Episode 31: Final Moment of Peace

[Daniel Andersen]

Kuzuha does not enjoy the scenery as her opponent.
She is not very fond of rainforests; she prefers mountainous areas over any rainforest or forest in general. However, organizers were not polite enough to provide her with such training ground, but they decided to go for bird's preference instead.

Despite being an all-round Bakugan, Kuzuha can battle directly with her own power. One element she inherited from the Sakura form is that she can control elements such as darkness, ice and thunder. "Ability activate! Invocation: Åska!" Daniel takes a card and rises it into the air. Seems like he has abandoned the concept of using a gauntlet like Maria, Lydia and Keto. In translation it would be 'thunder invocation'; same element as of Ahio's attack.
Kuzuha slams the bottom of her staff against the ground triggering invocation of a magic circle below her. Circle generates multiple thunder bolts that head upwards.
They all collide with Ahio's thunder bolts and cause an explosion which results in both their abilities being nullified.

Not having fought an opponent like Ahio, Kuzuha cannot yet decide on a proper tactic so she decides to continue fighting Ahio this way until a more appropriate tactic presents. Naturally, she does not want to use property-copying abilities right away.

[Seiki Maki]

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"Woah, she deflected it. It was more of canceling, but either way, the attack is no longer useful." Ahio says, a good distance away from Kuzuha to avoid anything that was hurled her way. "We can do a a frontal assault, especially now that I have this form. It may do better than spell casting, since I believe she's quite skilled in that field." Ahio chirps.

Seiki nods and draws her card, careful to not let her anger towards Daniel get to her, even if he was being controlled at that time. "Alright then, if you say so. Ability activate, Spiral strike!" Ahio charges in for a ram, her beastly horns targeted directly at Kuzhuha. The horns were charged with a spell, one that if they were to meet their target, for a brief amount of time, spells the bakugan casted wouldn't work.

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[Daniel Andersen]

And now Ahio is going for a more aggressive tactic.
It is a well-used strategy against a Bakugan that throws spells around, like Kuzuha,; just hit them with a strong melee attack and cripple their body.
It is truth that Kuzuha is weak against melee because of her low physical defense, but no rule suggests she is limited to physical defense. "Ability activate! Illumination: Skydda!" Daniel rises the second card in the air.

Kuzuha has not been using many defensive abilities since she left the life of being Sakura. Since she became Kuzuha she has been focusing on her power-obtaining abilities instead of defense and support. However, in times when a giant bird tends to ram in you in the face with her horns you might reconsider using a defensive ability and there it is.
Word 'skydda' can be translated into 'shield' or 'protect'.
Kuzuha slams the bottom of her staff against the ground creating a light-purple magic circle on the floor below her. Circle summons a dome-like light-purple barrier around Kuzuha.

Ahio's horns meet Kuzuha's barrier and results does not differ than the last. Ahio's attack is deflected and Ahio is sent flying backwards, but Kuzuha's barrier cracks on the spot where Ahio hit it. Guess Kuzuha's defenses are not as they used to be. Perhaps she should abandon them completely and focus on the offensive. "You don't need to hold back..." Kuzuha advises expecting Ahio to throw something stronger at her.

[Seiki Maki]

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Ahio's eyes sparkle, "I-It cracked!" She gleefully chirps beside Seiki who nods her head in agreement. "I didn't think i was that strong now-"

"Or she just has weak defense Ahio. Don't get your hopes too high up," Seiki says, butting off her bakugan before she could finish her statement. "This may mean they must have some lethal attacks up their sleeves." Seiki narrows her eyes as she gazes at the ground. "Head back out there, I'll call out another ability."

Ahio listens as usual and flies right back out, circling the island as she waits for Seiki's called ability. "Meltdown!" There it was. The bird-dragon went right to work, letting out a loud roar as she flew up, over the floating island. A tennis ball sized bomb appears in her talons and she throws it at Kuzuha. It wouldn't destroy any of the surroundings, just the bakugan... And maybe some stuff with it's radioactivity. Ahio gives one powerful flap of her wings to send it faster downward.

