Enter The Arena As Your Avatar -- The Spinoff!

"oh you are in a league? whats it like?"

she seemed only half interested, as she was for pretty much anything not directly involving blood or killing or whatever she felt like doing that day

"Ohh stronger? i dont think i can get stronger, silly. were you still around when i learned i can copy quirks too?"

"Damn it... well, thanks anyway, I guess. If you see his drones or even just his symbol in general again, don't be afraid to let me know," Pietro says.

Fu gives Pietro an 'OK' sign with his hand and winks.

"No worries. Ciao!"

He warps out.

Weird. The boss is like the Master but without his grace, though he seems stronger, somehow. He then glances at her. And just so you know, he's shown fondness for excessive violence. You'd love working for him.

He nods. I remember. But he could help you survive up until you can drink someone's blood. Shigaraki look up. The power thrown around here is absurd. Some of the fights we participate in make the Master and All-Might's brawls looks like mere training.

After bidding farewell to Fu, Pietro dashes off, planning to tell a certain vampiric friend of his about both the conversation and the coming plan to save Rin.

"well that sounds super fun"

she seemd geniunley interested now, looking shigaraki in the eyes, well, as best she could, of course. hard to see someones eyes under a hand, in the dark

"Training? thats training now here? interesting, sounds fun, but a little risky"

she may have been crazy, but she new when things seemed too risky

"So your body doesn't break, either?" the girl says with childlike excitement. "Ah, what fun! I've never had an unbreakable playmate before, you know? Well, there's always the danmaku game, but that's not as fulfilling as being able to go all out, you know? Let's play together forever, mister devil~"

She giggles and launches a massive spinning projectile at him resembling a four-bladed propeller made of pale blue energy, each of the blades able to cleave cleanly through matter like a lightsaber. As she begins avoiding the countless spikes sprouted by Muzan, it becomes apparent that despite her unorthodox wings, girl has some crazy air maneuverability. Once or twice it seems like she's about to get hit, but at the last moment, she turns into a bat with shining crystal wings, using the same form to slip through Joseph's fingers like a fish.

"Thank you, mister thorn, but it's not fun if you take me away from where all the bullets are. Besides, you feel a little strange... I don't know how to explain it, it's like... you smell of sunlight."

Edited by Arachnos on Feb 26th 2021 at 9:53:15 AM

"You're... a vampire?" realizes Joseph. "Never mind that, I'm sorry for startling you. I can explain when we're done here."

Theme from Lupin III

Muzan is diced and blown into scraps by Team Lupin's combo.

Goemon bends down and picks up the Red Stone of Aja, which was in the Demon King's coat pocket. "Well, now. We got the stone."

Muzan regenerates and rises up behind Goemon, now fully nude (but let's just gloss over that), and snarling like a rabid beast. He brings an arm down to swipe at Goemon, but Zagreus interrupts him with the Exagryph's frost-bullets, and then the Hunter decapitates him. Goemon doesn't bother turning to face him.

"H-Hey! That's the Red Stone!" proclaims Joseph.

And then Flandre dices Muzan up even more. He rapidly regenerates this time and attempts to smother her in a veritable landslide of flesh, while creating spears of blood that stab and slice at everyone around him.

"Koooooooooaaaaaaaah..." Joseph spreads his hands and creates a 'shield' of Hamon that forces the blood to liquefy and arc around him harmlessly. He then channels it into a projectile burst of energy!

Since everyone else is swording the hell out of Muzan, Doomguy draws the Crucible and joins the fun, whirling around to simply vaporize the blood spears sent his way with the Argent blade.

Goemon doesn't fare as well, and gets impaled many times over - but he survives anyway, and attempts a single strong slash on Muzan!

Edited by KiriK on Feb 26th 2021 at 9:05:11 AM

The avalanche of flesh overtakes Flandre and buries her. It sits there for a moment, quivering disgustingly, before part of the flesh, once again, violently explodes, creating veritable geysers of blood and allowing Flandre to burst from underneath the repugnant cover like a crystal-winged bat out of hell. She then lets loose with a volley of big orbs of magic at Muzan, red as blood. If he dodges them, she will cause them to detonate with a clenching of her fist, scattering volleys of smaller red orbs around.

Nagato makes a "Tch" when the Lupin team gets the stone, but doesn't focus on it. The bigger problem is all the people around here. Team-mates increase the likelihood of success, but decrease the scale of the attacks that can be used.

She settles for trying to explode his torso with telekinesis.

"Damn! You all right, Goemon?"

Jigen does some bullshit aiming and helps the process by aiming some bullets at Muzan's pressure points.

Edited by Rbade on Feb 26th 2021 at 7:28:31 AM

The Hunter also get hit fairly often, to he point where their chest get impaled through, and they certainly stagger in answer to this, their own blood forming a sizable pool at their feet.

