Roleplay:Secret Discord/Part4

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Part 4: Recombination
"Don't think that taking out Kiko means that you have half a chance against either me or Tama. Instead of thinking positive, how about you try..." Without warning, Hikari disappeared, and reappeared to the left of the group. "Thinking fast!" Immediately upon his reappearance, he fired a blast of green fire directly at Reens to punctuate his shout.

In that same moment, a blast of red fire nearly overtook Hikari's green flames. Splice's fist collided with Hikari's wrist just in time to divert the assault, and expelled a massive burst of flames that nearly resembled an explosion. While the burns wouldn't necessarily hurt him, the sheer force of the attack would definitely hurt Hikari's arm. His green fire trailed off towards Static and Melissa. "That fast enough for you, Mirror Man?" He asked with a coy smirk. "I thought you'd aim for her once I realized you weren't talking to me." Splice returned to his battle stance, standing between him and Reens. "But don't think you can get the better of us with cheap shots like that! Not on my watch!"

"I have to say, you really are catching on to our powers quickly." Hikari chuckled. "I was wondering when it would be fair for me to stop holding back." It appeared that he was powering up for something, a faint aura surrounding him.

Melissa sensed the blast heading in her direction, and quickly raised a shadowy wall to block the attack. She and a small area around her became completely monochrome from the power she was outputting to hold the shield.

Meanwhile, Tama's immediate growth in power made Smash a bit uneasy. "Who and what is this person?" He asked, taking a defensive stance.

"A nu... a nuisance who's been... exponentially growing in power and that I can't... I can't touch..." Xavis answered. He was kneeling down on one knee and panting heavily, as his attack against Tama had taken quite a lot out of him. The energy within him was increasing rapidly, though, but also unusually fluctuating, and a dark, crystal-like substance was forming on the hedgehog's hands. "Where's... Melissa? Is she okay?"

"She's fine." He said. "Let us handle this. You look like you're about to have a meltdown or something." Smash stepped in front of the two, "You with me, Platinum?"

"Let's do this!" Platinum exclaimed. "No matter who my opponent is, I'll always be ready to stand and fight. Time to stop this girl, whoever she is!"

Right on cue, Tama rushed towards the group, appearing only a few yards away from Platinum in an instant. "I'm gonna get yooooouuuuuu~" She singsonged, powering up once more.

"Here she comes!" Smash exclaimed, getting into a defensive stance. Out of nowhere, a blue streak came crashing into Tama, leaving a young-looked blue-furred hedgehog with two droopy quills and a red-furred bat to tumble. For Tama, it would feel like getting into a car crash and getting hit by an incredibly large shuriken. "...There she goes." Smash stated flatly, looking dumbfounded.

"O-Ow..." Alexia said. "T-That hurt..."

Jewel was also banged up from the crash. "Ohhh... I agree... ow..."

"Thanks for the save, Splice," Reens said with a slight grin. She readied some more orbs of water and stayed behind him just in case. "I don't know what he's powering up for, but it doesn't look good."

"Stay behind me." Splice ordered cautiously. The ice on his arm began to melt away with billows of steam rising from it, while the fire on his other arm simply died out. "Get ready for anything. I'm gonna nip it in the bud!" With that, he broke into a short sprint towards Hikari with both daggers at the ready. He made a great leap halfway there, and with a couple aerial twirls, came down with a powerful vertical slash aimed at the agent's head.

Not even bothering to look above him, Hikari chuckled. "And with this... I return your attack threefold!" He vanished as the blade was about to make contact, reappearing a few paces back. However, he seemed to be tinted... Red? Immediately after, a second Hikari appeared to his left, tinted green. A third, blue, to his right. In perfect sync, the three shot jets of fire in their respective color directly at Splice.

Knocked a few more yards back, Tama somehow managed to get back on her feet. Despite both of the blows dealt to her, she only seemed to be slightly out of breath. "That tickled... Do you want to play with me too?" Her imposing mint-green aura hadn't even faded, still burning brightly. "Hehe... This is going to be fun~"

"For a creepy child, she's tough." Smash commented, his fists tightening. "She took two people slamming into her like friggin' rockets like they were as weak as nerf guns. It'll take more than a few good punches to knock her down for the count."

