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Chapter 43 - Chapter 43: The executioners Part 1

Made for an infinite number of warriors from different universes to meet and fight, now a wasteland of death. At a sub-relativistic speed, Aggregor crashes; back first, into a mountain side. Creating a large opening on entrance.

Aggregor: [Grunts with a smirk of anticipation as he looks straight up before shifting his body slightly to the left; dodging a high speed spike of ice thats big enough to have obliterated his entire chest (had he not move).] Hm? [Another spike heads his way and he extends a open left palm forward, projecting a gust of flames, melting and turning the spike into steam.] COME, PUNKS!! I KNOW YOU CAN DO MORE THAN THIS!! [Yelling outwards to his opponents, Rhys appears gliding down in the air towards Aggregor with his arms extended forward.]

Rhys: Glacial-arct—

Aggregor interrupts Rhys chant in an instant with his right fist piercing into Rhys's gut. He smiles at Rhys sadistically before grabbing and ripping out Rhys' intestines. Rhys yelps in agony as Aggregor gets behind Rhys with both hands together and raised, bringing them down on top Rhys, sending the latter plummeting to the ground at high speeds with his intestines flowing out.

Aggregor smiles widely in the air before getting hit suddenly by a large flying Boulder projected by Zeke, sending Aggregor into the mountain side. Crash landing into the mountain, Aggregor fires a beam of intense yellow light through the boulder towards the sky; breaking down the Boulder to pieces.

At a high speed, Zeke's serrated Kukri reachesAggregor's position; nearly reaching the mid-section before it emits a blinding light; swapping places with Ethan in an instant, catching Aggregor off guard as Ethan thrusts his right fist into Aggregor's chest; causing a lightning striking effect to be heard as Aggregor splits out blood and looks down to see that Ethan has his fist imbued with cursed energy. Aggregor clenches his teeth and at a speed of light, severes Ethan's right arm from the elbow joint, surprising Ethan from how fast he attacked. Aggregor smirks at the latter's reaction before starting a chant: "Depr—" Ethan quickly interrupts Aggregor, using his left fist to uppercut him before the curse energy flowing inside him gets larger.

Aggregor [reaction in thoughts]: What?!

With the curse energy spiking inside Ethan, he converts the it into pure energy that he transfers mostly into his right arm; growing back the lost extension of his arm before delivering two slaps to Aggregor's face before adding 6 chained punches to the chest. Aggregor grunts before his eyes light up and from his glaze a shockwave is projected, blasting Ethan off the mountain.

With his kukri sawing through the air to Ethan's side, Zeke warps in, grabbing onto Ethan's forearm with his left hand, he nods at Ethan before a yellow aura coats their bodies and both kukris, Zeke throws one of his kukri upwards to the air warping them both to the air before Zeke uses his strength to throw Ethan towards Aggregor with a dropkick to the chest before getting warped away from Aggregor.

Right after Ethan gets warped away, (Glacial-arctic type: Fallout) a large barrage of spikes of ice travel through the air to Aggregor's direction, piercing his body aswell as covering the whole surface in the spikes. Aggregor weakly tries to wiggle himself loose and fails; having lost too much blood.

Aggregor: [Grunts in irritation.]

On the ground level: Zeke, Ethan and Aizen stand together looking up at the mountain side covered in Ice made by Rhys who has his entire gut section perfectly fine (thanks to his regeneration.)

Zeke: Ethan, I didn't know you could grow back limbs.

Ethan: Hm... I couldn't at first.

Ethan [thoughts]: If Klaus had never given me that book, I would have died in so many instances... [Looks down at his right arm]

Aggregor: [The shard of the nexus glows in his pockets, catching his attention.] Hm..? [There is a long pause befote he grins widely] About time... [He breaks himself out of spikes and regenerates his body.] Time to show you punks the real power... of a god...

Aggregor before looking upwards with a gasp that leaves his mouth open. Yellow flashes appear beaming from his eyes and mouth as he screams outwards with a rumble that shakes the entire realm.

Rhys: Argh! This guy just won't quit will he?

Zeke: Gaurds up. We need to—

Zeke's words gets interrupted by the entire world exposed to sunlight getting obliterated into bits in an instant except for everyone else besides Aggregor only getting their skins cut with burns. (Void release: Flare.)

