Cole, Adagio, Aria, and Sonata assisted Kuo in freeing any remaining civilians that Bertrand had trapped in the train yard, defeating the remaining Militia that were in the area, and made sure to clean up any Corrupted that didn't follow Nix back into the swamp. They were still slightly surprised that Nix had come into the area and freed a number of the Corrupted from their cells, when it would have been better to get rid of them before they hurt any of the civilians that were fleeing from the area, but what's done was done and there was nothing they could do to stop it from happening. Kuo, of course, was annoyed with their comrade, especially since she went behind their backs to do something like this, but in the end the four of them calmed her down before she headed out to do war with Nix, because they needed to focus on Bertrand and the Beast, which was currently making it's way towards New Marais. Fortunately it appeared that the people they had saved hadn't paid attention to the fact that some of the Corrupted had made it out of the train yard and were now living in the swamp nearby, allowing the four of them to save them without hearing any complaints about it.
Eventually the four of them came to a stop as they completed all the objectives in the train yard, allowing Kuo to focus on the remaining people that were in the area, though at the same time they wondered if it was time to assist the people before they continued chasing Bertrand... but that decision was made for them, when Zeke decided to call them and gathered their attention immediately.
"Brother, you and the Dazzlings need to get over here, double time." Zeke said, though this time around his tone revealed that he was serious about something, which meant that this was either a good thing or a bad thing, "I just found that... well, you gotta see it to believe it. Just hurry, before the Militia finds me."
"Okay, we'll be at your coordinates in a few minutes." Cole replied, to which he discovered that Zeke's current location was back in the first area of New Marais that they had visited, though when they turned towards Kuo she waved them off and said that she could clean up the area before they went after Bertrand again.
As such Cole and the Dazzlings took to the air and flew over towards the area near where Zeke was located, with Cole being carried by Sonata this time around, and, oddly enough, there weren't any Militia in the area for them to fight or be distracted by, allowing them to reach the area that Zeke was in rather quickly. One thing they noticed, as they reached their destination, was the store called 'Red Ring', and electronics store from the looks of it, but they were more interested in the fact that Zeke was riding in a vehicle that was hauling something big, based on the container that was resting behind where the driver seat was located. Once they reached the area Sonata set Cole down, she and her sisters landed around him, and then the four of them headed over to where Zeke was sitting, but at the same time all of them were staring at the container that was behind Zeke, as it had to be something important to cause him to piss off whoever he had taken it from, likely the Militia, meaning that they would have to guard it or something in the near future.
"Hey there guys. Care to take a joyride with me?" Zeke asked, though at the same time he leaned out of the window and stared at them for a moment, but the smile on his face told them that whatever was inside the container definitely had to be important for him to do what he did, "Want to share the benefits of me spying on the Militia?"
"Come on Zeke, we don't have time for this." Cole said, as he and the Dazzlings had been thinking that he had been serious about the entire thing, even though they were still interested in the container that Zeke was hauling, "The Beast is getting closer with every passing moment, and we need to be prepared for it's arrival."
"Oh ho ho, that is where you are wrong, my friend!" Zeke stated, before he tapped the container from where he was sitting, as he was pleased to have found it when he did and knew that they could use it against the Beast, especially considering what he knew at the moment, something that the group wasn't aware of, "I have found us a surefire way to take out the Beast, without the RFI and the other Blast Cores. Make yourselves useful and remove the panels back there... you'll see what I mean soon enough."
Cole stared at Zeke for a moment, as the thought of Zeke discovering a weapon that Wolfe had created, because that had to be the only reason he would say something like this, that could take out the Beast seemed too good to be true and almost made him laugh, but he steeled himself and assisted the Dazzlings in removing the panels... only to reveal a large rocket, a nuke of some kind he realized, resting in front of them, and the Dazzlings stared at it with a look of shock and confusion for a few seconds.
"Jesus, Zeke... is that a nuke?" Cole asked, as he couldn't believe that Zeke was thinking of even using something like this against the Beast, because rockets like this had a tendency to deal massive damage to both their target and the surrounding area, which was New Marais in this situation.
