Chapter 34: The power of bonds

11:03 AM (Spain Time), Friday December the 30th…

"… A-amazing!"

The glow began to diminish to give way to several Navis aligned in a row inside of the garage.

"Yessir! The Dynamic Duo is here!"

"Let's dust!

"Ground Man and Dust Man!" "CF" Blues uttered.

"Hmmm! Evil-doers! Punishment!"

"Tengu Man!" "CF" Laika exclaimed.

"Slice 'em up!"

"Slash Man!" "CF" Netto gasped.

"Charge 'em!"

"Charge Man!"

"Festival, festival! Bloody festival!"

"Killer Man…!" "CF" Laika exclaimed.

"Operation: start!"

"The "Beyondard" Shark Man too…!" "CF" Netto exclaimed.

"Time to collect some bones!"

"Skull Man!"

"Hmpf! More evil-doers? The Zoanoroids again?"

"Wood Man, too!" Saito gasped.

"There's nothing I can't burn!"

"Even Fire Man…!" "CF" Netto muttered aloud.

"The "WWW" Team attacks!"

"Colored Man…!" "CF" Miyabi gasped.

"Who's up for a million volts shower?"

"Elec Man!" "CF" Yuriko gasped.

"We shall display our power!"

"And Magic Man…!" "CF" Netto was awed.

There were sixteen Navis (counting Iris, Trill and Bubble Man) there.

"The "WWW Team" will go for the robot thing!" Magic Man announced.

"We'll help deal with the armored grunt!" Shark Man announced.

"J-just how did they…?" "CF" Obihiro gasped in disbelief.

"Damn. The "Eye"! The lowlife arranged for this!" Sidier hissed.

"Trill! Go." Iris told him.

"Netto! Saito! Let's go!"

"No way…!" "CF" Obihiro gasped.

Iris closed her eyes and clasped her hands, building up energy.

Trill became a sphere of energy and his power surrounded "CF" Netto's body with an intense blue aura.

"It can't be…!" Hunter Man cursed.

"The power of the "Synchronizer"…!" Death gasped.

"CF" Netto roared as he gained the "3rd Bestialize Style" and extended his wings, emitting a surge of power across the room.

"What the… That form…! No way…! The 3rd "Bestialize Style"…! The one used in the final battle of Beyondard…!"

"Get ready, Obihiro!" "CF" Netto challenged.

"Ice Stage!"

The ground beneath the Mecha Arachnus froze, and it skidded along it in a crazy way until it hit the left wall with a loud CRASH sound.

"Hmpf. So you came too…"

Freeze Man jumped inside of the room and walked over to Forte while the Mecha Arachnus struggled to recover control.

"Forte. Or should I say… Gospel Shuryou?" Freeze Man announced.

"Hmpf. So you figured it out."

"Inded. The "eye" gave me the evidence to confirm it."

"Hmpf. So? What'll you do?"

"These bastards come first. Then we'll talk."

"Hmpf. Fine. I'll show you that I can come up with strategies, too!"

"Ice Tower!"

"Hell's Buster!"

"Fire Arm!"

"Fire Tower!" Colored Man announced.

"Magic Fire!"

"Lighting Flare!"

The four former WWW Navis along with Forte and Frezee Man attacked Mecha Arachnus.

The Ice Tower flipped it upside down and it slid around its own axis, out of control.

Forte's shots bounced off but increased the spin rate while the legs waved into the air in vain.

"DAMN YOU~!"

The fire attacks began to melt the alloy while Elec Man overloaded all exposed circuitry with his electrical attacks.

"No matter how thick an alloy is, it's still metal!" Elec Man began.

"And no matter how powerful it is, it still has a melting point!"

The three Navis directed the fire attacks at the front of the vehicle.

A blue beam shot out and attached to Fire Man, who struggled to break free but his attack's power began to decrease until he dropped into the ground, exhausted.

"What the heck?" Colored Man wondered.

A red beam shot out next and attached to him, only to let go of him and attach to the other two for a second.

The Navis collapsed and their chest emblems glowed with a pale red light.

"Did you think that level of power would be enough to defeat me? You damned herd of fools… Feel the power of my anger!"

The atmosphere froze and the temperature lowered even though the garage shutter was shut.

Ice began to form on the walls and ceiling while the color changed to a pallid blue tone as if to indicate the coldness of the room.

"Shit." Forte growled.

A bluish fog emerged from the wrecked Mech Arachnus and Death Shadow slowly floated out of it before standing on the ground.

He signaled Forte's forehead with his left hand's index finger, making the shi Kanji appear on it.

Forte clutched his head while he yelled in apparent pain.

"My mark is like the scar that Potter has! It reacts and activates whenever I am close! It brings upon unbearable pain… The only method to be free of it is to enter the eternal sleep…" He announced.

