Final Chapter: Final Declaration

Rebel pulled the throttles to the side while hitting the accelerators. The crimson flames pushed out from the boosters as the darkened MF slammed forward into Blue Dragon causing the dual energy saber to fling out of the metallic hand. Shadow still gripping onto Alpha collided with the torso of Blue Dragon causing the blue MF to fall to the water below. Just as Blue Dragon descended Shadow spun around just as it released Alpha. While Adam continued to fall towards the raging waves Alpha flew towards D.C. Stephen cringed and quickly recovered, the thrusters and boosters slowly fluttering amongst the sky. Adam did the same as Blue Dragon eloquently flew on its back over the Atlantic, streams of steam and water burst upwards into the sky as the blue MF continued its path.

“Heh…this should indeed be fun…” Rebel mumbled.

Shadow soared heading towards Alpha since it was the closest, the plasma rifle recoiling after each devastating round launched. Alpha’s boosters moved to a 45 degree angle and launched violently. The crimson MF dashed to the right and then to the left, Stephen continued this motion as he avoided the plasma rounds while heading towards Shadow. As Shadow continued its path towards Alpha with the left arm arching backwards preparing to strike 8 cerulean energy beams pierced through the space between Stephen and Rebel; Adam smirked as Blue Dragon sped towards the battle above, the eight orbital wings now flying through the clouds surrounding Shadow. Rebel glanced to the side; he saw the wings and shrugged them off.  He continued focusing on the red MF that was now before him. Alpha’s right arm slashed with the dual energy saber, the two crimson beams cut through the air but narrowly missed Shadow. With quick maneuvering Rebel swayed to the right and fired the plasma rifle. As the crimson beam narrowly closed the gap between Shadow and Alpha a blue surge of energy zoomed by deflecting the beam outwards. Blue Dragon then began to fire the dual energy rifles at a rapid pace; Shadow dodged every attack and quickly flew on its side descending towards the azure ocean.

“You’re not getting away!” Adam screamed, Blue Dragon’s wings extended outwards as the extra boosters lit up. Alpha quickly separated the energy sabers docking them on the side of the metallic thighs. Both the right and left hand crossed over the crimson torso grabbing onto the beam boomerangs resting on the shoulders. With a quick pull both weapons began to roar emanating a thin crimson beam of energy. Adam nodded silently as he took a quick glance at his brother. Alpha spun around throwing the two beam boomerangs into the air. As the two narrow weapons flung through the air Blue Dragon’s eight angular wings spread out abruptly quickly dislodging from the wing pack.

Rebel smirked just as he forced Shadow to turn around. As the black and crimson MF shifted the first beam boomerang collided with the brightly burning energy saber. Once the beam connected Shadow’s left arm forced the saber to push outwards knocking the beam boomerang in the opposite direction. He failed to see the second boomerang which appeared right in front of him, his eyes widened and reacted. Shadow’s torso sway to the left while trying to arch backwards in an attempt to avoid the collision, it didn’t work and the spinning beam of energy slashed through the upper layer of armor that covered the torso. Thousands of minuscule bits of armor shattered into the burning sky. Shadow over turned in a flipping motion from the velocity of the boomerang and the abrupt shift in movement. As Rebel descended the six orbital wings once again began to fly around Shadow in random patterns. He sighed as he found himself being bombarded with dozens of cerulean energy beams. Suddenly both Alpha and Blue Dragon quickly descending towards him with Stephen in front and Adam behind, in the midst of the movement Alpha slammed the two energy sabers creating his dual energy saber. Alpha’s left arm now holding the massive weapon swung but Shadow was managed to nimbly avoid the attack. As Shadow swayed to the left Blue Dragon sped past and slashed across the obsidian torso with its own energy saber.
Rebel’s body trembled for a few seconds in response to the furious attack.

“Hehehahahaha….very good….maybe its time to step this up a notch. I would hate for humanity’s fate to rest on such a dull battle!” Rebel screamed.

Neo System…engaged.

Both Adam and Stephen’s eyes widened at the sudden increase in speed that Shadow now presented. The devilish MF abruptly hovered in front of Blue Dragon and Alpha. Just as the two MF’s prepared to strike Shadow unleashed a storm of plasma energy which fulminated onto Blue Dragon engulfing the blue MF in a massive amount of darkened smoke and struck Alpha with the crimson saber. Both Blue Dragon and Alpha rapidly shot to the ground crashing into the small patch of land that floated on the ocean.

“*cough* This is much harder than I expected…*cough*” Adam said while his head constantly jerked forward from the abrupt coughs that shot out of his lips.

