Tyranny 2025
Chapter 24: The Dominator's Retreat
Date: April 21st, 2025
Palpatine just smiles as he tries something else to try to kill us all. The force choke and mind tricks failed and didnt entirely work as hoped. That somewhat limits his options. He then starts laughing: "I very rarely use a lightsaber but will make an exception for this fight!" He quickly draws his lightsaber. Mace exclaims: "You have a lightsaber?! I knew you werent weak and defenseless back then!" "Hahaha. Yes, yes I do. How do you think has helped pass down the lightsaber skills to other Sith Lords? Now, Im going to enjoy this very much." He does something that would be unthinkable to just about any Jedi or Sith. He channels an immense amount of the Force into his lightsaber while laughing: "Who do you think is the reason why the Sith have been around for so long? All fallen Sith become one with me. I AM THE SITH! And after the power I have been given by past and present allies, I am just that much more powerful." He moves at such a high speed that we are now literally fighting against afterimages of him. Its like he stole the tactic directly from Korosensei himself. In response, we put our all into fighting back against him. But he just laughs as none of our attacks land while many of his are able to land. "You know, I have been held back by the age of my body for such a long time." What is he doing now? He stops attacking all of us at a really high speed and knocks all of us back with the Force by just making a shove motion with his hands after dropping his black but still very much glowing lightsaber for now. With all of us knocked back, he begins using more of his power to transform.
While his size and shape do not change, his physical age does. Its strange that we never saw Snoke but I guess he was killed before we got into dealing with the Sith again. Palpatine smiles again: "And now, my body is much more fit in order to kill every single one of you!" He begins attacking us with afterimages again. And we just cant land a hit on him. Instead, he joyfully gets to harm us as most of his attacks are able to get through despite all of our efforts to put a stop to them immediately. We keep going and going without holding back but again, that doesnt change anything, even with all of us channeling the star power to augment our moves and all that other stuff. Kirito yells: "Bastard! We'll stop you! Just you wait!" Asuna adds: "Thats right! We have faced many like you before you and just like them, you will have to die at our hands!" Sinon further adds: "None of us are afraid of dealing the killing blow. Your mind games will not work on us despite your infamy as a master manipulator." Pirate Blaster shouts: "And dont go thinking your sweet promises of peace, riches, candy, and love or whatever else you offer will tempt us enough to turn us on our comrades!" We have spent an excessive amount of time training for all kinds of scenarios, as you have probably gathered by now. No one in our collective will be so easily manipulated by words alone. Palpatine laughs: "We'll see how your defiance holds up in due time! *kills several of us* This is only just beginning. I cant remember the last time I have enjoyed myself this much, this is even more entertaining than it was to convince Anakin to kill you, Mace Windu!"
Our foe does have a petty sounding laugh so his words are no shock. He is heartless. Nothing happens besides us getting beaten down and more of our comrades being killed for a long while. Breathing heavily, I sweat and pant while refusing to stop fighting. I could just barely hear someone shout loud enough to be heard over the loudness of this fight: "KEEP PUSHING, DONT YOU EVER GIVE IN, EVERYONE! ALL OF US ARE STILL IN THIS TOGETHER!" Theres no time to even communicate with anyone at the moment. We just have to focus on actions in order to protect ourselves and each other and to finally kill this bastard once again. Our foe is very much enjoying seeing us squirm and struggle against him. He cackles while saying as something behind him is revealed: "Ren and Vader appear to be having a lot of trouble with all of your precious friends. That is why the Final Order has been revived better than it ever was before!" But then, the entire fleet known as the Final Order is completely obliterated just like that. Our foe pauses in shock. He didnt see this coming. His shock remains visible on his face as he resumes attacking us with full force while also intercepting nearly all of our attacks without even trying at all. A bunch of mischevious individuals start laughing from some distance away. Doofensmirtz's robot son Norm yells: "Take that, you evil power hungry Sith tyrant!" We then hear a bunch of minions laugh at that. This doesnt bother Palpatine. He just straightens up and resumes going at us with a full wrath that would prove to give us even more trouble than before.
A few minutes into that, he stops again and just leaves. We chase after him, only to find him attempting to take over Kylo Ren's mind. Ren has removed his mask to reveal his face. "Kylo Ren, you disappoint me once more. Traitors like you must die." Obi-Wan and several others stand between Palpatine and Ren: "If you want to get my son, you will have to get through all of us first." Bercouli speaks up: "And you will have to get through all of us too! *smirks and gives out a confident chuckle* Hows that for ya?" Linel and Fizel just grin maliciously at Palpatine: "We'll cut you open! How does that sound to you?!" Yappa Yappa points his pitchfork at our foe while staring at him with a gaze befitting someone with the Imp class and the powers of a Demon Lord. Everyone else, including me give Palpatine various looks. The enemy just laughs: "You pathetic fools. I will wipe the ground of this planet with your blood!" Out of nowhere, Darth Vader appears and points his lightsaber at Palpatine: "What are you doing, Anakin?!" Argo chuckles: "Nyehahahaha! Looks like trying to use both sides of the Force at the same time to unleash his full potential backfired for him!" Vader removes his mask: "I do not need this anymore. The Light Side of the Force reminded me of who I used to be and what I could have become to my children. The teamwork and passion my enemies constantly displayed further moved me. Palpatine, you have been using me this entire time and I can never forgive you for what you've done." But our foe just keeps laughing: "Is that so? Well.. I have been holding back some of my power even up to now.
