Tikai was blasting away the robots coming at her, still enraged at Omega for killing Airaxen. Robot after robot were blasted apart into tiny pieces, but all of her efforts were useless in stopping the army.

“DIE! JUST DIE!” She screamed at the machines as they got ever closer. Sonaris tried to hold them off as well, but it was still no good.

“Tikai! We can’t keep fighting them like this! We have to retreat!” Sonaris shouted over the weapon-fire, Tikai ignored him and continued to fire beams into the mass. With no other choice Sonaris raised an arm and struck Tikai in the back of the neck knocking her unconscious.

“Forgive me Tikai, but I have no other choice...” He picked her up and flew into the air avoiding the energy orbs being shot at them. Omega grunted in disappointment at this failure. He turned around then something caught his eye, a bunch of small gems were scattered around the crater where Airaxen once stood.

“Hm...What do we have here...?” He snapped his fingers, 7 robots gathered the gems for him and handed them to Omega. He looked down at them in his large long claw like hand. The crystals each glowed a small aura, radiating a strange energy into his hand.

“Ahhh...The power source of the former of Airaxen. Yes, these will be very useful...” Omega looked around him at the army of robots staring back waiting for Omega’s command.

“Well? Go out and destroy!” He barked at them. They all nodded and marched off in different directions firing blasts of energy at what was left of the city.

* * *

Sonaris flew away from the city carrying an unconscious Tikai on his back, escaping the army that rampaged through the area. Tikai slowly opened her eyes, conscious again after being knocked out.

“Huh? What the? Hey let go of me!” Tikai began hitting Sonaris over the head.

“OW! Stop, ow! Doing that, ow!” Sonaris said in a very stressed voice. He landed on the ground hidden by some trees, then dropped Tikai roughly onto the ground.

“Hmph! Thanks a lot there Sonaris, tch,” Tikai stood up and dusted herself off, then turned to look at the city. “We have to stop this, if we don’t Omega will keep going until there’s nothing to stop him from this massacre.” Sonaris walked up behind her and put a hand onto her shoulder.

“Don’t worry, we’ll find a way,” he said quietly.

“What do we do now?” Asked Tikai

“We have to come up with a plan, something to do to stop this madness. So for the time being I recommend that we return to my lab. I might have something that could help there,” Tikai sighed sadly, then turned around to face Sonaris.

“...Alright...Lets hurry then,” Sonaris nodded then flew up and towards the mountain, Tikai following him a few seconds later.

* * *

500 miles to the northwest, located in the cold frozen arctic tundra, a small grey bunker stood out of the snow, a seemingly insignificant building, one that held the controls to weapons of mass destruction; information Omega knows.

Omega glided across the tundra silently, and swiftly like a deadly hawk.

“Hmph, soon I should come across the central control room of what the data tracks said was the global defense matrix...Yes, the weapons the humans built to protect themselves will soon be the cause of their demise...” Omega gave his wings a mighty flap and charged forward.

Inside of the bunker housed 7 large super-computers, each of them operating 5 parts to the 35 piece global defense matrix. The facility as well ran 700 feet into the ground, every 100 feet were over 200 robotic guards guarding the final level where the controls could be accessed. On the final level there were no people, but instead tens of hundreds of robots operating the complex controls for the global defense matrix, a weapons matrix more complex then anything ever created. Since it’s creation 5 years ago the weapons were never needed, but now the robots were now activating the weapons array, preparing to fire it onto the city of Calgary which was under siege from an army of some sort. Suddenly the alarms began to scream, red lights flashing on all levels; someone had breached the upper level.

Omega blasted through the wall to the bunker, an mass of robots waiting to greet him. An instant later a barrage of laser beams fired at Omega. He withdrew both of his beam sabers and spun them around rapidly, blocking out the lasers coming at him. Omega glided forward still spinning one of his sabers, using the other one to slash apart robot after robot. But despite Omega’s great strength, the sheer number of robots were more then he could handle and he soon forced into a corner defending himself.

“Bah! These pests are starting to annoy me, I have no time to waste on destroying them!” Omega pressed a button on his saber’s handle. Way off in Calgary one of the many robots’ eyes glowed bright red for a moment, then turned away from the others, leapt up into the air then transformed into a rocket, and flew to the northwest near the speed of sound, to rejoin with their master Omega.

Omega was still under attack for 10 minutes until he heard the flare of a rocket engine. The rocket transformed back into it’s robot form and landed near the mass of guard robots, which all turned and blasted the new robot into oblivion. But like always the parts simply reformed to create two of them, and they were destroyed, and they rebuilt, the cycle continued until Omega’s accomplices outnumbered the guard robots and soon they were all destroyed and nothing but scrap.

“About time you arrived, alright then proceed down the levels destroy everything in your way. When you’re done I want about a hundred or so of you to meet me in the 7th level. Alright get to it!” Omega’s arm changed into his cannon and he blasted a large hole into the ground letting his robots jump through and battle with the other guard robots. Omega hovered down into the next level firing energy blasts in all directions, destroying the guard robots as well as multiplying his own forces. After the next level was clear of all guard robots Omega blasted his way into the next one while his army grew larger and larger. He took a few of his men that couldn’t find a battle on that level down to the next, and continued on to the last level with no trouble. The robots in the control room spun around to see Omega enter the room, but were destroyed before they could react. The rows of computer consoles now had nothing but piles of metal occupying them, Omega snapped his fingers his robots filing in and finding a empty console to sit at. Omega walked to the front of the room where a large monitor was, on it was the image of the planet Earth with 35 small dots around it.

“Hmmm...I see...Even I didn’t think the humans could have created such an advanced weapon. Alright, I want you to charge up the weapons and reposition them to these coordinates. Now I’m going to continue with some errands, don’t stop for any reason!” They all nodded and Omega flew up and out of the complex.

* * *

Sonaris sat at a computer console sifting through the inventory of what was still active after Airaxen had rampaged through his lab.

“Feh, none of my robots are still active, and my weapons are all deactivated,” Sonaris lowered his head.

“Nothing left to fight with...” He closed his eyes, now without any hope of beating Omega.

“So is that it?” He perked up at the sound of Tikai’s voice. “So that’s it? Not even going to try?” She asked him angrily.

“We have nothing left to fight with, and we’re up against an army which we can’t stop, tell me what we have left to fight with Tikai, tell me!”

“You still have your swords and your arm cannon, and I still have my armor, and I’m not going to give up anytime soon. I’ll keep fighting until I’m a corpse, what about you? Or are you just a scared little boy?”

“No, no. I see your point. Your determination is uplifting, I agree I won’t give up until I’m scrap metal,” Sonaris perked up and began searching for something.

“Hey what are you looking for Sonaris?” Asked Tikai.

“I remember that about 5 years ago a large group of military scientists and weapons experts created 35 satellites,” Sonaris explained.

“What were on these satellites?”

“Well,” on the monitor a three-dimensional blueprint of a satellite appeared. The satellite was shaped like a large cannon with 6 small cylinders circling around it. “Aboard each satellite there are 6 small ion cannons around the main structure, and one large ion cannon in the center. The smaller cannons can destroy a small city block while the main cannon can destroy a large city,” Tikai let out a low whistle.

“Never knew we had so many big guns on standby.”

“Most people don’t. If I can hack into their systems I can take control of the satellites and target them at the areas where most of the robots are,” Tikai leaned on the back of Sonaris’s chair watching him as he began to hack into their satellite system. Then the computer beeped a few times.

“Eh? What was that?” Tikai asked.

“This isn’t right...There’s someone else in the same part of the system I’m in, there’s someone else trying to gain control of the movement systems for the satellites, and they’re locking me out of the system!” Tikai shoved Sonaris out of the chair and she jumped into it and began to hack the hacker.

“Tikai, what do you expect to do?” Sonaris said from the floor.

“Alright, there. I’ve shut out whoever that was, at least for the time being,” Sonaris looked up at her and blinked dumbfounded.

“You what?”

“I’ve got into the satellite controls, but I’m getting hacked again, can’t keep them off forever,” Sonaris stood up and looked over at the monitor.

“Alright we have to work fast, try to override their commands.”

“Well duh, I’m trying too but I can’t stay in long enough to finish uploading my commands.”

“It must be Omega, we have to keep trying!”

“I can’t stay in much longer, I can’t change the course of any of the satellites, but I can stop them for a few hours.” The computer beeped a few times, then it shut down with a blip.

“Well?”

“I was able to install a virus, it’s probably shut down their systems for the time being, but they can easily repair and continue their plans.”

“We have to take out those satellites before they can be fired.”

“What can we do to stop them? There’s 35 satellites off in space!” Sonaris put a hand to his chin then thought for a moment, until a thought came to him.

“ICBMs.”

“What?”

“Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. A very powerful missile that can travel up into space and destroy a satellite easily, but we’d need to find 35 of them and figure out where the satellites would be.”

