CrimZon Universe
Season 1 Guideline - Rebirth
Episode 1 – 14 (Already posted)
Episode 15 – Warning
Within the hour of putting Shade away with his fellow comrades, Neva finally meets Erb with everyone who was present inside the president's office, including Secretary Hatric. They all lend their ears to the young kai, who warns them of Thunderwing's coming, and insist they evacuate the planet. She personally will assist in their efforts by teleporting all the inhabitants to another planet – the planet will be her master's homeworld - he had asked a friend in advance to help them out. However, Hatric didn't believe her and made wild accusations about all of this being a trick, sent by the enemy. But Eleanor chooses to play along with her story, wanting to know if it was possible to defeat the calamity – to keep it out using the planetary shield.
The answer is a resounding no; from what King Kai had told her, Thunderwing's current strength could potentially wipe out their entire system in no time - they had no chance of winning nor keeping it out. She furthers boasts his capabilities are far beyond what any of the Saiyans and herself could do. With that said, Eleanor slowly considers her suggestion and wishes to let her people do their own research for confirmation. This did not settle well for Neva – the time to debate had long since passed and they need to decide now. But Lilith chimes in, mentioning they can simply fly away – she informs the newcomers the city they are standing on, is actually a starship with a warp drive that can enter slip space. Everyone besides the newcomers knew the city was capable of flying but performing such a task would drain their power supply significantly to the point of losing it all upon midflight or even before. Eleanor notes they used to have 3 power sources – zpms - but they had long since been used up. Now they run on a different energy which once belonged to the ship the humans used on their craft - the human's craft was long since been cannibalized. Eleanor, considering what the off-world goddess said was true and with the coronal mass ejection imminent, chose to take her word and thought it is best for them to run, rather than stay and fight a losing battle, or be incinerated if the derelict satellite were to fail. But instead of making Neva teleport them all, they will first attempt to use the warp drive to make their way to the nearest habitable planet they have on record.
Hours afterward, the city underwent power-up procedures, activating it's shield and engines simultaneously. In the central tower, Neva, Erb, and Bulb wait beside President Eleanor, Director Eve, Lilith and Jav – Eve and Jav never left for the satellite due to the new commotion. Everyone braces themselves as the city ascends for the first time in centuries, and after a minute flew by, they find themselves in space. The red fighter peers outside, viewing the scenery in safety thanks to the shield retaining their atmosphere and the city's air filtration. However, after a few quick announcements from Eleanor regarding their departure to a new world, the city's deep space radar detected the coronal mass ejection occurring earlier than expected. From out the observation windows, a stream of hot plasma courses towards them from the sun. The control room staff members calculated its arrival to be in 3 minutes.
Episode 16 – Coronal Mass Ejection
President Eleanor orders evasive maneuvers but her people, inexperienced in space flight, begin to panic. Eventually, they were able to make it move, but no matter which direction they went, the coronal mass curves its trajectory accordingly – homing in on them as though it were alive. Erb bolts out of the room with an oxygen mask given to him by Jav and bursts through an opening in the shields, courtesy of Eve. In the vacuum of space, he hurdles a Dragon's fist straight at the stream. His attack makes contact and manages to halt the ejection until his energy dissipates, allowing the stream to resume its flight. But Neva teleports in front of Erb and summons forth a large mirror. The coronal mass ejection hits the mirror but is then absorbed into it. Still, a single, smaller stream, splits off and makes its way to Atlantis. It narrowly misses the city, grazing its underbelly, but the impact caused the thrusters in the warp drive to become temporarily inoperable. The city soon begins to fall back into orbit, unable to slow their descent.
Erb jets past the city and positions himself underneath it. He charges headfirst in his Super Saiyan form, pushes against the gigantic installation with all his might to buffer its fall. Neva, leaving the mirror still active, joins him in his effort. With her assistance, they safely decrease the city's descent to the point where it glides down to the ocean surface on its own. With the shield still running, Neva teleports herself and Erb back into the central tower next to Jav and learns of the coronal mass ejection having ceased. They are safe for the time being. However, as for the city's warp drive, Eve heard back from her technicians and reported they require extensive repairs. And to make matters worse, they all suddenly hear the voice of King kai, anxious to warning them of another grave danger.
King kai, after the coronal mass ejection was finished and the solar interference that was hindering him before now gone, was finally able to communicate with native inhabitants. But he also discovers a powerful energy source and pinpoints it in the city. After taking a few seconds to grasp what it was, he immediately calls Neva and the others and warns them they are in even greater danger now; the power source the people of Atlantis have been using is the heart of an ancient class dragon.
Episode 17 - Inevitable
In the city's engine room, Erb, Lilith, Jav, Gabriel, Bulb, and Eleanor find a large crystal connected with cables, and King Kai – still in other world – tells them what they were looking at is a Dragonheart; the physical essence of powerful dragons – their heart – and he is familiar with this one as it was the same dragon which Thunderwing fought many eons ago. Eleanor, though baffled to hear a voice from the sky, mentions they had found the crystal from their old world alongside skeletal remains of a large creature. King kai continues to tell them the reason why the kaoticon is weaker now was due to this particular dragon was responsible for sealing its power away; despite the dragon having long since passed, the seal remains in the form of the Dragonheart. If the crystal is destroyed, then the seal will go and the kaoticon would have access to its full power once again. Additionally, if the calamity may know the Dragonheart still exist, and it would shift its aim to destroy it at all cost if it knew it's whereabouts.
