As Rage charged up a shot in his cannon and aimed it at the group he fired a devastating blast towards them that would surely finish them off for good. They all closed their eyes and braced themselves for their doom. But they felt nothing.

They opened their eyes to see that the blast was being deflected in multiple directions by some silhouette before them. As the blast vanished having exhausted its energy the group got a look at their saviour.

It was Lyric, except taller. His jacket had gone black with plates of golden metal going from the shoulders to the wrists on his arms. His hair was slightly longer and he wore sunglasses that pointed out at the sides. His jeans were now black as well, having golden metal boots that reached his knees. His teeth were slightly sharpened as he clenched them in anger. He stood with his arms bent outwards with his fists clenched, glaring at Rage. ”NO ONE HURTS MY FAMILY!!!

Ruby just looked to Lyric in shock. ’Woah...he's already unlocked his unique ability?’

Amnesia just looked to Lyric wide eyed. As she looked to him in his new form she somehow felt safe, like he would make everything better, that he would protect them. When she had first saw him she thought he was nothing but a coward, a shy innocent soul that didn't fight his own battles. But seeing him there, his power greater than anyone else present, other than Rage, she suddenly felt like there was someone other than her brothers and older sister that she could count on to protect her.

As Rage roared in anger, not appreciating the fact that his kill was interrupted, but also that there was someone present that could actually stand against him like this.

He charged forward at blinding speeds. Lyric drew one fist back and it turned to a golden metal. Plates of metal began growing out of his fist until a huge blocky arm of metal was fully grown.

He swung this huge metal limb forward and his Rage head on, causing a massive shockwave to shake the area violently. Rage was thrown backwards and and landed on his back, completely caught off guard by the force of the attack.

Lyric’s arm returned to normal and he dashed forward, speeding towards his enemy. As he grew near he jumped high in the air and held out his arms, the metal plates growing to form two huge block hammers. He drove them back before bringing them down on Rages head, causing a bigger shock wave. As he was thrown back into the air he retracted the hammers and grew a large metal boot on his left leg which he used to kick Rage in the face, sending him flying into a mountain.

”GO LYRIC!!!” Sapphire yelled in support. ”Since when is he this strong?”

”Even in my timeline, Lyric has always been the strongest of all of our family, even stronger than dad at one point. He's unlocked his unique ability, each of us have one. Mine is the ability to control fire, Lyrics is that form which is named Legendary Lyric...and I'm not gonna spoil yours.” Ruby explained.

Lyric charged forward once more, the metal plate on his right arm turning into a giant sword. With a cry of anger, he thrust it forward, intending to end this battle. However, his blade was stopped by a giant, yellow, dome shield. Lyric was surprised at this, and could only watch as Rage swung his weapon, cutting off the shield just before he it. The massive scythe nailed Lyric and sent him flying back. He recovered quickly and charged at Rage once more to attack. He swung his giant sword at Rage with the intent to kill.

However, Rage was no longer there.

”WHAT THE?” Suddenly, Rage was behind Lyric, his scythe at the ready. He swung once more, landing a devastating hit on Lyric. Lyric was sent flying into a building before Rage lifted up his arm cannon and fired, causing a massive explosion.

Lyric managed to dash quickly out of the blast radius and landed in front of the group. Angered even further Rage gave out a mighty roar that shook the earth, multiple salvos of rockets began to grown out of his body, aimed at the group. ”Great, he would dad's weapon systems…”

As hundreds upon hundreds of rockets were fired into the air the group looked up to the oncoming swarm of explosives, the sky filled with glowing red dots that were getting closer with each passing second.

”NO WAY I’M LETTING THOSE THINGS LAND!!!” Lyric held his arms up and the metal began to form. Once they finished building the next weapons Lyric slammed them into the ground. What was built were two large eight barrelled guns that were both bigger than Lyric and he had to set them on the ground. The barrels were made of a silver metal and were each the size of a small pillar and began spinning violently.

Lyric pointed both of the Gatling Cannons at the oncoming swarm of missiles and began to fire. The bullets were twice as large as one of the missiles, hundreds of them being fired into the air each second. The ground shook each time a bucket was fired, the group covering their ears as to protect their hearing from the loud bangs created from the weapons.

The sky became filled with explosions as not one huge bullet missed a target, some missiles even causing a chain reaction of multiple explosions. Once the final rocket was destroyed Lyric retracted the guns and smirked. ”NOW THOSE WERE HAND CANNONS!!!”

He looked at Rage, still keeping his smirk, only to see that through all of that, Rage had taken the time to charge up a massive attack.

”UH OH.” Rage fired off the attack, with Lyric just barely dodging. Turning the metal on his arms back into those gatling guns, he open fired. Rage however put up a yellow dome shield to block every shot. He let the shield down and shot fire from his mouth. Lyric was enveloped by the flames, getting hurt pretty bad in the process. He managed to escape the flames and came at Rage, having the metal on his right arm turn into a giant sword once more, but kept his left as the gatling gun. He rushed in and impaled Rage.

