Chapter 33: Battle: Continuation

10:40 AM (Spain Time), Friday December the 30th…

"… Hell's Buster!"

"What!"'

The Hell's Buster rounds hit "CF" Obihiro and he had to step back as Forte rushed in.

"Hmpf! So you lowlife are Death Shadow… Fight me!" He challenged.

"Gladly! I shall bring out one of my key cards to fight you lowlife…"

"A hero always arrives at the last moment!" A voice chuckled.

"Who's there!?" Sidier demanded.

"I kept the machine busy with useless apps that were re-spawning themselves and consuming its RAM memory!"

"Sauron! Eye! Whatever your name is! That's you, right!? Show yourself, sneaky rascal!" "CF" Obihiro growled.

"You're one to talk, my chum come out of the Highlands."

"What was that!?"

"Ignore the interlopers! Come! Mecha Arachnus"

A four-legged mechanical vehicle made of a red metal appeared by materializing.

It had two "eyes" on both side of the sphere that acted as the core.

Death Shadow jumped inside of it using an open access hatch atop it.

The eyes glowed and the knee joints opened, revealing machine gun barrels mounted on them.

A laser gun emerged from the underside of the machine and it was already charging.

It had a missile launcher installed on the back.

"It is made of a very powerful alloy! You shall not be able to break through it! DIE!" Death declared.

Forte dodged the machine gun fire, cut the missiles with his Dark Arm Blade and rolled across the ground to avoid the laser.

He stood up and faced the monster with a grimace on his face.

"Shit! This is bad…" He muttered.

"Guess we'll go and try to help the others!"

"CF" Blues and "CF" Miyabi headed towards the corridor only to find that purple opaque shield blocking them off.

"Shadow Blade!"

"CF" Miyabi tried attacking it, but it frizzled and shot a streak of electricity back at him, electrocuting him, and he had to step back.

"Damn. It's the Muramasa-like shield… We can't break through! The more firepower, the worse the counter will be!" "CF" Miyabi cursed.

"Shit." "CF" Blues growled.

"Beep… Beep… Beep…"

The glow of the robots and the "Cross Fusion" users was the only light inside of the pitch-black corridor.

The frizzling of the robot's swords was also visible.

"Doesn't anyone have a Battle Chip capable of piercing defenses?"

"CF" Laser Man asked in an exasperated tone of voice.

"I am Breaker! But this thing doesn't seem to be a shield like a Barrier or a Dream Aura…! Royal Wrecking Ball!" "CF" Pride exasperatedly replied.

"Pain Barrier."

"CF" Pride's attack bounced off the purple barrier surrounding the robot.

It glowed and the robot emitted electricity bursts through its blades.

"Wait. I'm not sure if it'll work, but… Battle Chip, Lightning Rod!"

The robot shot electricity at it and it was returned to the blades but it didn't lift the barrier, and the cycle repeated.

"Good! I trapped it on an infinite loop! It seems that the "Pain Barrier" thing can't handle the voltage they operate on!"

"Bravo!"

"Mag Missile, Mag Missile, Mag Missile!"

The three magnets hit the robot's jetpack and blew it up.

"Auto – repairs nanomachines activated."

The nanomachines began to work even as the smoke was dispersing and at incredibly quick rate.

"CF" Tesla had drawn a Long Sword and plunged it through an incredibly narrow gap, hitting the robot's super energy power core.

"Warning. Warning. Core damaged: initiate Code 222."

"Self-destruction! Tesla! Get away from that pile of junk!"

"CF" Tesla warped and the robot blew up, so its shockwave hit the other robots' Pain Barrier and they absorbed it.

They shot the electricity out and the others had to use their drawn Sword Battle Chips to block it off.

"One down!" "CF" Tesla announced.

"Seven left!" "CF" Airstar announced next.

"But the same trick won't work twice." "CF" Meddy warned.

"I don't care! Ice Cannon Ball!" "CF" Roll exclaimed.

