NOTE: After the controversy with Johnny, I was able to find a workaround and turned him into a mass of Dark Matter from the Kirby series. It shouldn't change much but did allow me a bit of leeway with the fight. Anywho, enjoy!
"REM, NO!" Ix screamed as her sister's roar echoed through the entirety of the Metro, the amazon's body releasing intense amounts of heat before she was even halfway to Johnny, embers flying through the air from seemingly nowhere.
Johnny formed a malicious smirk in his mouth of darkness, his chest splitting open down the middle to reveal a second mouth lined with countless more sharp teeth, a large eye of crimson glaring at the oncoming inferno through the teeth.
The party flinched as Rem made contact with Johnny, bracing for the horrid screams that were about to come.
Yet the air remained scorching and no screams filled the room. Slowly looking back to Johnny, Ix's jaw dropped once she saw the remnants of the collision. Johnny stood there, mouth agape, with an enormous hole torn right in his chest, what once was the eye in his middle now a mess of red liquid behind him with Rem, hair quite literally blazing in an inferno, standing like she had just punched right through the dark mass, the air wavering around her. Her head twitched and shook as she glared over her shoulder, both her iris and pupil reduced to dots in her eyes with her fangs gnashing together to the point sparks flew from the gaps between her teeth from the scorching heat she was radiating.
"No way..." Ix gasped as the tall, menacing figures stared over their shoulders at each other, deafening silence filling the air save for the howls of air that the heat brought through. Johnny slowly reformed his mass, the splattered mess of shade acting as if it was being rewound in a film. Complete once more, Johnny released and ear splitting roar at Rem, the orange titan responding with an almighty, bellowing primal roar of her own, the might of the two shaking the very ground on which they stood. Purple cracks appeared over Johnny as he shrieked skyward, a storm of purple energy erupting forth from within, the raw energy swirling amidst the orange, heated air.
"Ngh, this is nuts..." Marcus scowled "They haven't even started and they're already on the verge of killing us."
Jack looked to his comrade, then to both of his daughters before a stern glare formed in his eyes, metallic body shimmering in the clashes of light sources "Who said there was a they?" He reached over his head and pulled his sword free from its sheath, lightning crackling over his being "No matter how deep we're in, we're in this together." He looked to Marcus and Ix "This is our fight, too. And we owe it to everyone in this hellhole to kill him."
Ix walked up to her father's side, smirking "You think I'd miss this? Come on, let's party!" She turned to a blue blur as she and Rem charged at the mass of red and black, a tremendous shockwave ripping through the station as Johnny simply held his palms out, the sisters slamming into them, surrounded by roaring infernos of their colour, Johnny's different pair of eyes glared at either one before taking to the ceiling with the sisters following not a second later.
On the ground, Jack looked to Marcus as he too stood by his side "Yeah, you and me, way out of our league." The former agent reached up and readjusted the cracked mask, which weakly crackled with its scarlet energy "Doesn't mean it damn well ain't worth a try."
A second pair of arms spewing forth from Johnny's back, the living mass blocked and parried every hit the sisters sent his way, purple flame radiating around his body as the combatants got faster and faster before slugging Ix in the cheek and sending her careening to the surface, his other fist crashing into Rem's gut, the saliva and blood she subsequently threw up vanishing into him in seconds. Grabbing the woman by the leg, he yanked her into the air before smashing her back into the ceiling with all his might face first, her agonizing screams echoing throughout the station and into the shadows of the tunnels.
"HEY!" Jack screamed as a blast of electricity zapped Johnny's arm, forcing the creature to release his captive and glare at the cyborg. Rem quickly corrected herself as she fell, hitting the ground with a solid thud next to Ix. Johnny hissed as he spread himself out over the ceiling, the party of four continuing to glare up at him, as light slowly faded from the station, being replaced with a low, ominous purple glow accented with the faint orange of the embers and the inferno that was Rem's hair. Lowering a form of his usual body to the floor, tendrils connecting him to the bubbling mass on the ceiling, dozens more eyes opened up along Johnny's body, all of them staring straight into the souls of his opposition, raw energy bubbling out from the blackened ceiling, the strange liquid that came from the burst bubbles sizzling into a dark steam as it made contact with the ground, the staredown seeming to last an eternity, time frozen around them.
