Chase took a couple of much needed breaths, ignoring the subtle ringing in his ears and the constant threat of his corruption flaring up with wrathful intentions.
However, something about the sight before him...
Or maybe it was that eye... That unnaturally colored eye peering out of the corner of that damned helmet.
"Nice helmet dipshit!" Chase laughed, spitting blood all over the ground in front of him.
Vex only stared... His eye almost gazing beyond Chase himself...
'Ugh... Let's just get this over with...' He thought, summoning Apocalypse into his hand and charging forward with heavy but fleeting steps.
Vex answered in call, blasting forward with the fastest dash that Chase had ever seen.
His eyes failed to track, but luckily Chase had lost all care in the world for any defense...
"AHAHA!" He boomed with laughter as his aerial body spun and Apocalypse followed, swinging down at Vex's instant figure...
"I LOVE IT!" He screamed, lifting his blade up with a swift and elegant wave...
The next thing Chase knew... He was standing with Apocalypse pressed violently against Vex's own blade...
Chase frantically glanced around, every ounce of energy into his strength.
His eyes met the ground behind him mid-clash...
"Distracted." Vex snapped, kicking Chase in the chest and launching him into the ground with the scattering of more debris.
Chase quickly glanced upward while on his back...
A humming blue slash... The length of the entire crater...
"Holy..." He leaped back onto his feet, already under attack as Vex swung his blade down on Chase.
He gasped, hurling Apocalypse upward, and with a horrible ring... The entire crater trembled under their strength.
'ARE YOU AN IDIOT!' Luna telepathically raged in his head.
"Someone... Has to keep him occupied..." Chase struggled, ducking underneath an attack that tore an entire chunk off of the opposite wall of the crater.
He grunted, stomping his left foot into the ground and shattering the earth around them.
Vex raised an eyebrow, naturally drawn by the creative aproach.
Chase grinned, already airborne and barrel rolling vertically with Apocalypse in stride... Using a violent blast of flames extending to his axe...
FWOOOOSH!
Hundreds of chunks of debris hurled towards Veximus at impressive speeds.
He grinned... His hair now visible behind his burning helmet... Glowing a deep indigo...
Suddenly... In a flash of light, Vex leaped forward, grabbing against the biggest plate of metal available and using it to launch himself to a giant pipe. That of which he swung around with one hand and hurling himself towards a giant rock smeared in flames.
And before Chase knew it... Streaks of indigo light filled his entire vision, leaving Vex's figure appearing only a foot before him.
"A daring attempt..."
SLASH!
Chase felt his body reel, his own flesh spilling out on itself...
Blood streamed as his body twirled lifelessly into the ground, crashing and flipping several times before coming to an abrupt standing stop...
Vex was there...
SLASH!
Chase's guts pleaded, his feet still sliding back from the force of both attacks...
He felt...
Distanced...
He came to a stop... His head lowering slightly as the sight of a strange glow shrouded his vision...
"Ha! I knew it." Vex clapped, his sword's tip plunged into the ground as he gazed at Chase's wound.
"Huh?" Poppy crawled over the edge of some debris, shoving aside a what looked like somebody's corpse...
"Chase?" She called out, falling over the side of the debris...
Chase; however, could only stare down at his own body in horror...
His Catalyst... Had been exposed... By two full body slashes: One stretching from the right shoulder to the left thigh, and the other: Split across his stomach... Of course leaving an intersection at his sternum...
Where a light-devouring black sphere resided at the center of his chest...
"How did you achieve this?" Vex asked, leaning against his blade with satisfaction written all over his young face.
"Go to hell..." Chase growled, placing his hand against his wounds in the hope of somehow closing them...
Then... And only then...
A terrible scream resounded throughout Chase's mind... Causing him to fall to his knees in agony...
Screams escaped his bloody lips as a violent purple contortion of flesh began to knit itself together...
"I see..." Vex grinned... The corners of his mouth stitched together by ethereal threads...
"But this fight is over..." Vex roared, vanishing from sight and appearing at Chase's side, his blade risen high and his eyes set aflame with indigo energy...
"MMPH!" Poppy grimaced, her spear clashing against Vex's indigo blade.
She struggled, trying to readjust her hands several time as she refused to lose her footing.
Vex grunted, his energy bursting twice over... And his strength amplifying by counts of three...
Poppy grit her teeth, summoning her Ivory Specter at her side as white ghostly flames began to escape from the corners of her eyes...
"Wait... Do... You...-"
CLANG!
Apocalypse drove into the side of what remained of Vex's helmet, knocking him onto his knee and flaring his anger even more.
Chase threw himself to the side, avoiding a kneeling slash that tore apart the entirety of the opposite wall, causing several civilians to begin unwanted descents...
"No!" Chase yelled, gripping at his chest in pain as his markings began to glow an ominous...
'Black?' Chase questioned momentarily before dodging to the side once again.
BOOM!
Vex's sword drove into where he had just been, causing a terrible shockwave to implode on the area...
Chase dashed, avoiding another ranged slash that nicked the tips of his hair...
Appeared beside him, hand signaling something that Chase had zero way of understanding as killer death beams rapidly approached from behind.
Chase leaped, his eyes looking straight at the ground as an indigo arc of solid energy inched by right in front of his face...
Poppy slid, watching from below as she drove her spear into the ground and shifted her momentum in an instant.
Chase landed with the edge of Apocalypse driving into the ground and forcing that very same ground forward in a wave of earth itself.
"What?" Chase asked, letting his breaths catch up to the current moment.
"Lets go! Were leaving!" Poppy yelled, grabbing Chase by the remnants of his chestplate and dragging him away from the rock wall... Which proceeded to erupt into shards as countless arcs of energy appeared in their wake.
"LET ME GO!" Chase screamed, thrashing forward and using only the tip of his ankle to form an Axis-twitch against the ground.
"What?!" Poppy yelled, as Chase zeroed in on Vex's welcoming figure-outstretching his arms with nothing but glee written on his overly-annoying face...
Chase spun early, hurling Apocalypse at Vex with his momentum and instantly shifting into a tucked position, summoning two sparks of flames in each of his hands.
Not even bothering to check if the axe struck, Chase grinned loosening his body and slashing at Vex's face with a flaming dagger... Then with another, and with a third turn he struck again-knocking Veximus back with stagger.
Chase landed, already forcing forward despite the pain.
He felt the threads in his muscles nearly snap as his thighs drew every ounce of Axis from his body.
Vex's eyes widened with euphoria as Apocalypse appeared in Chase's hands once more, coming down on him with horrible might...
However, Vex's eyes lit up as a planet dropped from the sky...
Suddenly Apocalypse met the colossal metal structure above... Slamming the axe down into the ground only inches in front of Vex's face... But stopping just in time for Vex to lower his head and Chase to land...
"Huh? Didn't think he'd actually do it..." Vex shrugged, looking up at the trembling force of material above them...
Chase growled, launching forward and narrowly soaring above Vex's flattened dodge.
Pinning the axe between the metal and the ground to stop his momentum, Chase turned with rage, spinning his arms violently against the two physical walls and ripping it free from their grasp, throwing his feet up at the ceiling and forcing a nonexistent supply of Axis back at Vex's position.
Chase dashed forward, twisting his body and twirling Apocalypse as began to sprint along the ceiling...
Vex grinned, readying his blade and meeting Chase in a most welcomed clash.