Tyranny 2025
Chapter 4: The Chaotic Crusade
Date: October 5th, 2024
Continuing from A Collection Of Other Adventures: The Ultimate Haunted House. One of the hooded individuals just attacked me with holy magic, dealing me some damage instead of saying anything to my exclamation of shock. But my armor took on most of it so I was still okay. I draw my sword: "Are you sure you want to fight me? I wish I didn't have to fight for a better future with violence but ironically, the only true way to peace is to use both peaceful and violent means to get rid of violence mongers who constantly cause violence and other cruelties such as oppression, bigotry, capitalism, and more. You people are not on the right side of history.. HAAAAAAAAA!" Another uses demonic magic on me but it does less damage comparably. I unleash my shadows: "We're fighting in the Shadow Realm now! I don't have time for you people!" But they're much tougher than I thought, eventually turning the tide of battle against me. After a few minutes, I cough up blood and spit some more out in defiance of my enemies even as blood leaks out from some of the newest cracks in my armor and tears in what I wear below it. My foes uncover their heads, revealing their identities. Holy angels and dark demons. Just my luck. An angel speaks as we just kind of get into a brief stalemate: "You are Swiftdrawer, one of the many enemies of our combined forces. Nacirema, Heaven, and Hell have all come together to exterminate you and your comrades. Your defiance of the hierarchical order of the heavens is blasphemy! Order will be restored over the worlds the likes of you have corrupted!"
One of the demons adds: "And we demons have our own problems with you people as well! You have killed many of our kind over time even though some of you have used demonic powers and weapons! Like that Blood Demon Sword we hear you've used! That isn't just a figment of your imagination! It's truly real and yet, you just have kept creating a non ethereal version of it temporarily over and over again! Your refusal to submit fully to the darkness goes against Hell's own rules! And yet at the same time, you refuse to submit to the order usually advocated for by the light! That being said, you are right that order is corrupt but even so.. No matter what we angels and demons think, everything is all up to God himself and our lord Satan is actually his right hand! That silly haunted house that you helped design almost got it right! Isn't that ironic?!" I reply: "I call BS! I think the authority of the heaven the angels among you came from is twisted in its own way. Let me guess, your God is a twisted inversion of the God that Christians, Muslims, and Jews all believe in! I remember facing an imaginary version of your God in Alva Towne Amusement Park just a month ago and all of this brings me back to that! What is God truly, anyway? Is God change? Is God even a tangible entity? Is there even an overseeing God over the entirety of existence? If that's true, I am suspicious of them. If any single entity truly controls destiny, that entity should fall. Having every action you take dictated by someone else? That sounds horrible and it's one of the reason why I will never be a Christian again."
Another of the demons replies: "Sooo close! The God our lord follows is one of just many versions with omnipotentence over an entire universe cluster! A multiverse cluster where even that fool Trump got into power easily! I mean, what do you expect? It's a universe cluster where God really is cruel and relentless, willing to use his anger on anyone at any time!" I grit my teeth: "So that's the situation, huh? But that doesn't explain the Satan situation or why you are working with Nacirema." They reply: "It's all fate! The likes of you who want to destroy destiny just don't understand that at all! God is in control of Satan and has been this entire time! He's the reason Satan fell from his status of being one of his angels! He's the reason Hell exists! He even helped cause the success of that GOP in that nation called the USA! He also helped shape Nacrirema into what it is today! Katherine Glassgate prayed to him a lot and he answered back many times! And now, here we are in a never before seen joint Crusade! Why am I telling you everything? Because the looks on your face are hilarious and there will be nothing left of you once we're done with you!" "Damn it! Are any of you okay? Do you not see what I see? WHERE IS YOUR COMPASSION?! Do you not realize just what you're doing to innocent people and those fighting to build a better future for them because they can't or they just outright don't feel like doing so because of the way their societies and cultural shaped them into a life of complacency? Do you care any bit for mortals who just want to survive and be happy?" The demons gladly shake their heads while the angels are even more harsh. One of them replies: "Mortals are nothing. They are just fodder to grow our God's influence and image.
God made Adam eat the forbidden fruit by influencing him." With my shadows tightly around me, I ask: "Do you.. *activates Artist's Eye* even care about your own people or allies at the very least? Do you wish them well and feel sad if they get hurt?" "No, we do not. We just do as God tells us to without question and because he seeks the end of all mortal civilization by means of people like Trump and Biden, so be it. We will help make that happen. The mortal civilizations experiments are over. The end of the 6000 years is here. It is time for both a Crusade and.. a Rapture." I keep my cool as best as I can but allow my sadness to show: "You are just like millions of the people who support Trump but even more uncaring. I pity all of you all not with contempt but with sadness. I'm letting myself be vulnerable emotionally to try to get through to you one last time. Please consider my viewpoints. You know so much about me. You must know all of my beliefs so please, just think about them for a few minutes and asks yourselves if what you're doing is right. I bet you can even see my memories. You can easily shift through them if that's true. And you can see what I've seen and heard. I know you see me as a lowly mortal turned zombie but I'm trying to appeal to any sense of care you have deep down inside of you here. Even if that care is inherently self centered and selfish." But they don't listen to me, forcing me to fight them with everything I have in the Shadow Realm. "Mind Crush! Penalty Game! Go, Artist's Eye! Creative Blade! Great Infernal Tornado Slash! Feel the true manifestation of this certain dark attack of mine.. Feel the pain myself and many others have felt because of selfish beings.. Infinite Pain! Maybe experiencing the pain we have been through will change you!"
