Fighting Aios: Part 1

No, this is NOT a new saga, just a story that's supposed to fill in holes in the continuity and to simply entertain you with my longest tale yet. Because it's so long, it has to be split into two parts. Yes, Metal Frost and Mecha Snowyclaw ARE appearing, along with Copy Ledra, Twilight and Xaia, just to give backstory on ALL of those characters, along with "glue" to fill in the gap about why Metal Frost is now loyal to the Vramaasians. Also, I think that Raika, Sandy, Kragok, LaSalle, Emile, Aios and Zira, along with Metal Frost, are underused characters, so now, here is an ENTIRE story devoted to them. Enjoy.

Raika stared up at the metal ceiling with the shaking bulb swinging back and forth like a pendulum.
The rotten bed beneath her creaked under the weight of a heavy phantom, and she chewed the tobacco inside her body, trying to take all the corrosive power within it to get ready for the battle they were going to do.
Unsheathing and sheathing her claws carelessly, Raika felt the plane shudder and sway beneath the bunkers, their trusty pilots Rouge and Cyrus flying the plane. Despite being professionals, though, the plane was still battered by the fight between pilot and tempest. Raika winced as she heard the thunder of a thunderbird as it swooped to attack the escort.
Above her, Sandy played Go Fish with a guard named Erika, only that "Go Fish" was replaced with "Go Kill". A metaphor, Raika guessed.
Raika sighed as she glanced at a picture of a robot wolf, shooting down a winged wolf.
"Pink... you were so good to me... then, out of the blue... Mecha Snowyclaw shot you down when you were Legend Pink and threw you into the woods... I will avenge you. I hope you are having a good time with the Jamaasian Heroes. Still, I will not forget that horrifying day..."
Wiping away a toxic tear, Raika grabbed another chewable tobacco to absorb its destructive energies and tried to meditate as to get ready for the fight.

Meanwhile, Aios, the cracked metal mask with glowing red eyes, ordered around Mecha Frost to get him the right coal to power his inner furnace.
"No, doofus! I told you to get the DELUXE premium coal, not the ULTRA premium coal! Just get me some metal to burn, I can run for a hundred years without a refill." snarled Aios.
Metal Frost shed some liquid hydrogen sweat.
"Eh... yes... let me get some brass shipped in from Inak Cove. The fighter ships sunken there are good mining sources for metal, Overlord." beeped Metal Frost, her flaming spirit armor flickering.
"Go, now!"
Metal Frost turned on her hi-powered rockets, and blasted down the metal hallway.
"Oh, how much I hate that mecha moron. The only reason why I let her serve me is that she came to me with the shell of Nanyte's body. That former war general was a good data source. Now, I am as powerful as ever. In return, I weaponized her. I kind of regret this, despite the lovely body to pick new weapons out of.." sighed Aios.
Getting out his ammo, Aios zoned in on a Serena-shaped dart board, only with bullet holes and smoking bullets in the titanium board.
"Firing Nanite Blaster. Target acquired. Destroying." beeped Aios, his cannons starting to spin.
A green energy filled the barrels, and started rapidly firing like a madman.
The metal mask ceased fire (by the way, he looks like one of those crushers in the Mario franchise combined with E-123 Omega from Sonic and Zios from Animal Jam) as he saw a huge, gaping hole in the eye of Serena's cutout.
"I hate that white phantom. She wrecked Zira's programming with a computer virus, then stole the Quantum Dial that would grant me enough power to enslave all other dimensions! That would be my sweet victory, my final chance to redeem myself as not a laughingstock of Jamaasian Legend, but a robot to be revered and feared by all! Tonight, the Metal Age shall start..."
Aios cackled, but was pitifully interrupted by Metal Frost.
She bowed, then held out a chunk of twisted brass to Aios.
"M'lord, your fuel."
Aios glared at Metal Frost, infuriated at her interruption, then groaned.
