"Ow!"
Slick winced in pain as Takumi went over some of his wounds.
"Please hold still…" The Paxerian sighed and chuckled some. "You are worse than Mihara was when it came to first aid."
"Yeah Slick, suck it up…" Rock chuckled as he stood there for support for his friend.
Slick nodded. "I know…I should just be grateful that Pysga didn't kill me." He gritted his teeth a little, but didn't move, as Takumi applied a few stiches, and treated his burns with some soothing liquid.
"Psyga…" Rock's eyes went wide. "Oh, I forgot all about that guy!…I sure hope Ducky was able to handle him."
Slick lowered his head some. "Yeah…I'd hate to think I was responsible for her demise because I wasn't good enough to stop the guy before she came in…"
A familiar voice suddenly called out, "Don't start blaming yourself just yet, Slick." As he turned to see Ducky walking back onto the ship, the Delta gear held at her side.
"Hey!" Rock called out, laughing happily, "Glad to see you survived!"
Slick nodded in agreement, sighing in relief as Ducky walked closer. "Yup, yup yup…" she giggled "And I don't think our egg-snatching friend is gonna be showing himself again for some time!"
"Ducky…" Slick nodded to Ducky. "Thanks…I owe you…"
"You don't owe me anything, Slick…" Ducky smiled. "I'm just glad to see you're ok…"
The two shared a silent moment, before Slick spoke up. "So…what's been going on since I was hauled off to this place?"
Ducky and the others began to explain what had just occurred with Littlefoot and Viras, as Littlefoot himself stood out in the middle of the valley, just staring out towards nowhere. The silence was finally broken by the approaching footsteps of his father.
"Littlefoot…" Bron spoke as he approached his son.
Littlefoot looked back at him sorrowfully. "I suppose Ali already told you…"
Bron nodded softly "She did…" he sighed "Littlefoot, don't beat yourself up like this…"
"She protected me so many times before, Dad…" He interrupted. "She even gave up her life for me. I never even had a chance to do that…and now who knows what's gonna happen to her…"
"Littlefoot…" Bron responded gently. "You're up against forces even she never had to face when you were younger. I think she'd understand that, and all she'd want is for you to fight them with everything you have, which I know you were doing, even when she was captured…no matter what happens, I'm sure she'd be proud of you…"
Bron comforted his son, as he slowly nodded, and looked up, his spirit lifting some. "You're right…I gave it my all…I always have…and I'll continue to do so…" He stood slowly and looked towards his parked bike, walking to it and pausing.
"What are you going to do now?" Bron enquired.
Littlefoot narrowed his eyes some. "I'm going to find Logia…"
"Why him?" Bron tilted his head. "Wasn't it General Balcus who took your mother?"
"Let the others take care of him…" Littlefoot responded, thinking of what Viras had tried to tell him about Logia. "I'll join them, but there's something I need to find out first…something important…"
As this was happening, Logia walked placidly to the front entrance of the ship, as Lucia came in, having discarded Ozzy elsewhere, and warning him to start giving her crew some results.
"Logia…" Lucia looked over to him, somewhat nervously, as he just stood there, silently. "What is it?"
Logia slowly approached her; with a page he printed from the computer, holding a belt in his other hand. He gently gave her the page.
"What is the meaning of this?" he asked her.
Lucia froze as she learned that he had indeed discovered the very data she had hoped to hide from him.
She didn't speak, though, as Logia broke the silence. "According to this, with a few simple adjustments, a creature with my unique body structure could easily use the Orga gear." He held up the belt, which he had in his other hand. "The Neo-Organism had no good reason to hide this from me, so I'm starting to wonder if somebody aboard this ship convinced it to…"
"Logia…" Lucia spoke. "You don't understand what kind of risk you're taking…"
"What risk?" Logia shot back. "The risk of being able to access great power, so we can finally put an end to this whole, ridiculous conflict with these primitive, and stubborn organics? Is this the kind of risk you speak of?"
"Listen to me, Logia!" Lucia responded firmly. "The Neo-Organism doesn't know your body as well as I do…I crafted your external and internal mechanics all by myself…your processors can't handle the kind of power the belt puts out!"
Logia shook his head. "Don't underestimate me, Lucia…"
"Logia!" Lucia asserted herself. "I need you to listen…Your processors can NOT handle Orga's power…if you use that belt, even once…you could overload your life support, your main battery, and kill yourself."
