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The One With The Heart

by Spooky Ghost

Chapter 48: The Hostage

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Daniel cursed himself as he looked on at the battle between King N and the 3 most powerful people in the army that was defending this planet. He hated having to sit at the side and recover, looking on as they struggled to beat King N. Even the ability Blade has to adapet to any kind of energy and fighting style wasn't much help, the most it did was help him in defence but they have very little in the way of attack moves they could do to damage their foe. That is if his suit hadn't already adapted to what they throw at him previously.

He watched as Blade's hand made a chopping motion as it came down right on King N's hand, between the middle and ring finger which resulted in his hand getting cut and burned half was down to the wrists on the suit. But a moment later the mental reformed and remade itself and his hand was back to normal. After that happened, Blades attack, which he called 'Star-Core Slicing' was no use at when he used it again on the head in hopes of cutting the head off to get inside. Had resulted in him not even slightly bending the metal. Even with the heat he was producing.

Wisp-o did give King N some trouble at the start but as soon as he got his fighting style down it was Wisp-o who was on the defence. King N managed to see his fighting style was based on probability so he set his suit to go through his fighting styles randomly. Sometimes he would use 2 styles in order then not use them again for a long time. The random and erratic way he fought was throwing not only Wisp-o but also Bravacho and Blade off guard.

Bravacho, while powerful was showing to be little more than a pest to King N in the battle that was raging. He was doing almost no damage and was mostly used as a distraction so Blade or Wisp-o could land a hit. From what little gadgets he had to the way he attacked as almost all useless thanks to the fight he and Daniel had with King N before.

One thing that he was happy to see was that Canterlot was still standing and the shield was still up. Meaning his force was a much bigger problem. He felt proud at that moment as if he didn't build up an army then Canterlot would likely have fallen by now. Looking over the battlefield he saw some of King N's troops starting to retreat at whenever one of his bots was destroyed it was taken back, repaired and send back out within moments. There was some bots that were compleatly destroyed and couldn't be repaired, but Alpha still had the factories on and new battle bots were arrive every once in a while.

At this some of his Battle bots were taking to shooting at the sky to take down as many ships as possible. So far Daniel could see about 27 wreaks on the ground but ask looked into the sky he saw more and more troops arriving to keep on fighting. This battle was nowhere near over.

Looking at the ground he saw what looked like a blaster that one of King N's dead troops held onto, so he ran out to grab it before heading back to the place he was hiding. He decided to make himself useful by shooting at whatever targets he could see. Mostly shooting them in the leg or the arms. It took a while for him to get a feel for the blaster. Mostly with the recoil and he did end up hitting himself in the eye with the back end the first time he aimed it, but it was still highly accurate so he soon got the hang of it. He incapaticated about 17 troops in the past 10 minutes of fighting as his robots didn't hesitate to kill the troops. Even if it was in self defence, Daniel still felt a little bad that some of these troops likely didn't have a choice in the matter. It was serve their King or die.

Even with this in his mind, his friends, family and potentual future wife was on the line. Meaning he pushed them to the back of his mind. Well he tried to and failed with one of them.

"Wife?" He asked himself as the thought of Nature being his wife went through his head. While he didn't like the idea of that, he didn't know if he was ready for marrage. He smiled at the idea but that quickly turned to anger as he saw one of King N's troops pointing a weapon at him. Reacting as fast as he could, Daniel lifted up the blaster and fired. Hitting the weapon head on and even taking off what he assumed as the troopers cheek as he armor at that part of the helmet was compleatly gone. He then saw one of his robots jump on it's chest and press down, breaking the armor and going into the ribcage. Daniel winced at he heard the bones snap and the trooper scream.

Looking back over to the battle with King N, he saw the 3 of them were in trouble as they all looked tired from the battle. King N was holding onto one of Wisp-o's hands and he then crushed it. Causing Wisp-o to scream in pain just like Daniel remembered when he done the same in the tournimant a few months back. King N then made the palm of his hand face Wisp-o as he prepaired to launch a blast.

Daniel pointed the blaster at King N's eyes and fired. Even if it was just a distraction, it would be helpful. Which is just what happened as the moment the blaster bolt hit the left eye of the suit, King N looked over and saw Daniel grinning. More nerviously than the 'Got you' kind of grin. This was when King N pulled out that strange arteface from before and was about to fire it at Daniel. But Blade managed to land a kick on King N's hand. Sending it off to the side.

