Chapter 111: Ridley's Brutal Strike! Bout to Erase the Nightmarish Demon!

Last time in Tales of the Cosmic Wars any hopes that Ben, Max and the others had of sneaking quietly through Xiza 's stronghold were quickly crushed when they entered the lodging district of the Dammerung only to find Space Pirates, Vector solders, and various Anti-Enji weapons all jump out of the shadows to attack! Despite their numbers, all this really did was anger Max as he realized Xiza likely lured him here on purpose. However, this easy battle soon got tougher when the Titan member Alejandro Corner showed he was ambitions even among his fellow members as he fallowed Max's ship here to try and destroy them himself, on Kira 's orders! With the power of the Alvatore, the massive golden mobile armor that was created only to kill Enji Knights, it seemed it was not an empty threat.

However, Max was to fired up to let another thug of his former friend stop him , and insisted that Ben and the others go forward while he crushed his opponent to try and get Xiza by surprise if they can! Ben Cloud and the others reluctantly agreed, and they soon broke off in to three separate groups. Squad 7 was joined by Samus and Bacchus, and they blasted and slashed a path that hopefully leaded to Xiza, however all they found was an old foe of Samus's, the hideous and extremely powerful Mother Brain!

While at first Ben and the others did not see what the big deal was, they soon found out the hard way why Mother Brain had such a high position, when after angered it transformed in to its true deadly form, with far more power then when Samus thought she shut it down for good on Zebes! And the fact that it seemed to have even more power from the curse seal crystal of Necrocalcous just made things worse! While Ben and co got some hits in, this just seemed to anger Mother Brain further and it unleashed even more powerful attacks that blew apart the area!

And just when things looked bad enough, Ridley sprung out to ambush Samus and before she could counter attack he attacked in a fury and took her away so he could unleash his revenge uninterrupted! Ben and the others tried to pursue the blood thirsty dragon, but before they could Mother Brain unleashed a sneak attack, in the form of a nerve gas that was so strong it instantly paralyzed most of our hero's! However, luckily Hiryuumon was not affected, since the gas was not effective on Digimon. However even as Geno-Wyrmmon he could not put a dent in the deadly monster, in fact all he did was make it bombard the Digimon so hard he was knocked back in to his rookie level form!

However when things looked grim, Hiryuumon refused to let Ben and the others down, and using all the power he had resonate with the Star Sword, he was able to at last unleash his true potential, and warp Digivole all the way to the Mega level and become the Royal Knight type Shinryudramon! While it took a while, reaching the final stage of the Digimon was worth the wait, because Shinryudramon turned the tables in an instant and without delay destroyed Mother Brain! Now that Ben's Digimon partner has obtained the power to send most bad guys packing the chances are hero's have of succeeding have just went up even more.

However, there is still a lot they need to do. They still have to hurry to save Samus from Ridley Ultimas's dreams of giving her a painful death, Xiza has deployed his wacky but deadly Zinyu force to cause more pain to Ben and the other Enji. And while Max was able to crush Alejandro even after he tried a sneak attack in his hidden Alvaaron mobile suit, he at last saw what he was truly after, the apparent path to Xiza! However, is this what Xiza wants?

And if so, can he, Ben and the others be able to stop whatever grand master scheme the ambitious demon lord has? It's time to find out so let's get started!

However before we go to see how the destiny of Samus and Ridley reaches its hopeful final conclusion, we first turn to another group of hero's making their way through Xiza's vast space lair, Lacus and Brad's group!

Ever since Brad dragged Lacus and both of their squads with him on his desire to get his ultimate glory and smash Xiza first they have been descending deeper in to the Dämmerung there has been no end to the amount of defenses the multi faced villain has ! However the Enji were not going to let a few hundred lackeys stop.

And with Brad doing the most frontal damage they were able to blast their way to what looked like a new important area. They walk through the door and enter a new large factory area with a bridge going across lines of conveyor belts. On the conveyor belts are dozens of cans traveling through the factory.

Vaan glances around the area and tenses up before blurting out," What is this stuff? Xiza has his Vector corporation mostly make weapon's right? What the hell is this?"

Brad looks dismissive and grunts back with a callous," Who cares? It's just another lame experiment from a lame suit! Let's just blow this place up and get Xiza to come out!"

Sabin looks at Brad with a calm," Don't be so reckless Brad. The more we know about are enemy the better prepared we will be to confront him."

Lacus then looks around and looks worried as she puts out,"I have a, bad feeling about this. It's like death is overflowing in this place. "

Brad snorts before quickly putting out a smug ," Relax gal, your way to tense! Whatever tries to jump us will be given a free ride to the nearest star courtesy of my fist!"

Colette then looks confused and says,"Um, won't that make your fist very hot, and it would take a while to give the monster a trip all the way at the sun? Oh, this is one of your cocky remarks right?"

Terra then rolls her eyes and says," Pay attention everyone, we have to be ready to face Xiza at all times."

With this come out of a scanner near the end of the room. They continue on into a room and turn off the foreign object scanner. They walk through the scanner and reach a balcony on the other side of the factory. They see bloody meat enter the scanners and be placed into cans! Theses cans are then placed in to larger orbs, and after what almost sounds like a blender going off for a few seconds, the orb has a red light glow out of its center!

Terra takes a closer look ," Is, this Xiza making his food for the company? What kind of meat would be for such a thing?"

Lacus looks fearful and answers with a grim," I don't think, I want to really know. "

Brad looks over the corner of the room, and just cracks his neck and says,"Well better decide what you want to do Lacus, because you're about to find out."

Lacus, and the rest fallowing him to the other side. And when they step through the corridor and are shocked at what they see. All the gals and even Vaan gasp in horror, because from a chute at the front of the conveyor belts, dead human carcasses fall out and land on the belt. Large hooks and wires slice the bodies into the meat seen in the factory! Lacus is nearly sick from this and says,"This can't be... Uh... "

Lacus grabs her stomach and falls to the floor. Sabin clutches his fist and punches the ground and says,"What... is this... What... the hell is this...?! This makes even some of the things Kefka did look civil!"

Brad looks annoyed and walks over to pick up Lacus and says,"Get up doll, don't let this kind of stuff make you fall to pieces! "

Yuna then says,"Brad! How can you be so rude! This is, gruesome, inhuman work. Xiza is clearly pure evil."

Brad spits on the ground before reacting with a indifferent," So? Life is cruel, and the only way to survive is to be strong enough to tough out everything that tries to get you. If you can't cope with the reality of the world, you die, it's that simple! And my gal is tough as me, right Lacus!?"

Sabin looks annoyed and says,"Enough Brad! True strength, and toughness are not one and the same. Just because things might hurt us it does not mean we are weak, as long as we can rise to the occasion. I hope you're not starting to embrace the same twisted path as Kira, because if so you would, huh? "

He and everyone sees Lacus slowly gets on her feet as she says," It's ok Captain Fargo, I am ok, it just startled me. What, could Xiza be doing?"

Brad sighs and says," If it will make you feel better Lacus ill drag the answer out for you."

He then goes over to the terminal, and says," Time to spill out some answers. High level clearance? I'll show you clearance!"

Everyone expects Brad to smash it, but they are surprised when he begins to swiftly types key after key, and after a few minutes they are shocked to see a accesses granted message appear! Vaan looks at his tall friend and blurts out a confused," Brad, did you just hack that terminal?"

Brad grins and snaps back with a sly,"What? I told you all I am not as dumb as the higher ups, Ben and Ezan try to make me out of! This is just to make sure nothing can escape the grasp of the Unstoppable Juggernught, even if it's in the digital world! This is just something I learned form a few pals back in the old days, we all needed to be resourceful to survive back then."

Lacus then looks at Brad and says,"You, never even told me you were so good with computers Brad."

Brad just grins and says," Never asked doll. Now, here is the explanation of what you all wanted right? "

He clicks on a button and a new female computer voice then says," Soylent System. This is the organism experiment lab and its disposal facility in the Dammerung . Current state of project, production rate has increased by 70% since project started 500 years ago. Current proposal is to most effectively transfer required humanoid and other proper life-force energy, in order to quicken the date the breaking of the divine seal on the supreme Emperor Chaos Zannacross Necron."

This gets everyone's attention, and Terra says,"No! Xiza, he also is in league with Zannacross? So, then this means, that all of this is to sacrifice life's and transfer them to the stronghold of the Zannacross Empire? This is, madness!"

