The secret base was a lot more crowded than usual. In her search for the nuclear bomb, Aika had been forced to go through the Supreme Leader's body double, who then led her to his aide, who then led her to his mad scientist, and then protecting the bomb itself which was a squad of a dozen of North Korea's finest. All of these men were currently tied up and gagged on the floor of the base's main room. Some of them would want to see a doctor in their near future, but they were all alive and conscious when an Ultiroid wearing a dinosaur costume appeared in the middle of the room, shortly followed by the twintailed teenager who had abducted all of them.

The sudden change in location left the alien stunned, and it looked around at its new surroundings and made a low, confused sound in the back of its throat. "Muugiii."

Aika had no such misgivings when she was catapulted into the room. The second she saw the the Ultiroid, she lashed out at it, delivering a perfect combination of blows with her right and left fists to its face. Nothing was held back in her attacks, each blow was fast enough that they changed the air pressure in the room for a moment, and they landed with an incredible sound, like someone dropped something heavy from a great distance above the earth.

And none of them did a thing. The ultiroids head just bounced back lightly, almost like a balloon on a string. The creature counter attacked, swiping with its arm at Aika's face. She turned with the blow, capturing it with her hands and twisting so the creature was flipped over her shoulder and slammed down onto the floor on its back. The speed she flung it at tore the dinsoaur sleeve off the arm she was holding, but the ultiroid just bounced off the floor like a rubber ball, and stood up completely unharmed.

"Mugi!" It barked at her, stamping its feet like an angry gorilla before ripping away the rest of its costume. On each of its wrists were red and yellow bracers, and it held its hands in front of its face like a boxer's guard. It charged at Aika, swinging its arm out wildly in a haymaker. Her first instinct was to block the blow at the wrist, diverting most force from the attack, before countering, but some sixth sense went off in the back of her head and rather than take the blow directly she stepped backwards out of its reach. His arm parted the air in front of her face, fast and powerful enough that Aika dimly realised she would have broken her bones trying to block it.

It was a shocking realisation for her. This little weirdo is faster than I am, and stronger. Even without any real technique behind them, the creature's wild strikes were incredibly powerful, and Aika found herself ducking and weaving desperately to avoid serious injury. The ultiroid took a step backwards, before bouncing forwards in another haymaker, one that Aika saw coming a mile away and evaded easily, before stepping forward, putting her weight on her right foot and pushing up with it to add force to her fist when it crashed into the ultiroid's chin.

The force behind her strike would easily have lifted a five hundred pound man off his feet, and probably exploded the lower half of his face, but on this enemy it seemingly just wobbled its head harmlessly. Her eyes widened in disbelief, and she wasn't able to bring her arms up to block the creatures next attack. The ultiroid smashed its fists into her stomach, and Aika was launched off her feet, right into Twoearle's controls panels. Sparks flew across the room from severed wires and metal fragments rained down to the floor, and Aika felt a bone crack inside her chest.

"Mugi!" The creature cheered triumphantly, laughing gleefully as it danced backwards and forwards on the ground.

Pain radiated through Aika's torso, as she forced herself back up to her feet and brought her fists back up. Somehow, no matter how she struck the Ultiroid, the force of the blow was dispersed. It must have been something kind of like the inertial dampeners on the tailsuits, it was possibly even what Twoearle had based the technology on, but the realisation didn't comfort Aika. According to the specs Twoearle had given them, the inertial dampeners on the suits could safely absorb up to ninety tons of force, and Aika news she couldn't exert that much with one of her fists.

The creature charged again with another wild haymaker, and she diverted the blow and countered with a series of strikes to the creature's chest, none of which did anything. Her fists didn't even feel the blows, she realised. Normally when she attacked something she felt the force of it reverberate up through her forearms, but against this creature it was almost like she was just lightly bumping into it no matter how hard she exerted herself, and by contrast all it took was a lucky backhand from the Ultiroid to fling Aika off her feet again. She smacked into one of the base's monitors, cracking the screen before falling to the ground on her face.

She was alive, but her bell was thoroughly rung. Woozily, she climbed back to her feet, only for the cackling ultiroid to seize her around her chest under the armpits and begin squeezing. Pressure like a metal vice pressed in on Aika from all sides, adding strain to her already damaged ribs and she cried out in pain. She kicked, and used her elbows as best as she could, bouncing it's body like a rubber ball but unable to dislodge it. Her bones creaked ominously, and she brought her legs up under her to put all her strength into pushing against the creature's thighs with her heels.

With a final grunt of exertion, the ultiroid's thin arms slide down past her chest and over her belly. It tried to grip her more tightly, but it found no purchase on her hips either, and Aika slipped free of it's hold and kicked away from it to land on her feet just in front of it. It might have been the first time she ever felt grateful for her slim chest...

