The gang stopped laughing they quickly packed their stuff and reopened the map.
"Alright folks, Next stop! Crimson!" Johnson pointed in front, still the words are emotionless.
"Yes sir!" The crew saluted.
But then suddenly, the ground trembled once, and then twice, and then trice, then again, and again.
"I don't have a good feeling about this...." said Albur.
The crew looked up, as expected, they saw the Bug, slowly approaching to them. Johnson's alarm went off again.
"Finally! Signal recovered! I've found you!" Anomaly peeked out from the Bug's head. The Bug roared, and emitted a loud honk.
"You are pretty useless in looking for people, all you do all day is practicing guns and flirting with the Colonel." Muttered the Bug.
"W- Hey! Just kill them already!" Anomaly yelled furiously.
"Now I am fully fueled! Time to blast things!" Roared the Bug.
"Oh, didn't see this bucko earlier, I only met an army of glitch spaceships."
Anomaly noticed Johnson is back in the team, making him click his tongue irritably.
Albur walked towards the bug and stared at Anomaly.
"Well jokes on you Anomaly! You've picked the wrong time to mess with the wrong crew! We are now as strong as we used to be!" Albur pointed at Anomaly.
"Oh? Then? No more?"
The Bug zapped the ground in front of them using its eyes.
"Oh geez."
The gang went into battle pose.
"This one is a tough guy, any ideas how are we gonna beat it?"
Johnson looked at the Bug.
"I think this big chunk of scrap have a battery operating it, let's try breaking its armor, I try entering its body and hack it or disable it."
The crew shared a nod, Covie brought Wilton away from the battle field. The Bug tried to chase down Wilton but its legs were disabled by Albur after he fired a Disabling shot at its legs. It turned around and roared at them angrily.
"Well since you have that cyborg with you, why not we make this fight more interesting?"
The Bug then fired missiles behind them, blasting them meters away. The Bug then begun to fly, its wings turned into rockets and carried it near the ocean. It then landed in the ocean, it is so tall the sea water only reached its knees.
"Oh my..."
Covie quickly shut Johnson's mouth.
"god..... not water again." Muffled Johnson.
The Bug fired missiles at them, Johnson detonated them all by firing his minigun at them before they reach the crew. Albur fired 2 hyper blasts at the Bug, but it tanked it easily. The Bug opened the hatches on its hips, sending out glitch ships to attack them.
"Alright, what we do now?" asked Mysty.
"Like Johnson said, break the Bug's armor, right J-"
Johnson already left and went to fight the glitch ships.
"AWWWW SNAP, never mind. Stick to that plan!"
"You got it!"
Albur and Mysty went to 'borrow' some glitch ships by killing the glitch inside and controlling the ships. Covie flew to help them after she secured Wilton. Johnson rode a glitch ship and sped towards the Bug, Albur and Mysty followed him. The Bug fired missiles at them and slashed them with its mantis shrimp blades, but they all dodged and blocked them using their attacks. When they got onto the Bug, Johnson immediately started to drill a hole using his metal claws. The Bug shook them off and fired plasma orbs at them. Mysty grabbed Albur and Johnson while she used her hiking stick and fired a grapple hook that hooked the bug and swung back to the Bug to dodge that orb. Glitch ships kept attacking them, the Bug also fired missiles on itself, though the missiles don't deal much damage to it. Albur and Johnson kept trying to break the armor of the bug while Mysty fend off the glitch ships. The Bug was annoyed, it breath fire and on it, trying to get the crew off of it. Johnson blocked the fire with his metal claws, but they were burned bright red.
"Oh jeez! Oh crap!"
Johnson quickly dipped his metal claws into the sea water, cooling them down.
The Bug continued to attack them. They kept dodging and the Bug kept attacking. Remaining in a tie. Covie also tried to break the armor with her fists, however the armor is way too thick and hard.
The Bug started to load that same giant missile it used earlier, it decided to fire on it, it won't do much damage to it but will surely blast the crew away.
"Oh.....crap...." murmured Johnson.
Albur started to panic. Mysty was trying to think of a solution, but then, she noticed the hyper gem in Albur's bag.
" Let's see if this could help...." Mysty took the hyper gem and opened its plug. She then pressed her palm against it. Green lightning energy started entering her body, however like previously, its very painful and her body couldn't handle it. Albur also helped, he placed his hand on Mysty and shared that electric energy. Yet the power is still too strong for the 2 of them to handle.
"I.....can't....take it anymore....." muttered Mysty in pain.
Johnson looked at the 2 of them, he then looked at his robot claw. Then, he placed his hand on Mysty as well. The 2 of them looked at Johnson.
"I will help sharing the voltage as well!" He said.
"Heh, useless struggling."
