Mindless Hades army in a single stroke while sending Loki smacking to a building.
BGM End
"He…He…" Pit is left completely stunned from the amazing feat that Avenger did to Loki's army.
'HE JUST ANNIHILATED THE HADES WITH A SINGLE ATTACK!' Viridi exclaimed.
"Wish I could do that…" Phosphora said, still with a stunned look on her face after witnessing lightning that greatly surpasses her own.
"And that's why THOR is the mightiest god there is." Spidey said.
"My friends, are you okay?" Thor asked them.
"We're just peachy…You could've arrived sooner ya know." Hawkeye quipped.
"I was in deep space when I received Spider-Man's message." Thor replied as he walks to meet his friends.
"YOU called him?!" Weiss asked Peter, figuring out it was Thor he called before the final battle.
"You gotta love having a god on speed-dial." Spidey quipped.
Sonic laughs, "Nice!"
"The other Avengers should be arriving on Midgard to quell the damage, leaving us to handle matters here on Asgard. Lady Palutena!" Thor turns to the goddess of light. "Forgive me if my brother having been causing you so much grief over the past week."
'AND ME TOO!' Viridi speaks up.
"Aye, Mistress Viridi. I promise you all he will pay for his crimes on your world." Thor promised.
"It's alright, Thor. Thank you for coming to our aid when we desire it most." Palutena smiled.
"Aye! Now it falls to us to bring balance back to our worlds! AVENGERS ASSEMBLE!" Thor raises his hammer to the sky as it cracks lightning for all of Asgard to see.
BGM-Dragon Ball FighterZ OST-Confrontation
At that climatic moment, Spidey senses Loki about to re-enter the fray. "Heads up, everyone!" He warns his friends to prepare for battle as the Nega King of Mischief lands in front of them, looking quite displeased to see his heroic step-brother have survived his conquest of Asgard.
"Thor! Should've known you would interfere, you barbaric oaf!" Loki said.
"I have been informed of everything, Loki! Do you have ANY idea what your madness has wrought?! All the Nine Realms tremble to collapse if you don't control yourself!" Thor said to his fallen brother.
"I am doing what any good king would do! I'm protecting its people! Correcting the sins our forefathers have started!" Loki argued.
"Protecting?! You're destroying the WORLD! Every living being's in danger because of you! You're no king!" Pit intervened.
"I am a better king than that OAF you stand beside! He lacks the strength to rebuild Asgard as it should be!" Loki retorted.
"I have the strength to stand up for those who cannot stand for themselves! That stone has corrupted your mind, brother! Return it at once! You have made a great discovery. Find it in your heart to do what is right." Thor said in a sincere tone, hoping to regain the brother he lost.
Loki takes a moment to ponder his brother's words before he gives him his answer, "You were ALWAYS the ignorant one, brother." He replied as he insists on staying on the dark path he has walked. Angry, Thor yells as he tries to attack his brother with a hammer swing but Loki dodged out of the way in time.
BGM End
BGM-Transformers Devastation OST-Megatron Theme
"If you want it, you'll have to take me down to get it!" Loki said.
Thor roars his way to battle his fallen brother, clashing their destructive weapons with their absurd godly might it shatters the ground with every attack swung. The god of thunder managed to uppercut his brother to the air, only to be swung away when he tries to follow up with mighty blow. Nano-seconds later, a blue blur zips through Loki multiple times, revealing to be Ultra Sonic as he kicks Loki in the face which mysteriously did some considerable damage to him as evident with the burning smoke emitting from his wound. Spider-Man observed this weird phenomenon before he joins the assault with a flurry combo of attacks using his Spider-Fu. The Nega King smacks the spider away, only for him to reunite with Sonic, Human Torch, and Phosphora for a team attack.
"Here we go!" Spidey said. The four spread out around Loki and unleash an immense volley of energy blasts, forcing the trickster god to his barrier before he unleashing a powerful energy that sends everyone flying, but was quickly met by the thunderous sounds coming from Thor's hammer.
