This scene was written in 2023, and is undergoing rewrite.
“My daughter is in fucking danger, do you not understand, Kenzo?” Dad knelt down in front of him, shaking his shoulders.
Kenzo looked to the side and sighed, fearing that it’d be impossible to talk him out.
“This is a suicide mission. You can’t walk out of there at a-“
“Do you think that’s my concern? Slash is MY child. I’d be willing to give my life for that girl. Her life is in danger right now. She’s wreaking havoc on the planet. The only person who can eliminate that Core of Destruction bastard from her is her dad. I don’t care about my life.” Dad pleaded, tears welling up in his eyes. He looks down as he loosened his grip onto Kenzo’s shoulder.
“I dragged her into this mess. She had a full life ahead of her. I didn’t get to spend enough time with her. She doesn’t have a parental figure to take care of her. I’ve failed her as a father. Please. Let me redeem myself.” Dad sobbed.
Kenzo looked down at the now vulnerable wolf.
“Come with me, there’s only one person who can help,” he said, walking to the poop deck of the Odyssey V.
Dad caught his emotions and got up, following the fox, limping slightly.
They entered the wheelhouse, and Kenzo immediately plugged in coordinates. A screen popped up, showing the face of a familiar individual.
“Evening, Sylver. This is Kenzo calling from Odyssey V, how copy?” Kenzo spoke into the mic.
“We hear you 5 by 5, Ken. What’s the matter?” Kyiv, the black raven on the other side, responded.
“Permission to head to the basement of the HQ for equipment.” Kenzo replied.
“I will ask why when you get there. For now, turn heading 270 and descend to flight level 30.” She instructed.
“Turn heading 270 and lower to 30, Odyssey V.” Kenzo did as told.
Minutes later, Kenzo contacted again. “We are 2 miles east of the Raven Air Base and we have runway on visual. Requesting to land on Runway 4.”
“Clear to land runway 4. Headwind at 3 knots.”
Kenzo proceeded to land on the runway platform.
“Odyssey V, welcome back to Raven Air Base, please taxi via Lima and onto platform Juliet VII. Meet you there.” Kyiv closed the communications.
The ship parked at the designated platform. As they got out, they were greeted by Kyiv in person.
“Why did you come?” Kyiv asked.
“I’m going to need Prototype 5B.” Kenzo responded.
“That shit’s not ready yet! We haven’t tested it!” Kyiv said, with a huge amount of concern on her face.
“Time is running out, Sylver. I’ve gotta go save Slash.” Dad explained.
“That’s going to endanger your life!” Kyiv rebutted.
“I don’t care. I will do anything for her.”
The doors opened to the basement. It was an extremely protected area, where most of the development of new weapons occurred. Kyiv led the both of them to the armoury and showed them Prototype 5B. It was mostly completed, amongst some defects.
“Here. Wear this. You’re gonna need it.” Kyiv unlocked the seal and it opened.
“This is the latest development. And I’ll get you the latest weapon.” The raven turned and walked to another section of the armoury. She returned with a set of weapons; a machine gun, a rocket launcher and a greatsword.
Dad picked the greatsword.
“Going back to the old days, Alex?” Kyiv asked.
“I’m the strongest with this thing. I know how to use it.” Dad gave a firm response.
“So be it. You know what to do.” She sighed. “If this is the last time I see you, man, this is farewell from me.” Kyiv spoke softly while patting his shoulder. “Good luck, Alex.”
“Thank you.” Dad smiled at her and left while wearing the prototype armour and wielding his sword, together with Kenzo.
“We’re going to the Boston Labs in the State of Cho. That’s how you’re going to encounter her. Remember, the world is in your hands.” Kenzo recapped as they both got back onto the ship and into the wheelhouse.
The Odyssey V took off and headed straight for the Extrax, the mountain range that divided Murkatinnya and Howlton. On the other side of the mountain ranges is the State of Cho, a partial desert state of Murkatinnya. As they got closer to the labs, the entire ship suffered an intense explosion in the hull, followed by a violent turbulance. Alarms rang across the ship.
Intruder alert. Damage sustained at the hull of the Odyssey V. Initiating repair..
Fire detected on board. Initiating Protocol E.
Water sprayed everywhere.
“Go. It’s your chance to face her. Good luck. I believe in you.”
