Fritz and Yumie both charged at each other and swung their swords at the same moment. As soon as they're blades met, sparks were created as they did so.
"Don't disappoint me."
"I won't."
Fritz shoved her aside and quickly leaped over to get behind her and slashed the back of her legs, hitting some vulnerable arteries causing the Japanese Nun to grunt in pain. She spun around to execute a 360-degree spin slash, but Fritz parried the attack with his sword and swiftly struck her face with a right-handed palm strike before kneeing her in the gut, causing her to cough up blood. She attempted to stab his foot, but he immediately flipped back away from her.
"Amateur!"
Yumie's legs ached from the deep cuts on the back of them and from the heavy bleeding. Fritz initially targeted her legs in an attempt to disrupt her footwork, which is crucial in any kind of battle.
In an instant, Fritz charged at Yumie and went for a thrust but Yumie quickly did a mikiri-counter which involved sidestepping to the left before stomping his sword to the ground with her foot and pinned them there in place. She immediately followed that with a horizontal slash intended to cut off his head, but the robot quickly bent over and avoided the swing before freeing his sword and the two started exchanging a storm of slashes on each other at fast superhuman speeds as their swords clashed repeatedly.
In the space of a nanosecond, Fritz managed to discover an opening using his calculative mechanical eyes, and without a moment of hesitation, he slashes her abdomen, leaving a deep wound. But Yumie managed to hold herself together and executed a downward slash, which was able to hit his metal face and leave a vertical slash mark on it.
This caused the two to quickly retreat from each other.
"Lucky shot, but you humans are really interesting when it comes to combat. Show me more."
"Don't need to ask me twice."
Then again, they both charged at each other and their weapons clashed once more.
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With an otherworldly roar, the Forsake rained down thousands upon thousands of razor-sharp dark aether crystals felling upon the mutated Karl, but the colossal metal giant retaliated by firing his own projectiles, launching a stream of metal shrapnels found on the town below at the crystals, exploding all of them upon impact. Without the Forsaken knowing, Karl throws a metal cable hidden under his right arm at the Forsaken and wraps itself around his neck.
"!?"
"🙂"
"...I swear if you say that catch phrase, I'll-"
"Get over here, bitch!"
And swiftly yanking him toward him with the cord and deliver an uppercut to launch Forsaken into the air. Forsaken snarled and conjured hundreds of dark aether crystal spikes erupting from the earth, intending to impale Karl from below, but the latter flew backwards by lifting his metal body with his powers and avoiding the spikes. As Karl swoops down on the Forsaken at alarming speed, he punches him in the face with one of his buzzsaw hands before drilling into his chest with the other.
"You have no soul!"
"And that is why I cannot be killed. But for you, you'll die!"
Raising his hand, the Forsaken applied his telekinetic power and shoved Karl off of him with such force that he crashed into a nuclear power plant located kilometers away. In the next instant, dark aether crystal spikes sprung out the earth and impaled Karl through the chest.
"GAAAH!"
"Fool. In the realm of the dark aether, I'm twice as powerful than before, so basically you signed your death warrant the moment you all stepped into my domain. You cannot best me, you ugly-looking Gundam."
With his mere thoughts alone, the Forsaken ignites the Nuclear facility and everything in its surroundings on fire and engulfed it in purple flames. An instant later, the entire station explodes along with Karl in a world-ending explosion, creating a giant mushroom cloud that spans kilometers in the sky and destroying Karl Heisenberg's body entirely, killing him... or so the Forsaken thought.
"Good riddance," Forsaken sighed with satisfaction as he turned to go find Rodeo and Rip when he suddenly noticed someone flying off into the grasslands, "Hm?"
To his surprise and shock, it was Karl, back in his human form and old clothing along with his hammer, flying away into the grasslands while riding on a sheet of metal.
"Ugggggggghhhhhh! They never die do they?" The Forsaken growled in anger as he flew after him across the grasslands.
"Damn it. I knew keeping that form for an extended period of time and enlarging it would made me more vulnerable to the Forsaken and I'm also feeling exhausted as well. If his claims about being twice as powerful in his own realm were right, then we can't match nor defeat him. The only thing I can do now is catch up with the kid and Rip. Hope they reach the crystals by now."
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Rip and Rodeo were still sprinting after the dark aether crystals that were still flying away on the piece of ground they were bonded to and were attempting to reach for it.
"My armor has grappler hooks," Rodeo claimed, "If I can get close enough and fire the hooks I can reel myself right into it."
"Got it," Rip responded as she looked up ahead, "We got company, I mean very dead company."
Gazing in the direction Rip was pointing, Rodeo saw a horde of dark aether zombies, numbering thousands, charging in their direction.
"RAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
"So easy way or hard way?" Rip asked.
"Easy way. I'm really not in the mood to deal with these guys fist to fist."
Rip smiles menacingly, "Very well then."
"CHARGE ME, RIP!"
"Jawohl."
Then, Rip used the electro-uber backpack and charged Rodeo's armor, the latter revs up the small gatling guns on his armor and fires at the zombie horde while Rip fired a magic bullet at them and both of their weapons started mowing down them down and making them drop like flies as they made their way to the crystals.
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While Alcina and Miranda were using their claws, Bela and Cassandra used their sickles and were constantly slashing Lina, but her power suit was tanking all of their hits.
"There must be a weak spot!" Alcina shouted as she along with her family slashed their opponent with all their might, but to no avail.
As the four continue their never-ending assault, from the tip of Lina's fingers, orange lightning burst forth, striking all four of them and momentarily stunning them. After doing so, Lina punches a hole through Alcina's and Miranda's abdomen, sending the two flying and crashing into a building. She then grabs both Bela and Cassandra by the throat and chokeslams them to the ground.
"Hands off of them!" The bloody Alcina shrieks in anger. Watching her two beloved daughters being harmed caused her mother instincts to kick in as she used her wings to soars towards Lina, who activates the jetpack on the rear of her suit and flies towards Alcina at a higher velocity.
Before Alcina could react, Lina grabs her head and rams her into the wall of a building before flying upward while holding Alcina and dragging her along its walls all the way to the top
"Out of my sight!" Lina shouted, whirling Alcina around before hurling her so forcefully that it left a large crater on the street.
Miranda, meanwhile, rose upright and expelled blood from her throat, "We can't kill her like this."
Just then, Miranda and the rest noticed the debris and other wreckage in the city were drifting and being drawn into the massive portal in the sky, which could only mean one thing.
…The Hellsing universe is starting to be pulled into the dark aether.
"Oh no."
Otto smiled, "So it begins."
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In the middle of the desolate street of London, Fischer pounced towards Seras and the two exchanged a storm of blows. Throughout this brief struggle, the two were evenly matched, the pressure from their blows creating more minute gusts of wind.
The equal exchanges were broken when Seras landed a right uppercut on the robot's chin. Fischer was sent up into the air, and Seras continued her attack by performing a mid air spinning kick on him, crashing him back down to the road.
Seras planned to finish the combo attack with a tentacle strike, yet just as she was about to land this attack on Fischer, her opponent motioned in a blur, his movement is fast as lightning as he used his footwork to side stepping, backstepping, bobbing, weaving left and right from the constant barrage of attacks from Seras's dark matter tendril. Up to that point, Seras noticed a gap in his armor and immediately stabbed right through it, but to her surprise, within the gaps were more armor platings.
"What?!"
[I see. The general must have armored him not only from the exterior but also from the interior as well to protect vulnerable machinery within him.] Pip stated.
Immediately after, Fischer used this opportunity to knead Seras' face, but she quickly started backflipping away from him.
[Why are you back flipping?]
"To gain some distance!" yelled Seras as she stopped back flipping but again got kneed in the face by Fischer, who spun his body around and kicked her once more, sending her flying across the street.
[You can fly!]
Seras listens to Pip's advice and flies around the air at breakneck speeds in an attempt to confuse Fischer. However, being a machine with advanced artificial intelligence, his mind processes at great speed, calculating her speed and movement all within a nanosecond.
With great precision, the robot fired a round from one of his Ubergewehr arm-cannons and successfully hit Seras, causing her to crash back into the ground.
Seras immediately got up to her feet when Fischer used his jet pack to fly at her and with full force, he gave her a football-kick to propel her into the air and followed by a relentless flurry of bicycle kicks while she was in the air. A second later, Fischer suddenly materialized behind her and send her flying back to the ground with a downward axe kick.
[Seems like his fighting style revolves around kicks.]
"*coughs* *coughs* Yeah. Noted."
Just then, Seras noticed Fischer is descending from the sky, ready to drop kick her, but Seras Immediately rolls to the right just in time avoid the robot's kick which cracked the ground as a result. Immediately after, Seras tensed up, and extended her dark tentacles to attack Fischer. Fischer's body bucked and shook as he felt several small yet powerful attacks striking all over him, and he raised his elbows to properly defend himself from her pummeling.
At fast speed, Seras swiftly followed up with a roundhouse kick. Fischer, however, countered with his own kick and the two colliding blows generated a powerful shockwave that shattered the earth beneath their feet.
"Hi."
"Uhhhhh hi?"
Fischer points both of the Ubergewehr cannons at her, "Goodbye!"
[Dodge!]
"Too late!"