Johnny finally made the first movement, screeching as he charged toward Marcus, countless tendrils bursting forth from his back, coated in the same purple liquid. Before any of them could react, Marcus was blasted across the station and into the cold concrete wall, a sickening CRACK sounding as he hit it arm first before slumping down onto the tracks, limp.
"BASTARD!" Jack screamed, his sword cutting right through one of Johnny's tendrils, the beast screeching in pain as its lost limb fell to the floor, spasming and writhing at Jack's feet "That...worked?" Jack thought, his moment of distraction immediately being exploited by the being of darkness as he uppercutted him with enough force to shatter some of the metal plating below his chin, the cyborg backflipping through the air from the tremendous impact before hitting the ground with a loud WHAM, coughing and spluttering as he pushed himself up "What the hell…?"
Rem and Ix nodded at each other, grabbing each other's hand, Rem's skin hot to the touch. The duo dashed toward Johnny, wreathed in flame as they threw themselves into him, a black liquid spewing from Johnny's mouth with a wail of pain as it did, splattering as it did. Grabbing him by the neck, the sisters moved as one as they threw him over their shoulders and into the stone floor, a crater forming from the sheer power of the impact.
Rem's furious glare met Johnny's, who immediately dematerialized and wrapped himself around the orange-tentacled amazon, Rem wildly thrashing about as the two of them wrenched her limbs back and forth, Rem arching her back to a degree that seemed impossible as she ran Johnny across the floor, leaving a trail of sludge behind them.
"GET OFFA HER YOU SON OF A BITCH!" Ix screamed as she came hurtling towards the thrashing fighters, only for a bolt of lightning to boom past her, smoke filling the air as Ix came grinding to a halt, Jack sprinting past her. Flipping into the air, his sword gained a bright blue glow as it came down on Rem and Johnny, cutting clean through the tendrils that the darkness had wrapped around his daughter, sending the two of them flying off in opposite directions. With a hateful scowl, Johnny's severed parts immediately flew back towards him, purple cracks of lightning sparking as they slammed back into their places.
Thunderous booms echoed throughout the station as Marcus unloaded bullet after bullet into Johnny's eyes, splashes of purple energy rupturing forth from the impacts. Johnny screeched out before dashing towards Marcus at incomparable speeds, a tendril bursting forth from his back as he flipped over the man, his body liquidizing into an amorphous mass as it hurled himself and Marcus into the air, the form of a twisted Tyrannosaurus erupting forth from the inky black, more tendrils erupting from the beast's back and pinning Marcus to his side, Johnny's roar shook the very ground upon which they stood, Rem responding with a furious, primal bellow of her own. Ix blasted forward in a blur of speed, swiping out Johnny's foot from under him, the beast stumbling before more tendrils came from his foot, the ground trembling as he smashed his foot back into the floor. Smoke flew into the air as Ix drifted along the wall and rammed herself into the back of Johnny's skull. The Rex's body bent and contorted as its head vanished into itself, almost immediately reappearing behind Ix and clamping its jaws down on her, the blue haired speedster's screams of agonizing pain filling the air as Johnny repeatedly smashed her into the nearest solid surfaces he could find before tossing her up into the air, maw open wide as she came hurtling back down.
Ix consumed herself in a sparkling aura as gravity took hold of her "You want a taste, cunt!? COME AND-" Her taunt was interrupted as her ginger sister's foot crashed into her cheek, an ear-splitting crack sounding as yet another sonic boom tore through the station, shredding up the floors and walls. Ix could only watch in horror from her spot in the crater on the wall as Rem was consumed by the darkness, all the while keeping a solid, yet confident smile on her face, a single nod reaching Ix before she vanished.
