with a burst of energy pandora sends everyone and everything flying hundreds of meters away from him.
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"sir, it looks like he's risen, they failed." one of the dragon officers on the bridge of the fable says to Zorkorin

zorkorin studies the battleground on the holo-table "tell all ships to fire on his location."

the leaders of the other nations turn their heads to their officer's telling the same. shortly all ships in orbit merge over above the battlefield and they fire all cannons on pandora, including the CICT.
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when the orbital bombardment ceases, there is a small patch of grass within the blast zone left standing Pandora is standing upon it, unscratched and unphased, the rest of the blast zone is a wasteland. pandora looks up at the ships above
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"SIR, SIR" the pilot of one of the ships calls, freaking out.

"what is it captain?"

"the ship, i've lost control. something hacked our system and is remote piloting our ship"

"do something!"
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pandora smiles. seven ships from orbit change their coarse and nosedives towards the battlefield. they simultaneously crash into the CICT.

the wind vibrates into krobelous' ear. "call back our main forces into a retreat, make sure they retrieve the ICT, leave just enough to keep their focus here, so i can kill every last one of them"

rain transforms into her full transformation and flies over the fresh wasteland and fires a volley of fireballs at pandora.

pandora closes his fist. arcs of lightening strike rain from nowhere.

rain falls to the floor, reverting back to her human form. clouds form just over rain and rain comes falling down in a column on top of rain.

"NO!" shouts zatarra as he sprints across the waste land and pushes rain out from under the rain. he stands and stares at pandora in blood lust.

"i advise you to take her and leave" pandora commands zatarra "before i take from you what they took from me"

zatarra draws his swords and charges at pandora

molten rock flows out of the pores from his elbow down to the tips of his fingers, covering his arm in molten rock that forms into a blade. pandora locks zatarra's blades with this.

"my mission is to stop you, and i will"

"you will fail" pandora brings his free hand to zatarra's stomach, and fires an energy beam into his gut pushing zatarra all the way back and landing next to rain.
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amongst this chaos rindhunt relocates malak and as he's getting back up on his feet from pandora's energy pulse she tackles him and pins his wrists to the ground "why'd you do it? why?"

"All soldiers, listen up!" Krobelus commands over the radio. "I want all availible forces to retrieve the ICT and make a retreat. All other forces will remain to combat the enemies of the Great One, and cover the retreat of your brothers!"
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"I did it for you!" Malak spits through his voice synthesiser. Malak throws Rindhunt off him. Thanks to the armor and Krobelus's venom Malak is stronger than before. "I was dead, the chimera took my life, and transferred it you. The Great One, gave it back to me," Malak says with disdain for the title 'Great One.'

Voltroke pushes himself up on one elbow and spits blood.
"What the hell kind of power was that? Must have cracked a lung," he says, wincing slightly. However, all his pain is forgotten as he lays his eyes on Malak once more. Not having heard any of what was said between him and Rindhunt, Voltroke goes full transformation, swiftly lopes to Malak, takes a leap, goes back into his mid-transformation stage, and then tackles him to the ground.

"Holy shit, I know I'm not that clumbsy..." Sive mutters under her breath, pushing herself once again from the ground. Quickly she remembers Kosidious, backing away from him as her hand reaches for her whip.

"you have your life back, so why don't you use it to fight for something you believe in. not sell your soul to that monster" rindhunt pleads with tears rolling down her cheeks as she points to pandora.

charcoal recovers from the shockwave emitted by pandora. he locates gastrin who's trying to recover himself. charcoal transforms into his full transformation, pins gastrain to the ground, bites down on gastrin's head and starts pulling.

gastrin retaliates by continuing to pound charcoal's head with the peacemaker

chimera royal guardsmen dive down from the capital ships above down to the planet's surface. each of them lands with a large thump and a dust cloud. they surround pandora then throw hundreds of energy blasts at him

out of the ground bursts magma golems, and giant snakes made out of solid rock. the water in the air forms into water wolves. these beings start jumping infront of the energy attacks and start attacking the chimera soldiers.

"Get off of me, you oversized monkey!" Malak yells as he loses his helmet again. Malak jacked up on venom grabs Voltroke, and climbs to his feet. Malak lifts Voltroke over his head, and throws him at Charcoal.

