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"ZA WARUDO!"
DUBSTEP FART!
TIME STOP!...
Time came to a crashing halt as DIO yelled the phrase, discoloration and shouting ever-present.
The surroundings were stagnant as he stepped down on the ground, his landing echoing through the silent realm, The World close behind him.
The lasers were so close to hitting him, yet so far from actual contact as he moved his head to dodge them.
"Tomata wo tokio..."
LAND...!
He looked towards the two gods, their faces bleeding with rage and determination, knowing that they will be the most troublesome to deal with as of now.
His eyes then looked over to the two newcomers, which he had encountered before but still didn't have much knowledge of their abilities.
THROW!
THROW!
SUSPEND...!
He narrowed his eyes as he took out some knives and threw them towards their general direction, dozens towards their profile.
DIO then turned his attention to the soldiers that fired the lasers.
"I feel rather parched. A quick refreshment will rectify that discomfort." He decided, walking towards them with something surprisingly sinister in mind.
Gris' eyes contracted in astonishment at the scene he was about to witness. He didn't dare move his body to attract attention to the vampire, even if his ability was known as he took note that DIO kept his distance from him so that most of his Hokuto Shinken techniques were definitely not in range.
SUCK!
The bloodsucker walked past the lasers and stuck his fingers into the necks of the soldiers, draining their blood through bodily contact alone.
SUCK!
SUCK!
SUCK!
Their bodies became dehydrated and dried corpses as DIO felt energy return to him as he fed on the blood of the innocent, soon, almost every single soldier had fallen victim to his vampirism, save for the one in the back.
SUCK!
SUSPEND!...
DIO then took the last remaining soldier and drained his body of all his blood before pushing his husked corpse over, suspending them in the temporal realm as his fingers left the dry husk of the last soldier whose blood he dined on.
Gris' face gained some sweat as he saw the vampire drain the life force of all the soldiers within 5 seconds. He then approached Vergo, his stand turning to face his master's target as the bloodsucker neared.
"That sly silver shit will take advantage of my close range, so to subvert any strategy he might have...!"
RISE!...
DIO stopped himself and summoned a shadowy clone from the shadow of Vergo.
SUSPEND!...
'!' The assassin reacted as he saw the setup for the shadow as it remained suspended as it came up from the blonde's shadow.
"And the most troublesome for last. Well, I have my ways, of course."
REEL!
DOUBLE PUNCH!-
DIO hinted as he and The World both clenched their fists before reeling back and sending them forward at the same time, their fists next to each other as they headed right for the hitman's head.
DUCK!
AURA!
SLAM!
DOUBLE EXPLOSION!
ABSORB!
But the assassin was one step ahead of them, as he quickly got down before generating some Toki in his hands and lunging forwards before slamming his open palms into the torsos of both opponents, causing an explosion that send the two back as The World was absorbed back into DIO once more.
"Damn!"
JET!-
DODGE!
DIO yelled as he fired another ocular laser from his eyes, the attack going over Gris' shoulder due to him already moving and dodging the attack due to both his increased speed and increased reaction time.
The vampire tried to regenerate his wound but was in a rut once again as he realized that his regeneration was being halted in that specific area.
"That energy! He must have used the same type of energy as Star- I mean, Vergo!"
CRASH!-
ROLL!
SKID...!
DIO gargled as he slammed through a factory wall and into another area before rolling and skidding to stop.
He scrambled to his feet, holding on to a stopped treadmill before uttering the end phrase of his ability.
"Toki wa ugokidasu...!"
TIME RESUMES!
He sputtered, kickstarting the temporal clock.
Nebula and AL suddenly saw distortion in front of them, before AL quickly dodged a barrage of sharp knives.
"Huh- HOLY SHIT!"
DODGE!
WEAVE!
DUCK!
SIDESTEP!
TWIRL!
SPLIT!
360!
LAND!...
He screamed, spooked out of his mind from the sudden appearance of pointy kitchen utensils.
MASS DEFLECT!
Nebula meanwhile, stood still as his gravity field deflected every single knife that came his way.
"Well, that was easy." The god commented.
Says the guy with a primordial universal force as his gimmick-
"Easy for you to say, I don't have a bullshit invisible forcefield protecting me."
JUMP!...
LAND!
AL sighed as the two jumped from the top of the factory to the ground.
SLAM!
CRASH!
Vergo slammed his pole into the ground, the position of DIO no longer in that area. And to make his failure to hit the vampire even more severe, he was suddenly held in a full nelson by one of the bloodsucker's shadow clones behind him, unbeknownst to him up to that point.
"Missed the ballsy bugger, shite!" He shouted in annoyance. His annoyance became surprised when he was suddenly held in a grab by the tall shadow behind him.
GRAB!
"What the-" He looked behind him to see the shadow before struggling to free himself from his haunting hold.
ZOOM!
Gris wasted no time to help Vergo as he immediately dashed into the factory, knowing that AL or Nebula could easily do what he would use a precious few seconds, that might give DIO enough wiggle room to use another time stop.
Vergo saw his comrade chase after the vampire, or at least where he expected him to be if Gris went in that direction. He then powered up, his aura instantly dispatching the shadow as it was destroyed, releasing him.
"Hah!" The CPU Candidate roared.
BURST!
DISINTEGRATE!
LAND!
AL and Nebula sprinted to the blonde CPU Candidate to get an update on the current situation.
"Vergo, am I glad to see you! Where's that bloodsucking time-stopping bastard?!" AL asked as he looked around.
"Gris went in there after him, I presume. I couldn't read tell since y'know, I can't see in stopped time, but he wouldn't go in there for nothing so, let's go follow him." The blonde explained to the fire user.
"I sense his energy in there anyway, so your guess is right. If we give that metrosexual too much time, he might think of another conspicuous strategy to use for his tactical advantage." Nebula stated as the three ran, unaware of the dozens of dead soldiers behind them, their bodies sinking into the shadows.
SINK...!
Their cries of pain were snuffed out by the lack of energy and biomass as they sunk into the shadows, never to be seen again.
Gris ran through the factory, looking for the vampire. The lights were bright yet sparse, meaning that although the area which had a light source left little to no areas for DIO to hide, the area with the absence of light provided an almost perfect place for the vampire to disguise himself within the shadows.
He made sure to keep moving, not wanting to give his opponent the benefit of a still target due to the knives that he could throw.
STATIC
WOOSH!-
DUCK!
BOOM!
Just as he thought about that, a knife shot from the shadows as Gris dodged under it, the projectile stabbing into an explosive barrel, causing well... An explosion.
WOOSH!
The god looked around to try and find out the source of the knife when he heard another one approach him.
DODGE!
WOOSH!
SOMERSAULT!
WOOSH!
ZIG ZAG!
WOOSH!
PHASE!
WOOSH!
MISS!
He dodged that one as well before more and more came from the shadows as he flipped forward with handstands and somersaulted into a mad dash as he zig-zagged at high speeds, running across the factory as he avoided the near sub relativistic speeds of the knives as his body phased and flickered as he moved.
JET!
WOOSH!
DIO's eyes narrowed within his shadowy confines as he threw more and more knives, his target avoiding them as he increased his frequency. He soon decided to raise the pressure as he fired his Space Ripper Stingy Eyes at the hitman.
DODGE!
GRAZE
GASH!
BLEED!
Gris dodged the knives but felt the laser-like attacks graze his back as he winced as steaming blood splattered on the roof as a hot gash was left on his back. He landed as he kept running, dodging more projectiles as he looked for DIO with no success.
"Grgh!"
ZOOOOOOM!
RUN!
GUST!
The hired killer guttered as he felt the blood escape his clenched teeth as he landed, his hand touching the ground before his body became a blur as he moved out of existence, bolting as fast as he could, his temporal and electrokinesis in synergy as he ran at a staggering 3,000 times the speed of sound as he ran a circle around the area he was being attacked in, knowing that DIO was nearby.
DUBSTEP FART!
TIME STOP!
DIO no longer had any attacks that could keep up with the man, save for his stand and its ability as he came out of hiding just as he stopped time to get out the perfect ambush.
"Za Warudo, toki wo tomare."
SUMMON!
APPROACH!
He sent The World towards the paused Gris, his body discharging yellow static and white energy as he was suspended within stopped time once again.
CLENCH...!
REEL!
The phantom opened its hand before clenching each finger before reeling back for an impaling blow.
But as the stand swung...
P-
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
IMPALE!
BLOODY EXPLOSION!
Gris' hand had shot through the stand's body as his arm was coated in the vampiric blood of the ghostly warrior, his time stop movement activating as his face turned into a shit-eating grin, knowing that he had lured out DIO with one of the oldest tricks in the book, 3 for 3.
"-!"
VOMIT!
FALL!-
SLAM!
TIME RESUMES!
DIO felt nauseous as he expelled blood out of his mouth within the shadow as he fell out of his hiding spot, his stand taking damage selling out his position as time resumed forcibly from the sheer impact of the surprise impalement.
VANISH!
REAPPEAR!
Gris skidded to a halt before heading towards the place where he heard DIO fall as he vanished and reappeared in front of him.
"How the mighty have fallen. In your case, out of a wall. Y'know, I'm wondering if a regular energy blast would kill you."
AURA!
He pondered as he charged a blast of Toki in his hand at the snarling vampire.