“Don’t worry, I know where they’ll all be. All of them scattered around the space above the country, all ready to fire at the nuclear power plants.”

* * *

“Ugh...Where am I?” Airaxen opened his eyes slowly, then looked around his surroundings. He was floating around in a dark purple and black void. There was nothing in sight other then the dark purple and black background. He then looked down at his body, and to his shock he was translucent. He could see through himself just barely, but he could, like a ghost.

“ACK! WHAT HAPPENED TO ME?!”

“You’re dead,” Airaxen spun around to see the familiar black outline of the demonic blue eyed creature.

“You-you got to be joking! I can’t be dead!” Airaxen protested. The shadow creature moved closer to him.

“You are dead, Omega defeated you in battle.”

“That...can’t be true...If that’s true why am I still here then?”

“You’re destiny hasn’t be fulfilled, but thankfully for you, you still have another chance,” Airaxen perked up and floated right up to the shadow.

“I do?”

“Yes you do. Airaxen, you do not know what depends on your survival.”

“What depends on my survival?” The shadow shook it’s head.

“I cannot tell you.”

“Why-” before Airaxen could finish the shadow turned around and began to float away.

“Hey! Wait up!” Airaxen floated after him.

“Well then, tell me who and what exactly are you? I’ve seen you a number of times before.” The shadow looked over at Airaxen then looked forward again.

“I have long forgotten my name, but I do remember this: I was created by the crystals as their guardian, meant to watch over them for all of time. But obviously being nothing more then a shadow I can’t do enough to protect them.”

“I see, tell me. What do you know about the Myreisons? They’re obviously still out there somewhere.” The shadow stopped and turned to the side to look at Airaxen.

“That is exactly what I’m about to talk about,” he waved it’s large arm, their surroundings changing instantly to that of a city during the night. But the buildings were not of modern design, they were all tall blocky cylinders with large doors, a single red eye at the very top and strange line markings running up the structure. The area was full of different sized versions of these buildings lining the sides of the sidewalk that Airaxen and the shadow stood on.

“Whoa, where are we?” Airaxen murmured.

“This is the capital city of the Myreison empire, Shadowlight City!” The shadow raised both of his arms as finished, at that instant the houses to the sides burst open, people coming out of them. The people all wore some sort of shiny golden armor with red highlights. As well they all looked radically different from each other. Most resembled animals, with fur and snouts and such. Others were large and machine like, but none of them looked like any sort of human.

“Whoa...Hey, what’s with the people?” Questioned Airaxen.

“Myreisons are created using some sort of DNA, the type of DNA retrieved determines appearance and ability. But some do not follow this standard and are purely machine.”

“Oh, ok I get it. So what are you going to show me?”

“Come with me,” the shadow hovered off towards a large building off to the north, Airaxen following in silence.

<Man, this is way too much for me. Maybe this is all some whacked out dream...Oh I hope so.>

“We’re here,” the shadow announced. Airaxen drifted up to the building, then turned around to face the shadow.

“What’s here?”

“You’ll see, now pay attention.” The door leading to the building slid open and a tall figure stepped out. The person had a relatively thin body, complex looking footwear and large gauntlets on both arms. His head was pointed upwards with 5 large spikes, each with a red stripe on the tops of each. It had a large white space which was made up of two circles joined together in the center. In the center of that were two red eyes.

“Huh...Weird looking person,” commented Airaxen. The shadow followed the other person, Airaxen followed wanting to see what would happen. Suddenly a loud alarm went off, everyone in the general area halting and looking for the source of the alarms.

“Night has fallen on our enemy's side! It is time to attack!” A thunderous roar of approval ran throughout the city, then all of them ran to the east, all except for one. The person they were follow let out a dismal sigh and lowered his head.

“Why all of this fighting?” He asked himself quietly. He raised his head then dashed off to join with the masses that had left without him.

“What’s going on?” Airaxen asked. The shadow flew after the black person, Airaxen following behind him.

“A great battle is about to begin,” before Airaxen could ask anymore they had come to what could be described as a massive field with a line in the center; the line drawn by a setting sun. An army of Myreisons stood behind the line and waited. A couple of minutes later the sun had set, the line no longer visible, night had fallen and as it did an army charged into the unknown territory. But as they did massive fireballs rained from the sky striking masses of the army blasting dozens of them into pieces. Then another army of robed men and women came charging towards the other army, hurtling more fireballs as they went. Then the Myreisons opened fire, a barrage of lasers and rockets flew from the mass. The lasers sliced through the unarmored Magisters, the rockets blasted them into tiny pieces of blood and skin. The battle went on, and it looked like the Myreisons would win this battle. But then a different colored robed Magister ran onto the battlefield holding something in their hand. The person raised the clenched hand into the air and opened their fist, a small golden yellow crystal floating into the air, blue bolts of electricity flying from it. Dark storm clouds quickly covered the night sky, blocking out any moonlight. A mighty bolt of lightning shot out of the sky and destroyed a mass of Myreisons. Then more bolts fell from the sky destroying more of their forces. During this destruction the one black person that Airaxen and the shadow had kept track of was in the back, unwilling to fight. Suddenly a tall and bulky looking person came up to him and shook him roughly.

“Come on Konesence! We need your abilities in this!” They shouted.

“...”

“NOW!” Konesence sighed and looked up at the person, then nodded obediently. Konesence flew up taking a sword off his back with his left hand, in the right he held two crystals, ones of fire and earth. He placed them into his sword then spun it around as the blade transformed into flaming stone. Konesence stopped spinning his weapon then pointed it straight up into the storm clouds, a bright red beam firing up and out of the blade. A few seconds later massive meteors rained from the heavens onto the Magisters, killing hundreds in a few short minutes. Konesence held his weapon high, the attack of meteors continuing until there were just a few dozen Magisters left alive. The few Magisters left turned around and began to ran away, but a final meteor fell on top of them killing the last of them.

“Bah! We must fall back! The sun is about to rise soon!” Shouted one of the generals, there was an loud uproar of protest, but they all did as they were told and ran back to the city just as the sun began to rise.

“Whoa...That was some battle...” Airaxen said quietly while surveying the battlefield. There were pieces of scrap metal lying everywhere, but there was much more blood and miscellaneous body parts then anything else. An arm here, a hand there, an unrecognized part there, nothing but death everywhere.

“And to think, that was just a small demonstration of the crystal’s power. During the war in the battles whichever side possessed more crystals then the other would turn out to be the victor. Now, we should keep up with Konesence,” Konesence stood there on the battlefield as the sun came up.

“Come on Konesence, we have to go,” a person similar in appearance to Konesence stood behind him, but the voice was that of a girl’s. She was slightly shorter and instead of 5 spikes there was just one long spike arching down and two triangular ears sticking out of her head, like a cat’s. Her eyes weren’t quite as large as Konesence’s as well instead of red eyes hers were yellow. As well she wore a full suit of armor, but now it was very damaged. Konesence didn’t respond to the request.

“Come on, the sun is coming out!”

“I can’t take this anymore...I’m sick of killing so many, we never get any closer to winning this stupid war! I just want it to be over with.” The sun had risen fully, Konesence was now bathed in sunlight, but his body wasn’t decoying away.

“Hmph, they built me to well. I can actually survive in the light,” he chuckled to himself then turned around to face the girl.

“Fine, fine. I’m coming,” he said quietly. Konesence walked over to her and they began to head back to the city.

“Bah, I don’t know why I’m so sentimental, I wish I wasn’t. This is our people’s way, to fight with the Magisters for the rest of time.”

“Maybe it’s for the best that you’re sentimental.”

“And how’s that? I was given both of the crystals we’ve retrieved and I have to use them in battle, if I feel so much sentimentality towards the enemy then I’m useless!”

“Don’t worry, it’ll pass sooner or later.”

“Eh, I wish this stupid war was over.”

“Yeah I know Konesence. But what can you do to stop something that’s been going on for eons?”

“I’ll think of something, just wait and see Kauri,” the two walked back to the city in silence. Airaxen looked over at the shadow creature.

“Come on Airaxen, we need to follow those two,” they both flew after Konesence and Kauri as they headed to the large building which Konesence had first came out of. The door slid open letting the two enter into the large structure. The building had 5 floors, 3 above ground and 2 below ground. The floors above ground were just the basics of living, a kitchen, a sleeping quarters and an area used for recreation. The two floors below ground let to an underground tunnel system which was to be used in emergencies. Konesence walked up a set of stairs up to the top floor of the building which was the recreational floor where many large couches were placed, as well as a very large screen opposite of the stairs. Konesence flopped down onto a couch and laid down. Kauri walked into the room and took a seat on the couch next to Konesence.

“Is the doctor going to be here today?” Asked Konesence.

“No, he’s away working.”

“Good, I’m sick of him checking up on us. We’re just some stupid experiments to that guy!” Konesence cursed under his breath. “But, I must admire his ingenuity, using mostly Magister genetic material in our compositions to form our physiology, brilliant.”

