Warning: Spoilers) The final battle with Arceus in Legend of the Eight Firstborn, which is done after completing the final stage. In case people fail horribly at the stage (or the author himself is just sick of typing it), and wanna see how the battle plays out, here it is.
As all of the heroes/allies returned to the original starting point behind Gallagher Elementary, the Eight Firstborn were slowly at work, focusing their powers to channel the scattered pieces back into Morgan’s form. “You think you’ll be able to save her?” Buddy asked.
“Our powers combined should be able to restore the lost heart that was sacrificed to revive our father.” Uxie replied.
“Yeah, so quit worrying.” Midna demanded.
“Okay…”
“Graah. This is taking too long.” Knuckles impatiently stated. “I could have Arceus trounced myself by now.”
“Hm. Care to take a wager on that, Knuckie?” Rouge remarked.
The Firstborn continued with a few more moments, when suddenly, the ground beneath them shook. “GRAARH! What the heck was that? !” Bowser screamed.
The ground shook again as they all turned around, watching as the Supreme God begun to expand within a bubble. The other gods continued to lay attacks against him, but were suddenly blown away as the bubble exploded. “LADY PALUTENAAAA!” Pit Icarus screamed as he, too, was blown away. The young angel was thankfully saved when a lightning fast chariot zipped by, and its rider caught him. “Uwah! Pittoo!”
“PLEASE stop calling me that.” Dark Pit demanded as they went back after Arceus.
“Arceus is regaining full power quickly.” Palutena spoke. “It won’t be long now…”
“I always knew the actions of the mortals would come back at them someday.” Medusa scoffed. “They really are a pitiful bunch.”
“At Arceus’s rate, we’ll never be able to restore Morgan’s heart in time.” Azelf doubtfully spoke.
“Then we’ve got to attack Arceus NOW!” Nigel yelled determinedly.
“I see. And just what would that accomplish?” Plank asked.
“What else can we do?” Cosmo F asked.
“You must.” Uxie spoke. “If you attack him now, you may be able to slow his resurrection long enough for us to proceed. Believe in your strengths, and we can stop him.”
“I guess we don’t have a choice.” Sonic figured.
“Numbuh 2, how’s your COOL-BUS?” Nigel asked.
“As good as ever.” The Sector V pilot smirked, pushing a button on a remote that instantly summoned the COOL-BUS, landing it beside them.
“Let’s hope it’ll withstand long enough.” Nigel said as he, Eva, Sonic, Rachel, and Team Psychic boarded on, with Numbuh 2 in the driver’s seat. “Kids Next door, battle stations!” The rest of the heroes waved for good luck as the COOL-BUS lifted and took off.
The COOL-BUS flew as fast as it could toward the Supreme God. As they drew even closer, the dimension around them suddenly turned pitch-black, and they couldn't see a thing. "Hey, who turned out the lights?" Mika complained.
"I don't like the looks of this." Sonic said.
"WHOA! !" Before their very eyes, the visage of Arceus appeared from the darkness, the ship dead in his face as his massive green and orange eyes glared through their windshield.
"H-HE'S really huge up close! !" Hoagie stuttered. From their point of view, Arceus looked almost as big as the Death Star.
"So... the humans wish to stand against me once again." Arceus spoke in a deep, calm tone, moving further away from the group. "Your hearts have led you only to destruction. Perhaps it doesn't pay to be too loyal to one's heart. I will be sure... and remember that." (Play “A Fight To The Death” from Kingdom Hearts II.) With that, the Supreme God backed further away as power charged within his mouth. Arceus then released a powerful roar that caused the ship to be blown miles away. The heroes quickly jumped out and took land on a solid surface as the COOL-BUS fell beneath the ledge.
"NUMBUH 2!" Nigel cried.
"I'm okay!" the pilot called, his ship flying back in the air. "Just go after him!"
Relieved, the group of heroes faced ahead, the lot now standing in the ruins of a city as the Supreme God floated miles away. The crew immediately dashed forth, desperate to reach him.
Boss fight: Arceus, Bringer of Justice
The Supreme God saw them coming and charged more power in his mouth. They all quickly jumped behind some buildings as he released a Hyper Beam, which took up the width of that whole street. When the Hyper Beam died down, the crew decided to stay separated as they ran around buildings in different directions, trying to get closer to the god. Arceus turned his attention to Eva and Nigel, using his incredible powers to blow a giant wave of water and fire down. Nigel and Eva used all their strength to fight against the god's powers together, struggling to stand their ground against the water and fire. Arceus saw the Team Psychic group quickly coming at him from another street, so the god used telekinesis to grab a few tall buildings and hurl them straight at the trio. Rainier just hid behind his arms while Mika and Lucario conjured Aura Spheres and tossed them back, making smoke erupt from the buildings. The three continued to push through despite the smoke, but were unprepared as two parallel buildings shot down and destroyed the ground where they stood.
Rainier and Lucario were OK as they Wall Jumped their way up the parallel buildings, while Mika simply flew, eventually reaching the top of them and jumping to safe ground as the buildings sunk into oblivion, the three then pressing on to Arceus. Rachel dashed through a street, spinning her sword to slice rocks in half which Arceus threw at her. When Arceus threw enough rocks, the god decided to make jagged rocks rise from below Rachel's feet, blowing the Supreme Leader upwards. Sonic dashed by just then and caught Rachel in his arms, speeding through the city as he carried her, and jagged rocks continued to rise from the ground along the path of the hedgehog.
Nigel and Eva crouched low to the ground as Arceus continued to unleash flames at them. When the flames vanished, the two stood as Nigel kicked on his rocket boots, grabbing Eva and flying straight for Arceus. The god continued to hurl rocks their way, but Nigel was able to swerve around and avoid them, just barely missing. Their faces turned to terror when Nigel's rockets were shorting out. As they were about to fall, Nigel thankfully was able to erupt fire from his feet using firebending, and was able to keep flying. Sonic carried Rachel as Arceus tossed buildings their way using psychic, and the speedy hedgehog was able to leap and bounce off the many buildings to get closer. At the same time, Lucario held onto the wrists of Mika and Rainier, pulling them along as he sped by and dodged several flying buildings. The aura fox then leapt up several flying buildings and got him and his friends leveled with Sonic and Rachel. To their misfortune, there was nothing more to stand on, and the heroes put on expressions of terror as they reached up to Arceus and began to fall to the dark abyss below.
To Rachel’s relief, Patton and Fanny sped by on Rachel’s ROADSTAR (re-modified to fly) and grabbed the Supreme Leader’s arm. Sonic looked down below him and watched Tails fly by in his X-Tornado, so the hedgehog let go of Rachel and dropped down to land on it. As Rachel’s friends helped her on top of the ROADSTAR, Hoagie flew by on his COOL-BUS again and allowed Nigel, Eva, and Team Psychic to take land on its roof. The aircrafts then continued flying for Arceus, who kept hurling meteorites at them. The ROADSTAR flew in the front as Rachel swung her sword to keep away all incoming meteorites. The kids then watched as Gas Bombs shot out from Arceus’s mouth, so the ships had to roll around and dodge to avoid them. Eventually, they were able to get very close to Arceus’s face, his gigantic green/orange eyes glaring at them.
Fi came out and reported, “Master, I sense tremendous power being channeled through Arceus’s eyes. There is an 87% probability that destroying them would further lessen the god’s strength.”
“You heard ‘er, guys. Go for the eyes.” Rachel ordered.
“HEY, Big Boy.” Mika called out. “Show me whatcha got!” The COOL-BUS flew close in front of his left eye as Heartless creatures were appearing on with them. Mika simply stunned them using psychic before grabbing them and shooting them straight at the eye, doing a little bit of damage. While this happened however, they noticed a bright sphere growing larger and larger by Arceus’s mouth.
“Hey, what’s it doing?” Hoagie asked.
“Ahh!” Tails screamed. “It’s charging energy! We’d better move away quickly!”
