Death Battle Prediction: Vilgax VS Ridley

Hello Friends and VS Fabs alike, I’m ThorGundersen1058, and I am Imperator100. Thanks so much to Thor for collabing with me again. Oh it’s necessary for a matchup as unbelievably epic as the one we have today, Vilgax, The Conquer of Worlds and Ridley, the Cunning God of Death. These two giant alien monsters have been terrorizing their galaxies with their goals of conquest and ferocious tenacity, if not for certain hero’s infused with alien DNA, a LOT of people would be dead right now.

Both of these two can claim immense feats of physical prowess, a super-advanced technological army, and a cunning will that allows them to threaten the peace of the galaxies. But who’s power shall prove greatest? Only One Way to find out!

Background

Vilgax

400 years ago a Chimmeran was born known as Vilgax. Little did the Milky Way know he would one day become one of it’s most dangerous entities. Vilgax was an ambitious youth, seeking power, and so joined the military before coming into conflict with an alien capable of changing form at will. Fascinated by this power, Vilgax began a relentless quest that would span over 200 years trying to gain the sole control over the Omnitrix eventually coming into conflict with it’s new human user Ben Tennyson. This quest eventually made Vilgax stronger with cybernetic enhancements, a large robot army and a fearsome warship.  Vilgax was repelled only briefly by Ben Tennyson in the long span of his life.

In the span of 5 years he had returned to his home planet and had taken it over, as well as massively increasing its power. Vilgax was single-minded in his desire to protect his people, to the point of once even allying with and protecting Ben. 

He also exploited the rules of the Galactic Code of Conduct to defeat the Champions of 10 other worlds, taking their powers for his own and their planets for his people. Vilgax’s protection of the planet was so secure that even the Highbreed, threat to all life, was stopped by him, and he was made permanent leader and the planet was renamed Vilgaxia in his honor.

However even after all this time, Vilgax still wants the Omnitrix, to be used in combination with his droids to create an unstoppable army of shapeshifting warriors. Vilgax was described by his creator as “Darth Vader without the humor”. He is a proud military general who above all puts the good of his own people above all else.

Ridley

Cosmic Year 2000. The Galactic Federation maintains relative peace in the galaxy, bringing it into a relative age of prosperity. But where there is prosperity, there are those willing to exploit it by immoral means. The Milky Way Galaxy would soon tremble in fear at the space pirates led by their infamous leader, Ridley.

It is a common misconception that Ridley is part of a species named “Space Dragon”. However that is actually non-canon. Ridley’s species name is entirely unknown. Similarly unknown is most of Ridley’s past. What is known is that he made his way through cunning and power into High Command, the leading body of the Space Pirates and launched a fateful raid on the Earth colony K-2L.

In the short term this raid was highly successful leading to the destruction of the entire colony, however in the long term this was the fateful raid that gave birth to Samus Aran, the Galactic Bounty Hunter and Ridley’s sworn nemesis. The two would engage in battle many times over years, getting stronger to better oppose each other.

Ridley would lead the space pirates to actual successes against the Federation, even with the Super-Bounty Hunter Samus opposing them every step of the way.

Intelligence

Vilgax

Vilgax is a total supergenius with technology, battle strategy, manipulation and experience. He possesses vast knowledge of other cultures, combat tactics, and the thousands of codes of the Omnitrix, the most advanced piece of machinery in the 3-Dimensional universe. He’s been in combat for well over 250 years, is a master of tons of different fighting styles and his senses are keen enough to spot microscopic detail and hear quiet noises from miles away. With his deceptive manipulation skills he has tricked the The Flame Keeper’s Circle into serving him, the time traveling warmonger, Eon into helping him in a plan that would result in his death, and the extra dimensional god Diagon into giving him all his power.

But arguably most impressive is the time he was able to make it past the planetary defenses of Galvin Prime, the home planet of the easily most intelligent species in the galaxy.

Ridley

Ridley is a very skilled tactician, being the leader of the Space Pirates on numerous planetary invasions, and tricking the Galactic Federation on several occasions. He is experienced in tactics on every level from the personal to the galactic. He also is quite smart technologically, as would be necessary for a general in such an advanced technological society. He actually built a perfect robot duplicate of himself, a highly advanced machine even for the time, to lead when he is not around called the Ridley Robot.

More than anything, Ridley is known for his cunning ability to avoid dying, leading him to be given the title “Cunning God of Death”. Ridley has seemingly died many many times over, and always figures out some way of escaping.  

Powers and Skills

Vilgax

So to get this out of the way, there are four main forms of Vilgax, not counting temporary fusions with other beings such as Diagon and Malware. There is his Original Base Form which is the state he had at the start of the series which is all natural and normal for his species. There is his Enhanced Form when he had to rebuild himself as a cyborg. His New Base Form after the enhancements became obsolete and he absorbed the powers of 10 champions. And Lastly his True Form, a giant kraken like creature he can transform himself into when in water.

Original Base:

Vilgax’s first and weakest form isn't much in the way of powers, though he does have a couple.

• Breathe Underwater:

Vilgax’s species is naturally aquatic and can breathe underwater indefinitely.

• Healing factor:

Vilgax is able to regenerate from injuries such as lost limbs, unfortunately this process is much too slow to be usable in combat, we’re talking months.

Enhanced:

The enhanced form is a significant upgrade over the last one being a now towering 15 feet tall and enormously stronger and more durable, it retains both benefits of the previous form as well as adding many of its own.

• Boost steroids:

Implants in his arms which he can use to artificially increase his own muscle mass, temporarily giving him a massive increase in lifting and striking strength.

• Can Breath in Outer Space:

Vilgax can now survive without oxygen in a vacuum for an indefinite amount of time.

• Powerful claws:

Vilgax’s fingers are now claws which are so sharp they as capable of causing physical pain to high tier characters such as Way Big.

• Matter Manipulation Resistance:

In this new body Vilgax is resilient enough to shrug off hits from a giant Plumber Weapon specifically coded to destroy his personal DNA. While it proved effective against his base form, it no longer was damning here. Furthermore he has multiple times endured DNA waves from the omnitrix, these have a tendency to mutate whatever they come in contact with, merging it with DNA of random species from the watch, but it never affected Vilgax.

• Anti-Logia:

Vilgax is able to affect touch and pumble beings even when made of non solid material like the liquid blob Gluto.

New Base:

After removing his Implants and stealing the powers of 10 heros, Vilgax’s new base form is his most powerful yet in all stats and without any of the disadvantages being a cyborg might bring. This form retains many of the previous abilities such as slow regen, breathing in space, claws, and resisting logia and matter manipulation, and it in addition adds a lot more.

• Optical beams:

He can shoot lasers from his eyes which in a very similar manner to Darkseid’s Omega Beams, change direction to pursue their target wherever they go, these can casually cut down trees, blow up house sized boulders and even shatter Gwen’s energy shields and are fast enough to catch up to Helen, a member of XLR8’s species.

• Super Breath:

Powerful gust of wind which is enough to blow Alan, a member of Heatblast’s species, out like a birthday candle and knock out Kevin Levin.

• Flight:

Vilgax is able to fly through outer space at high speeds.

• Super Senses:

Vilgax can recognize individual beings from orbit and hear sounds from miles away.

• Energy Blasts:

Vilgax can fire beams of energy from his hands.

• Paradox Resistance:

Was unaffected by his own timeline being erased.

True:

The Natural form of his species, Vilgax can transform into this kraken like creature willing from any of his previous forms when he come in contact with a lot of water, this form will always be more powerful than whatever form he was previously because it rises in strength with him and is merely him unrestrained.

• Elasticity:

His Tentacles can stretch vast distances.

Ridley

Ridley possess 5 conventional forms, though 1 of them is not really purely a form of him, but instead him infected by the X-Parasite and and genetically altered. As such Ridley-X is considered an outside help form and will not be allowed. His original form, his Base Form is merely his Biological form. After much of his organic body was destroyed he was reconstructed with technology to become the much more dangerous Meta-Ridley. When Meta-Ridley is fused with Phazon he becomes Omega Ridley. There is also Proteus Ridley, the newest form created when the phazon regenerated much of his original biological body. Meta-Ridley is his general peak form and also the one most thematically suited to fight Vilgax.

Base Form:

Ridley biologically has access to a number of abilities.

As might be told from his structure Ridley can fly, even through the void of space. Ridley can survive in the vacuum or on all manner of Exoplanets.

Ridley has a much stronger muscular system then any real beast, giving him supernatural levels of strength and durability, as well as speed and reflexes.

Ridley has a number of biological weapons, including his claws, his fangs, and his sharp tail which he uses to impale people. Ridley’s tail can lengthen and shorten at will and he can even use it for an infamous bouncing attack like a pogo stick.

Of course this is not even getting Ridley’s most famous weapon, his infamous flame breath. Ridley can produce fire from his mouth in the form of bursts or as a firespray. He can create up to 5 separate fire bursts from his mouth at one, and fire them at seemingly any angle.  

Ridley also has the uncanny ability to regenerate from eating the flesh of others beings. He can regenerate massive body losses this way, though it is implied to take a while and is generally impractical in combat.

Meta-Ridley:

After upgrading to Meta-Ridley, Ridley gained some new tricks.

