"Aruma, please wait! You haven't fully recovered!" Professor Scruffles pleaded with the frail psychic as stumbled down a corridor. Aruma stumbled and fell to his knees, his breathing was heavy and labored as Scruffles and the Agents try to help him up. The psychic swatted them away as stuck out his right towards the corridor wall, the light began to erratically flicker on and off before streams of light started flowing into his hand.
"What is this? What is he doing?" questioned Agent GInga in shock as more light entered through Aruma's hand, his body once frail began to bulk in size before their very eyes.
"He's absorbing the power of compound's core energy source, that's how he survived centuries in the bunker" Scruffles explained in awe. "Did they really create a god?" the Professor thought to himself.
"No, they created a monster" Aruma replied as he finished feasting on the energy of the compound, his body completing its transformation. The psychic's body had grown taller and shredded with muscle, his eyes now glowing a menacing red hue along with a matching aura surrounding him.
"Can hear… everyone, all their thoughts, I can hear them." Aruma softly spoke to himself before facing the trio, his red aura fading away. "I'm sorry for the outburst, these few days have been very rough on me" said the apologetic Aruma.
"Yeah sure, no problem" Agents Ginga and Cacuma replied in unison, the duo taken off guard by the apology. The quartet raced off towards a jet encountering the giant Fiver as they boarded, the jet quickly took off towards Central City.
Central City
"Are you sure you're up for this?" asked a Central City soldier to man standing next him, "OF COURSE! SHIELD STAR IS READY FOR ANYTHING!" boasted the man known as Shield Star. Shield Star, a man with large stature, wearing a full body spandex suit colored in red, white, and gold with a star in the center of his chest. "Of course, you are" groaned the soldier in response.
Next to the pair is lone woman, tall and fit, rolling her eyes at the exaggerated response from Shield Star. She too wore a full body spandex suit but also tactical riot fatigue that covered her figure with notable metallic gauntlets.
"WELL, WELL IF IT ISN'T THE MACHINE QUEEN HERSELF, LADY MERCURY, HOW THE HELL ARE YOU?" asked the obnoxious Shield Star only for Lady Mercury to continue ignoring him. A duo of beastmen suddenly arrive with a human man wrapped in chains and wearing a muzzle. The man attempts waving at Shield Star and Lady Mercury before his keepers immediately yank on his chains.
"It must be serious if we're teaming up with that lunatic" Lady Mercury quietly muttered to herself just as magic runes appeared next to her, another pink haired woman appears wearing an oversized trench coat over business causal clothing. "And my day just keeps getting better!" Lady Mercury groaned at the arrive of the sorcerer.
"FIONA!" Shield Star yelled excitingly as he went in for a bearhug on the petite Fiona. The sorcerer quickly made a duplicate of herself to avoid the clutches of the overexcited Shield Star, "Nice to see you too" Fiona said softly patting Shield Star on the back as he continued to hug her duplicate with intense pressure. The sorcerer quickly turned her attention to jet that landing on the runway of the military base. Aruma, Professor Scruffles, Fiver, and the Agents Ginga & Cacuma emerge from the jet meeting with the group of champions. "Good afternoon everyone, it's a pleasure to see all of you again" Scruffles greeted as he leads his group towards the others, "I would like to introduce to you all to Aruma, he like the rest of you is someone with extraordinary power."
"HMMMMMMM ….HE LOOKS TOUGH!" Shield Star stated examining Aruma from head to toe. Aruma in turn was also examining the group, taking mental notes as he read everyone's thoughts.
"Shield Star, apparently he's indestructible. Lady Mercury, relies on nanotechnology stored in her gauntlets to fight, she is highly intelligent." Aruma thought himself before turning his attention to the man in chains.
"That man has a split consciousness, Lechon, is a violent man by natural, his beastly side is even more dangerous." Aruma examined before being interrupted.
"You can read minds, can't you?" asked Fiona telepathically.
"Yes" Aruma replied caught off guard by another telepath.
"Then allow me to introduce myself; I'm simply known as Fiona the Witch or Fiona for short, it is a pleasure to meet you, Aruma."
"The pleasure is mine" Aruma replied before a voice shouted from above them, "Oi, Oi! You were all having a get together without me?" A young man dropped from the sky covered by a golden aura, he has tan skin, dark blue hair, and brown eyes, wearing a black basketball shorts, sneakers and a tank top. The man immediately stepped towards Aruma, getting face to face with the powerful psychic.
"Ehhh…. So, you're the guy Professor was yappin' about?" asked the young man as everyone else quickly took a defensive stance.
"Now, now Ryuji, there's no need to be confrontational" Professor Scruffles said trying to de-escalate the situation, but just as he spoke Ryuji swung a right hook punch at Aruma. A shockwave burst out of the clashing impacts as Ryuji's punch was stopped by a psychic barrier, Aruma's eyes changed from orange to red again as his energy began overpowering Ryuji's.
"Is that it?" Ryuji scoffed as his golden aura reappeared, his punch started cracking Aruma's barrier much to his surprise, but the psychic wouldn't back down. Both powers clashed as at equal strengths before another presence arrived.
