“welcome, ladies and gentlemen, this is a temporary arena for you two to warm up and fight the first round and the rules have changed. The first is this a three round match a round ends when a fighter cannot fight any longer, then an hour is taken as recuperation time.

The first two rounds are knock outs or surrender only no fatal attacks and the final round is a deathmatch round in the same format as before,” Dollette announced

Palutena sighed, she held her hand up and chanted, “through the flow of my blood, my power strikes you down!” the blood seals glowed on the top of her hands.

“Interesting,” he said, drawing his naginata and his shield. “Let’s see what you can do,” he said, remaining in his base form.

Palutena Launched herself at Gilgamesh her armor and sword appearing one right downward diagonal slash to the bottom left followed be a left downward diagonal slash to the bottom left sending out blade beams in a cross followed swiftly by a jump and horizontal twisting vertical slashing beam. Palutena sped up and launched into rapid slashing in every direction towards Gilgamesh sending waves of crescent beams at him, who barely managed to block or deflect them, struggling to keep up.

Palutena continued her charge, casting Blizzaga repeatedly as ice crystals rapidly expanded out towards him. Palutena then created another pair of arms each holding her sword each one Enfired, one Enthunder, one Enice and one Enruin and duplicated herself and swords several times her body clones being as durable and solid as herself.

While her clones attacked at range Palutena stomped on the ground creating a pillar of five celestial blue magic circles with four smaller with blue lines in the center at the cardinal directions angled down towards the center circles in them rings pulse outwards, the top and bottom two circles curved convex. it was huge encompassing Palutena completely, the spell circles spun around as did the other circles pointing inward. Inside motes of holy magic floated around Palutena Blue white light reaching fifty foot in height. As magic filled it and the spell neared completion the circles expanded and Palutena rose her arms up,

“Super tier magic, Fallen down!” three more circles appeared above her the lowest being smallest of the new ones but bigger then the top of the orb, the ring above that was twice its size and above it had four angled magic circles that intercepted the lines from the original four angle circles on it. Above that a thin ring was wider still than the previous and above that was a smaller circle the pillar of light magic grew in intensity Palutena called upon a huge pillar of blue light from the sky onto Gilgamesh that burnt so bright and hot that it appeared like the whole world had turned white. After a few seconds, it left behind an area burned to cinder.

A few moments later the dust was blown away revealing Gilgamesh in his final form, a blue aura radiating on him, and no damage present whatsoever. “Final Form and one of my trump cards already. I’m sorry for underestimating you. NEVER AGAIN!” he shouted before shooting a beam of energy out his mouth at her. As he did he summoned four shadow clones racing to the edges of the arena as they attacked from a distance, one with guns and rockets, one with blades of air, one with ki blasts, and one with spells, alternating between Firaja, Blizzaja, and Thundaja.

Palutena's clones intercepted Gilgamesh’s shadow clones, the original Palutena, cast haste, shell and protect, faith and bravery.
She dismissed her sword lifted up her left and right palms catching the elemental spells and mouth laser, “Stagnet!” she now had a ball of the spells Gilgamesh had launched at her, “Complexio!” she said as she took the magic in herself, “pro armationem, tetra elementium!” her body was now covered in a blue, red, yellow aura her hair was raised up.

She resummoned her sword, shifted her sword into its staff scythe form
As a large golden magic circle appeared below her music started playing, Palutena closed her eyes eighty eight multicolored planets of varying size engulfed the field in a multicolored world with Palutena at their centre. Golden magic surged around the magic circle in undulating waves as Palutena chanted, “Survey the Heavens, Open the Heavens… All the stars, far and wide… Show me thy appearance...With such shine. Oh Tetrabiblos... I am the ruler of the stars… Aspect become complete...Open thy malevolent gate. Oh eighty eight Stars of the heaven…” her eyes opened revealing a golden magic circle “Shine! Urano metria!” the planets shifted towards Palutena filling her body before being launched at Gilgamesh.

The attack collided with Gilgamesh, unleashing a massive explosion of light, blinding all who looked on it. As the explosion finished Gilgamesh dashed out, looking completely unharmed, and shoved two of his hands into Palutena’s mouth. “This is what you get for not researching my powers,” he said smugly before unleashing a blast of energy inside her mouth, sending her reeling. As he did this he breathed deeply, causing his body to crackle with electricity, while balls of energy swirled in his four other palms. “Sunlight Yellow Rasengan OVERDRIVE!” He bellowed as he shoved all four of them into her gut.

