6 months later, at Beyond HQ...

It had taken sometime, but the Federation had started to heal, after the events on Rennaya. All space frontier missions were suspended, but in the mean time, many technological advances were made, to defend each of the worlds. However they knew, peace could only last for so long.

Seven of the Novas were training at Beyond HQ, while a few were on Azuria, with the rest doing tasks and errands on Earth. Regardless when the Dark Kings released their iko, within their Solar System, they all felt it.

"Brother, it would seem, the scouts were right. I can't feel his energy here at all." Rael said, completely surprised.

"Yes, it would seem he may have perished on Rennaya along with his brother. What a waste, well then, shall we give them a visit?" Mado replied back.

They were on the Alzora, the strongest Kirosian warship. "Hitos." On his command six people appeared behind him, kneeling.

"Yes, your majesty." They spoke in unison.

Mado took a moment looking at the blue planet, then made his decision. "Plunder their versillium, and destroy their ships. Release your iko once you're done, you'll be summoned back."

"We will complete you're orders without fail." One of the generals spoke up. A man to her right, raised his head, wanting to ask a question.

"Tisgo, speak your mind." Rael noticed.

"What about the Azurians?" He asked.

"Ignore them for now, we'll destroy them all later. For now this mission is time sensitive. Return within half an hour." Rael replied back to him.

They nodded in agreement as Rael prepared to send them to their locations. Before they disappeared, Mado spoke up. "Restrain yourselves, do not destroy them completely. The great war will soon come, and we must be able to savour it."

"Yes your majesty," they said in unison, as the air cracked around them, before they disappeared.

Rael turned to is brother. "Well then."

Mado nodded back. "We best get going."

In the middle of Dubai Mall, U.A.E...

Kiala and Jacira just left one of the many stores hey had visited and were on their way to the food court. However Kiala started to have a bad feeling and felt slightly sick.

"Kiala you good? Need water?" Jacira asked concerned. They were in disguises, trying their best to fit in amongst the bustling crowds within the mall.

Suddenly the feeling got worse, as people around them started to drop. Then Jacira out of the blue dropped to her knees, clutching her chest. Kiala looked up at the sky, through the glass windows above them, realizing all of this energy was being directed at her.

Mado and Rael floated ominously above, staring right at her, piercing daggers, as the kings started to smile. Kiala immediately shifted into third gear and tapped her bracelet, which shifted her clothes into her Nova suit.

Her energy, was only capable of shielding the people within the mall, but she could tell, the entire planet was being affected at this very moment.

She dropped down beside Jacira, who had started to recover thanks to her help. "Jacira I need you to contact Beyond HQ, and let them know that the Dark Kings are here."

Jacira gagged a bit, but held it in, being near the epicenter of the attack, was a lot more than she could handle. She looked around, seeing people unconscious on the floor like corpses, then looked back at Kiala and tapped her own bracelet.

"I'm fighting with you." She replied back.

Kiala shook her head. "You know I want to, but I don't think neither of us are safe at the moment. Protect them, Jacira, release your iko." Then in seconds Kiala disappeared and reappeared outside of the mall.

Expecting to see the kings waiting for her outside. However, instead she found them in the middle of an intense battle with Sora.

Though, she could tell that Sora was having a hard time. Both of the kings had shifted into third gear, commencing a two fold assault on the hero.

Mado laughed outloud enjoying the battle, then pulled out noticing Kiala, as Rael, continued and got a bit serious. With dark energy enveloping him just like her, she began to get overpowered.

"The difference between us, is experience warrior," he shouted as he knocked her into the city.

"Kinect: Seeking Shock!" Sora yelled, as she disappeared and reappeared behind him. However, he turned around faster than she anticipated.

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With a condensed sphere of telekinetic energy and a core of lava, equating her bomb, while grabbing her other arm to hold her still. Both of them, endured the clustered explosion they let off, near a highway, completely collapsing the bridges, as people screamed.

Saphyra deployed telemonitors, to monitor the situation and keep the people of Earth and Federation updated on the wide scale attack. Her hands were full, as she could not have predicted how this attack had occurred nor how they got past their defenses and alarms. Sonara's capital as well as it's mining sites were struck. Along with Dargan's major versillium warehouses and Beyond's Spaceship Hangar. She had deployed Novas, to each area as quickly as she could.

The most worrisome problem for her aside from the descent of the Dark Kings, was the terror attacks, on Toronto and Berlin. The generals the kings sent there, were indiscriminately killing people, before Norah and Koji could arrive.

Back in Dubai...

Kiala rushed Mado, but was flicked back. She gritted her teeth, raising her hand high above her head, and calling forth all of the elements in her disposal.

Mado expression turned into a frown, "A lot of your people will die, if you set that off."

Kiala, looked at him with a deadly expression, as she started to float. "I'll control it. As long as you're dead, Earth can make it through this."

He smiled, almost breaking out into a laugh. "Admirable, well then, show me what you've got."

