"NNNNNIIIIIIIIINNNNNEEEEEEE!!" Eilumi cried out 

Loona reached out to grab him, but was pulled back by Khaun.

"No, don't touch him!" He yelled. "He's still hot!"

Indeed, his body was still smoking from the heat.

"I... Have... HAD IT!!"

Everyone in the room, including Shia turned their attention towards the source of this electrical burst, and the voice responsible for it. There, standing by a slightly broken wall, was a VERY angry looking Rai, his eyes glowing with pure, unrestrained mallace. He was holding not only his own blade in one hand, but the one Loona had tried to wield against him in the other.

"I have HAD IT with you good-goodie fuckers ruining my fun!" He huffed menacingly. "It's always the same fucking shit. 'Oh, my poor friend' this or 'Stop abusing him' that! Fucking Pathetic. And I. Am getting. SICK OF IT!"

He raised 'his' swords in front of him. "None of you are leaving this place now." He declared boastfully. "EVER."

"Up yours, Rat-Raider!" Eilumi yelled, as he and Khaun both pulled gauss pistols from their cloaks, and pointed the business end directly at the walking, talking, murdering piss stain in front of them. 

Rai just laughed at them maniacally at this display. "Rat-Raider? That's a new one. But I suppose it fits." He took a look at the objects aimed at his head. "Oh, and what are you going to do with those little things?" He taunted. "Throw them at me?"

"They're called 'guns'. And one shot to the brainbox and you're dead as dirt, vermin." Eilumi growled threateningly. 

"We were planning on capturing you, scanning your brain, and then maybe dumping your ass on a freezing midnight world if were feeling merciful enough," Khaun added with rage, "but now you've gone and killed our packmate!"

Rai just laughed at what he thought was a ridiculous rant. Both of the Avalis had had enough.

"DIE!!" They both screamed as they pulled their triggers.

Click.
Click.

"What the?!" Eilumi yelled as he tried again to pull the trigger, only to be met again with a series of clicks.

"Shit!" Khaun screamed worriedly as he checked his own gun. "The electrical surge must have fried the firing mechanisms!"

"I'm sorry, what was that you were saying?" Rai taunted. "Seems to me that I'm the only one here with IRON. So I'll tell you what: Just lie down and submit, and I won't have to settle for raping your corpses." He grinned. "Necrophilia is not really my fetish, but a hole is a hole."

"So you want to play it that way?" Eilumi growled. "Fine then!"

The two avali tossed their guns aside, letting them uselessly slide along the floor. They reached into their cloaks, and pulled out a shortsword in one hand, and a claw in another.

"Ahh, so that's where she got this weapon from." Rai chuckles. "I'm can only assume you gave it to her? Quite foolish of you. She had no idea how to use it." He twirled his own blades in his paws. "But I suppose you already know that, don't you?

Loona moved to speak, but Eilumi spoke first.

"No, he's right about that. I'm sorry, Loona."

The tension in the room rose as the three of them stood there, each one making for the other to make the first move. Rai stole a glance at Nine. Still hunched over, but still standing. 

Suddenly, he made his move. Not towards Eilumi or Khaun like they expected, but towards the now helpless Nine. He raised his blades over his head, and leapt at him with a yell, determined to decapitate what was left of him with one fell swoop, and to deny his enemies the body of the fallen. 

Eilumi and Khaun both leapt into his way, the former catching his left blade with his claw, and the latter's own blade ground against the one he'd given Loona before.

Rai pulled his swords back. He took a swing at Eilumi with his left, and then with his right. Eilumi backsteped out of range of the strike, while Khaun blocked with his blade. 
Eilumi knew he had to take this fight outside, so he nodded towards Khaun. Khaun went on the attack, swinging his blade at the overgrown rat, who blocked it with both of his own swords.

Just as planned. Eilumi leapt at Rai with a flying kick. The rat could not respond in time, and Eilumi's foot made contact with his face at full speed. This caused him to go flying, out the hole that was the door and into the open. His body did a half flip, landing on his hands and feet with a short slide. 

Once outside, the Avali continued the fight, just as they had with the pignite: one leapt in, slashing and striking at him, and then tagging out while they got tired, giving him no time for a counter attack of his own. Unlike with the pignite however, the raichu was able to keep up with and hold his own against their attacks.

It was not before long, that their movements were beginning to slow, their breath becoming ragged. And before long, it was Rai that took the offensive, swinging at them with blow after blow as they blocked and guarded.

