The fire burns the bodies into charcoal, and the spark happened after the explosion. Clare was brought to the last escape pod. The army fleet has been defeated in a single attack. The blood flowed down from her head, dazed in sounds.
"It's been a good time being with you, y'know, I never had a family, but I know how it feels now. Stay safe, Clare."
His voice muffled by the ringing sounds, the seal closed, and her vision was focused on the man's face as it receded. far until the dark flames consumed the battleship.
"Mr.boss man..."
["It's been an honor serving you, goodbye."]
The sky lit up with the sounds of metal burning in the air. Fire pulling down the wreckage, V, Kiries, and the rest of them watched in shock, not having enough time to prevent this.
"Clare!!!" She gripped the cannon. "You F##KER!!" A large shell tore through the ground. Zerion phased through it like nothing.
The group was enraged, and they all started shooting. V took out a long barrel and attached it to her rifle. She loaded the most powerful bullet she had. "Eat sh##!" A loud bang went off, and Zerion grabbed her face. Their distance has just closed to zero. The bullet completely went off course, Zerion threw her, and she got shot by her own bullet traveling across the world.
"ARGH!" The soldiers got crushed on his face, blood splattered through his helmet, and Zerion created a flow of calamity, causing another soldier to die instantly without reason.
Kiries slashed them. She swung a huge punch right in its face. Reformed the fists into blades, then hooked Zerion's legs; she yanked them back. She dug her hand right into their chest. "Give him back!"
"Try harder!" Zerion punched Kiries right on her belly, snapped, and the time froze. Zerion tore off her legs and cut her with space Slashes. Her Solver cranked up the power, she broke the time stop, her body regenerated, and she yanked off two of their hands in the process.
Kiries turned their arms into millions of micro blades and stabbed Zerion. The blades then boiled inside their body. Zerion stumbled back a few steps before flying toward Kiries. They grabbed her chest armor, crushing it and bringing her to a different area.
V and the survivors of her team can only watch in awe, their speed multiplying every second, even with their enhanced bodies, V knows this isn't her battle. Soldiers gather to aid her wounds.
The two flew straight through many buildings, Kiries with her fist, striking Zerion's face, she got thrown back to the facility where they locked her.
"Remember this place? Yeah, you do, you and he used to be here." They said with a smug tone.
"Keep your mouth shut!" Kiries transformed her body; her rage filled her body, reforming it with the solver to fit the unpredictable chaos. She flashed to Zerion, pulling them both upward into the sky, breaking the ground and sound barrier.
"The girl who is in control of him, Clare, deserved to die; she's the one keeping him back. you should be thanking me for eradicating humanity. And when the time comes, you will see each other again! hahaha!"
"SHUT UP!" Kiries's right arm transformed into a laser cannon, and he blasted Zerion, lighting up the sky with fire. Her core pulsed with decaying blast. Zerion struck her with their sword. Their body quickly regenerates from Kirie's attack.
She hit the ground, and dirt and bricks flew everywhere. Zerion went in and attacked her with more cuts and explosions. "Give up, you will never win." The strikes went on and on, pushing Kiries down further into the ground.
V, from afar, fired a round at Zerion. They quickly deflected it with ease. Their eyes fixed on the group of soldiers, Zerion fired a slash at them. A soldier bravely pushed V down, but in the end, he got cut in half, then into dust from the aftercut explosion.
"Only 3 left, and a girl who tried but failed." Zerion laughed maniacally. raising their scroll at the three hiding from miles away. "You cannot save them all."
The flow of calamity flew to V's squad, but just before they managed to get a hold on their lives, it came from the crater. Kiries Struck Zerion through their chest with a giant spear made from metal. Kiries rose from the smoke, hr body changed, horns came out from her head with the broken halo. Her hair flows longer with the wind as the wings made from mechanical parts roar through the air.
The voices from the void are chanting her rage as she glides toward Zerion.
"Dark-rage... decaying... weapons clash... heart burning rash... demon teased... Human freeze... hunger scream... hear my scream..." Absolute solver spun, increasing the power Kiries had.
"The princess of death is here..." Zerion smiled. Taking everything they had. They gaze into the burning rage who want them dead.
