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Five Elements: The American Mews

Chapter 18: Teamwork; Earth, fire and air against Olson

As the afternoon drew to its close, the huge clouds around the mountainside gathered together into larger and larger collections. Thunder shook the sky, an omen that soon it would rain.

Mew Aero and Mew Terra stood just a few feet from the towering genetic monster that was once Heinrich Olsen. Mew Pyro stood off to the side of the monster, his body bent in a position that made it easy for him to attack if need be.

One of Olson's titanic fists flexed and he sighed, the sound deep and bass. "Do any of you actually believe, somewhere in your hearts, that you can defeat me?"

Mew Terra stepped forward, holding up both of her revolvers. "We'll defeat you…we all have things to fight for, while you have nothing at all."

Olson's eyes closed. "You're wrong about that. I am fighting for something…for something that none of you can possibly understand. And yet, though you cannot understand it, it is something that will influence your lives for years to come."

"Stop talking in riddles." Mew Pyro stepped forward as well. "You're just fighting for yourself and that is all, don't try to confuse us."

"I'm not trying to confuse anyone." Olson's whole body flexed at once, the compound lumps of muscle swelling in size for a moment and then shrinking back down to their 'normal' size. "I'm simply trying to make you little children understand that the world isn't so easy to understand…and to live in."

"Okay, that's too philosophical for me!" Mew Pyro yelled out and charged right at the giant, both of his fists exploding into flames. "Inferno Punch!" Leaping up into the air, he came flying down and slammed both of the flaming appendages right into Olson's face.

The giant snapped one arm up and drove an elbow the size of a cannon-ball into the boy's chest, instantly stealing his breath and launching him past both Mew Aero and Mew Terra, who were both moving towards him.

Mew Aero gasped and turned her head to watch her friend's flight path. "Bruce! Are you alright?"

A loud thud caught her attention, and she turned around just in time to see Olson's fist come rocketing in towards her. She screamed and threw up her arms to protect herself right before the fist crashed down into the spot she had beforehand.

Mew Terra sighed and dropped the other girl from off her shoulder. "If you're just going to stand there and do nothing, then just stay over here." Then she turned and ran towards Olson, guns drawn.

Mew Aero huffed and stomped her foot angrily. "I'm not useless!" Suddenly she disappeared and was right in front of Olson's face. "Pardon me for not being used to fighting huge ugly monsters!" Then her heel came crashing in right between the monster's eyes, sending him stumbling back.

Mew Terra sweat-dropped, unsure whether she wanted to risk making the girl any angrier. After a few seconds of mental debate she snapped up her revolvers and opened fire, the compressed bullets of air stabbing into Olson's flesh and leaving behind numerous small holes all over his chest.

Olson slowly stood up and watched as Mew Aero came flying in again, screaming in anger. ("She has a good kick…however…") He detected that Mew Pyro was coming in behind him, and he released his energy in the form of a bubble of force. A slight smirk crossed his lips as he felt both Mews crash right into the invisible bubble. Then he expanded it rapidly, the strength of the barrier just as hard as a body slam to both of them. "You can't win like you are now!"

"Really?" Mew Terra stood on his shoulder, both of her revolvers aimed right at his head. "I beg to differ." Then she unloaded into his skull. His head snapped to the side and for a few moments it looked like he was going to fall. Then his eyes opened again and head-butted her in the chest, watching as she disappeared into the cloud cover far above them.

Walt gasped and started to run towards the location where he had seen his friend go. "Alicia!"

Mew Aero landed in front of Olson and snapped up her microphone. "Aero Amplifier! Aero Songbird's Chorus!" She yelled into the device, and a powerful wave of air slammed into Olson's chest, sending him sliding back about ten feet.

Brushing off his chest, Olson cracked his knuckles as the wounds he had been dealt by Mew Terra's bullets faded. "Interesting, but otherwise useless. I have yet to feel true pain by any of your attacks."

"Let me enlighten you then!" Mew Pyro came rocketing in, his hands covered by a pair of fire-red armored gauntlets. "Pyro Gauntlets! Pyro Tiger's Roar!" Then an explosive fireball shot from his fists that hit the giant in the chest.

Olson's chest swelled up momentarily to absorb all of the damage, and then it compressed back to normal size. "Fool!" He punched Mew Pyro right in the stomach and then back-handed Mew Aero with his other hand. "I can't be defeated by you!"

"Terra Fox's Storm!" A spray of bullets slammed into his right knee and tore it to shreds. Mew Terra twirled her revolvers on her index fingers, trying to ignore the fact that she looked like someone had run her over with a car. "We're not close to done yet!"

"Is that so?" Olson roared in anger and his legs actually forcefully straightened itself out. "Then show me what you can really do!" His leg's muscles knitted themselves back together quickly, and he punched the ground at his feet, the earth exploding and cracking from the force. "Let's go!"

Mew Terra piroted on one leg her coat billowing around her body. "Ribbon…" Then she disappeared, twelve different versions of herself appearing all around Olson. "…Terra Waltz!" All twelve of them fired a single shot that hurtled into the giant. ("When they all connect at his center, they'll blow him to bits!")

