Author's Notes:

My outfit got ruined so I wear a kimono now, the colors make it look cool okay?! Anyway this is a canon crossover with the story, Balanced As Everything Should be by Omnicsarebest18, go check it out I think it’s pretty good. This is canon here but for the other story it’s not, I encourage that you read that story otherwise you’ll miss some important details.

(Ponyville)
(The next day. 20 minutes until sunset)

“So now you have two?!” Twilight asked dumbfounded while looking at Zeko who flashed a confident smile before activating his complete Dōjutsu to the shock of Twilight, Rainbow Dash and Spike.

“It’s completed but there’s a major problem. Having one of these was already something special but having two would make me... unstable. If I used an almighty push now I’d probably be able to annihilate all of Ponyville.” Twilight gaped and stopped writing in her notepad but right as Spike was going to ask a question...

*Boom*
*Boom*
*Boom*

There were three incredibly loud explosions that shook the very ground that the group was standing on. “Whoa! What was that?” Spike asked while Zeko looked towards the source of the noise.

“That’s not good.” He saw plumes of black smoke rising from the forest, luckily it wasn’t his house that was harmed but that didn’t stop his hands from hitting the ground and making a cloud of white smoke that cleared and revealed the rest of the Mane six who were surprised at their sudden change in location, Pinkie Pie was in distress since it seemed that her baked goods had vanished from her hand.

“My cupcakes!” Pinkie dropped to the ground in a state of disbelief.

“How’d I get here?” Applejack looked around and saw her friends

“Get those Element things, there’s a pretty high energy signature by that explosion.” Twilight’s horn flashed and the chest containing the Elements of Harmony was transported into her hands and once she opened it the corresponding element went to its bearer. Zeko crossed his fingers and made five shadow clones appear and lay a hand on each of the Mane six before they all were teleported inside of his house in a crimson blur.

“Zeko! What was that noise?!” Celona came down the stairs and saw the six Zekos along with the Mane six and that Mist was on the ground.

“Don’t know but I’m about to find out. Stay here and be safe.” He helped Mist back into her wheelchair and started for the door.

“Is it the Claw? And if it’s not then what could’ve done that?” Mist asked as the shadow clones were dispelled

“Like I said, I don’t know and I’m going to find out.” Zeko walked out the door with the six girls in tow.

They ran towards the plumes of smoke and saw ruins that were smoldering. “N-No... the Castle... The Library!” Twilight fell to her knees over the apparent loss of literature while Zeko walked closer to investigate the still warm site while Fluttershy consoled the saddened librarian.

“Looks like it was blown apart. I’m not finding any odd chakra signatures anymore so where’d th-“

"Hello.” A malicious voice rang prompting Zeko to look and see a projection of a tall masked figure with a dark, shifting aura. “I could tell you are very confused at my antics. All will be explained in time, I promise you that. You, are now officially partaking in an experiment. I'm a displaced like you Zeko, so I wish to test your resolve. Some may die, and others will live. How many will you sacrifice to survive, before I tear you apart?" As soon as the line was finished Rarity screamed and pointed towards Ponyville where Ash and flames were going into the air. "So run little ponies, run."

“Damn it! Why the hell would someone do this for an experiment?” Zeko clenched his fists and looked towards the smoke and thought of a way to stop the flames from claiming any lives, he also hoped Spike could handle any potential attackers. “Girls, stay and look for any sign of who did this, I need to get back to the town.” He jumped into the trees and bound from branch to branch and left the sight of the Mane six.

Pinkie was about to say something but started to shake violently and stopped almost as fast as she started. “Uh oh.”

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“Come on you mindless zombies, it can’t be that hard to burn down a town.” A tall blonde haired human stood with his hands on his hips as undead roamed the streets, attacking ponies and setting fire to houses with prejudice. “I can’t believe that I, Dio, have to oversee the drones that the Master created.” Dio said with cockiness right as a kunai sailed towards him. “Hm?” The blade stopped in midair to the surprise of its launcher

“Is he a unicorn?.” Spike asked himself as Dio turned around and revealed his face to the drake. “Wait are you a guy wearing lipstick? I wear an apron and I think that’s girly.” Spike chuckled while Dio smirked and clasped his hands together menacingly once he saw the crowd of fallen undead behind the unassuming drake.

“So he managed to take down that many on his own? Impressive for a child.” The kunai in the air snapped in two. “So what’s your name brat?”

“I’m Spike, student of Zeko and the kid who beat fifty of your zombies.”

“I’ll make you an offer...” Dio said. “You can join me and help me turn on my creator or die here to me.” Another thrown kunai answered the question and was dodged easily. “Then it’s time to die!” He jumped for the drake and threw a punch to his chest, Spike managed to block but was unprepared for the kick to his stomach.

“Urk!” Dio smiled but he was confused when his target turned into scales and dropped to the ground. “Surprise!” Spike appeared at Dio’s side and delivered a punch to his rib, knocking the blonde off balance and allowing a barrage of punches to be landed on his body, ending with an uppercut. The drake shook his hands after his assault. “That kinda hurt.”

