The sharp-legged Frame threw Black Star's pierced chassis aside, and was about to charge, but hesitated when Yeager suddenly activated it's overboosters, and with the highest acceleration possible; a suicidal move. The enemy pilot didn't even have a chance to blink before Yeager tackled the enemy, accompanied by the sound barrier breaking as Yeager went past the speed of sound, and the two flew straight towards the Tower of Power. The collision was enough to shake the tower, despite being designed to endure a nuclear blast, and in the resulting impact both Framewerks broke, with the enemy's thin limbs squashed and twisted and Yeager's upper body bent from shoulder to shoulder backwards, resutling in a view of the sky for Rooney, who was promptly knocked unconscious while bleeding from his forehead, having endured enough forces that even the plugsuit was not enough to protect him. Lorenzo didn't even blink when he disabled the fast Frame after its one last dash.

Caretaker attempted to close the distance between itself and the Black Komodo even while crippled, and it turned out as ineffective as one could have guessed: It dodged Caretaker's rifle shots while easily keeping the distance between them, and destroyed the drone cluster with sweeps of its chainsword, ripping them to metallic shreds. At the same time, it started charging it's deadly Tri-Lazer, as could be seen by the three guns protruding from its shoulder glowing brighter and brighter. However, just as it was about to unleash its ace in the hole it was suddenly struck with Rostosov's cruise missile. The detonation overloaded the Tri-Lazer, and Black Komodo was disintegrated by the energy discharge, causing Caretaker to fall over from the shockwave, unable to get up due to the lost leg.

The Emperor held up its shield, and defended against Dynasty's blaster shots. It was then that Lora made a bold move; it picked up the Blade of Hope, a symbol of courage and determination, and despite the Framewerk's rejecting of the weapon she swung it straight at its melted midsection where its armor was weakest, delivering justice with a blue flame. She was not alone in this moment of magnitude; Serah used the Imperator field's magnetic pull combined with her thrusters to propel itself at high speed against the enemy, and the two edges clashed as they pierced the enemy simultaneously. The Emperor suddenly turned limp, its pilot seemingly killed, and fell once again, this time for good.

The Black Framewerk was seemingly infuriated, and unleashed a salvo of electrified high-penetration slugs from its over-sized gun straight at Atty; the Framewerk would have been ripped apart at that instant were it not for the wing barriers that managed to absorb some of the salvo before they were also overloaded, not unlike what happened between Rostosov and the previous wielder of the Blade of Hope. Atty's armor was rent, it's thrusters destroyed and most systems informing of being close to shutting down, but still capable of fighting for just a couple of minutes more.

Paladin, despite having been blinded, continued to fight as Ariin believed in Elora's data and himself, and made the most insane of maneuvers; he actually opened the hatch of his Framewerk and looked up at the ace Framewerk who was about to take another shot at him, quite realistically killing him right then and there if it wasn't for the awe-inspiring barrage that he unleashed with Pompey, causing it to overheat to the point of partially melting, beyond use. Irina was prepared for the six shots that she already saw coming, and jumped, but she was still struck by a couple of the shots; one glanced off her right shoulder causing a fracture on the armor that travelled down the arm, and another got Sköll's GAR. The weapon's form was broken and contorted as a result. 

"Aargh! Now you're gonna get it!" Irina screamed in comms, and Sköll threw the weapon away. 
She decided it was time to draw upon Sköll's true potential, and activated the Frame's special ability, Sword of Terra. The Frame drew MORS from it's back with the grace and agility of a ninja, and proceeded to cut down Paladin's durable armor with speed that was difficult to follow with the naked eye; the blade was handled with inhuman swiftness that should have been impossible by the laws of physics, but Irina showed off how capable she was. Paladin's legs first fell separately to the ground, followed by the torso, arms, and finally the head. Lorenzo chuckled at the sight, and deactivated Paladin. "You go, girl. Hee hee heh!" 

Irina then pointed her sword straight at Rostosov, and Irina laughed in the comms. "You're next, Knight's Cross. Oh, I've been waiting to whack around a war hero. Even the thought makes me [i]hot[/i]!" Then, she flipped through the air in a somersault, about to make more fillet with the expertise of a master chef. It all came down to the next few seconds whether Team Sigma would win or lose, with the battle coming to a climax.