Time Overlords Battle Royale

Important Note

I would love to give huge thanks to several characters' researchers and hard workers for their intense calculations and work to make the research for this battle possible, and i hope that they aren't offended with my usage of it.

Description

Sonic the Hedgehog vs Puella Magi Madoka Magica vs Touhou Project vs Date A Live vs Bayonetta vs Jojo Bizarre Adventures. They are the rulers of time. Nothing can stop them. Their authority over time is that of kings. Who will stop the time of others? Who will keep their time to their selves? Who will prevail in a DEATH BATTLE?

Before The Battle

Morning Star: Time. Everything moves with it, and nothing moves without it, and when time comes to a halt, so does everything with it.

Marie: But what if we were able to manipulate time? Just stopping it, rewinding it, fast forwarding it, and maybe even more!

Judge: And if we're talking about time, then those 6 come to mind, as they are 6 of the most greatest time manipulators in history.

Morning Star: Shadow the Hedgehog, The Ultimate Lifeform.

Judge: Homura Akemi, The Concept of Evil.

Marie: Sakuya Izayoi, The Maid of The Scarlet Devil Mansion.

Justice: Kurumi Tokisaki, The Nightmare.

Morning Star: Bayonetta, The Left Eye.

Marie: And Dio Brando, The Humanity Loathing Vampire.

Judge: He's Morning Star, She's Justice, She's Marie, and I'm Judge!

Morning Star: And it's our job to run through everything those combatants have of powers and abilities to find out who would win...A Death Battle.

Shadow

Morning Star: Science never left anything to be hidden, even artificially created beings are even available.

Judge: This was the case for Professor Gerald Robotnik, whose granddaughter Maria was ill with a disease that affected the nerves called the Neuro-Immune Deficiency Syndrome, or NIDS for short, and this disease was incurable. So, he lost some screws when trying to find a cure to her illness.

Marie: This led to Gerald's encounter with the entity of malice known as Black Doom, who offered to make him create a being that can cure the incurable, offering him his own DNA to do so, in exchange that Gerald helps him find the mystic relics known as the Chaos Emeralds, giving him a time limit worth of 50 years to do so, or else, Black Doom would lead his race, the Black Arms, to destroy the world.

Justice: And thus, Gerald gave life to the Ultimate Lifeform...Shadow the Hedgehog.

Morning Star: After being born, Shadow adapted to life in the ARK Colony in space, where they were forced to live there due to Gerald fearing from the fact that the police would find out about Shadow's existence, but the government deemed Shadow a threat to humanity, and sought to destroy both him and everyone involved with him. Shadow and Maria soon escaped, but Maria was shot down while entering the escape pod, and with her last words to Shadow, where she told him to save humanity and bring hope to it, Shadow was sent away from the ARK, only to be retrieved by a mad Gerald, who went insane after knowing that his granddaughter died, which caused him to alter Shadow's memories to force him to destroy humanity.

Marie: This, coupled with confusion and grief, left Shadow in an extremely enraged state, with his memories pretty much screwed. All he could remember was Maria, and that she was gone. Swearing revenge upon humanity, Shadow decided that it's time to put his incredible powers to use.

Judge: And he sure got the powers to do so! Shadow possess superhuman speed, strength and durability. He's strong enough to throw large stuff into the air like buses and concrete with one hand, treat Knuckles like a fodder, where said echidna was strong enough to lift an entire power planet while being submerged underwater, overpower Sonic who can destroy an entire universe with a single punch and even damage Solaris, a 5-D being.

Morning Star: He's fast enough to keep up with Sonic, who can run in stopped time, granting him Infinite speed, and in his base mode, travel at more than 30 octilion times the speed of light, and even outrun Solaris, who exists above space-time as a whole.

Marie: He's also durable enough to tank attacks from pretty much everyone in the roster, survive a fall from space to the Earth, and with Power Rings, he can tank attacks from Master Mogul, who can crush multiverses with his bare hands! And by the way, Gerald manipulated Shadow's genes so that he never tires.

Morning Star: But that's not all to what meets the eye for Shadow. The most remarkable trait about Shadow is his perfect mastery of the Chaos Energy. He can use Chaos Control to stop, slow and travel in time, and even distort space itself around areas he want, including his fists and midair. He also holds projectile attacks like Chaos Spear, where he creates spears made out of pure Chaos Energy, Chaos Lance, an even more powerful version of Chaos Spear, Black Tornado, which allows Shadow to create a black tornado by spinning rapidly in midair, use Sonic's iconic Spin Dash, Homing Attack, and Light Speed Attack, Chaos Burst, a mini burst that can hide Shadow in a distorted part of space, Chaos Nightmare, where Shadow punches the enemy with his 2 fists which are bathed in distorted space, Chaos Magic, where Shadow creates an area of distorted space in the form of a spatial rift to knock enemies into the air with a finger snap, Roaming Chaos, where Shadow flings orbs of distorted space at his opponents to knock them into the air, Chaos Ball, which is a small ball of Chaos Energy that homes at its target, and Chaos Rift, where Shadow creates a rift in space-time which banishes foes outside time and space once he flings the rift at them.

Judge: And if he wants to end things very quickly, he can use Chaos Blast, a powerful crimson blast that emerges from his body to obliterate anything in its wake, and Shadow can also use it in the form of a straight beam.

Justice: Shadow is also an expert in using guns. His favorite weapon is The Shadow Rifle, which can kill all enemies with 1 hit, having the mix of a mere pistol and a submachine gun in it.

Marie: Also, due to being created to cure the incurable, Shadow has 2 supportive abilities: The Shadow Heal, which allows him to heal any kinds of wounds and diseases, and Shadow Guard, which allows Shadow to create a barrier around him that cannot be penetrated.

Morning Star: With that out of the way, we go to the forms. Hero Shadow, which gives Shadow the ability to use Chaos Control on a wide area than usual, Chaos Shadow, which gives Shadow the ability to use Chaos Blast on an even powerful scale, and Chaos Boost, where Shadow charges up himself with Chaos Energy to grant himself red aura that surrounds him which reverse and repels evil influence.

Judge: Now, we enter to the real deal! Shadow's most iconic form: Super Shadow. Which is accessed by using the 7 Chaos Emeralds, which grants Shadow invulnerability, flight, the ability to manipulate reality, its laws and aspects, as well as nullifying negative power, since the Chaos Force doesn't focus pretty much on destructive force, but it focuses on vanquishing evil and entities of malice. Also, the Chaos Emeralds can seal away anything and anyone that they want inside of them, and manipulate false platonic concepts.

Morning Star: That's not all. The Chaos Emeralds can cause a phenomenon called the Super Genesis Wave, which is an event caused by the Chaos Emeralds which can release a pulse of energy that can reshape reality, bend the laws of reality and existence, erase beings out of existence and reality, remove the memories of others, and even more. There is also the fact that the Chaos Emeralds, as physical manifestations of hope and light, are capable of negating any kind of ill aliments, even aliments and hax at conceptual and law level are absolutely nothing to them.

Marie: The second buff that Shadow holds is the Chaos Shadow, where he takes off his Inhibitor Rings, allowing him to enter to a state of godlike powers that allowed him to overpower Enerjak, who became 1 with the Chaos Force, a higher plane of reality above the space-time of the Archie multiverse, which contains infinite dimensions. Well, those who use the Super Form are also at this level, but Chaos Shadow taps directly to the Chaos Force itself, not to its physical manifestation of said power source, so that makes Chaos Shadow vastly superior to Super Shadow.

Judge: You know what's even more greater? It's when Shadow becomes Super Shadow, and takes out his Inhibitor Rings at the same time! This makes him unfathomably more powerful than his previous forms, making him an absolutely unstoppable bundle of force.

Morning Star: Even then, Shadow still holds his own flaws. His forms, namely Hero Shadow, Dark Shadow and the Chaos Boost last for a limited time, around a few moments, and at most a few minutes, but it actually heals Shadow to top condition.

Justice: With few to no flaws, and with Shadow regaining his memories to save the entire world, Shadow made his promise and is still making it to Maria up until this moment, Shadow does deserve the title...Of The Ultimate Lifeform.

"If the whole world chooses to become my enemy, i will fight like i always have!"

Homura Akemi

Morning Star: In Mitikihara City, there lingers abstract existence known as Witches, who threaten the world on daily basis.

Judge: This led to the appearance of the Incubators, alien creatures from outer space who entered Earth to solve this problem, which they did by turning young girls into entities known as Magical Girls, right after granting the girl a wish.

Marie: One Incubator, who goes by the name of Kyubey, went on to turn girls into Magical Girls in order to gather enough energy to halt the destruction of the universe, and he did so, by transforming Mami Tomoe, Kyoko Sakura, Sayaka Miki, Madoka Kaname, and lastly...Homura Akemi.

Justice: Homura was a lonesome, anti-social, 14 year old girl, who didn't have much interaction with the world due to her heart disease, and when she met Madoka Kaname, both became fast and best friends, but at that time, Kyubey entered the picture and turned Madoka into a Magical Girl, where she was killed by Walpurgisnacht.

Morning Star: This caused Homura to make her wish to Kyubey, which was her being able to return back in time to save Madoka and prevent her from becoming a Magical Girl, which in turn caused Homura herself to become a Magical Girl, resetting time 100 of times, where in each time reset, Madoka would grow even stronger, before Madoka made her wish after the 100th time reset, which was to erase all Witches from existence, effectively causing her to ascend to godhood.

Judge: That aside, we're here to talk about Homura. She is extremely strong for a 14 year old chick, but would you believe me if i told you that she is actually 26? Nevertheless, as i was saying, she is strong enough to kill Incubators, defeat fellow Magical Girls, and even defeat Witches that can create dimensions that hold stars in them.

Marie: She's fast enough to catch a bullet at point blank range with just a ribbon, outrun Sayaka Miki, who was able to travel at more that 2.6 times the speed of light, and keep up with Momoko Togame, who jumped so high that she reached the universe in seconds. She is also tanky, having taking hits from Witches that can create dimensions that holds dozens of stars in them, an tank attacks from fellow Magical Girls.

Morning Star: Moving on, Homura, despite being a Magical Girl, she doesn't not have her own unique weapon, so she uses her abilities as a Magical Girl to get her own weapon. Handguns, Grenades, Machine guns, Rocket Launchers, C4 Explosives, and a Magical Bow which allows her to fire off energy arrows.

Judge: As a Magical Girl, Homura holds her own Soul Gem, which stores her soul inside it, meaning that Magical Girls are walking corpses. But that's not all. There's more into it.

Justice: Indeed. Homura holds a magical shield that allows her to be immune to time paradoxes. This allowed her to survive her existence being overwritten to Madoka Kaname's liking when she became the concept of hope and reset the universe. This shield also has Homura's special ability: The ability to manipulate time. She can stop time infinitely, and it even holds an hourglass to allow Homura to rewind time with a full month, which stems from her desire to save Madoka and prevent her from becoming a Magical Girl. The shield also acts as a hammerspace of sorts, allowing Homura to store her weapons in it no matter how much big they were.

Morning Star: And like all Magical Girls, Homura can turn into a Witch should her Soul Gem become corrupted, either by grief or negative emotions. In Homura's case, she transformed into Homulily, a Witch that is made entirely out of bones, with Homura being oblivious to the events around her. This form gives Homura the ability to summon Eldrich Horror creatures that she uses as familiars, as well as grants her the ability to create several copies of her Magical Girl self out of blood, alongside the technique Witch Kiss, which is a mind manipulation technique that even affected beings like Ultimate Madoka, who exists as the concept of hope who erased the concept of Witches, or the concept of Creation and Destruction, which is a false platonic concept.

Marie: This being out of the way, Homura, unsatisfied with what Ultimate Madoka had done, stole a part of her powers, allowing her to ascend into a higher plane of existence, which in turn posed a threat to Ultimate Madoka herself, who is a 5-D conceptual existence, turning Homura into Akuma Homura, the concept of evil. In this form, Homura is omnipresent, and was able to reset the entire existence to its previous form. She also gains the ability to manipulate laws, which she used to nullify Sayaka's status as the Assistant of the Law of Cycles with a snap of her fingers, and also, she can manipulate the curses of the world, which she demonstrated by using it on Kyubey, incapacitating him emotionally and left him in a barely functional state.

Justice: So much powers and abilities doesn't deny the fact that Homura is not without weaknesses. As a Magical Girl, her existence relies solely on her Soul Gem, where she instantly die should said object be destroyed, and if it's around 100 meters away from her body, she ceases to function, becoming a lifeless corpse.

Judge: Still, this chick did what she wanted in the end despite being an evil hero. So never EVER, try to get close to her...Or you won't even see what will happen to you.

"If Evil is supposed to disrupt the divine, and be a force of chaos, it's only natural for me to upset the laws of a god."

Sakuya Izayoi

Morning Star: The land of Gensokyo is...Kinda bizarre. Being filled with monsters, youkai, and several other creatures, and for some reason, they all tend to take the shape of beautiful girls.

Judge: Even humans live in this weird world, and as it stands, several humans like shrine maidens are called incident solvers, and out of them shines the likes of the shrine maiden Reimu Hakurei, the master magician Marisa Kirisame, and the number 1 maid...Sakuya Izayoi.

Marie: Despite being 100% human, Sakuya has lived for more than 700 years, and she became a maid to Remilia Scarlet after said vampire defeated her, albeit she defeated her with fate manipulation.

Justice: Ever since then, Sakuya has pledged her loyalty to the mistress of the Scarlet Mansion, being her only maid due to the fact that the other maids are useless due to being fairies.

