(AN: For music, I would recommend listening to the Ambient.White OST. There is a playlist made by Frozen Night. I would start with The Light and Its Shadows. That song and those that follow it fit best with this battle. )
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POV Rio
Once I turned on the Time Twirler, I then didn't hesitate as I knew that with them together, I would be at a disadvantage. I was roughly equal to one of them, but it wasn't a simple 1+1=2. They would complement each other and make this far harder.
Rio: "Kaio-Ken x2!"
My power was instantly doubled, and I was covered in a red aura. Both of them sensed the change and went on guard. I didn't wait and rushed at them immediately. I was attacking them with my hooves, but Umbra Glacies was flying next to me and attacking them as well. My goal for the battle wasn't to kill them, as I knew that wouldn't work or would make things far worse. I connect my hoof with Daybreakers' jaw, and she is sent flying. At the same time, Umbra Glacies slashes at NMM. She tries to block it, but screams when it connects.
NMM: "Don't let that sword hit you! It hits the soul directly!"
They try to keep the battle to long-range battles, but I don't let them. I slam my hooves together and enter Sage Mode for a further boost to my stats. Daybreaker attempts to kick me in the face, but I move my head to narrowly dodge it. NMM uses this chance to shoot a magic spell at me, but that fails when I block it with my sword and absorb that attack. That upsets her, so she attempts to gouge my eye out with her horn. I let her get close and headbutt her horn. I can take the damage, but her horn can't. Her horn shatters, and she screams bloody murder.
NMM: "AHHHHHHHH! YOU BASTARD!"
Rio: "Not my fault you used your horn like a savage."
She uses a spell with the broken horn, and while I am left unharmed, they are pushed back. It seemed even when enraged and in pain, she could think tactically. I could see her horn starting to regenerate. But while I was distracted by her, Daybreaker got in close and started to use a spell. I could see I wouldn't be able to dodge it, so I created a shield.
Daybreaker: "Feel the power of the SUN!"
She turns into a miniature sun, and for a few seconds, I have to survive under the power of a sun at point-blank range. I was lucky that I could survive the heat. But my shield was starting to melt. But after a few seconds, the attack ends, and that is when I counterattack. I stab my sword right in her chest. Then I follow up with a combo attack. It consisted of over 300 punches and kicks released in only 1 second. Then the finisher.
Rio: "KAMEHAMEHA!!!"
The blast sent her crashing into the planet we were on, and then the planet started to detonate. I fled to the next planet, and NMM followed. She had healed her horn already, and before I could even land, I had to teleport away as a moon crashed into the planet. As I teleport away, I sense Daybreaker survive the planet's explosion, and she heads to the nearest star. I try to stop her, but I can't reach her in time.
'Crap.'
I try to back off, but I have to teleport to dodge the sun that chases me rapidly. It annihilates several planets that get in the way. I was in a tricky position as taking a sun to the face was not going to be easy. It also didn't help that NMM was gathering a massive amount of lunar magic for something. I try to create a few Crystal Clones to confuse Daybreaker, but she can always sense the real one.
'This is getting me nowhere. I need to get out of this situation.'
I decide to retreat to the Astral Realm. But I found out very soon that it was a mistake. As soon as I got there, my danger sense gave me the highest warning I had ever felt. I didn't hesitate and fled the Astral Realm as soon as I could, but that was still not fast enough. I lost my right leg, and most of my right side was burned to the bone. The place I teleported to was a star system not too far from the battle. I knew I had only a few seconds, so I ate a Senzu Bean and completely healed myself.
'Their combat experience is better than mine, and it shows. I need to waste more of their energy.'
I create a flesh clone. Which was a technique I made for the express purpose of using the Ultimatrix. Once they were created, they nodded and put on the Ultimatrix. They transform into Clockwork, and then he evolves further.
Ult Clock: "I will delay them. Just get that ready."
I nod and use a technique to make myself become undetectable. Then I dispel Kaio-Ken. Then I start gathering a massive amount of mana.
POV Flesh Clone
I didn't have to wait long for the two sisters to arrive.
NMM: "There you are!"
Daybreaker: "He seems off. I am not sure this is the real one."
NMM: "Nonsense, I know that symbol. It was only able to be used by Rio and not his copies. But beware the transformations that can be quite unpredictable."
Rio: "Enough, talking, let's get to fighting."
I smash my fists together and create a temporal bubble. It freezes NMM and Daybreaker, but they are aware they are frozen. They try to physically resist, but that doesn't work, so they shift to using magic. This was exactly what I wanted them to do. They struggle, but they manage to pop the bubble. This causes a backlash, but I don't stay in this form any longer. I switched to the Olympian and then evolved it. I felt the massive increase in power, and I knew I was strong enough to fight in close combat. It also made me grow to around 15 feet tall, and now I have 6 arms.