“Hold on tight, guys!” Hoagie screamed. The group on roof did so and held tight as the ships flew as fast as they could away from the face. After a few moments, Arceus had charged up a Hyper Beam, and unleashed the gigantic laser straight at them. The kids on the COOL-BUS endured some damage, but still remained airborne as the beam died out, going back in front of his eye. Mika continued to grab and stun Heartless soldiers and toss them at Arceus’s eye. “I think that’ll do it.” Hoagie assumed.
“I’ll finish it off!” Dark Pit exclaimed, riding the Lightning Chariot straight for the weakened eye and piercing straight through. Arceus screamed loudly in pain as energy bled from the god’s left eye.
“Now for the next one.” Hoagie announced as they flew beside Arceus’s right eye. Mika once again grabbed Heartless and tossed them at the eye, while Tails helped as well by shooting missiles from his Tornado. By this point, however, Arceus was ready to unleash another Hyper Beam. Tails and Team Leader had flown their ships away in time, but the COOL-BUS didn’t make it as it was completely obliterated by the Hyper Beam.
“WAAAHHH-“ The kids were thankfully saved as they landed on a large, flat stone platform. They noticed Centurion Strongarms carrying the platform from below, looking up as Palutena waved for them to get closer to Arceus. The Centurions flew closer as Mika continued to grab and shoot Heartless at the right eye.
“That should be enough.” Tails decided. “Now, Sonic!”
“All right!” the hedgehog cheered, bouncing off the tornado and some flying meteors as he shot straight for the weakened eye. The hedgehog became a spiraling pinball as he flew into the eye, landing several powerful Home Attacks as energy squirted like blood from the eye, eventually destroying it. Arceus gave another roaring screech as he was seemingly blinded. As a result, his mouth was left wide open.
“Now is the chance.” Meta Knight yelled from the Gummi Ship. “Kids: attack the mouth!”
Team Leader flew straight for the open mouth and took land, jumping out onto Arceus’s tongue. His gigantic sharp fangs surrounded the area as they looked up and took notice of Arceus’s uvula. Fi came out and reported, “Master, I sense more energy emitting from Arceus’s uvula. The best plan of action would be to attack it.”
“In other words, make Arceus give god vomit. Got it.” Patton summarized. More Heartless came out to attack them as Rachel already began dashing to the wall on her right. She pierced her sword in the god’s cheek and began using it to climb her way up higher. Once close enough to the uvula, she shot her Hookshot over to pull her toward the dangly substance, using her sword to rapidly begin stabbing it. The trio winced at Arceus’s loud screaming, Rachel falling from the uvula as they all held on tight as they could to avoid being blown out, watching as the screams blew Heartless away as well. When the screaming stopped, the three were able to stand and continue to battle Heartless soldiers. Rachel fought with Patton as Fanny kicked on her rocket shoes and flew up to the uvula, rapidly tossing flames and setting it to fire.
Arceus was pained by the flames as the god let out a scream once again. Fanny fell to the tongue and held tight with the others to avoid being blown away from the mouth. Fanny failed to hang on, however, and was about to fly away, but luckily, Patton grabbed onto her wrist and kept her from doing so. The screaming died down. As Rachel ran for the wall and used her quick speed to dash her way up, afterwards kicking off the wall and shooting her Hookshot to latch over to the uvula. As she was pulled toward the uvula, she charged up a Skyward Strike and spun around immediately to sliced the dangling organ clean off the mouth.
The heroes watched from the outside as the god’s head shook around, screaming with pure pain as his forehead area exploded open. The brain of Arceus was exposed, and they group had a view of something attached to it. “Okay, someone mind explaining to me how slicing off a uvula makes your forehead explode.” Buddy commented.
“Forget it! Look!” Meta Knight yelled and pointed to the top of the brain. “It is Negatar Gnaa! Arceus is absorbing his power through his brain. You must get in there and stop him!”
“PIYAH!” Kirby cried, shooting straight for the brain on his Warp Star, followed by Mario with his Wing Cap, Donkey Kong on his rocket barrel, and Sonic on the X-Tornado, the Ice Climbers riding with him. Pit jumped off the Lightning Chariot and flew beside them as they all took land atop Arceus’s brain. The Negatar was stuck tight to a pillar on the brain, channeling the energy through as he looked up and faced the heroes. His eyes brimmed with the dark energy as he gave them a smirk.
“Impudent fools.” The Negatar spoke, spinning some kind of wheel above him, which had the images of Bowser, Eggman, Kroctus, and all his other allies. The wheel landed on Bowser as a Bowser statue head above him came out and rapidly coughed fireballs at the group. Kirby sucked one of the flames in and became Fire Kirby, shooting as a fireball over to deal Gnaa some damage. The Negatar used psychic to blow the puffball away as the Ice Climbers leapt over to pound on Gnaa with their hammers. They jumped away before he could unleash a Fear Scream. Donkey ran forward and twirled his arm, punching the Negative clear in the face, but Negatar smirked before unleashing poisonous gas at DK’s face, making the ape back away.
Lord Gnaa spun the wheel again as it landed on K. Rool’s image. Two punching gloves that were attached to the side of the pillar came off and started flying around the room like boomerangs, trying to hit the heroes. Mario spin-jumped and dodged the gloves and shot water from FLUDD at Gnaa’s face. While the Negatar was having trouble seeing because of this, Pit drew out his arrows and rapidly fired to deal damage against the Negatar. The wheel spun once again and landed on Dr. Eggman, causing cannons to unleash homing missiles. Sonic smirked as the missiles locked onto him, the hedgehog running around as they gave chase, then ran straight for Gnaa, jumping up in the air as the missiles proceeded to crash into the Negatar. Gnaa was stunned for a while, so Sonic took this time to charge a Spin Dash and ram straight into Gnaa, dealing more damage.
The wheel spun again and landed on Rumpel Stiltskin. A few magical rays shot out and turned them all into toads, preventing them from attacking. They were able to hop around and avoid as Gnaa shot out Fear Spheres, and after a while, Lady Palutena used her power to transform them back. Afterward, Kirby decided to drop his fire ability as the Ice Climbers knocked mini icebergs toward him, sucking the ice up to become Ice Kirby. The ice-blue puff stood in front of Gnaa and blew ice at the same time Mario shot water at him. This caused the Negatar to quickly become frozen solid, and Donkey Kong rolled over to smash the ice and deal heavy damage against him. Negatar spun the wheel again, landing it on Darth Genious. At this, he caused a bunch of mechanical claws to come to life and try to grab the heroes.
Kirby and Ice Climbers were grabbed by the claws, but Pit ran up and used his double-blades to slice them free. Kirby sucked in one of the claws and became Cutter Kirby, easily using his boomerang cutter to deal quick damage against Gnaa. The Dark Master spun the wheel once more, landing it on Ganondorf Dragmire. The Satan Sword emerged from the center of the ground and flew around, trying to slice the heroes. Donkey Kong gripped the sword’s hilt and tried to control it, but the sword spun around and flung the Kong away. As the ape recovered, he noticed Gnaa was controlling the sword telekinetically, so he rolled over and laid several punches against the Negatar.
Once the sword was dropped, Kirby proceeded to inhale and suck it in. The little pink puff gained the Ultra Sword ability, and was prepared to use it against Gnaa. Gnaa spun the wheel and landed on Bowser, making the Bowser head come out, but Kirby swung his powerful blade and destroyed it. The wheel landed on Eggman as missiles were fired, but Kirby swung his sword and destroyed the cannons. The wheel landed on Kroctus and made the punching gloves come out, but Kirby destroyed them as well. The pink puffball then decided to destroy the spinning wheel completely. With that out of the way, Kirby twirled his Ultra Sword around as it grew even bigger, and once it was at full size, the Star Warrior laid several powerful blows upon Gnaa before laying the final blow against the energy pillar.
