Hyperdimension Neptunia

Third Sister; Darkness

Chapter 22

The Emperor.

All monsters are defeated, unfortunately the treasures have been stolen and taken to the center of Gamindustri where Aviner apparently resides. We got distracted in fighting Dream. But now, we can march on. We don't have to go all the way through the other end of the desert, just to the sea. Fortunately, Cave has someone pick us up with an air-craft. If we went by boat, Falcom may cause it to sink somehow. That's what she told us anyway. Our trip is a little difficult with most of us in pretty bad shape. The only ones with SP left are Dragonette, Marvelous, Kagura, Broccoli and Cyberconnect2. Even Acclaim had spent a lot of SP fighting Dream.

We figure we may be able to kill one of those Pyrasphix's to get its treasure, it could give us some SP. Conversations are bound to open up as we walk the desert with not much else to do.
"Your identity is Claimer of the Phantom Thieves, am I correct?", Cave interrogates Acclaim.
"I am not obligated to answer your question, even if fair.", Acclaim says.
"While I have to respect your privacy, using a Goddesses' EXE Drive Attack would place anyone under scrutiny.", Cave responds.

"He can copy abilities.", Theresa casually states.
Acclaim, Sili-san and Dragonette give her the stink eye.
"Don't worry. I trust Cave.", Theresa says.
To give credit to her, telling them the basic info without extra detail will satisfy them without giving too much away.
"He was a human experiment and gains abilities from getting hit by people or seeing the ability and touching the user of said ability!", Sili-san says excitingly going with Theresa's energy.
Now that is too much.

"Hm…Doesn't that imply you fought Lady Black Heart?", Cave asks.
Now we all look at Sili-san with disappointment. He has a regretful look himself.
"Since you are here after fighting her…Wouldn't that mean?", Cyberconnect2 is coming to a conclusion. Except it is quickly shot down by Acclaim stating, "I ran. I could not defeat Black Heart."
"I am no less curious. You guys actually ran into her?", I ask him.
"It was the worst case scenario. Like, she just flew down in the oil fields and tried to arrest us.", Sili-san says.
"Truthfully, she just wanted to talk, but when we refused she tried to take us into custody.", Acclaim explains.
"Yeah, yeah. She was tenacious. We ran away multiple times. She showed up when we were fighting The Mole. The Mole ran, so I went after it and…", Sili-san keeps talking, but he seems to forget he wasn't there for the rest.

"I had to escape into the city, but that is where I couldn't dig with the Mole's ability. So I was in a grave situation. Until Dragonette arrived.", Acclaim says.
"Yeah. I chased this anti-goddess weapon or whatever to Lastation. It is a good thing it can't fly as fast as Leader. I destroyed it, did a sneak attack upon Black Heart.", Dragonette says.
"And when her Purple Flame didn't work, I managed to grab her and escape.", Acclaim finishes the story.
"What odd luck…", I say.

"So you ran into a Goddess…? We hid when Green Heart was around.", Theresa says.
"I know right, can't believe these idiots would just fight a Goddess, right leader?", Dragonette says playfully.
"I fought Uzume in this desert last evening.", I say casually. That is crazy too, I guess.
Everyone looks at me shocked.
"We became pretty good friends after, too.", saying that has their jaws even lower.

Whilst everyone was discussing that, Acclaim whispers in my ear, "What is with that woman in the mecha? She has the same mask as us.",
I notify the others to a more private conversation, including Evo..
"So, this is Evo. She is a potential new member. She really wants to join us to take down her former employer, SCJP. I can trust her enough on this mission, she has delivered. If you accept her, she may be our technician and healer…And tank I guess as well, huh?", I explain to them.

"I'm pleased to meet you. I am sorry to say I kinda spied on all of you. Don't worry, I did it with enthusiasm! I am a big fan.", Evo talk energtically.
"You've got to be kidding me.", Sili-san replies.
"You already knew, though.", I say, implying his reaction is late.
"But when she says it like that it makes me feel bad!", Sili-san snaps at me.
"Hey…I needed some way to destroy SCJP and you guys just happen to have the same goal, and you're cool to boot!", Evo says.

"Hey, I don't really care, Leader. I've kind of joined as a friend rather than a serious worker.", Dragonette mentions.
"I always have faith in Leader's decisions.", Acclaim says.
"I have seen enough to not think she's bad. Plus, an actual technician may be useful.", Sili-san says.
"Um…Me too. I also believe in Leader.", Theresa votes.
"Well then…I guess you need a codename.", I tell Evo.
She nods. Then she tells us, "How about…Lovelace.", she says.
"…That sounds like a normal name.", Sili-san says unimpressed.

"It is based off the name Nviidea was going to give his next architecture designs for GPUs…Before he died. It was also based off of some important person.", she says.
"Yeah but like…You know, a nickname should also be a description.", Sili-san argues.
"Hm…How about Intel?", she asks.
"I feel like we are mixing multiple company representations here…", Sili-san says.
"What if I represent a computer in and of itself?", she asks.
"It would still be too different…How about 3Dfx?", I ask her.

"Hm…I like it.", Eva says.
"That's not even a name at all.", Sili-san says.
"Is it really that important of a discussion?", Acclaim asks.
"I think we can call her 3D for short.", Theresa says.
"It sound stupid to me, but whatever.", Dragonette comments.
Well, it has been decided.
All we had to do was show each other's faces and tell the masks we were allowed to see each other.

Now we head back to the rest of the group.
For now, aside from running to the sea, we hope to find a Pyrasphinx to kill so we can get its treasure. But something unexpected happened.
"Hey um…Guys…Like um…I don't meant to alarm or anything but uh….", Sili-san is speaking weirdly.
"Spill it.", Dragonette says.
"If the Sphynx flies, are we screwed?", he asks as he points forward.

We all look above us. A Pyrasphynx with a reverse pyramid and wings is heading straight towards us.
"Who activated one of the sky pyramids?! How even?!", Sili-san shouts.
"Well, things are finally getting interesting.", Kagura says.
"As far as I've been told, this guy moves around a lot more and is way more aggressive, but doesn't do the speed charge. Instead it…Well you can see that it flies. It also has new projectile attacks.", Falcom says.

It is already trying to blast us with lasers from its eyes. We run away and spread out, not letting it hit us.
Acclaim uses some thrusters he copied off an enemy and together with Evo, they flew towards the Reverse Sphinx.
"Fatal Fist!"
"UnionStar Light Slash!"
Both of them used special attacks to overtake its eye beams and hit its face.

Thinking they could close in on it, they flew straight ahead, only for it to quickly flap its wings and ascend above them. The Pyrasphinx easily sends them flying with its claws, chasing right after Evo.
Whilst still in momentum, Evo fired off another Fatal Fist on it, but it is now capable of mixing the two eye beams into a larger stronger beam, Evo's spiraling beam easily overpowered.

She does manage to fly away before it could hit her, the sphinx closes the gap in no time regardless. It is stopped by Acclaim using oiled up threads.
"Before it tears through them, I suggest you firebomb these threads.", Acclaim says.
"Got it!", Eva replies, firing off a bunch of flame grenades bursting the oiled up threads into blazing ball. It doesn't do that much damage because of its resistance, but allows for Evo to gain some distance with Acclaim placing his feet on her mecha's shoulder.

"Allow me to set off from your well-crafted vehicle.", Acclaim tells her.
"Go ahead, I'm excited to see what you'd do.", Evo replies.
To make sure it can't dodge him, Acclaim sends himself flying at it with Light Step, allowing him to deal a massive blow with any attack of his choice, Dragonette's Arashi Daigeki being a pretty popular choice.

The sphinx is pushed back, but it easily flies around the two. It not only shoots its usual spears, but also many new energy balls. Alongside dodging eye beams, the two were busy blowing the projectiles up in the sky with rockets and missiles of their own.
A light glows from the back of its pyramid, summoning a giant Rosetta Stone. It flies towards us, even the air cuts from Kagura and Dragonette are not going to stop its momentum. We run around to avoid it.

This somehow worked in our favor. Kagura had send herself flying with the wind from the impact of the giant Rosetta Stone.
Appearing close to the sphinx, she taunts it, "Yo, big kitten. I hope you can kill my boredom!"
She wanted it to attack her. She can defend herself against its claw swipe whilst Marvelous shot herself at it with Doton using the rubble of the Rosetta Stone with her ninja magic.
Coning close to it, she shouts, "EXE Drive Skill! Midaresaki!" An alternative version where

she uses a bit of the Red Flame to turn herself into a red bird that flies into the monster, the red flame exploding into it. Despite her using fire it is actually a neutral physical attack, so it did decent damage.

But as it gets scarred, it does crazier moves, starting with a lot of beams coming out of the many holes in its pyramid structure. Everyone had to stay clear from that attack. Then it launches a giant beam from the top of its reversed pyramid. A second later, it rains down light, sometimes a sudden large beam is shot from the sky, and sometimes it launches homing orbs, on top of it unloading more projectiles from its pyramid without stopping its claw swipes.

Kagura gets on top of Evo and demands, "Throw me at him at max power! Spin your fist if you have to."
Evo looks a little startled but did as she said. She hurls Kagura at it.
"Let's go! I know your weakness!", Kagura shouts digging into the pyramid. I see, she is aiming for the core.

Nothing is happening? The Sphinx is glowing…It does a burst of magic from inside, which does end the constant rain of light, but it blasts out Kagura. I guess the core is gone this time.
Evo comes in to heal her with a needle, as for the sphinx, it gets a new visitor. Dragonette had flown her way towards the sphinx after generating a lot of wind magic.
"Hey, I have to have my fun too!", she shouts. Marvelous and Kagura deal with the claws whilst Evo and Acclaim prevent any projectiles from reaching us, Dragonette is cutting up the pyramid as she runs amok, evading any magical orb or spear shot out from the pyramid.

