Miitopian Civil War

Chapter 21: Crumbling Fascism

Date: June 26th, 2023

It has been 15 days since we liberated Powdered Peaks. Things are a little unstable there just as it is throughout every other part of Miitopia we've liberated but change takes time. I forgot to mention before but we managed to bring back Otherworld. So it and Skyscraper are floating strong despite having been completely destroyed in the past. Today, we plan on liberating Peculia. There, the number of foes is far greater than the number of people who actually live there so control is very tight there now. It's much more hostile than it was when I went there to try to rally support for our cause. Pmurt Nedib has started putting in far more effort to safeguard the parts of Miitopia his pawns still hold control over. Just Peculia, Neksdor, Karakaton(I forgot about that until just now), and the Travelers' Hub at this point. But as I said previously, it's obvious the battles to liberate them are going to be the toughest yet. As we all prepare to go fight in Peculia, something gets our immediate action first. It's something completely horrible and shocking. Thanks to our comrades in those 4 regions, we receive word of a new development. Pmurt Nedib has killed the leaders of Karakaton, Peculia, and Travelers' Hub. How do we know this? Well, we watched a broadcast of something. Here's how it went. Pmurt Nedib walks onto a stage set up in Neksdor with King Jack and the other leaders before easily killing those other leaders. The CEO smiles: "It's time to make something very important official. I have now taken full control of Karakaton, Peculia, and Travelers' Hub. Those other leaders were far too weak to govern those areas themselves. I know this from the failure of the former leader in charge of Powdered Peaks! As your god, I expect all of you comply with everything I have to say more directly. But that's not all. King Jack, would you like to announce what else is going on?"

The spoiled Neksdor ruler speaks next: "The Neksdor Empire is uniting with Pmurt's newly renamed Great American Empire. I will oversee all Miitopian territories while Pmurt oversees all Earth territories. We will obey our orders without question if you want to be allowed to continue living." "That's right! The Freedom Front is no longer necessary. We're taking complete control. Behold, the Empire of America and Neksdor! Let a new dawn of cleansing begin!" The broadcast ends there. We all have our varying reactions but we have no time to comment on what we just heard. We just teleport to the city that was built in Peculia and hope for the best. Immediately, we see marching frozen troops as well as all kinds of modern and magic weaponry. That includes military jets in the sky. It's like Pmurt has deployed much of his Earth's military technology to Miitopia. Barla shoots down a jet. "Damn it! They were waiting for us this time!" "Arr! We should have seen this coming! He knew we would come after making such a big announcement." And then, King Jack shows up before us in a really big tank with a flag combining the US and Neksdor flags on it. He stares down at us as all the military vehicles get into formation with the troops. "Miitopian Peoples' Liberation Front, I have matured from my childish ways to who I am now in months. My troops and vehicles will flatten and destroy all of you. Not a single one of you is going to survive. They will destroy all of you. None of you are going to be left alive soon enough. Accept it and just surrender. Make your deaths easier on yourselves. As one of the two rulers of the Empire of American and Neksdor, I will witness your destruction personally. There will be no more woke resistance that what I and Pmurt Nedib want to do. Think of this as the end to everything you have worked so hard for." Beerus tries to erase Jack from existence but a bunch of troops jump in to take the hit for him.

"Attempts to kill me or otherwise will be fruitless. My troops will ensure none of you can harm me as long as they remain. And to ensure our victory, Pmurt has given me what is necessary to turn more troops into frozen soldiers who will do everything to defend what he and I desire. It is pointless to try to kill me." We all try to kill him using a variety of powerful attacks. But every single attack is taken by more frozen troops as well as the military vehicles. When the smoke is settled, Jack is gone. Naruto yells: "That bastard! We'll get him someday!" Nathan replies: "It won't be much longer. 2 months at most. Bray my teacher, I will continue your will as Miitopia's newest Great Sage. I cast Ultimate Tower Of Flame!" This attack marks the beginning of the battle. Dominic groans: "Damn it. What a nap causation. We'll have to repair this city once we win even if we manage to drive the battle out of here as soon as possible. I'm getting a serious headache but I must take this seriously. So I will! We're coming for you, fascist bastards!" Wu adds: "We must have patience with ourselves. We can't expect to win this battle without being patient with each other. Just as before, if one of us hurts, the others must support them. That is how things must be. Let's continue fighting together now for it is what we must do." Since Powdered Peaks, we have recruited a good number of new comrades. "I'm curious to know how this battle will play out. It will be something very interesting and I will help with it the best as I can." "Master Neiru! You always know what to say! These foes will soon face the power of the Scare Chairs!" Yep, the duelists of Goha City have joined us as well. How? Read the Goha City arc in Veil Of Greed: Hunt For The Numbers assuming I have written about it by the time you're reading this. And now, let me tell you all how exactly the battle went.