“UuuuuuwwwwaaaaaaAAAAAHHHHHH!” Arceus’s screams echoed throughout the realm. (End song.)
After quickly boarding onto their aircraft, the heroes watched as many explosions erupted around the Supreme God’s body. The mighty god shook around and continued to scream as he soon plummeted into the vast darkness below. In only a few moments, he was out of sight. “You know, for a ‘Supreme God’, Arceus was pretty weak.” Pit remarked.
“Beware. Arceus’s true powers have yet to be unleashed.” Palutena cautioned.
“Of course, it’s never this easy.” Patton remembered. “Especially since we just got out of a really hard level.”
“Everyone: we think we’re ready. Return to the platform now.” Uxie called out. The ships did so and flew back to gather with the others.
Morgan’s unconscious body brimmed with the light as everyone stood around with hopeful expressions. The Eight Firstborn made her form levitate and made her stand on her feet. The glowing slowly died down as Morgan’s eyes opened. Her siblings smiled with relief as they ran to embrace her in a hug. “Morgan!” Buddy exclaimed.
“You’re back!” Athena followed.
“Oh, guys? What happened?”
“Phantom Gnaa killed you.” Sophie replied. “Or something like that…”
“The Negatar freed Arceus with his darkness, and he destroyed the whole universe.” Buddy followed.
Morgan looked around and saw what had indeed become of their universe. “I can see that…”
“And now we need you to fix it.” Aang said. “Your love and care for Gnaa might be the only thing to get him back to light. And therefore, destroy the darkness that’s consuming Arceus.”
“Huh? So you all… believe me now?” Morgan asked.
“Well, we didn’t at first.” Rachel said. “But the way Gnaa was crying for you like that… maybe he does have a light in there somewhere.”
“’Course, not right at this moment.” Patton said. “Arceus is sucking Lord Gnaa dry of his dark energy. We knocked him out for now, but any moment, he’s gonna-“ Patton’s statement was cut short as the realm began trembling. They looked over the edge as Arceus’s powerful form emerged from the depths, revived and more powerful-looking than ever as he hissed in tremendous anger at the heroes. Some laser attacks struck him from behind, and Arceus turned to see the other gods trying to attack him again. Arceus turned and faced them, several mirror-like tablets emerging from his body, each with a different elemental symbol. He used the tablets to forge a barrier around him, flying forth and dealing away with the gods in no time at all.
“Lady Palutena needs my help!” Pit exclaimed.
“I think we made him angry.” Cream said with fright in her voice.
“Chao chao.” Cheese agreed.
“But what can we do?” Blaze asked. “Even with Morgan revived, we are nothing to that god’s power.”
“Aww, come on, Blaze. Don’t throw in the towel yet, eh?” Marine said. “Aren’t you drongos forgetting something?”
“What’s that?”
“Hehe!” Marine smirked. “We ‘ave the Chaos and Sol Emeralds!”
“And let’s not forget, us Eight Firstborn.” Azelf reminded with a smile.
“And as always, the most important thing of all:” Uxie began, “all of you.”
“But what can we do? ?” Wally shouted.
“Remember what Rayquaza said before: mortals are stronger than the gods. Only mortal beings know the struggles, the true spirits of life. It was the gods’ design that only mortals could wield the Triforce. ‘Twas their design that we Firstborn would have to put our safety in the hands of mortal Guardians.”
“Mortal beings like yourselves fight for your passions. Fight for your friends.” Azelf spoke. “The friends which give you the light. The only reason the scattered pieces of Morgan’s heart were reformed was because of how much everyone cared about her to retrieve them.”
“And that same love and care will bring the scattered parts of the universe together as well.” Mesprit finished. This seemed to fill the crew’s minds with encouragement as smiles appeared on their faces.
At this time, Dr. Eggman was fiddling around with his right glasses-lens, several scans showing inside it. “Those mirror tablets seem to be the source of all of Arceus’s elemental powers. He originally had them all together before mending the Four Light and Dark Elements into two separate jewels, which were given to the Avatars and Negatars. They seem to be what makes him so invulnerable. If we can destroy them, he may just be weakened again.”
“So, le’s get up there and kick some can!” Dedede exclaimed.
“Always so eager to jump into action, are we?” Plank remarked.
“But with the powers of the Firstborn, surely we stand a chance. Don’t we?” Nova asked.
“That’s what I’d like to believe.” Cosmo M replied.
“Then let’s do it!” Silver exclaimed, pulling out the Seven Chaos Emeralds. “With our powers combined, using the full might of our positive energy, we can defeat the darkness! Right, Sonic?”
The blue hedgehog nodded. “He’s right. You all know what this means?”
“SUPAH Forms, Baby!” Marine cheered.
“I’ve been waiting for this for a while.” Nigel smirked.
“Then let’s do it.” Dimentia agreed.
Sonic, Shadow, and Silver all stood together as the Chaos Emeralds hovered around them. The three hedgehogs touched hands as the Emeralds rapidly spun around and fused with the hedgehogs. Sonic flashed golden and turned into Super Sonic. Shadow did the same and became Super Shadow, followed by Silver, who was now the golden Super Silver. Blaze the Cat held the Sol Emeralds together as she walked to stand beside Mario and Luigi. The Italian plumbers touched the Sol Emeralds as well as they powered up all three of them. Blaze alit with the red flames of Burning Blaze, while Mario and Luigi alit with their own fiery forms, dressed in their Fire Flower outfits with capes.
The Firstborn decided to power up their Guardians as well. Celebi extended and touched her vines to Nova and Cosmo F. Both girls brimmed brightly with the golden powers of the forest as Cosmo’s hair extended longer, and the flower buds in her hair opened. Manaphy touched his glowing antennas to Eva Roberts, a spiraling sphere of golden water encasing her as she drew the Phantom Sword, feeling empowered by her Princess Eva form. Jirachi opened his true eye and released his power onto Dimentia, giving her the strength of the stars. Jirachi also released the Golden Light Wisp, letting it absorb into Nigel as the bald Brit became Galaxia Nigel, raising his Galaxia Sword high as the golden cape appeared along his back.
“Kirby!” Meta Knight yelled, tossing Kirby the Warp Star. The pink puff sucked it in and transformed into Super Kirby, the Star Rod glowing brightly in his stubby hand. Mew closed his eyes and touched his psychokinetic hands to Mikaela and Morgan, and the two girls now glowed brightly with powerful psychic energy; Mika was surrounded in pink aura and Morgan in blue aura, and both their eyes glowed with their color. Virginia and Danika exchanged nods as Midna encased them inside a black and orange ball. The two shadowbenders were surrounded by a pitch-black aura, hovering just inches above the ground with their super-powered shadow abilities. Rachel, Mandy, and Lehcar touched their Triforce hands together as Azelf touched them with her tails, the Triforce marks exploding with light as the trio was powered up by their Triforces again. Mesprit formed a glowing pink heart with her tails and made the heart expand and catch April and Sonya. The two girls glowed with pink energy, feeling the full force of emotions inside of them.
“What about me?” Matthew Garley asked. Uxie smiled at her Guardian as she surrounded Matthew in some light, in the strange shape of something. “WHOA!” Matt exclaimed, sitting in the cockpit of a small, golden-colored aircraft.
“Now that’s a device I can sink my fingers into!” Eggman grinned.
“Does that satisfy?” Uxie asked.
“Oh, yes. They satisfy.” Nigel said as they all gazed at the beauty of their super forms.
“Let’s go!” Eva cheered. Kade watched beautifully as she flew into the air, leaving a trail of water. Cosmo M and Tails watched beautifully as Nova and Cosmo F flew off, Infinity smiled as he watched Dimentia fly off, Yllaw watched excitedly as Lehcar flew off, Danika and Ginny spared kisses to Nolan and Bartie before they flew off, making both boys blush, Rainier watched amazed as Mika flew off, Harvey cheered away as Rachel flew off, and Lee and Kim watched happily as Sonya and Matt flew off. All of their friends cheered as the beams of light shot into the sky, going straight for Arceus. (Play the “Solaris Phase 1” Theme from Sonic 2006!)
