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| Season | 1 |
| Season Episode | 1 |
| Air date | 1/8/22 |
| Written by | ObsidianCrusader |
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Asriel Dreemurr vs Oersted is the first What-If Death Battle created by ObsidianCrusader, featuring Asriel from Undertale and Oersted (Also referred to as "Odio") from Live A Live.
(Some information and names in this battle are now outdated following the 2022 remake of Live A Live. A remaster is planned at some point! ^-^)
Description[]
Undertale vs Live a Live! Two antagonists disillusioned with humanity, with the sheer will and power to reduce all of existence to mere dust. Asriel may have achieved godhood, but will this truly be the Demon King’s undoing? Or will Odio get his goat?
Interlude[]
Wiz: When reality itself breaks apart, what more than absolute power can keep itself in place?
Boomstick: These two are capable of bending existence to their whims, but who’s the more bendy-er-est of them all?
Wiz: Asriel Dreemurr, the Prince of Monsters turned Angel of Death
Boomstick: And Oersted, the Hero of Lucretia to the King of Demons. He’s Wiz and I’m Boomstick!
Wiz: And it’s our job to analyze their weapons, armor, and abilities to see who would win…a Death Battle.
"Asriel Plays a Game of DEATH BATTLE!"[]
(Cue: "Another Medium")
Wiz: Long ago, monsters and humans ruled the Earth together in relative harmony.
Boomstick: But all that changed when the SOOOUL Nation attacked!
Wiz: The humans, fearing the monster’s ability to absorb their SOUL – the full culmination of their being – went to war against monsterkind.
Boomstick: Magic, swords, bloodshed, we could have had it all! But the monsters didn’t really put up much of a fight, which…come on, I can’t be the ONLY one disappointed about that.
Wiz: The SOUL of a human is inherently as powerful as every monster SOUL combined, and, as a result, the monsters were routed without a single human casualty, and were then forced into the Underground of Mt. Ebbott, where they would remain sealed for millennia to come.
Boomstick: The monsters who survived took to rebuilding what little civilization they could from what they had. And leading them was Asgore, otherwise known as: King of Monsters, Mountain King, Fluffybuns, and, my personal favorite…Thick Daddy!
Wiz: Prevented from escaping by the magical Barrier created by seven human mages, the monsters eventually accepted their fate and began to live normal lives again.
Boomstick: Thick Daddy and his wife, Toriel, raised a son by the name of “Asriel Dreemurr,” who, by virtue of being Prince of Monsters, was already stronger than a majority of monsters alive at the time, which sounds just a little unfair to me. Like, imagine you’re this massive, throbbing behemoth of a monster, but you’re outshone by this goddamned cinnamon bun of a goat boy! *sniffling* Don’t worry, Moldbygg. You and those luscious lips of yours will get your time in the spotlight someday…
Wiz: …Ooo-kay? Boomstick’s new gelatin crush aside. A young Asriel, strolling through the ruins, encountered a human child who had fallen down from the surface above, and decided to take them home with him.
Boomstick: Oh, sure, the monsters can’t pass through the barrier, but some random child trips and falls and suddenly that’s acceptable? Why couldn’t that be how bars worked when I was ten?!
Wiz: Chara, the human child, was adopted by King Asgore and Queen Toriel, and became a member of their family, before tragedy would strike, and the human would fall gravely ill.
Boomstick: Chara would die soon after, but not before asking their adoptive brother for one last favor: to see the golden flowers of their village. Asriel absorbed his dead sibling’s SOUL, and was able to pass through the barrier.
Wiz: Asriel was attacked on sight by the humans of the surface, who believed he had killed the child. Rather than fighting back, Asriel returned home, dying in a patch of flowers, right in front of his parents.
Boomstick: Well, that’s probably the most interesting thing to happen to them for a while, so, win some, you lose some, eh, Fluffybuns?
Wiz: The family would fall apart after Asgore, in a fit of rage, declared he would shatter the barrier by absorbing the SOULs of any seven humans who should fall into the Underground.
Boomstick: But the story of Asriel didn’t end there! When we woke up from his dirt-nap, he had become a flower with the ability to rewind time at will, through SAVE-ing. ...The save-scumming genius.
Wiz: Through the power of DETERMINATION, Flowey had begun an endless streak of helping, hurting, and slaughtering everyone in the Underground for no other reason than sheer curiosity. As his new body lacked a SOUL, he had lost what love he had as a child, and, after doing everything there was to do beneath the surface, he desired to absorb the seven SOULs in his father’s place to become a God.
Boomstick: His dream would seemingly come true as the seventh human, a vessel of DETERMINATION named “Frisk,” fell underground, and, though their presence stole his time-manipulation away, it provided him an opportunity to finally get that succulent, juicy final SOUL.
