A/N Short part coming at you for the end of chapter 14! Hope you enjoy!
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Nexus HWR 14.9 The Old Boss:
Somewhere in Central Aebrith
"I said back off," a deep voice growled from inside a thick steel suit. The suit of gray armor had glowing red light in a circle in the center of its plated chest. It was ten feet tall and over four broad at the shoulders. Iron Monger stomped forward towards the figure in front of him and the visor on his helmet glowed red like the light on his chest. "Unless you want to take a rocket to that ugly face of yours?" He rose up his right arm and a missile popped out on an opening on it.
The figure in front of Iron Monger did not flinch at the sight of the missile now targeting him. He was a tall, light skinned man with a thick protruding chin down in front of his neck. He wore a heavy black jacket and long pants of the same color. He reached down to his right side with his right hand and grabbed the red hilt of his long katana sticking out behind him. The sheath itself was white closer to the hilt but became speckled with red dots halfway down it before becoming completely red at the end. The man grabbing his sword took a puff of his cigar and then spoke calmly, "I have a problem with the way your Lord is running things."
"Are you stupid?" The armored man scoffed in a loud, taunting voice. Laughter came from both sides of the swordsman as four smaller armored figures around him starting laughing with their boss. The mask on Iron Monger's face lifted up on its own and the bald man inside glared forward with a smug smirk on his face. "Anything you have to say to Lord Porla you can say to his right hand man." Obadiah Stane, or Iron Monger, stepped closer to the swordsman so there was only a ten foot gap between them. The others backed away as they did not want to get caught in the blast that seemed imminent now as the swordsman flicked his hilt with a finger and made the steel visible. "Try anything, and you're dead," Stane snarled, his metal mask dropping back down over his face. "Actually, scratch that, I'm going to-"
The swordsman leaned forward and he started sliding his sword out of his sheath while the other man was mid-threat. Iron Monger did not stop talking because his opponent moved though, as he only took one step, and the swordsman did not stop moving because Iron Monger attacked, as the rocket never fired. The two of them froze, because the ceiling of the room they were in suddenly turned pitch black. The two men and the four other armored soldiers looked up and stared at that blackness seeping off the ceiling, and they listened nervously to the voice that came with it.
"...hahaha..." The swordsman who heard this laugh slid his sword back into his sheath but his eyes were still huge. He followed the darkness on the ceiling to the one wall that it also covered, then looked down that wall behind Iron Monger, making the large armored figure risk turning around. The darkness covering the wall on that side of the room spread from the closed doorway up to the ceiling and was slowly moving across the floor towards them.
Suddenly, the doors blasted out towards them and darkness swept into the room fast. It covered the entire floor and all four walls so that the six of them were completely surrounded by black.
"What the Hell is happening?!"
"Who is there?" Iron Monger shouted, raising his armed rocket to point at the open doorway that led into a pitch black room even darker than theirs somehow. "Make yourself known! I am the second in command to the Lord of Phant-"
"Zehahahaha," the deep voice laughed from the darkness, much louder than before and this time echoing around the other room. Iron Monger gulped and closed his mouth, then his face covered in sweat behind his mask and he took a step back. A figure even taller than Obadiah's armored suit was walking through the darkness, becoming more visible with every step. He was over ten feet tall but his weight was what was truly set him apart, looking like he weighed more than five hundred pounds easily.
His stature was not what made Iron Monger and his men step back though. Neither did the dark power filling the room have anything to do with it. It was the figure he had in his closed right hand, his fingers wrapped around the man's torso, the man himself dripping red liquid into the dark ooze below. "If you're talking about this Lord," the loud voice that stopped laughing boomed. He swung his right hand forward and threw said Lord across the room so he slammed into Iron Monger's chest.
Iron Monger lifted an arm a little and caught the Lord before he fell completely off his dented chest. He turned the thin man with dark black hair full of blood around in his hand and looked at the front of his body, and despite his own love for violence, he almost gagged at the way Lord Porla looked. The color from his Lord's skin was pale in some areas but burnt black in others and he had over a dozen holes in his body.
Iron Monger dropped the body on the ground and it sank into the dark within seconds. Every person in that room turned their attentions back to the Lord's supposed killer. The fat man's hairy chest was visible because the shirt he had on was unbuttoned, and his chin was covered in thicker dark black hair. He walked closer to them and narrowed his eyes as he did, laughing the whole time, "Zehahahahaha! ZEHAHAHA! Lord Jose Porla, I heard he owned a nice piece of land up here!" The man threw his arms up on his sides and bellowed out even more laughter.
When he stopped laughing he lowered his arms and looked past Iron Monger. "Shiliew! I finally found you!"
"Teach," Shiliew said. He stepped forward and right past Iron Monger, "What are you doing here?" The two of them had not seen each other in over two years, but Shiliew got over his surprise fast.
"Zehahaha! I'm making a new crew! You gonna join up?" Blackbeard boomed. Marshall D. Teach looked straight into Shiliew's eyes as he asked.
