[center][h3]Without Knowing Y[/h3]
Blazermate, Susie, and Roland’s [@Archmage MC], Midna’s [@DracoLunaris], Geralt and Zenkichi’s [@Multi_Media_Man], Sakura and Karin’s [@Zoey Boey], Pit’s [@Yankee], Roxas’ [@Double], Goldlewis, Sandalphon
[b]Word Count:[/b] 5836 (+6)[/center]

[color=Aquamarine]”Goldlewis!”[/color] Midna cried out in alarm as the heavy set man was sent tumbling towards the edge of the bridge after the laser scattered them all. Her Beast Legion surged forwards with her on its back as she formed and reached out a shadow hand to grab a leg. Yet even with her fusions and her bestial steed, she wasn’t enough of an anchor to halt his tumble entirely, the man rolling off the edge and leaving the princess to jam her lance into the ground and her beast legion’s claws scraping against the remains of the bridge as they tried to keep themselves from being dragged down after the man they were holding onto. This wasn’t helped by the fact that Goldlewis could neither truly see the Beast Legion nor grab onto it for purchase.

Karin had dashed towards Goldlewis, but she would meet with Midna instead. Concentrating, she dashed in, and grabbed the Best Legion’s rear legs, wrapping her legs around it and facing backwards. Then she fired out a grappling hook at the ground and pulled it taut with her arm, acting as the last anchor point. [color=fff200]”Pull!”[/color] Together, the combined urgent strength of the two Seekers and their assistants, be they monstrous or mechanical, were enough to start pulling Goldlewis back from the brink. From within his coffin, the UMA lent a hand as it stretched out numerous arms to help drag its partner to safety.

Sakura got up from the ground, casting a distressed look at the situation. The best way she could help was to prevent whatever Y was now from interfering, so she just started running towards him, zig-zagging every now and again to throw off his aim. Y snapped his fingers, and above him a series of bright flashes heralded the manifestation of energized cube-clusters. The clusters then fired forward in a wide spread, bouncing off the ground around Sakura as the girl dipped and dodged. Rather than keep shooting, though, the Moebius then charged forward. Almost twice Sakura’s height, he lashed out with long limbs in a giant backhand, then spinning hook kick, and finally a somersault heel drop.

As Y charged to meet her, Sakura yelled out a battle cry. She had to duck under the backhand, and used her forearm to deflect the force of the hook kick. She returned fired with a kick of her own- it caught air as he somersaulted over it and dropped the heel on her. She raised her arms and caught the heel, but the force was immense. Sakura gasped, and was knocked to the ground.

Roxas, too, pushed himself back to his feet. He’d managed to avoid taking a direct hit from that laser attack, but that didn’t keep him from sprawling out on the floor with the wind temporarily knocked out of him in its wake. He really didn’t have time to deeply analyze what was going on with the Moebius, but he decided he needed to get in there and do [i]something[/i]. Not long after his attack knocked Sakura down, Y would find himself being shot at by Roxas’ RockGun. He of course was also running toward the Moebius in the midst of this. But rather than try attacking head on, Roxas instead suddenly turned into a streak of light that shot around Y in order for him to unleash his Cross Slash from the flank, [color=Gold]”Bring it on!”[/color]

Popping up on their feet, Roland, Blazermate, and Susie got up to deal with what was the last fumes of this Moebius. [color=0072bc]”Did, did he just eat us, then vomit us up? This is so weird. ”[/color] Blazermate said, trying to figure out what was actually going on as she went and did her job of healing. Being next to the medabot, Susie and Roland shook their heads as they didn’t even want to think about that as they got ready to deal with this guy, Susie needing to keep mobile on her transport now as her business suit was too damaged and would need repairs now.

The shots, landed just as Y rebuffed Sakura, seemed to annoy him more than anything. He conjured another flurry of cube clusters, but the keyblade wielder repositioned in a literal flash. A blistering flurry of blows rattled off his arm, upper leg, and ribs, prompting Y to return the favor. Pivoting with deceptive speed, he launched a turning side kick at Roxas followed by a lunging palm. Before he could do any worse, a slug of weaponized sunlight slammed into the Y’s hip, and when the Moebius craned his neck around to fix his vivid purple eyes on the source, he spotted Sandalphon’s Eye of Sol with a smoking barrel.