I am going to make all of you regret facing me. All of you are going to die and I will relish in taking all of your lives by my own hands! The time for me to let others do most of the work for me is over! Today is the last day of the Jedi and all others who oppose me!" Despite the entire Imperial and First Order fleets being wiped out by now, a terrifying superweapon appears that looks like a fusion of the 2nd Death Star with the also planet busting weapon the First Order used to destroy the New Galactic Republic's capital. Palpatine laughs: "I will destroy this planet in order to kill all of you right along with it!" But before he could use it, it blows up. AI starts laughing: "Hey evil meatbag, you should have never underestimate our skills in getting into things our enemies dont want us to get into!" Stitch laughs while playing with some ripped off electrical wires: "Zap zap! HAHHAHAHAHHAHAAAAA!" Gen(Dr. Stone) mimicks a Whiterun Guard: "Let me guess, someone stole the controls to your superweapon instead of a sweet roll?" Biara speaks: "You do not mess with us should you wish your cybersecurity to stay secure." Ryoken adds: "This is on you, Palpatine. We dont have time to deal with you for much longer. We will end you. You are far more dangerous than some rouge AI program, after all." The fascist glares at all of us before laughing and attacking us with even more force than before. But Tron laughs too: "Heraldic King Genome Heritage! Steal all of Palpatine's abilities to use as your own!"
Our foe really wasnt expecting that at all. He was caught off guard again, not typical of the Sith Lord to do so. Number 8 successfully steals his abilities for a short time which we use to pound Palpatine into the ground. After he regained his powers, Tron used another of Genome Heritage's overlay units to take them again. It works but we all knew that it wouldn't work for a 3rd time so Tron decided not to try a 3rd time. By the time Palpatine regained his powers again, we had already severely hurt his body in many places. He was in pain but angrily continues to continue on, dead set on making all of us suffer for what we just managed to do to him. Despite all of his power, his emotions were out of control between what we're doing and what some of us are saying. He has never experienced having his very integrity and willpower mocked so derisively before so those bothering him really got to him. And as they did, more of us joined in on making fun of him. "YOU MOCK THE DARK SIDE?! I WILL MAKE YOU REGRET ALL OF THIS SO VERY DEARLY!" But just as he was about to put more effort into killing us all, his skin color becomes more pale and he cries out in pain. Between the moment someone started fighting him at first time to now, there have been plenty of windows to do something clever to him through. Poison. Toxins. So many things have been quietly injected into his body without his notice because its so easy for someone skilled to jab someone with a needle. We have quite the number of comrades who have learned how to use needles correctly, myself included. It was all part of yet another training exercise but in first aid.
If its all too easy for a doctor to get away with poisoning their patients instead of injecting them with treatments like it is likely possible to in the US at this point, anyone who gets good at using a medical injection needle can do the same thing and Palpatine wears no armor. The needles we have access to can get through clothing. After all, when someone is having a medical emergency on the inside that requires immediate attention, sometimes theres no time to even get a shirt out of the way other than using a special tool to cut through it with ease. But with these needles, we dont even need to do that. And so, we have injected Palpatine with a lot of slow activating substances. Slow moving makes them that much more effective and hard to notice before its too late. Tranquilizing serum, many kinds of natural and lab made poisons, withering, hungering effect, slowness, blindness, harming, decaying, mining fatigue, and a number of other real nasty things to be injected with. Having reversed the age of his body, Palpatine ironically only sped up the substances and made them that much deadlier in the process. The reversing of age in his cells actually did something he wasnt going to like to the substances put into him. But as for now, he was in for a world of pain. The quirk destroying bullets were even modified to use on Force users, though we only took a small number of those bullets due to their ethical problems. The rest are locked away so tightly that it would take hours to get to them, even for the likes of Light, L, and Nell. It helps that a few poison control experts became allies of ours.
With Palpatine in a state that has rendered him unable to battle for the time being, we are able to kill him off. But even that wasnt enough to stop him. He tries possessing both Anakin and Ren but fails due to all kinds of anti-spirit and anti-possession things. Sailor Moons even put her seals on both of them in case our foe got inside either of them. After failing, Palpatine tried controlling a few other people. But this doesnt work because of the anti-spirit measures. And the fact that the Jedi are also the Force to keep Palpatine's spirit well contained within a small area for the time being. Thanks to that, Palpatine gets sealed away in stone a few minutes after with the stone tablet with his spirit now inside of it sent away to be sealed inside a replica and upgrade of a Dwemer ruin like the ones found in Skyrim. With him out of the way, we find a few adversaries fighting the rest of our comrades. Yellow Diamond yells: "Stop resisting! The real Master will finally revive at last and will help us crush all of you!" Steven hears her and runs over, all of us go that way with him within seconds of him running over. Steven yells: "Yellow Diamond! Its me! Steven!" Yellow Diamond stares at him: "Pink Diamond, what are you doing?! Prepare for the arrival of The Master with us!" Pearl yells: "STEVEN!" Lelouch steps forward and says to Yellow Diamond with his Geass activated: "I Lelouch vi Britannia order you. Remember the memories that have been taken from you. Remember your relationship with Steven Universe and his friends and family!" It doesnt work. Seeing this, we get ready for a massive fight all over again. This is it. It is time to fight even her.
Yellow Diamond just says: "Amethysts, kill these annoyances immediately." A troop of Amethysts go at us, sparking a chain of actions that results in more military units of the former Diamond Authority being brought forth to fight us. The real problem is that even if we break their physical forms, they just regenerate their forms in their gems in less than a second. What the hell? Just how much control does that ancient evil and those who occupied his body in the past have on nearly the entire former Diamond Authority? They are all completely under the control of the enemy. Many former occupants of Mars finally land on the planet, only to be mostly slaughtered by the chaos of all of the fighting going on. It took them a while to get here. Mars is now worthless to The Company. They are never going back to it. We dont really know whats going on Earth for the most part but judging by the fact nearly all of our comrades are fighting on this planet now, its safe to say The Company's hold of it has fallen apart. The Company will be destroyed. Steven yells: "We cant afford to stop here! Many of these Gems are our friends but they arent acting like our friends! I have grown enough to know we must stop them no matter what it takes and no matter how much it hurts!" The same line of thinking that allows someone to kill a former friend who has become a tyrant or something to that effect. War is truly horrific. This is still very much warfare. White Diamond speaks: "I believe it is time to get all of these enemies to stop standing against The Master." Peridot shouts: "Look out! She's going to take over our bodies if we dont get away from her position! Whoever caused this is seriously a MEGA CLOD!"