"Mugi!" The creature shrilled in outrage, coming at her again, and once again she was on the backfoot, evading all its wild strikes. Untrained, the creature brought its foot too far forward, and Aika seized the chance to pin it in place by putting her foot on it, and pressing her open palm against the creature. Rather than try to strike it, she just gave it a shove, and the ultiroid went sprawling across the room.

Striking. She realised. It's resistant to striking because it disperses the force from my blows, but if I can just get my hands on it I can still exert all my pressure.

Not giving the Ultiroid the chance to recover, she ran forward and stepped behind it, wrapping her arms around its waist, and lifted with her back and hips until her body was almost vertical to the ground. The full weight of the ultiroids head and neck smashed into the floor of the secret base in a perfect German Suplex. The initial force of the blow was dispersed by the creatures rubbery nature, but Aika didn't let it go, and continued to grind the creature into the floor. It screamed and struggled as it's neck bent at an odd angle, and managed to kick itself free of Aika's grip, but it was clearly hurt, clutching at its neck.

"I've got you now!" Aika grinned savagely, and charged the creature.

"Mugi!" It shrilled, and tried to escape her, but she caught its arm and pulled herself off the ground with it. She wrapped both her legs around the creatures neck and pivoted her body, using her weight and momentum to force her foe to the ground. The creature flailed desperately, but she had it caught beneath her in a pin, and it wasn't able to get the force into its blows to do more than bruise her. With her hands she trapped its head between her palms and squeezed.

"Muuuuugiiiiiii!" It cried, flailing anew. Its arms smacked into her abs, chest, upper arms, even clinging to her face. Each attack was still powerful, some even broke her skin and all of them bruised. None of them were enough to dislodge her, and Aika only grinned more widely at the pain, squeezing harder and harder.

"Mmmmuuuuuugiiiiiiiii!" Its head was deforming, a ridge appearing in its face from it's rubbery skin creasing. Aika could practically feel her palms touching, when the line in the alien's head started glowing. "Muuuuuugiiiiiiiiii!"

BOOM!

The explosion launched Aika into the ceiling, shattering a light fitting and fragments of glass cut her as she landed on her back. There was a clattering sound, as the two bracers bounced to a stop right next to her, and she sat up, grinning through bloody teeth. There were burns on her face and upper body, and there were cuts all over her. She was going to be black and blue in a day's time, but she was victorious. Slowly standing, she found her right leg was a little sensitive to put her weight on. After picking up the bracers, she limped over towards the catapult only to stop when she remembered her captive audience.

All the North Korean's she'd abducted stared at her in shock and disbelief.

"No trouble while I'm gone!" She warned them. "I'll be back."

There was frenzied nodding all around.

Satisfied, she stepped back into the catapult and disappeared.


"I don't approve of your new friends, Princess." The pole of Orchidmantisguildy's scythe was pressed against the haft of Tailpink's warhammer, and the two were straining against each other. Slowly but surely, he was pressuring her backwards, her feet sliding across the hardwood thanks to his superior weight. "They seem like a bad influence to me."

"You're so annoying!" She grunted, trying to dig her toes in. "You really think you're my daddy, don't you?"

"Hmmf." Orchidmantisguildy smirked. "I'm no mere King, or princeling! I'm a knight in shining armour! Now, ultiroids! Strike her down!"

Pink's eyes widened, and she tried to pull away from her foe, only to accidentally expose herself to an attack from the lesser aliens. No one Ultiroid was able to do much damage, but each one was able to bruise her just a little. Slowly but surely, she was losing this battle.

"Stay back!" Tailpink glanced back to see Sora valiantly trying to fend off an ultiroid with some familiar looking karate moves, but the alien just absorbed the blows and effortlessly lifted her into the air by the hem of her shirt. Sora made a choking sound and kicked. Pink grit her teeth. She might not like Sora very much, or Souji for that matter, but she wasn't going to let one of Senpai's friends get dragged away on her watch.

"Die!" She barked, and threw her warhammer at the alien.

"Mugi?" The alien only had time to glance her way, before the hammer smashed into his face, sending him flying through the glass of a display, exploding and shattering the entire structure.

Rolling away from the collapsing roof, Sora just barely avoiding being cut in half by a gigantic shard of glass that embedded itself in the floor. "Th-thanks, Pink." She stuttered.

"Don't look away from me!" Orchidmantisguildy snapped, swinging his scythe at Pink, which she just barely avoided, by stepping straight into an Ultiroid's spin kick.

"This is hard enough as it is!" Pink yelled at the twintail warriors. "I can't win this if I have to protect you guys!"