Dad took a huge breath and took the elevator to the runway floor. On board machine guns were already activated and shooting at the Phoenix of Destruction. The phoenix was flying headfirst toward the poop deck where Dad emerged from. He reactivated his long-dormant power and took a strike towards the phoenix from inside the poop deck. With a giant swing of his sword, he knocked the phoenix down to the ship. Before making his final strike, the phoenix ripped a hole in space time and…
The whole world turned dark. Dad’s sword hit the ground and got stuck into it. The phoenix had taken him to a separate realm.
He looked around. It was nothing except for the ground beneath him. He heard footsteps from behind.
It was ‘Slash’. She walked down an invisible flight of stairs, laughing menacingly.
“What brings you here, big guy? You want your daughter back? HAHAHA! You humans disgust me. For once, I shall bring Arc under MY rule!” She laughed hysterically.
Dad tried to lift up his sword but to no avail. It was stuck. ‘Slash’ approached him. “Go home, to hell where you belong.” She said emotionlessly, looking down on him as if he was helpless.
“Come on, come on!” Dad grunted as he tried pulling out the sword but to no avail.
At the corner of his eye, he noticed a fist headed straight for his torso. He threw himself to the side, barely missing the fist by an inch. Her arm punched straight into the ground behind him, forming huge cracks.
Dad looked up. Portals emerged from behind and multiple rockets came, headed straight at him. As the rockets approached, he closed his eyes and braced for impact.
Nothing.
He opened them. They were slowed down, almost to a still pace.
Imminent Threat. Timeslow Activated.
His body armour slowed time for him. Upon realising, he dodged the rockets as they returned back to realtime. They collided with the ground, forming large craters and molten debris.
“Wh-how?! Fine. You want to play like this, I’ll play with you.” ‘Slash’ responded, with anger in her voice. A massive portal opened, and the Odyssey V airship flew through.
“No… No! Get out!” Dad screamed at the ship. However, there was no response as the ship continued to enter. Machine guns began to shoot directly at him as he tried to use his psychic forces to draw the sword out but was too occupied with dodging to do much.
Dad ran as fast as he could, avoiding the rockets and the gunfire. He grabbed a rather large piece of debris and threw it towards the rockets, where they collided and exploded next to ‘Slash’, injuring her.
“You!” ‘Slash’ growled, with growing rage. White ribbons emerged from the back of her body grabbed Dad’s body like a piece of stick and she grew huge crystals on the ribbons. The crystals then soon grew towards him and engulfed him.
The rockets and gunshots stop. ‘Slash’ smirked and turned around, close to leaving.
A sword lunges at her. She barely had enough time to summon a small portal for the sword to move through, and came through the other side of her and struck a rather hard piece of debris. She was in shock, and breathed heavily. The sword was loosened by the artillery fire and managed to be pulled out.
The large crystal she has just grown through Dad began cracking and soon exploded with an intense force. Dad was seen standing up and limping, clutching his lower belly from the pain he just endured. Using his psychic power, he draws the sword back towards him, together with the debris stuck on it.
“You are persistent, eh? I will give you points for that.” ‘Slash’ mocked.
“I will only die when you die.” Dad threatened.
“Haha! Let the games begin~”
A pair of ribbons come out again. Dad slashes through all. Portals form all around them, firing rockets at him. His prototype armour then fired up time slow again, and he quickly dodged multiple of them. Things didn’t last long though, and his tome slow faded away. Rockets began accelerating toward him again. Having less time to react, he then used his last line of defence: his greatsword. He stuck out his greatsword as a shield against the explosions, and absorbed the kinetic energy. Each swing he dealt against ‘Slash’ made her flinch a few times. ‘Slash’ summoned a dual blade and hence became a sword fight. The large debris that was on Dad’s greatsword retained most of the kinetic power absorbed by the sword itself.
As Dad came in with a large hit, ‘Slash’ released a huge shock wave that shook the whole battlefield and pushed Dad back.
‘Slash’ laughed maniacally. “The nerves of you! Time to seal your fate.”
She began summing a gigantic portal, opening laser fire Dragon Ball Z style towards Dad. As a response, Dad lept i to the air and faced his blade down, deflecting and absorbing the intense energy blasted at him. It was now gravity and Dad’s resilience versus the Divinity of Destruction’s extreme energy pulse.
As he met with intense light flashing before his eyes, images of his life soon flashed.
“I must,” he thought,
“Fight for all that is good in the world.”
As he used up any final strength he had left to resist and…
The realm soon opened above the Boston Labs. Shattered into pieces, like snow drifting from the sky. What’s left of dad and that battlefield is no more. Or so anyone thought.