[Young Justice: Doom & Rebirth]
by Spaceman
Start: Split from Chapter 37
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There will be no Revisions. If the early chapters make you cringe, don't read them.
This is chapter 38, but I'm currently writing the Last Chapter/Epilogue (46).
Each Chapter is more than 10K long, but many being over 20K.
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Animorphs? I watched Season 1 on YTV back when I was 18. Never read the books.
Broly? Loved the movies – original, abridged, and super.
Saitama? Saitama is a shonen hero at the end of their story stuck at the beginning. He's like if child Goku from the original Dragonball has the "Super Saiyan Ultra-Instinct God Mode" from wherever Toriyama had stops makes Dragonball merchandise. So, maybe.
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My Adventures with Superman? Haven't watched it, yet. Maybe I'll check it out.
*DOOM*
Chapter 38 – FATE NO MORE.
Part 2
*DOOM*
Recap – Rorschach, Ash, and Ash's wives travel to Fate-Unversed Earth to stop it from parasitically infecting the DR Multiverse. To complete the Gamer Quest "Fate no More", they are Summoning Servants of their own.
*DOOM*
Chaldea Security, Antarctica
Cognito Summoning Day 5 – Starfire
1POV
Starfire already possessed a Servant in the form of hybrid Saber-Adam – a fusion of the feared Director of the Burial Agency Narbareck and the terrorist leader Adam Taurus of the world of Remnant. When she activates her summoning, the tattoo-like markings on her arm reappear (they were hidden by Raven's magic) and a summoning circle appears. The magic seal is orange-and-white circle with a distinctive star and fire theme
[Summoning in Progress]
A soul of the world of Remnant appears in the form of female Bengal Tiger based Faunus standing 183cm (6'0). She has amber eyes, dark complexion and wild black, chin-length hair with an asymmetrical bob style. Her Faunus animal trait is manifested as an extra pair of ears, and her body is adorned with numerous tattoos resembling tiger stripes. She wears four golden earrings on three of her ears, one each on her Human ears, and two on her left Faunus ear as well as a small jewel on her forehead.
She wears a form-fitting dark gray sleeveless top with white trim, the top has a large diamond cut out of the back exposing most of her back accompanied by a smaller diamond-shaped cutout just above her breasts. A long gray skirt with white accents that shaped inwards towards her calves allowing from them to partially revealed them and her over the knee black stockings with golden trim alongside two long splits on the side which revealed a pair of black shorts.
Her weapon of choice is a six-foot chain whip ending in detachable blades known as the Cerebrus Whip. Very similar to a rope dart type weapon.
"I am the Tiger of the White Fang, I am the Rider of Remnant, I am Sienna Kahn. If you fight oppression, I will stand by your side."
[Sienna Kahn, 5-Star, Rider of Remnant]
The White Fang is a Faunus organization in Remnant. Founded following the Faunus Rights Revolution, the White Fang was initially a peaceful activist organization created to improve relations between Humans and Faunus (the world of Remnant's animal people) and improve the civil rights of the latter. It was original led by the pacifist Ghira Belladonna, but after humans attempted to kill the White Fang, a new leader rose. Sienna was the High Leader of the White Fang that transformed the organization into a terrorist organization, willing to use violence to both defend themselves and strike at those that would oppress them. She was killed by the extremist Adam Taurus, who usurped her role after covering up her murder, claiming that a Human Huntsman attacked and killed her. Thankfully, after Adam's defeat the White Fang returned to his original form (Rebuild).
"What kind of skills does she have?"
"[Protection of Aura] boosts her stats, especially Defense. [Grudge] boosts her Stats when targeting opponents with deceased De-Buffs. She also has [Indominable] - the Upgrade from Battle Continuation. Her [Magic Resistance] is also way higher than average for a Rider."
"Is that a cat girl?" asks Jack.
"Yes, that's a Tiger girl." I reply, while Sienna looks a little awkward. "Sienna Kahn, welcome a world more messed up than Grimm-infested Remnant."
"Sienna Kahn. Why does that name sound so familiar." asks Raven.
"Many of residents of Remnant have names that allude to fictional and mythical characters in this world and our world. In Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book – a human boy named Mowgli is raised by wolves and has adventures. One of his allies Bagheera the Panther and one of his enemies is Shere Kahn the Tiger."
"There is a human child on Menagerie, a girl called Rana, whose being raised by a Wolf Faunus couple. I was against the adoption, but Ghira overruled me on the issue. She eventually left to join Shade Academy in Vacuo." says Sienna, looking a little weirded out, "Last I heard she was on the same team as a party-loving Bear Faunus."
"Mowgli and Rana both mean Frog, so it is a case gender bender. Also, the Bear would be Baloo?"
"Yes."
"Don't be too embarrassed. Blake's teammates are based on Little Riding Hood, Snow White, and Goldilocks – a little girl that gets eaten by a lecherous wolf, a girl that nearly chokes to death on a poison apple given to her by a stranger, and girl that nearly gets eaten by bears by being a thief. As for Blake, her tale is Beauty and the Beast, with Adam being a failure of a Prince."
"I will admit my failures." says Saber-Adam.
Sienna takes one look at the gender bent Adam Taurus...
*Thump*
… and faints.
*Doom*
After Sienna Kahn has awakened from her "loss of consciousness". She moves to another part of the chamber, far away from her former ally/murderer turned disturbingly hot woman.
*Doom*
Cognito Summoning Day 6 – Blackfire
Blackfire's summoning ritual is almost identical to Starfire's own ritual, but a palette swap. The same tattoo-like marking appears on Blackfire's opposite arm and instead of white-and-orange, the magic was black-and-purple. I also notice the magical seal is a mirror image of Starfire's own, left and right reversed.
[Summoning in Progress]
The woman is a slender and well-endowed woman of average height of 156 cm (5'1½"). She has dark skin, golden irises, and black hair. Her hair is waist-length and kept in a ponytail with chin-length bangs framing the sides of her face. Her standard attire consists of a black, backless, sleeveless undershirt, an orange over-shirt with two white straps on each shoulder, a large beige sash around her waist, and black stretch pants with a pair of lightweight brown shoes, which allow for stealth
"The motives may be completely different, but in the end, we have the same desire to protect something. Let us make a contract, I am the Assassin Yoruichi."
[Yoruichi Shihōin, 5-Star Assassin]
Yoruichi Shihōin is the former captain of the 2nd Division of the Gotei 13, as well as the former commander of the Onmitsukidō. Her Lieutenant was Marenoshin Ōmaeda. Having abandoned her command of both positions, she works with Kisuke Urahara and Tessai Tsukabishi, based in the Urahara Shop out in the Human World.
"A BLEACH character."
"BLEACH?" asks the former Captain.
"The History of one world is the story of another and your world's story is focused on your favorite orange-haired Substitute Shinigami."
"Ichigo. I can imagine his biographical story would be exciting. Was I featured?"
"As the cool mentor, but since it was a Shonen anime they couldn't show everything."
As I talk to Yoruichi, Rorschach and Starfire learn that her Personal Skills.
Transformation – Yoruichi possesses the unique ability to shape-shift into a black cat at will.
Shunshin - Shunpo (Flash Steps) is a movement technique which allows the user to move faster than the eye can follow. Yoruichi is the fastest earning her the title of Shunshin (Flash Goddess).
Hakuda - Yoruichi is a master of Shinigami hand-to-hand combat, which is called Hakuda (White Hits). Her most famous technique being Raiōken (Thunder King Fist) - A Hakuda technique involving a series of ultra-high-speed punches delivered using both arms and can crack the strongest defense.
Shunkō - (Flash War Cry): An advanced technique which combines Hakuda with Kidō. This technique surrounds her back and arms with pressurized Kidō based on the element of lightning.
"So, when did the Ichigo's story end?"
"A little after the Thousand Year Blood War." I replied, "There was an epilogue to show his and Orihime's son Kazui meeting Renji and Rukia's daughter Ichika. There was a one-shot chapter celebrating the Blood War finally getting an anime release."
[Summoning in Progress]
Anyone familiar with the character Yoruichi is also familiar with the newest summon.
He is a tall (183 cm/6'0"), lean-built man with messy blonde hair, light skin and gray eyes. He's wearing a baggy black jacket with white diamond patterns at the bottom, a green shirt, and a baggy pair of pants. His most notable accessories are his traditional wooden sandals, striped fisherman's hat, and cane. This outfit earns him the title of "old man", but in reality, he like Yoruichi is a shinigami (death god) that has lived for centuries.
"Caster has been summoned. So, what do you want with plain old candy-store owner?"
Though usually a laid-back, optimistic, jovial, pleasant and eccentric man, Urahara shows a deceptively cunning and serious side when the situation warrants it.
[Kisuke Urahara, 5-Star, Caster]
Kisuke Urahara is the former captain of the 12th Division of the Gotei 13 (13 Divisions Imperial Guards), as well as the founder and 1st President of the Technological Development Department. They were the division that handled scientific research and technological developments in the afterlife known as the Soul Society. They were responsible for the creation of communicators, Gigai (artificial bodies) so they could operate in the human world, artificial souls that could pilot the Gigai when they are not using them, and various medicines.
Kisuke was exiled/escaped to the human world after he was framed for the Visored experiments in which several Shinigami were forcibly given the powers of their enemies the monstrous evil spirits known as Hollows. Yoruichi helped him escape with the subjects, and they planned against the true villain Sōsuke Aizen, while running a candy-shop/shinigami supply store.
"No real choice, just the luck of the draw. The Summoning system is set up like a Gacha and she got you. I don't know if I should call that Good Luck or Bad Luck." I say to Hat-and-Clogs.
"Ouch. So, who are you?"
"Your summoner's husband and the world's scariest monster."
Kisuke leans closer to my surprise and pulls out a weird little sensor device from his baggy clothing. He looks a little wide eyed at the readings.
"Fascinating. A soul whose strength is incalculable housed in a body whose durability exceeds known limitations. Mayuri would probably cry about not being able to perform a vivisection."
I have Soul Manipulation as a Skill. As the Quincy proved, it's not a good idea to have everything from the people to the buildings made of spirit particles. That combined with me literally being a walking, talking Gate of Hell, I could probably rip the entire Soul Society apart without even touching it.
"I would love to tear that clown-faced mad scientist apart. Seriously, what is up with his increasingly stupid headgear. We saw in the anime, after he reformed from his fight with Ishida, he's actually attractive minus having no ears."
"I think he just likes freaking people out." says Kisuke
*Doom*
Cognito Summoning Day 7 – Priss
When Priss activates her Summoning, I notice something strange. The tattoo-like markings resemble a mixture of chains and thorny vines and extend from her fingertips to her back. They and the seal glow a pink-purple light. The magical seal is also very different resembling a spiral composed of feathered wings and serrated blades. The symbol in the center resembles two diamonds connected at points with a line going through them and the end cut off slightly. I recognize it as the Brand of Sacrifice from Berserk.
A spiral of light rises from the magical circle and bursts apart like a flower to reveal a new Servant.
A beautiful dark-skinned woman standing 165cm (about 5.41 ft) with black eyes and long black hair. She is wearing an orange tunic with a steel Cuirass, dark brown leggings, and leather shoes. She also wears leather gloves and a helmet with a single long feather. She is carrying a sword that marks her as a swordswoman.
"I am Casca of the Band of the Falcon and Wife of the Black Swordsman. I offer my sword to break the Illusions of the World."
[Casca, 3-Star, Saber]
Casca was once a simple peasant girl of a poor village. When she was twelve her parents sent her off to work as a maid for noble, only for the noble to attempt to rape her. She was saved and given a sword by Griffith so she could take revenge. She joined his Band of the Falcon - Mercenary band assembled to pursue Griffith's dream of acquiring his own kingdom. Her life was forever changed when she encountered Guts – the man who would become Griffith's counterpart, the legendary Hunter Man Slayer, and her lover. Her life was changed again, when a crippled Griffin used the Crimson Behelit to sacrifice the Band of the Falcon to become the fifth God Hand angel Femto. Her mind was broken during the Eclipse due to the branding of her soul, her rape by Femto, and the death of her friends and comrades. She would only regain her mind with the help of the Elves and efforts of Guts and her friends.
Riding and Magic Resistance are standard for a Saber.
Fairy Eyes (Yōseigan) are eyes with which fairies can see through lies. These are not Mystic Eyes that humans possess but are rather a type of vision that fairies are born with that allows them to "alter worlds."
Protection of Spirits is a Blessing of the Elementals, the capacity to increase one's LUCK in dangerous situations.
Fate Eclipsed is unique Blessing in that surviving a destined Death has granted Fate Immunity - the user is immune and free from every fate or predestination. Any attempt to predict her future, alter her luck, or curse her with death will fail.
[Summoning in Progress]
The second summoning is not triggered by Priss, but automatic. I have a funny feeling I know who is about to be summoned.
The Second Servant is tall muscular man standing 204cm (6'8) and covered in menacing black armor. As the armor retracts it reveals a man with one brown left eye and short, spiked, black hair in a crew cut. He also has numerous scars which I know extend to cover his entire body. He's missing his right eye and left forearm, with the latter replaced by a metal prosthesis.
"I hate the weak, so you better be strong. I will crush our enemies as long as you don't betray me."
[Guts, 5-Star, Berserker]
Guts has one of the darkest stories in all of anime. After a brutal massacre, Guts was born from the corpse of his mother who had been hanging from a tree. He was adopted by the whore of a wandering band of mercenaries, but she later died of the plague. He was raised by his adopted father who subjected him to every abuse, from brutalizing him during training to pimping him to a pedophiliac teammate. He began carrying huge heavy swords as security blankets. He only found a brief time of happiness when he joined the Band of the Falcon led by Griffith and eventually found love with Casca. Unfortunately, when Guts intended to leave the Band with Casca to find a dream of his own, an upset Griffith made a mistake while emotionally compromised. Griffith was imprisoned and tortured to the point of being crippled. To achieve his goal, he sacrificed the Band of the Falcon. In the process, Guts was branded, maimed, and forced to watch his former best friend turned demon king rape his lover in a pool of blood. Since the Eclipse, Guts has dedicated himself to finding a killing Griffith/Femto as brutally as possible while fighting demons attracted by the branding. Guts did find some redemption in a band of close friends on a Quest to restore Casca's lost mind.
