Omnidimension Neptunia: Infinite Memes Chapter 37: 37 - Desperation! Stall To The Very End!, a hyperdimension neptunia fanfic

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ICE SKATE!!!

SLIDE!!!...

"Miss Cave!" Domio yelled as he saw the frozen statue of the woman.

He wasted no time in thawing her with his ice proficiency, using another spell that his uncle had taught him.

"Thaw!"

THAW!

TRANSFER!

SHINE!

The boy yelled as the ice was transferred to his gauntlets, causing them to glow with SP before returning to normal.

Cave was brought back to the world of the living she coughed some ice out of her lungs.

Domio looked on in concern as he inspected her form. She didn't look like she was suffering from any signs of hyperthermia, which meant he came probably seconds after she was iced.

She did seem beaten and bloody from her fight though. And looked rather risque with all those tears on her clothes. If he looked the right way, he could get a peek of her-...

'No! Bad hormones! We have work to do!' Domio vigorously shook his blushing face as he reaffirmed his mission mentally.

"Uh... Have you come... To aid me...?" Cave sounded out as Domio nodded.

"Yep. Stall, actually. Can you stand up?" The boy questioned as he helped up the soldier.

WOBBLE!

"Somewhat...- My back!" The soldier cringed in pain as she nearly fell over as Domio had to support her weight.

"Whoops! Here, take this." Domio dug in his pocket with his free hand as he used his other to hold Cave's body weight.

The redhead elite soldier observed with some pain as he pulled out a Healing Pod before giving it to her in his hand. "Look." He motioned as the pod was right in his hands.

She wasted no time using it as some of her vitality returned to her since her back didn't feel like somebody snapped it in two anymore. But even though she most likely could stand on her own, the injuries and scratches of the scuffle with DIO we're still present.

"Thank you." Cave gave her gratitude to the Loweean.

"It's nothing. I came here to help you guys anyway. Can you stand up on your own?" The boy asked.

"I believe so." The woman responded as Domio let go of her, making sure not to brush his hand on anything pervy before looking at her posture for himself.

"Ok... You look good enough without me having to hold you up." The boy noted. "Now where's Mister Chief, and Blinx?"

"I know not where Blinx is located. But DIO flew off in the direction that Master Chief was most likely situated as he left me to die in the state you saw me in, and would have finished me off later if I had managed to survive." Cave briefed as Domio nodded curtly.

"Alright. Then we have to help Mister Chief. But we gotta hurry, there isn't much time!"

SKATE!!!

The boy motioned as he rushed forward, skating on his ice as he found his way through an alleyway to cut through the destroyed buildings.

"Right."

DASH!

The RRoD agent nodded as she chased after the child as she quickly caught up and was hot on the boy's heels in a matter of seconds as the two of them covered distance.

ZIG!

ZAG!

SKATE!!!

Cave soon overtook the boy as Domio slowed down so that she was now in front of him. She headed in the direction that DIO flew off in, and traveled the debris with the agility that the boy now struggled to keep up with as she was now leading.

The two of them traversed the destroyed city blocks as they searched for Mister Chief and DIO, not stopping for even a moment as they made the rounds on several blocks, spanning across that side of the sector as they desperately searched for the two.

"Where could he be?" Domio asked himself as he looked around, scanning their surroundings as he tried to pinpoint the super soldier's position to no avail.

"Your guess is as good as mine. I only know of the general direction DIO went, rather than his exact location. If we take too long to get to him, his life may already be snuffed out by the time we find him." Cave warned as she darted her eyes to find her comrade.

"Crap." The Loweean preteen censored as the two of them continued to search.

After scouring the buildings and streets, they soon found their wounded ally hiding behind some debris as he placed his back to a wall, trying to conceal his presence against the vampire.

Mister Chief held his rifle as he stayed quiet, making his breathing as silent as possible as he was still invisible, but the bloodstain from his injury gave away his position to Cave as her eyes were able to spot the inconsistency of floating blood.

"Mister Chief!" Cave shouted as she approached him, Domio following suit.

"?!" The foster son of Nebula skidded to a halt as he saw that Cave had found the super-soldier.

The two of them stopped where she saw the floating bloodstain. Mister Chief then picked up a visible sign from Hammerspace before presenting it to the two.

"Cave? Boy? What are the two of you doing here?" It read.

"Uh, it's Domio. And we're here to help you. Until reinforcements arrive, I hope." He finished as Cave reiterated.

"For now, I believe we are the reinforcements." The redhead woman corrected.

"I see. But do you two have any idea where DIO is? I've been hiding and looking for the right time to strike but can't seem to locate him." The armored soldier clarified.

"Wait, what?" Domio was confused and slightly fearful.

"We came to you hoping you knew where he was...!" Cave stressed as Mister Chief quickly responded.

"Well, I don't. I suggest you two get to cover as well so we aren't found out by him."

CHILL!!!

Another sign was raised as Domio finished reading its content before feeling a DEATHLY cold chill from above.

It was so cold in fact, it almost blindsided the boy from sheer shock from how cold he felt before he remembered what it meant.

'Oh sh-' The hit cut off his mental curse before yelling to the others as he kicked back off the ground and skated at top speed away from the position they currently occupied.

"MOVE NOW!"

SKATE!!!

BACKSTEP!!!

DASH!!!

JET!

The boy shrieked before Cave immediately backstepped as Mister Chief became visible, but in turn, glowed blue as he dashed out of the way right as a beam of light came down from the skies.

EXPLOSION!!!

The Space Ripper Stingy Eyes came flying down before the resulting explosion blasted everyone away even though they weren't in a radius that spelled death for the three victims.

CRASH!

A shockwave emitted as each person was blasted into a damaged building.

Domio grit his teeth as he felt the pain of being rocketed into a wall of busted concrete and scrambled to get back up, scratches present on his body. He powered through the pain as he walked outside his subsequent building, looking for the others.

DIG!

Cave quickly dug herself out of a pile of rubble as she found herself within a destroyed apartment complex. She quickly grabbed her weapons before hiding behind the remains of a wall facing where she was blasted from and peeked for any sign of DIO.

CRACK...!

DISPERSE!

FADE!...

Mister Chief punched out of the debris he found himself in, before lifting a rock off of his injured leg. He quickly limped to the hole that he made when he was blasted into the building before his blue glow faded as he became invisible once more.

The Loweean boy quickly armed himself as he equipped his gauntlets.

"Frigid Boxing!" He yelled as his hands were encased in the bulky ice gloves once more.

CHILL!

SIDESTEP!!!

CRACK!

He then felt another chill to his left as he quickly reacted, jumping to the side as an obsidian knife cracked the ground as it pierced the ground he just occupied.

"Ah!"

CHILL!

HOP!

CRACK!

The kid yelled before feeling another chill as he jumped back to avoid another knife as it just barely missed the hair on his head.

"I can't stay here! I have to keep moving!"

CHILL!-

SKATE!!!

SONIC BOOM!

Domio decided as he started to skate as soon as he felt another chill, skating towards the direction he felt it so it missed prematurely as he left in a burst of speed.

CRACK!

Domio had put so much force into his legs from sheer survival instinct, that he managed to break the sound barrier as he faintly heard the knife pierce the earth behind him as he skated.

CHILL...!

PIERCE!

The knives however became everything but constant as a barrage of the sharp objects were hot on the boy's heels as he felt a faint chill on the entire posterior side of his body.

SKATE!!!

PIERCE!

SKATE!!!

PIERCE!

CHILL!!!

Tens of knives gunned for the goody-two-shoes as Domio hauled ass to not become a paralyzed pin cushion as the chill he felt behind him got more and more cold before it felt like an air conditioner was blasting sub-zero temperatures at his neck.

ZIG!!!

PIERCE!

ZAG!!!

PIERCE!!!

The boy quickly jarred to the right as he near-missed with another obsidian knife, before jolting to the left as another did the same.

ZIG!!!

PIERCE!

PIE-

ZAG!!!

PIERCE!

PIER!-

ZIG!!!

His constant momentum paired with his sporadic movements proved the knives unable to properly strike him as he also randomized which points he would change angles.

The sound of blades penetrating the ground ceased as the constant chill he felt behind him soon subsided.

STRAIGHTEN!...

SKATE!!!

Domio started to slightly relax as he stopped changing the direction of his skating path.

CHILLS!!!

'!'

His break was short-lived however as his entire body lost all body temperature with the drop of a hat, completely throwing him off as he froze for a split second before turning around as he moved.

"Huh?!-''

"UREEEEEYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

The boy sounds out before he saw a red glimmer in the sky before hearing a loud cry.

"That's not good."

ICE SPELL!

FREEZE!

The Loweean paled before he looked ahead and blasted an ice spell in front of him, creating a ramp with a 90-degree incline as he neared it.

CHARGE...!

BOOM!!!

EVADE!

DIO was about the blast the beam downwards when a shot rang out as Mister Chief fired a charged round from his blaster at the vampire, causing him to crane his head to the side.