Neva attempts to solve their new problem by teleporting the crystal away to Other World for safe keeping but King kai stops her, pointing out distance may play a factor in the seal's strength and with its energy supply near depletion, it may not matter. She still tries to take It away with instant transmission, but when she did, she arrives in Other World empty-handed. Perplexed, she returns to the others to find the Dragonheart still where it was and then repeats her attempts several times, even taking a chair with her in a round trip to make sure she can bring an object with her – which she could.
In the end, she gives up and hears King Kai hypothesize the crystal's properties may be resisting her technique. He explains the instant transmission takes the user through a pocket dimension to reach their destination in an instant - the crystal may not be able to enter the pocket dimension for an unknown reason. Eleanor speaks up about the ship they used to get to Aeon was not capable of going into slip space; in order to travel over the vast distance between them and Aeon, it was outfitted with a faster-than-light engine. She also recalls the numerous tests runs the scientists of the old world had done to make a slip space drive using the crystal, but each attempt led to an explosive failure. With that said, she confesses to having forgotten about it, and if they had chosen to open up slip space with the Dragonheart's power, then they may have very well been destroyed – everyone cringed over the thought of them vaporized.
Now, unable to use their old power source, Eleanor takes Neva's offer in teleporting them all to the world as initially planned. However, King Kai expresses now they had 2 options put before them; the first, finding a way to leave the world with the crystal and hide it elsewhere; the second, defeating the calamity once and for all - now was the best chance they have at ever defeating the behemoth when he's at his weakest. Eleanor processes the plan and notes if they are to choose the first option, they still require something to replace the crystal, and time to fix the city's warp drive. But to their good fortune, Jav had already found a method in reviving the zero-point modules thanks to an epiphany inspired by their plans with the derelict satellite.
Shortly later, Erb, Jav and the rest of the engineering staff stand outside on one of the city's piers where a mobile charging platform is set up with only 1 zpm set inside a make-shift charging station. The idea Jav came up with was using Erb's own internal energy to charge the zpm; the same solution they were going to implement on the satellite. Everyone else was far enough away to observe the experiment from a safe distance.
The red Saiyan places himself next to the machine and his hand on top of the zpm. Gradually, he channels his aura out and Jav's hunch proved correct, but only for a moment. As soon as the zpm was gaining energy, it suddenly decreases back to zero. Jav hypothesized they would require a large quick initial burst for the zpm to sustain itself. Erb decides to transform into a Super Saiyan and after performing the same procedure, he succeeds in sustaining the energy storage. Within a minute the zpm was fully charged.
Episode 18 – Sliver of Hope
With 3 fully charged zpm's not at their disposal, all available hands immediately went to work in repairing the city, while the military brass had begun formulating their plans on defense. Elsewhere, Erb meets with the other aura users out by an open pier. Zeph, Roza, Tya, and Raix are being taught by Neva in the art of flying. Earlier in the day, after Neva was done teleporting the non-combatants to another world - other than the repair team, Gabriel, and Hatric - she was approached by Roza who wanted her to teach them how to fly - her teammates had no means to fight against a colossal enemy from the ground, and gaining aerial supremacy seemed vital for their victory.
In the service tunnel, Jav was combing through every system across the city to find anything that needs repairing on his end, and his female compatriot, Lilith watches him from behind, looking out for any unwanted eyes. The 2 kids managed to slip away from the non-combatant groups who were being taken off-world and hid in the tunnels. Jav wished to fix one important feature in the city that may help increase their odds of survival, and Lilith wanted to watch his back. Almost done with his task he heard her asking as to how he was able to cope with all that had happened in the past few days and he replies by returning the question back at her. Lilith rebuttals with the fact that they've stumbled upon a new reality where they now associate themselves with super-powered beings and were about to enter a battle that could shatter the entire planet apart – she found it to be both exciting, and frightening. Jav came to the same conclusion himself, though this isn't his first. He recalls having watched video feeds of the harbingers first attack Alpha site 13 years ago. His parents, both scientists, were killed by giant ape monsters sent by invaders, and the only person to have stopped them was Lilith's father. Jav then realizes he brought up some bad memories for Lilith – that day was the same day she lost him; the father who she couldn't even remember. All she knew about him was from what her mother, Roza, and Gabriel – her father's father – told her.
Outside, after an hour of instructions by Neva, Zeph had managed to soar around with ease thanks to his cybernetics gauging his aura with machine precision. Sadly, the others had little luck in achieving the same results. From what the kai could guess, the time they would need to master flight would take longer than they currently have. Zeph, wanting to know how he stacks up in terms of fighting power, asks Erb to measure up his full power as he transforms. Erb watches him turn super Saiyan and states his level is on par with his own but wonders if he could ascend to the next level. Zeph could not and had no recollection of being able to. This leads the red Saiyan to believe he might have ascended unknowingly. Neva joins in on the conversation, asking Erb if he meant super Saiyan 2, and which he confirms. Raix and Tya also cut in, saying they could turn into the so-called Super Saiyan. The 2 of them changed form, and Neva was albeit impressed until she yelped out of fright from the sight of Tya's golden color tail. After that embarrassing moment, Neva apologizes and tries to explain herself until Roza jumps in, interrupting her by failing to fly herself after jumping as high as she could. Then, Eleanor's voice reaches their ears through the city's broadcast system, announcing the city's warp drive repair is nearly complete. Afterward, Roza advises they all go in the city and enjoy one last good meal, and they all agreed except for Neva who teleports back to Other World to have a few words with her master.
As Zeph, Raix, and Tya went on ahead, Erb pulls Roza back, wanting to know what she was hiding – he knew she interrupted Neva on purpose regarding Tya's tail. At first, she played ignorantly, but Erb told her that he knew of the alternate Saiyan transformation, the oozaru.
