"Björn... Björn... Wake up my child..." A claiming voice echoes into the ears of an unconscious Björn, laying in his bed fast asleep.
"Björn..." The voice keeps calling out for Björn.
In a strange plane of existence, bright and white as far as the eyes can see, Björn finds himself walking towards a bright and golden light in the middle of it. Despite how much he walks, he seemingly cannot get any closer to it.
"Björn..." The voice calls out for him from the very golden light Björn is currently witnessing.
"Who are you...?" Björn asks with an immobilized expression.
"You must've heard of me... Your clan was my greatest worshiper after all..." The voice claims.
"S-S-Saint M-Michael...?" Björn asks hesitantly.
"Precisely... As you're the last of the very clan that loyally devoted itself to preaching my divinity... I am here to help you restore the glory of your late clan..." The voice, now revealed to be Michael, gently replies while the golden light gets more and more intense and warmer.
"B-but how!?" Björn asks yet another question.
"All I need is for you to say yes to me and accept the divine rebirth I bestow upon you..." Michael responds.
"Then yes... I accept your offer..." Björn replies in a lost voice.
Outside of this plane of bright light, back to the material universe, the sleeping Björn's eyes open to reveal glowing blue irises as his body floats in the air and a shadow of giant wings is cast onto the wall behind.
"At last... The faction of angels will be restored once again... And the apocalypse will resume..." Michael, now on Björn's body, speaks up.
"Impressive my lord." A shadowy figure's voice echoes through the room and noise of clapping could be heard.
"What insolence! My feats are no matter to be put an adjective on by a mere mortal! Especially in my presence! Come on out, Sina! End this cowardice and show me that wretched face of yours." Michael asserts in a demeaning tone of voice.
"I see. So you know my name. Quite an honor that word of my actions have reached out to you, severing through the barrier of heaven itself." Sina replies while stepping into the room to reveal his face even more clearly.
"Don't make me laugh. The existence of a mere mortal is of no significance in angelic matters. I can read through the minds of anyone I come across and get to know of all their memories instantaneously. I know what you are and what you intend to do. And rest assured, as long as I'm here, you wouldn't wanna try any of that." Michael replies to Sina with his glowing blue eyes while showing up in front of him at a speed that could only be described as if no time had passed at all.
"But you could be of use to me regardless. And if you promise to work for me, the returns will be of divine value. And you'll achieve what you've desired all your life. So how about it? Or you could just die right here and now although I think my proposal is within your best interest regardless." Michael continues.
"It would be my pleasure Lord Michael." Sina replies kneeling down while Michael smirks.
Back to the planet Tommy and the gang are at...
As Tommy and Oli walk through the village after the big fight, it seemed nothing short of a hellscape. People were starving, fallen, dying and desperate for just food and water at this point. Sickness was on the rise. The fear of going outside the so-called "God's" mentioned perimeter to seek food was beyond the villagers.
All this led to children crying out to their parents in hunger, many ended up hitting their children in retaliation , some giving their own share of food up while some had nothing in the first place.
While on their way, they spot Jane scolding a little girl and decide to hide behind a wall and eavesdrop to listen as to what was going on with them.
"I told you not to get into another fight right!? Now the poor kid is hurt because of you!" Jane seemingly scolds a little girl from a distance.
"But he was picking on someone weaker than him! I had to mom!" The little girl replies back in anger.
"That's not the point! You should've just told his parents! They could've stopped him! Not everything has to come down to beating someone!" Jane scolds her daughter once again.
"But but-" The daughter tried to talk back once again but Jane's son and the little girl's younger brother started crying in Jane's lap.
"Look... We've had enough trouble already... The people of this world don't wanna stand up for themselves or think rationally... Food and water is at an all time low... Your father has been missing since he left for a military mission... We're going extinct... Can we not avoid fighting amongst ourselves..." Jane speaks up but ends up breaking into tears because of all of the stress she has been taking from this long and ongoing crisis.
"I'm sorry mom..." The daughter replies with tears in her eyes.