“Well, you’re still given a lot of respect you know.”

“I don’t care about that, I just want this war to end!” Kauri stood up and walked over to the stairs then turned around.

“Want anything to eat?” Konesence shook his head and Kauri left. Konesence stood up and went to the large screen and waved a hand in front of the screen causing it to slide open and provide him with a magnificent view of Shadowlight City. The city had no lights other then soft glowing blue fires. The small fires gave the city a ghostly glow that Konesence found relaxing. He glanced over the city’s buildings, then the cluttered streets, then he saw the cloak generator in the very center of the city and began to think.

Kauri walked back up the stairs carrying a tray of food for Konesence in an attempt to put him in a better mood. But when she did reenter the room Konesence was gone. She looked around the room then she noticed the opened window screen and looked out it at the city. Then she noticed the cloak generator and realized what Konesence was up too.

* * *

Konesence came up to the maintenance entrance of Shadowlight City’s most precious creation: the cloak generator that blocked out the deadly rays of the sun. He took his sword out of it’s stealth and walked into the generator. The inside of the generator was like a massive bottomless pit. When he entered the structure he stood on a small railway running across the length of the structure as well as another one meeting it in the center of the railway to form a cross. Konesence looked over the edge of the railway down the generator, he could see large black rings floating up to the top of the ceiling of the generator where they condensed into a black orb where more rings would join it and then once the orb was large enough it would fire upwards to coat the sky with black. Konesence walked towards the center of the railways where the metal square he stood on dislodged itself and began to lower down into the depths of the generator. As he went lower and lower he noticed jolts of blue lightning jumping from across the walls, Konesence was lucky not to be struck and knocked off the small square, who knew how far the generator went down into the Earth.

“It feels like I’m entering the belly of some great beast...” Konesence said to himself. Airaxen and the shadow creature followed his decent.

“Hey, why are you showing me all of this?” Airaxen asked his host. The shadow glanced at him from the side with his blue eyes then looked back at Konesence.

“I want you to take a close look at the sword Konesence holds,” Airaxen knew better then to ask why and did so. The weapon was still fairly new, the blade still possessed a bright shimmer to it. Then he looked at the hilt and drew back out of surprise. The hilt of the sword was a large red gem with 3 blades sticking out of one side and 1 large blade on the other; the hilt was the exact same of the hilt of the sword which Airaxen had while in space.

“But, that looks just like my sword,” the shadow nodded at Airaxen.

“It is your sword.”

“But how’s that?”

“Because that is you in a past life,” Airaxen looked between Konesence and the shadow wide-eyed.

“No way!” He shouted.

“Yes way.”

“But how and why?”

“You see, your spirit is part of a prophecy, one that will take millions of years to come true,” Airaxen couldn’t ask anymore of the shadow because Konesence had finally reached the bottom floor. He took a step off the metal square and began heading off to the source of where the black rings originated. He took a few steps towards a hatch on the ground but then he heard something falling in the distance. Konesence assumed a fighter’s stance and looked up trying to see what was making the noise. Then a silhouette came into view, upon closer examination it was Kauri. She landed a few meters away from Konesence.

“Kauri, what are you doing here?!” Konesence shouted in rage.

“I have to stop you from doing this, you’re about to commit genocide!”

“I don’t care! This war has to stop now!”

“Not like this, what about all the innocents who’ll be killed?!” Konesence swung his sword to the side briskly.

“There’s no such thing for our kind! Everyone of us are murderers!” Kauri looked to the side unable to answer Konesence, he turned around to face the hatch again.

“If you still want to stop me then you’ll have to strike me down where I stand,” Konesence walked towards the hatch again, but the Kauri came up from behind him and put a hand on his shoulder.

“Hold up, I’m coming with you, I’ve been to the core of the generator before, you haven’t,” Konesence nodded and they both went to the hatch and jumped down it. The hatch led to what seemed like a massive slide leading straight down at least another 500 miles into the Earth.

“How far do we go down until we hit the core of the generator Kauri?” Asked Konesence.

“This is the last one don’t worry, but be prepared this is where we encounter the defense systems.” They both landed in a large stone chamber with blue metal walls. Suddenly the room lit up in bright white lights illuminating the room, which also showed the room was loaded with large pillars running from the ground running up to a ceiling, but it couldn’t be seen because of how far they went down.

“Ack, why is it so bright here?” Konesence said while squinting.

“Simple, if any Myreison tries to destroy the generator they’ll instantly rot away in this light. Lucky for us we were built for this sort of thing.” The two continued on past the pillars, eventually they came across a large door which slid into the ground as they approached.

“This seems way too easy...” Konesence commented. They walked through the doorway and then entered another large stone chamber. A quiet hum from the ceiling caused them all to look up just as a thousand red eyes glowed to life. From the ceiling thousands of large grey golems fell to the ground, golems that looked exactly like the Green Golem that Sonaris had captured Tikai with. Konesence quickly put the crystals of fire and earth into the hilt of his sword while Kauri’s gauntlet’s formed two long beam sabers.

“Konesence...I can hold them off, you go to the next room, in there is the core of the generator,” Konesence looked at the side at her then shook his head.

“No way, you might be a highly ranked fighter, but you can’t fight off these things forever!”

“Don’t worry about me, if you’re going to destroy the generator we won’t live either way, once the core is destroyed a self destruction sequence is triggered, it doesn’t matter if I die now or 5 minutes from now.” Konesence was speechless for a minute then nodded grimly.

“Hm, I see. Well that’s just beautiful, fine then I’ll go on ahead.” Konesence spun his sword around then pointed his weapon straight forward releasing a barrage of small meteors that ripped apart the golems in front of Konesence. He flew up a few feet and charged past the golems while they converged on Kauri as she was slashing apart golem after golem. Konesence didn’t look back, he probably would’ve changed his mind if he did. He escaped the golems and arrived at another large blue metal door which slid open for him. He ran past the doorway now entering a massive stone chamber which like when he first entered the generator seemed to go down forever, as well as go up forever. There was a single large metal path leading to a large platform where a massive machine floated in the air supported by a few anti-gravitational units on the sides. The machine was marked with a single large glowing green X. Black rings were emitted from the machine and shot upwards to later become part of the dark sky. Konesence approached the core, but then the room began to rumble, then pieces of metal came flying together in front of the core. The metal assembled themselves to form a large scorpion which barely fit on the pathway. The scorpion was grey with red glowing sections where the joints were. The tail was formed of many large spheres with the last one that split apart at the end with the end half of the sphere split apart into quarters that were at each corner of the sphere, in the center of it was a large barrel of a cannon. The claws were massively oversized for the body as well there were 3 sets of gatling cannons inside each claw. The head was menacing in appearance, it had a single red eye with a set of 2 large pincers that clicked constantly.

“Beautiful,” Konesence muttered. The scorpion raised it’s right claw then opened it releasing a barrage of bullets onto Konesence. He spun his sword rapidly blocking out the bulk of the bullets, but a few of them still struck him in the shoulder and leg. The scorpion began to advance on Konesence with it’s left claw opening fire on him as well. The new set of gunfire caught Konesence off guard and pummeled him in the side with bullets. Konesence crumpled to his side from the constant fire, now the scorpion stopped firing and reached at him with the left claw and grabbed him. Konesence tried to break free from the scorpion but was unable to do so. The three guns inside the claw began to spin again signaling an imminent attack. A second later Konesence’s body got pummeled by bullets. His body began to convulse rapidly, for 8 minutes his body was being eaten away by the bullets until the scorpion just dropped him to the ground, limp like a rag doll. Konesence slowly raised an arm trying to counterattack, but the scorpion noticed his movements and pointed it’s tail cannon at him and fired a large green laser that blasted him back and against the metal door that he came through. Konesence looked at the advancing scorpion weakly, then he remembered about the core beyond it.

“I’ve come to far to be beaten by some reject pile of metal! I’ve got enough strength for one last attack.” Konesence raised his sword into the air, the blade glowing bright red for a moment then a beam shot straight up into the air.

“Meteor strike!” At that instant large flaming meteors rained from the ceiling smashing apart first the anti-gravitational units on the side of the core which began to tilt and fall, then one massive meteor collided with the core itself which began to spark violently. Konesence closed his eyes, his mission now complete. The core was struck by another massive meteor and exploded violently, engulfing the entire room with a flames, incinerating the scorpion and Konesence.

* * *

All was still at this hour in Shadowlight City, everyone was catching up on sleep. But an earth shattering explosion from the cloak generator in the heart of the city woke everyone up to a horrible fate. In minutes rays of sunlight began to break through the black sky. The Myreisons on the ground who were unfortunate enough to be struck by the sunlight instantly began to turn black and dissolve into ashes. Total hysteria broke out, everyone was trying to get somewhere where they would be safe, but the ruminants of the cloak was dissolving fast, many were being struck and killed. Flocks of them were all trying to get into their homes and go underground, but very few were successful in this.

