Outside:

On contact, the beams stood at a stand still with immense power, but the Overlord was slowing pushing them back.

"HA HA HA! You won't last against me!" The Overlord cackled.

"Keep. Pushing. Forward!" Kai encouraged, as the Ninja were able to slow down the dark beam coming towards them.

Ryan was able to see the power level on the machine, and it was at sixty percent.

"Nya, how long can the Ninja use that 'Full Potential?'" Ryan asked.

"About five minutes," Nya replied.

Ryan estimated that the power of the Overlord would last longer than the Ninja because of the time limit.

"Do you think they will make- Ryan? Ryan!" Nya called, seeing that Ryan grabbed the reins of the Ultra dragon and started flying forward.'

"What the heck dude?! Where are we going?!" Marcell asked, since she was on the Ultra dragon with Ryan, while Nya was on Pearl with Dr. Julien.

"They need more power," Ryan replied, and he jumped off of Ultra dragon and landed near the tower.

Ryan quickly stood near the tower as he looked at where the Ninja were firing against the Overlord.

"Ryan. Don't stay here. Go," Lucy said.

"Not this time, sweetheart. I'm fighting too," Ryan said, as he raised his arms and shot a more opaque Platinum beam that merged with the Ninja's.

"We got extra power!" Flare said, as the Overlord's attack stopped progressing towards them.

"Don't leave us out then!" Marcell yelled, as she grabbed the Ultra dragon's reins and said, "Shoot you Ultra dragon beast! Give them your power too!"

Ultra dragon opened all four mouths and shot elemental beams that merged with the main one. The Overlord's attack was pushed back.

"NO!" The Overlord yelled.

"Then let's add our power too! Go Pearl!" Dr. Julien said, as Pearl stood on the other side of the tower and shot a white-fire beam that merged with the others.

The Overlord's attack pushed back further, as the power-level on the machine dropped to fourty percent.

"You go Pearl!" Nya shouted, as she threw her last sword into the beam.

"GOOO!" Auria shouted, as everyone shouted with her.

The Ninja's attack grew stronger as it pushed the Overlord's attack closer towards him. The sword that Nya threw pierced threw the Overlord's attack and hit straight into the core. The Overlord screeched in pain as the power-level drained to twenty percent, and it lost two percent each second.

"This can't be! How could this happen?! We should have destroyed you! I should have won this time! AAGGHHHH!!" Overlord shouted, as the power drained to one percent and his attack stopped.

At the same time, the Ninja slowly decreased the power of their attack until they stopped. The seven Ninja were panting, as were the dragons and Ryan. Then the Platinum Tower dispersed, as the Ninja stood standing on each others' shoulders.

"Okay guys, let's-Ouch! Hey! My hair!" Kai yelped when he felt his hair pull down from a foot on his shoulder.

"Oops. Sorry Kai," Zane said.

"Ugh! I can't carry all of you," Lucy said, struggling to hold everyone up as the Ninja began to topple.

"WOAH! WOAH! WOOAAH!" The Ninja said simultaneously, until they all fell down and each yelled out "Ouch" and groaned in pain of falling.

"Are you guys alright?" Nya said, as the dragons landed and she jumped off to see them, as well as Dr. Julien and Marcell.

"They're tired. But they'll be alright," Ryan said, as he walked over to Lucy and gently helped her to sit up.

Final battle:

"We've been apart for too long… I've missed you," Akemi said softly, and Darkness looked back towards her and said,

"I've missed you too... how are you here? I thought you used up all of your power and..."

Akemi relaxed her hands on his shoulders and replied, "I used a lot of power, and in the last moment I ended up being sent to another realm. I didn't realize what happened until I was already there. I saw people from that realm coming to my aid... but then I blacked out."

"You created an unintentional rift to another realm?" Darkness asked to clarify, and Akemi nodded.