"Go help Zira in the infirmary. I shall prepare for the forces headed towards the Cybernetic Castle. Command Mecha Snowyclaw to hack into Pyro's database while they're still training the Mobian Heroes(Gawd, I really want the blueprints for the Roboticized Master Roboticizer and legionization... thought Aios) and take the blueprints for two processes: the Roboticized Master Roboticizier and the art of Legionization. They will be handy for those I find unfit to merely roboticize." growled Aios, snatching the chunk of brass.
"Yes, your Robotness!" cried Metal Frost, her deep pixel eyes glaring up at Aios.
Once more, she blasted down the metal hallway down from the throne room.
As Metal Frost vanished into the vastness of Cybernetic Castle, Aios sighed and patted the iron throne next to him.
"Zira... I do care about you, the scarred crane, but now that you've also received roboticization and weaponization, you are a threat to my iron rule. I hope that you can be saved from Serena's infliction (I think it was called Roboenza, thought Aios), but with much damage undoing your weaponization." growled Aios.
Glaring up at the bright gas lights, Aios sneered.
"You are going down, rebels."

Xaia meditated inside her stone, fighting back the spirits imprisoned within her, when Twilight loudly came crashing in, disrupting her slumber.
Coming out of the Odd Keystone she resided in, Xaia growled as Twilight screeched to a halt right in front of the weathered shrine she sat on, a hole leading up to a crystal cavern sprinkling light on her stone.
"What? Can't you see I'm trying to put all of the spirits within me to rest?" snarled Xaia, wrapping part of her spiritual mist around Twilight.
Twilight started to seem to get uncomfortable.
"Ledra of the Jamaasian Heroes has joined us, ma'am! Is it time to go join the forces in Vramaa to try to help them destroy Jamaa?" cried Twilight, his glowing fur sparkling red. Apparently, Twilight was under great stress.
"Good. Her DNA-copying ability will come in handy, even though our allies do not have any traces of DNA... if they ever had any, that is." growled Xaia.
Letting go of Twilight, Twilight heaved a great sigh of relief.
Copy Ledra hurried in, face hard as steel.
Twilight applauded.
"Welcome to the 'dark' side, Ledra!" cried Twilight. Xaia's creepy green eyes started to analyze everything Ledra had, from her bulky muscles to her large wings to the strings of golden DNA-infused mist encircling her.
"Wuh-why I am here? I remember being put in a container and..." stammered
CL covered her mouth before important bits could be revealed. Despite being a mere copy, CL acted like the real deal and even knew what to do.
Twilight raised a furry eyebrow, then sighed.
"Must be something from your past, Ledra, getting mixed up. DNA altering, I'm sure, can make errors in your body. Follow me into the portal. Screech and Xaia are coming too." said Twilight, spreading his wings.
Xaia smiled, her green lips twisting in an ugly way.
"I will open the portal, Miss Ledra." hissed the spirit.
Raising arms of mist, Xaia chanted a spell.
Immediately, a purple and green portal opened, the white core of it swirling like the black hole in the middle of the Milky Way.
Ledra trembled at the might of the portal, then dove in.
Twilight smiled, and dove in after her.
Xaia's mist arms jittered at the mana it was taking to safely transport beings with much power, but the death spirit held out.
Screech followed, this time making a small impact.
Last but not least, Xaia dove in, smiling crookedly.

LaSalle and Kragok were kissing on the bed, nuzzling each other (despite LaSalle being made of metal), when Emile burst into her hi-tech room.
"What?" beeped LaSalle. "You know better than to burst in when the computer on the door says 'Do Not Enter'. If you need to tell me something, stream the thought files to me!"
Emile waved his robotic paw, with Sputnik by his side.
"Sputnik just intercepted a message. Edmund has also investigated, because he was a mecha moron-"
"Don't say that!" snapped LaSalle, startling Emile and Sputnik.
"Sorry. Because he was a robot slave before, he may know something, but it was something about Aios wanting to destroy the rebels. I think you might want to investigate with us." growled Emile.
LaSalle sighed.
"Graham recently weaponized me, giving me a black vest like Mecha Snowyclaw and many, many weapons, but alas, its nearly impossible to de-roboticize me now. I'll insert a Speed chip into myself for best speed, lets go." growled LaSalle.
Kragok took out a double-barrel pistol from his utility belt.