Inside the military complex of the Myreisons dozens of generals were being reduced to ashes, but they all tried to reach the control panel of their final weapon; Meteor. The Myreison’s final weapon was a massive meteor which had been taken from a distant asteroid belt and rigged up to possess high power rockets, now it was the time to use the weapon. One of the remaining generals made it to the controls in time to execute the launch sequence right before he was reduced to dust.

A massive meteor soon blocked out the sun, the Magisters saw this and tried to do something to stop it, but like the Myreisons, their attempts were in vain. In a short 30 minutes Armageddon had happened on the planet Earth staining it blood red for millions of years afterward.

* * *

Airaxen looked at the shadow when the scene in front of them had finished and turned back into the void.

“I...Did all of that?”

“Yes, and it was a good thing that you did. If you hadn’t the Myreisons would have won the war and began conquest of the galaxy and then some.”

“I see...”

“Now that’s enough of that. You need to return back to the mortal plane,” the shadow began to hover off again, Airaxen followed him again.

“And how am I supposed to do that?” Airaxen asked.

“I’ll show you,” he turned around and opened his claw revealing two crystals in his hand, but these two were different then the other 7.

“You see, very few people know this but, in actuality 9 crystals were created not 7. These are the crystals of Light and Dark.” The crystal on the right was translucent and clear. The crystal on the left was also translucent but it was black. The shadow handed Airaxen both of the crystals.

“Those two crystals are more powerful then all 7 of the other crystals combined, you must take good care of them.” Airaxen nodded and closed his fist around the two crystals. Then blue crystals appeared around Airaxen, he looked around himself franticly. The crystals enclosed around him forming a sphere.

“Don’t worry Airaxen, you’ll be fine. Now I need to find myself a new body, it is time for me to help in this war.” The shadow waved it’s claw causing both him and the sphere to disappear.

* * *

“Sonaris, where are we going?” Tikai asked. They were flying through the air at about 30km/h, Sonaris would’ve gone much faster but Tikai wasn’t used to the experience yet. She was trying to look forward despite the harsh winds, but mostly she was just looking straight down which probably wasn’t such a good idea being up so high in the sky.

“The central military base of the country holds a database of where all the ICBMs are held, we have to go there and get the data and with that locate the weaponry.”

“I see, ack stupid wind!”

“Don’t worry you’ll get used to this it after awhile,” just as Sonaris finished his sentence the shadow of a large winged person passed over them. Sonaris stopped instantly grabbing Tikai by the shoulder to signal to her to stop.

“What is it?” She asked.

“That,” Sonaris pointed in front at Omega as he hovered down to be level with the two.

“I’ve been looking for you two! I need to finish my mission objective and kill you too Sonaris, and then I’ll just kill the human out of spite,” Sonaris narrowed his eyes and began to draw the swords off his back. But Tikai was enraged beyond words towards Omega and flew straight at him, punching him in the face with the metal gauntlets she wore. Omega was knocked back a meter or so, then spun to face Tikai and began to change his arm into a weapon, but Tikai was quicker on the draw. The two box-like structures on the back of her armor slid up to be on top of her shoulders, they glowed green for a moment then unleashed a flurry of small green lasers that pummeled Omega in the chest. A minute passed and 400 of the projectiles had struck Omega stunning him. Again he tried to counterattack, but again Tikai was faster then he was. She pointed both gauntlets at his head and shot two thin blue beams which both hit him in the visor-like eye destroying it.

“Jesus! I had better stay on your good side in the future,” said Sonaris in bewilderment.

“Yeah you had better. But I think we should get away from him, don’t think he’s too happy about the whole attack thing.”

“Agreed,” Sonaris grabbed Tikai around the waist and held her then flew forward at top speed, which was about 80km/h.

Omega was clutching his shattered eye piece yelling in a furious rage. Minutes later he stopped his shouts and lowered his hands from his face a new visor forming rapidly. He pressed a button on the side of his head and shouted:

“Send a large battalion to my coordinates at once!” In a few short minutes about a hundred of the grey transforming robots crowded around Omega awaiting orders. Omega swung his arm to the side and shouted for them to combine. The robots all formed groups of five then two of them would transforming into a rocket while the other three broke apart and recombined to create a larger rocket but it would have two large vents running along it as well the front point was split in half, revealing the front of a laser weapon. The two rockets would then attach themselves to the sides of the larger rocket and then spin a few times and then rocketed straight at the fleeing Sonaris and Tikai. Sonaris stopped abruptly and let Tikai go.

“Ok we have to take out those guys but we have to somehow figure out a way to do it without multiplying all of them,” Tikai said frustrated.

“Watch it! They’re opening fire!” Shouted Sonaris. The vents on each of the fighters opened revealing small rockets. They unleashed a single rocket each. The projectiles raced at the duo, Tikai’s shoulder weapons slid into place again and then she fired a flurry of lasers at the incoming rockets destroying them. They fighters arched high into the air to attack them again.

“I got an idea, if we can destroy the rockets on the side of those fighters they’ll simply fall to the ground rather then duplicate,” Tikai nodded at prepared two lasers for when the opportunity to strike presented itself. The fighters came at them again but before they could fire more rockets Tikai shot at the rockets of one of the attackers and true to form she struck the right rocket of one which instantly began to spin towards the ground and lodge itself into the dirt. Sonaris charged head on at the remaining two dozen and drew his swords. He passed in between a dozen of them slashing at their sides as he went. The remaining 11 stopped their attack and fell back, Tikai and Sonaris thought that they had beaten them back but they were wrong. They had regrouped to form a circle and began to spin rapidly while moving closer together and separating from each other. As they did this bright streaks of light could be seen gathering around the ring of attackers. Sonaris narrowed his eyes for a second.

“We have to fall back this instant,” he said coolly.

“What? Why?”

“If we try to attack we’d most likely cause them to multiply their numbers. If we don’t they’ll attack and then we’d be blasted out of the sky. We have no other choice but to fall back,” Tikai nodded and spun around and jetted off towards their initial destination. Sonaris followed suit and caught up to Tikai.

“Split up!” He shouted over the roar of the wind, Tikai nodded and veered to the left while Sonaris moved away to the right. The 11 remaining fighters stopped their attack sequence and split up into a group of 5 and another of 6. The 6 fighters gave chase to Sonaris while the remaining 5 flew after Tikai.

Tikai headed straight towards a large city to try and lose her pursuers. The fighters immediately opened fire, launching a dozen rockets at her. They all missed and struck two large skyscrapers and blasted apart two floors from each of them causing at least 13 floors of building to collapse in on itself and continue the destruction by crushing those on the streets. Tikai looked over her shoulder briefly to see them begin to charge the large cannon at the front, so she dove down and became level to the cars rushing away from the disaster zone. The fighters dove down with her and began to fire off large blue laser beams which still missed her but struck any car near Tikai as she passed and instantly blown the vehicle into shrapnel killing the occupants as well. Tikai spun around to have her back facing the ground and pointed both gauntlets at the fighters, took aim and fired two beams which both missed. She fired again and just skimmed the edge of one of the crafts. Tikai spun back around so she wouldn’t smash into something and then flew up as more beams were shot at her, again they all missed but came very close to striking her, as well the beams struck many different buildings and once again the tops of 4 buildings began to collapse and topple over.

“These architects make really lousy buildings!” Tikai muttered under her breath. She looked over her shoulder again then went straight forward in an attempt to fly right under the first falling structure.

<This always worked in the movies, for the love of god work for me!> Tikai was nearly touching the ground and nearly cleared from being crushed. With a final burst of speed she escaped the reach of the building, but two of the fighters that followed her weren’t so lucky and were buried under the building. Tikai shot up high above the ground and level with the roofs of other buildings. She looked around to locate the other 3 fighters but she couldn’t find them. Then a beam shot from behind her and hit a lamppost off to her side. She spun around to see the remaining fighter crafts coming at her. She took aim again and shot off two more beams at the right side of one of them. This time she struck the craft and caused it to spin out of control and smash into the ground, surprisingly still intact except for the right side. Tikai spun to the left and flew down a different street with the fighters still on her tail

* * *

. Sonaris weaved in and out of the alleyways the fighters tailing him following him flawlessly. He spun around and put his two swords together by the hilt to form a dual blade. He charged forward and slashed off the rockets to all 6 of his pursuers.

“Hmph, too easy for me,” he said quietly. Sonaris then flew up to see Tikai being chased by two of the fighters. He dove down splitting apart his weapon and cut off the rockets of the remaining fighters.

“Heh, thanks Sonaris,” Tikai said breathlessly. She stopped and landed on the ground and immediately laid down.

“I’m not through with you yet!” Boomed Omega’s voice from off in the distance. Sonaris looked around and spotted the silvery demon flying straight at them.

