Battle #2: Nanaki vs. NeoKefka (11/13/99)
By Nanaki
Well, it's certainly been a while since one of these showed up. Though battle fics definitely aren't a regular thing, I thought it was time for everyone to see just how much has changed since the '98 battles. In the time since, we've all done a lot of branching out. The most notable influence on the fights is probably Dragon Ball Z, though Xenogears, Ronin Warriors, Star Wars, and fanfics have also played their role.
As you could probably guess by the title, this battle fic features me (I think about 75% of all battles feature me in some way or another. It comes with the territory :) and an up and coming battler, NeoKefka. I've made much about being the best battler in the past, and I currently still am, but I think Kef will replace me eventually. Read below to see why. This was only the third time he had fought me, and he's only been fighting at all for about a month and a half. This guy was as good in his first fight as I was after fifty. Well, to quote every master in Breath of Fire III, "I hereby recognize NeoKefka as my apprentice!" Once I get this boy trained, there will be no match...
Now, a warning before you start. Kef and I were basically fighting alone. There were only a few other people in here, and they were pretty quiet. So there are no MST3K type jokes coming out of the observation booth. If that's what you're here for, you may want to skip to the finale and go on to some fanfics. However, if you're a serious battle scholar, or at least looking to become a serious battler, this is the fic for you.
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For once an impartial observer, Nanaki grimaced as he watched the massive, all powerful forms of El-Fenrir and Paladine play volleyball with their surviving opponent. Their other foe was long dead. The ball, Straheden, had seemed quite imposing at first. He was after all, a fusion of Strife, Bahamut, and Eden. Unfortunately, even with occasional fire support from Nanaki, the newcomer had no hope against the battling league's rookie of the year, NeoKefka, and his partner in crime, DK.
El-Fenrir was sliced in half by one last desperate Destructo Disc from Straheden, but DK bailed from the wreckage. Paladine purposely missed the "serve" and teleported everyone in the bleachers out of harm's way. Strahedon smashed head on into the bleachers, breaking them into splinters. Paladine strode confidently over to the mess, and poked the still form of Straheden with a sharp stick.
Paladine vanished, and was replaced by the forms of "Star Trek's" Dr. McCoy. "He's dead Jim." Bones proclaimed.
Nanaki smiled, but retained his grimace at the same time. "Ow. That has to be the most humiliating defeat I've ever seen."
"That was pretty cold." DK admitted. NeoKefka just laughed as he returned to his true form. Nanaki cracked his knuckles and arched his back, while NeoKefka cast a spell to restore the bleachers, and teleported everyone back into them.
The great furball yawned. "All right, who's up next?"
"Who's fighting?" DK asked everyone.
The seemingly tireless NeoKefka stepped forward. Nanaki nodded in approval, while stepping out into the arena. "I am."
"I'll put in another round, if that's okay." DK limped forward as well.
"Fine." Nanaki nodded calmly. "I thought Black wanted in too."
"Where is he?" Everyone looked around.
"I'm here." Black suddenly appeared from underneath the bleachers, where he had most likely been looking at porno.
"Want to help me and DK fight?" Kef asked, hiding a grin.
"Hmm... This might actually be a challenge..." Nanaki began to grin as well. It seemed a little surreal, one fighter challenging the guys who had just made cannon fodder out of two others, plus another one on top of them. But Nanaki was known for charging head on into situations that seemed impossible to survive. Hell, he had actually managed to defeat the entity known simply as "Paul" in physical combat, something that was only a dream for everyone else he knew.
"Fight who?" Black scratched his head. "Nanaki?"
They nodded, and Black morphed into his favorite RPG heroine, Kasumi. NeoKefka morphed into his favorite demonic killing machine, the Jugulator. DK laughed a little, thinking that they might actually have chance of beating the orange menace.
Nanaki stretched out, and was immediately encased by a black glow. "Hyaaaaaaaaah!!" His form vanished, and when the glow disappeared, the metal demon known simply as Boomerang stood in his place.
Kasumi drew her yakazuki, while Jugulator didn't seem that concerned at the moment. "....lovely." DK said upon seeing Boomerang, and realizing that Kef wasn't going to be helping out right away.
