A Game of Gods: A Multiversal Challenge

Narumi continued to stare at the God in awe, his breathing became heavier. He was also trembling.

—Megatron stared up at the Demiurge, optics wide, limbs trembling in fear and awe, knee-set servomotors keening from the urge to release and make prostrate the figure of a thousand coolant-oil dripping tales...

And then, he blinked.

The fusion cannon shakily rose to point at the entity's face, a look of utter loathing and contempt on his own.—

Decepticons: KILL THE ABOMINATION AGAINST REALITY IN THE NAME OF THE CAUSE.

—He opened fire. —

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-The lightningbolt sword smashes into the statue.-

The fires continued to rage for almost a minute, their heat rising as the questing tendrils of Bolas' spell found other archaeologists, soldiers and the dark creatures scattered throughout the temple; so hot did the flames burn, that the ground around them had begun to glow with incandescent heat, and stone had begun to run like wax.

Then one of those giant hands, palm and fingers blackened from the blaze, surged out of the inferno and closed about Bolas, encompassing the dragon in his entirety within the span of that single fist. The effigy's face loomed out of the darkness, blazing with an eye-watering inner radiance that shone through the soot caking its perfect facial features. It bore a neutral expression, but as it lifted Bolas up to examine him the statue's lips quirked faintly in amusement.

Its golden orbs met Bolas' gaze then, and a whisper like the death throes of an entire planet flooded into the Elder Dragon's mind. YOU SEEK TO CLAIM MY POWER, LITTLE PLANESWALKER? it asked, as if the very notion were but a fanciful triviality, a momentary distraction from whatever great works it would concoct next. AN ENTERTAINING NOTION, TO BE SURE...

It glanced momentarily at Megatron as the fusion cannon blast struck it in the face, leaving a large crater in its cheek which seemed to trouble the titan not; then it glanced back at Bolas, as though dismissing the Decepticon's attack as being of no consequence.

Megatron's words, however, had managed to snap Ravage out of his trance; with a growl, the Predacon hauled himself to his feet and dashed the last few metres towards the statue's chest. Snarling and transforming into beast mode as he ran, the transmetal panther leapt upon one of the deity's colossal abdominals and began the long, slow process of stabbing handholds into the stone with his claws as he began to work his way up the chest of this so-called god.

The Danse Macabre Codex

Flandre took to the air and circled around the large golden figure holding on to Bolas. She held out her hands and fired a barrage of danmaku at its back, testing just how tough this thing was.

Narumi began to wobble. The scorching heat from the God plus the fact that he was in a suit of metal gave him heat exhaustion. He wobbled about, trying in vain to pick up the Skull Magnum. When he did pick it up, aimed at the God and fired one shot. The recoil knocked him down.

Craft tried not to let the sheer presence of the bonafide deity affect him, although it was hellishly difficult, and despite his resolve he still found himself almost losing control once or twice.

"...If you are - were - in league with the Administrator, then by the laws set down by Master X of Neo Arcadia, you are a Maverick. The punishment for being a Maverick of your grade is summary execution with no trial," he intoned as calmly as the situation could let him, aiming for one of the giant's eyes and opening fire.

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A thrown kunai hits the walking statue in the center of the chest; it bounces off... but the SS-grade devil-banishing charm tied to it, a slip of paper possessing an extraodinarily complex sealing pattern that includes the symbol of the Rinnegan eyes and the Rikudo Sennin's magatama, comes loose and then adheres itself to the statue.

"Abomination! Go back to the Hells from which you came!"

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Back in the Common Room, Kisame was still shuddering lightly at the sight of the dark god. "Never would've taken Kimimaro-kun to be the religious type..." he muttered.

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Rey raised up, seeing the being over him, and shrieked at it, flinging bolt after bolt of shadowstuff, something incoherent coming out of his mouth as he did.

Easing back into life one step at a time

In The Name Of The Decepticon Cause, Cybertron Eternal, And Primus Himself, Look At Your Opponent When He Is Speaking To You.

—The massive war machine fired another blast as he marched forward, this time aimed at the upper jaw of the Demiurge. —

Gordon slotted another rocket into his RPG. He could already tell that his small arms weren't going to do anything against this thing. He just hoped he had the rockets and explosives to put a substantial dent in it.