Priss sends me Guts stats.
Mad Enhancement (EX) - Guts will do anything to win. It doesn't matter if his opponents are normal soldiers, demonic Apostles, the Angels of an Evil, or a God itself. He will endure any pain for the Vengeance and within the Armor, his inhibitions are gone.
Guts like his beloved Casca, also possesses the Fate Eclipsed from surviving the Eclipse in which he and all members of the Band of the Falcon were destined to die.
Battle Continuation (EX) is due to Guts surviving the impossible. He's fought Gods and Demons that could easily turn most humans to mush and somehow survived. Thousands of stone-hard superhuman punches, strikes from supersonic giant moth monster, and impaled through the face.
Phantasmal Slayer (EX) - Due to his eclipsed Fate and the demon-blood-soaked Dragon-Slayer Sword, he can harm all Phantasmal Species be they monstrous, phantasmal, or divine in Rank. Even Dragon Kind are vulnerable.
*Doom*
The last of Priss's Three Summons is not like the other two. While the other two were a battle couple from a medieval dark fantasy world, the third is a handsome man dressed in a modern suit. The symbol at the center of the summoning was also not the Brand of Sacrifice, but Roman Numerals "VII"
Facially, the man resembles the composer, singer and actor Hoagy Carmichael. He's 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) in height and 76 kg (168 lb) in weight, with a slim build. He has blue-grey eyes and short black hair. He also has a 3 in (76 mm) long, thin vertical scar on his right cheek and a "cruel" mouth. He's dressed in a white shirt, black pants, and black shoes with a black tie and jacket. He's also wearing sunglasses and carrying a Walther PPK.
"Bond. James Bond."
[James Bond, 4-Star, Assassin]
Commander James Bond CMG RNVR is a character created by the British journalist and novelist Ian Fleming in 1953. He is the protagonist of the James Bond series of novels, films, comics and video games. Fleming wrote twelve Bond novels and two short story collections. His final two books—The Man with the Golden Gun (1965) and Octopussy and The Living Daylights (1966)—were published posthumously.
The character is a Secret Service agent, code number 007, residing in London but active internationally. Bond was a composite character who was based on a few commandos whom Fleming knew during his service in the Naval Intelligence Division during the Second World War, to whom Fleming added his own style and several of his own tastes.
James Bond is an iconic character of the modern spy. A charismatic man who plays the part of a wealthy man enjoying fast cars, faster women, and martinis, but also possesses an arsenal of gadgets disguised as mundane objects.
"Presence Concealment, Independent Action, Marksmanship A++, Espionage A++, and Gadget Intuition A++" says Rorschach, "Impressive as always, Double-O."
"I have and always been at the top of my class." says the British Spy, in both a charming and arrogant manner.
There have been seven actors that have played James Bond. Following Sean Connery's portrayal, David Niven, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig assumed the role. Other than Sean Connery, I am more familiar with Pierce Brosnan's portrayal due to re-runs and the Simpsons using him during one of their Treehouse of Horror specials. According to Dominic Noble, the animated spy Archer is actually more accurate to the Bond of the book.
Bond could be very useful since Cognito Inc has gadgets that would make Q spit blood in envy.
"I have one question." asks Priss, "Why do you want Vesper Martini's shaken not stirred? Shaking a Martini makes it more watered down and cloudy. For Martini drinkers, those are both bad."
"Sometimes it's to make it seem I'm a rich fool, full of himself. Sometimes I secretly add something to my drink to counter the alcohol or a drug. Sometimes, it's just a bad habit."
*DOOM*
Cognito Summoning Day 8 – Max
Max's Summoning is completely different than Priss's "Heaven and Hell" Summoning. While her sister's markings were thorny vines of chaotic hell and the binding chains of heavenly order, Max's markings look more like branching tree limbs. The summoning circle also appears to be composed of interwoven lines with a Valknut (a symbol consisting of three interlocked triangles) at its center. Also, while Priss's symbol glowed pink-purple, Max's symbol glowed a blue-violet color.
A sphere of light rises from the circle, grows, and blooms like a lotus flower to reveal Max's First Servant.
A beautiful female warrior standing 160 cm (5'2) with gold eyes, dark brown skin, and shoulder-length bright red hair. She is dressed in gold decorated green clothing out of a Thousand and One Arabian Nights, but I recognize the sword and shield marked with the Triforce symbol. The beautiful pale gold-manned brown horse is also iconic.
"..."
She is also the first Servant without an introduction.
[Link of the Gerudo, 4-Star, Rider]
[Epona, 5-Star, Mount]
The Legendary Hero of Time. Long ago, the Demon King Demise was defeated by the Hero and the Princess, and he cursed them to be haunted by his rage. Generation after Generation, the Hero Link and the Princess fought against reincarnation of Demise's wrath – Ganon. Rider represents the Hero not reborn as a Hylian as he is in most timelines, but reborn as a member of another race – The Gerudo. As with most generations, she rides the majestic and loyal horse known as Epona.
I quickly looked at her stats.
Riding, Magic Resistance, and Independent Action are normal enough skills, but this version of the Hero of Time possesses Blessings from the four major races of Hyrule other than the elven-eared Hylians.
The Gorons are a race of living golems that live the harsh volcanically active lands around Death Mountain and consume stones. They are known for their strength and crafting abilities. Their blessings passively grant immunity to Fire and Resistance to Heat, and when called on grant a Boost in Strength and Durability.
The Zora is a race of amphibious fish-people that live in the waters known as the Zora's Domain. They are known for their mastery of water and healing arts. Their blessings passively grant the ability to breathe and freely move underwater. When called upon, they also grant the Purification and Healing of water.
The Rito are a race of avian humanoids that live in mountainous areas. They are known for their mastery of wind and archery skills. Their blessings passively increase one's stamina and resistance to cold. When called upon they grant a boost in Agility and allow her to call upon the winds to give her a massive jump boost.
The Gerudo are an all-female tribe of warrior women that live in the desert. They only leave their cities to find males to produce children (they don't prostitute themselves or try to create Hylian families, they continue their bloodlines). They are best known for their fighting skills and jewelry. The Blessing passively grants immunity to lightning and a boost in attack. The Blessing activity grants the ability add lightning to one's attacks, be they physical or magical.
One notably missing race is the Sheikah. A red-eyed elf-eared race with shadow magic which has earned them the name Shadowfolk. The Sheikah as basically ninjas connected to ancient super tech and mysticism. I'm guessing they would be connected to either Caster or Assassin Class.
"We already have a Link back home."
"One of my male incarnations?" says Link with an attractive voice. Most people forget Link isn't mute, he or she just doesn't talk a lot, and most games don't give him or her an audible voice.
"Correct." I comment walking up to Epona. It closest I have ever been to a Horse in real life. The only other time was when I encountered a horse during one of my walks back before my reincarnation. It's a lot easier when the horse isn't pooping as it walks. "Zelda, Link, and Ganon got abducted by a bunch of idiot scientists working for Cadmus. Cognito rescued Link and Zelda."
"What happened to Ganon?" says Gerudo Link with a very hateful glare, I guess it makes sense as Ganon is not only a Calamity to the Gerudo, but Ganondorf Dragmire – the first incarnation of Demon King Demise's hatred, before he became the demon Ganon after absorbing the Triforce of Power – was the Evil King of the Gerudo. So, there is also a cultural shame she would have grown up with.
"Deader than Dead" I say with a smile, "Jade."
Jade smiles and raises her hand. A dark mist swirls in front of her and in a theatric explosion of darkness, Shadow-Demise appears. Link jumps back and takes a stance, but Shadow-Demise bows before Jade.
" My wife Shadow Queen Jade resurrected Demise's soul long enough to reabsorb the malice that reincarnated into Ganon, then bound Demise as her eternal slave. Without Malice of Demise or the Triforce of Power, Ganon's cycle of reincarnation was broken."
"Ganon has been defeated in many ways, including banishing him to another dimension, Light Arrows, and the Sword of Evil Bane – The Master Sword. Resurrected the original Demon King was not on the list and I'm amazed it worked."
"Big fish eat smaller fish."
"So, what is my counterpart doing if Ganon is dead and neither him nor Zelda are in Hyrule?"
"Having Kids."
"Figures. With royal responsibilities and Ganon in the way, we got together in a few timelines. In most timelines, I was of noble knight bloodline, so we could bend the rules."
"Due to a little accident, Link ended up with two additional girls along with Zelda. Princess Peach Toadstool and Intergalactic bounty hunter Samus Aran."
"Well, some of my incarnations have been overachievers."
*Doom*
The second servant is another Iconic hero of pop culture. A precursor of the superheroes of American comic books, including the dual identities of Clark Kent/Superman and very inspiration for the creation of Batman. A character created by the prolific author Johnston McCulley in 1919.
A tall, lean athletic man with dark eyes and hair. He's dressed completely in black with a black flowing Spanish cloak, a black flat-brimmed hat known as sombrero cordobés, and a black sackcloth mask that covers the top half of his head. He also carries a black bullwhip, a pistol, and a Spanish rapier - a type of sword with a slender and sharply pointed two-edged blade.
"To face one who is extraordinary, I can't allow myself to be ordinary" says the Man, "Saber Zorro will protect the people."
[Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega), 5-Star, Saber]
A dashing masked vigilante who defends the commoners and indigenous peoples of California against corrupt and tyrannical officials and other villains. Zorro has a high bounty on his head but is too skilled and cunning for the bumbling authorities to catch, and he also delights in publicly humiliating them. Because of this, the townspeople started calling him "El Zorro" due to his foxlike cunning and charm
"Unique Skills?" I asked Rorschach.
"Mark of Domination – Zorro's Z mark which he uses to humiliate his opponents. It lowers the Stats of the inflicted Target with each successful attack."
"Hero of the People – A skill that increases Zorro's speed and decreases his opponents depending on the number of opponents. "
"Sword of Mystery – A skill that allows him to ignore magical defense. "
"Hero of the Night - Presence Concealment that activates during the Night."
The Final Servant to be Summoned. Both by Max and by the Cognito Group as a whole is a legendary mythical figure.
He has the appearance of a young man with bright eyes and wild dark brown hair. He's dressed in a black/gold shirt, tiger-striped cargo pants, and black sneakers. He also wears a headband and Buddhist beads around his wrists like bracelets. What is most interesting is the checky smile on his face and the gold-capped red rod in his hands.
There is a second image in my mind's eye. A small humanoid resembling a cross between man and Rhesus monkey with fiery golden eyes. He's dressed in mountain pattern armor with a tiger pelt around his waist and golden circlet around his balding head. He also held a black iron staff with gold tips.
"The Handsome Monkey King has graced your presence. Celebrate your fortune and your impending victory. Let your enemies know their Doom!"
[Sun Wukong, 5-Star, Lancer/Caster]
Known as the Great Sage Equaling Heaven (斉天大聖, Seiten Taisei?), Sun Wukong was the disciple of Xuanzang, following her across India with his fellow disciples.
In his story, he was a monkey born from a stone of the void. He was born with power and soon became the ruler of all monkeys. When he feared death, he went searching for immortality and learned many techniques of the immortals. He fought against the Gods for disrespecting him, until he was sealed by the Buddha when he failed to leave the Buddha's palm. He was released by the monk to hunt scrolls in India. After fighting an absurd number of demons and solving problems, the group finally reached India and Monkey became Dòu-zhànshèng-fó ("Victorious Fighting Buddha.").
"He may sound arrogant, but he has every right to be." says Rorschach look at the skills. I take a look and I can imagine I'm wide eyed. The Monkey King is one of the most broken Servants in the history of Servants
8-Fold Immortal
Sun Wukong wanted Immortality and he got it multiple times. He learned the secrets of immortal Taoist patriarch Puti Zushi as his disciple, erased his name from the Book of Mortals in the underworld, and consumed the Peach of Immortality, Heavenly Wine, and Pills of Longevity in Heaven. Attempts to melt him in Laozi's furnace only helped remove mortal impurities (another form of immortality), and during the journey west he consumed Ginseng Fruit whose smell can grant 360 years of life, consuming one will grant another 47,000 years of life. At the end of his journey, he ate the divine foods of the Buddha and became an 8-Fold Immortal.
This skill alone makes him Broken, because for every 100 HP he loses, he gains a 100 HP. If his Health reacts 0, it returns to Full. It also negates all Instant Death Effects.
72 Bian
Mistaken for transformations, the 72 are spells/skills learned under the mentorship of Puti Zushi. It's a form of Magic that can be used for attacks. These spells include everything from travelling to strange places to being immune to damage to summoning equipment to riding clouds. The 72 Bian grant him the Skills of a Caster and a Saber class Hero.
Jin Dou Yun
Cloud Surfing. Monkey's most iconic skill. The Flying Nimbus allows movement with insane agility, even with Wukong's ability to jump around the planet. It was the primary form of transportation in Dragon Ball (which was based on Journey to the West) and Goku still used it in Dragon Ball and during Saiyan saga of DBZ.
Vajra Body
Also known as Jin Gang Bu Huai Zhi Shen (Superhuman Durability). Not only is he an 8-Fold Immortal, but the force needed to damage him is impressive. The vajra is regarded as the symbol of highest spiritual power, which is irresistible and invincible, so it's essentially "made of diamond".
Jin Jing Huo Yan (True Sight)
The 49 days (about 1 and a half months) trapped in the Cauldron gave his eyes the ability to see truth, past illusions and falsehoods, much like Fairy Eyes. They can also reveal the true form of targets, which is how Monkey was able to reveal disguised demons despite the stupidity of his companions.
