Miitopian Civil War

Chapter 19: An Icy Hatred

Date: June 10th, 2023

Today's battle was going to be very chilly. That isn't going to be a problem for really any of us due to what we're wearing or heating tech and fire magic and such but it was sure going to be interesting because a lot of white was going to go red or pink soon enough.. "Hell yeah! We just got confirmation! Everyone, our comrades in Powdered Peaks are ready for a fight. We have to go help them as soon as we can! Come on!" Barla was right. We had to go. And so, we all teleported to Powdered Peaks after everyone's gear and conditions were evaluated. It was also after everyone got in very quick and intense warmups for the battle ahead. We had only gotten to rest for 2 hours after our last battle. It was now nighttime so things were going to be different this time. We also had dinner, sharpened weapons, and made sure everything was all set. Once we confirmed everything was taken care of, we got there. The moonlight made seeing things pretty possible but everything was dim, albeit a little brighter thanks to the reflectiveness of the white snow. "What a nap causation. It's too quiet and empty out here." Goku confirms. "Yeah, I don't sense the Ki of any enemy. What's going on?" Tsunade adds: "Katsuya is unable to find anything, chakra or people." Athena speaks up. Her eyes are blue and her long hair is purple. She is wearing a robe and holding her staff. "There is no evil cosmo either." Seiya sighs: "This feels like a trap." Shikamaru groans: "This is 100% an ambush. Hinata, can you use your Byakugan?" She nods. "I will! Byakugan! ..I'm not seeing anyone either." That's when Blaze smells something: "I'm smelling something horrible.. It's all around us.." Willy, Andromeda, Scooby, and others confirm the smell. Orochimaru just laughs. "I find this highly amusing. They think they can just hide and wait for us to lower their guard before attacking?! It's so interesting what people can come up with."

Shun, one of Athena's knights who wears a magenta and white/silver armor known as the Andromeda armor speaks up. He has nearly shoulder length green hair, light skin, and green eyes. "The enemy is nearby. My chains can sense them." That's when Edyn starts shivering: "Brr! It's getting much colder out here now. What's going on?! I could handle it before but now.." Laval is next to speak: "Sudden greater chill.. It's like with the Hunters back then.." Nagato narrows his stare. "They must be all around us. The enemy is here but where are our allies from this region?" And then, thousands upon thousands of frozen troops jump out at all of us. "What the hell?! What has Pmurt done this time?! What did he do to create all these frozen fighters? Damn it. No wonder they didn't give off any energies that could be sensed by ninja, Athena, her knights, or Goku." Zane yells: "It's much worse than that! This chill is stronger than my elemental powers of ice!" Hyuga, another of Athena's knights who has shoulder length blonde hair, light blue eyes, and light skin and dons the Cygnus armor which is very much silver and white adds: "Damn it! It's like these frozen soldiers have been frozen to absolute zero. How is that even possible?! How are they still able to move?!" We all then split up to fight the oncoming army of frozen troops. We of the Akatsuki end up going to fight together in one group. It just sort of developed that way. Orochimaru exclaims as he charges at some of our foes: "How interesting! Frozen men frozen to absolute zero to be freezing cold killing machines. There's not a single ninjitsu that is capable of such a feat. Even I am unsure how something like this is even possible." That's when all the frozen troops suddenly stop and Pmurt Nedib appears before us all in the air like some sort of snooty god.