"I know, right?" Max said, still in his super form with his hair and aura glowing. He dropped Clock-Watch and Transford onto the ground before smiling. "I watched the whole thing. This cupcake isn't going down." Max's grin grew even larger, and his aura even more fiery. "The Preteen Punisher here is about to change that."

Static didn't get up, but could hear Max self-made title from where he was. "Seriously?" he asked, looking at Max with a blank look.

Clock raised his hand. "Maybe it wouldn't be a good idea to try and rush in, then-"

Max quickly put his arm out and created a transparent yellow blade on it, similar to the move he'd used earlier on Splice. Oh yeah, that dude exists! Max then called out to the multi-colored hedgehog, completely oblivious to the fact he was busy. "Hey, Splice! Think we could try to rush Cupcake?"

Cupcake? Reens thought, slightly amused. She focused more, the orbs of water solidifying. They weren't orbs of ice, since she was unable to do that, but they were getting stronger. "He's a little busy at the moment!" she yelled to Max, shaking her head. "Just stay there for now, okay?"

Clock spoke up once more. "That really would be the best course of action-"

"What a bore! You really expect me to do that? I have better things to do!" Max said, groaning before smiling. "Why do I need him, anyway? I'll save the world from this pushover freak by myself! It's time to show you what the Irvaron can do!" Not waiting for Splice, Max blasted forward in a rush of speed, disappearing when he was a meter away from her. If Tama looked up around her area, she'd find yellow Super Chaos Spears and green Super Chaos Arrows (Chaos Spears but more powerful) surrounding her. Then, she'd see Max in the air, levitating with his legs crossed. "Impressive, am I right? Now, should I have them all explode or should they all close in on you? Decisions, decisions!"

Static continued to stare at Max. "Seriously??" he asked again, this time a little louder as though to emphasize his disbelief.

Platinum simply stared at the scene unfolding in front of her. After a moment, she turned to Smash. "Am I the only one who thinks that this is going to end incredibly badly for all of us, or am I just crazy?"

Smash however, was grimacing in annoyance. His eye twitched involuntarily as he listened to him run his mouth and try to steal the show before it even began. "Trust me, it's not just you." He responded without even glancing in Platinum's direction. Smash wasn't too thrilled to see Max again, but this kid's hyperactive overconfidence was grating on his nerves real fast. "I have so many questions right now that all begin with "why the hell". But on the other hand, this is an opportunity to learn our opponent. Let's leave Max in the spotlight for a while longer...and see if he doesn't get stage fright."

"As long as you're not expecting him to watch where he's aiming, I think he'll do OK." Transford said as he took a spot between Platinum and Smash. He twirled his guns around for a moment, ready to unload a storm of bullets at either Tama or Hikari at a moments notice.

Tama stared at Max. "I don't like the rules of this game." In a flash, she flew directly towards Max, willingly flying into the energy blasts to move towards him. Her arm clenched, she would throw a punch charged with her strange energy as soon as she got close enough to him. "Let's use my rules instead~"

Max started laughing as he tried to catch Tama's fist with his arm-sword, which would stab through her arms. "You act like a kid! Well, I guess if you are... I'm like the recess aid, telling you that you're not allowed to play tag because of stupid safety reasons." Max growled, "Elementary school..." before speaking again. "Anyway, how's life going with you? Proud that you're working for a boatload of idiots? Cool. My name's Max Irvaron, B T dubs. I bet you'll remember it after you're locked up."

The sword cut straight through her arm, but the strange misty energy leaking from her quickly appeared to patch her arm back up. Tama didn't even appear to be in pain. She was giggling. "You have a stupid-sounding name." With her other arm, she fired a blast of her mint-green energy directly at Max's chest. "You'll go to time-out if you keep being so violent~"

Max was hit, being blasted downwards to a tree. When he hit it, there was an explosion, but when all of the smoke was gone, a bright, yellow light flashed. With a hole through his shirt but his skin unscathed, Max rose into the air and laughed. "Lame! Using 'play-time' quotes to scare me? Like, kid, do you even know who you're up against?" Max kept laughing before looking at Tama and smiling. "You look you have a decent healing factor. I guess that's the government's problem to deal with."

