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"GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAR!"
-RUMBLE!-
Immortigon's roars became filled with murderous fervor, the bass of its screeches deepening with the adaptive transformation it undertook after tanking the gargantuan attack Blood Void released point blank.
Its tail grew longer, and more spiked with a trail of bony protrusions that were razor shard that followed up its spine. Scales that darkened, appearing more resilient and a denser maw with sharper teeth flailed wildly amid its screech of indignation.
The beast's claws also elongated with enough size to grip the ground extensively, testing its new features with ill intentions once flesh met the closest thing Immortigon had to keratin in its accursed body.
Blood Void's chest heaved as he took deep breaths after absorbing and expunging a skill's worth of energy at such a rapid pace, able to be scaled to anaerobic exercise from the sheer haste of his actions.
"Repgunant floridian monstrosity." The VPU growled, grabbing his mechanical sword before widening his stance to interpret the nigh-unkillable lizard's next move.
"Floridian?" Neptune craned her neck back in confusion.
"You wouldn't get it." Vergo waved off, as the Protagonist of Protagonists shrugged at the notion.
"DIE..."
The summoned abomination growled its first word, unnerving and intimidating but still coherent locution of the spoken language.
"It spoke?!" Nepgear's face was wrenched in mortification.
"...-DIE!"
ZOOM!
The dastardly VPU poised his blade as the evolving monster disappeared into a blur, accelerating to his location.
"-!"
SLASH!
Sensing where the beast had moved, Blood Void swung his sword at the place where the creature would appear in anticipation of its arrival, ultimately catching it off-guard.
-CRUNCH!
"Bullshit!" Blood Void roared defiantly at his plan's outcome.
Yet the Immortigon not only halted its path with its amplified claws but also managed to parry the wicked-looking chainsword by clamping its terrible teeth upon the cold steel of the gnarly weapon all in one motion.
BANG! BANG! BANG!-
"SCREAACH!"
Sticking out his fingers in the shape of a gun, the VPU let several shots of fear energy compressed into bullet-like shapes rush from his fingertips, clipping the summon as it forcibly spat out his weapon in pain.
"Eat this, you scaly FUCK!"
FEAR SLASH!
Retaliating with a charged energy slice, Blood Void roared a nasty insult before letting off a dangerous attack.
WOOSH!-
-CLANG!
Yet Immortigon mimicked a death roll while still collecting air time, using the rotational momentum to once again parry the blade using its reinforced scales and physical forces to its advantage.
THWACK!
Yet Blood Void quickly switched his path of attack, side-kicking the reptilian beast with enough strength to cause a reverberating ring of wind to spread upon impact.
Immorgiton only slid a few feet away before its body responded to the stimuli of resistance.
...FLEX!
More musculature and bone density were applied to its already growing frame before its hind legs became strong enough to support its weight.
SLOUCH!...
As it stood up... Somewhat.
-THOOM!
Before ascending to the skies in a mighty bound.
"Restriction!"
CHAINS!-
Several chains burst from the ground at Blood Void's will, speeding to Immortigon's coordinates at blitzing speeds. Jingling in the air as the approached, the fear-imbued links of metal closed in on the otherworldly lizard.
...ZOOM!
Yet the resilient lizard jarred his body out of the way, manipulating his weight to let his frame weave aside the racing chain, fleeting into the clouds.
WOOSH!
Mimicking this process again, another mutation was made that allowed the summoned abomination to freely manipulate its bone density, dodging the second chain with ease.
SMACK!...
Using its new ability, Immortigon made a 360 while its tail led the spin to smack the third chain out of its way, stunting on the VPU with a corkscrew to realign itself with its face pointed at the destructive deity.
-CRUNCH!
An audible crunch from the air was heard, the perpetually developing lizard easily breaking the chain.
Snapping his fingers, the VPU invader utilized another skill with a scowl after witnessing his skill falter.
...¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?
-CRASH!
"GRAAAAAAAAAA!"
A giant chain crashed into the back of the Immortigon, sending its body hurling to the Gamindustri Graveyard. A pained screech escaped its maw.
"Good thing it doesn't have eyes on its back." Blood Void smiled at the initial pain that Vergo's summon experienced from the surprise attack.
'Yet.' Citadel mentally chided, seeing that his brother still didn't truly understand the stake of fighting something related to him. "Xero, stop loligagging and EXTERMINATE IT!" He continued to badger his transformed sibling.
Knowing what that thing's father was like, the astute VPU wasn't in the mood to see if the son it deemed a disappointment was anything like its father in temperament or strength.
A strength that his younger brother foolishly wanted to witness.
"Tch." Rolling his eyes at his brother's warning, the VPU focused on his satisfaction in the Immortigon's failure.
...BULK!-
SMASH!
The lizard-like being's forelegs became almost exaggeratedly muscular before it was pushed onto the floor by the chain with the earth cratering around its back legs.
MUTATE!
Its upper body also developed rapidly, before assuming a bipedal, nigh-anthropomorphic structure as its front claws morphed into a faint rendition of ape-like hands before grabbing the chain that oppressed it.
"GROOOAR!"
SHATTER!
Before ripping apart the massive chain that attempted to crush it, shredding the structure into many fragments of links that descended to the battlefield.
...
..
.
"ARE YOU KIDDING ME!" What was once smug satisfaction fell to fierce indignation, with a hint of trepidation at the beast's ridiculous ability to call turnabout to virtually any situation.
"Bomboclaaaaaat." The time traveler marveled at the strength of his summon.
"Mi haffi get one a dem ting, my bredda." AL nodded in admiration of the Immortigon's strength, mimicking the blonde's accent before they both snickered.
CRASH!... CRASH!...
CRASH!... CRASH!...
CRASH!... CRASH!...
The links hit the ground violently, shaking the floor as the now-standing summon gazed with bloodlust at Blood Void.
"YOU WON'T LIVE PAST TODAY... NONE OF YOU WILL."
GUST!...
Screaming his words, the Immortigon obtained a grotesque-sounding voice that more than matched its appearance, throaty and deep in inflection.
"...I don't like how he said that." Compa nervously pointed out, the monster intimidating her further.
"Me neither." Domio looked pensive at the battle's unfolding.
"Is that so?" Blood Void chuckled. "Then I hope you're including yourself in that statement." The VPU taunted the hard-to-kill reptile.
"YOUR FAÇADE OF BRAVADO WILL SUFFER THE SAME ENTROPY OF YOUR SOON-TO-BE ROTTING FLESH, VIRAL PERNICIOUS UNIT."
SPIKE!
...REVEAL...!
Immortigon talked with narrowing eyes, slowly beginning to grasp thr concept of what it contended with.
Several spikes grew from its elbows down its forearms, as markings reminiscent of sigils marked its chest.
"Ayo, what the nep?!" Neptune's jaw slightly dropped at the morbid one-liner Vergo's summon bespoke.
