Chapter 13

Kill the Mad Scientist

Morning was now rising over the hideout of Night Raid, as the members of Night Raid woke up and made their way to the meeting room, all expect for two. Once Akame and the others were in the meeting room they saw they were missing some members, mainly Leone and Max for some strange reason.

"Where are those two, they should be up by now" Mine said

"They probably overslept, I mean I would do that too" Sheele added

"Not exactly" a voice said

They then turned to the voice, to see Steel floating in with a tired look on his face.

"What do mean by that?" Akame asked the Ultralink

"Go and see" Steel said causing Akame to raise her eyebrow

She then turned her attention to Lubbock.

"Can you go and wake them up please?" Akame asked

"Yeah sure" Lubbock said walking off to Max's room

Once he was in front of his door, he then grabbed the doorknob and twisted it and flung the door open.

"Okay Max, wake up it's time to …" Lubbock started to say until when he looked into room he then froze at what he saw.

In the bed was Max, but he was not alone because sleeping next to him with her arms around his torso was Leone! Lubbock looked in shock with his mouth hanging open seeing the blonde bombshell spooning the Turbo hero.

"What the heck!" Lubbock shouted causing the two to wake up with a jolt

"Hey, turn down the noise will you" Leone said sitting up

Leone then turned her attention to the shocked Lubbock, whose eyes were as large as dinner plates.

"Oh hey Lubbock, what's up?" Leone asked oblivious to the shocked look on Lubbock's face

"Um…Akame…wants you…two…in the meeting…room" He said slowly trying to comprehend what he saw.

"Okay then, we'll be their shortly" Leone said as Lubbock slowly walked away

Groaning from the sudden wake up call, Max then rubbed his eyes, getting the last bit of sleep from his eyes.

"Morning babe, how are you?" Leone said hugging Max from behind and gave him a peck him on the cheek making him blush.

"Good morning Leone, I'm good, who were you talking to?" Max asked

"Oh, it was just Lubbock" Leone said nonchalantly

"Oh…Wait what?!" Max shouted realizing what she said

"Yeah, he came to wake us up; he must have seen us sleeping together" Leone said causing Max to let out a groan.

"Great, so now what?" Max asked wondering what the team will think of this

"Ah don't worry about, I'm sure they will understand" Leone said snuggling up to Max with a reassuring smile

Max then smiled back and leaned into Leone's hug.

"Alright then, I trust you" Max said

"As you should" Leone said with a cheeky smile

Leone and Max then got out of the bed and made their way to the meeting room, where they found the team all waiting for them, with Lubbock looking downcast.

"Hey guys, sorry we're late!" Leone shouted

Steel floated up to Max and gave him a cocky look.

"So, enjoy your time alone~? Steel asked with teasing tone

"Whatever Steel" Max said rolling his eyes at the Ultralinks antics.

"No need to apologize, but I must ask why were in Max's bed last night" Akame asked

"Why, isn't it normal to sleep with one's boyfriend" Leone said making everyone gasp

"BOYFRIEND!" the team shouted minus Akame

"I was wondering when that was going to happen" Akame said with a smile

"Huh, yeah" Max said scratching the back of his head in embarrassment.

Suddenly Lubbock then grabbed Max by his shoulder and started shake him in fury.

"YOU LUCKEY PUNK, WHO DARE YOU GET THE HOTTEST GIRL IN THE HIDEOUT TO BE YOUR GIRLFRIEND. YOU JERK!" he shouted

Leone then grabbed Lubbock by the shirt and pulled him away from Max.

"Do that again, and I'll break your wrist" Leone said shutting Lubbock up.

Once everyone calmed down from the shock of it all, they finally got down to business.

"I got word that the Jaegers and Tatsumi will be heading to train with Danger Beasts today, which could make this the perfect time to get him back" Akame said as everyone nodded

"So how are we going to do this?" Steel asked

"Simply, we'll split into three teams of two and search the nearby area and find Tatsumi, knowing him he will try to slip away and that will be our chance" Akame explained

"Alright then, so what are the teams?" Mine asked

"I call Max!" Leone said pulling said person closer to his embarrassment

"Um, I have no complaints" Max said, which caused Akame to sigh

"Very well then, the rest of teams will be Me and Lubbock and Mine and Sheele" Akame said surprising her

"I'm going?" Sheele asked

"It's only recon, so there probably won't be too much danger, just stay close to Mine" Akame said getting a nod from everyone.

"Well in that case" Max said as his helmet appeared.

