Author's Note

Hi everyone! This chapter really took its time since I had to plan many further things, plus, College is finally over and vacation have started, so expect further updates on the upcoming chapters while also these being released more often (if nothing bad happens, of course)
Anyway, enjoy the chapter and as usual, I wish y'all the best, see ya next time.

-DReep

Chapter 28.5: Axios vs The Raiden Shogun

As they find themselves in the landscape, Axios hears a familiar voice from the distance.

"Hey! What the hell are we doing here?! And what are YOU doing here?!" Shouted Starkiller towards Axios, with confusion, Twilight asks. "Sunlight? Are you ok?" Sunlight sighs and replies with a calmed voice. "Yeah! Thanks for concerning, but my friend here seems to not enjoy his staying here."

"Knock it off, Sunlight! What the heck is happening?" Replied Starkiller, he can't understand why is Master Chief and some Rainbooms here, and challenging the Raiden Shogun, for what purpose? In order to shut his yapping, Chief replies. "Stop crying, asshole, we're getting you both out of here." He then proceeds to look at the Shogun, who sheathed her blade and drew out her spear, and with a serious voice, she said.

"Your insolence confuses me, though you can't go back in your word anymore, so there's no need to explain your reasons, but let me state the rules clear." The Shogun spins her spear and strikes the ground with the knob of her spear, creating an electric shockwave that intimidates even the fiercest mortal. With a serious voice, she said aloud. "There's one thing that you outlanders must learn, here in Inazuma, duels are meant to cleanse one's name and honor, not someone else's, therefore, your request will only be to pardon your lives for your insolence."

With that explanation, Axios' plan went to trash, but fortunately for them, none of them were ordinary cases. "But..." The Shogun continued. "Since ALL of you are a threat to my ultimate goal, I'll make an exception..." She then points her spear towards Axios and says. "You... are going to fight for your freedom and to pardon your crimes against the soldiers of the Tenryou Comission..." She then points towards Sunlight and Starkiller, who are shackled to the ground. "Since you two are certainly dangerous, I'll allow only the girl to fight, since she at least has some respect." with a slight move of her spear, Sunlight's shackles got cut down.

"You gotta be fucking kidding me." Said Starkiller, Sunlight then stood up and heads towards Axios, although she's nervous, the situation is quite delicate right now. Rainbow Dash received Sunset's counterpart with a friendly hug, the three of the girls asked about how was it possible that she could be talking so normally without the influence of the necklace.

"Well, I got help of these." Sunlight then points to the 4 paper seals wrapped around her necklace, with a serious voice, Chief asks her. "Can you fight, though?" Sunlight looks at him with uncertainty, she remembers what Lady Yae told her, but right now, it doesn't seem like she'd be able to restrain from using her powers. With a calmed voice, she replies. "I think... but I'd only limit myself to using the most basic of my powers. So... there won't be any fancy moves from me." With doubt, she asks them. "You have a plan, don't you?"

Applejack looks at her and replies. "Well, sort of, but it's too simple to explain."

We go back to a few minutes before Axios arrived at Tenshukaku.

"Chief, you have a deeper plan than just winning, right?" Asked Rainbow Dash as they run towards their destination through the city, Chief then replies with a serious voice. "We can think of something once we're there, but for now, our only way to fight her will be learning how she fights. Itto! Y'know anything?"

"Sorry pal! The only thing I know is that everyone say that it's the ultimate sword art, she basically created swordsmanship in all of Teyvat if you ask me." As Itto replied, a rain began to pour down, and a familiar voice spoke behind them, but Itto didn't notice due to the rain and kept running forward, leaving the group behind. "If you want to at least have a chance to defeat her, I'll tell you only this..." Everyone turned around and saw Yae Miko, though no one perceived her, she seemed utterly indifferent by the group's shock.

"She's the incarnation of Thunder itself, but there's one thing she hides that very few people manage to notice. She's a warrior, and has the pride of one, therefore, if you manage to hurt her pride, there's a probability that she might lose focus."

"Wait... w-who are you? Why are you telling us this?" Asked Twilight with confusion, but Yae interrupted her by saying. "But there's one small thing, she's been training her will for centuries, so you better have a good trick under your sleeve. Which you probably do, since you aren't from this nation, or from afar. Good luck." In the blink of an eye, Yae disappeared in front of everyone, leaving them in bewilderment. Itto only peeked from a corner since he just noticed he was running alone. "Hey, guys! C'mon, we're almost there!" After this, the group kept running and later arrived at Tenshukaku.

