Even though the sight of the massive undead dragon was a terrifying sight to all those below, with Azumi more terrified, where she looked down and saw a severed skeletal hand slowly crawling across the ground, before looking around in pure horror to see that the undead soldiers were actually pulling themselves back together, the power of their master sustaining them and allowing them to reform, despite the constant fighting with the shadow demons.

Meanwhile, as the heroes looked at the dragon, feeling slightly unnerved, the feeling grew when they heard a dark, and slightly insane laugh echo around them, looking at the source to see Kari laughing like she had just heard a joke, where the Night Queen's eyes looked at Bagra as she called out. "You think your little pet scares me?! I will show you the true horrors of the Dark Realm!"

Kari then held her staff out, which began to glow with dark energy, before a massive portal opened behind the Odaiba Police forces that were aiding in the battle, who quickly turned as they felt the ground shake beneath them, looking to see something massive emerge from the dark vortex, a sight that caused many to pale in fear.

The creature was as tall, if not taller than most buildings in the city, looking almost human-like, save for its skin, which looked as though it was composed of a dark marble, where cracks throughout the being were exposed, allowing a dark mist to pool out and surround its being.

Jagged spikes came out of its legs, upper arms, shoulders and back, while its face, a true nightmare, had two horns sticking out of the sides, with two lower jaws that opened as the creature let out a loud and near deafening roar.

And at the sight of this creature, only one thought went through the heroes and police officers' minds. 'Not again!'

This was a Shadow Colossus, the same Shadow Demon the Night Queen had summoned before, one that nearly leveled the entire city before it was defeated, and now, seeing the creature once again brought fear to almost everyone who gazed upon it, wondering when, not if the massive demon would turn on them next.

Letting out its own roar, the Leviathan launched one of its heads down to try and attack the Colossus, only for the massive demon to being up its right fist, before slamming it into the dragon's head, sending it reeling back, while the shockwave alone caused windows on buildings and cars even a block away to shatter.

It was then that the winged dark warriors, along with HiTech, Fireguard, Dragonheart, Zephyr, Asta, Starlight, Shadow Walker and Responder went back into the frey, lending their own strengths to try and take the Leviathan down, which seemed to ignore them as it focused its attention on the Colossus, floating down towards it as the massive demon began to move, causing a few officers to freak out as its feet barely missed crushing them.

"Vixen, Songbird." V-Force then called, causing the two to look back at him, seeing Davis, along with Kari, still staring at Bagra, before their leader then instructed. "Go and help the others."

"No! We're not leaving you to fight him alone!" Vixen said with concern, while Songbird then added with a glare at Kari. "And we're not leaving you alone with her."

"Go! I'll be fine. Help the others!" V-Force let out with a more commanding voice and great seriousness, which both heroines picked up on, leaving Vixen and Songbird both frustrated that their leader was going to face Bagra, let alone he was planning to do it with the Night Queen.

But respecting V-Force, both girls gave in.

"Don't die on us." Vixen then said, fearing for Davis' safety, especially after hearing what Bagra called him, trying to understand what an Ascended was, and how both he and Kari were connected by this, before she and Songbird reluctantly flew down to help battle the undead dragon with their friends and allies, leaving the tragic lovers to battle the undead king himself.

"You sure you want your girlfriends to leave you?" Kari asked in a dark tone, sensing their feelings for Davis, while her twisted mind believed they seduced him away from her, only for Davis to simply reply. "You know me better than that."

Hearing a chuckle emerge from the skeletal mouth of Bagra, the pair glared at the undead king as he said. "Your paths will always be connected, and if not stopped, could lead to the doom of all things. I will end your lives, and allow you both the peace of death."

Meanwhile, down below, as the others remained distracted by Bagra's undead soldiers, Seraph found himself in a situation he never believed he'd ever see, finding himself working alongside Shadowknight as they battled the Deathknight, dodging a swing of his axe as it sent out a great and terrible shockwave of dark green energy, knocking cars back and cutting through some trees that were in the path.

"He's strong, but if we put our heads, I know we can beat him." Seraph said as he turned his attention to Shadowknight.