Max created a red lance out of Chaos Energy before twirling it around and pointing at everyone with it. "I hope you guys have some decent acrobatics, 'cuz this is about to get crazy! Disco Dome!" Max threw three yellow orbs into the air, and they fired three types of lasers - red fast but weak ones, silver normal ones, and blue slow but powerful ones - in all directions. Then, Max flew around to dodge the lasers before trying to stab Tama into the leg. If he succeeded, he'd flip over while in the air and try to hit her back down with it.

The mist blocked the lance before it could make contact. Something about the collision between the two energies seemed unnatural, and it seemed like they were negating each other on contact. Tama grinned madly, attempting to punch Max in the gut with a fist charged with energy. "Your Chaos doesn't scare me. I have something just as strong~" If the attack connected, she would follow up with an axe kick to send him crashing back into the ground.

As soon as Max's hit missed, he flew backwards, causing Tama's punch to miss, also. Then, Max flew around, trying to dodge more lasers shooting around everywhere. Three lasers - one red, one blue, and one silver - were shot at Tama, and to add insult to injury, Max threw three red discs of Chaos Energy at Tama. "Eat this, kid!" Max's eyes widened before shrinking back and he spoke again. "What is a weird kid like you doing here, anyway? Did you get bullied so much you went evil?"

With jet streams of fire pushing him from three different sides, Splice held up his arms to guard his face after hitting the ground. The pressure was uncomfortable, but strangely he felt alright. '' ' There's...there's nothing special about this fire after all? Geez, was I worried over nothing? ' '' He thought to himself as he began to stand in the flames. "Now, Reens! Give us a big ol' splash!" He shouted.

"You got it, Splice!" Reens yelled in return, combining her water orbs and adding more water, but struggling slightly. "Tidal Wave!" The wave crashed down over the flames, dousing as much of them as she could. She panted and wiped her forehead free of sweat. "Whew, that was close!"

The water doused the flames, and the three Hikaris moved farther apart from each other, waiting for their opponent's next move. The water that remained very quickly froze over, and spread across the ground towards their feet. Splice had slammed his palms against the ground just after the wave splashed over, more than ready to turn it to ice.

Alexia, meanwhile, left Jewel to approach the battle between Splice, Reens and Hikari. Desperate to help, she froze Hikari in place with another layer of ice keeping his legs to the ground, so that when they made an attack, the chances of it landing were higher.

It seemed to work, but the Blue Hikari managed to avoid the attack by jumping in the air. Quickly, he shot flames down at his partners, to melt the ice holding them down.

"Notta chance!" Splice stood up and blasted his own stream of flames back up towards the Blue Hikari's, causing a clash in mid-air. "I'll hold this one off! The rest are all yours!"

Splice's counter caused Blue Hikari to scowl. When he landed back on the ground, he dashed towards Splice, orbs of blue light growing in each of his hands.

Jewel stumbled off the snowflake, very disoriented. As she stumbled around, she asked, "Anyone... g-g-got the number... o-of that elephant we hit?" Then she flopped onto the ground unconscious.

"S-Sorry, ma'am.... I was a fool to crash like th-that...." Alexia said, berating herself even though she knew Jewel couldn't hear her.

Jewel let out a groan. "... feels like I got hit by a... flying... ice cream truck..." She sank back into unconsciousness.

Meanwhile, Xavis had snuck away from the battles to Melissa, who laid on the ground, exhausted from the shield she had created earlier. "Melissa?" The hedgehog asked.

"Xa... Xavis?" she asked between breaths.

"Melissa, are you okay?" He helped prop her up to a sitting position.

"I... I can't... I can't see..." she answered. Reality seem5d t₤_cr°ck ar÷und the hedgehog for a second. "H... he blinded me..."

He gently lowered her to the ground and stood up. The air was getting warm.

"Xavis? I know what you're feeling... please don't."

