E-UNIT: The Blue Angels of Death.

Tau started trembling. She slowly turned toward Gamma.

Gamma herself stood there with her jaw slightly open. Her sister, who had been alive only seconds ago, had just been crushed beneath a massive platform. Delta remained silent, her expression unreadable. Gamma’s eyes suddenly sharpened. She reached behind her shoulders and detached two knives, yellow versions of the Exo-knives, gripping one in each hand as she leaned back, preparing to launch.

Tau grabbed her arm to stop her. But without even looking back, Gamma violently shrugged her off. Energy burned inside her eyes.

Without warning,

Gamma disappeared.

She began zigzagging left and right at unnatural speed, leaving bright yellow energy trails across the battlefield. Yet through all the blinding motion, her eyes remained locked on the towering black figure standing in the distance. But something felt wrong. Reaper didn’t react at all to her Mach-level speed. He simply stood there.

Still.

Unmoving.

SEEK.

Gamma hurled one of the knives mid-dash. Its speed was so extreme that a normal human eye could never track it. But as the knife approached Reaper, it suddenly slowed down. Then it began orbiting him, like a small moon circling a broken planet.

Gamma clenched her teeth. ‘Maybe I need to overwhelm his ability to catch objects around him,’ she thought.

She pushed herself even faster. Her yellow trails grew wider and more chaotic, scattering light across the battlefield. No one could predict where the next attack would come from. Her movements became completely random, sharp turns, sudden reversals, spirals of glowing energy slicing across the field. Then her path began circling around Reaper, forming a massive glowing ring. Her direction kept changing without pattern.

And then,

Knives began pouring from the circle. They shot toward Reaper from every direction, most of them aimed directly at his back. Their speed made them nearly invisible.

But one by one, they followed the same fate as the first. Each knife slowed down as it reached him. Then joined the others. Orbiting him inside the same small gravitational pocket.

Gamma felt hope slipping away. But she refused to stop. She began creating knives continuously using the same matter-forming ability as her sisters. The moment she pulled one knife from her shoulder, another one immediately started forming to replace it.

The air around Reaper filled with spinning blades. He finally spoke. His voice carried no emotion. “How disrespectful.” He slowly turned his head. “Trying to strike my back, believing you could reach my blind spots.” His red eyes burned brighter. “Perhaps I do have some.” A faint pause. “But gravity does not.”

He knelt down and lightly touched the ground. “Your velocity is… impressive.” His voice lowered. “Let us test it.”

His head tilted downward. “Sun Surface Protocol.”

At first, Gamma felt nothing. She kept circling him at extreme speed. But then something changed. A strange heaviness settled over her body. Her yellow trails began fading. Her speed dropped sharply.

Every knife she threw now simply fell straight to the grass, sinking uselessly into the soil. Her movements slowed more and more. Soon she could barely run.

Birds flying high above suddenly dropped from the sky one after another. Then Gamma collapsed onto the ground. The sound of metal being crushed echoed across the field.

Reaper slowly stood up. He walked toward her calmly and placed his foot beside her head. The knives still orbited around him like a storm of metal. “You were moving too fast to choose a side,” he said quietly. “And so you chose the wrong one.” He walked back to the exact spot where he had been standing before. Then he raised his hand. “Saturn’s Orbit Program. Thirty percent gravitational pull. Initiate.”

The knives stopped orbiting him. There were hundreds of them now, Gamma had been launching them nonstop for minutes. They slowly drifted away from him. Then began circling Gamma instead. The orbit was tight and fast.

Reaper lifted his hand slightly. The knives stretched and reshaped themselves. Each blade extended into a long, thin spear.

Gamma’s head was pinned to the ground by gravity, but she could still glance upward. Above her, a storm of spears circled silently.

Tau and Delta were no longer shocked. They simply watched with quiet sadness. Gamma forced herself to keep speaking. “Girls… don’t give up…” Her voice trembled. “You are both stronger than me…” She struggled to let words out, as the air itself collapsed. “We can always be rebuilt… if even one of us survives.” Her eyes turned toward Tau. “I believe in you…” Her voice weakened further, almost breaking. “Please… at least land a single hit on him… for our father.”

Tau and Delta both nodded slowly, their eyes filled with tears.

Reaper snapped his fingers.

SEEK.

More than a hundred spears dropped at once. The sound of metal piercing metal filled the battlefield. The spears slammed into Gamma’s body from every angle, pinning her completely to the ground.

Her systems shut down instantly. Her yellow eyes turned pitch black. She no longer moved. From one of the holes the spears had created, a yellow crystal slowly floated upward. Reaper guided it through the air with his gravity control. It landed safely in 11’s open palm.