“*cough*…yeah. This bastard is taking everything we’ve thrown at him and still he stands coming back for more…*cough*”

“Any suggestions? *cough*”  

“Yeah…let’s give him what he wants…” Stephen replied smirking.

“Agreed, we can’t hold anything back. If we fail here then there’s no telling what he’ll do with the rest of humanity.” Adam replied.

Angel System Engaged…The feminine computerized voices alerted both Adam and Stephen.

The ground below began to shake in the same manor as that of an earthquake. Rebel slowly smiled as he leaned back in his chair wrapping his arms across his chest in anticipation.

A bright cerulean explosion singed the ground below Blue Dragon and Alpha, their thrusters burst with powerful energy sending the two MF’s into the sky. Blue Dragon opened fire first with the dual energy rifles, as the cerulean rounds of energy pierced the azure sky Alpha flung the two beam boomerangs once again. Rebel gently pushed the strands of hair that went astray from the rest, his hands grabbed onto the throttles. Shadow’s left leg flung upwards deflecting the first boomerang and during a flip-like motion the right leg deflected the other. Shadow began to fly heading towards the two brothers adjusting his flight pattern when beams of energy approached. His crimson hued eyes stared at the remote detonator for the EAP satellite cannon that was looming above in the depths of space.

“Maybe you two do not understand the severity of the situation…allow me to demonstrate!” Rebel screamed. His left hand clutched onto the remote detonator and with no hesitation or second though he pushed the button. Once the button was pushed it sent hundreds of signals to the weapon of destruction floating hidden beneath the shadows.

“WHAT?!” Adam screamed. Neither Adam nor Stephen knew what was going on, the EAP cannon was a mystery to everyone and as much as they hated being kept in the dark they had no other choice but to wait to see what happened.

In space the elongated spherical weapon lit up emanating a distinct aura of golden energy while spheres of compacted plasma began to circulate around the main cannon. A slight soothing hum started to distribute through space as hundreds of pilots and civilians alike on Prosperity ran to the closest window to see what was happening. The EAP cannon was equipped with a Mirage Distributor, a generator that creates a stealth like appearance for the object equipped with it. Now that the cannon was activated it became coherently visible to every man, woman and child.

Chris Procella stood in one of the halls connecting Prosperity to the dome, his brown eyes frozen in fear from the massive weapon. Next to him was his own MF team, Michelle Dolce who was already concerned for Mario’s well being was only beginning to worry even more.

“What the hell is that thing?” Michelle exclaimed. Her voice cracking every few words. Chris sighed and responded while staring at the spectacle that now lingered in space just above Earth’s atmosphere.

“I don’t know….but I know it can’t be anything good….”

“It’s a satellite cannon….it belongs to the EAP…or at least that’s what I recall…” Leo Ombra stumbled out into the corridor joining the collective ensemble of confused and concerned people.

“A satellite cannon….this isn’t good at all….” Chris mumbled.

The cannon began to flicker with golden lights, it was preparing to fire. Everyone gazed with their mouths gaped wide. The moment everyone feared struck and the cannon fired. A slow thick beam of intense radiating positron energy began its decent towards Earth. The golden beam pierced through the upper layers of crisp snow white clouds creating dozens of atmospheric rings surrounding the blast.

            “Do you hear that?” Adam asked turning to Stephen.

“Yeah…what the hell did you do?!” Stephen screamed.

Rebel smirked. Shadow burst out of its stationary position and quickly struck Alpha towards the ground with a single swipe from the energy saber. Adam quickly snapped out of his trance and boosted towards Shadow, just as Blue Dragon approached from behind Rebel Shadow suddenly turned around kicking Blue Dragon away swiftly.

“Ahh!....” Adam yelped while his MF spiraled uncontrollably towards the raging torrent of water below. As his eyes stared into the sky above him they saw the normally azure sky change to a bright yellowish tint. The thunderous boom from the oncoming beam startled his soul; the clouds began to part as the front edge of the beam tore through the sky.

“Stephen!” Adam yelled.

“Yeah…I know. I see it!”

“It’s too late for you…Stephen Novus.” Rebel said. Shadow began to swing its left arm; the trajectory of the arm would cause the energy saber to pierce through the cockpit instantly killing the pilot. Just before the searing beam of energy came close to even touching the armor 6 crimson beams of energy pelted onto Shadow sending the MF out of the way. Rebel cringed with anger; his head jerked to the side and was shocked at what he saw.

I am not through with you yet!
“I am not through with you yet!” Nick roared as Chimera seemingly appeared out of nowhere.