"Who am I kidding, of course, it wouldn't. That's why I'm gonna blow up the whole factory with it! The radius will be so large that not even you can survive! I'll reduce you to nothing but ashes!" The assassin decided as his blast became dangerously large, the size of a yoga ball as it crackled, a mix of energy and electricity.
'Shit! I have to evade it!'
REGENERATE...!
DIO quickly got to his senses as the hole slowly started to regenerate from where The World was struck.
"See you in hell, DIO! Fulguration!"
BLAST!
The god yelled, the blast firing at the downed body of the bloodsucker as his eyes widened from the large orb of static energy approaching him.
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION!
As it connected, the room was soon engulfed in a large white explosion that spread from that area throughout the factory.
The trio that was looking for the assassin and the vampire suddenly felt the spike in energy as they stopped.
"What's that energy?!" AL asked as he looked around frantically.
"That's Gris! We gotta move!" Vergo said as he ran forward.
"Wait, Vergo! That energy isn't from him, that's from an attack! Fall back, NOW!"
OUTSTRETCH!
ATTRACT!
PULL!
Nebula called as he outstretched his hand and clenched it, pulling the blonde back to the group as his eyes widened in realization.
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE..!
EXPLOSION!
CRUMBLE...!
Vergo was pulled back to Nebula as AL and the two gods bolted from the source of the energy spike, the white explosion rushing after them as the three hauled ass to reach back to the entrance of the factory as the ceiling started to fall around them.
"What the hell?! Where was Gris hiding an attack like that?!" AL asked as they ran towards the entrance.
"I guess he was holding back more in our fight than I thought. Luckily for us. Or maybe unluckily, since if we don't get through that door, we're gonna be in some deep shit." The blue adventurer commented.
"No shit, Sherlock," AL yelled as they all made a bold dash to the entrance of the factory as the explosion reached them.
LEAP!
BOOM!
FLASH!
CRASH!...
The trio was launched from the building as it blew up in a brilliant flash of static and energy as their backs blocked blinding light as the three crashed into some adjacent walls as they just barely made it in time.
The factory was destroyed as a large cloud of smoke was being emitted from all its destroyed machinery, the area now obscured by the dense smog mixed with the explosion's smoke as three rose from the ground.
"He really needs to start thinking more about his allies than his opponent from time to time." Vergo held his head for a bit before shaking it and getting up.
"Gris? Probably the most self-serving person we know right now? Doubt it. Wouldn't mind the pleasant change, though." Nebula thought about it as he got to his feet.
"We can talk about how Gris is an asshole later. Right now, we need to find DIO before he does something else." The fire user told the others as they nodded in agreement.
"Right." The CPUs responded.
They then searched door the vampire's energy, as he was no longer within the smoke of the explosion or the explosion site for that matter.
"Where did he go? I swore he was right there a few seconds ago." Vergo recalled.
"Well, since he can stop time, it's not completely unjustified to assume he moved somewhere else already," AL stated.
"So we found him just to lose him. Fantastic." The blue CPU moped as he groaned.
"Lose me? I'm not such to run away from a confrontation." DIO's voice could be heard as the three looked around in surprise and shock.
"You say that, yet we can't see you." Vergo mocked the vampire.
"You couldn't see me in stopped time, but that does nothing to stop your idiotic blathering." DIO snapped back as the blonde god snarled.
"Why you...!" The Leanboxian CPU Candidate clenched his fist in suppressed rage, knowing he had nothing to use it on at the moment.
''But just like your mother, that's not important right now." DIO chuckled as Vergo was a pinch away from snapping, Nebula speaking up to prevent the blonde form from doing something he'd regret.
"I bet your father told you that after he domestically abused your mother-"
GONG!
IMPALE!
BOOM!
Before Nebula could even finish his insult, his chest cavity suddenly caved in, his spine missing as he was shot back from the sheer brute force that had hit him instantly as he felt his retort die inside of his pained throat.
His eyes were white with shock as he was too much in pain to even make a single utterance as he flew away, blood rushing and exploding out of his wound as he ragdolled through the air.
"!" The adventurer guffawed a blob of his blood as he too didn't fathom how or where he got the wound until he finally felt himself moving at breakneck speeds.
"NEBULA!" The two remaining warriors shouted in concern and fesr for their party member and friend as The World could be seen with a bloody fist, its body flexed in a lunging punch.
"DIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"
DASH!
BFFT!
The blonde screamed at the top of his lungs as he looked the stand dead in the eyes before rushing it, as it then distorted before disappearing.
"One down, two to go," DIO stated with a condescending tone, sure as ever that Nebula was out for the count.
"You vile bastard!" AL growled as he looked around for the hated vampire's face.
THUD!
CRASH!-
SPLASH!
The body of the blue god crashed into a water tank, the water inside of it exploding out as his body was indented into the metal structure as his hitched breathing was heard.
"Glrk!..." The god felt a burning sensation in his core as he looked down tiredly, to see that he had been donated by an invisible force.
'That accursed DIO... He stopped time and impaled me... Without me even knowing it... That crafty... Domestic abuse victim...!'
GRAVITY!
Nebula thought as he closed his eyes, his strained face being shown as he used his power.
ATTRACT!
The blood that was being lost on the water tank began to return to his body. The blood inside of him kept its normal path as he soon gained a marginal portion of his energy back.
GRAVITY!
He continued this process as he morphed the gravity to ack as a substitute for his lost spine as he felt some stability in his back and core once more as he added some more layers.
W-WOBBLE..!
GRAVITY!
STAND...!
Soon enough, he found the energy to stand shakily, his legs needing some support from his gravity as he used his power to support his body.
"I..."
COUGH!
He coughed out some blood as he wiped the trail from his mouth before he continued.
"I have to get back... But I'm seriously injured... I guess it's time."
LEVITATE...!
RUMBLE!
He closed his eyes as the spilled water and blood began to rise as droplets and the roof began to rumble with power as blue share energy came off in waves from the god.
The debris and dust followed suit as Nebula clenched his fists in preparation.
Meanwhile, Gris felt Nebula's energy drop as he sensed his sudden drop in power.
"Wha- DIO. He stopped time and got to Nebula. Son of a bitch!"
STATIC!
VANISH!
Gris said as he vanished once more, heading towards the battle as he had been wasting time.
DIO decided that he still needed some time to recover, and that last-minute time stop had drained him, so he called upon his brainwashed minions to wear down the two before he made his appearance known.
"Come, my followers! Destroy these two will all your might and serve your purpose!"
TREMORS!
FOOTSTEPS!...
The vampiric leader roared as the ones present heard a sound akin to a stampede as they heard a tremor that sounded like it came from the footsteps of hundreds of thousands.
"Shite. Bringing your brainwashed lackeys within the bodies of the innocent to do your dirty work? How insulting and degrading!" Vergo really has it up to here with the vampire's cruel and heartless strategies.
"The more aggravated it makes you the more I relish within its brilliance. Go on. Tell me more so I can make it worse! Hahahaha!" The hidden thorn in the CPU Candidate's side laughed in a position of superiority as he was making the god's mission to stop him leagues more difficult for all the wrong reasons.
"We have no choice. It's not like there's someone who can just push them all into a wall and knock them out. That guy has a hole in his chest!" AL said as his face cringed for his seemingly fallen comrade.
REAPPEAR!
"Gris? Where the bloody hell-" The CPU Candidate was cut short.
"DIO bamboozled me. Suits him since he'll always lose in a physical confrontation now that we know about his abilities." The hitman smirked.
"What drivel!" The antagonist barked in offense and defiance.
"Then come out the shadows!" Gris smirked.
"RAAAAAH!" An infuriated grumble could be heard as the assassin, the time traveler and the fire user all sniggered, only furthering the grumble into a full-on roar of rage.
DIO seethed in the fact that the statement had a hint of truth to it. He then barked as his minions attacked the trio of heroes.
"Crush their bones to dust!"
ROARS!
TRAMPLE!
RUMBLE!
The vampire screeched as the mind-controlled citizens roared and screamed, their voices powerful enough to quake the ground as their collective mass of bodies approached them. Their angry visages and faded eyes said it all as they were out for the blood of the gods and hero.
"For Lord DIO!" They all simultaneously yelled as they got ready to bum rush three fighters.
"Get ready." AL got into a stance.
"Forgive me, Vert," Vergo muttered as he grabbed his pole.
"Let the bloodbath begin." Gris got into his stance. A deadpan from Vergo made him rearrange his words.
"Tsk. Let the battle begin." He grumbled as the CPU Candidate looked back to the oncoming horde.
PUSH!
SHOCKWAVE!
PILE!
But before they could get any hits in, the hordes of citizens were pushed back by an invisible force, making them launch back as they accumulated into a wall of bodies.
"What?!" Gris widened his eyes, right before narrowing them as he was caught off guard by the sudden turn of events.
"They're being pushed back!... But how, isn't Nebula...?" The blonde god's widened eyes left room for speculation within his mind as he looked.
"WHAT?! How is this happening!? He should be dead by now!" DIO roared in denial, his assumed one shot being nothing more than false perception. Looks like the Kakyoin tactic was flawed for super-powered deities.
"Yare yare daze. By that logic, you've should have been dead a hundred years ago, vampire. But we know that's not the case if you're here to terrorize Leanbox." The familiar voice of Brave Heart was heard as AL looked around for his apparently alive bro.
"Nebula! Where are you?!" The dark-skinned warrior shouted, looking around then up before his eyes settled on the sight of the savior.