"It's okay Alice... Come here... I'll keep you both safe and sound..." Jane tries to regain her composure as she replies back and embraces her little daughter Alice and her new born son.
From a distance, Tommy and Oli who had been looking into the planet's depressing situation felt nothing but disappointment towards the loss they had incurred last time.
"We have to make things right next time big bro..." Oli speaks up.
"I know Oli... We must... There is no other choice... Meet me in an hour from now... I gotta go look for Mr. Takeda to talk some things out... After that... I'll train you..." Tommy responds as he leaves.
An hour later...
"HAAH!! HAAH!!" Oli punches the air in strong anticipation of training with Tommy.
"Someone looks prepared." Tommy speaks up with a smile while carrying a box of juice.
"We don't have a lot of time!" Oli reacts with his worry at its peak now.
"I'll show you, follow me!" Tommy replies as he heads towards the destination he mentions while Oli punches the air on the way.
The two then reach out to the mansion where Tommy opens the door to a very dusty room.
"Are we going to train in this dirty room big bro?" Oli asks with a confused expression.
"Precisely!" Tommy responds while snapping his fingers.
"But what about...?" Oli wonders.
"Wait for it..." Tommy replies while taking a look at his wrist watch as he continues, "any second now..."
Just then, Jane enters the room with a broomstick, some rags, a bucket and a water pipe while panting and drops them on the floor.
"Start by cleaning this room, once you're done, come back to me and I'll tell you what to do next." Tommy speaks up to Oli upon Jane dropping the cleaning gear there.
"Are you sure it's alright for him to do my work?" Jane asks with a worried expression.
"Oh please, he likes helping others, it'll be our pleasure, especially since you took good care of us ever since we got here! You should go take care of your baby first!" Tommy replies with a rather funny looking smile on his face.
"If you say so... And please feel free to stop if you can't do it anymore little master Oliver!" Jane replies while leaving.
"Alright Lil bro, get those muscles to work, I'll be back in an hour!" Tommy replies while patting Oli's back before leaving.
After about an hour, Oli is finally done with cleaning the room. Even though he was exhausted, he still heads out to find where Tommy is, only to find him talking to Lisa's grandfather.
"Hmm... The chair really is stiff..." Tommy speaks up to the old man right before he gazes upon Oli who was approaching him to say that he's done wiping the floors.
"Right on time!" Tommy says as he pats Oli on the back before he could even say something and continues, "Your next task is to fix this chair!"
"HUH!? WHY THIS!?" Oli exclaims.
"I told you, you gotta do what I say in order to win the next time we go into battle with that Lizard-O!" Tommy interrupts Oli before he could say anything else.
"Whatever you say..." Oli unenthusiastically replies before getting onto fixing the chair.
After about another forty five minutes, Oli starts walking over to Tommy yet again before noticing that he's standing next to Jane who is standing next to a bucket of dirty clothes, water and a clothes drying stand and decides to run immediately before Tommy grabs hold of his shoulder with a smile.
After around three hours of washing and drying clothes, a furious Oli goes out to look for Tommy in the dark of the night. After asking a few people, he locates Tommy into the forest they last fought Akselfer in and right as he sees Tommy, the sound of a huge explosion can be heard.
Walking through the smoke, Oli notices traces of lava on the ground until he sees the silhouette of Tommy behind it. As the smoke cleared, Tommy stood panting with dust and dirt all over his clothes, followed by a smile on his face.
"What's going on here...?" Oli wonders in confusion, especially with all the lava on the ground.
Right upon Oli asking that question, a smirk can be seen on Tommy's face, followed by a display of radiating golden binding energy in his fists.
"Take a guess!" Tommy exclaims after striking a fighting stance with those fists.
"Have you developed a new technique!?" Oli exclaims in newfound excitement.
"Hell yeah I have!" Tommy answers.
"SHOW ME!!" Oli replies in zero control of his excitement.
"Wait for it... It's quite taxing ya know! Gotta save all the tricks we have for the upcoming fight!" Tommy speaks up.
"Hmph... You've taught me absolutely nothing despite saying you'd train me and here you are training for your super secret imaginary power... Okay bro..." Oli reacts with a pout.
