F-7. Diamond Is Unbreakable

I extended this chapter with battles against some Fairy Tail villains. Good way to give more operatives some 1v1 fights.

Planet Ore

"It's been too long, Titan." Yellow Diamond said. "I couldn't forget the one that helped Rose Quartz betray us. What I don't understand is why. What did you have to gain from Pink Diamond's destruction?"

"Well… isn't it obvious?" Titan's head lifted up and made a 180-degree turn to face her. Anthony was almost shocked by the action, but forgot he was a rock creature. "Me and Rose believed in true power… Power that could challenge even Arceus. She thought it was possible… because Rose was cut from the same facet as Pink Diamond. Only by destroying Pink Diamond could she absorb her Ether. The trolls wanted what we wanted, too, so they helped us. They had harnessed Arceus' power. They gave some of that power to us. Then… from mine and hers and Arceus' power… we created an egg. A hybrid of Gem and Ore, it was going to possess ultimate power… and we called it Diancie."

"Diancie?" Anthony processed the knowledge. "My… sister?"

"Just what were you thinking in doing that?!" Diamond shouted. "That creature called Diancie was sent to the other universe! Without Pink Diamond's Ether, and without Blue's, Emera became unstable! Only our power was able to stabilize the Ether! That's why… Arceus allowed my world to survive! But to think he let a monster like you survive…" She clenched her teeth.

"The Ores are much too strong to be destroyed so easily. And besides… look at what you did, Topaz. You took your Diamond's Ether and lost to those trolls. It was YOUR fault that Emera ultimately lost control and exploded!"

"Emera did not explode! I was there moments ago! It was still stable, the Gems were alive!"

"Was it? That doesn't seem possible."

"The only reason it could be are that the Diamonds have returned. And this time, I intend to make things right. I have absorbed White Diamond and Blue Diamond into my gem. All I need now is Pink Diamond. By now, Thanos should be sapping her power."

The earth shook as Titan helped himself up, towering over Yellow Diamond. "You will NOT touch my-!"

"Just go protect Diancie, okay Mr. Titan?!" Anthony told him. "I'll keep this lady busy!"

"You? My son…"

"You said I was almost as tough as you. That should be tough enough to break this diamond!"

"HAH HAH hah! That's my boy! All right… but don't get cracked too badly." Titan turned to stomp back toward the palace.

"This is too pathetic for words!" Yellow Diamond smirked. "When we found you, you were nothing more than my Pearl's personal pet. What makes you so different now?"

Anthony smirked. "The same as you." Diamond cocked a brow when he got a small chest from his pocket; a Vanishing Chest. "I got taller." He opened the chest on the ground as small creatures climbed out. He proceeded to resize them with purple Minish Dust.

Shelly Johnson, Tom Taylor, Emily Garley, and Ikuyim Latsyrc poofed to normal size. "Damn, that little box wasn't big enough!" Tom stretched his back. "Why did we have to stay in that thing?"

"For surprise sake." Anthony answered.

"I don't mind a good surprise." Shelly said.

"OH, GOLLY, it's Yellow Diamond!" Ikuyim beamed at the Gem Empress. "Look how BIG you've gotten! I don't mean that you're fat, you're actually beautiful!"

"WE'RE FIGHTING A DARKNESS?!" Emily screamed. "Oh, God! I-I-I don't think I'm ready for this! I'm shivering!" She was also sweating.

"Get your head in the game!" Tom yelled. "Because if you don't, I'll pound your brains out! Just like Sovite did to Hornfels!"

"Geep! Alright, alright!" Emily drew an Infi-Cube, and from it 15 hand-size metal rocks came out. Emily molded the rocks together and formed a giant metal suit with her metalbending. "Let's kick some theoretically unbreakable heinie!"

"You see that, Diamond?" Anthony taunted. "It's five against one! SUCK IT!"

"Heh heh heh… Even if the odds were against me… you are facing THREE Diamonds. And that means you have already LOST." (Play "Aparoid Queen 1" from Star Fox Assault!)

Boss fight: Yellow Diamond

The empress started by simply conjuring five diamonds in the air and tossing them at her opponents. They easily dodged before Emily made the lower half of her suit into a spring, bouncing behind Diamond and attempting to mold her arms against her body. The empress turned to diamond and broke free, punching Emily away effortlessly. "HEADS UP!" Tom chucked a large, burning meteor at the giantess, but Yellow Diamond remained in her hardened form, standing still to let it strike.

Tom smirked: the side of the meteor turned black. "D'AAAAAHH!" A direct blow to Diamond's face, she reverted to normal and collapsed backward.

"So, the mighty unbreakable Diamond is weak to Armament Haki." Tom flexed a muscle. "'Guess you were all hype."

"HOW is it you were able to hurt me?! No matter… my defense isn't my most superior talent!" Yellow Diamond drew her Shock Sword and impaled a floating diamond. Five diamonds appeared over the area, columns of lightning shining from them as they moved around to shock the kids. While they were trying to dodge them, Diamond performed a spin attack to send an electric shockwave, stunning the earthbenders. "Did that HURT?!" She turned diamond and stabbed herself, refracting electricity in all directions to weaken them further.

"My lightning can distort the physical bodies of Gems and make it difficult to channel Ether. I'm surprised you fleshlings are still breathing."

