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Chapter 23: Colors of Victory

“You’ve become a thorn in our side, Wimpy Me!” snarled Spectrum.

“Then I’m doing the Plumbers proud!” replied Phury. The two clashed and their fighting styles looked more like wrestling. Spectrum then tilted her belt and pressed her ring to it before returning it to its horizontal state.

“Shining Red Finish!” it announced.

“With blood and rage of crimson red,” said Spectrum as she pressed her ring to her gunsword, “ripped from a corpse so freshly dead,” she unfolded her weapon to sword mode and stabbed Phury in the belly and raised her up, “together, with our hellish hate,” Spectrum then punched Phury off and converted her weapon back into gun mode, “we’ll burn you all!” She fired a shot and it turned into a demonic red bull with four horns and sharp teeth. The bull headbutted Phury into a wall and broke it. “That is your fate!” Spectrum then jumped into the air and stuck her foot out. Her leg was surrounded in red light that came off her like fire and she dove at her Plumber double, cracking several of her bones. Phury was out of action. Spectrum looked to Sora. “You know, my double always prattles on about hope. Let me tell you something, Blue Lantern. Hope is an illusion. A farce to make people believe that things can go their way when they won’t.”

“You’re as wrong as Vilgax,” replied Sora. “Hope is what inspires people to journey among the stars in this universe. Hope is what gives my father and his friends and family the strength they need to defeat people like you. Hope is what fuels my heart on this day, this very hour!”

“Then you’re as weak as her.” Spectrum then leapt at Sora and had her ring hand above her head. Sora then weaved around her and jabbed at a point in her shoulder, causing it to go limp. Spectrum tried to get it to move, but it was paralyzed. “WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!” she roared.

“Venusian Akido,” explained Sora. “Learned that from Michael who learned it from-!” Ex then slammed a punch into his back, causing him to cry out.

“You use the weapon of Ka Faraq Gatri!” she said. When she spoke, the eyes flashed at every syllable and her voice was laced with the harsh, grating, metallic tones of the Daleks.

“Yeah, I do!” grunted Sora. He swung a knife-hand chop, but Ex caught it.

“All techniques have been studied! The Doctor’s fighting style will NOT help you!”

“No, but perhaps SHE will.” Once Sora finished his sentence, Rosadera grabbed Ex’s head and flung her into a wall. Ex picked herself up and locked eyes with Rosadera.

“You will be exterminated!” barked the Dalek-like Kamen Rider.

“I don’t think that’s likely,” replied Rosadera. “If I recall, you joined Dalek Caan. He stole Chizaran technology and built your belt from that, didn’t he?”

“Correct! What you once used for colonizing uninhabited worlds is now used for glorious destruction!”

“Even War would be hard-pressed to call destruction glorious.”

“Then she has forgotten herself!”

“Wrong. In any event, that thing still requires a charge, doesn’t it? Waste your Rider Kick on me and you’ll be flattened.”

“I am fully charged! Records indicate you will show mercy! You are a friend of associates of the Doctor!” Ex then pressed a button on her belt.

“MAXIMUM EXTERMINATION!” it announced. Ex somersaulted into the air as the belt fired a bolt of blue light at Rosadera. Ex then unfolded herself so that her foot stuck out in a flying kick and both she and the bolt hit Rosadera. Rosadera screamed in pain as her skeleton could be seen in the light. She then exploded and Ex landed.

“ROSADERAAAAAAaaaaoh wait, what am I saying?” muttered Sora once he got over his fear. Once the fires of the explosion died, Rosadera was revealed to be rubbing her stomach.

“Unscrambling the insides,” she groaned, “very unpleasant.”

“Impossible! You are not a member of Beyond City!” barked Ex in disbelief.

“No, I’m one of the five Major Chizaran Princesses, the Pink Princess of Peace.” Rosadera then summoned a pink energy ball in each hand. “Check your records.” Ex did so, resulting in her backing away in fear.

“Mercy!” she begged.

“Come again?” asked Rosadera.

“Mercy!!”

“Once! More!”

“MERCYYYY!!” Rosadera turned the energy balls into tendrils, wrapped them around Ex, and slammed her against the walls and deck of the Rumble-Disc before throwing her hard onto Spectrum, right after the Red Lantern Kamen Rider had restored her arm’s mobility. The impact was so hard, it knocked the two women out of their transformations. Rosadera then used her powers to tear the wall paneling off and bind the evil women to the floor, placing small strips of paneling on their mouths with only their noses to breathe through. Rosadera then dismissed her armor and picked Ben’s Phury up.