Episode 19 – Secret
Hungry and burnt out, Jav and Lilith sneak out of the service tunnels and into one of the SWORDS facilities – the food hall. At the same time, Zeph, Raix, and Tya went inside the same building for the same reason. Inside, Bulb was spitting out jokes and tales of his adventure through space to a few drunken soldiers, including Hatric – he had taken a liking to the alien's humor. However, one of them accidentally opens a corked bottle, hitting Bulb in the forehead and sending him flying. Skulking out of everyone's view, Jav and Lilith acquired several sandwiches and bottled drinks and were about to go back into hiding until Bulb's sudden entrance gave them a jump scare. As the sound of footsteps approaches, the children were almost discovered, but Bulb, looking at their worried faces, dashes out all jittery, laughing off his fall, leading them away. Still, he then came back to the children, inquiring why they are here.
Down in an empty area, Roza explains to Erb on what she knew of the oozaru. Around 15 years ago, her father had found the three Saiyans on the mainland outside of the first alpha site and secretly adopted them as his own for 3 years by himself. He had taught them how to read, write, basic math, and acted like their father figure; eventually, he lets his wife and 2 daughters in on his secret – at the time, Roza was the same age as they were but Lilith was a baby. Eleanor initially discouraged him for the secrecy, but understood his position and was willing to take them into the city as full-fledged citizens. But when the 3 kids were taken to the Alpha site, the harbingers attacked. Roza and the three Saiyans hid deep in the forest per Eleanor's order but encountered harbinger foot soldiers who were in the area. The Sayians fought back but were beaten down. Gabriel arrived soon after to deal with the soldiers, but he and Roza witnessed the Saiyans staring at Aeon's 3 moons – all of them fully visible - and then go berserk with newfound strength and brutality. They attacked the rest of the harbinger soldiers, and shortly after, they transformed into giant beasts - the Oozaru. Her father had witnessed their strange behavior before when it was only 1 full moon out and actually saw them transform. Luckily, he was about to stop them before with a sealing spell, inhibiting their transformation; ever since then, they were able to see the moon with no problem. But that night was the first time all 3 moons were out and their combined effect broke his spell.
As a result, driven by pure instinct, the 3 giant apes indiscriminately ravaged everything and everyone. The alien attackers were forced to retreat, however, this left alpha site being the lone target. Roza remembered begging her father to save them, and he did. Using a powerful spell he learned from his own master, he roared out 2 words and encompassed the entire area in an intense white light, enveloping both the Oozaru and whatever harbinger ground forces remained. The Saiyans turned back to normal, but because of the extensive amount of magical power he expended in dealing with them, he had to use his life force as well; this caused him to rapidly age. Later on, the 3 children were taken in by Eleanor, and their identities were kept secret – they were reported to be gifted humans born from one mother.
Roza tells Erb that Gabriel is, in fact, her father; no one else knew except for Eleanor, Dyne, Eve and herself. Lilith was too young and wouldn't understand, so they told her Gabriel was her grandfather. Zeph, Raix, and Tya didn't know either. Upon finishing her long exposition, Erb questions as to why Tya's tail remains. Roza believes whatever magic Gabriel used left an after effect, making her unable to transform into the Oozaru, permanently. Her super Saiyan form turned out to be the exception. Zeph and Raix had removed their tails for different reasons – Zeph lost his due to an accident and Raix took his own off for aesthetic purposes. Roza requests the red fighter to not reveal any of this to anyone – she only trusts him because of his prior knowledge. This left him feeling burdened, but at the same time, this gave him a small glimpse as to why his own memories have been erased or sealed – knowing less was better sometimes. Underneath their feet, however, down through a manhole, Jav, Bulb, and Lilith heard everything.
Episode 20 – What to do
In the vacuum of space where the harbinger fleet used to reside, Director Ardyn's ship exits out to find their target absent. His navigators detected 3 recent slip space ruptures having taken place within the vicinity – each within a short span of time from one another. From what they can gather, one of the slip space jumps was from the Harbinger's flagship; Ardyn guessed the scout ship that was left for the ancient city had returned but most likely encountered Thunderwing by accident and left via the same way. As for where the scout ship went, Ardyn surmised they may have returned to the city if they were in a panic. With no other leads to go on, the director asked his navigator to chart a course to the ancient city, believing Thunderwing may have followed the scout ship for whatever.
In the underground tunnels, the children continue to contemplate the new yet un-wanting knowledge they've gained on a small part of their history they didn't know about. Lilith, sitting quietly on a pipe with Bulb next to her, worries for her friend who is tinkering away with his tablet. She can tell he was remaining silent as a means to deal with his conflicting feelings towards the others – whether to hate them because they were responsible for his parent's death, or to hate the president and the others for lying to him, playing him for a fool. She went ahead and questions him, ready to hear him venting his frustration at her. But instead, he confesses in a calm voice but doesn't believe Zeph and the others were solely responsible for what happened. His response leads Lilith to start venting herself, thinking he was lying to her. She causes Jav to finally yell out, but only for moment, which was enough to cause the girl to shed tears. Jav admits to have wished he wasn't their friend, yet, he doesn't want that to be true at the same time – knowing the president and everyone else influence him to become the person he was. He cherishes them too much to hate them. So now, he wants to focus on his work, and after they get through the battle that is to come, he will then figure out how he is going to move on from there. With that said, Erb unexpectedly pops out around the corner, supporting his answer, though made them all yelp out of shock. The red fighter detected their energy signatures nearby upon listening midway through Roza's explanation and suspected they heard everything. After she was done and they broke off, he followed the kids down the tunnel and awaits their reaction. Currently, he didn't want to know why they stay behind and left them to their duties, keeping another secret on hand.