“Oh joy here comes Omega. Come on we have to get out of here!” Sonaris dove down and grabbed Tikai by the arms. Omega’s arm transformed into a laser gun, he then targeted them and fired off an orange ball of electricity. Tikai swung from side to side signaling to Sonaris to go to the side which he did, just before it blasted them apart. The attack struck a building and destroyed a floor from it causing it to fall on top of the floors beneath it and crush two more floors before falling backwards onto another building creating a domino effect.

“Good lord, this city is going to be devastated just like Calgary was!” Tikai said in disbelief.

“I know, I know but we have no choice but to watch,” Tikai glared at Omega, the guns mounted on her shoulders glowed for a moment then released a barrage of small lasers at Omega. He swatted them away with his other arm then took aim and fired another energy ball which missed again and blew up a small building. Tikai shook an arm free from Sonaris’s grip and pointed the gauntlet at Omega and began to fire blue laser beams at him, which he spun to the side to avoid. Omega looked down for a moment and took note of the parked cars on the ground then got an idea. He dove down and lifted up a large truck and flung it at Sonaris. Tikai let out a strangled squeak then fired a beam at the truck blasting it into shrapnel.

“Omega’s lost it!” Tikai shouted up to Sonaris.

“I know, I know! Keep firing at him, I’ll try to lose him!” He shouted back. Tikai was about to respond but was only let out a squeak when a mini-van came at them, which like the truck was shot at and blown apart. Omega chuckled, he was clearly amused at the spectacle. He then grabbed a Volkswagen, but instantly dropped it when he looked to his side.

“Hey, looks like the flying cars have stopped!” Tikai said, but then cursed under her breath when she saw Omega flying at them with a large 18-wheeler carrying a tanker all of this held up by Omega’s two arms.

“SONARIS! GET US OUT OF HERE!” She screamed at the top of her lungs. Omega laughed then stopped and threw the massive 2 ton vehicle straight at them. Sonaris glanced over his shoulder for a moment, then muttered something under his breath before shooting straight up evading the flying vehicle. Instead of hitting them it now smashed into the base of the largest building in the area, but didn’t explode. Sonaris looked back again then down at the building with the truck in it.

“Tikai, fire at that truck.”

“What? Why?”

“Do it!” She pointed her gauntlet at the tank of the truck and shot off a blue beam at it. The tank was full of propane which instantly ignited and exploded, taking out a good portion of the bottom of the building.

“Fire again!” Sonaris shouted, Tikai nodded then shot another beam into the flames, this time the blast caused the building to wobble. Finally the massive structure began to topple over slowly.

“Omega is going to make it before he gets hit by the building!” Sonaris spun around and looked from the building to Omega then frowned.

“Forgive me,” he said quickly, before Tikai could respond she was thrown into the air. Sonaris then pointed the cannon mounted on his arm at Omega then fired a large laser at him, Omega flew up over it but in doing so wasted too much time and was hit by the massive building. Sonaris put his arms out and caught Tikai’s falling body.

“Eh, thanks but next time give me some more forewarning before you decide to flung me like a rag doll!” Sonaris grinned feverishly.

“Right sorry about that,” Sonaris let go of Tikai letting her fly on her own means. Tikai watched the building smash into the ground crushing Omega, as well the top floor smashed into a gas station causing it to erupt in flames when another truck driver got distracted and swerved to the side smashing into a large building then exploding as well as the other one causing it to fall and topple over to create a domino effect smashing over more buildings.

“Sonaris...Next time we try losing Omega and his buddies we don’t do it in a city where everything was made in China,” Tikai mumbled under her breath while shaking her head dismally.

* * *

15 minutes later after the utter chaos had settled down and no more buildings were being knocked over. People began to gather around the first building that crashed into the ground, the one that had taken out Omega. The area within a one mile radius now resembled a war zone. Fires were everywhere with the ruins of buildings decorating the area. Suddenly the decimated building began to shake and rumble, then all of the rubble was sent flying in all directions, as well as taking out anyone nearby. Omega stood up at the epicenter of where the rubble was shot away from.

“Hmph, they got away,” Omega tapped the side of his head again.

“Status report.”

“The ion cannons are 49% charged, ETA is 12 hours and 47 minutes,” a computerized voice responded.

“Hmph, fine then. Send all inactive units to my position, I need something with more brute force.” Omega flapped his wings and flew high up into the air then crossed his arms. Minutes passed and then a mass of over a thousand robots.

“Alright men, time for you to make me a floating fortress, transform and combine!” Each and every one of the robots broke apart into dozens of machine parts, then they all flew up above Omega and began to piece themselves together. Very rapidly the shape of a large ship, soon the front began to develop into a bird nose like shape which was all read. Beyond that the large form of a fuselage formed with many small vents running the length of the craft. At the back there were two large triangular structures sticking out of the back with 6 massive openings where the engines were located.

“Very nicely done, alright then,” a large hole on the bottom of the craft opened up, a green beam engulfing Omega which then drew him up and into the carrier.

“Comes with the alien abduction kit too, alright then lets see what I can do with this until I can blast those pests into oblivion.”

* * *

Tikai and Sonaris were both flying through the air again still heading towards the central military base. They had been traveling for a very long time, it was now night and Tikai was beginning to give out to fatigue. Her eyes began to close but she tried to keep them open, to no avail. She began to turn to the side and descend slowly. Sonaris saw this happening from the corner of his eye and put an arm on her shoulder and shook her gently.

“I believe it would a good idea if you were too rest for the night,” Tikai nodded sleepily and then was guided down to the ground by Sonaris. They landed beside the road on a highway, Sonaris stepped onto the road and looked around.

“What are you doing?” Tikai asked quietly.

“Getting some transportation,” as if on cue a large truck’s headlights came into view. Sonaris stood in the path of the vehicle. The truck stopped abruptly, the disgruntled driver exited his vehicle quickly and began to shout at Sonaris. Sonaris walked straight up to the man then shoved him aside.

“I’m going to need your means of transportation, I trust that won’t be too much of a problem, correct?” Sonaris glanced over his shoulder menacingly, the man blinked and nodded, cowering at Sonaris’s stare. He then jumped into the driver’s side of the truck. Tikai walked over to the poor driver and leaned over.

“Sorry, we’ll give it back or something, thanks thou!” She then ran to the other side of the truck and went in. The driver then just sat on the side of the road watching as his truck was being driven off by the two hijackers. Tikai took off the heavy suit of battle armor she had been wearing for about the last 5 hours and placed it under the dashboard.

“I feel so much lighter without that thing weighing me down,” Tikai said in relief.

“Yes, should’ve made that somewhat lighter, oh well I suppose,” Sonaris replied. He glanced to the side at Tikai who looked somewhat troubled.

“Is something on your mind Tikai?” He asked her. Tikai glanced at him briefly then looked straight ahead again.

“No...Yes...I’m thinking of Air, I didn’t think he’d die or something you know? The bad guy isn’t supposed to win, but that’s just in movies and television, this is real life. I sort of wanted to know what he thought of me...Wish he was still alive.”

“Well, he did say to me his thoughts about you, thou not on purpose. From what I’ve heard, I do believe he has a slight fondness towards you,” Tikai spun her head around at Sonaris, her face lighting up suddenly.

“Really? What did he say?” She asked excitedly.

“I asked him what he knew about you, his tone of voice and choice of words is not in the original personality programmed into him, he was acting out of his perimeters in an area which I didn’t think had been affected by his human part taking over. His mind doesn’t contain more then 10% DNA so it wouldn’t be possible for him to express anymore emotion then what was programmed in, and what was programmed in was a small range of emotions one that didn’t contain any ability to grow attached to another person, but he was made to be user friendly...Sort of.”

“Oh, so but maybe that was a glitch you know, Dimitri obviously didn’t do a good job making Airaxen his obedient servant after all, maybe he screwed up on that part too.”

“Perhaps, but I don’t see any point in discussing a person who was blasted into oblivion, they are gone and no earthly force can change that,” Tikai looked away from Sonaris and lowered her head.

“I’m sorry, I wasn’t good at these sort of things. We have a job to do, we can get revenge on Omega for what he did, right?” There was no response.

“Hm, well none the less you should rest up,” Tikai nodded then leaned on the side door and began to sleep. Sonaris sighed and shook his head.

“Airaxen, you were much better at winging it then I am...I need your help, if only I could’ve changed what’s happened,” he sighed again then concentrated on driving for the rest of the night.

* * *

Sonaris stopped the truck 8 hours later in front of a small bunker in the middle of the desert. He jumped out of the vehicle and walked towards the bunker. Five armed military men emerged from the bunker carrying large guns over their shoulders.

“Identify yourself interloper,” shouted one of the men. Sonaris ignored them and continue walking towards the bunker.

“I said identify yourself!” The men began to arm their weapons, now Sonaris stopped advancing.

“You know about the attacks on the cities, correct? Well if you want to stop them you had best let me pass. Now what will it be?” They all looked at each other then nodded.

