Everyone lined up behind Clarissa, Shiitania, ReighHeem, and I. Preparing themselves for an all out battle where our lives would be in the line. These two does would m, without a doubt, be the mightiest enemies we shall ever face. Atomen and Harpenyoloko cracked their necks, readying themselves for this fight. Their goal was me, and my protagonist factor of all things. Having a story and Colossaverse for themselves would mean having a spot within our Omniverse. We of the tenth Colossaverse would be rewritten along with any other storyline and verse they can take. They'd become an even greater threat than they our now, plus, having my story means they'd be able to revive their brothers. Steal a story with the event within it, and they'd even be able to revive their brother, Rashomon to his former glory. Rather than merely freeing him from his prison.
We all knew what would be at stake if we lose here. But unlike them, we don't actually have to defeat them, just weaken them in the end. Whilst their way to win is to actually defeat us before we can. Something they won't be able to accomplish in the end. I'll make sure of it!
"Alright everyone, let's get this shit started!" I shouted, marching forward alongside Heemy, Clarissa, and Shiitania.
"Let's take care of these brats already, and get that damn storyline back. Her influence is far greater than we thought. Especially now that she's as powerful as she is, and her chapter count has grown thanks to our meddling!" Harpenyoloko explained, and she was correct.
"Right, lead the way, Harpen." Atomen instructs.
"Hmph... Heavy Darkness Control!" Harpen took the darkness of the void and sent it crashing down on top of them.
"Nrgh, her grip- is... STRONG!!" Kolipso stated.
We were all forced to take a knee from her enormous essence amount and potency.
"Damn, she really is strong. I'd say she's even stronger than our four way fusion right now, don'tcha think sis?" ZeeNastasia asked, forcing her way up using her fifth release.
YeeRashuri, YeeNessa, ZeeNasia, and YeeNosha all joined in. Kolipso stood up, so did Melumini'itii, and Ri-ohhanna. Ri-oh'Dioh grabbed hold of Sinnthia and stood up with her as well. Every founder of Young STRIFE, and even Xeno, Dannadise, and their family from the dark clan of Combattiumn Prison. Following their lead, ReighHeem and I stood up as well.
"I've got this, Zee." ReighHeem destroyed her technique with a punch. Giving us the freedom to dodge Atomen's thousands of fists as a team.
Heemy and I put our hands together and fused our essence. Created a burst of violent Annihilation and destructive force. It blew Atomen back a few thousand miles in an instant.
"Perfect, now we've got the necessary space to deal with these two idiots." Zerazilla drew her twin katanas of dark and light.
"We're right behind you, Zerazilla!" Seikosen and my little sister, ZeeNasia drew their blades as well.
All three of them flashed towards Harpenyoloko as quick as they could. She drew her sword, charging forward to masterfully guard against their many attacks. She was able to parry everything using her mastery of the swordsman concept. Her swordplay was very free in the form, taking swift strikes and counters to a whole new level. Her flawless transitions between the one handed, and two handed styles. She was able to swing so fast, it almost looked as though her blade was moving in its own whike she sat in one spot. Though the same could be said about ZeeNasia and the others. Their bodies looked idle while their blades swung themselves rapidly. Or so it would seem.
Harpen swung her blade harshly, deflecting all of their attacks with ease. Forcing those three to back down a bit.
At the same time, Atomen fought with ReighHeem, Clarissa, Shiitania, and I. Tjaye and Dila sat back to support both groups from afar. We all danced about clashing with Atomen as we flew higher into the void. He repelled each of our attacks, one after the other. Draining our essence whilst manipulating the very events of the battle. It was forcing us to come at him one at a time. Even the shots from Dila and Tjaye were being delayed and knocked off their flight paths.
"It doesn't matter what kind of attacks you fools throw out, I will control them all. I've even gained enough affinity for ReighHeem's concept now. Not even he could break this technique I've been using!" Atomen grew drunk off his own capabilities.
"Mrrrhmn!! His technique's concepts are a bit hard to figure out. Almost all of them are ones we've never encountered until now. If we had, at least one of us would be able to get past his defenses!" YeeRashuri explained.
