Episode 29- Boiling Point
Zero charges at lightning speed towards Mash and readies a right hand punch. Mash quickly readies his own right hand punch while not moving from his position. The two fists collide with each other, resulting in an explosion of steam. The nearby soldiers gasp as wind blows by them from the impact.
The steam clears and both fists are still touching each other. Neither has moved an inch.
Suddenly the armor on the right hand and arm of Zero bursts apart, revealing his gray toned bare arm. Zero jumps backwards away from Mash.
"Simple.", says Mash, "I can't believe Iv'e never tried it. Just needed motivation I guess. Heat and water. Form the water and simply generate a force so powerful it heats, so powerful that it could remove the skin right off of a dragon. Or in this case, you.". Mash then looks at the bare arm of Zero, "You will regenerate of course, but not fast enough. This fight will be over before nightfall. Your rage will be your ultimate downfall.".
Zero looks at his bare arm and clenches his fist, "Good. Now I can take this a bit more seriously.". The blue light in the eyes of Zero streaks towards Mash as Zero dashes. Zero throws a left hand claw slash at Mash. Mash generates a heated right kick that blocks the claw slash. A doppelganger appears and executes the same left claw slash. Mash generates a heated round house kick that destroys the doppelganger, making it shatter into glass-like pieces, and then disappears. The left arm and hand armor falls off of Zero onto the ground. "You used your left to strike instead of your right. Only then were you able to copy yourself. Could it be, that only your armor creates copies? Are you now willing to retract your earlier comments?", asks Mash mockingly.
"What is its name?", asks Zero.
"The name of what?" asks Mash.
"The moment. The feeling inside you. The being inside of you.", replies Zero.
"Hahahahahaha! you have resorted to speaking in tongues of rubbish!", laughs Mash, "How about you die to the fist connected to my body!". Mash dashes at Zero with incredible speed. Zero punches Mash in the face with a hard force. Mash takes the damage head on, but does not flinch hard. Mash instead returns a punch to the face of Zero, destroying his helmet. Zero does not flinch hard. He then returns a punch to the stomach of Mash. Mash takes the damage then returns a punch to the stomach of Zero, causing Zero to slightly slide backwards, and destroy his armor covering his torso. Zero throws a hard punch at Mash, but Mash dodges to the right, making the punch miss by mere inches. Mash then throws an uppercut with his right hand at Zero. Zero uses his left forearm to block the forceful punch, then returns a downward punch at Mash that hits Mash in the face, causing Mash to kneel on his right knee. Mash throws a left fist punch at the stomach of Zero, causing Zero to slide backwards on kneel on his right knee.
Zero looks at his stomach and left forearm to see that he is severely burned in both areas. Both Mash and Zero rise to their feet. Mash generates heat and water around his right hand.
Zero runs towards Mash and throws a right hand punch, a left hand punch, and finally a left kick. Mash leans to the side to dodge each punch and crouches under the kick while preparing an ultimate blow. "Crescendo Heat!", shouts Mash. The prepared right hand punch from Mash hits Zero directly in the stomach. The blow creates a heated globe of water that engulfs Zero. Zero is launched into the air, then hits the ground hard. The skin on his stomach is extremely soft and mushy, slowly melting off in some areas, covered black and red blood. Steam vapors rise up from the body of Zero as a painful heat radiates throughout his body. Zero struggles to stand from the intense pain, damage, and heat.
"No. I know better now. You will not be given a moment of rest.", says Mash.
Mash leaps into the air and lands hard on Zero, while Zero uses his forearms to block the impact from the feet. The stone ground underneath Zero breaks and cracks. Mash gives heavy repeated punches to Zero, as Zero uses his shins and forearms to block. The barrage of heavy blows further breaks the ground underneath Zero. The heat of each blow burns the forearms of Zero and destroys the armor on the shins of Zero. Mash grabs the neck of Zero and violently throws him in the air. Zero quickly teleports.
"As stated before, parlor tricks", quickly says Mash. Zero appears behind Mash but Mash immediately predicts his movements and hits Zero in the face, sending Zero flying backwards. The Grandoria soldiers quickly move out of the way as Zero collides with the ground in front of them.