As everyone takes position, Chief says. "Cortana, scan her." As Cortana began to conduct many scans, she replied. "I can't detect anything from her, it's like, empty, no Equestrian energy, there is only one thing I'm catching up from her, her chest, there's a huge source of energy in it. So, in the meantime, be careful as I collect more data."

With a simple stance, The Shogun managed to make everyone uncertain of her next move, in the blink of an eye, she was already in front of Chief, swinging her spear towards him. He barely managed to notice the attack, but wasn't able to defend himself, thankfully, Cortana had to use their neural link to take control over Chief's body for a fraction of a second. Which was enough for Cortana to clench one of Chief's cleavers and clash with the Shogun's spear. The Shockwave was such that the girls were pushed back.

"Impressive." Said the Shogun with an emotionless expression, Chief was already thinking of him struggling to fight this speed. A stone column emerged from the ground, Applejack was aiming to hit the Shogun and create a gap between them and the Shogun, but she climbed the column and jumped from it and aimed to attack Applejack, but Twilight threw her friend into the air since there wasn't enough time to make a controlled move. The Shogun missed her attack and changed her target to Twilight, who was wide open.

"Crap!" Said Twilight as she saw the deity approaching her, but Rainbow Dash saved her by getting in the way and taking her away, Sunlight then approached with a dropkick, but the Shogun blocked it with her spear and grabbed Sunlight by the leg and threw her away to a nearby rock.

Chief then clashed his cleavers against her spear again, as the demonic runes turned on, the Shogun noticed and felt it weird, Chief began to surpass the Shogun in raw physical strength, with a powerful swing, she pushed Chief back, who was about to keep attacking, but noticed Applejack falling.

As she screamed since the ground seemed closer each time, Twilight used her powers to move Applejack towards her and Rainbow Dash. As Chief and the Shogun kept fighting, the girls began to think of a plan. "We almost died back there, she's so quick!" Claimed Rainbow Dash, Twilight then replied. "Well, if she's the incarnation of thunder, I wouldn't expect lesser than that."

"How are we goin' to defeat her, then? We can't rely on Chief, wait, where's Sunlight?" Asked Applejack with a concerned expression, she then saw how from a distant rock, Sunlight began to stand up, she seemed pretty wounded, although the battle is just starting. She seems to be struggling to stand up, she tried using her powers to boost her physical powers, but the seals aren't helping. "Ah well... we're gonna die if we lose." Sunlight then grabbed one of the seals and ripped it off her necklace, she felt how the dark magic began to flow through her body.

With a quick dash, she approached the girls and said. "We can't waste any more time, c'mon!" Sunlight then dashed towards the Shogun, only to see her quickly overwhelming Chief and slashing the back of his armor, and with a lightning strike knocked him down dropping his blades in front of him. "Foolish mortal. Know your place!" Said the Shogun as she raised her spear to finish him down, but after hearing this, something snapped inside John, his pride won't allow him to let such an insult slide. He quickly grabbed one of his blades and clashed against the Shogun.

"Don't underestimate humans!" The Shogun seemed expressionless, but inside she was slightly surprised, not many humans have been able to stop an attack from her with one arm. But her thoughts seemed interrupted by an approaching punch from Sunlight, but the Shogun blocked it easily, although the knockback pushed her away. As she raised her sight, Rainbow Dash comes from above aiming to land a spinning kick, but the Shogun blocked it, she then suddenly felt slower, and noticed Twilight aiming her hands to her, as she's casting something upon her. This pressure made it so that she couldn't block the incoming uppercut from Applejack, that pushed her back even more and made her groan a bit from pain.

As they all group up, Twilight said to Chief. "This will be far from difficult, right?" Chief stands up and activates the runes of his blades as he says. "Yeah, but one thing's for sure, we won't lose. So let's go all out."

As both sides charged against each other, Twilight recalls their strategy in her mind. "Chief's the vanguard, Rainbow Dash the flanker, Applejack the defender and I'm the support. Just as Dash said, we're in a video game, you can do this, Twilight!" As she said, Chief was the first to clash his weapons against the Archon, her speed is too much for the Spartan, as they trade blows, Chief was pushed back with a single move of her spear, still, he hasn't landed a single blow against her.

