Tyranny 2025

Chapter 9: Mutually Assurred Devastation

Date: November 6th, 2024

Minglow Bats was right. There was no plan, only fighting and we were not winning at all. No, some of us were already being killed all over again. Blood is everywhere again. Our foe laughs as we struggle to defeat him, we basically stand little chance despite all of us here working together to try to bring him down. Lloyd yells: "We have to find a way to defeat him and fast!" Nya replies: "Thats not going to be easy at all!" Jay gets killed by the Overlord effortlessly. I yell as my attacks continue to fail to do anything: "Cant ever give up here! Even if this is hopeless, we have to keep fighting! We have to keep fighting the good fight even if the enemy is so damn strong and tough to overcome! We can never let them take away our hopes and dreams ever again! Even if we dont make it through this, we have to raise hell in order to make them pay for what theyve done up to now! HAAAAAAAAA! We still have no time for despair and we ARENT DONE YET!" We fight and we fight aimlessly with no direction until PIXAL shouts: "Everyone! Zane and I have come up with a plan that might just work!" Kai replies: "Just say it-" The Overlord kills him too. Sui-Feng gets angrier: "DIE, YOU DAMN VILLAIN! THIS IS FOR EVERYONE YOU HAVE KILLED AND HURT! ONE MORE TIME! BANKAI!" She fails but PIXAL is still able to tell us the plan. If our foe is a being of darkness, we have to fight back with light. That was obvious but there was much more to it than that this time. I yell: "I cast Binding Chains! Hey, Overlord! You stink, you weirdo obsessed with power and control!" I am trying to piss him off and get him to focus on me.

Due to my armor and zombie curse, I am the perfect target for the Overlord to be distracted by for a while. I am a really damn good punching bag. But he doesnt fall for it and unleashes a massive AoE attack filled with darkness that drags all of to the ground through violent shadows that attack us over and over again. More of us die in the wake of that, making our chances of somehow winning shrink even more. But the plan has only just began. I counter with my shadows to free myself and have them take us to the Shadow Realm. The Overlord's darkness is not a match for the darkness of the actual Shadow Realm. And thus, the darkness attacking the others is forced to retreat to our foe. But he just laughs again: "Do you truly believe you have any hope of ever killing me? I cannot ever be truly killed! I will just keep coming back!" Nya replies: "Maybe that is true but we still have to stop you! We will train the next generation someday if we must if thats what it takes to keep you away from taking over Ninjago permanently! Take this! Water Release!" Thats right, she and the others have learned ninjitsu arts relevant to their elemental powers. When we first met them so long ago, they were at a level of standing no chance against what we are facing right now. Thats simply how it was for them. We use our best techniques in rapid succession, coordinating our efforts to confuse and overwhelm our foe. Easier said than done.

Hes a nearly omnipotent being of pure darkness. You cant get rid of someone like him so easily or manage to do too much for his mind to possibly comprehend. No, his mind is extremely powerful. He is countering every single one of our moves like its nothing. Despair yells: "Our plan isnt working. Very well! Allow me to unleash the true depths of my own darkness!" The past versions of Despair appear: Cactus Calamity, Evil Santa Claus, and several others. They merge with him as he teams up with me to unleash some serious darkness to hold back the Overlord. Darkness against darkness is just a power struggle so its not the best strategy but it is a good one for our current situation. So what exactly is our game here? We are buying time for those like Lloyd who have the best chance at stopping the Overlord ro fully power up and unleash and unlock any hidden, secret, or lost powers within themselves. Now that Lloyd has been opened up to the idea of using the Oni form he has, the possibilities for what he can do alone are immense. He and the other ninja have become so strong under the BRAINS Collective and they just keep proving that over and over again especially now that the elemental powers of the original 4 have long returned to them. In fact, those 4 are transforming into their dragon forms right now. Garmadon yells: "Come on! We have to keep this up!" Mel replies: "You will keep having our steadfast support! My fellow knights, lets do what we must do!" Myself and the other knights nod as I pivot from holding the Overlord back somewhat with the power of the shadows and my own darkness.

Theres more than just 4 of us in this fight but we still unleash an effective combination attack and ignore the severe damage we are being dealt by our foe as we do it. Herbsalvin shouts: "Knights must always stay as strong as they possibly can! Take heed, everyone! We shall overcome this wretched being of evil or die upon being unsuccessful. And no, we havent finished yet! Onwards! To victory or defeat!" Us knights keep giving the Overlord a somewhat hard time as we effectively work together to hold him back along with Despair's controlled rampage of darkness. The Kanoka Spirit aids us by attacking the villain with lots of volcanic magic: "Face the rage of the volcano! Volcanic Wrathful Eruption!" Snarky smirks again: "Dont forget us! Lets shoot the crap out of our foe!" The villain is stunned and annoyed over our teamwork as we work to keep him from killing anymore of us. Us knights take on nearly all of the damage while fighting our foe face to face. I turn my head towards most of the others and yell to them: "We are knights and we will keep trying to protect you from harm so you can help us fight this evil being that much better! Remember, BRAINS is a family and it will not leave ANYONE behind! When one of us is hurt, it is our duty to make sure whatever necessary response to that harm is executed as quickly as possible! We are fighting for each other and those who cannot fight these oppressors who have declared war on us! And the future! And for true freedom and liberation! No one is free till everyone is free! HAAAAAAA! We wont stop here! Not with everything we got and could think up now in action at the same time! The armor we knights don will not be so easily shattered in this fight!"

