Chapter 7: Armageddon
"Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death."
Omar Bradley
"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
Marcus Aurelius
"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
Thomas Carlyle
"Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend."
Akhenaton
Surprisingly, Riot and Bloodbath did not dive into the thick of things immediately. As they flew away from Vagane, they seemingly stopped short, landing twenty feet in front of the assembled group of warriors.
Riot stayed on his feet, while Bloodbath knelt over, smirking an evil grin that was all too familiar to the Z Warriors. It was just like her mother's.
"So many to kill…it's so hard to choose." Bloodbath chuckled.
"Smorgasboard." Riot giggled, licking his lips.
Everyone looked at each other, and then looked back at the two.
"GET THEM!"
Everyone leapt at the twin demons.
Riot smirked and pointed.
Bloodbath thrust up her hand.
A gigantic black explosion consumed the demon children and enveloped the charging Legacy members and Z Warriors, blowing them away like gnats before a hurricane. The explosion blasted a crator in a mile radius.
The power washed over Vagane, but it didn't harm a hair on his head. Instead, he laughed as it flowed over him, before it exploded upward in a massive smoke cloud.
The smoke cleared around the two demon children, as they looked back and forth. One way, the Legacy was getting to their feet. Another way, the Z Warriors were getting to theirs.
"Who gets the more powerful and therefore tastier souls to devour?" Riot asked. Bloodbath glanced at her brother.
"Rock, paper, scissors?"
"You're on." Riot chuckled, and the two put their hands in front of them.
"ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS!"
Riot had Paper, Bloodbath Scissors.
"Damn. Very well sis, you may have the warriors of this world. But please, save one or two of the more succulant souls for me…I want to say goodbye to Daddy beforehand."
"I will brother." Bloodbath smirked.
The two seperated, each heading towards a group.
Divide.
Conquer.
Annihalate.
Ash spat blood as Riot landed in front of him and his teammates. A quick glance confirmed that no one was injured severely. That blast had been designed to somehow separate the two groups, and it had worked. The degree of precision in such an insanely powerful blast made Ash shudder.
In the corner of his eye, Ash realized that his mother had joined their group, leaving her previous safety. Ash wanted to chastise her, but then he realized that here or anywhere, the result may very well be the same.
Another thing caught Ash's eyes. Apparently Buffy was with them as well. The girl was truly tough if she had taken that blast. But would she be tough enough?
"So…I get to destroy you…pity. I wanted the Z Warriors."
You're welcome to them! Your sis should share! Go have some!
"Shut up Soulfire. He's planning to kill us anyway, whether you try and pawn him off on the Z Warriors or not." Ash said. "So, you are the child of Vagane. You are as hideous as I expected."
"Hideous? Along with being weak, are you blind?" Riot chuckled, running his hand through his long sheath of black bangs. "You wish you had looks like this."
"No, actually…I don't." Ash said. "I would rather be dead then you."
"I will make that so." Riot chuckled. "Oh please, do you think you can win? Do you think some speech on how you must defend humanity will grant you some miracle? Humanity is obsolete. Vagane took the building block, erased all the weakness and imperfections, altered it with his genius…and created I. My sister and I are perfection. That Cell creature wasn't even close. We are the ultimate in life, in survival. Just like all those father will create once we have given him your souls. You wish to fight for humanity? Humanity has been surpassed. All that is left…are bodies to ravage, minds to torment…and souls to devour."
"Never…" Ash hissed, growing angrier and angrier. "GET HIM!"
The Legacy exploded into action, scattering and moving into the assault. Buffy also moved, although whether she was listening to Ash or following her own initiative, Ash didn't know.
"Oh please…I am as strong as my sister and she possesses the power to annihalate the warriors of THIS world! You stand no chance against me! But if you wish to be shown this in a way that will be so painful…it'll be more fun for me!"
