AN: Sorry for the late chapter~! I'll work EXTRA hard! Now, ENJOY!

ARC Nine: Infinite Crisis

Chapter Ninety Three: Dreams Rot

Roswaal soared down from the open air as he flung fireballs at his female self, each hit being blocked by a wind dome made by Rey. Ram made her move by running over and swinging around her wand and attacking the with a windblade.

The female Roswaal simply chuckled as she snapped her fingers and had a earth wall form in front of them, protecting them from the attack.

"Hmmm…"

Karagarian Batman and Tia kept watching the fight, having not participated and instead watched Roswaal and Ram attempt to take them on on their own.

But it was already at least six minutes into the fight, and even with the Algol Tree seemingly shaking earlier, it didn't progress the fight in any meaningful way.

Tia stepped closer to Batman noticing him watching the fight with an intense feel to him.

"Darling, are you going to intervene at some point?"

"Well, I was hoping Roswaal and Ram could overtake their enemies or try something different to defeat them. Watching this fight though, I can see we are getting nowhere fast."

She smiled up at him.

"Then why don't you end this fight?"

"...Perhaps you are right."

He patted her shoulder, making smile even more.

He took a deep breath and flew forward. Tia sighed a bit as she played with her hair a bit, leaving him to take of the problem in front of them.

Roswaal landed next to Ram as they prepared for another assault against their other versions. Female Roswaal brushed her long hair as she simply raised a single eyebrow at Roswaal, who seemed to enjoy the gesture. Then Batman sped past them.

"You two head back, I'm taking them both out!"

Ram stepped back as she watched the Justice Armored Batman speed towards the two others. Rey launched another wind slice, only for Batman to create dagger of light and slice away the attack, making his feet drag across the floor as he sped down.

Roswaal created a formed sphere of wind and fire and shot it at him, only for Batman to quickly activate Al Mabakka and bounce the attack of him. He soon rushed forward meeting Rey face to face.

"You shall not get any closer to Roswaal-sama!"

"If I have to get through you first then I will."

Roy twisted in the air to kick him, but he effortlessly dodged the hit and chopped his back, before using his large wings to slam him down to the ground. Roy jumped back up and tried to punch him with a flurry of jabs. All of them missed.

Batman landed a palm thrust on his chest, before maneuvering a kick to his hip, then an uppercut to his chin and finally a full corkscrew punch across his face, easily chipping a tooth.

Roy flew back only to be stomped to the ground before his back could even land. Roy spat out blood and fired a wind dome around him only for Batman to have leapt back and come out unschathed. Roy got up from the crumbled ground, only to find Batman was already behind him, who tried to judo toss him back to the floor, Roy countered by slamming her feet to the ground. He landed a kick to Batman's chin...but he soon spun around with the added momentum and stabbed his leg with a batarang, before he kicked stomped on his foot. Roy tried to slice away his neck with a wind strike, but Batman charged forward allowing it to cut into his shoulder and headbutting Roy in the face, breaking open his forehead. Roy stumbled back.

His face was in terrible shape...his right eye was swollen shut, his nose was bent in an awkward position, his corner teeth were chipped and bleeding, his forehead was split open so badly one could see a small piece of skull through the mash of flesh and torn skin. Not to mention, a sliced part of cheek skin, was slightly coming off, like a torn fabric on a shirt.

"Haahhhhh, damn you…."

"Give up, neither you nor Roswaal can beat me."

"Do not assume you have beaten me at this state, you absolute scum!"

Roy summoned his horn as his eyes became bloodshot.

Batman fixed himself as he showed him his hands glowing white.

"Al Matar."

He charged forward and so did Roy, the two clashed, with Roy landing a spinning kick on him, only for it to be countered by punch to his knee and then two punches to his chest and ribs, Roy slams his foot on the ground and lands a punch to his face, only for Batman to rapidly strike his outstretched arm several times. He grunted as he drop kicked him away, only for Batman to step into the attack and kick off the ground and high up into the air, using his wings to fly high above.

Roy readied himself to kick off the ground as well….when all of the points where Batman had hit him earlier bursted open, tearing away muscles and revealing nerves and bones…

"HUH?!"

"It's over."

Batman kicked off the air and slammed into Roy at incredible speed.

Batman walked out of the crater he had formed, dragging a completely and utterly defeated Roy by his hair.

He tossed him aside as he stared at the female Roswaal. She leered at him, with her one yellow eye being the only one open.

