[Haven City; Debris with Torn]
He awoke from the explosion and was taking heavy breaths. Near him was Sasha and Keira. Sasha was giving out orders and asking for a report. "What happened?" He asked concerned.
Keira turned to him and explained about the explosion that occurred from Shadowis's own power.
"His own power... damn..."
"I wouldn't even begin with saying that... but damn is something we could start with." Sasha added as she was done talking with a fellow ranger.
Torn tried to get up but was met with lots of pain and winced from his right shoulder, left and right knees, legs, ankles, and even chest area. He wasn't sure how badly damaged he was until he tried getting up. Keira urged him not to get up and that a medical team is on their way.
He was back to taking heavy breaths from the pain. As he laid down, it was relaxing. He asked "How are our guys doing?" Keira wanted to answer him, but deep down she didn't her friend feel anymore more pain, especially mentally.
Torn saw her expression and said "It's ok, Keira. You can tell me," Keira started to tear up. Torn smiled even though there's lots of pain in his body "I'm not going anywhere. Not at all. We did what we could do best."
Sasha could only hear with her back away from Torn and Keira and though they just met, she could tell Torn was a good leader willing to do anything for his friends. Her communicator was beeping, "Report," she ordered and in an instant her heart jumped to her throat for a second.
"What did you say?" The worried tone in her voice said it all. She ordered loudly into the comm "Order everyone and get back to Starship Phoenix immediately!"
Keira heard what she was saying and asked about what was going on. Sasha, feeling that she had no time for explanations told Keira to stay in contact with the medical team coming to get Torn and to get on any small ship back to the Phoenix.
"That's great and all but what will you do?" Keira asked as Sasha turned away from her for a while. She then stopped, jerked her head to see Keira, and said "I'm going to help get our friends get onto the Phoenix." Keira nodded as she was prepared to defend Torn from any danger.
Sasha turned away again and got onto a nearby HellCat. The flew off to get others with her.
[Haven City; Debris; With Daxter]
Daxter was in panic mode. He couldn't find Jak or anyone else he knew. There was a bunch of people running and tripping over each other.
He hadn't felt this panicked in a long time since he lost Jak to the Krimzon Guard and only to find his best friend two years later.
'No…no…noo! This wasn't how it was supposed to go down!' Daxter thought to himself in a hurry as he pounced to find anyone he knew. Nothing was in sight. That Shadowis guy did a powerful attack on this city, now everything is gone.
Buildings, tall and short, all gone in a blink of an eye. It was similar to when the MetalHeads and KG-Death Bots attacked this city. Although, he and Jak defended it as best as they could, the city banished him to the desert that one time.
He continued pouncing until he saw a nearby Bentley and Murray trying to help fellow Haven City folk out of there debris. He called out to them "Murray! Bentley! Over here!"
They both saw the ottsel coming towards them and cheered. Bentley mentioned about how many people are stuck in debris and needed help to get out. Daxter while worried about his friend, Jak, he could not bear the thought of seeing everyone in Haven City die at the fault of Shadowis's own power.
"The people shall be saved by Orange Lightning!" He added his "zzzing" after he shouted about himself. Murray and Bentley taking that as 'yes' from the ottsel, proceeded to locate as much people to help out.
Though, it wasn't much Murray would lift off the giant debris and let the person get out and attend to their wounds and injuries to the medical team. If the person needed help, Daxter or Murray would help the person pull themselves out of it.
[Haven City; Battle Area with Ratchet, Sly, and Jak]
Lucio laughed at the pathetic heroes attempting to fight him. "Attacking me like that isn't worth it! Just give it!"
Ratchet shouted "Like—" The lombax got cut off from saying anything to Lucio as Shadowis just kicked him in the face very hard causing to fly backwards and across the debris.
Shadowis was about to go for a kill until a group of Galactic Rangers flew around and opened fire at Shadowis and Lucio. It wasn't much, but it was enough for them to rescue Ratchet, Jak, and Sly and regroup with the others. One carried Jak who was knocked out, while one carried both Ratchet and Sly. "We shouldn't have retreated," Sly muttered under his breath.
Ratchet contemplated "He's too strong, Sly. What would you have us do? Die by Shadowis's hand? Not on my watch." Sly"s eyes were signs of weariness and fatigue, after all this day wasn't a good day at all. His friends and allies were getting defeated by an existential
creature never seen before in their lives.
"Under Captain Phrynix's orders we are to return to the Starship Phoenix," a Galactic Ranger told Ratchet. "She always did have the best interest of the people." He said, remembering her and their time of trying to defeat Dr. Nefarious.
[With Shadowis and Lucio]
Lucio got angry "Our preys are escaping…"
"No matter, I'll hunt them even if it means at the cost of my own life." He talked into his comms. "Follow the Starship Phoenix. Do not let it get away."
"I wouldn't be so sure of that." A voice said from behind as Shadowis materialized his sword and clashed with another sword that came by him.
"You…. Why are you here…" Shadowis growled as he saw the man, he's clashing blades with, Nazar.
"Enough of your tyrannical methods. I will stop you and Morbius and the Masters of Doom." He said confidently.
Shadowis growled as he clashed a few blows with Nazar, causing shock-waves across the city. A few more clashes occurred again and again, until Lucio intervened with the two, blowing out of his mouth extreme black fire at Nazar. Nazar clapped his hands together and created an energy shield of light to block out the black flames aimed at him.
After the flames depleted, Shadowis came at him with knee kick to his chin, but Nazar dodged by landing a roundhouse kick to his old apprentice's face. Shadowis bounced back, but then fired five red energy balls at Nazar with the combined energy beam from Lucio.
Nazar materialized his sword and slashed through the energy that was coming for him. Lucio hid in the shadows and created a huge darkness on the ground sucking everything into it. Nazar clapped his hands again and a shimmering light appeared out of them. He separated his hands with light glowing on them and placed them on the dark ground Lucio created.
"AAaaaaaah!" Lucio screamed out of the shadows and charged angrily at Nazar.
"We played this game enough Lucio. I defeated you back on Earth and I can defeat you again." Nazar confidently stated until Lucio was starting to move faster than before.
"What the?!" He blurted out as Lucio was going in a circle creating an everlasting dust-like storm as he ran and around Nazar.
"This is your end, warrior!" Lucio shouted as he gave him an air cannon punch knocking Nazar off the ground and into the sky. Shadowis then created an energy ball with lightning sparks on it and threw it at Nazar hitting him as well. Lucio and Shadowis did a combo attack of punches, energy beams, and sword clashes against Nazar.
Nazar defending as much as he can, decided to do a similar attack Lucio did with an air cannon punch. The punch was powerful enough to send Lucio and Shadowis flying away from the original battle field and onto nearby citizens.
People screamed even more when the duo crashed. Nazar came flying at them with another air cannon punch, but Lucio created a black energy orb and the attacks clashed with each other as if they were oil and water.
KwaaBOOOOOOOOOM!
The large explosion could be heard from miles away.
[With Sasha]
"What the?" She asked as she saw the large explosion nearby.
"What was that?" The Freedom Leaguer pilot asked. Sasha replied "I have no idea. Worthy of checking out, though."