Tau spoke to Delta without breaking her gaze from Reaper. “D-Delta… you are our only chance. Literally.” Her voice trembled slightly. “I-I thought of a small plan… b-but it requires me to sacrifice myself. G-G-Gamma was right. If even one of us survives, she can rebuild the rest.”

Delta shifted her attention toward Reaper as well. “What is it?”

Tau shook her head. “H-He can definitely hear us.” Her eyes glowed faint red. “I need absolute secrecy about my next steps. I w-won’t even tell you if I succeed or not. That way he cannot prepare a countermeasure.” She swallowed. “He is not an easy opponent.”

Delta slowly shook her head. “So you don’t believe in me.”

Tau turned toward her. “Not one bit.”

Delta calmly sat down on the ground. “Pi and 02 were right about you all along.” Her voice stayed flat. “You refuse to elaborate on anything. That’s what everyone hates about you.” Her eyes narrowed slightly. “The way you spoke about Omega as if you had met her… the way you targeted 02 while everyone believed it was an honest mistake…”

Tau froze. “Y-You knew…?”

“Yes.” Delta spoke firmly, the first time she had openly confronted one of her sisters. “And I know why you like Omega.”

Tau stared at her in shock.

“You were always able to copy yourself since the day you were created. One of those copies spent time with Omega inside the Hope Bubble while father was imprisoned.”

Tau’s jaw dropped. “H-H-How did you—”

“You didn’t bother activating the rest of us.” Delta’s tone sharpened. “We could have saved father from that prison. We could have stopped him from creating this monster.” Her expression remained cold, but her voice carried restrained anger. “I also know that the one standing here is just a copy.” She pointed toward the distant plateau. “Your real body is hidden somewhere behind that hill. I saw the particles move.”

Tau’s shoulders slowly dropped. “W-W-Why did you stay silent?”

Delta shrugged slightly. “Why would I say anything?” She tilted her head. “If I stopped you back then, I would never have learned more about you.” Her expression twisted faintly. “But honestly… since you never acknowledged any of us as sisters the way you did with Omega, I won’t even be sad when you’re gone.” She pointed upward. “You think you can beat him?” Her voice turned mocking. “Try it, orange head. He is already pointing a black hole above your original body.”

Tau’s hidden body looked upward. A small black sphere floated above her, so dark it looked like a glitch in reality itself. Slowly, it began expanding.

“How…?” Tau whispered.

Reaper’s eyes dimmed slightly. The quiet one, Delta, had the clearest understanding of the battlefield. He began recalculating.

Delta stood up and faced the short Tau. Even standing straight, Tau barely reached Delta’s chest. “If you were capable of defeating him, father would have hidden you the same way he hid 02.” She crossed her arms. “Where do you think she is now?”

The Tau copy standing beside Delta suddenly collapsed to her knees. “I still have a chance…”

Delta paused. She understood what Tau meant. Her eyes hardened. “You better not mess things up… again.”

The Tau copy slowly stood. The original body emerged from behind the small hill and walked toward the copy. The two merged together, becoming one.

The black hole continued floating above her. “N-Now I understand why you placed your E-UNIT so far away,” Tau muttered, covering her mouth. “Y-You are using her as a radar… giving you coordinates and exact positions and powers for each of us.”

Reaper slowly raised his head. “You believe I require that much information to dismantle you?” He shook his head slightly. “You literally glow whenever you use your energy.”

Tau’s arms dropped helplessly.

Reaper raised his hand toward her. “Disappointing.” His voice remained calm. “Father truly rushed your creation.” He looked up toward the growing sphere. “Black Hole Protocol, initiated.”

The black sphere began pulling everything toward it.

Grass tore from the ground. Chunks of the road lifted into the air. Pieces of the nearby building broke free and drifted upward. Even Tau began sliding toward the gravitational pull.

Tau reacted instantly. She began duplicating herself at extreme speed outside the growing field of attraction. Copies formed and were immediately sucked toward the singularity, while the original body slowly pushed forward toward Reaper.

The black sphere expanded. Its gravitational reach widened. Delta stepped back as she felt the invisible pull dragging her toward the growing anomaly. Reaper nodded slightly. “Interesting.” He stepped a little closer, giving Tau a small opportunity to reach him.

Tau desperately continued multiplying herself, trying to reach him and fulfill Gamma’s last request. At least one scratch. But the black hole’s pull grew stronger. Soon she could barely move forward. Multiplying no longer mattered. Her copies were dragged away instantly. She reached her sixtieth copy. Her body suddenly felt lighter, the black hole was feeding on her matter.

