Alvios tucked his own mask into a jacket pocket. He was a little skeptical on how useful it would actually be, but Jeff was right; blocking a cheap shot could turn a battle's tide. No sense in letting any resource go unused right now anyway, since this was the now-or-never moment for their entire existence. He had sat back down to think about it some, but a nagging thought intruded: 'Did he say airborne...?

Fast forward to after takeoff, and Alvios was sitting back at the table, arms folded, muttering to himself. "I better not have been the only one who didn't know this castle could fly--oh!" Alvios straightened himself as Jenso approached, smiling at his comrade. "Something tells me that it's you by our side that's going to win this fight for us, Jenso. Still, doesn't change the fact; we'll make these bastards repent for all of their atrocities."

Alvios rose from his chair and leaned against the table for a moment, raising an eyebrow in curiosity. "So, that archer I fought, you said his name was Dacer? Friend of yours? If so, hope he isn't too irate about me stabbing him through the leg after we save him."

"I reckon that boy'll be on his hands and knees thanking us when we wrest him from that witch's grasp," Luke interjected, slowly hobbling his way across the war-room. Looked like he was joining the fight as well, despite the fact that he wasn't too capable. He glanced at Jenso, pulling the strap on his newly-constructed lightning rifle with a sly smirk. "Good to see that we seem in high spirits, at any rate."

Jenso smirked confidently at Alvios's response. He was about to reply as Luke interjected, and smiled at his father as he readied his rifle. "Yeah, no point being down about this, right? Let's give it our best!" He shouted. "Dacer is powerful, though. I haven't seen his One with Nature form yet...but if he fuses with his pet cat Tiger, we might have a serious problem. We've already had trouble dealing with Dacer in the past in his regular form, but if he transforms..." He muttered, pausing for a moment. "Well, it won't be easy. But I know we can do it! That, or simply stall long enough so Adarine's candle can be destroyed." He added.

"Maybe he can't use it while being controlled by Adarine? It seems like whatever kind of assault they launched yesterday, if they planned on trying to pick off one or two of us, having Dacer exert his maximum potential would have made the most sense." Alvios closed his eyes, taking a breath as he mused over it. "Once it was noted that Dacer wasn't against someone who knew him, retaining his personality was a waste. Two-versus-one against people who weren't killed by the first shot, One With Nature. Only then would I have made the decision to recall him, or let him die. Better for them if he dies than we rescue him and gain another ally."

Alvios let out the breath, opening his eyes and smiling again. "Sorry, I shouldn't be talking about your friend as a weapon like that, I'm just trying to understand why. If they believe so much in their overwhelming power, they should have taken care to either wipe us out full-force, or they shouldn't have cared enough to attack at all. Especially if they planned on doing this reality-destroying bit today anyway."

Alvios paused for a bit, and chuckled some. "Listen to me, going on like a tactician. I sound like my father. That's right... my father, my sister... Melina... guess they're all out there, wondering why the world is ending. Hope I'll be able to go back and tell them this hero's tale, once this is over."

Jenso listened closely to Alvios's words, and nodded. "Hey, all the information helps, right? Strategizing on how we should do things and how the enemy is likely to act and think isn't a bad idea." Jenso calmly responded to Alvios. "You do have a point, though. When we manage to defeat Dacer, we need to make sure he can't kill himself. Ada loves to torture people and to mess around with them, so there's a good possibility that she'll have him do that, just to make us feel miserable. We'll have to restrain him properly.." He responded to Alvios.

Alvios paused, his smile fading a bit. "Hmph. Adarine torturing people. What she's done still feels insignificant compared to when I first met Shaidra. When I fought her and Yzeira showed up, he didn't hesitate. Brought me to the brink of death, and killed almost everyone in the village while I was forced to watch. And then left me there, like I wasn't worth his time." His hands tightened into fists for a moment, but he kept composure. "It's become about more than revenge by now, but haunted by that masked man consoling that child-murdering girl while he laid waste to everything around him... it still chills my blood at night."

"That attitude of his..." Luke brought his hand up and squeezed the side of his jaw, looking off into the corner of the room. "If he's strong enough to scoff at people like Lark and Jenso as if they're nothing, and he's reasonable enough to offer Jenso some level of uh... Compromise, well. Yeah, why are we still alive?" He turned to Alvios. "Have any of them been taking us seriously up until this point? That attack yesterday, From the sounds of it, Zelriane and Rajaka were holding back intentionally. Are they still... Toying with us?"

