First appearance: S5E1 — Rise of the Lord of Fate — Atlas v Killy Yesman · watch it on YouTube
Double Sun Cola is the most refreshing of colas you can buy “on this or any Deathmatch world,” at least according to Atlas. It is also an adhesive, a paint stripper and a fire hazard, and it has been banned in at least three countries. It arrived in the arena with its loudest salesman, Killy Yesman. From there it became a weapon, a fuel, a mutagen and a concession-stand staple, and somewhere along the way it turned out to have been the beating heart of Atlas all along.
Description
The classic bottle is glass and shaped much like a Coca-Cola bottle, with “two large balls at the bottom that remind you of suns.” A later frosted-glass version, served icy, is shaped like a rocket “with like two balls at the bottom” and a sun pattern in the middle. One label shows a fairy in a shirt bearing two suns and a cola bottle. The drink tastes “like science” and, in Killy’s words, “reminds you of food.” He has also called it “a food, a super food, a supplement.”
Its properties are, generously, a lot. It is sticky. It explodes when shaken. It is flammable, and as Killy explained, “All Double Sun Cola is conductive.” A bright red variety is corrosive and roughly “three times as damaging” as the regular kind. Getting it in your eyes is a mistake: “You’re only supposed to drink the soda. Never get it to your eyes.” It may also cause a rash. It packs serious caffeine and mutates worms. Exposure has turned a whole crowd of Acolytes into ripped figures with mohawks and mullets. A spicy red product line, which glows bright red instead of the usual orange, was launched mid-fight in Season 5.
History
Double Sun Cola debuted during the Season of Fate, when the Lord of Fate ruled The Void. In S5E1 — Rise of the Lord of Fate — Atlas v Killy Yesman, Thea dragged Killy Yesman forward and he announced that he was “just as unbeatable as the delicious, thirst-quenching taste of Double Sun Cola,” his pecs thumping “like two balloons.” He promised the Lord of Fate that “once you get a taste of this frosty tip in your mouth, you will change your mind.” He fought with the product itself. After a detour into shaking technique (“You could even hold both balls while you shake it… extra panache”), which left Thea protesting “I am not mature enough for this conversation,” he tossed Atlas a shaken bottle that exploded in his hand. Later Atlas’s vibrating attack made Killy’s own cans swell and burst, raining soda everywhere while poncho-wearing Acolytes cheered and chinchillas handed out tiny towels. “Everybody, how’d you like your free sample of double sun cola?” Killy asked, and the crowd screamed for more. When he rallied, the logo on his shirt lit up from the two suns outward, filled the bottle shaft and exploded all over him. “You had to just let it go all over yourself,” said Thea, and the Lord of Fate agreed: “He definitely heroic surged all over himself.” He also delivered an ad mid-fight:
“Listen, kids. Double Sun Cola, go steal your parents’ wall[et] and get some. They’ll thank you later.”
He went on to warn against tuna juice (“Drink Double Sun Cola instead”), and the Lord of Fate promptly banned tuna juice throughout the Void. Killy then put a corrosive red bottle into the hand of Atlas’s new arm and later tried to dissolve Atlas’s chest “so that… no corporation could slap a logo there ever again,” though that attack missed. When Atlas finally ripped his own brain loose and collapsed, the canister at his heart poured out bright golden-yellow liquid instead of oil. Atlas had been running on Double Sun Cola the entire time.
The drink spread. In the American Amphibian match, Richard Knottley washed down an avalanche of burgers with a Double Sun Cola and immediately regretted it: “It’s so bubbly in my gut.”
Atlas came back in S5E11 — Appliance Adversaries — Atlas v Frigidoom and leaned all the way in. When his opponent shook him, the canister of cola in his heart kicked his gears into “a revving Hot Wheel.” A lightning mohawk formed on his head, later evolving into a “Mo Mullet,” and Atlas became “10 times more radical.” He whispered to Frigidoom, “Have you tried Double Sun Cola, baby? It’ll make you a new man!” Then his chest opened into a fire hose of soda. The orange mist hit the stands, giving the Acolytes mohawks and mullets, and the Lord of Fate called a break and grabbed a cola himself. Atlas’s radioactive sweat and spilled cola later withered the chinchillas’ forest floor into a wasteland. Frigidoom, who had only ever had off-brand sodas like “Doctor Lightning,” started to crave the Double Sun in Atlas’s core, and the Lord of Fate declared, “Now Frigidoom’s a junkie.” Atlas unveiled the new spicy red product with a “Double Sun Nova punch!” and tried to detonate a geyser of cola under his foe, which barely missed. In the end Frigidoom drained into the cola at Atlas’s heart and shrank to a little blob of ooze. Atlas poured one out for the homies, bottled his “brother,” and tucked the bottle beside his Double Sun Cola heart until he could rebuild Frigidoom’s fridge body. “Today you saw the power of Double Sun Cola!” Thea announced.
In the Season of the Trials, the drink was still around. During S6 Ep2 · Ether Drifts Part 1 · TTRPG One Shot (Team A mine mission), on The Ether Drifts, Atlas pulled a tiny syringe of the stuff from his chest and injected a creature named Theresa with it. Robbie Clark reported that she got to experience “the radical physical dismorphation of her body,” and Atlas concluded, “Double Sun Cola is strong stuff.” Theresa later spewed toxic orange cola bile over Atlas, which pushed his software update from 79% to 98%. Once fully updated, he unfolded into a gorilla-like stance with a cannon fed by silos of bubbling Double Sun Cola. His first beam missed, going straight through the hole already in Theresa’s head. For his final, fatal charge, the cola fuelling him gave way to yellow-pink fire and blue impish energy. In the Team A Deathmatch that followed, the Acolytes snacked on nachos and Double Sun Cola (“always a power of the sun”).
Killy returned to the brand in S6 Ep4 — Tip to Tip - Part 1 (TTRPG One Shot). When the Grandmaster offered her hand, he handed her an Icy Double Sun Cola instead. “You brought your own drink to this party,” she said. “I like this guy.” His hat held two bottles, which he sipped through straws. Running a torch-lit gauntlet, he learned the hard way that the drink is flammable: “Why did I pick the flammable one?” He later blinded a skeletal grandfather by jamming his soda-bottle hat onto the old man’s head. When Knottley asked for conductive cola to power his “electric hands,” Killy pulled a bottle the size of four magnums from the back of his shorts, and Knottley turned it into “a unibeam of double sun shock.” Later that night, Killy admitted that “this is the first time in my life where I feel like something’s more important to me than double sun cola.” Then Double Sun Cola HQ rang for him through Thea’s tail, which lit up like a phone; Thea complained that “it’s also coming in through my butt and I have to poop soon.” He signed off the usual way: “Stay hydrated. Drink Double Sun Cola.”
By the opening of the Season 7 Deathmatch DeeDrah v Gazpacho Man Andy Gammage, Double Sun Cola was on offer at The Dread Fortress break, right next to the blue slushie machine.