Disasteroïd 7
Well next chapter! Another heavy fighting chapy, hope you'll like and understood all! I almost had ten different scenarios in head while writing this, but I knew I had to end the fight now, more would too much.
'BERTRAND!' Spectra screams at the sight of her best partner in crime of her existence. The poor man was half petrified in crystal like matter. But surprisingly he could still talk!
"I'll be alright Spectra! It will melt away and I'll be a little bit drained that's all." he quickly assures her. But Jazz was still unsure: "How long? By the sight it could take a few days"
"I got a doctor in medicine and I'm a shift shaping ghost! It'll take just hours but I must stand still all along or I'll break literally my body!" The small man explain firmly, but then he add with more gravity "You better check out what the heck 'this' come from! It could happen again!"
Vlad didn't hear a thing of what the others were saying. He was all focused at Danny ecto-signature, he was sure it was the teenaged super hero signature, but… It had evolved into something, weird, almost wrong…
Plasmius flies to the broken walls, staring at the sight of the attacked ghost city; he didn't really have time to remember all of it when he arrived, but the giant crystal shards spinning around a colossal vortex of teal energy were definitely not here before. And there's even a sort of crystal dragon flying around ominously above the frozen ruins of the city center. The beast was shooting sound blast of the same teal color, and those blasts froze in crystal the target.
Crystals… crystals here, crystals there, up and down…. Everywhere he look he could see bright teal crystals invading the ghost zone, and ghost blasts seems affectless on them, like the translucid stone absorb them.
Jazz had join him, telling something like "…since you are still freshly formed you mustn't have a proper control over your powers!..." but Vlad ignore her, the dragon was distracted from his rampage, he was distracted by… Maddie…
With the help of King Tuck, Sam the Black maiden and lastly arrive Valerie the Red huntress, Maddie Phantom had thought she could have a chance to give this dragon beast a bit of what she think about him. Because of it, she had the house and labs in a mess! Because of it, the city was a mess for weeks if not month, BECAUSE OF IT SHE HAD TO LET PASS A CHANCE TO FIND HER LOST SON! But thanks to it, she'll at least get a got stress relief battle.
The beast gives some sonic shoot that the four of them easily dodge, Tucker raise an electric green shield wall with his royal scepter, at the impact, the shield had turn crystal and fall to the ground. At the shattering sound below us, the Pharaon teenage grimly comment: "OK… One hit from him would be endgame!"
"Then use shields to deflect his attacks! And keep flying around!" Maddie ordered, then she turn into a liquid blue mass, dived herself in two and are reformed with a heavy gun instead of her right arms. The two Maddies shoot with their big guns while Valerie had slam together her two Uzis into one bigger and much more ominous gun.
She didn't shoot as fast but her long thunderous shoot were strong, enough to totally pierce the beast. Too bad it could regenerate instantly, and that Valerie can't really aim for any kind of organ.
Sam had tried to wrap the beast into her luminous purple-white spider webs, but the contact with the huge beast turn them into purple diamond dust. "It shoot to turn us in crystal, we touch it we turn into crystal…. Is turning us into crystal is all it can do?" the Black maiden mock.
"I say it's an awesome power, because nothing works against it!" Angrily replied the Red huntress.
"Ember huge music's attacks seemed efficient! We just didn't foresee it could counter attack with shockwave too!" Maddie explain dodging a blast while her clone had turned herself into a spinning drill and pierce right into the beast chest. But before it could dig deep in it, it had frozen in crystal, and then broken with a body move. 'What can we do? If this crystallization isn't stop soon this beast will match level 10 in ghosts power scale!' the blue woman though.
Vlad, had left Jazz & co behind, was charging trough the mass of small crystal monster. You know? The faceless humanoids ones that was causing a rampage through the city on the ground, while the Dragon shoot done the strong holds from the sky! Now you remember?
Well all the ghostly defense forces of the city are amazed by Vlad because, he was still in his new 'formed ghost' cloths, and yet he was giving a hell to the winning, until he arrives, crystal swarms.
