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Blinding light died around them as they found themselves in a new place. Everyone but Clare. She looked around quickly, sensing everyone near.
Yoh said " Is this the same place? It's not different at all. Have we really travelled between worlds?"
Clare answered " Yes, I sense the Z fighters nearby, some of them. Others I can't find anywhere."
Yoh said " They're dead?"
Clare nodded, she couldn't speak. Though she knew that the dragon balls could return anyone to life, it was still a blow to find that your friends had died. Strike, Gohan, Goku, Talos and Vegeta.
She could sense none of them. Wait! Talos wasn't dead and he was nearby!
She rushed to a pile of rubble and tugged his broken, bleeding body from it.
He was burned, crushed and bleeding, by all rights he should have died before she got here. But he was holding on.
The others approached and Yoh said " is he dead?"
she shook her head. " he's still breathing but I'm not sure how long he'll last."
Ren asked " How strong was he?"
Clare noted that he used was, as in he held no hope of recovery. But she answered " At least as strong as me, I'm not sure, we haven't sparred at full power in years."
Horohoro said " what could cause this much damage to a being so powerful?"
Yoh answered, his hand was white, he clutched so tightly to the hilt of his sword.
" Hao. See the burns? Hao did this. Then he left him to die."
Clare said " He is one of our strongest left alive. If Hao could do this to him... then I don't know if we can stop him."
" I wont blame you if you leave."
Yoh said " No, Hao has gone too far, to come into this world and murder like this? He has to be stopped. I wont let him kill anyone he wants. I'm with you."
Ren said " Leave? No. Hao is going to try and kill Yoh, that's my job."
he smiled slightly and Clare knew that their history was something like Goku and Vegeta's.
Ryu said " I'm sticking with master Yoh, if he stays I'm staying."
Horohoro said " If Hao gets Spirit King then all the worlds are doomed, I wont let that happen."
Clare felt pride in her new friends, and a soaring sense of hope. Maybe we can do it, she thought. Then a tendril of thought touched her mind, Uriel she knew. He reinforced her confidence.
" Then, we will stop Hao."
the angel appeared behind her, his shinning light reflecting her great hope. And she knew, they could do anything.
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David watched with mild interest. He had seen this before several times, Goten and Trunks stood side by side and began the fusion dance.
Twenty Four stood beside him, behind her the arrayed Z fighters inspected the two half Saiyens.
Android Sixteen stood beside her, his clam eyes sweeping the lookout. Eighteen was behind him, the two androids tended to stick together and near her was Seventeen. He too trusted Sixteen more then most.
The big android wore Saiyen armour that seemed to be modelled upon his original armour, it's green colouring giving it away.
Piccolo stood on front of the boys and said " Okay, let's try again, Goten, Trunks remember, when you look at one another you are only looking at a seperete part of yourselves. Your power levels have to be exactly equal for this to work so no last minute flaring. Now, give it a try."
they looked at the other, then with great speed, they moved into the first pose, " Fu."
they moved gracefully
" Sion."
they're fingers met at the tips " HA!"
blinding white light filled the lookout. David felt himself shake, the power, it was raising! No way, nothing can power up that fast!"
Sixteen said " It has worked."
Then, the light faded. Gotenks stood amid a powerful aura. His spiked up hair partially black and part purple.
Piccolo said " It worked?"
Gotenks smirked " Heh, Call me Gotenks!"
Piccolo said " Yes! Now, back to training, with this level of power you should be able to destroy Buu soon."
Gotenks smirked David wondered if he was the only one that worried about Gotenks being too much like Vegeta.
The fused warrior said " Train? I don't need to train, I'm Gotenks! Buu doesn't stand a chance! I'll bring you his head."
Piccolo yelled " Don't be stupid! Buu is much stronger then you are! You'd be crushed easily."
Gotenks said " Oh please, that blob couldn't touch me if I was standing still! I'll kill him in record time!"
and before Piccolo could say another word, the fused warrior shot into the distance.
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Gotenks soared, his aura around him, he seemed to be trailing white fire, Buu's aura sure is weird, he thought, and kinda hard to lock onto... got it! The pink blob was attacking a city! Something deep in Gotenks' heart stirred, those people were dyeing! But, Gotenks didn't charge in, he landed easily in front of Buu,
Heh, he thought, this is it, I'll destroy this monster and everyone will know just how much of a hero I am!
" I have come to destroy you, Majin Buu!"
he called in his dramatic voice. His finger pointed at the monster.
" I am the great and powerful Gotenks! And I have come to kill you once and for all!"
Buu gazed at him, Gotenks got the unsettling sensation of being tested, and found wanting.
" You don't look so tough."
Gotenks said " Yeah? Then try and fight me!"
Buu said " Okay, Buu fight you."
Gotenks charged first! His barrage of fists meeting resistance but he broke it down with his seemingly limitless power, Buu's pink flesh buckled as it took blow after blow, then a kick sent the blob flying backwards!
