Chapter 30- The Cold-Hearted Machine Unconditional Desire
G-23 opens the fight by shifting its arms into a pair of flamethrowers, Kori reshapes her giant ice hands into pillars that lift her out of harm's way. The flamethrowers shatter the ice pillars, Kori without any delay creates a giant mass of ice for herself to float and reshapes a few more glaze ammunition and manufactured creations to her disposal.
Kori remarks at G-23, highlighting how he alone won't be able to stop her. "My ice can't be melted by such superficial flames. Use whether you have in store, it wouldn't be enough to defeat me…robot."
G-23 put to use all the copied skills, abilities, techniques and fighting styles he has acquired to combat Kori in a relentless clash of attacks that shakes the temple they are residing on, Sage soon comes to lend a helping hand to G-23 with her countless digitised clones. Kori steadily gets overwhelmed by the two, and unleashes a vicious tide of ice that skewers many of Sage's clones. G-23 heats his body from the icy-cold mist coming from the frigid spikes, and Sage creates an energy barrier to protect herself from the hailstorm of broken ice pieces.
Kori looks down at her opponents, showing a high level of displeasure that they are still persisting. "The future of Infinite's world will be one where strong survive and the weak perishes, something you mechanical lifeforms would never understand even if you tried."
Kori manifests a frozen rigid dragon which Sage and G-23 collectively break, until Kori manifests more of them. One of them catches G-23, and Kori channels a built-in explosive ice bomb through it.
Sage phases through the other remaining dragons in her way to rescue G-23, but was all part of Kori's plan as she appears in front of Sage holding G-23. "I see, so you do have emotions…machine?"
Kori pierces Sage before she could phase with a high-powered and thin beam of ice, and detonates her bomb, creating a large explosion and inflicting heavy damage on both Sage and G-23.
Thankily, Metal Sonic saved them and rested an unconscious Sage in the hands of G-23. Metal Sonic by now undergoes a metamorphosis and activates his Neo-Metal State, having used the form to save Sage and G-23 with his incredibly fast movements from sustaining too much damage. As a result of this, Kori coalesces the ice around her to create an icicle avatar based on a samurai wielding traditional katanas. Metal Sonic does the same with a metallic shell that resembles his Metal Overlord form, channelling blue Chaos Energy throughout its body.
Kori has her avatar swing its katana, sending numerous miniature crystallised blades at Metal Sonic, who dodges them, blocks the next katana swing with his pair of mechanical wings, and tosses Kori aside. The two clash with Kori's ice bomb and Metal Sonic's mouth cannon, before taking the fight above the clouds right after. Kori uses a couple of towering ice arrows against Metal Sonic's destructive energy balls creating massive explosions. As both Kori and Metal Sonic prepared their final clash, Kori at the last second changed the trajectory for her attack downwards aimed for Sage and G-23. Knowing that he had the chance to take down Kori once and for all, Metal Sonic instinctively flies down and shoves the two away and takes the blast instead. With the Gaia Temple in the middle of collapsing, Kori further decimates it with her incredible power, creating an explosion of ice that altogether destroys the temple.
Meanwhile, Amy and Bunnie made their way to Holoska. A small icehouse village located on the centre of the Earth's northern ice cap and the coldest place on the planet. Seeing that even Chronos's Generals are giving their all to stop the Resistance, Zeena believes that it would be fair that she does likewise. Though Amy and Bunnie are fighting together for the first time, they are able to a certain degree synchronise their respective fighting styles from their sparring sessions. However, Zeena starts moving even faster, leaving Bunnie unable to follow her movements. She knocks back Amy into a stone pillar and performs a singular horizontal slash on Bunnie, cutting off her cybernetic hand. Bunnie ignores the minor setback and tries to slash back at Zeena, who just grabs her energised blade and redirects the angle of the attack to stab Bunnie with her own blade through a column.
As Bunnie exclaims in pain, this brings joy to Zeena. "Yes! Scream louder!"
Amy comes to the rescue with a fearsome hammer strike that Zeena blocks, altogether the impact knocks her backwards several metres.
Amy rips some fabric off her uniform and tightly wraps it around Bunnie's bloody wound, comforting in the process. "It's okay Bunnie…rest for now and leave it to me."
Amy then sets her eyes on the Zeti, ready for battle and transforms into her True Heart Awakened State.
The rematch with the Warrior of Love and the Zeti's Embodiment of Hate begins! Find out in the next chapter.
See ya!