[b]”You must go,”[/b] he announced, stretching out his arm to extend his index finger toward her. A mote of otherworldly light flared up at the tip, and the next moment an immense purple laser screamed her way. But the archangel had already vanished, teleporting to Roxas’ side. Snowflakes in her eyes, Sandalphon launched a Frost Lock at Y to coat his body in ice. It would take another at the end of a twelve second cooldown to freeze him completely, but it was a start. She jumped backward for safety, stowing her rifle and brandishing her gunstaff with a flourish. Meanwhile, on his opposite side Goldlewis began to pick up speed, approaching the Moebius with his coffin at the ready.

Having pulled him up from the brink Midna was right alongside him, before picking up the pace as they got in close, racing ahead to lance strike Y, before chain summoning Minions to follow up her own attack. Y turned to answer in kind. A giant Flygon swooping overhead to deliver dragon claws, preceding an equally giant wolfos pounced to deliver a savage bite before it got shaken off, and then finally a regular sized Darknut to use the distraction of the bigger minions to deliver a heavy sword strike. Unfazed, the Moebius sidestepped the mighty slash and delivered a punch to the Darknut’s cuirass that caved in the armor like tin foil.

Then a moment later Midna was wheeling away, and her minions had dropped back into portals, clearing the way for the next attacker.

Following up behind Midna was the swift Karin. As she ran forward she was rejoined by Sakura. They ran side by side before splitting and moving to attack from the left and the right. Sakura slammed her fist and did a spinning kick into Y’s knee while Karin targeted his opposite thigh with a series of elbow strikes. Though their predecessor bought them a precious moment, the Moebius wasn’t going to stand there and take it for long. After stepping back, he extended the tentacles on his head into the bridge, and the next moment their piercing tips burst up beneath the street fighters like a forest of purple spikes. They stepped backwards to avoid the tentacles, and due to their experience they figured once they had gone in the ground the only place they could show up next was beneath them. They retreated backwards and braced themselves to block the upcoming spikes, but were forced away. 

While that was going on, Roxas used the momentary reprieve to summon Burn Rooster. After which he sprinted toward Y alongside the Reploid only to split off from him so that they could launch their own pincer attack on the Moebius. Burn Rooster leapt high and crashed down onto Y from above with a fiery flying kick. Meanwhile Roxas veered around with his StepSword dash so that he could lunge at Y from the opposite direction as his striker.

Zenkichi added to the barrage of blows with a charging slash attack, Geralt leaping in overhead with a screaming overhead slam from the Hateful Flesh right after him, leaping high to avoid a counter-attack while Zenkichi stabbed his greatsword at the Moebius. Y actually caught the tip of the sword’s blade in his fingertips, shocking the detective with the strength and dexterity that such a feat demanded, but before he could do anything with it Geralt’s jump attack landed and knocked him back.

Blazermate made sure to heal up those she could, holding her shield arm forward as she did so as she was expecting this guy to go after her when she started healing. Susie, seeing the huge brawl in melee, decided to stay at range and pelt Y with her blaster fire. Melee looked pretty clogged, and seeing Roland dashing in, she decided it would be best to stand back for now.

Roland meanwhile joined in the melee fray with Roxas, Zenkichi, Geralt, and everyone making that area pretty busy. He used his hammer to try to deflect a few cubes as he got close, although that probably wasn’t the best tool to deflect these things. That would be counteracted though as he swapped from his defensive weapon that lost him those clashes, to his more offensive dual swords which he used to use a flashy swift swirling sword cut on Y and getting ready to deal with his next attack.