"FOR ASGARD!" Thor yelled as his hammer's electrified and throws it straight at Loki, causing him to impact the ground like a meteorite.
Loki quickly teleports to his feet to block a swing from Lucina. He slowly overpowers her, but then notices her blade start to glow, obviously because of Palutena standing right behind her. The Exalt princess clashes with Loki a few times, unable to deal any damage but was quick to deflect all of his attacks. As he goes for another blow, his throat is tangled by Ghost Rider's chain, giving the Pits to double-team and uppercut the trickster with their respective Arm weapon.
"THAT WON'T BE ENOUGH-!" Loki said before he was shot down by Hawkeye's arrows.
"You should quit talking while you're ahead!" He quipped.
Loki growls as he summons a dark twister that would've enveloped the shocked archer if Dr. Strange didn't use his magic to make it disappear. He and Weiss then team up and collide their power with Loki's but they soon become overpowered. The Nega King laughs as he summons a serpentine made of hellfire and commands it to explode on his enemies, scattering them across the city of Asgard.
Spider-Man is blown back to where Sonic, Pit, and Palutena are barely standing. "His power is too intense…There must be some way to pierce his darkness…" Palutena panted.
"I might have something…During the battle, when Sonic kicked him, it looked like it burn through his skin." Spidey said.
"Yeah. That's what I felt. My attacks seem to have some sort of weird reaction with his power." Sonic replies.
"The Dream Stone. It's powered by the light. The Lightforce. We can use its power to cleanse the darkness." Pit deduced.
"Yes. Sonic. Transfer your power to Palutena." Spidey ordered.
"Huh? Why?" Palutena responded, a bit shock he chose her.
"You're the expert controlling light, oh goddess of light." Peter said.
Palutena nods and understands what she must do, "Okay. Sonic. Share your power with me."
"Here you go!" Sonic transfers some of his lightforce energy into Palutena's, altering her appearance slightly to have golden flowing hair and a golden halo behind her back. "Now you're a super goddess of light," He grinned. "Let's not forget about you, kid." He then grants Pit a new rainbow bow created from the Dream Stone. "Here's your Ultima Bow. Hope you like it."
Holding onto his new bow tight, Pit fires a single light arrow that explodes into a hundreds, all possessing tremendous homing capabilities as they strike at Loki while he was dealing with Phosphora and Dr. Strange. "Like it? I LOVE IT!" Pit exclaimed.
Loki turns at Pit and growls in anger, "You will pay for that!"
"I don't think so." Palutena unleashes her new golden power and fires a massive beam from her staff at Loki, sending him flying through multiple buildings. "Oooo. I can get used to this. I wonder what else I can do?" She turns to Bruce Banner while he hides since his transformation has been cut off by Loki. "Dr. Banner?" She calls out to him.
"Huh?" Banner turns to her and as he does, Palutena surprises him with her warm light, just enough to break whatever curse Loki has placed in his soul to allow him to turn back into the Incredible Hulk. "Yeah-ha! Thanks lady!" Hulk smiled.
"You're welcome, Hulk. Now smash!" Palutena ordered.
Hulk makes a huge leap through the air, releasing a monstrous roar that got Loki surprised the green beast has returned. Hulk smacks his fists on the trickster, sending him flying a thunder clap from his hands. Loki's flung through the air last a short while as he's soon dragged across the ground by Ghost Rider. He escapes through his dark magic but was too slow to block a brutal knee to the chest from Ultra Sonic. The god of mischief roars, placing his hand to the ground to form dark deadly ice that covers the perimeter. Johnny Storm decided to go all-out, releasing a supernova that melts the ice, allowing the girls of the party strike at Loki while he's down. Dr. Strange comes in with mystic power of his own, distracting Loki for a chance for Pittoo to get some shots in. Pit uses his Ultima Bow to transform into various other weapons he's used to like clubs and claws, using all of them to his advantage to overwhelm the trickster before Spidey webs him up and throws him to a mighty swing from Thor's unstoppable hammer, grinding him through the ground in pain.