We all keep yelling things at our foe or one another. For encouragement or to just mess with or piss off the Overlord. We refuse to let up even for a second and make up for one another's weaknesses and weak spots. I keep trying to sever the Overlord's head with my sword to no avail but none of us are discouraged. The truth is that we're angry and determined. We are tired of having to fight for the future all the time but will keep doing so indefinitely as long as we still get breaks from it. We are tired of living in historical moments as they happen and watching as villains try to take away everything good that still exists. But because of how tired we are, we are only that more angry. And myself and some others are further fueled by some seriously annoying BS. With my family, it feels like I cant ever be angry. Like Im expected to always be calm and civil even if anger is the only logical approach to getting something important addressed. That seriously pisses me off. I get feeling bad when you hear someone get angry, I feel bad due to that too but sometimes, expressing our rage is the right step towards moving forward in our lives and towards a better future for everyone. But expressing our rage doesnt happen impulsively, we know exactly when to contain and unleash it as needed. Being stoic all the time isnt going to help push for change. Stoicism is a state of ease with one's feelings and emotions. It is helpful sometimes but means absolute horsecrap in the face of situations like our brutal fight with the Overlord. Its not the same as staying calm in the middle of chaos. Thats entirely different.

Thats something I do all the time, I prefer to be solution oriented in the face of problems than being emotion oriented. Thats just how I am as a person. We keep the Overlord busy. My earlier spell didnt work at all but it did give the others a few extra moments to prepare some fast attacks so thats good. The Overlord is struggling to kill any of us now that we are using just about every tactic we can think of to stay safe and keep on bringing on the DPS. We refuse to lose, we wont surrender ever again. We will tactically retreat but thats it. No more being afraid so easily, no more civility in the face of someone who doesnt respect the rights and concerns of the marginalized. We cannot tolerate that crap, especially not these days. The Overlord laughs: "I will kill all of you! You are only delaying your fate! Your fates are sealed, soon you will all be doomed!" I use my best attacks to help keep him busy and off balance somewhat but hes beginning to read all of our movements and block them easily. This is bad. Garmadon yells: "Hurry up! Hes reading all of our movements slowly but surely! I can only keep my efforts up for so long!" I step back to splash poison potions on myself, having no time to drink them before making up for the opening I left by teaming up with Herbsalvin to achieve a double deep thrust. We pull our swords out of the enemy right away but the wounds we left close up instantly. All this time, we have done no permanent or long lasting damage to him. Lloyd yells: "Almost ready!" He did NOT just say that. The Overlord speeds up and leaves us in the dust to punch Lloyd and blast him with lots of dark energy.

Lloyd coughs up blood as his fellow ninja cover for him by attacking the mastermind from behind. As a result of this, he is healed and quickly recovers. But then, we all switch weapons. And by we, I mean, most of us did. The ones not charging up light attacks or fire attacks. We switch to our BRAIN Blasters and let the Overlord have it, causing him serious damage before he adapts to the blasts effortlessly and starts avoiding them like it was nothing. Actually, he starts catching them and throwing them back at us with his own power mixed with them. This causes us to do a lot of running and dodging, giving him the chance to start killing us all again. But we switch back to our main weapons and myself and the other knights use Instant Transmission to surround the Overlord. We take everything he throws at us with all of the skills and gear we got on hand. I equipped my shield to my armor once again and things went from there. Blaze sticks their tongue out at the Overlord: "We cant avoid us now! *stops the Overlord in time* Lets nail this jerkface! Awoo! Time for some fun!" Im so glad theyre back to their more well known bubbly self. Its a good change considering everything thats been going on as of late. The villain isnt even annoyed by Blaze's remarks, he just attacks us even more without mercy after easily breaking through the time spell my fursona casted. We are forced to step back but before we do, we combine our efforts into some serious sword action plus a few magical spells. After we step back to take a breath and use Repair on our stuff, the Overlord suddenly moves extremely fast.

Due to that, he rapidly hurts all of us pretty badly. I spit blood in the direction I see him go when I get ready to spit out the blood. After our little break, we get in our foe's way only to be completely overpowered and knocked into the walls of the shadow dome thats transmitting a portion of the Shadow Realm to our current location. I am forced to release the shadows due to beginning to feel the drain from everything we've been doing the past 15 ish minutes. The animal friends I know and love so much such as Andromeda, Spidey, and Chocolate suddenly bolt into our fight once the dome vanishes, knocking our foe down for a few seconds in the process. When he gets back up, hes blasted by light and fire attacks from a newly revived Kai, Lloyd, Kanoka Spirit, the arsonist plus the fire demon too from Everything Shall Burn(Twisted Land roller coaster), Chris Creeper, Wonda The Gust, Wolgvov, and various others. Grayedge even adds his own twist to the magical assault as a half enderman. And then, Shiny Cobblestone and the other silverfish people from the Silverfish Silver Bank in the Testificate Forest Village(which has a train leading to the Lost Academia from it known as the Lost Academia Expedition) attack our foe from the ground. They do a lot more than just bite the legs of the villain. So much more including casting powerful stone magic. Our foe is shocked by this turn of events as the damage piles on. Now is the time for the real reason we've held up the Overlord for so long. Endermen allies teleport in a lot of angry Ninjago citizens. They were revived again sometime ago and have been itching to do something.

Theres striking workers, angry teachers, passionately furious creatives, and more amongst those who were brought in and they swarm the Overlord even faster than he could possibly react. Due to this, he gets held down and attacked relentlessly along with some of the citizens attempting to tar and feather him among other things. Before we knew it, we were helping the crowd bring the Overlord to a newly built device. Looking at it, I say: "Looks like we're going for a French style for the next step in the plan. I approve of this. This is so French. I rather like the French style of dealing with tyrants, its very modest, quick, and quaint." Seconds later, the Overlord was one longer physically whole and part of him rolled away from the rest of him. A tense silence follows before Garmadon shouts: "He isnt dead yet! Lets finish him off! His spirit will remain but without his body, he will be weak for a long time from here on out!" Not even Lloyd fights him on what he just said. Theres no other choice. For the revolution and resistance to succeed, this is very much necessary to do. We attack the parts of the Overlord with the right moves and attacks for finishing him off. I use Anatomical Disruption to weaken his bones and joints just in case for example. But there was much more than just what I did going on. It was coordinated chaos and it was truly beautiful. The angry citizens step back to allow us to handle the Overlord from here. All things considered, that was the safest option but they were ready to back us up if we absolutely needed their help. However, we were in for a horrifying surprise.

