(A/N: The following is a fanfiction. Dragon Ball's concepts and Xenoverse main plot belong to Akira Toriyama. The various other characters belong to their respective owners. I merely own the OCs and Blackthorning of the plot. Please support the following release.)
(A/N: Things are getting ugly.)
Melissa
Sever all your pain from memories plagued in vain
Stop the endless woe you've come to know
Find your heart and soul ; Break through every wall
Until you reach your goal
C'mon clap your hands and fight until you're finally made whole
Gazing skyward, and so sure tomorrow will arrive
I don't know how I'll get through by myself
With my heart in a daze
The birds beside me soar away into the endless sky
Will the find with their free spirits the light
At the end of this maze?
Please wait...I want to fly with you
Let me on your back to look of my soul
All the pain that haunts me to this day will vanish
If I just reach up higher, I'll find what I desire
I'll never tire 'til I...
Sever all your pain from memories plagued in vain
And stop the endless woe you've come to know
Find your heart and soul ;Break through every wall
Until you reach your goal
C'mon clap you hands and fight until you're finally made whole!
In the dark of night and sitting in the endless breeze
I am bent down to the ground with no strength
And I'm lost in despair
It's times like these, I wish I had some wings to fly with ease
I don't mind even being the Melissa sailing high in the air
I've tried to stand upon my feet
But every time, I fall back down again
Maybe this is not the way to find my answer
The wind is calling to me, and it is guiding to me free
And I will then find...
The key to my way out of this abyss of doubt
There's no time to wait or hesitate
Even if I'm bound, and the key I have isn't the right one found
Still, I will end it with the impact of the lock on the ground
(cue guitar solo)
My soul will shine it's life through the pain and strife
If I'm never saved, I'll still be brave
If I disappear, my soul will still live on and help you fight your fears
And the moonlight will reflect my shadow to show I'm still here
Ryo vs the Xenoverse
Chapter 37: Rage, Rage Ryo
Hatchin was running for dear life out of the apartment and to Time Machine Station to leave on an early Parallel Quest. Why? Ryo got up and watched the new Pearl episode, and he did not take it well. His warper energy seeped out all over the building boiling any other warpers and driving the weak-willed away. It appeared faint enough, but it was raw enough for Hatchin to decided maybe a few early morning missions would be good for her.
"SHADLYN!" Ryo roared as he unintentionally released a wave of Shin Warper's Will.
He wound up knocking out most of the other tenants. Ryo had dug some digging and discovered Shadlyn had invading Pearl's mind to debase it. She merely used the Purified Form as a back channel to do so.
"It sucks harder because if Pearl was a warper, Pearl would have been able to prevent Shadlyn's influence from completely taking over. And on the second note, where the fuck was the warpers meant to be preventing this?" Ryo ranted.
Praxtic, June, Bage, Rachel, Beate, and Amaya were going to get decked for doing a shit job, Ryo thought. He decided Bage would get punched twice for June considering she's a mom. Ryo kept reading the data he got as Merch sent some more dirty details. Ryo immediately had a face of revulsion at what Shadlyn had been doing in Pearl's mind.
"Just great. She fucked her mind bad to leave a case of nymphomania. At least, once they get rid of it, she can direct it to Kenshiro." Ryo remarked. "But damn it…"
Ryo kept reading getting more and more upset with each other. Shadlyn had been doing more than molding her but invading her fellow Majin's dreams.
"Dear kami, I think Shadlyn might be attracted to Pearl. Talk about a psycho lesbian…or pansexual." Ryo thought.
Ryo immediately made a call to Merch to see about passing on all his findings to Pearl. Merch made the call to the Interdimensional Swollen Eyeball Network to get them to deliver it as Merch had a few words he wanted to say to Praxtic. Ryo had finally calmed down as Taoretta and Lazuli arrived. Taoretta wearing the same getup as yesterday and Lazuli donning a pink tracksuit and white sneakers.
"I heard what happened." Taoretta and Lazuli said sympathetically. "Soon was ranting about it too."
"As tempted as I am to hunt her down, I have my duty as a Patroller to uphold." Ryo said firmly. "Just let change, and I'll be ready." Ryo said going into his room.