"Woo hooo!" Leone shouted into the sky

Currently Max was in his flight mode with him holding Leone close to him, she then wrapped her arms around his neck and looked loving at him causing him to smile underneath his helmet.

"Is this too fast for you, I can slow down if you want?" Max asked

"Wait, you can go faster?" Leone asked sounding hopeful

"Well, yeah" Max replied

"Then punch it!" she shouted

With that Max then increased the speed making Leone shout with joy as they flew over the forest. Leone then calmed down as she came down from her little adrenaline rush.

"Okay, but seriously we should slow down so we can find Tatsumi" Leone said

"Yeah, right" Max said as he slowed down

They then flew over the forest area, using a combination of Leone's beast mode enhanced senses and Steel's tracking to find there comrade, but unfortunately they were coming up empty.

"Aw man where is he?" Max said looking over the area

"Don't know, I'm not catching his scent anywhere" Leone said

"I'm also not detecting Incursio's energy anywhere either" Steel added making the two sigh

Max then looked down and spotted a stream down below.

"Why don't we take a break, and get a drink from that stream?" Max suggested

"Good idea" Leone said as they descended.

Once they landed, Max then changed back to base mode and disengaged his helmet as they got down and started to drink from the stream.

"Ha, much better" Max said

"Yep, nothing like a nice drink of water too…" Leone started to say until her cat ear twitched a little as she heard something.

"Leone, what's up?" Max asked wondering why his cat girlfriend went silent

"What is it? Hairball stuck in the throat?" Steel joked but Leone payed in mind

"I hear someone coming" she said getting the Turbo duo's attention

Quickly Max reengaged his helmet as took up a fighting stance.

"Where are they coming from? How many?" Max asked

"Just one by the sounds of their footsteps and seemed to be coming from down the stream" Leone said getting into stance as well.

Suddenly a figure then burst from the tree line and landed across the stream as Max and Leone turned to the newcomer. At first glance it almost looked like Tatsumi in his Incrusio Armor, but when they got a better look they saw it wasn't at all. Instead of silver, the armor was a darkish blue and instead of cape it had a blue shield of sorts on its back and had a visor on the helmet.

The armored person then turned to Max and Leone as they stood at the ready.

"Who are, where did that Night Raid scum go, the one wearing Incursio?!" He shouted at them

"Sounds like Tatsumi gave this guy the slip, but why does his armor look like Incursio?" Steel said inside their link.

"Sorry, haven't seen anyone like that" Max said causing the armored figure to look at him.

He then saw the logo on his chest and recognized it from Seryu's outfit.

"Wait, I know that symbol, your that "Max Steel" guy who beat general Esdeath!" he shouted pointing an accusing finger at him.

"Why yes I am, glad you know my handiwork" Max said with a bit of smugness which made the armored figure even more furious.

"You're going to pay for what you did! You should know my Imperial Arms Grand Chariot is much stronger than that of Incrusio!" he said

"And yet, he still got away" Max added, angering the armored figure more

"Uh, Max you sure you want to antagonize this guy?" Leone asked worried for her lover's safety

"Don't worry, I'll finish this fight quick, we need to get back finding our friend" Max said being careful not say Tatsumi's name in front of the armored fighter.

Hearing this Leone gave a quick chuckle and deiced to let Max handle the fight.

"Alright, have it babe" Leone said steeping back

"You plan to face me yourself; I defeated many danger beasts and braved many storms on the ocean." The armored figure said with a bit of pride

"Oh yeah, well how about a cosmic storm!" Max shouted back and crossed his arms

"GO TURBO, ROCKET"

The infamous flash of blue light appeared again, once it died down it revealed Max's new mode. The armor was now almost completely black now with bits of white with a blue dome over his helmet, with four huge thrusts of his back that seemed to be letting off a blue smoke of sorts.

"Is this supposed to scare me!" the armored figure shouted

He then jumped into the air and started to head back, down with his foot out to deliver a diving kick, but then two of Max's thrusters then turned forward, right above his shoulder, and started to glow blue as they were charged with Turbo Energy.

"Lock and Load!" Steel shouted

The thrusters then fired two large beams of energy that slammed into the attacker, sending him flying over the forest as they carried him all way to a mountain in the distance making a huge boom.

The beams then ceased as the thruster returned to their original place. Staring at the power Max just showed Leone then clapped her hands making Max to take a bow.

"Well done Max. That was insane!" Leone said making Max blush underneath the helmet

"Well, I aim to please" Max said in joking manner

Leone then giggled at this and looked at where the fighter was sent.

