"Welcome back to the world of the living Ashley Reynolds," Endgame mocked as Ash regained consciousness a few minutes after the surprise attack, and upon looking around, she noticed she was stuck in a stasis pod, and that she could only move her head, "so much for a rescue." Endgame mocked as a scowl formed on Ash's face.
"You might have us, but you don't have all of us, your trap failed Endgame!" Ash yelled in anger, but to the red-headed Guardians surprise, Endgame bean to laugh softly.
"Always a step behind," she said in an amused tone, "haven't you learned that I'm always a step ahead, I knew that not all of you would follow the satellite, that some of you would stay behind, and needless to say, that only delays the inevitable for a few short minutes." Endgame said in a clam tone.
"What do you mean, 'delay the inevitable?" Troy asked from his stasis pod.
"Surely you can figure it out, but then again, humans are not the most intelligent species in the universe, so allow me to explain for you," Endgame began as with a thought, a holographic display appeared in front of them, and it showed the satellite, "you don't know this, I've been absorbing and storing all the energy from the battles we've raged, while I admit I've used a little of the energy for myself, I've been storing it for when the time was right, and while I planned on waiting, my defeat by Ashley prompted me to speed up my plans, so really you have her to thank for this," Endgame mocked, and that earned a snarl from all the captured Guardians, "you surely muse be wondering what I've been storing the energy for-." Endgame began as Troy cut her off.
"Not really, but I have a feeling your going to tell us anyway." Troy said in a mocking tone of his own, and that made Endgame laugh.
"Your sense of humor never ceases to amuse me Troy Kang," Endgame said with a smirk as with a thought, Troy's pod suddenly became electrified and he screamed in pain for a few seconds as Endgame stopped the electrification after the Guardian had been punished, "as I was saying, I've been storing this energy for a long time, even before I was reawakened," Endgame said, and that confused the Guardians before Endgame kept speaking, "let's just say, this energy is only useful to me, as you can see from your battles with Keith and Jacob, the energy corrupts humans, also you should know their kidnapping was a test, and the test was a success." Endgame said, and that shocked the Guardians, that Endgame would kidnap innocent civilians and use them as test subjects.
"How could you do such a thing, they are innocent!" Tua spat in unusual anger for him.
"Human life means nothing to me, or rather should I say, human life meant nothing to me, until I realized humans where subject to Negacore energy, it corrupts and changes them, and that's very useful to me," Endgame said as the holographic display showed thirty-two black footballs that glowed with a purple aura, "the Negacore's where made as opposite to the Megacore's, and unlike the Meagacore's which gain more power from good emotions, my Negacore's feed off of hatred and despair, and the aggression of battle, and they are very useful at corrupting humans, as you will experience first hand in a few minutes, when I turn the energy loose." Endgame said as the holographic display showed a giant ship buried beneath the ground.
"That how you arrived on earth, you metal piece of junk?" Ash mocked from her stasis pod.
"Why do you ask a question you know the answer to," Endgame mused as she pressed a button on her wrist, and the holographic display began to show images, but the Guardian couldn't figure out what it was showing them, and upon realizing that, Endgame with a smile began to explain, "shortly from now my ship will channel the power of all thirty-two Negacore's and send it to this satellite through an invisible energy beam, which will then fill the satellite with all the negative energy I've been storing, this satellite will then fire it's own energy beam to other satellite's that you humans have put in orbit, and the beam will spread the energy to them, covering the earth in a blanket of Negacore energy, turning the earth dark and corrupted, and giving me an unlimited supply of energy to feed off of for years to come, and my revenge will be complete." Endgame said in an mused tone.
"What did we ever do to you?" Ricky spat at the robotic female.
"I believe the human saying is, 'it's nothing personal,'" Endgame said with a small laugh as she turned her back to them, and went over to a control panel and began typing in a few commands before speaking again, "your crime was getting in my way, but you where never my true targets, for some of your allies have known of my existence for a long time, they just choose never to say anything, a mistake they wont live long enough to regret..." Endgame mused as she typed in the final command, and a single button emerged from the control panel, and it was obvious to the Guardians that when this button was pushed, it would be all over.
