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"Hngk!" The CPU Candidate guttered in pain as his ribs were under tremendous pressure.
'Leanbox?! So it happened there as well! Then I won't be incorrect to assume that it's all over Gamindustri, then... I need to escape his reach!' Vergo thought to himself as he looked around for a way to free himself through the pain he was experiencing in his chest from his assailant.
The blonde was pushed away from his goal, and was a few seconds away from being crushed afoot by a person he didn't even know.
He then decided to try his first idea.
BLAST!
Firing off a stream of KI from his feet in an attempt to slide further into the building for cover as well as to escape the death stomp he was currently in.
STOMP!
FLAIL!
"Ghk!" Vergo spat out violently.
But to the CPU Candidate's surprise, he did not budge an inch as all the man did was press down harder, immediately cutting short his attempt as he spat out blood as his arms and legs flailed from the pain.
"You must really think I'm an amateur. Cast aside your struggles, for oblivion is assured with me, boy." The man threatened as he raised his foot as it then became coated in fear energy, the same energy that forced him underground who knows how long ago.
GLARE!
WINDWAVE!
Vergo's eyes widened before sending a seething glare to the opponent, some wind pressure projecting from his eyes and hitting the man square in the face.
"Tch!"
STAGGER!
KICK!-
FEAR BLAST!
FEAR EXPLOSION!
Due to the unexpected ability, he staggered back as the blonde pulled himself together to make some distance as he coughed some traces of blood mixed with spit, but was hit by the fear energy manifested in his leg as the man snapped out of his shock and send the attack his way, hitting him square in the back.
"Uah!"
FLY!-
SNAP!
SMASH!
Vergo yelled in pain as he was blasted into a streetlight, snapping it in half as he then collided into a dumpster.
DASH!
REAPPEAR!
STOMP!
EXPLOSION!
He winced upon impact before looking to see the man turn in his direction, which was enough incentive for the CPU Candidate to make a mad dash for his pole as the man materialized in front of him with a stomp that easily obliterated the dumpster he was nearby only moments ago.
REACH!
GRAB!
Vert's brother reached for his weapon and used the wind around the bo staff to pull it towards him.
TWIST!
PHASE!
"Sei!"
KICK!
BLOCK!
SHOCKWAVE!
The weapon flew towards him as the Candidate grabbed it and twisted around in mid-air to block a hit out of instinct just in the nick of time, only to be sent crashing into a block of buildings as he was still reeling from the monumental amount of force in the man's legs.
"Hngh!"
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
Vergo was sent through multiple buildings as he had no way to fight back against the man.
He wouldn't even be able to see how fast he moved, or fully block his kicks intentionally.
The last one almost broke his guard!
Vergo crashed into another few buildings before he completely stopped. The godling then looked up as he sensed a collection of a terrifying power source from the man's energy signature.
...CHARGING!
He soon realized that he was charging up something from above and would look towards a window that was next to him.
"...! He's preparing an attack!" The green Candidate sensed from above as he went to jump towards our window.
But before he could have, he saw some people within the damaged building. It was a small child, a little girl with dusty and damaged clothes from the big explosion curled up in a fight as she sobbed quietly, too scared to move. Her blonde hair and blue eyes reminded him of someone as she cried.
She reminded him of Vert.
And the mother, her features resembling a spitting image of her daughter as she held her with welling tears filled with desperation and hopelessness. Not daring to leave, lest she was slaughtered by those mechanical monsters that roamed the streets and left her baby alone in the now apocalyptic world they were living in. Her lime green hair was frazzled and messy and her blue baggy eyes were red with crying.
Her aged appearance gave him the impression of a mix of both Vert and Chika that only intensified his current feelings on the matter.
The CPU Candidate scowled for a bit but shook off the feeling of dread as the civilians were in danger, and that was harrowing at his conscious.
"Shite..! I can't just leave the two of them there!"
SCRAMBLE!
Vergo cussed under his breath as he moved to suit.
RUN!
SCOOP UP!
"!" The child reacted as she was scooped up.
The blonde got up hastily and wobbled for a bit before he ran, scooped up the mother in his arms after putting his staff on his back, using his power of air to keep it stuck there before breaking through the glass that somehow managed to stay intact up to that point with his shoulder as he faced the two away from the glass shards as the mother shut her eyes and cradled the child to shield her from harm.
JUMP!
SHATTER!
FEAR EXPLOSION!
BLOCK!
Not a moment later, the entire block would have exploded with a fierce red explosion with a black outline. His person was blasted out of the area by the momentum gained from being near the explosion as he was sent flying and used his pole to block the force of the explosion shield the citizen he had in his care.
"Holy shit! How strong is this bloody bloke?!" The blonde cursed as he was blown away by the force. "Sorry." He apologized to the mother, who cringed at his language yet nodded at his apology.
"Eek!" The girl cried out in her mother's arms as she held her tighter for support.
The man then looked to the side from the air and saw Vergo's figure being sent away with someone else. And wasted no time closing the distance as he went for a dropkick.
VANISH!
REAPPEAR!
DROPKICK!
SHOCKWAVE!
He vanished before materializing and delivering the aerial maneuver right in the CPU Candidate's face.
"Oof!" Vergo shouted out as he was kicked to the ground, a path of destruction would be left from his attempt to slow down on the ground, using all his might to keep the child and her mother safe within his arms.
CRASH!
SWEEP KICK!
FEAR ARC!
He was given no rest though, as the man then delivered a lateral sweep kick, which ejected an arc of fear energy towards him as it expanded rapidly.
Vergo had little time to react as he would only be able to stick out his pole in defense as he poured KI and share energy into the weapon on his back as he braced himself.
BLOCK!
BURST!
FEAR EXPLOSION!
The arc came and exploded on the pole, proving the resilience of the weapon, but not so much its user as Leanbox's CPU Candidate was sent through another building as the ones near the detonating of the attack were significantly damaged from the front.
''ARGH!" Vergo was sent flying once again as the force simply be too much for him to do anything against.
"Kya!" Shouted the mother as she clung onto the CPU Candidate, her chest pressing against the holding as the feeling caused him some embarrassment before focusing on what he was doing again.
"Wah!" The girl screamed in fright as she squinted her eyes in sheer terror from the situation she was in.
The group shot through another building as Vergo tumbled into a car, which made it tilt from the force he collided with it with, but remained upright as he panted, absorbing the shock for the mother, who did the same for the small child.
"Hah... Hah... Hah..." The CPU Candidate breathed heavily as the small child in his arms looked up at him.
"...A-Are you ok?" Asked the little girl in concern as his state had undergone deterioration from talking all those blows.
"T-Thank you... I hope you're not hurt too badly..." Some remorse was present on the mother's face.
The green god now lost half his sleeves from all that blocking and sustained many more scratches and cuts on his body and clothes alike. His nose was bleeding from that nasty dropkick and his mouth from all the blood he spat out from the stomp.
"Don't worry about me. I'm alright with the fact that you're not buried under that building right now..!" He wheezed out, the best of his breath felt on the mother's neck as she looked behind her shoulder to see his wary eyes.
"Please... Don't die, mister." She gave a pained look. "My dad already died... I-I don't want you to go too." She sobbed. "I miss him..." She sobbed.
Vergo cringed as he felt that it was his fault as his pained expression became one of anger directed at himself.
"I wanted a fight, but now it looks like I have an executor, with someone who should have never had to suffer... Why the hell did I just jinx the apocalypse...?!" Quietly growled the deity as he used the car for support as pushed himself up.
"Don't think you have any role in this, boy." The man would say as he appeared through the dust.
"This is a plan our higher-ups have been plotting for years. You're just unlucky enough to be alive to witness the destruction of Gamindustri... At least, that's what I told the green bimbo before I finished her off." The suit-clad man interrupted.
"The green bimbo...! Vert?!" The blonde asked with horror as this man was referencing that he had killed his sister.
"Yes, Vert. Even with all her personality and ability, she still fell victim to my hand. And you'll certainly be no different, Vergo." The man said with an entertained gleam as he folded his arms.
Vergo was overcome with shock as the man not only named him with accuracy but declared that he had killed his sister. But he had no time to ask for details, so he got to the point.
"W-What did you do to Leanbox!" Vergo demanded.
"Oh, it's a simple procedure. Not much thought is required, and it brings about such a great reward for so little effort. You could even say that it's what the humans of time consider lit." He eluded to the crime he committed against humanity.
"Spit it out, already!" Demanded the CPU Candidate.