He laughs: "Now that I have your attention, I'm going to tell you all about my frozen army for they will be the ones to kill all of you sinners forever! Gods like Athena and Beerus have betrayed their divine duties by choosing to side like wokeist freaks like all of you! Therefore, when they die, I will take their powers for my own and become the greatest god to ever exist! I will be worshipped by all I choose to let live! As for everyone else, I will have them exterminated for not fitting into my views of what a perfect society should look like! No more socialism, no more rebellion, no more woke, no more CRT, no more of any of that! Transgenderism will be eliminated as well and when it is, it will be one of my greatest victories! With my holiness and my power, I was able to freeze my soldiers with so much dark energy that they became solid ice troops who only serve me! Furthermore, no flame or magma could ever hope to melt them! They are my perfect minions! With their brains now nothing but ice, the only evidence of them still living are their souls! These are my greatest troops, my most loyal, my most foolish! These fools follow me blindly just as they did when they agreed to let me freeze them to absolute zero! Not even my androids were ever so tough to destroy! I will return when you sinners are cleansed from this world! Until then, enjoy suffering my divine punishment enacted by these soldiers of ice!" He vanishes through a portal as usual and our foes immediately resume attacking us right away. "Damn it! This is going to be so tough to overcome! Stand back everyone, I'm going to use my sword skills. Let's see if they can puncture any of these frozen bastards! It's like their hatred was so cold that it is what allowed them to transform into these frozen troops."

"Indeed. One could say that it was an icy hatred that laid inside of them that even allowed their bodies to be transformed in this way. I must collect one of them for my research when we're on the verge of victory. Go on Swiftdrawer, use your skills to test the thickness of these icy cold fascist fighters." I lunge at some of our foes: "Drawing Devastation! Haaaaaa!" My attack doesn't deal any damage. "This is bad! This is a really bad sign! If this keeps up, I will be forced to use other weapons, defend, or become part of sneaky operations to attack our foes unconventionally. And my sword skills are the best skills I have. They're even better than my writing skills. Fine then! Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 18! Haaaaaaaaaaaa!" My attack does nothing to them either. I even try a Kamehameha but all it does is push our foes back a little bit. "This means that my martial arts, daggers, bow, and conventional guns won't work either. There's only one way I can still attack that could possibly work.. *I pull out my BRAIN Blaster* Take this! Go away, you damn frozen bastards twisted by your icy hatred!" Despite my marksmanship being really good at this point, the laser blaster does nothing to them either. And they're all still coming at us with everything they have. "Damn it! I have no choice! Everyone, I will support you as a tank instead of something more akin to a berserker! That's the only thing I can do right now as I powered up our Artist monster comrades already earlier. Crap. We are in serious danger this time for sure! We have to find a way to overcome all of this but what?!" Nagato pushes the ones coming for us back with one of his Pains but that doesn't solve anything. It only buys us a few seconds to get more ready for what they throw at us. That's when I pull out something I haven't used since the calamity in time crisis. My old sword. I draw it from a new scabbard attached to my armor around where my left leg begins when my armor is on. I'm not very good at dual wielding with swords but I want to at least try it out whenever I get the chance to.

"It is my duty as a knight to protect the forces of good and the innocent. Haaaaaaa! Face my new dual wielding technique! This is how I will stand out among swordfighters even more than before for now on. Take this, you bastards! Double Proud Protector!" Something I learned in my other life is that dual wielding swords takes more effort and precision than swinging with just one sword. It's easy to dual wield with a sword and dagger because of their varying lengths but it's harder with 2 longswords, that's for sure. To dual wield means you have to learn to swing effectively without having your weapons clash against each other when you're trying to hit the enemy or train efficiently. That's the challenge in dual wielding. That's why I've avoided doing it for as long as I have. My attack speed is compromised when I dual wield swords, just like when I dual wield my main sword and my shield. But I think swinging 2 swords is easier than swinging one while blocking with a shield as well. Anyway, I perform a double version of the classic Miitopian warrior job defense technique. It means I hold both of my swords out in a defiant blocking position as I move around as fast as I can to block any hits meant for myself or my comrades. Because both of my swords have been upgraded to the max with what we have available, I knew I wouldn't have to worry about them breaking very quickly. That was certainly a relief. And whatever my swords couldn't block, my armor took care of instead. So for about 15 minutes, I ran around blocking whatever I could, making enemies miss their targets and whatnot. I did it wordlessly because I can endure quite a lot of force without making any noise. I only stopped because I saw my comrades begin to lose. So I had to step in now for real. I stopped moving around and with my 2 swords in my hands, I ran towards the very front of the frontlines. I swung at our foes in hopes that I could block and stall at the same time. "I won't let you bastards hurt my comrades! You'll have to kill me to really get to hurt them! This is a promise! I won't stop! I'm a knight of the people! Haaaa!"

