"Enemies on the way? What do you mean?" Rojo bolts to the double-door window, his eyebrows shooting up as he spots a squadron of armed soldiers charging toward them. "Shit! There's so many of them!"
"Wow, then we're screwed. There's no way we'll be able to get out of this safely since there are only four of us," says Soma.
"Yeah, that's a big help, asshat, way to boost team morale," says Rojo.
The pounding footsteps grow loud and louder as they approach the door. The soldiers finally arrive at the door, and they unleash a relentless volley of blast bolts toward it, shaking with each blast as the latch loosens. "Ah! They're breaking that door down! What are we going to do?!" says Rojo.
As the situation becomes more dire, Jax searches the environment for anything to ward off the enemy's attack. "I have to find somethin' to keep these guys from us, but what?" His eyes light up upon seeing a large black pipe from which white gas is spewing and angling downward due to it being partially detached. "There!" Jax turns his attention to his comrades. "Hey guys, get back!" The doors burst open with the Goblins charging their blasters, readying them to kill the cadets. Jax aims his Ion blaster at the detached pipe and fires a blast bolt toward its jointed area. As soon as the pipe hits the ground, a sudden burst of air thrashes around, sending the soldiers flying meters away.
"Good job, man! Now I have time to set up my emergency shield!" says Rojo.
"Any time! Now, get that shield set. There's no tellin' when those guys will be back!"
"I'm already on it!" Rojo removes a tiny device from his utility belt and sets it on the ground. He nudges a blue button, and an immense blue shield envelopes the area. "Good, this should hold them off for a while," Rojo glances up at Yuki and lets out a loud, sharp whistle, signaling him to look over. "Yo! Are you almost done yet?!"
Yuki removes his headphones and gives Rojo a perplexed look. "What did you say?"
"I asked are you done yet?!"
"No! I still have a lot of coding to do!" Yuki's fingers fly over the keyboard as he continues his hack into the motherboard system, and then, a deafening alarm blares throughout the room. "Alert, Alert! V.M.I Detected! Activating Firewall!" Yuki slams his hand on his desk, causing the computer to shake. "Oh Fucking come on!"
"That didn't sound good! What's happenin'?" asks Jax.
"The damn system detected the V.M. I. Now I have to break through the firewall!"
"No way!"
"It's alright. I'll have to take longer hacking the code."
The sound of footsteps and Ion blasters charging grow louder, and they get closer to the door. "Well, I don't think we have much longer, Yuki! You might wanna hurry," says Rojo.
Yuki lets out an exasperated grunt, his eyes blazing with fury as he glares at Rojo. "Will you shut the hell up, you ugly ass rat! I know we don't have much time!"
Soma bursts into hysterical laughter at Yuki's insult. "He got you good with that one!"
"Oh, shut up, second place!" says Rojo.
"At least I got in second place! Last time I checked, you barely made it through!"
"Well, at least my rich daddy didn't get me through here! You freaking leecher."
"Guys, stop. With all this arguin' Yuki can't even do what he needs to do with y'all yellin' at each other."
"Alright, Jax, I'll do that, but only for you," Rojo's eyes lock onto Yuki, filled with a smoldering resentment. "But that ugly ass rat comment. I'll get you back for that one, Yuki."
"Sure you will…" Yuki proceeds, hacking until a ding beeps on his laptop. "Sweet! I broke through the firewall. Now it's time to deactivate this enhancer!" As Yuki continues to hack, the machine's shield takes a beating from a barrage of Ion blast bolts, and the number on the side of the device decreases rapidly.
Rojo feels a cold sweat trickle down his forehead. "Damn, I don't know how long these shields can resist this fire."
"Ok, guys, I'm almost done!"
"Good, 'cause these shields are down below forty percent!"
"Almost there!"
As the motherboard computer approaches its end, the blast bolts fire with greater intensity, causing the shield to crumble further. "Shields are at 20%!"
The enhancer shuts down, and the hum it emits fades away. "Yes! We did it!" Rojo's emergency shield disappears, leaving them vulnerable to incoming enemy fire. "Guys, look out!" said Jax. As the impending doom approaches, their eyes widen in fear.
We now go to the POV of Overlord within a stone-structured cylindrical floating space station with the apocalyptic mounted against the wall and penetrating through the top of it. The interior parts of the station are like an arena, similar to the ones on Molorx. Overlord presses his pager. "What's the update on the battle?"
"Sir, all three super specimens have been defeated, and the enhancer has lost its charge. What should we do? Should we retreat?"
"No... those brats tampering with that enhancer will be taken out quickly by the squadron coming from them. That squadron patrolling that station even took out an elite Ozanian warrior. A group of weak Academy cadets will be nothing. And regarding the enhancer, the squadron has an energy repair device for V.M.I. hacking damage."
"Well, that's good. Where will the coordinates be aimed at?"
"I've triangulated it to aim for the Capital world and Evac-12. The current place where most Ozanian citizens stay at right now. And I have another request..."
"What is it, sir?"
"On Molorx, tell our soldiers to evacuate the planet."
"Why?"
"All across the planet, we scattered it with smaller devices with the same energy at AC-X. In a couple of minutes, the entire planet will be destroyed."
"Yes, sir. Do you require anything else?"
"No, you may continue to carry out your duties."
Overlord clenches his pager so tight that it shatters in his hand. "Useless soldiers. I knew I couldn't depend on them. Even though they were granted ultimate power, they let themselves get defeated by brats. But, even with that setback, it won't stop me... For ages, I've yearned for this moment and gone through constant alteration so I could be strong enough to do this." Overlord clasps his fists so tight green blood oozes from them. "I can't let it be in vain! For it is my desire..."
"To see Ozania crumble!!" Declares Overlord.