I'm seeing a lack of stones....Throw them at like you throw your responsibilities away!
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"Feast your eyes on my most powerful form!" I announced, committing fully to the ani protagonist bit. "In its fully evolved glory! Fusion!"
Blue and orange light swirled around and the dragon, forming the distinctive Polyrization symbol as our bodies began to rge and energy built to a blinding crescendo.
Everyone on the battlefield had to squint and cover their eyes from the brilliant flash.
When the light faded and they looked back up, they witnessed my new form.
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I was flying under my own power now, feeling the lift and pull of large wings on my back, massive draconic appendages that caught the air with each powerful stroke.
Looking down at myself, my entire body was covered in stylish dieval armor from head to toe, white and blue plating that glead like polished steel with draconic motifs etched into every surface. Gauntlets covered my hands, ending in razor-sharp claws.
But the most surprising thing was the senses.
I could hear for miles in every direction, individual conversations, screams and the hum of energy weapons charging. I could see in nearly every spectrum, infrared, ultraviolet and most importantly, I could see the flow of electrical current through every living thing below, their bioelectric signatures painting the battlefield in my enhanced vision.
'Thank god for the Temperance card,' I thought distantly. 'Otherwise I'd be freaking out from all these new senses flooding my brain at once.'
But as my power grew, so did the energy requirents to maintain this form.
I was burning through my reserves too fast, the battery in my hand already drained completely empty. I could feel the hunger starting to gnaw again.
I needed more fuel
I looked around with my enhanced vision and spotted another Robot drone coordinating rescue efforts about two hundred feet away.
With a single tug of my draconic wings, I appeared behind the drone in an instant.
"Sorry about this," I said.
And bisected the poor thing with a single slash of my new claws.
The tal shrieked as I tore through its chassis, yanking out the battery reactor before the pieces had even hit the ground.
I broke apart the casing with my armored fingers, extracted the radium core, and ate it.
The radiation flooded my system imdiately.
"Ahh, that's more like it," I said in satisfaction as my energy reserves suddenly replenished to maximum capacity.
Now I could move and expend power freely for at least a few more attacks before I'd need to refuel again.
Atom Eve sent a pink energy blast toward from below, her face twisted in anger.
I deflected it casually with the armor on my hand, the construct shattering against draconic scales, and watched as the deflected shot veered off course and hit a Flaxan tank instead.
"Stop destroying Robot's drones!" she scread up at , launching another volley of attacks.
I deflected most of them, letting a few slip past deliberately so they'd hit Flaxan targets instead of wasting energy.
"Shut it, potential girl!" I called back. "It's warti and I'm just rationing supplies!"
I flew higher above the battlefield, and now with my new senses and energy problems temporarily solved, I ford energy daggers in the air above .
The Summoner trait with my Fusion made everything easier to control.
Dozens of them, each one crackling with electrical current from my draconic power.
I sent them down as a volley, targeting individual Flaxans even when they were mixed in with human crowds, my enhanced senses letting pick out their alien bioelectric signatures with perfect clarity.
The daggers flew true this ti, no more amateur throwing, just perfect guidance through my connection to the blades.
They stabbed down with lightning-enhanced piercing power, destroying Flaxan soldiers whose bodies were already aging and decaying from the tistream effect.
Feeling a bit chuunibyou from the sheer spectacle of it all, I let my inner Gilgash co out to play.
"Rejoice, green mongrels!" I announced to the battlefield below. "Witness my glory and begone from this realm!"
The lightning-infused daggers rained down like divine judgnt, stabbing and electrocuting the invaders whose withered bodies couldn't withstand the assault.
The injured Flaxan leader finally gave the order to retreat, his voice cracking with age and defeat.
I didn't let up, increasing the intensity of my attacks as the Teen Team and GDA agents followed suit, ramping up their own assault to maximize the damage and force the aliens into full retreat.
'Naki,' I reached out through our ntal connection. 'It's ti!'
As the aliens started retreating toward their red dinsional portal on withered legs, a golden tatami door suddenly materialized directly in front of the portal.
The heroes imdiately went on guard; weapons raised toward this new unknown threat.
I prepared to pour everything I had left into one final attack.
