Tales of the Cosmic Wars Vol 2: A Star's Twilight

by Darth Necron

The second volume of the tale of Ben Auro as he joins with hero's like Mario, Sonic, Link, Samus Aran, Megaman X, Master Chief, Cloud and more to defeat the many groups of evil that threaten the cosmos. The more Ben fights, the more he faces the horrors of war, from the likes of Bowser, Ganondorf, Sephiroth, Sigma, Xemnas and more, to the darkness within. Character guide added!

56. C 111: The Eternal Bond

All right everyone, we are in for a big one today, hope your on board, because the train starts now!

Chapter 115: The Eternal Bond

Last time in Tales of the Cosmic Wars, the race to save the Lylat Kingdom was quickly heading to its last lap, and that last lap continues to look farther and farther for are hero's! The most pressing matter was Xiza, the true master mind behind all of the day's battles, and a villain whose main desire at the moment was to have his uncovered ancient weapon Halo from destroying all life in the Lylat Kingdom! However, despite Cloud, Doug, X, James, Samus, Zero, Shinryudramon, Leon and the others all fighting him at once, Xiza showed his bite was indeed worse than his bark! To the good guy's horror he showed his claim that he was indeed one of the seven great demon lords of the Zannacross Empire, was no bluff! With his vast amount of powers including being able to reconfigure his bones to any way he likes, even taking out his spinal cord and turning it in to a razor whip and being able to duplicate it, he was able to ward off Ben's friends attacks without the slightest difficulty! Just as he was about to give Cloud an explosive furious attack, Ben at last showed up in the nick of time!

However even this did not seem to bother the green skinned bad guy, because he just unleashed more of his many tricks against the welder of the Star Sword, even shocking everyone when he managed to forcibly make Axl transform in to his mysterious berserk state and attack his friends! And the fact that Ben was tired from his showdown with Max did not help! But, even so his cousin was in much worse shape. And after losing to Ben he might have died to his injuries if not for Lacus and the others showing up just in time he might have even died!

Lucky Lacus made sure that did not happen as she used her elite healing magic to make him good as new! It seemed that being beaten by Ben made his former mentor chill out a little, and he was ready to help make up for causing a mess and going crazy by helping the Enji stop Xiza once and for all! However, before he could do that, another agent of the dark side made a unwelcome arrival, and it was none other than the deranged Ravxen!

The being known as the Phantom Of Chaos showed he liked to hold grudges, and while he came just to make sure Halo fired, he was all too happy to get revenge on Max for making him look back way back on their battle back on SR-388! However, while Max was ready to challenge him, Lacus was able to convince Max to let her and the others handle the masked foe so he could help Ben, and Max reluctantly agreed.

While Ravxen was ready to blast apart the Enji in his way, Lacus showed him her own powers were nothing to be dismissed at after all of her own training, and even Ravxen now has to take her as a serious opponent! However, even so this would be the one time that they would not mind having Brad and his brute strength around, however to bad for them he all ready went off to get the glory, only to get stuck blasting apart Grave Mind and the rest of the Flood parasites below! However, all of this was still just a side dish to the main event, and that dish was just getting hotter and hotter! While things looked good when Axl resisted the berserk program and Ben and the others launched a combo attack that made Xiza feel the heat! However, to their horror Xiza showed that while damaged, he was far from finished.

In fact, he showed everyone in true villain fashion he had a true form in store, and with great pleasure transformed in to it! Xiza took no time to show just how powerful he had become, and instantly at once brutally everyone with such speed and force they were just about helpless! As much as Ben did not want to lose, there seemed to be little he could do as Xiza prepared to unleash his killed blow! However, just as it seemed it was going to be a tragic end, Max showed up just in time to everyone's shock! Max was ready to at last have his revenge, however now he was no longer blinded by range, and Ben was all too happy to at last once more fight alongside his cousin.

" Yes, he did also team up against Kira, but now they were on equal terms so it felt better."

However even with Max arriving, time was not on their side, because Halo's systems at last announced they were finished charging up, and the final count down before it fired was commencing! With time running out, can Ben, Max and the others at last destroy Xiza and save the cosmos in time?

Only one way to find out, and so ladies and gentlemen, it's time for this battle to conclude right now! Ah, but before we go to this final battle, we briefly turn are views else ware.

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When King Atem, Grand Master Myers and the other major figures in the Lylat Kingdom got informed about Xiza's true plot, and the arrival of Halo, made everyone get very anxious to say the least! Master Myers was all ready in a space ship heading to the world of Cardianon as part of the original plan to insure Weil Zabi was successfully captured. However, he was forced to change his plans when he was informed about the arrival of the ring of ultimate destruction! And that is why he and the fleet he was leading has now changed course, and we now turn to inside the command deck of the Eldrige, along with Ezan, Aeris, Squall, Zidane, Kratos, Auron, Cecil, Luke and many other anxious warriors of light !

The leader of the Enji Knights sees on the ship's main monitor Halo, the massive Dämmerung parked right in the middle, and the Lylat warships and mobile suits clashing at each other around it! He then sees Halo begin glowing, and looks grim as he says," Blast it, it's not good. At this rate we will never emerge from Hyper Space in time."

Zidane then cuts the silence with a on edge," So, this Halo thing is really powerful enough to threaten everyone in the Lylat Kingdom? Just looks like a giant metal ring to me, it does not even have a cannon!"

Myers just turns to the Enji with the tail and says," I assure you, this is the greatest threat to the Lylat Kingdom since the war has began! If what the archives say are true, when two of the Halo's fired at the time of the war between the celestial ones, they were able to wipe out half of the entire armada of the Zannacross Empire! However, this was the only way to make a true assault on their home world, because the legends say it only took Chaos Zannacross Necron by the time they arrived on his shrine world of Vandalgyon to recreate it!

However, know it seems the worst case scenario has unfolded, somehow Xiza has not only found a way to summon it out of the thin veil of subspace were it was residing for all this time, but he seems to has successfully reprogram it to target humans, and all other forms of sentient life! Xiza, I knew he had a hand in helping Kira get away with his dark deeds, but even I did not realize the extent of his ambitions!"

Lloyd then looks assured as he says," Don't worry, even so, he will never get away with it! Ben, Cloud, and the others are there, so no matter how powerful Xiza really is they are strong to defeat him. Right? Er, what did I miss something when I was getting lunch? "

Squall sighs and says,"Maybe Lloyd, we got some live feed from one of the Great Fox's videos, and here is what they were able to bring up. "

With this a new monitor appears, and everyone sees a shaky, but overhead view of Xiza, in his true form! Seeing the true face of the demon lord flashing his teeth causes the warriors of light to recoil in shock!

Cecil then says," What is this? We knew Xiza was not human, but his eyes are more evil then those of Zeromus! "

Aeris then looks worried and says,"He is a demon, no, not just a normal demon. Even from this far away, I can sense he has a dark fury that has lasted inside him for many a millennium!"

Myers then takes a deep breath and adds a wary," I can sense it to, with this kind of dark energy; he is likely one of the seven demon lords of Zannacross!"

Ezan raises his eyebrow as he says," Demon lords? Nearly every fiend calls him something like that or the sort. "

Myers shakes his head and retorts with a focused," Yes, but he is one of the seven true demon lords, ones created by Zannacross directly to serve as his ultimate enforcers. This is not good, even with all of the improvements Ben has made in his training, I am not sure he can defeat a true Demon lord just yet. Damn it, this is not looking good."

Ezan chuckles and responds with a flat," Don't worry Grand Master, Ben Auro seems to have that kind of luck that bails him out of certain doom more than once. And, he does have others on his side."

Aeris smiles and says," Yes, there is no need to lose hope just yet, after all its one against many."

Kratos then looks concerned, and says,"Maybe so, but it seems that is not the case. "

They then see two more monitors appear, one showing Ravxen unleashing his fury against Lacus and her alleys, and one in space showing Kira in the Eternal Sovereign Gundam blast at Amuro, the other Gundam pilots, and everything else in sight! Myers then says," Great, not only is my fallen son forsaking his race and helping Xiza, but that madman is there as well? The situation could not be graver."

Ezan then grips his sword's sheath tight as he frowns and says,"Yes, it is quite irritating only watching the fate of the cosmos unfold and not being able to do anything."

Senel shrugs and says," Well, as much as we would like to, there is not much we can do about it Ezan. Even an idiot knows what happens when you try to exit out of Hyper Space to fast. Don't worry, we will be there soon."

Ezan turns to his teammate and says," Time is of the essence, it will be to late! "

Aeris then looks at Ezan gently and says," Well, there is one way; I can try to cast a warp magic to take some of us there to help out."

Myers turns to the former flower girl and reacts with a unsettled," A warp spell from this long of a range, from within Hyper Space? That's far too risky! You could have your body's be torn apart before you arrive, if you arrive in one piece at all!" "

Aeris grins and says," Don't worry Grand Master, I believe my powers can land us on Halo with all of our bodies in the proper positions. Still, I do think it would be wise if only one squad went with me."

Ezan at once gets goes up to here and says,"Please take me with you Miss Aeris, I can't wait any longer, I have to do something to those scum, and assure I do all I can to make sure they don't prevail at any cost!"

Squall then readies his Gun-Blade as he says," Well, I can't say I am willing to just sit by either. Are team will go then with Aeris. "

Zidane then cuts in with a eager," All right, let's bring the Climax to this little scheme of that Xiza bozo. "

Myers sighs and says," While I still have my reservations, desperate times do call for desperate measures. Just be careful."

Aeris nods and says,"Don't worry, I have no intention of seeing anyone I care about die. All right boy's gather around me and hold on to my shoulders."

As Ezan and the others do as such, Zidane grins and says,"

All right, time to be part of saving the day! Here we, Och! What was that for Ezan?"

The tailed Enji reacted because Ezan swiftly smashed his hand with his own! Ben's primary rival just glares coldly as he says," Watch were you put your hands Zidane, it's not proper respect to a lady of her caliber to move that way!"

Zidane just laughs nervously and says," Er, I was just, in a rush."

Squall looks annoyed and says,"That's what you said about Quistis ,and Reina , and, Clare. Sigh, it's a wonder Garnet puts up with your severe addiction to flirtation Zidane, you two still are engaged correct?"

As Zidane panics Aeris giggles and says,"Thank you Ezan, ready to go? "

Ezan nods and says," Ready when you are Miss Aeris."

Aeris then says," You really don't have to call me that, but it's ok, I know you were raised really formal, ill just have to work on it hehe. All right, hold tight everyone! "

With that holy energy surrounds Aeris, and it forms an orb of light around them all before they vanish in a flash! Myers then says," Good luck everyone, may the force of light be with you. The situation may be bleak, but there is still light left even from within this dark hour. Ben, Ezan, everyone, don't lose your resolve, don't forget what you believe in! And, come back alive.

"With this Myers and the others ready themselves to move as soon as they arrive at their destination. And, as we now return to the battle field, we see it's clear that there assistance is desperately needed!

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However, before we return to the main attraction, we might as well settle at least one of the side dishes first, and by that I mean the dance of death going on between Ravxen and Lacus plus her friends! We now return to right where we left off with them last chapter, with Lacus trying to make sure her Burst Stream of Judgment energy beam does not lose its beam struggle with her opponent's Goners Sympathy blast! However, despite Lacus putting everything she has in to her energy beam, Ravxen just seems to be yawning as his blast nearly overwhelms the female Enji! As Lacus falls on one knee Ravxen chuckles and says,"

What is it darling; did I put too much power? No, I think I should have put more, and then your death would have been painlessly! Oh well my bad, HAHAAHA!"

Lacus gets determined as she says," Don't treat me like a child, or one of the many innocent life's you taken for your own psychotic enjoyment! I, am a Enji Knight, and it's my duty to stop you!"

With that her holy energy surges, and Ravxen is shocked to see her push his blast nearly all the way to his face! His expression turns serious as he says," My, the little flower really is starting to bloom. Ah, then its all the more reason it should be crushed!"

With this Ravxen puts has his other hand pour dark energy in to the blast, and once more it begins to devour Lacus's attack! As Lacus begins to sweet she says," No, he is just to, powerful."

Terra then says," Don't give up Lacus, we were in this with you! "

With this she unleashes her power and transforms in to her Esper state before she powers up and shouts out a determined," Ravxen, as long as you treat life as your play thing you will never win! Ulitma!"

With this Lacus's squad leader unleashes her own most powerful magical attack to combined with Lacus's! And at the same time Collette then says," That's right, we all want to live to complete are life's dreams and hopes! We want to make a cosmos were everyone can find happiness, while you just want to destroy everything for your own evil desire! Grand Cross!"

With this she also fires her attack to add to the hero's combo blast, and it's also added by a Aura Bolt blast from Sabin, a holy blast from Penelo, a Pyrocataclysm blast from Vaan, and another Ultima magic spell from Yuna! Theses blasts form a new rainbow colored blast that in a second blasts back through the masked foe's attack! Ravxen then says," Bah, theses fleas are beginning to swarm more aggressively, but it's no use. Ill, what the duce?"

Ravxen is shocked as the hero's blasts goes through his attack, and hits him before it causes an explosion that lights up the sky!

Vaan then grins and yells out a eager," Take that you freak! Maybe that will teach you not to look down on us!"

Sabin just shakes his head and grumbles out a solemn," Sadly, scum like him never learns, the best we can do is make sure they can't harm anyone else with their insane logic."

Lacus just takes a deep breath and says," I am just glad we were able to stop him before, huh? Uh on!"