Jenso nodded at Alvios, somewhat surprised to hear that Yzeira would console Shaidra. It was unlike how Zelriane had acted towards her. "Back at Feraldia, when I ripped Rajaka's arm off and Lark cut his other arm off, Yzeira appeared with Shaidra to get Rajaka and Zelriane out of there. I believe that he sensed that Rajaka was taking serious damage, hence why he came over with Shaidra. Which means he truly does care about his 'so-called' family." Jenso stated.

He revealed Zelriane's torn mask from his pocket for a moment. "I wonder how he'll respond when he sees this...if I can upset him like this, I may just get an opening. It would be dangerous, but it's not like he'd hesitate to try to kill me either way." Jenso added, and put the mask back into his pocket.

He turned to Luke and frowned. "Yeah...I don't know why Yzeira's so interested in me. He did say that he gave me the offer to join them because I beat Prisma though, even though I only managed to do that with Bruce's help. Alvios, Jeff, Bruce and Oz are all really strong, too.." He muttered, pausing for a moment. "Maybe they wanted to see how well we'd fare against them as a group while they kept holding back? Maybe they're being more cautious than we thought.."

Jeff for the most part remained silent making sure to keep the ship safely flying through the air while letting Alvios and Jenso talked about Dacer. He felt like he had parts he could have added to that conversation, but overall just kept it to himself in order to keep his cool, after all losing control of your emotions for a sage was pretty much a no go and a lot of the power that Jeff drew from it relied on knowing when and where to let them loose. He did perk up however upon them mentioning the fact of toying with them and scoffed at the remark.

"You know" The sage started to say butting himself in the conversation while still keeping his eyes on the screens. "They might have been toying with us during that fight, but it ended up playing out quite horribly for them cause of it. Pretty sure Bruce here had Zelraine nearly dead and while risky our plan to have Rajaka downright booted out of the realm went off without a hitch. Sure I did kinda get caught off guard by that one shot, but overall the only thing this did was give us more insight on how to prevent that from happening again."

Jeff then gripped his left hand tightly and let out one of his hearty laughs that he hadn't done and nearly a good forever by this point. "You know what?! Let them go ahead and underestimate us again! This time they won't have anywhere to run when we mop the floor with them!"

Alvios looked at Luke, furrowing his brow. "Maybe they don't know any better. They probably think it doesn't matter what they do here, or anywhere, because they can just cause Armageddon at a whim. A challenge frustrates them, but it doesn't matter because of their perceived absolute victory."

Alvios's mouth broke into a smirk, and he laughed alongside Jeff. "Maybe we can exploit that. Their pride, their arrogance, the side effects of being at their level of power. They either don't remember or don't even know what defeat is. Even defeating just one of them might remind all of them that being immortal and invincible are different. They could get reckless once that happens. It could all be a domino effect, as long as our resolve doesn't waver."

Jenso turned to Jeff as he spoke, smirking. "Let's show them that we're not to be messed with! Not anymore!" Jenso stated confidently, clenching his fists with a confident grin on his face. "They can underestimate us as much as they want, that'll only make it easier for us to kick their asses!" He added. "As long as we work together and believe in eachother's strengths, I know we can WIN!!"

Luke nodded and smiled. "Well when you put it like that, I guess there's no point in overthinkin' it too much," He concluded. Suddenly the entire room shook to a halt, jostling its passengers viciously as if it had just been struck by something big. "What the hell was that!?"

"Glad were on the same pa-" Jeff started to say before having the ship suddenly forced into a halt. "Well, hold that thought." With them closing in on the tower, he expected some sort of interference and thankfully now they were in close enough view in order to see the Tower of Chaos. Using the cameras the flying castle had at it's disposal, Jeff brought up a screen and had it zoom up more towards to the tower to thus get a better view on things, but then stopped as he caught sigh of a lone figure sitting in the field just before it.

Ada sat quietly, casually picking at her painted fingernails with the corner of her perfect smile as both eyes looked down at the grass in front of her, half closed. She hummed to herself and reached into a small pocket underneath her breasts, placed just above a small circular hole that revealed her midsection. The dress she wore clung to every curve like tight velvet. Her right forearm was covered with a loose sheet of see-through fabric as well, and her right leg was sticking out of the slit in her dress's skirt. He eyes darted up towards Jeff's camera, and she smiled, with her fingernail still between two of her teeth. She rose her other hand and offered them a petite wave.

