Fighting Aios: Part 4

My deepest apologies, some of this will be typed late at night, so it may be incomplete or not as polished as other stories. However, I promise that sooner or later, I'll conclude the storyline, as I planned to do only one or two parts, but now I'm up to four. *facepalm* Without further ado, enjoy.

Metal Frost approached Aios, sneering sinisterly.
LaSalle was still ripping through the battling creatures, her weaponized might and cold tactics giving her the upper edge, leaving MF working in partial secret.
"Metal Frost! Move your silly rump and snuff out the candles of the rebellion!" snarled Aios, his fiery eyes flickering with rage.
Shadows covered MF's face.
"Do it, or suffer my polarity pulses!"
MF looked up, her sharp pixel eyes glaring at her former master.
"Not with you around, I shall. I'll use you to do the dirty work, then clean up the crumbs and bits and call it a day. How does that sound?" hissed the synthesized voice.
"What are you trying to att-"
Aios was cut off by MF swiftly sticking the Quantum Dial to his head, stolen from the now-crystallized Serena. Tentacles and mechanisms inside the deadly parasitic droid extended from its little body, and pierced his forehead with ease. Electricity jumped from his thick metal skin.
"DAN-001! Don't do that to me! The new line Droid Aios Numbers are meant to serve me with a free will securely-"
Too late.
The fire died inside Aios's internal furnace, replaced by a flickering, Ra Moon-esque core within his shell. From his three diagonal points, large, black wire tentacles at least a mile thick tore through the metal, landing on the ground.
An especially slow droid squeaked "Aios?", and was squished by the rippling tentacles, shrapnel flying in all directions.
Metal Frost leapt aside, and maneuvered so she was floating next to the newly possessed Aios.
"I AM QUANTUM AIOS!!!" shrieked Aios. "I AM YOUR DESTRUCTION!! NOT EVEN ZIRA CAN ACCOMPLISH MY DEEDS!!"
Metal Frost snickered, and a blue aura started to surround her.
"What are they doing? Are they planning to..." exclaimed Dawson in his typical preteen clothing.
"...take all my jellybeans?"
Pearl, being Dawson's self-proclaimed caretaker, got all up in Dawson's face, and scolded him.
"HE DOESN'T WANT TO DO THAT!! HE DESIRES TO RULE ALL OF SPACE AND TIME!" cried Pearl. "For Pete's sake..."
Dawson stuck out his tongue, did a raspberry, but was quickly distracted by the ugly growth of Metal Frost.
Her metal skin started to flex in strange convulsions, her eyes shrunk into her head, and spikes started to grow from her shoulder blades.
"Huh?" was all Dawson could come up with. If someone who usually came up with retorts was lost for words...
...then little could describe her metamorphosis.
The metallic ears and the Icirrus Phoenix cap that Metal Frost had changed into by getting another weaponization from Frost's new downloaded data started to enlargen so big they covered MF's entire head, and eventually her ears caved into holes in her head. Her grey hide complexion twisted and turned, causing speckles, dents and color streaks as the gruesome transformation continued.
Large wings sprouted from her back, looking like large paws with shiny, sharp grey claws. Her javelin hair also was sucked into her head like it were quicksand, becoming scales on her now-long back. MF's tail extended until it were as long as a three-story building, her legs so bulky with spikes that they could roast a million marshmallows, and her eyes finally emerging as two, scary red pixel eyes on two black screens on her head, vertical from one another.
"GRAAAAR!" shrieked her new, adapted form.
"I never expected I would see the legendary style-change most new-model robots can accomplish if they amass enough data and battle memories..." muttered Tails-Ko. She was badly torn up, but otherwise fine.
Just as their brains started to adjust to the two new beasts wreaking havoc by throwing large things at large mobs, Bayetta started to feel lightheaded and dizzy. Sparks jumped from her bionic limbs.
"Zzt... I feel like I'm losing power to my robot parts... Losing... function..."
Bayetta's eyes closed, and she fell onto the grass, smoking.
Pearl quickly ran over, and did CPR, despite the fact that her breathing was shrill but okay.
"Did she lose power?" asked Tails-Ko, walking over to Bayetta's fallen body with her socks on.
Large wounds covered all of the heroes, including Dawson, who had come back from assisting others, but none of the trickling blood or pain bothered them as much as seeing Bayetta crumpled on the ground.
Suddenly, more sounds of malfunctioning machinery echoed through the battlefield. Sparks jumped from machines all around. Just as most machines shut down, LaSalle was affected, and somehow came to her senses.
"Eh?" was all the unlucky Alpha could say before collapsing, energy all spent and the mysterious phenomenom draining her further.
Kragok, Sputnik and Emile ran forward, but soon enough...
"What?"
...Sputnik and Emile also dropped down, affected by the mass-shutdown.
Pink, flying high above, started to whimper... but then..
"Zzzttt... Parts malfunctioning... Shutting down consciousness..."
Large sparks jumped from Pink's fur, and she fell. Pink would've died from the fall if Raika hadn't caught her.
Tails-Ko willed her analysis monocle to come up, and the faux glass chip came up from a spindly metal rod rose from her cybernetic cheek stripes.
