Rebirth of Carnage:Vol 2 (part 2)
Tien smirks "You had your chance, kisama...now it's too late." Ceringo narrows his eyes. He disappears, along with Tien. Ceringo reappears in the air and looks around frantically for Tien. Tien appears behind him and hammers him into the ground. Ceringo flips over, and jumps into a crater as a barrage of ki blasts explode on the ground. Trunks climbs up out f the rubble that was formerly a building, trembling with anger. He screams and powers up, causing an large explosion and creating a crater that spreas outwards from his feet. Trunks dashes forward and punches Ceringo as fast as he can. Ceringo, unable to block with only one arm, gets ruthlessly pounded by the Trunks' barrage. Tien appears next to Trunks and aids in the assault. Now bleeding from several wounds, Ceringo flys back into a wall and slumps to the ground. Trunks, unsatisfied with the results, dashes at Ceringo once again, Tien reaches his hand for him, but misses Trunks' shoulder by mere inches. "Trunks-san! Wait!" Trunks ignores him, fueled by rage and hatred for the android, and continues in his relentless advance. As he reaches him, Trunks draws both hands over his head, while Ceringo looks up quickly and slams his fist through Trunks' chest. Eyes suddenly wide and his body shaking, Trunks coughs up blood, his arms falling limp at his sides. Ceringo stands up, his hand still buried in Trunks' chest, then pulls his hand out, holding Trunks' still beating heart, causing the Saiyajin to fall lifeless to the floor. Tien's aura flares up to an enormous size, blanketing the area in light. "No!!" Tien trembles with hatred and rage, with a murderous look in his eyes. Raising his hand in the direction of Ceringo and pointing at him with an open hand, Tien struggles with his anger to speak. "You...heartles bastard! I'm going to....pound you into oblivion!!" Ceringo laughs, and holds out his hand, still holding Trunks' heart. "Well...it would seem I'm not entirely heartless." Tien trembles, and then explodes with rage.
The air around Gokuo, Vegeta nd Ceta buzzes with the concentration of energy. A golden ball appears in Gokuo's hands as he gathers his strength and energy. At the same moment, a golden ki ball appears infront of Vegeta. Ceta radiates with crimson energy as a ki ball forms infront of his chest once again. The three glowing orbs of power each grow in size. Electricity jumps between the three warriors as they stare at their respective adversaries.
The orbs double in size, and the senshi strain.
A low humming is heard...
Lightning strikes Gokuo as he gathers energy, jumping over his body before finally being assimilated bu the orb of ki in his hands.
The humming grows louder...
Winds blow from under Vegeta in a heated updraft, causing the hair on his head to tussle upwards as if he was under water.
The humming grows even louder...
Rocks swirl around Ceta in an atomic pattern and his wings spread to their full extent as he pours energy in the glowing orb infront of him.
The humming reaches a deafening tone.
Gokuo sweeps his arms backwards "...Kamehameha!" The beam is called into being, and shoots towards Ceta. While at the same time, Vegeta claps his hands onto the ki ball "...Flash!" The beam screams forward, originating from the ki ball. And yet at the same time, Ceta pushes both his arms forward "Ha!!!!" The huge crimson beam shoots forward. The three beams careen towards each other and collide...
...and the sky around the three senshi shatters.
Ceringo crashes through the roof of the subway, slamming into the floor. Tien blares through the hole just made by the android, widening it with his aura. In a fraction of a second, he's over Ceringo, extending his palm at the large android. Ceringo kicks upwards, catching Tien in the chin, causing his head to snap backwards. Ceringo spins to his feet and uses the momentum to spin kick Tien in the ribs, which let out an audible crack. Tien staggers, and backs into a support pillar. Ceringo dashes at him, but Tien regains his composure and ducks, casuing Ceringo to flip into and through the pillar. Ceringo lands on his feet, with remaining pieces of the pillar falling around him, and skids backwards for a moment, then jumps towards Tien, firing a ki beam as he does so. Tien evades the beam and appears at Ceringo's side, grabbing his arm. Ceringo turns his head towards him as Tien rips the arm from it's socket releasing a gushing of blood and a splutter of electricity at the same time. Tien spins around, smacking the android in the face with his own arm. Ceringo screams in pain and falls to one knee. He stands up and spins around, snapping his legs around, too stubborn to admit defeat. Both feet connecting with Tien's jaw in rapid succession, Ceringo lands once again, leaving Tien to regain his balance. As he does so, he ducks, kicking Ceringo's feet out from under him. Falling onto his back rather hard, Ceringo coughs up blood. Tien flips up into the air, riccocheting off of the roof, and embeds his knee in Ceringo's chest with a small explosion. Ceringo, now in two pieces, looks up at Tien and then his eyes go dark, his head slumping down to the ground. Tien stands up with both fists clenched. "It's out of my hands now..." He looks up, floating through the hole in the roof.
