Good people of the sub, I have a query about OCs I wish to send here.
Something like this video. https://youtube.com/shorts/IIYCKvPwVB0?si=vFVwQA0YSyW2y7Ta
Does this count as a RWBY OC?
New Fusions: none
Fusions involved: (I feel like since this is a follow up of the previous one, that I should all ya’ll anyway)
- Stella(u/CrownStudi0) + Stella(u/UragiriDumpling) + Stella (u/Error_603) +Dima 'Dimelight' Dozen (me) = Stella 'Astralight' Dozen
- Ariseta Kageusha (u/Necoarcprime, u/Cheeminator, u/Nautilus_Zombie1769)
- Shimchar Sato (u/lialing, u/Messiah_Char)
- Darksword Vol'kul (u/Black_Mage75)
- Jovian 'Mechannihilate' N. Jin (u/throwawaydumpste, u/spammedletters, u/shinningoldenstarr)
- Joriel Wilson 'Star-spangled Patriot' Novah (u/JpkL23, u/ArkhamMetahuman, u/captain-ziggy)
- Rosemary 'Array-Z' Shelbrand (u/magikind, u/JTL280508, u/GeneralofLittleMacs, u/baz1nga007)
- Re: Chrome (u/Apprehensive_Sky1599, u/Upper_Cranberry4202)
- Yozukure (u/Kliktichik, u/SnickerbobbleKBB)
- Lexas the Mizuneko (u/PerceptionBetter3753, u/Magma8714)
- Nat '32, Goodnight' Dozen (u/ElectroNikkel)
- Queen Yukuma Dozen (u/sub-parBeanutButter, u/TheStarPiercer**)**
- Masima 'Witchlight' Dozen (u/CosmicSynthwave, u/HiMaooo)
- Penning 'Puddingale' Pearlkrad (u/AdExtra2331, u/Express-Bat-2967, u/captain-ziggy)
- Suzuka 'Toxsling' Summers (u/captain-ziggy, u/Chaos_Crow1927, u/Jen_the_Creator-7)
- Hallax Hilarity (u/JoJo_Stretch_2961, u/Spiritual_Air_8606, u/ApprehensiveYam7539)
- Petune Liquore ^(()u/Customninjas, u/Flat-Support-9452, u/sellingmysoup)
- Hoppleiss COGNICore (u/GeneralofLittleMacs, u/umbra_pseudonym, u/Mono_Eyed, u/ForcefieldMaterial)
- Univerma Siderova (u/Electronic_Minimum10, u/Necoarcprime, u/CrownStudi0, u/Suspicious-Morning69)
In the high cliffs of no man's land, Yozukure, Re: Chrome and Lexas look up as the figure of Univerma floats down from the sun's glare.
"How... did you find us?! This place blocks all energy coming in and out when in use,” Re: Chrome shouts.
"I don't exactly know how it works, but let's just say someone near and dear to me is a clever clogs who can make up for the lack of visible energy with math."
Re: Chrome hides his fear with a smirk on his face. "Enough talk! Let's–"
Before he could power up, though, Yozukure placed a hand on his shoulder and shook her head. Telepathically, she tells him, "She's goading you to use your forms. She plans to copy them."
A bead of sweat drips down his face from that realization before shaking it off.
"That's fine..." he then takes a running start before blasting towards her with his sword, ready to cleave her in half.
But before he could react, another blond figure would blast towards him from the side, grab him by the face using her metallic arm, and instantaneously transmit him away.
He looks around, flabbergasted and confused about where he went. Then he remembered his attacker and looked beside him.
"Yo, long time no see, Leek Roam."
"L-Liquore?"
"Your big sister in all but blood," she speaks warmly while tipping her hat.
"H-how are you alive? W-Why... are you on their side?"
"I'll answer in due time. Just come with me."
She tries to grab him by the arm, but he yanks it away.
"No! Are you crazy?! I have to keep Yozu and Lex safe!"
She would stand in front of him and say, "You idiot. You'll get yourself and them killed if you fight her. If they comply, they will be spared."
"Well, they won't. They won't stand by and watch as the Neo-Tonga empire is burned to the ground, and I won't stand by and see the people I care about get struck down."
"The very empire that separated us?! The empire that hunted us down for the threat we pose?! Why are you siding with them?! You don't even care about morality!"