"Is he …?" Leone started to ask but they knew what she was thinking

"Naw, I lowered the energy output, it didn't kill him, but he may wake up with a bit of a headache" Steel said as Max changed back to base mode.

"Well since that is over, we better get back to looking for Tatsumi" Max said as Leone nodded at this

Suddenly a red flare was sent up catching the two's attention.

"That was Akame's flare, she must have found Tatsumi!" Leone said with smile

"Alright, then I would say that is a job well done" Max said

"Now all that is left to do is return home" Steel added

"Right, GO TURBO, FLIGHT"

Max then changed to Flight mode and lent a hand to Leone.

"Shall we my dear?" Max said in suave voice

She then took his hand wrapped her arms around him with a flirtatious look.

"Why of course, my knight in shining armor" Leone replied making Steel groan

"I'm still here you know" he said making them chuckle

"Ah, don't be such a stick in the mud" Leone said flicking Steel lightly

Max then took off into the sky and headed back to base.

Once back, everyone then welcomed back Tatsumi after he was patched up from his fight with Wave, apparently the guy wearing Grand Chariot. Once everyone calmed down, they then sat down in one of the rooms as Tatsumi told him what he learned about the Jaegers.

"And that's everything I learned about the Jaegers and their weapons" Tatsumi concluded while everyone mulled over what he said.

"Gah, so everyone in that group can use Imperial Arms, man this blows" Leone said

"I still can't believe that Kurome is one of them" Akame said gripping the edge of her skirt

"I still can't believe you have sister Akame" Max said

"Also why didn't you bring her with you?" Steel asked

"I tried but she decided to stay with the Empire, in her eyes I'm just another traitor to the Capital" Akame said making Max and Tatsumi frown at this.

"So since you got an up close and personal look at those guys, what's your opinion of them?" Mine asked

"Well if were talking one on one, I don't think any of the Jaegers are tougher then us" Tatsumi answered until his face morphed into frown, "But Esdeath I've never seen anything like her before, as I am right now, I don't think I'll be much of match against her" Tatsumi said

"Esdeath may have incredible power, but she still has one weakness" Akame said getting everyone's attention.

"And what might that be?" Steel asked though he might already know what it is

"She's alive, her heart is beating, meaning I can kill her" Akame said holding her sword in front of her, "besides we now know she is not invincible, since Max and Steel beat her" Akame said casting a glance to them.

Everyone was then silent, already thinking about the coming battle until Leone broke the silence with a cough.

"Well we can't just sit around here and worry about something like that yet" Leone said

She then got up from her seat on the couch and walked off, only to return seconds later with a big crate of alcoholic beverages with a big smile.

"How about we all celebrate the return of our friend Tatsumi!" She shouted getting different reaction from everyone.

"Heck Yeah!" Lubbock shouted

"Um, sure I guess" Tatsumi said feeling awkward about this

"No thank you, I'd rather sleep" Akame said walking off

"Um, no thanks, I actually don't like drinking" Sheele said as she walked off as well

"Count me out" Mine said walking out

Leone then went over to Max wrapped her arm around Max, making him look a little uncomfortable.

"So Max, what about you?" she asked making Max frown

"I don't know Leone, maybe laws are different here, but back home anyone under 21 can't have alcohol" Max said making Leone cutely pout.

"Not even for your girlfriend?" Leone said

Max then glanced at Leone, but that was mistake since she was giving Max the forbidden look…the Puppy Dog Eyes!

"Aw man, fine…just don't make me regret this" Max said with a defeated tone

"Yeah!" Leone shouted with glee taking a swig from a bottle

Steel then gave Leone and annoyed look as Max looked down in shame.

"Puppy dog eyes. You cheater" Steel said crossing his arms with a disappointed voice

As this was going on Tatsumi eyes then went wide, hearing Leone call Max her boyfriend.

"Those two are couple! When did this happen!" Tatsumi shouted in shock

"Will you were gone" Lubbock replied looking depressed seeing Leone hugging Max, "I'm going to need a lot more for this" Lubbock said as he chugged a bottle down.

It was now late at night and most of Night Raid were asleep or for a certain group, was conked out from the amount alcohol they drank. Leone then woke up from the couch with a yawn and with a bit of a headache.

"Ah man, my head" Leone said rubbing her head, "guess we all partied too hard for Tatsumi's return" she said, she then looked down and spotted Max and Steel sleeping peacefully on the couch.

Max was actually the only one in the room who wasn't knocked out from drinking, it turned out that Max's Turbo energy burned through alcohol so fast that it couldn't take effect in his body, meaning he couldn't get drunk like the rest of them.