Vlad trained battle skill and twenty years of ghost fight had help him to determine that all those crystal beast are merely clones or duplicate with a very basic pattern attack store in their luminous core. They're barely level four alone, but could go easily to level height in swarms. That and their irritating crystallization aptitudes. Just one cut and you are out! But Vlad was too talented and well trained to be touch even once.
Another thing, Vlad clearly understood that this crystallization is quite similar to ice powers, since his first encounter with the Far Frozen yeti warriors, Vlad had search and develop an ability to 'melt' their freezing powers with his thunderous ones. After a few experiment on decrystalizing Bertrand, Vlad found that he had to use his own thunder power to tease the frozen ectoplasm to break the crystal spell. Bertrand was quite amazed when Vlad had free him from his curse, he also explain Vlad that he wasn't supposed to be that experimented and in control of his powers. Vlad mentally thought that it might because he'd had them before he became full ghost and he honestly believe it.
Back to the present battle field, Vlad was running/flying to Maddie, but those insolent bugs are blocking the way! He had it enough so he shoot an electric blast that had exploded three of those crystal pests, and the others froze in their attacks, even when they were in the air. All the faceless head of the street turn to look straight at him and Vlad believe he woke the sleeping beast.
"Now, now… Just because I blow up three of you isn't a reason for ALL of you attack me at once. Right?" Vlad nervously said aloud. Too bad, they actually did it.
Rage is a terrible emotion… for those around you. Ember could say that, her hair had unfreeze themselves and began to form a giant fire fist exploding all those crystal minions. Even better she was decrystallizing herself and the group around her, but it was way too slow for her own taste, if it had been ice she would have done it in minutes, but here it takes hours to days!
Just then a newbie still in his fashion less white shirt and short is… kicking those crystal bastards? Why not! "Hey You! Come here and help us out of this mess! I got a war concert to finish!"
"Me?"Sais Vlad when he notices Ember on her stage trashing those irksome pests. He quickly looks behind him to see three times more minion after him then when he began to run. "Okay! Hope you can help me with those pests! I can't stand them anymore!" Hastily reply Vlad, not proceeding what this 'war concert' was meaning.
"Great, break the crystal around the stereo, and let's hope the micro still work! I got a revenge to take on that dragon!" Ember orders him by pointing the stereo. Vlad quickly duplicate himself into four in hope to be faster, leaving one duplicate distracting the minions while the three others run decrystalizing Ember and her crew. Once her body back to normal, she began to sing and modulates her voice, soon finding the lethal crystal breaking note.
Vlad stare amazed at the sight of kneeling armies of crystal beast, 'the girl could break them with her voice! That's genius!' he thought. He looks around the stage and soon understands what the rock diva was speaking about her 'war concert'.
"How did you get yourself frozen? The huge shock wave?" the blue vampire asks. Ember took a pause to explain while her crew was fixing the mess: "I have my butt handed to me by this blast! This dragon had counter attack my war music with his own sound attacks! And damn, what a blast!". Vlad had almost finished, and the crystal beasts were final began to stand up again, and they even beat his clone in a surprise attack. "I'll raise a shield if he does that again, it should at least protect us from the crystallizing part!" Ember didn't even answer him that she grabs her micro and sang again, this time with as much voice she could muster while modulating into the proper crystal breaking note.
The stereo had demultiplied to infinity the sound, Vlad couldn't stand it! But a tech guy hand him some hear plug that he thankfully grab and put them on. Ember song had turn into dust the nearby minions, and trashes the rest in the city. Even the dragon was breaking again, and with Maddie's group attacks, it couldn't focus a proper counter attack. She's breaking through!
Maddie thank whatever above force that had help Ember to relunch her sound attacks, the dragon that seems invincible had shatter in pieces and dust, but it wasn't over yet. Phasing out of the beast head, a tall and long snake creature, with a chest, four bugs like arms that end in sharp claws and at last a faceless head with multiple demon horns crowning above.
Tucker, ever talking big mouth, whistle and add: "So now we can face the big end boss! Hurry up, spell your pitiful world domination plot and get yourself beat up! I got a best friend to find!"
"Now you're talking Tucker! Being a king had finally taught you some real speaking!" Sam teases him.