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[Daniel Andersen]

Another exiting surprise comes from the Resistor bird.
First it was ramming, now a radioactive bomb. Sounds like a hell of a Friday night combination, but regardless it had to be dealt with.
Kuzuha is normally very resistant to ailments, including radiation, but with this attack it was unpredictable on what it could do besides making Kuzuha act like a snowman in the middle of the summer.
Daniel had nothing specific to use for defense against this, so he decided to roll with Kuzuha's new, recently-discovered type of abilities- morphing.

"Ability activate! Morph: Bris!" Daniel says as he takes a morphing ability and rises it into the air. He used similar class of ability against Commander Blaze and his Siegfried in order to avoid lethal attack that was supposed to turn Kuzuha into Bakugan skewer. At that time morphing ability turned Kuzuha into slime creature that has maximum resistance against melee attacks, but no rule implies that it can't target a tennis ball on hard drugs.
'Morph: Bris' targets any material object or living being on the battlefield and morphs their body into air; their body becomes air and takes all properties of it. Ventus aura surrounds Kuzuha as she points her staff right at Ahio and her nasty bomb. Staff flashes and releases a beam of green light that hits the ball that targeted Kuzuha, but for the sake of safety Kuzuha decides not to hit Ahio.

Radioactive bomb flashes and starts morphing. Within seconds it disappears from the sight; it turned into pure air. Not a very fancy way to defend, but if it's stupid and it works then it's not stupid. Kuzuha, however, did not hit Ahio because she herself does not know how Ahio's body would handle it if it was turned into air; theoretically, Ahio would cease to exist, but would still be alive (just not physically). Not recommended to test it on a living being either, so don't try this at home. "Are we supposed to accomplish something with this?" Daniel asks quietly willing for the fight to end so he could have some peace and quiet. "What's the matter? You don't like the fight?" Wolveride asks since he is the one always up for watching others beat each other up. "Another annoyance in a line of many..." Daniel silently replies.

[Seiki Maki]

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She snaps her fingers in conclusion. With such an attack, how come Kuzuha didn't attack both the bomb and Ahio? Seiki had come to the conclusion that they didn't mean to harm Ahio in such a way, or that there could only be once of that attack fired every so often, or per battle. The latter made more sense, but Seiki wanted to take a risk. To end this battle perhaps.

"Here we go! Mystic ability activate!" Seiki calls out, a magic circle forming beneath her. "Come divine wings, swarm thy skies," Ahio flies directly over Kuzaha, casting a shadow over the opposing bakugan. For a brief second the bird's previous two forms appeared in front of her. "Sylphystia!" And Ahio makes a beak-dive toward Kuzaha at an alarming rate.

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[Daniel Andersen]

Daniel takes another card and activates it.
This time card flashes in pure-white showing Kuzuha's Haos attribute. "Ability activate! Curse: Soul Incineration!"
Being an all-round Bakugan, Kuzuha does take some qualities from Bakugans that specialize in fighting 'cloning' opponents. Soul Incineration ability detects which enemy has a soul and which doesn't, targets the latter and makes it disappear in flames.

Kuzuha hits her staff against the ground. On impact, multiple waves of air are released and come in contact with Ahio and her 'clones'. Kuzuha then quickly hits her staff again and this time, in similar manner, waves of fire are released as well. Both Ahio's previous forms are caught in flames and instantly incinerated and turned to ashes while real Ahio is hit and sent flying backwards once again.
Kuzuha does not even seem like she is trying hard to defend against Ahio; both Seiki and Ahio does not seem very motivated to fight this battle which consequently makes it easier for Kuzuha. However, does that not necessarily make Kuzuha happy.

And Daniel? Oh, that definitely does not make him happy. He briefly pauses the battle with a comment loud just enough so Seiki and Ahio could hear it. "Is that it, Resistor?" He questions almost as if he was criticizing Seiki's brawling skills. "Is that the 'wondrous power' you Resistors achieved by fighting Legendary Soldiers? Because all I see is a set of transparent and empty movements. Kuzuha does not even need to use her strong skills to fight that off." He says in a very critic tone towards Seiki not being able to comprehend how she managed to defeat Oberus with that kind of power. By this logic Kuzuha could defeat Oberus without much effort. Not only that it was embarrassing towards Oberus, who sacrificed her own time to help Seiki, but it is embarrassing the new power Seiki has because it shows no effect.

