Had there been power to the ship, the alarms would have sounded the instant Brackus made his announcement about an intruder, but it didn't matter. Archis was now aware that the Brute knew he was on the ship.
'Lucky guess,' he thought to himself, trudging along ever so quietly through the ventilation system. The luck that the explosion in the armory would have disabled the power meant that he didn't have to find the navigation room after all. Now he just had to find the ship's core. Once there, a well-placed grenade or Ki shot would overpower the power cells and cause the ship to explode. Castor was once a technological master in the universe, and Archis knew how all slip-space vessels worked.
His thoughts were interrupted by the sound of heavy footfalls, and Archis stopped. Right outside vent, beyond the wall, one of the two Brutes left in the ship was stomping. He listened carefully, trying to make out any voices. he would be rewarded greatly.
"That Brackus. Too blinded by his own anger to realize that without power, the guns can't be utilized. I'm done with him. He can have his ship, he can have his monkey, I'm through."
The footsteps receded, then stopped. There was a slight mumbling, then a large bang as a dent suddenly appeared in the vent a few feet in front of Archis. The footsteps began getting louder, and it sounded like the Brute was running down the hall, back in Archis' direction.
"ARKUM! I'M NOT DONE WITH YOU YET! GET BACK HERE!" Brackus' voice resonated throughout the small space that the ventilation shaft afforded the Saiyan, as the Brute shouted down the hallway at the retreating footfalls of his fellow. Obviously Arkum had no idea that Brackus had been so close, and now the Brute was on a murderous rampage to seek out not only Archis, but now his former friend as well.
Both sets of footfalls disappeared, and Archis breathed a sigh of relief. He wasn't afraid of his enemy, but he wasn't ready to be revealed just yet. He still had to find the core, so that he could take out his enemy and his enemy's ship all in one blast.
Unfortunately, fate would not allow that to happen. A loud clang behind Archis caused the Saiyan to spin around and look directly into the face of Brackus, who had driven his head into the ventilation vent in anger. The two stared at each other, anger rising, and then they both acted on impulse, the Brute forcing his way inside the vent, and the Saiyan blasting his way out of it. The fact that Brackus had to get out of the ventilation shaft gave Archis time to grab a Spike Grenade and throw it at the base of the hole he blasted out..
The Grenade went off just as the Brute stepped from the exit, and the resultant explosion made him stumble backwards. Spikes flew in every direction, some severing the ties that lashed the Brute Shot to Brackus' leg, and others blowing off the armor that the Jiralhanae always wore. His head was now exposed.
Brackus let out a bloodcurdling scream of fury, and charged out of the hole, directly into Archis, who had taken some time to power up into Super Saiyan. Had Archis not done so, the resultant crash would have splattered his body across the hallway. Even so, the connection of the twelve foot tall Brute with the six foot tall Saiyan was strong enough to knock Archis through the wall, and directly into the core of the ship.
The Brute grabbed hold of the wall beside him and held on, looking for a platform to jump to, as Archis continued to speed backwards until he hit the main power generator and came to a stop. He coughed and shook his head, having completely underestimated the strength of the brute he was fighting. He looked around him, spotting the Brute heading towards him, jumping from conduit to conduit, unable to fly like the Saiyan. He had a large, hammer-like weapon in each hand, and was swinging them with an expertise the Saiyan had never seen before.
Archis grabbed both Plasma Sword hilts and activated them, holding one in front of his face and the other behind him. He waited for Brackus to arrive, gearing up for the biggest fight of his life.