After a while, it roars and speeds up its attacks, knocking the party down from the sky. Acclaim gives everyone a save landing using the string ability.
"Damn bastard.", Kagura says wiping spit from her mouth. She gets back up and shouts, "Throw me back at him!"
"I think he's coming to us.", Sili-san points out.
It was suddenly stopped by…Um…

Like, I heard the shout, "Umio!" and then a bunch of…Fish things with human faces flew into it like rockets and blew up into it…Oh, it's Uzume! Or Orange Heart, she salutes the fish things!
"A Goddess?", Falcom asks.
"This is my first time seeing her, but could this be the rumored Planeptune CPU, Orange Heart?", Cave asks.
"It's her, nyu.", Broccoli responds.

Uzume turns around as the monster begins to move. She flies up to avoid a slash from its claws. Then she shouts loudly into her megaphone to do more damage.
The Pyrasphinx lowers its altitude so it can charge straight up into the sky at her. But Uzume shows her great physical strength as she lets energy spiral into a drill on one fist, punching the Sphinx down onto the ground in front of us.

Acclaim and Dragonette walk towards it cracking their knuckles.
Kagura jumps right above it shouting, "Now It's my turn, I'll pay you back for that hit! EXE Drive Skill!" I see a green streak moving all over the sphinx cutting it apart.
"EXE Drive Skill!" Dragonette, Kagura, and Acclaim bombard it with their ultimate moves, killing it in no time.
"That shows you! Once on the ground you're nothing!", Dragonette says.
"It may have been better to let Uzume handle it, in my opinion.", Acclaim says, leaning on his knee.

"Well…I guess we're heading into a final fight with our EXE bar empty…", Sili-san says.
Uzume slowly lands, waving at me shouting, "Hi! Suno! How are you?! Did you win?!"
She reverted back to Uzume and runs towards us.
"Uzume…We did defeat the monster, but.", I try to respond to her, but so much happened I'm not sure what to tell her.
She stops and looks at everyone else, "Whoa…This party is rather large… Actually, um…Which one is Suno?"

I raise my hand.
"Oh…Good I got the right one.", Uzume looks pretty relieved.
The three who killed the Sphinx walk behind her.
"Are you really Uzume?", Marvelous asks.
Uzume looks behind her shoulder and replies, "That's right…And you are…?"
"I am Marvelous. A ninja who serves the Goddesses.", Marvelous replies.
"I'm Kagura, just tagging along. I don't hate Goddesses, I just don't care.", Kagura says casually.

"Hehe… I see. Well, as long as we're cool, that's fine.", Uzume says.
The others kind of swarm Uzume as well.
"This is the first time I've seen you. I heard quite a lot. I'm honored to meet you.", Falcom says.
"Oh…You have red hair and a sword. Yeah, I have heard about you as well…Falcom…Was it? Red hair is cool, right?", Uzume replies smiling.
It takes Falcom by surprise, but she ends up smiling and saying, "I suppose so, yes."

Uzume smiles even brighter, she ends up saying, "The second coolest color."
"You're a friend of Neptune's right?", Cyberconnect2 asks with a smile.
"That's right. Are all of you perhaps as well?", Uzume asks.
"I had to do annoying things to help them, nyu. But I also kind of liked helping them, nyu.", Broccoli says.
"O-o-of course…I c-c-collaborated with them, too…After all.", 5PB. says.

"Aren't you that Idol…I think I met you, actually.", Uzume says.
"Oh yeah…For that one song.", 5PB. shy demeaner changes for a second as she seems to remember some past event.
"Destiny has a sense of humor, does it not? Uniting friends with enemies who then also are friends with friends of enemies who may just all be friends in the end.", MAGES. says.
Uzume whispers in my ear and asks, "Um…What is she saying."

"Don't mind her. She's just saying things to sound cool.", I say.
"C-cool?!", Uzume replies loudly, shooting her rear backwards in surprise.
"I see… Um. Indeed, the destiny that has brought us together is of the highest great of comedy that will turn into an epic adventure.", Uzume attempts to speak the same language.
"Hm…Not bad. But I could definitely give you some lessons.", MAGES. says with a neutral face.

"Now is not the time…", Cave says, slowly approaching Uzume.
"Lady of Orange. Allow me to request your aid. I am Cave of the RRoD department, special forces of Leanbox.", Cave speaks as formally as possible.
"Special forces…That does sound cool, but I can't say I heard of you.", Uzume says.
"It is fine, I do not expect a Planeptune CPU to fully know.", Cave replies.
Uzume crosses her arms and listens to what Cave has to say.

"Currently, Justit Info had made this event to gain all four treasures spawned by the collapse of the four Golden Towers. The Phantom Crusaders have been shown to combat them and other organizations working with them. Since they have created anti-goddess weapons, they can be charged with treason and on top of everything else. As of now, all four treasures are stolen and gathered in the center of Gamindustri. We suspect they may use their energy to achieve a nefarious goal.", Cave explains.

Cave does add a few more details before asking Uzume once more if she's willing to land a hand.
Uzume unfolds her arms. With a fist pump, she says, "Of course I'm in. Defeating secret evil organization is pretty cool after all…", she takes a more serious face after and looks to the sea, "Besides that. I know that Gamindustri right now is having a rough time. We can't let guys like that cause any more problems."
And so it is settled.

"Hey! Guys!", we look back, seeing Dragonette wave as the assault party returns.
"We have procured an ample amount of max SP charging items.", Acclaim relays to us.
We may not all get to full SP, but with little food. We could gain our SP back as we rest in the vehicle that will pick us up later. We march on to the sea, where this large aircraft is waiting for us. We finally got inside after about half an hour of walking.

"Wow…This is more spacious than I thought!". Cyberconnect2 says excited.
All of us new to this are pretty amped up. Uzume said she saw this thing before but never got inside. We all took a seat.
Plenty of equipment is inside this plane as well, first-aid kits and a lot of guns…Not many of us use guns, however. Evo can follow the Pelican with her mecha. And so, we headed for the center.

On the way, a few were on their phones.
"No good. I can't reach Nepsy.", Uzume says.
"It would seem Lady Green Heart had to team up with the other Goddesses to face not only Blue Screen, but other large monsters as well.", Cave says.
Evo was calling into the aircraft's intercom.
"I have been looking around, but it seems a massive attack on Gamindustri from Blue Screen, spacial rifts, a powerful cult leader from Lastation, and unidentified mecha are attacking the border of Lastation all at once.", Evo tells us.

"I find it unlikely to be a coincidence.", Acclaim states.
"Me neither. I've hacked into Blue Screen's information network, it would seem he has followed some bait to get into a fight of this size.", Evo says.
"Wait…I thought you couldn't hack him?", I ask her.
"Yeah, I am kicked out now. Our last duel left me with some passwords for his network, I knew it wouldn't last long the moment I used them, this seemed like the perfect time. As far as he is aware, Justit had placed some bait, the unknown Mecha are from them.", Evo says.

"It doesn't explain the other situations.", Sili-san points out.
"Either way, the Goddesses have business elsewhere. I believe we are strong enough to handle anything they have against us.", I say.
"I believe in us as well.", Falcom replies.
"Hey, I prefer fighting alone anyway, so I don't really care if we miss teammates.", Kagura says.
"We have two Goddesses here, so can we really say we are at a disadvantage?", Marvelous says.

Our trip wouldn't take too long. We were going to land near the mountain side within the central area after about one to two hours of travel. We step outside into the meadow.
"Wow…This place has grown beautiful since we last went here, huh?", Cyberconnect2 says.
"I have come here a few times. Aside from an occasional spawn of strong monsters, it's become a pretty fine area.", Falcom tells her. We walk a bit further with everyone talking about the central area. I love places like this as well, but I can't help but notice how quiet it is here.

The wind blows over this flat land with nothing in sight besides the other mountain ridge that connects to the large mountain side to our left. Evo had the radar, so we followed her directions to the middle of the mountain's wall right in the center.
"Hm…It should be about a few hundred meters in front of us…", Evo says.
We stop for a bit to discuss this.
"Aren't these kinds of bases underground anyway?", Uzume asks, looking around.

"It isn't an unreasonable proposition.", Acclaim says.
"Hm…I do not see a sign of any hidden entrance, however. But I can't deny it either.", Evo says frantically tapping away at the computer.
"Eh…Do we have to start digging?", Marvelous asks.
"Well, you did master Doton, right? Guess it is up to you.", Kagura says in jest.
"Kagura is a meanie…", Marvelous replies with a pouty face.

"EH?!", Evo shrieks in shock, as we all look at her, she shouts, "The treasure's energy signals…They Disappeared!"
This puts us in a frenzy. All of us knew it already, but Sili-san spells it out, "Doesn't that mean they're already done using them?!"
"Most likely, they have finished harvesting their energy…I think.", Evo says, still typing in a rush. Before we knew it, a giant flaming pillar bursts into the sky in front of us, an exploding sound blowing molten metal into the sky. Rubble falling all over us. We watch in awe.

Then, a girl walks over to us with a sinister smile saying, "Well, well, well. Look who showed up late for work."
"Lisa…Do you still not understand who you're working for?", Evo asks this girl.
This black haired woman with glasses and curled hair replies, "You should understand, I only care about outdoing you and creating the best machine. And I finally outdid myself."
"Anti-Goddess weapons are highly illegal, not to mention evil. What if they cause the end of Gamindustri?", Evo asks her.