Wiz: Through Frisk’s actions, all of the Underground, rallying behind the new human gathered before the barrier, and this was Flowey’s moment to strike. By absorbing the six human SOULs, along with every monster SOUL, he had the equivalent of seven human SOULs, revealing his true form.
(Cue: "Finale")
Boomstick: And it’s just the fucking goat boy again! You couldn’t be satisfied upstaging my gelatinous baby ONCE, could you?!
Wiz: Asriel, God of Hyperdeath is stated to have an infinite rating of both Attack and Defense, and is completely immune to Frisk’s attacks.
Boomstick: Just because he’s a goat again doesn’t mean he’s all just hoof and horns either. He’s got a pretty nasty array of skills at his disposal. Such as the ability to control fire, and he also has swords and guns now! For…some reason? Wiz, where did he get those anyway?
Wiz: Honestly, I don’t quite know either. Some monsters can summon weapons using magic, so, maybe Asriel copied some of those abilities from the SOULs he had absorbed. But those don’t come close to the mightiest abilities in his arsenal. Such as “Star Blazing,” where he summons shooting stars from above to crash upon the human’s SOUL.
Boomstick: Or Shocker Breaker! A barrage of lightning, which, he can do despite this…you know…being underground?
Wiz: But this little goat is only playing around. After using Hyper Goner and attempting to consume the SOUL, Asriel achieves his final form: The Angel of Death.
Boomstick: Such a cool name, even if he only uses one attack, but, hey, even I get hurt if you kick me hard enough in the right places, so…you go, Azzy. Make Thick Daddy proud.
Wiz: Though he no longer wishes to destroy the world and only wishes to play his own game, he is going to play it by his own rules, and we’re all forced to play along.
Asriel: "Hahahah…Did you REALLY think it was OVER!?!?"
"Oersted Remakes History in DEATH BATTLE!"[]
(Cue: "Wings That Don't Reach")
Wiz: The Kingdom of Lucretia was a place of fantasy like any other. Vibrant greenery, a frozen mountain, a bustling castle town.
Boomstick: And a monstrous Demon King wreaking havoc upon the land and all of its inhabitants! …Yeah, sounds about right.
Wiz: The rein of the Demon King, Odio, was brought to an end when the hero Hash, and the monk Uranus vanquished the great evil with the aid of the sword, Brion.
Boomstick: Must not be easy with a name like “Uranus.” Imagine wandering the kingdom, with everyone asking how he–
Wiz: Really, Boomstick? The low-hanging fruit?
Boomstick: My jokes aren’t the only thing “low-hanging” about this guy, heheh.
Wiz: Ugh…After the Demon King’s demise, Hash and Uranus, who had brought peace to Lucretia were cast aside by the people of the Kingdom, no longer having a purpose. Hash, enraged, cast aside Brion, which was made the key to breaking the seal of the Demon King’s domain, and retreated to the peak of Hero’s Mountain, while Uranus retired to a life in Familia Village.
Boomstick: Life went back to normal pretty quickly after that, and thirty years later, Oersted, the most renowned knight of the kingdom was making waves around the kingdom. Hell, he was basically next in line to become King. Oh, and his childhood friend, that Straybow guy was there too…I guess.
Wiz: Oersted and Straybow competed in a tournament to win The Princess, Alicia’s hand in marriage, whom both had fallen deeply in love with.
Boomstick: Hardly even a contest. I mean, look at this guy! He’s just a dorky magician; even his name is confused on what he’s supposed to be. And Oersted’s got a pretty sizable array of skills at his disposal.
Wiz: Oersted is a skilled swordsman, and uses a variety of wind-based magic, such as Spindle, Hexaflange, or Encage. As well as Moon Down to put his targets to sleep, Mirror Drive as an automatic counter to physical attacks…
Boomstick: Not to mention a wide array of simple yet powerful sword techniques. Like V-Shine, Razor Sonic, Jump Shot, Dragon Sword, and the AWESOMELY-named Death Trail! Why can’t all plucky, vanilla protagonists get moves like these?
Wiz: Oersted won the tournament easily, and he and Alicia were set to be married. Oersted dedicated himself to her, not as knight and liege, but as husband and wife.
Boomstick: Then, boom! Some gray guy with wings swoops down, and drags his new wife off the balcony to his mountain lair. …Why did this story have to get so relatable?
Wiz: Determined to vanquish the Demon King once more and save Alicia, Oersted and Straybow set off to find Hash and Uranus and fight their way to Devil’s Peak.
Boomstick: Then the knight kills the bad guy, gets the girl, and they all live happily ever after. Blah, blah, blah, we’ve seen it all before…Or have we?
Wiz: As it turns out, the monster they slew was not, in fact, the true Demon King; Alicia was nowhere to be found, and Hash collapsed dead on the ground, having been slowly dying from the plague throughout the party’s adventure.