"Insolent PEST!"

WINK!-

JET!!!

ALTERNATE!

The creature of the night snarled before closing one eye and firing a blast down where he dodged, before turning back to Domio and doing vice versa to his position.

The two Space Ripper Stingy Eyes raced down to the ground as both of the males fled from the powerful attacks.

EXPLOSION!!!

CRASH!!!!

ENGULF!

Mister Chief's hit the ground first as the super-soldier was sent flying as he crashed through building after building, each structure leaving a human-sized hole before being engulfed in the blast from the attack.

SLIDE!

ASCEND!!!

EXPLOSION!!!

PUNT!

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" The sound of the preteen could be heard as he tore through the troposphere.

Domio had a bit more time however and managed to slide up his makeshift ramp before the beam hit the ground, making about a bit over 300 meters before the explosion went off at the ground, the blast propelling the boy into the night sky.

STAND FLY!

DIO flew after the boy as he used his stand to glide upwards, closing in on the boy as the two ascended, soon catching up with Domio as he smiled with ill intent as he approached.

"I've finally got you where I want you! You have nowhere to run, and in range for The World!"

BFFT!

SUMMON!

The vampire yelled as the stand manifested before rushing for the boy.

CLENCH...!

The black manifestation of DIO's soul clenched his fist before reeling back as his teeth clenched and glowing eyes constricted, taking his time as he mustered enough power to completely destroy the child, reducing him to nothing but a fine blood mist.

CHILL!!!

ASCEND!

Domio felt the deathly cold chill once more, DIO right next to him as he was in a tight spot, and not being able to move out of the way at the speed they were rising in the air didn't really make his movements as dynamic as they were on the ground.

Domio had to act quickly as he was feeling the chilling sensation become numbing as he moved on instinct once more. If it saved him once, it could save him again.

CLAP!!!

ZOOM!

He clapped.

PUNCH!!!

WOOSH!!!

DISPERSE!

His ice gauntlets glowed as they shattered, sending him zipping down as he formed another boom of wind as he shot downward, just before The World threw a punch that sent a gust of energy so powerful, that it cleared almost every cloud around them.

"He dodged at the last second! Damn brat!"

TURN!

CHILL!!

DIO yelled as he dived down, pursuing the child as Domio saw his approaching figure as he turned around, using his danger intuition to gauge the distance the vampire was from him.

ICE SPELL!

PROPELL!

JET!!!

EXPLOSION!

He approached the ground as he felt the chills behind him grow in intensity drastically as he neared the concrete. He then blasted the direction behind him which he was facing once he looked straight ahead and was propelled forward right when a Space Ripper Stingy Eyes raced by him.

PROPULSION!

LAND!-

SKATE!!!

The explosion rang out from below as Domio was further shot forward as he landed, his feet creating more ice as he skated like a mad man, DIO hovering above him as he and The World pulled out a multitude of knives, ready to throw.

"It's useless to run from DIO! USELESS!"

BRANDISH!

He roared before dozens of knives were now in the hands of DIO and The World.

ICE SPELL!

Domio felt chills all around his body once more, which made him contour a ramp with his ice magic by shooting another nameless ice spell as it formed a ramp with a much smaller incline.

"MUDAAAA!!!"

JUMP!!!

PIERCE!!!!!

The floating vampire roared before throwing the knives right as Domio jumped the ramp, causing the knives to miss their intended target as the boy turned around and shot an SP Skill at his pursuer.

"Blizzaga Burst!"

ICE BEAM!

"NANI?!-"

Domio yelled as his hand ejected a concentrated beam of ice magic that was large enough to engulf DIO, catching the man off guard as he didn't expect such a big attack from a child that was running away.

FROZEN!

The bloodsucker was covered in the blast as he was rocketed away, his body frozen as the ice magic instantly froze him the moment he made contact with the attack.

SKID!...

Domio looked back and saw the statue of ice fall to the ground, not even breaking due to the pure density of the ice he was encapsulated within. The Loweean skidded to a halt as he no longer sensed the chills that were constantly warning him of imminent danger.

Domio was in a cold sweat nevertheless, now permanently on his toes as he didn't know how long that ice could hold the crafty creature of the night.

"Hah... Hah... Hah..." The preteen was breathing heavily as the SP Skill took more out of him than he thought.

He then sensed some chills be his left side near his head as he looked at a building with a hole within the wall, the wall not being a wall and more like the skeletal structure of the foundation.

Domio then approached the wall, manifesting his gauntlets as he got ready to brawl whatever was waiting for him, stowing his fears in one big fearful gulp.

"Frigid Boxing."

FREEZE!

He whispered.

He gulped, sweat forming on his face as he neared.

ROLL!!!-

BANG!

The chill then dropped to numbing levels of cold as Domio quickly rolled out of the way right as Cave emerged from her hiding place and shot at where Domio just occupied.

"Hnn!"

DIVE!

ROLL!!!-

BANG!

Domio evaded the first round before diving forward and rolling past the second one as Cave recognized who the person she was shooting at was when he was closer to her

"Cave, It's me!" Domio yelled as she stopped firing.

"Domio? Apologies." She apologized as she ceased her firing, relaxing her trigger fingers as she saw the boy.

"It's ok. I knew you were going to fire when I came so I prepared myself to dodge your bullets." The boy explained as Cave tilted her head.

"You knew?... But how?" She inquired, curiosity written across her face.

"Whenever something that's around me and trying to hurt or kill me, I get these chills where they're gonna attack. The colder they get, the closer they are. So I try to move before I get numb in that area, which means that they're right there."

"Oh, I see. That's very useful, Domio. Why didnt you tell us sooner?" She asked once more.

"I didn't even know I had it until a couple of days ago, fighting against some killer robots in Lowee. But that's not important. We have to get back to DIO." He said as Cave reacted to the vampire's name.

"You know where he is?" The woman questioned as Domio elaborated.

"I froze him." He spoke.

"You froze him?" Cave gawked as she didn't expect something to hinder the vampire coming from the boy before her to such an extreme.

"I caught him off guard while he was chasing me, but I don't want to leave him for too long, since chances are that he might be breaking out as we speak," Domio warned as the elite soldier understood the severity of the situation.

"Then let us make haste. If he breaks out, we might miss our one chance to put him down for good." She stated.

"Can we, though?" He muttered.

The two of them headed towards his position as they had one sole intention.

To finish him.

AL leaned himself up, his upper body no longer under the influence of the feat energy that had invaded his body as he occupied the van with the other soldiers and warriors.

He regained the life in his eyes as he was now able to hold a conversation without straining or take a break mid-sentence to recover energy as he was now looking over the states of Nebula and Taleia as he held a conversation with the soldiers and the Commanders.

Brave Heart on the other hand was able to perfectly speak, but still was being plagued by the fear energy as he was lying down but no longer felt the paralyzing effects, only that his body was still due to the energy being able to nullify as well as paralyze, and he barely had enough to retain his CPU form, teetering on reverting to human form.

He had to bide his time until he recovered enough stamina and SP to properly fight. The occupants within the convoy tried SP items to speed up the process, but they were rendered ineffective due to the fear energy remnants canceling out its effect.

How quaint.

Taleia had it the worse of the two, however, since she was neither a literal god amongst men nor experienced the bone-chilling presence of fear energy on multiple occasions. This disadvantage left her completely paralyzed, her eyes white with shock and paralysis as she was unresponsive.

Her vitals were still felt by AL though, so the level of panic was greatly diminished, reduced to lingering concern within the group.

"I wonder how Domio is performing out there." Avery pondered, sitting with his fist clasped in his hand on the bench within the vehicle as AL responded.

"Based on what I'm sensing, he's still alive and relatively the same as when he left." The dark-skinned man folded his arms as he closed his eyes and monitored.

"Spiked? That timid demeanor was hiding something, wasn't it?" The corporal noted as Avery responded.

"Guess so. Maybe I was wrong to doubt him." The private conceded to the two grounded warriors.

"Don't get your hopes too high. We're far from out of the woods." Brave Heart halted their optimism. "Domio may be able to hold DIO off as of now, and a proud father figure I am for that, but we'll have to devise a strategy to take him down for good when the sport finally starts running on fumes." The CPU continued, knowing that Domio could hold him off forever.

"But what about these Gris and Vergo fellows? Surely they'll be able to take him down once they arrive?" Lady Wac remembered the other two fighters that AL spoke of.

"I did say that, but for this scenario, we'll have to hope for the best and prepare for the worst. If we assume that those two will take too long to arrive, and Domio can't hold out against DIO any longer, our plan will be the last thing remaining between him and the absolute destruction of Leanbox." The fire user explained as Moru didn't like the sound of that.

"So you're saying we're Leanbox's last hope?!" The catgirl looked at the god with fear.

"We've been Leanbox's last hope," Avery stressed.

"But what can we do? He's a monster!..." Poona emphasized his terrifying power.

"I have some ideas." Brave Heart gathered the attention of the occupants as he continued. "And since the ones I already recommended got us this far, these ideas might help us to get through this completely." The CPU explained as AL looked at him.