Boss fight: Arceus, Creator of Elements
The Supreme God made black holes appear around his form as meteors were launched out. Mika, Morgan, and Silver grabbed as many meteors as they could and hurled them back with psychic, doing little damage against Arceus’s barrier as the god countered with more meteors. “You won’t be able to penetrate his shield that easy. He’s using psychic to conjure it. If you can weaken the psychic tablet that circles him, you might be able to weaken it.” Eggman instructed.
“Okay. Dimentia, can you?” Nigel asked.
“I think so.” The Zathurian nodded. Nigel flew in closer as meteors were tossed his way, the bald Brit batting them away with his sword toward Dimentia, who used spacebending to conjure portals to suck the meteors in. The portals reopened inside Arceus’s barrier as the meteors crashed into his psychic tablet. “It’s working!”
Arceus sensed this and started to fly away from the group, still trying to send meteors at them. Shadow chased after him in his super form and released a storm of Chaos Spears in order to slow Arceus down. The golden and red hedgehog swiftly avoided the incoming meteors, but failed to dodge one as he was blown away. Super Sonic thankfully caught him as they continued to speed forward. As they saw a storm of meteors coming, the two yelled, “CHAOS CONTROL!” and teleported away. They reappeared right in front of Arceus and combined their Homing Attacks as they spun full-force into his barrier. They weren’t able to penetrate the barrier, but they had enough strength to slow Arceus down. The other super-powered heroes were able to catch up as Burning Blaze used her power to charge giant fireballs, sending them at Dimentia, who teleported them. The flames appeared inside the barrier as they crashed and burned the psychic tablet.
Arceus became angered as he roared and blew the hedgehogs away. He whipped around to face the other heroes, sending an airwave from his tail that hit Danika and Virginia. Lehcar dodged the attack and charged lightning in her fingers, sending a powerful bolt at Arceus, only for his barrier to protect. The Supreme God, in return, alit his eyes and sent lightning back her way. Rachel flew and pushed her Negative out of the way before she could be struck. “Try the same as before!” Mika yelled down at them, swinging her light saber to keep away incoming Psycho Spheres. Lehcar remembered this and charged more lightning while Dimentia conjured a portal, sending the lightning into the portal. The portal reopened beside Arceus’s psychic tablet and the lightning struck it, dealing heavy damage.
“The barrier’s weakening!” Eggman exclaimed.
“Now is our chance.” Nova yelled. She and Cosmo F flew toward the barrier and used their power to easily phase through.
“This ought to dazzle you.” Cosmo said to the god. Both she and Nova hovered around Arceus’s face and allowed flower petals to drop from their hair, going into his eyes. Arceus’s eyes became weary, the god wobbling a little as the barrier slowly died down.
“That’s whatchu call ‘girl power’.” Virginia said. “Let’s give him a little shade, Danika.” The two powered shadowbenders flew over the deity’s face and unleashed powerful Shadow Breath into his eyes. Arceus shook his head uncontrollably, unable to see as he decided to spew a wave of fire, which the Mario Bros. and Burning Blaze countered with their own waves of spiraling fire. Feeling his attacks weren’t doing any good, the angry god used earthbending to grab huge chunks of scattered ground and send them at the firebenders, successfully pushing them away.
“Blaze!” Silver yelled.
“Mario!” Peach screamed.
“Uh, Luigi?” Luigi questioned.
Arceus was finally able to shake the Shadow Breath off, glaring angrily at the shadow and plantbenders as he charged and unleashed a deafening Fear Scream. The might of the god’s screaming forced them to shield their ears, and the four benders fell to the abyss below. However, Arceus’s screams were silenced when Matthew fired some pounds of sticky substance from his golden hovercraft, sticking over the god’s mouth. Arceus forcibly tried to shake the goo off, but April and Sonya flew by him and used their abilities to calm the god’s mind. As they tried to calm him, Sonya flew down beside his neck and petted it gently. “There, there. That’s a good pony. There’s no reason to be mad. Just calm down, and good Auntie Sonya’s gonna make you feel-“ But the harmless child was interrupted as Arceus regained control and spun around. “WAAAAHHHH!”
“SONYA!” April screamed as Sonya was blown far away. She turned and readied herself as Arceus glared at her, too late to perform an action as Arceus spun and blew her away with his tail.
“You DARE to lay your hands on me? ! You will face justice! !”
“Ay-ay-ay, always with justice.” Rouge commented.
Arceus turned his head as Nigel Uno flew near to him, the Brit readying his sword. Arceus formed up saliva in his mouth before unleashing a giant beam of water toward him. However, Eva flew down beside his mouth and blew a giant wave of Ice Breath to instantly freeze the water as it shot out, making a long chunk of ice come at Nigel. The Uno boy rapidly swung his blade to slice the pieces of ice, and once Arceus was out of breath, Kirby decided to fly forth and pierce through the deity’s face using his Star Rod.
During all this fighting, Nolan was currently scanning the deity using a device in his wheelchair. “For something forged out of scrape, that’s some technology you have, Kid.” Eggman complimented.
“It’s no HEAD-SET, but it gets the job done.” Nolan replied. “Let’s see if this guy has any weak points… Aha, there we go! Hey, Danika! Listen! Arceus is still a little unstable, it looks like. His limbs seem a little loose.”
Danika and Virginia avoided a Hyper Beam as Danika yelled down, “HUH?”
“Go for his legs, tail, and neck!”
“WELL, IT’S BETTER THAN WHAT WE’RE DOING NOW.” Danika yelled back.
“Hey, how come it seems like there’s always something off about his body?” Virginia asked.
“Who cares? As long as it gives him a disadvantage.” Nigel replied, holding his sword ready. “I’m going for the tail. Cover me.” The bald Brit began shooting like a star, leaving a trail of light as he flew around the deity’s body. Before he could get close to the tail, the god teleported and appeared right behind him, sending the Brit flying away with a swing from his head. Arceus warped to several feet in front of the heroes as Super Shadow flew down and grabbed Nigel in his hands, carrying him to the god.
“Let me lend you some time.” The hedgehog stated as Arceus began charging energy by his mouth. “Chaos CONTROL!” Shadow used his power to make time slow as Arceus began unleashing gigantic clocks with fast-moving hands. Shadow kept hold on Nigel’s arm as the two carefully flew through the slow-moving clocks, gaining closer to Arceus’s form. They were finally able to move around the god’s head, letting time flow back to normal as they sped along the back and reached the tail.
“Eeeeee-YAH! !” With one powerful swing of the Galaxia Sword, Arceus’s tail was sliced clean off.
“Eeeeaaaaahhhhh!”
“THAT sure looked like it hurt.” Rouge smirked.
“Okay, then just go for the others.” Tails told the team.
“Yeh! Do it, ya dingos!” Marine cheered.
“A little Moonward-water slice wouldn’t hurt. Us.” Eva remarked. The child looked around and saw the full moon in the distance of this scattered realm. She aimed her Phantom Sword at it to charge up power, but the princess was instantly stunned as Arceus unleashed a deafening Fear Scream. Mandy McKenzie saved Eva by flying beside Arceus’s left ear and letting out her own Fear Scream. The god seemed effected by this as he ceased his screaming and slumped over a little. As Eva recovered, the Ocean Princess aimed her sword for the moon and charged power, and once it was fueled, the princess flew down for Arceus’s front-right leg. She gathered some water and made a tentacle form along the sword, and as she swung her blade, the combined might of the water slice and Moonward Strike was enough to chop off the deity’s leg.
April and Sonya were soaring back into the area as Arceus released a cloud of poisonous gas. The two were able to conjure a large, pink heart-shaped bubble to protect them. Sonya drifted around in thought for a minute before finally going down to the platform where Lee stood. “Lee, can I borrow your yo-yo for a second?”
