Pandemonium

It crossed its arms over its head as Reese directed a hail of ice against it and it spread across its skin and its eyes blazed pushing the blast with its hand.

Nova watched Reese battle with the alien and glanced at the torrent sea. Reese was struggling and he caused the hail to turn into hot water pouring steam on it.

It bubbled but forged on still.

Reese signalled him to leave and he dived, just as soon as he did, Reeve drove the water east and suffered a punch from after, rolling over.

As Nova was booming toward the core, he densed and hit it forcing it to rock, the metal ploughed against the ocean floor and it moved, stirring up a wave, he emerged and ran up the core as it tilted jumping over the notches and flew up then groaned as he got shot.

T'allen rode on a red vessel with their emblem on it, his wings were too weak to stuff on the thermal, he raised a photon spear and shot at him again laughing along with other infernals coming.

"You didn't think it would be that easy did you?!"

Nova wiped the blood off his ear and looked up at the winged Infernals, they threw him off flying about him. He phased waiting.

"Coward!" T'allen growled as they could not reach him.

He saw the ice crack from the gorge and the haze of cold air with the stygian's hand poised on the ground, as Reese was nowhere to be seen. Buried under the ice.

He stumbled when the ship behind the core pushed it up.

"Admit it, you've lost," He said and recoiled at the squall and the Infernals screeched but in agony at the sonic scream dropping into the sea.

Nova watched a man in a black suit with purple lining hover around with a rod swinging it.

Another ship sped toward the stygian shooting at it and it hobbled away.

The masked man rolled into his vessel and the rod extended from his hand.

"You dare challenge me?" T'allen pulled out his heavy sword and the man's eye rounded at its sharpness. "I will show no mercy"

He smashed his talon on his chest and he hit the rail and rolled aside before the cut and got behind him.

His eyes widened when he turned.

"You_you are just a child" He grabbed him by the head and smashed his helmet to reveal

Quinn's face.

His hair wafted violently against the breeze and his eyes were wild at the towering alien, as he picked up the sword again "I will make your death slower until you beg"

He rolled under him to the other side and huffed in panic looking from one side to the other and he spun over the rail.

"Huh?" He looked below the vessel and lurched as the mothership detonated under the core,

Nova flew over his head with Quinn who shoved him on the head and he fell over the rail to the water and then recovered before touching the surface, hoisting him up after them.

"Very clever! I will not be beaten by fledglings!"

He shot Quinn and Nova tossed him into the snow to charge at T'allen.

"I must commend you, Hannan did not put up much of a fight" He turned to retaliate with a handgun.

T'allen tilted dodging the trace of laser beams, flapping after him, he stopped halfway when Nova took shelter on the ice cap with a handful of emperor penguins.

Groaning as they waddled about. Black coats everywhere, he wished to use destruction as a last resort, these annoying birds were everywhere.

"Are you suggesting that I'm better than him?" He asked flying over the creatures and they scattered.

A penguin flapped as Nova hid behind it, he held it down "Shh"

"Maybe so but I never portended a spark of intellect amongst any one of you and presently, the only one brilliant enough is not even your kind"

He took a shot and T'allen lurched and grimaced at the hole on his wing, looking through the hole at the single bird in front of a rock and shot it. He gazed at the black blotch on the rock and feathers floating down and moved on.

"Wille, he won't live another minute once I lay my hands on him"

Nova dropped the penguin and it flapped waddling off, he ran behind another rock squeezing into the hole, he was glad the place was big enough and screamed;

"Hannan was a legend, sadly the curse remains, the Infernals will persist as uneducated for eternity!"

He swerved his spread sending a wave of energy across vaporizing the birds. Nova just struck a nerve.

"Hannan was no match against me, I am the strongest!"

He shook it off and poised the spear at him as he rushed across the snow.

"Nevertheless, I claim this planet in the name of Zandax"

The blast hit a pile of ice and it crackled, the smog cleared to discover that he was not there. He went crazy with power and kept shooting, he turned searching the silent tundra. He crouched on a rock.

