One of the Aeon's shuttles started up without any human interaction... Hux looked around, finding the shuttle that was activated: the Aeon-3. Lucian's voice had suddenly boomed from it: "It is time you have fallen, captain, for I shall bring you to your knees!" Hux, keeping his energy pistol in hand, looked as the Aeon-3 was turning itself around to face Hux, as Lucian was now in control of the shuttle from its inner workings. Its wings unfolded from the top to the sides before the shuttle made a direct charge at Hux, who managed to hop out of the way. Lucian would still taunt him during the attempts he would make on Hux's life.
"Captain! I say you fear the darkness, the true path of salvation and the only way out of your American nightmare... why must you continue to force your way through life as it is, when you could let me end it all for you in your own ship? Is it so you can continue to spread your so-called 'freedom and prosperity', when it will all come crumbling down in the future? Face it... insanity and darkness will prevail, captain. Your forces will not be able to overcome what I will unleash," Lucian spoke once more as he tried to ram the Aeon-3 into Hux, only to miss him by a few inches every time.
"You think you can topple an entire nation that's set itself upon a foundation this is permanent?! You may as well reconsider your statement... because demons like you really piss me off!" Hux continually dodged the attacks Lucian tried to exact on him, with the shuttle close to hitting him and ramming him into the shuttlebay's steel walls. This had been done seven times, with Hux breathing heavily from exhaustion. Upon what may have been the 8th attempt to run him down with the shuttle, something intervened...
The shuttle was stopped dead in its tracks by spec-ops troops that were fitted with state-of-the-art wristbound devices, allowing them to use telekinesis. This nearly knocked Lucian out of his control over the shuttle, but he tried to maneuver it so he could run down the spec-ops troops and allow himself a small victory against Temporal America. Lucian would eventually wiggle free, but at the last second, time seemed to be stopped by the spec-ops troops' devices, finally freeing the Aeon-3 of Lucian's control. He could move through stopped time, and so tumbled out of the shuttle and onto the cold, metal ground of the shuttlebay.
Meanwhile, another supernatural entity known as 'the Searcher' had entered the ISV Aeon. It seemed to assume a corporeal state similar to that of Lucian, but it seemed to appear as if it were a young girl, a shackled old man, and a rotting corpse fused together in the form of a silhouette. Draped around a part of the ship seemed to be historical flags, of which a Confederate flag torn along the fringes could be seen among them. The Searcher didn't really have any business in what was going on between the Aeon's captain and Lucian in the shuttlebay, as for the moment, it felt like exploring the ship. Eventually, following a few corners and room-filled hallways, it would wind up running into a series of lights near the shuttlebay, to which it would hiss and warp itself out of the ship to flee the artificial light.
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During the fight between Hux and Lucian, the Aeon-3 was suspended in the air by the spec-ops troops, freeing the shuttle of Lucian's control. Lucian tried attacking the troopers head-on, but he was repeatedly hit with multiple ESP beams -from the top of the shuttlebay, shadow guards eventually came in and hopped down to try and assist Lucian, only to fail in their attempt to do so and fall to the ESP beams that were shot by spec-ops weaponry. Hux had sweat beads dripping off of his face, now looking to take on Lucian with his bare hands.
"Come on, 'oh-so-mighty bringer of insanity'... aren't you enough of a man to fight me head-on? You can't rely on your abilities forever, show yourself and put up your fists for a real fight!" Hux was looking to give Lucian a one-way ticket to a world of pain, a beating he wouldn't forget. "You think you can best me in a fistfight? Sorry, but I'm not reckless enough to do what you do..." Lucian tried taking on the form of Hux's worst fears - an amalgamation of multiple conjoined rotting corpses resembling his family and friends, all joined together with dark alchemy and infused with the wickedest of witchcraft. Lucian lunged at him to try and kill him through shock - at this moment, he would wind up becoming tangible, allowing Hux to throw a hard punch without Lucian suspecting it. The punch seemed to knock Lucian back a little, who had his form weakened due to the punch dealing more of an effect than it should have.
"Well... if you are looking for a fistfight, then so be it, imperialist scum!" Lucian assumed the form of a large, hulking juggernaut with multiple arms in order to gain an advantage on Hux. Dodging most of the punches thrown by him, Hux stuck to the walls and would mostly try to weave his way out of a corner if he was stuck in one. He suffered a hard blow to the chest, knocking him back to the other end of the shuttlebay. Taking some time to recover, Lucian would seem to go at him with superhuman speed, as he sought to kill him - however, Hux got out of the way in time to climb up Lucian's multiple arms and deal a hard enough blow to the temple that he would stumble to the side a bit.
Lucian would wind up falling on his side, with Hux using this to get himself to one of the shuttlebay's other ends - he found a room on that side, of which it was holding experimental weaponry that could deal with an entity like Lucian. "You don't know how finished you are now!" Hux shouted as he went for the room he found - Lucian would swiftly come to try and block him from entering, but he managed to slip through. Lucian would give chase, where he would repeatedly try to knock Hux off his feet - but to no avail. At last, Hux found some experimental weaponry that would weaken and ultimately kill off someone like Lucian.
"Captain... try to destroy me, and you will see your nation fall before you make your first shot! You will see your nation fall to the darkness, you will see your people fall to insanity! For years, your people have been blinded by a dream that is actually a nightmare... once I make your people insane, their dream will crumble to dust! Your nation will collapse within itself!" Lucian was passionate about his attempts to destroy Temporal America as a retaliatory act against Hux. However, Hux now had an experimental Spirit-2 ESP cannon in his hands, and he was about to fire the first shot...
"It's time you've seen your end, Lucian... you're done!"