Lisa puts a finger on her lips and says, "Hm…I suppose that would be bad, sure. But after so many bought your invention, I only really cared about improving mine to the max. I may not compete on your innovations, but I'll make what the buyer really wants. And I have succeeded. The Radeon 6900X is finally finished. It warn you, it is not a marginal upgrade like your 3090X.", Lisa says.
"I know we didn't get along. But did you really hate me so much that you would forsake ethics to sell a product?", Evo asks.
"Isn't that what your master did to mine?! Both our teachers passed away, but mine did with a smile despite having lost to someone who was about to sell his soul to A.I! Seeing you succeed over me, I understood one thing. Playing fair doesn't get you anywhere.", Lisa replies angrily.

"What is your goal? Is that your lab below that hole?", Cave asks, stopping Evo from speaking her next line.
"Oh, that?", Lisa asks looking back, "Yeah, that was our base for building our best machine. Since we succeeded, we had no more use for its existence. It was better, erased. We use teleporters to leave, I took the one that gets me directly above it.", Lisa looks back at us and says, "The plan is to make an emperor that can overtake all of Gamindustri. These folks at SCJP want Lowee to dominate this world."

"But why would they want that? It's not like Blansy would be for it at this point.", Uzume says.
"They believe the Goddess doesn't have the will to fight anymore, but believe Lowee deserves to be on top at all cost. I don't personally care, I am just here to invent. And they allow me to make whatever I want.", Lisa says, smiling from ear to ear.
"Lisa…You…", Evo was ready to approach her, but stops when Lisa says, "I think you guys have more pressing matters to attend to, no?"

Lisa leans to her left to look besides us. We all turn around, from the ocean, a pillar of light shoots out.
"I think we better check it out.", Evo says.
"What about Lisa?", Cave asks.
"Don't worry. She'll be captured even if we leave now. Trust me.", Evo says.
We don't really have time, nor a reason to doubt her. We spring over to the ocean.

Once we arrived, it split in two, the rift getting wider and wider. Out of the bottom of the see came a giant robot. It slowly rises, its body black and overly detailed. Plane-like wings behind its back, the armor on its arms thick and leaving a large hole around the arm's wrist. Its headpiece has a white kabuto helmet and its eyes glows yellow. Alongside white ends, it had red and yellow extra colors. Its size towers over everything I have ever seen before. If he stood next to the largest mountain here, his top body with reach over it.

The rift closes in, but only its lower legs are submerged in water.
"Phantom Crusaders…And followers of the Goddesses…Witness true power. This is your emperor speaking. Leader of the defunct Computement-Corp, Gill Bates!", a deep and angry sounding voice comes from the robot.
"Leader of Computement-Corp? Why is he…?", Evo is mumbling.
"You disappeared to be with Justit Info, right? Why come fight us now?!", Marvelous asks.
"Dumb broad! I was so close to completing this ultimate robot myself, then you lot meddled with our plans and drove me to that WITCH's detestable organization. Even worse, the machine was finalized by my INFERIOR WORKER…As punishment, I was the one to give my life to pilot this perfect machine…", he berates us.

The robot moves with his speech, spreading his arms in the air as he shouts, "But I feel happy with that now! I personally get to take revenge on the Phantom Crusaders!"
He looks down and points at me specifically, "I don't recognize you, yet I feel it within my bones…You…You. Since You showed up it's been nothing but trouble. False Goddess. I will KILL you personally!"
"Wow…You must've really pissed him off. What'd you do?", Uzume asks.
"This is the first time we've met.", I reply, also feeling a little weirded out by the high concentration of hatred this man exudes.

"The way he moves…Are you really inside the mecha? It's movement is far too smooth.", Evo points out.
Gill laughs, he stretches his backs and pumps his arms behind his back, that alone causes a shockwave that creates a large splash around him.
"Behold", he says, "I have become one with this machine. Our minds combined. This is the ultimate power!", he raises one hand with his index finger stretched, the direction he was pointing at creates a rift into the land from our left, raising stone into the sky by sheer power.

"I have become the strongest in the universe!", he shouts, raising his left arm in the sky, causing water to rise next to him.
"Having surpassed the Goddesses, no one can defy me!", earth around is slowly cracking up with stone rising into the sky.
This heart pounding sensation. This is it, the final battle. As dangerous as he is, I feel excited somehow. Maybe it is because I am doing it with so many friends.

"Suno…I'm going to activate something. Can you transform with me?", Uzume asks me.
I look back at Uzume, I nod to her and tell her, "I'll follow your lead."
"White Frozen Sweetch Processor Unit, set.", I say before both of us shout, "Transform!"
A forcefield of light appears on the field, the next second, we are flying towards Gill.
"Hmph. So the false Goddess and the historical failure team up, do your worst.", Gill says, the mecha's arm's crossed.

"Sharing Field Activate!", Uzume shouts as she used share crystals in her shield to create this large dome-like field that also gives us platforms to stand on around the mecha.
"What is this?", he asks, looking around confused.
"This is Uzume's greatest idea!", Uzume says excited.
"What is this…Magic?", I myself am no less bewildered.
"It's constant spiraling share energy, it restores SP to our friends and Share energy to us.", Uzume says smiling.

Wait…Does that work for...?
I suddenly crouch with a headache. This pain…It's…!
"Hm?! Suno? What's wrong?", Uzume asks looking worried at me.
"I'll…Be fine… Let's attack him with our strongest attacks.", I say, getting up. I need to bear with this pain. As it would seem, I do gain power because of the 99% share energy output, but with the other one being 1% reversed, I get hurt from the occasional share energy boost. If I had the form that had a 75% reverse ratio, I would lose that same number as my vitals now.

Some of the others got onto our platforms. It is an all-out attack.
"FusionStar Light Slash!"
"Dream Roar!"
"Wind Spear!"
"Archive of Magic!"
"Mechanical paradox!"
"Photon Blade!"
"Time to Kill."
"Heavenly Sound!"
"Death Punch!"
We attacked it all at once, and while combined they make him budge, I noticed my and especially Uzume's attacks don't even scratch it.

Out of the smoke, he swiped one of his arms to make our friends jump away. He tries to do a punch, but me and Uzume fly away from it. He launches hundreds of missiles and dozens of large rockets. Uzume destroys some by shouting in her Megaphone, Acclaim, Evo, and Cave shoot down the rockets. Me and Uzume hit him from above, only for that to do nothing at all. He does a spin attack to prevent others from attacking him, but Falcom jumps around it and hits him with "Socarian Sword!", shooting crystals into him that explode in magic together.

"Demon Flame Cut!", Falcom shouts, unleashing more sword attacks whilst Cyberconnect2 jumps around shouting, "Peerless strike!" The two attack him ruthlessly until he closes himself off with his arms, a push of his whole body as he violently opens himself up creates a blast of air that sends us flying back, it slightly hurts us.
"I don't understand…He's still strong…Can Uzume's Share Field not have failed?", Uzume asks.
With the burst of energy came beams that hit a few of our party. I try to stop him, but kneel as I feel pain again.

"Suno-", Uzume stops mid scream, staring at me worried, she then says to herself, "The Share Field…Does shares hurt Suno?"
"Your shares are meaningless to me! I have harnessed your power and risen above!", Gill says about to flatten Uzume, but Uzume cancels the share field all together, grabbing me and flying away as fast as possible. He shoots beams out of his eyes at us, but it is deflected by Acclaim and blocked by Theresa and Mages.' combined magic.
Uzume lays me down. I feel rather weak, I can barely see through my eyes. I revert back.

"I'm so sorry…I didn't think about your condition.", Uzume says.
"It's…Okay… I was wrong for not keeping up…", I say, feeling that I should be able to handle anything. But getting a good look at Uzume's face, I don't think she agrees. She flies towards Gill and gets motivated to fight.
"The fly returns to me?", Gill says, turning one hand into a gatling gun with numerous rounds that spread into hundreds of lead shells.
While Uzume tries to avoid it, Gill is getting shot by every ranged attack our party knows.

"Hm…He has multiple layers of armor, but we are damaging the front layer over time…His energy…", I hear Evo mumble to herself. Her machine makes a bunch of noises.
"Huh, guys! He hasn't been fully charged yet! The gems still have to fully power it!", Evo tells us.
"This is not even his full power…Oh boy.", Sili-san sounds disheartened.
"This means we have to ensure victory before it gets to fully use the Mecha.", Acclaim says.
"A time-limit, huh? Hehe, this is a chance! Let's beat it up before he can reach full power!", Dragonette says, pointing her Naginata forward.

"You insignificant insects think you can destroy this marvelous machine!", Gill shouts before shooting flames form one hand.
"Conflagation Dust!", Mages. creates a cross of flames, she required Theresa's assistance to absorb the flames and mend them into a flaming tornado, they could barely control it as it violently twisted around, but eventually, they send it back to Gill. Although his metal doesn't seem to burn, he is taking damage from it and forced to step back. The flames keep coming until he turns one hand into a large drill blowing the flames away with its sheer power.

"Giga Drill Breaker!", he shouts, attempting to thrust this drill onto us, but Uzume flies in with her own drill punch shouting, "Spiral Dream!" The two clash, and while Uzume's Goddess power probably helps stop Gill's drill, she ends up losing the struggle and is plunged into the ground.
Gill launches an all-out assault with every explosive weapon known to men, all countered by our party's excellent range of magic and fire arms. In the meantime, I have to come up with a solution against his share energy barrier. No attack Uzume does has any effect.

