"B-b-boss!" Lennie said. "We didn't expect to run into you!"
"Cut the crap" Exstroyer said as he leapt down. "What's with the dumb armor? Is that why $80,000 were missing from my bank account?"
"Yes, but sir, please understand, these aren't a waste of money!" Rob said. "These things are indestructible! We have max steel-"
"Indestructible you say?" exstroyer said as he walked over to rob. "Let's see how well that theory holds" exstroyer grabbed unto Rob's arm, and he squeezed tightly. Max looked in shock that rob looked like he was in pain. Exstroyer tightened his grip and something even more shocking happened-the armor broke! Dread couldn't believe the armor he had perfected that not even he could destroy was broken by an animal with a sharp claw. Neither could max.
"Now, if your armor is so tough, why haven't you finished off max steel yet?"
"Well, we were going to but-" Lennie couldn't finish because exstroyer cut through his armor, making him fall backwards.
"Lennie" Rob said in an upset tone.
"I told you what would happen if you fail me. Poor Lennie remembered that too late" Exstoryer said.
He-he killed him! Max thought. That heartless jerk killed one of his own men!
"Now, Rob, since you're so confident in your ability to kill max steel, I'll let you finish the job" exstroyer said as he sat down. "I'll give you five minutes"
"Right sir" Rob said as he turned around, ready to fight max steel.
"Sending your cronies to fight me instead of fighting me yourself" Max said. "I knew you were rich and you were viscous, but I didn't know you were a coward"
"Coward?" exstroyer said right before he laughed. "If my men think their confident enough to take on you, then I'll let them! Now, kill him Rob!"
"Sure boss" Rob said worryingly.
"Remember: If you don't kill him in five minutes, I kill you. Got it?"
"Yes sir" Rob said. Rob started charging towards Max, ready to use his repulsion blasts in order to maybe punch a hole in max steel's stomach. Max, knowing of what would happen if he just stood there, turned into Speed mode and quickly got out of the way, witch made rob blow a hole into the burger king nearby. Max turned into strength mode and grabbed rob, and threw him out of the door, which smashed the glass on the outside.
"Man, my boss isn't going to like this" The Burger King casher said as she saw what was left of the entrance. Rob continued to try and take on max steel, only this time to get thrown into a moving bus. The shock of the impact caused the bus to go off course, heading towards a BoJangles in the distance.
"Max, there's people inside of that bus!" Steel said.
"I know!" max said as he rushed towards the bus in speed mode. Max turned into strength mode and he grabbed the side of the bus, and ripped off half of it. He started asking everyone to get out, now or else. Most people climbed on his back in order to get out, other people jumped off of the Bus directly. Max the pushed the side of the bus away from his face, causing rob to fall out of it.
"He doesn't seem so though now that exstroyer damaged his armor" Steel said.
I just noticed that too. Dread thought to himself. As did I, the writer.
"Four minutes" Exstroyer said off to the distance. Rob got back up, and he tried something else. Max rushed towards him, ready to take him on, but Rob pulled a parking meter off the street that he was standing on, and he hit max in the face with it. This knock max back a bit from the fight, causing him to smash into the thrift shop behind him. Max landed in the old clothing department, knocking about all of it over. This resulted in him being buried underneath a pile of clothes, and rob coming in to finish the job.
"Excuse me miss, have you seen a white and blue man that looks like a power ranger burst through here?" he asked the cashier, who was in her eighties.
"Huh?" she asked. "What about a lone ranger and beer?"
"That's not what I asked" he said, not noticing max was getting up behind him.
"Funny, I think my dad used to have a jacket just like this!" max said as he held an old jacket.
"Why would he wear something like that?" Steel asked.
"Who knows?" max said, trying not to give away that they were not talking about the same person.
"There you are!" Rob said as he tried to shoot max with a repulsion blast. Max managed to dodged this, making rob hit the antique plates behind him. Max then changed to speed mode and rammed himself into rob, sending him flying into the other side of the store. Max then grabbed rob by the shoulder and threw him at the window where you would look at what they had (If they have an official name I do not know what it is) making rob smash into a parked car.
"One minute" exstroyer said as rob got up. He tried to punch max in the face but max grabbed his fist and threw him in the direction that exstroyer was in. max walked up to him, and rob started saying something.
