Aegis/ Austin: "So here's Shining Hope and our Catalyst."

Denton's group steps through as the door closes behind them.

Roy: "Did you miss us?"

Aegis: "Oh yes we have."

Cole: "(awkwardly) That's a little creepy."

Denton is equipped with his blade.

Caleb: "You..."

Austin and Aegis begin to have binary cover the walls.

Emily: "You aren't beating us."

Kyle: "We're gonna take you right back to the prison cell you belong in!"

The melee users rush towards the enemies.

Austin: "You only won because we didn't anticipate your comeback."

A wall of binary prevents the heroes from landing their attacks.

Tori: "We never needed something like that to win!"

The range users fire, but the enemies dissipate the attacks.

Austin: "You honestly believe that?"

Micheal: "We would've won either way if we just saw how weak you two really were!"

Denton: "What he said!"

All melee users are repelled a dozen feet away.

Andrea: "We'll prove it here!"

Edo: "No matter what you do to us!"

The melee users get up.

Isabel: "We swear it!"

Risa: "My heart is the heart that calls out to the heavens!"

They charge back in with more power behind their attacks.

Aegis: "When shall we do it?"

They defend again.

Austin: "When they're done letting out their emotions."

Zack: "(struggling) You planning something?!"

They're repelled again.

Anthony: "Even I can see it!"

Denton changes to his mage clothes.

William: "We just have to beat them before they can use it!"

Aegis/ Austin: "(in heads) You can't fight back words."

Austin slugs Yukiko in the face as she attempts a sneak attack.

Yukiko: "(staggering) We put sense back in their heads!"

Asaka: "We won't deny that."

The range users unleash a barrage of attacks.

Serena: "And that's why we won't lose sight of that fact ever again!"

Aegis sends binary that ensnares Robert, Risa, and Roy.

Robert: "(struggling) Let me go!"

Austin: "Shining Hope may not lose sight..."

More of them are pinned down.

Aegis: "... but what about Denton?"

Denton is the only one yet to be caught.

Denton: "(shakily) Wh-What about me?"

The binary slowly wraps around Denton.

Aegis: "The truth buried with our world."

Risa: "(struggling) What truth?!"

Austin: "He feels as though that in the real world, he's a weak, helpless child."

Emily: "(struggling) Weak?"

Denton: "That... that isn't true!"

Aegis: "But in a game, he feels like he has purpose."

Caleb: "(struggling) Stop it with your damn lies!"

Denton isn't resisting the binary as it wraps around his ID Glove.

Denton: "They're not lies."

Denton's attitude has taken a 180.

Zack: "(struggling) Listen to what you're saying!"

Austin: "(chuckling) Looks like you've already accepted the truth."

The binary takes hold of the ID Glove as it tries to rip it off.

Denton: "(struggling) No fair!"

Denton's blood begins to squirt from the area connected to the ID Glove.

Austin: "Let's see what happens when ID technology is forced to deactivate!"

The ID Glove is ripped off, returning Denton to normal as blood pours from his face and arm.

Yukiko: "Denton!"

Life fades from Denton's eyes as his blood trickles down to the floor.

Aegis: "So the sudden shock of deactivation is enough to kill the user. I'll keep it in mind."

Denton falls to the floor, lifeless.

Austin: "Maybe in the afterlife you'll feel useful."

A wave of binary sends Denton and his ID Glove flying into a wall, causing more blood to paint the walls and floor.

Andrea: "(horrified) You..."

The flames with Zack and Micheal turn black.

Micheal: "(pissed) You killed him!"

The sudden surge of emotions allow everyone to break free.

Tori: "(pissed) Didn't you want him alive?!"

The electricity around Anthony and Edo turns red.

Austin: "Originally yes, but his abilities of a Catalyst proved too much for anyone to handle."

Aegis: "So we all decided to dispose of the Catalysts using their underlying weaknesses."

Isabel: "(pissed) So everyone is facing the same bullshit that Denton went through?!"

Austin: "Yes, and now all we desire is you."

Everyone unleashes their deadliest attacks, but only dealing a scratch to their defenses.

Asaka: "(pissed) Denton won't die in vain!"

