NinjaWind

by Shadow Knight4

This story is COMPLETE! The Epilogue is now up.

31. Stand Against the Dark

Clone: I AM SO SORRY this took so long! Thank the people who pestered me to update. Rumor and Mad-Man. Well not really pester, but really truly reminded me to......

Clone: Now here is the reason.....which you guys probably won't believe, but still, I had 2 reports and a major essay that was worth 10% of my grades people! They were back to back to back! I am so sorry! But since it is winter break, I'm back! Oh yeah!

Disclaimer: I don't own Medabots. All borrowed characters belong to their respected owners.

Clone: Since the reviews would take so long......I dedicate this chapter, no, this story to all my reviewers! Everyone will be recognized in the epilogue. Now lets get this on!

Chapter 30: Stand against the Dark

The three humans and two Medabots were running down the corridor. The sounds of missile and laser fire filled the hallway as they ran. As well as explosions shake the hall. The gang knew that Meda-Evil wouldn't just be waiting to be found, then again he might. But since the headquarters of the Robos was so large it could take a while to get through and face the boss.

"We got to beat down Meda-Evil and strike a blow to that fat ego of his." informed Merrick, his voice even despite the hard running of the group.

"Yeah we know." panted Matt slightly.

"Save your breath guys. I didn't see that upgraded KLN, so most likely we'll have to face him sooner or later throughout these halls." advised Isis.

"She's right, but most likely we will face him with Ruby and Cloud." stated N-Blade putting in his two cents.

"Possible, but who knows? Now just keep running!" shouted the Kunoichi-type.

The gang kept on running and running until they passed a door with a skull and crossbones. When they noticed that, they doubled back and looked at the door. They all agreed that something important must have been behind the door, and tired entering. But no avail for it was locked. Glancing at the keypad, Merrick gathered a handful of dust and blew it onto the buttons. Like magic, the oils left from fingerprints appeared on the buttons. Pressing them quickly, the door unlocked.

Mist came out of the doors when the slowly opened, that freaked everyone out. They expected something horrible, something evil, something nasty, but it was just an empty plain office. Not that plain, but it could be known that this was Meda-Evil's office. One giant clue that pointed that out was the name plate on the oak desk. Which of course read: Armound Meda-Evil.

Armound's choice of office decorations surprised everyone. They were expecting weird voodoo dolls, skulls, and weapons around the room. Not a desk, sofa, and leather chair. Not to mention the book shelves filled with large texts about robotics, the human body, ancient times, and even magic. On his desk was a wide variety of papers, and his computer. The gang started sorting through the items looking for clues.

"Man.....Ikki said Meda-Evil was insane, but this is too weird...." muttered Matt as he looked through the books on the shelves.

"Plans.....for the Alpha Program are here......Talks about fusion modes......here it shows the designs for fusion Medabots called Landmotor Alpha, Noctobat Alpha.....and Alpha?" said Merrick looking through blueprints of the Medabots. He shuddered at the thought that his friends are possibly going to face those robotic beasts.

"We can't go back and help them Merrick. The main battle is at hand." said Isis going through the drawers of the desk.

"But from the looks of these prints, the Robos have all the Medabots they need to make all three of these demons!" retaliated Merrick.

"I have to agree with her, Past Me. I mean, we can't go back. We're the ones who are to handle the main opponents. And those opponents are Ruby and Cloud. Meda-Evil as well I guess." informed N-Blade.

"Both N-Blade and Isis have a point, Merrick. We need to clear out the main threat, and those are being the ones in charge of this whole deal." added Freya. The KOS was looking out the window that shown the testing grounds.

"Fine....fine....." sighed Merrick. The Ninja of Shadows went back to shuffling through the papers. Another piece caught his eye, it was money transaction. It was the money Meda-Evil sent to Nisiko in advance to have his head on a platter. So, he spent that much to have me killed? Sort of makes sense why Nisiko kept trying.....but what else is driving her?

"Time to check out his computer.....might be able to download some stuff....." said Matt accessing Armound's computer. Just turning it on, he hit a level 7 security wall. "Wow, he's playing hard ball."

"Can ya crack through it?" asked Isis voice full of curiosity.

"I can....but we'd be wasting too much time in the process. Come on, we learned all we can from here. Let's jet." sighed the boy heading out the door. The others followed in suit and went down the corridor in a tight box. No one seemed to notice the silver figure that landed softly on the floor behind them.

"The time to end this is soon enough." whispered Nisiko to herself. She began her pursuit as soon as they were far down the next hallway.

Walking briskly with new haste, the gang walked through the brightly lighted hallways. Passing doors with a variety of signs that hung over him, most were labs and training rooms. No one still noticed that the Bounty Huntress was following them, except for Merrick that is. He kept turning his head as he felt like he was being followed. Isis did the same every now and again, but always shrugged it off.

"Guys.....we're being followed. And I know we are, so don't try to pass it off for paranoia." informed Merrick his hand clenching his sword hilt.

"I felt like we were being followed, but I always thought it was just paranoia...." admitted Isis sweatdropping slightly.

"Well, if you say so. Think you can handle it buddy?" asked Matt.

"You know he can, he is me after all." smirked N-Blade.

"Don't sound so overconfident, N-Blade. Who knows what and what not Merrick can handle but himself? You never fought human opponents except when you were him." scolded Freya.

"But....." started N-Blade, until Merrick caught him off.

"Rei's incarnation has a point. I'm still rusty, and the only opponent I have fought besides street thugs was Nisiko. And she is tougher than any street punk."

"Why thank you Merrick." chimed the sultry voice of Nisiko. "You're not that bad yourself. One of my more challenging opponents."

"Should have known it was you following us. Considering how much money Meda-Evil gave ya to kill me." said Merrick his voice calm and even.

"So you know." replied Nisiko, a tinge of resentment in her voice. "Sorry, but business is business."

"Guys, go. I'll deal with her and join up with you guys later."

"Alright, good luck man." encouraged Matt.

"Come back in one piece, you hear?" ordered Isis.

"Don't take too long, alright?" smirked N-Blade.

"Be on guard, friend. Who knows what she may pull now?" added Freya.

"No worries, but thanks for the wish of luck."

The two Medabots and their Medafighters left the hallway for the next room. Never taking his hand from his blade's hilt, he stared at the silver haired woman. She had her mask off, revealing her shocking silver eyes. In a way, they made her look attractive, while in another it appeared to make her look fiercer. She never reached for her blade, and just gave Merrick a small grin that made her eyes glint in such a way. Merrick couldn't take it, but still his hand rested on his sword hilt.

"Ready to battle, Bounty Huntress?" asked Merrick his tone as harsh as steel now.

"Not here, Ninja. Not here..." she replied her voice soft as flower petals.

"What? Why not here?" asked the ninja perplexed.

"No room, this place is too narrow." answered Nisiko, her voice still soft as before.

Merrick's eyes narrowed. "Then where will we go?"

"Look about and you will see." she said with a bit louder then before. Merrick heeding to her words, glanced about him quickly. A sign caught his attention, it read: Virtual Training Room. He sighed and just nodded his head to the woman. Grinning again, the Bounty Huntress hit a few buttons on the control panel and walked in.

Sighing again the ninja followed the Bounty Huntress into the room without hesitation. The battle stage was that of a forest clearing. It looked almost like the forest clearing he fought her before, save that more trees were in tighter knots, and more flowers too. The air smelt nice, even if it was all just virtual. Looking at the silver clad woman, she was wearing her mask now, and her body seemed tensed.

"It seems you prepared to meet your fate, Bounty Huntress." sighed the ninja, his voice grim.

"May not be my fate that is met today, Ninja. Only one of us will come out here alive, and I know that will be me." stressed Nisiko, her voice hard and steady.

"I won't kill you, but that doesn't mean I won't harm you. You seem to be from my world, how you got here is a mystery. But you are a link to my world, and there is still much you can tell me." concluded the Ninja of Shadows drawing forth his blade.

"Who says I'll tell you anything, even if you do try to kill me?" retorted Nisiko, folding her arms in front of her chest in a stubborn way. Rolling his eyes he just gave her a look, and she drew her weapon.

Nodding to each other, they dashed at one another blades poised to strike. Both decided to strike as one, and their blades sang with a terrible clang. Their blades clashed with one another, neither side appearing to beat the other. In the beginning it was appearing to be a draw, both were equally matched in normal sword attacks, but this was just the start.

"This is getting us nowhere!" grunted Nisiko as she strained her sword against Merrick's katana.

"I concur....." agreed Merrick as he pushed his blade against the femme's.

The two leapt away from each other and fired a burst of energy at the other. From Nisiko a silver blast, while a black came from Merrick. The two deflected the attacks with their swords sending them back to their origin. The two kept deflecting the blasts back to one another making it like a game of magical tennis. The two wouldn't let the other's blast hit them, but at the current speeds the magical energies were traveling sooner or later one of them would get hit by one or both of the blasts.

"ENOUGH OF THIS!" roared Merrick slicing vertically, then horizontally to destroy the magical blasts. "BLACK WAVE!" Thrusting his hand outward, a massive tidal wave of shadow energy shot out at the Bounty Huntress. Startled by the sudden onslaught of black energy, Nisiko nearly didn't react to avoid the attack. Taking a flying leap into the air, she dodged the Black Wave, but not only that, she moved her heels down for a drop kick upon Merrick!

The long heels of Nisiko's boots pounded Merrick's chest forcing him to the ground. To Merrick it felt like her heels stabbed him in the chest, and for all he knew they could have, if it wasn't for his thin, flexible, yet tough armor he wore. But what made it worse was the fact that Nisiko was standing on his chest putting all her weight on her feet causing more pain to the ninja. Grinning sadistically she pointed her rune blade at Merrick.

"Looks like you didn't have a chance." she said, her voice sounding disappointed. Sighing to herself, she trusted her blade downward.

Running through the halls, the gang now knew delays would be costly. They knew Merrick could take care of himself, but for how long can he last against the Bounty Huntress? Shaking their heads as one, they continued running through the halls until N-Blade stopped them.

"What's up?" asked the boy panting slightly.

"Trouble......" muttered N-Blade.

Lasers filled the hallway aimed for the group of four. N-Blade deflected the shots with his katana, while Freya did the same with her sais. Isis had no trouble avoiding the laser fire, while Matt danced around like a fool. Nightshade came out of the shadows, his cannons smoking and there was a grunt not too far behind him.