Purple light swelled around Y’s core with unusual intensity, and when he posed the next moment, glowing purple cracks spread across the bridge around him. His attackers had only the briefest window to react before enormous, jagged outcrops of a violet, icelike crystalline matter burst forth. Goldlewis has paused at the fringe of the melee so as to not overcrowd the others, but now he made his move, roaring as he smashed his way in through the spikes with a Behemoth Typhoon. His coffin’s momentum carried it around in a whirlwind revolution, and as he closed the distance it careened toward his enemy’s head. The Moebius blocked it with his forearm, stopping the mass of metal short, then launched a prodigious snap kick with enough raw power to tear the coffin from the veteran’s jarred grip and send it flying into the air. He then pivoted and planted a turn kick directly in Goldlewis’ belly, eliciting an agonized gasp as the big man sagged to the ground. When Y tried to withdraw his leg, however, he realized that Goldlewis had grabbed on, clinging to his ankle with both mighty mitts to stop the Moebius from moving. Y extended his arm toward Goldlewis, but an ether bolt from Sandalphon splashed against the temple of his mask, distracting him for the brief moment the others needed to make their move.

The team's other angel crashed into the fray at this point with his Upperdash Arm. It had only taken Pit less than a minute to recover from dodging the laser, dismiss his bow and equip the arm, and make it back to the fight while looking for an opening - but in the heat of battle seconds made all the difference. Looking to make up for his perceived lost time and make the most of the seconds Goldlewis was buying them to keep the Moebius locked down, Pit drove the arm into Y with abandon - and its starry, glowing core shone all the brighter as he pulled back for another go.

Sakura had backed up, but Karin looped around behind Goldlewis and came around his flank. He just took a hit for the team and she intended to help make that pay off. She ran in on Moebius Y’s side and then slid in and under him, looking to slam both feet into the Moebius’ ankle and carry forward so she would be out of the way when he fell over. Already off balance thanks to Pit’s full-force slam, Y found himself unable to stay upright.

Zenkichi, having backed off a bit after Geralt’s rescue, was able to dodge the spikes, but Geralt found herself knocked on her ass, groaning before pulling herself up and hurling a small glob of explosive flesh at Y from afar, while Zenkichi called on Valjean to attack with a One-Shot Kill to help rack up the damage.

In a different scenario, the sudden burst of spikes would have caught Roxas completely off guard. But thankfully in this scenario, Roxas had absorbed the spirit of RockTrans, and this gave him the intellectual edge to calculate an incoming attack from below and essentially back-dash out of the way before he could be skewered. Even more so he was able to use this newfound ability to calculate a path through the jutting spikes of violet ice that he could traverse. It turned out that combining enhanced calculations with Flow Motion made for an even more maneuverable combatant.

And at the end of this brief stint of platforming, he found himself jumping up just as the Moebius was tripped over by Karin, [color=Gold]”Gotcha!”[/color] he cried as he let his momentum take him downward into an empowered downward thrust with his Keyblade. But he was quick to jump out of the way after this so as not to obstruct anyone else who attacked next. His attack struck home, roughly around Y’s collarbone, and while his lack of commitment meant he could’ve dealt more damage, his blow paved the way for his successor to act.

Said attack came from above from a Midna who was riding on the back of her Vibrava (which she had used to avoid the floor spikes). Princess and pokemon swooped over their foe, airdropped an electrically charged Clubba Club directly on the Moebius, the massive spiked ball’s impact causing a lightning bolt to arch down after it as a follow up strike.

Though floored long enough for Seekers to start beating him while he was down, Y wasn’t defenseless for long. Midna’s tag-team galvanized him into action, and he began by twisting around to deliver a crushing blow to the side of his captor’s knee. Already shaken, Goldlewis yelled in pain and released Y’s leg as he fell on his back. Legs whirling around, the Moebius regained his feet and brought one leg down with a stomp. A bright purple ring shot outward along the ground, tripping most of the Seekers with surprising speed. Just then the veteran’s coffin slammed back down into the bridge with a terrific noise, and as if on cue Y thrust his hand upward. Energized purple cube clusters began to fall like rain, exploding among the gathered heroes.