"You lowlife…!" Freeze Man hissed.

"Coward…!" Forte growled.

"My blue beam robs HP! My red beam inflicts a bug, which drains all HP and leaves the counter at exactly 1 HP! I upgraded it." He announced next.

"Damn. I thought as much! This guy is no joke!" Freeze Man hissed.

"Do not mistake me for an ice "Darkloid"! I have no element. Death Spiral Beam!"

Death Shadow's body glowed and his arm cannon charged up energy before shooting a bluish beam of energy shaped like a spiral.

It cleaved through Freeze Man's body and he opened his mouth wide as he collapsed on the ground.

"I have to retreat…!"

He dematerialized while Forte managed to climb up to his feet.

"You lowlife… You've asked for it!" He roared.

The shape of "Nebula Grey" formed behind Forte and Death Shadow actually stepped back.

"…"Nebula Grey"…! The evil soul of man turned into data by the evil Dr. Regal…! The source of all "evil"…!" He muttered.

"That must be how it was in you lowlife's universe, but… This was a result of Twilight merging with the "Wily Program" and igniting "Spectrum" a little over a year ago…" "CF" Laika corrected.

"Sheesh. Whatever!"

"I absorbed a bellyful of a giant bug in the Reverse Cyber World! And this power defeated Slur!" Forte announced.

"Damn." Death Shadow muttered.

"Darkness Over…!"

"Boost Ball!"

Death Shadow morphed into a sphere no bigger than a basketball with grooves drawn on the sides.

It was made of two dome-shaped pieces with a space left in the middle.

The sphere boosted towards Forte's face, leaving a red halo of energy behind its trail.

"What in the…?" Forte gasped.

The sphere hit him on the face and knocked him into the ground.

Forte recovered but found a small metallic oval object with a vertical pattern drawn on the middle of it, which was glowing.

"Shit."

He flung it away and jumped away just as a brutal explosion shattered the whole ice in the room and heated up the atmosphere.

"What destructive power…!" He gasped.

"…Stay back, you lowlifes…!"

"Rock Crush Breaker!"

"Go, Ground Man!"

Ground Man had lifted Sidier, rammed him on the wall and was now drilling into his body with his two drills while Dust Man was helping him apply more force.

"Go, go!"

"Festival! Bloody festival! Slice 'em up into pieces!"

The other Navis looked on but failed to notice one of the oval bombs rolling across the ground after a blurry quick shape ran across the spot.

"What?" Shark Man gasped.

The explosion took all but Ground Man and Dust Man out by sending them flying and dispersing around the room.

"I owe ya one, Death Shadow!"

Sidier called out as he tried to push Ground Man back.

"Deal with those lowlifes. But Forte is my prey."

Death Shadow called out from inside the sphere as he moved around at a mad speed.

He began to ram into the Navis and further knocked them back until they'd been pushed into the garage.

Death Shadow hit the control panel, breaking it and switching it to "LOCKED" mode.

The doors locked up and two energy barriers formed on either side of them, to Iris', Bubble Man's, and the other Navis' surprise.

"Damn." Killer Man growled.

"How are we gonna open them again? The panel on the other side is busted and I doubt it capable of operating again… And Ground Man was the one who got left behind!" Shark Man cursed.

"Trill…!" Iris gasped.

The "Beyonard" Barrel ran out of the portal, carrying a toolbox.

He examined the control panel and unscrewed it, finding the wires beneath it and cutting all of them, turning off the shields.

"There! "There's nothing that you can't fix with a good old-style pair of pliers! Never forget that." He announced.

The doors exploded as Ground Man and Dust Man were pushed back by the expanding shockwave, hitting the ground and groaning in pain.

"We managed to break about 70% of that guy's armor… Man! It was thicker than the "Rocks of Steel", even!" Ground Man reported.

"Man… Who the hell is that morph-able guy?" Dust Man cursed.

The group looked inside to see that Sidier had indeed lost most of the armor around the head, legs and arms but his central body retained it.

He'd summoned eight electricity spheres and was giving trouble to "CF" Laika and "CF" Yuriko, and Miyabi had been knocked out of the fight.

"Looks bad." Barrel grumbled.

Forte was trying to dodge and fight the sphere but it was too fast even for his Hell's Buster rounds.

"Stay still, you lowlife!" He roared.

"Come, weakling! Come, fallen king!" Death Shadow taunted.

"Damn you!"

"There, there, my chum. Cool it down or else this fella who lost his tuxedo in Majorca is gonna beat ya~!" The earlier voice laughed.

"What the hell is that!?" Death Shadow growled.

"Hmpf! Whatever! I won't lose so easily!"