Just then, small metal needles were thrown and lightly injected into the kids' skin. Emily pulled the needles back to her suit, taking the electricity with her. "Good thing my metal is highly conductible!" She molded the suit's right arm into a rod and shot the lightning skyward. Yellow Diamond spawned white diamonds around the field, shaping a diamond as lasers connected them.

"HEY, get out of the circle!" Shelly cried, burrowing underneath.

"It's nowhere close to a circle-!" Emily argued.

"DO WHAT SHE SAYS!" Anthony stomped and sprung Emily out of the diamond, then he burrowed under and away. A column of light erupted from the drawing, burning up through the sky and underground. When it ended, a gaping diamond-shaped hole remained.

Shelly reemerged from the ground and broke the area into gray sand, stirring a sandy whirlpool over the hole. "Jokes on you, Diamond Hag! Drown in my Sand Toilet!" The sand spiraled faster in attempt to drag the empress down. Diamond smirked and extracted a sapphire scepter from her chest, sticking it in the sand and turning it into icy blue crystals.

"AAAGH!" Anthony's feet were encased in the crystal.

"What gives, ice like this should be a SYNCH to melt!" Tom yelled, trying to break it off his legs.

"Blue Diamond had the power to convert any solid into beautiful sapphire." Yellow Diamond explained. "And whatever she transforms became hers to control!" Spiked crystal arms emerged from the ground as one lashed toward Anthony, but Ikuyim jumped in the way and shattered it.

"I hate to ruin such beautiful sapphire, but my friends are in danger!" She went to break the crystal holding her friends.

"Hey, lend me a hand, Snow Head!" Shelly grabbed Ikuyim's hand, combining their chi as they stomped the crystalline ground and converted it into sand. The crystal fragments looked like bullets of light as they shot at Yellow Diamond rapidly. She endured a few hits before creating flat blue diamonds that served as shields.

"She didn't crystallize it all!" Emily molded her metal into a drill and burrowed deeper underground. "Tom, we need your help!"

"With pleasure!" Tom jumped into the hole, and he returned riding a rock on a geyser of lava. The lava washed over the Diamond Dust and formed into soil.

"Sweet! Getting back in the…" Anthony tried to bend the earth. "Ow!" He slumped. He was horrified when small crystals sprouted from his hands and feet. "What the frick?!"

"Blue Diamond can turn ANY solid into crystal!" Yellow restated. "Including the organic substance that keeps you standing."

"AAAAHH!" Shelly freaked when crystals grew from her legs. "This is just GROSS! They wouldn't even have this in the show you're from!"

"Yellow Diamond's not even in the show she's from." Tom remarked. "Don't break down and cry yet, twerps!" She created a lava arm and hardened it with Armament Haki, bashing Yellow across the head with it before she made five white diamonds to block it. The empress raised her sword and ran to shock Tom, but the sword was drawn to the rod on Emily's armor. Diamond added more power to her sword, resulting in a powerful wave of lightning that overfilled and shocked the bespectacled metalbender.

Yellow Diamond turned her foot blue and stomped it underground. Anthony used his Seismic Sense. "Blue crystals are moving underground! Tom! Shelly! Ikuyim!" He yelled at which of his friends should dodge to avoid the crystals.

"SILENCE, Beaver!" Yellow Diamond clenched her fist, and a searing pain coursed through the humans via the crystals in their bodies.

"THIS IS CHEATING, BITCH!" Shelly cursed. "And that's coming from me!"

"I agree!" another voice yelled.

Yellow Diamond gasped. "YOU'RE Diancie!"

"Michelle?!" Anthony exclaimed. "You gotta get out of here, she's after YOU!"

"I'm sorry, Anthony! I just… didn't know where else to run."

"I'm not late for the show, am I?" Thanos was standing not far away.

"What happened to Titan?!" Anthony yelped in fright. "A-And my friends?!"

"Those children were not worth the effort, so I let them live for now. And as for the giant… all it took was one punch." He spared a look to the fallen giant in the distance.

"Why haven't you absorbed Diancie's power like you were supposed to?!" Diamond questioned.

"I first wanted to see how powerful you were without the fourth Diamond." Thanos crossed his arms, tapping the right arm with the Infinity Gauntlet fingers. "Go on. They're only children."

"Oh, Lord." Emily was sweating again. "Even if we did beat her… Thanos is even scarier."

"Gnn! I don't need you! I'll take Pink Diamond's power myself!" The empress charged for Diancie, but Tom erupted an Armament lava hand big enough to restrain her.

Diancie spat on Anthony's crystals. "Gross! Michelle, this ain't the time for this!"

However, the crystals disappeared. "Anthony, I'll fix the others. But listen, you should have the advantage in this fight. Mr. Titan said Permanite can crack diamonds, right? You were able to bend the Poneglyphs during the voyage. Find some Permanite and use it!" Anthony nodded and began to use Seismic Sense, searching the earth for any Permanite.

Yellow Diamond sprouted white diamonds from her form to break the lava hand. She dodged when Emily tried to stab her with a large sword, following this with roping the empress with a metal lasso. Emily tried to enclose the lasso, but Diamond became lightning and slipped out, then slashed shock waves at the nerd. Emily again used her suit to conduct and banish the lightning. Yellow Diamond looked up and saw an Armament meteor was hurdling toward her, so she encased herself in a rotating white diamond shield.

