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Sister Fanfic: Serious Side Reels - A Grand Order of Heroes Sidestories
"AAAAAAAAAA"
The sound of a woman's voice, while melodic and soothing in lower decibels, was anything but as it was so loud that it caused shockwaves that caused the sea and air to quake under its pressure.
Gudao, alongside Chaldea, was currently facing off against the final threat of the final singularity of Babylonia.
The primordial goddess Tiamat.
Gudao was currently riding on a pterosaur, courtesy of the goddess Quetzacoatl, yet even the giraffe-sized mount struggled to stay afloat due to the ripping winds created by the primordial goddess's voice.
He stared at the bound-up horned goddess, who was as tall as a building with trepidation. How the hell were they going to stop this before it reached Uruk?
He didn't know, but he didn't care, he had to find a way! Before he could advance, he was intercepted by a flying golden vehicle that looked like an arrow.
"Retreat and leave it to me Gudao!" The voice of Ishtar, goddess of Love, rang in his ears. Seeing her determination to fight Tiamat and seeing how she wanted to protect him, he decided to relent to her advice.
"Alright! By the power of this command seal, release your noble phantasm."
His magical energy flowed, and he felt the sensation of one of his command seals disappearing from his hand.
Ishtar in the meanwhile, looked down at Tiamat, her body now enhanced by her master's command spell, but before she could attack, she felt a presence near her.
"You might want to stand back lolibaba, I can't guarantee your safety if you stay nearby," Ishtar warned the other divine spirit, the one who came from the other world, Sothis the Fell Star.
"Fine, do your thing. But you better not miss because you like showing off." Heh, sassy as always, aren't you? Just watch and see! GATE OPEN!" Ishtar threw her hand horizontally to the side, which caused a large gate to open in the middle of the air. From the void of stars and space, a large celestial object descended, which to anyone who had attended elementary school would recognize as the planet Venus.
"This is all my power, all my soul!" Ishtar raised a finger gun to the sky, which caused the celestial object to shine bright, condense, and descend near her flying vehicle. Then, she pointed the condensed venus at the demonic goddess standing below her with a confident grin, causing the object to condense even further before morphing into an arrow-shaped projectile of magical energy.
"An Gal Tā Kigal Shē!"
The arrow lengthened and in a violent display of power, flew down toward Tiamat and engulfed her in a blast of pure magical energy.
The energy blast was so powerful, it threw a mile-high plume of water into the air.
Meanwhile, back in the Chaldean control room, one of the operators reported on the results of the attack.
"Tiamat's magical energy signature is gone!"
"Then that means!"
"Yes, she's dead!"
Back in the Singularity, Ishtar rejoins the group, a smug grin on her face.
"So, did you like my performance?"
Sothis looked at Ishtar before crossing her arms, "Fine. I will admit, it was impressive. Still a bit show-offy, but given the circumstances, I'll concede that it was, indeed, impressive."
Ishtar just smirked before looking in the direction of Uruk, "Alright! Now I can go get the rest of my jewels!"
"Is money all you can think of you greedy goddess?!" Sothis exclaimed with an exacerbated tone.
Ishtar turned back to Sothis with an indignant look on her face, "Yes, I earned it! So I get to enjoy it!"
While those two were busy bickering, behind them, bubbles began to surface from the ocean's surface. Even at this distance, the first one to notice something was off was Gudao. When he noticed the giant bubbles erupting from where Tiamat was, his face paled.
"Uh, guys?" He tried to call out to the bickering goddesses, but they were not paying attention and were too focused on their spat.
"Pathetic, and you call yourself a goddess."
"Because I am! You're just jealous I have a better figure than your tiny frame!"
"Grr, this isn't about our body types! This is about showing humility and being a good example to our followers!"
Having heard enough, Gudao decided to interrupt them, "Guys!"
""What?!""
Both the goddesses turned to him with annoyed expressions, but that changed when he pointed at the place where Tiamat used to be. As soon as their eyes lay on the anomaly, another giant explosion of water emerged from the ocean.
"Ugh! What did you do?!"
"Don't blame me for this! I had nothing to do with it!"
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" The melodic voice, the one belonging to the goddess they believed to be destroyed, had graced their ears once more. Except now, Tiamat was standing unrestrained and in a much larger vessel than she had prior. Her new form was so foreign that it almost hurt to look at, it due to how out of place it looked in their world.
"Well, that didn't work," Sothis, the green-haired goddess of Fodlan said with a deadpan, as she floated near the panic-stricken Ishtar.
The goddess of lust just let out a frustrated groan, "Yes I can see that, you lolibaba."
Another strong gust of wind threw them all back, and it came from Tiamat moving across the ocean.
"Oh no! She's headed towards Uruk! We have to stop her!" Gudao said.
Seeing the situation unfold, Sothis flew in front of Ishtar and said, "Let me try something." suddenly the diminutive green-haired goddess shone a bright light and illuminated the sky with her divine power. The world around them turned purple, freezing everyone in time, then with a snap of her fingers, the purple color from around Sothis collapsed into the form of Tiamat, which slowed to a crawl, then to a complete stop.
"What did you do?" Ishtar asked, seemingly impressed by the feat.
"I am a time goddess, after all, I just stopped her from advancing. But I can't keep it up forever, so you have to hurry."
Suddenly, the figure of Tiamat twitched, causing the frozen shell of solidified space around it to crack.
"Gah!" The shockwave of power that Tiamat expulsed from her body crashed into the small goddess. Yet despite this, Sothis held firm and released more of her power, sealing the cracks back to how they were at the start of her spell. Even after being restored to nearly her full power when she was summoned by Chaldea, the strain of keeping a behemoth like that woman in the place was causing so much strain on her authority that it rebounded and caused blood to drip from her nose.