Logia listened to this closely, and held the belt up, looking it over. "Perhaps that's a risk I should be willing to take…"
Lucia shook her head. "No Logia…you still have so much left to do in this world…the Impactors still need a commander like you. You've helped our world make great strides against the organics, and firmly imprint us in the minds of everyone in the universe…our cause is in full force, and we need you…"
Logia thought this over for a moment, as Lucia looked on silently…wordlessly, the commander placed the belt on a nearby table.
After this quiet moment, the door opened, as General Balcus came in, carrying an unconscious Viras. Logia took one look, and nearly went ballistic!
"What the hell do you think you're doing, General!" He quickly withdrew his gun, aiming for the turncoat creature!
"Hold your fire!" Balcus quickly put Viras down and threw up his hands. "Hold your fire, damn it!"
"I should have known you'd go behind my back again!" Logia walked over and pushed Balcus out of the way, shoving his gun under the chin of the barely conscious Viras as he cocked it…
"Hello mother…" he growled.
"What?…" Lucia walked over to Logia's side. "Did you just say what I thought you said?"
"Yes…" Logia nodded. "I don't quite know how this happened, but it IS my mother, deep down in this body…"
Balcus scoffed. "Are you sure your head is on straight, Commander?"
Logia slowly turned his head to face him. "Believe me, General…if I really were going crazy, Lucia would be picking your parts up off the floor for talking to me like that…" He looked to Viras, and back up. "And what is the meaning of bringing her here anyway?…"
Lucia spoke up. "Logia, Balcus believes that if we take a closer look at what the Neo-Organism did to put her together, we may be able to find a better way of converting other species into Impactors…and increase our numbers."
Logia listened intently. "It's an interesting theory…" he aimed his gun at Viras again. "…But right now, I'm having a hard time deciding not to blow this miserable mother of mine into pieces…"
"Don't do it!" Lucia protested.
"Commander, please…" Balcus tried to calm things down. "…If you could just hold back your desire for vengeance for a little while…just a few hours with this specimen are all I need, to obtain all the necessary information for this experiment…after I've gotten what I need from her, you can do anything you'd like to satisfy your bloodlust…"
"Very well…" Logia decided finally, pulling his gun away and unloading it. "Be quick about this, General…"
"Thank you, Commander…" Balcus nodded, picking Viras up and carrying her to the main room of the ship, as Logia looked on with Lucia.
As Balcus brought Viras into the room, and placed her on a table, he noticed something odd…the same white glow from the middle that had come into the room earlier, only it was a bit fainter…
"What in the world is this?" Balcus said to himself, as he came to the spot where the Neo-Organism had stood previously. He tried to find out where this glow was coming from, as he reached down to adjust some wires at the platform.
"What's going on, General?" Logia enquired as he came into the room, seeing Balcus working on the platform instead of Viras, noticing the glow as well.
"I'm…not sure…" Balcus responded, curiously, fiddling with the wires. "I can detect little to no activity coming from the computer in this area…at least not enough to explain this odd glow coming from the platform."
After a few more minutes of tinkering, with his comrades watching, Balcus gave up for the moment. "Ah, I can't figure this out…I'll have to look at it later, after I've finished working on Viras…"
"You shall do no such thing, Impactor!" a strong, female voice called out as he turned and walked…
Balcus turned and looked at the platform, where the voice came from, as he, and Logia and Lucia stepped back, the glow getting stronger now as a completely new figure materialized in place of the Neo-Organism's spot.
The Figure was now in the shape of what looked like a young woman, completely white, with what appeared to be long, flowing white hair.
"How?…" Logia exclaimed. "How is this possible…"
The Figure looked to him and spoke in a distorted, feminine voice. "You made this possible Logia…when you shut down all of the original programming, you erased all the parts of me that created that awful being, the Neo-Organism…you purged me of him…"
"Oh?…" Logia responded. "You're some sort of separate entity now?…"
"Yes…" The figure responded. "I am the Neo-Spirit, and I am here to atone for all of the mistakes my predecessor has made until now…" she narrowed her eyes. "And I shall begin by preventing you Impactors from ever using me again!"
Before Logia could even respond, a defense gun came down from the wall and fired on the Impactors!