Gotenks phased behind him with a fist and pin-balled Buu across the sky, the blob didn't even try to stop him!
Then, Gotenks launched into a barrage of kicks,fists and blasts! Buu was scorched, punched and kicked. But he stood still!
Gotenks screamed " Tough guy are you? Take this! Big Tree Cannon!"
he brought both hands together and fired off a giant golden beam. Buu saw it coming and brought his arms together.
Gotenks screamed " Don't bother!"
and the beam sped up! Slicing cleanly into Buu's chest, it exploded in a giant sun coloured cloud of destruction.
Gotenks cheered himself.
Then Gotenks said " Ah man, I told Piccolo I'd bring him the head. How am I going to get out of this one? Maybe I could make one out of putty?"
but, a pink arm shot out of the smoke! Gotenks took a powerful fist to the face and fell back, as Buu strode out of the cloud, not even scratched!
Buu attacked now, launching a series of faster then light kicks that Gotenks was helpless to stop. Then a barrage of fists landed and the fused warrior was forced back, he weakly tried to block the blows but they kept coming! Then Buu was in front of him, smiling evilly, he head butted Gotenks into a wall!
The fused warrior pulled himself out and narrowly dodged the next blow, he launched a few fists of his own! Buu took them and regenerated as fast as he could be hurt! After five minutes of punching, Gotenks was tired.
Buu smashed him backwards! As he flew, Buu caught up with him and kicked him to the ground! He formed a gaping crater.
Buu, still smiling, raised a hand glittering with Ki.
Gotenks closed his eyes, his aura vanished he had no power with which to fight. He was done.
Then, a plane shot out from the clouds and launched a spray of bullets at the blob! Behind it, more planes and tanks were coming into view. They launched their explosive might at the single monster.
Gotenks tried to shout, to warn them that they should run because Buu would kill them if they stayed. He would slaughter them all, Gotenks knew now with a dull horror. No one could stop the blob, he should never have tried! Buu was invincible, they were all doomed!
And Buu turned to them, with that evil smile and launched his attacks! The tanks lasted only five seconds before being blown away by a weak Ki beam, the planes were slightly tougher, each dodging and ducking, but they stood no chance and in the end Buu destroyed then all. No one survived.
Buu smirked and turned back to Gotenks, to find he was gone! He was rushing through the air as fast as he could in the other way!
Buu caught him up in a few seconds, and a heavy fist sent Gotenks spinning! As the fused warrior plunged out of control, Buu drew back a hand and sent a Ki blast, the purple blaze!
Gotenks' Ki vanished and Buu smiled, but what the monster didn't notice was that two new Ki's appeared.
Goten and Trunks shot back to the Lookout as fast as they could.
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King Yamma was not happy, this whole thing had gone too far, behind him, Strike was held in place by many strange lights but he was clearly struggling. Beside him, Arkh was suspended by the same light.
Yamma growled under his breath, this damn thing was impossible! Take Strike fr example, he had lived a good enough life, he hadn't killed anyone without reason, he had never killed a good person while in his right mind, of course there was that rough patch back on Namek... but Strike was a good person, it was very clear where he should go. But, his dark side was a different matter, it was doomed to go below but the thing was, they couldn't be seperated! Yamma could not to ether, not while both of them survived in the same body, Slug and Arkh were the same. Both were being controlled by the evil part of themselves.
He could do nothing. Even with all his fighting power, a super Saiyan could easily toss him aside.
King Yamma, in short, was out of ideas. Almost. But he didn't have anyone strong enough for that. Oh not even Goku would be enough. No one had ever succeeded in such a quest and Yamma thought of it as impossible.
But would anything else work? Nothing short of sending them through the Spirit Cleanser would chase away this darkness and that was impossible, the Spirit Cleaner only worked on formless, evil souls. To try it on two such heroes could result in the creation of a monster. He couldn't risk that. So he had no choice, except it was worse then that wasn't it?
Strike was growing more powerful, his Ki growing rather then fading. Soon, he would be strong enough to escape, and after that... well it would be bad. Was there a fighter in Otherworld who would and could take the Legendary Super Saiyan? Goku had vanished and without him, Yamma was forced to admit that things looked quite bad.
Vitrolic stood beside the captured fighters, he was ready to fight if they should escape, but Yamma doubted he would make a difference. Doubted the android could match the Saiyan when it came to power.
No, he thought, we need a miracle.
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Arkh screamed as the fist slammed into his back, Slug grinned, a second Namek, also Slug darted forward and sent Arkh flying back! The five clone-like Slugs regarded their prey.
Arkh was cold, sweaty, his Ki was so low that he would have died if this were not a mental fight. But he knew, it was just as dangerous, as he leapt over a second fist. If he were destroyed here, his mind would vanish, leaving Slug sole master of his body. That he couldn't allow.
He screamed again as a foot forced him to the ground, the Slugs leapt at him in a barrage of fists and kicks, Slug danced between them, his mental body by far more powerful then his physical one.