Ranbow Dash comes in with a flurry of kicks, but each one of them were blocked swiftly by the Shogun, she then tried to slashed Rainbow but she managed to dodge it by mere luck with her powers, she only sees how the blade slowly passes right in front of her. The Shogun tried to strike again but a stone wall stopped her attack, leaving room for Chief to charge again against her. As they were trading blows again, Chief had to use his breathing techniques to at least match her speed, but in the blink of an eye, he already was cut in the chest by the Shogun's spear and as his blood blocked his sight, the Shogun raised her spear to swing it down.

Sunlight charged forward blocking the spear, with her bracers, she began to trade blows against the Shogun, who seems slightly surprised someone fights a spear with bare fists. With an uppercut, she pushed the Archon back and Sunlight along with Chief continued their attack, leaving the rest behind. But they can't land a blow on her, with a powerful lightning, she pushed both back and targeted Chief, who was about to be cut into half until Cortana took over his body and jumped over the slashing spear. Surprising the Shogun and leaving enough room for Sunlight and Applejack to land a blow together, leaving barely a scratch on her clothes.

Twilight then uses her powers to keep the Shogun in place, as she tries to fight the small gravity field around her, Sunlight and Rainbow Dash pushed forward, trying to land another blow, but with an electric pulse, the Shogun broke free and swung her spear, striking both girls, but before she can swing her spear down, Applejack used her gloves to stop the spear and used her vision to engulf the tip of the spear with stone, unabling the Shogun from getting away.

"Sorry ma'am! But we really want to go home, you ain't winnin' this fight."Said Applejack as she was holding the Shogun down, who only replies. "You're a threat to Eternity now, I shall eliminate you in this fight." With a kick, she managed to push Applejack away, but lost her spear in the process, as the girls regroup, Chief seems to be struggling with his wounds.

"How did she cut so easily through my armor?" Said Chief as he tries to think of how to counter the Shogun's attacks, but Cortana replied through the team's comms. "Guys, try fighting her a bit more, I'm downloading her technique, just as Flash's fighting style, hers uses combat forms already established, if I can download at least 60% of it, then we might have a chance."

Chief stands up and grabs his blades as he breaths heavily and says. "Noted." As now Axios and Sunlight grouped up, they stand with caution as the Shogun hasn't moved to claim her weapon, which lies on the ground next to Applejack, with a calmed voice, she said. "It seems you've gone far from my expectations, but I'm afraid this fight ends now."

As the Shogun draws out her blade, Axios and Sunlight see how the Archon is fully determined to kill them, with a concerned voice, Cortana said through their comms. "Guys, forget everything I just said, we're starting from scratch again. She's totally different now... like... she's a living electric circuit."

The girls widen her eyes in the presence of the Shogun, and with pessimism, Sunlight said. "Ah GREAT! Now how the fuck we fight THAT?!!"

Chief then stands forth and says. "We gotta improvise until we come up with a plan. Twilight, we're counting on you!" As he takes position, the rest of the team are in formation around Twilight, with a serious voice, Chief says. "Sunlight, you and I are the fighters, Dash! Avoid as much damage as possible while attacking, Applejack! Cut the Shogun's path whenever she uses our blind spots! Get ready team!" Once Chief is done, the Shogun's expression changed to a more expressive one. She charges forward clashing her blade with Chief's cleavers, as both look at their faces, she says.

"You're the strongest, aren't you?" With swift moves, she manages to break Chief's stance and aims to slash him on half, but Chief managed to block the hit with his blade, but the knockback thrusted him away and rolled over the ground. Then, she began to fight the girls, Sunlight engaged first and although she was barely managing to block the Shogun's attacks, it wasn't enough to avoid a slash on her back from the deity.

As she falls on her knees due to her wound, Sunlight sees how the Rainbooms fight the Archon, Rainbow Dash rushes forward and thanks to her powers, she's able to dodge the Shogun's attack while landing some quick but weak hits. As Applejack tries to back up Dash, the Shogun was about to summon a thunder slash with her blade, but she was stopped midair. "(That purple girl, again. She's becoming quite annoying.)" Said the Shogun to herself as she uses her unrestrained arm and moves it in swiping motion, which summoned an electric slash that cut through space and hit Applejack and Rainbow Dash at the same time.

