Blow Out

"Oh balls, that is not good," SK said aloud as he stared at the tornado trapping his familiars. 

While he could feel that they were confident that they could weather the storm long enough to figure out a way to power through, SK had watched enough cartoons to know that encircling moves like this "Wild Hunt of Misfortune" needed to be broken through an unexpected method.

Not necessarily because it was cool, but because the obvious methods were usually defended against.

If Platiknight and Tin Star carelessly charged for the sides, they could either get electrocuted with the force of a thousand generators or sent flying up to the stratosphere because of the tornado. Alternatively, they could just get caught up in the wind funnel and then suffer death by a thousand clawmarks. Platiknight probably would've been fine at the end of this all, but Tin Star would definitely end up like shreded leather.

"The ideal method would be to blow up the tornado from the inside, or maybe cause an earthquake? But I don't know if Platiknight or Tin Star have enough power by themselves to-"

*DING!*

"-BWAH!"

Just before SK could finish his observation about whether or not Platiknight and Tin Star could bust out of a spinning tornado of death and misfortune, the System decided to chime in.

[Notice: When activating the Ultimate Skills of more than one active Familiar, there is a chance that the skills will combine and create a Combined Ultimate Skill instead. The power behind such a skill is not simple addition but instead, multiplicative and exponential.]

"Well, that makes things easier," SK noted while pulling up Platiknight's and Tin Star's status screens. "So I guess I just...swipe right?"

SWISH!

[Multiple ultimate skills of similar attributes have been activated in sequence. Now activating Ultimate Combination Skill: Justice Burst.]

...Now back to the tornado outside...

"How many have you smashed in, sir knight?" Tin Star asked after reloading his pistols for the seventh time this evening. "I think I've shot down at least three dozen of these birds by now!"

BANG! BANG!

"I think I'm at about eighteen-wait a moment!"

BLAM!

"Nineteen!"

"Woo doggie, these varmints ain't letting up."

The actual number of lightning constructs that the two superheroes had destroyed was much higher than what they had counted so far, but they had only started doing so after they had taken out about three dozen of the bastards before now.

Despite their words though, both Platiknight and Tin Star were basically running out of gas at this point and were just about to succumb to the onslaught of electrical bestial constructs.

KERFWOOOM

"WHOA NELLY!"

"HUZZAH!"

But then, like a bolt from the blue, the two metallic heroes received a surge of energy and an instinctual set of instructions that informed how they were going to get out of this mess and take out their opponents at the same time.

It just required a little trust and a little more breathing room.

"PLATINUM CHASER"

POW! POW! POW! POW!

"MAD BULLET DANCE!"

Bang! Kaping! Bang!

In less than five seconds, Platiknight had turned himself into a streak of platinum light that bounced between several of the groundbound lighting constructs and instantly dispersed them with several well-placed punches.

At the same time, Tin Star unleashed two full salvos of specially made bullets that proceeded to pierce through their targets before suddenly changing directions, colliding into each other, and going off in other directions to keep piercing enemies and bouncing off of each other.

 Their combined efforts had cleared away the tornado's center long enough for Platiknight's and Tin Star's next course of action.

The precious metal paragon crouched to the ground and lifted his shield over his head, allowing Tin Star to use it as a platform.

"Try to keep my ascension upwards on the straight and narrow, okay, partner?"

"Have no fear, my tin friend!" Platiknight assured Tin Star as he began channeling his energy into the shield on his arm. "Your ride to the sky will be as smooth as a polished platinum breastplate! Now, PLATINUM CATAPAULT!"

THOOM!

"YIPEE KI-YAY!"

Using his body and shield as a jump pad, Platiknight launched Tin Star upwards and out of the top of the monster-made tornado.

"I'm only going to get one shot at this; I better not miss," Tin Star said to himself moments before reaching the apex of his ascent. Once he was up there, Tin Star readjusted himself in the air so that he could point his dual pistols at the tornado beneath him.

