A/N: This was mentioned before- but just want to give a reminder that for any of the Hopian Army's teleporters, that the portals they create stay open for at least roughly 30 minutes (even after the teleporter-tech itself is shut off or destroyed). Only mentioning this since I imagine some people might wonder "Why not just throw Metallic throw the portal and close it off right away?".

Last chapter, with Aora out of the fight- Ontarus continued the fight against Karia, Amandeath, and Quilline on his own. Though even with reinforcement soldier robots arriving to help him, he was still getting slowly wittled down by Karia and Amandeath who were constantly being teleported around by Quilline.

That is until Fondrayan in his invisibility suit granted by Aeko finally had his equipment fixed. The man was then able to sneak up on and grapple Quilline, keeping her trapped and with her eyes covered- which let Ontarus tear through both Fondrayan's hand, and more importantly Quilline's eyes with three deadly slices of water.

Then, with Quilline's teleportation being disabled- Ontarus used his last bits of strength to launch a slice of water that cut Amandeath's legs off, and he sent another slice of water in Seric and Karia's general direction before he passed out entirely...

A few minutes earlier, right after Metallic (in his Emperor form) dragged Prósopsi down through the teleporter that the Head Commander threw down at his feet...

Head Commander Prósopsi's P.O.V.

"Aphrodite- help with my aim!" I shout immediately after me and King Metallica fall through the portal, thanks to him dragging me down by the bottom of my robe. That of course leaves us falling through the dark green-ish sky of the uninhabited planet that I've planned to fight this monster on for a while now, so things are still mostly going according to plan at least.

On that note- I start hovering and shift myself to the right as King Metallica dangles from the bottom of my robe. Then I flick my wrist up to cause a massive cylindrical mass of trees, dirt, and rock to launch up from the ground below- which rams up and through the portal that's floating in the air. That should block off the portal completely, or at the very least make it hard for him to get to.

"Nowhere for him to run now." I think to myself, and with the help of Aphrodite who's holding onto me like a backpack and helping with my control- I start flying even higher into the sky at the fastest speed I've ever gone.

"This'll be an easy win if I can just throw him out of the planet's atmosphere!" I think to myself as the air starts to get noticeably thinner as we fly past the thick black clouds, but thankfully I have an oxygen mask on so that's not an issue breathing wise- for now.

Though suddenly the bot let's go of my robe and taps my foot, and I feel a really awful pain in my arms before everything goes black...

...

...

"What?" I finally recover enough to have a coherent thought.

The first thing I see is a massive green and gray orb in the distance. Everything is pitch black around it, with some white spots splattered across the darkness too... space. That's the planet we were just on, and this is freaking outer space!

"NO! Did King Metallica launch ME out of orbit?!" I think to myself in horror- and I'm even more shocked when I continue to look around, and see that I'm trailing behind my own armless, barely clothed, frozen-over corpse as it flies through space.

I look down, and then notice my translucent self... AKA my soul, AKA me right now.

"I'm dead?! Did I really die that quickly?!?! All he did was tap my foot, and that was somehow enough to send me flying out from Aphrodite's grip?!"

Though I feel a bit of hope as I spot Aphrodite in her own white and gold robe zooming behind my corpse at a speed that I could never match. And she actually manages to catch up to it, grabbing the body which stops both its and my movement. Alright!

After that, without any hesitation she heals my corpse completely with a single touch. Then she grabs my soul- AKA me in this case- and shoves me back into my body. She re-activates my powers right after that, which puts my body back into its white and golden robe.

And I take a shaky breath through my semi-frozen oxygen mask the second I come back to life- but before I can even thank Aphrodite, she grabs my arm and starts flying back to the planet so quickly that it feels like my arm's going to tear off again.

"Ow!! No- pain is meaningless, I've felt worse- focus! The second I get back to the surface- King Metallica will probably already be on the ground, trying to destroy the clump of earth I made that's blocking off the portal. I'll need to reinforce it right when I get down there, assuming he didn't already break through it somehow." I think to myself as Aphrodite starts flying through the planet's atmosphere- which makes me activate the power of Hercules so that my body doesn't burn to a crisp.

I start to fly on my own after we get past the atmosphere, "Do you know what that attack was, Aphrodite?!" I shout over the high-intensity winds around us, while scanning the ground below for any signs of King Metallica- once we get past the thick black clouds at least.

"No idea- so be fucking careful, reviving you takes a ton of my energy! I'm already going to be a lot sloppier now because of that... also the bot's to the east, look!" Aphrodite points, and only then do I spot the massive tower of earth that I made in the distance, that's sticking out from the planet's heavily forested land below. The only thing that stands out from the endless green of the trees is a colossal mountain in the distance that pierces through the clouds above us.

And after some closer looking, I can vaguely see King punching the bottom of the portal-blocking-tower over and over again, causing big chunks of it to break off.

