He sits there trying to catch his breath, and we see a gold splat on his forehead. The sudden gold splotch on his forehead drops the bullet that it caught. And the vest that Obsidian made for Midas saved him as well as Midas tries to pluck the second bullet from it, but it's stuck. Midas looks up and sees a silhouette made of gold dust, but it quickly disappears, and he shakes his head. It must've just been an adrenaline fueled hallucination.

As Midas calms down, he realizes that maybe Obsidian was right. He might not be ready for this kind of action. He drags the bodies to a corner in the hanger. He also takes a rifle off of one the men, and after realizing he doesn't know how to open the dead spears ramp, he hides in the hanger and waits.

An hour later, the ramp to the Dead Spear opens. Obsidian storms out of his ship, frantically looking around. He can feel two body shaped objects in the hanger, and after teleporting to them, he sees the corpses.

"Grreeegh, Midas!!!!" Obsidian yells out.

"I'm right here."

Jolts back, absolutely soul shaken, making a strange noise.

Obsidian: "How did you do that." His pitch raised slightly

Midas: "Do what."

Obsidian: "Sneak up on me, of all people." He squats down to Midas' level.

Midas: "I've been made aware of my quiet footsteps before. It's used to scare Ben all the time." He puts on a casual smile.

Obsidian: "Hmm, noted. More importantly, what's with the bodies."

Midas: "The black knight of Gamma Bright sent some men after me. I had to fend for myself. I believe I was almost fatally wounded twice, but your vest protected me."

Obsidian: "So you killed these men on your own?"

Midas: "Yes, I... I... I guess I did." realization creeping in on his face.

Obsidian stares at Midas

Obsidian: "Very impressive. I hate to admit I really did underestimate you."

Midas: "I knew it."

Obsidian: "Hmm, it seems there is something on your forehead. A gold spot?"

Midas: "Gold spot?" He tilts his head

Obsidian: "Did you not notice a difference." He flicks the spot

Midas: "No, I did not." holding his head. The flick hurt.

"Well, in any case." Obsidian gets up and picks up Midas by the hood. "I better not let you out my sight again." Obsidian says.

Obsidian and Midas return to the Dead spear and sit on the looping couch.

"So, what happened? Run it all by me." Obsidian requests.

Midas then gives a step by step explanation of his experience.

"After all that, I got up, and as quietly as I could, snuck up and shoot them both in the head." Midas finishes his retelling.

"I think I saw a ghost after, but I think I was just hallucinating."

"A ghost?.." Obsidian puts a hand to his chin.

"What is it? Were I not hallucinating?" Midas questions

"Probably, but I've read tales of people seeing guardian angels on the brink of death. One was in non-fiction." Obsidian says

Midas stares at Obsidian

"Are you real? I didn't think you believed in fairytales." Midas squints his eyes judging Obsidian

Obsidian whacks Midas on the head. "People have hallucinations when death is near. These experiences end up leading to some form of awakening. That's probably why you're not dead."

Midas eyes widen.

"What, does that mean I have awakened?.. Awaken what; I’m confused." Midas responds

"Idk, a blessing, most likely. It has something to do with the gold that was on your head." Obsidian answers

"Guess your daddy was covering your ass from the grave." Obsidian snickers

Midas' eyes slowly widen, and he gasps. He starts to cheerfully giggle to himself.

Obsidian stares at the kid, confused. "What, why are you giggling? You look like a fatass jellybean."

"What does that even mean. It's just nice to hear something like that. Didn't think you'd ever say something so sentimental." Midas says

"I wasn't being sentimental." Obsidian denies

"Sure you weren't." Midas snickers

"You're a weird kid." Obsidian says

"You're one to talk!.. Oh, I just remembered. Why have you gone for so long." Midas question.

"Hunting."

"Mister!"

"Shut it. All I did was acquire information." Obsidian interrupts

"Due tell. How did you acquire such information, and what information did you learn." Midas says coyly

"Revs made a move on your mansion. So I cleared out the place. Some cooperative soldiers told me how they snuck a bomb onto your fathers shuttle and blew out the ground with a type-66 thermo excavator."