She dropped it on the ground and the robot lowered its sight to look at the ice spreading across the ground.

"Bubble Side!"

"Pain Barrier."

The Pain Barrier absorbed the water attack but some of the water dripped down the purple barrier.

The robot shot out electricity but it travelled across the barrier and down it until it hit the iced ground.

Given how there was a minimal gap between the floor and the Pain Barrier, the electricity crawled up the robot's body.

It frizzled while spinning around in a chaotic manner.

"Warning. Warning. Excessive voltage. Excessive voltage. Unable to enact most systems: overload of electrical capacity. Under current battle circumstances, Code 222 is enforced. Code 222: Activate."

It self-destructed as well and "CF" Roll shielded herself with her arms before seeing that there was nothing left of its body.

"Two down!" She called out.

"Six left! We must use their tricks against them!" "CF" Dingo exclaimed.

"Dingo! You're strong against electrical attacks! Try using that as an advantage!" "CF" Roll called out.

"O. K.! Oi! Robot! Bite my hood!" "CF" Dingo challenged.

The robot tried to hit "CF" Dingo with both swords but they had no effect given "CF" Dingo's resistivity against electricity.

"CF" Dingo used the narrow window to swing the tomahawk sideways and slam it against the chest armor, leaving a dent on it.

"CF" Dingo kicked it repeatedly with his right foot while moving forward and pushing the robot back.

The armor shattered to reveal the internal pieces and the power core.

"Warning. Core exposed. Code 222."

"Damn!"

This one also destroyed itself and "CF" Dingo flew across the air until he hit the ground, hard.

"I did it! Three down!" He exclaimed.

"Five left! Let's join forces! If we're more than one opponent, I suspect it'll be unable to properly react!" "CF" Rokushakudama announced.

"Bravo, Nenji! Ya are finally learnin' to use yer brains! I'll praise ya today!"

Napalm Man laughed with obvious sarcasm.

"Wha~t?" "CF" Rokushakudama growled.

"CF" Roll joined "CF" Pride on battling another of the robots, which extended its arms wide to be able to attack both opponents with each sword but both girls didn't let it get past their defenses.

"Princess! I'll be bait! Please use your Breaker attacks on it"

"Roger, Meiru – chan!"

"Ugly! You can't do that to a lady! It ruins their subtle beauty! Get lost in the desert!" "CF" Roll taunted the foe.

"Okay! Kingdom Crusher!"

"CF" Pride moved behind the robot while "CF" Roll clashed blades with it and tried to push forward.

"CF" Pride's wrecking ball tore through the jetpack and hit the power core.

"Code 222 enabled."

Both girls ran out as it blew up and joined the rest.

"Four down! We've got another four left!" "CF" Pride announced.

"We can do it!" "CF" Meddy exclaimed.

"Can someone help me distract this one?" "CF" Laser Man politely asked.

"Yes, sir! Area Steal!" "CF" Roll announced.

"Thank you, Miss Sakurai!"

She warped in front of the robot and locked blades with it.

They engaged the Pain Barrier and set it so that his forearms remained outside of it.

"Damn. They learn from what happens during the battle!"

"Enemies are foolish. Foolish." The robot intoned.

"Bingo! Battle Chip, Geyser, Tornado!" "CF" Roll exclaimed.

She pressed her hand on the ground and the resulting spiral summoned rain inside of the room.

It soaked the ground and the robots' exposed bodies, so the electricity travelled across their forearms and the ground.

As a result, they ended up electrocuted.

"Cross Laser!"

"CF" Laser Man lifted it from behind and used his tubes to shoot a blast of energy, piercing through the robot and it blew up as he held it.

"Five down! Three left!" He called out.

"Yesss! My climax! Tomahawk Rolling!"

"Don't get cocky." Tomahawk Man grumbled.

"CF" Dingo rammed into the robot and pushed it back, but it switched its electrical swords for a Flame Sword and a Fire Blade.