The Overlord gets back up, heals himself instantly, and looks chillingly calm as he begins to laugh all over again. "All of your abilities.. They can never hope to defeat me. Youre all doomed to be killed by my power now. There is no chance of any of you defeating me now. Its over. I have gone easy on you to amuse myself. Now, I will show you the true meaning of DESTRUCTION!" Nya yells: "EVERYONE, GET BACK!" "TOO LATE!" A huge pressure forms out of nowhere and none of us are able to resist it for long before collapsing to the ground due to just how powerful it is. Our foe transforms into a full sized dragonic nightmare even worse than the form he took before Lloyd defeated him while he was in control of Garmadon's body. We try to mainfest our auras to resist but even Yappa Yappa yells: "This is not fun at all! I cant get back up no matter what I try!" Madison replies: "Nor can I! Even with all of the blood Im gathering from this battlefield!" Nya yells: "We cant give up! Not now, not ever! Have to keep TRYING!" We are unable to mount a defense against our foe. Instead, we brace ourselves for what we know is coming next but our precautions would prove useless. The Overlord slaughtered just about everyone in sight. The blood just kept flowing for so long as more and more of us were instantly killed by the damn villain. He laughs and speaks in a booming voice: "Now do you see my DESTRUCTION?! For those of you who are already dead, I am going to enjoy tearing you apart again and again if I have to! This is why you never dare defy my power! I will crush all opposition!"

We are literally helpless. I just watch as the others die all over again. The bloodshed was on a truly horrifying scale. No one was spared. Eventually, even I was torn apart by the Overlord but because he is trying to rip multiple zombies like me at once apart, the experience for long and very grueling. But before we could be finished off, familiar power signatures appear quickly and send the villain crashing into part of what is left of Ninjago City. Beerus frowns: "You mortals.. He got all of you, didnt he? *coughs blood* WHIS!" Whis appears and heals him. It was easy to hear Beerus with how dreadfully quiet things had just become. Athena speaks with her cosmo elevated to the max: "This isnt over yet." They are hit back by the Overlord only for Whis to block one of the villain's attacks effortlessly: "My lord, what would you like to eat after this? This shouldn't take much longer after all." The Overlord is angry: "How dare you not take me seriously! So many of my plans have failed, I WONT LET YOU RUIN THIS ONE! I AM THROUGH WITH BEING PATIENT." I struggle to get back up as a whole new fight begins in earnest. Those of us who are still moving and breathing like me are at a loss of what to do now. We end up gathering together in a actually safe location to talk but none of us are able to come up with anything. But then, the Pleasant Oak Mall Lich speaks: "We can use necromancy to bring everyone back. Its dangerous but Im used to doing it. Just allow me to handle everything and soon, they will all be back to fight alongside all of us." No one objects. We just let them do what they have to do. We agree to give up some mana to help make the attempt successful and just wait to see what happens next.

The Lich creates a ritual circle and places cursed artifacts inside of it as well as a ancient spell book. "I will now help further make up for the wrongs I committed before the Pleasant Oak Mall was destroyed by a great planetary disaster and me along with it. *pours mana into the circle as well as pure darkness and dark magic* Oh, fallen souls, heed my call. I call upon the most forbidden of magic. I agree to pay the price to succeed at this calling. Darkness, please lend me your power to open a path to the afterlife realms. Magic, aid me in guiding the souls of the newly deceased back into their bodies. I offer up the power of these artifacts as well as mana from myself and those who have freely given it away to me. Accept these offerings so that we can do what must be done. *seconds pass and they do summoning chanting moves* I hear the spirits of the newly deceased. They are coming closer. I now maintain the path for which the dead to return from! I bear the full weight of this ritual onto myself! I need not speak any of the words I have spoken but by speaking these words, the dead can hear my voice to return to their corporal bodies and rise FROM THE DEAD!" The air around us gets a lot colder all of the sudden. The sky becomes darker than it already was due to the nighttime and the presence of the Overlord and other twisted beings. The Lich raises their hands as countless souls appear in the ritual circle. "Now deceased souls, return to your bodies and let our enemies have to deal with you one more time! The ritual is coming to a close, hurry out of the afterlifes so that you can return to your bodies!"

Seconds later, we feel another change in the air. The presence of an overwhelming number of the undead. Our comrades rise from the dead one by one. The Lich sits down, drained after bringing back so many souls. Yappa Yappa comes over to us with a grin on his face: "I dont have to be worried about being blasted anymore!" I reply: "Do you have poisons on you?" "Yes I do!" "You should be okay for a while then. Lets get back into the battle I guess!" We all gather up with those who have newly become zombies for the time being. Mayuri laughs: "I never thought I would come back to life as a zombie myself! Life really does work in strange ways!" Beerus and the others stop fighting the Overlord to react to us all. He yells: "What the hell have the mortals done this time?!" Nya yells: "If being alive or immortal due to being in the afterlife isnt good enough, then we just had to become zombies! It was our only choice!" I sigh: "There are pros to being a zombie and then, theres the cons. Regeneration is harmful for nearly all zombies for one. You cant just heal a zombie with healing magic. That usually backfires." The Overlord stops too. Even he is shocked by this latest development. But he doesnt say anything, he just prepares to destroy all of us as quickly as possible before attacking Beerus and the other divine level comrades of ours.

