"I don't think we can keep going like this!" Rook shouted stepping back pulling her trigger but a small soft fizzle, she looked at her Proto-Tool with an upset face. Tetrax stepped back panting he had cleaved through hundreds of Vulgaz's minions, and fired thousands of shards around. He fell to his knees panting looking at Terraxx with a pair of energized cables in her hands wrap around the mutated Keeva's claws binding them kicking her in the gut with her foot as she grins.
"I can do this all day!" Terraxx said with a grin pulling one of her cables forcing Keeva to fall back down as she tried to stand again.
"Perhaps you can...but my proto-tool has ran out of power!" Rook yelled shifting her blaster into a staff spinning it around and knocking the enemies away. Tetrax groaned as he picked up tossing another minion away.
"This is too much...we cut one down and five more seem to replace them…" Tetrax muttered as several of the zombies started to pile on him. He created massive spikes on his back knocking several away and more shredded, but even more piled on him until he was pinned and unable to move. He tried to get up but the zombies sprouted roots around trapping him to the ground.
"Tetrax!" Rook shouted as she soon found herself being swarmed as well. "Ah!"
"Terraxx run! You'll be captured as well at this rate!" Terax yelled as Terraxx landed on her hands spinning her legs around kicking several members of the horde away and flipping up pulling on her cables expecting to drag Keeva but the cables had been severed. Terraxx looked in shock as vines start to wrap around her arms. She pulled and spun moving a dozen around but Keeva locked her arms under Terraxx's, Keeva grinned as vines and branches sprouted around trapping the two like a tree. Terraxx grumbled struggling to try and be free, the three heard a loud flapping noise and the sound of rapidly growing crystals. They looked to the sky and saw the giant flying mutant Vulgaz with three humanoids flying towards it from a large black crystal pillar.
Ultimate Bogyro, Coal-Heart, and Ash landed on the lowest hanging hand of their enemy. In the distance the lights of Warmore city shined as Vulgaz flew towards it. The three heroes gripped to the various branches and climbing up higher. The ground shook as several bulges grew from the back.
"You will not stop me from my plans!" Vulgaz growled as several copies of his original Methanosian form and one of his first mutation rose from the mounds. Ash shifted her arms to axes while Coal-heart made blades with her hands.
"Kaiden...you go for the head, we will take these copies down!" Ash yelled.
"What are you talking about? Even with help we barely took out his last form!" Bogyro yelled.
"Kaiden think about it, if he didn't perceive us as a threat why would he make so many copies?" Ash asked.
"With your Ultimatrix you are also the most likely to be able to end this monster!" Coal-Heart yelled firing her shards at the Vulgaz clones. Bogyro weakly nodded looking at his hand looking at his hands in confusion.
"But...maybe I should shift down...I can't generate fire anymore in this form…"
"You took the form of a Methanosian because the Ultimatrix believed it was your best choice! I'm sure you can figure it out!" Coal-Heart yelled charging at the hord of Vulgaz's with their mutant leader aiming his vine finger at them.
"I don't really have faith in the Ultimatrix…" Bogyro said.
"Neither do I." Ash said readying her axes, Bogyro looked at her sadly. "I have faith in you Kaiden."
Bogyro reached to say something but she leaped in the air launching her arms to start cleaving, Bogyro smirked and held up his hands firing spikes as he charged forward. The Vulgazs opened their palms aiming towards the others firing jets of flames that combined into an inferno of a wall. The spikes from Bogyro hit the flames and with a quick explosion the flames dispersed and several Vulgazs fell off to the ground, withering away the farther from the Giant Vulgaz.
"Did I do that?" Bogyro asked.
"Your spikes must be releasing some sort of explosive!" Coal-heart yelled firing more spikes, Bogyro grinned charging forward firing his spikes, the pitcher's on his shoulders opened up releasing the sweet smell as it started to drip a light pinkish-orange fluid.