Aegis: "(chuckling) How about you try saying that with Horus's Creations?"

Risa: "(pissed) Shut the hell up!"

William: "(pissed) We aren't joining some army trying to take over dimensions!"

The melee users begin to crack the defenses.

Aegis/ Austin: "You can't win. Stop running from simple facts."

Shining Hope: "(pissed) The simple fact is that you're going to lose here!"

Shining Hope fights fiercer than ever.

However...

Denton: "I'm useless in the real world."

Denton stands in a realm composed of binary in his normal clothes.

Denton: "It's why I created the Knights of Hope and Shining Star."

Denton slams his hands onto his head, clearly hating himself.

Denton: "(hating himself) Why did I do something as stupid as that?!"

???: "What kind of dream is this?"

A man in a suit seems to have stumbled into the realm.

Denton: "Walker..."

Denton turns to face Walker.

Walker: "Who are you? Actually wait..."

Walker examines Denton.

Walker: "... I know you from somewhere."

Denton: "Yeah, but..."

Denton puts his head down.

Denton: "... Shining Hope is going to die. All because I'm pitiful."

Walker: "Shining Hope?! Where are they?!"

Denton looks towards Walker again.

Denton: "In a place where they can't get back until we can kill the biggest bastards of them all."

Walker: "What?"

Denton: "But I can't save them, I'm useless."

Walker: "Useless? Listen to what you're saying."

Denton: "Huh?"

Walker puts his hands on Denton's shoulders.

Walker: "There's something an old friend used to tell me."

Denton's starting to realize what he's lacking.

Walker: "If you can help a person, one single person, you're worth something in this world."

Denton: "Yeah, but..."

Walker: "What's stopping you?"

Denton: "I'm dead."

Walker removes his hands and pulls out a black card from his pocket.

Walker: "A person doesn't die until they give up."

Walker tosses the card into Denton's chest, seemingly merging with him.

Denton: "Was that-"

Walker begins to fade.

Walker: "Go back and pull yourself out of this pit you've dug yourself."

Walker is gone as Denton begins to fade.

Denton: "You're right Walker!"

Denton fades away...

Meanwhile...

The heroes are critically injured.

Isabel: "(bleeding) We're not done!"

Aegis: "(sighing) How many times are we going to have to beat you all senseless until you accept it?"

Caleb: "(bleeding) When we're all dead."

Austin and Aegis begin to walk towards them as binary begins to swirl like a small hurricane.

Austin: "You know we can't kill you."

The binary picks everyone up like a child with a bunch of dolls.

Cole: "(bleeding) Exactly."

They're about to toss them against the wall.

Edo: "(bleeding) We'd never help people like you."

Aegis/ Austin: "Such a-"

???: "(weakly) Back off."

Robert: "(in pain) That voice..."

Denton is standing on his feet, holding his ID Glove in his hands.

Austin: "Seems as though he barely survived."

They drop Shining Hope as Denton puts the glove back on.

Denton: "(darkly) I won't hold back."

Denton begins cycling through his sets of gear, already going through his mage, claws, and sword.

Denton: "Pixel Reality is the me who loves to join up with the people I call my friends to hang out."

Risa: "(bleeding) Meeting with..."

Micheal: "(bleeding) ... friends?"

Denton goes past his martial arts and archery.

Denton: "(darkly) Tomorrow's Knights is more of the online social system that I've been forced to accommodate with since I moved."

Zack: "(bleeding) You... moved?"

Denton: "(darkly) I was forced to start over, with my only connection to people like Max and CJ being the light of interconnection over the Internet."

Denton goes past thief, defender, and crossbows.

Denton: "(darkly) But my latent hope allowed them to become one."

Aegis: "Become one?"

The others realize what that means.

Shining Hope: "Tomorrow's Reality..."

Yukiko: "(bleeding) What're you doing Denton?"

Denton stops just after changing to his ninth outfit, the gun based one.

Denton: "(smirking) Accepting myself."

Denton goes into another form, but binary erupts from beneath his feet.

Aegis: "What's this?!"

Some of the coded words land on the others, healing their wounds.