Ryo did not feel like wearing his X Fighter getup, not today. He decided to opt for more destructive wear. Ryo came up wearing an outfit similar to Beerus's own except the shoes were replaced with Whis Gi boots. Ryo also wore studded arm bands hiding massive weights, had his BlackTab and sword on his sides. On his neck was a scarf with the X Fighters' insignia on it.
"How do I look?" Ryo said cracking his knuckles.
"Wrap the scarf around your waist. You look like your trying a bit too much with it around your neck, as you're already wearing the neck thing already." Lazuli said tying the scarf around his waist. "Better."
"Thanks, 18." Ryo said warmly. "I can't cook today, so we'll have to go out."
"I'll pay." Taoretta said.
I ate a hefty breakfast, but it did not help my mood. I really wanted to strangle Shadlyn and to a lesser extent Barit. While eating, I made a call to Amaya. I could feel she was squirming at me pretty much yelling at her and telling her to deal with Pearl immediately. I hung up and stuff my face with pancakes trying to use food as comfort. It barely aided, but I felt better.
"You two ready?" Lazuli asked tossing her foam coffee cup in the trash.
"I'm aiming to punch someone." I said getting up to throw out the trash.
"Let's do it." Taoretta remarked.
We arrived at the Time Nest and Chronoa has a frayed and worried look on her face. Her hair's a mess as well, I spawn a brush out of my BlackTab. I have a feeling this was my fault and I start brushing.
"Sorry about flipping out and giving you a panic attack." I said brushing her hair.
"Ryo, that's not why my hair's like this, but I won't stop you from finishing." Chronoa said suddenly relaxed.
"Either way, the shards shows a bit of Towa's leftover work of a wormhole. You three are tasked with handling it. This mission is a Seven Star Ranked mission, will you accept?" Bulma said.
We nodded and I finishing brushing the hair to look like her normal look. Trunks has the corrupted scroll to which I take up with myself, Lazuli, and Taoretta being enveloped in light.
AGE: 737
The three arrived at a red planet to which they saw they was high in the atmosphere of it. The air was thin but using Chi Gong, Taoretta and Ryo were able to breathe on thin air. All around they saw soldiers of Frieza, surrounding a warrior in ruined armor. Taoretta saw the scar on his face, and the look of raw rage in his eyes.
"Age 737, the day Frieza wiped the Saiyans out." Taoretta thought bitterly.
"Hm? Who are you three?" the Saiyan said as he saw the three.
"Bardock fought Frieza's army until the very end… If he fails, history will never be the same," Trunks told Soon, "Please help him!"
(Cues: [Dragon Ball Z: Supersonic Warriors 2 Music] - New Planet Vegeta)
"With great pleasure!" Taoretta/Ryo said flying after Bardock.
Those two were out for blood considering this was the moment that reduced the Saiyan race in Universe 7. Getting on the sides of Bardock, they flipped on Super Saiyan to Bardock's shock.
"A Super Saiyan?! But how?" Bardock said.
Ryo punched a soldier's head clean off asking Bardock if he wanted to ask questions or fight. Bardock's response was the Saiyan way, bashing his skull into a Frieza Solider. Taoretta didn't even attack directly, powering up to use his own aura to incinerate any unlucky solider in the way. Ryo claps his hand to form a flaming energy sphere between his hands slowly blowing hot air into it to cause it to grow in size until it was big enough to contain a greyhound bus.
"A modded move for my fighting style." Ryo said quietly.
"The one you named after myself?" Taoretta remarked.
"Actually, I think I'll change the name to Adaptor-ryu fighting style. Adaptability is key in a good fighter. Now, allow me to show you this new Ultimate attack, Primal Fire Storm!" Ryo said getting behind the sphere and pushing a wave of kiai into the massive energy sphere.
The energy sphere splits into hundreds of small energy spheres that surrounded Ryo but were all aimed at the soldiers.
"OH FUCK!" One cried out.
Making his best Beerus pose, Ryo outstretched his arm out.
"Your due date with destruction is overdue, let's fix this." Ryo said trying to sound regal about it.
With a wave of his hand, the fire storm rained down on the soldiers killing them off by burning them alive, exploded, or going through their bodies to incinerate them.
"Masterful work, but you left me with the last one." Lazuli said snapping the last soldier's neck.