"That'swhatItoldyoursister- Ahem. Simply put, I burnt it to the ground. I entered through a portal, took down the strongest 'threats', and left the fodder and infantry to hunt down the civilians and military after I massacred the population themselves with one hefty attack. It was especially easy since they had no CPU Candidate. How that may have very well prolonged their torment." The man jabbed at Vergo's origin as he raised a brow at the internally despairing sibling.
The blonde was at a loss for words as he realized that he could have been a possibly key component in possibly preventing the death of his sister and her citizens, even if he didn't have HDD, he could have at least prolonged their lives!
He almost fall forward, using his legs and the weight of the family to keep himself upright as the man continued, saving himself from collapsing due to the news.
"I believe that you would know something about there being a secret CPU Candidate that was never revealed to the public, don't you. Verg?" The man used the nickname that his sister used for him when he was still a newborn Candidate.
"You keep your trap shut," Vergo growled at the man, murder in his eyes.
"Or, how you never once wore a dress that she tried to put on you due to your masculinity preventing that from being a reality for your late sister. All she wanted as to see you in a dress one time." He continued, a smirk brandishing his features.
The CPU Candidate's face morphed into one of confusion.
"... How do you even know about that? And stop gaslighting me for that, it was not with consent!" He asked with a newly mortified face.
"The better question is what don't we know. For years, we've been watching the events that have been taking place in this world, all of its struggles and achievements. From that, we've been able to discover things from you, your sister, and your friends' greatest strengths and abilities to your most private secrets and most crippling weaknesses." The invader began.
"For example, Neptune is Reverend incapacitated if in any circumstance an eggplant or otherwise eggplant themed weapon is within two feet of her, laced in her pudding or even shoved in risque areas." He rattled off an embarrassing fault.
"Define areas." Suspicion arose from the blonde god.
"Do you really want to know the answer to that question?" A radied brow was prevalent on the VPU's face.
"...No." Responded Vergo.
"Right. We have been letting you exist for the day, today when we strip it all away. Destroy all that you love, desecrate all that you hold dear, and decimate all traces of there once being a single soul in this world. Find out what you hold most dear, so we can take it right before your eyes. Exploit and expose your weaknesses for all to see, before they too are snuffed out like the insignificant gnats they are. I suppose you can actually count yourself lucky, not being able to witness the death of Vert, whom you deserted." The man further explained as the CPU Candidate's eyes shrank to dots as he digested all the information.
The woman in his arms was shocked by what the man was saying but felt unwell from being so near him, his radiation of fear starting to adversely affect her.
Worse yet, the child was breaking into a cold sweat as her breathing became irregular as her mother tried desperately to regulate it, then the conversation continued as Vergo saw their state.
"But... But why...? Why would you do this to her? What could we have some to deserve something like this?!" Vergo for the first in his life felt an emotion that would cause his eyes to water with despair.
He gritted his teeth in regret as he felt the uselessness of not being able to help his sister in her time of need, even if she didn't treat him as well as she could. Embarrassed or not, he owed it to her to have at least attempted to sort things out.
Now that she was gone...
His eyes stayed locked on the man as he nonchalantly explained. His share energy levels slowly rose as he listened.
"For many reasons. Firstly, our power draws from the feeling of fear and malice, hatred and despair, agony and suffering, and essentially any negative emotion that people direct towards us. The proportion of power we attained from sieging your respective cities was piteous to what many other worlds have given us over the years, yet we did acquire a small boost as we slaughtered humans like livestock." He began with the reasoning of him being as natural as existing.
"Another purpose is for something much easier to comprehend. Payback and vengeance for what your friends and their allies have done to us, daring to interfere and deter our agendas and our leader's endeavors with their meddling and their existences being nothing but a burning eyesore for him. The nerve." The well-dressed deity continued, snarling the last part out.
"And the final reason, also being the most important is for our superior himself. He was the one who orchestrated the invasion on Gamindustri for reasons you need not know about or will live long enough to do anything about. Resistance is futile." The classy enemy put it into words.
"But wouldn't killing those who fear you make you weaker?!" Vergo snapped out of his despair in a moment of clarity, his voice wobbly from thinking about his deceased family, friends, and people.
He felt like shit for letting Vert die and tried to think about something else to ease the pain. If he talked about fear like it was share energy, then he must have been some kind of corrupted monster.
"If you take out those give your the power you need, isn't that the same as executing those who believe in us? There's no point! By that logic, you're actively making it worse!" Argued the emotional CPU.
His conversation partner stared at him as if he was retarded before bursting his gall bladder.
He laughed. And cackled, and laughed some more.
"Who told you that nonsense? We don't work the same as you and your pathetic CPUs. Our energy is sustained long after the death or fearlessness of our victims. They were outmatched the moment they tried to fight against us." He had a slight upturn of the mouth as he looked dead into the eyes of Vergo.
"If you can't seem to understand that, then death truly is a mercy, especially for a fool like you." The man responded, his words only seeming to light a fuse within the CPU Candidate's temper.
"!..." Vergo eas be shocked to hear physiology like that. Sustain the energy of deceased believers?! He felt the tears fall from his eyes, as he tried to forget about his sister's demise for the time being as he couldn't mourn at the moment. But the man did something that would make the god keel.
"Speaking of victims..."
YANK!
RADIATE!
Citadel trailed as he outstretched his hand making the girl be ripped out of Vergo's hands as she was surrounded by dark miasma.
"Ahh! Mommy, help me!" The girl cried in sheer fright as she was unable to move within the energy she was contained in.
"Verna!" Screeched her mother, the horror bleeding from her voice.
OUTSTRETCH!
WIND!
"Let go of her!" The CPU Candidate yelled as he outstretched his hand and used the wind in an attempt to get back the little girl from the foreboding foe.
BOOM!
CRASH!
But as the divine boy tried, he felt his grip slipping, as if he was holding on to a cliff with butter on his fingertips. He tried his mightiest, but he soon felt his control over the struggle be lost as a wave of fear energy was expelled from the miasma and sent him back into the damaged car, breaking the door and windows as he was now in the driver's side.
"Fucking wanker!" Vergo barely managed to keep his vehement curse under wraps as the child was pulled towards the man.
"Oh no! My baby!" Cried the mother as she couldn't bear to watch her child be taken away from her.
"There's a certain saying when it comes to children." The man began as he took his other hand as turned the child around to face the two adults.
Well, one was technically a child, but biologically an adult- Whatever, immersion broken.
"P-Please d-don't kill me-" Verna began as a feeling of dread and fear made itself known in Vergo's, her mother's, and her own heart as the deity began what could only be described as heartless.
"It's that they should be seen, and not-"
FEAR ENERGY!
SLICE!...
He paused.
SLIT!
"Heard."
"...!"
The girl felt her ability to speak missing. Vergo's eyes would be forever scarred as he saw something be afflicted onto the poor child, a crippling injury bestowed by no other than the wrathful rooster head himself.
What Vergo witnessed was that the little girl got her throat graphically slit, emo style as her blood sprayed from the wound as the man's finger was coated in her blood with the cut's trajectory, boasting complete mathematical precision and surgical fatal incision as the skin around her neck was a brutal peeling back of flesh.
Her eyes became lifeless as the CPU Candidate felt her signature slowly fade as her body began to slump, her eyes growing weary. The scene was extremely morbid and dark, but it was a far cry to assume that he was done with the borderline corpse of the poor child he had just remorselessly slain.
"But then again, children ARE a society's most valuable resource."
WALK...!
WALK...!
WALK...!
The man continued as he made Verna's body move on its own once again, as the child devoid of life moved to the side, awkwardly walking like she was being puppeted badly by the miasma.
Vergo could barely keep himself sane or his breakfast in his stomach from what he was seeing right now, words dying in his throat as he looked on at the morally awful scene in front of him. All he could see now is a younger Vert with the same lifeless eyes and slit throat walking down the destroyed road as the man continued.
Her mother was worse off, her brain shutting off from what she just saw, within in a semi-conscious state that left her distraught, incapable of intelligent conversation as her welling tears fell with her inability to act out after seeing her child slaughtered in such a manner.
"And this brat classifies as damaged goods. Do you know what happened to damaged goods? We dispose of them." The suit-clad destroyer god asked. He raised his hand that was controlling the girl as his face became shadowy as his eyes became piercing with malice.
"D-... Don't you dare...! Let her go! She's already dead, you monster!" Vergo wiped the tears from his eyes as he regained some ability to speak.
