Chapter 17: Immortal Ichor War

The darkness started to spread out, and it just revealed an empty floor, and there was a deafening silence for a while. Then there was a flying camera flying overhead, and a familiar voice played. "Kick his ass you guys! This is the climax, everyone's watching and waiting for your victory. This is the job, don't let that fool get near the earth! Full power this bitch!" Boss yelled. All of them smiled, and got ready to brawl. Oliver tried to shoot the camera, but it seemed to phase right through it so he ignored it. He then started to go on more about how humans constantly destroy, but Satina kicked him in his mouth, which made him bleed a bit. "Shut up and fight dumbass. This is war, call out your lackies and let's get it on." she said. Oliver just got back up, and pointed to his face, suggesting that they all attack his face. But Gabriel and Quason attacked him from behind, kicking him towards Ben and Ben kicked him up into the air, then Tasha grabbed him and slammed him to the ground. He didn't fight back or anything, he was just laying there crying, which was surprising since he started this whole thing to begin with. Many of his members appeared, and it seemed to be in the thousands. "Look at you, surrounded by humans you claim to hate for destroying the world. You're pathetic." Harris said bluntly. Oliver got up and stopped crying, and summoned a long thin sword to fight with. The whole hoard started to run at them, but no one flinched as they got ready to fight.

Harris finally decided to use his full Sephirot powers, and mixed them up with gems he had on hand, shooting beams of energy through them and causing them to detonate like bombs. Ben and Tasha took the fight up close, slicing apart multiple people like they were made of warm butter, and not feeling much remorse since this was the path they chose for themselves. Quason summoned a large chimera monster and fought with faster than eyesight movement along with Gabriel. Gabriel summoned a large divine axe and he swung it around like it weight nothing, and dashed through to get to Oliver. Satina backed him up and used her wings to attack like they were chains on her back. Gabriel attacked Oliver, trying to aim for his neck, and Oliver kept deflecting his axe. Harris then summoned a massive lava golem and it attacked Oliver and threw him around, and Gabriel added onto it by making a large cross made of light and used it like a floating buzzsaw. Oliver then got up and dusted his shoulder, then rushed to destroy the golem with a flying kick, and attacked everyone with seemingly minimal effort. He then killed all of his followers in a single blast with an expressionless face. Ursa was stunned for a moment, and Oliver made it behind her and dragged her through the ground at high speed. Despite being divine, they were still taking damage from him. Kamai attacked him with rapid swings from behind, but he stopped him by breaking his arms and punching him so hard the shockwave rippled through his body and a few of his ribs shattered. Quason and Harris attacked him at the same time but they both got blasted in the eyes and then thrown backwards. It seemed like Oliver had full control over his abilities, and abandoned his own humanity. Ben and Tasha tried a long range combo spell, and managed to crush him in a massive astral hand wrapped in thorns, and caused it to explode while he was trapped underneath it. However it did nothing to him and they were both knocked to the ground. "Do you all see? Do you see your heroes, these worthless humans that blind you to the truth of what the world is? You should've never crawled out of the mud that spawned you, because then you wouldn't have to see your hopes die. How does it feel to know death is always upon you, that everything you destroyed will erase you? Humanity shall die, and I will relish in the screams!!" he yelled out to the camera. Then a small boy's voice yelled out. "Daddy!!! Don't lose, I believe in you! Get up, it's not over!" he screamed. More voices started to cheer for them, like prayers for divine victory. That's what was missing, a prayer. Everyone started to get up, their power engulfing the void around them, and their wounds healing faster than before. It was a massive surprise that they never thought about receiving any prayers, as that is the key to cementing godly power. They heard the wishes of everyone that screamed out, and their wishes gave them power. "Damn, we already forget something so easy. The power of human wishes, the wish for the right thing. We're a bunch of idiots!" Harris said while laughing. Ursa rolled her eyes. "Not..funny..jerk." she said, and helped Quason up. Oliver was surprised, almost completely terrified. Gabriel helped Satina up, not caring about Oliver at all at the moment, and Satina hugged him and kissed his cheek. Kamai gets back up and saw that his sword was still intact surprisingly, and poked Harris to make sure he didn't have any broken bones. Ben picked Tasha up like she was a princess, and Tasha giggled while playing along.

Oliver started to get angry that he was being ignored, and went to attack Tasha, but she grabbed his arm, and slammed him hard into the ground while still being held. Ben put her down and hugged her more, causing Tasha to laugh since she was easily ticklish. Oliver got back up and attacked again, but Ben kicked him away, making sure his boot connected with his his eye and flung him towards Harris, who grabbed his face with great strength in his hands. "So Oliver, what was that about humans? We destroy and ruin everything we touch? So what? Creation and destruction go hand in hand. Like this." he said as he summoned a massive beam of light to hit him and Harris, and Oliver shrieked in pain while Harris had a devilish grin which turned to laughing demonically. He then summoned six massive demon hands to punch him all at once, their fists breaking his bones and causing the whole void to tremble. Gabriel telekinetically threw Oliver into the air, summoning a holy rose whip, and lashed him multiple times before Quason sliced him in the back. He was suffering as blood splattered all over the floor, his healing ability being overtaxed by the damage he was taking. Satina and Ursa made a massive spear of light, and drove it through Oliver's chest, causing him to scream louder. "Don't you get it you dumbass, humanity is like the yin and yang, two sides of the same coin. There's some cruel and heartless, but there's those that fight for a better tomorrow. Focusing on the evil causes you to become that evil, which is exactly why you're suffering. This is why humans became gods, because evil like yours consumes endlessly." Harris said as he flew up high with everyone else. "Well guys, this war is over. Let's end this and go home." he said as all of them combined their energies into a massive lion's head that seemed like an entirely new universe of power. "We'll call this...Big Bang: Simba's King Roar." they all said in unison as the massive lion head shot a beam of energy with the power of the big bang, the void being erased completely and the new galaxies forming as well. In his final moments, Oliver looked into the blast and saw pure creation itself, and his face almost seemed innocent. In his mind, he could only think one thing. "Beautiful..." he said before his body was erased at the sub-atomic level and his soul was sent into a void to go to a new universe and hopefully be better. The energy disperses, and everyone yelled in triumph that they had finally won the battle. After what seemed like an hour in earth time, they were all home and smiled that everyone was safe and sound.

After meeting with the world leaders and the Council of Sages, they had to give some sort of speech to cement their victory. Harris spoke what everyone was thinking. "We're not heroes or anything you know. Just cops doing their job. And if that job requires us to destroy a void larger than Andromeda, and save the goddamn human race and everything else..then so be it. Humans are worth the effort. But for the love of all that's holy, maybe try getting involved next time. Not everything is beyond your capabilities." he said. Everyone laughed and the council promised that from now on they'll stop shunning the world's affairs for the sake of knowledge. The world leaders also agreed that something like that would be prevented to the best of their ability. After that, everyone went home, but then rushed to the hospital because Tasha, Satina, and Ursa were finally about to give birth.