"Learn to love the bomb, man. Old Bertrand did." Zeke replied, though his tone revealed that he had found some information on the rocket that was in front of them and was willing to impart that knowledge to them, "He had Wolfe fix up this little pocket rocket for him. My best guess is that he wanted some insurance in case one of his experiments went south... way south."
"You want to use this thing on the Beast?" Cole demanded, as he turned towards Zeke and stopped him from turning on the vehicle for a moment, by just staring at his friend as the Dazzlings stared at the device, "Dude, if we fire this thing we'll end up blowing up the entire city!"
"Wait, this... thing... can blow up the entire city?!" Adagio asked, though her tone revealed that this was news that they weren't expecting, as both she and her sisters were shocked by the information given to them, and that only made them see the rocket in a new light.
"Yeah, depending on what type of bomb we're talking about." Cole replied, as he knew that there were a few different types of nukes and powerful rockets, but since they had no idea what sort of device Wolfe created, since it appeared that the notes that Zeke found didn't say anything, he couldn't predict the true destructive power of the weapon, "Do you mean to tell me that the three of you never witnessed or heard of something that can take out a city in a single instant, between the two worlds that you've lived on before this one?"
"Well, we've actually never seen something like that in action." Aria said, to which she recalled the information that she and her sisters knew, as there were several beings in Equus that could do something like that, at least according to the stories anyway, "But there are stories, all unconfirmed mind you since ponies don't want to upset their Princesses, of Princess Celestia calling upon the power of the sun itself to purge a city of darkness from the face of Equus, of Princess Luna doing something similar with the power of the moon, and a few other magic users that possessed enough power to wipe of city out in seconds. As Sirens all we did was cause some chaos among the ponies and feed on the emotions that came from it, so we never used our magic to wipe out a city or even witnessed the power of the Princesses in action, at least in doing that. This is unfamiliar territory for us at the moment."
"Well, we're going to use this and hit the Beast before he has a chance to reach New Marais." Zeke replied, though at the same time he activated the engine and started moving out of the area that they were in, indicating that he had been thinking about this since he found the rocket, which explained why he didn't participate in the previous missions as much as he had been doing earlier, "I already set up a targeting system up on one of the harbor cranes, so all we need to do is get the rocket in position, aim at our target, and then fire at the Beast... hopefully we can beat him before he gets too close to New Marais."
As soon as he said that, and the four of them followed after the truck that he was riding in, they heard some explosions nearby and turned to look at the source, where they found the Beast, in all of his dangerous glory, standing not too far outside the limits of New Marais, attacking whoever was attacking him. Since they hadn't been paying attention to the news they had no idea that the Beast was so close to their location, and had barely noticed him when they were flying through the sky a few minutes ago, but the fact that he was here, tearing through the defenders like they were nothing at times, was slightly terrifying. The Dazzlings weighed their chances of this even succeeding, as the plan to recover the remaining Blast Cores and empower Cole, so he could use the RFI, seemed to still be the better course of action, but Zeke was moving out of the area and they followed after him, as it was best if they defended him from the Militia and make sure that they reach the crane he was heading for. Cole, on the other hand, mentioned something about both he and Zeke liked big explosions, something that Zeke immediately agreed with as he reached the street, before getting on top of the vehicle to guard Zeke's path, even though that anyone that fired at a nuke was an idiot in his opinion.
Of course some of the Militia tried to block their path and demanded that they returned 'their' nuke, only for Zeke to shout at them in return and told them to stop firing at the 'thermonuclear missile', especially since one straw bullet could set the entire thing off and kill all of them, but the Dazzlings made sure that no missiles reached the bomb that they were moving through the city. When they reached the bridge that Zeke wanted to cross over Sonata raised her hands and the wind kicked up, allowing her to knock off all of the cars that were blocking their way, which let Zeke continue over to Flood Town once more, only for Adagio to growl when she saw the Militia boats in the water firing at them. All Adagio did was cause some of the water to freeze and punctured the boats with some well placed ice spikes, allowing her to sink them before they even had a chance to do some damage to them or the missile, while Aria and Cole headed to the back of the truck and dealt with the Militia soldiers that were coming from behind, since that was a tactic that their enemies were fond of using, even if it wasn't effective at all. The only thing of interest, besides the fact that the Beast was ripping his way through his enemies, was the fact that the Corrupted were still in Flood Town, as they were attacking both the Militia and the Vermaak 88 soldiers, allowing them to focus on clearing the path and get the nuke in position so they could fire it.
