Chapter 3
"Oh boy, Kimiko is not going to like this." The portal had left Rai and Jake standing on the Tohomiko toy factory. Or rather the ruins on it. The top half of the building had collapsed in on itself as if something had blasted right through it.
"I'm sure insurance will pay for it." Jake replied casually, happy to have found the portal safe. "Just like the rest of the city."
"Somehow, I doubt they signed for the in case of invasion clause." Rai responded, staring around the city. The place looked as if a bomb went off. Most, if not all the buildings were severely damaged or piles of rubble. Craters appeared everywhere you looked and the only sign of movement was the Nobodies. A near perfect replica of what a city would look like in the world wars. Except for the giant, unscratched black tower in the centre of the city. There were also flashes of multiple coloured lights coming from around the tower, looking like fireworks to the two warriors from their distance. "Let's fly. We've got a lot of ground to cover and Nobodies to avoid."
"Sounds good. Dragon up!" In a burst of flame, Jake returned to his dragon form and the pair took off, using the clouds to cover them from the white foot soldiers' attention.
The view of their flight through the city was pretty much the same as the one of their entrance. Craters, burning cars and buildings in various states of destruction filled your vision wherever you looked. The only differences were the creams become more and more clear, some terrified and desperate, others enrage and one roar that had Jake thinking a giant magical creature was in the area, and the light show around the tower.
"Yo Rai, those aren't fireworks. They look a lot like Gohan or Danny's blasts." Jake called over the battle cries filling the area as they got closer, watching as a beam with a spiral of energy flew into the air, followed by a purple beam and a chilling wind.
"They must be the Z Fighters." Rai stated, pointing at the source of the beams, coming to a halt just outside the war zone. He and Jake stared down as a man with black, fire shaped hair launched a kick at a man in a black cloak, only for it to end with a thunderous clap on the Nobody's blue, diamond shaped shield.
"Why won't you die?" The man growled as he jumped back, charging his hands with purple energy again.
"Because you are no match for me." The cloaked figure gloated, raising his shield carelessly to block the attack, causing his opponent to growl in intense frustration.
"Rai, three of these guys are down." Jake said, drawing Rai's eyes away from the battle and to the ground nearby. Lying there, groaning and struggling to move, was a girl around their age, a green alien and a man that looked shockingly like Gohan.
That would have to be his dad. Rai thought, before turning his attention back to the fight. As he was about to jump in against the Organisation member, he caught sight of a group of the zipper faced Nobodies quickly approaching the wounded through the corner of his eye. We can't let that happen! Gohan will be devastated.
"Jake, we have to help da down guys." He cried. Propelling himself with a burst of wind, Rai dived at the approaching white husks, Jake close behind.
"You handle the white pains, I'll go give the guy with da shield a pain in the neck." Jake responded as he changed course, making a beeline for the cloaked man.
Reaching the ground, Rai landed right in the middle of the approaching menace and immediately started spinning, his arms held out at his sides.
"Wudai Star Wind!" The wind instantly picked up and created a tornado around the Wudai Warrior and collected every one of the Nobodies, spinning them faster then the eye could see before the tornado exploded outward, revealing a grinning Rai and sending every Nobody soaring through the solid walls of the nearby buildings and destroying them.
Meanwhile, Jake reached the battle just as a blast of ice hit the last Z Fighter and knocked him down and unconscious with a final, pained sigh.
The Nobody's body language and snort reeked of cockiness as he watched the Z Fighter fall before him, only to turn in gasp in shock as a dragon filled his entire field of vision. Not letting the shield stop him, Jake pulled up at the last minute and slammed his tail into the figure's chin, throwing him into the air and onto his back, dropping his hood in the process.
Scowling, the man rose back to his feet. With his hood down, Jake and Rai, who'd just turned to the real fight, saw the man had lightly tanned skin, green eyes and dark blonde hair that went half way down his back.
"So, two of the great seven to attack the castle's defences decided to show up here. I have to admit, if any of you did, I would of expected the one like these guys to be here." He commented, staring confidently at the teens.
