Tacos VS PepsiMan

## Characters

### Participants

Tacos, PepsiMan, Narrator 1, Narrator 2, Sareth (Ghost & Flashback).

### Non-Participants

Tareq, Coal (Flashback), FantaMan (Ghost), CokeMan (Ghost)

## Outcome

### Achievments

PepsiMan masters The Blade That Cut The Heavens, PepsiMan achieves his Composite form, PepsiMan grows anti-hax abilities, Narrator 1 and 2 break their oath.

### Special Events

Deimos arrives, Deitu is born, Sinfeul is born, PepsiMan's Journey (Part 2) ends.

## Arc Info

### Location

Jackenford, North of the North Island (United States, Texas).

## Prior and Next Arcs

### Arcs

The Harvesting < Tacos VS PepsiMan > Heavens Saga (Part 3)

> *"Just wanted to let you know that, the next time I see your father... He's a dead man." — PepsiMan to Tareq, one day before the fight.*
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**Tacos VS PepsiMan** (also refered to as TvP) is the last arc of the GCverse Part 2, in which both PepsiMan and Tacos fight to the death in order to see who keeps the Golden Taco, or rather it's derivation. PepsiMan is also seeking for revenge in this fight for every past action Tacos did.

## Prelude

After Tacos took Karin (Golden Taco's derivation) away from PepsiMan, the latter decides once and for all the only way he can ever live in peace is to kill Tacos, so he decides to go give Tareq a visit, since he is the only person he knows of that is still alive. Once he arrives to Tareq's hideout the son of Tacos invites him in and serves him a cup of tea however PepsiMan denies it, he claims he won't stay there for long and that he's only here to tell him he was going to kill his father once and for all. Tareq answers he's okay with it and asks the Mond how he's gonna kill the Monarch, to which Pepsi answers "I don't know". After saying this, he stood up, grabbed his stuff and left.

He ran through all types of types of terrains for hours going at approx Mach 20 until finally, he was at the entrance of Monarch's castle.

## Tell-A-Story

An almost forgotten hatred reborn from the ashes, one that will burn brighter than any star in the sky ever could, consuming everything in it's path indiscriminately, this is the story of a father in worry, this is the story of tragedy brought to an end, this is the story of the very idea of cruelty against the very idea of humanity.

THIS IS A VERY RAW VERSION OF THE FINAL PRODUCT, SO EXPECT LOTS OF CHANGES.

##### Update 1: Round One

PepsiMan ran and ran until he finally found the fortress and, wasting no time, he tackled the structure and getting inside by destroying the huge door, his appearance however was apparently expected since there was a single man looking at him from the stairs, it was Drox , and he was waiting for him. Without a second to waste PepsiMan used his hands and legs to climb up at incredible speeds and avoid Drox but the latter stopped him with a kick in the face, and so the first encounter began.

As soon as both landed they started exchanging punches, all that could be heard was the sound of metal and meat being punched, the sound of each strike spreaded around the entire building with enough force to leave someone deaf. Drox launched one hook after another but the Mond simply just took them head-on and punched back even harder, eventually the sounds of bones crushing took over all the others, it were Drox's, the fight was almost over but the Monarch pulled out a mace which he started swinging around, PepsiMan tried blocking the first strike but he realized too late the mace was an actual threat, slightly hurting the Mond's left arm, Pepsi followed this strike up with one of his own, delivering a fatal blow that crushed Drox's internal organs. Drox had died, but the main plate was yet to be served.

PepsiMan ran through walls and floors, destroying every room he came accross, doing turns and twists randomly, and although it seemed like PepsiMan was just being destructive, truth is the fight had already begun, Tacos quickly moving around the entire building as well, phasing through every wall and attacking the Mond from behind, but Pepsi knew exactly Tacos' game so his strategy was to bring the whole building down in order to force The Ruler out, and at that he succeeded, bringing most of the building down which forced Tacos to LAG on top of the rubble.

Once Tacos teleported on top of the building PepsiMan had alredy prepared an uppercut for him, but "Dodge" was the last thing Pepsi heard before his fist phased through the Monarch's stomach, but Pepsi also anticipated this, quickly following up the uppercut with a barrage of fists that moved faster and faster than the last one until he moved faster than Tacos could say Dodge, overstimulating Tacos' senses and tiring him out all at the same time allowing for Pepsi to successfully land a sequence of punches on Tacos, the latter quickly recovered his senses and said "Dodge" yet again, this time however backing up to avoid putting himself in the same situation.

"You got lucky, but thunder doesn't strike twice!" — Said Tacos while smiling, Pepsi quickly vanished out of Tacos' sight and the latter's smile quickly disappeared, him doing a fighting stance, the ruler used his Future Sight ability and was able to predict the exact time PepsiMan would strike, yelling "Dodge" when it happened quickly hitting the mond with his elbow and grabbing him by the head to then launch him to one of the still-standing pillars of the fortress, rising a huge wall of smoke, however from said smoke two pebbles were launched with extreme speeds towards Tacos which the latter dodged; PepsiMan knew Tacos used his Future Sight so he caused 2 other events in order to waste the other 2 events he was meant to see, the Mond then launched himself towards Tacos with such force they went flying a few hundreds of meters, both landed and the snow all around them got risen up, covering everything in a thick cloud of snow, as it cleared up the sun rays that managed to break in were illuminating Tacos' being.

*"The Golden Taco is mine's by right! Not yours, not Sareth's, only MINE'S."* — Said the Monarch, but Pepsi slightly annoyed answered "That is no longer the golden taco, she's a living being just like you and I and she's not anybody's property!" The monarch laughed, he then closed his eyes and extended his right arm with his palm open to the sky he then proceeded to say — "The Golden Taco can take up any shapes it wants but at the end it's true purpose is to be mine's, that is how God's will dictates it" — As he was saying this large amounts of energy starting to gather on his hands, it condensed so much the heat turned all of that energy a red-ish color; Tacos then lowered his hands and as he did he closed his palm as well, "Expulsion" were the words that uttered out of the Monarch's mouth right before a blast comparable to that of a nuclear one enveloped a 5km/3.11 mile radius. Almost everything inside that bubble was entirely flattened, wiping out all of the snow and leaving the biome entirely unrecognizable, PepsiMan and Tacos being the only thing in a 100 meter/328 ft radius that didn't get flattened.

A moment of pure silence took place, and as the dust settled both Tacos and PepsiMan started to walk in circles around eachother slowly closing the gap, millions of thoughts and possibilities running rampant in their heads about what will happen next; They both knew everything the other could offer, they were both open books to one another like if they had known eachother for life, a true rivalry that ignited the scenario with red lights.