"It's over…" rob-now injured and bleeding-said. "Go ahead Max steel…finish me"
"With pleasure" Max said as he jumped up, and looked like he was going to make a kick. Rob closed his eyes waiting the impact that most likely would crush his skull, but something strange happened. Rob heard a noise that sounded like Max's foot hitting something, but he didn't feel anything. Rob opened his eyes and saw some blood flying across from him, but he realized it wasn't his. He turned around and saw something amazing-Max spared him, and instead kicked Exstroyer in the face.
"You fool" exstroyer said as he tried to get up. "You will pay for that"
"That would be nice if you would actually fight me, instead of sending an underling to fight me" Max said a he cracked his knuckles. "After all, it's your butt I want to kick, not his"
"And may I ask why do you want to do that?"
"Because I know you too well, Winters" Max said. "If you use the that dragon fire-"
"I GIVE UP!" steel shouted, interrupting Max.
"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted, I know what that energy is capable of, and I know what disasters could happen if they got in the wrong hands. And your hands are horribly wrong"
Okay, you've GOT to be quoting something! Max thought. Surprisingly, no, I wasn't. I didn't hear a speech like that in One Piece, or Naruto, or Transformers prime; that was just something I thought up. And the weird thing about it was that I thought it up while watching my dog take a crap.
"Very well then. You realize that I will show you no mercy" Exstroyer said as he cracked his-um-claw? I dunno, you come up with something.
"Strike me" Max said. Exstroyer transformed into a gorilla and tried to punch Max, but max just grabbed his fist and turned him over, smashing him into the ground. Exstroyer soon transformed in a spider and tried to shoot a few webs at Max, but max transformed in flight mode, flew out of the way of those projectiles, and turned into straight mode and fell right down towards exstroyer, attempting to squish him like a big. Exstroyer transformed once again (this time into T-Rex) in an attempt that he may do and Arlong and try to bite through max steel's bones. Only one piece fans will get that reference.
"Okay, that might be a problem" Steel said as he saw that.
"As long as it's not a dragon, we can take it down!" Max said as he rushed towards the T-Rex in speed mode. "GO TURBO! CLONE!" soon twelve Max Steels ran rampid around the city and tried to confuse exstroyer. Exstroyer didn't fall for it, mainly because he had an easy solution-if he couldn't figure out which was the real max steel, then he'll just kill them all. CHOMP! One dead. STOMP! Three dead. SMASH! Seven dead. SLAM! Eleven dead. Exstoyer noticed that he had killed all of the max steels that were attacking him, but he remembered that there were twelve. He also realized in three second that all of the ones he killed were clones. So where was the real one?
"Looking for me?" Max shouted as he used strength mode to grab Exstroyer's leg and slammed his body into the side of the building next to him. Exstoryer tuned back into a human and tried going for a different method. He quickly jumped out of the way, and he was really high up in the air.
"What's he doing?" Steel asked.
"I-I don't know" Max said. But so far, I don't like it. Exstroyer did what seemed like a flip in the air and he formed a kick, and he sky rocketed down towards max, slamming him into the ground. Max really felt the pain as Exstoyer's foot slammed against his chest, and on his back as he hit the ground, shattering the concrete underneath him.
"Now I think I know where Keeah got that move" Steel said. Exstroyer got back up and transformed into his gorilla mode, and grabbed max and threw him through ten buildings (kinda like the way Jenny did to Toxzon in my "Betrayal" fanifc) making everyone panic. Max turned into flight mode and tired flying towards Exstroyer while in his "King Kong" mode (And I will be really disappointed if none of you even know what King Kong is) and tried to ram into him, but exstroyer jumped up and slammed max down into the building he was standing on top of, making him smash though all forty floors in the building, which scared the heck out of everyone one in the building.
It was a little while until Exstroyer had max pinned down in the lobby, and this was around the time a new casting team came in and started reporting on what they saw. "Hecko, my name is JoAnna James, and your witnessing live a fight between max steel and Exstroyer, right in the lobby of the Startech enterprises building!"
What's happening?! Dread thought. I had the upper hand in this fight a little while ago! How did the tables suddenly turn on me?!
"Hey boss" some guy said as he walked in, carrying a case. "One of the criminals that stole the dragon flame returned the case to me, and he said-" Exstroyer looked over at the guy and saw the case in his hands, and he completely let go fo max steel.
