The Legion of Subspace may had defeated Captain Genos's terrestrial army, but their ship still remains. But, the ship evolved into something much worse due to the green Chaos Emerald's energy. It's up to Ashra to help his team lead them to victory. This will be one chapter that you'll enjoy alot once you find out what happens next.

The black warship made a loud creaking noise that covered less ground than the roar that Captain Genos's ship did, but gave everyone a sign that Ashra is doing what he's told. The ship's sides sifted into a pair of black wings like that of the Egg Carrier. The thrusters grew into even bigger jets that would give the ship the fast speed it needs. The front of the ship shifted into a massive cannon reminiscent of the Egg Carrier MK II to much of the group's surprise.

"What the hell is happening?" asked the Black Shogun.

"Victory, that's what is happening," Napoleon responded.

He did an over the top French laugh to show how impressed he is by the ship's impressive form. Greedy still observed the ship as it finished shifting gears to become a new and improved form to take out the other ship. This caused him to snicker and clutched his fist in triumph since this plan wasn't going to fail. The Legion of Subspace ship's new form is a special attack form that is programmed by Eggman for situations like this, meaning this was indeed Ramirez's trump card for winning this fight.

His response was pretty neutral to the new form and he tightened the grip on his blade to show how determined he is to win. Selvaria, who is now calmed down after Azel's betrayal, did a slight smile to show her positive reaction to Operation Valkyrie's results. Trouble Bruin still frowned as always since he personally felt that they should have planned such a tactic even earlier before they had to face the "white dragon". Mr. X grinned at first, and then slowly frowned since he had a big question to ask his fellow generals.

"Now what's our next big move?" asked Mr. X.

"We allow Ashra to test out the new weapons before facing off against the White Dragon. I can trust that he's going to do so since he's a really quick learner," Ramirez responded.

A loud beaming can be heard and the entire group looked back to the ship to see what's going on. The black ship is charging a massive blast that's going to attack the white dragon ahead of them. Captain Genos sat in his control room with no fear since he had a few tricks up his sleeve. He snapped his fingers to order his men to prepare their next tactic for battle.

"Now let's blow that pathetic dragon out of the sky with a special cannon that I've figured to use," said Ashra before doing a nerdy cackle.

He pressed a large red button to cause his ship to fire the blast at the white dragon. The white dragon flew out of the way of the blast, but wasn't so lucky due to its wing being wounded from the attack. Basically, such a blast should be powerful enough to destroy that wing singlehandedly. But it is severely wounded, but still functional due to being powered by a Chaos Emerald like how Rokkaku's tank was stronger than normal tanks for the similar reason. Ashra maneuvers the ship to turn and pressed another series of buttons with his other hands. A series of guns appeared on the sides and wings of the black ship and they fires a series of heat seeking blasts at the dragon. The dragon did an aileron roll to dodge them, but still got wounded in the process due to the weapon's accuracy. In the midst of the chaos, a small blue dragon flew near the white dragon-like ship. It was Azel, Orta, and Prince Ali using this opportunity to retrieve the emerald without getting obliterated in the dogfight.

"Are you sure that this is a good idea, Azel?" said the prince.

She didn't responded and watched her daughter maneuver the blue dragon near the ship's wounds. Prince Ali couldn't help but sigh since these women took this mission too serious to the point of being non-responsive. The blue beast fired a few beams at the wounds to enter the ship with no problem. This is basically a reminder of how Orta's escape was in the past with her dragon. Except she's actually entering a ship with tons of turrets and soldiers to worry about during the flight. Orta used her guns along with her dragon's blasts to destroy every target in their way. Several dragon riders followed which gave Azel and Prince Ali a sign that it's their time to shine. Azel uses her power to fire a series of beams from her fingertips, an ability that she had never showcased to anyone. Prince Ali summons the Water Spirit Dytto to attack them with her aquatic vortex during the flight. They all dropped to the metallic floors of the corridor after their attacks, making the back font safe for now.