In the air after having destroyed tge mountain aswell, Aggregor's maniacal laugh is heard as he smiles with sclera of his eyes being red in color.

Zeke [thoughts]: Damn... what was that attack?!?

Ethan [thoughts]: Tch... I knew he was holding back but... NOT WITH THAT ATTACK!

Ethan and Rhys both heal their bodies and look up at Aggregor looking back down at them. Aizen and Zeke both stand with their skins and clothes burnt, with open wounds that are mostly burnt closed with the rest having blood dripping down from them. Before the four individuals could get their bearings, (deprimestate: OI-exploisé) a small spark appears infront of them all; Zeke reacting earlier then the rest knowing what the spark is, tries to warn them but is too late as the spark becomes a brilliant yellow burst of energy that ravages the landscape with a titanic explosion that seemingly gets reversed, confusing Aggregor and the rest saved from the reverse as they watch as the energy released to destroy everything gets consumed by Brandon Smith having his left arm stretched up. After consumig the OI-exploisé into his body, Brandon's eyes glow in a similar fashion to fire however in the same color as the energy consumed.

Aggregor: [landing with a loud thud on the ground, Aggregor looks directly ay Brandon with a nod of respect.] Well, what do we have here. A deadman walking. Just how many times do I have to kill you people? Do I have to cut you down to pieces?! Burn you all to ash?!

Brandon: Break my bones, cut me to pieces, turn me to ash and I will rise again, Agregore.

Aggregor: [Hearing him pronounce his name correctly makes him stare blankly in surprise before his expression turns to a serious one as he croses his arms.] You've changed. You not human anymore... nor a revenant. [He squints his eyes and unlike others, he perceives a bright yellow-white aura around Brandon's body.] Interesting...

A stone spike sprouts out from the ground to stab Aggregor who has taken a step back evading the spike infront of him. Zyr appears performing a rolling thunder kick with his right foot creating a ring of fire that Aggregor evades to the side before blocking a large stream of fire coming from Zyr's fingertips (index and middle fingers) with both hands extended forward, creating a faint yellow shield of energy. Zyr stops his attack and performs a different one; making a slow raising gesture with his hands that creates a large serpent made from the ground that he sends with a gesture to Aggregor, biting down Aggregor whole trapping him inside the creature's mouth. Inside the mouth small sharp spikes of rock appear coming up from the throat and bombarding Aggregor who evaded less spikes before getting tons of spikes piercing his body.

The creature slithers through the air before exploding into pieces, leaving Aggregor floating in the air with his clothes more damaged then before.

Aggregor: You never cease to surprise me, Zyr. [He smirks before raising his left hand; controlling the falling rock pieces that were once the serpent made by Zyr, and he forms the pieces into a large rock that he looks up before clenching shut his palm, causing the large rock to explode causing sharp projectiles to rain down on the area.]

With a snap of his fingers, Zyr places the falling projectiles into an inanimate state, leaving everyone completely astonished at the sight of rocks stuck in mid-air.

Aggregor [thoughts]: What a neat trick. If I had known about you instead of Gabriel... This all would have started out differently... a-well.

Aggregor: GATE OPEN...

*CLANG*

Aggregor: AS I SUMMON THEE, AWAKEN FROM YOUR SLUMBER; GATEKE– [Aggregor gets interrupted by an intense red glowing energy Blade piercing out of his chest, angering and confusing him.] Againnn...

Aggregor hears a familiar male voice behind him that says "At last, we meet again. I've waited... for almost a DECADE for this moment." Making Aggregor chuckle.

Aggregor: Ezra Darhk... I'm abit shocked that you managed to survive, just a bit.

Walker: OH, I'm not the Ezra you last fought in this realm.

Aggregor: O-yeah? Well, whoever you are or whatever get in line. [He grabs onto the energy blade and Walker pulls it out from behind before kicking Aggregor forward. Aggregor leaves the open chest wound open with blood pouring out as he turns around and sees Walker wearing a black jumpsuit and notices that he has the EXACT same features that Ezra Darhk has, and strangely has a blindfold on. Hm... Not the Ezra I know... [chuckles] That I can agree, Ezra never wears a blindfold. So, what are you? A clone? Variant?

Walker: Neither. I'm the Ezra that's gonna be the end of you. [He performs the palm hold fist gesture by having his left hand hold his right fist.]

