Chapter 9 – Mistakes
"What's it going to take to beat you?!" Drake yells as he throws himself at the Krarg, ramming it with his shoulder. He spins around, kicking the monster in the back of its head. He spins once more, appearing in front of his enemy, charging up a shot of yellow energy and exploding it in front of the monster's abdominal region. As the smoke clears, Drake takes several steps back and looks around. "Heh… heh… heh…" He looks around at his surroundings, they weren't good. The Krarg was now in the heart of Viridian City. People are scrambling everywhere, trying to get away from the monster and Super Saiyan 3 Drake.
"Oooo!" The Krarg pounds its chest as the smoke fades.
"Dammit…" Drake turns his head to the left and winces. "I can feel my energy fading already. I guess Chi was right when he said Super Saiyan 3 drains a lot of energy. I'll need to find a way to finish this up fast…" He looks back over at the crowd of people. "Everyone, you've got to get out of here! This is dangerous!" He looks above his head to see a helicopter hovering over the battle scene. "The news…"
"Ragagag!" The Krarg yells as it rushes Drake. Drake turns to look back at the monster, being too slow to react as the purple monster slams a fist across his face, sending the Super Saiyan 3 flipping backwards into the air and down the street.
"Gnah!" He spreads his arms and legs out, shooting out a small shockwave to stop himself from flying back anymore. "Ow…" He grunts. He looks back to see the Krarg hopping towards him, leaving small craters in the pavement when he landed. "Huh? Oh no." He looks at the building behind him. It's the hospital where he recuperated.
"OOOO!" The Krarg leaps into the air at Drake. As he lunges towards the Super Saiyan 3, the Krarg's right arm extends into a long purple sword-arm with what looked like an extremely sharp blade for an arm. "WHOO!" The Krarg swipes at Drake horizontally, releasing a razor-sharp cutting energy wave towards Drake. As it approaches the Super Saiyan 3, the wave expands in size to a greater and greater width.
"Oh no…!" Drake says in shock. He pulls his arms back and thrusts them forward. "HYAAAAAHHH!" He shouts as he releases a shockwave of his own forward to intercept the blade wave. They slam together, but Drake isn't strong enough. The blade wave cuts through his energy wave and slams into his body, hurling him into the hospital building.
"Oog… dammit." Drake says as he shakes his head. He looks around and sees the entire floor he was on had a huge slash opening across the entire face of the building. Wind blew around papers and blasted other patients in the building. The Krarg leaps up into the floor Drake was on and heads towards the Super Saiyan 3.
"DRAKE!" A familiar female voice shrieks. "I-I'm stuck!" Julie shouts at him.
"Julie!" He shouts as he sees her pinned beneath a piece of concrete. He turns back to see the Krarg. "Grrn… HAHHHH!" He throws his arm forward and fires a massive shockwave out from his hand, slamming the purple behemoth as hard as he could, launching it off the floor to the streets below. In a nanosecond, Drake rushes to Julie's aid and pulls the slab off of her. "Are you okay?" Drake says as he helps her up.
"Y-yeah, I'm fine." She tells him. Her body has a few scuffmarks on it as well as a small cut on her cheek that dripped a bit of blood. "What's happened to you?"
"I'm a Super Saiyan 3, for now." He says with a frown. "Heh, a lot of good it's doing me. Whatever I throw at that thing, it just keeps getting back up! I'm running out of ideas." He says as he throws his arms out in frustration., quickly pacing, trying to come up with a new plan.
"How did that monster get to Viridian City?"
"I… may have ACCIDENTALY thrown it over here from Kanto. I'm sorry. I messed up. I just can't get any of this right."
"Don't talk like that! There's always a way. I believe in you, and so does the rest of the world. Come on, you're the Hero! You can do this!"
"As much as I want your worlds to help, they don't really do a whole lot…"
"I know… but still, everyone in the past has always had faith in you guys and this situation isn't any different. It'll come to you, I just know it will."
"Yeah… well." He walks to the opening of the gash in the building and looks down to see the Krarg looking around. Fortunately, the city had been evacuated by now. "Look, stay here. Don't go downstairs or else the Krarg may get you and I… I could never forgive myself if that happened to you."
"Drake…?" Julie asks him, unsure what he meant.
"Just w-wait here." He stammers in his toned voice. "I'll be back for you when I'm done." He uses Instant Transmission and reappears in front of the monster. "I guess I'll just have to try harder…" His face turns to a cold expression growl-like look. "If a Kamehameha wont do the trick, how about blunt TRAUMA!" He says as he rushes the monster, kneeing it in its face and sending it into the floor. The monster flips up and over and stands. Drake rushes the monster and grabs hold of it once more. A shockwave flies out from beneath him, flattening the pavement they stood upon in a burst of energy. Drake takes off into the air, climbing in altitude as Drake flies higher and higher.
"KRARG!" The monster yells.