"You don't have to do this, think of all the innocent people you will kill." Ash pleaded, now trying to appeal to Endgame's emotional side, but she had no way of knowing that Endgame had little in the way of human emotions.
"They will not be killed, at most they will become corrupted, and I can use them as batteries to feed off of." Endgame said as she prepared to push the button.
"Not if I have anything to say about it!" a new voice entered the room, and they all looked to their left and saw Joseph standing there, already in a combat stance.
"Joseph Sanders, I knew you where here, and I was just wondering when you where going to show yourself." Endgame said in an amused tone.
"Wait's over, and it's time to send you to the scrap heap!" Joseph snarled as he prepared to fire an energy blast at Endgame's skull like face.
"I have no time for this, be gone!" Endgame snarled as she quickly fired a lightning bolt at Joseph, who ran forward and front-flipped over the attack, and landed a dive kick to Endgame's face, who stumbled backwards but kept her footing.
"You want to hurt everyone I love, you've got to go through me!" Joseph snarled as he and Endgame began exchanging a series of punches and kicks that lasted for several minutes, before Endgame finally countered one of Joseph's attacks and sent him flying backwards where he landed on the control panel, and to make matters worse, he had landed on the button, Endgame's plan was now underway, and there seemed to be no way of stopping it.
"You've failed, Joseph," Endgame laughed as she kept firing lightning bolts at the rookie Guardian, "soon the earth will be engulfed in dankness, and I will have an unlimited supply of energy to feed off of, and let's say you and the others escape, I will hunt you down and kill you all, slowly and painfully, as well as my true targets..." Endgame laughed as Joseph decided it was time to try something...
"Copycat!" Joseph yelled as he suddenly fired a lightning bolt at Endgame, which struck her as she was unprepared for the attack and sent her flying backwards and crashed through a closed door.
"Didn't know I could copy your powers Endgame, but I decided to try it, and needless to say, I'm liking all the abilities my HUD is saying I can now do, and I think I'm more than a match for you." Joseph mocked as he fired a lightning bolt from four of his fingers that hit the base of his friends stasis pods, freeing them from their prison, and he tossed Ash her NFL-R, which Endgame had neglected.
"Enter the Rush Zone!" they all shouted as their armor formed around them, as Ash ran to the control panel, and tried to turn off the beam that would surely be making it's way towards the satellite.
"I don't now how to stop it!" she yelled in fear as she didn't know how to access Endgame's technology.
"That's because you can't," Endgame laughed as she re-entered the room, "you will fail, no doubt about it." Endgame mocked as she started firing rapid fire lightning bolts at the Guardians, who began ducking and weaving around the bolts.
"Guardians retreat, we've got to get out of here and warn RZ, we might not be able to stop it from here, but maybe he can!" Ash yelled as she and her friends retreated and headed for the door that she and Joseph had entered the satellite through, but upon arriving at the airlock, she noticed that Joseph was missing.
"Joseph, where are you?" Ash asked through her NFL-R.
"Get out of here, I'm staying behind to try and stop it!" Joseph yelled as the sounds of battle could be heard over the communications line.
"We are not leaving without you Joseph!" Ricky yelled over his NFL-R.
"Just go, go!" Joseph yelled as the airlock suddenly opened and sucked them out into space, as the door was sealed behind them, preventing them from re-entering the satellite, but that was a minor problem due to the vacuum of space had sucked them quite a good distance away from the satellite and to make matters worse suddenly the satellite exploded in a cloud of purple energy, and that shocked the Guardians.
"Joseph, do you read me," Ash yelled over her communication app, "come in Joseph!" Ash yelled as the line was dead silent.
"Is he?" Ricky said in a barely audible whisper, to which they then let silence overtake them, as they started making their way down to earth back towards the HOK.
"Thank God, you guys OK," Ish asked as soon as his friends entered the HOK, to which he was met by silence, and he now noticed that the rookie Guardian was missing, "where's Joseph?" Ish asked his friends, to which they deactivated their armor and seeing their tear filled eyes was the only answer Ish needed, for him to know that Joseph had been killed in action.