##### Update 2: Takkos' resolve/End of Round 1 & Start of Round 2

Out of nowhere both launched themselves at eachother, Tacos landing a direct hit on PepsiMan's face the latter counter-attacking by grabbing the Monarch's cape and proceeding to swing Tacos around to later send him flying quickly chasing after, planning to punch the tyrant as soon as he touched the ground, Tacos took quick notice of this and phased through the floor immediately upon landing, completely vanishing. However PepsiMan still knew his whereabouts, his ability to see emotions allowed to see the slight anger inside of Tacos' soul swimming through the soil; Right before Tacos could emerge back up and attack the mond, PepsiMan punched two holes in the ground using them to hold the ground beneath him, then lifting nearly 50 meters of land and launching it towards the nearest mountain.

After the impact Takkos started to dig his way out however as he did PepsiMan impacted himself against the mountain, absolutely decimating it. Tacos went off flying for a few hundred meters, once he stopped rolling the Monarch got up thinking to himself just how strong PepsiMan had gotten, he was impressed... but he was sure he'd win, like always.

Tacos then punched his chest twice, spitting a little bit of dirt but also pumping himself up, he then closed his eyes and sighed; He took a step forwards, and by the time he opened his eyes he was right behind PepsiMan, ducking in order to dodge PepsiMan's elbow, then launching a fist that would pierce the Mond's torso but the latter was mostly successful at dodging this, tilting his body to the left and rising his right arm higher, getting slightly scraped.

Due to the sheer force Tacos' punch had he went a little forwards and was now side by side with the Mond; The monarch quickly took advantage of this position, reaching inside his coat and pulling out a knife swiftly turning it upside down and then extending his left arm to stab PepsiMan in the hip right afterwards, continuing this attack by making the knife pierce further in by slamming it with the palm of his right hand. Tacos then attempted to cut downwards however Pepsi quickly pushed him away, grabbing the knife and throwing it at Tacos at impossible speeds the latter simply whispering "Dodge" as a response. Pepsi then rushed towards Tacos with a fully charged right hook aiming at his face, Tacos then yelled "That will have No effect on me!" and headbutted the incoming fist, tanking it with ease thanks to the "No effect" Input of GW. The soda was pushed back thanks to this, Tacos then grabbed his arm and launched PepsiMan upwards to space.

Up there it was calm, it was quiet. The sound of nothingness was soothing however it was boring as well, as he looked back he stared at the blue planet; The idea that everyone he's ever known, everyone he cares about and everyone he's despised is down there was an amazing one for the Mondrian. A beautiful, but cold, sight... As much as he loved the view space was cold, and although so was earth, in some way, it had the warmth of the love from Karin. And although she wasn't really his daughter, PepsiMan would go through hell and back to protect her. Needless to say the soda took less than 3 seconds to fall back to earth.

PepsiMan had landed on some steel beams, accidentally destroying a building that was being constructed. It was apparent he had landed in a construction site, a huge one at that.

PepsiMan then wondered where Tacos could be, and as PepsiMan thought about the devil, that very devil appeared; Ramming through the walls and tackling PepsiMan the Monarch said "Right here." Losing no time the Soda stood up and positioned himself for battle, but Tacos only stood there looking at the sky while touching his chin.

> *"My mind is... a mess right now"* - Said Tacos, he then continued - *"Millions of thoughts are colliding inside of it and I just can't seem to be able to gather them"*
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> *"Why?"* - Asked the mond, already used to holding casual conversations with Tacos in the midst of battle.
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> Tacos lowered his face, placing his eyes on a bug that happened to be walking there - *"Well, on one side"* - He said as he crouched down and picked up the bug - *"A part of me doesn't wanna kill you and just sees this confrontation as... mere playing... and because of that my performance isn't the greatest"* - Tacos then held the bug with his thumb and index finger - *"While on the other side, a part of me wants to kill you as quickly as possible, but said part is doubtful of whether I can pull that off or not."* - He dropped the bug to the ground, stood up - *"This is why you are such a pain in the ass"* - Tacos stepped on the bug.
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> It was almost like they were long-time friends, talking to one another so casually almost as if Tacos had never killed everyone Pepsi knew. Tacos then said - *"Now that I have the Golden Taco there is no reason for you to live, so I guess I better wrap my head around that fact" -* PepsiMan was annoyed.
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> *"Ready for round 2?"* - Said Pepsi, to what Tacos said - *"This next assault, you're dying"*
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The aura around both of them had entirely changed, and the color pallete of their emotions painted the scenario red. This time the aim was to kill.

Immediately after a 3 seconds silence Tacos rushed towards Pepsi, the latter changing his position to a block however the Monarch grabbed PepsiMan by the head, jumping and positioning himself behind the Mond using all the momentum to throw Pepsi to a pile of steel beams, while PepsiMan stood up Tacos had thrown an entire building to Pepsi while using the "Hit" input, meaning PepsiMan was unable to dodge the 100s of tons of bricks. Like a train the entire building ran over PepsiMan, the latter blocking it as most as he could. Unfortunely, there were people inside the building so as you would expect the background scenery was now filled with corpses, the sight was absolutely unpleasant for the mond, the only thing Tacos added to this was "Oops".

Tacos then proceeded to slightly bounce up and down, barely moving his feet, and started shaking his hands stretching them backwards right after he stopped bouncing. *"I've not used this ever since I last saw Coal, so I'm a bit rusty"* - Said Tacos as energy began to gather in his palms, he then closed them however instead of an explosion coming out a red flame surrounded his fists, he imbued all this explosive energy into his fists in order to enhance his punches.

Without this a casual jab from Tacos could be very well worth over 300,000 kilotons or 300 megatons of TNT (6 times more powerful than the TSAR bomba), a full-strength punch from him is calculated to rival 4 FOE (Or 2/4 supernovas), however with this enhancement a casual punch from Tacos is confirmed to reach a strength of well over 3.6 ZetaFOEs, which in other words means he is equivalent to over 3 hypernovas (assuming they all are 100 FOE ones) Thankfully Tacos can condense all of this strength into smaller points, allowing him to annihilate his opponent's bones instead of the entire solar system.

Once Tacos was done doing this, he realized Pepsi was nowhere to be seen, making use of his Eyes of the Divine in order to find him... turns out he was running away? The monarch decided to chase after him.

##### Update 3: Ceaseless chase

PepsiMan ran through the construction site until he reached the city surrounding it, pulling out a steel beam he picked up from his comically small bundle bag and swinging it however as he did this the beam was stopped by the Monarch, thus bending the beam due to the sheer force he arrived with. Tacos then took the steel beam away from the Mond's hands and threw away it away.

We then cut to Tareq smoking outside his house, allowing us to see what the surroundings of where he lived looked like; It was a farm, more specifically Coal's. It was a place in the middle of nowhere, PepsiMan had let Tareq live inside Coal's farm house while he hid away from the tyrant since this was the one place Tacos was not aware of and even if he tried tracking the location or Tareq down with his Eyes of the Divine he would fail to do so due to the Shadow Distribution that Coal once did. Tareq is thinking about everything that had happened recently, it seemed like everything was aligning for something and that something might be this, the fight between PepsiMan and Tacos. He extinguished the cigarette and lighted another one, as he did he looked to his left, a man's silhouettecould be seen.