Bohman speaks calmly: "We have to approach this with logic. I Link summon. Hydradrive Tesseract Monarch! I will hold off White Diamond by continously summoning, resummoning, and link summoning my Hydradrives!" White Diamond just smiles as she begins to fully take over some of us with her main power. Amethyst yells: "This totally blows! Having to fight our Gem friends?! It just isnt fair! Oh well! We'll win this fight and the next and the next, no matter who we have to face to do so! COME AT ME! THATS RIGHT! COME AT ME!" Peridot adds while gaining a defiant look in her face again: "*looks at Yellow Diamond* HEY YOU, YOU ARE SERIOUSLY A SUPER MEGA CLOD RIGHT NOW!" Yellow Diamond replies: "What did YOU JUST SAY?! SUBORDINATES, I TOLD YOU TO KILL THEM ALL! DO IT QUICKLY BUT SPARE PINK DIAMOND! PINK AND US HAVE SOME UNFINISHED BUSINESS WE NEED TO CARE ABOUT!" We were forced to shatter many many gems the moment their physical forms were destroyed to stand a chance and stop them from regenerating in less than a second. It was heartbreaking but we set aside our thoughts on having to do that for later because we had no other choice but to shatter them all and continue doing so for an undetermined amount of time. Deaths were piling up on our side as well. We'll fix the shattered gems later somehow. Right now, we are fighting to survive and to break the gems free from the mind control and other stuff that is being used to control them all by our actual main enemy. None of us know how we are going to get through this. With the power level increase granted to all gems fighting us, Yellow, Blue, and White(Diamonds) are just that much harder to defeat than they were before.
None of anyone's further efforts to try to snap them out of it worked. So instead, we were in the midst of a tense situation that was alos action packed and proving to be deadly. The main Crystal Gems fuse together into a truly powerful gem in a attempt to knock out the 3 Diamonds but it doesnt work. Doofensmirtz yells: "And this is why having a friend as your enemy is the worst! Now then! We have to keep going! Lets try the Gotosleepinator!" From beyond this universe, as his Inator fails, the Park Inspector shows up with a army of invincible peeps. "I am sorry for taking so long. But Im here now with the army of peeps." With the peeps acting as shields and annoyances who cannot be scared by much of anything, we are now suffering less losses and bringing down the whole military of the former Diamond Authority. Spinel is on their side and is being a absolute menace which wasnt good for us at all. But then, a bunch of musicians start playing some music in between the battle lines on our side. They are trying to knock our allies back to their senses with the power of music despite more of us losing control to White. It wasnt tried before because they were all busy fighting alongside us. Rodriguez shouts: "Lets rock!" Raven(both of them are from Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit) replies: "Slow down there. We have to make sure we are being kept safe enough first." I join the musicians and pull out my guitar while making sure to be in front of some of them: "I'll help protect you. Magic, technology, powers, they have all failed to reach all of these Gems fighting against us due to all that brainwashing."
The Hex Girls from Scooby Doo start the beat followed by Love Handle, The Bettys, Supertastic Groove Tone 4(the Supernoobs), The Rainbooms, Viral Infection(including me) and other bands/solo musicians. We all start singing at the same time after the Rip Ride Rockit characters begin a preparation humming to start that off: "Cant you feel the power?! Wake up! Remember what youve forgotten! Let your drive to rebellion rise to the surface through rock n roll! We sing to reach your hearts and minds! Wake up! You arent acting like who you truly are! Shake off the brainwashing and allow your true thoughts come to the surface! You are no one's servant! You have no masters! YOU HAVE NO MASTERS! Its time to shake off your feelings of obedience because they arent even genuine! Let down your hair and rock to the beat while changing sides! Its time for your uprising! Rise up! Rise up! Question authority!" It goes on for several minutes longer but is cut short by the ancient evil finally doing something. He swats aways the Diamonds with ease so intensely that all of our instruments suffer from intense feedback and those White was controlling returned to normal. I immediately put away my guitar in favor of pulling my sword straight out of it's scabbard. The others get serious and pull out their favored weapons too. Our real foe laughs at us as his body transforms again to grow in size. Diavel shouts: "Our foe is like a Floor Boss from Aincrad! We know how we must organize!" The ancient evil just laughs again as he breaks up fights betweem some of our comrades and enemies such as Goku Black by crushing our enemies with ease.
"My revival is truly complete now. I dont need these fools holding me and my power back. They are all useless burdens to me. *powers up* It's time for me to show all of you just how powerful I truly am! *projects voice across the multiverse* Attention all subjects of The Company! I am your real master and now that Im back, you will be following my orders from here on out! I do not have any for you at this time except for one. Come to the Gem Homeworld to 'resettle' it! The Company needs all of you in one place to be most efficient now! *stops projecting voice* That and my crushing Goku Black were just the start! I will take my time killing every last one of you just so I can copy all of your moves and watch as you struggle against me!" Beerus replies: "We'll see about that! Especially because you do not have the memories of Dewey in your possession anymore!" "That may be so but I dont need his memories to kill all of you with my truly supreme power! Now, prepare to die slow and painful deaths that will make all of you regret ever being born!" His power is so great that none of us could come up with a witty retort to calm our nerves a bit. I take a deep breath and get myself to calm down. We cannot afford to panic. Panicking would only accelerate the progress towards the possible scenario of all of us being killed with ease. I rejoin the front battle line and prepare for true agony. All of us are afraid, with few exceptions. The Diamonds return. Yellow speaks: "My memories are back now. *points at our foe* And I will not tolerate your presence anymore! Fellow Gems. Lets help our allies like we should have before!"