He closed his eyes. The dark crystals forming on his hands raised up to his elbows. He was visibly shaking. The air started getting hot.

"Xavis?"

He opened his eyes, now a vibrant, blood red, and turned to Hikari. He let out a war scream and rushed towards the cat with his arms ablaze, and was going to punch him hard with a flaming, crystallized fist, unaware of the others' plan.

Caught completely off guard, the Red Hikari only had enough time to throw his hands up in defense. Even then, the punch sent him careening backwards, tearing through the ice that binded him. After flying a few yards, he managed to grab the ground to stop himself, and quickly got up. It was clear that the blow hurt greatly, though.

Static got back up off the ground, finally feeling some strength back from resting. "Well, he's angry now," Static said to Melissa, watching Xavis charge towards Hikari. "I'm sorry, your highness, if I may call you that. If I had been faster and more aware of what was going on, this wouldn't have happened to you."

"No, no, it's fine," Melissa replied, "You did your best... that's what matters."

Reens looked over at Alexia and Jewel, trying to ease her nerves despite her fatigue. "Hey, are you guys alright? I'm kinda busy right now but I'll heal you if you need it! You scratch my back, and I'll scratch yours. Just keep doing what you're doing and I'll handle the rest, okay?"

When Alexia heard that, she smiled for a second, sighed, and plopped onto her stomach. Seeing Xavis attacking Hikari (and wincing at the expression on his face), Alexia have a look of slight confidence to Reens. "Miss Cy-Cyborg, I believe those t-t-two are more than enough in order to handle the GUN agent. I-I-I just hope I'm n-not being a bother...."

The Green Hikari had melted his own ice at this point, and began shooting green beams of energy at Alexia, Reens, and Jewel. "Don't think that numbers and tricks will let you beat us this easily!"

"Aw, g-g-gumdrops!" Alexia yelled, quickly created a snowflake to reflect to lasers back at the Green Hikari. Then, Alexia created a hollow ice dome around the trio, trying to make sure tehy were protected. "Th-That was close...."

One of the lasers grazed his arm, but Hikari managed to dodge the rest, and started running towards the three.

Meanwhile, Tama was moving through Max's barrage, swatting the lasers out of the way and swiftly dodging the discs. "Less questions, more fighting~" She fired a barrage of misty orbs at Max. If he was hit by one, he would feel it conflict with his own Chaos energy.

"Touchy subject, eh?" Max said with a cocky smile as he fired Super Chaos Arrows at the orbs. The orbs won the clash with Max's projectiles, but as it took some time, Max was able to fly away while dodging more lasers. Conjuring two more red lances, Max threw them at Tama before firing a storm of Chaos Spears at her, though it was mainly for a distraction. Finally, Max created a slightly-transparent red blade on his hand and waited.

"Not really! I've always been like this~" As she continued to swat attacks away with her misty energy, Tama frowned. "This isn't much fun. You should stop running away." In a flash, she was right in front of Max. "Are you afraid? Hehe~" Lightning-quick, she went for an axe kick to send him back to the ground.

Max caught the axe kick before smiling and putting his palm in front of him. "Nah. You should flew into a-" Not stupid enough to tell this is what he'd been waiting for, Max fired a large beam of yellow Chaos Energy at Tama point-blank, a Super Chaos Wave. If it hit, it would send her into the skies before exploding with a large impact.

In response, Tama's own hand shot up to block the beam with her own beam of energy, pushing back against Max's. Her movements were almost unnaturally quick; something was boosting her power, and it seemed to be getting more potent with each moment. "Bye-bye~" Her beam surged with power, in an attempt to overwhelm Max and send him crashing down.

Max smiled. "Well, at least a little kid like you can provide a quarter of a challenge." Then, Max teleported away, having turned what was supposed to be a beam into a flare. As soon as he teleported away, it exploded while Max was on the ground, smirking. "Try that on for size, little girl!"