"So all the grunts aren't helping to try and destroy our friends." muttered Matt. "Lets get this over with then, who knows how long they could hold out for?" At those words the entire HQ shook from a large explosion. Unknown to Matt and company, that was the destruction of Landmotor Alpha and Noctobat Alpha.

"Hmm.....wonder who that explosion belonged too....." sweatdropped Isis.

"No time to wonder, we need to bring this guy down a few pegs and that ain't going to be easy. This guy is tough." implied N-Blade.

"How about we just destroy him instead of dropping him down some pegs?" implored Freya, a smirk in her voice.

"Fine by me BT, lets just show him what we got!"

"Alright Ninja-B! Lets do it!"

Weapons in hand they charged at the black KLN. The corridor may have been too cramped to have humans fight, but it was large and wide enough to have Medabots Robattle. The Modified King Lion dodged the katana slash, and double sai attack with ease. Optics flashing, he sent a round house kick that caught both the ninjas hard, and sent them flying!

The two were sent sprawling to the feet of their Medafighters. Growling, they grunted as they got up and nodded to one another. Using their agility the scaled the walls shooting their shuriken from all sides of Nightshade! The KLN did his best to block the stars, but with a full variety flying at him, he couldn't block them all. With the gunk shuriken slowing down his reflexes, he was becoming a sitting duck for the explosive stars.

When the onslaught subsided, Nightshade was smoking. But despite the smoking, his body didn't seem too damaged. Scratches and scorch marks were all around his body. Gunk still covered some of his body, but it just clung to his arms, and gunk that jammed his joints was possibly fried off from the explosions. The black Medabot growled at the two ninjas.

"Speed and power you have, but can you handle mine?" implored the KLN.

Not waiting for any response, he charged forward at the two. Going into a rapid punching motion, he hit the two with a wide array of punches before they could retaliate. Being knocked back by the punches, they were thrown into the wall. N-Blade was the first to get up and ran at Nightshade. The two were grappling with each other and neither had any weapons to use. Except for the black KLN, his headdress aimed forward at the Ninja-type.

Firing his new weapons, the blasts that should have nailed N-Blade went through him and hit the ceiling! The armored roof withstood the attack, but was scorched black. From behind the KLN was a rapid slice and dice from the NON. With a powerful roundhouse kick boosted with the powers of Flash Kick, the black KLN-type was slammed into the wall. To finish it up, the gray Ninja fired rapid shadow beams slamming Nightshade even further into the wall.

"Not bad, not bad at all Ninja." chuckled Nightshade. The Modified King Lion-type picked himself out from the wall, dented and visibly singed from the shadow beams. Nightshade's visor lit up, and he ran at speeds faster than before! Going into a rapid tempo of punches, he pounded the NON-type all over in less than a second! He finished with the Ninja-type with a powerful uppercut.

"N-BLADE!" yelled Matt in aghast.

The Ninja would have crashed into the wall, if a certain navy blue Kunoichi didn't catch him. Setting him down, she went to work against the overly powerful King Lion. Her sais were coated with blue energy, turning them once again into the Tundra Blades. Nightshade was unleashing the full might of his dual Quad-Shots upon the Kunoichi, but his lasers wouldn't connect! The female Ninja was too fast for him! When she was upon him, she slashed vertically, horizontally, and in X-fashion.

The cold blue energy blades disappeared when the Kunoichi ran past the KLN. When she put her sais away, that seemed to signal for the KLN to finally fall apart. And that he did, the power of the Tundra Blades appeared to have increased since their last use. Which in this case was good for the team, if she had a mouth, Freya would have been smiling at her handy work. Seeing the fallen N-Blade trying to get up, she helped the male Medabot back to his feet.

"Well, looks like you did it, Freya." stated N-Blade. "Oh, and thanks for helping me up."

"Of course I did it! And your welcome." chirped the KOS.

"This isn't over yet!" challenged the grunt.

"How so? You're Medabot is down for the count!" countered Isis.

"No he isn't! And I'll show you why!" informed the grunt. "Alpha Program DOWNLOAD!" Slamming a button on his Medawatch, a golden beam hit the fallen KLN parts. The parts began shaking as if possessed, before coming back together. The hollow shell of a body was basked in a golden glow and surged with power, before the visor gleamed red once again.

"I'M BACK!" roared Nightshade his voice echoed with power.

"Great......looks like things just started......" sighed Matt.

The blade was coming down upon Merrick fast. Merrick was still dazed from the attack, but he somehow just managed to catch the blade between his hands. The tip of the weapon just millimeters from his face. Muttering things to himself, he threw the blade to the side causing Nisiko to go off balance. The Bounty Huntress stumbled off his chest by the sudden shift of weight, and the black clad Ninja was able to get back to his feet. Holding his chest, he cursed at the femme under his breath.

"Not nice to curse at people. Especially to a lady."

"Like you're a lady....." grumbled Merrick.

"I am a lady, no matter what you think." smirked Nisiko. Merrick just rolled his eyes.

Quickly scanning the area, Merrick saw his katana imbedded near a tree. Knowing he had no time to get his weapon with the bounty huntress on his tail, he decided to use a different weapon. Pulling out the pole, it extended to the five foot staff once again. His eyes glinted slightly as he sent the blunt tip flying at Nisiko in a rapid blur. The woman couldn't keep up with the staff, she tried to her best to block, but each attempt got her a hit to the stomach or chest. Even trying to dodge, she was hit in her sides and arms.

Growling to herself, she took a small leap back. Her rune covered blade flared with a large silver aura. Shaking his head slightly, Merrick coated his staff with some of his shadow energy to protect the weapon. Channeling a bit more energy into it, he top of his staff was a black energy blade. The Ninja changed his hold on the weapon slightly, before rushing at the woman.

Nisiko met him half way, and gave a powerful vertical slash. The black clad Ninja smirked, made a sidestep and slashed diagonally. The tip of the black blade slashed into Nisiko and sent her back. Yet, to her surprise, there was no blood! Glancing at where she was slashed, from the right of her waist, to just below her left shoulder was a small cut exposing her pale flesh. She blushed slightly, before growling at Merrick.

"Hey calm down. Better your clothes then you, eh?" reasoned the Ninja.

"I never show skin to anyone! For that, you must pay! SILVER WING!"

Her sword went over her head as a silver energy bird formed. Swinging down, a large silver hawk flew at Merrick. The Ninja was not worried and narrowed his eyes at the energy bird of prey. Something under his gear flashed silver, and he opened his palm to unleash a gray blast in the shape of a wolf. The two energy shaped predators slammed into each other creating an explosion.

When the explosion subsided, the two ran at each other clashing their weapons against the other's. The two were in a classic stalemate. But Nisiko wasn't going to lose, not this time. She promised it to herself that she wouldn't. The fins on her left arm grew and slashed at Merrick. Merrick not wanting to be slashed by Nisiko's fins, he leapt back and stumbled on his landing talks to a holographic pebble. Sweatdropping, Nisiko just gave the Ninja a slight push to make him fall over finally.

"That wasn't nice!" yelled Merrick from the floor rubbing his head.

"Cutting my clothes and exposing my skin wasn't nice either." countered Nisiko.

"It's not like anything bad is showing." retorted Merrick with a snort.

"Does that mean you like how I look?" asked Nisiko with a teasing grin.

"Nani? Don't try to play head games with me! You know what I meant!" shouted Merrick getting back to his feet.

"No I don't, what did you mean?"

"Argh! You do know what I mean! It's not like you are exposing flesh that shouldn't be seen in the public and whatever! Now, I think I've been annoyed enough!"

He ran at Nisiko, but plunged his staff into the floor to leap over the woman. Hitting the hidden button it collapsed back to its normal size. Running for his sword, he picked it up off of the floor at glared at the woman. His sword glowed black with the powers of Shadow Blade, and he ran at Nisiko their blades clashing once again.

Nightshade was flowing with the power of Alpha through his circuits. N-Blade and Freya were going to have to take on a Medabot who is basically on steroids. But the golden glow did not damper the spirits of our heroes. Well, their Medafighters felt faltered by it slightly, but it didn't show. Hardening their expressions, they turned to each other and nodded before turning to their Medabots.

"ATTACK MODE!"

Those two words were the keys to the Gates of Chaos. For all hell broke loose at that moment. The male and female Ninja Medabots ran at the black KLN weapons in hand. They sent a triple attack at the fiend, but he blocked the triple strike with his arm. The two ninjas were surprised at the strength the King Lion possessed now. With a mighty roar, he threw the two into the corridor wall.

"This will be painful! DARK SHOT!" roared Nightshade.

From his dual Quad-Shots fired two black stream beams at the two. N-Blade and Freya quickly got to their feet and avoided the beams just in time. Where they once were, were twin smoking craters. The Alpha Program really increased Nightshade's already impressive attack power. But the King Lion was far from being finished with the two.

From his torso out popped two mines that fit into his hands. Throwing them at the two ninjas, he detonated them while they were still in mid-flight. The explosion rocked the corridor, and threw the Medafighters to the side. The two ninjas crashed into the walls with a small crunch noise. The only thing in the hall that didn't seem to be shaken from the explosion was none other than Nightshade. Smirking at his fallen opponents, he slowly walked to his fallen prey. His cannons glinting in what little light there was in the hall.

"So is this the end of the pathetic N-Blade that troubled the Robos?" mused the KLN to himself. He didn't seem to notice that N-Blade's left arm was exchanged for a gray painted NIN-type's. However, unlike the normal NIN-type arm, this one had no blade.

"Farewell whelp!"

The black KLN-type raised his right arm at the fallen NON-type. He fired upon him, and missed! Yes, that's right folks, at the last possible second a blade extended from N-Blade's left arm knocking away Nightshade's Quad-Shot. All that the King Lion shot was the wall. Getting to his feet, the blade receded back into his arm, and he raised his katana at his opponent.

Hitting a hidden switch, his katana was engulfed into flames. When the flames became more even and larger, did Matt know that N-Blade was using his powers. The KLN wasn't worried, he knew his opponent wouldn't use a powerful flame attack if it meant hurting the humans. Aiming all his cannons, he fired a barrage of lasers at N-Blade, when the unexpected happened. Something only that happened to him when sparring with Ruby and or Cloud happened just now, his lasers hit a layer of heated air and reflected back at him!

The firing rate of Nightshade's weapons was normally his opponent's downfall. But at the moment it was his, for he was never able to move his arms or feet in time to defend or dodge his own reflected lasers! His own lasers pelted into him, denting, chipping, and tearing his armor. But that wasn't all he suffered, N-Blade raising his sword, he swung down hard sending a shockwave of fire at his opponent. The shockwave hit him hard and slammed him into the wall. When he moved to get up, his body was consumed in the flames of Firebane. N-Blade finally stopped, and Nightshade's golden glow was replaced with an orange one from superheated metal.