After another 30 minutes of battle, I was forced to fight with my all until I ended up killing them brutally. They refused to listen to me no matter how many times I tried to get them to. Some sentient beings out there just can't be reached. And I want you readers to know that my beliefs don't come from a desire to burn society down ruthlessly. They come from so many sources including my pain, compassion, love, memories, joy, and more. I wish it didn't take violence to save the multiverse from supervillain or higher level threats to it. And I don't want a civil war in the US. So many good people would be slaughtered due to it. So many children would be left homeless without their parents. But Trump's faction would love to have a civil war. They want people to suffer no matter what they tell you otherwise. No matter what you believe otherwise. These stories are partly a cry for all of you to see what's really going on and fight back. Please, fight back for the sake of our planet Earth, damn it! Don't just believe the promise of eternal life waives any need to make things better while you're still living on Earth if you believe in that sort of thing. Back to the story of what happened on October 5th but please, listen to all of my words, including the ones I say to villains. I'm trying to help you become better people who care enough to fight for what's actually right. That's one of the reasons I keep posting these stories instead of just keeping them to myself. Maybe I'll get locked up for speaking my mind like this next year but still, I need to do this. I can't stay silent when Trump has a chance of regaining power and helping make everything worse.
I send the Shadow Realm away to take a look at where I'm at. I'm in a forest near Karakuratown where Ichigo Kurosaki lives. I almost made it to the Soul Society before I was ambushed. But the pain.. It hurts so much.. My armor is battered and I've lost most of my blood. I still suffer from blood loss despite my curse so this is horrible. I hold my sword tight after wiping the blood off of it and using Repair to fix my armor. Before me are the remains of my foes. I send them away to be examined by someone later in part because I didn't want to look at them anymore. But all of my strength has been sapped and the bleeding hasn't stopped nor can I just heal myself. I'm too weak right now to give myself some poisons to drink. As a zombie, poisons don't hurt me. They heal me. My vision starts to blur and doesn't stop even after I undo my Artist's Eye transformation. I'm losing consciousness. Damn it.. What's worse is that more demons and angels arrive. "No.. Not right now!" One of the demons laughs: "Let's just finish this sinner and get this over with! I want to fight some of those Shinigami or maybe those ex-Visoreds!" But before my vision fades completely, someone keeps me from falling to the ground and I feel myself start feeling a lot better as well as hear the screams of the enemy being wiped out. Herbsalvin speaks: "Don't rest just yet, my dark knight." I look around to see them and several others. Including Abstractoa who smiles at me: "I'm so glad we found you. And just in time, you were one of the only ones missing from where everything is going on for the most part right now." "What's going on?"
"A battle in the Soul Society which has fully been under the control of Nacirema for well over a month. Hueco Mundo is the exact same way despite the heavy resistance they've faced from the Arrancars. We don't have any time to waste, can you fight again?" "I think I can. I don't know what y'all did but I feel so much better." Abstractoa uses their own Artist's Eye ability to open a portal: "There's no time to lose. This will get us where we need to be faster than even Quantum Leap this time." The god/Guardian Of Creativity gestures for us to walk through, assuring us that it's safe to do so. So we do and even skip past the Precipice World/Dangai to enter the Soul Society which can't easily be reached with Quantum Leap due to the fact that spiritual pressure/energy doesn't mix well with that piece of technology as of yet. Upon reaching the Soul Society, we see chaos and destruction all over the place. Almost the entirety of BRAINS as well as the recently formed Multiverse Defense Force and allies are here fighting the enemy wherever we look. The enemy isn't just angels, demons, and pawns of Nacirema. It's also God, Satan, Katherine Glassgate, Goku Black, Frieza, Perfect Cell, Doji, Rago/Nemesis, and more including even Sosuke Aizen, the main villain of Bleach. There's also others with them as well fighting our comrades. Crusader knights, 21st century military men, and small fragments still leftover from Don Thousand's and Pmurt Nedib's forces. A bunch of Crusader knights spot us and go after us. Besides myself, Herbsalvin, and Abstractoa, our group is composed of Skyler the master of amber(Ninjago), Ex-Demon Lord Carrion(Tensura), Argo(SAO), Eraser Head, and Spectre(VRAINS). Spectre grins: "My my, how nice of them to come to us!"
Eraser Head stares at them: "Stay cautious. These crusaders are likely more powerful than they appear. *activates Erasure* But if they have quirks for some reason, their quirks are now useless." Carrion smirks: "This is going to be fun! Even though I have already been in a lot of good fights lately." Skyler laughs: "Save some for me. I'm here as well after all and now that I've grown a lot since I joined BRAINS, I can use all kinds of elemental powers at will without any struggle." Argo laughs too: "Nyehahahaha! That's the spirit! Let's get this over with!" I run at one of the crusaders and begin an intense exchange of sword attacks with them. They say: "Surrender now, sinner or be punished by God's wrath!" "Not a chance! I will not yield to anyone who tries to control me! But are you truly okay? Are you okay with all of this chaos and destruction?" They don't listen to reason and I'm forced to put them down for good after a few minutes. Carrion just took out what appeared to be the leader of the band of crusaders we just finished off. "That wasn't so bad. But it's not nearly satisfying! I want a truly thrilling battle with high stakes! You can blame Milim for this!" Skyler points at something high above us: "Hey, what in the world is that?!" That's when Ichigo Kurosaki runs past us towards it. Argo yells: "Hey you! Where ya going?!" He turns around just to yell: "Up there! There's a bastard trying to become a God up there!" I reply: "Who? Aizen or someone else?!" "That Katherine Glassgate!" He runs off without another word.