The missile launched, flying straight at them. But just when the missile is inches away from hitting them, a shockwave was released. It bounced the missile away and knocked Albur and Johnson away. Anomaly noticed there's something glowing down there. Albur and Johnson got back up, they noticed a shining yellow thing in front of them. When the light slowly faded away, they saw what is it. It was Mysty, her body is covered with yellow aura, her eyes are bright yellow and she is levitating. She have entered her awakened form.
"GOD DAMN IT! SHE AWAKENED!" yelled Anomaly.
"Woah.....my heart beat feels....stronger...."
Then, the 3 items in Mysty's bag flew out. Her taser gun, her adventure hiking stick and her flashlight made of CCTV glass. The 3 items reacted to her, they all glowed a bright yellow light floating and orbiting around her.
The Bug fired numerous missiles at her. Mysty looked up, she grabbed her taser and fired it, the electric fired out is way bigger and larger that it destroyed the missiles. The Bug tried to fired plasma cannons on it to get rid of them but Mysty used her buffed extended hiking stick as a whip to controlled the plasma cannon, making the Bug unable to aim for them properly. She even used her flashlight to send out a blinding light that made the Bug's eyes burn. Anomaly was furious, he clicked a button which allowed him to control the Bug manually.
Mysty then looked at Johnson who is still trying to break the Bug's armor and started to help break the armor by using her hiking stick as a whip and her taser to electrocute it. Anomaly kept interrupting them, by firing missiles and plasma orbs at them. Mysty destroyed them all mid-air using her taser.
"The notch is getting bigger, I could break its armor in no time! Help me distract this chunk of metal! " said Johnson.
"I will help defending this Bug!" said Mysty.
Albur looked at the Bug's head, he thought of something.
"Mysty, are you able to launch me all the way up to the Bug's head?"
Mysty looked at Albur, confused, but still, she used her whip to grab Albur and throw him all the way up to the Bug's head.
Anomaly kept on firing missiles at them, while trying to reactivate the vision of the Bug, then, a rifle shot hit him, he turned around, Albur is standing behind him.
"Its been very long Anomaly, it's time you die....."
Anomaly looked at Albur, he then smirked.
"Deliberately looking for hell's gate I see..."
Anomaly fixed the Bug's vision. It then started targeting Johnson but Mysty kept on fending it off. Mysty's attacks are now super powerful that the Bug even got knocked back for a few times.
Anomaly and Albur looked at each other. Albur attacked first by firing a Disabling shot at him, Anomaly dodged it but it still heat seeked onto him, stunning him. Albur took the chance to fire a Hyper Blast but Anomaly still tanked it. He then sent out an electromagnetic pulse that diabled Albur's rifle, he then fired his laser cannon. The cannon blast is so powerful that it's shockwave knocked Albur meters away despite it didn't even hit him directly.
Albur got his rifle back to work and kept attacking Anomaly, but Anomaly simply dodged them and fired his laser cannon, he seemed to have high mastery at the weapon he could even use curve shots and many abilities only master of marksman could do.
Albur's stamina quickly ran out, Anomaly then fired a blast at him. Albur blocked it with his axe but that resulted in it breaking.
"Too strong? Too overpowered? That is what weaklings see me as..." Anomaly aimed at Albur, waiting for the cooldown to finish and fired at him. Albur slowly got back up. He then took out his microphone, turned it to max volume and hit the floor beneath him, sending out an ear-piercing voice feed back. Anomaly backed off, covering two side of his skull.
"Argh! Gosh! My ears!"
"Disabling Shot!"
Albur fired a disabling shot, it disabled the cannon and shut it down. Anomaly looked annoyed, he then boosted himself with his T shaped rocket and charged towards Albur, knocking him very hard as if he was hit by a car. Anomaly got hit cannon back to working and aimed at Albur.
"Perish!"
But then, a punch hit Anomaly's T shape rocket, he looked behind, and saw Covie behind him.
"Howdy howdy!"
Anomaly fired his cannons at Covie, but Covie dodged them all by flying around. She tried to rip off the cannon off Anomaly's hand, but he shook her off and continued firing at her, yet they don't hit her. And despite they hit, she healed herself up quickly.
Albur used his last bit of strength to fire a disabling shot at Anomaly again. Covie healed up Albur when he is stunned.
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Back at Johnson's spot, he managed to cut a shape on the heavily damaged notch on the Bug. He kept kicking and punching that part and even fired his minigun at it. At last, he entered the Bug's body. He looked around, countless colorful wires are hanging in its body. He pulled off every wire he could see, yet the Bug still dosen't appear to stop. He continued climbing in the wires and cables. Until, he found a large glowing object.
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Mysty's attacks damaged the Bug, although not severe but it couldn't fight back confidently like it used to. Missles, nukes, fire breath and laser eyes were all blocked by Mysty and given back to it 2 times stronger. It furiously launched every single missle, every laser bullet hole opened and used up every single fuel. The maniac missle rain made Mysty struggle to block them all. Anomaly even commanded some missles to fly to Albur. Albur hopped around to dodge them and Covie launched him at Anomaly, he shoved the rifle up to his face and fired hyper blasts and disabling shots at him, making him injured. But that dosen't stop him from having the upper hand. His cannons still overpowered Albur's rifle and severely damaged Covie.