Tareq smiled.

Going back to Pepsi and Tacos, we see as they chase each other throughout the city, PepsiMan bouncing off of each wall he could in order to attack or dodge Tacos' attacks, the latter decimating entire building complexes as he chased the Mond. They were moving so fast around the entire city they could've flattened 400 square kms in less than a minute. Eventually in their chase they reached a cargo bay in which they started throwing containers at each other, Tacos attempting to punch Pepsi however the latter avoiding this by jumping accross an entire ship, once the Mond landed he turned around and launched himself against the huge cargo ship, however Tacos wasn't falling behind for a single second, also launching himself against the ship, both punching through it bending and crushing as they went until they reached eachother, exchanging punches that ended up splitting the 152k ton ship, forcing them to jump back to the docks, the chase continued.

They both were like thunders moving around, not a single moment did they slow down, trading punches on the go non-stop. Missed punches from the Monarch caused entire blocks to get flattened while every missed punch from the Mond caused for huge tunnels to form between buildings, on the other hand landed punches caused for the continent to shake even though both are heavily suppressing the impact of their attacks on anything that isn't one another.

Tacos was finally able to get a hold of PepsiMan, uppercutting him with his right arm immediately however PepsiMan used the momentum from this to counter-attack with yet another, extremely fast, uppercut, his arm acting as a catapult. *"Asshole!"* yelled Tacos as he grabbed Pepsi again, kicked him in the stomach with his knee and sent him flying into multiple buildings by punching him in the face, the explosion that followed that punch having a slight delay.

*"Agh... You mooner really waited out the clock"* — Said Tacos on an obviously annoyed tone as the flames started to dissipate — *"Hit"*. Energy started to gather in his hand after the Hit input in the shape of a sphere, however this time the energy took a white-ish color. Tacos then threw it upwards to space with inmense force, once done with this he attempted to chase after PepsiMan however as he was about to his body was enveloped in thousands of cuts, the Monarch let out a small laugh.

PepsiMan's appearance had changed, his general shape seemed sharper, as if his entire body had became a knife. The fight resumed immediately after Tacos said "No effect", in other words after he healed his wounds.

Tacos absorbed energy into his fists, making two bubbles that would surround them in order to not cut himself while punching the Mond, both went right after eachother with Pepsi delivering the first swing, but missing. Tacos however didn't, whispering "Hit" and delivering a punch to Pepsi's jaw. PepsiMan tried counterattacking off of this with a headbutt however as he did Tacos was already gone; Pepsi looked down and saw a rope on his legs and immediately after got tripped by Tacos pulling the rope, the latter then swinging and launching PepsiMan.

The rope seemed too strong to cut so whilst in the air the Mond simply untied it, PepsiMan then using his Helix Midnight mattress transformation (better known as MattressMan), which turns his body into a more soft substance this to allow for the fall to hurt less. Once landed the Mond transformed into his watermelon transformation in order to break through the incoming attack. Another Energy Expulsion, a huge one at that.

The gods opened their eyes wide as the Monarch, instead of making the red energy implode, started aiming with it and slowly opened his palm. From 9 kilometers away Tacos launched a focused Energy Expulsion explosion, or in other words, a Beam.

##### Update 4: Bad Omen

Tacos had shot a red beam so huge it could be seen from space, the sheer force of this attack caused tsunamis all over the world and everything that the beam touched from South Jackenford to Serbia was vaporized, all but one. PepsiMan, who had previously transformed into his watermelon form, punched through the explosion basically parrying it with each punch causing reality to start cracking, however even with all these parries he was still launched all the way to another continent, landing on Croatia.

The beam had dissipated, but the killing intent had not. Like a bullet, Tacos launched himself towards PepsiMan crossing entire continents in seconds being received by PepsiMan with a right-hook to the face, unfortunely for the Mond Tacos had done a "No effect", which made the Monarch accidentally drag Pepsi along with him, But Tacos is an opportunist and grabbed PepsiMan yet again launching him further ahead to then chase after at higher speeds and punch PepsiMan, then repeating. This kept going till Tacos could not keep up with the speeds he launched PepsiMan with.

The mond stopped all momentum by transforming into Pepsi: Anchor, which allows him to increase his weight hundreds of times without gaining mass, once stopped he tried looking around... he was greeted by a kangaroo, it was obvious he found himself in Australia. Already expecting Tacos' soon arrival the Mond decided to play the game of speed as well, using his Made-In-Pepsi transformation, a combination of the **car** named Made In Heaven and himself, and as the demon arrived Pepsi prepared himself, fate was not on his side however.

Pepsi was unaware a ball of light had appeared in the sky, moving at incredible speeds even faster than that of mr. Zere himself; It was the "Hit" input of earlier.

The energy ball hit PepsiMan in the back of his head, launching him into the ground with tremendous force. By consequence the Monarch missed the punch he launched, the latter being caught by surprise. *"Shit! I forgot I did that..."* — Said Tacos scratching his head.

The Mond quickly stood up with a lightning-fast uppercut which the demon easily avoided with a "Dodge" input quickly attempting to punish with a chokeslam however with his Eyes of the Divine he noticed a presence behind him, a clone of Pepsi. Ctrl Pepsi + Ctrl Man was the transformation Pepsi used, which allows Pepsi to duplicate himself, Takkos attempted to turn around but was interrupted by a gut-punch delivered by the PepsiMan in-front of him, the clone was just a distraction. The punch Pepsi delivered was not a light one too, causing Tacos to spit out blood; Pepsi got him good, the Mond wasted not a single second and immediately stopped time afterwards.

Thanks to his training in Path to Power, PepsiMan was able to increase the length of his time stop to 1.02593 seconds which, although not much, was enough to fit multiple punches in it. However, Tacos can move in this environment and Pepsi is fully aware of this; The reason why he did it is, even though Zere could move on it, he wouldn't experience anything done to him until time starts moving again.

PepsiMan transformed into Pepsi Boxer in 0.42331 seconds, then quickly delivered a powerful left hook to Tacos' face in 0.36142 seconds. Tacos then regained equilibrium and attempted punching PepsiMan as well, winding up his fist, all of this taking 0.24121 seconds. In total, all of these actions took 1.02594 seconds or in other words, Tacos was 0.00001 seconds late. Right before he could land his punch he suffered of a concussion which caused him to stagger for just about enough for Pepsi to transform, grab him and teleport to the last place they were a minute ago: The construction site.

The scenery was different from last time though, the city that surrounded the construction site was mostly flattened or in flames, but the most noticeable change was the feeling of something bad about to happen, the worst part of that being only Pepsi felt that bad omen.

