Episode 42: Scorched Earth Policy

[Maria Zenovia]

Hydra gets knocked back a bit, but no significant damage has been done.
She does not waste time on being impressed by that move; Ares has pulled that crap before on her using 'Transcendence' ability...
It was not going to stop her from giving hell to Resistors.
When they decided to challenge Admiral of Ruin they straightforwardly bought tickets to a live-action horror movie and they are soon to experience the monster of this movie.
Maria takes another card shrouded in darkness and raises it.
Card explodes and releases black smoke alerting it is in motion.


Hydra's heads start to move all around very quickly.
She prepares to charge in towards the giant dragon and before Resistors know it... she is already a few meters in front of them.
Movement speed she gains in M13 form is not something an Excedra should have. Excedra kind has massive bodies and their movements could be called sluggish by almost any other race of Bakugans, but some of them are exceptions.
Their bodies have evolved in that way that they contain 'Spirit Walk' which allows them to move in any direction at crazy speeds and surprise their opponents who believe Excedra's movements is slow.
All 13 heads charge into the dragon and start chomping it all over dispersing large portions of Dextra energy from its body as a sign of damage being dealt to it.
Those portions quickly turn into pure energy and join Hydra who then, after a few thousands of chomps, backs down and then thrusts all three of her tails against the dragon pushing it back a few meters.


Ability Maria used is called 'Madness Devourer'. It multiplies movement speed of all 13 heads and multiplies absorption by 2. Then after absorbing energy from enemies for at least 5 seconds it allows her to either store that energy for another ability to come or immediately use it in form of raging Dextra flames. Judging by her tail-attack she decided not to attack this time in that way.

[Alana Cortese]

Hydranoid gasped when he saw Zero Hydranoid move like that. "Hey...that's my move..." he mumbled. Fortunately for the Resistors, Hydranoid also had control over the avatar, which meant that it could use his abilities.

"Thank you, Noland, for being the only one to acknowledge that I wasn't lying earlier," Hydranoid expressed. That was the kicker. He really wasn't joking about saying he could take Zero Hydranoid.

"Heh. You're such a child," Alana chided, but in a playful manner. She just didn't want Hydranoid to make light of the situation. "Ability activate! Alpha Gainer!"

This ability allowed the avatar to swallow excess amounts of battle energy from the area. It did this by a vacuum being created from the Dragonoid sucking all of the energy this. While this would normally be too much power for Hydranoid to handle all at once, the avatar could handle it as it was already at the peak of balancing energy due to the Switch Code. Saying that the Resistors were hilariously broken was an understatement.

"You're right, Noland... I've gotten a lot stronger too," Alana accepted. "Ability activate! Lash and Blast Extreme!" A pillar of light enveloped the Dragonoid. Tentacle-like creatures sprouted from underneath and bit into Zero Hydranoid, one for each of her heads and a few on her body. They injected a toxin into her, one that was significantly boosted in lethality thanks to the Switch Code's influence. Their hold should prevent her from moving around all that much while the poison does it's job of building up the damage.

"There it is," Hydranoid announced. The Dragonoid was charging a massive ball of energy that dwarfed their regular sizes combined. As it was about to shoot, Hydranoid warped the construct behind Zero Hydranoid via Phantom Transmission. It then shot it at her back. It aimed downwards in case she happened to move so that the splash damage still covered her escape.

[Maria Zenovia]

Hydra rises back up after being pummeled over and over.
She does not seem too bothered by the damage they are piling up.
While she is still sitting somewhere on 5% they are pulling this 'secret trick' of theirs. She can either play the waiting game by rising up percent by percent and making Resistors run out of stamina or she can just keep eating up their energy.
With one single flash she triggers the side-effect of previous ability. Energy she stole from the giant dragon pulses through her regenerating her at quick pace.
Dark-purple energy surrounds her body after that and her power seems to have increased even more and regeneration speed boosts up.
This last one is due to the toxic matter injected into Hydra. One rare piece of knowledge about her is that she feeds on certain ailments and they normally cannot be used against her. That goes for any sort of poison or 'plague' (like Amagi's).

"F-Foolish...creatures..." Hydra begins to mumble all of a sudden, after all that silence before. "...Feel free to...prolong your suffering..." Her voice is not quite the same as before; probably because it is not her directly speaking.