Seeing her boyfriend sleeping peacefully, she couldn't help but smile and plant a kiss on his sleeping face. She then walked out the room to the hideouts outdoor bathing area's they had to clean the stench of alcohol off her.

"Can't let Max have stinky girlfriend now can I" she said to herself as she splashed herself with some water.

As looked down into the water she only saw her reflection in the water that was until it shimmered slightly to reveal a man in a ruddy hat smiling wickedly at her. Before she could react, a knife then came up and seemed to hit her dead on causing her fall over as the man jumped out of the water.

"I've done it Master Stylish! You noble assistant as taken her down!" the man shouted into the sky.

On a cliff side far away, the mad doctor Dr. Stylish stood atop a cliff along with three of his enhanced solider were surveying the area.

"Looks like we got one" a woman said with huge ears

"Excellent, that's my dashing knight in shining armor, running into enemy headquarters" he said

Suddenly, thousands of stylish soldiers burst from the forest all heading toward the base.

"Now go Team Stylish, the Operation has begun, oh and if yoy happen to find this "Max Steel" among their ranks, bring him in alive he will be my ultimate test subject!" he shouted

"Max! Wake up!" Steel shouted, shaking the teen's shoulder

"Not now Steel, just five more minutes" Max mumbled

"Come on, Wake up!" Steel shouted again but Max just turned over, "Okay, you asked for it" Steel said

He then pointed his flipper at Max and shot a blast at Max's back, causing the teen to wake up with a yelp.

"Ow, Steel what was…?!" He started to say until Steel cut him off

"No time! The base is under attack!" Steel shouted causing Max to jump off the couch

"What?!" he shouted in shock as Steel engaged himself with Max and activated his helmet. Max then burst out of the room and made a dash down the hall, hoping to find the others.

"What happened?" Max asked Steel

"Don't know, everyone just ran out of room like crazy, saying someone found us" Steel said

"Great, just we needed" Max said

Suddenly the ceiling gave way and caved in causing Max to come to a stop. When the dust cleared he saw a large man, wearing barley anything, outside of a few straps and speedo of sorts, he also wore a white mask and instead of fingers he seemed to have metal claws instead.

"You know, we have things called doors you know" Max punned at the man but he didn't seem to care.

"The enemy must be killed" he said in a zombie like fashion

He then rushed forward and swiped at Max only for him jump back in response, the man tried for another swipe but Max blocked with his arm and quickly gave a quick punch to the man's jaw, staggering him. Max then delivered couple of quick jabs to the man's midsection until sending him flying with a roundhouse kick sending him crashing into the wall at the end of the hall.

"Is that all you got?" Max mocked the man

But to his surprise the man then got back up and brandished his claws at him.

"Okay, he's defiantly tougher then he looks" Max said holding his fists up

"Huh, he seems to chemical enhanced, he's definitely stronger then the average human" Steel said scanning him

"Then lets amp it up a notch, Steel off" he said as Steel detached himself

"Okay now what?" Steel asked

"This" Max said as grabbed hold of Steel's arm, causing Steel to go wide eyed

"Oh no, no the Turbo-rang!" Steel complained

"Yep, the Turbo-rang" Max said

Max then reeled back his arm and gave Steel a good toss, making the Ultralink glow with Turbo Energy as he spun toward his opponent. Once Steel made contact, he then erupted out in a explosion of Turbo Energy causing the man to be sent through the wall, and to the ground, luckily he was unconscious and not dead thankfully. Steel floated back to Max looking quite dizzy.

"You know how much I hate that" Steel said rubbing his head

"Heh, sorry but it worked didn't it?" Max said making Steel sigh

Suddenly they heard the scraping of metal on stone catching there attention, when they turned to the sound they found hundreds of the same men coming toward them.

"Okay that is a lot more than I thought there was" Max said looking at the horde

"Then I suggest a tactical retreat!" Steel said flying off with Max following trying to get some distance from the hoard.

They then turned a corner to another hallway hoping to lose the horde, but as they turned around they found the men right on their trail.

"Geez, these guys are persistent!" Max said

"Then how about we cool them down?!" Steel said making Max smirk underneath his visor

"Oh, I'm picking up what you're saying" Max said stopping and turning toward the horde.

"GO TURBO, HYDRO, HEAT"

They then burst into light and changed into their second Duo Strike Mode. Once the light died, they were now in mostly white suit with red accents around the midsection, the helmet was now different with a more translucent visor showing his eyes and just like Heat Mode, this mode did not have hands, but two guns mounts instead one glowing red with fire and other glowing blue for water.