“Mm-hm.” Lee nodded, handing her the yo-yo.
“Thanks.” With that, Sonya flew back for the god and floated in place. She swung her yo-yo out once and pulled it back. A second time, and pulled it back again. Finally, the Dickson girl swung it out even further as it brimmed with the pink energy. “That works!” Arceus conjured swarms of Psycho Spheres around his head and sent them at Sonya, who simply swung the yo-yo to catch some and send them right back, knocking his head around a little. Finally, the pink girl flew around to his back-right leg. Sonya swung her yo-yo and let it wrap tightly around the leg. Using all her strength to tug the yo-yo’s string, she was able to slice the leg into pieces.
Matt quickly dodged around as Arceus used earthbending to send flying chunks of rock straight at him, searching his craft for options. “Man, I really wish I knew how to control this thing better.” The curator said, pressing random buttons. He looked as an arm came out wielding a baseball bat, and said, “No.” He pushed a button that made a hand with pencil come out, and said, “No.” He pushed a button that made a hand wielding a chainsaw reach out, and the chainsaw label read ‘God-chopper 5000’. “That’ll work!” Matt began his flight path toward the entity’s back-left leg, but Arceus tried to keep him away by blowing powerful gusts of wind in the opposite direction. Matt couldn’t fight through, but was then able to as Super Sonic got in front of him, countering with his own airbending. Thanks to Sonic, Matt was able to get to the targeted leg with no trouble at all, using the large, golden chainsaw to begin sawing through, and eventually chopping the leg clean off.
Arceus wobbled around greatly at this as his third leg fell into the abyss like all the others. The parts where his legs and his tail previously were were now leaking with white-colored energy. “He’s getting weaker.” Eggman announced. “Once the last of his limbs are cut off, you can focus attack easier on the elemental tablets.”
“O-kay! Morgan, how ‘bout a little psycho double-team action, huh?” Mika asked.
“Mm.” Morgan smirked and nodded. The two drew out and extended their light sabers, crossing them in an ‘X’ and using their power to make them even longer. Once they were long enough, they floated in place and used psychic to levitate the swords, aiming them at the front-left leg and shooting them forth. Arceus tried to catch the sabers in portals, but the girls were able to navigate the swords around said portals as they reached Arceus’s leg. The two swords penetrated the leg from opposite ends, making the sabers cut a circle around the leg, making them go around several times before the leg was cut off completely.
“STEERIKE!” Nigel exclaimed. “Just one more to go!”
“OOOOFF WITH ‘IS ‘EEAAAD!” Marine screamed.
“You’ve been dying to say that, haven’t you?” Elijah asked.
“Hehe!” Marine grinned.
“Well, girls?” Rachel smirked to her Triforce-holder allies. “Whaddya say we behead an old god for his crimes?”
“Ahh, beheadin’. A no-more perfect way to die.” Lehcar smiled with joy.
“Let’s finish this.” Many ordered. “Like before, girls, take it from the top.” The three touched their swords together as Fi began charging the energy for the Sealing Tri-strike, at the same time Arceus was charging energy for a Hyper Beam, and also making meteors fly at the trio. The girls carefully avoided the meteors as the energy slowly built up in their swords.
“I shall deliver justice to all!”
“Like we’re gonna take justice from a ‘My Little Pony’.” Rachel remarked.
“Strange as it sounds to say, I’m quite fond of that show.” Lehcar stated.
“I know, right?” Rachel smirked.
“The only one getting justice today is you.” Mandy claimed.
“The time has come, Master. As you did before. Unleash your powers in the form of a Sealing Tri-strike.”
“HIYAH! !” The Triforce-wielders shot forward and pierced their blades into the neck of Arceus.
“DAH! ! !”
“WE DID IT! !” Rachel exclaimed, shooting her fist into the air as the head came flying off of Arceus.
“Hn-now we can focus on the mirrors!” Sonic exclaimed.
“Dwaaahh… uck… ulp…” Arceus weakly choked for breath as his head spiraled and fell into the abyss. (End song.)
The limbless body of Arceus fell to the darkness and disappeared in a puff of smoke. The heroes then watched as the severed head, eyes leaking with energy, slowly fell into the abyss after it. (Play the “Xemnas Phase 3” Theme from Kingdom Hearts II!) However, just as they thought they were victorious at the moment, a spiraling column of darkness sprouted from below and latched itself to the head. A colossal tornado of darkness began to surround the area as the heroes flew in closer. In a matter of seconds, Arceus had gained a brand new body, in which his head was surrounded by 12 tentacles, which had each been formed over the elemental tablets. He was able to swing the tentacles and blow the heroes far into the abyss.
"They could probably use our help." Nolan figured.
"All aboard!" Ava yelled, jumping in her Heart Star. Kami boarded the Heart Star's roof, Nolan got onto Gary's ship, Shaunie got onto the Luvbi's Angel Wing, and Jagar jumped down onto the Lightning Chariot as Pit and Dark Pit flew it by. All heroes flew at high speeds for the colossal entity, rapidly dodging as more energy-made tentacles tried to whack them out of the air. Arceus succeeded as the aircraft spiraled out of control, but the heroes riding the roofs were luckily able to jump off and land inside the forehead of Arceus, which had been blown open. Shaunie, Kami, Jagar, and Nolan now stood on the brain of Arceus, facing the evil Negatar as he was latched to the god's brain. The four heroes all raised their preferred arms as Keyblades spawned in their hands, aiming their weapons at the Dark Master. Negatar Gnaa smirked at the Keyblade-wielders and prepared to fight them, his eyes still glowing with purple.
Boss fight: Arceus, Ruler of All
The Keyblade Masters began avoiding as Gas Bombs were dropped down at them, and Shaunie ran forth to lay the first few hits against the Negatar. Shaunie back-flipped and dodged before Gnaa could stun him with psychic, and Kami avoided Fear Spheres as she kicked off the walls towards Gnaa, laying more blows against him. When Nolan tried to shoot missiles at the Negatar, Gnaa surrounded himself in a psychic barrier and used his power to blow the heroes straight out of the cockpit, surrounding the entire entity inside a barrier.
"Gaahh-" As Kami fell into the abyss below, she was suddenly saved upon landing on a ship. She looked down and realized she landed on the Flying Krock. "King K. Rool?"
"This will be one of very few times this happens, Kami." Kroctus replied. At the same time, Shaunie held onto Bowser's Koopa Clown Car, Jagar rode with Rumpel on his goose, and Nolan was caught on Gwen and Doug's SPRAYSHIP, the four crafts starting to fly back for Arceus.
“I summon the power…” Arceus spoke as he used psychic to grab more scattered buildings and meteors and send them flying to the heroes, “Arceus… is… ETERNAAALLL!” Rumpel swiftly avoided the projectiles as Jagar used his Keyblade to freeze some in time. Several Fear Spheres were coming at Bowser, but Shaunie twirled his Keyblade and kept the flying spheres away. “Shaunie Fulbright… are you afraid of the darkness?”
Another building was coming at them, but Shaunie leapt off the Koopa Car and aimed his Keyblade, using the pointed end to hold the building back as it nearly pushed him into Bowser’s floating craft. As Shaunie struggled to hold the building back, Bowser lent the Irish lad a hand and rammed himself right at the building, successfully shoving it against the giant barrier.
Some more Gas Bombs were flying at Rumpel and Jagar, but Rumpel cast spells from his wand and transformed the Gas Bombs pink, causing them to give a more pleasant odor as they didn’t explode at all. “Jagar King… do you wish to erase the troubles of your past?”
Jagar ignored this as another building was flying at them. The timebender used his Time Stop to freeze the building in place, then used Rewind to make it fly right back at Arceus, able to destroy his barrier.