Maria raises a card that announces the activation by exploding and dispersing into darkness. Hydra's body is, again, surrounded by dark energy and it disperses into thousands of bat-like creatures that fly away from the multiple attacks opponents keep sending.
They meet again above the giant dragon and reform to Misfortune 13.
Reformed like that, in the air, Hydra falls directly on the giant dragon and makes it lose its balance and crash down. Hydra then jumps up and points all her heads towards the fallen dragon.
Maria takes another card that disperses signaling the activation.
All heads launch a spiral wave of attribute energy towards the dragon forming a crater in the ground and draining dragon's power at alarming rate.
Once that ability is done Hydra turns aside and slams the dragon with all three tails, which pushes her away from it and makes her land a few meters away.
This really calls for Allen's defensive expertise now; it should really help.

"...by the time... you reach the limit... I will not have reached mine..." Hydra sadistically says as she watches the giant dragon on the ground. She is more than aware of what she can do when starts hitting her limits.
Abilities that can devastate entire continents are not out of the question for her either; as long as it works. It will take time to activate one, but it would wipe out everything and everyone on the continent.

"...grrrrrr...." Ear-piercing roar comes from one of the heads. "...Get out of my mind you piece of trash!" A completely different voice says apparently referring to the first one.
"...w-what the hell...how are you still conscious after all this..." First voice that has been threatening the Resistors asks in unpleasant surprise. "...Can't you read my mind to find out, Hurranian? Or is something stopping you? You will not get away with this." Hydra threatens to the controller with a menacing voice.
"Ghh... We will see about that." Controller mumbles in uncertainty. All it can think of right now is how in the heck Hydra got unchained of the Hurranian mind-control again. Sure, she does not have control over her body yet, but she can speak and think clearly for herself apart from the Hurranian infection controlling her.
Same cannot be said about Maria who still seems 'under control'. She does seem annoyed a bit by the fact that Hydra is talking.

[Allen Silva]

Allen could tell that something was up. It appeared as though Zero Hydranoid was actually arguing with itself. That didnt matter mich though right now, as they still had to deal with missfourtune 13 and its massive power. Lucky for Allen, the avatar Drago had created was healing the blight from his last battle. So at least that was out of his mind. Now all he had to do was worry about smashing misfortune 13 down a peg and getting out of this one alive.

" Guess its my turn now. Dual ability activate. Gravitron balistae plus gravitron hydra." Allen took a approach different from the one he tends to take. But thats because he recognized that the threat up ahead was something that needed to be beaten quickly.

The avatar channeled the purple energy that was indicitive of Gravitron Balisate's activation. The chargin took almost no time, as it was a giant energy bieng created from three bakugan uniting thier powers. After launching out a single projectile for the first ability, it once again charged up energy, this time about twice as much. It launched two more projectiles from its hands, all in all attacking with three large energy attacks. This should even hurt Zero Hydranoids powered up form, at least in theory.

" Hey, maybe we can actually take this freakshow down." Allen started allowing himself to believe once again that they could win." Hey Noland, how long could you do this little number? Seems like a handy trick to keep under wraps all this time."

[Maria Zenovia]

There was no time to avoid that.
Hydra got hit by Gorem's attacks and was pushed back a few meters. Still annoyed by the fact that 'real Hydra' is conscious again, Hurranian controlling her tries its best to ignore Hydra and proceed.
Problem for the Hurranian lies in the fact that Hydra might actually break free completely with time or maybe mess up the battle and somehow allow Resistors to win this.
She did it before while fighting Drago alone.
However, no one has time to think of an idea of how to stop Hydra from breaking free. Hurranian will try to finish the job before anything happens, but that is nearly impossible.

Resistors do not even realize the tough position for Hurranians on these grounds; if they want the knowledge from Silver Knights' archives they will have to defeat Resistors and everyone else, but if they destroy the knowledge in the process then what is the point? Silver Knights can simply use another Headquarters stationed in another country.
If Hurranian was to defeat Resistors quickly, before Hydra takes back over, it would take to instantly use 51%+ power of Misfortune 13. However, two problems lay in this plan. One is that Hydra cannot reach power beyond 50% without Maria being 'mentally conscious' or pushed by strong emotions. Since Hurranians control her she cannot express any real emotion that would lead to this. And even if it happens Hydra would destroy the entire building when beyond 50%.