“Heh…you’re still around? Amusing.” Rebel replied.

Both Stephen and Adam stared at the oncoming Chimera with wide eyes.

“How…..how is this possible?...” Adam mumbled.

“Nick….” Stephen replied.

Rebel turned around in disgust from Adam and Stephen’s lack of logic and rationality.

“Please….you two are aware of the clones being produced by Genesis. This Chimera, this Nick is nothing more than a carbon copy of your dead brother!” Rebel screamed.

            How many times must I tell you…I don’t care about having an identity!
“How many times must I tell you…I don’t care about having an identity!” Nick screamed. Chimera soared past Alpha heading straight for Shadow. The energy lance extended outwards ignited, the crimson energy flames fluttered in the air and slashed across the thick gash that outlined Shadow’s core from both Adam and Stephen’s own attacks.

“Hey…umm guys….about that blast!” Adam screamed.

“Hehehe…. This is what is riding on your victory….hahahaha!” Rebel screamed, he then kicked Chimera knocking the demonic MF back towards Alpha.

            Everyone watched as the massive beam of energy crashed into the ocean causing a tremendous uproar of energy and water to fly into the air. A destructive shockwave radiated out from the point of impact, as the shockwave passed over the ocean violent tempest of water swept outwards. Seaports or other town near the Atlantic were engulfed in tremendous waves causing destruction and chaos to blanket their communities. Blue Dragon, Alpha, Chimera and even Shadow were flung relentlessly through the wild hard hitting wind patterns. As the visible energy slowly dissipated a thick mushroom cloud towered over the point of impact, the booming thunder started to subside only to be replaced with the sinister laughter emanating from Rebel. Shadow lingered over the three other MFs, the energy saber fully ignited and the plasma rifle pointing down.

Blue Dragon floated over the water in between Chimera and Alpha. Their boosters constantly sustaining their mid air floating.

“So you’re the clone of our brother….they successfully created you…” Adam mumbled looking over to Chimera.

Nick smirked glancing over to Adam

            That is how I came into existence…I don’t think it matters right now..
“That is how I came into existence…I don’t think it matter right now..”

“Nick’s right…errr, the clone is right…right now all that matters is defeating Rebel before he fires that cannon again. With a power like that he can easily purge all of humanity!” Stephen screamed.

“Right…” Adam replied.

Blue Dragon, Chimera and Alpha ignited their respective weapons all staring back at Shadow, the supposedly superior MF.

“Hehehe…what is this? A poor attempt at a family reunion…hehe…hahaha. Rest assured that even with the Chimera you three still can not compare to me…I AM HUMANITY’S JUDGE!” Rebel screamed.

Shadow burst heading towards the three MFs, the frame spun around firing the plasma rifle. The three MF’s quickly separated allowing the beams to freely pass by and crash into the water below. Rebel’s eye shifted to the right just as Blue Dragon fired the thigh cannons. The two cerulean beams blew up on the right side of Shadow. The abrupt explosion caused Shadow to flip sideways, just then Alpha tackled Shadow and while embracing the obsidian MF fired the two cannons resting on its broad shoulders. The green beams of energy exploded on the upper part of the core. Smoke floated surrounding Shadow blocking the camera that was in the head unit. Rebel pounded his console; static covered every display screen in the cockpit. Next Alpha side stepped out of the way as Chimera struck with the energy lance. The long thin weapon tore up the torso creating another gash. Just after the attack all three MFs boosted next to each other and suddenly burst in a fit of speed towards Shadow. The smoke managed to clear and Rebel was able to see clearly, but didn’t like what he saw. Blue Dragon, Alpha and Chimera flying in a triangular formation, at the last second Alpha departed while throwing the beam boomerangs. Rebel cringed, his anger was at its fullest, and he no longer had any tolerance left to deal with the three would be brothers. The left equipped energy saber pierced the two boomerangs causing them to burst in flames. The remains of the weapons slowly floated towards the ocean covered in ash.

“They were getting annoying!” Rebel screamed.

The eight azure wings once again fully extended and launched while Chimera’s six angular wings began to fire. Rebel’s eyes followed the movements of the recently launched orbital wings but failed to notice the dozen of crimson beams that were on their way. Shadow danced roughly as each crimson beam impacted onto the obsidian armor. On top of that the orbital wings began to unleash an onslaught of energy as well. Rebel’s breath began to become sporadic, his eyes thinned staring at Blue Dragon, and then at Alpha and finally at Chimera.

Streams of nearly translucent smoke burned off the enflamed armor of Shadow as the three brothers were becoming a bigger threat than Rebel could ever dream of them being.

