The gem like feature of Omega’s chest bounced on the ground and rolled along a bit before stopping next to a tree. It glowed momentarily then released a silvery material that oozed around the gem and engulfed it and then reformed to create Omega.

“Hm, I may not be much now...But each time you defeat me I become stronger...” Omega lifted his arm up, the schematic of Airaxen’s weapon forming on it, two beam sabers coming out of his free hand.

* * *

Sonaris kicked a large piece of scrap metal away while stepping over the decimated entrance to his mountain laboratory.

“Hmph, just had to totally trash my lab,” Airaxen chuckled and shrugged back at Sonaris who was ruffled at this discovery. The trio continued to walk deeper into the lab, Sonaris frowning more and more at the sight of the damages to his lab. When they came across the large circular room in which Airaxen battled the many little servants of Sonaris. Tikai stood in the center of the room, then looked up at the ceiling which had an enormous hole in it which let in the sunlight.

“You just had to decimate my lab didn’t you?” Sonaris grumbled, Airaxen looked away.

“Hey Sonaris, you got anything to eat in this place?” Asked Tikai.

“Not that I know of, no.”

“Aw man, I haven’t eaten in hours, are you sure you got nothing in this place?” Airaxen sighed and shook his head.

“Alright, I’ll go into town and pick up something to eat, sides I wouldn’t mind something to eat myself.”

“In that case go down the hall and take second door on the left, it’s a quick route to get downtown.” Sonaris pointed down the mentioned hallway. Airaxen walked out of sight leaving Sonaris and Tikai alone.

“I guess that you want this combat armor back, eh?” Said Tikai trying to make conversation.

“No, I think it’s better in your hands then it is in mine. Besides you seem to insist in being in the line of fire.”

“Hey thanks, that’s cool...Wait are you trying to make up for being such a jerk?”

“Err...Yes.” Sonaris spun around quickly and headed off down another hallway.

“Eh? Where are you going off too?”

“Going to get repaired, you know I got a piece of my head missing still.” He pointed at the corner of his head that was blasted off thanks to Tikai. Sonaris reentered the room about 10 minutes later, head fully restored.

“Ahhh, It’s good to see out of both eyes again, I even have my depth perception back!” Tikai feverishly smiled at Sonaris.

“That’s...wonderful...I think.” After Sonaris finished checking that everything worked properly he turned to look at Tikai.

“Well then, what happens now?” He asked.

“I think I should meet up with my parents in Hawaii, I was supposed to have gone there about a month ago but you know, all of those attacks have made most pilots paranoid or something.” Tikai mumbled something under her breath, but Sonaris did catch the word “pansy”.

“Hm, well this is quite an awkward situation if I must say so myself,” Sonaris said quietly.

“True, you did threaten to kill me and hold me captive for about 13 hours.”

“Eh, yes...thanks for reminding me. Well what’s strange to me is why you’re so kind to me.”

“Air seems to trust you, and well...I trust his judgment and if he believes that you’re trustworthy then I’ll give you another chance.” Sonaris bowed his head at her, Tikai raised an eyebrow rather confused.

“A gesture of respect.”

“Oh, well ok then.” Tikai blinked slightly surprised. At that moment Airaxen returned from going into town carrying a bag full of burgers and fries.

“FOOD!” Shouted Tikai, Airaxen blinked confused then was tackled to the ground by Tikai. She grabbed the bag from him and left him on the ground dazed.

“You’re welcome...” He said weakly. Airaxen sat up rubbing his head muttering to himself.

“So what were you guys up too before I got tackled by a linebacker?” Tikai glared at him at the comment.

“Well, we were discussing what to do now,” answered Sonaris.

“And what did you guys come up with?”

“Well...Going to Hawaii is about all,” Sonaris said while scratching his chin.

“Don’t you start up with me too Sonaris!” He blinked confusedly at Airaxen. Tikai then walked back over to join the conversation.

“Eh, Tikai did you eat all of the food?” Airaxen asked annoyed.

“Yes, well what do you expect? Last time I had something to eat was before Sonaris grabbed me and that was a bowl of stall cereal.”

“...Oh you’re real lady-like there Tikai.”

“Don’t get smart with me!” Tikai said annoyed.

“Oh yeah?” Challenged Airaxen.

“Err,” Sonaris stepped between the two and separated them. “Maybe we should find a new subject here,” he suggested quickly.