Batman got in a karate stance as he snarled at the female representation...of the one person he regretted next to the Joker himself, of allowing to get away with their machinations.

"Ready when you are Roswaal."

"I seeeee, then let us proceed with this then. And when I am dooooone with you; I'll take out the others behind you."

"If you take me out."

Roswaal seemed to smirk at this comment as she released magical pressure around herself.

Ram checked on Roswaal to see if he was hurt in the slightest.

"Noooot to worry Ram, they didn't land a hit on me at allll."

"That's excellent to hear."

Tia then made it so she could watch the fight more closely.

"Great Spirit, do you think this um, Batman will be able to take on this Roswaal-sama. Even if she is from another world, she is still a Magrave most likely."

"Oh, haha, of course he can! My darling is in no danger against that person...unless…"

She peeked over and looked at Roswaal.

"Tell me Magrave, can you take on a Sin Archbishop?"

"...Well, nooooo, even I do not think I am capable of suuuch a thing."

Saying this nonchalantly, Ram seemed to sigh at her master admitting to something he was incapable of doing, making Tia giggle a bit.

"Then not to worry! Not at all."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Well Ram, you see in our world; my darling's two arch-enemies are Sin Archbishops, Greed and Sloth. Regulus Corneas and Scarecrow. He's fought them both to a stalemate countless times in the past with Halibel."

She let out a disappointed sigh though.

"But maaan, a few weeks ago my darling was soooo close to beating Scarecrow; but the slippery bastard escaped using his Fear Toxin to infect nearby hostages...so my darling had no choice but to let him go and help those people."

"Hm...he's the same in any world."

Ram seemed to smirk a bit in hearing how this Batman still cared deeply for people, even complete strangers.

"So there is not an issue here...in Kararagi, he is considered the second strongest warrior in the entire kingdom."

"Really?!"

Ram couldn't help but show surprise in her statement, even Roswaal was quite taken by shock hearing the strength level of this Batman.

"The Moonlight Knight. Dark Justice. Names given to my darling by the many kingdoms surrounding our home. He is considered one of the Five Strongest Warriors in the World! Not just that! Oh no, not just that. Hehe. Darling is considered the most powerful Yang magic user known to the world."

Ram and Roswaal were stunned into silence with her words and her happy proud face.

"Batman...won't lose."

Batman raced through the air, dodging every magical strike Roswaal launched at him, even when she tried to slam lightning down on him, he summoned a tear in space that launched it behind him. He then slammed his feet to the ground...whispering a canto. Roswaal saw this and slightly panicked; she was versed in incantations to powerful magical spells, and she recognized some of the wording to infer it to being a Yang Spell.

Even so, what spell he was going for, was unknown to her.

Roswaal began using outstretched wind blades to slice away Batman's limbs apart...only for Batman to create a Light Blade that looked more like an over-sized cross. He sliced away the windblade and then, broke it apart...sending constructs of light in the shape of bats hurling towards him, she created a barrier around herself...but noticed that the bats only flew around him...and were getting bigger.

"Wait...this is…"

She knew, the bats weren't meant ot attack her, but float around and drain mana from the preceding area, making her magic far weaker...still she had an intake already of mana, her reserves were high enough as is.

"Yang Spell: Crime Disension."

The bats shined and self-destructed, blasting away her barrier. Then three bats bit into her, growing as they did.

"NO! This is-"

"-These bats suck away mana from both the air and the person it bites onto to! I'm not stupid enough to take on a Magrave when they have all that mana reserves!"

She grimaced as her trump card of her reserves was easily discovered by her opponent.

Then-

"YANG SPELL: BLACK MIRROR!"

A shadowy void appeared beneath his feet and stretched out all the way across him, reaching past Roswaal. It had yellow swirls within it, like gold had been dripped into oil.

Batman leaped into the dark void and disappeared...Roswaal searched for him, but couldn't even sense his mana source, she found nothing the feeling of the void beneath-

"AUGH!"

Batman shot out of the void behind her and actually punched through her stomach. Then he jumped back into the darkness. She then began firing into the void hoping to strike him before-

"Ack!"

Batman shot through the void slicing her arm off then almost instantly appearing again breaking her ankle with a twist. Then her long blue hair was grabbed from behind and she was taken inside the dark void.

The two disappeared for a while…

Tia brushed her hair and smiled.

"It's over you guys."

Roswaal and Ram were confused by her statement.