The Shogun charged against Twilight and was about to cut her down, but the Shogun was stopped by field around Twilight's arms, she seems to be struggling, but it's strong enough to push the Shogun back. It was enough time for Sunlight to come in and began to trade blows against the Shogun, as she blocks every single attack, she asks her. "You seem to know how to fight against swordsmen, but you let your emotions drive you away easily." Said the Shogun as she used the pommel of her blade to bring her down to the ground with one hit, though the Shogun seems weak, her raw physical strength is above the average. She was about to pierce Sunlight's chest, but Rainbow Dash came in and rescued her while Applejack come from above thanks to Twilight, the Shogun blocked the hit easily and then asked. "Why save her? If you were even an inch late, your friend with rainbow hair would've died alongside the other girl."

"Well, you just said it, that's what friends are for, don't ye'think?" Replied Applejack as she tried to land a blow, but each one is unsuccessful. As Chief tries to stand up, he asks Cortana. "Why am I getting so easily beaten?" As he musters enough strength to get up, Cortana replied. "Well, she attacks with electricity with huge voltage, so she overloads your kinetic shield easily and since that blade holds an big amount of energy within, it produces enough hit to cut through your Mjolnir."

Chief then breathes heavily as he looks at his bleeding wound and then looks at the Rainbooms fighting the Archon. "Dammit." Said Chief as he charged forward and joined the fight, as now everyone joins the fight and try to overwhelm the Shogun, she moved her blade quickly, slashing everyone while dealing electrical damage to everyone. As Chief is the only one standing, he tries to catch up his breath while muster strength to get up, he raises his sight and sees the Shogun, who says. "You're heavily wounded. You'd end up diying from your wounds and that would be dishonorable..." She raises her blade and prepares to finish Chief, who couldn't raise his blade in opposition, but Cortana took over his body and tried to block the direct hit from the Musuo No Hitotachi, blocking the main slash that pushed Chief backwards but not the simultaneous hit of six lightning bolts that followed the attack. This attack sent Chief flying towards a mountain, leaving him at the edge of death, bleeding from his multiple wounds while the damage of all the lightning strikes runs through his body.

"...At least, you died in battle, strong warrior." Said the Shogun as she swung her blade downwards, indicating her victory upon the Spartan, she then looks at the Rainbooms and says with a serious expression. "You'll meet him too soon enough." Sunlight was the first one to stand and she quickly says. "Twilight! Find a way to beat her, I'll buy you as much time as I can." She then rips off another seal, leaving only half of them wrapped around her necklace.

"Wait! We're coming with you!" Said Applejack as she and Dash stood up and prepared to fight. As the trio charged forward despite their wounds, Twilight stayed behind and began to think of a way o winning. "(What can we do? I heard Cortana saying something about the Shogun being now a living circuit. Wait...)" Twilight stares directly at the Shogun as she analyzes her movements and abilities, whenever she dashes she becomes lightning. "(That pink-haired lady told us she's the incarnation of thunder, so no biolectrical process are involved. But if the Shogun IS thunder, then all that electricity must flow through her body, as a nervous system, which means that if we manage to alter the flow of her electricity, she might lose balance and give us an opening. But how can we alter it?)" Twilight then looks around to find an idea and ends looking at her coils.

"(That's it! If I can ionize the air and create a shock wave, I can recoil her electrons with the Compton Effect. She won't be stunned since she's a living being, but it'll gives us a great opening for us to strike. Yes! I have to create an EMP, now!)" Twilight then realizes she's unable to create an explosion without absorbing energy first, which means she'd have to get involved in the fight. As the trio of girls keeps the fight, they're slightly getting wounded as the fight goes on, and as the Shogun keeps the three of them at bay, she sees Twilight approaching from the back, with a quick move she took the girls off her and attacked Twilight with a rush of flying electric slashes.

Twilight stops running and focuses her powers to create a small Black Hole that absorbs the lightning strikes, the energy accumulated runs through the circuit of her suit, being a risky gamble, she exposes the core of her main coil, which emits high levels of uncontrolled magic, which in science terms means high levels of gamma rays. "What the...?!" Asked the Shogun after witnessing this move. Twilight has to act quickly, she puts her coils together and after accelerating them, she emits her desired shockwave and with her core exposed, she ionizes the air wave, affecting everyone excepting Sunlight.

