Chapter Five - Ashura vs. AfterAshura
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"YOU MURDERER!" Ashura shouted, unsheathing his beam saber and racing out towards AfterAshura. He swung at the evil hedgehog, only to watch as he dodge the attack.
"Ha! You missed!" AfterAshura shouted. He pointed his left arm at Ashura and, from his shield arm, a long whip shot out, glowing red with heat. Ashura took off quickly, dodging the whip and watching the whip damage the already damaged Gundam. AfterAshura wasn't done and swung the whip around Ashura's leg and swung him over his head and onto the ground hard. As the battle went on, Metal Amy had the Thunder MegaZord pick up Meg's lifeless body.
[Why? Why did this happen to her?] Metal Amy said, looking at her.
[That...thing is a madman. His mind is so corrupt he couldn't take it anymore and took it out.] DragonMetal said. At that moment, he wanted to join in with the fight.
"DragonMetal! DragonMetal, can you hear me?!" the voice of Washu called out as her face appeared on DragonMetal's HUD.
[Go ahead.] DragonMetal said.
"There's... something interesting about Meg I need to see." Washu said.
[What? Rigor Mortis?!] DragonMetal said.
"No. Go to her. Now." Washu said. DragonMetal rolled his eyes and flew off towards Thunder MegaZord, his eyes catching not only the battle, but Gundam and Getter Dragon putting the Zephranties back together. He approached Meg's body and noticed that, even though she wasn't moving...
[She... she's still alive?!] DragonMetal said. [But, that's impossible! I detect no heartbeat, no pulse, no breathing, hell, no... no... wait... I caught ki. What IS she?!]
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As the battle between Ashura and AfterAshura continued, it seemed that Ashura going solo was a bad idea. His armor was becoming more and more damaged as the battle continued. He needed a way to catch his breath.
"Heheheheheh... what's wrong, Ashura? Not the great fighter you claim you be?" AfterAshura said.
"I...I never said I was one." Ashura said, gasping for air. "I just fight..." With that, he pulled out his Twin Buster Rifle and charged up the shot. Vengance would be swift.
"Cheater..." AfterAshura said, snapping his heat whip at the Twin Buster Rifle, slicing it in half.
"NO!" Ashura shouted. He tossed the remaints aside and reactivated his beam saber, only to have that knocked away. "Uhh...uhhh... can we talk about this?"
"What's to talk about?" AfterAshura said. "You said you were gonna kill me for killing Meg. Why aren't you? You know why? Because you are A PUSSY!" With that, he swung the heat whip across Ashura's face, a large burn mark across the right side of his face forming. "You are A WIMP!" He brought the whip across Ashura's chest, shattering the armor and sending the hedgehog flying. Ashura hit the ground hard. "You are PATHETIC!" CRACK! The whip slapped across Ashura's back. "You deserve to DIE!" CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! Each his burned more and more into Ashura's skin. His fur and quills were gone. As each hit struck his skin, he cursed himself. He cursed himself for abandoning his friends for his taste of vengence. He cursed himself for being such a weakling. He cursed himself for living like he did. He just hoped that his death would be swift and painless.
'Ash...Ashura?' A voice called out in his mind.
'Wh...who? Who's there?' Ashura thought to himself. He was probably hallucinating due to the pain.
"Ashura... I feel so sorry for you..." the voice called out. AfterAshura got off of Ashura, letting the hedgehog stand up as he looked at...nothing. Apparently, Ashura WAS hallucinating. What Ashura saw was a teenaged green quilled hedgehog wearing the same clothes Meg was.
"M...Megan?" Ashura said. The hedgehog nodded.
"Ashura... You of all people... you should have died..."
"What?! What do you mean?!" Ashura said, shocked. As the illusion gave her reasons, AfterAshura took advantage of this and wrapped his whip around Ashura's neck.
"Oh, this is SO good..." AfterAshura said.
[NO! ASHURA, SNAP OUT OF IT!] DragonMetal shouted, seeing what's going on.