Olson roared and expanded in some areas while contacting in others. Different parts of his body exploded, and then all at once they reformed. "Your attack's method is very impressive. By using all twelve of your bullets at once, you create a powerful explosion within the enemy's body that instantly destroys them. However…I can change the shape and size of this body's muscles as I wish, so no matter where you fire I can prevent those bullets from connecting at my center!"

Mew Terra's eyes were wide in fear at this declaration. ("This thing isn't possible…nothing plant or animal can do such a thing so easily!")

Olson roared and pounded his chest with his fists. "Now then, I feel like breaking some bones!" He appeared right in front of Mew Terra and both of his fists doubled in size. They dropped down and clamped around her legs and around her torso, both squeezing with the force of a trash compactor. "You're supposedly the strongest out of all of them, right? Well then, let's see how tough you really are!"

Mew Terra tried to scream, but all that came out was a weak gasp as she felt her body actually being compressed inwards.

"Stop it!" Walt threw a rock the size of his fist that bounced off of Olson's back like it was nothing at all. "You're killing her!"

"That would be the point." Olson continued to squeeze, watching her eyes slowly darken as the life left them. "She's too weak to be my real…"

"That enough, you animal!" Mew Pyro appeared right in front of Olson, his entire body wrapped in flames. "If you want to fight someone near your strength level, try me on for size! And I'll even give you a present if you take the offer…" He leapt back and then charged in, the fire around him growing bigger and bigger. "Ribbon…Pyro Dragon!" The fire formed into a roaring dragon that slammed right into Olson's chest and sent the titan sliding backwards rapidly.

Walt gasped at the incredible power that attack must have had to make Olson move so much…

Olson slammed his hand into the flaming dragon and pulled out Mew Pyro, cracking his other huge fist down onto the boy's neck with a snap. Then he hurled the boy right into the barely standing Mew Terra, and both of them went down in a heap. "That was just annoying." Looking down at the burns along his chest, he looked at both of the fallen Mews and the charged. "I'll make you both pay for that!"

Mew Aero jumped in front of her two fallen friends. "Stop! They can't fight anymore!"

"Do you think I care?" Olson leapt at her, shoulder out to literally trample all three of them under him enormous body.

Mew Aero threw up her hands and yelled as loud as she could, forming a barrier of wind between her and the giant. He slammed into it and stopped for a moment, right before the barrier was blown apart and he bounced her off of his massive shoulder easily. She flew into her friends, all of them collapsing in heap.

Olson was still flying at them, ready to crush all three of them in one blow.

"No! Move you guys!" Walt yelled at the top of his lungs at them, but none of them moved.

"It's the end for all of you!" Olson roared out and dropped down onto them with a body slam that took all sight of them.

Walt closed his eyes and waited for the sickening crunch of them getting broken underneath the undying monster…but when it didn't come he slowly opened his eyes to see what had happened. And what he saw made him gasp in complete amazement.

Olson shuddered, his entire body protesting the fact that he had put himself in the situation he was in. "You…how did you…"

Mew Sonic stood with his head down, his hair covering his eyes in shadow. His right arm was straight up into the air and holding Olson up by the stomach with his open palm. "Our fight didn't end, did it? So why are you beating up on my friends?" Blood dripped down a huge cut on his right cheek, and another cut on his forehead left a red streak running down across one eye.

"You couldn't be doing this…the damage to your body…" Olson shot his hands in to try and punch the boy so he could get free…

Mew Sonic responded by yelling out and letting go with his right hand and punching with his left hand. The blow landed and a huge booming noise filled the air around them as Olson almost folded in half from the force of the blow. And then the titan was dozens of feet in the air, flying away from the one who had struck him.

Mew Aero's eyes slowly opened…and she gasped in a mix of relief and fear. "Roger! You can't fight with those injuries!" Leaping to her feet, she shook him by one shoulder. "It's okay, I got away from him. You don't have to fight him anymore!"

"What did I tell you before?" He snapped his head around and screamed right in her face. "This doesn't have anything to do with you anymore! Now it has to do with me…and him." He pointed over to the small crater where Olson had finally hit the earth. Then he looked away from her defiantly.

Mew Pyro coughed a couple of times and stood up shakily. "Grant, don't turn stupid because of your ego. It will take all of us together to beat this guy."

Mew Terra tried to stand up, but she collapsed again. Walt ran over to her side and helped her stand up by letting her use his shoulder as a brace.

Mew Sonic just walked away from them. "If you get involved again, I'll beat the hell out of all of you…even you Caitlyn." Then he watched as the earth exploded where Olson's crater was. "Please…just let me do this. This guy might be crazy…" His voice quieted down slightly…and his eyes closed. "…but he brought up a good point. If I can't beat him, then I don't deserve to live!" Then his body was lined by a bright dark gold aura of energy.

Olson came charging out of the dust cloud like a train, his fist cocked back to cut them all down.

Mew Sonic cracked his knuckles and charged towards the giant as well. The aura flared up even more and seemed to wrap around him protectively. "Olson, bring out your real power!"

