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Season Three Episode Twenty-Six: "Omega" Chapter Two
Sheffield. Everyone was forced to turn away and cover their eyes when the pulse of light shone through the fold. Parents and friends of the Guardians feared the worst, having witnessed what looked like a terrible explosion. As the glow faded, Susan was the first to look. She was in awe. "Will?" she wondered. "Dean! Dean look! You have to see this!" she exclaimed. "All of you, take a look at this!"
Slowly, Dean and the parents of the other Guardians uncovered their eyes and looked upwards, as did the counsel and the girls' boyfriends. "Is… Is that Cornelia?" Elizabeth asked.
"It sure is." Tom answered. "And look, that's Irma!"
"They are successful." Himerish said.
"Successful at what?" Anna Lair asked him, "What has happened to them?"
"They have reached the peak of their power." Himerish answered. "They have passed beyond the elemental Zenith and attained the Omega point. With the aid of the Heart of Meridian, they have become the first Guardians to attain this since, well, the first Guardians."
Kandrakar. Above the Fortress, nine Guardians floated in their new Omega forms. Just as the Heart caused them to grow older when they transformed normally, this new form was also older in appearance, each Guardian now appearing to be in her early twenties. Will looked at Miranda and saw that the girl looked just like the Miranda she had seen in her vision. She realized that she must look like the older Will she had seen.
Their Guardian outfits were much the same, though in each case there was now a long, ankle-length dress, split most of the way up on the sides. Each also now wore a tiara on her head, with distinctly colored stones corresponding to her powers. Matching the stones, an aura of power glowed all around each of them.
Looking herself over, Cornelia said "Awesome! Looks like I grow up nice."
"Ugh." Irma said, "Even in the middle of an apocalyptic fight she finds time to fawn over herself."
While most of the girls laughed, Alchemy said 'Yeah, but she has a point. I, for one, am glad to see I'll eventually grow out of short and gawky."
"Compare notes on looks later." Taranee said, "Bug-ugly's back." She pointed to Neera, climbing over the balcony railing.
"Alright ladies," Will said, pounding a fist into the opposite hand, "let's see what these forms can do…"
Neera tensed for a rough battle as she saw the Guardians diving straight for her. She fired off a massive blast of dark energy, a black orb pulsing with hate and despair. The Guardians plowed through it like it wasn't even there. The Dark Queen began to consider options for strategic retreat, but she was surrounded on all sides.
Will reached out to fire a blast of electricity from her hands. Instead, a full strength bolt of lightning thundered out of the clear sky, striking Neera squarely in the back. "Whoa!" Will exclaimed, staring at her hands, "Did you guys see that!"
"Sure did." Hay Lin answered. 'Let's see what I can do!" She called on the winds, and got not a gale but the force of a hurricane blasting across the Fortress. Neera was picked up and tossed a great distance.
Neera shot a strand of webbing, which wrapped around Cornelia's legs and lower body. The silk was as strong as the strand the Guardians had earlier been unable to damage at all, but this time Taranee burned through it with little difficulty. Meanwhile, the Earth Guardian simply laughed as she telekinetically unraveled the strand from herself and sent it flying down to wrap around Neera instead.
Furious, Neera ripped free of the web and roared at the top of her lungs. "Enough! I'll stand no more interference!" she exclaimed. As the Guardians looked on, she began to grow larger and larger, until she was nearly the size Cedric had grown to months earlier. "Scared yet? How will you stop me now?"
Irma just smirked and said "We've seen bigger."
"And besides, the bigger you are, the harder you fall." Taranee said. She then thought "Will, Irma, listen up. Combination attack time. Irma, pull us up some water, englobe Neera in it. Will, hit the water with lightning. I'll take it from there…"
On earth, the adults continued to watch as Irma and Will put the first part of Taranee's plan into motion. "Excellent." General Stanrych said. "They're thinking ahead, working together. This could work."
"What could work?" Theresa Cook asked. "What are they doing?"
Before Stanrych could speak, Martin answered for him "Electricity splits water into it's component elements. Those component elements are hydrogen and oxygen. Hydrogen and oxygen are, as I'm sure you already know, highly explosive…"
Stanrych continued "Exactly. A little spark from the Fire Guardian and Queen Neera will find herself at ground zero of a nasty blast."
As they watched, Taranee added the spark. The mass of explosive gasses detonated with a mighty rumble heard all the way through the fold on earth. When the smoke cleared, there was no sign of Neera. "Was that it?" Harold Hale asked. "Did they get her?"
"Not quite." Alfor said. "Look, she's there, thrown clear to the far side of the fortress."
"She looks in bad shape, but she's still moving."
"The end draws near." Himerish said. "As the Air and Water Guardians learned to combine powers to unleash more effective attacks, so Water, Fire, and Quintessence have now done as well. And with time, they will discover additional combinations."
"Why don't you just tell them how to combine their powers for more effectiveness?" Dean asked.
"I could. But it is better for their confidence if they figure these things out for themselves. And in battle confidence is most important." Himerish answered.
"Still," Halinoor said, "Perhaps I should give them a push in the right direction on this one." She looked to the Oracle, who nodded his agreement…
Queen Neera pulled herself to her feet. Tested her legs and found three of the eight broken. Five was enough. It would have to be. Smoke continued to boil off of her charred exoskeletal armor, which was totally burned through in many places.
She looked up, but didn't see the Guardians. Yet. They would be coming, though. "Very well then." She thought to herself, "Last stand. When they arrive, it's death for them or me. And it won't be me…"