Tyranny 2025
Chapter 12: Diablo Nemesis at Universal Studios
Date: December 4th, 2024
(Whoops. I dated the last 2 chapters wrong I think. They happened on Dec 4th too, not Nov 4th..) Johannes as confused by what I just did especially as Tornado Wolf just stays in place. "Meow! What is this?! Whatever! Beat Lynx! Lets end this already since he doesnt want to fight!" I reply: "He? Are you mistaking me for someone else?" "..WHAT IS THAT EVEN SUPPOSED TO MEAN?" "You must have me confused for Ginga or someone else because my name is not 'he'. Im Swiftdrawer, they/them." "Oh great! You are obsessed with all that gender stuff or whatever that all is! But I dont actually care that much!" I just have Tornado Wolf wait patiently for Lynx to come at them. While the enemy bey comes in, using that taller spin track to really put the pressure on my bey, my bey holds steady, using stamina mode to just waste Lynx's efforts. Johannes groans: "What is going on here?! Why arent you attacking back? Ive been through too many defeats to believe that youre just being a coward!" "Youre right. Im not being a coward and neither is my bey, Tornado Wolf and I are equal partners in our relationship." "Then what are you doing? Nevermind! If you wont do anything, I will! Beat Lynx! Finish that wolf off! Theres no need to use any special moves! Hahahahahahahahahaha!" For several minutes, we just hold steady, letting Lynx coming in over and over again. Im not worried. Tornado Wolf is like a wolf covered in full body plate armor over their fur due to how strong their parts have been made through modification during the design and creation process of the bey.
The aggressive and playful Lynx is constantly on the prowl but thats not good enough against us. It truly isnt at all. Johannes suddenly snaps: "Im tired of this! Its time to unleash full power and end this boring battle once and for all! You just wont attack, will you?! Will you ever put up a fight against me?!" "We know what we're doing. Our taunts and yelling wont dissude us from the right course of action here. If you think mockery will work, think again. The pride I have doesnt rely on the approval of others. I may be sworn to protect the people under my own knight's code but that doesnt mean I or anyone else here will rush in recklessly. Dont waste your time with taunts or insults. Ive been called annoying. Ive been called boring. You wouldnt believe how many times Ive been called 'childish', its such a go to insult. I dont need to be well liked to be happy, as long as I have others who care about me and others to care about, I will manage." Johannes channels a lot of his twisted aura into his bey, leading Lynx to begin attacking harder and faster and moving more wildly to bait us and deal more damage from the resulting accelerations caused by the movements. But Wolf stands perfectly still in defiance. Only a matter of time until we can do a single attack knockout. Thats the plan here. The sooner we take care of Johannes and Lynx, the better. We're not here to have a adrenaline inducing battle if theres no need for such. I may be an adrenaline junkie but roller coasters, sparring, and sword training give me my fill. Im not interested in battling through rash decisions or anything like that. Every move here is planned out.
Wolf and I practiced this strategy before. Johannes laughs: "Now its time to end this! Forget the special move! Dark Move: Flesh Ripping Pounce! HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA!" "Tornado Wolf. Ultimate Mode! Now for our counter!" The secret weapon is revealed, providing a huge boost to Wolf's attack and stamina, making them go beyond what they were at launch time. Through this, we finally fight back. "Special move: Single Strike Bite!" Like a angry wolf with their maw open as wide as possible, they attack through a single attack with a concentrated force in a fang like piece that has shown itself as part of the fusion wheel. This results in Lynx losing all of their strength just like that due to the severe damage this causes. This ends the battle. Johannes screams: "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO LYNX?!" "An enemy intent on killing or destruction wont go down until they are injured and crippled or worse. I dont usually play 'nice' when it comes to an enemy we must urgently defeat. Sure, I'll spare them from a long and painful death if they must die but thats about it. Im not interested in making our enemies endure prolonged suffering. Id rather rehabilitate them when possible or get rid of them as quickly as possible otherwise. Or have them just live a good life in confinement. Im no sadist." "IM NOT DONE YET, MEOW! IF YOU ARE SO GREAT, THEN PREPARE TO FACE ME LIKE NO ONE HAS BEFORE!" He merges with his bey and uses Artifical Barian Battlemorph. All of his fingers notably gain claws that look sharper than steel and harder than bone.
He tries to attack me with his claws while using his footwork to attempt to crush Tornado Wolf at the same time. But I kick him with one of my boots. He cries out in pain as I follow it up by effortlessly picking him up and throwing him across Dynamus's temple. I retrieve and store away Tornado Wolf as he comes at me by teleporting and moving really fast with his feet. Before I knew it, he had already scratched part of my armor and left behind shallow marks. "Meow! I should have torn right through all of that!" "You arent dealing with an ordinary knight with standard grade knight's armor. *draws sword* Its true that Im good at using my fists but my swordplay is where Im really at my best." His claws clash with my sword. But the other set of his claws manages to scratch my face when I was paying attention. "I have you now! My claws are leaving behind a real mark on your face!" I ignore the bleeding and lock his position using my sword against his claws, getting my sword sort of wedged in, causing Johannes to have his right claws be stuck and him to struggle to get them free of my beloved weapon. But he does so after only a few seconds due to all of the power that is currently flowing through him now as he manifests the full extent of his peak power level. Being shorter than me, he focuses more of his efforts on trying to get my lower half and dealing heavy damage there before I make a motion to break his claws with my signature attack. But it hardly does anything so I bend my knees and jump high enough to jump after Johannes before he can capitalize on my failure. This forces him to respond to a Wind Break Slash from behind.