Crosshairs in her eyes, Sandalphon swept through the storm with calculated grace to bring her gunstaff down on her enemy’s head. The Moebius saw her coming, and was almost affronted by the healer’s pitiful attempt. He dodged the swipe easily, then let loose a single hook punch that fractured the archangel’s ribcage with a horrible crack. She gasped, agonized, but clung to her faculties just long enough to spring the trap. Y would have surely dodged an icy cluster if she threw one his way, but now that he’d ensnared himself in her wires, he couldn’t avoid a point-black Frost Lock. Sandalphon cast her spell and froze Y solid, then stumbled away. Though she planned to treat herself immediately with Angelic Praise, her body was too human to pull off such a feat. If none of the others put aside their chance to whale on the Moebius in this brief, three-second window in order to stop her fall, the archangel would be down for the count.

Roland had gotten knocked back by the area blast of Y, much like some of the melee. Although unlike Roxas, he didn’t have flowmotion or anything to counter it, using only his reflexes to try to deflect it with his sword, which ended up with him being launched back and hurt. Being ranged combatants, and fliers on top of that, Blazermate and Susie avoided both of Y’s counter attacks on the melee to get them off of him, although Roland wasn’t as lucky getting knocked on his butt by the shockwave coming his way and getting staggered as he tried to get back into combat. So it took some time for him to get back into the fight. At least Blazermate could heal him while he was getting smacked by the various AoE attacks, as well as any of the other melee that flew her way. She would need to send her drone out to heal the melee that stayed in though, whose healing wasn’t as efficient. 

Susie meanwhile stayed at range for the most part, getting closer as she noticed Y’s attack range for more accuracy. This would eventually put her into a good position later, but first these three would have to deal with Y’s purple cube rain attack. Blazermate could handle the first cube with her personal shield, before using her projectile shield to block the rest. Roland recovered from his stagger and began to deflect the ones that came his way with his lance as he moved in to attack, only getting hit when he failed to deflect one, and Susie moved under Blazermate’s shield as it went up. 

Once Sandalphon had gotten gripped and started to take s severe amount of damage, Blazermate approached her to start to heal her up, putting her medibeam on her as she flew up, giving her a bit of healing as she fell. Susie, having followed Blazermate for safety, saw the large angel also flailing, and summoned her business suit to catch her in the nick of time, a suit she’d get out of once she set Sandalphon down since it wasn’t doing so well at the moment. Set down rather than supported, Sandalphon couldn’t compose herself to cast Angelic Praise, but at least she was undergoing treatment. This left Roland to attack the now frozen Y, unleashing a lance thrust, a sweep of his dagger and finally activating his EGO, the False Throne. This changed the area into an emerald throne room for 10 seconds as Roland encased himself in emerald, dropping two columns of magical emerald that exploded on Y. This had an added effect of cleansing the debuffs of any allies the emerald shrapnel hit, but the damage was pretty basic.

[color=lightgoldenrodyellow]"Three phases, and he isn't even the final boss!"[/color] Pit griped. He was back on his feet now, firing energy discs from his Arm at the Moebius. The Arm, as well as the angel's front, was scuffed and charred thanks to Y's explosive barrage. The wave he'd sent out had sent Pit tumbling onto his back on the ground, and though he'd raised the Upperdash Arm to shield himself from the very worst of the cube rain it was hardly designed for protection.

Still, being beaten up and wounded had (almost) never stopped Pit before. The transformations had to be taking a toll on Y, but with the way his current body looked it was hard to tell how much damage he had actually sustained so far. The Moebius was tough; far tougher than Pit thought he'd be, even after becoming that giant monster. They could only keep attacking and hope they were getting somewhere.

And if ever there was a time to pile on the damage, it was now. Following Goldlewis' example, Sandalphon had put herself in harm's way to freeze the Moebius. Pit revved the Upperdash Arm once more for a repeat performance, this time with a true uppercut that could send the Moebius's frozen form into the air for further follow ups. As soon as Roland's emeralds broke apart Pit went in and swung.

Roxas wasn’t quite as lucky as last time. The raining cubes caught him and he wasn’t able to get himself away fast enough to avoid getting caught by some of their blasts. And while those alone weren’t a huge deal, the following shockwave was. In fact the rain of cubes kept the Nobody too distracted to avoid that shockwave attack until it was too late. That sent him sprawling back a bit and left him briefly winded for a moment. It was a good thing so many of the other Seekers were keeping Y occupied or the Moebius could have swooped in and attacked the Keybearer with something worse. Roxas also noticed the medal from his helmet had ejected. Great, that meant he couldn’t use either of his medabot weapons until he could undo the damage he’d taken and reinsert the medal.

