"All right," Danny said, his arms crossed. He was staring right at the sergeant, the one who had been behind the mask all this time. "You think you know how we can get inside that cloud? All right, then. How?"
"Simple," the sergeant said. "You just grab my arm, make us both go intangible and fly us right into that cloud."
"You sure that will work?" Danny asked. "It seems too simple. And what about Skyler? He's definitely going to pop up at some point since we let him get away in the lab a little while ago."
"I think I know where he is," the sergeant coolly said, his blue eyes seeming to reflect how calm he sounded. "And if my thought are correct, then us killing Skyler and getting inside Bhyrun will all play out accordingly."
"Uh…" Danny stuttered, not understanding completely what the sergeant just said, "do you mean that by finding Skyler, he'll capture us or something and lead us inside the cloud where we fight the final battle?"
"Something like that," the sergeant said with a smile starting to spread across his face. "All right, we're about to go through with this. Are you ready?"
"Go through with it? You mean to end it?" Danny asked.
The sergeant nodded his head.
"All right," Danny then agreed. "Let's go ahead and finish this, then!"
Danny grabbed the sergeant's arm and made both of them intangible. He phased them through the window of the hotel room, and as soon as they were outside, Danny stopped and stared at the massive black cloud hovering in the air.
"So, all of this just because that bottle broke…" Danny said in a philosophical way. "We have to destroy that cloud so Bhyrun will die, right?"
"You have it backwards," the sergeant corrected. "Once Bhyrun is dead, then the cloud will disappear and everything should return to normal."
"Okay," Danny said. He had more determination in his expression than he ever had before. His adrenaline was rising, and he was becoming very anxious about finishing the entire thing once and for all. "All right, then, let's go!"
Danny and the sergeant charged at the cloud as fast as Danny could pull both of them. In a matter of seconds, the cloud was only a few feet away from them, and it looked huge staring at it from such a short distance away.
"You ready?" Danny asked.
"Yes."
"All right, let's get in there and finish Bhyrun!"
Still intangible, Danny thrust both of them into the cloud and expected to pass right through it. But, for some reason, the two hit the cloud as if they had just run head on into a block of cement.
Danny made a slight yell when he got deflected from entering the cloud, and the two of them became tangible again.
"What was that!" Danny shrieked.
"Not being able to go into the cloud…so it is you," the sergeant said in deep thought. "I know why neither of us can go in the cloud."
"Why not?"
"…BUT, I think I know a way we can get inside."
"Uh…okay," Danny said, still wanting an answer to his question.
"Both of us shall start firing our energy at the cloud," the sergeant instructed. "If we can't get in by passing through the armor, we're going to need to make a hole to go in."
"Oh, I get it," Danny said with a smile on his face. "We need to use our energy to burn a hole in the cloud so we can get in."
"You'll see."
The two of them held out their hands and started firing the strongest blast they could at the cloud, and they fired it for a long time before any steam started fizzing up from the point where Danny's ectoplasma rays hit the surface of the dark cloud.
After a while, they stopped firing to see they hadn't even made a dent in the cloud. Danny was now upset, but confused. "It looks like your plan didn't work."
"What do you mean?" the sergeant asked, smiling. "I didn't think we'd be able to make a hole in this cloud with our energy."
"Then how come you made us do it?"
"Well, if we can't make a hole in the cloud, we'll have to make someone make the hole for us."
"What are you talking about?"
Instantly, a whooshing sound was heard and both of them looked over. A gaping hole just appeared in part of the cloud, and the two of them turned their attention to it. Suddenly, Skyler came flying out of the hole and seemed very upset to see the two of them.
"You!" Skyler hissed. After just being inside the cloud for a while, he now looked even meaner for some reason. He now looked charcoal black mixed in with dark red, but there was still some dark red gas hovering around him as he floated. His sharp wings were now almost as tall he was, and about two feet long.
"Skyler!" Danny yelled. "This is the end of it all! Surrender, or prepare to die!"