As the others come to terms with being brought back as zombies, we all end up rejoining the struggle against the Overlord. He is by far the greatest threat despite the power upgrades given to the other Ninjago villains. At this point, most of the villains who were in the Departed Realm have been sent back there upon the destruction of their bodies. As things get more intense all over again and the Overlord finds out that taking our heads off is no longer enough to stop us from fighting against him any further, the Firsy Spinjitzu Master appears from the realm he passed on to and offered Lloyd to come with him to once upon a time. He speaks as a massive amount of golden power surrounds him: "This is Ninjago, the home of so many. I have returned, this time for the foreseeable future to protect it. I will aid all of you against the forces of darkness who have taken control of it and are now divided into 2 factions that oppose one another." He also grants golden power to all of the elemental masters, not just the ninja but Neuro, Skyler, Karloff, and the others. The Overlord widens his eyes at seeing the FSM: "YOU?! THIS CANT BE!" Our efforts are reinvigorated thanks to the presence of such a legendary figure. Okino yells: "I AM OKINO AND WE ARE ALL BRAINS! OVERLORD, YOU WILL BE VANQUISHED!" Ultra Violet and the other Sons Of Garmadon who have chosen to ally with us laugh as they get ready for some action. Things just keep getting more interesting. As I keep attacking the same part of the Overlord alongside the ninja, my fellow knights, and others, we see the other fights merge into ours.

Ichigo Kurosaki and the other Shinigami are fighting off Aspera with the help of The New Order Of The Stone and the core members of the Assault Team. Thanks to several Bankai attacks as well as the ultimate moves of Kirito, Asuna, Yuuki, Nautilus/Eji, Argo, etc, Aspera is thrown right at the Overlord. She takes a lot of fall damage after that and some of us like myself join in on the effort to defeat her. There is merit to having a main force eat away at the main villain while smaller groups take care of the small fry. Randomly, Toy Story Midway Mania vehicles appear with Toy Story characters on them. Woody yells: "Hey everyone! Lets shoot down some small fry! *points at Aspera* Starting with this one!" Aspera gets even angrier than she already was: "YOU DARE CALL THE GREAT ASPERA WHO SHALL HAVE HER REVEEEEEENNGGGGGGGEEEEE A SMALL FRY?! FIRE FANGS, DESTROY THEM!" Her giant fire cobras go after Woody and the gang in their shooting ride vehicles. Ichigo runs at one of them: "Where do you think youre going?! GETSUGA TENSHO!" Myself and several others are right behind him. Mayuri yells: "I MUST HAVE THIS LIVE SPECIMEN FOR MYSELF! NEMU, PREPARE THAT ONE THING I ASKED YOU TO GET!" "Yes, captain!" Aspera groans as we crush her Fire Fangs especially as Woody and the gang help by shooting at them with the ride blasters and Buzz Lightyear, the aliens, and other space rangers appear in Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters vehicles to do the exact same thing. Discord appears and chuckles while messing with Aspera's weapons: "LOOK AT ALL OF THIS CHAOS! SO FUN!"

She only gets angrier and angrier as time goes on and Mayuri captures the last remaining one with a modified Pokeball of all things. He grins: "Oh, Im going to enjoy my next research project very much! Its rare to have such a intact live specimen like this one!" "HISSSSSSS! YOU DARE MESS WITH ME LIKE THIS?! YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS WITH YOUR LIVES!" Woody, Buzz, and the others get out of their vehicles to help fight Aspera on the ground only for her to unleash her full power and grow to kaiju size just like the Overlord already has. Kirito yells: "Damn it! Just how powerful is this snake, anyway?! STARBURST STREAM!" We all unleash our signature attacks at Aspera but none of them work. The Saw Mill Killer yells while wielding stonecutters and chainsaws: "WE WILL WIN OR BE DESTROYED TOGETHER!" Aspera laughs: "This makes all the annoying work of fruitlessly conquering many afterlifes that much easier to forget! You cant stop me now! REVENGE SHALL FULLY BE MINE AT LONG LAST! JUST YOU WAIT, I WILL HAVE THE LAST BIT OF MY REVENGE AND THERE IS NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP ME!" The look of vengeance on her face is honestly creepy even to me but we arent deterred. Kisuke chuckles and adjusts his hat: "You know, theres still so many ways for us to endure your attacks, Aspera. Observe. Cry, Benihime!" His Zampato unleashes its rarely seen abilities to give Aspera a little bit of trouble. Asuna and Yuuki then double team her: "*unison* MOTHER'S ROSARIA!" The 8 hit sword skill is released by both of them at the same time. But then, the Mechanic is sent crashing into Aspera and dies upon hitting the ground through his electronics self destructing.

Spectre speaks while riding his ace monster: "And that is why you.. *grins* never mess with the power of mother nature!" He and the others who just stopped the Mechanic join us in the fight with Aspera. Kaito smirks: "Aspera, youre in quite a bit of trouble now that we are here to help or comrades put a stop to you! Go, my dragons! Show her our power!" Several Galaxy Eyes dragons fire at her at once but she brushes off the damage like it was nothing. I end up trying assassination techniques along with many of my fellow Akatsuki members as most of us are now fighting Aspera at the moment by chance. But nothing works. Korosensei appears to help us out only to be sent flying only to come right back and be sent away again and again. Aspera laughs: "This makes all these years of wanting my revenge that much more worth it! I will have it but first, Im going to enjoy making all of-" She is cut off as the other villains return. Katherine Glassgate punches her effortlessly: "We are done waiting. We will kill every last one of you, former ally or not! Because none of you would agree to a bloodless revolution in the name of Nacirema or to be deported to a location of your choosing, it is time for all of you to die or be destroyed! This time, for good! No take backs, all of you will be done PERMANENTLY!" The wind suddenly picks up. I yell: "Looks like the conditions have just become more ideal for those connected to the wind like Naruto, Morro who has left the Departed Realm, and myself!" It becomes a lot easier to use my wind creating sword skills, allowing me to push Great Infernal Tornado Slash up to 200 times unleashed in one go.

