Unicron, whilst drifting through space, was angered deeply once again. Those words of Chad echoed in him, those words the one that stopped him before spoke…
Primus…
He kept hearing those words, more and more, it was just drilling into him. Like as if it was a warning of what Chad is. Unicron tried hard to ignore it. He was ready to cause a new time of Chaos, and another Oswald won't stop him this time.
Then he saw them, quite far in the distance, but they were coming his way…the fleet. He chuckled darkly, noticing that it wasn't just a GF force coming at him. " I see. Many of the forces in this Universe seem eager to try and stop me before I make them truly tremble. This will be entertaining for me."
As the fleet begun to close the gap between them and Unicron, he decided to give them a chance of changing their minds, his voice, as it boomed out, was heard on all vessels. "Have you come to ask for mercy? Have I already caused you all to tremble before I make true havoc on your pitiful Universe? If you are here for mercy, you will need to offer me much, much more then just your submission. I am one that is hard to bargain with."
Rufus, on the Bridge of his ship, the Galactica, was just standing there, his hands in his pockets, as the rest of his bridge crew were looking out the windows, staring in horror at Unicron, as the light created every time he speaks, flows into the bridge. Master Chief and Robotnik were there, watching him. Rufus just smirked a little, then looked to Master Chief. "Chief. The moment I click my fingers, I want you to send the signal for all ships to open fire, including this one, then begin our planned circle formation."
Chief nodded, then walked over to one of the bridge crewman. Rufus had then got his hands out of his pockets, and motioned at one of the officers to open the communication channel. "Let me answer Unicron."
The person nodded, then after a moment. "Cha-Channel is open sir."
Rufus walked forward, towards the windows. "Unicron…the infamous Planet Eater from the time of Primus. Once again, alive and kicking in our territory. You're speaking to Rufus Shinra, of the Galactic Federation…it's new emperor, after you eaten the last puppet one."
The voice of the Planet Eater heard him. " You speak of the last fleet to stand in my way, don't you? So what will you do? Plead? Offer your servitude to me? I am not without mercy, human. With the right sacrifice, I am willing to make you worthy enough to be allowed to live."
Rufus smiled. "Please, spare me the mercy talk. I've come here to make history, not bow down to some scrap heap of the past. You're days are over Unicron. This Universe doesn't need something like you."
"You are bold, to mock me. But you have chosen a set of foolish words. As now, I will first consume you, and those you have brought to this place, before I consume your world, and their worlds will soon follow after."
"You're welcome to try." with that, Rufus clicked his fingers.
The ships opened fire. All of them firing off lasers and Phasers alike, rushing forward, striking the giant machine planet before them. Unicron didn't seem to mind their effort, but failed to notice what they were aiming for, as a lot of the weapons fire did miss their targets, some hit, destroying several of his many shield emitters.
Soon all the ships begun to either turn slightly to the left or right, splitting up, and slowly, combined with the lightshow they were causing with their constant barrage of fire, surround Unicron, destroying more and more of his shield emitters. Eventually the ships started to pass each other going around Unicron, and he was getting ready to deal with these bugs.
His mouth shined brightly for a moment, before it unleashed several white beams at the alliance of ships. Most of the beams hadn't been aimed well, but one hit a Romulan Warbird, blasting right through, pretty much decapitating, the head section of the ship, effectively disabling it, while another struck a Star Destroyer of the Galactic Empire, tearing it a massive hole through it, causing it to drift for a moment, the sheer power of the energy damaging all it's systems and causing them to shut down momentarily, before they were able to stabilise themselves, and get back into the fight.
This is when the Galactic Empire, the Rebel Alliance and the Galactic Federation unleashed more annoyances to Unicron, deploying their combined might of TIE fighters, X-Wings, Y-Wings and the GF's own little combat ships, known as Lamadas.
Starfleet and those from it's part of the Universe didn't really have such small combat vessels, but their cruisers and such were fast enough, as a Klingon Bird of Prey vessel, is nimble enough to just evade a energy beam from Unicron mouth, just the edge of the beam hitting it's shields, as he unleashes a second wave, letting the energy beam hit a GF warship instead, right in the middle of it's length, and ripping right though, tearing it in half.
By his third wave of energy beams at them, he was getting frustrated at the sheer amount of annoyances now swarming him. "I see that I'll have to force myself to eat a rather large starter, before my main course….but there is just a little too much, I'll have to break some of it down first."
The jagged maw begun to slowly open up. On the Enterprise, on red alert, Worf noticed something being detected on his stations computer. "Sir, we're picking up a large energy reading from Unicron! Much larger then previous!"
Picard quickly stood up. "Data, what's the status on those Shield emitters?"
"Many of them have been destroyed around the opening. Captain, I suggest we send this information to Rufus so we can begin phase two."
Then, firing out from it's mouth, was a huge, red wave of energy, it's trajectory was wide, and it caught at least 20 or so ships in it's wake, along with a good 80 or something combat fighters.
Darth Vader saw this from the bridge of his ship. "What's happening to those vessels?"
"We don't know lord Vader. Their armor and shields are rapidly being damaged. It's like a rain of laser fire." was one of his men's answers to the situation. Then they begun to see the effects of the energy, as the small combat fighters begun to explode, one by one, in rapid succession.
On the Enterprise, those on the bridge were watching in horror. "Captain! Two of our ships, the USS Kolto and the USS Babylon are caught within the energy attack! They're both sending out a distress signal, shields are beginning to collapse!" Worf called out.
"Data, can we somehow adapt our shield frequency to that energy and commence a rescue?" Picard said, hoping for a way to help.
Data shook his head. "I've already begun to scan the energy waves being created, it'll take some time before I can give any-"
They then a few of the GF warships, trapped in the emitted energy, explode violently, the shockwave of their destruction, along with the debris, taking out a Klingon battle cruiser with them, which was trapped in the energy as well.
Worf spoke up again. "Captain! The containment field of both vessels anti-matter are rapidly decaying by this energy assault! Their shields are gone!"
Before they could do anything, they saw the USS Kolto erupt, from the middle of it, blasting itself into fragments. It simply exploded from it's anti-matter going critical. A Star Destroyer followed suit in the list of ships being torn and destroyed by this attack.
Data's panel then begun to beep again, meaning a message had arrived. "Sir, Rufus has ordered for phase two to begin, while Unicron is distracted. We are to avoid contact with the energy at all costs while taking out the target."
Picard was quiet for a moment, knowing that leaving people to their fate just because Unicron is busy with them, is not in his nature…but this wasn't any normal battle. "Data, inform the fleet to start Phase two. Worf, arm all Photon Torpedoes and open fire once you can aim at the target."
"Yes sir."
All ships begun to move to the front of Unicron, being extra careful of his wave of energy, and as the helpless ships inside it are broken and destroyed, all ships opened fire. With Photon Torpedoes, Plasma Torpedoes, waves of matter missiles, Proton Missiles, all bombarding into either the mouth, or the outer rim of it, which was the target. Many of the shots entered the red wave of energy, exploding in moments, but others got lucky, and stuck the rim of the mouth.