"Just don't get in my way." Shadowknight declared as he rushed at Deathknight, using his shield to block a swing of its axe, before bringing his sword up for a strike, slashing part of Bagra's champion's face mask, where the same eerie green energy that was seen in the other undead soldiers could be seen slipping out of the cracks.

But ignoring the damage, Deathknight brought his right foot up and slammed it into Shadowknight's stomach, sending him skidding back a few feet, before showing no mercy as the undead knight lunged at Shadowknight.

Remaining in place as he expected to be struck down, Seraph appeared before him, jumping over Shadowknight's body and casting out a set of powerful blasts of light, striking Deathknight and pushing Bagra's champion back, not only damaging the wicked warrior, but allowing Shadowknight to compose himself.

"Can I ask you something?" Seraph then asked as he dodged a swing from Deathknight's axe, looking at Shadowknight in the process.

"Speak." Shadowknight merely said in reply as his blade clashed against Deathknights', finding that though both were creations of darkness, Deathknights' strength seemed greater than his own.

"Who are you? Really? You're not a shadow demon, we've seen your face." Seraph asked, trying to make some light conversation and sate his curiosity at the same time, while fighting their common enemy.

"Who or what I am is unimportant." Shadowknight said back, focusing on their fight as he used Deathknight's strength against him, backing aside, where the undead knight smashed his axe down, allowing Shadowknight to deliver a swift cut to his side.

"I was summoned to serve my Mistress, and that is what I shall do." Shadowknight then told Seraph simply, finding Seraph's questioning a waste of time and that their objective in slaying Deathknight remained top priority.

"Could have fooled me with how you acted when he attacked Psychonis." Seraph said as he brought his hands out, firing blasts of light energy at Deathknight's form, sending it staggering back more as his armour began to crack in various places.

"She also serves my Mistress. The status of her survival is crucial to my Mistress." Shadowknight replied as he brought up his shield to once again block Deathknight's axe, though deep within, he felt something when Psychonis was brought up, as if she was more important in his view than to the Night Queen's.

But ignoring such thoughts and focusing on the status of the fight, Shadowknight saw a gap between his defences and Deathknight's offence, where he drew his sword forward, plunging it into the under section of Deathknight's armour, before casting out the dark energies in his blade and releasing them within Deathknight's being, causing a massive section of his armour to erupt and burst open, revealing it to be hollow, save the swirling form of the necromantic energy sustaining him.

Acting quickly, seeing his own opening, Seraph then allied his enemy as he gathered all his energy into one, powerful blast, firing the light energy into the opening and causing the Deathknight to let out a shriek of rage, before its armour dissolved and its corrupt spirit faded away, leaving a scorched section of the ground where Bagra's champion once stood.

"Way to go." Seraph said, finding a small respect for Shadowknight, who didn't return such emotion.

"Focus on the battle, not questions you have no use for." Shadowknight said back, flying off the rejoin the rest of the battle, causing Seraph to sigh as he thought. 'Figures.'

While their allies remained in battle, V-Force and the Night Queen focused all their attention on Bagra, both wanting to stop him for different reasons of course, while Davis wanted to know what Bagra was talking about, as if the ancient king knew something about both of them that not even they knew themselves.

Deciding not to tiptoe around Bagra's words, V-Force questioned. "Why did you call us Ascended? What does that mean?"

"It only brings certainty that I will destroy you, that is all that should matter to you in your last moments of life. Your fates as the Dark Ones' pawns ends now." Bagra said in reply as his skeletal hands began to glow with a dark green energy.

"If you think you can mess with our heads, think again you old bag of bones! I am no one's pawn!" Kari yelled in anger, while one thing Bagra said caused Davis' eyes to widen as he thought. 'Dark Ones?! As in plural? But I thought there was only Zhaitan.'

However, before V-Force could question further, Bagra help his left hand out, unleashing a blast of dark green energy at the hero, only for Kari to move in front of him, casting a powerful barrier of dark energy to protect them where, much to his shock, Davis watched Kari groan as Bagra's attack slammed into her barrier, causing him to realize how powerful Bagra must be if the Night Queen was having trouble against him.