"Um, easily put, that's a spell darling evented to take on the Sin Archbishop of Greed. While it doesn't work on him, trust me...he's tried. Anyone pulled into it, has their senses delayed by several seconds, so it makes it appear Batman is moving faster than he actually is, it also unbalances mana for everyone inside. I think I recall...the last person to use this spell was the Great Sage Flugel."

She scratched her chin in deep thought, but relaxed as they all saw the void suddenly close in on itself.

"Ah, it's over."

Batman broke through with an uppercut attack as he launched a completely broken Roswaal up in the air, just before the void closed behind them. Her stare was terrible, her face looked inhuman with all the bruises and swelling it had, her left ear was barely hanging on and blood covered her entire body. Then as they were both in the air, he flung his fist into her face punching her into the ground, right next to Rey.

He leapt down as Tia hurried over to him and embraced him in a happy hug.

"Ha! You did it!"

"Yeah."

He rubbed his helmet before she rubbed it for him.

"That spell does take out a lot of mana doesn't it?"

"Yes, let's not use it for awhile."

Just as they continued speaking, Rey and Roswaal got up aimed their palms at the two of them.

Zarestia's eyes darkened.

"Do not aim at us...fool. DIE."

She swatted her hand at them, releasing a large dark amalgamation of wind, it completely ripped out chunks from their already beaten bodies. It looked unrealistic. Like their bodies had entire sections of it scooped out like nothing.

Roswaal had the most taken out of her...she muttered something incoherent before she fell over and stopped moving.

Rey huddled to her and began to cry.

"R...Ro...w…"

But he couldn't even speak. Too much of him was gone already...and so…

"R...Ros...Roy...I'm sorry…"

Batman and Tia just looked on as his eyes began losing their glimmer of life.

"I...I'm so...stu-"

He suddenly choked on something...and he proceeded to flop over and die.

The couple simply moved back to the other two as they walked past the corpses of their opponents, having dealt their defeats and deaths together. The two moved on over to Roswaal and Ram.

"Seems we've taken care of these two."

"Myyyyyy, you did such a splendid job you two! Even I woooonder if I could have done something if I haaaaad to fight the two of you."

"Sure."

Batman glanced at Tia who nodded, and went over to Ram.

"So tell me, what was Rem like when she was younger, I'd super like to know!"

"Oh, uh well…"

Ram thought hard on what to say to the Great Spirit...noticing bit by bit that while Batman stood in front of Roswaal...Tia was making his way behind him...making her nervous.

Batman then nodded as he stared at Roswaal.

"Roswaal, can I ask you something?"

"Yeees, you may do so as you please."

"The entire Black Lantern Incident we just had...Pride tricked you into helping him right?"

"...Sadly that is the case. I waaaaas quite pulled by an offer he had for me. It was an entirely agreeeeegious mistake on my part, and I am fully prepared to face the consequences in the future."

Ram seemed to nod happily with her masters words.

"Alright...but let me guess something."

"Hm?"

"...You did it revive Echidna."

Silence filled the area they were in, Roswaal himself kept quiet as he stared at him.

"Well, IIIII simply was offered a chance to-"

"-Enough okay?"

The scornful voice coming out of Batman's helmet, made Roswaal cease his speaking and for Ram to become quite nerve wracked by it. Zarestia just watched on.

"That's enough alright? I know you very well you know that right? At the cost of all those people's lives...Wilhelm, Rom, countless others...all dead because, of a mistake? Don't fuck with me."

"A mistake would as simple as that. But I know you, about the selfish deeds you've done and that accursed book you carried around...and how you let the Witch's Cult attack the mansion all those years ago."

"But…"

"BUT NOTHING! You let Ram…"

The image of Ram scolding them while brushing away some leaves, came across his mind.

"Emilia…"

The image of her letting Puck rest on her shoulder as she smiled, came across his mind.

"Beatrice…"

The image of her pouting while holding a book in her hands, came across his mind.

"Petra…"

The young girl playing with all her friends…

"YOU LET THEM ALL DIE!"

Batman screamed at him, making the sorcerer back away.

"All of it was your god damn fault! If you knew it was going to happen you could have done something about it! But no...no, you just allowed it to happen. Allowed all...my friends...to die. Subaru and Rem were lucky enough to get away from you when they did and I was lucky enough not to rush in, even when I saw Puck was rampaging in those lands, before Reinhard was forced to kill him."

"Even when the other Batman informed me of you losing your book and going along with them...even he was still suspicious of you. Heh, different world, same Roswaal. But that is enough."

He stepped forward ever so slightly.

"Even now, I bet you only came with us to find another way to reach her."