She realizes in a moment her brief relief was too hasty as she and everyone else here a chilling laugh before a surge of power blows the smoke from the explosion, along with many other objects lingering in the area away, as Ravxen appears unharmed since it seems his dark aura barrier completely defended him from the blast! (If you played the Megaman Battle network games think of the aura Bass use to have.)

Ravxen just descends as he puts out a callous," Really now, did you really think you could win that easy? I see your desperation has begun to cause your weak minds to shatter! "

Lacus looks firm as she snaps back with," It's not desperation, we will prevail!"

Ravxen then looks bored as he says,"Tsc, theses nice sounding speech's of hope and love is getting quite stale my dear! Really now, are you little sailor scouts that' far gone that you can't realize how hopeless your struggles are? Mahahaha, because in the end everything you try to protect will be destroyed, if not by your truly then by your self's! After all, this whole war is a grand production of the true nature of humanity!"

Lacus looks sad as she says,"Stop it, its people like you who use any excuse to continue this war, to continue this pointless destruction!"

Ravxen laughs madly as he says," So what if killing has no purpose,? Meaningless destruction is fun! If people know everything will eventually be destroyed, why do they continue to build? If they know that they will eventually die, why do they continue to live? Once you're dead, it all becomes meaningless! I suppose there are those lucky ones that come back to life every now and then but that's the exception, not the rule!"

Yuna then looks defiant as she says,"It's because there are things we must protect. Isn't it enough to search for meaning during your life? Even if in the grand design of the universe it's unimportant, everyone should have the chance to find their happiness!"

Ravxen just laughs, with an even more chilling evil tone then before as darkness surges around him as he says, It's all futile, this dimension and all of you shawl soon be shattered in to nothingness! Life, dreams, hopes, all such bad jokes are fated to fade in to nothingness! I shawl make sure of it!"

With this he snaps his fingers, and causes the ground around him to shatter before he waves his other hand and are hero's find the ground around him at once exploding before several bolder size rocks are now heading there way, and at once Lacus uses her energy to stop them in their tracks! However a moment later she is horrified to see Ravxen right in front of her, and in his hand is an ax of pure dark energy! He prepares to swing as he says,"This my dear frail Lacus, IS THE END!"

With this he brings down his ax ready to hit hard, and Lacus is just able to block in time with her sword! However, the force of her foe's blow is enough to blast her back, and blow her friends away! Lacus finds herself hurled in to a pillar of rock a block away, and as she struggles to contain her composure, she finds Ravxen all ready in front of her, with an energy sword in his other hand!

He then says," Now do you realize how naïve it is to cling on to such a fragile thing as life silly Enji? I know, if you beg for mercy, and admit I am your superior ill make it quick!"

Lacus just gets back on her feet and says," I'll never beg to the likes of you! AH!"

With this Ravxen is not amused and says,"That's no way to beg you twit! Come now, where is your manners? Come now, it's not too hard of insurrections' to fallow! Really now, you Enji must receive some sorry education! Bah, enough, if you won't bow then you will die Enji!"

With this he uses his magic energy to force choke her and she struggles not to let it take effect! Terra and the others then charge at Ravxen as her squad leader says,"Don't touch her you fiend! AH!"

Without even turning to her Ravxen has his energy flare up to blast them all in to the air as he chuckles and says," Have some patience, you will all be slathered soon enough! And I really hate it, when people misinterpret what I say! I never said I would touch her, why should I when I can kill her much easier by blasting her to dust? It's much cleaner this way! Really now, I find your struggle a riot most of all Lacus Raystar, after all, it's your true nature, to destroy! Why bother struggling to contain the beast within, the Blue Eyes White Dragon, when it would be much easier to just let it all go, and burn your sorrow to ashes, along with everything else! "

Ravxen sees Lacus look right at him in the eyes as she says,"You know about it to? Who, are you, what are you behind that mask? No, in the end, it does not matter, because your wrong! You think you know what I really am Ravxen? It's true I have one of the celestial beats inside me, but even so, there is more to me then that! I, I will decide what my own future is, and for that I plan to live long enough to be able to do that!"

Ravxen looks amused and says," My, you almost seem cute when you look so adamant. However, if you refuse to stop being a broken toy, then there is only one role you can fit in this play of life! Adieu!"

As his energy begins to swirl around his energy blade Lacus looks down and says,"I'll show you Ravxen, just what power I have!"

With this Lacus shocks Ravxen by having her holy energy explode, and create a shock wave powerful enough to break the villain's hold on her, and even push him back!

Caught off guard he says," What, how did she get her power to increase so swiftly? Huh?"

All of a sudden he sees Lacus is right in front of her, and her sword is to her side as her hands are glowing as she says,"

I'll teach you the hard way, that I am not just an Enji Knight because of what is inside me and my position! Godly Sixty Four Strike Divination!"

With this before Ravxen can even react she attacks him so quickly that he is a blur, and assaults him with a barrage of palm strikes! With each of her strikes infused with holy energy and with Ravxen lowering his aura barrier to blast her friends back Lacus is able to hit him dead on! Lacus is able to complete her new move in success, and she ends it with a swift roundhouse kick that launch's him in to the air!

As his entire body is burning from the damage he sustained he glares at her and says," My, so you were trained in the art of the gentle fist martial arts style as well? Hahahah, the fighting style that channels one's magical energy, and uses it to make precise strikes that can hit there opponent's inner systems, and can shatter organs with a gentle touch! Most impressive, but if that's all you can do, then you're still doomed!"

Lacus just looks at him with confidence and says,"Don't worry, that's far from all the moves I know Ravxen. "

The Dark Enji then waves his hand and grasps it tightly as he says,"Ah, good good! I did not this to be the end of your performance, not after you made such a fuss ! Yes, I want to drag out this horror show, act by bloody act ! Now then, now that you had your fun, I'll have mine, and blow up those hands of yours! Let's see how well composed you will be after I, AH!"

Ravxen was about to fire a blast from his finger, only to feel dark energy blast out of it, as if the blast fizzed! He then starts to realize his energy is going out of control as he says,"What the, how could I have misfired? Wait a second, no, you could not, someone your age could never have mastered such skills so fast!"

Lacus smirks as she flicks her hair back and says,"I told you, I have taken my training seriously, and now you just saw how seriously. Let's see if you can look down on everyone when your magical network is sealed!"

As Ravxen glares murderously as he finds his limbs twitching uncontrollably at her Collette turns to Terra and says,"

Miss Terra, just what did Lacus do?"

Terra smiles and says," She proved she mastered her training, and used the master move of the gentle fist style to attack the one weakness a powerful being like Ravxen has!"

As her squad mate looks confused Sabin goes over and says,"You see, in the inner system of the body there is about three hundred magic points, the points in the body that channel magical energy. It you press pressure in the right way, you can stop or increase your opponent's magical flow as ever as you wish!

So in essence, Lacus was able to seal that Ravxen's magic! I must say, even I have not perfected that form of martial arts, its most impressive that she is able to use it so well. With that on top of her all ready impressive array of moves and abilities, she is growing in to a truly talented fighter."

Yuna then says," Lacus has been training very hard lately; she is nearly in the danger rooms for two hours every day for the past month! "

Terra then nods and says," I think, the burden of having that monster inside her has always been inside her. I think, she always feared she was nothing more than a monster, and that is why she always had to try so hard, to in her eyes show she would not be swallowed up by the monster inside her. Lacus, since I to know what it's like to have something else inside you, something not human.

And, since both of you to girls knew what it was like to live with a heavy burden, being the chosen of Martel and the chosen summoner to " send Sin", you were both ideal teammates for her. Still, Lacus can't seem to fully throw away her own fears. However, it has been better lately, and I do believe Lacus can someday stand on her own feat. "

With this, they see and hear just how annoyed Ravxen is from this battle's turn as he tries to move his hand and just finds its still twitching as he says,"

Damn it, how could someone like you cause this to happen to me? "

Lacus just takes out her Oath Keeper sword once more as it surges with holy energy and she says," I told you , the more you look down on others the more it will be your undoing. However, I know that your far past the point of any salvation. That is why this must end now! Blossoming Gradation!"

With this in a flash Lacus unleashes a storm of fencing style lighting fast sword thrusts, that hits Ravxen hard! With this body still not doing as he commands thanks to the female Enji's previous combo, he can't dodge in time, and is hit many times! As he gets stabbed all over his anger begins to rise as he says,"

You blasted girl, you're REALLY starting to tick me off!"

Lacus then jumps in to the air and says,"Sorry, but in combat it cannot be helped. Rising Crescent! "

With this Lacus gives it everything she has as she slashes Ravxen with a powerful horizontal slash, with such force that it creates a explosion of light as Ravxen is hit dead on, and send flying to the ground! As Ravxen is sent plowing through the ground, and a column of light fallows him due to the after effect of his hit, Lacus lands on the ground and says,"Please stay down, I am needed else where. "

Vaan runs over and says,"Don't worry Lacus, with that kind of blow even a guy like him won't be able to get up soon, if he can at all! Besides, since you sealed his magical network, he will never recover! Huh, whoa!"

All of a sudden everyone feels the ground shake, before another explosion rocks the ground! All of a sudden Ravxen emerges, but everyone is shocked to see that its clear Lacus 's last attack did hit hard, because parts of his skull mask were broken off, and in fact his head is twisted right around his neck! Lacus gasps at this and says," No, with that kind of blow, most creatures would die instantly!"

Ravxen laughs madly, before to everyone's horror his head twists back in to place, as everyone sees demonic red eyes burn in his sockets as he says,"

Haven't you realized by now warriors of light, that you're not dealing with any normal chum! I give you credit ma pêche , I did not think you were the type to attack with sneaky efficiency! Yes, you're quite devious despite your pretty face! However, while that kind of move might seal the deal with your average villain of the week. I assure you, IT WON"T DEFEAT ME!"

With this Ravxen has his energy exploded before its nearly crushing everyone! As Sabin struggles to stand he says," Impossible, his magical energy was sealed in his own body, no one can just unseal it themselves!"

Terra then says," Ravxen, his energy is demonic, and those eyes, he must be a demon to have such powers! And what is more, the way his body is, it's like he is a living corpse! "

Lacus just moves forward as she says," Ravxen, what are you?"

Ravxen laughs as he says,"What am I Enji? I am someone who has come to the point when life and death are such trivially; I am far past either thing mattering to me! Yes, the only thing that effects me is seeing you humans rot this cosmos! Ah, but my symptoms will be cleaned up soon, after all any minute now this grand Halo of death that we are fighting on, will be the key to the end of everything! However, since you were being so hasty, none of you will even live that long! It's been a good show, but time to be serious! Why so serious you ask? Because I tire of playing with you that's why! "

With that he claps his hands, and all of a sudden dark gigantic spikes of energy nearly burst out right in front of are heroes! And as they all dodge and jump up to avoid it, they find Ravxen grasping his hand tightly as he says," And now, how about we speed this show up to its grand finality eh? "

With this he points his hand, and shows off a new power, as out of his back bursts out six tentacle's of sorts of dark energy, in the same fashion of Omega Red from the X men! In a instant they all lash out at the surprised Enji, and all of Lacus's friends are hit hard, before they are entangled! Lacus is able to dodge the first one in her path, before slashing it in half as she says,"Terra, everyone hang on, ill, AH!"

She is not ready for Ravxen to instantly have another tentacle whip burst out of his hand, and at once wrangler her up! At one the dark foe makes sure she is bound tight, and begins to shock her, before draining her energy as he laughs madly and says,"Opps, to slow my dear! Sorry, but even after all this fun your still just a sideshow for me, and I think is about time I get back to the main matter at hand! Yes, but before I teach that cousin of the Star fool his final lesion, I think I'll take your power for a little extra charge! You see, I am no fool, and I would rather insure that instead of awaking the beast inside you, ill leave it to stay slumbering, and insure it does by taking its energy!"Lacus falls to her knees, and yells in pain as she feels her energy being taken and says," No, I won't let you; use my power to further your carnage! I, AH!"

Ravxen just wraps Lacus 's month and says," Oh do be a good girl and hush, last thing I need is a headache! It would be so much easier, if you just be quite, for no matter how much fuss you bring, no matter how many like you resist, it's all useless! In the end, death is the only thing that you can truly count on grasping! HAHAHAAH!"

Lacus just struggles to get back on her feet, and as she does she sees her friends also in pain before she struggles to break free before she says," No, I refuse to believe your logic Ravxen! Even if death really is the only thing that is certain, it does not make life useless! And I won't let someone like you take away my friend's lives without a fight! "

With this she shocks Ravxen before her energy explodes! Ravxen just chuckles as he says," It does not matter how powerful your outbursts are, it won't be enough to break out of your demise!

Now just expect, hey, what is going on? Are you kidding me? "He is shocked to see even more holy energy burst explode out of Lacus, so much that it nearly consumes the entire area! But what unsettles Ravxen the most is as he sees his opponent's eyes glow white, all of a sudden angel wings begin to materialize out of her back! As she fly's higher in to the air Ravxen says,"

This joke, is not very funny! Are you telling me, after searching, and making sure none such people existed anymore, all this time it was right in front of me? Why you little, RUH!"

All of a sudden Lacus unleashes so much power, and what is more, direct celestial power, that Ravxen reacts in a very bad way, and his energy tendrils are shattered as he clutches his chest just from absorbing a tip of her power before he cut her off! As Lacus, and the others land on the ground everyone sees Lacus breathing hard, and her hair blowing wild as the surge of power appeared to destroy the scrunchy keeping her hair in a ponytail, and her new angle wings gone as fast as they suddenly appeared!

A confused Collette says,"Lacus, thanks! But, where did you get that power? Is that a new move you were working on? And those wings, unlike mine they looked real! I did not know you had a Cruxis Crystal as well!"