Dropping to the floor, the remainder of the fighters watched in horror as a scorching flame erupting from Johnny's mouth, his body growing spikes all over with a faint blue aura surrounding him as the flame died out.
"She still had the Space Gem..." Jack muttered, his tightened fist crackling with electricity "Rem...what the fuck have you done!?"
Marcus' continued to writhe and struggle in Johnny's grip, his right arm finally bursting free from within the constraints. Hand shaking, one more CRACK filled the air as a bullet hit Johnny right in the pupil, the beast screeching in agony, its grip on Marcus failing and the man fell to the floor, dust kicking up from the impact.
Still standing on the rails, Ix only found herself able to watch her father barely fend off the beast's onslaught, flames lashing at the cyborg, electricity crackling along the floor as Jack's nanoparticles were incinerated one by one, the shield slowly being burned down to nothing.
A blinding light then appeared from within the tunnel to Ix's left, Ix briefly turning to face it before looking back to Johnny's clash with her father.
"Marcus!" Jack yelled over to the immobile agent "Get up already! Just keep going for the- ARAAAAGH!" He roared as his shield finally gave out, the flames consuming his body "Maria...I'm sorry." He groaned, weaker parts of his body blowing off into the fire already.
The onslaught came to an unexpected halt with an incredible WHAM echoing off the ravaged walls, Johnny's body sent hurtling across the station. Slowly opening his eyes, his body flipping open numerous vents, out of which came tremendous amounts of both steam and smoke, Jack's eyes went wide when he lay them upon Ix, her fingers dug into the steel walls of a train carriage, the back of which had been dented to an incredible degree from the sheer force of the impact. With nary a care for the passengers, Ix hurled the carriage into a wall, stomping towards Johnny as he right himself upwards, body shrinking down to his standard humanoid form, four eyes creeping open on his face, the fighters glaring into each other's souls, sweat dripping down Ix's body, her shirt clung to her back from the perspiration, shoulders rising and falling with her heavy, laboured breaths. Her aura blazed to life as she charged at Johnny, their hands gripping onto each other as they rammed their entire weight into the other. Lightning and fire blasting around the station as the two of them ramped their latent power higher and higher, Johnny's second pair of arms went sliding down his body, the secondary pair of hands grabbing Ix's legs, swinging her off her feet in one clean motion. In the mere seconds the blue haired fighter was in the air, Johnny unleashed a cascading barrage of blue and purple projectiles into her, one final blast sending her across the station and into the same wall once more, her body cloaked in a dark smoke.
Marcus groaned as he slowly pried his eyes open, his body jolting as he saw Johnny's many eyes staring down at him. His mind shrieked at him to move, but he just remained there, stuck under the eldritch horror's gaze. The same ominous purple glow appeared over Johnny's body once more, not unlike light seeping through cracks – his mouth slowly opened with a slowly rising screech...roar...an indescribable noise filling the air. Jack lunged for Johnny, only to be blasted back by a pulse of purple power.
"Cal...Smokes...I'm sorry." Marcus slowly closed his eyes once more, fate now inches from his body.
Just as his warped, twisted tongue was close to touching Marcus' skin, however, Johnny froze, simply staring at Marcus' arm instead, his trio of opponents staring in confusion at the pause. As soon as silence filled the air, it was just as quickly pierced with an unholy screech like none other heard on Earth, Johnny clutching his face as he fell backward, wildly thrashing himself about as his body bulged, twisted in on itself and began to bubble all over. After 2 minutes straight of his pained roaring, another scream could be heard under Johnny's, a pale hand bursting out of his chest. Clawing at the blackened mass, the hand began to wrench itself free from its prison, part of a leather jacket's sleeve slowly bringing itself out of Johnny's insides, the second scream increasing in volume and strength as the arm pulled itself free agonizingly slowly, bit by bit revealing more of itself to the outside world. The hand reached up the Johnny's arm, sliding up along his chest as it moved, gripping onto him with enough strength to turn its knuckles red in an instant. A strong tug yanked more of the arm's owner free, including their face.
