Warfare Augmented Intelligent Frame Unit

Chapter 154 - Bridge to Neil

Chapter 154 - Bridge to Neil

I tilted my head upward, and my breath hitched. Hanging in the endless dark, a colossal sphere loomed, Planet Xyraxis, its jagged cyberpunk surface glowing with neon scars and fractured steel continents. From where I stood, it looked as though the entire world was plummeting straight toward us. But Feena's earlier transmission echoed in my mind: "Xyraxis isn't falling. We are." That truth warped my perception, making the horizon itself feel like it was collapsing.

"W-What should we do?" Fei's voice cracked like glass. Her hands clutched her chest, knuckles pale, trembling against the gleam of her emerald morpher. Fear dripped from her every syllable.

"Zaft!" She whipped toward me, her long lime-green hair snapping behind her like a whip of silk. Her bluish glare burned cold fire into my soul. "Zaft, can you still use your WMD Series?"

I inhaled sharply and slammed my palm against my wrist console. A digital ripple surged from the device, and holographic glyphs spiraled into the air like arcane circuits. My HUD flared alive with the familiar sequence:

[Weaponry Enhancement Engineering Bios]
[Weapon of Mass Destruction Series Unlocked]

[Level 0 - Cosmic Tree]
[Level 1 - Particle Cannon]
[Level 2 - Uranium Blade]
[Level 3 - Shadow Curtain]
[Level 4 - Lightning Storm]
[Level 5 - Particle Accelerator]
[Level 6 - Proton Slicer]
[Level 7 - Ion Cannon]
[Level 8 - Timesphere]
[Level 9 - Rift Generator]
[Level 10 - Fusion Link]

"Yes." My voice rang like steel drawn from its sheath. "I can still use it."

"Is nuking this planet possible?" Myrrh's tone sliced the air, sharp and urgent.

"A-Are you serious!?" Fei stumbled forward, eyes wide, pupils quivering like broken glass. "Even if we could, everyone will be caught in the blast!"

"The debris will still rain down on Xyraxis," I said grimly, every word weighted like lead. "Even if we vaporize it here."

"Then think of another way!" Myrrh barked, her aura flaring with raw defiance as she gave Neil's old morpher back to me. 

She stormed past me, boots striking sparks from the steel floor, and seized Fei's morpher with a forceful yank. Spinning on her heel, she raised the device high, emerald light igniting across her arm like wildfire. Her voice thundered into the void:

"Frame Unit, Awaken!"

Myrrh's body erupted in a cyclone of emerald light, her silhouette stretching, twisting, fusing with the gleaming armor of her Frame Unit. Plates of metallic green folded over her limbs like blooming petals, and in seconds, a towering war machine stood where she once was—a colossus of chrome and light, eyes glowing like twin suns, awaiting only one thing.

My command.

Gritting my teeth, I weighed our dwindling options. The planet's monstrous shadow was already swallowing half the horizon, its jagged cybernetic crust glowing like a neon apocalypse. 

"Fine... if I can't stop it, I'll at least buy us time!" I slammed my palm against the console glyph on my forearm, circuits blazing a furious gold. "Timesphere, Activate!"

A pulse of code rippled through the ether as I thrust my glowing hand toward Myrrh. Reality screamed.

From the Frame Unit's core, a black-and-white orb bloomed like a miniature black hole, spinning faster and faster until it became a gravitational heart. Then it expanded—swallowing color, freezing the very air into brittle shards of halted time. Mountains groaned as sound itself fractured, and for a moment, it felt like eternity bent at our fingertips.