Jeff's spheres were absolutely decimated by the waved of Ki, having no impact on their velocity or composition. Liekwise, the flame saw that fell from the skies was far too fast to notice and react to in time. Jeff's sniper shot missed, but Jenso's Ki coated hands were just barely able to catch it successfully. The saw ground against his hands, piercing through his layer of Ki slightly, and cutting his palms. Of course, the sheer force of the attack prevent Jenso from moving, keeping him pinning down, lest he wanted it to strike him directly. Fortunately, Jeff was able to evade Dacer's attack with ease, but the cat-like Gaian was now on the move towards the pinned-down golden hero, reeling his claws back as he bounded forwards, in an attempt to slice him apart.

With the sniper shot downright missing its, target Jeff seemed to be nervous at first, but then let out a sigh of relief that the Golden hero was at least able to catch it. Still the wind sage would have to act fast as that wouldn't save Jenso for long with Dacer charging in at him. Jeff quickly shot his hand out towards the sniper shot and had it change direction mid air in order for it to resume its original objective. Between Jeff applying focus to the bullet to increase it's speed and direction while Jenso was now literally holding the saw in place, dispersing the saw would only take a mater of seconds.

With his free hand, the wind sage slashed his nanoblade downwards at Dacer, sending a large burning wind scythe down to cut off his approach to Jenso. The mirage merely floated next to the real one, by ready to guard Jeff with the orb it had hidden inside itself.

Jenso grit his teeth as he held the flame saw in place, waiting for Jeff's shot to pierce it's center as it came at him. After all, his shot was incredibly fast, and wouldn't take long to pierce it. He decided to put his trust in his friend, not wanting to take any risks with it. He tried to look as paniced as possible, not wanting Dacer to give up on his assault. "Shit...I can't...stop it..!" He muttered, in an act of fear. He began to channel more energy into the ground through his feet despite being unable to move, shifting his foot ever so slightly without changing his stance. The newly channeled flames and the flames from the two previous moments when he channeled flames began to combine together behind Dacer as Jeff moved to cut off Dacer's frontal assault, and Jenso spoke.

"Vulcano."

A MASSIVE, giant geyser of white flames erupted violently from the ground under and behind Dacer, far wider than a regular geyser could do. It would engulf Dacer entirely if he didn't act in time, as streams erupted from it's top and launched streams of white flames and flame balls all over the immediate vicinity, while all of it simply phased through Jeff and Jenso.

Dacer stopped short of Jeff's attack, and watched as the sniper-shot curved around and collided with Jenso's omega saw. Upon contact, the spinning disk fluttered to a stop, and spread outwards harmlessly in a display of white flames that singed Jenso's hands. Two thick cuts were now lining the center of the hero's palms, but Dacer had something else to deal with himself. As the ground burst up, he jumped upwards, and away from the eruption as quickly he could. Dacer landed nearby, forced to hop from right to left, landing on his feet each and every time as he flipped through the air. It became clear to him that the bottoms of his paw-like feet were burned, as each bounding leap sent a small shock through his soles.

Jenso took deep breaths as the saw dissipated, and overlooked his wounds. He frowned as he felt the pain emerge from his palms. "Thanks, Jeff...you really saved me there." Jenso stated, not keeping his eyes off Dacer for even a second. He slammed his left foot into the ground, as a white flame wall emerged from the ground and moved at Dacer while channeling energy into the ground with his right foot. He took a combat stance, calmly waiting to see how Dacer would respond as he coated his fists in Arki again. He lost a good chunk of energy after the technique he'd performed, so he needed to be cautious.

"I'm sorry for what Lark did, Dacer...or rather, for what he didn't do. But being merciful isn't always a bad thing, just like being too merciful isn't always a good thing. Some people change after their bad deeds, and some people don't. That's just how it is. I have no intention of letting Ada live this time, if I end up fighting her again, though I'm sure the others have it handled."