Boomstick: No, not the Hash Guy! He looked just like my Dad; don't leave me again! …Oh, and Straybow got caught in a cave-in or whatever? So, yeah, he’s probably dead, who cares?
Wiz: Upon returning to Lucretia, Oersted slew what he thought was the Demon Lord, revived once again, only for it to be nothing more than an illusion, and he had killed his own King. After Uranus sacrifices himself and Oersted is forced to fight his way through droves of his own countrymen, he returns to Devil’s Peak, Hash’s blade: Brion in hand.
Boomstick: Okay, NOW we get our happy ending! And Oersted is able to clear his name, and all goes back to normal! …Right?
Wiz: Upon scaling Devil’s Peak, Oersted is met with Straybow, who revealed that he had been the architect of Oersted’s suffering throughout his whole adventure. He had faked his death, tricked Oersted into murdering the King, and had manipulated Alicia into believing Oersted had left her for dead to earn her love for himself.
Boomstick: Oh, for God’s sake, Straw-boy! The one cool thing you do, and it’s fucking over everyone else! You know, I don’t even feel bad about you getting your teeth Hammer Power’d in. This is pure catharsis.
Wiz: Victory came at an immense price for Oersted. Alicia, witnessing the death of her love, Straybow, cursed Oersted before committing suicide. ...Right in front of him.
(Cue: "The Demon King Odio")
Boomstick: Oh, what a price this was. With what little Oersted had left to fight for stripped away, he began a descent into insanity, and what better place to do that than at beautiful Devil’s Peak! The place that separates the boys, from the murderous, psychotic Demon Kings! What happens at Devil’s Peak stays at Devil’s Peak, kids.
Wiz: Channeling the power of the Demon King’s statues, Oersted had begun his path as the newest King of Demons: Odio.
Boomstick: And this wasn’t some emotional preteen phase either. Oersted’s whole being had transformed! Hell, I don’t even know what caused him to become the Dark God equivalent of my ex-wife.
Wiz: Oersted is capable of switching between human and demonic forms at will, and though he retains his skills as a swordsman, his usable skills swell drastically.
Boomstick: He is capable of controlling all seven of his incarnations, which include O.D.O, a kaiju-sized T-Rex, Odi Wang Lee, a master of kungfu, Ode Iou, a toad snake monster…thing? O. Dio, a Civil War general with a god-damned minigun! Odie Oldbright, a murderous martial arts master, Odeo, a monster chicken statue, and OD-10, a corrupted spaceship AI, which…well, your guess is as good as mine on how that works.
Wiz: Odio himself has a vast array of abilities, which only increase when his true form as Pure Odio is revealed. Life Eraser enables Odio to recover his own life force by absorbing that of others. Deathbender Space which deals a somewhat random amount of damage. And Revenge Storm which acts as a much stronger counter than Mirror Drive, able to return damage dealt to anyone from anywhere.
Boomstick: Pure Odio cranks up the power, along with some new abilities, such as Cancel Ray to keep his opponent from using some of their nastier attacks. As well as Saint Alicia, which is just metal-looking as all hell! Like, is this a visual representation of his own pain and sorrow?
Wiz: Saint Alicia is immensely powerful and petrifies anyone unfortunate enough to look upon it, should they not be able to resist its effects. But this pales in comparison to Odio’s strongest attack: Armageddon. Should Odio be allowed enough time to charge this attack, it erases everyone and everything in every timeline.
Boomstick: Whoa-ho! Who knew getting dumped by your crush could lead to something like this?
Wiz: Odio’s immense power is balanced out by the fact that, while having gained the powers of the Demon King, he is still Oersted at his core, and as such, is still human and mortal. Enough concentrated damage directly to Oersted's body is enough to bring Odio down.
Boomstick: Not to mention that his more powerful attacks need time to charge before they can be used.
Wiz: In spite of this, Odio is undeniably monstrously powerful, and the living embodiment of hatred is sure to put anyone unfortunate enough to be the target of his wrath in an eternal state of misery and sorrow.
Odio: "Say goodbye. ...to this sinful life of pain and woe...!!"
Intermission[]
Wiz: Alright, the combatants are set, and we've run the data through all possibilities.
Boomstick: But now! IT'S TIME FOR A DEATH BATTLE!!
Battle[]
Asriel is kneeling in a patch of bright yellow grass in what appears to be a pitch-black void. He, and the camera stare at the palms of his hands, before shifting to Asriel’s face, morphing into a slight smile.
“Finally…I was so tired of being a flower. I had forgotten what it was like to have a body.” Asriel stands up, his hands clenched into fists. “And these souls…the souls of everyone in the underground, I can feel them…WRIGGLING inside me! With this much power, I know what I must do next.” Asriel smiles, closing his eyes and facing downwards when another voice rings out, shocking Asriel from his silence.
