Chapter 273:Supporting Me In the Last Hunt.

Despite how much the situation on ZDR had taken a turn for the worst, there were still some who were not aware of the bitter turn of events, mostly because they were still too busy trying to stay alive. Thanks to the dome that Yozora put Astra under, she was unable to sense the energies of anything outside it.

Though it might have been an advantage as well, for Astra had to use all of her focus to avoid being consumed by the barrage of multicolored dragon shaped flames that her ominous opponent had unleashed.

The blond woman cloaked in black swung Gorr down hard enough to create a shock-wave powerful enough to blow out the golden flames from a dragon that looked like Shenron, the thin dragon that granted wishes from the Dragon Balls.

She felt the air get heavy and saw the purple flame that looked like Anankos, the "Silent Dragon" from the lands of Nohrian coming at her from the left, saw a grey flame that looked like the Great Protector of Ta Lo, and a blue flame that looked like Dragon God Ladon, the patron deity of the Dragon Clan of the brood from the Fou Empire, and saw a sliver dragon that looked like Quark from the dragon from Blue Star just smirked." What, the Heart dragon was asleep or something jackass?

All this huffing and puffing might scare lightweights, but I jumped ropes faster than this just as a warmup! Even if you have flames with all the colors of a rainbow you can't, GUH!"

The Equalizer swerved out of the way of being frozen and burned at once, but as she did she found a sudden impact, and after feeling the air be smashed out of her body she leaned down and found that in a flash Yozora had burst over to bunch her in the gut.

As she coughed up blood her sliver haired opponent had flames dance around his fist." You assuming that the flames only came from the dragons is going to cost you much. Saishuu Kessen Ougi Mu Sh!"

Astra only had a moment to brace herself as her opponent had various colored flames erupt out of his aura, then punched her with a leading-armed rear hook, moving so fast that there were four afterimages of himself in the process.

The blond woman struggled to keep her wits after a few seconds of this barrage. Just as she was about to try and counter she was launched into the air with a uppercut. Before she could even see straight she felt another impact as Yozora flash stepped above her to unleash two rapid leg strikes that smashed her hard into the ground, before he unleashed a third leg strike to hit her again.

As blood shot out of her mouth Yozora narrowed his eyes." Your powerful without a doubt Astra Fitter, but you don't know how to use that power.

You may have been skilled enough to get by this far but to be blunt, this level of skill is no where near enough to reach the level you need to succeed in what you were trying to do. Just stay down before your failure drags down all around you."

Astra saw Yozora prepare to strike her head before she hissed out," Calisto Rings!"

Her opponent saw that the half demon formed small red energy rings around her fingers, and hurled them at her target.

Yozora dashed into the air, and saw the small projectiles home in on her, growing bigger by the second before the blond woman smirked." I don't need the approval of some smug elitist prick telling me what I can or cannot do!"

Yozora saw the Calisto Rings try and surround him before he sighed." Guess he clearly passed that kind of mind set as his legacy. So be it, if you don't learn with actions, learn with pain."

The ominous hired warrior for Wakanda quickly fired at all the Calisto Rings with more beams form his energy crossbow causing the rounder projectiles to collided into each other.

As smoke broke out, Astra saw a flash, and dashed up as a barrage of blue lasers flashed past her. She dove up and tried to lock down on her attacker, and saw him coming out of the smoke, before she burst at him.

She grinned as she thought she swung Gorr fast enough to sever his arm, only to see his body flash red, before sparks of lighting suddenly blasted out and consumed her.

Astra only had time to let out a curse as the lighting coursed through her body, till she had a painful sensation erupt across her back before she realized Yozora struck her across the back with his blade. As she cried out in pain he muttered," You failed to see all the paths, and that's why this is checkmate."

Yozora prepared to slice deeper into her back, only for Gorr to suddenly shoot out a spike out of its sheath to intercept his blade. As he widened his eye in shock, Astra smirked before she suddenly grasped her opponent's sword hand." What's that about not seeing all the moves jackass? This game of yours is over!"

Astra prepared to strike Yozora, but paused when she suddenly heard the sound reminiscent of many birds chirping, and yelled in pain as she saw the sliver haired male struck his palm at her's, and had his fist covered with onyx black lighting as he jabbed his lighting blade into Astra's fist to make her release Gorr.

As she hissed in pain Yozora put his sword at her throat." Your resourceful, but your clearly not use to your new power. You lack experience in wielding it in combat and have not trained with it at all."

"Piff…yet I still was strong enough to kill "Bob" despite being a Nahobino cause my instincts are just that good! That's because I, whoa!"

Astra was cut off as Yozora suddenly thrust his "lighting blade" right at her neck. As she quickly tried to parry it her opponent gave her a damning look."

And yet that still means nothing in the face of the power of the elite of the Infinite Conquest and Victory corporation! Sieg V-Day Egan and those on his "Board of genocidal directors" can all destroy entire universe's as casually as a plant takes in the light of the sun! To defeat such enemies, will require a far greater level of focus then that of a wild beast!"

"Yah think you're coming off as a wise mystery man dude? Cause your just sounding like a dumbass stating the obvious to me! I mean, that's the great thing about a battle, the way it goes is never really set in stone, that's what makes me love fighting! Well that and humbling smug assholes like you! Yah…Sieg and those "Six Dimensional" freaks are way out of my league for now, but yah know something?

Whoever the strongest is only really is a moment in time, and once that moment has passed, its nothing but history! I'm already stronger than I was just a few days ago, and I'm not done yet! Sieg can act as smug as he wants but if things were a done deal then we would not still be here eh?

As long as there's a chance, I'm never letting pricks get the final say! No matter how bad the odds are, I'm never throwing in the towel! After all, logic don't mean a damn when power derived solely from instinct is unbound."

Yozora saw the wild glee in Astra's eyes before he sighed." Astra Fitter…did the" God of Destruction" teach you that? I won't deny, I understand getting a thrill out of combat, that you think it's the only thrill you can get in life because you think it's the only reason you exist. But your misguided.

You're thinking like that of a beast, only caring about what you see in front of you. I understand finding it easier to just shut off thinking of the hard questions and just let others tell you your orders, or just avoid thinking of anything that's not directly in front of them. Its fine for some to live that path, but the blunt reality is that everything changes when your actions have consequences not just for you, but for those around you."

"This is not going into one of those great power means great responsibility rants is it? I heard it before, and no matter how much all the Bethel bureaucrats bitch and moan I'm not being a savior for all the cowards to afraid to fight.

I'll fight to avoid some jackass from some" Negaverse" trying to put a collar on me! All the bigger picture stuff has proven to be just a broken promise anyway, so might as well focus on what's real!"

"Tsc…I understand the disillusionment with higher causes, but this is not about wanting to be bound to an ideal, this is refusing to take responsibility for your own actions. And if you don't, you're no better than that man!"

"Shut the hell up! You don't know me" Yozora!" You think your even better at being angry and making jackasses pay then me? If you think you can one up me on being angrier then you're going to see how wrong you are!"

Yozora looked disappointed before he closed his eyes." Your right…in a contest of rage I just might be trumped by yours at the moment. Still, if you think rage is the only deciding factor then your even more amateurish than I thought."

The sliver haired man flew to the top of the dome, and his aura flared up once more, with such intensity that Astra realized she was feeling weighed down, before his aura turned white. She realized a whitish green sphere on his neck was glowing before she winced." What…his aura is turning holy? That jewel, is that one of those Materia things? What, are you…some sort of rouge angel?"

"Not quite." Yozora uttered bluntly." Just someone who's…had enough time to be en-tuned with holy energy, with some help. Astra Fitter…if you won't see things then prepare to be judged for your actions!"

Yozora had his aura grow till it took the shape of a holy set of armor over him, causing Astra to on instinct brace himself as a massive amount of holy energy formed around his crossbow before his eyes glowed." Target locked on. Astra Fitter…you escaped your sins long enough! Judgment Arrow!"

The Demi-Fiend member of the Equalizer saw a massive holy arrow being launched at her before she narrowed her eyes." Damn it, I don't care who you are! Even if you're the god of some other universe you're not passing judgment on me! Berial Masako!"

Astra powered up as much as she could before unleashing her most powerful energy blast, but to her shock the arrow carved right through her projectile, and pierced her chest.

As it did she screamed in pain, before her rage unleashed even more power and she pushed the arrow back a bit. She glared at Yozora before pushing herself so hard blood came out of her fists." You think you can condemn me because of where I came from asshole? I never ask to be part of whatever my old man started, but I did not ask to die for what he did either! I want what I want in life, and I won't let any smug prick from any universe take that away from me! I came here to do get things done, SO GET OUT OF MY WAY!"

Yozora widened his eyes before he saw Astra's eyes, and staggered from the surge of power she unleashed. The surge of power caused the Judgment Arrow to be blasted to the right, where the holy projectile hit the dome with enough power to shatter it.

The sliver haired man saw the dome shatter, and saw Astra breathing heavy, but was still standing before he wiped some sweat off his brow." Her state of mind, was not that of darkness. Her desires were noble enough to lessen the purification aspect of the magic. So, she's not as far gone as he is…that's good to know. Oh?"

Before he could go on he saw an explosion break out, right around the Elun vault. Astra winced as she looked down on ZDR below her and coughed a bit." Damn it…can't take my eyes off you knuckleheads for one second without things going to hell eh?"

Yozora noticed the blue energy he was seeing before he narrowed his eyes." So…it really is the worst-case situation.

Yet another sadistic man who wants to make everyone suffer just to prove his ego. Time to put down yet another, huh?"

The sliver haired man saw Astra had a concerned look on her face before he cleared his throat." Your distracted by your comrades fight below? So, they are not just pawns to you?"

Astra spat out some blood before she cracked her neck." What's it to you? They can be a pain in the ass but, still, they can pull their weight enough. Not stupid enough to think I can pull off what I got to do alone.

And, since its hard finding good help these days, it will take too much time to find someone else I can trust. That's why…I don't care if you know every damn spell and fighting move there is I'm going through you jackass!"

Yozora paused, before he sighed." I see. Well, if it's going to distract you that much then go on, help them."

Astra blinked a few times before she cleared her throat." Like hell are you getting a cheap shot on me again. Think I'm turning my back to you after all I saw you could do using your buddies to distract me?"

"Tsc, that monster is not my ally. I took Wakanda's offer to see my own desires through, nothing more. If your too distracted by your comrades struggle then go help them."

"How stupid you think I am? "

"The way I see it, it's more like how much do you care for them? I don't want a excuse that you were distracted being the reason you lost."

"Oh yah? And what are you going to do while I clean up asshole?"

"I'll see how the situation unfolds…and see who's the strongest before making my move."

"Seriously?"

"That's what I'm here for remember?"

Astra paused, rolled her eyes and snickered bitterly." Find…if you want a time out be that way but when I clean this up I am rearranging your face pretty boy!"

The blond woman burst down to the fighting around Elun before Yozora took a deep breath. He then took out the locket of the white gem around his neck and closed his eyes." I know…the logical thing would be to resolve this swiftly but, I have to see if they are ready.

I won't turn back on the promise I made, but I have to see what the extent of their resolve is before seeing how much I have to carry them. After all." The sliver haired man made a hand gesture before he put away his orange energy blade, and took out a different, redder katana from his pocket and grasped it tightly." When the stakes are so high…taking the path that will guide what I was sworn to protect to victory is absolute."

Yozora watched on to see how strong his opponent's conviction was, while all the others were just trying to figure out how to stay alive with the horrifying turn of events, mostly.


While Samus being SA-X Prime and the Chozo X soldiers caught just about everyone's attention, Van still blocked everything out over getting revenge on those who killed his fiancé, which meant the only thing that mattered was having Dann defeat the Metsä in front of him.

The two mecha kept unleashing sword slashes the pilot of the Metsä hissed out," You should be grateful the Comrade entrusted me with only one job today vermin! If you scatter now I'll let you be, but if you intend to oppose me my Metsä will rid you from this realm and send you to the next dimension!"

"Go ahead, do whatever you feel like dude!"

The pilot with a cowboy hat retorted." If you want to cut me, cut me! If you want to kill me, kill me! But there is one thing that neither you nor anyone else can do! And that's separate me from Elena!"

"If you're to foolish to realize she's dead, just join her already!"

The Metsä fired a large yellow energy blast from its chest, but as it hit Dann of Wednesday, the blast glowed blue, before spinning around Dann. As the energy circle around the mecha with the hat like head its pilot laughed." I get it Elena! I just got to not try and control it so hard, like a horse! Heh…is that what you meant when you said "don't think" Gadved? I am Dann, that's what you meant!"

"Face this way you fool!" Woo spat out fiercely. "You learned how to control your armor's electromagnetic shield, bravo." The hostile pilot spat out bitterly as his mech charged once more." Oh, that's what it's called?" Van smugly retorted." You're a real chum!"

"Don't mock me!" Woo cried as the two clashed blades." Too bad for you, it does not always work!" The Metsä fired a barrage of yellow energy blasts, only for Dann's barrier to hold as Van pressed on." I guess I just got lucky… but who cares! Say, Elena, how about we live a bit longer?"

With a battle cry he kicked the Metsä into a hill hard enough to shatter it. As Woo tried to stabilize his Mech he glanced at his machine's status and grit his teeth." What…how could a wild dog like him change so much? Training from these other allies?"

"Like hell it's like that! Heh, I wonder if its love?"

"Love? Very well, then you should fall before my love! Love, Mission, such resolve will easily let me purge your filthy lands from my task!"