Kyle: "(panicking) We have no idea!"

Denton's clothes begin to turn into a metallic grey robe with green binary covering it's design.

Denton: "Walker gave me the push I needed."

A medallion with ten different colors, red, dark blue, green, purple, white, orange, yellow, aquamarine, pink, and black, holds the robe together.

Zack: "Black?"

The binary begins to grow larger, almost touching Austin and Aegis.

Austin: "(struggling) This power feels greater than ours!"

The binary pours into the shape of a gigantic blade in his right hand.

Denton: "Guys! You need to activate Bio-Link Z!"

Some of the remaining binary forms a sort of scarf around Denton's neck as the blade begins to solidify itself.

Asaka: "We've tried standard Bio-Link and it lasts half as long as normal here!"

The blade is clearly a foot thick and around ten feet long, made out of a mixture of ruby, sapphire, emerald, amethyst, diamond, amber, topaz, aquamarine, quartz, and Onyx.

Denton: "We'll only need it for ten seconds. Just wait until they're weakened before you do it!"

The binary fades as Denton swings the blade over his shoulder with no effort.

Aegis: "Weaken us? Alone?"

Denton: "I'd say that's about right."

Binary swarms around the enemies as the others are utterly confused.

Aegis: "That's not my former God class."

The binary rushes towards Denton.

Denton: "I call it, God Killer class!"

Denton dissipates the binary by a simple sword swing.

Serena: "I think some people here like the sound of that."

Denton begins to walk towards the enemies.

Aegis: "A-A single swing?!"

Denton: "Yep, any problems?"

Even more binary flies towards Denton.

Denton: "I see there are a lot."

Denton blocks with his blade and even bounces some right back at them.

Edo: "Whoa!"

Denton continues his casual stride.

Emily: "They can't touch him!"

Denton is just in front of the terrified enemies.

Austin: "You were supposed to die from your own flaws."

Denton: "All that did was let me come out stronger."

Denton swings the blade as they try to defend themselves, but Denton goes right through them like butter.

Aegis: "(in pain) Our defenses are nothing to him?!"

They create a giant crater in the wall.

Denton: "Exactly. Guess I turned the tables."

Denton has binary swirl around him as Austin and Aegis drop to the floor, blood spilling from their foreheads.

Anthony: "Denton can use binary too?!"

Austin: "(struggling) What?!"

The binary strikes the two enemies and slams them into the ceiling.

Denton: "I'm the best of both worlds."

They fall to the ground, clearly having issues getting back on their feet.

Caleb: "Y-Yeah."

Denton looks towards the others.

Denton: "Do it!"

The ID Glove users hold out their gloves as the ID Card users hold out their cards.

Asaka: "We won't disappoint!"

Everyone swipes their ID Cards against the ID Gloves, initiating a fusion between all eighteen as the binary aura glows brighter than ever.

Aegis: "W-We need to use Dimension Leap!"

Everyone has fused, with everyone as a being with gauntlets made of the same stones as Denton's sword except for onyx.

Austin: "Too late."

The two beings dash towards their enemies.

Heroes: "Perfect Synergy..."

They proceed to smash and slash the enemies at subsonic speeds.

Heroes: "... Dimensional..."

They continue.

Heroes: "... Big Bang..."

They get ready for a final attack.

Heroes: "... Annihilation!"

A final attack from both sides slam both of the enemies in a way that causes them to vomit a lot of blood.

Aegis: "(puking blood) N...ow..."

A button drops from Aegis's pocket as Shining Hope separates and Denton returns to his normal attire.

Denton: "Thank Walker for that."

Austin shakily pushes the button.

Andrea: "They're planning something!"

Aegis/ Austin: "(weakly) He... always... finds a way..."

The two are gone by the time the heroes realize hat had just transpired.

William: "Great."

Denton turns around as the door to the other side opens.

Denton: "You really think that the authorities won't find them instantly?"

Zack: "I guess you're right."

They begin to walk towards the exit.

Kyle: "Still, that just takes some of the enjoyment of finally taking them down."

Isabel: "Fair enough, but we beat them and they're getting what they deserve."

Roy: "Again."