Judge: This chick isn't only looks. She is extremely strong needless to say. Strong enough in fact to contend against most of the cast, including Yukari Yakumo herself, who can control the boundaries of the infinite worlds of the Touhou multiverse, as well as pose a threat to Reimu, who is the most OP character in Touhou sans Hecatia.

Marie: She's fast enough to keep up with characters that can destroy the Heavens, which is larger than our own observable universe with 3.7107x10^152 times! Sakuya is also implied to be able to exist in Imaginary Time, an area of timeless void, as well as being able to keep up with Kaguya, who can also travel in timeless voids, and tanky enough to tank any kind of punishment from the majority of the characters in her world.

Morning Star: But the most dangerous aspect of Sakuya is her ability to manipulate time. She can stop time, accelerate it to age someone or something to death, compress it in a certain area, erase the time of a certain somebody or someone to either erase animate and inanimate objects and people, or to erase their attacks, can even manipulate time to summon clones of hers, and even reverse time to de-age someone or something to babyfication.

Judge: Uhh...Who does that even work?

Morning Star: Probably...Something that she inherited, or that's a particular set of Spell Cards. Speaking of which, Sakuya holds a few Spell Cards like any other character in Touhou. With the Catfish Earthquake, she can summon a brown catfish that can create earthquakes, with the Frozen Frog, she can freeze her enemies, With the Spell Breaking Drug, she can poison the soul of her foes, With the Tengu Fan, she can manipulate the wind in the form of offensive, as well as making herself faster, With the Illness Recovery Charm, she can heal herself from all injuries and aliments, and she can manipulate the weather, invoke its laws and change the current weather to her liking with the Sword of Scarlet Perception.

Marie: Sakuya's main weapon is knives made of silver for demons and vampires exorcism, which she seemingly has an infinite amount. She can use it in conjugation with her time manipulation ability to make the knives go super fast, and can even stop time and place knives in front of the face of an opponent to surprise them with holes in their bodies, or even eyes, and if she wants to finish things off, she can simply throw infinite amounts of her knives with a mere swing of her arm.

Morning Star: As powerful as Sakuya seems to be, she is still in flaw. While she can reverse time on something or someone to manipulate their age, she cannot reverse effect. For example, she cannot repair a broken vase by reversing time around it, or even bring someone back to life by rewinding time around them.

Justice: Not to mention that she is still human, and she can be weak to human flaws as well.

Judge: Even so, no one can just match this maid. If she so desired, she can serve both your head and blood...To her mistress.

"Your time is mine. Well, it'd be nice if you had something else besides time, but..."

Kurumi Tokisaki

Morning Star: 30 years ago, a mage by the name of Issac Westcott was living peacefully in a town of mages. However, peace doesn't last forever, as people started to fear the powers of the mages, and in turn, burned down Issac's hometown.

Judge: This led Mr. Chimmy Chunga to swear vengeance upon humanity, and in turn, create the entity known as the Spirit, a life form built by the mana of the world, which resulted in the birth of Mio Takamiya, the first Spirit and The Spirit of Origins.

Marie: The event of Mio's birth caused a phenomenon called the Spacequake, which is a massive distortion in space that happens whenever a Spirit would enter the Real World, where also Mio's birth had caused the creation of a parallel universe called the Neighboring World, where entities known as Spirits reside.

Morning Star: After that, Mio would meet Shinji Takamiya, a normal human being who gave her home and name. Not afterwards, they were attacked, with Shinji dying to protect Mio, and in order to solve this, Mio absorbed Shinji inside her womb, and then gave birth to him and placed him on the Itsuka's household doors, where he would be named Shido Itsuka.

Justice: However, we're not here to talk about Harem Boy. We're here to talk about 1 of the most iconic characters in Date A Live, who is the only one to get a series of her own. Enter, the Nightmare...Kurumi Tokisaki.

Judge: Kurumi was a normal human being until she met Mio, who turned her into a Spirit by tricking her on the fact that Spirits are evil. That was for the sake of gathering the Sephira Crystals from other Spirits. However, tragedy struck one day, when Kurumi saw Mio killing her best friend to extract a Sephira Crystal from her, and was about to revert into her dark form, but she managed to forcibly bring herself back to her consciousness. Mio then erased all of Kurumi's memories, with the exception of her ability to use her Spirit powers.

Marie: The sudden shock after using her abilities to gain her memories back caused Kurumi to be frustrated of both Mio and herself, swearing to kill her for the sake of humanity, and that's by gathering lifespans from humans to gain enough Reiryoku to travel back in time to kill Mio.

Morning Star: And she sure holds the means to do so. Kurumi is the 3rd Spirit after Mio and Nia Honjou, and by so far is labelled as the most dangerous Spirit ever. She is strong enough to trade blows with other Spirits who can blow down buildings, cities and mountains with immense ease, fast enough to dodge light beams and outrun light, and even keep up with those who can outrun light, and durable enough to survive explosions, powerful hurricanes and even tank a hit from a fire cannon that set up an entire city on fire.

Judge: But what makes Kurumi special is her Angel, which is the special power of an individual Spirit. In Kurumi's case, she holds Zafkiel, the time manipulation Angel, which takes the shape of a large clock behind Kurumi, alongside a musket and a flintlock pistol. This thing here holds 12 different and cool functions, and for Kurumi to use it, she has to call the name of her bullet and shoot out on either herself or the enemy, and it appears that doesn't need to shoot a bullet on the desired target, she just needs to point the gun and pull the trigger only.

Marie: As for Zafkiel's powers, they are 12 bullets, and we will list them right now. The 1st bullet, Aleph, allows Kurumi to accelerate time around herself or an object. The 2nd bullet is Bet, which slows down time, being the complete opposite of Aleph. The 3rd bullet is Gimmel, which causes both animate and inanimate objects, and living beings to age. The 4th bullet is Dalet, which allows Kurumi to rewind the time with a range of few seconds to days. The 5th bullet is Hei, which allows Kurumi to take a peek in the future. The 6th bullet is Vav, which allows Kurumi or the intended target to travel 24 hours to the past. The 7th bullet is Zayin, which allows Kurumi to freeze the time of something or someone. The 8th bullet is Het, which allows Kurumi to create a clone of something or someone, and that's her method of creating clones of hers by the way. The 9th bullet is Tet, which allows Kurumi to share her emotions with people from different time or dimension. The 10 bullet is Yud, which gives Kurumi the ability to peek in the past of a target, which is the complete opposite of Hei. The 11th bullet is Yud Aleph, which allows Kurumi to devour the power of a target or an object. And finally, the 12th bullet, Yud Bet, which allows Kurumi to travel in time, either backwards or forwards.

Morning Star: And like all Spirits, Kurumi possess the Astral Dress, a kind of armor that takes the shape of normal clothing, which makes a Spirit immune to any kind of conventional weapons, and hers is named Elohim.

Judge: There's more. After extracting a piece of Nia's Qilpha Crystal and boning with it to transform it to a Sephira Crystal, Kurumi gained access to Raisel, which takes the form of a book, which allows Kurumi to gain any kind of information she wants, as well as giving her nigh-omniscience, future control, and the ability to create universes as well.

Marie: THIS ISN'T EVEN HER FINAL FORM!

Morning Star: You didn't have to shout like that, you know...

Justice:...Whatever.

Judge: Just like Marie said, Kurumi holds 1 final form, which is considered her strongest: Her Inverse Form, which is a form that a Spirit takes once experiencing immense mental trauma. In Kurumi's case, she transforms into White Queen, who held enough power to threaten to breach through the Keter Region through Brinah, which would threaten to destroy the entire Neighboring World, which is a parallel space-time dimension to the real world of humans. Out of her abilities, she owns the Demon King Lucifugus, which allows her to manipulate space and time to her desire, which take the shape of an astronomical clock, a saber and a flintlock pistol.

Morning Star: The powers of the Demon King Lucifugus depends on the 12 Zodiac signs instead of the 12 numbers of a clock. Like the Cancer Sword Sartan, which allows White Queen to warp space and time to act as an invincible sword or a means of attacking that penetrates any kinds of defenses, the Leo Bullet Arie, which eats space to create a white trail that shreds anything or anyone that makes contact with said trail or the bullet, the Virgo Sword Betulah, which creates cracks in space to travel to desired places, the Libra Bullet Moznaim, which can control a certain area of space and control cause and effect within it, the Scorpio Bullet Akrab, which allows White Queen to place her symbol on the enemy to turn them into their loyal servants, and the Aquarius Bullet D'li, which completely heals whatever or whoever is shot with it.

Marie: That's not all. Kurumi's moveset expands even further. Like the City of Devouring Time, which allows her to create a barrier that sucks life force of those who are inside of it and give it to Kurumi, as well as her ability to use Spacequakes, which are explosions that destroy time and space in a certain area, and Kurumi can actually summon them at will, with her own Spacequakes ranging from city blocks to an entire city, and maybe even higher than that!

Justice: Don't forget her ability to instantly summon millions of clones of herself using Zafkiel's 8th bullet, where said clones can share their memories with the real Kurumi and are capable of swapping bodies with the real one to allow Kurumi to escape death. There is also her shadow dimension, an infinite-sized dimension of void, where Kurumi can shoot infinite hands from it that allows her to devour people and their lifespans, and before i forget, as a Spirit, Kurumi can fly.

Judge: Wow. You became extremely talkative all of a sudden, Justice.

Justice:...Whatever.

Morning Star: Ahem. Even with all of those amazing powers, Kurumi is not infallible. Her ability to use Zafkiel requires her usage of the life force that she has, which she holds dozens of by the way. Her clones are weaker than her, and cannot use Zafkiel, but can at least use the City of Devouring Time as well as the Spacequakes. And lastly, while Raisel can give Kurumi any kind of information that she wants, it doesn't tell her what to do next.

Marie: Even so, Kurumi was considered 1 of the most dangerous characters ever in her franchise, second only to Mio, Tohka, and the new Spirit called Beast. So watch out world...Because the Nightmare is here...To take your life.

"You were ready to kill another creature, yet you're scared to be killed. Don't you think that's weird? When you point a gun at another life...This is what happens."

Bayonetta

Morning Star: Magic has no limits, as it's a forbidden power in most religions, some even consider it legal.

Judge: Which is the case of those 2 right here.

Marie: Lumen Sages and Umbra Witches were in a constant conflict, and as such, none of them interacted with each other. That is, until Balder, a Lumen Sage, and Rosa, an Umbra Witch, fell in love with each other, giving birth to young girl that went by the name of Cereza, but this caused a great uproar, as Cereza was the so-called forbidden child that caused a rift between the Lumen Sages and the Umbra Witches.

Morning Star: Not a long time later, Cereza met with Jeanne, and the 2 became fast friends, but disaster struck when Loptr, a mad fraction of the god of the universe, sent angels to attack the Umbra Witches. This led Jeanne to seal Cereza to protect her from the clutches of Balder, her father, who they believed at that time to be the 1 that sent the angels to attack the Umbra Witches, and Cereza was laid sealed inside the Umbran Watch that was given to her by her dead mother, and in the bottom of a deep lake.

Judge: To which she was awakened once again, with no memories of her past at all with the exception that she was 1 of the last surviving Umbra Witches to exist, and so decided to give herself the name...Bayonetta.

Morning Star: This led Bayonetta to enter a great adventure to both retrieve her memories and save the world, and she holds the power to do so. She's strong enough to kick a building away, throw a huge satellite with just her legs, and even damage the creator of the universe with her blows.

Justice: She's fast enough to dodge bullets, lightning and laser, and even keep up with Jubileus, who can move from Pluto to Mercury instantly, and she is durable enough to tank a building to the face, and even a fall from Pluto to the Earth.

Judge: But Bayonetta won't be Bayonetta without her Witch Abilities. There is Witch Time, which allows Bayo to slow down time around her, Witch Walk, which gives her the ability to walk on walls, Wicked Weaves, which allows her to create giant demon limbs from her hair, as well as summon torture tools, like chainsaws, chains, iron maidens, guillotines, tombstones, spiked wheels, wooden horses, vises, bladed treadmills, bear traps, rotisseries, and racks, and they are all huge by the way, and building-sized at that.

Morning Star: She can also use Beast Within, an art of magic that allows her to transform into different animals. She can transform into a leopard for massive speed bursts, a crow that can shoot razor sharp feathers, a swarm of bats, and a sea snake to travel underwater.

Marie: But that's not all to Bayo. Her main fighting style is the Bullet Arts, a fighting style that combines both martial arts and gun style, which causes Bayo to not only use her guns in her hands, but also in her legs...How is that even possible? Does she have invisible fingers in the back of her heels or something?

Judge: Beats me, but it's cool nevertheless. She also has multiple weapons that she won from defeating monsters. Remember Dante? It's just like him, but she's a female, and she uses her hair as both her weapon and clothing...God...Now how do you take that her off her body...?

Morning Star: Moving on! Bayonetta holds multiple weapons at her disposal. Her signature and most known weapon is Love Is Blue, a set of 4 guns that can fire magical bullets that specifically targets the foe's soul and mind, and she can attach 2 guns to her legs and combine it with her superhuman reflexes and agility in Bullet Arts to make massive damage and combo.

Marie: Next comes Rakshasa, a pair of indian curved swords that can harm the soul, Alruna, a pair of thorned whips, Kafka, a cursed bow that fires poisonous arrows, Chernobog, a triple-headed wicked scythe that can fire its blades, Undine, twin rocket launchers that can act as clubs which can shoot fire and ice, Takemikazuchi, a large hammer that can produce lightning, and Salmandra, a pair of chainsaw blades that can extend to abnormal lengths.