Rod and William leapt at Riot, swinging their swords, but Riot thrust out both his fists and knocked the two men flying backwards as they crashed violently into the ground. Victoria and Lindsay, claws snapping onto their hands, jumped Riot from behind, but the clone somehow sensed them and leapt upward, snapping up both his legs and thrusting them into the girl's faces. They also flew and violently crash landed.
"Morons." Riot said, looking behind him at the sprawled bodies of Victoria and Lindsay.
Then a powerful kick came crashing into his face, causing him to stumble, and then Buffy slammed twin jabs into his stomach, wrapped her arm Riot's neck, and leapt and twisted, breaking Riot's neck so violently his head was nearly twisted off. Buffy landed and flipped away.
She expected to see Riot down and dead. She had not expected to see Riot still standing. Nor to hear him laugh as he reached up and righted his head with a sickening crunch.
"You obviously have no idea where I come from." Riot chuckled, and then lifted his hand as black power came to life in his palm. "But I ain't no vampire!"
Buffy leapt up and away from Riot's blast, spiralling down and kicking Riot across the face, smashing him with a backhand, sending him stumbling backwards with a thrust kick, and then flipping a reverse 360 degrees and smashing Riot with the heel of her foot. He fell, and she cocked back her arm. She wasn't pulling her punch. This one would go right through Riot's heart.
Then Riot's arm shot up and gripped Buffy by the throat. Buffy gasped as she was dangled off the ground by the clone. He'd been playing with her the whole time.
"You bore me." Riot said.
Then he smashed his fist across Buffy's face, and Buffy staggered, stars exploding in her vision. Then Riot reared back and threw her through the air. Buffy crash-landed badly, laying in a bloody broken heap. She had simply been outclassed.
"YEAH! RAH RAH RAH!" Spike said from where he hid, jumping up and down in a cheerleader-like fashion, flush with joy at Riot's utter manhandling of the Slayer.
Um, Ash, that guy just trashed a 1/3 of our number in less then ten seconds!
"SHUT UP SOULFIRE, AND DO WHAT YOU WERE MEANT TO DO: CUT!" Ash yelled as he slashed at Riot. Riot blurred away and reappeared behind Ash, using a bare fraction of his strength to kick him in the back. Ash flew forward, but flipped in mid-air, firing a blast from the Soulfire. Riot whacked it aside with a finger.
"You call that a blast?" Riot chuckled, and then dark energy erupted on his hand. "THIS IS A BLAST!"
Ash thrust up the Soulfire to block as Riot thrust his hand forward, firing a huge dark energy flare that enveloped Ash. Christine shrieked as it consumed her husband.
"HA! He lives up to his name!" Riot laughed. The smoke cleared to reveal Ash standing there, badly burned and blackened, and breathing heavily.
Oh sure, put ME in front of you…
Ash was too tired to tell the Soulfire to shut up, as Christine came to his side and his remaining team members backed him up. This was going to be the hardest battle he had ever fought in his life.
The Z Fighters had all regained their senses when Bloodbath landed almost daintly in front of them, smiling and looking at Goten.
"Hello! I will be your killer today!" Bloodbath chirped. Everyone glared daggers at her, but Bloodbath kept looking at Goten.
"Mother suffered greatly as I was removed. It was delicious." Bloodbath chuckled. Goten felt his blood start to boil.
"You…you…BITCH!" Goten hissed. Bloodbath suddenly looked sad.
"Awwww…did I make you mad…DADDY?"
Goten shrieked.
"YOU ARE NOT MY DAUGHTER!" he screamed, as he thrust out his hand and barranged Bloodbath with ki blasts, consumed the area around her with explosions. Goten didn't stop, firing blasts until he was completely out of energy. He hunched over, gasping.
The smoke cleared to reveal a nightmarish sight of Bloodbath a twisted wreck of fried muscle and blackened bone. Her whole face had been burrned off and smashed. But somehow she still laughed as black energy flowed over her, healing her wounds. In two seconds, she was whole again.
"Oh…but I am…father…for while Vagane made me…you supplied the base. Your blood flows in my veins…and when I'm done, your blood will be everywhere!"