Ruyi Jingu Bang
A metal rod once used to measure the depth of the ocean by the Dragon King. The Compliant Golden-Hooped Rod weights around 17,550 lbs (7,960 kg), but to Monkey it might as well be a feather. He can make it small enough to resemble a toothpick or big enough to ride on. He can even multiple them.
*BEEP*
[FATE NO MORE]
Part 1 – Fuyuki [Complete]
Part 2 - Chaldea Mission [Complete]
Part 3 – The Tree of Fantasy [ In Progress]
Objective 1.1: The Plan
Status: [In Progress]
Reward: [Hidden]
*DOOM*
Three Days Later
1POV
The Fate-Unversed Tree of Fantasy is a bizarre sight. It's a massive tree composed of blue purple "energy" with a brighter glow where the "branches" meet the "trunk.". Unlike the one he saw through Rorschach's sensors; this one now has opalescent white bark, and the energy is now flowing like water through the massive structure. There are eight massive roots on the surface extending from the trunk, which make the tree look like eight arrows spread in radial pattern – a star of chaos. At the end of the thick, twisting masses of roots and black spheres held in the cocoons of white fibers and flowing energy.
The Alien God knows about Defense. The Tree can't be attacked because its existence shifts and the only way to make it "solid" enough to attack is to destroy the Eight Cores which are spread among the Roots. If a Core is destroyed, the others can regenerate it, so all eight must be destroyed at the same time. The problem is each Core exists in its own dimension surrounded by a barrier that prevents any soul of the Fate Universe from passing and is filled with Blackened Unversed Servants to protect itself. Ritsuka's servants weren't able to get close and it looked hopeless.
Then Rorschach used me as a torpedo to break the soul-destroying barrier around the Unversed-Fate World.
"The Gamer has assigned each Cognito Master and their Servants to a specific Core. It seems while Chaldea technology and Servant precognition can't determine a course of action, your Gamer system is able to break the rules. "
*DOOM*
Unversed Tree of Fantasy
The Alien God is curious or at least that is closest that its inhuman mind comes to that emotion. It has existed for longer than the planet Earth has existed, a being incomprehensible to the beings of a mortal universe. When a Universe began to decay before it, it witnessed parts of it that refused to surrender to the concept of death. The Alien left a fragment of itself behind to plant the Tree of Fantasy. This is the equivalent to a human seeing an odd flower and trying to keep it alive.
The Alien God's fragment is now experiencing something new. It appears to be an "emotion" associated with survival, one that motivates the subject to either prepare for combat or flee danger. It takes the Eon-old Eldritch Being a few seconds to realize what it is – Fear.
*DOOM*
Tree of Wonder – Core Number One
Ash Grey
1POV
The number one Core has the highest defense of the eight. It has almost a thousand barriers layered across dimensions. Normally, it would take hours for Chaldea's servants to break through those barriers, perhaps longer considering some of them regenerate and change. Those barriers have never had to deal with me.
Once more I'm launched like a torpedo, this time instead of being fired from a ship, It launched by portals much like our battle against Dragon King. Multiple portals allow me to hit the weaker seven first, allowing my comrades and family to enter. Then my massively hypersonic self collides with Core number one and breaks through.
The phrase "It's bigger on the inside" comes tom mind. A phrase taken from the Doctor Who series I watched. While on the outside the spherical Core is only 100 meters (about the length of a football field) is radius, the inside must be at least 100 kilometers (about 62.14 mi). The ground is black stone and gray sand mixed with tiny fragments of white bone. The night sky above is filled with strange alien stars that would never be seen in Earth's sky. Instead of a moon, only the inner core glows like a full moon on the battlefield.
My opponents are Unversed Servants, their blackened forms moving like evil flood towards me. They all look similar with their unnatural eyes, sickly skin, and darkened clothing, but I recognize some of them. I also notice that most of them are Saber-class, and I can see swords from every era of history, from ancient bronze and copper swords of the oldest warriors to then nano-edge and energy blades of the far future. I swear a few of them are holding lightsabers.
The sword beams are the first to strike. They are beams of energy emitted by the blades to enhance the cutting power and research of the swords. Arturia, Mordred, Siegfried, Gilgamesh, Gawain, EMIYA/Shirou Emiya, Nero, and many others in the Type-Moon multiverse can use this technique. It's also used by many other fictional characters across the omniverse including BLEACH, DBZ, Inuyasha, and the like.
I'm sent flying through the air as the ground beneath me explodes. The raw destructive energy of the sword beams would be enough to turn the strongest metals into clouds of molten droplets, but all they do is blow my hair back and manage to dirty the clothes given to me to Rorschach. It's still hard to get traction in the desert environment with the howling winds and blinding fiery light.
I finally feel my feet hit an exposed solid rock and jump off it with enough force to turn it into a cloud of dust. I charge forward towards the horde, my immense strength propelling me to speeds that only the fastest of Servants can match. Thousands of blades strike my ash-color skin with enough force to slice through a skyscraper. Some of the blades bounce off, some of the blades are chipped, and some of the sword blades shatter on impact with the hide of the Immortal monster. None of them manage to inflict anything more than surface damage, than those surrounded by the elements or aura of ancient magic.
One sword does manage to cut into me, but my reflexes prevent me from losing an arm. I look at the wielder.
Ryougi Shiki (Saber)
She is a girl who possesses the Mystic Eyes of Death Perception, a supernatural ability that allows the user to see the inherent mortality of everything (both living and non-living) in the form of lines. Hers are ranked lower than her Assassin counterpart, but she can cut even the hardest substance by simply tracing lines.
Shiki moves to perform her Noble Phantasm - Amalavijñāna - Boundary of Emptiness, but I don't allow that shit. I moved faster than her and grabbed her by the throat. Her neck is snapped in less than second and before two seconds, she is decapitated.
I continue my charge through the Sabers, extending my own toxic bone blades to keep thin out the numbers. The blackening of some of servants is so bad, they attack with the madness of a Berserker. They attempt to land critical hits despite taking fatal damage.
The sheer number of them is slowing me down, so I resort to use my Doom Vision. The destructive beams of deadly radiation burn through everything in their path and a turn of my head is enough to clear most enemies. I'm impressed that some of them have either defense to tank my beams or the agility to avoid them.
As a run forward, I feel two hooks hit me in the back. I'm able to resist the pull, but I do turn to see one Servant spinning towards me like a Beyblade. The hardened steel blades strike the back of my neck and explosively shatter, but this doesn't deter the Unversed Servant who attempts to drive the broken blade's tip into my eyes. The steel fails to pierce my eye, but my claws do pierce him.
Now that he's not spinning, I recognize him as "Humanity's Strongest Soldier" from the world of Ymir's man-eating Titans. Rorschach mentioned that souls from other failed universes could have been absorbed by Fate-Unversed, which would result in Unversed Servants from non-Fate worlds. I'm very familiar with the swordsman from the amazing Attack on Titan series.
As I continue moving across the battlefield, I do see some Heroes dressed as magical knights with fantasy-style holy swords and I see the famous space wizards armed with plasma-based swords.
I'm stopped again by my smallest opponent. My (250 cm/8'2) tall muscular form absolutely dwarves my opponent's lean (158 cm/5'2"). The androgenous faced redhaired man has the eyes of a killer, but he's like a small child in comparison.
"Hiten Mitsurugi-ryū"
(Flying Heaven Govern Sword-Style)
Himura Kenshin, known as the legendary hitokiri of the Meiji Revolution, Hitokiri Battōsai, is the main protagonist and titular character of the Rurouni Kenshin series written and illustrated by Nobuhiro Watsuki. In 1878, he arrives in Tokyo and takes up residence at the Kamiya Dōjō, where his vow is tested as he fights to keep the country's peace. That would be the start of the anime and manga. This blackened version is not carrying the Sakabatō (reverse blade sword) crafted by Arai Shakkū and carried by the redemption-seeking Himura.
"Amakakeru Ryū no Hirameki!"
(Flash of the Heavenly Flying Dragon)
The force of the blade is enough to cause me to slide back a dozen meters. I'm impressed, but it's not enough to stop me from delivering a blow before he can say "Oro?". Despite being a powerful swordsman, Himura is very fragile and has a body poorly suited for his fighting style according to his master. A punch from Doomsday far surpasses the force of all his opponent's combined.
"I Hope the Others Hurry Up"
"Santoryu Ougi: Ichidai Sanzen Daisen Sekai!"
I'm hit by a sword strike with energy of a dozen megatons of TNT, a sword with the force of a Hydrogen Bomb. I don't break, but it's getting ridiculously hard to keep standing with the low traction of sand and my tactile telekinesis. I must activate my Legion Flight Ring to prevent myself from hitting the barrier wall, something that Rorschach advised against.
"Nice to meet you, Roronoa Zoro of the Straw-hat Pirates."
*DOOM*
Tree of Wonder – Core Number Two
Rorschach
3POV
Rorschach enters the Second Core to find an inner world of endless white. The ground is an immense plane of white stone covered in a layer of ice and snow. The dark sky is slowly releasing snow and ice-cold wind on the ground below. The only light comes from the Inner core, glowing like a star at the heart of an immense pillar of dark blue ice
He's hit by a spear moving faster than a bolt of lightning. The divine spear pierces his shield, but the spear fails to penetrate his skin. This is because during the battle against the Dragons he was soaked in dragon blood much like the Dragon-Slaying Hero Siegfried. As a result, "normal" weapons can't pierce him, which will make him a problem to his enemies - The Lancers.
Rorschach clicks a device on his wrist and dozens of small black spherical probes appear around Rorschach, before shooting across the Inner World like bullets. As they move, they pulse flashes of light that scan the Unversed Servants.
"Information is power" says Rorschach, as his probes scan all the Servants and identify each one. The majority are identified with green, meaning they aren't dangerous enough to be a threat to Rorschach. Some are orange, indicating caution, and only a few are Red.
Rorschach appears close to one of the Red-marked Lancers who immediately activates her noble phantasm. Originally, she was a beautiful blonde female knight in gold/white armor, who attacked with a glowing white lance on top of a shining white Pegasus. Now Blackened by the Unversed Reality, she is a pale white-haired knight in black/red armor. Her lance still glows white, but it's tainted by flames, and her Pegasus is a black specter with ghostly white eyes.
The dragon slaying fantasy lance appears to pierce Rorschach's torso, but it doesn't come out the back, despite its immense size. The corrupted female knight doesn't have time to react as her own lance pierces her body and comes out of her own back. As she dissolves into magical particles, Rorschach allows his hidden portals to close.
A blade appears in the blink of an eye and slices off Rorschach's head. The blade is revealed to belong a long spear in the hand of a warrior that decloaks next to Rorschach's "corpse". The Ancient Warrior is on alert, as no blood falls from Rorschach, instead both body and head dissolve into vanishing clouds of rainbow-color particles.
"Talvisota: Kuolema tulee valkoisena"
"Winter War: Death Comes in White"
A strong wind filled with snow washes over the battlefield and suddenly, some of the Unversed servants, including the one that attempted to decapitate Rorschach find themselves somewhere else. They are now standing in thick snow so cold it numbs their body and slows their movements. The sky above them is a dark stormy grey slowly releasing bone-chilling cold wind and sad snowflakes. All around them there are mounds of snow and snowy trees.
Then a shot is heard, and a bullet pierces the chest of one the Unversed Servants despite his high-level Protection of Arrows. In literal seconds, four more shots are heard, and four more Servants are pierced from different angles. They don't have time to fall to the snowy ground, as their pierced bodies quickly freeze solid. There is absolute silence as the last target becomes white statues. Then each statue shatters into fragments no bigger than snowflakes.
Simo Häyhä, Assassin of White, walks out of snowy forest. Then everything dissolves to white as her noble phantasm fades.
Rorschach, possibly the "real one", floats in the air with Di Vinci-chan observing the battle from a hidden bubble. Di Vinci is using a combination of her own technology and Rorschach's holo-computers
"Simo-chan has eliminated the Dragon Slayers. They were the only real threat to your dragon-blood protection."
"Let's begin the next step."
Rorschach's portal ship appears in the sky and transforms. It's clear that the ship is either bigger on the inside or storing materials in other dimensions, because it transforms into something three times its original size. It's now literally covered in futuristic weapons. The ship then launches a massive salvo of missiles, more missiles than even the triple-size ship should be able to hold. As the missiles slam into the ground, there are blinding flashes and shockwaves like tsunamis of sounds and fire. Some of the Servants are tough enough to withstand the destructive firepower, while others use skills or shields to protect themselves. The low-level Servants on the other hand are nuked to oblivion.
Soon the fire stops, and it begins to rain a dirty black rain down on the survivors, turning the ground in black mud. They don't know if the rain contains nuclear fallout or not, but as spiritual beings they don't have to worry as much as humans and mortal creatures.
As the exhausted battle-mode Portal Ship lands, the surviving Servants charge towards the landing site. They believe Rorschach to be inside the ship and in way they are not wrong. An ejector seat launches Tesla, the Archer of Remnant into the sky, who skillfully dodges a spear that tries to intercept him.
"Gods of yore, sleep! For now! We ourselves shall spin our myth! Human Mythos - Thunderous Advent. SYSTEM KERAUNOS!"
Tesla doesn't land on the ground, instead he lands on top of a giant Tesla Coil tower forged from lightning. The insanely powerful blast of electromagnetic force that Tesla fires is like the second coming of the gods of thunder and lightning. A blast so impressive that the Norse God Thor would share his mead with Nikola in celebration. The dirty water covering the battlefield also conducts the lightning, boosting the damage even further. The ripple of blue plasma travels across the over 31 thousand square kilometers (about the area of Massachusetts) of the battlefield several times.
Only the Servants with lightning affinity or immunity survive, but most of the Servants join the lower levels in oblivion. As they attempt to recover, they feel fear in their blackened hearts. They look at the end of the battlefield and see another Servant sitting on his black Horse.