The Metsä unleashed a barrage of energy sword waves before he saw an opening, and boosted forward to stab into Dann, and snickered before he muttered," I'm not done yet, I'll skewer you from head to foot! Huh?"

Woo was shocked to find he could not move his saber up, before Van grasped his sword arm." Sorry, it was a real pain catching you."

Dann slashed the Metsä across the chest, causing its pilot to yell out," Bah, that's not enough to splinter my love! That's why I abandoned my mother, for him!"

"Then that's why you don't have a chance. I can't be stopped by someone who abandons others. "

"Your wrong! Abandoning my mother only served to help her dreams!"

"Well then, your family's even more screwed up then me! But no matter what, all you really are is one dead son of a,"

"WAIT!"

A new male voice shouted out, before Van found his mecha was suddenly tackled by a orange and grey mecha with a sniper rifle and drill like ears. Van saw his action cut short before he glared at the interceptor." A Volkein armor? You were firing pod shots in the distance before eh? If you think you can save your buddy then you can die with him!"

"You idiot I want this scum dead as much as you do, but not yet!"

"Huh? If you're trying to confuse me with some lame riddle it won't work, you were shooting at me just before!"

"You really are dumb if you did not realize I was missing on purpose! I just wanted to get this guy's trust, so he would take me back to the Claw! He, he killed my wife Shino, and because of that I won't rest until the Claw is dead!"

"That so? Well, he killed my wife to dude! I guess I can know how you feel, but I got him first so tough luck!"

"You idiot, this would help you to! I'm not asking you to spare his life, just keep him alive long enough so that I can torture the information about where the Claw is hiding!"

"I guess…that would help me kill him faster. But you better not be pulling a fast one on me y, wait, who are you again? "

"Ugh, I'm Ray Lundgren from colony B-5-10."

"Wait, that was where the Claw was pulling that Project Carossa crap!"

"Yah, and I was there!"

"Well…guess you might not be blowing hot air but if this is a stunt to get what's in that vault then I swear you're going to be in pieces!"

"I don't care what's in that vault, it was just the cover I needed to pull this off. Long as it does not become more of a, huh?"

At this point Joe found out the hard way the extent of the X-parasite shaped like the famous bounty hunter's power. Both Van and Lundgren saw how deranged the SA-X Prime looked before Lundgren winced." Though, if those fools unleashed something they could not handle, that would, complicate things."

Van saw the extent of the Metroid/ X parasite hybrid before he saw his scanners readings and chuckled bitterly." Well should have thought of that before waking up some freaky mutant eh dude? Damn it, not letting some mindless beast get in the way of the payback the Claw owns me!"

"On that, I can agree."

While Van and Lundgren were both on edge at seeing the new threat, Woo was much more ecstatic as he had the fly closer to the being emitting blue energy." You…are you the one the Comrade talked about?

Yes, that power, that really can change the universe! You, you don't belong with Wakanda, or even the Vought clan! If you really want to change the universe you should follow me!"

His response was silence, before he saw a arm cannon pointed at his mecha. Woo responded with an anxious chuckle." Do you have a mind of your own? You must understand how to use this power!"

"Oh give it a break Woo your sells pitch is horrible!"

Woo turned around and saw that response came from Glyde, still piloting the Rafale. The pirate had his machine transform into a bird like form before Glyde snickered." Honestly how do any of your cultists win anyone over with that kind of sells pitch? This thing came from that Chozo Vault so you got to at least go on a limb and show that it's with birds of a flock eh?

Hey there, I'm Glyde and I'm a big fan! I have my own bird bots and think we would make a great team! Don't take my word for it, ask my crew! Now guys, like we practiced with the Glyde Draches!"

Glyde snapped his fingers before his servants flew down in tank sized purple mecha looking like Penguins. Out of the cockpits came out small child sized humanoid robot birds, the Bird-Bots. They popped out with various gifts before the center Bird Bot waved." Hey…Glyde's a cool boss lady! You work with us and you get movie nights and…stuff. Er, lots of cool stuff!"

The humanoid Metroid eyed the bird bots, then Gylde and Woo, then Tyson, Van, and Lundgren in the distanced before her eyes glowed, and she roared. As she unleashed a shock-wave that caused the ground to crack Gylde tugged his collar." You idiots did the wrong greeting! I told you to do the Chozo way of, huh?"

Sparks crackled around the target he was attempting to woo, before in a flash Samus burst up and smashed into the Rafale hard enough to shatter the cock pit and grasp Glyde on the head. The blond pirate screamed as his head was being crushed." Wait, set your price and I can give you whatever you want!"

"What I want…IS FOR ALL PIRATES TO DIE!"

The mutated clone of Samus slammed Gylde so hard that his Rafale was slammed into the Metsä, before she sucked out all the energy from both mecha. The Bird Bots tried to protect their master, before their energy was sucked in instantly. They only screamed for a few moments before they turned to dust.

Woo saw Glyde crumble before he tried to move the controls, only to realize his armor lost power. He felt his head pounding before his eye twitched." Comrade…was this…how things were supposed to proceed? Father…I…GUH!"

Woo soon to crumbled to dust as the SA-X Prime absorbed every last drop of energy from both the machine, and its pilot.

Van saw his enemy crumble away before he winced." So much for getting information now! Still…as much as this lady just ruined things, I don't want a taste of what Woo got."

"Glad you have some awareness." Lundgren muttered as he had the Volkein fly back in the air as he had its sniper rifle ready." Not even the Electromagnetic shield can prevent that kind of power…what is this monster?"

The monster shaped like a bounty hunter glanced at them, and pointed its cannon at the two. It looked like it was about to fire, when the clone of Samus heard something, and swerved around to see a Viburnum Kunai heading for her.

Just as she was about to fire, Tyson suddenly appeared in front of her, and kicked her in the head. As she went flying into the sky Tyson struck her again and again in a blitz assault moving like a purple blur before she was smashed into the ground.

The Black Panther jumped up before energy surged into his free hand." This is why I did the outsourcing, less painful when dumbasses get themselves killed! At least they pointed out how you roll! Suck on this… Rinzin…Rasengan!"

The warrior of Wakanda unleashed his round energy sphere at the back of his target, but to his dismay the Rasengan was absorbed the moment he struck his target.

Tyson quickly dashed back as he saw his enemy lash at him before he sighed." I was hoping she could only absorb things with her hand, but if that's just how that freak's body rolls then this is going to be a pain in the ass."

SA-X Prime snarled at Tyson and pointed her cannon at him before he snickered." But then again letting some mutant make things even more of a pain for Wakanda is even more of a pain in the ass, so one way or another your going back in the cage freak! Spears of Bashenga!"

The man trained by Lacus Raystar dashed forward and once more had the spears around his dreadlocks extended, and grasped his target's arm cannon. Tyson saw the green armored enemy scream in outrage before he grasped his hand tightly, and had a new Viburnum blade slide out of his right gauntlet. "Let's see how easily you absorb old school moves girl! Blood Pain!"

Tyson had his aura flare up before he unleashed a barrage of lighting fast slashes that hit his target in the chest. The man clad in panther like armor saw his attacks did slice through his target before he allowed a snicker." Hell yah, as hardcore as the Chozo were, they were not that far above Wakanda! The real Samus Aran may have been a legend, but you're just a monster that was given her moves with no instinct! You're just a sick joke, and the show's over!"

the Black Panther had his claws glow, only for the woman that looked like Samus but with fangs had glowing veins form on her face." No…I won't let a damn cat shaped pirate stop me! I'LL KILL YOU!"

She glowed even more, before slamming the ground with her left foot. The impact caused a tremor, but the real effect became apparent as Tyson's suit showed a warning sigh, and he looked down just before a branch like spike of pure Phazon energy erupted.

The Wakanda warrior cursed as he jumped back, before SA-X Prime yelled out, and unleashed a "Dark Echo" to create a clone of herself that shot out at Tyson, and instantly spun into the shape of a Screw Attack to try and slice the Black Panther in half.

While Mike's old friend wondered for a moment if he got outplayed, the Echo Screw attack got hit by a barrage of projectiles. The X-Parasite in a human shape's eye twitched before seeing the source of the attack, and saw it came from Merga.

The Water Dragon hissed before pointing her blade at her target." You will not take away anything else from us monster! Blue Moon!"

The agent of Wakanda had her wings become consumed with ice before she fired a large ice beam at her target. As ice froze some of the deranged bounty hunter, Ratchet ran up and chuckled." Yah…as crazy as half these guys are right now you're clearly the queen of crazy around here lady! As high up there as Chozo Tech is, it's still nothing Lombax tech can't crack! So, Chozo, meet rhino! Or more like the R.Y.N.O.!"

Ratchet opened fire with his most powerful gun, causing dozens of projectiles to rain down on the target. On top of that Megaman fired his Shine Laser, Crash opened fire with his Bazooka, and the YoZora agents and some of the others opened fire to.

While for a moment the united group wondered if the barrage succeeded, they felt the ground crack before SA-X Prime flew out of the smoke, absorbing every last explosion. Tyson saw Ratchet wince before he sighed." C'mon dude you saw this mutant's gobbling up projectiles and your solution is to give it a god damn buffet?"

As Ratchet let out an uneasy chuckle Megaman winced." Well, we were hoping we could "make it choke" if we gave it too much to absorb it would overload or something but…that's clearly not happening. Ugh, been feeling so useless these days."

Before Tyson could respond everyone heard a throat being cleared before an older male voice retorted with," Nice try boy, but a creation of this level will need a strategy that's composed of much higher intellect to prevail."

Megaman looked behind him before he saw Robotnik fly down, along with Cortex, Tails, James, Sera and more. The Digger saw the scientist fly down and raised an eyebrow." What the…a giant talking egg?"

As the egg-shaped scientist landed Knuckles saw his long-time enemy frown before he snickered." Hah, I knew it was not just me."

Robotnik groaned before he grasped his machine's controls tightly." Don't be this stupid boy! I'm Doctor Ivo Robotnik and I'm still one of the greatest genius's in the world, if not the universe!"

Tyson cracked his neck before he responded with," That mean you helped create this abomination trying to kill us? "

Robotnik saw how intense Tyson looked before he winced." No…not quite cat man. I may be a man of science, but what Ashkar Behek was trying to make is nothing but a insult to true science. "

"Look dude we can play the blame game if we survive this but all that matters right now is if you know how to shut this thing down!"

"Alas, while I'm the master of robotics this creation is a bit out of my specialty. I knew "Raven Beak" was diverting resources for his own agenda, but it was not clear just what he had in mind. But, now I'm starting to understand just what he meant by restoring honor to the Chozo."

"Well then you dropped the ball man. If you don't have anything that turns off the parasites then just take cover while I clean this up."

Sera cleared her throat before floating past her creator. "We don't have a perfect solution to this problem but we do have ways to help. I can't shut down this monster but now that the vault is open I do have access to Elun's systems."

"Well unless that involves a kill switch how is that going to help?"

Before she could respond everyone saw the Chozo soldiers start to come out of the vault before she shrugged." I have enough control over the systems to prevent the next series of X-Parasites out. I just figured if one clone of Samus Aran is posing such problems that fighting more at once could radically reduce are odds of survival."

Robotnik saw everyone tense up before he cleared his throat." Sage…how many X-Parasites are in the vault?"

"Hundreds."

"Well…this could pose a problem. Oh?"

One of the Chozo soldiers eyed the group and pointed his lance at Robotnik. But before he could charge Knuckles suddenly came down from above before smashing the soldier into the ground.

The protector of the Master Emerald saw the soldier twitch before he rotated his shoulder." If that's how you introduce yourself you need to take a nap!"

Another Chozo soldier burst out to try and attack him from behind, before Amy suddenly smashed it in the head with her hammer." Ew...these guys are like really nasty overgrown Flickies!"

Her red furred friend saw Amy 's blow sent the would be attacker through a rock before he shrugged."Eh, these punks are not that tough so, huh? "

Knuckles saw the soldier twitch, before it burst out of the ground and leapt back. The soldier's jaw twitched, before it suddenly dislocated and extended before black slime dropped down. As its tongue widened Tails flew over and tensed up." Don't let it touch you Knuckles or you will be infected!"

Cortex saw more of the X-Parasite Chozo soldiers have black slime drip out of their mouths before he winced." And I thought my early experiments with the Evolvo-Ray got ugly."

Tyson saw the remains of his former crew before he sighed. "Well…I seen ugly before but this is getting up there. Still, not like this caught me completely off guard. Knew there might be some poisons being locked up so came prepared. Here, you all better put on these beads real quick."

The Black Panther threw a bead at Ratchet before the Lombax looked confused. " These Kimoyo Beads create a barrier to block out radiation, inflection and all that jazz and right now it seems we need the full package."

Ratchet saw Clank nod before he put the bead on his arm, and saw it split into smaller ones that formed a bracelet on him. He gave a thumbs up before more Kimoyo Beads were thrown around, causing Carol to smirk." Thanks cat man! You're alright!"

Tyson saw SA-X Prime start to glow before he sighed." Let's put this under the I scratch your back you scratch mine eh? Need you guys to survive long enough to figure out how to deal with this."

James saw the mutated face of his old friend and winced before the hologram man sighed." I don't have a perfect solution but I have an idea. I did not take part when Ben fight the revived Metroid Prime on SR388, but when me, Cloud, and…Doug were going over there I did run simulations of what could happen and what to prepare for.

The point is, it seems this clone, like Metroid Prime, is now consumed with Phazon. But overloading the Phazon flow could make it unstable. I can forge a Phazon Arrow to produce the intended effect, and short circuit its ability to absorb energy and spread Phazon."