And somehow, he does by evading it and beginning to move much faster than before. Im caught off guard as Im forced to play catch up, trying to attack him while he continues to assault me without mercy, digging deeper and deeper into my armor while continuing to scratch my face every good moment he spots to do so. But then, I slow down, not allowing him to control my movements. While he fights fast, I fight slowly and precisely to try to turn the tables on him. Instead of targetting his claws again, I start aiming to destroy his throat with my sword. A very crippling injury but probably only a brief nuisance for my foe given the fact that his power level is greater than my own. He laughs: "Whats wrong?! Am I too fast for you?!" Not anymore, youre not. You want to control how I move to fight against you but I wont let you. If you really were intent on killing me as quickly as possible, you would go just for my face only to end up realizing its useless because Im already dead. Your desire to have fun is fighting with your killing intent but because you are stronger, faster, and sturdier than I am, that isnt as big of an issue for you as one would expect. I dont say a word to what Johannes says. I just keep going for his throat. Unless Im stripped of the ability to get to it, I will keep going for it unless this proves to get me more hurt in the end because Im becoming easier to read. After a few more minutes, going for his throat only allows him to hurt me more and more as what I thought would happened happens. But I decide to keep going for it anyway. My armor and state of being stuck as a zombie give me an edge here.
Johannes suddenly knocks me back with a giant power blast. But I force my legs to move up immediately. That still wasnt fast enough. I was now forced on the defensive but my killing intent was still very much there. I fought back offensively no matter the cost because fighting defensively won't work here and my armor is still mostly undamaged. I observe my foe's movements and begin to understand them a little bit more, allowing me to suddenly stop in place, forcing Johannes to spend time reacting. While hes doing that, Ive already made a clear slash into his throat. His skin is tougher than normal but when I slash with enough force, something like that doesn't matter in the moment. My sword is just that hard and sharp. However, he ignores his injury to retailiate with a series of rapid punches and claw slashes before backing away and running around in an attempt to make me miss hitting him and confuse me. But I dont attack while hes moving around so much. I prepare for when I can get another body part of his. To my surprise however, he out of nowhere changes tactics instantly and has knocked me to the ground not even a second later. He slashes my throat while holding me down with one of his legs. When I begin to effortlessly get up and thus knock him off of me, he blasts my throat with a massive energy blast, shattering much of my body armor and almost decapitating me. The force knocked me unconscious. When I felt Bray wake me up with magic, I found myself beaten badly. I was once again laying in a puddle of my own blood with my armor severely damaged.
Johannes laughs: "So much for being a knight in shining armor!" Im still holding my sword. He couldnt knock it out of my hand no matter how hard he tried. I have a death grip on it. I stand up despite my condition and how weak I feel. I still no longer feel pain in this body so here I am. "Im not done." "Meow! We'll see about that! DARK CLAW DEVASTATION!" He unleashes a deadly attack but I sidestep it instead of taking it full force. I run at him before he could run at me, surprising him and allowing me to attempt to cut his body in pieces with many Drawing Devastation attacks one after another in seconds. But it does little against him so I focus on piercing him instead by thrusting my sword with both of my hands. I keep both of my hands on my sword for now to be more precise, more centered, and deadiler. This change catches him offguard, allowing me to get some hits in even though it feels like my arms are about to fall off any second now. I then kick him several times and having Artist's Eye activated at all times instinctively when I fight now, I use my ability to create long things to pierce right through him before moving backwards really fast. This allows me to drink some poison potions before he catches up to me and proceeds to try the pummel me only to be blocked by shields cast by Bray. I wouldnt know this until after we liberated this world but my friends with me interfered to help me many many times. My victory was actually thanks to all of them. I would have been reduced to a hunk of meat with armor fragments and more all over the place. I only noticed just a few of the assists they gave.
After 30 more minutes, our fight finally draws near to its climax. As a writer, knight, fiction consuming nerd, and so on, I could tell the fight was drawing to its conclusion. I was tiring out and the poisons have begun running out. Bray tries to use poison magic on me but it somehow fails. If I don't finish this soon, Im going to lose. And my friends will have to jump in to takeover for me. I dont want them to have to do that. I want to finish Johannes off right here right now. I stop attacking Johannes over and over even though that's technically what I should be doing. Due to Johannes then going to town on me, pieces of my armor begin to fall off of me to reveal my torn and blood soaked dark knight robes. But Im willing to endure even this for what I have planned even though I do naturally get worried when parts of me get hurt, broken, or worse. I start channeling my Ki into my sword, still refusing to let go of it no matter what happens. Dont try this at home or anywhere else, readers. I had been using my Ki to boost my attack strength and speed this whole time instinctively but now, I was planning something big with it. Johannes naturally figures it out considering the fact that I have stopped attacking him and refuse to let go of my sword. He begins trying to slice my arms off which are holding onto the sword as tightly as possible. But my friends prevent him from doing so. Seconds later, as I finally slash him while he continues to try to slice my arms off, I yell: "KAMEHAMEHA SLASH!" But it was too late for him to react, the attack cuts his body physically in 2, causing all of him to collapse to the ground.
I had already given him countless injuries which he just ended up healing seamlessly starting some time after our fight began. So I knew the body would try to mend itself back together as Johannes was effectively immobile at the moment. I ignore his lower half which tries to kick me over and over in order to run behind his upper half. That upper half is oddly shaped because my slash cut him in half diagonally but no matter. My target now is the back of his neck where the nervous system runs through the top of the spinal cord. An injury to the spinal cord in addition to the fact that part of it is now severed anyway would be seriously destructive. The upper half tries to get onto the lower half but I dont allow that, taking beatings from my foe's lower half while stepping on his upper half. I kick away his lower half when I get the chance and release his upper half despite the fact that that allows him to blast me so hard that Im once again a seriously injured mess. Im starting to see colors in my vision. Im beginning to pass out. It takes everything I have to do what I decided to do in a split second decision. His back of the neck is mine. I manage to step on him again by ignoring everything he throws at me but this time, I step on the backside of his neck and stomp on it to crush it. If I can cause enough damage to affect his brain, hes finished. And thats what I manage to do but barely as I begin to seriously weaken. Knowing Im about to pass out, I scream while both halves of Johannes go limp and my arms really do feel like theyre going to fall off. If I werent a zombie in this body, I would have died a while ago in this fight.