Lacus just looks confused as she looks at herself and says,"I, I have no idea where that power came from either to be honest. It, it did not feel like the white dragon's influence either. What, what am I?"

Ravxen just laughs madly, as he puts his right hand on his forehead and says," My dear, I should have known all along, that you would have been the one. How could I have not seen it, it's the only way a mere " human" could have ever been able to contain something as powerful as the Blue Eyes White Dragon in the first place! Hahaha, my little flower, the more layers I pull off you the more enticed I am to totally erase you, Lacus Raystar!"

Lacus looks stressed as she says," If you know what I really am, then tell me!"

Ravxen just begins to have his energy burst, as he extends his index finger and says,"Did you ever wonder why, you were the one chosen to have one of the four captured celestial beast sealed inside you? Your parents must have been so cruel! I am curious, do you even know? If you answer correctly, I might rewarded you!"

Lacus looks down, and says,"My father did not seal it inside me because he wanted to, he did it because it was the only way I was going to survive at the time! Sigh, thirteen years ago, an accident happened, and I was on the verge of death. Master Myers had returned with the others after spending a month capturing and subduing the Blue Eyes White Dragon. And, in the end the only way to save my life, was to infuse it in to me. But, I don't understand what that had to do, with the power I felt. You, you know who I truly am, what I truly am? Tell me!"

Ravxen just has his energy explode as he points his index finger at her and says," I know what you are, your dead! I won't let what happened before repeat itself. No, I waited too long, to just let everything unravel! You will never know the truth, you will only know despair! Be gone,

Makankousappou!"

With this Ravxen shows how much he wants to kill her now, as he swiftly fires of his deadly variant of the Special Beam Cannon right at her! He fired the attack so fast that she barely has time to react, and as the red corkscrew attack is heading right for her the blasts sender laughs and says,"

Haha, the best way to squash a threat, is before it even has the chance to fully bloom!

"Just as Lacus looks like she is about to get blasted through, and to tired from her new power to even move, can barely stand ,both her and Ravxen are shocked as a new figure pushes her out of the way, as new blast intersect it to the side, and send it flying to the sky, where it nearly causes Halo to split in two! The person who intersected it makes his presence know as he flash steps to land in front of Lacus, and its none other than Ezan! And Zidane was the one who pushed her out of the way as well! Zidane takes a deep breath and says,"

Whew, that was close, you ok Lacus?"

A bewildered Lacus just says," Zidane? When did you get here? Yes, I am find, thanks for saving me. Er, you can get off me now though. "

With that Zidane does as such as the sliver haired man just looks right at Ravxen with his Sharingan eyes all ready active as he gets in to fighting stance and says,"

Didn't anyone tell you its disgraceful to act like that with a lady Ravxen? I won't excuse you for your disgusting behavior any longer!"

Ravxen raises an eyebrow and says," Ezan Kaiba, when did you get here? It's a little late for rewriting the script! Seriously, how did you arrive so fast?"

Ezan grins as his power explodes and he says,"You can thank Aeris for that, I am grateful her magic is powerful enough to land us on here in one piece, after all now I can take a part in completing the mission, and insuring you scum are brought to justice!"

With this Ravxen sharply turns to the left and sees Squall, , Senel and Aeris dashing up to join there comrades and Squall sees the state of his fellow Enji before he takes out his Gun-blade and says," Looks like you guys could use a hand, so let's get to work."

Aeris takes a deep breath and says," I am glad that the spell worked, I never tried to warp myself let alone others form hyper space before. Now, let's make sure we do all we can to end this, Celestial Prism power!"

With this Aeris unleashes her own holy power before she once more is covered with the armor that she was empowered by the celestial being Minerva! Seeing the new arrivals all get ready to fight angers Ravxen as he says,"

Tsc, this is not what I needed, every time I am about to get what I want some more idiots crawl out like the cockroaches they are!"

Ezan than charges at him as he says,"Well, that's because no one wants you to succeed, Chidori Burst!"

As he Soul Eater blade crackles with electricity Ravxen sighs before in a instant he forms another dark energy sword to block with one hand as he glares and says," Oh please, now that Sephiroth no longer dwells from within you you really think you have the power to handle me? "

Ezan just presses down as he responds with a blunt," Only one way to find out! "

Ravxen then glares as he fires a blast with his free hand to try and blow the Super elite warriors head off! However Ezan disengages just in time to avoid it, however its clear Ravxen is no longer happy as his energy erupts again and he says," ENOUGH! You cretins can struggle all you want but in the end I am superior and that is that!"

With this he fires a barrage of energy blasts at everyone from his hands, but Aeris appears in front of them and blocks them with her shield as she says,"

Whatever you are, killing for amusing makes you anything but a superior being! Photon Feather!"

Aeris then fires of her own barrage of holy blasts to blow away Ravxen 's, but as they dive in on him he disappears, only to appear behind them as he laughs and says," Well, I suppose with your tastes you could never understand the fine art of destruction. Oh well, to each to his own, in death!"

With this he shocks everyone by having his eyes glow, and having his blasts that were blown off by Aeris's attack, all of a sudden come swarming in, like the Hell zone grenade attack! However before they collide Ezan jumps in to the air and have his sword glow as he says,"The art of destruction is only appreciated by a very select few of sick individuals, and that's why you're alone in your views! "

As his Soul Eater absorbs the blasts, Ravxen sees Ben's main rival's eyes turn in to their Mangekyou Sharingan shape before he chuckles and says,"My, so you to be beginning tap in to your true powers as well? Tsc, it seems all the star actors are digging in to their true potential, but it's too bad because the show is about to be over! No matter how powerful your eyes get lad, they won't be able to be as keen as mine!"

Ezan channels all the power he absorbed as he says," It's not over yet! As long as there is a chance of victory, no matter how slim, then we will give it everything we have! Backlash Mirror Force Flare!"

With this Ezan unleashes all the power he absorbed to boost his powerful energy attack, and as Ravxen catches it, he struggles to overpower it as he says,"Sigh, I wonder if it's this warrior spirit that keeps you from expecting reality, or is it your desire to hang on to protect your precious loved ones for as long as you can?"

Squall then charges at Ravxen to the side as his weapon begins to glow with energy as he says,"It's a little of everything, and it's all the reasons you can't win!"

With this Ravxen is attacked simultaneously by Squall's Renzokuken Blasting Zone attack, Zidane's Stellar Circle 5 attack, and Senel 's Phoenix Rush!

Theses hits only distract Ravxen slightly, but it's enough for Aeris to gather her power before she says,"It's time we bring your onslaught of evil to an end, Judgment Arrow! "

With this she combine's her shield with her staff before firing a massive blast of light right for Ravxen! However Ravxen has his eyes widen as he sees this, and tries to disengage, but is not able to totally avoid it, as the powerful holy attack hits his side, and blasts a chunk of it off! Grunting in pain, he ascends upward as he snickers and says," You know, the stage is getting just a LITTLE too crowded. Not that I can't still kill you all mind you, but, at this rate I'll never get what I came here for! And, that was to kill that damn Max Bruder!"

With this, he looks right at Lacus and narrows his eyes as he says,"Yes, and I think I'll need the proper, procedures to deal with recent events. But, if all goes well, Halo will kill you all anyway. And that's why I want to hurry; no one will kill Max but me! "

Ezan narrows his own eyes as he says," Don't think you can just turn tail and run when you no longer have the advantage coward!"

Ravxen chuckles as his energy expends to cover the sky and he says," Oh, don't feel angry, I'll make sure your last moments are not boring! Here, have some playmates!"

With this fingers glow, before he fires a blast in to the ground, and moments latter numerous types of both Necrocalcous and Nobody monster roar as they appear! There creator then says," Try to make your last moments fun, it's always more delightful to hear a choir of screams proceeding the curtain fall of humanity! Hahahahah!"

With this dark energy begins to surround him, and a stressed Lacus gets back on her feet as she says," No, I won't let you, cause any more pain to Ben and Max! Radiant Storm!"

With this Lacus creates more flower funnels out of her magic energy and has them all surround and fire on Ravxen to stop him, but he is too fast, and disappears before they reach him! Lacus and the others are dismayed at this, and Lacus says," No! I, I could not keep my promise to Max after all."

Zidane then grins and says," Don't blame yourself Lacus, that guy is more slippery then a barrel of eels! Frankly you should give yourself a pat on the back for you all doing as well against him as you did!"

Ezan instantly appears before a Necrocalcous Belrogas that roared at him before he unleashes a lighting fast sword slice to cleave it in half before he says," Zidane is right, dwelling on the past is pointless. All we can do now is clear out this trash and proceed to the command tower. "

Lacus looks at her friends, and nods before she says," Your right Ezan. Please everyone, we must get theses grunts out of the way as soon as possible. Ben and the others are all ready fighting Xiza, Ravxen joining the fight will make things disastrous!"

Ezan and everyone else nods as he says," It will be my pleasure."

Squall then sees the various demonic monsters surrounding them as he says,"Looks like Ravxen was able to bring out more than a handful of monsters out of his sleeves. Huh?"

Everyone then sees a massive explosion coming out from the command tower, and Sabin says,"Damn, at this rate we will never make it in time!"

Lacus just looks determined before she has her energy flare up and she says,"Well, then we will just have to not waste time and hurry. Hang on everyone, I know it's been tough, but, we must prevail!"

With this Lacus lashes out with her energy ribbon, before in a blur she turns a giant Berserker Nobody in to even smaller ribbons! As she Ezan, Aeris and the others move as fast as they can, we now at last return to are other group of hero's who are in even more of a bind, Ben, Max and the others!

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We now in fact rewind time a bit, to go back to where we last left them, and that was with Xiza being enraged and Max standing in his way once more, and with Halo finally finishing charging and ready to lock on to its targets! Yes, and as we now return to the main event, it's clear that both sides are raging to reduce the other side in to nothing more than dust! Lucky for the good guys, they outnumber Xiza many times over. The bad news, in case you somehow forgotten, is that even so that means little in the face of the overwhelming power the demon lord's transformation has brought him!

And with that we now turn to seeing Leon, Zero, Doug and Kyle all charging first at the villain, only for Xiza to take their sword strikes and punch's dead on, before smashing then aside with his large elbow! As they go flying, he sees Cloud, Shinryudramon and Ben all charge at him from different angles! But Xiza just sneers as he says," It does not matter how many of you charge at me, or how many attacks come at me at once, because no matter what you do, I'll just smash it to dust, before I do the same to your hearts!"

With this Ben powers up his energy as he yells out a courageous," We will see how long you can act like that Xiza, Divine Flare Edge!"

With this Ben prepares to unleash a powered up slash, only for Xiza to block it with one of his newly created bone blades! Cloud and Shinryudramon slash at their foe's head, only for their slashes to meet the same outcome! Xiza then grins as he sees Ben struggling and says," Oh you will find that I can put this act for quite a while Ben Auro, long enough to see you all die! For you see gentlemen, I AM superior to you all!"

With this in an instant he smashes them all in to the air with is massive tail! As he sees Ben flying in the air he narrows his eyes and yells out a determined,"No matter how hard you try, you will fail! So why don't you just spare everyone the futile dramatics and die all ready? Kaiser Flare!"

Xiza grabs his upper right hand with his tail before his power explodes and he swiftly fires a massive red and purple energy blast at Ben and co before they can even recover from the previous tail smash! However, just in time Max appears in front of them and slashes the blast in half before he looks deadly serious in to his long time foe's eyes and quips out a cagy,"Why Xiza? Because when things get tough, we just try harder! No matter how many tricks you pull Xiza, you're not going to win! "

Xiza sees Ben and the others rebounding just grabs his sword back and looks like he is going to blow a vessel as he says,"You always did love to try and make the impossible possible Max. But too bad you could never keep your head out of the clouds long enough to see the how foolish you really were until it blew up in your face! Yes, your brash bravo fighting sprit did little to change your fate, you could not stop Kira, you could not protect your friends, and you won't stop ME!"

Ben just points his Star Sword as he snaps back with a passionate,"Just because he could not see the truth at first, just because he could not stop you and Kira at first, does not mean he and I can't correct the mistake, by destroying you and making sure no one ever suffers the same mistake again!"

Xiza just laughs madly and says," Oh but of course you would know about making mistakes Ben Auro, after all by not being strong enough to control your emotions you made the mistake of believing in yourself, and as a result snapped and Darth Idious came out, destroying billions and nearly adding your Enji friends to the list!"

As Ben's eyes fill with regret Max just gets annoyed and says,"Shut up Xiza! You can act superior all you want, but as bad as the mistakes were, at least they WERE mistakes! You could care less about killing innocent people, in fact you enjoy it! So don't think you can lecture us Xiza! Ben, don't let his words get to you. Just believe in yourself as you put everything in to your fists and your sword to do what you know is right!"

Ben grins and says," Hehe, thanks Max. Your right, all that matters is shutting him up once and for all!"

Xiza chuckles and says," You really are related, your both so pathetic! Your feelings, it will be those feelings that will give me the advantage, as I rip you both to shreds!"

Shinryudramon then says," Heh, I am starting to see why the boss looked up to Max so much!"

Cloud grins and says," Yes, being defeated by Ben seems to have reawakened the man Ben so admired. And that's why, now we have a better chance of victory. "

Xiza snaps as his energy covers the sky around them and he says," Fools, let me make this clear, your chances of coming out of this alive, are zero!"

With this he has boney spikes burst out of his chest, and all come at the four warriors! But Max grins as his Beskar sword glows and he says,"

You just don't get it, who the hell do you think we are? Don't think we are just going to roll over and die like most of your victims!"