Rio: "Let's do this!"
I fly at them and punch them. The attack is blocked, but the shockwave created nearly shatters the planet we are on. NMM goes to attack me from behind, but I blocked her with two of my arms. Then I released a massive amount of lightning, causing her to be paralyzed for a few moments, which I used to punch her as hard as I could. The attack caused a sonic boom, and I felt her face basically liquify from the impact. Despite the crushing blow, she wasn't killed only temporarily disabled. Daybreaker managed to get past my guard and punch me in the face. My face turned away, and I looked at her and spat out the teeth and blood she knocked out.
Daybreaker: "Oh, wow, that's pretty impressive."
We then started to engage in close combat again. With my additional limbs, I had the advantage, but unlike her, I couldn't heal nearly as fast. But that was fine, as to heal that damage, they have to use stamina and energy. So the more they healed, the more tired they became.
POV Rio
I finished gathering all the energy I needed for the technique I needed to use to get rid of them, but before I could do so, I needed to weaken them. I looked out of my hiding place and saw my clone covered in injuries but still fighting them. I could sense that both NMM and Daybreaker had lost a lot of energy, but they still had a sizeable amount of mana. As I was checking their stamina and mana, my clone was defeated. They turned back into the Alicorn form, put away the Ultimatrix, and then used the Kamikaze technique. As the smoke was created, I left my hiding place. They see me and they look surprised and annoyed.
NMM: "How in Tartatus are you in perfect condition again!"
Daybreaker: "Sister, we can't win like this; we need to use that technique."
NMM: "Are you sure? Only one being has survived that technique before. If he is dead, he is not that useful."
Daybreaker: "He is an Alicorn; he will be reborn eventually. Now let's do it."
They teleport away, and I sense the energy they had gathered from their respective sources all converge and then start to fuse. I can predict what will happen, and I know I need to stop the attack or else it will cause damage that might be dangerous to the barrier of this universe. I take a deep breath and prepare my best Ki Technique. I focus and energy builds up at the tip of my horn. They seem to finish their preparations and release their technique. They don't say what it is called, but I call out my technique's name.
Rio: "Infinity Cannon!"
A dark blue beam heads towards the magic attack from the two sisters. The beams hit each other, and mine starts to lose quickly, but I expected that, so I added the next step.
Rio: "Kaio-Ken x3!"
My power instantly triples, and my beam starts to push the magic attack back. They try to add every last drop of power, and it starts to reverse again, so I do something a bit risky.
Rio: "Kaio-Ken x4!"
The power surges again, but not without consequences. My eyes and nose started to bleed, and several blood vessels all throughout my body burst. My Health and Stamina start to fall rapidly, but I just eat a Senzu Bean whenever it drops below 30%. It takes over a minute and 4 Senzu Beans, but I eventually break the sisters' attack, and they take the attack head-on. They blast through 2 planets before stopping, but when they do, I eat one last Senzu Bean and teleport to them. What I find is both of them in a 4-mile-wide crater with most of their bodies healing, but at a visibly slow rate. When I check their status, I see they have only 3% health remaining and no mana or stamina.
NMM: "Cough cough! Well, it looks like we lost sister."
Daybreaker: "Ugh, don't talk. I feel like the entire universe is spinning."
Rio: "It technically is."
Daybreaker: "Shut it."
I walk over and place mana-dampening cuffs and a horn ring. What little mana they had is made unusable.
Daybreaker: "Oh kinky~"
I ignore her and put them both to sleep before I go to the area where I prepared the technique that would fix this issue. Forever. Hopefully. When I arrive, I place them in the spell circle and start prepping the final steps to activate it safely. They wake up around this time.
NMM: "Huh? Where are we? What is this spell circle for?"
Rio: "This is an area I prepped for a ritual. That is the ritual spell circle."
Daybreaker: "What does this ritual do?"
Rio: "It should purify your inner darkness and reincarnate you. Or annihilate your soul."
I say that last part quietly.
Daybreaker: "Wait, what was that last part!?"
Rio: "This ritual predates me. It was designed specifically to deal with Alicorns that fell to their inner darkness or were heinous criminals. It should probably purify both of you. Assuming that the several things that are out of my control work properly. But don't worry, I am at least 60% sure this will work."
NMM: "60 PERCENT!"
Daybreaker: "Why don't you just kill us with that sword of yours. It could destroy our soul, right?"
Rio: "I would, but I don't want a Nerath situation. That would make this many times worse, and the book says that I should avoid killing an Alicorn if possible. But don't worry, this ritual is completely safe. For me."