Seras couldn't move in time to avoid as Fischer fired his arm cannons, both rounds struck Seras at point blank range and the force in which the shots hit her sends her flying and crashing into a building. Fischer showered Seras with cannon fire, and the power of its advanced weapon destroyed the stone foundation behind Seras as it collapsed along with her. Seras emerged from the rubble of the collapsed building alive but injured.
With a bloody cough, Seras groans, "Damn it he can't kill us without silver but the firepower he's backing up is no joke."
Until that moment, the two noticed the surrounding buildings and a portion of the ground that they were standing on tore themselves apart from the earth and were pulled into the portal in the sky.
"What's happening?"
"The end of your universe."
"You won't get away with this."
"We already have."
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The mutated Moreau charged at Stroheim and opened his monstrous jaws to crush him, but Stroheim gripped his hand tightly and uppercuts him high into the air, sending Moreau falling back to the ground and towards Stroheim.
"Don't fuck with this commander!"
…And delivering a strong football kick upon the giant fish monster as he crashes into a wrecked bus. At that point on, Stroheim noticed the buildings along with most of the street they were on beginning to rip apart and being pulled into the portal in the sky.
"What is this?!" Integra cried out in bewilderment.
"Seems like your universe is coming to an end," stated Stroheim, "This fight is over. If you won't surrender I'll just leave and let the dark aether do its job."
Then, he started walking away, but before he could step forward, Daniela stood in front of him with a fighting stance and was joined by Integra, Heinkel, the Iscariot paladins and Moreau as they all surrounded him from all sides. A second later, they all attacked him at once, but Stroheim punched the ground with immense force, creating a shockwave that sent them all flying in different directions and slamming into various walls.
"UTTER FOOLS! This war is already over!"
Integra slowly stood up and spat out blood, "So long as we and you are breathing, this is never over." she stated.
Stroheim sighs at her statement and takes a fighting stance once again.
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Back in the dark aether realm, Rodeo and Rip had finally annihilated the zombie horde and were still chasing after the crystals that were taking off over a patch of land.
"Rip! Shoot me!"
"What? Why?"
"Just trust me!"
With a bit of hesitation, Rip eventually nods and aims her rifle at Rodeo and fires a magic bullet at him. Using all of his superhuman senses and mental faculties at a maximum capacity, Rodeo watches as the magic bullet flies directly at him. As the world moves slower at a snail's pace, he carefully places his palm on the bullet and grips it.
As the flow of time moves normally, Rodeo holds on to the bullet tightly as he is being dragged by the bullet and moves at high speeds. Just as he noticed he was getting closer to the crystals, a massive jellyfish suddenly sprung out in his path. Rip immediately controlled the bullet to move upwards and managed to get the bullet to move higher and avoided the Jellyfish, but it caused Rodeo to lose his grasp on the bullet and fell.
However, aiming his arm at the floating land, Rodeo fired his armor's grappler hooks and the moment it grabs the floating land, Rodeo reels himself towards it and climbs onto the floating ground and stands in front of the crystals that were in front of him.
Rip smiled, "He made it." as she notices Karl flying towards her and lands next to her.
"Forsaken?"
"Out ran him," Karl stated, catching sight of Rodeo atop the floating chunk of ground, "Kid! Shatter them!" he shouted.
With a nod of his head, Rodeo prepared to use Sheer Heart Attack to shatter the crystals, when all of a sudden, dozens of dark aether crystallized spears came flying out of the heavens and impaled his arms, legs and chest. Neither his armor nor his Stand Stat "B" was able to keep him safe, resulting in his body collapsing next to the crystals and went limp as his eyes became dark.
~ Music Pauses ~
"!"
"KID!"
Rip and Karl watched in shock and horror upon witnessing the death of Rodeo. The two gazed up to see the Forsaken grinning contentedly, the one who sent the spears at Rodeo.
"Your comrade is dead!"
"You son of a bitch!" Karl shouted with fury.
Forsaken points at them, "And now you and this universe are going to be next!" he declared.
Rip and Karl were about to attack him when two portals opened behind them. Two Super Soldats immediately leaped out of the portal, punching their weapons off their hands and started beating them up to a pulp with their metal fists. The Forsaken laughed at his success in killing Rodeo as he watched the two getting beat up to death.
"Like I said, our last fight and your victory were just mere luck and fate on your side, but this time... FATE FAVORS ME! The dark aether within the spears will tear away at his body's remaining soul and he will become my undead slave! This is the day of my victory!"
While he was gloriously enjoying his victory, unbeknownst to him, a small portal suddenly formed out of the space, releasing Casull and Jackal pistols as they fell next to the motionless Rodeo. And at that moment, something within his mind was happening.