Even as the freezing winds of Powdered Peaks as well as the nightsky started making it so much harder to see anything, I still pushed on and took all of the damage I could. Due to everything I'm wearing, my body was almost completely protected from the cold but I knew my hands would eventually go numb first. "I won't stop! Not here! Not ever! I don't want to give up ever again and I refuse to lose to anyone without giving them one hell of a fight! Come at me! I dare you! I will fight on with everything I have! Take this!" I just kept holding back all the enemies I could even as they produced freezing cold and painful attacks. That's when I decided to do something risky. I put away my old sword and get out an HP banana from my ender pouch while still blocking and tan,one everything I possibly could. I shove that HP banana in my mouth to regain my energy and normal mid battle physical condition. I then grabbed my old sword again with my left hand. It was found sometime ago and now, I'm using it once again. My red cape was moving like crazy due to the freezing wind and it was starting to freeze over. I saw this and realized that if I didn't do something big soon, I would become a knight popsicle. "Swiftdrawer! Since when did you use 2 swords?! Hell yeah, that's awesome!" "Barla, this is not the time! I'm going to keep these bastards back for as long as I can! Even if it means I eventually freeze to death!" "Don't take all the sacrificial roles!" "I know, I know but I must do this!" "I will help you do so! I'm an even better tank than you are after all!" She runs to be right next to me as I keep back a lot of frozen troops. With that happening now, I decide to finally see how my best attack combination does when I use 2 swords for it instead of just one. "Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 18! This is it! This will buy more time for the others and warm us up even if for just a short moment of time!"

I perform my attack successfully and it's quite a lot stronger than usual: "If this doesn't hold for longer than a few seconds, that's okay. Buying time for anyone must be our priority right now because in terms of offense, we cannot make a scratch on any of these foes of ours. If we can't do damage, someone else must be able to instead so we need to pave the way for that by keeping our comrades going even if it kills us again. I admit it. I'm a hero and so are you, Barla. A true hero must be willing to put their all into a fight, even if it means they lose everything they ever cared about. The bonds with the people they care about, their possessions, their freedom, their sanity, their strength, even their lives. They must be able to confront fear and continue on despite it, even if means they lose everything. And I truly mean everything. I'm amazed that doing my combo with 2 swords made it a lot more powerful. I feel the heat thawing my hands and more. This is working. It is holding for now." Barla and I rest a bit while my attack continues to keep us protected for another 30 seconds. Once it is broken through, we nod at each other and keep up the good fight. Our weapons are used to both block and attack. We won't let our foes hurt anyone if we can help it. I even transfer much of my Ki, chakra, and mana into my swords, increasing their attack power and durability in the process. I transferred all I could while still having enough Ki to power up with. I even exhaust my left eye to create the toughest robot I currently can from my imagination to hold back some of our other frozen troop foes too. And in the fray of our defensive measures, others decide to fight alongside us. Shadow laughs: "This will be fun! It's not what a side character does but I will help too. Actually, when I really think about it, a side character would definitely hold off the enemy with a bunch of others like this! Perfect!"

"Oh yeah! Now that's the spirit! Don't forget about me! I've just been getting warmed up! It's time to get serious!" Goku joins us after going Ultra Instinct again and actually starts being able to destroy the frozen troops one by one. Even Johnny Test joins us on the fun: "Oh yeah! Hurricane Hands! *his power sends some of the troops crashing into a nearby mountainside* Thanks, Susan and Mary! That was awesome!" Madeline appears too, actually troops left and right without caring if she defeats them or not: "YOU WILL NOT HURT ANYONE ELSE AS LONG AS WE'RE HERE! YOU BASTARDS!" I spot Dominic holding back some more with his own powers. The force of gravity has been manipulated by him in one specific area to make the troops instantly collapse stomach first to the ground. Others still are unable to move thanks to Blaze using their time magic against them. I just take a full look around as I keep tanking and blocking whatever I can. I'm so in the zone that I'm able to pull off something as crazy as this now. It shouldn't even be possible for me and yet, here I am. It's like the fact that my mind has become faster in function when it comes to writing in my world has helped lead me to being able to do this. Beerus and the other gods are slowly destroying other troops one by one while tanking or dodging any damage coming their way. On top of that, the action field Volcanic Hell has been activated so we're fighting in pretty hot rock for the most part. The lava that comes with it is also able to help reduce the chilling effect of the freezing winds on us. I see briefly all kinds of insane battles against the frozen troops. Everyone is doing their best if they're not resting, being healed, or charging or preparing something. Bakugo uses his explosions to fly over us all: "DON'T YOU DAMN EXTRAS THINK I'M GOING TO LET YOU DO ALL THE HARD WORK HOLDING THESE BASTARDS BACK! IM GETTING A PIECE OF THIS WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT!" I look up to also see a lot of frozen troops be sent up by a variety of things.

