It didn't take long for the group to locate and grab the White Chaos Emerald from its vault, then regrouping with Knuckles at the path to the Titan.

"Are you guys sure you're ready for this? You don't have all seven emeralds for Sonic to use yet. That titan's gonna rip him to shreds." Knuckles mentioned.

"Don't worry, we know where the last Emerald is. It's in a Vault atop the titan's head, we saw it on the first titan we encountered before." Erica said.

"Unlike Giganto, this titan is capable of flight, though. We should figure out a way to get on it safely." Kendo said.

"Hmm, maybe if we climbed onto the highest structure on this island, we could jump onto it when it's flying by." Ace said.

"Or, one of our members capable of flight swoops to Wyverns head and gets the emerald off of it." Frosta suggested.

"I will handle the task." Teba said. "Rito are skilled in flight and combat. It shouldn't be hard to catch up to it."

"You're sure confident about this, Teba." Zelos said.

"And he has a reason too. It's likely he'll be leaving to be the village's elder when we're done here." David said. "This will be your last big task with us, Teba. Let's end this run on a high."

"Of course." Teba said as he took a breath as he took off into the air.

"Sonic, you want a ride? My IS and the blade bits should help you reach the titan." Houki offered.

"Nah, I'm sure Teba can get the emerald to me. He's never let us down before." Sonic said.

"If you say so." Cecilia replied. "But we'd better go keep an eye on him." She turned to her friend. "Houki, let's go."

"Hai!" Houki nodded as she and Cecilia took to the skies and went after the Rito.

Priyan's scouts continued to keep tabs as they spotted Teba flying after the Wyvern.

"Fett. I just spotted one of the Rito. They're pursuing you as we speak." Priyan said.

"I see 'em. It's the White-Feathered one, Teba. Looks like Rito Village is about to lose its leader before he even takes the spot." Boba said atop Wyvern's head, piloting it remotely.

"I'm continuing to protect the device but I'm afraid you're on your own with guarding the Emerald." Priyan said.

"That's fine. Not the first time something like this falls on my shoulders…definitely won't be my last." Boba said.

Wyvern then circled around the area it was flying around, sensing Teba's presence as it let out a piercing screech.

WYVERN

BOBA FETT

Wyvern then flew off, Teba right behind it.

"We'll be right behind you, Teba! Get the emerald, then we can all slay the dragon together!" Frosta communicated over Teba's comm.

"This is gonna be a great story for you to tell Tulin when you get back home, for sure!" Gemini added.

"It certainly would be." Teba said with a chuckle.

The Rito flew closer and closer to the Wyvern, Boba still standing on its head, seemingly unaware of his presence…until he pointed his blaster over his shoulder. "You're mine." he said, firing a shot that nearly hit Teba in the head, though a dodge made sure it only grazed him.

"You're not a bad shot. Neither am I." Teba said as he notched three arrows and fired them off.

Boba used his wrist mounted blaster to shoot two of the arrows out of the air, then moved his head out of the way of the third. "No sense in just standing here." he said simply as he activated his jetpack, taking off and rocketing towards Teba, firing his blaster at the Rito all the while.

Teba acted as he fired a Fire and Ice Arrow together to create a shroud of fog, hiding him from the naked eye.

"Nice trick." Boba said, putting his visor down, his helmet activating its 360 degree vision. "Too bad it's not much help." he added, moving out of the way of another arrow from behind. "Nar dralshy'a (try harder), Teba!"

"Teba!" Cecilia shouted.

"Wait, let them duel. This is his fight." Houki interjected.

"Are you sure?" Cecilia asked.

"This is Teba-san's last fight with the Alliance, so we better respect his wishes. But we will step in if it gets too intense." Houki stated.

"...Very well." Cecilia nodded as the two watched the sky battle.

"(Boba's skills are incredible. No wonder he's been revered as the Greatest Bounty Hunter in his part of the Future Universe. But I've come too far to let this stop me. I'll get past him and grab the emerald.)" Teba thought.

"If you think you're going to grab that emerald…you got another thing coming." Boba said, firing his blaster at the Rito's position.

"You're right…I won't grab it." Teba said as he fired off another arrow. However, the arrow just flew past Boba's head and hit the emerald, knocking it off the Titan.

"Damn…" Boba grimaced, knowing what was coming. "Guess this was inevitable. Fine. Switching off Wyvern's inhibitors." he said, activating the Titan's weapons as Wyvern went into full battle mode in preparation for the fight ahead. "Now…where were we?"

"I think we were at the part where we kick your dented butt back into space." a voice called out as Sonic rose up as Super Sonic.

"Not this time. Not as easily, anyway." Boba said as the Wyvern came straight at Sonic, roaring as it tried to chomp down on the hedgehog.