Judge: That's not all. As an Umbra Witch, Bayonetta has the ability to summon Infernal Demons, creatures that she made contracts with. In her case, she can summon 7 Infernal Demons. Like Madama Butterfly, Bayonetta's main and first summon, which can use its punches to destroy meteors, and Bayo can use her arms and legs with her Wicked Weaves move, Labolas, a multi-headed chimera, Mictlantecuhtli, a giant 4-winged bat, Baal, a large demonic toad that has a tongue that can infinitely stretch, Hydra, a gorgon-like Demon that can deflect missiles by screaming, Diomedes, a large, 8-legged demonic unicorn that has a large blade for its horn, and Omne, her strongest summon that is the Controller of Creation.

Justice: That's not all that is there for Bayonetta. She has 1 final trump card: The Umbran Climax, where she taps into her full potential, allowing her to enter a super mode that makes her hair flow down to her waist. This mode can be accessed when Bayonetta becomes fully serious, where it gives her an immense buff for her strength and speed, as well as the fact that her normal attacks can summon Wicked Weaves.

Morning Star: To tell you the truth, Bayonetta, with these powers of hers, achieved so much despite being 100% human.

Judge: Wait! The Monkey Witch IS human?! How is that even possible?!

Marie: Must have surprised you, but Lumen Sages and Umbra Witches are actually full fledged humans.

Morning Star: Even with all of this, Bayonetta still holds her own flaws. She is overconfident most of the times, which causes her to prolong the battle and depend on her natural talent in battle most of the time as the Left Eye. Not to mention that she can only use 2 weapons at a time, and that her Infernal Demons require a certain dance and ritual, which can be overcome upon entering the Umbran Climax mode. And due to being made of hair, the Infernal Demons that she summon, sans Omne, are not very durable due to being made out of her hair.

Judge: Even so, Bayo is an extremely powerful individual, who fans hope to see in the upcoming Shin Megami Tensei V. In the near future, she will be something else, surpassing everyone and everything...And just by a weave of her hair.

"There are two things in this world I hate: Cockroaches and crying babies. Well, if it was a crying baby cockroach... then that would be truly dreadful..."

Dio Brando

Morning Star: A few years ago, the Joester family, a family known for its glory in exorcism, adopted a child to repay a debt owned to the child's father by George Joester.

Judge: The child was evil to the bones, mostly due to his abusive and alcoholic father, who tortured his mother, so he decided to kill his father with poison, which caused George Joester to adapt him in the Joester family to repay a debt owned by the child's father.

Marie: Not knowing that the kid planned to claim the Joester fortune for himself, a series of events were flashed, with the end of it being the kid becoming a vampire, before killing his adoptive brother, Jonathan Joester in his honeymoon. This man's name goes by the name of...Dio Brando.

Morning Star: After being adopted into the Joester family, Dio decided to gain ultimate power through abandoning his humanity, and so, he wore the Stone Mask, which turned him into a vampire, before he went for Jonathan's body and gained control over it, as well as gaining a Stand by stabbing himself with the Stand Arrow.

Judge: As a vampire, and even before he gained his Stand, Dio possessed superhuman speed, strength and durability. He's strong enough to lift and throw a steamroller, fight the likes of Jotaro, who can break diamond teeth with his Stand's punches, be far superior to Tarkus, who can split hills, and even take on Jotaro, who sucked immense amounts of fog that engulfed an entire large town.

Marie: He's fast enough to keep up with those who can dodge his Mach 3 water jets and outrun the likes of Silver Chariot, who can react to light, where said Stand moved at 365 times the speed of light. He is also durable enough to survive attacks from Star Platinum and Jonathan, who can destroy buildings and towns.

Morning Star: But what makes Dio special is his vampire psychology. As a vampire, Dio is effectively immortal, and has the ability to fire pressurized water jets from his eyes, named Space Ripper Stingy Eyes, as well as the ability to decrease the temperature of his blood to below absolute zero to freeze his opponents upon making contact with them.

Justice: He can also control others by implanting flesh buds from his cells on them, transform the living and the dead into zombies under his control, resurrect others into vampires, and a powerful healing factor that allows him to regenerate being ripped into half, heal up faster than the fire eating out his own body, regenerating from just his head, and rebuild his body from the many blown chunks of it.

Marie: Dio's main weapon is a colony of knives, which he shows extreme precision and accuracy with. But what makes Dio special, like any other JJBA character, is the ability to use the Stand.

Judge: The Stand is an entity connected to its host through mind and soul, where it holds a special ability. In Dio's case, his Stand is The World, a yellow humanoid figure which holds the ability to stop time whenever Dio orders. The time stop duration is around 9 seconds, where Dio can use it to pummel his enemies with flurry of MFTL punches, or place thousands of thousands of knives in midair, where the knives fly at their enemy when time comes back to its flow.

Morning Star: But that's not all. In an alternate timeline, Dio managed to reach his dream: Ascending into Heaven, which gave him the unique power of his new form: Heaven Ascension DIO. In this form, Dio gained the new Stand: The World Over Heaven. This Stand holds the same powers and abilities as its previous form, but with the addition of the unique ability called Reality Overwrite. This ability works through his and The World Over Heaven's hands, where anything that Heaven Ascension Dio and his Stand touches can be changed to Dio's liking by twisting reality around it. For example, Dio can summon lightning bolts, create starry dimensions, heal himself and even more. This Stand was also so fast that it tagged Gold Experience Requiem, a Stand that can move even when time was erased.

Justice: So much powers and abilities doesn't deny the fact that Dio is not without weaknesses. He is extremely insane, arrogant and overconfident, to the point where he won't go all out unless necessary. Also, like all Stands, The World holds a limited range worth of 10 meters, and it would get weaker the further it moves away from Dio. In addition to this, as a vampire, Dio is vulnerable to sunlight and holy objects, as well as the fact that Heaven Ascension Dio's Reality Overwrite comes solely from his and his Stand, The World Over Heaven's hands, and should their hands get injured in any way, neither Dio nor The World Over Heaven would be able to use Reality Overwrite.

Judge: But at least Dio himself achieved so much to be seen as a threat to the entire world. Standing in front of 1 of the most ferocious and merciless vampires in fiction...Well...You are in for a wild ride.

"Unbelievable... Never for a moment did I think you'd be able to intervene in my reality...But by its very nature! There can only ever be one reality...And the reality that I, DIO, create...Is more than enough!"

The Combatants Are Set

Morning Star: Alright. The Combatants Are Set, and we have run the date through all possibilities.

Marie: Eek! I'm excited!

Justice: It's time to find out who is the greatest time manipulator in the entire existence...

Judge: It's Time For A DEATH BATTLE!

The Beginning

The moon.

It illuminated on the streets of Japan in a seemingly calm night, with little to no life running around. Stores were closed. Light were shut off. And people were all closing their balcony doors.

"Ara ara...Now where is that powerful life essence?"

But sometimes, there are lives that knew no rest, and Kurumi Tokisaki was a prime example.

However, even with her high senses, Kurumi did not realize that her target...Or targets were around her. And they were fully aware that they were targeted.

"Hmm...Is that 1 of the lackeys of the mad god that Sonic told me about?"

"Hmph! Those 2 here seem interesting"

While they didn't hear each other due to the distance that they were having apart from each other, the respective responses of Shadow and Dio Brando echoed within the air, not even realizing that 3 other figures were not so far on the grounds of the streets, watching their opponents who were on the roofs of the buildings.

"My my. Lots of dancing awaiting us"

"So Mistress Remilia's info was true. We have some troublesome people here"

"..."

Bayonetta and Sakuya Izayoi voiced out their opinions regarding the current situation, while Homura Akemi preferred to stare in silence, taking out a 9mm pistol from behind her shield, loading it with bullets, as she witnessed Bayonetta strolling casually despite the tense atmosphere around her, twirling her 2 blue guns in her hands, and Sakuya brandishing knives from hammerspace behind her, glaring around her with sharp eyes that belonged to a professional killer.

Shadow, Dio and Kurumi, having realized that there is no point in hiding, descended from the rooftops they were in, and landed on the ground. Each combatant looked around at each other in silence.

"I take it that you guys are here for something?" Shadow was the one to ask, breaking the silence.

"I want all of your life essences" Kurumi answered.

"You lot seem to be an interesting bunch! So I, DIO, would love to exterminate you all to show you who is the strongest!" Dio exclaimed proudly.

"You all are a threat to my best friend...I cannot let you live" Homura calmly answered.

"Most, if not all of you reek of evil, and are potential threat to humanity. Not that i care, but it's duty anyways" Bayonetta answered.

"I was given orders by my mistress, so i suppose that this is also duty" Sakuya answered as well.

Shadow sighed in annoyance at this. Great. 2 lunatics, 1 yandere, and duty maniacs? This night sure is long.

"I see...Well, you can say that i'm on duty too. So i suppose that we must settle this right here and now" Shadow said before cracking his neck, entering a fighting stance, with each and every other combatant entering their own battle stance.

Time is twisting around them...And carnage is about to break loose...

No turning back, and no words are going to save them. It's time for their fists and weapons to do the job.

Round 1: Clash of Ultimate Lifeforms

The moment they entered their fighting stances, everyone retreated away, with Shadow disappearing in a flash of white, Kurumi flying towards the hedgehog upon spotting him appearing on a building, with Homura jumping, and delivering a drop kick to Cereza's face, sending her to fly at astounding speeds that broke the sound barrier, and Dio raising his fist at Sakuya, who jumped back to avoid the fist colliding with her, before zooming away from the scene, with Dio following shortly after her.

The scenery shifted to Shadow and Kurumi on top of a building.

"Let's dance!" Kurumi said before shooting bullets from her flintlock pistol and musket at Shadow, who effortlessly dodged around the bullets as if he was dancing around them. He then approached Kurumi, before delivering a punch to her stomach, causing a sonic boom to erupt from around Kurumi, who made a pained expression appear on her face, before replacing her with a maniac grin, causing Shadow to raise an eyebrow at this.

"Just kidding~" Kurumi said in a sing-song voice, before swinging her boot-covered leg upwards at Shadow, who made a back flip to evade Kurumi's kick, before landing on his feet. His fist then glowed with yellow energy, causing Kurumi to brace herself, feeling an immense increase of energy being emitted from the hedgehog in front of her.

"Chaos Spear!" Shadow roared out before firing a bolt of yellow Chaos energy towards Kurumi, who managed to dodge by tilting her head to the right, only leaving a graze on her left cheek, which immediately healed before blood could even be drawn. However, the Spirit was distracted by this that she didn't see Shadow approaching her, before the black hedgehog was in front of her, with his fist having glowing light purple orbs around them.

"Chaos Nightmare!" Shadow exclaimed, throwing his fists forward, to which Kurumi gasped at this before positioning her guns to block the attack, but this wasn't enough, as Shadow's fists that were coated in distorted space caused Kurumi to be sent flying like leaves in a tornado upon contacting with her, causing the Spirit to spin wildly in the air, before managing to gain her momentum in the air, flying in midair, and focusing her glare at Shadow, who flashed a cocky grin at her, which made Kurumi grin as well shortly after. Her left golden clock eye then glowed intensely, before she called out the name of her infamous weapon that took down all of her enemies.

"Zafkiel!"

The instant she called out, a massive spectral floating clock with latin numbers from 1 t 12 appeared behind Kurumi, with massive gears being inside of the clock being visible in the middle of it. This caused Shadow to be on alert, as he felt immense spiritual pressure emitting from Nightmare the moment she summoned this spectral clock.

"Now! Playtime's Over!"

Kurumi then pointed up with her musket at the number 1, before aiming her flintlock pistol at her head, and pulling the trigger.

"Aleph!"

The moment she pulled her trigger of her flintlock pistol, Kurumi disappeared from Shadow's view, causing the hedgehog to enter full alert mode, before he sensed a dreadful sensation behind him, only to dodge a hand chop from Kurumi, who appeared behind him. Kurumi then slammed her hand into the ground, causing blackness to take the shape of a hole underneath her, before white spectral hands shot out with hundreds of numbers towards Shadow, who clicked his tongue in annoyance, before snapping his fingers, causing hundreds of pale purple distorted orbs to appear around Shadow, floating behind him, before shooting out towards the spectral hands, causing small explosions to engulf the hands that came out from Kurumi's shadow dimension, which in turn caused a smokescreen to rise and obstruct Shadow's view, before he saw a glint of golden light in the middle of the smokescreen, before hearing another familiar shout.

"Het!"

And right after hearing Kurumi exclaim the name of her bullet, tens of Kurumis charged through the smokescreen towards Shadow, causing the hedgehog to gasp at this, before jumping off the building they were standing on, with Kurumi's clones flying towards him. The multiple clones surrounded the airborne Shadow, who used his Air Shoes to fly, before a clone tried to pierce Shadow with its hand, only for the hedgehog to dodge, before slamming his knee into its stomach, causing the clone to gasp and spit out saliva, before Shadow grabbed the clone by its arm, and flung it into another. A third clone shot hundreds of bullets from both pistols, only for Shadow to swat away the bullets casually with the back of his hand, causing them to be sent towards another clone, riddling the clone with bullets before it can even react.

Shadow, while fighting the clones, realized that they are increasing in numbers no matter how many he kills off. The corner of his eye then took notice of a certain Kurumi, but unlike the clones that he was killing, this 1 still held the floating spectral clock behind her.

A grin plastered on Shadow's mouth as he now knew who was his true target...

"Gimmel!"

He wasn't aware of Kurumi switching with a nearby clone to shot him square in the head with her flintlock pistol, causing his head to recoil back, and be sent rocketing down towards another building, making a huge hole in its roof. Kurumi smirked, having made her victory really fast, and now it was time for her to get her prize from her opponent.

However, her smirk soon turned into a mix of shock and horror as she saw Shadow coming out of the hole in the roof, before cracking his neck while directing a bored look on his face.