"DragonMetal, you've got to save him!" Crystallis pleaded as she appeared on his HUD. No answer was given as DragonMetal raced to the scene.
"Time to die..." AfterAshura said, tightening the whip around Ashura neck, causing the hero to choke. This action caught the attenion of the others.
"That's it! I'm not standing aside any longer!" Anthony shouted.
"I'm coming with you!" Crystallis said. Anthony nodded, and the two teleported to the battlefield, garbed in their respective armors. Arrviving at the scene, they found DragonMetal attacking AfterAshura, Ashura still hooked to the whip, hitting the ground hard as AfterAshura hit the ground. "Back away from him, you monster!" With all her might, Crystallis fired an energy blast at AfterAshura, Anthony joining in with a Force Blast. The sudden attacks caused AfterAshura to release his grip on Ashura as DragonMetal pushed him away from his friend.
"Ashura! Ashura, are you okay?!" Anthony shouted as he and Crystallis approached their friend.
"No...no, stay away... I'm not worthy... I'm...I'm only a nuseance..." Ashura moaned.
"He's delusional." Anthony said. "What did that thing do to him?"
"Ashura, Ashura, please listen to me!" Crystallis called out. "You're not a nuseance! You're needed! I need you..."
"Cryst... Crystallis. No... you don't need me, you have others. Others to make you happy..." Ashura moaned.
"No, that's not true! I need you! I love you!" Crystallis called out, eyes filling with tears.
[Uhhh... guys?] Metal Amy called out in Anthony's communicator. [There's something wrong with Meg's body! It's glowing!]
"Glowing?!" Anthony said. He looked towards the Thunder MegaZord and saw that, in its hands, something was glowing. It also caught the attention of the others.
"Woah... that's the oddest case of Rigor Mortis *I'VE* ever seen!" Kou said.
"Yeah... I thought they just MOVED..." Amuro said.
[I don't get it... why...?] Metal Amy began before noticing the light shoot from the MegaZord's hand and towards Ashura. Metal Amy looked at the mech's hand and noticed Meg's body gone. [Huh?!] Before she had time to react, the light had entered Ashura's body.
"Wh...what's going on?!" Crystallis said, shocked.
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"Ashura... Ashura..."
"No, no more! Please, haven't you done enough?!" Ashura cried out. He no longer heard Crystallis' voice, the sounds of battle or anything of the like. He looked at his surroundings and noticed he wasn't in the battlefield anymore. "Where...where am I? What am I doing here?"
"Ashura... dear brother Ashura."
"M-Meg?! Y...you're not here to torture me, are you?!" Ashura said
"Torture? Why would I torture my dear brother?" the voice of Meg said. Ashura, then, felt something soft press on his cheek. He looked to see Meg kissing his cheek.
"Megan! Y...you're alive?!" Ashura said, hopefully.
"Only in your mind." Meg said, pulling back. "I... I wanted my brother... AfterAshura... to stop his stupid feud, but I couldn't. You saw what he did..."
"Meg, I'm so sorry..." Ashura said.
"Don't be... I was meant to die." Meg said. This shocked Ashura. "AfterEarth is gone. My brother, Pricon and I am the only things left from it. I wasn't supposed to keep going."
"But... but, Meg..." Ashura pleaded. At that, he saw Meg's appearance change.
"Ashura... you don't need me anymore. You're strong enough to move on. You hafta realize that." Meg said. "But, Crystallis... Crystallis still needs someone." At that, Meg's form completed the change. Her fur and quills went from green to sky blue. She had bangs come from her head. Her head quill style was almost like Sonic's except for two quills that went over her shoulder, like hair. She wore a pink vest, white blouse and a red long skirt. The big noticable thing about her was that she was missing half of her left leg. "Don't tell her, but her family's waiting. They miss her, but they're in trouble. They'll come to her."
"Meg, how do you know all of this?! How?!" Ashura said.