Clock walked up to Platinum, Smash, and Transford. "We should do something. Everyone seems all right, but we should try and finish this battle as quick as possible." In a flash, he manifested his arm cannon. "I'm going to try and get a shot at the flying one; she seems the most dangero—"

Suddenly, as he was lining up his shot, the side of his cannon exploded. The impact sent Clock tumbling to the ground, though he caught himself with his other hand, quickly righting himself. "What the—"

"Clock!" Smash exclaimed, just barely stopping himself from running to his aid before turning the opposite direction.

The perpetrator was clear: A wolf standing a few yards away, pointing a finger gun towards the group. He smirked, before rushing towards them, shooting rays of orange energy at them. "So, you're the punks causing us trouble? You must be something special!"

"And you must have been feeling left out on an ass kicking today." Transford said through a half-amused, half-annoyed smile as he rapidly dodged the newcomers attacks while firing off shots at him.

"Crap, reinforcements!" Smash quickly dove to the side in order to avoid the projectiles, "Take em down quickly; who knows how many agents they've got left!" Smash stood and began to sprint across the field, hoping to flank the newcomer while Transford kept him busy.

Platinum got hit once, but got into the swing of dodging the attacks. "Another one!? These guys are coming out of the woodwork!"

Quickly rolling to avoid the rays, Clock managed to leap back onto his feet. With his left hand, he reached into the back of his coat, pulling out a large silver sword. In a flash, he began to move the blade surprisingly quickly, blocking the shots fired at him.

The wolf began to counter Transford's shots with shots of his own. Noticing Smash running to the side, he began to run straight towards him, risking getting hit a few times so that he could get too close to Smash for Transford to shoot, without the risk of shooting Smash as well.

Smash could only trust that Transford wouldn't actually shoot him, and continued his pursuit towards the wolf. He was still weary of him, though. The best, and probably the only way he could take down a ranged fighter would be to get up close and personal, yet this new foe came straight for him. As soon as he got close enough, Smash ducked his head low and aimed a powerful left jab towards the wolf's gut as he attempted to rush past him.

Transford managed to fire off a few more shots before deciding that that the odds of hitting Smash were too high to keep going. Deciding to join Smash in an up close attack, he flicked at a button on the leather cast around his left arm, causing a blade to spring out of the front. He bolted toward the wolf, positioning his arm to try and cut into his leg as he passed him.

Tama seemed to be somewhat battered, but it was clear that she wasn't giving up yet. "You've lasted pretty long... But how long can you keep this up?" Again, she rushed straight towards Max, letting loose a barrage of misty energy beams.

Max flew to the side before using Chaos Shield to block against any beams that might have hit him if he hadn't. Then, Max fired the shield at Tama, trying to push her away. At that moment, he was hit by one of his own disco beams, blasting him back into the tree from before and taking its top off, leaving only a trunk. Annoyed, Max grabbed the severed tree and threw it at Tama, hoping to deal some serious damage.

The wolf braced himself for the blow; it almost seemed like he let himself get hit. He quickly turned his gaze towards Smash, and if he looked into the wolf's eyes, he would feel like an invisible force was attacking him, trying to chip away at his will. "Submit." He growled. Before he could go any further, however, he noticed Transford, and was forced to look away in order to move his leg out of the way.

Smash barely caught a glimpse of his eyes as he turned around, wondering why he showed so little resistance against his attack. All of a sudden, Smash froze in place with a quiet gasp, feeling an unnatural pulse throughout his body. His eyes widened and his brows furrowed; something was seriously wrong. '' ' What is this...overwhelming vibe he's giving off? ' '' He asked himself as the wolf looked away. It was only for a second but it was more than enough to catch Smash off guard. '' ' That wasn't just any old look. I've stared monsters right in the eye and I've never felt weak in the knees. Not like that. ' '' With Transford coming to keep up the offensive, Smash clapped his face with both hands, trying to regain focus, and took this opportunity to rush the wolf's backside.

Platinum stood back to watch, waiting for the right moment to rush in and join the fray.

As it flew towards her, she formed a blade of misty energy to slice it in half. Luckily, the halves didn't come crashing down on top of anyone, but the impact of them hitting the ground would likely be startling. "How about that? I stole that one from you~" She continued her pursuit, attempting to land a blow straight to Max's gut.