In the meantime, Boomerang cast Quick, then Regen and Big Guard. Jugulator looked over to a collection of shadows, which parted as a light shone from out of nowhere. DK cast Quick, followed by Big Guard and Shield. While Boomerang had his eye on DK, Kasumi teleported behind Boomerang and thrust her yakazuki forward, into his spine
"Behold!!!" Jugulator cried, completely oblivious, "The sword of Dagon!!!" While wondering what the hell that was all about, Boomerang grabbed the yakazuki and broke it in half, then whirled around and punched Kasumi in the face. Kasumi stumbled back a space, while DK charged forward, nailing Boomerang with the incredible kick combination known as Goten. As the final energy blast hurled the demon backward, Kasumi wagged her finger at him. "Don't hit girls, big boy." She then proceeded to kick him in the kneecap.
"Gyah!" The metal demon cursed, then backflipped away from them. He wiped off his lip, his head still reeling from the Goten. "Not bad." He smiled, then raced forward and nailed DK with a spinning clothesline, Zangief style. Oblivious to all this, Jugulator approached a pedestal upon which a strange sword lay. Kasumi threw a rain of shuriken at Boomerang. The demon held up his left arm, and they bounced off, scattering all around.
"The sword of Dagon..." Jugulator whispered. Boomerang wondered just what he was doing. He wasn't going to have any teammates left if he kept this up much longer. To prove it, he quickly summoned Bahamut Zero. Jugulator paid no attention as his fellow fighters were enveloped in a huge, nuclear looking explosion. He continued to whisper. "Before time was time... a demi god rebelled against the ancients..." DK tumbled backward out of the blast, while Kasumi was apparently floored. "And forged a sword from the corpse of a star." Boomerang figured that the sword must be bad news if he was spending so much time on it, and cast Haste on himself. DK used that pause to his advantage. He raced into the air, grabbing Boomerang by the neck as he did so. "And tempered it in the blood of the innocent." Jugulator's odd monologue continued.
DK backed away from Boomerang in the air, and quickly gathered energy. "Ultimate Attack! Chaos Fist!" Boomerang quickly grabbed his arm and channeled a blast of Holy energy down it. "Arrgh!!" DK cursed and backed away again. Back on the ground, Jugulator grabbed the sword by the hilt. Boomerang rocketed higher into the air, DK following him closely.
"Now...the weapon which slew 500 seraphim SHALL BE MINE!!!!" Jugulator shouted triumphantly. The two aerial combatants continued to ignore him. DK somehow managed to slam his undamaged fist into Boomerang's head, then released his grip with his injured arm, and fell back to the ground. Boomerang didn't follow him, but instead, brought his wrists together and shouted. "Kamehameha!!" The form of DK was obscured by the explosion, as well as that of Jugulator. Just as Boomerang began to smile, Kasumi jumped into the air behind him, and wrapped a thin cord around his neck. She proceeded to tug on it sharply. Still oblivious, Jugulator screamed in pain as his sword arm became infused with demon flesh.
As Boomerang's blue explosion dissipated, DK could be observed still standing. His shield was flickering, but still holding. Boomerang didn't care much at the moment, somewhat distracted by his lack of an air supply, until he realized that the shield wasn't flickering from damage. DK had simply absorbed his Kamehameha! 'I'm not gonna lose THIS way!' Boomerang vowed to himself, then nailed Kasumi with an elbow to the ribs. In the meantime, DK vanished into thin air. Jugulator staggered back and began to laugh. Boomerang wondered if he remembered that there was a fight going on. Kasumi groaned in pain from the rib shot, but maintained her hold on the cord, and kneed Boomerang in the spine. Her momentary grin disappeared as Boomerang chuckled slightly, despite the cord.
DK suddenly appeared behind Boomerang and grabbed his arm, channeling the absorbed Kamehameha back into him, and boosting it with his own power. "SOULS COME ON ONTO ME AND GIVE ME STRENGTH!!!!" Jugulator ranted, but they were all ignoring him now. Back in the sky, Boomerang suddenly melted into a puddle of liquid metal, and fell back to the ground. DK growled, and blasted the puddle with the mighty Meteo spell. Kasumi activated the Thunder Rune, and blasted into the puddle with an Angry Blow.
