On the ground…
Exponent dropped right in front of Blindy,
did three completely unnecessary flips,
landed in Hero Pose #7,
swung his arm dramatically—
and barked:
“My name is… EXPONENT!
I trained a thousand iterations to stop you!”
The drone swooped in, locking a wide shot.
Blindy slapped his own cheeks.
“Ooooh you’re sooo coooool…”
Exponent froze.
Right in the middle of his own speech.
Blindy leaned in slightly and whispered:
“Hey—hey, uh… can I—can I borrow your suit later—?
Y’know… after Zeros beats the livin’ shit outta you—?”
Blindy kept going—pure fountain of unstoppable nonsense:
“No, seriously—!
You’re like… like a REAL superhero, man—!”
He paused—
slowly turned his head toward Zeros,
who was standing inside his defensive sphere,
dying of boredom
while the giant had been cooking empty space with a beam.
Then back to Exponent:
“Wait—
wait a sec—hold up—
If YOU’RE the superhero…”
He pointed between them, confused, almost offended:
“…then that means—
WE’RE the villains—?!”
Exponent twitched—
like his firmware just desynced. Dropped into a split—for absolutely no reason and screamed:
“137th!
ACTIVATE MAXIMUM RESISTANCE MODE!”
Constant replied calmly—almost lazily:
“INTERACTION… FIELD… OVERLOADED…”
The 2718th clicked his tongue.
“Hnn…”
He raised his hand,
striking a “trailer finishing move” pose:
“EXPONENTIAL STRIKE!”
Blindy’s eyes widened.
“OH SHIT—SHIT—SHIT—!
You name your attacks too—?!
That’s—
that’s actually kinda sick—!”
Still not understanding he was about to get deleted, he whispered, almost squeaking:
“I always wanted to do that…
like—just yell stuff before hittin’ someone—
DO IT AGAIN—! DO IT AGAIN—!”
Blindy didn’t even blink—
when a shadow appeared in front of him—
and the superidiot’s strike
landed straight into Zeros’s jaw.
Zeros’s head tilted—
exactly two degrees—
then snapped back into place,
like someone lightly tapped a monument.
Exponent jumped back,
did a triple flip,
landed in a four-point crouch—
looking like he was about to
“chain ten more hits and then launch into orbit.”
Blindy managed to shout:
“B-buddy!!!
You—YOU saved me AGAIN—!”
Somewhere in the distance—
Constant finally realized
he’d been blasting nothing for half a minute,
cut the beam,
and turned his head slowly—
like he was inspecting an insect.
Exponent screamed:
“I RISE AGAIN AND AGAIN!
BECAUSE THE EXPONENT NEVER STOPS!”
He charged Zeros.
Zeros raised his left hand—
shifted Exponent slightly to the side—
and with the back of his palm…
slapped him.
Not a strike.
Not an impact.
A slap.
Exponent instantly turned into a ragdoll NPC:
- his body bent,
- launched sideways,
- spinning through the air—
managing a few exponential flips on the way.
But on the last one—
his body snapped mid-flight,
like someone issued a command: “REALIGN MODEL.”
Spine straightened.
Limbs locked.
Exponent suddenly froze midair—
then landed perfectly in Pose #4—
like nothing had happened.
And then—
the cosmic circus began.
He leapt forward—
landed on Constant’s knee plates
like temple stairs.
Second jump—
onto the groin panel,
like it was a designated “platform for exponential idiots.”
Third—
onto the chest section
where the golden beam had just been.
And with one final—
completely unnecessary, suicidal leap—
he landed on Constant’s shoulder,
like a circus acrobat riding Godzilla.
He raised his arm,
froze in a heroic pose—
and looked like:
the cutscene had bugged out,
but the game decided to play it anyway.