"Where's Mr. Shane?"
"He's not in at the moment. But I am!" Exstroyer said. "GIVE ME THE CASE!"
"No way man!" the guy said as he tried to head for the door. The guy almost made it until exstroyer put his claw to use, and-well-since this is kinda R-rated what happened here, let's just say that guy will never go to retirement. That he's going to become homies with Jesus. And estroyer's claw is to blame.
"I'll be taking this, thank you" exstroyer said as he took the case.
"No" Max said as he slowly got back up. "I'm not going to let you take it!"
"How sad!" Exstroyer said as he punched max in the gut. "Just a minute ago, you had the upper hand. And now, you don't even have the strength to stand!"
Come on dread, don't die here! Max thought. I can't believe I'm saying this, but I need you to win! I've seen what the dragon flame can do if not handled properly. I understand your concern, just please don't die here!
"Now, I wonder what would happen if I tried to bond with the dragon-" exstroyer was about to finish and crush the glass that the dragon Flame was in, but something stopped him. Something that felt as if someone shot him in the back.
"You get the heck away from him" Ferris said. Max looked up at him and saw he was standing at the damaged entrance, holding a gun. What happened was that after they captured the crippled ultralink Ferris got a call from Randessa telling him that Molly has been trying to contact him for a while. He got grip of what was going on and he rushed over to the battle field.
"Well, you're late to the party" Exstroyer said as he turned around.
"Drop the case, and you can walk away, bullet free" Ferris said.
"You don't know a thing about me, do you?" exstroyer said as he walked up to Ferris. Ferris tried to shoot exstroyer repeatedly, but nothing happened.
"I've grown an immunity to bullets!" exstroyer said as he grabbed Ferris' gun and crushed it. Ferris tried to look as if he had no other option, but he was hiding something in his pocket. This was an experiment weapon that Berto was working on. It was something similar to a lightsaber, and he was about to pull it out right before exstroyer kicked him in the gut. Wait, first I have him get kicked in the family jewels, and I have him get kicked in the gut, and in a different fanfic I said he got shot and stabbed. My god, Ferris is like the Kenny of my Max Steel Fanfiction universe. Only he's still alive. Then I guess he's Zoro.
"Now to finish this jo-"
"I don't get it" Steel said.
"Huh?"
"Why do you want the dragon flame?" Steel said. "How can I benefit you? It's not dragon DNA, so what would you want with it?" This made exstroyer laugh like crazy much to Max's and Steel's shock.
"Why tell you-" Exstroyer said a she crushed the container. "When I can show you" the dragon flame energy absorbed itself into Exstroyer's body, and something strange happened soon afterwards. Exstroyer's body started changing, and in a strange way. His arms turned in to claws, his back grew wings, and his neck started extending as his head was changing shape.
"Holy crud" Ferris said.
"He's-he's-" steel said as exstroyer's body also grew as he grew a tail. "He's turning into a dragon!"
I am SO not telling Keeah about this. Max thought.
How is that possible?! Dread thought. He absorbed the energy, and he turned into a dragon! How the heck could he do that?!
Exstroyer roared as he tried to slice Max in four. Max quickly turned into speed and rushed out of the building, hoping that he wouldn't run into Exstroyer. This didn't work as Exstroyer busted out of the building, and attempted to burn max with a breath of fire. Ferris ran out of the building soon after. One thing they didn't notice was that some came by and took the case with the dragon flame.
"How is that possible?!" Steel asked. "I though dragon flame was something that Keeah's mom made and tested on herself while she was present!"
"I thought that too" max said, after looking through some of Max's memoires. "What I'm more worried about is how are we going to take him down now?"
"Maybe he'll fall in love with a donkey?" Steel said.
"That is one of the dumbest things I've ever heard" Max said as he switched to flight mode.
"Clearly you've never seen the movie Shrek" Steel said. Yeah, I felt like I had to do that. Moving aside from the forced reference, max tried to think of how to fight a dragon. I'm also trying to think of one, because the movie I can remember seeing someone kill a dragon was Sleeping Beauty. And I'm not sure why dread would EVER watch that movie. Hold on while I try and think of one. And by think of one I mean look it up.