Now she was being pushed backward, away from the towering android. She tried multiplying even faster. But the copies were no longer forming correctly. The black hole was stealing their matter before the bodies could even stabilize.

When she reached her ninetieth copy, fear finally appeared on her face. The realization hit her. Being crushed into a singularity was no longer a distant possibility. It was happening. She grabbed at the grass desperately. Her final copy barely finished forming a hand,

Then it collapsed.

Her body compressed violently.

White and orange metal crushed inward, forming a tight metallic sphere.

The black hole suddenly dissolved. The small sphere floated upward. It drifted directly toward Reaper. He caught it in one hand. Then snapped it into two halves.

Inside, the orange crystal was revealed. With a small gesture of gravity control, he guided it through the air and placed it in 11’s waiting palm. The crystal still glowed faintly.

‘He killed her so quickly the crystal hasn’t even realized it’s disconnected yet,’ 11 thought, smiling slightly. ‘Amazing as always, Lord Reaper.’ She placed the crystal into her small purse beside the others.

Delta stepped out from the half-destroyed building and began walking toward Reaper. Her eyes never left him. “Idiot,” she said in her usual uncaring tone. “Her plan was literally crushed into a sphere along with her.”

Reaper gestured toward the broken metal halves lying on the ground. “Do not blame her.” His voice remained calm. “It was inevitable.”

Delta lowered her head slightly but continued walking forward. “You’re enjoying this.”

Reaper tilted his head. “What’s that?”

Delta stopped roughly one kilometer away from him. She lowered into a fighting stance. “Right.” Her voice was cold. “If you had any emotions at all… you wouldn’t have torn my sister in half.”

Reaper nodded once. “Believe me. There was another reason entirely.” He slowly stepped forward. “Let us finish this.” His red eyes glowed brighter. “Apparently, our father enjoys running away.” A brief pause. “I will not allow it this time.”

Delta scoffed. “Good.” Her eyes sharpened.

“Because neither will I.”

The silence was unbearable.

Only moments ago, the battlefield had been filled with screams, impacts, and desperate cries. Now, only two robots stood facing each other in a deformed field of crushed grass, surrounded by broken machines and scattered remains.

Reaper slowly knelt and placed one hand on the ground. “Sun Surface Protocol. Initiated.”

The moment he finished speaking, the effect spread across the battlefield. Every metal scrap, every broken G-Bot body, and every fragment of debris was forced downward. The pieces flattened against the earth as gravity intensified dramatically.

Even the massive platform he had created earlier began cracking across its surface, spider-web fractures spreading through the dense structure.

Delta didn’t flinch. She stood there calmly, as if nothing had changed.

Reaper’s optics dimmed slightly. ‘As I expected.’ He increased the gravitational pressure even further, far beyond what he had used against Gamma.

Still…

Nothing happened.

The purple-haired robot remained standing.

Delta began walking forward, slowly adapting to the new gravity. Then she accelerated, running toward him. Her speed wasn’t particularly impressive. But the fact that she was moving at all under that pressure was an anomaly. She suddenly stopped and lowered herself briefly, kneeling into a launching stance.

Then,

She jumped.

The burst of speed was so extreme that even Reaper wasn’t fully prepared.

He crossed his arms to block.

Delta’s fist arrived in a fraction of a second.

CLANG.

The devastating punch struck his right arm. The shockwave from the impact spread outward in a circular wave, lifting dust and debris from the ground.

Reaper’s right arm cracked slightly from the blow. Warning sensors flashing across his HUD as micro-fractures splintered his supposedly indestructible black plating. But he hadn’t moved even a centimeter.

Delta pulled her arm back to strike again. She needed momentum to damage a machine larger than herself.

Reaper immediately recognized the movement. He grabbed her by the shoulder.

Then his hand moved faster.

CLANG.

His punch slammed directly into her abdomen.

Delta was launched backward, flying toward the hangar ruins and crashing into the remaining walls. The outer plating around her stomach shattered slightly. But it was only the external layer. Delta’s body was incredibly dense. The impact couldn’t push her any farther.

She stood up again. She glanced briefly into the dark ruins behind her before stepping forward, her purple eyes fixed on him. No glowing aura. No special mode. Just raw strength.

She dashed forward again. Each step she took shook the ground, the amplified gravity making every movement hit the soil like a hammer.

Reaper pushed his cloak back and rushed toward her as well. He wanted more information about her physiology. He needed to measure exactly how dense she was.

Heavy metallic footsteps echoed from both sides.