TRANSFER!
Glancing at her mother, he quickly transferred some share energy into her, temporarily activating the dispersion of the fear energy.
"UWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH...!" Bawled the mother, her daughter and husband gone as the shrill scream wobbled near the end as she cried into the CPU Candidate's chest. Gripping his vest, her tears dampened his clothes as she couldn't bear the pain any longer.
A grimace surfaced on the VPU's features as the sound of his victim's mother crying her eyes out disgruntled him beyond tolerance. This had the opposite effect of the same magnitude as pupils shrunk and brows furrowed, tears falling involuntary as he shook with anger before holding the woman in his arms as he spoke.
"You're as callous as a supervillain if you do what I think you're going to do. Let her rest in peace, you absolute fiend! You're a bugger, a plonker, a sincere nutter if you think I'll stand for this if you go through with what you're about to-" The CPU was cut off.
"Do you really listen to what you say, or does your whimsical accent just make you sound like anything you say has an automatic metric of sense. If you think I'm going to let this corpse walk around in this hellhole, you'd be wrong."
BLAST!
He scowled as he fired the blast.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!-" Yelled Vergo.
EXPLOSION!
"Dead wrong. Hm...Hmhmhm... Hmhmhmhmhm...Hmhmhmhmhmhmha...!Hahahahahahah! HAaaaaahahahahahah! HAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA!"
The man broke into uncontrollable laughter on the play on words with the unforgivable act he committed.
"YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Warm tears fell from his eyes as he shook in rage, drawing blood from his clenched his teeth.
He placed the woman in the back seat before kicking the top of the car roof off, as it was crushed by his foot before pulling himself out with seething fury, as the woman watched with concern.
"AHHHHHHHHHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! You've should have seen the look on your face when I offered the possibility of rest for that little girl. It was adorable. Now, she's with her father getting skinned with the red wardens down the astral outhouse known as Hell! How laughable! Second, to the false hope, I saw on your face!" The monster in human disguise was in contempt as he had a highly entertained look on his face.
"JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY, YOU SHITASS!" The CPU Candidate yelled in outrage.
"But wait, there's more!" He shouted. "But just to keep this between us..." His voice faltered before going forward with another war crime.
POINT!
FEAR BLAST!
EXPLOSION!
"Members Only." He referenced. A basic beam from his finger annihilated the car that the woman was in, her death resulting from a fiery explosion that even the CPU Candidate couldn't forsee not intervening as the attack was leagues above anything he could've processed.
"...?! You monster!" The blonde accused as he looked back before closing his eyes with anger and facing the monolith if power than stood in his path.
The man continued as he took something out of his pocket. It was a gold button with a blue gemstone within the center of the button, on top of a red and yellow ribbon. Some blood and hair was present on it as it was definitely from Vert as he went to pull out something else from his other pocket.
Vergo's eyes widened as he would recognize it as the button that Vert wore on her collar. It was beaten and bloody, but the brother was still able to recognize the accessory.
"No... It can't be... S-She's really..." Vergo let the tears fall once more as he was flooded with memories of his sister. The sister that he ran away from and never figured to go back to.
The sister died because he wasn't there to help her, even if this absolute monster of a VPU was their opponent. His justified animosity towards her was the cause of her demise.
Poetic in a way.
"This, Vergo, is the last remaining piece of your sister."
DASH!
VANISH!
REAPPEAR!
The man revealed with a fading small smile before he looked at the item. Vergo straightened up as he in his irrational state went to grab it but the god vanusger before reappeared on top of another car.
CRUSH!
BLAST!
Vergo turned around just in time to see the VPU crush the item in his hands and then used his fear energy to atomize the rest of the remains of the object within his closed fist.
"!" He reacted as he saw the last physical piece of his sister leave the mortal plane. He fell onto his knees as he could not bear it anymore.
FALL!
"Uwah..." The CPU Candidate let out a pitiful sound, his anger replaced with unbearable grief as the ground he was on had drops of water fall from his eyes.
Unstable blips became waterworks as he broke down, finally.
"That's it. That's the face of broken resolve I wanted to see." The god said in satisfaction.
"Show me what you care about most so that I can take it away. And then we have a mess of a man groveling at my feet for his dead sister and dead people." The man was brought up.
"You'll be joining her soon if that makes your plight any easier to bear. But I want to make this unbearable for you so..." The enemy finished before hopping off of the car, and walking up to the man on all fours, silently sobbing.
"I... I'm sorry Vert, Chika, all of Leanbox... F-Forgive me...!"
"Behold!" He pulled out another item.
It was a brown paper bag, yet it looked visibly hefty from his angle. Blood pooled and dripped from the bottom, its stench powerful as it snapped the holding as he looked up.
The most painful kick in the balls was what was written in permanent black marker in fancy cursive, underlined and stylized that sent the blonde into a state of shock.
'VERT'S TITS'.
...!
"YOU CONVIVING MOTHERFUCKER!-" His wrath was cut short.
SMASH!
CRASH!
His face kissed the ground with a loud impact as pain burned his frontal to his agonizing senses.
"UMMMMMMMMMMMF!" A muffled sound of pain ensued as the invader slammed Vergo's face into the ground as twisted his foot into the back of his skull. He then raised his foot again before stopping down once more.
RAISE!
"Grk..!" He shakily raised his head for a second to regain his senses only for that moment to be cut short.
SMASH!
"MMMMMMMMMMMMMMFFF!" The CPU Candidate cried in pain once more.
RAISE!
SMASH!
"UMMMMMMMMMMHMHMHMMM!" Another sound of agony emerged.
Vergo was experiencing a lot of things ranging from seething pain in his face to the sorrow for his only family member's death. These things were plaguing him as he suffered more of the man's curb-stomping.
RAISE...!
SMASH!
But one thing that remained was the anger.
The rage he felt.
That's kind of edgy, but then again this is an apocalyptic flashback.
RAISE!...
It wasn't for the man before him. Well, a considerable portion of it was, but not fully.
It was neither for what was happening around him, as there was nothing he could do at the moment, and it wasn't even for the death of his sister.
What he was truly enraged at, or rather whom, was himself.
SMASH!
While he knew he had nothing to do with what was happening from what the VPU had told him, he knew that he was the one at fault.
He was the one who left Leanbox all those years ago.
He was the one who made his sister vulnerable in the times of his absence as she'd probably sent a search party that had always come empty-handed, diverting from the nation's funds and resources numerous times.
He also suspected that she might not have died, or at the very least would have survived a marginal amount of time longer if he had been there.
Vergo knew that if he had lingered that he might have learned something like how to transform into HDD so that she didn't have to die!
The CPU Candidate knew that if he had just cleared up the misconception with Chika then she wouldn't have had to die! He knew that if he had stayed then he could have gotten the Basilicom staff members to safety and they wouldn't have perished!
It was his fault, and he knew it!
RAISE!
And because of his inactivity, petty grudges, and subconscious fear, he had inadvertently caused the death of everyone he knew and didn't know in the entirety of Leanbox!
SMASH!
And because of his weakness and pathetic display of sadness, he was going to get himself killed.
RAISE...!
So no more.
SMASH!
The CPU Candidate's head was face first in the ground, as he was curb stomped for the seventh time. But then the deity that had been bludgeoning him saw something. He saw the fingers of Vergo scrape the ground as they balled into fists.
CLENCH!
Vergo shakily rose from the ground as he pushed the foot that the god had on his head. He tried to apply more pressure, but Vergo only stiffened his neck more, as he raised his head.
PUSH!
"Hm?" The man questioned as he applied more pressure.
PUSH!
The debris around the green CPU Candidate began to levitate as the boy grit his teeth as his share energy skyrocketed.
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE!!
RISE...!
His KI fluxed with his emotions as he caused the pebbles and stones to raise as well as the ground to continously shake.
"...!" Vergo stayed silent as his bangs covered his eyes. He snarled as his muscles tensed and flexed.
FLEX!
BURST!
GRAB!
An aura of green exploded from within the boy as he grabbed the foot of the man.
"You. I will rip your legs off of your body and beat you with them after twisting the kneecaps the wrong way and breaking both shins, as I surgically remove your tibia from your fibula with my bare hands. while it's still in your legs and attached to your body." Vergo growled as he looked up.
TURN!
BLOW BACK!
SLIDE!
His head turned up making the man remove his foot from his head as he was blasted back. He slid on his feet just fine though as he put his hands in his pockets, unimpressed.