Sabin nods and says," This cannot be allowed to go on, it may be too late to save these people, but at the very least we can save them from being used to bring more deaths. Still, what disturbs me most is that it said it started 500 years ago! We all knew Xiza had a mysterious back ground, but, just what is he?"

Brad looks delighted and yells out a revved up," Does it matter? He will be dead soon enough anyway! All right, does this mean I can stop holding back?"

Lacus sighs and says," Just, try to not blow up any poor victims Brad. Xiza has treated them with enough disrespect as it is. "

Brad just winds his fists and says,"Oh don't worry Lacus, I know how to treat dead people! Now, where to start?"

Everyone then is shocked to hear a group of voices laughing evilly, before a high pitched voice says,"I have an idea bozo, how about you star with your face! Its ugly enough as it is!"

Brad clutches his teeth and smashes the wall so hard he smashes right through it and says,"Damn it! I am sick of wise guys thinking they can get the jump on me! Show your self's before I blast you out of your lame hiding spots!"

As Brad gathers energy in his fist everyone sees a spot light to the left go off, before five men are shown standing in position on a platform, and it's the Zinyu Force! Captain Zinyu looks delighted at the shock of the Enji and says,"Look what we have here boys! Seems a few Enji rats want to be drowned!"

As his team all laughs loudly Brad looks annoyed and says,"What, Xiza running out of men and has to hired his circus crew to stall for time? Sucks to be you!"

This angers the five elite Vector warriors and Grace says," Watch your tong you punk! You're looking at the Zinyu Force, Lord Xiza's most powerful warriors in all the Vector Corporation!"

Brad just spits and says," That suppose to intimate me pretty boy? "

Sabin gets tense and cuts in with," Stop it Brad, these guys are no joke. I heard rumors of a elite team of warriors under Xiza 's employee. Remember two months ago when the entire planet of Lemuris was nearly destroyed? We thought at first it was the Zannacross Empire, but the handful of survivors there were said something about a Zinyu force out of no were arriving before destroying everyone in there sight, and it seems it only took them a day to massacre the population of the planet!"

This gets a chuckle out of Bacom, and he says," Oh man, there were survivors? I thought we nuked every last one of those bums?"

Lacus sees how casually the man talked of genocide and says,"Your, horrible! How can you so be so careless with human life? Do you think nothing of killing innocent lives for no reason? "

Carter looks amused and extends his tong before rasping out," Hey know gal, your misunderstanding! We did not wipe those fools out for no reason, they had it coming!"

Terra then looks mad and says,"What possible reason could lead you to having a grudge with a entire world, and one so strong you sought out to kill every last man women and child? "The three eyed Billdoh looks amused and says,"

We might have had no beef with them, but president Xiza does!"

Grace then chuckles before adding," See the deal was mates that Lord Xiza was gracious enough to give them some of the most advanced technology in the universe to help spruce up there sorry excuse for a society. Now, everything was peachy till those lazy bums seemed to get cocky, and seem to think they could get out of paying the loan they got! It seems they were to hopelessly dumb to read the fine print of the contract the president wrote for them.

Because it CLEARLY said that if they failed to pay back the lone they took out for 100 billion gill then the company would take action! And what do you know; 10 years later we get an order from the president to send a message to a band of cheap ingrates!"

Lacus starts to get angry as she puts out a mortified," So, your company policy is to give planets unreasonable costs, then wipe them out when they can't pay it back , even when they had no chance?"

Brad whistles and says," Sounds like a pretty deadly scam you guys play. "

Captain Zinyu just stretches and says,"The likes of you could never understand how business is run. Wiping out pathetic idiots is a sure fire way of making sure the entire universe knows not to defy the will of master Xiza! Heh, this entire chamber is filled with losers who could not pay back the debut they owned him.

And so he graciously offered them a way to pay him back! Such worthless weaklings with unproductive life's are the perfect role for this! Now, this chamber is suppose to be off limits to all non Vector personal, and you Enji are unwanted trespassers anyway! Know what that means? It means you're all going to die, in style! Right boys?"

His fellow special force members all get in to their fancy fighting poses and say,"YAH!"

Lacus then looks serious before she emits a fierce," I, won't forgive any of you. You're all heartless monsters who enjoy committing devastation! Such pure evil, must be stopped now!"

Zinyu then says," You can try Enji, but I insure you that this fight is all ready decided in are favor! We have had plenty of Enji die at are hands before, in fact we have always made sure to kill are targets so fast they never even get are names! A shame though, because it means we can't show them my fancy death formation! But alas, to boost are odds, we even got a few pin heads to help us wear you down free of charge!"

Before Lacus and co can even wonder what he means all of a sudden more lights go on around the room, and are hero's see that they are being targeted by countless Space Pirate solders, Jet Pirates, Commandos, Elite Vector task soldiers, which look like the Shinra army grunts from FF7 with Freiza 's shoulder armor, and even more Enji slayer robots and Gladiator bots! Carter then sticks out his tong at the Enji and says," Say your prayers idiots! You're all about to join theses saps here as offerings to that Zannacross dude! So, ready to see my, huh? What is so funny? "

Everyone turns to see Brad holding his hand on his face, before he laughs in hysterical laughter! His eyes nearly look mad as he says," Man, you guys are a riot! You almost made my day!" Zinyu and his men look annoyed as the Capitan says," What's so funny you punk? Going mad with fear of death? "

Brad just looks at him and says," It's you guys! You act like your hot stuff, but you're just a bunch of freaks! So what if you killed a few worlds full of weaklings, and even got the jump on a few Enji? That means nothing, your all just chump change to Brad Fowltror, the "Unstoppable Juggernaught", and the most powerful being in the cosmos! Ill rips you all apart in a flash!"

Zinyu just looks irritated and says," So you're going to be a wise guy eh? I'll make sure your head is brought to President Xiza as another one of his trophies! Even for a Enji, you're a deluded one. Now that I think about it, your face rings a bell. It could be from the data we have, but could it be, huh? "

His scouter goes off and points to a large power level above him, and a evil grin forms as he says," AH, well boy's it seems are guest of honor is approaching! It would be rude to leave him hanging, so I think I'll come to great him before he has his meeting with the president. Tsc, that hot shot Max Bruder. It's about time he got what he deserves for making us and the company look bad. And by the time he finds out what he is getting himself in to, it will be too late! Just like it's too late for all of you Enji scum!"

Lacus looks worried and says," Max? What kind of trap do you think you can trick him with?"

Zinyu then says," I would go on my darling, but you're not going to live long enough for you to have a chance to do anything about it! All right boy's I'm off. When I am back I expect all of our guests here to be in those transports with the rest of the trash!"

His men all yell in overblown excitement and he uses his power to begin to fly as he says,"Think of it this way Enji, you're doing to die in the most dignified way possible!"

Zinyu then begins to fly out of the room, and this infuriates Brad and he says," Hey! Where do you think our going? Forget Ben's know it all cousin, I am way stronger than him! And I am saying your business is with me!"

With that he throws a red ball of energy at one of Xiza 's top enforcers, however before the energy ball reaches him, out of no were Charter warps in front of it and kicks it in to the right wall! And as it explodes he says," Hey! Don't you know you were barking up the wrong tree boy? You're going to die by are hands!"

His fellow members land besides him and Bacom says," Man, this guy is getting on my nerves! I call dibs smashing him!"

Grace then looks annoyed and says," No way! He talked back to the Capitan, the president, and our whole company! Ill beat him to death with his own knees!"

Carter then says," Hey no fair, I saw him first! Hey, there is one way to settle who gets to fight the large one!"

Billdoh rolls his three eyes and moans out," Oh not rock paper scissors again! Last time it took us so long that are target got away and both Zinyu and the president nearly flipped!"

Grace grins and responds with a energetic," Oh find, ill give you all some Chocó bars to get the first shot at smashing some teeth out of those guys! "

Brad can't stand it anymore and his energy explodes as he says," THAT'S IT! ILL KILL YOU ALL!"

With this his size increases, till once more he unleashes some of his true power! As he finishes his power up and glares at the four fighters Carter eyeballs Brad and says," What did this guy eat? Now he is bigger than me! Bah, your still lunch meat!"

Brad just grins as he walks forward, each step shaking the ground, as he says,"No more talking! I'll show you all who the true top dog is, when I break all your bones! "

All four members look annoyed and Grace says," I think you still don't get the message you broken headed moron! Roll call!"