It was a intense and fierce battle to say the least. When Seatbastian stopped talking, we all faced a barrage of frozen attacks. In the midst of this, Tsunade shouts: "These can't be the only enemies around. I bet they have us all surrounded on all sides. Naruto, Hinata, can't you go see?" "Of course, Grandma Tsunade!" "You can count on me, Lady Tsunade." The ninja do what is necessary and from their information, we learn that we are surrounded on all sides. It's just that those surrounding us on the other 3 sides are far away from us at the moment. And then, Ender and the other endermen inform us very quickly that the people of Peculia are being held in Peculia's large and creepy manor where the Vampire Charm was found years ago. With all this new information in mind, we split up to tackle the foes together in different areas at the same time. I went with about a quarter of our forces to the south side of the city. I don't even know what the city's called, I just know it was formed after Peculia actually got itself a government during the 2019 Liberation Of Miitopia. Just about 4 years ago, I was one of the individuals who embarked on a journey to begin that liberation on Pirate Blaster's ship. Once we got there, we split up further to fight on the various streets that led in and out of the entire city. It was honestly so repetitive for the longest time. The simple destroy the frozen troops and their military vehicles. It has gotten so repetitive since just the first time we fought such troops. And then, something changed. I hear something. The others did too. Deadpool remarks: "I wish I had popcorn. Whatever's happening now must be something else. Oh wait, let me just steal the popcorn from one of the viewers of the movie that is a window into this universe!" "Don't do that. It's not like you really can anyway. After all, I'm not writing a telling of this battle as a movie, I'm writing it as a fanfiction because there's no better category for it in my world."

And then, we watched as the enemies we were facing got decimated from behind. When they were all gone, a whole bunch of ordinary miis as well as monsters, some of our Peculia comrades, and what look like defected troops who left the enemy forces, some of them frozen troops even. Buu speaks: "Buu wonders if these people are bad guys too. Buu will destroy them." Goku chuckles: "They aren't, Buu. They aren't bad guys, not even the frozen ones are!" "Buu understand but Buu want to fight bad guys! Where can Buu go to fight more bad guys?" Goku points to the next street over and Buu flies over with passion in his eyes. I'm shocked: "Hey, aren't they supposed to be trapped in that manor? What are they doing here?" At the same time this happened, apparently the same sort of thing happened throughout the city too. I was not expecting a flood of armed RCT3 peeps to just teleport in with the Park Inspector being at the front of them. But him being there in the front was perfect. I immediately asked him: "Park Inspector, what's going on?!" He smiles for once: "Even the peeps are sick of the cruelty in this world." I even see some armed entertainers, janitors, mechanics, zookeepers, and stall vendors as well. A army of invincible peeps. That's when I realized it for sure. "We're going to win this war. Even if we all fail and die for good, you know who won't? Those peeps. With them on our side, there's virtually no way we will truly lose a battle or conflict ever again. Those peeps pretty often find getting hit by a dune buggy thrilling! This is absolutely wild and amazing. We better go see how the others are doing." That's when a turned frozen troop says: "There's no need. My identity isn't relevant but listen well. The people of Peculia allowed the fascists to take them captive and for a while, they just did nothing in that manor. Or so those bastards thought. Instead, they convinced even the likes of me to join them. It was very impressive. And today, Pmurt and Jack broadcast what they just did everywhere. And that inspired direct action. The people had snuck in all kinds of weapons when they willingly let themselves get captured while pretending to be scared for their lives."