"Freya, if you will." coolly said N-Blade.

"With pleasure, friend. With pleasure." said the KOS-type with a pleasant smile on her voice.

Whispering something to herself then pointing her right palm at the heated King Lion, she fired a jet of cooling water at him. When the ice cold water struck of KLN it instantly created a steam veil, and the noise of crunching metal filled the air. Spinning his katana quickly, N-Blade sent a gust of wind at the steam sending it away. What the two saw amazed them. Nightshade was still standing! His armor was cracked, his cannons melted, arms, legs, heck everything that seen better days. But he was still standing!

"OK! This has gone on long enough! Black Fist of Chaos!" yelled N-Blade running at the KLN his right fist glowing black. Sending his shadow magic coated fist at Nightshade's head, he decapitated the King Lion finishing off once and for all. Muttering something to himself, he shook off the dust that came off of Nightshade's head.

"That fool slowed us down! Who knows what the Robos are planning! Let's go!" ordered Isis already running down the hall.

"When did she become leader?" asked Matt.

"Just now." answered Freya and N-Blade together. They started at each other before shrugging and running after the human kunoichi. Matt sighing to himself, took off after the three.

Silver and shadow coated blades clashed, clanged, and spark with each contact they made with one another. Merrick and Nisiko were dancing the deadly Dance of Blades, but neither one tired, or let the other land a blow. Neither had lost a drop of blood, though Merrick was unsure how badly hurt he was from Nisiko's drop kick. The two swords clashed again and their owners jumped back from each other.

Merrick pulled his left hand back as Nisiko did the same. In the Ninja's palms gathered shadow energy, while in the Bounty Huntress' gathered silver. As one did they thrust their palms forward sending forth beams of shadow and silver magic. Shadow Burst collided with Silver Flare and the attacks ended up being a stalemate. The shockwave force from when the two magical attacks subsided, and the two just stood there staring at one another in silence.

"You are good." commented Merrick, breaking the silence.

"You're not bad yourself either. I meant it that you're the most difficult opponent, I've ever faced." admitted Nisiko.

"You don't have to continue this you know. You already got your money in advance, why not just end this without one of us dying?"

"Even if I did just stop, I'd be killed from a different bounty hunter. Besides, I owe Armound more than you think. Furthermore, I don't stop until either myself or my opponent falls."

"I won't let you kill me, and it seems there is more to you than meets the eye." informed the Ninja of Shadows. "I won't kill you, but that doesn't mean I won't harm you..."

"Again with you saying that?" asked the silver clad woman. "Out of mild curiosity, have any new reasons for you not planning to kill me, when you know that I will kill you?"

"I have two reasons. The first, and more minor reason, is that you seem to be from where or when I am. And it'd be nice to see another human I could talk probably talk with from my origin. The second, and more important reason, is that you seem to be a good within. It's just your profession and way of growing up that created the woman you are today. If it takes a warrior of shadows to bring you back into the light, then so be it."

"A warrior of shadows to bring me back into the light? That seems pretty ironic." smirked Nisiko. "And if you want someone to talk to, go get a puppy!"

Merrick ignored her last comment. "I may be of the shadows, but I walk in the light. I've brought a few people into the light before, and I'll do the same for you. But if I have to beat you into the light, then so be it."

Nisiko was taken aback, she was never spoken to like this before. No one ever tried to help her out from her problems except Meda-Evil. He was there to help her out. He taught her everything he knew, and paid for tutors to teach her the rest. Trainers to help her become faster, stronger, and properly use her weapon. He even went as far to search for people to help train her to use her powers properly. It was her choice to become a bounty huntress, and it was Meda-Evil who helped her out in the start. However, here was this odd Ninja with powers close to her own that wanted her to come into the light.

That's probably a lie. He just wants to save his own skin. she thought bitterly.

She gripped her sword and plunged it into the virtual earth. Taking this as a sign of good faith Merrick sheathed his sword. Grinning behind his mask, he started forward toward the Bounty Huntress, but when the sword flashed silver did he jump back. Eyes wide, he stared at Nisiko, but the woman just have a smirk on her face. The sword flashed a dangerously sending silver light everywhere.

"Never should trust a Bounty Hunter, in my case; Huntress." snide Nisiko. "SILVER CHAOS!"

With a few waves of her hands, her sword flashed even brighter. It was coated in a swirling vortex of silver energy, that Merrick just gaped at. Coming from the vortex, large balls of silver energy came forth like meteorites and flew at Merrick. The Ninja just seemed frozen to the ground and was struck with blast after blast after blast! The attack came with so much force that the floor they were on rocked back and forth. When the attack subsided, Merrick fell over backwards, slumped onto the ground.

"So that ends that." grinned Nisiko.

Matt, Isis and their Medabots were running with a new burst of speed and assurance. Running as they were, they never knew Merrick was facing the brink of death with the most powerful attack ever thrown at him with his guard down, or at that same moment that their friends were delivering the finishing blow to the beast known as Alpha. That is, not until the whole area shock with the force of the blows from Silver Chaos, and the multi-force attack from the others.

The shaking caused our heroes to be thrown on the floor in a small dog pile, but when they got back to their feet: only N-Blade was staring back where they came from. Unknown to the rest, N-Blade sensed an odd chill enter his being, a chill that only lasted a split second before going away. His yellow optics changing to a blue hue for awhile before changing back. Matt was about to say something when N-Blade's voice cut him off.

"We press on," said N-Blade in a voice harder then steel and colder then ice, "no need to be wondering what has happened. Our mission is just up ahead...."

N-Blade ran ahead of the group and the others followed as best they could. A heavily plated door was up just before them. They knew their foes were behind it, but not even stopping in front of the door so Matt could open it; N-Blade just blew it apart with Shadow Blaster. Whoever that is behind it was already expecting them, there was truly no need for surprise the others reasoned, and ran through the ruined doors after N-Blade.

When passing the ruined doors, they four entered utter darkness. Nothing but shadows thrived in their new environment. But with a evil laugh, the lights burst into life illuminating the field. Our heroes shielded their eyes and scanned the area. The room was barren, empty, only the floor in a large open space, with a few computers lining the walls, a catwalk overhead, and a balcony. Two larger then average Medabots dropped down from a balcony, where the head of the Rubberobo Gang stood himself, Dr. Armound Meda-Evil.

"Welcome to your demise, children!" cackled the mad scientist.

"Heard it before Meda-Evil! Get a new line!" roared N-Blade drawing his sword, leaping into the air and lunging at the gang leader. The NON-type never reached the little man, for the air turned to jelly holding him in place. The air around him started to grip him tighter until his armor started cracking slightly. Looking with his optics he saw that Cloud was just below him, for it was the air specialist who was holding him in place. That is, until Freya saved him by distracting him with her shuriken. Falling to the floor, he landed on his feet with a little difficulty.

"Thanks Freya....." strained N-Blade as he got back to his feet.

"No problem....but you shouldn't go rushing off like that....."

"Yeah ....I know....."

"Cute.....two lovebirds......who will fry together!" laughed Ruby as she sent streams of fire at the two ninjas. Freya grabbed N-Blade and jumped back to their Medafighters' feet.

"Ok, seems we got to hit them hard and fast...but with you like this Blade...it might be a little difficult...." mumbled Matt.

"It's called change my parts, Matt." chuckled N-Blade lightly.

"........." the boy didn't reply and switched N-Blade's parts with one of his spare body. With this body, he only had one more spare before having to get replaced with either the Ninja-Strike body or change into mismatch parts.

"Alright, I'm back and good to go." informed N-Blade with his sword held in front of him.

"Then lets work together on this one Ninja-Blade. Two-on-two." said Freya.

"Playing your strengths together might be good on this. Combining attacks would be useful as well........" stated Isis.

"Have to agree with them on that. No taking them one at a time this round, Blade. You two were a team once before from what Merrick says, you two can be a team now." added Matt.

"Alright lets do this then." said N-Blade eyeing his foes from his past.

"Yes, lets." agreed Freya, Ruby, and Cloud all in unison.

The four Medabots stared each other down. The two heroes readied their Medawatches, while Meda-Evil looked from the balcony. The air was tense, the tension so thick it could almost be touched and tasted. Actually, you could taste the tension, and it was a sickly bitter sweet taste. N-Blade and Freya waited for Ruby and Cloud to make their move first before reacting, but the evil duo were waiting for the two ninjas to react first.

"What are you waiting for?! Attack!" barked Meda-Evil.

"You heard the man! Go you two!" ordered the two Medafighters. And with those words, the classic duel of good versus evil started once more.

Alexis and her newfound friends ran through the corridor in their rag-tag team of Medabots in mismatched parts. Being older than her little cousin, she was always responsible for him ever since moving in with her Aunt and Uncle. But it never really seemed that she took care of him, but the other way around. He always tried to be protective of her instead of her to him. Sure she defended his ideas and always stuck by him, but he never truly needed her help.

But that was then, and this is now. She wasn't sure if he cousin could deal with this force, for all she knew, he thought this as an everyday Robattle. If he did, she meant to pull his butt out of the fire, before he got fried to a crisp. In the beginning she might have agreed with Matt, but now, she wasn't so sure. Too much has happened in so little time, and she meant to do what she can in all her power to end this madness.

With her rag-tag group, she meant to aide her cousin, and finally end this. That is, if it wasn't already too late. Shaking her head slightly, she realized that Ikki was trying to get her attention.

"Alexis, what's the matter?" asked the boy.

"Just thinking.....and hoping we aren't too late...."

"Don't think like that, we'll be there and help before ya know it, and get Meda-physical on them!" chuckled Metabee. At the hotheaded KBT-type's behavior, Alexis couldn't help but grin.

"Yeah, we will."

"Don't sweat it, Alexis. We'll be able to help Matt with no problem whatsoever!" added Erika.

"That is, if the Alpha program increase the strength of Ruby and Cloud's powers as well as their normal physical attack strength...." informed SMX in a serious tone.

"X! Don't you think you went a little overboard? We want to think happy thoughts, not bad ones!" shouted Warren.

"He might be, but what he says has reason. We mustn't think that this will be a walk in the park.......We must prepare for the worse......." said Rokusho.

"For a pacifist, you seem to know your way around battle...." stated Dragonite.