Nonetheless, instead of treating this, they lash out at Muzan with their fiery axe. Somehow, for every successful hit they land, their wounds close, hinting at some violence-driven Healing Factor.

...

If you can get your hand on some good blood, and that's easy to ask, you could easily become strong enough to partake in these fights. And you'd shed gallons of blood worth out of our foes. You'd slaughter them where they stand.

Interested?

Edited by Bolded1 on Feb 27th 2021 at 12:24:38 PM

"you make a compelling argument, just one more question"

she make an ominous giggle

"How easy is it to get caught"

Zagreus

The son of Hades was not near Muzan, which was really nice because he heard the click of his Infernal Arm as he had emptied it once again, he simply dropped Exagryph to the ground, the weapon disappearing in a cloud of black smoke, as yet another weapon started to form out of the shadows to his right.

The Twin Fists of Malphon◊ appeared on either side of him, he slid his hands into the massive gauntlets and cracked his neck from side to side. He wasn't sure how effective challenging Muzan to melee combat would go, but he would sure try...

He dashed at the Demon King with lightning speeds, the fists enhancing his already powerful Infernal Dash, a trail of Hellfire behind him as he went for a good old fashioned sucker punch.

Rimuru

Upon seeing Goemon and Jigen, he went a little wide eyed as he reconized them from the past life he had lived, where he was just a normal guy... A nerd for sure, but he reconized them from manga he read all the way back then... Seemed like forever ago when he was just a normal dude, none of this supernatural bullshit. Life was complicated back then, but less complicated than now. But he wouldn't trade it in for anything, this was his life now, and he loved it!

The slime shook his head as he took a deep breath, focus on the fight...

He flicked his hand backwards, stopping his Darkflame Lightning as he took to the air again, flying high above the battle as he stared down at Muzan... Damn, all of his attacks were so destructive that more than Muzan would be caught in it.

Attack Move! Water Blade!

Rimuru tilted his head back, his cheeks ballooning up as he leaned forward, shooting three projectiles at Muzan, made out of hard water, flying at the Demon Lord at speeds most people wouldn't be able to process.

[ Somewhere in the freezing cold north of Winterhold ]

This sort of thing was par for the course for her, really. One moment you're delicately unfusing two pieces of reality that should have never touched, the next moment you're north of the college of winterhold from the hit 2010's hit video game Skyrim.

What was this, the second time? Things tend to blend together when you're as old as her. Angel was her name, but that was really only one of them. Some would call her "Pyra" or "Mythra", though it had been a while since anyone had bothered to. Not that it was anyone's fault, in particular, she just hadn't bothered to be either of her constituents in a few... uh, a while. Once upon a time, she had the name "Pneuma", but that name, as cool as it was, didn't stick.

A cursory feel of the ether in the air revealed that this was not, in fact, the same reality as she initially believed it to be. Was it some sort of imitation? A farce? She could determine this, but... no, that would be awfully boring.

Really, if she was going to get to the bottom of what exactly had happened, she was going to figure it out the manual way. So, she started walking south.

SEE YOURSELF THAT DEATH CAN DIE

Edited by Whoma on Aug 24th 2022 at 7:41:37 AM

Muzan creates a cocoon of flesh around himself that absorbs the direct attacks, and absorbs it to make himself bigger and stronger after Nagato blows him apart from inside. He responds with a cutting wave of blood in the shape of a crescent arc. Thorny vines suddenly sprout from beneath his foes, aiming to restrain them such that they cannot evade.

The sun just barely begins to peek out from the horizon...

"Ngh!" The blood-wave ripples through Goemon, leaving a gash. "I'll be fine, Jigen, but I gotta retreat. Catch!"

He tosses the Red Stone his compatriot's way, and also yeets Zantetsuken at the seemingly-blade-proficient Rimuru.

Joseph grunts at the vines restraining him, and the ensuing cut on his chest leaves him unable to breathe properly.

So instead, he throws a pair of clackers at Muzan.

Doomguy dashes free of the vines, double-jumps over the blood wave, and starts locking on with the rocket launcher again. This time, he won't forget what he was trying to do beforehand.

Edited by KiriK on Feb 27th 2021 at 12:23:57 PM

The Hunter back off when the thorny vines come up, and use the axe to fend them off. They also back off to avoid the wave of blood, bleeding out their own as they make complex strategic rolls to dodge.

Once given time, they pull out a vial and jab it into their leg, healing a good portion of the damage, though their ability to heal via attacks is gone as a result. However, they do not let up: Instead, they grab a small jar of oil and throw it at Muzan, seeking to splash him with it. Then, miraculously, they raise their axe and transform it into a long halberd-style weapon, with its tip covered in flames.

The tip of the axe glows ablaze, reflecting in the pink glasses of the Hunter, who's likely contemplating something very stupid.

But they do it anyway, they dash at Muzan and try to slam it into the ground with a potent overhead swing, of such power that it might knock down the Demon Lord and crack the ground around the tip of the weapon!