With the combined wave of weapons fire, the rim was being plastered, smashed apart, the wave of energy was started to flicker and shut down, and by the fourth wave of this bombardment, just before the last two GF warships that were trapped in the energy wave exploded, the red wave of energy shut down, as the rim was pretty much destroyed. The jagged 'teeth' of it blasted apart, the vulnerable systems underneath them ruined.
Picard smiled when Data informed him "Captain. Energy levels of Unicron have dropped. It's offensive abilities have been disabled, as well as it's energy frequency device. We are now able to transport people over."
"Good…Good. Riker, inform Chad and his companions that they'll be beamed over to Unicron shortly."
On the Galactica, Rufus smirked, knowing they had now defeated Unicrons means of attack. "Humph, a lot easier than I expected. Know thy enemy indeed…soon Picard will drop off that boy and Dark Navi, and this'll be all finished. This ancient heap from the past will be nothing more than a memory."
"You underestimate me, Rufus."
Then…everyone on their bridges, their command posts…even in ten-forward saw it. The giant planet begun to change, to transform. From it, arms and legs appeared, the mouth sealed up and closed into the machine, and slowly, the planet changed into a complete body, with the outer ring it had in it's Planet form, morphed into demonic machine wings, and then, a head appeared on the body, it's crystal eyes glowing bright green, demon like horns appearing on it's head, it even had a metal like goatee attached, as it's now small mouth opened, as it spoke, once the transformation ended.
"Since my arrival, to this Universe, I have avoided this form with this body. Only when Primus appeared, I have used a data projection of this, to face him. But now, with your arrogant belief that you have gained any victory here, I see no need to hide it. Behold, mortals, the true form of the Planet Eater, the Judgement from Heaven. Look upon it, and repent for your actions."
Chad was awe-struck. Staring at it, along with those in ten-forward. "Oh…my fucking god…"
Rufus, on the Galactica, appeared unfazed, but he was sweating. His no fear act was breaking a little. "…Inform all ships, prepare for combat, do whatever they can to stop him."
Picard was shit scared. "W…What the…"
Worf soon spoke. "Captain! It's energy levels are beginning to rise again!"
"Captain, if we are to transport Chad and his friends over to Unicron, we must do it now, before he activates the energy frequency device again. I have already locked on the only location that is habitable for any form of life inside of the Planet Eater. It is within the now Chest section" Data said, in his calm and matter of fact manner.
Picard nodded, and looked to Riker, who had quickly pressed on his Communication badge. "Riker to Ten-Forward, Chad's Group, change of plans. Whatever preparations you were doing are gonna have to be skipped. Beaming you all over right now."
Slowly, Unicron raised one of his arms, and clenched his fist. "And now you see, the real form of the one that shall brush you aside, cleanse you from this Universe, and destroy those you wish to protect…prepare to face, your own dismemberment!"
His fist flew down, and smacked one of the Rebel Alliance warships into nothing more than debris, after a sudden explosion from it. All ships opened fire with everything they had, and quickly begun to move in an effort to avoid his assault, but already, laser fire was doing nothing, as he had activated his defensive ability once again. Missiles and such damaged him, but the damage was minor to his sheer size now.
Three Romulan warbirds attempted to do and hit and run move on Unicron, flying close and firing Plasma Torpedoes, all he had to do was clap his hands together, with them in-between, obliterating them all without effort, and with the debris of them in his hands, as a large wave of TIE fighters and X-Wings came towards him, he flung the trash, the sheer speed of the flung debris smashed through the fighters.
He then grabbed one of the unlucky Star Destroyers, it's middle section in his hand, and crushing it, feeling an explosion occur in his palm, then threw the whole vessel, with the debris that came from the explosion, at a few GF warships, the collision of it crushing and blowing them up. He didn't seem fazed by the alliance, and appeared to be enjoying their hopeless effort to bring him down.
Well, not entirely hopeless, as the Enterprise was able to beam over something that may end him, end the monster.
"Double time People! Double Time! Gotta find the objects somehow before everyone outside is turned to space dust!"
The voice of Chad could be heard.
They had got inside the body of the beast. And were, right now, together, going as quick as they could, sticking close, within what seemed to a massive pink, metal corridor and floor, with dozens of small human sized holes in the walls and ceiling.
They didn't know where they were going, but time was not in their favor, and they knew it, so just, going, is the best option right now. "Chad, do you have any idea where Picard and the others dropped us off?!" Jak panted out.
"No, No idea guy! We just gotta keep moving and-oh shit!"
What provoked this kind of response was the fact just as they were getting close to the end of this huge corridor like place, reaching the end to see two routes, both other corridors of the same daunting size, they were met by the sight of Zerg coming down the left one…a swarm of them charging towards them.
Optimus Prime knew of the best idea for this. "Everyone head down the opposite one! Soundwave, let's seal it up!"
Soundwave and Optimus Prime stood together at the entrance to the Zerg filled corridor, as the others fled, and used their huge energy rifles, blasting the ceiling in, causing a ton of metal and wires to collapse down and crush a few Zerg that had got close, and blocking the rest. They then followed the others.
Once they got through the second one, they arrived at this circle shaped room, holes in the ceiling as before, with corridors leading off it in all directions, all above their entrances they just had strange symbols of an unknown language on, one had a huge stairway leading upwards at the end of it, the others seemed to be just corridors leading to more.
"Well which one?" Link questioned.
"I have no fucking clue. Personally I gamble on the stair one as it looks the most useful, but hell if I know if I'm right or not." Xiahou Dun answered with.
Then they noticed, coming down those said stairs, coming down from all other corridors but the one they came from, where more, and more Zerg. The numbers were ridiculous.
"Tch, it seems that Unicron knows something bad is in him and wants it remove by any means.." Lu Bu said, swinging his Lunar Spear to prepare for a fight.
"But we don't have time to handle this! We got to move on!" Roll responded with. Chad looked at the stairs, and just…got this feeling that's the right way.
"Optimus! Wanna do what you did before to stop the Zerg? On all the corridors BUT the way out and the stairway?"
Optimus Prime and Soundwave were already on it, taking out the ceilings as needed. "But we still gotta get through this wave coming!" Darkmega pointed out.
Shadow shook his head. "It's obvious some of us stay behind and keep our escape route safe, should anything go wrong. The rest of us run on." Chad didn't like the sound of it, but it was the best idea to go with at the present.
"Alright, I can Chaos Control me and another person, Shadow, you can too, Ridley can fly and grab a couple…everyone else…sorry about this, okay?" he got a bunch of nods in understanding.
"Relax Chad, we'll dispose of this annoyances while you're busy saving the day." as Xiahou Dun prepared his scimitar.
Chad grabbed onto Roll, and Chaos Controlled, Shadow grabbed Darkmega, sighing at the fact Chad chose Roll over what's important here, then Chaos Controlled, and finally Ridley flew up into the air, grabbed both Blues and Megaman, before flying down the Corridor leading to the stairs, over the Zerg, who tried their best to grab at the beings Ridley had, but no luck.
Megaman flinched every time a Zerg tried to jump at him, making Blues look to him. "Hub, relax alright? If they rip a limb off, you can always get it fixed."
Once he got to the stairs, he saw Chad and Shadow, with their companions before they teleported again, seeing a second wave of Zerg dashing down the stairs, Ridley had no choice but to flew upwards, using his spare claws and fireballs to blast any of the jumping Zerg that tried to attack him. Blues tried to help with a little killing as he flew with Ridley, firing energy shots at the Zerg.