The meteor laid nary a scratch upon impact with the diamond. Ikuyim and Shelly ran up and combined chi to try and break the shield, but it was too powerful. "Move, you brats!" Tom yelled, and they heeded his warning as he melted the ground around Diamond. Sadly, even his lava couldn't melt the sturdy diamond.

"AAH! What?!" Diamond yelped when something rammed her shield with great force. Two stone pyramids were aimed at her, controlled by Anthony.

"You did it, Big Brother!" Diancie beamed. "You found some Permanite!"

"Yeah, but it's kinda heavy!" he grunted. He stabbed the pyramids against the diamond, cracking it ever-so steadily.

"ENOUGH!" Yellow Diamond grabbed the pyramids in telekinesis. "Your control over stone is nothing to Blue Diamond's psychic!" She about-faced the pyramids at Anthony, flying to stab him, but he forced them down with his own bending as they crashed the ground and blew him back. Emily used drills, Tom used Armament lava, Ikuyim and Shelly used Chi Unison, but they still couldn't pierce the slightly-cracked diamond.

"I'm a Guardian of Earth, too!!" Diancie flew up and tried to rip the diamond with her own bending. When Yellow Diamond saw the crack increase a smidge, she snatched the Firstborn in psychic and slammed her against the ground.

"You disgrace the Diamond name with your existence, Diancie! I will take back Pink's Ether and shatter you!"

"HANDS OFF MY SISTER!" Anthony hurled a Permanite pyramid at the shield and shattered it. Yellow Diamond submerged in the lava as Tom hardened it, leaving Emily to bash the giantess' face with metal hammers. Yellow surrounded herself in diamonds and connected them with electricity, refracting it outward to distract the kids so she could climb out. "UAAAH!" The diamonds were shattered by Diancie, knocking the empress down.

"You're finished, Yellow Diamond!" Diancie declared. The empress's arms were strapped to the ground by hardened lava cuffs. Anthony raised another pyramid and aimed it at her chest. Yellow Diamond struggled to push it back with psychic, but her attempts were working as Anthony was faltering. Shelly bent sand around Diamond's head and crushed it with Sand Coffin, hurting her just enough so Anthony could bring the pyramid down. (End song.)

"AAAA-AAAAH!" Yellow Diamond choked from the wound in her chest. After Anthony took the pyramid off, her yellow diamond was only slightly cracked.

"YEAH! That gave her some!" Shelly fist-pumped. "One more stab oughta break her, Ant!"

The pyramid plopped on the ground as Anthony gasped. "I need to rest for a minute… huff… that stuff is hard to bend."

"Thanos!" the empress rasped. "Grab Diancie and transfer her power to me! NOW!"

"You know, Yellow Diamond, it would take just one snap of my finger to destroy these kids." Thanos chuckled. "And you can't even crush one of them. But this display is entertaining… so, I guess I'll help."

"HEY, BACK OFF!" Shelly, Ikuyim, and Tom attacked the Mad Titan with their bending, but he froze them in time with the Time Stone before kicking them aside. Diancie formed pink diamonds to fly at Thanos, but he warped behind and grasped the Firstborn in his right hand.

"NO! Let me go!" Diancie squirmed. A smirking Thanos touched the Power Stone knuckle to the helpless deity, Diancie screaming loudly. Her energy was being sucked away like a vacuum shoved against her face.

Thanos discarded the dimmed rock fairy beside Anthony. "Michelle!" He lifted her up.

And with that, Thanos touched Yellow Diamond with the Power Stone. The powers of Pink Diamond coursed through her being and repaired the crack. The kids watched with awe as the empress hovered. "Yes… AT LAST!" Her body flashed between yellow, white, blue, and pink. "The four Diamonds have united once again! NOW our TRUE FORM will AWAKEN!"

She flew to the sky as a comet in the forms of the four Diamonds. Upon reaching the stratosphere, they FLASHED into a mini sun. Six arms grew out of this entity, the four diamonds were displayed around her waist. Where legs should've been, a huge neon diamond was rotating, and a crown of diamonds appeared over her hair. Her lovely face and her body was composed of shiny, pure, solid green Diamond. She spoke with a majestic voice befitting a goddess.

"I… am… Emera… the goddess of Gems and Ether. Together… we are the most perfect being in all the universe… and we will share our perfection… with everyone…"

In one of her hands formed a tremendous version of Yellow Diamond's Keyblade. A great light ignited on the tip and became comets that whisked across the cosmos. They struck planet after planet, transforming it into beautiful crystal. "Four diamonds make an emerald?" Shelly questioned. "That's weird."

"Yeah." replied Emily. "Yet, it feels familiar to me somehow…"

"Anthony…" Diancie grunted. "You have to go up there… and stop her. Use the Sun Chi Lantern… combine our chi… and take the fight to her."

"But even if I had all your chi, she's way too powerful now! How can I-"

"You can." The kids whipped around, and Thanos cocked a brow: Titan towered over them with a hunched back.

"You're still alive?" inquired Thanos.

