Hairy Gregory: Kinda right, the answer to a question posed in a review has been posted in another review.
Raskolian Phoenix: Don't know if you read anymore but, as I don't know when I will write again I will take this chance to say farewell in my own setting. Goodbye, this section will be all the more empty without you.
The acrid reek of sulphuric lava seeped from the chasms, playing a weird light onto the battlefield. The Imperator gave a mocking laugh as she casually shrugged off her former minions, casting them effortlessly into the welcoming flames as she approached blossom, eyes glistening with mirth. She floated macabrely past the rows of glistening missiles as brimstone laden air rushed behind her. Buttercup grimaced as she struggled to keep the approaching minions, mad with the vile taste of freedom, in check.
"Hurry up Blossom, get rid of the Imperium. I can't keep these guys off much longer"
Blossom gritted her teeth, tossing her flaming hair defiantly behind her, mimicking the rolling waves of magma. As the Imperator approached her, she heard a faint quiver in the background. All of the missiles in the compound suddenly lighted up. In the rolling plains far from this momentous place, she could hear Professor Utonium calling to her. She shook her head; she wasn't that close to death, she shouldn't be hearing things. Then she realised that it really was him. It was a loudspeaker somewhere.
"Quick. Masses of nuclear weapons have just been fired. You will have to get a nuclear weapon to Epsilon headquarters in Citiesville to destroy it. Hurry girls…"
Blossom caught Buttercups eye, she had heard it too. With a final great charge, knocking the minions eschew, she leapt to one of the many machines, grabbing the nuclear weapon that looked most serviceable then, with a final parting glance to Blossom she turned her head silently and flew away.
Blossom glared at the Imperator through slitted eyes, preparing her inner resolve. It was just she and her now. The Imperator flew at her as Blossom instinctively lifted her arms protectively over her face and braced her legs on the floor, but the Imperator never reached her. As the imperator leapt at her, one of her former minions slammed into her back. Blossom felt a sudden rise of elation, quickly quenched when she realised that these new foes were indiscriminate. Maddened with freedom, they had only their primal instinct to fight with a feral ferocity, and fight they did. "My enemy's enemy is my friend" she thought ironically as she punched away a creature that had launched itself at her, then, as it sprawled on the floor, instantly launched herself at the Imperator. So they continued their frenzied melee, neither exchanging blows, both intent on causing malignancy on one an other.
Buttercup landed softly on the roof of the complex in Citiesville. Padding velvety across the roof until finally she positioned herself in the centre of the facility. Then, with an awesome roar, she ripped her way down into the roof. Flinging the metal shards hither and thither as she burrowed herself into the building like a virus into a cell. She effortlessly tossed one of the supporting beams at a dozing security guard then positioned herself in the room, prodding at the various buttons on the missile. Frustratedly she slammed her fist into the metal tube as security guards and hysterical scientists ran into the room. Ignoring the sting off bullets from the security guards and the constant pleas from the scientists to halt, she focused her attention on Townsville. She dove around the myriad of city sounds, hot dog vendors turning up inferior products, squabbling children with pudgy faces, until she found a single loudspeaker.
"Missiles disabled inside Epsilon compound. You need to find an alternative way to blow it up"
Jerking back into reality, Buttercup ripped the covering off, exposing the plutonium. The guards and scientists screamed with radioactive agony and then, all was quiet. She closed her eyes, relishing these last moments of tranquillity and spoke aloud, voice echoing in nothingness. "Goodbye" Without a moments hesitation, she fired at the Tritium/deuterium of the hydrogen bomb. For a brief fraction of a second, she saw everything that happened in agonizing detail. The single laser, travelling interminably slowly towards the quivering mass. The first, uranium bomb exploding, the Tritium/ deuteride reacting combining, compressing the Plutonium to a minuscule mass, then exploding. For yet another moment, there was silence, then no more. Nothing but the wind.
The Professor still lay where he was before, staring into Aurums face as he continued a macabre countdown.
"You have 1 minute to live my friend"
As he began the final seconds a deafening boom sounded around them. At first, Utonium thought that it was all over, but, the end didn't come. He looked out of the window, and saw the sky ,the city intact. His girls had down it. In a sudden overwhelming wave of relief, he sunk into the chair and sighed. Now at least, there was peace.
The Imperator gave a last shrug and charged at Blossom. She knocked Blossom off her feet then gripped a bottle of Imperium. She smiled at her rebellious troops.
"All will be right again"
Then she lifted the bottle to her lips. Blossom, fired her lasers at her hand, sending the bottle spiralling into the lava. Glaring at her she flew at Blossom. Blossom merely rammed into her, sending them both into the lava. The Imperator smiled up at her.
"Don't worry dear, I still have a bottle left"
Blossom hoped for a miracle, then, seemingly there was one. The lava where the Imperium had fallen started bubbling. The Imperator stared at the lava in astonishment. Then it formed into the shape of a gigantic face, leaping up to engulf her.
"The lava, it's alive"
Blossom looked on in horror as she writhed and struggled against the flowing flames as, around them, the creatures resumed their stony gaze and walked on by one into the disintegrating nothingness. In her last moment of life, the Imperator's voice resounded with clarity.
"Remember Blossom, a bottle of Imperium can turn molten rock into life, what can it do to those once alive."
With that, she was gone. Blossom floated back down beside Bubbles, and wept openly.
Well, that's pretty much the end of the story. I will be summing up in a epilogue..