"Says the runt who was three more stomps from becoming a brain matter stain on the floor. Well then. Entertain me." The man taunted with a roll of his eyes as he watched the boy stand.
"I'll entertain your funeral service for when they bury your legless corpse, you foot fetish bastard!" Vergo shot back at the god as he stared at him dead in his eyes as his aura flared and moved wildly as his share energy would rise exponentially.
The fact that Leanbox had been destroyed should have significantly crippled him, if not for the technique of sustaining himself with self-belief, taught to him by Nebula himself.
Thank... himself?
Man, that's depressing.
It would've originally been used as a failsafe in case Leanbox fell and to regulate his power, but now that the world was ending, he was outmatched and Leanbox DID fall, he had no choice but to cut loose.
Or cut whatever he had left.
He used the technique as he yelled out in fury and anguish, his KI and share energy exponentially rising as he would unleash the rest of his power.
DOWNPOUR!
THUNDER!
LIGHTNING!
The sky began to pour down with rain as lightning flashed, the god yelling!
What narrative tension!
"YOU'LL PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!"
BURST!
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE!
The furiously upset man screamed at the top of his lungs.
"YOU'LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DONE TO ALL OF THOSE INNOCENT PEOLE! FOR WHAT YOU DID TO THOSE UNDESERVING SOULS! FOR WHAT YOU DID TO EVERYONE I'VE KNOWN! YOU'LL SUFFERRRRRRRRRRRRRR! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" Vergo continued as the buildings around him collapsed from the pressure he emitted from his transformation, earthquakes and gusts of wind being emitted from him as he could not stand the visage of the man anymore.
COLLAPSE!...
COLLAPSE!...
COLLAPSE!...
FISSURES!
WHIRLWINDS!
"It's not the best build up I've seen, but what can you expect from someone who can't even transform into HDD." The businessman like CPU stayed talking shit with a shrug as Vergo let his emotions loose.
"FOR THE LOVE OF CELESTIA- WHO GIVES A FLYING FUCK ABOUT WHAT BUILD UP YOU'VE SEEN!? I'M BUILDING UP TO FOLDING YOU LIKE A BLOODY WET NAPKIN, YOU OVERLY SOPHISTICATED NONCE!" Vergo yelled as his voice was becoming deeper, different from his usual pitch.
"Well, I cared enough to not kill you immediately, so be grateful you twat." The man rolled his eyes as he shouted through the winds.
"I'LL BLOODY MURDER YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!"
GLOW...!
FLASH!
The blonde yelled through the thundering heavens, then flashing bolts, the rumbling earth, and the violent winds as his eyes became purple with white glowing power signals.
PILLAR!
TRANSFORM!
SHINE!
But Vergo was to be covered in a white pillar of energy as it expanded from his core as it shot into the air, punching a small hole in the storm clouds before being covered once more.
"He did transform. This is where happy hour begins, I suppose." The man brushed some hair from his face as he flexed his fingers in front of him.
The pillar dissipated as another person was revealed.
The man stood at a very tall 6'8", and had had seafoam green spiky hair. The ends of his hair blended into lime green as he would have two sets of thin bangs at the front of his face and three sets of large ones at the ends of his face. His eyes were amethyst with white glowing power signals for pupils, as he would have a defined jawline. He wore a black spandex bodysuit that went up to his neck and reached the middle of his biceps as they were incredibly muscular like the rest of his body, being on par with one of those imposing world-class martial artists and Aztec fitness gods. His spandex possessed lime green and neon green accents as he had on gloves that were forearm length with the palms being green. His boots were up to his knees as well, as he wore some green futuristic boots with neon green accents and black accents. He gained flight processors behind him as well, as they were like a holographic angel's wings, with the spine of the wings being floating and dark grey as the wings themselves would be a radiant shade of neon green.
But his bo staff...
GLOW!
Changed into a platinum and titanium fused alloy heavy lance. It became a 7-foot futuristic jousting lance, that would have a swirl pattern around the lance from the back where the handguard was to the tip which was sharp enough to tear the fabric of air itself. The swirl pattern glowed green as it was charged with share energy. The handle itself was a royal purple as the god gripped it, and the pommel of the weapon would be the shape of a horse on a platform as the base of the lance would possess four purple gems on each side of its cylindrical surface which would be glowing with power as well.
Vergo gripped the lance as he looked at his free hand. He registered that he ascended before looking at the man.
"En garde, you condescending cunt. You'll regret the day you stepped on Gamindustriman soil!" Vergo, or what would have been Green Brother, cursed at the god as he said his first words in HDD with his slightly deeper and more smoky voice as he raised his lance towards him.
POINT!
His personality seemed similar to his base, although it gave a bit more of a rough tough, no-nonsense outlook with the witty alliteration he used as he pointed his scythe.
"Who do you think you're pointing that at, Vergo?" The business suit-wearing deity asked condescendingly as he put his hands behind him.
"You see anyone else who fits the description of a metropolitan rooster, bloody nobhead. Or did you leave your bird brain back out of whatever hellhole you crawled out of like the headless chicken you're going to be in the next few minutes." Green Brother insulted the god as he raised his brows in refreshing surprise.
"Tongue that's as sharp as your lance... Too bad it mimics the sharpness of your brain if you think you stand a chance. People like you have a name, I believe you're familiar." Humor found leeway into the mostly serious VPU's visage.
"And that is?"
"A dullard." Smirked the elder god.
"Why you...!" Snarled the transformed CPU Candidate. He fell right into that one and he knew it! He shouldn't have assumed that he'd be let off the mockery hook after going HDD.
I can burn some time to play with your act. Show me your moves." The man said as he would gesture the 'come hither' motion with his hand. Adding salt on the wound he mimicked the famous video game character's neutral taunt to boot.
"Oh, now you're just taking the fucking piss!"
VANISH!
Green Brother yelled out as he vanished from his increased speed.
REAPPEAR!
THRUST!
SIDESTEP!
BOOM!
CRASH!
He reappeared with his lance and went for a thrust. The VPU simply sidestepped as the wind pressure from the thrust alone caused a building to collapse.
Putting some distance between the two, the CPU Candidate chased after him as he started to increase the cap between them.
The suit clad invader flew up into the air as Green Brother pursued him.
STABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTABSTAB!
DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE! DODGE!
He repeatedly stabbed at the business badass as he weave through all of his attacks.
"HRAH!" Green Brother roared as he was engulfed in an intense lime aura of KI, and increased his speed, only to pierce nothing but air.
JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!JAB!
DODGE!
"You have got to be joking..." The man sighed as he effortlessly dodged all of the attacks that was thrown his way.
Green Brother halted his assault as he used his palm and blasted a torrent of wind the man's way.
WINDWAVE!
...GUARD!
It sent him back as causally blocked the attack.
"Hnn!" The CPU Candidate grit his teeth.
The CPU Candidate then zoomed towards him and thrusted with all of his might, and sent the man flying as he blocked with a single arm.
FLY!
THRUST!
BLOCK!
CRASH!
SOAR!
He crashed through multiple blocks of destroyed buildings as a discharge of wind came from the lance as Green Brother then flew further up.
The greenette then dived down with his wings and used the air around him to push himself down faster.
DIVE!
SONICBOOM!
THRUST!
He moved at hundreds of times, the speed of sound as he yelled, his spear swirls shining neon green as they exerted energy. He pinpointed the man's position as he slammed into buildings and struck right for his heart.
"DIE!" Green Brother roared as he went for the kill.
BLOCK!
STAB!
TWISTER!
BOOOM!
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE!
WINDWAVE!
But the man raised his index finger and stopped the blade at the last second as the resulting explosion shook the surrounding areas as a giant twister would have been formed from the energy of puncturing air being stonewalled by the finger.
Green Brother then raised his free hand as he would channel his KI.
CHARGE!
TWINKLE!
BURST!
A high pitched charging sound would occur as a twinkle appeared after the green color of the blast was sucked into the twinkle from the environment before the greenette would throw it towards the man who was blocking his lance.
"Apex Torrent!" The CPU Candidate called out his attack as he threw it at the man.
VANISH!
His opponent simply gave a raised brow to the twinkle before flicking it with his finger, causing it to detonate as Green Brother vanished from the blast site.
"What's this?"
FLICK!
DETONATE!
MASSIVE EXPLOSION!
FLASH!
SHOCKWAVE!
The man asked in a intrigued voice as he took his hand and flick the twinkle.