With this he blocks the spikes dead on with his large sword, and Cloud splits out his swords to do the same as he says,"He is right, we have a job to do, and because of it we can't afford to just give up!"

Ben then dodges the bone spikes bursting in his direction as he dashes forward and says,"That's right, it's the responsibility of a hero, to protect the innocent from harm! And, that's just what I am going to do!"

With this he forms another energy sword in his hand, and dives right for Xiza just as Max, Cloud and Shinryudramon fallow him! With this they all go to strike at once, and Xiza then charges as well as he hisses out a venomous,"Stubborn to the end are we? Find, then I present to you a hero's death!"

With this the four all attack him at once, and to everyone else they soon become five blurs dashing around the area, and as their allies see all four of the defenders of justice give it everything they have, but Xiza seems to have no trouble parrying all of their attacks at once, and after half a second of this he laughs and says," Is this it? Is this the extent of your resolve? If that's all you got after that bold speech you all gave then you just proved once more how all you mortals are arrogance and foolishness!"

He then tries to smash his talon filled foot in to Max, but Max blocks it with a kick as he grins and says," Are you kidding? Of course this is not everything I have, I am just getting started! Buster Wolf!"

With this Max's fist is inflamed with all the power he can gather, and after first kicking Xiza off him a instant later he warps right in to the demon lord's head, and punch's him right in the face between his eyes, and to his foe's surprise, lands some real damage and launches Xiza through the ground of the command tower! An instant later Xiza bursts out of the hole he made, but everyone sees his face is in fact bruised!

Max gives a half cocked smile before quipping out," Well, so even in your big bad true form it would seem you're neither invincible nor immortal! Good, I only have to kill you once!"

Ben grins and says," Nice Max, you nailed him! I guess even after powering up this much he still is not able to be totally immune to our attacks."

Max looks at Xiza as he shakes his wrist and says," Don't get cocky now, his skin is like punching a steel tire. However, if you channel your power in to your attack, you can pierce it. Just make every shot count!"

Xiza glares at Max and says," I'll make you pay for that you vermin! You only glanced me, it will take a great deal more than that to even endanger me!"

Shinryudramon then lunges right for Xiza as he says,"In that case, then we will just hit you're a great deal harder! Manga Scintillate Edge !"

As the Mega digimon has his sword glows in a rainbow color as he thrusts for his foe's chest! At the same time Cloud says,"

There is no time left, you must be stopped now Xiza! Finishing Touch!" At the same time Ben charges up and says," I'll show you, just what power I have, take this! Divine Flare Edge!"

Max then adds his attack to the mix as he adds a burning,"About time you rot in hell for everything you done, Blazing Judgment!"

With this all four warriors unleash their powerful attacks, and as Xiza blocks there strikes, he finds himself being pressed back, and he growls as he says," I had enough of your petty defiance! You think the dreams and hopes of trash matter at all to me? Your efforts are useless, in the end; your fight is worthless, because you will never have victory! Your dreams of a world of happiness are impossible, because of your very nature! "

He then has his darkness surge, and create a shock wave to try and blast everyone off him! However, to his shock, all four of them have their own magical aura's flare up, as Max says," You don't get it, even after you have been looking at how mortals live, you still don't get it! It does not matter, if in the, it does not matter if we are fighting for an impossible dream! Because, as long as we give it everything we have, and live with no regrets, then it's worth it!

Push the limits of the believable, pass the realms of possibility and probability, and enter the utopia of impossibility. Push the limits of possibility, pass the realms of the believable and probability, and become lost in the purgatory of certainty! You see Xiza, to be human, is to make your life your own! And that's why, we will live on, and survive, no matter how many twisted freaks like you and Kira try and stop us!"

With this his power explodes, and with him leading the charge the four are able to break through the foe's dark energy outburst, and slash the shocked demon through the chest with four separate slashes! They all manage to pierce his skin, and Xiza roars in pain as black blood comes out! The force of the quadruple attack then blasts him out of the area of the control room, and as he uses his wings to take fight he holds his chest as he says,"

Why, why do their powers keep catching me off guard? It's, like what Damonus said, that there powers, the strength of man's heart, can't be measured to easley? No, I refuse to recognize that! I been observing humans for millions of years, I know them more then humans know themselves! Damnous is wrong, he is blinded by his own arrogance! I am the superior demon lord, not him! And ill prove it, by killing your light!"

Ben then gets fed up with his enemies ranting and shouts out," If you knew everything your side would not have lost all those years ago and you would not be so dismissive about humans! Give it up Xiza! Your through, you underestimated what we can do for the last time!"

Xiza grits his teeth as his energy explodes, causing the area around Halo to all shatter as he says,"Enough! You're all made me fell enough pain to the point that you will rot in hell forever! And it's really all such a joke, your chances of stopping me are beyond hopeless!"

He then looks at the center of what is left of the Command Chamber as he sees the hologram of Halo still counting down and he smiles before smugly saying,"Ah, and in the end even if you can defeat me, which you won't, you will all die! Halo is nearly fully charged, and no matter how powerful you are, you will never survive its unstoppable power!"

Ben then charges at him as he says,"Then we will just have to shut both you and it down right now!"

Xiza just has his eyes glow red, and he just unleashes a sidious snarl before vanishing. A instant he appears behind Ben in a rage and smashes him in the head! At once he extends his hand, and uses his energy to force chokes Ben! Max then charges at Xiza saying,No you don't, you're not taking my cousin! I had enough of you Xiza and now your, AH!"

With this Xiza responds by extending his hand, and smashing right in to Max, and while he blocks with his sword, Xiza then releases another burst of energy to shock Max! He then blasts Max to the ground, where he lands on the warrior full force with his large feet!

He then says,"Both of you, have given me great pain. And now, I will put you in your place once and for all! Ben Auro, since you're the one who is suppose to oppose me and Emperor Necron, I will delay your demise no longer! I remember what happened to Xehamaru, and that's why ill make sure to kill you first! Watch Max, watch as your beloved cousin and pupil dies because of your actions!"

With this Xiza fires at once a barrage of death beams at Ben, but his glee turns to outrage when he sees Cloud and Shinryudramon get in the way and defect the shots!

Cloud then says," Forget us? We won't let you murder anyone else!"

Shinryudramon nods and says," That's right, you will have to get through us first!"

This causes Xiza to explode as he says," WITH PLEASURE!"

With this boney spikes burst out of his wings, and impale Shinryudramon all over before slamming him in to the ground! While in his rage Xiza was not able to land any lethal hits, it still causes severe damage to the royal knight digimon and he screams out in pain as Ben sees this and says," Shinryudramon, no!"

Xiza then says," This time, I'll make sure all of you stay dead! Now, your turn, Cloud!"

With this he fires a blast from his eyes again, and Cloud is able to defect it, but then Xiza grins diabolically as he fires then at Max, and in a rush Cloud manages to block those shots to, however the blast was so powerful that it blasts the swords out of his hands! And Xiza laughs madly as an instant later he fires another shot, that blasts through Cloud's left lung!

As Cloud falls to the ground both Ben and Max are outraged and as Ben sees Relala run up to heal the all ready knocked out Cloud he says,"

Cloud no! Damn you Xiza, I won't forgive you! AH!"

Xiza then shocks the cousins and makes them feel as much pain as possible as he says,"This battle has gone on long enough, and its time it comes to its proper end! Fools, you really thought you could defeat a demon lord? I killed angels who fought demons for thousands of years, a bunch of vengeful wolfs are nothing to my power!"

X, Samus, Bacchus James and the others surround and jump up to get ready to attack as X says," For someone who acts so high and mighty, your behavior makes you nothing more than a savage, and someone like that hardly has the right to call himself a lord of anything!"

Ben's alleys all fire the most powerful attacks they can muster. However Xiza just sighs as he says,"I don't expect primitives and uneducated peons to understand my long developed taste! You can all just prepare your self's for death now, because I assure you, there is no chance you will win! Kaiser Wave!"

With this in an instant he fires two of his energy flares to overpower the combined attacks of Ben's friends and blast them all away!

Ben sees this and says," NO! You're not, going to get away with this! Kaio Ken times four!"

With this Ben has his energy explode, and he forcibly brakes out of Xiza's hold, before he in a second bursts up to Xiza! In responds Xiza has bone spikes burst out of his chest to puncture Ben, but Ben has unleashed so much power that he just charges right through them as he shatters them with a kick before he punch's Xiza in the chest, and hits him so hard that he causes Xiza to spit up blood!

Ben then glares at Xiza as he says,"No matter what, I won't let you kill my friends Xiza!"

Xiza is about to respond, when all of a sudden Max unleashes all of his power to break out of Xiza 's grip as well as he says," You made a big mistake Xiza, because nothing is more furious then a cornered wolf trying to protect his pack! I seen enough people I care about die because of you, and I won't see any more die!"

With this he lunges and thrusts his large sword right in to Xiza's hand, piercing it and causing his foe to scream out in fury! Max grins as he retracts his sword and says," How does it feel Xiza? How does it feel to feel pain, and fear death? Now you know a fraction of what you caused Bardock and all the others to go through!"

Xiza just glares at both of them as he says," You think I am afraid of you Max!? HA! I fear nothing! Since the start of my existence, I have climbed forward by ruthlessly exterminating all who stand in my path! Have you warriors not figured out yet, that the only way to truly succeed, is to kill without hesitation? The truly strong person is one who does not hesitate to pull the trigger no matter what! "

Max just grins and says," Bah, you say killing the weak and helpless makes you strong just because they are in your way? That just shows how weak you are Xiza! After watching you and Kira go through with your plan to wipe out the planet of Zandalor and being helpless to stop it I escaped from the battle neither truly alive nor truly dead... an undying shadow in the world of lights.

I spent a long time thinking about what true power is. Is it just being able to overpower everyone else? No, it's more than just that! True strength is knowing when and not when to use it. True power is to protect those who can't stand up for themselves, because a real man does not hoard power all for himself! That's why, there is no way me and Ben are going to lose to someone as weak as you Xiza!"

This outrages the foe, and his muscles begin to budged and spikes break out as he says,"You dare call me weak? That is unforgivable Max Bruder! I won't be called weak by a failure like you!"

With this bones form around his upper right hand till once more they form a drill like weapon and he says," A monkey like you, will never be above me! Reich's Judgment! "

Xiza has his arm stretch in a instant as he tries to run Max through! And while Max is able to dodge it, he is shocked to see it turn around and come diving for him!

Xiza laughs as he puts out a mocking," That's right, run like the dog you are! It is a wise choice though, for one touch of the poison that I have released in to those bones even you will die in moments! "

Ben then charges at Xiza again as he says,"Then I guess we can't just get hit! Huh, whoa!"

He is shocked to see Xiza have another such attack burst out of his upper left hand as he says,"Oh, be my guest, and amuse me for as long as you can! "

With this Ben flash steps to avoid having much of his body impaled, only to see Xiza's tail racing up to smash him! Ben blocks both at the same time using his Star Sword and a spare energy sword. But Xiza is putting all the pleasure he has on to the welder of the Star Sword, and Ben quickly falls to his knees, as the platform below him begins to crack! And Xiza shows he is good at multitasking as at the same time his other arm keeps weaving around trying to hit Max! Ben's cousin dashes around Xiza laughs and says,"

You can't run forever, you have been trying to deny me all this time. But, sooner or later the tortoise outlasts the self righteous bunny, and when he burn's out he finishes him! "

Max just glares at Xiza, before he charges right for him with his sword and yells out a passionate," I have been running for years, and its time I stop running, and bring this to a end!"

With this he tries to aim for Xiza's head, but the demon lord grins as he at once clashes with two hands, and as his other hand, still stretched out and chasing after Max and closes in and Xiza says," Congrats, you met the end of your path, here is your reward fool!"

With this Max sees the massive bone structure come right for him, and at the last second swings his sword to block it, and catch's the other two with his hand ! He grunts in pain as the pressure wears him down, and his hand bleeds from holding back the foe's large blades from going all the way down. And as Xiza sees Max struggle, he laughs madly and says,"My young clown, did you really think your brash attacks would work against my power? Your type, the type that rushes in without thinking only survives when they have smarter allies, or have some real power or luck on their side! And while you have been lucky this far Max, this is where it runs out! "

With this he has his bone spikes once more swarm out and hit Max all over, intently missing vital organs so he can prolong his hated foe's suffering! He does the same to Ben, but both warriors don't fall, even as they feel pain all over! Ben struggles to not let his pain overwhelm him as he shouts out," No, I have to hang on, just a little longer; I have to beat this guy!"

Max sees Ben enduring the pain and grins despite his own pain and says," Hang on Ben, just a little longer, and it will all be over!"

Xiza grins himself as he says,"Oh to true Enji scum, ITS OVER NOW!"

Max quickly snaps back with," You know Xiza, it's one thing to be cocky, but it's another to have keen battle instincts, the instinct of a true fighter! Here, let me drill the point quite well, on how it was not luck that got me to win all of my fights!"

With this he fires a blast from his hand to blast Xiza 's swords of them, and in a instant shock Xiza, buy dashing right behind his foe's stretched arm, and using all of his power to wrangle on to it as he says,"Well, time to see if a devil may cry from his own bones!"

With this Xiza is horrified to see Max unleash all of his power to dive his own arm, in the direction of his chest! And since it's too close of a distance it's too late to break free and his eyes widen as he says," Why you, NO! RUHH!"

With this Max succeeds his plan and has Xiza impale himself with his own enhanced arm!

As Xiza 's eyes bludege he glares at Max and says,"My, own attack? How could this, happen?"

Max smiles wide as he jumps in to the air and says," Why? Because you're an arrogant prick who is finally having a taste of his own medicde, that's why!" With this he kicks Xiza's bone arm even deeper in to himself, and it goes right through his chest!

