(Luna) Look out!

(Jack) Just keep dodging Luke, you hear!?

Unable to look at the ground, the fiery monster used her curled-up hands to sway away the annoying insect that buzzed around her.

Widening his eyes, Luke tilted his head and upper body lower while his legs and feet were pointed upward, creating an angle at which Luke flew downward. Her fiery hand barely grazed the back of Luna’s body, there was a single moment where Luna’s hair steamed from the millisecond heat that both she and Luke dodged.

Realizing that the monster had been swatting them away faster than before, Luke got farther away from her as she pushed her heels off of the ground.

(Miles) Johnny! Elizabeth! Now!

With the monster’s right foot off the ground, Johnny had in his hands a light heavy machine gun that weighed slightly less than Benn’s gun. Having his left hand in the center and his right hand holding the grip, he had the butt of the gun lodging itself into his right armpit.

With his pointer finger, Johnny lit up the area around him as the bullets flew straight toward the heels of the monster.

A shriek came from the giantess, turning her attention onto the ground insects that stung her, her flames already growing ever brighter than before.

(Johnny) Elizabeth! Support me!

(Elizabeth) Got it!

Standing right next to him, Elizabeth spread out both of her palms away from her body, putting them downward as they faced the creature. Bits of cloud came out of her palms, the freshly coated black vapor circled and intertwined around her wrist and forearms.

Taking a single step forward, she spread both of her arms up in the air, accumulating a great mass of black combusted clouds that soon covered her head like a hat. Pushing the clouds up higher, she thrust back both of her hands and arms and then carried them forward, which made the clouds that she controlled…

To be launched toward the area of which Johnny was digging with his machine gun.

(Miles’s thoughts) Oh no, she’s making her move!

A single hand flew straight toward the three of them, the heat from the hand barely nudging the couple to sweat.

Placing both of his hands up high in the air, a blue light emitted from both ends of Miles’s palms.

Followed by the dome circling the three of them, with Miles being the anchor of the trio. Sweat already sweeping down onto the asphalt below, Miles grit both ends of his teeth as his eyes barely glanced at the magma hand that was already right on top of them.

Stopping his firing, Johnny dropped his weapon onto the ground like it was trash, cradling Elizabeth who continued to thrust her thunderclouds. Already feeling the abhorrent heat that barely drenched both of their bodies, they held onto each other as they braced for the smash.

Luckily for Elizabeth, the black clouds reached toward the Achilles heel of the behemoth, creating a light show that stung and snapped her skin like fried chicken.

At the same time, the monster’s hand collided against the hardened shield that Miles summoned.

A blast sounding the air, dust, and smoke encapsulated the area in which the three of them were. Feeling as if their lungs were stabbing their rib cages, Elizabeth and Johnny soon let go of one another as both of them placed their hands onto their chests.

Dust came out from the two of them, they noticed that a brittle dust storm surrounded them, with the hand that was hurdled at them soon being pulled back. Looking all over, both of them noticed that one figure was missing.

(Elizabeth) Where’s Miles?!

(Johnny) Miles! Miles where are you—

Looking down, the couple took a whiff of a barely conscious man who didn’t show any signs of bleeding or scratches from his body. A trail of blood poured out of his nose, Elizabeth kneeled and she placed her right hand onto Miles’s forehead.

(Elizabeth) He’s knocked out!

(Johnny) I guess his shield won, but probably wore his strength out in the process.

With the dust clearing away, the two of them saw the monster balancing on one foot, as her right foot bled out lava.

Her black clouds withering away from the excessive heat, led to the sight of a severe open wound that caused the monster’s stability to be in shambles. Not bothering to attack as her right foot was slashed, the open wound that gushed out boiling lava started to repair itself.

As the magma soon hardened, leading to the wound being wrapped up like a bandaid—

She couldn’t nudge her left foot.

Having no sensation or feeling on it she turned her head to look at the four young men who wielded many blue canisters with their hands. Squinting her eyes, she noticed that the men had already thrown their canisters, but she couldn’t register the feeling.

So why?

Looking down to where her left foot was, her head and upper body burned into a fiery inferno as she let out a high-pitched cry.

(Stan) That should keep her busy!

In Stan’s hand, a black and white skull and bones were latched onto the logo of the metal.