The scattered drops of liquid metal slowly reformed into Boomerang. He stood up, and kept his eyes skyward. He concentrated for a second, then used the power of the W-Magic materia, combined with the Gem Box and the Quick spell, to cast eight Ultimas on his foes. DK tumbled from the air like a leaf, his shields totally fried. Kasumi was nowhere to be seen.
Jugulator watched as his blade began to glow a deep purple...and was startled as what appeared to be a jewel in the hilt opened to reveal a serpent's eye. Sensing he had already taken too long, Jugulator seized the sword and whirled around to face Boomerang.
DK slowly renewed his protective wards, but didn't exactly think he could tackle Boomerang one on one. Boomerang sensed this too, and prepared to attack again. Boomerang glanced around warily, and had barely spotted Kasumi out of the corner of his eye when one of her shuriken imbedded itself in his cornea. That distraction allowed the Jugulator to finally spring into action. He leapt into the air, and ran Boomerang through with his sword. Boomerang growled, and reaching out, wrapped his hands around Jugulator's neck. He proceeded to squeeze until the metal was as narrow as a wire. Boomerang grunted, and fell backward off the sword. DK flared with power, and blazed forward, nailing Boomerang with a Bum Rush. 'Eight Ultimas just ain't what they used to be.' Boom grimaced as he melted into a puddle again. He hit the ground, then slowly began to drip into it. Kasumi struck the puddle with another bolt of lightning while he was trying to get away.
Jugulator regarded his sword oddly, as the eye on the sword began to glow. Boomerang erupted out of the ground under Jugulator, kicking him in the back of the head. Jugulator just laughed as his neck reformed. DK concentrated, focusing his inner chi. Boomerang flew up behind Kasumi, then punched her in the back hard enough to imbed his fist in her spine. He channeled a fireball down his arm, and smiled as she went flying toward the ground. Jugulator just stood still, apparently unaffected. Then, a voice that did not belong to the demonic machine asked, "Is that the best you can do?"
Boomerang turned back around just in time to hear DK yell, "Machine Gun Punch!" DK raced forward, nailing the demon repeatedly in the face. Boomerang grunted, then grabbed DK's arm, and twisted it until it came off with a gruesome ripping sound. He then cast Point Flare on the bloody stump. Suddenly, Jugulator was in the air with them, his sword whirling. Before Boomerang even realized what had happened, both of HIS arms were gone.
Not to be intimidated by the loss of a large portion of his body, Boomerang's eyes glowed, and Jugulator was struck by two eye beams. Boomerang then opened his mouth, and a huge fireball rushed out, frying the machine. As Jugulator staggered back under the onslaught, the sword began to glow again, apparently of its own volition. A beam of light raced at DK's smoking shoulder, and instantly, his arm was restored. Knowing he was at a disadvantage, Boomerang proceeded to spray the field liberally with eye beams and fireballs. Jugulator walked out of the fiery storm calmly. "Again I ask... Is that the best you can do?"
Boom grinned, accepting the invitation. He raced forward, and nailed Jugulator with the incredible series of kicks known as Goten X. He used the final energy blast to propel himself at DK, whom he planned to send reeling with a vicious head butt. But as he was flying, Jugulator caught him by the ankle, and slammed him face first into the ground. Boomerang instantly flipped over, and executed a Vertiround. His foot connected with Jugulator where it counted most, hitting him hard enough to break him in half.
Jugulator's halves went flying in seperate directions, only to suddenly stop in midair, and reform. "Looks like your fellow fighters aren't being much help." Boomerang wheezed, smiling at the still form of Kasumi as he stood up. Jugulator simply laughed demonically as he ran his blade through Boomerang's back. Boom grimaced yet again, but cast FullCure, and smiled as his arms were restored. He then channeled a Bolt 3 through the blade, frying them both.
Jugulator refused to let go, and smiled as a tendril of purple energy drifted out of the serpent's eye, and began to tear into the metal demon. Boom upped the electrical flow, and Jugulator finally screamed and ripped the sword out of him. Boomerang fell back to the ground, and twisted around to face the evil machine. "Massakankoupousou!!" He shouted, then nailed the Jugulator with Piccolo's special beam cannon. The metal demon's eyes went wide in astonishment as Jugulator held up his multi-talented sword, and it absorbed the amazing attack.