Xiza roars in pain, and he is forced to call his attack of Ben, Shinryudramon and the others as he feels the poison he was saving for Max enter himself! As Ben gets back up he at once takes advantage of this, by slicing the tail of his foe off!

He then sees that it seems a demon lord is in fact not immune to his own poison, as his skin begins to change color!

James then says," No way, did Max really just make Xiza impale himself?"

Doug grins as he says," Man, Max really knows how to dish out the smack down! Looks like Xiza is not as all powerful as he likes to believe! "

Xiza continues to scream out in pain, as he slowly forces his own hand out of his chest! He is now clearly feeling agonizing mind-numbing pain as blood pours out of his chest, and his face and he says," Damn you, DAMN YOU! This will not be forgiven! I am Xiza Belaphagos, one of the seven great demon lords! I will not let some mere lower life forms treat me this way! "

Max just shakes his head as he points his blade at Xiza and says," Get over yourself Xiza, demon lord or not you're still getting treated this way and worst!"

Ben just fly's up to where Max is, and says," I am surprised; to be honest I thought he would have some sort of regeneration like Xehamaru did."

Max just wags his finger and says," I guess Xiza thought he was such a hotshot that he did not need to buy the upgrade. Oh well, his lost!"

Xiza then roars in pain, no longer having any semblance of control as his mouth his foaming slime and blood as he says,"Don't you dare think you have won! Even if the poising as entered my body, it will quickly were off, and even if it reduces my power a little, I still have more than enough to blast you all to pieces!"

Max just looks deadly serious as his energy explodes and his sword is engulfed with the flames of his magical energy as he says,"

Save it Xiza, I had enough listing to you for a lifetime! And now you made your last mistake!"

Ben then powers up as well as he says,"That's right, your own arrogance brought this on yourself. And now, your plans and your life ends here!"

With this they both charge at Xiza, but at that moment the demon lord's energy explodes as he roars and screams out a vicious," Silence! SLIENCE! THE ONLY ONES THAT WILL DIE WILL BE YOU SCUM!

Apocalyptic Eruption! "

With this darkness blasts out of Xiza, before it breaks out every were in the area! Xiza then dives up in to the sky, and as Max sees him fly up at full speed he says,"

Where the hell do you think you're going? Huh, what the?"

Everyone then begins to notice that the ground beneath them all is shaking, before Leon says," I don't like the sound of this. Everyone, get ready to move! Whoa!"

With this he sees a bone spike burst out and he jumps out of the way, only to see a dozen more break out, before the entire ground erupts in a forest of bone spikes ! They begin to all motion for the Enji as Ben sees some coming for him and Max and says," This is nuts, it's like he is having his rage try and consume everything!"

With this Ben narrowly avoids feeling the experience of a bone spike to the head, and flies higher! He then sees the attack settle down, as everything begins to slow down. He then sees James and Doug flying in the air, holding the wounded Shinryudramon on there shoulders, and X is also holding up Zero as he transformed in to his Falcon armor, and in turn Zero has the cut down Axl in his hands.

Bacchus seemed to be able to lift off with Samus, and Kyle and Leon were able to fly up holding the wounded Cloud, as Relala continues healing the captain of squad 7. Ben takes a sigh of relief as he says,"Whew, even without fast that came out, everyone is all right. "Max chuckles as he says," You call that a last ditch attack Xiza? Man you really are about to, huh? No, no way!"

He then looks up and his grin turns to an expression of horror, and as Ben looks up he does the same, because he sees a massive amount of red and black energy forming in to a giant sphere, the size of the Spirit Bomb Goku used to finish Majin Buu! And below it is Xiza, looking once more victorious as he says," Hahahaha! I love it, your all too much! Surprised clowns? As a Demon lord, I can gather energy a great deal faster than lesser followers of the dark side, a fact you have become aware of all too late! Now, this is the end, for causing me all of this suffering, I shawl shatter your bodies and souls! Ben Auro, Max Bruder, and all you Enji pests, DIE!"

SUPREME, FUHRER, NOVA!"

With this Xiza launches his ultimate, final attack, and in seconds Ben sees the giant orb of death racing to them!

Max then says," Damn it, I did not think Xiza had the power to launch this kind of attack that fast!"

Ben just grins as his energy explodes and he says," So what if he did? It just means we have to blast through it full force!"

Max then chuckles as he answers with a brazen," Hehe, damn straight, lets end this once and for all!"

With this Max gathers all the power he has left as he prepares for his ultimate attack and says," School, of the undefeated of the East! This is the ultimate technique! SEKIHA…TENKYOKEN !"

At the same time Ben's own energy surges as he says," Time to end this once and for all! Kaio Ken times four! Burning Celestial Shinryukenha!"

With this former master and pupil unleash their best attacks in unison, and while they were just a little while ago clashing at each other they merge to combined in to a massive blast that hits there opponent's death ball attack dead on, and the impact causes a shockwave that rocks Halo itself! For a moment it seems to be equal, and this causes Xiza to just get even more psychotic as he says," Its useless my friends, your time to die is now! It is pointless to continue to struggle, you will not overcome me! I am one who decides who lives and who dies, I am one who judges who is worthy to exist in the new era of darkness! And you, ARE NOT!"

With this his aura explodes as he pours more darkness in to his energy ball, and it gets even larger as it begins to press down Ben and Max's combo attack!

Max just grunts and says," You think you can physic us out? Forget it! Don't hold back Ben, give it everything you have!"

Max sees Ben is sweating as he says," I am trying, but, my body is all ready hurting as it is. You may have been healed back to full strength, but I never really got the chance to recover fully."

All of a sudden Ben sees Doug James and the others run up to them and power up as well as Doug says," Don't worry buddy, we are here to make sure you don't fall! Sphere of Might!"

James then says," As said before, as a team we stand by each other to the end, Steele Schider !"

Even a wounded but still standing Shinryudramon unleashes everything he has left as his shield once more turns in to a cannon as he says,"That's right boss, together, even someone like this demon lord jerk can't defeat us! Infinite Exia Ray!"

With this Ben's mega level digimon partner fires his attack as X, Samus, Bacchus and the others all unleash whatever power they have left, and as they all combined with Ben's and Max's attack the blast pushes Xiza 's final attack closer to him, Xiza screams at the top of his lunges and he clearly unleashes 100 percent of his power as all of his muscles all over bulge and spikes burst out of them as he says," You just don't get it, you have no chance, NO CHANCE!"

With this, it seems like a storm of darkness blasts out of him, and his energy bomb grows large enough to block out are hero's views of the sky as once more are hero find the attack crashing to them and a frustrated Ben shouts out with," Oh come on! I thought he was poisoned? How much energy could he have left? Damn it, I can't even feel my arms anymore. "

Max quickly quips out a resolute," Don't give up Ben, don't make all of the suffering we suffered be for nothing!"

Xiza then says," Just admit your weakness, and die! Where death is entreated... the battle is decided. You see " hero's? You can't protect anyone, you can't stop anything!You can't even save yourself! Just die, die, Die! DIE!"

Max just looks determined as he says," Screw you Xiza! ! Let me make this clear, we are never giving up! "

Be it impossible or absurd, we continue to follow the path of true men! If there's a wall, we'll tear it down! If there's no path, we'll make it with our own hands! The magma of the heart's Final Ignition, the perfect union, the bounds ! Who do you-all of you!-think we are?! Well, I'll tell you all, we are Enji Knights"!"

Ben grins, and takes a deep breath before saying," He is right, for the sake of everyone's hopes, and dreams, we can't lose! Xiza! Once and for all, time you see the power we have! SO TAKE THIS! Kaio Ken times six!"

With this Ben out pours all the energy he has, and there beam combo presses forward! Xiza just keeps laughing as he says," Hahahaaha, its useless, USELESS! Your resolve will not change anything, I cannot lose! Now, once and for all you're all fired, from life! Huh, what the, GUH!"

All of a sudden, he feels a sharp pain in his back, before his back explodes! As he screams in pain he says," What the, no, not now! How could this happen? Unless, NO! Damn you Ben Auro, DAMN YOU MAX! I should have killed both of you the moment you threatened my operations! "

Max grins and says," Hind site sucks eh? Well Xiza, looks like your body could not take as much as you thought it could! Too bad, because now, it's the end for you! Hope you enjoy hell! Everyone, NOW!"

With this Ben, and everyone else unleashes all the power they have left to take advantage of Xiza' s spasm, and it seems a miracle happens, because they are able to blast through his energy bomb, before there blast consumes Xiza! The demon lord roars in pain and horror, as he sees his body begin to blast apart! He glares at Ben and Max one more time, and attempts in a vain fashion to grab at them before his hands shatter and he says," No, this can't be happening! I am the cunning, mightily, unstoppable Xiza! I, a demon lord, can't lose to you wretched mortals! I am so close, I can't lose now!" Max just grins and says," To bad, because you just did!"

Ben then says,"Save room for Damonus and Zannacross, because they are next!"

Xiza just says,"You still don't get it, you have not won! You will all die, if not today, very soon! The will, of Zannacross, will never be, DENIED! RUAH!"

With this his head vaporizes, before the rest of his body does to! Everyone takes a sigh of relief as they at last see every part of the body of Xiza Belaphagos , president of Vector, High command of the Space Pirates, Godfather of the Twilight Mafia, and one of the seven demon lords of the Zannacross Empire shatter! As everyone takes a deep breath, they see that they don't sense any trace of his magical energy, and

Max smiles before muttering a relived," Bardock, Grando Fett, and everyone, hope you saw that, because that was for you. "

Ben chuckles as he says," We did it, we really defeated one of the seven demon lords, one of the most powerful servants of Emperor Chaos Zannacross Necron himself!"

James then chuckles and says," Maybe that will cause them to stop thinking there victory is all ready decided."

Doug laughs and adds a energetic," Yah, then they will start to realize they are not going to get us without a fight ! Er, off course that could also mean they might start being even more brutal. "

Kyle then grins as he reacts with a determined,"Even so, we will be for ready for them. After all that's what hero's do! "

Leon chuckles and retorts with a content," Maybe, but this is a important victory, one that won't just be over looked. "

Samus nods and says,"At last, I truly avenged my parents, and in effect shut down the Space Pirates once and for all. Ben, everyone thanks. "

Ben just looks happy and pumps his fist in to the air as he says,"Hehe, thanks everyone, we did it together! Still, in the end the one who should be given the credit is Max, if he did now show up when he did it might have been over!"

Max just turns around and looks up at the sky as he says," What are you thanking me for? If you did not show me the true fighting sprit you had, the true courage that keeps you going, then we would all be dead. This victory belongs to you, although I won't deny that I helped a little. Heh, still, I am glad, that after all this time, I was finally able to get back on one of the two traitors that tried to screw me over.

Now Kira, all that remains, is settling things with you. Now that your main partner in crime finally found his crimes catching up to him, still think you can get away with everything?" Speaking of Kira, we now briefly turn to the view of Max's former teammate!

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The shockwave of the demon lord's defeat is felt by everyone in the area that can sense magical power. And as we turn to the man who now calls himself Darth Judicar as he has been trying to blast Amuro and the Celestial Being team to bits in his combo Gundam, and when he senses the sudden shattering of the demon lords energy he turns his head to Halo and says," What? So, in the end even Xiza could not be powerful enough to stop the combined might of those naïve self righteous cousins. Bah, it's like Damonus said, his arrogance blinded his vision. Oh well, so long Xiza. I do appeate your assistance to my aims, but at this point I don't need your help to fulfill my vision anyway. You may have thought my role was over by now, but in the end you were the one who has outlasted your usefulness to the birth of the new era.

My new world will be created, the true paradise! And now, there is not much time, in order to make sure this operation goes as planned, I'll make sure things go as planned myself! Get out of my way!"

With this he has the Eternal Sovereign fire an EMP blast to cause all the Gundam's around them to be paralyzed! However Kira no longer even has the time to press the attack as his mobile suit's thrusters then blaze at full throttle to Halo as he says," I won't let you defy me Max. I won't let you ruin final judgment! You have stood in my way, for the last time old friend and now this time ill make sure I sever the bond between us forever! Did Xiza think Halo's power could destroy me? I will simply defend my self from its energy, and let it fire to at least bring this broken existence to a end! Xiza, neither you or anyone else will stop me from doing what must be done, and at last fixing this broken existence!"

With this he blasts anything that stands in his way to Halo, even if it belongs to his side!

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Meanwhile, are hero's are to exhausted to realize another strong foe coming their way and Ben just looks at Halo's control systems, which seem to be not moving and says," Whew, it really was a close one but we made it just in time. I guess with Xiza dead Halo deactivated, hopefully. But, what about, Cloud Sensei? He, took a fatal hit! Don't tell me he died!?"

He turns around to where his spiky haired other mentor fell, but is relieved to see Relala has been working on Cloud with her magic, and the hole in his chest is now gone!

She smiles as she says,"Don't worry Ben, I was able to get to him fast enough, and he should pull through! Oh, I think he is awakening now!"

Sure enough Cloud stirs, before he at once gets on his feet and grabs his sword! However, as he sees Xiza no were to be seen he sees everyone is happy and says," What happened? What did I miss? "

Max smirks as he pats Cloud on the shoulder and says," Sorry pal, you were out cold while we finished him off."

Cloud looks ashamed as he says," Really? You defeated Xiza huh? Sorry I was not able to help you guys. "

Max just laughs as he says," It's all right, you took a hit for me, so it evens out. Still, your one tough guy to survive being hit by Xiza's death beam in such a place and survive."

