[John P.O.V.]
VROOOOOOOOOOM!
"Hahahaha! Now this is what I'm talking about!"
I laughed like an absolute maniac as the pressurized mist of my Kamen Rider armor trailed behind me like a red-and-blue comet. The dimensional void was a kaleidoscopic tunnel of colours, and I was tearing right through the fabric of reality.
But running between infinity got boring quickly, and if we're larping, why not go all the way?
With a simple mental command, Ship, still acting as the core of my Kamen Driver, extruded a mass of high-tech Red and blue liquid metal that instantly expanded and hardened beneath me.
It transformed into a sleek, ridiculously shiny motorcycle, humming with carbonated energy: The Pepsi-Chaser.
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I revved the throttle. The engine running on pressurized Cola, propelling me forward at speeds that would make a Viltrumite's head spin.
In front of me, Angstrom Levy was losing his mind, desperately tearing open portal after portal, a frantic blur of green energy, trying to lose me in the infinite expanse of the multiverse.
"Leave me alone! You freak of nature!" Levy shrieked, his bloated brain practically throbbing out of his skull as he dove headfirst into a green rift.
"Not a chance, big guy!" I revved again, popping a wheelie, and blasted right through the portal after him.
FLASH!
We burst into a completely bizarre universe.
I looked up and saw a giant blue school bus floating in the sky, attached to a massive hot air balloon. Down below was nonsensical chaos. A guy in a literal banana suit was doing a ridiculous dance while having a shotgun shootout with… is that Goku?! And over there, someone just built a three-story wooden fortress in two seconds' flat.
"Whoa! What the hell is going on here?!" I gasped, my gamer brain short-circuiting with excitement. "Is this a literal Fortnite universe?! No freaking way!"
Levy was scrambling across a grassy hill, completely ignoring the crossfire of laser blasts and pickaxes, hurriedly tearing open another portal.
I drifted the Pepsi-Chaser, kicking up a massive cloud of digital dirt. Ramping off someone's freshly built wooden staircase, I flew directly over Levy's oversized head. Mid-air, I actually stood on my seat and hit a flawless Orange Justice dance emote just to flex on him.
"Special delivery!" I shouted cheerfully thinking, 'Am I going too overboard? Hell nah!'
I flicked my wrist, tossing a perfectly chilled, glowing can of Pepsi right at him. It bounced off his giant forehead with a hollow thunk and landed on the grass, instantly acting as a beacon.
Levy screamed in unadulterated rage as I continued my Mindblast to mess with his mind and throw him off and dove into his next portal, only for me to hit the gas and dive right in after him.
FLASH!
"HAHAHAHAHA!"
Levy stumbled onto a plush carpet, breathing heavily and looked around. We were inside a brightly lit, overly colorful 1990s living room.
"I… I will destroy you all!" Levy panted, raising his fists.
"Ooooooh!" An invisible studio audience collectively gasped.
"What?! Who said that?!" Levy spun around wildly, but there was no one there. Just a couch and a TV set.
CRASH!
I literally burst through the fourth wall on my motorcycle, shattering the plaster and wood.
"Wait... did the universe just make a sound effect?!" I muttered, looking around in utter bewilderment. "Are we in a 90s sitcom?!"
"WOOOOOOOOOO!" The invisible audience erupted into thunderous, sitcom-level cheering and applause at my entrance.
"Looks like someone needs to chill out!" I declared, pointing a finger at him, testing the waters of this absurd reality.
"HAHAHAHA!" The laugh track blared at my terrible pun.
I couldn't help but grin behind my helmet. The rules of the multiverse were absolutely fascinating!
"Stop it! Stop laughing at me! I am the collective consciousness of a thousand geniuses!" Levy screeched, clutching his ears. The audience just kept laughing. The sheer humiliation was breaking his mind faster than my fists ever could. Whimpering, he tore open another portal and threw himself through it.
"Stay tuned, folks! We'll be right back!" I waved at the nonexistent cameras, tossed a Pepsi on the coffee table, and drove into the rift.
FLASH!
Cherry blossoms fluttered through the air. The lighting was mellow and soft, glowing with a pink, romantic hue.
Levy crashed face-first into a spotless high school courtyard. He looked up, and to his absolute horror, a group of blushing anime schoolgirls were staring at him, calling him hentai.
"Mmph?! (What is this?!)" Levy gagged, spitting out a rose that had appeared in his mouth somehow.
VROOOM!
I drifted into the courtyard, my rider armor sparkling so brightly it completely overpowered the universe's aesthetic. "Holy crap, the air literally smells like strawberries!" I marvelled, catching a floating cherry blossom. Every dimension was a brand new sensory overload.