"Spill." He urged his best friend.

"DIO is vulnerable to share energy, since he's a vampire, and share energy would cleanse him off the face of the earth on the premise that he's brimming with fear energy as well. He's also vulnerable to KI as well. And light inhibits him from his conventional shadow travel, having to rely on his own shadow to escape. And I theorize that lasers might be able to damage him if they hit him. So if we take all this information, we can deduce that he's weak to any type of natural, artificial, or spiritual light that makes contact with him or his surroundings." The deity began as the others had varying levels of understanding.

"I catch your drift." Avery understood what the god told them.

"Share energy?" The corporal asked.

"It's the CPU's power source. Weaponized since its basic variation is shares." Nebula explained as the soldier now understood what he meant.

"Oh. Wait, you're a CPU?!" Moru's jaw dropped at the fact.

"You guys didn't know?!" AL was taken aback as the others just caught on to the fact."

They looked.

They stared.

Their eyes squinted with observation and curiosity before widening upon the realization that he posted the iconic traits of a CPU.

"Holy-" Avery could not believe his eyes.

"Wait, you're a CPU?!" Lady Wac reeled in shock as Nebula now had a blank face.

"But you're a man!" The corporal tried to challenge the mood crashing revelation.

"So... I guess it was probably fate that you came to help us." Poona thought as she looked at him.

"Why don't you have booba?"

"Pfft!"

The catgirl asked surely as AL had to hold in a laugh for that one.

"Alright, alright, I'm a CPU. I don't have tits and I'm very special, yadda yadda yadda, Fate sent me to help you because plot, blah blah blah. Look, let me finish the plan and then we can get to why I exist and how handsome I look and shit." Brave Heart got the team back on track as Avery muttered to himself.

"I always thought that it was a miracle we weren't dead yet but I didn't think it was so literal." Avery with that new information muttered to himself before Nebula continued.

"Tell me about it. Think he's something like Vert's CPU Candidate or something?" The corporal asked him.

"I don't think so, but we'll have to ask him that and much more." He responded before quieting down.

"Right, so DIO is weak to light. He's also shown to be very full of himself. The guy's an overconfident bastard and if we can use that to our advantage, our chances of pulling off our plan will most likely increase if we can get him to talk while we do it, or even not use his time stop in a matter of pride in himself and what he can do." Brave Heart pointed out, observing the vampire's mannerisms as he continued.

"Even if he doesn't adhere to the first two courses of action he's more likely to underestimate us and not even expect the very thing that may kill him. Well, at least from you guys. He knows we can beat the bricks off of him if his guard drops, so AL and I will have to be X-factors to the plan if he's going to lower his expectations and let his overconfidence take over." The CPU iterated as The corporal answered.

"So he's weak to light and cocky. How can that even help us?" The female soldier inquired.

"I can restrain DIO with my power to manipulate gravity. If I can get to a place that isn't in his direct view and use my technique, he'll be effectively stuck. But he'll need to be distracted for him to not expect it coming AT ALL." Nebula gave the first part of his plan as Lady Wac spoke up next.

"Ok, that seems like a reasonable tactic. What do you suppose we do?" She wanted to know more about the plan.

"Alright. AL, set up your Bombadier Grenade skill within the destroyed buildings, acting as cover for the blasts. If DIO sees them before the plan is complete, he'll either destroy them with his eye beams or maneuver himself so that you cant aim them at him properly." The CPU reminded as the fire user nodded.

"I'll stock up those husks with as many blasts as I can. He'll be blindsided to hell and back!" The fighter punched his palm.

"Good. You three haven't fought at all during all this mess so I'm making you guys the diversion for DIO alongside Avery and...?" Nebula raised his head to prove his point, signifying that some energy was regained as that action only added to their surprise.

"It's Betty." She filled in.

"Thank you." The CPU gave his gratitude before shifting back on the trio.

"HUH?!" They paled as they realized what the god had just told them to do.

"You're sending us against him?!" Lady Wac was filled with fear. Her bangs may have hidden her eyes, but they weren't needed to convey the fear that was present in not only her voice but her body language.

"I don't think that's something we're capable of...!" Poona's eyes displayed sadness as she started to tear up from what she saw before sitting in the convoy for the second time.

"Uhh..." Even Moru wasn't so sure about fighting the insane vampire as she wasn't keen on actually going now that the vampire showed what he can do.

"Don't get cold feet now. You're Leanbox's Commanders! You literally have your positions for moments like these! Well, not exactly like this one but this is a scenario where your rank would be appreciated now more than ever." The CPU tried to break them out of their stupor.

"But he's a madman!" The witch-like Commander commented.

"And you're a commander!" The CPU rebutted. "Take some responsibility, damn! Your soldiers are outside this convoy dead at our feet and you're pussyfooting. You can't seriously call yourselves Commanders if you can't even defend the nation when the time comes!" The CPU's features hardened as he began to reprimand them for being so inactive.

"I know... But I don't think there's much we can do against someone like that..." Poona brought up as Brave Heart turned his head to her.

"And fret not, because you don't have to. I want you to distract him, not beat him. Even now, I'm not going to send you in there without some sort of protection."

GLOW!

BESTOW!

He spoke as he then raised his hand, some of his energy being recovered to move it before his palm glowed cyan as the air around the green-haired girl rippled for a moment before settling.

"What's this?" The Commander inspected herself as she patted herself before looking back down at the smiling CPU.

"I bestowed you a gravity shield with my share energy. It should be able to protect you against DIO's knives, the explosion from his laser eyes, his freezing, basically anything short of him coming to hit you or being directly pierced by the eye beam."

BESTOW!

Brave Heart explained as he pointed his hands as he repeated the process on all in the room except AL and Taleia.

"Why doesn't he get a shield?" The corporal asked as AL responded to her question.

"Because my power works by me being best up. The more damage I take the less pain I feel and the harder I hit. I even move faster and shoot bigger fire attacks so it's best for me to not get the shield, even if it's strategically more advantageous for me to have it." The man explained as Brave Heart nodded.

"Bingo. Do you want one anyway, though?" He went twice to see if his friend needed a shield.

"Nah. I hit a wall in Burning Fever's stat increase and I need to find a way on how to break it. I'll never find out if your shield stops me from getting hit. Even the most superficial blows still affect me positively." AL declined as Brave Heart accepted the decision.

"Roger. Now that the five of you have at least some level of protection against most of DIO's moves, it's time to deal with undoubtedly the most dangerous weapon in his arsenal." The god moved on to the last thing he knew of DIO that was of importance to their plan.

"The invisible ghost? I heard about it in the briefing but what about it?" Avery knew beforehand of the topic.

"His stand. The World or ZA WARUDO as he refers to it at times is invisible for the most part to guys like you, since you have no way of sensing it. It's even more powerful than DIO himself and possesses an ungodly amount of speed. The only reason we were able to match it before was that DIO had to focus on more than one person, decreasing how fast The World can move, or being faster than him so that he couldn't command The World to assist him." Brave Heart specified as AL pitched in with him.

"If you try to fight it in a 1 on 1, you'd have no chance. Focus on DIO and don't let it get near you. Keep moving as you distract him and it won't be able to specifically target you, even if you can't see it. If you manage to even make DIO flinch, so will The World. Since that's the case, we know that their damage is shared. Just keep him busy and The World won't be able to focus on one person quick enough." He continued as Moru nodded, understanding a much more simple version of what the two were saying as Lady Wac dumbed it down for her.

"If you keep moving when you attack him, the ghost guy can't hit you back in time." The blonde woman translated.

"Ooooh! That's much easier to get!" She smiled.

"But what about his time stop? We'd be helpless if he does it, and he could easily pick us off if we all are near each other when he does it, OR if we back him into a tight enough corner. What's the chance that he just does it of a whim to finish off us as he perceived us as cannon fodder to him?" Avery presented very good questions and problems that they all would be met with.

"That's where goading him arises. If we can manage to convince him that he'd be inferior to us if he DOES use it, and should be able to beat us without it, he may very well oblige on the premise that he needn't even exert the energy if he's a truly great as he feels. Overconfident people like him tend to fall for manipulation that directly attacks their skill and ability, and he should be no different. If not, I have a theory that might be able to help us..." Brave Heart had a backup as AL raised a brow.

"A theory?" The flame user raised a brow as he was interested in the alternative to if DIO decided to be unmoved by their plot.

"Let's hear it." Betty urged the CPU to spill the beans of his theorem.

"DIO's stand ability is to stop time. Now, time halting to a complete stop should be by all means impossible in conventional physics, but for the sake of my theory, I'll allow the thought. Time is in direct proportion to gravity, as the gravitational pull of the planet is actually the curvature of space-time." The CPU enlightened the members within the vehicle as Lady Wac spoke next.

"But what does that have to do with us not dying in his time stop?" She asked.

