The Councilors were seeing what shaped Silco into the man he was today. They had never seen the effects that their effects that their decisions had. That was the same as Piltover, the plight of the undercity was easy to ignore when it could not be seen. Now though, the citizens had seen it, It had seen the inaction of the Councilors and their exploitative actions. It had seen the actions of the enforcers. Their brutality and the massacre of the citizens of the undercity. They had seen it from their perspective. Jayce looked down. Was this the cost of progress? Is this what all of this had led to? Jayce decided things would have to change.
The Demacian entourage was silent. Jarvan felt that there was nothing that he could say now. He had no right to say anything. Lux felt like crying.
Swain mutters the words to himself. The words that had affected him the most, showed him a path forward. "Power, real power doesn't come to those who were born strongest, or fastest, or smartest. No. It comes to those who will do anything to achieve it." So, this is the man named Silco.
Ambessa felt apprehension now when she looked at Silco. A man who would truly go to all extents. There was nothing scarier than that, a man willing to sacrifice the entire world. She would need to play this very carefully. Their house cannot afford any more enemies.
Darius and Samira's eyes were instead drawn to the adopted children of Silco. Danny as a warrior, and Jinx as a loose cannon. An insane genius that could combine magic and technology.
Darius saw the child as a warrior. It would be interesting to see his full fights and powers. A pity that he could not see his power. Noxus could do with another warband leader like that child. The fact that he can take the pain and still stay stable and sane spoke about the boy's mental strength.
He did wonder where the boy came from. It was not from this world, at least.
Vi was looking at the life of Silco. "No, Vander was not like that." Her hands trembled. "I am so sorry powder. I should have been there." The scene of Powder throwing herself at Silco broke her.
On her side, Catilyn was going through her own crisis. "No, mother would never do that. She .. she. Tell me this is a lie."
"Firelights take flight," Ekko called out. The firelights jumped from the wall, mid fall they got on their hoverboards and began to ride the wind. "I want all of their air units down."
It pained Silco to send his children to fight. It still worried him when Danny had asked to assault the void spawns on the ground on his own. Still, he trusted him. Jinx had created her own weapon. She called it Fishbone. She decorated it well, a part of her spirit.
Silco closed his eyes, this was the moment. The moment when the entire world will grow to fear Zaun. Zaun would come into being this day, simply because the rest of the world will have no choice.
Her daughter got on her own hoverboard; her weapon slung over her shoulder. She flew out, behind the firelight. She was the mobile artillery, responsible for the annihilation of the main enemy forces.
Danny took a deep breath and then he began to will himself to transform.
Power like never before flowed through him.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh". Danny screamed as he willed the ghost core within his body to function., to flow. Clouds began to gather around him as green thunder flew out from his body, dispersing into the clouds.
He saw that everyone took a step back from him, some in fear some in awe others in horror. It did not matter to him.
It hurt so much. Danny fell to his knees as he felt that he was on the verge of transforming.
Danny gathered his strength as he punched down, his punch leaving a crater under him. It was during this time that a blue bird landed on his shoulder. A silhouette of women formed as she put her hand on Danny's shoulder.
"Lady Janna," Sevika muttered. She could never forget the Goddess who had saved her. The Goddess who had prevented her from crushed. The Goddess who looks over them. This was a scene witnessed by the councilors as well.
"Go, my child." A clear bell like voice rang out.
Danny finally transformed; two rings formed around his body as they moved so did his form change.
His hair became white and his eyes glowed green. His entire outfit turned black and white.
Danny, however, felt that he had some extra limbs. He looked at his side and realized that he had wings. He curled them around himself, as he looked at them in amazement. Green wings, that was a new addition.
He needs to concentrate on the fight.
Danny took jump leaving crack in the ground. Suspended in air, he decided to drop right in the middle of the voidborn army.
His crash into the ground made a crater, annihilating any of the void creatures near him. His eyes flashed green as Danny fired ecto-plasmic lasers from his eyes. The reation was as expected, many of the creatures in front of him were bisected into two or three. Some of the more smaller creatures burned into nothing.