The stairs, once the Zerg were past, seemed to just go on and on, until eventually, they arrived at what seemed to be a huge, and by huge, it was, hall. Around, high, high above on it's ceiling, were a multitude of tubes, red, white, green, pink, wall going through and hanging out of the ceiling, leading to somewhere beyond here. The walls were covered in wiring and electronics, with a few screens, all showing rapidly data, none of it in Galactic Basic or Pirate. Just…an unknown language, the floor was a shining silver metal, and at the other end of the huge hall, appeared to a small doorway, leading to whatever was beyond. As Ridley arrived, with Chad and Shadow appearing in the hall, a metal slab of a door slammed down on the way to the stairs behind them, cutting them off.
Ridley quickly dropped Megaman and Blues off with Chad, Roll, Darkmega and Shadow, before landing himself. "Damnit! We're isolated from the others!"
"It doesn't matter. They can handle themselves. Chad, we have to move on quickly. Unicron isn't going to slow down for us." Shadow pointed out.
Chad nodded in agreement, and got ready to run on, when, from the ground, not through the floor, just, outta nowhere, were veins, humanoid like blood veins, only a little larger, in the colors of red, purple and orange, dozens of them almost, growing out of nowhere, forming together and twirling upwards entangled, untill they were about the height of a human. They were twisted round, like as if they were hiding something, like as if they just formed a cocoon, then, they all glowed with red energy, and vanished…and standing there, was Richard, Dark Wolf in hand.
Richard looked a little different now. His skin appeared paler then before, his lips had gone a dark colour, and his eyes, had a hint of purple in them now. His hands, the veins in them, were showing clearly. "Chad…Everyone…so glad you can join me."
Chad quickly pulled his Blade of Darkness out. "Richard…what's happening to you? What the hell was with those vein things?"
As everyone quickly got themselves ready for a fight, even Roll, in hesitation, did so.
"Oh, those? Those are related to my new powers I've gained from Unicron…Zerg Veins. Quite useful. They can connect to your mind and help you teleport to most places. Can be used to choke and capture people too…" Richard was smirking at them all.
Darkmega was glaring at him for it. "You…"
"Ah, 'Master' Darkmega…it's been a long while, hasn't it? Look at me now. With each master I serve, my power only gets better, heh, even more so, with these. you can thank Unicron for helping me awaken their power easily for my use." then, he used his spare hand to pull up the sleeve of his arm holding the Dark Wolf, and glowing from it, with a Black Aura, and a White Aura…and as they could barely see, in his arm, were the Black Materia, and Holy Materia.
Chads eyes widened. "No…"
Richard then pulled the sleeve back down. "Heh. So, want to duke it out? All of you against me? that's a fair fight."
Shadow was about to move, when Chad raised his hand to signal to Shadow to not go in, then looked at his Blade of Darkness…then at Richard. "Guys, stay out of this. Richard, just you and me, alright? We'll settle this, and I'll break you out of Unicrons hold."
Richard laughed. "Alone? One on one? HA! You couldn't even survive against me when we last battled on Zebes! It was only thanks to others you lived!" with that, he closed his eyes…and suddenly, the Black and Holy Materia activated at once, and Richard, with their combined power, was covered in a dark grey aura, grinning madly.
"If you really want to die first though, I'll be happy enough to make sure that's the case!"
Chad held the Blade of Darkness close. "Richard, I know what I say isn't getting to you right now, we're inside Unicron, no doubt his power is keeping you from trying to snap out of it. But I promise you, and myself…I'll find a way to get to you, I'll stop this madness you're trapped in."
"Chad no! let us help you! Let's free him together!" Roll called out. All Chad did was shake his head slowly, before looking at her from the corner of his eye.
"No…No Roll, I got to…do this alone. I know it sounds crazy…it is crazy, but it's…" he knew why, and it was a selfish, foolish reason, covered with a justified act. That inability to beat Richard on Zebes alone is a bitter memory. To lose to a guy he kept beating in training…no matter how much he brushed it off, it was damage to a very well covered pride he held.
He remembered his words in the training room, back two years ago…each and every time he beat Richard, that feeling of winning, that confident boasting, it was all sounding like he was only playing around, but he enjoyed winning, he enjoyed the taste of victory. "…I have to prove myself against him, maybe, maybe it'll help free him."
"Bullshit! At least let me give you a hand!" Darkmega Protested.
"No Darkmega…everyone, stay back." Then, Chad rushed forward, swinging the Sword sidewards, only for Richard to easily block with the Dark Wolf, then headbutt him to knock him back a few steps and daze him for a moment, before pointing his spare hand forward, and firing out a grey beam of energy, which was powerful enough to knock Chad flying off his feet as it hit him square in the chest, making him fly back, and slide across the floor as he landed.
Chad forced himself up, and ran forward again, making it seem like he was gonna swing the sword just like before, but this time as he got close, he used chaos control, to appear to Richard's right side, and kick him in the gut. Except Richard just smiled, and from his spare hand, coming out from a hole formed on the palm of his hand quickly, were a bunch of Zerg veins, quickly wrapping around Chad's leg as it came up, stopping it dead in it's tracks.
"What the f-" was all Chad had time for before Richard flung him, using the veins around Chad's leg, across the room, letting go as Chad flew, and hit the ground hard with an almighty thud. The veins retracted back into Richard's palm. Chad was soon back on his feet, changing into his mobian form, and rolling up into a ball, soon enough dashing forward towards Richard, and as he got close, Richard fired off another grey beam, only for Chad to jump over it JUST in the nick of time, Blade of Darkness ready, glowing a bright orange. "EXPLOSION!" Chad cried out, before Richard brought the Dark Wolf up to block Chad's swing, without knowing what would happen.
The explosion, as the name hinted at, surprised the hell outta him, as he yelled in pain as he and Chad both catapulted backwards in opposite directions, from the resulting energy burst, both hitting the floor. Chad got himself up once again, noticing it worked, and was about to fire off a Chaos energy beam at Richard, when those veins returned from his palm, several of them at that, fired out, across the room, wrapping themselves around Chad's neck and arms, before he found himself being lifted off the ground, the slammed down into the wall behind him, then again, and again, over and over, each time yelling in pain, as Richard slowly walked over, seeing Chad drop the Blade of Darkness.
"Heheh. You can't do anything against me really. I've been improved more then you. Just admit it to me, and I'll choke you to death quickly, instead of this, slow, painful, treatment." those last words were said as each time Chad hit the wall, harder each time then before.
Chad tried changing back into human form to see if the veins might somehow let go…they didn't. As he found himself being brought forward again, then smashing into the wall once more, the two keystones fell out of his pocket, rolling away across the floor.
"Just a little puppet on strings now, heheheh." Richard was enjoying this so, so much, until a Dark cyber sword sliced through his Zerg veins, close to him, making those connected to Chad suddenly turn to dust, and Richard having to quickly jump back to avoid the second swing of that sword, made by Darkmega.
"Alright, sod what Chad wants! I'm gonna kick your sorry ass!" was all he said before disabling his Dark cyber sword and pulling out a Hi-Cannon, firing it a few times at Richard, who just easily dodged them by constantly jumping to the side, until he had to dodge, with a quick insertion of an Area Steal battlechip, a blast of energy from a Program Advance move, the Zeta Cannon, held by Roll.