“Out of the way!” The two said in unison, then they shoved Sonaris to the side so they could argue closer up, leaving Sonaris to sit on the sidelines watching.

* * *

Omega hovered down the streets of Shadowlight City, peering from side to side.

“Hmph, where is...” But before he could finish a cloaked figure walked up to him.

“You were about to call?” He said quietly.

“Ah yes, there you are Dimitri. Well I think I’m being to settle in my mission.”

“Oh? How so?” Dimitri looked at him intrigued with his robotic eye.

“Well I don’t think I should be wasting my time with Airaxen, I want to start terraforming the planet and if he gets in my way so be it.”

“I see, you want too get this over with quickly...Well then I have a few little toys for you then, follow me.” Dimitri spun around and headed towards a large warehouse. Dimitri walked into the warehouse which resembled a factory. Omega looked around eagerly wanting to see the sort of weapons that Dimitri had to offer him.

“So, what do you got? A big mecha with lasers out the ying yang? Huh? What?” He said while flying around the factory.

“Well...Just this...” Dimitri snapped his fingers activating a crane over head to lower a box next to Dimitri. He opened the box which revealed a much smaller version of the rocket mecha that gave chase to Airaxen in space.

“...Not to sound rude but...That’s it?” Omega lowered his head in disappointment.

“This might just be a smaller version of the rocket mecha that Sonaris built, but I took the design and modified it...” Omega’s head perked up and he looked over at Dimitri.

“Faster, stronger, the weapons system charges much quicker-” Omega frowned in disapproval, then his arm’s silvery metallic cover melted off and slid up his arm revealing a metal skeleton-like arm which immediately began to shift and slide to form a small cannon barrel with little metal needles circling the barrel. A small orange orb then formed inside the barrel Omega pointed it at the robot and fired the orb instantly blasting it apart.

“Hmph, you’re losing your touch Dimitri!” Dimitri just chuckled to himself then pointed to the wreckage of the robot.

“Watch.” The pieces started to move on their own. They then clustered together and rebuilt to form two of the mechas.

“Destroy one and two take it’s place. You see, the only way to destroy them for good is to totally wipe out each of the parts. Now was this what you were thinking about?”

“Oh yeah.”

“Good, then let me continue telling you what I’ve done to these, then you can go have your fun.”

* * *

Sonaris sat over a workbench welder in hand, a few random parts, and Tikai’s armor on the bench. Airaxen entered the room and pulled up a seat next to Sonaris.

“What are you up too?” Airaxen asked.

“I’m giving this armor a flight upgrade,” he muttered while sending a blaze of sparks flying all over the desk.

“Oh yes, what is that girl’s name? I never did catch it,” he said while welding some more.

“Her name is Tikai.”

“Alright, thanks. Mind telling me a bit about her? I like to know things about the people I hang out with,” Airaxen tilted his head slightly and put a hand to his chin.

“Hm, well...I first met her when I fell from a tree, don’t ask, she was rather nice about it. Wait I’m going off topic ok let me think. She’s kind, caring, hot headed, stubborn, overreacts sometimes but generally a good person. Hm...I’ve known her for little over a month, found that she’s a very courageous person, doesn’t care about what happens to her life just does what’s right,” Airaxen finished his description right when Sonaris had finished with his work.

“Well, that was...informative I think. Well I’m going to give this to Tikai now, oh yes I would recommend not growing to attached to her in your line of work,” Sonaris walked away silently, leaving a confused Airaxen to think over what he said.

* * *

It was mid-afternoon in Calgary, nothing to much was happening most were still at work eager to leave. The people walking down the streets were all going through their mundane tasks after the recent attack from the 3 machine golems attacking the city. But then two small grey, one eyed robots walked down the street, their arms floating by their side. The robots were thin and about 5 feet tall, they didn’t look very threatening at first glance thou. They stopped at the corner of a street and looked at each other then nodded. They both raised a hand up and pointed each at a building. A large white orb formed in each hand, then launched itself at the buildings blasting apart a floor to each of them, causing the tops of the buildings to topple over and smash into the ground killing dozens of people. Total hysteria broke out, people were screaming and running in all directions. Cars were all trying to escape from the destructive duo, but in the end most smashed into each other and the drivers were forced to run for their lives. They continued to fire off energy orbs and decimated the structures in sight. Soon the police arrived on the scene, all of them wearing protective body armor, and carrying high-tech laser weaponry, well high-tech in their standards.