"Let me explain. A black hole is famously known for its inescapable gravitational pull, not even light being able to escape its reach. The effects it has on space is redshifting the object that falls in once it crossed the event horizon due to gravitational lensing and spaghettification, you could even be transported to another dimension or back in time according to some theories." He clarified, before continuing his explanation.

"But in terms of time from the outside of the black hole and more specifically the event horizon which is where the meat and potatoes of interactions come into play, the object outside takes an infinite amount of time to reach into the singularity within the black hole due to something called gravitational time dilation." Brave Heart put another finger up as his other arm regained feeling.

GRAB!

TRANSFER!

He then used it to grab onto Taleia's paralyzed form and lock fingers before starting to transfer some share energy to hopefully snap her out of her fear energy-induced stupor, knowing how the two energies interacted in the past.

"What's so great about this gravy station all time dye late shun?" Moru was now confused as the topic had delved into the realm of astral and theoretical physics and mathematics far above her usual thinking level.

"It might help us win," Betty told the younger superior as she went along with what the CPU was saying, even if she had not a rat's ass of what he was talking about.

"Ok!" She nodded.

"Since the dilation occurs due to the gravitational influence, added with the fact that the black hole has both infinite density and gravity with a volume of exactly 0, time would effectively stop once you reach the center of the black hole due to the laws of physics cease to operate on a conventional scale due to the asinine physiology of an infinitely small one-dimensional point that lies in its center, known as the singularity." He conceptualized as Avery was now becoming lost.

"So how does that deal with the stoppage of time?" He asked.

"Since time becomes distorted beyond belief due to the physics breaking effect of the singularity, the gravitational effect it produces should be able to not only be able to interact with the warped version of the world in stopped time but also be able to exist freely." Brave Heart finally gave a somewhat layman answer to their questions.

"Move freely? So does that mean that the shields you gave us can let us move in stopped time?" Betty had some hope in her eyes as she stared down at the god, some surprise from the explanation present.

"Not exactly. The shields around you guys would probably allow you to perceive in stopped time for a few seconds before becoming unaware of his actions." The CPU gave them a more accurate representation of what could happen when caught within the ability.

"So basically we'd just be able to see for a bit how he's gonna kill us." The witch-like lady sweatdropped.

"There's also the chance you could move for a moment, but you'd have to use it wisely since it's also within the time you can perceive. I'd say you would be able to view for about 5 seconds max, but could only move for about 1 to 2 depending on how dense the shield is." The god theorized as he continued.

"And how long can DIO stop time?" Avery asked.

"I don't know. But it's probably longer than 5 seconds. I'll find out though." He gave some comfort amid a variable he had no idea of.

"How so?" Poona wanted to know how we would be able to find out if he too would only be able to view for 5 seconds like the rest of them.

"I'll make my personal gravity akin to a singularity. But I'll also have to make sure the only thing it emulates is the nature of the singularity instead of me becoming an omnidirectional vacuum that absorbs and destroys all physical matter." Brave Heart told them his way of being able to find out how long the time stop was.

"So you're saying that you're going to become a living black hole?" Betty said, her voice filled with uncertainty and wariness.

"Not entirely. Just the one characteristic I need to be able to resist. Once that's out of the way, I'll be able to fight him no matter the state of time." The CPU God responded

"So what your saying is, if you manage to alter your personal gravity to match that of a singularity, you should be able to move in DIO's stopped time on the premise that you'd be giving off an infinite amount of gravitational energy, being powerful enough to actively move in his time stop for as long as it's in effect, without damaging everything around you due to only taking that one attribute and not the actual gravitational pull that accompanies the singularity in a black hole, rendering yourself immune to his move from that point and forevermore?" AL said, his voice wavering with awe and disbelief as he couldn't believe that Nebula had the capacity for mind-numbing knowledge.

"Yes." Brave Heart responded, his face resembling that of a certain blonde chad.

Cave and Domio confronted the block of ice that contained DIO. His face was stuck in a state of shock as he didn't expect the boy to release an I've spell of that magnitude towards him.

His body was in an unnatural static position as his appendages were suspended in an action of being ragdolled. The ice even had some cold essence radiate from it as the vampire was surrounded by over 5 feet of pure ice in all directions.

"He seems to be frozen solid. A commendable effort indeed, Domio." Cave congratulated the child as he scratched the back of his head, accepting the praise.

"Thank you, but I don't think we can be so sure. The sooner he's nothing but a bad memory, the sooner we can rest easy about all this." The boy took the praise but didn't let it go to his head as the emerald-eyed elite soldier agreed with him.

"You're absolutely right. Let's finish him off." The redhead went to action as she wasted no time taking the golden opportunity before them. She even prepped and SP Skill to make sure the job would be done to the best of her ability.

"Stand back, Domio. It may get destructive."

JUMP!

LAND!

WOBBLE!

HOLD...!

Cave warned as Domio leaped up into the air before landing a ways away, on top of a streetlight, managing to balance himself after holding on to the horizontal pole he was on.

"Ok. This is it. Time to Kill!"

SMOOCH!

RAISE!

The soldier roared as she took her gloved middle and index finger before giving a kiss, the fingers being ignited as flames busted forth from the action onto her fingers as she raised them.

CRACK...!

The ice that confined DIO however began to crack as from where his body was located, a massive crack began to emerge as his eyes widened in response.

WAVE!!!

MAGIC CIRCLES!

FIREBALLS!

Cave then waved her finger as many magic circles were summoned, fireballs being shot towards the ice statue that DIO had been reduced to as the attack closed in on the bloodsucker.

The cracks quickly spread to the outer edges of the ice as Domio felt that his spell was being broken. He then saw the damage, but it was quickly obscured by the fireballs seemingly hitting the ice as smoke was formed from the multitude of fire spells connecting with their intended target.

"Oh no..!"

SHATT!-

BOOM!!!

Domio's eyes shrunk as he felt his spell being nullified as he sensed fear energy being used within its target.

SNAP!

EXPLOSION!!!

WINDWAVE!!!

The area DIO occupied was now engulfed in smoke as Cave turned around and snapped her fingers, causing an explosion in the same of a dome to take effect as it expanded, Domio having to grip the pole to the point where they started to bend under the pressure as he put a lot of strength in his grip to not be blown away.

"Whoooa!"

GRIP!

GROAN!...

The preteen yelled, gripping onto the streetlight with muscle never seen before in him.

The wind slowly died down as Domio now hung from the streetlight as he looked ahead to the smoke cloud as it completely hid the vampire's position.

Upon assuming DIO's demise, Cave looked towards Domio as she now had a small smile on her features, believing that the man that did so much to Leanbox had been finally put down, shattered, and obliterated beyond belief.

"I believe that's the end of DIO. I would make an extra check for any remains of his to be further terminated but it seems very unlikely that there would be any remains to destroy." She said as the boy still had a wary look on his face.

"I'm not so sure about that Cave." Domio denied her confidence in her ability, his expression one of slight unease as her smile instantly faded.

"What do you mean?-"

BFFT!

She asked the boy as he opened his mouth to answer before a sound was heard.

FLASH FROZEN!

Domio was now frozen within a case of ice that fitted his body as he managed to make its effect spread to the entire streetlight due to the prior contact he made to it as his expression was now frozen.

"!!!" The redhead woman reacted with shock.

And behind her stood someone she thought dead.

"Is that so?"

TURN!

The refined voice of DIO was behind the woman, his frame towering over hers. Cave's eyes shrunk to dots as she became slightly pale at the notion that the man she blasted to ashes was standing behind her.

She twisted around as the vampire was now without his blazer, his purple tank top now exposed as his blazer was caught in the blast. His eyes were shadowy as the red dots radiated from his pupils as he looked down at the woman claiming to have done him in.

"But how!?" She was at a loss.

"How else. Za Warudo!"

DUBSTEP FART!

TIME STOP!

DIO shouted as time froze as the world became discolored once again.

SLAP!

SUMMON!

He sent back his fist before opening it into a hand and sending a supersonic slap across the redhead's face, followed by a returning backhand from the same hand, before he turned around, brandishing The World as he didn't even put the effort to look to her.

CRACK!...

RUSH!

"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!"

STAND BARRAGE!

The stand cracked its knuckles before getting to work.

FRACTURE!

BIFF!

CRUNCH!

POW!

The World barraged its fists into the body of Cave as multiple bones were broken, the expression of the woman stuck in nothing but shock as her body was badly beaten and bloody as the knuckles of the stand were enough to cause internal bleeding as well as superficial scratches from the mere wind pressure from the punches.

The stand then ended the combo with a powerful kick to the solar plexus as the soldier's body was now lurched as she had many injuries both external and internal, significantly more damaged than she was at the beginning of the encounter as DIO spat some more words before resuming time.

"Worthless wench. To even believe for a second that you could defeat DIO. Toki was ugokidasu." He spat before saying the necessary words as time started to flow once again.

TIME RESUMES!

Cave immediately moved forward as she vomited a mass of blood, her body being sent flying as her eyes became white with pain as she moved at such a speed that a low whistle could be heard as she moved.

