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Of Rocks, Romantic Rivalries, and Rune Rangers (Part 5): The Siren’s Song (Part II)

Note: I’m back now that my other project is done! Sorry for the delay.

“Hunk and Keith: hold the Galra off!” Shiro cried as his arm glowed with renewed power. “Everyone else: get the Robeast!”

The Rangers grabbed their weapons and charged. A front-most line of Galra troopers were already being attacked by the time they realized what had happened. Mero looked at the four warriors charging at her, turned tail and ran into the same building Shiro had gone up earlier.

“After her!” Shiro cried as they all charged in after her.

“Minions! Keep them away from me!” Mero cried as she ran up the stairs.

The Galra troopers swarmed in, weapons raised as they poured into the open doorway as one.

Keith and Hunk turned around and braced themselves, prepared to blast and fight off the stream of troopers. They stopped as they realized the Galra were stuck, limbs and heads awkwardly flailing as they tried and failed to get out of the interlocked mass of bodies.

The two of them smiled and laughed as they thundered up the stairs after their team, just as the Galra outside started breaking open the windows and entering through there.

“You can’t run from your fate!” Allura cried as the Rangers steadily gained on her, just a half-flight of stairs behind.

“Just watch me!” Mero snapped in between huffs for breath.

Hunk and Keith slashed and blasted the steps behind them, trapping the Galra at the ground floor. A barrage of suppressing fire from Hunk forced them out of the space, and scrambling to find another way to get up.

Mero burst onto the roof of the building, flailing and out of breath. The Rangers staggered in shortly after, Shiro with Lance’s arm over his shoulders; Allura with Pidge riding on her back next; then Hunk and Keith, slumped over or crawling in on all fours.

Mero bent over with her hands on her knees. “Huff… you… huff… won’t… beat me… huff… Rune… Rangers… huff!”

Lance fell off from Shiro’s shoulders, pushed himself up from the floor on his elbows. “Yes… huff… we… huff… will… huff!”

“Can we like… huff… take five or something…?” Mero asked. “That was a lot of stairs...”

“Can’t believe I’m… huff… saying this… huff… but sure...” Shiro replied.

The Rangers all sat together in the shade with their weapons at the ready, Mero fanned herself with a fin-hand as she found shelter some distance away from them. The Galra troopers scaled the sides of the building or tossed themselves up from the roofs of lower buildings, but the exertion and the rough landings had taken a toll on them, too, and they had to lay under the sun to recharge.

Zarkon silently cursed the limitations of even his empire’s highly advanced technology.

Eventually, they ready to stand up and fight once more. The Rune Rangers stood together in a line while Mero and her minions spread out around the rooftop.

“Okay!” she cried. “Now that we’re back to fighting again, let me treat you all to another song number!”

She reared her head back, and took in a deep breath.

Shiro picked Pidge up, and sent her rocketing into Mero.

Pidge landed on her chest, held on tight and braced her feet as she plunged her dagger right into Mero’s throat.

Mero screeched and jerked about, sparks flying from her body and a weak, scattered blast of magic pouring out of her mouth. “Y-Y-Y-YOU-U-UU-U G-G-G-G-GUYS SSS-S-S-SUU-UUU-CKKK!” she cried.

Shiro threw his arm up in the air. “Hunk, Allura, keep the minions away! The rest of us: get the Robeast!

“Celestial Guard: CHARGE!”

Mero grabbed Pidge and threw her away, she flipped around mid-air and landed on all fours. She dodged an overhead smash from a titan, before she scampered back to the others; it tried to chase after her, before Hunk blasted in the face and sent it staggering back, while Allura kept the rest of the troopers from doing the same.

Mero scowled as she saw the Rangers charging towards or aiming at her. “Singing isn’t my only talent, you know!” she cried as she swiped one of her fins in the air, a wave of magic surging towards the Rangers.

Keith grinned as he raised his shield and braced himself, absorbing the worst of it. Pidge climbed up his back and launched off his shoulders, landing in front of Mero. She lunged and tried to grab her again, Pidge escaped through the space between her legs.

Mero looked up, a burst from Lance’s rifle struck her right between the eyes, the bolts’ residue stil glowing as Shiro drove his glowing palm into her face.

Pow.

Mero cried out, blasted a wave of water around her that knocked the others back. “Minions: protect me!” she said as she ran away towards the bulk of her forces.

“Oh no you don’t!” Lance cried as he flipped a switch on his rifle. He shot an ice bolt into Mero’s leg.

“Gah!” she cried as she stumbled and hobbled to a stop, frost forming over her skin-scales. “This isn’t fair, you jerks!”

“Says the Robeast fighting six of us with a friggin’ army!” Keith cried as he and Pidge slashed her together.