"Maybe not... but I do care about them. In the 10 years I spent with Lexas in the Hyperbolic time chamber, I've come to care for her like a daughter I never had, and Yozukure... she..." A small smile crept up his face, which caused Liquore's eyes to widen in realization.
That shock melts into anger.
"Leek! If we let Univerma destroy them, we can just be!"
"What..." Leeks gasps.
"The two are literally immortal! All you’ll end up with is a widowed lover and a fatherless daughter! Do you want that?! What will they have in a hundred—500 years?!"
He was speechless from this.
In her rushed attempt to sweeten the deal, she shouts, "Run away with me! Make a family with me instead! We're not even blood-related, after all! Plus, I know you more than anyone ever will!"
Instead of what she thought would happen, he punched her square in the face.
"This is insane!"
The punch creates a shockwave, but is caught by her metallic hand. He tries to pry it out to no avail. She looks at the young Saiyan-Robloxian hybrid with a hurt expression in her eyes as she lets him go.
The two circled around each other in the air, their eyes glaring at one another as they did.
"Are you sure you want to do this, Leek? You've never beaten me before when I actually tried in our spars."
He didn't reply. He didn't need to. The look in his eyes said it all.
"... Very well. I'll keep you alive even if I have to break every bone in your body."
The two stop and take positions with Petune Liquore atop a higher ledge while Re: Chrome stands on a lower one, recreating Goku vs. Vegeta.
"One more thing."
"Yeah?"
"I don't go by Leek anymore. Call me Re: Chrome."
And with that, the two power up to Super Saiyan 3 and charge at each other.
Meanwhile, Univerma looks on at the shockwaves from afar and smirks. "Looks like the two are going at it. What about you two? What do you choose?"
A few moments earlier, Univerma gave Yozukure an ultimatum.
Hand Lexas over to her, and Yozukure may live to see another day.
But Yozukure could not answer this. If she complies, Univerma plans to just kill her later on, and she'd be responsible for all the deaths Univerma will cause with Lexas' full potential in hand. And if she does not, Univerma will just kill her and not Lexas.
She was strong, but if she showed her star powers or any of her psychic abilities, Univerma will learn them, and it would still be over.
Lexas's only way of escape would be for Yozukure to make a gamble.
"Miss Yozukure! Let me use that on her!" Lexas shouted psychically.
"Lexas, don't make your psychic link obvious. And no, do not. If she learns to do that, it will get significantly harder to defeat her in the future. Besides, she is above even Re: Chrome in power, so it's dubious if you'll even have enough firepower as is to take her down."
"But you said I could beat Re: Chrome!"
"Yes, but that's only if you achieved your full potential, something you clearly have not."
"So are you two just going to gawk at me all day or..." Univerma asks as she looks at a non-existent wristwatch.
"Lexas... when I say run... RUN!"
"What?! Miss Yozukure!" "What are you planning to do?!"
She smiles at Lexas and mentally tells her, "My best!"
She then summons her star racket and bats Lexas away.
Univerma tries to chase after the Mizuneko but gets smashed in the face with a tennis ball made of pure star energy.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk! You have a horrible habit of getting distracted, don't you, Univerma?!" Yozukure shouts as her body turns into a brilliant white color. She then slams into Univerma, smacking her into the ground so hard that it melts a chunk of the ground into lava before causing it to explode upward like a volcano.
Univerma attempts to throw a punch of her own, but gets blasted away again by a beam of pure energy.
Univerma teleports away, half her face just about healed through the burns.
"You've gone mad..." the villainess mutters as she looks at the being enshrouded by pure white light in front of her. The white light then breaks down and reveals a more human-looking Yozukure with brilliant white hair and tears turning into steam. Her visage was ethereal, angelic even in appearance, but there was no euphoria in her face. The smile she had on? It was the smile of someone who knew their hours were numbered.
She wipes off the tears, causing them to steam away fully before pulling out her racket, which had transformed into a short sword made of pure light.
"What's wrong, Univerma? I thought you liked new powers?"
"You're crazy! You're using two techniques that are actively burning your existence up just to just about catch up to my level!"