More descended on the four of them blindly thinking they had a chance against these four. "It's up to me… I will… I will change the future!" Bardock's orange aura appeared again as he charged through two more soldiers then blasted several more before kicking one back. He then grabbed another and spun around and tossed the unlucky soldier into several of his comrades before Lazuli shredded them with several Kienzan. Bardock yelled out as the terrified soldiers started to retreat from them.
Bardock yelled out, "Frieza! Get out here! I won't ever forgive you!"
"Yeah, come and meet your fate!" Taoretta said out loud.
(Cues: Dragon Ball Kai OST – A Chilling Elegy)
The four then looked and saw Frieza's Flagship coming. Frieza had Zarbon open up the hatch. Soon looked and saw as Frieza in his First Form came out of his Flagship, reclining on his chair. The Emperor of the Universe then got up and smirked at the four before Towa's dark aura glowed around him as he flew towards them and stopped in front of them.
"Why the Hell are you attacking us, Frieza?!" Bardock demanded, "We did what you wanted… We followed all of your order! And now this?!"
"He's evil, Bardock. The type of evil that prefers to be unmatched. He's a fucking spineless coward and he's pull the stops to rid us to save his own ass." Ryo summed.
"How dare you, insolent Saiyan!" Frieza remarked.
Frieza turned his attention back at Bardock and told him, "I decided to exterminate the Saiyans… along with Planet Vegeta." One of Frieza's soldiers smirked and said, "You Saiyans were just being used. You were nothing but tools."
"But by that logic, aren't a tool too? If anything, Frieza is killing off his best tools. Not killing you is basically saying you're too weak to be killed." Lazuli said dryly getting the solider to stutter.
Taoretta snickered along with Ryo. At the Time Nest, Bulma and Chronoa were rolling on the floor laughing over those words.
"What in the…?!" Bardock tried to say, but then Frieza kicked him back.
"That's odd. Frieza should have destroyed Planet Vegeta without ever bothering to fight Bardock," Trunks said worriedly.
"Minor distortion, but it can be aver…" Ryo said before his eyes tensed. "I smell Majin blood!"
Taoretta had the same enraged expression as two faces who nobody wanted to see showed up through a portal.
(Cues: Final Fantasy VI - Kefka (Orchestral Remix))
"And then there's these assholes!" Lazuli said sourly.
Shadlyn and Yuu made their entrance wearing the clothes you'd wear for vacations and not their usual wear.
"Oh, we just wanted to see how you were doing, dear friends." Yuu said sipping his drink out of the sliced coconut. "We're on vacation."
"What the fuck have you done to earn a damn vacation?" Taoretta snapped. "And is that a Hawaiian shirt from the Lit-X Sector? How the hell did you get in? They have a big ass waiting list!"
"Favors." Shadlyn said relaxed.
"You ruined by best friend's relationship and you have the balls to go on vacation!" Ryo said with his anger overriding his rational side.
"Yup." Shadlyn said. "It's a shame I could not convince Pearl to join my side. She's a fine…gyahh!"
(Music Ends)
Using ki in his eyes, Ryo virtually used it as a "scope" to use Shadlyn's own eyes as a "lens" to directly blast her eyes. Her eyes were damaged because of this and she clutched them in pain screaming profanities. Had Ryo actually focused said attack instead of ponderously blasting away when he had the shot, he could have lobotomized and blinded her. Of course, hidden away, Towa was watching all of this with a look of shock. She did not think Ryo could something like this.
"Ah, do you know how it will take to fix my eyes and parts of my brain?" Shadlyn roared.
"I don't give a damn!" Ryo said as Lazuli was fighting off Frieza with ease.
Shadlyn could only smirk before using a part of body to tear off and fling at two of the possessed soldiers before absorbing them. The process repaired her mind and her eyes.
"A few moments, and frankly, I'm shocked you tried that. Maybe you and I are alike. Seeing this mission is boring you, how about I make things interesting?" Shadlyn said summoning a wormhole that was sucking Ryo, Lazuli, Taoretta, Bardock, and Towa.
"You shank!" Ryo roared before getting hit with a Vacation Delete stunning him long enough for them all to get sucked in.
"Where did you send them?" Yuu asked.
"Let's just say nothing less than a Super Saiyan God could save them. Sad, they are not." Shadlyn said. "I guess this is the last of Taoretta and Ryo."
Shadlyn and Yuu left to go back on their vacation leaving history to go on as normal.
