Will of The Force (Star Wars / Worm)

[suikofan]

I feel kinda bad for the Ziz. Anakin is the exact thing The Warrior makes his Zion avatar to get rid of. But due to emulating human emotion to well Scion is just a sad boy and the only Endbringer with a brain is having to pull overtime.

 

[Ao Black]

Ahh, so it was Ziz that prevented Dinah's evacuation.

Thanks for the chapter , glad to see you powered through story-killer Leviathan.

 

[Raved Thrad]

So how long before Idiotlon decides to backstab Anakin?

"He's winning against Leviathan! And fighting the Simurgh at the same time! That should be me!!"

 

[Ao Black]

So how long before Idiotlon decides to backstab Anakin?

"He's winning against Leviathan! And fighting the Simurgh at the same time! That should be me!!"

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That's a pro Armsmaster maneuver right there, lol. Eidolon has his issues, but that's too harsh on him.

But if he survives this battle and gets outshined by Vader, he'll be both pretty salty that Anakin outperformed him, and also fiending to get that 1v1 with him.

After all, he wanted worthy opponents. Those can come in human sizes too .

 

[dogbertcarroll]

Bah, just use the pokeball Leviathan to block the attack.

 

[S!ËGFR!ÊD]

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Anakin: Alright, that's it! I'm pulling a Starkiller!

 

[NaraRias]

So how long before Idiotlon decides to backstab Anakin?

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Well, subconsciously, did he already do so? Or is Ziz somehow doing this independently?

 

[Uthalem]

I'm not sure if this is happening here but just so you know the idea that endbringers are sandbagging is cannon but not how most portray it as. For example Leviathan could just stay hidden and use endless tsunamis without reviling himself, so in that sense he is sandbagging but the raw power used when not holding back is the same.

 

[Swordstire]

I'm not sure if this is happening here but just so you know the idea that endbringers are sandbagging is cannon but not how most portray it as. For example Leviathan could just stay hidden and use endless tsunamis without reviling himself, so in that sense he is sandbagging but the raw power used when not holding back is the same.

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They also sorta have personalities. The other two probably don't have as much independence as Big Sis. But Leviathan likes to one vs one people, when he isn't doing hit and run. Probably because his objectives are usually to go after targets.

 

[CapCaverna]

Anakin's heart skipped a beat, his composure almost failing as he looked up.

Hundreds of satellites fell through the stormy sky, glowing red with heat as they went through atmospheric heating. They descended on the city, reminding him of drop pods as they moved almost straight down.

Having participated in at least a few such actions, Anakin knew the objects could take anywhere from three to fifteen minutes to reach the ground, depending on the planet. In this one, they should take at least six.

Focusing on them, he sensed most would burn out before ever reaching the ground, but twelve were large and resistant enough to reach the city with significant strength.

More worrying was the artificial satellite that fell towards his apprentice's shelter, more than a ton of metal moving at terminal velocity and guided by the unseen hand of the Simurgh, the creature managing to use the heavy hail to hide its existence until it was less than three minutes from impact.

Around him, absolute despair bombarded his senses, both civilians and parahumans seeming to mentally collapse at the appearance of a second 'Endbringer', her song resembling a Force Scream.

Staring at the descending projectile, Anakin was hit with a deluge of rage, the ground around him cracking as an involuntary wave of Force Telekinesis pushed everything away.

It had dared target his apprentice! Dinah was HIS apprentice! Was it the one who prevented her escape from the city? The desire to kill her, to rip her apart slowly, flooded his mind.

No, Anakin struggled to regain his balance; the Dark Side would not serve him here; he could not afford to be overcome by hate, to have his vision clouded by anger until all he could think about was destroying the creature.

Yes, the Dark Side would provide more immediate power, make his blows more devastating, maybe even allow him to overcome the creature's resistance, and rescue the youngling… But it would also fight him, guide his attention away from what he valued, until he was willing to forget about the girl if it meant hurting the creature.

More than that, he did not need the Dark Side; distance and weight were meaningless to the Force, and even if they mattered, he was more than powerful enough to overcome any difficulty.

