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Death Hour
Meanwhile back on Earth, in the Hub's medical bay, Vert was lying down on the medical bed to rest. Sage, Sherman and Spinner are keeping an eye on him. "Will he be able to survive, while they find the cure in time?" Spinner asked worriedly, "Don't worry, big bro. I'm sure they'll get here soon as possible before that happens." Sherman replied with comfort tone.
Suddenly, Vert started to cough violently again. Sage and the Cortez Bros began to feel worry about his condition as it is growing worse. As he keeps coughing so much, Sherman went over to him and give him a rub on the back, "Spinner, get water for Vert." He ordered, without asking his older twin brother quickly run out the medical bay to fetch the water.
Once Vert stopped coughing, he breathes rapidly as he tries to breathe properly, "Vert, are you okay?" Sherman slowly asks him, "I…think…so…" Vert barely speaks with a raspy voice, "I'm…not…sure…if I…hold on…"
"Vert, don't speak. You must save your energy." Sage suggested, "Yeah. Just hang in there." The younger Cortez comforted. Spinner returns the medical bay with glass of water, "Here." He handed the glass to Vert, which he slowly took it and carefully drank it. Once he finished drinking the water, "Do you feel better, dude?" The older Cortez asked, "Only a…little…" Vert replied.
"Good. I hope the others make it here in time…" Sherman muttered in worry.
Back at the Ice Zone, Zoom was still flying through the air to search for the Aflulise, "Come on. Show me something." The scout uses his helmet to scan the area until it found something from the high icy mountain. He zooms in and an image shows Zoom a unique snowdrop-like flower, which turns out to be the Aflulise that planted there near the edge of the cliff. "Found it!" He quickly contact to Agura and the rest of the team through the com-link, "Guys, I found the Aflulise!"
"Great job, Zoom. We'll be there at your location." Agura's voice replied through the com-link.
Zoom landed his Chopper next to the mountain and wait for his team's arrival. Soon, his team arrived. Agura exit out his Roadmaster and walked up the mountain, next to Zoom. She uses the sentient binoculars to see the Aflulise was there near the edge of the cliff.
"Alright, that must be it." Agura said as she lower down the binoculars.
"I'll go and get it!" Zoom used the ice-like ramp and his Chopper hovers the air. He flies towards the Aflulise and grabs it. He safely landed on the icy ground and shows his teammates the flower, "Nice work, Zoom!" Stanford said.
"Now, let's take it to Vert, quickly!" Agura said, quickly went to her Tangler.
Just as the team was about to head to back to Earth when a pair of flame wheels suddenly appeared out of nowhere! "Look out!" Zoom warned as the team quickly scattered to avoid them.
"Oh, great! Reds incoming!" Agura growls in frustration.
"We need to give the Aflulise to Vert and fast!" Zoom suggested, "I agree. We don't have much time!" Tezz stated.
The team drives off until multiple red Sark appeared and were driving towards them as they attack, "Ugh! Wasting time!" Agura yelled as she uses the Tangler's claws as she smashed some Sark. Zoom sliced off the rest of the Sark with the Chopper's wheel blades, Tezz active his Splitwire's electromagnetic cannon as he destroys other more Sark, and Stanford actives his Reverb's Sonic Cannons and fires multiple purple sound blasts, thus, destroying some more Sark.
Just then, Zoom notice Kytren charging at him with his Vylirex, "Whoa!" He managed to dodge it and then, chase after him.
Kyburi ambushed Agura with her Venikus as she lands on top of the Tangler, "Ugh! Get off me!" Agura shouted at her as she tried to shake Kyburi off of her, "Never! No prey escape, Kyburi!" The female Red Sentient exclaimed with an evil laughter. But soon, Kyburi screamed in surprised when her Venikus was knocked away from an electromagnetic blast by Splitwire's cannon.
"Thanks, Tezz," the huntress thank him, "Guys, heads up!" Zoom shouted when he sees Krytus charging in.
Back at the Hub, Vert's condition is growing worse and worse as he was coughing out blood and unable to breathe properly. Vert's regular skin tone was now completely paler like a ghost, his blonde hair was turned into a very paler blonde and his blue eyes were now turned duller blue as they lost their life. But Vert is still struggling as he fights back his Obitus Verminosa and his death. Sage and the Cortez Brothers tried everything to help and keep his systems steady.
"Vert!" Sherman exclaimed in panic, "Hang in there!"
"Just keep fighting your Obitus Verminosa, man!" Spinner said with both mix of panic and worry expression upon his face. "Where could they be?! They should be back by now!"
"Krytus…" Sage suddenly muttered, which caught the Cortez Bros' attention, "I sense my twin is attacking the Battle Force 5 and they're in danger."
"Not good… C'mon, Sherman, we better help them out!" Spinner was about ran out the medical bay but his younger twin brother stops him, "No, Spin! We can't leave Vert! At this rate, we will permanently lose him!"
"His systems are failing fast!" The Blue Sentient informed when she looked at the monitors' screens that shown Vert's systems are all failing, including his heartbeat.
Vert was lying still on the medical bed, his breathing is very slow as his end is coming near. "Please… hurry… I…can't…hold…on…mu…ch…lo…ng…er…" Vert whispered before he coughed out blood again as the Obitus Verminosa is almost reaching to its peak.