"I won't let you help Unicron hurt others Richard!"
Richard sighed in pure annoyance. "Don't you guys listen to Chad here? Kinda ruined our one on one fun ya know…oh well never mind, I'll just kill you two as well!" with that, he dashed forward, swinging the Dark Wolf at Roll, who jumped back in shock, then was hit by the Grey energy beam, sending her flying back. Darkmega was then the target, as Richard turned and formed a Dark Cannon from a battlechip in his hand, and firing it, blasting Darkmega to the floor, then turned his focus back to Roll, as she had pushed herself up, and formed her buster, firing a few Roll arrows, Which Richard simply sidestepped.
He showed the palm of his hand to her, and fresh Zerg veins flew out, shocking her, before they twisted around her neck, choking her. Shadow decided to enter the fray, using Chaos Control to appear before Richard, just in front of him, in the air, to kick him in the head, only for Richard to predict this, and use the blunt side of his sword to smack Shadow out of the air, hitting the floor. He continued to choke Roll when he then saw Ridley come at him, letting her go to fire one of the energy beams at the Dragon, which were strong enough even for him to be winded by the impact of it, knocking him down. Blues had a charged shot ready and unleashed it, Richard just jumped over the shot, and again, used this new energy beam to knock the robot flying.
Megaman rushed into the fray, only for, as he swung a Wide Sword generated from a battlechip at Richard, to get punched to the side by him, as he easily stepped back, dodged the sword, then swung the hit. He then turned his attention back to Roll. Using another Area Steal to disappear and reappear near her. "As you can plainly see, I'm pretty much unbeatable, with this power out of the Materias. You are ALL finished. Failures against the best. And the first one to die, will be you…because let's face it, Girls scream the best before they die."
Roll looked in sheer terror, as Richard raised his Dark Wolf, then, was hit in the back by a Chaos Beam, making him stumble a little, before turning around, and seeing Chad standing once more. Chad had that boost of energy once again, when he saw Roll in danger, that was it, he was up, and had quickly given something to Darkmega. As for the Dark Navi, he was right next to Chad. "Hey, Richard. You said I'll be the first remember? Why not keep to it, or are you so brain dead that you quickly forgot?" Chad said, smirking.
Richard glared at him. "Fine! Then feel a full power energy shot from the combined power of the Black and Holy Materia!" He quickly put the Dark Wolf away, and brought his hands forward together.
Darkmega quickly whispered, with his hands behind his back. "Hey man, you sure this'll work? This is gonna hurt if it goes wrong."
Chad shrugged. "Wait and see for the results."
Richard unleashed a massive, wide energy Beam, flying towards the two, just missing Shadow, Blues and such, and as it got close, both Chad and Darkmega pulled out, in their hands, the Keystones. Chad kinda hoped lady luck would be on their side with this insane plan, as the beam got inches away from them.
Lady Luck was.
As the Beam made contact with the stones, they glowed brightly, and the energy beam split into two. One White, One Black, the white one flowing into Chad's stone, and the black flowing into Darkmega's. The other end of the beam, were it came from, was still flowing out of Richard's hands, the white from one, the black from the other, making the others watch in awe…and he couldn't stop it. "W…What the?! What the hell's going on?! What're you doing!?"
The beams slowly got brighter and brighter, the Chad and Darkmega heard the Keystones start cracking, worrying them. Richard couldn't move. And he felt that power of his start to drain, the power of the Black Materia and the Holy were fading away from him. And soon, there was the sound of crystals shattering, as the keystones exploded in their respective lights, blinding everyone for a moment.
…To Chad and Darkmega, they were surrounded by a bright light…and before them now, was Zuo Ci. Everyone else was gone it seemed. "Well done, both of you. Within the Materias, were spirits that held the true power of what they could give. The keys, the keystones, helped unlock their freedom, and now they belong to you…the Dragon of Death…the Phoenix of Life…"
He motioned to Chad. "The Life Soul." then motioned to Darkmega. "The Death Soul. When they combine, they can unlock a great power. Remember this." and with that, he, and the light around them vanished.
Richard stumbled and shook his head, getting his focus back, to only see that before him now, was Darkmega, covered in a Black aura, and Chad, covered in a White one, stunning him. "What the!?" he quickly noticed his grey aura was gone, and quickly pulled up his sleeve…to notice the Black Materia and the Holy Materia, were both gone.
"H…How in the…" he soon found himself getting a punch right in the face, from Chad, who Chaos Controlled from where he was, to Richard, knocking him flying over Roll, smacking the floor.
As he slowly got himself up, he found Darkmega appearing in front of him, Zeta cannon ready, and blasting him at point blank, the energy fired out was black, and much, much more powerful, making Richard cry out in agony, flying back once more, and smashing, hard, into the wall nearby, before hitting the floor face first.
"Hey Chad! Let's give him a double whammy to wrap it up!" Darkmega called out. Chad smiled, and jumped over Roll, and landed next to Darkmega. "Heh, why not?"
Richard weakly pushed himself up off the floor, snarling at them. "You….YOU!"
Both Chad and Darkmega pointed their hands forward. "Ready?" Chad asked.
"Ready!"
"LIFE BEAM!" "DEATH BEAM!"
Both of them fired their respective beams, one bright white, the other pitch black, flying at Richard, both hitting him at once, making him scream in agony, and causing a small explosion…which afterwards, Richard was seen on one knee, panting, clothing damaged, his skin, burnt a little from the intense energy, Dark Wolf on the floor.
Both Chad and Darkmega gave each other a high five, as Richard glared darkly at them, before Chad focused on him again. "Richard, we got ya. Just give up now alright? Come with us. We got the power we need back to defeat Unicron."
Richard weakly laughed. "No…it…it ain't over. Take him out if you dare, I don't give a damn. Next time, Oswald boy, next time, just you, and me…" with that, the Zerg Veins from before begun to appear, slowly covering him in a cocoon like state again, before they glowed red and vanished, him, along with them.
"…Richard…" Chad looked on, at the spot where Richard was, before turning around, focusing on Roll. "Hey, you okay Roll?"
She smiled weakly. "Yeah, yeah I'll be fine. But are you okay? What's, what's with the aura?"
"Oh, new power up to end Unicrons days." With that, he focused his mind, and was able to disable the aura, as did Darkmega.
Soon, the others recovered, and joined up with them. "Alright, now we can go and deal with Unicron! We can win this!" Megaman cheered.
"Hm, Pity you won't get to the device that can help you stop him." They all looked over to the door leading to wherever the tubes went…and there, was Sephiroth, sword in hand, the one who spoke, and near him, was Phantom, fully healed now, and looking as pissed off as ever.
Chad cursed. "Oh Primus Damnit! Not now Sephiroth! Seriously! We just beat one asshole slowing us down, we don't need another!"
"I'm afraid I can't simply, stand aside, while you ruin the destiny I have chosen to watch over. Even with your new abilities, they won't save you from me." Sephiroth said, looking at Chad and the others carefully.