As the Rainboom's suits briefly turned off, the Shogun seemed to be the most affected. She had to step back due to the shockwave, Twilight then closed the core of her coils, if it was still opened for any longer, it would've caused severe damage to her friends and herself. But it seems it worked, the Shogun seems confused, her mind is dizzy, she feels her body numb, something's off, but before she can understand what happened, Sunlight came in and knocked her into the air with an uppercut, followed then by a jump and a spinning kick that sent the Shogun flying away.

"Twilight! That was AWESOME!" Shouted Rainbow Dash with a smile after witnessing her friend's strategy. "Wow! What was that, Twilight?" Asked Applejack as she picks her hat from the ground, it seems slightly torned off, but it's not anything she can't fix. "It was an EMP, since she's lightning, it's meant to recoil the electrons running through her body and wreak havoc within her to give us a chance to fight." Said Twilight as she gathered up with her friends. Rainbow Dash then replied with a question. "So... you just nerfed her, right?" Sunlight then replies with a smile. "Yeah, something like that, but Twilight. How long would last its effects?"

"I don't know, so we better hurry beating her down." Said Twilight with a serious voice as now she and her friends prepare to take the ofensive. but from the dust cloud raised by the Shogun's impact, she struggles to get up as she asks to herself. "(What did they do?! That wretched girl, I won't let them take the advantage!)" Although she's still feeling dizzy, she charges forward, but her speed, is much less intimidating. Applejack blocked the incoming hit with a Geo shield, followed by Dash and Sunlight, who punched the Shogun in the face while Dash used a sliding kick that combined, brought the Shogun down again.

Their attacks are beginning to have some effect, but the Shogun grabbed her blade and was about to slash the two of them, but Twilight jumped into the air thanks to Applejack's help, she uses her coils and creates an electromagnetic field around her fist, that when clashed with the Shogun's slash, made both attacks stop each other, as both of them pushed their attack, Twilight had the upper hand since she increased the output of her magnetic field, which broke through the Shogun's guard and punched her hard enough to pushing her back through the soil, leaving a huge trace behind.

With a surprised look, Starkiller witnessed the events and couldn't help but say. "Those bastards, they actually pulled it off." As the Shogun struggles and fails to stands up, using her blade as a cane, the scratches all around her body and for the first time in years, she feels exhausted, but the knows that she hasn't reached her limit, that'd be impossible, it has to be with that EMP Twilight did moments ago.

As now the four girls are welcomed with a glance of winning, Sunlight step forth as she said. "You've lost, Raiden Shogun." As the deity can't fathom the fact of being defeated by mere mortals, a looming wave of thoughts flooded her mind, the people she cherished and lost, and the dream she's willing to uphold to honor her late sister.

"(If I lose here, what would be the meaning of everything I've done so far? How can an Archon rule a nation if it can't even protect its ideals...)" Thought the Shogun as she clenched her teeth, such event can't be allowed to happen, as a single tear runs down her cheek, she shouts with a grieving voice.

"I REFUSE IT!!!!" The Shogun stood up and cleared the path with a shockwave of pure power as lightning begins to flow through her and spreads around her body creating an ominous aura regardless of her condition, her will exerts a tremendous pression upon the Rainbooms. With her blade in hand, she dashes at an extreme speed, passing through the girl's formation and slashing Twilight's chest without her noticing, breaking her main coil and her visor, as the blood coming out of her shocks Twilight as she falls to the ground, the rest of the girls can't stop to help her, before the Shogun recovers from the EMP, they have to attack.

"John, you have to stand up!" Said Cortana to Chief, who was still lying on the ground, he struggles a lot to get up but he fails as he spits blood from his mouth, as he falls agains, he says. "I won't make it in time, even if *cough* I do get up *coughs blood*, I'll be a burden." Chief then looks up and sees how the Shogun and the girls are still fighting, her overwhelming strength is capable of knocking down the girls easily. First, she was able to cut through Applejack's Geo shield, and with a thrust of her blade, she was able to pierce through her armor while making a wound on her belly and sent her flying away, crashing against a rock. With her hand, she summoned a barrage of lightnings that obstructed Dash's path, leaving room for the Shogun to slash Rainbow Dash, who thanks to her powers, she was able to threw a powered kick to cancel the attack, but it wasn't enough to block the Shogun's wrath, which sent Rainbow Dash rolling away and crashing against a tree that ends up breaking and falls over her.