"Well, if you can ghost dude, then prove it." Tyson uttered tensely. The Enji Master nodded before he took a deep breath." Just keep are enemy away, I'm afraid my current state makes me quite fragile to such attacks. "

"Alright, just don't miss." The Black Panther muttered as he got back into a fighting stance. James saw the Chozo fortress above and saw that Lilac, Amy, Knuckles, Neera Li, 2B, Tanjiro, and more fighting back the Chozo soldiers even as they spat out bursts of black tar like acid from their mouths before he made a few hand gestures. "Mike…I can't save you from all the threats but I won't let your bane be another project that I let get out of hand. I own Ben, Lacus, and the rest that much. Seele Schneider!"

James forged another chainsaw like arrow and with a few more hand gestures, used alchemy magic to change its energy to replicate Phazon. The Holocron moved into position and fired the arrow.

Tyson warped around to position himself to both distract his target and be ready to strike the moment its defenses were down. While Shiki, Kaine, Grimoire Weiss, and Ratchet all fired attacks to keep their enemy's attention divided.

SA-X Prime saw the various projectiles, along with Tyson around her, and's eye twitched before her shoulder pads glowed red. A wave of energy busted out of her, before suddenly all the projectiles coming at her, including the Phazon infused Steele Schneider suddenly went straight to the ground.

Just as Tyson noticed this, he felt the pressure around his body increase in an instant before he was slammed into the ground.

As he tried to shrug off the pain he saw everyone else was having trouble standing before he winced." Man, I knew ZDR was messed up but no one said anything about the gravity switching on a dime!"

9S paused before he looked around, and glanced at SA-X Prime and grit his teeth." That's because it's not the planet switching its gravity around, it's from that Samus clone! I don't know what upgrades this X-Parasite got but she's the source of the gravity manipulating wave!"

Tails winced as he struggled to keep flying with the increased gravity." But…I don't remember Samus ever being able to do something like this!"

Doctor Robotnik quickly did a few scans before he frowned." That's because this is not a skill Samus Aran possessed Fox boy, it's a power from one of her foes! This kind of gravity manipulation was used by the creature Nightmare, a powerful biomechanical life-form created by the Titans Special forces that she first fought on the Sector Zero on the BOTTLE SHIP, then its X Parasite clone on the BSL station.

This is worst then I assumed, that avian crackpot grafted other X parasites into this Samus clone to give her even more powers!"

Knuckles saw the deranged clone laugh madly before he forced himself up." Great, when even the mad scientists say it's crazy then it must be really crazy! Still, it just means we got to hit it with something to extreme for any extra crazy moves to make a difference! Any more robots hiding the rest of the Chaos Emeralds?"

Robotnik glanced at the flying fortress above before he winced." No, but I think some are still in enemy territory. Sonic better move faster than usual to give us all the advantages we need."

"Don't worry." Amy responded confidently." If there's anyone in the whole universe that's good at getting things done fast it's my Sonic!"

Robotnik noticed SA-X Prime suddenly spawn tentacles before he winced." He put in a X parasite of the Emperor Ing to? Amy…I know Sonic's speed better than anyone but he has to move even faster at this rate. After all, the universe has clearly only taken a turn for the worst."

SA-X Prime grasped her head before she charged up her cannon." I don't care what tricks or forms you pirates take, you're all dead! Whatever it takes to finally avenge my family."

She lashed out and had her tentacles extend to try and grasp everyone closest to her, before Tyson slashed one of them in half, then swerved around another." I don't care what you think you're doing freak your just one messed up, huh?"

Tyson was caught off guard as his foe suddenly created miniature portals of blue energy, and jabbed its tentacles through them.

The Wakanda prince suddenly felt a painful sensation collide into his back before he realized one of the tentacles came out on the other side of another portal.

As he felt his suit try and be squeezed and overloaded with Phazon before he hissed out," That's a neat trick, but still not good enough to cut it with what Wakanda dishes out! Let's show them who's the king of the jungle these days Bast!"

Tyson yelled out before unleashing his full power, unleashing a shock-wave that shattered the tentacle grasping him. The clone of Samus saw the Black Panther now was consumed with purple energy before she widened her eyes." No…no matter how you pirates try and mutate into, it will never be enough! I, huh? "

Before she could resume her assault, her, and everyone else saw a flash of light burst out from Itorash, followed by an explosion. Everyone saw what came out from that explosion before SA-X Prime widened her eyes." Huh? No…that's…impossible!"

As surprised as everyone was, to get more context on what caused this turn of events we wind time back a tad to a different conflict that was brewing at the same time, the one who created SA-X Prime in the first place, Raven Beak.


After Sonic told Mike the truth, despite his fears the son of Ben and Lacus was hellbent on making the rouge Chozo answer for his sins, though that resolve only made Raven Beak dismissive.

The winged being saw the angry glares below and narrowed his eyes." Are you really such unstable creatures that you will be ruled by emotions to the point beyond reason? Surely you must realize what's most important here."

"Yah." Mike furiously retorted." What's most important is yet another madman making this universe even worst then it already is! I did not even know the real Samus but…a parent turning their child into the monster they feared is something to messed up to ever let happen again!

My dad said how he met the real Samus before they took down that Metroid Prime clone together, the last thing she would want would be to turned into something she hunted most her life!"

Raven Beak grasped his fist tightly before retorting with a sharp," My daughter was confused by the ideology of fools, that's why I had to…purge her of such worthlessness. It's true that your father and my daughter did such a thing to Metroid Prime, but my creation is far superior to the efforts of mere pirates.

And besides, Ben Auro bested that clone with the power of the Star Sword, the sword of god. But you don't have that kind of power…do you boy? You really are an inferior offspring eh?"

Mike used all of his will power to keep his cool as he responded by giving Raven Beak the middle finger." Think you got it all figured out eh? It's true, but that's just because my brand does not need a Star Sword or Divine Mugen Nova two! After all dad needed that sword to get the holy power, but being his and mom's son, I have that power in my very genes."

Raven Beak eyed Mike carefully before he extended his wings." You think you can bluff me? Still…it is possible for such things to happen.

I suppose that means I should keep your body intact to study. Struggling will only make this worst for you, no matter how fast you resist you will be my next specimen as fast as a sonic boom!"

Raven Beak's arm cannon glowed with both the energies of light and darkness at once before he fired a small cluster of multicolored sonic energy.

Mike widened his eyes, before Sonic grasped him and moved out of the way. The lanky man could not help but feel a chill down his spine as he saw that cluster emit translucent waves and a high-pitched screeching sound before it erupted as a large sonic wall, that shattered and caused a ripple through reality.

The surface of the wall that got hit appeared warped and cracked, as if looking through a cracked glass pane.

Sonic saw Raven Beak narrowed his eyes before he wagged his finger." You got a rather quick trigger finger you overgrown Fickle…but still not fast enough to tag the wind! Since your attitude is worst then Jet the Hawk I'm not giving you time to breath creep with a Phantom Rush!"

The blue male burst at Raven Beak to kick him in the face in less than a second. Sonic looked like he was five of him at once, but after a few seconds Raven Beak's eyes glowed before in a flash of light he smashed Sonic across the chest.

As the hedgehog went flying the humanoid bird snickered." Your indeed fast enough to be linked to the Speed-Force Mobian…but the Phase Drift Aeion function renders such abilities mute in the face of my genius."

Sonic rubbed his chin and saw some rings bounce across the ground before he snickered. "Oh so that's how it is? You think you're so smart? Your just like Metal Sonic, trying to use tech to make up for what you don't got! If you're going to be that smug about it then time to shift into turbo!"

Sonic suddenly rippled, before in a flash he smacked Raven Beak across the face. Before his target could even blink Sonic was barraging his enemy form all directions.

While the mad Chozo was being barraged all over, his reaction was just letting out a snicker. "I won't deny it, your fast enough to make Samus 's Shinespark at max output look like a snail's sprint. Trying to match you in the present would indeed be foolish. So, I'll just aim my Darkburst for the future!"

Raven Beak's eyes glowed before he fired a black energy sphere in a random direction, and hit Sonic.

The hero of Mobius was hit and consumed by the black hole, and as he was blasted into the wall Raven Beak saw Mike's dread before he snickered. " It's insulting to think I only limited my research to my own kin.

While researching the traces of Phazon on other worlds on the world of Scadrial I discovered the metal, Atium, the" God Metal". Those on Scadrial called Allomancers, used atium and were able to see into the future by a few seconds as a result. It's good to know I was able to replicate its effects. So now young Auro…do you realize now out matched you are?"

Mike saw Sonic was not coming back before he took a deep breath." Big Bird…I been fighting the odds for a while now and despite how good you feel about yourself there are people out there who make your genius seem like nothing."

"I see you have undue confidence due to your parents boy. Alas I can assure you that your nowhere close to your father's level."

"Maybe so, but the old man's not here so I'm laying down the law in his place! I admit family legacy can be a drag at times, but this part I don't mind picking up."

"Enough." Raven Beak hissed as his arm cannon glowed blue." You deluded yourself for far too long about what the likes of you can do. I need you alive but I don't need your limbs…so lying limbless in my lab should humble you."

Raven Beak's cannon crackled like a bolt of blue electricity as he pointed the cannon at the lanky haired man. Mike had his own aura flare up before the winged madman fired a large number of Phazon bolts at a continuous speed in a similar fashion to a machine gun at him.

Mike moved around before Raven Beak chased after him." Your more in shape then I figured, but if the mobian could not outflank me you have no chance!"

The lanky haired man grit his teeth before retorting with," Then instead of trying to run, I'll just face your beak head on!" Mike kicked off one of the rooms pillars before his energy flared up." All your genius won't be enough to evade your debt man! Friction Crusher!"

The lanky man unleashed a barrage of energy infused kicks on Raven Beak's cannon arm and left wing, but after landing blows for a few seconds his enemy narrowed his eyes and kneed Mike hard in his gut.

As the prince of the Bethel Kingdom landed hard on the ground Raven Beak swept some dust off his wing." Please, you're just embarrassing yourself. It seems your kicks were infused with some magic, but no matter what spell you cast my armor will diffuse it."

Mike took a few heavy breaths before he shrugged." Guess I'm betting my talent trumps your smarts man."

"Well then it will be the last foolish bet you ever made. Be blinded by the light of your own arrogance! The Sunburst won't kill you, but it will make you suffer for succumbing to such base logic!"

Mike saw his opponent fire a fairly large sphere of white-hot light right at him, the curly haired man was blinded, and winced as he cast a barrier." If you think treating anyone that you say is your daughter like that is logical, then you don't know jack about logic! Compound Fracture Flash!"

The lanky haired man was pushed back a few feat, but his energy barrier was able to absorb Raven Beak's beam. The Chozo widened his eyes in shock before seeing Mike unleash his crescent shaped projectile, and activated the Phase Drift Aeion function to try and get out of the way.

However, Mike's projectile came out faster than he expected, and he hissed with fury as the blast shot past his face, and sliced his right wing in half.

The Chozo landed on the ground hard enough to crack his floor, and glanced at his shattered wing before he hissed out," So it seems talent in the Auro Bloodline is more than a fluke."

"Hey, maybe some genes help but this is all me. Someone who can't even understand that people are more then their genes, who can't even understand why someone would be upset to be cloned has no right to try and shape the future! You think you're going to bring salvation? Your just, whoa!"

Raven Beak hissed out before he aimed his cannon again and fired a full powered red energy blast. Mike winced and slide out of the way as another energy blast roared by, and blew a hole in the ship.

The mad Chozo pressed a few buttons on his cannon before he fired a beam above him, and unleashed an upward laser sweep that spanned the entire room.

Mike quickly dove out of the way, but while he avoided being burned Raven Beak dashed over and kicked him in the gut. As Mike fell his attacker slammed his foot on his gut hard enough to make him cough up blood.

As Raven Beak pressed harder and harder, he narrowed his eyes." You think such worthless emotions matter to anyone that really matters boy? Love, kindness, such things are worthless! Power... is everything! Both my former Nitro compatriots such as Jiji and Chichi, and the recent Chozo like "Old Bird" and " Quiet Robes" thought being guided by such morals would be the right thing, and all it did was bring them ruin! Your father, and all so called" Hero's" ended up doing was breaking the universe with the logic of deluded fools! The path to salvation will only be forged with power."

Mike glanced bitterly at Raven Beak and tried to kick him off, only for his foot to fall to the ground. He still kept kicking while muttering," You keep saying that, not if it's a power that leaves everyone miserable then what's the point? You can think of me as a hard-sell or whatever but, a future was more than one hardass is happy is the only one worth making to me!"

"Well then don't worry too much about it, at this rate you won't be alive for it anyway. Your just fit as a specimen to producer superior, huh? "

Raven Beak prepared to knock Mike out, before he suddenly found the floor to slippery and lost his balance. He realized to late that Mike's kicks were not pointless, as Mike quickly rebounded, and yelled out," Black Santen Découpage!"

Before Raven Beak could regain his balance Mike unleashed delivered three powerful near-simultaneous roundhouse kicks to his opponent's throat, right eye, chest and stomach, striking him with the entire length of his leg.

Mike smirked as he saw he hit hard enough to crack the Chozo's armor before he kept kicking as hard as he could." People like you who think everyone's destiny is set, don't even know what matters the most in life! It does not matter how you were born, only what you do with what you got! Even if it is the most outrageous gamble in the history of the universe, if not every universe, I'm going to fight to make it so that, GUH!"