His famous breath weapon was upgraded from fire to firing pure kinetic energy or plasma at will.

In his Proteus Ridley Form, which Meta-Ridley should possess the same abilities, Ridley demonstrated the ability to charge his claws with electricity.

The same form also demonstrated a limited earth manipulation, able to plunge his tail into the Earth to cause a string of sharp rocks to emerge from the ground.

Meta-Ridley also likely has some level of resistance to corrosion, corruption, matter manipulation, and mind manipulation given he was able to survive exposure to Phazon unshielded to turn into Omega Ridley, and survived a long time in that form before reverting to Proteus Ridley.

Omega Ridley:

As Omega Ridley, Ridley can use the power of Phazon to boost his powers and abilities. He can breath pures of phazon-fire/plasma beams from his mouth and also fire phazon beams from his tail.

Also just as his weaker form could charge his claws with electricity, Omega Ridley can charge his claws with Phazon.

Omega Ridley can also create whole shockwaves of Electrical-Phazon Energy and even form cages of the stuff.

Weapons and Equipment

Vilgax

• Ruby Ray of Ulo:

A gemstone on his right glove that fires lasers powerful enough to instantly vaporize anyone it hits, this beam has only been withstood by foes with Large island level durability such as Ultimos.

• Shield of Ziegel:

A Gantlet he wears on his right arm that can project both energy shields and all encompassing force fields from the crystal on the forearm. These are both durable enough to tank hits from large island busting characters, Jetray’s lasers, Ghostfreak’s energy blasts and repeated fire from advanced alien battleships. It is also able to coat Vilgax in an energy field that allows him to produce powerful electric shocks on contact as well as making him able to physically grab and hit foes even if they are Intangible!

• Sword of Vilgaxia:

His bread and butter, a powerful, 8-foot long, double edged sword which is able to adapt to what it is facing. It is able to shoot powerful lasers, ignite itself in flame and even coat itself in diamond like crystals which deflect away lasers and absorb and store energy. This sword is so powerful that it shattered one of the most durable aliens Ben has, Chromastone, to bits in just a single hit.

• Raygun:

A single pistol Vilgax has hoolstered on his belt, it fires laser beams dangerous to many of Ben's aliens, without any limit on ammo.

• Power Converter

A large machine that Vilgax can hook up to a downed foe, it permanently adds the foe's stats and abilities to Vilgax’s own and allows him to replicate all their natural powers while said foe grows weak. This device can also absorb power from a foe's attacks. With this thing not only was Vilgax able to take the powers of the greatest heros of 10 worlds but it was powerful enough to absorb, contain and repurpose the full power of Diagon, a universal deity.

• Neural inhibitors

Restraint that will paralyze the foe it is placed on from using their alien powers.

• Chronosapien Time Bomb

Brokenly powerful weapon able to wipe an infinite number of timelines out of existence upon detonation, though he used his only one in an attempt to win the Time War. Yes there was a Time War.

Ridley

Ridley does not wield conventional weapons most of the time, though as Meta-Ridley has weapons built into his very body.

Using his Ultra-Thermal Flame Strike Projector, Meta-Ridley can a shockwave of fire emerge from him

Using his Meson Bomb Launcher, Ridley can send launch bombs down from a distance

He can also use the the Multi-Missile Seeker to fire a spray of missile volley at his opponent

Meta-Ridley’s technology is capable of damaging even some of Samus’ most powerful Suits.

Infantry

Vilgax

Vilgax has commands a massive robot army, His drones actually have a psychic link with Vilgax himself allowing him to command the entire force with his mere thoughts. Generally most of his drones are capble of traveling at Massively Hypersonic speeds, and fighting against town to island level foes.

• Basic Drones:

These things are flying, laser shooting robots that can easily blast through walls and trees. They have an advanced scanner and they can even possess and merge with organic creatures, allowing Vilgax to control them with his hive mind, with a host these drones grow to building busters.

• Gigantic Drones:

These huge robots can casually destroy large buildings, it can fire lasers from its hands, missiles from its chest and Basic Drones from its shoulders

• Insectoid Drones:

Large flying bug like drones these things have grenade launchers and shoot lasers comparable to a nuclear bomb.

• Mecha Drones:

The Most powerful Drones seen in the first series these things can tear apart tech and use it to instantly upgrade itself at will it can rip through tank armor like tissue, and can grow in size, fly, fire lasers and heat seeking missiles, hack into advanced technology, and it’s AI is totally capable of analyzing its foes actions and setting traps. This thing can endure some hits from Four Arms, a Giant Multi-City Block laser cannon, and Xylene telekinesis. It is strong enough to knock foes through several trees, and fast enough to fight many of Ben’s aliens additionally it can rapidly repair itself as long as the torso remains.

• Brunt Drones:

Highly Durable Drones designed to Smash through enemy lines like battery Rams, and fire powerful electrical blasts. Even powerful aliens like Diamondhead struggle with these things

• Normal Drones:

Vilgax’s humanoid robots that run his ship and operate his tech, they are quite intelligent, can use laser rifles and are strong enough to resist being pulled into space.

• Large Drones:

A larger more armored version of the normal drone with a bigger gun.

• Flying Drones:

Basically transformers that turn into planes, these things are capable of flight in atmosphere and outer space. Their pincer limbs can cut through space pods and they possess laser cannons for a long range weapon.

Squid Monsters

A natural pet on Vilgaxia, these creatures can be stored in certain areas to hibernate for up to a century before emerging hundreds-thousands at a time. They are incredibly loyal to Vilgax and posses claws, teeth and powers such as flight and elasticity and the ability to function for extremely long periods of time without taking in food, water, air or rest, these things are capable of fighting city level massively hypersonic characters like Snare-Oh.

Ridley

Space Pirate:

Ridley’s main forces consist of a large number of the Space Pirate Native Species, a Hive Mind species of myriad variations. They generally wield one blaster/projectile weapon on one hand and one energy scythe weapon in the other hand useful for tearing through futuristic armors. These come in many variations. Even Low-Level Space Pirates can engage in a space dogfight spanning planets suggesting ftl reflexes, and are often able to react to Samus’ movements at higher levels suggesting MFTL reflexes.

• Militia:

Space Pirate Slaves and Criminals, generally wear no armor at all and wield low level weapons, occasionally have some level of shielding or armor

• Trooper:

The Main Force of the Space Pirates, Troopers generally wield a Galvanic Accelerator Cannon which fires a blast of red energy enough to do damage to Zero Suit Samus who has a town level durability feat, suggesting they are at least MCB Level. In addition their scythe and durability should be at least building level from being able to survive on planets of intense gravity and being immune to low level weapons.

• Trooper Variations:

There are several variations of Troopers including Grenadiers, who exchange their GAC for grenade-launchers, Beam Troopers, who use a reversed-engineered weapon technology of Samus from the Zero Mission, and Cloaked Troopers who have no beam weapon at all but can attain invisibility.

• Hussars:

Native to the Pirate Homeworld are the deadly Korakk Beasts, 4-legged Insectoid Monsters. Pirate Hussars are Pirate Cavalry mounted on the Korakks. The Korakks are fiercely loyal and if their Hussar is killed with attack relentlessly.  

• Bruiser:

Gorilla-Like Pirates much stronger and more durable then Normal Space Pirates but have weak points on the joints and back. Have an even stronger version called Elite Bruisers. Considering that they should be much stronger then Zero Suit Samus, this would make them at least Town Level.

• Aqua:

Space Pirates adapted for aquatic combat. They use an Aqua jet pack to propel them through water seamlessly and will often kamikaze into enemies to do extra damage them, able to hurt even a higher level of Samus, suggesting the explosion is at least island level.

• Flying:

Space Pirates adapted for aerial combat. They use a Jet Pack to propel themselves through air at speeds. They perform the same suicide attack as Aqua Space Pirates. They have several ranks and armored versions, the strongest being the Assault Flying Space Pirate. Stronger versions should be at least town level.

• Commandos:

The Pirate Elites that guard the Homeworld, they wear armor of phazite, a material of Phazon, and most of Samus non-phazon based weapons simply can’t penetrate suggesting they have Island Level Defenses. They can also do at least a little damage to Samus suggesting they are at least City Level in Offenses. They also possess invisibility capacity. The elites of THEM are called Pirate Commanders, who wear Red Phazite Armor and have personal teleportation devices. Commanders are usually associated with 4 Commandos who they can teleport in to help them.

Other Forces:

The Space Pirates with their mad scientific experimentation have forced other species under their control and created a number of monsters to fight for them. While many of these monsters have been slain, there are some of these creatures that exist in groups and so likely still exist in some number.

• Drones:

The Space Pirates possess a number of mechanized forces, generally mobile turrets, mines and drones. The strongest of these are Skiffs, powerful aerial tank like drones that are likely at least city level scaling to ancient Chozo technology, though the cannon part can according to logbooks be overloaded with heat

• Baja Clovers:

A biological weapon of the Space Pirates, a living flower that is known for its heavy poison and ability to make outside forces susceptible the Space Pirate command, possibly by linking them to the Space Pirate Hive Mind.

• Keyhunters:

An Insectoid species from another galactic species, The Keyhunters resembles flying insects and attack by spitting acid or attack with their claws.