So many of us unleash precise and coordinated attacks that deal serious damage to Aspera. But despite the pain, she heals instantly and endures. "I am unstoppable now! None of you can kill me no matter how hard you try! REVENGE, REVENGE! I WILL HAVE IT, MY REVENGE! REVENGE!" She sends all of us packing with a large series of consecutive attacks only for us to counterattack after quickly healing ourselves and/or each other as well as fix up anything that needs to be repaired. The snake only gets more and more annoyed with us, wanting so badly to put an end to us but just as she was about to unleash a devastating attack that would have killed a lot of us of most of us werent zombies at this point, a lot of flying comrades distract her by poking or attacking her. That includes our good ender dragon friend Shadow, Dominic the dragon(Miitopia), Revolver's dragons, Playmaker's dragons, and so on. What she didnt realize that was a trap they helped set up with some REALLY strong heroes. All Might, The Hulk, Superman, Deku, and many others with terrifying amounts of muscle power work together to lift up the Imperial Palace which has remained in place since its replacement by a copy of Twisted Land was undone when I was forced to shut both of my eyes for a time. They throw the palace at her. At that point, those of us who can restrict the enemy somehow do so including the hunters from the Realm Of The Oni and Dragons. Renji helps a lot by using his own Bankai to boa constrict our foe. Aspera screams: "WHAT ARE YOU DO-" She is cut off as the Imperial Palace crushes her to death, breaking apart and causing her remains to splatter all over the place.

All of us then locate the next "lesser" villain to take care of: Vangalis. He is surrounded and completely outnumbered. But with a once again resurrected Griefbringer on his side, that doesnt stop him even as our common foes attack everyone. They have been going at us this whole time but we havent been paying much attention until now. Goku Black announces: "All mortals WILL perish! We will exterminate every last mortal until theres none left!" Vangalis groans and sends his skull friend and Griefbringer after the infamous god who took over Goku's body in a alternate timeline: "STAY OUT OF THIS, THIS FIGHT DOESNT CONCERN YOU, GOKU BLACK!" The god smirks: "Oh, but it does." He kills Vangalis along with all of the remaining Ninjago villains except for the Overlord who suddenly ignores everyone fighting him and hits Goku Black extremely hard while absorbing the spirits of his fallen allies to grow that much stronger. "YOU WILL NOT INTERFERE! NOW THAT I HAVE ABSORBED MY ALLIES, NACIREMA CANNOT EVER GET IN MY WAY AGAIN!" Even Goku Black almost dies due to that single attack. But the god only smirks as he and the other remaining Nacirema villains come together to hurt him right back and try to destroy all of our bodies at the same time. The chaos only gets more and more intense as it becomes clear that the battle has turned into a 3 sides free for all with all sides desperate to stop the other sides completely. Many of us feel too weak to make much of a difference now but keep fighting because of a speech someone made.

They saw a look in the eyes of many of us as we fought desperately to save ourselves and the future itself. And guess who they was? It was Skyler. She yells as she keeps fighting along with us, using her ability to mimick all kinds of elemental powers to the max: "Everyone! Please listen to me! I know many of you are thinking the same thing I am! That youre too weak and not nearly enough to make much of a difference in this battle. I relate to how you feel because thats exactly how I feel. I feel so helpless and powerless, unable to do anything that has a real impact on ANY of our enemies! But from fighting alongside so many friends, allies, and comrades, I have learned some very important lessons. And its time to share one of them right now by using voice amplification magic I cast on myself just now when I got the chance to! Individually, all of us are too weak to stand a chance against ANY of these villains as they are now! But.. small efforts build up into powerful forces of change when they work together. By combining our insignificant amounts of strength, we have become a formidable force feared by many of our enemies up to now! They have the power and influence advantage. But we have the numerical advantage! We can win! Together, we have the power to stop all of these villains and turn this traumatic situation into a win for us all! Cant you see it?! Do any of you remember just what we've been able to accomplish by working together?! WE CAN OVERCOME THIS TOO!"

Skyler was right on the money, her words revived so many things inside of many of us. I felt a lot better, no longer feeling as weak and unable to make a real difference in this battle. As long as we're together, we have an incredible amount of power that has deterred villains countless times in the past. Most villains fear collective strength and power, thats why compassion, senses of community, and more are crushed by capitalist societies and the money loving bastards in power who roll over like good dogs at the whim of the richest and most corrupt piles of sewage in society. The concepts of money and power have largely come to disgust me over the years and for good reason. Rago laughs: "Thats quite the amusing speech but against the power of Nemesis, it means nothing!" Doji laughs too: "Hes right, he know?! Dont you realize just how outmatched you all are at this point?! The fact that you continue tp resist is beyond hilarious because theres nothing left for you to suffer endlessly until your bodies are more more than ash and dust! Its really that simple and easy to understand! Just give up and make this a lot easier on yourselves!" But we dont listen, we keep pushing against ALL of the villains including the Overlord and Katherine. Silently, we sort of group ourselves into groups to focus on individual villains specifically while trying to ignore whatever the other villains happen to be doing. I decide to help fight Katherine Glassgate. None of my attacks do very much on their own but combined with what the others are doing in the Overlord's counters to everything Katherine throws at him while still fighting us. We arent going to let these villains just walk on us anymore.

None of us fear anything right now. We are in this together. Snarky yells: "Lets nail her already and make this done already!" That helped boost our resolve and morale somewhat. When I see someone struggling to stay focused, I yell to them encouraging words as all people fighting for a better future should, not just knights like myself. We do a lot of yelling and give it everything we have but combined, our efforts are only doing minor damage to Katherine. The tyrant laughs: "Did you honestly believe anything you could do would have much of an effect on how I do things in this battle?! At this rate, Im going to crush your bodies myself! I have cameras and other things broadcasting this fight to as much of the multiverse as possible while most of my forces continue to destroy and plunder world after world with no one who can stop them completely! And they just keep adding to their numbers the more worlds they conquer and destroy! I cant wait to see how much beachfront property theres going to be for development once all of the rubble and disgusting bodies of inferior freaks are cleared away! Only those worthy of being allowed to live will get to live in the greater Nacirema thats coming very soon!" How twisted can a politician possibly get? Oh, nevermind. They let a celebrity billionarie run for office, theres no limit to how despicable politicians can get. Absolutely no social limit at all whatsoever. Celebritybillionarie= walking disaster. That's literally just how it works. Despite her words, we still keep fighting anyway. I fix my gear whenever I need to and keep my veins filled with poison to keep myself from getting any injuries that cant be healed just yet.

