Zurakian Stronghold

The remaining elites- aka everyone sans Berserker- gathered in the main control room. They all stood stoically, easily mistaken for statues. The only difference was Adaptarix, looking down at the floor with his arms crossed. They were soon joined by Zurakia, materializing before them with a scowl planted firmly on his face. Turning away from them, he looked at one of the many monitors, tallying up the casualties.

ARES bowed, excitedly announcing, "My liege, your plan was a success! Victory is ours!"

"NO," Zurakia growled, his voice dark and gravelly. Slowly, he turned to the hologram, eyes like daggers, "This is not a victory. The fact they made my fortress practically useless, my troops cannon fodder, and my defenses look like nothing makes this not a victory. I refuse to be made a fool of in my own territory. We will need to bolster our defenses and strengthen our soldiers so this fiasco will never happen again, understand?"

Shocked, ARES hurriedly straightened himself and nodded before disappearing into nothingness.

Shaking his head, Zurakia turned back to the monitor, crossing his arms.


"And Berserker?" Zurakia stopped, shifting his head to look at the voice. Adaptarix slowly raised his gaze to meet Zurakia, glaring at him.

Gritting his teeth, Zurakia exploded into thousands of cubes. Almost looking like a sea of liquid, he swarmed over to the red and dark gray figure, reforming back into his hulking mass. He towered over Adaptarix, matching his glare with one even more ferocious. Unnervingly calm, he replied, "You had better watch your next words very carefully, Adaptarix."

"Are you not going to spare. One. Word," he hissed, his voice filled with malice, "One at all, for our only real loss. Berserker is dead and you sit here talking about your expendable, tin legion."

Zurakia's hands curled up into massive fists. He spoke again, but this time, he spat the words out in disgust, "You have forgotten your place, filth. You all are part of this 'expendable, tin legion,' as you so elegantly put it. Berserker's life didn't matter. None of your lives matter. And you wanna know why? Because I can always make more of you. You are worth no more than the sum of your parts, and I can always replace you." He leaned in close, his voice a quiet hiss, "You should know that more than most, Makuta. Perhaps if your mind continues to resist me, I'll tear it apart. Just. Like. Last. Time."

Flinching, Adaptarix looked away, clenching his fists.

"That's what I thought," Zurakia backed away, straightening himself and storming out of the room.

Hundreds of abnormally large missiles begin slashing through the sky far above the fortress, each missiles being propelled by it's own, kakama propulsion system, and an unnaturally powerful force of gravity.

Each seems intent on smashing down upon the fortress.

"Looks like we're not out of the woods yet."
"Apparently not. You know what to do."

ARES nodded.

The assembly lines start up, pumping all their resources into gathering the energy to rebuild a certain someone
Berserker replacement: 0%

Almost instantly after uttering the words, he reappeared in front of them.
Have you learned nothing?

     Decu watches the missiles disintegrate as they pass through the field. In his mind, the missiles were not aimed for the Stronghold of a mad man, they were made solely to turn Decu's world into a living Karzahni one piece at a time. He will not have this. Whoever put the universe up to this twisted task will soon learn that their precious universe can be destroyed. Anything that pains Decu with cruel shards of sound will be silenced forever. When his reasoning returns, he will either see the error of his ways, or enforce them with selected knowledge.

When an ant ceaselessly searches for your home, it does not matter if it is one's enemy. They are exterminated all the same.

Suddenly, he disappears, then reappears directly behind Darren, hand on his shoulder.
I will not let you go this time.

OOC: Since it wasn't made clear that the time dilator pulled Darren into his time zone again, I feel confident I can do this.

IC: The hidden Surveyor Wing speeds overhead silently and uses magnetism to violently rip Darren upwards into the air. In conjunction with this, an illusion is extended to Darren, causing him to vanish from view. His body and energy temperature is also suddenly lowered to a temperature matching the surrounding air.

If all goes well, Darren is pulled forcefully right into the form of the Surveyor Wing, which, holding onto him through magnetism, darts quickly out of the region un-noticeably and deposits Darren over by the highway positioned in the Hand of Arlen topic.  

The ground quake attacks continue, however, the missiles now self destruct in the upper atmosphere, sending the pent up seismic waves to travel downwards on their own.

Waves of disintegration energies suddenly blaze downwards upon the fortress. Calculated specifically to vaporize the built up missile shells, these waves wipe the missiles away while the next batch of attacks descend upon the fortress. 

The next batch of attacks suddenly switch projectiles. Hundreds of high gravity kanoka begin raining down upon the fortress. These attacks are consolidated and aimed at two specific locations about the fortress. One point towards the right of the fortress, and the other towards the left.

These kanoka, now aimed about the outskirts of the ZE field, smash themselves into the ground, quickly causing two high gravity centers to develop on opposite sides of the fortress. As the attacks continue to rain down upon these centers, the gravity centers begin to rapidly increase in strength and size, quickly developing their own substantial gravitational pulls which begin to warp the environment in the region while also pulling strongly on all matter and energy around them. The fortress should begin to feel the two opposing gravitational pulls pulling at it's energy and structure. 

The fortress' ZE aura keeps it from being dragged apart by the gravity. However, two figures- Adaptarix and Zurakia- emerge once again, standing atop the giant robot.

The fortress continues to charge up.
Berserker completeion: 20%