• Scritters:

An extremely common vermin on the Pirate Homeworld, Scritters are mentioned as being fed to the Militia. They are normally not very strong but most of them contain a powerful toxin that they release through biting.

• Atomics/Bombu:

Living balls of explosive energy. The Atomics are notable for causing atomic explosions, reaching into the town, possibly city range of power.

• Metroids:

The most iconic creature in the series, Metroids are a species that consume energy. They were originally created to end the threat of Parasite X, likely by draining the ATP needed for the Parasite X to divide and multiply. The Space Pirates weaponized the Metroids. While Metroids vary in power based on their stage of development from the street level to country level in durability, what they have in common is their quick speed, their ability to drain energy from any person, technology, virus or anything they latch onto, and a weakness to cold that the Chozo implanted in them as a security measure.

Generals

Vilgax

Psyphon is Vilgax’s extremely loyal right hand man that serves him with his life. Psyphon utilizes a lot of alien tech to make himself a powerful force to deal with, his tech can boost his physical stats, at max he could easily oneshot Spidermonkey and more than hold his own against the likes of Ultimate Spidermonkey and Armodrillo. Additionally he can generate force fields, throw multi-city block level grenades, fire lasers from his wrists and eyes, create energy constructs, and levitate through the air. He also has his own flying Drones called R.E.D.s (Robotic Extermination Devices) that fire powerful lasers and can tank hits from Gwen’s mana beams. His two most broken weapons are his Exciter Beam, which overloads the nervous system of any species it hits causing involuntary spasms and loss of bodily control he also has a Gauntlet laser that causes Simulation summoning and animacy granting.

Ridley

The exact nature of who is serving in Ridley’s forces can vary but according to Super Metroid, there is 3 Metroid Generals who serve along Ridley.

Kraid:

Land General. Kraid is likely the most loyal person in Ridley’s entire army, the brute having accompanied Ridley since the original Zero Mission. Kraid more than anything is known for his impenetrable skin to the point that it’s comparable to a planet’s shield. While he’s slow and lumbering he has fast enough reflexes to react to Samus and is strong enough to hurt Zero Mission Samus suggesting he’s likely at least city level. That said the inside of his mouth is weak so when he opens it to attack he is vulnerable. Kraid can launch it’s claws from it’s stomach as a form of projectile and can regenerate them easily and quickly.

Draygon:

Aquatic General. Draygon in the water is likely as strong as Kraid, and has speed comparable to Samus in water. She can also shoot an adhesive projectile that sticks things from her mouth. She can also extend her tail to knock enemies over. That said she has little capacity to move on land that is known and her underbelly is soft and vulnerable.

Phantoon:

Aerial/Infiltration General. Phantoon is the manifestation of Mother Brain’s evil. It’s capable of easily flying between star systems and shooting plasma beams from it’s eye capable of threatening Samus. It can turn intangible and invisible. It can resurrect souls and turn them into monsters. It can also control monsters. Besides this it can summon incorporeal hands, absorb electricity and open inter-dimensional portals. That said physically it seems relatively weak and it’s eye, which it needs to see, is tangible so long as it is open.

Vehicles

Vilgax

The Chimerian Hammer is Vilgax’s personal warship, a massive mountain-sized and very heavily armed monster of a vessel. This frigid can travel across the galaxy and largely faster than light speeds, and comes equipped with hundreds of lasers, missiles and remote fighter ships. With this ship Vilgax can fire tow cables that can shatter stadium sized asteroids on impact, pull in other ships with a powerful tractor being, and teleport to and from a planet's surface Star Trek style. The ships two most dangerous weapons are the Front Mounted Laser Cannon which produces a beam so powerful is can obliterate entire planets, and its Giant Null Void Projector which can send entire planets to an alternate prison dimension.

Ridley

The Metroid-Universe Ships are capable of relativistic to ftl speeds in real space, able to fight at ftl speeds across several adjacent planets. For greater speed they can travel via hyperspace  to travel at effectively billions of times faster than the speed of light.

• Flagship:

The Primary Ship that the Space Pirates use as a mobile base, the Flagship is a Planetoid Sized UFO. In combat the Flagship attacks by generating a black hole capable of destroying a shielded planet in seconds.

• Mother Ship:

Ridley’s personal ship, of a similar power to the Flagship, The Mothership has scanners capable of scanning the local star system and creating inter-stellar warps.

• Destroyers:

Destroyers are main battle ships of the Space Pirate Fleep, containing 3 individual turrets which together fire a powerful laser beam capable of one-shotting a country level spaceship. They also likely have tactical missiles of a similar power that are commonly used in Metroid space combat. Destroyers are also implied to be able to jam transmissions and signals all the way down on a planet’s surface from upper atmosphere.

• Fighters:

Secondary battleships meant for shooting down fleeing targets and to attack land targets, this ship was able to shoot down Samus’ gunship which was wasn’t burned up in a town level collision on Zebes.

• Other Spaceships:

The Space Pirates also have non-combat based on spaceships, including transports and boarding pods, but obviously these aren’t combat based and have limited combat usage.

• ATC:

Aerial Armor of the Space Pirate army, ATC (Armored Tactical Carriers) are levitating vehicles that house several Space Pirates in each manning energy turrets. These ships are easily as powerful as Samus’ weaker armors with the exception of a heat vent on the front of the carrier

Feats

Vilgax

Strength:

• With his arms boosted to maximum he shattered the Roosevelt head off Mt. Rushmore in a single punch.
• Scales past Four Arms by winning against Kevin 11, Four Arms punches are strong enough to damaged The Great ones Hide, who has large island level durability due to being a large building sized monster that regularly tanks being on exploding planets.

• Easily defeated all 3 of the Galactic Enforcers (who are comparable to Four Arms) in back to back one on one fights.
• Can Easily defeat Fourarms, Cannonbolt, XLR8 and more powerhouses, at the same time.

• Created a crater the size of a city block with a single punch.
• Defeated Humungousaur At His Full Size in a single hit.

• Oneshot Eatle who is powerful enough to slice a city sized mountain in half with his blasts.

Speed:

• Could casually keep up with Heatblast, who is faster than Megawatts, beings of sentient electricity.
• Can keep pace with Stinkfly and overpowered him casually with just his fingers, Stinkfly can dodge laser shots that can reach space in under a second.

• Can react to and grab XLR8 at top speed, XLR8 is superior to Fasttrack, who ran 12 feet grabbed two people and moved them to a safe distance before an explosion expanded more than a centimeter, a speed feat of over Mach 7,379.
• Caught up to Jetray and proceeded to totally kick his ass, Jetray can fly So Fast he can enter hyperspace and made it from earth to a distant planet in mere minutes.
• Kept Pace with Jetray in flight.
• On two separate occasion, he physically flew from Vilgaxia to Earth in a small amount of time, while Vilgaxia is still in the Milky Way it is far beyond our solar system.
• Flew from Earth to Petropia in about an hour, Kevin stated its halfway across the galaxy, which would makes Vilgax 400 million times the speed of light.
• Flew through distant space physically and blitzed a starship containing the Ectonurite criminal Zs’Skayr.

Durability:

• Even in his weakest Base Form, Still tanked being strapped to a nuclear missile and blasted into his own ship.
• He is completely immune to both fire and physical blows from Heatblast, Heatblast, even in a weakened state, could generate the heat of a supernova, and is physically town level from scaling to Dr. Viktor.
• Was rammed by XLR8 at top speed and the only one hurt was XLR8.

• Diamondhead, whos crystals can endure island level hits from Four Arms, tried to stab Vilgax but his crystals shattered against his hide.
• Endured a mountain busting explosion in outer space.
• Survived being thrown into outer space by Way Big.
• Can Tank hits from Cannonbolt who can handily bring down The Great One and Kevin 11.

• Tanked a Planetoid sized Explosion. (The Larger Orange One)
• Endured a fusion drive explosion, stated to be able to destroy a city and everything within a hundred miles of the city, and judging from the visuals that was not an understatement.

General:

• Managed to Escape the Null Void prison dimension.
• Survived weeks in space with no food or water.
• Destroyed the planet of Petropia.
• Conquered over a dozen planets single handedly.
• Is the leader of his home planet and his people love him, considering him such a great hero they legit named the planet after him.
• Successfully took Ben’s Omnitrix.
• Stole the powers of an extra dimensional god granting him enough power to rule 2 universes at once.

