"Oh my god." Rachel said, opening the front door of her house. The living room still looked like a court room. Erek, Naomi, and Jordan were having a heated discussion around the judge's bench.
When Rachel came in, Naomi and Jordan looked up with twin guilty faces.
"We're so sorry Rachel!" Naomi cried.
"We tried to stop him!" Jordan said.
"It's fine." Rachel said. "Ax is kicking his behind on top of an apartment roof."
She glanced out the window in time to see three red flashes in a row.
"I hope." Rachel grimaced.
"We may be able to bail Ellimist out of oblivion." Erek said. "We're discussing it now."
(Ellimist? Oblivion?) Tobias said.
"You really had to be there." Erek said. "Just deliver the toy."
Rachel went into the kitchen, unceremoniously dumped the barbie into Sara's hands, and stomped back.
"Tell us." Rachel said.
POW! Ax rammed Cryak, and Cryak bellowed loudly, unaccustomed to pain. The sky flashed cyan again.
HOW DARE YOU, YOU PUNY ANDALITE! Cryak cried. He slammed the already battered Ax down to the roof. A reindeer shaped dent appeared in the roof, but Ax leapt right back up.
ZAAAAAPPPP! One billion gigawatts of electricity shot from Cryak's fingers and surged through Ax's body. Ax ignored it and slammed into Cryak again and again.
The bug fighters and yeerks were long since destroyed. Visser three had sacrificed his underlings as a distraction so the he could escape. Ax had let him go; He had more powerful people to worry about.
Ax backed away quickly from Cryak, flying away as fast as he could.
FLEEING? Cryak sneered in a relieved tvoice, something very hard to do.
Ax spun around in the air, and rocketed towards Cryak. A blur of blue doing well over one thousand miles an hour slammed into Cryak's arm.
ARGH! Cryak yelled in pain.
A small, pathetic slit appeared in his shoulder.
A single, feeble drop of the darkest blackness, dropped from Cryak's shoulder. Looking was like being blind. It tumbled through the air and splattered onto the roof, destroying every piece of roof that it touched. It left a pinky sized hole.
But Cryak screamed as if in horrible agony. THAT WAS MY VERY BEING! He cried out. THAT IS THE COSMIC MATERIAL I AM BUILT OF! HOW COULD YOU INJURE ME THAT BADLY?
You would have sworn that Ax smiled. "Magic."
Cryak was no longer holding back. He blasted Ax with everything he had. Ax closed his eyes, and sent the energy back at Cryak tenfold.
The sky lit up pure white, and everybody in the world with their eyes open were immediately stricken blind.
A vision flashed across both of their eyes. A massive explosion. A tear in the universe; a hole in the space-time continuum.
They were destroying the universe.
"I can't believe it!" Ax exclaimed.
Cryak lunged in that split second of disbelief, while Ax had his defenses lowered. He swung with a blow that would kill Ax.
Ax cringed, waiting for the killing blow.
Instead, a strong hand grabbed Cryak's arm. An arm with strength to match his own.
I'M BACK. Ellimist said. AND YOU ARE IN A LOT OF TROUBLE, CRYAK.