We all have a role to play here. Despite the futility of our efforts, something is going to give eventually. And it does. The Overlord loses it and yells: "YOU FOOLS, I WILL JUST BUILD A NEW NINJAGO AFTER I DESTROY NINJAGO AND ALL OF YOU ALONG WITH IT! BRACE YOURSELVES FOR YOUR DESTRUCTION WILL NOW BEGIN!" The other villains stop attacking us along with him so that they can focus on just attacking him. But as they clashed with the overwhelming energy the Overlord was letting radiate out of him in hopes of destroying all of Ninjago, we use our signature attacks on him as well before many of us end up yelling: "TACTICAL RETREAT!" We all end up teleporting far away through various means. And we watch from a distance as our attacks as well as the Nacirema villains' attacks clash with the Overlord's armageddon attack, causing a blinding explosion that lasts for a brief moment and levels the entirety of Ninjago. We could see it as we teleported to a mountain range towards the north pole of Ninjago. But the mountain range was flattened and we had to shield ourselves from the immense energy. We teleport back to where Ninjago City was to see a dying Overlord attempt to kill the other villains only to be beheaded by Goku Black who smirks the entire time especially as wormholes to other worlds appear. We go through those wormholes and discover they lead to worlds where the enemy army are decimating everything. We had no choice but to cover those worlds with the blood of the enemy troops in order to be able to stop them from doing anymore damage.

But the damage was already done. So many worlds have been leveled with an unspeakable number of fatalities across much of the multiverse. With the wormholes still open, we ended up back in Ninjago City once our work in that regard was finished. Katherine speaks to us with a disgusted expression on her face once all of us have returned to the city from those other worlds: "Y-you.. YOU FREAKS! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO MY ARMY?!" To be honest, I ended up being seriously beaten up by the time we had to mass teleport away from this location. Many of us ended up that way and are still in bad shape despite standing upright in defiance of our foes. With blood dripping down from my armor, I end up replying with a piting, angry, and defiant look on my face before anyone else could find the words to reply themselves. Few of us have written as many words as I have after all. "Is that your real concern? Dont give us that crap. You all but wiped out our collective. Nearly all of our bases are destroyed and our space station is in pieces. Because of your decisions, so many worlds have become destroyed, flat, and lifeless. You arent okay. I pity you. Anyone hell bent on conquest is not doing okay. Bloodlust and a thirst for destruction and conquest arent healthy for human beings like you and I. They just arent. I didnt ask for human nature to be the complicated way it is. Nor did any of us ask to have to have battle after battle for such a long time up to now. Are you happy now? Are you satisfied now that you have caused multiple genocides, wiped out the populations of countless worlds, allied with some of the worst villains to ever exist, and conquered so much?

Are you just so sadistic that the only things that can bring you joy are genocide, murder, torture, conquest, bigotry, oppression, lying, and so on? Are you that broken? Are you even willing to be fixed? Are you even remotely okay?" She spits in my face: "WHAT DO YOU KNOW?! YOU KNOW NOTHING! I REFUSE TO LIVE WITHOUT POWER! YOU ANNOYING WOKEIST KNIGHT! YOU VERMIN!" "Is that the best response you can give? Just look at what youve done. You have fulfilled so many of your twisted desires. You have gotten so much of what you have wanted all this time. What will even remotely satisfy you? The destruction of every single world in existence to the point they're all just blank wastelands dull in color?! That's probably it, isnt it? You want to live in a fantasy where any possible threat to your power has been slaughtered and/or destroyed, where the past is no longer relevant. Where you just get to live in paradise with your fellow sadists and laugh arrogantly like crooked nobles as you go: 'Im so glad those oh so annoying minorities are gone, all they did was complain whenever we would oppress them because we thought we're far superior to them.' Youre too stubborn to admit it but I have figured you out, Katherine Glassgate. I know precisely the kind of person you are. You thrive on your selfish need to feel superior and have power over others. You cling onto hierarchy as a lifeline because you think its the only way your life can have meaning. You are insecure as well because your lust for power makes you afraid of losing it, being criticized, and keep trying to get more of it.

Your selfishness *ignores her trying to interrupt and speaks louder* has left you rotten to the core. You are afraid of us because we dare oppose your power and actively fight against you, your allies, and your underlings. As far as villains go, you are among the most realistic villains out there by the standards of my home world where villains like you are attempting to accelerate us straight to extinction all for the sake of their precious greed, money, power, bloodlust, thirst for destruction, and so on. A world in which hundreds of millions if not billions of people have been manipulated into being too gullible to realize the hierarchical capitalist system is hurting them along with everyone else. A world in which billionarie celebrities are allowed to run for office even if they're convicted criminals. I dont know whats more corrupt anymore. My world or your trash empire." Instead of replying, she yells: "DESTROY THEM ALL, MY FELLOW VILLAINS!" She just shouted the quiet part outloud. We stand our grounds and get ourselves back into shape quickly through our last remaining supplies amongst other things, ready for the fight of our damn lives. I face Katherine again along with many others. She is focused on me after everything I just said to her. Duh, of course she is. Especially as a human being like myself. But she sure doesnt act like a human being actually interested in the survival of the human species is supposed to. Typical behavior for fascists like her. Fascists always court death with theor destructive plans. Thats how they operate. They dont actually care about the survival of their own species. Caring about the survival of one's own species is inherently anti-fascist just like how human nature itself is deep down, anti-fascist too.