“NyyyyyyyaaaaaaAAAAAHHHHHH!” The Keyblade-wielders were able to make it to the brain again and do battle against the Negatar. Gnaa remained attached to the brain pillar as he burped more Gas Bombs at the heroes, but they continued to dodge as Nolan shot missiles at the Negatar. After inflicting enough damage, they all watched as a row of Darkness Cannons appeared above the Negatar. They hurriedly dodged around as the cannons began firing, and Nolan gasped as one of the cannons was able to strike him.
Nolan appeared inside a plain of darkness, seeing that no one else was around. “Nolan York… are you certain the Kids Next Door can be trusted?” Before his very eyes, a swarm of Koda Shrieves appeared around and started trying to strike him with knives. Nolan quickly rolled away and used his Keyblade to fight back against the army of Figures. They were leaping from all around, but Nolan was still able to fight them all off.
The crippled boy awakened from his vision as Lord Gnaa appeared stunned, quickly rolling forward to lay a few strikes with his Keyblade. When Gnaa had recovered, he made a barrier appear that blew Nolan back. The Dark Master then released a cloud of Shadow Breath from his mouth, blinding everyone in the blackness. Kami lit up part of the area with her Keyblade, and began quickly dodging as shadowy arms tried to reach up and grab her. Kami performed a few spin attacks with her Keyblade and noticed Gnaa’s eyes glowing in the darkness. The Drilovsky girl ran in the direction of the eyes and laid successful strikes upon Gnaa’s form, causing the area to light up to normal color again.
Lord Gnaa had Kami blown away, then shot dark lasers at the other heroes before they could run and attack him. The Dark Master then released a cloud of toxic green gas from his mouth, clouding the whole area in his gas. The four quickly held their breaths to avoid breathing in the toxic. Jagar used timebending to slow down time and ran over to Gnaa, laying a few strikes. Time reverted to normal as Gnaa blew Jagar away. Kami kept her hand cupped over her mouth as she tried to see through the gassy smog, but was too late to move as a Darkness Cannon fired and knocked her out.
Kami appeared inside that same plain of darkness, watching as a swarm of Olivia Johnson replicas appeared out of nowhere. “Kami Drilovsky… to think how worthless you are… compared with the aliens.” Kami scoffed and rolled her eyes before beginning to cut away the squad of Olivia clones. Two of the clones spewed slime from behind, but Kami jumped and tossed her Keyblade like a boomerang at them, swiftly catching it in her hand as the clones vanished. She back-flipped several times as more clones spewed at her, zooming over and slicing them with her Keyblade again.
Pretty soon, the vision vanished, and Kami was back in reality. The toxic smog was also gone as Lord Gnaa appeared stunned. The four heroes quickly ran over and delivered all the beatings they could against the Dark Master. Lord Gnaa suddenly recovered, summoning a force of powerful psychic energy once more before blowing them all away. The heroes took land on the same ships as before, but Arceus’s fire and poison tentacles shot over and mixed together on Rumpel’s goose, exploding and causing him and Jagar to plummet.
“AHH- Ouh!” Jagar grunted, landing in the arms of Yuki Crystal. He smiled and nodded with his friend as Yuki set him down and held him by the arm as they skied along an ice path that Yuki was creating.
“Rage… is everything… We gods are immortal…” Arceus spoke softly. Yuki and Jagar skied along the ice as they made their way to the god, who was sealed safe inside a barrier again. The mighty god swung his stone tentacle to smash the ice path, but the two jumped and landed on another ice road and kept moving. Arceus launched his shadow tentacle to smash the two, but Nolan, Gwen, and Doug flew by on their SPRAYSHIP as Nolan launched a beam of light from his Keyblade, slowing the tentacle down and making it retreat. “Yuki Crystal… can people really love such a cold heart?”
Yuki scoffed and kept skiing with Yuki. The watery tentacle was launching at them, but Yuki quickly blew a ray of ice and froze it to an ice cube just in time. The flaming tentacle was also coming, but Jagar used Time Brake to slow it down, allowing Yuki to release enough ice to make it go back. Meanwhile, the SPRAYSHIP was rapidly barrel-rolling to avoid all of the incoming Fear and Psycho Spheres. Nolan spun his Keyblade around to try, and successfully, bat the spheres back against the barrier. “Gwen and Douglas… are you sure you’re not jealous of the metahumans?”
Eventually, Yuki and Jagar were able to reach the psychic barrier. Yuki immediately began pouring all his strength into blowing ice around the force field, but Arceus used his strength to send the two blowing away. “Why do you resist… the void? All humans… must perish…”
Shaunie kept hold onto Bowser’s Koopa Clown as they flew in closer. Arceus used psychic to send another building their way, but Bowser kept it back using his strength. However, Arceus sent a bunch of meteors flying their way again, and the Clown Car was destroyed as Bowser and Shaunie took the fall. “GRAAARRR!”
Kami held tight to K. Rool’s Flying Krock as they swerved around the meteors, but didn’t notice when a Psycho Sphere zipped over and exploded their ship in one hit. “AAAHHHH…”
Kami was rescued when April and Morgan suddenly arrived and grabbed her by the arms, still in their super forms. At the same time, Mario and Luigi were coming up, with Shaunie in Mario’s arms. Kami was gently set on Ava and Kweeb’s ship, whom had risen back from the fall, and Shaunie on Luvbi’s ship. They all looked up as the space tentacle of Arceus was closing in to crush them. Thankfully, Super Shadow appeared in its path just then, and yelled, “CHAOS… SPEAR!”, launching a swarm of Chaos Spears to keep the tentacle at bay.
“Let’s try again.” Jagar said, he and Yuki surfing along another ice path, quickly reaching the barrier again. Eva Roberts also flew by their side as she and Yuki released a breath of ice against the shield. Jagar used his timebending to speed up their flow of time, so the barrier became frozen much quicker. Jagar was still struggling to keep his hold on the Time Speed. To his relief, the Ice Climbers had surfed over on their own ice path, Olive and Misty by their sides as they helped Jagar to speed up time. Eventually, a large chunk of the barrier was frozen solid. This gave Nolan the opportunity to fire a laser from his wheelchair and blast an opening into the barrier. Shaunie and Kami found two more discarded buildings floating through space, using the strength of their Keyblades to bounce it at the force field and cause it to collapse.
“Grrrrrrrrrrrr!” Arceus growled with extreme anger and aggravation. “It is all hopeless… mortals are weak and… inferior.”
“Hmph, now you finally understand?” Medusa remarked.
“You SHUT your mouth, Medusa!” Pit yelled.
“Come on. Let’s finish him off!” Super Sonic announced. He and the rest of the super-powered heroes flew all around Arceus’s form, laying as many attacks as they could.
From the distance, the rest of the remaining heroes still watched from the floating islands. “Aw, man. At this rate, we’ll never beat Arceus.” Abby complained. “Are they even doing any real damage?”
“Arceus is staying active by absorbing the powers of Negatar Gnaa.” Meta Knight spoke in his thick Spanish accent. “And Gnaa is glued to Arceus’s brain as if he were an actual cell. If Arceus’s brain were to suffer extreme damage, Gnaa could be removed. It may not destroy Arceus, but it can temporarily cancel out his power.”
“And once Gnaa is free, Morgan can try and talk some sense into him.” Abby figured.
“But how are we gonna short out that ginormous brain?” Wally yelled. “It’s almost bigger than mine!”
“Maybe give him tips on some of yo’ homework.” Numbuh 5 mumbled.
“A brain that big, he’ll never go down.” Jeremiah stated.
“But we gotta do SOMETHIN’! My sister can’t last forever!” Leopold whined.
“Hmm…” Matthew Dimalanta just stood in thought of what to do as Yin stood beside him, looking worriedly.
“Pssst. Oh, Matthew!”
“Huh?” They all turned as the Poison Spirit, Hexxus made his presence known.