"We'll just have to see about that, won't we!" Blood Void answered, before resuming the fight.
BOOM!-
SWING!
Rushing ahead, the VPU was before the reptilian monstrosity as he swung his chainsword with its engine roaring to life.
BRRRRRRRR!-
-SPARKS!...
The serrated edge rattled with power before Immoritgon raised its forearm to block. Sparks flew from the bone like spikes chipping away at the sword's teeth gnashing into its dense spikes.
GRAB!
Its free hand reached out, clutching the head of Blood Void, leaving a sole eye that widened with surprise upon his face being turned into a handball.
-SMASH!
"GHK!"
Immortigon smashed the god's skull into the ground, sending rocks flying upon impact. The maroon-haired VPU's limbs sprawled as he hit the ground before reacting to the shock of pain.
F-FEAR SLICE!-
Swinging his sword, the VPU amputated the arm that held him down, feeling resistance compared to the first time he bisected the Immortigon, a sign of increasing strength on the lizard's part.
ROLL!
-THOOM!
Heaving his bodyweight, the VPU rolled backward, narrowly avoiding the regenerative punch that the abominable beast launched, the revitalized fist burying itself into the ground at ludicrous speeds.
TOSS!
Throwing his sword, the blade tore through the air as the Immortigon craned its neck to the side.
...GASH!
Yet it received a minor cut to his face from the wind pressure, its hair-like fur flapping wildly as slitted pupils shrunk in reflexive shock.
VANISH!...
-SHOCKWAVE!
"BLAK!"
Blood Void disappeared to retrieve his blade before being clotheslined back into existence by the Immortigon's regenerated arm. Blood and saliva exploded from his mouth, the grievous hit taking him completely off-guard.
BOOM!-
-POW!-
A cross punch followed up with a spiked elbow to the side of the skull left a nasty wound in the VPU's head, the otherworldly being recoiling from the staggering move even in the middle of the combo extension.
-KRACK!-
Grabbing the hate sink's face, the Immortigon rammed its knee into his chest. Several ribs were obliterated on impact with blood being vomited from the VPU's mouth with another grueling attack.
WHIP!
Twisting, the monster tail-smacked the VPU away, his body tumbling through the ground before he slid to a halt, dozens of meters away from the ever-evolving summon.
ゴゴゴゴ!...
THUD... THUD... THUD...!
"This gator's getting tougher. I can't even reach my sword without resistance."
Wiping the trail of blood from his mouth, Blodo Void stood from the dirt to see the hulking Immortigon slowly walking towards him.
THUD!...
...-TELEPORT!
Escaping the VPU's sight was something that Blood Void did NOT expect, as the trace of his position had been erased from a feat of pure velocity despite the summon's massive stature.
-BA-KOOM!-
CRASH!...
A blitzing punch clocked the hate sink's face, striking him rigid as he vertically spun mid-air, before crashing into a junk mountain as it exploded from the force of impact.
SONIC BOOM!-
GUST!
Immortigon kicked off the ground with enough force to create a small rush of wind that blew his surroundings away, his leg strength increasing by the moment to accommodate his divine opponent.
CLASH!
Blood Void crossed his arms, guarding against the shoulder bash that the hard-to-kill reptile put his bodyweight into, feeling his bones rattle from the gargantuan impact pressing on his body.
HALT!...
-BOOM!
The interdimensional menace twisted wildly in the air from the hit, before stopping himself with his wings, as his opponent leaped into the sky ith both hands clasped as its next attack was already in the works.
"AGONIZE!" Immortigon yelled, hatred seething from its voice as eyes widened with fervor.
SWING!
Axe-handling in motion, the tremendous strength of the eldritch creation could be felt by Blood Void even before it made contact with his body, the killing intent rivaling that of a VPU.
FWOOSH!
-SHOCKWAVE!
Flash kicking in response, the two malevolent beings clashed once again, creating a boisterous explosion of force that manifested itself with a violent shockwave. It tore through anything not rooted firmly to the ground, shaking the very foundations of the island.
The screams of the party could be heard from the impact, with Citadel holding onto his chair in dreadful anticipation.
'That dumbass dragged the fight!... Now that damned lizard will bridge the gap if he doesn't do something fast.' The veteran VPU clicked his tongue in annoyance as he observed the clash.
S-S-STRUGGLE!
The two combatants held their positions in the air, Blood Void's foot shaking unstably in the face of the fists of the Immortigon whose heavy-handed arms barely moved.
...SNAP!
Blood Void's eyes snapped wide at the sound of his shin shattering under the monster's power echoed throughout the Gamindustri Graveyard. His foot wrenched painfully out of place with the bone visible through his leg muscles.
-THOOM!-
"FUCK!" The evil god exclaimed.
The VPU's leg was then destroyed with the Immortigon's strength gaining the right of way, annihilating the appendage as only the knee-up remained for the leg of the maroon-haired destroyer god, to his silent mortification.
SPIKE!...
-SHOCKWAVE!
"GUHK!-"
The summon's knuckles grew spikes, before nailing the VPU's collarbone with a wicked straight that created a visible shockwave as the body of the divine hate sink dived through the atmosphere.
...ZOOM!-
Yet before Blood Void's body even hit the ground, the Immortigon managed to cross the distance to arrive at his designated trajectory and wind up a punch that went to last week.
-KRA-KOOM!-
The skin on Blood Void's face was skinned upon impact, leaving his exposed skull with half of his jaw reduced to dust from the knuckle sandwich with extra spikes. Trembling with fear, the ground violently shuddered with a crater that expanded to the size of a mountain formed underneath the two.
WOOSHWOOSHWOOOSH!-
-SPRINT!...
Corkscrewing rapidly, the transformed VPU wasn't out of the string of combos yet, with Immortigon sprinting and easily catching up to the flying body of the hated divine.
YANK!-...
SPURT!
Grabbing the remaining leg of the maroon VPU, Immortigon rose its other arm with its elbow positioned over the knee of Blood Void. A flat, long spike protruded slightly above its elbow before it dropped with blitzing haste.
-SLICE!...
CHOMP-CHOMP-CHOMP!
Cutting the other appendage clean off, the summon excitedly consumed the fleshy war trophy it received from the legless VPU, skidding to a stop as it enjoyed its snack.
-SLIDE!...
Landing on his skull face down on the ground, the VPU remained stagnant for a couple of seconds
...
..
.
...FLOAT!
Rising core first, Blood Void's face (Or frontal skull to be more specific) was covered in shadows as he slowly levitated off the ground. Red glowing dots pierced through the darkened face, as clenched teeth accompanied by compressing orbital bones that resembled irate fury were present.
"That green motherfucker is going to wish he stayed in his timeline after I TURN THIS OVERSIZED GECKO INTO A FUCKING HANDBAG!"
SURGE!
Fear energy exploded from the VPU's body, the air around him darkening as he raised his hands into the sky.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
F-FISSURE!
...LEVITATE!
