My System: An Evolved Computer I Made With My Unique Ability—

[Earth... Earth is in danger.]

Satoshi felt chills running up and down his spine as soon as he heard what Dex's next words were. Earth? In danger? What does that mean?

And now that he thought about it, this was the first time that Dex actually sounded kind of panicky. Furthermore, the alien invasions, the appearance of dungeon spire, and even the escape of a notorious super villain didn't count as a danger to Dex... but now he's saying that Earth is in danger? What could possibly be worse than an alien invasion?

[You read my mind, Satoshi, it is another invasion.]

The  Alpha Red Salamander started spewing embers of flames with perfect precision and speed. Emma didn't need to dodge anything since she has her portal going on for her but as for Satoshi who didn't want to waste his energy integrating  with Ghast, he had to use the Nailgun's full potential just to dodge. At that point, he also realized that even if Emma didn't have any energy to transport them back to Earth, he has Ghast with him who could do it instead. Then again, there's the intricacy of space-time, and stuff while traveling through dimensions and that might mess with their return. 'It's best to leave it to the expert then.' Satoshi said to himself.

"What made you— ugh— think that this invasion is worse than the previous one?" Satoshi almost lost his focus back there but he managed to dodge the projectile with a hair's breadth to spare.

[It is not just another invasion Satoshi, it is worse, way worse.]

"All right then, if that's what you think then it's probably true. Emma! Let's finish things up here!" Satoshi screamed.

"Oum~!" Emma firmly nodded.

Kiieeehkkk!!! With another ear-splitting roar, the Alpha Red Salamander continued its vicious attack of magma, flames, and molten rock all at once. It was an all-out war of area of effects, with the Alpha Red Salamander inching his way to victory and pushing Satoshi and Emma to their deaths.

"Urk~!" Emma exclaimed as he directed one of the magma balls back at the Red Alpha Salamander using her portal.

"Just a couple more seconds, Emma, hang in there!" Satoshi said to himself, glancing towards his back from time to time as he tracked the progress of the Ice Empress and the Droplet who are preparing one of the most insane finishing moves ever.

To be continued...

'Nah, that's just not how it works, does it?' Satoshi clicked his tongue. Finally, the Droplet had reached its maximum weight hold. In just a short span of time, the Ice Empress pulled through with creating as much hail and ice as possible, just so Droplet could turn them into their liquid state (water, duh) and merge with them, creating a powerful gigantic orb of water right at the top of the Alpha Red Salamander.

Anyone with the stupidest of brains could see what would happen next. And unfortunately, the Alpha Red Salamander was too smart to not notice it either.

Satoshi and Emma could've sworn that the eyes of the Alpha Red Salamander were widened with shock and horror at the sheer sight of the pool of water on top of him.

Kiiiahhhhkkk~~~!

Sensing the danger at hand, the Alpha Red Salamander. shrieked in despair as its eyes teared up a little bit. It just wanted to defend its own territory and now it's about to get killed by a gigantic orb of water in all its glory, pureness, and beauty.

Life flashed before the Alpha Red Salamander's eyes as it teared up even more. He shrieked a second time and this time, the shriek sounded more like a wail, a desperate wail from the poor creature.

.....

The Alpha Red Salamander was born different from its siblings. Even though there were hundreds, perhaps thousands of them, he stuck out like a sore thumb because of his size. He was easily ten to twenty times larger than his siblings for some odd reason, and he hated it.

He hated it to the core.

He wanted to be smaller, to be a part of the family for once, to be able to play with them and become friends with them.

But, nature is as weird as it is astonishing. There was no way for him to get smaller, and over the months, he just grew bigger and bigger...

... and bigger, and better!  It reached the point where his siblings stopped growing but he continued growing, much to his dismay. He initially thought that once he reached a maximum age, he'd stop growing.

Well, that's not what happened, and he continued growing until he surpassed his parents, and then surpassed even the size of their home, their birthplace. In the end, even his parents became afraid of him, afraid that he'd run out of control and even accidentally murder them and the other red salamanders in the area.

In short, he was indirectly told to go away, that no one needed him in the first place.

Everybody and their mom should be able to tell what would happen next because it's as cliche as they go. The Alpha Red Salamander went on a journey alone in search of his identity, and that's when he became known as the Alpha Red Salamander— why? Because that was what everyone called him. Even the person who captured him as his familiar was the first person to call him by that name.

Besides, it sounded pretty cool so the Alpha Red Salamander adopted the name and continued roaming the land, free from the clutches and the pressure invoked by his own family themselves. Every time he remembers his difference, he'd shake his head. If only he wasn't an Alpha, he'd not have to experience such hardships in life. If only he wasn't an Alpha, he'd have probably hugged his dad by now.. and he only feels that every time his life was on the verge of death...

Just like now—

— now that he was on the verge of death, that is.