"Hmpf! That is what I would have to say!"

Death Shadow resumed his normal form and spun around the air, generating static electricity shaped like a screw.

He hit Forte with it and electrocuted him.

"I cannot do Force Lighting but I think this shall compensate for it."

"Damn you!"

Death Shadow landed on the ground and opened his arm cannon, making five missiles shot out and fly towards Forte's head, shoulders and knees.

Forte gasped and used the Hell's Buster to intercept them out of instinct.

"Is that all?" Death taunted.

"Darkness Over…!"

"CF" Laika flew past him, kicked away, and landed inside of the truck's cargo area, and his "Cross Fusion" broke down.

"CF" Yuriko and the KO Miyabi fell on top of "CF" Laika and lost consciousness too.

"I'm invincible~!"

Sidier walked towards the other Navis, laughing.

"Crap." They all muttered.

"Nothing! Nothing can stop me!" He laughed.

"Sheesh! Hell's Sickle!"

"Fin Cutter!"

"Woody Tower!"

"Bone Stalker!"

"Dust Break!"

"Rock Crush Breaker!"

"Volcano Charge!"

"Rolling Slasher!"

"Tengu Thrust!"

The attacks hit Sidier and made some more patches of armor fall down.

"You bothersome bunch of fools! Eat sword!"

He drew the two swords and dashed around, slashing some of the Navis before they could react and landing in front of Iris as Barrel shielded her and yielded a steel rood.

"I know some people who would pay fine to have such merchandise."

"You lowlife…!" Barrel hissed.

"Sidier! Are you trying to provoke me?" Yamikawa growled.

"Emperor S – sama! I apologize! I got carried away, sir…!"

"Be serious!" Yamikawa growled.

"Now!" Barrel rallied.

The Navis attacked Sidier again but he ignored them and headed back inside of the main room, creating two new barriers to isolate both rooms.

"Obihiro! How are you handling it?" Sidier called out.

"CF" Obihiro was on the ground and "CF" Netto was gripping his chest emblem, trying to force the cancellation of his "Cross Fusion".

The shotgun had broken and revealed "CF" Obihiro's right forearm inside.

"The Synchronizer's power is no joke! Gimme a hand!"

"Gladly. Take this!"

Sidier kicked "CF" Netto on the neck, so he let go of "CF" Obihiro out of instinct and Sidier then kicked his lower jaw to separate them:.

"CF" Netto, however, was able to form an orb of energy and shot it at "CF" Obihiro before he could escape.

His "Cross Fusion" undid and he lost consciousness as the Link PET hit the ground, ejecting the damaged "Dark Synchro Chip".

"Guess it was no joke, then…" Sidier muttered.

"You're next!" "CF" Netto told him.

Sidier snapped his right hand's fingers, and warped Obihiro away.

"I sent him to another refuge Emperor S – sama designed."

"Bring it on!" "CF" Netto challenged.

"Gladly. I'll make Death a favor and slowly kill you off before he delivers the finishing blow."

"Do it." Death Shadow commanded.

He'd transformed into the spheroid and turning Forte nervous as he was able to get a lock on its crazy speed and movements.

The bombs he laid out were wrecking the equipment on the room but Death Shadow didn't seem to care.

"Shit. Earth Breaker!"

Forte jumped and hit the spheroid as it was shooting towards him.

The resulting explosion pushed both of them back and the spheroid began to crack and shatter before it finally broke down and revealed Death Shadow's shrunken body, which grew back to normal size.

"My Death Ball was destroyed… It matters not." He muttered.

"Hell's Buster!"

Forte shot several rounds at Death Shadow but he ignored them and waved his right hand to freeze the atmosphere again.

"Grappling Beam!"

He shot a white beam at the ceiling and it attached to one of the fans, using it as grappling point as he swung across the room at kicked Forte's chest with both feet before jumping into the ground and grabbing him with the left hand, triggering pain on Forte as he charged his arm cannon.

"Be gone."

"Hell's Rolling!"

The two indented wheels hit Death Shadow and pushed him back while climbing over his body, so Forte broke free of the grip and aimed his Hell's Buster at his foe.

"So be it. Last Round!" Death challenged.

"Last Round!" Forte challenged back.

"Go for it, Forte!" "CF" Netto rallied.

"Forte – sama~! Puku~! Ganbare~! Puku~!" Bubble Man animated.

"Do your best, sir!" Iris encouraged.

"Hmpf. So you wanna repeat what happened back when the Twilight Tower day… Can you do it?" Yamikawa challenged over Sidier's radio.

"I don't care! What I care is that this battle ends TODAY!"

"No joke, yeah… But that won't be enough, Hikari Brothers!"

"Let's go! Saito – niisan! Trill! This is it!""