Kahli patted her big rock with her left foot and held Froufrou tightly as she looked up at the wildly morphing and hanging jellyfish that was malevolently looming over them.

She was thrilled that she could move! So, had her inability to move while frozen in the void that her [Seismic Sense] [skill] had taken her to been an affect of the big jellyfish this whole time? What a nasty trick! Kahli was thrilled that this was no longer the case, as now she could not only protect poor Froufrou from any torment the jellyfish wanted to besiege upon her for landing a critical hit on its gonads, but indeed also because sometimes while frozen in time [checkpoints] Kahli had gotten some itches and it was great to know that she'd be able to scratch those in the future.

Regardless, now was not the time to rejoice over scratching the back of her legs - Kahli focused on her enemy, who was quickly changing and morphing before her eyes! But, into what was he becoming?

At first, Kahli was worried that he was getting bigger - which was absurd, because he'd already been an enormous jellyfish - but soon enough it became abundantly clear to her that what was really happening, was that the big jellyfish was becoming something small. Something... almost tiny. And then, against her own inclinations, Kahli burst into uncontrollable laughter.

What? What's so funny? thought spoke the giant jellyfish. Only... it wasn't a giant jellyfish any more. Now it was... well, the closest thing that Kahli could think to compare it to was a tiny little chicken, that is, a baby chick. That's about what it looked like. Except it was purple. A little purple chick. With one eye, for whatever reason. You must be laughing out of fear and terror. That's, obviously, the only explanation here. I am legion, I am, I am the most terrifying creature you could ever possibly encounter in the whole wide multiverse. My knowledge and my power are vast and infinite, much like this void. I am everything and nothing! I am to become your Overlord, I am to become the ruler of this world, the ruler of this universe, and indeed the ruler of the multiverses! I am here to consume you, to amalgamate you into my near-perfect formation, to gain the powers of your [skills] in order to complete my quest for world domination! I'm going to end you, and I'm going to end the world, and then I'm going to end every world, ever, ad infinitum!

And what did Kahli do? The only thing she rightly could do. Kahli laughed and pointed at her foe. She didn't even bother to charge up an attack - not out of negligence, but out of sheer disbelief for the silliness that she was presently beholding. She was definitely not beholding a Harbinger of Doom in this moment, that much was certain. Well, okay, perhaps this silly consumer met some of those requirements. Clearly he'd hatched from an egg, at least from the look of him. Then again, from the look of her enemy, he'd probably just hatched from an egg. Was that what he'd meant, when he'd been posing as a big jellyfish, about time being immaterial? Was he really implying that time was immaterial because he'd just been born or something? There was a large part of Kahli that wanted to ask. In fact, she was dying to ask, because she was starting to genuinely wonder.

Oh my gods, no! I have existed for countless eons!

It was at this moment that Kahli remembered that the little foe could read her thoughts. How invasive.

You've got to be fucking kidding me! You're kidding me, right? You've got to be shaking in your, your fucking boots, right? Do you realize, Kahli, that I've literally seen people fucking melt into puddles of liquid goo at one look at my countenance?

Kahli just laughed harder. "You can't be serious? You were scarier as a giant jellyfish!"

Wow... I must... I must've really misjudged you taumans... Or at least you, Kahli... You or your little, squelching freak of nature must be the hardiest beings known to this universe. Well, it's no matter. I'll consume you both, and then I'll never be surprised by anything ever again - clearly, that must been an inbuilt feature of both of your species, otherwise you'd be literally dead right now just from beholding me.

Kahli snorted.

Stop laughing at me!

She laughed a deep laugh that hurt her sides and almost made her keel over! Froufrou squelched in a manner that suggested something similar to laughter as well. It was almost like all their fears had been lifted at once!