"I have seen my fair share of battle, Dragonite..."

"He has, that he has...." added Koji remembering the battles he had seen Rokusho in.

"You guys should really save your breath instead of talking......if you mean to try and get there in time to help....." said Peppercat keeping a brisk walking pace keeping up with them all.

"She's right.....we need to save our breaths...." agreed Spike, breathing evenly, but sweating slightly.

The others nodded in agreement and continued running. Running that they never noticed that they passed Dr. Meda-Evil's office, and were running a straight course. They came to a brief pause to rest and stretch in the area where Merrick was fighting Nisiko. Ikki noticed that a panel was glowing, and that the virtual chamber was active, when he was about to tell the others, Alexis already pushed the group to another brisk run.

Not that far from the rest area, they came to the area where N-Blade and Freya fought Nightshade. What left of Nightshade was all around the room. Alexis paused the ground and they studied their surroundings for a bit, and were surprised that the damage wasn't any higher if N-Blade and Freya had to more than likely fight an Alpha boosted Nightshade.

"No time to continue looking. Let's move out." ordered Alexis taking the group into another run down the corridors, coming to her cousin's aide and praying that she wasn't too late to help out.

The attack from Silver Chaos left the virtual forest clearing a wasteland. Holes, upturned earth, dust, scorched earth, ash, burnt grass, and burnt wood was all around. Every bit and piece of it was virtual, but smelt and felt like the real thing. Nisiko looked at Merrick's fallen form and was half-surprised that his body wasn't a mangled wreck from the attack. Going down on her knees next to him, she rested her head to his chest to hear the beating of his heart.

Raising an eyebrow at something, she took off her glove and felt Merrick's chest to feel something smooth and hard underneath his black attire. It's armor. she thought, but another curious thought came to her. If he wears armor underneath....how was it that my fins were able to slice through it? When my attack didn't even blow him apart due to the armor? Curious.....very curious.....More than likely he can choose when to wear his armor or not.....or something along those lines.

Getting back to her feet, she picked up her sword, poised to stab Merrick's head, when something silver flashed under his clothes and a lone howl filled the air. Every hair on her body felt like it stood on end when she heard the howl. Turning around slowly, her gaze brought the picture of a large wolf with a fine coat of silver gray fur. Standing on its legs, it was a little above her waist. Yellow eyes, like gold stared into her own. The wolf had its teeth bared in a snarl.

All you Kartianians are the same! You know that?! growled a voice in Nisiko's head.

"What? Kartianians?? And who said that?" asked Nisiko perplexed.

Don't you know your own race little girl? You are Kartianian, I can tell from the energy patterns coming from you. And how you wear silver. Kartianians are known for their love of silver. And I said that of course!

"I'm not a Kartianian, or whatever. My name is Nisiko! And the only thing besides the knocked out ninja at my feet here is a wolf, and wolves can't talk!" shouted the Bounty Huntress.

People shouldn't be able to hurl balls of fire, or send burst of shadow energy and such either. Why can't a wolf talk?

"This is insane......a wolf is talking to me......" sweatdropped Nisiko.

Yes a wolf is talking to you Bounty Huntress, or Nisiko as my charge knows you as. Do you mind taking that sword away from my charge's neck or do I have to hurt you?

"A wolf is threatening me........and telling me he is the guardian of a human........this is too weird........" muttered Nisiko as she sheathed her sword slowly, and watched as the wolf stopped snarling at her.

Good, now that you put your sword away. How about stepping away from my charge, Kartianian?

"Why am I listening to a blasted wolf?!" snapped Nisiko, pulling on her glove and sending a disc of silver energy at the wolf. The wolf reared back his head and destroyed the disc with silvery flames. His golden eyes hardened and blazed like a raging inferno. Howling to the sky, a silver aura exploded around him.

"No wolf is going to scare me!" shouted the Bounty Huntress in a voice that held no fear as she drew her sword with a steady hand. Her voice may have held no fear, but her eyes tremble as shake like a leaf in a wind storm. Fear burns in her eyes, and the scent of fear is around her. A scent the wolf can smell, and licks his lips with his tongue. Baring his teeth back, he readied himself as if to spring forward and end the woman's life.

"Tarek......no!" rasped the voice of Merrick as he stood up shakily, and coughing slightly. "No point in taking her life, friend....."

No point?! No point?! She nearly killed you for goodness sake man! Don't let a pretty face and eyes, as well as a nice body take over your mind and cloud your judgement! SHE TRIED TO KILL YOU!

Merrick turned red slightly, and scratched the back of his head laughing slightly, while Nisiko blushed and looked away. "Ok.....yeah.....she tried to kill me......but she is a Bounty Huntress......and the job of a bounty hunter, or huntress is to kill the person they are assigned to.....And another thing! I'm not letting her looks cloud my judgement! Why are you always so quick to judge man?!"

A guardian must look after his charge with the best of care. So one tends to become quick to judging things. And if you were a guardian for people as long as I have been, you would know as well, Merrick....

"Like I don't know what it is like to be a guardian......" snorted Merrick while rolling his eyes.

You don't! snapped Tarek.

"Yeah, yeah.....so you say........I'm doing this on my turns Tarek.....if you want to watch......go lay down somewhere......" muttered Merrick, pushing himself back to his feet, sword in hand.

"So, you still have some fight in you. Pretty interesting that you do after that attack...." whistled Nisiko in amazement.

He's too stubborn to die....... barked Tarek in wolfish laughter.

"I see........" sweatdropped Nisiko readying her sword.

"Getting called stubborn by a spirit wolf.....good grief......" coughed Merrick slightly, before readying his own sword.

"Wouldn't seem fair to fight you like this.....but oh well......" sighed Nisiko slightly running at Merrick. The Ninja didn't respond, as he charged forth himself, their swords clanging the songs of battle.

The two ninjas clashed sais and sword against the spear and sword of the knight and flame seer. The FLS-type sent twin bars of white hot flames at the two, while the KNT-type sent twin crackling spheres of lightning. With her Tundra Blades, Freya was able to slice through the bars of fire with ease, and N-Blade countered the spheres with two Shadow Balls. The party barely started and the Evil Duo was already starting out strong. But would they burn out just more quickly?

"Freya, try to concentrate on Ruby more. Your water based spells will help you out. Cloud is mine, but since they are more likely going to support each other. I'll still help you out." explained N-Blade.

"Alright, but it would be better to act more as a team...." replied Freya.

Taking no time to heed her words, N-Blade clashed his sword against Cloud's. The Knight's sword against his own katana, with each clash. Sparks flew into the air. Right besides N-Blade, Freya was fighting Ruby. The Kunoichi with her sais normal now was thrusting the twin weapons at the Flame Seer. But the ruby red Medabot used her spear as a staff and blocked each thrust and countered with an overhead swing. BT caught the spear holding her sais in X-fashion. The two female Medabots jumped away from each other.

N-Blade focusing more on his fight, sent a quick kick to Cloud's sword wrist. The force of the blow forced the KNT to drop his sword. Using this moment of opportunity, N-Blade shot an explosive shuriken the chest of Cloud. The force of the explosion threw the two away from each other, and slightly dented the Vile Knight's chest. Luke Cutter, or Cloud as he normally was known as was thrown on his back. Pushing himself back to his feet, he removed the shield off his back and set it firmly on his left arm. Calmly picking up his sword, his cold stare stabbed daggers in N-Blade.

"You are going to need more than a cold stare to win, Cutter." chuckled NON-type.

"Your wit is as dull as that sword." snorted Cloud.

"I'm not even going to comment on that...." sweatdropped N-Blade.

"Fair enough." said the Knight shrugging.

The two went back to clashing swords as the femme fought one another as well. Ruby swept Freya's feet from beneath her with her spear, and drove the point after her. But Freya rolled out of the way just as the tip plunged itself into the ground. Crouching as she was, she performed a leg sweep to trip up Ruby. However, the Flame Seer jumped out of the way.

Ruby pulling her spear out of the ground, twirled it like a staff in front of her. The spear point glinted as it became encased in pure white hot flames. The gem named Medabot slashed and swung at the Kunoichi with her flaming spear, but Freya flowed like water avoiding all her attempts. The KOS-type's sais were coated in blue energy once more and formed the Tundra Blades. She blocked the spear with one, and slashed Ruby's chest with the other.

Hissing in pain and shouting curses at Freya, Ruby jumped back and held the long thin gash on her chest. Her flame-shaped spear point changed so it was like a sword blade of fire on the end of her spear's haft. The flaming blade clashed against cold blue energy, and magical sparks flew everywhere. Slamming the end of her haft into Freya's stomach, she then kicked Freya in the chest, the tripped her up in less then 2.4 seconds. She swung her flaming blade while Freya was still stunned from surprise, but a flurry of shuriken from her right knocked her off balance, and made her swing go too far to the left.

Quickly turning her head from where the shuriken came from, she saw that it was N-Blade who done it. He had his shuriken shooters trained on her for the while, before going back to fighting Cloud. Growling, she bashed the haft of her spear into Freya's head to keep her down, and ran at N-Blade to aide Cloud and finish that thorn in her side once and for all.

N-Blade backflipped away from the two enemies of his past. Steadying himself, he coated his katana in shadow energy and thrust it into the earth. He had no idea what he was doing, this was all coming from reflex now. Shockwaves of shadow energy erupted from his body and collided with the two throwing them back. Ripping his sword from the ground, his hand started crackling with electricity.

"CRY OF THUNDER!" bellowed N-Blade as he slammed his hand into the ground. The electricity traveled through the cement floor with immense speed and shocked the Vile Knight and Flame Seer. When the attack finally subsided the two were a crispy black. N-Blade narrowed his optics, something didn't seem right. Readying his sword, he swung horizontally sending a wave of shadow energy at the two. The attack just sailed right through them.

"Illusion....." softly cursed N-Blade and scanned the area quickly. Then the two came at him from behind, but he was a step ahead of them. Firing two of his explosive shuriken into the ground, he used the smoke as cover, and vanished from the spot when the smoke cleared.

"Where is he?!" growled Ruby in frustration. "N-Blade! If you don't come out now, your little friend will have a spear through her medal!"

Cloud using his air abilities, wrapped Freya's form in binds of air and brought her closer to Ruby. The Flame Seer held her flaming sword blade like spear at Freya's medal hatch. Isis was about the react, when Matt grabbed her arm and slowly shook his head. Isis stared at him with anger in her eyes, before slowly understanding and calmed down. N-Blade from the catwalk was witnessing the whole thing. His gray form now black as night.

