"Zenta, hang tight!" The Remnant currently being cast away into an incoming wall of sonic force shouted to the individual carrying him into said wall of sonic force. Raune phased for one tenth of a second, enough to slip out of Zenta's grasp without separating the two, and with his left hand grabbed onto Zenta's shoulder. With his right hand, he grabbed onto the wall of the enclosed space, getting just enough grip on his gloved fingers for what he needed. With Raune displacing himself for a moment, Zenta immediately lost his Speedforce connection and with it, his "Flashtime." As much as the Speedforce had driven Zenta's body far beyond than it was ever designed for and causing everything to slow down to near standstill pace, with it gone his body was suddenly under tremendously less stress, much less Speedforce lightning surrounding him. Everything he could feel, every sense, suddenly had everything in range immediately resume normal time interaction, stimuli coming in tremendously faster. Without the Speedforce overexerting his body, it was possible for the extreme effects of that overclocking to now catch up to him, assuming that it hadn't before.
Raune had one hand on the wall. Normally, he would just immediately start slipping downwards thanks to the fact it was a wall. However, the Speedster was still in Flashtime, and so everything was still at a near standstill for
him. Pushing himself to the very limit when it came to his Speedforce powers, augmented perception pushed even further to where every second is an eternity. With what limited time he had, he kept his hand on the wall and applied his right foot to the wall, scrapping against it at faster than the eye could see levels, taking less than a tenth of a second to do so. Being in the air, he couldn't just get on a wall and start running, but combining Huntsmen maneuvers and Speedster physics violations had given him a special edge through his life. Scrapping his right foot against the wall at that speed generated enough pull upwards to lift him and Zenta a foot or two higher into the air. He could go higher, but the force needed might smash him into the other wall and he was running out of limited time. With his left foot, crossing over the right leg, he pressed it against the wall and concentrated his beyond superhuman levels of strength, jumping off the one foot for another five feet of height. Even with himself moving at these speeds, the other two Remnants were less than two seconds away from impact to the two.
More than enough. I hate this idea.
Raune and Zenta were now even higher in the air, and still with an incoming sonic blast in their way, not quite high enough to avoid that shockwave. However, the two were out of the speeding path of the other two Remnants, meaning they weren't in the way of their running, nor liable to get hit by the lightning. Raune used his strength again to pull Zenta up against him, bear hugging the martial artist in a tight grip. The martial artist who shattered his sword. The same person who condemned that Remnant to dying by the hands of one of the others. And yet, the only ally Raune had other than himself. All of that maneuver happened in less than two seconds. In less than half a moment afterwards, the sonic blast arrived at the two and impacted.
The sonic blast generated by the other two Remnants hit the two with titanic force, a tremendous blast, a powerful hit. Raune was holding Zenta and protected him from the blunt of the blast by taking it himself, and with Raune's aura taking the hit for Raune. Even having augmented his aura, this was a level of pure physical force that was created with the singular goal of killing one individual, with no restraints. His own speed, used against him. Raune's aura took the hit, and was reduced to a bit more than nil. That same level of force also strained all of Raune's grasp on Zenta, pulling the martial artist to the length of his reach. The combination of force hitting Raune and the sheer level of sound disorientated the Speedster (his aura still preventing his hearing from getting damaged), just shy of knocking him out, and barely conscious the two fell onto the floor, rolling from the blast and behind the other two Speedsters. With his red aura flickering Raune landed first and what remained of his aura took the relatively modest physical force of the roll, before shattering on the ground as he came to a halt, letting go of Zenta and remaining collapsed on the floor.
Absolutely drained physically from over using the Speedforce, his aura completely used up thanks to that hit, incapable of tapping into the Speedforce or even move his body, all to protect the individual who shattered the sword he didn't even have anymore. This Remnant was down for the count, and would need time to recover. Time they didn't have.
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Throwing lightning was a common enough trick, simply run fast enough to generate enough friction to throw an energy bolt at an opponent, which was even easier having a semblance based around shooting lightning out of his hands. Using a sonic boom as an attack was a relatively novel idea due to Speedster powers generally preventing such explosive forces but wouldn't be out of place to exploit in dire situations. But this was on an unprecedented level. Then again, Raune had augmented his powers in response to feeling far too weak in the Libarian fight, and was sick of intelligence not being enough to defeat the enemies in his way when they would have a temper tantrum and smack down any plans through sheer strength. So he remade himself to fight even. With the combined power of the Speedforce, his Aura, and Stormruler, he was a physical god in body, an embodiment of pure speed, wielding a weapon made to cut down the strongest of warriors. Raune himself was on an unprecedented scale in the multiverse, so it was only fitting that his attack was on an unprecedented scale. This was the first time to truly test his limits. To finally stop having to hold back, to use the Speedforce to
restrict the damage rather than
unleash it. Had he perhaps fought Vegetto, or Superman, he might've fought a fellow god, and learned truth through conflict. Instead, he was fighting a joke, a monster that was faster than it should be and strong enough to give him pause. In such a way, it was a true test of his limits. The Zenta fight didn't count. Strength didn't matter, intelligence was worthless, no real challenge. Unlike this. Raune wasn't only going at the full limits of body, but at the full limits of his mind. Doom put him in a small box to try and make his Speed worthless.
