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Chapter 4 - "Guardians of the broken world"

The skies over Kyiv were thundercloud gray, echoing the tension brewing beneath them. Missiles howled through the air as the Ukraine Russia war raged with no end in sight. Soldiers screamed, buildings crumbled, and children cried for parents who never returned.

But a sudden silence cut through the chaos.

Two figures descended from the clouds.

Atlas Vale Ironsoul, wrapped in the luminous power of Mythralite. And beside him, the enigmatic warrior GirlSteel, radiant and unyielding. They landed in the heart of the battlefield, the ground cracking beneath them.

Ukrainian and Russian forces froze, weapons raised, unsure whether to shoot… or to stare in awe.

Ironsoul raising his voice.

"Enough blood. Enough grief. We are not your enemies. We are your reminder… of what the world used to be before hate consumed it."

GirlSteel stepping forward.

"Put down your arms. If you want to survive… listen."

Without firing a single shot, the warfront stood still. Tensions held at the edge of release. And just like that, the first spark of peace ignited not from diplomacy, not from fear, but from the presence of two living myths.

Days later…

In North Korea, a hidden nuclear launch sequence had already begun. Inside an underground base, fingers hovered over keys. But before the launch could proceed, steel tore through concrete. GirlSteel smashed through the facility like a meteor, disabling control panels with precision and fury.

Outside, Ironsoul stood before legions of tanks, absorbing fire without flinching, releasing controlled EMP waves that disabled every weapon around him.

North Korea General in disbelief.

"Who… are you?"

Ironsoul calmly.

"The future that won't wait for you to change."

They soared to Iraq, Sudan, Yemen, and Afghanistan, halting wars not with fear but strength paired with reason. Earthquakes, tsunamis, wildfires from the streets of Manila to the coasts of Chile every disaster around the world became a chance to protect.

Together, they lifted collapsed buildings, cooled molten lava, even diverted hurricanes using focused energy fields.

People everywhere stopped seeing flags and started seeing hope

One evening, high above the Earth's orbit aboard a UN orbital outpost, GirlSteel looked down at the blue planet.

GirlSteel.

"We're not just fighting monsters and men… we're fighting the sickness in their hearts."

Ironsoul.

"Then we fight harder. We're not gods. But we can still be the cure."

Their mission was far from over. But in the ashes of every broken nation, a seed of peace had been planted.

And this time… it was growing.

In somewhere San Francisco USA, in Oakland GirlSteel hovered high above, still watching. She finally noticed him. And Atlas? He smiled, lifting into the sky. He no longer wanted to be like her. He had become something greater. then.. Later On. It began with glowing runes in the sky ancient symbols spiraling in golden flame, chanting in a language older than Earth itself. The winds howled, and the ground trembled. The breaking news alerts came in waves, louder than any siren.

At first, seismologists in Japan thought it was just another deep tremor unusual, but not impossible in a country sitting on restless tectonic plates. Sensors lit up. Monitors spiked. The ground near a remote volcanic trench began to shift.

But then the footage came in.

Helicopter cameras captured something no one could explain.

Rising slowly from the fractured mountainside were two colossal forms each nearly 10,000 feet tall. Their bodies looked like ancient coral fused with stone, jagged and branching like underwater reefs turned into giants. Their surfaces glowed faintly, as if something deep inside them was still alive… or waking up.

At first, they didn't move much. Just stood there rooted, silent, towering over the peaks.

Then one of them turned.

Not quickly. Not violently. Just enough to prove it wasn't a formation… it was a creature.

Across the world, broadcasts cut into regular programming. Anchors struggled to stay composed as live footage aired. Cities in Japan triggered mass evacuations. Sirens echoed through valleys. People rannot just from danger, but from something they couldn't understand.

Experts argued in real time:

"Is it biological?"

"Is it mineral?"

"Is it even from Earth?"

Some scientists pointed out that their structure resembled deep-sea coral organisms that should never exist on land, let alone at that size. Others feared they had been buried beneath the Earth for millennia… and something had just awakened them.

Then the second creature moved.

And the mountain beneath it cracked. For a second, GirlSteel she hesitated. The coastline was already in chaos when she arrived. The wind howled across the shores of Philippines, carrying salt and the distant rumble of something vast beneath the sea. People had fled inland, leaving the beach eerily empty.

GirlSteel walked forward alone.

The ocean churned violently, darker than any storm. Then everything went still.

For a heartbeat, the world held its breath.

And then it rose.

At first, it looked like the sea itself was lifting but no. Jagged shapes broke the surface, stretching higher and higher. Coral. Massive, ancient coral formations fused into something alive. Towers, ridges, and spires formed a body so immense it dwarfed the horizon.

The colossal coral creature emerged.