"YOU AREN'T HARMING HER! SHADOW CRESCENT STRIKE!!"

Jumping from the catwalk, N-Blade's katana glowed black as he swung it vertically sending multiple crescent shaped shadow waves at the evil duo. Ruby and Cloud quickly jumped back out of the way, before getting struck. Landing next to Freya, he shook her gently to wake her up. Freya opened her optics slowly, and rubbed her head. Taking no time to fully check on her, N-Blade got back to his feet and charged at the two.

The back up team were nearly on their way to the same door N-Blade blew apart. Alexis running ahead of the group, with Link by her side. She was running faster and harder then the rest. When they finally reached the door, instead of charging through, she stopped the group instead.

"What's up Alexis?" asked Rintaro.

"Just checking out the situation." answered the blonde. Scanning the room quickly, she saw N-Blade and Freya were holding their own, and that no one inside the room seemed to notice the group crowded at the door. Spotting the catwalk, she formed a plan in her head. "Guys, we aren't going to be going through the door."

"What? Why not?" demanded Sam.

"If we just ran through this way, they would expect it. But, they wouldn't expect an attack from above."

"Hmm, a surprise attack. That would work for a while, but I think it is best that we split up into two groups. Medabots with shooting parts should be the main force to attack from above and grapplers from this entrance." informed SMX.

"Hmm, that would work, but I think it would be best to divide it more evenly. Shooters and grapplers from both ends." replied Alexis.

"She has a point, X. It would be good to have shooters and grapplers on both sides. The shooters would be able to give cover fire." added Warren.

"It would also make more sense. But then again, if there were only shooters on the catwalk, they could provide cover for the grapplers from above. Either way could work really..." reasoned Ikki.

"It would make more sense to have a balance....." argued Rokusho.

"Who agrees on balance? Raise their hands." asked Alexis raising her hand, and so did everyone else. She was surprised considering how SMX thought it should be shooters on one side and grapplers on the other. Grinning she needed to divide the teams now.

"Who goes with who?" asked Sloan.

"Thinking on that.....lets see what we have to work with." answered Alexis, looking over everyone as if for the first time. Metabee, Brass, Krosserdog, Totalizer, Kantaroth, Arcbeetle, Link, Dragonite, Peppercat, and Sumilidon had some sort of projectile. Though the true shooters were only the first six. Link, Dragonite, Peppercat, Sumilidon, Rokusho, and Kenoi were the grapplers. The teams would have a balance now, since Wolfbane was as his medal, his body sent back home thanks to the teleportation device.

"Alright, Ikki, Erika, and Rintaro you guys are coming with me, Koji, and Kenoi. The rest of you stay here and don't attack until you here my signal. You'll know it when you see it." ordered Alexis.

"Alright Alexis. We'll be waiting right here for your signal." said SMX.

Nodding to the people remaining, Alexis lead her group down back the corridor, to a door labeled stairs. Opening the door, she lead her group running full swing up the stairs. Using instinct and luck, she threw open the second door after climbing. Running down the corridors, she ran faster and faster and faster, not caring that she was at least fifteen feet ahead of the others. Picking out her ways by feeling, she kicked open the door that lead to the catwalk above the fight.

"Yes!" she cheered to herself silently. "Guys fan out. Sumilidon, and Kenoi jump over edge and help out N-Blade after the signal. Metabee, Brass, and Kantaroth prepare to open fire after those two land. Link prepare for an Illuminate Arrow. If all goes right, this will here and now."

The others nodded to the girl. Metabee, Brass, and Kantaroth got into position on the catwalk. Metabee on one end, Brass in the middle, and Kantaroth on the other end. Sumilidon was between Metabee and Brass preparing to jump, and Kenoi was between Brass and Kantaroth preparing to jump as well. Link pulled out his bow, took aim as a golden arrow of light formed. He saw a black N-Blade running at nothing, while Ruby and Cloud were slowly closing in on the recovering Freya. Taking aim for Ruby's head, he let loose the golden arrow.

Merrick's blade clashed against Nisiko's weakly. Merrick's movements and reflexes were sluggish, his swings slow and lacked force. He was still recovering from taking the Silver Chaos attack. Nisiko was surprised at his will power to go on, and his stubborn attitude to not end her life. She herself was beginning to doubt that Merrick meant what he said before. He wasn't just trying to turn her with his words, he wasn't lying. He was telling the truth. He was going to go through what he said to do. Bring her into the light even if he meant to beat her down to do it.

Grinning slightly, she kicked Merrick's side and sent him back into the virtual earth. If he thought she was just going to lay down and play dead, he had another thing coming. If he did truly want to help her, she planned on going down kicking and screaming. Running at Merrick, she jumped into the air, holding her sword down beneath her to plunge the blade through his chest.

Merrick gained his senses, and quickly rolled out of the way. Nisiko landed right next to him, sword deep into the earth. Breathing heavily and panting slightly, he jumped back to his feet, and slammed his foot into Nisiko's back sending her rolling. With his katana, he traced a pattern of a star in the air leaving an outline, when he was done, the star blazed into flames and flew at Nisiko.

The flaming star crashed into the Bounty Huntress and burned a large portion of the back of her suit. Her flesh wasn't harmed, and her hair wasn't even singed, from how the rolling threw her hair over her shoulder. Pushing herself up, she touched where the star burned her suit. Growling, her sword pulsed with silver light before flying into her hands.

"ETHEREAL SLASH!" yelled Nisiko.

The runes on her sword blazed into life as a large ghost-like blade covered her sword. This larger blade was much like her own normal sword. Swinging vertically, the large ethereal blade swung down at Merrick. But the Ninja was one step ahead, his katana roared with shadow energy and blocked the ethereal blade. moving his blade around, he thrust his sword forward sending a black energy blade at Nisiko. Eyes wide, she swung her sword and deflected the bullet quick energy blade right next to where Tarek was resting.

Watch where you are aiming! snarled Tarek in his mental voice projection.

"Hey! I'd like to see you to deflect that attack at all, much less aim it anywhere!" snapped Nisiko.

I can! Send an attack at me! I dare you to! growled Tarek.

"Tarek! Calm down man! She didn't hit you! And you would have defended yourself if it was coming at you! Now, just be calm, and don't tempt the Bounty Huntress to attack you." sweatdropped Merrick.

Grr....fine.....but you better win, Merrick......

"I will, trust me." grinned the Ninja.

"Not if I can do anything about it!" countered the Bounty Huntress.

"Lets just get it on then." said Merrick narrowing his eyes. The two ran at each other clashing blades once again. Merrick feeling much more better than he did before, his sword flashed white sending Nisiko stumbling back. Following up with a few rolling kicks, and a roundhouse he sent Nisiko falling to the side. Thrusting his left hand out, he sent pressurized balls of air at Nisiko sending her falling once more.

A kunai slipped into his hand and he threw it at Nisiko's fallen form. A dagger from Nisiko knocked the kunai aside. Jumping back to her feet, the runes on her sword flashed again and a misty figure formed behind her. Whatever this mist figure was, it was of a woman, Merrick could tell that much. Tarek lifted his head off the ground and eyed the misty figure.

A sword sprang in the mist woman's hands and she ran at Merrick. Eyes going wide, he brought his sword to parry, but the blade sailed through his own and ran him through. Clutching his chest, he was on his knees panting. He removed his hands for a moment and saw there was no blood, but something happened from that attack. He felt weaker, numb, and scared now more than he has ever been in a long time. It felt like a piece of his very soul was cut away. Bringing his eyes up to Nisiko, he saw that her own eyes and face were filled with bewilderment at what has happened, but going blank hiding any emotion once she noticed Merrick was looking at her.

"Tarek.....what was that?" asked Merrick in a strained low voice.

I don't know....I don't know Merrick..... answered Tarek in a low voice, and only projecting his voice in Merrick's mind.

"Whatever it was........it hurt worse than Silver Chaos....." snorted Merrick through gritted teeth. Pushing himself back to his feet shakily, his sword hand trembled slightly before it steadied. Planting his feet firmly into the earth, his eyes hardened, and stood tall.

Nisiko was truly amazed that Merrick's determination. He didn't plan on giving up, even after whatever she did. Or at least she think she did that. She isn't so sure herself. But if Merrick wouldn't give up, neither would she. One of them would fall in battle, and she didn't plan on it being herself. It was time to see who the true warrior was. And this was the battle that would determine it now.

N-Blade continued running at Ruby and Cloud, when he was about to swing his sword to take the heads of his foes, a golden arrow of light streaked overhead and crashed into Ruby throwing her back. Wait a second, Ruby? Swinging his sword through the two in front of him, his sword hit nothing but air. Growling at the illusions that were played on him, he didn't notice the two Medabots that landed with a soft thud from overhead. Or the laser fire coming from above and from the door.

When someone tapped him from behind, he turned and nearly beheaded Link. That is if the Elf didn't block with his own sword. Chuckling slightly, he punched N-Blade on the shoulder. "Jumpy, aren't we?" N-Blade punched him back. "Stuff it."

"Come on, we got a battle to finish here." grinned Link.

"Alright, lets go. We do this together it seems." nodded N-Blade.

The Elf and Ninja ran together to join the frenzy. Laser support fire was coming from the catwalk and from the door was pelting Cloud and Ruby. That is until Cloud created a shield of air, and with the help of Ruby, she warmed the air so it would refract the light particles within the light rendering cover fire all but useless. Seeing lasers were out of the question, the bots with missiles fired, but the missiles exploded against the shield.

Ruby and Cloud turned to each other and nodded. Charging into the mass frenzy, they were slashing and stabbing at the bots. Brass had a spear through her, while Metabee had a sword through him, both their medals ejected at the same time. Combining their attacks, they sent a massive tornado of fire at Kantaroth throwing him into the wall and melting him slightly. When the Kabuto pulled himself out of the wall, his medal ejected. Grabbing Ruby, Cloud threw her at Arcbeetle and she became a golden fireball, this move was known as Golden Flame. When she crashed into Arcbeetle, the intense heat she gave off damaged his internal circuitry and his medal ejected. Thor's Hammer and Huntress Spear took out Totalizer and Krosserdog like they were nothing. Soon it was only the grapplers left standing.

"Guys! We got to break them up! Link, Kenoi, Sumilidon with me against Cloud!" shouted N-Blade leading his band against the Air and Illusion Specialist.

"Dragonite, Rokusho, Peppercat you guys are with me! Lets show this hothead she is burnt out!" laughed Freya as she lead her group against Ruby.