"What?! Was that a yell or did you just speak?! ARH!" Drake is surprised when he hears the monster say its own name, resulting in a loosening of his grip and the Krarg smashing its elbow into the Super Saiyan's face. The Krarg holds Drake out by the throat as they continue to climb. The monster holds its arm out and unleashes a barrage of its Death Spines into Drake's gut. "ARNRNRNRN!" The spines hit him like bullets but do not penetrate his skin. "Nnk… this should… do it!" He stops climbing in altitude and pulls both feet back, slamming them hard into the Krarg's shoulders. Drake grabs the monster by the arm holding him by the throat and unleashes a yellow energy bomb on the monster's arm, breaking it off. They both begin to fall now back down to the Earth below, awaiting for the forces of gravity to do their work.
Drake hurls the arm back at the Krarg who catches it, only after it bounces off its face and reattaches it. Drake tries to go in for a few more hits with his fists, but the Krarg grabs his arms and hurls Drake down towards the ground even faster than before. "AHHH!" Drake cries as he plummets towards the ground. He quickly flips over and lands down on the ground, only after creating a crater in the pavement dozens of feet deep. He looks up to see the Krarg coming at him. "Oh…!" BOOM! The monster slams into the Super Saiyan 3, plummeting them even further below the surface.
The two fall through their crater, deeper and deeper into the Earth's crust when they finally reach an opening and land. Drake slowly makes his way up, unable to see where he was. "UGH!" The Krarg slams a fist across his face, landing on a perfectly smooth surface. He opens his eyes and sees before him, his Grandfather's nemesis staring at him with a smile that would make The Joker jealous.
"I told you." Strika's machine tells him.
"Shut- AGH!" Drake says as the monster through the dust slams him again.
"I told your Great Grandfather over a hundred and twenty years ago that his legacy would end." His voice cackles through the speakers.
"I said shut up!" Drake yells, only to be slammed once more by his enemy.
"So how does it feel to be on the losing side?" Strika asks him.
"I WON'T LOOOSE!!" He shouts out, releasing a shockwave of energy around him. The force flattens everything around. His aura bursts on around him. That wasn't smart, he just burnt off a good amount of energy with that. But he needed it. Time is running out. He can see clearly now in front of him, and what he sees is the Krarg imprinted into the concrete walls of the jail cell behind Strika, breaking through the supposedly impenetrable glass.
"I'm… free…" Strika says as he sees his glass wall shattered before him. "Krarg! Release me from these machines!" Strika orders his monster.
"Ooog… goo… Rrrn… RAHHHH!!" The Krarg screams in anger. Strika is still immobilized. He cannot turn around to see what will happen. The monster pulls itself out of the wall and hurls its arms back.
"Oh no…!" Drake says as his eyes widen. The monster charges at Drake, running right through Strika, punching its former master in the back of the head, shattering the devices he was hooked up to and hurling Strika into Drake's arms.
"Uhn… guh… what… happened?! What's… wrong with me?!" Strika looks at his hand in fear, watching as his skin begins to whither. "Saiyan! Hero, you've got to save me! SAVE MEEE!" Strika exclaims in terror."
"I… can't do anything! You know what happens when that thing touches you! You die!" Drake feels his heart pick up its pace. His family's long time enemy is dying n his arms, so why does he feel sorry for him?
"S-Some Hero you turned out… t-to be! You c-can't even save one life." Strika begins to lose strength as a smile creeps across his face.
Drake's face turns serious as he looks at the quickly aging foe. "You're even worse. You can't even save your own." Drake tells him. His enemy's eyes scream shock as his mouth hangs agape. "Every force you create has an echo. Your own bad energy has been your undoing. Not me."
"Agh… ahh-ha…" The Krarg stares over at the two, hyperventilating as it stares at the two.
"I may not be a perfect Hero, but I am someone who will own up to his mistakes, unlike you, and your beast." Drake tells him.
"How… could… you…?" Strika begins to lose even more strength as his body withers to that of an extremely old man.
"How could you…?" Drake says in return.
"Ack… kkkk, gahhhh…" Strika utters as his body falls limp and hangs in Drake's arms. In a matter of moments, his body turns hard and crumbles in his arms.
"Now I have to clean up after your mistakes." Drake says as the remnants of Strika's body are cast into the rest of the dust on the floor.
"RAHHHHH!" The Krarg yells as it throws its arms into the ground, slamming them down hard. It rushes Drake and clasps its hands together, slamming them hard into Drake's chin, rocketing the Super Saiyan 3 back up through the hole they fell through.
"Guhn!" Drake grunts as he rolls onto the ground on the surface and into a puddle of water created by a broken fire hydrant. "Uhn… damn…" He shakes his head, trying to get rid of the stars he saw in front of him. He looks up and sees the hospital building with the huge gash across it. He can see Julie standing, looking out at him. Thanks to his Super Saiyan powers, he can clearly see she has her hand over her mouth.
"What's she…?" He stands up and sees his reflection in the pool of water. "Oh no…!" He touches his face and looks down at his body. "I'm not a Super Saiyan 3 anymore!" He leaps up and looks around. He can hear the Krarg leaping around in the massive hole, making its way to the surface to hunt down Drake. "I'm down to a 2! This isn't good! The Krarg can kill my body now!" Boom! Just as he says it, the purple behemoth leaps out from the hole and lands in front of Drake.
"HRRRRR!" The monster hovers over him, growling at him like an angry wolf.