"ARRGGHHHHHHH!" Goten screamed, as he blasted at Bloodbath.
Bloodbath dodged aside from Goten's blow and struck, slamming her fist into Goten's chest so hard it bulged out his back. Goten gasped as blood flew out of his mouth as he instinctively doubled over, and then Bloodbath thrust out her leg and kicked Goten, sending him crashing into a rock face which crumbled onto him.
"I certainly didn't get my endurance from you." Bloodbath chuckled, and turned to look at the remaining Z Warriors.
"Stay behind me." Vegeta said, putting himself in front of Bra and Trunks.
"But father…"
"Do it!" Vegeta said, as he glowered at Bloodbath.
"Ah you…you are the one called Vegeta. My mother had great fun with you the last time she was here…I will have to see if I can top her…but I think I can." Bloodbath said, turning her fingers into knives.
Vegeta snarled as golden energy exploded around him and lanced into his hair, turning it gold as well as he went SSJ.
"You will not repeat your mother's deeds. I will destroy you, for your crimes and hers!" Vegeta snarled, clenching his fists.
Bloodbath smiled, as she brought up her knife-fingers.
"Ah, so pretty…can I try?"
Vegeta's eyebrow arched. What was she…?
Then Bloodbath screamed as golden energy exploded around her, and everyone gasped in sheer horror as her hair turned the same gold as Vegeta's, replacing the blood-red colour. Vegeta began to shake in fear.
"N-N-NO! IMPOSSIBLE! ONLY ONE WITH A SAIYA-JIN'S BLOOD CAN DO THAT! YOU CAN'T DO THAT!" Vegeta screamed, in defiance and fear. SSJ Bloodbath smiled.
"Son Goku's very essense surges through me. Everything that made him the warrior he is is mine to command…blood does not matter in this case. I got to take some of his unique attributes…including this. You were saying, Vegeta?"
Vegeta's lips skinned away from his teeth as he clenched his fist. The ground around him began to shatter and levitate around him.
"You are a blasphemy, just like your mother. I WILL NOT LET HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF! ON ALL I HOLD HOLY, YOU WILL NOT SPILL ONE DROP OF MY NOBLE BLOOD!!!!!!!!!" Vegeta roared, as he blasted at Bloodbath, pistoning out his hand and slamming it right between her eyes.
He expected her to be thrown.
He expected her skull to be smashed in half.
He did not expect her to be utterly unfazed.
Slowly, Bloodbath reached up and grabbed Vegeta's hand, pulling it away from her face as if she was studying it.
Then, so quickly even Vegeta didn't see it, she pistoned out her knee and slammed it into Vegeta's gut. Vegeta gasped and then gurgled as blood spilled from his mouth and ran down his chin.
"Liar." Bloodbath whispered.
Then she threw Vegeta aside like he was made of paper. Vegeta screamed as he bounced along the ground and finally crashed into another cliff face.
Bloodbath smiled at her work, and then the gold faded from her hair, turning back to its blood red colour as she looked at Bra and Trunks, who were recovering from her effortless dispoal of their father. Their looks of fury matched his.
"So, who else feels like dying?" Bloodbath laughed.
"Father…she can go SSJ…"Pan half whimpered, quite terrified.
"No Pan…I don't think so…but I think she can mimic it for a short time." Gohan said in fear. Bloodbath had done more then stolen his father's power, she had stolen every single aspect of him.
"Come on! One at a time or all at once, it doesn't matter! The end result will be the same! You shall help Father ascend to his throne of Creation."
Their cry was one.
"NEVER!"
Riot laughed again at the remaining Legacy members in front of him. He seemed to have an unnerving habit of finding everything amusing.
"So what now? Cut me down?" Riot said. "Well, I may as well amuse myself and draw it out. Have at you, Legacy!"
And then Riot reached over and clunched his biceps, and then he screamed as his fingers tore into the muscle, ripping into his own arms. Everyone gasped as Riot clenched his fingers and then literally yanked his own bones out of his arms.