Green hair of an Octoling, purple eyes and that black leather jacket...Delta's eyes were bloodshot as she further struggled to free herself from her hellish prison, tears streaming down her cheeks as her body was wracked with torment, the screaming reaching a climax as she finally burst forth from within Johnny, stringy tendrils still grasping onto her back, arms and legs. Her full form now revealed, the group could see the entire right sleeve of Delta's jacket was missing, along with her collar reaching up past her neck. Her hand quivering as it reached for the rifle on her back, Delta snatched it out of the grip of Johnny's tendrils, letting herself go airborne, rifle aimed into the hole she had left from bursting out of Johnny, another bright red eye revealed in the abyss. The tremendous gunshot shattered glass as Johnny's tendrils snapped and pinged off of Delta, the teen sliding across the ground and into Marcus' exhausted body. With an exhausted moan, Marcus slowly pushed himself up, looking to Delta "Kid...how did you…?"
Delta silently reached into a pocket on her jacket, pulling out the glimmering cyan glow of the Space Gem, leaving Marcus agape at the sight "...What are you?"
As Delta opened her mouth to speak, she began violently hacking and coughing, eventually puking up a mass of Johnny, a single eye opening in the darkness before scurrying off back to its owner, who was laying limp in a puddle of his own mass. Delta's legs shook as she got up on her own two feet, rifle propped up as support "Rem...she's still in there."
A scorching heat filled the room as a blazing light blue flame erupting from Ix at the mention of her sister, her hair now standing on end with a glimmering light blue glow "Just tell me what we need to do."
Jack ripped off his chest plating as he got back up on the other end of the station, revealing a trigger where his heart should be. With a simple flick, the heavier parts of his body went flying off, his whole body consumed by white lightning "I don't remember the last time I had to overclock myself..." He grunted as his sword reformed in his hand "But goddamnit, let's get this son of a bitch."
Johnny reformed his body in an instant, his blood red eyes turning the same ominous purple as his flaming aura, his many eyes staring down his opponents.
Delta raised a finger to Johnny, scowling at her former captor, then glancing to Ix "Beat the ever loving shit out of him."
Ix blasted across the station and straight into Johnny, a shockwave of their energies ripping the floor to shreds on collision, the very foundation crumbling around them. Ix slung Johnny over her shoulder, her follow up punch only hitting the floor as Johnny swiftly rebuilt himself behind her, only for his attack to be interrupted by a bullet splattering his head to pieces, the very first thing he saw upon forming himself a new head being Jack slicing right through him, digging his clawed fingers into his face, colour itself draining from the station as Johnny screeched out from the electricity crackling through him, Marcus sprinting up from behind, leaping over Johnny and unloading bullet after bullet into the eyes on Johnny's chest before Jack tossed the being into a wall, his attempt to spring back into the fight interrupted by Ix appearing in front of him, sliding along the floor as she caught his attack, screaming out the most visceral "FUCK YOU!" she could as she suplexed Johnny with a godly impact, the floor of the station completely giving out, the combatants falling through the mist that filled the metro, surrounded by any loose junk that occupied the station, Johnny and Ix brawling the whole way down until they crashed into another part of the metro, the lights flickering on to reveal what looked like an old, decrepit laboratory, the large glass vats still filled with glowing, acid-looking liquids.
Johnny didn't waste a moment in immediately attacking Delta, wrenching her rifle out of her grip and slamming a fist into her face, a tendril bursting out of his back that swatted Marcus away as he attempted to charge for Johnny once more, his body being flung into a collection of ice-coated canisters, a ghostly chill creeping into the room as one of them ruptured.