Dio was pushed back with his eyes closed and regained his cocky smile once he opened them. “Not bad kid but I’m afraid playtime’s over.” A golden aura enveloped Dio and Spike felt an additional presence as townsponies clashed with the undead in the background. “Time to meet your end.” Dio and Spike rushed towards one another. “Muda muda muda muda muda muda muda muda muda muda muda muda!” Dio cried as he and Spike clashed fist to blade and claw, with the younger fighter having no chance against his larger opponent. “Muda!” Spike was thrown into a wall by an unseen force.

“What was that?!” He got up with his training shirt scratched and his pants with scrapes on them. He weaved the signs to his move and inhaled. “Fire Style: Giant fireball.” He shot a massive ball of green fire towards his enemy.

Dio’s eyes widened at the attack. “A form of Hamon?” Spike saw the attack headed for Dio and figured he couldn’t dodge.

“Can’t beat fire can you?” Spike said to himself.

In the very next moment Dio was in front of Spike with his hands being held cockily on his hips and a smirk was held on his lips. “Hello.” Spike was sent straight through the wall behind him. “Foolish mortal creature, you never had a chance against me.”

“I think I’m doing pretty good.” Dio’s jaw was introduced to Spike’s foot, and the drake jumped back. “Okay. What would Zeko do in this situation? This... Dio just teleported in front of me, and if he just attacked instead of saying hi first...”

“You’re a persistent one aren’t you?” A golden aura surrounded Dio once again but three chakra rods around Spike’s size landed in the ground in front of him.

“Watching you beat up my friend isn’t something I like so now I’m involved.” Zeko said as he jumped from the roof of a building. “Bird, rat, ox, monkey, rat, serpent.” Zeko formed the hand signs to Dio’s confusion and suddenly large dark clouds started to form over the town and rain began to fall, extinguishing the flaming buildings. “Now I can tell if anyone else shows up. So how’d you move that fast?” Zeko questioned.

Spike looked over and saw Dio’s aura leave him. “He had some kind of spell that-“ The drake looked at Zeko and saw that his Rinnegan were active.

“What is that?” Next to Dio Zeko could see that there was a slightly taller humanoid figure with golden accents on its body.

“That’s strange, you aren’t a stand user but you can see it. This is The World and it’ll be your deaths.” The figure got into a fighting stance

“Spike go help deal with those dead soldiers.” The drake turned and ran towards a group of the Draugr but turned to warn Zeko.

“He has some kind of teleportation! I didn’t even see him start it!” With that Zeko was facing Dio and The World.

“So you’re the displaced that I was told about? I was expecting so much more but now I can kill you and then move to the Puppet Master.” The World crossed his arms as Dio raised his to his sides. “AGAIN, THE WORLD!”

“Time has stopped!” The World said in a metallic voice. The rain slowed and stopped entirely and the fighting in the background froze.

“I tested this once before unleashing the Draugr and it was only for a second.” Dio walked towards a destroyed building and picked up a brick. “Then against that brat I managed three seconds.” He crushed the brick in his hand but the powder stayed in the air. “And by that logic this should be five seconds.” He pulled six knives from his pockets and lined them in his fingers. “Hm hmm. MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA, MUDA!” He threw them at Zeko and they froze two meters in front of his chest. “One second left... Zero.” The rain started, the brick powder fell and the knives sped to their target but were deflected by an unseen force.

“So this guy... can stop time?!” Once the flow of time resumed the every action that Dio went through during its pause was visible to Zeko up to his count of zero. This meant that the shinobi‘s eyes could pick up the movements while time was frozen but he could only process what happened once it resumed.

“Oh so you can respond to The World’s power? I’ll just need to be closer to kill you!” He flew towards the shinobi and the two clashed fist to fist with Zeko keeping pace with the near blinding speed of The World’s fists.

“Muda muda muda muda muda muda muda muda!” The World repeated with each hit.

“That World thing makes his punches harder. If I take it out first then he should be vulnerable.” During the clash Zeko applied his orange chakra cloak and caught the stand’s fists.

“What? Only a stand can-“ Dio stopped once his fists started to bleed and he saw that Zeko had started crushing The World’s hands. “This shouldn’t be happening!” Zeko raised his leg and kicked The World and Dio into rubble. The rain washed the blood from the back of Dio’s head as he stared at Zeko.

“That’s why Spike couldn’t see it.” Dio got up and brushed himself off as his wound started to close. “The World is a spirit.”

“Ha ha ha ha, it seems you figured it out, stands are a manifestation of one’s fighting spirit and are connected in such a way. I don’t know how you can touch mine but so long as I can stop time you can’t win.” Dio taunted. Zeko clasped his hands together and brought sand towards him, creating a familiar whirlwind. “Controlling sand? An interesting stand ability but before The World it’s completely power-“ A tail made of sand burst through the ground behind Dio to the surprise of the stand user. “Shit I have to stop time, again The-“ The tail slammed into Dio’s back and pinned him to the ground.

