A/N: Quick heads up- last chapter, Seric was supposed to notice Karia setting up one of her abilities in his boat (while everyone was swapping back with their real bodies). Only mentioning it now since it'll be relevant in this chapter. Apologies for any potential confusion.

Last chapter, the group of six started to make their run for the portal to Dalkan.

However, they were stalled for a while by the Commander Ufisator- who pinned Quilline down, and was immune to almost all of the crews weapons and attacks. He managed to paralyze Seric as well by giving him a severe head injury.

Eventually though, Elio was able to shut the robot down- which freed Quilline, and thus let the crew continue their run for the portal to Dalkan...

Only for them to find it blocked off by many drones, which Elio once again couldn't completely turn off. And even worse, Ufisator was turned back on VIA a back-up power source- with him arriving in the celebration room to fight the crew once again...

Seric's P.O.V.

"Elio dear, if this bot isn't down again in 20 seconds- I'm blowing your robo-brains out." Quilline says while teleporting all of us across the dark and empty table-filled celebration room. And obviously, Quilline herself is using her booster-shoes to leap around, letting her dodge some of the projectiles from Ufisator's few weapons that are still active.

And crap- the bot itself is also making a surprisingly-fast run towards the already blocked-off portal to Dalkan at the same time. His speed is slowing down and speeding up randomly too, just like before... and now he's using one of his hands to drag a massive table towards the portal along with him!

"He must be planning on barricading it off even more!"

"Quilline, teleport the others through the portal- I'll stay here and fight alongside you if that's the price I need to pay!" Metallic says which makes me frown, since I already know what Quilline's response will be.

"I need to see exactly where I'm teleporting people to for it to work, and I can't exactly see Dalkan through a boring blue portal. Unless you want me to teleport your pals right in front of the killer drones that are blocking the portal? That Elio somehow hasn't shut off yet?" Quilline says casually, with her even sounding bored at this point. I guess she realizes that there's nothing she can do to Ufisator right now- and he can't exactly hurt us right now either.

"Come on, I need my head to finish healing so I can move again! I can launch my boat through the portal AND through Ufisator now that there's no people in the way!" I think to myself while wiggling my feet and my lower arms, with Metallic still carrying me for now.

"You're not killing Elio- and Elio, focus on shutting the tech off for his legs and weapons again!" Amandeath says, with her voice echoing across the massive room due to all of us being teleported around constantly.

Elio speaks again in a rushed tone, "Can't find the switch for his new power source or his legs! Weapons and his hovering-tech only for now- but I've overused my blessing, struggling to stay awake at this point. Don't- don't let Quilline kill me, Amandeath!" and he immediately gets back to using his blessing after saying that.

But that doesn't matter at this point- Ufisator just reached the portal, and is standing in front of the table that he flipped over and turned into a barricade. And that's not even including the many drones right in front of the portal too... this is bad.

Quilline suddenly sighs, "This isn't going to work. Sorry, Elio, I did want to work with you- but you're far less competent than I thought. Plus I already know you're still not loyal to me in the slightest- and have probably been scheming with Amandeath too, so..."

Amandeath shouts, "Quilliiiiine- don't touch him! Just think, we still need him to get rid of the drones and Ufisator- plus he can still do a LOT of things for you-"

Before Amandeath finishes talking- Quilline teleports Elio, who's still kneeling to use his blessing, right next to Ufisator's side. The bot immediately swings his arm down to grab Elio's shoulder, and then... he smashes his other giant fist into Elio's plain white plastic head.

"You're a fucking idiot, Quilline." Amandeath spits as Ufisator punches Elio's face again- leaving his head heavily dented and limp. And the bot finishes Elio off by ripping both of his arms off with ease, all the while we're watching helplessly. Then with one last punch to his chest- Elio's unmoving metal body falls to the floor.

That is until it gets picked up by one of the hovering drones' claw-like arms soon after that, and gets dragged somewhere behind the portal to Dalkan...

"What? I listened to your advice and didn't kill him. Ufisator did. Also if anyone does want to turn on me, say so now- and you'll suffer the same fate as Elio~" Quilline says with a smirk, and no one responds to that as we continue to be quietly teleported around the room.

"What are we supposed to do now?! We have no way to take out Ufisator with our weapons." Karia asks in a clearly pissed off tone, but I'm glad that no one's being careless enough to actually go after Quilline. Yet.

"Surrender." Ufisator chips in as he's firing some lasers at us from open holes in his body, with none of them hitting us. A few hit Quilline at least, but unfortunately they do next to nothing aside from burn through her pink hoodie.

"No one asked you bot! And we DO have one weapon... one that can take Ufisator down in an instant. Metallic?" Quilline says which makes my heart sink.