The man set off an attack that would've usually been able to take out quite a few city blocks. But since this was a Vergo that was not only unleashed, but transformed and livid, he faced a hell of a lot more destructive power from the SP Skill.
The blast covered the already destroyed city blocks again as it expanded in a lime green dome that was bright and could be heard from miles away and seen from thousands of feet in the air.
The area was drowned in light as Green Brother, who was in the air had to look away for a bit.
"Blimey! I didn't think that I got my hands on such power...!" Green Brother noted as he shielded his eyes.
Which was an unintentional opening the man below took. Or should I say nearby-
SPIN KICK!
"Oof!" The deity was kicked through the air by his opponent as the bored VPU spoke up.
"You can barely fathom your own power, and expect to defeat me? Don't make me laugh!" He shouted with a slightly angry tone as he chased after the green CPU Candidate.
"Grr...! We'll see about that, you boring bastard!"
DESCEND!
VANISH!
Green Heart responded as he spit out some blood before catching himself. He then took it to the ground as the god followed.
Once they reached below, the ground began to rumble.
The CPU Candidate then clashed with the fear god as he raced through the destroyed roads and contended with the invader as they caused shockwaves with each blow made.
Green Brother at one point was even be grabbed by the foot and was thrown into a mall before being piston kicked out of the complex, and onto a highway.
SHOCKWAVE!
BOOM!
SHOCKWAVE!
CRASH!
SHOCKWAVE!
COLLAPSE!
SHOCKWAVE!
SHATTER!
SHOCKWAVE!
EXPLOSION!
SHOCKWAVE!
RUMBLE!
SHOCKWAVE!
TREMOR!
SHOCKWAVE!
WINDWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
DUST!
SHOCKWAVE!
COLLAPSE!
SHOCKWAVE!
BOOOM!
SHOCKWAVE!
MASSSIVE SHOCKWAVE!
GRAB!
"What?!"
RAPID ROTATION!-
THROW!
CRASH!
BOOM!
Green Brother exclaimed before he was swung around like a damn fidget spinner and thrown into a mall. The building itself from what the CPU Candidate could sense was completely empty, all sings of life eradicated by the initial blast his opponent's affiliate had used to turn Planeptune into the dystopian mess that it resembled now.
His realization of this only made him more motivated to beat the person before him.
"GRAH!"
TUMBLE!
TUMBLE!
TUMBLE!
The green god yelled as he was thrown into the upstairs shopping complex. He tumbled down an ascending escalator, trapping him in a dreaded eternal tumble.
No time like the apocalypse to fall up the stairs.
That was until, the overpowered god arrived, and delivered a mercy(?) kick that sent him down to the ground floor.
AXE KICK!
"ARGH!"
CRASH!
Green Brother then dashed out of the debris he fell into as the red god almost stomped on him as he dodged.
DASH!
THRUST!
WINDWAVE!
DODGE!
He then thrusted his lance and uses the wind pressure to try and hit the man, but he easily dashed to the side before being approached.
"Bugger!"
DUCK!
ROUNDHOUSE KICK!-
WHOOSH!
Green Brother cursed as he then barely managed to dodge a kick that would have hit him in the side of the neck.
"Aero!"
WOOSH!-
SWAT!
And with that dodge, the green god went for a wind based magic attack as he yelled out the name of the familiar skill.
HIGH KICK!
But the man batted away the spell like a fly before high kicking the god in his chin.
DOUBLE HEEL KICK!
SHATTER!
ZOOM!
CRASH!
"UAK!" The surprised god was struck then ejected him from the premises with a piston kick that made every window that was still in tact shatter within the mall.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Green Brother let out a shrill cry before impacting into the destroyed car.
SLAM!
BOOM!
CRASH...!
The green deity ragdolled and tumbled onto an elevated highway with a bunch of destroyed and damaged cars on it. He ended up slamming into one that exploded before being slammed into an already destroyed one, where his fall halted.
Green Brother then bounced back with his lance and used it to block a dropkick that swiftly sent him down the highway.
KICK!
BLOCK!
ZOOM!
"!" The CPU Candidate reacted as he blocked with his lance, just barely.
As he was sent down the highway at massively hypersonic speeds, he then had to dodge many blasts that came from the man's finger as he outstretched his arm and black blasts with red outlines would be shot at him.
He was sure that it was some type of skill, but the man didn't even feel it was important enough to announce it for him. Just staring with the intent to rid him from his immortal coil.
The pretentious prick.
BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST!
ZIG-ZAG!
The greenette flew in a zig-zag motion, to sporadically avoid the blasts that were immensely powerful for attacks the size of ping pong balls. Green Brother soon launched a volley of his own blasts back at him, but it was easily countered as the man would cease his attack before charging a much stronger blast from his finger.
BLAST!
Green Brother countered with his own KI blast. He continued as he released several more, even after his attack had been utterly ignored as it simply exploded in front of the VPU, his aura disassembling the blast before it could make contact with his suit, let alone his body.
BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST!
COUNTER!
Fleeting explosions could be seen behind them as the blasts were effectively snuffed out.
But the fearsome monster gave no fucks as a single blast was all that it took to slap the group of green ones out of existence.
"How?!" The CPU Candidate was shocked as he wouldn't be able to grasp the power of his pursuer.
"The real question you should be asking is how much longer do you have to live, child."
CHARGE!
The pursuer corrected as he prepped a ping pong ball-sized blast in his direction.
"Fuckin' hell!"
THRUST!
WINDWAVE!
FEAR BLAST!
Green Brother cursed as he thrust his lance to try and interrupt the attack before it could go off.
FEARFUL DOOM LASER!
But the ping pong sized ball grew into a large beam as the thrust would be deemed useless.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" The newly transformed god yelled right before shit hit the fan.
FEARFUL EXPLOSION!
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE!
SHOCKWAVE!
The greenette was engulfed in the blast as he let out a painful scream, unable to block the attack at all. The blast hit the ground as the entire highway was engulfed in a large explosion that would have left a smoking crater in the ground.
The highway was completely destroyed as Green Brother was caught in the explosion.
DUST CLOUD!
Dust spiked up with the subsiding of the explosion as a large crater was left where the highway used to be.
The CPU Candidate slowly rose from the dust as he now had ripped sleeves once again and sustained moderate damage. His face was bloody and beaten with the rest of his body, and his SP and KI reserves would have been drained to half and two-thirds respectively.
"HRAH!"
CLEAR!
He then let out a roar that cleared the dust and smoke in the area.
The smoke dust was spread out and cleared, and the green god would be left to see the extent of the damage his opponent had done.
Nothing but static that was comprised of fear energy and some remains of smoke that raised from the ground as he looked around. The pieces of metal and concrete scattered around were the remains of the popular Planeptunian commute route.
"The fact that I've survived for this long must be a miracle." Green Brother told himself as he wouldn't have been able to land one effective hit on the man as yet.
He then sensed something to his right as his eyes shifted accordingly only to be clocked in his face by a knee from the man clad in red.
A shockwave emitted as Green Brother's eyes became pure white as he was hit so hard he was stunned. His body slumped as he was sent crashing into the ground before rolling a ways away.
KNEE!
SHOCKWAVE!
"!" Green Brother was offset by the sheer power of the leg as he was sent sprawling as his lance would be sent to the side.
SPRAWL!
CRASH!
ROLL!
He only stopped when the man stomped on his abdomen, causing dust to be ejected around them as the green god was stuck in place once more.
STOMP!
"Blargh!" Green Brother coughed up more blood as he weakly raise his head as he strained to raise it.
"That's enough playtime. It's time to die, Vergo." The man decided as he motioned his hand towards his face.
"N-No...! Not now!..." The CPU Candidate protested as he tried to move his body once his eyes regained their color.
WAVE OF FEAR!
He was stuck there as he was hit with an intense wave of fear that paralyzed his body as he tried to move out of the position he was in.
"I've given you time. The time for your newly revealed HDD. Time for your hidden factor that allows CPUs like yourself to grow stronger mid-battle to kick in. But you've left me disappointed. Oh so underwhelmed." The VPU told Green Brother.
"That was... 10 minutes!" The green god clarified.
"And I'm bored. You're boring me." The rooster-haired god responded.
"Well... Could you at least die of boredom? Would make defeating you way easier." Was the sorry rebuttal that was given to the winning side of the battle.
"Ha!" He chuckled. "I might be bored, but I'm not that bored. Futility is surprisingly decent entertainment when in proper context. But when looking at the situation from an objective lens, you're just full of disappointments today, aren't you? Well, your sister was full of them too. It may very well be genetic, don't feel too bad." The god mockingly consoled the CPU Candidate.