"Ashura... right now, you need to deal with my brother. Make him pay for his crimes." Meg said as she began fading away. "I love you, Ashura."
"Meg! Meg, wait! Please!" Ashura called out.
"Goodbye..."
"WAAAAAAAAAAAIT!"
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"Ashura, Ashura, are you okay?!" Crystallis called out again. Ashura began noticing the voices and sounds again and saw Crystallis looking down at him.
"Crysty?" Ashura mutterd. He whinced as the pain from the whip came back. "Owowowowow..."
"Ashura, you're okay!" Crystallis said.
"Yeah... help me up, 'kay?" Ashura said. Both Crystallis and Anthony helped Ashura up and looked around. He saw DragonMetal still fighting. "DragonMetal, fall back! This is my fight now!"
[WHAT?! After what HE did to you?!] DragonMetal said. Crystallis and Anthony said the exact same thing.
"Yeah. I'm not running away this time. I'm putting him down for good..." Ashura said, his damaged Wing ZERO Custom armor disappearing and being replaced with his Shining Gundam armor. DragonMetal let out something resembling a sigh and pulled out.
"Ashura..." Crystallis began.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry!" Ashura said, racing off into the battle again.
"So, back for more, ehhhhhhAAAAAAAGH!" AfterAshura said, only to get slugged in the face by Ashura. Not letting up for a second, he swung his fists into AfterAshura's face, bloodying it. "GAH! STOP! PLEASE! I BEG YOU! Please, have mercy!"
"Mercy? MERCY! Did you give my sister mercy?! Did you give those at RiftRichmond mercy?! What makes you think *I'LL* give you mercy?!" Ashura said. He grabbed the armor's shield and beam saber and ripped them off, then got AfterAshura by the neck and lifted his free hand up, the glove turning green as it went into Shining Finger mode.
"Ashura, don't kill him! It's not worth it!" Anthony shouted
"Ashura, you kill him, you'll just prove that you're just like him! You'll undo what you wanted to fix!" Crystallis said. Ashura looked at his foe and his eyes narrowed.
"They're right. I'm not like you." Ashura said.
"Pussy. Wimp. Weakling." AfterAshura taunted. "Is that what you want to be known as?"
"No." Ashura said "But I'm not like you. You're under arrest for the deaths of thousands of human beings and the death of Megan Hedgehog. I know they'll punish you the legal way, but I'm gonna do this to remind you... remind you that you NEVER mess with me OR my loved ones." With that, he brought his glowing hand to AfterAshura's face, burning the imprint on his glove on his face. In horror, AfterAshura screamed. After awhile, he dropped AfterAshura and walked away. "Well... that felt... not that satisfying."
"Stuff like that rarely does." Anthony said. "I'll call up Washu and get Vegeta to haul AfterAshura back to White Base."
"Did Tails and Tetsuya get the Nadesico crew back safely?" Ashura asked.
"Dunno. I'll ask her that as well." Anthony said. As Anthony began to call, AfterAshura stood up and, from a holdster in his leg, pulled out a pistol.
"Eheheheheh... I may not have beaten you senseless, but this'll be even satisfying!" AfterAshura said. He fired his gun once, the bullet grazes by Crystallis' cheek.
"CRYSTY!" Ashura shouted. As he turned to face AfterAshura, the evil hedgehog fired at Ashura's forehead. Freaking out, Ashura tried covered his face, only to watch as... the bullet bounced off? "Huh?! I...I'm not hurt?!" He looked and noticed that his armor had turned gold. "What the...?!"
"He's...he's gone Super! But, how?!" AfterAshura shouted. He was right, Ashura was standing there, his quills and fur now gold, along with his armor.
"What happened to me?" Ashura asked himself. "Did Meg do this...?" He looked up and saw AfterAshura making a break for it. Ashura smirked to himself. "I don't think so..." He raced towards AfterAshura, both of his hands in Shining Finger mode. Bringing his hands together over his head, a beam blade shot forth. "Hey, AfterAshura!"