So, no matter how overpowered Hydra might seem right now Hurranian controlling her is in a tough position and if this is not done properly it will just be one big waste of time.


"There is NO HOPE!" Hurranian Hydra shouts angrily after hearing and seeing all this. All mouths on her heads breathe in accumulating different sorts of powers; each power is different for each head. Hurranian is about to unleash two abilities at once, but their destructiveness will be far beyond the fact there are only two in motion. "Number of Misfortune!" Once she names the ability her body starts getting pumped with overwhelming energy that begins to crack the ground and slowly destroy the Headquarters. "Elemental Scourge!" Ability that was used at the beginning and where each head fired off different types of attacks.
This ability, boosted by the Number of Misfortune, now has a completely other 'taste' to it. It is something that Resistors will certainly not like.

Number of Misfortune is unique to Excedra-type Bakugans and it amplifies one ability by giving all its power to each head respectively making it 13 times more powerful than original.
Elemental Scourge is used by 13 heads anyway so mixing it with Number of Misfortune will result in each head firing off a Dextra-based attack that is as strong as Elemental Scourge.
In short, one ability became 13 abilities.

"You can prolong the inevitable. It all goes well to your suffering!!" Hurranian Hydra yells and then initiates the attack.
Two heads launch blasts of Dextra energy. Other two fire of Dextra blizzard. Another two form two massive tornadoes; one from the left of dragon and one from the right.
Another two fire off high-voltage burst at the dragon. Two more launch orb-like projectiles filled with Dextra power. Screeches from two more produce high-pitched waves that weaken Gorem's defensive influence and slowing down the healing factor. Two more use rapid fire on the dragon by firing off barrages of Dextra bullets.
And final head charges up a wrathful flame of Dextra and spits it at the dragon. "Spare yourself the trouble and surrender! There is NO HOPE! Suffering is all that is left for you. Abandon your futile resistance and surrender!" It continues to yell.

"Resistors! Whatever you do, do not let it reach you!!" Real Hydra's voice comes from the massive body and warns Resistors. Not even with that dragon they can survive 13 abilities being packed inside that tiny combo.

[Allen Silva]

Maria, or whoever was really in control, thought a full frontal assault would give back however much of the advantage was lost after the last attack. Little did they know, the exact oppposite is going to happen. The screeches were annoying, and any of those hits could be devastating if they land. Heres the kicker though...they wont.

Allen had already prepared the next ability after seeing the scope of elemental scourge." Isnt a admiral of the silver knights not supposed to make stupid mistakes?" Allen mockingly asked the question, before shrugging." Doesnt matter now i guess. Ability activate, Vicious counter."

The avatar formed by Drago moved fast enough to appear as though he was teleporting, stopping for dramatic effect at Zero Hydranoid's back. Once there, he would ussually unleash a powerful counterblow to the opponent. But instead, it paused for a second, and Gorem begun smiling." Now activate, megalith boxer."

What became of the attack because of that ability was just what they wanted. Now, instead of one power shot, a barrage of jabs rained down, with approximately equal power to the one shot that would have came. This would hurt any normal bakugan. But thier opponent wasnt normal, so this was a shot in the dark

[Maria Zenovia]

Infected Hydra uses her three tails to bind the giant dragon and with that to bind Gorem. Intense muscle pressure from all three tails feels like being crushed between two buildings made of nothing but rough steel.

If one Bakugan is held by this for too long, and that means ‘over 5 seconds’, their body will just turn into one nasty crushed pudding. Not literally, but disgusting enough.

“How long do you plan on resisting, stubborn brats!?” Hurranian Hydra howls at her opponents who just refuse to stay down. “Shut up, you cowardly whore!” Real Hydra’s voice shouts from… everywhere.



Suddenly, Maria clenches her teeth and looks at Hydra. Then she clenches her fists and her expression turns grim. Angered Hurranian controlling her cannot help but be upset over the situation. “I am tired…of you and your fucking interference.” She yells out at real Hydra who is still resisting the infection despite the circumstances. That is one hell of a Bakugan; more of a monster than Hurranians.