In Yozukure's many adventures throughout the Fusionverse, she came across two particular techniques that she is using now. The baryon mode, where she smashes her life force, psychic power, and internal star power together to create a radioactive power source that is exponentially greater than the sum of its parts. The other technique is known as the humanification self-curse, a technique that forces the user into a form closer to that of a human by crunching down all the user's inhuman features and imbuing every attack with their conceptual inhumanity to boost their energy capacity and power. In essence, this double death vow kills the user's mind, body, and soul, leaving them existentially dead save for the memories of everyone who knew her, as their very concept gets digested back into the cloud of thought that surrounds the non-conceptual half of the fusionverse.
However, Univerma would soon come to know just how much power she gained with that.
Yozukure moves so quickly that even to Univerma, the star woman seems to have teleported as she appears in front of her and bisects her.
She panics and activates every boost spell she knows on top of Kaioken as she swings her fists, and a giant pair of yellow energy construct fists transform and manifest beside her, which split into millions of smaller fists that fire off all over like a machine gun barrage.
It gave her just enough breathing room to reattach herself as Yozukure arrives in front of her like a white-hot streak of light that burns through the energy constructs like a glowing knife through butter and slices her up again with her sword. Despite all the boosts she placed on herself, she was only able to barely escape this time around, causing her arm to be lopped off. She fires off every trick in her book, but Yozukure either dodges or melts straight through her attacks.
Univerma tries to talk her way out, but Yozukure just tears her jaw off with an indifferent gaze before swinging her sword through her torso again.
"If she kills this me! I'll be permanently nerfed!" Univerma thought only for Yozukure to appear and stare her down as if to say, "That's the plan," before continuing to wail on her.
As Yozukure drags Univerma across the floor, her mind is not on the fight. Not fully. Rather, it was focused on trying to psychically reassure her crying apprentice
But that would be her undoing, as that momentary lapse in judgment would see her arm getting cut off by Univerma before being devoured.
"You IDIOOOOOOT! YOU ARE SO DONE FOR!"
The towering villainess laughed maniacally as she began activating the sealed god's power, growing bigger and more monstrous.
Yozukure flew up backward and spread her arms out.
She flashes back to talking with Re: Chrome about the technique he was teaching her.
"Are you sure I should teach you this, Yo-san? I mean... despite being strong enough to overpower a kamehameha, there is a lot of superstition behind it due to how astronomically bad it has been thus far at killing its target."
"It's nothing more than hearsay. Besides, if I'm to fight something super big that's too sturdy for my usual attacks, I'll need it."
"If you say so..."
Lexas screamed as she punched uselessly against the star ball that was taking her away and into the deep forest.
"Miss Yozu! Please! Let me fight! I don't want you to die! Please!" She begged, but the ball did not stop flying.
As she crashes into the trees, the ball vanishes inside her, getting absorbed into her system as extra energy. As it did, the Mizuneko would find herself standing before Yozukure, smiling while in her base form.
"Sorry about that, Lexas. But you're too important to fall into the enemy's hands."
"Miss Yozukure! Don't leave me! Please! Don't you love Mr. Reeky and me anymore?!"
Yozukure hugs her.
"It hurts my heart more than anything that I can't be there with you anymore, to see you grow and to train with you and Chrome... but I regret nothing. I'm proud to have been your teacher, and I know you'll reach greater heights than I will. Now, in that ball of energy I gave you is a psychically locked memory I found within your psyche. It's about your real parents and your past. If you feel you are ready, open it and read it."
She then lets go of Lexas, much to the terror of the little girl.
Yozukure gives the catshark one last smile and tells her, "Lexas, you got it from here."
Before her apprentice could get to her, she opened her eyes and cut the mental link between them as she finished charging her attack.
In front of her, a horribly mutated Univerma charged a Kamehameha composed of Syouminous' black flames compressed into a perfect sphere. Univerma shouts, "YOU ARE NOTHIIIIING!"
As Univerma roars out "KAMEHAMEHAAAAAA," Yozukure smiles and brings her hands together.
There was no fear there for the god of fear to capitalize on. Rather, it was just a bright, pure love.
"Final... flash."
Thus, the entire place was bathed in white light.
Last Words:
I'mma vanish for another bit to finish the 3rd part after this. But I may focus on my Youtube channel so it may come out longer.