Blues was quite worried about this. He heard tales of Sephiroth like everyone. "Oh man, him of all people…"
"Tch, worms, stand aside." a new voice declared. Chad and the others turned, to see Lu Bu standing there, near the sealed door, looking at them, then at Sephiroth. "Sephiroth…we meet again at last."
"Humph, if it isn't the old man, it's the one with the stupid feathered hat…" Sephiroth looked at Lu Bu in boredom. "I take it the old man made sure you kept a special eye out for me?"
Lu Bu begun walking forwards. "Lu Bu!? How did you get here!? Where are the others?!" Ridley quickly said.
Lu Bu didn't look at him as he gave the answer. "They're fine. They're holding their own against the Zerg and devices within Unicron…Sephiroth, since the days of Primus, I've been waiting to fight you again."
Chad was stunned by this. They knew each other? And from the days of Primus, over two million and something years ago? Then it dawned on him…Lu Bu is a Deity, that's all there is to it. And he was right.
Sephiroth took a few steps forwards, then stopped, getting his Masamune ready. "Lu Bu. Very well, I suppose I can't risk ignoring you. But you against me and Phantom. The odds are not stacked in your favor."
Lu Bu huffed, then look over at the heroes. "Chad, Darkmega! Leave here and go on ahead to settle things with Unicron. The rest of you can give me a hand with the summon!" then he turned back to Sephiroth. "I'll handle him."
Chad was unsure about this, but then remembered. Time was against them still. "Alright Lu Bu! You guys will be okay, right?"
Blues nodded. "We'll try to do a little better than we did with Richard, to say the least. Go on. Get going."
With that, Chad and Darkmega ran to where Phantom and Sephiroth were blocking their path, Chad quickly grabbing his sword on the way…and noticed, to their daring surprise, they were allowed past, Phantom only giving them a passing glare, as they heading into the next room. Blues, Ridley, Shadow, Roll and Megaman moved near Lu Bu, ready to take on Phantom and Sephiroth.
"Don't expect that feathered hat of yours to stay intact after this, Lu Bu. Today, it will be one of you two, to fall, to even the odds at last." Sephiroth said, quickly shooting forward at Lu Bu, who raised his spear, swinging it at Sephiroth, their weapons locking together.
"And don't expect to survive this vermin! Face the wrath of the greatest warrior alive!" with that, Lu Bu shoved Sephiroth back with his spear, causing Sephiroth to slide back a little on his feet, before he smirked, and charged again.
Jak, as he just blasted another Zerg apart with his energy rifle weapon, had to quickly roll as Daxter shouted at him to, to avoid another one of those things from the walls.
As the heroes in the circle area had been battling the remaining Zerg, something new had happened. No doubt it's Unicron's answer to white cells, attacking anything 'infectious' to him…except they weren't white, they came through the holes in the place, had sharp, red deadly looking pincers that looked like they could snap a human being in half, and were connected to massive cords, that allowed them to extend from the said holes to deal with threats and had a life of their own.
They were having a party with the heroes, making them not only fight off Zerg, but dodge like crazy in this game of life and death. Optimus Prime and Soundwave had tried to stop the things, but even blasting the holes they came from didn't seem to be enough to stop them from coming.
Ken just uppercutted a Zerg when one of the pincers came at him, only for Mr T, having lifted up a huge chunk of metal debris from the mess made by Optimas and Soundwave, threw it at the pincer being and crushed it underneath the weight of the scrap. The cord connecting it snapped, retracted back into it's broken hole, into the darkness…then returned, with a new set of pincers. "Oh goddamn this! They ain't never gonna run out!" Mr T proclaimed in annoyance. That was his 20th kill of these creatures.
Xiahou Yuan and Link had fired several arrows into another, damaging it's cord, only for it to break off the damaged segment, along with the pincer, retract and vola, new one. "If things keeps up, we're finished!" Xiahou Yuan shouted, as he begun firing at the replacement, as Link targeted another. Ryu was covering them when it came to the Zerg, literally having just smashed his foot into another Zergs face, crushing it's skull in before it hit the floor dead.
Optimus Prime just caught one of the Pincer beings and torn it off it's cord, then another, then another just before it reached his head. Soundwave was blasting them, taking care not to hit the others as he does. "Numbers, infinite. Death, imminent."
"Well thanks for the morale boost Soundwave!" Xiahou Dun gave with sarcasm, as he diced another Zerg down, then quickly dodged one of the pincers and sliced it off its cord. Another one was plunging towards him but was destroyed by a Super Missile, unleashed by Samus Aran. Xiahou Dun gave her a thumbs up as thanks before cutting down another Zerg, it's head taken off by Xiahou Dun's blade.
Sonic and Quickman had no trouble in dodging the pincers, and their focus were the Zerg, killing them in rapid succession. Quickman was unleashing Quick Boomerangs left and right, all hitting their targets with deadly aim. Sonic was using the ol' homing attack, smashing the skulls of the Zerg in. he quickly lands near Quickman. "Hey! I'm racking up a decent kill score here! You?"
"Of course! These Zerg go down fairly easy!"
As Optimus damages another Pincer being, he sees more Zerg coming, once again, from their route back to where they beamed in. once they started fighting the lot from the stairway, they noticed that, somehow, more and more were coming from behind. No doubt the Zerg knew a route found the place to reach them. "Everyone get ready! Third wave of Zerg inbound!"
Outside, in space. The battle was going, very, very bad. Unicron was crushing anything close to him, and anything that wasn't, he unleashed from his mouth, some sort of plasma breath, causing plenty of damage. The Enterprise just got hit by another fresh wave of it.
The bridge shook like crazy as the Plasma hit, and soon stopped once Unicron ceased it for a moment. Worf soon gave the captain an update "Sir! Aft Shields are down to 20%, Forward shields are down to 17%! Port and Starboard Shields have failed! Hull damage on decks 16, 15 and 14!"
"Keep firing whatever Torpedoes we got left Lieutenant, we need to hold out as much as possible! What's the status of the fleet?"
Worf quickly checked. "Most ships have taken large amounts of damage, several disabled, at least 58 ships destroyed. Countless-"
"-combat fighters have been lost. Sir, Unicron isn't even being phased by our assault. It's becoming a massacre out there, one that's not going to stop anytime soon." Master Chief said to Rufus, as they both stood on the bridge of the Galactica. The bridge lights were flickering slightly, and some of the bridge crew were busy putting out a small fire from one of the destroyed computers, from the last plasma wave they received.
"…tell the fleet to keep pushing against him. We have to wait, and pray." was all Rufus answered with.
Unicron, seeing a Galaxy Class vessel of the United Federation of Planets a little close, grabbed it in his fingers, snatching it up by the saucer section, crushing several of the decks, and just dispersing the shields, before throwing it like a frisbee, it spinning like crazy, at a nearby Star Destroyer, making the Starship collide right at the command section of the huge vessel, and explode, taking both out instantly.
Telling them to fight on is fine, but with the carnage Unicron is causing, it's killing their hope of victory. To many, all begun to seem lost.
Once Chad and Darkmega ran past Sephiroth and Phantom, into the next room beyond, they noticed it was dark, and the only light they had was from the room behind them…which, to their dismay, was now blocked off, as another steel door slammed down, blocking them from those they now left behind, and leaving them in the dark.