"Now, how about you all take a shower!" Max said

He then lifted he's water cannon and shot a stream of high pressured water out, causing the crowd to be pushed back and to be staggered by the wave of water.

"Or how about a steam bath instead" Steel said

Max pointed his fire cannon at the ground and fired, causing a huge cloud of steam to envelope the area blinding the group of men.

"Now to blend in with the night" Max said

"GO TURBO, SPIKE"

Max then burst into light and changed his mode again. Once done, the new mode was completely black and had blue spikes along parts of its armor and had an angular helmet now.

Max then ran into the steam cloud and extended whips from his arms. He then started unleashing lashes from his whips knocking one solider unconscious after another. Once the cloud dispersed, the entire crowd was out and pinned to parts of hallway by Turbo spikes by the straps of their cloths.

"Well that takes care of that" Max said dusting his hands.

He then shot his whip and started to swing down the hallway.

"Steel, where are the others?" Max asked

"According to my scanner, Lubbock and Akame seem to be fighting their own battles but are okay, Tatsumi is outside and Mine is heading that way, but I can't seem to get a lock on Leone she must be outside my range" Steel said

'Leone, I hope you're okay' Max thought with a look of dread

"What about Sheele?" Max asked

"Let's see, she's in the kitchen and she's surrounded!" Steel shouted in alarm

"Then that's where were heading" Max said as they made their way there.

Meanwhile in the kitchen, Sheele was defending herself against four of the soldiers with a kitchen knife to protect her with. One of the soldiers then rushed at her, only to be dodged and have his throat slit by Sheele as blood gushed from his wound.

'Darn! These intruders are stronger then they appear to be, if only I had my Imperial Arms!' Sheele thought as another one rushed her from the side. He then raised his claw ready to shred into her until a black whip then shot out from the busted down door of the kitchen and wrapped around his waist and pulled him back only to be knocked out. When Sheele looked at who saved her, she smiled seeing Max retracting his whip.

"Now come on fellas, is that anyway to treat a lady?" Max joked

"Kill him!" the remaining solider said as they charged

But Max shot out his whip and latched onto the ceiling and pulled himself up, causing the two men to smash into each other. Max then dropped down from the ceiling and landed on their backs, knocking them out.

"Sorry, didn't mean to … drop in" Max said getting chuckle from Sheele

"Thank you Max" She said

"No problem, now let's get moving we need to go help the others" Max said as Sheele nodded in response

When they made their way out of the hallway, they saw another mass of soldiers approaching them which made Max sigh in annoyance.

"They just keep coming. Whatever, I don't have time to worry about you guys" Max said crossing his arms.

"GO TURBO, CANNON"

Max then changed to his heavy hitting Cannon Mode and quickly powered up, he then launched himself straight at the horde, bowling over them all clearing a path for Sheele. Max then went and smashed through the wall of hideout making their way outside, with Sheele close behind. Once Max stopped, he then saw Mine pointing Pumpkin at large man with metal hands coming at her.

"Mine! Hold…" Max started to say

Until a huge beam of energy shot out of Pumpkin's muzzle and completely disintegrated her opponent much to Max's surprise.

"Um, Never mind" Max said changing back to base mode

"Bout time you got here" Mine said with her hand on her hip

"Well excuse us, we were saving our friend, thank you very much" Steel said

Mine then went over plucked up the weapon that the man was using and brought them over to Sheele. On a closer look they realized that it was Sheele's weapon, Extase.

"My Imperial Arms!" Sheele shouted looking at her faithful scissors

"Yeah, that big jerk had them, but now there back where they belong" Tatsumi said

"Now that is what you call good luck" Max said

Sheele then took hold of Extase and did a few practice swings with it, smiling with happiness.

"It's good to have these back" She said running her hand along the blade

Suddenly everyone heard a large flapping sound above them causing everyone to look up to see a giant flying Manta Ray.

"Woah, you don't see that every day" Max said in shock of the beast

"What is that, more enemies?" Tatsumi asked looking up at the large beast

"Hold on let take a look" Mine said

She then pulled out an eye glass of sorts and placed it on. Using her zoom function, she then got a closer look at it and saw their boss Najenda was riding on top of it.

"What do you know, it's the boss" Mine said

"Really, alright just when we needed her" Max said

"Got that right, just in time" Tatsumi until something donned on him, "Hey wait, that's not fair" he said confusing everyone

"What's not fair?" Mine asked

"How come she gets to ride a giant fish, I want to ride a fish" Tatsumi complained

Everyone then looked at him funny wondering if the armored boy was serious.