All but stuck in one place, Mero could do little but swipe and throw more waves of magic around as the Rangers took turns attacking her two or three at a time from every direction, Hunk and Allura quickly joining in as her vitals dropped ever lower.

Finally, the Rangers all surrounded her, their bodies glowing with power, and their runes held tightly in their hands. As they posed and their magic shot out and spiraled into the air, they cried:

“Solar Strike!”

The surviving Galra forces staggered back and shielded their eyes as bright, multi-coloured pillars of came down crashing down atop Mero. And when the light faded, all that was left behind was a melted and broken mess of smoking black matter, ominous purple goop leaking out and shriveling up in the sunlight.

Their Robeast down, the Galra troops ran for it. Haggar sighed as she stepped into the area through a rip in reality. “I sincerely hope that what you lack in intelligence and control over your own troops, you make up for as an instrument of brute force,” she said as she raised her hands in the air, purple magic arced from her fingers and coursed into Mero’s remains.

“Blackened steel and wicked soul, I command thee: mend and rise anew!”

The metal and goo shot up into the air like a meteor, power crackling and bursting all around it. The Rune Rangers looked up to the sky as a skyscraper-sized Mero reformed in front of them, crushing the building next door under her giant feet-fins.

“Oh yeah!” she cried. “Prepare to get stomped flat, Rune Jerkbags!”

Keith cringed and turned away from the sight. “Yeesh… and I thought she looked ugly regular sized...”

“We won’t have see for much longer, don’t worry,” Shiro said.

“Anyone I need to substitute for?” Allura asked as they all got into formation once more.

“Nah,” Pidge said. “I think we can do just fine with the regular load-out.”

Shiro nodded. “The usual it is.”

They all thrust their runes into the air, the stones growing bright.

“Awaken: Celestial Sentinel!”

From deep within their dens in Rune Terra, giant creatures of rock, metal, and crystal awakened, the carvings all over their bodies lighting up with power, their eyes shining. They rocketed off to the surface, shooting through the sky like meteors till they stopped above the Rangers, and started transforming and joining together to form a giant, humanoid robot.

The Rune Rangers teleported from the ground, and into the cockpit in the head. Holographic screens and displays lit up all around them and on top of the control panel, the largest among them the view from the Sentinel’s eyes, Mero in the middle of their sights.

The Sentinel raised its fists in front of it, its eyes gleaming.

Mero scoffed. “Hah! You think your stupid sentinel’s going to save the day this time? Well, let’s just see how well it does against--”

Pow!

The Sentinel socked Mero in the face. She staggered back as the blows kept on coming one after the other, buildings crumbling to pieces as her legs went through them, the streets, canals, and ruins dotted with her giant footprints. The Sentinel’s arms ever brighter, the kinetic energy from each blow surging into its power core.

The assault and Mero stopped at the end of a decimated block of buildings. She swayed for a moment, clutching her head with one hand-fin, peering through the gaps in the webbing and watching as the Sentinel summoned a giant cannon atop its shoulder, and aimed it right at her.

Thoom.

Bystanders and AFA soldiers at the barricades shielded their eyes from the radiance of the laser, before they started cheering. Elsewhere, the owners and proprietors of the buildings and the businesses that had been demolished started calling their insurance companies, while the Valentino department of public works started calling Coran and scheduling reconstruction efforts.

Mero fell back from the blast, making a giant splash as she landed in an open canal.

The Sentinel waved away the excess smoke from the barrel, before the weapon dissipated back into magic and into it.

Mero scowled as she got back up on her feet, her front glowing with white-gold magic burns. “You didn’t let me finish, doucheshnozzles!” she snapped.

“We were saving what’s left of our brain cells from your voice!” Pidge cried as the Sentinel ran and closed the distance.

Mero scowled and growled. “Well get ready to lose a whole lot more!” she cried as she reared her head back and took a deep breath.

The Rangers eyes widened.

“Oh crap—Hunk, run faster!” Lance cried.

“This is top speed already!” Hunk shouted back. “This leg is made for stability, not speed!”

“Brace yourselves, then!” Allura cried.

The Sentinel slid to a stop, planting both feet firmly in the ground as it raised its arms up in front of it.

Mero opened her mouth, and sang.

A giant wave of magic erupted from her mouth, exploding across the sky, the whole district shaking as glass exploded and concrete structures cracked and crumbled. It hit the Sentinel, and it began to jerk and thrash about, purple energy crackling and sparking all over its body. Inside the cockpit, the lights and holos flickered or shut-off as a horrible din echoed inside the walls.

“Systems unresponsive!” Pidge cried as she read the few surviving readouts.

“Hunk, what the hell is happening?” Shiro yelled as he and the others held on tight to the control panel.

“Her singing’s messing with the Sentinel’s resonators—it’s so off-key it’s knocked everything out of whack!”