I enter the inside of my head. In this black void, I meet the Goddess personification of me, and the opposite. Her black eyes stare me down as she asks, "What do you want, idiot master."
"I need to combine the power you two hold. This enemy will use both share and anti-share energy if it is based off of those black droids.", I say.
"The audacity! To ask for my power alone would already be hypocritical, but now you DARE demand us to work together?! To mix our energies on purpose?!", Cold Soul lectures me.

"With all due respect, master. I do not wish to work with this embodiment of evil.", Snow Heart tells me.
"I don't care about any of your objections. Listen! This is my mind, and my body is mine. You two shouldn't even be here. Let me use your power.", I say.
Cold Soul gets ready to face me, she walks over to me aggressively and yells, "You filthy loser! You are the weakest of us and proclaim your mind to yourself?!"

"You don't get to talk yourself?! What about you?! You just want to kill everyone and never listen, why should I even reason with you?! There is no common ground here, is there?!", I tell her.
"I AM YOU! My desires have come from you neglecting us! And now you dare come begging us for help?!", Cold Souls replies.
I give off an angry response, "You are me, and that is why you do as I say! I don't care about any of you! I have an enemy to beat! I am not "Begging" I am not even asking! YOU WILL GIVE ME YOUR POWER! And that. Is. That!"

Cold Soul tries to respond, but she gives up hallway multiple times, even when she tries to raise a finger, she lowers her hands. She turns around and says, "Fine!"
After walking away from me, she looks back and says, "Here is the deal! I will cooperate! But the moment you lose, your body is mine and there is not a thing you can do about it! Got it!"
"There is no deal. If I lose consciousness I can't do anything, but when I regain it, I can control you.", I tell her.
She stares at me like her eyes were daggers ready to be thrust upon me, and says, "We'll see about that."

In the real world, I open my eyes. I feel fine after the Share Field incident. I can sense it. New Power.
"Dark White Mod Sweetch Processer Unit, set.", I say before transforming. Rather than a pillar of light, the light gets split in two, one side darkening.
My hair turned pure white. One eye became red and other blue. Half of my form got colored white and other half lack. The black half to my right has a spiky shoulder pad that was incredibly long, with a large spikey wing behind it. My hip part curved around me looking like a shield, but with spikes.

I wore a thick black gauntlet with many spikes and blades, a matching black boot to go with it. On my left, I have white wing bones with floating white translucent diamond patterns between the wing bones. I had similar shield-like design to my left, but it had feather-like metal pieces sticking out of it. I had a winged white boot and a winged white gauntlet. The shoulder piece being some kind of shield that can extend as well. My head piece were two front horns, almost looking like bunny ears, one being black and the other white. Underneath I wear a body suit that is white in color with many black details and armor plates.

50/50 Share and negative energy ratio, but this time, both are a lot more efficient in this form, never mind I can somewhat control the negative energy now.
I get plenty of looks. I overhear Sili-san saying, "Another new form?!"
"I see. So this is what you meant when you said she changes form frequently.", Cave responds.
Before anything else, I cast my weathering altering spell. Hopefully it will activate in time.
I lift one foot, and next, with Light Step, I move towards Gill at a speed not unlike my original HDD form.

"Back for more? False Goddess? Have you not learned my barrier can't be penetrated by your powers? I would even suggest reverting so you can deal actual dama-", Gill was mocking me, but I shut him up, for a Smash into his face from my light filled sword has him back-paddle.
"What's this? Not share energy?", he asks out loud. Right after, he throws a quick punch, which I tried to parry with my blade filled with light, but his strength easily pushes me away. I materialize a second sword and fly over to him, dodging his many missiles and rockets.

I hit him once with the second blade, doing miniscule damage, once I Light Step away from him doing a spin with his arm extended, I shoot a blade of light at him, not doing anything this time. I see, his barrier shatters for about half a minute.
I move around, over and over again, leaving many after-images around Gill. He charges up purple electricity and does the same zoom technique the bird used to do. He must have some type of information system or something, because he accurately predicted where I would end up and punches me with a lightning charged fist. The fist hurts me and sends me close to the sea-bed, but the lightning I absorbed with the second sword being my favorite lightning blade.

I Light Stepped back into the sky before he could kick me, then I shoot all of the lightning back into him. It does damage him, but he seems to be able to hold onto that lightning and discharge more. He points to my friends below, "If that doesn't work on you, we'll see your friends fry instead." But Sili-san already prepared a large cover of wiring and string that would absorb the high concentration of lightning shot from his fingers.
"I see. I hate all of you so much, but that will make your ends more satisfying.", he talks, even though I am about to attack him. He tries to shoot me away with a beam, but I split it in half with Mirror Blade. I was pushed a little, actually Uzume happens to fly next to me after I got attacked.
"Uzume. I can break his shield for thirty-seconds, attack him within that time.", I tell her.
She salutes and says, "Uzume will beat him black and blue!"

We fly between bullet-rain and missiles, Uzume curving around to still stay away from the range of his fists. I fly straight towards him to do a light slash using some of my negative energy. He guards himself this time, it was too weak to destroy the barrier.
"You think I'll let you do the same thing twice, oh great leader of the Phantom Crusaders?!", he obnoxiously belittles me.
"Weapon Change.", using my special ability, I changed the lightning sword into my explosion axe.

He extends a long wide sword from his arm, but I just barely dodge it as I flip around, my feet touching its flat-end. From there, I use Light Step, into a spin smash that reached his gut as I shouted "Zerstorung!" My axe explodes into him, shattering his barrier.
I fly away, though, not without being hit by a knee, I still shout, "Now! Uzume!"
Uzume lands a powerful dropkick on his head before getting back into the air shouting, "Dream Roar!"

She already uses her SP move to shout into the Megaphone damaging the Mecha, but she shouts even longer and harder to make sure she gets as much vibration in to really mess with its internals before the barrier gets back up. Unfortunately, it meant Uzume having no guard. The mecha's eyes shone a light for a second, he then does an upper kick reaching far into the air, sending Uzume through a cloud.

Gill does a backflip onto his feet. Now he slowly flies up.
"Playtime is over…Watch as I will unleash my unbridled wrath!", he shouts flying into the air. I notice a bit of stuttering in the engines on his back. Perhaps he gained more power now, but he still isn't at full and can't fly too high.
Acclaim and Evo fly up in the sky whilst Cave prepares to platform on top of his sequential rocket and missile fire to get into the air.

Falcom rode on top of Evo, jumping off of her prepared to cut Gill. He simply punches at her, Falcom really did gather all of her strength into a strike, and did seem to make some impact, but she ends up being flung away in that clash, not without launching a counter-attack. "Socarian Sword!", she uses her one ranged attack before falling down, doing minor damage against him as he covers himself with one arm, the other arm is busy firing shots at me to keep me away.

He focuses on me, turning one arm into a blade, I parry his sword by crossing two blades filled with light, although, I had to move immediately after every clash because the force of his swing would blow me away uncontrollably if I didn't go with the flow voluntarily.
In the meantime, Acclaim attacks. A sword in his right engulfed with light and the other turned into a large rainbow whilst winds spiral around him. His metal arms are starting to glow orange and the veins over his head grow thicker.

"Tornado Light Daigeki!", he shouts, combining three moves into one as he flies forward turning into a rainbow light drill aimed at Gill's Mecha's head. He put his hand in front of his head, Acclaim is pushing the hand back and drilling through the metal. But he ends up getting blasted away by a red beam. But that does not take him out of the sky. He tried stepping forward and punching Acclaim down, but Acclaim stops it with string. He had already been shooting out string, Evo holding onto the other hands of that string. She just is there for support, but it allows Acclaim stall Gill's movment.
"Leader, attack him now.", Acclaim says.

Right above, I combine two lit up swords. The blade of light grows in power as I dive down, only stopping to throw the slash of light shouting, "FusionStar Light Slash!"
A direct onto his face which must deal some decent damage. But the recoil he takes from absorbing that hit is easily shrugged off as he immediately counter attacks blasting lightning into me and shooting Acclaim with eye beams. Evo avoids a full rotation arm slam. But even with her fast jet, there was little she could do.

"Fatal Fist!", her SP attack bounces off of his arm before he slams her towards the ground where the rest of the party was.
"Full Option Burst!", Cave says, her beam coming in like a misquote bite.
The mecha responds with gatling gun fire, but even that is avoided by Cave, she even used one of the oversized shells before it could spread as a stepping stone to jump further. He tries to punch her instead, only for her to manage to land on his arm.

He first tries shooting her off, either with missiles from his shoulders or lasers from his fingers, but as Cave runs up his arm, she dodges every single move with grace, almost phasing through them. He throws his arm in the air instead, but I guess even he can't anticipate that Cave jumps with his arm movement and just glides over the air.
"Time to Kill…And Malicious Heaven.", using both fire and wind magic at once, he gets barraged by fireballs and spheres of wind that combine into a hurricane onto him.

He tries firing a larger beam at her, but she somehow manages to dodge it in midair with a turn.
"EXE Drive Skill!", Cave shouts, the EXE Drive Skill not powerful enough to stop his movements, but the projectiles he fires gets overtaken by Cave's pixel attacks, even if by a little. She especially gets hits in once she summons her wasp things, together she fires two beams that spiral together into a mushroom explosion.

Through the cloud of smoke, his yellow eyes brightens up. Cave dodges a laser beam from his eyes, but that combined with thunder storms he had summoned and tornadoes he had shot out of his arm, she is overwhelmed and ends up getting spin kicked back to the ground. I think he notices now that, Sili-san has been taking care of our friends' landing with his string. I stop him from doing anything about it, or rather, his attention was on me as I tried to cut him with two swords, but he zooms behind me with electricity instead.