"Oh come on! Don't be like that!" Tommy replies before pulling his sleeve up and getting ready to punch Oli but Oli ends up sliding right under him to try and land a kick which Tommy dodges, only to follow it up with a punch which Oli diverts into another direction using a circular hand motion and follows it up with a wavy motion that pushes Tommy behind.
With no second to waste, Oli immediately gets into a fighting stance as soon as Tommy regains composure himself in no time, however, he just stands there clapping while Oli is left wondering how he was able to do what he did just now.
"I'm assuming you're wondering how that happened eh? That slide down maneuver was from when I asked you to wash the floors. That lizard stinker's special move seems to be firing into one direction and being unstoppable in that particular direction, however, he's limited by his brain. He can only use it in one direction at a time before landing somewhere solid to switch it which makes quick work for us to dodge it.
The second maneuver of circular motion that you learned from fixing that gramps' chair is when he is about to rebound his technique's direction upon landing. The third maneuver from when you washed and dried clothes will push him back into his original direction and cause him to take recoil damage which will ultimately leave him open for some classic beatdowns from the two of us. At least that's what I got out of the video captured by Mr. Takeda's collar mini-camera." Tommy explains to Oli what had just happened here.
"Woah, you figured it all out with just that!? Wait, isn't that what Mr. Takeda talked about on the ship?" Oli exclaims once again upon hearing Tommy's genius maneuvers.
"Yup! Adapting to lizard guy's moves! We haven't lost yet, Oli. The battle isn't over until we say it is!" Tommy exclaims back in response.
"It sure isn't big bro!" Oli responds offering a fist bump which Tommy obliges to.
Meanwhile...
"That battle has left quite a toll on my body... My arm... It still hasn't regenerated... Damn that Seth... I'll make sure I get all of them next time and make them suffer the consequences of messing with the great Akselfer..." Akselfer contemplates his heinous schemes against Tommy and the gang in distress after the vicious fight he just had.
"You certainly don't look like you're in the shape to do any of that... Not anytime soon... And maybe not ever without your arm... Especially with where you're currently at in strength... My good old friend..." A figure speaks out from the shadows with glowing blue eyes.
As the figure walks closer, it is revealed to be Michael in Björn's body who is also accompanied by Seth on this venture.
"Y-You... Lord Michael!?" Akselfer exclaims in shock.
"Yes... It is I... Michael... But worry not dear friend, unlike my brother, I am not here to hurt someone who I've had such great allegiance with. In fact, I come here seeking to grant you assistance out of my generosity and wish for our friendship to continue even longer than it already has..." Michael replies to Akselfer's frightened exclamation.
"You want to... Assist me...?" Akselfer wonders.
"Yes old friend... Allow me to bestow upon you my divine blessing..." Michael replies with a gentle nod while raising his palm above Akselfer's head and releasing shining golden light.
As the golden light faded, Akselfer's arm had been fully restored and his injuries had instantaneously healed. He was feeling stronger than he had ever before. All this prompted Akselfer to bow down to Michael having felt indebted to him for his generosity.
"Now, now, you don't have to bow down to me, in fact, you don't even have to refer to me as 'Lord'. It is like I said. You're a friend to me. A powerful friend. And that alone is enough for me to want to assist you. Now go... Do what you think is right... Akselfer..." Michael reacted to Akselfer's sudden genuflection.
"No my lord... You're the only one who has shown genuine kindness to me throughout the millennia I've lived. Especially since my return to this realm. Once I am done with my quest, I promise to aid you by any means possible. For that is the word of the great lord of the Pryers, Akselfer, himself." Akselfer asserts his appreciation for all Michael had done before leaving.
"Hehehe... If you only knew..." Michael spoke up in a low tone of voice followed by hysterical laughter as soon as Akselfer had left.
"By the way my lord, how did you get us here so quickly?" Sina wonders.
"Ah you mortals... I merely used our wings to fly us through time and space to this very location. Of course you cannot see them though, they're something only someone with divine sight can see... Now while I cannot grant you that... I do know of a way for a mortal to achieve it... In fact... The operation is in progress..." Michael responds with a smug grin on his face.