Our shulker comrades got 'em good as did Uraraka among others. I then finally got more focused on holding the foes back in hopes that at least somebody will be able to prepare something to one shot at least one of them with at a time. I put all of my strength into it. Several minutes after I really focused my efforts, my arms were finally starting to feel the burn. But I just kept going because I simply focused to give up. "Damn it! We got to overcome these foes! It's the only way we can help our comrades from this region of mountains, snow, ice, and cold! They must be in way worse shape than any of us are!" I was right. How? Ender the enderman screeched at the top of his lungs before screaming: "THE ENEMY HAS CAPTURED OUR COMRADES FROM THIS POWDERED PEAKS! THEY WERE NO MATCH AGAINST THESE FROZEN SOLDIERS WITH HEARTS FULL OF ICY HATRED!" "Hell no! That's really bad!" All Might then appears and smashes through some of the foes: "I must say now that I'm here: keep moving forward with all your might! We are all heroes no matter where we came from or what our beliefs are! Go, Plus Ultra! This artificial secondary body for me is working out very well! I can go Plus Ultra again just like I did so long ago!" Wonder Woman uses her lasso of truth and flight powers to take some of our foes to the sky. After I saw them crash into more of our foes, breaking them apart as a result, Wonder Woman gets ready to do that all over again. "Do not surrender! We are getting closer to victory every day for the people for this world. I will make my mother proud. More of our foes will soon feel the power of the Amazon!" There must be 20 different battles going on against our foes in the area we're in. I hear so many explosions and more. It's mind boggling how well we've been able to hold back our foes despite the fact many attacks do no damage to them. 2 minutes later, I feel my tendons & ligaments begin to seriously strain from all of the effort I have been putting in. I've been constantly blocking with both of my swords & pushing back any foes I could.

"Arrrrg! I have to pull back! I can't keep this up anymore! Actually, I can! It's time to link into the VRAINS!" I transform into the Link VRAINS version of my Swiftdrawer outfit which I honestly should have been using more lately. The Swiftdrawer mask has been upgraded to be really tough to break through and my Akatsuki cloak has been modified to have enchantments and stuff on it too. But even so, I'm not sure if that would have made a difference in this current battle or not. Regardless, my avatar was now overlaying my physical body so it's like I had my body get rejuvenated in seconds. And thanks to that, I'm able to continue what I was doing as I really had no other options on what to do otherwise. My armor was getting slowly worn down and frozen so this was also a huge help in that department. The cloak of my avatar was now enduring the harsh freeze instead, keeping everything from my physical body from freezing any further. While the digital versions of my weapons don't have the enchantments of the physical ones and whatnot, that doesn't mean they're useless. It just means that I have to fight even harder to do what I was just doing again at the same rate. And that's okay because I was holding back so many foes at this point. I was distracting them, allowing for others to gradually begin destroying them. And I was also taking on all that damage so the amount of healing that has been necessary has been slightly lower than otherwise. No, I wasn't the only one doing impressive stuff in this regard. Again, we were all fighting our best if we could at the time. Hell, I even started kicking some foes as well to keep them back. And then, Naruto's many clones appeared in Sage Mode.