"Uch, of course a brat like you is unoriginal," Max said, with a groan. As she was nearing him, he smiled cockily, however, and if she got close enough to hit him she'd find that her attack would phase right through him. If she looked around the park, there were clones of Max everywhere - two afterimages were bickering, one afterimage was licking ice cream, one afterimage was taking a nap, and three move afterimages were playing Hot Potato with an Chaos Spear. Some were taking strolls, some were doing barrel rolls in midair, and some were looking at Tama and seemed to be gossiping among themselves about her.

"The more, the merrier! If I can't tell which one is real, I'll just break them all~" Raising her arms, Tama let loose countless beams of energy into the sky. After a moment, they descended, shooting towards the various Maxes scattered across the park, and the rest of the combatants too. The afterimages all dissipated, showing that Max had stopped trying to fool her, but if Tama didn't react, she'd find a lance through her chest that would explode after five seconds.

"Geez, this is like walking through a minefield!" Clock exclaimed, barely avoiding the explosions caused by the missiles hitting the ground. "Forget about us surviving, soon this park is going to be a crater!"

Xavis lunged at the red Hikari with another flaming punch, and planned on following by grabbing the cat by the arm and chucking him at the newcomer.

As soon as Xavis got close, Hikari disappeared, only to reappear to his left.  'Damn, he's got a lot of power...'  Hikari thought. '' 'All I can do is keep trying to avoid his attacks until he runs out of steam. That should be all right, but with this kind of power, even my illusions might not be enough...' '' From his hand, he let loose a bolt of the same misty energy that Tama had used earlier, hoping to catch Xavis off guard.

As the blue Hikari rapidly approached him, Splice's hands glowed an icy blue as he took one step forward, readying himself for whatever Hikari was about to do. If he came within melee range, Splice would trap him within a large, jagged block of ice.

Once the blue Hikari got within a few feet, he quickly lunged forward and to the right, firing a blue ray of light energy at Splice. Immediately after the attack was released, however, he disappeared, reappearing to the left and firing another ray.

His arms were spread out as he was going to follow up with his trap move by slamming his hands into the ice with fiery palms, but now Splice was practically a sitting duck after his initial attack missed. Fortunately he reacted fast enough to dodge the first beam by lurching his upper body backward, but he was in no position to dodge the second one. He cried out in pain, losing his balance and staggering off to the side. He managed to turn around to face the blue Hikari before falling to one knee.

Noticing Splice's cry, Clock-Watch rushed towards him, firing at Hikari to distract him from the downed Splice. He quickly moved in between the two. "Are you alright!?" He asked. "That looked like it hurt. I can hold this guy off while you pick yourself up, if you need me to."

While he was occupied talking to Splice, however, the blue Hikari took the opportunity to let loose more bolts of energy towards the two.

"I-I'm fine!" Splice insisted, clutching his searing side. "Get down!" With his other arm he pulled Clock forward as he doved to the ground, narrowly missing the bolts coming at them. From the ground, he reached out towards the blue Hikari, causing a stream of ice to rapidly approach their enemy--threatening to freeze him to the ground. The ice's range spread outwards in the shape of a cone to cover more ground. "Get 'im when he jumps!" He quietly told Clock.

"Woah!" Clock shouted, seeing one of the bolts fly right over his face. "Alright, I'll make sure he can't dodge this one!" Lining up his shot, he waited for Hikari's move.

"Geez, it looks like more of a mess than it did," Reens commented, beginning to heal Alexia and Jewel at the same time, one hand on each of them. "Thank Chaos we have more help, but it looks like the other side has more help too." As she focused on healing them both, her eyes traveled to the battlefield, to the ice dome, then back to her patients. ''If this ends badly... no, you can't focus on that right now. It'll be alright ... right?''

The green Hikari had gotten fairly close at this point, determined to take out the trio. Leaping into the air, he fired a jet of green fire at the dome, in an attempt to melt it. The dome began to melt, but Alexia planted her foot into the ground, trying to keep it from melting. "Ms. Cy-Cyborg.... please hurry w-with the h-healing... I can't hold th-this for much l-l-longer..."