Raune was going to make Doom regret such a stupid battlefield choice.
What an idiot. Whatever intelligence Doom gave this thing, it was a truly effective fighter, but a moron when it came to tactics. Regurgitating all of that electricity is going to be it's downfall even more. It's been fun, but it's time to end this.
"This is the end for you Air Dancer! Cross-Beam!" The two Remnants shouted at the top of their lungs, fast approaching with doom on their heels for the inanimate object. The attack was two-fold, three pronged thanks to the Air Dancer's own stupidity.
The Remnant carrying Zenta flew over the two other Remnants' heads, falling behind them with his aura shattering and letting go of Zenta, down for the count. With every step they took, the two Remnants generated an incredible amount of friction between themselves and the air that was occupying the space they were running into. Normally, when a Speedster runs, the Speedforce alters the space around them to reduce the amount of friction, creating gentle breezes and trails of lightning from Speedforce energy rather than sonic booms and lightning storms from built up static electricity. That's what normally happened, anyways. The two Remnants of Raune were pushing themselves so fast, so hard, and intentionally manipulating the Speedforce to shut off such safety protections. Every step caused a sonic boom from pure speed, shaking the walls of the room they were in and leaving behind a cracked trail. Every moment built up incredible amounts of static electricity that was collecting into a literal storm around themselves and on their body, which adsorbed the Speedforce lightning that was being generated in a brilliantly bright blue display of power. All of the displaced air, the sonic force, the lightning, was being carried in a slip stream by the two Remnants from their sheer speed.
Air Dancer could see that he threw Zenta and Raune into a concentrated storm of solid, painfully bright blue lightning, with an incoming shockwave of air following behind in a menacing fashion. If anything could kill Zenta, it'd be that. Except, Raune pulled himself over the lightning storm and through the air shockwave, meaning he survived, with nothing to stop this impending wall of doom. The two Remnants smirked. The electricity that Air Dancer had regurgitated that had slowed him down was bouncing around in the air, allowing him to move quicker. The two Remnants were unphased by his increase in speed, and when they got to where that electricity was bouncing, they just kept running, it siphoning into their lightning storm and adding to the increased power of the solid blue light, the two smirking at the dummy's own stupidity. They turned his counter move into just more pain for him. Three pronged turned into a two-fold, two-pronged attack. The two Remnants let the lightning course over their bodies, before their hands glowed a solid blue around the Stormruler each carried. The lightning storm turned into two solid beams, siphoning into the enchanted blades that were the weapons bound to Raune's aura.
What had once been a purely solid, spherical storm of blue lightning following the two Remnants was now disappeared entirely, transformed into menacing blades covered in pure light with mist dripping off of them as they were soaked with the power of the storm. The two Raunes stopped right in front of Air Dancer, each one smirking with not a single bit of lightning to be seen on their persons, it was all gone. They were there for a moment before the shockwave hit. The two Remnants braced against each other and the walls, holding on with tremendous strength as the sonic attack passed by them. Their auras tanked the damage, and their strength prevented them from being blown with it. But though it passed over them easily due to their planning, it would hit Air Dancer with absolute force. Raune had barely managed to avoid being torn apart by the hit by jumping to the top of the shockwave where it was the weakest, but Air Dancer was in the direct path of the strongest part of the blast. The collision would have enough force to shake the ground and should push Air Dancer back against the wall like before, and hit it hard enough to immobilize it for a moment. A truly godlike blow, generated by nothing but running. A punch to put him down.
What followed could only be described as legendary. Stormruler was an artifact level weapon, a weapon so powerful, so ancient and terrible that it was capable of fighting gods, and the only way to destroy it was with itself. Raune's Speedforce connection was one of the strongest in the multiverse thanks to all the years he was alive, and so the lightning generated purely by him exercising the limits of his speed were bright enough to glow solid rather than transparent. The speed he pushed himself at generated so much friction that it generated a true lightning storm around himself thanks to him letting loose. The electricity from earlier was a paltry amount, but anything was helpful. All of this lightning was concentrated into the powerful Stormruler, and by concentrating it, it was able to be harnessed in a form that was truly deadly. With Air Dancer, pushed back or not, stunned or not, the two Remnants prepared for what either would be the final blow, or open him up for the blow.
"Cross-beam." They both stated, without using the Speedforce to mask their voices, full of not just power, but pride. They clicked the vial of red tinted dust into their weapon's firing slot, and pointed the weapons directly at Air Dancer. And their hands glowed blue as they fired off their semblance, red eyes delighting in the moments to follow. Twin beams emerged from the two Stormrulers, blue in coloration, but not blue lightning. No, this was something not even Air Dancer could handle. Nothing less than a blue plasma beam came from both weapons and aimed directly at Air Dancer. The fire dust they had inserted into the swords combined with their semblance of casting lightning out at enemies, and the literal lightning storm combined with it into energy so powerful that it became pure plasma. Blue, beautifully awe inspiring beams of glowing plasma, raced directly for Air Dancer regardless of what state he was in, ready to burn him to cinders.