"Calm down sis, the biggest factor here is... Did he gain any affinity for the Lust and Sloth concepts we rely on." YeeNessa scanned his entire being.
She was attempting to see if she could catch a glimpse of his essence's current affinity stats.
"Hm? Not this time, girl. I'd rather see the lot of you gamble and test whether or not my sister and I have gained such affinity!" Atomen cancelled any and all attempts to view his current stats and affinity. Leaving us no other choice than to gamble on it.
"ZeeNasia, Nikola... do it."
"Hmph, will do sis!" ZeeNasia responded.
"I shall make use of my rare Origin Concept. Let's put these two down!!" Nikola began to build his essence at a rapid pace.
Both Nikola, and ZeeNasia fired off entire dimensions dedicated to their Sin concepts. Their targets were Harpen and Atomen, who were guaranteed to be struck by whatever Sloth and Lust techniques that may be used. Nikola actually went about restricting his own movement to focus on slowing down something no one ever thought you could target. The very speed of their concept activation for techniques and the like was slowed down as much as Nikola could manage. ZeeNasia used her blades, and coated them in the same essence that now contributes to the very existence of her side of their domain. Her slashes, amongst many other blade techniques, were capable of attacking whatever she wished using Lust. To make things worse, every swing of her blade made it feel as though the entire domain was attacking them at once.
"Let's see how well you do when I cleave even your concepts and techniques' Lust for obeying and wanting to assist you in your endeavors!" ZeeNasia charged forward with one single slash that caught them both off guard.
"Uh...
"Tuh... One little swing of her damn sword and we've both had multiple factors of Lust cut from within us." Harpenyoloko explained.
"Yeah, these meddlesome deities really do have a jumble of trucks of their sleeves, don't they!?" Atomen showed very clear signs of frustration.
"No need to fret, brother. We can use other emotional spectrumconcepts to make up for what we've lost. For you see, it's not about figuring out the sins just figuring out how, and which ways do they affect us. Then we use other concepts under our belt that can actually counter such a thing. Verbs and Action words can all do the same thing. You're simply being far too single minded, brother!" Harpenyoloko slowly countered the effects of Lust and Sloth by using countless layers of concepts capable of countering them.
"I'll take the girl. Do somthing about that brat who controls Sloth. If we don't, well waste far too much essence managing our counter-concepts." Harpenyoloko took off after ZeeNasia and those assisting her.
"Hmph, no matter how far I climb, you always seem to be teaching me something, elder sister." Atomen lowered the affects of Lust and Sloth. Taking himself back to stage one when it comes to our battles.
"Looks like your little tricks have been cancelled out, eh?" ReighHeem teased Atomen.
"Zeeheee, now I'm more than comfortable leveling up to the Pure-Absolute stage. Let's go, hun!" I powered up to my knight form, dawning cosmic armor in preparation for this battle.
"You two... You two truly are my mortal enemies in this story. That's alright though, your story will be mine, and it'll lead me to claiming this entire Omniverse. Just you watch." Atomen began to fire off countless blasts that could shift time, space, reality, and matter itself. All of which was done by shifting particles of all kinds.
"Go into evase maneuvers and rush him down. Prevent such fire, NOW!!" I commanded, blasting off into the chest of Atomen.
His body folded in as he flew back a bit. He quickly bounced back from the blow, flexing his body just before charging at me! We both smiled like villains as we entered an intense exchange of countless strikes. He was able to dodge my last few and knock me away. He then dodged Kolipso and Melumini'itii's sneak attacks, wrapping two random arms around them both. Into the distance they went with two mighty throws, but those throws left him open to a double uppercut from Timone and Odin. They stopped their bodies in front of him and swung their hammers as hard as they could. Atomen sprouted dozens of arms to block their blows like a humongous cushion catching a stuntman. He then turned those into gigantic arms that smashed Timone and Odin into one another.
"Heh, the ol' doofus is making good time with counters? Bravo, I clap, yes? Though, we?? We smesh your face, brathuh!" Sinnthia charged forward with Timozzia and Kokonovski at her side.