The bottom sections of Jeff's flying castle had been clung to by large, gooey strands of purple ooze, thicker than towers and sturdy enough to hold the contraption in place. It came up in several criss-cross patterns as it continued to climb the sides of the giant flying fortress. The caslte was stuck over the edge of the forest that met the large plains at the tower's base. It was just like Mikey explained it, the battlefield was vast, at least a kilometer long, meeting a beach that stretched for what seemed like forever to the left. On the right, a large hill crept upwards, overlooking the ocean beneath it with the Tower Of Chaos standing on top, at least 100 stories high, like a paragon of doom.

Ada stood up and began to stretch her limbs. "Oh me oh my, look what the cat dragged in!" Ada shouted loudly, her voice echoing in the minds of everyone on board the Flying castle. Dacer suddenly hopped out from behind a large bush at the tower's base, the only cover available on the massive field of grass, with Tiger following closely behind in his enlarged form. He stood next to Ada, the wound in his left leg now only a faint scar, almost match the old wound through his right knee. "Tsk tsk tsk! After Ra'Ra's silly little plan failed, I figured it was about time to give my beloved a little nudge. Of course, here you are, like moths to the flame! Did the earthquakes start to rustle your itty-bitty hearts? Aw, so sowwy!" Ada frowned, and then smiled, cackling loudly through the minds of Jenso and his friends.

Luke reached out and grabbed everyone nearby by the collarbone. "We don't have time for this," Luke grunted, "Blup! Relay the plan!" The little blups on everyone's head began to bleep and bloop. Ada was still stretching while laughing maniacally.

"Our goal is to reach Yzeira, above all else. The fabric of reality will only be able to hold out for so long..."

Ada cracked her neck and rose her hands forwards, her fingers curved upwards like little knives, tipped with purple energy.

"We must locate Ada's Candle for Dacer as soon as possible. We stand to gain yet another extremely powerful ally,
while crippling Adarine. Jeff's castle and mechanized weaponry, robots, etc will have to assist us while assailing the exterior."

The temptress bent her fingertips down, and turned her hands so that the palms faced one another.

"While on the battlefield, try to remain close. Keep each other safe. Get to the tower, and dispatch of your enemies with due prejudice. Do not use more than one power pill in a 10 minutes time frame, or you will overcharge your body and your organs will fail."

Ada slammed her palms together, flexing her thin arms for a moment before thrusting one of her hands into the ground at her feet.

"Above all else, do not allow Ada to take control of you. Take advantage of the fact that she's alone. Do not hold back unless you absolutely need to conserve your energy. There are enough power pills in reserve for a long drawn out fight... We must-" Suddenly Blup's feed stopped, and the little robot went silent.

"Remember, kiddies! That stupid little robot was part of Mikey before you released him from my clutches. I don't think I'll be letting him say anything else, 'kay?" Ada's voice rang out. Suddenly, the ground beneath her began to shake across the entire plain. A massive stream of purple sludge rose up and coated it all, turning the once green sight, into an ocean of violet goop.

"Zay-Zay said I'm not allowed to hold back! So I won't."

Ada's expression went dark, and listless as a fountain of energy poured out of her being.



Heads, hands, weapons, armoured figures, mimicked copies of the other order members, Jenso, Bruce, Alvios, Oswald, and Jeff... Luke, Gol-Ira, Bobba, Sera, and even Geode... hundreds- No, more. Thousands of ooze clones rose between the flying castle, and the Tower of Chaos. Suddenly, in the flash of an eye, Ada had unleashed a sheer torrent of power incomparable to anything they'd ever seen before.

"Let's have some fun~"

Jenso nodded at the others. "Let's do it!!" He screamed, and dashed out of the room. A burst of flames erupted from his feet, launching him upwards and allowing him to land on the roof of one of the buildings. He crossed his arms. "Omega overheat.." He muttered, as he uncrossed his arms. His pupils turned into white flames and the rest of the flames became one with his body

He looked down upon the purple ooze as he began to channel flames into the ceiling with his feet. The white flames made their way down to the strands of purple ooze and created large walls of white flames at the bottom sections in an attempt to stop the ooze or at least buy the heroes some time to act.

He aimed the palms of his hands downwards at the ground that was covered in purple goo and launched a massive, focused torrent of white flames downwards in an attempt to secure a landing point for the heroes and to make a pathway towards Adarine.

"You think you can hold one of my machines that easily Ada? Maybe Blup, but you won't have my tower without a lot more effort!" Jeff taunted as he hit a few buttons on his tablet and the lower part of the castle that was slowly being consumed by Ada's purple began to glow a bright blue much like his machines would when he overclocked them.
"Behold, my castle defense tech..."