“Alright men! Open fire!” Shouted the captain. A flurry of red beams shot at the two robots, they pummeled them and blasted them to pieces. They all cheered, but their celebrations were premature, at that instant the debris of the robots shifted and reassembled themselves to form 4 of the robots. The captain went wide-eyed, and opened ordered them to open fire again. And again they were shot apart and reduced to rubble. And again they rebuilt themselves to form 8, they were destroyed again and then there were 16, then 32 of them surrounded the authorities. They tried to destroy them again, but this time the machines reacted before they could and unleashed a barrage of orbs at them which instantly killed the men. The robots all turned to face north and marched down the street destroying all in their sight.

* * *

“Hey thanks Sonaris, this is real cool,” Tikai happily slipped on her armor then looked behind her to notice two small boxes behind each shoulder.

“What do these things do?”

“They’re anti-gravitational units, so as you can fly, it might take you some time to get used to it but you’ll get the hang of it. As well they can move up along your shoulder covers to point forward and be used as weapons, they fire out a 200 small lasers every minute, and they don’t have an limit to their ammunition which is very useful.”

“Heeeey, this is real nice, I’m going to enjoy myself now,” Sonaris smiled, then took a seat in a chair across the room from Tikai.

“Tell me, what do you think of me?” Sonaris asked in a slightly timid voice.

“Well, you’re not too bad I suppose, you did give me this nice new toy after all, but then there’s the whole wanting to kill me thing. But yeah, if Air says you’re ok, I’ll trust his opinion.”

“Hm, why do you trust his opinion so much anyway? How do you know if I don’t kill you right now?”

“First off if you did Air would snap and kill you, he told me about that moment in the mountains...Heh...” Tikai looked away from Sonaris.

“Eh? What is it?”

“It’s nothing really it isn’t...” Tikai looked away slightly embarrassed.

“Are you sure?”

“Well, after you had gotten blasted apart by Air, I collapsed and he carried me to a cave and watched over me during the night, when I woke up he gave me a hug, I found that really sweet of him. Mind you after that he really spazzed out at me, but still,” Sonaris raised an eyebrow at Tikai, then tilted his head slightly.

“I’m going to tell you the same thing I told Airaxen, don’t grow to attached to him in his line of work,” before Tikai could respond Airaxen ran into the room, fully suited up.

“We got a job to do people!” Airaxen dashed out of the room closely followed by Sonaris, Tikai stood there for a moment then ran after them.

* * *

Airaxen, Sonaris and Tikai arrived at what could only be described as a war-zone. Buildings were nothing but rubble, large pieces of rocks and twisted metal were lying around everywhere.

“Oh my god...” Tikai couldn’t believe the amount of destruction caused to the city. Among the rubble there were what she swore were limbs sticking out of the rocks, but she couldn’t tell.

“What could have done all this?” Even Sonaris was shocked at the sight. “Even when I was destroying all in my sight, I never would’ve thought I could do something like this...”

“Hurry, we have to stop whoever is doing this,” Airaxen said with a grim determination in his voice. They walked through the devastation looking for it’s source, to no avail. Suddenly in the distance a loud explosion could be heard, the three spun to their rights and saw a tall skyscraper begin to collapse and fall in their direction. They all took to the air and flew to the side avoiding the massive falling structure. The skyscraper fell to the ground smashing apart and causing a large cloud of dust to rise.

“Here they come!” Shouted Tikai. Sonaris began to charge his wolf-like arm cannon, illuminating the area around him in a soft blue. Tikai pointed both of her gauntlets at the dust cloud waiting for any signs of threat, the barrels of her weapons glowing slightly. Airaxen’s arm cannon formed from the green grid schematic, and once it was ready he placed all of the crystals around the weapon causing it to emit a strange aura. The dust cloud soon dissipated an army of small grey one eyed robots marched along the ground.

“Take them out!” Airaxen roared. Sonaris unleashed a massive blue beam into the cluster which instantly blasted 10 of them into shrapnel. Tikai began firing off a barrage of beams into crowd demolishing the automations one by one. Airaxen pointed his weapon into the center of the remaining robots and unleashed a massive white orb down at them that reduced the remaining robots into small pieces of shrapnel.

“Hmph, that was a lot easier then I thought,” muttered Sonaris. But true to form, each and every piece of the robots began to move on their own accord, in seconds double the amount of them stood ready to attack.