I move my smashing foot up and begin stomping on his skull as much as I possibly can to shatter part of it and get his brain because his body is still trying to heal itself and hes still a threat. Eventually, I pass out before finishing what I set out to do and collapse right then and there. After who knows how long, I wake up to hear Bray speak: "Swift! That was so close. You just passed out a few seconds ago. Johannes is dead thanks to you but.. we shall have to take care of you for a little bit.." Herbsalvin adds: "You look horrible, my dark knight.." After a few minutes, Im all healed up and my armor has been restored as have my clothes. I speak: "I would ask if this could stop happening to me if it werent for the fact that this happens to all of us at least once or twice a month. And its always pretty brutal looking no matter who ends up in such a terrible state.. Thank you so much for helping me and getting me back on my feet and aiding me with Johannes.. Y'all mean so much to me and I just cant express that enough." A couple of minutes later, we teleport to where we were before this to witness something truly terrifying. Nemesis laughs while bursting out of the large new temple and destroying it in the process. They, he, whatever we should refer to the twisted god as finishes growing in power before our eyes by evolving into an even larger form than what they were already displayed as before our eyes. As soon as the god finishes, they fire all kinds of attacks at us, each one is targeted and meant to be precise.
We are forced to scatter and spend the next few minutes struggling to organize into ideal groups for killing a giant god. Nemesis just laughs at us while displaying Rago's spirit: "You worms never stood a chance against us!" Pluto's spirit adds: "Soon, this world will be destroyed and a new age will dawn upon it! Not a new age of beyblade. Instead, a new age of destruction and domination throughout this whole universe will be created!" The spirits of other villains are inside of Nemesis too now. Ziggurat laughs: "This was always the true goal of Hades Inc from the start! I half expected my plans to fail but knew that they would eventually lead to the revival of Nemesis!" Damian laughs even harder: "You weaklings dont stand a chance against us now! There's nothing you can do to stop your destinies of being brutally killed off in this battlefield! HAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!" Doji grins: "Now this is what I call a true revenge! This is far greater than any plans of revenge Ive previously been involved in! Isnt this just wonderful?! I for one know it is!" Reiji cackles: "We will crush your pathetic bey spirits along with all of your hopes, dreams, joy, and more! The time for the age of Nemesis is now!" I end up on yet another group of frontline fighters. Nemesis is so massive that various groups have been created to surround them on all sides in order to attack them from just about every angle you could think of. Problem is that the god's focus isnt solely on the group facing their monstrous face which includes the best bladers this world has to offer. No, their attention is powerful enough in conjunction with their
size to be able to hit many groups at once without splitting their attention or anything like that. They even grow many arms to pull stuff like that off. The group Im in consists of a mix of various styles of frontline fighters including AGI STR tanks like myself. We are attacked by flames as well as energy blasts and intense gravitation forces that try to pin us to the ground. But all of us are strong enough to resist the gravity and go in to try to cut part of one of the god's legs to no avail. Chaos escalates as fighting on both sides becomes constant and hard to really read much of. Kirito shouts: "We cant worry about the others! We just have to go in on the attack and not allow this bastard to kill anyone! We cant afford to lose or give up here!" But we are unable to do anything but defend ourselves against Nemesis as things around us begin to get really weird. Its like the fabric of reality is partially beginning to break down. Asuna yells: "Look out, everyone! Something strange is happening!" We keep on attacking Nemesis despite all the damage we are being dealt because many of us in our group are heavily and fully armored. But then, a rift appears near us and we are unable to get away from its expansion in time before it swallows us and sends us somewhere else. I look around: "This.. This is.. UNIVERSAL STUDIOS?!" Not only have we been transported to Universal Studios Orlando but a portion of Nemesis is here with us somehow. The part grows an extra head and more limbs effortlessly. Creati yells: "This isnt Universal Studios Japan, is it?" I reply: "Its Orlando.."
We are currently right outside the main gate of the resort: Universal Studios Florida. The Universal globe in moving around and there's a lot of people, some of whom are wearing blader outfits. So I guess beyblade still leads to Universal Studios and we're still in the world of Beyblade. Nemesis laughs: "Ah! What a perfect place to destroy! And all of you are going to die along with all of the people in it! PREPARE FOR DESTRUCTION!" Deku yells: "Crap! What are we supposed to do here?!" I look around: "Theres not enough room even here to fight Nemesis with all of these people-" I dont get to finish my statement as Nemesis destroys the Universal globe and kills people near it effortlessly before destroying the park gates behind it with ease as well. People are fleeing in all directions including into the theme park we are so close to right now. Nemesis starts blasting at fleeing crowds like theyre target practicing or something.. "HAHAHHAHAHAHA ALL WILL BE DESTROYED! NEMESIS IS HERE TO DESTROY THIS ENTIRE WORLD!" We dont have a plan besides trying to deal damage to a specific part of our foe which we have yet to figure out. We could throw our bodies in the way of our foe's attacks but thats seriously risky. We are only facing a portion of the full body of Nemesis, meaning that the others were sent to other locations where the other parts are located and obviously somehow still connected together physically. Alice yells: "We shall reign victorious here. I know not how but we must refuse to give up! WE SHALL SAVE THIS WORLD!"