Chad stood there, waiting…then sighed. "Great, so much for saving the day and all. I think Sephiroth tricked us."
Then, they begun to hear something above them, like as if two metal doors were opening slowly, then, they had to look away, from a glittering blue light, appearing from above, spreading all over the room eventually. It showed that it was dome shaped area, with several grey pillars, made of metal, and wiring galore, the walls around this place were just tubes, multi colored, all seem to be going to the center of the ceiling of this dome like room.
As Chad and Darkmega could finally look up, they saw what was in the middle of that ceiling, that created this blue glitter glow over the place.
The Matrix of Leadership.
It was embedded into the ceiling, the tubes surrounding it on all sides, leaving the beautiful crystal showing, to illuminate the room.
"What, what the devil is that?" Darkmega asked. Chad had the answer. The image of the device, of this same crystal flashed into his head. He remembered the teleport room now, and remembered seeing this, and putting the Black Materia and Holy one with it.
"The Matrix…" Chad mumbled, in slight awe.
"Thanks to you Chad, it is now mine." a new voice was in the room. One that Chad and Darkmega knew, both quickly looking ahead now. On the other side of the room, seemingly appearing from nowhere, was Unicron. He was in the same form as his planet body was now, but here, he stood at about 8 feet, in his hand, was a sword of his own. It looked like the Master Sword of Links, but it had a Black hilt, a menacing red aura flowed around the blade, and embedded on the blade, was a line of red crystals, on both sides of the blade segment, starting from where the hilt ended, all the way up to the tip, formed out like tree branches.
"With the Matrix in my possession, my body can repair itself rapidly, without the need of protection from those deflectors my creators left on me. And now here you are, both of you, who have helped me gain this power, to come and take it away."
Chad got his Blade of Darkness ready, and Darkmega got a Dark Cybersword formed. "Unicron! We're gonna put a stop to you! We got what we need to defeat you!" Chad smiled after saying that. If they could beat Richard easily with this new power then…
Unicron chuckled. "Your light, and his darkness, is of little use against me. You think you have the ability to stop me…you are very, very wrong. I have a gift, granted to me long ago, from none other than the gods themselves. Behold pests, a true power to fear!"
With that, an aura burst from him, a dark grey aura, with it, as it formed around him, a wave of energy flowed throughout the room, knocking Darkmega and Chad slightly, letting them know just how much power he had.
Chad looked intimidated at first, then laughed a little. "Oh come on, so you got the power Richard must've had earlier, big whoop, we got him nonetheless and gained THIS off him! Now Darkmega!" as if on instinct, he knew what to say to trigger it.
"LIFE SOUL!" as Darkmega shouted "DEATH SOUL!"
Chad's White, holy looking aura appeared on him, as Darkmega's Black aura appeared, both looking at Unicron, with determination and filled confidence that they had this in the bag.
Unicron appeared unfazed. "That won't be enough, to stop me!"
Darkmega and Chad quickly started the fight with unleashing their respective energy beams at Unicron, only for the digital copy of the robot to leap up into the air and seemingly fly over to where they were, before coming back down, sword ready, taking a swing as he got close. Chad jumped out of the way to the left, Darkmega to the right.
The moment Unicron landed, he focused on Chad, aiming his hand at him and shouting "LIGHT FANTASTIC!"
The element, Light Fantastic, is the believed colour beyond darkness. It came from the time of the Chozo, who's written words claim that darkness is nothing more than the light's absence, and beyond it, true darkness, was this, where there was no other element that could combine with it, but like all, it had an opposite.
The beam of energy that flew out of Unicron's hand was a shining Purple colour, like pure water, flying out, heading right to Chad, as he just turned to look at Unicron, saying "Light Fanwha-" before the beam hit, sending him off his feet, smashing into the nearby wall.
Darkmega saw this, and ran at Unicron, jumping up a little and swinging the Dark Cybersword down at the machine, only for Unicron to block the blade with his own, then bring fist up, punching Darkmega in the stomach, knocking him away. The Navi managed to get himself to land on his feet, quickly change the sword to a Dark cannon, and firing it at Unicron, who simply swung his sword diagonally, and an red, crescent energy wave shot out of it, disbanding each shot on impact, and flying towards Darkmega, who quickly used an Area Steal chip to evade it.
As the Dark Navi just appeared nearby after using the chip, Unicron fired another Light Fantastic beam, hitting Darkmega, sending him to the floor. Unicron then quickly charged over, as Darkmega was just trying to make himself stand again, and swung his edition of the Master Sword…only to stumble, as a red ball of spiky fur smacked into the back of his head hard, making him just step on Darkmega, causing the Navi to shout in pain, before Unicron stepped back, quickly turning around to see his attacker…and only to be hit right in the face by the red rolling ball of Chad, in his mobian form, knocking Unicron backwards, stepping on Darkmega again, this time going past time afterwards, recovering now from the attack, as Chad landed near Darkmega, Blade of Darkness in hand. "Alright Unicron! Let's do this!"
Unicron wasted no time. He charged and swung the master sword, as Chad quickly used his blade to block the attack, then jumped away, making sure Unicron's sword didn't touch him, then launched into the air and performed the homing attack. Unicron was quick to stop it, as he simply used his arm to stop Chad from hitting him in the head again, and as Chad bounced off the arm, Unicron quickly batted him away, making Chad get out of the roll, and land on his feet, to get a Light Fantastic beam in the face, smashing once more into a wall.
That beam was doing heavy damage, but Chad wasn't going down easy, he rushed forward, dodged another beam, just, then rolled up into the ball while moving, to try and knock Unicron down. The machine only had to kick him hard to knock him away, but as Chad was in the air, he rolled out again and used Chaos Control, appearing behind Unicron on the ground on his feet, and tried to plunge the Blade of Darkness into the back of his enemy.
The evil edition of the Master Sword blocked this attack moments before it made contact, and Unicron was now looking down at Chad. "…How the hell did you…" was all Chad was allowed to say before Unicron used his energy Aura as a weapon, with a powerful energy burst, to knock Chad away from him.
"Foolish boy. You expected such a simple move to catch me out?"
Unicron found himself being hit by numerous small purple energy bullets, coming from Darkmegas buster, as he was on one knee, firing away. As Unicron aimed his focus on Darkmega, Chad fired off a Life beam, the White energy beam, hitting the side of Unicron, making him stumble, before Darkmega saw this chance, using three battlechips, all Vulcan cannons, he formed the weapon known as Infinity Vulcan, firing a hail of rapid bullets at Unicron.
The Planet Eater begun to try and move from the wave of shots, but then Chad decided to join in, having the same three battlechips, first he turned back into his human form, then he triggered program advance, making another Infinity Vulcan, unleashing hell. Unicron seemed to be unable to dodge anymore, as he seemed caught in both waves, yelling out in fury, before a sudden explosion occurred where he was.
"Now Darkmega! Get him!" Chad quickly disabled the Vulcan, getting the Blade of Darkness, and running up to where Unicron is, Darkmega forcing himself off his knee, forming the Dark Cybersword, and charging as well, both getting towards Unicron, and the brief cloud of smoke, at the same time.
This, proved to be a very bad choice.