Well, he still had his Keyblades and magic, so it wasn’t like Roxas was totally helpless. He brandished Oathkeeper and Oblivion after spotting Y falling victim to Sandalphon’s freezing attack. He sprinted forward and then after a few meters became another streak of light that homed in on the Moebius like a zig-zagging line so that Roxas could break out a Cross Slash as a follow up to Pit’s attack. By that point the three seconds had passed and Y had unfrozen, but after Pit’s Upperdash Arm launched him into the air and the Cross Slash kept him juggled, the time was ripe for a finisher to throw him back down.

Like a bat out of Hell, Sakura shot to meet the Moebius midair, fists raised and clenched together above her head. [color=f49ac2][i]Ichi-ni, san![/i][/color] She slammed her fists into his chest three times, bouncing higher on the first two hits before sending him crashing back down to Earth on the third. They landed next to each other, but Sakura landed on her feet. She grit her teeth and pushed herself forward and swung her leg up high, performing a Flower Kick to chop into his shoulder and push her offense forward before he could find his footing. 

Wise to her game, Y rose to a crouch with his arm upheld as a shield. Despite her strength, Sakura’s leg struck what might as well be a solid wall, and then she was face-to-face with an otherworldly entity. Her allies were at her back, though, so Y couldn’t afford to spare much time. He aimed a brutal headbutt at her, trying to stun her with a rock-hard impact from his mask, then use his head tentacles to grab her by the arm and hurl her at her allies. Sakura’s head jerked backwards from the impact, and her eyes crossed. [color=f49ac2][i]”Ugh!”[/i][/color] For a moment she sagged, shoulders slumping, before being used as a projectile. Her trajectory put her on a collision course with Pit, who'd been lining up for what he'd hoped would be another good walloping delivered to the Moebius. When he realized what was happening he hastily dismissed the Upperdash Arm to try and catch her, but the belated attempt saw her just crash into him, sending both youths sprawling to the ground.

Sakura shook the stars from her head, and quickly but sheepishly pushed herself off of Pit. [color=f49ac2][i]”Gomen ne!”[/i][/color] She said apologetically, her meaning clear despite the brief language barrier. She reached down to help him up, and took a moment to dust him off, a mostly useless gesture but he let her do it and added, [color=lightgoldenrodyellow]"No worries!"[/color] 

Before the Seekers could converge, Y leaped away, a barrage of mildly homing purple bolts flying from his fingertips like an extradimensional chaingun, many of them arching up into the sky and forcing Minda to call off a diving bombing attack she’d been about to do, and she still took several hits despite this evasive maneuver. Once he landed, the Moebius held up his palm, gathering power into a crackling violet nexus.

As much as he still ached from the crushing blows he’d sustained so far, Goldlewis couldn’t stand idly by when he spotted Y charging up some sort of energy bomb. With a groan he picked up his coffin, hoisted it in front of him, and cracked open its lid to deploy a shimmering wall of blue hexagons. Of course, the battle had moved since he got floored, and his shield wouldn’t do the others much good if they weren’t behind it. “Behind me!” he called, inviting the others to shelter–if they didn’t plan to try stopping Y in his tracks.

Pit poked his head out around Sakura, looking first to Goldlewis and then to Y. His eyes widened upon seeing the growing power the Moebius was collecting in his hand. [i]That doesn't look good![/i] Even so, it had to be some drastic last ditch measure, Pit thought. He wasn't sure he wanted to risk the timing on his orbitars, so he took Sakura by the wrist and  dragged the both of them over to huddle behind Goldlewis' shield. Sakura followed behind Pit, rushing to get behind Goldlewis’ shield. [color=f49ac2]”Th-thank you!”[/color] She said to both of them.  

From behind there Pit could still attack thanks to the properties of his light arrows, so he resummoned the bow and fired the snaking rays of light from behind cover. When the Seekers withstood the latest attack Y was planning, Pit was sure he'd be winded enough for all of them to go back on the offensive.

