Zion sighed after the engineers left.
"I will just do it," Zion sighed as he operated the Omnitrix. The golden holographic disk displayed the form. Zion looked through it for a moment before he found the form he needed, it was one of the alien in an old playlist.
Zion pressed the side and the core ejected, "Fasttrack!"
The golden light flashed, leaving a humanoid feline-like creature with a black blue color scheme. His hands, legs, chest, and part of his head colored blue. Black mask-like fins around his green eyes, a triangle-shaped nose, a thunderbolt-like design on his chest, and a triangle one down his back. He also had spike-like blades on his arms and legs.
Fasttrack blurred and appeared next to the Conversion chamber. He moved around at high speed as he checked the device before a blue-black blur filled the space. The 'normal' people watched in amazement as the machine was quickly dismantled and reassembled. It was like watching a video in fast forward.
Fasttrack stopped next to the group, his hands on his chin. "I have made some slight modifications, but all in all, the device is good to go. Should we start it now?" Fasttrack turned to the other with the question.
He quickly noticed the oddity as the group just silently observed him, "What?" he questioned.
Lucius removed his glass and massaged his eyes, "I wasn't expecting that."
"Whoa! You built in like a minute," Jimmy exclaimed as he raised his camera to take pick, but was stopped Bruce Wayne.
Kara and Clark just stayed silent, while Bruce just glared at Zion. But Batman also noticed that Zion had used his watch to transform. Batman noted that the weird mechmorph wasn't his only transformation.
"Should I start?' Zion questioned, again.
Lucius turned to Bruce Wayne, but Batman gave a nod of approval which was relayed by Lucius, "I think we should."
"Okay," Zion blitzed next to a meter tall box. The box was the main component of the Atomic engine. He used his speed to remove the packaging and revealed a pure metallic cube. It was the engine. He placed his hands on it to feel its metallic coldness.
Zion then slapped the Omnitrix on his chest, "Atomix!"
A white giant with a hourglass symbol on his chest replaced the blue alien. Atomix easily lifted the cube box and walked back to the Conversion chamber. The sphere mechanically opened to reveal its inner compartment. Since the Engine was quite big, Atomix didn't need to rely on the magnetism to place it in the chamber.
The cube smoothly slid into the chamber, and the chamber closed. The machine stood still showing no movement—it was not 'On'. Atomix took a step back and raised his hand, focusing his powers inside the generator.
"I pray that we all don't meet The Lord," Atomix's respectful tone undermined his statement but those with quick mind understood what he was saying. Only Jimmy took a moment.
Atomic started the atomic fusion in the middle of the engine, he forced the atoms to collide. The first few collision were just atoms bouncing off each other, but as the seconds ticked, the collision caused the atoms to break apart, releasing energy through atomic fission. This continued as the energy concentrated in the center increased, forcing the atoms to collide faster and fast, pressure concentrated in the center reached height enough to finally cause the first atomic fusion.
The first, second, than the third. The collision continued as the atomic fusion began in the center of the 600 cell tetrahedron. Atomix knew it was time, causing him to concentrate more, he didn't want the whole thing to go KaBOOM.
The solid cube inside the chamber started to heat up, releasing thermal energy that made everyone in the room sweat. They could see the heat wave around the generator, distorting the air around it. Kara could even see the large amount of infrared that was filling the space.
Than, [BOOOMM!]
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A shock wave shook whole of gotham, the wayne building at the epicenter experienced a earthquake. The people in the building fell to the floor, while some hid under their table in panic. The journalist scurried of, and the guards rushed in to protect their employee.
The door to the -4th floor flunk open, engineers that had worked had rushed though the stair. They quickly noticed the group standing as they watched the machine, which was complete now. The sphere looked the same, but the panels next to it were lit up showing that it was working.
The kid that kicked them out was operating the control panels.
"You started it without us?" The leading engineer questioned. "We haven't finished studying it."
Zion did even turn as he kept checking the reading to make sure that the thing won't blow up for some stupid reason. The reading were normal, the energy output was stable, the radiations were contained and the fission-fusion cycles were stable.
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He rechecked the readings before walking to Lucius, the man who knew his stuff, "Keep the reading stable, I will send the procedures and manual to handle the engine."
Lucius gave a nod, "I shall as I like to live to the end of my life."
Zion just smiled, and turned to Kara. "Let's leave!"
"Leaving?" Jimmy asked.
"Yes," Zion answered.
"What about the interview?" Jimmy asked.
"I showed you the whole thing didn't I?" Zion answered turning to Clark Kent, "And, I think Clark can handle this, Can't you?"
"Yeah, I can," Clark gave an assuring smile.
"Thanks, Clark."
Zion took the elevator with Kara, and their journey was uninterrupted until they arrived at Zion's fortress.
***
The warehouse was a mess with many tinkered machines sprawling on the floor unattended. The processing line stood abandoned. The work table had many plans scribbled in indecipherable words.
Zions had just dropped everything they were doing to take a break, so the warehouse looked like a teenagers bed room.