"And that's why he's not." Rai glared as he put on the crest of the condor and pulled out the blade of the nebula.
"But don't worry, the AmDrag and the Wudai Warrior of wind will be more then a match for you." Jake boasted, landing near Raimundo, claws ready. "So who are you and dude, have you ever heard of a mirror? I don't know what to rip into first, the cloak or the hair."
"I really don't care about my appearance." The Nobody responded, unperturbed by the insult. "But to answer your question, I am Vexen, number four of Organisation 13. And there is no way you can stop me. Even these four, the strongest group on the planet, were unable to stop me."
"We're well rested and very different from them." Rai retorted, readying his blade. "I assure you we'll kick your butt right out of our dimension."
"Lets see you try." Vexen sneered, raising his shield. Thrusting it forward, he released a icy blast straight at the young heroes.
"Crest of the condor! Blade of the nebula." Rai yelled, activating both his magic items and countering the ice blast with hurricane force wind. The elemental assaults met halfway and exploded, hitting both sides with a cold wind, but doing no damage.
"Very impressive." Vexen conceded, though his look of superiority never left his face. "But you stand no chance against me." With that, a dark doorway appeared behind him just as he stepped back, walking straight into it and disappearing as the portal closed.
"What? Where did- Argh!" Jake's sentence was left forever unfinished as the portal reopened behind them and Vexen jumped out, slamming his shield painfully into Jake's side with enough strength to knock him to the ground.
"Whoa!" Rai cried in surprise as he back flipped away from the shield's second assault, barely avoiding the sharp edge.
"Oh, you're not getting away that easily." Vexen sneered, raising the shield straight into the air. Watching Vexen cautiously, already aware of his unpredictable fighting tactics, Rai was completely unprepared as a burst of the same icy power that came from the shield before exploded upward from the ground beneath his feet.
"Argh!" Rai panicked, trying to jump aside before it got bad. However, he wasn't quick enough and the blade and the crest of the condor were frozen in solid ice. Grunting, Rai chopped at the ice and dropped his jaw when it stayed completely intact, not even a scratch on the surface. "What's going on? I've shattered thicker ice before."
"You'll find the results of my power much stronger then the natural thing." Vexen answered cockily, readying for another attack.
"But that doesn't mean you've stopped me with that attack." Raimundo retorted, grabbing hold of his frozen arm. Grunting with his eyes scrunched closed, he pushed down on the crest of the condor and pushed it down, letting it and the blade drop to the ground at his feet. "Now try this." With a yell, he charged straight at Vexen.
"Oh please, a direct assault is useless against me." Vexen snorted, pointing his shield at Rai. Sneering, he released another blizzard at the approaching teen.
Glaring at the Nobody, Rai zigzagged from side to side, dodging the assault until he was only a few feet away from his enemy. Raimundo used his charge's momentum and leapt at Vexen, aiming a powerful tornado kick at the blonde's head, only for it to be blocked by the shield.
"That won't stop me." Rai growled at the sneering Vexen's face, launching himself off of the shield. "Wudai Star wind." Aiming both hands at Vexen, he released a cyclone level gale straight at the ice wielder, only for him to smirk and hold up his shield again. The protective weapon glowed blue and created a wall of ice, completely neutralising the wind. Seeing his attack was useless, a growling Rai cancelled the wind and tensed himself for the next round.
"So you handle wind like it's nothing, now lets try fire." Jake called from behind Vexen, soaring not far above. Throwing his head forward, he breathed a flamethrower directly at the Nobody's back.
"I don't think so." Turning around to face the red reptile, Vexen raised his shield straight into the fire's path and released another ice blast, blocking the flames as easily as the wind. "I assure you I'm more then you're capable of competing with. Give up and I promise your transformation to my kind will be quick."
"Not a chance. Wudai Star wind." Rai yelled, sending another gale at Vexen's back. Scowling at the view from the corner of his eye, he raised his shield straight up flat over his head, his face scrunched up in concentration. Once again, the whole shield glowed blue, but this time it created a dome of icy energy around him, protecting him from both attacks.