This part took so long to make I deadass evolved as an artist in-between making this XD. (art placed in order of creation)
New Fusions: none
Fusions involved:
- Stella(u/CrownStudi0) + Stella(u/UragiriDumpling) + Stella (u/Error_603) +Dima 'Dimelight' Dozen (me) = Stella 'Astralight' Dozen
- Ariseta Kageusha (u/Necoarcprime, u/Cheeminator, u/Nautilus_Zombie1769)
- Shimchar Sato (u/lialing, u/Messiah_Char)
- Darksword Vol'kul (u/Black_Mage75)
- Jovian 'Mechannihilate' N. Jin (u/throwawaydumpste, u/spammedletters, u/shinningoldenstarr)
- Joriel Wilson 'Star-spangled Patriot' Novah (u/JpkL23, u/ArkhamMetahuman, u/captain-ziggy)
- Rosemary 'Array-Z' Shelbrand (u/magikind, u/JTL280508, u/GeneralofLittleMacs, u/baz1nga007)
- Re: Chrome (u/SnickerbobbleKBB, u/Upper_Cranberry4202)
- Yozukure (u/Kliktichik, u/Apprehensive_Sky1599**)**
- Lexas the Mizuneko (u/PerceptionBetter3753, u/Magma8714)
- Nat '32, Goodnight' Dozen (u/ElectroNikkel)
- Queen Yukuma Dozen (u/sub-parBeanutButter, u/TheStarPiercer**)**
- Masima 'Witchlight' Dozen (u/CosmicSynthwave, u/HiMaooo)
- Penning 'Puddingale' Pearlkrad (u/AdExtra2331, u/Express-Bat-2967, u/captain-ziggy)
- Suzuka 'Toxsling' Summers (u/captain-ziggy, u/Chaos_Crow1927, u/Jen_the_Creator-7)
- Hallax Hilarity (u/JoJo_Stretch_2961, u/Spiritual_Air_8606, u/ApprehensiveYam7539)
- Petune Liquore ^(()u/Customninjas, u/Flat-Support-9452, u/sellingmysoup)
- Hoppleiss COGNICore (u/GeneralofLittleMacs, u/umbra_pseudonym, u/Mono_Eyed, u/ForcefieldMaterial)
- Univerma Siderova (u/Electronic_Minimum10, u/Necoarcprime, u/CrownStudi0, u/Suspicious-Morning69) (Crown, I wish I remembered your latest username you used, but it got deleted when I rechecked)
The three Dozens had no time to process these massive revelations as the alarms went off all over the facility.
[CASTLE IS UNDER ATTACK. PLEASE VACATE THE PREMISES WHILE THE ARMED FORCES CONTROL THE SITUATION.] A cold mechanical voice spoke over the comms as gunfire and explosions rang above.
"That cannot be good. My queen, we mustn't dally."
The three acknowledge this, and the four of them take off.
They zip through the halls until they are outside, where they will find their attackers floating overhead.
Univerma reveled in the destruction while Hallax fired a barrage of energy beams from his many giant masks at any attempt at resisting him by the Dozen Kingdom's army.
"Greetings, sister!" Univerma hailed them with a grandiose flourish of her arms, the smoke and her black phoenix-shaped halo darkening her face to a point where only her dichromatic eyes glowed, giving her the oppressive aura of a destructive god.
Knowing the battle is inevitable and necessary if they want the kingdom to survive, all four Dozens activate their halos.
Blue, red, and violet lightning violently exploded out of Yukuma as she flapped with enough force to create an explosion that rocketed her towards Univerma. She uppercuts her sister only to watch in shock as, instead of knocking her out of the sky, her fist simply stopped at the chin.
"What?!"
A wicked smile stretches across Univerma's face as she wraps her hand around her eldest sister's like an adult would wrap their hand around a child's to show just how big her hand is compared to Yukuma's and slowly forces it down despite Yukuma's attempt to wrest control back.
"The lightning god's lightning is strong, especially in the hands of the Dozen Kingdom's strongest warrior, but you're only one strong warrior, while I might as well be all of them."
She then looked down at Yukuma and chuckled. "Not used to looking up, shortie? You know, even Ave could do this to you."
She then choked the queen.
Yukuma gritted her teeth as she struggled against Univerma's grasp. As she did, she forced out, "What... did you do... to her?!"