Back to where Tommy and Oli were...
Right as Tommy and Oli had just finished talking about their plans, what seemed like a meteor fell from the sky and onto the ground. As the smoke cleared, Akselfer could be seen walking out.
"Alright Oli, I hope you're ready. It's now or never with this lizard fuck!" Tommy speaks up to Oli right as the fight was about to commence.
"I'm more than ready, big bro!" Oli replies.
"Now now... Hold on... Before the battle begins, I want to talk to you... Yes you... The taller kid right there... You and that little kid over there are the sons of Isaac Oldton aren't you?" Akselfer speaks up with his arms raised up in the air.
"Yeah so? How do you know him anyway?" Tommy responds in a calm manner.
"I have my sources. He was a good man. He was assigned to this planet during the war as a kid. I remember how the Pryers used to pray to me for their lives when I was trapped in the heavenly realm. All I could do was watch as my children were slaughtered... But throughout the entire ordeal, only one soldier stood out from the rest... It was your father... The look of compassion in his eyes...
He'd let many of my innocent children off the hook and escape into the wilderness so that the army couldn't hunt them down... He screamed at several of his own mates to knock it off... He couldn't even kill a fly... All he did was arrest a few of my misguided children at most... But for that, he was taken off this planet and sent elsewhere... I don't want to kill the son of a man like that...
I can see it in your eyes kid... You may not look a thing like him but I can see it in your eyes that you have your heart in the right place... So hear me out... I'll forget there was any animosity between us if you let me go through with my plan and let you go in peace... It's a good offer, kid... Take it..." Akselfer raises a proposal to Tommy after telling him about his father's ventures on the planet they're on.
"No can do... A lot of the people you killed and are about to kill next have nothing to do with the war... You talk of peace and protecting the innocent yet kill so many innocent people out here in broad daylight... Kind of ironic if you ask me..." Tommy responds to the pathetic proposal raised by Akselfer.
"Heh, I knew you'd say that... But trust me kid... You and I... Are not so different... I know what happened to your parents... It was really unfortunate... And I know that the perpetrator of that very incident was Sina wasn't it? I know where he is... If you let me go through with what I want... I'll tell you where he is so you can get your hands on him for all the innocent people he imposed suffering on... You want to get a go at someone who made yours and so many others' lives so miserable just as much as I do... Don't you?" Akselfer continues to try and tempt Tommy.
"Heh, don't make me laugh. We're nothing alike. You're a monster playing God who preys on the innocent by deceiving them. You're just a paranoid old lizard fart who is too scared that he has no following left so you'll kill anyone who doesn't follow you. Some god you are buddy! And as for that offer... You can fuck right off with it lizzy! I may be a damn jerk but not THAT big of a jerk. You, meanwhile, are just one heartless crocodile. If I can, I'll make sure to just have you spill the beans when I deliver a punch to those sharp teeth you're so proud of and break them instead. And this isn't an offer... It's karma..." Tommy taunts Akselfer in response to his hypocritical proposal.
"Then so be it you blasphemous brat!" Akselfer exclaims in rage.
The battle begins with the three running towards each other to a central point which is followed by Tommy saying something about circular motion to Oli which prompts him to divert one of Akselfer's jabs at Tommy's direction while Tommy continues to say something about the drying clothes motion and delivering a double punch to Akselfer's back by immediately popping up behind him in no time which sends Akselfer slipping clumsily into the direction he's facing.
As Akselfer is about to retain composure, Oli sweeps his knees saying something about Floor Sweep motion and making Akselfer fall on his back.
This is followed by Tommy suddenly dropping from the sky screaming "DOUBLE IMPACT!", which is interrupted by Akselfer grabbing Tommy's torso at a near point blank range with his tail and slamming him down to the ground in the direction his tail swung from.
Seeing that, Oli is prompted to run towards the fallen Akselfer face to deliver a flying kick which is interrupted by Akselfer doing a backflip and launching Tommy at him with a tailspin motion and bashing the two onto a tree.