"A baseless assumption…"

"...God, you just never stop do you? But...I'm ending it."

Batman quickly pressed his hand on his chest and Tia on his back. Roswaal was about to-

"GATE ERUPTION."



Batman and Tia both spoke this as the Magrave felt something terrible happening to himself...his gate, the very thing that allowed mana to flow throughout his body.

IT SHATTERED INTO PIECES.

Roswaal screamed out in pain, but just as he did, Tia focused on him and breathed in. Letting a curse seep into his very being, causing the jester like being to fall to his knees.

Ram reacted accordingly and made her Yellow Ring activate, knowing full well that even with her horn she was no match for the two of them.

"In blackest day, in brightest night, beware your fears made into light! Let those who try to stop what's right, burn like my power! Ram-dono's might!"

Batman quietly chuckled at the fact she changed the last part of her oath...it was fitting he thought.

She charged forward in her yellow lantern uniform, just as Tia stepped forward.

"Darling, I'll take care of this."

"Tia, please don't kill her."

"...If you take me out on a date, I will."

"Fine, it's a deal."

She stuck out her tongue playfully at him, but soon turned around with a serious expression and flew towards Ram.

Batman squatted down to speak with Roswaal.

"Roswaal, I bet you are wondering what just happened."

"...!"

"Let me explain, essentially your gate has been irreparably damaged, thus meaning you can no longer use magic lest you want to die. Luckily for you, your high intake of mana will keep you from getting mana sickness...but it also means spells and attacks will be impossible for you."

"You…"

"Next, Zarestia placed a powerful curse on you. A special one she designed with Halibel, it's a curse that is placed in a person's spirit...making it so that said person, can no longer have children."

Roswaal, trembled hearing this and his eyes had turned crazed.

"It was mainly intended to be used on nobleman that abused their powers, thus assuring they could not pass on their malicious abuse of power on an heir. But...deep down I wonder if it was made for someone like you."

"H-h…"

"I found out from the other Batman how you would pass on your spirit, it disgusted me when I heard what you did."

Batman removed his armor, now he was in a simple black tank top and baggy Karagarian pants. His arm covered in scars and his metal arm also became visible. His hair was tied into a man bun and he had a gruff beard.

"Get up Roswaal, I'll fight you one on one."

"Y...y.."

"I won't be using any magic at all, so it'll be an even match."

"Y...ou…"

Bruce got into a fighting stance as Roswaal got up as well, tossing away his cloak, ripping off his top attire, making the buttons fly off the suit and standing there with his bare chest. His hat toppling to the ground.

"Come on then."

As Roswaal lifted his face, anyone could see the absolute demented rage fuming out of his very pores. His expression would frighten anyone as they gazed at it.

Even without magic on his side any longer, Roswaal had one intention in mind.

TO KILL THE MAN IN FRONT OF HIM.

"BATMAAAAAAAAANNNNN!"

Ram flew through the air firing beams at the Great Spirit, but she swam through the air effortlessly as she dodged every single one of her attacks. Ram then made a construct of a large spider, only for Tia to flip in the air and dodge it's strikes, Ram then summoned her horn and charged in…

Tia gave an annoyed, but sympathetic expression as she had wind surround her body like an armor...she shot forward and kicked Ram in the stomach, making her cough out blood. She then grabbed her by the head and slammed her to a nearby branch of the Algol Tree. She crashed into it, right before Tia tackled her through, destroying it. As she pushed her forward, she crashed into another and another. Eventually Ram roared out and fired a humongous yellow beam covered in raid wind currents straight at her, but she simply flew past it, before kicking her into the ground.

Ram got up while summoning her horn, she stepped back and flew up high into the air, creating constructs of sake and liquor bottles.

"Oh, so you read into my deep dark fears huh?"

Ram sped into her area high in the air...but Tia spun in an elegant fashion before kicking the air and clotheslining her with such force it sent a humongous shockwave around them, deactivating Ram's horn and making her yellow ring shut off and fly off her finger.

Ram let out one gasp of air before her eyes turned white.

"In the past that tactic might have worked...but Bruce helped me conquer my fear years ago...and that; that is one of my many reasons I love him."

She then quickly flew lower and caught Ram in her arms. Flying her away back to their original spot.

"So I can easily kill you to protect that love, but I am not so cruel to kill my best friend's sister. Even if I really want to kill you. I won't."