“Tear them apart! Ability activate! TM: Scale Ripper!” Maria declares while raising another card with cloud of darkness shrouding it. Ability she plays now is not necessarily fatal or dangerous for that matter, but it definitely is uncomfortable. Normally, it is not used in battles but in…’other’ situations. It is not exactly ethical to use it in battles…or legal, for that matter. But what does Hurranian know about ‘ethical’?



TM stands for ‘Torture Method’ and is a unique class of abilities for those who have certain brutality in their genes or behavior. And Hydra definitely has that trait.

Her scales suddenly become longer and sharper making her entire body look like some brutal Hydra porcupine. With that utterly horrifying and dangerous body she begins to coil around the giant dragon and wrap it even harder with the tails.

Coiling around it with those super-sharp scales begins to tear that dragon’s surface apart like it is paper and much faster than dragon’s ability to heal itself.

If they do not move that dragon will be torn to shreds.

[Noland Hardy]

"Not very long, Allen," Noland responded to Allen's question. "You and I know this the best. When you go against tough odds, you may just surprise yourself at what you can do. My dad always taught me to stay positive about our abilities, because if we do the opposite, then we're just as weak as they think we are."

If Maria wanted to play offense, then it was only logical for someone who could be just as devastating to intervene.

"My move," Noland stepped up. "Ability activate! Novia Edge!" Drago was about to do something he had never done before. It was an unorthodox method of using this lethal ability, but sometimes, patience can be a virtue.

To initiate this tactic, Drago would have to imbue the avatar's tail with energy that makes it look like a Dextra blade. The properties of this blade had characteristics from all six attributes, ranging from the increased penetration factor from Ventus, the strong integrity from Subterra, and the indomitable power of Pyrus. It sliced Zero Hydranoid's tails completely off. Moving the tail up and down covered the brutal entrapment. Burn marks were left at the scene of the crime.

"How long do I plan on resisting? As long as it takes for YOU to stop resisting," Noland fired back. "We never needed to be the strongest. All we needed was the will to never give up, and a way to keep on pushing. I don't have all the time in the world to explain that to you, so you're going to have to settle for my brawling spirit."

Drago detached the trident from the avatar's tail, but he did not use it as a ballistic projectile. He actually removed the trident using the avatar's bare hands. It hoisted the trident in its hands and used it as a sword.

"This better do a lot of damage," Noland hoped as he played his next offensive. "Ability activate! Rapid Fire Takedown!"

The avatar split into many different copies - one for each head the Misfortune 13 had - that each had their own sword. They appeared behind the party in a firing line formation.

"Here!" Drago signaled for the clones to bombard Zero Hydranoid with their blades. Their explosive properties were heavily modified in their Dextra versions. Not only would it take significantly more pressure to get them to disappear, but destroying just one of them would cause a smaller equivalent of a big-bang like explosion that would scatter harmful Dextra particles across a large blast radius.

Regardless of Zero Hydranoid's strategy in handling them, the original avatar intended to lodge the blade deep within her, the force of which would cause the clones to detonate anyway.

[Maria Zenovia]

Hurranian still does not intend to cease the attack.
It still continues attacking and does not falter or show signs of tiredness under such pressure and attacks used against it.
Hydra intends to stop the Hurranian in its tracks, but she cannot do much except to keep herself partially unaffected by mind-control and attempt to take over. However, she will need quite a lot of time to accomplish this.

"Resistance is futile. There is no hope. For you or the world." Hurranian Hydra angrily shouts at Resistors. "There is no hope for anyone. There is no hope for anything." It continues to yell.

Maria takes another dark card and raises it. Card disperses. "TM: Dimension Devour!" Ability Maria used is the only thing in her arsenal that can counter Dimension Dweller, but its weakness is that it cannot be activated in normal form, but only in M13.
Dimension Devour can attack beings that exist between dimensions, but what makes it more horrifying is that it can eat whole dimensions and break through space not only between dimensions but it can break into a whole other dimension. This means that it even can devour spirit Bakugans or souls of deceased Bakugans.
Reason why this is being used is because it can count the giant dragon as a gate to a dimension where three Resistors' Bakugans are hiding. She does not need to hit the dragon with this ability; it directly bypasses him and attacks enemies inside.