"So they then revolted and escaped the manor with you as a new comrade." "Exactly. With our teamwork, we have been able to easily end the battles raging throughout the city. They didn't see us coming and because the population of this city has swelled recently due to Pmurt forcibly relocating people to here, there's all kinds of people ready to fight. It isn't just the people of Peculia. It's others as well and they're all fed up with the current system." Dominic yawns: "That's amazing but I should warn all of you that the peeps can still die. It's just really hard to kill them. I studied their anatomy. I know this and it's a serious nap causation." The Park Inspector smiles: "Don't worry, they are all well equipped thanks to the supplies in Twisted Land. All that spare gear was perfect." "Well, I'm glad that my creation is being used to help out that much. Anyway, that explains a lot. I think the peeps are individually harder to kill than even a villain like Muscular at this point considering their invincibility to a lot of things plus the Netherrite armor they now wear. So then, what now?" We end up just meeting up with everyone else in the middle of the city. There, the people of the city make it clear that they refuse to go home until all of Peculia is freed. That's when we also find out that travelers and residents in the Travelers' Hub have gotten sick of how things are too and have staged a hub wide uprising. Some of us go there to help them out but the majority of us stay around to take care of liberating Peculia for real. You'd think crushing all these foes and their vehicles would be enough. However, the distant sound of tanks rolling was enough to confirm that that just wasn't enough.

Instead, it ways time for round 2. So for the next 30 minutes, we fortified the city with whatever we could. Some of us even volunteered to guard different areas of the city. It's true that about 5% of our comrades are defending other regions in Miitopia but we still had more than enough around to easily keep guard over the city. I personally stood guard at one of the main roads to and from the city with my hands on the handles of both of my swords, ready to respond and alert the others immediately if the enderman also keeping watching wasn't able to alert the others for whatever reason. This is definitely not how I expected things to go. It's like Jack and Pmurt thought resistance would end in Peculia if they just rounded up every single mii and monster living in Peculia and forced them into the manor. Naturally, that ended up being a huge mistake because now, our forces were a lot larger in part due to that. Hell, I got the feeling that when the final battle to decide who wins the war comes, the common people will all for the most part join us in the fight. That battle is going to be crazy but first, we have to win in Peculia and leave no enemy forces in it. For about 15 minutes, I just stand guard along with others of various fighting classes. At every way out of the city, we have the same lineup of individuals waiting for the enemy. An person experienced in marksmanship, a knight or other sword user, a mage, a pirate, a assassin or thief, a healer, a martial artist, a scientist, a duelist, and a strong monster. We aren't just going to stand guard. We are going to be the first ones our foes are going to fight and the others will join us almost immediately. Naruto's clones stand atop of the walls that separate the city from the outside world. A bunch of individuals stand on those walls with them as well. This is way bigger than even your average D campaign. We're ready for them. We're ready to decimate them.

I then see the enemy come in close and they clearly are more interested in doing more than just annoying someone like me. I'm only saying that because some individuals can be really annoying, even in the middle of war. And then the enderman with us is severely injured by an ice attack out of nowhere. I then shout at the top of my lungs: "The enemy is here!" In seconds, a bunch of our comrades teleport in front of me and the others who were standing guard. We'll keep this fight out of the city. We're lucky it's surrounded on all sides by a field. That will make reversing all the damage a lot easier for us. Instead of having to fix a entire forest or city, we will have to mostly restore the field instead. But anyway, we strike hard first and a lot of foes are instantly decimated. But then, a new kind of enemy was revealed with them all gone. Kamon yells: "Are those ice androids?" Garuburn replies: "They must be! Look at them!" Bulma sighs: "Oh great. Just want we needed. More androids." Garuburn and Kamon try to destroy one but nothing happens. I also try to destroy one but nothing happens. "Damn it! Just how tough are the foes going to get? First it was androids and child androids then it was zombies and zombie androids then frozen troops and now, frozen androids. This is actually in all seriousness really really bad for us. The only reason we hadn't been massacred in battles lately was because these frozen foes of ours are stronger in defense than offense. But those androids are balanced between those so we're in a lot of trouble now. That's what Im guessing anyway. That's how they got the enderman like that. We have to be ready to suffer a lot now. There really isn't any choice." "Curious. Tell you more about these androids you speak of when the time is right. I'm curious to learn how they function so I can upgrade Seatbastian here." We all get ready and.. we all get injured by a bunch of intense freezing android energy blasts. I wasn't even able to block with my swords. They almost got knocked out of my hands in fact.