However, he wasn't going to be using them in their current state as pistols for much longer. 

"Ultimate Skill: Frontier Spirit!"

As soon as he made this declaration, the badge on Tin Star's hat suddenly started glowing and began to release a torrent of energy that coursed through Tin Star's body before flowing into the pistols in her hands.

Once the revolvers were fully saturated with energy, the dual weapons quickly merged into becoming one oversized cannon that vaguely resmebled a revolver. However, the payload wasn't going to be a normal cannon ball.

"This next part is all up to you, sir knight!" Tin Star called down, despite the tornado making it impossible for Platiknight to hear anything. "Make sure to smash it at the right place and time."

BOOM!

From the barrel of this massive revolver cannon, Tin Star fired off a bullet the size of a hornet's nest directly down the center of the tornado and directly at Platiknight.

This would've been the part where Platiknight would literally rise to the challenge and punch the bullet with this shield in order to destroy the incoming attack, but that would only be the case if the attack was hostile.

In this instance, the purpose of the attack was to take out everybody else.

Platiknight stood his ground, readied his shield and began to charge it up with the same amount energy he would have used if he was going to use his Platinum Comet Crush.

"Platinum Power Smash!"

KABAM!

Except this time, that power was combined with the power of team work.

"Ultimate Combination Skill: Justice Burst!"

The moment Platiknight smashed Tin Star's bullet, he didn't knock it back or deflect it.

Instead, he used enough power to caused the bullet to literally explode into a cloud of shrapnel and force that went in every direction except his.

The force of the explosion blew away the tornado itself as it impacted the enemy familiars and caused them to become momentarily stunned.

This then led to the time getting torn to shreds by several dozen chunks of burning hot metal that were enhanced by the power of not one but two different superheroes.

"AOO!"

"BAKAWK!"

"GYAAAH!"

Needless to say, the power of such a combination was not minimal in the slightest and the three enemy familiars were torn completely to shreds.

[Notice: Mortis the Barghest has been defeated.]

[Notice: Gamble the Gremlin has been defeated.]

[Notice: Fletcher the Strix has been defeated.]

However, the defeated familiars did not leave bloody and perforated body parts on the ground that would lead to uncomfortable questions with law enforcement and beyond.

Instead, the three defeated familiars transformed into particles of colorful energy that flew back towards their master.

Carrying with them not only the pain of defeat, but a penalty that was going to be even more painful.

...Every battle has it's losers...

"No, no, no, no, no, NO!"

ZAP!

"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!"

As the energy particles that were her defeated familiars fused with her body, Miss Myster felt as if her entire body was being torn to shreds by a thousand pieces of burning hot metal several times over.

However, this wasn't the most painful part about this moment.

Because shortly after her familiars returned to her, the System gave her a penalty message.

[Notice: Due to the User's incredible defeat, the System will become inaccessible to them for an amount of weeks equal to the amount of familiars defeated. Three familiars has been registered as defeated, so the user has been banned from using this System for the next three weeks.]

"NOOOOOOO!"

Such a punishment didn't sound so bad on the surface, but keep in mind that this meant that Miss Myster no longer had access to quests, familiars or an items in her inventory.

In other words, she had gone from wielding infinite power to being a mortal in an instant.

Abrupt changes like this had a tendency to drive people a little insane.

"You bastard..."Miss Myster mumbled while in the process of passing out. "I'll get you...for this."

...Every battle has it's winners...

[Ding! Congratulations, you have managed to defeat an enemy User and their familiars in glorious combat!] the System informed SK shortly after the Justice Burst went off. [Appropriate rewards has been sent to your inventory. Please review at your earliest convenience.]

"Woo! But also, holy fucking shit!" SK cursed as he released a massive sigh of relief. "Okay, with all that taken care of, I guess we can just call it a day...wait a minute, why do I see red and blue lights in the distance?"