Shiliew stared right back and he noticed something off about Blackbeard's eyes. They were pitch black with small gray irises in the middles. The swordsman frowned as he looked at the pirate he once called 'Captain.' "I've gotten much stronger since I left," Shiliew said. "Two Devil Fruits doesn't-"
Blackbeard rose his right hand and his palm filled with a swirling darkness. All the black in the room condensed on that hand and flared up towards the ceiling. Blackbeard's left hand rose and on it formed a ball of yellow light. His entire body little by little turned into yellow light particles that reformed closer to his old comrade. "I was there when we killed Kizaru, but two Logias-" he stopped mid-sentence. Shiliew's mouth froze open and his eyes opened wide at what the fat man showed him next.
Blackbeard smirked ear to ear as his face started to distort. His face grew and turned dark red, becoming bumpy as the magma replacing his skin bubbled. Blackbeard shot forward at the speed of light and reappeared right in front of Shiliew with darkness and magma swirling around on his hands. "Who said anything about two Logias?" Blackbeard asked. He saw Shiliew not making a retort this time and started laughing again, "Good! So you'll join?! Zehahaha! In that case, I'll let you in on a secret!"
"One second," Shiliew replied. He turned his head sideways a bit and Iron Monger flinched at the look of bloodlust on Shiliew's face. He tried raising up his arm, but before his arm was even halfway raised, Shiliew was standing behind all five enemies. None of them could move, and then the armor sliced off all of their bodies, no matter how thick it was.
Obadiah fell out of his suit and dropped to the floor on his hands and knees. He snapped his head up and stared at Shiliew, and on the sides of the swordsman he saw limbs falling with his men's armor. Iron Monger no longer had his suit, it was sliced to pieces around him, but he started cracking up as he looked into Shiliew's eyes. "Ha, haha, hahahaha!" Obadiah stumbled up to his feet and yelled, "HA! You couldn't cut through my steel armor and me at the same-"
Shiliew appeared directly in front of Obadiah and his sword was already shoved forward. The bald man gasped and blood splattered out of his mouth. "I could have," Shiliew said, and he did not sound to be lying. "I chose not to, so that I could enjoy this." He twisted his sword, then yanked to the side while watching Obadiah's expressions the whole time.
Finally Shiliew turned back to Blackbeard while sliding his bloody sword back into its sheath. He looked at Blackbeard and the fatter pirate could see Shiliew looking at his eyes for a reason other than just making eye contact. "That's the secret," Blackbeard said, and chuckled darkly under his breath. "You missed it Shiliew, I died."
Shiliew looked pretty surprised, but not as shocked as Blackbeard thought he would be. The hairier pirate chuckled and continued, "I was brought back by a ninja bastard who died before releasing the jutsu, and I was never fully sealed." He smirked more at his new, old comrade, and went on, "That's not all though. This body," he rose up his left arm, then rose his right and grabbed his left forearm with it. Blackbeard crushed down on his forearm then yanked to the side, ripping his left hand right off. He purposely did not use any of his Logia powers, and Shiliew saw the hand he was holding start falling apart into little gray rectangles. Near Blackbeard's elbow his skin lost coloring and turned gray like his removed hand that now completely fell apart.
Blackbeard liked Shiliew's confused expression and while he had the swordsman's undivided attention on his left arm, he made yellow light and red magma come out of that elbow and reform an arm in his old one's place. Shiliew watched as the arm reformed then turned back to its normal color and all of Blackbeard's powers faded away. "Don't you get it?" Blackbeard questioned. Shiliew did not answer so Blackbeard held that left hand up and clenched it into a fist. "Even if there is a way to kill a man with the powers of three Logias, it is still not a threat to me! I have reached it Shiliew." The swordsman's eyes were growing wide in realization and Blackbeard threw his head back and started laughing at the top of his lungs. "ZEHAHAHAHAHA! I HAVE BECOME IMMORTAL!"
Somewhere in Northeast Aebrith
Inside a giant white room that stretched over a hundred meters wide by a hundred long, two men faced off against each other with sweat all over their bodies. Both had on powerful armor, but the man with long pink hair held a longsword while the man with a short blonde cut held a lance. Gilthunder was charging his opponent, but Howzer pointed his lance straight at his fast opponent covered in a veil of electricity, and he shouted, "Plowing Tornado!"
As fast as Gilthunder was, the sand tornado stretched half the width of the room. The point of it was coming straight towards him, and Gil slashed his sword down while covering it in a brighter, thicker aura of electricity. "Lightning Slice!" His sword slammed into the point of the tornado and he ground his teeth before yelling out, "Haa!" He cut the rest of the way down and split the tornado down the middle, sending a huge slash of lightning through the splitting magic. Howzer had leapt up in the air as soon as Gil yelled out, knowing his magic was about to get cut through and allowing it instead of pushing more magic to make his tornado of sand stronger. He had his lance out to his right side, but he had to spin in midair as the lightning slash Gil cut rose almost to the ceiling.