"Fine. I may now be a mecha slave anymore, but I can still be a big help. Just you see!" said Kragok.
Stroking the tiger's fur, LaSalle let out an uncanny purr.
"Of course you will, m'love."
Kragok smiled down at his robot girlfriend.
"Your beautiful firing will strike terror into the hearts of our enemies, but adoration into mine!" replied Kragok.
Emile turned away and started making gagging noises. Sputnik covered his eyes.
"Eh, no matter." said LaSalle. "As Emile and Sputnik are portraying right now, we should cut out the the goo-goo stuff and get to work."
Kragok nodded.
"Open sesame!"
A portal opened, and they dove into the depths of the portal, headed towards Vramaa.

Jade sighed, gliding in between the basketball hoops.
"Good!" cried her mother, Crystal.
"You sure I can do this, mother?" muttered Jade.
Crystal sighed, rolling her eyes.
"Of course. If your brother can do it, so can you. In fact, Frost could do it with no sweat at all." said Crystal.
Jade rolled her eyes.
"Mo-ther, why the hell are you talking about this 'Frost' right now? She's powerful, yes, but so is Onyx. Just give me tips on climbing with my knucklaws, okay?" sighed Jade.
"Meh. She's nearly 23 now, but time here in Neo Mobius passes much more quickly than in her dimension. I think you should visit Enchantix there sometimes, the Ploompy resorts are very well maintained." replied Crystal.
"Crystal! Over here! Bayetta needs some help with managing her cyborg limbs!" cried a voice.
"Silver, honey, I'm helping Jade with her climbing skills. Get grandma Bunnie to do it, please. Bunnie is still young enough to help her granddaughter. The Mobian Heroes need a lot of training, but I need to help my daughter."
As Crystal and Silver bickered about who trained who, Jade concentrated on her knuckles, climbing on the rocks propped against their large mansion.
"Left... right... left... right..." muttered Jade.
Suddenly, she saw a bat hanging from a rock, and yelped.
"What?" muttered the bat.
"Mobini! Aargh!"
"Lol, wut?" growled the bat. "I'm sleeping here, no need to be afraid of me."
Jade's sharp knuckles slid out of the rock, and she started to fall.
"Aah! Dawson! Help!" cried Jade, eyes widening as the ground started to loom.
Jade's eyes darted left and right, looking for a green wisp to use to follow the trail of floating rings to back to the wall, but alas, it just so happened that all of the green wisps were somewhere else eating berries.
"Dawson! Tails-Ko! Bayetta!" cried Jade, pulling names off the top of her head, trying to think of all of her friends that could fly.
"Onyx! Pearl! Anyone! Please!"
"Jade, calm down, its not that high u-"
Crystal's eyes widened as she saw her daughter plummeting to the ground, flailing madly as she tried to glide.
"Sheesh. I should've known."
Suddenly, a black streak came out of nowhere, and snatched up Jade, carrying her up.
"Oh, hi, Onyx." said Jade, suddenly unfazed.
The Shadow-like hedgehog smiled, his Miles-prower hairdo rustling in the wind. His jeans were dirty, yes, but that made him even more sexy.
"Yep. Mom was getting too crazy with her hammer, so I decided to come and be with you." muttered Onyx.
Suddenly, his rocket-shoes ceased fire, and they were lowered down to the ground softly.
As Jade got off, quite roughly for such a slim teenager, Crystal sighed as she finished bickering with Silver, knowing to not worry that Onyx saved her daughter, and turned to Onyx and Jade.
"You two, don't go goo-goo on me again. I know you have a crush on each other, that's what." said Crystal, bating her eyes all Rouge-like, her voice even going like the devil's.
Jade rolled her eyes.
"Pu-lease, mother. Just cease the training and let us go to Vramaa and help the Phantom Rebels. We're not babies, you know." said Jade.
Crystal sighed, turning away.
"If you insist. I'm starting up the Tiger Shark with Tails-Ko, getting the Frunades and gettting the others. You formed the group, after all. I'll fill in for Pearl as Guardian." muttered Crystal.