"Damn it! Hell no! This is bad! Owww! I haven't been hurt this bad in a while!" We all get back up but it's clear that we have the disadvantage now and that if we didn't fight like hell, we were going to die very soon. It's just the fact of the matter. I put all my strength in as I begin blocking in earnest. I even use Artist's Eye to my limit to embed as many foes with metal rods as possible. I puncture several ice androids through that method, causing them to shut down. But that was only a few in a army of literally thousands. They must outnumber us at least 10 to 1. Those aren't good odds. "Crap! I barely did anything with all those rods! My proficiency with Artist's Eye without straining myself is 5 times better than it was before Bray's death but still, this is not good at all. What the hell can we even do to win at this point? We might as well let the peeps have all the fun, creating a battle that will last forever and ever until nature brings fighters down left and right." Fluffy looks ready to slap me. "Swiftdrawer! Don't be like that! You are more likely to figure a way out of this than I am and I'm telling you to snap out of it!" "You know Fluffy, you just gave me an idea. And Blaze is with us. Perfect! *hollers* Blaze, come over here for a second!" Blaze runs right over. "What is it, my human?" "My fursona, listen. I need you to give everyone the idea of either sneakily attacking or being a huge and annoying distraction. If conventional means aren't going to work, we have to think outside of the box." The wolf nods and runs off. After 2 more minutes of struggling and getting more hurt, we start the plan. Instead of sneaking around to attack, I choose to be a distraction for our foes. As a result, I put away my swords and get out my guitar. I run towards our foes.

As they try to attack me, I simply dodge while playing Death Metal to the extreme and screaming at the top of my lungs: "Crumbling fascism. When the masses realize who is trying to delude them, it crumbles. The fascism gets beat into the dirt when people learn about how cruel and unjust it is. Fascism relies on lies, fear mongering, boogeyman, scams, and capitalism. It's what happens when the power hungry feel like their power is slipping away. But the only way to stop it is to make the people aware of its evils. Crumbling fascism. The condition in which fascism falls apart when its schemes are no longer effective on enough people who are willing to take action to crush it. Without lies propping it up, fascism eventually crumbles into dust. It's like a parasite that feeds off of the misery of others. Hear my screams and through them, my anger that such an evil ideology is as alive as it is at this point. We will opposite fascism to the end and it's already crumbling a part like the ground when a quake shakes it. For without the fuel to feed off of, fascism cannot hold itself together. It crumbles when the people as a whole learn how rotten and vile it is. Fascism rewrites history, erases the supposed undesirable, makes it impossible for society to change, lines the pockets of the rich and powerful, and more. If it had just been smashed sooner, it would have crumbled far faster. Crumbling fascism. Escaping the crumbling ship of trash that is fascism. It poisons you with lies and misplaced anger and hatred. Don't let it have space in your head. It has no place in any society. It only seeks to demonize socialism, homosexuality, trans identities, Judaism, and more so that it can seem like a blessing by comparison. Don't fall for it, it's designed to destroy whatever must be destroyed so those in power can keep their power for as long as they want. Don't forget to bash the fash when they commit violence. Peaceful resistance against fascist violence is almost never enough. Revolution is necessary. Fascists are fragile, they want to eliminate what makes them uncomfortable."