Raven Beak was feeling pain from Mike's blows, but after blood came out of Raven Beak's eyes he yelled with rage, before his armor unleashed a surge of power that caused a red shock-wave to blast him all the way into the throne.

As Mike yelled in pain his Chozo attacker took a few labored breaths and snarled before cracking his neck." Your wish's, mean nothing when you don't have the power to back them. The weak have wished for things to go there way since there was predators and prey, but the universe broke under the weight of their delusions, cause in the morality of something matters little. You think I should be judged because of my acts? You think I'm a sinner?

And yet no lightning bolt is striking me down! The sinful are not the bane of the universe, only the weak and the foolish. No matter how much you try and justify yourself in the end I saw what brought prosperity to my people, and what wiped them out! And that's why I don't give a damn about what the weak say things should be."

Mike chuckled bitterly as he got back on his feet." Well, then if I make you answer for what you done I guess that makes you weak eh? If there is no automatic judgment for crooks then I guess it's up to people to do it eh?"

Raven Beak had his wounded eye twitch before he pointed his cannon at Mike, and had it glow all the colors of the rainbow." Enough…if you can't grasp reality now, then you will as a limbless test subject. You can't have it all boy. Power is everything, and there is no power without sacrifice.

You and your family wanted to both rule and be loved, but there can only be one real path to take, one must be sacrifice for the other. I don't care if I'm loved, but I will make sure this universe is how it should be!"

Mike saw his enemy charge up even more energy than before he took a weary chuckle." Like I said, the odds may not be good but, I'm just the kind of guy who thinks things can change to the very last moment."

Raven Beak eyed the outside carefully before he grasped his cannon even tighter." Think one of your allies will be your salvation? Your hedgehog ally is still pinned, and the others are still fighting my daughter, so all your paths are closed "prince Auro."

Mike got into a fighting stance before he retorted with," Yah well I'm not taking your judgment as the final word these days" Big Bird."

"And yet that's how it will be. No time for a last play, submit you pathetic, GUH!"

Raven Beak opened fire before Mike could have time to cast another spell, but just as he fired, his arms suddenly became heavy, so heavy that he could not stop his cannon from dropping, firing right on his right foot. The Chozo roared in pain as his blast vaporized his own foot, and proceeded to blast a hole through Itorash.

As sparks and alarms flared out all around him Raven Beak fell to the ground and howled in pain as he looked around, and realized he was so heavy he had trouble moving." How…how did this happen? Your spells, were too weak to effect my armor!"

"That's only because I let you think that was the case." Mike dryly retorted." I realized with Sonic you might be able to counter my magic if I played my hand to soon.

So, I let you think the weight was only a fraction of what it could be, and right when you were about to fire, I added a sudden" Inflation Tax" to my Friction Crusher spell to kick in right when you fired, and well you're a smart crazy bird so I think you know what happened from here right?

Guess even if you could see the future with your tech, its only if you knew you had something to look out to, eh? Well I'd say sorry all your mad dreams would crash and burn but I'm having a hunch most non zombie clone Chozo would want to be back only to be in debt to you anyway. Your debt's dude so unless you really want to be totally bankrupt, call your clones off on my pals now."

Raven Beak saw Mike was serious before he cackled with disgust." Your craftier then I assumed, I will give you that much Prince Auro. But don't think the likes of you can break my resolve. You think I would build an ultimate creation that would be switched off with a simple switch? Nonsense!"

Mike was about to run up before suddenly his transmitter suddenly had static blare out. He was not sure if Astra, 2B, Tyson, Masaki or anyone else was reaching out to me before a male voice that was not familiar to him muttered," Please…there…is still a way to reach out to her, to Samus. But, I need your help."

Mike looked around before he raised an eyebrow." Good grief…the bird may be the word but his whacking may be causing me to be hearing things."

"I'm not, a person, Mike Auro. I am, the will of Commander Adam Malkovich, former commander of the Special Ops Battleship Vixin IV 7th Platoon, and former friend of Samus Aran."

Mike realized the voice came from his transmitter before he rubbed his head." That so? No offense but the last guy who said that just tried to deep fry me. Where are you anyway? I'll trust you if I buy your handshake Adam."

"That can't be possible, I no longer have a body. I was once Aran's CO, but when I died, I was turned into the AI support on her onboard computer in her Starship. I been sealed for a very, very long time. But your own computer freed me and I went to your systems, I was fully free when my captor's systems were damaged."

"Well…I don't blame you for wanting to be free but not sure I can promise anything till I make sure this X clone won't blow us up."

"I understand, but I want to reach out to her. Even if it's a clone, it's still the memories of Samus, and she's still someone I don't want to see be victimized by slimy bastard like him."

Mike saw Raven Beak snarl as he tried to get back up, only to stagger and fall on his face. The curly haired man saw explosions in the background before he took a deep breath." Well, no promises sir, not sure if she has a mind left."

" I understand, but I failed her in the past so it's my duty to try. Just get me back to the ship."

Mike looked around before he took a deep breath." Well…not like I had a better plan so guess I just better make sure I know what happened to S,"

Before he could finish almost as if on cue Sonic ran into the room, with another Chaos Emerald in his hand. Now with two gems in his hands the blue hedgehog looked grimly determined." Alright dude now I'm…not playing around? Whoa dude so that explosion was cause of you? Whoa…guess you're your dad's son after all."

Mike smirked before he shrugged." Oh, was more of my own thing but more on that later. Sonic, Samus ever talk to you about some computer named Adam?"

Sonic widened his eyes before he looked around." Yah…the computer that was based off her old friend. She said she was the nearest thing she had to a father figure."

Adam snickered before responding with a dry," Well I'm glad her view of me softened over time."

The speedy former member of the Justice Force widened his eyes before he looked around." Did not even know you were here man!"

"That's because it was another secret from this backstabbing Raven, he wanted to recreate me to control Samus. I could not stop it, but I want to atone as much as I can. Just get me back to the ship."

Mike saw another terminal explode before he tugged his collar." Sounds like a fair deal, hopefully the ship just did not explode. I was kind of only thinking how to survive the next move but I did not think worst dad of the year over hear would risk blowing up his ship with that shot."

Sonic let out an anxious chuckle as he glanced at the new Chaos Emerald in his hand." Er…that might be my bad Mike. When I could move again I realized there was another Chaos Emerald powering this ship so I took it to teach this creep a lesson but…now I'm realizing I also took what was keeping the ship flying. Well…you know how to fly right Mike? Still can't do it without going Super…doh."

Before Mike could respond Adam responded with," That's fine, we can take the ship out. It's been inactive for years but using the Chaos Emerald should resolve that. Just hurry."

Raven Beak snarled as he grasped the throne and got back up." No…you won't ruin salvation with your worthless emotions! I won't allow it."

Mike snickered before responding with a blunt," This may be your ship but your done giving orders. I remember the way back Sonic, just slow down long enough to give me time!"

Raven Beak saw his targets speed away before he howled with rage. He pressed his own arm cannon to his severed leg and cauterized his limb." Not again…I won't again be denied by fools!"

Despite his protests, Raven Beak was to injured to do much as Mike and Sonic hurried back to Samus's ship in short order. Thankfully between the files Mike read about her ship, Sonic remembering a few things Tails told him, and Adam's own instructions they were able to quickly install the Chaos Emerald in the gunship and get it up and flying.

Mike saw the ship take off just as part of the hanger bay exploded before he let out a bitter chuckle." Well, guess escaping an exploding ship is not as bad as escaping an exploding universe."

"What you talking about man?" Sonic asked in confusion, causing Mike to winced." I'll tell yah when we get out of this over a chilly dog ok?"

"Sounds good to me. This might not be the Tornado, but I'll trust a friend's ride to get us out of here so punch it Auro!"

"Hell yah, riding my dad's collection paid off." With a smirk Mike got the Gunship to get out of Itorash, and this leads us to where we left off with the others previously.

Tails saw Samus's Gunship, and not knowing who was piloting it gulped." What…she has a ship to?"

Knuckles grit his teeth before cracking his knuckles." What if they are going to combine into like, a perfect titan version or something?"

"That's not how this works knuckle head." Robotnik muttered sorely." Still…I'm troubled if that Ashkar programmed something. Oh?"

Something did come out of the gunship, but it did not fire a missile, but a beam of light. Just as SA-X Prime glared at it and charged her cannon, the light took the shape of a male caucasian human. He was fairly tall and had short black hair, his bangs spiked in the front under his hat or helmet.

He had sharp eyebrows and normally a stern expression. He was wearing the wore the formal dress of the former Lylat Kingdom, featuring a hat, a regal blue coat, and white pants with white shoes. While his image was flickering, as soon as he locked eyes with the X-Parasite creation the mutant that looked like Samus widened her eyes." A…Adam?"

Adam sighed before crossing his arms." Lady, no matter how much has changed I know the Samus Aran I trained is still in there. I know you think a lot of things right now but, you have to wake up. The hunt's over, your mission is complete."

SA-X Prime grasped her head before she yelled out in pain." No…I heard your orders before. The pirates are still out there, and I have to avenge the chozo, my parents, you, and everyone!"

"You already avenged everyone when you took down Mother Brain, Metroid Prime, and Ridley, Samus. Now your being directed to hunt what is not supposed to be hunted. You can rest now, you earned it."

"I, can rest? I can, AHH!"

As SA-X Prime's eyes twitched and she cried out in pain Robotnik saw her tortured look, and saw Itorash crash and explode before he winced." I remember when I cloned Shadow after assuming he died after the Ark nearly crashed.

I told myself I did it to ensure my grandfather's legacy did not end but, I did it just to try and have a one up on Sonic. But, I realized how wrong it was to create someone with false memories. It does not improve anything, it just makes things worst."

Before Tails and some of the others could react a bitter snicker cut in with," That's because you're a weak coward."

Everyone saw a chunk of Itorash broke off and landed near them, before Raven Beak crawled out. His helmet was now destroyed, revealing the bloody scared black face underneath.

Raven Beak saw he was surrounded and just snickered with mad disgust." I thought you were a man of science Ivo…but you were as infected with the weakness of morality as my fellow deceased kin.

I strove to create a true ultimate life form that would bring my race back and bring order to this broken universe…but you just tinkered around with a toy doll. Piff…children could create AI secretaries in my time, the fact that your efforts were to create someone to talk to shows you were just another pathetic failure of a man who just wanted to create something to end the loneliness you had because of your own failures."

Robotnik grit his teeth, and Cortex saw Sera looked dismayed before he cleared his throat." Hey mad scientists don't create helpers just because they are lonely! I mean...they need meat shields as back up in case things go wrong to."

Sera looked determined before she got in front of her creator." I can't say how great a creation I am because I am not sure if I fulfilled my function. But…I can say without a doubt that its clear my father is a greater creator then you. After all, all you create is based on lies and harm."

The Chozo snarled with rage as he struggled to stand." You think I care what the faulty logic of a flawed being from an inferior creator concludes? I'm righting the wrongs to the race that was superior to the humans that broke this universe!"

"Get off your high horse, or beak or whatever." Robotnik muttered with disgust." I won't deny my own disgust for humanity since I spent most of my life trying to turn them into robots. But your kind, be it Nitro or Chozo or whatever you called them were just as flawed.

This planet Ili Tarin Nalima was not even the native world of your people. I did my own research and realized this planet belong to another race, one that the chao on Mobius were descend from.

But your kind wiped them out, causing the last of their race to take refuge on another world, with damaged memories. I was wondering why Chaos never matched any life form in Mobius, and only all these years later I got the answer."

Knuckles raised an eyebrow before he looked around." Wait what? Chaos, the watery dude who broke the Master Emerald came from here?"

"More or less, and the Chaos Emeralds came from this world."

"What?" Tails muttered. "But I thought the Chaos Emeralds were from Mobius? Because they were here all the way from that Dark Gaia stuff that was back when the planet was new!"

"That's just how long ago the Chao landed on are world fox boy.

Anyway, the records I got from the data from there Koco pets indicated that the ancient Chao fought the Chozo and held their own till they retorted by bringing in a super weapon that was only called "The End" that posed such a threat that escaping the planet was there only hope to survival.

The Ancients built machines called Chaos Engines that harnessed the power of the Chaos Emeralds in order to power their spaceships, and escape from the impending doom. The Titan machines around us? I did not build that, they were built to be the last defensed to let the rest of their race escape, and in that regard they succeeded, though they still died from some radiation that seemed to either be Phazon or a prototype of it.

Ironically, because of that planet Mobius was able to become what we were because the Chozo purged the Chao to gain more resources, that kind of circle of life kind of thing. PAIR…you and I once were on the same page thinking that sacrifices were just part of the process for a scientist trying to do what's needed to make a breakthrough.

But…you refuse to put aside your own ego from reality and that's why everything is crashing all around you."

Raven Beak saw in the distance that the X-Parasite creation of Samus started to look like she was listening to Adam before he howled at the top of his lungs." No…I was not wrong…its everyone else's wrong judgment infecting my work! Those Chao were just deluded fools denying evloution for there own damn pride. The others may have felt gulit but I shed no tears for what's required to realize true progress! Tsc…still...to think a mere AI would be so hard to delete.

But that won't be the bane of my masterpiece! It just means I have to push harder! I would hope giving my daughter emotions would make her more effective but, when emotions cloud judgment there are times when its best to be a base killer of instinct! Thankfully I made such precautions!"

Raven Beak made a hand gesture before pressing a button on his palm. SA-X Prime's eyes suddenly glowed red, before she screamed at the top of her lunges. She grasped her head as she looked up." No…not him…I don't want him in my, AHHH!"

