Onward they raced trying to close the distance between them and their comrade while putting as much between them and the mantas. The Ulrich army still cut their way through the enemy ranks but mostly weaved their way in and out of Xana's army.

Over head the mantas began to charge their attack. It started off at their 'mouth', or where the mouth would be if they had any, and two small spheres formed. Then red electricity bridge the gap between the two and then began to rotate, leave a crimson aura in its wake. After finishing a 180, a blazing red disk had formed in place of the two spheres. Now it began to expand as if filling with malicious intent till it became a large ball of energy, a blazing red star in its center, the rest a slightly darker shade of red.

"Guys there bout to fire" Yumi called, looking over her shoulder. She closed her eyes and focus on every fan she could find and sent them after those mantas, in an attempt to hopefully slice them into a million pieces, however it was stopped by a laser barrage coming from Xana's army, those that made it through were stopped by three elliptical laser walls.

"Strike. Laser. CLAW!!" Odd cried as he slash down with both of his arms sending a golden 'X' shaped cross flying into the fray. However it was intercepted by squadron of hornets.

"God Dammit" Odd swore as he turned around and started running again. They were running outta ideas and time as those manta continued to charge their blast

Suddenly an eerie wail began to sound through the air as if something was crying in despair. It was coming from the mantas as they at last finished charging. With one last wail the launch the sphere at Jeremy's unprotected back side.

Yumi closed her eyes focus as a pink aura as she sent wave after wave of psychic energy at it trying to set it off before it reached its target. It plowed through each with little to no resistance. Concentrating again Yumi summoned up all the power she could muster and set it in front of screaming blast. It hit with the force of a wrecking ball on Yumi's mind but somehow she managed to hold on but the strain of the task as more than she could have ever anticipated. It forced her to her knees almost as soon as it made contact.

"Yumi what are you doing?" Ulrich cries as he rushes to her side, his clones and Odd hold the army off of them. He's eyes shot to the lyokian skies as he sees the shot straining against what looked like a glass wall. The amount of concentration of her psychic powers was so much so that it could be seen. Cracks spider webbed their way across the surface to be sealed then form again as Yumi lost herself in trying to stop it. His gaze returned to Yumi as he as he her to him wishing he could offer her his strength.

Seemingly out of nowhere, two energy walls slammed into the wall on either side of the sphere. Yumi's telekinetic barricade, which barely held the blast at bay shattered like glass as the blast careened off towards its target once again.

"Nooo!!!" Ulrich cried as watched Yumi fall in the time it took for her to fall a number of feelings went through his mind. A deep sadness that filled his soul to the very core. And just as quickly, it was replaced with a blinding rage that consumed him entirely. So blinded by his rage was he that he failed to notice the elliptical lasers heading towards him. Odd seeing them leaped over his friends, claws out and glowing.

"Strike-Laser- CLAW!!!" he cried as he grabbed both lasers in his claw gauntlets. The force and strain of holding two energy walls was slowly pushing him back.

"Hey Ulrich, mov-…" he froze mid-sentence as he glanced over his shoulder. There was another energy wall heading towards Ulrich and Yumi. Before he could shout out for them to move, he noticed something. It was Ulrich, his body was glowing softly at first but became more and more fierce as the wall drew closer. When it was almost upon them Ulrich through his head back and released a tortured cry to the heavens. Along with this cry the energy that was building up inside him expanded outward in a dome shape. The crimson sphere that was heading towards Jeremy was hit and sent off course it sailed off to the side of Jeremy and Xana impacting on a nearby glacier, but that is not all that was done. As the dome expanded, every clone it touched began to glow just as Ulrich had as they leaped into the air landing next to their master. Every clone held still as if in some kind of trance. The energy they were building up took on the consistency of lightning as it jumped from clone to clone, it begun moving so fast that it looked as if they were each glowing with a fierce radiance from within.

Off in the distance, the wail of the mantas was returning as the glided their way over the battlefield. The sound seemed to have awakened Ulrich from his trance as his head snap up and stared off in their direction. With an inhuman cry, each Ulrich dashed forward clashing against the Xana's army. They crashed against them like a wave against the shore. Pieces of metal sent flying into the air like the spray of the sea. The pure ferocity and blood lust Ulrich showed was disturbing Odd to say the least. He wasn't even trying to defend himself anymore. The sheer carnage of it all sparked a memory of a passage he had once read in a manga.

: Flashback-passage:

A: "what's happening…"

B: "what's happening? What happens in castle towers in all times and places just before surrender? One thing and one thing only. An absolutely one-sided…Massacre."

: End of flashback:

That small bit seemed to sum up all that was happening at this moment. They threw themselves at the hoard, some even going as far as stepping on the others to get at them. Still aways off, the mantas charged the attack and prepaid to let it loose again. At the site of this the Ulrichs multiplied like mad forming a wave of body as one burst through the top, leaping into the air and heading straight for the mantas. Once a again the accursed shot was fired, this time Ulrich was intercepting it. as he flew towards the shot, the Ulrich concentrated and sent the energy he and the rest were building into his blade. Energy flew up from every Ulrich to that one, making his blade look like a small lightning rod as it overflowed with murderous intent, it begun to pulse as it fill more and more with energy.

With every ounce of strength within him, Ulrich swung his blade as hard as he could smashing it into the crimson sphere. Every cybernetic strand of his body strained against the force at contact as he kept pressing his attack. for the few seconds this lasted it almost seemed as if he was on par with the power of the crimson sphere, that is until his blade began to crack. It wasn't meant to hold so much energy, nor go up against it either. The sound of the cracking began to get more consistent as it they ran throughout the blade just before it shattered Ulrich transfered the energy from his blade to his fist as he struck the back of his blade an through the blast. The resulting explosion made the previous ones pale in comparison as the blinding light struck out followed by the shock wave. monster that weren't destroyed were sent fling by the blast. A good portion of Xana's Army was obliterated from it. All around you could see the scatted remains of monsters not finished devertualizing or were just beginning, among the remnants of the army none of the clones remained. no matter where one looked, Ulrich could not be found.

: Odd's pov:

While Ulrich was wrecking havoc on Xana's army, Odd took this chance to escape. he reached down and scooped yumi still unmoving form into his arms and sped of as fast he could, trying to get her as far away as he can. Up ahead he saw a waterfall hoping he was right he entered from the side and stepped into a large cavern. as soon as he step inside a great flash of light came from behind him then the shock wave knocked my forward almost dropping Yumi as he tumbled over her, landing on his back. After getting back up and leaning her against the wall he went back to the entrance and peered out side. What he saw was a was a large area where Xana's army had been was blown away there were pieces of monsters scattered all around as well as devurtualizing bodies of Ulrichs clones. but yet no matter where he looked he could not find the body of the original.

"Ulrich, what have you do?" Odd whispered quietly