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That's fucking it. I'm going to fucking kill the shit out of you two insolent fools, I'm going to fucking murder you to death! And then, once you've passed on, I'm going to use your powers to bend reality and time itself. Yea, you wanna know how I'm going to twist timelines? I'm going to twist your time so that everyone of both of your bloodlines was born with some terrible, fatal, unavoidable flaw. If I'm lucky, and I am, because I actually have an [ability] called [LK] with a very high number, not that either of you have seen my character sheet or anything because I'm not an idiot, but regardless, if I'm lucky, this twisted timeline I've already thought through will give you a fatal flaw that makes you scratch and claw and tear yourself open, and rip yourself limb from limb, and then eat yourself until you bleed out and choke on your own entrails. That's what the fuck I'm going to do to both of you. And then I'll fucking erase you both from existence, and all that will remain is remembrance of your horrible suffering and torment, and even then people living under my omnipotent rule will, in a bid to make themselves feel better, only deny that any of it ever happened, regardless of copious evidence to the contrary!

Kahli stopped laughing. "You know what? That's really fucked up." She moved her hands over her chest and face in a silent prayer to Theseosus. "And it's not even funny, it just fucking sucks. Just like you. Well, okay, you are funny. You're pretty funny, I'll give you that. Funny like a sideshow character, a ridiculous charicature, like a pitiful, joke of a being that, for whatever reason, considers itself all knowing, all powerful, and deserving of both of those titles - as if anyone is. But, for someone who's talked a lot about wasting peoples' time, I've got to give it to you, big jellyfish - yea, that's right, even though you look like a tiny little one-eyed baby chick, you're still a big jellyfish to me - you have wasted more of my time and energy than probably anyone else since... Theseosus' pincers, I don't even know since when! I spent so much time talking with you about my [skill], about time itself, about powers, about choices, about my timelines... You kept riffing off of every timeline I viewed like some kind of a soothsayer, almost like you had some deep, nebulous understanding of me and my [skill] that I would one day learn, with time... hah. And yet, here I am, within this void, if it really even is a void, fighting you with Froufrou. And it's never been more clear to me that my [skills] and my system are my own to understand, and not anything for some outside entity that purports to bring to me wisdom when, in reality, what it's really sending my way is a beautified painting full of insidious lies that only serve to contort and divide all that I hold dear under the semblance of maintaining some all important, all powerful status quo that is in all actuality none but a house of cards that within any instance can tumble to useless dust in the wind like a castle made of sand."

What in the hell is any of that supposed to mean?

Kahli knew Theseosus would forgive her. "It means you're full of shit!"

Before the obnoxious foe could respond, Kahli kicked her big rock directly away from it with as much force as possible. "Alright, then, asshole. Let's find out if this is an endless void." She thought about some of her old, past physics lessons. One law, immutable as much that she had learned, was that there had to be some force acting upon an object for it to move. Understanding this, Kahli was under the impression that, if this was a true void, her big rock would never return. However, if it was some sort of a falsity, some sort of a proto-void as she was beginning to suspect, then what was more likely was that it would indeed return to her with more force and power than she had ever witnessed before! And if Kahli had learned anything from Omar, sometimes it was worth it to bet on hunches.

Pfft, you're an imbecile, Kahli! You'll never see that big rock again. Go ahead, summon up another one if you want - but you'll never defeat me. As soon as I recover my faculties I'll freeze you again, and this time I won't hesitate - I'll consume you and Froufrou both!

"Fat chance, douchebag!" said Kahli. She looked to Froufrou. "Let's team up!"

Froufrou immediately hopped onto Kahli's face, ready for action.

You two look fucking ridiculous! thought spoke the jellyfish-chick. I'll fucking kill you!

A huge beam of light shot out from its eye towards Kahli and Froufrou. However, it was useless - immediately, Froufrou parried away the attack into the seemingly endless void.

Nice try, but try beating this!

The foe blasted five more rays of energy out of its eye, but every single one was immediately parrried away by Froufrou's tendrils.

Fucking hell! You've got to be kidding me! thought-cried their enemy.

And then, Kahli caught sight of something with a smile. Her big rock was zooming back, and it was zooming at such an amazing speed! Before she could even react, it slammed into the foe.

[Critical hit]

[Consumer has died]

Kahli and Froufrou watched as the foe exploded into a big burst of light that swam around the dark air, and then quickly dissipated and faded into nothing.

"Wow," said Kahli. "All that, and no [skill] to scalp? What a loser." Then, she felt a familiar feeling near her lower spine. "Well, I definitely need to look at my scenarios to figure out how I'm going to talk to G'athoong about her request to save her long lost lover from Basstardio. But first, what say we level up together?"

Froufrou squelched with glee.