Roswaal threw a punch at him, only for it to be swatted away and he received a powerful elbow strike right to the face. Roswaal spat out chunks of blood before spinning himself and trying to kick Bruce, he ducked under at high speed and got close to release three powerful jabs to his stomach and ribs. Roswaal tried kicking him away but Bruce caught the leg and rolled with him, making Roswaal lose his footing and fall to the floor. Bruce then shifted himself off the ground and landed a spinning leg drop on him. Roswaal tossed him off and got right back up only to see Bruce already midway in a spinning kick.

Realizing he could only block, he put out his forearms, close to his head to protect himself.

When the kick hit, Roswaal's left forearm, instantly broke, looking as if the thing was filled with jelly instead of bone, it limped around disgustingly.

"AGHK!"

Bruce then used the opportunity to get through his broken defenses and jab Roswaal in the face, before grabbing his shoulders and kneeing him in the stomach, making the man hurl out a combined substance of bile and blood.

Bruce then headbutted him, before kicking his ankle in, snapping it in half. Roswaal couldn't even make a noise as his mouth was filled with blood.

Bruce tossed him to the ground...and began choking him. He pressed his hands harder and harder until Roswaal's eyes began to tremble and Bruce's face was turning blood red, while his opponent's was turning blue. Roswaal was starting to resist less and less….and Bruce let him go.

Roswaal panted and heaved, holding his neck which was now horribly bruised.

"N...N.."

Bruce muttered.

"Not even you…"

Bruce got up from the floor as he left Roswaal there to catch his breath.

"I…"

He then heard Roswaal begin to speak.

"I…"

"...Yes?"

"I HATE YOU."

"..."

Roswaal tried picking himself up, but failed, so he sat there and leered up at the man with his completely defeated visage.

"I HATE YOU! LOATHE YOU! DESPISE YOU! EVER...EVER SINCE WE FIRST MET, I KNEW YOU WERE A LEGITIMATE THREAT TO MY GOALS!"

Roswaal looked down on the ground below himself, staring at the reflection it made of him.

"Everything...it would've worked...it had to work, Natsuki Subaru's Return by Death would have done it. Would have saved everything from ruin...BUT YOU! YOU STOOD IN THE WAY EVERY CHANCE YOU HAD! DEMEANING ME! GETTING IN MY WAY! TURNING PEOPLE AGAINST ME! I...I….I SHOULD HAVE KILLED YOU WHEN I HAD THE CHANCE!"

Roswaal howled those last ords as he gave a horrid, hate filled smile to Bruce.

"Roswaal...Even after everything, I just see no point to you."

"What?"

"Drowning yourself in that dream of yours, trying to bring a loved one back might have been admirable in a way...I would have helped you with it, if I could have."

"Huh?"

"But! You had your dream consume your soul and it made you sacrifice countless people and ruin the lives of others...that is like a rabid animal fighting for it's meal, in my opinion."

"...HK!"

"It would be best to put a rabid animal down...but I won't do it. Instead, I'll let you live...so that these remaining years of your life can be spent as you fear the coming day when you finally die...die and never fulfill that promise you made to yourself oh so long ago. So that you can repent for the sins you committed and maybe...feel unflinching guilt."

"...I…"

"Or not, either way, Roswaal L. Mathers...YOU HAVE LOST."

Bruce said this with utmost aggression in his voice. Tia came back and set Ram down next to Roswaal...she soon came to and rubbed her head, she sat up and glanced over to see Roswaal in his terrible condition. She glared wildly at the two, even as Bruce was putting his armor back on, Tia carefully watching Ram for any suspicious movements.

"So...it ends here…?"

Ram and the others looked as Roswaal had his head down, looking at the ground, still sitting in his own blood.

"My dreams...my goals...everything? It all….stops?"

"Roswaal-sama?"

She rubbed her hand on his hair, trying to see his face more, or at least comfort him.

"...I lost...ah...my journey...ha...was a waste...haha...all of it, meaningless...haha…"

"Roswaa-"

He raised his head finally.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA~!"

Roswaal was laughing, even as tears drenched his bloody broken face. He didn't even look at anyone, just looking past them as if seeing his very objective fade away before his eyes. His makeup falling apart as he continued.

He kept laughing, and laughing and laughing some more, to the point Ram was terrified. She hugged him tightly, but he didn't even acknowledge her.

Ram began to silently weep.

"I'm sorry. I'm so sorry Roswaal."

He just, kept laughing.

Bruce put his helmet on and just kept watching the entire affair.

Tia placed a hand on his chest.

"You didn't kill him."