"I see." Midas sighs.

"Also some locations." Obsidian says

"That's good, then we can keep hunting till we find what we're looking for." Midas hops of the couch

"Except they were meant to mislead me, but I already figured out where to look."

Obsidian gets up and heads to the cockpit. Midas follows close behind. Obsidian starts up the Dead Spears engines. He vanishes from his seat, and suddenly, a loud noise is heard as the hanger door opens. Obsidian reappears in his chair, and once the doors open, the dead spear takes off.

The Shining Fox in a dark den:

We shift perspectives. A man in a suit, wearing a mask, sits cross-legged within a ship. He gets a ringing in his earpiece.

"Hello."

"Fox, it's the commander speaking, I've got something to report. I know we're not in contact anymore, but I believe you should hear this."

"This is Fox speaking. Go on."

Commander: "As per your last request, me a my men have been searching for the boy."

Fox: "Go on."

Commander: "we planned on seizing the mansion and waiting for the boy return. But it seems that detachments be wiped out. We lost all contact.

Fox: "Oh dear, that's such a shame." He says in a mocking tone. "Why made you believe that the boy would even want to return."

Commander: "Just insurance sir, it was a small detachment, but what could wipe them out."

Fox, let's out a huge sigh

Fox: "Obviously, that hired gun who got in the way time and time again. luck was on your side that you succeeded in the first place. In any case, I believe it's best if you call your men and evacuate Umbra for your sake."

A brief pause

Fox: "You heard that."

Commander: "Sir, with all do respect, we can't give up Umbra. This is an important position for the UR."

Fox: "What makes you think you and your men can make I difference, especially when I command you. But if you don't want to leave, then be my guest. Just don't contact me again, not that you'll be able to."

Commander: "Yes, sir. This will be the last time. Heibarn out."

Fox hangs up the call. The Fox slicks his hair back.

"Lehahaha. Go on, brother, clean up this mess."

We shift perspectives back to Obsidian and Midas.

The dead spear lands in a civilian port, and Obsidian checks in under Zi's name. Obsidian and Midas walk into the city and walk down the street until they enter Brass Avenue. Obsidian walks with his head down as he follows the sidewalk.

"Hey, mister, are you ok." Midas says assuming he's in a bad mood.

Obsidian doesn't respond

"Are you perchance utilizing your technique. Spatial awareness, correct?"

Obsidian makes a sharp turn into street, completely focused on the ground. He then makes a sharp turn into and alley way where he stops.

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"Have you found what you were searching for." Midas continues to question.

Obsidian squats down and puts a hand to the floor.

"Stand back." Obsidian commands

Midas steps back.

Suddenly, a portal opens up and reveals a gateway to a lower tunnel.

"I'll leave you the honors." Obsidian ushers Midas down.

"Mister, I’m not sure if this is wise." Midas says as he peaks over the edge. Just then, Obsidian kicks Midas down the portal, appearing behind him.

The fall was instantaneous, Midas finding himself in a dark gray area. He looks up to see a long tunnel going both ways. Obsidian then makes a loud thud as he crudely hops down.

Obsidian walks in front, already knowing where to go. Obsidian walks down the dark tunnel for a while until he feels the presence of two. He is about to mindlessly walk into the two presences, but them remembers the boy right next to him, so for Midas' sake, he decides to focus a little.

He vanishes from Midas' side. Midas hears some grunting and then a loud slam, and turns to the corner to see one man dead on the ground and another bug like man squashed into a wall.

"Mister, you leave quite a mess."

Midas gazes upon the bodies of the soldiers. One has had his chest punched through from behind, and the other has his head merged with the wall.

Obsidian looks back at Midas. "You wanted blood didn’t you, you not feeling queasy?"

Midas looks behind Obsidian to take one more look at the bodies. His face scrunches up in disgust, but he swallows down the feeling.

"No I shall be fine. Perhaps." He says unsurely.

"Well, better get used to it." Obsidian says not really caring.