The crackling sphere, above her head, had nearly reached 10 times her size, as it scorched the ground and shattered the windows in the mall. She didn't know how she was going to be able to protect the people of the city, but she knew she couldn't hesitate. Billions of lives depended on her, it was what she was trained for.

To erase all emotions, for the greater good. "Ignite: Ultimate Explosion!" She threw down the sphere, as it was struck once more with lightning, aiding it's descent down.

However, just before it reached Mado, it completely froze, as dark energy, crushed a crater beneath him, with black and purple veins, coursing through his body, in rhythm. Then he clutched his hand as it shattered.

The world was in shock. All hope was lost. Kiala didn't know how to react, she immediately tried to reach for her sword, however a quick black bullet of fire, struck her shoulder, and knocked her out of the air.

She stood back up immediately, but clutched her shoulder as she frosted it over. Then glared at him, who had not even taken a step, but began clapping slowly.

"There is no doubt, you are strong." He said, with praise.

Just then Rael appeared, out of nowhere holding Sora from the back of her neck and slammed her face down into the ground. He put his other hand to her back then spoke. "Pulse."

A force of telekinetic energy ripped through her, forcing her to cough, as Nirros core vomited out. He picked it up looking it over, then at Sarah who had fallen unconscious. "Hmph, she thought it was our first time fighting a merged child of Atlas." Then closed it in his hand preparing to crush it.

"STOP IT! Jacira screamed at the top of her lungs. She had just made it outside, as Kiala whipped her head around in dread.

Jacira's knees were shaking, but she pushed herself to walk forward, then stood between Kiala and the Dark Kings. "Don't kill her!"

Mado and Rael looked at each other, then started laughing. Then Rael looked at her and shook his head. "Why should I listen, to one, who can barely stop shaking in my presence."

He was right, just standing near them, was physically taking a toll on her, as blood dropped down her nose. However she wasn't one to back down, her ancestors were warriors and she knew, they would never back down.

"Why are you doing this?" She stuttered to ask.

"Because we can." Rael replied.

She shook her head. "Those with power, are supposed to maintain order. What you are doing is just cruel."

Rael shook his head, entertained by the fact, that she was risking her life, just to converse. "I disagree. It is the weak that criticize the strong, because those that have power, decide what order is right. Because of that, I can decide, my people would be safer, with all of you gone."

She was in shock, knowing there was no way to reason with him. Kiala stayed silent, trying to think of any way out of this situation, but she kept hitting the dead-end.

Rael smiled, then tossed Nirros core to her, as fumbled to catch it. Then unsheathed his sword, and raised it above Sarah's unconscious head. "With your courage, you managed to save her. However without power, you cannot save both. If you can survive, coming near me and stop this blade from piercing her head. I will let you all live. However if you cannot, then I'm sure you would have learned your lesson."

"No! That's unfair." She called out, as she tried to break into a run, but coughed out large amounts of blood, with her eyes starting to bleed. She dropped to her knees, once again, as Rael laughed, then let go off his sword, plunging towards Sarah's head.

Jacira heard cracks of air beside her, as she closed her eyes, unable to look, but reopened them a moment later seeing Kiala catch the blade with her bare hands.

She stared Rael dead in his eyes, as he maintained his smug look. "It's me you want isn't it?"

Mado stepped forward, finally breaking his silence. "Yes, you were our objective, my offer is still on the table, if you are willing join our ranks."

Kiala shook her head, as she gave Rael back his blade. There were cuts on her hands from how hard she gripped, but she frosted them over. "I refuse, I'd rather die."

Mado looked disappointed. "Pity... Then your execution will be in two days, on behalf of your people, and to show my people, the start of the great war."

Kiala smiled, "Fine, I'm okay with that." She replied, then drew her sword and shifted into third gear, as Rael tensed for a second. Before she cut off her arm, preserved it in ice, then teleported it, straight to Saphyra at Beyond HQ.

Mado laughed outloud, while Rael got even more irritated. He restrained her after, she cauterized the wound and healed herself. "It's futile to give them even a fighting chance."

She looked back with an undefeated smile. "You underestimate humanity."

He squinted in disgust, then laughed once more. "We'll see about that."

Mado walked up closer to one of the drones filming, then cleared his throat. "People of the Federation! Today, we greet you with a warning, of what's to come. For us it is tradition, to wet are blade, with the blood of a fierce animal, before taking on a mighty foe. So to prepare, my people for the war with Ceria, we will be destroying you all first. Fear not, none will survive, so that you all will be reunited in the Fifth realm of Martyrs."

He paused as he looked back at Kiala, restrained. "Your strongest warrior, will be taken for execution, to commemorate, the start of the great hunt, in two days. Prepare yourselves, say your goodbyes, for, we will be coming and we shall be victorious!"

Lightning struck his blade, as he drew it high above his head, while black fire, semingly burst out of it, asserting his might and strength. Then he sheathed it, and turned to join Rael and Kiala. Moments later, the air around them cracked, as they vanished off the face of the Earth...