Abstractoa speaks: "We are running out of time. Listen, Katherine Glassgate will become a God if no one is able to stop her. And if she does, this situation will get even worse and that cannot be allowed to happen. *transforms to now be wearing abstract art colored knight's armor* I have to begin using more of my power to aid all of you. I actually wanted to assemble all of you together along with some others. Are you willing to help stop Katherine Glassgate from becoming a God? She has everything she needs and support from 2 divine beings aka that God as well as Satan will greatly increase her chances of success. A mortal becoming a God is incredibly rare and an important occasion that can tip the balance of reality." Eraser Head grits his teeth: "Damn it. Not another villain wanting to play God. I will help in the effort. After helping deal with All For One, Shigaraki, Pmurt Nedib, Don Thousand, and so many other villains, I refuse to sit back and let this play out." Herbsalvin neighs before saying: "You know you have my help as well. No one will have to do anything alone as long as BRAINS is here. We mustn't let fear take us down from the inside." I add: "That up there is truly bad news. We can't waste time but we need a plan. Wait.. I got one. Let's try to get Katherine Glassgate to realize her humanity. She won't try to stop us from getting close to her but anyone around her will. All this time, I have seen her still unwilling to get her actual hands dirty or covered with someone else's blood. My knight charming, we endured having to fix up more apartments to live in as the capital of Nacirema kept changing because we've taken every location that previously held it till now. And that's 10 since the liberation of Station Square and the Boiling Isles.
We kept up appearances all that time, gathering intel on our foe and fooling her at every turn. She has already gotten so much stronger. I don't even know what is making her so much more powerful at this point. I just know that there's a chance we can stop her by killing her figuratively with kindness. If it fails, we must continue working to kill her. I just want to prove something here. I want to prove either she's beyond our help or that kindness can save someone from their own selfishness and darkness. I'd prefer the latter. This will put to bed once and for all on any lingering doubts on Katherine's level of morality." No one has a better plan so we go with mine and get some others to join us through text messages via our phones. And together with them, we travel through the shadows thanks to Yugi of all people and end up right by Katherine Glassgate, skipping past every life form around her in the process. Carrion goes after a few of her guards. Yappa Yappa does the same, looking really excited about it all. He's on the verge of becoming a Demon Lord by his volition so why wouldn't he be excited? We basically assembled a force of for the most part kind yet strong comrades. Carrion being one of the exceptions sort of. Right now, Katherine Glassgate is floating in the air. She has a very familiar vial of blood in her hand. Abstractoa speaks again: "I know most of you know what she's holding. That's the same substance that was attempted for the first time to be used to become a God by The Doktor last year. But this time, it contains far more samples of blood from more individuals than ever before.
That even includes the blood of angels, demons, demon lords, and figments of the imagination." I reply: "We have to stop this.. right now!" We tried to verbally speak with her, even having Yugi, Judai, Deku, Uraraka, Orihime(one of Ichigo's friends), Mew Mew Ichigo, Sailor Moon, Yusei, Aqua(VRAINS), Yuga Ohdo, Aki, and some others such as myself try to talk her out of what she's doing. But she coldly dismisses us all with professional yet harsh words. Abstractoa speaks to me: "Swiftdrawer, it is time. Most of our comrades are unable to hold the other enemies around us back for much longer. It is time for the next stage of the plan you devised. Artist's Eye: Evolution. To help you learn how to use it better and make it that much more effective, I will help you perform the right moves through my own Artist's Eye. You are still my student and you have a lot more to learn. Unlike most other gods, I have much more leeway to intervene at this moment for those around us who haven't noticed. Being a protector of the imagination requires me to be. Therefore, I do not see any issue on helping here to the fullest without overdoing it. Swiftdrawer, remember that I'm holding back the full power of my abilities to really allow you to learn from me. As you know, the imagination is an infinite force. I will help show you even more of what it can do in the future. Now, let's begin the process." The god then knocks back some enemies with ease to buy the others some time as we begin.
I draw my sword once again to help support my efforts physically and emotionally. I put all that I can into Artist's Eye: Evolution as I shout in unison with Abstractoa: "Send our foe to the Nightmare Realm and once there, show her the full extent of what the future she envisions would bring to the multiverse including the suffering of so many plants, sentient creatures, and more!" Katherine's ritual to become a God has now been successfully interrupted for the time being. Now, we just have to fight as we wait to see the verdict or that's what I thought until my friend/instructor in the Artist's Eye speaks again: "Swiftdrawer, we can project the thoughts and feelings of anyone we desire using Artist's Eye: Evolution. I will demonstrate it to you by projecting the thoughts and feelings of you and the others up here at the moment on our side. I will project them into the nightmare our foe is now experiencing to make it that much more real and powerful." They do just that effortlessly while telling me how to do it and assuring me that I will be able to do the same but it will take a lot of training to do so. Our foes around us weren't even the main force of villains which was very strange. It's almost like they wanted us to try to stop Katherine's attempt to become a god.. Right as I ponder over this, we get pushed back by a massive power. Ichigo yells: "It's Aizen! That damn bastard! He's been back to his mind games ever since he was released from confinement!"
Since we first saw Ichigo in Crash Town, he has gone on to defeat Aizen and lose his powers. But now, his powers have been restored at least in interdimensional situations through technology and magic. He shouldn't even be able to be in the Soul Society right now but we had to ensure we could still get his help for dealing with this conflict. It was one of the many ways we have increased our odds of success here. Aizen calmly speaks while standing on the air: "Ichigo Kurosaki.. Oh yes, how you've changed since we last met.. I'm here to stop you and your friends from stopping my latest experiment. Turning a human into a god. Using whatever I could find of research for that Barian empire led by Don Thousand, I have furthered the work of that man known as The Doktor. And things have been going better than even I expected because of Satan and that God's appearances into this conflict. If Katherine Glassgate becomes a god, then I will finally be able to truly become one as well soon enough. It's that simple. It appears two of your friends managed to force Katherine straight into a nightmare but that won't stop this plan of mine. There is nothing any of you can do to change the allegiance of that woman. She belongs to God's influence and there is no changing that. Now then. Even I tire of talking like this. I'm here to crush all of you like ants especially because you have managed to hold off all of those that were stationed to guard Katherine."