As I keep that sort of thing going, I also keep dodging while blasting away some of our foes. And I mean a very small number of them. In the end, this helps allow some of our comrades strike at some of our foes, bringing them down for good because myself and so many others are highly distracting at this point. What we're allowing for is seriously brutal. The kind of techniques used to stealthily actually bring down our foes are really something else. So many different moves are used and with them, some of our ice android foes are actually destroyed. I breathe a sigh of relief after it becomes no longer necessary to distract our foes. Thanks to my own Death Metal, I feel focused and really in the game now. We will find even faster and more effective ways. I just know it now that I've been able to refresh myself with my own music. And then, Barla yells: "It's blasting time! Hell yeah!" Oh right the BRAIN Blasters had been upgraded to easily destroy the other androids we've faced up to today. That means they might just work on these androids as well. Only one way to find out. So many of us pull out our own blasters and fire at will. Only a few ice androids were dealt with that way but it definitely felt like that's okay. Because we now know for sure that we will beat them all eventually even if it means we almost die in the process. "Well, that certainly worked better than my swords. But I'm not going to give up on using my swords for this battle. Haaaaaaa!" I put away my BRAIN Blaster in favor of my old sword all over again. With my swords in my hands, I use Continuous Great Infernal Tornado Slash: 19 against our foes. Not a single one of them took significant damage because their ice is too thick for the power of my attack in the end. I sigh and get ready to defend again. I put away my old sword again in favor for my shield, run till I'm literally 2 meters away from the frontal force of our foes, and get ready to stall so others might be able to do what I can't do myself. Deal damage to our foes. And so, I just endure a crap ton of pain while blocking and dodging over and over, hoping for someone to do something that really breaks through the defenses of the ice androids but no such thing happens.

Instead, I keep enduring all the pain until my armor gets heavily damaged and I begin freezing to death, falling to the ground right then and there. Even my cape is freezing despite the warm weather Peculia is experiencing. I can't hear what anyone says because the attacks of the enemies are so loud to me since I'm so close to them. I close my eyes and embrace my death, knowing that I'm as good as dead already. There's nothing I can do. I tried my best so now I have to accept I can't do anything about our foes anymore and get ready for death. And then, something does happen. Chima's Lion tribe who were helping defend this area this entire time swing into action and apparently, they all have Fire Chi within them. Laval drags me away after roaring at the ice androids. The warmth of that Fire Chi saves my life but I'm bleeding and my armor is in bad shape again. After he finishes dragging me all the way to the back line where some mages keep healers protected, I look up at him: "T-thank you for saving me. I was embracing my death but you stopped my body from becoming absolute zero in temperature." "It's no problem! We can't have anyone dying on us in this battle, am I right?!" "You're right, Laval." Sakura takes one look at me as Laval brought me to her. "Don't move! I must heal you! You're lucky to be alive after all of that!" Someone yells: "Incoming!" A flying ice android barrel rolls down towards me from the sky. Edyn jumps in while riding Ugger. "Ugger! Stop that android! Root Reach!" "You got it, Edyn!" And so, the ice android is taken care of. Konan appears too. "Allow me to finish this android off." Edyn nods and Ugger throws the android to Konan who then explodes after flying up into the sky, destroying the android in an instant. That was a paper bomb clone of Konan, that's for certain. Sakura heals me but says: "I healed all of your wounds but I'm afraid that you will collapse soon if a blood transfusion isn't performed. And your armor is severely damaged." Madison takes over while smirking: "Don't worry. Magical Blood Transfusion!"