While Zenkichi took cover behind Goldlewis’ shield after the blast wave of energy left him vulnerable to a heavy barrage of falling cubes, Geralt was running in, homing shots crashing into her but not halting her frenzied advance. Her Hateful Flesh lashed out violently, prematurely detonating the energy bomb as Y sent it hurtling her way, though unfortunately it did not seem to damage its creator. She snarled, yanking on the tether connecting the cleaver to her and using the momentum of the return yank to whirl it overhead before launching it at his feet. While he dodged the attack, she drew her silver sword and stabbed forward, plunging the blade a few inches into his gut before the Moebius turned violently, injuring himself a bit more, but also forcing Geralt to retract her blade or risk being dragged along with it. She chose the former, blasting Y with an Aard to keep him off-balance long enough for somebody else to land a hit.

When it came to his homing shots, Blazermate, Susie, and Roland were uniquely equipped to deal with them, although Roland much less so than the bots. Blazermate’s projectile shield simply made the bullets fizzle, with Susie hiding behind it as well. Roland meanwhile, being much more out of position, could deflect most of the shots, but even his ability to deflect range attacks wasn’t perfect: he wasn’t the blue sicko after all. So while he could deflect some of them, he couldn’t get them all, and he’d have to fall back, alongside the bots, behind Goldweis’s shield as Blazermate’s projectile shield would expire before that blast went off.


Having wheeled away to avoid the homing shots, Midna now came in again, weaving in between the falling cubes upon the back of her flygon. The incoming lance strike was rather predictable however, giving Y just enough time to charge and direct a beam her way. Well aware of her predictability however, the princess tilted her flygon by 90 degrees before the energy blast rang out, and then materialized her Beast Legion to its side, which immediately kicked off of it, launching the two apart to either side of the beam.

Beast Legion and Flygon both hit the deck just behind Y, before leaping past each other in an X, claws slashing at his back while Midna crescent moon slashed her Volcano Fragment into her hands and into the Moebius, igniting him at the same time as the astral chain bound around him.

That was as good an opportunity as anyone could hope for. Once the bomb had been taken care of, the others continued to push forward behind the frontrunners, careful not to get caught in the crossfire. Goldlewis had dropped his Wall of Light in order to pick up the pace, as he could only move so fast with it deployed and defense wasn’t going to win this war. And now, seeing the Moebius bound in chains, the veteran was glad he did. “Let’s finish this!” he rumbled, charging in after Midna. Y’s limbs might be bound, but his tentacles weren’t, and he sent them forward to try and stab Goldlewis in a half-dozen places. With a roar, his [url=https://i.imgur.com/kEEVJfI.png]Wild Assault[/url] plowed straight through, bringing the big man close enough to use his favorite technique. “EAT SHIT!” His [url=https://i.imgur.com/q2ya1jG.png]Down With the System[/url] struck Y dead on, smashing him out of the chains and a dozen feet into the air.

With Y being pummeled with Goldlewis’s ultimate move, Roland decided to use his own. Susie and Blazermate really didn’t have much in the way of ‘finishers’, with Blazermate needing a bit more to charge another kritz and Susie just having projectiles. Roland meanwhile, after the whole bomb and homing gatling rain, had finally hit emotion level 5, and with it gained the ability “Magic Trick”, with a seductive, sinister womanly voice saying “Cowardly kitten. I’ll give you the courage to stand up to anything and everything.” as well as the EGO page Harvest. 

Seeing Y fly through the air due to Down with the System, Roland unleashed his wombo combo as well. First starting with Harvest, turning the area into a wheat field and donning the appropriate EGO as he shot a barb at Y before zooming in to drive his scythe at his head. Then Roland used the ability he had just gotten, Magic Trick. And in quick succession, he used all the EGO pages he had previously used during this combat. Starting with False Throne which conjured pillars of exploding emerald, followed very quickly by making Y fall to the ground by dropping a house onto him, and finishing with another Harvest, at which point the pillars of emerald exploded dealing their damage as well. The area rapidly changed as he used each EGO, exhausting Magic Trick and leaving the area back to what it was as it seemed the EGO space caused by magic trick didn’t last like it usually did. Roland was a bit sad he didn’t have Furioso to add to this, but for some reason he hadn’t been able to use that move yet, something was blocking him from doing it.

