Episode 15: Ending the No

"NO YES TO THE NO!" Crazy Celes screamed, seemingly at random.

"Of course, I'm open to all possibilities…" King Nero continued saying to himself in thought. "...but I don't believe this premonition I'm getting is a coincidence…"

"I think it's time for us to face Noimman…" Akame told Felix. "...don't you?"

"Most definitely." Felix answered.

"Maybe, from the looks of things, we'll finally be able to bust out of here in style…" the Dark Sky members said to themselves with an escape plan in mind.

"Atop the roof of the school…" Noimman said to herself. "That's where I want to fight them…"

"Never stop pulling the strings…" Adrian told herself. "...never let go until you pull the puppet master out of hiding...and crush that evil force!"

Go...never let the evil convince you that you have ceased to be…

And so, the stage was set for that night...

Odd that this is the setting of the final battle, but it makes things more appropriate for an ending with an explosion in the air…

Ninja Time God Rarity said this as Adrian Bruce and Noimman were staring each other down on top of the school roof, with Adrian wearing a scathing frown, and Noimman wearing her vintage grin of sadism.

Don't you agree this is the best place to get a view of the fireworks disappearing into the light, ho ho?

Adrian clenched her fists tighter than she had ever clenched them, her aura glowing with both dark and light energy as she continued to give Noimman a glare of fury. But Noimman, retaining her composure, simply released her aura of dark and light energy as well, borrowing power not only from the Dark Sky members, but also from all the unspoken victims of her atrocities…

"Try to intimidate me all you want…" an unphased Noimman proclaimed. "Intimidation tactics are worthless against me. I am not afraid of defeat or death, because I am defeat and death…"

"Liar." Adrian retorted in a cold voice. "You are merely being controlled by the avatar of death and defeat, and embrace the power that force has over you. For the first time in my life, I fight knowing I will win not because I am stronger, but because the strength that has been given to me will show my enemy that they don't know their master like I do…"

In response to this, Noimman put her hands to her mouth, unable to contain her excitement any longer.

"HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!" she laughed evilly. "Now THAT is a taunt you make before you battle! All you have to do now is show me the iron in those words! So go on! COME AT ME!"

Adrian then held out her right arm, her right hand still clenched in a fist, before she replied by saying…

"No. Absolutely not. I know what happened with you and your kids. It fucking disgusts me, even just standing here thinking about it. Normally, when someone pisses me off, I settle things with a fight, hand-to-hand combat. Because not only does it help me cool off, it helps me understand the person who pissed me off better. But I'm not just pissed at you...I'm fucking enraged."

"Enough with the fluff." Noimman retorted. "I know what you're up to. You're trying not to repeat Oro and Enma's mistake. But I'm afraid to tell you that the reason they couldn't beat me is not because they recklessly charged at me, it's because they were too weak to begin with. So come on, stop overthinking a strategy and just do your best! All you're doing is delaying me showing you that your best isn't good enough!"

"Do my best?" Adrian responded as her once angry expression began to contort into a confident smile. "I think you're confused. What I was getting at earlier is that I don't give a damn about showing you how strong I am or connecting with you as a fighter. All I want is to show you the combined power of everyone you've hurt…"

*FWOOPA* *SPLURT*

The next thing Noimman knew, Felix was standing behind her, having plunged his hand through Noimman's heart. Like Adrian, he had removed his coat now, dressed in only his white shirt, and had the power of Yin and Yang inside of him, having gained it from his experience with Akame.

"See ya around…" Felix said in a dark voice familiar to none before after the bizarre sound of a vial shattering could be heard.

"YOU SHITSTAIN!" Noimman screamed as she turned around to kick him, but as she did, Felix quickly grabbed Noimman's leg of flesh as he was knocked away, pulling it off.

"FORGETTING SOMETHING?!" Noimman kept shouting, transforming the leg of dark energy that had lost its flesh into a blade of darkness, extending it to try and stab Felix. "DIE!"

