Sweet Tooth managed to get some ground. Kratos was somehow tougher than when he first met him. But luckily, he still had some tricks up his sleeve. He produced a rocket and pressed the launch button. "At this range I can't miss!" But Kratos had far too much experience in dodging attacks and projectiles of much larger magnitude. Dodging Sweet Tooth's rocket was a piece of cake. "Drat! Well, hopefully it will hit one of the other pests. Wasting a rocket is almost as bad as wasting an ice cream cone."
Isaac, Joel, and Emmett, were not having any luck. Knack was too strong, and he could replenish parts as soon as they blasted them off. They were close to retreating when Kutaro finally arrived, and started trying to calm Knack down. There seemed to be some progress, but Emmett and Joel kept their aim just in case. Thankfully, Kutaro was successful. Knack was about to stop rampaging and start helping his friends again when he saw the runaway rocket. "Kutaro! Look out!" Knack brought his arm around to try and shield Kutaro, resulting in the rocket hitting him in his core, destroying it, and him, in the process. And the blast was so great, that Kutaro was also caught in the explosion as well, and perished. Isaac was shocked and outraged. "Where did that rocket come from?!" Joel pointed to where Sweet Tooth was. "That does it, there too many monsters who have lost control. I'm taking them all out. You can either help, or get out of my way." Joel also took his leave to partake in another part of the battle, leaving Isaac to wonder what to do.
Cole and the others were having their hands full with the hazards. They took it upon themselves to stop them before they hurt anyone else. Unfortunately, despite their progress, they took casualties themselves. Nathan fell while taking down the dinosaurs and Dart gave the last of his strength to take out a joint attack from the Weavers and the Heartless. They were right now pinned down by the Hydra. Only one head was left. Lara was having good luck getting her shots in, managing to do enough damage to make it disappear like the others. But the Hydra head still had enough strength to do one last attack. Before Lara could realize it, it was too late to dodge. She was about to get chomped down, or so it seemed. "LOOK OUT LARA!" Parappa rushed forward to push Lara out of the way, taking the bite for her. "PARAPPA! NOOOOOO!" Cole and Crash quickly rushed over. "Wait! His entire body went in the mouth! There's a chance that the teeth missed him!" Lara jumped up at that. But when the head disappeared, she went back down to the ground, tearfully viewing Parappa's body, with clear evidence that he was impaled on the Hydra's fang. "He sacrificed himself to save me. He was my teammate to the very end." Sora and Spike were watching in mourning for their friends when a sudden Dark Eco blast took out Sora from behind. Spike turned around to only get stunned by the sudden appearance of - "The Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler!" Dr. Nefarious walked over triumphantly. "I found it amongst the things attacking us and made it mine again. So I can do things like this!" He fired a laser that went clean through Spike, taking him out in one shot. "Come Errol, let us take out these squishies once and for all!" Errol appeared beside him. "Agreed. I have plenty of more Dark Eco where that came -" BOOM! Errol's head exploded, followed by another that took out the Hypersonic Brainwave Scrambler. Nefarious was forced to flee as Isaac readied another shot. "I saw them coming but I wasn't able to warn you in time. I'm sorry." Cole approached him. "Don't worry. We're not going to let any of the sacrifices made here be in vain. We're going to take down the one responsible, and we're going to take him down hard."
Meanwhile, Emmett finally found what he was looking for. "Time to take you down once and for all, monster." He readied his gun as he aimed for Kat's head.