"What was that supposed to do? Bore me to death? Are you taking this fight seriously? Or is it a joke to you?" Shadow asked, causing Kurumi to grit her teeth in anger, before multiple shadow holes opened up around the roof Shadow was standing on, before countless Kurumi clones emerged from it, all pointing their guns at the Ultimate Lifeform, who just grinned at this, before making a motion with his hand for the clones of his enemy to bring it on.

To which they did, mercilessly opening fire at the hedgehog, who swiftly weaved through the bullets in a mix of diligent dancing, capoera moves and acrobatic flips. All while punching and kicking off all the clones that were shooting around him, with even more shadow holes appearing to shoot spectral arms towards Shadow, who was just tearing them apart alongside the clones with just kicks, punches and karate chops, where both his hands and feet were engulfed with pale purple distorted space, causing everything that they touched to either be sent flying away, or ripped to shreds. This lasted for a few minutes, with the real Kurumi watching all of this with anger building inside of her due to the fact that she can't find an opening to attack her enemy from. She was then brought back to reality when a Chaos Spear hit her head on in the face, causing her to lose balance in the air, not even having time to scream in pain. She then rubbed her face furiously from the smoke that covered her face, only to meet the surprise where Shadow's heel was implanted in her face, sending her crashing into several buildings, before stopping at the 10th building, where her body's impact with the walls of the building caused it to crack immensely.

Kurumi did not even have time to recover, as the moment she opened her eyes, She was met with Shadow, with both fists engulfed in distorted space, before he slammed them into Kurumi's abdomen, causing her Astral Dress to tear apart at the area of the abdomen and just below her breasts, where the Spirit's eyes were wider than dinner plates, spitting blood out of her mouth, before Shadow followed with a right hook to the face, then a left elbow to the right cheek, before ending it with a spinning roundhouse kick to the right cheek once again that sent Kurumi falling down from the sky and into the ground, causing a massive crater that could fit a huge boulder in it to appear in the concrete, with Kurumi being in the center of it, heavily bruised from the assault of her adversary.

She didn't have time to dodge the next assault, as Shadow dove straight towards her into the crater with both feet, causing a smokescreen to kick from the point of impact, and for the crater to widen even more, and in the center of it was Shadow, and the dead body of Kurumi Tokisaki, whose head was blown into a mix of blood and brains courtesy of Shadow's deadly drop kick.

"You are really sneaky, aren't you?" Shadow said before turning around, only to see Kurumi, still alive and well, having just realized that he just killed a clone of hers, as evident that she had the floating spectral clock behind her, while being surrounded by millions of millions of her clones.

"And you are really strong indeed. I wonder how would you taste when i devour you?" Kurumi said, causing Shadow to opt a face of disgust.

"You're disgusting" He said before disappearing in a flash of white, appearing shortly behind Kurumi, aiming for a kick to the back of the head, only for a clone of Kurumi to appear between Shadow and the real Kurumi, taking the deadly kick from Shadow, which resulted in the clone being sent away crashing into a wall of a nearby store. Kurumi took this chance, and turned around, aiming her flintlock pistol at the seemingly vulnerable airborne Shadow.

"Zayin!"

Kurumi exclaimed the name of her next bullet, before shooting Shadow with it, causing said hedgehog to freeze in mid air, before the millions of millions of clones aimed their muskets and flintlock pistols at him, mercilessly opening fire at the frozen in time Shadow, pelting him with bullets which lasted for a full 5 minutes, before Kurumi approached him with a casual manner, aiming her musket at his head.

"It was fun while it lasted, but i want to have my dinner here~" She said in a sing-song voice, before pulling the trigger of her musket, making a bullet escape the muzzle and hit the frozen form of Shadow, causing the hedgehog to then recoil away as time resumed around his body, before he fell on the ground with a soft thud, completely emotionless.

Afterwards, Kurumi's shadow dimension opened with its spectral arms shooting out, and grabbed Shadow from both his arms and legs, and slowly pulled him into it, where Kurumi had a smirk of victory plastered as ever on her face, having thought that she won against her powerful opponent.

And just as Shadow's body was about to touch the shadow dimension...

"Chaos Control!"

A dome of light blue burst out from Shadow's body, engulfing everything around it, but instead of a powerful blast that obliterated everything around it, everything that the dome encased was completely frozen, even the dust that kicked out from all the intense moves that the 2 combatants performed was halted in midair.

Shadow stood up on his feet, his wounds healing in a few seconds, with the holes that resulted from the bullets disappearing as if they were never there. He then kicked away the spectral hands that were holding him, before walking towards Kurumi, who he knew that she was the real one due to the fact that the spectral clock was floating behind her. He then extended his hand towards her.

"Chaos Spear!" He called out before hundreds of yellow bolts of Chaos energy surrounded the real Kurumi. Shadow then took out his Shadow Rifle, before shooting the spectral clock behind Kurumi several times, riddling it with dozens of holes. He then withdrew his gun, before snapping his fingers, with his eyesight being focused on the clones.

"Chaos Lance!" He yelled before several, huge crimson bolts of Chaos energy surrounded each clone with hundreds for each. Shadow turned his back towards Kurumi's grinning face, which was completely unaware of the surprise coming for her. Shadow gave 1 last glance towards Kurumi, before grinning slightly, then snapping his finger, and once he did so...

Hell broke loose.

BOOM!

The sounds of consecutive explosions rang throughout the city, shaking it to its very foundations, and creating a massive smokescreen that seemed to cover the moonlight from the battlefield.

And in the center of all of this, was Kurumi Tokisaki and Shadow, the latter placing a hand on his hips with an impassive look on his face directed at the former, who had the upper part of her Astral Dress being torn apart, with only the lower part being intact, where she placed a hand on her chest to cover her breasts, opting a glare at the same time towards Shadow while breathing heavily.

Her anger rose up. Kurumi never faced someone like Shadow before. She felt the need to kill him.

To destroy him.

She won't lose here.

She will save humanity.

"...Kuh?!"

Suddenly, she gasped, before falling to both her knees and hands, her body shaking violently, with some kind of malice aura revolving around her, which took the shape of dull grey haze around her. Shadow then saw Kurumi throwing up her head to the skies, yelling out loud as the dull grey haze started to cover her in a mini tornado, causing him use his arm to cover his eyes. And after a full minute, the hurricane dispersed, revealing Kurumi, but with a new outlook.

Her outfit changed drastically, becoming a white female military outfit, with her hair becoming white instead of black, and her golden clock eye became dark blue in color. Shadow also noticed the absence of her huge spectral clock that was behind her, as well as the fact of the appearance of a saber instead of the musket, with her flintlock pistol becoming pale white in color.

Suddenly, and without any warnings, a huge, purple barrier the size of a skyscraper appeared around both Shadow and White Queen, and the moment it did so, Shadow fell to his knees, feeling his life being drained at astounding speeds. He then glared at White Queen, who swung her saber at her side with a twisted grin on her face, not even muttering a word, before she raised it above her head.

"Sartan!"

She just exclaimed this, before swinging her sword down, causing a slash in space to erupt from the tip of her sword and travel towards Shadow, who kicked into the ground with what strength he had, jumping to the side before the space slash could make contact with him. He then saw White Queen slashing once again, but this time, slashing in a frenzy, releasing space ripping arcs towards the Ultimate Lifeform, who was forced to dodge away with the City of Devouring Time constantly absorbing his life force. Shadow then kicked feet into the ground, charging towards White Queen, with a fist that was bathed in distorted space, where White Queen swung her sword at the same time, releasing a space ripping arc towards her opponent, who used his fist that was bathed in distorted space to block it, gritting his teeth as cold sweat started to pour out of his forehead as he struggled to both overpower the space ripping arc, and desperately trying to preserve what life he had remaining to prevent himself from dying. He then gasped upon witnessing White Queen, with a twisted grin on her face, aiming her flintlock pistol at his face, before declaring out.

"Arie!"

She then shot out a bullet, which Shadow barely dodged to the side, where the bullet left a white trail behind it, with said trail grazing Shadow's left arm, causing a blending sound to occur before Shadow's arm twisted violently in a mix of blood and flesh, completely tearing apart off its socket, to which the hedgehog bit on his tongue so hard that he tongue drew blood, trying to not lose focus, before he used his good arm that was bathed in distorted space to crush the space ripping arc that White Queen released, before he fired off a Chaos Spear at the face of the Inverse Spirit, causing her to stagger back, giving Shadow the time to regenerate his arm back, but his life force was still draining away from him, and it would have left him if it wasn't for the Chaos Emeralds preserving his life constantly. He then saw White Queen recover, clearly pissed at Shadow's cheap shot, before she aimed her flintlock pistol at the ground, then pulling the trigger.

"Moznaim!"

She shot the bullet into the ground, causing the barrier of the City of Devouring Time to turn dull white in color instantly, where Shadow suddenly felt the ground crumble underneath him, before chunks of concrete started to rip themselves off the ground, before flying towards Shadow at astounding speeds and through some unknown force, to which Shadow, despite the pressure enlisted on him, was able to weave through the concrete pieces with impressive and diligent acrobatic skills and moves, where he was forcing his way to her while making his way towards White Queen, before he saw a piece of concrete forcing its way towards him, causing him to throw a punch at it, making it shatter apart. However, he didn't notice that this was a distraction, as White Queen charged forward, with her saber pointed forward, aiming to impale Shadow in the stomach, to which the hedgehog managed to grab with his bare hand before it could pierce him, causing his hand to draw blood from being grazed by the blade. He then used his incredible strength to yank the saber out of the hand of the Inverse Spirit, before throwing it away. This, however, gave White Queen the time to aim her flintlock pistol at Shadow's head once again.

"Akrab!"

Once declaring this, White Queen shot Shadow in the head, causing him to stagger back. The moment the bullet made connection with his head, Shadow felt his mind and consciousness warp, as if some invisible force was trying to take control of it. He gritted his teeth so hard that blood started to draw out from them, and gripped his head with both hands so hard that blood started to draw from his the 2 sides of his head due to his nails being buried in his head. White Queen grinned at this, before her saber floated back to her hand. She then raised it above her head, aiming to take Shadow's head off.

However...

"Bitch...You have angered me for the last time..."

Calmly muttering this, Shadow roared out to the sky with the whites of his eyes being the only thing visible in his eyes, before a crimson aura engulfed him, followed by a shock wave that was so strong that it caused the barrier of the City of Devouring Time to shatter like glass, which made White Queen shield herself with her flintlock pistol arm, and once she looked in front of her, she saw Shadow floating in the air, with dark crimson glow lining around his body, and his red eyes glowing even more redder, completed with a wicked grin on his face.

"No more fooling around!"

Once saying this, Dark Shadow disappeared from White Queen's view, before the Inverse Spirit was forced to block a rocket kick to the side with her saber, which showed cracks upon Shadow kicking it, with the force of the kick making White Queen skid back a little. She then clicked her tongue, before raising her sword above her head once again.

"Betulah!"

She then slashed with her sword, causing a white hole to appear in thin air, to which Dark Shadow reacted to by firing a Chaos Lance at her, only for White Queen to jump into the white hole before the bolt of Chaos energy could make contact with her, before the white hole vanished.

And as a result of her Moznaim bullet still being activated, hundreds of white holes started to appear around Dark Shadow, who looked around him at them, before millions of bullets erupted from each white hole, aiming towards him.

To Dark Shadow, everything seemed to be moving at a snail's pace, as if the bullets were begging to be dodged, to which it made a wicked grin plaster on his face, before the intense glowing around him became even more brighter by the second, and the moment that the glowing seemed to reach its peak, Dark Shadow declared out loud 1 of his most deadliest attacks.

"Chaos Blast!"

Spreading his arms to both sides of his body, Dark Shadow released a massive crimson wave of destruction that engulfed nearly half of the city, causing buildings to be atomized and for clouds to be split, where the glowing stopped after a few seconds, and the aftermath? Complete carnage that took the shape of a massive crater that, judging from its shape, it looked as if a meteor visited the area.

And in the center of the crater laid Shadow, who had the crimson glow around him fade shortly after, and White Queen, whose Astral Dress was barely covering any kind of private parts that her body had, with her saber being badly burnt and shattered into unrecognized smithereens and shards on the ground, with only her flintlock pistol in her hand, but it was also on the verge of breaking down.

She had the chance of only 1 bullet before her flintlock pistol break apart, and she was badly hurt, but she still held 1 card down her sleeve, so she aimed her flintlock pistol at the side of her head, confusing Shadow, thinking as if she had now lost it and was about to commit suicide.

However...

"D'li!"

She exclaimed before shooting herself with the bullet, and the moment it pierced her head, all of White Queen's wounds were instantly healed, and her Astral Dress was completely repaired, before her flintlock pistol crumbled apart, before its remains fell on the ground, where she looked in front of her, seeing Shadow glaring at her, having realized that she had just healed herself, and that even without her weapons, she still held a surprise with her, to which Shadow became alerted at this, where suddenly, space and time twisted around White Queen, before a black and purple dome started to appear and enlarge from around the Inverse Spirit, engulfing both Shadow and White Queen, where Shadow felt space and time trying to tear him apart, gritting his teeth in the middle of the carnage that wanted to deny his survival chances, to which he made his way slowly towards White Queen with 1 arm covering his eyes to shield him as a purple spherical barrier of distorted space manifested itself around the hedgehog, before he slowly walked towards White Queen, who gasped at this, desperately trying to squeeze what Reiryoku she had to increase the power of her Spacequake in order to overpower Shadow's Shadow Guard, but it proved to be useless, as Shadow neared her even more, and not so long later, he managed to get close to her, before he bent down and reached for a shard of White Queen's saber, before using his free arm to grab it, and stab forward, to which White Queen was left vulnerable due to concentrating on keeping the Spacequake active.

