Nextgen Kids: Legend of the Nine Newborn

God Killing, Part 15: Kill the Supreme

To refresh everyone, the Nextgen Series ends with the Kids Next Door forever running up to meet Kael. Their "adult" selves are separate entities who have their own children in the Third Gen Tales. But one has to wonder if there was ever an end to their journey. What would they do if it should finish?

The Spirit World was as fantastical as Sephiroth imagined. To think he was probably the first Fallen Nimbi in 2,000 years to lay eyes upon the realm of the gods. He assumed that tremendous tidal wave of energy wasn't a natural phenomenon even here, but it was more than apparent that was where he needed to go.

A psychic grasp bound Sephiroth before he could get much closer. The culprit responsible was a golden-headed imp with twin tails and a silver body, her gold eyes in a sharp glare. "You won't get any closer to Father!"

"So, back off!" Azelf flew up and slashed her tails at Sephiroth, imbued with enhanced Armament Haki. Sephiroth fought free of Uxie's hold and slashed at the Firstborn of Knowledge, but her keen Observation enabled swift evasion. Sephiroth's speed began to falter as a thick wave of boredom fell over him, courtesy of Mesprit, the Goddess of Emotion.

"You won't be getting any farther without a will to fight!"

"AAAAAAAHHH!" Mesprit was overwhelmed by a Fear Scream. She was stunned to see that it was Marshadow. Azelf, her ears covered, flew to slash him with her tails, but twin icicle whips lashed the Willpower Firstborn in turn. Verglora blew a concentrated blizzard at Azelf, but she cut across the air and slashed them. Uxie, sensing two foes around her, evaded Hoopa's gigantified fists as well as energy forks cast by Gourmerry. Uxie grabbed Gourmerry in psychic and threw her into Hoopa, who conjured a portal to redirect her at Uxie, but the Knowledge Goddess pushed her right back through and swerved Gourmerry around to ram Hoopa. "What's wrong with you guys?!" Mesprit shouted. "Why can't I feel anything from you?!"

"They're being controlled against their will!" Azelf could tell, the speed of her tails matching Verglora's whips. "And I think the one responsible is the same being attacking Father right now."

"That Nimbi's getting away!" Uxie tried to fly after Sephiroth, but was seized in a pair of giant chopsticks conjured by Gourmerry. While she held Uxie in place, Hoopa bombarded her with fists.

The maelstrom of power spiraling from Arceus's domain was indescribable in Sephiroth's eyes. Time and Space folded onto their selves as Kael meshed Dialga and Palkia into a ball. Arceus hurdled a planet-sized ball of millions of condensed elements and compounds, but Kael ripped it in half with a karate chop and willed them to slam back into Arceus.

"Hey, Sephy! Thanks for clearing out all those other gods for me." Kael smiled, flicking the Dial-Palkia ball over to him. "Can you get rid of these two for me? I wanna play with Arceus a bit more."

Sephiroth spared a remorseless look for the Gods of Time and Space. He dropped down, raised the Infinity Trident, and pierced their diamond and pearl skin as though it were tissue. The universe was ruptured by spatial rifts, and almost all mortals fast-forwarded to elderly age, reset to infant age, and cycled through again and again. "Don't worry, that should only last a few minutes!" Kael said. "The universe doesn't need these gods, anymore, so it'll fix itself. But I guess a deal is a deal... you can try to kill me if you want. If you stab me with that trident, I'll go right down. If that's what you want~"

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves. You plan to target the multiverse, don't you? Do you have the power to breach into other worlds?"

"I can't go that far until I decide a Guardian. Now that I'm free, my three candidates can start the game! I was going to elect you and the rest of those assassins as my knights, but I guess you're the only one available now!"