"I had no intention of dying, yet. Diancie… there is something I have not yet told you. Before you were sent to that world, the trolls… cut a piece of your egg and gave it to me. I am here… to give it back." His giant polygonal hand loomed forward and opened, dropping a very tiny marble at Anthony's feet.

He picked it up to show his sister. The marble was white with a yellow and pink swirl inside. "That gem is called Diancite." Titan explained. "In case you ever lost the powers of Pink Diamond… that gem would give you your true power. Use it… and help your brother."

"Daddy…" Diancie calmly took the marble. She closed her eyes as the gem resonated. Diancie brimmed a bright white, hovering into the sky. The rock on her bottom broke into a large mass of pink crystals, little crystals hovering by the tips, and large white ribbons flowed from her crown.

"Rose carved that gem from the very Heart of Planet Emera. Now, even without her Ether, you are stronger than ever!"

"Then it's time to act! Big Brother, the lantern!"

"Right here!" Emily grabbed the Sun Chi Lantern from her Infi-Cube and threw it to Anthony. The four Earth Children surrounded him as he raised it.

"SUN CHI LANTERN!" The chis of Shelly, Ikuyim, Tom, and Emily flowed into the lantern, and channeled into Anthony. To test his power, he stomped up a jagged rock, converted it into sand, then lava, brought over Emily's malleable metal, and stomped up five crystals.

Anthony molded the metal into a rocket platform, igniting the engine with concentrated lavabending. "UP WE GO!" Anthony and Diancie took off for the great goddess.

"Big Brother? Would you call me the Royal Pink Princess?" she giggled.

"Help me beat this hag and I just might!" (Play "Aparoid Queen 2"!)

Phase 2: Goddess Emera

Though Goddess Emera was still miles away, she was already reacting by forming reflective diamond walls and firing rainbow beams. "Michelle, there's a weak spot!" Anthony pointed—since he also absorbed Emily's Observation Haki, his senses had enhanced. Diancie followed his judgment and flew to shatter those areas, diamond wall after diamond wall. Soon, Emera made large diamonds appear around every direction to fly at Anthony like missiles, but his borrowed Haki enabled him to make quick dodges. "OOF!" A faster diamond got the better of him, but Diancie flew under his ship to keep him airborne.

"I got ya, Brother!" As they kept flying for the goddess, Emera created an asteroid field of highly reflective diamonds, depicting giant distorted reflections of the kids. Anthony used Observation to navigate around the maze, evading more lasers that bounced all around. Soon, they made it through the maze, seconds away from arriving at Emera. "Anthony, we have to destroy the diamonds around her waist. That should cut the access to some of her powers."

"Let's go for the pink one first." As they flew before Emera, the goddess used psychic to hold them in place. She was bringing two of her hands together to clap them, but Diancie spawned larger diamonds to puncture and push the hands back. She then chucked two pink diamonds into the goddess's eyes, weakening the concentration as they flew around her. Emera willed more hands to spawn around the kids for some fast-pace claps, but Diancie was quick to defend her brother.

They got behind and saw the pink diamond glistening on her back. "Time to crank up the drill!" Anthony molded his metal ship into a drill. "Add a little fire." The drill burned with lavabending. "Mixed with Ikuyim's crystalbending with Shelly's love for breaking stuff… Let's BREAK a diamond!" Diancie pushed the drill forward, contributing her own chi with Anthony's, and together the pink diamond was SHATTERED.

"Guu-wuu-HUUU-huh!" Emera's body flashed and fizzed for a moment. "The perfect Gem will not be broken by you!" The goddess teleported a few more miles away, creating a sea of tiny glittering fragments.

"Ouch!" yelped Anthony, earning a cut when a fragment touched him. "They're sharp, be careful!" They used gembending to swat the fragments aside, but the goddess began to move them like bullets and scratch the boy's skin even more. Anthony endured the pain, making it through the fragment field as they faced Emera again. The goddess spawned more diamonds and electrified herself, the energy refracting all around them, but Diancie forged her own diamonds and refracted the lightning away.

Little bolts of lightning zapped out of the segments on her body as the kids maneuvered around her, aiming to get face with the yellow diamond. To their misfortune, the gem was electrified, and the surge would prevent Anthony from forcing the drill through. "Crud! I wish I still had that rubber suit from Birka!"

"Wish granted." Fybi Fulbright dropped the suit on his head.

"WHAT THE-?!" yelled a surprised Anthony. "'Didju come from, Fybi?!"

"I wast fortunate to be spared by Thanos. Didst thou believeth I wouldst sit out yonder action? Prithee, I fear mine arrows will help not against this beast, so I wish thee the best." She flew to safety.

"I can always count on you." Anthony quickly squeezed the rubber suit on. He molded the drill once again, leaving Diancie to push it, and the Firstborn made diamonds to refract the defense lightning. When the drill made contact with the electric gem, Anthony's suit made him immune, and the yellow diamond was shattered.

Emera's body fizzed once again, but it regained its solid form. "I condemn you to eternal crystallization!" The goddess spat a ball of ice from her mouth and blasted Anthony off his rocket.

"BIG BROTHER-!" Diancie was unable to help him with Emera's psychic clasping her. Anthony summoned his rocket back with psychic metalbending, quickly heating the engine back up, but he realized his body had started crystallizing. He quickly made the flight back to Emera, estimating a minute-and-a-half before his body was frozen. He again dodged diamond missiles and diamond fragments, making the most use of Observation Haki. When a string of fragment bullets were whizzing toward him, he hardened his body with Armament to withstand the attacks, surviving with minimal damage.