As her mother used her bionic leg to fly away, Jade beamed.
"My first mission, earned by sassiness. I think that we can easily get the Yellow Chaos Emerald from Aios, fair and square, helping the Rebels defeat him and destroy the Quantum Dial."

In Hyrestia, they were fighting another ice golem, trying to train, when all of a sudden...
"Aargh!" cried Pink, clutching her head. "Huh-headache!"
Tempest's eyes widened, but it was too late.
All of a sudden, the arm of the ice golem whipped out, exploding on contact with the winged wolf.
"Pink!" cried Tempest, running over.
Frost threw an icy cold arrow of icefire at the golem, and watched it melt into a puddle.
"Gurloargh largh woarhg!" moaned the creature, its features slowly mixing with the ground, feeding the plants a supply of water.
All of the heroes, including Amanda and Ignacio, ran over to the body of Pink.
The wolf was lying on the ground, pelt soaked with blood, with ice shrapenel impaled in her fur and bruises covering herself. She breathed hollowly, heaving with pain.
Tempest's eyes were reddening as she filled with anger.
"Frost! Save her! Now!" shrieked Tempest, shaking the leopard.
Vicky cried out, but Tempest knocked her ally away.
"I-I don't have the powers to save someone in such severe condition!" yelped Frost.
Suddenly, the phoenix clothes on her melted, and became elf helmet, phoenix armor without the wings, a blue legend glove, and her regular old green tail armor.
"I-I can try with my healing tail armor... but I sense Amanda has the power." muttered Frost.
Amanda's eyes widened.
"Nonsense! I am but a normal human being! Why do I, of all people, have the power?"
Ignacio, however, pumped his fist in the air!
"Yes! She does! No wonder why she keeps on beating me in healing on World of Warcraft!" cried Ignacio.
Savior rolled her eyes, and so did the rest of the Jamaasians.
"What a geek." they said in unison.
Amanda quivered as she thought about what the feral animals could do to her if she didn't save Pink. Probably tear her to pieces and burn her to a crisp with their powerful magic, she thought.
"Oh-okay... I'll try my best." muttered Amanda, holding up trembling hands to the winged wolf. By then, Pink's breathing was slowing, and her body was forming into the weak orb of light.
Suddenly, a white aura surrounded the child's hands, and the bruises started to turn back to pink fur.
"Wuh-what?" cried Amanda, eyes widening.
Savior pounced, and landed on Pink. Amanda tensed, wondering if she did something wrong, but then Savior started to do the same thing with her front paws.
Slowly, Pink's blood seeped back into her body, shadowy rainbows sprouting and vanishing as the magic worked its way towards Pink's mind, healing her as it went.
The others watched in utter amazement, seeing the Twoleg's power work.
Mist swirled around Pink, and all of a sudden, metal started to appear where the wounds were.
"What is going on?!" yelped Tempest, still high-strung.
Frost nudged her ally.
"Calm down, Maximus Tempest. Right now the only thing that's to the max are your emotions." said Frost, rolling her eyes.
Tempest snarled, then sighed.
"Alright, I admit that I overreacted. Its just... the omen that Mira issued, its scaring me. She also told me something... Vicky is not the child of Mira and Zios. She has no blood connections to Frost."
Frost's eyes widened.
"No way!"
Vicky sighed.
"I was suspecting the same thing. When I saved Snow from herself, she told me that all our memories of Mira and Zios were fake, even though they really did tell us the prophecy of her corruption. She saw herself wearing a necklace, laced with power, but that would eventually kill her. Snow said that her end was near, and that I should save the world before I save her." said Vicky.
Frost was trembling, but just then, she realized what was happening to Pink.
"I get it... Pink's injures are so severe, the magic has to legionize her to save her from the wounds. She'll keep her free will, with a power boost. Good, huh?" sighed Frost.
Suddenly, just as her lips stopped flapping, Pink got up, metal covering her like patches on an old teddy bear.
"I'm..... a cyborg now? Well, that explains why I feel heavier yet smarter and more powerful." said Pink, voice very soft.
Frost managed a pained smile.