“...That isn't good...” Airaxen muttered dismally. They attacked them again, and once more they were destroyed, and once more they rebuilt themselves to double their numbers. This time it was the robot’s turn to attack. They all spun their arms around a few times then sent a barrage of fists flying up at the trio. Before they could react the attack had already flew close enough to be unavoidable, they were all knocked out of the air, Sonaris landing on the roof of a still intact building, Airaxen smashed in to a pile of rubble, Tikai landed on the ground roughly, the impact winding her. As they all recovered from the attacks an ominous chuckling echoed throughout the area.

“You three are very amusing to watch. Trying to destroy my men, ha!” A metallic voice said loudly.

“Uhhhh...That voice sounds familiar,” Airaxen mumbled. “Wait...I think I recognize it...”

“Hmph, I’m insulted you don’t remember me? Omega? How rude!” Mocked Omega. They all looked up at the sky, there was the silver beast flapping his large wings.

“I thought you were destroyed,” Tikai said through gritted teeth.

“You can’t get rid of me that easily, now mechas restrain them, except for Airaxen.” The mass of robots moved in on Sonaris and Tikai and grabbed them by the arms holding them in place while others would surround them to form a ring. Omega lowered down to land in front of Airaxen.

“Airaxen, I challenge you to a duel, we shall fight right here and now to the death,” Omega took out both of his beam sabers and turned them on, the green light of the beams giving Omega’s face an eerie glow. Airaxen stood up and stared down Omega.

“Alright, challenge accepted.” Omega’s face shifted slightly to look like he was smiling, then he tossed Airaxen one of his beam sabers. Airaxen caught it and twirled it around once and assumed a fighter’s stance. After an agonizing moment of silence the two dashed straight at each other, Airaxen slashed downwards, Omega put his saber horizontal and parried the move. They broke apart, then Omega flew up and dived straight down at Airaxen. Airaxen leapt back a slight bit then crouched down and jumped up at Omega, his beam saber sticking out the side to strike him. Omega tried to stop himself, but Airaxen swung his saber striking him in the wing leaving a large gash in it. Omega tumbled back onto the ground, but regained his form quickly.

“Now I’m annoyed,” Omega growled. He charged at Airaxen and slashed at him, but the move was stopped. They broke apart and continued their attacks. Each motion was fluid and graceful, the two were both evenly matched. One would gain some ground, but the other would catch up with them. After 10 minutes of this the two then leapt away from each other, Omega was showing no sign of fatigue where as Airaxen was having difficulty keeping his weapon up.

“You’re not holding up so well there Airaxen, do you need to take a breather old man?” Omega laughed at him, Airaxen straightened up and glared at Omega.

“Not a chance.” Omega leapt up into the air, Airaxen leapt up at him. They both flew at each other, then each slashed at the other and landed on the ground briskly. Omega stood up and turned to face Airaxen, his face resembling that of a smirk, but suddenly his sword arm suddenly began to spark violently and then began to fall apart. Airaxen stood up, but before he could turn around his mid-section began to spark violently then a thin diagonal appeared running from his waist up to the middle of the other side of his body. The two halves slowly began to slide apart from each other. Sonaris closed his eyes and looked away from the scene, Tikai tried to break free from the robots, but it was no use. Omega pointed his right arm at Airaxen, the silvery substance around the metallic skeleton-like arm slid up his arm and revealed the machinery, which began to shift and transform into his arm cannon. A bright orange orb began to form between the needles.

“Game over,” Omega said quietly, then fired the orb at Airaxen. The attack collided with him creating a massive explosion that shook the ground around them, as well as blasting a large crater into the ground. Soon small pieces of rock, shrapnel, little pieces of blue vines, and large chunks of a red suit of armor. Omega’s beam saber turned off, then turned to look at the robots holding Tikai and Sonaris.

“Now was that so hard Sonaris?” Omega said cockily. Tikai was enraged to the point of snapping. She broke free of the grips of the two robots holding onto her and flew straight up and charged at Omega. But before she was able to get to him a set of arms flew up and grabbed her then threw her at the ground. Again she was winded from her landing. Sonaris had, had enough and broke free from his restraints and went over to Tikai, helping her back up.

“I swear I’ll kill you! Even if it’s the last thing I do!” She screamed. Omega chuckled darkly.