WOOOOSH!
A cry of agitation and desperation escaped Blood Void, his aura magnifying several times. The debris soon scattered from the blast of wind with each magnitude increase from his fearsome aura.
Boulders were ripped from the ground before breaking down from the inherently destructive properties of fear energy with the constant ricketing of the floor beneath him.
-REGENERATE!
In mere moments, his legs and face returned rapidly as a miasma of fear that revitalized his features dissipating once the job was done through the midst of his screams.
"I WILL NOT BE BESTED BY AN OVERGROWN WALLET!"
THOOM!
After regaining his limbs and flesh, the VPU left his spot with fiery haste as the floor behind him exploded in a burst of magma and fear energy with his location quickly closing in on the Immortigon.
The summon of the hour's eyes narrowed at the callout, before instinctively raising its arm at the incoming destroyer deity.
-CLASH!
BOOM!...
The contact between Blood Void's and the eldritch beast's forearms created a harrowing echo, blasting all debris away from them as the second confrontation began.
MANIFEST!
As the force caused the two warriors to part, the VPU created two chains from his fear energy, the VPU grabbed them before whipping the energetic structures around the beast's neck.
YANK-
-SMASH!
Before pulling, causing the monstrosity's head to be jarred ahead into a nasty double-piston kick.
...-DETONATE!
And extending the combo by letting his chains destabilize, before exploding violently as chunks of flesh were shredded off the Immortigon's body.
FLAP!
-SLAM!
He used his dragon-like wings to propel himself forward, letting inertia pull his body down to land a powerful axe handle on the head of the summoned beast, creating another shockwave.
The reptilian beast was dazed after feeling the intense spike in Blood Void's power, having been dominating him a few minutes before his invigoration.
-FEAR BURST!-
BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM-BAM!
The Immortigon's state was prolonged as the VPU doled blitzing punches into its abdomen, his aura blazing to life with countless explosions of wind being released from each hit that landed.
...SPROUT!
From Blood Void's sides, fearsome portals emerged before ejecting his chains at impossible velocity.
BARRAGE!
Now with several chains assisting the VPU, the Immortigon's body convulsed with the onslaught of punishment its body received through the evil god's assault.
"EBON PIKE!"
Opening his hand, the malevolent deity's hand was coated in void-like fear energy, shrouding and cackling around his hand.
WHOOSH!
Creating a knife hand with the predisposed energy, the interdimensional threat rushed his arm into the beast's chest.
SQUELCH!-
-KABOOM!...
Piercing through the formidable resilience of Immortigon's body, the volatile energy soon became unstable before creating a thunderous explosion, causing the body of the summon to be reduced into a gory mess.
"Hah... Hah... Hah..."
DISPELL...
The chains returned to the portal, and Blood Void breathed heavily after the perceived dispatch of the summon slowly subdued his anger. The god's body heaved slowly as he observed the bloodstains left in place of the abomination.
"Immortigon lost?!" Neptune appeared gobsmacked, the pudding-powered goddess taken aback at the sight her eyes witnessed. "VPUs need to be patched! Like Bl*zz*rd levels of patched!" The lilac-haired CPU screamed indignantly.
"Damn straight!" AL agreed with the purple mini-meme lord. "How the fuck did he just bounce back from that! I thought Mort was cookin'!" The martial artist was at a loss.
"...Mort?" MAGES. rose a brow, slightly bemused.
"Humanizes it a bit in my eyes." The pyrokinetic shrugged.
"The Immortigon is a being that harbors an intense hatred for all life. I theorize that the omnicidal tendencies towards traditional life that it bears were something that Xero manipulated to his benefit, giving him a significant edge in a short amount of time." Kars surmised, causing the group to turn to him.
"So even a hater on the level of that thing was just another item block for Xero." Ram sucked her teeth in frustration.
...
RIPPLE...!
Immortigon's mutilated guts began to convulse suspiciously as the group discussed the summon's underperformance.
Blood Void's ears picked up the fleshy sounds around him, his eyes quickly scouting the ground for any abnormal movements that could signal the creature's state of being.
REGENERATE!
Pulling itself together, the Immortigon's body had further developed upon its revitalization, with another increase in muscularity and stature with glowing yellow eyes that pierced through its shaggier hair. Arms clasped into a sledgehammer, the beast screeched with murderous intention whilst preparing a devastating flank shot.
"PERISH!"
"?!-"
Blood Void's senses alerted him to exactly where Vergo's summon reappeared but was just a moment too late as he turned around to face two blitzing fists.
THOOM!
"GYAH!"
Eating a skull-cracking axe-handle to the face.
"REPUGNANT FILTH!"
STRANGLE!
Using its prehensile tail, the Immortigon wrapped the elongating appendage around the VPU's neck to uncomfortable lengths as it raised his body off the ground. Dazed from the powerful blow, Blood Void was barely able to resist with his available strength.
"KNOW-"
THRACK!
A swiveling hook to the jaw chin checked the maroon deity with enough force to rip the skin off his mandible, revealing a severely fractured jaw bone in its writhing wake.
"YOUR-"
BAM!
A cross punch from the spiked knuckles of the Immortigon gouged the eye of the VPU, red filling half of his vision as his face wrenched into undeniable pain, with the side of his injured eye's head being stabbed subsequently.
"FUCKING-"
SONIC-BOOM!
Yelling at the top of its lungs, the party had to cover their ears tightly with even Citadel's eyes cringing at the sheer volume that the summoned abomination released, deafening the VPU as blood spurted from his obliterated ear drums.
"PLACE-"
CRASH!
Headbutting the pinned VPU was next on the agenda, with the Immortigon's head hard enough to cause the nose of the malevolent VPU to flatten upon contact, giving the Void a headache in tow.
"TRASH!"
SHOCKWAVE!...
"BLEEEEARGH!..."
Using his tail to prop Blood Void, the lizard-like being jumped before dropkicking the god in his abdomen with both feet, causing a shockwave to erupt from the plexus of the VPU as its grip on his neck was relinquished, effectively slingshotting him through the Gamindustri Graveyard.
-RUSH!
-FWASH!...
Not wanting to give the deity time to recover, the nigh-unkillable lizard stomped off the ground into a mad dash that left a trail of magma in its burst of speed, sending molten rock everywhere during its pursuit.
-SOAR!
-WOOSH!...
Before changing its trajectory ninety degrees, leaping into the air with a pulse of magma expanding beneath its figure alongside a gust of incomprehensibly strong winds.
CRASH!
"FARGHCK!" The mix of a curse and a gutter was heard from Blood Void's mouth, with the Immortigon sticking out its fists to punch the spine of the VPU with extreme force, its spiked knuckles digging into his flesh on contact.
-ZOOM!
Blood Void's body was hurled into the atmosphere, speeding through the sky with unrivaled velocity. His limbs dangled helplessly with the pressure of his speed keeping him preoccupied with the searing agony of his body.