I see his left arm pumped up, but his palms are lighting up, making me think he's going to fire a beam of light. That is when Theresa warns me, "Leader! That is not light!"
Too late, he fires it directly into me. I see, it is a hydro cannon, what are the odds? My body is digging deep into the mountain bed.
Everything hurts, but I'll get up eventually. I can still sense what is going on with Wind Sense, even if I have to concentrate hard on it.

Uzume flies back in to distract him. Cyberconnect2 is actually flung towards him by a combined effort of Sili-san's string and Acclaim's multiple launching techniques. With her eyes red, she digs into the metal with her blades to climb up and down the mecha at high speeds, doing many slashes.
"EXE Drive Skill!", she shouts. Eventually speeding up so much it looked like she herself turned into a bunch of large green blades. "Black Fang Soul!", she shouts as she ends her attack slashing through its jet engines to weaken his flight. He ends up kind of…Standing on the water?

Either way, Cyberconnect2 did what she could but with Uzume unable to make him budge, Gill was free to do a spin kick that sends Cyberconnect2 back into the dirt, knocking her out. Acclaim and Evo fly back into the sky to fight Gill, whilst Marvelous, Kagura and Dragonette combine their efforts to run over water like the ninjas they are. His ankles had large anti-air cannons and anti-tank rifles, not to mention the many turrets on the sides of his legs and ports that reveal cannons in his lower leg area.

But ninjas are agile, so they manage to avoid most of those, also manipulating water with Suiton or Hyoton to stop even more projectiles.
"Red Flame!", Marvelous powers herself up using the red flames whereas Kagura uses her Green Flames to transform herself shouting, "Green Flame!", right after.
Dragonette gets rid of a bunch of rockets before creating a large magical tornado with the spinning of her naginata, allowing the other two ninjas to get in close to Gill's legs.

Marvelous's blades turned into long flaming swords as she cuts into one, leg, finishing her combo off with a powerful flaming dual slash, in sync, Kagura launches her six swords that repeatedly stab into the other legs before rotating around it to create a green flaming tornado, that she cuts past it with her seventh katana creating a green flame explosion. The two back off as the mecha falls on its knees, its head reaching the ground in front of our party.

Even with the air-blast pushing my friends back, they immediately attack the head.
"Prism Rain!"
"Time to Kill."
"Heavenly Sound!"
"Blade Burst." and "Tornado Sword."
"Mechanical paradox!"
"Photon Blade!"
"Peerless Wild Blade!"
"Fatal Fist!"
"Projectile Netweb: Spider Stinger!"

However, Gill wasn't going to sit down. Already, he had aimed the cannons on his ankles at Marvelous and Kagura, blowing them far back with direct hits of cannon fire. He lifts his face as he pulls himself up with his hands, doing an eye beam from up close.
Broccoli does her own Eye beam shouting, "Mekara Beam!"
But hers was too weak, so she pushed herself further shouting, "EXE Drive Skill! MEKARA BEAM!" Her beam got larger and larger until they overtake the Mecha's and connects with his face. The explosion made the mecha lift himself up.

Immediately, Broccoli teleports into the sky, crashing down onto him with Gema doing okay damage. He was about to smash her with his fists together, but Sili-san pulls her away with string.
"Damn you all. You think all of your attacks mean anything to me? This fight is just a test phase.", Gill tells us.
Dragonette sits on his shoulders yawning. "Ah…ha.", she makes a weird noise to get his attention.
"What?", was his only response.

"Finally noticed? Yo ho! It is your friend from the famous ninja family! You sure do dislike being toyed with by those weaker, but all of us just don't feel like losing to you. Now, I'm going to run wild.", Dragonette taunts him.
"Insect!", he shouts before trying to squash her with his hand, which Dragonette easily avoided.
In the air, she shouts, "Tornado Armor!", then she slams her naginata onto an incoming fist, the spiraling tornado on her spear allowing her to rotate onto the arm. She runs around scraping metal with her spear and jumping around to different body parts. Now a bunch of antenna appear all over his body.

Dragonette looks at it worried and tries jumping off as Gill unleashes a large discharge of electricity. She may have barely dodged it, but he just concentrates that lightning to his hands and zaps Dragonette regardless, even with her spear, there was too much lightning to absorb. Sili-san had to pull her back to us. 5PB. does a healing song to recover our party further.
"Ice Geyser!", Theresa freezes his legs turning the water to ice after making it shoot up in a pillar.

"You think yourself clever? You think this machine has no magic in it?!", Gill shouts, shattering the ice with manipulation magic. With a kick, he throws thousands of icicles back.
Theresa creates light magic on her staff. She concentrates, her body trembling as she splits the light apart. She now shoots the Holy Light Beam spell as a spread shot.
MAGES. seems to help her with something, but I can't quite tell what.
Theresa's spread shot of beams reflect off the thousands of icicles increasing their strength before blowing up into Gill. The light's heat melts the icicles coming their way.

Uzume has been watching from the side unsure of what to do. I finally am up the crater charging both my blade and my feet with light. This will be my fastest Light Step. I shoot myself towards the mecha, just stopping before him to envelop him in light as I swing my sword down, filled with all the negative energy I could gather.
"Uzume! Hit him with your strongest attack!", I shout. She smiles and gets into action.
Flying below, she screams, "EXE Drive Skill!"

"Hay yay yay!", are the noises she makes in the megaphone creating multiple implosions of sound all around the mecha, visible to the eye as orange pulses with musical notes. Then she throws her megaphone into the air to unleash a rush of punches at incredible high speed, almost looking like her arms turned into orange streaks, her fist doesn't even need to hit something directly, her punching alone damages Gill's Mecha.
She catches the Megaphone as it fall down on her while she says, "Uzume will gift you a dream", and then she screams into the megaphone as loudly as possible, "Get blown away!"

Two large orange magic speakers appear next to her that fire enormous orange beams that completely overwhelm the mecha. Now she dashes in and shouts, "Spiraling Dream!", punching through the mecha, an orange explosion going off as she is behind him. Her Exe Drive skill did the most damage out of us, and it still isn't enough. He zooms in on her with the lightning skill, and he performs a smooth spin kick that knocks Uzume onto the ground. I fly down to her. She seems fine, just needs a little healing.

I go over to Evo and ask, "Do you have any tips?", hoping a technician like her would know something.
"I have been thinking, why doesn't he spam certain moves? Like zooming with lightning? The treasures give him some of the monsters' abilities, but he can't fully utilize them yet. There are cooldowns between their best abilities", she tells me.
So I should bait the electric zooms to avoid getting hit by them in the middle of battle.

Theresa and MAGES. had been using magical circles to slowly charge the EXE Drive gauge together. Now they are going to use it.
"Couple Exe Drive Skill! Galaxy Element Spatial Murder!", the two shout, performing their two beams and combing their magic together to creates a flame of light and darkness that eventually swirls around like a hurricane, finishing it off with an orb of light that explodes like a nuke upon contact.

That did some real visible damage. Doing that on top of all our other attacks and Uzume's EXE Drive, his armor is cracked. He did not react positively on that at all, immediately raising a finger. I see a red flash from the index finger. Theresa's instincts are trained by me, she immediately teleported out of the way. MAGES. had to do a dodge roll and still got hit by a speedy red laser that causes a large red explosion on the ground, scorching the earth around it.

Our fight continues, I distract him sometimes by occupying his arms. Marvelous and Kagura jump in with their flames to do pot shots before getting blown away. The rest of the party are busy avoiding lasers that he drags across the land with his hands whenever I am knocked back.
At some point he got pissed and shoots Sili-san with his giant gatling gun, but even that is caught in his web and returned. Gill creates an 360 degree energy wave that stops the bullets from hitting him back.

Finally, snow is falling.
Gill looks up, then he looks at me, "You think your snow abilities are going to save you?"
He must know of this technique. Right now, some missiles were already coming my way, easily blown out by shockwaves send through the snow.
I first attempt to do a Snow Air Cut to see if I can cut him, but it would seem he has a barrier made specifically for air-slashes.

I first got some good hits in turning the snow around him into lights gathered together, but he increases the heat of his mecha to melt the snow around him. I Gather snow in my sword and blast him once with, "UnionStar Helios Slash!", shattering his share energy barrier. But I can't follow it up with a powerful enough attack, his shoots flames at me at every second, getting rid of whatever snow comes near me. I speed around with light step, but have no time to gather more light. I can't use many techniques either, if I want to damage him enough, I need the strongest attack to land.

Seeing I am occupied, Uzume flies above me and shouts, "Everyone! GIVE SUNO ALL THE TIME SHE CAN GET!" Her screaming into the megaphone also damages the mecha, his barrier still shattered. Uzume went further beyond, screaming without an end. More and more speakers appear around her, blasting pulsing waves into the mecha, stopping his movements altogether. Acclaim and Sili-san use string to hold him down. Evo flies with Falcom and Cyberconect2 on her back so they can stop his rockets.

Dragonette, Marvelous, and Kagura hit the legs running over the sea. Theresa, Mages. and 5PB stop him with magical attacks.
Thanks…Everyone. I am gathering light directly from the clouds, all of the snow is coming inside my sword.
The barrier was gone for longer due to the constant attacks, but he finally manages to shake off Uzume's attack and back-hand her away. The others are flung elsewhere within the span of ten seconds.

One final measure, 5PB. shouts, "EXE Drive Skill! 5PB. Live!", summoning a podium and playing music that slightly damages the mecha, more importantly, it stops his movements temporarily.
It's done. My sword is brimming with power. I fly in on Gill, and I shout, "ShootingStar Helios Slash!" With one clean vertical swing, I unleash a blade of light larger than the mecha himself, the explosion completely covered us, the sea below us gets split and shaken.