"Man, this guy's harder to stop then Fu's mouth." Jake cried, agitated as he took the deep breath his body commanded of him after breathing fire for so long.
"And I'm just getting started." Vexen sneered before his face changed to one of concentration. With a loud growl escaping Vexen's throat, his shield's glow brightened and flared a second before the dome imploded.
"ARGH!" Unprepared, both boys were blown back and landed hard, Raimundo into a car and Jake into a pile of rubble, both their bodies covered in frost.
"Oohh, man that smarts." Jake groaned, the frost making it hard to move off the rock imbedded in his back. Breathing softly, he exhaled a small flame down his body, defrosting himself before rising painfully to his feet.
A slash at his side had Rai whimpering as he used his wind power to levitate himself from the car and expel the ice.
"I never thought I'd find someone as tough as Chase Young." Raimundo said shakily, placing one hand on his wound as the other dug into his pocket. "Let's try a new strategy. Serpent's tail." As the serpent's tail glowed gold, Raimundo's body turned transparent and he took off straight for Vexen.
"I see you're slow learner. Or short a brain." Vexen taunted, sending another icy blast at Rai, only for his eyes to widen as the monk phased right through it.
"You were saying?" Rai taunted as best he could with pain coursing through his veins right before turning tangible again and landing a vicious roundhouse kick into Vexen's rib cage, avoiding the shield completely. Caught completely off guard, Vexen released a cry of pain of his own and fell to the ground. However, as he fell, his analytical mind snapped back into control and he spun his body around and used his shield to knock the serpent's tail from Rai's hand.
"Hey!" Rai cried in outrage, aiming both feet at Vexen's exposed gut in retaliation as the man hit the ground. However, Vexen's arm moved like lightning and brought the shield up a second before contact.
"You don't seem to be moving as fast." Vexen commented mockingly as he flung his arm and shield, throwing a startled Rai away before rising to his feet. "And the lizard is getting predictable."
Whipping his body around almost too fast for the boys to see, Vexen smirked coldly at the surprised Jake and thrust his shield forward.
"Aahh!" Jake moved to dodge the resulting ice blast only for it to catch his wings and with them incapable of flapping, he crashed into the ground, sliding on his belly a good seven feet before coming to a stop. Gasping at the painful landing, Jake tried to get up, but before he could even get on all fours, the sharp pain of a combat boot on his back forced him back into the broken concrete.
"Not one warrior here has the power to stop me. But you will make great allies." Vexen stated victoriously as his eyes scanned the area. Off to one side, both Piccolo and Goku were staring defiantly through one and a half open eye respectively, but their bodies were too wounded to get back into the fight. Nearby, Videl was unconscious and Vegeta was barely awake, the only way you could tell he wasn't out cold was the constant groans and growls he released. Everything was working better then he…
"Wait, where is the boy?" He growled, nearly ripping his head off of his shoulders with the speed he turned it in search of the wayward monk.
"WIND!" Vexen screamed with wide eyes as a sudden burst of wind knocked him straight into the air from behind and away from Jake. Turning around in mid air, his expression changed to disbelief as he watched Rai appear out of thin air, pulling a black cloak away from his body before he landed on the ground flat on his back.
"How did you do that?" Vexen scowled, pulling himself to his feet.
"The shroud of shadows is a very useful Shan Gong Wu." Rai shrugged nonchalantly as he raised his other hand, using the hand hold the shroud to touch Jake. "And look what I picked up while you were patting yourself on the back. Serpent's tail." As the item glowed, Rai nudged Jake and motioned for him to move. Shrugging, a little confused, Jake rose himself to his feet. His eyes lit up and he sighed in relief as he watched the ice from his wings phase right through him, freeing him from the weight, the cold and most importantly, the inability to fly.
"Thanks brudda, I needed that. But do you have a plan for this guy?" Jake asked right before grabbing Raimundo and taking off into the air, narrowly avoiding the furious Vexen's ice blast.
