Unmei Force Shattered Heroes: Creative Power
Chapter 8: To the Skies!
The group found themselves scaling a mountain of destructible material, as they saw that multiple enemies were coming from all directions, prepared to attack them.
"Good to see you again, you three." Savant greeted the trio. "While you were gone, the Cybers have started a large-scale assault on a major city."
"Ah! So that's why they grabbed that 'ancient weapon' from the castle back there…" Boki remarked.
"Indeed. However, it looks like we have a more immediate problem to worry about…" Savant agreed. "They've already begun their first strike, deploying massive air support from a low-orbit satellite. Stop those troops before they reach the city!"
"You got it! We won't let them win!" Popol exclaimed, before he was slightly unbalanced by the great gust of wind that was blowing on the mountain. "Woah, that's some strong wind!"
"Don't worry, I can help you, Popol!" Heiwa exclaimed, before she then grabbed Popol, as she used her flight to move into the air, deftly moving through the winds, as Boki was shocked at what she was seeing.
"Wait, you can fly like Uncle!?" Boki exclaimed. "No fair!"
"Don't worry, I'm sure that you'll be able to get a power that can allow you to do the same." Heiwa smiled back, before a large white winged power-up dropped from her, as if the words prompted the action. "...Oh, look, it seems that your wish is granted!"
Boki immediately grabbed the power-up, as she immediately levitated in the air, as she began to fly around wildly, excited at the new power she got!
"This is awesome!" Boki exclaimed, before a projectile pelted her, causing her to tumble slightly through the air. "Ow! Right, I forgot that there are bad robots to take care of here! Let's get them!"
The trio immediately began to fly across the stage, as they began to destroy enemies, as Popol managed to get a mix of Explode, Light and Quick to give his spear a blue aura, as each blow created a massive chain explosion on any enemies he hit, clearing the area of enemies quickly.
They soon flew up to the next area, as they found that there were airships above them, with ordinance on their decks, with enemies patrolling around them for defense.
"I'm guessing this is some of that air support you were talking about, right?" Boki asked.
"Absolutely. These small airships are carrying high-powered explosives." Savant answered back. "Your mission is to-"
"YEAH! Time to blow up some airships!" Boki exclaimed, as she used her flight to get towards the first airship, as she destroyed the enemies around it, acquiring a Remote power-up, which she used to detonate one of the airships using a remote bomb, as it fell into flaming scrap.
Popol and Heiwa quickly followed, as Heiwa dropped Popol on one of the airships, as he cleared the airship deck of enemies, before he then fired an explosive shot using the Explode power-up in order to hit the main ammo dump on the airship, blowing it up as well, just as Heiwa used her fire to blast the last airship from a distance, as her fire-ball managed to directly hit one of the explosive piles on the airship, causing a violent chain reaction.
Popol jumped before the explosion reached him, as Heiwa caught him with both hands on his legs, causing Popol to be upside down for a moment. Heiwa quickly realized the problem, as she set Popol on a nearby platform, as both of them looked at each other for a moment, before turning away, slightly embarrassed about the situation, before they continued their way up with Boki.
"How much higher are we supposed to climb, meow?" Boki complained.
"As I mentioned before, the troops are being deployed from a low-orbit satellite. I trust you'll find a way to clear the planet's gravity soon enough." Savant answered back.
"Wait a minute, I have to go to SPACE!?" Boki panicked, as Popol and Heiwa paled slightly as well.
"Wait, how are we going to breathe in space then!?" Heiwa exclaimed back.
"Don't worry, you'll all find some way to circumvent that issue." Savant cryptically stated.
The group went further into the skies, as there were more enemies in their path, with some barrier drones that created make-shift platforms for the three to traverse across as solid ground to get their feet upon to recover themselves from prolonged flight, as well as more enemies. Using Tornado power-ups to throw enlarged tornados that tore the enemies ahead, the group hopped their way up, until they reached a large floating garden in the sky, which seemed to be filled with more enemies.
They arrived at the garden, as there were more of the seed drone robots, and some of the voodoo dolls, as well as the usual Exchikkes, as Boki acquired the seed-drone power-up to help take care of the enemies around the area, as the energy-made drones made short work of the new enemies.
Eventually, they reached the top of the garden, as it was another square arena, as a Yoggval appeared before them, scanning the area around them, before its energy turned green.
"Seriously, how many of these things are there!?" Popol asked, beginning to be irritated at how often they had to fight a Yoggval.
Polymorphic Invader
Yoggval (Atmosphere Mode)
The group began to fight the Yoggval,as it began to ram them with a cyclone aura, which they dodged easily, as they were feeling suspicious with how the robot was not attacking so aggressively than its other variants.
However, their suspicions would be answered, when the Yoggval charged up energy and created a massive cyclone around it, as it hit the ground, causing the winds to blow the group up into the air above the sky garden, as Heiwa managed to right herself and catch Popol, in upright position by the hands this time, while Boki managed to land on one of the moving platforms created by a drone moving across the area.