Instead, Anakin took a deep breath, steadied himself, and turned a hand away from Leviathan, extending it towards the falling satellite, using Force Telekinesis to grasp it and slow its descent.

Through the Force Bond, he also sent a warning to the girl; she wasn't sensitive enough to fully interpret the message, but he hoped that the feelings would be enough to get her moving.

The Force sent him a new warning, and some of the destroyed buildings around him exploded into movement, huge chunks of concrete flying towards his body, the Simurgh using the chance to counterattack with her own Telekinesis.

With an effort of will, Anakin surrounded his body with a Force Shield, the debris breaking harmlessly against his shield, but the effort of spreading his attention in so many different directions finally started to take a toll.

Not every projectile targeted him; large pieces exploded against where he was still holding Leviathan, disrupting his hold and sending the spherical cage flying away to splash molten metal all over the street.

With a hiss, cold water covered the heated sphere, splashing around it in huge waves, immediately cooling and making it brittle enough that it only took a second for one of Leviathan's claws to shatter the surface, the 'Endbringer' breaking free.

Then Alexandria smashed into the creature again. Having recovered from the beast's earlier throw, the woman ignored her own growing dread to focus on the beast once more.

Leviathan flew back from the impact, then it turned around and ran to the right, disappearing between buildings as it disengaged from Alexandria, its protection from the Force making Anakin unable to sense where it had gone.

In the air, dozens of Dragon's drones flew to intercept the Simurgh.

The second Endbringer made no effort to flee, just floating in place in the air and using her Telekinesis to break the skyscrapers around her, using the pieces as projectiles to intercept the drones.

Moving a second hand towards the satellite, Anakin fully focused on stopping it, but the Simurgh refused to give up; her own power and the structure's momentum fighting against him.

He would win, but it required more than just a passing effort.

"Eidolon intercepting the third wave," Dragon warned through his bracelet. "Parahumans close to the Simurgh, you're now being marked. If you receive a warning, it means you're reaching the acceptable limit of exposure, disengage immediately and retreat from the location."

Instinct caused Anakin to glance to the left, and, blocks away, between the still-standing buildings, he saw a brief flash of Leviathan, the creature seeming to have run a wide circle around his location at incredible speed.

Clever, it wasn't fleeing, simply breaking line of sight to ambush him, and with the way the Force refused to touch the beast, it may even work.

Unless it used a water shadow or other projectile, Anakin's Force Precognition wouldn't warn him, and the beast's body could also bypass his Force Shield without problem.

All around him, the flow of water started increasing in both speed and volume, seeming to come from every direction, the current determined to overcome his Force Shield, or at least occupy his attention.

Checking on his Force Bond once more, Anakin felt Dinah's fear, but also a hint of determination; as expected, she wasn't going to just wait for death.

Like her, Anakin exploded into motion, not just waiting for Leviathan's inevitable attack but running with Force Speed towards the Simurgh even as he pressed the button on his wrist guard.

"Leviathan is a mile to my left. It seeks to re-engage me as I move further into the city. Delay or ambush the creature, and I shall deal with the Simurgh."

In the air, he saw dozens of lasers converging on the flying 'Endbringer', the blasts seeming to bend around obstacles and the remaining dragon armors to smash into the creature. Legend had recovered enough to face her again.

Anakin took the chance to press his advantage, his Force Telekinesis not stopping, but pushing the falling satellite to the side and away from its target. Then it was his turn to fight against the creature as she tried to correct her aim; she had less than two minutes to do so.

"Understood, Susanoo," Dragon's said from his wrist, her voice seeming harder than ever. "Do not hold back on the initial engagement, the Simurgh's precognition and awareness start flawed, but it grows with time until she is nearly omniscient as she stays in one location. In any engagement where we were able to repel her, the first moments were the most decisive, the damage done in the beginning allowing us to eventually push her back."

Not even a second later, he started hearing impacts to his left, the surrounding parahumans seeming to snap out of their shocked state. The sense of the city started to change; hope had long since been crushed, but the despair was now giving way to something else, outrage, hate, spitefulness…

For years, they had been fighting those creatures, and every time they started to get used to it, every time it grew manageable, a new one appeared.

