16 Stormy: Vengeance or Justice? And the Truth

Alexander begins to charge at Stormy, who in turns begins to run towards Alexander. Alexander leaps into the air and swings his sword in a downward slash motion.

Stormy avoids it narrowly by rolling to the side. Alexander then performs a side slash with his sword in his right hand, with Stormy blocking with both her chow bows.

She is slowly being pushed backwards.

"All the strength you and Omega have, I possess!" Alexander proclaims proudly, "And to think your parents were created to serve the cause!"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Stormy shouts,

Alexander then delivers a frontal kick to Stormy, sending her backwards onto the floor.

"You and Omega are blind! Only your mother and Omega's father know, which is why they both went into hiding for all these years!" Alexander shouts, "They were created! Born in a laboratory, being infused as fetuses with a special serum called the Magnus Heritage! They were created to serve as super soldiers! Until the surrogate mother turned against us and hid the two away, and for that, we found the traitor and made her pay for her sins!"

Stormy remains on the floor in complete shock. She always knew she was different from everyone else, even her cousin. But to think her mother and uncle were created as soldiers for the sake of evil was something she found hard to contemplate.

"You're lying!" Stormy shouts,

"You and Omega dared to defy us with your vigilante activities!" Alexander continues on, "At least Ariel had the sense to see our vision, even though she's hell bent on fulfilling her own."

"Ariel is working with you?"

"Yes, and no. She served us well by luring Omega away, leaving me to only deal with you."

"Why are you saying 'we' so much? There's only one of you!"

"We? Yes! We, as in the organization I serve. Xanadu!"

"What? So you're doing the Illuminati shit? That's cute!"

"Well, that's how it is! Enough talk! The cleansing will resume!"

Alexander goes for another downward slash on Stormy, who quickly rolls out of the way.

Stormy starts to attack Alexander with a barrage of strikes with her chow bows.

Alexander blocks all of the strikes with incredible speed, considering the double edged sword he's wielding looks heavy.

Alexander goes for another side slash.

Stormy rolls to dodge it. She stands up and hits Alexander with her chow bows in the back.

Alexander staggers for a moment, and proceeds to perform a lunge strike.

Stormy evades, but Alexander manages to leave a cut on Stormy's left arm.

Not letting it phase her, she raises her chow bows and performs a downward slash.

Alexander blocks, but is brought to his knees, due to Stormy's strength.

She repeats the move again, Alexander struggling to block.

She then performs a upward diagonal slash with both chow bows, which knocks Alexander's sword out of his hands.

"You're fucking garbage!" Stormy shouts as she delivers a strike to Alexander's temple.

"Cleansing the world? You're a fucking murderer! That's all you'll ever be!"

Furious at what Stormy shouted, Alexander in a rage, rises up and tackles Stormy to the ground, who ends up dropping both chow bows.

Alexander grabs Stormy by the hair and begins to unleash a fury of punches to her head.

"My vision will come true! He shouts as he pummels away.

Stormy is completely dazed, unable to do anything.

Alexander then grabs Stormy by the collar and takes off and throws her AR sunglasses to the side.

"Look at you Toni!" Alexander continues to shout, "Do you seriously think that you can be like your cousin Steven! I know all about the two of you! Tengge as well! Mommy dearest stopped you from joining Steven and Tengge's pathetic vigilante crusade, which led to Tengge going behind even Steven's back to thoroughly prepare you to be like the two of them. It's pathetic that it was all all for nothing! Look at you! You're nothing but a entitled, scared little girl who's still mourning the loss of some pathetic filth of a friend!"

Alexander had struck a nerve in Stormy.

Her friend, Harry who was brutally murdered by Alexander.

Stormy then begins to be angered and enraged. Tears streaming down her eyes.

"Harry!" Stormy shouts as she breaks Alexander's grip, then throws him aside and starts throwing punches to his temple. All whilst screaming in a rage.

She then proceeds to pull him up and gives him a body slam.

Alexander is struggling to fight the pain.

Stormy then picks him up again and delivers a series of knees to his head.

Alexander staggers as if he was a rag doll.

Stormy lets go, steps back and delivers a powerful sidekick to Alexander's chin.

Alexander is sent backwards onto the floor. He struggles to try and get up, but is unable to.