All thirteen heads screech on Hydra.
She opens up her jaws and energy starts surging around the dragon. It looks almost as if Hydra's mouths are vacuuming the energy.
Suddenly, three Resistors' Bakugans start to feel immense pressure in their upper bodies and begin to feel very heavy; almost as if gravity increased by ten times.
Hydra is bypassing the dragon and hitting them directly by devouring their energy; if they do not have the energy neither will the giant dragon.

[Noland Hardy]

Noland felt a gut-wrenching feeling in his body the moment the trio were hit when they shouldn't have been. It was a deadly situation that could cost them dearly. Either someone finds a way to get those three out of there, or the Resistors can call ahead to make reservations in the Doom Dimension.

"Allen. Alana. You know what to do. Do what you do you best," Noland gave a heads up. He was about to get very serious now. He was preparing something that even an Excedra could not swallow whole, unless they want to risk exploding from the inside.

"Ability activate! Advanced Supremacy!" Noland has not used this ability in a long time. The Switch Code made this ability obsolete, because the transformation gave Drago way more power for him to use at a lesser cost, and the other benefits he receives from it cannot be compared to by anything other than a rival user of the Switch Code.

"Are you sure, Noland!?" Drago stressed when his energy was being taken away. "That could..."

"I know the risks involved, but if the Doom Dimension is on the horizon, I don't care." Noland's eyes flashed in a bright light as if they were casting a flashlight. Energy began to surge through his body, which then made its way to Drago. "I. Can't. Let. Her. Win!!"

Drago roared in the same intensity as Noland's shout. It tore into the fabric of reality in this area. The avatar was broken apart instantly. Zero Hydranoid's ability found itself unable to maintain its form under Drago's immense power. Since the ability does not distinguish friend from foe, Gorem and Hydranoid were pushed out of Drago's way. This would work in their favor as it means they have the opportunity to get whatever they need before going for Zero Hydranoid again.

Zero Hydranoid's heads were all buffeted by this force. Drago's Switch Code shielding flowed through his body like a vicious fire. The best one could do now was to hope that Noland has mercy on them, because eating through Drago's power wasn't so simple anymore.

"Attack!" Noland ordered. His voice sounded eerily close to how it was when the Hex Code took him over. Drago did not have to get close to Zero Hydranoid to attack. All he had to do was swing his arm forward like he was throwing a punch. Somehow, this produced an invisible wave that struck Zero Hydranoid across her body. The hit made her body appear like a dent was made in her stomach. She jettisoned to the walls of the HQ.

"Your power absorption won't work on me anymore," Drago creepily said while marveling at this drastic increase in power. "Now we'll see you get exposed when you can't have my energy."

[Maria Zenovia]

"Too bad, one of my my thousands of strategies was blocked. What on Heavens am I gonna do now?" Hurranian Hydra sarcastically replies to Drago's comments.

Ability to tap into Hydra's legendary powers allows her to do much more than drain life force out of other Bakugans; it allows her to draw energy from planets' cores as well, trigger catastrophic reactions of the planet (e.g. reactivate volcanoes and earthquakes, create tidal waves like tsunamis, cause rising of entire land masses), torture enemies from the inside (e.g. use power of 'emotional energy' to stimulate certain emotion in enemies and force them to stop resisting or even to kill each other) and even 'create an artificial world' for a short amount of time around herself and enemies in combination with 'emotional energy'. This last one can cause a fitting illusion to make enemies 'see something they find important' and it draws them away from the battle. This means that she could make an 'artificial world' of Noland's house and create a 'dream' in which he sees his grandmother and Kendrick being attacked- when Noland focuses on that Hydra can freely grab him and chew him up without him knowing or seeing it is incoming.

"Spicy taste of Pyrus, sweet taste of Darkus and soil taste of Subterra... how sad I will have to surrender them for the rest of this. How harsh of you- is it so hard to surrender and let me eat your savory flesh." Hurranian Hydra mocks while her body begins to mass a different kind of energy that will not resort to draining power.

It is not like this was not expected- If Resistors thought that if they cut out Hydra's food that she will be helpless in a fight they are in for premium gold-framed disappointment. Maria and Hydra would not be on Admiral position if one disadvantage would lead them to instant defeat. 