Jack's blade was caught by Johnny forming his arm into a blade of his own, the two of them glaring right into each other's hate-filled eyes, Johnny shooting a bolt of purple lightning into Jack's chest, forcing the cyborg to his knees, the vents on his body reopening to release a mass of purple smoke, Jack gasping for breath as he glared up at Johnny, the beast simply cackling until a familiar blue glow filled his vision.
"FORGET SOMEBODY, YOU PRICK!?" Ix screamed, the sound of glass shattering echoing through the lab as the woman smashed a vat of acid into Johnny, the monster screeching out as the acid covered its body, a hissing noise radiating off of his skin as the acid dug into his abyssal body.
"His...weakness is acid?" Marcus coughed as he stood up once again "How?"
"That isn't just acid." An unseen voice spoke, the entire party flinching, yet swiftly noticed the speaker on a table nearby "It's something I made in case he ever gets too out of hand."
"...And who are you?" Jack questioned as his vents closed up, lightning returning over his body.
The voice chuckled "Kill him and you'll find out."
The howl of a wolf echoed throughout the lab and into the fog as Johnny reformed himself into a large, spiked beast of a wolf, purple eyes glaring down at his foes. The shockwave from Ix's takeoff sent the radio on the table smashing to the floor, the sound of croaky laughter fading out from the sparking remains.
Johnny's enormous paw smashed Ix into the floor, his body illuminating purple as he unleashed a storm of purple thunderbolts into the squid, Ix gritting her teeth as she glared back up at the beast, an undying flame in her eyes as her own bolts of lightning slowly began pushing Johnny back, the eldritch beast's glare shifting slightly as the clash sent wild bolts out around the lab, the other three barely dodging the raw power being flung around them.
Ix roared out a throat-shredding scream as her energy overwhelmed the beast that had her pinned, rising into a powerful uppercut faster than even the powered up darkness could comprehend, grabbing him by the horns, fangs grinding together as she spun him around before hurling him at Jack, the cyborg not saying a word as he brought his sword up, slicing clean through the monster hurtling towards him. But in the brief moments that the split pieces of Johnny flew over him, he could have sworn he saw a familiar green eye staring back at him.
Before he even hit the ground, Johnny reformed back into his beastly form, his roar making the ground tremble under his might.
"Shut it." Was the only thing Delta said before blasting Johnny straight in the gullet with a bullet from her rifle, the beast reeling back from the power of the impact.
Marcus looked down to the Octoling as she reloaded her weapon, his eyebrow and lip raised "Kid, the hell happened to you? You were never so..." He exhaled as he looked around at the battlefield, Jack and Ix watching Johnny recover from the shot "Aggressive. Hell, how did you even get out of him!?"
Delta froze for a moment before finishing the reload "Marcus..." She looked up at him, her whole face quivering "I'm scared out of my mind right now...and I don't know how I got out! Th-that's not important now! W-we need to save Rem..."
Marcus sighed, reaching into his pocket and pulling out a single magazine "Shit..." He grumbled as he slammed the magazine into his pistol "7 shots." Training the pistol on Johnny, a smirk formed on his lips "More than enough to kill this soul-snatching bastard."
One more tremendous bellow shook the lab, the vats giving way under the power of the vibrations, bursting open, their contents spilling out onto the floor in a vibrant mess of orange, green and purple.