But this proved to be her downfall as Shadow used the shard to stab through her left dark blue clock eye, causing blood to burst from it, and making White Queen lose control of the Spacequake as said attack vanished the moment she lost focus, where she staggered back, holding out her wounded eye, before turning around to glare at Shadow, only to be surprised as the hedgehog took another shard of her saber, and she didn't have time to react to his overwhelming speed as Shadow stabbed through her chest, right in between her chest, causing the shard to stab through the Sephira Crystal fused inside of her, before the Crystal of Reiryoku started to show cracks at a dangerous rate...Before shattering apart inside of White Queen's body, and before she knew it, she reverted back to her original personality as Kurumi Tokisaki, and not only that, her Astral Dress, Elohim, appeared before fading away in a glow of red, leaving her completely naked, and her golden clock eye transformed into red in color.

Kurumi stood in her naked form for a few seconds, the shock overwhelming her, not even feeling the pain from the saber shard stabbing between her naked breasts, and not even feeling the breeze of the cold wind that grazed her naked body. Her eyes just produced streams of tears which traveled down her face as she looked in front of her. Not at Shadow, but at the distant empty space, seeing the face of the man that she held feelings for.

"Shido-san...I'm sorry...But i'm not...Coming back again..."

With that last thought, Shadow took out the sharp shard of metal from Kurumi's chest, causing a sprout of blood to leek out from her chest, before Kurumi's body swayed, and she fell on her back, her eyes slightly shut, starring at nothing but oblivion in the starry sky of the night, indicating the end of her life.

The Spirit known to most as Nightmare, but to few as Kurumi Tokisaki...Had her rose wilt and die.

K.O.! (1)

As a sign of respect for his opponent, Shadow reached out to her eyes, before fully closing them, having felt some guilt on the fact that he took a life with his hands, but it has to be this way, as if he didn't kill her, she would have done so instead, but he felt that she had suffered in her life, so he felt like that was mercy in a way or another.

He then stood on his feet after giving a silent prayer to his deceased opponent, before he closed his eyes and took a deep breath, concentrating Chaos energy around his soul, mind and body.

"Shadow Heal"

Once he whispered this, a green glowing lined his body, before he felt his life force being restored at a fast pace, and after a few seconds, Shadow let out a breath he didn't know he was holding ever since he started the battle, with the green glowing vanishing like it appeared around him.

He was then alerted to the sound of fighting behind him, which caused him to whip his head towards the source, only to witness his other adversaries fighting against each other.

Deciding on the fact that it was best to wait until only 1 or 2 were alive, Shadow hid behind a corner in an alley, witnessing the intense clash between the 4 other combatants.

Round 2: The Magical Girl vs The Witch

The scene shifted to both Homura and Bayonetta, standing on the concrete ground, with their guns being pointed at each other. Homura holding a calm look on her face, with Bayonetta holding a confident grin on her face.

"Let's dance"

And upon saying this, Bayonetta shot several bullets from her guns, causing Homura to back flip to dodge some of them, before weaving through some, zooming towards Bayonetta, before the Umbra Witch snapped her fingers just as Homura was about to reach her, where everything turned light pink around them, with Homura freezing almost completely in front of Bayonetta, before the Witch swung her right arm, causing a bundle of hair to appear from her forearms, before she swung it at Homura, and once it connected, a frenzy of hair whips swung at Homura's frozen form from both arms of Bayonetta, before she delivered a Brogue Kick to Homura's face, causing the gun on her leg to fire, sending Homura flying away as the effects of Witch Time faded, with Homura spinning in air before landing on her feet to regain her balance. The Magical Girl's instincts kicked in, before she jumped backwards, avoiding a huge fist that erupted from a magical circle underneath her. Homura then felt a large shadow looming above her, causing her to look up, only to gasp upon witnessing the sight of a large spiked wheel heading towards her, causing her to jump backwards once again, before running as fast as she could away from the spiked wheel, which didn't stop from chasing her on the street. Clicking her tongue, Homura, while running, reached with her arm for the wall of a nearby building, touching it with her purple glowing hand, before continuing on running, and afterwards, the building then started to be outlined in purple light, before it ripped itself off the concrete it was fixed into, and then it fell on the street, blocking the path between the giant spiked wheel and Homura. The spiked wheel connected with the collapsed building, halting in the process, and once it stopped rolling, the spiked wheel disappeared in a burst of pink light.

Homura stopped running, before loading her 9mm Pistol. Her instincts suddenly kicked in once again, causing her to look up, only to witness Bayonetta in midair, with an oversized wicked chainsaw, and accompanied with a confident smirk on her face, causing the Magical Girl to jump backwards again to avoid Bayonetta, who, upon landing, slammed her chainsaw on the ground, causing chunks of concrete to be ripped off the ground around the Umbra Witch, who snapped her fingers once again, causing Witch Time to activate, and for the disperse to freeze around her in midair, before she performed a capoera dance, and used her leg guns to increase the speed of her spinning, before she kicked the concrete pieces towards the midair frozen Homura, who wasn't actually frozen in time, it was more like being completely halted to a fraction of her speed. This gave Homura an idea, before she widened her eyes greatly, causing a dome of silver light to erupt from her form, causing the pink landscape color of Bayonetta's Witch Time to be overwritten by Homura's time stop, before she took out another 9mm Pistol from the hammerspace inside her shield, before firing at the chunks of concrete, causing them to pop into dust like fireworks, before she dropped her guns, having ran out of ammo for them, before she took out a purple bow from behind her shield. While still in midair, Homura took aim with her bow, before a purple arrow of light manifested in Homura's bow, before she shot the arrow at Cereza. The arrow zooming by her face, grazing her chin, just above her beauty mark.

"What?!" Bayonetta exclaimed her shock, before she saw Homura land on the ground, giving her a smirk of her own.

"You are not the only 1 who can manipulate time" She said before dismissing her bow by placing it inside her shield. She then took out a large purple blade, before charging towards Cereza, who saw this, and dismissed her blue guns that were in her hands, before she placed her hands behind her back, before taking out a pair of curved indian swords out of her own hammerspace, before using 1 of them to block Homura's magical blade. The Umbra Witch then pushed the shorter Magical girl away, before she swung her other sword at her, causing Homura to dodge to the side, with Bayonetta's blade almost cutting into her neck. Smiling at this, Another Wicked Weaves burst from the side of Bayonetta from a magical circle that appeared in thin air behind her in the form of a huge fist, slamming straight into Homura, before sending her flying away, to which she used the momentum to adjust herself so that her feet hit the wall of the building behind her instead of her back, causing a shock wave that ripped a crater in the wall where Homura's feet connected with. Homura then pushed herself from the crater, and towards Bayonetta, who charged as well at her, swinging Rakshasa in an 'X' motion, to which Homura blocked it with her magical blade, catching it with both hands, trying to push her taller opponent away.

"Heh...Not bad for a brat. You know how to fight well" Bayonetta said.

"I suppose you should focus more on fighting...Granny" Homura simply whispered, which caused a vein to pop on Cereza's forehead, before she increased her strength to push Homura away, nearly knocking her off her feet, before she dismissed her dual curved swords, exchanging them for a green bow that seemed to have firefly wings on its 2 ends. She then took aim, before firing off several arrows with only 1 string yank, forcing Homura to use her shield to block it since she was nearly being shot at point blank. After what seemed like a minute or so, Homura's shield started to show cracks from Bayonetta's seemingly endless assault of poisonous arrows that came from the cursed bow Kafka. Clicking her tongue in annoyance, the gray dome erupted from Homura's body, causing time to be halted, and for Bayonetta to be frozen, as well as her arrows, which remained still in midair. And with a flick of her wrist, time rewinded itself around Homura, with the cracks around her shield disappearing, and for the scenes around her to be changed to before Bayonetta taking out Kafka.

And just as Cereza was about to take out her cursed bow, Homura took out a Beretta gun, and shot at Bayonetta, with the Umbra Witch being forced to dodge, clicking her tongue in annoyance as she was unable to draw her weapon.

And then, an idea popped up to Cereza before a grin appeared on her face, causing Homura to be on alert, before she saw Bayonetta performing what looked like a...Dance?

"What the...? Is this some kind of a joke to you?" Homura asked the most sensible question anyone in her place would ask.

Bayonetta didn't answer. Instead, her smile widened, before her clothes suddenly burst off her skin, turning into abnormally long locks of hair that spun around her in a helix-like fashion, glowing pink, and leaving her completely naked.

"I think your answer is coming right now"

And just as the Umbra Witch whispered this, a pink magical circle appeared on the ground, being huge compared to the ones Bayonetta summoned earlier, before a figure slowly ascended from it. Said figure looked like it was female and humanoid. It had some features akin to a butterfly, and its garments were more like scales, and it towered over the buildings around it.

Madama Butterfly's fist glowed with yellow energy, before she swung it downwards at Homura, crushing her down in a massive crater. This caused Bayonetta to smirk as her hair formed back to her clothes. However, her smirk soon turned into a gasp of surprise as she saw an airplane from the air, surrounded by a purple outline head towards Madama Butterfly, to which the Infernal Demon caught it with both fists, before throwing it away. What followed next was a RPG-7 rocket that collided with Madama Butterfly's face, causing the Infernal Demon to stagger back a little, before the airplane that it threw behind both it and Bayonetta lifted itself off the ground, being surrounded with the same purple outline, before rocketing towards them, crashing straight into Madama Butterfly's back, knocking it off balance, and forcing it to fall face first on the ground.

And before Bayonetta could even react to what transpired in front of her, a shower of purple energy spheres started to rain on Madama Butterfly's vulnerable form, with each energy sphere exploding and creating a smokescreen upon making contact with the back of the Infernal Demon, as Madama Butterfly gradually disappeared in a shower of black mist in the middle of the huge smokescreen.

Bayonetta covered her eyes with her arm from the thick smokescreen, which made her vulnerable to Homura, who dashed from the middle of the smokescreen towards her , before stopping and aiming her gun at her head, with Cereza just noticing this, managing to avoid a shell that was shot from a Remington 870 Pump Action shotgun to the side, which grazed her right cheek when it passed beside her. Bayonetta reacted to this by kicking Homura's smaller body in the abdomen, sending her flying away from her, and surprisingly, she didn't seem to be feeling any pain as she adjusted herself in midair with an acrobatic flip before landing on the ground on her feet. She then dismissed her shotgun, before taking out a massive rocket launcher from her shield.

"How do you get your weapons from that small area?" Bayonetta asked.

"How do YOU get your weapons from behind your back?" Homura asked back.

"...Point taken" Bayonetta said.

Afterwards, Homura took aim, and shot a rocket towards Bayonetta, who reached for behind her back, taking out a giant, futuristic hammer, and wielded it with both hands, taking a stance that was akin to that of a baseball player. And once the rocket was going to make contact, Bayonetta swung Takemikazuchi, slamming it into the rocket heading towards her, sending it flying towards its owner, who flicked her wrist, causing time to halt once again. Homura then ran towards the frozen rocket in midair, before jumping and delivering a drop kick to it. She then stood on her feet, before flicking her wrist once again, causing time to resume, where the rocket was sent flying towards Bayonetta, causing a shocked look to appear on the Umbra Witch's face, before made a short dance, causing her clothes to turn once again into hair, before a huge pink magical circle appeared on the ground, before a huge figure ascended from it, which revealed itself as a gorgon-like demon towering over both Bayonetta and Homura.

Hydra then released a deafening scream, causing the missile that was aimed at Bayonetta to be reflected at speeds that broke the sound barrier, sending it towards Homura, who couldn't react in time to dodge as it collided with her, causing a small explosion to engulf her. Bayonetta smirked confidently at this, before frowning upon witnessing Homura emerging out of the smokescreen that resulted from the blast with complete impassiveness apparent on her face, as her wounds healed in a few seconds. The Magical Girl cracked her neck, before taking out a FN Minimi M249 Paratrooper SAW from behind her shield. With no hesitation, she opened fire at Hydra, who released a scream once again to reflect the bullets back at Homura, who managed to dodge the bullets, before witnessing Bayonetta jumping in the air above her, before descending on the Magical Girl, intending on slamming Takemikazuchi, which had electricity cackling around it, on Homura, but Homura was faster, as she was able to jump back to avoid being inside a massive crater on the ground, courtesy of the massive hammer of Bayonetta. She then opened fire once again, but this time at Bayonetta, where Hydra released another scream, but before the bullets could reach Homura, the Magical Girl swiftly took out a Fragmentation Grenade from behind her shield, pulling its ring off, before throwing it at Hydra, who still had its mouth opened. The grenade entered the mouth of the Infernal Demon, and after a few seconds, its skull exploded in a fiery explosion, causing Bayonetta to recoil in shock and disbelief as she watched her Infernal Demon disappear in black mist.

The Umbra Witch was brought to reality when a sharp sensation of pain found itself in her Achilles Tendon area. She looked at the source of pain, only to see a purple magical arrow embedded in her leg, before she lifted her head up, only to see Homura holding her magical bow in her hands, before witnessing her firing another arrow at her, causing Bayonetta to jump away to prevent her head being looped off her shoulders from the arrow. She then dismissed Takemikazuchi, before taking out the arrow from her leg, tossing it away as it shattered into purple glitter. Bayonetta then stood on her feet, completely ignoring the pain in her leg.

"This is nothing compared to what i have been through, kiddo. You have to do better than that" Bayonetta said, to which Homura stared at her coldly, before witnessing her performing another Ritual Dance, causing a massive pink magic circle to appear on the ground, before a massive, light purple toad emerged from the magic circle, and just upon appearing, it shot its abnormally long tongue at Homura, yanking her towards it...And swallowing her whole.