“Come with us.” They led Sonaris into the bunker where dozens of soldiers greeted them, all of which holding weapons pointed at Sonaris. then from amidst the soldiers a single person brandished with medals on his coat; he was the general of the complex.

“Are you one of them?” He asked in a harsh tone.

“If you mean I’m a organic machine then I am one of them, but if you mean I’m with them to destroy the planet then I’m not.”

“Then why are you here?”

“Have you been keeping track of the satellites orbiting the planet?” The man raised his eyebrow then turned to look at one of the men in the room.

“Check up on the satellites immediately!” The soldier nodded and ran off to a computer console then shouted from it.

“Sir! The 35 satellites making up the Global Defense Matrix are repositioning themselves, and I can’t override whoever is doing this!”

“You can’t. Omega has taken control of the satellites and is going to fire them upon the major cities of the world and I need to gain the knowledge of where the ICBMs are located and the launch sequence for them. Time is running out,” Sonaris narrowed his eyes at the general. He spun around at soldier at the console.

“Load the launch sequences onto a CD immediately!” He shouted.

“Alright, the location to the ICBMs are 100 miles northwest from here. When you’re there it’s just a city but many of the buildings contain the missiles. The control panel is in the city’s tower. Got it? We’re counting on you to stop this madman,” Sonaris nodded and was then handed a disk by the soldiers and then walked back out. He jumped back into the truck waking Tikai up.

“Huh? Ugh...What time is it?” She asked groggily.

“No idea, I think it’s the afternoon.”

“Oh aren’t you the scientific one. *yawn* So what were you just doing?”

“I was got the location and launch sequence for the ICBMs, so now I’m driving us over to their location.”

“Which is?”

“A city 100 miles northwest of here.”

“Ok, but why?”

“The missiles are hidden in buildings so we have to go to the city tower there and find the controls to them, then fire them off at the satellites.”

“Ok then, but after the satellites have been destroyed, what do we do next?” Sonaris didn’t answer immediately but instead sighed.

“I don’t know, it almost seems impossible. Omega has an army which is virtually unstoppable at his command, not to mention he himself is a very powerful fighter. To be honest I think we’re doing nothing more then stalling the inevitable.”

“Well we got to keep on fighting none the less, we can at least stall until the military here get something to fight back with!”

“Alright, alright. Have to keep at it till the end, right?” Tikai nodded. Sonaris then slammed his foot onto the accelerator and spun the truck around and began to head straight for the city.

“How long until we get there Sonaris?”

“If we stay in this vehicle an hour or so, if we fly 20 minutes.” Tikai slipped on her battle armor then kicked open the side door and flew out of the truck, Sonaris followed suit a few seconds later leaving the truck to swerve out of control and flip over.

“Oops...Well I don’t think we’ll be returning that,” Sonaris scratched his head gingerly for a second then took off after Tikai.

* * *

Omega stood on an elevated platform on his carrier, enjoying the powerful winds whipping at his face.

“The game is almost done, everything has come full circle. Those two know about my plan with the weapons satellites, but I know what they’re going to do about it. In a few short minutes I’ll be at the location of the ICBMs and have already destroyed them all. It’s my turn and I’m going to checkmate those pests,” Omega flew to the nose of the carrier and looked upon the city that faced him.

“Open fire!” He shouted. The nose of the carrier split in half and slid open to allow the carrier’s main cannon to fire. Omega flew up and back into the carrier and went to the bridge. When he arrived the main gun had finished charging and fired off a single enormous bolt of energy that struck the city tower and instantly blasted it apart in a massive explosion. The explosion then incinerated all of the buildings nearby in a fiery blaze.

“Alright, now we just wait,” Omega walked off the bridge and back onto the top of the craft.

* * *

Tikai and Sonaris had thought the city they would arrive at would be populated with many people; this was wrong. There was not a single soul as far as they eye could see, and the fact that about a quarter of the city was nothing more then a massive crater could’ve contributed to that.

“Looks like Omega beat us here...” Sonaris muttered quietly. He walked over the mangled pieces of metal and shrapnel littering the ground.

“We’re walking right into a trap aren’t we Sonaris?” Tikai asked. Sonaris gave a curt grunt and nodded his head.

“But just because we’re walking into a trap doesn’t mean we shouldn’t do it anyway,” Tikai laughed at Sonaris’s comment, but it was a nervous laughter.

“Ok then, just have to wait for Omega and his men to show up now, eh?” Tikai muttered, Sonaris nodded.

“This is our last stand, like it or not. So we had best just accept our fate and hope what we can do now will be able to stop this insanity.”

“You give quite the speech Sonaris.”

“Hmph, it’s my job as the resident good guy,” Sonaris put his arms to the side and shrugged, chuckling.

“Oh man, how many corny animes have you been watching?” Tikai shook her head and laughed again.

“Gotta keep positive, huh?” Said Tikai after she stopped laughing. Sonaris nodded then turned around and walked into the center of the crater, peering from side to side as if expecting something to leap out at him.

<Never in my life did I think I’d be going out like this...It’s sorta rewarding in a way,> Tikai thought to herself as she joined up with Sonaris. Soon a loud marching noise could be heard. Sonaris drew his swords and crossed his arms for a moment.

“You know Tikai, considering the fact that during the course of two days you’ve watched a good friend be killed, and have to try and stop the end of the world, you’re taking this rather well.”

“Yeah well, I lived in New York for about 12 years. So yeah, you pick up some stuff,” Sonaris looked over at Tikai, then burst out laughing.

“Well, gotta keep laughing till the very end, right?” Sonaris nodded at her and then looked around as the forms of many robots came into view, converging from all sides. The two looked around as the mass of robots stopped just a few meters away from them.

“So, how’s it been guys?” Tikai asked the army of robots. “Heh...Thought I’d at least get a laugh out of them or something.” Soon the shadow of a massive flying craft engulfed them, as well as all the robots in the general area. Upon looking up, they stared at the massive air carrier that Omega used to destroy the portion of the city they were in.

“Cornered like the rats you are. Well then, lets get straight to business, KILL THEM ALL!” Boomed Omega’s voice. The thousands of robots began to arm their weapons and continued advancing on Tikai and Sonaris. Tikai targeted whatever was getting close to her and blasted it apart with a barrage of lasers, Sonaris charged into the mass and slashed apart dozens of the robots. But all they were doing to the army was increasing it’s numbers. Pieces of metal were sent flying all directions, large explosions illuminating the area in bright blazes of fire. But then Sonaris was hit by two flying arms and knocked into the air and landed next to Tikai who was also smashed into by a set of arms and landed next to a building.

“Ugh, how do you get used to this sort of thing Sonaris?” Tikai said weakly from the blow.

“Eh, you just do after awhile,” Sonaris responded while his left eye was closed and his right half open, as if he was tired. “Well, always did want to go out with a bang, you?” Tikai shrugged and looked around at the robots.

“So uh, would you know if dying by lasers is painful or not?” Tikai asked timidly.

“It’s probably best I didn’t answer that,” Sonaris muttered back. Tikai looked down and closed her eyes.

<I’m sorry Airaxen...I failed you, I couldn’t stop Omega. I’m sorry, forgive me for my failure,> Tikai thought to herself sadly, a tear forming in her close eyes which then rolled down her face and dropped onto the concrete ground. Instantly, the ground began to rumble, the robots stopped their attacks and looked around for the source. From underneath the cluster of robots standing in front of Tikai and Sonaris a massive pillar of light erupted, incinerating the robots. The light died down soon after, in it’s place a large blue crystal sphere floated in the air. After a second of floating there, the sphere shot out a gigantic shockwave at all the robots in the area knocking them all back 20 meters. Sonaris stood up and took a step towards the sphere but instantly drew back as massive transparent crystal spikes came flying from all directions to attach around the sphere. Sonaris looked around again, the robot army had gotten back on it’s feet and advanced towards them and the mysterious sphere crystal.

“Tikai, we have to get out of here now!” She got up slowly and nodded. Sonaris flew straight up, high above the city. Tikai looked over at the sphere, lingering for reasons beyond her. The crystal spikes began to pulsate emitting a strange echoing cry, Tikai blinked then flew up after Sonaris.

* * *

Omega slammed his fist into a control panel aboard his carrier. He was infuriated at the new turn of events and was blasting apart the robots in the bridge.

“GRAH! What is that thing?! Bah! Whatever it is it’s interfering with my plans, and nothing interferes with my plans! Lock onto it with the main gun and fire!” He ordered. The robots at the controls nodded quickly and began to point the carrier downwards at the crystal. The nose of the craft split open again the cannon crackling with explosive energy, ready to be unleashed. The weapon began to hum to warn of an imminent attack. Suddenly a enormous bolt of white and red energy shot straight at the crystal and exploded in a fiery blaze that destroyed all the buildings and robots in a 1 mile radius. The force of the explosion jostled Tikai and Sonaris who had difficulty to maintain their positions in the air. After the massive explosion had dissipated all that was left of the area was a giant crater in the ground, as well as a half buried blue crystal. Tikai dropped down to the crystal before Sonaris could stop her, but something caught his attention. The air carrier had opened up 2 dozen small openings on the bottom of the ship which hundreds more robots fell out of the craft all of which heading towards Tikai.