Obsidian and Midas take a very deliberate path through the underground base, taking out man after man. Every time, It sends a shiver down Midas' spine. However, on Obsidian's path of carnage, one of the soldiers witnessed one of Obsidian's kills.

"Commander, we have intruders, a tall man, and a small boy. They're killing everyone they come across, sound th..."

Obsidian appears in front of the man and punches his jaw into his throat, making a dent in the wall.

"Must you make such a mess every time." Midas feels queasy

Obsidian doesn't say anything.

Just then, the alarms to the base go off.

Obsidian smiles coldly

Obsidian hears a torrent of boots coming his way. Obsidian sighs and keeps on his way.

In the main command center:

Commander Heibarn: "Have we found the intruders."

Officer 1: "We have pinpointed their location." Bring up the feed."

Officer 2: "Feeds up."

Officer 3: "There's nothing there. Wait, look at our comrades, sick bastard!"

The hallways lay litter with the mutilated bodies of soldiers.

Officer 2: "He's tearing through us."

Officer 1: "Wait, there he is! He disappeared again!"

Heibarn: "Wait on that screen."

He points to a top left screen. The screen shows Obsidian staring at the camera. The pitch black tint of his goggles makes it feel like staring into the void itself. His smile slowly burning itself into the minds of the soldiers.

However, that uneasy feeling is slightly broken, as the little teenage boy pushes the man in black and starts flipping off the camera, and sticking out his tougue. The man in black shakes his head and shoots the camera, pulling a gun from behind his coat.

There's a deafening silence.

Officer 3: "Really. these guys are clowns! I want to go home."

Suddenly, there's a knocking on the door. The command center arms themselves.

Officer 2: "Not to be a pessimist, but I don't think we're going home after this."

A few officers slowly approach the wide door. Two take the left and right. While one takes the center and readies himself. Suddenly, a hole opens in the door, an arm with a gun pokes, through. The first officer is blasted in the head, and then as the arm pulls out, another arm comes through and grabs the second officer. All that's heard is that officers muffled screams. Suddenly, the portal widens, and Obsidian steps through dual welding his cannons and rains a storm of metal hell.

Obsidian takes out a large portion of the command center before quickly catching a lariat by commander Heibarn. Obsidian blocks the lariat but gets sent flying back. Obsidian's feet slide across the ground, and he starts laying down fire into Heibarn. Heibarn's arms emit a deep orange and red mystical flame and use these to block Obsidians gun fire.

Obsidian makes his cannons disappear and takes a widened stance, putting his arms behind his back. Heibarn takes the first swing, throwing out a combination of blows, jabs, hooks, back swings, and uppercuts, Obsidian weaves every attack.

Obsidian catches one of Heibarn s punches.

"Not bad, for a human." Obsidian remarks

"You'll destroy my men no longer." Heibarn declares

Heibarn jumps back, charging his fist and launching a blast of spirit.

Obsidian dodges, teleporting behind Heibarn and goes on the offense. With his hands in his pocket, Obsidian begins throwing out a series of kicks. Heibarn blocks the first kick and has to grit his teeth, from the impact rippling through his body. Heibarn blocks the few follow up kicks, then Obsidian feints a punch and slips into a leg sweep, teleporting behind and punting heibarn back into the command center.

Obsidian notices Midas getting grabbed by a soldier and summons a gun in his hand. But surprisingly, Midas head-butts his captor, frees himself, and punches the officer in the groin.

Midas then pulls out his pistol. But the look of fear on the mans face startles Midas, making him hesitate. Midas starts getting shot at, but before he gets himself killed, Obsidian teleports Midas to him, holding him by the hood.

"Focus, these guys killed your parents. no need to hesitate. You have plenty of reason to kill." Obsidian advises

The soldiers start pouring out of the command center, opening fire on Obsidian and Midas. Obsidian puts down Midas and puts out his hand. "Impassable space." Obsidian says as the bullets bounce off of a wall of nothing.

Obsidian starts shooting back, taking out a few soldiers, making the rest fall back. After a moment of silence, a loud crash is heard. Obsidian looks to his left and sees Heibarn slam through the wall and tackles Obsidian.

