Throne of Rhombus

While Dosigma and Kuroyurei fought alongside the UICA at the beaches, SANDRA's hive mind ordered all droids to blitz past the frontiers and bomb the American cities. The chimaeras rammed through condor warships while the hammerheads bombarded civilian homes. The barracuda hovertanks smashed themselves through the battle thrushes to infiltrate and ransack towns. Arius, Magnus, and Ritom swiftly destroyed Suvenjior's forces and retreated to defend the country.

Luckily, the UICA evacuated all civilians into their underground bunkers before the solar eclipse. As the UICA cardinal fighters and owl drones pursued the droid invasion, the hiding people shuddered, huddling with their families and crying babies in fear and prayer. They could feel the rumbling from their homes burned by the savage droids. It was an all-or-nothing war between Democracy and Kneapexism, and America was the last standing stronghold of Democracy in the world.

"I shalt declare thy country irredeemable!" SANDRA roared. "I send thee a holy flood to purge thou blasphemy!"

"We got to beat SANDRA fast before her droids destroy everything!" Rahim fired his shotgun at the Machine Queen. "Saitori said if we take her out, so do all the droids with her hive mind!"

While Saitori held Amitonyx off in an epic duel, Naphthien signaled to her group. She signed a reminder of Saitori and Mivangeline's plan to destroy SANDRA's nanoparticle spells. Mivangeline's team installed a specialized magnet in Dosigma's mouth that vacuums nanoparticles. By destroying the spells themselves, Dosigma will suck the particles up and consume them without her knowing.

The Cubic boss breathed fire against the Yamata dragon's laser breath as SANDRA slashed her Tessenjutsu war fans against Nashura and Naphthien. The more Dosigma damaged the Yamata no Orochi, the more nanoparticles broke off, which Dosigma absorbed.

SANDRA flicked her fingers, ordering a barrage of sharpened hexagons to attack Calice and the Murhavs. "Arcane Cybernetics: Hexigol Maelstrom!"

The Murhavs slashed the hexagons while Calice shocked them, destroying as many particles as possible for Dosigma to vacuum. Calice jumped across the hexagons, firing electric orbs at SANDRA. The Machine Queen fired Vector Lightning back while the Murhavs snuck through the hexagon storm to get up close. Rahim hurled sickles for the head, but SANDRA swatted them with her war fan.

Naphthien launched her claw whip, letting it coil around SANDRA and her arms. She used her other claw to slice the trapped Machine Queen into slices, but SANDRA's nanoparticles swiftly pulled her body back in place.

"Thou dare turn against thy pastor of righteousness?" SANDRA yanked Naphthien's whip with great force.

She pulled Naphthien towards her and sliced her mask down, revealing Naphthien's dismantled mechanical jaw that choked on blood.

"Naphthien!" Rahim chucked a grenade at the Machine Queen, quickly rescuing his wife as Nashura charged at SANDRA.

"Thou and thy family shalt perish in eternal fire for thy transgressions!" SANDRA kicked Nashura into her parents. "I condemn thy children and curse their future generations!"

"What kind of pastor are you?" Calice zoomed in to protect the Murhavs. "What sort of pastor would condemn people?"

"Thou shalt watch thy blasphemous tongue!" SANDRA summoned a black hole. "Arcane Cybernetics: Void of Proxima!"

The Murhavs held onto each other as the catastrophic void sucked the nearby UICA forces in. Calice quickly fired lightning to shock the dark hole, making it explode into loose shavings Dosigma absorbed.

"You're the blasphemous one!" Calice shouted back at SANDRA. "You're a fake pastor!"

"Fool! Thou dost not see my robes as a pastor? Arcane Cybernetics: Throne of Rhombus!" SANDRA flicked her fingers to seat herself on a tall spiked metallic throne made of walking wires.

The Murhavs shuddered as the moving machine throne sat on corpses.

"For thou eyes art too blind to see my power as a pastor?" SANDRA growled on her wicked throne.

Calice pointed at SANDRA. "Pastors aren't about power! They lead people to Christ, not lead them farther from him! Pastors bring Jesus' light to the lost, not lead them into darkness! They share about God's forgiveness, but all you do is condemn and bring suffering to others!"

Calice stood by the Murhavs. "Everything you do is a show. You can try to act holy with your Shakespeare talk and dress like a pastor, but you can't fool God!"

"You heard the social worker! You, SANDRA, are a wolf in sheep's clothing!" Nashura pointed her blade at the Machine Queen. "Mivangeline said hypocrites like you will meet their doom!"