Boomerang growled, spittle flying out from between his teeth. "Gyaaah...! Destructo Disc!" He hurled the disc of incredibly condensed energy at the sword, only to have his jaw drop as it bounced off.
"The ancients could not stand against this weapon..." Jugulator taunted him. "What makes you think you can?"
Jugulator's cocky look disappeared as Boomerang smiled. "I'm impressed." The metal demon admitted. Jugulator frowned. He had thought he had him on the ropes..
Boomerang got up, oblvious to the gaping wound in his midsection, and began hovering in the air. "Your fellows have abandoned you." He smiled. "Now, you have no chance." Jugulator glanced nervously around. Kasumi was trashed, but where the Hell was DK? The Jugulator suddenly staggered back, apparently groggy. Boomerang opened his mouth wide and yelled, "Kaioh-kaaan!" He charged Jugulator, reveling in the power of his attack. Upon reaching the demon machine, he pummeled him in the face many times per second, denting the deadly metal. When Jugulator didn't even try to defend himself, Boom backed off, puzzled.
"Hey... what's happening to me?!" Jugulator demanded. "What the Hell is this... no... it's the sword... It's the sword!! NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" The deadly machine vanished in a flash of light. Then, a deep voice was heard from all directions. "I am reborn!!" Jugulator no longer stood there, but in his place was a demonic figure, clad in regal armor. His very presence gave off an aura of power and menace. His hair writhed around live snakes. In his hand, the sword's glow now throbbed with power. He tilted his head back and laughed. "Those who touch the sword of Dagon shall become Dagon!"
"Well..." Boomerang smiled. "Am I supposed to be impressed?" Then, suddenly, DK was back in the action, his fists glowing green. He came out of nowhere, and hammered away at Boomerang.
"Why-" He began. But Boomerang gave him no time to respond. He hammered right back, concentrating on the torso. The two mixed it up as Dagon stood there, reveling in his power. Boomerang finally grew impatient, and unleashed a quick chi blast right in DK's face. DK was hurled backward for a fair distance, and dug a deep furrow in the earth when he landed. Dagon pointed at the ground underneath Boomerang, and it erupted upward, hurling him into the air. Boom remained up in the air, and aimed his right hand at Dagon.
"Golem Breaker!!" He shouted. The special mix of lightning and Holy energy raced out of his hand, into Dagon, and on through him, into the ground.
Dagon just laughed in response, as the wound instantly closed up. "That tickled."
DK stumbled up out of his trench, shaking his head foggily. He teleported behind Boomerang, and resumed his rain of blows, punctuating each one with a word. "Why... Won't... You... Ever... Die?!" He demanded.
The epitome of snootiness, Boomerang ignored DK's attack, and teleported a bucket's worth of Nooze inside of Dagon. He commanded simply, "Break him." Only then did he turn and intercept DK's flying fist, whereupon he quickly crushed it into a bloody pulp. "Rrrggh!" DK growled. Boom punched him in the stomach, then channeled a fireball down his arm, sending DK flying in a manner very similar to the way he had offed Kasumi.
The metal demon whirled to face Dagon again, and saw his sword floating in the air, while he reformed from the Nooze invasion. Boom heard a crunch as DK impacted into the wall of the arena, and collapsed like a broken marionette. Boomerang quickly gathered mana, and cast Shatter on the sword of Dagon. Dagon wagged his finger at him as he healed DK. "No!" The Shatter had no effect. The downed warrior staggered up, casting FullCure and Regen.
Boomerang scratched his chin. "Looks like I need to take out that sword. All right..." Boomerang grinned wider than he had all night, and drew out his weapon of choice, Atma Demon Sabre Luceid. It was an insanely powerful fusion of Darth Maul's light sabre, the Atma Weapon, and Demon Blade Luceid. "Let me introduce you to a superior weapon!"
"Reforged, I see." DK observed, to which Dagon immediately laughed.
Boomerang frowned, recalling how DK had actually managed to break his mighty weapon the last time they had fought. "Indeed." He replied.