Being Sunlight the last one standing, she reluctantly takes off another seal, which boosts her current powers, but she restrains from using any other power in order to not overuse her dark magic and be consumed by it while going berserk. "I'm not going down without taking you with me!" The Shogun looks at her with a piercing gaze just as lightning, and says. "You will fail, pathetically." After this, both began to trade attacks.

"I... have... to do... something!" Said Chief while struggling to get get, as this words sound in his mind. "(I won't lose, not against a god... I refuse that truth... I will show her... THE TRUE POWER OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT!!)" As his conviction becomes more powerful, Chief falls again, he sees all the cruelty the people of his universe experienced, invasions, the memories of innocent people dying and using their last moments to pray for a savior just before dying in gruesome ways. Chief's anger towards the divinity its something few understand, but the fact that he's about to lose against a deity makes his blood boil, suddenly, he begins to feel heat coming from his left hand, Chief looks at it and sees a strange object, similar to Applejack's but with a big difference.

While Chief contemplates the new Pyro Vision on his hand, on his other hand where he's grabbing his blade, the edge turns ablaze, suddenly, an idea came to Chief's mind, he first lies on his back and looks at the blazing edge of his cleaver. "Cortana, there's only one way to this, prepare the adrenaline shots."

Cortana, who seems to be getting the hang of Chief's plan, asks. "How many?" Before he begins to cauterize his wounds, Chief replies. "All of them." Chief then begins to cauterize his chest wound, groaning of pain but determined to do it, since it's the least he can do to join the fight again.

But back again in the fight, the Shogun tried to slash Sunlight, but she was able to block the damage with her bracers, though the knockback sent her flying away. As the Shogun contemplates the sight, she tries to calm herself down, but she sees someone standing up again, it's Twilight.

Her bun breaks and her hair comes loose, though her visor broke and therefore she's struggling to see, for some reason, her eyes accustomed quickly and began to see clearly, she tries to catch her breath while thinking of how to deal with her open wound. "You dare to stand again? You're quite a nuisance." Said the Shogun slightly angered, but Twilight seems to be struggling with her own thoughts.

"(Everyone's down, what can I do? Firstly, can I actually do something? No! Don't think like that Twilight! We have to do this, someone else will stand up later, I only have to endure long enough. If I charge the coils of my fists, I can create a field around them that will protect me, and since she's lightning, I'd have the same effects of the EMP but much lesser.)" The Shogun seems confused as how Twilight didn't answer her, with insistency, she asked. "Why did you stand up again, brat?!" Twilight then looks at the Archon, right now, there's no room for fear or doubt, with determination, she says.

"Bring it on already." Twilight then charged her coils and created an electromagnetic field around her, the Shogun then dashed forward, aiming to slash her into half, but her attack was stopped by Twilight's field, only for the daring scientist to use one hand to stop the attack while she punched the Archon with her other fist, which made the Shogun step back a bit. "Insolence!" Said the Shogun after taking the hit, but Twilight used her coil and created a gravitational field that pulled the Shogun back at her, she can't understand how this is happening, before she can cut anything, she received another punch that sent her flying away.

"(That's science for you, Shogun)" Said Twilight after succesfully landing those hits, after this, the Shogun felt somewhat enraged, how can she be defeated by a Visionless mortal, she dashes forward and Twilight tries the same trick, but this time, the Shogun summons her spear and blocks the hit, with ferocity, she tries to hit Twilight, who can only block using her Super Tesla Coils, after an electric shockwave caused by the Shogun, Twilight was ssent flying against a stone, the Shogun then tried stab her in the heart, but Twilight uses her coils and stops the Shogun.

Twilight screams with effort as she's pushing back the Archon, who's groaning while trying to stab the scientist, both struggle, but Twilight seems to be the first one to give in, she tries to push herself even more, but it appears it isn't enough, her arms are getting tired, but when everything seem lost, a thunderclap was heard nearby and from the rubble, Rainbow Dash emerges with her wings, but her suit also looks different, the first word that came to Twilight's mind was, speed.

Leveraging of the shock of the Shogun and Twilight, Rainbow Dash charged forward, seemingly using the air to change her course, it appear to be as if she was following a lightning's path, in a quick moment, she was able to kick the Shogun's face and sent her away, as Rainbow slides on the soil due to the extreme speed, she remembers what Tesla told her when she got her suit.

