War IV - 2v1

*BANG*

There was a loud and big explosion. Dust covered it all up. 

Atlas looked at the scene with wide eyes. He hadn't seen what happened but something massive just hit his opponent. 

It took him off guard and he paid the price for his arrogance. You don't let your guard down. 

"Embarrassing Atlas. Truly. For you to be in such a state and that by an unknown god as well. You have lost your touch.", a voice said.

Atlas looked to his left and saw a tall and muscular man, with long, flowing orange hair and a regal, confident demeanour. The man was floating down from the sky and landed next to Atlas. He looked down on Atlas and had an arrogant smile on his face. 

"If I tell Cronos what happened today, you won't live to see another day. Your reputation would plummet and you would lose your position as the General of the army."

"Hyperion...", Atlas said. 

"What are you doing here? I didn't need your help."

"Oh, but I think you did. Look at you, all beaten up and lying on the ground. You're lucky I killed him."

"He was actually strong Hyperion. It seemed like he knew what I would do and how to respond. I never got to use my full strength as he kept close to me. It was so frustrating, even you with your speed would have had difficulties..."

"HAHAHA-"

"How sentimental ...", a voice said.

Both Titans widened their eyes and looked to where the voice came from. The dust had still not settled yet, to neither of the two had noticed the man standing there.

"Wha-?"

"Impossible!", said Hyperion. He could make out who it was after the dust had settled somewhat. He still had his arms folded in front of him but he was surprised at what he saw. This god managed to survive one of his strongest blasts. 

"Impossible? That word is the most commonly used wrong word ever. You probably mean ... improbable.", the voice said. 

The silhouette became more visible and when the dust had finally cleared the two Titans could see Hades standing there without so much as a scratch. The only different thing was his eyepatch lay on the ground broken. 

"Truly a shame. You had your chance and wasted it. That would have done some damage had it hit ... probably. But this is my only shirt."

"How are you still alive? I felt none of your energy before.", Hyperion was serious. 

"Then do you feel my energy now?", Hades asked.

Hyperion narrowed his eyes and then opened them wide in realisation. He could not sense it. How had he not noticed this before? 

"How are you doing that?"

"I have my energy under control. That goes for all my powers. You on the other hand ... truly a shame to have such wasteful energy control. You should train that."

"So what do you say lads ... shall we scrimmage?"

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[Listen to Spiderbait - Black Betty while reading. It makes my bad writing better.]

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Hyperion didn't need to be said twice. He shot with the speed of light and punched. His fist didn't manage to make contact with Hades' face though. In his confusion, Hyperion stopped for a second and Hades used that to deliver an attack to his face. 

Hyperion woke up but it was too late, he was hit in the face and slid back a bit. He had managed to block using his insane speed. 

There was no break, tough. Hades rushed at him and did a roundhouse kick aiming for the Titan's head. 

The leg was easily blocked though. Hyperion grabbed his leg and pulled a bit while lifting his leg and kicking. The kick was once again blocked by this invisible barrier. Hades used the fact that his leg was in Hyperion's hand and tried to get closer and kick once more. 

At that moment a fist impacted his face and he shot to the left. Hyperion simply looked at the downed god with disinterest. 

"Took you long enough. Did you have enough dirt to eat?"

"Shut up."

They attacked together. Hyperion from the right and Atlas from the left. Hades saw them coming.

He pushed off the ground with his hands while swinging his legs over his head in a backward motion, similar to the start of a back handspring.

As he swung his legs over, he used the momentum and strength in his arms to push himself up and shoot towards the two incoming Titans. 

Hades used their momentum against them and had them shoot into his attack. The two Titans' faces were bent inwards and Hades got the higher position above them. 

He pulled his fist back and punched Atlas in midair. He had to block the leg that came towards him from the left. It seems Hyperion had already recovered and used his focus on Atlas to attack. 

However, Hades caught the leg. Before he could do anything with it though, his right arm was grabbed by Atlas. Atlas pulled Hades towards him. Hades refused to let go of Hyperion's leg though and slammed him to the ground, taking a punch himself.

