Digi Post #9
Abstract
Judges.
You've heard many of the same arguments from myself and my opponents. We change them around to make them fresh, but it's the same ideas. It's more than likely that whatever opinion you have as you read this line, will be the one you maintain in your vote. So, I thought I'd provide something different. If nothing else, it will be fun.
Imo, the hardest thing to do with matches of this magnitude and complexity is the visualization aspect of it. Actually "seeing" the battle as the debaters see it. So what follows is a narrative visualization. No quotes, counter-points, etc. It's the battle as it plays in my head.
One quick note. Throughout the narrative, I will assume nearly the best of Scoob and leo's team. Meaning, I'll include the black hole bombs, nullifier rays, reversal spells, everything. I do not, however, believe all of those to be viable. You have seen the evidence for and against it. I think much of it is completely ridiculous, and have provided my reasoning for it. But I'd be a fool to simply assume that you will agree with me on all points. I hope you do, but you need not. With luck, I can show you how I'd win anyway.
Similarly, Midnighter's skills will not be used. I have them, and it's legal, but I want to show how even in a worst-case scenario, the battle can still be decisively in my favor.
So enjoy.
Narrative
The dune shifts imperceptibly over time, its undulations marked only by the sun, moon, and wind that shapes it. It ceases to be singular, for it rolls into the next, then becomes its own again briefly, uncaring. After centuries, a small tremor disturbs its tired dance, as small figures appear at a distance. Blurred by waves of heat, the figures dot the landscape insignificantly. For a moment. Then all changes.
Havok's blast comes simultaneously with the appearance, the aura around him already formidable and magnificent. A canyon of sand is formed, stories high, as his energy tears up a swath wider than the eye can take in all at once, engulfing all but his teammates, who stand alongside him.
Moon Knight flies off, waiting for an opportunity, cloaked and hiding in cloud cover generated by the plane.
More happens than words can keep up with. Paragraphs become nanoseconds. Within the opening tenths, Minion has run through more combat scenarios than all of us combined, even with our long debates. Midnighter? Nay. Hundreds of minds, all skilled, the master of all martial arts (KK) among them. He dives into the ground, before an energy blast could even hope to reach us. Cutting a chunk of earth out the size of a city, he crashes upwards with it moments later, hurling mountains at the enemy.
He dives down again instantly, having the speed to dodge lightning, perceive any weakness, any flaw, having the strength to move mountains, destroy planets. He beds himself beneath the enemy, unseen. "Shazam!" he calls out. Magic lightning courses into the enemy and their shields aboveground. "Shazam! Shazam! SHAZAM!" his calls are relentless. Unseen yet attacking with the force of gods, shields and defenses are gone, the enemy charred.
Yet, time being what it is in this contest of titans, I must backtrack. For as Havok's blast rings out, as Minion dives down to begin his assault, the t-spheres register us. Their blasts sing out but, unprotected, they fall victim to Havok's energy field. Blasts hit simultaneously, Minion already gone, and Havok is perhaps momentarily stunned. Yet his city-destroying blast has felled any unprotected spheres that dared attack. His attack begins anew, never ceasing, the power of a small sun at his command.
The balls are commanded to teleport near Havok. They do so. But once there they cannot function, caught in the brilliant energy aura and destroyed. Havok appears as though a sun on the battlefield. Craters begin to form around his being, the size of skyscrapers, as matter disintegrates within his field. He hovers, blinding all and raining energy in all directions.
The spheres are commanded to teleport to Minion, who cannot be found. Their sensors can detect him as he darts in and out of the earth, but the physical motion of one so skilled cannot be tracked and predicted. Their bombs explode harmlessly, as he is far away when they detonate, and their rays carom harmlessly off of sand as he disappears in a blur of skill and calculation.
Havok's energy continue to pour into them. The shields, impossibly, hold, but leaves them impotent to attack, trapped behind them. The spheres cannot be detonated close enough to him to do damage, and are destroyed when moved too close to him.
With Spiral's reversal spell in full affect, energy bounds madly in all directions from all sides, being absorbed and redirected. Miles of earth are vaporized, nothing can move but they are inundated with subatomic superheated plasmic energy. Havok repels his own blasts as they must repel them as well. But, slowly, eventually, the spell begins to fade. Havok, amped, does not fade, grows stronger and bolder. His glow can be seen from space, indeed even felt from space as the aura extends miles upward in a blinding glare.
Nullifier rays continue to miss their mark, t-spheres cannot track Minion and cannot approach Havok. "SHAZAM! SHAZAM!" the incessant cries come. Lightning engulfs the already chaotic scene. It is replaced with earth-shattering punches, with a razor sharp blade and skills that cannot quantified in mere words. The shields adapt, the t-spheres scramble madly for purchase. The bladed warrior adapts as well, changing his energy attack's frequency to pierce the shields, all the while flying madly, impossibly about, varying his attacks with pinpoint precision that can only come about when one is versed in hundreds of form of martial arts and tactics.
Energy is absorbed in droves, redirected and used on both sides. Only the strongest, most durable, and well-protected survive. Despite BK's energy absorption, Minion is constantly healing and moving to stay alive. Nothing can hit him directly (Judomaster), most energy is absorbed and redirected, but the battle is so intense that even gods are injured.
Technology is created at an insane pace to compensate. The enemy, nowhere near the same level of reflexes and speed (Aurora-less, the one debating point that I won't allow them, even in a hypothetical situation, because of how ridiculous and completely unproven it is), creates a myriad defenses and attacks. Some are useful, others less so. All the while: "SHAZAM!" and the barrage of energy and earthquake-inducing punches continue.
The electrical storm and energy short out the t-spheres entirely, whose electrical vulnerability is well documented (and proven).
Those combatants not already dead are melting in the anti-metal aura, their entire team employing tech of some sort. None can even come near Minion for fear of this fate.
Stark-tech is employed, along with Forge's PIS genius, and others join in. They maintain speed equality, finally able to compete with Minion. But their skill is lacking, even if their speed matches. Karate Kid toys with them, as a black belt might with a child. He sees the battle as a playground, his skills effortlessly complimenting his every thought and action. Minion moves as a blur, thoughts matching action every step of the way, the Wisdom of Solomon combining with KK's skill to form quite possibly the most perfect blend of fighting acumen ever assembled.
Moon Knight attacks, a wave of magnetic energy from the Angelwing further damning the technology and metal, as explosions and gas flood the ever-intensifying scene. The plane dive bombs into the enemy, Moon Knight safely outside, hurling explosives and adamantium darts at the already-beleaguered foe.
Desperately, the bombs continue to go off. But, as close to their team as mine, they affect both equally, and mine not at all because I'm more mobile. Technology continues to be made. Anti-magic bubbles pop up from their tech randomly in the hope of finding an enemy. Havok continues to rain a storm of death upon them, totally lost within his own blaze. Nothing can come within miles of him without being disintegrated, and he continues to grow stronger.
A hole the size of a state sits in the wake of the battle. Sand is crystallized and vaporized as it finally comes to a close. Havok continues shining long after there is a need for it. Minion throws chunks of enemy into space to prevent them from healing. Moon Knight tea-bags them.
End
A scans post follows this shortly, to reinforce everything I'm saying. I'll get to all relevant points from Scoob's last post in my 10th and final post, as well as those from their 10th, depending on the order we go in.
Thank you for reading. I hope it was fun, and perhaps a bit enlightening.
