Max took a second to look at a Tiffany that looked horrified.

Max: Tiffany...

Aloysius: Well?

Max: I...

Aloysius: Five, ...

Max: Dang it!

Aloysius: ... four, ...

"Come on Max, think, think, think?" he thought.

Aloysius: .. three, ...

Max looked around the room for a solution.

Aloysius: ... two, ....

Max: Dang it! Dang it! Dang it!

Aloysius: .... one.

Max rushed to her to block the attack, much to Tiffany's shock.

Tiffany: Max!

Aloysius: Hmph. Well done.

Aloysius fired the beam at her at full force, and Max fired his own electricity at full force to try to parry it.

Tiffany: Max...

The beam battle had begun, and it was almost immediately obvious as to who was going to lose it. Max's beam was much weaker and was slowly being overwhelmed.

Max: Gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh!

Luke: (weakly) Max!

Tiffany: Max!

Ken slowly got up.

Ken: Ugh. What's going on, huh?

Max's beam was eventually swallowed by Wolfram's as a crystal wall started to form behind and around Max.

Max: What!

Aloysius: Hmph. It's simple. You fell for it.

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Wolfram's beam pushed him further and further before he was against the wall, being blasted harshly.

The beam blasted Max straight into the wall, and he fell, defeated.

Ken: No!

Aloysius: Hmph. So sentimental. But that very sentimentality was his weakness.

He walked up to the defeated Max.

Aloysius: And it would seem that that was all he had.

Tiffany: Why you...

Aloysius: Whine all you want, Tiffany Chang. However, I wasn't joking when I said that I would kill you last.

Tiffany: Tch...

Aloysius: Oh, and...

He started walking towards Rose.

Aloysius: I believe that he deserves a proper death himself.

Tiffany: No! Rose!

Aloysius: It would seem that Kenneth has woken up. No matter.

He prepared a beam while Ken tried to get up and walk to Rose.

Just as Aloysius was half way there, the lights lighting the mines suddenly went off, much to everyone's shock leaving them all in total darkness but for the faint glow of the dark crystals and also, a second later, for the bright blue glow appearing behind Wolfram.

Aloysius: What?

Tiffany: Max?

Aloysius turned around to see Max. His body was glowing blue, and he was getting up.

Aloysius: What in the world....?!

As he stood up, his eyes seemed to have turned completely blue, and an odd bright aura surrounded him.

Aloysius: Tch. You want more?

He fired a beam at him, but Max simply dashed away to dodge it.

Aloysius quickly formed a large crystal shield around him.

Aloysius: Tch. Well? (thinking: Was he faster, just now?)

Max dashed behind him in Rose's direction, and Aloysius turned around to face him.

Aloysius: So needlessly sentimental. In any case..

He prepared to fire a beam in Rose's direction but before he could, Max sent a bolt of electricity at him.

This time, the bolt didn't simply dent the crystal. It instead tore a hole through his crystal shield, much to his shock.

Tiffany: Max!

Ken: What the... !

Max sent yet another bolt that connected and electrocuted Wolfram straight through his shield.

Aloysius: Gah...

Tiffany: Ken, what's happening?

Ken scanned Max as he walked towards Wolfram.

Ken: His energy levels, its like that energy field around his body has multiplied itself.

Tiffany: What!

Ken: By a factor of about 9.

Tiffany: What!

Max slowly approached Wolfram, who repaired his shield.

Aloysius: I see. So this is your... all.

He regained his composure.

Aloysius: Fine.

He turned his larger shield into a more compact skin level shield.

Aloysius: I suppose I will go all out as well.

He started his attack with beams of energy, more powerful than the ones before and Max responded with his own bolts, firing them right back at him.

It was a spectacle. Neither side ceding ground. Both sides recklessly blasting at each other.

Aloysius: Heh, you seem to have gotten even stronger.

Max did not answer. The blasts simply kept coming. At times clashing, resulting in explosions, leaving the battlefield in dust clouds and smoke

Aloysius: Hahaha. Let's go.

Wolfram flew into the air to find Max in the smoke.

Aloysius: Now, where did you go? Your super speed won't work in the air. So you may as well show yourself!

Max appeared behind him again with a lightning punch.

Aloysius: So predictable....

Wolfram turned to face his opponent, clashing with him with a hand of dark purple energy. Resulting in another clash of energy.

Aloysius: Come on! Show me more!

A blue and purple light shone violently in the middle of the cave.