We close in on our foe to fight head on again but it feels like this whole thing is just a giant wasted effort. Our efforts do almost nothing to stop our enemy. We do no damage and are unable to stop Nemesis from completely flattening Universal CityWalk while laughing in amusement. All Might yells: "NEVER FORGET THE FULL EXTENT OF OUR ABILITIES AND TEAMWORK! We have to act even more like a team than we already are!" As usual, the former symbol of peace was right. I look for a part of Nemesis to crush as we continue to fight by performing more and more combination moves. "There has to be something we can crush to at leasy cripple this side of Nemesis but does our foe EVEN HAVE BONES?!" My words end up inspiring an idea that quickly forms amongst our group. We hit a area just above the lower limbs and try to get inside of the monster. Nemesis is unable to actually move around physically. That means that our foe is extremely confident and certain in their greatly enhanced power level. If it weren't for us all spending hours fighting and training under huge amounts of pressure, we would have been forced to the ground by now due to our proximity to the enemy. Sure, Nemesis can move around somewhat but not with footsteps or anything like that. We attack and we attack, trying to get the target area on our foe's body. Klein yells: "This feels hopeless!" Agil replies: "Calm down, Klein. We CAN do this." It really does feel like our efforts are still not doing anything.
Nemesis is now destroying things like the Toothsome Chocolate Emporium, Hard Rock Cafe, and the waterway that splits most of CityWalk from the side with those 2 restaurants as well as the theme parks. People are dying and theres hardly anything we can do about it because Nemesis has a attack power that is constantly too strong for most of us to tank and expect to make it out of without being too injured to fight anymore. Not even I want to risk trying to tank one of the god's attacks. And I have some of the best plate armor anyone in BRAINS has. But then, I end up getting my sword inside of Nemesis at the spot we have been trying to break through. "The outside of Nemesis feels like energy, not flesh! With that being the case, we should be able to get inside of this damn monster!" Nemesis tries to get me off but is unable to do much shaking due to also being fought against in various other locations around the world too. And they are struggling to get their limbs to get me off plus I have a death grip on my sword once again. I drive my weapon further inside while making sure the hilt is still sticking out of our foe. I yell: "I need help! I dont want to lose my sword inside of Nemesis! We need to make a bigger opening to get inside but I cant do it alone!" Various others who use swords get onto Nemesis too and stab the god near where I did. Everyone else in the meantime keeps Nemesis busy through differing means. This allows us to focus on using our swords to create a big opening together.
By the time we accomplished this, we could literally see parts of the front of Islands Of Adventure from our position which should be impossible except those 2 restaurants and other things such as Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit have either been destroyed or gotten seriously damaged. We could see the ruined remains of Islands Of Adventure's gates from our position. But we didnt pay much attention even though many of us felt our hearts ache at the huge loss of life here so far. The local and state authorities arrive to try to help only to see us and be revealed to be under the control of Nacirema so they turn on us but fail to hurt any of us. This leads to Nemesis destroying them: "Stay out of my way, MISERABLE WORMS!" Now that the opening has been created, we start expanding it through intense sword attacks. After we are all able to fit inside our opening, All Might and other punchers join us in making it bigger. How this is even possible is due to the fact that most if not all of Nemesis is made of energy. Apply enough force and you can make it change shape. Our foe was too focused on causing pain, death, injury, and destruction to just close the opening we made on us. 15 minutes later, about half of our group has made it inside of Nemesis and we keep expanding the opening while the others risk everything to keep Nemesis busy. Silica speaks when we get in far enough for things to get mostly quietly: "Uhh, whats the point of expanding this opening?"
Creati replies: "To get up to the head of Nemesis and attempt to destablize this side of Nemesis in order to pave the way for their defeat." Most of us forgot that first part so we immediately began to make our way up the super tall monster. It took a lot of effort but we did slice the head we saw earlier. And the other half of the team retreated inside Nemesis when they tried to kill all of them only to pop right back out once the attack was over. Kirito speaks: "Hey, is anyone else questioning how safe it really is to be in here?" A lot of us nod. Lisbeth replies: "We haven't dealt with much resistance in here, it's strange." The head regrows so we just sever it again and some of us agree to stay around where we're standing right now to just keep severing it. Thats also when we notice some bones that are below us. Eraser Head speaks: "So there are bones after all." All Might nods: "Yes but I believe they wont be so easy to break." I add: "It already takes a lot of force to break most bones in the average human skeleton. But these bones? They look a lot thicker. I doubt even a roller coaster that pulls hundreds of lateral and/or vertical g forces could break them. Its worth trying to break at least one of them in our case. If we could find a leg bone and I mean a central leg bone and break it, we might be able to give Nemesis a huge problem after all." But all we manage to do for the next I dont even know how long is further displace the energy theyre made of to make more openings for us to go through. Its like we're strip mining through Nemesis or something. But then, we are forced to get out of Nemesis due to things outside suddenly getting much louder.
We run outside to find our comrades fighting Nemesis losing badly amongst a wide area that has been completely flattened. Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit is now basically completely gone along with the entire front area of Universal Studios Florida including Minion Mayhem. Nemesis begins to turn toward us with their limbs, ignoring our now dying comrades to make us suffer as well. But something else strange begins to happen as we fight back to the best of our efforts to no avail. We start seeing Hades City kind of rematerialize inside of Nemesis, leading to electricity to run wild inside of our foe. But that was only the beginning of it as the electricity began spreading outside of Nemesis too, rendering us along with Nemesis temporarily immobile. The electricity is attracted to anything electronic or metal around. It spreads throughout the Universal Orlando Resort, wherever else our foe is being fought against, and does things like especially affect fully armored individuals like myself and Alice. It also reacts with any and all electronics we have on hand such as our Quantum Leap bands. All of this causes reality to get stranger as virtual worlds get caught in the entire mess of whatever this is. And before we knew it, we all lost consciousness only to find ourselves in a really strange place along with all of the comrades we were separated from earlier. Doji appears as a giant spiritual vestige of some kind: "Just what are all of you doing here?! Well, WELCOME ANYWAY, I CANT WAIT TO-"
He screams as the electricity continues to disrupts things, causing Doji to break into fragments that scatter and reform into smaller versions of him all around us. The strange location we're in shifts to have the backdrop of a truly destroyed and dark world as other individuals inside of Nemesis all get broken up. I end up struggling to defeat one of Doji's fragments. We all had to fight such enemies alone because there was just too many of them to not do so in response to them. Once all of the fragments were seemingly defeated, something else began to happen. The villains reformed themselves into vestiges of Nemesis once again. But then, Doji laughs: "Lets see how well you handle what we have in store for you now!" We are then tested in terms of our own minds. I find myself inside what appears to be my mind with a version of Nemesis standing across from me. But I end up using my imagination to overcome them and return to their consciousness as do the others. We all attack the villains at the same time but that does nothing for us. That didnt last forever as Dr. Fate entered into the consciousness space with various others. He speaks: "The mind.. If a being has a sentient mind, that is both where they're greatest strength and weakness can be found. *points at Dr. Ziggurat* I have seen your mind, Dr. Ziggurat. I know everything about you. Your greatest dreams and your worst nightmares. *wards off attacks by our foes* None of the physical attacks here are real. They are figments of the imagination. It is very rare for a entity inside one's mind to need to face physical attacks inside of this kind of space in order to be stopped.