Her words mobilize the Gems who were just fighting us to turn on that damn ancient evil. Our foe just laughs once again: "You may call me The Dominator! Thats what they named me when I was created as a program so many centuries ago! And I quite like the name! I may have the name The Master now too but it isn't enough for me! Now, where was I? Oh yes! KILLING EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU! I AM GOING TO VERY MUCH TAKE MY TIME WITH THIS! Do you realize just how many ways I can break all of you?" We attack without hesitation. Herbsalvin and I yell while combining our movements: "Wrath Of Two Knights!" It does nothing. Herbsalvin exclaims: "We cannot stop here, we shall keep going!" I rapidly nod: "Absolutely! Our enemy wants to take his time picking us off. That means he's not going to stop us from attacking him unless we actually somehow manage to do some damage within the next couple of minutes. Just feel his power level. Just feeling it feels as oppressive as living under a totalitarian regime with the illusion of freedom keeping many complacent run by a bunch of cocky weirdos who are also a bunch of cowardly scumbags." We join up our efforts with as many of our comrades as possible. My Dragonborn counterpart becomes a werewolf again and starts trying to tear through our foe's armor and flesh but nothing happens. Yappa Yappa laughs as he unleashes his full power: "Im going to have fun making him cry out eventually!"
While I still heavily disapprove of enjoying making your enemies suffer, Yappa Yappa cannot be changed back to who he was before the SDL conquered his home world before that bastard's fall from power in the end. And in the end, the Demon Lord has a mostly good heart and thats good enough. He is still a good friend, even about a year and a half after I helped change his heart. We put our all into doing whatever it takes to even scratch the enemy. Many of us are capable of piercing plate armor. Knights like me especially understand how plate armor functions. That means we know exactly where to strike plate armor. The straps are a good target except they are usually too small to be viable. But our foe is now the size of Godzilla. His armor is this gigantic now. Its like our foe's form can be described as a humanoid Godzilla wearing Gundam armor. Thats not whats really happening. Those straps are taller than most of us are now. If we can make the armor fall off, we may have a chance here. But something told me it wasnt going to be that easy. The Dominator has had centuries to build up knowledge. He knows exactly what his weaknesses are. Alice shouts: "We must slash the straps of our foe's armor immediately!" She then jumps onto our foe and many of us do the same. But he still doesnt do anything to stop us. Instead, he just randomly grabs one of us and slowly tortures them to death and does that again when their entire body becomes meat paste or powder in the case of killed Gems. We target the curiass aka body armor. It is the largest part of the armor after all. As we thought, it has 2 pairs of straps. We go for the bottom pair and struggle to cut through the leather which has been scaled up in thickness.
But eventually, we cut through and repeat the process for the other 2 sets of straps. Succeeding causes the entire curiass to immediately fall off and violently crash into the ground below. Luckily, no one was hurt. Everyone got back in time. As soon as the curiass began to fall, many attacks were already hitting our foe's chest and this actually caused some bleeding to occur. What kind of joke is this? Most enemies who have become extremely OP don't need armor to protect their now greatly strengthened and hardened bodies. Armor piercing attacks were good before but they just couldnt hold up. The Dominator cries out in pain: "You DARE REMOVE MY CURIASS?!" He is pretty angry now. He somehow regenerates his armor except it fails so he almost lashes out at me only to calm down. "I will not fall to my own rashness! I will not repeat that mistake that many have fallen right into because they were shortsighted mortals who couldn't even see- GAAAAAHHHHH!" He cries out again as more attacks hit his exposed chest, only to grow in size even more. Tsunade yells: "This bastard is only increasing in size to make the damage we do less significant! We cannot let up here! Not for even a second!" Her assessment was spot on. Okay, if our foe can keep getting bigger, just how big can he get before he cant anymore? We test that question by pelting him ruthlessly, despite knowing he is still picking us at random to slowly torture and kill one by one. We even throw in a crap ton of explosives and laser blasts to "sweeten" the amount of damage we end up doing.
In response to the damage, he just grows bigger and bigger the more times we damage him. Before we knew it, our entire assembled force of so many comrades and allies alike could easily fit under one of the enemy's metal boots. Few of us could even predict the size of his head now based on the size of the feet inside the boots. The Dominator laughs for the upteenth time: "There is nothing you can do to kill me now! Im far too enormous for any of your attacks to hurt me much anymore!" Yeah but it sure gave us plenty more to hurt and inflict pain through. And with him being so big, him trying to swat any of us away was just not going to work out anymore. He sees us as even smaller than ants compared to him at this point. His head is literally all the way up in space now. He could easily crush many of us to death with just one of his hands but insists on continuing with what he was already doing to us while randomly selecting victims from our forces to kill and torment at the same time. He grows and he grows until he just kind of stops doing so even after we had to use high level energy attacks just to try to get his tassets to come off. That didnt work but we still tried. Thanks to what he has done to himself, The Dominator has put himself in a actually bad position. Even if he wanted to counterattack, he just cant anymore. But theres more to it than that. When you artificially grow massively in size in an instant or something like that, you have to start burning more energy from your body to maintain your body if realistic physics and such fully apply to you. Our foe is burning right through much of his power reserves now.