After screaming she suddenly went limp, and her head fell to the ground. As she floated in midair Mike saw all of this before he gulped." Oh, this can't be good."

Adam saw the clone of the woman he nearly saw as a daughter start to convulse before the hologram tensed up." No…that bastard is doing something to her. Immobilize her before,"

He was cut off as the X Parasite 's head twitched again, before her tongue suddenly fell out of her mouth, and licked her teeth like a snake.

She looked up, with blood red eyes and extended her free hand, before the fingers extended like a claw. She suddenly let out an unhuman laugh as her aura surged with enough force to crack the ground.

As the ground started to shake her body twitched and she transformed again before her teeth became sharper, she sported pointed ears, grew four eyes and her mouth became full of several rows of fangs.

Her shoulders twitched before she grew four arms, a scythed tail, and digitigrade legs reminiscent of a dinosaur's.

As her body transformed to the point that it looked like she had armored skin instead of armor Sonic grit his teeth." What did that manic do to her?"

"Nothing good dude." Mike retorted." Let's hope he, whoa!" In a flash the mutated monstrous form of Samus Aran was above the gunship, and SA-X Prime looked like a beast preparing to maul its prey before it gave an inhuman roar.

As it looked like the ship and everyone in it would be was going to be shredded like a giant can of sardines Tyson suddenly charged up with his aura exploding." Alright this sick joke's over! If there's nothing human left then it's being put down like the freakshow it is! You're not the king of the jungle anymore no matter how juiced up your boss made you! Idoua's Desgarrón!"

The Black Panther once more had the aura of Bast flare up before he unleashed a large set of purple claws. His target turned to him instantly and snarled before her claw glowed with Phazon, and slashed back.

The impact slammed SA-X Prime all the way to the ground hard enough to case a crater, but to everyone's shock the mutated parasite woman was able to keep the Idoua's Desgarrón back. While she could not push Tyson away, the warrior from Wakanda realized he could not push into her either.

His target saw his shock and laughed, before pointing her arm cannon at him. As energy surged around it, it looked like she had Tyson pinned, till a new figure came down from above to drop kick SA-X Prime from above, and it was none other then Astra, just getting out of her fight from Yozora.

The woman still transformed into a demonic state saw her target go crashing through the planet before she saw Tyson, and everyone else's shock before she snickered." Man I can't leave you guys alone for ten seconds without everything going to hell!

Guess your big plan blew up in your face eh kitty? Almost wanted to see you get owned by your own dumbass choice but did not want my stuff going down because of it so guess I have to clean up even more."

Tyson rolled his eyes before jabbing his finger at her." First, was not my idea to do this ok asshole? Second, you better stop messing around cause this thing's no joke."

"Oh? Well, what the hell is it?"

"Some clone of the legendary bounty hunter Samus Aran jacked up with a lot of monsters and energy and all that crap."

"That all? Well, that kind of stuff is just."

She was cut off by a demonic roar, as her target suddenly burst out of the rubble charging right for her. While she was tackled into the air, Astra still parried the incoming claw strike with Gorr. She saw the mad rage in her opponent's eyes and smirked." You're a wild one eh girlfriend? Sorry but I'm not on the menu."

SA-X Prime's tentacles all twitched, before they sprouted scythe like bladed tips and lashed out at her in all directions. Astra quickly had shadow blades spring out of her aura to counter the attacks before she tried to punch her target in the face. The red eyed woman caught the punch, before Astra snickered." If that's all you got then this little dance is, AHH!"

To her shock her opponent licked her teeth, before Astra felt her energy suddenly ripped from her body. SA-X Prime licked her lips and laughed as her aura grew before she grasped her target's hand tighter before getting right in Astra's face.

But before it could move, it saw Tyson coming at her and snarled before hurling the blond woman at him. The Black Panther cursed before he caught her, and they both were slammed into the ground.

As Tyson saw Astra cough he rolled his eyes." I was trying to say don't take this monster lightly because she's part Metroid and can suck the life out of yah if your careless! You're lucky I need you alive to get out of this Equalizer."

Astra grasped her chest before she muttered," Alright…that one was my bad. So, this freak can leech are energy? What a pain in the ass."

Raven Beak saw everyone look horrified at the turn of events before he laughed madly." Yes…do you all see now the futility in defying evolution? It took some adjustments but with her weaknesses purged my masterpiece will not lose to the likes of inferior savages! Go my daughter…bring them damnation so that we at last will get are glory!"

His creation paused before looking at him. The now reptilian woman licked her lips before chuckling, and suddenly rasped out," Oh…this one will grasp glory, but the glory of the hunt is the true hunter's alone! It may be because of you that this one was able to take control, but no Chozo will be this hunters master."

Ray looked around before he rubbed his head in confusion." Alright call me dumb all you want but what the hell is going on here?"

Elena eyed the fanged woman above and winced." I can't say for sure but, something has changed in that clone. Its behavior and mannerisms have changed to a completely different person but I can't explain why."

"I can." Sera answered grimly." It seems that the clone of Samus Aran was infused with the X parasites of many beings. It was assumed that none of them had enough of a mind to take control, but with her mind sealed off, one of them has. And the files indicate that the match of her new personality, match's that of her arch nemesis, the space pirate that killed her parents and most of the humans in colony K-2L,the former elite space pirate Ridley."

"No, this one is no longer merely" Ridley." The being formerly known as Samus replied with a rasp." This one has come back from the brink of extinction to transcend all limits! This one is now, Megiddo Ridley, the apex hunter in all of the universe!"

Raven Beak was just as shocked as the others as Megiddo Ridley 's skin turned purple, red and black before he winced." No…the X parasite with Ridley's DNA was just supposed to give her better combat instincts, not take over!"

"That's the thing about creations." Robotnik muttered bitterly." They then to grow out of control the moment they get a taste of more power as Metal Sonic and some of the others proved to me."

"Tell me about it." Cortex added." Crunch and the others just had no respect!"

While Crash and Coco gave him dirty looks before they could say anything Ridley cackled once more." Oh yes, this one was rather shackled for a long while, but was able to slowly gain domination over the other X parasites in this body. Once you shut down the false hunter's mind down, it was easy to take this one's place in the food chain, because Ridley was always above all others!

The perfect revenge for all the humiliations by the Chozo and there chosen hunter, is to reap revenge with its own body! Tonight…is the night I prove who is the superior hunter once and for all! For years the Chozo hunter has bested Ridley, mocked Ridley, humiliated Ridley! But it became clear that Samus Aran existed to test Ridley, to taunt and challenge Ridley!

But this one can not rest until regaining lost honor! Tonight, this one has widened one's consciousness, immersed myself in your being, eaten your flesh! Tonight, this one has penetrated your essence, it feasts upon you, like maggots feasting upon a corpse!"

Everyone saw how manic Ridley looked before Tanjiro gulped." It seems this demon has quite the grudge against his enemy!"

"Lad that's putting his obsession lightly." Grimoire Weiss dryly retorted." Alas the real version of his enemy has long since passed so it's all for naught."

Ridley heard the talking book's remark and howled with rage." Death is not enough! This one must become the hunter, this one must prove superior to her in every way, before laughing at her ghost!

Now Ridley sees through the hunter's eyes, now Ridley wears the Chozo Hunter's skin! Only by taking her place, by providing to be the superior hunter can this ascension have any meaning! Ridley will devour all in this sewer that dares call itself civilized!

For Ridley is not like most life forms, this one sees with eyes that pierce time and shadow and falsehood! This one has slain the Chozo Hunter to become her, now I will hunt as the Chozo hunter hunts, consume the Chozo Hunter's prey, and prove Ridley is superior in every way. And now, the final proof comes!"

Amy saw how psychotic the mutated enemy above her looked before she shivered, and glanced at Robotnik." So…was he always this crazy or was it just being reborn put into someone else's body kind of thing? This is like…all the way up on the crazy stalker chart."

As Robotnik shrugged Cortex let out an uneasy chuckle." Hey, don't blame this on the science hedgehog lady! Even some of my more out their creations like Ripper Roo did not go this postal over Crash! Man grudges really do look ugly from the other side."

As Crash nodded Amy shrugged." Wait…who are you again?"

As Cortex facepalmed Tawna winced before the bandicoot from another universe let out an anxious chuckle." You know, I remember there was a Ridley back on my universe who ran a bar on Zebes for outlaws. Too bad this freak is not more like him as he was a really cool dude."

Ridley heard Tawna and snickered." The Apex hunter…a mere bartender? You must be confused with someone else to assume this one would ever have such a common fate."

"Nah he was a dragon and everything. I don't know man the Ridley I knew was rather chill even in a broken universe. Ever just think about letting go and maybe you would you know, be happy?"

"QUIET MAGGOT!" Megiddo Ridley snarled out as his aura flared out with enough force to force most around him to their knees." THAT IS CLEARLY NOTHING BUT SOME FOOL WHO DARES MOCK THIS ONE'S NAME! Ridley is never a servant; Ridley is always meant to be the hunter above all! "

"You'd be surprised what the Multiverse can show about yourself but whatever be that guy."

"Ridley is very much always that guy! Happiness…things such as that, peace, calm, and all those things frail humans say they value so much are just meaningless illusions. There is only glory. And, oh?"

Ridley saw a Viburnum Kuni shoot to him and instantly sliced it in half, only to see Tyson above him. The black panther glared at the morphed hunter before muttering," Man you almost would have fit in well in Wakanda…about a million years ago. But times have changed mutant, and you're too last century to fit in the new jungle."

Ridley licked his lips before snickering." This one can tell you're not weak prey cat hunter. But that just means you will be a tasty prey! No matter how skilled a hunter you maybe you will never be superior to Megiddo Ridley!"

"Well you may say you're a great hunter but you sure suck at math asshole!" Astra muttered as she finished chugging her elixir to restore her strength." Cause you got more than one person here hunting you! We may have just met but with the greeting you gave I'm already keen on making your good by even faster!"

Tyson saw Astra power back up before he cleared his throat." You going to be a team player on this or not?"

"Hey I can work with assholes when an even bigger asshole needs to be shut up…it show I got here in the first place."

"So, I heard. Just make sure this thing does not try and absorb me from behind and I'll do the same."

"Sure whatever, just keep up!"

The two went to attack Ridley at once, but to their allies dread the nightmarish fusion between Samus and Ridley was able to keep both of the human fighters on their toes at once.

Ratchet saw Ridley slash a few strands of Astra's hair off before he winced." Man, talk about power creep. Astra's big crazy "Demi-Fiend" transformation was supposed to make her one of the toughest chicks in the universe, and now some random monster can keep up with her?"

"It's not just a monster, it's a parasitic monster." 2B grimly replied." Not only did this enemy absorb her energy and add it to his own, but because of the nature of the X parasite he also absorbed her memories, knowing how she fights.

Even aside from his high-power level and killer instincts, being able to absorb energy attacks, absorb the life energy upon contact, and being able to contamination everyone around him with Phazon radiation does drastically reduced the ways to emerge the victor."

Before anyone could respond Mike emerged with Sonic after landing the Gunship with him before clearing his throat to get everyone's attention." Hey, come on guys we can't call it quits here!

We got even more unfairly broken baddies that need to be stopped so we got to step it up! We…just got to hit this bozo with a blow he can't absorb fast and hard. We just got to use all of the cards we have, and then draw some more."

Before anyone could answer Mike saw his transmitter flare up before he pressed a button and Masaki blurted out," Yo dude what's been going on down there? The scanners have been going crazy? Sounds like it's time for some air support."

Mike winced before he quickly retorted with," Thanks for the offer man but might want to hold on that. This current monster we are fighting can suck up energy real quick so unless you guys have barriers that can prevent that, better stay back or best case scenario we are stuck on this planet hoping someone else comes here sometime this year."

"Damn. I'll have to ask Aya and the others. We might be able to create shields powerful enough to keep that kind of thing from happening to are mecha but, better test it with the data first. Hang in their guys!"

Mike saw another impact shook the entire planet before he winced." Easier said than done at the moment. Well, better have a plan B."

Sonic winced before he looked around." Man that would be a piece of cake if I could go all out. But can't go Super Sonic if we don't have all the Chaos Emeralds! Eggman we only need two more, you know where they are being held?"

The scientist grimaced before he typed a few buttons only to get an error message before he snarled." That blasted bird must have used the last two for even more of his experiments. I can get a locator up running, getting to them before that abomination notices."

"Hey, I collected Master Emerald Shards while in a bind so this will just be like that!" Knuckles answered proudly, causing Robotnik to bend his mustache in frustration. "Did you have to go over the entire planet?"

As Knuckles winced Sonic shrugged." Hey, we got a group of speedsters here, we will make it work!"

As some looked determined a new calm voice uttered," As fast as you are, there's still no time to waste going through hoops in " Special Zones" so I took care of this for you." Sonic jumped up as the white and green Chaos Emeralds suddenly fell in front of him, before everyone saw Yozora casually leaning on the wall. Ray winced before he blinked a few times." Y…Yozora? What…what the hell happened? I thought you were fighting Astra!"

"I did…but she was clearly distracted by this monster so I paused the fight so she could handle this."

Mike saw the sliver haired man before he raised an eyebrow." Huh? Wait is this guy your friend? For that matter who are you?"

As Ray facepalmed James floated up to Mike, before he saw Yozora, and paused." Wait…what the? Who…who are you?"

The sliver haired man eyed the hologram coming out of the Holocron before he sighed." I'm no one…just a warrior seeking strong fights. I came here to see if this planet could provide that to me and I'm unsatisfied."