Floating above the buildings with a large hollow wound through his chest was a hovering Brave Heart, his flight processors glowing with power as he had a slight smirk on his face, albeit with some sweat on the side of his face as well.
REPULSE!
PUSH!
CRASH!
His hand was outstretched as he used Repulsion to move away from the droves and coalitions of mind-washed citizens into walls, knocking them unconscious.
"He transformed! Finally, something to turn the tides!" Vergo said as DIO threw some knives from the shadows towards the CPU.
'HINJAKU! HINJAKU!"
THROW!
THROW!
THROW!
THROW!
THROW!
THROW!
He yelled, the sharp objects zipping past the trio as Brave Heart saw the incoming projectiles.
DEFLECT!
REDIRECT!
REFLECT!
The knives however were soon redirected if not outright deflected thanks to the god's passive Baronic Barrier skill, as he mocked the vampire for the skills lacking potency.
"Ooh, scary. Shiver me timbers- Shut up, man."
REPULSION!
SHOCKWAVE!
PUSH!
CRASH!
He mocked in a memetic fashion before pushing his hand once more as an invisible shockwave was emitted, pushing the other citizens into some hard surfaces, knocking them out as the remaining citizens started to dwindle.
"With Nebula up there, we shouldn't get any interruptions during our fight, but the problem now is to get DIO out of the wall." Gris got back to the main problem at hand as AL looked at the wall the knives came from.
"So you mean like this?"
BLAST!
BOOM!
EJECT!
AL asked as he fired a blast of KI to the wall, destroying it as bricks and dust flew from it as the body of DIO was ejected from the area.
"How did you-"
BFFT!
"-Do that?" He finished.
DIO scrambled to his feet before stopping time for a bit to get to a higher vantage point to look down on his foes.
"I used a light source, and a spiritual one at that to get you out of the wall. The KI would not only destroy your hiding spot but expel you from it as well so that you couldn't move away."
BURST!
FLAMES!
AL explained as he regained his flame-like aura.
"Enough messing around. Come out and get ready to get burnt!"
BRIGHTEN!
WOOSH!...
He pointed as his aura flared, the area lighting up in a reddish orangish hue.
"Messing around? Is that your low-brow definition of strategy?"
BFFT!
SUMMON!
The vampire laughed as his stand manifested.
"Strategy implies that your plans work and well... How's that coming along, arsehole?"
BURST!
Vergo powered up as well, his green aura brightening the area even more.
"Same as your mother. Not at all." DIO snarked with an entertained smirk.
"OH, YOU BLISTERING BASTARD! I DON'T EVEN HAVE A MOTHER AND THAT STILL MAKES ME ANGRY!" The eyes of Vergo became comical swirls as he clenched his fist as he gripped his pole, DIO letting out a cackle.
"I wouldn't be too concerned, Vergo. DIO still has yet to kill someone, unlike how his father did to his spouse. His old man's more proficient than he is at his job by proxy!"
AURA!
STATIC!
WOOSH!
Gris laughed as he flexed his muscles, yellow static and a white aura forming as the area was properly bright.
Even Nebula seemed to listen in on the battle banter and decided to help out a bit.
"Oi!" The flying CPU yelled from above.
The four below looked to him.
"Since we're technically getting ready to beat the bricks off of DIO, I thought about even the odds even more."
BURST!
He said as he generated a white ball of KI in his hands.
YEET!
BOOM!
SHINE!
He then reeled and threw it high up in the air, before it expanded to form a bright dome of energy, giving off yet another light source for the quartet of fighters.
"Since AL got him out by using KI, I'd make him stay out by doing the same. Just hold him off until I deal with the rest of the citizens."
REPULSION!
PUSH!
CRASH!...
The god stated as he sent another wave of Repulsion to another wave of bloodlust innocents as they were slammed into a nearby hospital.
At least they were in good walls- I mean, hands.
"Tch. They've stripped me of the advantage of traversing shadows. No matter. Even if they're aware of my stand's ability, that does not mean that they can survive it!"
"WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"
RUMBLE!!!
SHOCKWAVES!
The vampire shouted as he reeled back and let out a shrill cry that caused shockwaves to ensue.
The three guarded as the power emitted from DIO was surprisingly monstrous for his damaged state. He then gained a dark aura around his usual gold stand energy as he stood up straight.
"It's time I took the lot of you seriously. I will no longer treat you as the gnats I once thought you were."
ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ!
GLOW!...
DIO's eyes narrowed as his irises glowed a menacing red.
"By all means. It'll only make your death half as underwhelming."
BFFT!-
GUARD!-
BOOM!
SHOCKWAVE!
Gris battered back before DIO teleported as to everyone else, it seemed as if the silver-haired warrior instantly crossed block as AL and Vergo looked to the assassin in staggering shock.
BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK!
The vampire and the assassin traded blows as the bloodsucker for once was starting to give the assassin a hard time in hand-to-hand combat as they moved across the road from their ferocious blows clashing.
LEFT HOOK!
DUCK!
UPPERCUT!
MISS!
JAB!-
SCRATCH!
DIO delivered a fearsome hook that was ducked for a sickening uppercut from Gris that the vampire reeled his head to avoid before going for a jab that made the hitman rear his head to miss the blow, only to get a scratch on the cheek as a result.
ELBOW!
SIDESTEP!
KICK!-
GRAB!
"NANI!-"
SWING!
SLAM!
Gris then went for an elbow that was sidestepped, before a side kick was sent in return for the attack as Gris held DIO's leg, before swinging it around, and slamming him onto the ground.
DIO's body recoiled on the ground, which let the assassin kick him in the side into the air before he twirled around for a powerful piston kick into a building.
KICK!
SPIN!
PISTON KICK!
BFFT!
BOOOM!
But before the vampire could hit the wall, he stopped time and reoriented himself with his stand before using the wall as a platform as he leaped off of it and resumed tike right when he was right in front of the hired killer as Gris received a neck twisting blow to the jaw.
"Gurgh!" The CPU guttered as he was spun away from the sheer power of DIO's heightened state.
SLOW DOWN...!-
ROUNDHOUSE KICK!
BOOM!
Gris used his temporal abilities to slow the rate at which he was being flung back until he had to block a roundhouse kick from the vampiric stand user as he was knocked further back.
LAND!
AURA!
ZOOM!
The assassin then gave up on that attempt to stop himself and instead sped up the rate at which he was being thrown as he got to the ground and started to run.
ZOOOOOOOOOM!
AXE HANDLE!
CRASH!
He quickly ran the entire block before circling back to a gliding low lying DIO and sledgehammered him into the asphalt as a shockwave was made from his impact with the ground as dust was kicked up.
BFFT!
HEADBUTT!
BOOM!
"Ugh!" The vampire yelled as he was indented into the ground before using his time stop to teleport himself in front of Gris for a point-blank ambush, only for the assassin to instead headbutt him right in the solar plexus.
"Khh!"
SLAM!
"GAK!-"
CRASH!
DIO held back a guffaw as he clenched his fists and slammed them down on the back of Gris with the help of The World, immediately downing him as he ragdolled on the ground as the vampire was freed from the attack.
DIO was soon met with AL, who descended upon him with a flaming fist as he roared.
"Vulcan Knuckle!" He yelled as he reeled, ready to upload the fiery fist upon DIO.
As he neared, the creature of the night smiled before distorting away and The World clashing with the man instead.
BFFT!
CLASH!
BOOM!
"The World?! But how-" The fire user was cut off, or rather cut into.
"WRYYYYYYYYYY!"
JET!
PIERCE!
"Ah, shit!" AL cursed in response to being pierced before he crashed right into a candy shop.
CRASH!...
AL's face was surprised as he didn't expect the stand to be the thing he made contact with as he was soon blindsided into a building by a Space Ripper Stingy Eyes that not only pierced him but sent him flying as well.
"Is this really the best you have to offer?"
EXTEND!-
THWACK!
The bloodsucker mocked before The Word came to set off course an extending, glowing pole.
"Not on my watch!"
RETRACT!
EXTEND!
SWING!-
BLOCK!
Vergo yelled as he retracted the long side and extended the short side of the pole for another attempt as he dashed towards DIO from up the street, easily being thwarted by the black stand.
"Tch."
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
SHOCKWAVES!
Vergo retracted the weapon once more before letting out a Hellish Holler at the two opponents, scattering the debris around them as DIO was blown back from the unexpected move.
GUARD!
DIO cross guarded with his stand overlapping him as he was blown back from the force.
"Aero!" He roared as the magic wind attack shot from his free hand.
WIND SPELL!
BLAST!
Vergo leaped after the vampire as he shot his wind spell at the opponent as it shot forward.
JET!
COLLIDE!-
EXPLOSION!
SHOCKWAVE!
SHATTER!
The vampire then looked at the attack and used his Space Ripper Stingy Eyes to counter, the two attacks colliding before they caused an explosion that broke every nearby window in a 10 block vicinity.
Vergo then blasted many wind attacks as DIO as he stopped time and evaded to avoid the attacks accordingly as Vergo rained down an SP Skill he had come up with during his training in the future.
"I'll have to pull out the big guns for this one. Let's just hope I don't do too much damage."
GLOW!
CLENCH...!
The blonde decided before raising his arms, his eyes becoming white with power as he clenched his fists.
"Turbulent Missile Barrage!"
CLOUDS...!
CLOUDS...!
CLOUDS...!