Marcus wasted no time in immediately shooting out Johnny's eyes, Ix rushing past him to deliver a blow that shook the very foundations of the metro, the acid sizzling as parts of Johnny were clobbered off him and into the mess. Johnny screeched at Ix in retaliation, clamping his fangs down on her arm, blood spurting out from the punctures as the blue warrior was violently tossed about until she smashed her foot into Johnny's newly formed eye, spinning herself up onto his back and yanking the mass that made up his horns clean off, tossing them into the pool of acid where they released...screams, more than hisses. Johnny's whole chest opened up to reveal a swirling vortex of purple and red, Jack's feral scream filling the room as he charged towards it, an enormous bolt of lightning bursting out of his chest and into the vortex. Johnny splattered into thousands of pieces as the vortex exploded, the black mass that made him scattered off to reveal a still-formed Rem, her eyes opening as soon as the darkness flew off her, kicking the now humanoid Johnny towards Jack, her father slicing Johnny's arms clean off, Marcus took to the air, unloading every single bullet he had left into Johnny's side, the monster's course violently changing direction into Delta's line of fire, the bullet cutting Johnny clean in half and once again changing his course, directly towards a sparking Ix, her power-fuelled fist ramming into Johnny with the force of a thousand nukes, the top of the lab being blown clean off and then some, the ocean above the metro parting as an enormous pillar of blue energy shot off into deep space, Johnny's mouth opening wider than ever before as the sunlight flooded the chamber, his screams muffled before it could even begin as he impact into the acid, screams that weren't his own echoing off into the nothing as Johnny thrashed about in the acid, his hand desperately reaching skyward before being consumed by the mess, silence returning unto the metro.
As the airborne fighters landed, Ix's hair returned to normal as she dashed towards Rem, the sisters embracing in each other's arms "It's OK, Ix." Rem's soothing voice sent a wash of relief over Ix "It's OK."
Carefully stepping over the acid, Delta and Marcus made their way over to the Altezios, Jack turning the lever in his chest back down as his vents reopened to let out tremendous amounts of steam, the cyborg chuckling "Let's just hope we don't get ambushed after that. I'll be out for-"
He was interrupted by millions of screams filling the darkness as a twisting tornado of blue shot up into the sky, the group barely able to make out the forms of Inklings, Octolings, all kinds of life in the tornado as they went rocketing upward, the clouds above parting to reveal the orange sun shining down through the hole.
"...We did it." Ix wiped a tear from his cheek "We actually got him."
Marcus chuckled, crossing his arms as he looked up "Yeah." He turned his head to Ix "I guess we did."
Delta dropped her rifle by her side, staggering forward as she continued to stare up at the sun, eyes fixated on its glowing beauty "It's beautiful..."
"Not bad, eh?" Marcus asked the young Octoling "Can't remember the last time I saw the sky."
Jack groaned as he cracked his neck, sparks flying from his joints "So...elephant in the room. Delta, any idea how you got out?"
Rem let out a playful giggle "I can help you with that!" She ruffled Delta's hair, the titanic mother's ever playful grin forming on her lips "In that brief moment he got in my mouth all those months ago, I knew he was trying to get my stuff, y'know? So when he was about to get Ix, that's why I jumped in the way and-"
"You gambled in a fight like this?" Ix interrupted her "The fuck am I gonna do with you..."
"Well it paid off, didn't it!?" Rem protested, arms flung by her sides "Anyway, I think that's why he didn't really dissolve me, to get the most out of my power. And after he switched back to big buff dude form, I was able to overpower his mind for a moment and expel Delta!" She scratched the back of her head as she gave a nervous chuckle "I can't explain the new look, though. So, who wants to go find the big-"
Clapping suddenly came from the hole above them, the whole group assuming a battle stance, staring up at a newly formed entrance in the opening to the world above. Marcus' mouth went agape as the light illuminated the source.
Daal-Wah-Nid stood above them on a metal beam, staring down at the group "Well done, well done." He smirked "Bravo! You did what 100 years never could!"
"You." Marcus snarled, dropping his gun by his side "What do you want?"
Daal-Wah-Nid put a hand to his chin as his ominous chuckle echoed down onto them "Nothing much. Just for you to see...this." As he snapped his fingers, a shadow filled the room, the sky being blotted out by an enormous, shining green statue flying over the exit to the world, armed to the teeth with armour, dozens of weapons and its face masked in a giant cannon "Marcus, was it? Remember the purity I told you about? I finished it off faster than expected."