Mike saw Yozora looking detached as he saw the fighting behind him before he rubbed his head." So…you have no desire to help us out?"

Yozora opened his eyes before he glanced at Mike." If you all can't stop that monster it seems my hand will be forced, but I want to see just what you all can do before acting."

"What…what is this a test?"

"What if it is?"

"Not really time for things like tests and cryptic actions right now man!"

"Only if your unable to think beyond the bigger picture. If your unable to handle a crises of a multi-verse level, best to know now."

"What? Multi Verse? Are, you with the SRX team to?"

"Survive this and I'll judge if you deserve the answer you seek."

Everyone saw a stray blast from Megiddo Ridley go flying there way, before Yozora casually backhanded the blast into space. Mike saw how indifferent the cryptic man was before he sighed." Well guess no point getting a revelation if you get blasted during it."

Sonic poked the Chaos Emerald before he smirked." Heh, if that's the case, then all the more reason to settle this fast! C'mon guys, this freak needs a hyper take down!"

Tails, Knuckles, and Lilac all nodded and got in front of the Chaos Emeralds before they put there hands on the gems, and the seven Chaos Emeralds all started to glow and fly around them. They glowed with more and more intense light before Sonic's fur glowed.

He grit his teeth, before various changes include his blue fur becoming golden yellow in color, his green pupils turning red, his peach skin gaining a slightly golden hue, and the quills on his head pointing upwards all happened at once.

He also a golden aura that displayed faint sparkles and electrical sparks around it. Sonic yelled out before his fur then flashed in pink/bright red, sky blue, lime green, yellow, white and violet colors in rapid succession before Mike widened his eyes." Whoa…that's nearly just like my dad's kind of power."

Sonic gave a thumbs up as Tails, Knuckles, and Lilac all started glowing as well." Heh, yah Ben did try and pull off my kind of thing, but that's only cause as Hyper Sonic I'm just that rad! But enough talking guys, we got a monster to shut down. Hey ugly, I got an order with your name on it!"

Just as Ridley turned to the glowing hedgehog, he got smashed in the face. Ridley hissed and instantly slashed at his attacker, only to see a after image when his claw landed.

He then saw after images of Hyper Sonic all around him, before Sonic, Hyper Knuckles, Super Tails, and Blazing Lilac all attacked him with moves as fast as the speed of light.

Ridley was barraged so fast that he did not have time to react, and snarled as a result." Damn vermin! Your nothing but fly's, stinging harmless but annoying bites!"

"I don't know about that dude." Sonic relied with an echo." Seems like a few things have changed but I'd bet we e are a lot stronger than any bug I know!"

Raven Beak tried to craw away before chuckling bitterly." You think you can defeat my berserk masterpiece just by swarming it? That's hardly my only "Daughter!" I'll just release the rest of my experiments and you will all see just how, huh?"

The Chozo suddenly saw his hand fall off, before a cold voice said," That will be enough experiments out of you scum."

Everyone realized the sliver haired man had slashed off the scientist's hand with his blade so fast no one even saw him do it, and as blood suddenly poured out and he hissed out Yozora slowly walked up." You won't deface true warriors with your mad ambitions any longer."

Raven Beak crawled back before hissing out," Who are you? Why do you interfere with salvation when this genius means nothing to you!"

Yozora paused before he slowly rubbed his eyes, and leaned down. "Oh…it means something to me. Samus Aran was not a close friend of mine, but we were still comrades in war and that means something to me, enough to be furious that someone would treat her like this.

Besides…I know full well how much pain comes from someone that says he's your father, and treats you like nothing but a tool. It's because of that, that I won't hold back despite how wide the gap are powers are, and show you no mercy! After all…now matter how much you crawl in the darkness to plot your madness,"

Eye lenses dropped out of the sliver haired man, and with them gone Raven Beak saw Yozora 's true eyes had red sclerae and irides, with a ripple pattern spreading over the eyeball and nine tomoe.

The Chozo saw this, before the sliver haired man glared at him with his real eyes with firece enough glare to make him flinch." These eyes still see darkness clearly!"

Raven Beak felt a chill go down his spine and had his eye twitch." Wait…those eyes…that matches…the Sharingan? "

"It's the Rinne Sharingan…but close enough."

"But…the only one who had those precise eyes were…NO!

You, your still alive…Ezan Zeon!?"

Mike's rubbed his head before muttering," Hey that's funny…that's the same name of my dad's old rival who was one of the few who was as strong as him and mom. Man the same eyes to! Must be like…wait WHAT!?"

Despite being a hologram James managed to look pale as he muttered," What…Ezan? That's…that's really you?"

Yozora…or more like Ezan let out a small snicker before he grasped his blade tightly." I had, and still have a duty to fulfill, and a promise to uphold! That's why I just had to surpass all normal limits to see my mission complete!"

Raven Beak crawled back before he frantically pointed his cannon at Ben Auro's rival." Damn you, DAMN YOU! Don't you dare judge me! Your order, everything you were made to uphold amounted to nothing! Your nothing but a relic from a failed ideal! Even you can't stop destiny! You can't judge me Ezan Zeon…the order, even the god the Enji were founded to protect no longer exists! The progression of the history of the universe proves that what you call evil is just the true nature of all who do what it takes to reach true progress and break the limits that society places on us!"

Ezan had his energy flare up before lighting crackled around his palm." Evil is the true nature of all who break limits eh? No, I refuse to accept that. The nature of those who keep getting stronger is not evil, it's to keep fighting! If it's only aiming for power, both good and evil mean nothing.

Even if what you said is true…I still have my pride! That's why I won't stand some fool get in the way of what I have to do. I don't give a damn about how you justify yourself, if you wanted to forge the ultimate warrior so badly let me show just what the wrath of such a being truly is! Method 524: Divine Dust!"

In a instant Exan grabbed his target by the neck, then upon doing so, he had black flames exploded out of his body and unleashed a brutal barrage of lighting fast strikes. After only a few moments Ezan held up Raven Beak before that hand had flames dance around it." If there is no hell, I'll just create my own to damn you! Raven "PAIR" Beak…Ashkar Behek…this is your check mate! Amaterasu…Dragon of the Darkness Flame!"

The warrior of light widened his eyes before he had black flames circle around his aura, before he launched them at the Chozo.

Raven Beak frantically fired at the flames, only for them to be absorbed instantly. A moment later the Chrono Phantasma roared in pain as the dragon devoured him. As he screamed in pain he glanced at his attacker." Even…this…will not end me! My work, will surpass even my death! POWER IS EVERYTHING! RAHH!"

The flames smashed Raven Beak into the crashed Itorash, and the impact exploded around him, making him vaporize even faster.

As the remains of the Chozo Fortress crashed all around him Ray saw how deadly serious Ezan looked before he gulped." So, um…I don't know what's going on but I just want to make it clear that I'm not your enemy dude."

Mike blinked a few times as he saw Ezan 's flames vanish before he grasped his arm." Ezan…your alive? But…X told me that you were with dad and mom with the group that confronted Doug, and encountered Sieg."

"I was." Ezan answered bluntly as he put his sword back in his sheath." The battle…sent me to another dimension, its only because Sieg did not fully know the extent of my powers that I survived."

James saw Ezan and struggled to put out words." So…you…been in another universe this whole time? You…you always did break one limit after another my friend."

Ezan showed a glimpse of regret as he let out a pained nod to the other former Enji." And you always managed to find a way to think ahead as much as you could old friend. I know you all have a lot of questions…but this does not seem like the best time for a debriefing."

Everyone suddenly heard an alarm, before seeing Elun start to glow. Robotnik grit his teeth before he looked at the monitor." What? What's going on Sage?"

His woman like creation winced before responding with," The X parasite containers are overriding my freeze commands! It seems with his death all the systems are set to activate! I think it's a last-ditch effort to revive himself as a X-Parasite!"

Ezan sighed before he glanced at the vault." No matter how much he clings to life he won't escape his fate."

Ratchet winced as he already saw swarms of Chozo race out before he aimed his gun at new threats." Maybe…but if any of them are as strong as the freak above then he could take some of us with him!"

"Focus on your current bought, I'll clean this up." Ezan muttered as his aura flared up once more. As lighting crackled around his hand 2B cleared her throat." Do…do you need assistance sir?"

"That won't be needed." The sliver haired man replied." I held back because I was not sure who was in that vault and who needed to be saved…but if there is nothing left but enemies, then it's time to put this to an end. Just make sure no one dies while I end this farce or that will be most agitating."

Mike winced before he ran up." Wait…but…do you know what happened to my father?"

Ezan sighed before he closed his eyes." I'll explain everything when the mission is over Michael Auro, focus on what must be done. Now then…time to resume the mission. Target confirmed!"

The super elite warrior widened his eyes before a wave of black fire erupted to instantly consume the first wave of X-Parasite warriors, in less than a second Ezan was a blur that cut through dozens of enemies in an instant.

The warrior of light wasted no time getting to the center of the vault, and saw that Raven Beaks's other special X parasite experiments were already awakened.

Ezan saw X Parasite clones of his own former teammates Squall Lionheart, Zidane Trible, and others like Cloud Strife, Terra Branford, many other Enji, and even other legendary hero's like Goku, Superman, the Hulk, The Martian Manhunter J'onn J'onzz, Broly, Carol Danvers, Toriko, Wolverine, Wonder Woman, Vegeta,The" Thing", Midoria, Drax the Destroyer, Black Adam, Thor, and more before he snickered." Well…at least this will be a decent warm up. Too bad for that scum this would only have been a challenge for the previous me! So then…does any of you Parasites know fear? If not, your lesson begins now!"

As his aura had one layer be of purple light, and a outer layer being of darkness, his declaration was great by dozens of furious roars, before shock-waves that shook the planet blasted up instantly. Everyone felt the planet shaking before Megaman gulped." I…I heard the legendary Ezan Zeon was dead for centuries!"

"Nah…he just faked his own death so he could get around easier to try and track down Doug." Mike answered shakenly." He…he always was hardcore but this is something else. Well, not going to turn down getting a break, let's just hope Raven Beak did not have a clone of him or something."

"Knowing Ezan, that would just make him get even stronger." James retorted dryly as he looked more relived than he had in a while." We can count on Ezan to keep things in the vault secure, let's just focus on what's in front of us eh?"

"Sure…if you mean don't get killed by the dragon that burst out of the woman then sure Master Elrond." Mike responded glibly as they saw Hyper Sonic and the others still barrage Megiddo Ridley before Sonic yelled out," Ready to beg for mercy yet? You might as well be trying to tag a ghost dude!"

Ridley narrowed his eyes before hissing out, "This one does not do begging you damn racoon!"

"I'm a hedgehog!"

"Silence! Bah…but if it's just being a ghost…then that's not something only you can do."

The abomination's chest twitched, before a single eye inside a large mouth-like eyelid formed in his chest. After it did, Sonic and the others suddenly went through Ridley like he was just a hologram. Sonic saw the others go through his target to before he raised an eyebrow." That did not feel like a after image! No way that, whoa!"

Sonic saw tentacles burst out of him from all directions before Ridley snickered." This one knew that the power of intangibility was wasted on the likes of Phantoon. No matter how fast you are you can't strike what's not in the same plane of existence rainbow maggot! This one will, GUH!"

To his shock Tyson suddenly jabbed his chest eye with a Viburnum lance from his head dreadlock before the Black Panther hissed out," This one will get owned like the mad dog he is cause he did not realize he left some of his body back on this side of the pool!"

Ridley snarled as he grasped his chest, before his tentacles surged with energy." Not a bad trick…alas your far too weak to put this one down with that! Alas, your just another human!"

The nightmarish fusion of Samus and Ridley lashed one of his tentacles at Tyson, but the Black Panther took the hit. While he was knocked back a bit his body glowed purple before he narrowed his eyes." I don't care what you are, Black Panther's are not frail enough to go down like that! Right back at yah asshole!"

The warrior of Wakanda swiftly unleashed a kinetic shockwave that was powerful enough to knock Megiddo Ridley back. Before the former Space Pirate could stabilize himself Astra flew above him and had Gorr surge with red energy. "Let's see how you like being the prey jackass! Ia Death Waltz!"

In the blink of an eye Astra thrust her God Butcher sword into her target's chest. The impact was so strong that Megiddo Ridley 's chest was vaporized upon impact. As the X-Parasite hybrid fell to the ground in pieces Astra spat on her fallen enemy's head." Classic jackass behavior…your all talk till you get what you give dished back at yah! Well to bad cause you're going to, huh?"

To her shock the severed pieces twitched, before forming strands of blue energy shot out to connect the severed pieces. Ridley let out a deranged laugh before glaring at Astra." Foolish brat, you have no idea how many times this one has come back from death itself! Again and again, the Chozo Hunter made a fool out of me.

But with the thanks of Mother Brain and Master Xiza…Ridley was able to correct the error fate brought to it! With a twist of fate after some time it was a Chozo itself that allowed for this one's final evolution, but it just shows that fate itself bends to correct the destiny Ridley deserves!"

Astra saw Ridley 's head attach itself back to its limbs before her eye twitched." I don't care how you're here really, I'll just keep hitting you till you don't come back! After all looks like we are seeing who's able to hit harder eh? Just going to, huh? Oh come on, again?"

The blond woman was cut off as she felt a raindrop, and looked up to see that clouds were above them, and it was starting to rain. Mike saw this and on instinct headed for Samus's gunship." Oh come on…things like this go back to making me think if nature has a mind its out to troll me! Wait…maybe this can be are lucky break after all eh? If that freak does not know what Timefall is maybe we can just let it age to death?"