"Hey brat! Use this time to train yourself, and make that blessing work for you." Obsidian says as he stops Heibarn in his tracks and knees him in the stomach, then tossing him away. Heibarn runs in and, after throwing a few blows, gets kicked through the ceiling by Obsidian, who follows suit.

Midas looks into the center and sees no one in the center. However, that's no relief as gunfire comes from the hole in the wall heibarn made. Midas makes a run for it, to the right tunnel, and the remaining soldier chases him down. Midas runs and runs, freaking out.

"What the devil. mister!! I don't even know how I awakened my blessing. you're going to get me killed!!!"

He runs and bumps into a dense group, takes a turn. Midas is shot in the shoulder and falls to the ground. It hurts, but it didn't pierce him.

A soldier shoots at him again. But Midas puts a hand to the ground and tries to shield his head, but nothing comes next.

"Whoa hey! the hells all this!!" Says a soldier.

"Gold, the ****!" Says a different voice

Midas opened his eyes to see the tunnel blocked with gold. He looks to the ground, and the whole floor is gold. He looks at his hand, and that too is solid gold. Midas starts laughing in hysteria that he's actually developing abilities.

"The mister was right. I should never have doubted him."

Although, due to the nature of thus awakening, the gold is quite weak, as a soldier uses their rifle as a club and shatters the wall. Midas yells and starts to run.

We cut to Obsidian, who's chasing down Heibarn, is faced with a large group of soldiers standing behind Heibarn.

Obsidian stares them down.

"Fire at will!" Heibarn commands

The soldier starts laying down a storm of fire.

Obsidian just stands there, hands in his pockets. Suddenly, a bunch of small portals open to defend Obsidian.

Heibarn puts his fist up, signaling the end of the gun fire. Obsidian smile grows wider, as now all

Small portals open up end points, and a hail of fire rains on the soldiers. Acting quickly, Heibarn engulfs his arm in energy and sends his own men flying, taking the brunt of most of the portal attacks. Now leaking blood from his body, he puts his duke up, ready to defend his men. He touches his radio.

"Attention all WildGame Revoltors, this is Heibarn. Everyone must evacuate the base, effective immediately. Our opponent is too powerful. Live to fight another day. Commander out."

Heibarn stares down Obsidian.

"Let's finish this." Heibarn declares

Obsidian gazes menacingly

"I won't let you lay a finger on my men." Heibarn rushes in.

Obsidian stops heibarn's punch with one hand, yet the commander stays determined. He winds up a punch but, Obsidian front kicks heibarn back

Back with Midas, he's in the middle of playing dodging the bullets. He puts a hand to the ground and a bunch of gold pillars, beat and obstruct his pursuers. Suddenly, they get the speakers announce the evacuation order, and the soldiers chasing Midas look panicked and immediately run in the opposite direction.

"Come on! the commander's in danger!" Says one of the soldiers

"Who here is blessed?! we need extra might." A soldier asks as their voice fade around the tunnels.

Midas looks confused.

Cutting back to Obsidian, heibarn is thrown through a door into a medical bay. And the two exchange blows.

Obsidian starts beating the hell out of Commander Heibarn, upper cutting him into the upper floor of the base. Before he chases, he summons a grenade and drops it on that floor. He jumps up and meets Heibarn as the explosion goes off.

"STOP! they leave my men out of this!"

Heibarn cries out.

Obsidian's smile widens.

"Due to the nature of my mission, it is unfortunate for you that I can not let a single one of you go." Obsidian pulls back his sleeve and presses some buttons on his gauntlet.

He then snaps his fingers, and six flying drones are summoned. Obsidian slides his index and middle fingers across his gauntlet, and the six combat drones speed off in different directions.

"Don't you dare!" Heibarn tries to destroy the drones before they leave, but Obsidian grabs him by the throat and smashes him through a series of walls.

Obsidian tosses heibarn down. Heibarn bounces up and charges at Obsidian once more and burning with energy. They both exchange blows some more. However, a group of soldiers fill in the tunnels to support their commander.

"Open fire! Backup commander heibarn!!"