He shouldered his RPG, took aim at the being's massive head, and fired.

"Oh, dear. The toad, the monkey, and the dog have all screwed up."

-The Dullahan strikes again and again.-

You are... NOTHING. Only a morsel... of true darkness... and light.

Galen was floating in the air, eyes closed in concentration. After a while, he opened them, and looked calmly upon the statue. "Abomination of the Dark Side," he said, softly, "you shall be no more." With that, he re-ignited his lightsaber, charged it with Force Lightning, and Threw it at the statue's head.

The voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground

"Hey you! Little girl with the rainbow wings!" Bowser called out to Flandre.

To be seen, stand up To be heard, speak up To be appreciated, shut up

Natsu ate some of Bolas' flames to shift into Dragonforce mode, then launched a gigantic palm wave blast of intense fire at the statue. "Hidden Art: Phoenix Lotus Palm!" He roared out, the thing so condensed with plasmatic magic that it had a slight gravitational radius, actively pulling debris and smaller objects inside its depths.

Always be ready to do the unusual and unexpected.

"Divine or not, without tiny men like Washington to behold you, you are nothing."

-Zod floated into the air until he was level with Yaldabaoth's face-

"Hiding beneath the dirt of this world like the overgrown worm that you are... you would rule from the shadows, I would rule from the throne. But you can hide in shadows no longer."

-His voice grew louder and harsher as he continued-

"I grow weary of you, little god."

-his eyes began to burn red-

"All Of These False Gods Will Burn In The Kryptonian Fires I Shall Rain Down Upon Their Heads! But First?"

"I WILL SEE YOU KNEEEEEEEEL!!"

This last word was delivered in an supersonic roar that shook the temple's foundations, imbued with as much destructive energy as he could muster, blasting the titanic enemy with enough force to tear through a planet's crust and loud enough to deafen any humans caught directly in it's blast.

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The entity barely reacted as Flandre's danmaku struck it across the back, and the blast to its jaw seemed to trouble it now; only Craft's shot to the eye and Kimimaro's sealing seemed to have any discernable effect, the former causing the titan to blink as the blast struck it, and the latter causing it to spasm slightly. Its head turned, slowly and ponderously, to fix Megatron with the baleful gaze of its molten orbs, and a scowl spread across its immaculate features.

ONE DOES NOT MAKE DEMANDS OF THE INEFFABLE, CYBERTRONIAN, it whispered coldly into the Decepticon's mind, transfixing Megatron where he stood with the dread power of its smouldering stare. AND ONE MOST CERTAINLY DOES NOT SPEAK TO ME IN THAT TONE OF VOICE, ESPECIALLY WHEN INVOKING FALSE PROPHETS WITH NO POWER IN MY WORLD. THIS UNIVERSE IS MINE, VERMIN, AND NEITHER YOUR PITIFUL MACHINE GOD NOR THE CAPERING JESTERS WHO CURRENTLY HOLD YOUR LEASHES WILL SPARE YOU MY WROTH. YOU WISHED ME TO LOOK UPON YOU? THEN SO I SHALL.

With those words, the entity's eyes began to glow with a monstrous, unholy radiance, a clear light which rapidly intensified until it seemed as though two suns had flared to life in the dark expanse of the chamber; then cones of light shot forth to engulf Megatron, and the Emperor of Destruction would find himself rapidly succumbing to incredible agony as the entity's light began to warp and twist his chassis, unmaking him on a molecular level.

This would have been the end of him, but for the interference of Natsu and Zod; the fiery hand drew the titan's baleful gaze away from Megatron and then upward as Zod unleashed his deafening, planet-cracking shout. Grimacing in anger, the entity's free hand swung up and callously swatted the Kryptonian from the sky, sending him rocketing downward with such force that Zod smote the earth in a meteoric impact and just kept going, forcibly and involuntarily digging a long, man-shaped tunnel several hundred meters straight down from sheer inertia.

Throughout this, Ravage continued to scale the titan's chest, doggedly maintaining his ascent even as the colossal statue moved and shifted, stone muscles rippling much like the real thing.

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The Danse Macabre Codex

"What turtle?" Flandre asked in annoyance. Didn't he see she was busy playing? Geez some people. Flandre saw that it barely seemed to notice her and frowned. Obviously the only solution was to try harder. She held up a card and smiled.