"N-no... I... no. I said I would only use the Emperor form when we're in grave danger!" Metallic hesitantly says, and that finally pushes my body to be able to move again- and so I push myself out of Metallic's arms and fall to the floor.

"Hm? We have no way to beat Ufisator now, that sure sounds like "grave danger" to me! Especially since I can already vaguely hear some loud noises coming from other parts of the Casino. Most likely the other Commanders. So get to it, I'll be teleporting you next to the golden bot shortly regardless~" Quilline threatens him- and so I start talking while being teleported,

"Wait! I can move now- so, I can use my boat to get us through the portal! We- we don't need him to use the Emperor!" I say, but Quilline doesn't stop teleporting me to give me a chance to use my boat...

"Nuh-uh, that plan won't let us kill all of the Commanders and Prósopsi after all. I'm betting they've prepared gas-masks too, in order to counter our poisoners... anyways, 10 seconds left Metallic! I hear Commander Ontarus' water flooding through the hall we came through, so chop-chop!" Quilline says which makes blue flames start to drip from my fingers, since even I can hear water rushing through the hall we came through now! No!!!

Metallic screams in frustration as he turns the dial that's hidden away on his chest, "Damn it all! Seric, Amandeath- I love you! Karia, take care of them for me! Find the video camera I left in Seric's boat- you must!"

Millions of shiny metal shards starts to pour out from now-open slots in Metallic's arms and chest. The shards then join together to create a shiny, glass-like, beautiful robe that covers most of his body and drapes down to his legs.

I try to hold back tears, and even if I'm not sure I fully believe it I shout, "Don't say that, you'll be fine! Quilline said she has people that can repair you, we just need to finish this quickly!"

Metallic's only response is staring at me with his human-like silver eyes that look the saddest I've ever seen them... and before he can even respond, Quilline teleports him next to Ufisator.

Ufisator tries to grab Metallic, but Metallic reacts way faster and grabs his fist- crushing it. He then pulls Ufisator down to his knees by the arm, uses his other hand to shove Ufisator's face down to the ground, and then-

*BOOM!*

Ufisator's round body gets crushed down into the floor, flattening into a metal slab- until his body gives out and literally explodes due to the pressure!

"What?! Metallic must have used one of his spheres there to force Ufisator into the ground!" I think to myself- completely shocked since I've only ever seen Metallic send people flying UP into the air before with his spheres.

I can't see Metallic anymore due to the smoke of the explosion though, which is bad since that means Quilline can't teleport him-

"Seric- boat!" Karia snaps me out of my daze as water starts flooding through the doorway we came from. Soon after, the fully-armored Commander Ontarus is literally standing on and riding the knee-length waves somehow- as he holds his 8-shaped shiny blue sword in his hand.

"My Best Friend!" I call out, causing my boat to appear in front of me out of thin air as I continue to be teleported around the room. So much water is pouring in here that my boat is starting to float!

"Welcome to the arena, Commanders!" Quilline exclaims, and suddenly Metallic lunges out from the smoke at Ontarus- who just barely manages to dodge as he flicks his sword to the right, which makes the waves push him to the side super quickly.

"Crap! Quilline must not be able to teleport Ontarus since he's not on the same altitude as us!" I think to myself helplessly, and even notice that he has a gas-mask on too along with his blue, carbon-fiber looking armor. So the poison gas won't work on him either!

*CRASH!*

AH! Even worse- Head Commander Prósopsi with a gas-mask, his newly-clothed female companion, AND who I think is Commander Aora in full-body armor- all break through the ceiling and splash down onto the flooded floors!

"KILL HIM!!!" Quilline cheers while Prósopsi throws a small metal object down into the water, and she then immediately teleports Metallic right in front of the man-

Until Metallic starts falling through a glowing hole that's right in front of Prósopsi?!

Metallic at least manages to grab his white robe on the way down which drags Prósipsi down with him, but still- what just happened?!

"Prósopsi must have thrown a teleporter down in front of himself!" I realize, but suddenly the falling Prósopsi raises his glowing-orange palm at us, just before his entire body falls through the teleporter! But before I can scream in fear of his last resort attack- I get teleported behind my boat, along with Amandeath.

"Where's Karia?!" I ask her as a giant wall of flame flies through the air around my boat, with me and Amandeath avoiding any burns thanks to the cover we have.

"She's there... not sure if I'm going to Dalkan anymore, by the way... not having fun anymore." Amandeath says in a defeated tone, after the flames die down when Prósopsi fully falls through the teleporter.

I ignore her last comment for now and look to where she's pointing at, and see Quilline's massive frame standing in front of Karia- while both of them are surrounded by a purple, translucent, fur-like hide.

"Good- Karia used her Hide of Aegis to protect herself and Quilline from the flames!" I think to myself as Karia, and the rest of us, start getting teleported around the room again. Quilline starts leaping around the room as well, with only Ontarus and Aora being in the room with us now.