Aggregor [thoughts]: [Using his astral perception, he looks at Walker's body and shockingly sees an intense fiery red-orangeish aura around his body with eyes being completely white and glowing.] His aura isn't as "hopeful" as the other Ezra...

Aggregor: [Grins widely] C'mon! Show me what you got!! ALL OF YOU!! BECAUSE NOW... I'M....HYYYYPED!!!

(Void release: Extinction Fall) .Aggregor's eyes light up in a yellow-white light along with his body following and beams of light rain down on everyone continuously, blasting Walker straight into the ground, it takes the attack a whole minute before it stops.

Aggregor: [He chuckles in the air seeing each of his opponents on the ground severely injured before shockingly seeing Zyr standing tall, staring back at Aggregor with no damage done to his body.]

There's a long pause between the two before Zyr slowly raises his left hand and snaps his fingers and in an instant Aggregor finds himself in an empty and fully white area what leaves him speechless as he looks around and sees Zyr from a distance and the whole background fades from white to a dark sky with stars and two separate colored auroras; red and green.

Aggregor: Where... what did you do?

Zyr: Taken us to where the shards supposed to be.

Aggregor: This... is the place you keep them hidden in...?

Zyr: Yes.

Aggregor: Hm. Why'd you bring me here?

Zyr: To reason with you.

Aggregor starts to chuckle.

Zyr: I know why you doing this. And for who...

Aggregor: I'm doing it for EVERYONE, you've gotten killed.

Zyr: What?

Aggregor: Oh, don't act mindless. You let the battleworld happen. You let these so called Alterations STILL continue to happen. Red death was never suppose to exist but yet you let them exist. So, whatever reason you have, keep it to yourself. Because nothing is changing my mind.

Zyr: All those events weren't in my control, Aggregor. I couldn't have done anything to change them.

Aggregor: Hm. Why don't I believe you, Zyr? No no no, I actually know the reason. YOU lying. I can Gabriel's memories. And i saw key moments of you changing SOOO many people's lives. Including... Zeke's life. [He notices Zyr feel regret and remorse.] There was sooo many ways to have prevented him from becoming you but you chose to make your temporary clones of Gabriel and Odiz to have his whole family killed just to attempt killing him yourself. Pathetic...

Zyr: ...Listen. What happened in the battleworld... Created a change. A change that's causing the shards to malfunction.

Aggregor: Hm. I'm aware of that.

Zyr: Then you know that we have t–

Aggregor: No. No. No. Theres no We, only Me. You had your chance with the nexus. And you screwed it all up. [He pulls out the shard of the nexus from his pocket and they'd both look down at it glowing.] ...Heh, do you hear it too?The shards call to me now. [He looks at Zyr with the sclera of his eyes glowing in a dark blue color with the iris being a dark grey color.]

The sky changes to a dark red color and Zyr snaps his fingers to erase Aggregor but nothing happens, surprising Zyr as he looks at his fingers and snaps his fingers 4 times. Aggregor smiles seeing Zyr try to use his power before he chuckles and snaps his own fingers taking them both back to the battleworld at the moment Aggregor has has launched the extinction fall; this time hitting everyone including Zyr for a whole minute, leaving smoke in the area. After the minute passes, Ethan, Walker, Brandon, Zyr, Zeke and Aizen all still stand; preparing to attack.

Walker: Sheesh. Even in a weaker body, Aggregor's attacks still got a kick in them.

Zeke: Heh, tell me about it.

Aizen: [He touches Brandon's arm; siphoning a small amount of power from him before levitating 8 meters off the ground.]

Brandon: Tch... What'd you do?

Aizen: Took some of your power. You guys figure out a plan, I'll keep the bastard busy. [He launches himself out of the smoke to Aggregor.]

Walker: Hm. Aizen Lung... never thought I'd see the day he fights on OUR side.

Zyr: Smoke (walker), Brandon, how did you two get here?

Brandon: I absorbed most of Aggregor's powers and opened a portal to Herr.

Zyr: Alright, Still got some in the tank?

Brandon: Yeah and a boost of more from the exploisé.

Zyr: Nice, open up a portal to earth for Ethan, Kyle and Odiz.

Ethan: Tch. What?!