"If you dare talk about my sister once more, I will lose control." The greenette warned.
"You lost control when you were stomped afoot 7 times. I don't believe we're speaking about the same control here. A matter of fact, you never was IN control." The malicious suit deity pointed out.
"Keep talking. See what happens." Green Brother eluded to him snapping.
"Mmmm... But I refuse. You'll just make me feel even worse, you can't even get out of the fear I've placed upon you. I'll end your misery right here, right now."
CHARGE...!
ABSORB!
The divine suit man then charged a blast that was black with red as particles were absorbed into it as it grew."
"Tch!" Green Brother was in his final moments as he stared down the blast that would end his life.
"One thing before you kill me." The CPU Candidate asked as the fear god raised a brow.
"Do you have some kind of foot fetish?-"
WAVE!
The blast turned into a wave of fear energy that seemingly engulfed the green god as he was certainly blasted to smithereens.
BOOM!!
RUMBLE...!
The smoke was created from the blast as another crater was been formed.
DUST!
DUST!
DUST!
A face of satisfaction of a job well done appeared on the tux god's face as he snuffed out both siblings and professionally dusted his hands.
"Two down. Now to see what those Planeptunians are doing up in the sky." The god ascended up into the air, but immediately stopped on his tracks as he turned behind him with a shocked expression.
A brown-skinned man who had an afro that was glowing light yellow and some black horns that protruded from his afro as he had some futuristic black sunglasses on, hiding his eyes. He wore nothing on his torso except some bandages on his forearms and wrists that were red and were ripped and torn from the ends that hung from his arms. His chest had one large faded scar across from his collarbone to his hip as he would have some injuries from his previous battles. The individual had a red belt that was flowing in the wind from the blast that was also somewhat ripped up. The belt held up some black baggy pants that would be slightly ripped and scratched as his shoes were some tabi shoes that had a reddish orangish tone, and some leg bands that were red at the top and turned orange then yellow at the bottom.
The expression of the man was one of surprise as he held the beaten body of Green Brother, putting him down.
"Guess I cut that one close... But your energy... Is that you, Vergo?!..." AL asked as he looked at the Candidate. His voice was deep with power.
"Heh. Looks like I got lucky...That bastard... He killed Vert and destroyed... Leanbox..!" Green Brother said as he pointed at the floating god.
"Citadel...! You fought him?!" AL identified asked, labeling the deity as Vergo nodded. Surviving for so long against someone of his level was no easy feaet, and that was something that even he had to acknowledge.
"Yes. I reduced the city to ashes. Should've seen the look on her Oracle's face when I killed her. And I thought my wife was clingy! I might have given that green goddess a break! Back pain included!" He joked as he brandished the bloody bag, getting no laughs.
Only glares of the deceased's family and dreadful silence of the new combatant.
"Jokes are still not your strong suit, even after all these decades." AL muttered. "And are those-"
"Can you not read?" Answered Citadel with another question. "I made sure to put it in all capitals to make sure your prescription glasses could read it." Jabbed the VPU.
"Go fuck yourself. Have some energy, kid." The man told Vergo as he then transferred some of his KI to the beaten god.
TRANSFER!
"!" The greenette became energized as he saw some more of his injuries become smaller, but not healed as he regained his stamina.
"That was humorous. It's just that your taste has gone down with all your demon concubines and feelings and your view on women in general that has changed." Citadel rebutted.
"You're joking about my dead sister's dear friend. What in that twisted situation that you caused mind you, is funny to you, you sick fuck." The CPU Candidate growled as AL would calm him down.
"Calm down, Vergo. I know that you're hurting, but this isn't an enemy you can win against. Get to Nebula and regroup. I'll hold off Citadel." The demonic dad figure told the CPU Candidate as he looked at the angry deity.
"Hoho! You still think you can take me? Don't you remember who gave you that scar?" Citadel taunted as he pointed to the injury.
"You talk as if I haven't given you one as well,"
BURST!
HEAT UP!
FWOOSH!
AL responded as he then powered up as the temperature around him raised, his flame aura burned into the size of a small house. His belt and bandage ends flew up from the pressure.
"Hmph. Well at least you'll make me use my arms."
BURST!
FEAR AURA!
WHOOSH!
The god admitted with a smirk as he unfolded his arms and burst with his own fearful aura. It was equal in size to AL's as they stared each other down.
DROP!
He then took off his blazer as he was left with his red under suit as his tie would be flapping from the power.
"Go, Vergo.'' AL told the awestruck god as he felt the demon's powers rise exponentially as he was dwarfed to an atom in the presence of these two in less than a minute, not being able to sense AL's KI any longer.
"R-Right-o!"
FLY!
Green Brother nodded as he turned around and fly towards Nebula's power signature.
"Oop. Can't let the brat escape."
CHARGE!-
ELBOW!
BLAST!
CRASH!
Citadel reminded himself as he pointed two fingers at the fleeting god as he charged an attack, but was thrown off course by an elbow from AL which sent him into a few buildings.
"Shite!" Vergo cursed in the tea sipping manner as he used the wind around him to speed up as he got his lance and escaped from the brewing battle.
GRAB!
FLY!
Green Brother got used to his flight as he was mostly using the wind before to maintain it. The CPU Candidate was now zooming towards his blue senior's power as he also sensed the energies of Nepgear and Neptune, they too brawling with the man that he saw as he approached.
He looked around as he flew towards the power. The wanton destruction and ruins made the Candidate cringe as he had somewhat added to it, even though it was post the initial attack.
"So much damage...!"
FLY!
That bird bastard really wasn't kidding when he said invasion. I have to find them!" Green Brother told himself as he zoomed towards the Planeptower as it would be where the source of the energies lied.
He ascended to the skies as he was flying to a height that was above the Planeptower. He flew towards the figures that were floating above the damaged landmark and home to the CPUs.
GRAB!
"Gahk!-" Green Brother's eyes widened.
PLUMMET!
SLAM!
CRASH!
He closed in on them before he was choke slammed into the ground by the same man who nuked the city at a speed he couldn't even comprehend.
Green Brother was driven into the ground as his neck was tightly gripped by none other by the venom eyed fighter himself. His clothes were slightly ripped as his body was scratched and cut up.
"What do we have here? A brat that's looking for death? And he looks like a Shitbox CPU! Go figure." The culprit insulted as his eyes constricted with predatory glee.
GAZE!
WINDWAVE!
REEL!
Vergo was in a bind five seconds into attempting to regroup, so he tried to use his gaze to push the warriors off of himself.
The invader had his head snapped back from the attacks, but simply crack his neck to the CPU Candidate's horror before looking back down at the male.
"Those bitches up there hit way harder than you. That must make you the pinnacle of being a cunt the way you gave me a stare my bottom bitch would-" He was cut off.
Literally.
"HRAH!" A strong feminine voice yelled.
SLASH!
The god was slashed away as he let go of the neck of the green god as he took in the much-needed oxygen as his savior turned to him.
"Are you alright...?" She asked with concern as she struggled to recognize the person that she had bailed out of the chokehold.
The woman possessed long purple hair in twin tails that almost reached her feet bright blue eyes with white pupils in the shape of power signs. She wore black hair clips with glowing blue D-Pad shapes on them while her black bodysuit had purple and blue lining all around the torso and arms. The middle of her torso had purple mesh, allowing a vague vertical view of her stomach. She also wore thigh-high boots with octagon patterns on the side at the very top; one filled it with purple and another just a white outline. Her weapon was a futuristic greatsword that would be in the shape of a large katana as she looked towards the male. She stood around 5'05" and was busty with her E cups as her bodysuit was ripped and torn a bit as she would have been fighting for a while.
Even in the apocalypse, fanservice was inescapable.
"Neptune... It's me, Vergo." The CPU Candidate identified himself.
"Vergo? You're a CPU?!" Purple Heart realized who the green-haired god was as she would see him get up.
"Yes, but that's not what's important right now. Vert's dead." Green Brother had to force his voice not to crack when he announced her death.
"What?!" The goddess exclaimed as her pupils shrank before looking to the side as she quickly had to block a strike from Xero as she was pushed away with a shockwave before they would begin to clash and battle as they flew up into the air, causing shockwaves.
"GOTCHA BITCH!"
SLAM!
CRASH!-
SLASH!
The VPU yelled out as he outstretched his hand and a very large chain came forth from his hands as it slammed into Purple Heart like a freight train as she was struck.