"Wha...? Oh, GOD!" AfterAshura shouted seeing what Ashura was gonna do.
"Meet the Shining Finger Sword!" Ashura shouted. With all his might, he swung at AfterAshura, the large blade slicing through the Epyon Armor, destroying it and taking down AfterAshura, sending him tumbling to the ground. Ashura stopped and powered down. "Whew... I dunno what I just did... but I need a rest..." With that, Ashura fell backwards and passed out, totally exausted.
[Ashura! Ashura!] DragonMetal cried out, racing to his ally.
"DragonMetal, is he okay?!" Anthony said.
[Yeah, he's fine. Exausted, that's all.] DragonMetal said. [I think his wounds and his attacks finally took his toll.]
"That's good..." Crystallis said. "That's good."
"Well, I got ahold of Washu. Tails and Tetsuya got the others safely back and Vegeta'll take AfterAshura. C'mon, let's get back and get these two patched up." Anthony said.
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Back in the Metallix's base, things were going a little bit smoothly. During the entire conflict with Ashura and AfterAshura, the Metal Sonics had obtained another part of what they needed to truely began their attack, though Metal Overlord didn't know it yet.
"Well?! Aren't you gonna tell me?!" Metal Overlord said
"You'll see, sir, you'll see." his servant said.
"Is it the Soul Bird?!" Metal Overlord said.
"Sorry, sir. Animarium and the Soul Bird has yet to be found." the servant said.
"Damn... then it must be the new pilot for the Devil Gundam!" Metal Overlord said.
"You should be surprised at who we chose..." the servant said. They reached the area and saw a group of Metallix dragging a person into the Devil Gundam. His eyes widen when he saw who it was.
"Sabian Starwalker... excellent..." the Metal Overlord said. He grinned as the struggling Sabian was tossed into the Devil Gundam, the DG Cells inside taking over his body. "Finally, our first ultimate weapon is complete. Come, we must strike while the others are unprepared."
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"YOU MURDERER!" Ashura shouted, unsheathing his beam saber and racing out towards AfterAshura. He swung at the evil hedgehog, only to watch as he dodge the attack.
"Ha! You missed!" AfterAshura shouted. He pointed his left arm at Ashura and, from his shield arm, a long whip shot out, glowing red with heat. Ashura took off quickly, dodging the whip and watching the whip damage the already damaged Gundam. AfterAshura wasn't done and swung the whip around Ashura's leg and swung him over his head and onto the ground hard. As the battle went on, Metal Amy had the Thunder MegaZord pick up Meg's lifeless body.
[Why? Why did this happen to her?] Metal Amy said, looking at her.
[That...thing is a madman. His mind is so corrupt he couldn't take it anymore and took it out.] DragonMetal said. At that moment, he wanted to join in with the fight.
"DragonMetal! DragonMetal, can you hear me?!" the voice of Washu called out as her face appeared on DragonMetal's HUD.
[Go ahead.] DragonMetal said.
"There's... something interesting about Meg I need to see." Washu said.
[What? Rigor Mortis?!] DragonMetal said.
"No. Go to her. Now." Washu said. DragonMetal rolled his eyes and flew off towards Thunder MegaZord, his eyes catching not only the battle, but Gundam and Getter Dragon putting the Zephranties back together. He approached Meg's body and noticed that, even though she wasn't moving...
[She... she's still alive?!] DragonMetal said. [But, that's impossible! I detect no heartbeat, no pulse, no breathing, hell, no... no... wait... I caught ki. What IS she?!]
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As the battle between Ashura and AfterAshura continued, it seemed that Ashura going solo was a bad idea. His armor was becoming more and more damaged as the battle continued. He needed a way to catch his breath.
"Heheheheheh... what's wrong, Ashura? Not the great fighter you claim you be?" AfterAshura said.
"I...I never said I was one." Ashura said, gasping for air. "I just fight..." With that, he pulled out his Twin Buster Rifle and charged up the shot. Vengance would be swift.
