"No, Sam, stop!!"
Watching the natural disaster hybrid spiral out of control, Vance shouted frantically and twisted the control stick, but he still could not control it at all.
"Vance, you were wrong. Today, I'm going to kill everyone here!"
Sam's tone was ice-cold, and that single purple eye radiated terrifying killing intent.
"Why? Why did you lie to me?!" Vance cried, clutching his head.
"Because you were too easy to fool."
"Become one with me!"
Sam stretched out a claw made of rainwater, grabbed Vance in its hand, and absorbed him into its body.
Vance struggled desperately, but human strength could never overcome the force of the weather. In the end, he vanished into the endless depths.
Crack!
A streak of electricity shot in, and Buzzshock hovered in front of the natural disaster hybrid.
Sam's single eye locked onto Buzzshock like a red-dot sight.
"Who are you?"
Buzzshock did not answer. Instead, he rubbed his hands together, formed two blue electric spheres, and hurled them at the towering hybrid.
Sizzle!
The violent, scorching electricity struck the hybrid's watery body and instantly triggered even more terrifying currents, making Sam roar madly.
Water conducted electricity.
The rainwater on Sam's body amplified Buzzshock's damage.
"You're dead!!" Sam flew into a fury and summoned several purple thunderbolts, blasting them toward Buzzshock's head.
A fivefold lightning strike!
Buzzshock neither dodged nor moved, letting the purple lightning slam into his body. His entire form was engulfed in blinding arcs of light, giving off an overwhelming aura.
The wind howled, and sand and debris flew everywhere.
The darkened sky, together with the enormous natural disaster hybrid, made it feel as if the end of the world had arrived, enough to fill anyone with fear and despair.
A moment later, the blinding lightning gradually faded.
"Heh, let's see if you're still alive now." Sam stared intently in Buzzshock's direction with his purple bulb-like eye.
But what happened next left him dumbfounded.
Buzzshock was now crackling with electricity from head to toe, wrapped in surging electrical energy, with streaks of blue lightning slithering around him like living snakes.
"Haha!"
Buzzshock grinned and split into two, then four, then eight!
"Eight little Buzzshocks. Cool!" Gwen looked up at the sky and could not help blurting out in amazement.
"The Nosedeenians' ability to absorb electricity is ridiculously unfair." Grandpa Max chuckled.
The eight Buzzshocks looked at one another, then let out sharp screeches and all charged straight at the natural disaster hybrid.
"What? It absorbed my lightning?" Sam was clever enough to see what had happened immediately.
Seeing the eight Buzzshocks closing in, Sam roared and activated the elemental energy inside him.
Water tentacles fused with lightning!
Lightning-water tentacles!
Huge blue tentacles streaked with purple patterns lashed wildly through the air like mutated octopus limbs and smashed toward Buzzshock.
All eight tentacles struck at once!
Buzzshock tried to absorb the tentacles' energy, but they were not made of lightning alone. They were mixed with a huge amount of rainwater too.
He could not fully absorb them!
Bang!
All the Buzzshocks were sent flying by the thick tentacles.
Seven of the smaller Buzzshocks burst apart in midair, leaving only the real one, who crashed onto the scorched grass.
Buzzshock slowly rose to his feet, bright electricity flashing in his eyes as he raised both hands to form an electric bomb.
"Cuz, use this!"
At that moment, XLR8 arrived and handed the two guitars in his hands to Buzzshock.
Buzzshock froze for a second, then immediately understood.
He looked up at the monster that kept producing the Prelude to Tornado Alley and remembered Sam's weakness.
As long as they produced an audio frequency exactly opposite to his, they could short-circuit Sam and defeat the monster.
Lucian found it hard to believe, but that was how it worked in the original story. He had no idea what the actual principle was either.
Looking at the two guitars XLR8 had handed him, Buzzshock curled his lips into a smile. "Two guitars. Then I'll need four hands."
With that, he slapped the Omnitrix on his chest.
"Four Arms!"
Four Arms grabbed the guitars, shattered the ground beneath his feet, and shot forward like an arrow released from a bow.
"Die! Die!" Sam kept summoning lightning and swinging his tentacles, trying to stop Four Arms from getting closer.
But Four Arms was incredibly agile. Unlike Humungousaur, he was not clumsy at all. His explosiveness was actually astonishing.
He leaped into the air like a spring, shot upward, landed directly on the natural disaster hybrid, and began climbing rapidly.
Very soon, Four Arms broke through all the obstacles and reached the top of the monster's head.
"Hah!"
Four Arms plunged his hand into the monster's head and ripped back its cement-like scalp, revealing the purple head inside.
That head was Sam.
"Showtime."
Holding both guitars, Four Arms looked like a legendary rock king as his fingers flew across the strings, unleashing music that could shake the heavens and stun the world.
Grandpa Max had not only tuned the sound properly, he had also added amplifiers to the guitars to boost the volume.
"My head hurts! It's going to explode!" Sam screamed in fury and sent two lightning-water tentacles shooting from both sides at Four Arms.
Four Arms lightly plucked the strings.
Bzzz!
The two enormous tentacles instantly broke apart, dissolving into scattered mist and sparks before vanishing into the air.
"Nice job, Lucian!" Grandpa Max shouted from below.
No less than expected of his grandson.
"Oh, Cuz is seriously the coolest!" Gwen looked thrilled and cheered wildly.
XLR8 stood to one side with his chin in his hand, watching Four Arms holding the guitars. Then he grinned.
"Four Arms limited skin. Music Festival Party Edition? Cool!"
As Four Arms kept playing that deadly music, Sam finally could not hold on any longer. Purple light burst wildly from him as he suffered a severe short circuit.
The enormous body of the natural disaster hybrid rapidly collapsed and dissolved. Countless streams of rainwater mixed with thick cement piled up on the ground. The lightning flickered stubbornly twice before finally dying out unwillingly in the air.
The humans trapped inside Sam were rescued one after another by Four Arms, including Sam's owner, Vance.
By now, Sam had completely lost his former glow. The strange purple light on his body had long since faded.
"Sam, you deceived me. Maybe this is the punishment I deserve." Vance was covered in mud, his face ashen, filled with sorrow and regret.
Four Arms walked over and punched Vance to the ground, then smashed Sam's robot apart.
Of course, he held back. Otherwise, that one punch would have turned Vance into a pulp.
That punch was only meant to knock some sense into the fool, who had almost caused a catastrophe.
If Lucian's group had not been there, the whole city might have been wiped out.
[Ding. Congratulations, Host, on defeating the natural disaster hybrid.]
[Four Arms' strength has been enhanced by 30%.]
[Current enhancement level: 50% strength.]
The system notification sounded in Four Arms' head.
"A 30% strength increase all at once? Cool." Four Arms was delighted and could not help saying it out loud.
Now Four Arms had reached a 50% strength enhancement, which meant he was one and a half times stronger than before.
In terms of raw power alone, he was definitely no weaker than Humungousaur in his normal state, and could even go toe-to-toe with a giant-sized Humungousaur.
After the battle ended,
many security personnel arrived at the scene. Once they saw the monster had disappeared, they notified the cleanup crews to handle the aftermath. At the same time, they reviewed the music festival surveillance footage, took photographs for records, and sent staff to silence witnesses by making them sign confidentiality agreements.
Afterward, the government classified the supernatural incident as top secret.
As for Grandpa Max and the others, they had already left the scene in the Rustbucket and driven off...