*FWOO* *BAM* *SPLURT*

Before Noimman knew what hit her, Adrian came up to her from behind and put her hands together like a hammer to bludgeon Noimman's head of flesh into a bloody pulp. Adrian snickered as she watched the broken glass from Noimman's glasses sink into the remains of her head.

"Ah, I love it when the extra part of the job gets done for me…" Adrian said to herself triumphantly. As Noimman fell to the ground, she walked over to Felix, both of them with smiles on their faces as Felix picked himself off the floor. This had been their plan from the start…

The two had a flashback to when they were still in Hell's Orphanage with Akame. Akame was discussing a plan with them on how they could effectively shut Noimman down.

"When I brought you two down here, I had every intent on teaching you the two most crucial things you needed to know in order to defeat Noimman." Akame explained. "How to fuse Yin and Yang and what Noimman is about. Though Adrian's scathing comments did cause me genuine pain, I always knew the best way to get her to comply was by using reverse psychology…"

"Yeah, yeah…" Adrian retorted. "You know I can't stand it when people beat around the bush. Just get to telling us how we should go about facing Noimman in a fight."

"The first piece of advice I'll give, which I hope will be obvious, is to not fight fair." Akame said bluntly. "We're not the heroes of Dragon Ball Z, having concern for our battle pride. We know we're not stronger than an enemy who doesn't fight fair. In war, battles are not a game of "who's stronger". The winner of the battle is the one who has the best knowledge of how to utilize the strengths of the weak and combine them to create an insurmountable power."

"So just like we needed to learn how to combine Yin and Yang," replied Felix, "Adrian and I also need to learn what our strengths are and how to combine those to form a battle strategy."

"Precisely, as always." Akame concurred. "That was the second thing I planned to cover. Both of you need to work together while doing what you're best at. Adrian's strength is just that, strength, unimaginable raw power. Her brawns can easily destroy any brain. Felix's strength is his mind, a brain that has a frighteningly deep understanding of his heart, as well as the weaknesses of the heart…"

"Going back to us not fighting fair…" Adrian said, musing. "Would you suggest I try some kind of a sneak attack while Felix acts as a distraction?"

"Funny, I was thinking the reverse." Felix interjected. "She knows you're the fighter of the two of us. If I show up acting as "the bait", she'll see through the trap like glass. On the other hand, she won't expect a physical attack from me. After seeing your quick temper back when you nearly punched her, she'll probably expect you to charge at her as soon as possible, thus her guard will be up at all times."

"Noimman won't be able to predict Felix taking her back if she's too busy getting a battle rush over the thought of fighting Adrian." Akame elaborated. "An easy way to do that, even with Felix's lack of battle experience, is with an old technique of Myra Michaels, shadow traveling. It's when you make yourself one with the light and darkness in someone's shadow to teleport behind them and strike from behind as you emerge. Felix should then use that opportunity to not only damage Noimman's heart in that moment, but also plant something inside that will damage her heart permanently. Adrian should do the same to Noimman's brain. Noimman can regenerate even the vital parts of her flesh that have been wounded, but she can not completely cure damage done to her by poisons and other internal hazards."

"We get now how to take care of her flesh…" Adrian replied. "But what about the darkness inside of her?"

"Dealing with that is something you should already know from Oro and Enma." Akame told her with a wink. "Don't forget, God is Satan, Satan is God…"

"..." Adrian went as the flashback ended, and she still found herself confused as she and Felix examined Noimman's remains. This couldn't possibly be over just yet. There was still something left to solve...a riddle…

"Now's our chance!" the Dark Sky members exclaimed. "Before she regenerates anything, let's get out there and give Adrian that message!"

With that, three bright lights came out of Noimman's leg that was no longer inside its flesh, and materialized into Hoops, Score, and Derpy Hooves. From out of Noimman's bludgeoned head came Ghost Rainbow Dash.

"Cuz I'm cutthroat…" G.R.D. gave a boastful tease as she pointed out the glass in the gory remains of where she had come from.

Just then, however, Dumb-bell burst out of Noimman's chest. Holding Noimman's heart in his hooves with a look of rage on his face, he gave the other Dark Sky members a jump.