Hades held his chin. That punch had quite the force behind it. Hades smiled. Not his normal smile but the same smile Satoru had when he got enlightened. He was pumped up and maybe also a bit psychotic. 

Hades spread his arms wide and laughed. 

"HAHAHAHA, come. Let us continue this marvellous dance to the death."

None of the Titans waited for him to finish talking fully. He was crazy in their eyes. He was holding his own but there was no way he would win this fight. 

They shot towards him. Hyperion was faster, obviously and was in front of Hades in a millisecond. Once again, just like at the very beginning of the fight, Hyperion was about to hit Hades at light speed. This time though he was not met with Infinity...

"...Red .."

... Hyperion's vision turned red and he was met with the strongest hit he had ever received in his life. There was that one time when Atlas hit him with full power, but it was even stronger than that. Hyperion was not only met with Reversal: Red, but he was also travelling at near-light speed. This multiplied the force by uncalculable margins.

The force was so strong in fact, that Hyperion lost consciousness. His battered and bloodied form shot back into the mountain.

Atlas watched this scene unfold with shock. He had not expected Hades to be capable of such power. He vaguely remembers Hades telling him, that he was the god of the dead, but he had forgotten about it. He was a little shy on brains after all.

Atlas looked back at Hades who was still standing there with a big smile on his face. He seemed to be in a euphoria. And Hades truly was. The fact that he was experiencing something like this fight was heaven for him. The Gojo blood had influenced him more than he thought. And since his powers were not stopping it from influencing him, he didn't think it was harmful. On the contrary, he loved it. 

Atlas used the time when Hades was in this state and attacked again. He was more careful though. He had to look out for this attack ... red or something ...

Atlas lunged forward, his massive fist aimed at Hades' head. Hades ducked, narrowly avoiding the blow, and retaliated with a swift kick to Atlas' midsection. Atlas staggered backwards, cursing. He attacked again.

Atlas, despite not being the deity of light was fast, and he attempted a series of quick jabs and hooks, aiming to wear Hades down. Hades, however, was not impressed. He dodged and weaved, using his agility to avoid Atlas' attacks. He saw an opening and delivered a powerful roundhouse kick to Atlas' face, sending him sprawling to the ground.

Now seething with rage, Atlas charged again. Seeing no point in this useless exchange, Hades planned to finish this.

"...Blue..."

Hades swiped his hand from the front to the back. Atlas' body flew towards him. And then ...

"...Red!"

Pointing two fingers at Atlas' approaching figure, a red sphere was formed. And the same oppressive force hit Atl-

*BANG*

Just as Atlas was about to get hit, yellow beams of light hit Hades and pierced him, sending him flying backwards. Infinity was not active right then because he was building Reversal: Red. 

Hades was not actively making himself weaker, but he just enjoyed the fight too much and dragged it out. And now he was punished for it. 

His body flung back. 

There was no blood flowing out of his wounds as the intense heat from the beams of light cauterized the wounds. 

Hades stood back up and looked at the figure of Hyperion that was breathing heavily. It seems he had hit him good back then and he was quite in a bad state. 

"Haaah, haaah, haaah ..."

"Are you alright brother?", asked Atlas.

"I'm alright! Let us kill this little shit now!"

Atlas, the Titan of Strength, cracked his knuckles, his immense form radiating power. Hyperion, resplendent in divine radiance, despite his injured state, stood at his side, ready to combat Hades' ... cosmic forces. They thought that he must command space in some way and that was ... not wrong ...

Hades extended his hand, conjuring an immense version of Blue, that threatened to swallow the Titans whole. Atlas, whose fighting spirit had awakened anew, lunged forward with a powerful fist, aiming to shatter the spatial sphere. The world seemed to tremble as the two forces clashed.

Atlas didn't want to give Hades enough time to fully unleash Blue, so he attacked it with his most powerful punch, giving up on defence and only trying to give Hyperion a window of attack.