"I've already figured out your weakness." Rai taunted as their blades ground together. "You've got speed, experience, and coordination going. It's been a long time since I've had to actually try. I'll give you that much." He grinned maliciously. "But you have no endurance. You can't keep this going."

He leapt back, and raised his blades as the two avalis, now abandoning the switch-out tactic reengaged, the two of them barely taking notice as the electric rat began to build energy around his body.

---

Back in the hut, Loona was watching her friends fight.

"Dammit, I wish I could do something..." She cursed to herself. "If only I hadn't lost that damned sword. If only..."

"This is not good." She heard a small voice mutter beside her. 

She hadn't even noticed Shia there. And now that he had her attention, her anger grew. She turned to him. Shia likewise turned to face her.

And he let out a yelp as Loona slapped him in the face. Hard.

"Loona, why-" He whined, only to be lifted and slammed into the wall.

"This is all your Maze-Damned fault, you fucking traitor!!" She screamed at him. "If you hadn't distracted me earlier, none of this would have happened. IT'S ALL YOUR FUCKING FAULT!"

"I... I just didn't want anyone to die." Shia cried, the guilt overwhelming the poor, abused boy more than the sting of Loona's slap did.

"And see how that turned out!" She screeched, pointing a paw at Nine's lifeless form. "He's fucking dead because of Rai... BECAUSE OF YOU!! And if this keeps up, those two, the only REAL friends-" She stopped mid sentence. "... Besides Veera." She corrected herself before continuing. "-I've ever had, are going to fucking die. Is that what you fucking wanted? HUH?!"

"NO! I never!" He protested weakly

"If you hadn't distracted me earlier, I-"

"YOU'D BE DEAD, YOU UNGRATEFUL BITCH!!" Shia screamed. His eyes went wide when he realized what he had just said. He shielded his face with his paws as he prepared for another strike. 

"I... I'm sorry! I didn't mean it! P-please don't hurt me!" He whined. His cries fell on deaf ears as Loona prepared to punch him again. He braced for the pain.

Pain that never came. Instead, Loona simply dropped him. 

"Ugh just forget it." She growled. 

At that moment, a terrible noise entered her ear. The sound of a blade slashing across skin, and looked outside once again. 

She saw Eilumi, holding his left hand, dripping blood, and his claws broken.

Loona curled her fist, and took a step towards the door.

"Where are you going?!" Shia cried. 

"To get myself killed, apparently." Loona growled. "I can't just sit here and do nothing, Unlike you." She spat.  "Maze give me strength." She prayed as she broke into a run.

Shia tried to make a grab for her, to stop her for her own safety, but he fell short as Loona ran outside. He reached for the Linoone running into the fray without a weapon, but it was far too late.

Shia retreated back into the cabin, bumping into the still form of Nine as he did. His eyes wandered upon him, with a worried expression.

---

The two Avali were now fully on the defensive, both panting furiously as they were at their limit. Eilumi's arm was dripping blood, and yet they still fought on. Blocking blows with their own, and with Khaun picking up the slack for Eilumi's injuries. But Rai's attack was becoming more and more furious, and more relentless. 

Suddenly, he spun around, whipping Khaun in the stomach with that tail of his. Khaun, his senses dulled with exhaustion, could do nothing to block it in time. He was sent flying into one of the maze walls. 

Eilumi looked over to where he had been thrown, and was just about to rush over and help him up. Unfortunately, this left him open to attack, and he quickly found himself thrown to the ground, face down. He quickly rolled over, just in time to see Rai stand over him, raising his twin blades above him, ready to deliver a fatal blow to the avali.

"DIE!!" He screamed as the blades came down. Eilumi weakly raised his own blade to block, though he knew it would not be near enough.

'Eityu... Renali...' He thought to himself as he watched the inevitable come. 'I'll see you again soon... wherever you are.'

But the blow never game. He shifted his blade, and there, he saw Loona, holding both of Rai's arms, stopping him from killing Eilumi.

"Loona..." Eilumi said.

"Don't just lie there, Get up and finish this asshole!" She yelled "I can't hold him forever!"

"A brave effort." Rai scowled. He sent a powerful kick to her stomach, forcing her to relent her grasp and fall to the ground, gasping for air. "... But futile."

Before he could pick up from where he left off, a blade swung at Rai from the side. He blocked it easily, and leapt back. 

Eilumi rose to his feet, and Khaun helped him up. They faced the yellow rat yet again, but it was clear that they were both completely out of energy.

And worse, it had just come to their attention that he was about to unleash another one of his electrical attacks. The same one that had killed Nine. And the two, no, three of them had no real defense against it.