The Vile Knight was against four sword users who were is equal or better when it came to the way of the sword. It was the Elf who stepped forward to confront him first. The Sword of Evil's Bane clashed against Cloud's crystal sword. Elf and Knight confronted one another in the past, and both were quite equal in the art of the sword. Sparks flew everywhere with each clash of steel on crystal.

Cloud knew he couldn't just fight fair here. If he did, he would surely be defeated. Blocking a slash with his shield, he sent a white beam in the shape of his shield into Link. The beam sent Link skidding back, but he still managed to maintain his balance. That was when the others came at him. Kenoi's energy swords collided with crystal and the steel of his shield. Sumilidon came up from behind to deliver a Hammer Fist to the back of his head, but with great agility, Cloud ducked, and the STG-type's fist slammed into SAM-type's chest.

With all the confusion, Cloud barely had the time to defend himself with his shield against shadow black flames. A flurry of kicks and punches soared against his shield, each denting the shield and making it more useless with every blow. Suddenly Cloud's shield was made useless by the Five Star Slash sword technique. Glaring at Cloud with his cold gaze, N-Blade shot him in the chest with Shadow Blaster. The blast of shadow energy throwing him into the wall. But it wouldn't end there. N-Blade kept hurling blast, after blast, after blast into Cloud. He wanted to make sure he'd be useless, beyond repair this round. He was going to finish him once and for all. Holding his sword above him, energy surged into the blade, and he swung horizontally to send a crimson wave at where Cloud was in the wall.

When the force of the attack subsided, Cloud slowly got out of the crater. His body was dented, his armor chinked and cracked, his sword broken in two, his helm dented, and left optic sparking. He was heavily damaged, but he was still ticking. Dropping his sword, he formed a large two-handed sword of lightning. He stared challenge at any who would oppose him. But to his surprise, Ninja, Elf, Saber-Tooth Tiger, and Samurai were all walking up to him. They didn't care about his lightning wrought sword, their swords were coated in energies(or made of energy in Kenoi's case) and closed in tighter.

"Alright men.......TOGETHER!" declared N-Blade leading the final charge at Cloud. Kenoi took the lead and parried a slash with one sword and slashed with the other, his sword biting deeply into Cloud's wrist. Link came from the right and sunk his sword into Cloud's spiked shoulder, while Sumilidon came from behind and stabbed his Flexor Swords into Cloud's back. To deliver the final blow, N-Blade thrust his sword into the chest of the Vile Knight, his sword just millimeters from Cloud's medal.

"It's over for you Cutter......." declared N-Blade as he and the others withdrew their swords from Cloud's body. He never noticed that Cloud's medal never ejected. N-Blade may just regret not stabbing closer to Cloud's medal later.

Kunoichi, Woren, Stag Beetle, and Dragon were up against the spear and sword wielding Flame Seer. With either spear or sword or with neither, was Ruby a deadly force. But with fire as her main attack, the group of four had the slight advantage with Freya and her water based powers. But at the moment, all the four did was stand on their toes as they were around Ruby.

It was Freya who lead this attack, charging forward, one of her sais caught Ruby's spear and the other slashes her shoulder. From another end, Peppercat swung her staff at Ruby, who left go of her spear with one hand to block with her gauntlet covered wrist. Forming a quick fireball in her hand, she hurled it at the KAT-type and sent her flying a few feet back. Spinning slightly, Ruby managed to throw Freya off from her.

Rokusho ran at Ruby, leapt into the air and brought down his Chanbara Sword upon her to only have it deflected at the last second by the haft of her spear. Dragonite ran at Ruby from behind and slashed her back with his clawed left hand(bom-barder was replaced). Bringing up his right hand, he slashed her back with his true claws. Balling up his left hand into a fist, he slammed it into the medal hatch of Ruby. The force of the blow sent her stumbling forward into Rokusho's Hammer Fist.

Ruby stunned momentarily, she flipped back to her feet and blocked another staff and sword blow from Peppercat and Rokusho. Her body was engulfed in a sudden tornado of fire that grew more and more as she fueled it on and on, the flaming tornado caught the two, but they were saved from behind burnt to crisp by Freya's Tidal Surge. The wave of water doused the flames, and Ruby as well. Nodding to Peppercat, the Woren shocked the daylights out of Ruby and was giving it her all in doing so. When Peppercat finally stopped, Ruby's form was smoking, but she was still on her feet.

"All yours Freya!" yelled the Woren as she jumped back a safe distance. A blue aura surrounded Freya as she cupped her hands back slightly. The aura gathered into her hands as she threw them forward. It was the Tsunami Blaster attack! A massive wave of blue energy shot out from her hands and blew the Flame Seer into a wall. The attack continued and finished with an explosion. Freya's hands were smoking slightly, but she just shook them off.

"If that didn't stop her....nothing will......." commented Freya, her hands finally no longer smoking.

"I think she is still ticking......" sweatdropped Dragonite gesturing to the moving rubbing. And right he was, slowly out of the rubble crawled Ruby back to her feet, a total mess.

"Don't think you won yet! I still have fight in......m.........." she never finished for she fell over, defeated. But no medal was ejected.

"We won......" grinned Peppercat.

"That we did." agreed Rokusho.

"Seems the other won as well. Time to end this madness." declared Dragonite. They knew who he meant. He meant for them to go after Meda-Evil.

"You think you fools have won?! When will you ever learn?! ALPHA DOWNLOAD!" roared Meda-Evil. Two golden beams of light shot down at the bodies of Ruby and Cloud repairing them. The two surged with a golden aura, and their eyes held a golden tinge to them. Readying their newly repaired weapons they charged at the eight, and they charged back at them.

Merrick's strength was fading ever since getting struck from that attack. Only sheer will power was keeping his limbs moving. Katana struck rune covered sword, each blow nearly caused the sword to go flying out of his grip. He was breathing hard and panting. But he wouldn't give up. He would succeed in bringing Nisiko into the light. He will no matter what happens. All he had to do was believe in himself and remember what he is fighting for.

Gripping his sword tighter, he slashed and swung at Nisiko with new vigor. With his burst of new strength, he kicked Nisiko in the gut, then punched her in the sternum, knocking the wind out of her. With a shadow coated foot, he performed a roundhouse that slammed Nisiko in the chest throwing her back into the earth. Sheathing his sword, he ran at the slowly rising Nisiko and tackled her to pin her on the floor.

"What the freak?! What's wrong with you?!" shrieked Nisiko as she struggle to push Merrick off of her. Whatever strength Merrick lost seemed to be back in full swing. But she still struggled against the Ninja to push him off of her.

"Nothing is wrong with me! It is called I'm pinning you down so you can't do anything!" shot back Merrick trying to keep Nisiko pinned down.

"How about no?!" screeched the Bounty Huntress. She managed to slip her legs beneath Merrick and throw him off of her using her legs. Quickly jumping back to her feet, she leaned down to pick up her sword and hold it firmly in her hand.

Merrick landed on his back with a small thud. Whatever strength he had lost from the weird attack from Nisiko seemed to be coming back and he leapt back to his feet with ease. Drawing his sword in one fluid motion, he plunged his sword into the earth. With that moment of plunging his sword, it flashed gold, and golden pillars of light erupt from beneath and around Nisiko. The attack throwing her into the air and back down and up again. Nisiko fell to the floor slightly burned from the attack.

"I think it is over Tarek......." panted Merrick slightly fatigue catching up to him.

I wouldn't celebrate so soon, Merrick....... advised Tarek pointing his paw at Nisiko getting up.

"What does it take to keep her down?" muttered Merrick.

A lot by the looks of it. She seems as stubborn as you. laughed Tarek.

"If she is.......it really would take a lot......" sweatdropped Merrick. Tarek just started laughing again and harder, rolling on the ground. "Yeah.....just ham it up, Tarek..."

Nisiko just grinned slightly at the sight, and dusted off her clothes the best she could. She never paid close attention to her small burns, but winced when she bent down to pick up her sword. Getting thrown up and down so many times hurt her lower back. Shaking it off the best she could, she stood up tall and winced again.

"Hey.....if you keep wincing like that....maybe you should just surrender?" implored Merrick.

"I'm fine! Worry about yourself!" snapped the Bounty Huntress.

"But.....you're not fine....you're hurt.......It would be best if you stopped...." reasoned Merrick.

"I'm fine! Alright?!" growled Nisiko.

Merrick decided to make Nisiko play on constant defense. How hurt she was now, she wouldn't be able to dodge the simplest of attacks. At least so he thought; she might be able to dodge most attacks, but she wouldn't be able to dodge all. Trying out his theory, he sent a fireball hurling at Nisiko. The femme just sliced it through with her sword wincing all the while.

"I'm fine! See! No sweat!" laughed Nisiko, wincing slightly. Silver knives of energy surrounded her, swirling quickly around her before stopping and flying at Merrick. Growling, Merrick countered them with shuriken made of shadow energy. His stars not only countered Nisiko's stars, but flew more and more at her. Nisiko dodged the first barrage, but as more and more came at her, a few nicked her arms and sides. Using her sword as a shield, she batted the shadow stars away getting nicked more and more. Holding her sword in front of her, it flashed silver before forming a shield in front of her.

"Not bad, not bad at all." commented Merrick. "But that shield won't block everything, and it will shatter eventually....like now!"

His sword flashed darker then the night itself. The once lighted area became darker, as if the very light was getting sucked out of the area. His eyes hardened and flashed now as his sword roared and pulsated with shadow energy, swinging his katana horizontally, he sent the largest and strongest Shadow Strike wave in what felt like ages. The wave of shadow energy shattered Nisiko's shield and sent her flying onto her back. Her sword spinning in the air, landed neatly in the earth between her arm and chest. When Merrick saw, he winced at how close it was to coming to taking her life. The worse way to go in his opinion was by your very own sword.

"There.....is it over now, Tarek?" panted Merrick slightly, walking slowly to Nisiko, pulling her sword from the ground and laying it neatly besides her. He slumped down besides her shifting back to his civilian form; sword and scabbard next to him.

Seems to be, Merrick. It seems you will make her walk in the light now. Good for you my charge. answered Tarek giving a toothy grinned, then stopped. His eyes narrowed and he tilted his head in one direction.

"What's up, Tarek?" asked the Ninja.

Someone needs help.....a wolf is pleading for aide.....but this is no wolf that I know.....whoever this wolf is.....he will get his pleas answered... said Tarek, glowing silver slightly. A small silver orb shot off from his body and flew in some direction.