But the goddess slashed through the chain before she charged the invader with her blade as she used her katana to slash at the enemy. The man then used his forearm to block as he coated it in fear energy before the two disappeared and caused shockwaves as they did battle in the air once more.
"Take this!"
SLICE!
BLOCK!
The Planeptunian goddess roared as she slashed at the man.
"Gonna have to swing harder than that, bitch!"
VANISH!
DISAPPEAR!
SHOCKWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
The man responded before the two of them took the battle back to the skies.
Vergo was still in awe at how powerful his allies truly were as they did battle with the invader.
"Vert's dead?! And when did you transform!? Shit's really hitting hitting fan now!..." The blue god himself asked as he materialized next to the CPU Candidate as he looked at the god.
"That's not important right now." The CPU Candidate brushed off, the form still giving him a false bravado that was mostly stripped from him by the destroyer of Leanbox. "Yes. Someone named Citadel killed her. He razed Leanbox and killed off all its citizens in twenty minutes...!" Vergo summarized as he would clench his fist.
"He was always efficient... But this is awful. Down horrendous. And where is he?" Nebula questioned as he looked at Purpe Sister firing large blasts of energy at the man as he was engulfed in the beam before getting caught in an explosion made them shield their eyes.
"M.P.B.L!"
BLAST! BLAST! BLAST!
EXPLOSION!
Nepgear yelled as she unleashed her EXE Drive.
"Woah!" Nebula yelped as he blocked his gaze.
"That's brighter than my future!" Green Brother looked away as he too shielded his vision.
The light died down as they looked to see the result of the attack. Xero was more damaged from the successful move landed, as his trench coat was ripped up and the left side had been blasted off.
He then blocked another slash from Purple Heart before pushing her away and blasting off right for Nepgear.
"Move, bitch!"
FEAR BLAST!
GUARD!
The man barked as he shoved away the CPU with a discharge of fear energy as he shoved her away.
"Tch!" The goddess grunted as she was pushed away.
ZOOM!
FEAR ENERGY!
Purple Heart successfully blocked the offensive maneuver as she was pushed back in the air. She then lowered her sword to attack when she saw the man race for her sister with a flying kick charging up with fear energy essence coming from the outstretched foot.
"Tell me how my shoe tastes, whore." The man growled as he aimed right for the CPU Candidate's face.
She was damaged as well, with her bodysuit being ripped up with scratches and cuts on her body.
CLASH!
SHOCKWAVE!
The goddess then widened her eyes as she swung her gunblade at the opponent, clashing with the male, making a shockwave emit as their respective weapons shook.
"Please stop this!" Purple Sister tried to plead with the opponent as she contested with the man.
"CAN'T STOP! WON'T STOP! BITCH YOU IRRELEVANT! RAPID-FIRE GO BRRRRR!" The invader rudely shouted before he threw his arms forward and yelled out an SP Skill as he caught the goddess off guard.
"Diabolical Douser!"
BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST!
"Kyaaa!"
EXPLOSIONS!
Purple Sister cried out as she was assaulted by numerous explosions.
The attack ended up sending Nepgear down to the ground as she was pelted by the danmaka like blasts as he stopped as her sister rushes to her side to try and catch her.
"Nepgear!" The CPU yelled out as she was racing to catch her sister.
"Woah there, Purple Pussy! YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!"
STAB!
The man should before he would outstretch his hand as a chain zoomed and stabbed Purple Heart before swinging her into a couple buildings as she was dragged by the opponent as her sister continued to fall.
"Ah!"
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
Purple Heart yelled as she was nicked in the leg from the chain that came forth from the man's palm as it swung her into a couple of damaged buildings as he quickly swung the goddess to their level.
"Holy shit! Xero's going off!" Nebula observed as he looked in horror.
"Xero... We have to help them!" Green Brother recited the invader's name before snapping back to reality. He couldn't directly attack the VPU as their powers were dimensions from each other, but he could definitely help out the goddesses and Nebula as an assist.
"Go help out NepG. I'll help out Nep. We can plan out what to do about Citadel after we take out his younger brother."
PILLAR!
TRANSFORM!
Nebula planned before he transformed into Brave Heart.
"Yare yare daze. I'll deal with the asylum asshole." Brave Heart, who looked similar to his past counterpart, except for the fact that his sleeves were covered as he had more accents and glowing blue lines on his spandex suit.
BURST!
FLY!
He then crouched slightly as he burst from the ground with a massive orange aura as he rushed towards a laughing Xero as he swung the goddess around.
"Right!"
ZOOM!
Green Brother nodded as he blasted off into the air himself and rushed towards a plummeting Nepgear.
He then saw the goddess cringing from the pain of the blasts that hit her as she couldn't regain her bearings.
The irrelevant comment may or may not have contributed to that state-
Green Brother then outstretched his hand as the goddess stopped falling as Purple Sister opened her eyes. She realized she wasn't falling anymore and looked toward the approaching figure.
She expected it to be Xero as she readied her blade, but lowered it when it was someone she did not know initially.
"Huh... Who are you?" Purple Sister asked cautiously as she was still wary.
"It's Vergo, Nepgear."
TILT!
Green Brother revealed as he tilted her upright with his aerokinesis.
"Vergo?! You're a CPU?!" Purple Sister reacted as her eyes widened.
"CPU Candidate. Well, I would've been if Vert hadn't died, so I guess it's just CPU now." He looked away at mentioning his sister's death, as Purple Sister's eyes were absolutely shocked.
"Vert's... No... She can't be...!" Nepgear teared up as she would not be able to believe the news.
"And Leanbox was destroyed... I can't give you confirmation that it's even in one piece anymore because on the way here I tried to sense any signs of life in the vicinity, and I found nothing. Absolutely. Nothing." Vergo stressed as she took in all of what the god was saying.
"But... But how...!?" Nepgear asked franticslly as she was the verge of crying.
"Some prick named Citadel. I tried to fight the bloke- That's how I went into HDD... But he effortlessly bested me. I couldn't even avenge Vert!" He yelled as his voice croaked with melancholy. He too started to tear up too but wiped his eyes as he sniffled.
"... This is really awful. Leanbox is destroyed, Planeptune is under attack and we've lost contact with the Lastation and Lowee..." Purple Sister would explain.
"We bloody WOT!?" Green Brother became agape as he tried to sense the energies of the people in Lastation and Lowee respectively. He sighed in relief as he would still be sensing signs of life in Lowee but become pale when he sensed a sole presence in Lastation.
"This is not peng. Lastation only has one life signature in its vicinity, and it's not the CPUs." Green Brother said as Nepgear would have snapped.
"ONE?! Then Noire, Uni, and everyone else there is..." She wouldn't be able to finish the sentence as she was one more bad situation from breaking down.
"But Lowee is still standing. Barely though, as I can also sense some powerful energies duking it out. We have to save ourselves before we can help them, Nepgear. It's the only way." Green Brother told the candidate as he felt a shadow of uselessness weigh him down.
All he could do was tell others of misfortune as he now noted the fall of two nations as he gripped his lance.
"R-Right." Purple Sister sniffled as she gripped her gunblade as well as she gained the necessary resolve.
She had to win.
Not just for herself, but for her fallen friends and her people.
IF, Compa, B-Sha, Nisa, and all the other Makers would've already fallen to Xero, and she would not let the rest of her people succumb to the same fate.
Not if she could help it.
"Let's go help your sister." The greenette told the fellow CPU Candidate as he flew up. He released the cushion of air, as Purple Sister flew after him as both were flying at the same pace, Nepgear slowing to keep up with him.
SHOCKWAVE!
SHOCKWAVE!
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They were confronted by countless shockwaves as they wouldn't even be able to see what was happening between Xero, Purple Heart, and Brave Heart. Even Nepgear's perception was outstripped by their velocity, only the aftereffects visible.
The shockwave rocked the city as they flew around the nation, moving at speeds that even light could not hope to reach.
Xero was now handling both CPUs as he blocked, parried, and countered the slashes and punches thrown at him as he had a crazed smile of bloodlust as he saw the serious faces of Purple Heart and Brave Heart charge him in a synchronized pattern, but used different attacks to try and overwhelm the invader.
KICK!
But Xero was able to keep up with the two as he danced around the skies and left shockwaves of defiance as he clashed with the constant flurry of attacks from the two as he then kick both of the deities in their faces as h sent them flying with a piston kick.
"Urah!" Brave Heart yelled.