The CPU Candidate yelled as clouds formed above the area before wind pillars shot down from the heavens, destroying pieces of the road and the roofs and insides of buildings as the attack looked to cover the entire area in holes as the bloodsucker tried his very best to avoid it.
"What in The World...?" The silver-haired antagonist's face twisted in confusion.
AIR PILLAR!
BFFT!
AIR PILLAR!
BFFT!
AIR PILLAR!
BFFT!
His confusion became concern as he dodged the wind pillars, the attacks destroying the ground and causing holes that were tens of meters both wide and deep as it continued to target the vampire as buildings and nature alike were being obliterated by the wrath of the winds.
BFFT!
BOOM!
BFFT!
CRASH!
BFFT!
SMASH!
BFFT!
DESTROY!
AL phased back into the battlefield as he slid into the street, only to look up and be flung away by a nearby pillar striking down as he activated his flame shield to protect him from the attacks as they were staggeringly powerful.
PHASE!
"I'm back. Now, where's DIO-" He was cut off for the umpteenth time.
AIR PILLAR!
SMASH!
"Yikes!" AL yelled as he was flung away. He flipped in the air as his flame armor manifested before landing in the ground, his body covered in protective flames as he landed on the ground once more.
MANIFEST!
LAND!
WOOSH!
"Holy skadoodle. What the hell is Vergo doing up there?! He's gonna destroy this side of the city if he keeps up!"
BOOST!
AIR PILLAR!
"Tch!"
AIR PILLAR!
"Urgh!"
He realized as he flew in a straight line towards Vergo, tanking the shots as he didnt feel himself getting any faster.
"I'm not getting any stronger? Then I've reached my limit. That's not good." The man grimaced underneath his armor as he approached the blonde, who currently had his hands in the air as his pole was on his back as his eyes were glowing with power.
AIR PILLARS!!!
AL stopped in front of the god as he tried to snap him out of it.
"Vergo, you have to stop! The damage is becoming too much! At this rate, you'll raze Leanbox to the ground before DIO even has a chance to!" He yelled as the clouds were becoming more and more prevalent as the air pillars expanded.
Soon, the entirety of Eastern Leanbox was under a barrage of the windy onslaught of attacks.
AIR PILLARS!!!
BFFT!
CRASH!
AIR PILLARS!!!
BIFF!-
CRASH!
BOOM!
DIO was stopping time to dodge the attacks when he was suddenly socked in the face by a recovered Gris, right into a pillar that sent him into an air pillar that buried him into the ground as he was clipped.
"What?!"
AIR PILLAR!
"Pulsar Grenade!"
BOOM!
SPARK!
EXPLOSION!
DIO's reaction was instant as he was hit into an air pillar before he was grounded by an air pillar, sending him into the ground as Gris then threw a Pulsar Grenade into the hole to rub salt in the wound.
REAPPEAR!
"Pulsar Grenades!"
BOOM!
BOOM!
SPARKS!
EXPLOSIONS!
AIR PILLAR!
VANISH!
A white explosion escaped from the pit as Gris then vanished to avoid another air pillar as he stayed near the hole as he threw more and more Pulsar Grenades within the hole so that DIO wouldn't be able to escape conventionally as the occasional air piliar deeper into the pit.
DIO was stuck in the hole as his stand blocked the attack as he felt himself being pushed deeper into the hole as the TMB and the Pulsar Grenades kept him too occupied to use time stop, added with the fact that all the instants he used it in accumulated to 30 seconds, well over, meaning that he was stuck until he could regain the ability after.
"Damnit! This can't be happening! WRYYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" The bloodsucker let out another shrill cry as the hole exploded from within as DIO repelled any more Pulsar Grenades or air pillars as AL finally got through to Vergo.
"VERGO!"
BAM!
"Oof!"
The man roared before decking him as the attack abruptly stopped.
CLEAR!
...
"WRYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The clouds cleared as the screaming of DIO became more apparent.
"What's the matter with you?! You nearly swiss cheesed half of Leanbox!" AL waved frantically as he motioned around him as the blonde god looked around.
"... Ah piss." Vergo grimaced as he looked down. His eyes narrowed as he continued.
"Ah pissfuck." The CPU Candidate cursed as he saw the vampire having an aneurysm below as AL went on.
"What's with all that bathroom talk- Goddessdamn, he's right as rain livid," AL commented as Gris stood there, before speaking.
"If you're this angry, I might as well get ready for your episode," Gris stated before yelling.
"UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!"
BULK!
AURA!
STATIC!
The silver-haired assassin yelled as his muscles began to expand, his muscles increasing in mass as he grew half an inch, his body becoming larger as his muscles stronger.
His aura came off of him as he finished transforming.
PUNCH!
CLUTCH!
WOOSH!
Yet another power increase was found as he punched his open hand as it got the attention of DIO.
"-YYYYYYYYYYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!..." The vampire stopped screaming once he heard the sound, and realized that he was no longer in the pit, nor being attacked a she was instead within a deep crater from his maneuver.
BFFT!
He quickly teleported back to the surface, seeing a more muscular Gris, static discharging from his body as he stood with his hands on his side.
"I see your temper tantrum has ceased. Let us continue." Gris stated as he stood, unmoving.
"Tsk. DIE!"
LUNGE!-
DODGE!
DIO rushed towards him, only for the god in human form to sidestep him.
"What?! How!"
DASH!-
GRAB!
TWIST!-
ELBOW!
SHATTER!
DIO asked as he went for another strike to the heart, before the assassin grabbed, twisted, and broke his arm all in a single flow.
"AAAAARGH!"
GLOW!
JET!-
DODGE!
DIO felt pain coursing through his broken appendage as his eyes charged another attack before firing it, only for the assassin to dodge the attack with shocking speed.
EXPLOSION!
WOOSH!
LET GO!
The beam destroyed a nearby apartment complex as the explosion blew away the vampire as Gris let go of his broken arm, throwing him to the wayside in a rapid turn of events.
KNIVES!
JET!
VANISH!
REAPPEAR!
VANISH!
REAPPEAR!
VANISH!
REAPPEAR!
DIO's arm regenerated as The World threw some knives as the vampire himself shot another Space Ripper Stingy Eyes at the hitman, all of which were all dodged as the hired killer came closer once again.
VANISH!-
"How is Gris that fast?!" Vergo asked in awe as even his eyes lost the position of the edgelord every now and then.
"We were even not even 10 minutes ago?! How did he acquire such advantageous agility-"
-REAPPEAR!
CLUTCH!
DIO's face was grabbed.
The assassin then reappeared and grabbed the bloodsucker's face before slamming it through several buildings with a vice grip as the muffled screams of DIO were heard as he then charged another Fulguration.
"I'm going to enjoy this."
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
CRASH!
SLAM!...
CHARGE...!
The hitman had contempt and widened grin as his eyes were large and expectant as he drove the vampire through a bank, a department store, a police station, and a toy store before stopping at a costume store as he slammed his face into the ground, the familiar white glow and yellow static returning to his hand as DIO felt a shockwave on the back of his head from the sheer impact.
Gris then narrowed his eyes as his smile became a laugh.
"Sayonara shit face! If you come back, you'll get a two for one special of these hands! Fulguration!" The assassin yelled as the light expanded once more as the attack connected point-blank to DIO's visage, unable to get away due to not only the god's hold on him but his apparent ability as well.
BLAST!
TREMENDOUS EXPLOSION!
SHOCKWAVE!
The attack seemed to be even more ferocious than last time due to the silver-haired assassin's boon as the explosion took a sizeable portion of Leanbox within its confines as Vergo and AL had to block to make sure they weren't blown away.
SHINE!...
WINDWAVE!
WOOOOOOOSH!
"HE DID IT AGAIN?! GRIS, GODDESSDAMNIT!"
BLOCK!
SWIRL!
Vergo yelled over the fierce winds as he used his aerokinesis to subvert their path.
"Didn't you have an attack that destroyed a lot of property too? Vert would not approve of either of you one bit, to be honest. Speaking of CPUs, where's Nebula? He should be done by now...!"
REPULSION...!
REAPPEAR!
AL responded over the winds as the winds around them suddenly died down as the spoken CPU appeared.
"Speak of the devil. What took you so long?" Vergo acknowledged Brave Heart's presence as the god had put a wall of Repulsion in front of them.
"I was just so shocked by Gris' double spike in power. I'm starting to think he held back way more than I would have liked in our fight." Brave Heart deadpanned.
"One, so did you, and two, you'd be dead without HDD to bail you out or to fight Xero. Now, let's go!" The fire warrior directed as the three flew towards the vampire.
Elsewhere in a cleared area, stood the form of Gris and a headless DIO, his skull and brain reduced to evaporating blood as he laid down in the ground.
His hand was bloody as he swatted away the red bodily fluid of the vampire. He knew that DIO was still alive, yet he hesitated to regenerate.
"That was easy. Too easy."
CHARGE...!
The hitman remarked as he then charged up a blast to finish off the headless horror.
BLAST!
BFFT!
BOOM!
But as he fired, the body teleported.
"Knew it!"
ゴゴゴゴ!
Gris' eyes looked over to his right as he saw the headless body stand menacingly, arms crossed as it leaned back, almost as if it was mocking him.
"He can stop time without a head? This is a rather interesting development."
PHASE!
BFFT!
REAPPEAR!
The hired killer commented as he phased to the body to attack it before it decided to teleport once more, avoiding him.
"Hmm..."
PHASE!
BFFT!