"I guess we'll make the most of this. Amanda and Savior, see if you can train Pink to use magic and technology in sync. Lets all take a rest, that battle wore us all out. And Vicky... I think you must train a bit. I don't want you to get injured, seeing what happened to Pink."

Everything was tense as the rebel helicopter approached the dark castle Aios lived in, and the rebels were ready.
Heavy stones were tied to their gooey pelts, so they could sink quickly to the ground so radar couldn't detect them, then use their parachutes at the last minute. It was risky, but necessary to infiltrate the base full of hi-tech and advanced weapons. In fact, Aios had millions of nuclear bombs he could easily use to destroy an entire continent.. but of course, he wanted to toy with the rebels and see them all legionized/roboicized.
Raika fiddled with her armor, making sure nothing vital in her body was exposed.
Sandy rolled her eyes.
"Don't get your tentacles in a flux, we'll be fine. The Mobian Heroes promised to help, and we have de-roboticization technology on hand to recruit Snowyclaw, too." said Sandy, smiling with her eye.
Raika growled.
"How can you be so sure?" replied the black phantom, her slimy pelt gray now due to how many good deeds she was doing.
Sandy rolled her eyes twice.
"Seriously, calm down. Things get out of control when you think they will. Re-lax."
Raika huffed.
"Fine. Let's just dive already, I want to see the Quantum Dial destroyed and Aios defeated, along with his precious team of robots called the Omegas (counterparts of the Alphas) and Zira. Still, why hasn't your mother destroyed the Quantum Dial yet?" growled tthe phantom. flexing her claws.
Sandy sighed.
"You won't like this... but her ego makes her think that destroying the little clock in front of Aios's eyes will do good."
Raika screamed.
"Why?! That's a fool's gambit!"
Suddenly, though, jus as she finished, the payload doors beneath them opened, and they plummeted to the ground.

Mecha Snowyclaw typed on the Cybernetic Castle's main computer, viewing the files on Pyro's database, looking for information on Mobian robotics, and Megaman X robotics too.
"Hmm... interesting." she beeped. "They had the process of roboticization many years before us, and its very similar. Maybe our process was modeled after theirs. Plus... I just figured out how to give a robot a true free will, just from viewing the files on Megaman X, like that would do us good. Hmm... legionization and master roboticization seem promising."
Just as she finished downloading all the robotics files, all of a sudden, the red sirens on the computer started wailing.
"Wee-oh, wee-oh!"
Mecha Snowyclaw hissed.
"Shit. The motherfucker realized that a hacker is in. I was about to delete the files on her database when she decided to check. I should get out before she can track me and insert a Roboenza virus and make me go beserk."
Pressing a large, yellow button, the files floating around on the display vanished, and the screen went black. Some glass plates came out of the machine, monogrammed with the file's data.
"Wire, please." snarled MS.
A wire popped out of the computer, good as new.
"Thanks, computer. I'll talk to you again if I need help with technomagic or anything like that."
Inserting one end of the wire into a port in her head and another into the port in the glass plates, MS started downloading the files.
"File 1: downloaded. File 2... downloaded. Rest of files are as good as done."
Just as she took out the wire and hid the glass plates, a loud THUMP came from outside.
MS sneered.
"I guess I can say my orders now are to download the files into both Zira and Aios, then fight those intruders."
Charging up a shot, she turned her paw rockets up to the max and started to glide with her metal wings and rockets to the throne room.

Jade relaxed as she sat on a chair stuffed with fluff and snuggled Onyx.
Pearl, the white echidna-hedgehog hybrid, practiced psychokinesis on the heat-seeking missles, careful to keep them far away from Dawson the flying squirrel.
"Aw, come on! I want to see the missles go pew-pew-pew! I like setting things on fire!" cried Dawson, kicking at Pearl.
"No way, hosay. Just because its fun doesn't mean you should do it. I think that Pop would say you're a crazy combination of Bean, Ray and Charmy. I wonder why my sister even let you on this Freedom Fighter team." growled Pearl, nudging Dawson onto his little chair.
"Fine." muttered Dawson.