Trunks was in a frenzy trying to find where they ended up searching through scroll after scroll. Mai had walked up and merely traced down his BlackTab.
"Found him." Mai said. "He's in a parallel timeline!"
"Damn it!" Trunks said throwing down another scroll.
Bulma and Chronoa entered the Hall of Time to ask when they ended up. They found Shadlyn had a rather sadistic sense of the humor. The world was a mix of two of the hardest missions PQs could give, The Gathering the Great Evil Alliance and Power Berserkers.
"Shit. We need to send back up, now!" Trunks remarked getting his sword ready.
"We can't. Shadlyn was smart enough to make it unstable enough that if too many warpers go in, it could collapse in on itself. Let's just hope, Super Saiyan God is enough for them to beat whatever she has planned." Chronoa said worriedly.
Caulifla and Tadashi came running into the place.
"Supreme Kai of Time! A distortion has shown up in the sky, I think it's one of the parallel timelines!" Tadashi said. "My brother's in there."
Once again, the worlds would witness. Surprising most of the Patrollers in Toki Toki were so used to that they would break out the lawn chairs and get some snacks to watch the show.
I could not believe what I was seeing. We ended up what seemed to be a ruined West City and it was practically littered with corpses, pieces of the buildings were on fire, and blood painted messages on the wall. One in particular was, "I'm going to make what Towa and Mira did look tame. Signed Shadlyn.".
"I don't give a damn what Shadlyn has planned. I'll tear them to shreds!" I yelled out. "So, come at me!"
Towa, who I just noticed with us, is giving me looks, Bardock's confused, and Lazuli was looking for a way out. But we were quickly surrounded.
Broly, Cell, Frieza, Kid Buu, Raditz, Nappa, Cooler, King Cold, Chilled, Androids 13-20, Demon King Piccolo, Garlic Jr., and Bojack and his crew surrounded us all surging with Shadlyn's Dark Magic and wanting us dead.
Most people would be scared, but I was not. Nethier was Taoretta as we flared on Super Saiyan God. Towa's jaw dropped seeing us radiated that power.
"How?!" Towa asked.
"Trade secret you'd have to dance on my side, Towa." I said smoothly. "Right now, we're surrounded. I don't want they will spare you either. So, you'll have to fight alongside us, or die a true villain."
"If I fight with you, I risk being banished from the Demon Realm losing my title like Mirayo. However, if I die, I'll end up in a place of agony with my name etched on a stone to be remembered for my failure." Towa said bitterly.
"Well sweetheart, seems I hold all the cards." Ryo said smugly.
Towa, Taoretta, and Lazuli look at me like I snapped open a second hand. Towa had a small blush on her face for some reason.
Towa was both impressed and angry with Ryo at the same time. He virtually had done what she wanted to do to him. Corner and force his hand. She had tried to plan it out hoping to make a better partner than Mira ever was. How ironic, Ryo proved them by turning the tables on her. He clearly showed her he could easily be a villain greater than her if he wanted to.
"What makes you think I'll side with you?" Towa asked feigning authority. "Why can I die and accept my fate?"
"Three simple reason. One, you think your superior to everyone, and your pride (like Vegeta's) won't allow you to go down dying. Two, by accepting death, you'd tossed your dream in the garbage letting me win without a fight. Three, you're a fighter at heart, a sadistic one. If you accept death, you admit I'm superior. I know you well enough to know you'd rather prove your superiority more than anything. Either way, you lose. If you die, you prove my point. If you fight with us, you'll have to toss your desire for merging the Demon Realm with the rest of the universe." Ryo summed up. "You and I do have one thing in common, we hate…to lose."
Everyone was surprised at this summation of Towa. Ryo had essentially torn Towa's character a new one, and none were happier with that then Chronoa. Towa fumed at what she just heard, but ultimately sighed.
"Damn it, you're right. I don't want to admit it, but you're right. You…got an ally for now." Towa said twirling her staff.
"Good, because we're been talking a for a bit too long, and Lazuli needs help." Ryo explained.
The fight had already started as Taoretta was fighting off the small army and Lazuli was being strangled by her evil clone.
(Cues: Black Lagoon OST 28 – Don't Stop (Guitar Version))
Ryo and Towa flew with them nailing Cell with a well-timed to the back of his head as he and several Cell Juniors get around them.