“The easiest way to cause someone brain damage is an unhealthy dose of poison! And with a brain that big, it’ll take a whole lot. My strengths aren’t enough, but combined with YOUR powers, I’m sure it’ll be a snap! We’ll mix our Poisonous Fury, and destroy every living brain cell in Arceus’s form.”
“If you really think it’ll work, let’s do it!” Matt decided.
“Just one problem.” Hexxus smirked, raising a finger. “To muster up such a feat would be to throw your whole being into an attack. As a spirit, I can make it out okay, but it may be too much for a human. The Poison Fury could KILL you.”
“I guess it’s worth a shot.” This statement made Yin and Sector V gasp. “Guys, fly me closer to Arceus so me and Hexxus can do this.” He ordered the Sector.
“Matthew, no!” Yin grabbed Matt’s hands and looked in his eyes. “You can’t risk yourself like that! We can think of something else.”
“I don’t have a choice, really. I have to do this. I’m sorry.”
“Matthew.” Violet, Bruce, Katie, and Luna ran by his side, worried expressions on their faces that told him not to do this.
“Take care of the sector for me, Luna.” He smiled. “And Yin…” he turned to face his crush, “make sure the guys stay out of trouble.”
Yin stared worriedly at him for a few seconds before pulling him in for a kiss. They released after a few moments, and Matthew went over beside Hexxus. “Let’s go!”
“Okay, then!” Hexxus took the boy in both of his hands and held him high in the air. Matt began to bend the poisons from Hexxus around him and surround himself in a cloud of toxic. Hexxus and Matthew combined their powers, growing into a gigantic cloud of pure, foul poison, which had Matthew’s gas-made head on top, his eyes and mouth oozing with red, fiery substance. The operatives and heroes watched as the gas cloud was slowly closing itself in on Arceus’s mighty form. While the rest of the super forms were busy fighting the deity, they took notice when the huge cloud of gases passed by them. Arceus and Negatar Gnaa focused their sights on the strange being. Gnaa began to show an expression of horror as the cloud of poisons drew closer and closer. Matthew’s poisonous huge hands gripped the sides of the open forehead, his head leaning into the brain where Lord Gnaa stood.
“God of the Universe, your reign ends here. Enjoy the rest of eternity without a brain, you damn pony.” Matthew’s mouth opened wide, leaning inches away from the stem of Arceus’s brain. Slowly, the stem was consumed in the mouth of the toxic entity, and the massive brain of Arceus already started to decay.
“NnnnnnnnnnnnyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAHHHHHHH…” (End song.)
The life from Arceus’s eyes began to fade away as smoke erupted from the god’s brain. The super-powered heroes watched with caution, not expecting it to end so easily. From the fumes of the poison, a light shone, and a golden-green beam shot like a star from the brain, and flew straight into Avatar Aang’s body on the platforms. The airbending monk felt the great powers of the Avatar flowing back inside him, feeling the strength of all the Elements of Light and his past lives. The light dimmed down after a few seconds, allowing Aang and his friends to stud his form. “Whoa…”
“Your powers. They’re back!” Sokka exclaimed.
“But… Matthew…” Yin started with sadness.
“He made the necessary sacrifice.” Yang stated simply.
Numbuh 2 walked over to Abby and whispered, “He can’t really be dead, can he? I mean, remember when we met our future kids?”
“Oh, yeah. His was there, too. Yeah, he’s fine.” Abby whispered back.
The other heroes kept watch on the toxic fumes when a glow of darkness made itself known. The dark aura shot like lightning out from the fumes, and Aang’s eyes widened as it was coming at him. “UWAAH!” the baldhead screamed, being blown away when the dark ball crashed beside him. The dark figure stood and revealed himself to be Negatar Gnaa, glowing with his evil auras as he glared at his counterpart.
“Well done, heroes… you have succeeded marvelously in thwarting my plans to use Arceus’s power. But this. Isn’t. Over… The universe was doomed the very moment of his awakening. It is, on our very last of moments… that I claim victory over the all-powerful Avatar!” (Play the “Anakin vs. Obi-wan” soundtrack from Star Wars III!) Lord Gnaa roared with the energy of his ancestors as fumes of toxic gas began to surround his form. The surrounding shadows left their posts from behind objects or people and took part in the spiraling cyclone. The Negatar was then surrounded by some psychic energy, followed by the red aura of fear from his own screams. Negatar Gnaa was once again powered by the five Elements of Darkness.
Avatar Aang already began to follow in his actions, brimming with the powers of his predecessors as he was surrounded in a cyclone of water, earth, fire, and air. Aang’s friends and allies watched with anticipation as both powerful figures faced each other with fierce expressions. The two cyclones of energy backed up, then collided with each other before beginning to brawl.
Boss fight: Negatar Gnaa
Gnaa started with the first wave of rocks thrown via psychic, and Aang countered with rocks from his own earthbending. The two spheres energy rammed powerfully into one-another before Gnaa spat a wave of toxic waste at his double, but Aang moved his head to the side just in time. The Avatar levitated more rocks and flung them at his Negative, but Lord Gnaa teleported before the rocks could hit. Aang felt the Negatar appear behind him and dodged before Gnaa could crush him with a large shadow fist. Aang bended some water into an equally large fist and started punching against Gnaa's.
In the background, Nigel, Morgan, and Danika, still in super forms, watched this battle play out. "You think we should help him?" Danika asked.
"No. This is Aang's fight now." Nigel told her.
Morgan only looked with concern as the Avatar laid several more punches against his Negative. "Someone needs help."
"Morgan, wait!" Nigel called as his cousin flew toward the battle site.
Aang flew above Gnaa and used a powerful gust of wind to force him to the ground. Aang was about to crash against the Negatar using a stone shield alit with fire, but as he was only feet away, Morgan flew in his path and blocked Aang with a psychic barrier. "Morgan!" Aang exclaimed.
Gnaa uncovered his glowing eyes in surprise. "You're... alive."
"Yes. I came back. To help you."
The energy around Gnaa slowly died down. But before it could get far, Gnaa's shadow shot up from below him and pushed the girl away. "Don't listen to her, Master. She doesn't care about you. Not like I do..."
This was enough for Gnaa to get his strength back. He shot back into the air and shoved his counterpart away. Aang released a ray of fire from his lungs, and Gnaa countered with poisons that exploded upon impact. The whole area was engulfed in smoke and fog as Morgan stood and looked around. She screamed when Phantom Gnaa shot over and tackled her from behind. "You will not interfere." he insisted, shoving her against the ground.
"ERRYAAH!" Morgan cried, blowing the phantom away with an expanding barrier. She blew the smoke away as well, watching as Gnaa pelted Aang with some Fear Spheres, which zoomed around and closed in from all directions. Morgan ran closer to the Negatar and yelled, "The phantom doesn't care about you. He's manipulating you into doing what he wants. He acts like he's your servant, but it's really you he's controlling like some puppetmaster."
"You're wrong." Gnaa stated, unleashing a dark laser upon Aang, forcing him against a wall and quickly making a crater. The phantom pushed Morgan away once again, grabbing her by the arms and bashing her against the ground several times. Morgan quickly teleported behind the shadow and struck him with her light saber, turning as Aang and Gnaa locked arms and tried to shove each other, until, Lord Gnaa was shoved to the ground. Morgan looked with worry, but Gnaa recovered and dodged before Aang could blow fire on him. Phantom Gnaa got up and grabbed Morgan from behind, trying to choke her as he slammed her into a wall. Morgan drew out her saber and swung behind, making the phantom duck, and the shadow kept dodging as Morgan kept swinging.
“You’re a liar, Phantom! Admit it!”
Phantom Gnaa drew out the shadow version of Gnaa’s Keyblade and clashed against her light saber. “I am a shadow. I am doing what the gods have ordered, and serving my Master.” The two engaged in a clash of their blades, with Morgan having to back away from Phantom’s quick swings.
“If you were a decent shadow, you’d lead him on the right path.”