"And I'm bringing on the heartbreak…" he said menacingly as he destroyed the heart with a ball of light energy. Forming it in the hoof he held the heart in, he transformed the light ball into a miniature cyclone that tore the heart to shreds from the inside. Blood went all over him, but he didn't care. He walked over to the remains of Noimman's head and dumped the remains of the heart on it.

"Try putting that back together, cunt." he derided her as one last way of revenge. He then looked around to see the disturbed looks of his companions.

"What?" he asked them. "I'm still pissed off at her for tearing off my fucking dick!"

"That's not the issue." G.R.D. bluntly told him, pointing to Adrian and Felix, who appeared flabbergasted. "We have company, remember?"

"Oh yeah…" Dumb-bell responded in embarrassment, regretting that he had gotten so caught up in his anger that he had forgotten what the next order of business was. Turning to Adrian and Felix, he tried to quickly think of the best way to introduce the gang to them.

"Um, greetings...comrades!" Dumb-bell exclaimed, nervously grinning in a futile attempt to hide the fact that he was winging this. "We're the most trusted subordinates of Fluttershy, the Dark Sky members, and we have come to bring you a message from our lord about Noimman!"

"...You're talking horses." Adrian replied bluntly after a long pause. "...Or talking ponies, whatever."

"And who's Fluttershy?" Felix asked. "Is she related to Ninja Time God Rarity or Fantasy God Discord by any chance?"

"Hey, I'm the ghost of a talking horse or a pony, whatever!" G.R.D. exclaimed, responding to Adrian, unamused at not being recognized.

"..." Score silently answered Felix's question with the description of Fluttershy on her MLP Wiki page, along with strange tidbits from Naruto, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Final Fantasy, and a description of Eris, the goddess of chaos in Greek mythology. And even though this garnered him a confused stare from everyone else, he did not feel embarrassed. After all, this was the best information the human world had on these subjects.

"Uh…" Dumb-bell responded, unsure what to say exactly. "I...think we're getting off the topic at hand here. We can fill you in on all that shit later. Or at least a bit of that shit. Our first priority is giving you the message Fluttershy sent us to deliver…"

After saying that, the Dark Sky members recited the poem Fluttershy had shared with them before they came to Adrian Bruce's world. Upon listening to the message, Adrian and Felix immediately got to thinking…

"So that's her full name…" Adrian said to herself in her mind. "Noimman Uel...come to think of it, I remember the card Noimman gave me saying, "No God is with us". Could it be that she wasn't just giving me the password back then...but also her name card?"

Curious, Adrian pulled the card out of her pocket, and putting a drop of Noimman's blood that got on her thumb next to "No", she started getting an idea...

"The poem seems to be talking about Akame's death and defeat in the world of the heralds sparking the birth of Noimman…" Felix thought to himself. "It talks about Satan in the beginning and God at the end. But it mentions God irreverently, so it doesn't appear to be viewing God as good. And if the evil is returning in reverse…"

*DING* something gleamed…

...and what gleamed caught Adrian and Felix's eyes. Strings. Light was being shone upon a set of strings that were attached to Noimman's body from behind. Adrian gasped as she had a flashback to what she had talked to Oro and Enma about…

"What did you say?" she asked, confused about how they had answered her question about who was pulling Noimman's strings. "How am I the one pulling Noimman's strings? When the hell did I become the bad guy in all this?!"

"It has nothing to do with you being the bad guy, as you're describing it." Oro replied. "What it has to do with is how your actions have an effect on what Noimman does…"

"Wait...are you suggesting that I'm helping Noimman without even realizing it?" Adrian inquired.

"Not just that," answered Enma, "but it's also possible that you're hurting Noimman without even realizing it…"

"But how?" Adrian replied.

"To understand that, we must reveal one more truth to you." the two spoke together ominously. "With this final revelation, you shall comprehend all you must know in this world…"

"Then tell me." Adrian responded in a brazen tone. "Whatever truth it is I need to know, I swear that I will have the strength to bear it, no matter how difficult it may be to accept. I'd much rather live knowing the ugly truth than live being deceived by a "beautiful" lie..."