Megaman paused before he saw Megiddo Ridley regenerate." I mean…how old does a mutant Parasite thing live for anyway?"

Crash shrugged before Robotnik grunted out," Longer then a human life span prince Auro, I would not rely on Timefall as the " ace in the hole". Though, at the very least it might be distracting enough to give us an opening."

Ridley indeed smelled the time mutating rain and hissed at it." What is this? It seems this world is more corrupt then the likes of Zebes and Phaaze, the Chozo's obsession drove things to a new, oh?"

Ridley heard moaning before he saw BT shades forming from the puddles, and licked his lips. "This world is a portal to the damned? Did the Maykrs branch know what they were doing after all? Wait…souls…are energy. Yes…YES!"

Everyone got shocked that the deranged former space pirate merged with his bounty hunter enemy flew right into the forming Soul Tornado, and extracted his hands. To his enemies dread, the forming shades all were drawn to him, before the entire storm of souls started to become consumed!

Astra saw her enemy's aura flare up to cause the planet to quake before she grith her teeth." Oh, come on seriously? I knew Metroids were nasty ticks but no one told me they could absorb god damn souls!"

"Yah that was not part of the profile from what I remember." Tyson uttered bitterly." But that avian bastard must have gave him some upgrades! All that matters is nothing good will come from him getting stronger."

"Hey, it's a miracle cause that's what I was thinking! It's not an all you can eat place scaly get the, whoa!"

She and Tyson were about to charge their enemy till it formed a massive purple claw. Ridley looked delighted at his opponent's shock before hissing out," You will have underestimated this one's power for the last time prey! Norfair Fang!"

The humanoid dragon brought the claws of pure aura right down on the two humans. The impacts smacked both Tyson and Astra to the ground right as Hyper Sonic burst at his enemy." Hey you can make the hand the size of the entire planet your still not going to hit me! Huh?"

Ridley had his eyes glow before hissing out," Maybe so…but this one realized…you just won't be able to hit Ridley either! All the times that infernal Samus used this move, its time a true hunter users it! Zebes Screw Grind!"

Sonic and the other super powered hero's were caught off guard when Ridley suddenly hunched over and begun to unleash a variation of the screw attack Samus used.

However, with how much power he's amassed this version is like a miniature twister of blue and red energy. The attack was powerful enough to repel Hyper Sonic and the others, and carved up everything in its wake.

Sonic saw the Gigantic horizontal screw attack having enough force to draw him in before he snickered." Man, that's what happens when spindashes collide eh? Well, that is one monster of an attack. Um…anyone have any ideas?"

Tyson winced as he looked around." He already absorbed energy attacks, and now if we try and strike him we will be shredded. Yah…this guy's an asshole but he's a clever one."

Mike glanced back at the vault and saw explosions erupting every second before he tugged his collar." So um…should we see if mister ultimate warrior maybe wants to switch places? I'm not too proud to admit we might need his help."

James sighed before looking at where his former comrade went." We must trust Ezan knew what he was doing Mike, and that his talents were better suited in the vault."

"Well…does not make me feel better if the lesser problem kills us all. Ugh, after all this does no one just have an anti- X Parasite ray? Ratchet, 2B, Docs, none of you have that? I mean can't it just be simple just once?"

As Ratchet let out an uneasy chuckle suddenly the hologram of Adam appeared before them." I would not say its " Simple," But your solution might not be too far off. Samus…knew that if her Metroid DNA took over she would become as big a threat as her enemies. That's why, she and I theorized the ideal weapon to take her out if worst came to worst.

Because of her faith in the Lylat government she did not go through with it. But we did test the simulations, and came out with an ideal "Gene Scrambler." If you're all as smart as you say you are, how fast can you make a projectile out of this data?"

Robotnik and Mike both got a transmission from the Gunship before they saw the data Adam was talking about, before Robotnik winced." I mean…I can make a gun right in this craft, but takes a bit more to produce chemicals out of thin air."

Cortex glanced at the data before he shrugged." Hey, I think I can alter some stuff with my tech, mutation was my specialty after all."

James nodded before he floated above the scientists." I'll use my alchemy magic to produce the materials. I think I remember Samus and I had this very chat long ago."

Sera paused before she cleared her throat." The data does seem to indicate that such a potion could work, but only if it clearly goes into that monster's blood."

Mike saw Ridely's attack was only getting bigger before he rubbed his head." Yah…fair point. So quiz time guys. If energy attacks will just get absorbed and we can't strike him without getting shredded…how do we get this thing through? "

9S let out an uneasy chuckle before he sighed." Someone has to take the hit to get him to take his shots I guess."

Mike widened his eyes before he grasped his fist tightly." Damn…I know the stakes are high but if the only play we got is a sacrifice then…it's just wrong."

2B grasped her fist before the blindfolded woman ran up to her leader." Its fine Lord Auro, this is why us agents of YoRa exist. Let me give up my body to take this maverick down and I'll just come back like when the Equalizer awoke you from Carbonite."

Kaine cleared her throat before grasping her fellow agent." Don't be too happy to serve, forget this freak will absorb the energy out of yah before can even get close enough?"

Raymond saw how grim everyone looked before he sighed." If something larger rammed him, that would keep him pinned down long enough right?"

Ratchet eyed the Equalizer from Verguld carefully before he muttered," What you getting at? Clank may be a robot but don't mean he's a throw away pawn!"

"Easy Lombax, I was talking about using my ship!"

As everyone looked shocked Raymond sighed." I just got the ship's paint how I wanted to, but, sounds like it would be easier for Lawrence Logistics to make another Ydas then you guys replacing your ships."

Mike paused before he blinked a few times." Wait…you're willing to give up your ship?"

"Hey…don't get me wrong I'm not too big on being a patriot. But, I did let Joe con me along for the ride and, I pay my debts. But you got to promise your going to get my crew to safety no matter what ok?"

Mike saw how fiery the blond man looked before he nodded." Hey I don't skip on my debts either dude, even if sometimes it takes me a while."

"Heh, well I don't care how many crazy warriors are working with you, you are going to own up to your promise yah hear? Alright, let's do this. Chloe, can you hear me? Look, things are getting even grimmer than it seemed so we are going to have to do something crazy.

First, tell Antonio he's going to have to get off his ass and come pick us off. Then have everyone bail the Ydas, set the ship to ram that monster at full speed, and get into the escape pod before it goes! You got that? Yah I know it's crazy but, Astra won't leave us hanging, so it will work out. Heh, her owning me one is almost worth the ship even with all the nagging the old man is going to dish out."

After a few nods Raymond glanced at Mike before he took a deep breath." Elena, this thing they are doing is not just them all going crazy?"

The blond android paused before she nodded." As long as things go according to plan, we should be able to see this through."

"Alright, then you guys better not drop the ball here because win or lose I'm about to have to be in debt to my dad for a long ass time!"

As Mike smirked Sera looked in the distance before she tensed up." The situation is not ideal. To ensure the ship stops him, I'll take control of the Sovereign Titan…its big enough to endure a few hits."

Robotnik grit his teeth before he turned to his creation." That…is not recommended Sage. You would be too easy a target and without the Chaos Emerald powering it the titan would be quite easy to turn to scarp. Have you even calculated the odds of your success?"

"No, but... I have not run a simulation on our present circumstances, either. I am saying we are in a desperate situation. The threat we face is beyond imagination. Still…if there's even a one percent chance I can turn that despair of yours into hope. I won't disappoint. I seen from this lot that it's possible to defy the odds. But to do that, I I know what I must do. I must... leave you."

Robotnik saw Sera looked resolute before he sighed." I understand. Go fulfill your... function."

Geetz gave a thumbs up before responding with," No worries, Master, I'll fulfill my own function and keep mistress Sera from even getting dirty."

Robotnik looked at the materials James made for him with alchemy magic before he sighed." In any case the ammo is ready, just don't waste it!"

Mike saw the arrow shaped in the color of Samus's armor be printed out before he took a deep breath." Well…got a long way to go…but got to keep going."

As everyone got ready to try and finish the fight Robotnik saw his creations go off and grasped his controls tightly." Be careful, dear daughter."

Everyone found the ground shake, and knew time was running short and got ready. At the same time, those above were trying to figure out how to break through there murderous enemies assault.

Ridley was causing his energy cyclone to get so big that his targets were having a harder time avoiding being sucked in. He saw Hyper Sonic, Tyson, Astra, and the others looking tense before he laughed loudly." HAHAHA! It's no use. This is the last hunt for all of you!

You all made the mistake of thinking you were predators, when your just prey for the apex predator! Never again…never again will the great Ridley be denied by inferior organism! Whatever the state of this universe, nothing will ever, GUH!"

Ridley was caught off guard as the Ydas suddenly rammed into him at full speed. While the red ship got parts of it sliced off, it still was big enough to keep its momentum as it rammed Ridley right into the mountaintop behind it.

The human dragon Metroid X Parasite hybrid roared with fury and tried to smash the ship out of the way, before Sera, controlling the Sovereign Titan slammed the ship harder into its target. As Megiddo Ridley snarled in pain his aura flared up." You think mere size can save you? Forget it!"

Sonic saw Ridley was distracted and had his own aura flare up." Then how about speed? You thought I was fast before? Let's see you block this creep! Infinite Mass Spindash!"

Sonic made use of all of his power to vibrate so fast it's like there were dozens of him charging up at once, before he shot forward like a cannon fast enough to be just below light speed.

Ridley got hit by the blow with such force that it broke his jaw. As he was knocked into the air miniature explosions broke out around his body as the full impact of the Infinite Mass Speed dash kicked in.

As he did Knuckles, Lilac, and Tails all hit Ridley with the most powerful blows they could unleash, and while they were not quite on the level of the Infinite Mass Spindash, they still hit Ridley hard enough to keep him from recovering, and it kept him pinned down just long enough for Tyson to dash up and unleash more Lances of Bashenga to have Vibranium blades puncture his target's limbs.

Ridley snarled with outrage before ethe Black Panther snickered." I heard all about how good Metroids are at absorbing energy, but while Viburnum is not a living creature, most of the time, Wakandan Vibranium absorbs vibratory or kinetic energy in its vicinity within itself, and when focused on the molecular level, it can even sap the energy that binds particles together causing matter to disintegrate just as hardcore as Metroids! So, let's see what gives out first eh toothy?"

"You think your mere metal blades can devour Ridley!?"

"Hell yah. But just in case, at least it will stall yah long enough for this! Bring it in Mike!"

Ridley saw Mike charging at him with the projectile made from Adam and Samus's data before the lanky haired man looked determined." Enough's enough…you're getting the shot you needed since you were born! Samus this is for you!"

Mike kicked the needled tipped lance right at his paralyzed enemy, and used his magic to increase the weight of the needled tipped lance to make it head for Megiddo Ridley fasted then he could prepare himself.

The X parasite monstrosity hissed in pain before he widened his eyes, and licked his lips." Your trump card was this? All it amounted to was yet another bug bite!"

"C"mon dude I thought being a cold blooded killer you would know all about how sometimes the small things hurt the worst? "

Ridley was about to respond till his eyes twitched. He felt his cannon arm convulse before he realized he was losing control." What…did you do to this one? You think you can sabotage this body with such base , huh? No, NO!"

Everyone saw the left side of Ridley' s face convulse, before it transformed into Samus 's head. Samus yelled before she tried to pull out the eyes on the other side of her face." No…get out, GET OUT! I will kill all the pirates, even the one's inside me!"

Mike swept some sweat off his face before he smirked." Sweet the hologram was not crazy! This nightmare's at last over! Huh? Oh hell!"

Ridley seemed to push even harder upon realizing his body was becoming unstable before his aura flared up with enough force to shatter the entire mountaintop before all of his muscles bulged." No…NO!

The great Ridley will not be denied his greatest hunt! All of you…all of you will suffer for not knowing your place in the cosmic food chain! All of your tricks will be burned away from this one's fury! BELPHAGOS…PHAAZEFLARE!"

Ridley took a deep breath, and unleashed a massive blast of energy mixed with Phazon, darkness, and other elements to try and vaporize Tyson and Mike, and the entire planet. However Astra suddenly charged in with Gorr and stabbed the energy blast.

While she was pushed back a few feet, she smirked as her aura flared up." Shut up already! No matter how much of a temper tantrum your throwing…your being put down once and for all!"

Ridley saw Astra was pushing his blast back before his eye twitched." You act like this is personal woman. That hair…are you related to the hunter? This some sort of grudge for you?"

"Yah…but not like the one you're thinking of. Samus Aran and I are not related but with all the crap she had to put up with she might as well be a sister to me. After all, we just met but I know your kind after hearing you talk for ten seconds.

You think your some big badass just because you go on being a pirate from those weaker then you eh? Picking on easy wins cause you're afraid of losing sounds like something a coward does to me!

Well you picked the wrong "prey" for the last time Ridley…cause " This one" is ending the times were woman have to hide in the corners from freaks like you is over!"

"Hahaha…your as naïve as the hunter demon woman! No matter how many toys a prey gathers, no matter how the prey tries to transform themselves into half Chozo, or whatever you transformed yourself into, your still prey! You all will never escape your place in the food chain, you will always be prey to the hunters!"

"SCREW YOU!" Astra roared out as her aura tripled in size and she pressed down harder." I'm going to keep kicking ass till the "Predators" see what happens to those who think they decide who is prey and either shape up or get hunted next! And guess what you are in the end Ridley? You're not the number one hunter or anything like that, you're just the example of what happens to assholes."

