Kongranime Chapter 5: Sword of Intervention

From afar, two groups of people approached the battle between Aetheral and Doc. From the north, came the rebels, a good few of their heads, together with a bunch of mooks. From the south, the government had gathered quite a few armed soldiers lead by a few notable agents. The battle raged on. A bright pillar of green flame rose in the air, for many meters, only to  be made null by a series of blue arced lights emerging from its center.

The imperial soldiers charged in without much hesitation. Cpt.Muse readied her pistol to shoot at Aetheral, only to find herself being shot at, by a large rocket. This once she had to dodge rather than cut it in two, thus leading to the shockwave hitting her. Epic went on to take his machine gun and keep firing. At this point however, like a strike of thunder, something deeply scarred his chest. Wario had burst in, activating Power User to its full, changing his body into a thunderous form, before shifting back, to slash at epic with his sword of thunder.

This was when however, he found himself flung away. Iron had come to claim his prize and with a strong, surprise shoulder bash had wounded Wario. Quickly entering True Fist, he charged forward, the ethereal shape of his head appearing behind him, set ablaze in pure white flames. Iron closed his eyes and in response the forehead of the ethereal head formed a sphere of energy in its front, charging as it released in a beam of pure energy. Iron then went to continue his assault, jumping upwards and then forming a burning white fist to slam on the ground. Wario who barely dodged the beam in the beginning by briefly lapsing into power user, had no chance to win the second time.

Sauron now looked somewhat weird. He seemed to be wearing some sort of strange device to the side of his head, and a kind of metal vest over his lab-coat. Andrea had commanded one of her inventions, a humanoid shaped robot, with arms and legs and a head and whatnot. It even had weapons stolen from previous encounters with the government equipped. It had a stealth mode included, which Andrea made use of. Her plan was perfect. Disabling Professor Donger, would cripple the imperials quite a bit. And so, her robot approached this man from behind. Slowly, steadily, it prepared to fire on his head, until Sauron suddenly spun in one leg, looking at the robot's direction.
"JAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJAJA!"-he laughed, like a madman [that he was]. "NORMIES!"-he said as from the back of his vest two large metallic arms, with the forearms much larger, and armored, the fingers endings being rather pointy. "OUT!"-and this is when the two hands grabbed the robot's torso and squashed in.

Sauron had not accounted for other rebels being available however, as suddenly, he felt a strong pain mixed with a burning sensation on his back. Luna had delivered a fire imbued kick, right at the area between the two arms emergence point. Saur turned around, angry, but Luna had vanished, only to once more take him from the behind with a vicious leg swipe, before she went to finish her enemy. She jumped and infused her foot with fire, ready to crush the Professor's chest, when suddenly, from the front of Donger's vest, emerged a large robotic head, mouth open. It fired a large laser beam that hit Luna, causing her to be flung away in the air. Donger felt proud. For a second, as a sudden chain with a sharp object in its end circled his arm, binding him and pulling him back, before the chain was retracted and Saur was let to fall with his back on the ground. Immediately after, he witnessed the menacing sight of Senpai, with a kunai in hand, as he tried to roll out of the way of a lethal attack. It did not work out so wonderfully. The kunai hit him through his shoulder, entirely severing his arm and causing major bleeding. Soldiers came to aid him, but Senpai dispatched all of them with ease, a single shuriken in between each of their eyes. Then they stated to cluster up, as Sonya approached them, having recovered somewhat.

Senpai moved away, swiftly. He had done his thing. Now to aid his people elsewhere, he decided to go neutralize as many mooks as he could. In the meanwhile, Sonne was a bit conflicted. In one hand, Aetheral  had caused him quite a bit of damage, but on the other he was fighting a top-rank government agent and holding his grounds. This edgy man's  mind was barely in place, full of conflict and inability to decide. He looked on as the duo kept fighting. Doctor putting a few of his seals on Aetheral causing violent explosions to ravage his armor. Aetheral countering, leaving deep wounds on Doctor, but he seemed to just heal. Sonne... He closed his eyes. He was doing this for a reason. He had joined the cause of the rebels not because it was pretty, but because it was just. Their symbol was one of a black phoenix. It meant, that they were like a fiery spirit, that would nonetheless not be reborn from the ashes. But the ashes they'd leave behind would give birth to a new, better world. Their ideal was a world where they were not necessary. Sonne might have had disagreements with the other rebels, and been a bit of a loner, but deep down he strove for the same thing. Grasping his sword with both hands,he blindly charged.

The problem was, Aetheral was right in front of him, and besides this man was Doctor. The head of the secret services was certainly glad that he'd take two birds with one stone. Except Aetheral suddenly disappeared, Sonne's slash cutting deep. At the same once, from the back another slash of equal power cut Doctor. Both Aetheral and Sonne dashed back and readied for a stronger assault, to now sever their foe in half. Holding their swords with both hands, they put an immense amount of strength behind it and released simultaneous wind waves at Doc. At the moment the sharp winds were about to hit however Doc became covered in a golden light. From both sides of his now golden glowing body towards Aetheral and Sonne, some sort of golden energy shaped like a sword emerged, and suddenly struck out with force damaging Aetheral's armor and causing Sonne to bleed.