"You have it here folks!" Joanna said after she saw the dragon try to fry max steel. "That dragon was just let lose by Startech industries, and were not sure why. All we know is that it wants to destroy max steel!" this news cast reaches everyone-
Ann, who is painting her nails-
Jackson, who after watching this fight for ten minutes decided to change the channel-
Molly, who was standing nearby-
And a girl in new York, with her friend. Her friend got up in order to try and help max, but she stopped her companion.
"Relax, I'm sure max has this" she said.
"Max, we have to do something!"
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking!" Max said. Max tried to look though his memories to see if he had a sword of some sort, and he found one. However, he saw this sword was damaged by a "Dragon Flame" Sword in a training session.
"Max"
"I SAID I'M THINKING!" max shouted.
"That's not what I'm talking about" Steel said.
"Then what are you-"
"DODGE!" Steel shouted. Max tried to think about what steel was trying to say when he learned it the hard way. Max felt Exstroyer's dragon tail hit him in the back, making max collide into a building. Exstroyer then used his jaws to comp away part of said building, making everyone out of the building fall out of the side (Kinda like that scene in Transformers Dark Of The Moon with the driller worm) including max.
"GO TURBO! FLIGHT!" Max shouted as he morphed into flight mode. He flew out of the collapsing building, and tried to avoid all of exstroyer's claws.
"Max, there's several people falling from the building!" Steel said. At this moment, Max turned around and saw people falling out of the shattered windows at high altitude. Max flew towards them hoping to try and save all of them.
There's so many. Dread thought as he tried to rescue two of them. He grabbed two of them by their suits and tossed them onto another building. He tried to grab another woman but he noticed how many other people were also falling from the building. Max was now stressed to every point. He didn't know how he could both avoid dragon exstroyer and saving all off these people. But then he noticed that the N-Tek was trying to also save them, and that he had almost nothing to worry about. Cytro was saving everyone else, and so were the rest of N-Tek's ships.
"Wow" max said. "I've never noticed what these guys do to save countless lives"
"What are you talking about?" steel said. "You see that every day!"
"Oh. Yeah" Max said. Max, now with the benefit of knowing that those people will live, decided to try and stop Exstroyer. He flew over to Exstroyer, and tried to hit him in cannon mode. Exstroyer just grabbed him, making him turn back into base mode.
"Look at this" Exstoyer said as he tightened his grip. "What was once a great hero is now a weakling trapped in my hand. This is going to feel good getting revenge on you for all of the times you foiled my schemes. All of the times you made me angry. All of the times that your miserable existence ruined mine! I hope you're ready to die!"
"I don't recall saying I was" max said as he turned into strength mode. He grabbed one of the finger nails on exstroyer's claws and pulled it back, making exstroyer scream in pain. Then he turned into flight mode and rammed himself into exstroyer's stomach.
"Go max!" that girl I mentioned earlier said.
"This episode of the Simpsons is really funny!" Jackson said, not giving a Darn about the fight.
"What is with the way he did that?" Ann asked.
Max then slammed exstroyer into another building, and hoped he had seen the last of this giant. He then turned into cannon mode and slammed into exstroyer, which seemingly finished him.
"Well, that takes care of that" Max said as he walked away.
"that was almost too easy" Steel said.
"I'm Max Steel" Max said, not noticing what was going on behind him. "Nothing's too har-" Max didn't even get to finish because Exstroyer got up and snapped his jaw shut, seeming have eaten Max steel. This made Molly scream, Ann look in horror while she hugged her pillow, Jackson laugh at something stupid Homer did, and the girl look in suspense.
"I think we should have gone down there and helped him" her friend said.
"I'm sure this fight isn't over yet" the girl said as she kept watching.
And the girl was right. Soon Exstroyer felt his mouth open, as Max (In strength mode) forced open his jaws. He was a slobbery mess, but he certainly wasn't eaten.
I can't believe I'm saying-or thinking, rather-but dread, that was freaking AWESOME! Max thought.
"Sorry, looks like you have to find a new main course" max said as he yanked on exstroyer's tooth, making him scream as Max jumped down.
"You'll pay for that!"
"Make me!" Max shouted. Dread still had no clue on how he was going to finish this fight. So far all of his attacks only shoved the ginormous beast, and there was no way he was sure he could stop this fight. Exstroyer tried to fly over to max while burning him with his fire breath, but max kept dodging. Molly, who was still panicking, ran over to berto, asking him if he knew a way the fight would end.