All of my lost blood is restored and I get back up while using Repair to repair my armor. I smile at everyone who helped me. "Thank you so much for all of that help. We have to overcome these foes somehow. I think I'm going to stay back here to come up with something. After all, I see that the scientist with us is too busy fighting right now to come up with anything. And no master strategists are fighting in this fight with us. Shikamaru's helping defend one of the northern roads at the moment for instance." Those who helped me nod in understanding and every one of them gets back to what they were doing before I needed help. And so, I begin to think of the ice androids. What has worked. What hasn't worked. Explosions have been most successful. All other forms of attacks have had varying degrees of success. So the methods haven't always worked every time. The androids are seriously tough in attack and defense. They can fly too. Ice is hard to break. Normally, fire or intense force does the trick all the time but that's not so true in this case. Sound waves have a decent effect. There's a lot to consider. The only method that would be 100% effective is extreme disintegration or worse such as Haikai and Dominic's molecular destroying ability. But not everyone can pull moves like that and we just don't have the time to have them alone eliminate all of the enemies. But wait, wouldn't extreme speed be effective too? I look around for Blaze to see how they were fighting the enemies. Yep. Extreme speed sure is doing something. However, there's a problem. A big problem. No matter what I come up with, someone's already doing it. There must be a way to crush many of them with ease. I think further on the word crush and think of Broly and Kefla. That's when it hits me. Fusion. We need to use fusion to win. We need a hard hitting and really fast fighter to wipe out many ice androids at once. I share this with the others and soon, we establish a plan to fuse the fastest and strongest of us together into one fighter.

And then, some of the RCT3 peeps and endermen work together to buy time for us to pull it off. Polymerization is used multiple times until, we have ourselves a new fast and hard hitting fighter akin to that of someone like Goku except we had no Saiyans fighting with us. I was one of many who was fused. The fusion we create is literally just brown with yellow eyes for some reason. I think we accidentally merged some of Peculia's grass and dirt in. That's the only explanation because Peculia is a pretty odd place with its local plants and monsters. Anyway, the fusion didn't speak. They just snapped their fingers like Thanos and a Fus Ro Dah level of force was instantly generated. That might have something to do with the fact that Athena and Beerus were also merged into this fusion. This force explodes on the ice androids, obliterating a lot of them before the fusion snaps over and over again until they defuse. By then, all the ice androids we were facing have been completely destroyed. I sigh: "That took quite a bit of my energy and that doesn't solve the problem of our comrades elsewhere also having to deal with these damn ice androids. I almost want to sleep right here but I'm not going to. We have to keep going no matter what." And so, we head over to the road out of the city that was closest to us other than the one we just defended for so long. A few of us stayed behind to guard it. I wasn't one of them. I wanted to be there on the frontlines, risking my life all over again. The situation that we saw once we reached the road we were heading towards was really bad. Only Nagato was still standing and his chakra was running out as he used Deva Path to keep pushing the ice androids back. Those pushes kept obliterating them but it wouldn't be long until everyone we saw fallen on the ground would die along with Nagato. Shun exclaims: "This is bad, everyone! What do we do?"

Ikki, his brother who has dark hair, blue eyes, light skin, and mostly white armor is the Phoenix Knight. He replies: "Shun! Don't you realize that you're among those who can make the most difference here?" The two are among those who lie on the ground. Tsunade summons Katsuya to help her heal everyone as quickly as possible. After that, they're all healed and I watch as those two get up. "I don't understand, brother." "Shun, it's your Nebula Storm." "Oh. Right! No need to hold back! I don't want to fight anyone but our enemies won't quit! Stand back, everyone! *his cosmo builds to its max* Nebula Storm!" We all in fact get back. Even Nagato and his Pains do. With that done, the Nebula Storm starts locking the ice androids in place and quickly leads to the destruction of them one by one. As if that weren't enough. Nagato then sends Deva Path back to the front to support Shun's Nebula Storm with the ultimate technique of his Rinnegan. But that's not able to end this already. Herbsalvin while in knight form puts their hand on my shoulder: "Swiftdrawer, we can help too." "What do you mean? It's been too long since I've flown on you while you're in your pegasus form. What exactly would doing that again accomplish?" "It's simple. I will lend you most of my strength and with your main sword, we can pull off something incredibly powerful. You have the skills to pull it off and I can get the altitude for you that's needed to pull it off." "You're suggesting air splitting intense waves of force generated by intense sword swings from high in the air." "That's exactly what I mean." "Okay then. I trust you, Herbsalvin. Let's do this." They nod and transform back into their pegasus form. I get on them and they immediately accelerate enough to reach hundreds of feet in the air in 2 seconds flat. After that, I pull out my red and black sword again. "It's almost time, Swiftdrawer! I will give your right arm most of my strength. Use it well. Create the most powerful sword swing you possibly can." "I will and my armor will protect me from the backlash of generating so much force in one swing."