"Well...That was a little rough..." Bayonetta said releasing a sigh of relief. Unknown to her or anyone, Homura, still inside the stomach of Baal, was cringing and twitching in pain while hugging her legs to her now bare chest, not because of the acid that burned through all of her clothes sans her shield and her Soul Gem, and was burning through her skin, but because of the pain that resulted from her Soul Gem gradually turning black. And once her Soul Gem turned completely black in color, Homura snapped her eyes, revealing them as completely hollow and black, with blood streaming from them at a rather gruesome display.

"Madoka...I will survive to save you...My friend..."

Outside, Bayonetta was silently celebrating her victory, before she suddenly heard Baal's scream of agony, causing confusion and worry to rise inside the Umbra Witch, before her fears became reality, as Baal burst into a mix of blood and flesh, before its remains vaporized into black mist that flew in the air.

What made Bayonetta even more shocked was the towering form of what looked like a massive bony version of Homura with tears of blood streaming from the holes of her eyes that were empty of any eyes whatsoever.

The next thing that happened was an army of Homuras forming instantly around Homulily, before each and every single 1 of those Homuras charged towards Bayonetta, who clicked her tongue in annoyance, before taking out a triple-bladed scythe from behind her back. She was then surrounded in massive pink energy, before her hair grew taller and reached down to her knees, with a pink energy aura swirling around her.

Bayonetta then slammed her free hand onto the ground, causing a magical circle to appear underneath her, before a blue scaled, 8-legged, massive unicorn that had a large wicked sword as its horn on its forehead.

Diomedes let out a roar, before charging towards Homulily, leaving Bayonetta to fend off with the army of minions coming at her, to which she replied by swinging Chernobog, slicing through 4 minions with ease. She then kicked 1 in the face with her leg, causing the gun in her leg to fire off, blasting the minion's head to pieces. The Umbra Witch then swung the scythe in front of her, causing its 3 blades to detach themselves from the head of the scythe, impaling and beheading hundreds of Homura clones. Bayonetta then gasped upon seeing a shadow that covered her. She looked up to see 2 building-sized teeth with...teeth that appeared out of nowhere descending on her. This made Bayonetta dismiss Chernobog, before taking out a pair of massive chainsaws. She then threw 1 of them at 1 of the 2 teeth, causing it to stagger in midair, losing balance, before flying harmlessly above Bayonetta, slamming into the building behind her, and disappearing in a shower of purple glitter. Bayonetta then used the remaining chainsaw of Salamandra to intercept the second tooth, swinging her chainsaw with both hands so hard to tear through the diamond hard humanoid large tooth, cutting it in half with a sickening screech sound that came out as a result of cutting through the tooth following, before the tooth landed in half with a loud thud sound on the ground, before disappearing in a burst of purple glitter.

Meanwhile, Homulily was holding Diomedes by the horn with both hands, preventing the Infernal Demon from impaling her skeletal body, before the Nutcracker Witch lifted the horse up from it horn and above her head, shocking Bayonetta to the core, before Homulily threw Diomedes into the air, before throwing a punch towards the Infernal Demon upon it reaching her, causing Diomedes to shatter like glass, scattering around the streets, before those glass-like stuff disappeared in a shower of black mist.

"No! That's not possible!" Bayonetta exclaimed, before gasping in shock, having felt a sharp pain in her abdomen. In response to this, she lowered her head to see the cause of this pain

"...Kuh?!"

...Only to see that it was actually the remains of a Homura-like minion, which used a magical blade to impale Bayonetta's stomach, before it burst into a shower of purple glitter, leaving a hole in Bayonetta's torso, where said Umbra Witch staggered, taking a few steps back, desperately trying to not fall from the pain and fatigue that downed on her, before she coughed out blood from her mouth, and her Umbran Climax form deactivated, reverting her hair to its short length, and the glowing aura disappeared from around her body.

"Not...Possible..." She muttered, before she witnessed Homulily extended her arm towards her and opening her palm. The next thing that happened is that a gasp was released from Bayonetta's mouth, before she felt some kind of a massively powerful force trying to take over her mind, screaming at her to kill herself. She then found her hand reaching for 1 of her blue magical guns, before pointing it at the right side of her forehead. She tried to will her mind from the idea of committing suicide, but her mental power faded away completely as a result from the fatigue of the battle, as well as the injuries that she sustained.

Realizing that this was her end, a tear rolled down Bayonetta's face, before she thought of the 2 most precious people in her life.

"Mother...Jeanne...I'm sorry..."

And just as she thought of this, Bayonetta's finger pulled the trigger of her gun, causing her head to explode in a mix of blood, brains, flesh and bones, before her lifeless and headless body fell to the side on the ground, signaling the death of the Umbra Witch, known to a few as The Left Eye of The World, or Cereza, and known to many as Bayonetta.

K.O.! (2)

The Nutcracker Witch was alerted to a fight happening to the other side of the city. Humming quietly, Homulily left the scene in a burst of speed that didn't suit her height and size, leaving Bayonetta's headless and lifeless body on the ground.

Round 3: Of Vampires And Vampire Hunters

On the other side of the city of Tokyo, Dio and Sakuya were standing silently in front of each other, with the vampire smirking arrogantly, and the vampire hunter glaring silently at her opponent, where both had a handful of knives in their 2 hands.

Sakuya wasted no time, and started to throw a shower of knives at Dio, whose Stand, The World, appeared in a flash of golden sparks in front of him, catching all the knives in his hands to protect its master. However, neither Dio nor his Stand were able to react to Sakuya herself, who appeared in a burst of speed in front of Dio, before taking out some kind of a card from the pocket in her dress. It then burst into white smoke before a beautiful red fan appeared in Sakuya's hand. She then swung it, causing a massive gust of wind to blow from it so hard that it created a hurricane around Dio, who became in the middle of it. He then saw Sakuya emerge from the top of the hurricane, before she started to throw a rain of silver knives towards him. Dio, seeing this, clicked his tongue before declaring out loud.

"The World!"

And just like that, everything froze, including the spinning of the hurricane.

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...

...

"...WHAT?!"

Everything that is..Save for 1 Sakuya Izayoi.

Dio's shock was completely off the roof when he saw the maid of the Scarlet Mansion zoom towards him, with a knife caught in a reverse grip in her hand, before reaching for the vampire, and swinging her knife, only for Dio to avoid decapitation at the nick of time, with the knife barely grazing him, but for some reason, he had to bite his tongue to not release a gasp of pain as he felt that this scar alone burned through his skin. The World then zoomed towards Sakuya, in defense of its master, before throwing its fists in a fluid and rapid motion.

"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Despite the impressive display of both strength and speed displayed by The World, Sakuya was able to easily and casually block each and every single punch with only 1 hand, and without even averting her eyes off the pained Dio. The World just kept throwing its punches at Sakuya, even when its 9 seconds worth of time stop were finished and time itself returned to its flow. Growing sick of blocking those punches that never even connected, Sakuya grabbed 1 of the Stand's arms, before throwing it towards its master, causing both Dio and The World to be sent flying down the eye of the hurricane that they were in. Sakuya then took out another Spell Card, and threw it above her, causing a large white smokescreen to emerge above the maid's head, before a giant, building-sized brown catfish appeared above Sakuya, before it descended down towards Dio, causing the vampire to gasp in shock, before he yelled out loud.

"THE WORLD!"

His yell was even more louder when it came from the very top of his lungs, causing time to stop, before both Dio and his Stand flew towards the catfish, then started to unleash their barrage of punches.

"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

With each punch thrown, Dio's throat felt like it was on fire, and his hands started to feel numb from punching the cat fish, which started to show bruises with each punch thrown at its stomach, and after 9 seconds of continuous merciless punches, time resumed its flow, but much to Dio's shock, the catfish, did not explode into bloody guts as he expected it to have, but instead continued its journey to crush him.

"THE WORLD!"

Yelling out loud, Dio froze time once again, but this time, instead of throwing punches, he neared the frozen form of the catfish, before touching it with his bare hand, causing ice to suddenly encase the catfish, trapping it into an ice block that was shaped on its shape. Dio then ordered his Stand to cooperate with him once again.

"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Throwing punch after punch, Dio didn't even stop to get a rest for his now numb fists, before time resumed its flow once again, and once it did, the catfish shattered into large chunks of ice, scattering across the hurricane, before Dio was alerted to Sakuya, who charged at him with a knife in hand, to which Dio reacted by brandishing a knife of his own in a reverse grip, blocking Sakuya's own reverse-gripped knife.

"Hmph! Not bad for a human! You are really something!" Dio said, to which Sakuya just stared coldly, not saying any word, before she slipped her hand into the pockets of her dress using her free hand, taking out another Spell Card. Dio, alerted by this, gave The World a mental order, before the Stand appeared beside its master, catching Sakuya's arm that held the Spell Card, before using its free arm to throw a punch at the maid's face.

But before the Stand's punch could connect...

"....Foolish"

And just as she whispered this, a dull grey dome erupted from Sakuya's body, causing everything to cease in its movements. Just like Dio's time stopping ability, but even in stopped time, Dio could see Sakuya flying a few yards away from him, before she took out knives from behind her back, and threw them around them, scattering them in midair, and causing them to freeze, before she slowly moved to each knife, positioning its pointy edges at Dio from every single inch of his body, causing Dio to gasp, being unable to move or even command his Stand to move, where Sakuya positioned her knives in the same fashion as the 1 she used at Dio in front of The World, before taking her own Spell Card and pocketing it.

"I will keep that for later" She said before snapping her fingers, and at the same time, she accelerated the speed of her knives so that Dio won't be able to dodge them, where the knives stabbed all the areas around both Dio and The World, causing the vampire to release a loud scream of agony, as he felt double the stabbing damage since his Stand was connected to him and it had suffered the same outcome as its master, and accompanied with the fact that those were silver knives...Yeah...He was pretty much dead if he took more of those again.

The vampire then saw Sakuya flying towards him, which made him widen his eyes with gritted teeth to suppress the sensation of pain spreading across his body, before 2 thin streams of pressurized water jets erupted from his eyes, shooting towards Sakuya, who simply blocked both of the 2 beams with 2 knives in her hands, shocking Dio, as his arsenal was now useless, and she was approaching him at speeds that he could not comprehend.

...

...

...

Wait.

Maybe not all of his arsenal.

Sakuya was still approaching at high speeds, like a laser beam flying straight in a bee line. And in her assault, she noticed a smirk in Dio's face.

"I SHALL SHOW THAT I, DIO, REIGNS OVER ALL!"

And upon announcing this, white light engulfed Dio's form, causing Sakuya to halt her charge and to cover her eyes to avoid being blinded from the light.

And when the light faded, it revealed Dio with a new appearance.

Said appearance consisted of a long white robe and white chaps with a golden trim, adorned with golden kneepads, golden boots and a belt bearing a "D" motif and arm cuffs engraved with his name. His chest is covered with a white tank-top and an Egyptian-esque neckpiece that bears a "D" on it. Dio's hair became even much longer, reaching past his shoulders, while his skin has taken a slight purple hue, and a golden star painting that held his name on their edges found itself on his face.

"TIME TO SHOW YOU HEAVEN!"

And just like that, Sakuya's instincts kicked in, before she was forced to block a punch with her knife from Dio's Stand, The World Over Heaven, which became white instead of golden yellow in color, before she gasped upon witnessing her knife suddenly vanish in thin air from her hand, before she was forced to bend her body in midair to dodge another punch from The World Over Heaven.

Sakuya then brandished another Spell Card from her pockets, before throwing it above her head, causing a sword with an orange blade to appear in a puff of white smoke, before Sakuya grabbed it with her hands, swinging it horizontally, causing the hurricane to be dispersed instantly, and for the sky to suddenly grow black clouds in them, before lightning bolts shot from said clouds towards Dio and his Stand, with them casually dodging them with ease. Dio then flew into a nearby building, before touching it with his hand, causing the building to twist violently in what looked like a vortex of sorts, before morphing into thousands of spears, where said spears shot towards Sakuya, to which she snapped her fingers, causing thousands of knives to appear instantly around her. She gave a hand motion to those knives, causing them to fly at neck breaking speeds towards Dio's spears, with each single 1 of those sharp weapons cancelling out each other. Dio, seeing this, flew towards Sakuya, with The World Over Heaven flying beside him. Sakuya brandished 2 knives in her hands, and both flew towards each other.

And just as they were about to connect...

"THE WORLD!"

With Dio's shout and Sakuya's eyes glittering, both unleashed their time stops, before both combatants clashed with each other, with Dio and his Stand throwing countless punches, and Sakuya using knife after knife to block the punches as each knife would disappear instantly the moment it connected with either Dio's or his Stand's fists.

"MUDAMUDAMUDAMUMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDADAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!!!!!!"

Dio and his Stand did not stop their merciless assaults, and Sakuya didn't stop brandishing silver knives from her own hammerspace behind her back. And while they were still in their deadlock, and with each time Dio reactivates his own time stop after each 9 seconds, Sakuya was lost in thought while her body was on overdrive.

"Each time any on my knives make contact with his fists, they always vanish...What does that mean...?" She thought for a while. Dio and his Stand's fists were always cancelling out her own attacks, and when he turned that building into spears...

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"That's it!"

Sakuya slapped herself mentally. It was extremely obvious now. Either that or her opponent was an idiot to not try to even hide this obvious weakness of his powers.

She then made her brain focus on the battle, before she managed to dodge 1 of Dio' punches, flying backwards as The World Over Heaven flew towards her with its fist extended.