The four say there name one at a time in their wacky fashion. And Lacus just rolls her eyes as she takes out her Oath Keeper sword and has her holy magical energy surround her as she looks serious and says," No matter who you are, we have a job to do, and we can't afford to lose to you! If you won't back away, then it seems we have no choice but to resort to violence. "

Terra then responds with a tense,"Be on guard everyone, despite their behavior I sense a deep terrible power form all of them!"

Bacom gets excited and says," Now that is what I am talking about! The ugly large one is right, less talking and more killing! Zinyu Force, ATTACK!"

With that all four of them charge at the Enji, and as Lacus and the others see the other members ready there various weapon's Ben's childhood friend says,"

Ben, Max, I hope your all safe. I will make sure I do my part to try and end this nightmare!"

With that Lacus sees Grace is all ready in front of her, and she flash steps to avoid his powerful punch that smashed the ground where she stood! He then fires a barrage of energy blasts at her, and she moves faster than the eye can see to dodge them!

As she does she happens to zip past the terminal Brad hacked, and as she does it happens to change pages to do the shockwave from one of the blasts, which then opens a page on another project, project Ridley, which is are cue to change are view once more, back to where we ended last chapter!

And as we turn back to today's main event we see its clear Samus is not off to a good start. It was bad enough that he caught her off guard after just recovering from a powerful blast from Mother Brain when he ambushed her. However, to make it worse Ridley has been more than a little enthusiastic to show his hated adversary how much faster and stronger his new body is! Ridley is playing more than a little unfair as he smashed Samus through wall after wall as she is griped tightly in to his claw, and it was not till Ridley has done this for several minutes does he finally get bored, and throws Samus hard in to the nearest platform!

At the current moment Ridley is barraging Samus with energy blasts from his wings, and the Chozo hunter is barely able to avoid being hit. When he changes position and fly's to the left Samus finally tries to change the battle's momentum by firing a barrage of missiles of her own at her nemeses. But as they home in on him Ridley just cackles as he flaps his wings so fast it's like they are a fan, and just blasts them of course! As they crash in to a nearby energy reactor he roars and says,"

Its useless hunter, useless! Your attacks can no longer harm me! This one has finally absorbed enough power to evolve to a level of strength that you weak fleshed humans can only dream of! At last I am the ultimate killing machine!"

Samus just charges her beam cannon as she says," Oh you have evolved all right, evolved to an even more deluded insane monstrosity! Ridley, you have caused enough carnage, and no matter how powerful you have gotten, this time ill make sure you die for good!"

With that she switches over to her Nova cannon and fires a massive green energy blast at him, and right after would jumps up and surrounded herself in energy before charging at her own blast while activating her Screw Attack! After absorbing her own charged shot she charges at Ridley as she is swirling with power! However this is causally stopped by Ridley with a hard sudden lash from his tale, and Samus is launched so hard in to the right wall of the chamber an imprint is made!

Ridley roars again and ascends higher his wings before he says," Don't get me wrong, this one is amused to see you struggle on with such futile determination. After all, the great Ridley wants to savior his revenge that he has long lusted after! You humans are such a foolish species.

You're so weak, and yet you continue to act like you are worthy of such high stature? Bah, all the more reason your entire race must be wiped out, so a new superior race can be born!"

Samus slowly gets back up and says,"You just don't get it Ridley; you just don't get what it is that drives humans. We may have many flaws, but most of us keep getting back up to try and improve on them! That is why we, why I won't lose to a ruthless mindless murderer like you Ridley!"

This anger's the Space Pirate/ Vector enforcer and he says," Enough! This one is beginning to think I liked you better when you did not talk! But, the great Ridley will see to that, right now!"

With that he extends his wings fully, and releases his own modified funnels from there tips, and moments later they all float around Samus before unleashing a storm of yellow energy blasts at her from all angles!

Samus is able to grapple on to a pipe above her with her grappling beam to get out of the way as the wall she was smashed in to is blasted to dust! She then regains her footing, before seeing the funnels coming for her again.

However she is ready, and turns in to her morph ball form before at once unleashing a power bomb that causes a powerful enough explosion to blast all the funnels! She then lands back on the main platform, only to feel the platform shake as her scan visor warns her to turn around in time to see Ridley charging at her in the same fashion as when he first fled the fight he was in with her in the Ceres Space Colony with the last original Metroid. The only different is that this time he is several times faster, and that his entire body is covered with blood red magic energy!

Samus tries to dash out of the way, but Ridley stop's in his tracks, before turning around to blast Samus dead on with an energy flare from his mouth! Samus is hit hard, and is blasted in to the air, and in an instant Ridley is right below her, and grasps her tightly with her tail! Seeing Samus 's power suit sparking his eyes glow as he roars out a vicious," This is the end hunter! Your power is all but smashed and thrashed out of you, not that you ever stood a chance! Now it's time to die!"

As his claws glow with energy Samus looks right at him and says,"It's not over until the last shot, and I still have a few left! Now, all power transfer to weapon's system!"

With that she shocks her foe, by squeezing her beam cannon out of his grip, to fire of a powerful Hyper Beam blast right at him! This blasts him off her, and she is hurled downward through a whole level! She is barely able to use what's left of her suits thrusters to prevent a rough landing, and she sees she is now in a level below where she was previously, and the area looks kind of like of a mix between where you fight Ridley in Brawl, and where Obi Wan and Qui Gon Jin fought Darth Maul underneath Threed palace in Star Wars episode one! As she hears a rumbling and a explosion above she then tries to stand, but falls to her knee and says,' Damn him, he is even more stubborn than normal, but even so that level of a blast was enough to finish him. Good thing to, I think I blew through all of my reserves. Huh, AH!"

Before she can even get back on her feet, all of a sudden a missile lands right in front of her, and blasts her off her feet! As she sees flames in front of her, to her dread that is followed up by a roar before none other than Ridley lands out of the fire! While it seemed Samus's last attack did some damage and his armor is slightly cracked around his head arms and chest, he is clearly still able to go on fighting! He flashes his long yellow teeth as he says,"Surprised hunter? Tisk, you're getting sloppy! I admit, that level of firepower might have had been enough to do some critical damage in the past. However, you seem to miscalculated the amount of power I have now!"

Samus just aims her arm cannon and says,"Clearly, but not again, not ever again Ridley!"

Ridley's eyes then glow and says,"Since you have been worthy of being killed by me, allow me to show you the source of true power, the last thing you will ever see!"

With that Samus is shocked to see her foe's chest panel open up, to reveal a Curse Seal of Necrocalcous crystal fused in to his chest, pouring dark energy in to him! But if that was not bad enough, a second, advanced stage gem of the dark side bulges out of his forehead! Samus then says," Those, are the same things that those from the Zanncross Empire use!"

Ridley just begins to emit a aura of darkness as he says,"This one cares not what this power's origins are. All Ridley cares about is that this power is far greater than even Phazon! It seems President Xiza saw the great Ridley was the perfect fit for such a power when I was rebuilt once more, and this is just another reason your at death's door warrior of the Chozo!"

Samus responds with," It's more than raw power that decides who wins and losses Ridley! Power is meaningless if it's not used properly. And, a thug like you will never be able to, AH!"

It seems Ridley is tired of hearing Samus talk, and fires another blast from his mouth to blast her back! He begins to charge up another one as he says," ENOUGH! Your nonsense has grown tiresome. Power is to show who is the superior being. And the superior being is the one who wins, that's all that matters! So just die!"

With that he fires another larger flare of deadly power from his mouth, and hits Samus dead on!

As a explosion comes out Ridley soon sees chucks of his opponent's armor go flying in different directions! He sees Samus 's helmet land right in front of him and with glee whacks it with his tail to fall below!

He then laughs insanely and says,"Hehahahaha! At last, at last we see who is truly inferior! Ah, now that my honor has been restored, this one thinks it's time to see if Mother Brain was able to deal with those pesky Enji. Heh, if not, then I might get a free meal. Huh, what the blazes?"

Ridley is shocked to see a figure emerge out of the flames, and its Samus!

However, she was so badly damaged from the last attack that she had to eject her Power Suit to survive, and now she is in her Zero Suit! Ridley has never saw her true form before, ( Officially at least) and is bewildered as she sees the blond haired women in the skin tight blue body suit walk forward as she breaths heavy. He looks closely at her and says,"What? What magic is this? This one blasted you to slag! Did you shed your skin? You almost look like another puny human. "

Samus, even while exposed looks defiant and muttering a bitter,"That's because I am human Ridley. What you thought was me was just a suit of armor. It is a biological uniform given to me by the Chozo called the Power Suit, which entwines itself with my mind and body. And it will only work for me, since I was infused with special Chozo DNA. What's wrong, you always wanted to crack me open you freak."

