Jay opened his eyes, still a bit dazed, without knowing where he was for the first time. Even so, he found himself standing on a green bridge, with golden patterns, a light coming from behind him.
The scenery around him was something that he was familiar with, "World Forge."
"Right, The World Forge," An unreal voice entered his ear, making him look over to a young Caucasian-Asian girl with long ginger hair and dark amber eyes. She was wearing a short, layered burgundy skirt with dark-grey pantyhose. Her hands were inside the pockets of a brown jacket that she was wearing over a white v-neck top, hiding her modest breasts, "Echo."
"What should I call you? Master? Love? Father? Is there any order you have?" Echo watched him with her dark amber eyes.
Jay stood up, noticing something, smiling as he turned around, "Did I order you around so much that you held a grudge?"
Echo looked away, "I just want to know..."
"What you mean to me?" Jay stepped closer to her, putting his hand on her waist, bending down to plant his lips onto hers.
Echo clutched onto his clothes, moaning in his mouth, closing her eyes, "Yes..."
"I don't know...you are my oldest...closest...confidant? Maybe family? I don't know. But you mean to me more than you can understand," Jay hugged her, caressing her hair, "You mean to me...a lot."
Echo closed her eyes, burying her face in his chest, holding tightly onto him, "Sir...things here...they have taken the turn for the worst."
"What happened...?"
"When I came to this Universe...there were only two living beings that were left alive...and then we lost Hawkeye...and now there is only one left."
"Hm," Jay barely reacted as he stepped back, creating a hammer of golden energy with solid lines, "Is that why you gave me this body? Turned me into an Eternal? Saved my body at the Core of the World Forge? To protect me?"
Echo watched him, confused, "What...happened to you? You'd never..."
"This outcome can be restored," Jay lightly said, "I am assuming the other party has Six Infinity Stone? Which one is it? Thanos? Ultron? Ultron, right?"
He looked towards the inside of the World Forge, "Hmm, it's a waste. Just an Eternal Physique. I am going to play around with the World Forge a little. Rest till then."
Echo blinked, watching the World Forge's gates close down once he entered when she heard a husky voice, "He's nothing like you said. Or maybe too much."
"He's different," Echo turned around, sighing, "I don't know what happened. For the first time, I wasn't by his side."
Converged Universes, Dark Earth,
Billy sat on the rock, watching Mephisto being surrounded by green energy, trying to pervade him, surrounding him, "Boy!! What the Hell is this!!!"
"A counter," Billy lightly said, enjoying the spectacle, "You thought you'd try to perverse with his creations and getaway? You thought wrong."
Mephisto clenched his fist, screaming, "HYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
With his cry, he released massive hellfire that fought against the lifestream. But it all abruptly crumbled, the hellfire, the lifestream, even the sound of Mephisto's annoyed cry, "You are an annoyance."
Mephisto growled, and the Dark Universe started shaking, "You...you are awake."
"Yes, Yes I am," Sephiroth smiled, his dichromatic, scarlet, and green cat-like eyes watching Mephisto, unshaken by his anger.
Mephisto calmed down, laughing the next moment, "Hahaha, how did you know?"
Even as he said, he noticed the look of pity in Billy's eyes, causing a sense of dread to spread through Mephisto. He could feel the gravity of the situation he was in charge of, "You mean to ask how did I know that you will bite on the bait that was kept for you?"
Sephiroth smiled, walking towards Mephisto, slowly circling around him, "A whole race...human-like but not human...pure but not corrupted...powerful yet vulnerable. Isn't that a delight for someone like you? Beings? Weapons that could be corrupted, controlled, and used for chaos? But that's not all, is it?"
Sephiroth stopped, "A being that could help you bend the Laws of the Universe that you were placed under, and a time where those Laws were already bent. You had everything you needed to come out, to play, to win, and...to surpass the Fate you were born with. The cherry on top? Even if you failed, you'd be revived."
"And you think you can change that? I am the-"
"Embodiment of Evil," Sephiroth cut him off, watching Mephisto turn around, "I know, as long as Evil exists in the hearts of people, you can be revived endlessly. But..."