"Hnng!" Purple Heart grunted.
GRAVITY!
CLOTHESLINE!
Xero then zoomed towards Brave Heart as the blue god rolled into a flip before steadying himself and coated his hand in gravity as he clotheslined the god in his neck as the man was sent flying down.
"URGH!" Xero grunted as he was struck by a powerful gravitational blow. He was sent to a Purple Heart that had recovered and used an SP Skill to follow up on the attack.
"Cross Combination!"
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! OVERHEAD SLASH!
Purple Heart yelled as she in rapid succession slashed and sliced at the god as he would be caught in the attack. She ended the skill with a downward slash that sent the destroyer god crashing into a road.
"FUCK!"
CRASH!
DUST!
The battle-crazy god cursed as he was sent downwards before he crashed into the road. Dust shot up as he landed.
CHAINS!
Xero then sent out a barrage of chains from his hands that shot out of the dust cloud. They were in the thousands as they spread into the air and then fall back down as the targeted anything that moved.
The metal monsters forced the two to fly away as a metallic army of linked missiles chased after them as they performed aerial maneuvers to dodge and avoid the mass chains that target them as they dealt with the attack.
ZOOM!
But the other two who were agape from the level of combat snapped out of their stupor as they too now had to avoid the chains as they raced to them as well.
"Goodness!" Purple Sister realized as she processed the attack.
"Split up!"
FLY!
DROP!
Green Brother said as the both of them moved apart as they would evade the chains.
CRASH!
DASH!
CHAINS!
Green Brother descended back to the ground he then made a mad dash as he landed with a crash that shot up dust before blazing ahead as he ran like a famous speedster.
But the chains moved at ludicrous speeds as they followed the green god.
JUMP!
LEAP!
SPRING!
360 FLIP!
LAND-
VANISH!
He dashed on the road as he jumped from wall to wall before doing a 360 flip before landing on the ground and vanishing as a chain stabbed the ground where he would have landed.
STAB!
REAPPEAR!
DASH!
LEAP!
SOMERSAULT!
The CPU Candidate reappeared in a running state and jumped into a somersault over a chain that stabbed down into the ground where his previous position was.
STAB!
ZOOM!
CHAINS!
SLAM!
DASH!
STAB!
He used his processors to shoot himself back into the ground as another few chains rushed ahead to try and impale him as he landed with a slam before dashing ahead.
JUMP!
BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST BLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLASTBLAST!
EXPLOSION!
The greenette then leapt into the air once more as he twisted around and rapidly fired KI blasts at the chains that followed him as they exploded on contact with the chain.
But they were unscathed as they continued to chase the god with fervor from its demented caster.
FLOAT!
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
SHOCKWAVE!
WINDWAVE!
Green Brother was shaken, but not stirred as he let out a roar as he tried a different technique as he now used his wings to regain his altitude.
His Hellish Holler was far stronger than usual, since he transformed after getting rekt by Citadel, but only succeeded in pushing back the chains slightly as they then lunged for the CPU Candidate.
DROP!
MISS!
ROLL!
MISS!
FLY!
MISS!
ZOOM!
He then dropped as a chain went to impale him, before rolling to the side to dodge another and quickly flew to the side to avoid yet another chain. He then saw a skyscraper that was devoid of life unsurprisingly and flew into it.
CRASH!
CRASH!
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CRASH!
The Leanboxian CPU Candidate flew through the doors of the skyscraper as he flew through the floors of the building as he bore a large hole through each floor as he flew up, the chains right on him.
Scarily enough, chains gained on him as Vergo smashed through nineteen floors as he then smashed through the roof of the tall building.
Green Brother then charged another blast as it crackled with lime energy as his hand then threw it down, yelling a move taught.
"Limelight!"
FLASH!
EXPLOSION!
SHOCKWAVE!
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE!
A lime flash of share energy mixed with KI busted from the palm of the god as it met with the evil god's chains.
The skyscraper exploded as the windows flashed green light before the entire twenty-story building exploded from within the bricks and debris was instantly destroyed as the blast site was covered with smoke, a shockwave emitted with some rumbling from the ground.
GRIP!
CHARGE!
Green Brother wouldn't dare take a chance that the chains had been defeated, and channeled share energy into his lance before he followed up with a charging thrust as he yelled.
"URAAH!"
ZOOM!
THRUST!
Green Brother yelled as he drove the futuristic, heavy lance forward.
MASSIVE BOOM!
WINDWAVE!
BREAK!
SCATTER!
The CPU Candidate then thrust into the smoke clouds and stabbed mid-air as his lance met resistance from the air as he pierced the air itself. As a result, the sound of an eardrum-splitting boom occurred as the dust clouds were cleared with the chains being broken as their links were scattered.
Chain links landed on the ground as they sank into it, melting into a shadowy mist.
Green Brother breathed heavily as he used up a lot of energy for those attacks and was starting to feel the effects of being in HDD for some time as he was inexperienced.
"That... Settles... That..." The greenette muttered in between breaths as he was sweating.
He soon looked to see where Purple Sister had moved off to to assist her, when Xero appeared next to him as he would shout out at the god.
"OR DOES IT?!" The evil god questioned with a energetic snigger as he was upon the newbie CPU Candidate.
"YOU!"
STAB!!!
Trying to attack the near VPU, his lance rushed to his position in an attempt to gore him for all the Leanboxian was worth, his lance tearing through the air as the wind itself was ripping itself in half to make way for the object to land its mark.
PHASE!!!
"!!!"
Yet when the tip of his weapon should've connected, he pierced through nothing but a flickering image instead of wicked flesh. Xero's speed had far surpassed anything the CPU Candidate had encountered, which spelt extremely terrible news for what was about to come.
GUT PUNCH!
"UWAK!" The CPU Candidate's eyes went blank once more as he was given a knuckle sandwich that caused major indigestion, with a side of rupturing.
VOMIT!
SHOCKWAVE!
QUAKE!...
By delivering a sickening gut punch to the green god as he was sent flying. So much so, that his body had been sent right out of Planeptune from the immense fore that Xero had hit him with, the greenette's eyes going blank as he ejected a mix of breakfast and blood before being thrown so fast that the resulting shockwave would make the city shake with pressure as the remaining windows in any intact building shattered, the structural unstable buildings outright collapsing.
"VERGO!" Brave Heart, Purple Heart, and Purple Sister yelled in whock as they saw their ally being knocked into the horizon like a catapult as was gone in less than a second.
"Well, he went out of the park. Still got a nasty pitcher." Xero smiled before looking back to the group. "To be fair, nobody's gonna be hitting that fastball anytime soon." He chuckled.
A/N:
Heya there, reader!
If you're seeing this, this is a rewrite of the chapter, just to correct some repetition, fix some spelling errors, and improve the spelling quality, especially in the earlier chapters.
So remember, italics and bold is going for gold.
Hm. Well, I guess Vergo still can't catch a break in the Flash... Back? Or would it be forward... Memory, I'll call it his memory. He literally got out of bounds by a cheap shot, the unfortunate circumstances keep piling on the Neptunia trope. F in the comments for Semi-Competent Silver.
Citadel also seems much more lax and open for conversation in the future? I wonder what the reason for that could be...? Still fucked up enough to mercilessly murder a small child, though. RIP an unarmed little girl that looks like smol Vert.
And AL after two decades still has his trusty afro. How could it ever bald?
And we finally see Neptune and Nepgear, even if it was a cameo. On the bright side, she's in her Lost Purple processor. And some familiarity with Nepgear being the same.
And light speed Nebula?! Talk about a Gary Stu! At least Neptune is also light speed because she's the protagonist, after all. Or is she? And poor Nepgear. She got flamed by a 2009 edgelord, without even a comeback.
Man.
Also, a bit of info in terms of the VPU's way of obtaining and retaining power was in this chapter! So this flashback wasn't for nothing! But they still seem OP as all living hell though, especially when they don't lose faith, or in this case fear.
Plus their strategy of aiming for the CITIZENS and not the CPUs themselves firsthand was probably the nail in the coffin for our main girls.
And the Lastationites... Let's not talk about the Lastationites. Don't kill me Noire and Uni fans.
They're already de-
Leanbox has already shit in the litter box so let's not beat a dead horse... That's for the next chapter-
At least Lowee is hanging in the balance... Right? Right?... Not the kids-
Well, the flashback segment should be ending next chapter, so get ready for the finale! Of Armageddon. THE END IS NEAR!-
Arrivederci.
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