"Uh, sure what every floats your boat man" Max said

Unknown to them, the same shabby man from before was watching them from behind and licked his lips at his targets. He then settled his eyes on Max, recognizing the symbol on his chest.

"That is the one master Stylish wants, I'll bring him in and be greatly rewarded" he said to himself

He then jumped out the bush, with his knife raised ready to strike. Suddenly the man was kicked across the face by a brown boot, and the one who owned that boot was a very angry Leone.

"You really caught me off guard didn't you" She said through gritted teeth

Hearing this everyone turned around to see Leone stalking toward the guy.

"Well, at least we know she's okay" Steel said as Max nodded at this

"I was hung over and dazed you throw knife at me that is grounds for a butt kicking my friend!" Leone said cracking her knuckles.

Once she was over the man, she then grabbed hold of him and started to squeeze his neck.

"Please don't, I can't breathe" the man squeaked out while he was trying to pry the hands off his throat

"Word of advice, I'm huge fan of surprise attacks, but hate it when they happen to me and I especially hate it when there used on my boyfriend!" She shouted at him gripping harder, "Your body seems to be enhanced but I bet that's not going to make your death any less worse!" She said

Hearing all this Max couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed by Leone's protectiveness of him. Suddenly a blade then extended out from the shabby man's shoe, causing him to swing his foot up, intending to stab Leone through the head, but to his shock Leone then grabbed his blade with her teeth just like with Esdeath's blade. Having enough of this guy Leone then slammed the man into the ground causing it to crater underneath her force, effectively killing him.

"I must admit though, that guy really got me good, dang that hurts" Leone said calming down from rage moment, she then looked down to the guy dead at her feet, "Aw crud, I think I killed him" she added looking at the dead body.

"Um, Leone are you okay?" Max asked after seeing his girlfriend's rage moment

"I'm fine babe, it's going to take more than a knife to take me down, besides when I'm in beast mode I can regenerate faster so I'll be okay" She replied, that was until her face morphed to concern, "I hope my little rage moment didn't freak you out?" Leone asked

"Naw, I seen worse but uh…is it wrong to think that was kind of hot?" Max said rubbing his neck, embarrassed.

Hearing this, Leone then got a devious grin as she snaked her arms around Max's shoulders.

"Oh really, I guess you like to play little rough huh" Leone said with a purr in her voice, making Max's face go red under his visor and started stammering out gibberish.

"Uh can you two please not" a voice said

Turning to it, they saw Lubbock and Akame coming toward them, with said green boy looking annoyed

"Ah, what's the matter Lub, you jealous that Max has got such a super-hot girlfriend and you don't?" Leone said with a smirk

"No!" Lubbock shouted in response looking away with a huff.

"Oh he so is" Steel said getting a laugh from Max and Leone.

"Glad to see everyone here and okay" Akame said

"Good thing, I think that maybe the last of them" Tatsumi said looking around the empty area.

Suddenly from the forest sprung hundreds of more soldiers, all them wearing the same white masks and claws.

"Or not" Max said readying up

"Ah man where did these guys come from, how did they get through without setting off my traps" Lubbock said

"I can't smell anyone else's scent nearby either" Leone said sniffing the air

"No time worry about that now, we've got a fight to win" Max said as he visor glowed

"GO TURBO, STRENGTH"

Quickly Max changed to his famous strength mode and took up a battle stance.

"Let's do this" Max said as everyone nodded

Suddenly everyone minus Max and Tatsumi were stuck with a feeling of fatigue as they feel to ground catching the others attention.

"Guys, what's wrong?!" Tatsumi asked seeing his friends down

"My body…I can't move" Mine struggled to say

"Steel, what's going on?" Max asked his partner

"Not good, my scanners are detecting a fast acting paralysis agent of some kind in the air" Steel said scanning the five fallen friends

Leone and Akame tried their best to get back up, but they still didn't have enough strength to get up.

"Guess were the only ones left Max" Tatsumi said staring down the forces before them

"Then I better make some more" Max added

"GO TURBO…"

Max started to say until suddenly something then dropped down from the giant flying Manta Ray with a crash, catching everyone's attention.

"Woah, what was that?" Max asked

Once the dust cloud it made vanished, they saw an adult man, wearing a black and white robe, with what looked like blue hair and horns sticking out of his head.

"Who is that?" Tatsumi asked looking at the newcomer

"Is he an ally?" Leone said as well

"I hope so" Max added

Then from high above Najenda was looking down at the battlefield as assessed the situation.