Logia ducked and ran over to Lucia's side as Balcus held up his shield to deflect the shots, as Lucia exclaimed "How is she doing that?…I thought you disabled all of those systems when you shut the whole thing down!"
"I did!" Logia exclaimed, as he rose to his feet and fired his gun, smashing a monitor as the shot exploded, hoping to take out something, anything that was enabling the Neo-Spirit to attack.
It was no use though, as the Neo-Spirit knew exactly how to rid herself of the Impactors…with a look, she opened a grate on the floor to the ventilation shaft, and with a single blast from a beam weapon on the wall, sent the trio flying into it, making them all tumble along the metal sides before falling out one by one onto the ground.
Logia scrambled to his feet as Lucia helped Balcus to his feet. Logia ran frantically towards the front door, only to bounce off the invisible force field that the Neo-Spirit had just activated!
"I shall no longer be used to bring death and suffering to the innocent!" Her voice echoed over the loudspeakers on the ship. With that, the rockets suddenly ignited, lifting the vessel off the ground!
"Come back here, you damned computer!" Logia shouted, taking out his gun and firing in frustration, each shot bouncing off the force field. As the ship finally left, he yelled out in frustration and dropped to his knees.
"Damn it all!"
"Are you all right?" Lucia asked, checking Logia's body.
"I'm fine…but we've lost the ship…we've lost Viras…" Logia shook his head. "We've lost everything…"
It was then that General Balcus slowly walked up. "Not quite, Commander…I was able to grab one thing before that creature kicked us out of her home…"
Logia looked over as Balcus slowly lifted the complete Orga gear in his hands.
The commander nodded slowly and went to take it from him, as Lucia slowly walked in front of him. "I've warned you, Logia…you know what could happen if you use that belt…couldn't we just take the time to find-"
"Time?…" Logia suddenly snapped at the Lieutenant. "TIME?…after creating two belts, and giving one to an imbecile?…After having all of the creatures that worked for us either killed or turned against us?…After the most powerful computer in the universe suddenly refuses to assist us, and kicks us out of it's ship?…you want TIME?…" The Commander was livid.
"Logia…" Lucia started, uneasily, before General Balcus cut her off, this time.
"I don't understand this…we have gone through so many missions, on so many different, and advanced planets…yet we can't deal with a few meddlesome organics on a primitive and backward planet, who somehow know how to use these high-tech suits!…tell me how that's possible, Commander!…"
Logia turned to Balcus and looked at him coldly… "My brother, General…"
"Your brother?…" Balcus tilted his head.
"Yes General…my brother…the one who leads these organics…he's been poison in my veins ever since I landed here! Ever serving as a reminder of the lowly, wretched way in which I grew up…but not for long…" he began to walk off, taking the Orga gear, and flipping open a panel on his wrist, making adjustments with the wires.
Lucia ran over to his side. "Please Logia…don't do this…you're being too rash in this decision!"
Logia was dead calm now as he adjusted his wires. "I have to do it, Lucia…he HAS to be eliminated…he's too strong for me to take down as I am now…I need Orga's power to do it…once he's gone, the rest will fall one by one…And to me, that's worth risking my own life for…"
Lucia saw little point in arguing from here, and simply nodded, hoping everything would turn out ok for the one she had raised and cared for since his first day of life, as he slowly walked off, and then teleported.
The Neo-Spirit's ship flew through the atmosphere of the planet, as Viras still lay on the table in the center room, slowly coming back to consciousness, grunting some. This got the attention of the form of the Neo-Spirt, as she slowly turned on the platform to the direction of Viras.
"I'm relieved to see you're still alive…"
Viras growled some and tilted her head.
The Neo-Spirit smiled. "Don't be troubled, creature…my brother is not around to harm you anymore."
Viras nodded slowly and stretched out, wondering what to do at this point as the Neo-Spirit reached out to the nearby table and gently stroked her.
"You poor thing…" she lamented. "Look at what he did to you…it's not right…but I'm going to make it right…"
With that she waved her hand over Viras' face, making her fall asleep almost immediately. "I'm going to fix you, Viras…I'm going to fix everything my brother did wrong…" She simply looked on as a glass enclosure came up from the table, surrounding Viras as she willed a computer panel to appear, getting to work…
It was at that point that Littlefoot was already on his way out to find Logia, in his Agito suit as he drove along the Mysterious beyond in his bike. He had not told anyone about this solo mission, but Takumi had noticed him leaving, and said he'd keep an eye on him just in case.