"Focus on the fight or you'll get yourself killed." Kari said in an annoyed tone, but inside, she was panicking, wishing Davis would leave as she thought. 'Please leave... you can't die... You need to see the world I want to make for us...'

Moving quickly, V-Force then shot around Kari, launching himself at Bagra as he extended his light blades, reach to strike the undead king down, only to be surprised as Bagra used his staff and held his attack back, not even flinching as Davis tried to push against him, before his eyes widened as he saw the red lights in Bagra's eye sockets begin to glow.

Quickly ducking, V-Force barely missed the powerful blast of energy that shot out of Bagra's eyes, before moving as he saw a skeletal hand coming towards him, one glowing in dark green energy, where the hero felt it would not end well for him if it touched him.

But finding Kari keeping an eye on him, V-Force found the brunette counter the attack as she moved before Davis, casting out a dark wall of energy which clashed against Bagra's skeletal hand, causing the Night Queen to give a pained groan at the energy she had to use, alongside the necromantic energies striking against her.

"Damn you!" Kari yelled as her eyes glowed red, where Davis saw her use a familiar attack as five shadowy dragon heads formed out of her back, looking towards Bagra, where each opened their maws and cast off a series of dark energy blasts at Bagra, who held his hand out as he countered most of them, but moved back a few feet.

However, much to V-Force and the Night Queen's surprise, seven similar snake-like heads, each made of the same dark green energy Bagra commanded, emerged for his back, firing necrotic blasts at the pair, with Davis moving out of the way, while Kari focused her fire power to match Bagra's, their energies clasing in the air as they were slowly being pushed back to Kari.

"No!" Davis let out, knowing that though Kari and the Night Queen were the same person, he still needed to protect her, before gathering his own light energy and firing a blast at Bagra's side, where the undead king held his left hand out, firing another blast that collided with V-Force's energy, leaving Davis and Kari in a power struggle with Bagra, one they were losing.

Below them, the Leviathan had moved back from close combat with the Colossus, gathering a large amount of dark green energy within its mouths, firing a combined blast to hit its foe, while the Colossus held out its hands as dark purple energy gathered in them, firing an equally large blast that collided with the undead dragon's causing everyone below to try and shield themselves as best they could from the shockwaves and energy coming off of the attacks.

"Damn it! They're going to tear the city apart without even trying!" Fighting Fury yelled as he tried to shield Quickshot from the energies, before swinging his fist at an undead soldier that came at him, shattering it to pieces, before it began to reassemble itself, where he added. "We have to stop this soon because we can't last much longer."

Agreeing with her boyfriend, Quickshot said. "All we can do now is hope V-Force and the Night Queen pull through for us."

But looking toward the duo, though she couldn't make an exact perception of the battle, things were not looking well for their allies.

Remaining high above the heroes and villains, Bagra's attack, along with their own dying down, Davis and Kari were panting heavily, frustrated at the sight of their opponent was unharmed, while Bagra merely glanced at the pair.

"I applaud your strength, but I had spent many years of my mortal life preparing myself to battle both of you, and I will not be stopped." Bagra declared, gathering a great energy in his hands as he prepared to attack and destroy the two, who glared back at him with anger.

'It can't end like this... I can't lose... I have to save Kari...' Davis thought in urgency, while Kari thought in rage. 'It can't... It won't end like this! Not when I'm so close... not when I'm so close to showing Davis that I'm right!'

Suddenly, both V-Force and the Night Queen felt something awaken inside of them, feeling their powers rising, while Bagra tilted his head, sensing the power as well as he thought. 'More of their powers are awakening...'

It was in that moment that Kari's body became consumed in a dark aura, while a black mist covered her head and arms, leaving only a pair of glowing red eyes emerging from her hood, where a similar state befell Davis, with his wings growing larger, the eyes of his helmet glowing a bright light, while a cape of pure light formed around his back.

"What... what is this?" Davis asked in a great confusion, not only feeling the surge of light energy, but deep inside him, he also felt a strong dark power, one that reminded him of Kari's own.

"How... How is this happening? The ritual hasn't... but... but I can feel Davis' power inside me... part of me..." Kari started to question, not only feeling a surge of her own dark powers, but feeling, even if faint, a powerful pull of the light.