Blade tried to grab it but was knocked to the side by a energy projectile King N shot out and when Blade was out of the way, King N walked up to the artefact to grab it. Wisp-o reacted bu covering the eyes and the window of the suit with his hands to try and blind King N. Only to have him get shocked by an electrical current that surged around the suit.

As he looked back at where the Artefact was he saw Bravacho there, but only for a moment as a kick was delivered to the front of the mechsuits head, which only caused the suit to tilt backwards a little. As the fight progressed, Daniel tried to see if he could find a weakness but he saw nothing. King N's mechsuit didn't stop for a cooldown, didn't seem to have a powersource to attack. Even all the attack that were shot at him only worked once or twice until his suit adapted and changed. Even the metal itself seemed to only get more sturdy with each blow that was done to it.

"Time to change this up." King N said as he saw a potal open near King N and as he put his arm through it, in a few seconds he pulled his arm back out but it looked different. It didnt match up with the other as the hand in it looked more bulky. Bloated. But he soon saw why as the hand fell off the wrist area but stayed connected to it with a chain and the fingers on the hand morphed into a mace. It looked similer to the old weapon called 'The Morning star' he had seen on history channels back home.

King N looked at Wisp-o and as he swing his new weapon hand around, one of the fingers opened up and a metal trap, almost like a metal web shot out of it and trapped Wisp-o in it. As Blade rushed over to help, King N throw the spike ball around and towards Blade. Who was impacted on the chest by one one of the spiked fingers and had the wind knocked out of him.

Bravacho tried to help but King N hit him the same way he hit Blade and Bravacho was sent upwards, into a ship in the sky.

Daniel looked around for anything to help them out and he saw one of King N's troops holding something that wasnt a gun. The trooper aimed it an area and a moment later a bombardment from ships overhead hit the area.

Taking aim at that Trooper, Daniel shot his elbow or what he assumed was the elbow and he dropped the 'Marker' as Daniel had choosen to call it. Running up to that trooper he took the marker and delivered another shot to the troopers leg so he couldn't follow him, but on his way back to his hiding spot, Daniel felt a sharp pain at his side and he saw a blaster his just missed him but managed to catch the skin on his rib. It was not painful to breath as his ribs pressed against the burnt surface from the inside.

Never the less he managed to make it back to his hiding location and looked at the Marker he found.

"So is this just a point and shoot thing?" He aimed it at King N and pulled the tripper but nothing happened. Looking it over more he saw he had to hold it down at the area he wanted the bombardment to happen. He saw King K was holding up Blade in his hand and Blade needed help. Aiming the marker at King N he held the trigger down and a flashing lazer soon became a beam which marked the area around King N. But needless to say, King N saw this and looked at Daniel and what he had before looking up at his ships which were now auto targeting his location.

Daniel thought he got him until he saw a satalite dish come out from his shoulder and the cannons turn...towards him.

"Oh crap." Daniel ran out of his hiding location as the bombardment rained down. "He has a plan for just about everything he faces. He even thought of a counter to his own weapons being used against him." Daniel held out his hand and made the heart appear on it and to his delight the heart was almost done fixing itself. He just needed to hold out a little bit more.

He got up but was soon knocked down by Blade who was thrown at him as both saw King N approtching.

"You must realise i am prepaired for anything you throw at me. I went over every situation in my head and even my own weapons i have with me i have a way to overpower them." Blade got up and looked at King N. He was bearly standing.

But at this happened, both Daniel and Blade saw a ship overhead which seemed to be on a crash landing right towards them. Bravacho had taken down all the troopers on board it and was not setting it to impact on King N. Who turned around and looked up at it and sighed.

"Really?" One of King N's fingers opened to reveal a glowing blade and as the ship got closer to him, the glowing from the blade got more intense and soon King N moved his hand in a slashing motion, sending an attack resembling that of a sword cut towards the ship.

In a moment, Bravacho jumped out as the ship was cut down the middle and split appeart. All King N did was watch as the ship split appeart and he went between the two halfs, them not even touchi him.

Bravacho landed next to them but tumbled off to the side. Both of them looked exhausted and beaten.