ZOOM!
BFFT!
DASH!
BFFT!
VANISH!
BFFT!
SWIPE!-
BFFT!
Gris pondered before chasing after the body, it stopping time and moving about to dodge him a the two played a game of time tag.
'This is dragging on. I can just move in his time stop. He's just stopping it for a moment.'
LUNGE!-
DUBSTEP FART!
TIME STOP!
LUNGE!
The assassin thought as he reached for the body before time stopped once more.
SWING!
CLUTCH!
Gris continued to move within the vampire's time stop as he clenched his fast and whit for a body shot, only to be stopped by a phantom hand.
'The World!'
KICK!-
KICK!
Gris' eyes narrowed as he went for a kick that was also parried by its leg.
BLAST!
BLOODY EXPLOSION!
BLOODY EXPLOSION!
TWIRL!
CHOP!
The silver-eyed hitman swiveled his torso as his legs twirled with him as he used his free hand to blast an energy ball into The World's, damaging both its hand and DIO's as he outstretched a diagonal chop from his now freed hand to the bloodsucker's body.
CUT!
SUSPEND...!
The blow connected as Gris' hand-cut deep into DIO's body before he stopped within stopped time, his ability to move finished up as his body became discolored within suspension.
TIME RESUMES!
BIFURCATE!
DIO's body forcibly ended the time stop due to the sheer pain he was in, only putting him in deeper shit as the hired killer cut clean through the vampire's body.
"Oops. Looks like you've become half the man you used to be. Fitting since you wailed like a child whose toy had been taken away not too long ago."
THUD!
THUD!
Gris recalled as he looked down on the body.
"It seems your stamina is catching up to your healing factor. Odd, since I assumed your stamina would have been infinite. This is where it ends."
"Hokuto Shinken: Tenha Kassatsu!-"
Gris outstretched both of his hands before shouting out a move.
-STAB!
Right in the center of Gris' forehead, was a knife that was stabbed to the start of the handle into his head by The World, its shadowy hand gripping the knife as the god's eyes widened in shock.
Any burning sensation he thought he would have felt, was ultimately numbed as he felt his body paralyzed from some sort of fearful reaction or chemical, akin to when he was in the presence of a DPU. He even lost the ability to speak, as the knife had cut inches into his brain considering its size.
"...!"
REGENERATION!
Gris reacted as he felt a numbing sensation in his brain as DIO fully regenerated as he laughed heartily.
"Hahahahahahahah... This is where it ends you say? For you, I presume. How quaint, playing possum and acting as a headless chicken would guarantee my first kill!"
FALL!
THUD!
DIO boasted as Gris fell to the ground, his eyes becoming glassy and bleak.
"I do have unending stamina, you dimwitted fool. I halted my regeneration is not a moment of weakness, but to lure you closer so that my stand could pause time for such an infinitesimal period to blindside you with speed even YOU COULDN'T FATHOM!" DIO revealed as the assassin's eyes widened as he recalled that even though he felt time halt for a moment, even he couldn't truly experience the moment before he felt the knife in his head.
"And not only that, to stab you right in the brain immediately activates the effects of the knife, causing not only paralyzing fear but leaves you open to any and every one of my attacks! So how do you wish to die, Gris? Ripping your heart out, slitting your throat? A slow and painful death through blood loss? Oh wait, you can't even SPEAK due to the effects of the knife!" The vampire maniacally cackled as Gris' emotionless face harbored angry thoughts.
'Son of a bitch! He outfoxed me in the most deliberate way possible. I should have just blasted him! How quaint, indeed. Now I'm in a worse space than my fight with Nebula. Speaking of which where is that blue bastard-'
CRASH!
LAND!
REAPPEAR!
As soon as Gris thought about where the god was, the trio crashed down in front of the stoic downed assassin and the joyous vampire.
'Speak of the devil. Speaking of inner demons, where's all the fear that I'm supposed to feel- AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-' The hitman yelled from within his mindscape as he saw the inner demons of being broke, being weak and slipping up cracking knuckles as they all looked like twisted versions of himself.
"We arrived just in ti-... FFFFFFFiddlesticks." Brave Heart censored as DIO looked to the hole on his chest.
"How are you still standing? Or alive for that matter?" He asked as he was genuinely interested.
"Well, take some divinity, and mix it with some intelligence, and presto! I'm hole again." He pushed, getting a tired sigh from Vergo as AL struggled to keep a laugh down.
"I wish that damn hole did the job if I have to deal with irritating humor such as this," DIO smirked as he brandished The World.
BFFT!
SUMMON!
"I wish your dad beat you more, you smug psychopath." Brave Heart shot back as Vergo held back a laugh as AL's face became as morphed as that one principal in the car from that one anime.
"I don't know how, nor do I know why, BUT WHY DO SO MANY PEOPLE KNOW HOW TO GET UNDER MY BLOODY SKIN IN THIS GODFORSAKEN DIMENSION!" DIO screeched as Gris' body was sweating bullets from the demons he was fighting within, as he was somehow still alive from sheer will and muscle mass.
"Seems that one hit close to home," Vergo commented with a smirk.
"He blew up your home though. Well, country. So I think you should use this opportunity to get back at the bloodsucker with a good ol' one, two." AL brought up as he looked at the sweating body of Gris.
'And we should also recover Gris. I hate to say it, but he's blatantly the strongest one out of all of us, and if we lose him, we're at a painful, if not fatal disadvantage.' The flaming superhuman mentally communicated with the other two as they nodded.
'Right. Vergo, get the body while AL and I stall him until you get Gris to somewhere safe. When you return, hopefully with Domio and Taleia and the Leanbox Military, we can all stop him for good.' Nebula planned as Vergo put some input.
'But your wound? How long can you fight like that? Don't you have any healing items? We need you in top condition!' He brought up many good points.
'Since it's a mortal wound, and with my current ability to control gravity... Around three hours, four if I don't do anything rash. If I use any healing items, even if they did work, it would leave me wide open for an attack, especially against someone like DIO. Just get Gris to safety and return for further combat engagement. I know I should be in top form but my mouth has cost me. Forgive me for making you leave Leanbox, Vergo.' Nebula closed his eyes before opening them again.
'Now follow the plan.' He told the junior CPU Candidate.
Vergo said nothing as he nodded, the blonde waiting for the right moment to grab Gris and go.
"Are you three done? I'm just about done deciding how I'll kill your comrade!"
GRAB!
LIFT...!
DIO shouted as he grabbed the assassin by the neck, his body being nothing but dead weight as he was lifted off the ground.
"By frying the very brain I pierced with my knife! I'll send the lasers through my eyes and transfer them through his optic nerves and superheat his cranium from within! Quite worthy of the saying, thinking is a sacred disease, and that sight is deceptive! Luckily for him, he'll be cured and see the truth that is his death!''
GLOW!
DIO received a bit of philosophy before his eyes glowed.
"He's gonna kill him!"
CHARGE...!
CLENCH!
WIND BACK!
Vergo shouted as he rushed ahead to try and interrupt the attack, a green area of energy condensing into his hand as he had a vicious look on his features.
"Damnit!"
DASH!
BOOOOOOOST!
FLAMES!
AL yelled as he kicked off the ground as he winded back his arm and clenched his hand as a stream of fire was being emitted as a Vulcan Knuckle was being generated.
JET!-
But DIO's attack was already escaping from his eyes as the lasers were heading towards Gris' glassy fish eyes.
REDIRECT!
But the beam was suddenly set off course as it went skyward before exploding. Nebula had a pointed finger as he had shot a concentrated beam of gravity to offset the attack.
ZOOM!...
DISTANT EXPLOSION...!
WINDWAVE!...
The vampire's face fell as he was then clocked before the lime blast collided with his body as Gris' body was attracted to Nebula's hand as he clutched it.
BOOM!-
FLASH!-
COMBINED EXPLOSION!
SHOCKWAVE!
ATTRACTION!
SKID!
CATCH!
SLUMP!
DIO was engulfed in the greenish yellowish explosion as AL was blasted back, as Brave Heart caught Gris as he slumped in his grasp.
"Take him and go!''
"Hadōken!"
BLAST!
Brave Heart roared before he cupped both hands and brought his hands forward as he blasted a large Hadōken.
The site became more destructive as smoke was blasted around them as AL barked, realizing that Vergo was still fixated on the fate of DIO from the attack.
"NOW!" The fire user yelled.
"Shite! I'll be back!"
FLY!
The CPU Candidate yelled as he flew off towards a safe area, towards the energy signatures of Domio and Taleia as he blasted off.
"Okay. Now we're on the spot. Stay on your toes!" Brave Heart winced as felt some pain from his chest wound before he looked back to the smoke.
"Urk... And I don't have much time." He whispered.
"Too bad, since you'll have to step in for the target I lost!"
CLEAR!
RUSH!
"Let's go!" The god yelled.
DUCK!-
GRAZE!
KNEE!
DIO yelled as The World flexed, clearing the clouds before rushing the god as Brave Heart tried to duck the punch, but was nicked in the temple before kneeling in the chin.
PUCNH!
ROUNDHOUSE KICK!
PISTON KICK!
STAND BARRAGE!
BOOM!
Brave Heart was blasted back as The World then started to deal some blows starting with a blurring punch, before continuing with a roundhouse kick to the side, before a piston kick to the stomach, ended by a barrage of attacks that was ended by a super punch to the face that was successfully blocked due to its reduced speed.