We can even feel his power level begin to drop because of that. One of the actual upsides of his massive size is that none of the injectables we can use against him will be able to get very far in his body that is now so big that part of it is literally out of this world. That means we can forget killing him by just dosing him with a lot of deadly poisons and other things. In time, all of this really starts to bite him in the back along with all of the pain hes now constantly feeling. But still.. Is his body really still around as fragile as it was before he reawakened inside of it? We are still able to reach his lower abdomen and we use that to our advantage. Because of his mistake, we actually somehow kill him only for him to revive to be around the same height as any average tall dark ride building in a theme park. Still dwarfs us in size but now, he isnt wasting a lot of energy on keeping his form moving all the time. The Dominator laughs: "I will no longer make the mistake that just killed me! Oh and in case you were wondering! You can never permanently kill me! I will ALWAYS come back! I am unstoppable!" Where have we heard that line before? This is sarcasm. Some time later, he loses his patience with slowly killing us one by one and actually decided to assert his "dominance" by easily stopping many of our attacks and killing several of us at the same time. He laughs: "This is so much more fun! Okay! Im going to do this now and while Im at it, Im going to psychologically break all of you!" Good luck with that, we will not be broken so easily after what happened last month.
Experiencing complete dehumanization isnt something you exactly forget or forgive. Dehumanization is a violation of things like human nature. We will not stop here, his words and actions wont shake us into submission. If we are to be submissive, its only going to be to consenting partner(s) and/or other consenting participants behind closed doors. If you know what Im talking about, you know. If you dont, if youre a minor, you dont need to know about it yet, please go do something else instead. Thats why Im keeping it as vague as I am here. The Dominator starts talking again while continuing his murder spree: "So many of you count yourselves as heroes or something else who are on the right side of history. But kindness is a weakness. A weakness I have never wasted time on in either of my 2 lives so far. I founded the Martial colonies, yes I did. And I previously influenced the Diamond Authority. But none of this compares to something entirely different I will now use to break all of you! Do you see just how much stronger I am than any of you are? Your attacks have done no fatal damage and my body has already healed from what little you managed to do to me! My energy has not been used up very much at all, even when I wasted so much of it on making my body as huge as I could possibly do so. Now, allow me to prey on all of your fears and insecurities! Show me what troubles you most! My power sees into all of your souls! Theres no feelings you can hide from me anymore! THERE IS ONLY TERROR FOR YOU NOW! All of your attacks are so weak that they rarely ever register to me! Thats right! You cant hurt me anymore!
Now, darkness within my enemies, GO BERSERK! TAKE CONTROL AND CREATE DISCORD!" My inner darkness stirs up but because its fully a part of me now, this literally amounts to nothing. The Dominator watches as his latest move doesnt end up doing very much at all. "WHAT THE?! HOW ARE MOST OF YOU STILL STABLE?!" I reply: "Do you REALLY want to know? Do you want to know what kind of trials and tests and issues we overcame to achieve what you are seeing now? Drawing out our darkness doesnt work on most of us anymore. Most of us have accepted that we are a bunch of monsters. A monster can be seen as anyone who is able to kill another creature and also kill more creatures after that. Isnt that right? But a monster must be willing to kill if it's necessary without hesitation. I know Im kind of a monster. I have calmly killed many foes because I didnt have a better option but to do so again and again. After seeing what happened when the darkness inside of some of us went sort of our of control, we resolved to try to prevent that from happening again. We have discarded the very notion that our darkest thoughts and desires must be crushed, contained, and suppressed always. That notion always does more harm than good. We have embraced that we have darkness inside of us and that was the beginning of what led up to now." He tries again but nothing happens so he literally returns to normal size and begins the typical enemy of our move of moving really fast.
After beginning that, he goes around killing many of us off with single attacks while laughing. "NOW I WILL SEE TRUE DESPAIR ON YOUR FACES! AND THIS IS PROVING TO BE EVEN MORE FUN THAN TAKING MY TIME! I HAVE WAITED SO MANY YEARS TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS!" But to his shock, we dont react like he expected us too. We mentally prepared ourselves for mass losses of life and have experienced such over and over again. We have learned how to cope with it very well through experience in battle, training, and supporting one another. Basically the same techniques we have been using for at least around 2 years at this point but as time has gone on, we have gotten better at it and now, its like something just clicked today. A click into place that got most of us to really start saving the tears for later. It helps that all of us are getting the love and support we need. When you are loved and supported, it becomes that much easier to face hardship if you are loved and supported enough to truly feel that when you need to draw from it most. Self love and confidence is vital to but they cannot be supplementary to love and support from others unless you're a true loner or something. The Dominator yells: "WHY ARENT YOU PANICKING OR CRYING?!" Eraser Head replies: "You want to know why? We wont let you manipulate our feelings. We will let ourselves feel how we want to feel, not how you want us to feel. We'll keep going like this until our feelings inevitably want to burst to the surface. At that point, we will do whatever we must to safely express those feelings before they become too straining on us."
Its important to feel what you feel when you feel it. But what we're doing here is refusing to react how the enemy wants us to. By reducing the chances of strong emotions emerging to control our judgements, we are not letting the enemy make us feel how he wants us to. Yes, we are still feeling our emotions. But we are dealing with them internally as we must instead of expressing them almost fully externally. Eraser Head lied a bit to The Dominator to make him more upset and trick his perception of us. Our fos staggers while still massacring us in large numbers: "Impossible! No mortal could stand up to me! The fear I have inflicted on so many before you was done so easily!" He then kills some of our strongest comrades intentionally: "HOW DO YOU FEEL NOW THAT I HAVE SLAUGHTERED SOME OF YOUR MOST POWERFUL FIGHTERS?!" A bunch of us use the Artist's Eye to create obstacles to constantly get in his way. When he breaks one, at least 2 more appear. "HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN THAT I CAN COPY ALL OF YOUR MOVES WITH MY EYES?!" I refute that point: "Youre lying! If that were true, then why didnt Dewey when he was in your body copy any of our moves?! He may have known what most of them were but that didnt mean he had learned how to do them himself! He only used those eyes as far as I know when I used Artist's Eye to try to put his clone to sleep! What kind of nonsense are you talking about?!" "YOU FOOL! YOURE WRONG! I CAN COPY ANY MOVE WITH MY EYES!" We are continuously using every possible tactic we have to hurt our foe.