He doesn't say a word, but he raises his spear as if pointing to God in Heaven. As he brings down his spear, the punishment of God begins. The remaining Servants are no longer standing in cold mud and black rain, instead they are standing in high altitude grasslands of Asia, surrounded by majestic mountains and tall grassy hills. At first it seems so peaceful, and some Servants wonder if they are already dead, and this is their release from the blackened nightmare of the Unversed Fate.
Then the ground begins to shake under the impact of hundreds of thousands of hooves. Over a hundred thousand warriors on horses come down the hills, like an evil flood. They let lose their thunderous battle cries as they are without fear, they are the army of Emperor of Conquerors – Genghis Khan. As the flood of warriors wash over the Servants, they are hit by arrows, pierced by spears, slashed by swords, and crushed under the hooves of supernatural horses.
As the Noble Phantasm ends, the Emperor sits calmly on his horse – Victorious.
"Everything is according to plan. Get ready, Lancer"
*DOOM*
Tree of Wonder – Core Number Three
Raven
3POV
The Inner World of Third Core is a massive field of verdant grass under an alien night sky. There are several boulders and trees on the field, but they are few and in between. At the center of the field surrounded by a small circular lake of dark water is a circular island. On that island is a massive translucent crystal containing the glowing inner core.
Raven is struck by hundreds of arrows and other projectiles, but the clone dissolves into mist. This happens a dozen times before the Servants, mostly Archer-Class, stop shooting her automatically. A dozen Raven appears on various points of the battlefield, each one appearing to cast a spell.
The eyes of several Archers glow as they attempt to find the real Raven with their mystic eyes. There are also other Servants with high level intuition and other information gathering skills. They collectively turn until they all target a specific Raven and unleash their corrupted Noble Phantasms.
Raven is reminded of the movie 300 that she watched with Ash. The Persian told his enemies "A thousand nations of the Persian empire will descend upon you. Our arrows will blot out the sun!" Stelios, an elite Spartan soldier, "Then we will fight in the shade."
Raven is targeted by tens of thousands of arrows propelled by magic and their masters' epic legends. She is literally shaded by the barrage of arrows, but as she covers herself, a sphere of darkness covers her. The Servants expect that their arrows will either pierce through the Caster girl's defenses or be stopped. What they don't expect is the arrows to be absorbed by the pitch darkness, as if she was a black hole in the depths of space.
The Raven clones morph into birds of the genus Corvus. Those Raven fly towards the Servants who detected the real Raven. The sensor-type Servants attempt to stop the birds, but their arrows and blades pass through the birds as if they were mere ghosts. As they pass through the sensor-type Servants, the Servants are hit by the absorbed arrows. Some servants are blown away by the power of the attacks, some are instantly killed as the arrows pierce their hearts, and some survive long enough to see the ravens return to their master as she emerges from the barrier.
"That takes care of the main threats. How are things on your end Serenity?"
A few hundred meters away, Hassan of Serenity has already taken care of her target – a Blackened EMIYA Alter. With help from her master amplifying her power, she was able to disrupt his mind with song using her Pedigree ability Ichor of Reverie and then deliver a fatal kiss with Zabaniya: Delusional Poison Body.
She has also used her Noble Phantasm to take out several others, while Raven was eliminating those with special eyes.
"Your next, Nobunaga! ~" calls out Raven
"All those who stand before me shall be destroyed." proclaims the Demon King, as she is surrounded by a swirling bloody red aura. "Show your corpse to the Three Thousand Worlds...Demon Descent! Behold, the Demon King's Three Line Formation!"
Three thousand arquebuses (guns) appear in the air and open fire with a barrage of bloody red beams. While these beams would be as harmful as matchsticks to most servants, it is more dangerous against Servants possessing higher ranks of Divinity and Mystery. It's also extremely effective against those possessing Riding Skill. Interesting to note that many of the greatest archers in history also possessed a Riding skill, as they were known to fire from horseback.
Raven also made sure she targeted those with Divinity – as anyone with the corrupted blood or blessings of Deity would be a problem, for obvious reasons.
Avenger glows with a misty blue aura, before jetting forward in a flash of blue flashes.
"I don't need any mercy! My path goes beyond love and hate! Enfer Château d'If! "
Edmond Dantès refines the meaning of speed, his mental strength of steel transcending the physical. He becomes faster than thought, breaking all limitations including the bonds of time and space. Observers on the outside witness a man break into dozens of afterimages burning with the blue flames of grudge. These "afterimages" all attack as one and a hundred lesser Servants are attacked.
"All evil is here. The time for revenge has come! This is the roar of my soul that was polished by hatred...La Grondement Du Haine! "
The Altered Noble Phantasm can transform the grudges from herself and the surroundings into magical energy, burning the opponents' injustice, corruption and self-righteousness up to the marrow of their bones to ashes. The Unversed Servants are so filled with corruption, that their bodies have blackened from cursed magic. They might as well have extremely flammable tattooed on their faces. Any Unversed Servants not incinerated by Edmond's attack are incinerated by Jalter's first rate dragon flames.
There is one final Servant hidden in the shadows and completely undetected without mystic eyes or supernatural intuition. Caster HP Lovecraft has Unique Skills that ensure Raven's victory.
Empty Presence– The user is totally imperceptible, and as such can in no way be detected or, in some cases, communicated with by external forces, whether physical, mental, spiritual, technological, etc. Even if someone were to see him, they would forget the second they lose sight. Without Divinity or Eyes that see the truth of the world, nothing can target him.
All things End – All things in the universe decay. Physical, mental, spiritual, conceptual, etc. The greater the number of enemies the faster the decay. Even the greatest armies will fall to dust in the passage of time. The Stats of enemies – strength, endurance, magic power, and luck - decrease over time.
Mountains of Madness – I could not help feeling that they were evil things- mountains of madness whose farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate abyss. Mental interference causes a temporary decrease in strength and agility in all enemies
Broken King – Any attack from an enemy Berserker-class has a chance of inflicting damage to enemies instead of allies.
*DOOM*
Tree of Wonder – Core Number Four.
Jade
3POV
The Inner world of the Fourth Core is an immense forest, a sea of trees with bark as dark as pitch and thick canopies of dark green leaves. The sky is clear and dark showing the alien stars and the main source of light in the glowing inner core held in the branches of the central tree. The forest looks to be hundreds of years old with the central tree being at least a thousand, but time was distorted until the barriers were broken.
The majority of the Unversed inside the inner world of the Fourth Core are Assassin-Class Servants. That also means the majority as Hassan-i-Sabbah - is the pseudonym shared by the nineteen leaders of the Hashshashin, a medieval Islamic sect based in Persia. The black clad skull-faced assassins range from the terrifying First Hassan (also known as King Hassan and Grand Assassin) to Hassan of the Hundred Faces. Not all Assassins are Hassan, but all Hassan are Assassins. There are also hundreds of ninjas ranging from nigh-invisible shadows to beautiful maidens dressed in flower-decorated Kimonos.
The Assassin Carmilla commands the vampires and vampiric assassins. The older aspect of Elizabeth Báthory, who has come to be known as the vampire Carmilla unlike her younger aspect. While her younger aspect was a naïve child who didn't understand the evil she committed, Camilla was born from legend of the woman who bathed in blood of six hundred young women to maintain her youth. The name Camilla comes from the 1872 Gothic novella by Irish author Sheridan Le Fanu and one of the early works of vampire fiction, predating Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) by 26 years. She looks very much like a fantasy vampire with white hair and a gothic dress of red and gold spikes of a torture device.
Standing by himself is EMIYA (assassin), a hypothetical possibility for the Magus Killer Kiritsugu Emiya. In a timeline in which he didn't meet his beloved wife, he became a Counter Guardian much like EMIYA (Archer). His heart of steel remained steel and his emotions withered away to nothing, leaving a pure assassin.
There are even Assassins that look like Civilians with the most dangerous being Shiki Ryougi. A beautiful young woman dressed in a combination of Eastern and Western clothing, but whose eyes mean death to anything and everything that stands against her. Her NP is Vijñaptimātratā: Mystic Eyes of Death Perception allows her to deliver fatal wounds that disregard qualities of immortality. Even if a person had multiple lives or a hundred billion health points, all would fall to her simple knife.
Shiki turns and slices through the line she sees her would be assassin and the black clad ninja dissolves into particles. A dozen more Shadowkahn emerge from the shadows of tree canopy, attacking with throwing stars and kusari-gama (sickle and chain), but Shiki movement is fluidic and move with more skill than an acrobat. Her knife traces the lines before her mystic eyes and the Shadowkahn dissolves. The Shadowkahn that appear are from different tribes, but Shiki continues to slice through them in a cold dance of death. The monstrous Mantis, Squid, and Crab Khan, the skilled Razor and Samurai Kahn, and finally an immense Sumo Khan is cut in half. The last cut proves to be mistake as the Sumo Kahn explodes into a cloud of thick purple gas, that covers the tops of the trees.
One of Jade's Kunoichi Kahn tosses grenades down into the cloud, before being sliced apart by one of the Hassan. The grenades detonate and dense smoke cloud ignites into brilliant flames. This isn't normal fire, its curse fire feeding off their corruption and consuming the magic in the air.
Shiki emerges from the smoke and fire, badly injured and weakened by the flames. The amorphous flames were a chemical reaction, even if they contained magical elements, and probably the worst obstacle for Shiki.
Then Bat Kahn loaded with the best Cognito-brand plastic explosives and anti-magic metal ball bearings hit the ground around her and detonated. The explosion is so immense, that several other Servants many meters away are also killed. Then another eight Kamikaze Bat Kahn slam into the ground and detonate just to be sure.
"Szent szar!" says Carmilla in Hungarian, which translates to "Holy Shit!".
The concealed Jade has the same thoughts. Ash and Rorschach warned the girls about the most dangerous Servants and someone who embodies the entropy of the universe and eventually return to nothing is pretty high. Rorschach created a metal that negates magic and spiritual power for the sole purpose of killing OP Servants.
EMIYA (Assassin) then jumps back when Jade appears in front of him, scaring the crap out of him. He then cries out as he bleeds from dozens of wounds that appear. Jade raises a dark sword which is now dripping EMIYA's darkened blood. EMIYA knows he's in serious trouble as the Oni woman's own parameters are very high. As an Assassin, he must take a chance.
"Now, can you keep up with me? Chronos Rose!"
EMIYA alters the flow of his own time. Due to his noble phantasm Chronos Rose enhancing his inherent time abilities, he can deliver extreme consecutive attacks to the point where he can be invincible in anti-personnel combat. EMIYA knife pierces and slices in the member of alien Oni-kind and he also shoots Jade in the chest and head with his pistol.
EMIYA feels a growing sense of dread filling his blackened heart. Why would the Oni woman suddenly appear in front of him? Why didn't the other Assassins attack her or send up alarms? Why did his counterattack seem so easy? Why was she smiling as she died?
EMIYA looks over to the other Assassins and his eyes widen. They, like him, are all standing in front of the corpses of Oni woman. They have been each killed by different techniques and skills, from being sliced by knives to shot by guns to physically destroyed by magical attacks. Most assassins that still possess some forms of human emotion also look confused.
Are they Clones meant to test our abilities? Why didn't I hear the other Servants fighting? Why is the sense of dread still increasing?
Suddenly, the silence is broken by the sound of clapping. Oni Queen Jade decloaks in front of the assassins, clapping her hands if celebrating the end of a good performance.
The corpses in front of the Assassin suddenly burst in dark smoke and flashes of red light. In the blink of an eye, all the wounds inflicted to the corpses are inflicted on the Servants. EMIYA with his thoughts accelerated by his NP feels his own blade slice through him and knows he is dead. The last thing to go through his brain, before the bullet wound, is "another dirty job ends in a mess."
Jade looks at the few survivors. Many of them used mental attacks that would have caused the target to harm themselves or become catatonic. As a result, most of these mind assassins are left broken dolls, unable to operate on their own. Some of them used poisons that had little effect on the Oni Queen of Shadows, so in return they caused very little effect. Only some of the luckiest, oldest, and most clever managed to avoid Jade's trap.
Carmilla is probably the most messed up as she was hit by her own NP Phantom Maiden: Phantasmal Iron Maiden. Her body was impaled, crushed, and force fed her own blood. Thankfully, she doesn't continue to suffer as another assassin finishes her off. The Assassin wasn't being merciful, he just needed to recover his own health using his vampiric blade.
One of the Hassans appears in her shadow, but he finds himself switched with her. She holds up her hand which is holding a beating heart. This spell is very similar to one of the Assassin's NP known as Zabaniya: Delusional Heartbeat. Jade has a very cruel smile as she squeezes the heart and ALL the Hashshashin feels the crippling pain.
"Grasp Heart! Bane of Blood!"
As the heart is brutally crushed, the Hasshashin Assassins all perish at the same time. Even King Hassan – the Grand Assassin – collapses to the ground. The Old Man looks at Jade with Acknowledgement as his body dissolves into dark spiritual particles. As the great legacy dies, Jade glows with a dark blood red aura, her power growing to new levels as she absorbs the defeated.
"Bane of Blood is a spell that I used to defeat a Clan of Oni that opposed me" says a Shadow Clone of Jade to her Servants, "Over ten thousand Oni, but the spell made it so once one was killed, they were all killed in the same manner."
"My Queen. I don't believe the Assassins are all related by Blood" says a confused Ashiya Dōman, the Caster, who is looking at the Demon Queen with adoration.
"They don't need to be. They are magically close enough to each other that the spell can Link them." says Jade sounding a little cocky, "Most Oni are born from corpses of mortals, instead of birthed by a Queen, so you wouldn't expect them to have physical bloodlines."
"Are you sure you don't require our aid, Jade-Dono?" asks Yagyū Munenori, the Saber of Jade's Servants.
"Save your energy for the Inner Core. I've got this covered." says Jade's clone.