"I was knocked out for four days until I came around, but my powers were quite drained. I couldn't use them for a long time, but I was slowly regaining my powers, and now I have them back," Akemi said, as Darkness gently twisted a few strands of her hair in his hand.

"I'm glad you're alive my dear. So glad..." Meir said, as his eyes softened and he released her hair from his hand.

Akemi brought her hands off of his shoulders with a sad smile, and said, "Me too... I have the chance to save you now. Another chance to free you, Meir."

Darkness narrowed his eyes and said, "What makes you think that I need saving? I'm no longer the 'Meir' you know, and I'd prefer if you stopped calling me that name."

Akemi's eyebrows furrowed, and she said, "Meir IS your name. That's who you are. Not this 'Darkness' that you use to hide yourself!"

Darkness furrowed his eyebrows and growled a bit, as Lloyd and Raven stood up with widened eyes.

"And what would I be hiding myself from Akemi? Considering that you were in another realm this whole time and could have returned recently since you did it once before," Darkness said, and Akemi's eyes widened as Lloyd and Raven slightly gasped.

Akemi narrowed her eyes as her fists clenched, and she said, "I already messed up the first time trying to save you and I thought staying out of the way would have been better for everyone else. I failed you once and I've regretted it ever since! It was all my fault...!"

Tears quickly gathered in Akemi's eyes as she closed them, but they still rolled down her cheeks. Meir looked at Akemi in surprise, and he moved his hand towards her to comfort her, but he froze for a moment. Lloyd and Raven were holding hands as they tightened their grip, anxiously waiting to see what he was going to do. Darkness was slowly retracting his hand from Akemi with all of his might as his hand was shaking from doing do. However, he froze again as he looked at Akemi with widened eyes when he heard her almost whisper,

"I'm so sorry Meir."

Meir took a step forward as his hands cupped Akemi's cheeks, and he said, "Why? Why are you sorry? You did nothing wrong. If anyone should be sorry... it should be me. I caused all of this for everyone, for you! I caused all of this because… I couldn't deal with what I found out… I couldn't accept myself as what I am… and after what I did to my father..."

Meir looked downward sadly with gritted teeth, and Akemi reached up with her hands and cupped his cheeks.

"Meir, we were once the Platinum dragon. I know you. I know your pain. And I know about your father... and that he let you stab him," Akemi said, and Meir's eyes widened.

"What...? What do you mean he let me stab him?" Meir asked.

"He felt you were right to take action against him since your mother died because of him, and how he left you alone. He let you stab him and left himself to die because he felt it was justice. He was always like that," Akemi said, as Meir felt his heart twist up again.

"How do you know this?" Meir asked.

"As I was regaining my powers, I found a way to speak to him. He told me his side of the story, but I had no way of telling you before," Akemi said, as she released Meir's face, and he released her own.

Meir looked away to reflect on this, as Akemi looked towards Lloyd and Raven to make sure that they were okay. They smiled at her to signal that they were alright, and she smiled back with a nod.

" I understand..." Meir said, as he looked towards the three.

"I punished this world because I felt betrayed, but now I realize that I was wrong to take justice into my own hands. I let my own darkness get the best of me, I let my own anger control me... I understand now... I'm sorry... I can't turn back time but I finally learned something from it. This is not the same world from before, and I shouldn't punish any of you for what happened in the past. Nor should I punish those people from before for their own misunderstanding. I see differently now..." Meir said, as he looked down.

Lloyd and Raven felt relieved and quite surprised to hear him say that. However, Darkness look up at them with fire in his eyes and said,

"This world has their Purple and Green ninja, but prove that you two have what it takes to bear that burden... to save everyone... prove yourselves to me."

Darkness' eyes glowed a bright red, as his hands and arms began to emit dark energy. Lloyd and Raven nodded, and they walked a few feet closer to him. They stood in fighting stances with Golden and Silver energy around their arms, as Akemi walked towards them and stood behind them. Her hands also began to glow Gold as she held a calm expression on her face. Darkness smirked a bit, and then their battle continued.