Ridley

Strength/Destructive Capacity:

• His tail smash can shake the floor of a spaceship that can tank atmospheric reentry without trouble
• Able to tear through lesser Chozo Power Armors
• Was able to Physically hurt Samus during her Zero Mission
• A charge from Meta-Ridley tore through a Space Frigate designed to fight in Metroid space warfare
• Can easily tank and fly rapidly on the surface of a planet with gravity 960 times that of Earth.
• Firebreath destroyed a plateau on a planet with 960x gravity which was calced as an island level feat in base
• Firebreath destroyed an entire mining colony in base
• Meta and Phazon Forms his Plasma and Phazon Breath could hurt Country Level forms of Samus

Speed:

• In Base Form can keep up with likely FTL Space Pirate Fighters
• Easily surpasses the speed of Samus’ relativistic ship as Meta-Ridley
• Can match an MFTL version of Samus as Meta-Ridley
• Outpaced Samus’ ship scanners which seem to be used for MFTL warps to other galaxies as Meta-Ridley

Durability:

• Survives his own fire-breath which destroyed an entire mining colony in Base Form
• Can survive multiple powerful attacks from Zero Mission Samus in Base Form
• Survives the massive space explosion of his ship in Base Form
• Meta-Ridley’s armor can tank the attacks of many of Samus’ weaker weapons save for the armor on his wounded chest
• Meta Ridley easily survives a power beam to his mouth and a fall of 16,700 meters.
• Phazon armoring as Omega Ridley can survive the power of Samus’ Phazon Powers in Hyper Mode

General:

• Has destroyed planetary civilizations
• Fought Samus to a standstill and has actually beaten her on occasion
• Leads the Pirate Forces and was considered a considerable force to Mother Brain herself
• Has outwitted the Galactic Federation
• Constantly miraculously avoids death to the point of being given the title “The Cunning God of Death”
• The Phazon chose him to be one of it’s guardians due to his power

Weaknesses

Vilgax

• Vilgax can be arrogant
• Is prone to fits of rage
• He is very difficult to work with as he will betray at a moments notice if it benefits him
• His True Form is not very effective on land
• If he sustains enough damage in his True form he will be unable to revert back
• His healing cannot help him in a fight

Ridley

• Suffered an injury to his chest which his Meta-Form does not cover, the same area is not covered by Phazon in his Omega Form, possibly because the injured area would not be able to sustain the phazon, leaving his chest area only as durable as his base form
• Was initially arrogant, though this has toned down somewhat with time
• His healing takes a long time and is impractical in combat
• Can be somewhat temperamental and easily angered

Summary

Vilgax

Advantages:

• More Durable and would be able to tank Ridley’s normal attacks
• Notably More Intelligent
• Superior Arsenal of Weapons
• More Experience
• Psyphon is deadlier than any of Ridley’s generals on their own
• Vilgax’s Army is more standardized and presses advantages in the air and in Artillery
• Should Vilgax’s communications with his army be cut off, they WILL continue fighting independently
• Squid Monsters are almost a perfect predator for Metroids
• Vilgax’s Counter hax and Defenses can potentially counter any attack Ridley would use if he can play it right
• The Chimerian Hammer is the most versatile ship in the fight

Disadvantages:

• Most of Vilgax’s attacks would fail to harm Ridley
• Omega Ridley’s Phazon attacks are extremely dangerous and could cause Vilgax’s entire being to break down
• Ridley’s power increases more drastically in different forms
• Far less orbital forces and could even have his telepathic communication with his army cut off
• Vilgax’s forces are almost entirely robots, which Metroids would devastate
• Has only one General
• His army is in general a lot less versatile

Ridley

Advantages:

• Outside of his Weak point Ridley can easily take any of Vilgax’s attack
• Omega Ridley’s Phazon can ignore physical durability
• Ridley’s attacks carry more energy in stronger forms
• Has less Weaknesses
• Far Larger amount of orbital forces and can theoretically jam their electronic communication
• Space Pirates Have a biological hive mind to give them an easy ability to coordinate
• Metroids would be massive problems for most of Vilgax’s technological forces
• More Generals and Sub-Generals
• Artillery is more varied
• Armor tends to be more versatile
• Has Infiltration and Stealth Units

Disadvantages:

• Vilgax can tank any of Ridley’s non phazon attacks
• Vilgax is much older and Ridley has less intelligence and experience consequently
• Ridley’s weapons are neither as potent or versatile as Vilgax’s
• Kraid, Draygon and Phantoon are not as potent a general as Psyphon individually
• Vilgax’s Army is more consistent
• Vilgax’s Aerial Forces and Artillery have firepower and numbers above Ridley’s
• Ridley’s ships jamming communications would only have limited effectiveness
• Metroids may be a great counter to any of Vilgax’s technology forces but would have little ability to fight Vilgax’s biological forces, namely the squids.
• Vilgax can counter much of Ridley’s offenses
• None of Ridley’s Orbital Forces are as versatile as The Chimerian Hammer

Battle

Emerging from the Warp came myriad bug-shaped ships, their menacing forms imposing eerie shadows against the small planetoids at the outskirts of the system. Inside them were the scourges of the galaxy...space pirates.

A Pirate Commander entered the bridge. To the left, the monstrous Kraid gnawed at what was likely the remains of an enemy from the last battle. To the right, Phantoon hovered in the air sinisterly murmuring to itself, speaking damnations and wishing evil until the cosmos, the very air tinged with it’s malevolence. But even more imposing directly in front of him…

“Lord Ridley…” the space pirate spoke with apprehension and excitement “we seem to have evaded the Federation with that Hyperspace Jump, and with such luck! A prosperous settled world for raiding is in this system.”

“Hmmmm...HAHAHA” Ridley laughed, learning forward in delight “And what do our scanners say of this world?”

“Little intelligence about this world itself my lord, the atmosphere is too thick to get a visual, however it doesn’t seem to be Federation protected...planet seems to contain much liquid water, seems like it should be an easy raid.”

Ridley took to the air, waving his claws and tail around menacingly against the void of space out the window. “Prepare the fleet for the raid, and send signal to Draygon down in her aquatic chamber to ready the Navy.”

Kraid gave a hearty roar to signal his approval and excitement for the upcoming mission. Phantoon felt a disturbance, knowing that on that planet there lived at least one powerful enemy, but in spite and desire for destruction of the organic entities it continued its mad mumbling. Down in her chamber Draygon gurgled and bubbled her instructions and plans for naval invasion.

On the Planet below, stood the capital city of Vilgaxia, fortress of the planets mighty ruler Vilgax, the conquer of worlds feared throughout the galaxy. Vilgax rose from his throne and strode out towards his command center. On the way he was joined by his advisor Psyphon, “Lord Vilgax, the orbital scanner has picked up several warships emerging out of hyperspace”, he said with slight concern.

“I am aware, I shall provide them the kindness of a warning message, evacuate the population to the bunker system, and ready our forces, we will strike the moment they refuse” Vilgax said coldly.

“Yes my lord” Psyphon answered loyally as he fell back to do as he commanded.

On the outskirts of Vilgaxia’s orbit resided it’s singular blue moon around whom flew a teeming of vehicles, their wingspan merging from a distance so that as a whole the robot orbital swarm appeared as a great organism. Atop this hovered the Chimerian Hammer, from who messages were relayed to the ship, directing their attention to charging their laser fire for the warning message to the Space Pirates.

Approaching this swarm came a fleet of Space Pirate Destroyers, each one having a dozen or more tiny fighters circling them as if caught in orbit. The Space Pirate Flag Ship loomed massively casting darkness over the whole affair, and blocking out part of the sun’s light wherever it went, with Ridley’s Mothership close in tow. The two hung back and Ridley commanded his fleet to arm their missiles to strike down the defending fleet.

Vilgax relayed messages from the Chimerian Hammer and upon seeing the massive swarm of Space Pirate ships, readied himself mentally and tactically queing up orders. As he saw their aggressive stance and the sheer number and technological potency of the invading fleet he took the initiative.

“Fire!” he declared gravely.

Meanwhile, Ridley hovered in the Mother Ship watching the defensive circles within circles as the destroyers protectively guarded the personal ships of his three generals, and his fighters circled that. As he saw the defenders of this worlds’ ships come into view he prepared for one of his signature sudden and decisive attacks.

“Fire!” he called excitedly.

Fight!

The Chimerian Hammer targeted a small cluster of enemy fighters and launched a massive beam of energy, disintegrating them all.

At the same time, Space Pirate Destroyers launched a volley of missiles that flew through space at breakneck speed, creating a sudden burningly bright light blinding the nearby area, bits of shrapnel and metal being flung through the void at hypersonic speeds.

Fighters buzzed around them like particularly menacing bees, racing around and through Vilgax’s orbital defenses, launching individual blasts at the hulls of the flying drones. The Space Pirate swarm began to envelop Vilgax’s ships.

The Chimerian Hammer fired blasts and missiles from seemingly every pore of its enormous haul, destroying lesser ships by the dozens. The Flying Drones swarmed tactically flanking around the Destroyers, engaging and managing to overpower much of their Fighter escorts.

“IDIOTS! Ridley cawed, “rip off their cannon, tear them to shreds, let’s burn and devour! HAHA!” The Destroyers began launching heavy fire on the Chimerian Hammer’s front facing laser cannon, power serged as pieces of red metal exploded violently off the haul, crippling the weapon.

Vilgax took note of the Destroyers’ destructive capability, they needed to be taken down as soon as possible. Vilgax beamed himself onboard the Hammer, and took command of the frigate. “Prepare to Fire the Null Void weapon, target the tri-booster class ships.” The Battle seemed to halt as everything became cast in a massive eerie yellow glow from the midsection of the Hammer, Light seemed to be dragged towards the ship as it launched out a massive beam between the enemy Destroyers. It blew past all three of them before dissipating into nothing, the crew breathed a premature sign of relief, when suddenly a massive portal, larger than a planet came into existence, sucking the ships in with immense power, they gazed into the portal to see monsters, as horrible as the worst of any planet they plundered by the millions as their ships were consumed within the space and it closed trapping them for all time.