"UWAK!"

VOMIT!

VOOM!!!

She guffawed.

CRASH!

DESTABILIZE!!!

CRASH!-

OBLITERATE!!!

COLLAPSE...!

She soon crashed into an office building as the foundation was completely compromised as she flew straight through the infrastructure of the building before obliterating the adjacent structure that happened to be a damaged bakery as the bricks and glass spread over the street, the office building leaning over and getting ready to collapse on the two remaining persons there.

GLOW!

ABSORB!

The ice that contained Domio began to glow as the boy used Thaw to absorb the ice, fueling him with even more power as he freed himself from his cold prison.

"!" The boy was greeted with the sight of a falling nineteen-story building as he quickly looked down to see DIO grinning at him as he had that cocky face to greet him.

BFFT!

"The brat. I would finish you off myself, but I feel that the collapsing building could reduce you to nothing but ripped flesh and shattered bones with less effort. How unfortunate for you. Hahahaha!" He laughed before teleporting out of the danger zone as Domio was left with thousands of tons about to crush him with terrifying force.

Domio looked up as he saw the mass of concrete and steel quickly approach g as he felt fear paralyze him as he was becoming too stiff to move.

"Uwa...!" He choked, unable to do anything as he felt as if he was in his final moments.

But he suddenly received a shock of cold on his body, rivaling that of absolute zero as he was snapped back from his fear-induced stupor.

CHILL!!!!!

The Loweean snapped back to reality as he quickly looked at the frozen streetlight.

"Thaw!"

GLOW!

ABSORB!

FLEX!

He grabbed it with his gauntlets and used his SP Skill, absorbing the ice from it as well as he felt his muscles slightly bulge, his hair for a moment flowing before settling.

He suddenly gained a boost in energy once again as he looked up to the falling building. It wasn't much longer until it crushed him like an insect.

CROUCH!

JUMP!

CRATER!!!

SONIC BOOMS!

Domio faced the building before crouching and leaping, his feet after absorbing two ice structures now able to make the asphalt he once stood on completely indent as a crater was formed that stretched to each side of the road as he caused multiple sonic booms from the speed he left the street at.

REEL!

"RAH!"

SWING!

BOOM!!!

He closed the gap between him and the office building before reeling back and clenching his fist before slamming it into the concrete of the object before him.

CRASH!!!

RUMBLE!!!

The building was shredded as the ice fist managed to sever the entire structure in half, causing every window that was still intact to shatter as two different halves of the falling mass hit the ground, shaking the ground as they did.

Domio held the pose he smashed the building in two with before turning and looking below to the destruction that was below him.

He then remembered that Cave was with him, and she might have been crushed under all that rubble.

"Oh no, Cave!-"

CLUTCH!

FREEZE!!!

He started to yell in the realization that he might have accidentally killed his ally without even knowing it, only to get his head grabbed as he was encased in ice once more.

"HON!"

SHOVE!

ZOOM!

SMASH!!!

CRASH!!!

BOOM!!!!

DIO shouted before shoving the boy's frozen face forward, sending his body flying through multiple intact buildings, rendering them no longer intact as Domio smashed through them all as he flinched within his frozen prison once again.

"Tch!... Thaw!"

GLOW!

ABSORB!

FLEX!

The boy yelled before he absorbed the ice once again, his stats being heightened once more as he felt his muscles slightly grow before shrinking back down.

WOOSH!-

FLIP!

KICK OFF!

WOOSH!!!

He then possessed the reaction time necessary to kick off the next building he was about to crash into before bursting forth in the air as he reached for DIO as he clenched his gauntlet fist.

TURN!

READ...!

ゴゴゴゴ!

The silver-haired villain simply floated there pulling out a book and turning around as he read the pages of his diary. Domio saw it as an opportunity as he rushed the vampire, unknowing of his ploy.

BFFT!

"?!"

"Checkmate." He spoke.

SLAM!!!

"Guak!-"

The boy swung at the floating monster, only to be miffed as he suddenly teleported before his elbow and the back of Domio's head had a freak collision as DIO nearly gave the boy brain damage with such a daunting blow to the back of the cranium.

FREEZE!

PLUMMET!

And to make matters even worse, the skin contact between DIO's elbow and Domio's head provided him an opportunity to freeze him again, rendering him immobile as he would surely be shattered if he hit the ground at the unnerving speed DIO sent him at the ground towards.

"Thaw!"

GLOW!

ABSORB!-

CRASH!...

The boy quickly got himself out of the ice through his spell as he gained more energy from the move before crashing into the ground as a cloud of dust shot up from his hard landing.

...FWOOSH!

"Blizzaga Burst!"

ICE BEAM!

The preteen shot up from the cloud as he fired his ice beam at DIO once more, the attack managing to blowback the dust cloud behind him as it revealed a crater behind him, the dust blowing away dramatically.

EVADE!

JET!!!

The cold attack raced for the vampire's position, only for him to dodge, flying to the side before firing a Space Ripper Stingy Eyes beam at him.

CHILL!-

LEAP!!!

EXPLOSION!

WOOSH!

The boy soon sprung forward, not staying to see what was going to happen as he felt a chill once more as he was then blasted forward, but not as roughly as before since his speed and dexterity had taken yet another boon with the ice he absorbed.

GRAB!

THROW!

Domio then felt the front of his shirt balled up before he was flung up by The World, unbeknownst to him as he was not warned of the psychic spirit due to it not trying to actively harm him.

"Uah!" The boy yelled as he was back in the sky, his momentum completely halted as he turned around to face DIO.

"Stop freezing me already! You'll be sorry!''

"Cold Bolt!"

The preteen yelled as he charged an SP Skill in one of his gauntlets before firing.

ICE BOLT!!!

The ice bolt was strikingly larger than its usual size as it grew to about the same magnitude as a Flaring Blazer, the bolt now being able to move at much faster speeds, not to mention being much stronger.

"Heheheh."

BFFT!

"No."

CLUTCH!

CRACK!

The bloodsucker sniggered. He then moved closer to the boy, completely bypassing his move before coldly answering.

DIO denied the Loweean rest as he grabbed both of the boy's ankles with such strength that they both instantly broke, prompting the child to scream before he was encased in another chunk of frozen water.

"AAAAH-"

FREEZE!

Tears welled in the corner of Domio's eyes as he screamed bloody murder before being silenced once more.

GLOW!

ABSORB!

The ice case didn't last long, however, as it immediately disappeared after glowing as Thaw had been silently used, giving Domio the element of surprise when he suddenly doubled backflip kicked the blood dining monster in the chin with newfound speed.

"What the bloody-"

DOUBLE KICK!

ICE SPELL!!!

PROPELL!!!

HEEL KICK!!!

DIO's head jerked back as the ice kid before he completed the rotation before sticking his feet out and holding his hands straight up from the angle he was at before blasting ice spells, propelling him to land a solid double heel kick in the solar plexus.

The vampire was sent flying away as a gust of wind was emitted from the fearsome blow, Domio still feeling the stinging sensation of inflammation in his ankles as he tried not to focus on the pain.

He had to keep on DIO before he regained his senses and started to get serious.

CLAP!

BOOM!

He clapped to use the shockwave to send himself moving forward as he followed the flight path that the creature of the night took after the surprise kick to the jaw.

CLAP!

The chase began as Domio raced ahead, closing in on the vampire as he clapped whenever he lost too much speed to remain in the air. DIO was still feeling the signing pain of the surprise attack.

DIO quickly twirled around before looking forward from how he was flying back and saw the child approaching him.

JET!!!-

CLAP!

OBLITERATE!

He closed one eye as it glowed red before firing an eye beam at the juvenile pursuer, Domio dodging the beam with a clap as it decimated a barely standing building he happened to be in front of.

"Yikes!-"

WOOSH!

KICK!!!

ZOOM!

The boy grunted as he was blown to the side from the explosion before kicking off a nearby building, trying to catch up to the bloodsucker for the second time.

"Arctic Assault!"

ICE BARRAGE!!!

Ice spells came out with a vengeance as the Loweean mage shot them like they were going out of style, all in the effort to put the vampire back in a state of cold captivity as he used an SP Skill that he came up within the moment due to his monumental increase in ability due to absorbing ice chunk after ice chunk.

JET!!!

EXPLOSION!!!

SHATTER!!!

SHOCKWAVE!!!

COLLAPSE!...

DIO shut his other eye as he used his remaining laser eye to cancel out the ice barrage as it rammed through the spells before it exploded midway, causing the two to be blown away from the epicenter as every intact window in a 1-kilometer radius was shattered as the remaining buildings that barely stood on their foundations came down.

"Blizzaga Burst!"

ICE BEAM!!!

VOOM!!!

Domio put his hand back as he was being blasted backward, shooting a Blizzard Burst with his left arm as he put it behind him, thrusting himself forward to the point that his gums were flapping in the wind as his teeth were clenched.

FWOOSH!

CLEAR!-

THROW!!!