"Whaaat? My jokes weren't cool before?" ask an offended Tucker. Sam answer right back: "To be frank with you, you jokes are still lames even if they are better than when you were alive."
Before the pharaon teen shoot back at her comment Valerie cut them off: "GUYS! WE GOT AN EVIL FREAK TO KICK RIGHT NOW!"
"Sorry…." Say lamely the two ever squabbling friends.
But Maddie didn't pay attention to them because the faceless crystal beast had crack open a mouth and it spook with the thinnest echo ever. Maddie almost didn't catch what it says: "enemies…enemies…must be stop…can't let them…enemies…enemies…"
After this Maddie didn't really accept what happen then, it was sooo fast… A tornado of crystal dust had engulfed them from below, and the tempest soon grows over the whole city. The long beast slide and strike at them, claws leaving trails of frozen air. Tucker had blocked him with his scepter while Sam tries to tangle him with her purple spider webs. But the spider web soon turns again in crystal dust, same goes for Valerie shoot. Even worst, the light trail left by the red huntress weapons are turn in crystal before spreading away.
Ho! Did we already forget about the crystal trail left by the claws? Well the beast can still attack them, while fazing through them, but Maddie had broke them in her charge and end up with some crystal shards. Tucker who was surrounded by crystal left by his opponent attacks, had wisely used a shield while moving out, in the end there was shards around him in his shield but none nearby him.
Valerie hadn't had such luck, her long shot laser had frozen in instant and her arm was crystallized with the weapon.
"He crystallizes things even faster now! Where does he get such ability? Or the energy to do it" Sam screams in horror when she saw Valerie arm.
"ENEMIES!" the beast screams and Maddie had felt the tiny crystal shard over her skin grow, but when she look at them, she was actually being crystallized from the shards. "His voice is crystallizing me! Don't let any crystal on you!" the woman screams.
"Kiaaa!" it was Valerie, she been totally crystallized before anyone knew how, probably from her frozen arm. Once totally petrified and mute, she falls to the far below ground, already hidden by the shiny dust tempest.
"VALERIE!" Tucker calls her in horror. Enable to dismiss his frozen shield.
Maddie was about to call for a retreat plan, losing her composure at the thought that the Red huntress is in pieces below them. But when Vlad shoot out of the crystal dust clouds with Valerie frozen statue, she old back her word in relief.
"MADELINE! WHAT IS GOING ON HERE? I THOUGH WE HAD HIM!" The blue vampire screams at her.
"That freak must be the leader and he's damn too strong! Or rather fast…" She answer back focusing on the crystal demon.
"He crystallizes every attack we lunch at him in milliseconds! If we could at least touch him, but he doesn't leave any opening for!" Tucker whine once he finally mange to get out of his crystallized shield.
"Hmmhmm…. We need Ember sound attacks! If he go down, all this will stop!" Vlad mused, he then use his ear phones he had from Ember techs and call her: "Ember! Can you play another song of your War Music? Please!"
"I'm already doing that but not all the crystal had broken! I guess the enemy had change is structure, meaning I had to found a new modulation to break them! Give me some time; I can't even see if it's efficient with this bling bling sand tempest!" She hastily replied through the phones.
Vlad then turn to the others "Ember said she need time to find the proper breaking note!"
Sam shoot back "I hope she won't break victims or Valerie instead!"
Vlad shiver at this possibility but soon shake it away. This beast is too dangerous, it have to be stop as soon as possible.
Speaking of the devil, the crystal demon had drag some sand to him and form some form of tentacle wings behind him. Then the shiny mist concentrates in one of his left hands and soon melts into energy. He raises is hand and shoot in water spray motion small balls of teal energy, yet the spray extent had engulf the whole battle field.
Vlad holding Valerie, Tucker supporting Maddie, and Sam where reduce to dodge a freaking rain of crystallizing bullets! And Ember adds to this in the vampire head phone: "It rains bullets and a forest of crystal spikes sprouts! I'M NOT BEEING POETIC!"
"Damn you…! Tucker! Samantha! Those any of you can raise an electric shield? It'll be harder for him crystallize electricity!" Vlad ask in frantic horror. The situation was again getting out of control; he has to destroy this monster at once!