Zyr: Your energy low and your friend's unconscious, someone needs to get them out.

Walker: Wait. Where's Satoshi?

Zeke: [They look around in the smoke before Zeke sees Rhys laying down on his frontside without two bottom parts of his legs ranging from his knee down, and without a left forearm.] Over there. [He points at the corpse.]

Walker: The hell? Should he have regenerated his body already? Matter of fact the attack shouldn't have hurt him.

Zyr: He's not Satoshi.

Walker: ... Oh, well that makes alot lf sense. What is he then? A variant? Clone?

Ethan: His son maybe?

Zeke: Could be.

Walker: Urgh! Whatever he is, he's dead now. Brandon and I made a plan that should work. All we have to do is get Brandon close to Aggregor.

Zyr: ...What's the plan?

Brandon: I'm going to open an Empyrean-zone.

Zyr: Tch...

Zeke: I'm sorry, a what now?

Brandon: A realm where im in control of.

Zyr: ...Don't you need to be a Celestial or eternal to pull that off?

Brandon: Yeah but not in my case.

Brandon extends his right palm to open a portal but then gets stopped by Zyr speaking.

Zyr: Stop.

Brandon: Hm?

Zyr: You've used up too much of the light. If you open up that portal, your power will drop off the requirement to open your zone.

Brandon: Tch... Then how do we make sure that the rest are safe?

Walker: By making sure you don't die before opening the zone.

(After launching himself to Aggregor) Aizen fires an intense beam of light that appears going out the smoke and blasting Aggregor out the sky, crash landing into the ground.

Aggregor [thoughts]: Almost forgot... Smith has my power. [He gets up and sees Aizen instead of Brandon, surprising him.] You have it too now...

Aizen flies at high speeds to Aggregor and thrusts his right fist forward into Aggregor's chest; inflicting no damage to his body. Aggregor and Aizen both see this and Aggregor smirks before bringing his left hand up to Aizen's throat; grabbing him and giving Aizen the chance to siphon his energy by holding Aggregor's wrist.

Aggregor [thoughts]: Tch.. I feel... weakened. He's draining my life essence!

Aggregor starts tightening his grip around Aizen's throat; compressing the jugular veins and the carotid arteries in the throat, reducing the blood flow to the brain and depriving Aizen's body of oxygen instantly.

Aizen: Argh!! [The color of his eyes' sclera change to red because of the blood vessels bursting.]

Aggregor laughs sadistically before having his nails dig deep into Aizen's throat, causing blood to gush out before the larynx gets crushed in Aizen's throat.

Aggregor: [He smiles as blood leaks out from Aizen's mouth.] The time for games is over. [He places his free hand on Aizen's shoulder to keep Aizen still as he uses his other hand to pull the larynx out of his throat, having blood gush onto his clothes.]

Aizen looks at Aggregor with large eyes as he watches Aggregor lick the larynx before collapsing to the ground lifeless.

Aggregor: All that stealing and you still outmatched....

Ten meters around Aggregor with him being in the center emits a faint light before a white fiery pillar of highly densed energy beams onto the area; engulfing Aggregor for 30 seconds. (Deprimestate; Elemental control: The eternal Blaze.)

During the 30 seconds time, from a distance In the smoke, Zeke dashes forth with 6 clones of himself all made of stone; all heading towards the pillar right before it fades.

"...GATES... OPEN...."

*CLANG*

"...SECRET TREASURES, DAWN OF BELEVOLENCE: THE GREAT SWORD OF THE ALL-FATHER."

After making his chant, Aggregor wields a black steeled Norman sword in his right hand and wields it up above his head with a smirk on his burnt leftsided face that reveals the muscles that are also burnt with the rest of his body full of patches of muscles revealing.

Aggregor swings his sword downwards and projects slashes of light that instantly struck Zeke and his clones, leaving a fog in the area.

Aggregor: Ha! You really had fine taste in weapons, old man... Tch?! [Aggregor's eyes widen as he sees a blue forcefield is present in the fading fog.]

The fog fades completely and the forcefield opens up, revealing Zyr and Zeke; barely standing.

Zeke: Nice save... [He coughs as he has a large open left shoulder wound that limits him from using his entire left arm.

Aggregor [thoughts on Zyr's save.]: So he's naturally fast...