"Cheater..." AfterAshura said, snapping his heat whip at the Twin Buster Rifle, slicing it in half.
"NO!" Ashura shouted. He tossed the remaints aside and reactivated his beam saber, only to have that knocked away. "Uhh...uhhh... can we talk about this?"
"What's to talk about?" AfterAshura said. "You said you were gonna kill me for killing Meg. Why aren't you? You know why? Because you are A PUSSY!" With that, he swung the heat whip across Ashura's face, a large burn mark across the right side of his face forming. "You are A WIMP!" He brought the whip across Ashura's chest, shattering the armor and sending the hedgehog flying. Ashura hit the ground hard. "You are PATHETIC!" CRACK! The whip slapped across Ashura's back. "You deserve to DIE!" CRACK! CRACK! CRACK! Each his burned more and more into Ashura's skin. His fur and quills were gone. As each hit struck his skin, he cursed himself. He cursed himself for abandoning his friends for his taste of vengence. He cursed himself for being such a weakling. He cursed himself for living like he did. He just hoped that his death would be swift and painless.
'Ash...Ashura?' A voice called out in his mind.
'Wh...who? Who's there?' Ashura thought to himself. He was probably hallucinating due to the pain.
"Ashura... I feel so sorry for you..." the voice called out. AfterAshura got off of Ashura, letting the hedgehog stand up as he looked at...nothing. Apparently, Ashura WAS hallucinating. What Ashura saw was a teenaged green quilled hedgehog wearing the same clothes Meg was.
"M...Megan?" Ashura said. The hedgehog nodded.
"Ashura... You of all people... you should have died..."
"What?! What do you mean?!" Ashura said, shocked. As the illusion gave her reasons, AfterAshura took advantage of this and wrapped his whip around Ashura's neck.
"Oh, this is SO good..." AfterAshura said.
[NO! ASHURA, SNAP OUT OF IT!] DragonMetal shouted, seeing what's going on.
"DragonMetal, you've got to save him!" Crystallis pleaded as she appeared on his HUD. No answer was given as DragonMetal raced to the scene.
"Time to die..." AfterAshura said, tightening the whip around Ashura neck, causing the hero to choke. This action caught the attenion of the others.
"That's it! I'm not standing aside any longer!" Anthony shouted.
"I'm coming with you!" Crystallis said. Anthony nodded, and the two teleported to the battlefield, garbed in their respective armors. Arrviving at the scene, they found DragonMetal attacking AfterAshura, Ashura still hooked to the whip, hitting the ground hard as AfterAshura hit the ground. "Back away from him, you monster!" With all her might, Crystallis fired an energy blast at AfterAshura, Anthony joining in with a Force Blast. The sudden attacks caused AfterAshura to release his grip on Ashura as DragonMetal pushed him away from his friend.
"Ashura! Ashura, are you okay?!" Anthony shouted as he and Crystallis approached their friend.
"No...no, stay away... I'm not worthy... I'm...I'm only a nuseance..." Ashura moaned.
"He's delusional." Anthony said. "What did that thing do to him?"
"Ashura, Ashura, please listen to me!" Crystallis called out. "You're not a nuseance! You're needed! I need you..."
"Cryst... Crystallis. No... you don't need me, you have others. Others to make you happy..." Ashura moaned.
"No, that's not true! I need you! I love you!" Crystallis called out, eyes filling with tears.
[Uhhh... guys?] Metal Amy called out in Anthony's communicator. [There's something wrong with Meg's body! It's glowing!]
"Glowing?!" Anthony said. He looked towards the Thunder MegaZord and saw that, in its hands, something was glowing. It also caught the attention of the others.
"Woah... that's the oddest case of Rigor Mortis *I'VE* ever seen!" Kou said.
"Yeah... I thought they just MOVED..." Amuro said.