But I start zooming down towards him even faster after the entire tower of rock starts to tip over. He must have taken out its entire foundation!

Thankfully right when it fully falls to the ground, I'm close enough to launch an attack at the bot who's staring up at the exposed portal in the sky that's way above him. And so I stretch my palm out- and launch a giant wall of blue flames down at him, which should hopefully do some damage and stop him from jumping up through the portal.

"Aphrodite, help with my aim again?!" I ask her- and she grabs my arm right after that, which makes the area of my flame-blast smaller- but more precise as it should be firing directly down at King Metallica now.

"HUH?!" King Metallica SOMEHOW appears right in front of me- did he jump up from the ground, AND through that fire, that fast?!

I only have time to re-activate the power of Hercules before he taps my chest and sends me crashing down to the ground- then THROUGH the ground- with even Aphrodite not being able to stop my descent as my body digs through the earth. My flight isn't stopping it either!

But thankfully my body does suddenly stop digging through the ground on it's own. Though before I can get out of this deep hole myself, I start getting dragged UP by some invisible force!

"He's gonna hit you the second you get pulled back up to the surface, you need to counter attack before then!" Aphrodite shouts as she flies alongside me, with her body phasing through the earth around us like a ghost.

I struggle to shout with dirt and rock getting into my mouth, "Right! Going with Gaia!"

Since I can vaguely see King in his glass-like robe standing above the hole I'm getting pulled up through, I flex my hand for a second- and then flick it- causing a chunk of dirt and rock near the surface to slam into his legs.

"Damn it!" I shout as he continues to stand still as I get pulled closer and closer towards him. And so I use more power to force even more dirt and rock into him- but that still does nothing!

"Wait- I see a sphere stuck in your chest! That's gotta be it, he uses those spheres to move people around!" Aphrodite says while she starts digging through my stomach, literally ripping through my flesh to try and get whatever "sphere" she's talking about out of me.

Meanwhile I can only cry out in pain, and as a last resort since I'm about to come face to face with the bot- I use the power of Zeus to cause a bolt of lightning from the clouds above us, to slam into King's head with a painfully loud BOOM.

...

That still does absolutely nothing! Crap! And so I raise my arms in front of my face to try and protect my head, and to maybe even grab his hands, as I finally get pulled up right next to King Metallica-

"GAUH." Instead of hitting me with his fists, the second I reach the surface King Metallica slams his metal foot down onto my chest- taking my breath away, and also cracking some of my ribs. And that was WITH the power of Hercules activated too!

I can't even fly away to escape either since he's continuing to crush my chest down against the side of the hole, and so I start punching his metal leg that's pinning me with the power of Hercules. That actually shakes him a bit and almost makes him fall over- alright, progress!

After healing my ribs Aphrodite says, "Keep hitting his legs! Also it's his palms, the sphere that was in your chest got sucked back into his hand! So just don't let the bot touch you with his palms, and you'll kick his ass since he won't be able to launch you anymore!" Aphrodite cheers me on as she starts holding my arms while I'm punching to give me even more strength- which fully knocks his foot off of me!

But right when I start flying away with the power of Hermes, Metallic leans down and grabs the bottom of my robe- yanking me towards him AGAIN, at least this time with his own hand instead of his "sphere".

Either way he then swings his palm down at my face, but with the power of Hermes I'm quick enough to catch his wrist before he can touch me. And with my other free hand, I launch some flames at his face since that's Ufisator's weak point. 

But in response, all King does is painfully grip my waist with his other hand-

*SPLAT!*

Before I can even scream- the monster spins his entire torso, and his arms, all the way around in different directions while we grip each other. That rips me apart since his hold on me is so much stronger than mine is, and I'm in too much pain to even recognize what parts of me are in-tact still!

But the pain ends after he throws a punch at my face-

"Not again!!!!" I curse after seeing that I'm outside of my body again, with my now-headless corpse falling to the side of the hole- as I hover above it as a translucent spirit.

With me being "dead", the now bloodstained bot then turns around and runs for the portal in the distance, while Aphrodite frantically heals my corpse- and then throws my soul back into it.

"Smarten up or give up Prósopsi, I can't- I can't keep reviving you like this, one more time at max before I pass out! Takes like 100 times more energy than anything else I do!" Is the first thing I hear from a panting Aphrodite as I take a deep breath inside of my now-healed physical body.

"I'll try! Also, gonna make another portal blocker!" Is all I reply as I start flying after Metallica, and at the same time with Aphrodite holding my arm- I clench my fist for a couple of seconds, then swing it up. That causes another massive clump of dirt, rock, and trees to launch up from the ground- and into the portal that's hovering in the sky.

Metallica immediately stops running after that, and spins his head around to look at me with his scarily-human-looking silver eyes.

"Why won't you die?!" He shouts in frustration.

"Huh?! Wait, actually, are you willing to negoti-" Before I can finish trying to "hear him out" like some of my favorite cartoon characters have done- King spins his head back around, bends down, and jumps forward and into the sky at a speed I can't even track with my eyes.