After my arm stops getting more powerful, I ready my sword as Herbsalvin easily keeps us in the air. I focus and tense my muscles in my right arm before putting everything I have in one single swing. It would become the prototype for a move I would soon begin developing. Air Blast Slash. I unleash the swing and the recoil almost made me fall right off Herbsalvin to my death. It didn't and we watched as that single slash tore through the air. Herbsalvin nose dives in under a second to be much closer to the ground. There, we watch as the swing deals a severe blow to the enemy androids. Most are pushed back and many are even completely destroyed. I cast Cure on my right arm to take care of the serious injuries I sustained while unleashing such a powerful swing of my sword. Herbsalvin then landed on the ground and I got off them right before they transformed back into a knight. And we both sort of ran out of energy and collapsed to the road below us. That kind of hurt. But then, we were lifted up by Uraraka's Gravity quirk. "Are you two okay? That was crazy!" We both give exhausted thumbs up. One of the citizens of the city speaks up: "I want to take this time to thank you all for helping us take back our Peculia. I know ordinary miis like me shouldn't be helping fight a war but most of us have the street smarts to keep helping all of you out even if we aren't properly geared or anything like that. We haven't won just yet but we have hope that we will win and free Peculia from those tyrants Jack and Pmurt Nedib." Shun replies even as his Nebula Storm continues: "That's very true. Don't worry, we will get through this together no matter how hard it is to get through all of this. You have my word that I will help you free this land you love so much. This is as important to me as protecting Athena is. I refuse to give up even though I don't want to hurt anyone. But some people must be hurt if they won't change. It's how things are and it hurts me a lot on the inside. To know that some people just can't be changed no matter how hard we try hurts so much."

Orwin speaks up: "Those are the words of a worthy hero. We don't fight to hurt others. We fight to protect those who others want to hurt as well as each other even if it means we have to kill the forces of evil without hesitation. In Vash Naroom, we have a peaceful society but that didn't stop the Shadow Magi from attacking us and putting everything in danger. Just like Agram's influence over the Moonlands ended, Pmurt Nedib's influence over this world will end too." Then, a bunch of Naruto clones appear. "Oh! Intense force! So you guys figured it out too? That's great, ya know! Sage Art: Giant Rasengan!" The Naruto clones throw those attacks at our foes, finally bringing them to an end. Bulma yells again while having Ki surround her: "Come on! The others are in trouble! We have to hurry! There's not even enough time to use the Dragon Balls to help us out! Get moving!" She was right. Most of the battles on the outskirts of the city were still going on and they were fierce and our comrades were losing. They were losing badly. I curse under my breath when we can even see that from a distance. We all head to the closest battle together once Shun releases the Nebula Storm by stopping it from continuing. And after Herbsalvin and I are given Senzu beans to restore our energies and strength.. Once we get there, I see a frozen solid Orbital and Kaito. Dr. Faker is on HeartEARTH Dragon and trying to find a way to not get frozen and stop the ice androids he along with many others have been dealing with this entire time. Even an angry Kale was unable to deal any damage to the ice androids. The biggest problem however was the sheer number of ice androids that were being fought. No wonder some of our comrades have been frozen solid.. I never saw that really happen at all until now. This is bad. Really really bad. We all get into the fight and try our best to defeat the ice androids. However, there's so many that no matter how many are destroyed, it's like 5-10 take their place. This is the main ice android force. Damn it.