When they reached the crane in question, however, Zeke told them to get up to the top of the crane and start zeroing in on where the Beast was located, to which Aria grabbed onto his back and hauled him up to where the device in question was resting... only for her and her sisters to engage the mass of Vermaak 88 soldiers and Corrupted that were coming to fight in this area, since they didn't want one of them screwing up Cole's concentration while he aimed at the Beast or mess up Zeke as he moved the nuke into position. Fortunately the Beast was standing in the same area, as he was focused on whoever was attacking him, which gave Cole some time to make sure that Zeke was ready before he targeted the creature, especially since the Dazzlings were making short work of the enemies that wanted to stop them from firing the missile in the first place. Once all of them were ready, however, Cole zeroed in on where the Beast was standing and the missile flew off of where it had been resting, to which they were all knocked down to the ground when the nuke hit the Beast and it detonated it's payload, where they all heard the Beast roar in pain for a moment before they heard nothing else from him.
It took them a few moments to regain their focus, especially since this was the first time the Dazzlings had ever witnessed something so terrifying, though as they all started to get up, and Cole celebrated for a moment as he headed out to check up on Zeke, all three sisters noticed something odd... the area that the nuke's blast should have been located, where the Beast was standing last they saw it, was missing, to which they wondered if he was truly gone or if he was playing them while their defenses were down.
"Looks like... looks like we won!" Zeke commented over the phone, though at the same time the sisters followed after Cole and kept their guards up, as they didn't trust the missing blast zone and the fact that there was no evidence to suggest that a nuke had been fired in the first place.
"Zeke, where the hell are you?" Cole asked, because at the moment he wanted to make sure that his friend was alright before they got out of here, especially since they were still in enemy territory at the moment, before some coordinates, that happened to be nearby, appeared on his phone and they moved out immediately.
What the four of them found was that Zeke had been pinned down by something that had flown through the air after the nuke's blast, to which Cole used his Kinetic Pulse to move it out of the way as both Aria and Sonata moved the metallic poles out of the way so they could quickly move forward. Of course Zeke, as they were assisting him in getting back on his feet, made a comment about Empire City, where Kessler had beaten him a little after they returned to the Historic District, only for the group to get moving so they could survey the results of what they had done. The downside was that the crane that they used to lock onto the Beast, and the one next to it, were being pushed away from each other as the Dazzlings recognized the power that was being displayed in front of them, as that meant that the Beast was getting ready to reform before their eyes, and that also meant that they had to get out of here before that happened. As they left the area that the cranes were in, however, the mass of energy that the Beast was pulling in expanded and exploded, creating a shockwave that knocked them through the air and caused them to crash into the ground some distance away from where the cranes were actually located, and knocking them out in the process.
It wasn't until an hour or two later that the four of them regained themselves and noticed that the city, despite the fact that the Beast should have already detonated it like it did to Empire City, was still intact and that they still had a chance to defeat it. Of course Cole called Zeke, since he was the only one not present at the sight of where they woke up, and they discovered that Zeke had recovered first, only to chase the Beast into the area of New Marais called Gas Works, where they assumed Bertrand was hiding out now that his base in Flood Town had been compromised earlier. Since they knew that their next destination was Gas Works, since it was the last place to look for Blast Cores, the group knew that the next thing they had to do, after making sure that the blast hadn't hurt them more than they currently thought at the moment, was start using the transformers and restore power to Gas Works, where they would likely have to deal with the remainder of the Vermaak 88 soldiers, whatever Corrupted creatures remained before Bertrand created more of them, and the Militia, if they were over there to guard their master. They also knew that Laroche might have some information for them in that regard, since he's being fighting Bertrand the longest, but they guessed that time would tell what was going on in the other part of the city, and time was no longer on their side, not with the Beast hanging out somewhere in New Marais, waiting for something to happen.
The Dazzlings weren't too happy to see that they had failed in their mission to stop the Beast, just like they did back in Empire City, but this time they were going to use the time given to them to prepare for the final battle... and hopefully, when they came across the Beast again, they could beat him and finally save the rest of the world, though time would tell what happened to them next.