BGM End
'YES! How did you like THAT, Loki?' Viridi remarked cockily.
"It's OVER, Loki!" Thor declared.
"I AM THE ALL-FATHER! I AM ON THE CUSP OF VICTORY! I WILL NOT LET YOU OR ANYONE ELSE CRUSH MY DREAM!" Desperate, and with little choice left, Loki uses his magic to protrude a giant tree that was living somewhere in Odin's palace bust open, forcing it to grow higher and higher into space. He then uses the power of the Nether Stone to shoot a dark blast at the tree, slowly corrupting it.
"Yggdrasil!" Thor exclaimed.
"The what?" Weiss asked.
"The Tree of Life that supports the Nine Realms! If it becomes corrupted, all life in the universe is lost!" Thor quickly explains.
"Okay. Now THAT'S bad." Spidey quipped.
"Hurry! Spider-Man! Sonic! Lady Palutena! With me!" Thor flies up to the Tree of Life.
"Yeah!" Sonic flies up along with Spider-Man and Palutena.
"Viridi! I want to help too!" Pit said.
'On it! Activating the power of flight!' Viridi grants Pit to fly so he can join his friends to the Tree of Life.
Loki stands in frustration as he watches his annoying adversaries try to stop his plans again. "THOOOOOOR!" He yelled as he flies up to space, leaving behind an army of Mindless Hades for the rest of the heroes to deal with.
High above the realm of Asgard, the darkness from the Nether Stone slowly corrupts the tree, spreading its darkness throughout universe. The people of Spider-Man's world is running from the darkness slowly consuming the planet. The same reaches onto Pit's world as well, as evident with Viridi looking worried of her beloved nature blackening. With everything at risk of total annihilation, Spider-Man's team are closing in on the tree of life at the edge of space to put a stop to Loki's schemes once and for all. "We have to use the Dream Stone to cleanse the Tree of Life!" Palutena explained.
"Okay!" Spidey replied until his spider-sense rang to a dark barrier in front of them, quickly revealing Loki as he collides his spear with Thor's hammer, erupting a powerful blast from their clash that pushes everyone back from each other.
"I WILL not let you take victory AWAY FROM ME!" Loki declared.
Intending to finish this quickly, Spider-Man surrounds him in a web cocoon, finalizing himself and Ero into one being, busting out as the Legendary Totem Berserker, Shin Black Ace for the final battle. "Face us then, "god"! You've rambled on LONG enough!" Shin Spider-Man said.
BGM-Transformers Devastation OST-Final Battle
"Why must you ALWAYS interfere?!" Loki asked as fires thousands of dark arrows at his increasingly annoying mortal and god enemies.
"You would place Asgard at the center of the universe!" Thor retorted, releasing a mighty windstorm that dispels all arrows, flying over with brutal swings on Loki before Black Ace Spidey zips in and dominates the trickster using Speed Break, bombards him with hyper-fast punches, ending with two black hole Webshurikens that almost absorbed him before he cast it out with his power.
"Asgard is the center of MY universe! HOW IS IT NOT THE HEART OF YOURS?!" Loki yelled as he unleashes multiple dark waves.
"Asgard…is about ALL life," Thor replies as he avoids Loki's attacks. "Destruction…just to keep the gods safe! WE NEED HUMANITY SO WE CAN ALL SURVIVE!"
"HUMANITY IS THE PLAUGE FOR ALL DESTRUCTION," Loki retorts as he summons the souls of the undead to blitz Sonic and Palutena repeatedly. "Their wars! The way they abuse the knowledge we gave them to discreet life and eventually overcome us!" He continues as he smacks Pit and Spidey with his spear. "You've seen the worse of humanity from the likes of Dr. Doom and Norman Osborn! You're defending a disease that cannot be controlled! I will restore Asgard, destroy humanity, and retake the universe!"
"That ambition will be your end!" Thor unleashes a humongous beam of lightning at his brother that sent him flying to Spider-Man's direction, as he transforms into Red Joker and punches him dead-center in the face.