"No, I didn't."

"...For what reason?"

He kept watching the man continue his insane display, even as his most trusted maid tried to bring him back from the outreaches of madness.

"...I can enjoy this more."

"...Very well."

She rested her head on his shoulder. Batman rested his own hand on hers and they watched on.

Roswaal L. Mather's fits of laughter echoed around them.

Minerva slammed her fist down and the entire floor crumbled, only for Omega to bend space around her and hit her with an invisible strike. She rolled to the ground, as Typhon summoned her two horns and kicked off the ground and slammed her two fists to the ground. Still, Omega flew into the air and clicked her fingers, making an explosion appear next to Typhon, sending her flying to the others, only to be caught by Daphne's coffins legs.

"Thanks!"

"Mega Mega is really tough to deal with!"

Sekhmet yawned as she fired out a windblade, only for Omega to redirect it around her. She then summoned rocks and set them on fire, firing them as fast as she could.

The attacks were blocked by a glowing Ankh symbol.

Dr. Fate flew forward, feeling the Algol Tree shake for somereson, but he ignored it and made his way to her. Omega aimed her hands out and dazzling barrage of beams shot out, but Fate flew past them all, before sensing something and stopping himself, right as he fried a Minya spear in front of him.

It exploded before it reached Omega.

"A magic trap."

"Oh, how observant of you! Truly you are splendid!"

Dr. Fate began floating around her in circles as she and her scarf fox Echidna kept a close eye.

"I will have you destroyed for the vile actions of both your past and present selves."

"Hmmmm, so much attention would make a girl blush. On another topic, your mastery of Yin Magic in such a short amount of time shows how high your affinity is for it. If I had to say, from what my calculations and theories say...had you gone with Batman-san to our world as well, you would have easily received Lugnica's title of the Dark, as the strongest Yin magic user in all of the kingdom. Isn't that also interesting?"

"Enough prattling."

Dr. Fate summoned countless Minya blades around her and fired them, eventually they blasted apart by her barrier. Sure enough Fate decided to try and use his superior strength to strike her, but alas; she bent space around him and forced him to miss the strike. He then slammed his hand on the ground and had spikes of light shoot out of the ground...but she splintered them into pieces.

Minerva leapt over Fate and kicked downward on Omega, but her scarf fired a beam out of her mouth forcing her to punch it. She lost balance and fell to her knees back on the ground.

Minerva clenched her fists as Omega smirked at her. Daphne made her move and charged at her, her large arachnid legs tried again and again to stab or at least grab her, only for her to superheat the area around her, making her feel sick to her stomach.

Fate intervened and clapped his hands together creating a vortex pull that drew Daphne back to them. She heaved loudly and was sweating profusely from the earlier attack, but all of them were caught off guard when they saw her coffin began to break apart.

"Ah."

Then it did. She suddenly found herself in freefall out of the coffin with nothing to catch her...except someone did.

She opened her eyes and found herself being carried by Dr. Fate.

"Are you alright Daphne?"

"Y-Yes. I should be just fine Doc Doc. Though I am getting hungry."

Fate sighed a bit, but carefully held and flew back as Minerva followed close behind.

He set Daphne down as he carefully set her down and removed the shackles that held her in place. She tried to sit up, but having not used her limbs in years, she found it impossible.

Fate gently pushed her down, letting her rest.

"Just rest, you did well out there. We'll take care of this."

"But-"

"-Do as I ask, please."

"...Okay."

He nodded to her response and looked to a trembling Carmilla.

"Carmilla, may ask you to take care of her?"

"Um..Y-yeah."

"Thanks."

He moved away, not noticing Daphne looking up at him, with a small pink hue to her cheeks. Sekhmet saw this and chuckled.

"W-what?"

"Huhhhhhhh, and you were giving me a hard time, haaaaahhhhhhh."

"S...Sh...Sure."

Daphne looked away from Sekhmet as Carmilla let her rest her head on her lap, as they continued watching the fight.

Minerva scratched her head as she saw the ever confident smile on Omega's face.

"Grrr, this is so hard! She knows every magic known to the world."

"Yes, indeed. She knows of all magical abilities in the world...at least, in your world."

"Huh?"

"You and Typhon keep her busy...I am going to teach her what real magic is."

Minerva and Typhon relented as they jumped into the air, right above Omega.

Up above, as they reached her, something tackled a yellow shining object through several branches of the tree. They ignored it, but did realize that the others were also fighting.