Ichigo glares at him: "Just what the hell do you really get out of this?!" Aizen transforms his appearance with ease and grins: "Ichigo, you do realize just how powerful I am now that I have been infused with some of Katherine's power as part of my arrangement with her, right? Watch this. *moves really fast to quickly get rid of Katherine's many guards* There we go. Now I can take on all of you at once. I no longer have any need of any subordinates. Gin and Kaname served their purposes as did the Espada. Now it's time for my Kyōka Suigetsu to join in on the fun." Carrion yells: "Not so fast! *displays a high energy aura* We have all studied your detail. We know what that Zampato of yours is capable of and I won't allow you to release it!" But Carrion was too slow. I yell: "Damn it!" Aizen begins to draw his blade only for Ichigo to knock into him, only to end up doing no damage. He yells: "Bankai! I can't use the ultimate form of Zangetsu but I can still do this! *manifests Hollow mask* Getsuga Tensho!" But it does nothing to Aizen. Herbsalvin and I join in on fighting Aizen but despite our synchronized attacks, Aizen easily evades everything we try. The villain chuckles: "Do you heroes still believe you can even touch me just once? How foolish. *draws Kyōka Suigetsu* Now you will fall pray to my illusions." But Virgo Shaka gets in his way: "You will do no such thing! Khan! *the space around us changes* Here, your Zampato will not work and I will instead deprive you of all of your senses!" But Aizen is unaffected by even such a legendary and dangerous technique.
Skyler sighs in frustration: "Will we even be able to remotely get anything on him?! He's even more slippery than my father was! I'm glad he's gone again. We don't need his tricks to deal with too." Abstractoa speaks: "Despite the situation, your blade will not affect those under my protection, Sosuke Aizen." "And why is that, exactly? I just used it to injure Carrion. He never saw me coming no matter where he looked." "You got lucky there. Even a power that can tamper with a human or human like organism's main 5 senses cannot hold up against the limitless power of the imagination." I add: "What's more is that the imagination can be wielded by anyone and under the right conditions, someone can gain the Artist's Eye like I did over 2 years ago. Your sword's main ability doesn't work against wielders of the Artist's Eye. Otherwise, you would have cut through my armor by now without me being able to see you coming because I believe you're somewhere you're not. You underestimated us. Or did you? No, knowing that you are one of the villains working with Nacirema, I made sure to devote some time to reading up on you to refresh myself on what you can do. And Kyōka Suigetsu's ability is just about the least of what you have in your arsenal." He just laughs: "So you know all about me. Well, I know everything about you too or at least what I could dig up in the limited time I had to study ALL of you who are fighting Nacirema in this conflict! I know your strengths and weaknesses." But before we resumed fighting him, Katherine begins to wake up with a cold expression on her face.
And Ichigo yells: "Aizen is mine! Aizen, it's just going to be you and me again, you bastard!" "Very well, Ichigo. It's your funeral. I'll focus on killing you first and then the others." Abstractoa speaks to me as Ichigo leads Aizen a good distance away to fight him one on one: "The nightmare has failed, we must now try a dream." "That's what I wanted to do next anyway. If this doesn't work either, assassinations is the next best course of action. *messages the members of Assassination Classroom and the Akatsuki* I hope they'll be in position. But I wish I knew if my cover being blown was leaked to Katherine or not." "Worry not. She does not know. Despite having a twisted imagination that leaves little room for the joy of creating for the sake of creating, I can still use that imagination of hers to peer into her mind directly and she still believes that your false identity is not the real you in disguise. But the omnipotence she would have as a god would change that. I have confirmed she doesn't know yet. She has been too busy attempting to become a god. Now, let us put her into a dream. You know exactly what kind of dream. Don't you, Swiftdrawer?" "Of course I do." "*unison* Artist's Eye: Evolution! Send her to the Dreamverse abd from there, put her inside a dream in which she sees the harmonious and mostly peaceful future we are fighting for in order to compare it to her own desires." She was powerless to resist and soon fell asleep. That gives us a few minutes longer at least. Argo speaks: "Hey, shouldn't we take that vial away from her in case that doesn't work?!"
Skyler nods: "You're right. But I don't think it's going to be easy. Just look at the tight hold she has on it." Carrion smirks: "It shouldn't be that hard to take if we work together." I add: "We can't wake her up though so we have to be careful. Unless.. someone uses science." Senku happens to appear at the right moment and grins: "Did you say, science?! Let's use some science indeed! We're going to use object teleportation to take it from her and do something with it that makes it useless!" Eraser Head speaks: "Should this succeed, it might be ideal to contaminate it somehow so it will kill her instead." Konan appears via one of her paper clones: "I'm surprised to hear that come out of someone like you. Nonetheless, it is true. We are facing countless enemies so if we must do so, taking Katherine's life using the vial meant to help her turn into a god is a good idea. Not ideal but we don't always have much choice when it comes to killing an enemy." But we wouldn't get the chance to enact such a plan as Herbsalvin shouts: "Look out!" We dodge out of the way of a huge attack made entirely of holy divine energy. My pegasus knight adds: "That is not the power of a mortal. I'm certain of it." Looking up, we see it was God who did that. I sigh: "Looks like we have to kill God today. I mean, I do vibe with the energy of killing God but still, this is not going to be easy. How does a group of mostly mortals kill a god, anyway?" Abstractoa replies: "Even I have trouble with eliminating my fellow gods who have gone rouge. Killing any true god is not as simple as unleashing the unlimited potential of the imagination on them in one attack. We aren't enough to kill God." Spectre frowns: "Well this group of us alone isn't going to do much good, is it?"