By the time he was at Michelle, flat blue diamond shields encased her, so he pounded on the prison with combined sand and gembending while Diancie focused her own power. "Anthony!" The shields were broken. "Hurry, let's break the diamond!" They flew to the side with the blue diamond, and despite his body save for the head having turned to crystal, Anthony used psychic to mold the molten drill. The impact wasn't as great as before, but a little extra force from Diancie's chi was all it took to rupture the ice blue.

Anthony's body turned back into flesh, and slowly the other crystallized planets were returning to normal. "This cannot be! No! Not like this!" A great diamond barrier materialized around the goddess.

"Are you okay, Anthony? Let me replenish you a bit." Diancie touched her brother and imbued him with a fraction of chi. "We can break this shield if you use your Haki! Come on!"

"You got it!" They flew to the flat top of the shield as Anthony combined sand, gembending, and Haki as he stomped the diamond repeatedly. Emera made hands appear above them, forcing the kids to dodge and resume stomping elsewhere, but slowly the diamond was cracking. After about three minutes, they broke through, and Diancie prevented the hole from resealing so Anthony could bring the ship inside (melting it to a snake so it would fit). He returned it to drill form as they evaded her attacks, flew before the white diamond, and began digging through. It took longer than before, with Diancie having to hold back giant hands, but finally the diamond ruptured.

"AAAAHHHH!" The shield fell apart, and Emera began to sparkle uncontrollably, wobbling and rotating. They watched as the neon diamond on her base opened, exposing a rainbow heart. "Is that… the Heart of Emera?!" Diancie wondered. "No, it can't be the real Heart."

"Then let's destroy it, Michelle!!"

"Okay! We'll have to go all out on this one! Anthony, I'll give you more of my chi!" Diancie transferred a greater fraction to him. Anthony's aura was flashing between green, gray, gold, red, pink, and black, the full powers of all the Earth Chis. (Well, except bonebending.) By using Diancie's Diamond Formation with stonebending, Anthony was able to materialize a drill of solid Permanite out of thin air.

"HERE I COME, you ugly rock monster!" Emera flew higher, and Anthony pursued, having view of the bottom of the rainbow heart. More diamonds materialized to flash rainbow rays, but Diancie used what remained of her chi to defend her brother. Giant diamonds refracted rainbow walls, but Anthony flew at the diamonds to pierce them. Before he could reach the heart, Emera flipped and swung her massive arms at the drill, and then in came her Keyblade.

The drill made contact with the Keyblade directly, the two forces clashing with equal power. "Get… your… damn… key… OUTTA MY WAY!" Anthony's skin turned gray—the Keyblade broke and dissolved into light as Emera's unbalanced body flipped. "SAYONARA!" And with that, Anthony shot at the heart and burned perfectly through.

"AAAAAAAAHHHHH! But I…I'M PERFECT! I am… the PERFECT GEM! AAAAAHHH…" Emera's goddess body broke into millions of pieces, all of which blinked into nothing. The pink, blue, and white diamonds faded, while the yellow diamond shrunk back to its original height as a distorted body of light formed. By the time Yellow Diamond could reform herself, she crashed on Ore's surface. (End song.)

When Anthony set foot on Ore again, he returned the borrowed chi to his friends. Using and concealing that much chi was too much for his young body. "Heff…heff…" His sister kept him on his feet.

"We DID IT, Big Brother!"

"You BET we did it, Royal Pink Princess!"

"Tee hee hee! My Big Gray Prince!"

"HA HA!" They high-fived.

"Yo, what happened?!" Harvey yelled as he and Aranea rushed over. Fybi fluttered down to join them. "Did ya beat 'er?!"

"It sure looks like it." Tom replied.

"Oooohh…nnnhh…" Yellow Diamond lay weakened on the ground, her body bending in distorted fashions. Her diamond bore a greater crack. "No… I-I was… the Perfect Gem. How could… the Great Diamond Authority be defeated by such a lesser being? Unless…" She weakly turned to look at Diancie. "…Is… that what you were doing, Rose? You were trying to create… a Gem more powerful than the Diamonds. Because in the end… we weren't perfect enough. I… was not perfect enough."

She forced herself to sit up. "Diancie… I have… a request to make: please… take back the powers I've stolen. Without the Ether of the four Diamonds… Emera will collapse. It will be catastrophic. Please…"

"A betrayal, is it?" Thanos stomped Diamond under his foot. "Those powers belong in more capable hands."

"Thanos! What are you doing?!"

"Bill Cipher knew it was possible that you would lose here, but he still needed Emera's energy. So now, the duties as Emera's god fall to ME!" Thanos punched her diamond with the Power Stone.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOO…!" Terrific pain coursed through Topaz—her body flashed between White Diamond, Pink Diamond, and Sapphire. Anthony gasped at seeing her.

Yellow Diamond's body became a liquid light that flowed up into Thanos' gauntlet. Feeling the lush, magical energy flow inside him, he formed his own Keyblade in the gauntlet hand, while Diamond's Keyblade reappeared in the right hand. "Thanos is invincible! Thanos is omnipotent! Thanos is GOD!"