"Daniel...how much...longer do you need?" Off to the side, Wisp-o's hands flashed again and it was a 5. A half chance. But the others didn't see that as Wisp-o looked over to the artefact that King N had used on Daniel and then back at King N. Hands flashing again, resulted in 1. A one in 10 chance.

Wisp-o done one last calculation as his hands flashed and this time. 7 of them were black and 3 were white. A 7 in 10 chance. With that, he made his move and reached for the Artefact.

"The heart is almost done repairing itself." King N heard Daniel say that and moved a palm to face Daniel and prepaired a blast. But something then beeped, alerting King N to something. Turning around, all of them saw Wisp-o, holding King N's artefact.

"Eat this!" Wisp-o shouted as he used the artefact and aimed it at King N. Bravacho, Blade and Daniel got out of the way as they saw the blast quickly approtching King N. All he did was hold his arms out in a defencive X stand and take the blast full force. He saw send backwards a little but as his legs dug into the ground he soon was standing still, enduring the attack.

"You think using my own weapon against me will work? Well i have had enough playing around with you all. Wisp-o...you will be the first to die." King N moved one hand and it entered another portal as he switched out his weapons. Blade saw this and charged towards King N but the hand that was changing its weapon quickly got back out and slapped Blade away.

The hand now looked different. It was an almost transperent dark purple and as King N moved it to block the beam, he had his other hand also change. It became something like a shield.

He moved his arms one more time and now the shield was blocking the beam but also absorbing it and with his other hand he aimed it at Wisp-o and it started to glow more intensly with each second. After about 5 secounds, he aimed it at Wisp-o an fired. The blast was so strong it send a shockwave over the whole area and even the troops that were battling all hit the ground from the sheer force alone. Canterlot almost lost its footing on the mountain and fell.

Blade and Daniel watched as the blast apprtoched Wisp-o and soon consumed him. Each one of Wisp-o hands slowly broke down and when he had no more left, he looked at Blade and gave a smile, but it was a more 'Well...i tried. Good luck.' kind of defeated smile as his body also broke down and he soon turned to dust. Before his head was consumed, Wisp-o looked over to Daniel and Daniel could swear he nodded at him before closing his eyes and letting death take him.

Daniel watched as Wisp-o was soon gone. The blast scattering his bust to the wind. Looking at Blade, Daniel saw all hope was gone from his eyes. He was broken.

"You monster!" Bravacho shouted as he charged at King N. Only to be flipped with a stomp to the ground which caused a sheckwave to catch him off guard in his anger. King N then stepped down on his legs. King N then turned to Blade and blasted him with a full force blast. Incinerating him down to the muscels. Daniel felt like he was about to puke as he saw how bad Blade was in from that blast.

Daniel looked at the 3 warriors that were the best they had in this defence force. One was dust. One was getting his legs crushed and the other was missing 1/4 of his skin, tired and almost out cold.

"Dad. You..." Bravacho started but Daniel could see he too almost lost all hope.

"You are no child of mine. You're a traitor." King N aimed the blaster arm at Bravacho and Daniel watched as time seemed to freeze the moment the blaster fired. Acting on reflex. Daniel rushed over to Bravacho and teleported him out from under King N's foot.

Daniel felt the rage in him build up as he looked around at the battlefield and saw more ships arriving. Just when they seemed to have victory, it was taken away. He then looked back at King N who was now looking over at him when he realised that the blast didn't make contact with Bravacho.

Daniel didn't care if what he was going to do would kill him. He would push himself to the limit and beyoned. Anything it took to win this battle. He held out his hand and checked the condition of the heart. To his joy, it was fully repaired and he felt its power shoot through him.

"You are alone Dani-"

"Shut the fuck up!" Daniel screamed at him. This took King N by surprise as this was unlike Daniel. But Daniel knew if he was to win this battle, he would need to change. He would need to be the opposite of what he was. Not a pacifist afraid to accidentally kill. He chuckled at this as he felt his limbs tighten from anger and his breathing deepen.

He looked over to Canterlot and reminded himself what he was fighting for. Twilight. Luna. His friends. Annabelle. Nature.

"I'm not holding anything back anymore." Daniel felt tingly as bolts of energy emited off him as his limbs were covered in black fire. He entered his black form and let his rage build up, but also keep it focused on one target. "I'm going to kill you." He laughed almost like he was crazy after he said that. He didn't care how this made him look. He needed to push himself as much as possible and with no restraints to hold him back.