"Crap, should have seen that coming- plus even if fighting him is scarier than I thought it would be, I still need to avenge all the people he's killed."

"...W-what? He jumped away and not directly up over us, right? Even I missed that." Aphrodite is the first of us to talk.

"I... I think so? This isn't over though, even if he's running away. We should play this safe since he's so strong, but I'm staying here until he's dead- or the portal closes. He can't make it back to the Hopian Continent no matter what-"

"You feel that?" Aphrodite interrupts me as the ground we're standing on starts to vibrate, with some leaves starting to fall out of the trees above us.

"Yeah... gonna get a better view." I say with a bit of worry as I start to fly into the air, with Aphrodite flying beside me.

"The fuck is he doing...?" Aphrodite swears after we both notice that a ton of the trees in the forest have fallen over, and are moving now. Or more like the trees are somehow orbiting around something in a massive circle, and the amount of trees being pulled into the orbit is continuing to expand at a scary rate too.

"No clue, but I don't like how more and more trees are starting to get moved around. Let's stop him, this has to be another one of his sphere-things." I say while starting to fly above the sea of circling trees, and thankfully my flight doesn't get effected by whatever force Metallica is using to move them around. And even better, after a bit more scouting I spot the tiny silver speck that is King himself in the center of the orbit down on the ground. For some reason, he seems to be leaning against a mossy rock that's about as tall as he is... I don't want to get cocky and say he's tired though.

So instead I just take a deep breath and say, "I-I see him. Any suggestions to take him down, Aphrodite? Gaia, Hephaestus, and Zeus were all useless... Hercules seems like the best bet so far, but getting into close combat with King clearly seems like an easy way to die at this point. Hate to say it but he's got me beat physically, and he might even beat my reaction time too..."

"Shit- I dunno, he's tough. Aeolus probably won't do much either. Hades maybe?"

I shake my head, "Hades probably won't be much more powerful than the others though, since he's a bot instead of a human with a soul. ...Oh! Wait- I have an idea. We don't need to beat him- I can just bury him in rock over and over again for like 25 more minutes! Then we can just fly through the teleporter at the last second before it closes, and just leave him here! Help with my aim, please!" I say with enthusiasm, as the panic from my near-death experience turns into a crazy amount of energy.

"Seems safe, so sounds good." Aphrodite confirms as she grabs both of my arms from behind me as I start flexing my fingers to get a feel for the earth below us. More specifically, the ground that's right next to King Metallica- who's still just leaning against the rock in the center of all of the moving trees. 

After a bit of adjusting, I finally start slowly pushing my hands together- which thanks to Aphrodite, starts to "automatically" cause big clumps of dirt and rock to rise from the ground all around the bot- and then crash over him like waves.

...

"...Is this gonna be easy after all? Maybe he really just panicked after seeing he couldn't kill you? Coward." Aphrodite scoffs after King doesn't even try to break out of the clumps of earth around him. 

But still- the area of trees getting moved around by him is continuing to get bigger. So much so that an entire island-sized chunk of the forest is probably being pulled into his orbit at this point. And even his tomb of dirt and rock starts spinning around him within a few seconds...

"...Maybe? This feels off, though. Considering what we buried him in is also getting moved by whatever sphere he's using, he obviously could break out of the dirt and rock we trapped him in any second. He has to be planning something here and is staying still on purpose."

*CRACK!*

"Huh? That sound came from the right of us, right?" I ask Aphrodite as we look at the massive gray and green mountain to the right of us, where a massive cracking sound just came from.

"Oh no. Ohhhhhhh no!" I panic after hearing something that sounds like the planet itself roaring, and more importantly THE ENTIRE DAMN MOUNTAIN IS STARTING TO MOVE AND GET PULLED INTO THE ORBIT TOO NOW-

UNTIL... it's not? Suddenly everything that was circling around Metallica before stops moving entirely. But before I can enjoy the silence, he smashes through the earth I tried to bury him in a minute ago- and jumps away again into the sky at a pace I can't even track.

"He's heading to the mountain, I saw him this time! Let's go, no clue what stupid shit he's planning but it probably isn't good!" Aphrodite says frantically as she tugs at my arm,

"Hold on- need to rebuild the portal blocker, it must have gotten pulled into the orbit along with the mountain!" I say after noticing that the tower of rock and dirt that was blocking off the floating portal behind us- is collapsed and super far away from it's original spot now.

Aphrodite groans as I flex my hand to rebuild the portal blocker, "Idiot- do you remember any of our training?! You should have been watching it the whole time, this could be another continent-sized attack like he pulled off befor-" 

She gets interrupted by the earth rumbling so loudly that it hurts our ears. And we only have the time to turn our heads towards the sound of the noise, to see that the entire mountain is sliding towards us at the speed of a bullet- and is about to smash into us too!!!