"We know how you see us. You hate us, don't you? Then why do you hold it inside? Your enemy is right here in front of you and you have every right to hate. So why not let it all out?" Daniel suggests Seiki that she actually directs her hatred on him.
He is not afraid of what he might cause by saying this, but... "You will never move from where you are no matter how many evolutions your Bakugan goes through if you continue to pile up that negativity inside you." He adds on that expecting to give some extra fuel to the fire so Seiki would be motivated to express her hatred.

And Daniel intends to add one major factor to the motivation. "I am just as guilty as him..." He says. "With some effort I could have taken over temporarily, but I was too afraid, I was a coward. Therefore, he was free to do what he wanted with your family. I could have stopped him, but I didn't." Daniel admits.
As explained, Daniel and Deathcrown saved several lives with coordinated effort to take control away from Virus, but at the time when Virus targeted Seiki's family Daniel did not find courage to continue resulting in Virus acting as he pleased. "No words can describe how much I regret my cowardice, but that is not important. What's important is that I am guilty for what happened there regardless of how you look at it and I deserve no less punishment than that monster. I could have stopped him, but I didn't."

"So don't hide your hatred. You have the power; attack me, wound me, crush me... whatever you feel is an appropriate punishment." Daniel yells out to Seiki openly telling her to... basically kill him if she deemed it necessary. Piling up such negative emotions will not be good for her in the long run, so if that will make her feel better... why the hell not? It is only fair that she decides on Daniel's fate after his cowardice.

[Seiki Maki]

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"To answer what you have said Daniel. It's not all about the power. Sure some of us may have gain some kind of sweet power, but I didn't." She draws a card, one that looked much like her mystic ones, except more intricate and had more foil. "Sure I hate you, but I hate the you that killed my family. It's obvious that you're not that person. If you were, Ahio would have been shot out of existence with the bomb- theoretically speaking."

She then huffs and crosses her arms. "Sheesh, why are you acting like you're suppose to be the perfect one around here? Everyone gets scared. We all do. Live and learn. Now, I'm sure you're beating yourself more over this issue than I ever will, so I won't so too much. Besides, killing won't solve everything. Sure it feels nice in the short run, but the long run? Lets not go there."

She holds the card in her index and middle finger, holding it out in front of her, "Ahio, now"

"On it!"

"Strike down and spite my enemies... Heavenly-"

Ahio soars above Kuzuha and summons a large magic circle."Crusader!" Out came a lightning bolt, followed by numerous others of different colors. When they struck the ground, hunks of the earth were broken apart and flew in the air.

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[Alex Andersen]

Battles have been going on for some time now.
And this battle is going to become a fierce for an inch or two.
Unlike majority, Noland and Alex were in an artificial dimension; fooling around with Switch Code and Valiant Strive inside an enclosed space like arena would be preposterous.
Battle here seems to be going very well for both brawlers, but not that poor artificial airship that seems to have many of its pieces cut off and floating around.

"Not bad...not bad at all..." Alex admits. He seems very pleased with how the battle has been going so far. Both Drago and Dante are whaling at each other with powerful abilities, but neither seems to be faltering. That shows how much stronger both Noland and Alex have become through time; if they were to face each other years ago battle would not last this long.

Alex does not think the same about Valiant Strive as Noland thinks about Switch Code. Perhaps Noland cannot wait to test that power to the fullest and is more than eager to use Switch Code. However, Alex is not even closely that fond of Valiant Strive; that monster reminds him too much of all the pain, disappointments, failures and deaths he had been facing his entire life. In the past, whenever Alex would use Valiant Strive it meant someone would die; friend, foe or a complete stranger. This basically became the symbol of cataclysm.
But these were the orders...
To use Valiant Strive and help Master Blaze improve himself even further.
Alex at least understands that... it is not his battle, but conflict between Resistors and Spartans and punishments each one receives on loss is severe. He knows it would be selfish of him if he denied helping Noland just because of that fear and discomfort that has been haunting him.