Agito rode with a fierce determination in his eyes, wanting to find his brother and face him in the worst way, not knowing the moment would come sooner than he expected…
He suddenly sensed Logia's blaster shot heading right towards him, as he turned sharply to avoid it, only to end up tumbling out of the vehicle as the blast hit a tree and obliterated it!
Burning tree-stars slowly began to rain from the sky as Agito rose and saw the familiar figure standing a few yards away from him, and then walking with his gun at his side.
"Brother!" Agito called out to the Impactor.
Logia growled as he raised his gun. "Don't you DARE call me that to my face, you flesh-job!"
He fired again, as Agito leapt out of the way, the blast taking out another tree!
Back in the Valley, A distraught Ali walked right up to Bron.
"He just left?…that's it?…"
Bron nodded slowly. "He said he was going after Logia for some reason."
Ali's eyes went wide, remembering the revelation of what was under his helmet. "He must have seen it then too…and he wants answers…" She sighed and sat down. "I just hope he can find them without getting himself killed."
Just as she was thinking about this, an explosion suddenly went off in the distance, followed by a fleeing family of duckbills. She looked up with Bron to see Ozzy, in his Psyga armor, flying on his jet-pack, as Cera, Rock, and Ducky all gathered around to see him.
"I've had it up to here with you leaf-gobblers!" Psyga yelled. "This time we play for keeps!…This time we don't stop until one of us is dead!" The four adolescents looked on fiercely, getting ready to change as Psyga growled to himself. "It's all for you, Strut…"
Ali ran and shifted into the form of Chalice, her bow at the ready, as Rock and Cera both made their belts materialize on their middles, changing into Leangle and Blade once more as Blade whipped out her sword, and Leangle readied his tri-bladed staff. Ducky looked on for a moment at Psyga, remembering their last fight as she entered 333 into her driver once more…"STANDING BY…" before she raised the device to her lips, spoke "Henshin" then slipped it into the side of her belt…"COMPLETE".
As she finished changing into Delta, she took out her gun and provided backup for Chalice, who was firing energy arrows in an attempt to bring down Psyga, shooting her own gun as Leangle and Blade were waiting with their weapons drawn.
As this was going on, Shorty was driving towards the scene as Gillis, trying to help out before something exploded in front of his bike, forcing him to bail out as he growled and rolled to his feet, looking and seeing General Balcus as he slowly put down his shield.
"Not so fast, Organic…I still have a bit of a score to settle with you!" Balcus stated, tapping his recently repaired face.
"Oh that…I almost forgot…" Gillis readied himself for the fight. "This time I'll remember to take out BOTH sides of your face…"
Balcus laughed some as he pointed his sword at Gillis. "You're a bold one, Organic…quite unique among your brethren…let's see if your skill still measures up to your tongue in sharpness!"
Balcus then launched himself at Gillis, bringing his sword down hard as Gillis rolled away and kicked the Impactor's shield hard, sending him back some as Gillis quickly extended a blade from his wrist, growling as he slashed for Balcus' side, only to be blocked by the hilt of the general's sword.
As this was going on, Psyga quickly evaded all of the shots being aimed at him on his jet pack, before swooping down and tackling Chalice, smashing her against a tree as she went down. Delta frantically tried to shoot at him, before he swooped over to her next and made her jump away with a series of shots from the machine guns on his handles.
Delta responded by clicking the device on her wrist…"START UP…" with a few seconds of revving, she took off with a great burst of speed , running all around Psyga as he flailed at her, trying to take her down and failing each time.
As he went down further to pursue the rushing Delta, Blade quickly nodded to Leangle, making him kneel down as she ran up and sprang off his back, leaping onto Psyga from behind! Psyga grunted and turned as he tried to shake Blade from his back, as she jammed her sword into his jet pack and held on with the hilt!
Chalice got back to her feet with Delta as Psyga focused only on Blade, trying to get her off his back, not realizing he was flying into the path of Leangle, who stood with his staff, ready to strike!
As he went through, Leangle swung the staff hard, slashing one of the main fuel cables on the jet pack! Blade jumped off and into Leangle's arms, as Psyga struggled with the controls of his out of control jet pack, which quickly ran out of fuel as he found himself tumbling down onto the ground hard, his engine dying as he suddenly saw Delta rushing towards him.