"Cell's mine, you can have the runts." Ryo said with a devious smirk.
"Excuse me? You have some nerve." Towa said with a pout.
Ryo used his arm to impale Cell before digging in his other arm to tear the bug monster in two before roasting the corpse. Towa decided to stop whining to deal with the leftovers. Taoretta was combatting Broly with their clashes causing shockwaves. Lazuli had finally gotten her double off his to shred her and her evil twin brother with mini Kienzan only to get tackled by Garlic Jr.. Android 15 was sliced in two by Ryo's blade.
"Overrated bastard!" Taoretta said with his hands sore from all the punches he parried from the brute.
"You're an utter waste of Saiyan blood!" Broly said forming a blast large enough to nuke the planet. "So, I'll wrap this up."
(Music Abruptly Ends)
"OH SHIT!" was the collective words are Broly tossed the sphere down at the planet.
However, Ryo did the mundane thing in erasing the sphere out of existence to Broly's confusion. Ryo had taken some heavy injuries from taking on Androids 13, 14, 19, and 20. He turned to Towa and had an idea.
"Towa, you think you paralyze the rest around here with your dark magic for a bit?" Ryo asked.
"I could try." Towa remarked.
"Taoretta, Lazuli, I need you distract Broly!" Ryo said telepathically. "Keep him busy as long as you can!"
"You better have something up your sleeve, Ryo!" Taoretta said as he and Lazuli charged Broly.
"Oh, I do." Ryo said floating up to take a meditative pose.
He closed his eyes and started to hone in his energy. Towa had to stab Bujin into the ground with her staff to help him down.
(Cues: Pokémon HG/SS Kimono Summoning Dance)
Emptying my hand and entering my own mindscape was not an easy feat. With what I was about to do, if I failed I could end up nuking a chunk of this universe. However, it's a risk I'll have to dance. If I am going to stop all this and Shadlyn, I will have to control my warper power. I could only bring out Shin Warper's Will in times of extreme stress. I will not be able to fully be the fighter I want to be if I cannot control it properly.
I took a breath and readied myself.
"Here goes nothing."
"What is Ryo doing?" Taoretta said clearly drained from fighting Broly who would not go on. "I swear if the bastard is taking a nap, I'll trap him in a room with Broly with a DVD player with all the Twilight movies."
"I don't know what this "Twilight" but it feels like I should be offended." Towa said focusing on keeping the assailants at bay.
"Seriously, what the he-" Taoretta said as a burst of warper energy sent everyone flying.
Ryo's body became covered with the white Flames of Creation enveloping his body and producing a powerful blinding light and heat. Observers had to whip on sunglasses to see, and Towa was gawking in fear.
"It's that power! The same one that was undoing and bending time!" Towa said horrified. "It's so strong….it makes what I could do look…"
"Completely cheap and pathetic." Taoretta mused hanging into her legs to not get blown away.
The spreading flames seemed uncontrolled and lashed out tearing holes to other worlds, one being where Yuu and Shadlyn were having their vacation. They wound up falling into Shadlyn's own trap world with their drinks spilled on their heads.
"What the hel-OH CRAP!" Shadlyn said jumping away with Yuu as a streak of warper energy hit where they had stood on.
Ryo, with his eyes closed, looked to be trying to rein in his power on focusing hard and well. Shadlyn was mutely horrified to see Taoretta and Ryo had obtained Super Saiyan God, and Yuu was sweating bullets.
"How and when?!" Shadlyn asked.
She got an answer in the form of a blast to the face from Taoretta sending her through the ruined building with her own message. Taoretta vanished to reappear to grab the Majin by the throat. Yuu had fend off the Androids.
"All the people I've murdered." Taoretta said before crashing her face on his knee. "By letting you drag me down!"
Ignoring what was going on with Ryo, Taoretta slammed Shadlyn into the dirt. The Majin sprang up as the two had a fistfight with Shadlyn shifting her Evolved Purified Form in the process.
"I never kept count." Shadlyn said with glee.
(Cues: Samurai X (Rurouni Kenshin): Trust & Betrayal OST - The Will)
Shadlyn created a field of pink energy around her right hand to form a "blade". Her face had a malicious grin.
"I did, you bitch." Taoretta said unleashing his scythe. "Millions….."
