Hey guys, this is the last I'll ever write for my first popular fic series: Akira and Lara Zero. I'm ending this all on a three part finale. I hope you guys enjoyed these adventures with Akira and Lara, because after I'm done a friend of mine will be giving these two an entire reboot. You'll know when you see it if you find in the summary, #DeathBandits.

It was fun while it lasted.

It was well past dinner time and the twins had not returned, the group was getting really worried about them. Tyler's mom and aunt were consoling him while Zed tried to calm a shaking Rose. The little siblings and their friends were also growing restless, the triplets the most worried about their older brother and sister.

"Where are they?" BJ asked for the seventeenth time in the last hour, he and Cass were pacing in the family room.

"Again, I DON'T KNOW!" Cass screamed, "They're never out this late, I am certain something is bothering them to severe lengths. And I hypothesize that our last mission had some kind of connection to their troubles."

"(Sniff) But what can it be?" Tyler questioned.

"Maybe it has something to do with their excavation in Antarctica?" Dora suggested.

"Mother did mentioned something about that to your boyfriend sis." Zed brought up to his sister.

"How do you know that?" BJ asked him.

"Our family has eyes everywhere on Earth, nearly nothing gets past our kin's watch."

"Then why can't you tell us what's bugging our friends?!" the heavyset wiseman snapped.

"He said NEARLY anything." Rose clarified. "Why won't he trust me, I told him everything about me. So why can't he just tell me?" she sadly asked, feeling down that her loving boyfriend doesn't trust her with this.

Just then they heard a loud banging sound, the banging getting louder. They moved to the foyer to see someone was at the door, and they gasped as they prepared for battle.

When the door flung open, they saw a familiar looking dark armored man.

"METTERAUN!"

Their ultimate enemy, here. In their house! They'll have to put a pin on their situation.

"What are you doing here?" The heroes demanded while summoning their relics, the little Zeros and Wisemans transforming. Except Jin, who grabbed an umbrella. His titan form would have destroyed the entire mansion. Dana readying her claws and fangs, and Aaron took out a gun he had on. Everyone looked to him in worry, he told them it was a long story. And the multidimensional ruler's former minions readied their own weapons.

"Grrrrrrrrr ohhhhhhhh..." the armored man groaned as he fell to his knees, holding his rib cage in pain. His helmet falling off his head to reveal a man in his thirties with white hair.

"DAD!" Rose and Zed shouted as they ran to their fallen father.

"WAIT!" the others screamed.

"NO, no. It really is me." the man said as Rose and Zed helped him up, "Craig Jeremiah Harven."

"How can we be sure?" Cass questioned.

"Rose, you still have that necklace? (cough, cough) I gave you as a young she-demon?" Craig asked his daughter.

"Which one?" she asked.

"A violet crystal skull and a grey key on a black chain."

The goth part time scout reached into her shirt and pulled out a necklace of that description. "It's him."

Afterwards, they took the former Metteraun into the kitchen where Tyler tended to his wounds and Dora brought him a get well turkey.

"Why are you guys doing this? After everything I have done to all of you?" Craig wondered.

"It wasn't you dad, it was Zerato's evil that corrupted you." Zed told him, even though he was made to be a war machine, he still loved his dad. And he and Rose knew that the man named Craig still lived.

"Speaking of which, what happened to that Zerato guy anyway?" BJ asked. "Wasn't he like, part of you or something?" the others wondered that as well and voiced their curiosity.

Craig just shivered in horror, "Oh man, it all happened so fast."

"Hahahahaha, Sorry Zerato. But you're being replaced." a small shadowy figure gravely said as he forcefully ripped the pendant of the possessed body of Metteraun, now just Craig, and taking the evil of Zerato with him. Craig was so much in pain, he can barely see what the little intruder was doing with two more shadowy figures until he succumbed to the pain and his vision faded to black.

"Oh my god!" Zed and Rose gasped after hearing that story, everyone else was now even more restless. First Akira and Lara are missing, now there's an even bigger sicko than Metteraun out there.