"And ok, so we don't have to worry about Prósopsi anymore, since Metallic will fight him wherever that new teleporter was set to bring them too-"

Which is confirmed when a massive rock forces it's way UP through the new portal in the floor- blocking it off completely, and stopping water from getting sucked through it as well.

"Us versus Aora and Ontarus now, we can do this-"

"Seric, focus and get ready!" Karia shouts as we're all still being teleported to avoid any of Ontarus' long-ranged slicing attacks, as he continues to glide around the room on his controlled "waves" in the knee-length water, to avoid Quilline and Amandeath's gunshots.

Meanwhile Quilline is also teleporting Aora away from us over and over again whenever she tries to get close, "Thanks for coming by the way, Aora. I mean, it was a absolutely horrible idea but, I appreciate it at least since I'll be able to kill y-"

"Just do the damn thing already Quilline!" Karia snaps, and so Quilline immediately teleports Aora right next to Ontarus- then teleports Karia right behind them both while she calls out her Spirit of Bersia. That lets Karia tap Aora's back and Ontarus' leg before they can even react, and thanks to Karia's "Escape Route" that she set up in advance- the Commanders immediately get transported into the cabin of my boat.

And finally, I get teleported right behind my boat...

"I'm sorry."

"HAHAAAA- CRUSH THEM!" Quilline shouts while I raise my arm and twist my body- then suddenly Aora bursts out of my boat's cabin! But I manage to shout "My Best Friend!" while swinging my arm down in a slicing motion, just before she can complete her escape.

Doing that instantly turns my boat into it's knife-form in my palm, compressing and killing both of the Commanders who were on the boat-

*CRACK!*

Huh?! Something explodes in my hand, causing a bunch of pieces of shrapnel to pierce through almost every part of my body- including my eyes and head!

"Did the knife explode?! How?! Were the Commanders too strong to be crushed when the boat turned into a knife?!" I think to myself as my paralyzed body falls back into the shallow water beneath me, seeing and hearing nothing- just feeling the cool liquid beneath my back...

"Should we have surrendered after all?"

A few seconds earlier...

Commander Ontarus' P.O.V.

"The fuck was that?!" I think to myself with a groan as I'm back in the flooded celebration room again, with Bahari's waves moving me up and around automatically now as I recover from that attack.

Thankfully the scumbag criminals got knocked onto their asses too so I've got time to think, "Right- last thing I remember is getting teleported into a dark white room with Aora, and then the room started shrinking in on us real fast. After that, Aora ran out of the room to try and escape- but... she came back for me. She wrapped her arms around me, right when I was about to get crushed!"

"Shit! The hell were you thinking, were you trying to protect me or somethin'?!" I swear while looking at Aora's gross body that's floating in the blood-filled water face-first... with her limbs all bent in ways they shouldn't be too. Plus her literal bones are sticking out through some places in the armor too...

"She's dead, out of the fight at the very least." I force myself to accept. I always thought Aora was a grade A bitch but- shit. Now I'm feeling a little bad if she was actually willing to sacrifice herself for me this whole time.

"Seric's down! Quilline, keep teleporting him- he isn't dead, the shards from his knife just pierced his head!" Karia the damn traitor shouts while being teleported around the room, and that lets me notice the black-haired kid covered in blood- who's also floating face-up in the water.

"You're gonna pay for killing her!" I promise as I finally start swinging my sword Bahari- causing thin, razor-sharp slices of water to launch from the water right next to me. None of my attacks hit yet, since Quilline is running around and laughing like a clown while teleporting the other three survivors away from the water-blades.

"Quilline can't teleport me since I'm floating above the ground, so I'm aight. Just need to wait for Fondrayan to get his ass in here once his equipment is ready, and this is game over." I think to myself while dodging most of the gunshots and laser-shots from Quilline and Amandeath without a sweat, gliding through the water while swinging Bahari around to keep the scumbags on their toes for now too with my own attacks.

Oh! One of the slices of water hits Quilline's lower body before she can jump away- but fuck... it just cuts her clothes and she just laughs it off.

"Gonna need to charge up my attacks more, or purposely take more damage myself, if I want Bahari to hurt her anywhere other than her major weak spots- huh?"

My earpiece buzzes while I'm moving- and I then hear Taylis' charming voice, "Reinforcements are on the way. Also- Fondrayan will sneak into the room with his invisibility suit in less than 2 minutes, soldiers are struggling to get his mask working with Aeko's invisibility. Hold strong for now Ontarus, and don't worry about the portal- they won't be able to get past the drones blocking it off."

Hearing that gives me a bit more confidence, even if I'm pissed enough to keep fighting 'till I'm dead regardless. Screwing with my big bros Casino- and killing two of my co-workers on the same day, is not gonna slide.