"Very well then, we shall tell you." the two told her solemnly.

And so, the ugly truth they shared with Adrian was this…

"The very reason for you and your brother's existence...is Noimman herself."

Adrian couldn't contain her shock, shown by the mortified expression on her face as she felt a chill run down her spine and a tremor shake her heart. What followed were the words she didn't want to say, but knew there was no way to avoid saying them…

"What does that mean…?"

"It means that the very reason you and your brother were born was to kill Noimman." they answered, melancholy filling their tone of voice. "Noimman is the daughter of God, brought into this world as part of God's plan for the spiriting. And you and your brother are the children of Satan, brought into this world to stymie God…"

And just as Twilight Sparkle had done before her, Adrian reacted to the revelation of her true identity with a loud, long, bellow of…

"NNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

…..

God is Satan, and Satan is God.

Light is darkness, and darkness is light.

It was only after understanding these concepts that Adrian was finally able to truly understand how to combine Yin and Yang. And it was only through learning the painful truth that she was able to understand these concepts and share them with her brother, who also accepted them. She and her brother were darkness that could not exist without the light. But in turn, light could not exist without them. There was no such thing as a world where their existence couldn't be justified, for without them, Noimman's creation could not be justified.

However, that leaves the question of why Noimman was created. Why would God allow such an evil force to come into the world? And as Adrian saw the light make Noimman's strings visible, she leaped towards them in a heartbeat, and pulling them with all her might, she hoped to finally see the answer to that question…

"SHOW YOURSELF NOIMMAN!" Adrian bellowed. "SHOW US WHAT YOUR REASON FOR BEING HERE IS!"

"...That's all you want to know?" Noimman replied. "I'm disappointed. I thought you would have figured it out by now. My reason for doing what I do is nothing complicated. I just want to do what God sent me here to do while being myself…"

Adrian, Felix, and the Dark Sky members found that easy to believe as they saw Noimman's true form. A mass of pure darkness...that took the form of…

Noava Falling, Twilight Sparkle's demon daughter from the Awakening project.

Adrian and Felix didn't know what to say, not recognizing her, but the Dark Sky members glared at her sternly, remembering her…

"We should've known…" they said angrily. "Just when we thought we were finally out of Boss' clutches for good, all of a sudden, we have to babysit her kid…"

"Oh please," retorted Noava, "don't act like you had it the worst in the Awakening project. First, I find out that Twilight skipped over my brother and I's childhoods. Then I find out that Ninja Time God Rarity and Fantasy God Discord just wrote my brother and I in the story as extras. You don't know how glad I was to be reborn in the Spiriting world as Noimman. Now, I get to serve a god who actually cares about me and my brother and I get to take my revenge on those clowns on top of it!"

"SO THAT'S WHY YOU DID WHAT YOU DID?!" Adrian and Felix screamed, enraged. "WHO IS THIS SO-CALLED GOD OF YOURS?!"

"The star." Noava replied with a smug grin. "The true ruler of the universe. He ensured my creation before he fused with Satan and God. He worked through Twilight Sparkle and Fluttershy, using Twilight's hatred and Fluttershy's lust for battle to ensure that I was transformed into Noimman through the light and dark energy of Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, similar to how I was conceived in the Awakening project. But unlike that catastrophe, I was actually given a crucial role to play in this project. I was able to make you two children of the dark stronger in the light, thus preparing you for the spiriting."

"The spiriting?" they asked. "What's that supposed to be?"

"It's when we send mortal souls who have grown strong enough on mortal worlds such as this…" she continued explaining. "...into the bodies of gods, where they shall inhabit the Immortal World. Have you ever wondered why this world was so underpopulated?"