That usually only happens when said entity is rebelling against the original mind. We have nothing to fear here, myself and others are protecting your consciousnesses now, comrades. Mental attacks are still a threat while traveling this kind of space after all. Currently, Nemesis on the outside has stopped attacking due to the entrances of all of us into this mindspace. Now.. Dr. Ziggurat, you once pursued science for good reasons but got greedy with your search for an alternative energy source. However, we can correct that." "I rather like who I am now so I will have to decline your offer and ask you to leave." "You leave us no other choice." We all speak to Ziggurat. I myself say: "Ziggurat. Have you lost sight of what actually matters in life?" After we all talk to Ziggurat extensively, he has a change of heart but then, we all get kicked out of the mindspace and return to our bodies only to watch as reality around us warps and distorts even more than before. Its like the entire world of Beyblade is crunched together and twisted up into some kind of monstrosity. But theres something different about Nemesis. Part of our foe is literally actively glowing with a bright light. That must be from Ziggurat's restored faith in progress and humanity. He has a long way until he is truly reformed, he has only now just realized the error of his ways and is trying to figure out what exactly went wrong and just fix it. Nemesis laughs at all of us: "You worms! We will kill all of you once and for-" Dr. Fate interrupts by using his full power: "We are not finished with your mind." Despite our foe's efforts to stop us, we find ourselves in their mind once again, made possible by the opening myself and others worked together to create strangely enough.
But now that we were here inside of the mind again, Dr. Fate speaks: "I see there is too much corruption and wickedness for the others inside this monster's mind to be reformed. We must destroy everything we possibly can in order to weaken our enemy. Nemesis is still far too powerful for us to be able to defeat even with our combined efforts, powers, abilities, and everything of that sort." And so, thats what we do. The mindspace turns out to be made of seemingly physical things conjured up by the various individuals inside of Nemesis along with the God Of Destruction themselves aka the Sun's evil twin/the Black Sun. Dr. Fate and others who are able to do things when it comes to the mind such as Jomi & the other Mu, the Martian Manhunter, Ino, and Inoichi work together to combine their unique abilities somehow to clear much of the darkness in the mindspace for now in order to reveal all the things conjured up as well as the very soul rooms of each human being plus Nemesis. We destroy as much as we possibly could. For example, I helped break this world of darkness our foes of dreamed up together by destroying things on its surface and all that. Before long, we were booted back into our bodies again. But this time, Nemesis appeared somewhat weakened. Dr. Fate speaks: "It appears that wasnt as effective as I believed it would-" He is cut off as we are all split up into groups again. This time, I found myself grouped with a bunch of individuals seen as heroes specifically. Finn the Human yells: "Why are we in the Land Of Ooo?! How did-"
Nemesis laughs: "You worms don't realize it yet?! We arent actually in the Land Of Ooo, we are in a version of it I created to kill all of you inside of for my own entertainment purposes!" Finn replies: "Yo, thats SICK!" Jake nods: "Yeah, not awesome at all." Dr. Fate is with us due to the Justice League all being brought here too. He speaks once again: "So you have somehow gained control over reality." "Good guess, worm. But its more like I have become one with the world I have sought to destroy, allowing me to reshape it as I see fit! I will soon be able to destroy it over and over again. Theres no escape for any of you now! HAHAHAHAHHAHAAHAHAHHAHAAHHAHAHAHA!" But then, part of Nemesis changes as the light we saw earlier moves to it and begins attacking the rest of the body. Rago's voice is heard: "USELESS ZIGGURAT. YOU WILL STOP THIS AT ONCE!" "No, I wont! I will make you all regret using me for your own purposes, twisting how events played out just so that you could revive Nemesis using the newest star fragment." Ziggurat yells: "All of you must work together to end this! Even I wont be able to last forever like this! I should have never formed Hades Inc or be manipulated by Pluto to do so to begin with! If only I could have found a different source of energy other than beyblade! But I will try to make up for what Ive done now! If I am never trusted again or forgiven, I do not care. I allowed myself to become twisted and selfish and for what?! I got nothing out of that in the end! This is what I just have to do! Show them all, Spiral Capricorn!"