"I know." their father agreed.

"So long how till this threat surfaces?" Sakura asked.

"Um, exactly..."

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

"Zero seconds."

Suddenly they all felt the ground shake, and they heard what sounded like several explosives coming from outside. They all went to the window, and gasped at the sight. Middleburg was all in shambles. Buildings were destroyed, the streets were flooded, the sky's littered with dark ominous clouds, it looked like the apocalypse. Not just the town, parts of the forest were up in flames.

This needed investigation. While the adults and little kids stayed to heal Craig, the teens went out to find out what's going on.

(Midtown)

In just a couple seconds, the entire town has been knocked down and totally disserted. Along the walk, they saw that some innocent bystanders were caught in the fire. The part timers had already summoned their relics, whoever did all this destruction must have been extremely powerful. Just then they heard a dark chuckle, they looked around.

"Flee little mice, you have no idea what you are getting yourselves into. If you truly value your life, then you will run like the rest of them. And maybe, I'll let you live. Don't be the hero you are clearly not."

Tyler who was shaking at the gravely voice, "U-u-u-u-u-uh maybe we should do as he says and-" he was roughly grabbed by Rose as he was trying to sneak away, he has been a lot of situations where he was scared and wet himself. But this was a little out of his comfort zone.

"We can't leave, with our beaus gone we have to stand up for the balance of the multiverse." she said solemnly, though inside she was wishing her red headed twinkle would make a heroic entrance.

Tyler, who was restless for his spec'd Death Wish (his pet name for her), couldn't help but agree. "Okay, for Lara." he said as he readied his staff's light sabers.

The four part time heroes had morphed into the super forms and made a battle ready pose, they were not going to back down from this threat. They have been through many hells and back to get where they are now, and this is just another hurdle for them to jump. They may not have Akira and Lara to lead them, but one thing they all got from being friends with the most dangerous twins in the multiverse. Was heart, and they had megatons of it.

"Hehehe, wrong choice."

Just then they heard a dark ki blast heading towards them, Tyler reacting on instinct deflected it.

Then a couple more came at them, Tyler deflecting those too. Then they saw a million balls of energy make a dome around them, they readied themselves. And the barrage began, lasers from all angles around them. With no room for error, all four of them had to deflect all oncoming blasts. Scythe, sabers, magic blasts, and mind barriers stopping several blasts per second. Kinda like in the closing moments of the final battle in Kingdom Hearts 2 with Xemnas.

The heroes were quick on their reaction times with the seemingly never ending barrage of lasers, even BJ who is the slowest and laziest member of the team.

This went on for about ten minutes until the barrage finally stopped. The four panting from the intense and dangerous work out they got from the lasers, they were so exhausted they barely saw a lone figure floating down from the dark sky.

"So, you guys can keep up huh? Well this I have to see for myself." The figure said as he stepped forward, revealing his appearance.

They saw that this... thing that may have cause this destruction had an all white complexion and looked like a human body, with light covering the unmentionables. They had long flowing golden hair on one side and a side pig tail on the other, but what caught them was the gear it had on. It had a pair of golden gauntlets on it's hands that looked highly similar to the Gauntlets of Might, and a pair of shiny silver boats with a rainbow colored jewel pattern. In it's chest was a red dragons eye, one that looked a lot like the one on the Pendent of Power. And in a sword holster on it's back, was a giant sword that from the looks of it seemed like Excalibur. One eye light blue, and the other dark brown.

"Are those our friends relics?"

This new enemy just chuckled as he pulled his sword out from behind him, gave it a good twirl as the gems on his gauntlets lit up, as well as the jewels on the boots. The heroes had a good reason to assume those were the infamous Boots of XLR8, but the question was how did this guy find and acquire them. And the eye in the chest had opened up and glowed a bright red color.

"Well, why don't you find out?"

"Who are you anyway?"

They just chuckled at the questioned from the whimpering Tyler, they answered.

"You can call me, Eternal."

TO BE CONTINUED