This is enough to cause Ridley to stagger back, before he explodes with anger and smashes the nearest energy pillar to pieces with his claw! He then glares at Ridley and says," You, you just continue to insult my pride to the end hunter! And all this time the great Ridley though he was fighting some sort of mutant Chozo warrior, not a frail human! Grrr, your face looks familiar for some reason to. Must have been one of the many human's I killed."

Samus is angry at this and snaps out a bitter,"My face looks familiar does it? It should, you saw this face before, a long time ago. Remember the mining space colony K-2L?"

Ridley quickly responds with," This one has destroyed countless areas, but, that does ring a bell. Yes, that was nearly eight years ago now, we were collecting debt, and also secretly silencing workers who opposed master Xiza. Wait, you were that, could you be?"

Samus suddenly cuts him off with a livid," Yes, I was! I will never forget that day, the day you and countless other Space Pirates attacked without warning, and killed everyone! And I will never forget, or forgive you for mercilessly attacking and killing my parents right in front of me, if it was not for my mother protecting me I would have died as well. I most likely would have died anyway, but by chance a Chozo scout ship that had gotten a distressed call. I was the only survivor, and they took me and raised me as my own. I trained with them for years, all for one purpose.

So that I could eradicate you scum from the face of the cosmos once and for all! And today, no matter what I'll see that my dreams are achieved! Ridley, my real name is Samus Aran, for all that you have done, and you're going to pay!"

Ridley is speechless for a second, before he breaks out it laughter! He then just looks amused and roars out,"So, after all of this time, the true story of the great hunter, is nothing more than a pathetic human seeking revenge hopelessly? Heh, HAHAHAAHAH! This one has not had a good laugh in a while. And I thought I killed you back then, if I only knew that not conforming the death of another human vermin would cause me such annoyance, but now I will amend that error, permanently!

You thought you could get your vengeance? Fool, you will never kill the great Ridley! I am beyond the means of life forms like you! Humans throughout history are nothing but foolish weak creatures that need the aid of superior beings like me and Xiza to have any value! That is why soon you will all be nothing more than fragments of an archaic era! Now then, Samus! Now that your suit is shattered, your bones will soon follow!"

Samus looks determined and says," It's still not over. No matter what, I'll keep fighting till the end."

Ridley takes to the air again, and says," That's so human of you, and that is why you're going to die now!"

With that he roars before he takes a dive to try and bite Samus's head off! However even though her suit is gone Samus is still highly acrobatic, and manages to jump in the air, and land on her foe's head!

She then takes out the only weapon she has left, her emergency plasma pistol, and as Ridley tries to hurl her of him she grabs on to his head, and fires a shot right in his eye! This hits home, and he screams in pain so loud that the entire area shakes! He then lashes out with his tail, and Samus jumps off to land behind him. At once he turns around and his remaining healthy eye glares at her as she says,"

Well, looks like this frail human still packs a sting. Like I said, it's not the suit or the weapon's that makes a true warrior, it's the heart. "

Ridley is so mad now that saliva drips out of his mouth as he says," Well, if that is the case the victor of this battle was decided from day one! No more games, this one will end this now!"

At once he gathers energy in to his mouth to try and blow Samus apart. However Samus is ready, and turns her gun in to its plasma whip form before quickly jumping in the air, and lashing her whip in a corkscrew formation, to hit her foe's flare just as he is about to fire, causing a backfire, that blows up right in Ridley 's face! This blasts him off his feet, but it does not keep him down for long as he slams the ground so hard the platform cracks before he jumps back up! He is lived now and says," Blasted hunter, blasted human Samus! Why won't you die!?"

Samus just stands her ground as she snaps back with," It's simple, I still have many things to do, and pay checks to collect before I can let that happen!"

Ridley Ultima just has his energy rises so much chucks of the ground break up as he says,"To bad, because all of the plans you have for the future, are now permanently canceled!"

With that his energy explodes, sending many chunks of the ground at her, and she does a back flip to get out of the way. However, an instant later she is shocked to see that Ridley is now behind her, all ready having his claws extended and glowing with the power of the dark side! Samus tries to dodge, but she is not fast enough! She is able to avoid a lethal blow, but Ridley sinks her claws in to her and hits her right in the back, tearing of that area of her suit and drawling blood! Ridley takes delight as Samus staggers in pain and blood falls down on the ground. Ridley licks his lips, before saying," Yes, YES! I can taste your death in my mouth, and it taste delicious! Rejoice, soon you will be reunited with the parents you are so found of avenging !"

He then ascends in to the air, before flying as far as he can still see her, before then performing a dive to head right to her! Samus is to hurt to move, and just says,"

No, it can't end like this. I, was so close!"

Ridley laughs demonically and rasps out," TO bad! It's as this one said all along! What can one human hope to achieve on its own? Nothing that's what! Dreams are for weaklings that are too weak to make them become real Samus darling! Hahaha, and now it's time for the dream to, GUH!"

Samus then open's her eyes, and is shocked to see Ridley 's charge was stopped, by Ben! It seems that Ben and his friends, plus Bacchus, were able to finally find there ally and as soon as Ben saw how bad of a situation Samus was in he then flash stepped to her side, and made his presence known by bringing Ridley 's dive to a halt with a powerful thrusting punch to the dragon's gut! This knocks the breath out of Ridley, and as his eye turns to Ben the welder of the Star Sword grins and says,"

To you the dreams of others may be insufficient, maybe even worthless, but to humans, it's everything! You're not going to end anyone's dreams, or life's, ever again Ridley!" Ridley roars before taking to the air and saying," The damned Enji with the holy blade, why of all the times? "

Ben just powers up and gets in to fighting stance as he says,"Didn't anyone tell you that hero's half of the time arrive at the most dramatic moment to kill the mojo of the villain? Er, although I did not plan it that way, you dragged Samus pretty far. Sorry we took so long for back up, Mother Brain gave us a headache, but she is no longer a problem for anyone."

Samus grins and says," Like always it was sloppy, but better late than never kid. "

Doug, Cloud, James, and Bacchus all jump down from the passageway that they entered from and run up to Ben as Cloud says," Good going Ben. Hope you don't mind if we lend a hand to finish your grudge once and for all Samus."

Samus just dusts off the dirt on her shoulders and says," I don't mind at all, I just want him to stay dead."

James looks at her and says," You did well to fight him on your own so long after how much power he absorbed. "

Doug whistles and adds," I'll say, and cudo's for having such a killer figure underneath that suit!"

Samus looks annoyed and says," Are you hear to fight or dawdle? You will have plenty of time to think of such things when we are through with this. "

Ridley just roars again and says," It does not matter how many of you oppose me, the great Ridley will destroy you all!"

Cloud then notices the Curse Seal crystals on the monster and says," So, Xiza upgraded him with the Curse Seal of Necrocalcous crystals as well it seems. That just makes things complicated. "

Bacchus scans Ridley with his sensors and says," I do not detect any weak spots of importance in his makeup mister Auro."

Ben just narrows his eyes and says," Well, then we will just have to make one won't we?"

Ridley then says," You can try but you will die in the process! I have no weak spots, I am the prefect killing weapon! I'll take everything you all have at once, and chew both that and yourself up before I spit out the pieces! Now, time to put a end to all of this! Where was that dragon mutt of yours Enji? Did he realize he was outmatched and outclassed and ran away? Huh, what the!?"

He feels someone tapping him on the shoulder, and turns around to see none other than Shinryudramon looking right at him! As the mega level digimon powers up he says," Sorry I am late, had to find another way in. Oh, the name is Shinryudramon now jerk. And where I am standing you look like the mutt here fang face. But that's just me. Oh well, open wide!"

With that in a flash he does a roundhouse kick that hits the surprised Ridley through a wall! The Royal Knight digimon just turns to his partner and says," Huh, I thought someone would be ready for sneak attacks."

Samus smirks and says,"Ridley can dish it out with extra, but he does not seem to be a fan of taking it himself. Come on, we can't let him have a single spare moment to recover."

They all nod as Ben says," Right, let's end this, so that Xiza can't hide behind him anymore."

With that he and the other Enji all use their magical energy to enhance their jumps to reach the hole and Samus gets on Bacchus's shoulder and the android uses the thrusters on his legs to have them follow their friends. Soon enough are hero's see they are in a hall way, and that in front of them is a dual steel door with Ridley's imprint on it.