"Your pesky and childish tricks aren't going to take me out that easily. I've barely broken a sweat or got injured at all but you two seem fatigued. I'm telling you, back off while you still can and I'll spare you... I get no enjoyment out of killing innocent children who just so happened to come in my way..." Akselfer speaks up to the panting Tommy and Oli who seem to have regained composure from being slammed onto a tree mere seconds ago.
"In your dreams Connors!" Tommy speaks up as he charges up another double impact fist and dashes into Akselfer's direction.
As soon as he notices Tommy dash, Akselfer takes on a guarding stance which seems to be working effectively against the double impact until Tommy pushes his punch even harder towards Akselfer and the binding energy in his fist starts violently flashing and ends up breaking Akselfer's guarding stance and lunges him forward.
The force of the punch was so high that it sent Akselfer flying and breaking through trees until he landed right under a waterfall, on top of which, Oli was patiently waiting to strike the electricity forming in his palms.
The conducting shock hurts Akselfer to the point he starts screaming and flashing his red hot binding energy and focusing it all into forming a sphere around himself that starts evaporating the entire waterfall until no water is left.
Having grown furious from the boys' maneuvers, Akselfer flies into the sky screaming, "CONCEPT CANCELLATION... THE GOD CANNOT BE STOPPED!! FIST OF THE SOARING DRAGON!!", while Tommy and Oli in sync say, "Just what we had been waiting for!"
As Akselfer surrounds himself in a strong and flashing red coat of binding energy, he comes flying down at a tremendous speed in Tommy's direction.
With a smug smile, Tommy sweeps right under it but just then, wings like that of a true dragon pop out of Akselfer's back and allow him to manipulate the torque in his favor and hit Tommy back in no time and allowing him to escape the one flaw he had of the time taken for a directional rebound due to his cognitive limitation.
This sends Tommy flying through tens of trees until he crashes into a mountain. Upon the collision, a heat wave explosion takes place that reduces Tommy's upper body clothes to ashes and leaves several burns and cuts on his body from head to toe.
In rage, Oli turns into a chain of electricity to perform the drying clothes maneuver behind Akselfer but gets grabbed by his tail as he starts choking Oli to death.
Angered at the sight he has to behold from afar, forgetting all pain, Tommy retains his posture in no time and dashes into Akselfer's direction with another double impact charged up but simply gets punched onto another few trees like nothing.
"Heh, you want your brother? Have him then!" Akselfer speaks up as he slams Oli onto Tommy's body with his tail's spin.
"You two weren't half bad for your size... But divine justice must always prevail... Mortal eyes are not capable of defining what justice truly means... I feel deep sorrow ending your lives however... You could've been so much more..." Akselfer continues to taunt the severely injured Tommy and Oli.
Meanwhile at the village...
"Did you guys hear that!?" A bunch of villagers get agitated from the shockwave of the fight.
"Tommy... Oli..." Said Lisa as she ran towards the direction of the battle ground.
"Hey where are you going!? It's dangerous!!" The agitated villagers speak up upon seeing Lisa run to what they declared certain death.
"They need me there! They're fighting for us with their lives in the line! And I'm not gonna just sit back and watch! I've got to help them in any way I can even if I cannot contribute much! If you guys can't do that, it's alright, but I'm leaving!" Lisa speaks her final words to the villagers before running into the wilderness.
"That girl... She's gonna get killed... Plus it is just way too dark out there... The Sun is still not up...", "Nothing we can do about it... She's too idealistic... That's how morons die...", a bunch more agitated villagers speak up.
"No... She was right... Those military guys are no curse... They're here to defend us and all we're doing is just sitting on our asses while they put their lives on the line out there for people they don't even know... People who resented them... Even if we die, I'd rather die fighting for what I think is right than die sitting on my ass doing nothing...
So what if god isn't there... I'm here for those who I care about... And it's you guys... That's all I have... And right now... I wanna put my trust into those kids who are doing everything in their power to do what's right...
I want to have hope in my heart again... I wanna believe that there is going to be light in the next day for all of us... I want to see the ocean once again... I want to run carefree on some pure white sand... And gaze at the horizon like a free man... Not a shackled slave of a God who has brought us nothing but fear..." A villager speaks up before running off to Lisa's direction.