"So, it basically makes me faster?" Asked Rainbow Dash as she holds the suitcase that contains her suit, Tesla then seems to be arranging some weird papers, one of them falls off his desk, Dash crouches and picks it up and before handing it back to Tesla, she could read only the title. "Entropy Effect" Tesla then took the papers and put them on a safe within his laboratory, with a calm voice, he then replies. "Not exactly, little one. You see, your suit only uses the energy you produce when running to boost itself, so technically, as long as you move, you'll charge up your suit."

Rainbow Dash seems thrilled by this, but before she can do anything else, she asks. "What if I reach its limit? I mean, you say I can charge it up, but I suppose it has a limit like cellphones, laptops or anything with a battery, right?" Tesla was erasing some formulas from his chalkboard, he chuckles and turns around, replying to Rainbow Dash. "That's the neat part, when you unleash a punch or a kick, the suit inherently uses the storaged energy to boost those attacks, but if you reach the storage limit, you'll enter the Celeritas mode."

"The... what now?" Asked Rainbow Dash, Tesla then began to draw on his chalkboard while explaining. "As soons as you fill the suit's tank, you force the suit to enter Celeritas mode, which begins to boost all of your physical capabilities for 4 minutes, reaching an accelaration near light-speed, though to activate that mode, you don't necessarily have to reach the storage limit of your suit, you only have to take off the back plate of your left bracer to activate that mode. But be aware that the 4 minute duration lasts only when the storage is at maximum, any lesser than that and you'll last less time in that mode."

Now in the present, Rainbow Dash says to herself. "(I had to activate it sooner, Twilight would've died otherwise, we can win, we only have to keep pushing!)" Dash then unleashed a powerful thrusting kick that hit the Shogun, as both are now leaving a trace of rubble followed by blue and purple lightnings. "I'm getting tired of you!!" Said the Shogun as she swept her blade and got Rainbow Dash off her, she then raised her blade vertically and was about to slash everything in front of her, but Applejack came in flying forward and clashing her fist with the Shogun's blade.

Many things are going on and the Shogun is feeling slightly overwhelmed, Sunlight then approached an injured Twilight and said. "Try not to push yourself much, your wound might get worse than it already is." Said Sunlight as she helped Twilight stay on her feet. Applejack and Rainbow Dash are fighting now the Shogun, landing a few hits and making her even angrier. "(I'm losing! How can it be?! It's that girl, that purple girl... I have to take her down first!!!)" Thought the Shogun before unleashing a barrage of lightnings that pushed the girls away, she then dashed forward only to be stopped by Sunlight.

"I won't let you get to her!" Said Sunlight as now she and the Archon began to trade attacks, they seem to be barely matched, but the Shogun's blade quickly overpowered Sunlight. "Out of the way!" Shouted the Shogun as she struck the ground with her blade, causing a shockwave that brought them down. As Twilight tries to get up, but the incoming violet edge of the Shogun's blade gets closer and closer.

In a desperate moment, red lightnings followed by a blazing cleaver came in, blocking the Shogun's attack abruptly. Without anyone believing it, Chief has arrived, revealing a weird appereance, a blue eye, indicating Cortana using Chief's body, and a red eye, indicating Chief using the power of his blades at maximum. The perfect teamwork, Cortana predicts the Shogun's moves and prepares Chief to counter them, while he pours in the strength and movement of his body.

Before the Shogun can do anything else, Chief attacks with his blazing cleaver, but it was blocked by the Archon, however, the clash between Pyro and Electro created and explosion that sent the Shogun away while slightly damaging her. As she lands again, she questions herself. "How?! He's supposed to be dead! And he's wielding a Vision?!!"

With a smile, Twilight asked aloud. "John?! How are you...?!" She's then interrupted by the Euphoric Spartan, who claimed with a smile.

"Armies have tried to killed me and failed, victory will be OURS!!!" Chief then charges forward with an extreme speed. "Just DIE ALREADY!!" Shouted the Shogun with frustation as she unleashed a barrage of flying slashes, but Cortana indicated him in which order to cut them, leaving explosions in his path. With ease, Chief broke through the Shogun's attack, while shouting. "IS THAT ALL YOU HAVE, RAIDEN SHOGUN?!!" This left the deity surprised and from the dust cloud, comes Chief aiming to slash the Archon, but she blocked the hit while also being sent flying away by the explosion.