And there it goes... Alex draws an odd card out of the pile; it has lines going from every corner and forming an 'X'. In middle of that 'X' is a stunningly-beautiful red ruby sparkling with intensity. The rest of the card is blank. "Let's not waste any time on these small-fry moves. We came here to test that Switch thing, so let's get to it." Alex says.
He inserts the card inside his gauntlet. This triggers red ruby on the card to glow intensely almost as if it was on fire.
Activation of Valiant Strive is not a simple as it seems to a common bystander or someone who has never used it. "Divine power that rests within, heed my call." He shouts loudly. "I, wielder of the Sword and wielder of the Shield of the mankind, call upon you. Rain miraculous power of Creation and Destruction, bring down fiery judgement upon our enemies and banish the darkness for all eternity..."

"...And once again, let there be light. Valiant Strive!!"

Dante's body starts glowing in golden color and flaming red soon joins as well. Glows transform into golden and red flames that engulf Dante's entire body. Fires continue to expand until they completely exceed size of Dante's body and finally form shape of a golden sphere surrounded by red raging flames dancing around the sphere. "Access granted..." Voice on Alex's gauntlet says.
Gauntlet goes through a transformation as well; it flashes and light takes over Alex's left arm completely. Once light disappears it reveals that Alex's gauntlet took over his entire hand as if it was a piece of an armor rather than a gauntlet.

"Activation..." Gauntlet speaks again. "Valiant Strive..." Golden orb suddenly cracks in the front, then in the back and bottom; it cracks all over and raging rivers of fire start to emerge from every crack. Intimidating roar can be heard coming from inside the orb.
Finally orb explodes and shatters into millions of golden particles and dancing flames go off with them revealing the new form that Dante went through.
A massive red dragon with most its parts covered in golden plating.
His wings are massive as well and covered in gold. Rivers of flame dance around his body and sparks of thunder appear here and there announcing appearance of 'Haos' and 'Pyrus' attributes together.

And there it is, Dante's Valiant Strive. Against all expectations, his transformation does not include any knight-like form, but of a dragon instead. It is because it is not Dante's natural transformation; it has been obtained from a Legendary Hero Bakugan.
That is a long story behind his power and still a mystery to how much it might grow.
"You want to defeat Spartans, Master Blaze? We're gonna make sure you give them hell out there. Let's go!" Alex shouts confidently.
Knowing how much trouble Spartans have caused Alex would really want to see Resistors making a soup out of them. Too bad he can't interfere in that battle on his own.

[Noland Hardy]

Drago could feel the amount of power coming from Dante's transformation when he assumed the form. It was undeniably tough. With that amount of strength, Dante should have been the one to handle the Baalenoid problem from before.

"I don't know if you get this a lot, but I didn't think Valiant Strive would look like a dragon. I was expecting him to look a lot like...a knight," Noland commented. Regardless of what it looked like, Noland had to power up. That's what he asked for, so that's what he has to fight against.

"Here's our opportunity, Drago. Dad and Apollonir have showed us the way. It's time we learned to follow it." Noland's hands started gleaming in Dextra-attributed energy, signalling the start of the transformation. "Are you ready for this?"

"Only if you are," Drago replied. It was fitting that he said this. Drago achieved this power from their formidable synchronization. If Noland wasn't up for this, there was no way out.

His body surged with the Dextra energy. The power rose like a build up, steadily increasing as each second passed. A golden, circular symbol that contained the symbols of all six attributes appeared on both Noland and Drago's hands. The light from the symbol was intensified as their energy burst forth. Drago's color scheme shifted to a rainbow color to represent his status as an all-attributed Bakugan now, complete with all of the amenities that come with such an honor.

"Now we start the actual fight. Bring it on," Noland assured Alex.