That's when the assassins and others I messaged show up to fight God as well. Nagato speaks with his Paths Of Pain on his left and right: "We have defeated gods or those who called themselves gods before. We will not stop here. We will fight for a better future always. Let's show our enemies just what we can really do together." Orochimaru cautions: "We have to be cautious with this god. He is a version of the God spoken of in 3 Earth religions. That means his power far exceeds even Kaguya Ōtsutsuki's. His power is virtually infinite and he knows all about us, doesn't he?" Some of the Shinigami show up to help as well. Shinji shouts: "I don't care how strong this enemy is! Let's just kill him and get this over with already!" Rukia snaps at him: "How many times do I have to tell you to stop being so cocky, Renji?! Anyway.. Look out, everyone!" We manage to dodge another of God's attacks. Carrion sighs: "Killing God.. Much easier to speak of doing than actually doing. But.. *smirks* This should be a lot of fun! Only such a strong opponent can truly give me a satisfying fight!" Skyler adds: "From what we've gathered, this God isn't invincible or all powerful. Otherwise, he would rule everything, not just a cluster of universe. He's still very dangerous though so we have to keep our heads up and in the game at all times to survive." God speaks: "Traitors and heretics, I will now be dealing with you personally as many of my followers have already fallen at the hands of you and your allies.
Additionally, you have one of my many fellow gods along with you and I desire the extermination of false gods such as them for I am the only god mortals need. I have killed several versions of Zeus and other gods for that reason. All of you are nothing against my power." Deidara groans: "Will this god just shut up already?! We've heard this kind of nonsense many times before! What's even more annoying is that not a single one of us really knows who we're supposed to even kill a god to begin with without the aid of everyone else in BRAINS! That's how we killed Don Thousand not so long ago!" Argo thinks: "There has to be a way or ya would have told us we don't have any hope to win. Correct, Abstractoa?" "Yes. There are several ways to kill God. Including methods of stripping God of his godhood. I will create a weapon to strip god of his power." But God attacks again, separating us only for us to get back together just like that. God is toying with us. If he wanted to, he could end us all with a single attack. There is a reason why that is happening but what is it? Does he rely on the faith his worshippers have in him or does he have some kind of plan that involves going easy on us while still giving us a lot of trouble? Katherine suddenly wakes up without us having taken the vial from her because of God's interference. She laughs: "You think you can sway me to turn against God?! Don't be naive! Nacirema will control everything and make all who weren't rich or influential within in suffer for the rest of their pathetic lives! And today, I will finally join the ranks of the-"
Despite God getting in the way, there are so many of us that God couldn't even stop some of the best shooters in BRAINS from nailing Katherine and knocking the vial out of her hands, causing it to shatter. Pitohui laughs: "So much for your ascension to godhood! That was fun!" God glares at all of us. LLENN remarks: "Looks like the enemy still managed to underestimate us!" But then, Ichigo is knocked into us by Aizen who laughs: "You can't defeat me anymore, Ichigo. Now do you see how hopeless it is for you and everyone else. Also, I see that that vial has shattered. Oh well. *pulls out another and tosses it to Katherine while catches it successfully* I have plenty to spare." Sasori yells: "I don't think so!" He uses his puppets on Katherine only for God to destroy them all along with Aizen. Yappa Yappa arrives to the scene with a smile on his face: "Hey guess what?! I'm ascending!" Aizen laughs: "That will change absolutely nothing about your situation!" Myself and the other assassins suddenly vanish because now is our last chance to kill Katherine. Yappa Yappa and the others will keep our enemies more than busy especially once Yappa Yapp gains the power of a Demon Lord. Katherine prepares to drink from the vial and begins to raise it up to her lips. Aizen speaks: "I wonder where they went so suddenly." Yappa Yappa laughs: "They'll be back but it appears Satan is being really annoying right now so they went to deal with him! It's kind of an emergency that's going on over there!" "You sound too excited about that."
"The idea of villains who I would have happily stood alongside about a year ago being brought down just excites me and I doubt even Satan is fully ready for them!" "I suppose we'll see about that but they just made a huge mistake, leaving all of you much more vulnerable to attacks. All of you are going to pay for their mistake with your lives now. Goodbye." But before God or Aizen could do anything, I reappear in the middle of my comrades, having used the Equip spell to put on my Darkwind outfit over my armor. My voice sounds creepy through the voice modulator: "My apologies, Katherine. I'm late but I'm here to help you." My comrades pretend to be unnerved by my presence under this false identity. She ignores everything around us to reply: "Where have you been? You could have stopped these 2 Artist's Eye users from putting me to sleep twice!" "I got caught up in something annoying. Retribution was attempted for all the enemies of Nacirema I have killed even though some of those I killed ended up being brought back anyway such as Nagato. What a waste of my efforts. And some demons and angels thought I was someone I'm not below this mask I wear so I had to make them realize that they were wrong. They were so convinced that I was someone else that I was forced to kill them in the end. As long as you keep paying me, I'll remain on your side. Now then, how about I deal with all of these enemies for you? God, Aizen, you don't need to do anymore work. I can take it from here. But first, I need something from you to increase my job performance, Katherine. If you do not give me what I need, I will be willing to be swayed by a better monetary deal to fight alongside your enemies.
I don't wish to die today." "Very well, assassin Darkwind. Come to me. But first, can you explain to me why no one is attacking you? It's very suspicious." "Let's just say that my true power defies all logic to the point not even Abstactoa wants to fight me. I can't use my true power because of this body of mine. I have a much stronger body but I can't get to it without being granted an immense amount of energy from outside of myself. And why is that even a thing? I hide in this body to hide my aura as well as avoid my enemies who are hunting me down as we speak but are many universes away from here. I never talked about them because I'm not very worried about them and neither should you be. My true form is very hidden knowledge. You haven't heard of it because I've rarely had to use it and it's too powerful for me to stay inside of it for long. That's why it takes what it takes to transfer to from this body I'm currently in. Does that clear everything up for you?" "It does. Approach me and allow me to share my already great power with you." And now, I have to throw away my Darkwind persona for now. I walk up to her with God and Aizen buying what I'm selling. God doesn't know anything about my false identity due to never being inside of his domain myself. So he isn't even checking me out for any signs of deception, believing that I'm not worth putting that much effort into looking into. Which is ironic for a god to decide something like this as illogical and reckless.