His bey is now inside Nemesis while he continues to control part of the god to fight said god. Things are only getting more and more chaotic as time goes on at this point. We never know whats going to happen next. We fight and we fight for what feels like forever. And we team up to deliver what should have been actually pretty lethal combinations. Rocket Raccoon complains: "Damn it! Just how tough is that big ugly still, anyway?!" "I am Groot!" "I know, I was just being rhetorical! Anyway, we really gotta find out how to make a-" Reality warps again, leading all of us reunited with the others at the now former site of 2 temples. Nemesis laughs: "It doesnt matter that I have been disconnected from this planet. Because its time to use my real power!" Dr. Ziggurat is destroyed along with his bey. He yells: "It isnt over yet! Nemesis, you will be defeated! If my master plans fail, that just means yours will too! *weird evil laugh*" He must have been putting on a nice guy act but we dont have time to worry about that right now. So much is happening at once now. We are all trying to group up to most effectively resist Nemesis once again but it just isn't working. The god's power level spikes to unspeakable heights as a massive object appears in the sky and covers the world in darkness. We hear Pluto's voice shout: "The rest of the Black Sun is here at last!" And then, the object shrinks and merges with Nemesis, making them grow even stronger and bigger. Out of desperation, we all fuse together over and over until we're all one single extremely powerful nameless being. The fusion speaks: "So this is what I have to face. Very well.
Lets end this battle once and for all! I see all Nacirema forces have left this planet or have been destroyed! Good! Very good!" But Nemesis was still too strong and they revert back to us after only hitting the evil god a few times. Things only became more hopeless from there. Nemesis easily overpowered all of our efforts, even the efforts that use the imagination. Even Abstractoa's aid isnt enough nor is Mother Anarchy's encouragement. We exhaust all options to the point we were throwing failed inventions at Nemesis in a desperate bid to do something. Not even a energy blast that used most of the energy in most of our Quantum Leap bands was enough though it did come the closest to actually doing much of anything. Many of us knew there were things that we still had yet to try but for many different reasons, we couldnt even come up with a single one of them. Doesnt help that we're literally in the middle of battle right now. We were beaten into the ground and then some. More and more of us were killed or broken beyond easy repair even with healing magic. We were losing badly and fast. We nearly lost hope as our numbers wittled down to a very few of us. I speak weakly, having had my armor and body broken once again: "How many times are we going to end up in this exact kind of situation? It has happened more times than I can count.. But still.. How are we even supposed to do something to change things now? JUST WHAT WILL IT TAKE?! THIS IS THE KIND OF HOPELESSNESS AND HELPLESSNESS PEOPLE IN MY WORLD ARE FEELING NOW THAT A CERTAIN SOMEONE IS RETURNING TO POWER SOON! DAMN IT!"
Blaze somehow finds the strength to freeze time again along with a few others who have managed to survive as well up to this point. But then, we feel a energy below us. I speak again: "What is this warm and almost familiar feeling? Is this nature?!" Mother Nature/Earth rises from the ground and speaks to us: "The answer to ending this nightmare is inside of your hearts. You are all aware of who I am. I am Mother Nature, the embodiment of Planet Earth and the life on it. I gave much strength to the bladers of the Solar System bladers of ancient times and that power was split into 4 for the bladers of the 4 seasons afterwards but now, I have more strength to give. Rise, warriors of the multiverse. You are not finished yet." Theres about 52 of us still left fighting and breathing. We all get up and feel the power of Mother Nature coursing through us. That power protects us from Nemesis for several minutes even after time resumes due to Blaze and the others letting go to save their strengths for what lies ahead. And in those crucial minutes, we figure out our next step and through technologies and various beings such as notable telepaths, we do what we must do before we lost Mother Nature's full protection. Even she is unable to hold out against Nemesis by herself. All of us against our odds are able to send out messages to worlds BRAINS considers as core worlds for our collective such as Mii World and Tomapie. I speak as soon as I can to anyone I can reach with the assistance of all things and individuals who are helping us pull this off right now.
"Fellow sentient beings of this existence we find ourselves in, we need your help. Everything we cherish is at stake and in order to protect all of it, an active threat we are facing needs to be defeated. My name is Swiftdrawer, Im a dark knight you may also know as the artistic knight. I beg you for your help in this trying time. Only you can help us bring what we're dealing with to an end. I cannot say that enough times. It hurts my heart to know just how much harm we've been unable to stop. Do you believe in a better future and in the power of your imagination? Against seemingly all reasoning, answering yes means that you CAN help us! I have spent so much of my life just imagining and creating things, dreaming of a better future, figuring out what I know to be the best kind of future for those I care about and myself. Since I was a young kid, I have imagined and imagined and imagined. My imagination and hopes mean everything to me and I refuse to give them up. And Im sure so many of you deep down are the same! If you just open your hearts and think of your hopes and dreams, we have a way of channeling them into a force with unlimited potential! A collective imagination is a truly powerful force. You know what real magic is? It isn't necessarily magical energy.. Its the imagination and what it can do. The imagination makes us dream and think of things that are better than what already exists. It gives us something to work towards or potentially look forward to.
Just think of my voice as you channel your hopes, dreams, and imagination by thinking about them. If you are able to stop whatever youre doing to safely do so, please do so. We truly do need your help!" After a few seconds, the hopes, dreams, and imaginations of so many minds come toward us. How is that possible? Abstractoa is with us and I still have Artist's Eye activated, allowing both of us to be conduits for all of that as it goes through the Creative Realm and eventually gets attracted to us. But because our still with us comrades also have imaginations that are growing stronger like mine is, most of it divides up to flow through them instead. And thats a good thing. I couldnt have handled even a quarter of what was flowing towards us by myself. We still had Mother Nature's protection as all of those thoughts become a growing ball of energy not unlike a Spirit Bomb. And when all the thoughts stop flowing towards us and we add our own to them, we yell: "GO NOW!" The ball of hopes, dreams, and imaginations is released against Nemesis as Mother Nature's full protection begins to fade from our bodies. Nemesis tries to stop it but you can't physically stop the power of thought if it is free flowing outside of one's body. It hits our foe hard but that's only just the beginning. The Sun's rays suddenly intensify as Mother Nature speaks: "The bodies of the rest of the Solar System are reasonating with the Solar System Legendary Bladers! That includes what gives this world life: the Sun!"