Univerma's eyes narrowed in glee as she said, "I became her."
Yukuma grits her teeth, and her rage explodes with lightning around her.
But before she could coalesce it into an attack, Univerma would bring down her skull into a nasty headbutt.
Blood sprays all over as Yukuma's eyes roll back to full whites from the impact.
"Wow! You're even less of a threat than I thought!"
32 mutters, "I can't get a shot. She's moving around too fast. I might hit the queen."
Left with no choice, Masima flies to aid her sister, as did 32, but they were both blocked by another beam of light coming from one of the floating jester masks, the one Hallax was on.
Hallax chuckles and then gives chase with his army of masks, forcing the two away.
Meanwhile, Univerma coats her hand with a blade of black flames, intending to pierce Yukuma's heart, but as she thrusts her blade hand, nothing hits the queen.
Looking down, she watched in shock as a gaping hole was found where her hand was. Quickly looking behind, she spots the white-haired Dimelight that she's never seen before, holding a rapier in her hand, a massive blue Dimelight in the shape of a transparent glass-like rose right behind her.
"If you are all of them, then so am I. Biodata was successfully copied."
Stella Dozen vanishes the rapier in her hand and begins to transform as she copied every advantage Univerma had physically. She grew to her height, destroying her apparel in the process, transforming into a massive 12-ft tall Viltrumite werepire herself.
Not wanting to be disadvantaged in this fight, Univerma activated her full werepire transformation as well.
"You might have copied me, but that's as far as you can go, faker."
"Let's go then, Project Omega—no, parasite. I hope you have enough powers in store."
Meanwhile, somewhere nearby, Masima strafed side-to-side on her broom to dodge as beams of oppressive white light rained down from the many laughing masks on high, mixed in with a barrage of fireballs and random projectiles from the floating screens acting like wings.
Beside her, 32 would run, casting swift legs on random brief intervals to force Hallax to continue guessing. All the while, she had a Phantom hand wrapped around the broomstick so that she wouldn't be left behind by such a speedy magic type.
"Oh, I been waitin' on dis moment, me! Personally, I’d preferred if I kilt your sister instead, but seein' her break down wit' all dat grief... dat’s just as good, yeah!"
As the attacks rain down, Masima looks around and asks 32, "Goodnight, was it?"
"Yeah, that's my current hero name, I think. Wassup?"
"Quick, I'll grab you and fly both of us. Can you look around for any openings in this guy's defense?"
"Right... uh... whoa!" Masima does exactly as she says and yanks 32 onto her broom. The stitch-covered girl sits on the broom backward and raises her rifle.
She makes sure she doesn't use her trump card, bullets, before opening fire on Hallax. However, Hallax kept up with them, using the screen wings of his mask familiars to block the first hit.
32 then chants "Freeze," causing these to freeze in midair, causing the familiars to drop to the ground.
However, after realizing this, Hallax clicks his tongue and summons wings made of those same screens on his back.
"Mais, you want a gun fight, you? I’m gonna give you a gun fight den, yeah!"
The screens change channels to a war documentary and begin dropping bombs with the lower screens while firing 30 mm rounds like a warthog plane.
Masima accelerates. Meanwhile, 32 raises her scythe and drags it across the ground, creating a cloud of debris. She then raises her arm and shouts, "Freeze!" freezing the very gravity of the debris she lifted up, creating a barrier of dust that blocked the bombs and bullet fire like a foam made of sand.
Back with Yukuma, Stella, and Univerma, the 11th and 12th Dozens were going at it like rabid, supersonic, flying chimpanzees. Each time they landed a blow on each other, a sonic clap would initiate, creating a deafening explosion. Worse, because Univerma had used a clone ability she learned from Petune, a veritable army of Stellas and Univermas were in the skies of the Dozen Kingdom HQ, beating each other to a pulp. And it was a fight that was constantly escalating. It's hard not to when both Univerma and Stella have the power to copy each other's powers. However, while both fighters were unaware of the win condition against their opponent, they were both keenly aware of their respective loss conditions.
If Univerma pulled out even more powers, Stella would fall into a coma... And on the other side, Univerma was starting to lose gas. Such is the price she pays for using multiform to fight four separate battles all across the Allied kingdoms. While she retained power output, power capacity had been divided evenly across each clone, and with her fighting an army of Stellas with an army of herself, the quarter of her capacity she used here was being strained even further.