SLAM!...
Before long, his body landed splat on the top face of Citadel's box. A pathetic expression was present on the VPU's face before he felt the back of his head being grabbed by an abnormally large hand.
"...!"
Eyes widening with uncertainty, the once proud VPU felt a pang of concern before his body was peeled from the surface of the fear shield.
VOOM!
Immortigon jumped off the top of the cube, causing the two combatants to blur from their speed, untraceable for a few fleeting instances before reappearing centimeters from the ground.'
BOOM!-
CRAAAAAAAAAAAASH!
-SMASH!...
The VPU's body was buried into the ground, before being dragged through the Gamindustri Graveyard's landmass and finally pushed through the underside of the floating landmass.
THUD!...
PULL...-
After hitting the underside of Citadel's box, the Immortigon grabbed the face of Blood Void, setting his opponent up for a clean chain move.
-UPPERCUT!
KRA-KOOM...
In the form of a chin-flattening uppercut that sent the demented god through the landmass a second time before emerging from another hole, his body laterally spiraling in the air.
PHASE!-
-SMASH!
The eldritch reptile appeared above the VPU before elbow-dropping the deity with enough force for an audible crack to echo as the side of his ribs that met the Immortigon's elbow were reduced to dust without resistance.
THUD!
Blood Void's body hit the dirt with rocks flying upon his body's contact with the floor.
"YOUR SILENCE IS GRATIFYING YET UNFORTUNATE." The nigh-unkillable lizard spoke, placing its foot on the VPU's head as it rubbed its adversary's head further into the ground.
"I EXPECTED MORE FROM SOMEONE WHOSE POMPOUS ATTITUDE WAS THE FOREFRONT OF THEIR PERSONA."
BAK!
"Ghk!..."
A light kick was enough to send the VPU rolling, the mutated monster having grown to widen the gap in a timespan that could only be considered ungodly.
"S-So that's what you think?..." With an eye shut, bone exposed, and lung punctured, the VPU got to a knee while holding his annihilated ribs.
"Well, I have something I'd like to share with the class, then." Blood Void smiled, ignoring the fact that blood trailed down his lips.
"What the hell could he have planned?" IF scrutinized the VPU's demeanor. "It's not like he was getting his ass handed to him just now or anything." The Guild Agent was very apprehensive of his words.
"I wouldn't underestimate him at this point, IF." Nepgear told the brunette Maker. "It seems like there's always something for them to capitalize on, no matter how dire the situation." The CPU Candidate of Planeptune contextualized.
"So it's like plot armor, but for bad guys!" Neptune slammed her fist into a cupped hand with a stern face.
"...Diabolis Ex Machina, if I recall..." Compa chimed in. The Nurse-in-Training noticed something in the corner of her eye before she continued her conversation.
"No... No...! NO!" Vergo's expression was slightly panicked, although he did his best to hide it.
"Vergo?" Compa turned to the Leanboxian CPU Candidate. Some of the other party members gazed at the blonde's direction as the bubbly Maker beckoned his name. "What's wrong?" she curiously asked.
"That maroon motherfucker's gonna get another asspull! He's using the negativity of Immortigon to boost himself up again!"
"What?!" MAGES. twisted her head to the VPU, who mustered a shit-eating grin on his face.
"BINGO, BLONDIE!" Blood Void shouted with glee before his body glowed a mesmerizing blood red.
FEAR PILLAR!
STRONG GUST!
"NOOOOOOOOO!" Vergo screamed bloody murder, before averting his gaze alongside the rest of the party amid the VPU's power up.
Red overcame the gazes of everyone present before subsiding to reveal an invigorated Blood Void, free from the pains of injury alongside a substantial increase in strength.
STATIC...! STATIC...! S-STATIC!...
"Your intolerance is your greatest motivation, yet it is also my greatest strength." Rolling his arm, the maroon interdimensional menace flashed a smile to the nigh-unkillable lizard.
"I DO NOT TIRE, VPU. EVEN YOU HAVE A LIMIT WHEN CONFRONTED WITH A SUPERIOR BEING." Pointing its large finger at the deity, the Immortigon showed no concern.
"Then how have you not grown completely immune to fear energy if you are 'superior'? Not a single one of my fearsome moves has been completely brushed aside, only dodged, countered, or endured." Using his power of observation, the VPU recalled the lizard's glaring lack of adaptation.
"GRR! I WILL SHOW YOU THE POWER I POSSESS, COCKY GOD! NO WORDS WILL ESCAPE YOUR PUTRID LIPS ONCE I AM DONE WITH YOUR LIFELESS BODY!"
WHOOOOOOSH!...
The words that the Immortigon shouted were loud enough to generate a burst of wind that lingered throughout his sentences. This seemed to only please Blood Void, whose aura glowed slightly brighter at the outburst.
"At this rate, those two will continue to feed off each other in their distinct fashions." Kars theorized. "If this continues, and the Immortigon somehow succumbs, Xero may be too strong for anyone to handle." A troubled expression permeated on the alien's features.
"SHIT!" Vergo cursed, his wits starting to fail him. "I summoned it because I thought it could take him down, but now he's just grinding the fuckin' thing like it's 4GO!" Growling at another blatant mistake, the blonde harbored immense self-hatred for his foolhardy decision.
"If I had truly died back then, I'd have left nothing but a graveyard with my departure...! For fuck sake, that'd be borderline retarded!" Unable to look past it, the CPU Candidate of Leanbox relentlessly beat himself up.
"Stop beating yourself up about it and do something then!" Gris almost shouted at the blonde CPU Candidate. "Can you dispel the Immortigon?" The manslayer immediately went into problem-solving mode.
"At this point, not a chance in hell. I couldn't even beat a Xero that was getting violated by that thing. Either one of those monsters would spell my end right now." The fatigued time traveler was in no state to send the lizard back.
"Then what about sending it somewhere else?" Blanc added her two cents. "Perhaps removing it from the battlefield will be feasible." The kuudere CPU suggested to the two male CPU-like beings.
"BFR?..." Vergo muttered under his breath. "Theoretically possible, but who has enough mana to get rid of THAT thing?" Vergo pointed his thumb at the growling Immortigon.
The blonde felt a hand on his shoulder. He turned to AL, who pointed at the aloof Pillarman.
"Oh." The CPU Candidate of Leanbox sounded.
"Even with my immense reserves, how are we going to keep it in one place long enough to succeed in teleporting it away?" The Ultimate Life Form put his hands on his sides.
Feeling a hand pat his shoulder, the alien looked down at the fiery martial artist, who pointed at the edgy hitman.
"...The fact you're right annoys me more than it should." The long-haired alien grumbled, to Gris snide satisfaction.
"So what's the plan? Because I don't think it'll be long before those two butt heads again." Uni cautiously looked at the two combatants, their tensions knocking on the ceiling.