“Grrrrrrr” Ridley grumbled angry “No No! Focus on ship, blast fire and plasma in their face, burn them to cinders!” At Ridley’s command the space pirates, as one giant unit moved into close range for orbital combat, their ships veering very close to Vilgax’s such that he could make out individual units inside them, the fighters circling the ship and blasting at it with their lasers creating a ring like a gas giant’s.

Vilgax saw the massive force opposing his own ship and pondered the best possible course of action, one of his drones spoke. “Sir, we have finished the scan of the larger enemy ships, the smaller commanding ship contains very impressive warp technology for fast travel, while the larger one has the ability to generate a singularity.” Vilgax stood up, “A singularity is only a threat if they are willing to use it, these are pirates, and we cannot allow them to escape us.” Vilgax activated the tractor beam, latching hold of Ridley’s mothership. “WHAT?!” Ridley spat, as four giant cables smashed into the ship as well and began pulling the two ships together with titanic force, smaller fighters being flung away from the force. “Initiate self destruct launch sequence” Vilgax stated as he exited the command center, “I will deal with the rest Myself.” Vilgax then kicked a massive hole through the hull, and flew out into the void of space. At blinding speeds shot down dozens of fighter ships as a massive collision between the command vessels was imminent.

Ridley eagerly flew out. “Pitiful!” He thought to himself “the last dying struggles of the prey planet being hunted...hahaha” the loss of of some of his destroyers and to a lesser extent a number of fighters was unfortunate but this creature here was clearly the source of all the headaches he had just accrued. Ridley emerged from his ship flapping his wings out defiantly and let out a titanic roar of challenge that seems to echo across the system, gliding in one large fell swoop like a bird of prey towards Vilgax, spewing burning plasma the whole way, melting a few of Vilgax’s few remaining orbital forces that tried to engage him.

Vilgax spotted the purple flying creature, his expression turned to a menacing glare, what being in the galaxy would be bold enough to attack his planet. As the ships crashed and detonated in a massive explosion, the Two warlords collided in a thunderous shockwave. The collision of the two sent them careening off course, sending them flying through the void, with a burning trail like a comet from the energy and speed of their collison. Vilgax applied his titanic might to Ridley’s draconic frame, but the metal of his body refused to budge. Ridley bit and scratched and sliced with his tail like a rabid wild animal but Vilgax’s body was left unscathed. The two landed on a small moon of the planet, cratering the area for hundreds of meters and sending up such dust as to create a small ring that hovered over the surface of this moon, the small planetoid shaking from the force of their blows.

Vilgax stood tall, “I presume you lead that band of cowards, surrender and Your Deaths shall be Swift.”

“Torn to Shreds!” Ridley screeched almost incoherently “I’ll tear you to shreds and then eat your charred corpse!”

From the sky dozens of Fighters carrying untold legions of space pirates zipped to the surface of Vilgaxia, avoiding aerial fire. The Space Pirates, well experienced in raiding at this time, left the fighters, immediately feeling at home in the marsh of the planet. Quickly assembling into divisions and subdivisions, with subdivision leaders taking the front, the reconnected to their hive mind, letting them “see” or perhaps more accurately “feel” the scouting understanding of the land, with indicators by the leaders of their battle strategy.

Psyphon, walked outside of his fortress, the planets population having been safely evacuated underground. An enormous army of millions of various robot drones began to emerge from posts all throughout the surface each armed with excessive force and tactical programing. “Lord Vilgax will certainly be pleased with me, if I end this skirmish before he returns” Psyphon said with zealot like joy.

Kraid lumbered out with a defiant roar, ready for battle and blood. Powerful ATCs and Infantry circles around him joyously preparing to cut through the natives. Draygon swam along in the marshes, annoyed at their murkiness with naval forces in toe. Phantoon shimmered in and out of sight with stealth forces forming an almost indecipherable pattern. The three, as one, gave a singular message through the hive mind to the space pirates: “Kill, especially civilians. Destroy their cities. Loot their riches. For Lord Ridley!”

The Sun shone intensely on the surface of Vilgaxia, splintered by the splash of water and the upheaval of dirt into the air. Explosions rocked the surface of the planet, with great noise and pandemonium breaking an otherwise deathly air. Large Robot Drone blasts burned through the air, setting it ablaze briefly and incinerating small patches of water while in return, reverse engineered chozo beams and lobbed manual grenades creating briefly deadly rainbow lights that burned the eyes of those who looked at it from a distance, and burnt the flesh off any fauna unfortunate enough to be near, the sound of the burning plasma signaling the distant war.

Advance forces from both sides began to close in on the enemy positions. Through the air, flitted the flying Space Pirates, blasting down without regard at any signs of movement. With perfect efficiency metallic levitating drones fired at their position, sniping their heads off, before one of the flying pirates threw itself into the robots and exploded vaporizing them instantly.

The hills and brush became the battleground of the aerial infantry, a battle of importance the defenders knew not. For the aerial scouting gave the hive mind a great understanding of the layout.

The water began to churn with blood and oil. The open areas, the great seas and plains were deathzones for aerial strikes, as snagglers got sniped almost immediately from aerial infantry, and so the majority of the ground forces, forced their way via the densely covered river-lad rocky areas. Larger forces became quickly impeded from the cover and debris and the mud. While they could, and often did break through the stone and ground, such created massive noise drawing enemy awareness of position.

As the Space Pirate forces half ran, half swam through the murky marshes of the planet, a great surge of water upwards briefly obscured their vision, militia dying instantly from the immediate surprise assault, while the troopes impulsively took cover and fired back. Aerial reconnaissance, allowed the keyhunters, the long-time allies of the pirates to buzz behind some of the smaller robots and infiltrate them, tearing them apart from the inside with their acids.

Suddenly, large ominous ships emerged on Ridleys side, they crept forward hovering above the ground like beetles. Normal and Large drones fired on them repeatedly to no effect, as they opened revealing Pirates manning enormous turrets. The pirates laughed maniacally as they blasted thousands and thousands of lasers decimating the mechanical ground troops who were helpless to do anything to stop them behind their energy shields. Ridley’s ground troops rallied behind these unstoppable battle tanks.

In Response, out of the ground launched dozens of durable, flying Brunt Drones and began flanking these tanks. The blasts from the ground pirates did nothing to slow these tanks advance as they opened fired their powerful Electrical blasts at the enemy tanks. The massive surge of power traveled to every inch of the ATC’s surface, overloading their heaters regardless of where it hit and causing the vehicle to detonate. The ATC’s fired back in response the fire fight between the armored battle tanks devastating the surrounding ground troops of both sides.

On Vilgaxia’s Moon, Ridley bulrushes Vilgax in a savage fury. “DIIIEEEEEEE” He scratches. Vilgax quickly runs forward, grabs the back of his head and bulldogs him, Ridley’s head slides across the ground from his own momentum with the towering conquer on top of him. “Pitiful” Vilgax remarks when suddenly Ridley’s massive tail coils around his whole body and whips the Squid Headed being into the ground forging a new crater Ridley takes off into the sky dragging Vilgax behind him with his tail.

“We Will Skin Your Species ALIVE” He Roars sadistically. Vilgax’s eyes squint slightly in mild anger as he extends his right arm forward, the gem on his glove glows a bright red and fires a massive laser, encompassing Ridley’s entire being, it launches him through hundreds of miles of space before he crashes into an asteroid, vaporizing half of it.

Vilgax lands there immediately, “Impressive, not many beings can endure a hit from the Ruby Ray of Ulo. Perhaps your remains could yield my troops a better armor.” Ridley gets up in rage and lets loose an ear piercing Roar.

Down below in the clouds and atmosphere of Vilgaxia two air fleets scrambled and a massive dogfight began. Flying Drones zipped through the sky, blasting out tiny Flying Pirates, trying to get into optimal range to bombard Ridley’s infantry below.

One Flying Space Pirate, like a fly managed to zip up to one of the Flying Drones undetected before a giant explosion brightened the sky orange from the Flying Drone’s destruction, sending burning bits of metal in every direction. The Flying Drones learned quickly and began desperately blasting at any approaching Space Pirate, often taking out clusters at a time. And such they needed too as the sky soon became darkened with the little creatures. Smaller Basic Drones acted as personal guards, blasting at the ones that get too close.

From orbit, lasers came down suddenly and without warning, causing the drones to split up and take evasive maneuvers to avoid being overwhelmed by the biological swarm of insectoids. The drone’s robotic senses and perfect sense of coordination kept them alive as they crack shot blasted each approaching alien with an inhuman efficiency, taking potshots down below at Ridley’s infantry when they could.

Of course to the infantry of both sides, it was less the aerial forces to worry about but the giant lumbering forces. Kraid burst through the thicket, shaking the ground as he stomped. A Brunt Drone blasted him in the chest, causing him to roar with rage and send one of his spiked claws at the machine, tearing through it’s head, though it continued to blast him until a pack of Brusers descended upon it.

The Hussars, riding their mighty Korakk Beast native to the Space Pirate Homeworld burst through, scratching at the great mecha of the defenders. The Tearing of the wild beast met it’s perfect match in the cold efficiency of the blades and lasers of the robots. Smaller teams of assaults at distance tried to aid their side, blasting at vulnerable eyes and legs as the titanic forces collided.