Palutena growled angrily as she looked towards Gilgamesh. She opened her mouth, a rainbow magic circle appeared in front of it. “Tiamat’s roar” a small beam of the five elements alongside dark and light struck the magic circle before enlarging as it passed through the circle, the resulting beam landing directly on Gilgamesh. The recoil pushing her backwards slightly.

“You really don’t pay attention, do you?” came voice from inside the smoke. Immediately after a barrage of Urano Metria, albeit a weaker version, came flying out and striking her dead on. As that happened the smoke cleared from Gilgamesh firing his own weaker version of Tiamat’s Roar, sending her tumbling. He then summoned all six of his legendary blades and took a stance, his body’s aura changing from blue to gold as cherry blossom petals fell. ”Hissatsu, Part 5: Divide/” he announced before vanishing in a burst of speed and then reappearing just long enough to slash at her, the slice also cutting through the arena. This happened twice more before he struck a pose, his gold aura fading back to blue before the arena exploded in a fiery tornado. Just then, his blue aura faded away. “Well, so much for that one. [i[Mighty Guard.” he said before five different colored auras shone on him, and now he hovered above the ground.

Palutena grunted as she got up, “Dispelga!” white magic engulfed all Gilgamesh’s,” all the Palutena clones disengaged and all as one including the original Palutena aimed at their specific target “triple, ultima!” an explosive sphere of blue or green energy consumed Gilgamesh.

“Slow! Triplet maximise penetrate magic, reality slash!” Three large reality rending white crescent beams headed to each

“Nice try,” came an eerily calm and monotone voice from right below her, just in time to see Gilgamesh jump out of a hole in reality, glowing with a blue aura and his eyes white. “SHIN!” he shouted, slamming three of his fists into her gut, lifting her off the ground and knocking the wind, and her lunch, out of her. “SHO!” Another three fists into her chest, hard enough that she felt her ribs crack. “RYUKEN!” Three flying uppercuts slammed into her chin, sending her soaring upwards. He dispelled the Power of Nothingness before firing a series of magic chains at her, wrapping around her torso and pinning her arms and wings, before yanking on them. She lurched at him only be sent to the ground by a punch to the face, followed by rapid-fire punches pushing her further and further into the ground.

Palutena met the blows with her fists as best she could she raised two of her hands to her forehead palms facing inwards, “solar flare!” Palutena shouted her whole body becoming light.

“I am the bone of my sword!
Metal is my body and plasma my blood.
I am the maker of a million blades
Friend of life
and of death.
I am the origin of many weapons
These hands will hold everything
So I hear your prayers, unlimited blade works!” palutena chanted as a ring of blue fire spread out transforming the world into a barren wasteland, standing atop a hill of swords was palutena, giant cogs filled the skies belching out smoke and embers.

Palutena analysed Gilgamesh’s weapons and then copied them as recorded they appeared in the hill of swords. Multiple copies of his weapons appeared above Palutena, “continuous fire, release rapid fire!” Palutena called as copies of Gilgamesh’s weapons fired back at him constantly.

Gilgamesh readied his weapons to deflect the attack but stopped for a moment before dismissing them. He held out his hands in front of him and his body began to glow as he focused his power and many weapons stopped in front of him. As he struggled to keep them away they also began to disintegrate, breaking down into particles and being absorbed into his body. He continued this for for at least a minute before he had to let it drop, causing the now freed weapons to explode on contact with him. “Ok, need more practice with that. But, it still worked for a the most part,” he said as he walked out of the cloud of dust, only wincing slightly as the weapons continued to hit him. “Keep going. I need to practice working within my limitations.”

Palutena smirked, “how about a blast from the past Gilgamesh?” Palutena raised her hand and summoned, King Artoria’s blade Excalibur and Mordred’s sword Clarent Blood Arthur. Palutena grabbed the hilt of excalibur, in one right hand and Clarent in the one left hand charging both, clarent’s handguard split open unlocking itself, Palutena raised them both above her head beams of red with lightning and gold with gold motes filled the ashen sky.