They each attempted to smash into Atomen with their weapons blazing. He blocked several blades from every direction using tentacles. Sinnthia took her greatsword, Kokonovski grabbed her biggest blade, and Timozzia charged a large amount of essence into her dual blades pole staff. All of them charging chi into them as well, hoping to cut down the amount of concepts he can use.
"Good strategy, but you shall not prevail!" Atomen brought forth a wall created by his Moody Stuliachi. Their blades were stopped in their tracks, soon to be deflected by the dome surrounding Atomen.
As those three flew back, we could see Primoz and Theodore dashing towards him along with Yosiah and Jah'malle. With the support of Dila, they were able to force Atomen into evasive maneuvers. This gave the rest enough time to bounce back from his counters.
Soon, we'd all come to be chasing after Atomen, clashing with him as he fends us off using particle bombs. Each bomb was able to knock us off of our natural flight path. With each opening he creates, another strike was thrown his way. The large number of us were throttled back, but ReighHeem and I were specifically knocked in a certain direction. We were given to Harpenyoloko while he kept the vast majority of us in check.
"Hmph, good... The idiot knows who can do what needs be done." Harpen smacked the both of us downwards towards our home Colossaverse.
We managed to stop ourselves before we ended up ramming through the walls. Inevitably becoming threats to the verses within if we crashed anywhere whilst being surrounded by such unstable essence. We could see Harpen turn into a massive, Majestic Harpy Dragon. Her form was very reminiscent of an eastern mystic dragon. Her body was long and covered in white scales with feathers going down the middle of the spine on her back. Her tail was made of the same feathers. They could also be found in large quantities around her neck, the on her arms and legs, as well as rather large ones making up her majestic hair.
Her roar rang through our ears and shook our cores. Paralyzing us just long enough for her to ram into us. We were sent flying once more, watching her grow to her true size as she now has length beyond ten Colossaverses lined up next to one another. Heemy and I allowed our size to reach it's true stature. Entering our Colossaverse-Titan formsin order to take her on in her true form. She quickly came to wrap her body around us, but Heemy created a massive Colossaverse of destruction to ward off her attack. She didn't want a large chunk of her body to be skinned off and dusted away. She instead, wrapped her tail in all four types of Stuliachi. Whipping it through time and space, warping the very fabric of reality as it travels straight to the end result. Using causality to skip to the end result where the Colossaverse was already severed. ReighHeem smiled brightly as he gave no resistance to the attack whatsoever. He advised we simply dodge the attack altogether.
"Hmph, now we begin our counterattack, babe!!" Heemy shouted.
"Lead the way, my dear Heemy!" I shouted in loving bliss.
Below us were the inhabitants of our home verse, watching our mighty forms face off with Harpenyoloko. We fended off her tail strikes with well timed counters. Pushing her back quite a bit during our efforts. She snickered as if she were impressed with our efforts so far. As a response, she flashed forward with her tail, turning the tip of her tail into a mighty blade.
"Nah, not on my watch!" Heemy pulled out his infinity-piece pole staff.
"I-Is that our... ReighHeem?" Lord ReighHeem I asked as he stepped forward.
He and his wife were amongst the many who were guarding the body of Griffaduff.
"That's him alright. He and Lady ZeeNanasa are protecting our Omniverse from those monsters!" Lady Leigh'Rei stated.
They were joined by many other who stayed behind to protect our home verse and assist my uncle in repairing the damage cause by Maleignos and Griffaduff. As they did, they watched as we protected it from the outside. Our bodies cast themselves outwards like large projections when being viewed from within the verse, a storyline most beings of this stature would look at as something interesting to read. But to Heemy, Annihilo-Sect, my mother, father, siblings, and so many others. It was home, it was our way of life, it IS everything we know and love put into one big ass bundle. We had to protect it!!