"That's enough" said a tall woman with silver hair, wearing a commander uniform with a katana on her hip. "Everybody but Lechon inside, now!" the leader commanded as Ryuji's retracted his punch and began to follow her.
"Best do as Commander Winter says son" Professor Scruffles said patting Aruma on the back. Everybody followed the leader deep inside the military base and eventually settling in a large room with monitors and guards. Commander Winter stood next to a monitor with a map of the solar system, a blinking light is moving slowly past Mars on the map.
"Here's the situation folks, the Runa armada will be arriving in two days, their numbers are estimated in the thousands, and it seems they're hellbent on taking Earth over." Commander Winter explained, "Our combined armies will not be enough to take on the invasion alone, that's why I've summoned the six of you to help fight in this crisis."
"Aruma, I understand you've woken up only a few days ago so all of this might be too much to grasp, so I'm going to allow you to read my mind in order to catch up on humanity's current plight" Commander Winter said to everyone's surprise, Aruma nodded in agreement.
Images of war flashed in his mind, several warring nations launched dozens of catastrophic bombs that annihilated nearly everything on Earth, only darkness remained. Suddenly Earth reappeared, reset from the days of before the cataclysm, shock and awe consumed all sentient beings of the planet as they tried to understand what had happened. Images of Champa and Vados appear as he threatens Earth, the Earthling appease him with food, he leaves satisfied. More images appear, government leaders shaking hands and citizens rejoicing for peace, aliens contacting Earth, invading alien armies attacking cities, a war ending bomb striking an alien mothership, and then a strange time-skip in the information. After the anomaly some Earthlings began developing powers, and then the Runa aliens declare war on Earth.
"Did you get all of that?" Commander Winter asked
"Yes" Aruma responded quickly as explosions are heard in the background, the five champions quickly scramble out of the room and back to the outside. Commander Winter quickly contacted other military bases alerting the oncoming invasion, "Outlier warships have entered Earth's atmosphere, Red Alert!" radioed the Commander.
Five massive spaceships are seen in the skies above Central City as hundreds of smaller warships begin to scramble out of the larger vessels. The smaller ships start to fire down particle beams at base below as the five warriors reach the roof. Fiona quickly starts a spell as magical runes swirl around her, simultaneously magic circles appear in the sky beside the motherships.
The beastmen struggle to free Lechon from his chains as enemy fire rains upon them, one beam hits near the trio, killing one of the guards. Lechon laughs at the misfortune of the guard, and he frees one of his arms, the frail man grows exponentially in size reaching heights near nine feet, his human features disappear instantly changes into enormous pig-like monster. The monstrous Lechon's body is covered in a dark brown, black, and red brindle coloration with patches of skin oozing out excess skin flaps and protruding bones, his grotesque appendages stretch out autonomously towards his right hand forming into a battle axe.
"Time for some fun" roared Lechon swatting away the other guard off the roof before leaping onto oncoming spaceships.
"THAT SHIT NEVER CEASES TO GROSS ME OUT!" Shieldstar yells out before his entire body covers itself with a shiny, golden alloy material, "DO YOU MIND GIVING ME A BOOST?" Shieldstar asks turning to Fiona. The magic circle appears under Shieldstar turning into a portal that leads to the outer reaches of the atmosphere directly above one of the motherships. Shieldstar places his arms on his sides as he drops down headfirst miles above the Earth turning himself into a human torpedo, meanwhile the magical circles near the motherships begin to assault the ships with massive lightning bolts, causing explosion on their surfaces, lightning bolts also strike the incoming Shieldstar as his body crashes through the mothership in the center, causing a massive explosion in the sky.
Lady Mercury fiddles with her left gauntlet, yawning at the display of destruction above them, until it starts to glow, instantly her armor starts to cover her body and forming an Iron Man-esque battle suit. Green energy glows from her left gauntlet as she aims it at the center of the remain motherships, before blasting the concentrated energy as it disperses into a green, static cloud surrounding the ships. The lights on the motherships shut off as any smaller ship caught in the cloud crash towards the ground.
"It's an EMP, I thought it would save us some time" Lady Mercury said with a victorious grin at Fiona, who simply rolled her eyes. "That'll give me some time to send Shieldstar back up and …..." Fiona was saying before being interrupted by Ryuji.
"Tsk, don't bother" Ryuji said before launching off into the air and instantly penetrating through a mothership with ease, he immediately ripped through another one before halting his assault on the last two ships. The two remaining motherships began to collide with one another, both ships covered in a red aura, as the collision created an enormous fireball in the skies above Central City.
"This guy" Ryuji groaned to himself as he watches Aruma clench his fist, causing the destroyed ships to crumple up together like paper.
"And here I thought I was the monster" Lechon laughed as he watched the destruction unfolding before him, "those two are on a whole other level" Shieldstar quietly said to himself.
The remaining ships fled the Earth but the battle over Central City caused widespread damage, luckily minimal causalities were reported. The six defenders stayed at the base waiting for the main armada to arrive in the coming days.