Later Erb went to the food hall to acquire a meal for himself. However, a sudden commotion filled the cafeteria and he watches SWORDS members confronting the alien mercenaries.
Episode 21 - Cooperation
An hour earlier, Eleanor and Gabriel paid a visit to the aliens and offered to hired them as additional muscle for the upcoming battle. In return, they would have their freedom under the condition that they would leave their city and its inhabitants alone. Ouros took their offer and his subordinates followed without question. However, presently in the food hall, many SWORDS members confronted the aliens, still holding resentment toward them. Luckily, Zeph breaks it up at the right time, stating the importance of their cooperation, and reminds the aliens to uphold their promise if they too wish to live after this. With the tension now gone, Erb meets Zeph again, congratulates him in dealing with the situation. After they grabbed their meal, Zeph leads him to where his fireteam is eating – outside by a balcony.
As they consume what could be their last dinner, Bulb soon joins them, sparking a conversation and noting their silence. Tya confesses her silent mood was due to her fear of the upcoming battle. Roza suddenly comes up with an idea to help them cope; they should all share the last time they ever felt nervous – butterflies in the stomach. Raix starts first with his experience in eating a baseball size yellow crystal; he thought it was one large rock candy and it oddly tasted good. Tya went next, revealing her moment was from their recent fight with the Cyclops, Azure; when she turned into the so-called Super Saiyan form, she was cautious of her own strength and was afraid that she might kill the alien by accident. Roza's moment was also during the recent attack; fearful over the thought of her sister, Jav, the people of Alpha site, and Zeph were in danger. Zeph states his most recent exposure was when he let his machine take control of his body, but then brought up a humorous joke regarding the time he mustered up the courage to ask Roza out on a date. She, in response, brushes his face away in a joking manner. Bulb comes in, telling his story on how he had slept inside a shipping container to go to another world, only to wake up to find the entire vessel crawling with face hugging parasites. Erb finally comes in but is unable to share anything concrete – his fight with Zeph was intense but not fear-inducing. However, he does mention when he first awoke, with no recollection of anything, he was confused and scared – though Yuuko helped ease his worries albeit elaborately. It was there that he reveals he saw a message he left for himself, and Raix bombards him with questions about it. Erb blurts out he has a girlfriend he doesn't even know about but is then saved by Tya's intervention.
The next morning, every eye was stuck in the sky, watching for any signs of abnormality. The cyclops position themselves in the sky around the city and have thus far made no hints of betrayal. Erb stays on the city's port area with Neva, until they both sense a large power level approaching. Out of the blue, a slip space rupture opens, and a harbinger scout ship exits out, only to be destroyed by a beam strike from behind them, where the titanic humanoid figure, Thunderwing, makes his entrance.
Episode 22 – He's here
Everyone was put in awe and shock by the monstrosity hovering over their heads, including the cyclops – Thunderwing's presence was enough to even make even Ouros shed nervous sweat drops. They had fought against kaoticons, but never have they met a foe close to him – he was unlike anything they have ever seen, and simply looking at him was nerve-wrecking.
Meanwhile, Erb immediately turns into a Super Saiyan and flies up to meet the danger. Using a face mask provided by Director Eve, he went into space and cautiously closes in on the giant – measuring the beast's overall height topping over 150 meters. But the Saiyan notices the monster's confusion, looking as though it had not intended to arrive here. Thankfully, their theory on the dragonheart being undetectable when not used, proved true for the moment – the creature seemed to be in no hurry whatsoever. Still, they chose to raise the shield to further conceal it if need be.
Erb then commences with their plan, which was to use himself as bait and get Thunderwing's attention away from the planet. From what he learned from Neva regarding kaoticons, most of them are smart but arrogant and will always try to act as the superior; he hopes to take advantage of that particular characteristic. Eventually, he grabs Thunderwing's stare, and the Saiyan hears his voice in his head, asking why was he in his path. Erb couldn't find a proper answer, and the beast makes the first strike, shooting out red energy beams from its eye. The Saiyan begins to dodge them while leading him through a nearby asteroid field. As Thunderwing's attack became more scattered, Erb found the opening he needs to get close. Throwing a dragon's fist to the monster's face, blinding it temporarily, Erb lands on his back and teleporting beside him is Neva. Together, using her instant transmission, they move themselves to a new battleground.
More than 200,000 miles away from Aeon, on one of the 3 moons orbiting around it, Juniper – a habitable planetoid which was supposed to be used as a research outpost - Neva accomplishes to bring the titan to its surface, where the rest of Charlie team await them.
Erb and Neva back away from Thunderwing who is now being heavily bombarded by Zeph's Blitz Shots. Raix and Tya, both hovering on an energy disc, propel towards their enemy as he marches out unscathed. Raix propels Tya with a kick to reach the beast at extreme speed. From her right hand, Tya takes out a small black iron rod which then expands instantly into a staff by her command. She swings it and at the same time, an astral form of her staff was created out of thin air, equal in size to that of the monster's limb. The sight of her weapon amazes both Erb, and Neva. Her weapon, the Bang Staff, had been with her since Gabriel found them, and with it, she can project a separate staff without having to use any of her own power and can expand its size, alter its weight, and even extend its length with just a thought. Before, she couldn't wield it in public due to its sheer destructive capabilities. Now, with nothing restricting her, she pummels Thunderwing to the ground, and repeats her strikes. Raix quickly passes by Erb and Neva and hands them their earpieces; they then hear Roza issuing commands from on top of a mountain in her jumper.