Jeff gave his buddy a thumbs up as he began to once more recharge his wind cannon gauntlets. "No probs" He grinned as he caught some of the flames being erupted added them to the charging wind cannon once again. He also took the moment to form 2 more wind mirages once more and place nano orbs inside of them while having the previous ones that were used up fly back into his backpack to recharge for further use later. "Can't say I have much to add on this whole Lark conversation tho, but I can say that we don't plan on leaving any order members alive. Especially Yzera."

Dacer ignored Jenso and stood up, exerting a cold aura around his feet to somewhat soothe the burn, while simultaneously freezing the grass around where he stood. The flame wall that headed for him suddenly burst outwards and dissipated, showing Dacer with his foot risen, as if he's just kicked at it. The air of the explosion was cold, like a winter breeze. Jenso's words went ignored, and the Gaian charged towards him. His eyes widened for a moment, and he smiled. With one hand, he slashed at Jenso, released a large multi-wave of Ki from his claws, but immediately afterwards, his figure flickered, and he disappeared. Jenso felt his back curve under the weight of Dacer's foot, which sent a frosty surge of energy through his already torn-open back, while also launching him into the waved of Ki that headed towards him from ahead. In the same moments, every single one of Jeff's clones were dispatched, and Dacer's figure appeared in front of him. The catlike man's eyes widened, and he looked down, as if surprised by something. He shrugged it off and slashed at Jeff, point-blank, unleashing yet another wave of energy.

Jenso grit his teeth in pain as he felt Dacer's kick strike his back, briefly glancing over his shoulder to acknowledge Dacer's new position. The flames in his body responded immediately to clash with the cold aura at his wounds, to heat up the injured area immediately.

The flames in his body responded and a surge of white flames allowed him to land onto the ground as he slid forwards towards the wave of Ki while unable to stop his current momentum. Jenso shifted his body sideways as he focused his Arki around his right fist alone to make it more powerful, lowering his body to avoid taking as much of the blast head-on as he could, and thrusted his right fist forwards as a powerful explosion of Ki erupted from his fist, aiming to blast the Ki away that headed for him along with the sheer force of his punch.

The sage's eyes widened as he saw his clones dissipated once again, but smirked as it seemed to leave the orbs inside them intact. Not hesitating on the moment of Dacer appearing in front of him, the sage set the orbs off sending a bright flash of light into the cat man's eyes while the other began to screech out sending out various high pitch sound waves which would echo especially well seeing how Dacer currently hat enhanced cat hearing. Thankfully the visor he wore was ready and blocked the flashes of light and the waves of sound making him downright immune to it. Jenso was out of range of the flash from effecting him but his visor still blocked out the loud sound bursts.

Even with the double dose of stuns being lashed out at Dacer, it wasn't enough to stop the blast of ki that was to come at Jeff when Dacer ultimately appeared right in front of him. With the attack's speed and the point blank range, attempting to dodge, even with his speed would prove to be ultimately futile. This left the scientist with one option as he flung his arm out towards the blast leaving afterimages with the swift movements as he went to clash with his nanoblade which was coated in his ki and boosted by Jenso's white flames. The sage thought back to with his side training with Bruce and the advice he had given the wind sage on how to handle a blade.

As the sage's ki clashed with the Gaian's, the sage shifted his body to the side of the attack while holding his arm in place before swinging it with the motion of Dacer's attack and launching it downwards towards the ground. Jeff then going with the motion of his movement before pulled his right hand inwards while building up ki in the grappling hook part of his gauntlet. The sage then jabbed his arm outwards in a straight line towards Dacer and fired out the grappling part towards the feline's chest. Unlike how it regularly worked, the chain and claw fired out in a stiff straight line due to the ki pulsing through it thus making it act as a spear tipped lance which would attempt to piece Dacer in the chest and then grapple him almost like harpoon would with a speared fish.