Suddenly, solar flares come from the Sun and target Nemesis specifically, combining with the full wrath of the Solar System including the Solar System beys to severely injure Diablo Nemesis, the Black Sun and God Of Destruction. But when the assault is over, Nemesis is still standing, albeit weakened by all that just happened to it and being kind of on fire due to the Sun. Mother Nature speaks one last time before fading: "I will give the last of the energy I can give for now to revive all who have been lost in this battle." Suddenly, we feel our fallen comrades and others across the world come back to life. I guess its easy for Mother Nature to revive someone who is dead due to all the life that still lives on this little blue and green planet. And then, a bunch of light attacks are unleashed at once as if someone wanted that to be unleashed. Someone must have telepathically planned and coordinated that somehow. Nemesis screams: "IS THIS WHAT PAIN TRULY FEELS-" Nemesis screams further as Doji and the others are split from them and get killed off for good in the process, thus weakening our foe even more significantly. Katherine Glassgate then appears from out of nowhere with a scowl on her face: "YOU WOKEIST FREAKS! BECAUSE OF YOU, NACIREMA HAS COLLAPSED! *sees we're fighting Nemesis*
YOU ARE FORTUNATE I AM WILLING TO WAIT DECADES TO GET PAYBACK. FOR NOW, I WILL LEAVE AND LET YOU SQUIRM AS YOU DEAL WITH NEMESIS!" And with that, she was gone again. The news that Nacirema has literally collapsed empowers us with new motivation to put an end to Nemesis once and for all. Whats more is that all of our attacks can actually affect our foe now and Ginga and many others get surrounded in a golden aura for some reason. That must be the hopes, dreams, and imaginations of the people of this world coming in late but in style. There isnt even a need for us to attack Nemesis in formation or defend (in formation as well). The god's attacks become much less dangerous to us as they start to cease being well executed or effective at all just like that. As if that werent enough, some of us call up the rest of our collective to show up and show up they do. Due to Nacirema's collapse and other active missions not being considered very dangerous at the moment, they are all able to come and against us, Nemesis no longer stands any chance of winning. To give you a perspective of what I mean. Nemesis would be defeated 2 minutes or so after the rest of us showed up. And Nemesis would come face to face with the Ninjago ninja, Akatsuki, Integrity Knights, Assault Team, several gods such as Ra and Abstractoa, Team Mew Mew, The Sailor Senshi/Guardians, Konoha, The New Order Of The Stone, the Wicked Parks Resort,
the Lost Academia, main fighters of all of Mii World, main Tomapieian comrades, Ovenzilla, The Z Fighters, Finn The Human & friends, The Crystal Gems, the Mane 6, The Signers, The Lancers, Duel Academia, Yugi's gang, Playmaker's Faction, The Knights Of Hanoi, Yuga & co, Heartland City and Astral World's very best, Team 5Ds, The Legendary Bladers, Hexside School Of Magic, The Kingdom Keepers, and many more groups. That also included Exodia, Galaxy Eyes, and so on. Nemesis screams once again as we all attack with everything we have. I fully power up and attack without hesitation: "Lets do this! We got this now! And even if Nemesis somehow knocks us back, we got plenty of fight left in us now! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! *fully manifests Artist's Eye, Ki, and wind affinity* I WILL CHANNEL ALMOST EVERY BIT OF STRENGTH AND POWER I HAVE! GRACEFUL PROTECTOR, RELEASE RECOLLECTION!" I must have been running at over 120 MPH when I reached part of Nemesis and refused to get off as I gave it my all, only leaving myself enough mana and strength to move and not be reduced to a skeleton. I dont want to be a skeleton knight as cool as that sounds. Skeletons are usually all bones and no muscle for obvious reasons. "CONTINUOUS GREAT INFERNAL TORNADO SLASH: 150! AND THE FOLLOWING REPEATED AS MANY TIMES AS I POSSIBLY CAN: WIND RELEASE: GALE PONG, KAMEHAMEHA, DRAWING DEVASTATION, VARIOUS WIND AND BINDING SPELLS, ANATOMICAL DISRUPTION, WIND BREAK SLASH, AIR SLICE SLASH, AND FINALLY, CREATIVE BLADE! HAAAAAAAAAA!"
And soon enough, Nemesis was completely obliterated. Even the bones were destroyed almost instantly. Nemesis still had terrifying amounts of power upon being defeated but their body was just so weakened by everything that was thrown at them. And they were struggling to unleash any of it on us due to being so greatly weakened physically. The opening I helped make only sped up the weakening process as it left a huge actual weak point behind in its wake. Oh and having Hades City inside of them didnt help their situation at all. We dont cheer after Nemesis is destroyed. As time has gone on, the reality of war has only set in for us more and more. War is terrifying and it's inhumane to force anyone to get involved with it. War is far darker and damaging than Ive written about it being. Thats despite my many attempts to really tell you readers just how awful it has been for the most part for all of us. Years of fighting without much time that could be considered peace time between wars. We all work together to rebuild the world of Beyblade but soon split up to do differing things after we do our best for the rebuilding process of the once again scarred Beyblade world. In the coming days, we knew things just had to change once again for us.
Over the past few months, we have been fighting battle after battle with fewer and fewer days of downtime for us as time has gone on. Some battles have been to prevent power hungry sadists from trying to force Mii World back into hierarchical structures ruled by ruthless jerks. Nacirema had been supporting tyrannical efforts across the multiverse with money, propaganda, you name it and we've had to deal with that on the side. I only write about one battle per month because I have so many other things I want and need to do as living in our world means I got challenges I dont have in my zombie body where Im a dark knight with superhuman speed and strength. That and it's guaranteed that theres at least one massively important battle I get involved in against the enemy per month. Hundreds of battles have been fought across realities and such since Nacirema emerged as a threat by taking advantage of the collapse of Don Thousand's empire upon his death at our hands. It already feels like ages ago since that whole situation finally came to an end. In the future, I hope to explain more about what happens in between what you see in this story as well as my other active stories. And I will try to start to right now actually. 2 days after Nemesis was defeated, we have a collective wide meeting. Because we have some crap to talk about. Since the collapse of Nacirema, we have been helping deal with worlds left unstable and all that other complicated stuff in the wake of that and found more biological weapons created by Nacirema and destroyed them on site. The meeting goes over that among other things.
