Chapter 33- Cosmo's Awakening
Cosmo proceeds to grow vines in an attempt to entangle Master Zik, the elder Zeti jumps towards his opponent and creates a big vacuum of wind around them, preventing Tails from intervening. Master Ziki jump around this vacuum of wind several times, to disorient Cosmo with his amazingly, nimble manoeuvres until it eventually disperses, which causes Cosmo to fly into the air, as Master Zik lands and connected this with a rock-hard gut punch once Cosmo's body falls close to his presence that sends her flying off the ground clean through a stone column.
Tails calls out his friend's name with a look of desperation. "Cosmo!"
Master Zik diverts his attention towards Tails, fully covered in his nanotech-esque suit of armour lunges right at him.
Master Zik fires blue haphazard bolts of electricity, which Tails counters back with an electrical discharge blast from his palms.
The collision between their clash causes both fighters to fall back from each other, as Master Zik is surprised that he is not able to manipulate the magnetic fields of Tails's suit of armour. "That fox…his suit must have some type of resistance towards our innate ability."
Tails circles around wielding a plasma blade to strike him from behind, Master Zik stood still even yawning.
Like the other Zetis, Master Zik draws his power from his negative emotion which is fury making him resistant to being stunned or paralysed, appearing semi-invulnerable as long as the embers of his fury doesn't waver. Tails retracts his blade and shifts into using hand-to-hand combat with a blend of enhanced punches and tails swipes. Master Zik does the same with his psychokinetic power to call his wooden staff to him, for a few surprise attacks. He then projects blue energy balls and shapes them into energy slashes that slice across Tails's shoulder, forcing him to back down for a bit.
Master Zik gives out a malicious grin, enjoying the view in front of him. "Why do people who are so weak desperately cling to life when they should accept whatever suffering it gives them."
This got Tails's blood boil and storms at Master Zik who punctures him with a net of energy slashes. To Master Zik's surprise, every single cut didn't do the intended damage onto Tails he expected because of an amalgamation of Tails's armour and his perseverance and punches Master Zik across the face with a reinforced right hook at his moment of vulnerability. In spite of this, Master Zik remains confident he can slaughter Tails regardless of his previous impressive feat, but Cosmo surprises him when she suddenly reenters the battle having broken her amulet breaks and activated an unknown transformed state.
Cosmo notices the dumbfounded expression on Master Zik's face and slightly delirious monologues about her current transformation. "I've been struggling to use my clan's revered technique, if needed a comparison could be seen almost like a Super Form. But, inflicts internal damage to the brain as an exchange of its unfathomable power. So I would need to end this as quickly as possible, even though you have already lost."
Master Zik draws his staff, responding back at Cosmo's declaration. "The battle is just beginning!"
Cosmo agrees with the prospect and calls out in excitement. "You're right, it is!"
From his suit's operating system, Tail is detecting high levels of an energy he has never seen before incessantly spewing out from Cosmo. "Whatever it is, it is just as potent as Chaos Emeralds Energy."
Master Zik gears himself to challenge the newly awakened Cosmo, muttering to himself. "Black Arms, The Knuckles Clan, The Knothole Clan, The Saigai Clan, whatever it is…the Zetis are the mightiest of them all!"
No matter how he currently feels, there is still a heavy discomfort resting on Master Zik's heart once he locks eyes with Cosmo. He decides to ignore this, by taking down the weakest out of the two being Tails first.
The Zeti bolt for the young fox expeditiously fast and unloads a swift left swing from her staff coated in his energy, but Tails is suddenly pulled backwards by a vine from being hit. While upside down in the air and close to Master Zik, Cosmo shoots from the tip of her fingers with the absorbed sunlight she gotten a bundled beam.
This sends Master Zik flying across the nearby area clean through two or three stone columns. Master Zik tried to toughen his endurance as best as he could, only bleeding from the head. "Tch! There is no denying…right now, she's a monster."
Cosmo and Master Zik clash head-on, hitting a standstill for a while and fending away each other's attacks. On the other hand, Tails uses his thrusters to speed himself up to their level, having taken in information about Master Zik's movements and his fighting style. He is just able to pinpoint the most critical points in his plays and intercept a few of his strikes at the last second and create ideal situations for Cosmo to overpower Master Zik multiple times. Tails takes a full-frontal hit, intended for Cosmo. "Now, Cosmo! Win this!"
Cosmo positions herself in the air, with her arms opened wide. "There is a technique that is a rarity amongst my clan can use, Solar Flare!"
Cosmo then proceeds to absorb the energy of the plant life from the surrounding area, with her aura reaching the size of a green-like sun. Master Zik stares in awe before attempting to strike Cosmo through the giant aura of energy, but his hands nearly get charred in the process. Cosmo struck the Zeti with an all-powerful attack that left him defeated, as she too falls unconscious before her transformation does too much damage to her brain.
With the battle between Zavok and Dr. Eggman, Zavok sees this and becomes enraged. The Zeti pumps more power into his beam, as he steadily overwhelms Dr. Eggman despite his struggles, resulting in an explosion that narrowly misses where the Gaia Temple is at. It turns out Dr. Eggman withstood Zavok's earlier attack, though his Egg Dragoon's mech suit is grievously injured head to toe.
Wasn't sure how to name this chapter, so yea. Dr. Eggman versus Zavok. Find out what happens, in the next chapter.
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