In a very rare case such a high powered being is faced by someone up close, they would probably be dead before the attack could even land. Just the fear alone would be enough. But here we were talking about a Celestial where they were supposedly the creators of the universe, so they couldn't bet on the effectiveness of the attack.
As the attack landed, there was a huge explosion right at the face with a mixture of orange and white color in it. It also had black particles mixed in it too signifying the symbiote particles. And if that was not enough, the three of them could hear the scream of the symbiote as it felt the heat of the attack of Sentry and Yhwach.
John had already changed himself to his original form after using the Chronosapien. He felt vulnerable using that alien. It was powerful for sure, but there were too many weaknesses and almost no stamina. After the explosion receded, they all had a smile on their faces. The attack was successful.
Both of their attacks hit right at their marks. Yhwach's attack was able to separate more than 80% of the neck from its body and more than half of the face of the Celestial was gone. There were huge burnt marks on the remaining part of the head. it looked gruesome as the part of the head was gone. There was no such thing as a brain inside the head and there was only a hollow part where the brain should have been.
And of course the soul and the source of energy. As opposed to the source of energy in the heart of Celestial, they have the source of energy on their head. And for this reason all of the members of the Avengers were directed to go for the head.
The Celestial didn't see what hit it, as John had stopped the team before it could see them. But this didn't stop the Celestial from hitting Earth, so they knew that they had to stop the fall and make a crater.
And Sentry was up for the job, though John could do it too he allowed Sentry to play that part as he flew to the foot of the Celestial as he used both of his hands to stop it. Sentry was powerful enough to stop the whole body of a Celestial with his hands alone. The power of a thousand suns played his part and he was easily able to stop the Celestial right in its tracks.
But it was a close call. When he stopped the Celestial, his feet had just touched the ground and a little more delay would have surely created a break on the land. It was fortunate that they were able to stop him right in time. But others were not so much.
Bruce and Clark took the most raw route possible. Wayne went under the Celestial to stop the speed of the falling Celestial while Superman went to blow the head off the neck of the Celestial with his hands alone. And this took time. Unlike John and his team, Wayne and Clark had to take a lot of time to bring the celestial down.
The Celestial landed on Earth with a normal speed enough not to make a crater like situation while Clark was throwing punches at the head of the Celestial. Of course the Celestial retaliated by using his own hands and even moving his legs on the free fall, but Superman being agile and fast, his hands could do nothing. Though the Celestial now had enhanced strength by using the symbiote, their main power which was related to heat got the big L.
A symbiote would never allow this to take place so, their greatest weapon was out of the picture in the start itself. No wonder, Venom was able to kill a Celestial with just a swing of his new 'axe'. Thus as the Celestial was trying to stop Clark and at the end Bruce after he landed with his hands, the symbiote bound Celestial was on the journey of disappointment, because no matter what he did he was getting hit in the face.
And with every passing hit, it was a huge dent at the face with cracks appearing at the face of the Celestial. And after a minute of recurring punches and kicks at the face, the face broke down. The symbiote tried to bond with either Bruce or Clark but it too was disappointed as the suit was a perfect anti-symbiote. As the head of the Celestial was broken into shambles, the standing huge 'God' once fell down slowly.
"Phew!! That was time consuming." Clark said.
"We have lost the sun. We should not be injured in this war, or else it would be problematic for both of us." Wayne said as he looked up. There was really no sun as the remaining symbiotes were enough now to cover the whole Earth as they had genuinely entered the Earth's atmosphere.
The real fight had just begun.
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