[Alex Andersen]

And now the real fight is on.
Both Switch Code and Valiant Strive in one place, going against one another.
This will be one hell of a fight that will show how much both brawlers have improved. For Noland, testing this kind of power might be completely new, but Alex learned on how to use and control Valiant Strive when he was 14. Difference is that Noland will most-likely not going to have a single issue with controlling Switch Code while Alex still, after 4 years, has difficulties with controlling certain powers that came with Valiant Strive. One of those would include his 'Two-Face Destroyer' ability which Alex was never able to master, but reports he has been reading say that his father could use this ability without an issue.
'Two-Face Destroyer' would definitely come in handy when fighting Switch Code and maybe this fight helps Alex improve enough to use it, but risking it here might just let Drago 1-hit defeat him if usage becomes failure.

"It is power from Bakugan 'fairy tale'." Alex replies to Noland. "You know those kids' books? Dragon kidnaps the princess and hero saves her? Well here both hero and dragon lost and dragon gave his power to hero. Hero was called Valiant and dragon was called Strive, so you get the point. Once hero was killed his body crystallized and shattered into twelve pieces that soared across the universe." Alex explains this in a way that would definitely piss off Dante who respects the full story of it and it sounds pathetic the way Alex told it. "And apparently, Dante came in contact with one piece and can turn into this thing." Once Dante came in contact with it, piece became part of him and gave him this unnatural power.
Because Alex has this overpowered transformation he never went through the 'Twelve Labors' test of Silver Knights and this makes him the only elite Silver Knight without natural transformation. Which also means that if he does this 'Twelve Labors' test he might gain another transformation besides Chaos Takeover and Valiant Strive.

In order to set a more appropriate stage for battling Alex clicked on his gauntlet. "Access granted. Terrain modification settings..." He inputs a few commands and then his gauntlet flashes. "Ability unlock! Divine Crusader!" He says.
Thunder flashes besides Dante and produces lightning. Dante opens up palms of both his hands and lightning hits them, consequently forming something in Dante's hands. Lightning disappears and reveals a massive sword in Dante's hands; sword that spits raging lightning all over the place. Legendary sword of a Hero, the Crusader.

In order to demonstrate what one single ability from Valiant Strive can do Dante heads towards the airship where Noland and Alex were standing on the deck. With one single swing Dante's sword goes through the airship horizontally as it was butter.
Length of the sword and focused lightning cause the force to go right through the ship and exit on the other side. Basically, Dante split the airship into the upper half and lower half.
Airship suddenly starts to break apart, but Noland and Alex are surrounded by two bubbles and taken away from the deck so they would not be harmed.
Airship pieces fall down on the ground creating massive explosion.

This is where Terrain modification kicks in. As one airship was destroyed multiple lights flash all over the sky where Drago and Dante were. Multiple massive airships appear all over the sky; each just as big as the first one. Both Noland and Alex are taken to the one, so they would not need to float in a bubble. "There is plenty, so don't hold back if you need target practice." Alex suggests and then points at Drago. "You know what to do." Alex says. "Indeed. Let's do this."
Dante's wings spread and then he charges in at his opponent with massive sword, Crusader. Dante prepares to swing the lightning sword at Drago as he charges in.

[Noland Hardy]

Ordinarily, Drago would be a bit concerned by an opponent who shows that they are capable of splitting a ship that fortified so easily. The Switch Code made him a lot more confident in his abilities, but, most importantly, it made him smarter. As powerful as the incoming attack was, Drago saw no reason to get himself worked up so soon.

"That looks real to me," Drago thought about the origins of the Valiant Strive. He eyed Dante's movements as the sword was drawing closer.

"Okay. Ability activate! Novia Blade!" The Novia line of abilities has always been in the highest tiers when it comes to their overall lethality. This old school ability was no exception, especially with the Switch Code involved. What many foes do not know is that the power of this ability is decreased a little with however many times Drago chooses to split it. It is at its most powerful when it stays in its unified form as all of the energy is concentrated to that single point.

When Drago manifested the energy on his horn to form the blade, it began to grow into a glorious blade that had a bright flow of Dextra energy flowing through the center while being surrounded by a bright color.