A layer of his armor falls apart. This means we did crazy damage, but it also means this was only round 1. His second layer is practically unscathed.
"You've done it now, false Goddes. I'll sho-", I won't let him finish his sentence, I cut him off with, "And now…For my new ultimate EXE Drive Skill."
I use two bars of the EXE Drive gauge. It felt like time stopped, all of the snow stands frozen, turning into larger white lights.

Some of the snow combined together and turned into light copies of myself wielding different weapons. We all fly into the mecha, constantly moving around as we slash, bash and stab him over and over again. If it weren't me and my copies, the snow itself turns into blades that pierce through the mecha. Over and over again until we all combine into one being of light, my blade lighting up as I say, "Shooting Comet Illumination Slash!", hitting him one more time with a powerful blade of light.

He takes a step back, absorbing my attack. The clouds above us have disappeared. Yet, even with all of that damage, he was still fine. His mecha must be far more durable. Uzume flies next to me, getting ready to attack. We didn't see much through the smoke my attack left behind, but her megaphone shouting attacks does damage now, he does not have a share energy barrier anymore. But as the smoke clears and his eyes shine red, I notice an ominous aura.

He thrust his hand forward, he barely touches Uzume, but that was all he needed. Uzume suddenly looks sick, then Gill's mecha bends his arm to his chest before hitting Uzume onto the ground, her transformation immediately undone. On the ground, she's coughing and wheezing. Anti-share energy?
I guess they couldn't fuse the two energies as well, which is why the layers of armor are separated. He now is covered in anti-share energy and can undo Uzume's transformation.

"You were strong to have gone through my first layer, but we all expected that the layers of this mecha would be peeled off, it is part of its design…Now…I'll seal your powers as well!", he says before trying to punch me. It was half-hearted, I could grab the fist and push it enough to the point there was almost no impact to me. I do feel a little ill from the anti-share energy, it is the 50 percent negative energy that is protecting me.
"What is the meaning of th-", before he finishes his sentence, I Light Step to his head and blast him with another "UnionStar Light Slash!"

"Enough!", he shouts, reacting to my attack by unleashing his dark aura, its bursting all over the ocean. I can feel myself getting weaker, my resistance doesn't last too long.
"I understand why the X6800 couldn't defeat you. False Goddess may have been a more adequate title than I gave myself credit for! But in the end, I see you still growing weaker.", Gill says.
His arms are moved slightly forward, he puts the palms of his hands close to each other with his wrists touching, he then pulls his arms to his right side. A purple energy is gathering in his hands.

"Kame Tori Tora Moguru Hou!", he shouts a long attack name as a large purple beam is fired from his hand, more than powerful enough to wipe me out. I am dug into the ground after being pushed into the mountains by this beam. My transformation is gone, and I am struggling to hold onto my consciousness. I try focusing hard on Wind Sense for now.
The others are panicking.
"He defeated two Goddesses, how can we still win this?!", 5PB. says.
"Impossible, nyu.", Broccoli says casually.

"It's that anti-share layer. It's not like his strength surpassed them that much!", Dragonette says.
"Right. We'll figure out how to get rid of it!", Falcom says.
Cave is helping Uzume up whilst MAGES. heals her.
"I believe we can get Uzume to transform again sooner or later, we just need to do enough damage to destroy that layer.", Cave says.
"If we can penetrate the armor and hit the anti-share generators, it would work. That beam he just did seems to require a lot of energy, he can't use it again for a while.", Evo says.

"Well. I am ready to do anything. How dare he hurt my friends!", Cyberconnect2 says, highly motivated.
"Same here.", Falcom says standing next to her.
Acclaim moves over to Theresa and MAGES.
"I can copy any ability. May I take advantage of your magic prowess to hit it with an even more powerful EXE Drive Skill?", Acclaim asks them.
"I am always okay with that.", Theresa replies with a smile.
"A power beyond our fusion of light and dark. For a mad magician, it is exhilarating", MAGES. replies.

"You heard them. Let us hold him off until they finish their grand attack."
Marvelous and Kagura were walking up to the rest, only to be stopped by Dragonette.
"Wait. I have a request! I'm sorry to take your time. As much as I want to fight like this, we aren't strong enough. I need your strength!", Dragonette says.
After she explains her plans, Marvelous readily agrees and Kagura only agreed after getting nagged. Both wanted to fight as everyone else did.

For now, Broccoli and 5PB. do healing and support. Evo, Cave, Cyberconnect2 and Falcom are on the attack. Dragonette and the two ninjas are going after they've finished doing whatever it is they are doing. Theresa, Mages. and Acclaim are creating an uber spell. But I can't sense where Sili-san is in the slightest.
Evo carries Falcom and Cyberconnect2 up into the sky, Cave is awaiting missile fire to use as platforms, worst case scenario, Evo shoots missiles at her instead.

Gill first uses a flame-thrower, but Cyberconnect2 and Falcom climb behind Evo's back, the flames getting resisted by her metal. Then it was over to projectile attacks and lasers, but Evo's mecha is quite fast. Flying around the beams and shooting projectiles down. Eventually, Falcom and Cyberconnect2 jump onto the mecha. In order not to get pushes off the moment they land, they stab their blades through the metal. Cyberconnect2 wasn't as strong, so she mostly used her agility to stay on the mecha with the fast movement of her feet. Falcom just pushes herself with high strength to get to different parts of the robot.

They struggle, Cyberconeect2 damaging it with speedy slashes and Falcom flying into the machine doing heavy slams with her blade, occasionally using her Photon Blade. Cave finally gets up shooting the Mecha when she was close enough. Gill had enough of it and raises his antenna once more
"Not this time!", Evo said, trying to concentrate the lightning onto herself using multiple lightning rods. While Evo manages to minimalize damage, Gill is not impressed, he charges the lightning into his hands and amplifies the output beyond what Evo's system can handle, sending her back towards the ground.
Falcom and Cyberconnect2 stayed longer, doing more damage to the Mecha. Even when he tries shaking them off with full body movements, the two have adapted and manage to stay on.

Now he bends his knee to do a high jump. This time, the two had no choice but to stay still, which meant they couldn't dodge his next attack. He aims the palms of his besides himself and shoots them down onto the ground with red beam. The two lie knocked out in scorched earth, but cannot be revived yet with MAGES. being busy. After he lands, he sees Cave back on the ground. And he sees the mages charging their next spell. He does a double punch thinking to attack both, but Marvelous and Kagura charge in, doing a heavy slam of their blades with their flames on maximum output.

They did stop him, even if they themselves ended up back on the ground. But they don't let up and run over the ocean, dodging his meany bullets. When he shoots out lightning, they jumped into the sky to avoid getting electrocuted on the ocean. In the air, he fires two lasers at them, they both cast, "Futon!", and combine it with their flames so they can flinh themselves over his beams.

Kagura blasts herself off turning into a green flaming tornado that torpedoes against the machine, bursting in green flames. Marvelous does some special movement to appear ultra-quick, slashing over his arms as she gets near the head.
"EXE Drive Skill!", both activate their powers to do as much damage as possible before getting zapped by lightning and flung away. Despite getting hit like everyone else, their flames protected them from fainting. They manage to get back up.

"I do question why you think your flames can harm me when Goddesses can't. Is it arrogance? Do you believe being able to take one hit makes your victory more feasible?", Gill asks.
Dragonette steps forward, "It's not about what we can do individually. We simply decided together to defeat you. That is all there is to it.", Dragonette says, pointing her naginata at him.
"And what does this insignificant twerp add to the conversation? Do you even know what it is like the wield overwhelming power?", he asks.
"Well, allow me to demonstrate.", Dragonette gives him a cocky reply.

Around the blade of her Naginata, a port is opened. "Purple Flame!", she shouts as she covers herself in purple fire that transforms her body instead of just her hair.
"What is this? That is not one of the four flames…It even transforms the user, impossible. How did you achieve such power?", Gill asks.
"I told you. Some of us simply decide to take action. I decided I needed to defeat Flame users, and now I've decided to weaken you so my friends can beat you.", Dragonette says.

Gill was about to make a counter-argument, but Dragonette's thrusters burst into flames as she shoots herself forward. Barely able to see her, he reacted a bit too slow with his arms as she slams into his shoulder. He tried to catch her, but she made a swift movement to his right. Doing a spin when she stopped her momentum, which creates blades of flames that shoots into his head. Dragonette was able to fly around him for a while to deal minor damage.

He decided to zoom next to her with purple lightning and punch her, he followed it up with lightning and beam attacks. Dragonette is still in a fighting state, but by her demeaner, it won't take much to defeat her.
She weakly laughs, "Hehe…You really are too strong…I'll give you that, even if that power isn't really yours…This power…It isn't mine either…But…"
She readies herself, holding her spear with strength and gritting her teeth saying, "This is the power we have created together!"

She flies forward shouting, "EXE Drive Skill!"
With her spear and thruster outputting the maximum amount of purple fire, she shoots herself against Gill, pushing him back quite a bit. She flies around, piercing him multiple times at high speed from every angle leaving trails of flame behind. She plunged down in a spiral unleashing a blazing spear attack that flares up the whole ocean in purple. Then she stops for a second, her naginata absorbing a flaming tornado.

All that energy concentrated into her blade, Dragonette does a rough spin, slamming her blade into the mecha creating a giant flaming explosion that turns into stars that outline a dragon. She did do decent damage, but her limit has been reached. She can't move out of the way as a straight kick sends her flying into the mountain.
"She was hiding something like that? I guess she does deserve some respect.", Kagura says.
"It was meant to counter us…But now we work together.", Marvelous comments.
Kagura replies with, "Yeah. I hope she's alright. I doubt we have time to heal her."
"It was over so quickly. All that wasn't enough.", Cave voices her concern.