Tails-Ko was in the front, flying the large torpedo-shaped shark-like plane. Just like the rebel convoy ahead of them, the raging storm near the Cybernetic Castle was relentless and full of fury. Thunderbirds and venti constantly attacked their plane, trying to send the plane flying. Despite being a genius, Tails-Ko was troubled by the complicity of her new plane, and so the plane often lurched sickeningly. Bayetta was in the plane bathroom, groaning as she hurled her past meals. It was all Jade could do to relax in between the rocking of the fighter jet and the disgusting sounds Bayetta made with her digested meals of oil and cream sandwiches.
The warm fur of Onyx was soothing to Jade, despite needing to keep her spiked anklet and belt away from Onyx and vice versa. They were cool jewelry, yes, but made touching allies a pain.
As Pearl and Dawson jostled in a childish fight for the missles in the back, Jade waved at Tails-Ko.
"Hey, Tails-Ko! When are we getting to the Cybernetic Castle?" asked Jade.
Tails-Ko twisted a lever to launch some bullets at an attacking thunderbird, knocking out of the sky, before she answered.
"In about two minutes, no worries."

Xaia, Twilight, Screech and Copy Ledra landed on the barren land of Vramaa, all the vegetation stripped off the hard ground and pieces of robots lying everywhere, stained with dried blood. A cool breeze swept across the land, taking some rotting leaves and springs with it. Dark clouds loomed overhead, thunder rumbling like the hungry belly of a purple wisp.
"Eh. Creepy." snarled Xaia. "And that's coming from a spirit that intimidates most."
CL shuddered as she remembered Vramaa. Her true self, Ledra, remembered this place... a technologically advanced area covered with smog, industrially advanced and full of robots. She still regretted tearing apart Drakus's world, but had to do it for the sake of the cover.
Twilight's eyes were as dark as ever, wondering what the Corax in Vramaa was like. Sure, they knew that all of the lands from Jamaa's world were intact here, but ruled by Aios and Zira with an iron fist and not in any beter shape than Vramaa itself. Corax, being the counterpart of their desolate cold Corax, would probably be a thriving city full of lively inhabitants at a good temperature, constantly defending themselves from the Vramaasian invasion. Their phantoms had long been defeated, turned into robot slaves and guards to power the greedy empire.
Suddenly, a flying robot snow leopard came out of nowhere, narrowly missing the group, and turned her pixel eyes on them.
"Why, hello there. You must be the Coraxese group we were expecting. Welcome to the motherland! Say, Ledra is with you now, 'ey? Good, her copy ability is useful in this case." snarled Metal Frost.
Twilight took a step back.
"Suh-Sasuke?"
Metal Frost rolled her pixel eyes, which was a little slow due to slow pixels switching colors... well, you get the idea.
"Pfft. Nope. You have 20/20 hindsight, my friend. I'm Metal Frost, robot counterpart of Frost. I was built by the Great Nanyte using data from all of the Jamaasian Heroes and nanites, and when he died I trapped all of the heroes and roboticized Edmund and Snowyclaw to serve me. Now, in turn, we serve the Vramaasian Empire." lectured Metal Frost, prodding Twilight in the glowing side several times. "And why are wolves so overrated, anyway? I have beat thousands of wolves (she's not exaggerating there), yet the world sends thousands more to beat me. They don't realize that leopards are much more powerful. There, I  hated on them."
Xaia extended her fog arm, and curled it around Metal Frost in such a way that seemed like a strangle.
"Get to business, bot. Take us to the battle. Now." growled the tomb of spirits, licking Metal Frost with a sticky tongue.
"Yuck! Fine, I will. Just promise not to wreak havoc while I escort you bumbos." replied Metal Frost, wriggling out and wiping her slobbery cheeks.
Happy to see some action for once, the Coraxese team followed Metal Frost in a straight line through the choked land.
All the while, Shade inside CL's body was uneasy, feeling ominous.
Shade was deadly right.

The rebels knew the drill, which was a good thing, since the altitude was actually extremely low for a stealth mission.
Gravity did most of the work, of course, but the rebels had to open the parachutes, else they would end up as another grease spot on the ground below.