“I lead my Master on the path that was set for him. His destiny is established. THIS is his destiny. And now you will meet yours!” Morgan dodged and avoided the phantom’s Fear Scream. She kept running as Phantom gave chase, launching Psycho Spheres and exploding areas ahead of her. She shield her face from the smoke, quickly drawing her saber when the phantom emerged and tried to strike her.
Aang unleashed a huge watery wave at his counterpart, but Gnaa countered with his own wave of toxic. The two opposing elements mixed together in a swirling cyclone, becoming a huge sphere of both substances. Both super-beings used all their strength to force the combo sphere at the other, but in the end, both forces sent the sphere shooting to the ground, exploding into a rain of water and poison. Aang became slightly damaged by the hazards, unable to avoid as Gnaa shot over and forced him against a wall. Gnaa then used his psychokinesis to make the wall above Aang to collapse even further, until the Avatar was buried in rubble. Aang used his abilities to rise from the rubble, levitating the rocks and shooting them at his double. Gnaa took several pelts until he was blown away by a larger rock, crashing his head against another wall. He recovered and started to launch Fear Spheres at Aang, who swiftly dodged and avoided them before spinning around and unleashing a shockwave of fire.
Meanwhile, Morgan and Phantom clashed their blades powerfully against the other, totally desperate to attack the other. The two jumped away from each other as Phantom used psychic to grab a boulder and hurl it at Morgan, who ducked, then gasped as Phantom immediately shot over and swung his Keyblade. Morgan pushed away with her light saber just in time, but lost the strength to defend as Phantom shot around and struck from behind. “Oww!” she yelped, falling to her knees. She looked up, panting as the phantom held a wicked smirk. She instantly swung her light saber and clashed some more, able to deal a blow across Phantom’s chest. She turned as Gnaa had once again slammed Aang into a ruined building, switching off her saber as she spoke-
“Think about it, Gnaa. Why do you think everyone risked their lives to save me? They did it for you. Because they knew I was right. They know… you have good in you, too.”
“GRAAH!” Phantom immediately recovered and swung his Keyblade, and Morgan was quick to clash back.
Gnaa watched as Aang rose back to the air from his spot. “You know, she has a point. Why else would they go through all that crud?”
Morgan grabbed Phantom with psychic and forced him against a ruin, making said ruin crumble into rubble on top of him. “They saved the Firstborn and brought me back because they knew I could help you. They knew I was the only one who could bring you to the light. They know you belong to the light, Gnaa, and the darkness just wishes to control you.”
“LIES!” Phantom yelled, rising from his spot. Before he could attack, Aang launched several stones at his form and sent him flying.
“The phantom used you from the beginning, to throw the universe into his darkness. He made you believe you were never meant for good, so you would be a perfect body of darkness. And what’s more, he even tricked you into liking me in the hopes your heart would be broken. Now, what kind of friend does that?”
“Who will you listen to, Master? The one who has been with you all this century, or the over-imaginative girl who doesn’t care about you?”
“I care enough to know where his heart REALLY lies. Come on, Gnaa. Ditch this shadow, and stop what you’re doing. You can still rescue the universe with your light!”
“HIS light has faded long ago!”
“GYAAH!” Morgan yelled as Phantom blasted her with Force Lightning and brought her to her knees.
“But I believe YOUR light has overstayed its welcome. So let’s see where your precious faith gets you NOW!”
“GAAAH!” Morgan continued screaming with extreme pain as the phantom unleashed a storm of his Force Lightning. Negatar Gnaa could only watch with horror as his crush endured extreme suffering. Aang tried to save her, but the phantom unleashed a quick Fear Scream, painful enough to stun the Avatar.
“Master! The time is now! Take victory over your counterpart and retrieve his jewel, so that we may empower Arceus again!”
“N-No!” Morgan cried, still shaking with extreme shock. “Destroy… the phantom…”
Gnaa looked back and forth between Aang and Morgan, unable to decide which one to choose.
“MASTER!” yelled the phantom, “Your destiny is to destroy the universe with Arceus. It always has been, ever since the original Negatar attacked him long ago. He set in motion the path which YOU must complete. Finish it. NOW…”
“His destiny… isn’t.. set.. in stone.” Morgan grunted once more. “He can.. decide.. which path to follow…”
“Then choose, Master. Which will it be? Your grand vengeance against all who have taunted you… or pitiful friends who will only betray you later? Choose it! NOW!”
Gnaa was still struggling. Morgan flashed brightly, her bones beginning to show from the endless assault of Force Lightning. The anger and hatred from Phantom Gnaa’s demanding eyes looked desperate. Gnaa saw no real sign of care in Phantom’s eyes or voice. Not like he did Morgan’s. She’s seemed to be the only one to care about him all this time. He almost did feel a special feeling in his heart when she spoke to him. Not from Phantom. A feeling almost like…like light! A true feeling… not anything like his darkness could’ve provided. He made his decision.
“GYAAAHHH!” Phantom Gnaa was immediately met with a storm of Force Lightning. Morgan fell free from the spirit’s grasp, turning with amazement as Lord Gnaa unleashed the power against his traitorous shadow. Phantom weakly turned, raising his Keyblade and doing his best to absorb and redirect the lightning from his master’s hands. Gnaa struggled against the added force from his shadow, switching out his Keyblade and fighting the lightning back. The land on the floating islands in the Scattered Realms flashed brighter than ever from the collision of two forces of Force Lightning. The encounter lasted for a few more minutes. Finally, Phantom Gnaa was overcome by his master’s power, and was sent flying through several ruins before crashing and becoming buried in rubble.
Lord Gnaa panted in tiredness, lowering his guard. Morgan smiled with pride and happiness in her eyes, too weak to stand up. The rest of her siblings jumped down just then, and Buddy and Athena proceeded to lift her up. “We’ll take it from here.”
Aang and Gnaa nodded, and The Quads flew away. Aang and Gnaa exchanged glances and nodded before looking toward the fallen shadow. Phantom Gnaa groaned as he recovered from his spot, gasping as Aang and Gnaa stood over him, still brimming with terrific powers.
“IT’S OVER, PHANTOM GNAA.” Both powers announced in their monotone voices.
Phantom Gnaa looked to the distorted heavens and smirked. (End song.) The phantom shot into the heavens, and everyone watched as he flew over to Arceus, disappearing inside the fuming brain.
“What’s he doing? !” Super Sonic exclaimed.
The poisonous fumes began to disappear as the brain was engulfed inside of a shadow. The mighty god began to recover to his feet as his form became much blacker with shadow. A terrifying face appeared over Arceus’s, the face of the dreaded phantom himself. The Supreme God was fully recovered, howling into the cosmic heavens with supreme power and darkness.
The Avatar and Negatar gaped with total shock. They shook off their shock and faced back at each other, exchanging serious nods. The two super-powers hovered into the air and shined more brightly than ever. Before everyone’s eyes, the images of all the other Avatars and Negatars appeared alongside their respective current generation.
“It’s time to put our differences aside.” Avatar Roku announced.
“Whatever, old man.” Negatar Ukor replied.
Avatar Ihsoyk looked with disgust at her Positive’s outfit. “Uugh! Is THAT what I wear in the other universe?”
“Shut up.” Kyoshi told her.
All Avatars and Negatars mixed into their respective body as Aang and Gnaa touched hands. In seconds, the two powers were fused together into one body that flashed the colors of green, yellow, and purple. The body of power was surrounded by a cyclone of the Light Elements, Water, Earth, Fire, and Air, mixed with the Dark Elements, Poison, Shadow, Psychic, and Fear. He was now Kingdom Elements. In his right hand was the Keyblade of Light, and in his left hand, the Keyblade of Hearts. The fused being twirled his blades and clashed them before aiming them at the hideous incarnation. Aang and Gnaa flew beside their fellow super-beings as all readied to battle the entity again. They flew dead-on toward the Supreme God, and the final battle begun.