"Wakusei o taberu." Hydra yells with a secret Special Ability being activated. Floor breaks and streams of colorful energy emerge from the planet's core. With the immense power of her ability Hydra converted some of planet's energy into pure 'edible' energy that her power can directly drain. "Anchein." Hydra yells again and power that came out of Earth's core joins her body allowing her tails to rapidly regenerate and all scars and wounds on her body to be healed. Also, energy from wasted abilities begins to quickly recover from these pulses.

Suddenly, Hydra makes a sound of coughing and fires off one multi-colored blast from every head; making that 13 of them. 

First three blasts hit Drago pushing him into a wall and then other three make a giant dent in the wall by pushing Drago even further. The rest of them all hit him at once and explode crushing the wall and revealing the outside of the building now.

With this angle Resistors do not see anything happen outside, but that is because Admiral Asuka and other Knights draw all monsters towards the western side, so Resistors, who are on eastern side, are safe... for now. 

Hydra then turns to Hydranoid and Gorem preparing to 'nuke' them too with her power. She makes a cough sound and that signals her attack. However, this time she launches blasts from each head twice so she can cover the same damage for both enemies. 

[Allen Silva]

Noland had given everything he could in order to win the brawl. Even using advanced supremacy while under the switch code. But, Noland wasnt the only one with brand new tricks in his bag. Allen had been waiting for the right time to use them, and now was looking mighty fine." I guess we're playing all our cards. Thats fine by me."

Allen prepared the first ability for his comeback. This was going to do something not even Hydranoid could predict." Lets go. Ability activate, martyr's plight." This ability card glew just like the others, except for one thing. Instead of the deep brown of a normal subterra ability it had a silver shine to it. This was what distinguished it from his others." Anyone ready to have thier mind blown?"

Gorems gauntlets actually broke up, revealing some sort of apparatus on the inside. The pieces of the gauntlet formed a satalite dish looking device out in front of him. Then came the cool part. The blasts hyranoid fired were actually forced to change their direction. Now all six were headed at Gorem. Which was part of the plan.

" and now since that's done, next abilty." Allen held up the next attack in his combonation. This card also glew with the silver aura of the martyr's plight." Ability activate, Rebound revolter."

This abilty augmented the dish created from the last ability. Or to be more precise, it augmented Gorem's armor pieces, giving them a sweet new property. The armor pieces could actually absorb and redirect the energy of the opponents attack, turning it into a powerful shockwave. And thats what happened. Zero Hyrdanoid's attack was turned into a massive shockwave heading right at the bakugan." You like energy right? Have a taste of your own."

[Maria Zenovia]

Resistors refuse to surrender despite how dire situation looks; many would have turned around in panic and ran for their lives, but the fact that 3 puny kids refuse to go that route definitely impresses Maria and Hydra... the real ones inside and not these two Hurranian blockhead monkeys who would not recognize an impressive act if it hit them in the face.

That is one embodiment of an dishonorable fighter right there- Hurranians can run their mouths all day but their bark and bite are both struggling to get to Yamcha's level of effectiveness. 

 

"Shitheads..." Hurranian Hydra grumbles seeing how that attack was used against her. "He he he..." Real Hydra silently laughs aside while making further attempts to break through. 

"Die like a normal person!" Hurranian Hydra complains seeing how far this battle has gone and how much time was unnecessarily wasted- if Asuka and other Knights defeat the Chrono Elite and Stigma infestation before she manages to defeat Resistors then she will never get to steal data from Silver Knights' archives.

And while she fights over there someone might have secretly gone to the archives and destroyed them already which would leave them empty-handed.

"Ether." Hurranian Hydra yells and energized wave surges through her body. She opens all her jaws wide and swiftly reaches towards the blasts chomping on them and devouring them before they can explode. And just about as she does that she yells again. "Ether Plasma." Shining cyan-colored rivers of energy emerge from her mouths and head again towards Gorem and Hydranoid. Using her energy against her now is pointless since she can just convert it to something harmless for her. Some consider this her Unique Attribute- Ether... something that is not on the chart of attributes, but it is just a theory. 