“You…You, who loathe humanity as I do – hear me now.” Asriel looks from side-to-side, searching for the source of this voice in the void around him. “They have taken everything from you, as they have myself. Even your life was ripped away from you by their fear and their disregard for others.”
“Wh-Who are you? Who’s there?!” The young Asriel speaks with mild fear in his voice. The speaker chuckles ominously. “Let me show you, my friend. It is time!” Asriel’s body begins to flash and flicker, and before he can react, he vanishes.
In the next scene, Asriel flashes into existence, before falling to the ground at Devil’s Peak, at last finding the source of the voice that had eluded him. Oersted, the seemingly human knight of Lucretia stands before him, sword in hand. “Welcome, Asriel Dreemurr, to your new home. I am Oersted; Odio. And you and us are much alike. I’ll get to the point; I have an offer for you. I want you to join us, join Odio, and you will aid us in showing humanity the folly of its selfishness, as our loyal, monster pet.” In response to Asriel’s gradually-souring expression, Oersted continues, pulling his sword from the dirt. “And if you refuse…” The blonde-haired former knight smiles, approaching Asriel, weapon-drawn. “Then I will make certain that this time…There is no waking back up for you!” Oersted’s approach is interrupted by a blast of fire, as Asriel’s expression turns to a twisted smile, akin to the flower he was until recently.
“I won’t say an eternity of unrestricted play is unappealing per se. But an eternity where I bend the knee to you?” Asriel raises a finger, summoning fireballs to surround Oersted. “Is OUT of the question!”
FIGHT!
Oersted reacts with Spindle, spinning in place while deflecting most of the fireballs. A few of them manage to hit Oersted. Asriel follows up by shooting a vine up from the ground in an attempt to impale the young warrior, but Oersted holds his sword below himself, blocking the vine. Its blade glows blue, as Oersted activates Mirror Drive, leaping from the vine toward Asriel, who jumps out of the way of the initial slash, and continues to side-step as Oersted unleashes multiple V-Shine attacks in his direction. Oersted, frustrated, pulls his arms back preparing a stabbing thrust, as a vine wraps around his arm, preventing him from moving.
“Ugh, you’re a tricky little thing aren’t you?” Oersted continues to struggle, but the vine holds firm.
“Well, one of us has to have some tricks up our sleeves.” Several large hands leading a chain of fireballs materialize to either side of Oersted, an attack copied directly from Asgore and Toriel. “Such a shame, Odio. You were all talk and no show-dio.” The hands lunge toward Oersted.
Oersted smiles, his sword glowing a bright orange. “Oh, please, our game’s only JUST begun!” Oersted’s sword erupts in flame, burning the vines away. He doubles back, swinging his sword at the coming hands, as a dragon shoots from the blade, crashing into the hands, sending the accompanying fireballs falling to the ground below. Asriel, in an attempt to dodge his own fireballs, leaps out of the way, only to be caught by the fangs of Oersted’s Dragon Sword attack. He is then spun around by the illusory dragon, before being thrown back down, crashing into a boulder. Oersted twirls on his feet, shouting. “But you’ll never see the end of it! Moon DOWN!!” A spinning, kaleidoscopic ring envelops Asriel, who stumbles from the rubble, before collapsing, asleep on the ground. Oersted takes a deep breath and sighs, lowering his blade. “Finally…Now hold still, Goat.” Oersted approaches Asriel, but as he does so, Asriel’s body flashes and glows, surprising and confusing him.
Cutting back to Asriel, the six human SOULs: Patience, Integrity, Bravery, Perseverance, Kindness, and Justice revolve around the sleeping monster, before swirling into him, as a green light envelops Asriel’s body. The boy opens his eyes, now pitch-black with white pupils. Oersted brandishes his sword once more, only to be blasted by a shooting star from Star Blazing, bringing him to his knees. He glances up to see Asriel transform into his adult “God of Hyperdeath” form, immediately darkening the sky as stars fall past the horizon, ending the first phase of the battle.
“Well, ‘Demon King?’ Do you like what you see?” Oersted pulls himself to his feet, just barely dodging another star, followed by another. “Witness the power of the TRUE God of this world!!” Asriel takes flight, floating meters in the air, crossing his arms before vanishing. The bombardment of stars continues, and Oersted grunts, struggling to continue dodging.