"Not the best of place to be," Kara commented
Zion didn't comment much as he moved to his work table where his upgraded laptop sat with his diary on the side. Zion accessed his laptop to pull the file regarding the Atomic Engine. He removed the design details, and compiled the files in order and send the manual and maintenance data to Bruce Wayne's email. The data would help them not to blow themselves if something unexpected happened.
He really didn't want to shareholders the data as it contained many core processes of the atomic engine, but he had to know. He thought the scientists would figure the whole system after studying the engine but he was expecting too much of them.
He than transformed into XLR8 to clean up the warehouse. He arranged everything in order before he arrived back at his table. He now had the sunstone in hand, this saved him many hours of work, and accelerated his progress in creating a strong defense. After terraforming the Mars, he should have bit control over how thing would happen in the future.
"What are you planning?" Kara's voice rang from behind.
Zion turned to Kara, his eyebrows raised.
"Taking over planet, or building a base, you should have more reasons than connecting two species," Kara asked, she had never trusted Zion, it was something ingrained in her. She would never trust another, they would have to earn it.
Zion nodded in agreement, "Yes, it is true that I have my reasons. The base I am going to build will change Mars forever."
"What are you going to do?" Kara inquired.
Zion stood up from his seat, his hands fiddling with the sunstone. "I am trying to change the course of history. I will turn the whole Mars similar to an Artificial Planet."
Kara frowned, "Artificial planet? How can you change an already existing planet into an artificial one? And Mars have people, it would kill them!"
Zion shook his head, "I have my ways, Kara. Even without killing."
Kara stepped forward, her face leaning towards Zion. "If a single soul is hurt, I will rip you in two." Kara's words were threatening, and the look in her eyes guarantied pain.
Zion raised his hands in surrendered and took a step back. "Chill mate, I am not being the villain here."
Kara's eyes narrowed, "Your smile doesn't assure your words."
Zion smirked, "I told you, I am not here to cause harm. I am trying to help." Zion secured the sunstone on the table. "And you can't stop me if I wanted it, Kara. You are still too weak."
The moment he finished his words, a fist appeared few centimeters to his face. The fist connected and splashed the whole warehouse in goo. The green sticky goo covered everything in the warehouse. Zion in his human form couldn't react, but Omnitrix had.
"Man, you killed me," a higher pitched voice filled the warehouse.
Kara moved her gaze to see were the voice originated, but the echos in the closed space made it hard. But she knew that Zion was still alive.
A UFO-shaped object buzzed around the warehouse, collecting the green goo. The green goo melded together to form a humanoid slime. Two bright green spots formed on its head, its eyes. The UFO floated above its head.
"Really?! You could have killed me," Zion complained
"You didn't die, did you," Kara shrugged.
"You know what! I am going to beat you, here and now," Zion said as the golden flash covered his form, "NRG!!!"
But a fist collided with NRG's armour sending him flying through the warehouse's wall like a loose cannon. NRG crashed into another abandoned warehouse and brought it to the ground. It was a good that the area around the warehouse was relatively abandoned.
"Darn!" NRG groaned as he climbed out of the wreckage. His form fully visible under the high sun. His heavy dark green armour, with three slits on his head glowing hot red. The whole suit looked like a furnace, with bolts on his shoulder and writs.
"You going to beat me?" Kara's voice came from the sky, her tone condescending.
NRG answered with an energy blast targeting Kara.
Kara quickly dodged the attack and closed in on NRG using her super-speed. NRG moved his head, targeting Kara as she evaded his energy blast. The missed energy blast continued until it collided with an abandoned building and burned through it.
"You are slow," Kara commented as she punched the heavy alien.
The powered punch lifted NRG off his feat, and send the heavy alien souring through the sky, again.
NRG, mid air, opened his helmet and pushed himself out. A large amount of radiation escaped his energized body and the air visibly heated up. The true form Prypiatosian became visible, now unsealed from his confinement.
A humanoid form made of energy, emitting deep orange light, with green tights with black bands exceeding around his body. The amount of energy produced by his form, heating up the area like a real furnace.
"Now, I will beat you," NRG stated as he increased his radiation output and matched the energy with the red giant's.
Kara, alerted, moved swiftly as she rushed to deliver another punch, but as she approched, she quickly realized that the energy was burning her, even through her un-vulnerable skin. Her skin was getting redder and the burning pained filled her mind, causeing her to reel back.
"Fiiiiiinnnnnaaaaaal fllllaaaaaasssshhh!!!!"
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NRG, locked on to Kara the minute she paused, delivered his charged up his energy blast. The red condense energy filled with red sun radiation hit Kara unforgivingly, and the beam that was traveled at quasi-lightspeed, didn't miss its mark.
Kara swiftly tried retreated, it was than Kara noticed that her speed had considerably reduce, causing her to not evade the energy blast in time. Red filled her vision as her body slammed into the ground. the heat burned though her dress to skin, her senses blinded by pain and her ears rung.
If one looked from the distance, they could see a small mushroom cloud rising.
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