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"Gahhhh!!"
The instant their limbs collided, the air itself screamed.
For a heartbeat, the world froze, two forces, two titans, locked in raw, unfiltered power.
Then came the sound.
Crack… crack-crack-CRAAACK!!
The MUTO Prime's eyes bulged in horror as her right forelimb bent the wrong way.
Bones splintered under the monstrous pressure, snapping like glass rods.
The proud titan's scream split the battlefield, shrill and guttural, a roar not of rage, but of pain.
BOOM!!
The next moment, her massive body was hurled backward, weightless, like a discarded rag doll.
The impact gouged a crater the size of a stadium, dust and ice exploding skyward, burying his body under tons of shattered tundra.
At Monarch Headquarters, the humans watching via satellite were struck dumb.
"God…" whispered Dr. Serizawa, clutching the console.
"Even MUTO Prime… can be broken."
Miraluz hovered in the sky, lightning crawling across his silver scales.
Even he inhaled sharply, muscles humming with aftershocks.
'That punch…' he thought, feeling the echo of it through his own bones.
'So heavy. A force that doesn't stop at the skin, it pierces straight through to the organs. Truly worthy of an Alpha.'
From the crater, a guttural snarl rose.
"GAAHHHH!!"
The MUTO Prime clawed its way back to the surface.
Chunks of ice and dirt fell from his scorched carapace.
Rage burned in her scarlet eyes.
Never, never, had she lost a contest of raw power.
She was the earthquake incarnate, the breaker of Titans.
Yet here, before this unknown dragon, her dominance had been shattered.
Unthinkable.
Unforgivable.
"COME AGAIN!!"
Miraluz's chest swelled, wings spreading wide.
Electricity shrieked from his form as his muscles coiled, every fiber like a drawn bowstring.
Roar was both a challenge and a decree:
"Then fall again!"
The dragon's body blurred forward.
His fists clenched, arcs of magnetic fury whirling like a cyclone around them.
His very skin vibrated as his field locked with the planet's own, grinding the air to a screaming point of collapse.
Magnetic Slash
The MUTO Prime, half-broken, did not hesitate.
Her left arm coiled tight, quivering with seismic rage, and lashed out.
BOOM, !!
Fist met fist again. Fire, lightning, and raw shockwaves tore through the battlefield.
The earth beneath them shattered like glass, fissures zigzagging for miles.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
They hammered each other in brutal succession.
No feints, no dodges, only flesh against flesh, bone against bone, until the tundra itself gave way beneath them.
The ground collapsed, sinking into a yawning basin of molten cracks.
The MUTO Queen stood frozen nearby, mandibles trembling.
Even she dared not intervene.
The power boiling off the two Alphas could annihilate her in an instant.
At last, silence.
When the dust cleared, the sight was staggering.
The MUTO Prime's forelimbs were mangled beyond use, twisted stumps of charred flesh and shattered bone.
Her once-proud armor was cracked and scorched black. Her breath rattled like a dying furnace.
Across from her stood Miraluz.
His body gleamed unbroken, his arms unbowed, his aura stronger.
His body, forged in storms, tempered in war, had only grown more accustomed to the violence.
His courage swelled with each exchange, a storm dragon becoming an inexorable juggernaut.
The Queen MUTO's scarlet eyes widened.
She had followed her mother through countless wars.
Never once had she seen her fall so far, so fast.
She hissed low, circling through the smoke, her claws flexing, her hunger surging.
'If she cannot… then I will.'
"Let's finish this!!"
Miraluz's voice cracked like thunder.
His wings snapped open and then slammed down, propelling him forward at supersonic speed.
MUTO Prime raised her ruined limbs, but it was futile.
RIP, !!
Miraluz's claws tore through them, ripping the forearms clean away in a spray of gore.
Before the scream could even leave her throat,
CRACK-BOOM!!
A kick like a meteor slammed into her chest.
The colossal insect soared through the air like debris, wings flailing uselessly, before crashing down.
She hit the earth like a stone, bouncing once, twice, before sprawling in the dirt.
Her body twitched once, then lay stiff, broken, a mountain reduced to ruin.
Silence.
Then panic.
The lesser MUTOs all around shrieked in terror.
Their hive-mind rippled with fear.
The one they had followed, the one they thought invincible, lay defeated.
Their cries filled the battlefield, not with rage… but despair.
"Shhhhhhhhhh!!"
A sharp whistle split the air.
"SKREEEEE, !!"
The Queen MUTO lunged from the smoke, her massive frame blurring into a barbed spear of claws and fury.
Her serrated arm thrust forward with all the desperation of a cornered beast, piercing toward the base of Miraluz's neck.
CLANG!!
The sound was metallic, deafening, not flesh, not blood, but steel.
Sparks cascaded through the air as her jagged arm skidded off Miraluz's scales, snapping like brittle bone.
Her shriek echoed in shock.
She staggered backward, staring at the ruined limb now bent at a grotesque angle, her wrist caved inward, black ichor spraying from shattered joints.
"You…" she hissed, mandibles trembling.
Miraluz turned his head slowly, golden eyes narrowing. His voice rumbled like a mountain groaning.
"This farce must end."
He had known she was there all along.
Her ambush was no more than a mosquito's bite, insignificant, irritating, already forgotten.
As if hearing his decree, the dinosaurs across the battlefield suddenly pulled back.
Herds of ceratopsians withdrew from their charges.
Packs of raptors stopped mid-pounce.
Even titans like Grey and Spinosaurus gave ground.
The air trembled as an unseen order rippled through their ranks:
"Clear the field."
Only the MUTOs remained, still howling, still clawing at foes who no longer resisted.
It took them precious seconds to realize the dinosaurs weren't retreating in fear; they were making way.
The wind began to change.
WHOOOOM!!
Miraluz's wings cracked like thunder as he rose into the blackened sky.
His body glowed faintly silver-white at first… then brighter, hotter, as though a second sun was igniting above Siberia.
Deep in his chest, something roared louder than any voice.
The nuclear furnace within him spun into overdrive, the thermonuclear fusion surging far beyond equilibrium.
"GAAAAHHHHHH!!"
The Queen, clutching her broken arm, screeched orders to her kin.
Dozens of males, battered and bloodied, turned upward.
The remaining females followed.
From every throat came a surge of electromagnetic pulses, waves of invisible static hammering against the sky.
To a lesser Titan, it would have been fatal. EMP, the bane of reactors, the death knell of atomic hearts.
Miraluz only laughed. His voice rolled across the battlefield like a storm.
"You think this can stop me?"