Fascists will shoot themselves in the foot if it gets them more power. As long as they know they cant die from it, that is. But because our main nemesis is focused on me, that gives everyone else that much more opportunity to show our foe what for. I dont even attack her. I just use my skills as an AGI tank to waste her time and constantly provoke her in order to keep her eyes on me: "Thats right! Come at me, you fascist weirdo! No decent family would let someone like you sit at any table at any of their gatherings! When a family gives a fascist or fascist supporting family member a seat at one of their tables, those tables become Nazi tables. Until you can learn how to be a decent person, you deserve whats coming for you. If you refuse to listen to reason, don't be surprised if good people give up on you and isolate themselves from you. Youre a weirdo, Katherine Glassgate. A true weirdo and I dont mean in a good way. I can see the look on your face, youre offended when anyone sees you more than just a tyrant theyre afraid of or someone to worship like a total fool. You know that your power is fragile. You know your lust for power is weird. You know that all too well and yet, instead of trying to live in harmony with everyone else, you try to take control of their entire lives and the societies around them. You could choose peace and kindness based violent and/or nonviolent resistance but you dont. You never do. People say they cant understand people like you but that's not true. That's a lie. It is very much possible to comprehend the kind of anti-social weirdo you are, to comprehend just how much of a vulnerable sadist you are. To realize just how fragile you are as a weirdo with a easy to hurt large ego."

I keep egging her on, using my magic to fix my armor and shield as needed. I stick my tongue at her. I make fun of her. I do terrible impressions of her. I keep calling her weird. I just keep doing it for as long as I can while making myself a hard target to hit and a sturdy one at that. I become as annoying as I used to be in battle several years ago before I became a significantly more serious person. I even make really annoying noises and use cheap gags like water balloons, silly string, and screaming rubber chickens every so often. By the time I couldn't do it anymore and had to stop fixing my armor so that I wasnt reduced to just a walking skeleton, I had allowed for Katherine to be beaten up real damn good. Not even her healing abilities were enough to heal all of the damage she took so easily. I smirked even as my body was cut into pieces by the pissed off tyrant: "Hey weirdo, I did exactly what I wanted to do to you. Even if this is the end of my interdimensional adventures if you manage to cut me up into small enough pieces, I will at least return to my original body knowing that I pissed you off long enough to give you a really hard time and handicap you as you try to beat up everyone else currently fighting and/or resisting you." She only gets angrier at my words only for her to suddenly stagger in pain: "WHAT IS THIS?!" Mayuri laughs: "Oh, do you like it! I developed this poison just for you! Surprise!" Orochimaru chuckles: "And I managed to place a curse on you. Your arrogance and rage is costing you dearly, Katherine Glassgate."

Biara adds: "Your emotional control is weak. You were doomed to succumb to this eventually. You can be as powerful as you desire but that means nothing if you cant face reality. As a doctor, I know that all too well." Meanwhile, Doji and various other villains are forced to retreat. Doji laughs: "This isnt the last youll be seeing of this! Farewell, my friends! Till we meet again! MWAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA!" One by one, the other villains begin to leave. Goku Black shakes in rage as he bleeds out heavily: "Impossible! I have been beaten again! Im going to make all of you pa-" He is cut off as most of the assassins in our collective kill him again. He will come back to life soon but for now, he isnt a problem at the moment now. Katherine Glassgate sees all of this happen but gets back up and attacks all of us with no mercy despite being severely weakened with the poison blocking her healing powers. I keep my smirk on: "Its over, Katherine Glassgate. I can see it. *the others join in on the fight against her* Youre going to die if you dont back off." Her rage is so powerful that she doesnt take the hint at all. And then, a live feed suddenly pops up of the massive military base for Nacirema that takes up an entire planet as well as other military bases scattered about and put into various worlds through deceit and manipulation. A voice speaks to us all: "Now watch as the majority of Nacirema's military is destroyed completely in one fell swoop."

And then, the military base planet is hit with a space laser. It is destroyed in seconds. The other bases are obliterated by anti matter bombs in an instant. All of that got Katherine's attention. She gets angrier and attacks us even harder only for things to get even worse for her. She weakens further and further, her thinking is spiraling straight into a place that no one's thoughts should ever go: a complete denial of reality. But then, Goku Black returns, grabs Katherine Glassgate effortlessly and leaves with her screaming out in pain and rage. Nacirema isnt done yet but it has been bruised and wounded badly. I am given lots of poison and other help to put myself back together. Bray ends up using her magic to fix my gear before hugging me: "We almost lost you in all of that chaos.. Let me know if you need anything, I shall do my best as your friend. And dont worry, if I need your help, I shall let you know as well." "Thank you.. Today has been a lot for all of us. We have so much work to do. Most of us are zombies now and I dont think thats actually a good thing despite the perks of being a zombie that I know all too well." "Indeed. There are too many cons for zombification to be truly viable in most cases." "At least most zombies dont burn in the sunlight.." A few minutes later, Abstractoa speaks: "Everyone, not even I can just bring everyone back and fix everything just like that. The damage and fatalities are far too high even for me to do that so easily. Its going to take all of us working together to get everything that was destroyed back. The first order of business is our new zombie problem." Dominic, other scientists, and various mages get to work on resolving that problem right away.

In the meantime, we decide to repair our space station before anything else. We need a place to stay again and the damage done to the BRAINS systems was catastrophic. We need the space station in order to get them repaired. Our phones dont have any signal at all because of what has happened. And now, theres a whole other problem too. Madison has lost it because of all the blood she tried to take in earlier. But with so many of us working together, it took mere seconds to resolve that problem before it got out of hand. It almost ended up doing so. We got to her in time. Thank goodness. Most of us played a part in fixing the space station. We weren't concerned that much about all the furniture that was destroyed and stuff of that nature. Our personal items were fine, thats what actually matter. Thanks to ender chests and such, they really were okay. That being said, you can replace furniture but you cant truly replace a life. And no, resurrecting someone from the dead doesn't count because of course it doesn't count. People over stuff. People over profit. Always. Always. Bringing the fragments of the station just floating in space around Mii World was a process but we were able to do it. But the destruction of the station called for a redesign to make it bigger and much more reinforced. The toughness of my own armor was factored into part of the redesign. If we can make heavy armor with such high defense like mine be only as thick as typical plate armor is, you better believe we can apply the same principles into the materials of the new version of our space station.