Great explosions from artillery ripped the marshy ground. Draygon was pleased at the cover this provided her, though the evaporated water made it temporarily harder to wade through. She burst from the water, webbing up some of the smaller drones and eating them whole. Seeing Kraid over on the Western side flank, she went quickly to aid him, tearing at the Brunts he had not finished tearing at the legs of the robotic forces she encountered nearby, dragging them down into the mud.

Meanwhile over at the Eastern Flank, a few of the Drones were backed into a seeming corner by one of the Korakk beasts before suddenly the beast faltered in the face of a forcefield. Psyphon knocked back the beast with one strike before his personal R.E.D.s appeared from cover and blasted at the beast and assembled space pirates, blowing them to ash. These invaders would pay for doing damage to Lord Vilgax’s homeworld… Seeing one of the ATCs, he raised his gauntlet to it and the machine suddenly came alive, crushing the pirates within in a confused display of sudden sentience. The Drones rallied behind him and various space pirates through the hive mind quickly came to target him as a major threat.

Ridley’s artillery began firing a parameter around Psyphon’s position, decreasing its size with every shot to envelope every being within the circle of unstoppable blitzkrieg. Psyphon Quickly put forth a forcefield to block the unrelenting fire.

“Hahaha...you think you can stop me….When I’m done with you, I’ll take such delight in eating those people you are protecting SLOWLY” Ridley said putting emphasis on “slowly” as the dragon darted about at lightspeed to tear his foe limb from limb. Vilgax countered blowing forward a huge torrent of winds with his mighty breath, slowing Ridley’s advance to a crawl. He slammed Ridleys head and he landed hard on the ground. “Hardly” Vilgax remarked unimpressed. Ridley suddenly impaled his tail into the ground, and a dozen stone spikes rocketed from the ground launching Vilgax back.

Ridley stood up, laughing maniacally at his surprise attack, “I Will cook and EAT your HEART” he said with fire leaking from his muzzle. This creatures idle threats did nothing to scare Vilgax, but any being after his subjects must be destroyed. Vilgax Stood tall “You’re welcome to try.”

Ridley Blasted forward a gigantic river of plasma fire taking up Vilgax’s entire vision. Quickly Vilgax raised his left arm, the crystal on that glove glowed yellow and produced a large energy shield, stopping the flames in their tracks. Vilgax Flew forward using the all encompassing flames as cover as he plowed through them and smashed Ridley shield first through the rest of the asteroid. Ridley growled and tail whipped the monster off him. Ridley rushed forward baring his claws, this time imbuing them with electricity and clawed at Vilgax in a frenzy but neither the scratches or the shocks seemed to faze him. Suddenly lasers shot from Vilgax’s eyes into Ridley’s blinding the creature with it’s light for a second. Vilgax kept firing on him, He added his Ruby Ray from his right hand, and pulled out his raygun with his left hand and approached the dragon, pinning him down with three separate blasts.

“AAAAARRRRGGHHH hsssssss” Ridley shook in seeming pain, covering himself with his wings as if defense as Vilgax closed in.

“HAHA YOU IDIOT!” Ridley shouted, showing his bluff and pounded the ground activating his Flame Strike Projector, causing a wave of golden flame to sweep through the blackness blasting Vilgax away, the golden tint of the flame burning through the darkness and cold of an asteroid belt.

Back on the planet surface, the news of heavy resistance in all areas was spreading across the space pirate mind. Eager to get an advantage against the robotic defenders, some of the militia fearfully unleashed from their containment cages on the ship the most feared arsenal of the Space Pirate legions…

Metroids.

As the single-minded energy predator floated or crawled or leapt around the surface of Vilgaxia, depending it’s evolutionary state, they eagerly drained the energy with ease of a natural ecosystem that had never developed to protect against this, until with an almost ecstatic glee present in the simple organisms they discovered the robots, huge sources of energy and eagerly charged their position.

The Drones were fearless and felt no hesitation in holding their ground against the Metroid assault, even managing to destroy some of the larval state ones as they floated towards dangerously but as the Metroids reached the line of small drones protecting the larger drone centerpieces, it became a quick massacre of the artificial protectors, as the robots were rapidly drained them of their energy. With “thud”s the lifeless machines became truly without any animacy and fell to the ground completely devoid of energy, leading the metroid swarm to continue to surge forth in search of more of the tasty energy-rich treats.

In the skies the space pirate fighters tactical communications jam of the robot’s communications was a nigh impenetrable firewall and the air was kept at a locked dead standstill due to the orbital forces bombarding the aerial forces of the planet. Some of the Fighters flew up to aid Lord Ridley on a nearby asteroid.

Vilgax braced himself as Ridley tackled him from miles away in seeming moments, taking him above the surface of the asteroid and planning to slam him up down on it. Vilgax gazed into the eyes of his foe. “Worm, you will fall to my claws.” Saying this Vilgax shot optical lasers into Ridley’s enhanced eyes a second time.

Ridley bellowed in pain and rage but before he could truly respond, Vilgax thrust a punch into his torso, blasting him across part of the asteroid belt, shatting a small asteroid. Arriving to help, the 4 pirate fighters that had come to aid Ridley blasted their lasters in Vilgax’s direction. But he put up a forcefield which easily deflected enemy orbital fire before leaping up and grabbing a hold of the wing of one of the fighters, boomerang-ing it through the three other fighters there, sending them all exploding outwards.

Suddenly Vilgax felt himself thrust forward through the solid density of the space debris orbiting Vilgaxia. Ridley had taken this opportunity to tackle the Chimeran through the burning atmosphere. Ridley tried to release a powerful fire breath with a resounding roar of conquest in Vilgax’s face but through the flame Vilgax simply collided his head with Ridley’s, making Ridley shake his head away in pain and annoyance.

The pirates armored forces pushed forward with their best gear in an attempt to break the Drones defensive lines, ATC’s escorted by Commandos and even Elite Commanders pushed forward like an unstoppable battery ram of firepower destroying drone forces left and right, even Brunt drones could not fight the Commandos on equal terms. Suddenly a group of dozens of Mecha drones, the most powerful type of drone, banded together to take on this mighty force. The house sized metal creatures faces off against the skilled armored pirates and their tanks launching lasers, missiles, fire and bombs left and right putting on a light show that penetrated through the thick atmosphere and became visible from space as both sides took heavy casualties, or so it seemed. To the Pirates shock and horror, tendrils from thought to be downed Mecha Drones began reaching all over the place, ripping metal, armor and weapons from drone and pirate tech alike, rebuilding themselves bigger and deadlier than before in seconds. The pirates began to fall back as they began to be locked down upon by this seemingly immortal squad of death machines.

The Space Pirate Troopers cowered back before they began to get a sadistic glee as if they sensed something nearby. Firing their blasters so as to create an energy surge called forth the hungry Metroids from nearby.

The Mecha drones ripped apart the nearest metroids without much trouble but the swarm showed no sign of fear or even hesitation as they clung to the Mecha. The Mecha drones tore at the creatures, killing a few before they began to drop from sheer energy drain, the Metroid surge tearing through some of the strongest defenses the Machines had against the pirates. The Metroid swarm hungrily turned and continued to tear at anything nearby that gave off energy.

Psyphon was alerted the instant the first Mecha fell, and checked the feed from their eyes to see what was occuring. “So it seems these filthy mongrels brought pets, I doubt they’d fair well against ours” Psyphon released the planets many storage tanks and horrible flying gelatinous Squid Monsters began to emerge from the underground by the thousands into the air. The creatures cycled through their code that had been implanted into their forms at birth, on it a short list of things not to attack, everything else was a meal.

Through the murky wetness, two apex genetically programmed predators swiftly approached each others’ positions, tearing down any enemy unfortunate to be in their path. The surge of water stopped as the two came into contact. The Metroids gnashed their teeth menacingly, looking at the veritable feast of energy that appeared before their senses, surging forward at breakneck speed. The Squid Monsters pounced on them like a deep sea fish on a smaller fish taking its brightly lit bait. They eat the primitive genetic material of the metroid gnashing the first wave of them to bits, the second ones ripped their teeth into the squid monsters’ malleable skin quickly draining their energy. But surprisingly instead of falling without energy, the Squid Monsters merely gave a pained growl, their unnatural stamina prolonging them as they tore at the malleable metroids.

Meanwhile in the sky, the Fighters exploded, lighting up the sky with occasional lethal fireworks as Vilgax and Ridley’s fight approached the surface ever closer. No longer under such immediate threat from the orbital bombardment of Ridley’s strategy, Vilgax’s aerial forces began rapid mass-bombing the area of the space pirates, giving the defenders a surge of momentum.

“These creatures will all fall before the glory of Vilgaxia” Psyphon spouted gazing upon the Squid Monsters overrun the Metroid forces when immediately to his left he noticed some of the Squid Monsters were not making it out of the shoreline, in fact some were being dragged down below the surface by an unknown assailant, he couldn’t let this continue.

Under the water Draygon and her navel forces were able to hinder the advance of the Squid Monsters, managing to trap their bodies in her adhesive gunk, any sign of an enemy navy seemed to fall quiet as she enjoyed hanging back doing easy fighting in the back lines. Suddenly dozens of grenades littered into the water, surrounding her and her forces. With barely a second to think, Draygon breached out of the water, leaving her slower company below as she narrowly avoided the explosion before landing back in the water.