(Cue: Break Through it All - Sonic Frontiers)

"Houki!" Cecilia turned to her friend and offered a hand.

"Yeah, let's join the fight!" Houki nodded and took her hand. "Kenran Butou!" With her command, the Akatsubaki and Blue Tears turned gold before the IS girls aimed their sights onto the titan and flew towards it.

Sensing their presence, Wyvern fired missiles from its sides that locked on to both Houki and Celica, streaking right towards them.

"Incoming enemy missiles!" Cecilia shouted.

"This… is nothing!" Houki complied, preparing her katanas in a sheathed stance and rushed past the missiles as she sliced them in her path while Cecilia took aim at the Wyvern's head and fired her beam sniper rifle at it without hurting Sonic, making it stagger.

"Ha!" Sonic called out as he started spinning right into the Wyvern's head before going to its tail and spinning it around before slamming it into the rocky cliffs.

"Argh!" Boba Fett cried, being slammed against the cliffside himself, his Mandalorian Amor softening the impact. "Alright then… no more games!"

Boba then rapidly tapped a few buttons on his vambraces, which issued a command to Wyvern as it obliged. Like with Giganto, pylons then emerged all over its body, these ones emitting red energy rings that blanketed the early morning sky.

"Tch! I can't get close to that titan with those energy rings!" Houki muttered. "Cecilia, I'll leave this to you to snipe down those pylons!"

"With pleasure." Cecilia smirked, taking aim at one of the pylons with her drones also taking aim at the others. Once her targets were set, she and her drones fired precise beam shots at the targeted pylons, destroying them and shutting down some of the energy rings.

"That's fine. Just stay still." Boba said, firing his jetpack's rocket at Cecilia.

"Celica, watch out! That rocket's an anti-vehicle projectile!" Adora warned as it rocketed towards the IS pilot.

"Don't even try!" Houki countered by creating a wormhole in front of the missile using her Zikan Phone Blaster as it went inside before vanishing.

"I've got more!" Boba called as Wyvern fired a barrage of its missiles at Sonic, Teba, Houki and Celica, and they were all heat-seekers.

"I don't think so!" Teba said as he got in front to take the brunt of the blasts.

"Teba!" Sonic called out as they were chased by the missiles. "No losing these…hey! I got an idea. Follow my lead!" Sonic said as he flew towards the Wyvern.

"What is he trying to do?" Cecilia pondered.

"Wait… he's directing the missiles to the titan!" Houki realized. "In that case…" She then flew towards the titan.

"Houki, what are you doing?!" Cecilia exclaimed.

"...Giving him his lunch!" Houki answered as she got close to the titan. The titan tried to chomp onto the IS pilot, only to stop it with her hands and feet.

"Hope you're hungry, dragon-bot. Cause here comes…the all you can eat buffet!" Sonic said, helping her with opening the titan's jaws as the missiles flew right into its mouth, exploding all across the insides of the Wyvern before it itself exploded.

"Damn!" Boba cursed as he watched the Wyvern explode. "...No. Not yet." he decided, pulling out a green bladed lightsaber. " Ke nu'jurkadir sha Mando'ade!"

Boba rocketed towards the closest alliance member, which happened to be Teba. "C'mon…one more arrow, Rito. It'll be your greatest!"

"Hmm… Very well. It is customary that I abide by the request of my final opponent." Teba said.

The Rito prepared a Shock Arrow as the bounty hunter raced ever closer, Teba launching his attack first. The arrow hit Boba's armor, not piercing it, but sending out a shockwave that started to disable his jetpack.

"My wings are clipped…" Boba said, before he stared at Teba through his helmet. "(...but so are yours!)"

Boba swung his lightsaber, the blade managing to land its strike…and cutting Teba's left arm, severely damaging it before he fell. "(You…were a worthy opponent, Teba. Let that wound…be a mark of a warrior's respect.)" Boba said in Mandalorian before he fell too far to be heard.

(end Song)

"Argh… he got me pretty bad there, can't stay in the air…!" Teba said, struggling to stay airborne with one good wing.

"Houki, support him!" Ichiro called on the coms.

"Hold on, Teba-san! We got you!" Houki said as she and Cecilia grabbed the Rito by the shoulders while the gold glow from the IS frames vanished. "Are you okay?"

"Yes. But honestly… I couldn't think of a better way to run my last battle." Teba said with a smile.

"Do you want me to go after Boba Fett for that wound?" Cecilia asked.

"No. Let him go." Teba said.

"I think that wound… it must be a mark of a warrior's respect." Houki stared at the Rito's wound. "Leave him be, Cecilia."

"...I understand." Cecilia noted.

