Escalation to Godhood
Steve charges, chugging a Strength II potion.
Burntrap crushes him into voxel fragments with contemptuous ease.
Gabriel dives, spear blazing with holy judgment.
“MACHINE—REPENT!”
Burntrap grabs the spear, snaps it, and fires a ki-chakra beam straight through Gabriel’s chest.
Gabriel collapses, wings burning out.
“…damn it.”
Buff Richard screams incoherently and punches Burntrap.
The punch hits emotionally.
Burntrap staggers.
Dr. Manhattan finally looks mildly engaged.
“Interesting.”
He raises a hand.
Burntrap’s atoms begin to unravel—
—but Yogiri speaks softly.
“Die.”
Dr. Manhattan freezes.
Then ceases to exist, erased at the narrative level before he can finish the thought.
Lord English claps.
“Oh, this is fun.”
He swings his cue.
Burntrap is impaled through every possible version of himself at once—past, present, alternate, hypothetical.
Burntrap screams—
—and refuses.
SSJ8 ki explodes outward, shredding Lord English’s presence until only a laugh remains, echoing and then gone.