Adrian and Felix then thought through how everything had progressed and started to realize what she meant…

"So that's what the school that brought together all our areas of regular, unavoidable monotony was supposed to represent…" they said. "It was part of the test. It distracted us from our "true purpose" of killing you. Then when we found out there was no way to avoid killing you, new diversions came our way. Our hatred of you, our sorrow from seeing how others had suffered because of you, and simply not understanding what everything was all about...until we discovered how to mix light and darkness together…"

"Yes, and now that you have passed the test by killing my body and proving your strength, I have a deal to offer you two." Noava proposed. "Since you're going to have to give up your mortal lives for godly lives no matter what, why don't you two join me and we'll just end the fighting here?"

"Join you?!" they yelled. "Once this fight is over, we don't want anything more to do with you!"

"Ha ha, but just wishing for that isn't enough…" Noava teased. "I'm the daughter of the ruler of the universe, and you two are on your way towards achieving godhood. Our paths will inevitably cross. And if you have that much of a problem with me…"

Noava's grin grew much more creepy and sinister as she pulled a string above her head that was made visible through the light and dark energy she pumped into it from her aura. Dark clouds in the sky above rolled back to reveal a light that shone upon Noava from the heavens…

"You're going to have to take it up with my father in heaven…" she proclaimed boldly. "...who also happens to be your father in heaven. You may be the devil's children, but it matters not. GOD IS SATAN AND SATAN IS GOD! AND GOD IS WITH US! MWA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!"

"..." Adrian and Felix remained silent, feeling that they truly were stuck this time. What were they to do?

"Ha ha ha ha ha," continued Noava with her evil laugh, "I'll take your silence as a...maybe to my offer. Don't worry, I'll give you some time to come to a definite answer…"

As she said that, Adrian and Felix jumped back as they noticed what she trying to divert them from...Noimman's corpse was regenerating. While they were talking, her head and heart were being repaired. Noimman's heart was put back where it was, reattaching itself to what held it. Her head was fully restored, all of the flesh and tissue that had been destroyed now as good as new after she had picked out the glass. Noava took the rein on Noimman's strings again, and Noimman's body stood up, completely rejuvenated...but Adrian, Felix, and Dumb-bell merely smirked.

"Is that all you got?" they taunted, having prepared for this.

Noava caught on to the fact that something was wrong when she saw small spurts of blood erupting from Noimman's body, and her skin turning blood red as her body began to decompose.

"What's going on?!" Noava exclaimed.

"My poison seems to be taking effect…" Felix remarked, happy with the fruit of his labor. "That vial I crushed inside of Noimman's heart contained a deadly bio-weapon that I recently created. And mixed with the power of Yin and Yang, its destructive effects should be more potent than ever…"

"But, but that guy destroyed Noimman's heart when he broke out of her body!" Noava yelled, confused. "All the liquid inside should have splattered along with the blood! How did whatever you had in that vial have time to spread all throughout her heart?"

"Well, you see…" Felix replied, prepared to explain how his bio-weapon worked, until he realized that he himself didn't know how the bio-weapon was able to react with all of Noimman's heart cells after Noimman's heart was destroyed by Dumb-bell. "...um...it's kind of hard to explain if you don't understand…"

"I'LL explain it." Dumb-bell interjected, eager to rub this in her face. "I knew that whoever got Noimman in the heart wouldn't pass up the opportunity to put some kind of poison in it, and that I'd look like a real jackass if I ended up accidentally helping you. So I used the miniature cyclone of light energy to contain whatever poison was inside, as well as spread the poison all around! My taunt was merely to goad you into getting cocky, thinking I wouldn't know."

"Wow Dumb-bell," said Ghost Rainbow Dash, genuinely impressed by his strategy, "you really thought that out. You broke her heart, then tricked her into killing herself. Your sadism is to be admired."

"What can I say?" Dumb-bell replied. "I was just really mad at her for destroying my fucking cock!"

Noava began to worry. She tried repairing Noimman's body by regenerating the exploding cells and repairing the corroding flesh, but it was no use. She was only repairing damage that was just going to redo itself, she realized as she saw Noimman's body decay more and more. Hunks of rotting flesh were popping off her body, then falling to the ground to melt and explode in a mess of blood and decomposed tissue. Noava was forced to accept that her body was down for the count...but she soon got a smug smile of her own as an idea hit her…

"Of course, what was I thinking?" she remarked sinisterly as she let go of Noimman's strings, letting her rotting body fall to the ground. "Why am I bothering with making a meat puppet dance…"

Adrian, Felix, and the Dark Sky members put their guard up as they saw Noava beginning to form a ball of light containing a miniature cyclone of her own in her hands.