The area around him was clear of any hostiles. Suddenly, Danny felt his danger sense come on. Looking up, black plasma rained down on him. It filled the sky, Danny knew instinctively that his intangible form would not be able to protect him. His wings came around him, shielding him as they glowed green.
For several long seconds, observers on the bridge saw a variety of plasmic projectiles landing on the same spot. One explosion after another rang out.
It was after long sustained minutes of bombardment that it finally stopped. The view was obscured by smoke and dust.
For a moment, the entire battlefield was silent. Than with a great gust of wind the smoke cleared and Danny was just standing there. The bombardment resumed but this time Danny was prepared. He had managed to successfully draw the aggro from all the ground untis. He flew to the side, dodging and weaving through the void blasts coming his way. Changing the shape of his body as he willed it.
It was during this matter that the void born had forgotten about the presence of the other players on the battlefield. One after another, Jinx fired rockets from her trusty weapon fishbone. One after another, entire units were being eliminated.
Ekko and his own fireflies taking care of the air units. Weaving in and out, they had gotten air superiority. Ekko would not allow a single of his men to die. His technology was perfected, the problem was only the charge. Each of his men were briefed on his abilities. They moved like a coordinated unit. His men fired from above into the mass of units below, taking down high priority targets.
Danny entered the middle of the lines once more. An ectoplasmic sword forming inside his hand, as he began to cleave through one creature after another. Using one void creature after another as a shield. His eyes turned blue as he slammed his hands on the ground. Spikes of ice formed around him skewering the voidborn around him.
His eyes turned back to green as he formed giant green fireballs in his hands. He began to fire them one after another into the enemy ranks. It was for the first time that the void born ma have met resistance like this.
Fiery death from above and devastation from below. The void army seemed confused and unsure about how to act. There was no way for it to know which target should it prioritize. Bel'Veth eons of knowledge worked against it in this case. There had never been powers exhibited like this ever before.
Due to this confusion, Bel'Veth was slow to coordinate the voidborn. One of the primary reason for them being quickly annihilated.
Danny saw that the battle was almost at an end. A few remnant were left. That was until the rift spat out another creature. Danny would have to describe it most similar to a beholder. A giant floating voidspawn with one giant eyes on a round body, surrounded by tentacles with smaller eyes.
All of the eyes opened wide and fired purple plasmic ray on Ekko.
Ekko saw the plasmic ray approaching and was taken by surprise, more than half of his fireflies were annihilated. He turned back time and dipped at the right moment. His fireflies following him. Yet, they were still annihilated as the haphazardly smaller rays made short work of his men. Ekko turned back time again and dipped once again. Giving a signal to his men to take evasive maneuvers.
Danny looked up and saw the charge on Ekko's device dangerously low. Seeing that the next strike may end their life. Danny flew towards the giant creature. His eyes glowed green as his lasers made quick work of the tentacles holding the various eyes. Black and purple blood rained down from the sky.
This gave Ekko the required leeway to retreat.
More and more of Jinx's mega death rockets rained down on the void spawn beholder. Yet, a shield formed in front of its eyes.
Danny seeing the situation unfurled his wings, as he flew up. An ectoplasmic bastard sword forming in his hands. He flew up, above the cloud. Cladding himself in Ectoplasmic Energy. Danny fell, the sword in front of him. To everyone else, it looked like a green shooting star was falling down. Danny pierced through the shield and into the beholder.
The void spawn beholder cried out as its body began to turn into ice as Danny fell from the other side. He looked up and saw that everyone was spent. Jinx had run out of rockets.
There were still about a thousand of the voidspawns left. Danny fell in the middle, as he used the strongest ability in his arsenal, his ghostly wail.
Like all of his powers, his ghostly wail had also undergone an upgrade. Electricity sparked around him as he screamed out. The ground around him shattered as green electricity sparked with him at the center. The void spawned creatures around him shattered into small bits of black and purple.