"Grgh!" Nebula guarded as he skidded, his feet dragging through the ground from the sheer momentum behind the blows.
AL then engaged with DIO as he went for a high kick.
"Scorching Schneider!"
HIGH KICK!-
The man yelled as his flaming high kick neared DIO's chin.
DODGE!
But the vampire dodged with precision accuracy as the fighter reacted to his miss.
"Noroi, noroi!" He mocked in an alternate tongue.
"I'll show you who's slow!" AL barked as his hands lit up before he rushed the malevolent menace.
"Vulcan Barrage!"
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!-
DODGE ALL!
He yelled as he swung with fervor and desperation to prove his power as DIO weaved and tilted out of the trajectory of each punch as he perceived it in slow motion from being able to keep up with a nontransformed Gris.
"Is this truly the best you can do?" DIO asked with disinterest and boredom as AL was only getting more and more pissed as he went for a Volcanic Piston.
"Volcanic Piston!"
PISTON KICK!
DUCK!
SWEEP KICK!
AL roared as he attempted to piston kick the bloodsucker as he not only dodged but ducked as he went for a sweep kick that tripped the martial artist as he was offset by the vampire.
"Woah!-"
DIO then slammed his palm into AL's back before freezing his entire body.
PALM!
FREEZE!
DIO then held the iced fire user before raising him to smash him into a million pieces.
RAISE!...
His hands carved into the ice as he reeled back, ready to slam the captive opponent into a million pieces.
BREAK FREE!
But before he could throw the fighter, AL burned himself out of the ice prison and breathed fire out of his voice in an elongated shout.
"!"
FIRE BREATH!-
BFFT!
DIO looked up as the freed fighter brought fire from his mouth as he opened it, flames bursting forth like a high-power flamethrower.
"Hon!"
BIFF!
DIO quickly moved out of the way as he briefly stopped time to dodge the attack. He resumed it as he appeared behind AL as he had a hand reeled back before stopping the fire breath attack with a powerful punch.
"Guh!"
SMASH!
TWIRL!-
HALT!
AL's attack was cut short as he smashed into the ground before twirling rapidly once he recoiled off the ground before he stopped himself mid-twirl to face the vampire, before shooting up into the sky.
"Hrng!"
BOOST!
AL grunted as he jarred, his aura returning before shooting up, a reddish orangish streak trailing behind him.
"It's useless to run!"
BFFT!
DIO said as he then teleported above the fighter as his eyes glowed.
"Who said anything about running away!?"
SMOKESCREEN!
AL yelled before using his Smokescreen ability, surrounding DIO in a large puff of smoke, catching him off guard.
"A smoke cloud?!-"
BOOST!
ELBOW!-
DIO began to cough as he was blindsided by the attack before he was dealt a blow to the temple by AL in the form of an elbow, as the vampire was struck within the cloud.
STAND BARRAGE!
BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-
STAGGER!!
The World was then suddenly staggered while beating into Nebula ad he suddenly halted his assault.
Brave Heart then took advantage of the staggered stand by coating his fists in gravity before plotting to beat down on the phantom-like opponent, void of mercy.
"An opening! I have to take this chance!"
CLENCH!
GRAVITY!
DEPRESS!
The blue CPU clenched his fists as he applied the gravitational energy to his legs as he caused the road he was standing on to depress around him.
"G-Force Gigabuster!"
DASH!
ATTRACT!
ZOOM!
BOOM!
WINDWAVE!
The god slightly crouched before leaning forward and rushing forward using Attraction as he leaped towards The World, being pulled at a couple thousand times the speed of sound, closing the distance almost instantly before smashing his fist that weighed millions of pounds in the stand's face.
UPPERCUT!
BOOM!
WINDWAVE!
GRIT!...
The World recoiled to the left before he was struck again with a gut punch to the abdomen, a shotgun sound booming out as the phantom's eyes widened in pain, its teeth shut in pain.
GRAB!
PULL!
KNEE!
SHOCKWAVE!
Brave Heart didn't stop there, before grabbing the ghost-like entity's head before slamming it into his knee, making a shockwave emit as the gritting expression could also be seen on the face of the determined CPU.
CLASP!
AXE HANDLE!
CRASH!
SHOCKWAVE!
DESTROY!
The stand's neck and head then snapped back up before Brave Heart raised and clasped his hands before crashing them into the back of the dark stand's head, sending it to the floor with an astonishingly loud smash that blew away nearby buildings from the shockwave alone.
FLIP!
CRASH!
BOOM!
Brave Heart then stuck out his hand and twisted it, before flipping the stand over and forcing down his hand with Downforce, sending the stand into the ground once more with a loud boom.
JUMP!...
STOMP!
IMPALE!
Brave Heart then kept the gravitational influence as he then stepped right into the place DIO had impaled him on his stand, his tremendously heavier foot crashing right through the stand as it glowed with KI.
KNEEL!-
BOOM!...
BOOM!...
BOOM!...
BOOM!...
Right before sliding through The World like butter before kneeling and beginning to pummel the stand with punches that depressed the ground deeper and deeper.
The god then started to slowly increase the rate at which he threw each earth-shaking punch, The World was unable to escape due to its master also being simultaneously beaten as AL doled skill after skill as he attacked him within the smoke.
"Vulcan Knuckle!"
BOOM!
DIO was hit with another flaming fist as he convulsed from the grievous blows the vampire took.
"Volcanic Piston!"
PISTON KICK!
Followed by a sickening piston kick to the chin that sent him flying further up and out of the smoke cloud.
BOOST!
"Vulcan Hammer!"
AXE HANDLE!
Before the fire user boosted ahead and stopped in the course of the vampire's flight path and sledgehammered him in the spine right back into the smoke as the bloodsucker was in too much pain to even gutter in utter hurt.
BOOST!
"Shoryuken!"
FLAMING UPPERCUT!
SHOCKWAVE!
SCATTER!
And finally, the afro warrior flew back down before stopping, turning around shortly before crouching and uppercutting the creature of the night with such force it scattered the smoke completely as the burning fist tore through the vampire's tank top center as it burnt some flesh.
AL wasn't done, though. He above different DIO from his fist before striking him repeatedly with blazing power as he barraged him mercilessly.
Speaking of which-
"Is this fast enough for you?! VULCAN BARRAAAAAGE!"
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!
AL roared as his fists impacted the body of DIO.
BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOO0M BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM BOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOMBOOM!
"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA-"
Just as Brave Heart did the same down below, his fists now rapidly digging into the street as The World was battered into the ground with each punch capable of leveling a large city without effort as they were condensed into this single SP Skill.
TREMORS!
DEEPEN!
SLIDE!...
The crater currently being dug sunk deeper as it grew bigger, the damage becoming increasingly higher as Brave Heart wasted no effort to restrain himself, the pit swallowing destroyed buildings and objects alike as they were swallowed into the crater as the god continued to beat the stand into the ground.
"Why don't you do us all a favor-" Brave Heart began as he reeled his fist, gravity rippling the space around it as he was finishing his skill with a Graviton Gigadrive. His fist soon weighed over 100,000,000 pounds.
REEL!...
RIPPLE!
Mixed with some KI, 200,000,000 pounds, or one hundred thousand tons of pressure compacted into his hand.
"By shutting up and-"
POWERFUL UPPERCUT!
EXPLOSION!
AL roared as he hit DIO's chin with a Vulcan Knuckle: Overdrive, sending him on high as a reddish orangish dome of energy exploded from the place the fire user punched him as he ascended from the flaming fist, the vampire's face already warped from all the blows his stand received, only worsening his health and facial expression as he was struck once more.
"DAMN YOU!" DIO cried out as he felt his body burning in pain from the abuse he and his stand were taking as well as the actual games that were harming him.
BOOST!!!
AL boosted to him as he poured his energy into his boosters as he briefly doubled how fast he went, going at 100 times the speed of sound as he zoomed towards DIO before winding back his fist for the final blow.
"DIE!" Both Brave Heart and AL screamed as they unleashed their power.
PUNCH!
IMPALE!-
FIERY EXPLOSION!
EXPAND!
WINDWAVE!
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
AL summoned his flames one last time for a Vulcan Knuckle: Cremation as he slammed right into the body of DIO, dead in the solar plexus as he bore a fist-sized hole through him, making a large fiery explosion into the sky that caused a massive wind wave, blowing back all below him as the debris was blown away from the sheer force, the heat rippling the air as the man let out an infernal roar.
PUNCH!
CRUSH!-
GINORMOUS EXPLOSION!
CRATER!
EARTHQUAKE!
"ORRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Just as he did that, Brave Heart drove his fist into the skull of The World, the impact serving a catalyst for a cataclysmic explosion of dust and debris as it shot up thousands of meters into the air as an earthquake was generated once more from the sheer power of the strike, the rest of the buildings in the eastern sector collapsing as the hole was dug hundreds of meters down as the god screamed a powerful war cry.
IMPLODE!-
SHOCKWAVE!
The side-by-side attacks caused two shockwaves so immense that they generated a burst of energy that imploded once they made contact before expanding as one doubly powerful explosion as the larger rendition rushed over the entire island.
VOOM!
WOOSH!...
Vergo was flying as he felt the shockwave from behind him. Yet another spike of energy was felt, but he didn't dare underestimate its potency when he picked it up.
'Another spike?! They're trying to kill DIO with that kind of power!- Well I mean, no shit, but I better hurry up and find some shelter-!'
