Revan used his Force powers to counteract Lucifer's trick, throwing the man away from both of them and forcing him to collide right against Ruby! Revan made short work of the man's fire as well as he sent it flying harmlessly up into the air.
"Foolish!" Revan cried. It was then that both Biscuit and Gentaro froze in their mutual charges, time around them stopped. Revan leaped forward and delivered twin blows to the pair that sent them flying as time resumed.
He then turned on Blake, chuckling.
"Her power was as meaningless then as it is now!" Revan met Blake's blade with his lightsaber. It was definitely powerful for Revan's blade to not cut through it. Still, Revan seemed unfazed as time began to again fluctuate.
"Oh no you don't!" Billy yelled. He grunted and got himself to his feet after Thanos' attack.
"Guys, cover him for a moment," he said to the members of the former Young Avengers.
"I gotta deal with this asshole."
Billy appeared next to Revan and Blake, eyes glowing blue.
"You no longer have power over time, Revan," Billy said.
"For there is a new Great Spirit to rival the power that you stole from the previous one!"
Revan grunted as a giant flash of blue light enveloped him. With all his might, he shoved Blake away, throwing him into the air. Billy backed off as Revan lashed out with his lightsaber. There would be no more time manipulation it seemed.
"No matter, you forget the infinite power I wield."
Revan turned, holding his hand out toward Nathan's gunfire. Even powered with Emily's magic, the bullets froze in the air, stopped by some kind of telekinetic force. He attempted to shoot them back at Nathan, but Elliot used his powers to make the bullets go away into a portal. Still, even as Nathan landed a punch on Revan, he found that it was like hitting a brick wall. Emily's power seemed to matter little where Revan was concerned.
"Ah, so you are using that too, huh?!" Elliot yelled, running up behind Nathan. He reached out toward Revan, grasping his hand into a fist and seemingly ripping some kind of energy out of Revan, much like he did to Bane.
Revan, for all his might, staggered on his feet and was forced to take a leap back from the two boys.
"More clever than I thought you were, Elliot," he said.
"And that is saying something, for I did think you rather gifted. However..."
Revan reached a hand into the air.
"You are not the only clever one!"
As Revan pulled his hand down, dozens of portals appeared amidst the group and around the battlefield. New warriors appeared out of each one, stepping into the fight. The first three out were Xemnas, Xehanort, and Ansem.
"These assholes...?!" Touma exclaimed incredulously as the three robed men appeared, the boy recognizing at least one of them from during the height of the Revanchist War. It was just fine with him though; if this was to be the final stand-off for the fate of the multiverse, they may as well go at it no holds barred.
More warriors followed, for it seemed just about the entirety of what remained of the Revanchist was now on the battlefield.
Ashley Barton, Medb, Izuru Kamakura, Dagran... they were all here to fight for their cause.
"You've gotta be kidding me!" Claire yelled.
"It's not over yet, Miss Redfield!" Revan exclaimed. He was right, even more were coming, and these ones...
"You may have ended my ability to manipulate time, but let me share with you the fruit of my timely exploits!"
Further portals opened, revealing enemies that were the very last people Makoto ever wanted to see again.
One such figure, a towering man in a priest's robe, stepped out of one of many of Revan's portals. With glee that was barely contained into a devious grin that betrayed his exterior once known to be calm and contained, the man -- whom only Makoto and Touma would recognize -- let out a malicious laugh.
"If only my dear tactician, detective, and Punisher were here to see me now," he chuckled, clenching his bony fist in anticipation, crackling noises ringing out.
"Now, this must certainly be the divine plan I've been waiting for. Not a battle against someone else, not a battle for the fate of the multiverse, but more than that, a battle with your souls at stake!" He exclaimed madly, opening his arms out as though welcoming the enemies in front of him gleefully.
"Oh God, I thought I hallucinated that guy back then," Touma gritted his teeth as he laid eyes upon Kotomine, having only met him once in the past, and remembering why he had chosen to repress the memory of him.
A second man held a similarly devilish grin as he calmly adjusted his dark trench coat amidst the blowing winds of battle.
"Time to fix a couple of mistakes," the man sneered.
"You talking about yourself?!" Claire snapped back.
"Ah, Claire Redfield... I'll enjoy pummeling you into the earth for what you did to me."
Thirdly, and probably worst of all, was an obnoxious glowing triangle.
"DON'T MIND ME, JUST HERE TO END SOME LIVES!" he yelled.
"Revan has... H-He's really pulling out all the stops!" Makoto exclaimed.
"Sure, but so can I!" Billy responded.
"Bring in the cavalry."