Taboo: Four of a Kind.

The girl glowed red for a minute as she seemed to split into three other identical copies of herself. All three of them held out their hands and fired focused blasts of destruction at the back of this creature's head.

Rey just kept flinging shadowstuff at the creature, panting and apparently getting out of breath, but just going for it as much as he was capable. "You hurt my family!" YOU HURT MY FAMILY!"

Easing back into life one step at a time

-The Dullahan continues to hack away, until the tiniest of shards fall under the repeated blows.-

—Agony was something the Decepticon Leader had experienced thrice in his time chained by the Nomads, with this blow. Even as chunks of his plating fell away, he marched on, bellowing in pain, but letting the power of hatred drive his servos. Megatron took aim at a spot slightly to the left of the being's right eye, then burned the air with a continuous screaming blast of energy, lancing across those horrific orbs.—

You DARE Proclaim Yourself Ineffable Before Me? I Determine What Is And Is NOT Possible, Pretender To The Divine.

"Alright, never mind, you're doing exactly what I wanted you to do."

Bowser made a mental note to try and manipulate the girl later into actually being serious about the situation if it started to get out of control.

In the meantime, Bowser shot towards the giant so he could begin smashing it apart with his bare hands. Of course, if the child really was playing around...

"I bet I can take this thing out before you can!" He called back towards Flandre.

To be seen, stand up To be heard, speak up To be appreciated, shut up

Natsu saw his attack barely affect it, so he slightly held back, wondering if it could be beaten... Then he saw Zod managed to deal lasting damage. "It can work! I have to do my best!" Flames swirled around Natsu, most of the plasma traveling into his dominant hand, making it glow an eye watering brilliant crimson color.

"This hand of mine is burning red! Its loud roar tells me to grasp victory! Erupting... Dragon God... FINGER!" Natsu roared out, blasting off with propulsion from his feet at the giant thing's face. His outstretched fingers contained 100% of his magic inside them, making it an all or nothing attempt to damage the thing.

Always be ready to do the unusual and unexpected.

The entity's head snapped forward and its eyes widened slightly for but a second as the four blasts from the four Flandres struck it, destroying a small chunk of the back of its skull. Grimacing in annoyance, the dread radiance of its molten gaze intensified as its eyes narrowed, and then twin beams of golden light lanced out from those golden orbs, curving sharply around the back of the entity's head to strike two of the vampiric duplicates and wipe them from existence.

It had no time to gloat, however, for at that moment Megatron swept the deadly power of his fusion cannon across the titan's eyes. It snarled in pain and anger, turning to fix Megatron with its malevolent, matter-destroying stare once more. YOUR IGNORANCE IS BETRAYED AND EXCEEDED ONLY BY YOUR HUBRIS, MACHINE, it spat, AND I HAVE GROWN BORED OF YOU.

With these words, a pulse of awful golden light erupted from its injured eyes, and both of Megatron's arms simply ceased to be. More would have followed, but at that point Natsu slammed into the titan's face, rocking it back slightly and further damaging one of those dreadful orbs of molten gold; large cracks had begun to spread across the damaged eye, and it seemed clear that the stone organ could not take much more punishment.

ENOUGH! it boomed, a shockwave of intense white energy erupting forth from its form to swat the rest of the challengers away like flies; only Ravage managed to avoid it, by dint of clinging to the chest of this so-called deity, but even so he was barely managing to hang on.

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Elsewhere, other eyes watched these events with worried displeasure. This was not good; that key was necessary to the successful outcome of his plans, but it seemed clear that Yaldabaoth could easily destroy the device, rendering everything a complete and utter failure. This outcome could not be allowed, and indeed would not be allowed; he had not come this far, spent so many eons plotting and planning for this moment, simply to watch it all go to waste.

He glanced about himself, though given his isolation the gesture was unnecessary. The others would doubtless have assembled within the Ampitheatre at this point, assuming Tau had done his job—and if they had not, if for whatever reason his compatriots were still watching the game, then they deserved whatever they would get in the coming hours. No, it was safe to act; safe to nudge events towards the outcome he desired...

The Danse Macabre Codex

Narumi flew as he was swatted. He hit the wall and fell on the ground. Narumi was knocked out, and close to death.