##### Update 5: End of Round Two

Tacos was nowhere to be seen and the air was filled with a twisted emotion, tragedy was about to strike down and PepsiMan knew it.

The mond looked around trying to detect Zere's energy but to no avail, the surrounding area was entirely lifeless which confused the soda, until it hit him. Why waste time with Pepsi if he could just go and get Karin? Pepsi quickly turned around, however as he did he heard a loud sound come from behind him. It was Tacos, he was right there; Or rather, he was everywhere.

Moving so fast across the battlefield his presence was practically invisible, bouncing off of everything he could while being careful enough to not decimate the buildings to keep his location hidden. Now that Pepsi had let his guard down the Monarch decided to launch himself towards the Mond, shooting out like a spear he kicked PepsiMan's head, which slightly cracked Pepsi's skin, he then bounced off of it and continued the assault with two hooks to the jaw and a kick in the legs in order to make our protagonist trip.

Once unstabilized Tacos proceeded to deliver a punch to the rib, cracking Pepsi's bones. More punches were delivered and the mond tried to fight back by clashing fists with Tacos, however the latter easily overpowered him. Punch after punch a wide smile started to shape on the Monarch's face, enjoying the every moment of this long-awaited beatdown; Now that Pepsi no longer had the Golden Taco in his posession, he could finally kill him.

But he knew the "Mooner" very well, he knew it would take more than that to take him down. And so while Pepsi was starting to see double Tacos started to silently gather energy inside his hands, we get to see said energy turn red, however, in the blink of an eye the red light that tainted the arena suddenly turned blue, quickly enveloping Zere's hands instead; ever so casually landing a lightning-fast punch on Pepsi's chest. The former could barely stand on his feet.

With a smile drawn on his face from ear to ear Zere started to laugh — *"I'm sorry I- Pf... I... I've just gotta-"* — He couldn't even finish his sentence due to him bursting out laughing — *"I mean, don't get me wrong-"* — He let out another quick laugh — *"You are one hella tough guy but... You're so powerless"* — The mond simply stared in silence — *"You're so- Pathethic? hm... Useless even"*. He was trying to get a response out of Pepsi before killing him, but the only thing he got from him was the soda dropping to his knees out of fatigue.

Tacos let out a sigh and simply started climbing an incomplete building. As Tacos did that, Pepsi stayed in silence... thinking. Was this really how it ends? I mean, Pepsi would end up reviving but, by that point he would've already lost. It takes a whole day for the soda to revive and by that time Karin would already be dead, he started questioning every action he did, rethinking every move he did and trying to see where he committed errors but although he did find some, ultimately it was simply just an unfair fight.

...What would Coal do? A spark of motivation appeared in Pepsi's soul however that previous thought was the last question he was able to make before a huge steel pipe imbued in energy pierced through his chest, reaching all the way to the floor and piercing a few cms into the ground as well; The pipe had pierced through multiple internal organs. Originally Tacos had climbed the building to locate North Jackenford but took the opportunity to execute Pepsi from up there.

Life started to drain away from the soda, slowly losing consciousness as the intense pain intensified... PepsiMan had died. However a raging thought invaded his mind before it shut down, one that overshadowed all but one, a feeling that once again lighted up the candle of Pepsi's soul. The raging feeling was that to fight until he was truly gone from this earth, no matter what happened to him. The only tought that overshadowed this feeling, also being the one that trully brought the mond back, was Karin.

A hole started to open in Pepsi's mouth, revealing... well, a mouth. Blood started to come out of it however that was the least relevant thing that came out of his mouth, for he let out a deafening scream calling his opponent's name. A unextinguishable flame that incinerated anything it came in contact with surrounded the soda's soul, he was ready to fight again. *"Sit down you damn animal"* — Said Tacos calmly, as another steel beam had impaled Pepsi, this time the beam had pierced from his skull to his left ankle, successfully killing Pepsi again, the former not being able to do anything this time.

##### Update 6: How much are you willing to sacrifice

The devil walked through the white snow tainting it red with a smile on it's face, humming the song of a certain Brazilian fighter he fought in the past. He was on his way to Monarch's fortress without a care of the world, suddenly the memory of him killing Pepsi struck his empty mind — "What a crazy guy..." — Said Tacos to himself with a nostalgic tone, he would definitely miss messing around with him. He will definitely never forget PepsiMan... The man then forgot entirely about Pepsi and started thinking about what to eat.

Karin could feel the scent of death approaching, not being able to do anything about it she simply sat down and adopted a fetal position in the ground of her jail cell. Tacos started climbing up a snowy mountain until reaching the top, he turned around and looked back at the landscape, he smiled.

Stretching as he turned around, the man felt satisfied, the Golden Taco was inside that very castle waiting to be consumed. Zere approached two doors that were about twice of Tacos' size, these doors leading to the main courtyard; He placed his hands in the handles and opened them, the excitement kept building up inside the demon's heart.

At least until steps could be heard from behind him... slow but loud steps in the snow. Tacos turned around, it was PepsiMan. Tacos' eyes were wide open in shock while his opponent's were sharp even though he had none, how was he still alive? — *"Hah, so you're planning on sticking around a little longer?"* — The mond kept walking, his body was almost fully healed up. When walking it was apparent he was hurt, and yet, the aura emanating around him did not let out a single drop of weakness; Rather, the way he walked reminded Tacos of a big feline approaching it's prey. It was a little scary. PepsiMan started to stand straight to take a better look at the Monarch.

> *"How did you even find this place by the way"* — Asked Tacos while looking around and scratching his head, to what Pepsi answered — *"Yeah"* — This boring response made the man frown — *"Fuck you"* — Said Tacos — *"Fuck you"* — Responded the Mond. An awkward silence took place.
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> *"I've gotta admit pulling yourself back from the dead is quite the feat"* — Said the Monarch while looking at his sleeves, he then looked back down on Pepsi — *"Do you really wanna kill me that much?"* — He said with a playful tone alongside a challenging grin — "And if so, how much are you willing to sacrifice to defeat me?"
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> *"Back there you proved your current power wasn't enough to beat me, even if you were to revive over and over again you'd still lose"* — Claiming he knew the Mond had sacrificed something in order to revive, he kept talking — "I am THRILLED to know what you've sacrificed in order to come back! How much sacrifices will you have to make? Do you even have anything left to sacrifice?" — He laughed and... kept talking — "Since you're using trump cards, then I guess it's only fair if I also show everything I've got to offer, right?".
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Both knew decimating this fortress would be troublesome so they decided to fight elsewhere... except they didn't communicate this with one-another, so the plan now was punching eachother far away from Karin. Something worth mentioning is, the energy surrounding PepsiMan was more intense compared from before, this is something Zere noticed thanks to his Eyes of the Divine, had he done two separate sacrifices? Or was he hiding this strength during the past round? Only time could tell.