SHOCKWAVE!
"BULLOCKS!"
BLOW AWAY!
The two deities were flung in the wind currents of the shockwave as Vergo quickly formed a sphere of pressurized air around them as he created an area of stable atmospheric air within the ball of wind as they were flung, preventing the knife in Gris shifting, as they were carried by the strong gusts from the aforementioned shockwave onomatopoeia.
DOME!
"T-The IRS... Y-You won't reimburse my 4K ULTRA HD television nor my AC130! I-I have multi-million dollar lawyers, and tax evasion specialists!" Gris babbled at the effects of the obsidian knife within his skull as Vergo held him and listened to his words.
"You have an AC130 AND decent lawyers? By us, that's unnerving. I'm tempted to leave you to discern more information from your fear-induced babbling, but then I'd be stooping down down your level. Even if it is in a twisted sense, practical."
WOOSH!
Vergo said as he looked around to see they were being blown to the far side of Leanbox, right up, over, and out of the city itself as they were heading for the ocean.
"Shite! We're gonna hit the water at this rate!"
DIRECT!
DESCEND!!
The blonde god yelled as he redirected the trajectory of their fall, towards the rocky outskirts of the island, quickly descending back onto solid ground.
The duo was coming in hot, but Vergo couldn't stop the fall due to his energy levels becoming low.
'I'm running out of juice! But we'll crash if I don't do something...! I have no choice but to use my remaining energy to slow the fall and treat Gris here!'
GUST!
FALL!
SLOW!
CUSHION!-
CRASH!...
DUST!
The CPU Candidate grimaced as he braced, pouring his remaining energy into slowing down the descent of their fall as the two crashed down on the rocky outskirts, dust kicking upon their landing site.
Dust clouds cleared as a wincing, blue-eyed Vergo reverted from his semi CPU state as he held a decommissioned Gris, resting him down as his fish-eyed comrade began to speak in tongues.
"Watashi no kokoro no akuma wa watashi no tamashī o seifuku shimasen! Hai kara tachiagatte chikara o torimodoshimasu! Bing chilling!" The assassin stated in a fluent tone as blood trickled from his head wound.
BLEED!
"Now he's speaking in tounges. The demon in his heart? What ice cream? Oh boy... I better rest him down." The god decided as he carried the bleeding hitman on some flat ground before placing him there.
REST DOWN!
KNEEL!...
"Looking at how severe his head injury is, I'm surprised he's not dead right now. Goes to show the power and resilience of a CPU..." Vergo revered the silver-haired assassin's durability, thanks to his godly lineage, if not his natural constitution.
"...The blade must have pierced right through his motor cortex, stunting his ability to move a grinding halt, as well as his parietal lobe, damaging his ability to feel outside stimuli." The Leanboxian CPU Candidate analyzed as he knelt over the head of Gris, breathing heavily as he looked at the knife's position of entry, angle, and assumed depth from Gris' current condition as a vector for an educated guess for the third factor.
He also sensed the dark familiar energy coming from the essence of the knife, almost like it was infused with a medium of matter he had grown all too familiar with, how he carried such absolute animosity towards it
"And with whatever effects the knife is having on him, I have a painful suspicion of it being linked to fear energy. I can't say for sure, but since the knife is so close to the amygdala, and the known effects of fear energy, this crippling effect must have taken place near-instantaneously if not as soon as it pierced his cerebral cortex, or his skull if not the skin itself." Vergo stated as he pulled out something from his pocket.
DIG...!
It was a slightly crushed Nep Bull.
OPEN!-
CHUG!
He quickly drank the beverage, some of his energy returning to him as he then started to distribute share energy through his hands, as he pressed down on the fighter's face, covering his fish eyes as he was transferring some of his restored energy.
TRANSFER!
"I don't have the medical equipment nor expertise to deal with this situation in a manner that would relieve Gris of his wound, I'm no Dr. Compa." The time traveler recalled to a more experienced version of the bubbly nurse.
"But Nebula taught me that you can stabilize and lessen the effect of wounds inflicted by fear energy through share energy transfusion, and with enough of it, overpower and reduce the otherworldly injury to its regular counterpart. I just hope I have enough left to do so.''
GLOW!
Vergo said to himself like a green glow of energy was being emitted from his hands as he began the process of transfusion.
The soldiers and agents of the Leanbox Military, RRoD, and the interdimensional cat were all being driven in convoys heading towards the battle after driving and bracing from the most recent shockwave.
They all sat within the seats of a singular armored vehicle, the 8 persons (Well, 7 and a cat, but Blinx is more than that. He's a cat that can TALK-) sitting side by side in rows of 4 as they jittered about from the outside forces reaching within the mobile military vehicle.
RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE RUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLERUMBLE...!
"W-W-W-Whoa!" Blinx shook in his as he was strapped in. He held his Sweeper as he braced through the tremors from the shockwaves
"..." Domio kept quiet, trying to keep his emotions inside him as he rattled in place.
"That's the fourth one...!" Taleia made note as Cave continued, the blackette shaking about as she tried not to move about too much.
"DIO must be stronger than we originally thought." She analyzed as she held on to her seat using her legs to keep herself in place.
"Either that or those who are fighting him are worth their salt." Lady Wac commented as she thought about some food, and relating it to the task at hand as she shook about from the shockwave.
"I can't wait to get there, though! All this shaking is making my tummy ache!" Moru said, suffering from some motion sickness due to the quakes and tremors around them. She looked a little green with a queasy facial expression as Poona patted her on the head, some sympathy on her face.
"Don't worry... It'll be over soon... I hope."
RUMBLE!
RUMBLE!
RUMBLE!
RUMBLE!
RUMBLE!...
She looked down to the metallic floor of the convoy as she felt the vibrations slowly begin to die down as the vehicles moved towards the eastern sector of Leanbox.
The vehicles made twists and turns, avoiding debris, blockades from said debris, unconscious citizens, and any falling objects as it sped towards where the last sight of DIO was detected.
Domio felt nervous as he sat in his seat. He didn't have much to combat the vampire with as he thought about it, and that even his ice powers, his forte was dwarfed by DIO's comparatively.
But even though his powers might be dwarfed, that didn't necessarily spell the end for him. He had all these trained soldiers and allies alongside him, not to mention literal gods on his side.
He couldn't let them down for being weak in the face of crisis, no matter how scared he was. A fact he was having a hard time trying to accept as he kept quiet.
The Loweean just hoped he could back up his drive once he came face to face with the psychotic bloodsucker.
"The shaking finally stopped. What a relief." Mister Chief wrote on his sign as he looked around. He sat perfectly straight as he was used to such conditions as a literal super-soldier.
"Good. You alright, Domio? You've been quiet ever since we got on here." Taleia asked the boy. She looked at his conflicted and silent demeanor as she put a hand on his shoulder.
''I'm doing fine. For now, at least." The boy answered truthfully.
"Don't talk like that. That's just a red flag for some kind of bad situation." Blinx told the preteen as Domio looked towards him, some excitement deflating from the boy's response.
"Really?" Domio perked up in slight concern.
''Of course. If you go into a fight thinking you'll get hurt, what else could possibly happen?" The cat asked as Domio responded.
"Oh." Was the answer of realization.
"Blinx is right. Lack of morale can damage one's fighting spirit immensely." Cave stated as she looked professionally towards the child. Her gaze retained is professional vibe as she maintained eye contact with the preteen.
"I'm sorry." The ice user looked down, downtrodden.
"Don't be. This isn't the time for apologies. This is the time for action!" The time cat rallied as Domio's eyes widened.
He pictured the cat's voice overlapping before being replaced by someone more familiar to him, well, as familiar as you could get in the span of half a week.
...
"This isn't the time for apologies. This is the time for action!" The voice of his foster father filled his mind.
...
'That sounds like something Nebula would say.' Domio thought about his words before letting the sentence bounce around in his head, slowly absorbing the meaning of the sentence.
"Right... Thanks, Blinx." Domio nodded at the shorter elder, the cat looking back at him with a feline smile.
"No problem. We don't have room for sad soldiers. Mostly because they're all dead." The cat responded with an uncomfortable sweatdrop as Mister Chief raised another sign.
"Does anyone have an ETA for when we'll arrive at the battlefield?" It read. He changed the subject before the subject matter could get too dark.
"We should be nearing the fight soon. It's been over 15 minutes of driving and swerving already." T
SCREEEEECH!
aleia told her superior as the driver gave the estimated time of arrival without hesitation after a tight turn.
"We should be there in around 90 seconds. Is everyone ready?" She asked, keeping her eyes on the road as she drove with the grace of a GTA player.
"Ready as I'll ever be."
ゴゴゴゴ...
Domio held his hands together as his eyes were shadowed, giving him a surprisingly menacing vibe thanks to the encouragement he had.
"He got scary all of a sudden." Moru observed as she slightly paled. From the motion sickness or the perceived killing intent was up for interpretation.
"Goes to show what the right motivation can do. I'm ready."
GRIP!
Taleia said as she gripped her blade hilt.
"Agreed. We'll need it to face DIO."
PUMP!
PUMP!
Cave reinforced that belief as she cocked her firearms, readying her trigger fingers.
"We're the last ones. Complete the mission."
PUMP!
Master Chief raised his sign before pulling his rifle, making calls to a certain rival video game franchise.
"Let's get this over with once and for all. I bet he's destroyed at least 10 candy shops, the fiend." Lady Wac shook her fist as she got ready with her... Hunger?
