Working Through

*Warning: Mature content ahead that might not suitable for young readers*

"la...ngela...Angela.."

Angela is slowly regaining consciousnesses. She's still weak that she can't even sit. As she looks around her, Layla is near her while Grock is carrying Fanny in his shoulder.

"I-is Fanny okay..?" Angela asks Layla.

"She's out cold, but she's fine. Anyways, we need to get out of here. We'll wait in Rooney's house after their fight, just like we've planned."

Layla picks Angela in her shoulder and walks away to the lab. The ground is suddenly shaking.

"Wha-what's happening?! It came from the lab?!" Grock quickly grabs both of them and runs as fast as he can. Angela and Layla watches the lab from behind.

The ground around it is breaking apart and falls into the hole. From a distance, they see a gigantic figure, it almost like a monster.

Angela is more worried that it might be more then just their fight. "Alpha..."

Alpha and Saber are looking at Dr. Burdock's new, modified body. It's like a giant melted balloon with flesh-like skin, metal plates and wires inside of it. He is so big that the ceiling is broken and the dark, night sky is visible.

They also see six giant tubes connected to him and each of them labeled, from left to right, M, A, F, S, T, and MM.

"I should thank the two of you for participating for my research, especially you, Saber."

"When you share us about your ideas, I have thought of using you for killing all of the strongest warriors in the world. But due to your failure, I was about to give up."

"While we're testing your abilities, I discovered that you can actually gain all of the hero's genes, but you don't have the potential to use it."

Saber is suddenly irritated of this.

"I was going to create a machine that can suppress the effects. But with you inside the facility, I don't have a chance to make one. When you killed almost all of the scientists and escaped the facility few years ago, I can finally get started."

"While I'm researching, I can't suppress the effects due to lack of living organism. I've ran out of human samples because of you two. So what I did is that I stuffed all of the dead scientists into the machine."

Both of them are shocked at this.

"So all of these are from your dead scientists?!" Alpha is furious about this.

"Precisely. It is all for the sake of science."

Doing all of this for the sake of science?! That's more than mad!

"Now I have you two in place, I will show you the power Saber has been looking for. I will show you that my creation is More Developed than all of you!"

"Developed? HAH! I don't see anything developed." Saber said as he points his sword to him. "More than that, the only thing you've developed is your speech."

"Say all you want, Saber. No matter how stronger you two are, your attempts are futile." Burdock's body suddenly glows blue. The core inside of it is visible to them.

"I'm sorry, Saber. But I would like to place our battle on hold."

"Indeed. In fact, we can't even fight properly with him on our way."

"Well, at least we both agreed on that one." Alpha and Saber are on a truce. Finally, something that the both agree on. They both ready their weapons and destroy the Mad Scientist.

"You thinking what I'm thinking?" Alpha asks him.

"Is it one of the 'video game clichés' you've been talking about?"

"Yup. Hitting the weak spot!"

Saber and Alpha are running towards the left side of the chamber. As they've reached to the edge, Alpha kicks Saber, knocking him into the M tube. Saber is trying to cut the tube, but it is too durable.

"It is futile! No one can stand against my ultimate creation!!" Burdock attacks Alpha with magic.

Alpha is running and dodging his attacks as he waits Saber to cut all the tubes.

He casts Alpha with Harley's 'Deadly Magic', making him slow down as he takes more hits. Alpha is using Ruby's ability, 'Let's Dance!' to reduce the damage he has taken.

Saber finally cuts the M tube. The blue glow disappears. All of the Mages' abilities Burdock has are gone. He leaps to the next one. Burdock realizes this and tries to knock Saber into the hole.

"Hey!! I'm the one you're facing!!" Alpha taunted Burdock with Gatotkaca's ability to avoid him attack Saber.

"I'm going to finish this quickly!" Burdock's body glows purple. Alpha feels the ground is shaking.

Something is coming!

Alpha dodges the upcoming attack. It's a spike that is embedded with Assassins' physical attack. If he stayed there, he would've been killed on the spot.

He uses Zilong's skill 'Supreme Warrior' to increase his speed and starts running.

"This is taking too long." Saber uses Tigreal's skill and thrusts his swords into the tube. He destroyed the A tube and dashes with gusion's 'incandescence' to the next tube.

Burdock is screaming in agony. The purple glow disappeared.

Alpha realizes that Burdock's body is shrinking. If they can destroy all of the tubes, his core will be shown and can be destroyed.

"SABER!!!!" Burdock rages and is facing to Saber. Alpha is trying to taunt him again but it's ineffective. His body glows red. He shoots out countless missiles to Saber and puts out Sun's clone to attack him.

Saber cannot find an opening and slowly pushes him. Alpha jumps high into the air and drops into the MM tube with his spear pointing into the ground. The tube is damaged but not broken.

Alpha puts out his spear and proceeds to punch the tube. With Gatotkaca's 'Blast Iron Fist' combined with Chou's ability, he punched through the tube, creating a hole. The fluids that flows into Burdock goes through the hole.

Burdock's body shrinks even smaller. He is distracted by Alpha. Given as a chance, Saber is cutting the tube. Alpha is trying to avoid all of his attacks while Saber is cutting the tube.

"You will never win!!!!" Burdock uses Guinevere's 'Violet Requiem' and starts attacking all around him. They are stunned and continuously attacking them.

"Immortality.. or Death!" Saber ignores Burdock's stun and finally breaks the F tube with Tigreal's skill.

"Noooo!!!!" Burdock's red glow disappears. "I Have All The Power!! Am I Not Worthy?!!"

His body shrinks again and his core is out of his body.

"You are only human, Burdock." Saber approaches him. "You will not stand against an AI like us!"

"S-S-STAY AWAY!!!!!" His body started glowing light blue. Burdock throws everything he has. He stopped Saber by Diggie's 'Reverse Time'.

"Alpha!" Saber is lifting Alpha to reach the core.

Alpha is charging towards Burdock and thrusts the core with his spear. Burdock tries to block it with all the tank's defences.

"YOU WILL NEVER DEFEAT ME!!!"

Saber dashes to him and stab him deep into his core.

"RAAAAAGHHH!!!!!" The core shines even brighter, Flames are bursting within his body, The ground is shaking again. It's going to explode.

"Saber, this thing is going to explode! We have to-" Saber charges to Alpha and attacks him. He blocked his blow. "Now that he is out of the way, I'm going to kill you. Right here. Right now." "We have no time! We need to get out of he-" An explosion, followed by a wave, hits both Saber and Alpha and drops into the hole.

They dropped into the sewers and slowly losing their consciousness....