"You don't defeat the void by fighting harder. You defeat it by remembering who you are."
– Zara Vey
Scene 1: Rift Nexus — Grid Core Chamber
The room vibrated with impossible energy.
At its center, the Morph Core pulsed like a dying star. The last anchor of balance. All around it, the atmosphere shimmered with layers of collapsed realities—memories, fragments, ghosts.
The team stood tense, weapons drawn.
Null Omega hovered just above the floor. No footsteps. No breath. A perfect stillness.
His voice was processed, almost emotionless—yet somehow… angry.
"You trespass. You corrupt. You are anomalies. You will be deleted."
Kael stepped forward, Red Morpher glowing.
"We're Rangers. That's all the definition we need."
Null Omega tilted his head.
"You are failures. Rejected by your timelines. Your existence defies function."
Ayla smirked, flipping a coin.
"Yeah, well. We defy death too. Guess we're on a streak."
Without warning—
Null Omega vanished.
Scene 2: Instant Assault
Rin shouted: "He's using phase-skip combat!"
Too late.
Slash.
A red blur zipped past Kael, nearly severing his arm.
Crack.
Mira's visor shattered as Omega landed a knee to her face mid-warp.
Boom.
Thorne's body flew across the chamber, smashing into a pillar.
"We can't track him!" Ayla yelled. "He's glitching time!"
Then—
"Fall, Echo."
– Null Omega
Omega's blade struck Ayla's Morpher directly. It sparked and shattered, throwing her back.
She hit the ground hard. Unmoving.
"Ayla!" Rin called out.
But Omega was already gone again.
Scene 3: Countering the Void
Rin's eyes narrowed. He dropped his weapon.
"He's not fighting us. He's deleting us."
Kael clenched his fists.
"Then we fight smarter."
He turned to Mira, blood trailing from a cut above his brow.
"You built a phasing algorithm, right? For void echo traversal?"
Mira hissed in pain, adjusting her cracked visor.
"Yeah… I just didn't test it… on a god-tier assassin bot."
"Good enough."
She tapped into her Morpher, syncing it with the chamber.
A pulse radiated.
"There. A delay between each skip. 0.4 seconds."
Thorne stood back up, half-limping.
"That's all I need."
Null Omega appeared mid-skip, ready to finish Ayla—
BOOM.
Thorne tackled him into a wall, using his Corrupted Shadow Core.
Void energy cracked. Omega staggered.
Kael lunged. "NOW!"
The team surrounded him.
Kael's Inferno Blade, Mira's Gravity Trap, Thorne's Abyss Chains, Rin's White Edge—they all struck.
Explosion.
Omega was launched across the room, into the central pillar. His body crackled.
His helmet cracked. Just slightly.
And for a moment…
They saw something behind the mask.
A face.
Young. Pale. Unfinished. Almost human.
Ayla groaned. "What… the heck is he?"
Rin whispered:
"He's not just a weapon. He's a prisoner."
Scene 4: Null Omega Retreats
Omega stood slowly.
His voice glitched.
"Too many errors… Fracture… unstable…"
The Rift Nexus began to fracture—void leaking in.
Kael raised his sword again. "It's over."
But Omega backed into a spiral of light.
"I was made to correct you… but I see now…"
He looked directly at Rin.
"The white one… is unfinished."
Rin's breath caught.
Before anyone could react, Omega vanished, escaping into the void with the corrupted core data.
The chamber began to collapse.
Scene 5: Aftermath — The Cost of Victory
Back on the Phantom Atlas…
Ayla lay on the recovery bed, her Morpher destroyed, her spirit almost broken.
Kael paced. Mira ran diagnostics. Thorne sat silently in a corner, fist bleeding.
Zara's projection floated nearby.
"Null Omega is learning. He's adapting."
Rin sat alone, staring out into the stars.
He could still feel it—that moment of recognition in Omega's eyes.
"He knew me," Rin said softly.
"He said I'm unfinished."
Zara nodded slowly.
"Because your story isn't done yet."
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