Its scale was impossible miles of living reef, glowing faintly with bioluminescent veins pulsing beneath its surface. Waves cascaded off its form like waterfalls. Entire ecosystems clung to it, fish scattering in panic as it moved.

Girlsteel tilted her head back, trying to take it all in.

"…So it's real." GirlSteel launched into action, her eyes burning with resolve. She slammed into the creatures chest with the force of a jet, rattling the beast. She was fast Mach 1 but it wasn't enough. The creature screamed.

It wasn't a single sound it was countless torrents of water colliding at once, a roaring, crushing chorus like oceans collapsing into each other. The air itself seemed to shatter under it. The ground trembled violently, sand jumping and cracking as the force rippled outward.

The sound echoed again and again, layered, endless like waves crashing inside waves, each one louder than the last. It rolled through the sky and into the earth, a deep, thunderous vibration that shook everything in its path.

The sea surged in response, rising and slamming back down as if pulled by the voice itself. The shoreline buckled, and the wind howled louder, trying and failing to drown it out.

It didn't stop.

The scream stretched on, shaking the world, a living avalanche of water and sound. The creature reared back for a split second then both of its massive coral-formed paws shifted at once.

Water surged upward around them like pillars being pulled into the air.

And then it struck.

A single, devastating punch came crashing down toward Girlsteel.

It wasn't just force it was the weight of an entire living reef compressed into motion. The air detonated before the blow even landed, pressure slamming outward in a shockwave that flattened the sea's surface for a moment. With inhuman precision, the creature adjusted instantly tracking her even as she was already airborne.

Its coral-formed arm snapped upward.

The second punch came faster than the first.

It caught Girlsteel mid-air like she was nothing more than drifting debris. The impact detonated with a violent shockwave that rippled outward, cracking glass and bending metal across the nearby city. The air itself seemed to buckle from the force.

She was sent hurtling backward.

Buildings rose in her path and shattered as she collided through them one after another, concrete and steel bursting apart in cascading destruction. Each impact echoed like thunder through the streets. Dust and debris filled the air as entire blocks shook under the chain reaction.

Finally, she vanished into a massive crater carved into the far side of the city edge.

Silence followed heavy, broken only by falling rubble and the distant roar of the ocean.

The creature didn't stop. Girlsteel staggered back, her knees nearly giving out beneath her.

A sharp, unfamiliar pain tore through her side—deeper than anything she had ever felt before. Not the dull ache of training, not the controlled impact of past battles. This was different. Raw. Real.

She let out a strained groan, her breath hitching.

"Ah—gh… oww…" Her voice trembled despite herself. "That… that hurts…"

For a moment, she pressed a hand against the wound, as if she could steady the pain by force alone. Her fingers shook. Even through everything she'd endured, this was something new something she hadn't prepared for.

"I've never… fought something like this before…" she whispered, the words uneven, barely holding together.

Her eyes lifted.

The creature loomed ahead, massive and unmoving for a split second—but that stillness only made it worse. Like it was watching her. Waiting.

Her chest tightened.

How did it get this strong…?

The thought slipped in before she could stop it and with it came something far more dangerous than pain.

Panic.

Her breathing quickened, shallow and uneven. Suddenly felt too big, too exposed. Every instinct told her to move, to run, to do something but her body hesitated, caught between fear and the will to stand her ground.

"No… no, I can't…" she muttered under her breath, trying to anchor herself.

She began to nosebleed

Her left eye was already swelling shut, the skin around it blooming into a sick purple-crimson the color of a fresh wound, the color of someone who'd just met a fist. It wasn't bleeding from the eyeball, no. It was the deep, angry red of burst vessels beneath the skin, a bruise that pulsed with every heartbeat. Like the eye itself had thrown the punch and taken ten back.

And her nose. It wasn't just bleeding. It was gushing. A hot, relentless pour of red that painted her upper lip, dripped off her chin in thick ropes, splattered onto her chest in dark constellations. She tried to breathe through her mouth, but the blood crept down her throat, metallic and thick, making her gag.

The left side of her face was a ruin of colors: blackening socket, swollen lid, and that deep, violent red spreading like a storm cloud under her skin. She looked like she'd lost a war in three seconds flat.

For the first time, GirlSteel's body leaking the score of a fight she never had a chance to win.

… But before she could rise,

The creature turned toward the city.

It didn't rush. It didn't roar.

It simply reoriented itself—like something deciding where to place pressure next.

Far below, the evacuation system was still running, but it was fragmented now. Some speakers cut mid-alert. Others repeated distorted warnings. The city sounded less like it was evacuating and more like it was breaking down in pieces.

Girlsteel stayed frozen for a moment longer than she should have.

"No…" she whispered again, but it didn't change anything.

The creature lowered its head.