Neither enemy is trying to get in my way as they proceed to fight against my comrades again with Aizen yelling: "Don't take too long with that so we can finally see what you can REALLY do!" I nod: "Oh don't worry, you WILL NOT be disappointed! Deep down, I love a good fight after all. And who doesn't?" Katherine allows me to place my hands on her but that's when I betray her. Before I do so, she asks: "Why are your hands balled into fists?" I use my Artist's Eye to create some false enemies to attack me before punching them to the point they die instantly: "This is why. Your foes have more hidden fighters than we thought. I'm just being cautious and keeping my fists ready so if you don't mind, I'm going to place my hands as fists onto you just in case someone tries to stop what we're about to do again." "I see. Very well. Go ahead and do what you must as we get this over with. I want to know just how powerful you really are. You never truly showed me what you can do." I place my fists onto her but then, she suddenly startles as my fellow assassins nail her from behind. At that moment, I withdraw my fists before she could give me any of her power and punch the vial Aizen gave her right out of her hands, shattering it like the previous vial. Using her shock, I then reveal that I've been holding both of my daggers in my fists this whole time before stabbing her in the heart area with them. They have recently been upgraded to pierce through even really strong metal like multiple layers of metal for a spaceship door for example. The deadly substance they're coated in is thus put inside of her heart as I managed to pierce right through it while others met me in the middle, targeting her heart from behind her as well.
A lot of defense piercing weapons were used to pull all of this off among other things like guns and explosives. Not to mention a monster from Sector Infinity known simply as Y whose short life of causing havoc is covered in Twisted Land's Project Y roller coaster. They were intended to be a protector and keeper of knowledge but things went wrong. They ended up killing so many life forms before Sector Infinity was able to kill them. Now that they have been brought to our present era through Twisted Land's magic and building that roller coaster, they have become more tame thanks to a future reconstructed version of them who ended up being a success. Y screeches and hisses at Katherine Glassgate right as the shock of everything is finally processed by her. "Darkwind, what HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!" I didn't reply. Instead, others who had infiltrated her palace as well show up disguised in their false identities before attacking her as well. She coughs up blood: "WHAT IS HAPPENING?!" I finally speak while removing my Darkwind mask and creepy cloak: "Darkwind doesn't actually exist. And some of your own people have been replaced by imposters aka some of my comrades. What's more is that others who have been a part of your life for the past month also aren't who they have told you they are. You may be very powerful. But we have plenty of magic and science to get through this normal form of yours. You can see who I really am now."
God stops fighting some of our comrades and widens his eyes: "It's impossible! How did you get past my unstoppable omnipotence?!" Abstractoa replies: "It was I who helped in that regard this entire time, it's not just simply because most of them never stepped inside your actual domain. I knew you were watching all along because this is far from the first time we've met. All these cycles of fighting leading to a great turning back of reality's space-time clock.. Even I'm losing patience with these cycles now but even so, they prepared me for this day among others. Originally, it was only by chance that I stopped you from finding out during the first cycle. Now, it's deliberate how I've done things. From now on, I will not try to help keep things going as they always do throughout these cycles as hard as I have been all these virtually endless eons. When the right chances occur, I will defy the fate created by the cycles and the actions of myself and The Plot up to now. Now that both of us want to defy it, this cycle may very well be the one where the endless repetition finally comes to a stop. BRAINS members and everyone else, you can count on me for more direct involvement from here on out. I will help tear down the fate I helped create for all of us. 2028 is the year the final battle is fated to occur. But we can delay it or make it come sooner. I will also share that this battle we're in is fated to end in our victory. This will give you hope." God glares at the Creativity Guardian: "Fighting fate? You deserve to lose your divine status just for what you're saying!" Meanwhile, Katherine is still shocked over how we managed to outplay her so well while continuing to bleed.
"How dare you all do this to me.. I WILL NOT LET THIS STAND!" She suddenly revives Matt of Alva Towne Amusement Park and demands of him despite visibly dying: "YOU! Tell me where the rest of the fragments of The Shadow are located!" Matt sneers: "You revived me just for this?! Don't ask me! I don't even know where my fragment is now that I've lost it! Those brats took it right out of me before killing me in my own theme park!" "Liar! I know you know where the rest of them are! Now tell me OR GOD WILL HAVE YOU PUNISHED FOR ETERNITY!" Matt laughs: "Looks like you had a personality change since I died! And not bad, you seem to have mastered some of the shard of The Shadow inside of you's abilities! I had some of my employees watch you in case you decided to destroy my theme park of death where all guests died and were replaced by androids who looked, sounded, and acted like them and took their places in society! But I'll tell you what you want to know! But first, do something about all of these pests around us!" "I accept! GOD, HELP US!" But Aizen speaks up while continuing to dominate a fight between him and like 50 of our comrades: "No need! I have already trapped them in place using my immense spiritual pressure. It wasn't hard to do so completely unnoticed. I did it as soon as I realized that you're going to die if something isn't done, Katherine Glassgate. I wanted to ensure someone could get to you or you could recover on your own so I've stopped these weaklings from finishing you off where you stand."
