Stefan gives up on chasing Orange, then quickly rushes to go help Rares, but after he takes just a few steps, he feels a very familiar sensation, as if something was within his presence. He looks around him, nothing. He looked on top of a block of flats and Andrew was there. His body suddenly sends out a beeping noise. Stefan guesses that he's running out of electricity and puts back his sword.

"Reveal yourself!" screamed Stefan wildly.

"You know me damn well. No need for a secondary introduction." said Andrew, with his arms crossed, looking down upon Stefan.

Stefan grows angrier and clenches his teeth.

"You stole my body, didn't you?! You'll pay for that! You're a coward! Creating a clone of me to fight us? How lame can you be?!" said Stefan angrily.

Andrew is seemingly confused.

"Clone? What do you mean clone? We don't have the technology to clone people, let alone make them strong enough to fight cyborgs." said Andrew in a calmer manner.

"Don't you dare play fool with me, you sent Orange after us! It's clear!"

"Orange? Boy, are you delusional? I only have robots. Stop being a dumbass, I wouldn't shed human blood for your worthless, pathetic existence." said Andrew.

"He doesn't even know Orange wasn't human. It's clear, he wasn't sent by him." said Stefan in his mind.

"That will not matter though, as I will bring doom upon you! Your bloodline ends here! You're dead!" said Andrew proudly as he raised his arms.

Out of nowhere, hundreds of robots rush from Andrew's direction right onto the battlefield. They're all barehanded, no guns, no weapons, no jetpacks, only melee robots. Stefan takes out his sword, despite his cyborg body beeping. He remembers that the cat told him that his sword can now absorb electricity, so he rushes to the insane army of robots. Quickly lunging at the first one, stabbing it directly and stealing all of its energy, then kicking it away. With this fresh recharge, he has a plan. He dashes to the next robot and slashes it swiftly, instantly absorbing all of its energy. By continuously doing this, Stefan will never run out of electricity. Stefan sends out an alert message to the cat in order to paralyse the entire army. Just a few moments later, the entire army of robots is staggered. He takes no time to instantly take advantage of the situation. He blitzes the entire army of robots, dashing at lightning speed from one to another, faster and faster with every absorption, an unstoppable force. Andrew looked down upon the insane slaughter of his machines in total awe. In just a few minutes, the entire army was decimated, turned into mere scrap. Upon finishing the entire army, Stefan holds his sword in his right hand and slowly walks on top of the vile ruins of what used to be an army a few minutes ago. His cyborg body cannot handle the amount of electricity absorbed, even with the final enhancements made by the cat. It constantly pulses out lightning, always having a permanent lightning aura on his arm. Stefan suddenly stops walking, then looks up at Andrew with the biggest amount of hatred he’s ever had in his eyes before. Andrew is impressed by his sheer determination.

“It takes more than will to be a winner. After all, he’s just a cyborg. How powerful can he be? His eternal weakness is his own being, it cannot be stronger, only weaker. That’s how machines are.” said Andrew in his mind, before getting off the building and slamming into the ground, unleashing a powerful wave of dark energy. Despite Stefan bracing himself, he is still slightly pushed backwards by the wave. Andrew takes no time to launch at Stefan with a blow from his right arm. Stefan quickly tries to activate blood flames mode, but Andrew was just too fast, resulting in Stefan being punched extremely hard in the face and his blood flames mode forcefully turned off. Stefan quickly gets up despite him panting heavily. A pure desperation can be felt within his actions and moves, the essence of adrenaline pumping within the depths of his deepest points. He looks at Andrew, but right at that time, Andrew rushes and kicks him up in the air, then jumps and ax kicks him into the concrete, destroying it. Stefan’s cyborg arm starts glitching and stops responding. Smoke starts to be emitted out of his cyborg body, quickly creating a smokescreen around the crater. Andrew lands down safely. He charges up a piercing blast in his left palm and aims it at the smokescreen. Through the smoke, he suddenly sees a white glowing pair of sharp eyes. The smoke quickly goes away, revealing Stefan fully coated in electricity. An insanely thick armour, making him unrecognisable in the first place. His cyborg suit fell off, it’s right next to him. Stefan stands there slightly crouched. Andrew shoots his blast, but Stefan instantly dashes away, faster than lightning. He blitzes around Andrew for a short period of time before delivering a left punch in his face. Andrew is staggered for a short moment, but quickly regains himself. He charges energy in his palms, with the plan of blowing up the ground, but Stefan dashes and kicks Andrew in the guts right before he would do anything. Stefan notices that the more he damages Andrew, the more his aura grows and glows.

“It looks as if he has a passive ability of some sort, I need to end this quickly.” said Stefan in his mind before sending another punch to Andrew's face, this time with his right hand.