"Nope, everything we throw at him, he just blocks and retaliates." Rai sighed, swinging around onto Jake's back. "We've tried both long and short ranged attacks. What else can we do?"
Frowning, Jake glided to the left, avoiding another icy geyser as Vexen's battle cries echoed throughout the area. "It's just too bad my flames can only get so strong. I mean, fire beats ice. If I could just breathe more flames then… wait a second, that's it!" He cried happily, doing a loop in the air to avoid another shot, earning a startled gasp from Raimundo.
"What's got you so happy?" Rai asked agitatedly. "And could you give me a little warning next time?"
"Sorry." Jake replied sheepishly, quickly weaving through multiple columns of icy energy before answering the question. "Dude, you have wind power and, if used correctly, wind can increase fire. If we combine our powers, we should be strong enough to beat him."
"Sounds good. Let's give it a shot." Rai smirked, right before leaping off the dragon's back. "Wudai Star wind."
Just as the high pressure winds were released from Rai's hands, Jake took a deep breath and blew out the biggest flamethrower he could muster. As predicted, the flames grew bigger and stronger as they headed towards the earth, straight at the frosty Nobody.
"What? NO!" Vexen screamed in panic, hastily raising his shield and creating an icy dome. However, unlike before, the flames were only blocked for a few seconds before they destroyed the dome and consumed the Nobody. Vexen screamed in pure agony as the flames met his skin, a sound that continue through the whole duration of the joint blast. When Jake and Raimundo finally let up and dropped to the ground, a charcoal coloured Vexen was revealed on his hands and knees, sucking in agonised gasps as wisps of dark energy left his body.
"You have defeated me, but I assure you that you are no match for the superior or the others in Organisation 13." He croaked, staring at the teens with malice firmly set in his eyes.
"No way chump, we'll beat them just like we beat you." Jake retorted, standing proudly in front of his dissolving enemy.
"Fool. Each of them is at LEAST as strong as me. Plus you're outnumbered. You will fall." With that, the last of Vexen's body dissolved into dark energy, fading straight out of existence. Seeing him disappear, Raimundo sagged tiredly to the ground.
"So glad that's over. He was near overwhelming."
"Yeah, he's gone, but what about the tower?" Jake asked, turning to the offensive building and growling at the Heartless preparing to leave it. "If we don't destroy it now, we're gonna have more problems. And that's not including the swarm of Nobodies coming our way." He added, the sound of falling rubble alerting him to the threat all around them.
"Don't worry, we'll deal with it." A deep voice stated from behind them. Startled, the teens turned to find the Z Fighters back on their feet.
"Whaa? How are you standing again?" Jake cried, staring in disbelief at the four warriors before him.
"Videl had a handful of Senzu beans." Goku grinned before glaring at the tower. "I got the tower, you guys take care of the Nobodies." With that said, he levitated into the air and cupped his hands at his side, gathering energy into a blue ball. "Ka Ma Ha Ma HA!" With a roar, he shot the blast at the tower and caused an instant detonation, destroying every Heartless within along with it. Happy with the result, he turned back to help his team mates, leaving the stunned dragon and monk duo with their jaws on the ground.
"He's even more powerful then Gohan, or Danny." Rai stated, his eyes not leaving the rubble. Nodding his head, Jake was pulled out of the awe induced trance by a loud roar and turned to see the continuing battle.
"Yo Rai, time to snap out of lala land, we gotta get back." He called, shaking the stunned monk back into reality. Shaking his head clear, Rai nodded and moved to grab his now defrosted wind elemented items before pulling out his magical claws.
"Here we go. Golden tiger claws." With another slash, a portal was opened and the boys headed through, back to the castle.
Three pairs of varyingly shaded green eyes stared out in amazement around them as the park they'd arrived in beared witness to the most bizarre battle ever seen. All around them were Nobodies of all the different forms they'd seen, but what really amazed the trio of super heroes was the magical creatures opposing them. Wherever, you looked, unicorns charged, ogres threw fists, goblins rode motorbikes and slugged whatever came into their path and every other creature imaginable, and some even they never would have believed existed, jumped, flew and assaulted the Nobodies. Even the tiniest of magical creatures were getting right in the whites husks' faces.