Psyphon gazed upon the the giant alien creature as it briefly lunged out of the water like a shark ambushing prey. “Fascinating specimen” Psyphon commented as he and his R.E.D’s flew towards her position. Draygon popped her head out from the water and began firing more adhesive gunk at her attackers, they had destroyed her forces, this will make her look bad in front of Lord Ridley unless she can take them down as well.

The gunk took down R.E.D’s left and right, but couldn’t reach Psyphon past his forcefield. In an attempt to bring him into her terrain, she extended an adhesive down forward, Grabbing onto the sides of his force field and started pulling him down into the abyss. “I’m afraid that was a bad call” Psyphon said, dropping the force field and firing a single laser from his wrist at lower section. At first it seemed as though nothing happened, when suddenly Draygon’s entire body began fasciculating, she lost control over every muscle in her body as her body began to jerk, tremble and contort randomly, a panic’d expression took over her face. Glad his Exciter beam worked so flawlessly, Psyphon grabbed the tentacle nearest to him, and violently flipped the creature onto the shore with a sudden massive burst of strength. Draygon crashed into the sand making a large crater only for Psyphon to blast a massive hole in her stomach, instantly killing her. Surrounding naval pirates gazed on in shock, ranks broke as they came to witness the terrifying sight, despite what had initially seen to be an easy mission, this foe had slain even mighty Draygon! The Space Pirates backed up in the face of such a dangerous opponent.

The Space Pirates retreated to the fallback line in the face of aerial pressure, the death of Draygon, and the Squid Monsters surge. Beam Troopers using powerful blasters held them off to an extent but their advance was shielded from the heavily aquatic terrain.

Vilgax’s aerial forces bombed at the area opportunistically, taking some losses from stray beamer blasts, but inflicting more casualties. The defensive wall of baja clover did nothing to stop the machine assault, though many of the Squid Monsters became poisoned and died, infecting the rivers and marshes with lethal poisons. Despite this, the Space Pirates realized the raid was becoming increasingly cost heavy and sent out atomics and bombus to explode the robots with atomic force.

Powerful atomic forces rocked the planet. To protect their robotic allies Vilgax’s aerial forces began bombing the atomics and bombus pre-emptively slowing the assault progress on the space pirate defensive line, however in the carnage of the mechanized forces were given a greater chance to assemble and exploit their natural knowledge of the home world.

At the peak of the of the Robotic Assault concentration, shimmering into being was the malevolent Phantoon. Mumbling dark hatred for all life, it called astral fire, so hot as to flash evaporate the water on the ground and melt the machines nearby. Not being living entities Phantoon could not raise their souls as minions, but this did not matter.

At Phantoon’s reappearance, Ridley’s other stealth units, Commandos and Cloaked Troopers appeared behind enemy lines and began rapidly blasting before the enemy could respond. Immediate confusion and chaos wracked the battlefield. The Defending Space Pirates rallied at the cloaked assault, and began to pincer the machines between their chokepoints.

The Resurrence was cut short as the supersonic roar of Flying Drones broke the nearby air as they made a fly through in atmosphere, blasting at the lesser protected cloaked units. Phantoon in hatred and sadistic malice shot a powerful plasma beam from it’s eye, burning some of them from the sky.

Some of the Remaining Squid Monsters began breaking through the front, dragging the surging Space Pirates underwater, and the Gigantic Drones, even without aerial support began to blast back the Hussar and Beamer Charge. Kraid began to wallow out into the middle of the battlefield with ATCs by his sides began tearing through what he could see, while Psyphon, from near the Eastern Flank of the battlefield, quickly have more directions to help accommodate the unexpected stealth attack while attacking nearby bruisers at the same time.

The Battle waged on when suddenly in a flash of light, everything momentarily became silent, at speeds invisible to everyone present, Vilgax and Ridley broke through the atmosphere and smashed into the surface with a tremendous bang, instantly vaporizing miles of land and knocking nearly all the ground forces off their feet as the impact caused an earthquake and generated light and heat.

Ridley raised himself from the ground with his massive wings and let out a thunderous roar as his army rallied behind his battle cry. Vilgax too stood up, though he would not admit it, this force was becoming a serious threat, one worthy of his full onslot, reaching behind his back, he drew his massive Blade, the Sword of Vilgaxia, and held it towards the sky as Psyphon, the drones and the Squid monsters all formed into an attack formation.

The two armies rushed forward in a cataclysmic clash began fighting with new found vigor, pirates and drones tearing into each other like starving wolves battling for scraps, Kraid stampeded through every obstacle that stood in his way, Psyphon used his tech to tear down enemy ranks in his mental chess game with the enemy. And in the middle of all of it was the titanic battle between the devastating monsterous warlords.

Vilgax slashed at Ridley with his newly drawn sword, but Ridley flew upwards and came down tail first in his famous pogo-stick assault attempting to use all his tremendous weight to impale his tail through. Vilgax deflected the tail with his sword which ignited in flame in an attempt to burn the beast alive.

“HAHAHAHA, Nice KNIFE” Ridley taunted at the ineffectiveness of the flames and fired a barrage of missiles at Vilgax at close range. Vilgax’s Optical Beams managed to destroy all the missiles simultaneously and the resulting force pushed the two titans away from one another.

Ridley Breathed another massive stream of Plasma, Vilgax fired a tremendous beam of energy from his sword, the blasts met in the middle, the energy radiating from the struggle turned all the surrounding Pirates and Drones within 30 meters to vapor. The two seemed completely unyielding, not a single blow was even scratching the others’ defenses.

Through the thick of the fight, Vilgax used his now-unjammed transmission system to issue orders to his Gigantic Drones acting as artillery and his aerial forces into bombarding not just the enemy in general but the frontline of the energy just in front of them.

As they did so, the ground was quickly thrown into the air obscuring the battlefield. The Space Pirates Blasts quickly became erratic and chaotic from the confusion and lack of visual while the heat-seeking robots had no such error.

The defending army began gaining moment when suddenly Vilgax with his super-hearing was alerted to a gentle disruption of air behind him drawing closer, He quickly leaps into the air as a portal to an another dimension appeared in his place. He had evaded just before it would have sent him away from his planet.

Phantoon saw the wily enemy, the one it had sensed earlier cleverly avoid it’s attack. Vilgax quickly lunged with the Sword of Vilgaxia at Phantoon only for Phantoon to close it’s eye and have Vilgax plunge straight through to the other side of where it was. Vilgax turned only to find Phantoon had reappeared.

“Perhaps a related species to the Ectonurites?” He thought to himself.

Phantoon could tell this creature took life...but also protected it….weak life….It hovered meaningless before shooting a plasma beam from it’s eye at Vilgax however Vilgax simply deflected them with the sword of Vilgaxia.  

“Underestimating me is a Grave Mistake...” Vilgax stated coldly to the peculiar menace who disappeared into Invisibility. Listening closely to his surroundings, Vilgax pressed on the Crystal for his Shield of Ziegel, a glowing yellow energy quickly surrounded his body.

Phantoon materialized behind Vilgax for another surprise volley, but Vilgax heard the sound of its eye open and turned around at untold speeds. Reacting quickly, Phantoon closed its eye again becoming intangible only to squeal in shocking pain as it was somehow grabbed by this foes mighty claws. “It will be the last mistake you ever make” Vilgax said in a reserved tone, as he cleaved the creature in half with a single swing of his mighty blade.

In the skies, a drone seemed to suddenly explode out of nowhere. A flying drone turned in confusion before Ridley from above burned it to ash with his high speed plasma bolts. Ridley’s roar ripped through the skies just as he ripped through them, impaling the planet’s aerial defenses with ease and sadistic joy.

The Draconic Ridley hunted the flying machines like a bird of prey does to a smaller bird, raking them with his claws and fangs, burning the ones just close enough with his breath. After launching a multi-missile volley to take care of the annoying stragglers he saw Kraid’s giant form bruising through the battle and gave a roar down to him. Kraid turned his head to the sky and gave an appreciate roar back.

Ridley quickly landed near him. Time was short. There was one thing he knew could destroy this annoying pest’s defenses. “Which way to the phazon?” Ridley demanded shortly. Kraid indicated towards the small forward base the phazon container they had captured was. Ridley’s monstrous smile turned into a nightmarish grin and he flew off, to unleash the power that this alien could not stop….the power of phazon.

Vilgax advanced forward, endlessly massacuring every type of pirate that stood in his way practically without resistance, his drones were in a state of ruin, but so were these marauders, no loss was too much to protect his home. Psyphon levitated down to his side “Lord Vilgax, reviews of the recent footage show the two leading warriors have retreated towards that small base.”

Vilgax gazed out at the fortress, Vilgax’s eyes narrowed, the left one began to slightly twitch from inner anger. “We shall attack at once, this pathetic attempt to seige my world has gone far too long.”

Vilgax and Psyphon rushed towards the structure but in their path stood a massive scaly nightmare of a beast, the mighty general Kraid let out a torrential roar, throwing down the remains of a half dozen destroyed gigantic drones.

Psyphon was somewhat startled by the monster, but Vilgax had destroyed far bigger enemies before. “I don’t have time to deal with another pet, not until I have that dragons head” Vilgax dismissed.

Kraid snarled at the insult, before charging the two, full of unwavering confidence, ready to destroy these foes before lord Ridley even got back.