As if that weren't bad enough, we were slowly losing to the freezing cold. My cape froze solid and I fell but managed to control it somewhat so my cape wouldn't shatter. The cold started freezing over the rest of me almost immediately. And I was far from alone in being frozen like this. Many others were in the same position as me and that really wasn't a good sign. It's like most of us just suddenly stopped being able to tolerate the freezing cold at once. Then, Twilight speaks up as she was among those who had been dealing with all these ice androids for the longest. She says a friendship speech: "No matter who we are, we are all friends here. We must fight until the end and find a way to stop these ice foes before they freeze all of us for good. We have come so far together and we just can't give up here. Our bonds of friendship and beyond have gotten us here so we can't let our bonds just end like this without a fight. I will do everything in my power to stop these ice androids. I may not rule Equestria anymore but I am still the Princess of Friendship and all of you are my friends. My friends, we can overcome this challenge no matter how impossible it may seem. We've all beaten the impossible in the past so let's continue that by putting ourselves together. We must unite our hearts and minds." The Elements of Harmony worn by the Mane 6 begin to glow brightly as she continues to speak: "No matter how much we have to go through, we stay true to ourselves and our principles. My friends, today is just another challenge to overcome and we can do it. *We all start being levitated off the ground* They can throw anything they want at us but one thing remains certain. We are all friends and comrades and we won't stop doing what we do until we don't have to or can't do it anymore! Our wills must be unbreakable. Feel your bonds and the feelings of your very hearts!"

And then, her eyes glow white and rainbows crash down on the ice androids we've been fighting. Seconds later, they've all been turned into stone and the levitation of us all ceases, with gravity pulling us back to the ground. Hell, the magic even fully healed and unfroze everyone and everything. One of the reformed frozen troops speaks: "I wish we could have somehow gotten some of those ice androids to turn on Jack and Pmurt Nedib. That wasn't possible but I hope we can reform some of our frozen foes in the future." The citizen from before replies: "It's okay, we're doing what must be done because we have no choice but to now." We just decide to leave the stoneified foes right where they are and help with the next group of our comrades who were struggling. In time, we overcome all of the ice androids but then, we hear jets in the sky. Pirate Blaster pulls out a flintlock and shoots one right out of the sky: "Arrr! Round 3 it is! They must have ice droids operating those things!" Case in point, the jet Pirate Blaster shot down flew right back up to the sky without any damage. Goku and the other Z Fighters immediately fly into the sky. They are followed by anyone else who can fly. Superman, Deku, All Might, Herbsalvin(in knight form with me riding them because I can't fly using my Ki yet), and Nagato were among those who did so too. Once we got close enough to a jet, Herbsalvin and I performed a combination. While they maneuvered around ice blasts, I deflected some more and got ready to destroy the jet. Once I was ready, Herbsalvin flew below the jet, matched its speed, and allowed me to cut through the bottom of it. We did this about 20 times over the course of several minutes. We only stopped when an ice blast froze one of Herbsalvin's wings solid and we were sent plummeting to our deaths with only seconds before we'd go splat. Luckily, that was enough for me to teleport us to the ground below with Quantum Leap. That was way too close. Wayyy too close. Herbsalvin returned to knight form and their right arm was revealed to be frozen. So that's how the freeze shifted..

And the cold was slowly spreading. "Herbsalvin.. No! No! No! There's nothing that can be done because anyone who can help is busy fighting in the sky one way or another! *I pick them up* Damn it!" "Swiftdrawer.. What are you doing? You shouldn't cry." "Herbsalvin.. I care so deeply about you. We are both knights of the people. We are bonded. Ever since I became a knight, we have been. Call me cliche but there's been something I've been meaning to tell you and this feels like the only optimal time to tell you it. I.. I can't believe I'm saying this. I'm not someone who needs love but.. I love you, Herbsalvin." The pegasus and knight widens their eyes in shock before smiling. "This really is cliche. I have regained so much human like emotion by fighting in this war. Like you, I'm normally calm. But right now, I'm freezing and hurting but.. I love you too.." I give Herbsalvin a kiss. They give me one in return. "I know we won't have much time to explore this new side to our relationship once you're brought back but I want to try this thing called love a 5th time, Herbsalvin." "I wouldn't have it any other way." "It's so strange to be doing this in the middle of war. Let's not kiss each other in battle again. I'm going to get the attention of someone who can help even though anyone who can is fighting. I actually won't let you die! I don't want to wait until you get brought back! We're in this together! And it's not just because I love you!" To be continued..