Her left foot being encapsulated by the almost absolute zero ice that managed to whisk away the flames of her hardened magma body, she bent down as she used her right knee to keep her stable. With her right hand, she thrusted it downward onto the group that started to sprint away from the burning heat.

Finding a little alleyway, the four of them narrowly dodged the hand as dust circled the area where they were. Raising her right hand again, she wasted no time in trying to clobber them, with her right hand thrusting itself down onto the ground again where the four young men were hiding.

Just as she was about to slam her right palm…

(Lieutenant) Fire away!

Gushing lava holes began to pour out from her upper body and neck.

Unable to hit the group of four, she moved both of her hands to block incoming mana-compressed bullets that pierced through her hands. Putting an abundance of strength and power into her hands, created a little tug-of-war between her regenerative healing and the amount of bullets that the Lieutenant can fire against her.

While blocking her head with her only way of defense.

(Stan) Throw them now!

Seeing an opening, the group of four that the monster let go of, threw the second round of frozen air.

Smashing alongside her right ankle, the absolute zero ice soon encapsulated her right foot as it kept her right foot pinned to the ground in a snap. As the heat from her body continued to drench everyone who tried to get close, many men and women started to stumble back and forth as they got to the border of being conscious and not.

Having both of her feet now super glued to the asphalt, the monster let out an ear-piercing shout from her flamed vocals, her sweltering raspied magma throat coughing chunks of lava out into the world. The air around everyone began to deafen and cause time itself to halt, the loud prolonged scream caused Luke and Luna to fly away even more.

Unable to cover both of their ears, the two of them continued to look at the burning sight that encapsulated both of their eyes. Noticing that she stopped screaming, their ears rang with tinnitus as they barely heard each other from the sounds of their yells.

(Luke) They need to stall a bit more!

(Luna) Huh!?

(Luke) I said they need to stall a bit more!!

(Luna) But her guard’s down!?

(Luke) Huh!?

(Luna) I said her guard’s down!!

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(Luke) Oh! But she’s radiating a lot of heat! Even if we sneak past her! We wouldn’t make it that far!

(Luna) Huh!?

(Luke) Don’t worry about it!

Still hovering over the sky, Luke heard the voice of a well-groomed man inside of his right ear.

The person in question was inside none other than a safely kept helicopter, with the heavy aircraft being near where Luke and Luna were. With the man with red hair wielding but just a sniper rifle and a little ear device inside of his right ear, he aimed down his weapon right where the monster’s head was.

(Jack) Hey Luke. Tell the soldiers to aim for the head! That way they could give you an opening!

(Luke) Uh … but it’s impossible to try to speak to them down there! I don’t think they have any communicative devices that are the same as us!

(Jack) Oh don’t worry, one person is listening to us.

(Luke) S-Sorry what was that!?

(Boris) The head is the weak spot? Consider it done.

Behind both Hope and the Lieutenant, was none other than a man wearing a black fedora on top of his bowl-cut hair head.

Having his hand over his left ear, he made sure that no extra noise came into the communication between him and the two men from above. Walking toward the Lieutenant who was busy giving commands, Boris placed his right hand on top of the Lieutenant’s shoulder.

(Boris) Tell your troops to focus fire on the head.

(Lieutenant) What does it look like my troops are doing? That bitch knows where her weak spot is.

(Boris) Then focus all attentive fire on her hands and arms. Without a need for shielding, she’ll be helpless.

Straightening his back, the Lieutenant cleared his throat as he thumped his chest with just his right hand. Swallowing in a load of saliva down his rusted throat, he placed both of his hands behind his lower back, showcasing his puffed-up chest loud and proud for everyone to see.

Despite his voice directing his soldiers, his eyes locked upon the beast that continued to flame her magma skin despite her feet being contained.

(Lieutenant) Soldiers!

Almost all of the soldiers continued to spray the upper body and chest area of the monster’s body, as well as the many lava flows that poured out of her body. With both of her hands and arms riddled with mana-compressed holes, she arched her head back to the max it could go, which made her seem headless to the platoon.

(Lieutenant) … Just lock and load.

Seeing that the fiery beast was arching her head back to avoid any bullets that could strike her, she also allowed her skin to burn evermore, her light managing to cause many soldiers to look away.

Darkening his face evermore, the Lieutenant grits the back ends of his teeth as his enamels start to chip away from the excess bite force.