"(He slashed through my attack! What kind of tricks is he using?! And then he dares to insult me?! I won't lose to a mere mortal like him.)" With frustation, the Shogun shouted. "DON'T GET TOO COCKY!!" She then dashes forward extremely fast to unleash a slash from the Musuo no Hitotachi, but Chief was able to parry it in time.

A huge explosion occurred and both warriors are parrying each others' attacks, leaving a trace of explosions, the Shogun pushed Chief away with a heavy slash that he blocked, only to be followed by a wall of thunder slashes, but just like before, Chief parried them all and thrusted forward with ferocity, clashing his cleavers with the Shogun's blade while both are thrusted towards a row of stones, destroying them one by one. Surrounded by fire, both warriors prepare unleash eveything they have.

Intense shouts come from the warriors' throats becoming each time more intense along with the sound of clashing metal, both want to kill the other, creating a chaos of fire, purple and red lightnings.

A huge explosion is then left by the two of them, while they're still clashing while moving from one point to another, as the girls try to reach them, Applejack says. "Has Chief passed the Shogun's strength?!" Everyone seems to share this though, but Sunlight then brings them to reality. "He matches her strength, but it won't be for long, adrenaline might rune out sooner or later, come! We have to be ready to finish her!" On the other side, Chief and the Shogun stopped moving and clashed their weapons again. With a thrust, Chief slashed the Shogun's cheek, but she tried to cut his arm, which only resulted in Chief losing two fingers and the chain of his cleavers broken. The Shogun aims for his heart, but Chief stops the attack by letting it pierce through his other palm.

"JOHN!!" Shouted the girls at unison, but Chief shouted. "DON'T YOU DARE TO STOP, PUUUUSH!!!" With his remaining strength, he uses his elbow to hit the Shogun hard enough to sent her flying away, Chief sees his wounded arm that turned to black steel for a moment before falling to the ground. Leaving it now, on the Rainbooms hands.

"AJ! Twilight! Stay with John!" Shouted Sunlight as she trade a few blows with the Shogun, as she prepares her most powerful attack and launches it, the Shogun blocked it with her blade. "You won't be able to pierce my defenses like him!" Shouted the Shogun as she holds Sunlight down.

"(It's now or never Sunlight, you have to use everything you have now! I need to summon more strength, I'LL USE ALL OF IT!!)" The darkness marks now appeared on Sunlight's eyes as she shouts with anger, making her push stronger and making the Shogun step back, but it's not enough to break her defense.

"(Dammit! She's now stronger, but I can feel my strength returning, I won't let any of you win! Here's where you LOSE!)" Said the Shogun in her mind as she raised an Electro barrier that slowly pushes away Sunlight. But the sound of incoming thunderclaps alerted the Shogun and with her other hand, she fortified the barrier, at the same moment, she stopped Rainbow Dash who was using all her remaining energy to break through the barrier. "Just break, you stupid barrier!!" Said Rainbow as she sees how her attack barely has an effect.

"I will END YOU!!" Said the Shogun as she used her hand to summon lightning, but her attack changed its course and went away, shocking the Shogun. "My attack!" She then looked at the direction of her lightnings and saw Twilight, absorbing every lightning and charging up her coils while holding up one of Chief's cleavers.

"You again?!! Why don't you get out of the way, mortal?!!" Asked the Shogun as she struggle to hold down Sunlight and Applejack, after absorbing all of the attack, Twilight smiles and with confidence says. "Everyone is pushing themselves, I'd feel bad if I don't do the same. I may not be as strong as them, but I have the strongest power of humanity... THE POWER OF SCIENCE!!" Twilight then used some of the energy absorbed to punch the Electro barrier, breaking it and forcing the Shogun to use both her blade and weapon to stop Sunligh and Dash. W

With her other hand, she thrusted forward and stabbed the Shogun with Chief's cleaver while inducing it with her electric current, destabilizing the Shogun. "(This is not good, I'm losing strength!)" Thought the Shogun after spitting blood, followed by the last push of the Rainbooms, the three of them go beyond their limit while as they shout of effort, with their combined strength, they finally broke the Shogun's defense, crushing her with the power of this combined attack and creating a massive energy explosion, resulting, in what seems to be, Axios' victory.

END OF CHAPTER