"Be precise with this," Noland warned Drago. That hinted to something terrible happening if Drago does this incorrectly, which would be difficult. When Dante was closer than Noland would have ever allowed him to get if this happened in the past, Drago fully extended the blade and pierced Dante's sword. He then swung his head in a way so that the blade would cut through Dante's sword. Making contact with this form of pure energy caused the power in Dante's sword to be diminished, leaving it without the power to withstand being broken apart by smashing into Drago, who seemed to be unaffected by the impact.

"There's no time for target practice. They usually don't fight you back," Noland answered to Alex's suggestion. Drago turned around to face Dante who had passed him from the charge. "Besides, we've been targets long enough, all of us have. Now is the time we show them who does the shooting."

[Alex Andersen]

Purpose of the airships was not only for the 'fun'.
Airships are meant to be disturbance to both Drago and Dante in the battle, so they cannot just whale at each other with abilities, but also have to pay attention to their surroundings so the airships do not hit them.
Also, paths of the airships may collide with paths of Drago's or Dante's attacks, so it would be rendered ineffective. Purpose of this is to make both brawlers tactically and carefully plan their attacks and make sure 'terrain' does not go against their plan.
Well, considering that both Bakugans can just break through an entire airship it should not make a big issue, but it can become problematic in fast-paced combat.

"I agree, but do not become too stubborn and do something stupid." Dante comments on what Noland said referring to what Alex did some time earlier; discovering and going alone inside one of Kyuki's laboratories. Last thing he could have expected was Kyuki to be in that exact location along with Necro Hydranoid and Alex's 'revived' parents. It was such weird coincidence that no one could have predicted; Alex is lucky he is alive. "Yeah, yeah... I think we all get it." Alex interrupts Dante in irritation.

Dante turns back towards Drago in preparation for next strike. "It takes patience. People are dumb; you do good for years and you're still a bad guy. You throw in a few Battle Suits and you're a hero...geez...it's like that 'Visitors' show all over..." Alex says silently commenting on Earth's situation right now and how humanity acts. He primarily refers to Noland who was proclaimed as 'enemy' just because he is a Gundalian; throwing all good deeds he did. And when Dasia and Xavier came humanity willingly accepted their 'primitive' toys known as Battle Suits. Long-year friend of humans turned into enemy because of his race.
A complete stranger with a few gifts immediately considered as a friend.
There is no end to the stupidity.
Only a small number of people knows of Alex and Lydia; even though they are considered as 'very important'. Reason for this is that no matter how much good they can do they will always be just monsters. Just like Noland was labeled.

"Ability unlock! Dragon Thwart!" Alex's gauntlet flashes indicating activation of an ability card. Dragon Thwart is a preventive ability which is focused on what every brawler participating in the brawl played recently. Dante's body glows in crimson and spreads red waves all around the area. Both Noland's and Alex's brawling devices show names of their last 2 abilities played (Novia Blade and Divine Crusader). With Dragon Thwart ability any other ability whose type matches types of these two previous abilities will be immediately nullified during its activation and Bakugan that attempts to use them will take instant damage from them instead.
Both Bakugans' attacks were melee and therefore neither one can use melee for the rest of the battle or they will take damage from it instead.
It shows this on both Noland's and Alex's brawling devices, so they are aware of the risk. Alex is ready to eliminate his own melee because Dante has a big variety of ranged abilities as well.

Similar ability to this is 'Absolute Silence', which Dante could only use if he was paired up with another Bakugan; doing solo against Drago would be useless. However, in a tag match it could potentially lead to a one-shot win.

[Noland Hardy]

Noland saw this prohibition on his BrawlX. Being prevented this way didn't seem to worry him. His face had the same calm expression as before. Drago didn't even need to figure out what had happened to him from what was said on the BrawlX. He could recognize what Dante did to him based on what he felt. That's how much Drago's knowledge of energy had increased while in this form.

"It's sad that you're right. That's just the way it is though. When there's love, there will be hate. My dad once said to me that if everyone had nice things to say about you, then there'd be no reason to continue pushing forward. I can't get stronger without something out there trying to push me back."