"I'll help... With everything I have...!" Poona slowly stated as she gained a stern look, a rare occurrence.
"We won't let him get away with this!" Moru put on a menacing face, ready to make the vampire pay for what he did, the paleness disappearing for a moment of determination.
"Let's fix this temporal mess."
SKID!
Blinx slammed his gloved hand on his open palm as the convoy skidded to a halt.
The passengers inside lurched as inertia to hold of them for a brief bit. They then fell back into seats as Moru was only a bit more from straight-up vomiting on Domio from sheer motion sickness.
"Hnng!..." She held it in, as Domio's menacing look know had a sweat drop on top of it as he paid mind to the queasy Commander.
"We're here...!" The green-haired Commander noted as the seat belts unbuckled, the soldiers and agents inside free to move.
"Good luck, soldiers."
OPEN!
EXIT!
The driver saluted before opening the door, the smoke from the last attacks filling inside as the team got out, ready to face the vampire.
They rushed out of the convoy before more came, activating lights that only showed the dust that came from the destroyed area as the laser cannons were being set up in the absence of the vampire.
"Set up the artillery!" An engineer yelled.
"Yes, sir!" A junior mechanic saluted before they took out a box with the symbol of a missile, similar to the ones that Gris possessed in his warehouse, as they pressed a button on the side, making the compact cannot mechanically morph into a laser cannon the size of a truck.
PRESS!
TRANSFORM!
GAS!
Steam blasted out of its many openings as it changed its form and soon began system calibrations as it was fully operational, being a rather high-tech piece of equipment.
Domio was reminded of the mechanical box that they used to get to Leanbox soil in the first place once he watched the transformation sequence of the cannon.
He then turned his attention to the lights in the convoys' headlights that flashed on alongside the lights that were brought, almost lighting up the entire sector from its brightness combined with Nebula's light above them.
Brightening the entirety of Eastern Leanbox when all sources were accounted for... Or what was left of it.
"Turn on the lights!" Another head engineer yelled.
"Ma'am, yes ma'am!"
FLASH!
FLASH!
FLASH!
LIGHT!
Some foot soldiers in other convoys jellied as they came out and set them up, activating them.
The preparations were being made as the dust was beginning to clear.
CLEAR!...
The mystery of the outcome of what had occurred, and the reason for the shockwaves was starting to reveal itself as the soldiers and engineers alike were preparing themselves for a terrifying sight as they peered into the revealing dust and smoke clouds.
DRAIN...!
The color around them drained as it became condensed into a specific area within the dust clouds, before it exploded back into the environment as a powerful gust of wind and fear energy blasted from the singularity of fear energy, making everyone present brace themselves.
AIM!
"What is this?!" Cave yelled as she readied her guns.
UNSHEATH!
"I don't know, but it can't be good!" Taleia responded as she unsheathed her sword, her blue blade at the ready.
SCATTER!
FEAR BURST!
"Did we all get sent into a manga-" Was the frivolous question that came out of Blinx before the color became apparent as a burst of fear energy blasted everyone back as the clouds cleared instantly.
FREEZE!
GUARD!
"Aah!" Was the collective yell of everyone there as Domio quickly summoned his gauntlets as he cross guarded, Taleia sticking her sword in the ground, The Commanders guarding with their arms as Mister Chief and Cave used their firearms.
Brave Heart and AL were revealed cross guarding as well, their eyes narrowed with suspicion and rising animosity as they knew DIO would return.
"That was a nice try." His iconic voice rung out into the desolate environment.
"!" The duo of fighters was shocked as he emerged not even the slightest unscathed, a speedy recovery, made of nightmares.
''You two almost had me there, as well by using your team synergy and wit to overwhelm me. Too bad for my regeneration and stamina, though. I can come back from any attack or technique you can conceive of. Even the divine cannot defeat me. I am as immortal as ever!" DIO boasted as he came back, the cockiness oozing off his tone.
"The divine...?" Cave's brow arched in confusion as she had no recollection of any CPU being here to help them. Certainly not Lady Vert.
He levitated, his stand beside him as he had his arms on his side as his clothes had regenerated, with his body. A snigger spread on his lips as he looked down upon Brave Heart and AL.
"Damnit! We're gonna have to try something else, AL." The god told the fire user.
"Right. I just hope we get some back up soon. Vergo's taking too long." The fire user voiced as he then looked back towards the convoy.
"Oh." Was the one-syllable realization phrase. How quaint.
"AL, Nebula!" Domio waved as the two waved back at the child wearily.
WAVE!
"And you've brought more souls to die alongside you. Odd, that they don't seem to be under my command, but no matter. I do not care for the lives that do not worship me."
AURA!
The bloodsucker stated as he regained his black and gold aura.
"Worship?" AL repeated.
"Wait, what does DIO even mean?" Brave Heart interrogated. He knew it sounded obnoxious and grandiose, but he needed something deeper.
"God." The vampire sounded like he was about to cum in his pants.
"..."
"..."
Silence was among them.
"That explains WAY too much." The CPU deadpanned. Said effect was mirrored onto AL, Taleia, and surprisingly Domio as he began to mirror the facial expressions of the adults around him.
"D-DIO!" Domio reeled, feeling the same fear energy that had him in a nervous wreck back on the beach. He tried to stay conscious as he felt the waves of fear wash over him.
"Ah yes, the sacrifices. I think I'll start with..." He got back on track as he looked over the new faces as they looked at one who had unbridled rage across their faces.
"You monster!" A corporal yelled, seeing the destruction that had been doled out across the entirety of the eastern sector before firing his laser rifle, do the dismay of Brave Heart.
"Wait, don't!-"
LASER FIRE!
BFFT!
Taleia's cries were cut short.
"!" The soldier's eyes widened as he realized that he no longer had any arms.
BLEED!
His delayed reaction was kickstarted as blood gushed out of his open appendage wounds as he screamed in shock and pain.
"AHHHHHHHHHHH!"
LASER FIRE!
The soldier yelled before he was shot with his gun in a twisted turn of fate.
PIERCE!
A headshot.
The futuristic rifle was in the hands of DIO as he fiddled around with the technology, the headless body dropping to the floor like a sack of potatoes.
THUD!
"LEANBOX SOLIDER #6969! NOOOOOO!" A comrade yelled.
"This weapon is rather deadly, now that I've used it. A nice damage output as well. Maybe I should keep one for a souvenir after I raze this city to the ground, after killing the three of you, the blonde twit, and the rest of whatever pathetic attempt of a resistance I see before me!"
BREAK!
DIO announced as The World took the weapon before crushing it, the vampire knowing that many more could be taken from the bodies of the deceased.
"So, does anyone want to lose their lives as foolishly as their comrade?" Was the taunting remark from the creature of the night.
"Grrr! I'll show you to mock us!" A captain yelled as he then called to his squad.
"WAIT, STOP!-" Brave Heart desperately tried to halt their advances, but they were in too deep.
"FIRE AT WILL! I WANT HIM DEAD FOR ALL HE'S DONE TO LEANBOX! THAT SMUG PRICK IS GONNA GET WHAT'S COMING TO HIM!" The highest-ranking soldier roared as AL grimaced before looking back to DIO.
"He's gonna kill them all! Forget about their persistence, stop him!"
BOOOOOOST!
AL frantically yelled as his back blasted with flames as he got ready to move.
"Tch!"
BURST!
Brave Heart grumbled as he soon was enveloped in an aura of his own, as a mix of share energy and KI came to be in a bluish hue around the god as the spiky orange aura flared around him.
PUNCH!
Domio gripped his gauntlets before punching them together, trying to take his mind off the fear as the battle was about to continue.
"THEN BY ALL MEANS, DO YOUR WORST!"
ゴゴゴゴ!
DIO smiled psychotically as he laughed, The World's demeanor becoming feral as its teeth gritted and muscles flexed.
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.
And another chapter.
At this point, I might as well change it to bi-weekly, since I'm being consistent in being lackadaisical. If anything earlier comes then consider it a lucky coincidence or me working at 100% efficiency.
DIO is on the prowl once again, after coming from near losses time after time as he outfoxes and outdoes his opponents, thanks to his terrifying time stop ability!
And with another military confrontation in the works, it's gonna be bloody, a lot of screaming, and most likely at least one person is gonna get a hole through their torso, and slammed with a vehicle that holds a special place in the bloodsucker's heart.
Not to mention, the one person that might have had the best chance to beat him has a knife wound right in the thinker, so he's down for the count alongside the future fellow that hair is yellow. Will Gris be able to bounce back with the help of Vergo? Probably, but again he's speaking Japanese and having delusions about the IRS. All whilst being in no man's land.
Nebula and AL did well against DIO, but the plot- I mean, his regeneration had other plans as he came back to torment the heroes just as reinforcements arrived! And Domio and Taleia have brought the likes of Cave, Mister Chief, The Commanders, and Blinx to aid them against the desperate fight against DIO.
Not like you people know all of those characters, but if you do... Have a cookie.
The soldiers have set up the necessary weapons and utilities to stunt the villainous vampire, but will they survive enough to use them?
Questions, people.
The next chapter will reveal those answers, so stay patient and stay tuned my readers.
Also, we're nearing 30 favs and follows! I didn't think this story would get here but thanks to everyone who still reads it... Hmm...
Anyways, if you like what you see, follow and favorite!
That's it for now, though.
Arrivederci.
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