Now, when they finally had an early warning, when almost every civilian had been evacuated or put into shelters, and parahumans had massed in unheard of numbers, an effort from multiple protectorate bases all around the country, this happened.

Worse, with the parahumans massed to fight Leviathan, they did not have the proper protections against the Simurgh, Brutes, Blasters, Shakers, all of them lacking the mobility to flee her influence when the time came…

Most understood, if only at a subconscious level, that they were already doomed, and, for the next few minutes, fear and despair turned into suicidal rage.

Anakin felt another attack on his mind, but he rebuffed it again, refusing even to hear the Simurgh's song or let it influence his thoughts; he had more than enough of that by Sidious' side.

And, for all her power, the 'Endbringer' was not a match for the Emperor.

Then the list of dead and disabled started again, name after name coming from his communication as they engaged Leviathan, but Anakin ignored them all, jumping atop a building and continuing to run towards the Simurgh, crossing entire blocks in seconds.

Launching himself between rooftops while climbing taller and taller buildings as he moved further into the city, he felt the heavy rain hitting his body, soaking his hair and clothes, leaving him exposed to the bitter cold wind, the feeling helping ground him.

Half a minute later, he got a clear view of his new enemy, as the smallest of the beasts, and also the most fragile, the Simurgh looked like a fifteen-foot-tall near-human woman with pale skin and a myriad of wings sprouting from her body.

The placement and size of her wings made no logical sense; many were proportional to her body, but sprouting from all over her skin, while others were several times larger, with the three largest curling around her form, and yet some were smaller, tracing the outline of her body with feathers like a skintight cloth.

Despite her appearance, there was no trace of humanity in her; her dull, silver eyes devoid of anything he could call human. Then she seemed to focus on him, their eyes meeting despite the downpour around him.

For a brief moment, Anakin just stared at her, even now, her scream uselessly attempting to pierce his mental discipline.

According to the information he found, the Simurgh had four main powers; the first was her scream, capable of driving those who heard it for too long insane, some happening immediately, others could act normally for years, only to eventually act in the most damaging way possible for no apparent reason.

Her second power was her precognition, the ability to see the future and plan in advance, a mixture of Battle Precognition and Future Sight to a degree he had only seen matched by Sidious.

The third was her telekinesis, comparable to some of the strongest Force users he had seen; she could rip apart entire buildings with seemingly no limit, and move them with enough dexterity to create devices.

From their short confrontation, Anakin could already tell he was stronger than her, and by a significant degree, but her ability to multitask was greater.

Finally, the creature could borrow powers from those within the range of her scream. It seemed restricted to those classified as Tinkers and Thinkers, but it gave her a challenging range of options.

Behind the Simurgh, hidden from view by some of her larger wings, Anakin sensed a huge amount of material moving, the creature starting to build something even as she ripped six entire buildings out of the ground, forcing them to orbit her body.

Legend attacked again, more than a hundred lasers shooting at her, their lights reflecting off the heavy rain to illuminate the sky, at least two dozen seeming to curve to hit the materials behind the creature's back.

One of the buildings exploded into fragments, the sound seeming to propagate through the city as each piece flew independently to intercept a laser, the 'Endbringer' prioritizing those aiming for her back.

With an effort of will, Anakin tore the hold she had on the remaining buildings, using his own Force Telekinesis to send all five flying at the creature with as much force as he could manage.

The Simurgh moved, her dead eyes never leaving him as she flew to the side with surprising speed, only two of the buildings managing to clip some of her larger wings, then the buildings clashed, smashing into one another in a thunderous collision.

With a wave of his hand, Anakin sent some of the resulting debris towards the materials at her back. The creature unable to move it with quite as much speed, large chunks smashing into the unknown device and obliterating it.

The second he acted, the Force screamed, and he felt the beast attacking the building he was standing on, attempting to tear the roof from under him, but he rebuffed her effort.

More than a dozen buildings within a mile around him exploded, a cacophony of noise that shattered every window still in place, thousands, then millions of fist-sized chunks rising in the air, controlled with exquisite precision to slowly mimic the 'Endbringer's' size and shape.

Decoys, useless against him, but with the current storm blocking visibility, they were convincing enough to distract most of the other parahumans that could have rendered aid.

