Ascension Gate Diabolos

From the underground depths of Choro Emplexion, armies of Red Strix commandos and bird-shaped war machines arose for the Battle for America. The UICA raced to free the players from the reformation centers while transports evacuated the civilians from the ultimate war. Other priorities include freeing the Vulpi from hidden concentration camps like the Ironclad Eagle.

Condor warships released cardinal fighter jets to battle Maika's chimaera fleet. Owl drones with oversized heads shaped like medieval shields rammed their heads into the sailfish enforcer drones and hammerhead gunships. On the ground, battle thrush walkers fired rockets at the barracuda hovertanks. Ten-wheeled geococcoid runners shaped like roadrunner heads rolled out with juggernaut laser cannons to mow down the Federation droid forces.

Brachyura terrortanks stomped beside the barracuda hovertanks to rain artillery back. The UICA's Red Strix commandos wielded blasters and red shields against the Reaper Squad's bayonetted rifles and laser-edged bulletproof capes. Viperfish stealth hounds rampaged across the battlefield, biting soldiers to death with electrified fangs. As the Vultau masters fought alongside the UICA, the new Federation megachasmoids were deployed into the battlefront to defend the droid forces from the Vultau superpowers. It's a brawl between birds and sharks, a war between Democracy and Kneapexism.

Saitori, Arius, and Magnus gathered the best Red Strix in their campaign to retake the White House, where Maika barricaded herself and kept President Forroway hostage. Meanwhile, Master Oreic distracted SANDRA while the Red Strix raided the reformation centers and concentration camps.

"Enbu Fenix! Burn away all unrighteousness!"

"Arcane Cybernetics: Yamata Ritual!"

Oreic blew a tune into his saxophone bo staff to summon his fiery phoenix while SANDRA opened her Tessenjutsu war fans to summon her steampunk Yamata no Orochi. It was an epic battle between Oreic's pyrokinesis and the Machine Queen's Arcane Cybernetics.

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The players teleported from Tetrachrome into the wasteland territory of the DJ Meteonis for the long final battle that awaited them. Purple curvy plants shaped as tentacles each held a green chlorine bud across the rocky fissures. Steel pyramidal mountains boomed with static from their circular boombox stereos as their red stripes leaked with liquid red phosphorus that looked like blood.

The red fluid dripped down to the toxic rivers surrounding the grid-patterned building shaped like an hourglass, the Branded Tower. The shiny black structure was so tall that it reached into the stormy clouds, making the maximum height of the tower unknown.

"Listen up! We're about to battle the hardest faction out of the three, the DJ Meteonis. This is our last step to freedom!" Mivangeline turned to the party. "Once we begin the siege, we cannot retreat. If you want to back out, now is the time."

With silence, nobody backed off.

"Then let's go!"

The armies marched through the rough terrain towards the tower's gates until loud siren horns roared. A red tab declared the start of the campaign and locked them out of escape. The front gate's mouth became giant closed fangs as its two red eyes leered at the players. To enter the tower where the final boss awaits at the top, the players must beat four waves of DJ armies that the gate releases to gain entry.

Ascension Gate Diabolos

Level ???

HP: [???,???/???,???]

"Get into formation!" Mivangeline yelled as the gate's fangs opened.

Enshiron, Naivern, and Knavus led a group of snipers up the left pyramid as Ritom, Ruddigus, and Esarin led an artillery unit of heavy rocketeers on the right. Ampyria's droid team perched on the plants while the swordsmen, shotgunners, and other tank players joined Mivangeline.

Wave 1

DJ bionic commandos marched forward. With helmets glowing with synthwave equalizer bars as eyes, their wired appendages were attached with radio disk joints. They fired with their arm machine guns.

DJ Bionic Commando

Level 100

HP: [100,000/100,000]

Enshiron and Ritom's ranged teams flanked the DJ army from the sides as Naivern buffed the party's stats. The players in Mivangeline's group lifted their riot shields to protect them as they fired their shotguns back. Mivangeline led the tank swordsmen while Shien, Phoenicia, and Elysia punched their way through the mechanized army.

Small disc-shaped drones with red eyes arose from the phosphorus rivers and pyramids, bumbling over each group with machine guns. Ampyria's droids stood from their bird's-eye view, using the plants like watchtowers to support Mivangeline's team with their Tesla rifles. Ritom and Knavus guarded their respective groups, defending them from the drone strikes.

DJ Disk Drone

Level 50

HP: [22,800/22,800]

Throughout the battle, players from each team disintegrated into black dust. Everyone knew what it meant. Maika's kill order, Protocol Arcanum, had begun. The players in the reformation centers were getting executed via lethal doses.

"Our armies will be wiped out at this rate!" Shien smashed his clarinet staff into a bionic commando's head.

"We can't control anything in the real world. We must hope the UICA stops Maika's plan before we lose our people," Mivangeline slashed down a disk drone with her kunai. "Here comes round two!"

Wave 2

The gate deployed another wave of DJ enemies while more disk drones spawned from the deadly rivers. Moving subwoofers on tracks equipped with disc launchers rolled out alongside the bionic commandos, firing explosive erbium moon disks at each team.