"I know Jake mentioned all the magic creatures in New York fighting back, but this is far beyond what I thought I'd be." Gwen stated, staring wide eyed as a group of giants suddenly made an appearance, clubs in hand and swung at the Nobodies, sending them crashing through far buildings.
"No kidding. But we've got to move." Danny responded, shaking his head and taking into the air. "If the resistance is this strong in New York, imagine how strong the Organisation's forces will be if their branch here isn't shut down."
Nodding, Ben turned his attention to the omnitrix and dialled in the alien he wanted. Finding his choice, he slapped it down and transformed in a flash of green light.
"Big Chill." Unwrapping his robe/wings, he grabbed Gwen by the hands and followed Danny towards the crumbling sky scrapers, the dark tower hidden within.
As the trio flew, they were constantly amazed by the battles going on. Though the magical creatures were clearly losing numbers frequently, they were still able to stand their ground and hold off the Nobodies in a large number of areas. Not only that, but even more different breeds kept showing up.
"Hey guys, I found it." Danny called, bringing Ben and Gwen's attention back ahead of them. Turning around a partially destroyed building, they found the offending structure. Looking around the area, they found it was already being attacked, by three dragons in the air and four ordinary looking people with a dragon costume and metal poles on the ground. While the humans on the ground were trying desperately to hold off Nobodies, the dragons were constantly dodging plates of Earth flying their way, preventing them from helping their allies or attacking the tower.
"I believe it's time we intervene." Ben said hauntingly before he let go of Gwen and left her to levitate. Turning intangible, he swooped straight to the ground and found a cloaked figure holding a weapon that looked like a cross between an axe and a sword.
"Hello tall, dark and ugly, how about you chill out?" Ben took a deep breath and blowed, freezing the caught off guard figure in a thick layer of ice.
With the source frozen, the dragons were free of the barrage of earth and swooped down toward their friends, flying low in a circle, they slashed, whipped and burned the Nobodies away from the humans.
Seeing another group coming from behind the buildings, Danny and Gwen threw up their hands and released green and blue beams respectively at them, one with a battle cry and the other with a chant and blasted them into oblivion.
With a momentary reprieve, Danny and Gwen landed on the ground to check on the homebound fighters, Ben close behind.
"Is everyone ok?" Danny asked as the dragon's landed protectively around the humans.
"Yes, we are fine young one." The blue dragon answered, glancing over everyone to ensure what he said was true. "But we are tiring and are unable to destroy that tower with all it's defenders at our throats."
"Don't worry about that." Ben replied, his eerie voice sending chills down most of the group's spines. "We'll destroy-"
Before he could finish his sentence, the iceberg he'd made around the cloaked figure imploded with a bang and a roar from it's former prisoner, propelling ice shards at deadly speeds straight at the assortment of defenders. Acting on instinct, Danny threw his hands up and created a dome of ectoplasmic energy, saving them by the skin of their teeth.
"It will not be easy to defeat me young warriors." A deep voice stated calmly from the burly, cloaked man. Raising his free hand, he pushed back his hood, revealing an older looking face with blue eyes and auburn hair pushed back into spikes at the back of his head. Looking right at the newcomers, a small smirk grew on his face. "I see that three of the seven who chose to attack the castle have come. This will make things much more interesting."
"You think that you can stop all three of us?" Danny asked, smirking right back at the Nobody. "We're three of the most powerful people on the planet. What makes you think you have a chance?"
"You mean besides the army of Nobodies arriving behind you?" The man asked nonchalantly, nodding his head behind them. Turning cautiously around, all three glared at the white mass approaching. They knew they couldn't take them all on, especially with the Organisation member to deal with. "But that aside," Said member continued, drawing their attention back to him. "I am Lexaeus, one of the strongest members of Organisation 13. The chances of you defeating me are minimal."
"But you have forgotten us." The White dragon growled, turning to the approaching army.