Twenty feet... ten feet... five feet....
FOFOOOOMP.
One by one, perfectly in sync, parachutes opened up. Several were a tad late and others got tangled, but nevertheless everyone touched down safely... except for some that were unlucky enough to get trapped under their parachute and need help to get out.
"Ow, my aching everything. I think my parachuting skills need some work. If we get back to Jamaa, I'm playing the Wind Rider courses in Sarepia Forest more often." mumbled Raika, stretching and cracking her knuckles... if she had any. Phantoms had odd anatomy, after all.
Sandy teasing poked her with a claw.
"No time to clown around, Raika, its time to unleash your fury on the Vramaasians. We'll need to get ready to see allies fallen and enemies defeated." said Sandy, both with gleefulness and... resentment? The daughter of an Artemis-like rebel felt resentment for what she was doing?
Raika sighed.
"We would normally infiltrate the vents if it weren't that we have to wait for the Mobian Heroes to arrive."
As the rebels hid themselves and the parachutes in the bushes to hide, they heard Metal Frost and some wolves along with some spirit reverbrating spirits within it pass by, chatting about ways to defeat opposition.
The voices died down as the group passed by, the rebels not daring to move or make any sound.
Suddenly, Serena, just behind Raika, coughed and spit out a rather slimy, little clock.
"So, this is the Quantum Dial. Stolen from Aios's vault during a strike mission. The back says it grants the user immense power, but has to be controlled by the advanced A.I. inside this machine, It was meant for Aios when crafted, but can be used by anyone, robotic or organic." muttered the leader.
The Quantum Dial hummed power, a little slurping sound coming from it as it slowly drained the little battery inside it. It was like a parasite: it needed a host to survive, else it would die. Serena slowly absorbed it back into her body for safekeeping, even though she run the risk of being gutted by the Omegas or someone else to get the machine out.
Suddenly, they heard a soft hum of propellers come from above, and some of the rebels started to twitch.
"They're here." said Cyrus, whose eye was stuck under a rotting rose bush. "We should go meet the Mobian Heroes, the anthropomorphic animals."

Dawson the yellow flying squirrel flew out first, screeching "Burn! I want to burn everythinggggggg! Fire is fun!", to be followed by Pearl, who promptly used his potent psychokinesis to drag Dawson back and silence him, which made some of the rebels chuckle.
Pearl rolled his eyes as he greeted the numerous rebels in the squad they were meeting with.
"Dawson is such a maniac, I wouldn't be surprised if he became a fire terrorist when he's our age." sighed Pearl, tossing his dreadlocks around him and brushing his chest fur.
"Look! Its weedhead!" cried a new rebel, pointing at Pearl.
"Not funny. Dad got that joke all the time, teased by his friends, and I don't want to end up the same way." growled Pearl, glaring down the rebel.
Onyx came out next, with his cold expression on as usual, which made some of the gals coo and impressed the tomboys.
"I swear, he looks so much like a phantom with the punk getup and black and red fur that he practically could be a host for one! That guy would be a good spy." remarked Serena.
The Tiger Shark wasn't done letting its proud passengers come off the ramp to the earth quite yet, its pixel eyes on the front surveying the new allies.
Next, Bayetta came down with her loose tank top and ratty jeans, along with a cyborg leg and arm, which spooked some of the rebels.
"Is that a cyborg we're seeing?! I thought very few could be partially roboticized safely!" cried Elektrik, a rebel towards the back of the crowd.
Bayetta waved a bit as she trotted down the steep ramp, then joined the others in a group near the ramp.
Next, Tails-Ko came down, with her trademark flamethrower in hand, wearing cotton socks... and bearing her grandfather's two tails.
"A two-tailed fox?! Wow, the Mobian Heroes are just as much a circus of odd heroes as the Jamaasian Heroes." yelped Sandy.
Tails-Ko rolled her eyes as the phantoms gawked at her two tails and large flamethrower, then went to the group.
Last but not least, Jade came out, the light green echidna with no panties, spike collars and her mother's ruffled pink and purple tuft of hair.
There wasn't much reaction to her, until she used psychokinesis with her Silver-like gloves and unsheathed her knucklaws.