Vilgax cleaved at the creature with his mighty sword wanting to blow past it quickly, only to be shocked as the blade glanced off the mighty scales and he was slammed backwards. Psyphon flew up and began firing lasers, bombs and even the exciter beam at this reptilian monstrosity but nothing had any effect, nothing could get through. “It’s like his scales are made of pure Taydenite” Psyphon grunted when suddenly Kraid ejected large spikes from his stomach, catching Psyphon completely off guard. The Spikes scored a direct hit and knocked Psyphon back dozens of feet.

Kraid turned to Vilgax who submerged himself in the murky waters of the bog. Kraid grew excited, seeing his foe retreat in fear, when to his other shock a Massive tentacle launched outward, ensaring his neck before he could even react. A colossal squid like being emerged from the depths and through two more tendrils around Kraid's arms and  began reeling the beast towards it. Kraid couldn’t resist the shear strength of the creature before him. “Struggle is pointless, you now face the True Form of Vilgax!” the beast said ominously as a tentacle rocketed down Kraids throat, before ripping out his entire digestive system, causing him to die to massive internal injuries.

Meanwhile Ridley’s metallic body blackened and his mind became….more alien as the phazon changed him….Omega Ridley emanated a phazon aura and a menacing presence. In a dark blur of phazon enhanced speed Ridley flew back only to watch Kraid Die. With an angry burst he shot a blast of pure phazon energy.

Vilgax and Psyphon heard the sudden noise and turned just to see Ridley’s phazon engulf Psyphon. “Lord...Vilgax!” he exclaimed in the one moment as half his body corroded off him. And before Vilgax could even respond, Psyphon had been reduced to a puddle of phazon-encrusted ash.

Ridley landed in front of Vilgax, his phazon breath quickly moving to the water Vilgax was in. Vilgax returned to his more humanoid form rapidly as the phazon began wiping out all nearby life on the planet.

“Scum….despoiler of my world….” Vilgax began, an angry tint as cold as steel penetrating in every word of his voice, “You shall regret this...for what little remains of your wretched life!!!”

Ridley roared in anger and sadistic glee at Vilgax’s anger and the two charged each other, taking to the sky with a force and impact that tore through the planet’s surface deep into its tectonic plates. Ridley launched a massive burst of phazon at Vilgax and the planet preparing to destroy all life on it. Vilgax expertly blocked the phazon with his shield at close range before slashing at Ridley’s exposed wing with the sword of Vilgaxia. However Vilgax felt the phazon armor around Ridley resist and Ridley with a sudden slash of his claws charged with phazon energy tore into the skin of Vilgax.

Omega Ridley assumed that the phazon would corrupt Vilgax into a fellow phazon entity but to his surprise the wound seemed to resist corruption and genetic disruption and Vilgax, shield upraised charged into Ridley’s torso. To protect his weak point Ridley curled his wings around him and pushed at the last second against the charge, the power of their collision vaporizing all the clouds within miles.

Vilgax saw this creature desperately shield its torso, he thought back to their previous fights, the coward had been hiding this weak point this whole time, immediately his mind raced with ways to capitalize on this.

Ridley smelled faint desperation, he finally had a way to hurt this thorn in his side and he was more focused on containing his destruction, his care for those hiding weaklings will be his death.

Ridley charged, Vilgax did as well, Ridley quickly spread out his limbs and wings and blasted a river of Phazon hoping to catch Vilgax in the burning substance, but Vilgax thought ahead casting an all encompassing energy shield around himself knowing energy can’t be dissolved, and plowed right into the monsters chest like a torpedo in an impact that sounded indistinguishable from thunder itself.

“THAT WON’T STOP ME!” Ridley yelled in anguish as he created a massive shockwave of electrical phazon energy sending Vilgax thousands of miles away. Ridley was on Vilgax in an instant and rolled into a massive tail whip that blew Vilgax back further.

Knowing he couldn’t slaw this foe from behind a forcefield, Vilgax reduced the energy to a handheld shield and drew his sword once more, which now grew diamond like crystals all across the blade. Ridley Screeched as he rushed forward for another brutal onslaught, he saw Vilgax’s sword moving for a strike, he veered to avoid it only to find Vilgax feigned the strike and instead bashed him upwards against his energy shield, launching him into space.

While flying, Ridley relayed a message to his Flagship, telling it to Create a black hole, if he could not have this planet than neither could this weakling race. Vilgax charged towards Ridley where Ridley blasted more Phazon at him, which Vilgax blocked with his sword, the Phazon entering into the crystals of the blade, changing them dark purple as they became absorbed, the crystals that dissolve are replaced faster than they disappear.

Ridley roared again in anger, this being seemed to have more and more cheap tricks up his sleeve. Vilgax rushed forward in a massive swing of his adapted blade, using its length to keep distance between himself and the corrosive creature. Ridley quickly forged a club like structure from the Phazon to combat the threat and get into his range. Using his superior skills, Vilgax disarmed the Dragon quickly and smashed his sword into the side of Ridleys snout leaving a large scratch as a spark was created.

Suddenly a Black Hole comes into existence from the flagship, its enormous and begins drawing in everything towards its singularity, asteroids, distant ships, even the moon began to move somewhat, the destruction would be absolute.

“HAHAHA, DIIIIIEEEE!” Ridley called with sadistic glee as he blasted Vilgax, Hitting his shield with tremendous force, pushing him back towards the crushing gravitational force of the vastly approaching void which even light itself could not escape.

Phazon bubbles both from the devastated planet and from Ridley’s aura began being sucked into the black hole, causing the singularity to burst and burn with dark irradiating corrupting phazon energy, sending ionizing electromagnetic pulses in all directions.

Vilgax could see bits of Vilgaxia begin to fly within the Singularity and knew if he didn’t stop this NOW, Vilgaxia would be destroyed. Ridley grappled him, moving his claws in to try and penetrate his shield with one concentrated burst of phazon. Vilgax in a fearsome rage knocked Ridley’s limbs asunder with a titanic push.

Ridley moved every single limb inwards to crush Vilgax. Vilgax gave a mighty breath downways, knocking his legs away, using his blade to hold Ridley’s claws and shot a burning combined energy blast of his free hand and his optical vision at Ridley’s torso. Ridley shook and convulsed but Vilgax pulled down his shield leaving him vulnerable to focus all of his concentration on this one energy. Ridley’s flailing scratched him with phazon. There was a burning and an acidic feel pulsing in his blood but it had done the job. Ridley went limp.

Vilgax let the monstrous creature go, it floated into the black hole being vaporized in the enormous gravitational output as Vilgax flew to the Flagship and stabbed it with the Sword of Vilgaxia, ejecting all it’s stored Phazon energy into it, and it rapidly began dissolving the ship, the black hole dissipated as he heard the scream of the ships pirates, slayed by what was once their greatest weapon.

The People of Vilgaxia emerged from their safe bunkers. Lord Vilgax had saved everyone of them for a third time, as he landed he was met with praise and celebration, though he knew there was much rebuilding to be done.

KO!

Results

Due to the large amount of variables, this one required a very large amount of discussion. Looking at their armies it seemed like cold efficiency vs wild diversity with both having comparable stats and advantages at a similar number of ranges and types. Ridley’s forces were a lot more diverse in their tactics and applications. Vilgax however, when his communication was not jammed was able to even that out via his higher level of tactical knowledge and experience.

Looking strictly at Ridley and Vilgax alone, They have very similar Strength and Speed, but both of them were too durable for the most part for the other to do any direct damage, with one exception each. Phazon provided an instantly deadly threat towards Vilgax from any large exposure, though he could resist a little bit of it due to his matter manipulation resistance as well as defend against it with his energy shield and to a lesser extent his sword. Conversely Vilgax hitting Ridley’s weak point would allow him to at least do some damage as the difference between Ridley’s durability and Vilgax’s power is a lot closer than the other way around. While Ridley’s phazon was a lot more an immediate threat, Vilgax’s higher versatility allowed him to exploit Ridley’s weakness more then the “inverse”. Also Vilgax is just far more likely than Ridley to take the fight seriously from the start. While Ridley takes fights seriously in general, he also tends to sadistically “play” with what he considers prey, while Vilgax seeks to slay foes as efficiently as he can, he doesn’t give those that oppose him more of his time than is needed.

This all could have shifted the other way however if Ridley’s forces overcame Vilgax’s forces fast enough, as some of them definitely had at least the capacity to harm Vilgax and give Ridley the edge, but the most natural scenario for them to be fighting in would be Ridley raiding Vilgaxia where not only do they have a homefield advantage (albeit mitigated by the Space Pirate Hive Mind) but their forces are less likely to be slowed or hampered by the aquatic environment.

In the end these two were very comparable, but it was ultimately Vilgax’s experience, intelligence and overall preparedness that allowed him to claim victory over Ridley. He had answers to every threat Ridley had at his disposal and then some, and knew better how to use them to score a win. And this is even if you don’t allow some of his more broken gear like the Power Converter which would have let him steal the powers of Ridley and his generals, Neural Inhibitors that shut down alien powers and ESPECIALLY that time bomb. It’s an amazingly close battle, but in the end it's survival of the….Squidest (I regret nothing)

The Winner is Vilgax.