They all had huge amounts of chakra running through them, allowing us to start really pushing our enemies back. It has also become clear at this point that the kind of force that is most effective against our foes is immense force that disrupts the air around any strike or manipulates said air. All Might and Deku as well as Naruto, Athena, Xeno Pan, and even Bulma pretty much proved that to all of us very quickly. I kept going with my sword combo until even my avatar was exhausted before returning to just having my physical body active at the moment. I was exhausted but now, I was ready to do something crazy. It might even break through some of the frozen troops in our way. "Arrr! Swiftdrawer! I see that look on your face! You're doing it, aren't you?! Well, you better be careful! Don't die! Try to survive, arr!" I smile at Pirate Blaster who is also now fighting beside me. He nods at me as does Barla since they are fighting on either side of me. They will pick up my slack now. I know it. I backflip and run a good distance from that frontline. Once I stop running, I eat another HP banana and prepare the biggest attack I can at my current level of strength. It's going to bring me so close to death but that won't stop me. Not one bit. "Haaaaaaaaaaaaa! Get ready! Barla! Pirate Blaster! Make sure you and everyone else move when the time to right! I'm going to do it now so be ready!" Both of them nod to me again as they keep fighting. "Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 25! This is IIIIIIIIIIIIIT!" I quickly get consumed by the sensation of immense pain but I persist. I keep going no matter how much it hurts to do so until I have completed my attack. I collapse to the ground right as I see my attack rip through a few of our foes and send a bunch more flying. I am on the verge of death again. I can feel the pain only get worse as time goes by. My sense of time gets all messed up as I feel myself start to freeze to death through the wound made in my body that are allowing my blood to flow out rapidly. Despite how warm the action field we're on is, it wasn't enough to stop the freeze.

I had never felt such intense cold before in my life. Not even when my hands felt below 0 degrees Fahrenheit. That's because both my skin and internal blood vessels were now freezing at the same time. Despite me being heavily armored, the blood still flowed and the chill got through any empty space no matter how thin it was. "AAAAAAA! Damn it! I'm so cold!" I was going to die in less than 30 seconds. My whole entire body was freezing. The sheer number of frozen troops as well as the influence of Pmurt Nedib over Powdered Peaks and the normally super cold on their own night winds of the land were enough to freeze my insides extremely quickly. The first organ impacted was the heart. I could feel the hatred behind that cold harm my heart as my heart muscles begin to be frozen solid. I knew trying to warm myself through many means wasn't going to work. I also knew that even if I could heal myself, that wouldn't slow or stop the freeze at all. I shed tears. "Is this how I'm going to die? Will I ever return to life again? Is this it for me? Will I be stuck in the afterlife forever, essentially dooming my comrades when the ultimate battle finally comes again? Even if one person who was there to fight against The Plot and their forces the last time the ultimate battle happened didn't make it this upcoming time.. That would be enough to assure The Plot's victory.. And everything would be destroyed.. Damn it! And that's assuming Pmurt Nedib would even be defeated with one less person fighting him.." I then felt a familiar and intense heat.. The aura of Ra himself.. After all of this time, he has decided to directly help me again despite being in his dragon like and non human like form at the moment.

I want to be able to survive without divine intervention but at this point, our foes have gotten too strong. We can't do this without the gods who have chosen to fight by our side as comrades with no sort of superior or inferior complexes going on between us and those very gods. Ra spoke to me as my body was completely thawed in seconds. "Listen, Swiftdrawer. It has been a long time since I have spoken to you. And since then, you have grown incredibly strong with the help of your fellow mortals and without any help from any gods. You just like everyone here have shown incredible feats. I am helping you only now because I am the only one who can help you in your current situation. I listen to the commands of the chosen pharaoh Atemu for I have put my trust in his judgement even though he was born mortal. As you know, gods are only greater in knowledge and power than mortals in the end. I hope that you continue to fight on your own path without anyone choosing it for you. That is all. I must focus on my own struggle against these frozen soldiers. Mystical Elf will ensure you're healed and ready to fight again. Keep going. We all must say such things to each other in order to confront the evils of the present and the future." Sure enough, Mystical Elf is currently healing me and I'm feeling so much better. After a few seconds, the duel monster goes off elsewhere as I give her my thanks. I had dropped my swords when I collapsed but now, I use them to pull myself back up after grabbing them with both of my hands. I am a knight and I will protect my comrades and the innocent as well as space-time to the best of my abilities. I stand strong again and raise my swords in the air before running all the way back to the frontlines where things have gotten a lot more chaotic. Thanks to All Might's appearance and what I pulled, everyone is extremely motivated and focused on. I even see a serious and determined expression on both Dominic and Shikamaru. That's really rare for them. Hell, Eraserhead looks more intimidating than ever and Orochimaru is smirking with his old ruthlessness.

