Astral's Rise Part 30: The Twin Jewels

Landing on the ground he saw nothing but a lightning storm to strike him. Waiving his free hand he would use his spell. Hardlight. He would summon a wall of hard light and block the oncoming attack. Creating a dome to summon and bring in Zeta. 

He came in with his railgun ready and primed with missles locked on the two ladies. They sent everything that they had at him. Firebirds. Homing lightning and a stormcloud to follow Astral. He would hop in Zeta as he drops the hard light dome. Being hit with many lightning strikes all at once. It would torture Astral as he screamed in pain from inside the mech. 

Loud enough for everyone to hear. The fire from Ruby would engulf the mech. Zeta smiled on his happy robotic face. Aiming his railgun and firing the rockets. The shots from the railgun echoed across the stage. The outer layer was being cracked slightly by any stray shots.

The sisters would zip around being off balance casting basic spells to stop the missiles while Zeta barraged fire on them to keep them moving. Astral could only watch as Zeta charged in. Summoning his sword Zeta would swing on Ruby, who would dodge it by moving out of the way. 

It worked, their spell and curse only applies to Astral not to Zeta. Zeta could counterbalance the spell. Zeta's swordplay was swift and decisive as the blade narrowly came close to killing the two of them. The difference being they finally buffed themselves to increase their speed.

Zeta would be the one using all of his arsenal as Astral mainly sat back to focus on keeping himself stable. Zeta's larger fame is a bigger target, and he can take anything the two of them can dish out at him.

Zeta shot the ground all around the arena making it like walking on rubble, one misstep from the twin jewels would lead to them dying as Zeta was slowly learning their patterns. He led his railgun shots to keep them on their toes.

Their gymnastic stunts they were doing just to not be finished by the mech brought them to their physical breaking point. Ruby would slip on a loose rock as Zeta lined up the shot. Diamond took the time and was able to hit Zeta's arm with a bolt of lightning to knock the shot off course and save her sister as Ruby reset the floor once again.

Zeta had his foot over the top of Ruby as he went to stomp her to mush as a hand was waved and Zeta's standing leg went skyward. Astral reacted to this as he piloted Zeta to do a handstand where another wide open shot with a lightning bolt struck the cab of the mech. Astral's eyes fluttered a bit, the only thing holding him together was his focus.

Zeta stood on one arm as several flashbangs were fired out. The entire arena became lit up by the bangs as Zeta grabbed his weapons in their moment of blindness as rockets flew out from his shoulder mounts.

The twin jewels stood next to each other as the rockets flew at them, the explosions from the collision falling short as Zeta became standing once more. Looking over to the explosion he still saw that they were alive. "Designation: There is a third power working against us." Zeta whirred as the railgun would be flashed away. His sword shrunk down along his side he snapped in the air.

A minigun dropped in front of him, Zeta wanted to tease the two. "Do you see this? Typically seen as a weapon for planes in close ground support operations. Three thousand rounds a minute." Zeta picked it up as the twin jewels waved their hands to create the bubble sphere.

"Target locked, eat death!" The mech hummed as the minigun spun to life, opening fire the bubble charm would be slowly cracking as the twins looked in fear, realizing what they needed to do.

Zeta saw this as an opportunity to unleash the power five rockets. His shoulder mounts changed their looks, five tubes each popped open as the missiles flew out and rained down many mini warheads onto the bubble. Still being held together from all of the abuse, it surprised everyone. Adam would look over to Titan and the child next to him. Seeing strain on the baby.

"ZETA IT'S NO USE WAIT TILL THE BUBBLE DROPS AND KEEP ASTRAL SAFE! THAT'S YOUR MAIN PRIORITY!" Adam shouted into a large hand drawn megaphone as Zeta stopped firing and smoke cleared from all of the bullets.

Both of the sisters nodded and charged up their ultimate combo. Nightmare snare storm. Hitting the mech with thirty thousand lighting bolts at once. Astral couldn't take it and passed out. Too much was happening for his human body to take, as the heat only rose as the inferno swallowed Zeta.

"We did it Diamond. We killed him!" Ruby spoke as they high fived.

"Yes and now we take on-" Diamond was cut off as Zeta emerged from the inferno, steaming and glowing from the heat he was engulfed in. Zeta had chopped apart Diamond before Ruby reacted. Zeta would eject Astral, sending him sky high as his wings would slow his descent as much as possible. Zeta shrunk down to his Android size and would see Ruby ready to burn Astral to death. Zeta would tackle Ruby, crushing her ribs and burning her by contact with the hot metal.

Astral would be fluttering downward as he rapidly opened and closed his eyes. He couldn't stay awake for any longer than a couple seconds. His wings were trying their best but not being repaired was a problem.

Zeta had his hands on Ruby's throat. Burning her as she tried to claw the mech away. "You don't like the heat now?" Zeta picked her up and slammed her into the ground making an explosion happen. Standing up from it Zeta would leave the lifeless corpse lying there as he turns into mech form and catches Astral, setting him down gently. He had done it. But what cost was it at? Astral rolled to his side and coughed up blood. Everyone rushed him and would be clueless on how to help. "His vitals are really high. With that much power coursing through him he can't stay awake. He needs to expel it."

Jaimie would rub her hands on him. Being shocked and knocked back by the buildup of energy inside of him. He popped up right away looking over to Jaimie who would stand back up. "No, you stay back Mr. Electro, no more tasers for you."

"I second that." Astral laid down again and would relax his muscles as breathe. To loosen himself up. Titan was up next and he was not ready for it. Too much could happen. He wasn't ready for this. He would just bury his hands in his face and wait for the sound he is dreading.