"You can't win this anyway, Princess!"

"Shut up!" She snapped back at him, still ducking and weaving between his and the many Ultiroids attacks.

"Just hold out until Aika gets back!" Twoearle answered. "We need to wait here for the tailsuits!"

"Easy for you to say." She grumbled, before dropping into a karate stance her Senpai had shown her. There had only been a few days for Isabella to practice together with Aika, but maybe without the weight of the warhammer she'd have an easier time evading these attacks.

"Do you have any modules?!" Erina called out as she struggled to get out of the reach of a grabby looking ultiroid.

"Just the flight one." Isabella answered back. It wouldn't be much use indoors unless they wanted to run away, and they couldn't leave until Aika returned with the tailsuits.

"You think your friend is coming back?" Orchidmantisguildy smirked. "If she does, it will be because she's fleeing for her life. One ultiroid is more than a match for any ten humans."

"Yeah, well that gorilla is more than a match for any twenty." Twoearle pointed out.

"Hah!" He laughed. "We'll see. Even if she does make it back in time, that still won't solve all your problems. You're already in checkmate, you just don't see it yet."

Pink grimaced. "Yeah, well, I'm sure you'd love to explain, so why don't you just go ahead?"

"Time is on my side, so why not?" He spread his arms wide. "There will only be three tailsuit warriors fit to fight if your friends returns, which she won't, but if she does." He raised one clawed finger. "One of you will need to stay here to hold me off." He raised his second one. "One of you will need to go to Catyu to destroy the ring there." He raised his third finger. "One of you will will need to destroy the ring coming towards Earth." He sneered triumphantly.

"That's no problem at all." Erina raised a confused eyebrow. "That's three warriors and three problems."

His mandible wriggled with smug satisfaction. "Ah, but have any of you seen Tailwhite? She might not have a bomb under Pyongyang anymore, but remember she still had one functioning missile? Where do you think she's going now?"

"I can deal with that." Aika's voice came over Pink's communicator, and suddenly she was standing there.

"Senpai!" She cried joyously, then paused in surprise at the sight in front of her. Her Senpai had returned with both bracers, but she was also cut and bruised all over her body. One side of her face was terribly bruised, and her left eye was bloodshot and blackened.

"Catch!" She tossed the bracers to Erina and Sora, who transformed immediately.

"Holy shit." Twoearle uttered, staring in disbelief. "What happened to you?"
A smirk came over Aika's face, and she said to Red. "I can take care of the dictator."

"Aika, you need a doctor!" Worry was painted all over old friend's face, and was obvious in Red's voice.

"I'm fine, and we don't have time for it."

Red chewed her lip with concern for a moment, before nodding. She then turned to the other warriors and began barking out orders. "I'm the strongest, so I'll deal with Orchidmantisguildy and the ultiroids. Yellow, you need to take the flight module, and shoot down the Earth ring, you're the only one who can attack it from range. Pink and Twoearle, you need to get to Catyu and use the ship to get to the ring and destroy it there." She then looked to Aika and hesitated, seeing her wounded state. "Go. I'll catch up with you as soon as I can, so don't strain yourself."

"I won't need to." Aika smirked, before turning and jogging down the hall.

Red turned to the other three warriors. "You know what you have to do."

Yellow grabbed Twoearle's hand, and the two of them disappeared, but Pink hesitated.

"Have faith in her. Aika's going to be fine." Red assured her.

"I know that." She rolled her eyes, and turned to glare at Orchidmantisguildy. "I just wanted to be the one to finish this asshole off."

A small smile tugged at the corner of Red's lips. "Sorry."

"Running away, Princess?" Orchidmantisguildy smirked.

Pink's face fell, and she turned back to Red. "If you make his death extra bad, I'll delete those photos I have of you." There was a flash of light, and she disappeared.

Tailred summoned one of her swords, and turned to face the giant alien. "Alright, it's just you and me now, Orch-" A tiny ultiroid fist smacked Red in the side of her face, and she stumbled.

"I never fight alone, fool." Orchidmantisguildy boasted.

"Hmmph." Red grunted, before pointing her sword. "Let's fix that, shall we?"

"What are you-?"

"Aura Pillar!" Red raised her arm, and fired a burst of Red Energy that swept up all the lesser aliens and gathered them into one place.

"What? No, damn it! How can you-"

"Grand!" Red's sword was wreathed in flame, and she dashed across the room at the helpless Ultiroids. "Blazer!"

All the pathetic creatures cried out in fear, and were silenced with a deafening roar.

Orchidmantisguildy took a fearful step backwards, as Red turned to face him.

"Now." Her eyes narrowed, and she raised her sword towards him. "Let's see you pull one of your stupid tricks now, coward!"