Skyler started chuckling, then looked right at Danny's angry and concentrated face. "My, you certainly seem to have gotten more aggressive since we last met."
"I told you, if I have to be the one to stop you, I will!"
Skyler started chuckling again. "I am fused with Bhyrun, have you forgotten that? One of the most powerful men in History, and I'm fused with him! Nothing can stop us now!"
"Well, we can," Danny smirked.
"By all means, try!" Skyler yelled. "You seriously want to fight me, even with your little friend at your side?"
"I'm telling you Skyler, this is the end! I'm not going to have to fight you anymore after this!"
"Very well, then," Skyler hissed. "Then you won't fight anyone again after this fight is over, Ghost Child!" Skyler's voice seemed to get more demonic with every word he said.
Danny, Skyler and the sergeant didn't waste any time. All of them charged in full force, and they started fighting like they had never fought before.
Skyler started by taking his hands and pointing one of them at both of his opponents, and then blasting them both simultaneously.
Danny and the sergeant both got blasted back, but it didn't take long at all for them to recover. The both put their hands out at the same time with four in total, and they fired it. But just as the blasts were about to hit Skyler, he put up a force field around himself and the four blasts were deflected.
"Oh no!" Danny yelled. "He can shield himself from our attacks! How are we supposed to cream him now!"
The sergeant didn't pay any attention this and instantly pulled out his sword and started taking savage swings at Skyler with it. Skyler had to make a few quick dodges with it, but eventually won over and grabbed the blade. He forced it from the sergeant's hands and threw it down to the ground.
Skyler then grabbed the sergeant by the front of his armor and started giving him heavy punches right to the face. It looked like it would be over when Skyler started forming a ball of energy in his hand until Danny blasted Skyler in the back of the head from behind.
Skyler dropped the sergeant. The sergeant plummeted to the ground with a hard thud and remained motionless for a few seconds.
Skyler turned his attention back towards Danny. The fight had so far been a short one, but both of them were sweating rapidly now and were already getting tired.
The two enemies were now drifting higher and higher into the air and were fighting almost like they were being supported on free-range invisible cables. Danny's fists started lighting up in green and Skyler's in red. Together, the two of them started exchanging and dodging punches with streams of red and green left in the path of the fists.
After taking a few swings at Skyler, Danny finally just brought up his leg and kicked Skyler in the stomach. Skyler bent over and groaned, but still suspended himself in mid air. Danny took this opportunity to do some further damage. He grabbed Skyler by the hair and forcefully pulled his head up so they were staring face to face.
Once Danny and Skyler were staring at each other, Danny held open his hand and fired a strong blast of ectoplasmic energy right into Skyler's face. The blast was strong enough to knock Skyler back several feet.
"That's it, Skyler!" Danny yelled. "You're finished!"
Danny started charging towards Skyler, ready to slam into him. When Danny was a short distance away, Skyler fired a sudden punch and smashed the side of Danny's head with it.
Danny was blown to the side from the sudden blast, and Skyler was suddenly back in the fight. He ran over and started beating Danny up as viciously as Danny had been beating him.
"Correction," Skyler hissed when Danny was losing sense. "You're finished!"
Skyler got his own ball of energy charged, and just as he was ready to fire it, he got a knock on the back of the head. He turned around, and the police sergeant was standing there.
Once again, it was a three-person fight. Skyler was now in much more trouble, because he was in a more weakened state. His only advantage was that Danny and the sergeant were now significantly more tired, possibly making them an easier target.
Skyler was trying to be as fast as he could be, whether or not he had a lot of energy left afterwards. Danny and the sergeant were just randomly blasting. In other words, all of them were improvising and not really taking any strategy in trying to kill their enemy.
"Wait!" Danny yelled. "Let's beat Skyler with the same trick the last time we fought him!"
"You mean the ping-pong one?" asked the sergeant.
"Yeah!"