Other things like the fact that our foes havent used as many new tricks as we thought they would based on what some of them have said in the recent past. However, it turns out many actually have but for varying reasons, many of us didnt even realize that fact as they dont always use tricks that dont fall in line with the "seen that done that, still really bad though" ones. We also theorize that the day may soon come when the villains actually take new tricks more seriously and truly up their game especially now that the empire has collapsed less than 4 months since it really became a threat to the multiverse. The empire has destroyed countless worlds and slaughtered untold numbers of life forms. We have captured many of their forces and taken care of them as needed. Such tyrannical entities like Nacirema must never be let off the hook. Actions have consequences. Another topic we discuss is the absurd power scaling we have seen over the past 2 years. Villains have particularly reached levels of almost sheer undefeatability and we have tried so hard for so long to get stronger and learn new things to counter this. But it still isnt enough so we vote on a plan to put more into training to really nail our foes next time. The majority vote in favor of it. And so, we will now be taking more measures such as more frequent sparring sessions between even those with vast differences in fighting skill levels to help everyone improve slowly but surely over time. That and other things like spending more time training in formations, responding to various situations and moments, and teaching others what parts of the human or human like body
to target in a fight to the death or some equivalent to that situation. We have so much work to do. My own personal progress when it comes to fighting has largely slowed to a crawl. I feel like Im barely improving at all at this point. You have probably read about some of my frustrations. My friends help me dealing with it all better but all these damn reasons are preventing myself and others from finally making great strides in ability again. Getting stronger is a gradual process but I just keep being barely able to do much against our toughest enemies and Im sick of it. I want to do more so damn badly but thats easier said than done especially since my arm muscles wont increase anymore due to my zombie curse. We tried everything to get my arm strength to permanently increase to no avail. My magic has been improving a lot at least but that just isnt enough and I need to finish writing out what I can do in battle in something Ive been working on since roughly the middle of October. That should help me figure out how to improve again besides with just magical spells. Im almost just ready to talk to a friend or friends online about it. Writing about these adventures has gotten only more and more complicated as time goes on even though we arent really adding in anyone new to BRAINS anymore. And we are really realizing that team pairings really are the best way to go about missions now after bringing them back as a more common thing a while back. The meeting also goes over damage accessments and other crucial things before it ends with everyone more aware of whats happening around us as a result.
Oh and apparently, some groups tried to arrest and execute Katherine and the other villains but they escaped and havent been heard from since. They are clearly planning whatever it is they have planned next. For now, I focus on spending time and training with my most loved ones after the meeting concludes. We had to drink sleep replacement potions to stay awake after the meeting because it had been THAT long since Pirate Blaster, myself, and the other pirates set course for that city plundered and destroyed. *Meanwhile at the Annihilation Council* Doji and the other newly dead villains look around at where they are now. Doji speaks: "Not bad, I must admit. I might enjoy myself here. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA! The Plot said they would help us get our revenge and you know what, I could wait years to get it and actually succeed at it this time! Ive already waited such a long time as it is!" Aspera slithers in to meet the new members of the council and overhears him: "Ssssssoooo all of you also died and were brought here in order to get help in getting your REVENGE too?! I like that youre here now very much. REVEEEEEEENNNNNGGGGGGEEEEE, WE WILL ALL GET OUR REVENGE ON THOSE WHO HAVE WRONGED USSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!" The Supreme Dark Lord laughs: "As those useless humans say, THE MORE THE MERRIER! I do hope our nemesis' continue to enjoy dealing with those Nacirema buffoons! I am very much enjoying making it THEIR problem instead of dealing with it ourselves! One day, we will all get revenge!"
*Meanwhile at the last shreds of the Nacirema Empire* Katherine breaks a window in rage: "THOSE WOKEISTS, THEY KEEP RUINING EVERYTHING!" The Overlord, having come back to life with ease and turned back to their side replies: "Patience. Their destruction will be soon at hand. The collapse of your empire doesnt end things for us. Especially not when we have more allies than those fools realize we do." Tom Nook walks into the room with a twisted grin on his face: "You mean the likes of me, hmm?!" "I do, Tom Nook." "Good. They should have never run me out of Fun Land. Thanks much for bringing me back to life for another go at revenge." Frieza laughs: "They wont be able to stop us forever! We will find a way to get what we want and KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!" *Back to Swiftdrawer, sometime after spending some time sparr training* My close circle of loved ones including me just hang out after some seriously exhausting training. We just kind of chill, knowing that the chaos will soon escalate and pop up soon enough. We all need moments like this where we just relax and unwind after the nuttiness of the past week and a half or so. And right now, we're all sort of just cuddling together in one of the relaxation rooms on the space station because we can. Dominic yawns: "I wish we could do this for several hours every day." I reply: "I was going to reply maybe someday but I dont think we'll definitively get the chance to. But its all up in the air."
Bray nods: "Indeed, we do not know exactly what lies ahead but we shall try our best to see beyond not just the near future but a future after the ultimate battle. We shall try to break the cycle once and for all." Barla adds: "But first, we got some tyrants and pals to teach a lesson! Hell yeah!" Carlos snickers: "Theyre going to be so pissed when we end their plans once and for all!" We all laugh at that. Thanks for reading this far, reader. To a better tomorrow for all of us.