I end up joining a rag tag collection of sword users specifically when I reenter the frontlines. Several of my counterparts as well as Seyren, Keough, Roan, Fran, Teacher, Honzo, Paladin Fran, Shadow, Mel, Rol, Kaito, and a bunch of others. I even spotted some fusion duel monsters in the mix. Cluu, the black flying hog/boar like animal speaks: "Hey! It's you! The other Swiftdrawer! The one all about art and stuff, right?! You're just in time! We could use your help. As you can see, we've devastated many of our foes but they're starting to overwhelm us! If only we had a few more sword users helping us then we'd at least be tied with their force! You can help so please help! Look, even I'm fighting!" Indeed, Cluu is actually fighting with a sword. Not very well but at least he's trying. "You can count on my help. Let's do this together. No one is going to lose today. We have to make sure of it. I'm not the strongest sword user here but I will pull my weight here to help take a huge stand against this flood of foes. Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Get back, everyone! Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 18!" My combination attack is able to land a critical blow against our foes, breaking one but sending a bunch more flying. That's not enough to allow for a massive offensive but it does help out a lot. And then, we all charge in together and (for the most part) expertly swing our swords and block whenever we can the freezing attacks of the enemies. Freezing bullets, freezing punches, you name it. "Damn it! We need to recruit Kirito and the others from THAT Earth. They could seriously help us out here. But oh well. We have to focus on winning this and saving our comrades from the region instead of worrying about that. They're in great danger. They've been captured and we must go rescue them together. No comrade left behind." My Lord Knight counterpart meanwhile is able to take so much damage because of their recent power ups to have nearly 50k health.

Gladiator Swiftdrawer has also gotten quite a bit stronger. So that's good. More importantly, we just continue to attack and do not stop for really anything. We're going all in together. Our combined skills and everything are enough to slowly chip away at the enemy forces. Very slowly but enough to make a difference. And then, something alarming happens. Our foes suddenly grow much stronger and transform to look like ice versions of foes we've faced in the past. They start hurting us all and seriously pushing us back all of the sudden. "Iris! What's going on!" "I don't know, Swiftdrawer! Guardian, this is bad. Do some of those foes look familiar to you?" "Now that you mention it.. They do.. Is that one the Ghost Servant." I add: "That's not all to worry about! Damn it, one of them looks like the SDL! Another looks like the Shadow! What has Pmurt Nedib done this time?! This is very much an emergency. What the hell is going on?" Before anyone can answer, a bunch of mages including Julia and even Hamaduh Riley cast spells to undo these sudden transformations of the frozen troops. This returns them to normal before any real damage to us could be done. We all briefly sigh of relief before jumping right back into battle. "Stay back! Double Drawing Devastation!" ""Joint Beat!! Sturdy Strike!! Lion's Roar!! Bash!! Vanguard Force!!" "Magnum Break!" "Grand Cross!" "Miitopian Knight Barrage!" We finally manage to break through their defenses after a couple more minutes, decimating each other within the 5 minutes after that. Most of us were so beat after that, even me. Cluu yells: "We can't stop now! It doesn't matter how tired we are! Eat those HP bananas already! We have to hurry! Quickly! Eat before we possibly get overwhelmed again!" After I rejoined the fight, several other sword users joined us in battle. That helped allow us to push through and break the defenses of our foes. That didn't mean they were beaten yet though. We still had to help obliterate every last one of them before we could hope to save anyone at this time. That was clear.

