Chapter 4:

Dimensional Crescendo

Syanic Earth 7: Dimensional War Arc


Arius, Magnus, and Ritom struggled to keep Suvenjior at bay as their UICA forces fought the Federation at the Mexican Border. The Venezuelan High Envoy's heat armor was impervious to nearly everything the trio threw at him. Arius's laser fedora and Ritom's flamethrower failed to scratch Suvenjior. They were forced on the defensive as Suvenjior attacked with his knives, flicking his knives to command his flamethrower to hit their flank like a battering ram.

"This guy sure is crafty," Magnus bashed his shield on Suvenjior's face and ducked under the flying flamethrower. "Keep your eyes on that thing! He can call it back when you least expect it!"

"C'mon! I thought Dorian and Loud Girl finished the project!" Ritom scorched nearby stealth hounds, ensuring no other droids interfered with the duel. "Maybe Psyinen is late?"

"We can't give up!" Arius fired at Suvenjior with his two pistols, disarming the knives. "There! Now he can't control his flamethrower!"

The Captain charged with his pistols, believing Suvenjior was defenseless. Suvenjior resisted the damage and drew an incendiary pistol from his holster. While Arius blocked with his fedora, Suvenjior unsheathed another knife from his wrist. Magnus closed in, trying to shoot the knife out, but Suvenjior already flicked it. Luckily, Magnus blocked the airborne battering ram with his shield, but the immense force sent him flying onto his brother.

When the flamethrower boomeranged toward Arius, the Captain kicked it at Suvenjior, letting the battering ram dunk him in the sand. Arius grabbed the High Envoy by the throat and aimed a knuckle sandwich at the goggles, cracking it and making him dizzy. The Captain kept punching Suvenjior's head until his mechanized limbs whirred, punching Arius in the jaw. Suvenjior grabbed Arius' arm and twisted it before sending a steel kick into the chest. The High Envoy held the Captain by the throat and punched Arius in the eye with the sound of mechanical grinding.

"Captain!" Magnus and Ritom shouted.

"I-I'm alright," A one-eyed Arius choked on blood.

"Want to know what happens to Fanghui's enemies? I eat them for breakfast!" Suvenjior picked up his knives and reclaimed his flamethrower.

Ritom blasted his flamethrower against Suvenjior's in an intense standoff. Suvenjior pulled the handles off his weapon, launching the spring-loaded weapon to bash Ritom in the forehead, knocking him out cold. Magnus stood beside his younger brother and Captain to protect them as Suvenjior stomped forward. Magnus used his shield to defend himself from the High Envoy's knife strikes until it shattered. Suvenjior was about to cut Magnus down until everyone covered their bleeding ears from a familiar air raid siren.

Psyinen's portal opened on the beach, releasing something enormous in the air. Without warning, the asteroid-sized bird with musical instrument body parts grabbed Suvenjior with its blue beak. The High Envoy squealed in terror as Emphynixyion swallowed him with a gulp.

"Nice, the big bad bird's finally here!" Ritom awoke with a grin. "Who would've thought I'd be happy to hear that sound?"

The Reaper Squad and droid soldiers shuddered as the level 799 DJ boss with a treble and bass clef eye chirped emergency alert systems. Emphynixyion gobbled them down and soared in its Orbital Crescendo sphere mode to crush the droid tanks and warships.

"Good job, Psyinen," Ritom high-fived her. "Thanks for helping deliver the bosses."

"Yippee! The Federation didn't know what hit them!"

"The droids are scattered! We can handle the rest!" Arius picked up his pistols, watching DJ boss swallow terrortanks whole. "The Vulpi need the boss for their war with the demons!"

Psyinen nodded, whistling to the big bird

"Alright, men!" Arius spat. "Let's finish off these Kneapexist losers!"

***

Eszkeios watched the battle from above as the Omaunukai wizards fired shadow blasts from their crocodile maxilla wands. The Vulpi and centaurs clashed blades with the demon wizards, aiming for their necks to decapitate them into ash. Bird-skulled lancers rampaged their Merkabah chariots against the Vulpi's war elephants. The haired lizards in the back used their tail claws to launch flaming eyeballs like trebuchets to burn the battlefield. Celestial titans with black sun heads fired dark heat rays to scorch the battlefield while the griffins slashed their talons at them.