I drained all remaining energy from the reactor core's radiation and fully channeled the Blue-Eyes White Dragon's draconic lightning power through my Blademaster ability.
It all condensed into a single straight longsword that ford in my hands, crackling with white-blue electricity.
The blade crackled with white-blue electricity, power building to critical mass.
I pulled it behind my head in a classic overhead slashing stance, every muscle tensed for the strike.
The tatami door finally slid open.
And Omni-Man himself stumbled through, still heavily wounded from his fight in the Infinity Castle.
His iconic costu was shredded and burned, more red than white now from all the blood. His skin showed exposed muscle and bone in places, covered in dust and debris like he'd been smashing through walls for days. The wound on his ribs was still bleeding, refusing to close. His own exhaustion clear in every movent, barely standing.
Below , I heard Mark's voice crack with desperate hope.
"DAD!!"
But Omni-Man didn't even notice his son.
Those blood-red eyes were focused solely on with hatred so intense I could feel it physically, the Mortal Enemy curse radiating off him like heat.
Even through the Temperance card, sothing cold slithered down my spine.
Primal fear. The look of a predator that had found its prey.
My mind snapped back to that room and suddenly Nolan's hand was around my throat again, crushing my windpipe until I couldn't breathe. The pressure built and built, his fingers digging into my neck like I was made of clay, and all I could think was that I was going to die again, right here, right now while he looked at like I was nothing. Tears started forming in my eyes fear and helplessness in that mont.
Yeah, I needed to get rid of him right fucking now before he recovered enough to kill .
"Get fucked, you Inbred Viltrum! And that's a promise from John Kaisen!"
So, I put everything I had and everything beyond into this final attack.
"DRACONIC EXCALIBUR!!!"
A dragon's roar filled the air, drowning out every other sound on the battlefield as I brought the blade down.
The slash attack tore through the air, a crescent of pure blue draconic energy that carved a glowing arc toward Omni-Man.
It struck his already-burned skin and cut a line across his chest, the edge biting through Viltrumite flesh that was too weakened to fully resist.
But more importantly, the massive electrical charge stunned him completely, his muscles seizing up from the lightning coursing through his body, preventing him from dodging or flying away.
The sheer kinetic force of the attack launched him backward through the air like a ragdoll.
Straight into the red Flaxan portal.
My attack followed him in, the energy blade continuing its destructive path into the dinsional rift.
There was a sound like reality tearing.
The portal collapsed from the inside out. My attack overloaded whatever machinery the Flaxans were using to maintain the bridge between worlds.
Dinsional energies imploded as the rift sealed itself violently.
Then, absurd silence followed.
Everyone on the battlefield was either too confused or too awestruck to speak.
The attack had carved a massive valley into the road itself, the pavent gouged out in a gaping maw-like trench that was easily fifteen feet deep and stretched for two city blocks.
Buildings on either side showed stress fractures, damage from the shockwave.
I'd just carved a scar into downtown Chicago that would take months to repair.
I was completely spent, my energy levels bottod out, every muscle trembling from exertion.
The fusion was dissolving. I could feel it coming apart, the connection to Blue-Eyes severing as Polyrization's effect ended.
I saw Naki's tatami gate still open below .
I let myself fall toward it, the armor starting to crack and dissolve into motes of light.
Right before the gate closed above , I heard a shrill roar of anguish.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?!"
I looked to my side and saw Mark, bruised and bloody from his evacuation efforts, launching at at full speed with tears streaming down his face and fury in his eyes.
Our eyes t through my dissolving helt.
I could only mouth one word.
'Sorry.'
The gate slamd shut above .
Mark was left attacking nothing but empty air, his fists passing through the space where I'd just been, screaming his rage and grief at a target that was already gone.
I hit the wooden floor of the Infinity Castle and the impact drove the air from my lungs. The fusion dissolved completely, armor shattering into blue sparks that faded into nothing.
Blue-Eyes White Dragon reappeared beside in a flash of light, the temporary fusion ended. It settled down, clearly exhausted.
I went to my knees, gasping for breath, every nerve in my body screaming from energy depletion.
Naki's voice ca from nearby, soft and respectful as always, but the exhaustion was clear in her tone.
"Welco back, Master."
Right.
I was finally ho.
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