What was also clear was that we were lucky to even pull off such a effective breakthrough and had to be ready for anything at this point. Thankfully, many of our comrades started coming our way. Goku reaches us first: "Oh yeah! We wiped out whole swaths of these guys already! We're doing great and now, we can help all of you overcome the remaining foes around here. Don't lose hope, we're winning as tough as this battle has been." Vegeta smirks: "Guess you knights aren't as great as the Prince of Saiyans after all!" "Vegeta, if I had the same power level as you, you'd be in trouble. A lot of trouble." "Oh please Swiftdrawer, there's no way you could ever defeat me." Barla yells as she joins us too: "Stop wasting your damn time on this! This isn't a contest. We have to survive and blow these bastards to bits! And it will continue to be awesome! Hell yeah!" Vegeta crosses his arms and scoffs before joining our fight against the frozen troops along with the others. We can do this. We just have to. We gotta keep showing their fascist fighters no mercy. They have no will of their own anymore now that their brains have all turned to complete absolute zero ice. That means the only way to save them now really is to kill them by destroying their icy bodies. And so, we work together to eventually win the battle after an hour more of intense fighting. But the war was still quite far from over and the liberation of Powdered Peaks was yet to be completed. There's only a few regions of Miitopia including Powdered Peaks we still have to liberate now but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy. This battle proves that it's going to be exceedingly difficult. Instead of celebrating, the majority of us keep on serious facial expression. Athena speaks telepathically to everyone: "Well done, we have managed to completely destroy the enemy forces in this area. No one died but some of us need to rest and recover now."

Fluffy Afro speaks loudly through a megaphone: "You're right! Rest, rest, rest, recover! Now! I'm so wacky!" So, we sort of take a 5 minute break before continuing. Next stop: the city now located within Powdered Peaks ever since the liberation of Miitopia from the SDL began. Once the break is over and we made sure everyone is alright, we teleport to the gate to that city I mentioned. And standing there in waiting is a small force of frozen troops. The tallest among them steps forward and actually displays verbal intelligence: "Halt right there. Who are you people and why are you here? This city is under martial law as ordered by the president of Powdered Peaks. There is no reason to come here. Turn back now or you will be punished." Beerus as well as the other Gods of Destruction make themselves known. "*unison* Haikai." In an instant, the troops in our way are completely erased from existence. We all together walk into the city. As a knight, I'm positioned at the front of our entire army/group along with other strong close range fighters. Goku, Mel, Naruto, and so on. The streets are empty of life but looking down at them paints another picture. A murderous picture. The remains of the recently killed are scattered throughout the streets. Everywhere we step, there is frozen and dried blood over the snow. Some of the deceased still wear the armbands all of us who are members of the Miitopian Peoples' Liberation Front wear. Barla shouts: "Damn it! This city must have been harboring our comrades very well until not that long ago. Those damn Nazis killed so many people and we must blast them apart by any means necessary for what they've done! This is just horrible. Just so horrible and cruel! We will avenge the fallen and bring them back as soon as possible. I normally don't speak like this but this is very important to say right now!" Beerus sighs: "There's no life forms besides us in this entire city. You mortals will probably be in for a horrific shock soon. If the reason for this is what I think it is, this is going to be extremely bad and annoying."