Minerva and Typhon both punched at her barrier, Omega yawning at the fruitless attacks. But she noticed that Dr. Fate was making symbols appear around himself and he made strange hand gestures, each one had light glowing around his palms. Even she realized he was in the middle of a powerful spell.

She released a powerful wind dome around herself, knocking the two of them away before she flew forward...only to be forced to block a powerful winblade attack by Sekhmet, she frowned as she fired beams from her eyes, striking Sekhmet in the shoulders. She spat out blood as her friends called out to her in worry. Minerva tried reaching out to Echidna, but she slammed her down with a whip made of energy. Typhon did as well, only for Omega to scream out a powerful purple wave at her that knocked her to the ground and made her lose consciousness.

She then teleported behind Dr. Fate and readied her palms-

"Just what I would expect."

"What?!"

Dr. Fate sat in the air in a meditation stance as his astral projection flew through Omega. She landed on the ground harshly.

"Wait..MY MANA!"

She watched as the astral projection flew around her with the symbols created a dome around themselves, the hieroglyphic symbols became large and surrounding them. Echidna tried to fire back but Dr. Fate reached out and grabbed it by the neck, then he ripped her head off and it bursted in his hand. Letting out a shriveled whimper as it faded into dust. Omega looked to her necklace, but with the Witches having been revived, their souls were no longer housed in it, thus she couldn't use their powers. She tried to come up with another plan. He then grabbed Omega by the collar and shouted some egyptian words as the dome bursted into light, shooting out of the light was a bird made of energy it flew around the sky for a while.

It let out a loud shriek before it slammed itself back to the spot and self destructed.

All of the witches covered their eyes from the bright explosion. From the dust and debris they saw Dr. Fate badly injured, and Omega, having most of her clothes burned away and also completely injured.

She snarled at him as he simply took a tiny step forward.

They both rushed forward, Omega using up the last of her Od reserves to use Yang Magic to enhance her strength.

Fate also readied his fist.

Both of the charging in to strike at their opponent.

Omega chopped away Dr. Fate's right shoulder, spraying blood all over the place.

Fate let out a grunt from the sheer pain alone.

Omega smirked as she readied herself to-

"You endtime is here, WITCH OF GREED!"

Fate pressed his feet to the ground and punched through her chest.

She coughed out blood as he headbutted her, cracking her entire face. Even her eyes bursted from the impact.

As she stumbled back, Fate yelled out.

"NOW!"

Typhon stomped her way forward before letting out growl and punching half of Omega's face off. She however gritted her teeth and created a light sword and sliced back against Typhon's attack. Fate created a Minya spear and grabbed it, jumping forward and impaling it through her neck. He began speaking an incantation as Omega released a powerful pressure around herself.

The pressure knocked Typhon over, Minerva forced to catch her.

Fate and Omega let out their yells...as Omega disappeared and Fate fell to his knees.

Seeing this, the Witches rushed to check on him.

"Fate! What happened?! Are you okay?!"

"Minerva, yes...I am well."

Fate got up, holding the grevious wound he had and looking down at the floor. Right there, there was simple necklace with a black jewel, laid on the floor. Minerva picked it up...and looked inside, seeing Omega floating around, she was screaming, but no sound escaped at all.

Fate gently took the necklace out of her hands and looked at it.

"Omega, you seeked to attain knowledge and see the world's secrets...as punishment for your crimes of dirupting order...you are to remain in this necklace and trapped inside my Tower of Fate...for all eternity."

He made an ankh symbol appear behind himself as he transported the necklace into a spare room of his tower at the crossroads of time and space. A tower where only he could enter at will, thus leaving a chance for her to escape, near impossible.

The necklace sat there, in a glass container, in a pitch black room...Omega screamed and bellowed out as she floated in the darkness...but no one could hear her. No one could see her. All she saw was the darkness around herself.

Her friends were gone.

Her enemies were gone.

Subaru was gone.

She hugged her knees as she continued to whimper...but it stopped. She made a furious look…

"I...One...One day I'll get out...I spent four hundred years trapped in that damn tomb…"

She watched as the ankh symbol, the only source of light in that room, began to fade away...the light in her eyes being the only glimmer in that room.

"...I can wait...I'm patient…"

Her words were heard by no one.

Time would move forward without her, and her thirst for knowledge...would remain unquenched.

Fate panted as he was helped to the others by Minerva and Typhon.

They sat him next to Daphne as he went over their situation.

"THat spell I used to trap her, took a toll in my body, I won't be able to use that kind of magic for a while."