Finally, the Simurgh gave up on her first projectile, the satellite smashing straight through a wide, towering building, tearing a giant hole through the building and then hitting the ground two miles from the shelter with the force of a bomb, the impact felt through the entire city.

Through the Force Bond, he felt a new sense of urgency, the youngling growing frantic despite the danger passing.

Immediately, Anakin felt a warning coming from upward, all twelve of the still falling objects being redirected towards the shelter.

He focused, overcoming the Simurgh's Telekinetic hold before she could do more than nudge the projectiles, but the effort of spreading his attention into so many directions, Force Shield, Speed, Battle Precognition, holding multiple objects with Telekinesis… It was taxing.

Still, a myriad of small projectiles continued to hit him, the Endbringer continuing to bombard him, testing his shield to see if it was still in place. The second he dropped his efforts, he knew she'd bombard him, using too many for him to block.

He narrowed his eyes at the 'Endbringer', the creature moving among her decoys and using one of their 'wings' to crush the last of Dragon's drones.

Some of Legend's lasers struck at the decoys, tearing holes through them, but those were quickly filled by new material.

She had never expected to hit Dinah with the first satellite; she probably didn't expect to hit with the other twelve either. It was just a delay, a way to spread his attention, to keep him on the defensive and stop him from concentrating.

She had been controlling the battle from the very beginning, using her future sight to predict his every move… her goal had never been to win, only for him to lose.

All around the city, he felt more people dying despite the evacuation, some just hadn't managed to flee, others hadn't made the effort, their light disappearing from the Force by the dozens, then hundreds.

Even among her decoys, the Simurgh still stared at him, as if wanting to see what else he was capable of.

There was no malice there. Despite being unable to sense her in the Force, he saw no signs of joy in the creature, unlike Sidious, the 'Endbringer' felt no delight in manipulating people like marionettes on strings, but she was still incredibly talented at it.

Every death hit him like a slap; as Vader, he had forgotten what it felt like… to care, to let others affect him, to be capable of empathy… This was a stark reminder.

At his side, his hands closed into fists, squeezing through his gloves so hard it became painful. It was easier to only care about the youngling, but after weeks trying to regain his balance, to regain himself, he no longer could. The realization both a burden and a relief.

He hadn't thought himself capable of this anymore.

Releasing a long breath, Anakin spared one last thought towards his apprentice, then fully focused on the 'Endbringer', trusting the Force to protect the girl.

Fighting someone capable of predicting the future at such a level was challenging; fortunately, he had more than enough experience with such things. The only complication was his inability to sense the 'Endbringer', only the environment around her.

"Dauntless, deceased, Whirlygig, deceased, Glory Girl, deceased, Armsmaster, down, Chevalier, down…"

Looking up at the creature, Anakin was reminded of his confrontations with Obi-Wan, the two most significant battles, perfect examples of how to go about it.

In the first, when they were younger, movement had been key; their lightsabers always in motion, even as Battle Precognition allowed them to see ahead of every strike.

Sometimes, their blades didn't even meet before blows were averted, strikes changing direction or being aborted before being delivered, the result clear through the Force, both of them seeing hundreds of strikes ahead.

Winning through mastery of the Force would be good, but the real goal was to be faster, stronger, to be so physically superior that knowing what was coming wouldn't help, that even with a warning, your enemy wouldn't be able to stop you.

Obi-Wan had won that battle. Anakin had seen the result; he had seen his former master maneuvering himself into a superior position, but he hadn't seen it soon enough.

He also hadn't been good enough to stop him, or to overcome him after.

In their last battle, the approach had been completely different; the confrontation had happened almost exclusively through the Force, there had been almost no motion, but their skill was tested to the limit, and they saw hundreds, then thousands of possibilities in the brief moments they faced each other.

It was not purely a battle of precognition, but also of mentality; they hadn't met in decades, they had aged, changed, and their presence in the Force was affected by that.

Anakin had won that second match; his former master was older, preoccupied with Luke's well-being, distracted by the effort to mask their movements, while Vader had been at his peak and focused solely on him.