Then, he caught one of the Slugs with a fist! A back hand sent one of the others flying! But the Slug who he had caught vanished! Arkh turned t face the others as they too melted away.
A single figure remained, the true Slug. He smiled.
" Arkh, you really are my son, to have fought so long a mental battle and still be capable of such speed? You are a Super Namek to the core! And because of this, I wont kill you. No, this time we will merge mentally, with the power boost, I shall become the strongest! And you, my son shall live on, in a way."
Arkh screamed and leapt at the other! Slug moved with incredible speed! His right hand catching Arkh and his left doubling the Namek with a simple fist, Slug tossed the balled up hero into the shadowy ground.
As cracks formed under him, Arkh plunged ever deeper into his own mind.
Slug looked at the dark hole and called down.
" We go deeper eh, Arkh? No matter, even as we fight this place crumbles, it shakes with every fist I land, remember Arkh, this place is you! Even your mind is succumbing to my power."
and he leapt into the hole! The place he found himself was like the vacuum of space, bright pin pricks showed up against a deep darkness. The floor was unseen but had to be there, because he was walking on something.
Slug called out: " Arkh, give up, you can't win, you've been trying for longer then I care to count to brake trough my mental defences, it hasn't happened, no, my son, you're far too tired, your mind is shaking, soon it will crumble to nothing, why not just merge now? It would be easier for both of us, my son, we could avoid this pointless fighting! We both know, that in the end I will win. I am not tired, you are, my mind is a castle! I have centuries more experience in this kind of fight! No one can best me at this! If this battle was with bodies then you might stand a chance, but here and now? No, this is my field. With my weapon. You don't stand a chance!"
Slug spun and dodged a small Ki orb.
" Well done, Arkh, I didn't think you had any Ki left!"
no-one answered, Slug smirked. The tiny flickering lights were fading now, as Arkh's mind spun and heaved under the massive assault it was taking.
In truth, Arkh should have fallen by now and Slug felt proud that he hadn't. All his life he had judged Arkh a weakling! But now, at the very end, his son had given Slug a few surprises and in the start, it had looked like Arkh might have beaten Slug!
Slug smiled, his son couldn't hide from him, not here. He jumped and kicked the shocked Namek into the air and phased behind him with a powerful fist! Arkh screamed and dropped to the ground, Arkh landed facing him over a little distance and said,
" Game's over, Arkh, we both know you wont be able to stop this next blast! A single, death beam like attack glittered in the darkness and caught Arkh in the chest, emerging from the other side.
Blood poured from the wound Arkh fell to his knees, his skin was becoming paler green now, his aura fading into a dark nothingness.
Slug felt annoyed, he had meant only to wound not to kill Arkh. In order to merge they would need two functioning mental forms. Looked like that plan was out the window then. At least he would get control of the body.
One by one, the lights around him winked out. The darkness becoming more complete as the mind drained away.
Then, a single star shone in the blackness, like a giant fiery eye.
Slug backed away, " What the? That thing, it's not part of you, I don't know what it is!"
Arkh spoke, and his voice, it was changed, deeper, more knowing.
" This is me, Slug. My hopes and dreams, what I could be, what I should be. He watches over me, I know it now, I've never been like you, Slug. He had made sure of that! It wasn't easy, but he did it! This is why I have the power of a Super Namek without the evil! Lord Slug, let me introduce you to The Unconquered Sun, Astalon Dawnbringer."
the star was changing now, become a fiery man, shading into crimson and purple and scarlet.
Arkh's wound healed, and his aura flared! But, around his aura a second one appeared, flaring like the Ki, but it was not Ki, it was something else. It was furiouku.
The brightness burned through Slug's aura like a knife through flesh, Arkh said.
" This is my strength, Slug. Astalon has been around since long before you, or me, or any race! He is one of the forces that keep this universe in balance, fear him, Slug. He is the dawn that chases the shadows, the light that pushes back the darkness, the single candle, alone, burning, keeping back the black tide. He is your natural enemy."
Arkh strode forward, Astalon following, their combined auras seemed too bright for eyes.
Slug cried out: " NO! I am a Super Namek, I will not be banished like some shadow, I am here and I am real, I will kill you!"
Arkh let the charging Namek approach him, but then he spoke.
" I understand, Slug, why you could beat me here, I feared you, feared being like you. That was a weak point wasn't it? No wonder you could crack my mind. But that weakness is no more! This is my mind! And you are not invited. Begone! Slug, taste my full power once more!"
Golden chains faded into existence, latching onto Slug, forcing him to his knees as more and more appeared, then they covered him from view and Slug screamed, his dyeing mind at last vanishing.
Arkh fell to his knees, Astalon was gone, was he ever really there? Arkh didn't know, he didn't care. All that mattered was this: Slug was gone, finality, the last Super Namek was dead, their evil would no longer pollute the universe, Arkh had done it, it had taken his life several times, but he had completed his quest, he could rest in peace now.
His rapidly fading vision caught sight of a single burning star before he blacked out.