“Tikai! Get out of there!” Sonaris shouted, but his warning fell on deaf ears. Sonaris charged at the mass of robots and began slashing them apart trying to stall them.

Tikai landed next to the large crystal which was now bare of the transparent crystal spikes. She tried to dig up the sphere, but was unsuccessful. Suddenly another cry from the crystal caught her attention, this one sounded as if it were in pain, howling like a wounded wolf. The crystal began to flicker as well, one second it was there the next it wasn’t, the crystal had been hit dead on by Omega’s attack, it was a miracle that it was still intact instead of being shards scattered along the ground. The sound of marching could be heard soon, Tikai stood up and began to push the crystal out of the crater very slowly, but soon was surrounded by the robots, all of which had their arms pointed at Tikai.

“Don’t come any closer you tin buckets!” <I must have lost it! Why am I defending this crystal thing anyway? Oh well, I’m going to die anyway, might as well defend this thing for the heck of it.> Tikai pressed up against the crystal sphere which then shook itself loose from the earth and hovered 3 inches off the ground. Tikai turned around to look at it, the sphere began to break apart. The sides of the sphere began to float away slowly while the middle piece split in half horizontally, the two pieces splitting apart as well. As the pieces grew farther apart a immense light was released from the pieces of the sphere until it was impossible to see anything. During the duration of the bright light Tikai heard the sound of something shattering, then seconds later the light vanished as quickly as it came. What greeted Tikai stopped her heart for a split second, floating in front of her was Airaxen wearing the same suit of armor he died in, glowing strangely with the illusion of a set of two massive wings on his back which vanished in a second. Airaxen lowered down onto the ground, Tikai took a step towards him, not sure if this was a dream or not. She reached a hand out and touched his cheek.

“Is...Is it really you? Am I dreaming or did they already kill me?” Airaxen grabbed Tikai’s hand and lowered it away from his face.

“Tikai...Err...You ok? You look like you’re about to break down or something. And of course it’s me, only a guy like me could pull of being resurrected. But yeah, that‘s not the point here, first we should do something with the masses of robots about to kill us, eh?” Tikai wiped her eyes quickly then nodded at him.

“Ok then, what do we do?” Tikai asked.

“You just be prepared to run for it!” Airaxen put his right hand to the side, hand opened wide. A bright orb of white energy formed in his open palm.

“Dark-light!” He slammed his right hand into the ground a large white shockwave shooting forward causing a fissure to rip through the ground and engulf all of the robots who weren’t struck down by the shockwave.

“RUN!” He shouted as he formed two new orbs one in each hand. Tikai flew past the robots and then up to Sonaris who was still trying to hold off the swarms of robots. Sonaris took note of Tikai from the corner of his eye.

“Tikai, you made it! Are you ok?”

“Sonaris, Airaxen! He...He’s alive!”

“What?!” Sonaris looked around and noticed the bright lights coming from the newest formed crater, then a mass of the robots would be destroyed and another flash of light.

“I never knew he had that sort of attack...Oh right! We have to go help him!” Before they could move towards Airaxen a streak of silver shot past them straight at the battlefield.

“It’s Omega!” Tikai shouted. She began to give chase, but a dozen robots flew up to her and stopped her, Sonaris went right past the ones that stopped Tikai but another dozen appeared in front of Sonaris in order to stop him. Omega transformed his arm in mid-flight and fired an orange orb of energy down at Airaxen which was what appeared to be a direct hit blasting him apart in an explosion like he did before. But after the explosion had settled all of the robots were destroyed, but Airaxen stood there without a single sign of damage. Omega landed on the opposite side of the crater from Airaxen harshly creating a dust cloud around him.

“It can’t be! I killed you with my own hands! YOU’RE DEAD!” Omega yelled in half anger and half fear. Omega flew forward like a bullet, a beam saber forming in his right hand. He pointed his left arm, which was still a cannon at Airaxen and fired another energy orb at him. On Airaxen’s right arm the grid schematic of a octahedron with part of the bottom cut off and a part of the top cut off formed around the forearm. The device was colored with a large yellow band running on the sides as well as outlining the top part of the device which was cut off, which appeared to be like a monitor for the device. The new device was situated in the center of his forearm and covered about half of it. The yellow band around the device split apart and spun around to make the device resemble that of a crossbow. Then another grid schematic began to form, this one originating from the two bands that had shot forth and the top of the device. This grid schematic was that of a large sword blade. When the blade had formed Airaxen swung it at the incoming attack and slashed it apart, causing an explosion to occur just inches away from him. Omega stopped his attack before he was engulfed by the explosion. Airaxen leapt out of it straight at him and swung his blade down at Omega who parried the move with his beam saber. Jolts of electricity fired out from the point of where the two weapons made contact.

“You’re dead! You can’t be alive!”

“Well I’m afraid that you didn’t do a very good job in killing me. Now I’m back and stronger then ever!” Airaxen back flipped away from him forming another white orb in his left hand.

“Dark-light bomb!” He flung the small orb at Omega, but as it flew through the air it grew to be at least as big as a small car. Omega raised his arms to defend against the attack but was blasted away none the less. Omega pressed a hand to his head.

“Lock onto Airaxen and fire the main gun! I don’t care what’s in the way when you do just fire!” Omega flew up into the air and took something from behind him: the seven crystals he had taken.

“I didn’t think I’d need to use these, but you’ve left me with no other choice!”

“Why thank you! I’ve been wondering what happened to those!” Airaxen raised his opened hand, the remaining crystals all flew out of Omega’s hands and onto Airaxen’s. They then turned into little balls of light and seemingly went into his body. On Airaxen’s chest plate the 7 crystals formed lodged in the armor in a diamond design with a crystal in the center. After this design had finished forming two other crystals appeared at the top corner of the chest plate, one translucent white the other translucent black. Omega drew back and flew high up into the air.

“FIRE THE MAIN GUN ALREADY!” He yelled. The carrier tilted downwards to point at Airaxen. He formed two white orbs, one in each hand. Tikai noticed the carrier’s movements as she fought off swarms of the robots.

“Sonaris, that carrier is getting ready to fire again!” Tikai shouted.

“We’ll be fine up here,” he shouted back.

“But it’s going to fire on Air!” Sonaris looked at the ground seeing Airaxen standing in the crater, two bright orbs of light in each hand.

“I don’t think you have to worry, looks like he’s got a plan,’ he said while decapitating a robot without looking. The nose of the carrier split open the massive bolt of energy about to be fired. Airaxen did nothing to try and escape from the area, he continued to form the two orbs. Then a bolt of energy fired out at Airaxen. The bolt collided with the ground, creating a massive explosion. It appeared that it was a direct hit, but Airaxen leapt up and out of the fiery cloud and flew up to the carrier, putting his hands together the orbs merging into one. He swung his right arm to the side, now the orb in that hand.

“Dark-light slash!” The orb of light flattened out and became an enormous white beam as thick as a pencil. He raised it above his head then brought it straight down, the beam grew longer and longer until it was much bigger then the carrier. The beam sliced through the carrier like a hot knife through butter; the carrier had been cut in half as if it were nothing. The two pieces of the carrier began to fall to the ground in different directions, explosions dotting their armor. Large chunks of armor began to rain from the sky most of which taking out the robotic army it helped to create. The carrier pieces smashed into the ground and exploded in a massive mushroom cloud that rocked the Earth for miles around. After the cloud dissipated all that could be seen were flames everywhere with scrap parts lying all over the ground. Airaxen closed his eyes and began to plummet to the ground, but just before he hit he pulled up and landed on the ground gently. Shortly after he landed Tikai and Sonaris joined him on the ground.

“Heheh....Ok, now you know how to make an entrance Airaxen!” Sonaris laughed while surveying the damage he had caused with his last attack. Airaxen scratched the back of his head slightly embarrassed.

“Yeah, didn’t think that I could do so much damage with that one move.” Then a pile of rubble off to the left shook for a second and was blasted apart, Omega standing where the rubble once was his wings tattered and ripped.

“Ok! Now I’ll kill you all!” He pressed a hand to his head and shouted into it: “Lock onto Airaxen‘s position, and fire as many ion blasts as you can! I don’t care if you destroy me or not! JUST DO IT!”

“What is he talking about guys?” Airaxen asked timidly.

“Don’t ask, we have to get out of here first!” The three of them all took to the air about to leave, but Omega fired an energy orb at Airaxen and knocked him out of the sky. Tikai spun around to catch him, but Sonaris grabbed her by the arm.