"I'm willing to bet the same trick won't work twice..." DK looked thoughtful.
"Superior!" Dagon laughed scornfully.
Boomerang simply nodded, and began whirling the demon sabre above his head. Waves of heat surrounded him, and he suddenly stopped twirling and pointed the sabre at Dagon. "Iron Rock Crusheeeer!!!" As huge rocks crumbled around him, a weight equal to that of a neutron star descended upon Dagon.
"The Seraphim of heaven cannot be destroyed by any mere weapon... EUUUUUGH!" Boom smiled as Dagon finally emitted a cry of pain. He groaned and fell back.
DK teleported above Boomerang, casting a flame spell that heated the hilt of the Atma Sabre to an insanely high temperature. Boomerang simply increased the temperature of his arms to match, and gave DK a molten punch to the jaw. "Argh!" DK had not expected that, and he went flying up into the higher regions of the atmosphere.
"Impressive..." Dagon admitted. "Only the Seraphim have ever been able to hit me with that much force. But..." Boomerang charged Dagon, and sliced at the sword with the demon sabre as hard as he could. Dagon simply blocked. "Why do you think the Jugulator chose this weapon? In the end, the Seraphim were slain by my hand."
"Amazing..." Boom admitted. "Something that a light sabre can't cut through..." Not giving up, he quickly cast Temper on his weapon. DK suddenly reversed direction, flying down on Boomerang and releasing a Repeating Fist attack. Boomerang growled. The fight still was not going his way. He needed to change that. He held his weapon up to the sky. "Luceid, I need more power!!" He began whirling the blade again, and a purple glow surrounded him. The blade began rotating faster and faster, until he was spinning it like a helicopter blade. He glared at DK, and his eyes began to glow. "Kaioh-kan, times siiiiix!!!" Boomerang charged at DK faster than the eye could follow, and before the battler could even utter a sound, the metal demon had carved him into approximately 60,000 pieces. What was left of DK collapsed into a pile of slimy chunks, finished.
"In the name of all that's fair, I'll give you a hint." Dagon said, apparently not wanting to be finished in a such a grisly manner. "The sword itself does not need to be destroyed.
Boomerang turned toward him, letting pieces of DK slowly drip off of him. "I am impressed, but I'm just getting warmed up." With that, Boomerang charged up and ramming his sword directly into Dagon's brain. He channeld a holy blast down the blade, and Dagon's head exploded. He sensed this wouldn't be the end of him, and was proven right as a lightning bolt descended from the heavens, striking him directly. Boom thought for a minute, then turned off the demon sabre. He made a fist with his left hand, and held onto his left wrist with his right hand. Black waves of energy began to come form his hand. "Armor of Inferno, Dao-jii!!" Boom was instantly surrounded by a blazing white armor, as Dagon's head reformed.
"Excellent guess." He said, then, "Wrong. But excellent nonetheless." Ignoring his speech, Boomerang drew out the swords of Fervor, and put them together, forming one long blade.
He jumped into the air, and the swords started to glow. "Armor of Inferno, Flare up noooooooow!!!!" Boomerang levelled the weapon at Dagon, and a beam of fire hotter than ten nuclear blasts rushed into him. Dagon was thrown back, and the fire vaporised his armor. "I'll just melt the damn thing." Boom growled. Once the fire subsided, he charged forward, and punched through Dagon's sternum. He ripped out Dagon's heart, and stuck it onto the sword like a shish-kebob.
Dagon laughed, as his heart crumbled to dust, not caring about his armor either. "Well, it wasn't made of the stuff my blade is made of. Now say hello!" He held up the sword, and the serpent's eye opened, blasting Boomerang right between the eyes. Boomerang backflipped, then rushed behind Dagon, switched on the Demon Sabre, and stuck it where the sun don't shine. He then channeld a Kamehameha blast up the blade. "Euuuuuuggggh!" Dagon was thrown high into the air to land hard on his face. "That was most rude." He complained, dusting himself off.
"Heh, heh, heh." Boomerang couldn't help but chuckle a little.