Jenso's attempt to counter Dacer's Ki was successful. The explosive punch, unlike much of what Jenso had used in the past, shattered the 4 parallel ki waves and left him safe. Jeff, meanwhile, had somehow managed to deflect the attack directed at him. The soundwaves and light, overbearing in nature, forced Dacer's senses into overdrive. His slit-like pupils narrowed and he closed his eyes as a barrage of sound attacked his ears. Jeff's hookshot struck him right in the chest, just as planned, and embedded itself tightly.

Dacer flailed for a moment, pushed all the way to the ground by the lance of energy. With both claws he reached out, and grabbed the chain-linked hook, taking hold of whatever Ki remained in the hook shot, and making it his own. The attack's piercing properties faded as Dacer's feet touched the ground, and with his claws, he shattered the chain. A moment after, he ripped the hook from his chest, revealing a shallow wound that bled beneath his green aura. Dacer panted heavily and looked down at his legs, and then to Jeff, with a sincere fury burning brightly in his emerald eyes. One of his hands began to glow pink, after which, he began to sprint in circles around Jenso, each time his foot landed.

Before Dacer could even slice the chain apart, Jeff had seperated the links in order to prevent Dacer's ki from spreding into it and getting into his gauntlet. As the wind sage retracted what was left of the chain back into his gauntlet, the orbs of nanobots returned to Jeff and began to change shapr yo replace the claw and chain that was seperated from him. Dacer might had managed to damage his tech a little with that, but the sage smriked reguardless as his plan of attack even still wasn't quite finished just yet.

Even with Dacer replacing the ki that consumed his broken bit of chain, the arcane powered nanobots that were apart of it managed to release some of themselves into the wound that was created and slowly made there way to explosed nerves that could be reached and thus readied for Jeff's upcomming orders. And while Dacer's ki managed to stop some of the nanobots, plenty would have scatteres in the wound before he had a chance to do so.

At this point, Jeff could see Dacer getting angry along with actions which seemed to be considered by the wind sage as desperation. "And here I thought you we're always a fan of my technology Dacer!" The sage mocked as he did his best to avoid or block the ki blasts with his nanoblade like he did just moments before. "You were the one that inspired me to push it this far! So you can only blame yourself for what comes next, my friend!"

The sage took note of the pink hand that was ripping through the ground as well and easily deduced that being in the center for too much longer was most likely a terrible idea. Waiting for an opening between his attacks, Jeff then snapped his fingers causing the nanos latched onto his nerves to attack them and thus send sharp signals of pain through the felines body, attempting to slow him down long enough to potentially create an opening for Jenso and a chance for him to launch himself out of the circle at full speed.

Jenso smirked as Jeff managed to land a blow, having used the time that Dacer had pulled out Jeff's weapon from his body to close the distance. As he began to draw a circle around himself and Jeff, Jenso coated his hands in Arki. He dashed beside Jeff, using his fists to deflect Dacer's Ki slashes as well while attempting to move out of the drawing. With Jeff's help, he hoped to escape, hoping Dacer would slow down long enough due to the nano's.

He aimed his right fist at the ground. A Ki image Punch erupted from his hand, which he launched into the center of what Dacer was drawing while allowing Jeff to deflect any Ki slashes that would come close in the meantime. It smashed into the ground equal to Jenso's sheer strength, creating large cracks in the ground that kept expanding outwards in all directions, aiming to disrupt the drawing that Dacer was drawing with his claw in the ground, and to knock him off-balance. He shifted his left foot quickly, and the flames he'd channeled in the ground before turned into a flame whip, as it's end lashed out and aimed to wrap around Dacer's arm near the ground, and his feet to stop him in his tracks while the rest of the flame whip remained stuck firmly within the ground.

Dacer's body didn't allow the nanobots to exist for long. When the slightest pain radiated through his chest, Dacer place a hand over his wound and sent a pulse of Ki through himself, exterminating the bots that lay inside. This didn't stop his bounding leaps, however. He continued to encircle Jeff and Jenso, cutting off the path they'd chosen to escape through. He was only able to get in front of Jenso, however, ignoring the ground's quake with his dexterity. Even further, as soon as Jenso's flame whip touched his foot, it began to curl up his leg like a snake, until it was yanked up from the ground, and launched back at Jenso as soon as Dacer cut off his possible escape route, overpowered by Dacer's Ki on contact. Dacer himself Swiped with his free hand, while still slashing at the ground with his other, firing a series of electrical claw-beams at Jenso.