"Thou insolent insects require another demonstration of power!" SANDRA opened her war fans, commanding the throne's wires to whip the four.

"Together! We'll take her down!" Rahim sliced the wired tentacles with his sickles, letting Dosigma vacuum the nanoparticles.

While Nashura and Naphthien helped to cut the mechanical tendrils down, Calice sped on top of SANDRA's Throne of Rhombus with her lightning speed.

"Know thy place, worm! Arcane Cybernetics: Astral Kaleidoscope!" SANDRA clapped her hands to summon a spinning multicolor barrier that drilled towards Calice.

Calice clapped her hands to create an electromagnetic shield. She then rotated her hands to turn her barrier into a counter-spiral that drilled SANDRA's etheric wall into metal shavings that flew to the Cubic boss. Calice dodged SANDRA's war fans and zapped her hands to disarm her. Calice then punched SANDRA's agent sunglasses off, revealing her devilish red eyes.

Calice hurled another fist at SANDRA, but the Machine Queen snapped her fingers. The wired Throne of Rhombus grabbed Calice with a sharp claw that sunk into her skin, making her scream. The Murhavs jumped to her rescue, but the throne's sharp claws caught them too.

"If thou art done with thy meaningless acts, then it's time to perish in everlasting fire! Arcane Cybernetics: Astral Kaleidoscope!" SANDRA clapped her hands.

However, nothing happened. SANDRA flicked her fingers again for Vector Lightning. Nothing, for she was out of nanoparticles. She turned to her Yamata no Orochi, but Dosigma beat the steampunk dragon to a pulp. The defeated dragon broke into many loose shavings left for Dosigma to consume. Calice and the Murhavs grinned, for this was the moment Saitori and Mivangeline planned.

"No more spells, SANDRA?" Rahim taunted. "Break us out, Calice!"

Calice concentrated, discharging a storm of electricity that shattered SANDRA's Throne of Rhombus into pieces. An angry SANDRA grabbed Calice's hair and punched her face until Nashura cut her arms off. Unable to regenerate or cast her sorcery, SANDRA's torn limbs elongated with wired replacements. The Machine Queen beat Calice and Nashura with her newly wired tentacles. Rahim quickly chucked his last grenade at the monstrous Machine Queen, letting her scream and burn in fire. When the four looked into the fire, a red-eyed cybernetic endoskeleton stomped out.

SANDRA howled and jumped onto Rahim, clawing his neck with wired hands. Naphthien swung a chain claw that pulled the endoskeleton off her husband. SANDRA tore off the whip and charged at Naphthien, but Nashura cut the Machine Queen in half. Nashura closed in to finish off the crawling body, but SANDRA jumped and pierced wired hands into her head. Calice fired lightning to stun SANDRA while Rahim cut the wired appendages off with his scythes. As the endoskeleton fell, Naphthien lunged a chain claw that grabbed its head, plucking it off the limbless trunk.

"Damn, all of thee! I condemn thou pieces of garbage! Thy children shalt weep in death's snare!" SANDRA spilled red fuel from her mouth. "I-I curse thy children... thy future generations... they shalt... rot in dirt... mark my..."

"Shut up, SANDRA," Rahim stomped SANDRA's skull into pieces. "We've had enough of you."

With SANDRA's hive mind gone, the rampaging droid forces stopped in their tracks. The crusader droids and barracuda hovertanks lay limp while the inactive chimaeras and hammerhead gunships crashed onto the ground. The UICA across the US cheered as Amitonyx gasped at SANDRA's defeat.

"W-we did it, General," Rahim gave a weary thumbs up to Saitori before he lost consciousness along with Naphthien, Nashura, and Calice.

"I-it can't be," Amitonyx turned pale.

As the Red Strix rescued the four, Saitori pointed her blade at a speechless Amitonyx. "We've beaten SANDRA. Do you surrender? Will you stop this madness? Or must I destroy you?"

The Federation Overseer shuddered when Dosigma stood behind him, roaring at his face.

"Y-you and I made SANDRA together, Saitori!" Amitonyx fumed. "How could you betray me?"

His eyes reddened with fire as his Sanskrit scar was charred black with anger. Dosigma, Saitori, and the UICA trembled when craters surrounded Amitonyx, bubbling with pillars of lava.

"We Shin-Kaminari found a home with Fanghui after years of living in smelly sewers and trash cans, but you throw it all away with those bird-brained UICA!" Amitonyx howled with boiling tears as the lava exploded like volcanoes. "I was heartbroken when you left me. Now, I'll break your heart by killing every UICA friend you care about! Tigris Ifrit: Maharaja, the Scarlet King!"