"Young ones, you focus solely on Lexaeus, we shall handle his minions." The blue dragon said before leaping at the Nobodies. Each with a roar, his six companions followed after him, keeping the enemy line as far from the trio as possible.
"Well, time to rock." Danny said, glaring at the earth shaker. With a cry of his own, he flew head on, his hands charged with ecto energy.
His face remaining neutral, Lexaeus flung his axe sword into the ground, sending strong tremors through it that knocked Ben and Gwen off balance, and sent two large boulders straight at a surprised Danny.
Danny quickly turned intangible a second before being hit and flew straight through the rock. As soon as he emerged on the other side, he shot an energy blast right at Lexaeus' chest.
Grinning amusedly at the ghost boy, Lexaeus swung his axe sword just as the shot approached him and blocked it with his blade. When the beam ended, Danny was shocked to find it had no affect whatsoever.
"What? No way!" Danny gasped, completely thrown for a loop at the lack the result of his blast, or lack thereof. "Even that giant black Heartless was hurt by my blasts. How could that have done nothing?"
"I am well beyond any Heartless." Lexaeus responded uncaringly as he turned his weapon at Danny. "You are no match for me."
"What is it with bad guys and that overused cliché?" Gwen retorted, raising her hands. "Constrictus Sentorium!" Blue magic tendrils shot out of Gwen's hands and wrapped themselves tightly around Lexaeus' limbs, binding him in place. Smirking, Lexaeus whipped his arms out to his sides as if the magical restraints weren't even there and ripped himself free of them. Gwen gasped, wide eyed in amazed terror. No one had ever broken through her spells so easily.
"Restraints won't work here. We'll need a different approach." Ben stated, turning to the symbol on his chest. Placing his hand on it, he transformed again in a flash of green. "Diamondhead." Out of the light appeared a blue and purple crystalline form.
Charging in, much like Danny did, Ben took a leap ten feet away from Lexaeus. While airborne, he fired down a barrage of diamond daggers at the Nobody, causing him to levitate a plate of earth between them for protection. Taking advantage of Lexaeus' lack of vision, he created two big and long blades from his wrists and sliced clean through, right at the Nobody. As soon as the rock plate above broke in half, Lexaeus altered his weapon's position just in time to block the diamond blades aimed at his head.
Seeing that he couldn't get his blades past Lexaeus', Ben landed a kick to the man's unprotected gut, knocking him back with a grunt before sending a striking with crystals across the ground similarly to a wave, knocking him into the air and further back into the tower's wall.
"Now that's what I'm talking about." Ben said proudly, smirking at the downed Nobody. "And you thought we couldn't win."
Using his axe sword as an aid, Lexaeus pulled himself right back onto his feet mostly unharmed, much to the now groaning Ben's disappointment, and dusted off his cloak, giving Ben a small, taunting grin.
"Impressive combination and power, but it won't suffice in this battle." He stated calmly, readying his weapon for another attack. He slammed the blade into the ground again, creating an earthquake. The shaking threw Ben completely off balance and onto the ground and created a sudden hole in the ground underneath Gwen, causing her to fall with a scream.
"Gwen!" Ben cried as he tried to get up, turning to where Gwen had been. It was all the opening Lexaeus needed.
"Ben, watch out." Danny cried as he dashed forward. Turning back around to whatever had Danny worried, Ben's mouth went wide as the axe sword slammed straight in and through his side, sending him spinning into the air with an agonised scream.
Eyes widening at the sight before him, Danny quickly dodged the injured crystalline and headed back toward Lexaeus. Scrunching his face up in concentration, he created three clones of himself and the four of them surrounded the earth wielding Nobody.
"You can duplicate yourself. Very impressive." Lexaeus stated as he looked around, fascinated by the power.
"You have no idea." They all said together before attacking. The Dannys on Lexaeus' right and left flew in, simultaneously throwing punches to his head. Raising his hand, Lexaeus summoned two walls of earth to block their assaults, only for two simultaneous energy blasts to hit his exposed chest and back, bringing a grunt of pain from him. Having expected something like that to happen, the other two Dannys phased through the walls and landed punches straight into his face.