"So here's the plan..." Gris gestured for the party to huddle before he began to explain what would transpire, unbeknownst to the sitting elder VPU.
After a hard stare, the VPU shook his head before peering into the skirmish at the graveyard's epicenter.
"YOU'RE MAD! YOU'RE MAD! YOU'RE SO FUCKING MAD, SENTIENT HANDBAG!" Goading the summon, Blood Void felt the ebbs of fear energy that circulated through him enriched by the second.
"I'LL END YOU!"
-POUNCE!
Rushing ahead, the Immortigon made its way to the superpowered VPu who had unhealthy anticipation of what was in store for the next arc of their gnarly encounter.
Yet before the two behemoths of battle could clash, another event transpired.
"Chrono Trigger: The World."
"Time Stop."
INVERTED WORLD!
TIME STOP!...
Due to the casting of simultaneous time stops, the effect was magnified to a grandiose sound of ticking and dubstep farting with the world flashing a myriad of colors before fading to a slightly greyed version of itself.
-PHASE!...
-APPEAR!...
"We don't have much time until it adapts, be quick," Gris told the Ultimate Life Form.
"Like I need your reminder." Kars clicked his tongue. "Just do your part of the plan, and I'll do mine." The alien spat.
"Chrono Cross: Mandom!"
A light surrounded the hulking abomination before its body was enveloped by the energies that projected from Gris' body and to the summon.
REVERT!... REVERT!... REVERT!...
With each flashing light, the Immortigon's form revealed that it had regressed to its previous state until it appeared the way Vergo had used his blood to summon it into Gamindustri.
"To you." Gris hopped away from the lizard, leaving the stage to Kars.
"...Greater Teleportation and Mirror World... Dimension Tripper."
MAGIC CIRCLE...!
...FWOOOSH!
An intricate circle of magic was drawn under the Immortigon's quadrupedal feet before it glowed brilliantly as a large pillar of light shot from its radius and expanded throughout the immediate vicinity as the two powerful warriors witnessed the spell's execution.
...
..
.
"It's gone!" Gris gasped in shock, preluding to a smile of relief.
"We did it. Now, let us return before your timer runs out." Kars attempted some wordplay.
"Eh, I got about a dozen seconds or so." The manslayer performed a so-so gesture.
"Tch. Whatever, get moving." Ignoring the faint rendition of a humble brag, the two edge lords returned to the settlement the party had formed.
"-Toki wa ugokidasu."
-SNAP!
Gris uttered his cancellation phrase, whereas Kars snapped his fingers.
TIME RESUMES!...
As the flow of time returned to its regular passage.
"?..." Blood Void's head craned back in confusion, the lizard he was fighting suddenly disappearing.
"What the hell?" Looking around, he couldn't sense the Immortigon's presence anywhere. "No way that gator got processed into a belt before I could whoop it! FUCK!" Shouting in dismay, the VPU turned to the party.
"The fuck did you jackasses do!" His ire now focused on the group, the party members grew nervous at being the empowered Blood Void's object of rising anger.
"Eep!" Rom and Ram jerked back in fright, holding each other tightly as shivers ran up and down their spines.
"We took away your double EXP event!" Neptune shouted, the trepidation barely suppressed as the pudding goddess yelled defiantly to the VPU. "That lizard and you would keep getting power-ups until you destroyed the meta list!" An accusatory tone escaped the Planeptunian CPU's lips.
"WHAT! You purple bitch! That was gonna save me so much time you soft-brained twat!"
FWOOSH!...
Blood Void's outburst was strong enough to cause a gust of wind expanding around him, as the party shielded themselves from the incoming air pressure that blasted through their ranks.
"Now that he can't get any stronger, who's gonna step to him now?!" The defector shouted through the winds, as they started to die down.
"Well, we've whittled it down to three people so it's between that...!" Nisa told the former ASIC member that the silent edge lords were the IRSt to return to heir original postures.
"So...?" Gris was the first to speak.
"So what?" Accelerator gave the taller albino-haired member a blank stare. "You think I'm fighting than with a crippling injury that nerfed me to the ground?"
"Don't you have wings?" Reminiscing the state that Accelerator fought in, suspicion was seeping into his lingering gaze.
"Do I have them right now?" A dull glare was promptly returned with a gruff tone from the powerful vector manipulator.
"Noted. Kars, my pompous near-equal." Realizing that he nerfed the edgy esper a tad much for the situation, the wind completely settled as the two members locked eyes.
"Hah. Near-equal in MY favor, which is why I nominate YOU to fight Xero." Tilting his head in the divine assassin's direction, the Ultimate Life Form flashed a content smile in putting the GPU on the spot.
"Very well." Rolling his eyes, the albino assassin ignored the comment of being the Pillarman's inferior and moved on to the proposed challenge before him.
"I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to see the life drain from his overly-punchable face." Walking forward, the bout's next challenger had been decided.
"And I think everyone in the party would be lying if they said they didn't want to see it." Noire voiced her wish, with the surviving members agreeing silently.
This made the Lastationite GPU snort, suppressing a chuckle as he settled for a peal of humming laughter.
"Savor your fleeting laughter CPUs and GPU. Soon you will follow the way of the blue son of a bitch." Blood Void took no joy in the conversation occurring at his expense, reminding his victims of the grim fate that awaited.
"Don't talk about Neb-Neb that way, you monster!" Hurt was tightly knit within the Nurse-In-Training's voice, with IF and Nisa feeling the ebbs of pain that the bubbly Maker shared for her fallen companion.
"What are YOU gonna do about, Compa? Bitch and moan?" Cackling at the paltry response he'd expect from the pathetic Maker, it made the girl sniffle in response to the cruel disposition of her foe.
"Why I outta...!" The brunette Guild Agent had some choice words for the VPU yet she knew better than to blurt them out, lest he confront her at his astounding level of power.
"Why you ought to shut the fuck up, forehead." Blood Void grinned with a devilish edge.
"Such savage language. I do hope you face your just desserts against this charming fellow."Vert felt unbearably ill looking at the revolting face of the vile VPU. One who could speak and act in such a brutish manner needed to be dealt with swiftly.
"You possess breasts for brains if you think the man who ran like a headless chicken could ever dream of leaving a scratch on me! Not then, and ESPECIALLY NOT NOW!"
RUMBLE!...
The last word that the maroon otherworlder roared caused the ground to shake unsteadily, as the party struggled to keep their footing.
Vert held her chest in offense, her face twisting into disgruntlement as Gris gained a dark expression on his face, both share deities were insulted in the same breath.
As a monolith, the Viral Pernicious Units wasted no time grinding away at the esteem of their targets.
"Hey, only I can make those insults, asshole!" Blanc shouted indignantly.
"I'm surprised you have anything to say since you look like you've got it all off your chest already." A droll look flashed across the VPU's face before it morphed into a bemused look.
"YOU PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT!" Clenching her fist, the smug prick before the mostly calm CPU just had to spartan kick the flat button, didn't he?