"That was interesting....." commented Merrick.

Yeah, yeah....your little girlfriend will be awake soon enough..... smirked Tarek.

"She isn't my girlfriend!" sweatdropped the Ninja. "And she's older than I am....."

Age never really matters to people if they are in love with them. explained the wolf in a fatherly manner.

"When you talk like that, you really scare me.......you do know that right?"

Yes I do......that's why I do it at points.

"You have problems Tarek......that you do........" declared the Ninja rolling his eyes.

Why thank you, young sir! grinned Tarek wagging his tail.

"I'll pretend I didn't hear that and just wait for Nisiko to wake up....." said Merrick, leaning against a virtual tree, with his eyes closed. "Wake me up if she starts stirring.....and if she wakes up and tries to kill me......"

Alright.....alright.....what kind of guardian would I be if I let you die?

"A bad one....." retorted Merrick with a snort as he closed his eyes, with Tarek watching over him.

It was the final battle here and now. The battle that would decide the fate of the gang. With these Alpha boosted maniacs, it would take a little luck to overcome them. Weapons ready, our heroes got within four feet of the evil duo only to be knocked back by a golden shockwave. Getting back to their feet, servos grinding as if lacking a proper tune up, and it was not even a true attack!

"What in the world was that?!" demanded Warren.

"How should we know?!" chimed the others.

"Power....." chuckled Cloud.

"True power..." chortled Ruby.

"Well you want power? I'll show you power....." challenged N-Blade as he stood straighter then the rest.

"I'll help you......" added Freya as she pushed herself as straight as N-Blade.

"Well you guys aren't in this alone......" chuckled Link softly as he straightened himself.

"Yeah, never alone in this." declared Peppercat, using her staff to prop herself up erect.

"If the KAT can help, so can a Saber-Tooth." smirked Sumilidon as he straightened as well.

"Fang Face can help oddly as it seems....so why not the Samurai?" grinned Kenoi as he stood tall like the rest.

"I might be a pacifist, but I know when my help is needed. And it is needed now." declared Rokusho getting up slowly.

"Um.......little help?" asked Dragonite sweatdropping. The others sweatdropped too, and Kenoi and Rokusho helped him up. "I might have needed their help to get up, but with my help along with everyone else's, you two shall go down now!"

"That is what you infidels believe. You will not know what hits you when we are through!" yelled Cloud.

"Lets get this over with! Your small group has been a thorn in our side for far too long!" screeched Ruby.

"Guys.......how damaged everyone is......I think you should leave it to N-Blade..." suggested Matt.

"No cuz.....we entered this mess together, and we're getting out together....." replied Alexis.

"It's time to Robattle my friends......lets give them what we got!" cheered Matt.

"YEAH!" chorused the others. With that cry, it began the battle of the end. Who'd be the victory? The side of Light, or the side of Darkness?

The eight Medabots charged at the two glowing ones. Gears and servos grinding slightly, before with their pooled strength, the grinding just stopped. N-Blade led the charge with Freya by his side. Sword and sais were the first to clash against crystal sword and spear. Staff, more swords, and claws joined their own. But each and everyone was thrown back with ease.

Even with the others outnumbering Ruby and Cloud, they were the ones who were suddenly put on defense. Crystal sword met staff, each blow coming so quick, Peppercat could have barely kept up. With one powerful slash, her staff was cleaved in two. Eyeing her broken staff, her amber(auburn, amber, whatever, they're the same color technically) blazed with fury as her fingers suddenly became talons and slashed at Cloud. The crystal sword would have ran her through, if N-Blade didn't appear suddenly to kick slam Cloud back into the ground.

A spear suddenly came to impale N-Blade from behind, where his medal would be if Peppercat didn't push Blade out of the way. She herself, got nicked across the waist. Hissing in pain, she gripped the haft of the spear and threw Ruby over her shoulder. A sword of thunder and fire flew at Peppercat throwing her against a wall. Trying to get up, she never saw the huge lightning blast in time to avoid it. After being struck with the attack, the Woren's medal ejected. Kenoi, Dragonite, Sumilidon, and Rokusho witnessing their ally fall, charged head long into battle. While Link was dueling Cloud, and N-Blade and Freya attacking Ruby they were pushed backed, and the others took their shot at it.

Energy swords collided against sword and shield. This gave Dragonite the perfect opening to attack. Dragonite reared back his claws before trying to stabbing Cloud, but the moment of impact, his claws shattered! Looking at his broken claws in disbelief for a moment, he balled up his other hand into a fist and slammed that instead into the back of Cloud. Problem was, it was like he hit a solid wall instead of Cloud.

"Dragonite quit fooling around!" strangled voice as he was slowly getting pushed away by the KNT.

"I'm not! It was like I hit a steel wall!" explained Dragonite. Jumping back, the twin dragon heads appeared at his sides. The DGO-type sent twin white flames at the KNT, but when they were about to hit, the flames appeared to have hit a solid wall. Kenoi's own optics widen as he saw the flame attack being blocked by nothing. Optics narrowing at Cloud, he jumped back before being pushed back. Twin sabers blinked out of existence, he pointed the hilts at Cloud and started bombarding him with lasers.

Cloud leapt into the air with ease, and remained their. Binding the flames sent by Dragonite inside a sphere of air, he hurled that massive sphere of bound fire at Kenoi. The Samurai quickly backflipped as the area he once stood was partially melted by the attack. With the two energy blades back, he leapt into the air after Cloud. The air around Kenoi suddenly felt tighter, more solid, like as if he was suddenly encased in a solid mass of jelly.

Seeing Kenoi suddenly trapped, more likely by some sort of power, for he was still mid-air, Dragonite had ports open all around him. Flames flecked out from the ports, before becoming a blazing inferno. Spinning counterclockwise, he created a maelstrom of fire to torch Cloud. But like before the flaming tornado of fire was blocked by an invisible wall, before getting contained in air. The Vile Knight used his powers to fuel the tornado hotter and brighter, and larger, before sending the attack back at Kenoi and Dragonite. When the tornado died out, the two Medabots were extra crispy, smirking at his work; Cloud landed back onto solid ground before to do battle with the Elf again.

Flexor Sword and Chanbara Sword struck the haft of Ruby's spear. She could tell they were putting all their strength behind their swords, but to her, it felt like nothing. Bringing her spear around, she struck Sumilidon and Rokusho in rapid succession with the butt of her spear. She followed up with a rapid tempo of stabs with her spear point, the two dodged most of the attempts, and Rokusho was the one who stopped it by slamming his sword against the haft.

Swiveling around, her spear point glowed slightly before she brought it up in an arc swing catching the two male Medabots hard. Where she slashed a thin trail of smoke followed from the heat of her spear. Before either of the two could recover, she sent a heat beam at the floor around them, and they slowly sunk into the hot liquid ground. Laughing to herself, she was about to stab them when a wave of shadow energy threw her back. N-Blade came down and slashed Ruby across the back. Following with a quick succession of rolling kicks, he finished it up with a swift roundhouse sending the Flame Seer stumbling back.

Freya dropped down next to the two stuck Medabots, and freed them using her explosive shuriken. The two got out of the rubble and thanked Freya kindly before running back into the fray. Shaking her head slightly, she drew out her sais and joined them. Ruby not wanting to waste her time on weaklings, she sent a barrage of fiery arrows and fireballs at Sumilidon and Rokusho.

Freya and N-Blade were about the raise some sort of defense to help the two, but they were thrown back by hot air. The STG and KWG avoided most of the attacks, until the fiery arrows impaled their feet into the earth making them sitting ducks for the rest. Surprisingly, the two were still functioning, perplexed slightly, Ruby decided to finish them both with a dragon shaped flame. When the large flaming explosion died out, the Saber-Tooth and Stag Beetle were down and out.

Growling N-Blade got back to his feet. Something in him was taking over again, the feeling of instinct was back. Hurling himself at Ruby, his sword was back to strike, but when the Flame Seer brought her spear to block, he vanished from where he was! N-Blade came from behind her and slashed his sword into her back sending her stumbling forward. But he was finished there, his palm glowed an eerie ice blue as he pressed it against the earth. Shards of ice erupted in waves in front of him, the ice shards ripping and slashing at Ruby.

Freya looked at the attack at wonder, something in her self was triggered by the slight of the attack. A feeling of familiarity overcame her as she witnessed the attack. A small surge of power seemed to be flowing within her, the power that she always grasped at when trying to use her powers. But at that one moment, that small surge became a typhoon of power. And she planned on using it to help N-Blade bring his arch nemesis down once and for all.

Elf and Vile Knight were clashing sword against sword once more. The only problem now was that one was stronger and faster than the other; and it wasn't Link. The Elf knew he would have to battle smarter if he had any chance of winning this, or at least holding out until either N-Blade and Freya could help him, or distract Cloud long enough while they finish off Ruby. He himself wasn't sure if he could do either, but he knew if he doubted himself, that would just lead him down the road to failure.

If Link was to stand any chance against Cloud for long, he himself would need to get stronger. But to do so, would leave him open for attack, then again he probably wouldn't have much choice. Or did he? He held out his sword, as it charged up with some of his energy as he unleashed the sword spin attack known as Hurricane Blast. The attack surprised Cloud that he didn't have enough time to raise his shield in defense. The force of the blow knocked the Vile Knight down a few feet.

When Link stopped spinning, he quickly sheathed his sword to pull on his Silver Gauntlets. Pulling out a small ring box, pulled on a ring with a with a blue feather gem(Pegasus Ring), and a ring with a large blue gem(Blue Ring). With the properties of his gauntlets he would be stronger, with the Blue Ring his defense would be higher, and with the Pegasus Ring he would be faster. Readying his sword and shield and ran at Cloud quickly.

Cloud brought his shield up to block the blow, while his own sword was blocked by Link's shield. With both having shields and swords, neither would be victorious at this rate. Unless one was to lose their shield, neither would win. Grinning at a sudden thought, Cloud threw his weight at Link. Using his shield to ram the Elf, he bashed the hilt of his sword into Link's wrist forcing him to drop the Master Sword. The KNT then kicked the fallen sword across the room, before kicking the Mirror Shield off of Link's arm. Link was now unarmed and defenseless.

Crystal sword strikes came flying at the Elf, but with his new enhanced speed, he was dodging left and right with fluid ease. Pulling out the MTH, he slammed the powerful hammer against Cloud's shield. But when the hammer slammed against the shield, his hammer vibrated as if it was the one struck instead of the shield! The shield didn't even have a dent in it! Looking with total disbelief, Link felt like he couldn't move. In fact, he couldn't move at all. Panic filled his optics suddenly as he struggled to try moving. But not matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move an inch.