"Yes! Of course! what an idiot!" tucker yell in answer and soon raise his glowing scepter. The pharaon teen materialize gold metal rings around the group and they form a doom with green electricity. Better than what Vlad was hopping it totally absorb the luminous bullets.
"Wonderful Tucker!" Maddie praise him, totally amazed by this miraculous protection. Tucker cockily explain his invention: "these weren't made to be a shield but to reenergize my troops and soldiers in the battle, but weak attacks like those bullets being concealed by electricity would do the trick!"
"It reenergize with what? Electricity?" ask Vlad. Tucker was a little surprise he guess right: "y..yes. How did you guess it?" this it's Vlad who explain: "his crystallizing spell can melt away with time but it's faster if you teas the frozen ectoplasm with hot energy or better: electricity! I test it on Bertrand and he was unfroze in seconds!" Then Vlad focus back on the battle, and soon had a plan. "Maddie you stay here hoping Tucker shield would unfreeze you and Valerie! Tucker keep your shield up as long as you can it's our best defense. Samantha…" But Sam cut him short "It's Sam! Only my parents when they get grave can call me Samantha!" Vlad sight then continue "… have you anything to give me an open window to strike him?" Sam lift her hand and hold her chin, thinking hard, but then decide: "Yes my ecto-spider webs could took the electricity to that monster but I'm afraid it will weaken Tucker shield"
WLAAAM! SCRITCH!
The demon had used another hand to gather energy and had shot a spear of heavy crystallizing energy to pierce the electric shield. Thank goodness, Tucker had feed his shield with his own energy and managed to unfreeze the crystal impact. "Do it Sam! I'll give everything I got to keep this up!"
Sam focus back on Vlad: "How do you plan your attack?" and Vlad charged his hand with pink ecto-electricity: " I teleport him nearby him and melt him with this! I think need a window of five seconds, try ten if possible"
WLAAAM! SCRITCH!
Another spear energy attack, the tentacles in the demon's back had spread leafs glowing and sucking the crystal dust around. With his two last hands in praying motion, the crystal monster was preparing something big, really big! The crystal leaves fall and turn into crystal flying bugs aiming to the electric shield. On impact the bugs explodes and Tucker was using more energy to unfreeze the shield from this minor yet continuous attack.
"Hurry up! If he lunches a new move while holding the others we won't have any safe spot!" Tucker screams in efforts.
"Give me some time Tucker, my spider web is almost done!" Sam plead him, she was malaxing her ecto-energy into some sort of luminous latex in her hands.
Vlad had notice that some crystal bugs had shatter with some far away music notes. Ember was doing all she can from her stage but the crystal beast had immediately found a proper counter to her sound attacks. "I CAN'T BREAK THEM ALL AT ONCE! THEY'RE NOT MADE OF THE SAME CRYSTAL!" Vlad use his phone to boost her: "right now you're the one who push the enemy to this! Don't give up you're making a big difference!" Ember answers back between two note "All right newbie's! Let's rock this final refrain!"
WLAAAAAAAAAAAM!SCRIIIITCH!
There's more power impact in the spears attacks. "Tucker! Give everything! Vlad!" Sam cried, she shoot her pink latex ball, it had pass the electric shield and charge itself into orange electricity. Once nearby the beast assaulting the group, it explodes into and luminous orange electrified spider web concealing the beast attacks.
Before the monster even understood what happen Vlad was behind him in a pink flash, and the next second the vampire pierce the crystal demon chest right in his luminous core. If Vlad had been slower, the beast would have shredded him, his four clawed hands where inches from him. But the destruction of its core had freeze the monster in his action. After an agonizing minute, the crystal corps went limp, and Vlad saw his reflection in the faceless head of the monster, cracking mouth wide open.
"Butter biscuit! He froze my arm! I can't pull it out!"
Hye again! So, how was it?
I like that final note where Vlad had been peeved by his frozen arm ! Or Tucker, Valerie, Maddie and Sam fighting with their ghost powers.
Next chapter should be more peaceful, hope to write it fast!