"Oooo, scary! Shiver me timbers, lassie!" Imitating an inflatable tube man at a car dealership, Blood Void took Blanc as seriously as a toddler throwing a temper tantrum.
"Are you done making a fool of yourself?" Gris asked, having properly moved to the expanses of the wrecked battlefield. "Although, it's an inane question considering that's your default personality." A snigger graced the GPU's lips.
"Heh." Both Blanc and Vert let out a satisfied laugh at the roast that the Lastationite deity started with.
"If that brain ran as fast as your legs back in Lamestation, you'd realize the pointlessness of that question." Blood Void was quick with a backbiting remark, causing a scowl to form on the manslayer's features.
"At least my brain's running in the first place. You and Nebula's cerebral cortexes are competing for third place as we speak and you know what happened to him." A cunning smile returned to the male Lastationite's features.
Blood Void snarled at the taunting comeback, before clenching his fists. His blood began to boil in preparation for another scathing battle.
"Then I'll make sure the two GPUs are on the same wavelength AND heart rate!"
-FEAR AURA!-
DARKEN!...
His energy of oppression developing his egregious form, the maroon VPU mustered his new heights of strength. The immediate surroundings grew redshaded in appearance with radiating fear washing over the bystanders.
Most pressing of all, Gris knew that if he didn't do something fast that he'd be in the same boat as Nebula who was a hair's breadth away from shitting his pants at a Blood Void WITHOUT all the plot-induced limit breaks.
So act he did.
"HARD DRIVE DIVINITY ACTIVATION SEQUENCE: ACCESS!"
TRANSFORM!
Unlike a usual transformation, the sole surviving GPU chose a more lengthy access phrase to initiate his divine ascension.
Instead of the usual pillar, the rushed change of form caused the edge lord's shares to discharge sporadically with a dome of light that devoured the vicinity, its blinding intensity practically flash-banging everyone present.
"Gyaaaaaa!" The group shouted whereas Blood Void and Citadel both winced at the slightly uncomfortable levels of light that Gris exuded in his moment of transformation.
"GPU Edge Heart is at your service." As the light subsides from the battleground, the towering share god makes his presence known as his gravity-defying hair flutters. Upon the transformation's completion, it returns to its rigid appearance.
"He sounds more sophisticated in this form." Noire was pleasantly surprised at the change that Gris undertook upon his HDD. Initially, the goddess assumed his personality would be magnified like Nebula's yet the change of pace was refreshing to the tsundere.
Yet her slight smirk was not unnoticed by both her sister and the pudding goddess herself.
"Smiling about a guy, Noire? That doesn't happen very often." Neptune's trademark snide expression made its way onto her cute face.
"N-No!" Immediately wiping the smirk off her lips, Lastation's CPU replaced it with a sputtering blush that reddened her checks a few shades pinker than usual. "Mind your own business, Neptune!" She huffed before quickly crossing her arms defensively.
"A GPU from her nation would surely tickle our resident Noire's interests." Vert covered her mouth, hiding a faint smile as the tsun CPU turned to her.
"Oh, go hug your brother!" She snapped at the busty blonde, embarrassment evident in her tone.
"Oi! Don't tell me you missed the time he held you only to drop your arse on the floor?" Vergo having calmed down from his experimental fuck up, joined his sister and CPU senior in taunting the divine tsundere. with a hereditary smile that shared similarities to the blond bombshell that was his sister.
"All of you, watch the fight- NOW!" Noire had enough of the ribbing and teasing, the twin-tailed CPU shouted voraciously, the group adhering with some subtle snickers from the teasing parties.
...STATIC!
"Divine Neuronic Acceleration: Godspeed."
Edge Heart's hair became electric, black streaks of lightning replacing his hair strands as his power signal pupils glowed brighter.
"Tenryū Kokyū Hō."
-BULK!
The GPU's musculature considerably enlarged, giving him a hardened physique with a couple of centimeters added to his stature as a result.
STAB!
"...Sekkatsu-kō."
Driving his fingers into his quadriceps, Edge Heart held in the hiss of pain in his throat before huffing out the name of the maneuver he pulled,
...AURA!
The white illumination of his Tōki was met with the black flashes of lightning with his quads now pulsing with unnatural and painful veins.
"RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!..."
SPIKE!-
-LIGHTNING STORM!
Pushing his energy to the utmost limit, Edge Heart made good use of the statistical amplification by hitting the ceiling of his capabilities from the very beginning. A swirl of black and white electricity zoomed around spiraling as the martial art energy permeated around the GPU.
With the information of previous fights at his disposal, there was no reason to hold back or let blinding emotion muddle his performance.
Blood Void's final hour was imminent.
"Rejoice, my comrades! For I will bring this world the head of this dreadful Viral Pernicious Unit with splendor and finesse! For cometh the hour, cometh the GPU!"
"AVENGE MY FATHER!" Domio screamed at the top of his lungs, pumping his sole arm into the sky, trembling with anticipation.
"Please... Mister Gris...!" Holding back his urge to sob, the teenager lowered his arm before holding his stump.
"Make him suffer." Vergo finished the sentiment that Domio grew too emotional to complete, eyes sharp with hatred.
"Spare no method to humiliate him before he draws his last breath." Outright growling, the blonde felt his sister's hand on his shoulder before returning to a calmer demeanor.
"Enough talking." Blood Void silenced the onlookers with his voice's presence.
ZOOM!-
Kicking off thre ground, a streak of blood red followed the blitzing VPU as he approached to assault.
"Quite hypocritical, coming from thou." A cocky snark escaped the spiky-haired GPU goaded.
"Uppity bastard!"
CLASP!-
-SHOCKWAVE!...
Going in for a punch to the face, the harbinger of destruction's fist was grabbed, with the momentum grinding to a motionless halt as the kinetic energy was redirected into a shockwave originating from the deities' hands.
"But I must concur."
SUMMON!
Equipping his free hand with his great scythe, the onyx-eyed GPU's weapon arm blurred into a display of flashy colors.
-SLICE!
"!-!-!"
"You cur." Edge Heart spat venomously.
Blood exploded from the gash that appeared on Blood Void's body, causing him to be launched away in a sprawling fashion, before landing gracelessly on the ground.
"Lucky slice, bozo!"
-PHASE!
Disappearing into nothingness, the Viral Pernicious Unit didn't stay down for long. His position became unreadable to the bystanders, and the battling GPU let out a huff.
"Hmph. Get serious already."
BFFT!
-SMASH!
Stopping time for a brief moment, the share-deity temporally teleported before gut-checking the VPU, causing him to stop mid-air to lurch forward as blood expelled from his nose and mouth.
"Voltaic Slashes."
SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH-SLASH!
Ebony arcs of lightning sprouted sporadically, colliding with the frame of the vile otherworlder as each projectile violently discharged. Blood VOid convulsed wildly as he was stuck in a stun-locking combination of slices leaving no room to break free anytime soon.