"How does it feel? How does it feel to know that your kin is fighting against you? Don't you wish to know?" He yelled in the quiet.

Nova hid behind the ice watching, he turned back when T'allen turned in his direction.

"No, I've seen it, come out Androsian, let's discuss like...men" His eyes spotted the reflection and flapped forward.

"We already are!"

"I seek understanding, perhaps I could break this wretched curse since you're so oppressed with knowledge"

It was quiet.

"He said you were nothing but a know it all, an emotionless twit"

Nova's hand clenched on the ice and he gulped when a hand grabbed his shoulder and he faced Quinn who put a finger to his lips. His ear buzzed.

"I want to look you in the eye and tell you to your face. How we saved your lives," His hand swished to the button and the channel lit up focused on the shadow depicting his presence.

"Come here and I'll hearken!" Nova yelled.

As he meandered to the centre, the ice cracked and an orca emerged snapping him and falling back into the water.

Nova stepped out breathing out cold air, his face shook at the giant pit of ice-cold water at the centre with ice plates floating atop.

Reese stepped out of the hole freezing "Thanks" He watched the spray of water from afar and its tail flicked at sea.

Quinn straggled pulling off his vest to see the damage on the melted polymer and dumped it

"As far as I know, Talon guy is wasted." Reese huffed "It wasn't easy convincing that whale until I told her there would be snacks"

"Where is the stygian?" Nova questioned.

Quinn quirked an eyebrow at that.

"Taken care of" He grinned and flinched at his sore arms and passed out. Depleted from the fight, revitalizing when Nova caught him.

"I appreciate your efforts, Quinn" Nova nodded at his old friend yet looked troubled about what T'allen was trying to say.

Reese came out of his reverie "And me too"

Soon, the jet landed just above the ice and the agent signalled them by the door tossing a rope.

"There's our lift," Quinn said helping Reese to the ropes.

Nova glared at the next tower icon and boarded the jet.

The stygian laid waste in a pile with a baton on it, the end flickered and it lowered as it melted.

....

_Eastern Hemisphere, South China Sea.

The lasers went off as the smaller ships chased her above water, there were myriads of them on the way after being forcefully detached from the mothership.

The intense splashes followed as they were shooting at her still in pursuit, she hung by the side of the core and they stopped.

"What do we do?"

The pilot asked the first in command from the reflector.

"I have lost all contact with the general, there is no one to command" The communicator among them said.

"Then deploy more soldiers"

"This a travesty, we cannot survive on water."

"The flight soldiers" He emphasized.

They murmured their agreements and more soldiers were on the loose, they glided to her and slammed against the metal.

"The intruder is untouchable"

They heard screams from other vessels and Darcy sent orbs of energy everywhere, they rocked and blew up, the live ones swerved in her direction.

[ Have you destroyed the core? ] Wille asked.

"I'm getting there" She touched her earpiece while dragging a trooper unawares and swivelled him at the airborne troops coming. They slammed against each other.

"Sure wished this was a fair fight," She said clinging on a notch of the core close to Shadow.

"Thanks for keeping them distracted," Darcy said with her hair drifting.

She saluted and watched the vessels at a standstill.

"We order you to detach yourselves from the evaporator or else we will obliterate you regardless!"

She heard from a vessel closing in and held on.

"Fire on and do not stop," The pilot in command said.

Darcy clung on indifferently as the lasers hit the metal in several places. "Feels like a death sentence"

"Whoa" She held on "It's working" Her watch stuck to the body at the magnetic force and grunted, "A little too well!" She rolled over when it inclined with her arm in an arch and dropped hitting her back against it.

Shadow covered her non-existent mouth and lowered a hand and flinched as it was falling with her on it.

She stripped off the watch and flew off then stiffened as a large ship lodged against the others setting off an explosion in sequence with a huge rush of wind, heat and smoke.

She watched a woman with hot pink hair sticking out of her helmet and a navy blue suit jump out before it hit the last one.

"Crap!," She teleported to her, surprised when the woman touched on water and zoomed off toward the island.

She heaved out a neon sword and headed for Wille. "Your head is mine"