"I know, and I love you and June for it." Shadlyn said as she tried to stab him.
The fight was one between former friends, ones who used to be so close. Neither could stand the other as they stood on opposite ends on the spectrum. Despite everything, Shadlyn would miss him if he died even though she would not be missed by him. As they fought, Shadlyn realized Taoretta was not holding back at all and she went for the kill. Impaling his stomach with her hand, that broke Taoretta out of the Super Saiyan God form.
"I'm sorry, Taoretta. This hurts me more than you will ever know." Shadlyn said firing an energy sphere that came out Taoretta's lower back.
Shadlyn pulled her hand out, and Taoretta fell into the increasing firestorm of the Flames of Creation that Ryo was generating.
(Music Ends)
"Game over." Shadlyn said walking away. "Now to pick off the rest."
"Who said the game's over?" Ryo said with his voice booming.
The flames started twirling around Ryo with a small amount of his flames forming a bubble around Taoretta healing his damage. Ryo's eyes cracked open, his irises burning bright.
"Because Shadlyn, there's a new challenger." Ryo said calmed.
With a snap of his fingers, all the flames circled around his body inadvertently erasing and absorbing the possessed fighters. The bubble around Taoretta faded revealing him to conscious, fully healed, and his scythe rearing to go. The white flames swirled around Ryo's body shrouding his appearance, giving him a mysterious air.
(Cues: Crazyx & D-Rage - Battle Of The Ancients)
"No! You will not stop me!" Shadlyn roared. "My plan will work! I don't care if you're a 10th level warper! I! WILL! KILL! YOU! Or better yet, take over your mind."
Shadlyn tried to be what many would consider to be a completely insane idea. She tried to use her dark magic to possess him, and it came to a shock for everyone else when it seemed to be working! Ryo had fell to the ground screaming in pain as black marking similar to Shadlyn's tribal markings in her current form came up on his body. Shadlyn arrogantly laughed it up clamored she could probably take Akira and Genevieve down with her magic now.
Laughter from Ryo came as he had a malicious grin of his own to which everyone thought he was possessed. He slowly stood to his feet and kept laughing. Shadlyn thought he was struggle, but Yuu was a lot more perceptive.
"He's…faking it." Yuu thought in shock.
Flame-like ribbons of energy that spiral around his body as Ryo seemed to be under the effect of being taken over of dark magic. Shadlyn's smug grin was wiped off her face with Ryo's next utterance.
"You made a fatal mistake, Shadlyn. You got cocky when I let you in me in purpose." Ryo said stunning everyone.
"What? Why? How?!" Yuu asked as Shadlyn stupidly kept trying to take over Ryo's mind.
Everyone started emitting small flecks of golden light, resembling dust blowing off of their skin. Ryo and Taoretta were emitting blue light specifically, and Towa had black light befitting her nature. Towa had the sudden urge to hide under the largest rock she could find.
"It will take more than Towa's cheap knockoff head games to stop me, Shade! I let you into my mind and body, only to enhance the one emotion that a Saiyan feed on... his RAGE!" Ryo said powering up getting the whole planet to shake violently. "Now, for the desperation attack of the Adaptor-ryu, Planet Dome Explosion!"
Ryo gives a deafening scream and releases all of his stored energy as an enormous, blue explosion that can be seen from across universe. In the process, Ryo had unknowingly achieved Super Saiyan Blue in the process as the explosion send shockwaves across them. The Henge broke revealing Ryo playing Shadlyn for a fool. Chronoa came to a realization that the attack was being "restrained" knowing full well that an attack of that multitude all out would have destroyed that universe and damaged nearby ones. Or worse, considering. Saying that did not help everyone else's nerves. The smoke cleared to the planet even more wrecked it than it was able.
(Music Ends)
The possessed fighters were vaporized, but everyone else survived. Shadlyn and Yuu were caught in the blast and were several miles away from the battle site bleeding out and grievously injured. Taoretta's clothes were completely wrecked, but he somehow was the third one still standing. He stood in SSG form managing to tank most of it but was obviously in a hell of a lot of pain. He had even donated his own energy to help with the explosion. Lazuli was also still standing using her infinite ki reserves to form an energy shield around herself. She had managed to shave off at 60 percent of the damage she could have gotten. Her clothes were completely tattered only barely keeping her decent. In the center of that explosion, Ryo stood tall still in Blue looking up at the sky. His body littered with injuries with scathing ki burns. Towa was unconscious and her body a tad mangled being tossed through a building from the explosion. As for Bardock, he was up in atmosphere fighting Frieza when all this happened. He had defeated Frieza and came down to find a literal disaster zone.