They resume there pursuit, and are shocked to see they are in what seems to be a large lab filled with many computers and various test tubes. They see parts of the ground torn up and they know for sure that Ridley was here just moments ago, and most likely is still in the room. Ben then has light emit from the Star Sword to illuminate the area as he says,"

Be ready everyone, he could pop out of any were, literally."

Doug nods and says," Don't worry, as soon as he pops his ugly mug out ill smash it so good he will never be able to eat solid foods again! Ah, and speak of the devil! Open wide chuckles! Hammer of, huh? "

Doug was about to punch what he thought was Ridley, but he stops when he sees it's an eyeless head of him that is hanging on the wall like a trophy! He backs of, and sees not only many replica's of that head, but many other parts of the Space Pirate enforcer as well, the same sort of parts that made up the robotic Ridley Samus fought in the end of Zero mission! He then blurts out a baffled," What the hell are they doing in this place? Build your own blood craving monster?"

eyes the largest terminal, sees a hologram layout of Ridley, and slowly walks over to it before clicking on it. After reading the new page he gasps and says," Not build an army Doug, just a undying killer!"

Samus looks at the terminal before turning to James and saying,"What do you mean?"

James scrolls down more and says,"I think we found the answer to why Ridley keeps coming back no matter how badly you kill him Samus. Ridley may have once been a living being. But, at some point Xiza seemed to have downloaded his mind and all of his physical data in to the Vector network's forbidden sector, so that when ever Ridley was killed Xiza and the Space Pirates can continue to revive him with more power each time!"

Shinryudramon then says,"So this means, that no matter how many times we defeat him he will keep coming back? "

James looks confident as he says,"Not necessary, in fact this may be are key to riding this universe of Ridley forever. It we could find a way to delete all traces of his data, and then he will be truly dead. The only problem is that we have to make sure every server with Ridley's data is totally erased. "

Doug just looks at his teammate and says," Well, if you can figure out a way do it fast, because we don't know when are playmate is going to recover and, huh? Damn it, me and my big mouth."

Doug's comment is caused by everyone feeling the ground shake, before to the left the rubble in the room explodes, and a furious Ridley emerges! He then says,"Now you done it, I'll break your bones and make you die watching me eat them! Huh, no, how did we land in here!? You're not supposed to be in here, this is a chamber that only I, Master Xiza and his chief scientists are allowed in! Get out now!"

Samus looks amused and says,"What is wrong Ridley? Upset your dirty secret has been found out? What a joke. Someone who is so in love with himself and his ego is nothing more than a digital cancerous virus!"

Ridley is so upset he smashes the ground with his tail and says,"That's not correct at all! I am the real Ridley! My mind is linked to the digital world so that I will live forever! I told you can never hope to kill me, I am immortal! However you're all far from it!"

With that he extends his wings, and releases more funnels. However as they get ready to attack James aims his energy bow in the air and says,"You're not immortal either monster, time you see no one can escape death forever, no matter how desperately you thrash about to hang on to it. Licht Regen !"

With this James fires a barrage of energy arrows to at once to blast them out of the air!

Doug then charges at Ridley, only to be greeted with his tail, but Doug is ready for that and jumps on the point of the tail as a boost to launch him right at his foe as he says," Open wide! Fury Aura! And then,Shin-Shoryuken!

With this Doug's power level rises as his magical energy swarms over his gauntlets and grieves, before he unleashes a massive punch right in his foe's chest! This knocks Ridley back, and Bacchus then says," Your termination is the most required outcome of the situation, Black Hole Sphere!"

With that his right hand extends inside his arm and fires a black sphere at Ridley, and once it reaches him it grows massively in size, causing a massive increase in gravity around the monster! Ridley is smashed in to the ground, and he tries to get up only for his head to slam to the ground! However, this makes his anger reach a boiling point and the symbol of Zannacross glows as he says," You think your attacks can put me out of commission ? Think again!"

With that he drawls all of the power of the dark side he absorbed, and causes him to glow with a red aura before he stands up, and shatters the black hole sphere! Cloud just has his own blue colored energy pour in to his sword as he says,"

No matter how many times you crawl up, we will knock you down again and again! Finishing Touch!"

With that Ridley takes to the air, and fires more missiles from his wings. However in a flash he slices through them all, and then proceeds to jump right above Ridley before he prepares to unleash his limit break attack on his head!

Ridley manages to dodge, but Cloud still hits his right wing, and slices a good chunk of it off! Ridley roars in pain and fires a sudden energy flare at the Enji Captain. Cloud manages to block the blast with his sword, but the blast still blows him back. However, Shinryudramon is ready to tag out his ally, and he shows off the extent of his new form s powers as his shield transforms in to a drill before he says," You don't get it, none of you evil jerks do! No matter how powerful you are, you're still fighting for yourself while we are fighting for everyone's sake! I guess we just have to drill the point in to you, Heaven Piercing Drill Breaker!"

With that in a flash the Digimon is right on top of Ridley and he brings his spinning drill down on his target!

Ridley tries to block it with his remaining wing, but the digimon has no problem breaking right through it and damaging Ridley in his leg! As Ridley falls to the ground, with both of his wings broken, he yells even louder and says," NO! This should not be happening! How can I have things turning this badly when I had everything managed!"

Samus just looks at Ridley and says," Do you see now the limits of your ruthless tactics Ridley? It does not matter, because either way it's the end of the line!"

This enrages Ridley as he says,"Samus Aran, damn you! If you did not exist, if you just died with the rest of the garbage, then I would not have had to go through this disgrace for so long! No, this one will not let things end this way! No matter what, even if I die, you will die as well!"

With that he charges right at her, but Samus just has the orb on the palm of her suit glow before she says,"Don't be a sour loser Ridley, just expect your defeat!"

With that just as he is about to be on top of her, she is encircled with power, and a sphere of power, that manages to bounce Ridley off her! A light fills the room, and when its gone Samus stands with her Power Suit back on her good as new! She then arms her charges her arm cannon and says,"

Oh, did I forget to mention that my suit can repair itself after it has had enough time to recover? Oh well, to bad for you!"

That was the last straw for her nemeses, and he roars madly as he puts all the remaining power in to his mouth for a final attack as he says," It matters not, I'll just blast it off, with the rest of you, once and for all! DIE HUNTER!"

With that he fires a massive column of power at her, and she counters with her Hyper Beam! The two beams interlock and engage in a beam struggle, and are evenly matched. Ben then gets along side Samus and says," It's over Ridley, once and for all you're finished for good! Shinryukenha!"

Shinryudramon himself then lands besides his partner and once more transforms his shield in to a cannon before charging up his own power and saying," And for good measure, Infinite Exia Ray!"

With that Ben adds his own energy wave in to the mix, just as his Digimon pal does the same and together they push Ridley's blast nearly back to his mouth!

Samus then says," Ridley, your legacy of madness, ends now! "

With that she gives it everything she has, before the triple combined blast turns to a rainbow color, and it blasts through her opponent's blast, and then proceeds to go right through Ridley 's chest, and continues to go on through several walls till everyone hears a explosion in the far distance! Ridley gasps in pain as it sees with its eye the hole in his chest and screeches out a frenzied," Impossible, IMPOSSIBLE! "

Samus just slowly walks up to Ridley and says,"Oh, it's very possible, you just learned now the limits of your power. But, it's a case of too little too late. "

She is now right in front of her nemeses, and she then jumps on his head before charging up her power and pointing her cannon right in his mouth. She then says,"

Ridley, for all the pain you caused. And for the deaths of my parents, along with the countless others you caused under Mother Brain and Xiza, its time you pay for what you have done!"

Ridley looks mad as he has his tail spin and glow with all the power he has left before he says,"Not yet, this is not the end just yet! It won't be over till your dead! NOW DIE YOU, RUAHH!"

Ridley made a last ditch effort to impale Samus with his tail, but knowing Ridley's behavior she was ready, and jumped out of the way, leaving Ridley to impale himself in the mouth! As Ridley screams in pain Samus uses her grappling beam to swing herself around before she says,"

You really are hopeless, but it does not matter if you won't expect your death. Because I'll be happy to make you expect it! Die Ridley, die and spend the rest of time in hell!"

She then changes in to her morph ball form, and uses her boost form to blast downward, and slams right at her foe's tail deeper through his body, and it goes through his mouth, and hits the terminal holding his data!

This causes a very painful chain reaction for Ridley and James sees this and says," Samus just made the last blow, she caused him to destroy the data on himself with his own body! And since the terminal was online, it could have an effect and corrupt all the data in the files throughout the database!"