Cloud just puts his First Sword back together and says,"Let's just say I have been hit worse. "

Zero chuckles and reacts with a coy," Man, to think it almost came down to ANOTHER mega weapon of mass destruction. Well, at least this one stopped, it would be a pain if it, huh? Oh, that was a big mistake, damn it!"

As he kicked the flickering monitor in annoyance, to Zero's horror he causes it to glow, and everyone sees Halo's display screen return, and the computer voice says,"

System error corrected, firing systems resuming. Three minutes till firing."

As they hear a large glowing Samus mutters a deadpanned," Are you kidding?"

Bacchus quickly checks his scanners and says,"I am afraid this is no joke. While Xiza is indeed no longer alive, it seems the firing systems are beyond the stage where it could be stopped. Oh? I am getting a transmission from that Lylat Solder Master Chief, here it is."

Bacchus presses a button and sure enough the image of Master Chief's AI partner Cortana appears out of his arm and says,"Everyone, bad news. Chief and the others have been trying to shut down Halo's main firing systems, one of its pulse generators. However when we damaged it, it shut down, and moved out of the area! It seems that when damaged, the generators are capable of being transported around Halo! "

Ben then looks worried and blurts out a stressed," Then, how do we stop it? "

The holographic woman quickly retorts with," The only option I see is if all of the generators were attacked and destroyed in unison, before they can move."

X then says," Even if we were not worn down, there is no way we will be able to move fast enough to cover the size of this structure in less than two minutes!"

Cloud then looks down and says,"Maybe if we contact the fleet, and have them fire at the locations'! "

Everyone then hears a rumbling, before a column of energy bursts out below, and Max says,"No, it will never work in time!"

Ben grasps the Star Sword tightly before yelling a vexed," No, we can't stop now! After all of this we can't let Halo fire! There has to be a way for it to work!"

Max looks up, takes a deep breath and says," Maybe not that plan, but I have one that can work! It's a long shot, but it's the only shot we have! What a drag, this will be the very definition of cutting it close! Come to me Tri Edge! "

With that he snaps his fingers, and in a matter of seconds his ship blasts to where he was. As he at once dashes to it Ben says,"Max, what are you doing? "

Max just turns and responds with a calm," What I can do to save everyone. It's ok, I know what I am doing Ben, trust me!"

Ben just sees how serious Max is and says," All right, good luck. "

Max nods and says," Don't say your prayers just yet, I started this mess, and I am going to finish it."

With this he enters the ship and at once it transforms in to its Gundam form before it blasts at full speed to the center of Halo, were everyone sees pillars of energy from all over the giant ring begin to gather!

Loni then gulps and says," I hope your cousin really knows what he is doing Ben, otherwise we are dog meat."

Ben just says," Don't worry, he usually does so I believe in him. "

Max continues to have the Tri Edge Gundam move at full speed as the computer voice now says,"Nighty seconds remaining, preparing to fire. He now stands in the cock pit his long time droid partner T4-X5 walks up to him and says," I know you're in a hurry sir, but would you mind informing just what your plan of attack is?"

Max just grins as he says,"Simple, those Spartan soldiers said they could not fire on the energy generators because they would keep moving, so in that case I realized instead of hitting them, ill hit where the power is merging with, and shut down this damn giant ring of doom at once!"

This causes T4-X5 to look at Max, before he looks forward, before he looks back at Max and says," Sir Janus, I fear my programming is faulty for I nearly thought you implied your plan is to attack the Halo's energy blast before it can fire?"

Max just chuckles as he says," Good you're not broken yet, because that was just what I had in mind!"

His responds is, "Sir, while I see the logic in your plan, the chances of it working are only twenty five percent. If it does not work we will surely be vaporized just fast enough to feel tremendous pain. Well, you will, lucky for me I can turn off my pain receivers. Still, even if using the Tri Edge Gundam's blades to cause the massive amount of energy Halo is preparing to fire, and cause it to disperse, the chances of surviving the chain reaction are,"

All of a sudden Max just says," I thought I told you? Never tell me the odds!"

His droid partner responds with," Well, I was going to say that the chances of are surviving are so small I cannot compute the percentage. "

Max just has a monitor show Ben and the others, before another one shows Lacus 's group, and another shows the Great Fox blasting the deck of a Imperial Nova Crusher before he says,"

I don't care, because, this is not just another job, where only my life is on the line! Everyone in the Lylat Kingdom, including Ben and Lacus are all at risk, and it's all because I had to be so reckless and let my rage blind me! I wanted to avenge my comrades, but not at the price of adding so many more causalities! Its time, to set things right, and do want I wanted to do as an Enji in the first place, save the day! Ha, who ever thought I say that again? Ha, Ben, you always were able to get to me. Ah well, here it goes, Blazing Judgment!"

With this his Gundam takes out its unique blades, before they glow with power, and charge right for the center of Halo were the giant mass of energy is about to fire , just as the computer voice says," Firing in ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, and,"

At this very moment Max slashes the energy, and it causes it to go unstable, before it causes a lot of sparks, and then creates a massive explosion, that blinds everyone! Ben then says," Max, Max! AH!"

The explosion is so great that it blinds the sky, and everyone is blasted of their feet! Lacus and her group, who have just arrived at the base of the command tower after fighting through the small army of monsters Ravxen left for them sees the light and Lacus says," What, what happened? That was Max's Gundam right? Don't tell me he, no! AH!"

When the light fades, everyone realizes that they are still there, and looks up to see the energy mass, and Max, gone! They then see that part of Halo got shattered, and Bacchus then says,"It would seem that mister Bruder 's last ditch effort worked, Halo misfired, or more like backfired. It would seem we would not have to worry about a second shot with Halo in this state."

Shinryudramon then takes a deep breath, before his energy gives out and at last he reverts back to Hiryuumon as he says," Whew, then we can finally say we won! Man, holding my mega form for so long has made me wiped; I think I am too tired to even eat! Ben then looks around in the sky and says," We may have won, but what happened to Max? Don't tell me that,"

Everyone just looks down as Zero says," Sorry Ben, but, I don't think he made it, he was right where all of that energy was gathering, and it was enough energy to kill every person in the Lylat Kingdom. I don't think even I could pull off surviving that. "

Ben then looks upset as he says," Are you telling me that you think he blew up? Impossible! Max, could have survived that! Max would, never, go through with something if he knew he would die!"

Cloud just looks down and says," I think, Max knew what he was getting in to. But, he most likely went ahead anyway, because he knew he had no choice. He, paid the ultimate sacrifice, to atone for his mistakes, and save everyone, and most of all those that he cared about."

Ben then begins to get upset as he says,"No, Max, can't be dead! How could you do that Max, how could you run off to die without saying good bye? I never got to, huh?"

Soon everyone hears the sound of thrusters, before they hear a laugh come as they hear," Hahaha, what are you doing, crying over me Ben? What the hell are you doing, be a man!"

Ben looks up and sees its Max, inside his Tri Edge Gundam! Er, or what left of it, it seems Max was able to escape, but not unscratched as the head, right leg and left arm are all blown off! Even so Max is able to make a decent landing. And as the others run up to him Max gets out of the cockpit, grinning as he sees everyone's shocked face and says,"

What? I never said I planned to die, it was close though." As he lands on the ground Ben struggles not to have tears come out as he says," Max, you did it! You were great!"

Cloud grins as he adds a steely," That was a risky move, but sometimes daredevil moves are the only options left. Thank you, you just saved billions of life's with what you did, not to mention put a serious dent in the Zannacross Empire's plans."

Max just sighs and says," Glad having my Tri-Edge ship get its paint job ruined was worth the price. Heh, like I was going to let Xiza and Kira have the last laugh, not after all I have been through."

Bacchus then says," I am grateful to have the assistance of you all. Without it, I do not believe we could have been able to succeed. "Ben then says," Well, it might not have been what the original mission was suppose to be. But, even if Weil escaped to cause more havoc, at least we shut down one evil maniac's plans for good. Although, in the end, I guess it was all thanks to you Max. "

Max looks dismissive as he says," I don't know why you keep thanking me, it was because you cleared my head that I was able to get the job done.

"Ben then looks annoyed and says," Hey! It was our teamwork that did it, you could not have beaten Xiza alone and neither could I! It was by working together that we were able to overcome the power of even a demon lord!"

Max just laughs and says," Oh man, you can never have enough of your comic book teamwork speech's eh Ben? Still, its usefulness is not entirely a fantasy."

Ben just looks at Max and says,"Max, what are you going to do now? You know, there is no real reason you have to hide anymore. Join with us, return to the Enji Knights and we can take down Kira and the others together!"

Max just turns around and looks at his sword as he says,"It's not that easy Ben. Even if me being the one who blew up Zandalor was a lie, I still have been a bounty hunter for a while, and I killed without mercy, even you're two faced pal Rick. I don't think there is much place in an order of holy knights for a vigilante wild card like me, even if I wanted to come back. "

Leon then looks at Max and grins as he says," We may be warriors of light, but that does not mean we are prefect. Today shows you still have the spirit of an Enji in you. And, if they could expect me, then Grand Master Myers and the others will surely give you a chance."

Cloud then grins and says," Its true Max. While your crimes can't be swept under the rug just like that, it does not make things impossible for you either. We know the truth now, about how Xiza and Kira tricked you, just like they tricked us in to using you as a scapegoat. As long as you promise not to turn again, and strive to continue to atone your sins, there is a place for you in the order yet. "

As Max just looks down he sees Ben go forward as Ben says," Come on Max, if they still trust me after I had a mental breakdown, nearly killed them as Darth Idious and became a pawn of the dark side, then they will of course expect you back, as long as you don't mind being under surveillance for a while. Come on Max, today proved that we still make a unstoppable team!"

Max just looks at Ben and says," Well, I did say I was going to stop running, and a man has to keep his word. And, I guess it would be nice to have the resources of the Enji on my side, and not have to deal with dodging Lylat forces all the time. Heh, and I guess it has a nice ring to having what you be done be on the winning side and be called a hero. "

Ben then goes forward and eagerly says,"So, does this mean you're going to come back with us!?"

He then holds out his arm as Max extends his for a handshake and responds with a slick,"Haha, why not? If you Enji are serious about ending this war then you will need awesome guys like me to get the job done anyway! And, I still have scores to settle, so its time I , huh? No, watch out!"

To everyone's shock he all of a sudden dashes forward and pushes Ben down, just as everyone hears the sound of a shot! Before Ben can realize it,he sees Max get shot dead in the chest!

Max at once growls in pain as he grunts out" Cheap little punk! Think you can, GUH!"

To everyone's horror, all of a sudden Max's chest explodes, because while they were not aware, Max was shot by a bullet from a anti Enji sniper rifle, the same ones used by Vector solders against Lacus and Brad's group before they because of Brad fired on Charter, and were wasted by him before they had a chance to use them!

Ben watch's in horror as blood explodes out of Max, who now has a large hole in his chest, not to mention no longer having his heart!

Ben quickly is consumed with terror as he yells out," MAX! Who, WHO DID THAT!?"

At once he and everyone else turn around at the direction were the shot came, only to at that instant see a flare come up, a solar flare that blinds everyone!

As Ben covers his eyes he says," No! Damn it, show yourself you coward!"

As everyone is blinded they hear a large explosion. And when they finally regain their sight they see the rock pillar that was there before is now gone, and the mysterious shooter no were in sight!

Ben then looks desperately as he says,"No, don't tell me whoever did that is gone all ready!?"

Doug is as upset as Ben as he says," What the hell is going on? We did not sense any power levels in the area, no one that could do that to Max!"

Hiryuumon then says," I did not smell any one, was it a robot? Samus and everyone looks around and Samus says," I, am not picking up anyone, not with the thermal scanner, the X ray scanner, or anything else."

Ben is rapidly losing his composer as he screams out," No, this can't be how it ends! Huh, no, Max!"

He runs over to Max, who is all ready on the ground bleeding hard and as Ben runs over to him he manages to give off a small chuckle and says," Damn it, after all the stealth kills I have done, I did not think I would be stupid enough to fall for a trick like that. Figures, the one moment I let my guard down, I, cough!"

He then coughs up blood and Ben says," Don't try to talk Max, we will heal you. Come on, hurry!"

At once Reala and James both run over and use their healing magic on Max, but to everyone's horror it's not stopping the bleeding! Ben sees this and says," Come on, why is it not working? At this rate he is going to die!"

An upset Reala says," I don't know, I am doing the best I can, but, my healing spells are not working!"

James then nods and adds a tense," It's like the body is rejecting are magic."

Ben then says," Max, if this is your idea of a bad joke it's not funny! "

Max then says," You think, I would make a joke as bad in taste as this? I don't know, why it's not working either. "

Bacchus then walks forward, and says," I do, Mister Bruder, it's because of what you were shot. I only picked it up for a moment, but my scanners told me it was an anti Enji bullet, we seen it in action before. And, I regret to say that its design is to once it makes impact, it feeds upon its targets magical energy, and uses it to cause a lethal poison that causes the body to burn out as it destroys the internal organs. Not to mention when it hits, well you saw the result. I am afraid its death rate is nearly a hundred percent, even for a man such as Max."

Ben nearly flips out as he says," No, NO! You're telling me that there is nothing we can do? Just give him a mega-elixir, a Phoenix Down, something!"

James just looks ashamed as he says,"Its, not like that Ben, even if we cure his body, it seems the real problem is that the poison has caused his soul to burn out. I, don't know how to say this but,"

All of a sudden Max puts his arm on Ben and says," It's all right Ben, I knew, that this was the only way things could end for me, no matter how we might have wished it otherwise."

Ben panics as he says,"No, don't say that Max! Your way to strong to ever die like this!"