Reens' teeth grit together as she focused harder on healing them. "I'm going as, as fast as I can! I'm sorry if I can't, can't heal you all the way, okay? I'm the only healer here, it's kind of hard to do!" Tears started running down her cheek as she said this, showing that she wasn't angry, just really... scared. Her chest started glowing from the strain.

"Omigosh, I'm.... so.... sorry..." Alexia felt horrible now. She was struggling to keep the dome up, and now she was making someone cry. The situation was mortifying. Alexia gulped before speaking again. "I... If it's too challenging to do quickly, I suggest we leave the dome and leave Ms. Jewel in here. Then, we can protect her while pushing off our assailant." Alexia sighed. "I-If you d-don't mind, of course..."

"Makes sense to me," Reens replied, wiping her eyes. "Um, you might wanna stand back a bit though, okay?" Alexia did as she was asked and steeped back, waiting in anticipation to see what Reens had up her sleeve. Reens took a deep breath and focused, becoming enveloped in a ball of light. When the light dissipated. Reens would be canary yellow with crimson eyes, and her heart necklace had become silver. Her clothes didn't change at all, but her robotic arm was different. "Okay. let's do this!" She picked up Alexia (who had just been staring at her in amazement) and flew out of the dome, having the dome close back around Jewel.

The green Hikari raised his eyebrows at Reens' transformation. He ceased firing his jet of flame, and assumed a defensive stance, waiting for her to make the first move.

Xavis raised his arms against the red Hikari's attack, with the energy simply reflecting off the crystals covering his arms. He then went in for another punch. If his opponent dodged again, he'd spin around and spew fire in all directions. Hikari might sense that his energy was slightly different from normal Chaos--there was something else, some unstable, unidentifiable energy growing within him...

"That bolt of Symphony didn't even phase him... This is a problem." The red Hikari muttered. Sweating, he threw his arms into the air. Suddenly, what appeared to be even more copies of the red Hikari popped into existence around Xavis. Some would vanish, sending beams of red energy towards him; the others began to run in various directions, hopefully making it hard to discern the real one.

Heartbeat Reens set Alexia down gently. "Like what you see? Hope so, cause you might not see this for a while!" she teased the green Hikari with a wink. She readied a large orb of water, similar in size to her Tidal Wave attack, but as she concentrated, the orb of water grew larger. She floated in the air, then spun and threw the orb straight onto him. "Hurricane!"

As it approached, the green Hikari vanished, but the impact of the orb hitting the ground was enough to knock him over, reappearing a yard or so to the left. Grimacing, he shot a ray of green energy towards Reens.

Alexia nodded. "Thank you s-so much! I'll try my best not to let you down!" Determined to do something useful, Alexia burst in speed to Splice and ran in front of him, staring at the Blue Hikari. "I-I'm not going to let you harm this man any further! I don't like violence, b-but if you're going to b-be so rude, it looks like th-th-this is my only option!" Alexia created four small shurkien that looked like snowflakes and fired them at the Blue Hikari. They would freeze the body part they hit in a block of heavy blue ice if they succeeded in striking their target.

He had just leaped into the air to dodge Splice's attack, and as the shuriken approached, the blue Hikari let out a burst of blue flame to melt the attacks. However, he was too caught up to notice Clock firing at him, and was hit square in the chest by a shot of silver energy, sending him tumbling to the ground.

Clock-Watch pumped his fist in celebration. "Yes! A clean hit!" He turned to Splice. "Quick, freeze him while he's down, and let's finish this one!"

"On it!" Splice stood up, holding his hands forward as the ice formed under the blue Hikari in the shape of a cage ready to catch him. If he landed inside, Splice would proceed to completely trap him with another layer of frost, sealing off any openings from the cage. With that, he would prepare to follow up with one last finishing blow.

Tama was sent flying backwards by the exploding lance, but still didn't cease her murderous grin. Her fur glowed a sickly green, and she rushed towards Max with simply uncanny agility. As she got closer, she fired energy beams to surround Max, preventing him from running away without having to walk through one of the potent attacks. They soon formed a cage that would keep both of them stuck until she dissipated it. "No more tricks. How tough are you without room to run?"