After the smoke settled from Wyvern's destruction, the five of them, and everyone below received another brief vision from the past, this one from the Ancient that previously piloted the Wyvern.

"They're gone…It killed them all." the Ancient spoke in its native tongue.

"Another vision…?" Houki pondered.

"From that vision… is that Ancient… piloting a Titan?" Cecilia added. "Could they be the original pilots from the past?"

"Still…only one more big bot to shut down." Sonic said.

The five of them returned to ground level, reuniting with Knuckles and the others.

"Nice work. Could've gone a lot faster if I was Super Knuckles." Knuckles complimented.

"Then why didn't you go with So- oh wait, you're still in cyber limbo. Never mind." Zi-O said.

"That takes care of this island. Now it's on to the last one." Hope said. "Hopefully Tails is on that island waiting for us."

"Most likely." Starlight said.

"Teba, I think you should head back to the ship and heal your wound." Charlotte advised, looking at the wound.

"It looks really bad… especially considering Boba hit you with a Lightsaber." Mikan said.

"I did not expect him to have that in his arsenal." Ashe remarked.

"Ashe, he's killed Jedi. It'd be weird if he didn't have any to make things more equal." ZS pointed out.

"He does have a point there." Vent agreed. "You'll never know if you need a close range option."

"Still, you fought proudly, Teba. You left your mark on all of us with that battle." Revali said, putting a wing on Teba's good shoulder.

"Thank you, Master Revali. Your words mean a lot of praise." Teba said.

"So, Teba. Want to go back to the ship to recuperate, or are you going to see this through to the end?" David asked.

"I don't think I'll be of much help in the battles to come with one good wing. I should probably recover in the Galaxy King's medbay. Straining myself will only make the wound worse… and I don't want to hinder myself before I continue to teach Tulin to be a warrior." Teba said.

"I'll stay with him to make sure he recovers." Mikan said.

"Alright then. Rest well, Teba. You deserve it after a fight like that." David said. "It's been an honor having you with us all this time. We're gonna miss having you around."

"Feelings mutual, David. But this won't be the last time we meet." Teba said. "I'll see you all again, when you come back to Hyrule and see how far it's come."

"Take good care of Rito Village, Village Elder Teba." Geiz said.

"Of course I will." Teba assured as the group made their way back to the Galaxy King to go after Sonic, as he headed to his third destination on the Starfall Islands.

"Dammit! Now they've gone and trashed two titans!" DaDan said, as the Universal Villains got the report from Priyan. "They're probably on their way to Chaos Island right now to go for the third one.""

"It's fine." Flux said. "Boba may have failed, but we have Neo on Chaos Island. Given her grievances…she won't let them leave alive."

A light flashed as Priyan and Boba arrived back, the former supporting the latter as he breathed heavily.

"Rough flight, human?" Frieza asked in a mocking tone.

"Yeah, yeah, I can't fly on my own, laugh it up." Boba replied between breaths before he turned to Techno. "Mission failed, doctor."

"You put up the best fight you could. No shame in losing, especially with that last strike." Techno said. "Priyan, get him to med bay."

"Of course." Priyan said as she escorted Boba off.

"It's all on Neo now." Flux said. "I do have a contingency plan if she were to fall. But I would rather she succeed."

"As do I." Techno said. "But, even so…I have a feeling we need to start planning a strategy for…that island."

"It's already in the works and will be done before they even reach Rhea Island." Flux said. "Wow…for once, we'll be the heroes and they'll be the villains. What a paradox."

"Amadeus, Techno… I've been thinking." Sage said, being with them. "I have researched so many of the crisises both our groups have been a part of. Both you and the Hero Alliance have so many unique talents. If only you worked together…"

"WHAT?! Absolutely not! The Dimensional Heroes and their little sidekicks are the bane of our existence! Heroes are meant to be knocked off their high horses by us villains!" Flux said.

"And vice versa." Techno added. "That being said…Flux is right. Unless there were no other choice, we'd never work with them. Well… Once in a blue moon, maybe. But otherwise, never. Just because I personally have some measure of respect for them, doesn't mean I'll work with them on a whim."

"I.. I see. Forgive me for inquiring." Sage said.

"It's fine, Sage. It's good to ask questions like that, form opinions of your own." Techno said. "You are your own person, even if you're an AI. Never forget that."

"...Thank you…Uncles." Sage said, causing the two men to look surprised, before Sage warped away to Chaos Island.

"She…. She sees us as family too?" Techno asked Amadeus.

"I am…conflicted." Flux admitted. "On one hand, I don't wanna get soft. On the other…I think my heart stopped for a second."

"Let's just…keep pressing on. We can address it later." Techno shook his head. "(Sage…how many simulations have you ran, to make sure we don't lose this?)"