The Yoggval then began to ram more quickly than it did before, using the strong winds blowing around the area to its advantage, occasionally dropping wind bombs that burst into green cyclones that crossed the entire area, and even unleashing a circular burst of cyclones with a flap of its wings. However, Boki managed to acquire the power-up it dropped, as it gave her the same power as the AC robots back then were able to perform, as she was launching uppercut after uppercut at the moving Yoggval, while Popol and Heiwa attacked from afar using their own projectiles.
Boki managed to finish the fight off with a double uppercut, as it rend the robot in two. Boki then absorbed the remains that it left behind, as she then charged up power, before launching a massive cyclone that propelled the group further up into the air, breaking through the atmosphere, as they could see the planet surface below them.
"Woah, we're that far up now?" Popol remarked, as the planet was a topaz-yellow colour. "This planet is quite beautiful… kinda like a gemstone."
"Yeah…" Boki remarked, before she then looked around the area, noticing that there were more enemies ahead of them. "But we're not there yet, we have to keep going!"
The group began their ascent towards the area, as the power-ups they had actually gave them some ability to breathe through space, and ward off any other side effects of being in space. As they made their way up, they noticed that there were laser drones that seemed to be connected to other enemies by a wireless transmission, firing back whenever the group attacked whatever target the drones were connected to, with a red laser. Not only that, but there were purple bipedal robots that wielded large green rail-guns that seemed to be able to charge up larger lasers of their own with projected reticles. However, the group were able to avoid the mass of lasers, and take down the enemies carefully, clearing their path to the satellite, as they entered it with no problems at all.
"Excellent work, you three! You've managed to board the satellite." Savant congratulated the group. "Now you just have to sabotage as much of this place as you can. Try using the ship's artificial gravity systems to your advantage!"
The group found said artificial gravity systems quite easily, as they were devices that were triggered by the energy of their projectiles, as some would lower the gravity of the entire area, others increase the gravity, and some return gravity to normal levels. The group used them to get through higher areas, and use the high gravity to smash through barricades using powerful drilling strikes, as Heiwa picked up a mix of Tornado, Plasma and Lightning, that gave her the ability to call down orange lasers that blasted the enemies to pieces.
The next area gave them a new kind of power-up, which was represented by a purple podium with horns, as it gave the group the ability to jump rapidly through the air without limit, as they combined that with the use of high gravity, in order to get enough height to land a slamming blow that got them to the lower section of the area, where they encountered the enemies, while using the ability to infinitely jump to weave through the enemy attacks, as Popol even managed to crush the last few enemies with a flaming slamming strikes with his spear.
They moved to the next area, as the intercoms in the area buzzed online, as if someone was prepared to speak through them.
"PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT: PETS ARE NOT PERMITTED ABOARD THE SPACE STATION." A mechanical voice was heard, with no identifiable gender to it. "PLEASE PLACE ANY AND ALL STRAY CATS, FOXES AND WOLVES INTO AN APPROPRIATE WASTE RECEPTACLE FOR IMMEDIATE DISPOSAL."
"'Stray cat'!? I'm NOT a pet, meow!" Boki exclaimed with outrage.
"And who's a stray fox either!?" Heiwa remarked with an angry pout.
"Okay, that robot is going to get smashed to pieces!" Popol snarled.
"Stay calm, you three. It's best not to take a robot's insults too seriously." Savant advised the group.
"Doesn't matter, I'm personally trashing that machine myself!" Popol answered back.
They encountered a new kind of enemies, which looked like floating digital clock faces with toothy grins, and a glowing cape behind them, with a white ring around their back with red and blue marks, as they emitted two kinds of auras, one that was red and sped up time for the group, and one that was blue and slowed time for the group.
"What is all of this…!?" Popol exclaimed, as he was hit by a large gear from one of the enemies due to being in slowed time, as they teleported away from the group, changing the colour of their auras.
The group managed to destroy the first few enemies, as they dropped a large gear power-up, which gave Boki a golden hue, as the group were able to throw large gears of their own as well, which passed through walls and even honed slightly on their enemies. As they defeated the enemies using this new power, Heiwa noticed something.
"Say… is there something odd with me, or does some of these enemies have familiar powers…" Heiwa pondered.
"If this is the kind of world you live in… I bet it's interesting, meow." Boki commented back.
"Of course it is! Everyone has all kinds of special powers where I come from, but yours would be one of the greatest!" Heiwa beamed a smile in return.
"R-Really? Well, I'm glad to hear that." Boki blushed slightly.
The next are they went into, they encountered more of the time manipulating robots, except one of them in the current room dropped a large power-up that resembled a blue clock, as Heiwa picked it up, as her brush was covered in a aqua-blue aura. As soon as Heiwa used the power, reality itself began to invert in color, as the group could hear the sound of a clock slowing down, as everything around them began to grind to a halt, except for themselves.