Knowing this, the two shared a single plan in their fight.
"I can't let this drag on."
Meanwhile, Yukuma could only hope to try and help, but with Univerma having stolen the sealed Horror God, her power level at this moment was not enough, her stats were not enough, and her speed was not enough. Every time she attempted to help, she was forced back down by either being backhanded away by one of Univerma's clones or pushed away by Stella's. Worse, the more she pushed her werepire form, the fewer horror god fumes her body was running on. A minute had passed since the fight began, and she had tried to rejoin the fight 15 times now, and each time her body shrank, reverting to its state before she had the horror god sealed within her.
She started at 8 feet tall, but she's lost 2 feet of height, and her body has lost most of its inhuman traits save for the tiger ears she was born with, her sharp teeth, and a pair of now-vestigial wings.
She stood back up from the rubble, limping as she did. "The thunder god's blessing just does not compare to having a fully sealed god drip-feeding its power into me."
She bit her thumbnail as she looked on at the fight. She knew about as much as Stella, so she was worried for the same reason. But above that, the longer this fight kept on, the more Dozenites would die, and the more of the kingdom would be torn apart. She had to do something, anything, to stop this fight from entering into an attrition match.
That was when Yukuma had an idea. Her Dimelight pulses white, and she expands her domain.
Back in Neo-Tonga, deep in its facilities, Ariseta, Shimchar, and Gray were caught in a deadly fight as Puddingale and Toxsling engaged them in combat while Univerma watched.
Shimchar took Toxsling on by himself, as he was the only one able to trade blows with the queen of diseases without succumbing to the infection due to his cat's powers warping them off of him. The two were engaged in what can only be described as a long-range fistfight as their fists stretched out like rubber bands from across the room in a storm of punches.
"I remember you!" Toxsling madly laughs as she grabs his fist and fires off her foot into his gut.
"You're the nobody who stood on the creator's left, right as he split into pieces!"
He was hit with a barrage of diseases, but right before they could kill him, his cat warped his reality to where they weren't there to begin with. He then takes her offending limb and grabs it before whipping her with her own knee before yanking her towards him. He then slams his fist into her face, retorting with, "Are you dumb? I am not some nobody! I'm his damn rival!"
She then uses her interesting biology to slither out of his grasp before swinging around the training area, laughing. "Rival? To the Gods? Human nature is truly arrogant!"
Not wanting her to suddenly team up against the one Ariseta and Gray were fighting, he followed suit with his own shape-shifting.
Meanwhile, the fight adjacent was not faring any better. With a powerless Gray, it couldn't even really be called a 2v1.
Knives clashed, and Ariseta's plastic knife wins, parrying away the hand of the 8 ft tall behemoth of slime and ceramic before she transformed into a real metal knife covered in malevolent red energy, which she used to slash at the slime woman.
As she did, a big red 999999999999999999999 exploded from the slash, bisecting the massive woman, but it did not kill her as she thought. Rather, Puddingale simply reattached the cut piece, saying, "You almost had my core there! Again!"
The slime comprising her body then hardens into a craggy ceramic cluster around her fist, which she used to uppercut Ariseta away.
She then looms over Gray, saying, "You don't have your girlfriend protecting you now, dearest Creator!"
"Who even are you?!"
"Don't you remember the face of the king you dethroned?!"
Vol'kul would shout, "Block!" as Puddingale summons a new knife and brings it down with an extra length of blood extending its reach.
Gray, for his part, manages to block the strike, creating a burst of dark magic using Soulrend to make up the colossal gap in strength. Still, Gray was the lighter of the two combatants and was shot back from the impact.
Puddingale wastes no time and chases after him, swinging the blood cleaver at him once more.
Thankfully, Ariseta returned, parrying it and dispelling the blood cleaver.
Puddingale glares at Ariseta before sending her back with an ocean of black blood.
She then chuckles darkly as she walks Gray down.
However, her eyes weren't on Gray but instead on his sword.
"I remember you~ We were once the same person before I took over this smokin' hot new bod." She then smiles and speaks as if she were speaking to an old friend.
"How has it been? I'm surprised to find out you didn't die after all!"