“That….THAT’S ENOUGH!” Rebel screamed.

Shadow then vanished from sight and reappeared behind Chimera.

“Soulless creatures should be the first to be expunged..” Rebel mumbled. The energy saber lunged into the back of Chimera piercing through the dull crimson armor. The intensity of the radiating beam overran the cockpit. The heat continued to increase inside the cockpit, sweat rolled out of every pore on Nick’s body, as the sweat would excrete they would slowly evaporate from the heat. Nick smiled as the energy from the saber managed to engulf the cockpit and his body. The carbon copy of Nick quickly enflamed and exploded only for the insides to be incinerated. Shadow withdrew its energy saber as minor explosions erupted out from Chimera’s frame.

“NO!” Adam screamed. The orbital wings reattached and Blue Dragon took off.

“Be patient…I’ll deal with you soon enough.” Rebel replied.

Blue Dragon’s right arm swung the dual energy saber but pierced only the image of Shadow left floating. Shadow was so fast that an after image of the frame remained in its position prior to the launch.

“Stephen look out!” Adam screamed. 

Stephen’s head slowly turned as Shadow reappeared behind Alpha. Rebel attempted the same maneuver but Alpha managed to move out of the way in time. Rebel cringed as Alpha now remained behind Shadow.

“You bastard….” Stephen mumbled. The dual energy saber slashed through the right arm of Shadow causing the joints to explode in flames. Following the explosion Shadow vanished once again but this time gave Stephen no time to counter. Shadow flew at an angle slicing through Alpha’s right arm and then through both leg units. A tremendous explosion engulfed Alpha. Bubbling clouds of smoke lingered in the area where Alpha once was. Adam stared at the burning cluster of clouds angrily. His fists began to shake trying to contain the anger that flowed through Adam’s body.

To Rebel’s surprise two beams of green energy escaped from the cloud of smoke and penetrated the left leg unit of Shadow. The leg failed to explode but now two thin holes rested in the left leg.

“Still alive huh….fine!” Rebel screamed.

Adam pulled back on the throttles.

Angel System…EX Mode engaged. He was scared to use it, he wasn’t sure for how long he could sustain the strain. But now he knew he had little choice any more. The gravitational forces increased pulling and tugging at his body. His eyes quivered and his arms shook, but he ignored it.

Blue Dragon like Shadow suddenly vanished from sight. The cluster of smoke cleared revealing a heavily damaged Alpha, the head unit was singed and the right side of the crimson MF was gone, nothing more than sparks of electricity and flinging wires. Stephen’s head slammed ferociously against the control panel during the explosion, thin trickles of blood trailed down his face, staining his skin and even his hair.

“Heh…heh… you’re exhausted too..*cough*..” Stephen’s right palm covered his mouth. A small pond of blood floated on his palm, he chuckled as Shadow now appeared before him.

“Die already!” Rebel screamed.

Shadow sliced through the upper half of the torso but missed the cockpit because Stephen at the last second ignited the boosters. The remains of Alpha flung into the core of Shadow knocking it backwards before the crimson MF became useless and fell to the ground.

“REBEL!” Adam screamed. Blue Dragon quickly sliced through the left side of Shadow creating a rigid metallic gash.

“You! I’ll kill you here and now!” Rebel screamed.

Both Shadow and Blue Dragon struck, their energy sabers colliding. The two MFs began to boost higher into the sky while still struggling, just like how they met in the end last few minutes of the tournament finals. Both pilots were extremely exhausted and on their last breaths.

“I won’t let you destroy humanity! Your twisted dreams, your tainted perception on life! They will not come to pass!” Adam screamed.

Blue Dragon’s arm slowly began to move forward pushing Shadow’s left arm inwards. The joints creaked from the abrupt movement.

“Hahaha…you have no clue what you’re talking about Adam. Humanity is full of sinners, sinners who have no right to inhabit the Earth. This paradise that God has created!”

“Who the hell are you to decide that? You’re not God! You’re human!”

“Human?...hahahaha! I am not human! I am more than human, I am transcending to a God! I alone understand everything humanity has done, their sins, their hopes, their admirations, their greed!” Rebel screamed. His foot slightly tapped the accelerator as the back boosters ignited. The left arm pushed forward now leaning forward as Blue Dragon began to be forced back.

“You don’t understand anything! You’re deluded….just WHO THE HELL ARE YOU?!”

“Who am I?...Hehehehahahaha!!! Who am I? WHO AM I? I AM LUSCIOUS MALUM!”    