[I don't get it... why...?] Metal Amy began before noticing the light shoot from the MegaZord's hand and towards Ashura. Metal Amy looked at the mech's hand and noticed Meg's body gone. [Huh?!] Before she had time to react, the light had entered Ashura's body.
"Wh...what's going on?!" Crystallis said, shocked.
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"Ashura... Ashura..."
"No, no more! Please, haven't you done enough?!" Ashura cried out. He no longer heard Crystallis' voice, the sounds of battle or anything of the like. He looked at his surroundings and noticed he wasn't in the battlefield anymore. "Where...where am I? What am I doing here?"
"Ashura... dear brother Ashura."
"M-Meg?! Y...you're not here to torture me, are you?!" Ashura said
"Torture? Why would I torture my dear brother?" the voice of Meg said. Ashura, then, felt something soft press on his cheek. He looked to see Meg kissing his cheek.
"Megan! Y...you're alive?!" Ashura said, hopefully.
"Only in your mind." Meg said, pulling back. "I... I wanted my brother... AfterAshura... to stop his stupid feud, but I couldn't. You saw what he did..."
"Meg, I'm so sorry..." Ashura said.
"Don't be... I was meant to die." Meg said. This shocked Ashura. "AfterEarth is gone. My brother, Pricon and I am the only things left from it. I wasn't supposed to keep going."
"But... but, Meg..." Ashura pleaded. At that, he saw Meg's appearance change.
"Ashura... you don't need me anymore. You're strong enough to move on. You hafta realize that." Meg said. "But, Crystallis... Crystallis still needs someone." At that, Meg's form completed the change. Her fur and quills went from green to sky blue. She had bangs come from her head. Her head quill style was almost like Sonic's except for two quills that went over her shoulder, like hair. She wore a pink vest, white blouse and a red long skirt. The big noticable thing about her was that she was missing half of her left leg. "Don't tell her, but her family's waiting. They miss her, but they're in trouble. They'll come to her."
"Meg, how do you know all of this?! How?!" Ashura said.
"Ashura... right now, you need to deal with my brother. Make him pay for his crimes." Meg said as she began fading away. "I love you, Ashura."
"Meg! Meg, wait! Please!" Ashura called out.
"Goodbye..."
"WAAAAAAAAAAAIT!"
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"Ashura, Ashura, are you okay?!" Crystallis called out again. Ashura began noticing the voices and sounds again and saw Crystallis looking down at him.
"Crysty?" Ashura mutterd. He whinced as the pain from the whip came back. "Owowowowow..."
"Ashura, you're okay!" Crystallis said.
"Yeah... help me up, 'kay?" Ashura said. Both Crystallis and Anthony helped Ashura up and looked around. He saw DragonMetal still fighting. "DragonMetal, fall back! This is my fight now!"
[WHAT?! After what HE did to you?!] DragonMetal said. Crystallis and Anthony said the exact same thing.
"Yeah. I'm not running away this time. I'm putting him down for good..." Ashura said, his damaged Wing ZERO Custom armor disappearing and being replaced with his Shining Gundam armor. DragonMetal let out something resembling a sigh and pulled out.
"Ashura..." Crystallis began.
"I'll be fine. Don't worry!" Ashura said, racing off into the battle again.
"So, back for more, ehhhhhhAAAAAAAGH!" AfterAshura said, only to get slugged in the face by Ashura. Not letting up for a second, he swung his fists into AfterAshura's face, bloodying it. "GAH! STOP! PLEASE! I BEG YOU! Please, have mercy!"
"Mercy? MERCY! Did you give my sister mercy?! Did you give those at RiftRichmond mercy?! What makes you think *I'LL* give you mercy?!" Ashura said. He grabbed the armor's shield and beam saber and ripped them off, then got AfterAshura by the neck and lifted his free hand up, the glove turning green as it went into Shining Finger mode.
"Ashura, don't kill him! It's not worth it!" Anthony shouted
"Ashura, you kill him, you'll just prove that you're just like him! You'll undo what you wanted to fix!" Crystallis said. Ashura looked at his foe and his eyes narrowed.