Daniel rushed forwards, the speed that he moved at and the force moved about half of the ground with him as he charged right at King N. While King N did block, he didn't stay in one place as Daniel pressed his assult on him and pushed him back more.

As Daniel powered up and launched towards King N, he felt his back rip open. The power was becoming more than his body could handle. But he didn't care, he pressed on his assult and brought forth more power than before as his rage and despiration to beat King N grew.

King N managed to aim his blaster at Daniel but as Daniel saw this, he felt adreniline shoot through him and moved almost instictivly. Punching into the cannon as it was charged up and causing it to explode. King N quickly swapped out the destroyed cannon for an arm that looked normal but Daniel wasted no time and rushed at him again. Grabbing his shield arm and as he held onto it with his arms on the edge and his legs in the center. He pushed his legs inwards. Cauing the shield to become more like a cone and it also pierced into King N's other arm.

Daniel landed on the ground and felt some fatuige hit him but he tensed up and focused on King N. One winnign this battle. As he got ready for his next attack he powered up and felt another sharp pain in his chest as he felt a warm liquid on the inside and as he looked down he saw blood. Taking a quick look down his shirt he saw his chest was more of a open wound as there was a large gash that went to his left hit to his right shoulder. The more he pushed, the bigger the injuries got.

"Focus Daniel. Kill this guy!" Daniel looked back and King N and got ready to fight again.

King N quickly swapped it out and got an arm that looked the same as the other one. The metal was silver with red transparent metal on the hands like they were gloves. King N fired up the gloves and brought on down on Daniel who met it with one of his own hands and blocked it. The same happened with the other hand. He now had King N's hands held up as he blocked his downwards attack, but the hands then lit up and Daniel felt electricity surge through him. But all this seemed to do was make him more angry and determained to kill King N. The fire on Daniel's back morphed into a claw and moved to cut one of King N's arms but he blocked it, at the cost of letting one of Daniel's real arms free and as the blackfire morphed into a claw. Daniel swipped upwards, at the elbow of the suit with all he hand and sliced the arm clean off.

Daniel wated no time grabbing the arm and punching into it. Tearing up appear before blasting it with his blackfire, reducing it to dust.

King N replaced his missing arm with a giant blade that he summoned and with his other hand he covered it in red lightning. Daniel just smiled.

"Nice toy." He said like he was talking to a kid but King N remained silent. Daniel just rushed forwards as Kign N swipped with the blade and as Daniel avoided it, some of the lightning got him and caused him to lose focuse, which King N took advantage of and kicked Daniel as hard as his suit would let him. Daniel was launched about 2 kilometers away, stopping when he hit the magical shield of Canterlot.

"Daniel!" Annabelle shouted but Daniel only felt his rage increase and a stronger desire to win. He rushed back to King N and dispite his making it there in less than a second to deliver a strong hit, King N blocked it.

Again he was attacked with the lighting blade and Daniel tried to grab it and managed to do so but the lighting increased in its heat and intensity as King N then pushed hard on the blade and send Daniel away again. Standing up he didn't even realise his hands were bleeding from the gash the blade left in them or that they were burt from the lighting. He was focused on only King N.

Daniel rushed forwards once more and as King N slashed at him again, Daniel caught it and held firm. Even as the lighting got stronger. Grabbing onto the blade, he tried to snap it and when King N saw this he used the blade to throw Daniel upwards and as Daniel fell back down, he put his blade up to the sky and impailed Daniel on the blade.

He took a moment to look at Daniel as his blade was impailed through him, but this lasted only a moment as Daniel lifted his head to look at him, and he was smiling like a maniac.

Looking at the blade he was impailed on, he grabbed it and moved his body in an effort to break it. King K tried to shake him off and increase the lighting on it, but this seemed to not do anything. Then a 'Snap' was hear. The sound of snapping metal. King N looked at Daniel who after landing on the ground. Ran up to him and punched him on the head of his mech suit. Then another punch. Then another. And one last uppercut sent King K upwards.

Landing on his legs, he saw Daniel rush up to him and try to punch through the main window to where the control chair of his suit was. King N avoided it and saw Daniel was still fighting him, while still impailed with the broken blade, still hot from the lighting that was surging through it moments ago.

