The heart of Dark Void's spaceship pulsed like a living creature - black and purple energy rippling through the dark metal walls. A low, eerie hum echoed in the empty halls, resonating from the core of the ship, where an ominous, shadowy chamber lay.
And at the center of that chamber... he stirred.
Dark Void's eyes slowly opened - two glowing orbs of deep purple - flickering to life like dying embers suddenly reignited.
For a moment, he simply breathed.
The air itself seemed to darken with each of his inhales, shadows twisting unnaturally around him. His slumber had been long.
Each moment of stillness was a calculated part of his plan.
And now... something had finally roused him.
With a subtle movement of his hand, the walls of his chamber rippled - shifting like liquid darkness - until a massive, floating screen appeared before him.
The screen crackled to life, revealing an image of a distant, dying planet.
And there... at the heart of the chaos...
Tim and Rei.
The Solar Warrior and the Lunar Warrior - locked in a brutal clash, their powers colliding in explosions of solar and lunar energies.
Tim's Solar Saber blazed like a miniature sun, slicing through the air with golden arcs, while Rei's Lunar Crescent Hatchets cut through his attacks with dark blue streaks of raw lunar energy.
Every strike was a storm.
Every movement was a dance of destruction.
The very planet beneath them groaned under the weight of their battle - the cracks in the ground glowing either gold or dark blue, depending on whose power struck deeper.
A grin crept across Dark Void's lips.
A slow, cruel grin.
His voice, deep and smooth like velvet darkness, rumbled through the chamber:
"Ah... perfection."
He leaned back, folding his arms behind him, his fingers lightly drumming against his black cloak.
"The Solar Warrior... and the Lunar Warrior... destroying each other."
His grin widened.
"Just as I planned."
He remembered the abduction - the day Sunburn tore them from Earth.
The day their destinies were rewritten.
Tim - raised by Heatsun, trained to be a beacon of light.
Rei - molded by Moonsalt and by Dark Void himself, shaped into a weapon of shadow.
And now...
They were each other's destruction.
Dark Void chuckled softly.
"Two pawns, bound by fate... yet blind to the strings I control."
He watched as Tim shouted something to Rei - his words lost to the distance, but his passion evident.
Rei's response was a deadly burst of Lunar Energy - cold, precise, merciless.
Their struggle wasn't just physical - it was ideological.
Tim clung to hope, believing that Rei could still be saved.
Rei, consumed by darkness, believed that only absolute control could fix the broken universe.
And Dark Void?
He needed neither hope nor control.
He thrived in chaos - the very chaos Tim and Rei were creating.
"Fight, little warriors," he murmured. "Tear each other apart. Burn this world with your light and drown it with your darkness."
His purple eyes gleamed.
"Because when you're both broken... when your hearts are too shattered to resist..."
His grin became a twisted smirk.
"...you'll both be gone from my way."
Dark Void continued watching, relishing every clash of saber against hatchet - every explosion of solar and lunar energy.
The dying planet trembled.
Every step, every strike - it all scarred the already fractured ground, sending cracks spiraling across the desolate wasteland.
Tim and Rei stood apart, mere silhouettes against the glowing fissures beneath them.
The tension between them was a living thing - electric and suffocating - as their powers blazed around them like dueling suns and moons.
Their eyes met.
Then - they charged.
Tim (White Solar Warrior) sprinted forward, his saber raised, every muscle in his body coiled like a spring ready to snap.
The Solar energy within him roared like a star going supernova, flaring brighter with every step.
Rei (Black Lunar Warrior), calm yet deadly, mirrored his motion - her hatchets spinning, cutting the air itself as lunar shadows curled around her.
With every flick of her wrist, the dark blue light intensified, glowing colder and sharper.
The moment before impact -
BOOM!
The collision was cataclysmic.
Tim swung his Solar Saber in a wide arc slicing through the void.
Rei crossed her Lunar Hatchets in an "X" formation - dark blue energy clashing against the attack.
The instant their powers met, a massive shockwave erupted, splitting the ground further apart. Chunks of rock flew into the sky, disintegrating into dust from the sheer intensity.
Black and White spiraled together - not blending, but battling - refusing to merge, just like the warriors who wielded them.
Tim spun around, unleashing a barrage of rapid strikes with his Solar Saber - each swing radiating solar flares that left trails of molten gold in their wake.
"Rei!" he shouted, gritting his teeth. "Stop this! Ruling through fear and force - that's not justice!"
Rei parried every strike with almost mechanical precision, her Lunar Hatchets glowing colder with each movement.
"What do you know about justice?" she snapped, her voice fierce yet steady. "You still believe change comes from waiting... from hoping people will choose what's right."
She pushed him back with a sweeping slice, a wave of silver energy slamming into Tim's chest and sending him skidding across the rocky surface.
"That's a lie."
He barely had a moment to breathe before she was on him again.
"They don't change."
Rei raised one hatchet high and brought it down, forcing Tim to block - their weapons grinding against each other.
"They never have."
Tim, struggling to hold back her strength, locked eyes with her.
"Then why do you fight, Rei?" he asked, his voice cracking from both the strain and the emotion. "If you believe they can't change... why bother ruling at all?"
For the first time - a flicker of hesitation crossed Rei's face.
But it vanished as quickly as it came.
With a sudden burst of Lunar Energy, Rei broke their deadlock - blasting Tim back.
He rolled to his feet, coughing, his Solar Saber's flame flickering.
"Because if I rule," Rei said, her voice like ice, "at least I can force them to stop their hatred. At least then, there will be order."
Tim clenched his fists, the heat of his Solar power flaring again.