"Susanoo, destroy all foes you see!" Najenda shouted down to the man

"Understood" he replied as he walked toward the group of soldiers

The man, now named Susanoo, spun his staff around and extended it outward, causing blades to then extend from the tip as they rotated at high speeds. He then rushed into the group of soldiers with his staff outward, causing them to turn into mush by the rotating blades. A solider tried to attack from behind but Susanoo then back handed him causing his mask to crumble. The next few soldiers then attacked from all angles, but Susanoo swept his staff over them, turning them all into chunks of flesh as the blades passed over them.

Seeing all this everyone was surprised by this, seeing one man decimate an army like nothing. Suddenly the bodies of the soldiers then inflated rapidly causing them to glow yellow until a huge explosion went off causing everyone to gasp.

"They were turned into bombs?! When I find whoever is behind this, I am going to kick there butt to the moon!" Max shouted in anger

When the dust cleared it revealed Susanoo with many parts of him missing, but then the mangled bits of flesh then bubbled and started grow, until it formed new limbs and pieces much to everyone's shock.

"He's just like that Koro thing we fought" Max said staring at the sight

"Only human this time" Steel said in amazement

Susanoo then made his way to Mine, who looked a little scared by the man's imposing figure. He then reached down; Max was ready to launch into action, only to see him… smooth out Mine's hair?

"Fixed" he said simply confusing everyone

"Wait what?" Mine said confused by man's action

High above, Najenda was looking over the nearby cliff with her binoculars; she then spotted Stylish and his team and quickly got Susanoo's attention.

"Susanoo, there on the cliff, northeast of here, don't let them get way!" she shouted

Max then looked over as well and used his zoom function and found Dr. Stylish running away.

"So he was the one who did all this" Max said

Max was ready to go and teach this guy some manners, until the sound of his girlfriend struggling caught his attention, snapping him from his angry thoughts.

"Leone, are you going to be okay?" Max said changing back to Base Mode and deactivated his helmet

"Yeah, I'll be okay, the poison is starting to wear off" Leone said

Najenda then looked down and saw the way Max was looking over Leone and smiled at this.

"Bout time those two got together" Najenda said to herself

Suddenly everyone then felt the shaking of the ground and heard the sound of someone laughing. Everyone then turned to the sound and saw what looked like a giant monster with a red glass like dome head, a metal arm and extremely pale skin, and on the forehead of creature was Dr. Stylish.

"What is that?!" Max and Tatsumi shouted

He's a mutation and an ugly one at that" Mine said seeing the creature

"We better get over and fast" Max said crossing his arms

"GO TURBO, FLIGHT"

Max then changed into Flight Mode and was about to take off, until he felt Leone grab onto him and was carrying Lubbock over her shoulder.

"You're not going without me" Leone said

"You sure, you still can't fully move" Max said concerned

"I'll be okay, as long I get to see you kick this guy's butt" Leone said making Max smile

Without further ado, the three then blast off into the sky, heading to the battlefield. Once there they saw Susanoo trying to fight the giant man, but was not having much luck, they even saw Tatsumi with Akame on his back charging at the Man-Beast. Max then landed on the cliff ledge overlooking the battle. Just as Max changed back to Base, they saw the giant Manta flying overhead now with Mine and Sheele on top with said pinkete prepping Pumpkin.

"There outgunned here, we need to even the playing field" Max said looking over the battle

Tatsumi then jumped at Stylish as Akame unsheathed her blade and slashed at him, only for her blade to bounce off his skin. Then Mine then blasted a shot from Pumpkin causing Stylish to stumble but righted himself easily.

"Your right about evening the playing field, but how?" Leone said

"Yeah, unless someone has some special Imperial Arms to grow themselves, then were out of option" the newly awaked Lubbock said

"Then in that case, it's time to get big!" Max said smacking his fist into his open palm

"Big Time!" Steel added hyped as well

"Yeah right, like you have some sort of giant Turbo Mode or something" Lubbock said with a snicker

But Max just looked at the two, they expected him to say he was joking or something but he did not, which made the two go wide eyed.

"You're joking right?" Lubbock asked as Leone smiled in anticipation

But Max didn't answer, instead running to the edge of the cliff and jumped off and shouted.

"GO TURBO, TITAN"

Back at battle Dr. Stylish laughed as Mine blasted him again, as Stylish shook it off.

"It's pointless, thanks to my new Danger Beast enchanted body and strength, I am more than powerful enough to squash all you Night Raid thugs like bugs, in fact I don't think even your precious Max Steel can stop…!" Dr. Stylish shouted until something cut him off.