She looks over to the mages and asks, "Is it still not finished?"
"Almost. We need a little more time.", Acclaim replies.
Gill moves forward after being pushed so much.
"You think I will let you get your attack off?", he asks, lifting his finger…Until it stops.
"What? Why can't I move…Substance found in the machine? String?", he asks.
Sili-san finally appeared on top of him, holding his whole body down in string.
"While you were having fun, I snuck under your feet, looking for every possible gap you'd leave. My strings are all inside your mecha now, holding down every mechanism.

"So what, worm? There are plenty of ways to escape your trap.", Gill says.
"I guess so. I'm not sure what I have entangled, but I wonder if you can free yourself before they are done.", Sili-san says. It is true, Gill cannot move his Mecha even an inch. But Sili-san is also just one man, his arms are nearly tearing off from how much he has to hold together. Rockets do not seem to be fired, most of his cannons are ties up and his ports are covered in string.

His flame thrower isn't working either. After a few minutes, he finally activates his antenna. Planning to fry Sili-san. He discharges lightning, only to discover Sili-san prepared for that.
"AAARGH! IT HURTS!", Sili-san shouts, but then he says with much struggle, "I…Have used wires inside your body…Hehe…Conducting electricity."
The mecha is damaging itself alongside Sili-san, hurting the person inside no less. Gill is screaming too. But in the end, only Sili-san had gotten too weak. His strings are torn apart without him able to hold the Mecha's arms in place.

Gill slaps Sili-san towards the ground, Cave catching him together with Evo.
He gazes over to Acclaim, MAGES., and Theresa. They are done.
"Formation EXE Drive Skill!", they shout as the three pull out their tools, extending them as far as possible as magical circles of every element plus a natural one layer over each other in front of their arcane weapons.

Three beams are fired into the Mecha, curving around each other until impact. The impact alone blows the clouds and sea away, then the light of their beams scatter and create new magical circles that barrage him with constant magic rays.
MAGES. and Theresa cross their wand and staff to power Acclaim up. With their power mixed, Acclaim makes a jump that skyrockets him towards Gill, Magical rings form around his body as he envelops his body with magic before punching into Gill, bending the mecha's spine.

Right after, he flies above Gill, with Therese teleporting next to him, and Mages. coming out of some dark gate, the three aim their wand and staffs down. Theresa shoots a beam of light, Mages. a pulse of darkness, and Acclaim shoots raw magic down at the mecha, their beams mixing together after going through him into an explosion that warps into a V shape with one side looking white and the other black. The three drop down back onto their positions as the V explodes into a forcefield.

Gill's mecha took much damage, cracks are appearing on his armor. But in the end, it is just not enough. His Mecha is giving off more heat, I think he has leveled up his power through the treasures, being very close to maximum power. He jumps onto the ground the party is standing on. Being close enough to the sea, the tiny cliffs are collapsing as part of the ground sinks, this alone causes a tremor for the party, but now a flood spills onto them that has water rise above their ankles. They skirt around as he shoots lasers down and makes explosions whilst also using his weight to impact the ground, blowing everyone away, he even does an elbow drop. Only Marvelous and Kagura stood a chance for now, able to withstand his overpowering strength and able to nudge him with physical attacks.

Even, so, they get knocked back. Cave easily dodges projectiles, but even she isn't immune to wind when she is eventually thrown against builders and debris breaking down from the mountain. Broccoli and 5PB. desperately jump away from incoming lasers, Broccoli eventually getting caught in an explosion and losing consciousness. Cyberconnect2 tried her best, attacking his feet and doing minor damage, but a cannon eventually hits her and knocks her out.

"Archive of Magic!", Theresa uses her magic to surround Gill with magical circles of every element to cast multiple strong spells at once against him. It annoys him greatly, so he quickly comes with a counter attack shooting a short speedy beam from his finger tips that causes an explosion. Theresa used a full teleport to get above his shoulder. He didn't know where she went and is specifically searching for her whilst Falcom brings some of her friends to safety.

Eventually, he notices where Theresa was hiding, she set up some magical circles. He tries to squash her, only for her to be teleported back to a teleportation circle she had prepared before-hand.
"DX Tenchi Raigeki!", she shouts, summoning a large bolt of lightning onto him that even damages the insides. He growls angrily as he forces Theresa into a short distance teleport shooting eye beams at her, then he immediately performs a bend over right hook that travels over the ground, nearly reaching her. It only misses her barely as she dodge rolls away, but in the end, he opens his hands and blasts her away with a beam.

The beam only gets stopped by Mages. casting Shimmering Lights on it. The beam stops and Theresa rolls over the ground unconscious.
"I apologize my brethren of battle. For I couldn't bear to see my assistant suffer. I may not be able to ask the god of chaos for your revival.", Mages. says as she has now gotten the ire of Gill. He reaches for her, only stopped by MAGES.'s EXE Drive Skill.
"Blasphemous Theoretical!", she calls out her last magic, blasting Gill with dark magic and summoned gears, combining science formula with magic. One of her eye turns red as the darkness she summons within her wand nearly crushes Gill into the void, but in the end, she just isn't strong enough to do more than decent damage.

She smiles, just before a boot lands her into the wall of a mountain.
Uzume is helping Falcom carry others to safety. Uzume is also capable of simple healing magic, but only one person at a time.
Gill looks towards them, he walks his way to them. Falcom tells Uzume to stay put.
"I will take care of his anti-share layer. Please, heal them.", she says before running off.
"And what does a mere adventurer think she can accomplish?!", Gill shouts before throwing a punch down on her.

Straining every muscle in her, she does an uppercut that parries his fist, standing tall with all of her strength, her teeth nearly shattering with how hard she grinds them together. She somehow manages to push the fist away, but her sword does not even dig into the metal.
"You have no hope.", Gill says, but Falcom takes a stance showing no fear.
"EXE Drive Skilll.", she shouts, perfectly parrying kicks and fists with her sword alone.

Her last uppercut almost throws Gill off balance, then she cracks the ground beneath her as she charges energy into her sword. With a thrust forward, she inches him back with a blue beam. As he tries to retaliate, she jumps between his extended arms, her sword growing into a large size as she shouts, "Photon Blade!" With a mighty upwards slash, she shouts, "Moon Dragon Sword!"
She actually did quite a bit of damage, but in the end, she is no more powerful than a Goddess.

"Giga Drill Breaker!", Gill's counter attack launches Falcom into the ground in a spiral after hitting her with a giant drill.
He continues his march towards Uzume, who is still in the middle of ensuring the knocked out party stays alive.
Marvelous and Kagura run in to try and stop Gill, he unleashes his sword from his wrist, Kagura and Marvelous clash blades with him, but in the end, he throws them with one mighty push of his sword, the two flung against the mountain, a part of that mountain split by the air shot from his slash.

Gill retracts his sword and moves forward, only to be stopped by Acclaim's words, "I shall not allow you to lay a hand on someone in the middle of healing."
He looks in the distance. Acclaim had scaled a mountain, an aura and great heat coming off of him. He has been using the limits of his mind to slowly gather all abilities of ours to combine into ultimate power.
"EXE Drive Skill. Unlimited Arsenal!", Acclaim shouts. As is rare for him, he flies forward screaming his lungs out.

He creates a sword in his right hand, swirling with rainbow lights, light magic, green and red flames, photons all gathered into one blade. In his left hand, a spear crackling with lightning with a tornado swirling around it. As Acclaim flew at a crazy speed, around him are magical circles that shoot flame and wind orbs like Cave's attacks combines with black spheres and gears like MAGES.'s magic. He thrusts his spear into Gill, already pushing the Mecha back quite close to the shore he created. Then a devastating uppercut with his sword that forced Gill to backpaddle.

He used the thunder bird's lightning teleportation to move above him, Now with two wands in his hands and his arms opened up, he fires numerous spells and solid projectiles down at Gill, finishing it with a flip smash into his head with an axe. Now, he flies before Gill as one arm spins like a drill, a bunch of elements, spells, projectiles and general powers combine together.
"Singularity Combustion!", he shouts, flying forward at Hyperspeed and smashing his fist into the mecha's chest, sending him back into the see. As he keeps pushing, he himself turns into a drill and pierces through his chest, leaving a large open gaping hole behind.

Uzume looked in amazement, any party member still awake shook from the mere sight. It would normally be a victory, and yet… Acclaim, who had exhausted himself, was unable to react when Gill hopped backwards to kick him into the mountain.
"Fool…If you had gone for the gut area, you may have won…", Gill says.
"Evo, right? How is he not blowing up yet.", Uzume asks Evo.
"Hm…It would seem he doesn't have a core or engine that would make his machine detonate. He himself alongside the treasures are the power source, and they are converging. If he reaches his full power, we may not even be able to defeat it without obliterating it in its entirety.", she replies, rapidly typing away at her keyboard.

All of my friends are out…And I am also on the verge of losing consciousness…
Come one…We made a deal didn't we? I would take your body…Most likely only for this fight, haha. Come one, I'll have fun hurting him, and you can go to sleep…Hehehe…
Ah. That's right…I guess I have no choice…But to rely on you…
Wind Sense fades away from my mind as I go into slumber…
And so, I take over.

A pillar of light shoots from under the large hole left in the mountain. Everyone's attention focused on me. The pillar cracks and shatters into pieces as I fly up, still in the middle of changing from. My body grows out the new parts rather than them appearing out of thin air, my new nightmarish from will be the first impression to the lovely horror I will place upon Gill.
"Bloody Cocytus processor unit. Set.", I say as a dark sphere blasts out of me, finally completing my transformation into HDD with a 1/99 Share to negative energy ratio.