King N swapped out his broken blade for a new hand and saw how deadly Daniel was. He needed to end this quickly. Looking around he saw the artefact from before. King N opened his hand while his palm faced it and it flew over to him.

He quickly activated it and aimed it at Daniel who was still smiling. Firing it at Daniel. He saw Daniel also fire a beam from his at King N. As their beams struggled back and forth the ground of the planet was starting to crack. Even with the focus on each of their blasts to make sure the power didnt effect the area around them. The intensity was so great it was bypassing their efforts to stop and collateral damage.

King N saw Daniel was using only one hand for his blast and the other hand was pulling the blade that was still in him out of him. With a grin. Daniel decided to do something inside. So insane it might just get King N off guard.

He throw the blade upwards and made a clone of himself. This close went up and kicked the blade towards King N which caught his attention. While he was focused on that, Daniel rushed into King N's beam and grabbed it. He then jumped upwards while holding it which caused King K's arm to moved and face the sky, with the same artefact now shooting its beam upwards.

Daniel looked behind him and grinned as the blade his close kicked was going towards him. Recalling his clone back into him, he saw the blade pass through the hole he still had in his chest and pass between his arm, into the beam and cut into it. As the blade passed through him, Daniel moved his legs and gave it a strong kick. As much as he could and he saw the blade slice the beam in two. Right down to King N's hand, right through the artefact, through King N's arm and into what would be the ribs if it wasn't a mech suit.

The beam from the artefact vanished and Daniel rushed forwards as he gave the blade which was now impailed in King N a solid press kick, jamming it into the suit more and then Daniel backed off. Fired the same beam he was firing moments ago and was delighted to see the beam meet it's targed head on. With King N's arm gone, the damage from the blade inside the suit and the speed Daniel moved at. King N had no time to set up any block or defence against Daniel's beam.

"Die!" Daniel said. Voice full of anger and hatered as he pressed his beam attack more. Pushing himself to give it his all as King N was compleatly covered in the beam he was shooting towards him.

Daniel felt his skip rip and burn off as the blast's power kept increasing. But he didn't pay any attention to it. It wasn't anything he couldn't recover from, at least that he knew. But to him increased recovery time would be worth it if he deals with King N here and now.

After a few secounds of this and after the battlefiend went compleatly quiet, thinking King N was done for. They stopped fighting eachother and started watching the battle. All was compleatly silent after Daniel's beam died down. It was the first time in hours that the wind could be heard. All the blasts from the ships overhead all stopped.

As Daniel lowered his hands he felt another sharp pain in his eye as his eye ruptured and he covered it with one of his hands. Looking at himself he saw he was more red from blood which was still dripping off of him than any other color.

Looking at his hand he saw the blast he used has burnt off most of the skin and he saw some of the bones of his hand as he saw his skin slowly moving back together to cover his injuries. It stung but he was happy his healing was still working, even if it was slower than normal. He lifted up his head and looked at the area where King N should be if he was still alive and waited.

A few moments passed and the ground started to move. Daniel saw King N pick himself up from the dirt and try to stand up, but fail to do so. His mech suit was compleatly ruined. One leg was gone and the other didn't work. His arm was still missing and it looked like the beam Daniel had fired got into the suit, into the important parts thanks to the blade that penetrated through it beforehand. Daniel smiled menicingly.

"Look at that. Your new look suits you." Daniel walked forwards to King N. With the intent of finishing him off.

"I must say. I never thought about you being like this. Letting go of everything. Even others, all to focus on killing me. Even if your kids got in the way." King N was chuckling. He already knew how to turn the tide of this battle if his backup plan failed to make Daniel give up.

"You would have done much worse. I was willing to put all that behind me if it meant killing you." Daniel lifted his hand to King N. "You took away everything from me. My home. Family. Friends. And even my kids know what costs this battle could have. Beating you was...is all that matters." A blast was starting for form in Daniel's hand.

"Taken? No Daniel. I have not. Actually...my consumer doesn't destroy. It breaks down the structure and saves it in a seperate location for others who know how to use it." A hatch opened in King N's suit and he pulled out a strange looking orb. "Know what this is? I saved it for this moment."

Daniel looked closet at the orb and saw patches of green and blue in it. The green was in shapes he realised.

It was Earth.

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