"Thanks, Dytto. Now stay by our side in case we need more help from you," said the excited prince.

Dytto couldn't help but to blush and swoons like a love stricken pixie. Prince Ali glared at her for this, causing her to panicked and orbits the dragon as she's told. Azel giggled after witnessing the act, reminding her of her life when she and Edge started a family after Atolm's final defeat. Orta smiled since this was indeed the best plan that she came up with and started screaming with glee. The blue dragon was closing in on the throat sections of the massive dragon ship as more reinforcements arrived. These were more dragon riders, except they are attacking from the front as opposed to the back.

"You know what to do guys," she said with a mischievous look on her face.

Prince Ali, Rhys, Ali, and the dragon nodded in response to Orta's words and prepared to mobilize. The dragon fired a few beams to take out the dragons and Prince Ali shot the riders off them with his crossbow gun. Dytto fired a large bullet of water at the row of turrets on the ceiling. Azel did a series of hand gestures to ravage the corridors with her wind abilities, causing more damage to the ships throat. The white dragon ship failed to shoot mouth beams to defend it from the already aggressive black ship ahead of them.

Captain Genos furiously pressed the buttons to make sure that it is able to fire. He was slowly losing his cool due to the stress of keeping the emerald to himself and winning this battle. Several soldiers that stood beside him in the room were growing concerned for their pissed off captain and knew this wasn't the time to bother him. He slammed his fist on the controls to the point of denting the pad.

"Damn it! We have someone in the ship attacking it in the inside. That's ruining our already serious fight with these Subspace Fools. I demand you to show me who's responsible!" he shouted.

"Aye, Captain! I'll activate the screens and show what's wrong," he said before turning the screen on.

The screen revealed a large blue dragon being ridden by Prince Ali, Orta, Azel, and Rhys destroying most of the ship and defeating his soldiers. This image alone made Genos get even angrier than before and slam his fist on the damaged controls.

"Everyone, protect the corridors near the control room at all costs since they are on their way here! I will not have my precious gem of power being snatched by the likes of them. As for these black ship lovers, I have something special for them," he said.

The soldiers did a salute in response and left the control room for their "final mission." Captain Genos walked to the controls containing the green Chaos Emerald and pressed it even further to unleash its full potential on the already dying ship. The white dragon went into an attack formation be holding out its wings, tail, and limbs towards the black ship. Ashra knew what he's about to do and chortled to show how intrigued he is by this method. He pressed the both buttons for the cannons around the ship and the main cannon to charge energy. The white dragon's appendages glows a bright green and fired an O shaped blast at the ship ahead of it. Most of the energy in the black ships cannon's transferred to main cannon to make it fire an even more devastating beam from it. Selvaria and Ramirez grunted since there's a possibility that Ashra may fail them now based on the outcomes due to them using the emerald's full power.

Greedy gazed at the situation to make sure that it wasn't going to be a bust. Both blasts combined and pushed each other in a dead lock of laser goodness, leaving both sides cautious about the winner's possible results. Meanwhile, Genos looked back at the exits as he heard loud screams and destructive blast impacts. He had nowhere to run and tried his best focus on the results of his shot to clam down. His forehead sweated rapidly and his hands were quivering in fear and anticipation at the situation. Not only there's a possibility that his ship may lose, but the intruders are defeating his men with no problem. He walked slowly to the Chaos Emerald and removed it from the slot since stealing it and leaving is his only option.

"I guess I won't die in vain if I take the emerald before the ship is destroyed. These guys will be wasting their time if they even bother forcing anything upon me," he said before chuckling.

He ran to the emergency exit and stopped after hearing a loud crashing sound. He turned slowly to notice Azel, Dytto, Prince Ali, Orta, and the blue dragon standing before him with menacing expressions. Their appearances looked pretty rigid and charred since they went out of their way to infiltrate this heavy duty ship and retrieve this emerald for Sonic's sake. Genos looked pretty scared since he's cornered and there was nowhere else to run without getting attacked first. He made the wrong move for dropping the green emerald onto the floor, which gave Dytto the opportunity to rush for it.