Vol'kul scoffs. "Ironically, I was saved by the same gods I detest. I'll make them rue that in due time. But for now... I have you to take down. Wielder, take a stance."
Gray nods and takes a hanging right stance.
In the Nazuno beaches where the heroes were training, things were not better in the slightest. While Jovian was busy trying to hold Univerma back in the skies, Joriel and Rosemary were busy being hunted down in the thickets by the cyborg rabbitman.
[Come out, come out. Wherever you are.] Hoppleiss spoke with a mechanical voice while hovering through the forest, with his drones in tow. Meanwhile, the two heroes and the sentient tail peeked out from the bushes as he passed by.
"Ok, we're clear."
Joriel takes Rosemary by the pits and lifts her up in a pack strap carry slightly over the vegetation so as to avoid the leaves rustling.
Karibaks, the demon running the tail, mutters, "We should be running back there!"
"But master–"
"Listen to me, kid! Do you really want—" the demon tail shouted, only to suddenly go silent.
"Rose? Kari—" He froze in horror after turning around and seeing that she was, in fact, still talking, but her voice had been silenced.
Rosemary notices this too and immediately shoves him away as she tanks a powerful blast of energy from above, which she immediately redirects back at the attacker, which tears the sky open, revealing it to be a bunch of panels set up by Hoppleiss.
The deafening silence switched off when Hoppleiss hovered from the puncture.
The bunnyman claps and praises the glass vampire. "Clever girl."
The two wasted no time rushing the rabbit man down. They threw everything they could at the man, but they were being read like a damn book. The man had near-perfect reaction speed to both of their attacks despite the massive improvement they had after training with Jovian for so long.
Then, the tail suddenly lunges at Hoppleiss with a soul-separation beam, only to be parried upwards with a palm strike from Hoppleiss. However, surprisingly, Karibacks and Rosemary accounted for this. Tail exaggerates the angle of her serpentine shell, curving it so that the eye in the middle of the metal contraption would aim directly at Rosemary.
Array-Z, for her part, would rearrange the glass in her body to direct it as a thing beam towards their attacker.
It was a gamble. It was a bet. It was something the two had come up with on the spot with their psychic link, but with Joriel too emotional, that was the best they could think of.
As they hoped against hope that it wouldn't just take her out of the fight, the bet paid off.
The scarlet soul-separation beam bounced around inside her before firing at Hoppleiss, shooting his soul out of his body.
"Now's our chance!"
The three proceeded to wail on the cyborg's temporarily emptied shell. Array-Z fired laser after laser at him; Joriel wailed on him with punches and kicks, while Karibacks chewed through metal.
Suddenly, the unconscious rabbit's hand shoots out and grabs Rosemary by the neck, strangling her all of a sudden.
Karibacks coughs due to sharing a nervous system with her host and lets out a choking, "H-How?! Y-your soul is—"
[I am not just the flesh, you know?]
He then creates a smoke screen just as Joriel jumps to save her.
He then tries to shout to call out her name, but no matter how much his throat burns, he can hear nothing come out of his mouth.
He has a mouth, yet he can't scream. But all was not lost as he found a laser to pierce the fog.
Not wasting time, he zooms to where the laser fired from.
Meanwhile, at the source of that laser, Array-Z was not doing so well.
She was on the ground with both her and her demon tail being choked down by Hoppleiss in his spindly 14-foot-tall form.
In her panic, she fired lasers and reflected them throughout her body to fire them elsewhere due to his hand covering her whole head.
Hoppleiss shudders as his soul returns to its body before stomping down on Karibacks head as she attempts to fire a soul laser at their opponent.
[Don't struggle. It'll end quicker that way.]
As the surface of her throat started to crack, a thought occurred to her. She closed her eyes and fired a laser within herself. A controlled burst. That burst would begin to bounce within her rapidly. She eventually manages to contain it in her throat.
"What do you think you're doing?" Hoppleiss asks with his actual voice.
"If you think you can melt my hand with your laser, I hate to break it to you, but you'll sooner decapitate yourself with your lower melting point."
But that was not her plan.
"Halt. If you want to live, you will cease this at once if you want to live!"
His eyes widened when, instead, all he saw was her smirk as she pumped even more energy into her neck area.
To his shock, his hand stopped working. The mechanisms that controlled it were jamming with something, forcing him to drop her.