The hand bones's connect to the wrist bone, the wrist bone is connected to…ah damn you, you screwed up my song!
Ash nearly threw up as Riot somehow held up his own arm bones, as the wounds healed and closed, the marrow structure undoubtingly being replaced. Them spurs and sharp barbs erupted on the bones as they morphed in shape, and suddenly Riot was holding twin bone swords, still stained in his own blood.
"Come one, come all! Face annihalation at the hands of ultimate evil!"
Sorry, you're still in second place compared to Pokemon.
Ash didn't reply, as he twirled his sword and charged again, backed up by his allies.
It was quite a battle as everyone swung or slashed their weapons at Riot and he blocked and parried as if he had been using swords his whole life. Ash and Christine leapt to one side of him, but Riot fired off several blasts and Ash went sprawling. Christine slashed her bladestaff downward from behind Riot, only to have him catch it and pull Christine up and over his head, hurling her into Ash as he tried to get up.
Brigh leapt back.
"SCREAMS OF THE DAMNED!" Bright said, and then he began rapidly throwing energy-charged daggers at Riot, the blades seemingly coming from nowhere as they barraged the clone. The daggers tore through him or were impaled in him, but Riot just laughed, opening up his arms and letting Brigh turn him into a pincushion.
"Ohhh, that felt good." Riot said, as all the daggers melted, the wounds healing up as Brigh gaped at him.
Then a concentrated stream of fire struck Riot in the back, frying away his flesh. But Riot held his smile, turning around to face Chastity as her fire burned his flesh off. But the flesh just kept coming back.
"You're a hot one. Maybe I'll amuse myself with you before I turn you into a corpse." Riot smiled. Chastity stopped her flames, put her hands together, and hurled her Heavenly Dynamite flame bomb at Riot. Riot smiled and whacked it into the distance with one of his swords.
Spike gasped as the bomb flew towards him. He ran, but he was a little too slow and was hit as the bomb hit the ground and exploded, throwing tongues of flame everywhere.
"YAAAARRRGGGGHHHHH! MY BUTT'S ON FIRE! MY BUTT'S ON FIRE!" Spike yelled, running around as the back of his pants burned. He finally sat down, banging his rear against the ground as he tried to put out the flames.
"Anyone else?" Riot said.
Angie grit her teeth.
"COME ON GUYS!" Angie yelled, and twirled her staff and thrust it up.
The ground exploded under Riot, consuming him. Diana thrust back her staff and swung it forward, throwing a glowing white ball of power into the explosion. Paul fired off a huge blue laser at the same time, and the explosion tripled, blowing rock and smoke everywhere.
Then laughter came out as Riot blew away the smoke, his broken and charred flesh healing into new flesh.
"Hey, not bad! You actually wrecked my swords." Riot said, indicating the blackened hilts of his now destroyed bone swords. He threw them aside as the Legacy assembled again.
"Sis." Ash said.
"It'll take more then that to put me down." Victoria said. Lindsay nodded. Rod and William were silent as they joined their companions.
Ash stared at Riot for a second, his eyes hard, and then he spoke.
"All our powers in a combined, concentrated effort. Ready?"
"Yes!"
'DO IT!"
"FALSE MESSIAH!"
"ROYAL HUNTRESS!"
"BLOOD BULLSEYE!"
"PHANTOM DESTRUCTION!"
"DRAGON GENOCIDE!"
"SOUL SURVIVOR!"
"GROUND ZERO!"
"NAIL IN THE COFFIN!"
"SHADOW BANISHMENT!"
"INVITING HELL!"
"DEATH ROSE!"
Eleven beams of incredible power shot at Riot, of all shapes, sizes, and colours. They struck him and the ground exploded away from him as he was consumed.
"Give it everything you've got!" Ash yelled, holding his False Messiah attack. "Let's show this asshole the trouble he gets when he takes on the Legacy!"