Harpenyoloko could sense our strong feelings for this verse, for the storyline she and her brother attempted to steal. She was hoping to use it against us, distracting us with countless tail thrusts that poked holes into the fabric of existence within this Omniverse. Her essence began to spread towards our Colossaverse. It became a blanket to cover and envelope my uncle like a plague. Meant to synchronize with his entire being, coating him in a dark layer of malice so that she may use him as her own. Her use of Control, Particles, and Darkness made it so. She added in another one of her main concepts, Cells. That now made it five that she's revealed so far. Though, even with all of this being used so far, she had yet to notice the one-thousand layers of destruction surrounding her. It acted as a domain so that Heemy could control everything with destruction. It was far larger than a Colossaverse in size. More than fifty Colossaverses fused into one to he exact. Made it easy to hide it from her as we went at her in close quarters.
"Hmph, you two truly are something. Pressing me like this when I'm near my full power? Impressivvvve!!!" Harpenyoloko smiled at us like an eager predator, ready to pounce on its prey
"Hmph, if only it were that simple, Harpen!" I shouted as I blitzed her with a soaring, dragon kick.
She dodged by going back into her humanoid version of her final form. She was fast, almost like a ray of light, but she warped and folded like a shadow as she slithered away. Warping he very space around us as reality bends to her whim. Such is the odd ability to bend and mold light whilst still going well beyond its limits in speed.
She smiled at us as her essence closed in on our verse. Making contact with it within those next moments. My uncle could feel her grip wrapping around his metaphysical throat. But as it did, he smiled and reached out using the verse as his body for once. You could see him grab her leg, forming into his humanoid form as he does. He casted a torso outwards, shrinking the size of the Colossaverse little by little as it dedicated it's space to forming his body.
"Oh, what now- huh? You resisted my essence, Annihilo Versia!?" Harpenyoloko kicked away his hand as she flew back. Gaining space from Heemy, uncle Annihilo, and I.
"Of course I did, I'm just as powerful as the protagonist of my story, and she's strong enough to face you one on one now. Though you definitely have the advantage!" My uncle explained.
He too control of Heemy's verse, using it to destroy every single concept she now made use of.
"Why you!" She shook in frustration, sending beams our way as she flew towards us. She pulled out her version of Excalibur and clashed with Heemy's pole staff.
They danced and teleported all over the void, becoming lights that clashed more than ten million times in that next second. One more clash occurs and an explosion that even I had to form a shield for came to occur. It forced everyone on the battlefield and all ten Colossaverses on the positive and negative ends of the Omniverse to protect themselves.
"Remember this, Niece Nanasa. No matter what may occur, it is up to you to be the hero of your own story. No one else, after all... Atomen is still your only true enemy here. She is merely... a caring, big sister." My uncle turned back into a Colossaverse. Smiling at me as he handed me a small version of Heemy's domain.
I smiled at him, nodding my head as I crushed the orb and took the essence found within. It was a mixture of all four of our essence signatures, the perfect weapon against her. I vanished into the void, blitzing towards Harpenyoloko and Heemy. I watched their every move, searching for an opening that could be exploited. Heemy blocked her every slash, destroying her concepts each and every time they made contact. He slammed her staff into her blade, turning it into forty links that wrapped her arm and wings on her right side. Creating the opening I was hoping for.
"Heh, you're mine, Harpen!" I thought to myself as I dashed towards her as fast as I could.
"Nah, I've got you, and your protagonist factor, ZeeNanasaaaa!!" Harpenyoloko sharpened the wings on her left side. All under the guise that they've gone a little limo from the essence being drained by Heemy!
"Tch, she's going to-"
"Dammit, comrade Zee let down the guard once more!"
Two signatures blew beyond their limits to beat me to Harpenyoloko herself. I was just about to thrust my arm forward for my attack, but by that point. Harpenyoloko had already turned her seven wings into one LARGE spear. She thrusted it forward, but before I could be skewered by it, two more titans came to push me out the way. Saving Heemy from doing so, seeing as he was already releasing his pole staff. He only stopped to witness me being shoved to the side, and Timozzia and Kokonovski came to be skewered by Harpenyoloko's attack.
"When did they... get here!?" Harpenyoloko was utterly shocked.
So were Heemy and I.
"T-Timo.. zzia??"
"K-koko.. K-K-Kokonovski?? Why did you two-
Heemy and I were very perplexed and befuddles by what had taken place. I could feel my heart tearing in two, even Heemy could be seen with tears in all five of his eyes. "Why", was written all over his face.