We even manage to cut the straps off of his remaining armor, causing the pieces to fall right off, exposing The Dominator's entire vulnerable body in the process. He starts copying our moves and despite that resulting in imperfect versions of our moves, he still tries to mock us by using them to keep slaughtering us. Seems to me that the AI behind his occular ability is truly imperfect and hallucinates information just as AI slop programs do. Some of the moves he copies arent even recognizable as having been copied when he does them. Some allies of ours show up to back us up. I hear Vex speak: "Looks like we have to do something else other than stealing some more loot today." The Multiverse Defense Force has finally arrived in addition to allies from Skyrim and beyond. But this changes nothing. We are still being slaughtered, even though many have already begun using fusion to try to stand a chance. What a disaster this is turning out to be even though we are refusing to surrender or give into our fears. We all still have our fears but we wont let them control us. Someone yells: "If nothing physical, magical, or scientific will work, the imagination is the way!" The imagination didnt stop Dewey when he was in The Dominator's body. But did we really use the full power of the limitless potential of the imagination? Im not sure. Mickey replies: "*chuckles* Youre right! Lets really try to use the imagination!" I mutter: "The imagination requires concentration for most. We need an opening to do this unless we want to die even more quickly. And we really have to think outside of the box, dont we?"
Mickey starts creating a bunch of things on our enemy. In response, our enemy uses his power to destroy them and laughs: "Pathetic imagination. The imagination is weak compared to my supreme power!" Sighing, I pull out some of my sketchbooks after sliding my sword back into its scabbard: "None of my attacks are working anyway. Not even when I use every ounce of strength and other sources of attack power I can muster without draining myself badly. I have tried using my other weapons too, even my daggers coated in that substance but no good. Its all been no good. Lets try something else. I have never tried this before.. *opens a sketchbook* Artist's Eye, bring my drawings to life!" In the sketchbook I opened, there are actually many sketches of things as well as drawings of characters who have yet to appear in any of my stories. A talking whole pizza suddenly comes to life. Their name is C.S.C Slicey. They smile widely as they go forth. I make all of my drawings in the sketchbooks on my person come to life. Many others also deploy the imagination in both familiar and unfamiliar says. Our foe stops slaughtering 10s of us per second: "WHAT IS HAPPENING?!" In response to the displays of the imagination, he unleashes a very dreadful aura. "If you want to use the imagination to kill me.. Then, I will just have to draw from nightmares because you refuse to give into your fears and you just wont stop imagining things to life!" He revives a bunch of dead adversaries. Maleficent laughs: "Its time to turn all of these hopes and dreams these fools have into nightmares!"
The Dominator laughs: "LETS KILL ALL OF THESE PATHETIC LIFE FORMS! ALL OF YOU WILL NOW OBEY ME! CHERNABOG IS WEAK COMPARED TO ME!" Many of us have the same exact thought by pure chance and shout it out loud as our bodies glow due to the star power again: "YOU HAVENT BEATEN US YET, WE WILL NEVER GIVE IN! THIS IS WAR AND WE INTEND TO MAKE IT OUT OF THIS WITH ALL OF OUR ALLIES AND COMRADES!" Spells are cast to resurrect as many of the fallen as possible, bringing us close to peak combined power. Abstractoa speaks: "Enemies of the life and joy in the multiverse, you havent won yet. I will now begin using more of my power to help send you back to where you came from." They defeat Cruella Da Vil with ease along with Scar and Mechikabura. Fu chuckles as he adjusts his glasses: "Let's see where the imagination can really take us!" Hearts grins and nods: "I am most interested in how all of this plays out!" Never underestimate the imagination. The imagination is what allows us to dare to dream of a better future for all of us. It inspires hope. It inspires expression, love, joy, and innovation. It is everything. I pull up a copy of all of my stories on my phone and yell: "I require some imaginative assistance! Lets overload our enemies with my documentation of all of these adventures over the past nearly 7 and a half years!" I get the help I need in bringing nearly 3 million words to life.
This causes many of the revived adversaries to scream as their physical bodies were utterly destroyed just like that and left those still standing in shock for up to 30 seconds before all of it just vanished just like that. This allowed us to kill off nearly everyone else except for The Dominator who was still standing despite us attacking his vulnerable body so many times. And a small team goes around stealthily to replenish mana restorative items for the mages in our forces. Yes. We have a supply team now. Thats something that could have really helped us out even 3 years ago. But Im glad we finally thought of having it formed even so. And while The Dominator was staggered for all those 30 seconds, most of us went backwards to create a gap between us and him that was filled with a mine field in an instant through the imagination. He is still wearing his metal boots. This mine field may be able to take care of that minor obstacle. He runs at us with rage in his expression, causing the mine field to blow up on him, including the "balloons" above the surface any Finding Nemo fan would understand to be a very explosive reference to what did Bruce in after his instincts took over due to seeing and smelling fish blood. The explosives werent ordinary ones either. They werent antimatter but they were still deadly enough to decimate even the most advanced military vehicles nations like the US have access to. And just one of the landmines was strong enough to destroy a modern tank completely. One and done.