Virtual projections of data wafted around her monocole, which barely covered her retina, and analyzed the EMP field.
Suddenly, she saw a map of the field unfold before her eyes. The individual grunts were excluded, as it took up too many GB, but she saw from a birds-eyes view in a projection all the essential pieces.
A wavy aura was extending from the Quantum Dial, shutting down all machinery but small devices and MF herself by force. Even cybernetic parts malfunctioned, putting their bodies into a very deep and dreamless coma.
"Growwwr..." snarled Aios. His eyes burned with the Quantum's will, and his wire tentacles started to spawn smaller droids that scampered over to Bayetta, carrying a large capsule.
"No!" cried Onyx, lunging towards the droids, but they shot a concentrated blast of plasma.
"Augh!" shrieked Onyx.
Too late.
The blasts hit the hedgehog straight in the face, and he flew into MF's jaws, where she spit him into the ground.
Where he landed, a crater smoked.
"Onyxxxx!"
Jade reached for the crater, not noticing that Bayetta had been placed in the capsule and dragged over to MF in a flash of light.
"Splendid! Fuel for me! Place her in the Death Grapes, and take the hedgehog too!" snarled the hulking metal dragon. "Death Grapes can harness their power and use it to give me new power, while keeping them in an unpenetratable sleep!"
The droids whirred and clicked, then vanished.
Large lasers dug into the earth, making many craters in the landscape and destroying any who dared attack Aios. MF leisurely shot blasts atop the top of the Cybernetic Castle, relishing in the destruction of the organic Vramaasians. Kragok was remarkably somersaulting and backflipping his way over Mechanaloids and other beasts, but even the lithe tiger was getting tired and beaten up.
Aios, still possessed by the Quantum Dial, shot a large, blue blast from his mouth, straight at Jade, who was sobbing like a little girl.
"Jade! Look out!" cried Pearl, but again, it was too late.
The swirling energy hit Jade, and immediately froze her body in an ice sculpture shell, becoming a winter decoration.
Pearl clenched his fists and gritted his teeth at the rebellion so easily swept aside.
The droids approached again to take Jade's statue to the Death Grapes, but Pearl was too busy making sure Tails-Ko and Dawson were ready for combat to notice his sister being captured.
"Too easy..." cackled MF. "Is this the elaborate rebellion Apophis whines about? Is this the force that my copy poured her faith in? Ha! These are all noobs, taken out of the barrel's bottom!"
Dawson, badly injured but obeying Pearl's orders reluctantly, leapt up, and glided towards Aios's nose, the only spot that wasn't protected by his tentacle's range.
"If this is the last antic of mine... I don't care! I'll prove I'm not nutbrained!" muttered Dawson.
"It is futile." said Aios. "Your friends are in a sleep so deep they cannot be awakened, and their souls are being used to power my ally, Metal Frost. You are in a hopeless battle!"
Just as Dawson threw a Bean-style bomb at Aios's nose and started to reach for a water-spraying daisy, lightning came out of the sky, and electrocuted Dawson.
"Guck... guh... gaah!"
Just as the electricity was stealing Dawson's life force, a shot from Aios teleported him to a place beyond seeing.
"Tails-Ko." said Pearl, now sweating.
"What?" replied the beautiful fox.
"You're my last hope. Hit the dial, and destroy it. All of our allies are down for the count, and we are the last survivors."
"B-but! Our friends are asleep in the castle! If we destroy Aios, we would for sure slay our allies! Our only friends!"
Pearl looked away, and his eye glistened.
"I... I know that, Tails-Ko Skye Prower. We have no choice. Either that, or be put into an eternal sleep."
Tails-Ko sighed.
"I guess.. but I think that being captive is better than losing other innocence."
Tails-Ko's tails started to spin, then she launched up and started to advance.
Suddenly, Pearl noticed MF cackling, and a ghastly flare igniting in her large, spiky palm, and her gaze slanted towards Tails-Ko. Aios stood perfectly still, with no movement within him except for the wire tentacles's individual tendrils slithering around each other like snakes.
The flare flared up like a boosted bonfire, and enveloped Tails-Ko.
Pearl let out a not-so-manly shriek.
Suddenly, a tinted glass sphere surrounded Tails-Ko, and her eyelids closed, and her body floated up, back-down, becoming a rag doll floating in a vacumn. Tubes came from the top, and circled her body until she vanished underneath tendrils. Liquid poured in, and froze.
So many layers on top of Tails-Ko's body.
The sphere floated right in front of Aios, and Pearl felt himself start to grow sleepy.
A large pendelumn hung from MF's palm all of a sudden, and started to swing.
"You are dead. You are Pearl, a sleeping body inside a Death Grape. You are in such a deep sleep that you are essentially dead, but it is dreamless. It will be eternal, and you will always fuel me. Pearl, obey my orders, and feel no more pain."
Against his will, Pearl started to float, and he felt everything inside him shutting down - heartbeat, blood pressure, brain functions, everything.
I am dead. thought Pearl, but the voice wasn't his. I will never wake up.
He felt tubes encircling him, and ice freezing around him.
Then, Pearl began a deep, dreamless sleep.

To be continued..