The maid just smiled. That's what she wanted him to do.

Placing her hand into her pocket, Sakuya pulled out another Spell Card, before throwing it towards The World Over Heaven, where the Stand managed to catch it. Dio smirked at this, having realized that his opponent's attack was futile...Or so he thought.

"HA! Did you really think that I, DIO, would fall for this again?!" Dio yelled in complete arrogance, to which Sakuya just shot a thin smile at him.

"You talk too much, you know that?" She whispered.

Dio didn't have anytime to think or even react to this, as he suddenly felt his right hand being frozen in movement. He looked at his Stand, only to see that its right arm up to the shoulder was completely encased in ice. He didn't have time to react as he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his left arm, followed by said limb bursting in blood, before he saw a silver knife impaling his Stand's left arm.

"WHAT?!" The vampire roared out.

"You are all talk and no brains. And you didn't even tire yourself to hide the obvious weaknesses of your powers. Your power comes solely from your hands, and that entity that you are controlling is connected to you via both mind, body and soul, so any damage inflicted on anyone of you 2 would reflect on the other" Sakuya explained, causing Dio to grit his teeth in anger.

"BITCH! YOU CAN'T DEFEAT ME, DIO!" Dio roared, before a knife suddenly found itself in his chest, causing him to spit out blood.

"I said it and i will say it again: You talk too much" Sakuya said.

"THE WOR-GAH?!"

And before he could call his Stand to activate its time stop, Sakuya appeared in a flash in front of him, before slamming a knife in Dio's throat, causing his shout to be muted with only gurgles of blood coming out from his mouth. Sakuya then snapped her fingers, causing millions of knives to appear instantly above both her and Dio, combined together in the form of 1, building-sized knife, before they flew downwards at the blonde vampire, slamming into him and causing his mouth to be opened in a silent scream due to his throat being slit. The knives then carried Dio to the sky, impaling him mercilessly, before rocketing down towards the ground, slamming him into the concrete, and raining down at his vulnerable body mercilessly.

"NO! THIS CAN'T BE! I, DIO, AM THE SUPREME!"

Dio's last thoughts were still about himself, making him unaware of the 2 knives that fell from the sky, impaling both of his eyes, causing his body to shiver slightly, before a third knife fell directly at his head, impaling his skull and brain, and the moment it did so, Dio's body stopped shivering instantly, falling completely limb with no signs of life.

Dio, the vampire who loathed humanity and reached heaven...Was now dead...

And not even the afterlife would welcome him...

K.O.! (3)

Releasing a breath she didn't know that she was holding, Sakuya was then alerted to 2 presence approaching her at blinding speeds. One behind her and the other was in front of her. She looked in front of her, only to see the building-sized Homulilly was approaching her at amazing speeds that betrayed her height, then she looked behind her, only to see that the presence approaching her from behind was Shadow the Hedgehog, flying towards her using his Air Shoes.

Looking at this, Sakuya flew from between the scene in front and behind her, standing on a nearby building.

And much to her shock, the 2 newcomers did not stop flying. Sakuya gasped at this, before covering her eyes, not wanting to look at what's going to happen next.

What happened afterwards was extremely obvious. Shadow and Homulilly slammed their heads at each other, causing a shock wave that blew away the massive buildings and skyscrapers around them. Sakuya, sensing this, flew from the top of the building she was standing on, before it got ripped from the ground and flew high into the air.

She then flew towards her 2 new adversaries, looking at them with calm looks. Silence was the only thing those 3 wanted as an answer to their current situation, knowing that fighting was unavoided and inevitable.

"I suppose you 2 are ready?" Sakuya answered, earning a nod from Shadow, and a screech from Homulilly. She then saw 7 colored gems floating around Shadow, before they started spinning wildly. What happened next was the emergence of a bright golden light that encased Shadow, and caused Sakuya to cover her eyes, before the light faded, revealing Shadow, whose skin and hair color changed from black to golden, with the red stripes on his spikes still intact.

Sakuya's eyes narrowed dangerously at the massive increase of power that showed itself in front of her, while Homulilly growled at this.

The battle on time...Was soon reaching its climax.

Round 4: Triple Temporal Threat

This Is Gonna Be A Mass To Remember!

Before both of Sakuya or Super Shadow could react, Homulilly released a deafening scream, which caused a massive shock wave that blew the very streets and city blocks on them, causing both of them to fly away from it into the air. Homulilly then opened her mouth, before several human-sized dolls appeared from her mouth, followed by several building-sized teeth that held what looked like nuts in between their teeth. At this, both Shadow and Sakuya looked at each other.

"Temporary truce, hedgehog. What do you say?" Sakuya asked, causing Super Shadow to growl at this.

"Fine. Let's finish this" Shadow answered, before both of them flew down towards the army that Homulilly summoned. Sakuya snapped her fingers, causing millions of millions of knives to appear instantly around her, before said knives flew towards the dolls that were carrying steel rods in their hands. Some dolls were able to shoot down some knives with their rods, but eventually, the speed of the knives proved to be too much to Homulilly's minions, before they were completely overpowered and were turned into pin cushions.

On the other side, Shadow was dodging the barrage of nuts fired from the giant teeth, before being forced to dodge a giant, satellite-sized bird that charged at him. The bird then made a U-turn towards Super Shadow, which made Shadow turn around for it, waiting for it patiently to approach him while in midair, with the giant teeth firing nuts at Shadow, where each and every single nut bounced off his body the moment it connected. The bird then collided with Shadow, who managed to dodge it, and ride at its head. He then pulled it by the hair of its head, causing the bird to let out a screech of pain, before Shadow used its hair as a joystick to direct it towards the 2 teeth that were firing nuts at him, causing them to collide together, creating a smokescreen from the collision, before Super Shadow, soon followed by Sakuya, flew towards Homulilly, who opened her mouth, before a massive purple ball of magical energy started gathering inside her mouth. This caused Sakuya to gasp, before flying upwards, then snapping her fingers, causing time to stop, making the beam that was about to escape from Homuilliy's mouth to freeze, and giving Shadow the time to charge golden Chaos energy in his hands, before firing off a golden energy beam towards Homulilly's mouth. At the same time, Sakuya snapped her fingers once again, causing time to resume its flow once again, before Homulilly's energy beam fired off, colliding with Super Shadow's own energy beam. And judging from the struggle, Shadow was the 1 to gain advantage, as he was advancing very fast, before his beam broke through Homulilly's own, engulfing her completely, and creating a massive road of destruction, along with a shock wave that ripped the very earth apart that lava started to appear on the floor.

When the beam vanished, it just revealed a massive smokescreen. Both Shadow and Sakuya were beside each other, looking at the smokescreen in silence, with said silence being the only thing that was screaming in the place.

And after a minute of silence, a massive wind storm suddenly erupted, causing the smokescreen to be blown immediately, and for Shadow and Sakuya to shield their eyes from the shock wave with their arms.

And once it vanished, it revealed something that shocked both of them.

Right in front of them was Homura, but she was completely different. She was wearing what looked like a gothic lolita dress that revealed her bare shoulders and barely covered her now big breasts, with mesh socks, high heel sandals, and a pair of massive, dark purple wings sprouting from her back, with a dense and massively powerful dark purple aura surrounding her.

And without warning, Akuma Homura swung 1 of her wings, swatting Super Shadow away like a fly to god knows where, leaving Sakuya bare. Said maid had cold sweat running down, before she gritted her teeth, trying to steel her resolve. She then snapped her fingers, causing time to stop once again. She then threw millions of knives towards Akuma Homura...

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...

...

"...What?!"

...Only to fall in complete shock and disbelief once she saw Homura moving normally in stopped time, before she snapped her fingers as well, causing the knives to instantly shift their direction of travelling towards Sakuya, who had no time to react as the knives impaled her everywhere, and her body was recoiling in midair while taking the knives head on, not even doing anything to defend herself, as the pain overwrote every single feeling in her. She then began to fall from the air and towards the scorched and devastated ground. However, before she could touch the ground, Akuma Homura caught her by the face, with Sakuya's body dangling from her head lifelessly, not even shivering in the slightest to resist Homura's seemingly gentle grip on her cheeks. Homura then looked at Sakuya's half-opened eyes, which was moments away from her death.

"Look into my eyes..."

And the moment Homura whispered this, Sakuya's eyes opened out wide, before she let out a deafening scream of pain and suffering, with her pale skin starting to be colored purple from her toes, before it slowly crawled to her torso, then her arms, then her shoulders, and then her neck, and before it reached her face and engulf it, Sakuya's eyes rolled up to the back of her head, with tears flowing down her face, as she remembered her own mistress that she swore to serve with her life.

"Young mistress...Please forgive me..."

And with that final thought, the purple that crawled all over her skin engulfed her entire face, before Sakuya's form started to crumble and scatter away like, vanishing in thin air, indicating the end of the life of the human that was once known as Sakuya Izayoi.

K.O.! (4)

With her legs crossed together while she was flying in midair, Akuma Homura looked into the dark sky with a thin smile on her face.

"Madoka...I did it...It's over now...It's finally ov-"

BOOM!

And before she could complete her celebration with victory, a ferocious booming sound echoed throughout the devastated city, alerting Homura to it. She then saw a figure from far away. Narrowing her eyes, she found out that said figure was indeed Super Shadow, but something was different about him. Alongside his golden vibrant and bright form, there was fire dancing around him, with his golden bracelets being missing from his wrists.

Gritting her teeth in anger adn frustration, Akuma Homura's wings spread to their ends at her both of her sides, before she took flight towards the cosmos. Looking at this, Chaos Super Shadow smirked.

"So that's how it will be, huh?" He asked no one in particular, before he took flight towards Akuma Homura.

(Skillet - Save Me (Nightcore))

After what looked like a minute, but it was actually less than a second, Chaos Super Shadow and Akuma Homura traveled towards the cosmos, with the shining stars, galaxies, plants and celestial bodies around them, and existence itself felt as if it was about to crumble from their mere presences.

"I will kill you! For the sake of Madoka!" Akuma Homura roared out, causing the smirk on the face of Chaos Super Shadow to widen as he took a fighting stance.

"Bring it!"

Final Round: The End of Time

Don't Blink! The Final Round Is About To Be Unfold!

This is the place that no one sees
I don't like to show (I can't help it)

Wasting no time, Shadow snapped his fingers, causing and infinite barrage of Chaos Spears, Chaos Lances, Roaming Chaos, and Chaos Arrows to appear and fill the infinite cosmos. Akuma Homura reacted to this by snapping her fingers as well, but this time, it caused galaxies, stars, planets and even the parallel universes to fly towards her.

This is the darkness over me
It's just the world I know (I can't stand it)

And once both of them pointed their fingers towards each other, everything was thrown into carnage.

Reachin' for the light
Reachin' from inside

Shadow's Chaos constructs collided with the celestial bodies and infinite universes that Homura summoned, causing massive explosion to echo throughout the cosmos, with space and time twisting violently.

Help me tonight

Chaos Super Shadow started to fire off golden energy blasts from his hands towards Akuma Homura, who reacted by firing dark purple blasts from her hands, where each blast cancelled each other upon collision.

I'm closer to the edge tonight
I'm standin' on the ledge, so why
Hold you, reach out your hand
To save (to save), to save me tonight

Shadow roared out, causing the fire around him to mix with his golden aura, and for both of them to mix together, before he charged towards Akuma Homura, who snapped her fingers, causing countless of chains with spear-like ends to appear from thin air around Homura, before they flew towards the charging Shadow.

I'm damaged if you dare tonight
It feels like no one cares, so why
Can I come back for air?
Just save (just save), just save me

The chains collided with Shadow, but they didn't even make contact with him, as they were erased from existence the moment they made contact with the aura around Shadow, which acted as some sort of a shield around the Chaos-amped hedgehog.

What are you waitin' for?
Someone save me

Shadow dodged and weaved through the massive universes, galaxies, stars and planets that were aimed towards him. A huge planet flew towards him, which made Shadow charge his fist with golden Chaos energy, before roaring out, and throwing his fist forward, causing the planet to explode in a loud sound and shock wave that echoed throughout space.

Peel back the skin, exposed to you
Take pleasure in the pain (please stop starin')

Homura gritted her teeth in anger, before she waved with her hand, causing millions of stars to soar towards speeds that defied the laws of speed towards Shadow, who charged his hands with Chaos energy, before roaring out.

"Chaos Blast!"

Upon throwing his arms forward, Chaos Super Shadow released a powerful golden beam of golden Chaos Energy, where said beam engulfed the entire colony of stars that was aimed towards him, annihilating it in an instant, alongside the row of galaxies that Homura prepared to be next in line to intercept her opponent.

Tell me what I'm supposed to do
It ain't easy to open up this way (I can't help it)

Another row of countless galaxies followed shortly after, aiming towards Shadow, where the hedgehog was prepared for it.

"Chaos Lance!"

He threw out his arms in a rapid frenzy, causing super red spears of potent Chaos energy to be unleashed with each arm swing, with each spear destroying 1 galaxy each, causing a massive supernova explosions and sounds to echo throughout the vast universe.

Reachin' for the light
Reachin' from inside

Homura snapped her fingers once again, causing massive dark purple orbs of magical energy that were the size of universes to appear behind her, before each 1 shot a massive energy beam towards Shadow, who saw this, and intercepted it by crossing his own arms in an 'X' position, causing a spherical barrier to engulf his form. He then closed his eyes, bracing himself for the impact.

Help me tonight

The beams collided with Shadow, with his Shadow Guard holding off the beams from hitting him. With his closed eyes, he didn't notice Akuma Homura approaching him, and just as the beams were done firing, Akuma Homura caught Shadow by the neck, causing him to gasp in surprise and catch Homura's arm in the process.