Adam’s focused confident eyes departed from that and widened in shock. A sharp chill flew down his spine. Rebel had just declared himself as Luscious, Adam knew that was impossible because Luscious was still on Prosperity. The lack in response caused Blue Dragon to weaken and Shadow to strengthen. The black MF lunged forward slicing off Blue Dragon’s left arm. The explosion caused the blue MF to fall to the side. Flames spurt out from the massive wound as wires flung.

“YOU CAN’T STOP IT….NOT NOW! THIS IS THE END OF HUMANITY!” Rebel screamed. He once again pushed the remote detonator for the satellite cannon.

“Huh…NO!” Adam screamed but it was too late. The satellite cannon was already gathering the energy needed to fire. Blue Dragon burst towards Shadow relentlessly swing the energy saber. The eight wings already launched and began to fire upon Shadow. Rebel chuckled as he swatted each wing down like bugs.

“You can’t stop this Adam….this is humanity’s destiny! My future….MY DESTINY!”

“YOU’RE WRONG!” Adam screamed as he soared towards Shadow.

“HUH…..what?!” Rebel screamed as Blue Dragon’s energy saber punctured the obsidian torso. The searing beam of radiating cerulean energy engulfed the cockpit continuing to burn as Rebel smirked. Blue Dragon’s two thigh cannons pivoted upwards and fired. The two cerulean beams of energy exploded on the torso. Sparks continued to fly rampant in the cockpit as Rebel’s body slowly deteriorated.  

“Heh…*cough*….I can’t…*cough*….fail….*cough* impossible…*cough*” Blood violently burst out of his mouth. His crimson eyes slowly closed as his body was engulfed in a massive explosion that caused Shadow to be ripped apart. Adam took deep breaths as he tried to calm down while watching the MF known as Shadow erupted in flames.
Suddenly an image of Chris Procella lit up on Blue Dragon’s display screen.

“Huh….”

“This is Lieutenant Chris Procella…we have successfully disabled the satellite cannon…that danger has been averted.”

“….good to know….wait we?” Adam questioned.

His communications screen shifted to an image that was fed to Tempest’s camera. Every MF pilot that participated in the Azure Cup floated around the destroyed cannon.

“You mean…everyone of them….” Adam mumbled.

“Yeah…we weren’t going to sit idly by while the Earth was going to be destroyed..” Chris replied.

“Heh…thanks…” Adam replied.

“Wait…what happened to Rebel?”

Adam sighed. “He’s at peace now….”

            Vincent Avidus stared at the destruction that was before him.

“And how are we going to explain this?”

“It doesn’t matter….it’s not your problem…” Severen’s voice boomed.

Vincent turned around to see a 9 milimeter pistol glaring at his face.

“You…haha, the Genesis poster boy is going to kill me?”

“Yeah….” Severen replied as he pulled the trigger.

Follow the boom Vincent fell to the ground, his eyes watching the trail of crimson blood that flowed out of his body flinging into the air. All of the military personnel had already evacuated the building leaving Vincent alone. Severen walked over to the twitching body of Vincent Avidus. His teeth glistening along with the devilish grin that covered his face, cheek to cheek.       

“You had your chance Vincent and you failed…I guess it’s to be expected, relying on nuclear weapons to force humanity into a nuclear winter thus slowly and tragically ending humanity. Heh, children’s games, we and we alone know what it takes to make this tribulation happen, not you or that failure…hehe…don’t celebrate prematurely….the worst has yet to come..” Sereven smiled one last time as he threw the gun onto the corpse of Vincent Avidus.

            Blue Dragon landed next to Alpha, both frames had taken on a severe amount of damage, possibly beyond repair. The azure cockpit opened as Adam clutched onto the thin cable that began to descend him to the ground. Thousands of innocent civilians all started to crowd around the two MFs. Stephen smirked; he was quietly perched on the torso of Alpha.

“You did it…*cough*…pity you couldn’t do that during the tournament. Hehe…” Stephen chuckled.

“Yeah…oh well…*cough*…not that it matters anyway, we stopped him.”

“Yeah….we stopped him but what about ever other person like him. And then there’s Genesis, we still don’t know what they’re up to..”

“We’ll deal with them when the time comes…Right now we need to rebuild. I heard from everyone else, the 4 MFs that followed Luscious were destroyed. Heather, Mario, Zach and Reine are heading over here….”

“Indeed, we will need to rebuild. Make this a much stronger world and try to correct the mistakes that haunt our past.” Stephen replied.

“Yeah….that is our future…our destiny….” Adam replied. His hair flapping wildly through the harsh frigid breeze.