"WHEN MY OWN POWER IS ENOUGH TO BLOW THE STAGE SKY-HIGH?!" she finished as everyone else saw how large the ball of light was growing and sensed how destructive its power would be. Immediately, Dumb-bell grabbed Adrian and Hoops grabbed Felix, trying to fly away from the rooftop along with the other three Dark Sky members.

"YOU THINK YOU CAN JUST RUN?!" Noava taunted them as they tried to flee. "My target isn't you…"

Noava then revealed what she intended to do with the attack as she planted the ball of light inside of Noimman's body, which started melting faster and having more volatile explosions throughout it than before as it began to expand. Now with her hands free, she zapped Dumb-bell and Hoops' wings with light lasers from her fingertips. Dumb-bell and Hoops yelled in agony as they each felt their left wing be ruptured, a giant hole in each wing being created. Unable to keep flying properly, they began to lose altitude and their trajectory shifted back to the direction of the school rooftop.

"My target from the start was my own body!" she exclaimed maniacally. "I intend for all of us to be caught in the explosion! If I die here, Daddy can always work something else out for me. But if you die here, you'll go with me and be forced to acquiesce whatever we decide!"

Adrian and Felix began to fret, worrying that this might actually be the end...until for the first time, they heard the voice of Ninja Time God Rarity.

What are you two so worried about? You're still the ones pulling the strings here…

Suddenly, Adrian and Felix remembered the string Noava had pulled earlier to unveil the light…

"Unlike Akame, I will actually accomplish something with my death!" Noava declared, boasting. "I truly am not subject to gods who only see me as a dispensable tool! I am Noimman, the greatest devil god! LIGHTNING CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN AND NOIMMAN ROSE!"

Ho ho, if God is Satan, and Satan fell from heaven...well...

Adrian and Felix gasped as they saw multiple strings attached to Noava, coming down from the light. They knew what they had to do now…

"WE CAN'T HOLD ON ANYMORE!" Dumb-bell and Hoops cried, unable to fly properly or hold Adrian and Felix from the pain. "SCORE! DERPY! CATCH THEM!"

Score and Derpy flew under Dumb-bell and Hoops, holding their hooves out to catch Adrian and Felix as they fell...but Adrian and Felix simply used their hooves as platforms to leap towards something…

"Oops, I missed." Derpy lamented in her usual misunderstanding of the situation.

"..." Score silently showed his appreciation for Adrian and Felix's courage despite the situation...as he and the other Dark Sky members saw that Adrian and Felix had taken hold of the strings from the heavens that held Noava, and had climbed up them as if they were ropes. They were close to the light high above her, and both of them had an aura of light and dark energy glowing all around them as they began pulling the strings with all their might…

"OH NO, YOU DON'T!" Noava exclaimed as she shot lasers from her hands at Adrian and Felix from below at full power. However, G.R.D. covered Adrian and Felix, holding out her hooves that were dripping with ectoplasm to block the lasers.

"GGGRRRAAAGGGHHH!" she cried in pain as she absorbed the laser energy into her hooves. "NO WAY AM I LETTING THIS END WITHOUT SHOWING DUMB-BELL I CAN DIRTY THESE HOOVES FOR A GOOD CAUSE! DO IT NOW, GUYS!"

"MWA HA HA HA HA HA!" Noava laughed evilly. "AS IF THEY HAVE THE STRENGTH TO PULL DADDY DOWN! NO ONE'S STRONGER THAN US! AND ONCE THEY'RE DEFEATED, NO ONE WILL EVER EVEN COME CLOSE TO OUR POWER AGAIN! HA HA HA HA HA! HA ha ha ha...ha…"

Noava's laugh grew slower as she felt the light of her father shine on her from above. Looking above in surprise, she was baffled by the sight of Adrian and Felix smiling at her triumphantly, surrounded by the spirits of Oro, Enma, and Akame. They had succeeded in pulling the puppet master out of the light, who was revealed to be…

...Yata.