"I am born from a mortal and god fused together! That PROVES we can both exist on the same plane!" Spidey argued.
"You're just an anomaly!" Loki retorted.
"And you're a monster!"
"We both are!" Loki launches Spidey back with a darkforce blast.
"At least he's not destroying all life!" Pit unleashes a barrage of rainbow arrow shots that damages Loki. "You say mortals bring destruction, but look around! You're the one trying to end everything and everyone!"
"I'm only killing the mortals!" Loki argued.
"But like Thor said, we need each other to survive! Humans are the only ones with "heart" and believe in the gods! They're the only ones who RESPECT the gods!" Pit argued.
"You're not even a god! You're just a simple angel!" Loki retorted as he fires dark lightning at Pit but he flies away from it.
"I'm not just an angel! I AM AN AVENGER!" Pit fires a large charge shot at Loki, flinging him through the sky.
"WE ALL ARE!" Palutena twirls her staff and fires her Palutena Glam Blaster that overwhelms Loki, hurling him to where Thor swings his hammer on Sonic in his curled-up state and bats him.
"GET A LOAD OF THIS MORTAL-GOD TEAM ATTACK!" Sonic grinned as rams into Loki with all his power, flinging him to Red Joker Spider-Man's Crimson Solar Breaker, enveloping Loki in his gigantic earth-breaking blast.
"You're able…to match my power…but I'm the All-Father…?" Loki said, surprised. "But no matter. Behold, Avengers! A new age in the cosmos is about to be born!" He said as the darkness spewing from the Tree of Life slowly overtakes the universe.
"No, you are only destroying the cosmos, not creating!" Thor said.
"You don't really believe that, do you?" Loki asked.
"It is the only thing I am sure I believe. YOU MUST BE STOPPED!" Thor said.
Loki laughs madly, "You're welcome to try."
"It would be our pleasure!" Spidey said.
While he, Thor, and Pit keep Loki busy, Sonic and Palutena rush to the root of the Tree of Life to cure it. "What now?" Sonic asked the goddess.
"Transfer all your power! Now!" Palutena instructed.
Using the full power of the Dream Stone, Sonic and Palutena transfer their light energy into the Tree of Life. From the root, light and life starts to envelop the sacred tree, cleansing it of the Darkforce entirely, thus saving the universe from being overwhelmed from its corruptive magic.
"NO! IMPOSSIBLE!" Loki exclaimed after witnessing what they've accomplished. He turns up only get pummeled from a combined attack from Pit and Black Ace Spider-Man, hurling him back to the surface of Asgard. "It can't be…A god losing to mortals…This cannot happen…I am the All-Father…! I am the king of the divine…I control what will and shall be…The ultimate, supreme, absolutely powerful god, Loki-!"
"GOT YA!" Hulk smashes his fist to Loki's face, flinging him through the air until he hit the ground.
"DAMN MORTAAALLLLLS!" Loki yelled.
"Oh just give it a rest!" Weiss dashes in with a few good swipes on Loki after freezing his legs, then allows Lucina to perform a brutal upward slash that launches Loki into the air.
Covered in wounds and bruises, Loki growls at those that have pushed him to his limits. Before he could do anything however, he unexpectedly starts to lose control over his power. "What?!" He said before he feels his body glowing red.
Thor and Palutena notices this and decides this is the time to end it. "Heavenly Light!" Palutena shines a ray of light above Loki. Meanwhile, Thor twirls his hammer and calls out Spider-Man's name.
"SPIDER-MAN!" He tosses his hammer at Loki and Palutena's light while Black Ace Spider-Man follows it.
"HRAAAAGH!" He roars as he thrust his right fist forward, unleashing his Arachnid Fist and combines it with Mjolnir's lightning to transform his spider avatar into a lightning spider. Using Palutena's Heavenly Light as a tunnel, Spider-Man pierces through Loki, coming out of the other side with the Nether Stone in hand. "DO IIIIIIIIT!" He yells at Pit and Sonic to deliver the final blow while Loki's stunned.