"So...Echidna is…?"

"Yes, she is trapped in that necklace. As long as this helmet exists, I will make sure she will never be freed."

Minerva sighed sadly at the fate of the spirit, but she knew it was for the best to keep her away from harming others.

Fate got up as they felt the Algol Tree shake again.

They looked up and saw several explosions...and even saw more branches break off.

A black wave broke apart another one.

An electric bolt rained down, landing near them.

Emerging from the cloud of debris, Beatrice and Black Adam floated above the ground...looking across from them, was Borris who was heavily injured.

"D...Damn you, I suppose."

"It is not Betty's fault that those metias you have with you...could not hope to beat us."

Black Adam flew forward and threw a punch at him, Borris blocked it, but his arms bent in a disgusting way.

"AGHK!"

Adam grabbed him by his collar and tossed him in the air.

"SHAZAM!"

A bolt of lightning shot down and crushed him down. Beatrice made her way blasted him with a pressure attack. Borris got up from it and lashed out in a fury.

"WHY?! WHY ARE YOU SO STRONG, I SUPPOSE?! BORRIS IS THE SAME PERSON AS YOU! I ALSO WAITED FOR FOUR HUNDRED YEARS! SO WHY!? WHY, I SUPPOSE?!..."

He began to have tears fall from his eyes…

Beatrice decided to speak.

"Betty was the same as you at one point...so embittered by the countless years waiting for 'They' to come, I suppose….BUT!"

"Huh?"

"Betty chose Subaru as her partner, I suppose. He is the person Betty wants to spend the rest of her days with, even if they will vanish one day in the blink of an eye...Betty will stay by his side, I suppose."

"Betty no longer feels what you feel, Borris. Because I...was hopeful enough to take his hand...YOU, you were too cowardly to take Saia's hand, weren't you?"

Borris stared at her, as if he had just learned the true meaning of life...a meaning he had lost the chance to attain. He began to glow pink…

"This is-!"

"It...doesn't matter...Borris is tired of this."

Borris began to emit light, forcing Black Adam to grab him and with all his might, toss him away from them.

Borris flew across the air as he closed his eyes...then completed his self destruction. A giant pillar of purple light erupted from him, nearly blinding everyone who saw it. Beatrice formed a barrier around everyone to protect them from the proceeding shockwave…

With the dust settled, Beatrice finished healing everyone she could, nodding to her work.

"Betty is all done, we can move, I suppose."

"Thank you Great Spirit."

Fate began floating again, motioning everyone to keep going. But he saw that Daphne was still unable to move freely. So, he sighed and lifted her into his arms.

Daphne blushed intensely from this, and she almost began to fidget about...only to relax into the motion. She had her golden eyes look up at him and she seemed to...relax.

"Let us be moving then."

Minerva and the others nodded, with Carmilla doing it nervously as per usual.

Though Sekhmet had Daphne glance at her...giving her a small wink, causing the young girl to look away embarrassed.

"Suprising...she never acted this way to anyone back then, hahhhhhh...I shouldn't lose to her though….huhhhhhhh, let's see how I can get close to Batman-san."

She silently said this to herself with a slight mischievous smile, only to be heard by Beatrice, who had the images of Frederica, Sarah and Felt leering down with a vicious red glimmer in their eyes, making the spirit shiver a bit.

"This is just reaching ridiculous levels, I suppose."

They moved out, leaving behind the destroyed branch to crumble apart behind them.

Wonder Woman was knocked aside.

Rem charged in with her Morningstar, blood escaping her mouth.

Only for her attack to be bounced back. She yanked back her weapon as Starfire and Wonder Girl got up from the ground, their faces covered in blood.

"I'll make you all pay!"

Warlock Batman emitted a powerful aura around himself as his three blue eyes shined immensely.

"Taking away the most important thing in my life…MY LOVE, MY FUTURE, MY GOAL! PANDORA! I...I will make you all suffer!"

Batman continued stomping his way to his opponents.

Julius summoned his spirits as he gripped his sword tight.

"A foul monster using my friends title will be shown no mercy! Prepare yourself, Warlock!"

"Imbecile, all that is going to happen is a repeat of what happened in my world…"

Both men leered at each other.

"It ends with you dying...Juukulius."

Batman lurched forward, like an animal would as it prepared to beat down its prey…

"You and everyone else with you…"

The soul of Echidna was once again trapped in the endless boundaries of time, and the Warlock of Tristitia would now commence with his vile revenge...even at the cost of his own life…