"Uh...do you guys know what smells sweet and is pink and orange?" Bogyro asked as one of the drops hits the ground of Vulgaz smoke rising from them. "Oh...apparently acid…"
Bogyro spread his legs aiming his pitchers forward and blasting out two steady streams of the sweet smelling acid. The body shuddered as a hole burned through the back, Bogyro grinned as the streams widened burning through more. Bogyro's grin faded as his footing vanished, he flailed his arms as he fell through the hole, he popped out on the other side, he launched his tail stabbing into the vines, he dangled with a panicked face staring at the ground. He looked over his shoulder, he fired several spikes into the vines but Vulgaz seemed to not react. He looked around for the vines which he noticed were missing.
"Are his clones the vines?" Bogyro asked as he swung until he was on the vines, he swung his bladed arms slashing through the vines and expected to see a heart, or the true Vulgaz, or a seed...instead he saw an unconscious Lin Tennyson tied by vines, with vines in her and her omnitrix. Bogyro crawled into the vine heart and tried to blast the vines holding her with his acid, the Ultimatrix flashed red and Kaiden looked wide eyed as the vines making up Lin's prison started to vibrate.
"Now you are helpless!" Vulgaz's voice echoes as vines dart towards Kaiden, he rolled around dodging them. Kaiden ducked dodging another that tried to whip him, he rushed to Lin and pulled up her Plunger.
"Please work…" he whispered slapping the Omnitrix. Lin's body started to shift with the green light. Her body grew larger into a muscular form, yellow and black fur sprouted out, two lightning bolt style pigtails sprout from her head. Kaiden knew what it was this was Shocksqutch a powerful yeti-like alien with electric powers, but no matter how powerful she was she is useless if she's asleep. One vine whipped at Kaiden as he grinned. "Can't hit me can you!"
"I will end you!" Vulgaz growled his entire body shaking as his clones start to climb through the hole towards the Vine Heart, Coal-heart and Ash clinging to the side. Ash looked at Coal-Heart as the two felt the wind brushing on them.
"I blame you…" Ash growled.
"I did not make it tilt!" Coal-Heart yelled. A loud SWACK was heard followed by a loud noise with a canadian-esque accent. The two girls looked towards as they saw electricity sparking out of the vine heart.
"What...was that?" Ash asked.
"Sounded like a Gimlinopithecus, but they almost never come this far south in the Galaxy." Coal-Heart said as her eyes are drawn to the black shards, and spikes all over the giant monster's chest. "Ash...we need to drop…"
"Drop why?" Ash asked.
"Explosives, Vulgaz is covered in them, and if a single spark detonates any of those spikes, it will cause a chain reaction! We got to bail!" Coal-heart yelled gripping Ash as the two dived down. Ash flailed looking at Coal-heart.
"What about Kaiden!" Ash yelled.
"He has the Ultimatrix he can survive!" Coal-Heart yelled as they crashed into the ground by their trapped allies.
"Did you enjoy the ride?" Terraxx asked looking from the tree prison she was in. Coal-Heart morphed back to her human form staring at the three.
"Are you three okay?" Albaedo asked.
"Just fine, but...kind of trapped by...how long has it been since they stopped moving now?" Terraxx asked looking at Tetrax and Rook.
"About ten minutes…" Rook sighed.
"That's when Vulgaz took flight." Albaedo said.
"And his clones...he must only be able to control so many entities at a time." Ash said looking up at the monster as electricity sparked around. An angry screaming yellow yeti flailed her arms falling electricity sparked, vines flew after her but stopped short as the monster started to revert back to its pre-omnitrix mutation. Its lower four arms, and wings retreated to its body, the flaming head extinguished itself, and the metal plating faded away before crashing into the ground destroying all the trees nearby.
"No! My….per...orm…" Vulgaz snarled as his face started to devolve. Shocksquatch yelled firing a bolt at Vulgaz.
"NO! YOU'LL CAUSE A CHAIN REACTION!" Albaedo shouted, Shocksquatch looked confused but it was too late, her electricity had sparked the spikes. With a series of explosions, Vulgaz shrieked in terror as he appeared to crumble apart. The entire body exploded in a large pillar. Tetrax looked shocked as he broke through his trapping.