The minor Z Warriors, knowing how little they could do if they attacked Bloodbath alone, decided the best thing to do was gang up on her. Hence, as the Z Warriors blurred away, Bloodbath suddenly found herself surrounded by Chaozu, Tien, Yamcha, Krillian, Eighteen, and Seventeen.
"NOW!"
Six golden beams of energy exploded from the warrior's hands, all zeroing in on the murderous female.
Bloodbath laughed and spun around like a ballerina, whacking all the attacks away and back at their throwers like nothing. Everyone yelped and jumped out of the way as each blast flew past them, barely missing before they exploded off in the distance. One even blew up near the Legacy group as their continued their energy pressure on Riot.
Dammit, you idiots! Riot's trashing us badly enough as it is, we don't need you guys to help!
"Is that your best?" Bloodbath laughed.
"SWARM HER!"
But as the six warriors blasted at Bloodbath, the woman flew up into the air as the tips of all her fingers glowed with black power. Then she laughed and thrust her hands down as she sent an onslaught of spreading ki needles raining down on the ground.
The group tried to scatter, but the beams were everywhere, piercing and raining down on the ground as the group screamed as one. Then the explosions consumed them. Bloodbath kept blasting, destroying the ground around the group as she laughed in joy.
Seventeen flew up from the explosions, his body smoking. Bloodbath grabbed him out of the air.
"Yummy!"
Then she thrust her hand into his side, blood exploding from where she thrust her hand as she tore right through his abdomen and ripped out his liver. Seventeen screamed at the terrible pain and violation, and then Bloodbath dropped him down on the ground. Seventeen groaned, clutching the hole and trying to get his mechanical systems to help him with the damage.
Bloodbath lifted up the liver and took a bite, then another one, savouring the bloody organ.
"Hmmm…has a rather metallic undertone…odd, I suddenly have the urge to say something clever about fava beans and chianti." Bloodbath said as she finished eating the liver, looking down at the smoke cleared to reveal the limp, smoking bodies of her remaining four opponents…four?
"Seventeen…here!" Yamcha said as he gave a Senzu to the badly injured andriod. Seventen ate it down and grimanced at the pain as his liver rebuilt.
"Thank you…how…?"
"Everyone gathered all our Senzus into one bag. I got to be the carrier. Quick, let's…!"
"Die?" Bloodbath said.
Then she fired a huge black blast at the two.
Yamcha tried to flee, but he wasn't fast enough, and he screamed as the blast consumed him and Seventeen, sending both their bodies flying and crashing back to earth. The lone bag of remaining Senzus flew through the air, torn from Yamcha's hand. Bloodbath smiled and aimed at it.
Goten slammed into her from behind, driving her into the ground as he pummeled her back. He pushed, digging the two them into a deeper hole, before Bloodbath screamed and blasted energy upward, blowing open a huge crator where she had been buried. She flew away and turned. Her cruel smile returned.
"Daddy!"
Goten's punch knocked her head right off, blood gouting from her neck in fountains. Goten didn't stop, grabbing the headless body and causing ki to explode through it, blowing it to pieces. Blood soaked Goten.
Then black energy exploded into existence, drawing the pieces together. Just like her mother. Goten let loose with another barange of ki blasts, but it was futile as the pieces reformed and healed.
"Wahhhhh! Daddy doesn't love me!" Bloodbath mocked cried. Then her eyes filled with cruel joy.
"So I guess I'll have to…"
"MAKKANKOSAPPO!"
Bloodbath jerked as the spiral beam blasted through her back. But she didn't fall, as she looked down at the huge smoking hole in her chest, burned intestines hanging out.
"No, I don't think I have to Makkankosappo." Bloodbath said, turning towards Piccolo. She sighed as the hole closed up. "But I do love it when you do it. A girl does so love having holes blow through her internal organs. However can I repay you? Oh, I know!"
Then she thrust her hands forward, firing a huge black blast. Piccolo leapt over it, firing off two more Makkankosappo's that blew off Bloodbath's head and right arm. Blood sprayed, but then Bloodbath blurred away.