This leaves all villagers in a confused state.
Back at the fight...
"Hey loser! If you wanna kill them, you gotta go through me first!" Lisa shows up right as Akselfer was about to kill Tommy and Oli.
"Heh, what's a little girl gonna do to me huh? Cry so loud my ears bleed out? Hahaha! Fine, I'll be done in no time!" Akselfer laughs slamming Lisa onto a tree in no time with his tail before heading back to kill Tommy and Oli.
Just then, a bunch of villagers show up screaming, "Hey why don't you pick on someone your own size lizard breath! HEEE YAAAH!!"
After a bunch of futile attempts which only lead to the villagers getting slammed hard onto the nearby trees from Akselfer tail, when a bunch of children also show up to taunt Akselfer, right as he is about to hit them too, his tail falls onto the ground having been cut off from his body.
"WHAT THE!?" Akselfer seems shocked. Just then, he sees Takeda standing right behind him and realizes that he had just cut his tail off.
"Trying to kill children... You truly aren't cut out for godhood..." Takeda speaks up.
"Mr. Samurai!" Lisa exclaims.
"Yup! Good ole Mr. Samurai right on time! Listen, since you guys are here to help, I want some of the brave crowd to take positions in concentric circles in the radius of 50 meters from here...
As soon as I get this lizard in either direction, I want you to fill the forest with noise, throw any rocks or pellets you can at the big guy and prepare to break some of your bones or be ready to even die for the cause... Getting alive from this isn't guaranteed but I know you guys want your people safe and sound so distract him as much as you can!
I want another group of you guys to take the boys as far away as you can from here!" Takeda screams to all the crowds as fast as he can while taking Akselfer on.
Getting hang of what Takeda had just ordered the villagers to do, he heads into the direction where the group of villagers carrying the boys are, only to be swallowed up by an acid storm.
The storm is so fast that the reflection of where the villagers were headed is scattered into all directions. Pissed off at all this, Akselfer screams yet again and forms a bubble of binding energy around him that vaporizes the acid. By the time he is out, various groups of villagers are running in different directions. It was a deception all along.
Chasing every group down one by one, he slams most of them with his tail onto trees until he finally reaches the group carrying Tommy and Oli.
This time he is far less forgiving. Impaling as many in the group as he can that end up falling in the chase, the closer he gets to the group, he starts to straight up devour who he can catch.
The chase is brought to a stand still when the villagers reach a dead end up just then, Akselfer is engulfed by another acidic storm, this time, supercharged by electricity from an Oli who had now regained his posture back thanks to the lesser amount of injuries he had sustained in comparison to Tommy.
Annoyed by this electrocution maneuver once again, he once again vaporizes the storm which releases a bunch of toxic fumes that end up choking the villagers nearby.
"Now that you're all in one place, let's see how you escape this!" Akselfer screams while flying through his wings and inhaling a huge amount of air, only to follow it up by spewing an enormous amount of flames from his mouth in all directions.
A huge chunk of villagers succumbed to the flame, several died, many got severe burns while the few who made it out of this ordeal safe and sound were scared to death and were hiding in either a lucky bush beneath the canopy of the forest or in a cave nearby.
Determined to purge everything once and for all, Akselfer starts inhaling more and more air.
"Yo Dragon-chan! You want me? I'm right here! Show me your full strength! Let's settle this once and for all!" A now conscious Tommy taunts Akselfer from the ground beneath him.
"Heh... It's my lucky day... My prey is offering itself right into my clutches... Then prepare yourself Tommy... FIST OF THE SOARING DRAGON!" Akselfer responds to Tommy's taunts in full force.
Raising his fist into the air, Tommy surrounds himself in Golden binding energy, followed by dark red sparks around himself as he screams, "IMAGINARY POWER! SEISMIC CALAMITY!", and slams his fist onto the ground.
The ground beneath Tommy starts showing cracks in no time. The cracks glow golden and lava starts erupting at high altitudes from Tommy's vicinity. Small volcanoes start forming all around the area as the ground begins to shake relentlessly.