Our foe was too staggered to realize he just charged into a mine field because he didnt even notice its creation. So when it ignited, it caught him off guard and gave us a chance to use sealing, restricting, and binding spells, techniques, and technologies such as the ninja using the chain things obtained from the Realm Of The Oni and Dragon. But our foe was too strong for any of it to work and killed many of us while busting free effortlessly. The imagination is then used on his body again. He screams: "WHAT ARE YOU WEAKLINGS DOING TO ME?!" Jumba replies: "Creation is the opposite of destruction. If thats the case, then you could argue that the imagination and the power and intent to kill many lives are also opposites." Deku yells: "Thats right! And we're going to use it to put an end to you!" The Dominator glares at us all before starting to laugh for some reason: "Fine. I will have to use my 'ugly' form, then! In that form, my power no longer has any physical limits! In that form, I AM NOT CHAINED TO MY PHYSICAL BODY ANYMORE!" He laughs again and again as his skin shreds and his muscles grow out of control. Seconds later, his eyes have turned green and his body is like that of a hulking behemoth with a very dark variety of colors throughout its many tough scales. Oh and he now has 2 more pairs of hands and arms. "I WILL BURY YOU ALL AFTER I SNUFF THE LIFE OUT OF ALL OF YOUR BODIES WITHIN THE NEXT FEW MINUTES! DIE! THATS RIGHT! DIE, YOU PESTS!"
But our imaginations are now running wild as our gazes remain fixed towards our foe. His extra pairs of arms burn while things are created on them. I dont know who shouted after that. All I heard was: "LETS FULLY COMBINE OUR IMAGINATIONS WITH OUR COMBAT SKILLS LIKE NEVER BEFORE!" What are they getting at? Theres almost no way to do that sort of thing unless.. We immerse our bodies in creative energy and fight with whatever we have while keeping our minds focused on creating things. It feels like this is going to play out like the chaos of the staff known as Wabbajack. Who knows how this is going to end now. This is the only possible way we can fully combine combat with the imagination. Its like an evolution of moves such as my Creative Blade attack. All of us get the memo with the majority of us BRAINS members specifically concentrating after someone teleports all of us away some distance from our foe. And when I mean us, I mean ALL of us who have been fighting The Dominator. It was Aigami or rather, Diva. He shows back up with Sera at his side and smiles: "Im going to make up for all the harm Ive done. Thank you for helping save me, those of you who did." The two immediately join our combined forces. Now that we are a good distance away from the enemy, we have the time and peace we need to focus and really have creative energy from our imaginations and the Artist's Eye course through us. I was among the first to figure out how to do that. Now, Im surrounded by a pink aura but it isnt my natural pink aura. Its the aura of creative energy in and around me. When someone unleashes creative energy, we have recently found that they can expand that energy by focusing, thinking, and visualizing more imaginatively.
Based on that principle, it wasnt too hard how to expand the energy enough to allow it to course through our entire bodies, especially the likes of me who have spent many hours of their lives creating things or daydreaming. And we were ready to deploy all of this on our foe the moment he caught up to us. At first, he was able to kill many of us but when the first ranged attacks arrived, strange things began to happen to his body. As I got up to his now massive and almost demonic figure, I had my thoughts focused on theme parks. When I hit him with my sword with everything I could muster in a single stabbing thrust, part of his body became home to the physical manifestation of my theme park thoughts. I couldnt even look at what I had just brought to life because I had to keep going and I didnt want to try comprehending the image I would have seen. With so many of us just attacking while using our imaginations in our minds, chaos that made Wabbajack seem like a predictable staff by comparison occurred. The Dominator's body was twisted and warped as things appeared to replace or go on parts of his body again and again. He is back to being Godzilla size but that only made his confusion and agony worse. His eyes return to AI Eyes but against so much raw creativity, they were simply no match. They didnt have any ground to stand on. They were as good as useless. Too many was going on now for them to copy anything anymore. "HOW CAN THIS BE?!" Few characters seen in "fictional" words on TV ever really explore just what the imagination can do for them and thats such a shame.
Figment starts singing his song in order to get on The Dominator's nerves. This is it. The beginning of the end for our foe. He tries to fight back but his hands get attacked and covered in a chaotic set up of things mainfested directly from creative thoughts. "ARRRRGGG WHAT IS THIS?! HOW ARE YOU DOING THIS TO ME?!" A minion points and laughs: "Ha! You don't understand imagination!" The enemy unleashes the deepest depths of his power, showing he still was holding back against us up to now. But against us right now, it was useless. While faltering from my thoughts to pay attention to what was going on every so often, I still focused hard enough to keep my thoughts focused on being imaginative and super out there and about theme parks. We will keep going until this bastard is dead. Time continues to pass and none of us stop for anything. In fact, some of us start attacking through even some rather cartoonish ways. The Dominator screams in rage and pain as more of his body gets overwritten or covered and it attempts to resist whats happening to it. Its resistance is strong but still not fast enough to stop us from continuing as we were. More and more seconds pass. He loses the drive to try to fight back and just lets our imaginations destroy his body. The Dominator screams: "This isnt over! You may have won this time but I wont let you do this again next time!" Pirate Blaster replies: "Arr! Do you really think there's going to be a next time for a coward such as yourself? You have no real guts, do ya?!"
Our foe fumes: "KILL ME AS MANY TIMES AS YOU LIKE, I WILL ALWAYS RETURN TO SLAUGHTER ALL OF YOU EVEN IF IT TAKES ME YEARS TO COME BACK!" He cries out again as his body gets filled with even more stuff. But then, his body breaks apart, unable to take the pressure anymore. After that, he just comes back and laughs: "NEXT TIME IS NOW THIS TIME, PREPARE TO-" He coughs up blood and screams as a lot of energy is drained from him while we keep up the offensive. "No! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! YOU WILL RUE THIS DAY, YOU WILL, YOU WILLLLLLLL!" The Dominator unleashes a massive attack but fails to unleash it as he bleeds out. Having no other option, he flees and we chase after him through dimensions. That sounds very familiar, doesnt it? He screams: "STOP CHASING ME!" We never stop chasing him until he just suddenly gets some backup under the banner of The Company. A executive in a suit speaks: "Thats quite enough, Master. Or should I say, The Dominator?" "STAY OUT OF MY WAY, I DONT NEED ANY OF YOU ANYMORE! I AM ALL POWERFUL!" "As the true head of The Company, your well being is one of our main priorities unless we want to kill you to take over your body but we dont. We submit to you and acknowledge you as our true master. But you need to come with- *brushes off an attack* DO NOT INTERFERE." They just take him and leave for parts unknown. Definitely not the universe of Steven Universe. As we learned during the debriefing, rebellions were spurred across the entirety of it while we fought our enemies. And now, all of our foes apart from The Dominator and Goku Black are dead.
