Standing on the roof of KnightCorps' tower, Knight held a satisfied smile on his face, while in his hands, he held a white helmet, which was set with a black visor that spread both horizontally and diagonally, forming a cross-like pattern, while a set of small points stuck out from the sides of the helmet, the final item needed in order to bring Knight's plan into fruition.

"Now everyone in Odaiba will serve me." Knight declared as he set the helmet upon his head, keeping up the dark smile as his face was covered by the helmet, before spreading his arms out and breaking into laughter.

The next moment, four electric pole-like antennas came out of the four corners of the roof, before shooting red beams at Knight, where his body began to glow with a red aura, causing his laughter to continue.

All around the city, meanwhile, the Towers began to also glow with the same aura, a humming sound filling the air, before each let out a powerful burst of red energy that spread all across Odaiba.

Sensing trouble from her throne room, Kari quickly stood, confusing her followers, before she slammed her staff into the ground, causing a powerful barrier to surround her dark fortress before the blast hit, causing the Night Queen to groan at the power being pushed against her magic.

"Damn you, Knight!" Kari said in anger as it took all her focus to keep the psionic attack back, while Ken quickly went to work trying to find a way to block the attack and protect her fellow legionaries.

Laughing wickedly, from his vantage point, Knight felt a sense of pride that came with his plan, sensing all the minds now under his control, mindless pawns to help build his future empire, all the civilians, all the power, all the...

However, Knight's eyes then widened in shock as he realized he couldn't sense any of the police under his control, seeing police divisions moving out to surround his tower and hold back the mind controlled civilians,nor any of the heroes like the Protectors or the Vigilant at his command.

'What's going on?!' Knight questioned, continuing to find his confusion and irritance growing at the lack of hold over such forces. 'I designed my Towers to break into the minds of all. How come there are some resisting me?!'

But unable to think too much on it, Knight then looked down from his tower, seeing V-Force, Seraph, Dragonheart and other flying heroes flying towards his towers, while their ground based teammates were helping the StarCorps with those already under his mind control.

"We'll try and take these towers down, you guys help stop the civilians! Remember, don't hurt them, they're being controlled!" V-Force said through his comms, getting affermitives from the rest of the Protectors, while in his mind, seeing the hundreds of civilians below, all with glowing red eyes, he thought with worry. 'Kari... please don't be down there... Please be safe.'

"I'll keep us all coordinated from here, but it's looking bad." Cody said from the safety of the Protectors' base, which Izzy had quickly retrofitted with the psionic blockers Infiltrator had given them from Knight's database, where the young boy did his best to coordinate with the StarCorps and PD on keeping the situation under control.

V-Force nodded, but mentally he was scolding himself.

He let himself become so focused, so obsessed with the Night Queen and the Dark Legion, that he and his team lost sight of the other dangers around them, thinking that this could have been prevented had they paid more attention to Knight's activities.

"We're approaching one of the towers!" Fireguard then informed as he, Zephyr, HiTech and Songbird approached one of the towers, causing Songbird to say, still bitter from her experience with the Night Queen's dark possession. "Let's tear this thing down. I've already had enough headaches when it comes to brainwashing."

The others agreed, before Fireguard unleashed a powerful blast of fire at the tower, HiTech and energy blast from his chest, Zephyr concentrated and threw her hands around, releasing several lines of wind-like energy, with Songbird finishing off with a powerful stream of energy from her hands, where the four attacks collided with the tower.

However, much to their shock, once the smoke cleared, they found the tower undamaged and still pulsating with energy.

"No way!" Zephyr let out, expressing a continued stunned state, before the blonde questioned. "We hit that thing dead on, so why didn't it crumble?"

"That aura is also acting as a shield!" HiTech called out as his sensors picked up the energy readings, before the heroes heard loud screeches before, looking down to see four abominations scaling the Towers and heading right for them.

"Guys, the Towers' are protected, in more ways than one!" Fireguard called out in warning as his team moved out of the way of the fire from the creatures, while all around the other towers, the other heroes fought the tower's guardians, with V-Force clashing his blades with one that leaped at him.

Nearby, the police in riot gear did their best to keep back the mindless horde of brainwashed citizens and Cyberstriker and DarkBlade helped Midnight Raven and Quickshot try and subdue them.

"This isn't working, we need to get to KnightCorps and..." Cyberstriker started to say, before ducking as someone leaped out of the crowd of mindless drones and swung something at him, causing him to duck and move back, before his eyes widened to see Azumi, her eyes glowing red just like the others, looking at him with a blank expression.

"Azumi!?" The tai-chi hero let out, conflict building within him as he said. "Not you too..."

The brainwashed vigilante then moved in to attack, mindlessly swinging her staff and trying to deliver a kick at Cyberstriker, who managed to defend against Azumi's attacks, but found that with her being his opponent, there was something within him that was breaking his focus and allowing the brainwashed girl to get the better of him from time to time.

'Damn it, we need to do something!' DarkBlade thought as she did her best to knock out some of the mind controlled civilians, all the while, looking upon her brother with concern, certain she knew the reason why it was so hard for Cyberstriker to fight back.

-Meanwhile-

With a loud explosion, the doors to the front entrance of KnightCorps were blown open as the Vigilant entered the building, seeing dozens of security guards pointing guns at them.

"They don't look like they're being mind controlled." Frequency commented/stated/pointed out as he looked at the guards.

"They must be wearing the same psionic blockers as we are, we did get them from KnightCorps after all." Responder said in reply, just as the four got ready to fight as the guards prepared to fire.

However, much to their surprise, the group saw an orange flash rush by them, knocking out several guards, before turning to see Fighting Fury, Cobalt Warrior and Red Nova coming in behind them, realizing it was Thunderstrike they saw go by them.