He stopped, and Masamune appeared in his hand, smiling, "Who designated you to be the Personification of the Evil."
"Powers that you cannot hope to fight against," Mephisto created spheres of hellfire in his hand. The air around them started burning down, the heat enough was to erase the ground below him.
Sephiroth slashed Masamune downwards, and a pillar of snow-white light fell down from the sky, freezing everything in its path to Absolute Zero.
Mephisto looked up, and a pillar of hellfire struck against the post of Absolute Ice, "You underestimate me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Sephiroth's wrist moved, and seven more pillars of Absolute Zero surrounded Mephisto, smashing towards him.
"This is just the form that I like to take!! I can be anything!!" Mephisto's fingers turned into tentacles, which grew in size, covered by hellfire to counter the Absolute Ice pillars. But the moment before the two sides collided, the Ice pillars broke apart, turning into blades of vibranium metals that cut apart on Mephisto's tentacles.
The blades flew under Sephiroth's controls, slashing apart on Mephisto's body, which healed the at a rapid speed until even the vibranium burned down.
Mephisto laughed, "Is that all you can do?"
"No," Sephiroth lightly said, looking at Mephisto's chest, to be precise looking at the blade inside it, which turned into a ball gravity, breaking down on itself, trapping Mephisto.
"Conceptual Beings are hard to kill because they are always connected. That is why...I am the worst opponent you could have faced," He closed his eyes.
The Masamune disappeared, and lifestream appeared around him, moving towards Mephisto, surrounding him, keeping him in place as Sephiroth chanted.
"I seek the ultimate blade.
A blade of steel cutting no flesh, nor bones and neither life.
What I seek is the clearance of resentment.
The cutting of bonds, Fate, and Destiny.
That is, to free one from Karma.
Upon one's arrival are countless tools.
Carved over a thousand blades, forming a pile of swords.
This is the place where all paths cross.
This is the place where all desires flow.
This is the place where all deaths await
His whole life was for this single swing.
Bring the heart of the blade!
Bring me his, my Tsumukari Muramasa!!!"
Fire burst forth from the ground, turning the black land into a land of lava; the dark sky turned red to reflect the burning setting. The thousands of katana buried in the background, being destroyed. They mixed with the lifestream, forming a burning katana in Sephiroth's hands.
He slashed it towards Mephisto, the cut of the blade turning the world silent. Sephiroth's voice echoed, "One slash, one that severs Time, Space, Fate, Karma, and Concept. You."
Mephisto didn't even get to react when the world started moving, and he burned down to the ground, turning into ashes, flowing.
The world around Sephiroth came down, and he found himself standing at the edge of the canyon. The world below him was filled with burning lava, screams of horror, and above was a face made of fire, "You cannot devour me!! I am Mephisto!!"
Sephiroth didn't look up at the face; he looked down as if someone was kneeling in front of me, "You don't get to look down on me. Kneel."
The world around them broke down again, the green fire burned around them, and Mephisto found himself kneeling. Still, he laughed, "You think you can become the personification of Evil?! You will be limited by the Universe, not able to interfere! Tied to Hell! And only watch for the longest of times! Your mind can't take that!"
Sephiroth smiled, "I find you and your fascination to humanity...idiotic. Why do you think I chose this body? This identity? If there is going to be a personification of Evil, then I am it. As for the limit...I have a whole race to follow my orders, those that are free and not trapped in Hell."
Mephisto stared into his eyes before he burst out in laughter, creating hellfire around him, "You are crazier than me!! But I will say!! They will betray you!! Why do you think I never used the demons! They always betray!"
"Those are demons; I created something better, kinder, stronger, more loyal," Sephiroth pierced Masamune through his chest. And the hellfire started turning green, "And even if they try to betray me...well, I have the Central Control."
"You will burn down this world," Mephisto spoke with his last breath, dissipating, leaving behind his essence, which Sephiroth picked up, swallowing.
He gulped them down, closing his eyes, "Why would I? That is such a waste of resources."