Evading each eruption through his wings, Akselfer, with his 'Fist Of The Soaring Dragon, has his eyes targeted sharply onto Tommy still as he flies at high speeds into his direction.
"IT'S OVER FOR YOU TOMMY!!" Akselfer screams before Tommy makes another floor sleep maneuver, to which, Akselfer screams, "I THOUGHT YOU'D KNOW BY KNOW THAT IT'S FUTILE-", before getting interrupted by an eruption right into the direction his wings swung him in an attempt to evade Tommy's circular motion maneuver.
Having been immobilized by the flame of the eruption, immediately, Akselfer is met by Tommy's infinite pressure strike which sends him flying into the opposite direction with the impact force amplified so much that it cuts Akselfer's arm off yet again.
"GOOOO!! BEAT THAT LIZARD JERK!!" Oli, Takeda, Lisa and the other villagers cheer for Tommy.
"Tommy... We're protectors of the innocent will... You don't have to do this..." Akselfer speaks up to Tommy before Tommy could pull out another offensive move.
"Protector of the innocent will...? You? SHUT UP WITH THIS NONSENSE ALREADY WILL YA?" Screamed Tommy as he dashed into Akselfer's direction to land a double impact right on his face which is followed up by high speed molten rock throw from an eruption that is triggered by the punch landing.
"I'M TIRED OF YOUR GOD DAMN DIVINE THIS DIVINE THAT MUMBO JUMBO!!" Screamed Tommy again, following it up with two eruption strikes this time.
"YOU AIN'T GOT SHIT ON HUMANS!! YOU CAN'T DECIDE WHAT'S RIGHT OR WRONG FOR US!!" Tommy screamed for the third time, striking the ground furiously and releasing several strikes of eruption into Akselfer's direction.
"YOU'RE JUST A SCALEY ASS MURDERER!!" Tommy screamed once more as the eruptions started automatically hitting Akselfer without Tommy doing anything.
"FREAKS LIKE YOU WILL ALWAYS LOSE!!" Tommy exclaimed right as an eruption flew Akselfer into the sky from beneath his foot.
"BECAUSE EVEN IF WE DO WRONG!" Tommy screams as an eruption takes place from beneath his legs and elevates him to where Akselfer is, which he follows up with a headbutt which sends Akselfer flying even more forward into the air.
"THE FIGHT FOR GOOD AIN'T OVER.... BECAUSE..." Screamed Tommy as he backflipped into the air and double kicked into Akselfer's face and sent him flying downwards this time mid air.
"HUMANS NEVER GIVE UP!!" Tommy continues to shout at Akselfer as he kicks him forward in a 180 degree path mid air this time.
"SO GET LOST!!" Tommy rages on as eruptions arise consecutively from the ground beneath Akselfer who had been sent flying forward.
The consecutive eruptions send Akselfer up into the air higher and higher as he lunges ahead even more until he ultimately ends up crashing onto a mountain.
"Ahaha, you can't keep a human silent for long... One day... Everyone and everything reaches a breaking point... No matter how many dreadful and lonely nights it takes...
It really feels like the night of the new moon is never gonna fade. It feels unfair. But in the end, everyone knows the Sun will rise as the night ends..."
Memories of a mundane conversation Tommy had with M1ke a year ago when they had just started training rush through his head as he lunges into Akselfer's direction with his eyes closed... Slowly, the rays of the planet's host star begin to peer through the dark skies.
"And from what I've seen... In the end... As the first ray of light from the sun strikes... It's the ones who are still fighting that prove the others that by getting up to fight..." As the Sun rises and casts its light of hope on the planet once again and the nightfall comes to an end in this fight, the once fleeting memory comes to complete fruition as only one part of the memory that remains in Tommy's head is... "They'd realize that the fact they're still alive is truly a miracle they can't give up on!"
With his spirit having reached its peak, Tommy opens his eyes and charges up intense amounts of binding energy in his palms while still being lunged into Akselfer's direction.
