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"You're far too late to stop us, little worms!" shouted Garrison.
Elsewhere, Ripsaw soon flies into the area as well, following after Terrus.
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"You can take that up with him soon," Zeta replied. He was about to re-conjure the Turnabout portal to suck away the purple layer's essence...
"Zeta, stop!!"
"...!"
Zeta stopped as he turned toward the source - Xi, hopping out of the landing aircraft and approaching him. Damian also touched down.
"Wh...? {shakes head} N...No! That's impossible! You...You can't possibly be here!" he said in confusion.
"Please, brother! You can't possibly mean to free him!" Xi pleaded.
This news surprised a lot. "Did...Did she just call him 'brother'?" Lucas asked.
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"I don't fully understand it myself...but I did survive somehow," Xi replied. "Please...you don't need to do this. We can find peace somewhere, I know it!"
"..." Zeta wasn't sure what to do now. Should he continue on with this plot? Or should he have faith in his sister's words...?
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Ripsaw meanwhile touches down in the background as well, watching the scene unfold - causing a pause from Garrison, before he quickly resumes, motioning to Alex.
"Remember how easily they threw away that Koopa over there? The man they praised as 'hero', they just as quickly discarded when Morbul and those like him were no longer deemed a threat to their influence, fearing his own power! With such real evil in charge, who's to say they won't hunt YOU and your sister down next time, if you decide to turn your back on this, after jeopardizing their regime?"
Garrison pauses for dramatic effect, before leaning in close to Zeta and whispering.
"Who's to say, during her absence.. that she hasn't been indoctrinated?"
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Without a word, Zeta begins charging up the same solar energy as before. Lucas, Mario, Kokonotsu, and Damian nearly flinch as he did this. Xi wasn't sure if what she said even mattered. Zeta then aimed Sigma at the last barrier, and fired the amassed energy...
...which veiled itself over it, forming a new layer.
"I practice indoctrination," Zeta said to Garrison. "I know it when I see it." He then jumped back, aiming Sigma's charging maw at Garrison. "The deal's off!"
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"..I had high hopes for you, Zeta. Sky high, in fact," he said. "With Morbul free we could have watched, laughing, as this foul world descended into an irredeemable abyss of anarchy, at the hands of the immortal Messiah. I was even prepared to help you find your lost father, in the end; although, I suppose it matters little now."
Garrison shifts his mass, the cloud of miasma making up his form churning and swirling.
"Daedalus," he uttered.
Out of nowhere, a large, albeit unusual-looking saw blade suddenly flies out from behind the crowd of heroes, striking Zeta from behind in his exposed flesh and embedding itself. This sudden event doesn't stop there, however - once embedded, a surge of electricity erupts from the blade, shocking Zeta with enough juice to induce paralysis.. whereupon the cyborg should soon coincidentally start to feel his energy draining.
"COMMAND CORRRE OVERRIDDEN. PRRROTOCOL DAEDALUS NOW IN EFFECT. GOOD DAY, LORRRD PLANTIUM," a booming robotic voice roared, coming from behind the heroes.
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"COMBAT ANALYSSSIS ENGAGED, MOVING TO INTERRRCEPT."
Roaring in a bestial rage, this 'new' Ripsaw soon leaps forward over the heroes, landing in the space between them and Garrison/the barrier. Facing the heroes and brandishing his blades and talon-like claws, the rail gun on his shoulders starts whirring loudly as it takes aim at them.
"They say betrayal cuts deepest when the knife is being held by a friend," said Garrison snidely, as his physical body formed. "In this case, the friend is a giant killer robot with hundreds of them. Have fun."
Ripsaw roars again as his rail gun starts charging vast amounts of energy, before he fires it upon the heroes.
Garrison in the meantime quickly turns back towards the prismatic barrier, not content on giving up - he had already bore witness to one major defeat already. That was enough, and by the goddess he would succeed this time; with or without Zeta's assistance.
Clenching a shadowy hand in disgust and anger, Garrison channeled his dissonant powers - a foul aura glowing around it - before firing a concentrated beam of indigo light at the barrier, in an effort to counteract and dispel the new solar layer Zeta had put in place.
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"Brother - !!" Xi cried out in shock.
This, of course, resulted in Zeta's control over Twilight Sparkle to break, making the alicorn snap to her senses, albeit rather exhausted. "Ooooogh...what...what happened...?"
As for the barrier that Zeta applied, it soon gave way to Garrison's furious assault. No telling how the purple layer would take to it...