"Hey Bardock…you surv…" Ryo said did collapsing on the ground returning to base form.
Lazuli and Taoretta slipped out of consciousness shortly after with Taoretta returning to base form. Before Bardock could help, he was sucked into a wormhole leaving the battlefield eerily quiet.
(Cues: Black Lagoon OST - El Sol se Recuesta)
Takeshi, Tadashi, Caulifla, Kale, Michiko, and Soon wasted no time rushing to that world despite Chronoa's warning. Soon got up Ryo's battered body, and Michiko got up his sword for him. Takeshi and Tadashi got their brother and his scythe. Ryo groaned and cracked open an eye.
"By kami, man. You look like shit." Soon remarked.
"Thanks, Soon." Ryo said weakly.
"Seems we got ourselves someone trying to get away." Caulifla said finding Towa crawling away.
A Crush Cannon formed in her hand aimed right at Towa's head, and the scientist could turn to see her impeding death. She could not dodge due to be so weak at the moment.
"That's enough, Caulifla! Stand down and attend to Lazuli!" Ryo yelled straining his voice.
"But, boss." Caulifla said.
"Clearly, Towa's had enough, and if anything, you should be looking for Shadlyn and Yuu." Ryo pointed.
At the mention of two names, the female Saiyan bolted to look for those two allow Towa to get away. Kale had to drag Caulifla to help with Lazuli's body. Ryo had a feeling that Shadlyn and Yuu would have already gotten away by the time backup came, but more or less wanted to save Towa from a humiliating death.
With all that's happened, I was relieved to see my apartment. Of course, there's Demigra right around the corner, but still. Honestly though, I thought I was going to die back there. But I lived to fight another day, at least. Chronoa had scolded me and Taoretta for putting everyone in danger but would up hugging us along with Lazuli glad we were back safe. On the plus side, my little explosion cleared up the last of Towa's handiwork. I even got Super Saiyan Blue now! Of course, I did not get full control of Shin Warper's Will yet though. Either way, still a win. I do worry of Pearl and hope she and Kenshiro reconcile.
[A/N: For the premiere ending (i.e. When Pearl and company first sees it), this scene down below won't be seen. Later watchings of the episode will have this part added in.)
(Cues: Tension Before a Confrontation - Metroid Fusion OST)
(Unknown Universe)
Shadlyn was in bad shape and limped in some backwater universe dragging Yuu along with her. She was humiliated by her loss to Ryo and being used and abused. As they limped about, they were found by Rebecca Dill.
"You failed me." Rebecca said bluntly. "Now we may have an issue with Ryo if he actually masters Blue!"
"But…" Shadlyn said before Rebecca backhanded her.
"I did not ask for you to utter botch your dark magic skills! What were you thinking in trying to possess Ryo?! You had it easier to simply try to kill him, but you went and made him not only stronger, but resistant to possession. Now I can't even hire someone else to try!" Rebecca yelled.
"Well, what now?" Yuu asked. "Going to increase his bounty?"
"And give everyone a heart attack of the next Akira, hell no. I have no choice to considering the Plan B!" Rebecca said through gritted teeth.
Shadlyn looked fearful at the mention, and Yuu asked what that option was.
"Simply put." Rebecca remarked. "I'll step in and things will get ugly."
Yuu shuddered, and Rebecca relayed the next order.
"If Ryo is getting too powerful, then we need to nip his allies in the bud. The attack on Pearl's world? Rush it forward a bit ahead of plan." Rebecca remarked. "I want corpses littering the streets of Conton."
Shadlyn and Yuu went healed and Rebecca had left them to their devices. Shadlyn had to hide in the shadows to fully recover the burns to her skin from Ryo's attack. As for Yuu, he was actually interested in fighting Ryo someday in the future
(A/N: Quite a chapter to blow through the Broly mission and ready ourselves for the final fight. Will I be doing the GT missions after Demigra? That depends on the demand for it. Either way, this was another fun chapter I made. We're closer to the ending and things are going to get wild!)