Piccolo whirled around, firing another Makkansappo.
It just fired at empty air. Thre was no one there.
Then Bloodbath blurred into existence behind Piccolo, her hair flaring up and going gold again.
"Gotcha!"
Then she grabbed his white cloak, and Piccolo gasped as it suddenly contracted around his neck. He tried to rip it off, but it seemed to have become stronger then steel as it continued to contract. Bloodbath floated up, yanking on the cloak as she hanged Piccolo with his own clothes. Piccolo tried to blast her, but he couldn't get a shot lined up due to the angle. Soon, all he could concentrate on was his total lack of air.
"Watch me! I can make the green man turn blue!" Bloodbath laughed.
Trunks's kick crushed her face inward, sending Bloodbath flying backwards. Bra blurred into existence behind the clone and smashed her with a cracking axe kick, breaking her back. Bloodbath flew back into Trunks's eager fists and the two siblings pummeled the woman back and forth like a bizzare ping-pong game.
"ARGH!" Bloodbath screamed, as black energy covered her body and she slashed at the siblings. Trunks and Bra dodged out of the way, and then they both spun in mid-air and smashed Bloodbath down into the ground with a simultaneous flip kick.
"Get ready!" Trunks said as he signaled. Goten suddenly found Gohan, Pan, and Ubuu at his side.
"We're all gonna hit her at once. Get ready!"
"Right!" Goten said as he thrust his hands to the side.
Bloodbath flipped to her feet. Trunks and Bra blurred away as she fired a series of black blasts into the sky at them.
Piccolo blurred into existence behind her.
"Gotcha." He snarled.
Then he smashed Bloodbath with an uppercut, sending her shooting into the air in an uncontrollable spin.
"NOW!" Gohan yelled, and thrust his hands up. "KAMEHAMEHA!"
"KAMEHAMEHA!"
"KAMEHAMEHA!"
"KAMEKAMEHA!"
The four beams that had become a family's signature attack, even as Goten, in his mental state, screwed up the name like he had when he was a kid, blasted from the hands of the four and flew at Bloodbath as she righted herself. She watched the attack bear down on her.
"Oh, so that's how it's done." Bloodbath said, and thrust her hands to her side.
Gohan's eyes widened.
"What?"
"KAMEHAMEHA!" Bloodbath yelled, and thrust her hands out as she fired a gigantic black blast at the four.
Everyone gasped in horror, both at Bloodbath doing the Kamehameha and how her blast shattered their combined four like it was nothing, blazing through their attack and barreling directly at them.
"MOVE!" Gohan yelled as everyone dove for cover.
The explosion shook the earth, shaking everyone still conscious to the very bone. A massive mushroom cloud bloomed upward from the blast zone as Bloodbath laughed. Far away, Vagane shared his daughter's laugh.
Gohan and Pan emerged from the smoke, shaken. They hadn't been hurt, but the fact that Bloodbath had done what she had done had badly disturbed them. Bloodbath continued to laugh as she floated down to the ground, landing on a cliff face.
"Please. You think your silly attacks can harm me? Wrong-o!" Bloodbath laughed, waving a finger.
"YAAAARRRRGGGGGHHHHHHH!'
Bloodbath glanced to the side as Vegeta exploded up from where he had been buried, a vein on his forehead pulsing and his eyes blazing.
"You want to toy with us? Well then, SO BE IT!" Vegeta screamed, and then red energy exploded around him and enveloped him, before blasting out to reveal him in SSJ4 mode.
Trunks and Bra floated down beside him. Bra went SSJ with a shriek, and Trunks also screamed as he went SSJ2.
"Let's join the club." Goten growled, and screamed himself as golden lightning crackled on him before golden smoke flowed around him and flowed away as Goten powered up to SSJ3. Gohan growled as he charged up his Mystic talent to its highest level. Then his eyes widened as Pan screamed and went SSJ.
"Pan…when did…?"