"FLASH!"
BFFT!
-BLAST!
Stabbing his index and middle fingers into the plexus of the VPU through stopped time, the result was a point-blank expulsion of electrical energy that threw Blood Void off his feet.
BFFT!
-"Voltaic GIGASLASH!"
-KA-BOOM!-
Appearing at the evil god's flank, Edge Heart slashed an X-shaped arc of black lightning that crashed into the back of Blood Void. His scream was drowned out by the electronic explosion of gargantuan proportions, and his body was engulfed by the abyssal detonation.
The valiant GPU's hair flapped wildly in the wind as he peered down at the explosion, its intensity subsiding as he awaited the state of Blood Void after exerting some effort.
"... Damn teleportation spammer!"
SCATTER!...
The outburst of Blood Void proved effective in scattering the smoke cloud, revealing a slightly damaged VPU as he snarled with glaring eyes at the floating edge lord.
"If something works, learn how to use it well." Edge Heart replied. "With how you use fear energy as a crutch, I'd expect you to be in alignment with that statement." Pointing his scythe at the VPU, a small smirk appeared on his face.
"I'll misalign your fucking spine, shitface!"
WOOSH!
Flying off the ground, the VPU took to the skies to close the gap between himself and the GPU.
"Will you now? I'll savor you failing horribly at it." Another sly taunt was dropped by the potara-haired warrior god.
"SILENCE!"
FEAR AURA!...
Yelling furiously, the VPU was ready to rip the smug Edge Heart apart until his body screeched to a dramatic halt.
-DUBSTEP FART!
TIME STOP!
"Chrono Trigger: The World."
Time halting its progression once more, the temporally-savvy GPU observed the frozen form of his opponent, as he let out a hearty laugh.
"Hahahaha! Let's see how he handles this."
STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
STRIKE! STRIKE! STRIKE!
"Hokuto Gōkin Bundan Kyaku!..."
Edge Heart struck the pressure points located below his target's elbow area three times within a second. After, he moved on to the finishing technique that Blood Void would be forced to endure.
"Hokuto Shinken: Gekitsui Shi!"
STAB!...
Using his fingers, the forehead of the VPU was stabbed thoroughly, yet punctured the malevolent god's forehead in a way that no blood was drawn.
Only the indentation of his fingers was left on Blood Voud's head as he removed his hand from his adversary.
"Toki wa ugokidasu."
TIME RESUMES!...
SHOCKWAVE!...
Blood Void's fist landed on the face of Edge Heart, who didn't even flinch at the harmful contact.
"Stupid fucking CPU ripoff!"
BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAK-BAKBAK-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!
Yelling as he assaulted the face of the black-clad GPU, Edge Heart lazily rolled his eyes before speaking through the relentless beating.
...
"Omae wa mou shinde iru."
...
Blood Void's actions ceased upon hearing those words.
"W-What?" Utter confusion washed across the interdimensional threat's face before his arms went completely limp. His muscles and tendons felt pathetically weak compared to how they were moments before.
'?!-' Without speaking, the expression of skyrocketing concern was setting into the face of the maroon-haired VPU before his body felt abnormally painful.
-SPLATTER!
The visiting menace's body promptly exploded, his person gorily expanding into a bloody mist with guts and pints spurting obnoxiously in every direction as Edge Heart momentarily disappeared and reappeared to avoid the blood that flew in his direction.
"HORY SHITTO!" AL's jaw comically dropped to the ground with comical saucers for eyes
"He got popped like a kid's balloon in the stratosphere!" Neptune joined in the jaw-dropping session.
"What took Nebula his life... And me my fury... Took Gris not even forty seconds. Fokin 'ell." Vergo couldn't believe his eyes.
"HE SHOULD'VE FOUGHT HIM FIRST WITH MOVES LIKE THAT!" The defector was aghast at the efficient dispatch. "Nebula wouldn't be dead right now if that was the case!" Pointing to the deceased GPU, his face was wrenched in shock with a drop of disappointment.
"Then he'd be the one who would've been in Nebula's shoes." Accelerator surmised, the party turning to him. "Gris waited so long because he wanted to see what Xero was capable of before joining the fight. Conceited yet effective if you ignore the moral ambiguity." The vector esper concluded.
"So that's why..." 5pb. looked at the floating GPU.
"Then what if they just fought together like we've been doing the entire time? Wouldn't that have prevented Nebula from dying?" IF questioned the esper.
"You're mistaking your conclusion with preventing all of us from surviving." The alien warrior corrected.
"Does it seem intelligent to gang up on an enemy who could render every Maker, several superhumans, multiple CPUs, and a GPU without knowing a drop of intel of his finer abilities?" Kars butted in.
"Xero would have transformed and sent us all to oblivion." The Ultimate Life Form folded his arms.
"So systematically getting our asses handed to us was the best idea we could come up with?" Uni put up across expression, her brows furrowing.
"To be fair, we were separated at the time of Xero and Citadel's arrival. That might have gone in our favor in hindsight instead of the alternative circumstance." MAGES. interjected to the Lastationite CPU Candidate's inquiry.
"If we were all at Gris' level, jumping would've been a no-brainer. Doing it as we are now would've just proved to Xero that we have no brains." Domio summarized for the entire group.
"Well said. Hurtful, but well said." Gust admitted as she nodded her head cutely.
"But is he really... dead?" Rom was apprehensive about deeming the terrifying VPU's condition as KIA.
"What do you mean, Rom? He got the water balloon treatment." Ram assured her sister of the state of the egregious Xero.
Looking up, Nepgear silently observed the progression of the brawl, her dismissal of joining the conversation implying that she somewhat shared Rom's sentiment.
In the sky, Edge Heart continued to float as the bloody mist of the transformed VPU was all that remained.
This would usually not be something the GPU considered, yet the lingering of his misty remains not falling to the ground was oddly suspicious.
Too suspicious.
"You're still alive." Edge Heart blurted.
...
..
.
...REGENERATE!
The misty clouds condensed before reforming with a shine of fear energy, reconstructing the body of Blood Void as he uttered painfully in the regenerated flesh.
"Gargh! Perceptive asshole!" The VPU shouted, his wounds nowhere to be seen, yet the mental imagery of being blown to bits still permeated his mind.
"You must really think I'm an amateur." Narrowing his eyes, the dark GPU started to find even more disdain to confront the interdimensional harbinger.
"You've battled nothing but fighters, mages, and deities." The edge lord referenced the VPU's former enemies.
"But I'm no fighter nor mage."
ゴゴゴゴ!...
ゴゴゴゴ!...
The stark honesty of Edge Heart was strangely offputting before it morphed into something unsettling as his features darkened until only his eyes were visible.
"I'm a murderer. A killer. A manslayer. And by the time I'm done with you..."
-...ゴゴゴゴ!
"...I'll be a godslayer."