Inveticus and Seniel teamed up to fight the Ice Sister as Des Manthesia and Levian Exedra surrounded Shaphkiew. Indeavorga split herself into four beings. Her two harp arms popped off, flying in the air and clawing at the masters. The lower body half separated, jumping and kicking the masters with agility. Lastly, Indeavorga's head and body trunk slithered on a bleeding spinal cord like a snake, lunging her sacrum at them like a sword. Red ice quartz erupted wherever Indeavorga's quartet sliced.

Fermato and Echelus battled the Death Sister as Yanshi and Macadion Firma fought Nekhamon. The fiend smashed its staff against Macadion Firma's stone spears, flicking fingers to cast portals that ensnared the golem's legs with bloody vines from below. Yanshi slashed the vines down to free his golem, protecting Macadion Firma from Nekhamon's spells.

"Humans don't deserve to live!" Delmisa opened her jackal fangs to breathe locusts at Fermato. "Why can't you see that?"

As Fermato ran from the bugs, Echelus protected his master by morphing into cello form to shield him. When the bugs touched the strings, the cello sound made a sonic boom that scared the locusts away.

"I'm faithful in Makiyu's plan with humans and Vulpi!" Fermato smashed his cello on Delmisa's head. "Humans are Makiyu's creation. I will accept it until the end!"

"Then you will die with them!" Delmisa smashed her shamisen against Fermato's cello.

Meanwhile, the Gates of the Condemned morphed the corpses' arms into Draco Animus against Enbu Fenix. The phoenix whirled into a pillar of fire that pushed the necrotic wall back. Oreic, Enshiron, and Elysia faced Iagen together. Enshiron fired his wind arrows from afar while Oreic smashed his bo staff against Iagen's Baneful Dreadscythe.

"Iagen! We got a bone to pick with you!" Elysia punched the demon with a brass knuckle. "That's for Shien!"

"You fools! Instead of fighting, we should work together to kill Fanghui!" Iagen fired Draco Animus against Enshiron's wind arrows.

"No more lies, Iagen!" Oreic smashed his flaming saxophone down to blow Iagen away with a volcanic crater.

"This battle is taking too long," Eszkeios boomed, launching a giant purple tongue into the prismatic floor.

The ground erupted with purple spikes that pierced anything in the way. The Vulpi scrambled as the countries-long antennae grappled groups of Vulpi and their creatures, throwing them into its mouth to devour.

"You fools should've taken my offer!" Iagen held a fist.

"Nah, you're a scared little boy jealous that Aian was picked to be Grandmaster instead of you!" Oreic taunted.

"How dare you!"

"Look, fluffy companions! I see a portal!" Enshiron pointed.

The Vultau and Omaunukai covered their bleeding ears from the air raid siren that shook the Archkaos. Emphynixyion stomped its lyre talons on the Merkabah chariots, killing the hole-faced skeletons. The boss beeped emergency alert systems, sparrow-hopping into the Omaunukai frontlines, chowing down the demonic wizards for dinner. The monstrous bird jumped on the haired lizards and celestial titans, plucking their limbs off.

"That's the final boss Shien feared!" Iagen remembered Shien's nightmare.

"I say, I never thought I'd see the day the final boss fighting on our side," Enshiron smiled.

After stuffing its beak with demonic creatures, the bird stared at Eszkeios. Emphynixyion smacked its beak, simply seeing the planet-sized centipede as a juicy, delicious caterpillar for dessert.

"Who are you? You don't belong in this dimension!" Eszkeios breathed a shadow breath at the boss. "Get lost!"

Emphynixyion quickly groomed its blood-stained feathers before closing into invincible sphere mode. The shadow breath did nothing to the bird's mercury armor. Emphynixyion bounced high at the devilish centipede, repeatedly bashing the Eszkeios' face like a giant dodgeball. The fiendish avian sunk its talons into Eszkeios' body of corpses, pulling them apart like a chickadee eating a caterpillar.

"Get off me!" Eszkeios shook the bird off, catching it with its pincers. "You dare eat me? I'll eat you!"

The centipede closed its mouth on Emphynixyion. Eszkeios squirmed and choked when the monstrous bird drilled its beak through its oral cavity. The DJ boss plucked and chowed from the inside out.

"You're not a normal creature!" Eszkeios spat the bird out. "What sort of wicked construction are you?"

Emphynixyion replied with Pianissimo 001, howling an air raid siren at Eszkeios' face.

"Psyinen!" Oreic hugged her. "Great work."

"Yay! Mission accomplished!" She kissed him.

"It's over, you demons! Makiyu is bringing us victory!" Fermato signaled the Vulpi to storm the Omaunukai remnants. "We shall defeat you without fail. You'll all leave Earth alone and never come back!"