Episode 23 – Fight to the end
In the city, Eleanor, the rest of the SWORDS and technical staff prepare for liftoff upon completion of the necessary repairs. Jav, Lilith, and Bulb are still hiding in the access tunnel, and just when the young boy finished his own little project, they felt the entire structure around them vibrating violently – the city's engine is being primed.
On Juniper, Tya's ongoing smashing ceases when Thunderwing catches her astral weapon and crushes it with one hand. Raix takes her place by throwing his spiraling discs into the monster's face and sped off on his nimbus ring with Tya back on. The calamity blew away the dust cloud only to find his own feet stuck onto the ground. Below is a brown tar-like substance which made it difficult for the giant to move. Thanks to Roza's guidance in leading her team to trap him in the tar area, Zeph restarts his attack, always mobile, whereas Raix and Neva start their assault in the air and far. Erb and Tya stick together to hit the giant up close, using Zeph's explosions as smokescreens to cover their movements.
Thunderwing, irritated by their tactics, charges an energy blast from his mouth and lets out a roar straight at Zeph. But Neva summons her mirror, absorbs the blast into it, and then reflects it back at him, staggering the beast. Finally having dealt a major blow, Erb fires his dragon's fist at the monster's right cheek, causing the giant to sunder on its knee. Thunderwing retaliates with its own shot, only to be dealt with again by Neva's mirror. This time the kaoticon was stunned and took a wide step back, and swarms of yellow energy discs gather around him. They shatter into thousands of tiny pieces, chipping away at his defenses. Raix, having conjured the hail storm, effortlessly controls them while giving Tya the time to make her weapon as large and heavy as possible. When Thunderwing breaks out of his trap, Tya swung her weapon down, pinning the beast in place, forcing him to hold it up with both hands. Neva, Erb, and Zeph lash out their signature techniques – Zeph's super mac buster, Erb's dragon's fist, and Neva's Kamehameha wave, at the pinned giant.
With the bombardment inbound, the kaoticon channels out a shockwave blast powerful enough to shield himself and rebound everything back. Tya's colossal pillar crumbles away from the explosion, and the tar area was no more. All opposing combatants are knockback, but Raix sees Neva not moving and the kaoticon was gunning for her with a tail whip. He races over and snatches her away. Yet, the air pressure produced by his tail whip, causes Raix to lose his balance midflight and cutting the time he needed to dodge from an incoming fist. But Erb crashes in, finally unsheathes his sword and plunges it into the side of the hand, stopping it in its track. As Thunderwing brought his hand back, Erb frees his sword, but watches the giant throw another punch with greater force. Neva quickly gains consciousness and brings out her mirror, large enough to take in his hand, and then closes it off, essentially cutting his arm off. As confusion takes over Thunderwing, Neva teleports herself and Raix away, only to then admit she didn't know she could do that with the mirror.
But the beast snaps back to the battle and in a few seconds, his arm regenerates back to normal. Erb, present to witness it, had heard from King kai of high-level kaoticons – level 4's – having the ability to regenerate – which made their job at killing it even more difficult. Not only that, but the weapon he has is a bad match against the giant – he sustained some damage when he stopped the first one with his sword, but doubts he can do it again. He flew upward to avoid an inbound beam strike, but quickly meets another fist. Forced to deflect the blow once more, Erb puts his sword back in its sheath and performs an upward swing, hoping the bluntness of his weapon's cover would suffice. Upon contact, he struggles to push back the attack, until his katana changes shaped, fusing with it sheathe to become one large black ivory sword. With it, he was able to bash the kaoticon's fist back with more efficiency.
In the city, near the engine room, Hatric roams through the corridors finding a safe room to stay in. But as he rounds a corner, he spots 2 SWORDS soldiers, dead, covered with large stab wounds, lying in the hallway in front of a door leading to where the Dragonheart is. He looks inside to find a tall, well-dressed man with red velvet hair and a fedora hat.
Episode 24 – Next move
Zeph and Tya, both having recovered, spot Thunderwing was stunned by Erb's parry, and so, they fire devastating shots to its leg, causing him to fall on his knee once again. Erb retreats down to them, who were surprised by his new weapon. They then hear Roza sounding off a roll call, which they part take. Zeph informs her their attacks have no effect on the giant so far due to his regenerative powers, but Erb mentions he could harm it with his weapon and that it can change shape. The thought of him being able to pierce his armor gave Roza an idea and asks if he could change the size of his weapon like Tyas. Erb could not, but he had an idea on what to do - all he needs is a minute to prepare. Putting little thought into changing his sword's shape, Erb manages to revert it back into its katana form, power up into a Super Saiyan 2 and flew somewhere safe to get ready. In the meantime, Roza orders the others to keep the monster busy.
Thunderwing stands tall after his fall but is stop yet again, this time by Raix. Creating hundreds of his discs he connects them all into one long and sturdy chain and bound the titan with it while shredding away at its armor. In a few seconds, it broke free once more, but Zeph blasted the areas around its body where it was the weakest. His effort exposed the monster's flesh on its left chest plate, and Tya lands on him with Neva's help. She drove her Bang staff in with hardly any trouble and fires off an energy blast through her staff, blowing a large hole in the beast's chest. However, Thunderwing let out a roaring aura blast across the entire landscape, blowing everyone back. Neva's attempt in escaping the wave with Tya failed, with only herself having teleported. Thunderwing found Tya and was going catch her and then crush her to death with his vice grip. But out of the blue, an energy blast impacts his open wound, stunning him in place with pain, and another golden warrior swoops down and flew the girl to safety. Zeph also fires upon the open wound, not giving it the chance to regenerate.