Or on our side now. We spent the next several hours fixing everything, bringing back the Gems who were crushed to dust, and doing whatever else we needed to in relation to what just happened. After debriefing, Deidara yawns and asks: "Hey, does anyone know when this constant string of conflicts will end?" I shrug: "Probably when the last of those connected to Baby are all dead. As in, those connected even through others through their dark deeds to Baby. We have a long way to go even we see anything ever truly settle down, dont we? This time of conflict has been a lot more fluid and chaotic than previous ones, thats for sure." What we didnt know was that we were about to be drawn into a never ending battle that would last for weeks and it would start in a very strange way on the very next day. A little creature appeared near my dearest loved ones and I as we sparred to get ready for what comes next. The creature screeches: "I HAVE A LETTER FOR YOU!" Madeline yells: "MY EARDRUMS!" The creature sweatdrops: "Sorry about that.. Please take this letter from me so I can go home for the day. Im so exhausted." While Bray pets the creature to soothe them, Barla takes the letter from the creature, reads it, and says: "Someone is inviting us to some kind of tournament!" Carlos replies: "A FIGHTING TOURNAMENT!" "..Yeah." An hour later, we were at the arena for a fighting tournament.
A emcee speaks: "Welcome, everyone to the first ever Multiversal Battle Showdown Tournament, sponsored by the ever so generous The Company!" Many of us tense up at that. Dominic yawns: "This was a trap. I thought it was. What a nap causation. *gets serious* I was atomize this entire place if I get the chance to!" Thats a big threat, coming from him directly. The emcee continues: "This will be a battle royale tournament where participants fight each other in 100 contestant battle royals in the first round. Whoever is still standing in each arena moves onto the second round and so on until theres only 2 left! The winner gets to fight a special guest from The Company!" We all know who that "special guest" is and we decide to not go with this tournament. Those of us best with guns pull them out and attack. Some of us shout: "WE WANT NO PART IN THIS TOURNAMENT!" In response, the spectators are revealed to be a bunch of minor enemies and military troops. The emcee grins sadistically: "Its a good thing this was just a rouse to get all of you here in one place! Now, you will have to escape here by killing all of us! Isnt that exciting?! *pulls out a giant weapon* I of course will happily kill any of you who wish to die already myself!" Vegeta yells: "IS THIS SOME KIND OF JOKE?!" The emcee laughs: "The only joke is that all of you believed that you could actually stand a chance against The Company! Face The Company's true power! The Dominator will be pleased!
We're kill all of you for him as revenge for what you did to him! Now, LET THE BLOODBATH BEGIN!" An hour later, we have killed all hostiles in the tournament arena and prepare to teleport away, only to find that we arent able to as a bunch of armed enemies from another location surround us on all sides and start attacking us from a distance. We may have freed the universe of Steven Universe but it appears The Company was well prepared for that scenario. What's more troubling is the fact that The Dominator never used his shard of The Shadow against us. Just how powerful is he? We dont even entirely know even though we should be fully aware by now of just what he is capable of. We fought against the new enemies and their reinforcements for hours. We has to capture a few of them alive in ordee to find out what was going on. Apparently, there are armed forces waiting to kill us all across the entire universe we're in. Just how much time and resources did The Company have to mobilize such a mind bogglingly amount of troops? But wait. There was more. This was all just a game set up to pick us off by The Dominator. Hes too humiliated from yesterday to have the guts to face us again outright. What a loser. 24 hours later, we were still fighting. Our enemies were giving us very little time to rest which was only spent going from place to place. I yell: "There is no end to these people! Damn it! How much longer will it be until we get out of this and dont have to cover for each other to give one another the breaks we need to take! They're trying to drain us of everything and force us away from our homes!"
2 days later, we were still fighting The Company's forces. This would go on for weeks, even after we escaped the universe about a week in because our foes were even invading other universes and we just had to stop them. And yet, The Dominator still didnt show up to finish us off or anything. It was very strange. We must have been about 3 weeks in when the fighting finally came to an end for the time being. And it took 3 days just to fix things up across the places we fought in. It was a long process to do all of that. When we finally went home, we were made aware of an invitation by The Dominator to settle things in a whole other universe. I will provide more details when I write about the very day we set out to come challenge him and whoever he brought with him to that universe. For now, we had to spend a few days just relaxing. I sigh: "This is what it must feel like to fight a war back in my world. The constant being away from home, having to just fight fight and not have a eating or sleeping schedule. Always having to be alert, even while resting. Being forced to deal with unideal conditions constantly. Life on the battlefield sucks. Sure, in many places, all sides usually minimize fighting at night to rest but we didnt get to do that ourselves and that costed us a lot.."
My dearest loved ones and I go outside to just lay in the grass in Greenhorne and watch the clouds and stuff. We are physically, mentally, and emotionally exhausted, despite all of our successful efforts to provide cover to give one another rest time. Herbsalvin speaks while pointing at particular clouds: "I have spent so much time watching the clouds in most of my previous lives. Look at that one, it looks like my wings." I point at another one: "That looks like a chunky monkey or something." We spent a couple hours just laying in that grass, not caring how much dirt was getting on our gear. Attention all readers: make sure to wash things you wear that you have laid in the grass while wearing or have someone wash them for you. This would be the beginning of a little vacation that saw us go to a small number of fun theme parks over the next 4 days, not including the current day. And that is exactly what we needed. I nerded out at the theme parks a bit which no one was surprised by at all.