Back at the Ice Zone, the Battle Force 5 was still battling against the RS5. "Guys, we're running out of time! We need to get back to Earth and give Sage the Aflulise to cure Vert!" Zoom informed his teammates before he dodged Kytren that he was about to ram into him.
"He's right!" Agura agrees with the scout before forcible pushed Kyburi back, "We need to hurry!"
"But the Reds are giving us a waste of time!" Stanford stated and dodged Krylox's Synataur before rammed his Reverb.
All of the sudden, a blue ray of beam came out of nowhere! It hits the Sark and trapped them inside a clear, block of ice.
"Whoa! Where did that come from?!" Zoom asked, surprised when seeing the Sark trap inside the ice block.
Then, a mighty roar is heard throughout the Ice Zone. Kyburi looked frighten as she recognized that roar, "No… That cannot be… I thought they're all extinct!" Another ray beam hit Kyrosys and Krylox, thus, got trap inside the ice block and then shattered. Their antimatters flies off to re-spawn.
Then, another ray beam as it froze Kytren, Kyburi and Krytus inside the ice block, trapping them. The ice block was then shattered, thus, their antimatters flew off to re-spawn.
"Oh, wow." Zoom said, "Where the heck did it come from?"
"Hey, look at that!" A.J. points his finger towards the high cliff. Agura and the others looked the direction that A.J. is pointing at. On top of the high cliff was a big, behemoth-like creature. It's fur is mostly cover in white and light blue, two large fangs in front of its mouth, blue eyes and very sharp claws.
"Whoa, what is that thing?" The British asked in awe.
The mysterious creature stares down the Battle Force 5. Then, it left the area.
"Whatever it was… It helped us against those Reds." Agura said.
"Uh, guys? I think we kinda forgot on what our mission is," Zoom reminded.
"Oh! The Aflulise!" Stanford exclaimed, "We gotta give the Aflulise to Sage to cure Vert's Obitus Verminosa!"
So, the team immediately went back to Earth through the StormShock portal and quickly head to the Hub. Once arrive there, Agura, Zoom, Stanford, Tezz and A.J. immediately rushed to the medical bay.
"Sage, we have the cure!" Zoom quickly hands over the flower plant to Sage. The Blue Sentient quickly plucks all the flower plant's petals and into a vial and mix. Agura look at Vert as he lay there on the medical bed motionless, and is so close to death and began to feel worry if it's too late for him to save his life.
"How was he?" The huntress asked the Cortez Bros, "He was worse than before, but he was struggling as he was fighting back his Obitus Verminosa." Sherman explained, "And what worst part was that Vert kept coughing out a lot of blood…" Spinner added as he shivered when he said that part.
"Ohhh… That was worse…" Zoom grimaced.
Agura looks at the monitors' screens that shown all Vert's systems, his systems have stopped working but one is still working, which is his heartbeat. However, the heartbeat was beeping very slowly, which made the huntress grow concern. She look at Sage who just finished creating the cure. Inside the injection has the cure which has a glow yellow liquid.
"Team, I have created the cure and I will inject it into Vert where the disease injected him." Sage walks over to Vert's motionless body and injected the cure into his neck. And once done, the Blue Sentient back away a bit. Everyone waits and hopefully the cure works to stop the Obitus Verminosa.
However, Vert isn't moving, "He's not moving…" Spinner whispered, "You don't think we're-"
Suddenly, they heard a long beep from one of the monitors. Sage and the team look and, to their horror, the monitor that has the screen to show Vert's heartbeat has stop.
"No…" Agura whispered in grief.
"We're…too late…" Tezz said in low tone.
"Vert's…gone…?" Zoom's voice started to creak as he starts to cry.
"I'm afraid so… I'm so sorry, team." Sage said with a sorrow tone.
Everyone in the medical bay lower their heads and mourn the loss of their leader. "What can we do now?" A.J. asked, overwhelm the loss of his best friend, "I…don't know…" Agura muttered, feeling so sorrow over the loss of Vert Wheeler…
"I'm very sorry, team… He was great warrior," Sage said with a sad tone in her voice.
Everyone began to leave the medical bay, however, they failed to notice that the monitors that shown all of Vert's systems along with his heartbeat suddenly starts to work again. On the medical bed, his motionless body starts to move slightly. Then, his eyes slowly opens and revealed his duller blue eyes were slowly returning to life.
Stanford glanced over his left shoulder and was shocked to see him coming back to life! "Guys, look!" The team stopped their track and turn their backs to see their leader alive!
"VERT!" All of the team exclaimed his name in joy as they all rushed over him. Though, the leader of BF5 winced in pain because of the team's loud voices, "Ow! Low down your voices, guys." Vert muttered, "You're giving me a headache…"
"Oops, sorry, dude." Zoom apologized.
"But look at you! You're alive!" A.J. exclaimed in joy for seeing his best friend alive.
"We thought we lost you for good, mate. Glad you're back." Stanford said with a smile.
Sage comes up the monitors to check on Vert's systems, "Vert's whole systems are stable now. The effect of the cure is working well and Vert will remain the Hub for two weeks of recovery." She said.
The team is happy to hear the news. Agura comes up to Vert and said, "I'm glad you're alright, Vert. I was getting very worry about you and you nearly died."
Vert looks at her and gave her a small smile, "Hey, it's okay now. You and the others managed to get the cure in time." This made Agura smile, happy that the team was able to save Vert's life from the near death caused by the Obitus Verminosa.
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