Although Unicron had taken a pounding, he was still capable of hearing them, and had regained his posture as he heard them running forward, putting away his sword…and through the smoke, his shot his hands forward, and gripped, tightly, on the heads of Darkmega, and Chad, as the smoke cleared away, lifting them off the ground slightly, then, using the energy flowing around him, he sent waves of it down his arms and hands, into them, shocking them violently with energy bursts. As they were shouting in pain, they tried to send out their own bursts of energy from their auras, but it did nothing, neither loosened the grip of Unicron, or stayed his wrath on them.
"Now…your deaths, Darkmega, Chad Oswald, will mark the beginning of my time. I'll destroy all those who wish to oppose me, destroy your precious worlds, and make sure, I, remain supreme, forever more…"
He tightened his grip more so, the pain was sharp and severe, Darkmega could feel his helmet and skull on the verge of cracking, and Chad wasn't sure if his was already broken or not, all he could feel was endless waves of pain.
Chad begun to lose his focus…was…was he going to black out before his skull is completely destroyed, his brains squashed into mashed meat? He admitted, in-between the thoughts about the pain, that would be the nicer way to go…but he let them down…Anna down…Roll down.
Then, he heard the words of Zuo Ci echo, in his mind. '…the Dragon of Death…the Phoenix of Life…The Life Soul…The Death Soul. When they combine, they can unlock the ultimate power. Remember this.'
Combine? He quickly tried to think of what Zuo Ci could mean by that. Darkmega had one, he had the other, how could they combi-
He had it. It clicked in his mind.
Cross Fusion.
Cross Fusion is an ability granted at first to Net Navis, then eventually, was able to be used widespread. It is literate to it's name. it cross two separate beings, and fuses them together to create one single being for a certain given time, depending on the condition of both beings, and their level of 'sync', meaning how focused on the same objective they are. If one flatly refuses to do something, while the other wants to, if it's before a Cross Fusion, it won't occur, and if during, they both suffer the risk of unfusing.
If damage is taken during the combined form, once split, both users will still suffer the same damage they received during fusion, a downside, in exchange for a combined power effort. 'Freeform' Cross Fusion is when two Navis, or a Navi and another being fuse, as Cross Fusion is already in Net Navi programming, they can trigger it.
'Synchro' Cross Fusion is when there are no Net Navis included. If that's the case, both beings must have a Synchro battlechip each, created during SCI to expand it's use to other races beyond just needing a Navi, and trigger them at the same time, to perform Cross Fusion.
Chad weakly looked to Darkmega, and mumbled "D…Darkmega…Cr, Cross Fusion…it's…it's the only way…"
Darkmega opened his eyes slightly, trying to ignore the pain. "Cross, Fusion? Al, alright…" slowly, he reached out his hand towards Chad, and Chad done the same towards Darkmega, both just touching, so to make sure it was solely between them, and not accidentally included Unicron, who at the moment, looked at their hands, baffled for a second on what they were trying to do.
Then, with one almighty Shout, Darkmega cried "CROSS! FUSION!"
Both seemed to get covered in a blue bright light, to Unicron, both had vanished from his death grip, and he covered his eyes for a moment, trying to see what's going on.
Darkmega, within the light, vanished into data fragments, as Chad floated there, the data surrounding him, before he then turned back into his mobian form, and the fragments flowed into his body. His fur changed colour, from red to dark shade of purple, light red lines from the spiked parts of his fur, down to his eyelids appeared, and his white gloves turned black, along with his shoes.
Then an aura appeared around him, as he floated there, a light grey aura, and in effect, by the combination of the Life and Death souls, his fur was changed again, from purple to dark grey, the lines turned black.
The light faded. And there he was, standing before Unicron, Blade of Darkness in hand, his aura flared.
Chad heard a voice in his mind, Darkmegas voice. "Damn…I feel this power from us…"
"What…what is this?" Unicron spoke, in a way of disbelief. He recognized the aura coming off them, the power they now had. Apart, they were ineffective, together, light and darkness, they formed the opposite of his Light Fantastic…Twilight.
"Oh? This?" Chad said. He felt refreshed…and ready to kick serious ass. "This is the end of the road for you, Ol'Uni!" he quickly pointed his free hand forward, and unleashed a matching beam of energy to his aura, smacking hard, into Unicron, sending him flying across the room, hitting the floor. As he was getting up, Chad used chaos control, appeared high above Unicron, and making the Blade of Darkness seemingly vanish, he aimed both hands downwards to Unicron…and fired, over and over again, as many energy beams as he could muster, the force of the beams firing out keeping him in the air, as they rain down, and continually smash into Unicron, who was screaming out in pain and fury, and eventually, before long, his body broke down into data, the aura, weakened and unable to stop the attack, and he blasted apart, with one last scream of defiance of his fate, the sudden table turn. The weakness finally exposed.
Once he noticed Unicron was gone, Chad allowed himself to land on the ground, panting from firing off so much energy in one go, but it did the job…Victory.
"Hey Darkmega, we, we did it!"
"Oh hell yes! We kicked his ass! Gonna need to have a party or something tonight!" was the response in Chads mind.
"Oh….have you really won?" they knew that voice, quickly looking around, they spot Unicron, back again, at the same spot as he appeared before, when they started the fight.
"What the!? How the fuck are you-" then, Chad heard Unicron's voice from another spot.
"This is merely data, Chad Oswald." spoke the other Unicron, who just appeared to the right of Chad, near the wall. Then Chad hears yet another one, this time behind him, at the sealed door.
"I can produce as many as I want. And now I know that one isn't enough…I've brought more."
Chad was…pretty sure he was fucked. "Oh…oh man…what the hell do I do…"
Then yet another one appeared, this time to his left.
"Chad, I, I don't know. We can't take them all on, and he'll just make more after we kill these ones, it's gonna be endless!" Darkmega said.
Then, Chad looked up at the Matrix, the blue shining crystal above…and decided to just try something, remembering something Zuo Ci said once again. "God, I hope Zuo Ci was right by setting it free…" with that, he sighed deeply, and rose his hands upwards.
"Whoa whoa Chad! What're you doing?!" Darkmega quickly shouted in Chads mind.
"…A shot in the dark."
And with that, he put his hands together, focused as much as possible of his energy into one point…and fired off a huge beam of Twilight energy, flying up, and hitting the Matrix…and afterwards, silence…
Before the crystal of the Matrix, begun cracking.
Blue beams of energy broke through the cracks, shining around the room…then more as the cracks appeared, and more, some of the beams hit the Unicrons, and instantly, they dissolved away. Then the Matrix shattered, glass like fragments hitting everyone on the floor, bouncing off the aura around Chad, and with the breaking of it, a shining bright blue light washed past them, past those battling Phantom and Sephiroth, those against the Zerg, all throughout the insides of the Unicron…
And the place, especially in the room Chad was, begun to explode. The tubes on the ceiling begun to fall, the wiring in the walls blasting apart and melting, the pillars exploding with sparks everywhere. The Surge of power from the Matrix, connected to Unicron, had gone through him. And was killing him.
The door that was sealed opened up, as the collapse of the room continued. Chad knew to just leg it.
In the room where Phantom, Sephiroth and such were, it begun to break apart. Before Lu Bu and the others had a chance to wonder what the hell is going on, Phantom, with Sephiroth quickly moving over to him, vanished, along with the silver haired deity, just as Chad ran in.