Kiries let out an ear-piercing roar. The Absolute solver icon appeared behind her back, and she dashed to Zerion. The impact crushed every building in sight. Her claws slashed constantly at their body, Zerion stabbed Kiries with their blade, and their scroll locked her end. But Kiries refused; she grabbed the flow of calamity and shredded them into notes. Kiries then unleashed a fire beam, burning their soul.
Zerion created a barrier between the danger, and the Calamity icon appeared on their hands. Zerion tendrils from portals stabbed Kiries, they burned her from the inside, and slammed her to the ground.
Kiries cut off the tendrils, forming a section staff with sharp edges. She spun the staff and heated it before diving headfirst into Zerion. She clashed her weapon with theirs, knocking the sword above their head and unleashing a barrage of cuts and stabbing, her afterimage turning into a hologram-like one, but they still dealt damage to Zerion. Kiries left her clone and dived her claws at Zerion's chest. trying to get to their core.
Away from the battle, Clare crash-landed into the dried land of death. The drop pod burst open as she slowly regained consciousness, V, and the remainder of her squad helped Clare stand up on her feet.
"Clare! Hey, thank goodness you're still alive."
"What's going on... Oh crap, the fleet!"
"They are gone, you are the only one left. We're all alone now."
"You are bleeding."
"It's okay, just internal damages. C'mo,n we need to get you to a safer area."
"Wait, where's Kiries?"
"INCOMING!" a soldier screamed. V quickly snatched Clare out of the pod and ran to cover.
Kiries and Zerion crashed on the ground, shockwave knocked everything around the city. her face opens, moving the eyes and mouth to fire a dark beam that decays matter at Zerion, pushing them back, with each second the decaying process gets faster and faster, with the speed now instantly. But they are still regenerable. Zerion blocked the beam that was getting bigger. They summoned the Spear from the void, a swift throw straight to Kiries head, causing her head to blow away with the fire beam shooting everywhere. Zerion teleported to kiries. They slashed her down with the straight blade. She caught it, and Hulk slammed them into the reconfigured ground. Spikes shot out each time she crushed Zerion.
They cut off kiries arm to get free, then locked her with the icon of Chaos, Zerion shot her through 10 ultranium poles that appeared from the infected materials.
Zerion summons their army of the dead, armed with guns and blades. They charged at Kiries, who stood her ground.
"ERADICATION!" Thousands of absolute solver icons forming battleship batteries, cannons with strong explosive shells, all fired at the storm of the deads charging at her, each shell turns a body into a mist of blood and scraps.
"So this is what they can do if James wasn't holding back..." Clare said in horror.
They watched the destruction, unable to do anything else.
Zerion and Kiries once again clashed together, their claws tearing each other's bodies and constantly healing. And when the endless barrages seem to be fading. Zerion stabbed Kiries' core; their hand grasped her heart like an apple. "You already lost when fighting with fate."
A surge of dark power suppressed her core. Zerion pulled the flow of calamity back and brought their fists right to her chest. Kiries got shot down, head spinning.
"Kiries!" Clare ran off from her hiding spot. V tried to stop her, but she slipped from her jacket.
"Clare.... you still alive!" Kiries crawl on the dirt floor. Clare reached her, holding her head on her Lap. She took out the tablet from the icon on her hand.
"Don't worry, I'll find a way to remove that thing from your core. She looks at the hole on Kiries's chest, watching the Dark blood bleeding from her ribs and the core pulsing heavily.
"No... Get out of here, That b##ch is unpredictable.... You can't win!"
"Shut up! I can't leave my friends to do all the work and do nothing with them."
"Clare!" V ran to them, slid down to Clare, and grabbed her shoulder. "We gotta move! Or else we all die!"
Zerion hovered in front of them, hands holding each of their weapons, and a wide grin, looking at them. "Well... Guessed I missed one..." They laughed, voice glitched with distortion. "All of this carnage only got me more powerful. At least you all die together, side by side. And he is still alive under my control."
"Screw you... A## hole..." Kiries grunting
"You will never win... as long there's still someone standing in your way..."
"You're right, but you all will never see it"
Soldiers aimed their weapons at Zerion. They flicked their hand, the gun shattered, and the soldier's arms yanked off from their torso, and they fell into their own blood puddle
"NO!" V watched, clenching her teeth. "You cold-hearted bastard."