If Alex wanted to fight with range, then Noland would be more than happy to grant him that request.

"Ability activate! Grand Destructor!" This would be a rather uncomfortable attack to use against someone. Fortunately for Dante, he was in Valiant Strive mode. He'll manage.

Rather than gather the energy in his mouth as he would have done in base form, Drago had formed it a couple of inches above his wingset, the body parts themselves shining a few light rays that crafted the ball. Because of the Switch Code, Drago was also able to alter the process of this ability by dispersing the attack while the orb was still resting above his wings.

Dante then found himself being bombarded with an immeasurable number of light particles that traveled like bullets. They were were moving so fast that the afterimage of the particles made the projectiles look like laser beams. The size of these particles were very deceptive as their damage range would expand significantly on impact, dealing significantly more damage across the target's body.

[Alex Andersen]

Ranged combat is Dante's specialty in this form.
In normal form it would be a balance between melee and ranged while Valiant Strive focuses on ranged combat. Because of the fact that Valiant Strive is nearly 2-3 times bigger than Dante's normal form he is not really the quick one in battle, so AoE attacks or wide-area attacks in specific direction are his specialty.
But one should not underestimate him and try to play the game of hit-and-run which would seem most appropriate against an opponent that is not very agile.

Alex's gauntlet flashes again. Protective bubble from before forms around him and then around Noland indicating that there is going to be action which could be harmful if they are outside of those bubbles. "Ability unlock! Infinity Arrow!" Alex says.
Infinity Arrow is one of the trickiest AoE abilities in Dante's arsenal; not one of the strongest, but definitely one of the trickiest and for this reason both brawlers were put in a protective bubble.
Dante's body shines in golden color and chains of lightning wrap him up indicating usage of Haos attribute. Dante roars intensely and his whole body changes color into golden leaving no red at all. Out of every inch of his body thousands...no, millions of arrows start to spawn and head in every direction. Millions of golden arrows start charging at everything around Dante; literally, in every direction. This kind of approach really suits an AoE ability; it does not specifically focus on Drago, but everything around. Normally, it would be useful when fighting multiple enemies, but it can also be used to make sure enemy does not escape and is definitely hit.

Arrows collide with beam projectiles Drago was sending and on impact both arrows and projectiles disappear, but difference is Dante still continues to produce arrows and in much higher quantity. Arrows start bombarding Drago as well. They explode on contact discharging Haos energy in form of electricity that shocks Drago.
One arrow is not a threat, but hundreds of thousands hitting you at the same time will definitely pose a threat if not dealt with correctly.
Arrows head towards Noland and Alex as well, but their bubbles are deflecting the arrows incoming. That was exactly why those activated when Alex 'unlocked' Infinity Arrow. Every artificial dimension has these 'reality bending' bubbles which cannot be broken by attacks regardless of their force; not even Switch Code and Valiant Strive together could break through them if they wanted. These are put in every artificial dimension because it is implied that brawlers might get harmed if they are so strong that they need artificial dimension in the first place. Strongest Admiral and genius of Silver Knights, Asuka Izumo, invented these bubbles based on time/space, physic/spiritual knowledge coming from Bakugans and by mixing those into one she creates a 'perfect' shield. "Good thing one of our Admirals is smart..." Alex says seeing those arrows hit the bubble. "Yeah, say it out loud. You really play with fire." Dante replies.

"I believe that is truth..." Alex replies. "What's left of my human nature tells me to fight for humanity and the rest questions that logic... The more I see the less I want to fight. My father told me not to lose faith and hope in humanity despite the circumstances... Hah, guess it's too late for that one.." Alex admits. He was never a fighter to begin with; he gained power he never asked for, he uses for what he deems to be correct, but he takes the whole fighting thing not too differently than Lydia who literally throws up after watching a fight. Dante, being taught a lot about honor and courage from Alex's father, does not take this logic of Alex's lightly; he thinks it may become a problem later on for Alex because he has no hope or personal reason to fight for the sake of humanity. With power he has he can become a villain or leave humanity for good at will.