"Ops. That doesn't look good!" "CF" Dingo gulped.

"Told ya." Tomahawk Man grumbled.

"Meddy Capsule!"

The capsules hit the robot and paralyzed it as "CF" Meddy plunged the Long Sword and the Long Blade into the robot, piercing through it and emerging from the front.

"Code 222…!"

This one also detonated and became no more than useless scrap scattered across the ground.

"Six down! Two left!" "CF" Meddy exclaimed.

"That's what happens when ya laugh at a lady's face." "CF" Tesla boasted.

"Tesla… This ain't the moment for that!" "CF" Airstar grumbled.

"Napalm Bomb!"

The projectile shot by "CF" Rokushakudama hit the robot's chest armor and opened a hole on its body.

He used his mounted shoulder cannons to bombard the cor, causing an increase in size before it collapsed just like a miniature supernova.

The explosion annihilated the robot and its head flew across the air, bouncing off "CF" Rokushakudama's helmet and rolling across the ground before stopping.

"CF" Rokushakudama stepped back, growling, and felt a persistent echo inside of his helmet.

"Good job there, Nenji – san! Seven down! One left!" "CF" Pride told him-

"Thanks, Princess!"

He blushed and scratched the back of his head.

"Has the robot's head tried to enlighten ya?" Napalm Man joked.

"Wha~t?" "CF" Rokushakudama protested.

"Tornado Arm!"

The attack sent the robot flying across the room and it hit the energy field.

The resulting explosion was more than it could handle and it collapsed just like their power cores.

The one at the south end of the corridor remained activated, though.

"We did it!" "CF" Laser Man sighed in relief.

"Let's secure the supercomputer!" "CF" Roll rallied.

They ran back inside but found the same shield surrounding the whole supercomputer structure.

A red light set above the remaining alcove turned green and it unlocked.

"Crap. There's something there." "CF" Roll muttered.

"And it's gotta be something bad." "CF" Dingo grumbled.

A figure stepped out of the alcove and jumped across the air before landing in front of them and standing up:

The figure was over a meter and ninety tall.

Thick black armor covered most of his body.

The armor had purple bands around the shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles.

It included an armored belt with two sword sheaths.

The sheaths had purple patterns drawn across them.

His helmet design protected the whole face.

Two hexagon Plexiglas slits allowed the foe to see.

The mouth-guard had air filters on it-

A purple cape with black edges hung from the back of his shoulders and reached all the way to the ground.

"What? A Darth Vader rip-off…?" "CF" Airstar wondered.

"Wrong! That's Twilight: the Demon King!" "CF" Roll gasped.

"So? What do people think of my second key card?"

Death Shadow's voice boomed out through a speaker.

"It's gotta be a copy!" "CF" Roll yelled.

"Obviously enough!" "CF" Blues grumbled over the radio.

"But of course. A copy without personality file! A fighting machine. But its "Vadous Chaos" power is nothing to be looked down upon."

"Endless Cyclone, Vicious Fire!"

A huge black tornado covered the area before Copy Twilight shot purple fire from his hands and they merged with the tornado.

It hit "CF" Pride and "CF" Dingo, defeating them.

"Dingo!" "CF" Roll gasped.

"Princess Pride!" "CF" Laser Man called out.

"Mag Ball!"

"Tornado Arm!"

"Great Avalanche, Mighty Wave!"

Several boulders materialized and fell atop of both "CF" Tesla and "CF" Airstar, burying them under the resulting pile.

A black tsunami wave swept the area and hit them, dragging them away and defeating them as well.

"We're reduced to four: and we haven't even begun to attack him!"

"Roll Arrow!"

"Vulcan Arm!"

"Meddy Capsule!"

"Time Flow, Ray of Darkness, Pure Light!"

The flow of time around the four "Cross Fusion" fighters slowed considerably and their attacks moved slower as a phantom hourglass floated around them.

Copy Twilight shot a black orb, hitting "CF" Laser Man and defeating him.