Smoke was parted and speed was gained as the boy soon began to close the gap once more as he was finally got on the vampire's heels as DIO was now waiting for him, hands behind his head and legs crossed as he had The World handle knives to dispense at Domio's expense.

CHILL!

EVADE!

CHILL!

DODGE!!

CHILL!

TWIST!!!

CLOTHESLINE!!!-

GUARD!

SHOCKWAVE!

Chills were felt in Domio's body as he contorted and twisted his body accordingly to maneuver and evade the pointy objects before he managed to close the gap as he stopped and focused his magic into his gauntlet for a clothesline that The World guarded.

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!-

DEFLECT!!!

The Loweean child desperately tried to land a blow on DIO, who only sent him a taunting snigger as his stand deflected every last blog the boy launched to wound him. His efforts were made even more of a joke as his snigger evolved into chuckling, then into laughter, before descending into maniacal cackling as the frustration was seen on the child's face as the dark stand gave him no opening to such an open opponent.

Psychological warfare in its purest form.

"Hah...Hahaha! HAHAHAHAHA!" The bloodsucker died of laughter as Domio struggled to get even one hit in as he grew more and more frustrated, his movements increasing in ferocity as he did.

BARRAGE!!!

DEFLECT!!!

HIGH-SPEED BARRAGE!

DEFLECT!!

His punches were starting to become innumerable as Domio's frustration quickly morphed into anger as his emotions were starting to get the better of him as he tried and failed to deal any lasting damage on the creature of the night.

BARRAGE!!!

DEFLECT!-

VANISH!!!

The child's body glowed as he suddenly vanished, spiking from his couple of thousand times the speed of sound to something that even DIO momentarily lost sight of as he was suddenly axe kicked in the head with a slipper as the boy managed to get another hit on DIO, sending him

"?!"

AXE KICK!

BOOM!!!

FREEZE!

FADE!...

DIO's eyes looked around to see where the twat of a brat had gone, only to discover his location when he felt his skull crack from the sheer force of a heel placing itself in his person. Part of his head was frozen as well, leaving no room for him to even absorb Domio's appendage. The World was sucked back into DIO as he took such a grievous hit that not even his stand could stay put.

ZOOM!

CHOKE!!!-

SLAM!!!

Domio quickly descended as a light blue line of ice magic energy as he grabbed the vampire by the neck, before clenching it, causing him to lose his breath as he choked, slammed him into the ground, a large crater forming around DIO as he crashed down.

"GAK!-"

CLOCK!!!

CRATER!

CONTINUOUS BLOWS!

CRATER!!!

FLATTEN!

Blood that DIO coughed out was punched back into his mouth as the Loweean battered his face in with a single ice gauntlet with such speed that the ground constantly rumbled with power as the crater continuously grew in size as thousands of punches crossing Mach fucking TWENTY THOUSAND as the Brando found his head being flattened into a pancake as the boy went silent with fury.

POW!

RECOIL!-

BAM!!!

WOOSH!

The last blow was the one to recoil DIO's body as it bounced up from the crater before it was punched in the spine, sending it sprawling as the child vanished before side punching the shoulder through a skyscraper as the body rapidly cartwheeled before Domio vanished before grabbing its ankle and crushing it in an act of revenge before slamming into the ground, causing a small earthquake as debris and tocks blasted from the impact site.

"...!"

VANISH!!!

REAPPEAR!-

SIDE PUNCH!!!

VOOM!

CRASH!!!

Domio vanished as his eyes narrowed as his hair flowed wildly as his eyes were constricted with soundless wrath as his teeth were clenched with seething rage. He made a terrifying sound as he disappeared akin to air being sucked into a vacuum that was made from the sheer speed he moved at as he rushed the defenseless monster.

CRUNCH!!!-

SLAM!!!

CRATER!

DIO's headless body blasted through the skyscraper before it was halted as Domio managed to clasp onto his ankle before removing its functionality, as well as it's bone density as he pulverized it with his strength alone.

SLAM!

FREEZE!...

Before slamming him down into the ground once more as everything near was repulsed by the sheer force behind the boy's moves.

Domio then continued to repeatedly slam him into the ground as the prior effect of nonstop rumbling returned as more and more of DIO's body became frozen.

Soon, DIO's entire body was in ice once more as Domio shot up into the air, both of Domio's hands reeled back as he uttered some words of warning.

"If you dare come back from this, your death will be full of suffering and torment!" His voice boomed with power as he used a more powerful version of his Cold Bolt and Blizzaga Burst, fusing them as he made his first EXE Drive.

"Kältekatastrophe!"

WAVE OF COLD!!!

SHATTER!

MASS FREEZE!...

The abnormally powerful child roared before throwing both of his hands forward, sending an invisible force of ice magic towards the position of DIO, as an AOE of ice and cold was blasted instantly to his intended target as the ice shattered into millions of pieces, the entire sector becoming an icy wasteland.

Anything that was in the air or on the ground was now suspended in a chilling prison as the temperature dropped into the negatives as Domio dropped from the air his hands raised as he descended to the ground.

LAND!...

Cold air blew through the frozen environment as he landed, his feet blowing some air back as he looked over the shattered pieces of DIO that contained his blood within.

"If you know what's good for you... You'll stay dead and burn in a hell that's frozen over."

STEP...

FADE!...

Domio gave his last words before his glow faded, along with most of his power as he walked away.

SHATTER!

FALL!...

CATCH!

He even momentarily lost the strength to stand as his gauntlets shattered and if not being caught and held up by an invisible force, he'd land face-first into some frozen concrete.

"!" Domio reacted as he caught his breath, heavily breathing as he remembered the only person that would be able to do something of that nature.

"M... Mister Chief...?" He groggily asked.

"Roger. You did well, kid." The super soldier congratulated as Domio lucked out, reducing the homicidal menace to nothing but glitters in the ground as he nodded in acceptance.

"T-Thank you... But I think we should look for Miss Cave. I don't know where she went before I fought DIO." He urgently brought up as the invisible armored soldier nodded in agreement, unbeknownst to the Loweean.

"Do you even have to ask? Of course, we'll look for her! Where was the last place you saw her?" Another sign was raised as he questioned the boy.

"She's... Uhm..." The boy looked around. He realized he wasn't familiar with Leanbox as much as he was with Lowee, added to the fact that he froze the immediate vicinity which made the place look similar in all directions due to the debris and structure misdirecting his sense of direction.

"You don't have any idea, do you?" The sign somehow gave an aura of deadpan as Domio sighed before admitting his ignorance.

"No..." He shook his head, his eyes looking down and to the side as he had a comical expression.

"Well, I observed your fight, and other than being in awe after you somehow managed to put DIO in his place, I saw you thaw the ice. If you do that here, I should be able to tell where we are and go from there."

KNEEL!

The super soldier suggested as Domio was let off to stand on his own two feet as he knelt.

"THAW!"

He let his fingertips make contact with the ground as the glow that usually accompanied the SP Skill started to spread over every frozen surface as he said the move.

GLOW!!!

ABSORB!!!

The ice was absorbed into him as light blue energy particles as they became liens from the speed they approached him at, the effect being spread through the area of effect that the attack had affected.

FLEX!!!

GLOW!!!

Domio felt his power reach levels that were hard for him to contain as his eyes whited out from the power as they glowed. His muscles veined and bulked with magic as he took in the sheer amount of magic that he dished out, as he grit his teeth before yelling due to his overstimulation of energy.

"Grr...!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

FREEZE!...

He yelled as his muscles grew and glowed, his body rapidly freezing as he became stuck in place as the ice reached his shins.

THAW...!

SPLAT!

FREEZE!!!

The blood that was completely frozen within the ice was thawed out, subsequently splattering as the rest of the frozen water was absorbed by Domio, the boy freezing his entire body as he lost all body temperature for a brief moment before he was completely iced.

"AH-!"

FROZEN!

The Loweean was cut off as he was reduced to a statue of his ice.

"Domio!" Mister Chief's sign shouted (in tone, not literally) as the soldier was unsure if recommending the idea was good for the boy's well-being after seeing what had just transpired.

Mister Chief was left at a loss as he had no idea what to do to get the boy out of his predicament, as breaking the ice might damage him beyond repair, possibly to a fatal extent.

And leaving him in the cold for too long would also damage him to the point of his death if left unattended.

SHINE!

SHRINK!

"-AAAAH!... Huh?"

But he needn't worry, as the ice began to glow one final time before it minimized itself around a frozen Domio, the screaming statue being unfrozen as he suddenly cut his reaction short as he felt the ice latch onto his body.

The ice formed around his body as it dimmed to reveal a sort of ice armor, coating his body as icy protrusions were seen on his shoulders, forearms, the side of his knees, and the side of his helmet.

His helmet itself was spiked on both sides from the side as a small slit was left open for his eyes as his nose and mouth were covered. His hair still managed to spike out due to a special space that allowed the follicles their room but still shielded the exposed area with magic.