Ben grins and quips out a heroic," Which means, you used up your last continue Ridley. This time, it's truly game over!"

Ridley 's body is sparkling all over and he says," RAHH! I, can't die! I am, the great Ridley! AHH!"

With this Samus fires one last charge shot at his mouth, which goes right inside him, causing his whole body to light up! He attempts last time to grab Samus with his hands, before his entire body explodes, along with the terminal holding his data! As the fire rages on, Samus lowers her cannon and says,"This better be the end of it, or I am going to get really ticked off."

Bacchus then says," I think that takes to your sudden thinking, you may have completed your desire to permanently stop this Ridley creature Samus Aran. As said before, because of the terminal being in the process of transfixing data for another body, nearly 75% of the data or more would have been corrupted. "

James then repositions his glasses as he says," Yes, but knowing Xiza, he likely has another backup or something on him."

Cloud then puts his sword back and says,"

Then the only way to truly make sure that Ridley, and all the other nightmares are put to an end, is to stop Xiza once and for all."

Samus nods and says," Then let's get going. Ben, everyone, thank you for assisting me in truly killing Ridley, now with your help I can truly put an end to the Space Pirates. "

Ben nods and says," No problem, I want to make sure all of this fighting leads to progress as well. All right Xiza, its time, your days of doing what you please are coming to an end! Let's go guys!"

With this Samus downloads the entire layout of the Dammerung thanks to being in a restricted area and says,"At last, I think we have a lock on him. It seems that the area of deepest part of the ship is where the most security is. And this path has a direct route to it. "

Cloud then says," Xiza, whatever you're planning, it's coming to a stop right now. Ready everyone? Let's finish this mission."

With a new destination in sight, Ben and his pals move out in hopes of at last confronting the green skinned master corporate manipulator! But as they move at full speed, little does Ben know that his cousin is once more ahead of him. We now turn to Max, who is still on the elevator that he suspects Xiza purposely summoned for him. After waiting over ten minutes on the platform only to see it moving back and forth he is beginning to get irritated and says,"

What's the deal Xiza? Your grand plan to stop me is to bore me to death? Tsc, if that's the best you got then I'll just blast my own path to you! Enough, I waited far too long as it is! Show yourself Xiza! Oh, is this the only thing you're going to answer me with? Wrong answer!"

With that he extends the shoulder blades out of his armor again before swiftly jumping up and greeting the sudden arrival of two red energy blasts and slashing them in half! As he lands back on the ground he hears an evil laugh before none other than Captain Zinyu says," Well antsy are we? Don't worry, I'll give you a special message that will help you forget it all, Max Bruder!"

With that Max sees the overly excited commander of Xiza 's special forces fly down right in front of him and a annoyed Max growls out a fierce," Unless you want to quickly lose a lot of pounds out of my way! "

Zinyu wags his finger and responds with a dismissive," Cocky to the end are we? You really think you can just waltz right in to harass the president? Not on my watch!"

Max grins, before he puts his Janus mask back on and says," Good, because I am not here to harass him, I am here to KILL him!"

Zinyu just cracks his knuckles and says,"Sorry, not going to happen buster! Because that goes against everything the Zinyu Force is around for! And as its amazing and all powerful leader, you're going to have a taste of Zinyu spice, and it will be so hot you will die from amazement! Shaking in your boots yet?"

He is shocked to find Max just having his shoulder blades glow and his magic aura rock the elevator before he says,

Yah, I get that a lot but I don't have the time or patience to amuse you so you're going to die now. "

This hits Zinyu hard and he says,"How dare you! I would think someone who is a smart as you would realize your staring at one of the lethal fighters in the cosmos!"

He then goes in to an elaborate fighting pose as he turns around and puts his head behind his knees and says," CAPITN ZINYU! ALL RIGHTT!"

Max just responds with a flat," Right, you mispronounced Capitan genius. And in any case, I think you're the one who has not been out much. Otherwise, you would have known I kind of have the reputation as both the flash of death AND the terror of death. You know, the kind of guy who shows no mercy and easley kills anyone who is in his way, no matter who or what he she or it is? Well if not your about to learn the hard way."

Zinyu gets so upset his own purple magic energy blasts out as he says,"You're really starting to tick me off! I know you, you have been ticking off everyone as you move all stealthy and cause lord Xiza all kinds of annoyance! Even if you were once on par with lord Judicar, that was in the past, time for your face to get slammed in to the wall of the future!"

Max then says," I know all about you and your Zinyu force, Captain. You think you're a big shot? Your just a leader of high powered dimwits that are nothing more than a bunch of Xiza's hounds biting on anyone he throws you at. However, just because you may be able to terrorize innocents, and get the jump on some fighters, it hardly means you're a real fighter. I had it up to here with big mouths like you. "

Zinyu blows a gasket as he screams out, " Enough! The great Captain Zinyu won't take this nonsense from some smug punk! Time to die!"

With that in a flash he is right above Max with energy surrounding his fist before he unleashes a powerful jab at Ben's cousin! However Max is not impressed and catches it with one hand. As the force of his opponent's punch rocks the elevator and presses it downward Max sighs and says," This is your full strength? Bah, lightweight. "

With that he swiftly kicks Zinyu in the head, sending him flying in to the air! However before he stops Max flash step's to right above him as he says,"

No matter how many punks try to stop me, nothing will stop me from getting my revenge! If you're not going to stop then you will die!"

He then puts both of his hands together before dealing a powerful blow to the Vector member's back, rocketing him back in to the still moving elevator, or more like through it! Zinyu finds him self stuck in it, and as Max lands back on the ground he chuckles and says,"Maybe you should change your job description to that of a doormat? Either that or an ostrich. "

Zinyu then pulls his head out of the elevator and glares at Max before saying,"Think you can continue to disrespect me? Ill beat you to death with your own legs for that!"

Max then says," Don't give me any ideas, your annoying enough as it is."

Zinyu then snaps and says," Ill give you a lot more then ideas, ill give you the stylishly brutal death you deserve you scum! Zinyu Barrage!"

With that he fires a barrage of purple energy bolts at his opponent. However Max just spins around like a tornado and deflects them all!

Zinyu sees this and reacts with a vindictive," Ha, you do have some flashy moves, and just might be worthy of being killed by me! But you will never out do someone who's as masterful of fighting, and winning as me! Ultra Zinyu Cannon!"

With that he finishes his barrage of blasts before putting his hands together, and firing a massive purple and black energy blast at Max! Max stops his attack and sees this coming, but it seems he is not fast enough, because the blast goes right through him before it blasts through the wall and keeps going forward! Zinyu sees this and laughs madly as he blurts out," Bulls eye! Looks like you're not as hot as you think Max Bruder! To bad, because now you're dead! This should greatly please Lord Xiza! In fact he might even, huh? What the!? "

He is shocked to see the image of Max flicker before it turns in to smoke! Zinyu then in a panic looks around and says," Impossible, he uses a after image illusion? I would have sensed that! Where is he hiding now? When I get my hands on him ill, GUH!' He finds out where Max when the hard way when he feels a sudden force kick him in the back hard as he is launched in to the ground hard! A instant later he finds himself having a energy net keep him pinned to the ground, and Max at once appears above him to elbow him in the gut as he says,"Who is hiding Zinyu? The fact that I lost you with such ease shows how "elite" your skills are. Oh well, sucks to be you. "

He then once more takes out his massive Beskar sword and points it right at Zinyu 's throat before saying," I had enough of theses games. If your not going to lead me to Xiza then ill spare myself the trouble and just kill you right now!"

He is about to bring down his massive sword on his opponent's head before all of a sudden, he feels the elevator stop at last, before he hears a new voice say," No need to act so ruthless Max Bruder. After all, your heart's desire is right in front of you!"

Max is shocked as he looks up, and sees the large doors in front of him open, to show that right in front of him is Xiza, sitting in his office chair looking like he is delighted to see him! Salzon is with him as always, and as Max sees his target in his sights he greets his teeth, before kicking Zinyu right at his master!

He walks forward as he hears some sort of Wager music playing to set the mood as Xiza just looks down on his henchmen and looks annoyed before saying," Capitan Zinyu, your performance right now is far below what is expected."

Zinyu just rubs his horns and looks humiliated as he says,"Forgive me sir, he blindsided me before I could get my groove on! Don't worry, just give me around five minutes and ill have his head on a platter!"