Roxas had been caught by one of the Moebius’ previous lightning bolt attacks. It left him momentarily stunned until this moment. He wasted no time and launched himself back into the fray as Roland was ending his barrage of attacks. Coincidentally, the Keybearer’s path took him right by where Pit was. And without much in the way of communication and warning, Roxas thrust his Keyblade upward as he passed by his angel friend. [color=Gold]”Light!”[/color] he gave the cry that was starting to become increasingly familiar to the other Seekers. The telltale sign that he was sharing his Light with another in order to combine their strengths for a powerful team-up attack.

Feeling the energy enter him, Pit picked up his pace so he was right beside Roxas when they both launched upward. [color=lightgoldenrodyellow]"A combo attack!"[/color] he exclaimed, already drawing his bow back. Roxas' Light swirled around the divine weapon, making it glow bright and grow in size. The light arrow waiting to be fired swelled in size and strength, so much so that it took both boys to pull back on the ethereal bowstring. With Roxas helping, the two shared a glance and nodded, letting the arrow loose. It soared forward like a forceful laser, and when it struck Y it exploded into multiple smaller arrows that circled back around for additional hits and damage. If multiple enemies were present, these arrows would have spread the damage out - but with only a single enemy they all converged on the Moebius instead.

Karin had taken a moment to focus and switch into V-ISM mode, which gave her mobility and custom combos. A resource that she now intended to spend given how conservative she had been. They were passing Consul Y around like a tennis ball and Karin was more than happy to take her turn, a furious grin twisting her features as she dashed to appear behind us. Flattening her palms against the ground, she flashed and a series of blue transparent afterimages began to trail behind her rapid movements. Now she could link special move into special move for the next few seconds, to devastating effect. [color=fff200]”You can’t hope to defeat us!”[/color] Karin shouted, dashing in and unleashing a spurious series of triple, alternating palm strikes.

[color=fff200]”You don’t have the [i]will![/i]”[/color] She punctuated her Custom Combo with a stomp that shook and supported a final elbow strike to send Consul Y skidding and stumbling away from her. 

Geralt and Zenkichi both charged in, blades high as Karin smacked Y with an elbow strike, Zenkichi going low as Geralt went high. Zenkichi’s greatsword swung slightly upwards for his knees, while Geralt’s silver sword swung for Y’s neck and aimed to drag through his chest. Y crashed to his knees, with Zenkichi drawing his revolver while Geralt grabbed his hand crossbow. They stood side by side as each fired a shot into the Moebius’ head, before stepping aside for their Legionis ally to finish their enemy.

After all, if anyone had the right, it was Hayato. He’d chipped in throughout the fight whenever possible, switching between his weapon modes as the situation demanded, but with Y clearly on his last legs thanks to the Seekers’ incredible efforts, the time had come for Hayato to take the stage for the final act. Perhaps sensing his imminent demise, the Moebius pulled out one last trick.

He duplicated himself, standing five abreast as the last of his power welled up inside the doubles’ Moebius cores. The next moment, a laser blazed forth from each, threatening almost the entire bridge. Behind the policeman, Goldlewis put up another Wall of Light to protect his friends, but Hayato did not turn away. He turned the momentum of his headlong sprint into a low slide, then sprang up between two of the lasers and sent his Sword Legion flying upward. His partner turned, hooked its blade around the chain, and gave it a yank to pull Hayato up after it. Then it crossed its blades to form a springboard that launched the young man back down. He flew down, landed behind the five, and whipped around with the Sword Legion summoned anew. Time seemed to slow as he took aim, visualizing a single, narrow line that connected all five figures. The next second, the Sword Legion unleashed a lightspeed cut, destroying the four fakes and bringing the real Y to his knees in a single, reality-cleaving slice. Hayato yelled, and with every fiber of his being, drove his x-baton into the stab wound that his sister Akira left behind.