Stormy then spots Alexander's double edged sword.

She picks it up, and drags it along the ground as she slowly approaches Alexander.

"Yes!" Alexander says as he scrambles backwards on the floor. "Give in to vengeance! Give in to anger! This is exactly what I wanted! I may not make it out of here alive, but I still achieve my vision! The scum will burn, and the one who stands for them will be exposed for the pathetic fraud she is! Do it! Fulfill my vision!"

Stormy raises the sword in hand. The tip of the sword pointing downwards to Alexander.

The thought of avenging Harry overtakes her mind. Anger and rage fill her facial expression with tears flowing from her eyes.

A flashback appears before her mind.

Back in 2012, she was sitting alone in her room in her apartment.

She was just rescued by Nami Magnus, who took her home afterward.

Nami sits next to Toni who sits on her bed.

"What were you thinking trying to go against those robbers like that?" Nami asks, being seriously concerned.

"They hurt one of my friends! I couldn't let them get away with that!" Toni shouts,

"Well you could have beaten them to a mess, but then what? Make you feel any better?"

Nami, known as Tengge asks which has Toni speechless.

Tengge takes off her AR sunglasses along with her long purple hair wig, revealing her medium length brunette hair. She looks at Toni earnestly.

"Do you remember why I took you under my wing in the first place?" Tengge asks,

"Not really, just you agreed when I begged you, and something about being your replacement, which sounds creepy." Toni answers,

"Well that's part of it, I took you in because I wanted you to see how I see. It's not about handing out beatings at random criminals or other people, it's about standing up for what you believe in. I never really understood any of that before, I never questioned that when I was a ninja. But then I met Steven, and it just all made sense."

Toni looks away, contemplating what Tengge said. Then she looks back at Tengge.

"What do you believe in?" Toni asks Tengge,

"I believe in love. I believe in harmony. And I stand for what I believe in." Tengge answers, "Even if criminals hurt other people that I love, that doesn't change a thing. We're not them, we're better than that. If you allow yourself to sink to their level, they've won."

Toni starts to cry.

"Can I stand up for what I believe in?" Toni asks Tengge, "Without fighting?"

"Of course silly!" Tengge says as she puts her arm around Toni, "You can do anything you put your mind to. But always be you. Don't ever change that."

Stormy comes back to her senses.

She realizes the sword she's holding, pointing downwards at Alexander.

Realizing this, she tosses the sword away to the side.

"No…" Stormy says softly, "You won't win one over me. I'm going to stand for what I believe in… Just like Tengge wanted."

Stormy then turns to walk away slowly, and picks up her AR sunglasses and puts them on. Alexander starts to get angry, slowing sitting up.

"No! No!" Alexander shouts, "Kill me! This is my vision!"

Stormy converses through her radio.

"Nesha, EJ… Shut the missle down." Stormy says into the radio,

"Our pleasure." EJ replies. Whilst Stormy and Alexander were fighting, Nesha and EJ managed to hack into the computer systems for the silo, remotely disarming the missle.

Stormy turns to Alexander.

"It's over Alexander. You lost."

"No! I will make my vision com-"

In an instant, Alexander explodes in a ball of red and bone and sinew.

Stormy stands there in shock. Then proceeds to look up.

Up on the silo catwalk, stands Ariel Magnus, pointing her laser cannon which makes up her left arm.

"Well, I guess he couldn't hack it." Ariel says with a smile on her face. "And to think you were too weak to do the job Toni."

Ariel then points her laser cannon at Stormy.

"You led Steven on a wild goose chase just to get me to go after Alexander alone?" Stormy shouts,

"Well at least you stopped him." Ariel continues, "I should thank you. Now Xanadu will let me focus on my vision once again."

A loud noise comes from the bottom of the silo.

"All units move in!" Mayor Damian, Delta Magnus and their armed forces storm the silo, taking out Alexander's men, with more of Alexander's forces moving in.

"Waste of effort. They are unable to stop the inevitable." Ariel says with confidence. "And with that, I bid you Toni, Die!"

She charges up her laser cannon. Stormy preparing to evade the shot.

Then Ariel is sent flying from the catwalk onto the helicopter platform in front of Stormy.

A few seconds later, Omega Magnus lands on the platform.

He doesn't look like his usual self.