This is the crowning of Venus, Queen of Shapes. It thus happened.
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The last blast from the Hex had caused a massive explosion at APOLLO, one so big that would dwarf several planets in size.
Or so the Hex thought.
The beam had actually not destroyed all of it.
Right before the explosion encompassed the rest of APOLLO and Venus, she acted first.
In a span shorter than 0.000001 nanoseconds, APOLLO and Venus vanished before the beam actually destroyed them.
The green powder that was acting strangely within her body was about to seemingly cause a self-destroying event, but it required the proper component to finish it.
When Venus ate the arm, it had completed it. Or to be more exact, it underwent a severe mutation.
Her body then caused a chemical and physics-defying vortex that absorbed and integrated APOLLO and everything inside her body, and then, herself, completely vanishing it.
Then, by sheer force of will, her shape was projected, which was until then [ISN'T], into [IS].
The event of this brand-new awakening shook the very foundations of the entire Material Substrate and slightly tilted it over, so much that every being in every universe felt it, even if a little.
APOLLO and SHARP, which ceased to be, now resided within Venus' body, and she could replicate all their doings, for they were now her, and she was them.
On her head, a crown began to manifest itself. The crown of a queen.
The Hex were perplexed. They, who could completely analyze every being and its weaknesses, could not do it to the entity in front of them. It was not a matter of simply defying physics or causality like themselves, for they also could analyze such beings. It was an entity defying logic itself. They had seen nothing like it.
Then, she spoke.
"I have surpassed life and death."
"I, who until then had been a victim of the threads of fate, now do not partake in any."
"I, who until then had been bound by the laws of causality and therefore toyed by the beings who were not, now am a step higher than them."
"I, who was a simple mortal dependent on mechanicals, am now immortal and have the innate power to shape reality and make it my own."
"Thus, let my existence be newly shaped and reborn anew."
"I am Venus Hekatonreis Vanaheimr."
"I am ET[H]ERNAL."