Andrew recovers more quickly from the punch and sends one as well. Stefan blocks it and shocks Andrew’s body. Andrew backs off a little, but Stefan instantly assaults him and unleashes a barrage of punches. Andrew braces himself against the barrage of punches, Stefan suddenly breaks his block and resumes the assault. Andrew has no option other than to counter-attack with the same penny. Both of them engage in an unbelievably strong and fast punch barrage competition. Stefan suddenly dashes back then launches at Andrew with a kick. Andrew grabs his leg, spins and slams him into the ground. Stefan quickly raises his left arm and points it at his face, then releases an electric shockwave which pushes Andrew back. Stefan gets up steadily then jumps at Andrew and goes for another punch. Andrew manages to counter it and punches him in the face instead. Stefan grows even angrier. They both start to speed up, both of them dashing back and rushing for hits, then dashing back again, repeating this cycle, they’re fighting all across the entirety of the city centre at speeds which would put fighter jets to shame. Stefan notices that his electricity starts to very slowly fade out. Meanwhile, Andrew is just getting stronger and stronger. He tries his best to focus better, dodging as many hits from Andrew as possible and landing as many hits as he can. Stefan starts slowing down the constant chase. Andrew sends a powerful blow with his right arm. Stefan backs off and dodges it, then kicks him in the head before backing up again. Andrew sends a swarm of dark pellets at Stefan. Stefan jumps up to avoid them, but Andrew counters him and knocks him down with a downward smash from his fists. Stefan does not allow himself to become stunned and lands safely down. Andrew slams into the ground above Stefan, but Stefan dashes away. Andrew takes no break, he wants to kill Stefan once in for all. He dashes quickly at him together with the will of landing another hit. Stefan catches his fist. Andrew sends out another punch, which Stefan catches as well. They both push against each other, but this time, Andrew is stronger than Stefan, slowly pushing him down.

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“SSSTTOOOOOPPPP!!” said Stefan, like a blood-curdling screech which would give any normal human goosebumps.

Andrew is seemingly shocked by his sudden screech. Stefan’s electric body starts growing bigger, allowing him to outpower Andrew. Stefan launches an almighty blow from his right hand, knocking Andrew through several buildings at once. Andrew starts bleeding from the various impacts, but at the same time, his power grows more than ever. Stefan instantly bolts towards Andrew, and so does he. This time, instead, Stefan completely outpowers Andrew. Stefan hits him hard as hell in the stomach with a right-hand punch, staggering Andrew fully. Stefan lands an insane kick in his jaw, knocking him up. By sheer coincidence, they were right next to the tallest building in the world. Andrew is knocked up hundreds of metres up in the air. Stefan jumps after him. They both land on top of the building, but Andrew doesn’t get to recover, because Stefan slams down with a punch, crashing Andrew through every floor of the building until they reach the base floor. Stefan looks down at Andrew, as he struggles to get out of Stefan’s crushing force. Stefan grabs Andrew’s head then throws him as a whole out of the rubble. Andrew stabilises himself and slides on the concrete, his fingers touching the ground. Stefan flies directly towards him and kicks him in the head perfectly. Andrew is knocked back, but Stefan won’t stop here. He rushes him and lands several blows on his abdomen and back as Andrew is knocked back midair, then Stefan grabs his head and grinds it against the ground as he runs at speed at least as fast as mach 2 before throwing him once more. Stefan’s electric body starts fading out at a quick pace. Andrew was fully stunned, he could barely lift a finger anymore. However, he was not dead.

Meanwhile, Rares slowly raised from the dust of the shattered wall, his body shaking all over.

“No… I didn’t come here… To let him win… I will not let him steal my kill… No… I’ve… I’ve trained… For so, so long… Two years… Two years worth of suffering and pain… No… I will not allow this…” said Rares in his mind, his elementalist coat flashing onto his body.

He supports himself using the hole in the wall which he created.

“No! I will be the one to defeat Andrew! I am the ultimate elementalist! I am! I am the final redeemer!” screamed Rares at the top of his lungs.

His elementalist coat suddenly blows up into a spiral of fire, incinerating the building as a whole. Rares… Has finally ranked up… To a high rank elementalist. He feels Andrew’s weak energy from far away, so he rushes at full speed towards it.

Stefan dashes, using all of his remaining electricity, all of his remaining will. He launches quickly to end Andrew’s miserable life. However, right when he was just a few metres away from landing a direct punch to his face, all of his electricity runs out. Stefan stops, his pants are damaged and he’s fully shirtless. He stops in a pose with his entire body leaned forward, his left arm and leg stretched backwards and his right side forward. Andrew smiles slightly.

“I won.” said Andrew in a low tone.

But, from the depths of the purple sky, Rares arrives.

“This… Is… JUSTICE!” said Rares, as he held a hypercharged fire spear in his hand.