Max then says,"Enough, a true warrior does not break down like this, it's ok, I have been prepared to face my next opponent, death, for a while now. Why are you so sad? I have been causing you nothing but trouble for a while now. And, you have surpassed me, you no longer need me anyway."

Ben just gets upset as he says,"But, that does not mean I don't need you alive anymore! Even if I am as strong as you now, I still, don't want to see you die! You, your still my closest cousin, my mentor, and my friend! You always watched after me, even now, you saved my life! Its all, my fault."

Max just says," Don't you dare, blame yourself Ben! You can't blame yourself for what you could not change. Ben, you really are, becoming a true hero. By becoming a greater warrior then me, you proved you really can become the hero who saves the cosmos from total darkness. Ben, I believe in you, I know you can do it!"

Ben can't help it as he gets teary eyed and he holds Max tight and says," Max, no, you can't die! Huh?"

He sees Max using all of his power left, to hold his Beskar sword up as he looks at Ben and says,"Ben, your cousin, has one more favor from you. Promise me, that you will complete my vengeance, and get Kira for me ! Promise me, that you will always hold on to your dreams. If you want to be a hero you have to hold on to your dreams and also your pride, so that you never lose sight of yourself in despair. Promise me Ben, it's up to you to finish this, you must make sure Kira, and his followers don't, win! "

He hands Ben his Beskar sword, and Cloud has a painful flash back to Zack's dying words as Ben takes his cousin's massive sword and holds it tightly before Max grins, even as blood is coming out of his mouth and he says,"Good, with this, I give everything I have to you, my dreams, my pride, everything. Don't screw up! Also, once you repair Tri-Edge, it will be your own ship. T4-X5 will obey you for now on, I programmed him to obey you without question if I were to die. I guess, I always knew you would be the one I trust, even if it would take longer than I thought. Ha, think of it as a final gift from your screwed up cousin.

Don't worry Ben, you can do it. Just believe in your friends, and most of all, to believe in yourself-not in the Ben who believes in his cousin or the Enji, not in the Max who believes in Ben Auro-but in the Ben, who believes in himself.

Ben, we're not tools of the government or anyone else! Fighting was the only thing... the only thing I was good at, but... At least I always fought for what I believed in..., I fought to give crooks and psychos' the justice they deserved. As long as you hold true to that will, with that resolve, no punk will ever be able to take you down. "

Ben bursts in to tears at this and uses his Star Sword to fire a beam of light at his cousin in a desperate attempt to heal Max, and his friends can barely hold it together themselves as Ben says," What kind of hero am I, if I can't even protect the people most important to me!? I, won't let you die!"

Max then coughs up blood, and begins to shake a little as he says,"Even the chosen one, can't save everyone. And even so, you did save me Ben. You, stopped me from making a grave mistake, and nearly destroy the entire cosmos because of my rage. You allowed me, to be a hero one last time. And, even without a gift from the celestial ones. But even if I was not chosen by the light, I never, let my rage drive me mad like Xehamaru and Kira; I never descended in to the dark side! I never one took any drug, or used a ounce of dark magic! I fought on squarely with my own strength!"

Ben desperately says," I knew it, I knew even after all of this, you would never really become evil! "

Max then looks up in to the sky, and sees the sun as he says,"Ben, the sky, look, at how, beautiful it is. Come, let's say it, one more time."

Ben sees the sky and weakly," All right Max. "

Max and Ben then say,"The School of the Undefeated of the East!

The winds of Kings!

Zenshin!"

At this point Ben can barely contain himself as he says,"

Keiretsu!

Tempa Kyouran!

LOOK! THE EAST IS BURNING RED! ! Huh?" All of a sudden he sees Max punch him weakly on the forehead as he says,"

This is it; see you later, Ben Auro.

"With this his arm falls down, and as Ben looks down he sees Max gasp on more time, before his head falls down, and with that Ben, and everyone else, can't feel a trace of his magic energy left, and Ben says," Max, Max! MAX! NO!"

With that Ben realizes that Max Bruder, is truly dead, and with that screams in despair, just as a horrified Lacus and the others arrive. Ben's childhood friend at once sees Ben crying over Max and her eyes are full of dread as she says,"

Ben, Max? What is? No, Uh no! I am coming!"

Lacus runs over and tries to use her own healing magic on Max, but even if her powerful magic would have had a better effect, but it's too late, and a solemn Cloud says," Its, too late, Max Bruder, is dead."

Lacus does not seem to listen, even as tears form in her own eyes and says," Hang on Max! I promised, I would not let anything happen! I promised to, be able to save everyone! "

Terra then arrives and gapes in horror as she says," Who, did this? Xiza?"

X shakes his head, and says," No, we terminated him, but someone made them self's, hidden from all us, and shot him before fleeing the scene without leaving a trace."

Ben then grasps his fist tightly as he says," Whoever it is, I will find them, I won't, let whoever did this to Max, GET AWAY WITH IT! Whoever killed him, I'll find them! Then they will suffer far worst then Max suffered! "

Cloud sees the pure fury in Ben's eyes and then goes over and puts his hand on Ben's shoulder before he clears his throat and camly says says,"Don't worry Ben, whoever did this to Max, will pay for that happened. We will make his sacrifice not be wasted. "

As Ben looks up at his squad captain he is about to respond when a new voice says,"Sorry Cloud, but his death will prove to have been quite useless.

I see you now just come to grasp with the term of," Victory has its price!"

At once Ben's eyes narrow as he says,"You, it was you! KIRA!"

Sure enough everyone sees the hologram image of the head of the Titans now appears in front of where the display of Halo is, and his face is as blank as ever as he says,"Feel happy Ben Auro? Congrats for defeating Xiza and stopping Halo, but it seems the cost of victory is to much for you to handle."

Ben has his energy explode as he says," It was you, you dirty rat! Afraid to look at your former friend's body in person? Show yourself now!"

James looks around and says," Did, Kira use his Absolute Hypnoses to hide and kill him?"

An angry Cloud quickly adds," But, Ben's Star Sword is able to shatter his illusions! He should not have been able to hide!" Ben just has his sword glow as he says," He, must have thought of a new magic to hide it, or maybe I had to catch him first, but I don't care. Ill smash him , I am going to tear him apart! This time you won't get away!"

The former Enji 's face looks slightly more smug as he says," Your rage once more burns your feelings Ben Auro. You can't even think right! "Zero then says," What, you're trying to say you did not kill Max?"

Kira just grins evilly as he says," I did not deny anything, but I did not admit anything."

Samus then aims her arm cannon at Kira, before remembering she is aiming at a hologram and lowering it before she says,"Well, who else would be able to, huh?" Everyone feels the ground shake, before darkness covers the sky, and a lightning bolt strikes the ground before out of it a column of darkness, and Ravxen out of it! The mad foe looks right at Max and says,"Long time no see Star clown! Why so serious, you look like you have a broken heart!"

Ben's eyes widen as he says," Ravxen!? When did you get here? "

Terra quickly answers with," After Lacus healed Max this scoundrel appeared desiring to have revenge on Max for a pervious battle. However we held him off for a while as Max came to your aid. We were able to fight him off, but then he grew even more furious. However then Ezan, Aeris and the others arrived to back us up, and Ravxen grew bored and sent a army of minions to delay us. "

Ben then looks at Lacus and is momentary shocked before blurting out,"Lacus, you were able to hold of Ravxen? "

Ravxen laughs madly as his energy explodes and he says,"The young dear was so desperate to try and save someone, but she can't save you all, from my wrath!"

Ben can barely contain his rage as he says," It was you, damn you Ravxen! Cheap shooting Max like that is right up your ally!

Well, you better have had your laugh; because that's the last trick you will ever pull, EVER!"

Ravxen just wags his finger as he retorts with a theatrical," Oh what a brave, inspiring performance! But, you can save it, I know you're a worn down hero Ben Auro. You just fought your dear cousin, and the demon lord Xiza back to back, after all those other taxing fights today? You know what that means? Easy pickings that's what! Honor smonder, today will be the day yet that hope is wiped out forever! Hahaah, even if Halo is busted and Xiza dead, my grand final for you all will still die, by the true number one destroyed Ravxen the great!"

Doug quickly snarls out," You can forget it! Tired or not, we will still crush you! Huh? Oh hell no!"

Everyone then hears a rumbling, as Kira, in his massive supped up combo mobile suit the Eternal Sovereign Gundam fly's down above Ravxen as he speaks out through its comm. and says," Give it up, your time is through Enji Knights! No matter how hard you try, you cannot stop destiny from taking fold!"

Ravxen then has his darkness swirl around him as he says,"

Hahahaha! That's right, just like your beloved Max, you will all join him! In the end, you can't win the war that you are fated to lose! Darkness is the true essence of the cosmos itself! So, who would like to die first? Come now, speak up, or I will choose for you? Oh, is that you Ben? Huh, what the?"

Everyone sees Ben trembling with rage as his golden aura explodes, and he glares right at Ravxen and Kira!

He then says," That Gundam, is that how you did it Kira? Did you launch some new special weapon to kill Max from the shadows? Damn it, DAMN IT! I will never, forgive any of you! I won't let you take anyone else away from me, no matter who killed Max your all going, TO PAY!"

With this his energy explodes and he nearly blows his friends off their feet!

Lacus sees Ben's muscles bulge, and blue lighting begin to spark all over his aura! What is more is that his eyes begin to change to a green color, as his hair begins to spike up, and slowly turn golden! Lacus then sees this and says," Ben, what is happening to you? "

Ravxen just glares at Ben and says," I had enough, of seeing you in the spot light Ben Auro! "

He then charges at Ben with two energy blades of darkness in his hands as he yells out a sadistic," Struggle all you want, in the end you will still fail and everything you hold will be lost to you! THAT, is your true destiny!"

Ben just takes out his Star Sword, and has a massive amount of power flow in to it before he says,"Your wrong Ravxen, the one who is going to lose it all, is YOU!"

With this he unleashes a massive golden energy sword wave, that Ravxen spots just in time as he says," That power!? UH!"

He tries to dodge, but is not able to avoid it, and his arm gets blasted to atoms with one touch! The blast goes on to head for Kira, and in his machine he says," How did he pull out such power from his despair? No, this can't be!"

Kira tires to get out of the way as well, but even though his suit has its barrier up Ben's attack shatters it, and blasts through the mobile suit's left leg, before it heads out of Halo, cleaves a Nova Crusher shield and all in half, before it goes through the right shielded generator of the Dark Specter and blasts that away from the massive warship in a flash before at last the blast explodes with such force it blasts all the war ships and Halo back!

Ravxen glares at Ben, who is giving him a Gohan class deadly serious look of hate before he says,"Damn you! Your outbursts, won't save you!"

Kira sees the raw fury in Ben's eyes, and the massive amount of energy currently circling around him before he then says," Ravxen, let us preform a tactical withdrawal, the situation has changed against us. I am sensing a new Lylat Fleet is approaching , and the Grand Master and many others are on board. It would be wise to give Ben Auro and the others there extermination at a more advantageous time."

Ravxen clutches his stump of a arm before darkness swarms around him and he grunts out a deranged,"Lucky for you Ben Auro, you get to live just a LITTLE while longer! Don't worry, we will finish this soon enough. Next time we dance, it will be your LAST! So go on, and enjoying living in despair and fear!"

With this he snaps his fingers and instantly disappears! Ben nearly goes berserk as he says," NO! I won't let you get away, I won't let you get away with killing Max!"

Kira fires his twin buster rifle blasts as he says,"Your power, is truly something Ben Auro, even I must take you seriously. But no matter how powerful you are, your still powerless in the face of the truth of this decaying cosmos! Know this, as long as you are blind to the truth, you will never find happiness! Like Ravxen, next time we meet it will be the time I kill you!"

With this the blast collides with Ben but in his enraged powered up state he shatters it with a punch! However that's all the time Kira needs for the Dark Specter to fire a beam and in Star Trek fashion beam him out of there! Ben realizes that both his foes are gone, and screams out in outrage as his power explodes and nearly shatters Halo as he says,"NO! How could I , let them get away!? "

Hiryuumon then says," They are cowards boss, but don't worry, we will make them pay for that."

Ben just yells more nearly loss in his rage as he says,"Max, died because of me! Why? Why was I not powerful enough to save him? "

Seeing the ground crumbling beneath them Bacchus says," Please calm down mister Auro, if you don't control your power you will shatter Halo and cast us in to space!"

Ben either does not hear him or does not care as his power continues to rise, and he just about looks like a Super Sayain two as he says," I, am suppose to be the hero that can save the cosmos? I can't even protect those most important to me! How can I , be worth anything when I , huh?"

All of a sudden he feels something, and turns to his side to see Lacus is hugging him! Ben then says," Lacus?"

He sees Lacus is crying herself as she says," Please stop Ben, please calm down. It's not your fault, don't blame yourself for Max's death. If anything, it's my fault."

Ben begins to calm down, as his hair returns to normal and he says," Your, fault? "Lacus, what are you saying?" "

Lacus then hugs Ben tighter as she says," If I was stronger, if I was faster, then I could have saved him in time! If I was only, able to do better, then Max would not have to die! I am so sorry Ben, please forgive me. I am, so sorry!" Ben then calms down, and begins to look sad as he says," Why, why are you apologizing Lacus? You, you did not do anything wrong! Lacus, you were,. Oh Lacus, it's just that, I,"Lacus touch's Ben in the face gently and says,"

It's all right Ben, don't worry. I, won't ever abounded you, I promise.

"Ben then can't hold his despair any longer and breaks down as he starts to sob as he says,"

Why Lacus, why did he have to die!? Itfs not fair, not fare! Not, after he was going to come back! Things at last were going to be like the use to be! We were going to be working together as a team! We were at last going to be e."