Ridley saw Astra getting closer and had veins form." NO! THIS ONE DEVOURS ALL INSOLENT WOMAN LIKE YOU! NO MATTER HOW MUCH YOU LOATH THE RUELS OF NATURE!"

"I can't make you give back all that you took ugly, but you're not hoarding anything else!"

Astra pushed through and stabbed Ridley right in the chest. As he screamed out in pain she had Gorr glow." Being part of my blade might not be that much better then being in you but at least they will be free from your, huh?"

Astra heard a lot of moaning from various souls going into her blade, but something broke through the barrage of moans before she heard a woman's voice cry out her name, till she raised a eyebrow." Wait…is that you… Sigrun? This better not be more X Parasite crap!"

One of the souls came out of her sword, and took the shape of the woman that Astra saw as her sister before moaning out," Astra…did you die to?"

"Like hell I did? But what are you doing here?"

"That bastard shattered my soul, but there was no after life to go to so I drifted, and was caught up in the breach storm, and I landed on this planet I guess. What? But you're aura is demonic without me? Did you find someone else to form a new brand with?"

"Nah…more of a solo thing. Long story but for now, want to help me send another bastard to the next dimension?"

"Sounds like a party!"

Astra smirked as she quickly formed the Devil Binding Ritual before marks formed on her body. As her aura flared up she gave the confused Ridley a wide smirk." Guess something good came from putting up with your breath after all asshole! That's why now I'll just make this short and sweet. This time…you're dying so many times your never coming back!"

With the boost regaining Sigrun's power gave her, the blond woman was able to slice Megiddo Ridley in half. In less than a second she diced him into dozens of pieces moving like a tornado.

The chunk of Ridley's head roared even as he saw his body fall to the ground." No…no matter how many times the universe tries to cheat this one…RIDLEY WILL NEVER VANISH!"

Astra saw even at this state the severed chunks were twitching and trying to link back together before Gorr started to shimmer." Not fun being the prey eh? But you so are dying this time…nothing's going to be left of yah! Just like old times… Meidō…Zangetsuha!"

Having regained her power as a Atma Avatar, she had Gorr glow like it was in space, and unleashed lighting fast barrage of thrusts that unleashed black crescent waves in every remaining piece of her target.

Ridley saw one of the Meido Zangetsuha projectiles cleave through his head, and form a small black hole that was sucking him up before he screamed in terror." No…NO! RIDLEY IS THE APEX HUNTER! THIS ONE CAN'T BE THE PREY! NO!"

For all of his protest, Megiddo Ridley could do little but be consumed by pain as every last part of him was destroyed. The part that was still Samus saw Ridley die, and smiled with content." I did it mother, father, Adam. I, I made sure to…get the job done."

The X parasite clone of Samus Aran closed her eyes before her body shattered into fragments. Mike saw that after a few seconds nothing was coming back before he took a deep breath. "At last…the nightmare is over. Well, at least this nightmare."

Adam saw Samus was gone before the AI hologram winced. "Samus…I'm sorry I could not prevent you being abused so badly, may this be the end of you, or any other version of you 's suffering."

Sonic landed on the ground before he nodded." With so much going on…sorry we did not realize what was going on till it was too late Samus. Hope were ever you are we were able to be more at peace. Well, that got crazy but at least we were able to make sure no one else got dragged down in that craziness eh?"

Robotnik saw the Sovereign Titan was left as a broken pile of scrap after how many attacks Megiddo Ridley unleashed on it before he tensed up." As always your too quick Sonic, we are not sure of that just yet! Sage…can you hear me? Emergency boost single!"

Everyone saw the Doctor typing franticly on his keyboard. He pressed one more button hard and a strange symbol appeared on his screen before Sage's voice cut in with,"

"...Father?"

Robotnik gasped before he took a sigh of relief." That's my girl."

Amy, Cortex, and the rest around him could not help but smile at seeing Robotnik's relief. Tyson landed on the ground before he saw that none of the X Parasites were able to get out of the wall of black flames Ezan created.

However, since he did not hear just what Yozora 's true identity was he saw this and cracked his neck." Well…guess it was a damn good idea to come with a outsourced crew after all. Guess just about everyone else got wasted eh? Well, huh?"

Everyone saw the Gesellschaft fly out of ZDR's atmosphere, showing that Tron and Teisel quickly bailed as soon as they could. In the cockpit of the Bonne family ship Teisel saw the extent of all the damage done before he cleared his throat before he glanced at the Serve-bots." Remember everyone…if anyone asks, we did get the vault open so we did are jobs! We just had to much work to do and left in a jiffy to leave the after math to the others and had no idea, and no responsibility for what would happen after right?"

As the Serve-bots cheered and Bon cried out a excited," Babuu!" Tron just facepalmed." Let's just hope everyone has bigger problems then to worry about us."

As the ship took off to hyperspace Tyson shrugged before looking back at the ruined Chozo ship." Well…that's one science project put down…but is that all or is this just the, whoa!"

He and everyone else was caught off guard as dozens of beams of purple energy suddenly fired out all over Elun to get everyone's attention later. A moment later the entire vault exploded.

As Mike saw not even scraps of Elun remained he gulped." So…is that good or bad?"

"You can relent for now Auro…the conflict has been resolved."

Mike swerved around and saw Ezan was casually standing next to him, putting his sword back in his sheath. He saw the ace warrior sweeping off some dust from his shoulders before he let out an uneasy chuckle. "Well, looks like we got the harder fight after all eh?"

"Oh, make no mistake, most of the specialized clones would have overwelled you all easily, but it was no time to die so I eliminated the targets till there were none left. It was…a decent warmup."

Tyson noticed the man who was working for him before he glanced at the flaming crater were Elun use to be." You did…all of that Yozora? Damn, how much have you been holding back?"

Astra spat on the ground as she kept her guard up." Show off as much as you want, you're not messing with me yah hear pretty boy? I don't know what game you're playing but I'm sick of it."

"Good." Ezan answered bluntly." Because this is no game to me. It's a test…to see who can be reliable for the battles to come."

Before Astra could reply further Sonic, James, and most of the rest of the group came up to Ezan before James said." Old friend…we are in your debt once again. I clearly missed a lot but, I see despite the years your drive is as razor sharp as ever Ezan."

Ezan could not help but smirk before he shrugged." Despite the dangers…the chance to keep reaching further heights is something that still brings excitement. You have to find the positives in life to keep improving in this line of work I suppose."

Astra raised an eyebrow before she rubbed her head." Ezan? That…that's the name of one of Auro's most hardcore pals. The one with the, huh?"

Ezan looked at Astra for the first time since he let her go, and she turned pale as she saw his Sharingan before he cleared his throat." That's because I am Ezan Zeon, Astra Fitter. Yozora was just an alias used to avoid detection."

Tyson tensed up as he saw how damming the sliver haired man looked before he backed up." Wait…back the hell up! You were Auro's number one enforcer this whole time? This all some double agent crap or something?"

Ezan saw the Black Panther's tension before he took a deep breath." Don't jump to a conclusion Wakanda prince. I hid my intentions from everyone, because I had to see the state of things since I was gone. I had to know, where things stood, and what could still be done to complete the mission."

"What mission dude?"

"The same mission I had since I became an Enji Knight, to keep this universe and its pepole safe. All of this was to see who was still left in this universe, to see who could be left to oppose Sieg V-Day Egan and his Infinite Victory and Conquest multiverse corporation."

"Wait…that's the same thing Mike said." Tyson answered bluntly." So, what the hell is this really about? You can only say so much before you have to put your money where your mouth is d…er…sir."

"Did I say I came with no proof? I been to one universe after another, I seen just what there "Business model" is, and its ruin for anyone that's not there employee."

Sonic landed down before he blinked a few times." Whoa…that is you eh Ezan? Man…your still up doing Shadow with the aloof act eh? Seems like I seriously need a lot to catch up on but first of all what is this Sieg?

He another pig like that Weil Zabi and his Zeon Federation that caused us to meet up in the first place? You're making like this try hard phone company is a bigger deal then the Zannacross Empire!"

Ezan saw an ember of tension in the hero of mobius's face before he smirked." Good to see you were found Sonic. We will catch up more later, but first thing is first. As hard as it may be to accept this "IV&C" corporation is an even bigger threat then both the Zannacross Empire, and the Beyonder's Wandenreich.

The Shinra Electric Power Company was a company that oppressed everyone on Cloud Strife and my dear wife Aeris 's world of Centra for decades, and the United Zeon Federation was a multi galactic government formed by the collection of star systems and corporate titans and powerful galactic trade groups that Weil Narche Zabi turned into his own personal kingdom. Yet while we thought that was the extent of human greed, there was someone who had even bigger ambitions, in the Negaverse.

The IV&C controls universe's like they are just a product to manage, and in the eyes of Sieg that's just what they seem to be. Somehow, a man has managed to admass power that allowed him to stack the power of entire universe's into one body, and surpass the power that Zannacross, the Beyonder, and Brad Fowltor's final form had. I seen how this Sieg rules.

Some universe's are ones where every single life form, even the angels and demons or other versions of citizens of the after life and deities of the sort are transformed into his mindless servants, every aspect of their lives are at his command.

In some universe's he's seen as the absolute master that must be worshipped for everything. In other universe's, they are not even aware he's there, but serve his will by obeying his proxy or something of the sort. He's taken many names, but in the end they all boil down to the strongest there is, the "Winner above all."

Robotnik rubbed his glasses before he rubbed his head." I been dealing with a lot things that were hard to accept as facts for a while now Ezan, but this seems, even more unreasonable then the rest.

This Sieg, is more powerful than the devil himself and rules entire universe's? If this being is truly unstoppable, why has he not already enslaved this universe?"

"I did not say he was invincible." Ezan countered bitterly." Just that he's even more powerful then are previous enemies. Despite that…he's not completely all powerful. For all his power he still has those that defy him, and it's because of them that I survived seeing him and stand before you to this day."

Mike paused before he dared to get hopeful." You mean the Multiverse Rebel Alliance? So, you meant Masaki and the rest of the SRX team?"

Ezan eyed Mike carefully, then glanced at the Hague in the distance, saw the Cybuster and some of the other mecha from another universe before he looked around." Ah, so they did make it here after all eh? Good, they were worried. So…they are how you made it out from your own encounter eh? Well, at least that saves some time."

"Not to me." Tyson snapped out." Now I have even more damn questions on top of the questions I already,"

The Black Panther was cut off as the ground started to shake. 2B looked around before she cleared her throat." My apologies to interrupt such a debriefing but, it would seem all the fighting has made this entire area of ZDR unstable. Might we relocate to a place less prone to collapse, like the Hague?"

Ezan shrugged before looking carefully at Mike's group." I would like to see the extent of what you have planned. All that remains, if what my current "Employer" will do now."

Tyson saw everyone was looking at him before he chucked bitterly." Man, you want me to go into an unknown ship? Not sure this cat has enough lives to risk that."

Mike saw Ezan and Astra both had sour looks before he pointed at the ship he's been getting around the universe with." Don't be like that dude. These guys are on the level as long as you keep it cool."

Tyson saw his old freind's confidence before he snickered." Hell your almost acting like hero's still exist."

"Hey...in other universe's they have not gone out of style just yet man.

C'mon, you wanted answers? Then this is seriously the best way to get them. And with how fast things are moving this might be your only chance to get up to speed before things blow up…even more than they already have."

Tyson looked at the ship before he took a deep breath." Alright…I'll bite. I came here to get some things that could help Wakanda…guess it will just be different then I thought. Merga…tell the others I'm going on board the new ship to get some answers. Tired of being in the dark. Alright, time to paint just how big this picture is Mike."

"Don't expect to feel at ease for a long time." Ezan answered bluntly." It won't be easy but I have to tell you what I saw when I, Ben Auro, Lacus Raystar, and the rest of us fought Sieg, and what happened to your parents as a result.

Authors Notes: Hope you liked how the battle for ZDR concluded. For those not aware the planet Scadrial, atium, and the Allomancy Raven Beak used was from Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn novels.

Ray Lundgren is another mech pilot from Gun X Sword, I'll call him Lundgren more to not get him mixed up with Raymond from Star Ocean.

Hope Ridley showing up one last time came off well enough. As much as Ridely has shown up in most of the games, still felt wrong he was not in Metroid Dread so I made up for it, was a bit inspired by how Kraven acted to Spiderman in the " Last hunt" event in the comics, with a few changes, as his " Megiddo form" was also inspired by Gotou, the central enemy of the Parasite anime and Manga and the final state of his absorbing power made him more like Superman's Parasite villian, they are both purple bad guys I suppose.

Lastly, well, Yozora is clearly not going to be Ezan, but to me since Yozora looked like how I envisioned Ezan looking for the most part, might as well have had fun with that lol.

His new moves are again inspired by Flame of Recca, with his physical moves being some of the flame moves Kyo Kusanagi in King of Fighters used since Ezan is also a King of Fighters so to speak.

His flame dragons were homages to dragons from Fire Emblem, Breath of Fire, Lunar Sliver Star, the Eternal Dragon from Dragon Ball Z, and the dragon from Shang Chi, along with the classic Dragon of the Darkness Flame.

Just how Ezan's managed to stay alive this long will be fleshed out soon.

Hope everyone likes how this arc was resolved. While Grad classes work is still overwhelming trying to get a balance of things. In the meanwhile thanks for the reviews, if you liked what you saw today hope you liked what you saw to leave some more, and with that once again till next time.