"Guess we didn't need the device did we?" Tetrax asked, Albaedo and ash struggled to keep standing as they stared in horror.
"Did...Kaiden get out?" Ash mumbled. Shocksquatch eyes widened and gripped her head.
"WHAT HAVE I DONE!" She screamed.
"Did...we kill him…" Albaedo said as she fell to her knees. The ground started to vibrate, the broken chunks of Vulgaz reuniting itself into his form.
"I am...done yet!" the monster growled, Ash snarled aiming a finger at the living cluster of rocks, dirt, and vines.
"WHY WON'T YOU JUST DIE YOU NO GOOD PIECE OF SHIT!" Ash yelled, her eyes glowing purple and full of tears. "YOU JUST KEEP COMING BACK! YOU MADE KAIDEN'S LIFE WORST EVERY TIME AND NOW HE'S DEAD BECAUSE OF YOU!"
"Die!" Vulgaz snarled swinging his arms down crashing down, but Ash raised her own sludge arms catching the crashing bouldering fists.
"YOU DIE! YOU DO NOTHING BUT CAUSE PAIN!" Ash yelled pushing back, Helen dashed up to the scene.
"I got the device to demutate Vulgaz!" Helen said offering the device. Albaedo took it studying it and after a second aimed it at Vulgaz pressing the button. Vulgaz let out a scream before his body started to shrink down, rocks, clumps of dirt, and other debris fell to the ground until a withered up browned, petalless methanosian. He weakly raised one of his brittle arms.
"I...was like a god…" he groaned. Albaedo kicked the withered being in the gut.
"You were a monster…"
"Wow...that was easy..but we WON day is saved." Helen said raising her hands with a smile. "It is isn't it?"
"We lost Kaiden…" Shocksquatch said looking down crying. "I killed him…"
"No it's my fault...if I didn't take the Ultimatrix from Azmuth's storage I could've spared him this fate…" Albaedo cried, rubbing her eyes. "And now I got a pain I can't explain…"
"I can't believe he's gone...before I could confess my feelings…" Terraxx whimpered as Rook
stared at her with confusion mouthing 'BS' but not so short.
"Poor Kaiden…" Tetrax said putting his hand to the chest and his feet together. "May he be at peace in the afterlife. The group in tears picked up the withered Vulgaz and carried him away to be put in an isolated prison.
In the rubble of the former Vulgaz mutation, a spectral hand raised up, in a quick jerk as if shaken away, a grey and black skinned specter with chains dangling from his wrists, a scorch like pattern on his chest with a circular icon with a green hourglass on a black background, a single blood red eye on the black tracks of the body.
"GET OUT LIN!" he screamed in a raspy voice. It looked at its hands and tried to pick up a rock, its hand phasing straight through it. It floated over to a puddle seeing it's ghostly appearance. "No i'm a ghost!"
"Poor Kaiden…." the ghost heard turning to see Tetrax saluting and the others crying around. He floated over waving his hand in front of their faces.
"Uh...guys can you see me?" he asked but frowned or he would if he could have as no one reacted to his movements. He floated over them as they carried a withered methanosian groaning about the power it had. Ash with an angry face marched with tears streaming down her face, Lin crying moved looking away from Ash and Albaedo, Terraxx still cryin as Rook half heartedly tried to comfort her, but the ghost ended up staring the most at Albaedo who was clutching her chest as tears came down.
"Why does it hurt so much…" She whispered only loud enough for herself and the ghost to hear.
"Alby?" The ghost asked as they kept moving. "I'm right here!"
The ghost hovered a bit trying to comprehend its situation. It heard the ground move as a battered Keeva sat up, she had been freed of her mutation and Vulgaz's control, her shirt had tears in it and her hair was a mess the ghost floated to her.
"Keeva can you hear me?" the ghost asked but as it tried to touch her it seemed to fall into her. Keeva gasped as her eyes glowed green. She looked at her hands and with the ghost's raspy voice. "This...is interesting…"