Meanwhile, each of those connected to their own links between magic below sensed the power, looking up in shock and surprise to see what was happening to Davis and Kari.

'What... what's happening to them?" Psychonis wondered, sensing the energies of her Mistress not only increasing, but also filling V-Force, leaving her somewhat concerned, a similar thought going through Vixen's mind as she remembered Bagra calling the pair 'Ascended' and wondered what that truly meant.

At the sight and sensing their powers, acting quickly, as if nervous, Bagra resummoned his serpent heads, firing blasts of energy at the pair, only for the V-Force and the Night Queen to quickly disappear, reappearing before him, with Kari then raising her staff to strike and Davis drawing his right blade.

Raising his left arm to defend himself, Bagra quickly brought up a barrier of his necromantic energy, only for his eyes to widen as their attacks not only broke through the barrier, but severed his left arm from the elbow down, causing the ancient king to let out an inhuman shriek as he backed away, swinging his staff around and summoning several blasts of energy, resembling screaming skulls, which shot out towards the pair.

However, V-Force just swing his left arm in an arc, sending out a wave of light energy that cut through the oncoming attacks as though they were nothing, before moving close and swinging once more, severing Bagra's right arm, causing him to cry out once again as he watched his lost limb and staff plummet to the earth, dissolving into dust on the way down, leaving his necromantic energies to pool out of his missing limbs.

"You... you two will bring ruin and death not just to this world... but to all that exists... I would have created an eternity of peace in this world..." Bagra said in anger as his eyes glared at the two.

"Save it. We've heard the whole utopia world speech before, from every other despot that thinks they know what's best for everyone. Your own subjects rebelled against you, knowing the cost, just because they're rather die free than live in a world where they are slaves. This ends now." Davis said back with determination as he brought his right arm up, where light energy gathered in his grasp.

"As I said before, you're a relic, your desires, your plans are nothing more than the dust you clawed your way out of. A new era is rising, and you have no place in it." Kari then said as she brought her left hand up, close to Davis' right, as dark energy gathered in it.

Neither knew exactly why they were doing it, only knowing that they needed to do this, as if their bodies were acting on their own as they tightened their hands around the other, feeling the energy in their raised hands growing and filled with the opposing energy.

From light came darkness and darkness came light.

But focusing on Bagra, seeing that despite his damaged state, the dark green energy formed around his being, growing into a large skeletal head as it let out a shriek of rage and defiance at the pair.

"You two will die before me!" He yelled as the skeletal head shot towards V-Force and the Night Queen, who remained in place, refusing to break their embrace or flee.

And acting as one, Davis and Kari cast out a great stream of light and dark energy from their hands, finding the light and darkness starting off as a pair of separate attacks, only to form a helix-like formation as they twisted and wrapped around the other, as if assisting the other to their path, where the combined energy collided with Bagra's necromantic powers and shattered it, leaving Bagra in a bewildered state to see his power outmatched, before the same energy collided with his own being, where the undead king letting out one final, painful shriek as his body and spirit dissolved into nothing.

With his end, the Leviathan let out its own cry as the dark green energy within it died out, its body dissolving into dust, along with all the undead around it, unable to hold their forms without their Master present, causing the heroes and cops to start cheering.

Davis, meanwhile, despite trying to still understand his new power, turned to look at Kari, only to see her missing, before he heard one of the cops below cry out. "Watch out!"

In a sudden rush of panic, the police all moved out of the way as the Colossus turned and began to walk into the city, crushing some of the police vehicles on the way, as the Shadow Demons all rushed after it, where the heroes looked to see Psychonis, Shadowknight and Asta missing, before seeing five pillars of dark energy shoot out from different corners of Odaiba, their energies creating a massive dark portal over the city.

While more questions arose, the Protectors, StarCorps and Vigilant then saw something materialize above the city, as though having been invisible beforehand, giving them their first look at the Dark Legion's fortress as it hovered over the sky.

"Dammit! She used us! We did most of the fighting while she moved her forces into position." Cobalt Warriors growled, realizing they had been played, and now, whatever the Night Queen's endgame was, it was happening now.