"Thanos TALKS too much!" Tom retorted.

"Why would you do that?!" Diancie cried. "She was one of the Darknesses!"

"Pah! Even if Bill's intentions DID matter to me," Thanos picked the small, dried diamond up, "I can use the Soul Stone to revive the fallen Darknesses! For now, I'll let you impudent children believe you're winning." The titan turned to his tiny adversaries, smirking at their terrified forms. "But know this: you are all BUGS to the mighty Thanos! Bugs not even worth crushing. So, beware… the next time I encounter you, you will be destroyed… by a flick of my finger." With that, he warped with the Space Stone.

The children had a moment of rest and quiet with the action done. "You know what's messed up?" Tom began. "Yellow Diamond was basically final boss quality. I can't imagine what Lord English is gonna be like."

"Me either." Anthony sighed. "But you know what we're gonna hafta do before we can even try at Lord English?"

"Defeat Thanos, so he doesn't revive any Darknesses." Emily moaned. "Hooooh… there's gotta be someone more physically capable than we are."

"Siiiigh…" None of them were up for any more trials. Either way, 2 Darknesses down. 11 Plus 2 to go.

"Hey, guys?" Ikuyim spoke up. "Where did that big Titan guy go?"

They had only just realized the stone giant was absent. They couldn't fathom how such a being could just leave without them feeling. "Did Thanos do something?" Shelly asked.

"Hey, who's that?!" Emily had just noticed a figure standing in that zone. She appeared to be a woman with short green hair, purple Cross ornaments in them. A dark-yellow robe with purple flower-like designs covered her, ending at high-heeled sandals. The crew cautiously approached her.

"So, after hearing that, do you kids still plan to challenge us?"

"And just who are you supposed to be?" Aranea asked.

"Brandish. The Spriggan 12 and I were sent here by Emperor Spriggan. Though, I'm sure you know him as 'Zeref.'"

"Zeref? That's one of The Thirteen!" Harvey exclaimed.

"So, they just sent one of their minions to take us down?" Anthony smirked. "You can bet we're gonna challenge you! Even if WE can't take Thanos, there are plenty other operatives that can! Until then, we don't mind kicking your butt."

"You?" Brandish cocked a brow. "Your battle is done, so you're not relevant, anymore."

With a flick of her wrist, Anthony and Diancie vanished on the spot. "THEY DISAPPEARED!" Tom panicked.

"You jerk!" Ikuyim stomped forward. "What'd you do?!"

"IKUYIM, STOP!" Emily shouted.

"Huh?" Ikuyim had already put her foot down.

"I can sense them! Under your foot!"

"What?!" Ikuyim bounced back and held that foot aloft.

Anthony and Diancie had no time to fathom what happened. They wound up in some kind of complex canyon, and suddenly, the earth rumbled violently as what seemed like an entire, upside-down plain of rocks fell right on top of them. They were given some room to survive, utterly dizzied by the incomparable sensation. That plain seemed to rise up, but then something else loomed above them: Emily's glasses were the size of a vertical country from this scale, and that was to say nothing of the rest of her head. "TH-SHRNK-TO-NNN-NTH-OF-" Her voice was far too magnified for their scale to handle.

"They shrunk to 1/8th of an inch!" Emily said with mild volume.

"Holy frick!" Shelly gasped. "I can't even feel them with Seismic Sense!"

"That's too small for even our earpieces to hear." Aranea said. "Do you have a way to carry them?"

"Yeah, just gimme a sec."

"I'll bet they'll change back if we take you out!" Tom bent up a stream of lava. "AH!" That lava was frozen solid.

"You may have defeated Diamond, but we shall finish you here." said Invel Yura, a bespectacled man with pale blue hair, a ponytail to his right, and a blue robe with a yellow sash.

"Where did you come from?!"

A middle-aged man in a black suit and skull on his big forehead appeared from a portal. "Now, which of us should do the honors?" asked Jacob Lessio. Using his spacebending, he summoned two more people: "You, Wall?" he asked a dark-brown-haired man in orange overalls with black rubber gloves and boots. "Or perhaps Ajeel?" A young, muscular, shirtless man with baggy brown trousers, gold sandals, and a thin cloth tied around the neck. His brown hair jutted out wildly in every direction, and beneath it was a gold headband with an eye symbol.

"Why don't you just trap them between dimensions yourself, old timer?" Ajeel asked, converting the earth at his feet into sand.

"You really ought to learn to take matters in your own hands." Jacob reasoned.

Wall used a built-in scanner to analyze Emily. A list of her weaknesses displayed on his monitor. "This girl won't even be a challenge once I heat up her over-active sweat glands."

"How do you know about my sweat glands?!" Emily panicked, holding a tiny petri dish with her shrunken friends on it.

"Better give me that." Aranea gently took it.

"I can scan for enemy weaknesses." Wall said. "And you have a ton. Not that it'll matter when I get serious."

"OOF!" Ajeel was punched back by Shelly's Sand Fist. "You're a sandbender, huh? Going at it with you will be a nice way to cool off!" She bent up a gush of sand to push him farther from the others, following as Ajeel swiped his own sandwave at her. While Sector W fled with their downsized leader, Tom tried to turn the ground around Invel into lava, the man countering with icebending. Tom mustered his heat against the frozen stone to melt the ice. Emily used the Super Hoop to run as Wall fired missiles at her, using her bending to catch and throw them back when possible.