"You're.. the.. p-protagonist of this... story, Z-Z-Zee~EE~eeeee!!" Timozzia struggled to talk with the wound in her solar plexus.
"Yo-You must.. s-st-stay aliiiive. T-The team n-n-ne-neeeeds y-y-yo-youuuu, Zeeee!" Kokonovski explained.
Both other took deep breaths as they grabbed hold of the spear created by Harpenyoloko. They healed their wounds as much as they could, using them to help grip her bloody spear head. Their blood dropped into the void, mixing and merging into one. They looked into Heemy's eyes and urged him to tighten his grip once more. It was already too late for them.
"Take our essence and smash that technique into her face, ZEENANASAAAA!!!" They both shouted.
"Do it, BABE!!!" Heemy shouted as loud as he could. Entering a stance as he infused an unfathomable amount of essence into his free hand. Wrapping his other arm with the remaining length of the staff. Absorbing even more of Harpenyoloko's essence in the process.
"Huh, she's gotten Timozzia!!" Timone and Sinnthia entered their titan forms, charging towards our location.
"Tch, Koko... NO!" Primoz, ZeeNasia, and even YeeNosha charged forward alongside them.
I lunged forward, pushing my attack forward with tears in my eyes. I could see the others coming towards us in a flustered rush.
"I'm, so sorry... Timozzia, Kokonovski! If only I'd been faster!!" Heemy cried to himself as he readied a technique.
"Don't cry Captain... Apologize with your actions. Make sure she makes it to the end, on!?" Timozzia and Kokonovski instructed. Crying with bright smiles on their face. Blood pouring from their mouths as they cough up even more. They gripped the spear head until it cracked.
"Tch, their wounds have been healed around the spear. Keeping it from moving, on top of Extermination, and Disfiguration being used to prevent any further techniques from me! How troublesome!!" Harpenyoloko began to panic a bit.
Everything slowed down to a near stop. Heemy burst into a speed variant that was beyond anything I had seen until now.
"Activate the Secret technique; Zee's Protection: Destruction of All Things Seen as her Enemies!" Heemy turned his palm into the very nature of destruction itself. Thrusting it forward as he aims to make contact with her waist.
"I can't allow these cretins to get the better of me!" Harpenyoloko turned her tail into a blade. Swiping it as hard as she could into the mid section of Heemy, just before he could make contact with her. His body was sliced in half at the waist. She then leaned forward to dodge my lunging fist as I came near her.
"Heh, now is the time to counter!! Activate the Concept; Particle: Departicalization Wave!" Harpen released a wave shaped as a dome, one that stretched outward in every direction. She had completely countered Heemy and I whilst simultaneously getting rid of Timozzia and Kokonovski entirely.
"I-It won't be enough to STOP UUUUSSSS!!!" Heemy and I shouted as we pushed through.
I detonated my attack before her head could even come close to getting away from the strike zone. Heemy's top half pushed forward with ease, placing his hand on her waist to complete his attack. The two techniques detonated all at once, combining in a grand explosion that cancelled out her attack.
"Oh, you have GOT to be fucking KIDDING ME-
Harpenyoloko was engulfed by the explosions initial blast right alongside Heemy and I. The Aftershock knocked Timone, Sinnthia, and the others away before they could ever get close. Even cancelling their titan forms in the process. The blast would even go on to knock the entirety of all ten of the Colossaverses below off their natural axis. Every single one of them had to grab the axis with a hand they created, holding on for dear life as the blast picked up in force. STRIFE, Annihilo-Sect, and all of their comrades were forced to brace themselves as the wave of essence blew past them like a cosmic hurricane.
"Tch, they actually managed to corner Harpenyoloko all on their own!? They're truly powerful threats to my mission. This means it's time for our last resort." Atomen aimed his essence at the center of the blast. Focusing e very once of it on wherever he could feel Harpenyoloko's essence in the mix of things.
"We'll make sure... our Omniverse takes the day!!" Heemy and I said in unison.
Our very souls being engulfed by the blast as we stare at an "ah struck" Harpenyoloko.
"So... This is the true night of the protagonist to this...
Storyline."