Their fists slammed into each other midway from their original starting positions, and then Olson's entire arm crumbled under the pressure. Seconds later the giant roared in pain as Mew Sonic's fist kept going and slammed into his gut, almost tearing him in half because of the sheer power of it. ("How did this boy increase in strength yet again? His injuries say that he should be unconscious!") Then the force of the hit caught up with Olson and he sliding backwards on his back.

Mew Sonic appeared on his chest, leaping up and down and digging his boots into the monster's ribs to grind him deeper into the earth. "I said bring out the real you!"

"Die!" Olson's fist shot up and slammed right into Mew Sonic's fist. A loud crack, almost like a gunshot, echoed across the open field. Olson's cry of pain followed it as he withdrew his now broken hand from Mew Sonic's unharmed chest.

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Mew Pyro stood there in silent awe. His rival was invincible…that was the only explanation.

Mew Aero watched only half-heartedly. She was currently angry at Roger for yelling at her, and for being an idiot. Also, there was the matter of looking at Mew Terra's injuries.

Walt stood off to the side of the two girls, his eyes mostly watching as his brother proceeded to completely and utterly demolish Olson. "I finally get. That's his secret and how he got so much stronger…"

Everyone looked over at him, waiting for an explanation.

"Olson once mentioned that Roger possessed amazing power that allowed him to fight for such extended periods of time without tiring…" Walt ran a hand through his somehow still perfect hair. "…that's why he was letting himself take those hits. The more injured he gets, the more of his full power he has access to."

Mew Pyro sighed. "That makes sense, considering how much Roger seems to love taking hits and returning them…it's amazing I didn't realize until just now."

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Olson stumbled back, his body unable to repair fast enough to escape the fact that he was going to die at this rate. ("I must do something before this little annoyance destroys me completely!") His entire body flexed and tried to pop back in place…

Mew Sonic appeared right in front of the giant's stomach and nearly punched through him, his entire forearm disappearing within the mass of pulverized muscle that was Olson's abdomen. "Chaos Barrage!" He didn't flinch at all as the machine gun fire of energy literally blew right through Olson's chest, the giant's upper body landing with a wet thump on the ground away from his lower half.

Olson gasped in true pain, his entire body convulsing as it tried to somehow fix itself from the blow it had just taken…but this was a blow it could not do anything against. "No…you couldn't have done that to me…"

Mew Sonic slowly walked up Olson's upper head and kicked it in the ribs. He could see that whatever this thing was made up of, it was just plant matter instead of muscle or organs. "Such a shame, I was expecting something red when I did that."

Olson gasped and coughed up a small stream of green liquid, his head turning to look up the impossibly boy. "What…" He coughed up another spray of green fluid. "…are you?"

"I'm your executioner." Mew Sonic placed his hand right against the immobile torso's head. "Chaos Barrage!" With one loud explosion of energy, Olson's head was gone.

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Mew Pyro just stood there, his entire body suddenly very afraid of the monster that his rival had become. And he wasn't alone…

"Roger…" Mew Aero stared at the horrible mess that was left of Olson. "No…that's not Roger…he couldn't do something so atrocious…"

"He could…" Walt's expression was ice-cold, his eyes those of a killer. "No…he's never killed before…but in this case…"

Mew Terra gasped in pain and clutched at her ribs. "He did what he had to do. That beast was going to kill us all."

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Mew Sonic closed his eyes and turned away, walking towards the others. "You died…that's a damn shame…" He stopped as a rustling noise caught his attention. Turning his head, he looked over at the lower half of Olson's body as it kicked and squirmed crazily. "That's mildly creepy…"

"You wanted my full power?"

Mew Sonic instantly went back to ice-cold emotions, and he slowly turned to look at Olson's upper half, which had regrown its head. "That's right. Can you still do it with your entire body being in two halves?"

Olson sneered as his skin went from a dull brown color to dark green. "Trust me…I'm very hard to keep down!" He roared and his skin tore apart, revealing the mass of plant matter his body was made up of. "I'm so happy that you could actually push me to my full power! In return, I'll make sure you die a quick death!"

"That's cute, coming from half a guy." Mew Sonic flexed his right arm to get the kinks out of it. Firing his Chaos Barrage so many times wasn't the best thing for his arms, but since he had no choice he didn't mind that much.

Olson howled out in rage, and his entire lower body actually was pulled back into place with his upper half. There was a momentary burst of light as he completely reformed. Standing up slowly, he now stood at an incredible 25', which made it seem like he could easily crush Mew Sonic with just one hand. "I have never taken myself this far before…so please excuse me if I wind up hitting a little hard."

"Shut up." Mew Sonic turned to face the green giant. "I'm killing you so you stay out of my business from now on."

"Then let's begin!" Olson roared and snapped his ropy arm back, the fist coming in towards the boy like a missile.

To be continued…

The climax of the battle between Mew Sonic and Olson is coming…but who can say what will happen. Will Mew Sonic's ability to get stronger when he gets injured win the fight, or will Olson's ability to repair impossible damage end it?