The two of them adopted their fight positions, Pepsi's stance being rather grappler-like, having both of his palms open and ready to crush his opponent; on the other hand Tacos' stance being far more calm, having his palms half open and his left arm slightly lifted while his right arm is ready to strike any incoming opponents. Before they started Tacos asked PepsiMan if he was gonna transform, to what the latter answered "Nah, there's no need. Not anymore".

##### Update 7: Start of Round Three

Like two celestial objects in space attracted by eachother's gravity, they circled one another, each rotation the circle becoming smaller and smaller. An insane pressure took over the entire area and it only kept getting heavier the closer they got; Everything in a vicinity started to heat up, snow melting and candles lightning up, there was so much energy from Tacos and Pepsi running rampant it started savagely clashing against each other fighting for space and started generating thermal energy, lightning started appearing due to friction and static started to generate.

As the circle got smaller eyes started to appear in the sky, of which only Pepsi could see, but he ignored them. Step by step more eyes started to appear and the skies started to clear, the Heavens themselves were watching. This surprised even the narrator himself, but PepsiMan could not care less for his only objective was saving Karin, even killing the man in front of him didn't hold as much relevance. As they kept going they switched their fighting stances, putting their right legs infront of the left one and lifting their right arm forwards as their left fists stays back. They were almost perfect mirrors of eachother, the only variation being Pepsi's right fist was closed while Tacos' was slightly open with his index and middle finger fully extended,

It wasn't until they were close enough for their feet to bump into eachother that they stopped moving, wrist to wrist, their hands were crossed with the other's, a scorching heat emanated from both fighters. Here the unavoidable took place, an immovable object met an unstoppable one, both delivering devastating fists that could split entire galaxy clusters in seconds; Tacos had done the "Hit" input so dodging was pointless, instead Pepsi put all his energy into delivering a good punch as well since Tacos could not dodge until he landed his "Hit" input.

Even with the small concussion both received both continued standing and headbutted eachother using the momentum given by the prior punch. As if their heads were magnets they didn't separate from one another and instead kept pushing, Tacos then lifted his hands aiming to grab PepsiMan's head however Pepsi lifted his arms as well and punched both of the Monarch's palms; It was like watching two triceratops fight, both kept struggling until the mond's left hand slipped and left an opening for Zere: something which the latter did not waste, eager to send Pepsi flying like this he let go of his right arm, ducked, went forwards and placed his own left arm around the mond's chest in order to catapult him away putting all of his strength into this throw...

"Whuh?!"

...Tacos felt as if what he was touching was a wall, all the energy he had placed into that one throw didn't send anything flying and instead caused for Tacos to trip. Was this even PepsiMan anymore? Before Tacos could think anything else, hell, before Tacos could land on the floor Pepsi PUNCHED him in the face with his FIST into the GROUND with a powerful strike. Tacos' whole body lifted up by consequence and before it could fully fall flat to the ground Pepsi dragged Tacos' head through the soil and sent him flying off the mountain.

As the monarch was falling Pepsi chased, whilst in the air Tacos healed himself by saying the "Never happened" input, just like he had done after Pepsi gave him a concussion in that timestop. A few centimeters from the ground Tacos was figuring out what to do next, landing on his legs and punching the ground beneath him to lift a curtain of dirt. Tacos analyzed the terrain and had an idea, running off into the forest and starting to bounce off of every tree in order to disappear from PepsiMan's eyes again just like he had done in the construction site however when he did he noticed PepsiMan was right behind him, somehow keeping up, this made Tacos smirk.

Moving at impossible speeds they fought eachother delivering punches to one another without hesitation. However, Tacos still held an advantage over PepsiMan although the gap between the two was closing in, something was going on with Pepsi and Zere did not want to find out what it was, he had to end this quickly before anything weird happened.

As they exchanged punches at speeds beyond that of light through the entire forest Tacos started to create a ball of energy with negative mass, he started spinning around the ball to FTL speeds and the faster it got the whiter it became, until suddenly it's color changed to black, once the ball had reached the speed Tacos wanted the latter smiled and attached a string made out of energy on to it. The ball's appearance had become entirely dark, reassembling a black hole, Tacos then stopped running and instead started swinging the ball of energy with the string: He had created a Negative Mass Blackhole and turned it into a Yo-yo.

This Negative Mass Yo-yo would only last for few seconds so Tacos swung it around and cleared an insanely big area with it, the Yo-yo sucking in anything in a 3 meter radius of it instantly. Tacos swung it around in circles destroying everything around him, all but one: PepsiMan. Who closed in to Tacos to deliver a fatal blow to the liver, as the N.M. Yo-yo vanished away Tacos pushed it away, which actually caused for it to go towards him, the Monarch then yelled "No effect" as the Yo-yo approached, successfully hitting PepsiMan.

Tacos smiled while having a drop of sweat traveling down his face, unfortunately for the Monarch a hand reached him from the curtain of dust caused by the Yo-yo and choke-slammed him into the ground, the impact was of such a great force it leveled kilometers of the forest, it was clear Tacos could no longer match PepsiMan without God's Will. This worried Tacos, as PepsiMan dragged Tacos across the floor again the latter asked himself "Should I use it?" placing his hand around the sheathed sword on his hip, PepsIMan then sent him flying — "Nah it'll be fine" — he thought to himself, letting go of the sword.

Tacos used L.A.G. to teleport himself on the floor and stop himself from flying off. He walked towards PepsiMan while placing his hand on his face trying to figure out what had changed about PepsiMan, perhaps it was the near-death experience... but even if it was the power-boost he could've gotten from it wasn't enough, no it was far deeper than that; He also couldn't have done two sacrifices, since it is impossible to do so. As Tacos kept trying to understand Pepsi simply observed, as if waiting for Tacos to figure it out.

Suddenly, the Monarch's eyes opened wide upon realizing what was going on, moving his hand downwards through his face annoyed at how obvious the answer was — *"This is... a new transformation of yours, isn't it?*" — And he was right.

If PepsiMan had a face, he'd be smiling from ear to ear.

###### Update 7.5: Pepsi Zero

*"The sum of all forces equals Zero" - Newton's Law.*

As the candle that lighted PepsiMan's soul extinguished Pepsi kept fighting the fauces of death in an attempt to not pass out, unfortunelly unable to do so. Pepsi could hear as the Narrators screamed his name, their voices slowly fading away until there was only silence.

Surrounded in an empty void of nothingness PepsiMan laid there slowly sinking until he reached the candle that represented his soul, the candle looked like any other candle with the exception of it melting when the flame is off. PepsiMan had already been here before, having to wait infront of this very candle until it lighted up again, every time he found himself here he wondered to himself what will happen when the candle runs out, perhaps he'll finally be able to rest.

