Smoke and crackling electricity blanketed the pile of shattered pillars.
From within the wreckage, Vega struggled to crawl out.
The silver titanium armor on his face was badly dented, leaving only his right optic flickering dimly red, repeatedly flashing SYSTEM FAILURE warnings across his display.
Fear something he had never felt before, not even when facing No Name now gripped the core of his processor.
Vega activated the emergency thrusters on his back, intending to flee toward the evacuation gate at the far end of the hangar.
WUSSH!
He had barely lifted two meters into the air when a massive shadow leapt past him and landed directly in front of him with a thunderous impact.
The metal floor bent under the weight of that landing.
Tora stood there. No blindfold.
His horrifying face was fully exposed muscles twitching violently, and a pair of blood-red eyes glowing as they stared at Vega like a starving predator.
A wide, rigid, unnatural grin stretched across his face.
"Hahahaha… Hahahaha!"
That was the only sound he made.
A flat, cold, endless laugh like a demon feasting on its prey's fear.
Vega recoiled, trying to veer left, pushing his thrusters to maximum output.
But Tora moved faster than lightning.
Without stopping his laughter, he grabbed Vega's steel ankle midair and, with pure brute force, slammed the cyborg down onto the metal floor in a brutal suplex.
BOOOM!
The station floor cracked violently, forming a crater.
"Hahahaha!"
Vega groaned, static bursting from his vocal speakers.
He attempted to fire an emergency laser from his left arm but Tora didn't even bother dodging.
The beam struck Tora's chest, burning his skin, yet he didn't flinch.
He felt no pain.
Instead, Tora seized Vega by the neck with his left hand, lifting the hundreds-of-kilograms body effortlessly, while his right hand clenched tightly into a fist.
His red eyes gleamed with madness as they locked onto Vega's shattered face.
"Hahahaha!"
BAM!
A raw punch slammed into Vega's face.
His left optic shattered instantly.
BAM!
The second strike tore Vega's steel jaw loose, leaving it hanging by broken cables.
BAM! BAM! BAM!
Tora began raining punches down relentlessly.
No technique. No weapon. Just pure, brutal fists.
Each blow accompanied by increasingly frenzied laughter.
"HAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA!"
Vega tried to resist, clawing at Tora's arm, but it was useless.
The punches fell like a meteor storm.
His silver plating began to collapse, his titanium armor ripping apart, exposing the remnants of human biological tissue beneath.
Thick blood mixed with black oil sprayed violently with every impact.
Vega's once-proud face was slowly obliterated no longer recognizable, reduced to a mangled mass of flesh, bone, and metal.
The grinding sound of breaking steel merged with Tora's manic laughter, forming a horrifying symphony of death.
Tora dragged Vega's barely living body back to the center of the hangar, right above the cracked floor from their earlier clash.
He dropped Vega onto the ground, then sat on the cyborg's abdomen.
Tora raised both fists high, gathering every ounce of his mutated strength into one final strike.
His laughter suddenly stopped.
A suffocating silence.
His red eyes burned brighter than ever, his grin stretching beyond human limits.
"HAHAHAHA… DIE!!!"
BOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!
The final blow landed with absolute destructive force, crushing what remained of Vega's face.
The impact didn't just annihilate Vega completely the shockwave shattered the already weakened satellite floor beneath them.
The three-meter-thick titanium layer collapsed instantly.
A massive structural explosion erupted.
Tora, along with the mangled remains of Vega, plunged downward through the newly formed crater.
They crashed through multiple levels of the station, descending rapidly toward the lower hangar where thousands of reserve troops stood in panic, listening to the chaos above.
KRAAAAAASSHH!
Tora slammed down in the middle of the lower hangar, creating a massive crater upon impact.
Dust and debris filled the air.
As the haze slowly cleared, thousands of optical eyes from The Axiom forces stared in horror at the center of the crater.
There stood Tora.
His massive body drenched in blood and black oil. His mutated face fully exposed, staring hungrily at the thousands of soldiers surrounding him.
In his right hand, he gripped the crushed mass of metal and flesh that had once been their commander Vega.
Tora slowly released his grip, letting the ruined corpse fall to the ground with a dull metallic thud.
The giant man tilted his head upward…
and his insane laughter erupted once more, echoing throughout the entire lower hangar, freezing the courage of every soldier present.
"HAHAHAHA! HAHAHAHA! WHO'S NEXT?!"