Jenso glared at Dacer as he got in his way, forming Ki within his right hand. It took the shape of a spear with super-focused Ki, and he tossed it forwards to pierce straight through the flame whip, and clenched his fist as it made it's way into the center of the series of Arcane- electrified beams, to detonate it and to create a large shockwave of Ki to straight up eradicate the lightning before it got close as he began to back away to avoid any of the lightning from lashing out at him. He glared at Dacer as he continued slashing at the ground. Whatever he was preparing, it couldn't be anything good, and he didn't want to be anywhere near it once Dacer was finished. Pij emerged from his chest, and he rose his hands as the bird landed on his palms.



He spoke, as a massive orange light emerged from his being. As he reappeared, Jenso had large flame wings made out of phoenix flames, and razor sharp talons extending over his hands. The claw marks on Jenso's back healed completely, while the injuries on his palms remained but were shallow now as they were to deep to heal entirely. Jenso soared towards the edge, feigning as if he would fly over Dacer in hopes to fake him out. Suddenly, he made a sharp turn to the right instead, slamming his wings together to create a thick smoke screen near Dacer as he attempted to dive out of the circle from another angle, hoping the smoke would be enough to momentarily blind him.

The wind sage shurged as the nanobot he were wipped out faster then he thought they would be. Overall he hadn't expectes too much out especially seeing how so few got into Dacer's body, but he would have hoped for a slight stronger reaction from it. 'Trial and error... gonna need much larger bursts of nanobots if they are to do anything on the Order guys' The sage thought to himself as he continued dashing until he felt safely out of range.

Seeing Jenso's One with Nature form appear Jeff could only expect that this would make Dacer downright have Jenso be his primary target for the next few moments. Doing his best to help his friend make some distance from the feline, the sage proceeded to fire off a couple of wind cannon sniper rounds attempting to cut off Dacer's approach on the golden hero.

The sudden transformation made Dacer Grin. "There she is," He muttered to himself, "This fight is over." Dacer didn't care what Jenso was doing, or what direction he planned on heading in. As soon as Pij emerged, he bent forwards and slammed both of his hands down against the ground. Suddenly, every point that he'd touched the ground began to light up, creating a wall of pink light around Jenso in a crooked circular pattern. Dacer's ears perked up, and he shifted his shoulders twice. The sniper shots headed for him, missed slightly, one grazing his left shoulder, and the other striking the ground in front of him. Fortunately, he wasn't midair, or moving. The feline Gaian looked up briefly to see Jenso charging him, and grasped the dirt beneath him tightly.



Both of Dacer's hands sparked with electricity, sending small jolts into the area in front of him. In an instant, the elemental energy was amplified, and with a thunderous roar, every square inch of air within the amplification field was covered by a series of electrical surges that ripped up from the ground, all the way to the sky. Dacer stood up and stepped back, waiting for his ongoing lightning storm to subside, turning his sights on Jeff instead.

"That's gonna go on for a while," Dacer grunted, "How about we catch up in the meantime?" He looked down at the cut on his shoulder, and then shifted his eyes back towards Jeff with a smile.

As soon as Dacer slammed both of his hands down to create the barrier, Jenso's eyes widened and realised that the technique was finished. He landed and used the flames within his body to spun around rapidly clock-wise as he wrapped his wings around himself as a shield, creating spiraling gusts of wind to keep as much of electricity from hitting his body. He slammed his fists together at the same time, unleashing a powerful shockwave of Ki to clash with the first incoming waves of electricity while standing near the edge of the purple light to avoid taking as much of the electricity as possible.