“Enough!” Oersted swings his sword around his head, performing Encage, destroying all stars in his vicinity. He then brandishes his sword, looking for Asriel. Realizing his opponent is nowhere to be found, Oersted closes his eyes, and unleashes several slashes into the air in rapid succession, creating a chain of razor-sharp gusts of wind, which fly upward in an orderly stream. Asriel reappears behind Oersted and summons a Chaos Buster in his hands and begins to charge an attack directly at Oersted’s head, before immediately being struck by, and interrupted by the returning Hexaflange attack. Oersted’s blade glows in a black light as he begins a barrage of slashes at the now-visible Monster Prince. He ends this barrage with a Razor Sonic attack from below, each strike launching Asriel further into the air. Oersted crashes his sword to the ground, crackling with electricity, before a dark plume of Death Trail energy shoots upward toward Asriel, culminating into a dark dragon, which slashes and bites at Asriel.
Asriel gains his bearings and destroys the Death Trail with a column of lightning through Shocker Breaker. Asriel turns to face Oersted, before teleporting next to him with a smile. “Was that adorable little thing supposed to HURT me?”
Calmly, Oersted retorts. “No, it was supposed to bring you along on a nice vacation with it. A vacation straight to Hell!” Oersted attacks with Hammer Power, but is seemingly frozen in time.
Asriel chuckles. “I can’t go to hell, my irate friend…” Asriel holds his hand to his chest, and a SAVE point manifests in his grasp. “I’m all out of vacation days.”
Time begins to rewind, and the camera is left on a parody of the Undertale Start-screen. In the place of every Undertale character, there are instead the seven protagonists of each individual Live a Live chapter, as well as a young Asriel and Chara. The “Undertale” title is replaced with “Death Battle.” The screen lingers on this image for a second and a half before the fight continues, just before Oersted uses Death Trail. Oersted’s blade glows in a black light as he begins a barrage of slashes at the now-gone Monster Prince. Confused and caught off-guard, Oersted doesn’t have time to react as Asriel once more appears behind him.
“Game over, Human. I win.” As Oersted turns around in response, his head is blasted off by the Chaos Buster. His headless body limply falls to the ground. In response to his opponent’s apparent death, Asriel smiles. “Right on!” He then begins laughing maniacally, as the camera pans out to reveal a very-much alive Oersted laughing along with him.
“Quite a good show, dear Asriel! You showed that fool where he belongs!”
“Hahah! Oh, yes. But in the end, he was nothing more than a–” Asriel’s eyes open wide, as he turns around to see Oersted giving him a smug grin. He then turns back toward the Oersted he had just killed to see the illusion flickering and fading away. He growls.
“Odio is a master of illusions, you overglorified barn animal. What was that about only one of us having tricks up our–”
Asriel, infuriated, takes to the sky once more, screaming, while casting Shocker Breaker once more, concentrating each individual lightning strike at Oersted. Asriel follows this up by a fully-charged shot of the more-powerful Chaos Blaster. “JUST DIE ALREADY, HUMAN!” The beam of energy completely obliterates Devil’s Peak as the camera zooms out to capture the destruction, with only the Demon King’s statue remaining, atop a thin stone pillar. A light rain of stars falls to the ground like snow.
After a brief moment of silence with Asriel panting, staring into the smoke and debris, a silhouette of Oersted shoots from the dust-cloud with Jump Shot and lands upon a mountain peak at eye-level with Asriel. The camera cuts to Oersted, now with a pair of bright red-and-white wings, covering his body, clutching the shattered handle of his sword, blood dripping from his battered and bruised face. “As I was saying before your little tantrum… I have much more than this pathetic mortal coil at my disposal.”
Asriel, mouth agape smiles wide, and laughs “Heheheh…HAHAHAHAH! Well, boy howdy! Color me impressed, Human! I haven’t had this much fun since I met them! Tell me, “Oersted” …Just who or what are you, really?”
Oersted scoffs, leaping into the air, his wings extending far to his side, obscuring the full moon behind him. “We are the Lord of Demons. He who was betrayed by humans and left to rot in despair…” The camera momentarily zooms in on Oersted’s hands, dripping with his own blood. His voice begins to distort, sounding more demonic: “We turned this Kingdom of cowards and selfish villains into a graveyard. And in any reality where humans exist, we will do the same!” The darkened sky behind Oersted flickers to life, as a large mouth and eyes manifest from the darkness, gaze peering around, before locking eyes with the viewer. “We…are the very manifestation of hatred…We…No… I am the Demon King!” Oersted envelops himself in his wings, taking the form of the Odio Mole, as the face in the sky smiles a sinister grin. “ODIOOOOOOOOO!!!”