Zerion smirked, pointed their Blade at them, "Time to finish what the boss started." Zerion dives down, their blade charged with power, ready to swing a clean cut to kill the three.
Clare brings herself to cover Kiries, holding her in her arms. V closed her eyes, doesn't want to look.
The blade pierced through her neck, the fresh color of red spilled over their body, in the moment of victory, Zerion sees the future is now only for them to control.
"The universe belongs to me."
[task completed... updating systems]
"You have done it, are you proud of yourself...?"
"Yes, I've done it."
"Making me watch... You aren't getting away from this."
The blade stopped away from Clare about an inch. [Objective updated: Cannot harm administrator]
The blade dropped to the ground. "AHHHH!!!!" Zerion screamed in pain as their cores started cracking.
"Clare! shoot!" Her tablet echoed His voice, then it turned into a pistol with a final bullet to make a change.
Zerion's arms dug through their chest, prying out the flesh, blood, and bones to the main heart. "Stop! You cannot be able to!" [Listen to your orders....]
"James! Kill Her!" Clare cocked the gun, she aimed at the core, the pistol locked onto their cores. A loud bang destroyed the gun in her hands. The bullet hits their heart between the cracks, separating the two halves. A bright beam struck down Zerion, their hands tearing their body away, the flesh dissolved, bone decayed. A bright explosion blew away Zerion. The two cores split apart. The darkest core fell into Clare's hands. The other fell into the ground, slowly reconstructing Larial back into its original form.
"YOU!" Larial stepped forward with her regenerating bone leg. "I should have known! I should have made sure his program was terminated! Give me that core!" Her burned wing spread out, and she dived towards Clare, Kiries, and V. Her claws slashed down, and A loud clash on their fist. Her eyes widened to see that James had fully recovered in the blink of an eye. James was standing in front of his friends, crushing her claws with intense force.
"My turn..." [combat mode activated] His fist with his dark claws summoned from the assimilated matters punched Larial right in her face, forcing with immense speed, shattered her skull, even with hell's energy, her flesh incinerated and pierced through. her hand being held, cut off from the torso, sending her toward the next continent.
James dropped her arms. He turned around, looking at Clare. "Take care of Kiries for me." His blade wings spread out from his flesh, James blasted away like a bolt phoenix.
"Good to see you back..."
V helped Clare pull Kiries to a safe area. "We have to get off Earth... Nowhere is safe now."
Larial crashed onto the rocky mountains, gritting her teeth from the strike she received. Her body quickly recovered, but her core began to be damaged. From above the clouds, she quickly dodged. A lightning bolt struck the mountains, a huge impact knocked down the tall mountains, crushed rock, and sent stones flying. Larial was inched away from James. She watched him emerge from the dust, swords in hand.
"DIE!" he flashed toward her, slashing with rising speed, from 1000 cuts to 1 billion to 100 trillion to infinite times in a second. His claws supported his barrage, increasing range.
Larial was slashed, her body keeping up with the healing faction. Angry, grabbed his neck. She summoned a blade to hit his face, cracking his battle mask. billions of calamity cuts struck his body. James headbutted her. His claws yanked her body and threw her at the giant stone boulder. James created Guns around his body, shooting at her, but her shadow figure from behind deflected the bullets. A Calamity icon appeared on her hand, it fired a beam that instantly deleted the right side of his body as James ran at her.
His solver icon blocked the beam, James' regeneration speed increased even more before his solver Icon broke, his body immune to the power of erasing. He appeared in front of her, a left uppercut crushed her neck and jaw, his right arm grabbed the shadow behind her, his claws held her tight, as he ripped off this annoying thing and shattered it like a piece of glass.
"NO!" Larial screamed. She deleted the claws; her claws pierced his chest to rip off his core.
James's core flew off his body, thinking she had won, but his body was still moving. It punched her stomach, a shockwave that blew away everything behind her with the radius of a big city. Larial was stunned and dropped his core. and from that, regenerated a new body for Him. James and his old shell are all in one. They delivered another strike at her chest, energy covered his fists, two of his body punches her to the ground, the large power crushed the ground, the whole giant continent crashed and cracked like a pie..James fused his bodies. He jumped into the sky, charged his claws, which formed on his fist to become a giant rocket punch. He flew down at absolute speed, created a stronger punch. Hitting the ground, the power travels down, and the whole country is blown up, with an eruption from the ground exploding in flames. fragments of the Earth shot out into space.