"Who the, wait, is that you Chad?!" Roll was surprised, that's for sure.
"Yup!" then, Chad saw the door that lead to the stairs opened up. "And we gotta start running, right now!"
"GRR! SEPHIROTH! Our fight isn't finished!" Lu Bu then clicked his fingers and disappeared, leaving the others behind to not wonder, but to just go on without him, heading down the stairs as quick as possible.
Outside, Unicron was twitching violently, and had his arms around his stomach for a moment.
"Data, what's going on with Unicron?" Picard asked, surprised at the sudden turn of the Planet Eater, like as if his eaten something bad.
"Sir, I am picking up bursts of energy coming from the inside of Unicron. The amount of energy bursts suggest his system are overloading. I recommend that we inform all remaining ships to withdraw away from Unicron. If he is to explode, our shields will be unable to withstand the blast."
The sudden specks of green light bursting out of Unicron's stomach, legs, arms and chest, creating small holes in the massive body, and Unicron looking in pain, confirmed that this is what's going to happen. "Worf! Contact all vessels now!" Picard shouted.
"Sir, what about Chad and the others?" Riker quickly said to his captain.
"….Data, I need you make sure you have a lock on to Gaia VII, inform La Forge to prepare for an emergency Warp."
"Sir?" Data turned and looked at him.
"We'll wait for as long as we can for them, if Unicron is about to blow, we leave."
"Aye sir."
Back inside Unicron, Xiahou Dun had just taken down one of the Pincer devices that just slammed Samus into the wall, when the Zerg stopped fighting, and begun to flee, running down the way the group arrived, and the pincers suddenly snapped off their coils, and this time as the coils went back into the holes, they didn't return. The room was shaking violently.
"What the? What's happening NOW?" Daxter said, exhausted from all the clinging onto Jaks shoulder, shouting at him as he dodged, fought and battled just now…he did help a little during all of this, jumped on a Zerg's face and blocked out it's eyes long enough for Jak to burst it with his rifle at point blank.
"Hey! Look!" Link quickly pointed in the direction of the staircase…then felt a little worried that he almost said the same thing a certain annoying fairy did, back on his world.
Just coming off the staircase, running towards them, as the ceiling near the stairs collapsed, crushing the steps and blocking the way they came, was Chad, still fused, Roll, Blues, Megaman, Shadow and Ridley.
"Guys! What's happening?" Ken was a little jumpy with the sudden shaking.
"We gotta get outta here right now!" was all Chad needed to say, before they turned and…saw their escape route, the corridor ceiling had almost collapsed, trapping them in.
"…Well, we're boned." is all Blues said.
"Not yet." it came from Shadow, as he showed what he had on him. The red Chaos Emerald. "Be thankful I had this with me. If I can focus, I can get us out of this…with more help, it would make the process go faster for a wide ranged, group Chaos Control."
Almost right away Sonic and Chad want over and placed their hand on the Emerald, with Sonic saying "Ready when you are bud, just gotta click the heels and think there's no place like home!"
Shadow frowned, as Chad knew this would be the Black Hedgehogs reaction, and smirked, as Sonic said playfully "What? I'm kidding Shadow! Relax!"
All three then focus their minds into thinking of escaping, and where they wanted to get to…the Enterprise is as good as any spot right now, ten-forward. And when they all could feel the chaos energy flow into them from the Emerald, together, they shouted "Chaos….CONTROL!" in a flash of green light, everyone was gone.
Unicron had just grabbed his leg, trying to keep it in place, as numerous explosions inside of it were happening, but it simply blasted off him, and exploded, hundreds of small rays of green light coming out of the leg wound. He was losing his stability quickly.
The last of the fleet had warped away but the Enterprise, when Data detected something. "Captain, numerous lifeforms have appeared in Ten-Forward. It is Chads group, one unknown lifeform, and the two machines, along with a mobian, have appeared in the Cargo hold."
Picard didn't give a damn about the unknown lifeform, he quickly got out of his seat. "Data! Warp 1! engage!"
The Enterprise quickly turned around, and wrapped away, heading back to Gaia VII, along with the rest of the fleet. Unicron, helpless, flew backwards without meaning to, his systems going haywire. Inside his head, was a massive computer room, the monitors going mad with data, the lights flickering like crazy. In the middle of the room, is what appeared to be, a glass ball, being held by two metal poles, from the sides of the wall.
Inside the glass ball was frozen liquid, and a figure, barely able to be seen, inside of it, wires embedded into his body. Outside the ball, was the master sword Unicron used, but no aura around it. The figure inside was awake, and felt all this, unable to hold the body together.
"Destiny…."
Unicron was trying so hard to keep himself together, then, an explosion came from his back, his coolant systems and energy diffusion nods were all taken out.
"You cannot…destroy….my…"
Unicron held his stomach and chest, feeling all the energy processors, all of that ancient technology that made him, about to overload.
"…DESTINYYY!"
In the head, the monitors of the computers were flashing red, showing some kind of language, like as if it was an emergency.
Then, the head of Unicron violently ripped off, in a burst of energy, from the body, spinning around, away from it, as the Planet Eaters chest and stomach expanded rapidly from the sudden wave of explosions inside it, before it just obliterated itself in a flash of green light, shards, chunks of metal and debris of the body flying off in all directions.
Unicron, was defeated.
In Ten-forward, the group, bar Optimus, Soundwave and Shadow, were there, all surprised, and relieved that they made it, with Chad panting, before he finally unfused with Darkmega, and Darkmega appearing on the floor, tired out. Chad was back in his human form, and smiled at Darkmega, giving him a thumbs up. Darkmega smiled, and done the same.
At the bar of the place, Guinan stood there, looking at them all, as Darkmega eventually got himself up, and they sorted themselves out a little, beginning to tell each other about what happened in their groups and such. When Guinan coughed, they stopped for a moment. "Anyone care for a little celebration drink?"
They all seem to just pause, then started chatting again, as they walked over to the bar.
There was a map…a small map, showing a cluster of stars. On the map, was a chess piece, white, shaped like Unicron. Nearby it, was a chess piece of Chad, and a chess piece of Darkmega. Over at the corner of the map, was one of Richard.
A male humanoid hand picked up the Unicron piece, and lifted it up, holding it close to his face…he had a medium, neat brown goatee, brown hair, slick back, with hints of white hair in his goatee and hair, and his skin was a peachy colour. He wore a white, silk robe, lined with gold cotton, and his eyes…They were as if black voids, with specks of stars in them.
Nearby, a male, deep voice came from a gold throne nearby. Someone was sitting upon it. "He failed. This was expected in some ways. it was to be. He was old. He was not ready for this time set in motion."
Then the man with the star eyes said, in a matter of fact tone. "Of course it didn't help the Lady had to guide the boy to victory…"
In the shadows, looking at the map with them, was a woman of some sort. Her voice, kind, gentle. "He is a brave child. And with the others, I expect with a little Luck, he'll make it far.
The man on the throne spoke to the one that held Unicrons piece. "Do not think your piece is defeated fully yet. Unicron has, in a sense, survived. The host within, survived. And also, so has my piece." He reached out, and picked up Richard. "This game is far from over, that much is certain."