His next attack was two light beams from his palms, which hit "CF" Meddy, and defeated her as well.

"We're down to us two!" "CF" Roll gasped.

"Damn! Napalm Bomb!"

"Seal of Infinity, Double Thunder!"

A purple symbol of infinity appeared in front of "CF" Rokushakudama and he turned into stone instantly.

"Nenji – san!"

Copy Twilight drew both swords and crossed them in an X shape.

He shot a powerful electrical beam forward and hit "CF" Rokushakudama, defeating him too.

"No way… Just me… Against the Demon King…?"

"CF" Roll gasped and stepped back, afraid.

"Meiru – chan! Remember how you defeated Desert Man!" Roll called out.

"True! Rush Hole!" "CF" Roll gasped.

She pressed her right palm on the ground and the cybernetic pit opened beneath Copy Twilight's feet.

He tried to hold into the air but the force dragged him inside of it and he then blew up in a large explosion.

"I'll commend you yet, fools! While you were playing, the supercomputer initiated Code 311! Copy of all contained battle data and schematics to a server built inside of the Dark Realm! Even if you take control of the supercomputer, you shall find nothing but the OS. We can always recreate one or take over an existing one. In short: your efforts have been in vain."

"No…! All of this… In vain…?" "CF" Roll gasped.

She dropped into her knees, shocked, and her "Cross Fusion" undid as she fainted and hit the ground.

"Meiru – chan!" Roll gasped.

"… Damn." "CF" Netto cursed.

Both he and "CR" Oibhiro were still clashing but both had gained some wounds, which they didn't seem to care about.

"Laser!"

"Darkness Overload!"

"Pain Barrier!"

"Shit!"

Forte was trying to fight the Mecha Arachnus as he dodged the laser gun but Death Shadow summoned the Pain Barrier and absorbed the attack, which he returned in the form of a missile barrage.

Forte rolled across the ground and jumped to cut it but he was starting to get tired.

"… Freeze Bullet!"

"Explosion!"

"Sonic Boom!"

"Needle Cannon!"

The four attacks bombarded Sidier, but he didn't seem to feel them, even, as he stood still and crossed his arms.

He warped and kicked "CF" Blues against a yellow circular barrier, knocking him out of the fight.

"Sword types can't harm me." He chuckled.

"Damn! We need help!" "CF" Miyabi cursed.

"This is turning worse!" "CF" Laika hissed.

"What do we need to break this armor? A tank…?" "CF" Yuriko cursed.

"Whatever you do is futile!" Sidier exclaimed.

There was a sudden rattling sound, as if a shutter had opened followed by a truck's horn and the sound of a truck's engine..

Everyone stopped and looked at the garage to see that the portal machine was starting up as well.

"What the hell?" "CF" Obihiro cursed.

The truck stopped while the portal finished loading and both Iris and Trill emerged from it.

"T-Trill! Iris!" "CF" Laika exclaimed.

"Netto! Saito!" Trill greeted.

"We received a message! It told us to bring help." Iris explained.

"I'm like Aladdin's genie! I grant wishes!" The earlier voice chuckled.

"Damn it!" "CF" Obihiro cursed.

"You lowlife are next!" Death Shadow grumbled.

"Come anytime, Deathly Hallows!"

"Do not mix me with such useless relics!"

"Calling on Bubble Man! Puku!"

Bubble Man materialized next to the truck and opened the cargo compartment, revealing that it was full of "Copy Roids".

"Amazing!" "CF" Netto gasped.

"Forte – sama! I brought help! Puku!" Bubble Man announced.

Bubble Man began to unload the "Copy Roids" with Iris' and Trill's help and set them to face the portal machine.

"Preparations: complete! Puku!" Bubble Man announced.

"It's our turn!" A familiar voice announced.

"TRANSMISSION!" Several voices announced.

"No way!" "CF" Netto caught up.

"Fight! For our companions' future! Fight!"