Asriel’s expression turns to surprise as he looks down to see the ghostly tongue of Ode Iou wrapped around his ankle. Asriel nonchalantly ignores this and turns his attention back to Odio’s face-form. “…You’re giving me the weirdest case of Déjà vu, y’know.” He is then forcefully dragged back into a crash landing at the ruins of Devil’s Peak, where each of the statues had come to life as an incarnation of Odio. Asriel summons his two Chaos Sabers, and slices the tongue of Ode Iou off, before being struck by a flying kick from Odie Oldbright. Odie snickers, before being cut off by Asriel, who grabs his ankle. “Really? I have to deal with his sloppy seconds? Oh, twist my arm!” As if making a pun, Asriel twists Odie’s leg, breaking it. “The more the merrier my friends!” Asriel swings Odie around, before igniting him in fire, and throwing him at the floating skull of OD-10. O. Dio, seeing this, revs his minigun in a blind rage at Asriel, who does nothing as the bullets bounce off his skin. He teleports behind the idle Odi Wang Lee, and grabs him, before teleporting back in place, and letting O. Dio’s minigun shred through the kungfu master. As Odi’s corpse falls to the ground, it dissipates in a white mist, which is absorbed upward into the Odio Mole. O. Dio, finally realizing his minigun is worthless, drops it on the ground and makes a run for it, only to be crushed by Odeo, the behemoth statue of a false deity, scaling the mountain. Asriel manages to avoid being stomped on by Odeo as well, and grabs the Frogsnake Demon that is Ode Iou, dragging him high into the air, before ripping his head off, which lands just beside OD-10.
OD-10 calls out to the other incarnations. “We need not survive. This world is lost, and so are we. We must only stall for time, as is Odio’s will–” The skeletal, rogue AI is immediately stabbed and killed by Asriel from behind, before being ripped in two by the Chaos Sabers. As each incarnation is killed, they are turned into energy and absorbed by Oersted. Asriel takes little notice of this.
“Stall me, you say? Fascinating. As if there are any among you who can even hurt me.” Asriel glances down at the charred corpse of Odie, and up at the massive Odeo. “I am the God of this world. I am infinite! I…AM–” Asriel’s speech is interrupted by O.D.O who scoops him up and swallows him.
Cutting back to Odio himself, the mouth and eyes are both charging separate attacks, watching as Asriel explodes from the dinosaur’s stomach with a star-speckled explosion. “Hm…I am beginning to understand how these…avatars, managed to find defeat at the hands of humans. No matter. The time…is now.”
The focus returns to Asriel, just as Odeo is killed by a Chaos Buster to the head, the God of Hyperdeath returns his focus to the face of Odio. “Now you’ve just got me warmed up! But I think it’s time we kicked things up a notch, eh, Demon King?” Asriel soars toward Odio, dodging two High Speed Gel Bullets fired by the eyes, before flying directly through the mouth’s Deathbender Space without a hint of fatigue or pain. Asriel brandishes both Chaos Sabers, and twirls with them in the air, sending a cascade of stars careening toward the mouth and eyes of Odio, causing the latter to groan in pain. Asriel turns to look at the Mole with a devious expression. “You’re starting to bore me. I think it’s time…” Asriel shrugs, gathering power in the palms of his hands. “That I PURGE this timeline once and for all!” Asriel expands and vanishes, replaced by a massive, skeletal version of Asriel’s head, resembling a UT Extraction Machine as part of Hyper Goner. It laughs, before opening its mouth wide and sucking everything in the nearby area into its maw. The Odio Mole shudders, barely resisting being dragged into the beast’s mouth. The eyes and mouth shifts from side-to-side, attempting to resist Hyper Goner’s pull. This effort proves futile as diamond-shaped cubes of Asriel’s magic and debris collide with them, tearing them apart. Though few cubes make contact with the Mole itself, none do any visible damage.
Odio remains silent, as the sky changes in vibrant and bright colors, and Asriel’s voice echoes throughout Lucretia. “You really are special, Oersted. But remember your place…You are a human…challenging a God…And now it’s time…” Asriel manifests once more, dripping with melted flesh and Determination. Finally unveiling his final form: The Angel of Death. “For your world, your ideals! For them all to be reduced to zero!!” Asriel grabs the Mole, and begins to crush it, as it crackles with electricity, red lightning strikes in the background, as Odio explodes in a cascade of raw power, pushing the Angel of Death backwards.
Asriel shields his eyes from the glow, and as he removes them, he is face-to-face with Pure Odio, a cherub-like monster with red, angelic wings. The sky itself begins to crack apart and fall around them, exposing the pitch-black void. “Nothing, hm? Little, little lamb…How can I be nothing, when I am everything? Hatred…it flows in you. Odio is in you!”
Asriel shakes his head, and smiles, attacking with a barrage of energy-based comets, which home in on Odio, only for the latter to counter this with a Revenge Storm explosion. “Argh! So, this is your true form? Finally! I thought I’d never feel my heart race like this again. I’m having so much fun! Why I sought the infinite power I have now – why I killed them all – it was all for fun like this!!” Asriel clasps his hands together, and begins charging his final attack. “Be honored. After you’re dead, I’ll bring you back! I’ll kill you over, and over, and OVER again! But don’t worry…it’ll only hurt the first MILLION TIMES!!!” Asriel fires a massive, rainbow-colored beam at Pure Odio, laughing psychotically, but before it can make contact, it pixelates and vanishes, destroyed by Cancel Ray. Odio pulsates in a strange white aura. “...What? How’d you…” Asriel attempts to reload a previous SAVE, only for the words “LOAD FAILED” to appear reflected in his eyes. “Where…Where are my powers? M-My…DETERMINATION?! …YOU!”