"Enough of this farce." Rai shouted. "Time to end this!"

---

Meanwhile, still on the dropship, Ansel was watching the scene below, or what he could see of it through the windows. He was panicking, running from one side of the ship to the other.

"Not good! Not good!" He yelled to himself. "I can't just sit here, but what do I do, what do I do?"

He looked around. He saw a lone blade hanging on the wall.

"I could just jump in, with one of those weapons, but...." He shook his head. "How do I even beam down?" 

They'd teleported on and off the ship using... some sort of device. One they'd neglected to tell him how to use.

"Can I just jump out the windows? Dammit dammit DAMMIT!" He screamed as he slammed his clawed fist against one of the control panel buttons. Doing so caused the dropship to lurch, throwing him off balance as it did.

"Shit shit shit" He cursed as he got up. He saw that the ship was now tilted forward, pointing directly at Rai, who was just now reading some sort of attack. Thunderbolt or Thunder by the looks of it.

"Well, that did something, but it doesn't help any. WhatdoIdo WhatdoIdo?!" He frantically looked around for something else to push. It would have helped if he knew what any of these buttons did. 

In the heat of the moment, he pressed one. 
---

"SAY GOODBYE, FUCKERS!!" Rai screamed, on the verge of unleashing his attack. Before he could however, a noise from behind him drew his attention. 

He turned to see the dropship, now pointed and looking directly at him.

"Oh what's this now?!" Rai growled as he looked.

And then, a loud hiss came from just underneath it.

"What the?!"

Something left the dropship and sped towards where he was standing VERY quickly. Rai leapt out of the way, but it was too late. 
The rocket slammed into the ground, producing an explosion that sent Rai, who was already off the ground from his leap, flying back. And flying into the ground, his body sliding past the trio on the side before coming to a halt. It also kicked up a massive dust cloud from the sand below.

The raichu was, sadly, not dead. Worse for wear, missing the sword that Loona had used earlier, and the arm he had been using it with now dangled at his side, apparently broken. He no longer had his charge, either.
The others had not escaped the blast unscathed, however. In fact, none of them were able to move. And none of them took notice of Rai, limping his way towards the closest one of them, blade in hand.

And the one closest to him was Loona.

---

Ansel had not believed what had just happened. He'd SOMEHOW managed to do SOMETHING to turn the tide of this. Or so he'd hoped.
It was not so. As the dust cloud cleared, he saw that not only was Rai still alive, he was limping his way towards the linoone that had rushed out of the shed and blocked his attack earlier. 

Ansel grabbed the stick, now having at least some idea how it worked. He pointed the dropship at Rai again, and slammed the button. The ship was now steeply slanted. Hoping that the second time would do the job and end all of this.

But this time... there was nothing. Only a loud beep. And some text that he could not make understand appearing in the air in front of him above the buttons.
 
✌︎💣︎💣︎🕆︎☠︎✋︎❄︎✋︎⚐︎☠︎ 👎︎☜︎🏱︎☹︎☜︎❄︎☜︎👎︎ 

"Come on, COME ON!!" He yelled as he hammed the button, trying to get it to work again.

Worse, the ship began to point itself back up, despite his attempts to push it back down.

"NONONONO!!!"

------

Loona coughed as the dust filled her lungs. She had just gotten up, but then been blown back down by... something, and had been forced onto her back again. 

The dust cleared quickly, and she slowly began to get back up. Only for a foot to press itself onto her shoulder, and push it back down. She stared up, and saw an absolutely demonic looking raichu loom over her, forcefully holding her to the ground with his foot. He was bleeding, his arm was broken, his body bore cuts and bruises all over.

Unfortunately, she was not in any better condition. Injured as she was, she could not escape his weight, and could barely manage a struggle. 

"If... I'm going to go down... Here..." She heard him pant heavily as he held his sword, the one he originally had, upside down, right at her face. "Then I'm taking... As many of you... fuckers as I can... with me!!" He pointed the sword directly at her throat.  

He raised his sword as far above him as he could with one hand, fully intent on ending her life, and soon after, the lives of everyone else he could get his hands on before himself succumbing to his wounds, or before someone else came for him. 

"THIS. ENDS. NOW!!" He bellowed.

Loona shielded herself instinctively and weakly, despite knowing how futile it was.

IRON kills mons. No matter how strong or what type.

The blade came down, quickly.

...And suddenly stopped, mere inches from her throat. 

Loona watched as the iron blade lifted, and then fell, right, clanging as it fell into the sands beside her. She looked up, and could not believe what she was seeing. Or hearing.

"Yes... It does."