I'm closer to the edge tonight
I'm standin' on the ledge, so why
Hold you, reach out your hand
To save (to save), to save me tonight

"Let's end this..."

Once Akuma Homura whispered this, she raised her other free arm, and snapped her fingers. Her own objective was to manipulate the laws to erase all of Shadow's powers and abilities, having prepared a massive surprise above their heads after this was done.

I'm damaged if you dare tonight
It feels like no one cares, so why
Can I come back for air?
Just save (just save), just save me

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...

"...Huh?"

A few seconds passed with Shadow still in the grips of Homura, but nothing happened. The vibrant fiery and golden aura around Shadow didn't even cease burning and glowing around the hedgehog in the devil's grasp.

"Am i a joke to you?"

What are you waitin' for?
Someone save me

Once Shadow whispered this, he kicked Homura in the stomach so hard that she felt it, and was sent backwards.

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What?! She felt it?!

"What is this?! How can this be possible?!" Akuma Homura exclaimed in shock and disbelief as she felt a warm fluid coming out from her mouth. Touching it with her gloved fingers, she stared at it, before her eyes widened in shock and disbelief.

It was blood...Her blood.

"That's not all! I'm full of surprises!"

This made Homura snap back to reality, before he face was met by a Chaos energy-infused fist, courtesy of Chaos Super Shadow, which caused her cheek to explode in blood, before she was sent flying away with a shock wave. Adjusting herself in midair, she furiously wiped the blood off her mouth, before snapping her fingers once again, causing the entire cosmos and what was beyond it to shake violently, before a large figure started to loom above Shadow, causing him to look above him, only to witness what looked like an enormous, universe-sized, precious, dark purple gem with beautiful golden decorations around it descending towards him like a meteor.

But he wasn't worried. He just opened both of his palms, before bright golden Chaos energy engulfed both his hands.

"Chaos Blast!"

Throwing both arms forward, Shadow fired a massive Chaos Blast beam, which was stronger than the previous 1, which collided with the Soul Gem of Akuma Homura, and once it did, it exploded in a blinding explosion of bright golden light, which caused Homura to cover her eyes with her arm, before the light vanished after a few seconds, causing Homura to take her arm off her eys, only to look at Chaos Super Shadow with wide eyes shortly afterwards, before opting an angry look on her face, with gritted teeth, where her anger manifested in the form of her dark purple aura dancing around her violently, twisting space and time in a vortex.

She then raised her arm, causing dark purple mass to gather around her opened palm.

"I WILL DO ANYTHING FOR MADOKA!"

Reachin' for the light
Reachin' from inside

Upon roaring this out, the entire existence and what was beyond it shook to their very foundations. Upon sensing this, Shadow was left in shock and disbelief.

This mad woman...Was going to destroy the entire existence.

Help me tonight

Gritting his teeth at this, Shadow summoned the 7 Chaos Emeralds, with the physical manifestations of the Chaos Force rotating at high speeds around Shadow that they appeared to be colored glowing blurs. The hedgehog closed his eyes and took a deep breath, before snapping his eyes, revealing them to be glowing white orbs.

He was releasing the Super Genesis Wave.

I'm closer to the edge tonight
I'm standin' on the ledge, so why
Hold you, reach out your hand
To save (to save), to save me tonight

Once this happened, a wave of dark purple energy and a wave of bright glowing golden wave of energy erupted from both Akuma Homura and Chaos Super Shadow, with each reality warping waves clashing against each other for domination.

I'm damaged if you dare tonight
It feels like no one cares, so why
Can I come back for air?
Just save (just save), just save me tonight

"RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Both combatants roared from the top of their lungs so hard that their lungs felt like they were on fire, and so hard that their eyes rolled to the back of their heads with only the whites of their eyes being the only thing present.

The next thing that happened was that the 2 existence warping waves of energy cancelled out each other in a short and instant burst of light, which faded instantly, revealing the shocked face of Chaos Super Shadow, who had the gentle hands of Akuma Homura on his cheeks.

"Look into my eyes..."

What happened next was Shadow witnessing the vision of Maria being killed over and over. At first, the only thing that happened was Shadow's horrified face, before his face was soon twisted from horror and fear to anger and vigor, before he roared out, and threw his fist towards Akuma Homura, who didn't have time to react to this, and the instant he did this...

"...Kuh?!"

Shadow's entire right arm found itself impaling through Homura's chest.

She didn't even react to what happened next, as golden light engulfed Homura when Shadow roared out once again, and started to channel Chaos energy towards Homura's body, twisting reality and concepts around her, before her form was engulfed in the same golden light, and after a moment later, the light around Homura faded, only to reveal her form to have regressed to her Magical Girl form.

Shadow then yanked his arm out of Homura's chest, drawing a sprout of blood, before he opened his palm towards Homura.

"Chaos Rift"

Once whispering this, a massive black hole appeared in front of Shadow's opened palm, before he pushed it away, where Homura, who saw this, used her remaining powers to create magical purple wings made out of pure magic to allow her to escape the black hole created by her adversary. Shadow, in response to this, teleported in front of the escaping Homura, who was using what remained of her energy to desperately escape the black hole.

What are you waitin' for?

She then saw Chaos Super Shadow pulling out his own Shadow Rifle from behind his back, before pointing it at Homura, who saw this, and realized that this was the end, with tears trailing down her eyes. In her final moments, she roared out 1 last desperate question.

"YOU! WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU?!"

Shadow simply stared back at her, taking a deep breath, before announcing out loud.

"I'M SHADOW THE HEDGEHOG! I'M THE ULTIMATE LIFEFORM THAT PROTECTS THIS EXISTENCE!"

Someone save me

Upon roaring this out, Shadow shot a bullet from his gun, where said bullet collided with Homura's head, piercing through it, with the tears still streaming down her eyes, and her magical wings fading. Time seemed to slow down as Homura's vision shifted to her best and only friend, flashing a gentle smile at her.

"'Madoka..."

Homura's body was soon sucked towards the black hole, before being absorbed by it completely. It then closed gradually, before vanishing completely, indicating the erasure of Homura Akemi out of existence.

(End Music)

Chaos Super Shadow then descended towards the Earth, before landing in the scorched land. He held something in his hand, looking at it with his eyes close to break into tears.

That something...Was Homura's Soul Gem.

He then looked at the horizon beside him, only to see the sun slowly rising, illuminating the carnage around him. He saw the purple dust that indicated Sakuya's remains, Kurumi's naked body that was lying emotionlessly in a pool of her own blood, Bayonetta's headless body and Dio's impaled body that looked like a pin cushion with silver knives all around it, with his Super Transformation soon fading, before he looked at the ground in front of his feet, finding his Inhibitor Rings. He then reached out for them, before placing them back into his wrists.

Shadow released a breath he didn't know that he was holding. Normally he wouldn't feel sad from all of this, but for some reason, even the most evil out of those 2 had an ambition, a goal and precious people they wanted to protect and be by their sides.

But so was he, and sadly he had to fight for his loved ones.

He is able to resurrect them back to life, but this would mean more torture to them, and he didn't want that, so killing them was a mercy...Like, in a way or another.

Closing his eyes, Shadow stood in silence as both a sign of respect for his fallen adversaries, and a form of a prayer for them.

A prayer and a show of respect...

Under the orange threads of the rising sun...

Verdict

(NightCore - Bring Me Back To Life)

Morning Star:...

Judge: Morning? Are you alright, my pal?

Morning Star: ...Huh? Yeah...I am...

Marie: You sure? Can you still be with us in the analysis?

Morning Star: Yeah. I can manage.

Justice: Okay. Then roll it up.

Morning Star: Sure. This match was really close. Each and every single combatant held lots of potential, but in the end, Shadow was the 1 to take it, and as a close 1 as well.

Judge: To begin with it, as always, let's start from the weakest to the strongest. The weakest 1 in this brawl was Dio. Yeah, we're talking about the reality warping, god-like vampire. While he would indeed be something with Reality Overwrite, if he is without it, someone like Bayonetta would actually curbstomp him. Not to mention that he was the slowest 1 in the entire combatant roster, excluding his own Stand of course, since The World Over Heaven is the 1 that tagged Gold Experience Requiem, who can move in erased time. It didn't even help that without his Stand, Dio is all punching and kicking.

Marie: Speaking of Bayonetta, she was actually the 2nd weakest 1. While it's true that you don't see a chick that can actually fight with her hair and bust a freaking god through several planets, we should note that at the time where Bayonetta fought against Jubellius, said god was not even at its full power, and Cereza even required Jeanne's help against it. Not to mention that each and every single 1, with the exception of Dio, Kurumi and Homura in bose her base mode and her Witch mode of course, can move at Infinite Speed, which means that she would have been blitzed and dead at the beginning of the match.

Justice: The 3rd weakest combatant was Kurumi. While her abilities were indeed unique and nigh-unavoidable, things like Gimmel, which can age others, won't work at immortals, and basically all of the fighters are immortals, and while she is easily FTL in speeds via scaling to Mukuro Hoshimiya, her attack potency lacks in comparison to the other combatant roster of this verse, with the exception of the likes of Dio of course. Not to mention that while her White Queen form would actually give her a boost of power, where said form allowed a clone of Kurumi upon assuming it to control Brinah, the 3rd Region of the Neighboring World, which would threaten to destroy the entire space-time dimension of the Neighboring World itself, she won't be able to compete against the likes of Shadow, where said hedgehog is at the very least Universal+ level or Multi-Universal via scaling to Sonic, where Shadow is superior to Sonic in terms of strength and was able to harm him, where Sonic was able to survive the destruction of the Ultimate Annihilator, a weapon that was stated to have created multiple zones, where zones in that definition are universes, and that was Sonic in his base mode! Right after his Super Form got deactivated!

Judge: Or Sakuya, who was able to fight the likes of Yukari Yakumo, who can control the infinite dimensions of the Touhou verse using her Boundary Manipulation ability.

Morning Star: Speaking of Sakuya, she was the 4th weakest here. Yeah. I can hear you all. How can someone who is Multiversal+ can be defeated right now? Well, while she is stronger than even Dio with The World Over Heaven, as well as Kurumi and Bayonetta, and even Homura in both her base and Witch modes, even if we said that Shadow was the 1 to stand against her, she won't be able to make a dent on him, due to the fact that Shadow holds complete control and mastery over the Chaos Force, where Sonic uses a portion of its powers in his base mode using the Power Rings, which gives him an immense level of durability, hard enough in fact to tank hits from his bloodlusted evil super form, which worth noting that Super Sonic was able to fight Enerjak, a being which ascended into the Chaos Force, which is a higher plane of reality, making Enerjak, and the Chaos Force user become 5-D in nature, and despite the fact that Shadow does not hold Power Rings, he still holds the essence of the Chaos Force inside him due to him being birthed from the DNA of the Black Arms, beings that can use the Chaos energy without even requiring a Chaos Emerald, as Shadow demonstrated the usage of Chaos Control without the need of a Chaos Emerald, while Sonic requires even at least 1 Chaos Emerald to use the Chaos Force powers, where this would mean that Shadow, Sonic and those who can hold Power Rings hold High Multiversal+ durability, so they ain't going down anytime soon.

Marie: This leaves us with our greatest and strongest combatants: Shadow and Homura. Now if you hear Homura's name, you would think that it would be a cake walk, considering the fact that she is a conceptual being, as well as a 5-D omnipresent being who can destroy universes and all. Well, guess what? Shadow fought 1 of the strongest entities ever: Enerjak, who has actually became 1 with the Chaos Force, a realm that coexists on a higher plan of reality.

Justice: This would make Enerjak, and those who fought him, be High Multiversal+, and not to mention that upon being connected to the Chaos Force, Enerjak became an omnipresent and a nigh-omnipotent existence, who can manipulate laws, causalities and false platonic concepts, and the likes of Sonic and Shadow fought him, and even easily overpowered him on several occasions. So Akuma Homura was nothing to even Super Shadow.

Judge: In addition to this, while we could say that Akuma Homura can warp the laws to erase Shadow's connection to the Chaos Force, it should be noted that something similar happened during the fight against Enerjak as well, who was going to erase their powers, as well as with Mammoth Mogul, indicating that not even this would affect Shadow. There is also the fact that Homura's curse manipulation would have absolutely no effect on him, where Akuma Homura's curse manipulation ability solely relies on making others emotionally destroyed, but there are 2 reasons that Shadow becomes immune to this: 1- Because in Sonic Chronicles: The Dark Brotherhood, Sonic and his friends were able to resist the ability to screw minds with only 4 emeralds, and Shadow holds direct connections to the very source of the Chaos Emeralds, so he is effectively immune to this. And 2- Because the Chaos Emeralds empowers their users with positive emotions, which would allow Shadow to kick all those bad images that assault his mind directly. Not to mention that he is already holding immense indomitable will, so his mind would be nowhere near screwed anytime.

Morning Star: Last, but not least. The main reason that Homura lost is simply due to the special power of the Chaos Emeralds. You see, the Chaos Emeralds do not focus on destructive capacity...Well, yes. While they indeed empower their wielders with infinite power, their main power is to empower their wielders with positive emotions, as well as banish even the slightest of evil, as shown during Super Sonic's battle against Perfect Chaos, when said creature reverted back to his form after his rage was settled, and guess what? Homura does not have a slight shred of evil. She is the Concept of Evil itself in physical form, and she is also a false platonic concept in her verse as well, mostly governing over her own reality, and the same would go to the Chaos Force, so there was no way that Akuma Homura would win.

Judge: Kurumi, Bayonetta, Dio, Sakuya and Homura had just got their Time Out.

Morning Star: The Winner is Shadow the Hedgehog.