Groaning at the unexpected assault, Lexaeus ploughed his weapon into the earth and roared loud enough for half the city to hear it. Blades of earth, twice as large as the axe sword, rose from the ground by the hundreds all around the battle zone. The Dannys cried out in pain as the blades hit and flung them all away, the duplicates all disappearing in green flashes and puffs of smoke while the original focused all his pained mind on turning intangible.
Ben had just managed to sit up as he saw the attack coming and gasped before sealing himself inside a crystal sphere, protecting him from harm while a levitating Gwen created a magical force field around herself.
Panting slightly at the exertion, Lexaeus let his attack die and watched as the heroes pulled out of their defences, all three amazed by the amount of power his last assault held.
"All your powers are very interesting and you are very resourceful, but as you have just witnessed, my power outdoes yours." Lexaeus stated as he calmed his breathing, his body returning to it's more passive state. "Surrender now and your conversions to Nobodies will be as quick and painless as possible."
"There's no way we'll give up." Danny grunted as defiantly as he could with his body banged up. Plenty of those blades had hit him before he finally went intangible.
"So be it." Lexaeus said calmly, raising his weapon. His passiveness disappeared then as he swung the axe sword wildly into the ground repeatedly, sending a barrage of giant and fats moving boulders straight at the teens. Danny quickly took to the air, only Lexaeus to send earth skyward and intercept Danny's flight path, knocking him back with a cry of pain. Ben hit the omnitrix again and transformed into Goop just as the boulders reach him and was splattered while Gwen cast wind spells to blow the boulders away from her.
Slamming the blade of his axe sword into the ground again, Lexaeus had the earth propel him almost faster then the eye could see, straight at Gwen. Seeing him coming, Gwen threw up a force field which Lexaeus swung his axe sword straight into. The blade hit with such force that the force field shattered and the blade went on to slam into Gwen, ploughing her into the ground as she screamed, winded and in pain.
"AAAHHH!" The impact kicked up dust and tore at Gwen's clothes. Her body shook in pain as she laid there, her breath coming out in ragged gasps.
"Gwen!" Ben cried shrilly with his new, squeaky voice as the anti gravity device regathered and reformed his slimy body. Furious at the blow to his cousin, he used the gravity device to fly the slimy body at Lexaeus and threw a left hook at the man's face. Lexaeus raised his axe sword to block it, but the slime just split and went around it, continuing on and landing the blow. Lexaeus stumbled back from the shot and before he could even get his bearings, another shot out and hit him in the cheek, knocking him to the ground with a low grunt.
Gasping deeply, Gwen finally managed to get onto her feet as Lexaeus rose again, looking more annoyed then anything else. Back flipping away, Gwen put some distance between her and the Nobody and raised her glowing blue hands again.
"Incendio!" A flamethrower was released from her hands and hit Lexaeus right in the back, but once again, the results were minimal. All it did was force him a couple of steps forward with a growl before he spun around and used his blade to block the flames, simultaneously throwing a rock at Goop's anti-gravity device, knocking it away and leaving the slimy body as a puddle on the ground.
"He's too strong. How do we stop someone this tough?" Gwen asked as she cancelled out the flames and putting up a shield to block the retaliating earth spears.
"You don't." Lexaeus responded, readying his weapon again. However, before he could strike again, he bent over with pained groan as if something had kick him in the stomach a second before his had whipped to the right and his body followed it to the ground with a thump.
Confused looks covered both Gwen and Lexaeus' faces at the occurrence, unsure what happened, until a snicker heralded the sudden appearance of Danny Phantom.
"I'm part ghost remember? Invisibility is a standard power." He smirked, floating back as Lexaeus lashed out with his axe sword and landed next to Gwen as Goop joined them, rising from the ground into his humanoid form.
"I say it's time to stop fighting him individually." Danny said, turning to his allies. "Our individual attacks aren't having any real affect, so lets see what a joint effort can do."
"There's an idea we should have had from the start." Gwen commented before raising her hands again. "Let me get the ball rolling. Seditio Nebula."
