The void of the Cartenone Temple quaked violently. Crunchyroller's form had evolved—his streaming energy now fractured into thousands of overlapping layers, each flowing at a different speed, with clips, loops, and fragments spinning endlessly in a chaotic maelstrom. The air itself seemed to hum with compression, threatening to crush anyone who dared enter.
"You've survived my first wave… but now the stream becomes unstoppable!" Crunchyroller's distorted voice echoed through the void, each syllable layered into hundreds of fragments. "Every motion you take, every thought… I anticipate, I loop, I crush!"
Brush D. Rush's aura flared white-hot, Erasure, Creation, Destruction, Interception, and Interconnectivity synchronized like never before. He could now sense the flow of every fragment, every loop, almost before it happened.
Equinox leapt beside him, violet lances streaking through the streaming chaos. "Brush… this is insane. He's attacking every sense at once!"
Brush nodded. "Then we attack every sense at once. Follow my lead."
The first barrage of the maelstrom hit—streams of compressed videos, spiked viral fragments, looping echoes of past attacks, and spectral copies of the team's previous failures. Brush teleported through the chaos with precision, Erasure cutting through attacks mid-flight, while Creation Guardians intercepted clusters of fragments. Interception redirected the fastest volleys into the void, and Interconnectivity stabilized the team's movement paths.
Equinox's violet lances cut a corridor through the chaos, leaving streaks of stability for the team to advance. Frostbinder froze streams of fragments to give RobbRox time to rebuild collapsed platforms. FooTube projected illusions to mislead the maelstrom, while Melody Guard harmonized to suppress the overwhelming sensory overload.
Crunchyroller's voice splintered into multiple echoes, each one attacking a different sense simultaneously.
"No step unobserved! No action unchecked! You cannot touch the stream!"
Brush clenched his fists. "Then we become the disruption!"
He merged Erasure and Creation into a single, devastating wave, collapsing multiple layers of the maelstrom at once. Equinox struck the main streaming core simultaneously, piercing through the layers of energy. The void quaked violently, fragments of Crunchyroller flickering as his form became unstable.
"Impossible… I… cannot… adapt fast enough!" Crunchyroller roared, desperation seeping through the static-laced voice.
The maelstrom intensified, but Brush's fully synchronized powers allowed him to predict and control the fragments, collapsing multiple waves simultaneously. He teleported through gaps in the chaos, striking the streaming core with Erasure while simultaneously launching Creation Guardians to intercept residual attacks.
Equinox leapt in unison, violet lances piercing every unstable fragment, stabilizing the collapsing zones. The team moved as one organism, every member perfectly synchronized with Brush's powers.
Finally, a shockwave of collapsing fragments erupted. Crunchyroller's thousands of overlapping streams wavered, flickering, and the maelstrom began to destabilize.
Brush landed, aura blazing. "We're not done… but for the first time, he's faltering."
Equinox's violet glow softened as she landed beside him. "He's powerful… but we're stronger together. We've survived the impossible. One more push, and we can end this."
The void pulsed again—Crunchyroller's desperation radiated through every fragment. The final two stages of the battle were imminent.
Brush clenched his fists, white aura blazing brighter than ever. "Then we end this. No hesitation. No holding back."
The team nodded, fully synchronized, ready for the fourth stage of the final battle, where Crunchyroller would unleash his ultimate streaming for