Combining powers

Meanwhile, on the rooftop overlooking the battle...

"BAH! Again with this?!" Miss Myster shouted in disbelief at the sight of a superhero cowboy calling themselves Tin Star. "Where the hell did this second familiar come from?!"

To say Miss Myster was pissed at this sudden turn of events would be an understatement. 

One minute, her band of ill omens was just about to turn Platiknight into a pile of scrap metal. The next minute, her precious familiars were getting used as target practice by a Billy the Kid meets Wyatt Earp knock-off.

Making matters worse, because of the item she used to make it possible for her to summon more than one familiar at a time, she was now feeling the feedback of all three of her familiars getting injured at the same time.

Her left shoulder, her left thigh, her right forearm, and both of her hands felt as if they had been shot through a revolver. However, there were no physical wounds present.

Familiar pain feedback just made the user feel any damage their familiar felt, but not actually inflict it. On top of that, the reason why she was feeling it now instead of earlier, when Mortis was getting shield smashed, was due to the fact that familiar pain feedback scales with the amount of familiars present.

In other words, if Mortis was the only one getting shot at this time, Miss Myster wouldn't have felt a thing.

"Wait a minute..."

Soon after Miss Myster realized that most of her pain was due to the number of familiars she had fighting out on the field, she also realized that that annoying young man who was Platiknight's master had just sent out another familiar.

A familiar that looked significantly squisiher, probably had crappy close combat skills, and was more than likely to crumble after getting punched the stomach at least once.

In other words, she saw an opportunity to end this battle in a timely manner.

'Forget the knight; aim for the cowboy!' Miss Myster mentally commanded. 'Once you take out the gunslinger, the other will be a sitting duck! And just to make sure, its time to go big!'

Immediately after making this statement to her familiars, Miss Myster summoned forth the System windows and pulled up the Familiar windows for Mortis, Gamble and Fletcher. With a quick swipe of her fingers, she activated all three of their Ultimate Skills one after the other.

When she did this, though, she was under the impression that each of their own unique ultimates would go off one at a time, since she had never summoned multiple familiars at the same time.

Instead, after activating all three of their ultimates, a window alert she had never seen before had appeared before her eyes.

[Three Ultimate Skills with similar attributes have been activated at the same time. Combining all three skills to perform the Ultimate Combination Skill: Wild Hunt of Misfortune.]

"Holy shit! I should've invested in summoning more than one familiar at a time way sooner!

...Now back to the fight...

"Whoa..." SK trailed off after closing his open window and staring at the battle unfolding below his apartment building. "Looks like we're going to have a proper showdown...damn, I wish it was sunset right now."

At this moment in time, the tension on the battlefield had become thick enough to stab in the back multiple times.

Tin Star's arrival had thrown the entire battle theater into disarray due to his sudden barrage of bullets managing to deal damage to all three of Miss Myster's familiars. 

Platiknight had done an excellent job in keeping the three of them at bay, but the damage he was able to inflict on them was minimal due to their coordination abilities.

Whenever Platiknight had attempted to go after one of the enemy familiars in a more focused manner, the other two would just keep nailing him with attacks to slow him down or just grab his attention. 

This was especially the case whenever he went after Gamble, as the tricky little gremlin would simply turn into electricity and move to an entirely different street lamp whenever Platiknight got close enough to punch the little creep. After missing his punch, he would then get attacked by Mortis and Fletcher.

But now, the tables had turned.

Two on three still wasn't a completely fair fight, but now the superheroes had a chance to turn this thing around.

Or maybe even end it, assuming Gamble and his companions were willing to surrender.

"Well? What's it gonna be pardner?"Tin Star asked. "You gonna give up or not?"

"You little-huh?"

'Forget the knight; aim for the cowboy!' Gamble suddenly heard Miss Myster command inside of his mind, alongside Mortis and Fletcher. 

Gamble was all set to cuss out this cowboy and then blast him with lightning, which is why when the orders came from Miss Myster to focus all their attacks on him, the gremlin became rather delighted.

'And just to make sure, its time to go big!'

Only for that delight to quickly turn into excitement as he felt a surge of power coursing through not only his body but the bodies of Fletcher and Mortis as well. Instinctually, they knew exactly what they were going to do and exactly how they were going to do it.

"Okay, cowpoke," Gamble suddenly said with significantly more force than before. "You want me to reach for the skies, huh? Sure, I'll do just that."

As Gamble reached for the skies, power began to pour from his palms and into the clouds above, causing them to grow larger and darker until they were full-on storm clouds. "And now I'm going to bring down the thunder! Wild Hunt of Misfortune!"

"SKREE!"

"AWOOO!"

Shortly after making this declaration, Gamble turned into a bolt of lightning and surged into the skies above, infusing himself into the newly formed storm clouds. After Gamble had fused with the storm clouds, two massive bolts of lighting fell from the sky and impacted both Fletcher and Mortis, empowering them with a dark energy that made them smell of ozone, fear, and fatal misfortune.

Once they were fully charged with power, the two beasts rushed towards Platiknight and Tin Star with newly enhanced speed that made them appear as blurs. This action prompted Platiknight to pull out his shield once more and stand in front of Tin Star so that he could act as an interceptor.

"Stand back, you foul beasts! Neither of you shall-huh?"

Only to be thrown completely off once he saw that the strix and barghest had opted to start running literal circles around him and Tin Star.

This encircling maneuver soon turned into a dark, vicious tornado that sparked with electricity and had the two superheroes completely trapped.

But that was only the opening part of this move. 

From inside the tornado, Platiknight and Tin Star could see electricity taking on the forms of the heads of Gamble, Fletcher, and Mortis, one after the other.

"WILD HUNT!" All three heads shouted in unison as they opened their mouths one after the other.

From them poured out even more lightning constructs taking on the form of monstrous birds, monstrous hounds, and monstrous gremlins that all went rushing towards the eye of the tornado, where Platiknight and Tin Star were standing.

Most people in this situation would probably start panicking or praying for mercy at the sight of all of these lightning monsters coming towards them. But when Platiknight and Tin Star saw these incoming monsters of lightning, they simply exchanged a few words and a mutual understanding.

"I'll go high; you go low?" Tin Star asked while reloading his pistols.

"And when the opportunity comes, we break through!" Platiknight shouted as he slammed an armored gauntlet against his shield.

"Amen!"

"REEEE!"

And it was with that declaration that the hordes of lightning monsters descended on the superhero duo in hopes of electrocuting them and turning them into burning corpses.

"HAVE AT THEE!"

"YEEHAW!"

Only to be thoroughly disappointed as the heroes began taking down the lightning beasts with even better coordination than what the trio of monsters had displayed before.

From above, lighting constructs shaped like Fletcher the strix were being shot out of the sky as Tin Star blasted at them, not with a hail of bullets but precisely controlled ones that took out scores of them at a time before bouncing off of each other and destroying lightning constructs that were closer to the ground.

From below, vicious lightning wolves that were shaped like Mortis and nasty little gremlins shaped like Gamble were attempting to charge in but were thoroughly smashed by Platiknight and his massive shield. While it wasn't as fancy as Tin Star's bullets, this smash-and-spin tactic proved to work wonders.

The superheroes were doing an excellent job in fighting off this tornado of misfortune, but they still needed a way out to end this fight for real.

Thankfully, they had someone on the outside who had an idea.