"Ha! Try with all your might, you won't move an inch, whelp!" cackled Cloud.

"Hey! Let him go!" demanded Alexis.

"What?! You dare demand things from me, little girl?!" roared Cloud in anger.

"Yes I dare! Let him go!"

"Why I ought to!"

"You ought to what?!"

"KILL YOU! THUNDER BLADE CRASH!" roared Cloud leaping into the air his sword crackling with electricity. He was going to bring his blade down on Alexis, and she was paralyzed not only by fear, but binds of air!

"ALEXIS NO!!!!" cried the EHT, as well as another voice.

When the blade was just about to split open Alexis' skull, a flash of silver struck the black Medawatch containing Wolfbane's medal. In a flash of silver light, Wolfbane appeared, pushed Alexis out of the way, and parried the slash with his Arctic Blade! Snarling at Cloud, the WLF-type pushed the KNT back, and sent him flying with a swift kick to the midsection. Howling, the Wolf charged at Cloud while Link, free of Cloud's binds, went to check up on Alexis.

"Are you alright?" asked the Elf.

"I'm fine....." said Alexis breathlessly. "But......but.......how did Wolfbane appear like that?"

"No clue.....life is full of mysteries...." replied Link.

"How about you go help Wolfbane out? Even he can't take on Cloud alone."

"Way ahead of you Alexis." grinned Link, drawing out his bow with a fiery red arrow notched.

Sword struck sword over and over in rapid succession. Even with his shield to block a blow or two, it never gave him much time to attack. Cloud stared with amazement at Wolfbane, it was like he was some unknown force. With attempts of binding him with air, failing each time, he wondered what the Wolf truly was. How was it that he appeared like that? How? He had no time to ponder about this any further as Wolfbane's Arctic Blade cleaved his shield in half!

Dropping his shield, he nearly lost his head in a high swing. But he had no time to move as his wrist was kicked by a blue flame coated foot. When his sword fell to the floor, Wolfbane kicked it across the room. What comes around goes around..... sweatdropped Cloud as he jumped back to avoid a swing to the chest. Grinning slightly, he backflipped away and sent his spiked gauntlets flying at at Wolfbane. The Wolf just batted them away, and never realized they were coming back, but two flaming arrows shot them down. Turning, he saw it was Link who fired the arrows and already had his sword and shield back in hand.

"Time we beat him down together, Wolfbane." declared the Elf Hero.

"Agreed." nodded the Wolf.

"You won't defeat me!" laughed Cloud.

"We heard it before. You're going down now." said the two in unison.

The two charged at the KNT dodging blasts of air, lightning, and light. Wolfbane got their first and slashed Cloud across the chest, while Link jumped into the air; landed on Wolfbane's shoulders to jump higher and delivered a powerful vertical slash. Wolfbane reared back his head and unleashed Wolf Howl on Cloud. Link threw out his hands and unleashed Din's Fire on Cloud's fallen form. Cloud struggled to get up, and just managed to get back onto his feet.

"He's on the ropes. Lets do it Wolfbane." declared Link pulling out his bow and readying his sword.

"Yes....lets....." agreed the Wolf preparing for his specialty.

"SWORDSMAN ARROW!/ARTIC FURY!" cried the two heroes.

Link pulled back his sword onto his bow, and it exploded in green energy as he released it. Wolfbane's hands and insides of his mouth glowed blue at he unleashed his triple threat attack at Cloud. The triple ice blue blasts, combined into one blast and flied straight through Link's sword. Instead of destroying the blade, it just pushed it forward faster! The sword ripped through Cloud's chest as the beam nailed Cloud and charred him black. When the blast was done, Cloud's medal laid on the floor, his body a mess.

N-Blade still following instinct, going with the odd flow that was guiding him. He was about to plunge his sword into the earth to bring forth a destructive attack, until he sensed it. Something that felt so familiar, like a distant fading dream. Turning around, he saw Freya surging with power. Her energy patterns were going off the charts, she was surging with more power now then she ever had.

"What ya waiting for Ninja-B?" asked Freya in a calm cool voice. "Lets finish her together."

Grinning at her, he just nodded and the two charged at Ruby together. His sword clashed with Ruby's spear haft, while Freya slashed her sides. N-Blade turned his sword around, and brought it down in a powerful diagonal slash. His slash went through Ruby's spear leaving her with two pieces. He brought his sword around the other way and sliced the spear point clear off.

Freya kicked her away with such a powerful kick, it sent Ruby sailing into the wall. Freya started hurling balls of blue energy at Ruby. She gathered one small ball of energy between her hands, while she reared it back behind her head it grew as large as a bus. Hurling the ball of energy at where Ruby was, it was only destroyed by an energy pentagram. Growling, Ruby started sending white spears of fire at the two over and over.

Spears were destroyed by blasts of blue and black energy. When that happened, Ruby growled even louder and a fiery aura flared around her. The ground beneath the two suddenly got warmer as intense flames engulfed the Ninja and Kunoichi. Flames so high, they reached the ceiling, flames so hot, the air near the group felt it would burn worse than the flames, but something happened. The flames suddenly started glowing blue and turned to water! They split into multiple twisters of water and were sent at the Flame Seer.

Ruby's optics widen in shock, and was thrown back by the water. She didn't have time to see the multiple shadow blasts flying at her and pounding her through the wall. Getting her bearings back, she pulled herself out of the wall. Drawing her flame shaped sword, she charged at the two. The two smirked and vanished from the spot and delivered a team kick slam to the back of Ruby.

Stumbling forward, Ruby fell to her knees. Sword point into the earth, she used it to push herself back up. Swinging her blade, she sent a stream of heated air at the two. The two jumped from the spot and shot a barrage of explosive shuriken at Ruby. The Flame Seer created a heat shield around her and the stars just exploded around her. Landing back on their feet, the two grinned and nodded at one another.

Not actually knowing what has happening, N-Blade and Freya were acting on impulse and instinct. To both, it felt like they did this before, but this was the first time they ever truly fought as a team. N-Blade starting glowing black, while Freya was glowing blue, the two were running quickly around the edge of Ruby's heat shield. N-Blade running counterclockwise, while Freya was running clockwise. The two were just a blur of black and blue with energy.

"Hydro Shadow Storm Tornado!" cried the Ninja and Kunoichi. The two were running faster and faster creating a tornado around Ruby. A swirling tornado of black and blue energy slowly picked Ruby up before slamming her into the ceiling. The two stopped opposite of each other and gave each other a thumbs up as Ruby fell down to the floor.

"And I think that ends that." chuckled N-Blade slightly.

"Think it does, N-Blade." agreed Freya.

"Well I don't...." spat Ruby as she pushed herself up. "Like the phoenix, I rise up out of the ashes to be born again....."

"You haven't been put to the grave to be born again! And as long as I am here, you will never rise up again! NEVER!" roared N-Blade as his aura flashed around him. When a flash of blue to his right caught his attention, he knew Freya was with him. They started this together, it would seem fitting if they should end it together.

"We're ending this in one final blast, Rita!" declared Freya.

"So be it.......it is fine with me....." announced Rita Pendara aka Ruby.

An aura flared to life around Ruby, an aura that flared brighter, and stronger then the Ninja and Kunoichi. Ruby planed on using all her power in this final blast, but with the two heroes not putting all their energy to it. It would most likely be a draw...or would it?

"BY THE POWERS OF ALL THAT IS FIRE! COME TO ME! SOLAR BUSTER!!!!" bellowed Ruby with all her strength. A massive red beam shot out at the two Medabots, their auras slowly mixing into one another.

"Shadow........." started N-Blade.

"Aqua........." continued Freya.

"DESTROYER!" they cried as one.

A swirling blue and black blast collided with the red beam. The two struggled for dominance against one another. The red beam slowly gained the edge before being pushed back altogether! The swirling blue and black blast hit Ruby hard in the chest that it threw her far and deeply into the wall. Even after that attack, Ruby managed to pull herself out of the wall. But only to fall forward, her medal ejecting, and hitting the floor.

"IT'S OVER!" cheered Matt.

"Woo!" cheered the others.

"Not it's not......" slowly said N-Blade. Everyone turned to him as if he grew a second head.

"Come again?" asked Isis.

"It's not over...." repeated N-Blade.

"How is it not over?" asked Link.

"I need to destroy their medals......." answered the NON-type.

"Blade......you can't do that.......that's not like you......" said Matt.

"I know.......but I must......or they could come back......."

"I highly doubt that.......this might just be your own form of revenge." declared SMX.

"Even if it was, they would deserve it! They turned me into a medal for goodness sake!" challenged N-Blade.

"Not you, they turned Merrick into a medal. But Merrick is back, and you are yourself. And when Merrick became a medal, he, you......er.....were able to make friends now!" said SMX.

"Hmm.....true........but what do we do with them?" asked N-Blade.

"Simple, I'll take them and keep them for safe keeping." answered SMX.

"Good enough!" answered the others. SMX gathered up the medals and put them in his pouch.

"Hey......N-Blade was right! It wasn't over! Where is Meda-Evil?!" asked Isis.

"Guess he left......while we were distracted....." answered Ikki.

"Lets find Merrick and get out of this place." announced N-Blade. The others nodded and headed back through the entrance to get Merrick.

To Be Continued......

There we have it! The final battle is over! See you guys in the epilogue which will get posted tomorrow, I swear! What will happen in the epilogue? Only I know! Hehe!

Clone: Hmm......where is the original me? Rumor said she freed him after she herself got out.....

Me: *pops in* NOW! WE FUSE BACK TOGETER! LOOK AT THE MESS YOU CAUSED! YOU DETAILED FOR SO LONG! EVEN! CLONE! *fuses back together with the clone* Woo! Whole again! Now these chaps shouldn't take as forever hopefully!

N-Blade: Er......have you noticed that there are zombies here?

Me: WHAT?! *looks around* Oh good grief! *draws his sword*

*Kaira and Rumor appear and destroy all the zombies*

Me: woo! Back up! ^_^

Merrick: And it seems all is right in the world....... *laughs and takes Kaira somewhere*

Rumor: Well, my job here is done. But Matt.....you really should try and get the sequel out while you can.

Me: I know, I know Rumor......thanks for the help! ^_^

Rumor: No problem. *disappears*

Me: Well until next time guys!