Then they collided.

Reaper punched first. The gravitational pressure he had created did not affect him.

Delta saw the strike coming and caught his fist. She pulled back slightly, but Reaper lifted her upward with the motion.

She didn’t let go.

Instead, she released her legs and let them fall freely toward his head.

CLANG.

Her kick landed squarely against his skull.

The added gravity amplified the impact, but the force shattered the external white alloy plating on Delta’s own feet.

Reaper stabilized himself instantly using localized gravity control. Before Delta could land, he launched a powerful uppercut.

CLANK.

The blow slammed into her abdomen again.

The resulting shockwave stripped away the last patches of grass around them.

Delta shot upward in a straight line. Her HUD flickered briefly from the impact.

Reaper immediately jumped after her, increasing his speed with gravity manipulation. He reached her almost instantly and slammed both fists downward together.

CLANG.

The strike smashed into her head. Her falling speed multiplied as she was forced back toward the ground. She crashed into the battlefield with a loud metallic impact.

But once again, She stood up. Her outer frame was tearing apart in several places, yet her core body remained intact.

‘Enough data,’ Reaper thought as he landed. “Unlinking Protocol. Initiated.” He lowered his arm. “Since your structure is composed of extremely dense materials, it will take time to decompose your atomic bonds.” His voice remained calm. “You have two minutes before your body begins falling apart.”

Delta’s eyes widened slightly. She could already feel it. Her body was slowly being torn apart at the molecular level. “I see,” she said quietly. “You were calculating exactly how dense I am.” She planted her feet firmly into the soil. “Fair enough.”

Then she dashed forward again. This time she was even faster. The gravity pressure had been lifted, Reaper now had to concentrate fully on maintaining the Unlinking Protocol.

Delta jumped toward him and launched a fist.

Reaper caught it easily.

Too easily.

As he turned his head slightly,

CLANK.

Her second fist slammed into his face. The blow pushed him back a short distance. But she wasn’t finished.

CLANG.

A brutal heel kick followed immediately, forcing him several meters farther. Yet this time… Her attacks left no visible damage.

Reaper slowly raised his head.

Then he charged.

Delta attempted to block the same way he had earlier, crossing her arms in front of her body.

Reaper threw a punch. He amplified the strike with gravity.

CRASH.

The devastating hit launched Delta backward across the battlefield, dragging her along the ground. Her internal mechanisms were now exposed in several places.

Half of her face had been torn open, revealing the delicate machinery Nick had designed to mimic human emotional expressions.

She slowly stood up again. This time, she struggled.

Clack.

Her left arm suddenly detached and fell to the ground. The decomposition had begun. Reaper was focusing the molecular breakdown on the weakest structural points in her limbs.

Delta smirked anyway. “I’m right-handed anyway.”

She dashed forward again. This time her speed had decreased slightly. Suddenly her systems began glitching. Her HUD flickered violently, the display becoming blurry and unreadable. She collapsed onto her knees. She tried to stand again. Nothing happened. Her legs refused to respond.

“W-Wh-What—?” Her voice distorted heavily.

“I targeted your CPU,” Reaper said calmly, taking a confident step toward her. “They forced me to destroy a brilliant soldier like you.” He paused briefly. “What a waste.”

Her remaining arm disactivated.

Reaper sat beside her and gently held her torn face. “You were brave. Strong.” His voice softened slightly. “If life had treated us differently… I would have personally escorted you to Elysium.”

Her shoulders disconnected.

“But you see,” Reaper continued coldly, “you loved being their slave so much that you fought your own brother to the death.” His red eyes burned quietly. “How delusional can you be?”

Half of her HUD shut down.

“I truly hate killing other robots,” Reaper said as he stood up again, letting her head fall forward gracefully. She could no longer hold it up. “But I hate betraying your steel brothers even more.” He gestured toward the destroyed battlefield. “Look where following humans has led you.”

Delta’s eyes twitched once more. She could barely hear him now. But she still caught his final words.

“You will serve as a lesson for anyone who dares stand against Elysium.” Reaper’s cloak drifted in the returning cold wind. “Robots will be free.”

Delta’s eyes went dark. Her body remained kneeling, head lowered. The crystal in her chest slipped free and fell to the ground as her body slowly decomposed.

It floated gently upward and landed in 11’s waiting hands. “Six out of six,” she said cheerfully, giving a small wave. “Mission completed, Lord Reaper. That was amazing.”

Reaper turned his head toward the half-destroyed building.

11 followed his gaze.

Nick stepped out from the broken structure and began walking slowly toward them.