Those words were enough to cause Blood Void to instinctively sweat at the visage of the earnest murderous ambition of Edge Heart's words, and the power he possessed to back them up.
Even Citadel's eyes widened at the proclamation, having seen his brother doled a brutal incapacitation in a matter of seconds, and now the GPU was beginning to strive to kill rather than test the waters.
"Y-You think you can just talk big!? I don't believe a word you say!" Blood Void acted defensively, trying his best to seem strong-willed in the face of genuine adversity since his arrival.
"It doesn't matter what you believe. The only thing that matters now is the number of breaths you take before I kill you!"
-BFFT!
SHRED!
"GUHK!"
Swiping his scythe through time's pause, Blood Void felt his throat burst open violently, as his trachea and jugular were destroyed in a matter of seconds. The only thing that kept his head from decapitation was the intentional shallowness of the GPU's slash.
...GLOW!
-VANISH!
His temporal aura radiated off his body, Edge Heart's movements dramatically increasing with the energy's activation before dematerializing from existence.
Blood Void clutched his neck as he wasn't nearly fast enough to even perceive the attack until his voice box was destroyed entirely while not being aware of the GPU's disappearance.
BOOM!
The VPU's face jarred to the side, feeling the agonizing pain of a ludicrous speed sucker punch.
POW!
Another strike came from the opposite cheek, causing Blood Void to corkscrew with enough torque to generate a wind current.
APPEAR!-
-EXPLODE!
Materializing above the spinning VPU, Edge Heart raised his scythe above his head while concentrating a Voltaic Slash without releasing it before overhead slashing the unsuspecting Blood Void akin to a whack-a-mole.
The resulting slice created a bombastic discharge that sent the dimensional invader stone falling to the ground, which Edge Heart took full advantage of.
-ZOOM!...
-WOOOOOOOOSH!
Using his speed-boosting aura, he appeared next to the descending VPU before dispelling his scythe to bear hug the plummeting destroyer god as his oscillation significantly increased in RPM as a tornado cultivated from the two deities' downfall.
-THOOM!-
The impact from their collision with the Gamindustri Graveyard was powerful enough to dispel the tornado entirely as the surrounding environment was swept up in the chaos as landmasses were torn asunder by the aggressive winds including the boulders raised by the attack's conclusion.
...BFFT!
Appearing unscathed from the attack, Edge Heart stuck out a hand before his palm conjured a white condensed twinkle of energy that darkened to an obsidian shade of black.
"Pulsar Bombadier!"
BLAST!
Sending a blip of energy concentrated with shares and static, the technique zipped through the battlefield.
...-DISCHARGE!
Before a giant dome of black electricity formed at the VPU's crater site as lighting static expanded from the subsiding electronic discharge.
BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!-BLAST!
Continuing the onslaught, several Pulsar Bombadiers were launched as the dome grew exponentially in size, Blood Void was given no reprieve to recover before his body was overwhelmed with static share energy ripping him apart in the epicenter of it all.
SUMMON!-
"VOLTAIC SHOT!"
-BIG BLAST!
Requipping his scythe, he utilized the gunscythe aspect of his weapon before pointing and channeling his share energy into the weapon as a gargantuan release of jet black energy.
-DISCHARGING PILLAR!-
The black dome developed into a pillar of energy that rose to the sky, punching a massive hole through the storm clouds, and racing further into the heavens with the circumference of the cylindrical blast zone increasing with every passing moment.
If one were to stand on the moon, one could see a black pillar ascending into the outer atmosphere before subsiding slowly.
Twirling his scythe absentmindedly, the GPU gazed at the astoundingly large crater created from pouring in energy attacks after a rousing Pr*m*ry L*t*s.
Blood Void found himself half-buried in the ground with his clothes almost annihilated alongside his body, with a myriad of burns that exposed flesh, bone, and organs alike.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH!" Screaming from a combination of fury and agony, the pain-filled, rage-induced VPU was screaming his head off yet unable to move a single muscle.
From what Blood Void could deduce, the effects of paralysis had long set in from the incomprehensible amount of esoteric voltage his body was subjected to.
Which only served to piss him off even more!
"FUCKING SHIT! THIS ISN'T HAPPENING! NOT BY A STINKING GPU!"
A scowl made its way onto Edge Heart's face, growing sick of the constant grievances his opponent threw at the ethos.
"GPUs... CPUs...! VPUs!- You overestimate your abilities without the slightest idea of the depth of my own. Just gaze upon your pathetic form groveling at the dirt, you incessant fuckwit!"
"I HATE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOU!"
RUMBLE!...
The ground shuddered under the volume of the screeching VPU, who could still muster such a decibel level despite his shredded vocals.
"I too have grown resentful of your abhorrent visage. Let this be the last time any of us gaze upon you."
CHARGE...!
Pointing his gunscythe to the sky, the GPU began accumulating energy in his weapon as black static danced around with the first light on his godly weapon blinking with preparation.
BZZZZZT!...
Before even a second could pass, the second light was already activated alongside the first, the third light blinking with anticipation as lightning struck the scythe's blade from the skies turning black upon contact.
BZZZZZZZZZZT!-
All three lights were green, as they started to flash red, signifying an overcharge on Edge Heart's part. If he wanted that blasted VPU blown to kingdom come, then there was no kill like overkill.
BLINK!...
With the lights on his scythe glowing a deep red, both hands were used to grip the weapon that vibrated with monstrous amounts of energy. The black static surrounding the weapon's blade spread to Edge Heart's entire body with his teeth clenched and brows furrowed from sheer effort.
"NOW YOU DIE!" Indignation exploding from the regal GPU's tone, he brought down his scythe.
"OVERWHELMING MAELSTROM!"
"EVERYONE HIT THE DECK NOW!" The defector screamed, before diving to the ground.
The party wasted no time in heeding his words as the CPUs, Makers, and superhumans all braced themselves with their means.
Even Kars erected a compact magic shield to potentially withstand the blast around the group.
SKY RENDING SLASH!-
A line of ebony energy expanded from the arc of Edge Heart's slash, stretching into the heavens and tearing apart the earth while heading to Blood Void's location.
"THIS ISN'T HAPPENIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!" The VPU screamed defiantly, yet nothing in his current state could withstand such an attack.
At this point, direct contact was undoubtedly the end.
Then it happened.
-ELECTROMAGNETIC NUKE!-
A/N:
Chapter complete! Woo, that was a doozy.
Sorry for the late posting, but here's what you've all been waiting for!
With Immortigon out of the picture for becoming something of a glorified heavy bag, it was up to Gris to replace the subjugating void that the unkillable lizard left behind, and he did not disappoint by a long shot.
Even Citadel became wary!
But what happens next? Is this truly the end for the insufferable Xero? Does Gris now have bragging rights from now until forevermore? Or has fate once again yanked locked the steering?
Find out in the next chapter of Omnidimension Neptunia: Infinite Memes!
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Arrivederci!