Lights exploded out from Billy that burst across the battlefield. For every light, a new friendly face appeared, once of which being none other than the lost Cullen Bloodstone.
"Oi! Did you all forget about me until the final battle? Is that how it is?"
"C-Cullen! Good of you to join us again!" Touma exclaimed.
"Please tell me you've got backup! We're gonna need it!"
Nearby, a voice familiar only to Giorno rang out by his side.
"On your left, Geronimo," the voice said, predictably getting Giorno's name wrong as though it were the most natural thing in the world.
"I have no idea what's going on, but it sounded like you could use some help, so here I am!" Shichika Yasuri, an old ally of the blonde gangster, gave a smile toward his friend, as though it was the most natural thing for him to be here.
"Don't you two forget about me," said another old ally.
"Of course, Dorian Pavus is impossible to forget, right?"
"Heroes and villains throughout space and time. How exciting..." Kotomine chuckled in the meantime, practically shivering at the collection of opposing warriors arriving to the table.
"Oh, to see you all try and try so hard..." Revan grunted as he shook his head, hardly perturbed by the appearance of new allies to counter his own new forces.
"Don't you all see? This is the destined fate of the multiverse. I will lead the multiverse toward its destined prosperity. Why do you all resist so much? What could possibly drive you to try, again and again, to fight against that which is inevitable? How many times has the multiverse been threatened with destruction, only for the date of judgment to be pushed back only by mere days? At least my hand is one that is worthy to rule over the multiverse. Better me than the countless madmen that will simply arise in my place with the same goal, after all. So why then? Why do you persist, even when there is nothing left to save?" he asked, gesturing at the devastated landscape that was this world, one of the last few spaces throughout the multiverse that still existed at all.
"..." Touma gave pause, furrowing his brow as he seriously considered Revan's words. For Touma, he hardly had any doubt as to what he was doing. There was a purpose for what he was doing, something above all else that he wanted to protect and save. He struggled though to put a name to it, even when that something had been in front of his eyes the whole time. Something he observed, even when the entire multiverse was destroyed, that lasted in the people they had met along the way.
It wasn't hope, nor was it a mere survival instinct. It was something much simpler, yet at the same time, much deeper and more profound. It was right there, at the tip of his tongue. He realized it now! It was... It was called...!
"It's love!"
...
"... What?" Revan only responded after a pregnant pause, stirring as though that kind of answer was the last thing he'd expected.
"The thing that we wanted to protect all this time, more than anything else! The thing we found along the way! The thing driving us forward this entire time! The one thing that lasts, reigns eternal, even when the multiverse is all but destroyed!" Touma exclaimed resolutely, clenching his fist tightly.
"It was love!"
Touma never had such profound thoughts about love; he was just a normal high school boy, after all. Perhaps that was why it had taken him this long to realize it, but once he did, the entire game had changed for him. He looked back, toward those who had accompanied him this whole time, who had showed him what the meaning of their fight truly was.
"I saw it! In Nathan and Elliot! In Makoto and Kyoko! I saw it when Claire called upon Aqua's power! I saw it in the way Billy cares for the love of his life, the way he cares for his family! It was love all along!" Touma exclaimed unabashedly.
Elliot stammered out a protest.
"I-I wouldn't say that applies Nathan and I--"
"Insolent child..." Revan growled, interrupting him. By the sounds of it, Revan had already heard enough of Touma's yammering.
"You wanted to know why we kept going, but the answer was right in front of you the whole time! Love was what drove us forward! What are you driven by, Revan?! You wanted to know why we keep fighting?! It's to protect what was in front of us all this time! Normal people living their lives, with the people they loved! You were so intent on making a new world, but wait 'til you get a taste of this! The power of the normal world!"
Standing defiantly before Revan, Touma narrowed his gaze with red hot determination.
"If you think your new world will truly be a better place than the normal world, if you think that the people and places you've sacrificed to achieve your goal was worth the end result, then I'll... No..."
"... We'll break that messed-up illusion of yours!"
"Then let us see who will triumph in the end, once and for all! Just as you intend to stop me with the power of your world, I will show you the power of my world, just like you want it!"
It had finally come. The battle to decide the fate of the multiverse. Whoever the winner was, the multiverse would never be the same again. The countdown had begun for the next day. The first day of the rest of the multiverse. It all began during this time wherein even time ceased to exist.
The Zero Hour.
The final battle had begun.
REVAN'S FORCES: Thanos, Revan, Xehanort, Ansem, Xemnas, Barton, Medb, Izuru, Dagran, Kotomine, Wesker, Bill
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