I flipped my visor up just a fraction, striking a devastatingly handsome Rider pose.
"Kyaaaaa! So cool!" the schoolgirls shrieked, instantly fainting.
Levy didn't even say anything this time. He just dry-heaved, violently ripped open a green portal, and crawled inside to escape the cringe.
FLASH!
"Oh, hell yes! Pure apocalyptic wasteland!" I cheered, feeling my adrenaline spike as we crashed into a ruined city skyline.It seemed like some kind of Wasteland Universe. A horde of rotting, mutated zombies and leather-clad warlords immediately turned toward Levy, who was weeping openly now, blindly swiping his hands to open another rift.
A spiked muscle-car tried to ram onto my bike, but I executed a flawless, Akira-style motorcycle slide. The glowing blue tires of the Pepsi-Chaser crushed the warlord's hood into the pavement. I popped a wheelie, spinning in a 360-degree arc, and sprayed a highly pressurized blast of Cola from my exhaust, completely washing away the zombie horde like a firehose hitting a sandcastle.
"Stay hydrated, locals!" I tossed another Pepsi can onto a pile of rubble to mark the dimension, revved the engine, and shot through Levy's portal just as it began to close.
FLASH!
Suddenly, the high-definition reality around me completely shattered. The world turned into flat, 2D scrolling platforms. Catchy, upbeat 8-bit chiptune music started blasting from the heavens.
"No freaking way! We're in a retro arcade dimension?!" I yelled, looking down at my hands in absolute awe. My sleek, 4K Tokusatsu armor was entirely rendered in chunky, 16-bit pixels!
We were in a pixelated construction site. Levy was currently running across a floating brick platform, being chased by a giant, pixelated ape throwing barrels.
Levy was audibly sobbing now. The man holding the collective intelligence of a thousand lifetimes, utterly and completely broken by a carbonated guy on a motorcycle and a bunch of wacky universes. He forced one last, massive portal open, his nose bleeding from the sheer multiversal exertion, and literally threw himself inside.
"Jump, Mario!" I shouted, tossing a pixelated Pepsi can right over the ape's head. The giant gorilla caught it and instantly turned blue. I drifted my 16-bit motorcycle and blasted into the green rift.
'This is the most fun I've had in six months!'
For half a year, my life had been absolute hell. Don't get me wrong, Sebas is an incredible teacher, but having a terrifyingly overpowered butler constantly beat "proper combat discipline" into your spine with a wooden cane changes a man. Six months of bleeding, sweating, dodging, and grinding in the Infinity Castle...Ugh.
'Never should've let the old man know about my Zenkai Boost Trait.'
But right here? Right now? Riding a soda-powered super-bike through the multiverse while wearing a Tokusatsu suit?
'This is a Man's Dream!'
FLASH!
The environment shifted dramatically.
There was no gravity here. No sky nor the ground. It was an endless, starry expanse of cosmic space, filled with floating debris, shattered planets, and swirling nebulas.
Levy tumbled out of the portal, hit a massive chunk of floating space-rock, and stopped moving altogether. He was completely out of gas. His green portals sputtered and died. He curled into a tight fetal position, clutching his giant head, totally paralyzed by exhaustion, psychic trauma, and sheer hopelessness.
I hit the brakes. The Pepsi-Chaser's tires glowed bright blue as I smoothly parked on the floating asteroid right next to him.
"End of the line, buddy," I said, stepping off the bike.
Suddenly, the entire dimension shuddered.
The stars around us actually began to dim. A colossal, shadowy figure began to manifest from the cosmic void. It was gigantic: easily the size of a skyscraper. It was draped in flowing, conqueror robes, with world-ending energy crackling around its imposing form.
"WHO DARES ENTER MY DOMAIN?!"
A voice boomed through the vacuum of space, rattling my teeth inside my helmet.
'Oh boy. Galactus? No is he...'
The giant entity floated closer, glowing with terrifying, absolute power.
"I AM OMNIPOTUS!" the entity declared, spreading its massive arms. "DEVOURER OF DIMENSIONS! THE END OF ALL REALITIES! YOU HAVE WILLINGLY WALKED INTO THE MAW OF OBLIVION, PUNY MORTALS! I HAVE CRUSHED THOUSANDS OF UNIVERSES BENEATH MY HEEL! YOUR PITIFUL EXISTENCE WILL ONLY SERVE AS KINDLING FOR MY ETERNAL POWER! I WILL—"
"..."
I crossed my armored arms, tapping my foot impatiently against the asteroid.