Zyr looks at Aggregor and remember who's body it is which triggers a certain memory about that person

[Zyr's Flashback.]

[France; Paris]

23 March 2022

In a fit of rage and induced insanity, Gabriel Kelly has killed over one million people; men, women and children, in France.

Zyr walks down a hard raining alley in a black coat with a black bowl hat and sees Gabriel in a corner with stains of blood on his white button shirt and dark grey pants, across from him is two corpses.

•A mother that died having her body bloated by rubbles that's seen sticking out of her mouth and chest. Her skin as pale as gray and eyes that tell the last thing she felt: fear, pain and worry as her head and hand face the direction of the corpse next to her.

• A young baby boy mutilated to pieces with the head crushed by a large pile of rubble.

Zyr: ... [He feels disturbed seeing the corpses and immediately paying no further attention to them and only to Gabriel.]

Gabriel: Zyr... [He looks up at Zyr with a sad expression.] It wasn't me...

Zyr: I know.

Gabriel: [He sighs in relief as he looks at the corspses with his hands slicking back his hair.] I tried to stop him... How could... WHY would Morro do this?

Zyr: I don't know...

Gabriel: Tch... [He clenches his fists and teeth with tears in his eyes.]

Zyr: The zx and apex are going to be looking for you.

Gabriel: [Long pause] Can't you change this, Zyr?

Zyr: I can't.

Gabriel: CAN'T...! Or you won't?

Zyr: I can't change this, Gabriel.

Gabriel: Why not?!

Zyr: Because this is an event that's supposed to happen.

Gabriel: What?!? You got to be fucking kidding me... You mean to tell me that you knew that this was going to happen?

Zyr: Morro wasn't intended to kill these people... but yes. On this very day, these people die... because of you.

Gabriel: [He looks at him in shock] What?

Zyr: In so many universes, even in the previous ones, you are the one that kills the guilty and the innocent... not Morro.

Gabriel: [He falls down to his knees and looks to the ground in disbelief.] Why..?

Zyr: Because You were mind controlled and induced insane by the demon Alastair.

Gabriel: ...I see... So what now besides living my life in a lie that everyone going to believe in?

Zyr: I'm... I'm going to change your memories. Make you believe that you were the one that killed these people, not Morro.

Gabriel: Piece of shit... You can instead erase everyone's Minds or better yet make them believe that they saw Morro and not me!

Zyr: Gabriel, this isn't my power. And it's a one time thing.

Gabriel: Oh how ironic. [He points at himself while leaning slightly forward] I'm not living a lie and you can't make me do it too.

Zyr: Then what the hell do you want me to do? I can't change it with the cube because if I do, I change EVERYTHING. [Points at the two corpses] those two... We live; sure, but their fates will be as worse as ours put together Gabriel.

Gabriel: Heh, I just remembered that you wanted to make a world where everything that we ever gone through will never happen... yet here you are allowing it to happen.

Zyr: You wouldn't understand. The things I've seen when I tried to make my perfect world... wasn't perfect. Everything was wrong, the people were as VIOLENT as ever. I used the cube to change everything. And it all ended up being worse then before. And I mean... worse.

Gabriel: ...Do me a favor.

Zyr: Sure?

Gabriel: If I ever change or get brainwashed into causing chaos, promise to kill me or if I die,cget rid of my body. I don't want my body to be used by someone like Pidyon.

[Long pause]

Zyr: Okay.

Gabriel: Say it.

Zyr: What?

Gabriel: Say you'll do it. PROMISE me that you'll do it.

Zyr: ... [He clenches his teeth reluctant to say the words.] I promise that if you... turn against life, I will make sure you die and dispose of your body.

[Flash back ends]

Zyr [Thoughts]: I promise...

Unknowingly, Aggregor's shadow grows longer behind him and Walker appears getting out with both hands raised up. Aggregor's eyes move to his side before he turns around swinging his sword at a diagonal angle; instantly launching a slash that slices through Walker's torso and arms.

Aggregor: Now I know which Ezra you are. You're Nyx's toy soldier.

Cut in half, Walker lower half falls into the shadow with the upper hand following after but gets stopped by Aggregor grabbing Walker's neck.

Aggregor: Where'd you think you're going?

A beam of ice strikes Aggregor from behind, coating his whole upper body in Ice, restricting his movement.