This only seemed to piss Rage off.

Rage brought up his scythe and slashed Lyric with it, knocking him away. He now had a gash in his chest, and he was breathing heavily. He grunted, aimed the the gatling gun at Rage and opened fired again. As he fired he closed the distance in between them, only to to get stopped once more by a yellow dome shield. He continuously fired away at the sheild, trying to wear it down, but it had no effect!

Groaning Lyric retracted the guns and charged forward. He jumped into the air and formed a metal fist that began glowing with golden energy. Rage saw this and began building up energy in his arm cannon, a ball of red energy beginning to grow just in front of the guns mussel.

The two continued charging for a moment before Rage fired off a huge blast in Lyrics direction. Lyric threw his fist forward and met the blast head on, slowly approaching Rage as the fist blocked the blast sending it in multiple directions into the sky.

The two pushed against each other, Rage putting as much energy as he could into killing his enemy while Lyric was able to match the same amount of energy as he slowly flew towards the forced fusion, determined to free his father and save the others. That plan however, wouldn’t come to fruition.

With a shout of fury, Lyric shot towards Rage, aiming to plow his sword into his arm cannon. However, Rage had enough foresight to blast Lyric with extremely concentrated fire, plowing Lyric into the ground. He swiped Lyric with his tail, sending him up into the air, and lifted up his gun muzzle once more. He charged up a shot, and fired. Lyric watched as the oncoming shot drew ever closer.

Thinking quickly Lyric used the shifting metal plates to coat his whole body in armour, protecting him from the blast that would have surely killed him. As the flames stopped Lyric growled and summoned two large metal fists while he dived towards Rage who was charging another shot.

As it was about to fire Lyric punched the cannon away causing the built up explosion to fire close to Rages feet, damaging him greatly. Lyric landed on the group and jumped up into the air until he reached the height of Rages chest. He then began to swing his fists forward one at a time, building up speed as he began to rapidly punch the beast.

He just kept going, sweat dripping from his forehead as he used every ounce of his energy in the barrage of metal fists that was causing Rage to walk backwards. Lyric stopped his onslaught only to charge up one of the fists and uppercut Rage right in the jaw, causing him to fly upwards for a second before hitting the ground.

As Lyric landed a bright light enveloped him and he returned to normal, falling on his rear in the process, feeling dizzy from the sudden transformation.

The group ran up to him, Sapphire hugging him while Ruby made sure he was ok energywise while Plague and Amnesia just looked at him wide eyed, a small blush appearing on Amnesia’s face.

A blood curdling roar caused the group to slowly look over to Rage who was getting to his feet, regenerating the damage done to him at a rapid speed. However, Rage seemed to be struggling to keep himself together, clearly showing that the fusion’s connection was growing weak. Ruby looked to everyone present before getting an idea. ”Plague, Amnesia! Fuse with them!” They looked at her confused. ”Rage is almost defeated, if you fuse with Sapphire and Lyric you will have enough strength to end this.”

The Twins considered the idea, and agreed that it would be the best option. With a nod they turned all black and leaped at the other twins, Amnesia fusing with Lyric, and Plague with Sapphire. Both took on the forms of people in their late teens, possibly around Epidemic’s age.

The fusion that Amnesia and Lyric formed gained long silver hair and eyes. He wore a gray cloak held together by a gem in the shape of a music note, silver gauntlets, and a simple grey shirt. He had grey boots that reached up to his knees, and grey jeans. Finally, he had grey glowing crystal-like wings.

Plague’s and Sapphire’s fusion had long dark blue hair and eyes. She wore a blue chest plate with a lapis drop in the center. She wore a blue jacket over that, and her right arm was robotic. She also had metal boots and dark blue jeans. She also had dark blue glowing crystal-like wings.

”Well well, is it my time to fight so soon?” The female fusion had a cheery voice. She looked to the male fusion with a grin. ”Oh, you’re here too Melo? Well then this must be serious.”

”We don’t have time to fool around Lapis. We have an important job to do.”

”You’re no fun.” She then noticed Ruby staring at them and smiled. ”Oh why hello Ruby. Good to see you for the first time.”

”I’m sorry. Who are you?”

”My name is Lapis, and I’m the fusion of Plague and Sapphire. This silent warrior over here is my brother Melodrain, the fusion of Lyric and Amnesia.”

”So wait, the four of them made two knew fusion beings?”

”Erm… not exactly.”

”What do you mean not exactly?”

”A fusion being would permanently link the two required to make the fusion. However, we will not.”

”Think of us more as a temporary super form for the four of them.” While still incredibly confused, Ruby knew that was the best answer she would get from these two. Taking her silence as a cue to do what they came here for, both of the new fusions turned towards their mighty older brother, Rage, who was staring at them intently.

”So, our first fight is with our older brother huh? Hmm… seems like we’ve got our work cut out for us.”

Author's Notes:

Two new fusions and Lyric has unlocked his unique ability, things are getting serious now.

Lyrics new forms abilities were inspired by Generator Rex btw