"3…2…1…" With the last few seconds of her speed, Delta smashed into Psyga with a flying kick, making him yell out as fell hard on his back, his jet pack smashing into pieces as Delta returned to her normal self…"TIME OUT…"
Delta was about to strike when a voice suddenly came on in her helmet.
"Ducky! Pull back!" Takumi yelled.
"Why?" Delta quickly asked.
"Shorty's been ambushed, and he needs backup!"
Delta tilted her head. "Can't you do it? Our hands are kind of tied!"
"I would, but I'm already on my way to assist Littlefoot."
"Ok…" Delta responded, as she looked over to Chalice. "Ali! Shorty needs our help, can you give me a hand?"
Chalice nodded. "Yeah…I think Cera and Rock have this guy under control anyway." She ran off with Delta as Leangle and Blade focused on Psyga, who quickly withdrew the batons from the wreckage.
"It's not over…It's not over!" Psyga yelled, as he readied himself for the fight.
Meanwhile, out in the mysterious beyond, Logia threw himself on Agito, rolling with him on the ground as he kicks him aside, withdrawing the blades on his wrist as Agito changed to his blue-armored form, taking out his double-bladed staff as they clashed right there.
"Why?…" Agito shouted. "Why are you doing this, brother?"
"I told you, DON'T call me that!" he growled as he kicked Agito away, slashing at him with his blades as Agito defended himself as well as he could, only to end up with a blade caught in his chest!
Agito yelled out in pain! The blade just barely missed his heart, as Logia grunted and kept the blade in the same spot, wanting to enjoy this moment as he slowly removed his helmet, letting Agito see his scarred face.
"Take a good look…" he sneered. "This is what she did…this is what your mother brought me to!"
Agito grunted "I…I don't know what you're talking about, really!…I always thought I was her only child!"
"Oh, don't tell me you didn't see me!" Logia growled again, making Agito scream in Agony as he twisted the blade in his chest a little. "That night…when the earth shook…the land fell…the world divided…the rain that fell…and fell…and fell…she was fighting a sharptooth that was chasing you…remember?…"
Agito looked up quickly, as he knew which night he was describing. "You…You were there?…"
Logia gave him a stern look. "Not only was I there, but that was the same night I almost died…while your mother was fighting the Sharptooth, I wanted her to protect me too…I approached her…and she knocked me away with her tail…I fell down a chasm…and hit…hard…at the bottom." He began to breathe heavily.
Agtio gripped Logia's arm. "Brother…listen to me…Mother would never do that intentionally…It was an accident, really…she was kind…and caring…really…that same night, she died moments after fighting off the Sharptooth…really Logia…that's OUR real mother…she's a protector!.."
"Maybe to YOU!" he roared as he twisted the blade again, making Agito howl in pain again. He looked down at him. "Do you know what it's like?…to live in emptiness…sadness…day after day?…to have no one to comfort you?…no one to rely on but yourself?…the loneliness that seems to last an eternity?…"
Agito panted in pain as he looked his brother defiantly in the eye. "Yes…I do…maybe you didn't hear me, but my mother DIED after fighting off that sharptooth…before I found all my friends, and discovered the valley, I felt just as lonely and without help as you, Logia…I felt the sting just as much as you have, believe me…We're the same Logia…we're the same…"
Agito made his helmet de-materialize, showing the strained face of Littlefoot underneath as he looked to his brother, holding his arm still as Logia's expression lightened ever so slightly…slowly, Logia withdrew the blade from Agito's chest, as he fell back and panted in relief, the wound quickly healing up.
Logia just looked down at him…suddenly, things weren't as black and white to him as they seemed. He had forgotten in his rage that Littlefoot was his own being, with his own feelings, and he realized that from looking into his eyes…part of him still wanted to kill his brother, but now, something deep inside, was telling him to pull back.
Meanwhile, Leangle and Blade were both dealing with Psyga, who was kicking and swiping like mad with his batons, as Leangle swung his staff, clashing his tri-blade with the batons as Blade slashed with her sword, catching on one baton as the three warriors clashed at once.
"You three-horns…" Psyga grunted. "Always so eager to clash…and always blindly so…" He suddenly fell back, smacking both Blade and Leangle with his batons in the back, as the force threw the two together, and knocked them out!
The two changed three-horns struggled to recover as Psyga extracted the blades on his batons, getting ready to put an end to them both. Until something hit him hard in the back!