Ikuyim tried to decide between Brandish and Jacob. "Screw it, the spacebender!" She stomped some crystals out of the ground and closed them in, but Jacob already warped. With a clap of his hands, Ikuyim disappeared. "That was easy." he said simply. "I had best send Larcade after those three."

"You do that." Brandish enlarged a pebble for her to sit on. "I need a break."

"This is Sector W to any listening operatives!" Fybi said into her communicator. "We hath been ambushed! There's a spacebender and a maiden who canst shrink targets, along with…"

"Oi, this is Sector W7! We were just sent to check on you guys, on our way! We'll call Nebula and see if she can help with the spacebender."

"Heads up, guys!" Harvey alerted as several platoons of Spriggan soldiers appeared out of space. "Aranea, keep them safe!" He assaulted the soldiers with emotionbending while Fybi stirred another bunch around with her air. Several soldiers charged at Nea with spears, but she swiftly evaded them and kept the petri dish steady.

The R.O.C.K.E.T.-T.R.A.I.N. landed close to where they saw the battle taking place. The Spriggans were first alerted to the Amazon charging their direction, Aisa riding Mocha's shoulder and Aeincha riding the swift Chimney. "I think our best chance is against the sizebender." Mocha said. "Aisa, better have those apples ready."

"You got it!" Aisa drew back her bow and loosed arrows at Brandish, the woman dodging. Mocha performed a great leap and came at Brandish with a Haki fist outstretched. Brandish magnified her own hands to block Mocha, though she still felt pain course through her veins. Aisa ran down the arms to swiftly kick across the head, though Brandish didn't fly far with the weight of her hands. Aisa landed more kicks, but Brandish disappeared just then. Aisa saw the woman shrunken down and tried to step on her, but the Shandian jumped away as Mocha brought down her own foot.

"Command T: Reduction!" Brandish focused an immense sum of chi and shrank Mocha's colossal figure. "AAAH!" the Amazon panicked: while the rest of her was shrunk to doll size, her head remained bulbous, falling on its side.

"SHE CUT OFF MOCHA'S HEAD!" Chimney screamed.

Brandish expanded to normal and kicked a shock-ridden Aisa. "My power allows me to change your proportions as I see fit." She focused her power over Aisa, shrinking her own bones into her body as Aisa lay like a mass of jelly. "It would be easy to step on you or make your organs explode, but I'm not that cruel." When Chimney lunged for an attack, Brandish clapped her in inflated hands. She then willed Chimney's limbs to inflate like balloons, causing her to fall on her back.

"No! Chimney!" Aeincha panicked.

"Oh, I didn't see you." Brandish glanced at the Lilliputian. "'Guess someone else got to you before I did. Well, I suppose I'll-"

"Please don't! I…I think you have very cute nails!"

"Hm?" Brandish raised a brow at her trim, purple toenails.

"I'm very good at nail painting. If you'd like, I know a design that could make them even prettier! Just please don't hurt my friends, anymore."

"She's tricking you, Brandish." Jacob suspected.

"I'm not, really! I only came along out of moral support, I can't even fight that well! I just want my friends to live, so I'll do anything!"

"Hm…well, I forgot to bring Marin, so… whatever."

"Well, I hope you don't mind if I put these misfits away for now." Jacob used his power to banish the other three girls. "Don't worry. They'll be safe in my Pocket Dimension… perhaps."

A horrified Aeincha watched as Brandish took her seat on another enlarged pebble, holding her toes out. "Well? Begin."

Inside the pocket space, Ikuyim was surprised when the deformed W7 girls appeared with her. "Oh, look! Seems we have more friends!" Juliet Sun said cheerily. Ikuyim returned to standing guard before the two opponents. Juliet had orange hair in big brushy pigtails, with a white dress, pants, and boots with orange lines.

"They don't seem to be very fit at the moment." Heine Lunasea observed. She wore a black jumpsuit with an indigo cape, matching her hair, with a golden crescent ornament on top. "Regardless, we must execute them swiftly."

"I didn't get warped with my Infi-Cube." Ikuyim said. "I had backup crystals in it, but I guess that guy knew better. Even so, I'll protect you guys!"

"Good luck!" Juliet slung mucus at Mocha's head, Ikuyim blocking it, but the mucus burned her skin. Heine snatched Aisa's jelly body in black bands, slamming her around the floor. Heine had to remark how bouncy she felt, but Aisa was in for a shock when electricity coursed through the bands.

Outside, Aeincha had got out her nail paint and was painting Brandish's toes the same light-green as her hair. She topped this with red and pink glitter in the shape of pinwheel designs. Though she was focused on the act, she couldn't take off her fearful expression. "Hmm…" Jacob glanced up at another incoming ship. Behind him, Invel had taken more than a few burns from Tom's lava, and Shelly enjoyed kicking sandballs into Ajeel's mouth. Emily had also discovered Wall was a robot and she had ripped off his right leg. Wall started to keep his distance and shoot his railgun at Emily, but the scientist bent a ton of scrap to form an extendable metal arm, thrusting lengthy punches at the mech. "Perhaps these kids are more trouble than they're worth. I guess I better-"

Starbursts were shot at him. "I presume you're the spacebender." Jerome D. Winkiebottom greeted Jacob, who was taken aback by the monochrome boy. "I'll be your opponent if you don't mind!" He opened portals behind Jacob to shoot Starbursts through, the man tanking some before warping others through space.