...

AAAAHHHHHH

A red shape crash into the ground in front of the newcomer, perhaps interrupting their brand new journey. While their shape is hard to make sense out of, especially with all the smoke, its dispelling (by her hand or via the wind) will reveal the shape to be Luffy, who's trying to get his head from out of the ground. His neck stretches as he struggles to pull free, before he eventually manages to break out of the ground with his head.

As a result, his neck goes back to its normal length just fine, and he shake it to clear off any dust or debris. Then, he turn his head sideway and notices Angel.

Yo! He says, as if he didn't just crashland in front of her.

...

No. The boss's goons will come to your aid. And you just need to not be stupid with picking fights.

Edited by Bolded1 on Feb 27th 2021 at 8:29:12 PM

Ah. That was, um, a tad surprising. "Yo", she replied, a cup of tea appearing in her hands. "Would you like a cup of tea?"

She held out the cup of tea. It's quite hot.

...This was already shaping up to be a strange day.

Jigen fumbles for the Red Stone of Aja, but manages to catch it and slip it into a pocket.

"All right! This could be a big score, given the wacky guy defending it. See ya!"

Clutching his hat to his head, he books it with the stone.

"... Interesting."

She takes stock of her allies. She doesn't know Rimuru, the Hunter, or Zagreus, but the others are recognizable enough.

Nagato manages to dodge the blood wave and the vines, given her absurd agility, and tries to headshot him with a laser blast from her eyes.

Edited by Rbade on Feb 27th 2021 at 10:58:41 AM

Luffy look at her and sniff his tea curiously, before drinking it and shuddering.

I prefer meat. Ya got any meat? He asks. Oh, and the name's Luffy! Sorry, I was training with a strong guy.

Angel tilts her head in a display of curiosity, before handing Luffy a fully prepared steak. "It is very nice to meet you, Luffy. I am Angel."

Truthfully, she was very curious who he was fighting. If this was a part of the arena as she suspected, they could be anyone. Perhaps even someone she knows. Of course, if this truly was Skyrim...

Well that wouldn't make a damn bit of sense, really, so that was doubtful. She can't imagine how badly someone would have to fuck up for Luffy to end up in Skyrim. Though, in fairness, she had seen more outlandish things before.

Homunculi Hideout

BE!Pietro is currently seated upon a chair within the Homunculi's hideout, thumbing through the pages of a book.

"In hindsight, maybe I should've taken that armor, even if it had Hazama's stench all over it..."

Whiterun Hold, near Sleeping Tree Camp

The Sons of Odin◊ wander across the vast plains of Whiterun Hold, discussing amongst themselves.

"You would think that a family of divine beings with missing eyes would be easier to locate," Loki says.

"Perhaps they're trying to avoid us because they know about a certain grievance you have with the Great Light," Thor replies.

Edited by IchigoMontoya on Feb 27th 2021 at 12:51:50 PM

He doesn't appear concerned over her spawning a well-done steak out of thin air. Instead, he just quickly says Thanks! and devours it whole. Then he start chewing, while listening to her. His eyebrows furrows curiously when she mentions her name, and he stretch his neck to look at her back.

You don't have wings. He says, dubious. I've met some sky people and they had wings. Well, some!

   "Anything interesting in that?"   , a voice suddenly asks from right next to BE!Pietro, which could give him quite the jumpscare.

Turns out it's just Greed◊ though.

Thor and Loki may eventually spot a boy sitting on a stump, drinking something while facing away from them. While Thor probably wouldn't recognize the boy from behind at first glance, the blue chest armor that's sitting on the ground right next to the stump should tell Thor enough.

Wings? Oh, she had wings at one point. Of course, they weren't wings in the traditional sense... only really got in the way after a while, so she did away with them.

"I can have wings if I wish. But they do get in the way, so I do not wish it."

This man clearly had the power to stretch themselves, an ability that... well, she wasn't entirely sure she herself was unable to replicate it, but that just sounded, overall, painful and somewhat grotesque. No use in trying, even if it was possible.

"What is this power you possess, anyways? It is quite interesting. I'd like to know more."

Hm? Oh! It's the Gomu-Gomu Fruit! I ate it as a kid and now I'm a rubber human! Luffy get up and start to wobble his arms, before just stretching high up into the air, along with his head. He then get back to a normal size... or not, since he stretch one leg to the side as another showing. He does the same with his right arm, has it wrap around a tree, and then his hand waves at Angel before he pull them back in.

So I can stretch- Luffy stops the tree stump that he just brought to him, having apparently forgotten to unwrap his arm before pulling it back. To do so, he just raise his left foot, and put it down, making it clear that he also has Super-Strength. like that! Though I can do some other stuff! It also means that punches and bullets can't hurt me! Huh, well, normal ones. Oh, and some time I fought some guy who had eaten a lightning fruit, and I was immune to his powers as a result, so that was nice.