In the end, they hadn't traded more than a couple of blows, but they both already knew the result, and Obi-Wan chose to embrace the Force instead of being captured, a feat Vader hadn't known was possible at the time.

Blinking, he dismissed the distractions from his mind. Now, Anakin faced something with a clear advantage of precognition; her planning proved she could predict him, while he could only sense her actions, not her body or intent.

There were ways to disguise his presence, to hide or confuse, and years of hunting Jedi under Sidious had taught him most of them, but they were aimed at blocking the Force, masking intent.

With the way the Force rejected ever touching the creature, he doubted she was using it, or that most of his techniques would work against her, but he still shifted some of his focus, Force Cloak covering his presence.

That particular skill was meant to mask perception, bending light and muffling sound, but that was only its earliest applications; with mastery, one could hide even his future.

Then Anakin attacked; he would not let the beast condemn this city.

Stealing control of the five closest decoys, he squeezed his hand, crushing them into dense balls of metal and concrete, only three feet wide but incredibly tough, which he threw at the creature, his projectiles moving just under the speed of sound.

The Simurgh dodged, putting pieces of debris and other decoys in front of herself, but his projectiles tore straight through them, one of the balls hitting a wing and sending it flying off, the false angel proving far less resistant than her brother.

Without any gestures, Anakin guided his makeshift projectiles, curving them in the air to pick up speed, then sending them after the fleeing 'Endbringer'.

Three metal spears, traffic signs ripped out of the street, hit his Force Shield, the metal deforming against his protection and bouncing off to the side.

Anakin dismissed the distractions, blocking a third attempt to tear his building apart with telekinesis.

The Force gave another warning, and he ignited his blade, parrying a halberd as it attempted to cut off his head under the Simurgh's power, his lightsaber seeming to explode into a shower of burning sparks a few centimeters from the halberd's edge, a million nanothorns burning up from the heat.

Twisting his wrist, he cut the helberd's handle in two, then let the Force guide his second blow to strike at the Tinkertech device, destroying something vital to the weapon's function.

Uncurling one wing, the Simurgh revealed the mouth of a cannon, the device, as large as a ship's main weapon, built under the protection of her body so as to hide it from his perception. The Force screaming at him.

Anakin darted aside, a shaft of light half the size of his body shooting out in an instant, almost brushing one of his arms and burning a hole through the roof all the way to the ground.

It wasn't a single shot, but a continuous beam of light that ate through the building, then the creature turned the weapon, the giant beam following after him with incredible speed.

Anakin threw himself to the left, Force Speed driving his body, but the distance meant he wouldn't be fast enough, even a minute shift of the cannon moving the beam dozens of feet.

Two of his own compressed projectiles hit the 'Endbringer' again, the first destroying the tip of her largest wings, while the second smashed into her foot, the limb shattering with the impact. The Simurgh didn't seem to care.

Dropping one of his projectiles, Anakin enhanced his hand with Tutaminis, then slapped the shaft of light aside, diverting the energy and causing the beam to cut through an entirely different tower, the upper floors starting to slide down the melted path.

Extending his perception, he tried to use Force Crush on the cannon, but the Simurgh moved before he could focus, covering the weapon with several wings that blocked his senses.

The entire exchange only lasted a little over a minute. Above the Simurgh, the falling satellites were still a minute from hitting the ground, but the clash had already left most of the area destroyed, and multiple skyscrapers demolished in the heart of the city, collapsing under their own damaged weight.

Fifteen floors under him, one of the creature's decoys hit the tower he was on, having moved just under his line of sight and beneath his notice, preoccupied as he was with the Simurgh's more direct attacks.

Inside the building, the fifteen-foot-tall decoy exploded, its hollow insides containing some manner of Tinkertech bomb that disintegrated three entire floors.

Another three of his projectiles smashed into the creature; one was blocked by one of her larger wings, but the two others punched through the smaller, less resistant ones, almost managing to hit the cannon.

Already damaged by the beam, the building simply crumbled, the upper floors breaking apart before he could jump to another.

Anakin lost his footing as the roof fell out from under him, but he twisted midair, used Force Push to clear out a path among the falling debris, and kicked against a half-intact wall, breaking out of the collapsing building and into open air above the city.