Erb, having charged most of his energy into his katana blade and condensed all of it as a paper-thin layer, signals to Neva he was ready. Neva creates a mirror in front of him and several more in a circle. Erb dashes in, and as he passes through the ring of mirrors, he gains even more speed to the point of making countless afterimages. Eventually, Neva went on ahead to create another pair of mirrors, one in front of the kaoticon and one behind it. Erb went through the first, pulls the trigger on his sheathe to let the blade fly out, grabs onto its handle, and slashes the air in front of him, releasing the condensed aura as a crescent beam. The beam then cuts Thunderwing in half through the waist, opening Erb's path to the second mirror, only to arrive back to the first. From there, he continuously cuts away at the titan before any of sliced off pieces could touch the ground. In a few seconds, Thunderwing was turned into minced meat, and all the fighters hurdle their attacks at the defenseless being. Erb, after exiting the first mirror one last time, tries to stop himself but was only able to thanks to Neva's and Trunks's using themselves to buffers for him. Erb finally met Trunks again, and Trunks told him he arrived not too long ago thanks to Yuuko after running a little errand. Earlier, he had rescued Tya and joined them in their combined attack.
The three of them met up with Charlie team who sent a message to the city, telling them Thunderwing is defeated – no traces of him are left. However, Erb could sense the beast was still alive and upon further inspection in the air, he spots lakes of the beast's blood scattered everywhere. He immediately destroyed them all, except for one. He was too late, and from the pool, a pillar of dark purple aura erupts, catching them all in it. The explosion escapes the moon's atmosphere and resonates through space, traveling far enough to impact the city's shield, knocking out power. At the same time, Jav and Lilith turn up in the jumper bay and Jav checks on his tablet on the status of the city. He learns the main power station was offline but is horrified to know a secondary power station went online – the only other power source other than the zpm was the crystal.
In the control room, Gabriel had heard Roza's report before it was cut off and assumes the worst. He radios in Ouros and his members, wanting to request a favor from one of them.
Episode 25 - Awaken
Erb survives the eruption and is the first to witness Thunderwing alive and standing. All the others follow suit, but Zeph found Roza bleeding out from a head injury and missing her left foreleg – the result of a rock moving at high speeds her leg, ripping it off upon contact. He panics over her injuries and his teammates try to make him focus on the enemy. But Erb notices Thunderwing turning his gaze to Aeon; the young man knew he is sensing the Dragonheart because even he detects it – it was in use. Thunderwing blasts off into space and rockets towards the city. Erb and Trunks follow, and soon after Zeph did too, while the rest were taken back to the city by Neva.
Inside the city, Gabriel, Ouros, and the other aliens were making their way to the power room to take the dragon heart away from the city – a plan devised by Gabriel. Ouros's subordinates are reluctant to fulfill the old man's request, but Ouros himself volunteers, saying he owed a debt to the red Saiyan and hopes his actions would give them some measure of repentance. However, Gunnar then volunteers, and before Ouros could reject, the others held him down, and Teal knocks him out, allowing Gunnar and Gabriel to go on their way. Gabriel had asked Gunnar why they restrained their leader, and he responds with the fact that he is their leader and they are his cannon fodder – their lives meant nothing without their leader.
Jav, the first to arrive at the Dragonheart, is with Lilith and Bulb and see Hatric inside, injured and near death, with a large stab wound through his chest. The man uses his remaining strength to convey who activated the Dragonheart and begs them to save the city. He dies soon after, and then Jav furiously unlocks the cables and clamps connecting to the crystal. But then Gabriel enters the room with Gunnar. Gabriel, surprise to find the children here and Hatric dead, did not question their intentions and instead ask for Jav's assistance. After Gunnar rip off the crystal, Gabriel drags Jav with them and went on ahead to the jumper bay and tells Lilith to stay further down below the tower for safety. But Lilith ran elsewhere, intent on making use of the hard work Jav had been preparing, and ask Bulb to go with them in her stead. He did as she wished.
After a short run, Lilith enters the control room, rushes past her bewildered mother and enters another room where a chair laid. The large device, dubbed as the Control Chair, was the key they needed to make full use of starship, since it can access everything; before, it was in disrepair and no one was able to fix it, thus they bypassed it using other terminals. But Jav was able to fix it after realizing the links to the chair had been severed. Without hesitation, LIlith sat on it and before her mother could stop her, she acquired control over the entire city in seconds.
Gabriel, Gunnar, Bulb, and Jav show up at the bay and enter a jumper. As Atlantis was nearing escape velocity, they quickly drive out and pass through the city's shield. Gunnar then leaves the jumper with the dragonheart slung to his back and heads towards the planet.
Thunderwing, sensing, and Dragonheart is moving, shifts his course away from the city, and flew even faster, anxious to retrieve his full power. The Saiyans chasing behind the behemoth could barely keep up. The kaoticon then charges one last beam from its eye and it sears through the sky. Gunnar, unable to dodge in time, met his fate, along with the crystal.
The kaoticon crashes on Aeon, and upon the Dragonheart's destruction, his entire body burst into a gigantic blaze, causing a planet-wide earthquake in the process. Erb, Trunks, and Zeph brace themselves against the shockwave and cover their eyes from the intense bright purple light. From the city, after the light vanished, everyone sees what appears to be a colossal object standing on the horizon of their world.