Ultra Sonic materializes a cannon similar to the one from the Great Sacred Treasure. "It's time for our final smash!" He tosses the gun to Pit as he injects himself into the socket as a ball to charge it up with his unlimited light power.
"I fight for all creatures living and breathing. I fight for all departed souls still hanging in limbo. I fight for all nine realms! But most of all, I fight for Lady Palutena, the goddess of light! And it's in all their names that I will crush you, god of mischief! WE WON'T LOSE TO SOMEONE WHO BELIEVES IN NOTHING BUT HIMSELF!" Pit said.
"NOW! FIRE!" Everyone tells Pit.
Pit screams, shooting a smiling Ultra Sonic as a massive rainbow energy blast-enveloped projectile to counter Loki's power, who uses all the available magic he still possesses in an effort to block the attack but it quickly becomes in vain as it slowly overwhelms him. "I-I-Impossi…ble! This…can't…be…HAPPENINNNNNNG!" Loki screams as he's then completely engulfed by their final strike, defeating the fallen god while simultaneously erasing Hades's soul that slept within him from existence.
Spidey hovers beside the massive beam that seemingly ended Loki. "That's the end of your idle chatter, Loki. Your reign…was too dark." He punned.
BGM End
Sonic drops down to the ground, completely devoid of energy as he turns back to his normal form. Pit pants as he stares at the distance, giving it a victorious peace sign. "VICTORY!" He cheered. He feels Spider-Man's hand on his shoulder, having just transformed back into his normal costume as well. The two exchange fist-bumps before they notice a depowered Loki lying weakened and beaten in a crater.
"Quickly, Spider-Man," Thor descends down behind him along with Palutena. "Release the prisoners trapped in the Nether Stone!"
Peter nodded and tries to activate the Nether Stone, but for some reason it won't respond, "Huh?"
"What's wrong?" Pit asked.
"I can't activate it! It won't let me!" Peter said, shocking everyone that the Nether Stone is useless.
'What?! Why not?!' Viridi asked.
"Loki, what have you done…!" Thor asked his beaten adopted brother.
"One last failsafe…In order to free the souls trapped in the Nether Stone…" Loki then chuckles, "You must destroy it."
"But…if we destroy the Nether Stone…" Weiss began.
"The explosion will destroy the universe." Palutena finished.
Loki laughs as they now understand the situation is hopeless for them, "Correct. YOU hold the fate of the gods and mortals in your hands, Spider-Man."
"You got that right, Loki," Spidey starts as he turns his back towards him, "And I'm smart enough to make the right decision." He envelops the hand holding the Nether Stone with his purple aura and starts to clench it.
"Wait! You're not…!" Loki gasped as Spidey smirks behind his mask, clenching onto the Nether Stone that it unleashes a powerful energy into the sky. A mighty storm of souls rains down on all Nine Realms, including Pit's world. All the mortals whose souls have been captured are either laid to rest or return to their bodies. The gods of Asgard return back to normal after being corrupted. Odin's soul returns to its body, instantly waking him up. And even Grimadoom the Hedgehog has returned back to life, finding himself on Asgard and wonders how he got there.
"Wait! We're not dead?!" Dark Pit asked as they see they are still alive and the Nether Stone is still intact.
"Perfect Synchro, of course," Dr. Strange figured out what Spider-Man has accomplished, "The Nether Stone can only be activated by one consumed by darkness. But through Perfect Synchro, as a master of the light AND darkness, Spider-Man was able to access its power and release the imprisoned souls."
"You could've told us you were doing that! You almost gave me a heart attack!" Weiss shouted at Spidey, making him chuckle.
"What have you done?!" Loki asked Spidey.
"…All life, both mortals and gods, we all decide our own fate." Spidey answered.
Loki pounds his fist angrily to the ground, having his own grand plan ruined by the teamwork between mortals and gods, "This can't be happening! I've been outmatched! Outsmarted by a MERE mortal!"
"He is no mere mortal," Palutena walks up beside Peter, "He is the Marvelous Spider-Man, the greatest of ALL mortals!"