Down on the ground, a twenty-foot-tall cloud of debris had formed, completely blocking any visibility and moving fast, dirt and concrete dust spreading from multiple destroyed buildings, but he could still sense a layer of water flooding the street.

Looking up at the Simurgh, Anakin only kept his Battle Precognition and Force Shield, as dozens of small projectiles continued to strike at him from every side.

Even falling, he put the rest of his focus on Force Telekinesis, violently seizing the twelve still falling satellites, now only seconds from impact, forcing them all to take sharp turns in the air and aim for the creature.

The Simurgh tried to dodge, but Anakin refused to let her. He couldn't affect her body but, with tremendous effort, he used Force Telekinesis to hold the very air in place, refusing to let it be displaced as she flew.

Bursting out from the cloud of dust, Leviathan ran up the side of a nearby building, body covered in damage from other parahumans, but his claws found purchase on the materials and propelled him up at a hundred miles an hour, then the beast launched himself at him.

Eyes widening, Anakin turned midair, lightsaber moving to block, but he knew it wouldn't be enough.

Dropping almost everything else, he kept his Force Shield and put all of his remaining focus on Enhance Attribute, boosting his resilience and endurance to the absolute limit.

Leviathan's claw hit his lightsaber, the entire hand parting along the blade for a few inches before the beast's resistance stopped it, driving the blade back against his body and forcing Anakin to turn it off before it could touch him.

Then he felt the impact, Leviathan's entire arm passing through his shield without resistance to smash into his plate armor with the strength of a dozen AT-AT, folding the metal like paper before launching him downward at the remains of a half-collapsed skyscraper.

Anakin felt the air leaving his body, several ribs breaking from the blow, and all he could do was maintain his techniques as he hit the side of the building, bursting through the reinforced wall and continuing.

He hit one of the floors, bursting through it, then a second, and a third, before finally reaching the ground floor, his body getting buried in a large pile of debris as cold water, at least three feet deep, quickly moved to fill the hole.

Outside, only four blocks away, a giant impact shook the city, the first of the satellites grounding the Simurgh. Then another nine impacts rang one after another, hammering the 'Endbringer' into the ground like a nail.

Finally, another two impacts sounded, those much further away, and, even through his stunned pain, Anakin felt his heart skipping another beat.

The second he had shifted his attention towards surviving Leviathan's blow, the Simurgh had struck, managing to divert at least two of the projectiles away. Had she moved it enough to hit the youngling's shelter?

Taking a slow breath, Anakin coughed a drop of blood, the water quickly washing it away, then he gripped the edges of the debris with both hands and pulled himself up, the pile shifting as he broke free.

His body was hurting; many of his ribs had broken, and he could feel fractures all along his arms, huge bruises already forming on his back, but for him, it was the lack of pain that was unusual.

With sure steps, he ignored the insignificant amount of pain, feeling almost nostalgic at it, and walked through the near waist-high water.

Walking out of the building, he saw Leviathan already charging at him, but two curved beams of light, moving in a double-helix shape, struck the beast as it pounced, blasting the creature two blocks away before fading.

Purity flew seventy feet up in the air, firefly-like motes of light falling around her radiant white body, a second blast starting to gather around one extended hand. Only a moment later, another two flyers arrived, rushing the beast.

Turning towards the still-buried Simurgh, some of the debris already rising from her telekinesis, Anakin cracked his neck, then ignited his lightsaber; it was time to finish this.


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[vtkun]

thanks for the chapter

 

[Nicohals J Westerberg]

Bro... I was so ready for the battle to finish one way or another but its a cliff hanger aaaaaaahhhhh
Anyways thanks for the chapter

 

[CapCaverna]

Bro... I was so ready for the battle to finish one way or another but its a cliff hanger aaaaaaahhhhh
Anyways thanks for the chapter

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Winces a little... Yeah, sorry about that, I honestly thought I'd wrap this up in a chapter or two, but the fight stretched much longer than I wanted when I started writing it.

I swear it's not exactly on purpose, just the way the chapter turned. I'm a discovery writer, so I don't exactly plan those things ahead of time, at least not too much, and sometimes, this kind of thing happens.

