Chronology: Ultimate

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Unfortunately, Scott seemed to know as much as Alexis did when it came to the survivors of the attack on the MPF. All she knew was that Scott was here to help...and that the Sewer group was close to breaking down. Tensions were running high, and if Alexis didn’t know any better, she would’ve placed all the blame on the mysterious magical jade that she’d seen going from person to person. She would say that because the jade didn’t affect everyone, meaning there were implicit feelings, attitudes, and histories that were already stewing before the jade pushed things over the edge. Alexis desperately wanted to help everyone, but there was just too much for any one person to handle at once, especially when they had to take down Cobblepot and his army of robots as soon as possible.

Then Alexis felt Sage setting something on fire and her head immediately turned to see Sarge’s shotgun on fire. Alexis was starting to get used to responding to Sage’s sudden fires by putting them out. The fire wasn’t an issue, it was Sage’s emotional state—for a moment, his tone was almost like Toayî’s, though there was no change in the boy’s Pressure. The kitsune suspected that the entity inside the boy was influencing him subtly, or rather, affecting Sage’s natural disposition. Alexis knew firsthand how much a person can change due to sharing a body with another soul or five.

All of these worries were put on hold as the group began to ascend the ladder up into Atlas Academy...only to be greeted by the leftovers of a battle hard fought by the other team. Alexis wondered just how necessary the sewer team was, seeing as the pretend-prisoner team just went ahead and cleared out the entire Academy for them. A slight pang of annoyance filled Alexis as she realized that she could’ve fought a normal threat as opposed to Lobo, and avoid the trudge through the sewer if she just played prisoner a short while. Whatever. There was Cobblepot sitting just one door away, and they had to be ready for whatever he could throw at them. Alexis just spent a brief moment absorbing Aether from the air into her tails for storage in preparation for the showdown.

The moment the group stepped into the office, Alexis expected to be met with explosions and giant monsters, but there sat Cobblepot all by himself, daring the others to attack. The awkward tension built in the air as everyone appeared to be too cautious to make the first move. The reason was mainly because Blake had informed everyone that Cobblepot was known to be able to use Twilight. Having seen the mysterious substance in action in Gravity Falls, Alexis knew that it wasn’t anything to joke about, but its exact properties still eluded her.

It was then that Cobblepot stood up and suddenly created two orbs of Twilight and used them to kill two group members immediately. The transformation that followed showed just how hostile Twilight was to living beings, as his body became shrouded in a mist and covered in dark veins.

The fight had begun.

Everyone around Alexis immediately launched into their assaults, but the first volley did little, with the Twilight-fueled Penguin easily blocking, tanking, or parrying each attack. However, as the attacks poured in opportunities presented themselves, and those who capitalized on those opportunities managed to deal what should’ve been crippling blows to any normal human. Cobblepot lost a hand and had his abdomen ripped open, but he was still going. The man with the Twilight-Pressure repaired the damage with the unholy substance and went on fighting with said unholy substance.

With everyone rushing in, Alexis couldn’t use an attack of the same intensity as she used on Lobo. Besides, she didn’t think she would have the Aether pull off another Lethal Move and have anything left for a follow up. It really sucks when she goes to universes that aren’t filled with Aether in forms that she could use, it meant that she was working with a limited supply of Aether that regenerated slowly. If she were in a world where mana was in the air rather than in the individual, her life would be far easier.

Alexis would manage though, as she formed a large ball of flames above her head and threw it straight at Cobblepot, "FoxFeint: Inferno." Whatever Cobblepot would do, the ball of flames would explode, filling the entire room with flames...but only for Cobblepot. These were just illusory flames, but they looked exactly like the real thing, and if everyone in the room was experiencing what Cobblepot was experiencing, they would smell the illusory smoke, feel a sudden rise in temperature of about 10 degrees, and hear the roaring inferno. This was just a distraction, which would hopefully make Cobblepot recoil for just long enough for several more attacks to be snuck in while he was focused on the flames.

A little illusion was far from the only thing Alexis would do, though, as the kitsune would immediate follow up with another spell. She pointed all of her tails at Cobblepot and let loose a constant stream of relatively weak fireballs at the Twilight-infused villain. Each tail would let loose a fireball every second, and with nine tails in total, that was 9 fireballs per second. If Alexis were to continue this barrage for a full minute, she would fire 540 explosive fireballs at Cobblepot, each capable of blowing through the walls of a normal house with its blast. "FoxFire Bulletstorm!"