Collaborator Arc 2: Conquering Nature

Episode 16: Hi-Ougi! Conquering Nature!

(They all rush Hoffman once again, but this time have a much better go at it. Hoffman needed to fully counter and evade to avoid damage. Trey slips behind him and hits him with the broad side of his sword. A medium explosion pushes Hoffman forward where Zellos is waiting. Zellos uses a combination of swordplay and hand to hand to combat Hoffman. Zellos slashes and immediately pivots into an elbow. Hoffman ducks the slash but takes the elbow as Raine attempts a strike from above, and the force of Zellos' attack pushes him away just far enough. Hoffman then snatches Raine by the leg and slams her into Alma. Alma puts her hands out and maneuvers around Raine's body mid-hit to continue her attack. Alma lands a kick to Hoffman's chin and Jey follows up with a diamond covered fist to his chin as well. This lifts Hoffman into the air where Zellos kicks him up repeatedly to lift him higher. Trey appears above with a small ball of flame.)

Trey: Solar apocalypse!

(Trey slams the attack into hoffman and pushes him into the ground where, on impact, the explosion spreads out in the shape of a sun.)

Hoffman: *Waving the explosion away* Looks like you're doing some damage now.

Trey: Getting mad that these kids are kicking your butt?

Hoffman: It still takes five of you to even harm me. I'm hardly worried.

Trey: You should be, we are in peak form now because of elemental body.

Hoffman: Oh? But did you know I also have an elemental body?

Alma: What?? No way!

Hoffman: It is not a new concept. Becoming in tune with the world is a natural ability of an elemental. All of our children can do it.

Zellos: There's still five of us. Your elemental body can still be handled.

Hoffman: Oh, ok. So you won't mind if I use it?

Zellos: Go ahead-.

Trey: Zellos, shut up!

Hoffman: Elemental body: Catastrophe phase.

(Hoffman's body begins to glow an assortment of colors. His size grows twice as large. He could hear a faint groan in the back of his mind, but he ignores it completely.)

Trey: Not much of a change.

Hoffman: You will see soon enough. Let this be the start of your suffering since this war began. Although, a couple of you have already suffered...loss.

Trey: Tch!

Raine: *Growls*

Zellos: ...

Alma: Roaring thunder!

(Alma opens her mouth and a large lightning bolt shoots out. Hoffman waves his hand and the bolt changes direction to Trey.)

Alma: Look out!

(A wall of rock blocks the bolt, but it shatters.)

Raine: He just controlled her element directly. How?

Trey: It's one thing if Alma summoned it from nature, but that was electricity she built up herself.

Hoffman: I am calamity, I am catastrophe. A walking natural disaster. No element goes out of my control.

Jey: So the use of elements is out, huh?

Zellos: No, just not any attack will do. Even we can succumb to our own element. We just need to hit harder.

Alma: Harder how? Physical attacks barely hurt him. Elements are all we have and he just increased his resistances.

Zellos: I don't care how we do it. That remark about loss cannot slide.