PepsiMan looked defeated, staring off into the void knowing he couldn't do anything anymore... although giving up wasn't his style, and in this specific moment he had to keep going. There surely must be something he can do, but what? He had already tried lighting the candle back up before and it didn't work, he tried destroying the candle and that also didn't work, there wasn't much he could do while floating inside a void with a single candle. But he was a desperate man and in the midst of said desperation he started to move his arms and legs in an attempt to start moving in the zero gravity he found himself in, but to no avail, he tried swimming, jumping and punching himself but he didn't move an inch.

Every second that passed was a second closer to Karin's demise, so the Mond kept attempting everything he could for what felt like hours until a new idea popped into his mind, after giving it very little thought he immediately chopped his right arm off and grabbed it, once all was said and done he realized the possible implications of this however he quickly removed that thought from his mind, this was only his soul anyways. PepsiMan grabbed tight onto his severed arm and threw it away, which pushed him slightly enough to start floating towards the opposite direction of where he threw the limb.

The seemingly infinite void suddenly became finite, as PepsiMan bumped into a wall. The mond relized he was inside a sphere of pure darkness, at this distance he seemed to be affected by some sort of gravity, with little time to think the first thing he did was start punching it but the silence somehow was louder than his fists, Pepsi used his tact to see if he had cracked the sphere but it was smooth like before, so without any other ideas in mind he kept punching again, and again, and again... and again...

His fist started to bleed but at these heights this was like a small bruise to him, eventually he realized this wasn't working so instead he decided to use his secret method to do stuff he cant solve just by punching, punching even harder. He started using transformations that gave him speed, strength or even resistance but this also had no effect, but he wasn't done just yet, he raised his fist and in a similar manner to that of Tacos he started to gather energy on his palm, closing it and filling the bubble with a sound similar to a thunder, he winded up his fist and punched the floor yet again. Nothing happened...

However, PepsiMan actually felt as the floor beneath him shacked for a second. The man started gathering energy again but instead started using his transformations again, punching the floor non-stop, the sheer force he was punching the wall with took the Narrators by surprise who were waiting outside near Pepsi's corpse. Each punch delivered caused for a loud sound reassembling a drum or a heartbeat to flood the outside world, and every time it kept getting both faster and louder.

Inside the bubble, Pepsi kept spamming the Energy Gather punch and fused it with his own transformations until, finally, a scratch appeared, but it was no time to stop. Pepsi started boosting his attacks by using multiple transformations in single attacks, switching back and forth for every punch; Speedy transformations to gain enough inertia, Strength transformations to gain enough punching power and Resistance transformations in the end so his hand can survive the impact Every time he lifted his fist back up he cycled between strength and speed faster and faster, every time packing more into his punches. "2 rotations, 4 rotations, 12 rotations, 144 rotations..." The ground started to shatter but as per usual Pepsi still had more in him, he started adding more transformations into the mix such as cutting or explosive ones, even the most useless being thrown in.

After 7 cycles, PepsiMan had reached 429,981,696 rotations per swing, on his 8th cycle he reached such a huge number of rotations there was basically no difference between each transformation, essentially making an entirely new transformation... On his 9th cycle, what separated life and death was broken and both became the same, this would later bring unforeseen consequences but, for now, PepsiMan destroyed the bubble that kept his soul trapped. Pepsi was struck by a thunder, or rather his own soul, and stood back up, *this was the resurrection and exaltation of PepsiMan.*

*2nd of September, 2019. 19.56: **"PEPSI ZERO"** was born.*

##### Update 8: Burn the world

As the two continued their battle the eyes in the sky continued to multiply as entire pantheons of gods started to show up from throughout the entire universe, each time never failing to surprise the Narrators even more... Just who were those two?

They kept trading punches non-stop, with a power gap that kept closing in. Tacos kept testing the waters of just how much can he still do without using God's Will, realizing the answer is "not much", impacts could be heard from kilometers away as the two delivered devastating punches to one another. Tacos attempted connecting a jab to Pepsi's face but the latter redirected it with his palm, counterattacking with said palm however Tacos simply phased through and backed away.

As he jumped back he created two small pebbles of energy in his hands and held them as if they were coins about to be flipped, shooting them at the mond and piercing through his thick skin, but Pepsi did not care. Tacos loaded two more pebbles as PepsiMan started to close in at incredible speeds but instead decided to disperse them to take a more defensive approach since the Soda was practically on top of him already — "No effect" — Said Tacos with calm immediately after landing two quick jabs on Pepsi's jaw, PepsiMan kept going however and tackled the Monarch attempting to crush his ribs once he got a hold of him to what Tacos responded by lifting Pepsi off the ground and doing a suplex, lifting all ground around them a few hundred meters up in the air.

Both immediately rolled away from each other just to lunge at eachother again, PepsiMan missing his punch due to GW and Tacos immediately attempting to punish however instead he got kicked in the legs from behind making him trip, it was Pepsi, who immediately punched Tacos in the head with his left following right after with a right and again a left, he then grabbed his opponent from the manbun and swinged him into the ground planting him as if he was a crop, kicking him as hard as he could unfortunately for our protagonist Tacos had done another "No effect" input and simply went flying, but not by himself, having stabbed pepsiman by the foot with a hook tied to a rope when he got kicked.

While in mid-air the men kept going for eachother's guts, Tacos attempting to hit PepsiMan with more pebbles but the latter simply punched through them, then pulling the rope to bring Tacos closer and have him in-range. PepsiMan attempted punching Tacos but the former dodged yet again and succesfuly punished the mond this time by breaking his arm, topping this off by removing the hook as painfully as possible.

As they were closer to landing Tacos started to charge up an Energy Expulsion attack, PepsiMan tried punching him in the face but the two of them landed on a tall building, falling through multiple floors and making the entire thing collapse on top of them, as debris was falling an explosion occurred which sent PepsiMan flying alongside some rubble, from the priorly mentioned debris the Monarch emerged, standing on top of it while looking down at Pepsi. His hair was untied and full of dust due to the whole commotion, but he didn't seem to mind too much, then Tacos spoke:

> Tacos wiped some dust off his shoulder — *"You get stronger by the second, as it is right now I won't be able to finish you off as quickly as I thought"* — Tacos then grabbed his damaged coat by the lapel and began to open it by force — *"But the gap that separates me from animals like you goes beyond plain strength, what makes me different is that"* — One by one each button flew off of Tacos' coat as he said that, once it was open the Monarch took it off — *"I am God's favorite"* — He said with confidence as PepsiMan stood back up.
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> PepsiMan, still under the drug-like effects of his recent power-boost, let out a small laugh and simply answered "Okay". Tacos was visibly annoyed at the fact Pepsi could not take this seriously but then smiled it off — *"You always gotta make everything so complicated huh... To think you'd be able to push me into using God's Will this much. All of this just to protect the Golden Taco, why? Was it Coal's last wish or are you perhaps still trying to stop me from reaching my goal?" — PepsiMan started stretching and said — "Nah, nothing too complicated, I'm only doing this for Karin"* — He continued — "Saving Karin from you won't be enough right? So I'm simply kicking your ass once and for all".
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This certainly took Tacos by surprise, Pepsi? Killing him? That's a good joke, he thought to himself, but this was the first time PepsiMan's words seemed so true which gave him chills, and in the deepest of his mind... he felt as if something was off. Tacos simply closed his eyes and smiled it off "Nah, I'll be fine". "Done talkin' with no one?" — Asked the Mond, impatient, Tacos was again caught by surprise — "Heh, you seem quite ea-" — Before he could finish his sentence the Mond threw a massive piece of debris at him which sent the Monarch flying through a few buildings — "Good".