Howzer passed by the slash, but as he finished his spin, he saw Gilthunder already three quarters of the way up to him. Clink! Dink-dink-clink-CLASH! The two of them slashed their weapons into each other's over and over and then did it one more time only with their magic spilling out. Sand pushed against lightning, and the two of them roared at each other while pushing harder into their attacks. Grains of the fast moving sand pelted Gil in the face, while Howzer could feel his entire body getting charged and zapped by the lightning pushing past his sand. The two of them slashed hard forward and parried away from each other, landing and skidding away while trying hard to stay up on their feet.
Right as they stopped skidding, Gil dropped down to one knee and started panting. He used his sword as a balance on his right side, and Howzer smirked victoriously. "Haha! I-" Howzer lost his balance and fell straight back, landing hard on his spine. "Oof," he grunted, and his armor did little to help him there. He stared up at the ceiling, then sat up with a groan and looked towards Gil who let out a small chuckle at his friend's expense. "I'll call it a tie," Howzer said, though he then twitched as a spark of remaining electricity pulsed through him.
"Sirs!" a voice shouted from the only entrance into the room. They looked towards the hallway and spotted a thin man who looked pretty nervous as he stood there. "Someone's here to see you, but there's something…" the messenger saw the two he was speaking to shoot up to their feet and look behind him, and the man let out an afraid yelp before spinning to see the figure standing there. He moved to the side, and the man in a suit of golden armor kept walking forward until he entered the giant white room.
Howzer and Gil had felt the tremendous power from in front of them which made them shoot to their feet, but the sight of this man had both of them staring with dropped jaws. The man had long silver hair falling behind his back as well as over his shoulders and even a strand crossing in front of his face under his left eye. He wore a cape clasped to the top of his armor by a golden heart. The cape was a dark blue, as Gilthunder expected the man's eyes to look, but for some strange reason his eyes were the only part of him that Gil did not recognize. When that man smiled though while looking into Gil's stunned eyes, the younger man knew who it was he was staring at.
"Father?" Gil whispered.
"Great Holy Knight, Zaratras," Howzer whispered in shock.
"That's me," Zaratras replied, a wider smile spreading across his face. "It's so great to see you, my son." The messenger who had been scared out of his wits by the man's sudden appearance started slinking away. If the two he was bringing this to thought it was okay, he was not going to argue. Zaratras walked farther into the room while the other man ran off, and a slightly confused look came to his face as the shocked ones would not leave the younger men.
"Great Holy Knight, Zaratras," Howzer repeated, his voice even quieter as he stared blankly at the man. What is… going on?
"Howzer," Zaratras said, a big smile returning to his face as he spun to the other Holy Knight not his son. "I'm so glad to see you survived. You were on death's door the last time I saw you."
Howzer nodded dumbly at the man, while Gilthunder spun from his father towards his best friend with a furious look on his face. "Howzer! You told me my father was dead!"
Zaratras started chuckling, and both Gil and Howzer had strange feelings fill their guts as they turned back to him. The silver-haired man scratched the back of his head and closed his eyes while his sheepish laughter settled down. "Well, about that…"
A/N The Old Boss returns! I had written out the Blackbeard part a long time ago, probably right after I wrote the scene where Riku released Blackbeard from the darkness to help them escape. Blackbeard and Zaratras return to the world as nigh immortal beings, and Blackbeard still has Akainu's Devil Fruit power that he was reanimated with as well. Another terrifying villain emerges on Aebrith, but a powerful possible ally appears as well... Hope you enjoyed! Start of the next chapter we get Nexus HWR 15.0 The New Boss (see what I did there? ;) ). For anyone wondering what Zaratras and Howzer were referring to (it has been a while), there was a flashback during the later parts of the Battle of Metropolis for the day Lucy was killed by Kamishiro. Both of the Holy Knights were at the battle, where Zaratras was killed and last we saw of Howzer he was gravely wounded. Hadn't decided at the time whether or not he was going to survive, but I really like his character so he made it! XD Alright, I'm going to put a short list below since there are a lot of characters who never showed up before in this chapter. Anyway, thanks for reading everyone! Leave a review, comment, question, or predictions in the comment section below!
7DS: Gilthunder, Howzer, Zaratras
One Piece: Shiliew, Blackbeard, Kizaru
Naruto: Orochimaru
Fairy Tail: Jose Porla (Guild Master of Phantom Lord)
Iron Man: Iron Monger/Obadiah Stane (he was the main bad guy of the first movie and a comic book villain)
Limit-Breaking chapter 103 . 23h ago
Really i always felt like the Clown god of destructin was the strongest one especially the way they portaryed him in the manga.
Huh. I was just basing it off the anime when the 4 Gods of Destruction whose universes weren't participating in tournament of power were asked if they wanted to fight, and the fish guy said that it was clear who the victor would be and just sat it out. Maybe it was just overconfidence though. Anyway, I wouldn't really know since I don't read the manga. Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Thanks for reviewing, and thanks to everyone for reading! 'Til next time!