With a bright smile on his face, Rares throws the spear at outstanding speed, piercing Andrew’s head perfectly. Andrew arches his back as he lets out an insanely loud screech of sheer suffering and pain, his blood splashing in contact with the spear. He tries to pull out the spear, but he only makes his situation worse as his hands are instantly burned to a crisp. In just a few seconds, Andrew ceases to breathe. Stefan, with a look of pure fear, doesn't move a single inch as he stares at Andrew's corpse and the burning spear of pure blazes. Rares quickly comes down and plucks the giant spear out of his head as his smile slowly fades away. He looks at Stefan, who slowly goes down on the floor, shaking. Rares grabs a jar of juice out of his jacket then slams it on the ground and lits it up. Rares grabs Andrew's head and drags him by the foot to the portal. Andrew's elementalist coat instantly fades away, revealing him in a black tank top and military pants, wearing a black bracelet on his right wrist saying "#2 Child". As Rares drags him to the portal, a trail of blood leaves his head. Rares throws his corpse in the portal, then looks at Stefan.

"Get in here already." said Rares, before hopping in the portal.

Stefan struggles to get up, then he slowly walks to the portal. He tries to breathe, but suddenly, he feels his lungs suddenly blocked. He quickly panics and falls on the ground. Just a few moments later, the cat arrives in a hazmat suit and an oxygen tank and quickly grabs Stefan and gets him back. The cat gets Stefan quickly to a room, and he places him in a giant tube, then fills it with a green liquid. Stefan lets out a wild war cry and then faints. Rares appears at the door of the room afterwards.

"Listen up. I'm leaving." said Rares with his arms crossed.

The cat takes off his hazmat suit but doesn't turn at him.

"You don't have to." said the cat in a normal tone.

"I can't. It's too much for me. I can't suffer him. Everyone will know that he was the one to defeat Andrew."

"But you killed him."

"It doesn't matter. I was fully capable of winning every fight myself. I trained so hard… Just for him to take my spotlight…"

"So, where are you going?"

"I know a place… I saw it in your books."

The cat sighs.

"Are you sure? I wouldn't want to dig up the dead, y'know…" said the cat.

"Tsk… It doesn't matter… It can't be that bad…"

"Anyways… You're always welcome here. Remember that." said the cat.

"Also, one more thing." said Rares.

"What's up?" asked the cat, finally turning at him.

"Call me Ares from now on."

"Any motive?"

"You can say it faster, and I suppose it's easier to remember."

"Alright, Ares, see you later."

Ares leaves and, using the teleporter, he goes away.

Stefan slowly wakes up again and coughs a few times. The cat activates the drain and the capsule empties fast. The capsule is lowered. Stefan stands up and stretches himself a little. The cat throws him a dark blue shirt, a new power storage and a pair of black sweatpants. It looks the same as his old hoodie! Stefan is confused at first, but realises that he's shirtless and quickly puts them on. The hoodie quickly attaches onto him just like the first time. The cat turns around, allowing him to change his pants.

"Oh… Thank you… By the way…" said Stefan in a low tone as he dressed up.

"No need to be ashamed. You did well. I'm proud of you. It doesn't matter what your friend thinks of you, I know you're a good boy."

Stefan is happy to hear this after all he's been through. He smiles gently as he finishes putting on his new power storage.

"Oh, by the way, why couldn't I breathe in that world?"

"Ever since cyborgs became a thing, a new kind of radiation has appeared which would alter the oxygen's composition. Ares could breathe it because of his fire elementalist traits. He can breathe any gas the same way."

"Oh… Well, that explains it… Wait, who's Ares?"

The cat sighs once more.

"It's your friend. Rares. He wants to be called Ares now." said the cat with a tired tone.

Stefan nods slowly as he gets out of the capsule spot.

"Is this the same capsule where I regenerated?" asked Stefan.

"Yeah. A real beauty… Anyways, what are you planning to do now? You're not gonna see your friend for a while."

"Oh, I forgot to tell you, he's not just my friend, he's my brother. Biological blood brother."

The cat is seemingly shocked and confused by the sudden information.

"Hm, weird, but alright. So, where are you going, mister?"

Stefan thinks for a brief moment then speaks up.

"I remember a grim place. A land of the colour grey." said Stefan.

"The void? Why would you want to go there?"

"I don't know… I don't have anywhere else to go. I can train there for some time until I get bored."

"Sure I guess… You do you." said the cat.

They both go over to the main room.

"Remember, you're always welcome back. Got it?" said the cat.

"See ya…" said Stefan in a low tone as he waved his hand slowly.

"Yeah… Goodbye…" said the cat, before pulling the lever of the machine.

SEASON 2: REBOOT

END.

Author's note:

"Hey! RequiemBrother here. Thank you so much, so so much for reading Voidwalker of 3B so far. I really appreciate it. I really put my heart and soul into it… I love you all, stay safe! Season 3 is coming soon :p

I was on such a rollercoaster of emotions for this season, but in my eyes, it turned out well. See you again at the end of season 3!!!!

:3"

-RequiemBrother