The battlefield of Samaypur was scorched black, a canvas of ruin painted in fire and ash. Smoldering craters pocketed the once-busy mining plateau. Collapsed structures groaned beneath the weight of dust-choked debris. Rebel soldiers, bruised and bleeding, clung to shattered cover. Gunfire echoed in uneven bursts, like the last breaths of a dying storm.
But hope arrived not with a whisper — but a roar.
A golden-orange streak tore across the night sky, parting the clouds like a divine blade. A sonic boom cracked through the smog as a blazing figure descended. It wasn't just light — it was presence. Something ancient. Powerful. New.
Rebels who had seconds ago resigned themselves to death now raised their eyes skyward.
"He's here!" "Shivam! By the Flame, it's Shivam!"
He hit the ground like a meteor, knees bent in the center of the courtyard, sending up a geyser of rock and dust. The shockwave cracked the concrete. For a second, the world held its breath. Shivam rose, slow and unbothered, surrounded by a molten halo of Noctirum energy. His aura shimmered like liquid fire — golden at the core, rimmed with violent orange. His gaze scanned the wreckage.
"Superhero landing," he muttered with a half-smirk. "Cooler than it looks. Hurts like hell."
The moment of levity spread through the soldiers like a balm. The few rebels who remained able-bodied let out a cheer, their voices filled with something they hadn't felt since the operation began: belief. He launched forward like a bullet from the gods.
Within seconds, Shivam was a whirlwind of motion — a blur of orange and gold tearing through Dominion troops. He didn't kill. He didn't have to. One punch would send three soldiers flying. One swipe shattered energy shield like glass. He caught missiles in mid-air and crushed them before they detonated. He split a tank down the middle with his bare hands, the metal melting on contact with his aura.
He darted between towers and war machines, striking with grace and power. Dominion soldiers screamed and ran, their formation collapsing like matchsticks. Rebel medics, pinned down earlier, were able to drag the wounded to safety. Enemy after enemy fell. Not dead — but out. Shivam was fighting like a force of nature, not a man. With each pulse of energy, the battlefield tilted back in the rebels' favor.
"LONG LIVE THE FLAME!" the rebels cried again, louder now.
But amidst the cheers, amidst the chaos, Shivam's eyes locked onto the real battle.
There, across the ruined field — Commander Vidhart, on one knee, blood dripping from a cut on his brow. His weapon cracked. His strength nearly gone. And standing over him, like a phantom of war, was Lavin Vyer.
He was surrounded by violet light. His armor hummed with pulsing runes. Blades of pure psionic energy shimmered around him like wings made of knives. Lavin's expression was calm. Too calm. Then, without a sound, Shivam vanished.
A burst of energy flared — and he appeared between them. His fist drove into Lavin's chest like a thunderclap. The prince went flying, crashing through the fuselage of a fallen airship. The ground quaked. Fires flickered. Everyone stared.
Vidhart coughed. "You shouldn't be here... You're not ready—" Shivam turned; his expression unreadable. "Neither is he."
From the wreckage, Lavin emerged, brushing molten debris from his shoulder. His eyes, glowing with cold malice, narrowed.
"You…" His voice was ice. "You're that slum dog. The one with Adhivita."
Shivam took a step forward. "You're the one who left your people to starve." Lavin's face darkened. "I should have crushed you then." "You can try now." They collided with a force that cracked the air like thunder.
Shivam's golden aura flared as he launched himself forward, a living comet of kinetic fury. Lavin met him head-on, his violet psionic blades igniting mid-swing with a shriek of energy. The impact was apocalyptic — fists slamming into blades, energy crashing into energy, each blow sending shockwaves that rippled across the scorched battlefield.
Their clash sent debris spiraling into the air. Shivam's punches cratered the ground with each strike, his strength enough to pulverize stone and bend steel. His footfalls cracked concrete. His knuckles lit with molten fire, each strike hammering forward like a divine battering ram.
Lavin twisted like a shadow given flesh, his blades flashing in arcs of deadly precision. He moved with martial grace, parrying Shivam's onslaught with rapid sweeps, his constructs splintering into dust only to reform instantly, lashing back like vipers made of light and wrath.
The battlefield lit up — gold and violet, flashing in the smoke like gods at war.