Salzon just rolls his eyes before turning to Max and says," More like he will have your head on a platter Zinyu. Ah, but it seems anyone would have a hard time subduing mister Bruder at this point. And here we thought you were a smart man Max. Because if you were smart you would have known you have to make a appointment before you have the right to approach lord Xiza, then again you have proven your insane enough as it is to have the nerve to come here with your cousin and the other Enji!"

Max grins as he points his sword at them all as he says,"Your right, what was I thinking? Oh that's right, I was thinking of storming your base to end things once and for all! No were to run now Xiza! The only place you're going to now is through my sword! At last, my revenge will be had!"

As his magic aura explodes and his sword shimmers with his power Xiza just chuckles and says,"Oh Max, your such a simpleton despite your attempts to hide it. All you can think about is your desire to honor the deaths of your barbaric comrades. But if you ever stopped to think about it, you're acting rather irrational. It was Kira and the Titan's Special Forces who effectively destroyed the world of Zandalor and its proud warrior race not I. "

Max just gets annoyed and says," Kira is next on my list, but don't you dare try and act innocent!

Kira may have dealt the final blow, but you're the reason he I, and the Titans were there in the first place! It was all because of your seedy business with the planet, using them as your thugs, before making it so they had no choice but to rebel, just as you planned it! You clearly made things escalate till you made it easy for Kira to justice his choice, even if even then you to had your fancy cover story, and blamed me for it!

Bardock, Grando Fett, and all the others who trusted in the Lylat Kingdom, you deceive them, you deceived me, you deceived everyone for your twisted pleasure! You even used people as powerful as Weil Zabi as pieces for your own sadistic game! I have been doing some research, and the more I dig the more devious dirt I dig up. And with things like the Juggernaut Project, its clear your one ambitions sick freak! Well, it all ends now. For what you did Xiza, I am going to kill you!"

Xiza just rises a eyebrow and responds with a condescending,"Oh please, the Juggernaught project was just a pipedream made up by a bunch of deluded geniuses trying to stroke there own egos. I won't deny I funded a part of the project, but to me that kind of power at best would prove to be unreliable, and at worst be a liability. After all, such trivial power pales to the one true power, the power of god! I know the likes of you can not hope to understand the comprehension of someone as myself. But, your foolish simplistic ideals are trivial and worthless. There will always be resentment between the have's and the have not's.

But it's the fault of the cogs of society for thinking anything will ever change that this dance of death continues to go on and on. Since the beginning of time the low class worker blames his misery on his superior, even when he can only blame him self for his own inferiority! Desperate to clime out of poverty, the mindless masses do what ever they can to try and change there fate. Some try to rise up in the ranks.

Others try to protest through strikes and other methods. And some try to force change through strikes and bloody revolutions. However, no matter what methods they try to use, there position will never change. That is because the majority of the population of this universe will always be unworthy of true happiness. And it would seem the only cure for this would be total annihilation, would you not say that my friend?

You, your cousin Ben Auro and all his Enji Knights can try all they like to defy fate, but its hopeless. Mere physical power by its self can not change the laws of the cosmos. Your just wasting your time. Ah, but at least ill give you credit for making your struggle so very amusing to oversee."

Max just grins and says,"Sorry Xiza, you got my motives confused with my cousin! I am not as a foolishly idealist as Ben and the others, not any more. But you see, I don't give a damn about change the world, changing how the universe works. It's really simple, all I care about is seeing you Kira and all your supporters dead!"

Xiza scoffs at this and puts out a chiding," Hahaha, oh Max, you really are amusing fellow. However, your usefulness has run its course. With ever or not you will expect it does not matter, for its time you know your true place in history. "

Max then gets in to his fighting stance as he says,"You can try Xiza, but your going to find killing me is a lot harder then you image. "

Xiza just stands up and says,"Well, it's clear both of us can not be right, so let us not waste anymore time and get this little dispute over with. Oh and Salzon, an update on what I mentioned earlier? "

His blue skinned long haired minion just turns to him nervously and says," It would seem that Samus, Ben and the others happened to discover Ridley 's true secret, and sadly it seems that even with his new modifications it was not enough, because both he and the terminal with his data seem to be destroyed. It might be difficult to be able to recover the data. "

Xiza just has an evil grin from as he says,"How pathetic, Ridley truly was incompetent if he could not get the job down with all of his upgrades. But in the end, that does not matter now. None of the lost we have suffered will matter soon, because very soon we are about to make up for all of them, with great interests because my greatest venture is about to take play, and it will give me everything!

Max, how about as a treat I show my most magnificent venture before you die? "

Max just has his energy explode as he quickly responds with a livid," How about you just die!?"

With this his energy increases so much the special glass in the office cracks, and by just pressing it forward Max shatters Xiza 's desk! He then charges at him, only for Salzon to get in front of Max and has his eyes glow before he holds up his hand and says," Really now, is that any way to show proper respect? Kneel you mad dog!"

He then puts his hands together, and forms a energy circle in his hand, before he swiftly throws it at the raging charging swordsmen, and encases him in a golden energy circle! This causes Salzon to laugh madly as he says,"That's what you get for being so reckless you filthy turncoat. This spell will use your own power against you to keep you trapped! "

Zinyu then unleashes his energy to shatter the energy net, gets back on his feet and wipes of the blood from his mouth before looking manic and saying,"

Perfect, the Enji rat is trapped like a, rat! Now your mine!"

He then leaps in the air, but Max just gets annoyed and says,"I ran out of patience for you pathetic flunkies! I have come too far for all of this pain to have been meaningless, and no one is going to stop me! Xiza, let me show you just how powerful my hatred is for you!"

With that he closes his eyes, before all of a sudden he explodes with power, so much power that it overloads the advanced shouters on both Zinyu and Salzon, and also instantly destroys the binding sphere! A instant later he drop kicks Zinyu in the chest to return him to the floor, before flash stepping right in front of Salzon and kicking him through a wall or two!

Max then turns to Xiza and says," Have any more minions you have stored come at me now and it won't matter a bit, I will slash them all to bits before I do double to you!"

He then feels a increase in energy and turns to the right before he sees Salzon get back up, with a bloody face. Looking outraged he says,"

Fool, your facing lord Xiza's most powerful servants right now! Look what you did, for every bruise you put on my face ill break a finger of yours!" Max just sees Zinyu also getting back up before he groans and says,"

Oh forgive me, I thought you were just his sectary, not his supposedly best man. Hard to tell though with you being nothing more then a weak pretty boy who like all of you here are full of yourself!"

Salzon just looks sadistic and flicks his hair back before he says," Oh now your just begging to die, you understand nothing but what is in front of you. This is not my true power, far from it! I detest showing my true power, its rather ugly. But for you ill digest the inhumanity! You see, what you see here is the beauty."

He then closes his eyes, before all of a sudden his energy surges, and all of his muscles expand! Max sees Salzon double in size, before his once human face turns to that of a reptile! Salzon then glares at Max as he finishes his transformation and says,"Now meet the beast!"

Max just puts his sword on his shoulder and snickers before putting out a witty," You done? All you did was show your as ugly outside as you are on the inside! " Salzon quickly roars out a hostile,' Oh you will see who is ugly when I am through with you!"

Max then sees Zinyu gets behind him as he says,"You really must be insane to think you could storm in here and get away with it! You don't even have a power from the celestial ones like your cousin? Just what plan could you think of that would let you survive? "

He and Salzon both charge at Max, but in a instant Max shows he still is not impressed, as he manages to block the charge of both foes with his sword! He just blasts them back with his aura and says, "Please, you dimwits don't know anything. My plan was simple, kill you all. And I can pull it off even without a special sword, because I am just that damn good. Call me arrogant, but, you're seeing the results right now."

Salzon then says," What, even after transforming he won't even take me seriously? Impossible!"

Zinyu is nearly freaking out as he says," What is he? He can't be a normal human being, not with such a power like that! Something, something about his body must be special."

Max grins as he says," What can I say, expect that I am a born fighter. And this fighter wants to move on to his true objective, so time to end this farce!" "

Zinyu looses all composers before his energy explodes and he puts his arms out to his sides and says,"Shut your damn trap! I am the great Capitan Zinyu of the lustrous Zinyu force! I won't allow this disrespect to continue! If your power is so great, then the answer is simple, ill just have to take control of that body for my self! CHANGE NOW!"

With that Max sees Zinyu fire a massive purple beam at him, and Max says,"Change? Ill pass thanks!"

With that he quickly sidesteps out of the way, to Zinyu's horror as the blast then hits the surprised Salzon! Max sees both of there eyes glow before he says," That was your best move? Please, you must be insane, that did not even scratch your own ally!"