 

[MrSevere]

I don't understand whats going on, how could he "finish it". Theirs power levels on the different scales , I don't think even emperor visheit can do anything to endbringer and Vader isn't even near his power.

 

[Xisaro]

"Dauntless, deceased, Whirlygig, deceased, Glory Girl, deceased, Armsmaster, down, Chevalier, down…"

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Oh shit... Pan Pan is not going to be pleased.

 

[Siloh1]

I don't understand whats going on, how could he "finish it". Theirs power levels on the different scales , I don't think even emperor visheit can do anything to endbringer and Vader isn't even near his power.

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Endbringer power level is Plot Device. Anakin's power level is Plot Device.

 

[Twigtree]

Glory girl died. Damn. Thats a bold stance to take for the story.
On more news , a strange blob of fleash wearing carol Dallon s clothes was found.

 

[CapCaverna]

I don't understand whats going on, how could he "finish it". Theirs power levels on the different scales , I don't think even emperor visheit can do anything to endbringer and Vader isn't even near his power.

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Well, first, Anakin has very little knowledge of the Endbringers; he knows their flesh can resist lightsabers and the Force refuses to directly touch them, but that's it... To Anakin, the Simurgh looks like a woman, so presumably, decapitating should work? If not, they probably have something vital he can eventually reach, does she need her wings to fly? he could cut them and use other materials to throw her into the sun?

Even if Anakin found out about the space/dimensional fuckery used in their cores, he just proved he CAN pry open the connection to a parahuman's powers, so if he subdues her, he could try to do something about it.


As for powers:

The Simurgh can see the past and the Future... well, so can Anakin, and while she has the advantage here, what with being imune to Battle Precognition, he just proved her vision isn't perfect.

The Simurgh can borrow Tinker and Thinker powers about her, but no Tinker device really impressed Anakin all that much, and considering even the Death Star didn't impress him, it's unlikely to happen. He's also very talented with technology and isn't afraid to interfere with any of her equipment. Better yet, unless she's protecting the Tinker device with her body, it's not immune to Battle Precognition or interference through Force Telekinesis.

The Simurgh can mind control people, but he just found out he can block her, the same Force defences he used against Sidious work on her, despite her power not being the same.

The Simurgh has Telekinesis, but canonically, she's not that superior to Anakin. Yes, she can move things beyond the line of the horizon with her telekinesis... but so can Anakin, and debatably, his range is greater, considering that the Force is everywhere. In terms of power, she can rip buildings out of the ground, but again, so can Anakin, and canonically, Brutes that have enough strength to do the same can overcome her hold. I believe that means Anakin has a clear advantage.

Now, clearly, the Simurgh wins by far at multitasking and detailed control when dealing with a lot of items, but that's her only advantage against him, and Force Shield can block from every direction.

Her body can resist Lightsabers, but Anakin hasn't spent enough time checking to see how long it can do so. To him, it could only be a matter of holding the lightsaber in place for a minute or two, and he knows he can cut pieces off, like he did with parts of Leviathan.



Could he physically destroy an Endbringer core? Probably not, but he doesn't know that, and considering the Force refuses to touch them, it wouldn't tell him that.

Could he suppress her, or destroy her with some manner of Force power? Possibly, we'll see when the battle finishes.

 

[Treken]

Well, guess shit's getting real

 

[F4u5t]

I really enjoyed this battle. It's well written, and Anakin's sense of struggle makes him look powerful as fuck while not having "a walk in the park kind" of scenario

 

[mpbjunkie]

I was waiting for this chapter and it delivered in spades. Awesome fight so far and I really, really wanna see how it ends.

 

[ThunderBasilisk]

Calling it now after he's dealt with the Endbringers he's gonna have to deal with Panancea bullshit unless he pulls a miracle and revives the recently dead. Which I believe is possible with the Light Side of the Force.

 

[S!ËGFR!ÊD]

Calling it now after he's dealt with the Endbringers he's gonna have to deal with Panancea bullshit unless he pulls a miracle and revives the recently dead. Which I believe is possible with the Light Side of the Force.

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Yeah, Light Side is basically White Magic.