"We'll handle these guys, get up there and kick that rich asshole's ass!" Fighting Fury said with a smirk as he and the other heroes moved in to take on the guards.

"You can count on us." Razor Wolf said in reply, before rushing down the hall, alongside his allies, all determined to put an end to Knight once and for all.

Upon reaching the elevators, however, the four stopped to see three familiar figures waiting for them, where Helix, Jester and Lady Beauty all smirked wickedly.

"Where has that imbecile Black Wyvern gone off to now? He was paid to help us take down these insects, so why isn't he here?" Lady Beauty then asked as she looked around, expressing a growing annoyance, before Helix cut in.

"Nevermind him, we are to finish these insects once and for all while our Master completes his ascension." He declared, drawing out his syringes, which caused Lady Beauty and Jester to draw their own respective weapons.

And while the Vigilant all prepared to fight, standing before Responder, Razor Wolf said. "We'll handle Knight's underlings, you focus on the main target."

"No. I won't be able to handle him alone, we need to work together." Responder said back as he moved in front, refusing to leave his friends behind, wanting them all present when Knight was taken down, before preparing to fight and take Knight's minions out as quickly as possible.

"If you insist." Cosmic Knockout then said, giving a grin as she added. 'Besides, I was hoping to knock Knight's light out myself."

"You will never get the chance, now die!" Helix yelled as he, Jester and Lady Beauty rushed at the Vigilant, ready to finish them off once and for all.

As the trio charged forward, each selecting their previous combatant as their opponent, Responder and the others sprung into action, knowing their time was closing in and that they had to stop all of Knight's forces before they too lost their minds to his influence.

While Lady Beauty brought down her blade with a swift and powerful swing directed at Cosmic Knockout's head, Jester threw an array of daggers at Frequency, while Helix found his wrists restrained by Razor Wolf's hands, but from his angle, he began to lower his needles down and closer to his creation's face.

But showing both their Determination and their refusal to allow Knight to win, Frequency shocked Jester as he brought his arms up, projecting a wall of sonic energy, diverting most of the daggers, with some cutting through his costume, before tackling Jester and slamming him into the wall, leaving the insane clown to slide down and slump to his butt.

And before Jester could get back up, Frequency continued to show his speed and determination, picking up the daggers that now lay around him and threw them back at Jester, missing his skin, but piercing through his costume's arms and legs.

"This isn't funny!" He yelled, thrashing against the makeshift restrains, only to find Frequency continued to ignore him as he grabbed another dagger and threw it toward Cosmic Knockout and Lady Beauty, which the masked villainess saw from the left of her perception, forcing her to draw back her blade and quickly duck out of the way, before realizing too late that it was a distraction as a familiar gauntlet fist came flying right at her face.

A millisecond later, said fist slammed in Lady Beauty's helmet, the impact so great that the villainess was sent flying back, crashing right through the wall, where she lay in the debris groaning a little before she fell unconscious, leaving her helmet broken and revealing her true face as she lay amongst the rubble.

Meanwhile, as Helix's needles inched closer and closer to Razor's face, the mad scientist was then interrupted as a powerful blast of blue energy slammed into his side, sending him flying back several feet, where he gripped his side in pain as he looked to see Responder standing with Razor Wolf.

"Seems that unlike you, my teammates actually care about me." Razor Wolf said with a smile, causing Responder to nod in reply, while smiling behind his helmet, before both rushed at Helix, each avoiding enraged swings from the doctor's needle-like hands and striking back as both managed to get an opening, both reeling back their fists and delivering a shared blow, not only knocking the mad doctor down to the floor, but their combined strength, they watched as Helix's helmet cracked open and fell to the floor, revealing his horrid appearance, seeing most of his face held together with stitches, with some of his skin decaying and looking as though it would fall off at any given second.

Though the lack of eyeballs, eyelids and even eye sockets was what distrubed the duo the most, leaving Responder wondering for a moment how the villain could see, but realized he must have experimented on himself for that.

"Sweet moves, Cosmic." Frequency commented at the sight of Lady Beauty remaining in her defeated state, causing the pink haired heroine to look beyond her teammate and at Jester, who had given up on escaping, accepting that the joke was over.

"So Groovy!" Cosmic let out in reply, setting her thumbs, index and pinkies out as she crossed her arms, posing exactly like Frequency, which made him grin, feeling the bond he held with his teammate was stronger than ever.

But with Knight continuing to conquer the minds of Odaiba, the four rushed into the elevator, finding Infiltrator had hacked into the systems to allow them to the top floor, where Responder said in a serious voice. "This isn't over yet, guys. Come on."

Upon reaching the roof, the Vigilant exited the elevator, feeling even the air around them different as the whole roof glowed in a red aura, before narrowing their eyes as Knight turned to them, his laugh heard through his helmet.

"It's almost fitting, after all the trouble you all have caused me, that you should be here, at the end of it all." The psionic villain said as the red aura around him consumed him, taking a new form and growing, much to the four heroes' surprise, before solidifying into a new form.

Losing the suit he was wearing, Knight was now cast in pale white armour that covered his entire being, with even the helmet altering and changing, losing the points on the sides and being replaced with two thick golden strands that ran up the side of his head.

Gold trimmings were now set throughout the armour, which included around the shoulders, waist, wrists and kneecaps, while a matching cape flowed down the back of the new Knight.

And seeing that with this change to his form that Knight had grown in size, what astonished Responder and the others the most was that past the set of golden spikes that protruded from the armour's shoulders were two thick lines of spread out metal, resembling massive wings, where a great psionic energy flowed out of them.

"Now, Vigilant... die. Die and let your ends pave the way to my new world order!" Knight called with a superior voice as he levitated from off the ground, ready to crush the Vigilant's wills or their bodies, whichever would break first.