" With that he cries over Lacus's shoulder as everyone watches.

Cloud waits for a bit before looking at his hands and muttering a solemn," Once more, all of my power is not able to matter, and the cycle of tragedy has repeated.

Zack, I will not let it continue like this! Ben, I promise, we will all do what we can, and avenge Max, to make his belief in us matter!"

As he and the others nods ,

---

we briefly change are view, to one of Max's most suspected killer, Ravxen. Ravxen has warped out of the entire solar system and has landed on a desolate asteroid belt to let out his rage, which involves nearly all of the involved asteroid's being shattered in an instant! He grasps his hand tightly as he says," Ben Auro, your starting to truly be a threat to my grand design! But, you won't stop me, I'll make sure you suffer and rip you apart! Still, want most infuriates me most of all, is how that worthless,TRASH, DARED TO DENYED ME WHAT WAS RIGHTFULLY MINE!

How dare he kill him before I give that fool his proper death!

He thinks, that just because he is "special", he outranks me?

HA, even if he is more powerful than any human, he is still just a MONKEY!

He thinks he is so sly and smart, but if he keeps acting like this and hogs the stage, I will be happy to blast him in to nothingness!

Bah, the only reason he is even alive now, , and because of his role, and of today's events, sadly I can't deny he seems to still have some slight value alive.

But it won't be long, before the wondrous stage of darkness is set, and all of these unsightly worthless beings will once and for all vanquish ! Hahahaha! Now, time to make sure, that the next show from hell's messenger goes as planned!"

With this, Ravxen warps out to his next desired place.

---

Meanwhile, we return to the other group of villain's leaving Halo, and by that I mean Kira. With that we now return to the Dark Specter's command bridge, where Bowser, Genesis Sigma and the others have angrily been watching the whole battle there as they see there " Leader" return.

Kira at once says," Prepare to return to Vandalgyon at once. Make the jump to Hyperspace and have the fleet fallow"

Sigma then says,"Well, looks like Xiza's great plan was a great failure. I would hate to explain this to Darth Damonus, luckily I don't have to. "

Kira just sits on his throne chair and says," No, but I hope you're ready to explain why your performance was so poor today. But, I do agree with you, this defeat won't go well."

Bowser chuckles and cuts in with a upbeat," Hey, it's not a total lost right? Didn't that Max punk got wasted? One less major Enji to hassle the Hoff eh? At least it's not a total lost." Kira just looks down, and looks at his demonic hand and says,"

You are correct Bowser. Max Bruder will no longer interfere with are plans, he will no longer stand in are path. Because, at last his luck ran out, and he is dead. "

Genesis raises his eyebrow and says,"What is wrong my lord? Do I decent, a hint of regret? I thought more than anything that you would enjoy seeing such a major obstacle removed."

Kira glances at Genesis, before turning the throne around and saying,"Make no mistake, I am glad that Max is dead. He was are most persistent hound, and before he was forced off, he dragged Xiza to hell with him. However, I do regret it had to end just like this. As much of a fool as he was, he could still have been useful in the new era, if only, he was not so foolish and self righteous, he could have, no. But, I will give him the respect he deserves in death, as a true warrior who died with honor. But, all that honor and bravery, was futile I see now.

This was the last lingering outburst of my human heart, my last outburst of regret. However, this is just another test, to show I have truly expulsed such weakness! Now, I have truly severed all links to my weak self, I am truly Darth Judicar now! Yes, Ben Auro will surely try to foolishly try to fight me to avenge Max. but, ill welcome his challenge, to show that no matter how strong he gets he will never be able to surpass ME!

Yes, ill show you that even with this pain, your powers can't overcome the true mastery of beyond light and darkness! As long as you cling on to your perception of white and black, your mind will still be to clouded to ever defeat me!

Still, something is unsettling about this outcome. That deranged clown, how dare he act so out of turn. He thinks, that his vast power lets him act out of order? Tsc, his motives do not escape me, he thinks he his ambitions can overcome me? Well, he will soon find out, that final Judgment will not escape even him. Yes, no matter which beings disrupt order, I will erase everything that prevents paradise!And in the end, all shawl see, that I am the true superior being!"

With this he issues out more orders, as the Dark Specter and the others retract. And with Xiza dead his nearly entire drone and employ army nearly surrenders instantly, and the Dämmerung shuts down, as if it was powered by Xiza himself.

---

Someone who sees this, happens to be Vaan, as he Sabin and the others were just below and the Enji scratch's his head and says,"

Whew, as odd as it is to see everything just stop now that Xiza is dead, but it is good overall. "

Ezan turns to Vaan and looks annoyed as he says," Don't take such a care free attitude Vaan, this is still a warzone, letting your guard down will get you shot. "

Vaan just groans and says," Your way to tense Ezan, just relax!" Aeris just giggles and says,"

Oh don't worry, I think Ezan is just upset that he missed the big battle. Heh, I do to, I hope they did not need my help. Huh, who is it? "

They hear footsteps, but see its Master Chief and the others entering. Jonson just says,"

Sorry guys, if your here to be reinforcements you're a little late so you will have to settle for the cleanup crew. "

A annoyed Ezan just looks up and says,"I am, aware of are late timing. Still, nether the less I want to see how much damage Ben and Max took fighting a supposed demon lord. Huh, what is that look?"

Jonson looks down, before Chief says," I might as well just say it. While they defeated, a unindefied sniper shot Max through the heart with a special anti Enji bullet, and I guess even he could not survive it."

Aeris gapes in horror as she says," No, don't tell me, Max is dead?"

Ezan can't accept this and he says,"Don't be up surd, Ben's cousin was too great a warrior to be taken down by a mere grunt! That'd can't be the whole story, someone who could fight on Kira 's level could not have died like that! Despite his hot headed demeanor I could not deny his resolve and skill was one to be respected. Someone like him should have, huh, identify yourself! Oh, it's just you."

As Ezan turns to the left because he heard someone coming, eh lowers his sword when he sees who it is. And who it is Brad, covered with blood, Flood blood, and looking as war hungry as ever. He just chuckles and belches out a crass,"Nice to see you to rich boy. Sorry I am late chumps, those damn zombie freaks just were so god damn obsessed with me! But, they seemed to not be able to get the picture that even if there whole damn parasitic horde came at me, they don't have a thing on Brad Fowltror! So, what's going on? Since we are not dead I guess we won right?"

Sabin then says," We have won, Xiza is dead and the others have retreated. However, we lost a great man today. Max , has been killed."

Brad instantly whistles out a wild," Really? And with the way he acted I thought he was invincible! Still, with him acting all superior, I guess it was going to happen sooner or later. Damn, it's so lame, I wanted to pummel him for daring to act like he is better than me! Who got him in? "

Aeris looks distract and says," We, don't know, the shooter covered his tracks very well. " Brad then whistles and says," Little punk, talk about being a wuss! "

Vaan then looks at Brad and says," Brad, is that something in your pocket? Huh, whoa, dude, what the hell are you doing with that?" Brad sees Vaan monitioning to what is in his pocket, and Brad just takes it out,and shows it's a Sniper Rifle, a Anti Enji Vector Sniper Rifle!

Brad isntantly answers with a casual,"What this? Ha, got it off some more vector punks that thought they could kill the unstoppable Juggernaught! Well, they were wrong, dead wrong!"

With this Brad throws the rifle to the ground, and throws out various other guns he seems to have collected like a plasma machine gun, a type of Needler gun and a rapid missile launcher before he laughs out a smug," When will everyone learn? I am the most powerful fighter in the universe! And nothing, and no one, NO ONE CAN STOP ME!"

With this he at once fires a blast from his hand to instantly blow them all up! As he laughs at the new hole in the ground that he has created he says,"Guess Star boy is upset, and Lacus seemed to care for him as well. Don't know why, even if he was his cousin, he was not that great."

This angers everyone and Johnson says," Watch your mouth son, that man died saving us all. He is a hero, and I won't have that kind of disrespect!"

Sabin turns to Brad with a stern look and says," He is right Brad. Max may have betrayed the Enji, but under the circumstances there was little he could do. And in the end, he died with honor, as a Enji. Your all ready in enough trouble, don't make things worse."

Brad just rolls his eyes and puts out a annoyed," What's the deal I am just saying it as it is that's all. Benny boy and even Lacus kept acting like he was some unstoppable warrior but the plane old truth is that its clear he was nothing special in the end am I right? Whatever, ill ease up on dishing out the cold facts if it pleases you all. "

Aeris then says," Let us hurry, Ben, needs all the support he can get. And I also wish to see how Cloud and the others are doing." They all nod, and Ezan just looks at Brad and says,"

I truly cannot phantom why Lacus can stand to be with a crude scum like you. "

With this they all leave, and Brad looks down, before he smashes the ground with his foot and clutches his fist hard as he says," That's right Kaiba boy, bash me all you want, because before you know it I am going to have the last laugh! I don't need to play by you suckers rules, because I have got this far by playing my own! Hero? Piff, so what if Max died like a hero, he still died, and in the end, I rather die a winner!

In the end, all of these high and mighty rules are just to hide the true harsh reality of how things work. And it's the law of the jungle, the strong survive and the weak die! And those, that can't take it, well that's just too bad. Whatever, time to see just how Lacus is doing. I think she will need her man, to get her through her this little all, in the end, I am the only man she really can count on, this proves it, more then anything."

With this Brad stomps forward, and goes to catch up.

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Meanwhile, speaking of Lacus, we return to her, and she is still embracing a tormented Ben. However at the moment he has stopped crying and looks at Lacus as he says," It's ok Lacus, I am ok. Max, would not want me to cry like a idiot over him. I'll be, all right. Huh, what is this?"

Ben's star sword begins to shine, and a light hits the center control console of Halo, before it glows, and hits all the way to the center of Halo! This cause a giant white crystal to come out, and as it hovers down to right above Ben he hears a new female voice say," Ben Auro, you have done well. "

Ben then says," What the? Who are you? Whoa!"

Everyone sees a light come out of the crystal, before it takes the form of a young woman with long blonde hair, wearing a long white dress with some gold royal like design on it, and has a small golden crown on her head. Seeing a warm smile appear gives are hero's a impression that she is not another new enemy as a curious Lacus says," Um, excuse me, who are you?"

The women then answers with a polite," That, is not an easy question to answer. I am, the one who has saw the dawn of time. I am the one who is most familiar with, a master of the thing that you call light. I am the one who watches over existence, I am the Ethereal Queen ,Cosmos, the one who some call god."

This shocks everyone, and Ben says," You are, Cosmos?"

Well, talk about a shocking way to get Ben's mind of his grief! At last Ben and Max has defeated Xiza, and stopped Halo. But in the end are hero's could not escape tragedy ,and there victory was spoiled thanks to a undefined shooter, who was able to get the jump on a weakened Max, brining his life to a end just when he was going to join the Enji once more. And while both Kira and Ravxen appear to gloat, neither seems to be taking the credit for the murder.

However, someone had to have did it, and if neither Max's former teammate or the insane demonic dark Enji did it, then who? And what is with the sudden arrival of Cosmos? Why would what is essentially god appear before Ben out of no were? To find out, tune in next time to Tales of the Cosmic Wars!

In the next chapter, Ben and Cosmos, have a little chat. And after that, the Enji honor the bravery Max had shown, by giving him a full Enji funeral. Several people arrive, including surprisingly Doug's master Goken Kusanagi ! It seems Doug's master wants to finish his training to make him ready to end the war, and so after the funeral Doug goes off. It seems that he will need to though, because with the lost of Xiza Zannacross is outraged! So outraged, that the sealed god of darkness decides to speed up the process of soul gathering, by using his power to revive several dreaded deceased villains to speed up the process and at last shatter the seal! Some of those villains are,

The man who's ambition was so great he made a deal to come back from the dead once more to rule over part of hell, Emperor Matus Palamecia,

the dreaded tree demon with master of the void, Exdeath

, the demented magical clown of death and Terra and her comrads nemises Kefka Palazzo,

The sorceress of time Ultimecia,

and Zidane 's insane, vengeful brother Kuja!

It seems Chaos Zannacross Necron wants to begin the endgame of this war, can Ben, and the others recover from this battle and be ready, to finish the fight? To find out, don't miss

Chapter 116: Epilogue, Requiem for a Brave Warrior, The Final Vow.

Now, before we end this, I know some authors notes are in order. Yes, Chad and everyone I know you were not expecting the fight with Xiza to end so soon. But, even though Xiza was a major villain, he still is not as major as some of the over villains still around. And, if you were expecting Ben to turn Super Sayain, let's just say, I am saving that for an even more epic battle against the person who really killed Max. And Captain A, I know your flipping out right about now, but Max's death was necessary even if you can't see it, to make this story the best it could be. I feelt bad killing him if it makes you feel better. Don't worry, I can assure you, whoever killed Max, WILL pay for it, so I hope you keep reading. Also, for a few other things like Lacus 's new powers show today, and just what is up with Ravxen, all I can say is that everything will be shown in time. I'll give a hint on Ravxen though, like the other members of the Organization, his title, the Phantom of Chaos, is not just called that.

One more thing, if the order of the battle or how pepole arrived faster or slower confused you, here is how I saw it, Leon and X 's group first fought Xiza, then Cloud 's group arrived just as Ben and Max entred the final phase of there showdown. Then Ben arrived, and the fight between him and the fight between Lacus and Ravxen happend at nearly the same time.

All right, I think that's all for now. Thanks for the reviews everyone, hope to see you all on board for the final of Volume two and beyond, and till next time.