Mist rose from all around the area at her call, covering the battle so thickly it was impossible for a normal human to see. Eyes widening slightly at the sudden twist, Lexaeus looked from side to side, trying desperately to find his enemies.
"Now I did not expect this." He muttered, frowning at his continued inability to see. Getting frustrated, he raised his axe sword again, intending to shoot daggers from the entire battle ground.
But just before he swung downward, a green energy blast hit his hands, causing him to cry out in pain as he dropped his weapon.
"I think we've had enough rock and roll for one day." Danny jeered as he flew by and grabbed the axe sword in both hands. Smirking at the large Nobody, his hands glowed with green energy that covered the weapon and reduced it to a pile of dust.
"NO! You'll pay for that ghost boy." Lexaeus roared, leaping at him. Raising his fist, he encased it in earth and tried to slug Danny in the gut, only for the boy to become intangible.
"You'll have to do better then that." Danny said cheerfully, turning tangible again. As Lexaeus tried again, Danny just lazily levitated himself up and out of reach.
"Fly won't protect you fro-"
"Chromastone!" A smooth voice interrupted with a flash of green light. A second later, a purple crystalline being similar to Diamondhead appeared out of nowhere with his hands clasped together and slugged Lexaeus hard in the chest, knocking up back a good twenty feet with a scream.
"You underestimated our abilities Lexaeus. Now be ready to fall." Ben stated calmly as Gwen stepped out of the fading mist, arms already raised.
"You broke through ice and raw magic, so lets see if you can break through substances that seal earth. Crescere Viti!" Vines rapidly grew from the ground and wrapped around the rising Nobody. Growling, Lexaeus tried to pull away, but the thick, organic restraints wouldn't budge and just continued to grow and wrap around more of his body.
"This isn't possible. One of the oldest and most powerful members of Organisation 13 and I'm being held down by weeds?" He growled in angered disbelief.
"Kinda embarrassing isn't it?" Danny said teasingly as he and Gwen moved to his sides, Ben staying right in front of him, and forming a triangle. "And now it's time to end this."
All three heroes raised their hands at Lexaeus, all glowing green, blue and in Ben's case, multiple colours dominated by white. Focusing all the power they had into their hands, they simultaneously fired their beams at chest point, aiming directly where Lexaeus' heart should have been.
"NO!" Lexaeus yelled, his eyes widening in horror a second before the blasts collided with him. As the beams connected to him, their energies swirled all around, mixing and building up as an agonised scream came from the centre. A minute after it started, Lexaeus let out one last shrill scream before the energy exploded outward, knocking all three heroes back with cries of their own as dust and smoke covered the area and drew the attention of the dragons and their friends. When the dust cleared, nothing of Lexaeus remained. Even the tower, which Lexaeus had been standing right in front of, had crumbled, the Heartless within destroyed. However, Danny, Gwen and Ben, in human form, were on the ground, unconscious.
"Son, Susan, get them out of here while we hold off the armies." Lao Shi ordered as he slashed at another dragon shaped Nobody and flung it's lance into another.
Both women immediately headed over to the young saviours, each wearing looks of concern as they approached, but before they could get half way there, the arrival of another dark corridor and a cloaked figure stopped them in their tracks.
"Well, this is surprising." The cloaked man droned as he turned from the women to the teens. "I never thought even they'd have the power to defeat Lexaeus, yet they've done just that and destroyed the tower at the same time. Xemnas will be very pleased with their capture."
"Don't you dare touch them." Son roared, diving at the Nobody, only for him to knock her back and into the ground with one swift kick.
"Son!" Susan gasped, running over to her hurt friend, checking for injuries as the white dragon groaned.
"A very interesting species, you dragons." Zexion stated in that same dull voice. "But I'll observe your species later." With that, he snapped his fingers and three of the weakest Nobodies rose from the ground in a flash of light. Each one grabbed a teenage hero as Zexion created another door of darkness. Leading them in, Zexion completely ignored the screams of the world's inhabitants to stop as he closed the portal and headed for the castle.