My hair had turned dark brown with red highlights. Over it I wear a black helm designed to look like the head of a dragon with gaps in between for red strands of hair to stick out. Red power symbols appear over my black eyes. I have black shoulder pads that are also in the shape of dragon heads, my wings looking like giant curved black metal bones. Everything between my wase and top is pure skin, whereas my top looks like a sports bra with metal armor surrounding it leading into the shoulders and collar. Around my waste I wear black panties under a black blocky metal belt where my hip parts have turned into diamond shaped protective shields around my waist.

I wear sharp metal black boots with red thrusters and lights, and black socks that reach just under my knees. I have black spikey gauntlets that have subtle red lights moving around.
"Cold Soul is here…And my power is…Well. It's not at max, but I feel real good right about now…Hehehe.", I say as I look at Gill.
"What is going on…? That's Suno? She transformed again?", Uzume asks.
"Did she just say…Cold Soul?", Evo asks.

Theresa barely wakes up. She takes one glance at me, and pushes herself to reach Uzume.
"R…Run.", she says. When they looked at her, she says, "That's not Leader."
"We should do as she says. I don't really know, but I have seen this individual, Cold Soul, being an evil version of Suno.", Evo says.
Uzume take sone last look at me and mumbles, "…I see. So that's her…" Now she moves with Evo to evacuate those that can't move. Others surrounding the battle field look at me with angst…How exciting!

Those fools don't get it, but I don't feel like killing them for now. That big guy in the mecha just pisses me off. Strongest in the universe? Everyone deserves to be under MY boot.
"Up again? When will you realize there is nothing you can do!", he shouts, gathering anti-share energy before throwing it my way. I have my arms crossed, I don't feel a thing. I just smile at him.
"How cute. Hahaha…You think anti-share energy works on me?", I ask him.

Before he can respond. I unfold my arms and prepare to set off. Within a few milliseconds, I am in front of him, making him flinch with a blow to the head, it must've felled like he got flicked in the forehead, but that makes the experience funnier for me. I can hear him scream.
The mecha holding his head must mean he felt it too…hehe.
"What is this…?", he asks.
"Heh? Don't you think it is kinda lame that you don't feel pain in that thing but we do? I am going to hurt you.", I tell him before laughing.

He growls and shouts, "You filthy fly!" I effortlessly dodge his hit, my speed having increased to Mach 9 with Light Step. I sit on his shoulders. I flip my legs over patting the side of his head asking, "Is this head piece even used for something? Could you not lose it?"
I fly over to his eyes and bonk the eyes asking, "Do you get ocular vision through this? With a mecha this size, is that even practical?" I snicker at him as his eyes light up. I move away at high speed before his eye lasers can hit me.
I float before him, my arms crossed. I taunt him further, "For a scientist, you sure like talking about violence instead of your inventions."

"Like some unintelligent peasant can understand these designs!", he says, missing the swing of his arm for I have moved onto the ocean bed.
"Hm…I suppose so, I don't get tech at all…But what good is intelligence without wisdom? In the end, We will kill you, and then your achievements and intelligence are rendered zero. All I need to understand is how much pain I can deliver you.", I tell him.
He tries to step onto me, then he throws a punch in the area he predicted I would move.

I could've dodged, but I feel despair has not set in enough yet. I absorb the strength of his fist as I block its impact with my hand, it only shoves me with the stretch of his arm, but otherwise, I have stopped it. Anti-share energy blasts into me.
"Hm…Did that oaf destroy some type of energy thing inside that chest? Your punches don't hit as hard.", I ask as I loom over the side of his fist, gazing at him with amused eyes.
"Impossible…How are you not effected?!", he asks.

"False Goddess…Close, but I am worse.", I tell him. He tries blasting me with bullets, and rockets, I slice them apart and easily evade the beams and flames he sends my way.
I boost my Light Step to the extreme, then I pierce through his shoulder, making him scream. His shoulder must not be damaged, but the pain of a hole stabbed through must be the same. I make one hole after another in his arms. I don't have to, but I want his pain to last.

Over and over again, I tear holes into his arms and legs, eventually, I appear before him, with Anti-share crystals in hand.
"As I thought. You had the originals. A fake power source would not be enough for this giant robot after all.", I say before crushing the crystals.
"You are no Goddess…What are you?", he asks.
I give him my widest smile, and reply, "The manifestation of Evil."

My blade flares up with light magic, but it is howling, screeching like the light itself is in pain.
"UnionStar Light Slash!", I shout, creating a slash that cuts the armor of this mecha, the burning sensation forcing him to screech in agony.
Beneath the large gap that I have cut, I can see the face of Gill.
"Hm…Were you always an old man? Or is that the effect of the machine.", I try to speak calmly, but can't help but laugh in the end.

Suddenly, he sheds his armor. I see, this layer must be his last. I see Gill inside light up…He is disappearing.
The hole in his chest is suddenly filled with cables. The gap is slowly getting rebuild with metal.
"You are too late…", he says.
What is this I feel? An air of fear? Impossible?! Suddenly, he teleports behind me with lightning. I just felt him in the air, that is how I escaped his punch.

But I know he can only do that once. I shoot a blade of light at him, but he teleports right after. He is behind me, and I am unable to dodge his punch this time. His speed has increased as well. I barely soften my landing and slide over the ground I landed on.
Impossible impossible impossible! How can such filth do this to me!
"You think your fake power is worthy to touch mine?!", I ask, in full rage I fly forward, but hit nothing as he teleports behind me.

I dodge his punch this time, he teleports again and I dodge that to. Even when I speed myself up with Light Step spamming, I can barely follow him. We end with a clash of blades, his large sword vs my blade of light. We were equal at first, but no matter how much magic I infuse my sword with, I can't overtake him. He eventually uses his weight to push my\e to the side. He followed with a gatling gun that I avoid by flying away, weaving incoming bullets.
Even when he adds rocket fire to it, it is nothing to me.

Then he teleports in front of me with all his lasers, beams, flames and lightning he could muster. I cast explosion and fly high above to avoid all of them at once, almost caught in their explosion. And still, he teleports in front of me for a punch, I avoid his fist, but he teleports right after and takes advantage of his sudden movement to quickly kick me in the sky, followed up by a teleportation above me that slams me into the ground with his fist.

THAT BASTARD! I fly back up into sky, staring at this monster of machinery. This cockroach who steals powers from relics.
"You filthy mongrel. You think your stolen power is a match for me!", I shout, shooting "UnionStar Light Slash!", at him, he shields himself with his arms.
The armor on his arms get slightly bend, but otherwise, he was fine.
"You will never understand! I Have become one with this machine! I have gained the power to judge the universe! Evil? Good? Whatever you are, I have overcome it! My body regenerates like a human heals only sped up a thousand times! Even if you damage me a lot, I will eventually heal it off!", he replies.

I grind my teeth. There is no way this buffoon dares think he is above the divine or cursed.
"I will show you then. pain that will scar your soul!", I say as I pull out a second sword.
"EXE Drive Skill!", I shout flying in at him, cutting him over and over again rotating around him. Eventually, I combined the two blades of light into one and shout, "FusionStar Light Slash!" I damaged him, there are a few holes and cuts all the way through his armor. But otherwise, he is functioning.
For a second, I waver. Me? Waver? I am a being of evil…No. I have wavered more than She ever had. I AM BETTER THAN HER! THAN ANYONE!

Gill laughs. His movement is shaking the surroundings. Water and stone is slowly ascending with the gravitational pull of his strength as he boasts, "This is it. Absolute power. Gods and humans can only beg for this perfection! Allow me to demonstrate your end."
He points at me and says, "Exe Drive skill."
The air tightens. I sense plenty have woken up and were preparing to fight, staring at me below, but they will be caught up in this attack as well.

His entire body opens up revealing millions of missiles and rockets. Lightning and rocket fire shoot up into the sky until they vanish. Then, a crack opens.
"Heaven Breaker!", he screams as hellfire and otherworldly lightning goes down on us creating multiple explosions. I pull through, ready to fight him, he throws one punch that I dodge, but now he sends me flurry of punches at an insane speed. It is not as fast as me, but combined with their size and strength, even I am losing my edge. Just one punch was enough to break my fight.

Over and over again, fists crash into me. One final punch blows me into the air. But I can't accept that. I can't accept this human being stronger than me. I open my eyes and glare at him. Now I fly back to him at my highest speed. And yet, he dodged my slash by jumping over it. It was a jump too graceful for a giant or machine, his incoming kick could be described as majestic. He kicks me onto the ground.
"Now to finish this!", he shouts, putting his wrists together to fire another dark purple beam.

"No…I will never lose to a human.", I say.
One tear goes over my eye as I feel blinded by rage. I look at him, and I shout, "I WILL NOT LOSE TO FILTH LIKE YOU!", my blades raging with light. I've never put as much power into something. My limit has been overcome, the blade of light brightening the mountains themselves.
I scream with rage as I fly towards him. He shoots the beam into me, I am barely able to stop it with my blade of light, tearing the middle of his beam as I slowly push forward.

The two of us struggle.
"There's no way I can lose to some fake power!", I shout.
He doesn't even respond. We both shout as we increase the output of our powers, eventually, they blow up against each other. In the end, I can see I damaged him quite well, but it is his attack that pushed through and defeated me. I don't want to cry, that is pathetic.
And yet, tears fly as I am flung towards the foot of the mountain. I have lost. But I can't lose. Yet I am unable to move. This is inconceivable. How can a human…My power is greater than all…But I stood less of a chance than…'me'? One crash away, and all consciousness in this body is lost.

To Be Continued…