Salzon then looks at his own hands and freaks out as he says," No, NO! This is not what was suppose to happen! How could he dodge at such close range?"

Zinyu then freaks out, and looks at his face in the floors polished reflection and says," NO! Zinyu you idiot! How could you use your body change attack so poorly! Now I am in this hideous body!

" Salzon, or more like Zinyu looks freaked and says," Who are you calling ugly? And I am the one stuck in this body! "

Max rises a eyebrow and says,"Body change? Are you kidding me!"

Xiza looks annoyed and rasps out," Zinyu, how pathetic. I thought after you got stuck in a frog's body for a week you would learn to master it better! " "

Zinyu" glares at Max and says," It will be fixed in a moment, ill just do it again! Salzon grab him this time so I can, GUHH!"

Max shows he is clearly out of patience with Zinyu, as he throws his massive sword right through the foe's chest! As blood pours out of him he says," You, damn, cheater!"

Max just says," There is no second changes with me, and I rather not take a chance letting a slime like you get any were near my body!"

" Salzon" freaks out at seeing his body die and he says," NO! Damn you Max Bruder! Now I am stuck in the body of this buffoon! For that I will, GUH!"

Max seems to be a master of interrupting speech's as he swiftly warps right in to Salzon, and punch's him the gut, and through it, with his hand! As a now dying Salzon in Zinyu 's body turns to see Max below him Max says,"Don't worry, if you hate it so much ill make it over in a instant!"

With the he fires a powerful blast of energy right through the minion, clearly dealing a mortal blow! He lands right besides his master, and his servant crawls up to Xiza and grabs his arm as he says," Master Xiza, save me, please! AH!"

His responds is a blast from Xiza 's finger, which completely vaporizes him! Xiza then narrows his eyes before hissing out,"Tsc, your not worth saving falure. Ill handel the rest myself. Now at last with no one to distract him he uses his energy to summon his favorite sword back in to his hand, and looks at Xiza as he says,"

There is no one to protect you now Xiza, your mine!"

Xiza just seems indifferent at the sudden lost of two of his best men and sighs before he says," I don't need anyone to help me take care of you my friend. No matter what you do, you are helpless to stop me. After all, you're still just a fool who understands nothing."

This does not go well with Max, and he lets his anger explode as he says," I HAD IT WITH YOU XIZA! You think you know every damn thing, but you don't understand what it means to struggle in this world, types like you will never understand anything but loving your own face! Well, kiss your face good buy! I don't care how strong you really are, ill blow you away before you have a chance to pull anything!"

Xiza then grins and says," If that is how you want to do it, then so be it. "

Xiza then snaps his fingers as Max gathers all the power in to his hands as he says,"School of the undefeated of the east! This is the ultimate technique! DIE XIZA! SEKIHA…TENKYOKEN!"

With this he fires a massive golden ball of energy at Xiza, but just as he grins in triumph, he is horrified to see the energy ball stop in his tracks! Xiza then looks ecstatic as he says,"Thank you Max, that was exactly what I wanted you to do!"

Max is horrified to see his ultimate attack frozen as he puts out a mortified," What the hell? What is this Xiza? Huh, NO!"

He is shocked to see a blue light shine to the left, before Max sees his attack be drawn like a magnet to the left, and blasts out of the ship before its absorbed by the source! Max then sees the blue light shine more, before a giant golden pillar materializes! As all of the energy is absorbed in to it Max says," What is that?"

Xiza then looks at Max with a look of total triumph as he says,"

That my friend, is the Zohar seal. And I should thank you for using all your energy, I thought I might have had to tenderize you a little first, but you were just all flared up, you made this all to easy!"

Max then says," Your saying all of this was so you could power up some pillar? Why?"

Xiza just looks at the energy surge with glee before he answers Max with," Because lets just say this seal requires a special type of energy, the energy someone with a massive power requires. And now, thanks to your rage Max, I can finally unleash my ultimate weapon. Weil Zabi was a fool to think he had the most powerful weapon at his command. Its time, activate for your new master, Halo!"

With this Max hears a loud noise, before he sees behind the Zohar seal a light form, that expands immensely!

This light continues to expand, till Max sees a giant ring, nearly the size of a planet take shape!

Ben and the others see this outside the spaceship's window they are closest to and Ben says," What the? Where did that come from? "

Doug then whistles and says," That's a big ring! What the hell is that for?"

Bacchus checks his sensors and says," I am not sure, but I am detecting a great energy source, even greater then what was emitting from Weil's Death Star! "

Samus then says," Is this the true thing Xiza was using all of his resources for? "

Cloud then narrows his eyes and says," What ever it is for, I don't think we want to find out. "

Ben then looks worried and says," Max, Xiza, what is going on? "

We now return to Max and Xiza at once, and Max is staring at horror as Halo takes form and Xiza laughs madly as he says,"

Allow me to introduce to you a weapon created by the extinct Forerunner race that hails back form the true great war of the celestial ones! This installation can fire a quantum pulse that has a maximum effective radius of twenty five thousand light years, and all who are bathed in this pulse are instantly destroyed!

Yes, in the late stages of the war this and others were created by the combination of humans, Forerunners and angels to combat the forces of Zannacross, in fact even my own fleet was wiped out by this very device. But now, it's under my command. And with this the total annihilation of the Lylat Kingdom, and the rise of the era of darkness is at hand!"

Max's face is slowly starting to shift in to one of horror as he blurts out," No, what, what do you mean? "

Xiza forms a sadistic grin on his face as his retort is a sharp," It means my dear raging avenger, that thanks to you, I have won! HAhahaahah!"

Well, it seems are hero's can't catch a break! Thanks to some elaborate work, Samus and the others were able to once and for all defeat Ridley, are hero's have little time to rejoice, because thanks to Max's reckless attack's Xiza has entered the final phase of his long planned out goal! Now that Xiza has his ultimate weapon, can Max make up for his mistake, and with Ben and the others stop Xiza once and for all before its to late!? To find out tune in next time to Tales of the Cosmic Wars! In are next chapter Xiza descends to Halo itself to fulfill his desire to wide out all life in the Lylat Kingdom!

Even more mad then before for being tricked by Xiza, Max at once chases Xiza, only for Kira in his Strike Freedom to stop him, with the rest of the Titans ! The Lylat Fleet arrivals as well, and another hectic fleet battle breaks out over Halo itself. And when Amuro, Sesuta and the Gundam Meistars, and reinforcements form another Lylat fleet with other pilots like Kamille Bidan in the Zeta Gundam all engage Kira so Max can get on Halo, Ben and the others are able to fallow suit and land on Halo on Samus's gunship to catch up to Ben's cousin.

However as they land on the massive ring super weapon they are shocked to see its surface is like a planet of its own, but are even more shocked when they encounter its natives, the ugly parasitic organisms the flood! However, as gruesome as they are the Enji are able to blast them away and pursue Xiza, and soon they catch up to Max. However, Max does not want there help, mad with rage, he refuses to let anyone take away his chance of revenge!

When Ben tries to get him to come to his senses, Max just dismisses them all and says they are the reason Xiza summoned Halo in the first place! It seems Max and Ben can not come eye to eye, and as bad as a time as it is to happen, it seems the only way for the cousins to settle this, is for a battle. But this battle that breaks out soon becomes a battle for Ben to prove to Max once and for all, that he can't be dismissed by him anymore!

Cloud and the others realize this is a personal matter, and let the two dual as they track down Xiza as the villain heads to the central command chamber of Halo! And so with this the time has come. With Ben's new training from Grand Master Myers and learning his powerful moves like the Kaio Ken, has he finally closed the gap with his former mentor? Can at last Ben surpass Max? Time to find out, so tune in next time to

Chapter 112: Desperation Over the Devil's Halo! Ultimate Ruthless Show down of the Cousins'!

Before we end today's chapter, a few author's notes. First, I know I took a few liberties with Ridley's true nature. But, in seemed like it was something like that in Zero mission, the fact that we don't have multiple Ridley's breathing down Samus 's neck. Also, while Ridley and the Space Pirates could have know Samus 's true identity, the fact that they always seem to refer to her as the hunter makes me think otherwise. After all, it's not like she talked much to them when she was killing them. And as for Halo, more or less it's the same thing, expect a certain annoying cube to make a appearance, briefly as well. All right, none of you what to miss out the next few chapters, believe me you'll kick your self if you do lol. Like always, thanks for the reviews, hope to see more of them, from everyone, and till next time!