"Oi, you okay?" Ishtar said with a hint of concern. As much as she liked to say she disliked Sothis, Ishtar still grew close enough to her that she didn't like seeing her in pain.
"Mmm fine. Hurry up and charge up your attack again."
"Don't be stupid! We need to retreat! My attack wasn't able to do anything!"
"That is because you are too weak." A monotone voice said as it flew past both Ishtar and Sothis. The insane amount of magical energy they felt from her was suffocating and alien.
"Who are you!?" Ishtar said toward the divine spirit who looked exactly like her, except with blue hair and in a long red dress. The lookalike turned to face Ishtar, her eyes looked so emotionally dead that it caused the skimpy goddess to flinch.
"I am the true goddess Ishtar, Space Ishtar. Watch and seethe over your futile efforts being rendered to nothing." The goddess Space Ishtar had arrived and now disregarded everyone in favor of staring down the primordial goddess, who, despite being locked in time, had noticed her entrance and was staring straight at her.
0-0-0
"Gods... I still cannot believe there are two of them." Gilgamesh said with a look of what seemed to be constipation on his face.
"Why didn't we just use this Ishtar from the get-go?" A holographic image of Mashu asked through the communication device used by Chaldea, which she and her team had been using to communicate with King Gilgamesh from Uruk.
"Because Spishtar wanted to steal the spotlight with a cool entrance," Gudao said with a bit of reluctance.
Gilgamesh's eye twitched before he just released an exhausted sigh, "Good grief, always the useless goddess that Ishtar is, no matter the form she takes."
"I am not useless, I am superior."
Gilgamesh flinched as the voice of Space Ishtar echoed in his throne room, despite her not being there.
He quickly composed himself and recovered from his surprise with a scoff, "Then show me your true power, Ishtar of the Stars."
The goddess's lips stretched into a maniacal grin, "with pleasure."
0-0-0
The newly arrived goddess wasted no time, and her body shone a bright light, much like Sothis but much brighter. The light was so overwhelming, it blinded everyone for miles.
Then it stopped and in Space Ishtar's place was a void of space that was shaped exactly like her. The void grew, and grew, and grew, swallowing everyone around her vicinity, Gudao and the others managed to avoid it, but Tiamat, normal Ishtar, and Sothis were dragged into the gate and into what appeared to be outer space.
Tiamat sensed the immense power and unleashed more of her strength to release her shackles.
"I can't hold on anymore…"
The sound of glass shattering echoed in the surroundings, although they were in the vacuum of space.
"Gah!" Sothis could not handle the strain of shackling a primordial goddess any longer and was forced to release her hold. Tiamat was now free once more.
The backlash from her failed spell rendered her unconscious and started to drift, however, she was caught by regular Ishtar before she drifted into the vastness of space.
When she saw she was alright, Ishtar looked back to her other self with a look of awe. Rather than her normal red dress, she was now garbed in a red fighting suit, which looked so cool.
"You wish to revert the world back into a primordial hell? ...Ehe, ufufu, ufufufufufu! Very well, I the Goddess Ishtar shall grant your wish!" As soon as she finished her statement, a giant doll in the likeness of Rin Tohsaka loomed over Tiamat. It was so large, it made even the primordial goddess look tiny in comparison.
"OH MY GOD THAT IS SO GODDAMNED COOL!" Ishtar, who was floating nearby, said as she bore witness to the power of her Space self.
Spishtar ignored her weaker self and just pointed a finger gun at Tiamat, "ULTIMATE GODDESS BEAM!"
A large beam of magical energy shot out of her finger gun, which was followed by hundreds of other beams, headed straight toward Tiamat.
"AAAAAAAAAAAA" Tiamat screamed in pain as the beams of yellow light hit her head on, and engulfed her. A gigantic, planet-sized explosion was the final result of the attack, which threw normal Ishtar back due to the shockwaves.
When it was over she looked back at where Tiamat was and found nothing.
The ultimate form of Tiamat was no match for the incoming firepower and was destroyed.
Spishtar closed her eyes, and the world returned to normal.
After a moment of silence, Mashu's voice sounded out through the communicators, "Is it she dead? Like truly, truly dead?"
Space Ishtar turned to the demi-servant with an annoyed expression, "You doubt my power?"
"N-N-No I don't," Mashu said but was interrupted by Spishtar.
"Do not worry, nothing could withstand my ultimate power an live-"
As if Murphy itself decided to prove Space Ishtar wrong, a giant explosion of power surged near the area above them. Spishtar looked to the sky and based on the annoyed look on her face told the people around them her attack, despite how grand it was, still failed.
Tiamat had returned, once more, except this time, her form was now much, much more compact. Yet despite how small she was, her power had not waned in the slightest, and in fact, it had gotten even more powerful.
"Tch, it's Space Tiamat," Spishtar said in her signature monotone voice.
Hearing what she just said, Regular Ishtar's neck nearly snapped when it turned to face her counterpart, "Say what?!"
" "
Meanwhile back in Uruk, Gilgamesh slammed his fist on his throne when he saw the new threat emerge.
"Ishtar… no matter what place or time you come from... YOU TRULY ARE A USELESS GODDESS!"
Author's Note: This is another reason why certain servants are not allowed to be summoned before a certain singularity is completed. Their very existence will cause shit to escalate. Anyway, Spishtar and space tiamat are non canon, but the dynamic between Ishtar and Sothis is.
Anyways, Here is the omake I promised you guys. A bit unpolished, but I am running out of time, so this is the best I got. I will definitely come back once the story is completed and give every chapter a tune up before moving on to my next project.
Thanks for reading and comment if you liked the chapter!