'Man, why do these types always monologue? Do they practice this in the mirror?'
"—TEAR THE FLESH FROM YOUR BONES! I WILL REDUCE YOUR ATOMS TO NOTHINGNESS! TREMBLE BEFORE THE MIGHT OF—"
"BEEEEP! BEEEEEEEP!" I aggressively honked the Pepsi-Chaser's horn, completely drowning out his cosmic booming.
Omnipotus stopped dead. His jaw dropped. Even Levy stopped whimpering for a second to look at me like I had lost my goddamn mind.
"Hey! Can we speed this up?!" I shouted, cupping my hands around my mouthpiece. "Are you like... the discount Galactus? The Great Value purple space guy? Did you get those robes at a cosmic thrift store?"
Omnipotus's glowing eyes narrowed, burning with absolute, unfiltered cosmic rage. The stars around us began to shake.
"INSOLENT MORTAL! YOU DARE MOCK ME?!"
"Mock you? Dude, I'm just disappointed!" I yelled back, throwing my hands up in exasperation. "I thought you were a world-eater, not a world-nibbler! If you're gonna vaporize me, do it already! Give me your best shot! 100%! Pour your entire cosmic soul into it! Unless... you're actually scared that a guy in a shiny soda commercial suit is gonna tank it?"
That did it. The fearless disrespect broke his godly ego.
"I WILL ERASE YOU FROM THE MULTIVERSAL TAPESTRY!!!" Omnipotus roared, his voice cracking with hysteria.
He drew in the energy of every single dead star in the sector. His body expanded, glowing so brightly it was blinding. He poured every single ounce of his life force, every drop of his maximum cosmic output, into one final, universe-erasing sphere of anti-matter. It was the size of a damn moon.
'Holy shit. Okay, I might have baited him a little too hard.'
"PERISH AND BE FORGOTTEN!" Omnipotus screamed, hurling his 100%, maximum-yield attack directly at us.
Levy screamed, throwing his arms over his head.
I just smirked behind my visor. I planted my feet firmly on the asteroid and reached deep inside my core, tapping into my one and only Mythical tier ability.
Full Counter!
I channelled that pink, mythical energy straight down into my right leg, mixing it seamlessly with the Tokusatsu armor.
The Carbonation Driver on my waist flashed violently, the mechanical voice screaming into the void.
[MAXIMUM HAZARD! READY GO! FULL COUNTER!]
The cosmic sphere of death was only dozen meters away from my visor.
I leaped into the air, spinning my body in a flawless, aerodynamic arc. My right foot glowed with a blinding, terrifying mixture of Pepsi-blue carbonation and golden mythical light.
"Rider..."
I swung my leg down, catching the exact, dead-center of Omnipotus's ultimate attack with the heel of my chrome boot.
The kinetic feedback was insane. For a split second, the universe completely froze. The cosmic energy compressed under my foot, threatening to blow my armor to pieces. But Full Counter overrode the laws of physics. The energy violently reversed, instantly doubling in mass, density, and sheer destructive power.
Because I had successfully rage-baited him into using 100% of his maximum capacity, the math was incredibly simple. Two times one hundred percent meant he was about to get hit with a 200% yield of his own strongest attack.
"...FULL COUNTER KICK!"
BOOOOOOOOOOM!
I kicked the sphere right back at him.
The energy blast traveled so fast it literally tore a hole in the vacuum of space. It slammed directly into Omnipotus's chest before the giant could even blink.
"NO! MY POWEEEEE—"
That was all the Devourer of Dimensions managed to get out before the blast detonated.
The explosion was magnificent. A massive, blinding supernova of blue and gold light completely engulfed the giant god, vaporizing him instantly. The shockwave rippled out, shattering nearby asteroids into dust and painting the cosmic void in a beautiful, carbonated glow.
One hit. K.O.!!
I landed gracefully back on the asteroid, crouching on one knee. I slowly stood up, venting a massive cloud of freezing steam from my shoulder exhausts, and flicked my wrist in a crisp, dramatic Tokusatsu pose.
"Never interrupt a guy's multiversal joyride."
I turned around. Fully expecting to see Angstrom Levy still curled in a ball on the ground, I paused. The rock was completely empty.
"What?"
I looked up just in time to see the jagged, violently unstable edges of a green portal snapping shut in the cosmic void. The bastard had used the blinding flash of my supernova kick as cover! Driven by pure, animalistic survival instinct, he had forcibly torn open a rift and thrown himself through.
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me," I groaned, dropping my arms as my dramatic Tokusatsu pose was completely ruined. "I was just about to give my victory speech!"
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