After doing so, the electricity struck Jenso's wings, and he fell on one knee, gritting his teeth in pain as he was unable to move yet.

The sage grit his teeth in anger once more as he watched Jenso goy downright caught in the Royal Amp, overall he knew Jenso could tank the hit though, especially with One With Nature's power blazing with him now.

Hearing Dacer taunt him the sage smirked at him before leting out an excited if not slightly nervous laugh. "And here I thought you were just gonna rant on about Lark and Jenso all day. Way to leave a best friend left out ya know"

Jeff took the moment to recharge his wind cannons once again and let chain finally finish reforming from the extra nanobots at his disposal. With that however, his use of them was now limited to 2 spheres ay a time or one big booster item. At least without the tower sending in more supplies or grabbing some from the bag of holding that Bruce held onto.

'With him able to match my speed, and me running out of tricks this fights gonna get tricky fast.. I better find a way to end this quick, rather not be forced to use that just yet though..'

Dacer grinned and stepped forwards, stumbling slightly before stamping both of his feet into the ground to strengthen his stance. "Pshaww, best friend. You're gonna make me blush, kiddo," Dacer mocked, brandishing his claws. His eyes looked back at the ongoing thunderstorm behind him. With Jenso stuck inside, he wouldn't be able to move until it was finished raging, if he could even move after that. He looked back at Jeff. "You were just the first guy with any potential for Ki control I came across. If it wasn't you, it could've been anyone else. Truth of the matter is, I found you pretty goddamn obnoxious. If I wasn't planning on using you, there's no way in hell I would've done anything to protect your stupid village." Dacer rubbed his thumb-claw together with his index-claw, producing a small pink spark. "'Course none of that crap matters now. Things have changed pretty significantly since then. I've got some new goals now. The first of which..." Dacer's body flickered and his royal amp fell apart, revealing Jenso, partly immobile nearby. Dacer disappeared, and reappeared in front of Jenso, pinning his body to the ground, neck-first, and holding him in place.

"...Involves taking this back!"

Suddenly, Jenso's body was overcome with a familiar warmth. A memory grasped to his consciousness, ripping away at the scene around him. Lark stood over a slightly younger Dacer, with his hand grasping the boy's shoulder firmly. He muttered something incoherent. Dacer slapped his hand away, and punched his father in the stomach as hard as he could manage. Then he ran, tears streaming down his cheeks as Lark watched quietly, clutching his abdomen with one hand. The memory faded, as did the warmth of his transformation. Pij squawked loudly, over and over, until her voice was squashed by darkness. The scene around Jenso returned. His wings faded, and the flames that encompassed him burned out. Dacer chuckled, and let go of Jenso's throat. In an instant, Pij had been stolen from him, along with all of the energy that Lark had gifted Jenso on his deathbed. Dacer stood over the still-paralysed Jenso and turned to Jeff, grinning confidently. In a single moment, one of the hero's most powerful weapons was taken away.

Jenso's one with nature transformation was no more.

Ada's army had gone completely sluggish. Everything ran to tackle Atlas head on with little to no plan, leaving Jenso and Jeff to Dacer, and Alvios to Vale. The clones began to lose their unique forms, instead becoming sludge-like drones that looked more and more like one another- And army of semi-sentient blobs. It was of course, related to Ada's new choice of combat. She rode around on a wave of her sludge, tapping the heel of her right shoe to a nonexistent beat as she watched the display, slowly rising higher and higher as she circled Atlas. Oswald was left behind, but he had his own issues to deal with as well. Some of the sludge monsters moved towards him as well, looking to cover him up entirely. As they moved in close, their bodies melted into small tidal waves of purple ooze, in a series of attempts to encompass him entirely. Ada smiled and laughed aloud.

"Ohohoho! Can you feel it now? Ignorant little whelps, the lot of you!" She roared towards Atlas. Her eyes shifted towards Oswald and her smile shrank to a grin. "Show me a good time, hon. It's been so long since my last dance off."