The tower then erupted with a huge blast of arcane energy that was designed to propel other forms of energy and mater alike while aiming to also downright obliterate anything that was stupid enough to be under the tower at that exact moment. The power itself came from various containers of energy he collected over the past year from his guild members along with drawing power from techmo despite it's current range. With both at his disposal, the tower would easily be good to launch various heavy attacks to keep protecting itself.

With that attack being said and done Jeff went to follow after Jenso in order to give him backup, though before hand he opening his communicator and called somebody that lied ready inside the ship. "Okay, I'm giving you weapon controls! Think you can handle that, dragon?"

The voice seemed to roar back at him in response but Jeff seemed to understand what it meant just fine and let out another grin. "Good, I'm counting on you."

Bruce snorted on the roof of the flying fortress, blinking rapidly and sitting upright. He'd dozed off ten minutes into his plotted fifteen for playing music, and Ada's voice echoing in his head woke him. He rolled onto his back and sprang to his feet, yawning once while he took stock. Blup's voice suddenly died, but it didn't affect him much- nothing he'd been saying was really new information.

He glanced down. While he was separate from the others and didn't have access to Jeff's camera for visuals, he put the pieces together quickly at the sight of purple spread out across the field.

"Hm. The harlot is first. All right..." he muttered, cracking his neck. The smirk he'd been sporting earlier returned, widening into a vaguely malicious smile. His soul was positively rattling, demanding a release.

'You've been very patient, Sakki.' Bruce thought, focusing his mind on the inherent connection he shared with the earth. Behind the airborne guild, the ground pulsed and shuddered. 'Here's your reward.'

In a few moments, what daylight could be seen from the sun, considering reality's state of falling apart, was blocked from view by a truly enormous mass of earth- trees with their whole network of roots, boulders, even a few streams of water had been lifted into the sky overhead as part of what could only be called an island of natural material. A twinkle of mayhem shone in Bruce's eyes, feeling the rush of manipulating it course through his body.

"So this is what it feels like to finally cut loose."

He hadn't even entered his sage state yet- he shivered with excitement.

The shape above the field could actually be heard hurtling through the air toward the tower. Material fell from it as it passed over Jeff's fortress, and that material took shape as it plummeted downward- colossi, numbering in the several dozens, bordering on hundreds, of all forms and descriptions rumbled with rocky battle cries as they rushed to meet Ada's army. Some resembled animal life on a larger scale, others merely titanic in stature, and a few could only be described as the alien forms only an overactive imagination could conjure.

Bruce laughed as freely as he'd ever done in his life. He sprinted forward, pitching his body over the side of the fortress and diving down into free fall toward their opponent.

A thought occurred to him when he saw Jeff's face whizz past on his way down, and he reached into his robe to pull out the phone they'd all been given and dialed the wind sage.

"Hey, Wild Card!" Bruce said, shouting above the air rushing past him. "Mind lending me that platform again?" Bruce glanced at the ground casually, which was approaching quickly. "Sometime before impact would be preferable."

Jeff immediately answered the phone and connected the two via the nano visors in order for them both to keep communication while having their hands free. Upon hearing him ask for the wind platform the sage just laughed for a moment before responding back while giving a massively excited grin. "I'll do you one better my friend! Open that bag of holding for a second!"

Emerging from the crate he had stashed in there not too long ago, a round, metallic hover board that was primarily composed of nanobots busted out from the bag and latched onto Bruce's feet ready for orders. "That one there should be able to do everything my wind platform could and then some! It can also use your ki to release weaponized bursts from the bottom which can be used to launch yourself upwards or as a weapon needed be. Figured it would help after seeing you fight on the other one last time!"

Alvios followed Jenso outside, jumping up onto the roof after him to look out at the army in front of them. Thousands large, covering every inch of area between the now-bound flying castle and the Tower, looming behind Ada. As Jenso leaped into the fray, he waited, looking out at the expanse. Some of the soldiers seemed familiar, although he couldn't tell exactly why from his vantage point. Instead, he looked past all of it, towards Ada.

'She's exposed herself, yet she seems to be sending this army after us. She said she wasn't holding back anymore either, which at this point, is safe to assume. Her position in the back is reasonable, but...defenseless. Why?'

Alvios paused for a moment, drawing his sword and cloaking himself in Ki in preparation to attack. He had a hunch, and pointed his sword forwards like the head of a cavalry, shouting to everyone who could hear.

"The witch is in the back! This puppet army is exactly that, puppets! She needs to focus to control them, which is why she hasn't surrounded herself defensively; she can't look behind her and in front of her at the same time to focus on different sections! Anything that is sufficient enough to take her attention off of her army, do it now!"