Odio’s wings flitter in the wind, and heartbeats sound out, accompanied by deep, ominous laughter. A red SOUL flickers in Odio’s chest. “You are strong, Dreemurr. But I am beyond strength; beyond infinity. You are a child playing pretend…But I am your God! I am ODIO!” Odio reaches out his hand, and lets the white energy expand from the palm of his hand as Armageddon. Asriel, realizing the threat, teleports far into the distance, and holds his arms to his side, charging one final attack; a killing blow. He focuses his gaze on the cherub-body of Oersted.
“I thought I’d humor you – play a game, but fun’s over! I will not die here, ESPECIALLY not to a nobody like you!! Regret your decisions from the BOTTOM OF THE ABYSS! NYAAAHHHH!!!” Asriel releases a massive rainbow-colored beam from his hands. It collides with the expanding Armageddon, causing the sky, and mountains in the background to ripple like water. The screen goes black, and the music temporarily fades.
Oersted’s voice echoes through. “Hatred…Inexorable loathing…I can feel it in you, in that SOUL of yours…” The Angel of Death fades onto screen, still locked in battle with Odio. The visage of Saint Alicia appears behind him. “But we are not the same. So, young Dreemurr…let me show you, to dream no more…” Saint Alicia’s angelic image turns to that of a repulsive hag and shrieks, causing Asriel and his attack to freeze in place, his eyes widening in shock. The music continues, hitting its climax
“Wh-What the?!” The attack begins to crack and crumble away, allowing Armageddon to continue unimpeded toward the petrified Asriel.
“It is as you say…Kill or be killed.” Odio channels both hands into Armageddon, causing it to grow ever larger. Asriel trembles and screams as a shockwave of destructive energy crashes into his body – SOULs exploding from his chest, disintegrating in the wind – all of Lucretia in the background shatters like glass at the moment of the impact. The camera pans to the six human SOULs, which all turn to dust.
The Angel of Death turns to mist, leaving only the child-form of Asriel remaining, falling into the void below. He lands in a patch of golden flowers in the midst of the void, while his arms and legs flash and flicker, turning to dust.
The next scene is from Asriel’s perspective. He blinks, and looks down at his body, only to see stumps of where his arms and legs used to be, now bleeding profusely. The now-powerless Asriel screams in agony, as Odio descends before him, transforming back into Oersted. “I just wanted to look you in the eyes as you die. So go ahead…Scream for me.” Oersted unsheathes the divine blade: Brion, abruptly cutting off Asriel’s final terrified shriek with a V-Slash across the limbless monster’s upper torso.
The camera zooms into Asriel’s horrified face, fading into a black void. A single monster SOUL, beating red with Determination begins to pulse and float upward, before a hand suddenly shoots out and grabs it, pulling it off-screen.
Oersted closes the battle by facing the camera, clutching Asriel’s SOUL, with a smile. Asriel’s dismembered corpse turns to dust in the background as Oersted delivers one final line to the viewer. “And, in the end…everything…” He crushes Asriel’s SOUL in his grip. “...Was blown away…”
KO!
The ending screens feature both characters after knockout.
Ending Screen A features one of the golden flowers sprouting a face, becoming Flowey, who looks around himself, laughing evilly, before immediately being crushed by the statue of the Demon King, summoned by Odio.
Ending Screen B features Odio standing in the void, before holding one hand out, his eyes flashing, summoning his statue to crush Flowey in Ending Screen A. He laughs in response to his opponent’s second and final death.
Results[]
Boomstick: Would this count as a disintegration death, or a dismemberment death? We sure do a lot of those, but not every day we get a two-for-one deal like that!
Wiz: Both fighters were immensely powerful, and this ended up being a fairly close match, but, while Asriel could easily shrug off a majority of Oersted and Odio’s offensive abilities, he didn’t have anything to account for Armageddon.
Boomstick: But Wiz! Asriel’s Attack and Defense are literally infinite! Shouldn’t that render any of Odio’s attacks useless?
Wiz: Yes, while Asriel by and far surpassed Odio in terms of pure durability, Armageddon was beyond strength AND beyond anything Asriel was capable of taking. When pushed to his limits, Odio’s Armageddon had fully erased eight different universes, including his own, in their entirety. And Asriel has been shown to be vulnerable to a greater power erasing his timeline, such as a True Reset performed by Frisk. Even if Asriel was somehow capable of surviving Armageddon, he really didn’t have any way to kill Odio that Odio didn’t have a method to counter.