"Well, I do have this" Berto said as he pulled out an AK-47.
"No way I'm letting max go near a gun like that!" Molly shouted. This was when Ferris walked over to them, trying to also think about how he could help max defeat this dragon.
"Ferris, surely you have something that Max can use to take down that beast!"
"Like what?" Berto asked. "I'm still repairing his sword after Keeah broke it! You won't let his use any fire arms, what are we supposed to do?" Ferris thought for a bit on what the heck they could do in this situation, and he came up with something.
"Berto, do you have something that we can use to launch at Max?" Ferris asked.
"I think so. Why?"
"I think he can use this" Ferris said as he took the plot device-er, I mean lightsaber out of his pocket.
"You never used that?!"
"I was going to, but exstroyer stopped me!" Ferris said.
"Whatever, how are we supposed to get it to max?"
"I just asked you that" Ferris said.
"Oh, right. Let me look" Berto said.
"Hey, forge Ferris" Max said as he rammed himself into exstroyer's neck, which did nothing. "If you're going to do something, do it now!"
"Max!" Ferris shouted as he threw the not-lightsaber at max. Max grabbed it and looked at it strangely.
"What on earth is that?!" Exstroyer said.
"It looks like a meatal stick" Max just replied. This made exstroyer laugh. Exstroyer then flew up and lunged (I hope I used that word correctly) himself forward at max, hoping he could crush the latter. Max kept looking at the metal stick and he pressed a button, and what happened next amazed him. A green lightsaberish came out of the end of the stick, and it even made the noise as max swung it along.
"A lightsaber?" exstroyer asked right before he laughed. "You think a Sci-Fi movie weapon from the 70's is going to stop me?!"
"One, there's a new Star Wars movie coming in December" steel said as max started flying towards the dragon. "Two: yes, yes we do"
"Then just try and stop me" Extroyer said as he spread out his wings. He breathed some more fire, in order to burn max steel, but he missed, and torched the billboard with the half-naked woman behind Max.
"Aw man, I really liked that billboard" Ferris said. This kinda made Molly angry.
"Use the force, Luke" Steel joking said as max flew toward exstroyer's stomach.
"Shut up or you're next" Max said as he arrived. Exstroyer tried to chomp on max, but Max had other plans. He took the light saber, and he sliced exstroyer in the chest, making exstroyer scream. What do I mean? Ever seen that fight Between Zoro and Mihawk where Zoro loses and lets Mihawk finish him off? And this really pissed off luffy, Jonny and Yosaku? It was kinda like that, only nobody tried to avenge Exstroyer by launching himself at max, only for the latter to move out of the way. Exstroyer soon back to normal, and everyone looks in shock over what happened.
"My god" Ferris said.
"This can't be max. It just can't be!" Ann said.
"Wow, that guy was an idiot!" Jackson said, assuming he was watching the episode of the Simpsons where that guy was trying to be like homer, which results in him grabbing two power cables without gloves. Next thing you know, there was a funeral.
"What?" the girl said. "I never thought max would try and do that"
"MAX MCGRATH!" Molly shouted.
"Relax, I didn't hit any vital organs" max said as he turned off the light saber. "He's going to live"
"That-that was violent" Berto said. Kat and Jefferson walk out of the ship right when they saw exstroyer (now back into his "base" form) injured, and bleeding. Jefferson and Kat grabbed him and escorted Him into their prison cell.
"Berto, I want you to find out why that dragon flame made Exstroyer turn into a dragon" Ferris said as they entered the ship.
"that might be a bit of a problem, sir" Berto said.
"And why is that?"
"Remember when Keeah gave us a sample of her blood so that we could study it?"
"Yeah?"
"It got destroyed in the attack where we lost all of my research of Dragon flame about a week ago"
"Great. What about the fake dragon flame energy?"
"I went to get some, but someone else already took it"
"Who the heck took the fake dragon flame energy, then?"
…
Somewhere in a dark room, a giant and hunchbacked man walks in. not much could be identified about him, only that he had what looked like a green flame coming out of his back, and he had two giant ciliders on his back that looked like canisters. He was carrying the stolen case, and he put it on the table. He opens the case and grabs the only dragon flame sample that hasn't been broken. Looks at it with delight.
"You, my pretty, are going to help me with my toxic nation" he said right before he laughed.