Elara Shelley

* In-game
* Boss, phase 1
* Boss, phase 2
* Pre-conversion

**Elara Shelley**, also known as the **Final Termination Weapon** or the **Extremergy Lifeform** is the seventh and the final boss of *MO: Astray*.

## Description

Before being transformed into an Extremergy Life Form, Elara was a woman with brown hair and red glasses, typically shown wearing a black shirt, green pants, grey shoes, and a lab coat. After her transformation, she appears as a red, blob-like creature with yellow eyes and a distinctive eye-like marking on her "forehead." Throughout much of the game, she is located inside the Final Termination Weapon, a massive machine capable of causing great destruction. The Weapon also has a second form, known as the Extremergy Life Form, which reveals it to be a giant serpentine mech with two arms and an extremely long tail.

## Biography

### Pre-Conversion

Elara Shelley originally wanted to use a newly discovered condensed liquid energy called Extremergy to bring about world peace. She started working at Mantis Corp., but left when she found out the company planned to use her research for military purposes. She later got a job at W.B. Labs, the organization that discovered Extremergy. While working at W.B. Labs, Elara worked with a team of researchers, including Sirius Grant, Harper Turner, Aska Middleton, and Jeremiah Greenbell, who were all working on a research fleet in space. After a year of working together, the team discovered that Extremergy Fluid seemed to have a life of its own and began researching ways to control it. Sirius found that fusing a sentient being with Extremergy Fluid might be a way to control it, but he and Elara both opposed the idea due to ethical concerns. However, Greenbell, Turner, and Middleton decided to go ahead with the sentient method, despite Harper and Sirius finding an alternative. Greenbell then chose Elara as the ideal candidate for successfully controlling the Extremergy Fluid and had her fused against her will.

### Post-Conversion

After some time had passed, Mantis Corp. and W.B. Labs merged and Greenbell developed an AI named Dylan to assist in his experiments. At this point, Elara, who had been corrupted by the Extemergy Fluid and wanted to kill Greenbell in revenge, used her abilities to destroy the research ship and inadvertently transport them all to another dimension, where they crashed on an alien world. Dylan sealed Elara in the Final Termination Weapon to prevent her from causing more destruction. However, Elara was still able to use the weapon's connection to the ship to create more Extremergy Lifeforms at the cost of her memories. There were 30 of these lifeforms created before the events of the game, and one of them apparently caused a catastrophe for Dylan and his robots as well as the native inhabitants of the extradimensional planet. Dylan managed to reseal Elara again.

### Throughout *MO: Astray*

The last Extremergy Life Form created by Elara is MO, which is controlled by the player. MO acts as the player's guide throughout the game as they try to reach Elara, unaware of her true nature and goals, which are hinted at through memories found in the remains of the other Extremergy Life Forms. When the player reaches Elara, despite Dylan's protests, Elara reveals her true nature and goals before possessing MO and forcing the player to activate the Final Termination Weapon. Dylan then helps the player try to stop Elara from fully activating the weapon, but despite their efforts, Elara manages to enable the weapon's full capabilities and flies into the stratosphere. The player chases after Elara, absorbing Extremergy, and manages to destroy the weapon, trying to bring Elara back to her senses. The player's success in doing this depends on how many memories they had collected before the final boss. If they didn't collect enough memories, Elara remains corrupted and takes over MO, vowing to seek revenge. However, if they collected all of the memories, Elara will be reminded of who she really was and realize the errors of her ways, freeing her from the Extremergy Fluid and allowing her to pass on.

## Tips

### Phase 1 (Final Termination weapon)

* Watch for the Red lines, those indicate that an attack is about to come at you.
* If an attack hits the boxes, they will glow and damage you if you touch them for several seconds. Keep this in mind.
* HOLD YOUR DOUBLE JUMP. Seriously, this is more important here than anywhere else. With it, you can dodge most of her attacks with very little effort.
* During the downtime from her attacks, pick one of the vents and start pushing the box towards it. This will make sure you don’t run out of time and have to redo a phase.

### Phase 2 (Extremergy Lifeform)

* Stick towards the leftmost coil, that’s the best position to dodge most of her attacks.
* When she starts opening the portal to skewer you with spears slowly move up the arena, and then dash down and begin moving down when you reach the top, doing the opposite when you reach the bottom. This should dodge them no matter how fast they’re coming.
* Try to break all the containers at least by her 3rd attack so you’re ready to strike her weak point when it’s exposed.
* For its Laser attack in the final phase, the trick is to dash through the laser beams after it fires since they can’t hurt you outside of the surges. this will ensure that you are always in a position where you can dodge it.

## Chronology

* **Previous boss:** Dylan
* **Next boss:** N/A