"C'mon!" Lucas said, hurrying toward the scene.
"No need-a to say that twice!" Mario said, leaping in, followed by Kokonotsu.
"Why you...!!" Damian growled, sidestepping the railgun shot and clawing through several of Ripsaw's tendrils with his Griffe Noire.
Meanwhile, Andy came to his senses, taking notice of the scene around. He first saw Garrison tearing into the barrier, then he saw the enraged Ripsaw, and then Zeta suffering.
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"Designation Ripsaw," said Terrus. "I don't believe I have told you how much I hate traitors."
Terrus transforms his right arm into a rail gun much like the one Ripsaw is currently using.
"So let me tell you now," said Terrus. "I hate traitors."
Terrus opens fire on Ripsaw.
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Sonic charges his spin dash. Once charged, he shoots himself towards Ripsaw's head and bashes him in the noggin.
"I guess playing a role of a double agent wasn't your best idea, was it?"
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"PROCESSSSING RETORRRT. YOUR MOTHER," Ripsaw droned uncreatively, charging up a rail gun shot once more and firing it at Terrus, some of his tendrils throwing a number of sawblades at Sonic in the meantime.
Back over with Garrison, the metal man turns his head over towards Ripsaw as he works, trying to see how his old-turned-new friend is fairing (which is not too good). Rolling his eyes with dissatisfaction, he turns back towards the prismatic barrier and outstretches his other arm, firing a second beam of dissonant energy into the void layer to help speed up the process.
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"Hu...? Mario?" Twilight said as she was recovering. She then noticed the current frailty of the barrier. "(!) Oh no...They...made me break through most of it, didn't they? I'm sorry..."
In the midst of her shock, Xi's visor turns red as she faces Garrison. "You...YOU'LL PAY!!" With all her strength, she applied the Singularity spatial power onto Garrison, making him a center of gravity for most projectiles - like Ripsaw's sawblades.
During this time, Andy rushed over at the suffering Zeta and quickly removed the sawblade (which also flew at Garrison thanks to Singularity) and, using most of the charge he absorbed from the barrier, applied a powerful Spark of Life to the Halvanr, healing his wound and rapidly restoring a lot of his energy.
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"Ah, crap," said Alex.
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"..minemineMINEMINEMINEMINE!" Garrison screeches, turning once more into a cloud of miasma and making a beeline for the inner chamber, materializing before the altar and taking the purple dagger in hand amidst the confusion.
Without hesitation, Garrison climbs onto the sacrificial altar, kneeling...
..and stabs himself repeatedly, the dagger easily piercing his metal skin with each slow strike, as a black, almost murky liquid seeps out of the wounds.
"Lo, foul prison! Let one man's sacrifice usher in an age of DESPAIR!"
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Everyone else who can see into the Chamber watches as an arm of dark energy rises from the lava, followed by another arm, burned down to the bone, the two arms pulling out a blazing Yoshi skeleton. As the skeleton rises out of the lava, the fire on its body fades away and flesh rapidly forms over it, creating a black-scaled Yoshi with long white hair and hellish red eyes, staring outward with the hatred of thousands of lifetimes. A cruel smile crosses the Yoshi's face as he gazes out of his chamber and sees Alex standing there.
"Hello, Alexander," said Morbul. "Did you miss me?"
"Double crap," said Alex.
Morbul's right arm (the one that's flesh and not made of darkness) glows with dark energy as he charges out of the chamber at Alex.
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Sonic gets up and sprint towards Alex and grabs his arm to save him from Morbul's dark energy. But now Morbul is free from his prison, the best course of action is to GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE!!!!
"It's no use, guys! We're too late. Let's get the heck out of here!" Sonic warned his teammates.
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As Andy finished the Spark of Life of Zeta, the Halvanr gradually came to full consciousness. "You...but why...?"
"Iunno," Andy said. "From the look of you, you've been under too much hell."
Zeta wasn't exactly sure he deserved - or wanted - a human's pity, so he lightly pushed Andy aside with his right arm and looked away. "Don't give me that kind of talk. Like you'd really concern yourself with some other being's problems..."
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With Garrison dead, meanwhile, Ripsaw suddenly roars in agony soon after he stands up; electricity flowing and sparking violently about his body before he shuts down and falls to the ground once more, the yellow light in his eyes dying out.
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"Oh, I'm sorry," said Morbul. "You weren't planning to leave, where you? After coming all this way, running would be SO disappointing."
Morbul's hands continue to glow as dark meteors rain down, mainly focused on Twilight.
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