"They're right. I'm not like you." Ashura said.
"Pussy. Wimp. Weakling." AfterAshura taunted. "Is that what you want to be known as?"
"No." Ashura said "But I'm not like you. You're under arrest for the deaths of thousands of human beings and the death of Megan Hedgehog. I know they'll punish you the legal way, but I'm gonna do this to remind you... remind you that you NEVER mess with me OR my loved ones." With that, he brought his glowing hand to AfterAshura's face, burning the imprint on his glove on his face. In horror, AfterAshura screamed. After awhile, he dropped AfterAshura and walked away. "Well... that felt... not that satisfying."
"Stuff like that rarely does." Anthony said. "I'll call up Washu and get Vegeta to haul AfterAshura back to White Base."
"Did Tails and Tetsuya get the Nadesico crew back safely?" Ashura asked.
"Dunno. I'll ask her that as well." Anthony said. As Anthony began to call, AfterAshura stood up and, from a holdster in his leg, pulled out a pistol.
"Eheheheheh... I may not have beaten you senseless, but this'll be even satisfying!" AfterAshura said. He fired his gun once, the bullet grazes by Crystallis' cheek.
"CRYSTY!" Ashura shouted. As he turned to face AfterAshura, the evil hedgehog fired at Ashura's forehead. Freaking out, Ashura tried covered his face, only to watch as... the bullet bounced off? "Huh?! I...I'm not hurt?!" He looked and noticed that his armor had turned gold. "What the...?!"
"He's...he's gone Super! But, how?!" AfterAshura shouted. He was right, Ashura was standing there, his quills and fur now gold, along with his armor.
"What happened to me?" Ashura asked himself. "Did Meg do this...?" He looked up and saw AfterAshura making a break for it. Ashura smirked to himself. "I don't think so..." He raced towards AfterAshura, both of his hands in Shining Finger mode. Bringing his hands together over his head, a beam blade shot forth. "Hey, AfterAshura!"
"Wha...? Oh, GOD!" AfterAshura shouted seeing what Ashura was gonna do.
"Meet the Shining Finger Sword!" Ashura shouted. With all his might, he swung at AfterAshura, the large blade slicing through the Epyon Armor, destroying it and taking down AfterAshura, sending him tumbling to the ground. Ashura stopped and powered down. "Whew... I dunno what I just did... but I need a rest..." With that, Ashura fell backwards and passed out, totally exausted.
[Ashura! Ashura!] DragonMetal cried out, racing to his ally.
"DragonMetal, is he okay?!" Anthony said.
[Yeah, he's fine. Exausted, that's all.] DragonMetal said. [I think his wounds and his attacks finally took his toll.]
"That's good..." Crystallis said. "That's good."
"Well, I got ahold of Washu. Tails and Tetsuya got the others safely back and Vegeta'll take AfterAshura. C'mon, let's get back and get these two patched up." Anthony said.
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Back in the Metallix's base, things were going a little bit smoothly. During the entire conflict with Ashura and AfterAshura, the Metal Sonics had obtained another part of what they needed to truely began their attack, though Metal Overlord didn't know it yet.
"Well?! Aren't you gonna tell me?!" Metal Overlord said
"You'll see, sir, you'll see." his servant said.
"Is it the Soul Bird?!" Metal Overlord said.
"Sorry, sir. Animarium and the Soul Bird has yet to be found." the servant said.
"Damn... then it must be the new pilot for the Devil Gundam!" Metal Overlord said.
"You should be surprised at who we chose..." the servant said. They reached the area and saw a group of Metallix dragging a person into the Devil Gundam. His eyes widen when he saw who it was.
"Sabian Starwalker... excellent..." the Metal Overlord said. He grinned as the struggling Sabian was tossed into the Devil Gundam, the DG Cells inside taking over his body. "Finally, our first ultimate weapon is complete. Come, we must strike while the others are unprepared."