"Crap...this dude's durability isn't joking....."
"Tsk tsk tsk. You are NOT a worthy opponent, you're still weak and susceptible, despite having that cyborg? You are all a complete mess...good bye...."
Anomaly reloaded the cannon and without any charging, he pulled the trigger. The cannon glowed, Albur and Covie closed their eyes, accepting their fate.
But then, the Bug suddenly stopped moving, the inertia made Anomaly missed the shot.
"What the- darling! Why do you stop?!"
The Bug then begun to shake violently, and started malfunctioning. Electric flashes and sparks can be seen all over it.
Albur got up, Covie repaired herself. They both tried their best to stay balanced.
"What the hell is happening right now?!" Anomaly looked at the Bug.
Then, a robot claw appeared next to them, climbing up. It was Johnson. Albur quickly helped him climb up.
"Phew, it was hard but, I got rid of its core!" Johnson sighed as he took out a cracked small cyan orb.
Anomaly looked at the Bug, worried and anxious. Albur looked at his rifle, and thought of an idea.
Mysty took the opportunity to land a final blow at the Bug.
"Trinity Wave!"
Mysty's taser, flashlight and hiking stick reacted. They shot an electric beam, a whip air slash and a blinding laser which they combined to form a huge crescent beam, it pierced through the Bug, making glowing yellow cracks all over it. Johnson grabbed on Covie as they flew away. Albur then charged towards Anomaly who is still worrying and shoved the rifle onto his skull while grabbing it.
"Hyper Blast!"
Albur fired, the shockwave sent the two of them flying away. Explosions can be seen on the bug. It slowly got destroyed and collapsed.
Albur and Anomaly landed at a beach nearby, Anomaly's cannon fell in front of him, same as Albur's rifle in front of Albur. The 2 of them stared in each other's eyes, they quickly got up and picked up their weapons, and fired at each other.
After a few seconds, Albur's stomach exploded, blood started slowly coming out from it. He groaned in pain and collapsed on the ground. Anomaly cackled evily.
"Way too slow mortal....."
Albur withstand the pain and stood up.
"Oh yeah? Injuries heal... how about that t...hing on your.....face....."
Anomaly raised his eyebrow, he touched his skull, he then realized the GK flash drive is struck into his skull. Johnson landed right next to him and activated the flash drive. The GK program slowly entered Anomaly's body, he collapsed on the ground, moaning in pain. He started spitting out glitch particles, and slowly, his body started to dissolve.
Covie healed Albur's injuries and Mysty flew to them.
"Dang gang! Another general taken down! " exclaimed Covie.
Albur slowly stood up, Johnson patted his shoulder.
"Well done bro, we did it."
"Heh, yeah."
"Another general killed means another problem solved, am I right?" asked Mysty.
"True." said Albur.
"By the way, we should continue heading to Crimson shall we?" asked Johnson.
"Yeah, let's go!"
Then, Mysty's awakening eneded, her legs went weak and nearly fell. Albur caught her in time and helped her up.
"You alright?"
"Nothing....I am just feeling a bit tired, don't worry about that....."
Mysty smiled, Albur replied her with one as well.
"Alright now its time to look for that coward." Johnson stood up and walked into the woods, scanning every area.
"I thought you apologized to him." Covie flew to search for Wilton too.
Mysty dragged her exhausted body into the woods to help find him too. Albur just stood outside the woods.
"Hey.....mortal...."
Albur turned around, he found that its Anonaly who is talking to him.
"Hate to ask but...could you.....do me a favor?"
Albur looked at him, confused.
"Can you.....toss me .....back onto the Bug?"
Albur looked at the ocean, the Bug's body is still exploding and started sinking into the sea.
"What are you talking about? You're dying. That ship is finished. Going back there won't help with anything."
"Then just say no..."
Anomaly lied on the ground, kept groaning in pain.
Albur scoffed, but then he remembered the interactions of Anomaly with the Bug. He looked at Anomaly again, then made a decision. He slowly approached to him, he charged a rifle shot with power slot 2 and put Anomaly at the gun hole. Anomaly looked at Albur, confused.
"This might hurt a little....."
Albur then fired, the shots blasted Anomaly dozens of meters away. He then landed on the Bug's head, water rose fast. Anomaly turned around, and he smiled at Albur, Albur looked away. Anomaly then slowly dragged his dissolving body towards the Bug's eyes, it is lifeless, Anomaly slowly closed the eyelids of the Bug, and patted it gently.
"Don't worry… I'm here....."
The water level is about to reach Anomaly, he looked at his 80% dissolved body, and smirked.
"A captain…...always goes down with his ship..." he said softly. His body fully dissolved as the water devoured the Bug whole, leaving no traces behind.