Yagyū Munenori, Houzouin Inshun, Tomoe Gozen, Mochizuki Chiyome, Shuten-douji, Minamoto-no-Raikou, and Ashiya Dōman watch the battle from their protective bubble. The Real Jade has summoned an army of ten thousand Shadowkahn to face the remaining hundred Servants, most Servants specializing in one-on-one combat. What's even more disturbing is some of the Kunoichi Kahn are now displaying the Phantasmic Pedigree of the Hasshashin.
On the battlefield, the remaining hundred Servants know they are screwed.
*DOOM*
Tree of Wonder – Core Number Five.
The Inner World of the Fifth Core is hot. It's a volcanic environment with a lot of geothermal activity. A desert of black sand, volcanic ash, and igneous rocks. There are pools of lava and geysers of acid and toxic chemicals. There are also many fast-moving rivers of lava flowing from a central volcano, where the inner core is submerged in the magma chamber.
Most of the Core Five Servants are Caster-Class. They have used their Territory Creation skill to build terrain surrounding the volcano that not only allows them to live easier in the volcanic environment but gives each of them an advantage position as a magus. Due to the differences in the various Casters, the field of myriad of different environments. Those Casters from ancient eras, based on actual magicians and priests, have magical fortresses inhabited by golems and monsters. Those Casters from modern era, based on great inventors, have mechanical structures resembling magi-tech factories with automatons. Those Casters from story books and works of fiction have children's fairy tales twisted into nightmares.
One massive giant made of black metal attempts to crush foe that several Casters have failed to stop. It's a towering dark automaton with several lines glowing like molten iron. It could easily take on an army, but Starfire's first Servant is abnormal.
"I return the Pain inflicted to me with my own vengeance. Moonslice!"
Saber-Adam having absorbed the attacks of dozens of Casters with his Upgraded Sword, returns all of the magical energy using his Noble Phantasm. The crimson sword beam is as thin as his sword's edge, but its power is undeniable. The sword beam slices through the magic resistant metal of the automaton and the massive construct slides apart spraying molten metal in all directions.
High in the sky, Starfire is fighting off the flying constructs and familiars of the Casters.
Most of the Caster creations attempt to simply ram her or slice her with their wings at high speed. She is far too durable for such tactics to work, as magically enhanced bronze and crystal are no match. It's almost comical as metal and crystal wings snap off when they do manage to collide with her. Most of the time her fists smash them into her bits or starbolts blast them to bits.
"You think they would make them more heat resistant."
Many of the creations attempt to use fire and lightning but have no effect on a woman who can bath in solar plasma and whose durability has been augmented by her nigh-indestructible husband. In a bit of irony, many of the constructs and familiars are destroyed by the attacks of their comrades, while failing to do any damage to Starfire.
Many Casters attempt to curse her through their creations, but most of those curses were meant to effect humans and mortal creatures born on Earth, not a female extraterrestrial from a parallel universe. Rorschach also equipped her with some items that no Magi or Caster would expect, items that disrupt all forms of magic. Most Servants would never believe a person could fight without even the smallest bit of magic or divinity, but then again nobody would believe a man could fly without magic.
*Eagle Scream*
"You're a loud one. Real Eagles have better manners."
There are many ancient Greek Automatons including an immense bronze eagle. One is Kaukasian Eagle (Caucasian Eagle), the gigantic eagle sent by Zeus to feed upon the ever-regenerating liver of the Titan Prometheus after he was chained to a peak of the Kaukasos (Caucasus) Mountains as punishment for stealing fire from the gods. This is the Aquilla of the Constellations and immune to fire due to its association with consuming Prometheus.
Starfire is having problems with the Eagle because it's resistant to her Starbolts. The other constructs melted and exploded into fragments of bronze, gold, copper, and crystal. Finally, Tamaranean Princess Starfire decides to get physical and rips the Eagle open. Oil. Metal components, and other substances fall out of the mythical mechanical Eagle as it plumets from the sky.
Starfire hears a beep on her armband and summons a huge metal sphere from her Party Inventory. It's more than ten meters in radius and made of an ominous dark metal.
[Cognito Inc. Anti-Magic Bomb] - For when you want to wipe out dragons, invading armies of the undead, and magical civilizations.
As the sphere drops, many of the Casters attempt to stop it. The familiars that touch it have their magic broken. The constructs find the bomb too impossibly smooth and obscenely heavy to catch. Attempts to use magic to catch or divert the sphere also fall, the barriers shattering like thin layers of glass trying to stop a bowling ball.
The sphere lands in the caldera of Volcano and detonates. Many of the Servants are blinded by the flash and a purple shockwave expands from the blast. The wave of energy erases every pattern of mystery, reducing everything back into primordial particles of magic. As it hits the Territories of the Casters, their small stable realms shatter. Fortresses of stone and magic runes crumble into rubble. Towers of metal and gear collapse into broken trash. Twisted storybook lands are burnt away to reveal harsh reality. Most of the Servants as magical familiars themselves don't survive the shockwave.
Those Servants that survive the Anti-Magic shockwave are then buried, crushed, and incinerated by the hot toxic gases, heavy ash, and bubbling lava of the erupting volcano. The pyroclastic flow and lava flows quickly bury all the magical items constructed by the Casters.
The number of survivors is very small. They are protected by barriers and suits of armor. They emerge from the ash, smoke, and lava, still ready to defend the Core. Then they see Starfire's newest Servant and feel a growing despair.
Sienna Kahn is surrounded with a swirling column of blood red magical energy.
"We offered our Hand; you replied with Guns. Now we Stain our Fangs with Injustice. White Fang!"
A massive tiger rises from black smoke. Its body is pitch black and leaves a trail of dark mist. Its body is covered in white bone armor and spikes with glowing red markings. Its armored head is the skull of a sabretooth stained red with blood and eyes like fire. It's a massive feline resembling the Grimm Sabyr of her home world Remnant. As Sienna mounts and rides the cat forward, hundreds more Grimm appear to follow her lead.
*DOOM*
Tree of Wonder – Core Six
Blackfire
The Inner World of the Sixth Core is an ocean of dark water that only reflects the dark alien sky above. There is a thick cold fog covering the surface of the dark ocean, concealing the broken pieces of ice that float on its surface. In the center is a massive pillar of dark blue ice with several ice spikes.
Blackfire is floating above the fog with Yoruichi and Kisuke, hidden by a barrier. Blackfire can fly as a Tamaranean and all Soul Reapers can walk on air using their spiritual powers. As they get closer, glowing ribbons appear in the air. Kisuke quickly concludes they are roads as the Blackened Unversed Servants appear, most of them Rider-class on their mounts.
The Rider-class Servants range from servants riding on majestic horses or on the back of chariots, to witches on brooms, to people on giant flying ships to people in planes. There are even modern looking people on motorcycles and inside of cars, and girls in swimwear on surfboards. What's even stranger are the ones flying what appear to MagiTech flying machines and spaceships that never existed in the Fate universe.
Some of the Riders are clearly not from the Fate Universe due to their mounts.
Some Servants are riding giant armored Spiders, creatures that have never existed in the world of Fate. Spider Riders only exist in works of fiction as do spiders of such immense size and power. Due to them being from fiction, it's difficult to determine what actions they will take.
Some Servants are riding different variations of Dragon. Dragons are considered the supreme Phantasmatic Beasts, so the number of Servants that can ride Dragon-kind in the Fate Universe is very small. Most Servants that have accomplice this task is either monstrous creatures that assimilate their mounts or those possessing divinity like Quetzalcoatl – The Feathered Serpent.
"This is not going be easy. Unlike my sister, I don't have an anti-naguc nuke." says Blackfire, "and no offense, but I have just the two of you."
"No offense. If we brute fighters, there would be no way we would win." says Kisuke with a smile.
"Thankfully, we like fighting smart." says Yoruichi with a feline's confident smile.
"So, what Ideas do the former Captain of Stealth Forces and the former leader of Research & Development have?"
"When your enemy is overwhelmingly strong, turn their strength against them." says Kisuke, sounding wise despite being dressed as a Candy Shop owner. "I talked with Rorschach about how Familiars and Servants work. The concept of the Saint Graph or Spiritual Foundation is very interesting. Beast Tiamat's Chaos Tide was able to corrupt Saint Graphs imposing a Geis on cellular level to want to destroy humanity. The Inner Cores are linked to the servants that protect it and constantly reinforce a programming to destroy intruders and protect the core at their most basic levels. "
"You're rambling." says Yoruichi.
"Sorry. Rorschach and I developed something." says Kisuke pulling out a small container containing marked glass vials. The marking on the vial resembles a skull mask over the three-fish-tail biohazardous symbol.
"This won't affect us, will it?" asks Blackfire looking at the white liquid in the vials.
"Outside of the vial, it actually needs the core to live and can only exist in the creatures connected to the Core."
"Had to check. Mad Scientists." says Blackfire.
"Rude." says Kisuke, it's not like he was Mayuri and his increasingly stupid hats.
*DOOM*
Ozymandias, Ivan the Terrible, Francis Drake, Kintoki (rider) and Achilles are considered some of the best Rider-class Servants. Even Blackened Unversed Servants slaved to the Sixth Core, this hasn't changed. Despite their skills, they don't see Yoruichi deliver her deadly cargo to them. Even Achilles with his speed fails to notice the hidden assassin.
They do feel the pain as something spreads inside of them. Through the pain, they feel something inside them break, and they open their eyes in alarm. They look around and they don't see any allies near them, all they see are enemies wearing white bone masks. They don't even notice the mask that has formed on their own faces.
Yoruichi grimaces as the hollow masks appear on the infected and they go berserk and attack each other. Those that survive the initial attacks of their former comrades soon go through the same Hollowlification.
*DOOM*
"Look on my works, ye Mighty! And kneel before me! The sun descends here, in our unlimited brilliance! Ramesseum Tentyris!"
A Servant is smashed between two shining pyramids.
"My march will continue for eternity. God's beast crushed all underfoot. Zveri Krestnyi Kohd!"
A giant monstrous mammoth fire a massive beam of energy from its trunk and tusks.
"Men, it's time! The king of the storm, a swarm of ghosts...The Wild Hunt's about to begin!"
Francis Drake rides the bowsprit of her massive ship that rises from the water. Then cannons fire massive beams of energy.
"Let's hit the road then! Bear howling! ──GOLDEN DRIIIIVE──GOODNIGHT!"
Kinotoki dressed in biker leathers rides a motorcycle surrounded by immense golden flames.
"Xanthos! Balios! Pedasus! Let's go! Run as if your life depends on it! My life is a shooting star! Troias Tragōidia!"
Achilles becomes a shooting star while riding his three-horse-pulled chariot.
When the Hollowfied Blackened Servants begin to use their Noble Phantasm, Blackfire and her Teammates know the battle will soon be over.
Chariots moving faster than planes collide in the sky.
Armies collide with swords slicing, spears piercing, and arrows falling like a rain of death.
Massive structures move in ways that would be impossible under normal physics and collide with devastating force.
The fact that dozens of NPs are occurring at the same time, many bending realities, causes the entire battlefield to become warped and distorted.
Soon the number of enemies Blackfire's group faces are far smaller.
*DOOM*
The number of enemy Servants has decreased to three.
One is the Sixth Core's Servants is the famous Achilles, known as the Fastest Servant. He's being challenged by the Goddess of Flash – Yoruichi. UsingShunkō (Flash War Cry), the female soul reaper is surrounded by lightning and matching the masked Greek Hero who is green comet (Dromeus Komētēs) streaking across the battlefield. Every time they strike each other there are flashes of light and thunderous shockwaves.
One of the Sixth Core's Servants is one that didn't exist in the world of Fate, a Hero for another world. This Rider resembles a humanoid female with a body and long hair composed of starry space. She has solid white glowing eyes behind a strange Hollow mask resembling a beautiful woman's face. There is even a golden sun in her stomach area, and she is dressed in futuristic white/blue armor that still shows off her body like fantasy armor. Her Mount is also strange as it resembles the rings of a gyroscope with her body acting as the Rotor and Axis. The Rings are polished silvery metal with gold/bronze decoration.
Blackfire's black bolts are not causing any damage to the strange Rider of the Stars. The bolts of stellar plasma that hit the Rings fail to do damage and the bolts that target RotS's physical body fail to hit anything. It's like her entire body is a portal to deep space and the bolts just pass through and travel into the depths. Rider of the Stars own attacks are also strange as she fires dark planets and shooting stars. Despite being the size of a child's science project model, they have immense destructive power.
"You're a Big One" says Kisuke Urahara, as he raises his cane sword, "Okiro, Benihime" (Awaken, Crimson Princess)
His Zanpakutō (Soul-Cutting Sword) once disguised as a cane becomes a sleek, medium-sized sword. It's a strangely beautiful blade with a red tassel on the base.
His opponent is the Dragon Rider and her Mount. The Rider is a tall, slender woman with purple eyes, pale skin, and long pale silver-gold hair. She dressed in the clothing of a medieval warrior-queen and the upper part of her featureless Hollow mask has horns that make it resemble a Queen's crown. The Dragon mount itself is immense at a hundred and fifty feet (around the size of a 747Jumbo Jet) with red-and-black scales and red-and-black wings. The Dragon also has a Hollow Mask that looks like melted blade but made of bone. The dragon is not only immense, but powerful, having incinerated and devoured most of its opponents.
"Nake, Benihime!" (Sing, Crimson Princess)
*DOOM*
Tree of Wonder – Core Seven
Priss
The Inner World of the Seventh Core is an immense cave system with stone walls, ceiling covered in stalactites, and floor covered in stalagmites and pools of poisonous water. There is a poisonous mist on the floor to obscure the vision of travelers and no light beyond the glow of enemies.
The Servants of the Seventh Core are mostly of the Berserker-Class. Mad Warrior and Heroic Spirit of Berserker Rage. Crazed warriors that have lost almost all traces of their sanity in exchange for great power. They are mostly corrupted by the Unversed Blackening as madness has only increased their power to truly monstrous levels.