I flip a switch to activate the ritual, and both NMM and Daybreaker start to panic.
Daybreaker: "Wait, we can work something out! I will do anything! I will be your slave. I'll sign any contract you want me to. Just don't do this!"
Rio: "Nope. I despise slavery, and any contract with you would run the risk of you breaking it by force. So it is better this way."
NMM: "Wait, you have an issue with me. My sister is innocent in this regard; let her go. She doesn't need to die. Don't let the innocent die. Let only the guilty suffer."
Daybreaker seems shocked by this.
Daybreaker: "Sister?"
NMM: "It is better this way. I was the first to be here, and I am the one who attacked first. Let not the sister suffer the sins of her family."
Rio: "Sorry, Nightmare, but I can't take that risk. Both of you are dangerous, but like I said before, you two should be fine."
The ritual enters the last stage, so I teleport off the planet, as this next part was not going to be nice. Once the ritual activates fully, a blinding light is created, and then the entire planet on which the ritual was cast is erased. Normally, that wouldn't be the case, but I didn't have the needed energy to cast the ritual, so using the energy of an entire planet, including converting the planet's matter into energy, was needed for this to work. I waited for a few minutes and started to get nervous when I didn't sense the sign that it worked.
'If they didn't meet the requirements, there is nothing more I could have done.'
Luckily, as I was starting to worry, I felt that change in the Astral Realm, and I smiled. I teleported to the Astral Realm and walked to the two cocoons of light. One had the symbol of the sun and the other the moon. I tapped both, and they formed into Alicorns.
Rio: "Congrats on your reincarnation!"
Both: "Huh?"
Rio: "I told you two you would be fine."
Celestia: "What just happened? I thought that ritual killed us?"
Rio: "It would have if I didn't do several things. One, I had to drain you two of as much energy. Two, I had to weaken both of your souls as much as possible. Three, I had to make you think you would die. And fourth, you had to redeem yourselves by putting away your greed and darker emotions to save your sibling. With all that together, you passed the requirements and were reincarnated. With only slight side effects."
Luna: "Side effects? What kind of side effects?"
Rio: "Well, as I am sure you can tell, you are both young. If I had to guess, you are maybe 13 or 14. You will also note that you can't use magic. At all. That will last for a year or a decade or maybe forever."
Both: "WHAT!?"
Rio: "I didn't have the needed mana to cast the spell. And your new bodies are created from that ritual, so how long you won't have magic is hard to say. Anywhere from 1 to infinite years. You might be able to fly, but don't count on it. Oh, and don't think this makes you no longer guilty of crimes. You will have to serve your time. I have the perfect punishment in mind."
They shivered and looked up at me with tearful eyes.
Rio: "That won't work on me. You two were very clearly intent on sexually assaulting me if you won. And you would have caused the death of Billions. So I have no sympathy for either of you."
The blushed and avoided eye contact. I could feel a lot of embarrassment and guilt.
Celestia: "What will be our punishment?"
Rio: "Paperwork. Lots and lots of paperwork."
They go pale and start running, but I grab them in my TK field and smile at them.
Rio: "If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Don't worry, I will only have you assist with the paperwork part-time. The rest of the time, you will be allowed to be children and have fun."
Luna: "H-how long?"
Rio: "I dunno, a century, maybe longer, it really depends on when I feel like you learned your lesson and paid your debt enough. I mean, you destroyed a lot of planets. Which is not cheap."
Luna: "Wait, but didn't you destroy..."
Rio: "Huh, I suddenly have the urge to multiply any punishments I can think of by a factor of 10. Strange."
Celestia: "Cough! What I think Luna meant to say is that we happily accept the punishment you have given us at this time, and we will pay off our debts."
Rio: "Huh, that feeling has disappeared. Now I think we should get going. There are some celebrations left to do."
We leave the Astral Realm, and I have them sign some contracts, then they are sent with Alfred to settle them in their new living quarters. Once that was done, I just collapsed into my bed as I was exhausted mentally. Before I fall asleep, I make sure that the Time Twirler is off and everyone knows that the situation is handled, and then I fall asleep.
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Authors Note:
A long chapter this time. I had planned for this idea for some time. For more info, Rio can beat Daybreaker or NMM on his own in a 1v1. He could also beat them without the stalling tactic, but it would cause far more damage. Like several star systems would be destroyed. And yes, Daybreaker is stronger physically, but NMM is stronger magically. Rio is now the strongest being in his Universe, even if you include sealed enemies. He would also likely be the strongest in the small Multiverse he is in. The next chapter is Gacha. Until next time, Ciao.