Aggregor [thoughts]: Urgh... These fools are like cockroaches... HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO KILL THE SAME ONE!!!

Rhys: Ha Ha!! Did you all really think I'd die to a boring attack? Well guess again! [He starts regrowing his lost limbs with organic ice extensions.]

Zyr and Zeke Look directly at Rhys in disbelief as he is without two bottom halves of his legs ranging from his knee down, misses a left forearm and his entire right arm from the collarbone down wards is completely made organic ice.

Aggregor: [Using the elemental control, Aggregor emits a steam from his body, melting away the ice while letting go of Walker's neck, having the latter escape into the shadow. Aggregor forces both arms to be by his side with his palms clenched to his waist before he charges up cosmic energy that produces a brilliant yellow light coming from his body.]

Aggregor [thoughts on Rhys]: He has the shard... i shouldn't have toyed with them for this long. Zyr doesn't have his godly power, I'll just decimate the entire world and retrieve the shard from the remains.

Aggregor: Void release: Final Atone– gah! [He coughs out blood.]

Narration: Having used too much of his celestial power in a body not meant to even produce its might, Aggregor has reached his limits.

Aggregor [thoughts]: My body... it... burns?! I can't feel... my arms, they stiff...

Aggregor gets impaled in the lunges by stone spikes made by Zyr that travel deeper into his body before multiple spikes pierce out of his chest.

Aggregor: NGH...

Zyr: Brandon!

Aggregor: [He coughs out blood before looking up to see Brandon in air.] TCH?!

Narration: Through training on how to use the primordial light that Aggregor is the embodiment of, Brandon Smith knows about every defensive technique that every Celestial can and should be able to perform, including knowing how to promptly channel an Empyrean-zone. A move that not even Aggregor himself can do.

Narration: However, due to having a limited access that's currently less than average, Brandon is unable to channel a Empyrean-zone therefore a preconditioned pact has been made.

Brandon: [He exhales with his eyes shut for a second preparing himself, he opens his eyes and looks down at Aggregor meters below him. ] For you... Kate. [Brandon's eyes emit a bright yellow glow as he extends his arms aside and looks straight up.]

*SNAP*

Narration: In just a split second: Aggregor, Ethan Walker, Zyr, Zeke, Rhys and Ethan Shinseiji all find themselves standing on a grey-flat surface seemingly a small island with other small islands around them with small gaps hidden in white fogs. The entire sky is yellow with a fiery sun that makes the scenery a lot more golden in color.

Aggregor: [Once the realm has been encased on them, the two spikes that had pierced into his lunges have vanished, leaving three open and blood dripping wounds on his body: two on both his sides and one being on his chest. He looks up and sees a sun with a Surprised expression.] A... An Empyrean-zone..?! Made by a mortal such as yourselves?! [He looks at Brandon in disgust that he has achieved such a feat before His expression changes to amazement as he smirks and his body heals its openings closed.] Bravo, Brando. You guys can't be this desperate right?

?: We are...

Octane walks up to Brandon, with his black hair now currently slicked to the back with a few loose strands infront of his forehead. Octane wears a black cloak with a high collar that covers mostly his neck and chin, and has dark blue baggy pants and standard black shoes on. With his limbs fully regenerated Rhys stands on the right side of Aggregor's location with his clothes damaged. Ethan Shinseiji stands on the opposite side with a black rod in his left hand. And lastly Zyr, Zeke and Brandon stands meters infront of Aggregor. After opening the Empyrean-zone, sclera of Brandom's right eye is entirely black in color and the pupil and iris completely white (a result of casting a preconditioned pact onto oneself is blindness.)

Aggregor: [With a smirk of excitement He looks at each and every one of his foes before lastly looking at the newcomer; Octane.] Another variant.

Aggregor [thoughts]: Has he been here the entire time? Or has he been hiding in the battleworld just so they could cast the realm. Hmm... he must be very crucial to be showing up now...

Brandon [thoughts]: Damnit... [he breathes heavily] I can feel the cosmic surge being more fainter than ever. Might have to use the energy I absorbed from the exploisé for now.

Aggregor [thoughts on Brandon's state]: It seems encasing the realm really took alot of my energy from him. Because of that the realm will collapse sooner than what ever they expecting to do.