Dagon quickly used telekinesis to lift Boomerang into the air, and slam him into the ground repeatedly. "Crosus thought he could destroy me, but no... I will never rest until I am proclaimed master of the heavens. Death cannot stop me! And I wll annihilate all ife to achieve this goal!!!"
"Yeah, uh, slamming a metal demon into the ground doesn't do much, you know." Boomerang said, apparently quite comfortable with the telekinses.
"Well, I haven't played Wild ARMs." Dagon frowned at him. "So I wouldn't know!"
"Well you should." Boomerang wagged a finger at him. "It kicks major ass." Then, he suddenly stood up, and instantly broke free of the telekinesis. Dagon raised his eyebrows in surprise. "And now, so will I! Hyaaaaah!!" Boom rushed up to Dagon, and put a hand on each side of his head. His whole body glowed green, and he began to channel chi into his hands. "Energy Blast!!" Boomerang combined the two huge beams into Dagon's head, and then channeled them down into his body.
"EEEEEEEUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAUUUUUUUUUUUUGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!" Dagon managed to scream, despite his lack of a head. Dagon commanded the sword to absorb the energy and send it back into Boom. For once, the metal demon was totally unprepared for the attack
"Fuuaaaaaaaaaagggggghhhhhhhhh!!!" Boomerang started to swear, but his exclamation was turned into a scream of pain as his own attack hurled him into the ground, leaving him smoking int he middle of a large crater. Boomerang smiled, and a did a golf clap while he wheezed. "Nice." He said simply. Dagon frowned, concerned that his opponent was apparently none the worse for wear. "Looks like it's finally time for me to up the ante." Boom stated.
"Shit..." Dagon backed away from him. Boomerang stretched his arms out, and was surrounded by an ethereal glow. Dagon realized that he was summoning the power of all thirteen zodiac stones. "Shit..." Dagon backed away some more. Then, Boomerang was enshrouded in a ghostly explosion. When he could be seen again, he had been upgraded to Boomerang Flash. "SHIT!!!" Dagon shouted. "Souls!!!"
Boomerang's Flash's eyes glowed dangerously, and he latched onto the magical energy of Dagon's sword, trying to bend it. "Come unto me! Give me strength!" Dagon yelled. Boomerang continued to twist the magical waves, until the sword's physical form began to waver as well. He twisted the sword into a pretzel shape, and then cast Shatter again.
Boomerang followed that up by rushing up, and hammering on the sword with his demon sabre. "Rrrrr... BREAKBREAKBREAKBREAKBREAK!!!" He yelled in a spittle inducing rage. Unfortunately for him, the sword did not oblige.
Dagon rose up into the air, the sword floating in front of him. The two began to draw closer together, until there was a flash of light. The two forms fused into one, the sword becoming integrated into his body. Boomerang suddenly didn't care. He stretched out his arm, and the Guardian Bob's key tool, Glitch, appeared on it. Dagon's form continued to fluctuate, and he became the three eyed, four armed dragon, Dagos. "I will annihilate all life!!" He screamed.
"Sure you will." Boom said casually. Then he raised his arm up. "Glitch, containtment field!"
"I will destroy until only I rema-" Dagos was shut up as an energy bubble covered him, and trapped him inside. Dagos reached out and fused with the entire arena, though his physical form remained in the bubble. Boomerang got a very nasty look in his eyes, and aimed Glitch at Dagos much more slowly. "Glitch... DELETE." Glitch obeyed, and nailed Dagos with a delete command.
Dagos quickly created a clone out of the arena grounds. "Don't you understand? I am everywhere!!"
"So much for that." Boomerang Flash shrugged. "I'll get a nice power boost out of the deal though. Glitch, download!!" Boomerang was surrounded by flames, and when they receded, his armor was a shiny silver color. Glitch was gone.
Dagos quickly gathered dark energy in his hands. He hurled the energy at Boomerang, combining the four seperate beams into one huge blast. Boomerang Flash held out his left and, and simply blocked the beam. Dagos was momentarily speechless. "But you forget..." Dagos quickly created two more clones of himself out of the arena.