"No!" Marcus ran forward, shoving past Rem and Ix "You're bluffing!"
Daal-Wah-Nid burst out laughing, walking off the beam...and onto thin air, continuing to stare down at the group "If I was bluffing I would be telling you I already fired it. I just wanted you to know your last moments will be spent trapped down her whilst your families are the first to go. That's all~"
The air began to warm as Rem's blood boiled from those words, embers rising out from the floor.
Daal smirked at Rem, then looked back to Marcus "Mysteeri, was it? I wasn't able to run any experiments on her kind of DNA, I wonder what this will do to her~"
"YOU BASTARD!" Marcus shrieked "YOU LEAVE HER-"
Marcus was sent flying back by a pulse of lavender energy from Daal "Uncouth." He frowned "Why won't you understand this is for the betterment of life itself? This is for..." His frown formed back into a smile "Purity."
And with that, he vanished, leaving the group to stare up at the empty hole to the sky.
The metal around Rem began to melt, Jack looking over to his daughter as her breaths became heavy, turning to grunts, barely holding back feral roars, her hair looking like it had ignited "Rem...deep breathing. We'll-"
"FUCK THE DEEP BREATHING!" Rem screamed, a vicious explosion bursting out from her. The blast went shooting through the vents and tunnels of the metro, incinerating anything that met its path, the now former prison to hellish abominations and tortured souls reduced to a molten pile of scrap in seconds, steam rising out into the atmosphere as the fire burst out from the hole to the sky, Daal looking over his shoulder from atop the statue. In a burst of flames, Rem and the rest of the group appeared across the statue's head, the woman's eyes boring into Daal.
"Hmhm, my my, that was fast." Daal went to clap once more, only for Rem to appear in front of him an instant, grabbing his hand in a tight grip, only to be sent flying backwards and into the decrepit crown of the statue, her flaming aura and heat dissipating instantly.
Not staying down for long, Rem immediately erupted out of the impact zone, Ix joining her without a second of hesitation.
"Come, then!" Daal yelled, raising his arms outward "Show me the power of the Inkling's greatest fighters!"
Their screams reaching the beaches of Ooinkhu, Rem and Ix wreathed themselves in flame, charging for Daal, who swiftly ignited his own lavender aura, blocking the respective kick and punch from the sisters, gripping their limbs and smashing them into the floor, their attempted counter blasts simply bouncing off Daal's skin. Tossing the fighters aside, Daal made a mad dash towards the rest of the group, Jack standing his ground as the villain approached, his sword being grabbed mid swing and snapped clean in two before both parts were jammed into his stomach, Daal turning to Delta and Marcus, grabbing the Octoling's rifle and simply slapping her across the face with it, the impact sending the girl straight into the floor, before turning it on Marcus, snarling as the rifle simply clicked as he pulled the trigger, slamming it into Delta's back as he marched towards the human, the single punch he threw sending Marcus flying across the statue, the Overwatch agent flipping back onto his feet with a scowl on his face. As Daal came running at him again, he dug into his pocket before flinging two yellow earrings at Rem and Ix, which clattered to the ground beside them.
"Over here!" Daal yelled, another punch crashing into the side of Marcus' face, a trail of blood following him as he flew, painting the floor in crimson. Coughing and spluttering, his vision blurred, Marcus glared up at Daal, the bio-android's fists coated in red blood "A valiant effort." He raised his palm slightly, surrounded by a glowing ring of lavender energy "But-"
He was cut short by a tap on the shoulder "Who dares-"
A thunderous boom echoed over the ocean as a fist slammed into Daal's cheek, sending the villain reeling. Clutching his face, he glared over at his attacker "WHO THE FUCK ARE YOU!?"
Opposing Daal stood a tall, muscular man in a black leather vest, hair that looked like an inferno of orange and blue, tattered black jeans and white boots. His green eyes shimmered in the light as he raised a finger to Daal.
"You've gone too far. Now you've gotta deal with Remix."