(Lieutenant’s thoughts) If only there was some way that we could get rid of both her lower and upper body! It would take a goddamn miracle for even us to try to get a good hit on her head—

Lights of a thousand whistles lit up the morning sky.

Bullets, blessings, and even the sounds of a helicopter and rocket boots all ceased to stop reverberating sound.

Looking up at the night sky, all of them saw a trail of flashing lights that sparkled and glistened like old lightning. With smoke upon the edges of the lights that shined its unholy whistle of death, the barrage of old lightning soon started to come down right where the monster stood.

(Lieutenant) Missiles?

(Boris) Looks like God’s on our side.

(Jack) They’re from the complex…

Luke, being the one in the air, looked toward the complex as the missile smoke was traced toward the west side of the city. Both Luke and Luna, seeing that a bunch of red flares were sprouting out from east of the complex, noticed that a trail of dust was seen from just the other side of the city.

(Luke’s thoughts) I think that’s Benn, David, and the rest of everybody…

Still clutching the water bomb in his hands, he failed to notice the slow incoming missiles that were meters away from hitting the poor beast that couldn’t walk.

As soon as the missiles struck the monster, a flash of light blinded the entirety of the sky in a whitish color.

Everyone that was on the ground, ducked and covered as they placed their hands onto the back of their heads, dropping their guns and gadgets down as they gripped their scalps.

Then came the shockwave that wiped the century-old dust.

Their ears rang again, and all of the soldiers and Dark Angel members became discombobulated and clunky with their steps. Along with the sudden heat that came from the missiles, smoke plundered the area in which the monster barely stood.

Standing up, everyone waved away the dust and smoke that molested their windpipes and lungs, leading to a good amount of soldiers coughing out large chunks of flesh in their mouths. Blood accompanying them, everyone sat down to watch as the smoke cleared from the beast before them.

(Luke) Look, Luna!

(Luna) Finally…

What lay in front of everyone was a low dimmed, barely flaming monster that lay flat on its stomach.

But she had no stomach.

With her entire body, including her hands, arms, neck, and upper to lower body being completely gone from the face of Terra, the only thing that was kept was her feet and legs. As her spine was still attached, it led to her head being the only thing that was still connected to her body exoskeleton.

(Jack) Hey Luke, her mind is completely overridden with fear. Now’s your chance!

(Luke) On it!

Tilting his body downward, he let the motion of his rocket boots fly him downward toward where the monster’s body was. Still having Luna in tow, her feet twitched as the ground that awaited both of them managed to get closer and closer.

(Luna’s thoughts) Finally ground!

Making a touchdown on top of her hardened head, Luke noticed a large hole that led to an opening inside of her skull. The soles of their boots had not even melted from the magma-cooled skin, both Luke and Luna had each other close by as both felt her hardened cheek going up and down.

Meanwhile, Boris widened his eyes as his face went a deathly pale.

(Boris) Who knows what may happen if the bomb is detonated!?

(Lieutenant) Holy hell you’re right! Troops! RETREAT!!!

By just hearing the words coming from the Lieutenant alone, all the soldiers and Dark Angels members ran alongside each other as they tried their hardest to push themselves off of the dark asphalt they ran on.

Pushing their lungs and feet to their limits, all of them took in the ghastly toxic air that only just slowed them down.

A bead of sweat rolled down Luke’s right temple, he noticed the little valve that the bomb had on its right side. Holding the bomb with just his left hand, he used his right to twist it in a counterclockwise motion, allowing a little hissing sound to come right out of the creak of the hull.

(Luke) This is the end.

A ticking sound can be heard.

Thrusting his left arm back, he put his right foot back as he arched his body so that his weight was focused on both of his feet.

Throwing the heavyweight bomb straight into the little hole, Luna instantly held Luke’s right hand as both of them jumped off of the back of the monster’s head. Landing on the concrete, Luna made sure that Luke was right beside her while they continued to push their blistered feet on the blackened pavement.

(Luna) I see them!

Stan, Gary, Fred, and Diego barely made it onto the back of a building that was far away from the two of them. From the corner of the large building, a young woman with blue eyes and blonde hair popped out as she raised her head upward.

While pushing her vocals to her limits.

(Hope) Hurry Luke!

Luke looked back to see the open-mouthed flaming beast that didn’t even try to regenerate her bodiless body. Noticing that a couple of magma tears slowly streaming down from the corners of her eyes, Luke widened his eyes as he started to be dragged by Luna’s right hand.