At first, Shivam had the edge. His power was unrelenting — pure, aggressive, overwhelming. Lavin stumbled under the barrage, each blow forcing him back across the crumbling remains of Dominion vehicles and shattered scaffolding. Sparks flew as Shivam's fists connected with Lavin's defenses, pushing him to the brink.
The prince skidded across a broken platform, boots dragging furrows into the ground. Shivam didn't let up. He lunged again — fists drawn, aura blazing.
A grin tugged at Shivam's lips, wild and breathless. "You're not so tough after all."
But behind Lavin's narrowed eyes, something flickered. Not fear. Not anger. Amusement.
Then Lavin's stance shifted — subtle, grounded, precise. His blades dissolved into mist, and instead, he raised open hands, his fingers curling with dancer-like grace. His feet slid apart, anchoring him in a low, fluid posture. And then he moved.
The shift was immediate and terrifying. Lavin's strikes became surgical. He ducked beneath Shivam's punch, twisted his body, and drove an elbow into Shivam's ribs — fast, sharp, practiced. A flurry of palm strikes followed; each one enhanced with psychic force. They landed like pressure detonations, short bursts that disrupted Shivam's momentum and forced him back. Lavin's eyes gleamed cold.
"Strength is nothing without mastery," he said. And then he struck again.
Shivam staggered. His breath caught. He was suddenly surrounded — Naina, bleeding. Aman, screaming. Dikshant, dead. Vidhart impaled. Adhivita begging Lavin to stop.
"No—!" He spun, panicked — only to strike empty air.
The illusion vanished. Lavin stood calmly behind him. "I like breaking things," he whispered.
A psychic hammer smashed into Shivam's back, sending him flying into a wall. He groaned. Blood dripped from his mouth. Then came the chains. Bands of light wrapped around his limbs, crushing down. Shivam gritted his teeth as they hoisted him into the air.
"Don't worry," Lavin said softly. "You'll die with purpose. Fuel for my legend."
Before Lavin could finish the spell, a shadow dropped beside him. Commander Vidhart, wounded but furious, drove a blazing sword into Lavin's shoulder. Lavin roared and hurled him aside. Twin coils of psionic energy — like living ropes — wrapped around Shivam and Vidhart, lifting them, choking them.
"Enough!" A voice pierced the air.
Sumit and Pawan's transport screeched into view, skimming low. Explosions rocked nearby as the ship deployed a smokescreen flare. Rebel soldiers scrambled toward it. The Dominion forces hesitated, caught between fear and confusion. Inside the pilot seat, Pawan kept the throttle high while Sumit manned the ramp. Their faces were pale, but determined.
Vidhart's communicator buzzed. He glanced over. "It's them... our boys," he rasped. "They're here." Sumit appeared at the open bay door. "Commander!" he shouted. "We've got cover! Get them out now!" Vidhart gave a grim nod. "Go. Evacuate who you can. I'll hold him."
Pawan blinked. "Sir—" "NOW!"
The ship dipped, releasing ropes. The wounded rebels began boarding. Shivam, still bound in Lavin's constructs, struggled. "Come on, come on," Sumit muttered, laying down suppressing fire. Pawan sent a signal to the teams, directing them toward the pickup point. Smoke, fire, and dust made visibility poor — the perfect distraction. Vidhart turned to Shivam, voice low. "You still breathing?"
"Barely," Shivam rasped. "Then stand. Fight again. I'll cover you."
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Back at the Raisena mines, chaos buzzed like an angry hive.
Warning lights blinked across the upper rig, and the soft hum of loaded Noctirum crates filled the chamber like an unspoken countdown. But none of that mattered anymore.
Adhivita stood in the command bay, staring at the static-filled comms unit. Her knuckles had turned white from clenching the edge of the console. Her voice was low, almost breaking.
"They're losing," she said. "I can feel it." Agastya looked up from a set of readings, alarmed. "We can't abandon the ore—"
"To hell with the ore!" Naina snapped; her voice raw with emotion. She slammed her fist onto the table, making tools jump. "Shivam's out there. Vidhart is out there. We don't sit here while they bleed."
For a moment, the room fell into heavy silence. The weight of choice hung in the air like ash. Then Aman, grim-faced and resolute, stepped forward. "We go." Dikshant didn't hesitate. He began loading weapons into crates. "And we burn the sky doing it."