The silence that followed felt unnatural. Even the wind seemed to hesitate near it.

Then its mouth began to open.

Stone-like layers separated with slow, grinding stress. Small fragments broke off and fell one of them crushed a fleeing family of four below. The mother's head vanished into a wet spray of skull shards and brain matter. The father's chest caved inward, ribs piercing through his back. The children were simply flattened, their small bodies bursting like overripe fruit, leaving only smears on the cracked asphalt.

Distant, dull sounds of scale.

Inside the creature's maw, a dim light formed.

Not bright. Not stable.

More like something trying to exist where it shouldn't.

Girlsteel's expression tightened.

"That's not normal energy…" she said under her breath.

The glow didn't explode outward. It gathered inward, tightening into a concentrated point. The surrounding air began to feel distorted—sound seemed slightly delayed, like the world was struggling to keep up.

Down in the city, movement slowed.

Not because people stopped completely but because the situation stopped feeling real enough for instinct to react quickly. Some kept running. Some just stared upward, unable to process the scale of what they were seeing.

One woman stopped mid-stride, her young daughter's hand still in hers. The girl looked up, confused. "Mama, why is the sky shaking?"

The woman had no time to answer.

The creature leaned forward.

Then the pressure released.

A narrow, unstable surge of energy shot forward not a clean weapon, but something more like forced discharge.

Where it passed, structures didn't erupt dramatically. They failed in sequence. Glass gave way first, then external frames, then entire sections of buildings collapsed inward or sideways under their own sudden instability.

But the people—the people failed first.

The energy wave didn't burn them. It didn't vaporize them cleanly. It pulled. Skin stretched and tore from muscle like wet paper. Eyes burst from sockets, trailing optic nerves like snapped cords. Fingers separated from hands, hands from wrists, limbs twisting backward at angles that didn't belong to any living joint.

A man in a blue jacket tried to shield his face. His arms unraveled from the elbows down meat and bone peeling away in spiral strips, leaving only wet red stumps that continued to wave helplessly before his torso split open vertically, organs sliding out in a steaming pile.

A pregnant woman clutched her belly. The energy passed through her she didn't explode. She unzipped. From collarbone to pelvis, her flesh parted like a curtain, and what spilled out wasn't just her own intestines but something smaller, curled, also bleeding. It didn't cry. It didn't have time.

Children screamed. Their screams turned wet. Then stopped.

Streets filled with debris and dust almost immediately and with a new layer: a slurry of blood, shredded clothing, and unrecognizable chunks that had once been hundreds of people. A severed head rolled into a gutter, its mouth still trying to form words. An arm landed on a rooftop, fingers twitching for three full seconds before finally going still.

The sound reached them afterward.

A deep, rolling impact that didn't echo so much as press through everything—air, ground, even distance itself.

Girlsteel finally stepped back, her boots scraping against fractured stone.

For the first time, her voice lost its edge completely.

"…It doesn't even need to explode things," she said quietly. "It just… removes them."

She looked down at her own hands. They were shaking. A fine red mist had settled on her sleeves not her blood. Someone else's. Many someone elses.

The Coral creature adjusted its head slightly again.

Still watching.

Still choosing.

Below, the evacuation had stopped. Not because it was over. Because there was no one left to run. Just a city painted in fresh red, and the slow drip of what used to be human from broken ledges.

The creature's mouth closed.

Then, slowly—almost gently—it took one step forward.

. The Coral Creature grabbed her by the foot, raised her like a ragdoll, and smashed her with such force, her body launched into orbit.

SteelGirl "It's so insane! I've never encountered how brutally this creature are."

She faints out helpless and needs to reach out Two days passed. Philippines and San Francisco USA had turned to less rubble. The once city was now a devastating. Fires still burned. Smoke curled through the skies like mourning veils. In the mountains outside the city, deep inside his hidden forge, Atlas Vale watched the horror unfold through satellite feeds. His knuckles tightened. His beard now rougher, hair bound into a warrior's braid, his eyes no longer held wonder. Only fury.

Atlas calms in anger. "Those monsters... i couldn't believe my eyes. The destruction they caused... it's so unreal ".

Before him stood the answer a newly-forged battle suit. The Titanus Prime Armor an evolution beyond anything Earth had ever seen. Forged with the soul-forged alloys of Mythralite-X, fused with cosmic energy he discovered in Isle Terra, it didn't just give strength. It made him god-like. Now he is ready his suit are like nano tech and embrace it's power. The chest emblem pulsed with his heart. It could punch with the force of an asteroid, fly at light-speed, and withstand core-level heat. He slid into the suit. Sealed the helm.

"Now… it's my turn."

With a roar that cracked the sky, Atlas Vale launched into the heavens, fire trailing behind him. The Treants had no idea what was coming.

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