Gaebolg was in her mid left hand, the crimson red ornate spear had flown towards Palutena, and she grabbed the shaft, mjolnir in her mid right hand, Tch I am running low on mana! Palutena thought, out of a portal she grabs a few magical gems and ate them.

Palutena shifted her vocal chords and with a voice for each weapon, she jumped with a flip in the air and drew back Gaebolg, “Gea-bolg!” red and black pooled at the tip of the spear and she threw it at Gilgamesh as she landed she aimed both holy swords at Gilgamesh, “Ex-calibur!” “Clarent blood arthur!” the two beams entwined and mixed and hit Gilgamesh, engulfing him.

Palutena panted heavily, the world returned to normal and the weapons she had summoned returned to mana and dispersed, okay if he’s still standing after that I don’t know what I’ll do? Palutena thought to herself Palutena, “ Triple Osmosga!” Palutena shouted trying to draw in ambient mana, as she ate more gems. She then summoned her sword, prepared for his retaliation. To her surprise, he was standing still panting, the Genji Shield held in front of him managing to take the brunt of the force, but the blast still did damage him. He dismissed the shield, groaning as he snapped one his arms back into place.

“This is getting to serious. Time to lighten the mood a little,” he said. In a flash he was dressed in a racing helmet and a purple suit.

Palutena blinked in confusion at the sudden shift from all out fight, to whatever this was.

“Welcome to the Internet. I’ll be your guide,” he said in an imitation of Christopher Walken. She then felt something land on her head. She grabbed it and held in front of her to see a tiny cartoon turtle, except for some reason it had a button on its shell. “Hello!” it said in an adorable high pitched voice. It the jumped at her face, the button clicking, before it exploded.

Palutena deadpanned, “really?” she straightened up and cracked her body

He smiled in response. “Lemons.”

“‘Lemo-,’?” she tried to say, only for something to come up out of her throat. She spat out whatever it was, which it turned out was lemons.

"Why are we still here? Just to suffer?" Palutena responded, “Very well, there’s something on your face.” Palutena pointed out to Gilgamesh.

Palutena punched him in the face, sending him skidding along the ground. “It was pain!”

“Marmite,” he said simply, and Palutena was suddenly on fire.

“Is… is this really what this match has devolved into?” Gilgamesh’s Luna asked. “Well, I don’t know what I was expecting…”

Celestia winced as she saw Palutena’s face on fire, “would you rather they actually stopped holding back and used their full powers to annihilate each other?” she asked Gilgamesh’s Luna, “And don’t forget they have to remain intact for the fight against Dollette and for our little fun later, so they can service us properly.” Palutena pointed out, to her sister’s counterpart. Who was about to argue against Celestia only to blush and close her mouth, letting her argument die on her tongue.

Celestia smirked smugly.

Palutena devoured the fire on her face lapping it up with her long tongue like Pinkie pie ate frosting.

“Thanks for the food, Let me return the favor, I heard you like mudkips,” Palutena said as she conjured a mudkip, “use watergun mudkip!”

“Mudkip!” Mudkip cheered as it fired a blast of water from it’s mouth at Gilgamesh, who held out a sponge to suck it all up before tossing the item away… which for some reason also exploded.

Palutena pulled out an acoustic guitar, started strumming a riff, and then brought out a pair of bongos to play alongside the guitar, “I think it’s time to blow this scene. Get everybody and the stuff together. Okay. three. Two. One. Let’s jam!” Palutena said to no one as she lit a cigarette,

She left an upright bass and a trumpet for Gilgamesh. Gilgamesh, going with the flow summoned some shadow clones and took the instruments as well as summoning a saxophone and played along. However, each note of the trumpet fired an arrow of sound at her. Palutena fired back with her own musical attacks, only for the constant plucking of the bass to form a shield of sound to deflect the attacks. The saxophone came next and the erratic and rapid notes summoned forth invisible bolts of sound that shot at her from all directions.

Despite her bongo’s constant rhythm and her guitar Palutena was overwhelmed by the ending crescendo and fell over backwards, knocked out from the sonic assault.

“Winner of the first round Gilgamesh!” Dollet called dejectedly out grumbling and then muttering something under her breath. Palutena was spirited away from the field as Gilgamesh was returned to his room.

Author's Notes:

A continuation of our epic Gilgamesh collab.