As Tommy gets closer and closer until he finally reaches the immobilized Akselfer, he lets out a full force scream and at point blank range, he unleashes his power at the top of his lungs screaming "STELLAR FLASH!!!"
The intensely radiating energy from the Stellar Flash drags Akselfer through the entire mountain until he reaches the surface and a huge explosion occurs that completely disintegrates through the mountain along with the upper half of Akselfer's body.
As the smoke clears, only Tommy can be seen standing with a smile alongside the dead Akselfer's legs. The villagers who survived this ordeal rejoice and cheer for the three heroes who saved them from complete annihilation.
While the villagers are busy dancing, Lisa and Oli ask why Tommy is suddenly digging the ground.
"It's nothing... Akselfer was a tough opponent... He may have done horrible deeds but I can still see where he was coming from... All the people he genuinely cares for have died... Who wouldn't go insane... So I thought he deserves a burial at the very least to be beneath the soil alongside his beloved children..." Tommy responds with a frown on his face.
Oli and Lisa pass a warm smile and put their hands on Tommy's shoulder for carrying his honor until even after the fight was over.
A few days later...
It was time for the gang to finally head back to the royal capital now that they had solved a crisis they could never forget.
"You had quite some cool stuff to say in this arc Mr. Takeda! Those lines about trust, being a hero, faith and all were so amazing!" Tommy and Oli praise Takeda for his valuable inputs.
"Oh that! I just read it in the Full-Plastic Scientist manga hahaha! See, page 319 of Volume 63! I remember them from head to toe!" Takeda confesses with a cynical laughter while Tommy and Oli are left pretty disappointed.
Right as they were about to head into the ship, they were approached by Lisa, her grandfather and Jane who was carrying her son in one arm and holding her little daughter Alice's hand with the other hand.
"What's up?" The trio ask.
"Can you take Lisa, Jane and her children along with you...? This planet has only brought my granddaughter some terrible memories... I don't want her to live her life in a place that has only brought pain and atrocity to her...
I want her to live a peaceful life where I know she'll be safe, where I know she's free to study what she wants and make better friends... Same with Jane and her children... And perhaps... One day, she can find her husband and the father of her children there...
Will you take the last request of this old man? If it isn't too much trouble...?" The old man gets to his knees to secure his granddaughter and Lisa's family's future.
"Woah woah woah old man, no need to bow down to us... You helped us a lot here too... Without you, we wouldn't be fit to take the monster that terrorized this planet out... We'll do as you say... It's our pleasure!" Takeda responds to the old man's request with a smile, helping him get back up while Tommy and Oli nod in agreement with a big smile on their faces as well.
As they're about to leave, Takeda asks whether the Old man is sure about not coming with them, to which he replies that his life lies with the planet he was born in and with his late love. Giving him a salute, our heroes leave and brighten yet another day.
Meanwhile...
"Those children truly are prodigies to have taken out a God at their age..." Michael speaks up to Sina.
"Tommy still has a long way to go still... But in due time, he could be the greatest ally and the most fierce obstacle in our path... Or he could become the greatest fiend the military has ever fought against..." Sina replies with his own input.
"And what possibility would you like?" Michael asks with a curious expression on his face.
"The outcomes matter not... While the Oldtons family and I may go way back... If the boy so chooses to be a wall in my path... I'll break him just like his father..." Sina responds coldly with his face as emotionless as ever.
"My my, you truly have no heart." Michael replies with a chuckle.
"Anyways, here you go... The divinity you seek lies in consumption of divine flesh..." Michael continues talking as he explodes the ground where Akselfer's legs were buried.
Giving the corpse an emotionless look, Sina starts devouring it like a feral beast until his eyes glow a golden hue and divine binding energy starts flowing visibly through his veins.
Upon consuming the entire flesh, when Sina takes a look back at Michael, he could finally see his shining golden wings.
"So this is the beauty of the Grace held by Lord Michael himself..." Sina speaks up while kneeling down to Michael.
"Now let us proceed our divine scheme even further my mortal servant..." Michael responds to Sina's final allegiance to him.
To be continued in Chapter - 21...