##### Update 9: Smallest of Lights

Tareq finishes smoking and extinguishes the cigarette, the mysterious man who appeared before turned out to be a walking ghost, Socat, who was seemingly alive somehow. A moment of silent took place as they stared into the sunset, then Socat said

> *"Do you really think he can win?" — Tareq laughed — "Yeah"*
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PepsiMan and Tacos exchanged punches with one another relentlessly yet again, Pepsi attempting to hit Tacos with a long swing to the face however the former bended backwards to dodge, using this position to grab onto the floor and slingshot his legs, like this kicking Pepsi in the jaw with tremendous force.

> *"And what if he loses, do we step in?" —* Said Socat, Tareq then rested his head on his hand while staring into the sunset.
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Cutting again to another point in their fight, Pepsi keeps throwing punches which get easily dodged by Tacos' "Dodge" input, the latter attempting a counter-attack but instead being received by a grab and getting thrown away.

> *"If he can't win, then no one can" — He chuckled.*
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Yet another cut in which Tacos leaps backwards to dodge while hitting Pepsi with a jab, once he landed he leaped again but this time with an Energy Explosion attack at hand, throwing it at PepsiMan's face.

> Socat questioned Tareq yet again — *"Why do you have so much confidence he'll win? What makes him so special?"*
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Tacos stared at the dust clear in confidence that this attack had hurt the Mond crazy lots, but Pepsi simply stood there, looking down at his opponent, unfazed.

> *"Who knows? I'm still trying to figure out under what star he was born!" — Tareq laughed — "What I can tell you is he's a man with a dedication of steel and with no limits, I've seen him go through all kinds of Hells and come back to earth victorious. And, I believe my father is his last hell."* — He continued — *"You see, the people we meet are like lights, who guide us through the dark hallway that is life"*
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Another cut and the two men are tossing eachother around buildings, Tacos sending Pepsi into a building and chasing after. Inside the offices the two exchanged punches, Pepsi attempting to trade as much as he could however Tacos simply kept abusing the Dodge input, the former moving away PepsiMan's last punch and delivering a double piece combo to the face with a kick to the stomach as a cherry, which sent him flying onto another building. Tacos started walking towards the huge hole he made and in his way grabbed a chair while smiling.

> Tareq kept talking *— "Right now, PepsiMan is in the climax of his life"* — Tacos jumped to the other building where he was received by PepsiMan swinging his arm while having his palm extended, creating a cutting force, Tacos using the No Effect input to protect himself and hit Pepsi with the chair. — *"He once used to be surrounded by lights, which he fought really hard to achieve, even making lights who once tried to hurt him into allies"*
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PepsiMan started to get faster and slowly began to be able to evade all of Tacos' attacks, so in this exchange Tacos would wind up energy for an Energy Punch and use a "Hit" input on Pepsi, this was the perfect chance for Pepsi to do a trade, immediately winding up a punch as well as soon as he heard the "Hit" input. The scene cutting right before their hits landed

> *"But my father destroyed all the lights Pepsi held dear to him, his people and friends." —* Tareq reached into his pocket to grab a cigarette box, he pulled out a cigarette from it and placed it on his mouth, the voice of a woman could be heard for a brief instant. He reaches for the lighter in the table and starts flicking it, each flick flashbacks of Tareq's daughter appearing briefly. Finally the cigarette is turn aflame *— "He chased after father guided by blind revenge, ignoring completely his surroundings and walking into the abyss" —* Tareq inhaled and exhaled and took the cigarette off his mouth *— "He tried pushing everyone he met away due to this very rage, but, before he could realize it he was surrounded by lights again, friends who were willing to follow Pepsi into the abyss to save him"*
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In slow motion both of their fists caved into eachother's faces seemingly about to end in a tie, however, Pepsi's arm started to grow in size and absolutely overpowered Tacos sending him flying to the other side of the building. PepsiMan grabbed the chair in the floor and launched it towards Tacos, who meanwhile Pepsi was picking the prop up had already stood back up and charging at the Mond, Zere ducked the attack and when he looked back up Pepsi punched his left side, a gesture to rewind time. Tacos smirked and said — *"Dumbass, you know damn well your time-related attacks don't affect m-"* — Before he could finish talking the chair Pepsi threw earlier hit him in the back, making him eat the floor.

> *"And saved he was, the people who accompanied him in his journey managed to heal his scars. Unfortunely..." —* PepsiMan grabbed Tacos and sent him flying upwards, launching him outside the building *— "Prior actions would bring consequences, and all of those scars would reopen once more" —* Tacos went flying up but right before he went outside the building he places two hooks so that he could pull himself down immediately, which he did, the rope stretching more and more until it gave up and sent Tacos flying downwards *— "It was at that moment he felt lost, and felt like there was no reason to keep going. Being the immortal he is, he was doomed to keep living even when he had no desire to" —*Tacos fell thundering back down causing the entire building to start collapsing, Pepsi and Tacos would continue fighting as they kept climbing up the falling building *— "He was all alone in a pit of darkness".*
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Punching, blocking, dodging, parrying and so on, the two continued on with their fight as the sun started to hide behind the path of destruction those two left behind. Tacos' firepower started to become outdated, and although he could upgrade it one last time he instead preferred to try one more thing to try and kill PepsiMan once and for all, a *Point Blank: X2 Energy Gather Beam*.

> *"Each day sinking down deeper in depression"*
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Tacos started gathering energy, more than he had ever before, as the two kept fighting. Although they didn't land, each punch Pepsi did kept getting stronger and Tacos could feel it, if he prolonged the fight too much the idea of Pepsi being able to kill him in one punch could become a reality so the every more reason to kill Pepsi with this one attack. The idea was that, even if Pepsi tried to come back like he did before he wouldn't be able to, since his entire body would be reduced to nothingness.

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> *"A small, very small spark of light appeared before him"*
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In a quick encounter, Tacos would kick Pepsi away and start splitting a minuscule amount of energy from all he gathered to create an Energy Enhanced Punch, as bait.

> *"But bright enough to begin guiding him back to his tracks"*
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"Hit" — This was the green light for the mond to get moving, Pepsi started gathering his energy in order to give it his all in this next exchange, something Tacos could feel.