DJ Subwoofer Hypertank

Level 175

HP: [155,555/155,555]

Trait 1: Zero Armor

"Be careful! Those discs are lethal!" Mivangeline swiped a tab to report to all players via speakerphone. "Take one hit, and you're dead!"

Her group of tank players hid behind the tentacle plants for cover from the artillery. The disk drones circled the plants to hunt them down. Ampyria's droid team used their uphill advantage with the plants to shock the drones with their Tesla rifles.

"Oh, great. That got that broken zero armor," Elysia fired her machine pistols at a subwoofer hypertank

"I remember fighting these when I farmed with Zirc. She told me they have a cockpit turret that opens when we're close," Shien remembered. "That's their weakness."

The DJ tanks turned their cannons to the pyramids, firing into Enshiron and Ritom's teams. Naivern protected her group with her shield, but Ritom's team was too far for her to help. Esarin fired as many smoke rockets as possible, but there were too many shells to stop. They scrambled about the mountain, trying to avoid the death cannons.

"A little help here?" Ritom yelled from Mivangeline's speakerphone. "We're getting clobbered, and this mountain is spitting disk drones at us!"

"We can't let the tanks destroy our flank teams," Mivangeline gave hand signals to her group. "Get into pairs! One person taunts the tank cockpit while the other attacks it!"

Shien circled a tank to provoke it as its cockpit hatch opened its double-barreled turret to shoot him. Phoenicia jumped on the turret to chain-punch it and deal massive damage until the tank exploded. Everyone followed Shien and Phoenicia's example to take down the other tanks as Ritom's group recovered.

Wave 3

The gate released more bionic commandos as more drones arose from the rivers. DJ Deadwing Kyushu fighter jets with backward-facing wings and rear propellers nosedived from the sky, strafing Mivangeline's group with their machine guns. Ampyria's police droids flew on their wings to intercept the fighters, boarding them and firing into their CPU cockpits.

DJ Deadwing Kyushu

Level 85

HP: [50,000/50,000]

Trait 1: Kamikaze 050

"Please, take caution with the aircraft!" Phoenicia warned as she kicked a bionic commando into the sky. "When their HP becomes zero, they will enter a kamikaze state and deal a fixed 50,000 damage to who they hit."

While the players battled the DJ ground force, the fighter jets rained down to crash into them. Behind Mivangeline's group, the tentacle plant buds twitched. The eggs hatched robotic dragons with disk eyes and rotating revolver rollers as necks. They attacked from behind and breathed napalm charges from their mouths. The wyverns carried a capsule in their chest, which they launched into the ground to deploy a bionic commando.

DJ Resonance Wyvern

Level 120

HP: [92,360/92,360]

Trait 1: Flak Deflector Unit

The wyverns and bionic commandos circled Mivangeline's group. She ordered her teammates to form a defensive circle with riot shields, but the napalms scorched the battlefield to burn them.

"The burn will slowly kill us! Ritom! Enshiron! Help us!" The Commander shouted.

Ritom analyzed the wyverns with his goggles. "Aim for their necks. Disrupt their revolver mechanism!"

Enshiron's sniper unit and Ritom's artillery group followed the plan, but their guns did very little damage.

"That Flak Deflector Unit protects them from ranged attacks!" Knavus remembered.

Enshiron lowered his violin bow. "You hunted these dragons for tea, right? Any tips for us, Knavus?"

"I sneak on top and slice their necks."

"And how do we do that?"

"Maybe one of Mivangeline's team can jump on top."

"I can do that!" Shien overheard them as he put away his clarinet.

Enshiron blinked. "My dear, Shien. I know you love birds, but I'm afraid that doesn't make you fly."

"Oh, yeah? Watch this, Enshiron! Phoenicia, I'm borrowing you for a second!" He climbed on top of her.

"I fail to compute how this- what the?"

Shien bounced off her head and held onto a wyvern's neck. He screamed as the dragon flapped in a frenzy.

"Avian Form: Wryneck Scythe!" Shien slashed his palm to cut the dragon's revolver neck.

When the headless body fell, Shien hopped onto another dragon. The wyverns breathed napalm charges at Shien only to end up blowing each other up.

"That looks fun!" Elysia jumped off Phoenicia as Shien did. "Let me at them!"

"How dare you, Elysia!"

She climbed onto a wyvern and pierced her machete through its neck. Shien and Elysia destroyed the wyverns as the rest of Mivangeline dealt with the DJ infantry.

"Nice!" Shien and Elysia bumped fists and high-fived below with Dorian's handshake.

"You two require substantial discipline!" Phoenicia yanked Shien and Elysia by the ears. "I find it disrespectful to utilize my body as a springboard!"

Mivangeline separated them. "Now's not the time for bickering! We're at the last wave!"

!Final Wave: Warning!

!Deadly Virus Detected!

Underneath the players, large hangar doors opened. Mivangeline's group ran from the opening hangar where unlucky players fell. A giant moth-shaped bomber opened its wings and hovered above the players.

"That's..." Shien gasped. "That's the bomber that chased us back at the Dynastiotron Village!"