So Aizen and God end up keeping our comrades locked in long and brutal fights. Katherine nods: "Thank you. Now Matt, just tell me where the first one is already! I'm collecting them all and reviving The Shadow! This will change everything! I still have a few minutes before I am to die thanks to all of this power that's now inside of me!" They vanish before anyone could stop them or even find a way to track them down by sniffing or throwing a tracking device onto one of them. Aizen releases us. I yell: "Damn it! This situation is only getting more complicated! We have to join the fights against God and Aizen. That's obvious but Abstractoa, where's the weapon to reduce God to a mortal?" "I just finished it at last. Somehow, the powers of God, Aizen, and even Katherine had been preventing me from doing much until just now. But to reduce God and strip him of his divine powers, we need even more than just the weapon. Someone specific has to wield it. Someone with the potential to obtain godhood with a kind yet strong heart. Someone almost like you but I can sense it is not you who has to do other but it's not on you, you just aren't enough to do it. In fact, it's not actually just one person and that's why you aren't enough. It's a diverse group that's required and they have to be strong enough to take on one of God's attacks without moving an inch." Argo replies: "I don't know a single group of that exact description despite all of the intel I have gathered as an info broker! This isn't good.."
Skyler thinks as we weigh our options and God and Aizen just choose to ignore us for now, probably planning on finishing us next or let someone else do it should any of their allies get freed up while fighting our comrades. "A group can be of any size, right? In that case, we need a HUGE group of kind yet strong individuals who are diverse and have the potential to become gods. And at this point, doesn't pretty much every BRAINS member have that potential? It is what all of us are working to earn as a sort of end goal, you know." An hour later, we have gathered the perfect group to do it or at least, as perfect of a group as we could form. It was difficult. We had to kill a lot of enemies and defeat some high level subordinates of all 3 forces against us and avoid some villains like Goku Black for now. I was so exhausted and my gear was in shambles with blood and wounds all over me. "That was so incredibly difficult.." What's worse is that God and Aizen have been wiping out many of our comrades without mercy at this point. And Satan was doing the exact same thing. Just as we prepared to help kill God, Katherine and Matt returned with a mostly formed version of The Shadow. All of us stop what we're doing and look on in horror. I utter: "Not The Shadow.. I feared this might happen.." The Shadow speaks: "It has been a very long time since I was me. Thank you for bringing me back, Matt and Katherine. I can finally get my revenge on all those who defeated and split me apart. But first, I still need the last fragments and.. they won't be as easy to obtain like the others. I will try to force some of them out right now. Some of these foolish heroes have them with them."
I cry out in pain and fall to the ground as a force pulls on me: "Damn it! I knew I should have split myself from that fragment of The Shadow that forced itself to merge with me and my inner darkness! But wait.. I thought I had it gotten rid of already.. Am I remembering wrong or did something happen without my knowledge?! I don't know anymore!" Bray rushes over: "Swift! I shall not allow this to destroy you! Just hold on and open your mind to me! I shall save you with everything I have if I must! If that fragment is forced out of you, your personality will be torn to shreds, causing you to go into a vegetative state permanently! But I can't do this alone! I require help from anyone who can give it regarding this matter at once! We must stop The Shadow from being completely reassembled!" The Light and The Balance appear. The Light speaks: "The Shadow, we meet each other face to face once again. I will stop your ambitions." Aizen, God, Katherine, and Matt stop whatever they were doing and come to confront The Light. God speaks: "You will not do as you wish. We won't allow you to. You and The Balance have no power here." I scream in pain as the force gets worse. Abstractoa speaks to Bray: "I will assist. You only need my help for this. Too much has happened in such a short time, we can't allow that fact to get even more true." They do some things that are beyond my understanding and I feel better. Bray holds the fragment of The Shadow that was in me and seals it away in a card which is then sealed up inside several other things in succession before being sent away far below the surface on a hard to reach dead planet universes away.
I end up working with them to take care of the rest in our possession. And then, as The Light is attacked by several villains, we get to work on trying to kill God, seeing as that Katherine was somehow healed between when she and Matt left to when they returned here. Yappa Yappa ends up joining us in that effort as we fine tune the weapon that will strip God of his powers. Yappa Yappa laughs as his new power surrounds him: "God won't know what hit him!" I add: "Focusing on one enemy at a time is the only way we can get out of this mess okay. *casts Repair on gear and drinks more poison* I feel much better now. We should knock out God and then go for The Shadow. The Shadow's powers allow them to control the darkness across the multiverse. Getting rid of them again is a top priority because they were in the background behind so many acts of evil for eons. They are also responsible for the Calamity In Time situation that ended 3 years ago. But against our foes, we are totally overpowered. So we have to be careful. Very careful." Abstractoa goes on to explain the weapon a little bit: "This lance is the best I could have come up with in this situation. But even I need focus. That's why it's not perfect and I didn't have enough time to work on its design completely despite it being a reconstruction of a ancient relic that was used to kill gods after stripping them of their divine power. I'm not talking about the weapon in the Marvel Cinematic Universe seen in the Earth human made film Thor: Love and Thunder. I'm talking about something even more powerful. The weapon and its creators have since been wiped away from reality. They will never return unless someone does something truly devious to bring them to this era that I have come to recently definitively call the Final Era.
The era leading up to the ultimate battle in 2028, beginning from Fall 2022." The Light begins to lose so The Balance joins in but even they aren't strong enough together. Aizen and Matt laugh the most of them all at this. While they remain busy, those of us who are to help unleash the lance on God get together and prepare to throw the massive weapon together at the right moment. And when God is caught off guard by something The Balance did, we found that moment and threw the damn thing at last. It went right through God before falling to the ground of the ruins of Soul Society below us. God screamed: "Is this what pain feels like?! What just happened to me?!" He falls to the ground and starts bleeding heavily. Anyone with any sensory ability can tell God has lost his divinity. He is dying. He coughs up blood and Aizen just kills him off while saying: "That god is of no use anymore. He is now dead." Satan appears before him with what's left of his demon army as well as all of the holy angels and remaining crusader knights and other mortals of faith who worshipped that god. Aizen laughs: "What's wrong? Are you angry that I killed your god when he was already dying through efforts that I had no part in?" Satan replies: "It doesn't matter. You killed him, the controller of our destinies and for that, you will be punished." Aizen tosses Katherine another vial and she drinks it. "It's too late to betray me or Nacirema now. It looks like your emotions made you lose sight of all of your goals as well as all the plotting you all did to get to this moment just like that. That's why I have little need for emotions. My plans have no need of me feeling any of them, after all."