"Oh, in their world knuckles can be claws? Cool!" said a few phantoms.
Just then, when the Mobian Heroes started to talk among the rebels, a growl came from the Cybernetic Castle in the distance.
Serena, who was sipping from a box of peach juice, absorbing the liquid, tensed.
"The Vramaasians are advancing... ready yourselves. Their elite are very powerful." growled the phantom, unsheathing her claws. Seeing their leader was getting ready for battle, the others in the troop also got their weapons ready and waited.
"I shall defeat Metal Frost! For the rebel phantom that is now a hero! For Frost Miranda Sagearium! For all eternity!" cried Serena.
"For all eternity!" repeated the troop.
Suddenly, emerging from the doors of the castle, the Omegas started running towards them.
Azil the panda, Yleerg the darkened wolf, Omsoc the koala, Kcep the rabbit, Maharg the monkey, Ailema the fox, Dnumde the giraffe, Repah the seal, so on so forth, charged menacingly before them, robot animals defending their own deities.
With a pang of her heart, Raika realized that the Omegas were doing the same as the Alphas did in their own world: defend what they loved.
"Charge, my allies! We shall bring justice to this corrupted world!" cried Serena, pointing her white tentacle.
The horde of white phantoms charged, and ran like savage rogue warriors, loping a bit like werewolves. All of the phantom rebels were tired of relentless war and wanted to end things any way needed... even poisoning, betrayal, backstabbing, cheap shots, so on so forth. In a way, they were doing what Frost felt like: a force of good that had to do the sinful to accomplish their goals.
"Processing: complete. Analyzation: incomplete." beeped Azil.
"Eat shit, bitches!" cried Yleerg, blasting dark lasers from his eyes. Immediately, the targets he hit started to bleed severely, and nearby victims got burned.
The Mobian Heroes, however, ended the short-lived battle.
"Chaos... BLAST!" cried Onyx, leaping up into the air.
"Get away from the Omegas! His blast can destroy even the toughest metal! Just get as far away as you can!" cried Jade, panicked for the safety of their newfound allies.
The rebels, knowing that Chaos Blast was as powerful as Purity Blast and could take their lives, started fleeing.
"Run! We can't risk losing members of our troupe!" cried Raika, who just so happened to be near the Omegas at the moment.
Managing to teleport away just in time, the rebels watched a red wave separate from Onyx, ripping at the Omegas.
"Aah... urgh... arrrrghhh..." growled the robotic animals.
"What immense power!" remarked Serena. "I can't believe that such power could exist!"
Onyx dropped to the ground, sweating and weakened by the power demand the attack required.
Where the Omegas were, bloodstained animals that looked identical to the Alphas lay, breathing weak.
Raika ran forward, and used a quick healing spell so that the de-roboticized animals could survive their wounds.
As the green waves closed the wounds of the Omegas and sucked the blood into their bodies, Onyx scratched his head as Jade checked his body to make sure nothing was hurt.
"Huh. I had no idea that in this world, my Chaos powers could de-roboticize others. Must be some effect because these powers aren't supposed to come out of Neo Mobius. No wonder why Master Emerald's power resisted my call when I tried, it doesn't want to get its power carried across dimensions." said Onyx, voice deep and cold.
The gals cooed again, wooed over by his sheer hotness.
He held up six Chaos Emeralds. One was grey, one cyan, one red, one green, one was purple, and another was dark blue... but they were just missing the last one, the yellow Chaos Emeralds.
"I have learned from Crystal that these are equal in power and properties to the Mira Feathers of Vramaa, Jamaa and their counterparts. If we get all seven, we can accomplish temporary invincibility, even superior to the Quantum Dial's power. We can use them to defeat Vramaa."
Serena's eye sparkled.
"Great! Stash them in those deep pockets of yours, we'll need them." said Serena.
Onyx smiled.
"That's good. What do you say about, say, storming the castle and overthrowing this metal mask you speak of?"
Serena beamed.
"That's what I was thinking of, kid. Come on, lets go."
Onyx skated off at the speed of light, and the others barely followed him.