Cube told me what happened last night, Blixer's bad habits of sneaking out to the Treeangle at night is happening again. Every night Blixer snuck out of the house to beg the Treeangle to bring his wife and kids back. Cube described it as an emotional breakdown, his tears of sorrow and his weigh of guilt on his shoulders are too much for him. I am entrusted with Blixer to help him, seems how he's opened up but his habit coming back and the nightmares are bigger issues. No sign of any Botanical's dream reports, haven't heard of her for almost a week now. Hopefully everything will be fine soon...

-Milky Ways

At the Volcano,
The heroes have safely returned to the Volcano, but Cube has fallen victim to the monster's hands. Ace never felt this much despair, but he's unaware that despair turned into anger. "Ace? Are you-" Ryan was cut off by Ace punching him in the face, "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ACE!?" "SHUT THE FUCK UP!! WE NEED TO GO BACK!! CUBE IS IN DANGER!!! WE HAVE TO GO BACK!!!" Ace was crying in sorrow and anger. "What do you mean go back!? We saw what happened to Cube! HE'S DEAD!!! RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR VERY EYES!!! BLIXER TORE HIS BODY LIKE A SAVAGE ANIMAL!!!" Lua yelled, Ace glared at Lua and she felt a massive wave of fear after looking into Ace's corrupted pink eyes. He suddenly slapped Lua to the ground, "DON'T YOU DARE CALL MY BROTHER A SAVAGE ANIMAL!!! THE PURE CORRUPTION WAS CONTROLLING HIM AND BLIXER HAVE NO CONTROL!!! I'M GOING BACK TO THE FORTRESS TO SHATTER SHOCKWAVE!!! AND DON'T YOU DARE FUCKING STOP ME!!!" the amount of anger Ace have is quite freightning.

Then he sees Mother of Corruption behind him with a smile, "If you don't want your buddies to stop you, you can shatter them where they stand so no one can." she put her hand on his chin and forced him to look at MoC. "Just give in to the corruption and your desire will be fulfilled, unless you're still restraining yourself from shattering someone. Your resistance is futile, just unleash your anger and shatter the shapes! DO IT NOW!!!!" MoC pulled his face close to hers. "Do it right now! Do it for your goddess!!!" MoC smile grew wider, Ace's corruption has become worse...

Ace screamed in pain as the corruption spreading across his body, his breathing became heavy as his form changing. Heli went closer to Ace but Ship immediately pulled her back, it appears the she was almost got stabbed by a scorpion tail. Ace is a whole different shape now, he let HIS corruption win.

He gone ballistic...

The heroes was trying their best to slow Ace down, but he's too quick for them. The overwhelming feeling of guilt and sorrow left an impact, letting MoC take control of him under her marionette strings. No matter how much he tried to resist, he can't control his body one bit. MoC was about to force Ace to finish the heroes off until a blur of pink and mint green tackled. The strings cut off of Ace, and he passed out.

Few hours later,
Ace woke up with a headache, he looked around and noticed that he's on a bed of grass. "Oh thank Treesangle, you're ok! You were out for a day now!" Lycan hugged Ace, "What happened to me?" she explained everything to him. "Geez, I didn't remember doing that." "It's called being in a blind rage, your emotions got the better and you went ballistic. You guys are lucky I have super hearings, otherwise I wouldn't know what happened." Lycan told him. "I guess my corruption is getting stronger, I can still sense her presence." Scorpio was worried about Ace, being half-corrupted isn't very easy to control. Lycan pat Ace's head and ruffled his hair, "The others are still in one piece, you just did a number on them not too fatal thanks to Lua's Rune of Healing." The cyan hero was in deep thoughts while the corgi husky blossom was rambling something.

Cube was shattered and he lost control...

Ace could've save him from the monster...

He could've try to use Chains of Slumber...

But his fear got in the way leading to a shattered guardian angel...

And the real question is this...

Was he actually strong enough to take Shockwave's horrifying monster of a servant?

He can't hurt his brother...

He just can't...

"Ace!" he was snapped out of it, "Sorry, I was in deep thoughts about what happened..." Lycan pat Ace's back. "I know what is like to lose someone close to you, it's like the same with my parents. Don't worry, the Treeangle will bring him back!" it's true, maybe the Treeangle will be restored and Cube will return again. This feeling is what Blixer is feeling his whole life, Ace really feel bad for the corrupted king. "Get some rest, we'll plan on infiltrating the fortress and defeat Shockwave." Lycan went to her bed and rest, leving Ace to wonder what Shockwave is planning to do next...

At the fortress,
Shockwave is speaking something that's no pure shapes can understand, a corrupted language enchanted the strange rune made from crystal dust. Placing the shards in the middle, chanting in the corrupted language. "Oh mistress of corruption, revived the killer leviathan known as Niviro!" the shard floats up and suddenly flew out the window, shattering the window into many pieces. It appears that the shards are heading to the ocean, it must be after the other remaining shards of the deep sea leviathan. All he heard from the distance...

Was a roar of a big sea creature....