People at the wall could hear him as they had to cover their ears.
The fireflies and Jinx stopped as well, covering their year as they felt that a thousand voices were screaming at the same time.
Danny tired, fell onto one of his knees. His hair turned back to black as part of his transformation receded. This was still very taxing on his stamina.
Danny looked up and saw that they had won. That it was all over.
"This is not over." An inhuman voice came from the void rift as it started to expand. Millions and millions of creatures were present, as far back as the eyes could see. Danny got to his feet, he willed himself to transform and his hair turned white again.
Silco looked towards the void rift. Millions and millions of void creatures waiting for them. How long had the void been preparing for this invasion? Why target Piltover instead of the other mega empires?
"What do you plan to do now?" Swain asked him. His eyes showed great interest.
"It is a true pity that I have to reveal one of the fruits of the labors of both of my children so soon." Silko walked towards Sevika. "Fire the flare."
Sevika nodded at him, as she pointed a flare gun and fired. It reached the zenith before it exploded into the form of a skull-shaped firework.
Danny who was preparing himself to continue the fight felt the sky turn green. Turning around, he saw a giant green skull in the air. He rushed away from the void rift. His form turned spectral to negate the effects of the air resistance on him.
This was the scene that Vi and Catelyn had run into. A scene where the respective delegation had given up hope. All except Swain, who was looking at Silco as if he wanted to swallow him whole. Samira who was excitedly looking at the portal. Darius who looked stoic as ever.
Jarven looked apprehensive, and Lux whose hands were trembling.
The councilors looked as if they had given up hope.
"So, this is how Piltover ends? We do not have the resources to deal with those many enemies." Mel closed her eyes.
"The least we can do is fight till the end." Jayce placed his hammer on the ground.
"Sometimes, I really hate the naming sense of my daughter." Silco sighed. "If only Danny was here."
Vi wanted to snap at Vander that he was not Jinx's father. That he was the one who had corrupted her.
"Prep the super duper mega mega mega death rocket." Silco sighed.
For some reason that sent a chill through her spine.
"I really wanted to use this one on someone else. Please surrender." Silco said into the microphone.
"I find it amusing that you still jest." The distorted voice replied back.
"So be it."
The cover was removed a everyone saw a giant rocket. Its front had teeth drawn on it. The side had two excited eyes. A message was on its side. Fuck you. With love from Jinx.
"Fire in 30 seconds," Silco said.
Sevika was smiling excitedly. There was a wide smile on her face, she was feeling excited. Her blood was boiling.
"5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Fire" Sevika yelled out.
The missile shot out, as it crossed the wide gap and went through the void rift. It seemed as if time slowed down as it crossed several miles into the void.
Jinx who had reached the wall, turned around to the rift and said a single word while making gestures with her hand for an explosion. "Boom." Her voice was heard clearly by everyone.
Danny who was still running away went into the ground His intangibility helped him in this case.
For a moment, it was as if the entire world paused. There was no sound or the like, then all at once, the world began to move at a fast pace. Then there was a flash of light that somehow made the entire void light up. That was accompanied by a shockwave that obliterated anything in its path. Followed by the sound of an explosion. A mushroom-like cloud was formed as the entire gathered force was consigned to oblivion.
Danny formed a giant shield in front of the group that stopped the shockwave. Giant cracks formed on his shield as Danny held on. Soon afterward, the sound reached the group.
There was silence everywhere as Runeterra for the first time witnessed a Nuclear explosion.
Silco looked up. "Fire the second flare, we are using the second" Silco paused for a moment. "Super duper mega mega mega death rocket."
Sevika with a trembling hand fired the second flare.
Silco's words broke everyone there. The idea of there being a second weapon like this made them tremble.
The void rift quickly closed and sealed itself.
Jinx pouted. "I wanted to fire all of them at the same time." She tilted her head with a thoughtful expression on her face. "I wonder what would happen if three of them hit at the same time. Can I crack the void?"
That absurd question quieted down everyone as well as they imagined three of the same explosions happening at the same time.