The newly minted Demon Lord Yappa Yappa laughs: "Hey Satan, why don't all of you team up with us for now?! We do have the same enemies!" Satan scoffs: "Why would I accept such a proposal when my master determined everything I must do before you mortals with the help of some others managed to strip him of his powers? I will follow my destiny to the end and exterminate all enemies of God!" Aizen just grins: "So be it, you just ruined your chances of avenging your precious god and declared myself and Nacirema as enemies. I wonder what's going to happen should this information be made available to the citizens of Nacirema." Seconds later, many crusader knights die at Aizen's hands. Katherine stops fighting The Light and screams while killing Matt herself. "GOD, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! HOW COULD YOU DIE LIKE THIS?! AIZEN, YOU ARE ALSO AT FAULT FOR KILLING HIM YOURSELF!" Aizen chuckles: "Get a hold of yourself. Goku Black was right about you. You still don't get how everything in conflicts like this go. Do you really want to fight 3 sides at the same time? I can tell Satan hates you now because of your association with me and here you are yelling at me instead of yelling at those who took God's powers away. Think before you do anything else if you want to survive this battle. Again, do you really want to fight 3 sides at the same time? I don't care what happens to you as long as I get research results out of all of this which I am. What's more is that you're transforming into a god as we speak. So what will you do now, Katherine Glassgate?"
Katherine yells: "ALL FORCES, KILL AIZEN! IF HE CARED ABOUT OUR CAUSE, HE WOULD NOT HAVE FINISHED GOD OFF AND MIGHT HAVE ATTEMPTED TO SAVE HIM INSTEAD!" Satan laughs: "So that's your choice! Very well! As the new leader of both Heaven and Hell's forces and their mortal supporters due to God's death, I hereby decree that we continue our plans and relations with Nacirema as planned. They are still our supporters. Katherine Glassgate, you have proved that once and for all. But now, we have to focus on both Aizen and The Shadow. The Shadow, what do you say about officially joining forces with us?" The Shadow replies: "Our interests are aligned. I will work with you for the time being. Now, allow me to help you kill Aizen." Aizen laughs again: "Did you honestly think I didn't see this coming? No. I saw this as a very likely scenario to take place and have prepared myself accordingly. Hear me, Hollows, Arrancars, and Espada, Rise up and claim what is rightfully yours. Today, we will kill all of our enemies, leaving no one standing in our way." All hell breaks loose as a portal to Hueco Mundo is forced open by a retreating forces of villains, demons, angels, more crusader knights, and others who are being chased by the surviving Arrancars and Espada while Hollows from Earth invade the Soul Society. Aizen smirks: "You didn't have to get so angry about how I put God out of his misery for you. Now then, should my forces continue it alone or should we? ... Ichigo Kurosaki and everyone else, I have an offer for you that you can't so easily refuse. Let's set aside our differences for now and get rid of our common enemies."
This is a tough call because we want him to be defeated but we also want the other enemies to be brought down too. But with The Shadow on their side, the choice is practically made for us. Many of us voice agreement as reluctant as we are about it. But just like Trump on Earth, The Shadow is too big of a threat to allow to have any more power. Even if it means working with another faction of enemies to stop them, they both have to be stopped even though Aizen and the Democrats are also huge threats to peace and so on. And so, a temporary alliance is forged. What's stranger is that Aizen's forces are actually 2 forces who are currently at odds with each other. The smaller pro-Aizen group against the majority anti-Aizen group who had no choice but to agree to work with him to free Hueco Mundo just now(they split like this because some Arrancars became BRAINS members after Nacrirema took over Hueco Mundo and they were informed about what kind of man Aizen is and others never liked him to begin with and others just came to realizing the truth about Aizen). But all fighting stops right as it fully resumes because guess what happened? Katherine Glassgate became a god with overwhelming power. Satan smirks: "She will make a fine replacement for God. Weeks of secret work and preparation went into helping her turn into a god." Abstractoa picks up the lance: "This lance is still here. Her divine status may not last very long. I will work to help ensure it doesn't."
Satan just laughs: "I saw that that thing stripped God of his power but we're not afraid of it! All of you should just give up and surrender! Aizen, you and your friends should do the same! Just give up and we'll go lighter on punishing each and every single one of you!" Yamamoto pulls out his Zampato and slams it into the ground as fire surrounds him and his weapon: "You dare tell us to just give up?! I can only speak on behalf of the Shinigami as the leader of the 13 Gotei but even so, I can tell you that giving up is not an option for us! We will keep fighting as long as it takes! The Soul Society doesn't belong to you, we will be taking it back soon enough!" I draw my sword, ready to get back into battle as soon as possible. A lot of us shout out battle cries or roars or whatever. Pitohui laughs: "Let's get the fun started!" A bunch of duel monsters are summoned at once and launch the first attack in this next stage of the battle against our foes, wiping out some of the angels, demons, crusader knights, and military men just like that. I come face to face with another crusader dressed in classic crusader armor and all that stuff, even including a big white shield with a fancy red cross. They yell as they try to nail me with their big sword: "Knights like you who refuse to serve god or royalty are true sinners! And worse, you aspire to become a god yourself! Blasphemy!" "Don't force your moral beliefs on us. You take things way too seriously and believe the mere existence of knights like me who have chosen a different path from faith or serving royalty is a sin. Let me tell you something..
I can insult you all I want but that doesn't help either of us. Being cruel to you is a waste of time so I will be straight with you. I want to rescue you from your own flaws and I have to ask you: are you okay?" "Am I okay? What kind of question is that! I'm okay. But you aren't because you're a sinner!" "I don't have time for this.. But I will still try to help you even if it means holding nothing back against you." To be continued..