“You can’t help him! You’ll die too!”

“But!” Tikai looked away and lowered her head. “Not again...”

“We have to get out of here! Don’t worry, he’ll be fine.”

Airaxen hit the ground hard stunning him for a second, but he stood up and looked around.

“...Hey...Wasn’t I supposed to be hit by an ion cannon yet?”

* * *

The creature flying across the frozen tundra could only be described as ferocious. If the beast was standing it would be 15 feet tall, covered in it’s massive black armor-like scales. The body resembled that of a human, but the shoulders were pointed to the sides like a piece of armor, and the beast had two massive wings sprouting out of it’s back. The wings were colored mostly black with red outlining them. On the chest of the creature was a large blue crystal gem that glowed a bright blue aura. The beast also sported a long 8 feet long black tail with a massive spike at the end. The final detail about the beast was it’s head, it was that of a dragon, it’s eyes were like small slits with blue eyes cut into it’s armor like head. Simply put, no sensible person would dare think of angering this dragon. The dragon soared high up into the air and let out a massive roar which echoed for miles around. The dragon put his arms together for a second then split them apart and let another roar, the gem on it’s chest turning white while he turned to point downwards.

Around the perimeter of the subterranean control room stood a dozen robots standing guard. One of them looked up at the clouds, it thought that it saw something shine but it was probably the sun. But a second later all of the clouds above them parted to let an enormous white beam engulf the bunker which then grew larger and totally disintegrated everything within a 50 meter radius. After the beam dissipated all that was left of the bunker was a gigantic hole going into the Earth for what seemed like forever.

“It’s good to have a body again...But now that this is done I have to find Airaxen,” the dragon said in a deep voice that was like that of a growl. It then flapped it’s wings and flew off again.

* * *

“GRAH! WHY ISN’T ANYONE RESPONDING?! WHY ISN’T IONIC DOOM RAINING FROM THE SKY YET?!” Omega let out a howl of anger and stomped the ground creating a large crack.

“Heads up handsome!” Tikai flew at Omega from the side and slammed her metal covered fist into the side of Omega’s head, followed up with a punch to his chest that knocked him back a good foot or two. Omega straightened up and regained his composure, then took aim at Tikai but before he could think of firing Sonaris leapt up from behind Tikai a sword in his right arm held with the blade facing backwards. With a swift motion from Sonaris he slashed apart Omega’s cannon and then turned to the side and elbowed him in the gem on his chest cracking it as well as knocking him back a few more feet. Before Omega could react again Airaxen came crashing down from the sky his left hand raised in the air and glowing bright white.

“I got something for you Omega! Dark-light crash!” Airaxen slammed his hand into the ground in front of Omega the ground shattering into large slabs of rock as instant later a massive wave of energy shot forth and blasted Omega high up into the air. Airaxen spun around forming a small orb of energy as he did so then point two fingers at Omega and fired a thin white beam straight through the weakened gem on his chest. Omega fell to the ground like a rag doll: lifeless.

“So, think we killed him yet?” Sonaris asked casually.

“If in doubt, just keep shooting until there’s nothing left to shoot,” Airaxen responded. But before they could do anything Omega groaned weakly and then stood up slowly but was barely able to stay standing. The remaining scrapped robot parts that were still larger then a small cat floated up and rebuilt themselves into a small jet since most of the robots were totally wiped out by the carrier’s crashing. Omega stumbled back and landed in the cockpit of the jet.

“I’ll be back, and I won’t fail in killing you next time!” Tikai charged forward at him but the jet flew up too fast for her and flew off. Tikai shot at the small craft but couldn’t hit it despite her great aim. Airaxen put a hand on her shoulder, she lowered her gauntlets slowly and sighed.

“Why did you let him escape? We could’ve finished this once and for all!”

“Don’t worry about it Tikai, he’ll be licking his wounds for quite some time. I want him to just think about his latest defeat. Just a little payback for killing me.”

“That’s what I’m worried about...I don’t want you to die, not again!” Airaxen took a step towards her but a thunderous roar from the left distracted him. Sonaris began to charge his arm cannon and point it at the sky, but Airaxen put a hand on it and lowered his arm to the side.

“Wait a second, don’t fire I think I know what’s coming,” he said quietly. A minute later a large black winged creature could be made out against the sky line, another minute later the large dragon-like beast crashed down onto the ground a meter away from them and let out another thunderous roar.

“Well, it appears that I’ve missed all the action around here,” he said in his half-growl of a voice. “It is very good to have a body again, I’ve missed being able to fly around.”

“That’s good, ok then. What’s your name?” Airaxen asked.

“Call me Draken, it’s nice and simple and suits the body I’ve chosen,” Draken swung his head back and let out another thunderous roar that shook the Earth.

“Heh, show off.” Draken smirked at Airaxen’s comment. “Ok, I say we head back to Sonaris’s mountain lab,” Sonaris nudged Airaxen in the side and chuckled.

“Hey, I’ll race ya,” challenged Sonaris, Airaxen chuckled as well and agreed. They both counted to three and shot forward off like bullets. Draken walked over to Tikai and put one of his claws on her shoulder.

“Come on, we had best hurry up before we lose them,” Tikai nodded, but before she could lift off the ground Draken spoke again.

“He feels the same as you do, but he just hides it better then you. Here, I’ll give you a ride you seem tired anyway,” Tikai nodded again and climbed onto Draken’s back. Draken flapped his massive wings and took to the air after Airaxen and Sonaris.

* * *

6 hours later they had all returned to Sonaris’s mountain lab, but Draken had to forcefully enter much to Sonaris’s dismay.

“Wait! Just give me a second here!” Sonaris shouted.

“I’ve been stuck in this puny doorway for 20 minutes! I’m not going to wait anymore!” With a mighty roar Draken unfurled his wings and arms demolishing the entrance way, making another large hole for Sonaris to repair. Tikai walked in on the two, no longer wearing the suit of armor and headed over to the two.

“Do any of you guys know where Airaxen is?” She asked quietly. Draken shook his head, Sonaris lowered his head in thought for a moment then snapped his fingers.

“Yeah, if I remember he should be up on a large plateau high on the mountain, if you take the elevator at the end of that hall you’ll be up there.” Tikai nodded and headed off to the elevator while Sonaris got Draken to repair the damages he caused.

Airaxen stood atop the plateau but without his armor, the night sky above him with the moonlight illuminating half of his face. He stood there still as an owl hunting, then he suddenly dashed forward at a large boulder, the blade on his wrist forming as he charged forward. With a swift motion he slashed apart the boulder the top half flying high into the air. Airaxen jumped up the blade on his wrist split apart and shifted down to the sides to form a pincer-like weapon. A ball of energy began to form between the two blade halves, Airaxen aimed downwards, the ball of energy turning into an orange beam which shot down and incinerate the boulder halves. Airaxen landed on the ground gracefully to complete his attack, the blade on the device dissipating. He straightened up and turned around, Tikai stood there, her expression blank and solemn.

“Something up Tikai?” Airaxen asked cautiously.

“You should’ve killed Omega, next time he’ll be more reckless then ever trying to kill you!” She shouted.

“I don’t really care-” Tikai let out a cry of frustration and spun around. “You might not care about that, but I do! I don’t want you to die again!” She said quietly, her voice beginning to tremble.

“Don’t worry, I won’t die! No way can he take me down now,” Airaxen said with an air of confidence. Tikai spun around quickly, ran up to him and slapped him across the face forcefully, Airaxen staggered back slightly.

“You don’t get it!” Tikai began to cry softly, Airaxen moved towards her to try and comfort her, but Tikai slapped him again.

“Stupid!” Airaxen recovered quickly this time and nodded at her.

“Yeah,” he said quietly. Tikai slapped him again using the other hand.

“Moron!”

“Uh huh,” and again, now tears were flowing from her eyes.

“Imbecile!”

“Yup,” and again.

“Idiot!” She broke down totally now and swung both arms around Airaxen and hugged him tightly.

“I know, I know,” he put both arms around her as well and held her.

“Air...” Tikai looked into his face then rested her head on his shoulder. “Never let go of me.” Airaxen patted her on the head gently.

“Don’t worry, I won’t. You can count on that,” he said quietly.

“I’m sorry...I couldn’t help you when you needed it,” Tikai closed her eyes, a few more tears rolled down her face.

“What do you mean?”

“When Omega had challenged you to that duel I couldn’t stop him from killing you, and when you came back you got shot down and if it wasn’t for Draken you would be dead again! I’m sorry that I’m so useless,” her arms fell to her side and she broke Airaxen’s grip and turned away from him. “I don’t even know why you haven’t ordered me to get out.”

“You’re not useless, Sonaris told me about how you gave Omega a few good shots for me, so you can’t be useless,” Airaxen put a hand on her shoulder, Tikai spun around and hugged him again, tighter then before.

“I’m sorry I’m so clingy these days Air...I lost you once, I will not lose you again!”