"Aye," Thor walks up beside him as well, "You do well to remember that, brother."
"Why should I care?!" Loki asked as he stands up. "He is beneath me! ALL OF YOU ARE BENEATH ME! I am a god, you ignorant fools, and I will not be ridiculed by-!" Loki's suddenly grabbed by the leg from the Hulk as he repeatedly, brutally slams him to the ground a few times, looking at him for a second before slamming him again a couple more times before tossing him to his crater.
Everyone is stunned and stares silently at the Hulk as he walks past them saying, "Puny god," while they hear a faint squeal coming from Loki's broken body.
While everyone is distracted, a black blur swipes the Nether Stone out of Spider-Man's hand as he repeatedly touches his hand before figuring out it disappeared. "Huh?!" Everyone turns around to see the revived Grimadoom have stolen the Nether Stone as he hovers in the sky.
"Grimadoom?" Sonic said, surprised he's back.
Grimadoom winks at them, "Ciao," before he teleports out of sight with the Nether Stone.
"He got away with the Nether Stone." Lucina said.
Spidey sighs, "Let's hope Dr. Doom doesn't have plans for some soul-searching soon." He quipped.
Loki tries to stand up through his broken body, but halfway through he is dreadfully confronted by the full force of Asgard's revived warriors, including Heimdall, the Warriors Three, and Lady Sif, all led by the true All-Father himself, Odin. "LOKI!" Odin shouted.
"Father!" Thor said happily.
"I can tell somebody's in trouble." Pit smirked.
Odin uses his all-powerful Odinforce to mentally ties up his mischievous son in his magic to bring him closer, "LONG have I ignored your mischief, Loki. But this is not mere trickery. This is evil. I gave you everything. I made you my son. And THIS is how you repay me?!"
"You deserve a thousand times worse. I was going to save the gods! Make up for your failure for protecting Asgard! Return it to its glory days! So go ahead! Exile me! I will never stop!" Loki said, always declaring he'll never stop being evil and will always come back to do whatever it takes to steal the throne from Odin.
"If you thought all the previous prisons I left you in were torment…" Odin's eyes start to glow pure white, "…you don't know the meaning of the word." Through the Odinforce, Odin envelops Loki in a bright light as he's teleported to an unknown realm nobody really wants to know.
Odin's Palace
Inside the royal palace, all of the Asgardians come together to congratulate the heroes that have saved them all from Loki's wrath. Thor, Palutena, even Viridi shows up as they step forward to greet Odin below his throne. "My son. Lady Palutena. Mistress Viridi. I cannot thank you enough for saving Asgard in its time of need. You have freed us. It was the right choice inviting you to the council, Lady Palutena." Odin said to his fellow gods.
While she loves the praise, Palutena shakes her head from Odin's words, "No, All-Father. We barely did anything at all. It was the D-Avengers and their mortal allies that saved us all. Through their will and courage, all the Nine Realms have been saved from Loki and Hades." She said as she gestures her hand to the united mortal heroes of their dimensions.
"Aye. I wouldn't have come if they didn't call me." Thor said to his father.
"Eh. They did okay." Viridi said.
"I see…" Odin smiles as he walks up to the teenage heroes that saved his and everyone's life in the universe. "You mortals never cease to surprise me. You will forever have Asgard's utmost respect. TO THE MIGHIEST HEROES IN THE NINE REALMS! HAIL D-AVENGERS!"
"HAIL D-AVENGERS! HAIL D-AVENGERS!" The Asgardians cheered for their mortal saviors, with Palutena and Thor clapping while Viridi simply crosses her arms, but with a small smile on her face.
"Ah-hah! Yeah! So this is what it's like to be an Avenger! We saved every living thing! Everywhere!" Pit said.
"Not too bad, Icarus. Not too bad." Spidey patted his surrogate younger brother on his shoulder as they share a smile with each other.
KFX Here: Hope you enjoyed this incredible chapter. What was your favorite moment of this final battle? Stay tuned for the epilogue and what will be next after this story.