Larial emerged from the heated soil, body full of missing parts. She looked at the red sky, watching the rain falling. She quickly got out of the ground, pushing all of her energy into the power of Calamity. "Bring it on!"
James, diving down from the orbit, gripping his blades tightly as he dived like a missile. "Wicked dawn!" Two clean cuts slashed the area, an X shown clearly from far away, the strike was strong enough to pierce through the earth. James flashed down at Larial, catching her off guard with her damage-resistant break as he attacked her with the final slash.
He stabbed her core, and his blade passed through the heart of the demon. "You are not the god everyone feared, you are just a machine like me! MADE BY A HUMAN HAND!" James screamed behind his mask, an electric roar shaking the place.
Larial struck his core with suppression code. hoping to stop his power. She screamed in rage, struggling with James as they tried to kill each other.
Her Claws slowly crushing his core, His blade getting through her core, their effort getting faster to death. Their core is sparking with electricity, glowing like they want to explode. Their scream of pain, of rage, ripping the sky apart.
James's mask shattered, his eyes glitching violently, and the time seemed to slow for him. His system started the countdown of his core integrity
[30... 29... 28... 27...]
"Will I make it?" he thinks to himself, "I lost my old self... I lost the chance to be a good person. But in her eyes, she saw me as their savior... I'm not like a superhuman who can save everyone."
[core's integrity: 30%]
"Maybe I'll make them a meal after this is over...." [Sending message]
"Alright, let's end this..."
Back in reality, James threw away his other blade. Two of his hands gripped the handle of the sword. His halo begins cracking, His shirt torn apart with his flesh.
From the other side of the planet, where Clare is removing the suppression from Kiries. Her tablet received a message. Clare, confused, opened it.
"Hey, I just want to say sorry, I need you to take care of Kiries for me. Tell her I love her, and I also love you." [Zip.compressed]
Clare's eyes widen as she reads the short message. She dropped the tablet and ran outside.
"Clare!" V looked at her.
"James..." Her tears rolled down her cheeks watching the sky getting clearer.
His blade cracked open her core, and the claws crushed his core.
"STOP! DON'T YOU WANT TO BECOME A GOD!?"
James stomped her head. "I don't care.... YOU AND I... WILL DIE TOGETHER!"
"You could have had everything..."
"I already had everything... deep within... I'm still a human."
He shattered her Core, her claws, and finally she crushed his Core. James was pushed down the portal. As for Larial, her body trembled cracks started appearing on her face. She stood up only to fall to her knees, "AAAAAAAAAAA-" her body crumbled into stones, from where her core, a blackhole sucked everything and then was gone like nothing happened.
The rift took James directly to where she spent time with him. In the sector, everyone has gone. James stood and walked to the house of comfort. It looks half destroyed, but it doesn't bother him.
James sat down on the couch where she usually told him to get them snack. [12... 11... 10..]. he closed his eyes. His lip let out a satisfied smile, "Hmp... I did it..." [All systems shutting down. The absolute solver has been loaded into objective table. Good night DC-404.J]
As the sky cleared the darkness cloud, the sun shone on his motionless body, his tail lying on his lap, his jacket carefully swaying with the breeze flowing through the house.
[Core lost connection. Model 404 terminated.]
When the sun finally set, that was the time when they found his body. Clare holds the tablet, Kiries holds his blades, and V holds his broken halo. "We hope can finally rest... James..."
They recovered his body. Ships from other solar control returned to their home world. Fix away the ruin of a battle, destruction, and bloodshed, fade away. After months and months of rebuilding, Earth finally returned to its former glory population, even tho has been reduced, but the green planet still stands with the scars as proof of his sacrifice.
"Well, I think it's finished..."
"This nothing looks like him..."
"This is what the file he sent... at least we can trust him about this..."
"Can we start it?"
"Yeah..."
[begin Core installment... connecting...]
[Replica.M01 / completing final download]
"Clare..."
"What Kiries?"
"I miss him..."
"We all do. Well, at least we can have time with this replica of him, made from his codes that he extracted for us... even in death, he still cares about us."
The replicated Core sat up from the generation bath. Kiries and Clare held his hands. "What's your name?"
[initializing...] "My name is J"