"Later Dad. Let's just kick her ass." Pan snarled. Bloodbath looked around at all the people who floated up to surround her. Piccolo and Ubuu floated up as well, each powering up to their maximum.
"Well now, it's finally getting interesting." Bloodbath said, and then the storm came crashing down.
Ash peered down the length of his blast, staring at the inferno of power that was raging at the apex of the combined attack.
"Amazing! I can't even see him any more, but I think he's still standing!"
Well if that's the case Ash, don't stand there yakking, TURN UP THE JUICE!
The blast from the Soulfire widened, as if on its own.
From her vantage point, Buffy watched as her vision blurred and cleared. She'd been hit plenty of times, but the sheer power of Riot's blow had amazed her. As she fought to stay conscious, she watched the Legacy keep up their combined blast. She was beginning to wish she could do that.
"Getting tired…" Chastity panted.
"Don't give up! We can't!" Christine said.
"No…Can't…totally spent…" Chastity said, her attack of searing flame falling off.
It was like a chain reaction, as Diana let off next, and then William, and eventually everyone else. Their efforts had exhausted them.
"All right…all right…give it a rest! After all that, there's NO way Riot could still be standing…" Ash said, hoping against hope his words were true, as he ceased his own blast, staring at the ruin before him.
The smoke began to clear.
Riot's figure was a twisted burnt skeleton, barely standing on ruined legs. It had no flesh left.
Somehow, he laughed.
Ash watched in despair as the flesh began rebuilding itself rapidly. He thought of shooting more power at Riot, but he knew it would just be futile.
Within seconds, Riot was whole again. He ran his fingers through his long bangs.
"Whoooo! Not half bad! That actually gave me a really good feeling!" Riot crowed, before he looked at the exhausted Legacy members. "And I'll be feeling ever better in a second!"
"Look out! Here he…" Ash tried to warn.
Then Riot smashed into the group like a malevolent wrecking ball, smashing them apart like pins. He battered the powerless Chastity unconscious with fists of steel and then hurled her headlong into Brigh so hard it knocked the thief senseless too. William's armour shattered as Riot floored him with one punch. Victoria went down to a leaping thrust kick. Lindsay tried to turn into a dragon, but she was too slow as Riot slammed her with an uppercut, sending her limp body crashing into a cliff face.
"Who's next?" Riot laughed, then his eyes fell on Diana. "Ah you! I believe you haven't had a beating yet!"
"NO!" Ash said, furiously attacking Riot, chopping at his arms. Riot laughed and backhanded Ash away, as he charged up a blast to fire at Diana.
"Mother, RUN!" Ash screamed.
Rod looked at the spectacle, his anger growing.
"No one wrecks my family, not you, not anyone!" Rod said, pulling back his sword as blue and white energy exploded on it. He was old. He was tired. He knew this very well could kill him. But he knew he had to do it. Just like his blade was named after an ultimate evil of humanity, maybe his grand attack named after another act of ultimate evil could annihalte this evil that stood before him.
"FINAL SOLUTION!" Rod yelled. Riot turned towards the yell.
Then Rod threw his sword, the massive blade flying through the air and impaling through Riot. Riot looked down as it glowed.
"What?"
Then he vanished in a blinding white light as a literal nuclear explosion consumed him. A mushroom cloud ploomed upward from the blast. Rod would normally worry about the radiation, but at this point he was more worried about Riot.
Sorry Ash! You and Christine won't be having any little heroes now!
"Shut up." Ash hissed, as the smoke cleared. Surely not even…
The smoke cleared to reveal nothing but Rod's blade lying on the ground.
Rod sighed.
Then black energy exploded into being, pulling up hunks of blackened bone as a familiar laugh filled the air. Rod gasped as Riot reformed himself. He had withstood being at ground zero of a nuclear blast.
"That was fun!" Riot said.
And Rod could only depair as he passed out, his body utterly spent.
"Aw, that was it? I wanted another one!" Riot said in disappointment. "Now what can I do for fun…oh yes, I remember!" Riot said as he turned back to Diana.