Gripping her fingers into his knuckles, her low sharpened nails still managed to cut deep into his bones as he turned his head back around.

(Luna) Just ignore her!

Both Luna and Luke vanished.

Being blackjacked hundreds of feet forward, both were dozens of meters away from the building of which Hope, Fred, and Miles stuck their heads out.

As the sounds of a helicopter fading away into the distance were heard, Luke ignored the aircraft as he extended his left hand to try to close the gap.

(Sidney) J-J-

The bomb exploded.

Inside her head, the highly pressurized water that was trapped within the metal jail cells of the metal bomb soon erupted into her closed-up head. In an instant, the water that swirled and crushed her mind and brain soon exploded outward, with not just water coming out.

But a fireball of lava and fire spurred out from her head.

The light was not as blinding as it was six years ago, but it was enough for everyone to close their eyes shut as they turned their heads away from the burning light. Barely grabbing her right hand, Luke clutched it tightly as he pushed Luna first into the alleyway that was in the back of the largely structured building.

Then the sound came.

Then the fiery inferno.

Both coming in at the same time, Luke barely saw the rest of everybody that hurdled against each other to avoid the paralyzing shockwave and hellish flames that blanketed them from above, to the left, and to the right. With the only saving grace being the large building that acted as a shield.

Barely opening their eyes, they witnessed that some flames were closer to them than others.

Fred, Gary, Diego, and Stan all took out the last of their frozen gas canisters from their pockets, throwing them at both sides of the alleys followed by the high walls that can be turned into a roof. With the gas exploding, it led to a superficial creation of just absolute zero ice that caged them in to avoid the perverted flames.

(Gary) We got ‘em!

(Fred) Not yet!

As the star-like flames starting to melt away the hollow ice, Elizabeth pushed both of her hands outwards. Black clouds instantly formed along her wrists.

Using her clouds to plug up the holes that the flames burned through, the black clouds summoned a chilling rain that allowed the ice to remain in its form.

(Luke) Is this wall…

The building that they used to escape from the flames, was practically holding back the last of the burning flames.

Unable to focus her attention on the now melting wall, Elizabeth started to hyperventilate as the clouds that she continued to emit started to slow down. Feeling as if her body was on the verge of collapsing, she eyed the melting wall that soon started to burst open the can of ugly worms.

Which was the fire that soon pushed forth onto the defenseless group.

(Elizabeth) I-I’m s—

A blue shield surrounded the entirety of them.

From the Dark Angels to the platoon that stretched along the alleyway, the bright blue shield hardened in strength as the ever-glowing light continued to shine down on them. The man in question, barely allowing himself to breathe, had his right knee on the ground as he had both of his hands up in the air.

Blood spurting out of his nose, along with his eyes starting to turn red from the trapped red liquid that was contained in his irises, Miles’s entire body trembled under the sweltering heat.

Luckily for him, a pair of hands softly touched his upper back.

Miles’ pleading eyes looked up to see Hope.

(Miles) H-Hope!

(Hope) N-No problem!

She then put her entire soul into healing the barely conscious Miles. Luke looked on top of him as the burning flames started to weaken. With the black clouds raining down microburst-like rain onto the ice, it thickened the walls and roof of where the flames tried to seep into.

As with Miles, his dome managed to block the sheepish flames that burst out of the very structure that they thought would not falter.

But the flames were now the least of their worries.

(Luke) Look out!

Then came the collapsing of debris.

Similar to the end of the robotics club six years ago, a barrage of melted stone and cement came crashing downward onto them, as the dome that protected them managed to keep them at bay.

Luke, Fred, Gary, and Stan all covered their faces as they hurdled themselves onto the ground to protect their faces. Shutting his eyes from the darkening void, Luke crossed his fingers while the raging and relentless flames continued to blanket them violently.

And with his vision shuttered away like a TV screen, the only thing that he could hear was the whispers of a motherly voice.

A voice that he heard and that he longed to hear.

(???) Hey…

Or was it?

(???) I’m sorry.

Amid everything, in the howling darkness that cluttered even his sanity and wellbeing.

Someone wrapped him from the right side of his body, their arms not wanting to let go as the said person nuzzled their face onto his shoulder.

Along with the world ceasing its pitiful noise.