Contrary to what one might think, Hyperions actually cared for Atlas and did something surprising. He sent a beam of light towards Atlas. This beam was a special one and it gently lay itself around Atlas, forming a protective barrier. 

Atlas, empowered by Hyperion's light, charged forward, his fists began to generate shockwaves that resonated through the battlefield. He delivered a mighty blow that, as it met Blue, sent ripples across the surroundings, forcing Hades to retreat. 

The Titan of Strength pressed his advantage, summoning the strength of countless moons to amplify his attacks and finally get this over with. 

Hyperion, seized this opportunity and unleashed beams of light and other radiant energy, casting brilliant and blinding strikes toward Hades. 

In that moment, time slowed down. Hades was using the Six Eyes to their full potential right now. He extended his hand and focused on the Limitless technique. And right now he was focusing on Lapse: Blue. He imagined the technique in his head and remembered the feeling he felt when he created his special Infinity: Void.

He was attempting something similar but different at the same time. He didn't want to make it bigger, on the contrary. He wanted to make it smaller. 

He pumped more cursed energy into his attack and then willed it to compress. He used his divinity of boundaries to remove the boundary he wished to cross right now. 

And then it happened. The Blue sphere ... turned darker ... until it was fully black.

He had created ... a black hole!!! 

Hades looked at the two Titans again. He had done it. He had managed to use them as a whetstone to come up with something new and exciting. He was trying to push himself and that was a full success. 

"...Amplified Technique Lapse Compression: Black Hole!"

He sent the black hole towards them and watched it swallow EVERYTHING. The attack from Hyperion was instantly swallowed, and the shockwaves generated from Atlas' punches were also sucked in.

And then more got sucked in. The ground, trees, air, sunlight and even the two Titans. 

"Noooo....", they both shouted and tried to get away, but there was no getting out of this one. 

They were sucked into the hole and disappeared...

Hades began to slowly power the technique down, however ... it was not over yet. 

*Crack*

Cracks were heard and just when Hades stopped the technique, space seemingly broke like glass and out of that hole in space, the Titans shot with outstretched arms. Both of their fists reached Hades and cracked his skull, sending him flying backwards. 

"Haaaaaah, haaaaaah ..."

Hyperion and Atlas were in abysmal states right now. Hyperion in the desperate attempt to stop both of them from dying at the bottom of the black hole, had used his life force to go supernova, so to speak. He had literally exploded and pushed Atlas out. 

Had Hades not stopped the technique so soon and had the technique not been the first time he used it, it would not have worked and both of them would have died.

But now Atlas at least survived and managed to punch Hades with his and Hyperion's combined 110% of power. 

Atlas looked at the charred form of Hyperion.

"Hy..peri..on... haaaah"

"Hahahahahahaha .... that was amazing."

Atlas turned around again as slowly as he could with his injuries. He saw Hades without a shirt, golden ichor all over his body walking towards them. He cracked his head and was looking unperturbed. 

What was he?

"How are you still going with all those injuries?", Atlas asked bewildered. This had never happened. They had never been beaten to this extent and what's more by this young god.

"The labour we delight in physics pain. Truer words will never be spoken.", Hades answered the Titan who looked pretty beat up right now. 

"What?", asked Atlas. He was a little shy on brains after all.

"Oh my. You haven't heard that line before? You really ought to read more." 

"Now then...", Hades said.

He pointed at Hyperion's charred ... stump. His arms, legs and part of his thorax were missing. Disgusting.

"...Red..."

*BOOM*

Hyperion's body exploded and turned to dust. Who knows when he might reform and if he will at all... after all Hades had plans. 

"HYPERIOOOOONN!!!! NOOO YOUU"

"There it is again. That typical YOU. Why do people say that? Oh well. This has gone for long enough."

"Hollow Technique: Purple"

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Well, that's it. I used a lot of time to write this chapter and I am happy with the way it went. This is probably my favourite chapter so far.

If you don't like it and want to tell me ... please sugarcoat it for me. I am far too happy it went this well.

But I'm a novice and understand if some things are bad.

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