There was a single yellow dot that glowed brighter than the rest of the yellow energy that was displayed on the detection radar. Xen: "I'm going to lock on to this point here. Now just use your radar and follow the path of gold that he's left for us." K: "Path of gold?" Xen: "You'll see what I mean briefly. Nebula X, Action!" K thrust his right arm forward on his hands-free control panel. By doing so he moved the ship through space at an amazing rate of acceleration. K: "I'll cut through this black sea my way. Now! Pierce through the stars!" Xen: "You're really getting into this now, aren't you, brother?" K ignored his brother as the ship blasted through space so fast that the stars faded into blazing white streaks. Xen: "Wow! I forgot how fast this thing was." K: "Yes, the Builders should be praised for such craftsmanship. We're quickly approaching our target Nexus!" Xen: "You don't need the instruments to show you that Anar K." K: "Hmm?...Whoa!" K was taken aback by what he saw out the window of their craft. The cold black vacuum of space was completely engulfed by warm and smothering golden light. K: "That light? Is it? It must be our opponent." Xen was amused at his brother's awe. K: "Crap!" K himself had picked up a few odd terms and quirks from the Endo system as well. K: "All that ambient energy belongs to this one person. I can feel it from all the way out here, the warmth and power of his energy. He must be as powerful as a small sun...or if I'm miscalculating he could contain the power of the sun itself." Xen: "No way to tell that at this rate, but either way, don't you get the feeling that we're screwed?" That was another strange human expression that his brother picked up. They approached the main source of the radiant golden light and K could barely make out a figure in the center of the brilliance. Golden fighter (Telepathically): "Leave now Rotkennk interlopers or burn by my fiery golden grip!" Xen: "Quite the exquisite death, wouldn't you say, brother?"
Fool’s Gold The Rotkennk warrior Anar K answered his brother's question telepathically. K: "You can have your exquisite death Xen. I'd rather live to fight another day." Both masked warriors exited their combined ship, the Nebula X, and entered into the cold void of space. Both were followed closely by the sentient masks of their fallen brethren Darcell and Blade-danser. As they approached the figure they could feel that his overwhelming power was too much for their current forms so they decided to begin the mask merger process. They instinctively knew that they'd need the extra power that came from combining with their masks especially after the humiliations that Xen suffered earlier. Each of the masks contained the very essence of their dead brothers which essentially boiled down to nanites that formed the masks. The nanites provided combat memories from the fallen Masked Ones as well as access to the same powers and abilities that Darcell and Blade-danser had formerly utilized. These masks were completely compatible with K and Xen, but the brothers could never swap masks as the types of energy that powered both of their bodies were too diverse, same with the masks. K was the first to merge and his transformation into his battlements was a brilliant one. Merging with Darcell granted K powers over darkness. These powers brought with them a suitably sinister and powerful appearance. K's limbs grew even longer and ganglier than before and the mask of his dead brother had engulfed and displaced his own headdress. Gone were the pale yellow flames of his former skull mask. His new face was harshly angled and colored purple, navy, and grey; all dark colors. Three dark green spikes had burst forth from the face of the mask and shortly afterwards began to emit a faint glow. Warmth came from the ambient energy contained within. The spikes had set: one jutting diagonally from his forehead, one jutting straight forward where normally