A loud metal crash rung out across the valley catching everyone attention, to their shock and surprise it was Max, only bigger…way bigger!

This mode was ginormous, towering over the forest, and sported a different visor then his other modes, and had armor sort of like base mode with more space between the black and white, and seemed to have crackling energy rods hovering over his back.

"Oh yeah, then bring it!" Max shouted and charged at Stylish with a shout

"What! What is this?!" Stylish shouted with fear and shock seeing the giant Max Steel coming at him.

"A giant fist, for your face!" Max shouted back

He then wound up his punch and throw it start at Stylish's monster face causing the man to go flying across the field and fall to the ground with loud crash.

"Haha, welcome to the big league's good doctor" Steel taunted

"Holy crud, he's huge!" Tatsumi shouted staring up at Max

"Indeed, I never thought he would have a mode like that" Akame said amazed

"Oh my gosh, just how strong is this guy!" Mine shouted seeing the spectacle

"Don't know he just seems to have a mode for everything" Najenda added

"Woohoo, go get him Max, kick his butt!" Leone cheered for him giving a whistle

"Seriously! Is this guy a drug to you or something, your obsessed?!" Lubbock said but on the inside he was also shocked to see the new mode.

Dr. Stylish then got back up and stared at Max with mixture of excitement and fear.

"Amazing, you're even better then Esdeath said you were I can't wait to experiment on you!" Dr. Stylish shouted charging at Max

"Not going to happen!" Max shouted as he charged as well

Max then jumped off the ground and sailed to Stylish and delivered another punch Dr. Stylish. Stylish then throw his own punch at Max but was easily dodged by Max who followed it up with a punch to the gut causing Stylish to keel over, until Max grabbed him by the shoulder and tossed him across the valley and landed with crash. Max then ran at him and jumped off the ground, and as he was coming down he smashed Stylish again into the ground with an elbow smash. Max then got off him and stepped back from Stylish as the mad doctor picked himself up.

"It's clear to me that you have very little fighting experience, so how about you give up now" Max said

"So you can avoid anymore embarrassment" Steel taunted again

Dr. Stylish then let out a snicker making Max confused.

"You shouldn't underestimate your opponent, especially if he happens to be a genius!" Stylish shouted

He then turned around and shot out black cable like tendrils at Max, intending to impale him.

"Incoming!" Steel shouted

"On it!" Max replied

Then a flash of blue erupted from his back as he reached behind him and pulled out two Turbo Energy blades from his back and sliced the tendrils to shreds.

"Nice try" Max said as Stylish blanked at this

"Oh no" he said now knowing, he messed up

Max then charged at Stylish and slashed at him causing a shock of Turbo Energy to ripple through his body. Stylish tried to attack him, but Max sidestepped it and slashed at his back sending another wave of energy through his body shocking him again. Stylish then turned toward Max and rushed at him with his arms out stretched as Max made his blades disappear, Max then rolled out of the way Stylish's attack, grabbed him under his arms and leaned back and suplexed him. Everyone then cringed at the sight as Stylish went unconscious.

"And he is down for the count Booya! Know the question is what to do with him now?" Steel asked but Max had one idea

"Hey Steel can you get me a scan on this guy?" Max asked confusing Steel

"Sure I guess" Steel answered as he scanned him, "huh his body is capable of living in vacuum of space, who knew" Steel said

"That's all I needed to know" Max said as he grabbed hold of Stylish's legs confusing everyone around

'What is he doing?' Everyone thought

Uh Max, what are doing?" Steel asked

"Remember when I said I would kick this guy's butt to the moon" Max said as it donned onto Steel causing him to snicker

"Oh this going to be cool" Steel said

Max then hoisted Stylish by his legs and started spin around with him as built up momentum.

"Round and round the mad doctor goes where he will land, nobody knows!" Steel sang

Once he had enough momentum he then let go of Stylish and sent him flying into the sky and into the unknown. Seeing that was done he then glowed blue and started to shrink until he was back in base mode and deactivated his helmet.

"Man, I'm I glad that is over" Max said with a sigh of relief as Steel detached himself

"No kidding, I need to sit down and I don't have legs" Steel said falling to the forest floor.

Suddenly Max was then tackled to ground by a happy Leone with huge smile on her face.

"Max! You did it! You're Amazing!" She shouted as she pelted him with kisses making Max blush.

"Okay, Okay I get it" Max said between kisses with a goofy smile on his face.

On the Manta ray, the last cloaked figure removed there hood to reveal an auburn haired girl with head phones and a lollipop sticking out of her mouth.

'I think my time here will be one to remember'