Heracles who killed his art teacher in rage and was driven to madness by the Goddess Hera to murder his own wife and child. Lancelot the noble knight driven mad by his guilt at betraying his King and fellow knights. Asterios (the Minotaur) the creature born from the union of a human princess and a divine beast, driven to consume human flesh. Kiyohime the beautiful maiden, driven by her obsession to become a dragon and incinerated her former lover Ashen inside a bell. Everyone has a history soaked in blood, violence, and tragedy.
Guts in the Berserker Armor charges forward. He has found armies of trained men and armies of monsters far stronger than humans. He fought against Gods and Demons far beyond his mortal limits. While he was injured numerous times turning his body into a patchwork of scars, everything he has fought has died by his mortal hands. Now, as a Berserker-class Servant, his power is now Legendary.
Many Servants are already dead as even as a Berserker class, Guts retains his Saber-level skill with the sword and his sword – Dragonslayer - can harm all spiritual and phantasmal beings. The weaker Berserker-class Servants were sliced apart before they could let out a cry or roar.
Some of the Berserkers let out attacks that disrupt the mind of their opponent. Normally those attacks would cripple their opponents with fear, pain, and horrific memories, but Guts was never normal. His rage overcomes all fear, and he has experienced horrors that would destroy most Servants. His life has been full of pain, and he's lived with horrific memories since the day he old enough to remember.
"Come... with me! Blasted Tree!"
The end of a beautiful female Frankenstein's monster's large war hammer (battle mace) spins. It generates an immense amount of green lightning and when she strikes the ground, there is an eruption of branching lightning and plasma in the form of an immense tree.
Guts slide back from the force of lightning and thunder, but he doesn't drop his sword. He defends himself with the massive blade and only slides back a couple meters. Guts now smelling like ozone and electrically cooked pork, then charge forward and deliver a slash to the severely weakened and corrupted Homunculus. The massive blade breaks through the artificial human and her body soon dissolves.
"Vengeful Lightning of the Ox King... Fufu, fwahahahaha! Insignificant insects, be incinerated to ash! "
Her Noble Phantasm Ox-King Storm Call - The Inescapable Net of Heaven is triggered. Minamoto no Raikō summons clones of herself armed with magically-charged weapons that represent her subordinates, the Four Heavenly Kings – Kintoki's axe, Watanabe-no-Tsuna's sword, Urabe no Suetake's bow, and Usui Sadamitsu's polearm. They each attack one after the other, their attacks filled with lightning.
Guts blocks each of the attacks with his massive dark blade, ignoring the lightning that cascades down his Berserker Armor. He charges pass the clones and twists delivering a slash that breaks Raikō's sword and Raikō herself.
More Berserker-class Servants, some known, some unknown, and others unrecognizable due to their corruption, appear to attack Guts. Guts does not slow down, instead a dark mist surrounds him.
"We fight to survive. Understand the Pain we Feel. I am the Messenger of Our Pain. Bloody Eclipse"
Black Swordsman: Bloody Eclipse of the Light is the Noble Phantasm, born of his greatest pain. The Eclipse was when his tortured best friend sacrificed his family - the Band of the Falcon to become a God. When he and Casca were physically and mentally torn apart, their very souls branded by Fate. It was also the day he broke the chains of Fate and stepped into the realm of Legend. This is the reversal, where Griffith's world of fantasy is torn down and magic fades.
Gut's Berserker Armor changes, the helmet elongating and becoming more wolf-like as the eyes blow with red flames. He releases a loud howl that causes all the enemies to pause, then he becomes a blur of motion. As his massive Dragonslayer sword strikes each Servant, they shatter as if made of glass. It's as if the magic that allows them to exist in this world is destroyed on a fundamental level. It doesn't matter if the enemy is human, a demon, or one possessing divinity, it doesn't matter if they are male or female, legendary or obscure, or attempting to defend themselves. All are destroyed until number one hundred is defeated.
Guts stops, steam pouring from his armor. Then the armor bursts off his body in spray of blood and metal. As the black metal vanishes, glowing golden particles heal the thousand wounds on Gut's body. He stands clad only in his pants and boots, his sword still held in his hands. Even the damage done to his artificial limb is repaired and his face is clear of anger, He's class changed to Saber.
"Grrrrrauuugghhoooouuugghhhhrrrrrr!"
Guts turns to see the corrupted Berserker-Heracles.
*DOOM*
Tree of Wonder – Core Eight
Max
The Inner World of the Eighth and Final Core seems to be the most impossible. It's a ziggurat of ancient black stone floating in space. Despite being inside a pocket dimension, it's surrounded by alien stars in all directions. As Max flies closer to the Ziggurat, she passes through an invisible barrier trapping in an atmosphere. With an atmosphere she can now hear the roars and the screams of mad.
The Avenger-Class are said to be Vindictive warriors that bear great hatred in the past, the embodiment of hatred itself. The dark side of the Holy Grail, which is the contents in the cup. Angra Mainyu was the first to appear and was the weakest, but his presence corrupted the Grail and led to the events of Fate/Stay Night and Fate/Zero. He was followed by many other Avengers including Jeanne D'arc Alter, Edmond Dantes, and Space Ishtar – ones that cannot be considered weak.
"What the Fuck?" says Max as she flies above the Ziggurat.
The most vengeful souls of the failed worlds, the most bloodthirsty of Unversed also filled the pocket dimension created by the Eighth Core. These are not recognized Fate characters, instead they are fictional characters that Max recognized from her husband's media. They may have blackened bodies and twisted souls, but they are feared antiheroes.
"This looks like it's going to be fun." says Suh Wukong, standing on the cloud floating next to her. "It reminds me of when I was storming Heaven, back when my enemies didn't disguise themselves and I didn't have companions dumb enough to fall for those disguises."
A Good portion of Journey to the West has Tang Sanzang and Sun Wukong's travelling companions constantly falling for the disguises of demons despite Monkey having special eyes that can see through that stuff.
"You think you can handle them?"
"Think? I know I can. I am the Victorious Fighting Buddha!"
"Then by my command, Sun Wukong face the enemy servants and be Victorious."
Sun Wukong jumps off his cloud, doing numerous fancy flips and lands light as a feather in front of the blackened vigilantes, vengeful warriors, and other avengers. He extends his Nyoibo and swings it with his immense strength. Servants are durable, but those that don't avo0id the Monkey King opening swing are blown in half at the waist.
Sun Wukong continues to dance across the battlefield leaving afterimages, his compliant rod spinning in his hands. The weaker Servants are quickly eliminated, and his performance is only stopped when he encounters two fiery swords bound to their master was fiery chains.
Kratos from God of War.
A demigod son of the Greek God Zeus, who lost his brother because Zeus feared a Prophecy and lost his family because his patron Ares tricked him into murdering them. After attempts to find redemption failed, he sought Vengeance. He slaughtered Monsters, Gods, and Titans, eventually leading to the fall of Olympian Pantheon. Years later to protect his son, he fought against the Norse Gods.
"Wretched animal."
"Rude. You're the guy that looks like he was dipped in flour."
Kratos may be able to match Heracles in strength, but so can Wukong. Kratos is knocked side-to-side by the blows of the monkey's staff, while monkey ignores the bullets fired at his back by other Servants. Kratos is shocked when Wukong grabs the chains linking his Blades of Exile and begins to toss him around. Kratos is smashed into the ground several times and when he rises and turns to face his enemy, he's crushed by a giant-size staff.
Kratos is still too stubborn to die and summons his other weapons. Kratos has many weapons including the Bow of Apollo, Claws of Hades, Nemean Cestus, and the Blade of Olympus. The Bow shoots fire arrows, but the brilliant bolts of magical flame moving at speeds imperceptible to mortals, are knocked away by the Monkey King's spinning staff. The Claws of Hades can rip out the souls of its victims, but Monkey erased his name from the book of dead and has many layers of immortality. Nemean Cestus grants immense strength and the ability to create shockwaves, but Monkey is far too agile to be hit by the heavy gauntlets. Kratos does manage to decapitate Wukong with his Blade of Olympus.
Kratos then watches in disbelief as the head floats back to monkey's body and reattaches itself.
"You have got to be kidding me?"
"You can't believe your eyes. The Handsome Monkey King is before you."
Kratos cries out as a nyoibo shrunk to the size of the toothpick pierces his eye, then the nyoibo grows to full size and the metal staff is far wider than his orbital bones. After the gruesome attack, Kratos doesn't get up this time.
*DOOM*
Rorschach, the original Walter Joseph Kovacs from Alan Moore's Watchmen comics. The original Rorschach was an uncompromising vigilante born of abuse and hatred of the world as it is. He became a vigilante when a customer of his clothing shop was raped and killed, and nobody helped her. He truly became Rorschach when a child kidnapper murdered a little girl and fed her to dogs to hide the evidence. A child kidnapper that he burnt alive. He stood uncompromising even in front of a being with God-like power.
Rorschach as an Avenger acts like an Assassin. He doesn't stand on the battlefield attempting to destroy enemy Servants, instead he moves towards the Master. A black fog appears around Max and bone-white chains bind her limbs. Rorschach appears from the darkness and faces his glove-clad hands around her neck and begins to strangle her.
He soon realizes that something is wrong as Max doesn't look like she is suffocating, and her spine is too hard to break. Max's mixture of human and extraterrestrial genetics allows her to fly at heights and swim in the ocean depths without problems, it also allows her to store oxygen. Her shapeshifting also allows her to grow a tail and lash at his mask with its sharp tip. Rorschach shows fear at the spray of black and white liquid. Rorschach's Noble Phantasm fades aways, the darkness dispersing and the chains crumbling.
"My Face! My Face!"
"Our Rorschach is way scarier." says Max as she pulls a gun from Party Gamer Inventory. She shoots OG Rorschach in the chest, the OP bullets piercing the Servant's body. "I would use my claws, but you smell like a dumpster."
*DOOM*
Link of the Gerudo is racing a character from Marvel Comics. The dark-skinned red-haired beauty on a majestic horse is racing a fiery skeleton in biker leathers on an equally fiery motorcycle. The biker whips a chain covered in flames at her, but she blocks it with her sword.
Ghost Rider. Johnathon "Johnny" Blaze was a motorcycle stuntman until he sold his soul to the devil Mephisto to cure his adopted father's cancer (who instead died in a stunt gone wrong). Mephisto bonded Blaze to the Spirit of Vengeance known as Zarathos and became Ghost Rider. His mission to hunt the souls of damned and the souls of guilty.
Ghost Rider suddenly glows a red and the eyes of the skull shine brightly. The fiery trail of the bike suddenly becomes more intense as the bike accelerates. As the bike circles Link and Epona, a wall of fire forms that stops their advance. Ghost Rider walks out of the fire and his eyes glow brightly.
"Fell the Pain you have inflicted on Others. Penance Stare"
When in close combat, the Ghost Rider locks eyes with his opponent and induces self-mortification by imposing him or her every negative action, behavior and sensation, and sins to the pain of others that individual has ever committed in their lifetime.
Link as the Hero of Time has lived many lifetimes. Link has had many jobs and performed many quests, but Link has always been a Hero.
"What!?"
The Avenger-Class Incarnation of Ghost Rider can only stare in shock as his Attack does a pathetic amount of damage.
Despite living for many lifetimes, the Hero doesn't have many crimes to his name. A few pranks, a few cases of grave robbing, scaring people when transformed as a wolf, etc., which is all meaningless compared to saving Hyrule an absurd number of times. His most consistent crime is destruction of property and theft, which is his habitual breaking of pottery and taking any item stored in those pots.
Link of the Gerudo raises her sword above her head and the corrupted Ghost Rider can feel the surge in spiritual pressure. Link glows with green/gold aura and a bolt of lightning descends from the sky to charge her and Epona with unbelievable power.
"I am the Hero of Time. My Courage is Eternal. Feel the Thunder of my Warrior Soul. Storm Stampede."
Ghost Rider watches as Link is surrounded by lightning strikes and copies of Link and Epona appear and charge at him. They split into two rows, shooting him with shining golden arrows as they pass him. Each of these holy light arrows burns Ghost Rider's corrupted body, shredding his very essence. The copies representing the Links of the past vanish after firing their Light Arrows. As the last Link fades, Ghost Rider collapses to his knees looking like a glowing pincushion. The hell fires that covered his bones are mostly extinguished and the glow in his eyes is dimming.
As Gerudo Link brings her sword down to point at the Ghost Rider, lightning strikes the ground in front of her and Epona. Then another bolt, farther from her and Epona, and closer to the Avenger. This happens again and again, until the lightning strikes Ghost Rider. Then hundreds of bolts of golden lightning strike the Unversed Servant. In the brilliance of the divine lightning, Ghost Rider's body resists damage then it begins to burn away. When the attack ends, all that remains are a few fragments of charred bone and broken bits of melted metal including a length of chain.
*DOOM*
Punisher. Frank Castle was a former soldier and police officer whose family were murdered in a mob shooting. Frank became an agent of Vengeance, slaughtering criminals ranging from mob bosses to drug dealers to human traffickers with his own brand of brutality and ruthlessness.
Frank is currently looking down at his chest, his iconic white skull symbol sliced by a large Z mark. This mark serves a purpose, as it attracts attention and most of the body armor is thickest behind it, but now that armor has been ruined. He looks up to see Zorro with his famous sword. Castle pulls out his Gerber Knife and takes a military knife fighting stance. He came into this battle with a handgun, an assault rifle, a machine gun, and a grenade launcher but all that remains of his arsenal is his knife.
"I must thank Señor Rorschach for this belt." says Zorro. Rorschach knew the classic hero could encounter heavily armed antiheroes, so he equipped some of the Servants with a few special items.
Frank Castle's eyes widen when Zorro moves before he can react. Zorro's sword pierces his body, through the heart. He attempts to stab Zorro despite the fatal injury to his own body, showing the insane determination that allowed him to survive years of hunting mobsters, terrorists, and the worst criminals. It's too late, as Zorro has already jumped back and without the sword, the wound sprays blood from both sides of Castle's body.