[Pop-up text: Monster magic's relation to a human SOUL is a completely different system than that of two humans. Asriel's raw power easily eclipses that of the seven Live a Live protagonists; though the latter do not take SOULs and Determination into consideration when attacking, like monsters do. This is why an ordinary human can kill Odio, while Asriel – a monster – can not.]
Boomstick: Frisk’s Determination enabled them to not only survive Asriel’s assault, but made them completely immune to dying AT ALL during the fight against him. While it’s not clear if Frisk’s survival of Asriel’s final attack was because of goat boy’s inability to kill his childhood friend, the point is that anyone who’s Determined enough can and WILL nullify a lot of Asriel’s options, including his ability to rewind time. And Odio’s certainly not second-guessing his dream of complete multiversal annihilation. The guy’s really got nothin’ to lose, so there’s no reason to believe he’d be less Determined than Asriel, who’s only really in it for funsies.
Wiz: Even if Asriel did have anything capable of bypassing Odio’s greater Determination, he didn’t exactly have a way of getting through Odio’s wider array of utility options.
Boomstick: Like the Cancel Ray being a giant “fuck you” to Asriel’s biggest, baddest attacks. Infinity doesn’t really mean anything if you’re not even allowed to use it, huh?
Wiz: Asriel is easily one of the most overpowered, astronomically destructive combatants we’ve ever had on Death Battle, but he was just no match for Odio’s multiverse-destroying power, greater versatility, and superior Determination.
Boomstick: Asriel gave it all he goat, but he was just…Odi-owned!
Wiz: The winner is Oersted
Next Time On Death Battle...[]
Hydreigon: "Hey, long time no see! It's me, Hydreigon! ...Huh? You don't remember me? Oh no!"
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Writer's Note...[]
Obsidian: Hello! Thank you for reading my first ever "What-If" Death Battle! I've worked really hard on it, and I'm so excited to finally upload it! (I know I said it'd release on the 10th, but I accidentally voted in my own poll, so I got scared that I leaked the victor. No point in setting a deadline if everyone already knows, but act surprised anyway. ;D) I'm excited to see what you thought, so, please, let me know in the comments! Even if it's just something like "You're wrong, because you left out such-and-such feat! Oersted? Who's that? ANOTHER Fire Emblem character in Smash Bros?" I'm still practicing as a writer, so, I appreciate any and all feedback. Thank you so much for spending your time here! :D
Trivia[]
- The connections between these two characters are that they are fallen heroes who have obtained reality-warping powers. They are also both Final Bosses of their respective games.
- The artstyle for this battle varies between pixel-art and hand-drawn. Most combat scenes, and zoomed-out footage are in pixel-art, while close-ups are in a traditional artstyle.
- Oersted's original opponent was going to be Chara, but I couldn't find any canon feats from them besides erasing the timeline, and (presumably) having the same combat abilities as Frisk. Asriel was just a more interesting matchup in the end.
- The soundtrack for this fight would be called "Dust in the Wind." Dust referencing Asriel's original death and resurrection as Flowey, while Wind represents Oersted's magical affinity as a human, as well as the Bad Ending of Live a Live's narration: "In the end...everything was blown away..." The song contains three "phases," with the prefight being comprised of His Theme and Wings That Don't Reach. As the fight starts, it transitions to Hopes & Dreams and Illusion. The climax of the fight as both combatants enter their final forms is a mixture of SAVE the World and Pure Odio, while it ends with a quiet ringing of church bells, as heard in Armageddon.
- The cover depicts a Delta Rune like the one on Asriel's God of Hyperdeath robe. Two of the triangles near the bottom are replaced with the eyes of Odio's face-form, while the wings are replaced with the wings of Pure Odio. In between the wings, the circle is replaced with an upside-down white-and-red monster soul, dripping with red Determination. Behind the rune two of Flowey's vines reach out to either side, while Oersted's sword, "Brion," points upward from behind the rune.
- Live a Live has been stated to be one of many RPGs that inspired the making of Undertale, mainly "MEGALOVANIA" taking inspiration from Live A Live's "Megalomania." As such it is a tangible possibility that Asriel was inspired by Oersted's character and abilities.
- Originally, the dialogue during Asriel's final moments was going to include a reference to Carnage and Venom's final words in Death Battle. "I-I...hate you..." "That's the idea." Just as a fun reference to Odio literally just meaning "hatred." Scrapped it because it messed with the pacing.
- It is not confirmed is Odio is capable of turning Armageddon off at will. Odio using Armageddon to literally disarm Asriel was a purely aesthetic choice; and even if it was a suicide move, The target's death occurs first, leaving the results unchanged by Death Battle logic.