"I'll get it for you guys!" she said after taking off.

Genos quickly pulled out a pistol to threaten her, but she kept flying. He felt that putting this water pixie out of her misery was the best option to keep them from winning. Then, the ship shook violently and the systems override from a serious attack. This is a good sign that Ashra's blast shoved the Chaos Emerald infused blast back at the ship and that they were victorious in the overall dogfight. After that occurred, Genos had lose his balance and dropped to the ground on his rear. Dytto overall was unaffected due to being a hovering pixie and grabbed the emerald for Prince Ali to retrieve. She dropped it in his hand and gave him a loving look as if she was expecting something from him.

The prince laughed a little and said, "Thanks for your help, Dytto. Now we can leave this place before things get worse."

After that, Dytto swooned like the hyperactive pixie she is and landed on his shoulder for further instructions.

"What should we do with him?" Azel asked.

Orta glared at the pathetic general and responded, "We can leave him be since we have bigger issues to deal with, like leaving this damaged ship."

Azel nodded in response as the rest of the group did so in approval. Everyone hopped back onto the blue dragon's back and lifted off since it's not even worth messing around with Captain Genos anymore. This left him pissed off and disappointed as he sat in the same corner to accept death's cold embrace. Outside the ship, it is suffering from a serious of explosions due to its source of power being removed and being damaged by its own shot. Ashra chortled and enjoyed his potato chips as he watched the fireworks go on ahead of him.

"This is all thanks to my intelligence and usefulness on this mission," he said with his mouthful of chewed potatoes.

A loud buzzing disturbed him and he comically checks all of his arms to look for his transmitter.

"Silly me, my lower left hand is where I'd always had it. I hope that Selvaria and the others are praising me for my hard work," he said while blushing.

He turned it on and it reveals a screen of a serious, but glad Ramirez looking back at him. He took a deep breath and sighed before saying what he had to say to his fellow multi-armed comrade.

"Congratulations for destroying that Chao Emerald powered dragon ship for us, Ashra. We've couldn't have done it without you," he said.

Ashra blushed and rubbed the back of his head with his two upper arms in response to his answer.

"Aw shucks! No need to thank me like that since this is my first time pulling off such a tactic that well," he said in a bashful manner.

"But that still doesn't mean that we've won yet. According to Selvaria, Azel and the others entered the ship already and they could have the emerald in their possession by now. Send out some of your aerial henchmen to take them out and steal the emerald when they leave the dying ship. Understand?" he explained.

Ashra did a salute in response and deactivated his transmitter before doing what he's told. He pressed a special green button that eventually released a fleet of green pterosaurs and brown eagles to do his bidding. They all hovered below the black ship while waiting for their prey to leave the opposing ship. Speaking of the white ship, it had already begun to self destruct and signaled the first victory for Selvaria's group. After the massive explosion occurred, a small, fast object flew from it and headed towards the black ship.

It was Azel and her group flying back to the plateau where they met Sonic with the emerald. At first half of the squadron panicked, and then Ramirez held out his hand to let them know that they already got this covered. He looked at the bottom of the black ship, in which the pterosaurs and eagles are swarming in the heroes' path as ordered. The dragon shot down most of them, but there were too many of them swarming its path. This forced Azel and Prince Ali to use the strength that they had left to fight of these sky devils.

Dytto shot a massive water bullet at a flock of eagles that were aiming for her master while he shot a pterosaur with his crossbow. Azel used her finger beams to take out as much eagles and pterosaurs as possible. All this had occurred while Orta focused on maneuvering her dragon to fly from under the ship and towards the plateau. This didn't stop them from following the group from behind like piranhas chasing after a person's foot. Azel and Dytto teamed up to take them out for the sake of keeping that emerald safe at all costs.

"Damn, these guys just won't give up don't they?" Prince Ali said after shooting.