It took all of us working together to build and design it. We pulled the fragments of the destroyed space station to the surface of Mii World after Abstractoa restored everything that was destroyed on it earlier for us and started reviving everyone who had died on it and never came back to life up to now. Steadily, the new space station began to take shape. Frustrated by the destruction of the theme park I designed to be built on the space station including the second version that was later built, I was determined to go much further with it this time and helped push for a larger space for such a project. Working together with specialists from the theme park connected industries we have picked up from various worlds, plans were drawn up for one hell of the theme park. I handled as much of the creative side of things as possible. I came up with every attraction, store, restaurant, you name it. And by store, I just mean places to pick up free stuff because we are a money free commune except in the case of art commissions and stuff like that just in case. A lot of art trades are done amongst artists like myself in the collective, thats helped a lot with shifting away from money as much as possible. With the only surviving food source in the collective being my Wicked Parks Resort, it would be heavily relied on for some time while we got things fixed up, improved, and restored. Within a few hours, the hull of the space station had been largely constructed. To save on our dwindling energy supply that was running out due to the fact most of our energy sources have been destroyed, we planned on just opening a magical portal to bring the new space station up to space once it was ready.

(Side note: if it wasnt made clear before, yes, we ended up back in Ninjago with the afterlife invasions just kind of awkwardly tanking before fighting the Overlord and the villain eventually becoming kaiju sized.)

This new space station is going to be so good that its training rooms will be larger and increase in number among other things will full service restaurants scattered throughout it. Plans to turn BRAINS into a civilization of sorts have been put on hold. Too much going on for that to continue at the moment. Heres what else is going into the new space station. Several schools on multiple levels with large libraries, plenty of computers, and lots of space and materials for all subjects: arts, math, science, history, magic, fitness, you name it. Several spaceports will also be built for our spacecrafts. And a large new meeting room will be built for all future collective wide meetings among others. The hallways will be pretty wide with plenty of benches and matter converting trash cans scattered about as well as tables, charging outlets, little free libraries(in case someone wants to have a quick book to pick up instead of going to one of the libraries onboard), and whatever else is needed. As for other infrastructure, there will be more libraries, several computer centers, a entire laboratory wing, a full medical wing, 2 food courts, 3 auditoriums for concerts, presentations, and stage performaces, the theme park, a jaw dropping water park, a sizable gaming wing, a armory wing, a new hidden location for forbidden artifacts(all the ones we had on the old one were safely retrieved by someone we trust), a animal wing, several wings for BRAINS members' quarters, several biodomes with different biomes such as the ocean,

a graveyard, a creepy haunted house attraction separate from the theme park, and anything else we could possibly want or need within reason. The architecture will be of many different styles with a sci fi look for the hallways obviously. Mission control will also have that look. And we cant forget about the power, water, and storage rooms among other vital rooms. Whoops, almost forgot about that. Its going to take a while for us to bring back and/or improve everything that was destroyed during our latest battle with our foes. Eventually, I found myself laying in bed in my and Herbsalvin's new space station quarters with my knight charming laying right next to me. They reach out to me with their right hand. I grab onto it with my left. They smile and blush a bit before sighing and giving a sad expression: "Even Im at a loss of whats next for us." I reply: "Its hard to say exactly whats next.." "Indeed. We know what we have to do. But I fear that we wont be ready for what its going to take. Will our efforts be sufficient to do what must be done? Will we be willing to lose everything if we have to? But.. You have my word that I will try what I can to make all of our dreams come true." "That's how I feel too. We have to keep taking it bit by bit and plan out as much as we can while also preparing for the worst and the unexpected. I dont know how much longer I'll get to write out things like the adventure we just had to post online in my world. But what I do know is that I will never willingly stop doing so. We will not comply. We will be ourselves and avoid all iterations of Nazi bars everywhere."

We share a kiss and find comfort in each other. "Herbsalvin, you are still the perfect one for me. And I dont even know how to fully convey my feelings for you. We belong to each other and that just feels really good to say outloud. We are each other's knights in shining armor. Talk about a twist, Ive said this before, havent I? *laughs* And I just love when you talk so knightly and also when you blush all cute like. Ive never been the most romantic person but you? You just have exactly what I like. No, you arent perfect and neither am I. We're flawed and sometimes, kind of a couple of screw ups but we push to improve ourselves so its okay." Sirens dont lure me in as easily as they do other people but of a siren had the same warm voice as Herbsalvin, Id be in danger of falling for their scheme but not definitely for certain level of in danger of course. We drink sleep replacement potions to stay awake and get out of bed after spending some more time together in order to help continue construction on the new space station. On our way to helping however we can, we see the Knights Of Hanoi and other computer whizzes rebuilding and repairing all of the BRAINS networks post haste. The enemy wont so easily devastate us next time. They just wont. Its just not going to happen. In time, once this station is fixed, we will help restore Ninjago and go from there. There is so much work to be done. Herbsalvin and I mostly help with lifting things, painting stuff, and standing guard in case something happens. We dont know anything about proper construction. And we gotta limit our use of magic just in case.

Building everything with magic would be a great idea but using it to build a station this big would drain almost everyone who can help make that work run out their mana, the two of us included. The future isn't written yet, there's still time to fight for tomorrow. Don't obey the system. Dont sacrifice who you are for it. Dont let fascists or their supporters into your lives. Its time to fight and prepare for worldwide attempts to bring about a apocalypse by you know who. The likes of orange boy and his friends. I want to thank you very much for reading, dear reader. I hope you continue reading from here when future chapters arrive if they havent yet as of when youre reading this. We do truly live in dark times but there's always hope as long as you are willing to persistently believe in it. Thank you so much for reading this far. Feel free to share your comments, questions, concerns, and overall feedback.