Ruby grabbed Sapphire and jumped to the right, avoiding a huge blast of fire. The two noticed that after Sapphire had called out to her father Rage had reacted, the orange eye on his chest flickered purple for a split second before returning to orange. Nodding to each other they both pulled out their RYNO 2s and broke off in different directions. Ruby charged her gun with the energy of the Reality Star, turning it red and causing red smoke to seep out of the many mussels on the end of the weapon. Sapphire took out her Tesla Claw and thought for a moment before smiling. She rapidly began taking the weapons apart and began combining them.

When she was done her RYNO 2 was now her shade of blue with a few gold plates on the sides, the mussels longer and seeping electricity. Ruby saw what her sister had done and smirked, knowing that Sapphire shared her father’s connection to weaponry.

Once they were on opposite sides of Rage they aimed and fired. Ruby’s projectiles were now violent red balls of energy while Sapphires shot the normal rockets but with a stream of blue lighting. ”I'm calling this the Lightning Storm...or RYNO 2.5.” Shrugging she continued bombarding Rage with streams of electricity and rockets.

Rage roared in anger and began wildly blasting the two, constantly switching targets. He began to get dizzy from constantly turning and every time he did he was blasted in the back and face with the modified ammunition. He started to slip slightly, his attacks slowing but still not being damaged enough that he couldn't keep fighting. As his opponents kept bombarding him with attacks, his eyes glowed red.

Things were just getting started.

{Mindscape}

Plague and Amnesia watched as the robot attempted to break himself free. However, his struggling was for not, as it did nothing to the chains that held him. As he continued to fight, more chains wrapped themselves around him and froze him in place, rendering him immobile.

At first Plague and Amnesia thought that the battle would wear Rage down, but he only seemed to be getting stronger, draining more and more power from the robot as he fought.

“Nothing’s working! What do we do?”

“Well we have to do something. Hmm.” Amnesia tried to think. She then got an idea. “I’ve got it! All we have to do is fight fire with fire!”

“What do you mean?”

“Look, this thing is still connected to Epidemic right?” Plague nodded. “Then that means we’ve got a little bit of control over it. If we can separate a portion of it, we can control that portion and fuse with the others!”

Plague smiled at his sister’s idea before nodding rapidly. They both pressed against their spherical prisons and focused. They called out across the red tinted world around them, trying to see if anything would respond. At first, nothing happened, and they began to lose hope.

But then, something called back.

With their newfound hope, the Twins called out once more before focusing their consciouses on that one spot that had responded. Gaining control of it, they split it off from Rage before splitting it in two.

“It worked!”

“Now we can stop this!”

Ruby was exhausted. At first when she fused a reality star with her weapon, she thought that the battle would finally turn around. Unfortunately, she was wrong. Infuriated by their attacks, Rage started using that scythe of his, causing him to become a hundred times more dangerous. Ruby and Sapphire tried to keep their distance, but whenever they got out of the rang of the scythe, Rage would speed towards them and attack, nearly killing them! They both had been forced to play on the defensive, and were getting tired of it.

”Come on! There has to be a way to bring him down!” Out of the corner of her eye, Ruby saw a piece of Rage come off before it split in two and made its way to Sapphire.

The two jumped out of the way before the two pieces landed between them. After the small cloud of smoke disappeared the two of them saw Plague and Amnesia laying there, looking weak and slightly injured.

”What the? I thought that you two couldn't be separated from the fusions...wait, this is fantastic! If we beat Epidemic out of dad we could end up giving you guys your own bodies!” Ruby helped Plague to his feet while Sapphire helped Amnesia. Amnesia shook her head.

“These bodies are only temporary. Once we top Epidemic we’ll have to go back.” Plague nodded along with her. As of now, they needed a minute to build up enough energy to fuse.

”If we're going to beat him we need to finish this now, I'm starting to get tired and these two are clearly too weak to even stand let alone fight.” Sapphires breathing was starting to become heavy, sweat visible on her forehead and her body slouched slightly.

The Ruby herself was also beginning to feel the effects of the damage she had taken. She watched as the Reality Star floated out of her chest and disappeared, its energy used up. The two looked up to see Rage slowly walking towards them, his power only increasing.

”Well sis, it was nice knowing ya, looks like the future is only going to be more messed up.” Sapphire sighed and readied her gun.

Ruby gulped as she looked over to her possessed father, knowing that there was no chance of them defeating him by themselves. Plague and Amnesia looked to each other tiredly and hugged.

Meanwhile Lyric set the eggs down and safely buried them under a tree. ”There, that should keep you guys safe, at least for awhile.”

He wiped the sweat from his forehead and turned his head towards the direction of the battle.

”I should go see how my sisters are doing, I hope everyone is alright.” He looked to the spot that his unborn brothers and sisters were hidden and sighed before running off.

Running through the multiple vines and logs he eventually came to a bush that he hid behind as he got a good view of the battles progression. He gasped as he saw his sisters tired and injured, their attacker slowly progressing towards them. His sights fell on the twins, specifically, Amnesia.

It was the first time he had gotten a good look at her. He stood still for a moment, the whole world seemed to freeze as her eyes met his. The sun had shone through the clouds and showed her beautiful purple tipped black hair and her sparkling purple eyes. A soft blush appeared on Lyrics cheeks as time returned to normal.

He began to rapidly switch his gaze from his sisters, to Amnesia, and then to Rage. He saw them all, helpless, tired, injured and in need of saving. He took one last glance at Amnesia’s terrified face then glared up at Rage, clenching his fists before his body was enveloped in a bright light. A sense of courage washed over his body as it began to change slightly, feeling his power growing beyond anything he had ever felt before. ”I'm tired of being a wimp! They need me! I need to be brave...I need to be STRONGER!!!” The last word echoed out in a deeper voice and the ground shook slightly.

Author's Notes:

So...Lyrics getting a transformation.