*DOOM*
Core 1 Destruction
There are several reasons why Chaldea couldn't destroy the Tree of Wonder. At first, they didn't have any other option for survival, that was solved by Rorschach and Cognito. Second, they couldn't get pass the barriers that protected the eight cores, that was solved by me being the ultimate in armor-piercing. Third, Third, even if you included reformed Crypters, there aren't enough Masters or Servants to face the Inner Core's servants. Again, this problem was solved by the Gamer's own summoning system. The last problem is each of the Inner Core must destroyed by Servant and Non-Servant damage at the same time.
*BEEP*
"Showtime!" I yell, as Mastemon glows with both holy light and dark demonic energy.
"Holy Desire. Dark Despair. All return to Nothingness. Chaotic Return!"
Mastemon's right hand releases a beam of shining light, while a sphere of darkness forms in her left. As she brings the black sphere closer it spirals around the beam. The black-and-white spiral pierces Core One with absurd ease. I then charge and leap at the core, pulling back my fist and delivering a thunderous punch. I'm so pumped up; I can't help but give my attack a name.
"DOOMSDAY SMASH!"
*DOOM*
Core 2 Destruction
Artoria Pendragon Alter (Lancer) is surrounded by red particles and a thick mist of dark purple magic.
"Oh, holy spear, removing restraints. Thrust and feast! Thirteen fangs! Rhongomyniad!
The clouds grow and spin around her like an inverted tornado crackling with red lightning. It becomes horizonal with her movements and with a quick charge forward, it becomes an insanely destructive blast that washes over the Core. Amongst the chaos, Rorschach pulls out one of his guns and fires a thin brilliant beam that pierces completely through the Core.
*DOOM*
Core 3 Destruction
"The Three Realms, gods and Buddha, return to ashes! I am the Demon King of the Sixth Heaven, Oda Nobunaga!"
Based on the burning of Mount Hiei and the other brutal deeds she had performed in life, it is a Reality Marble that makes her into a being that "holds absolute power against those with Divinity and Mystery." Against the defenseless Core literally created by the power of an Alien God, it's like being dipped in Dragon Fire.
Raven taps into demonic blood and spiritual power, which allows her to ignore the literal hell around her. She then releases her Soul Self manifestation with a cry that can be heard over the burning flames. Raven's immense soul self then strikes the core at hypersonic speeds, causing the burning core to shatter!
*DOOM*
Core 4 Destruction
Ashiya Dōman activates his Noble Phantasm known as Kyouran Dotou - Akuryousafu
(Maelstrom - Evil Spirit Left Minister). A fiery black vengeful spirit Akuryō-safu appears in the sky, followed by a black sun with a mouth and a ring of eyes. Normally, the NP would inflict hundreds of people with curses as it was meant to kill a city.
Instead, Jade summons a Mini Khan, floating a magic seal in her palm. The Mini Kahn known as Leech Kahn and Shadow Eaters are normally very weak but can devour human shadows to become strong. Even the smallest can eventually grow to the size of a skyscraper.
This time the black sun is devoured by the tiny Shadowkahn who grows to immense size, but morphs into a burning black shadow blade.
"Zangetsu Aku no nisshoku " says Ashiya Dōman in his native tongue of Japanese.
"Moon-Cutting Evil's Eclipse" says Jade in English.
As the sword comes down it slices through the core with absolutely no resistance. There is a trail of dark red flames and purple lightning behind the blade, as the cursed power destroys the very air itself in its passage. The perfectly sliced core then violently explodes.
*DOOM*
Core 5 Destruction
Starfire fires a beam of plasma energy at Saber-Adam, who absorbs the energy. He then turns and fires his NP Moon slice at the Core, while Starfire turns and fires her own super-charged plasma Starbolts. Normally, this would only cause minimal damage to the massive core, but Rorschach was generous with his Cognito Inc Gadgets.
The piece of metal topped with an orb looks like an oversized sewing pin, but it absorbs the combination of extraterrestrial plasma and Servant magical energy, then releases it concentrated to the size of actual sewing pin tip. The release of the hyper-dense magical plasma burns through the Core with insane ease, as it these temperatures the strongest and most heat resistant alloys would become fluffy plasma.
"Plasma Pinpoint is a success."
*DOOM*
Core 6 Destruction
Blackfire fires his Blackbolts at Yoruichi, whose lightning aura absorbs them. Yoruichi then descends faster than a bolt of lightning and delivers a thunderous kick to the Inner Core of Number Six. This combination proves enough, as the surface of the core is cratered, and glowing cracks spread through its structure. As lightning continues to arc, the Inner Core begins to break up.
*DOOM*
Core 7 Destruction
"Golden Eye!"
Berserker-Heracles dies for the final time. It has a look of calm clarity on its face as a golden light shine on its chest. He then collapses to the ground and disintegrates into vanishing particles.
After being sliced in half, incinerated, blown to bits, electrocuted, and many other deaths, Berserker-Heracles was nigh-unstoppable. The last attack was a bullet from Bond's glowing golden gun. A phantasmal bullet that ignores the defenses of its target to pierce the heart with the concept of death. Heracles died remembering when he accepted death, the day he burnt himself alive to end the pain of the Hydra blood that burned his skin.
It's also time for the final attack.
Saber-Casca raises her sword surrounded by a white glow. Shining white particles flow around her like leaves in the wind.
"I fly free of a soul eclipsed."
More particles spray from her back, forming fairy wings composed of white light.
"I will slice through the web of fantasy to set the future free."
Saber-Casca becomes a white light streaking across the battlefield and delivering a single shining slash that causes the world around her to shatter.
"Fantasy Breaker."
Fantasy Breaker is Noble Phantasm born out Casca's victory and desire. Her victory was regaining her mind after the events of the Eclipse. She was broken to the point of being like a helpless child, but with the help of Guts, her friends, and elves of Alfheim, she regained her mind and heart. Her desire was to slice away Griffith World of Fantasy that he sacrificed the Band of the Falcon to create and give humanity control of future from the supernatural. It's an Anti-Mystery Noble Phantasm that shatters all magic, especially Reality Marbles.
In the blink of an eye, the Inner World breaks as the magic sustaining it breaks. The Inner Core, once immensely powerful, becomes for a moment as fragile as an empty glass. It's at that moment that Priss uses a Rorschach Gun to fire a single shot. The darkened core shatters like glass into vanishing particles and soon all the false reality follows.
*DOOM*
Core 8 Destruction
Sun Wukong laughs as he stands victorious over his vanishing foes.
"Nyoibo, Extend!"
The golden tip of the staff extends at such an immense speed it breaks the sound barrier and creates a shockwave. It makes another shockwave as it smashes the front of the weakened inner core and a third as it exits a fraction of a second later.
The Inner World collapses, dissolving into white light.
*DOOM*
Tree of Wonder
1POV
The Cores of the Tree of Wonder glow brightly before bursting causing all the Masters and Servants to appear in the real world.
The Tree of Wonder vibrates and pulsates with energy. Its outer shell of opalescent white bark cracks and shatters to reveal a massive structure more composed of magical energy than a physical substance. High above the tree, a hole opens in the stormy blood red sky to reveal a starless black sky. On the ground below, golden particles rise from the ground and float into the empty sky.
The glowing white substance that was once the bark floats in the air and gathers to form a sphere. Golden lights appear and begin to orbit the sphere. The sphere of white floats towards Cognito and Chaldea's Heroes.
The Chaldea group have a clue about what's going to happen, because they have experienced it many, many times. It doesn't matter if it was at the heart of Singularity or a Lostbelt, in the end they would face one final enemy, often stronger than all the rest.
The Cognito group knows what's about to happen. After fighting escalating enemies and solving puzzles, there would be one thing left at the end of the Game/Quest. The strongest enemy of a Quest must be defeated to win.
"Boss Fight?" I ask Rorschach, already knowing the answer.
"Boss Fight." replies my friend.
The being that emerges from the white sphere resembles a young androgenous humanoid with glowing eyes, porcelain white skin, and long flowering iridescent silver-white hair. It's completely nude but lacks any genitalia or any other orifice below the head, making the being look like a doll. Its unnatural skin seems to lack pores and its narrow nails are solid white. What makes the being the most inhuman is four pairs of immense feathery wings with each feather marked with a glowing eye.
"Why? Why do you attack the Tree which sustains your world?" asks the being with a sad tone. It's clear to me and Rorschach that his being is only faking human emotion. "The Tree was planted for this world to live."
"We understand that." says Ritsuka Fujimaru - the diplomatic protagonist, "but we never wanted to sacrifice other worlds for our survival. We now have a different option to survive."
"Why would you place value on the survival of others? They are not your blood or your allies, they are complete strangers you have never met."
"It's because hurting the innocent goes against who I am."
"Morality. I understand to live in groups, your kind must have some form of rules, but..."
"I think that's enough conversation." interrupts Rorschach, "That thing is distracting you, so it can attempt to create new cores."
Dozens of Portal Jumpers appear in the sky, decloaked in a circle around the massive alien tree.
"Where did those come from?" I can't help but ask as I remember how hard it was to get one into this world. It required me to be a torpedo.
"I had them built since we got here. Self-replicating nanomachinery means my ships can build more ships." says Rorschach, "Light the Candle."
Each ship expands and unfolds like a flower. Compartments open, launchers and turrets are deployed, and soon each Ship looks far bigger than it was. Each ship then fires twice their body weight in missiles in a classic Macross Missile Massacre. These missiles are strange as they are glowing gold, piercing their target multiple times before detonating inside the target. It reminds me of drone weapons from the Stargate franchise. Branches and Roots of the Tree of Wonder are breaking off and disintegrating, while the trunk is hemorrhaging magical energy as golden light.
The numerous Servants, both belonging to Cognito and Chaldea, watch briefly before adding their own attacks. Massive sword beams slice the tree causing fiery explosions, shining arrows pierce the tree's surface before detonating like missiles, and shining spears bend the laws of physics to hit their targets. There are also a dozen other attacks that would take too long to describe, but also cause massive damage.
The angelic looking being, the Incarnation of the Alien God, doesn't react well to the destruction of the tree. It also doesn't react well when my grey fist punches it in the face and sends it flying. I can't explain the rising hatred I have for the Alien God, but I will admit I feel a sense of pleasure as my fists smash the Incarnation into the ground. I note that the Alien deity's blood (or what passes for vital fluid) has color and viscosity of petroleum
I'm thrown back by an explosive shockwave and the wounded Incarnation begins to change. It's flawless white flesh bubbles like melting plastic and a black oily substance begins to leak from every eye and its steaming mouth. For a moment, he becomes a sphere of darkness, that then bursts to reveal the Second form.
The second form of Incarnation of the Alien God is far more horrifying. Its body has grown and now has long limbs ending in black claws. Its skin is now dark red with branching white markings, its hair is dark ash grey, and its wings are pure black with blood red eyes. Its eyes and the eyes of wings are crying/bleeding a black liquid. It also has two antlers resembling tree branches and eight thorny vines acting as tails.
It raises its arms and the ground for several kilometers' shatters and floats into the air. As it stands on a floating ground surrounded by swirling dust and a malicious red aura, it spreads its arms and swirling dark red/black portals open in the air. These portals pull in nearby objects and disintegrate them, while firing fiery red beams of otherworldly power.
I jump in front of some of our Chaldean allies to protect them from the beams. The beams manage to hurt me for a few seconds, but soon I've completely adapted. It's still difficult to defend others when those beams can completely disintegrate the rocky platforms we are standing on. Thankfully, some of the Riders use their mounts to divert the Incarnation's attention.
"Ash! Ritsuka!" calls out Rorschach, "This is still nothing but a distraction. It's trying to regrow the tree!"
Down on the ground, I can see the massive Tree of Fantasy looking an overgrown weed at the bottom of an immense crater
A portal opens in front of me, and I can see portals in front of many of the Servants. Thankfully these are not Incarnations matter-disintegrating alien portals, but Rorschach's own brand of portal technology. We jump through the portals to find ourselves at the bottom of the crater, each near one of the remaining roots of the Tree of Wonder.
"Immeasurable, Unhindered, Unbound, the three luminous fluxes forms together eternally. Decisive Blade. Eternity Three Stage!"
The certain death technique of the demonic sword of Majin. Okita Souji Alter fires a radiant black beam. The Counter Guardian's purpose is to protect the world, but today this corrupted Guardian helps save the multiverse!
"I'll say this not as a King, but as a loyal knight. Anything to disturb the King's peace will be crushed! Clarent Blood Arthur!"
Mordred, the Knight of Treachery, releases a fiery red sword beam. It's a blast born of pain, as Mordred loved her "father" and King Arthur's rejection hurt her tremendously. Part of her wishes she had died at King's side, instead being the one to deliver the final blow. The beam slashes through the root causing a powerful explosion.
I don't hear the aria, but I do see my newest "daughter" Altera Larva use "Fairy Snow Photon Ray". She flies in the air on fairy wings of radiant green-white magic, before streaking across the battlefield leaving behind a trail of rainbow-color energy. The root she attacked is sparkling like powder snow, before it exploded.
"Sheathed in the breath of the planet, a torrent of shining life. Feel its wrath-Excalibur!"
Artoria's Sword of the Promised Victory is as epic and beautiful as always. Another large root is blown apart by the radiant golden sword beam.
"Iron Hammer of the Hollow King. Overturn the aurora. Swallow the light! Excalibur Morgan!"
Artoria's Blackened alternative self's evil blast seems just as powerful, if not more so. An equally large root's destruction is proof.
"The evil dragon shall fall, and the world will reach its sunset. Felling blow. Balmung!"
Siegfried is known as the dragon slayer and his NP is based on killing Dragon Fafnir. The root he annihilates is not an evil dragon, but its magic and size are comparable.