Boomerang realized that Dagos too, had forgotten about something, and began to gather mana. Dagos laughed as all three clones began to fire the shadow beams at Boomerang. However, Boom formed a Spirit Bomb in his right hand, while skillfully blocking all the beams with his left. Then, Boomerang concentrated, and latched onto Dagos' energy signature. He wasn't about to take the chance of wasting this one a clone. He teleported the Spirit Bomb directly into the middle of it. The serpent eye on the center body opened, and tried to absorb the power of the Spirit Bomb. "EUUUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!!" But judging from that scream, it was only partially successful. The two clones on either side were destroyed.
Boomerang laughed. "Well, physically, you do seem to be invincible. It appears conventional methods aren't going to work..."
But Boom drifted off as Dagos continued to scream. "The pain!! The Paaaaaaaaiiiiiinnnnnn!!!
"Or maybe they will..." Hope appeared in the enhanced metal demon's eyes.
Dagos pulled his hands away from his head, and Boomerang could see that both eyes were so badly damaged, they were useless. Only the eerie serpent eye had any vision left. "I have worked too hard..."
"Well," Boomerang smiled, "I'll give the physical attack one more try."
"I will not be defeated a second time!!" Dagos roared.
Boomerang flicked Atma Demon Sabre Luceid back on, and whirled it above his head. "Kaioh-kan, times twenty!!!"
"Grrrrraaaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!!" Dagos roared in challenge. Boomerang Flash rushed at Dagos, and sliced into him as hard and as rapidly as he could. Dagos unleashed his full power, throwing every spell and magic attack that he could think of at the metal demon.
"Gyaaah...!" Boomerang actually cried out as he saw the barrage heading at him. "Shield!!" Boom channeled all the power of his Kaioh-kan into the shield, and assumed a defensive posture. The shield held up, but just barely. Dagos slumped to the ground, exhausted. At the sight of that, Boomerang Flash rocketed into the air, and put his hands out, palms aimed at the ground.
"I will not be banished to the Abyss again!!!" Dagos cried as Boomerang's hands began to glow white. The air around him rippled, and then the huge blast known as the Gamit Gun rushed from his hands, and into Dagos. Dagos was beaten deep into the ground, but groggily got back up. Boomerang scratched his head. That move had vaporised DK on a previous occassion.
Dagos glared up at him. "No... NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" He roared loud enough to shake the pillars of heaven. Dagos backed into a fighting stance, preparing to attack one more, though he looked pretty desperate now. Boomerang dropped rapidly back down to the ground, and landed on Dagos' back, snapping his spine. Boomerang quickly whipped out a large gun that had been attached to his thigh the entire time, but not used.
"Your problems end NOW." He growled, doing his best impression of Matrix. He quickly shot Dagos through the head.
Dagos remained on the ground, breathing shallowly, but the serpent eye in his body began to glow. "In... the... end all will pass... away... the heavens shall run red with blood... But I shall rule above all..." While he was talking, a large beam rushed out of the serpent eye and slammed into Boomerang. The metal demon growled, and quickly charged another Gamit Gun.
"Kaioh-kaaaan!!" He shouted, then unleashed the Gamit Gun right in Dagos' chest. The beam passed through his opponent with ease, and smashed its way down to the core of the planet. The Earth exploded with an indescribably loud bang, chunks of the planet flying for millions of miles, but since Dagos had fused himself with the arena, it remained.
"Oh well," Dagos shrugged, apparently none the worse for wear, despite having been hit in the chest by a blast of power that destroyed a planet. "It was bound to happen one of these days." With that, Dagos stood up and whacked Boomerang with a vicious backhand.
Boomerang laughed as an expression of disbelief appeared on his face. "You're getting in close with ME?" Boomerang took one step back, and then rushed forward, pummeling Dagos in the stomach many, many times. Internal organs could be heard squishing with each punch, and Dagos was forced back across the dusty arena floor.
"Wait..." Dagos wheezed. "I've got four arms." Dagos quickly seized Boomerang Flash with his two lower arms, and proceeded to pummel him in the face with his upper arms in very Goro-esque fashion.