Psyga grunted and turned to see a fully recovered Slick, as Garren, aiming his gun at him! "You again!"
"You're pretty good at catching others off guard!" Garren yelled. "Now let's what happens when you're on the other end of it!" With that he unleashed a barrage of energy bullets from his gun, as they all peppered Psyga's armor, making him smoke as he quickly started to try deflecting them with his batons.
Garren then put his gun away as his allies got back to their feet, leaping into the air and suddenly splitting into two images of himself once more, confusing Psyga as he swung for the Garren on the left, only to have it vanish as the real Garren on the right smacked him with a hard jump kick!
Psyga fell back and rolled on the ground, before getting back to his feet…"Bastard leaf gobbler!" he roared, as he scooped up his batons and charged head on towards the warriors, pressing the button on his driver…"EXCEED CHARGE"
His batons glowed as he charged, with Garren looking on as Blade charged up energy in her arm, making it travel to her sword as she readied herself for an attack…with Psyga still charging, ready to hit the stubborn female three-horn with his finisher…he brought up his arms…
And he was suddenly caught! Leangle had swung his staff towards Psyga out of his sight, and had caught both his arms in mid-air with it!
"Time to say goodbye, egg-stealer!" Blade yelled, as Garren whipped out his gun and shot Psyga Square in the chest! Psyga fell back with his arms in the air, as Blade charged in with her charged sword, slashing it horizontally as she caught the blade in Psyga's middle, slowly running it through his body as it sparked and made noise, as Psyga grunted and yelled out. "Aaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhh!…"
Blade ran through Psyga completely as she stopped and kneeled behind him, her sword to the side as Psyga froze up, his armor suddenly bursting into white flames as his power supply was completely severed, and now consuming him! He loosened, and stumbled, before he finally went limp.
"uh.."
A bang, and a bright flash of light came over him, as his complete form turned to grey dust, falling apart and crumbling until there was nothing but a big pile of the grey dust on the ground…Ozzy, and the Psyga gear, were no more…
At this moment, Delta, Chalice, and Gillis were effectively attacking General Balcus, who was guarding himself as best he could with his shield, before looking in the distance and seeing the smoldering remains of what had been Psyga.
"Damn it all!" Balcus growled. "I'm going to have to tell Lucia and the commander about this development." He deflected a few more attacks from Gillis before addressing him, Delta, and Chalice. "I'm afraid I'll have to cut this short…until next time, organics…" with that, he teleported away from the scene.
Out in the mysterious beyond, Logia stood still near Agito for the longest time, pondering whether he should kill his brother right now, or really believe what was told to him…until a voice called out.
"Logia…"
He turned to see Lucia walking towards him. "Why are you hesitating?" she looked to Agito, and back to him. "Isn't this why you came here?…to rid yourself of this organic?…why not do it now?"
"He's…my brother…" Logia simply responded, hesitantly.
"Yes…the only other spawn of your mother…the one who tried to take you out of her life…remember?" she looked to Agito again, and back to Logia once more. "I don't know what he's told you, but ignore it! Remember, he's an organic! His mouth is filled with lies, and his heart is full of deceit…remember…if it wasn't for me and the impactors, you wouldn't be standing here now! I cared for you…I took you in…I saved you…Logia…I made you…not your mother, and certainly not him!…"
Logia began to tense up as Agito slowly stumbled to his feet. The commander shook some as he remembered once more…the rain…the lightning…the fighting…his plummet…and his awakening as an impactor…
"aaaaaahhh….aaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
Logia's memories tortured him once more, as he lashed out at Agito, extracting his blade. "DIE!"
Agito felt the adrenaline rush through him and put up his right hand…and caught the blade!
Logia looked to see that Agito had suddenly shifted to his muscular "Burning" form…but something else was happening…as Agito held the blade, his belt began to glow once more, an unearthly shine emanating from his body as it consumed even the flames that covered his burning form…he twisted his hand, and instantly shattered Logia's blade!
Logia was thrown back by this, as Agito breathed calmly, and shifted…right before their eyes, the red armor of his Burning form becoming a bright white, lined with red. Agito assumed his final form…his ultimate incarnation…his "Shining" form!
"Another form, eh?" Lucia readied her blade weapon. "No matter…even you can't handle two impactors at once!"