The soldiers opening but Obsidian prevents stops the bullets in their tracks, with more invisible walls.

Heibarn attempts to take advantage of this opening, but Obsidian throws a punch without looking, and heibarn dodges it, just to punched in the gut from a portal and sent flying back.

Obsidian sends the bullets back, and the soldiers take cover. One of the soldiers comes out and sprays a stream of acid at Obsidian. Obsidian simply moves out of the way and rushes in to dismantle the soldiers.

Heibarn is on his last legs, breathing heavy and struggling to stand. His vision is blurry, and his mind is frantic.

"No. NO! I’m the one you're fighting." Heibarn says as he charges a punch and sends a blast forward.

Obsidian teleports behind Heibarn, dodging the attack. With one blow, he punches out Heibarn’s stomach, blowing out his side. Obsidian then kicks heibarn away into his men.

"Sir, you need to get out of here. You can't take much more." One of the soldiers demands.

"There's no point. Either I kill him here, or he kills all of us." The futility of the scenario is not lost on heibarn. He is fully aware of how foolish it is to continue to fight. But he knows it's even worse to run away with his tail tucked between his legs, even though there is no escape.

"One more attack." Heibarn charges his energy, his spirit burning red hot. His body is engulfed in his flaming spirit. The aura surrounds his arm and condenses. Harding into a Translucent Armor. Heibarn reels back. A wave of his spirit emits a powerful pressure.

"Commander, please, there's no need to keep fighting! You'll get yourself killed! We need you!" Yells out his soldiers

His soldier continues to plea with their commander.

"SILENCE!!! I never taught you all to fear!" Heibarn shouts

"I am but one man, fighting for a better future. There are thousands out there who share my dream. Millions!!!"

"Commander, wait."

"This is my last order. Run. RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN! LIVE TO FIGHT ANOTHER DAY!!!"

Obsidian looks at this display. Instead of his usual dehumanizing smile, he bares a smirk of respect. He shakes his head. He then coats his own arm with his spirit. The mystical purple flame rages and then solidifies into his own translucent armor. "You've had a great story." Obsidian remarks

Heibarn blasts forward

"This is it, you monster!!! DEVASTATORS WRA--" Heibarn gets cut off before finishing his attack name. the ultimate and heroic final moments of Commander Heibarn are unforgettable. Unfortunately, they were cut short. In the blink of an eye, before heibarn can swing his fist. Obsidian blitzes heibarn with a lariat to the throat.

"My name shall mark its end." Obsidian whispers

Heibarn hits the ground, bouncing off and slamming into the arms of his men.

"Ough, huff*, I am... so.. rry."

"Commander No!"

Obsidian, scoffs, and summons one half of his twin blade. An intense pressure crushes Heibarns men, and Obsidian reels back his arm. The soldiers brace themselves, but Commander Heibarn gets up and charges his arms out of desperation.

But it was ultimately useless.

Obsidian swings his blade, turning his back, and everyone, heibarn and his men, get split in half. The only sound is their bodies hitting the floor. Obsidian looks behind him. "Heibarn. I'll remember that one. Least I can do." Obsidian's blade breaks down and disappears, and he puts his hands in his pockets.

He checks his gauntlet. Two of his drones were destroyed. The others have racked up a total of 49 kills combined so far.

He checks on Midas' presence. He can feel the boys heart slow down and stabilize. He should be fine for now, as no one seems to be near him.

Obsidian vanishes.

10 minutes later, after screams and cries brutally sounded throughout the entire base, Obsidian appears in front of Midas, curled against a wall. He seems really tired.

"Hey kid, you all right." Obsidian asks

"Yeah, I’m fi.. fine. I’m a little tired can. Have you finished you duty." Midas says, breathing heavy.

"Yes, 90% of the base has been wiped out. I came to check on you. What's your status."

"Yeah, I’m fine, don't... worry... ab..." Midas passes out.

"Incapacitated." Obsidian sighs. He picks up Midas and tosses him over his shoulder.

"I suppose we're finished here. I would rather not leave things unfinished, but I believe you're satisfied. Pleasure doing business with you."

He teleports away.