“Can you two fix it?”

“Not without climbing into the works and manually realigning every last crystal!” Hunk replied. “We’ll have to wait for the sound to fade and for them to recover on their own!”

They all peered through the static and the distortion of the optics feed, watched flashes and bits of Mero running towards them with an evil grin on her scaly lips, magic gathering in her fin-hands.

Keith frowned. “Well, crap.”

Crash!

The Rangers jerked and flew about as Mero wailed on the Sentinel, helpless to do anything but take every last wave of magic full-force. She stepped in front of it, put her face right up to theirs, and sang.

“LAAAAAAAAA…!

The Sentinel flew back from the cone of sound, taking out another block of buildings and docks as it landed.

“Hah!” Mero cried as she put her fin-hands on her hips. “That’s what you get for not letting me finish my sentences, doucheschnozzles!”

The Rangers picked themselves up from the back of the cockpit as the lights and holos rebooted.

Shiro reached up and grabbed the control panel with his prosthetic arm, pulled Pidge back up to the console with the other. “How are we looking?” he asked.

Pidge frowned as she looked at all the readouts, the graphic display of the Sentinel’s parts blinking bright red. “Not good, but on the bright side, getting the crap beat out of us knocked everything back into place. Should I activate the repair systems?”

“No,” Shiro replied. “Save it for stopping Mero from singing again—if she stuns us like that again, we’ll be good as dead anyway.”

“So what’s the plan?” Keith asked.

Shiro smiled. “We go all out and beat her before she beats us. Lance?” he said as he held his arm out to him.

Lance grinned as he was pulled up to his section of the panel. “On it.”

Everyone else braced themselves as the sonic cannon formed on the Sentinel’s back.

Mero chuckled as she sauntered up to the fallen robot. “What’s wrong, Rune Jerkbags? Fell down and can’t get back up...?”

Boom.

Mero watched as the Sentinel rocketed back up on its feet, a shockwave spreading out from behind it. She barely had time to react as the head came smashing into hers, sending her reeling back; inside the cockpit, the Rangers were thrown about once more as the Sentinel grabbed its head with both hands.

“Oh, man...” Hunk groaned as it stabilized. “Can we all agree on no more headbutting until the Sentinel gets better shock absorbers?”

“Yes,” everyone replied.

Mero and the Sentinel shook their heads, glared at each other, and proceeded to duke it out, throwing punches, throwing more waves of magic, giving and taking damage in equal measure. The civilians watching through holos prayed and cheered on the Rangers; Haggar and Zarkon watched Mero’s psychic link closely, if only to study where the Sentinel faltered, what weaknesses they could exploit for next time.

The Sentinel got in a good right hook, sending Mero staggering to the side and into a luxury hotel. She caught herself on the upper suites, destroying most of the rooms with a view of the Endless Sea; she caught her breath, turned around, and got ready to unleash another song.

The Sentinel’s left hand split open, electricity arcing between the tips before it thrust it into Mero’s gut.

Another wave of magic exploded from her mouth, a small one that only destroyed the hotel’s lighting and crystal arrays. “I-I-I-I-I H-AAA-T-T-T-EE-EE Y-Y-YO-U-UU GU-YSS-SSS!” Mero cried as she twitched and jerked.

The Sentinel pulled its hand back, before it started punching Mero further into the hotel with the other, suites, walls, and floors crumbling behind her, until finally, they got her vitals low enough.

“Ready?!” Shiro called out as he pulled out his rune.

“Ready!” everyone else cried as they did the same.

They all put them into special slots on the console, the whole panel lit up as a sword of pure light appeared in the Sentinel’s hands. It raised it up high into the air, the whole district bathed in its grossly incandescent radiance, before it brought it crashing down on Mero.

“SOLAR SLASH!”

Mero stood still for a moment, surprise in her eyes as a giant scar glowed on her body, tendrils of magic spreading from it and to the rest of her body.

Boom.

She disappeared in a brilliant flash of light, the corrupted magic that powered her escaping back into the air, pure and free once more.

The Sentinel stood proud, its pilots grinning and cheering before they were all forcibly teleported out of the cockpit and back down to the ground. The damaged and drained Sentinel glowed bright then disappeared, returning back to Rune Terra.

“Oh yeah!” Lance cried as he threw his hands in the air. “Score another one for the Rune Rangers!”

Haggar sighed as she stepped back through another portal. “My sincerest apologies, your majesty…” she said, her head hung. “It would appear my creations have failed you once more...”

Zarkon sighed. “That they have...” he smiled. “Though it seems like as though they have revealed a very interesting weakness within our foes.”

Haggar nodded. “Such a shame the green one is so steadfastly on their side...”

Zarkon chuckled. “For now, at least...”

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