"Who says I need to run? I'm just trying to have fun. With you being some dumb kid, I thought you'd be able to enjoy yourself more than me." Max opened his mouth like he was going to speak again, but then an enormous red explosion went off instantaneously, even more powerful than a Chaos Blast.... with its power multiplied by three. This was Max's Super Chaos Climax, a destructive move that was used best when point-blank. Because of the cage, it wouldn't escape, leaving Tama without room to run unless she put the cage down.

Almost reflexively, Tama let loose her own explosion of energy when she felt the blast reach her. The two attacks broke the cage of energy with ease, and lit up the sky with green and red light. Neither one of the two would be able to avoid taking the brunt of each other's attack at such close range. After a moment, the smoke and light cleared, and Tama spiralled down to the ground, seemingly exhausted.

Heartbeat Reens simply deflected the blast with her robotic arm, then turned her robotic arm into a stronger version of her plasma cannon. "Is that all you could do? I guess being further away makes you weaker or something?" She fired a succession of plasma blasts straight at the green Hikari. "That didn't even tickle!"

The green Hikari's eyes narrowed, and he ran out of the way of the attacks, firing back towards Reens. Noticing Tama falling out of the sky, he ran towards where she would land. Max was also sent flying downwards while spinning, however, and he stil had some Chaos Energy in him. He would end up hitting the Green Hikari with a large amount of force, and if he didn't notice, the two would find themselves in a ten-meter deep hole in the ground.

Seeing Max's attack heading towards him, Hikari quickly pulled something out of his pocket... A crystal? Wrapping it in mint-green energy, he whipped it towards Tama at lightning speed just before getting hit by Max's attack. "Tama! Catch!"

Tama's eyes shot open upon hearing Hikari shout to her, her gaze immediately turning to the crystal. It almost flew past her, but she barely managed to grab it with her right hand. Somehow, some way, she landed on her feet. "Ooooooooh~ I feel really excited now!" She immediately turned to look towards Platinum, who was still watching the wolf that had just appeared. "Now, where was I?"

As if he could sense what Smash was doing, the wolf attempted to hit Smash in the chest with his elbow, not even turning around to aim, though it still managed to be a precise strike. Perhaps he had ways of sensing opponents beyond just his eyes?

Smash was almost caught off guard, but managed to block the elbow with both hands. He quickly rose his boot in an attempt to kick his arm away from him.

With the wolf distracted enough to allow it, Transford stopped to press at a button on the gauntlet around his right arm. Various bits of it retracted or folded back into itself as the whole thing clattered to the ground. Without a single word from Transford, four pitch black tendrils composed of pure energy emerged from his back and sped toward the wolf, each one aiming to wrap itself around a different one of his limbs.

Static looked on as the battle raged. The park was getting demolished left and right. "Good grief, the park is ruined! Good thing we didn't fight in the city." He thought aloud.

Feeling somewhat rested from his time out of combat, he felt that he to get back in and help, though he wasn't entirely sure how much use he'd be. He could barely go five minutes without tiring himself out. Maybe if he fought more conservatively, he could avoid exhausting himself. "I think it'd be a good idea to get you somewhere safe and out of the way." He said to Melissa.

"Oh? Y-yes, thank you," she replied, getting herself to her feet. "I think my vision's starting to come back..."

Meanwhile, the multiple red Hikaris were only aggravating Xavis further.

The entire area started to go up in flames as the enraged hedgehog began spewing jets of fire from his arms in every direction, trying to hit the overly evasive cat.

Heartbeat Reens flew around the area, dousing some of the flames that were getting too close to Splice, Smash, Platinum, and the other combatants. "Man, it sure is getting awfully warm here! Are you guys okay? What do you need me to do?"

''CURSE IT ALL! THIS IS STUPID! ''Max thought, attempting to grab the Green Hikari by his collar and throw him into the air. "I don't have time to waste with people like you! That girl's head is mine!" If he succeeded, he would go blasting off towards Tama, the flames spreading into the sky as he flew. He would create two flares of Chaos Energy that'd explode when they got near.