Adhivita turned to the crates of Noctirum they had spent hours extracting. She looked at the pulsing light within them — so much effort, so much risk — and yet so meaningless if they lost everything now. She spun on her heel.
"Prepare the ship. We leave now."
The team sprang into motion. Boots thundered across the metallic floor. Engine fuel hissed into place. The extraction sleds were shoved to the side, abandoned. They had one mission now — get to Shivam before it was too late. As the boarding ramp closed behind them and the bay doors opened to the storm-lit skies, Adhivita whispered under her breath.
"Please be alive." In the cockpit, Aman slammed into the pilot's seat, overriding the safety protocols and slapping a warning icon off the display.
"No time for safe routes," he growled. The aircraft surged forward, engines screaming as they rocketed into the night sky, carving a trail through the jagged mountain ridges. Lightning flashed over the horizon, illuminating the clouds like a battlefield in the heavens.
"Do you think we'll make it in time?" Dikshant asked from behind, strapping into his seat.
Adhivita didn't answer. Her eyes never left the flickering comm-signal from Samaypur — a signal that was rapidly degrading into static.
"We have to," she said, and the aircraft punched through the clouds.
Back at Samaypur, the battlefield had become a graveyard of fire and ruin. Lavin Vyer stood alone at its center, tall and imperious, his aura pulsing with a twisted violet light that danced like hellfire in the thick, smoky air. The very ground beneath his boots was scorched black, cracked from the force of his descent. Rebel tanks lay twisted like tin underfoot, their metal shells melted and warped. Broken rifles lay scattered like snapped bones, and once-proud banners of the rebellion smoldered in the dust.
Ash floated down like snowfall, blanketing the craters and the dead. The air stank of ozone, blood, and burned circuitry. Around him, silence reigned — the kind of silence that came not from peace, but devastation.
Lavin tilted his head, gaze sweeping across the carnage. Rebel soldiers lay unconscious or worse, their groans barely audible beneath the whisper of the wind. In the distance, a few survivors scrambled for cover, too broken to fight, too scared to move.
And at his feet — Shivam, bruised and bloodied, his aura dimmed, his breath ragged as he struggled to push himself upright. Beside him, Commander Vidhart groaned, his body half-pinned under shattered debris, his legs unresponsive.
Lavin walked toward them, his steps measured and unhurried. He moved with the confidence of a king, the cruelty of a blade.
"All that power," he said, his voice silk-wrapped in venom. "And still you kneel." He raised one hand. A crackling construct of energy formed — jagged, blackened chains that coiled like serpents, preparing to strike again.
Then— A shriek tore through the sky, sharp and electric.
A surge of blue light split the smoky heavens as a sleek rebel aircraft pierced the cloud cover, turbines roaring with fury. The ship descended in a blaze of defiance, engines throwing up walls of dust and flame.
The hatch exploded open. Adhivita didn't wait.
She leapt from the bay, landing like thunder on the fractured ground. Her body moved with purpose — elegant, fierce, unshakable. In her hand coiled a whip made of pure sapphire Noctirum energy, its glow illuminating the dark battlefield like a flare of divine judgment.
"LAVIN!" she roared, her voice cutting through the ash like a blade. "LET THEM GO!"
The sound brought Lavin's gaze upward. For a moment — just a blink — surprise flickered in his eyes. Then his lips curled into a sneer. "So, the traitor returns," he said coldly.
Adhivita didn't flinch. She stepped between him and the fallen. "No," she said, her voice calm and razor-sharp. "The heir does."
With a flick of her wrist, her whip cracked — a streak of blue fire slicing through the air. The chains around Shivam and Vidhart shattered instantly, dissolving into violet embers. Shivam collapsed, gasping for breath, clutching at his ribs. Vidhart rolled clear, dragging himself back with what little strength he had left. Lavin's eyes darkened. His arms spread wide, and in an instant, twin blades erupted from his hands — curved constructs of violet energy, humming with lethal intent.
Adhivita met his gaze. No hesitation. No fear. Only fury.
Brother and sister locked eyes. And then they charged — blue and purple streaks colliding in a storm of light, legacy, and vengeance.