His eyes were now celeste as they gave a soft shine, his magical energy brimming from the enormous dose of absorption as his body gave off levels that we're only seen by new A-Rank mages in the Guild. Talk about a jump in power.

His armor itself gave off a cold mist as there were many markings and detailed runes present on his suit, that even he had no idea what they meant. His gloves, his shoes, his torso, his loin guard, everywhere. His armor reflected the light that the moon shined on him, making his person glimmer in the darkness as he looked down at his hands.

"Cool... Heheh." Domio pinned, before smiling as he felt magic coursing through his body, and by extension his armor as his senses and stats were heightened by wearing it alone.

Mister Chief scrambled to scribble something on his sign before showing it to the boy.

"Holy shit! We're body armor buddies! Welcome to the club, Domio!" It read as the soldier gave him a thumbs-up as he smiled.

"Body armor buddies? Has a nice ring to it. Let's go find Cave! And Blinx for that matter, where did he even go?" The boy asked as he cupped his chin.

"Right here!" The cat shouted, running with the redhead soldier as the two of them rendezvous with the two armored allies.

Cave had some more injuries after the encounter with the time stopper but was still able to fight and move without problem as she stood next to a perfectly fine Blinx. Her clothes now resembled something you'd find in an eromanga after a clothes-eating slime was sicked on the female cast, but the situation diverted attention from the fact.

This is ironic since I'm talking about it.

The cool cat had arranged to full his Sweeper during his time of absence, as well as organize his crystals for quick use as he now possessed a significantly heavier weapon that had sucked up massive debris in the meantime.

"Blinx! Cave!" Domio's eyes were frightened at the sight of his friends.

"How convenient! I was wondering where you two went!" The super soldier showed his sign with contentment as he gave a thumbs up.

"I found her in a cake shop, downed. I helped her up and used my feline senses to track you two down. And here we are." The cat explained as Cave nodded in agreement.

"DIO does pack more of a punch than I previously thought. We should be more careful in dealing with him. Speaking of which, where is he?" The soldier looked around for his presence.

"Oh, I killed him." Domio raised a finger as he pointed it to the bloodstain...

That was no longer there.

"AHH!" The boy yelled, his mark of defeat absent.

"That's not good." Mister Chief raised his sign with a disturbing aura.

"We can't stay here! He might have already set his sights on us, we have to move!"

JET!!!

Cave asserted as she looked around one last time to see where he was before looking directly up to see him peering down at them. A Space Ripper Stingy Eyes rained down on them as the sound rang out.

"Look out!"

BFFT!

Domio yelled as he was about to put up his hand to attempt to block the attack before they were suddenly moved from the area.

BOOM!

EXPLOSION!...

RUMBLE!!!

They were now a safe distance from the beam as it blasted the ground and caused a dome-like explosion that expanded, the ground shaking from its intensity.

"!!!" Domio caught himself as he was no longer in the same position as before.

Mister Chief looked to the explosion alongside everyone else as they cemented the fact that they scraped by a point-blank aerial flank.

"What just happened?" Cave asked the group as Blinx responded.

"I stopped time to get us out of there. We have to get moving before he realizes that we're not there. Back to the convoy!"

DASH!

RUN!

SKATE!

SPRINT!

He told the others as they moved.

The quartet made ground as they headed back towards the convoy, Cave taking the lead as Mister Chief and Blinx held the sides and Domio skated backwards facing the flank.

STAND FLY!

WOOSH!!!

And it was a good thing he did as he saw the vampire closing in on them as he realized his targets weren't dead from his ears picking up their movements.

"You cannot escape DIO! I saw you move in stopped time, you crafty cat! With that in mind... ZA WARUDO!-"

TIME STOP-

FREEZE!!!

INTERRUPT!

He yelled once on top of them, at the top of his voice only to be silenced as Domio put his hand up after feeling a chill in his chest, towards his mouth as ice blasted him back as it covered his mouth instantly with no indication once his hand was raised.

"MMF!"

"Artic Bolt."

DIO was muffled as his time stop was interrupted, sending him back as his stand braced him as the group below started to lose him as Domio said his SP Skill as he turned around.

"Did you lose him, kid?!" Blinx asked the Loweean as he answered.

"For a bit. Can you stop time and move us ahead so that we can get a bigger gap between him and us?" The boy asked as Blinx nodded.

"You even gotta ask? Let's do this!"

TIME STOP!

He took out his Time Crystal, blue in the shape of a present moon as it shined before the environment suddenly becoming blue as time halted.

CARRY!

DASH!

Blinx quickly picked up the bodies of Domio, Cave, and Mister Chief before moving them as far as he could in the ten-second window he had to haul ass with their lives.

TIME RESUMES!

When he hit the eight-second mark, he placed them back where they were originally positioned in the group before time resumed, their momentum just as they were, as they were a ways ahead thanks to the cat.

"Thanks!" The Loweean gave his gratitude. The group had already covered half the distance thanks to Blinx and his surprising speed through the realm of stagnant time.

"No problem," Blinx responded as they continued to widen the gap.

Their trek became silent as the sound of footsteps and ice were the only things heard as they continued to traverse the destroyed sector of Leanbox, surveying the damage quietly as they began to comment on the nation's state.

"He really wrecked the place, huh?" The temporal cat pointed out as they passed by a destroyed mall.

"Wrecked is an understatement. In at least this portion of Leanbox, the city is akin to a pile of rubble and misery. Those poor souls that might have been crushed under these buildings or succumbed to his mind control have suffered because of his selfishness. And that is something I will not stand for." Cave said as her eyes narrowed in indignation and anger at the vampire.

She still felt some type of way as she was currently fleeing from him, but she knew for a fact with his current arsenal and even with the likes of Domio, Mister Chief, and Blinx on her side, they had no real way of putting him down for good.

Domio looked down at his hands as he thought back to when he punched that building in half. If there were any people there then that would make him a...

He couldn't think about things like that right now. DIO was bad, and that was that. Stopping the building from crushing him was the only thing he could do, and he did what he did. If he took responsibility for every single soul he couldn't save, especially without the power, he'd be blaming himself for things he couldn't control.

"This only makes us getting to the Commanders and those guys that were fighting him prior, sooner." Mister Chief raised his sign while still invisible, giving the illusion of a floating message.

"We should be nearly there. Right, Cave?" The goggles-wearing cat asked as the woman agreed.

"Yes. It should not be much longer until we reach the convoy." Cave voiced as Domio felt a chill in front of him, which made him confused before shaking the emotion and warning everyone.

"Scatter!"

SCATTER!-

CRATER!!!

SHOCKWAVE!

TREMOR!

The child roared before the four leaped out of the way, as a crater was formed that pushed everyone back, digging deep into the ground as dust exploded alongside a powerful shockwave.

ZOOM!!!

The World sent an earth-shaking punch to separate the four as it kicked off the ground as everyone was launched from the shockwave as they guarded.

CRASH!!!

MANEUVER!!!

KICK OFF!

SOAR!...

Mister Chief was sent hurtling through multiple piles of debris and destroyed buildings as Cave managed to maneuver herself around her obstacles before kicking off a totaled car and getting a vantage point to see what had attacked them.

SKID!!!

SIDESTEP!

BACKFLIP!

SOMERSAULT!

ROLL!

BUMP!...

Blinx exhibited agility rivaled by only the most dexterous of felines as he quickly planted his feet down and sidestepped, somersaulted, and rolled to dodge the debris he would have crashed into, stopping when his back hit a barely standing wall.

BOOM!

Domio didn't even flinch as he was being blasted through building after building as he was fervently looking for what struck them as he twisted his head in vain to search for the invisible stand.

His search was cut short, however, as he looked up to see a sight that shook him to his core.

It was a madly grinning DIO, but not only him, but a large black road roller, with its wheels and seats being a very prominent amethyst color as its safety frame was a more mellow color.

It looked as if it came from Planeptune, which meant that he flew over there and returned in around thirty seconds, including finding and spray painting it before carrying it towards the battle, shortening how long it actually took for him to go and return from the mainland.

And by the looks of it, he also managed to get the ice off of his person as he shouted in glee, moments away from crushing the strongest member of the group with his favorite construction vehicle.

"ROADROLLADAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

CHILL!-

BLOCK!!!

BOOM!!!

CRACK!-

ZOOM!

DIO screamed as The World appeared behind Domio as he felt a chill before he even appeared and managed to deflect most of the force, only leaving enough to slightly crack his armor and pelt him skyward on the cusp of being guard broken.

EXPAND!

"Subzero Smasher!''

CLASH!!!

BOOM!

The Loweean preteen grunted as he turned and reeled before smashing his ice fist into the road roller, the armored hand expanding in size to regulate the amount of magic energy expended as Domio yelled out his skill in defiance of being squished like an insect.

The sky momentarily became brightened with energy before sparks of magic and fear energy raced around the contact point of the two, blue and red bolts bursting to life as they held their ground.

"Hnng!"

DEPRESS!

The boy's eyes narrowed as he pushed his fist into the machine, the ice gauntlet indenting the wheel.