"Brandish, would you be a dear?"

"Fine." Brandish focused her power on Jerome.

If she changes his dimensions, Jerome can fix himself, can't he? Aeincha thought.

Just as Jerome tried to throw a Portal Punch, the portal sealed. "What?!" He could only materialize tiny portals. In his shock, Jacob dealt a kick to his puffy-haired head. "I can shrink peoples' magic levels down, too." Brandish said. "Well, you guys call it chi, but either way."

Jacob warped behind Jerome and dealt a karate chop, then leapt to kick him in the stomach. "Would you mind doing the same for those brats over there?"

"There are too many things resized right now. We can just deal with them later. Besides, my fingers aren't done." She glared down at her left hand, lain on the pebble so that Aeincha could paint it.

"Mmm…there. Do you like them?"

Brandish raised both hands to study her fingers. They bore the same pinwheel design as her toes. "Oh!" When she waved the fingers around, the glitter left behind waves of light. "Very nice."

"Thanks! My friend, April made this glitter. Adds a lot of flare, doesn't it?"

Brandish kicked her feet around as her toes produced the same effect. "It's very lovely." Moving her fingers as well, Brandish became mesmerized by the streaks of light. "I…I can't stop…" Against her control, Brandish's vision turned double, only amplifying the light's effect. Aeincha let out a little giggle as Brandish seemed to grow dizzier. "Oh…" And the woman fell backward. Her head landed against a small, stubby rock, hitting in the right spot with the right force to knock Brandish out. Her legs hung over the pebble in an undignified manner, but that very same pebble shrunk back to normal size.

Titan's body exploded out of nowhere, his huge blocky foot kicking Jacob away upon expansion. "Hey!" Jerome beamed as his spacebending returned to normal form. "Much more manageable!"

"Jerome, he banished my friends to a Pocket Dimension!" Aeincha shouted.

"He did? Well, let's fix that." Jerome ripped open such a dimension. Ikuyim, Aisa, Chimney, and even Mocha's gigantified figure poured out.

"HA HAAAA! We're back to normal!" Chimney cheered. "And FREE!"

"Thank goodness…" Ikuyim said, battered from defending them.

"Juliet, Heine, get out here!" Jacob let the two girls out afterward. Juliet sloshed mucus at the operatives, but Chimney thrusted palms of Fishman Karate to block them. She zipped up to land rapid attacks at Juliet, who secreted mucus over herself in the hopes of burning Chimney. However, the engineer used the vapor of said mucus to punch Juliet's face, along with her gut. Ikuyim bent crystals out of the ground to jab against Heine. When Heine lashed her whips, Ikuyim erected crystals for them to catch in her place. She then flew those crystals around the air and Heine along with them, letting the girl slam into the ground.

Jacob was using an invisible gun to shoot Jerome, and whenever the Zathurian punched his enlarged fists through portals, Jacob tried to strike them with an invisible whip. When his hands got too bruised, Jerome decided to thrust Portal Kicks at the assassin, his enlarged shoes unaffected by the whip. He took several bullet wounds, and as Jerome slumped in exhaust, Jacob zipped his way closer and took a leap above Jerome. His two-sided face was in panic as Jacob brought his legs down, but Jerome sunk halfway into a portal. His giant shoes emerged above and SMASHED Jacob against the ground, barely an inch away from himself. Jerome got off and pelted Jacob with rapid Starbursts to knock him out for good.

Aranea was blown back when Anthony and Diancie exploded back to normal. Harvey and Fybi were joyous and took out the remaining soldiers with no need to hold back. "Phew!" Anthony huffed. "I thought we were done for! I couldn't stand being smaller than you, Nea."

"You could thank me for protecting you!" Aranea huffed.

"Yeah, but we both know you enjoyed it."

"Grrrrrr!"

"Okay, okay, thank you!" Anthony blushed. "I'm just kidding. You guys were great!"

Emily had injured Wall with her own self-made railgun and managed to make contact with the robot. With a twist of her hand and her bending, she ripped Wall up from the inside. Shelly grabbed Ajeel's limbs in her sand and twisted them in a knot. Invel decided to make a strategic retreat by the time Tom converted the battlefield into a hot spring.

"AEINCHAAAAA!" Chimney excitedly raised her little friend. "You beat that sizebender all by yourself!"

"Hahahahaha!" Aeincha flushed. "I can't believe it worked. I was so scared…"

"Yeah, but you did it!" Aisa gave light palm-pats to her head. "'Cause you're the best stylist around!"

"If you ever doubt yourself," Mocha said, "just remember the day you beat an opponent that I couldn't!"

"Hahahaha! Thank you, guys! I never thought I would be very useful out here, but I'm so glad I could help!"

"Ahem!" Jerome coughed. He alerted them to a small fleet of ships.

"What? More enemies?!" Tom growled.

"They certainly aren't ours. What's… that logo?"

The ships were brandishing the letters 'IDA.'