Hinata adds: "I can't see anyone with the Byakugan either." Athena speaks again: "There is no cosmo coming from unfamiliar or even malevolent sources." Fred Jones of Mystery Inc speaks up: "In that case, shouldn't we all split up and look for clues as to the whereabouts of the residents of this city?" None of us object to that and we all split up into many groups to look around the city. I smelled pizza so I followed that smell as a lead. Barla, Pirate Blaster, and Dominic went with me to investigate. We soon came upon a pizzeria with a pizza still being cooked in the oven. But there was no one there. Dominic groans. "I'm so glad we all took Sleep Replacement Potions during that 5 minute break. This is a nap causation. There's no one here." "Arrrr! Thrashbeak's looking around from the skies above while I'm here. Don't you see? This place looks like someone was dragged out of it after some fighting happened." Barla adds: "There are so many bullet holes in the walls and the glass is shattered." I additionally add: "That pizza still in the oven doesn't smelled burned at all. It smells like it's almost done. That means that whatever happened here had to have happened not that long ago. Is that blood on the floor? Most of it is dry now but a little bit is still wet. It couldn't have been more than a few minutes since whatever happened here concluded with the disappearance of everyone that was here." "I yawn to say it but it looks like everyone here was killed or kidnapped or with Pmurt's puppet who controls this region." "Arrr! Curses! We were just barely too late then! We have to find everyone and this city's so big that the investigation is still ongoing despite every single one of us pitching in. Why is this city so big anyway? Just being in a cold place like this has me shivering my timbers!" "PG-13." "Why are you saying that now?" "Force of habit I guess. Dominic, don't you know why this city is so big anyway?"

"Yeah I do, no big deal. I have been studying it's recent history on rare occasions. Basically, the reason the city is so big is because all of the original peoples of Powdered Peaks were quietly forced to live here. There's also a huge military complex somewhere within this city which has housed troops from all over Miitopia in the past. It's likely all the people including our comrades were moved there. I predict that even as I really want a nap that the others will also come to realize they might be there soon." "Hell yeah! Well, what are we standing around here for? Shouldn't we look elsewhere to confirm your theory?" "Arr. That's a good idea but others are checking the caves as we speak. We should check a few other buildings and then move onto storming that huge military complex." "Aye. I agree with that but we have to be ready for anything and I do mean anything." "What a nap causation." I take the pizza out of the oven as it would have burned otherwise. I won't allow a good pizza to go to waste. I turn it into a card for now. Even the pan it's on was carded with it. The others stare at me: "What? I just wanted to make sure the pizza wouldn't go to waste even if it does just end up in my belly eventually. But there's no time to eat it at the moment so I did the next best thing. If someone ordered it, I don't want it to go stale or get burned on them. Can you blame me? Pizza's good. It's delicious." They all just smile and I pick up the card with the pizza in it and put it in my ender pouch. After I'm done, we walk out of the pizzeria and check the other buildings for people and any secret doors or whatever. But we don't find anything even in the house we checked. We end up meeting back up with everyone else at the central frozen fountain in the center of the city. And there, we all exchanged information and intel. Dominic pulled out a map of the city he got somewhere and crossed off every building on it that we checked. And the only building that wasn't crossed off was the huge military complex.

Barla smirks: "Leave it to those bastards to trap people within their own military base. We better free everyone, kill all foes we can't change assuming we even have time to try to change any, and raid the place of anything of worth. Even the provisions and bunker pillow cases and pillows. I'm ready to blow the damn place sky high when it's all said and done. I'm ready. I'm pretty sure all of us are but in case someone isn't, you really should speak up now. *no one speaks up* Hell yeah! We're good to go! Let's go!" Tsunade speaks up: "Hold on! They will be expecting a full on assault.." "Aww but I wanted to go all out!" "Seriously, Goku! Think for a second! It would be smarter to sneak in!" "Bulma, sorry!" Tyler of Supernoobs speaks up: "Why don't we just teleport in?" Shikamaru sighs: "Look, it's not that simple. We don't know how many enemies there are in there. It could also be full of traps that might actually be a problem for some of us. We have to plan this out carefully." And then, Sonic just gives Shikamaru something out of the blue: "Hey pal, I think this might help." "This.. This is a map of that entire base. This is perfect. Now we'll learn how to best enter from here to minimize the causalities as well as the time we spend getting in. Thanks, Sonic. You really pull through when we need you to." Sonic performs a thumbs up. And so, we all put our heads together after magic is used to make the map so big that we can all see it once it is pressed into the outer wall of a large building close to us. Soon enough, we figured out the correct course of action. We'll teleport in via the only area that's safe to in small groups at first until all the other defenses are knocked out. It shouldn't take long for everyone to get inside that way. To be continued..