Boomerang growled as the mighty dragon arms actually put a small dent in his metal head. "Graaah! Kishin!!!" Boomerang reached down and forced the lower two arms off of him, then jumped up, planted his feet in Dagos' chest, and seriously began to wail away. "Hyaaaaaah!!" His flurry of fists reduced the bone in Dagos' neck to mere fragments, until the dragon's head was weakly hanging from his shoulders. The final energy blast of the Kishin threw Boomerang back to the ground.
He hunched down, as if getting ready to start a race. The serpent eye in Dagos' torso seemed to glare at him. Boomerang glared right back, then was suddenly encased in a blazing ball of green fire. "Thousand Point Striiiiiike!!!" The metal demon hurled himself at the wounded dragon, his fists moving so fast the blurs blended into blurs, all smashing into the serpent eye. Dagos jerked around like a marionette as the kinetic energy wreaked havoc on his body. When the last punch connected, the serpent eye shattered, and a white shaft of light shot out of it.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!" Dagos screamed, piercingly loud. "No..."
"Oh yes!!!" Boomerang shouted, sounding a lot like Piccolo at the moment.
"No... I won't be cast back into the abyss!!"
Boomerang ignored him, and simply shouted. "Kaioh-kan, times ten!!! Gamit Guuuuuun!!!" The metal demon unleashed a truly huge energy blast, which totally enveloped Dagos and smashed his broken body into the arena wall. Before the dust could even begin to clear, Boom stretched his right hand out, and used the power of the Gem Box and W-Magic materia, combined with the Quick spell, to cast eight Ultimas in rapid fire succession. Boomerang dimly heard Dagos scream again, and had another attack waiting when his spells resolved.
Boomerang readied his chi, and filled the arena with thousands of small fireballs, making sure there wasn't any place Dagos could go where he wouldn't get blasted. Through it all, Boomerang could see the body appear to explode in a brilliant shower of sparks. He slowed his chi flow, and stopped the fireballs. He then folded his arms in an Alpha Weltall like pose, not quite believing that it was over. He was right, in a way. The explosion that had started with Dagos' demise did not dissipate, but expanded until it engulfed the entire arena. Boom quickly threw up a shield.
When he could see again, the arena was gone. He was floating amid huge chunks of planetary debris, evidence of his handiwork. Dimly, the voice of Dagon entered his mind. 'I will returrrrrrrnnnn...' Boomerang grimaced, but quickly began rocketing around the intersteller debris. Within a short amount of time, he had all seven dragon balls. He quickly recited the necessary words to summon Shen Long, and then asked the mighty tien lung to restore the Earth.
Boomerang Flash then found himself standing outside the shatterd remains of the battle arena, and was finally sure that it was over. He powered down, back into Nanaki. Walking over to examine the arena, he found NeoKefka kneeling, breathing heavily. DK was also sprawled out on the ground, grimacing. Black, a.k.a. Kasumi, was nowhere to be seen. He had probably gone back to his porno. "I'm surprised Kef didn't revive you." He talked to DK first.
"I was being a maniacal demigod at the time." NeoKefka said by way of explanation. "Sorry DK... I was caught up in the role."
"Ah well..." DK smiled. "I was playing second fiddle anyway. You two were giving the real show."
"Or you could have claimed you had some Parasite Eve type medicine, or a Zelda type fairy..." Nanaki offered more possible alternatives.
"Damn Naki... When you and me fight... insurance rates go up." NeoKefka smiled.
"That was VERY good Kef." Nanaki smiled back. "You almost forced me into Paul bustin' mode." NeoKefka laughed at that. "It looks like you took the advice in Paul's new intro to heart. I had a very hard time overcoming that sword. I only thought of a way to beat it after you fused."
"I think I might end up taking Dagon against Paul if the two of us ever lock horns." [Nanaki's note: Well, that probably wouldn't be a good idea now, given that Paul was probably the first one to read this upon seeing it posted.]
"Well, shall we head back to the main channel?"
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"The sword and I are fused. The serpent eye is somewhere on my body now."
"The same place as Bender's "Camera 3" on Futurama last week?"
"No. Heheheh."
"Whew." - NeoKefka and Nanaki, in a quote omitted to facilitate dramtic flow.
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P.S.) By the way, for anyone packing a demon sabre and looking to come after me, I only revealed my eight-Ultima trick because I know how to do twenty four now. Have fun with that one.
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