> *"Although Pepsi would reject it at first, he would eventually grow attached to it, raising it as his child"*
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Zere swung his left arm, which was Energy Infused, which Pepsi dodged by ducking, as the latter did that Tacos rose his right hand and stopped his left arm by making the two collide.

> "But once more, Tacos attempts to take this newfound hope away from him"
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The fingers in his right hand made a finger gun and at the tip of his fingers energy started to gather. While this was happening, Pepsi had ducked to Tacos' left and winded up a right hook with so much strength the air itself became dense and difficult to breath one for a second, however something the Monarch did not notice was the fact Pepsi was silently gathering energy up as well, with his newfound stolen move Pepsi closed his fist and infused his entire arm in an almost invisible white fire made out of energy.

> *"The reason I believe Pepsi will win is"*
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Like a rocket setting in motion, Pepsi's fist started to move, not only earth but the solar system itself began to shake and his energy could be felt from galaxies away, the sheer speed and force he launched his punch at caused friction to start causing the air to combust into flames.

> *"When you give a man in his lowest even the smallest glimpse of hope,"*
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Tacos stretched his left arm away from his right one, as if it were a bow, with his palm open, in his palm and fingers blood-red strings followed, and as he did this, a sound similar to a cannon being shot could be heard across the entire planet, except a thousand times heavier; Pepsi had delivered his punch, a straight right hook to the rib which crushed bone and flesh and *made Takkos Zere cough up blood*.

> *"He will fight with tooth and nails to defend it"*
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Pepsi backed up to await Tacos' guaranteed punch, doing so by leaping in order to bait Tacos to attack him, that's when he realized the Monarch never landed any punches during that exchange... Pepsi looked back up and saw Tacos aiming at him with a finger gun — "Just because I say my inputs it doesn't mean I'll do them"

> *"A man who's lost it all is dangerous, but a man who's lost it all and is given the opportunity to regain it all can be more terrifying"*
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As Pepsi's feet touched the ground he tried turning around to gain as much distance as possible, trying to punch the beam like he did before at this distance would be impossible, but before he could even begin trying to turn around the voice of Tacos said "Hit", moving his right arm backwards and his left arm with the palm open forwards, as if smacking the Energy Cluster, immediately after he did this all the energy concentrated in that sphere got shot in the shape of a beam.

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Suddenly, everything became calm, birds started singing again, wind began blowing as usual and a soon-to-be corpse found itself impaled in a building. "You survived that?" — Said a voice in the distance, it was Tacos — "Even though you aren't in great shape, the sole fact you still have a body is surprising" — We cut to Pepsi's body and get to see his entire lower body parts are gone, as well as his entire left arm and half of his lower torso; bone and flesh is exposed and Pepsi is clearly having trouble staying awake — "Maybe it's the fact I didn't add anything else into the mix other than pure energy" — Pepsi started lifting his barely functioning right arm, seemingly attempting to reach Tacos — "Or perhaps your body simply began adapting incredibly fast upon close death" — With his remaining fingers the Mond made a claw-shape hand and started slowly turning it towards his chest — "Or perhaps... You survived this with your Will alone." — Tacos turned around and started walking away, Pepsi on the other hand pierced his own chest and reached to his heart — "Though, it doesn't matter anymore. It's over" — What Tacos did not realize was that Pepsi's Will to Live was far stronger than ever, stronger than even death itself, having said this Pepsi crushed his own heart, killing himself instantaneously.

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As Tacos walked down the street, not even 5 seconds in, he heard someone scream his name. "TTTAAAAKKKKOOOOOSS" — Yelled Pepsi with rage, in this moment Tacos felt as if the sky was falling on him and, as he turned around, for the first time, he felt true fear in his heart... All the fear he felt at this instant was reflected in his eyes.

> *"Y-You're...." — Said Tacos — "an immortal?!"*
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##### Update 10: "INFINITE BLUE"

The shock paralyzed Tacos for an instant, which Pepsi used to forward time and start landing hits Zere could not react to, finishing off the combo with an Energy Absorption Fist, which's fire burned red. *"Bastard, you also stealed my move?!"* — Said Tacos visibly uncomfortable with all the events taking place, flying away into multiple buildings after the explosive fist landed on his head, but Pepsi wasn't done just yet as he chased after his tormentor.

Tacos stood back up and said "Hit!" however PepsiMan grabbed his fist, like that wasting the Hit input, and moved his hand aside, Tacos about to do a "No Effect" input saw as Pepsi's fist lit aflame again, he then quickly yelled "DODGE!". Tacos had fell for it again, being overwhelmed by PepsiMan the Monarch had no other choice but to stop trying to not waste any more energy and end up in such a vulnerable situation as before. The Red Fire punch finally landed on Zere's ribs, sending him flying again. Pepsi then forwarded time as before, and since this doesn't affect the Monarch he was now in Tacos' trajectory, quickly axe kicking him into the ground causing for the entire city blocks to sink.

> The narrator explained, Takkos Zere's Unique Ability wasn't condensing energy. He proceeded to explain that, while developing an Unique Ability everyone makes mistakes, and when these mistakes happened these abilities would either turn into heat, and in extreme cases into explosions, kinda like those failed science experiments in cartoons; However, Tacos capitalized off of these reactions and turned them into their own ability: Takkos Zere's Unique Ability were explosions, and by consequence his sub-ability was heat.
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Every passing moment Pepsi felt something change, his new form began evolving Pepsi himself. As the night took over the two kept fighting under a violent réquiem, Pepsi kept skipping and rewinding time confusing Tacos, although at this point this was no longer necessary as he had already adapted to be stronger than than the Monarch. Needless to say, Tacos was angered at this fact, but he had been studying PepsiMan as the fight progressed and made a theory, if this hypothetical was true then he had the evermore reasons to finish the Mond off as quickly as possible. And so, he updated his strength one last time, punching PepsiMan into the ground and into a cave in order to have time to do it.

> As energy began to surround Tacos a red aura appeared around him which, as more energy gathered, started changing colors to white and then finally blue, just like we had seen before at the end of Round 2 when the Monarch delivered the last punch. The nature behind this was Tacos' Unique Ability being related to temperature, the hotter an object is it will turn from red to white and finally to blue, this last color is the one of the hottest stars in the universe glow in.
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The dark blue glow no longer surrounded his fists but his entire body, and had now increased his power to it's maximum input, this was the strongest Tacos could get, no less no more. His energy could be felt across entire galaxies as it raged through time and space

> However, there is one color all stars beyond a certain point glow in, the "Perano" color, also known as the "Infinite Temperature Color". No matter how hot an object gets it will be the same color, this is a level Takkos Zere believes is the pinnacle of his Unique Ability, but not even he has achieved this, and looking at the Multiversal record no one will in the next 300 million years.
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