'He's challenging my power!' DIO's eyes widened as he then rapidly elbowed the object to tilt the tode of the clash into his favor.

"You cannot escape your fate! SHINEI!"

"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!!!"

ELBOW BARRAGE!!!

The vampire roared as he struck the steamroller over and over again screaming at the top of his lungs his favorite word.

"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!!"

ICE BARRAGE!!!

The road roller was forced down upon Domio as he felt himself being pushed towards the ground, but not before largening his other ice fist as he returned the favor with his own consecutive blows.

BARRAGE!!!

Domio managed to get back to his place as the two continued to contest their power in the battle of speed and power as the road roller by the power of the author and anime managed not to explode from the sheer torment it was experiencing at the moment.

SHOCKWAVES!

The mini shockwaves from their punches were ever-present as they generated enough energy from their punches to create a constant gust of wind to blow away anything near them as well as produce their combined light from the clashing.

"ZA WARUDO! MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!!!"

STAND BARRAGE!!!

But the tables became uneven when DIO summoned his stand after seeing that Domio had a slight advantage in power a few seconds during their clash.

"ORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORAORA!!!"

That did the trick in canceling out whatever advantage Domio had in power as the boy was being pushed to the ground as he tried to push back to no avail.

He then switched to his magic as he stuck out both of his hands and spammed his Artic Bolts, freezing and pushing the road roller back with much slower but significantly stronger attacks.

"HAAAAAAAAA!"

BOOM!!!

FREEZE!!!

BOOM!!!

FREEZE!!!

BOOM!!!

FREEZE!!!

The Loweean boy shouted as he stuck out his gauntlets before the invisible force of ice magic to counter the sudden increase in resistance.

"WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!"

JET!!!!!

BOOM!!!

FREEZE!!!

BOOM!!!

FREEZE!!!

BOOM!!!

FREEZE!!!

DIO bucked from the force as he was pushed back by the unadulterated attack potency of the boy's magic before making his eyes glow as he yelled once more.

The Space Ripper Stingy Eyes dug into the vehicle as the pressure from three forces was overwhelming Domio in the battle of brawn and skill as his back was now to the ground as he desperately resisted the force.

BOOM!!!

BLOCK!

The boy grew angry as he was backed into a corner, his fury fueling him as The World suddenly had to move to block around from an invisible Mister Chief.

CHARGE...!

BOOM!!!

CHARGE...!

BOOM!!!

The invisible soldier charged his shots as he saw that Domio didn't have much left before he was reduced to a crushed corpse so he did his best to buy the boy enough time to bounce back.

DIO's stand punched away the rounds as the rounds exploded on his fists as the exchange continued as Cave joined in, using her SP Skill to further impede DIO.

"Full Burst Options, spread!"

APPEAR!

ROTATE!

BLAST!!!

The redhead yelled before the floating processors returned as she shot the six green beams.

JET!!!

CLASH!

DIO turned his head while barraging and fired his continuous jet beam at her instead, the two attacks clashing as his face hardened as the two of their attacks clashed as well.

BLOW!

THROW!

SHATTER!

BLOW!

THROW!

SHATTER!

BLOW!

THROW!

SHATTER!

And Blinx showed himself as he launched flaming rubble at the vampire, forcing DIO to completely disengage as he pulled out knives and destroyed the trash with it, avoiding contact with the element as it didn't end well before.

It was now DIO who was being overwhelmed as his attention and abilities were being used to keep outsiders from interfering and harming him in his process.

So much so that Domio was let off the hook, bubbling with rage. His hair flowed as his eyes constricted, veins present on his corneas.

EXPAND!!!

REEL!...

SWING!

"ORAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!"

Ice was concentrated as his gauntlet grew to the size of a fridge before he threw his body weight, his power, and his stamina into the maneuver as he yelled bloody murder.

BOOM!

CRUNCH!!!

SLAM!!!

FADE!...

The road roller was partially damaged as the wheel was completely dented as the frame and chassis were also extensively damaged, the entire vehicle being sent up as DIO was slammed into it as The World was hit back into its master and his eye laser was cut short all in one fell swoop.

"NANI?!"

VOOM!

The silver-haired menace yelled in indignation and shock as he was flattened into the vehicle he was propelled into the night sky.

"Oh, my goddess!" Mister Chief held up his sign in awe.

"Unbelievable!" Cave gaped as her eyes shrunk.

"No freakin' way!" Blinx looked up as he lowered his Sweeper.

The trio ceased fire as they observed the vampire being pushed back.

CLENCH!

SUMMON!

WIND UP!!!

DOUBLE PUNCH!!!!!

ENORMOUS SHOCKWAVE!

CLEAR!...

But to their horror, DIO clenched his fist to the point that he drew blood before a hand of The World on the corresponding side appeared next to it as they both unloaded onto the steamroller in one enormous blow, completely nullifying the force as the resulting gust was powerful enough to clear any dust clouds that lingered as it cleared the sky in the vicinity as well.

DIO grabbed the road roller immediately after he struck it, as he yelled some more, burning with fury.

"YOU BLOODY PESTS! I'VE HAD ENOUGH OF YOUR INSOLENCE! I'll CRUSH YOU LIKE THE FRAIL TWAT YOU ARE! I'M GONNA ROLL ALL OVER YOOOOOOOOU!!!" The fuming villain roared as he and The World both pushed the road roller down towards the boy.

Domio tried to move his arm again but felt no reaction.

He turned and saw that the armor for it had been completely shattered, the pieces not even present anymore having faded into magical miasma that perforated the atmosphere. Not only that but also every bone in his right hand from his phalanges to his shoulder blade. His hand was littered with blood and torn skin as it looked like he stuck it into a wood chipper.

Completely decimated.

But he had no time to mourn his decommissioned arm, as a madman with a machine capable of dealing fatal damage to him was beelining to him.

So he got to his feet and crouched, his arm dangling as he clenched the other, the gauntlet glowing as he started to transfer magic into it, ready to sacrifice the other appendage if it meant that DIO would be put down for good.

"My heart resonates!... Cold enough to burn!... My blood is razor sharp! UOOOOOO!!!"

AURA!

The voice of Domio boomed as he referenced a famous line, his hair flapping as his aura returned for what seemed the final time.

His gauntlet grew as his hand shook with power. The same could be said for his feet, which were getting ready to launch him towards the enemy.

JUMP!!!

And they did as he dragged his oversized fist behind him as he yelled the move.

"SUNLIGHT YELL- I mean, SUBZERO SMASHER!'' The boy mislabeled as he switched his words quickly enough as he closed the gap between himself and DIO as the others watched.

"Brace yourselves!" Cave yelled as all who were below guarded attempt to guard the damage that this would cause to all that bore witness to it.

"THAT WON'T WORK A SECOND TIME!"

DARKEN!

DIO refused to be affected by the same move back to back as he looked dead into the boy's eyes, piercing his soul as his fear energy flared as the environment became grey.

"You have made a fool of my power and superiority long enough, boy! You will know the power of The World is exactly that: To dominate the world! And I will not let some meddling child stop my plans!" He continued to bark as he approached the fist.

"ZA WAAAAARUDO!-"

COLOR CHANGE!

DISTORTION!

Time began to slow down for everyone who didn't have an ability that allowed them to move within the medium. The randomization and distortion of color were coming into effect as the world slowed down.

DROPKICK!!!

"BLARGH!"

But before it could completely stop, and render the vampire untouchable, a sandaled foot dropkicked him so hard in the cheekbone that his head forcibly twisted left with a disturbing pop in his neck as his ability was interrupted for a second time.

A/N:

And a cliffhanger for the mysterious appearance!

It's been some time since I posted, so I figured a long chapter with a little bit that says I'm sorry for being slow would help compensate.

Wakarimasu-

But moving on, this chapter was really just to show that Domio isn't a whimpering child anymore, but quite a seasoned warrior like his elders and the main cast (I guess. I mean IF, Nisa, Nepgear, and probably Compa, but Rom and Ram only exceed him due to their godly heritage and perspective about the battle.)

The kid finally has a new powerup since it's more like that than an actual form concerning the fact that he looks mostly the same, but if you want to, you can classify it as such. I still have yet to give it a name, so if you want to suggest something, go right ahead.

But besides that, I also get to show how intelligent Brave Heart can be. Well, if we take to account what he can describe in the past, I wouldn't put it past him to speculate theoretical astrophysics in a situation like this. At least now, the Commanders will do something besides sit around and do nothing.

And with Vergo and Gris still occupied, our current characters will have to at all and suffer for a bit longer if they hope to survive until a powerful ally has come to their aid! But speaking of power, it seems DIO has been interrupted once again by a mysterious warrior?! Who is this person? And am I asking a question that you should know the answer to if you remember correctly?

Maybe.

Moving on, that's the chapter, so enjoy that while I get ready to write the next one, however long that will be (i.e. from 2 weeks to a month.)

AIAIAIArrivederci.

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