"That's not how it works!" he shouted. "You can't force peace!"
Rei's Lunar Aura surged and the planet itself groaned, as if her power was pulling at its very core.
Tim knew she was readying something devastating.
But he wasn't seeming to back down.
Solar energy spiraled around him, his Solar Saber now burning brighter than ever.
"I won't let you destroy everything, Rei."
Rei, eyes cold and unyielding, raised both of her Lunar Crescent Hatchets above her head - the deep blue glow intensifying.
"And I won't let you stand in my way, Tim."
The sky above the dying planet darkened from the sheer clash of Solar and Lunar energy.
The ground beneath them cracked wider.
Tim roared, his Solar Saber radiating like a miniature sun.
"Solar Nova Slash!"
A massive arc of golden energy erupted from his blade - a blazing crescent of pure Solar power - tearing through the air as it sped toward Rei.
Rei, undeterred, spun both of her Lunar Crescent Hatchets in a wide circle - creating a spiraling vortex of silver and shadow.
"Lunar Eclipse Strike!"
The two attacks collided.
Gold and silver exploded in a violent eruption of light and darkness - sending out a shockwave that could be seen from space.
Far above, Dark Void grinned.
Watching his carefully chosen pawns push themselves past their limits, he whispered:
"Yes... fight... burn the universe down together."
The shockwave from their clashing attacks hadn't even settled before they charged again - the air between them shimmering with gold and silver sparks.
Tim's Solar Saber crackled like a wildfire, his grip tightening with every swing. His movements were fast, fueled by both his Solar power and the adrenaline coursing through him.
Rei's Lunar Crescent Hatchets spun effortlessly in her hands, each strike cold and calculated. Her aura flickered, pulsing with every step, like the quiet rhythm of a heartbeat.
Every time their weapons met, it felt like the universe itself held its breath.
In the midst of their relentless exchange, something strange happened.
As Tim blocked another blow, a sudden image burst into his mind - like a spark flaring in the dark.
A girl, younger... with jet-black hair and a lonely gaze.
She was sitting beside him on a park bench looking gloomy.
He heard a soft voice:
"Boys and girls sitting together like this. They'll say weird things."
The memory flickered - then vanished.
Tim staggered, his defense dropping for a split second.
Rei seized the opening.
"Lunar Crescent Slash!"
She slashed both hatchets forward, sending a crescent-shaped wave of dark energy straight at him.
Tim barely managed to raise his Solar Saber in time, the impact blasting him backward. His legs skidded across the cracked ground, leaving a trail of molten gold behind him.
"What... was that?" he muttered, dazed.
Rei didn't give him time to think.
"Focus, Tim!" Rei's voice cut through the silence, sharp as her hatchets. "Getting distracted will only get you killed."
Tim clenched his jaw. "What... did you do to me?"
Rei's expression remained cold, but there was a flicker of something - something buried deep.
"Nothing," she said softly. "You did that to yourself."
Another swing - another clash.
Tim's mind was a storm, but he forced himself to push the memory aside.
"Rei, you don't have to do this!" he shouted over the sound of their weapons grinding against each other. "You're not like Dark Void - you're not like them."
Rei's eyes darkened.
"I'm nothing like you, Tim."
Her voice was colder now, a venomous edge behind it.
"I'm not clinging to false hope - begging for people to change." She spun, slicing a chunk of rock in half with her Lunar Hatchets.
"They never will."
Tim gritted his teeth.
"That's not true-"
"Yes, it is!" Rei's shout echoed through the broken landscape.
The force of her words hit Tim harder than her attacks.
Above them, the sky continued to darken.
Their battle wasn't just scarring the planet - it was breaking it.
Golden cracks from Tim's Solar strikes and blue fractures from Rei's Lunar attacks ran like veins across the surface.
The planet's core - a faint red glow beneath their feet - pulsed faster, as though reacting to the overwhelming clash of Solar and Lunar power.
Tim noticed it first.
"Rei, stop!" he warned. "We're going to destroy this planet if we keep this up!"
Rei didn't stop.
She twirled her Lunar Crescent Hatchets and sent another Lunar Eclipse Wave straight at Tim.
He deflected it - but the impact sent another massive fissure splitting across the ground.
The planet groaned - a deep, ominous sound - like the very world itself was about to collapse.
In the distance, aboard his ship, Dark Void laughed softly.
"Yes... push yourselves further."
His glowing red eyes remained fixed on the dying planet - watching with twisted delight as the Solar and Lunar warriors unknowingly tore it apart.
"Break the world... and each other."
Each clash of Solar and Lunar power sent shockwaves rippling across the broken landscape - the core's faint red glow now pulsing like a heartbeat on the verge of collapse.
Both Tim and Rei stood their ground, battered and breathing heavily, yet refusing to back down.
"This ends now!" Tim roared, his Solar Saber burning brighter than ever.
Rei's eyes blazed, her Lunar Crescent Hatchets swirling with darker energy, leaving trails of shimmering black with every spin.
"I couldn't agree more," she whispered.
Then - they moved.
Tim unleashed his ultimate move - Solar Rising Supernova - a horizontal, blinding arc of pure light that cut through the air like a rising sun which could be used only once.
Rei countered with her own finishing blow - Lunar Eclipse Pierce- her hatchets glowing dark blue as she swung both downward, creating a crescent wave of shadowy energy which also could be used only once.
The two attacks collided midair -
A blinding flash erupted.
The force of their combined energies shattered the ground beneath them, and the very core of the planet howled - the surface splitting apart as a massive explosion of white and black swallowed the battlefield.
When the dust settled, everything was silent.