"Oh no, you don't!" Skyler yelled angrily. "You're not hitting me back and forth again! I'm on to your tricks, and I'm not gonna…"
His speech was interrupted by a hit in the face from Danny. "Dude, when will you ever learn to stop speaking in monologues?" Danny asked with a small smile starting to spread across his face.
Skyler turned towards him and looked like he was ready to kill someone. (Which was something he wanted to do) He flew over to the sergeant and flew behind him. That exact same moment, he put his arm around the sergeant's neck as hard as he could. Basically, Skyler was now using the sergeant as a human shield.
"You want to kill me?" Skyler said, sneering at Danny. "You want to hit me with one of your big blasts? Come on; try to hit me and not your friend!"
Danny's eyes had more fury in them than the ever had before. He didn't want to fire a blast because he didn't want to hurt the sergeant.
Danny fired the blast anyway. He either hit Skyler or he didn't, and not hitting him wouldn't do any good. Luckily for Danny, Skyler didn't think Danny would actually risk firing a blast and hurting the sergeant.
The blast hit Skyler right between the eyes, and he dropped the sergeant to the ground. (again) Now, it was just Danny and Skyler in the sky once again. The two of them, instead of fighting, had more of a standoff. They just circled around in the air, not once taking their gaze off one another.
Finally, the two of them just charged at each other and looked more like wrestlers. Both of them were unleashing their utmost fury. In the end, they both ended up grabbing onto each other and tried to slam each other into the ground, like a suicide move.
Danny and Skyler started hurtling towards the ground going over fifty miles an hour, and neither one of them would probably survive the impact of smashing into the cement hundreds of feet below.
When the two hit the ground, the impact was so huge it created a massive dust cloud and left a hole in the ground.
The dust cleared, and Skyler was the only one standing. He was breathing heavily as he folded his sharp wings up and began walking upright. He looked around for a little bit until he saw Danny lying on the ground, barely able to move.
Danny saw Skyler walking towards him, but couldn't move; he could only stare. When Skyler was only a few inches away, he put his foot on Danny's head.
"Like I said, stubborn to the end," Skyler hissed. He was laughing to himself on the inside about Danny not being able to move or do anything now. "And this, my friend, is the end for you. What do you think of that?"
Danny slowly looked over to the side and saw the sergeant's glowing sword a short distance away. Faster than anyone could blink, Danny reached over and picked up the sword. Even quicker than someone could process that, Danny thrust the blade right through Skyler's stomach, just like Skyler thought he had when he stuck a needle through Danny's duplicate earlier that day.
Now Skyler had shock written all over him. Danny found the strength to roll free of Skyler stepping on his head. He stood up and pulled the sword out of Skyler with a ton of force.
"I think if you're going to kill someone, just kill them and don't waste time talking about it," Danny said.
Skyler started screaming at the top of his lungs, and slowly, red smoke started to come from him. He gradually reverted back to his human form. It had been so long since Danny had seen Skyler in his human form, he forgot what it looked like.
Skyler was now on his knees and shaking violently, as if he was in the middle of the Arctic in beach clothes after just getting out of the water. His eyes were squeezed shut as he shook, until he finally opened them and stared at Danny.
"W…why?" Skyler hissed. His voice sounded like he now wanted Danny's sympathy. "You knew reaching the human's potential was my dream, and you took it from me. Why!"
"Dude, you brought this on yourself," Danny said, not giving Skyler the sympathy he thought he deserved.
"I was only trying to discover a person's true potential," Skyler tried to say defending himself. "W…why?"
Danny just continued staring at Skyler. Danny's face was now dirty and beat up from the fight, and his hair looked like it had just come out of a lawnmower. He didn't say anything.
"It was my dream…" Skyler said, still shaking violently on his hands and knees, not once taking his eyes off Danny. "My…dream…"
Suddenly, Skyler just plopped onto the ground. His shaking stopped, and it looked like he stopped breathing. After a few seconds, Danny started nudging Skyler on the shoulder, looking for any signs of movement. Skyler didn't show any.
It was at that point when Danny knew Skyler was dead.