The two beams fired by the final two full-blooded Saiyajins join together to push against Ceta's beam, but the crimson energy beam still makes it's way forward. Vegeta strains, doing all he can to keep his beam from collapsing. 'I can defeat him...can't I?' He searches within himself for an answer, but continues his efforts towards the beam. 'I'm...I'm not strong enough...huh?' He turns his eyes downwards, realizing for the first time that he no longer felt his son's ki. 'No....' Vegeta feels himself slipping and turns back towards the matter at hand, renewed determination in his eyes and in his heart. 'For my son...I will defeat this deamon!' His beam swells up and pushes Ceta's back slightly.
Gokuo see's Vegeta redoubling his efforts on the beam and smiles inwardly. 'Time to go all out...' Gokuo's body crackles with energy and his beam triples in size. Beads of sweat appear on his forhead, and his beam pushes Ceta's back. Moving steadily towards him now, Ceta's face contorts with fury. But he does nothing to improve the situation. Gokuo smiles to himself. 'He knows he's lost...' Ceta's wings slump down onto his back and he drops his hands. The beams bear down on him, but still he laughs. "Son Gokuo, Vegeta...just know that I am not the last, or strongest creation of Dr. Gero..." He laughs again before the beams explode around him, tearing his body apart in a violent tempest of power. The smoke from the explosion clears out, and the sky brightens again. Gokuo and Vegeta return to their normal forms, and Gokuo floats to the ground trembling due to over exertion. Vegeta slowly follows, trembling as well, due vastly to rage along with over exertion.
The following week, the senshi were once again gathered at Gokuo's house, including Trunks due to a deal cut with the Kaioshin of his time line. Gokuo rubs his chin. "Explain it all to me again, Tien?" Tien nods "Sure...I know it's kind of hard to grasp, as well as being alot to take in at once." Gokuo nods, and Tien continues "Well you see, Gero made his androids o be progressively more human. They're still mostly mechanical, but the differences from before are evident...they have souls..." Gohan tilts his head, looking at Tien, wearing a cast on his left arm due to the previous weeks escapade. "But how did you get all this information and power?" Tien shrugs "Cerax...when he knew that he was going to die, did something to merge the two of us. I think...that his conciousness was transferred into me...granting me everything that he knew, and his power as well. I can feel his pressance inside me...I can't really explain it that well. One thing is for sure, though...I never would have survived if he hadn't." Trunks nods to Gohan "Or if you hadn't given him that senzu bean to start with." Gokuo peers at Gohan, who's sitting with Videl. "Just why did you have that senzu bean anyway?" A sweatdrop forms over Gohan's head. "Umm..." Videl leans over, her face a bit red, and whispers something in Gokuo's ear, promting a sweatdrop over his head as well. Videl leans back and Gokuo blinks. "Son...we need to talk, man to man..." Gohan's face takes on horizontal blue streaks. "Umm...sure dad..."
END
End Notes:
-The deal with Trunks....Trunks asked the Kaioshin in his timeline to give him life as long as there is a lasting threat to the earth of the Z Senshi's timeline. (Which will never end, as long as I can help it.)
-The senzu bean and Gohan....well let's take it into perspective. The senzu bean, while having restorative powers, aslo stimulates the muscles of the one taking it. In short, Gohan found a way to use it as a Viagra substitute.....seems the poor boy, with all his power, can't get it up.