"W-what…" Noava said, stuttering in disbelief. "W-who are you? Where's God?! Where's Dad?!"

"Your dad merged with the other two of the Eternal Three…" Yata explained with a menacing grin on his face. "...so he handed your reins over to me...the next in line to be God...No. God, to be exact…"

Noava gasped before she said…

"No, it can't be you…"

"Long time, no see, Noava…" Yata replied as he took the syringes out of his head, which caused his hair to grow long and his face to contort into the image of…

...Noimman.

"The experiment from long ago, where I sought to create a light clone of myself and merge with it to become equal to God…" Noava remarked. "...it wasn't a failure after all."

"Yes…" Yata answered ominously. "Nero was not the only child of yours worthy of being your heir...for I have not only surpassed you, but I am now also God. And now, you shall be assimilated by my light of judgment as punishment for all the evil you have done…"

At that moment, Noimman's body finally exploded, and Noava was caught in it. However, before the explosion could reach Adrian and Felix, Yata blasted light from his hands down below to absorb the explosion, converting it into light energy. The light he beamed was harmless, and didn't hurt Adrian and Felix as it covered them. Yata then began to suck all of the light energy up into his hands along with the strings, as Adrian and Felix leaped off the strings and landed on the rooftop on their feet, unwounded from the power of Yin and Yang. With Noava finally defeated, the Dark Sky members came down to the rooftop to congratulate Adrian and Felix, a job well done. All the darkness in the sky made way for the light of a new day...

"It just goes to show…" Adrian said as they looked out over the rooftop. "Just because someone is pulling the strings...doesn't mean they control the show…"

"Oro, Enma, Akame, Yata, and even you guys…" Felix told the Dark Sky members. "We could never have done this without your help. Just like Yin and Yang came together to give us power that made us formidable, you came together to give us power that made us invincible."

"I owe Fluttershy a huge apology…" Dumb-bell replied, blushing. "I'm now more grateful for her plan than ever."

"Yeah," chimed in Hoops, "we have her to thank for allowing us to meet such great kids like you!"

"..." Score silently shared in the sentiments of this happy ending.

"I can't even get mad at you referring to us as "even you guys"..." Ghost Rainbow Dash commented, also sharing in the sentiment. "I'm glad I did what I did for you…"

"And I'm glad my mistake helped save the day!" Derpy exclaimed obliviously, as everyone shared a laugh.

Adrian and Felix were no longer concerned with how they were created. Their parents may have made a pact with Satan, as well as a pact with God...but what mattered most is that the red pill their mother coughed up...was a key that opened the gateway to this fantastic reality...

"AND THEN EVERYONE LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER OR DID THEY, THE END!" Crazy Celes yelled as she poked her head out from the sky where Yata was. "IT'S NOT OVER YET! THINK ABOUT ALL THE LOOSE ENDS THAT NEED TO BE TIED! LIKE HOW I GOT HERE!"

"Well, there's a simple explanation to that." the kid who had his eyes gouged out by Celes and replaced with robot ones by Akame interjected, abruptly appearing where Yata was as well. "The Noimman who approached you at the principal's office was actually Yata. In exchange for staying out of the way, he promised you protection from Noimman here."

"Oh yeah!" Celes exclaimed. "But wait, how did you get here then?!"

"I'm Noava's brother, Arc Rising." the kid introduced himself. "I was sent here to record all the fighting under Yata's orders."

Arc then touched his right robot eye, revealing it had a camera function as a stop button appeared in it. He then touched it again, causing a disc to emerge from his mouth, which he subsequently grabbed and gave to Yata.

"Good work, Arc…" Yata complimented his subject. "King Nero will be quite pleased, ha ha ha ha ha…"

The End of Adrian Bruce's Story.

Next is the story of King Nero.