Episode 26 – Sacrifice
With the Dragonheart destroyed and Thudnerwing's power returned, Erb and the other Saiyans continues to fight against the moon size beast, throwing whatever they could while it remains immobile and disoriented. Their assault yields no damage, and Thunderwing finally makes his first move in his complete form, aiming an eye beam at them. Neva teleports in, using her mirrors as shields. Sadly, the amount of energy overpowers her weapon and shatters it. Erb and Zeph dodge the stray attacks, but Trunks is hit by one, knocking him out cold. Neva caught him and brought him back to the city. Facing a nearly impossible obstacle, Erb and Zeph are powerless to do anything as it readied another blast. But then hundreds of tiny golden lights impact all over his upper body like moths to the flame. Zeph uses his visor to zoom in on the strange weapons and tracks them back to the city.
Lilith, still sitting on the control chair is firing away all the ship's weapons at her disposal, ignoring the fact that her titanic opponent isn't being hurt the slightest. Suddenly, another bream strike from his eye soar pass the city; although it missed them, it was close enough for the shockwave produced to hit them and drain the shield. Thunderwing repeats his same attack, but Ouros, in his meteoric burst form, musters all his strength into a singular blast, fending it off momentarily. Shade, Azure, and Teal join in and together they divert the beam off at a small angle. Lilith soon hears Gabriel communicating with her from his jumper, ordering her to take the city into slip space. Shortly after, before Thunderwing's beam overpowers Ouros's, Lilith got the city to enter slip space just in time and avoids destruction.
Erb and Zeph gather by the jumper as per Gabriel's command, and they both watch him stand nearby the rear door. Thunderwing spots them and was charging its entire body to produce an energy shockwave, strong enough to destroy the entire system. With imminent demise around the corner, Gabriel asks Zeph and Jav to take care of his daughters, revealing himself to be their father. But the boys could respond to his wishes, Gabriel's body began to emit an intense white light, blinding them. With all of his magic, Gabriel unleashes one of the most powerful spells he had ever learn, Fairy Law. Upon activation, and even brighter light engulfs them all, even causing the kaoticon to let out a painful roar.
Suddenly, the light then vanishes, giving back Erb's and the other's eye sight. Erb sees Gabriel still standing, but can sense his life force is gone. Still, after looking outside, he spots Thunderwing, now completely white but reverted back to his base form, appearing to be in shock. Zeph rushes to Gabriel's side to find him lifeless and eases his body down to the ground. Unfortunately, Thunderwing though weakened again, let out an ear-deafening battle cry, fueled by vengeance. Zeph on the other hand finally snaps; with Roza near death and Gabriel losing his life, Zeph charges at the behemoth, ascends into a Super Saiyan 2 and sends a powerful hammer strike against his head. Despite his power up, Thunderwing was about to counter with a mouth blast, only have his jaw clamped up after being hit by Erb's greatsword, causing the blast inside to self-destruct. Together, the 2 Saiyan warriors collide against the calamity, forcing him back down to the ground and slowly overpowering him. Yet, the beast made a last-ditch effort by attempting to destroy Aeon by punching the ground, sending his energy into the planet's core - letting the planetary explosion and the vacuum of space finish his work. Zeph and Erb combine their two attacks, Super Mac Buster and Neva's Kamehameha wave, in hopes of stopping him. The calamity used what little energy he had in reserve to erect a barrier around himself and their attacks struggle to push through. It was only Neva assists the young warriors by opening her mirror and making it into a narrow oval shape with a single energy string attached vertically across its backside. Its new appearance resembles a bow and she let loose a neon blue arrow. It flows through their attack and punctured a hole over Thunderwing's barrier and armor. The resulting blast eviscerates the titan as he is sent flying over the horizon and into deep space. But the victors are too late in stopping the destruction of the planet as everything crumbles around them. Neva, bringing Erb and Zeph back to Jav and Bulb, pinpoints the city's location. However, it was moving too fast for her to lock onto, and so, she chose to teleport them to Other world out of desperation.
Episode 27 – Forgiveness
Traveling through slip space, in the control room, Eleanor along with her staff are maintaining the city's overall systems on their end, giving Lilith some breathing room while she deals with the ship's course. Raix, Tya, and Trunks wait for their friends to pop in at any moment, but instead, out of nowhere, an unknown man walks out in the open. Everyone was up in arms against the stranger, but the man didn't come to fight. He wanted to thank them for completing his own task, which was finding and subduing the calamity known as Thunderwing. He did mention he had a hand in their battle, which was the activation of the Dragonheart – removing a hindrance to his own plans since he needed the calamity at his best for their future plans. Eleanor immediately pulls out her gun and shot him in the head out of spite – he was the reason for Gabriel's sacrifice and suspects him for killing Hatric. But the man, unfazed by her action, still lives, and his wounds instantly heals. Despite the hostile welcome, the man chose not to retaliate and instead bids his farewell as the arrival of his ship, ripping into their slip space. It's forced entry causes a massive power surge throughout the city, damaging the inner workings of the control chair, leading to an overload that shocks Lilith. Eleanor, hearing her daughter screaming, ran in, only to find her unconscious.
On Other World, Erb, Zeph, Bulb and Jav venture out of their jumper to find themselves in the middle of a green plain with an orange sky directly above. Right next to the jumper, they can hear Neva being scolded by King Kai for nearly crushing him under the vehicle. He changes his gaze to the rest of the team and went on to congratulate them on their hard battle. He also gave good news regarding their city's safe trip. Still, Zeph was depressed over Gabriel's death and more so on what he meant by daughters. At the same time, Goku arrives back from a checking station with a guest. It was Gabriel, but as a middle-aged man instead of an elderly geezer. Zeph remembers him to be the man who he thought to be a father figure long ago.