"The Legion of Subspace isn't playing around anymore and they really want to retrieve the emerald, even if it means killing us immediately," Azel responded.

"It's going to be fine guys! We are a few feet from under the ship and we might survive this wild goose chase," Orta said.

But this didn't make her feel less frightened about the situation at hand and concerned for her dragon's safety. Greedy's Orb henchmen and Mr. X's jetpack goons joined the fray to make this flight even more difficult. Dytto cleared most of the eagles with her powers and gasped upon seeing the reinforcements.

"Oh my! We've got even more company!" she shouted.

"I know that, Dytto. We need to keep shooting until we make it back to the plateau!" he responded in rage.

"Even after we are from under the ship, they are still pursuing us like hunters," Azel said while panting from her previous shots.

Everyone was tired out from all the fighting within a few minutes; leaving a few jetpack goons and a half dozen Orbs ready to attack them from all sides. At a time like this, they are indeed outnumbered and their fatigue is going to lead to their downfall. Then, all the henchmen were frozen solid due to a sudden blizzard. This left Azel's gang in a state of relief, but they still wondered who or what was responsible for that event. A chuckle can be heard and they looked to the side to see a strange character hovering next to them. It is a stocky snowman wearing a blue hat, blue shoes, and had a fanged smile.

"Hee-hoooo! Jack Frost is here to brighten up your day. No time to explain, we need to hustle our bustles," said the snowy creature.

Everyone was left with sweat drops on their faces and disbelieved expressions at this guy's unexpected appearance. This was truly an unexpected appearance from such a strange character like Jack Frost.

Prince Ali shook his head afterwards and said, "Thanks for you help, Jack Frost. You heard what he said, let's get out of here," he said in a relieved voice.

Everyone continued flying towards the plateau to the point of no return, leaving most of the Legion of Subspace in a form of displeasure. The massive black ship lowered down to let everyone back on since it's time for them to move on to another location. Selvaria was the angriest out of all of them, mostly due to Azel betraying them from the start and losing the emerald. She stayed behind as the other generals and their men boarded the ship to leave the area. Ramirez couldn't help but to check on her and give her the "cheering up" that was needed. He gave her great eye contact since he wanted her to take him serious during this discussion.

"You did your best out there when it came to taking out most of the soldiers, which is something that none of us did so far. You should be at least happy for achieving that one goal," he said softly.

"That was only because I was angry at that damned Azel for betraying us from the start. Maximilian would have never allowed such a thing to happen in the European army. We've lost the emerald and the heroes already have three out of all seven emeralds," she said in a depressed tone.

She stared at the ground with the same disappointed look and couldn't bear to show her face to Ramirez again after that mishap. He put his fingers under her chin to turn her face up and looked into her eyes with the most inviting smile ever.

"Don't worry, we'll make her pay for her treacherous acts later. Not to mention I had received a call that Reala managed to get an emerald for us. Now let's head back to the ship, my love," he said.

Selvaria heard his words and couldn't help but to blush as bright as a Japanese peach. She felt even hotter during that moment since the two generals were closer after getting to know each other earlier. Ramirez couldn't help but to do a slight laugh since seeing her this way makes him feel relieved and entertained at the same time while being around her.

She eventually smiled and replied, "Yes, my dear. As a member of the Legion of Subspace, we should never give up and always move forward."

With that, the silver haired generals held hands and boarded the ship to catch up with the rest of their group. They felt more close at the moment since they could trust each other's company at times and situations like this. This marks the end of the Panzer Dragoon Saga that really made an impact on Azel's character and actions.

There you have it, guys. Not only the Legion of Subspace defeated the opposing ship, but Azel and her new team had successfully snatched the emerald from her former group's clutches. It was mostly thanks to a strange character called Jack Frost for helping them on the way back. He is NOT considered a third party since Sega recently had bought out Atlas, meaning he's officially a Sega character. I chose him to represent Shin Megami Tensei since he's arguably the mascot of the franchise. You'll see happens next in the upcoming chapter. Remember to rate and review if you liked it!