“That looked like it hurt, huh?” Zeko emerged from the whirlwind in his sand demon form but unlike before was in control of himself and saw the dozen undead warriors around him, one of which seemed to be the leader of its armor was anything to go by and was holding an unconscious Spike by the neck of his shirt. Zeko moved his arm but the soldier raised a black axe to the back of Spike’s head.

“Stand still or he dies.” He spoke in a coarse, hollow voice.

Dio started to laugh from his position under Zeko’s tail. “It seems these Draugr aren’t as useless as I thought, so stand still while they cut you to pieces!” The Draugr moved in and started to chop Zeko and cast spells that shot streams of fire or ice at him. “And I nearly thought I’d lose. What?” The tail went back into the ground and gave Dio the ability to breathe freely but his momentary celebration was cut short by the tail springing from the ground and lifting Spike to the safety of a rooftop.

“Kill him n-“ The leader was grabbed and crushed by Zeko’s tail. The others were quickly grabbed and decapitated, crushed or cut in half by Zeko’s claws.

“I’ll have to- What?! My legs won’t work... What happened?!” Dio thought as he tried to stand up but only managed to push his torso up with his arms.

“When I hit you with my tail I made sure to crack your spine, your legs are disabled.” Zeko turned and lunged for Dio.

“Come to me, THE-“ A sand clad fist made its way into Dio’s jaw and stopped his ability.

“You keep saying ‘useless’ how about I say what I’m going to do to you?”

“Shit!”

“Tōtsū! Tōtsū!” Two punches to Dio’s chest, but the attack was far from finished. “TŌTŌTŌTŌTŌTŌTŌTŌTŌTŌTŌTŌTŌ!” Zeko let loose a ferocious barrage of punches to Dio’s body and ended the onslaught with an uppercut. “TŌTSŪ!” But before Dio could be thrown out of Zeko’s range, Zeko grabbed his ankle and pulled him back. “And for part two!” He slammmed Dio into the ground, the blonde coughed up blood upon impact.

”This shouldn’t be!” Dio thought as his clothes and body were being subjected to the violent attacks.

The attack wasn’t done as Zeko slammed Dio into the earth four more times. “Tōtsū, tōtsu, tōtsū, tōtsū!” On the final impact Zeko punted Dio into the air, sending him crashing into a building. “There, I’m useless and you’re in pain.” He turned around and started to walk away on all fours but as he walked off he was struck in the back of his head and knocked to the ground. Dio was back and missing his orange jacket, leaving him aim a black sleeveless shirt, and to Zeko’s irritation he wasn’t injured.

“You didn’t think it was over did you? This will be the nail in your coffin! Once more The World!” Time slowed to a standstill right as Zeko turned over. “One second has passed.” Dio took to the air. “Two seconds.” This time Zeko was able to see Dio’s movements but had no clue as to what he was saying.

“This time I’m aware of what happened, and I think I get it now. I can’t kill him unless I kill his World, he just regenerates but his hands are still wounded from what I did earlier...”

“Five seconds.”

“Whatever he does, I’ll be ready when time resumes. A large shadow appeared over Zeko’s body. “Oh God!”

Dio came from above with a relatively small brick house his his hands. “I’m going to crush you!” The building landed on Zeko without resistance. “Time to die brat!”

“MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA!” The World joined in on slamming the roof of the building repeatedly.

“Six seconds! Die!” He hit the building one last time, embedding it into the very ground. “Seven seconds, time resumes again.” The rain continued and the house thudded into the ground. Dio smiled at his apparent victory. “With the strength he had, drinking his blood would put me far past the puppet master!” The sound of something breaking in the house made Dio pause and put his ear to the roof. “What was-“ Zeko’s tail came through and snaked its way around Dio’s arms and waist, preventing any resistance. The appendage separated from its owner, allowing him to break through the roof and make it known to Dio that his sand prevented any external damage.

“That hurt but this sand isn’t gonna be stopped by one building.” Hands made of sand came from Zeko’s back and grabbed the bound fighter.

“I still have The World to fight with brat!” The stand came out but Zeko grabbed it around the torso and stopped it from moving. “I-I can’t call it back...” Dio tried to call his stand back but to no avail, it was trapped in Zeko’s grasp.

“I’m guessing that he can’t be too far from you so this’ll be quick!” Zeko jumped into the air with Dio being held above his back and The World in his claws over his head. “Burying Liger Bomb!” He crashed The World into the ground back first, cracks formed along its back and broke open revealing beams of light under its “skin” this happened to Dio as well.

“NO! I AM THE IMMORTAL VAMPIRE, DIO!” The vampire screeched as his upper body exploded in a burst of blue fire, leaving only his legs with flames coming from them.

“A vampire huh? Makes sense since he kept getting back up.” Zeko buried the limbs in sand and started walking towards the castle of the two sisters. “I’m tossing those into sunlight when it’s daytime again. Good grief first a horde of zombies and a blonde vampire, what’s next for this bizarre day?”

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