With King Kia's permission, Gabriel could retain his living body and spend his new life on Other World, training as he pleases. His old body that was once lying in the jumper suddenly disappears too. He sat down with Zeph, telling him the truth regarding who he was and of the fateful event 12 years ago. Erb stands by Neva and Jav who is diagnosing the jumper's systems – the Saiyan knew the boy was doing all of this to preoccupy his mind from what he learned yesterday. He questions the kai on how she broke down the kaoticon's aura shield before, and she clarifies she didn't, but rather, she erased a small part of it, allowing their attack to break through. Her weapon in its mirror form can reflect energy attacks and can act as a mobile portal, while it's bow form can erase whatever it touches – hence, being able to pass through energy attacks, unimpeded. She, unfortunately, critics the arrows used are the size of regular ones and is mainly an anti-personnel weapon – it wouldn't work well against a regenerator and a giant. Then, out from their view, Goku approaches them and bombards the red warrior with both praise and questions regarding who he was – Erb felt tired of answering the same questions over again. Afterward, Erb wishes he could bring Gabriel back with them just so Lilith and Roza would have their father back, but then Goku mentions they could if they had dragon balls – 7 wish granting orbs found on his homeworld. But King Kai suddenly barges in, lecturing Goku for providing a pointless endeavor; people should cherish their lives and accept their end - there are no workarounds. King kai soon informs them their city has finally exited out of slip space and so Zeph and Gabriel said their last goodbyes, and Neva brings them all back, including the jumper.
The moment the four of them appear in the control room, Eleanor and her staff are still fiddling with the city's system, not having noticed them until Zeph spoke out. She quickly greets them and gave her praise for their work. However, she also gives them grave news.
Episode 28 – We're Leaving
While Neva returns all the evacuated citizens back to the city, Erb, Zeph, Raix, and Tya were in the hospital together, paying Roza a visit. With one leg remaining, Roza felt lucky she only lost just that, but admits losing Gabriel left a deep pit in her heart. But what made it worse is that her sister, in spite of having saved everyone, is in a coma. Currently, with the young girl, are Jav and Bulb. Jav blames himself for making his best friend use the chair and had been silently cursing at himself out of guilt.
Zeph, having been told of what really happened 12 years ago, went ahead and tell Raix and Tya. They didn't take it well, but eventually, they got around it, though approaching Eleanor and the others – who lied to them of such a crucial part of their lives - especially Jav – who most likely blames them for his parent's death – was difficult to bear. Then out from Raix's radio, Eleanor requests Fireteam Charlie including Erb to come to her office.
They did as she said and upon entering her office, they meet Trunks who had already spoken to both the president and director Eve beforehand. He wanted to discuss with them an item he was supposed to give to Erb – the same item which Yuuko tasked him to find from a long abandon city resembling what they were currently standing on. According to Yuuko, the item in question is a metallic ring with 36 glyphs all around it and 9 arrow marks equally spaced between though one of the marks had a red gem installed on it. The purple hair Saiyan further explains its function is to create portals resembling large machines known as stargates which allow interstellar travel from one world to another almost instantaneously - Erb's new means of traveling to different planets without Yuuko's aid. Due to its size, Erb adequately names it the wristgate – everyone expresses their discontent for the simple name. Eve says the symbols on the device match with what they have archived thanks to Lilith's diligence, thus proving her theory in how the people who built the city used the rings to go from place to place. Erb accepts the item and wears the device. He quickly felt it tightening around his wrist until it fit perfectly.
Eleanor then moves on to the remaining Charlie's members – she orders them to accompany Erb and Trunks on their journey. Zeph and the others immediately object. The president discloses she wants them away from the city because of the committee's intention – with Hatric dead, the rest of them plan to take their freedom away and make them as living weapons because of their abilities. She was opposed to it, but as of recently, she was quietly taken out of office – the committee unanimously voted her out and intend to make the announcement public later in the day. Still, while Eleanor had some influence, she got Ouros and his comrades off-world with some help from Dyne, thus fulfilling her end of their deal, and plans to do the same for Zeph's team. With time not on their side yet again, in a few short minutes Zeph, Raix, and Tya reluctantly took her offer. Trunks had already agreed to Eleanor's term, deeming the 3 Saiyans to be an asset to their team. Erb and Bulb held much the same sentiment. But before they could depart, Zeph wishes to say his last parting words to Roza, and Eleanor gave him that chance. Elsewhere, Jav had been eavesdropping on their conversation with a bug he planted in Eleanor's earpiece. But learning of the Saiyans – his friends - are going to leave, has changed his current plans.
Zeph went to meet Roza and said his farewells, vowing he would return. She responds by kissing him, and telling him to never change and to get rid of any worries he had of her and the others – she would be able to get back to work as soon as Eve gets her prosthetics ready, and Lilith will wake up before they know it.
Later, the cyborg went to one of the city piers in secret to find his new team already gathered, accompanied by Eleanor and Dyne. Eve and Bay were elsewhere, keeping things busy in the city, leading the eyes of the committee away from them. After being provided supplies for their journey, Erb looks at the ring dial, turning it back and forth, inputting one of the coordinates written inside of Lilith's notebook. After making one last turn, the red gem lights up and a blue beam of light erupts outward, molding itself into a holographic ring in midair. Suddenly, a geyser surges out, startling everyone, and then it immediately returns to the ring formation to form a calm puddle. The Saiyans and their green companion look back at the city one last time, hoping to see it again under better circumstances, and then leap into the gate. Eleanor and Dyne stare at the puddle for a moment until one of their radios chimes in regarding a jumper being unaccounted for. Soon after, Eleanor receives a call from Eve regarding if they had seen Jav anywhere. But her eyes are drawn back to the ring after hearing something large going through it, and then watches the hologram disappear.