[Alana Cortese]

"Nice try, Gorem. That would have worked on anyone that wasn't a Hydranoid," Hydranoid commented while they were about to get erased. "You know...I never realized it before since I never fought myself, but...our race is stupidly overpowered, isn't it? Just look at that."

While Hydranoid was busy making light of the situation, Alana was occupied with showing even more new techs. Hydranoid's prowess could easily be divided into three tiers: abilities that deal with ordinary attribute energy; manipulation of battle energy; and - the most lethal category of all - the forbidden arts of the Excedra.

"I can surprise you too. Watch this," Alana sent back to Allen with a smile. "Ability activate! Eradication Head!"

Hydranoid lined all three of his heads up in a straight line. He pointed them all towards the incoming attack. Without warning, the heads were separated from the body. A burst of energy was seen coming from the open space in the necks as a force of repulsion.

"Just saying...this is a placeholder before I can stretch my necks out this far," Hydranoid commented on his own move. "In the meantime..."

The three heads were oozing in a sizzling purple color. They were shifted into actual Excedra heads. Their newly-gained powers were more than necessary to swallow the powers they would come by. This spared Gorem from having to go back-and-forth with Zero Hydranoid over the sent energy, but that wasn't all. The meat of the move was coming from what replaced the severed heads.

"Here's what I think of your Misfortune 13 form that I wish I had," Hydranoid blurted out. An ethereal manifestation of a giant Excedra face was seen in place of Hydranoid's three heads. "Take it!" Hydranoid unleashed the face like a rocket. It met face-to-face with Zero Hydranoid and clamped down on her. This was a monumental blow, but it wasn't just because of the damage. Due to the Excedra power, Hydranoid could effectively eat into the victim's reserves. He could deprive them of a certain function. What Hydranoid chose to hit was...her ability to absorb energy.

Her saving grace was that Hydranoid was not an Excedra yet, so the duration that this penalty would last would not be everlasting. Her power level may even shorten the duration of it even further, but one thing was certain. If they were going in for a finish, they better get on with it, or else.

[Maria Zenovia]

Hydra goes back to her offensive posture.

Having received quite a number of debuffs she can safely resort to an ability specially meant for when she is drastically debuffed. "Negative." Hurranian Hydra shouts and her body emits a wave of energy that, wherever it passes, it leaves everything in negative color than original.

However, colors are not everything that was inverted on the battlefield- Hydra's debuffs have been inverted as well. Turned into positive versions of themselves.

Her three tails quickly regrow and tips are replaced by halberd-like objects that will surely pack a mean punch once they get to hit someone.

With all debuffs turned into buffs Hydra can go back to her power-absorption routine, but that would be too boring now that all new buffs have made sure her next attack can be an instant kill.

"Take a hint- none of you are walking out of this alive. If we cannot get what we came for we have no reason to hold back. ALL of this city will be turned to ashes." Hurranian Hydra laughs sadistically at the thought she would get to kill millions of people in one simple swoop. Not like she will succeed because she cannot achieve over 50% power without real Maria willingly turning it on.

"Ungodly Devourer!" She madly screams and opens all her mouths. This is a Special Ability that works in a way that it devours several existing buffs in exchange for one tremendously overpowered strike that has force to threaten even Ares if he was to approach it carelessly. Hydra choose to go for 20 buffs she had- they would be sacrificed and Hydra's power would be temporarily multiplied by 20 for only this attack. 

And that is not funny at all- as if her attacks were not troublesome now she makes an already overpowered attack multiplied by 20 freaking times. 

She then releases thirteen blasts that quickly come in contact with one another and form one giant blast that looks like river of blood heading towards Hydranoid and Gorem.

River of energy completely annihilates the western part of the room, the western wall and then continues to annihilate the city. Its unstoppable force keeps knocking down and disintegrating buildings in the line of fire and even Stigma monsters that got close. Silver Knights do not seem to be around that part to get shot, but who knows if someone is still not evacuated and is in those buildings. And this blast does not seem to be stopping- eventually it will reach populated areas and disintegrate them as well.

In all that chaos Hydranoid and Gorem cannot be seen anymore. Did that blast get them? Because if it did there is no chance in hell they would have survived. If they dodged it they are lucky, but they are not in the sight so, for now, their fate remains uncertain.