Voltroke's attack has an effect that Malak does not notice immediatly. Voltroke has cut the primary tube supplying venom to Malak's brain. Thanks to gravity emptying the venom from the tube Malak immediatly develops a colossal headache. Malak sinks to one knee as his mind just goes into a haze.

Voltroke gets up and walks back towards Malak.
"Get off your knees asshole. Here, let me help you up!" Says Voltroke as he uppercuts Malak. Watching Malak fly through the air, he sees the liquid pouring out of the tubes.
"What the f***...?"

"get off of him!" rindhunt yells pushing voltroke down to the ground. she then rushes over to malak and kneels beside him. she lifts him up onto her lap "whats wrong?"

a chimera soldier sneaks around behind pandora. its not like pandora didnt notice him, but pandora didnt find him a threat. the soldier cuffs pandora in the electro magnet cuffs.

pandora smirks. he easily pulls apart his wrists. he turns around and hods his wrists by the head of the chimera soldier who is looking at him in horror. pandora relaxes his arms and the magnets pull themselves back together crushing the head of the chimera soldier that was between them.

"I'll get you for that," Malak mutters toward Voltroke. Thanks in part to Voltroke's uppercut, Malak's headache is all the worse. "Get that thing off my neck, if the venom reaches my brain I'll go wild again." Malak gestures to the electronic box attached to his neck via a thick metal collar.

Voltroke stands back up and looks curiously at the device Rindhunt is removing from Malak.
"Looks like they have some new tech...perhaps there are a few people in the cult with half a brain after all. We'll have to worry about that later though. Right now, we need a battle plan for whatever the hell that is," says Voltroke, pointing at Pandora.
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Kosidius giggles as he sees Sive reach for her whip.
"Do you honestly think a piece of leather will do a damn thing?" he says. "Well, now that I think about it, I haven't met many brainy women... I suppose you're no exception," he says cackling.
Kosidius begins dancing a little jig, closing in on Sive as he goes. Just as he is within range of her whip, he dashes in with blurring speed and executes a series of punches to Sive's stomache, finishing with an uppercut that puts her on her back.
"Are you used to that position, deary?" He says, cackling uproariously.

Sive gasps at the fall in surprize. She snakes her whip around one of Kodisious's ankels and jerks his feet from under him bringing him too his ass. Jumping up before he has a chance to get to his feet she takes two steps back and cracks the whip twice on his chest and once to each side of his cheeks. " Don't call me deary you rat bastard." Stepping away she grabbed two throwing knives sending them right into each of his thighs.

rindhunt pulls the device off of malak. "are you alright?"

pandora walks up to rindhunt and malak. along his walk a chimera soldier jumps into pandora's blind-spot. without moving his gaze off of the two pandora obliterates the chimera soldier with an energy beam large enough to engulf an entire grovle.

charcoal throws gastrin by his head into sive. he shakes his head trying to shake off the dizziness from gastrin's attacks

"Thank you," Malak says pulling off the collar, and subsequently rubbing his neck. "Rind, Voltroke, follow my lead," he says quietly as Pandora approaches. Malak replaces his helmet, and gets to his feet. "How may I serve you, my lord?" He asks through the helmet's voice synthesizer, while bowing to Pandora.

Voltroke kneels before Pandora.
"We are yours to command, lord," he says.

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Kosidius cackles insanely and rips the two throwing knives out of his legs. Standing up, he licks his own blood from the blades and throws them aside.
"Such petty attempts. I expected more, even from a woman... but you truly ARE a failure, now aren't you?" he says with a noticeably dark and sinister edge to his voice as he lifts Gastrin and throws him to the side.
Grabbing Sive by the throat, Kosidius lifts her into the air. He begins to tighten his grip, digging his nails in and causing blood to trickle down from those points on her neck.
Watching her gasp for air, he smirks.
"Your blood... your life... your soul... they are mine."

Dots dart before Sive's eyes as the darkness starts to take over her vision. Using the last bits of force left in her body she uses one had to claw at Kosiduis's grip around her throat. The other hand going for another dagger in her belt. Grabbing it, she slashes his throat, cutting deep. Her legs wrapping around him, freeing her hands so she can break his grip. Then jumping back off him so her foot connects to his jaw with a crack. Sive hits the ground hard gasping for air and coughing as the oxygen starts to fill her lungs and her vision starts to clear. "Not yet you son of a bitch." Sive replied, getting up and removing the blood from her dager.