She ran in to attack, before something came from out of nowhere and hit her, sending her flying! She tumbled and looked up to see Takumi in his Faiz gear, flying in as he already had gone into Axcel mode, firing his gun once more as Lucia dodged it this time.
"He's not gonna have to, Lucia!" Faiz yelled down to her.
"Blasted Paxerian!" Lucia growled to herself. "Where's Psyga to help me with this?"
Balcus, who had just teleported onto the scene, had heard Lucia as he walked up behind her. "I'm afraid the Psyga gear has been destroyed, and it's wearer terminated."
Lucia lowered her head. "Damn it all…I should have known I could have picked a better candidate…" She then got back up and readied her blade weapon, as Faiz zoomed down for a closer shot.
Logia then tried to fire at Agito, only to have him raise his hand and deflect the shot, as if it were nothing. Logia grunted in frustration and fired again…Agito not only blocked it with his hand, but also had it ricochet over to General Balcus and hit him hard! Balcus grunted and tumbled down a hill, knocked out for the moment!
Lucia clashed with Faiz, who came down and changed out of Axcel mode to fight on the ground, as Logia fired and fired, unable to get a shot to hit Agito in his new Shining form.
"Listen to me…" Agito spoke, his voice slightly distorted by this form. "Look at yourself…you're not one of them…"
Logia just stood there, unable to come up with a response as he looked over at Faiz battling with Lucia, wielding his sword.
"I may not be able to shoot you, brother…but there's more than one way to hurt you!" Logia growled as he whipped out his gun and aimed it at Faiz, who was clashing blades with Lucia!
Agito made a move to try to stop Logia, but his trigger finger was too quick…he got the shot off, as it went over and smacked into Faiz's hand! Faiz was caught off guard by the shot, as Lucia twirled her blade, and promptly sliced off his entire arm! Faiz quickly changed back to Takumi, as he screamed out in pain and clutched at the area where his arm used to be…
"Takumi!" Agito yelled out, as he turned and gave Logia a hard backhand, knocking him off his feet as he ran over to Lucia, who stood with her blade raised, ready for a killing blow, as he withdrew his own blade weapon.
Logia looked up from the ground groggily, as Agito knocked Lucia away from Takumi, only to have her kick him hard as he fell onto his back on the ground. Lucia grunted and raised her weapon high, yelling out as she ran towards the downed Agito.
In that moment, however, Agito had found Faiz's discarded sword within his reach…in the heat of the moment, he promptly picked up the blade and threw it…making the blade go straight, as it quickly Impaled Lucia through the middle of her chest!
At that moment, time slowed down for Logia, as all sound faded as well, his own heartbeat the only audible sound, as he slowly stood up and watched…Lucia, the only being who had ever been there for him, who had seen him through all the good and bad times in his life, went limp, and collapsed to the ground, dead…
Logia's expression turned to one of shock and horror…
"LUCIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
He ran over to the dead Lieutenant, his mind focused only on her, as Agito picked up the wounded Takumi, and the Faiz gear, driving off with them in tow on his bike…
General Balcus was back on his feet, just staring at the sight of Logia holding Lucia's lifeless body…
The memories all ran through his head once more…she had been there for him from day one…she had fed him, and given him warmth…she had watched out for him, and even sacrificed her reputation among the Impactors to keep him alive…but now she was gone…now he truly was all alone…
With this realization, tears began to stream down Logia's scarred face, as he cried for the first time in what seemed like ages…he cradled Lucia's dead body in his arms, as he looked down at the discarded Orga gear, which he was waiting for to use at the right moment…
"Lucia…Lucia…" he finally managed to say…"I'll never forget all you did for me…and as the creator as my witness…I'll make damn sure that none of them forget it too…"
With that, he stood, and put his helmet back on, throwing the Orga gear over his shoulder as he lifted Lucia's lifeless form, carrying her off as General Balcus wordlessly followed him…
Meanwhile, on Takumi's ship, a monitor suddenly flickered to life near the cryo-tube that contained Mihara's body…the image of the Neo-Spirit appearing!
"All that must be done, shall be done, by me…" she looked towards the cryo-tube. "You were robbed of your life, when you still had much more to do…that was a huge error…but I shall now correct this error, as your comrade is in a moment of great need…"
With that, a bizarre substance suddenly began to pump through the cables that went into the cryo tube, making the area begin to glow…