"Three Wise Men of the East. The Great God of the Norse. The Fruit of Wisdom. My intellect, my omnipotence, surpasses all forms of wisdom! Uomo Universale!"
Leonardo da Vinci's Noble Phantasm is unique in that It instantly analyzes the target(s) and adjusts his/her greatest attack in accordance with that target(s) before firing, commonly called an all-purpose, specially made Noble Phantasm.
I had her use it on me before the Core Quests began and it teleported her away from me. It reminded me of when the mutant Darwin fought against an enraged Hulk. Darwin could adapt to any threat and his power teleported him away from Hulk.
"Judgment is upon you. Behold the crushing might of my Sword of Rupture. —Behold! Enuma Elish!"
Gilgamesh, the King of Heroes, is a little upset about using the Sword of Rupture on an overgrown weed. The anti-world noble phantasm is easily able to slice through the immense root, along with several other roots.
As for myself, I tap into my inner power and unleash my most powerful Abyss Roar to annihilate the last root. I'm sure some of the Servants would compare it to Dragon Fire, but I would compare it to Abigail's own NP. It's a beam of energy from the heart of the Qliphoth, a blast of entropic energy that brings all things to their inevitable end.
As the last root is severed, there are small explosions on the surface of the Tree of Wonder. Those explosions travel up the ruined roots, up the trunk, and across the branches. At a distance, it's almost like the Tree of Wonder is sparkling. The explosions grow in number and size, with the roots and branches disintegrating, and light beams shining out from the heart of the tree. The Tree finally reaches its breaking point and explodes, becoming nothing more than glowing particles.
As the Tree is annihilated, the "anti-gravity effect" of Incarnation ends and the millions of tons of stone and earth collapse back to Earth. Thanks to the skills of the Servants and Rorschach's combination of shields and portals, the Masters and most of the Servants land safely.
The Incarnation doesn't sound human anymore. Its body inflates and bursts releasing an abomination onto the surface of the Earth.
The third form of Incarnation of the Alien God is not humanoid. Instead, it resembles a massive worm composed of twisting red vines with numerous black eyes and black thorn-like protrusions. Its massive flower-like head has eight tendrils feeding a maw of thorns acting as teeth. As it moves, it lets out streams of an oily red-black liquid, as if its very existence is polluting the world around it.
"Damn thing doesn't know when to give up." says Bond.
"Actually, the Alien God already left." says Rorschach, "It just discarded this fragment."
"Gods always leave messes for mortals to clean up." says one Servant.
"I got this." I say as a walk forward.
"Why is he so confident?" asks Mash.
"He's dealt with so many otherworldly threats and eldritch horrors, that Alien God Slayer should be stamped on his rear." says Rorschach.
I charge forward before anyone can say anything else and I can also hear a song playing (the boss music?). As my fist collides with the worm, it's the sound of thunder. I deliver punch after punch, and the beast can't react fast enough to avoid any of them. As my blows become faster and faster, they blow with the friction of the air and the force of the impacts. The Incarnation is being slapped around like an overgrown weed and I'm the weedwhacker.
The worm finally manages to jump back and unleash black spheres surrounded in gravitational distortions and I can guess they are "black hole" attacks. Much to the disbelief of the watchers, I punch the pseudo-singularities causing them to flash out of existence.
It's thousands of black eyes flow and attempt to curse me. It's the type of curse that would destroy a target's existence on every level, including erasing a person from temporal existence. Such powerful curses do have a weakness, if they are broken the curse is rebound on the one who cast it. The curse manages to blow back my hair and shred my Cognito-made clothing, but I resist. I can feel it like an invisible layer wrapped tightly around my body, but as I flex it shatters and explodes outward as bright red particles. The worm's thousands of eyes burst and it lets out what must be a cry of pain.
As it roars, I appear in front of its open maw and release my Abyss Roar. The blinding blast of white entropic energy travels down the "throat" of the eldritch abomination and out the back. Strange glowing symbols appear and shatter around the energy pierced Beast. When the Abyss Roar ends, the worm falls.
The body of Incarnation of the Alien God blackens as streams of white particles burst from its body. As more and more jets of light particles appear, the black body begins to dissolve into smoke. Finally, in one final flash of light and a loud shockwave, the Incarnation of the Alien God is finally dead, and the Quest is Complete.
*DOOM*
[FATE NO MORE]
Part 1 – Fuyuki [Complete]
Part 2 - Chaldea Mission [Complete]
Part 3 – The Tree of Fantasy [Complete]
Hidden Bonus – Save the Unversed-Fate Earth [Complete]
Status: [Complete]
Rewards:
Special Rewards are Based on Summons.
(32+1) Servants Summoned.
Ash Grey Summoned (5) - Mastemon (re-summoned), Abigail Williams (5-star, Foreigner), Altera-Larva (4-Star, Saber), Larva-Tiamat (5-Star, Alter-Ego), and Jack the Ripper (5-Star, Assassin)
Ash Grey Rewards - [Existence Outside the Domain] [Riding] [Authority of the Beast] [Presence Concealment]
"Woah. These are class skills of Foreigner, Saber, Beast, and Assassin."
"I don't see [Magic Resistance]?"
"It would be super redundant in my case. I've been hit by some of the most powerful, destructive, and dark magics in the multiverse. You could stamp anti-magic on my rear. In fact, you could stamp any anti skill."
"How can you possess [Authority of the Beasts]?" chirps Larva-Tiamat, which I translate.
Authority of the Beast (alt. "Authority of Beasts") is an Anti-Humanity Class Skill of the Beast class, also called Anti-Human Order. In Tiamat's case, she gains a damage boost against Heroic Spirits, Divine Spirits, and all things born of "the Mother's Womb.". A Bonus that she wouldn't have against someone like me due to my artificial origins.
"I'm a monster, Tia. To be more specific, I'm a hybrid of human genius and extraterrestrial superhuman fused with a crystal-eating extraterrestrial virus. My alternate selves are called Doomsday as I'm considered a walking apocalypse and could kill my Earth's strongest hero. "
The young girls don't judge. Abby was/is the avatar of Alien God Sut-Typhon, Altera was born from the deity-slaying White Titan, Tiamat is the lily form of a primordial goddess, and Jack is mass of aborted baby souls in the form of a serial killer. My family just gets weirder and weirder.
"Do you want to kill him?"
"No. I consider him family. I also got to kill evil alternate versions, so my inner monster is happy."
"That's Good?"
"Good enough."
Rorschach Summoned (5) - Tesla (Archer of Remnant), Leonardo Da Vinci (5-Star, Rider) (Chibi Di Vinci), Artoria Pendragon Alter (4-Star, Lancer), Genghis Khan (Temujin) (5-Star, Rider), and Simo Häyhä (5-Star, Assassin/Gunner)
Rorschach Rewards - [Item Construction] [Territory Creation] [Pioneer of the Stars] [Magic Resistance] [Rider] [Presence Concealment]
"[Pioneer of the Stars]? You managed to copy that?" asks the adult Leonardo Di Vinci.
"He is qualified. Tesla is an alternate version of him and Cognito Inc Literally gave People the Stars. It's gotten to the point that humanity believes Cognito can accomplice anything." I comment.
"Tesla and you are the same person."
"An alternate me got reincarnated as him" says Rorschach.
"Mine was weirder. I got reincarnated as the Alter of Achilles and my sister was a female version of Achilles."
Ritsuka's Rider Achilles looks a little pale at the revelation. Not at the female version, he was forced to disguised himself as a woman to hide on Scyros among the daughters of King Lycomedes. Achilles is probably upset about being connected to what is essentially a Beast with his face.
Raven Summoned (5) Hassan of Serenity (3-Star, Assassin), Oda Nobunaga (4-Star, Archer), Edmond Dantès (5-Star, Avenger), Jeanne d'Arc Alter (5-Star, Avenger), and HP Lovecraft (3-Star, Caster)
Raven Rewards - [Presence Concealment] [Magic Resistance] [Avenger] [Self-Replenishment (Mana)] [Mixed-Blood] [Divine Core of Love]
"Divine Core!?" says many viewers.
"You absorbed it from Kama?" I asked with a little worry.
"I'm alright. My body was able to adapt to it."
"How? It's a Skill that representing her being a perfected god of love from birth. How could you absorb it?" says one of the magi.
"I would blame my father." says Raven.
"Your father?" asks Mash
"Trigon the Terrible. An incredibly powerful demon and celestial conqueror." says Rorschach, "He was born from a combination of what you would call Alien Gods and a mass of hatred and negative emotions."
"Mother was a runaway who got involved with a cult." says Raven, "Trigon fathered us to spread his influence"
"She had Six brothers based on the Seven Deadly Sins and her as Pride. They tried to recruit/dominate her, but Jade and her eliminated them, absorbing their powers." says Rorschach, "In most universes, there are prophecies about her summoning her father, but in those same universes she's the one that kills her father."
Rorschach displays a small, animated video showing Raven covered in glowing red markings opening the portal to allow Trigon to invade Earth. Then it shows a glowing white robed Raven annihilating Trigon.
Many of the Servants wince at the word "Prophecy".
"Raven is Merlin's Aunt in our Universe." I comment, breaking the awkward silence and causing most of the Arthurian Servants to stare.
Jade Summoned (7) - Yagyū Munenori (4-Star, Saber), Houzouin Inshun (3-Star, Lancer), Tomoe Gozen (4-Star, Archer), Mochizuki Chiyome (4-Star, Assassin), Shuten-douji (5-Star, Assassin/Berserker), Minamoto-no-Raikou (5-Star, Berserker/Rider), and Ashiya Dōman (5-Star, Caster).
Jade Rewards – [Magic Resistance] x 4 [Item Contruction] [Territory Creation] [Presence Concealment] [Demonic Nature of Oni] [Demonic Nature of Oni (Protection)] [Divine Core of Darkness]
"Divine Core of Darkness!?"
Ashiya Dōman looks at Jade with a look of amazement and devotion that is disturbing. I thought Orochimaru could make creepy faces.
"I was already progressing along those lines." says Jade, "When I became the Queen of all Oni and Ruler of the Shadowlands, I gained a bit of divinity. So, technically I was a Kijin."
Particularly powerful oni may be described as kishin or kijin (literally "oni god"), a term used in Japanese Buddhism to refer to Wrathful Deities.
"With the Core, I'm now a transcendent being." states Jade, basically saying she is now a Goddess.
Now that I think about it, this means Raven and Jade achieved Immortality. Divine Cores preserves the absoluteness of the mind and the body, repels all mental interference, prevents the body from growth and prevents the figure from changing no matter how many calories are absorbed. My other wives are going to be jealous that Raven and Jade can literally eat every Cognito Sweet and not gain a gram!
Starfire Summoned (2) - Saber-Adam (re-summoned) and Sienna Kahn (5-Star, Rider of Remnant) (RWBY)
Starfire Rewards - [Aura (Protection)] [Riding] [Magic Resistance]
"Aura. So, you can use spiritual energy to protect yourself and increase your recovery?" asks Rorschach, already knowing the answer.
"I wonder what your semblance will be?" I say to my redhead wife.
"Semblance?" asks Ritsuka
"In the world of Remnant, people can unlock their auras for protection, enhancement, and defense. Given time, training, or circumstance, they can also develop unique abilities kind of like individual superpowers." says Rorschach
Blackfire Summoned (2) - Yoruichi Shihōin (5-Star, Assassin of Shinigami) and Kisuke Urahara (5-Star Caster of Shinigami)
Blackfire Rewards - [Presence Concealment] [Immense Spiritual Power] [Item Construction]
"Reiryoku or Spiritual Power is a power aligned with the spiritual sensitivity and willpower of the user. It provides power for Shinigami and other spiritual beings" says Urahara, "The general rating for spiritual power is basic, average, high, great, immense, and immeasurable. Both me and Yoruichi are Immense meaning Advance Captain level and now, so are you, Blackfire."
"I'm surprised you got Item Construction." I say with a smirk, "I can't imagine you making gadgets."
She nails me in the face with a black bolt. The plasma would blast apart a human skull, but this is playful slap for me.
Priss Summoned (3) - Casca (3-Star, Saber of the Eclipsed), Guts (5-Star, Saber/Berserker of the Eclipsed), and James Bond (4-Star, Assassin/Gunner).
Priss Rewards - [Magic Resistance] [Riding] [Presence Concealment] [Marksmanship]
"Normal stuff. At least I know how to shoot a gun."
"Do you need a gun?"
"You never know when your usual method will fail, so it's always good to have a backup."
The Chaldeans nod at her line of reasons, especially the "Gunner" Billy the Kid. Servants placed within the Gunner class specialize in firearms. It's a "modern" class that replaces the bow of the Knight Archer.
Max Summoned (3+1 Mount) - Link of the Gerudo (4-Star, Alter/Rider of the Gerudo) with Epona, Zorro (Don Diego de la Vega) (5-Star, Saber), and Sun Wukong (5-Star, Lancer/Caster).
Max Rewards - [Magic Resistance] [Riding] [Mist Eating]
"Mist Eating?" says a confused Max.
"It basically means you can live on ambient Qi." I answer, "You don't have to worry about starving as long as the planet is alive."
"I had to eat the mist when I was sealed by Buddha." says Sun Wukong, "Centuries stuck under a mountain. I was a six-fold Immortal at the time, but I was craving food. What they didn't write was the amount of time I spent looking for meat and fruit after the monk freed me. One fool demon attempted to attack me when I ate something poisonous, my breath alone was enough to send him off the mountain."
Six-Fold Immortal. This was before he ate the Ginseng Fruit and the Final Celebratory Feast. Just like in my Xianxia novels and comics, most of the taoist immortal cultivation was eating weird things. Those cultivators only wish they had Wukong's BS Luck.
*DOOM*
END OF CHAPTER 38
NEXT
Fate Aftermath
Ash's Daughters.
The Light Reacts
A Changing Universe
Chapter 39 – More Monsters & Magic
August 5