“You go help your friends and family!” she said to Sora. “I’ll stay behind and heal her!”

“Got it!” replied Sora. He then took off and Rosadera enveloped herself and Ben’s Phury in a pink aura.


While the fight went on, Rath made it to the Engine Room. He saw the Lords and other enemies scattered around his teammates. He then looked angrily to Batman. “…YOU DIDN’T LEAVE ONE FOR ME?!” he roared. “LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, BATMAN, GUARDIAN OF GOTHAM!”

“Oh, for crying out tears!” groaned Life. “BEN!”

“WHAT?!” Life then pointed to the display. “…Right,” mumbled Rath. He then tapped the Omnitrix symbol on his chest and he shrunk down and became a short, squat, broad-shouldered humanoid in a green and white mechanical suit with only a bald, purple scalp poking out of the neck. He had nozzles all over his scalp and arms and there was a window on his stomach that showed various gases flowing around his insides. “GUTROT!” he shouted in a gruff, Brooklyn accent. His right eye squinted. “All right, let’s see what we got here,” he grunted as he waddled over to the console. He looked at the chemical formula for the gas. “Ooh la la, that’s real bad stuff. Well, thanks to the formula, I know the counteragent gas. All right, hook me up.” Vilgax found a tube and attached it to one of the nozzles on Gutrot’s head. “All right, here we go!” Gutrot then forced a gas through the tube and into the Dark Energon gas supply. The computer reported what happened.

“Gas contamination at 50%. …60%. …70%. …80%. Unable to counteract. 90%. …Gas neutralized. Unable to fulfill primary function.”

“Now to take control of this thing!” growled Vilgax.

“Back away from the console, Vilgax!” snarled Weaver’s voice as he, Rift, and Nemesis arrived. “We do NOT want this situation to escalate!”

“GET AWAY FROM THEM!” shouted Vortex’s voice. The Vortex Driver and Herald O’s belt then spoke.

“Final Attack!” announced the Vortex Driver.

“End of the world!” called Herald O’s belt.

“RIDER VORTEX KICK!” called Vortex as she and Herald O delivered their Rider Kicks on Weaver and Rift, knocking them out of their transformations and into Nemesis. The heroes then dashed into the room, even with the Autobots stooping to cram themselves in there. The Rumble-Disc then shook.

“Balance at risk!” warned the ship. Just then, Sora flew into the room.

“Sorry for crowding this place,” he said. “What’s going on?”

“Tennyson, you will NOT scupper our plans!” growled Khan as he picked himself up.

“Oh, no, no scuppering here,” replied Gutrot as his hand hovered over the door controls. “Oh, and one more thing…” He then expelled gas from his arm and quickly shut the door.

“MY EYES!” screamed Nemesis. His compatriots were wailing at the tear gas they just got a whiff of.

“Ben, what was that?!” asked Life.

“Sulfur Dioxide,” replied Gutrot. “Don’t ask me how I know or how I do it. Hey, your ‘gas’ is as good as mine, am I right?!” He then laughed at the pun while everyone else groaned. Rosadera and Ben’s Phury then appeared in pink light just as the Omnitrix symbol flashed red and Gutrot turned back into Ben.

“The ship’s listing to port!” announced Vilgax. “We’re turning towards the desert behind the power plant!

“Everyone, against the wall!” called Vortex. Everyone dashed to the wall and altered the ship’s course. It soon crashed harmlessly into the desert and broke apart.


Once everyone got out, the villains looked to see the instrument of their wrath destroyed and Bellwood still standing. Nemesis growled and looked to the heroes. “You have made me one rabid fox!” he shouted. Then he noticed that someone was missing. “…Where’s Greenie?!”

“Knock knock,” said Glyph’s voice.

“…Who’s…there?” asked Nemesis. He turned around and was punched in the face by Glyph’s holo-form. Khan growled.

“Losing the Tome at that speed made it return to my ship. Thanks to you, I can’t simply write our escape away!” he snarled at the heroes. “But I always have a backup plan!” He pulled out a communicator. “Author to Imperium, six to return!” The villains then vanished.

“…I guess that’s that for now,” remarked Ben.

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