"Wait… is this like Sakuya's power!?" Heiwa exclaimed. "So this is what it feels like…"
Heiwa wasted little time after those words to take care of the enemies, as the attacks left them with only marks of damage wherever she stuck, with the same happening for both Popol and Boki. By the time that reality turned back to normal, and time resumed as normal, every enemy exploded in shocking synchronization,
The group quickly made their way to the next few rooms in the area, as they managed to acquire another time-stop powerup, using it to stop the traps that were barring their path, and destroying the enemy with the key to the next room, as they used the remaining time to take care of the remaining enemies, and head over to the next area.
"ERRANT FELINE, VULPINE AND LUPINE SPOTTED EXITING THE AUXILIARY POWER STATION." The robotic voice declared. "DEPLOY THE CRAB MODULE IMMEDIATELY!"
As soon as the group entered the area, they found that the 'crab module' in question were a bunch of crab robots with laser-firing claws, as Popol scoffed.
"You call that a proper defense!? Your other robots were a bigger threat than some laser-firing crabs!" Popol taunted the robotic voice, as he pierced through them with his spear, as Boki picked up a Mirror power-up in order to reflect any lasers from the larger laser-firing robots, and other kinds of enemy firepower, clearing the area fairly quickly and with ease.
"ALERT! THE NUMBER OF UNINTELLIGENT ANIMALS IN THE VICINITY CONTINUES TO BE A NUMBER OTHER THAN ZERO." The robotic voice declared. "INITIATE DEFENSIVE PROTOCOLS! APPLY ADDITIONAL 'LASER BEAMS' TO 'ANIMALS' UNTIL 'ANIMALS' CEASES TO FUNCTION!"
"Ugh! When will I get to shut that stupid thing up!?" Boki growled in irritation.
"You won't have to wait much longer. You're getting close to the satellite's central computer." Savant answered back. "Once we've crippled this flying base, we can focus on protecting the city from the ground units below!"
The group entered a large room filled with large purple Tasbehts that have been covered by squads of laser drones, all in different rooms scattered across the area, as the group split up to take care of the targets quickly, as Boki quickly used a time-stop power-up, in order to halt the enemies and prevent the laser drones from countering back and dealing some harm upon them, as by the time the ability ran out of power, the entire room was clear of any targets, as the path into the central computer was opened for them.
When they reached the central computer room, they found that it was a arena with platform, as there was a combination robot before them, with several Dynamo Krijyls, several gravity generators, some rail-gun robots, and some shield drones, as the merging began.
"INTRUDERS HAVE INFILTRATED CENTRAL COMMAND ROOM. SYNTHESIZING BATTLE BODY…" The voice declared, before the merging was completed, creating a large machine that looked like a Dynamo Krijyl that was turned into a satellite, with rotating energy panels on the sides, a large satellite dish on top of it, and a laser cannon on the bottom.
Cosmic Decimator
Burst Krijyl
"I hope you're prepared, because you're going to be in so many pieces when we're done!" Popol growled, just as the large robot summoned several laser drones, before firing its laser onto the ground, tracing it along to try and hit the group. The group first took care of the drones, before then firing and striking at the flying satellite robot, as they got a mix of Plasma and Bounce from the enemies it was summoning to its aid, as they fired bouncing lasers that hit all around the robot, damaging parts of it.
Suddenly, the robot then flew high into the area, avoiding the group's attacks, before charging a massive laser, indicated by the reticle in the group's vision, as the large beam grazed by the group, just as the group watched the machine lower down to a range they can continue fighting at.
"'ANIMALS' RESIST CURRENT TACTICS. SWITCHING TO HIGH MOBILITY MODE." The machine declared, before it then summoned more enemies, firing bursts of lasers across the room, and even creating beams that streaked horizontally across the room.
The group managed to deal even more damage to the robot, as Popol cut down several of its energy panels, causing the damage to start emitting sparks across the giant machine.
"SYSTEMS LOSING POWER. INITIATING FINAL DEFENSE MEASURES." The machine declared, before it then summoned a giant blue shield that blocked the group's attack, as well as increasing the gravity in the area, making it hard for the group to evade its frantic attacks.
However, at the same time, the group used the increased gravity to initiate falling slam attacks that dealt enough damage to whittle the shield down from a healthy blue towards a angry red, before Boki then slammed through it, as the shield exploded, and parts of the machine were beginning to fail from the fire spreading across its body.
"Alright, on three!" Boki ordered Popol and Heiwa, as she then began to absorb power from her surroundings. "One…! Two….!"
Boki then suddenly changed the gravity of the area to low, as the group were sent high up into the air, before she then turned the gravity back to high. "...THREE!"
The trio slammed into the machine as one, as their strikes dug right through the machine, coming through the other side, leaving behind three gaping holes through it, as the group continued to break through the entire floor of the area, drilling through the satellite itself, before they fell through space itself, as Boki was using her temporary gravity powers to stabilize their fall, as flames licked around the area around them, with Heiwa directing them as far away from the group as possible.
When they looked back at the satellite, they watched it explode into space debris with a mighty boom, as the trio cheered.
"Up yours, robot!" Popol hooted at the destroyed satellite.
"Right, next up is the city! Now that they don't have their air support, we can finally get to saving the people in the city." Boki remarked, as they could see the city below them. "Here we go, get ready to come in like a crashing bomb!"
