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Third Person POV:
The battle on the blinding ice-plains of the Never-Realm was a catastrophic failure. Zane and Pixal, their eyes completely clouded by the swirling, toxic purple mist of the dark hex, functioned with cold, ruthless mechanical efficiency.
Kaia lunged forward, her dual katanas blazing with desperate heat, but Zane didn't hesitate. With a fraction of a millisecond's calculation, the corrupted Nindroid unleashed a devastating, absolute-zero beam. The sub-zero blast hit Kai head-on. The fire on her blades was instantly snuffed out, and within seconds, a massive, jagged mountain of dense ice encased her completely.
With the Master of Fire trapped in stasis, Zane and Pixal turned on the remaining team. Without thermal support, Lloyd, Nya, Cole, and Jay were quickly overwhelmed by the relentless mechanical onslaught. They were bound in heavy Vengestone chains and dragged back to the fortress.
The corrupted Nindroids systematically secured their prisoners. Lloyd, Nya, Cole, and Jay were thrown into the freezing stone basement beneath the fortress, the iron doors slamming shut to strip them of their freedom. But for Kaia, Zane engineered a far more calculated punishment. Still entirely encased in the massive pillar of black ice, Kai's frozen form was dragged down into the deepest sub-basement and shoved inside an industrial-grade cryogenic freezer.
The heavy steel door sealed with a heavy vacuum hiss, dropping the temperature to a lethal, unnatural level.Inside the darkness of the frost, Kaia’s consciousness was trapped. She couldn't move a single muscle, her body locked in a catatonic defense state as the intense, artificial cold began to drain her elemental core, slowly turning her brilliant amber eyes dull and vacant behind the translucent ice wall. She was a prisoner in a mechanical winter, and nobody was coming