From a distance, Harel descended from the air, as if she was walking through invisible stairs. She was barely holding her laughter.
"Ah... the little scrap of metal and..."-she turned to Sonne. "A random peasant. Who would have thought..."-and with those words, she proceeded to make the body of Doc vanish. A faint cyan light came from within Aetheral's armor, as he proceeded to hold his sword, tip down with both hands. Suddenly, the shoulder plated burst out, same with most of his chest, arm and leg armor. The draconic helmet disappeared as well, showing a sleeker one beneath. His armor was now lighter, the same model but less buff, with lines of cyan light going all over it, and energy being exerted from them. His sword lost some of the broadness, becoming thinner, as the same flaming cyan energy from his armor formed a coating around it.

Sonne did not stay back. Grasping his sword with both hands, he gave in to his wilder instincts, approaching the form of the monstrous Eldritch Potato. his hair grew wild with dark power. His clothed burst out, his muscles bulging, his face now obscured in the dark power all except his eyes, those dark red eyes. Letting out a beastly roar, he charged the Empress. Same with Aetheral. The charge was however, interrupted, as a blast of pure golden energy struck them. Some sort of loud roar could be heard at the time, a glowing serpentine body heading down from the clouds. As it settled behind the empress they could see the eagle drake, with its golden scales and head, with the large fore-limbs and claws, with the large eagle wings and feathered head.

"Come, dragon! Display your power!"-she commanded the beast, which breathed its golden flames on the attackers. They were repelled, without much effort. The drake rose its claw, ready to finish them, but suddenly a pure white beam struck it down the center, forcing the claw back down. Iron had barged in, ready to fight. Releasing a flurry of True Fist punches, he hit the Eagle-Dragons body as much as he could. The beast turned around and flapped its wings, sending a mighty burst of wind at him, and throw Iron into the rocks. It rose up, and readied its breath to finish the rebellious soul, only to receive a multitude of blue sword-beams over its head, from no visible source. Right after, Aetheral appeared and sunk its sword on its upper jaw, dealing a considerable wound. It was however, ready to strike once more. When its lower jaw was sealed shut together with the other , by Sonne piercing it. Iron stood up then, and went to attack the creature from any direction it could.

It seemed to be awfully resistant however. Iron punched it in the back, in the sides, claws, face, in the belly , and it was only barely bruised. Its soul was an exceptional one. Well, was, until everyone present was almost deafened, by the sound of a loud blast, as a red beam coming right from the side of the dragon, struck him through, the creature soon adapting an ethereal form and rising back into the skies. The empress frowned at this development. The trio could now face her in combat. And so they did try. The three, charging their strengths and preparing to end their struggle now, united, strong, ready for anything, heroic, glorious... were frozen in their tracks as two golden circles appeared on the ground, with them around the location of their shared center. Strange symbols filled the ring between the two, as further such duo-circles rose from them, and around them.. this spell, it had trapped these three powerful menaces.

"Your attempts are futile. You, are as the fleeting snow, only existing in the winter of the world, melting away once the eternal warmth of the sun bathes over you. All lives are destined to end, and all ends in suffering. We all have our time, it just so happens, yours is about to run out."-and once this speech was over, many meters above them a large portal opened. The tip of a gigantic golden sword could be seen coming from it, before the entire thing was soon out and afloat, pointing at them.
"Behold, the Sword of Intervention. And with it, true power."-The sword's guard was a large clock, with one hand at 12, and one 7 seconds from it, approaching quickly. Once it reached 12... the sword glowed with massive power, and immediately fell on the trio. The explosion was immense.

Once the sword appeared, all fighters tried their best to run away from it. Sauron was being escorted by his soldiers, when suddenly something knocked them around. In a flash, Luna had given him a nasty fire infused uppercut, followed by a stream of flames being released on his body. Sonya made a high jump in order to escape, in the process being under-fire by Epic, and then running for her life. Senpai had already left and was watching from afar. The rebels made it out first with the government mooks following close behind. This is when a series of explosion, in a line, in the middle of their running troops triggered, damaging quite a few of them. For the ones not dead and left  behind, there was no escape. For the survivors, they had clashed in with the more numerous rebels, and killed. Nobody noticed the bombs being placed down by Andrea's robots, as Epic provided lots of distractions around that area.

Some time ago.
The army had almost reached the body of the ogre, lying on the ground. They surrounded it, saw the deep wounds. One of them rose his gun, in preparation to shoot Epic, but suddenly the ogre opened his eyes. Grabbing the weapon about to shoot him in a moment, it quickly killed a few of the soldiers in front of him, before throwing himself at the ones behind, crushing them under his weight. Then he ran away. For a few hours, soldiers were being sniped from nearby bushes, some of them outright having their heads chopped off, and some others punched so hard their skulls broke. In the end, there were only five soldiers. Epic was thought to be  badly wounded, and to have ran away. They went on their merry way, when suddenly, something behind a bush moved. They went up to it, guns ready, only to be met with an explosion. Epic came from the other side of the forest road, killing any of them he thought alive, while bleeding badly from many bullet wounds, his armor barely even there by now. Returning to base, he made quick use of Andrea's healing system, restoring his armor and preparing for battle.