"What did you–"
The laser she'd been circulating inside her moved out of her neck just quickly enough to where it only slightly melted the glass, warping it, but also mending the crack.
She then fired it all out at him, in a continuous beam from her chest, Iron Man style, aimed with her finger.
As she did, she explained the idea behind the trick to Karibacks psychically.
"You might be confused, Kari... but here's what I did: Light can push. Not as strong as, say, wind, but it can still push. That is the promise behind solar sails, after all. So when he cracked my neck, I realized two things: one, his bigger form means he has bigger gaps in his armor, but also, since he cracked my neck? There are particles of glass in his hand. So if I spun light particles within that area, I figured I could move the glass using the momentum of the light particles."
"..." The eye-mouth of Karibacks' current vessel slowly blinked after hearing that explanation be transmitted into her "brain" and spoke out loud.
"Nerd."
As the continuous laser loses steam, a blast of wind knocks away the remaining beam, and a familiar metallic footstep walks forth from the smoke with a cadence akin to a slow clap.
From the lingering smoke, the distended form of Hoppleiss would slice off his arm before having a drone come in and sacrifice itself to give him a new one.
[Well done, I applaud your creativity and scientific know-how. I was clearly in the wrong for underestimating you. My bad. Won't happen again.]
The smoke disperses, and Hoppleiss could now be seen charging up a black flame on his newly repaired hand.
She has never seen it before, but her instincts told her that if she gets hit with it, she won't be reflecting in any other way than in the afterlife.
[Upupup. Don't try to run away. I've measured how fast you can move, and my output has been adjusted to account for your attempts to escape. The only way out of a slow and agonizing death now is for you to shatter yourself now.]
Karibacks growled before turning to Rosemary.
"Grr... alright! What's the plan to stuff this twat!?"
Rose psychically explains, "With Joriel still in the fog, we're likely the only ones here and if what he says is true... we really can't escape. So... there's only one way forward..."
"Why... do I sense fear in your mental voice?"
"Every last drop. We're going to hit him with a beam with every last drop."
"WHAT?!"
Rosemary takes a deep sigh and raises her finger in a finger gun, closing her eyes and letting her whole body turn into glass. She then diverts all her energy to the beam forming in her chest.
"Don't bother charging up the soul-taker laser. He can function without a soul anyway."
Seeing the determination in her eyes, Hoppleiss could not help but see Ave Maria in those eyes and sighed.
"If that's how you want to do it... so be it. Just this once..." He then focuses the black fire into a single point. To him, it didn't matter if she tried to run. COGNI has already calculated her speed anyway. Let her have this last stand.
The two beams clash, one of bright red and the other of black. In terms of energy output, Hoppleiss' borrowed black flames engulfed hers. It slowly crawled forward despite her best efforts, but thankfully, a gambit she pulled paid off.
From the fog, Star-Spangled Patriot rushes out, shocking everyone in that fight when he ran IN THE MIDDLE OF THE BEAM CLASH and absorbed Rose's laser to create an explosive blast of energy to cancel out the dark flames.
As Joriel collapses, the laser returns to hitting Hoppleiss, knocking him away.
Rosemary rushes to gently pick Joriel up, revealing the severe burns on his skin.
Rosemary shouts, "Why did you do that?! You had no idea you would survive that!"
Due to the glass around her throat being warped by the laser, it was not able to revert to regular flesh, and so the voice came out rough and almost vinyl in its texture.
Joriel smiles through his pain and admits, "I didn't. I just knew you wouldn't have either."
Tears threatened to fall off of Rose's face, but she was halted when Karibacks shouted, "Lovey doves over, bozos! Look out!"
A red-hot beam turns the entire forest nearby into char and the sand into glass.
They narrowly escape and look upwards in surprise.
Last words:
Idk how much longer I can keep up writing this. I'm broke, ya'll, and I have two options since office work really is not working out for me. Either 1. start posting commission sheets on Reddit(I'm still working on my art to be good enough for this) or 2. succeed on my new YouTube channel. I just posted this in case I am forced to make a hiatus post for Fusionverse. Thank you for all your support thus far. It genuinely got me through a dark chapter in my life. I have a few chapters planned out already in the Fusionverse, and I'll see how many I can go through until life stops me from finishing.