Only to find her running away.
"Hey, no fair! Well, no matter…" Riot said as black energy exploded on his hands and he cocked his arm back.
Ash slammed into him as he tried to throw it, making the blast go wide. However, it still struck at Diana's heels, sending her flying with a cry. Buffy's eyes widened, and then she was knocked silly as Diana flew into her. Both the Slayer and priest slumped to the ground, although Buffy had lessened the blow for her. Ash, in a part of him that wasn't suddenly filled with murderous rage, appreciated Buffy for it.
"ARGH!" Ash screamed, as he went into another fury of sword slashes. Riot dodged them all and blasted Ash backwards, laughing.
"ANCIENT WHEEL!" Christine yelled as she began spinning her bladestaff around. A circle of power formed around it, and then a myraid of small energy projectiles flew from it, blowing off parts of Riot and blasting through him.
"RIDE THE LIGHTNING!" Angie yelled, thrusting up her staff. A bolt of gigantic yellow power blasted down onto Riot, frying him.
"MELTDOWN!" Paul yelled, and fired a white nuclear bolt at the place where Riot was. Another explosion blasted the ground where he was, consuming him.
Ash stood, sword up, panting. Waiting.
Black energy was already flowing over Riot when he reappeared, vanishing back into him to reveal no injuries. Ash grit his teeth. So be it.
"Ash…" Christine said as Riot walked towards her husband. Then she saw what Ash was doing. "ASH! I'LL GIVE YOU STRENGTH!"
Christine spun her staff, concetrating on her ultimate technique. Unlike all the other's, hers was not offensive. It was an enhancing technique.
"HEROICS…MIRACLE!"
And then Ash felt the power in him, so gentle and yet so fierce, a voice whispering in his ear of her love for him and yet screaming for Riot's death. Ash began to glow with a white aura as his power increased expontially. He would just have it for a short while, but that was all he needed.
No speeches!
"Yes Soulfire. Right to the point. Ultimate Technique…" Ash whispered, and then his voice built into a scream. "ALL CREATION'S CATACLYSM!"
And then Ash dashed at Riot. Riot's eyes widened with interest.
"What have we here?"
Then Ash was slashing at him. Riot laughed and put up his arm to block.
The Soulfire slashed right through Riot's arm. Riot only got a moment to be shocked before Ash went into an insane barrage of slashes, ripping, tearing, and burning through Riot's body, chopping it into shiskebob. After about fifty or so slashes, Ash stopped.
All the pieces in Riot's body seemed to float in the air as Ash leapt backwards, spun his sword in a circle, and then thrust it out in front of him.
"DIE!"
A huge bolt of blue power flew from Ash's sword, arms, and body, growing and totally enveloping the pieces, burning them away in a fiery cataclysm. The explosion shook the earth.
Ash fell to one knee, pain burning through him, as Christine ran to his side.
"Ash…Ash…!"
"I'm ok…" Ash said, as his remaining four team members joined him by his side.
"You did it Ash! You destroyed him!" Paul said.
SHUT UP! DON'T JINX IT!
"Too late!"
Ash gasped with horror as burned body parts floated up, black energy flowing on them as Riot reformed himself. He had taken Ash's greatest attack, while charged up by his wife, and he hadn't missed a beat.
You EEEEDDDDDIIIOOOOTTTTT!!!!!!
"You just don't get it, do you?" Riot said, as he floated down to earth in front of the group. "I am the epitome of survival. You can't kill me…but unfortunately…the same cannot be said for you…" Riot said, as he slowly brought up his hands.
The ground began to shake, and small rocks began to rise up into the air as the four remaining Legacy members looked on.
"The end comes beyond chaos…let the fires of sin wash over this earth…" Riot growled as red power crackled on his arms and shoulders.
And then it exploded up out of the earth, a huge crackling wall of red fiery energy, growing up to fifty or so feet and seemingly a hundred feet across, a sheer wall of power that had been called up behind Riot. The ground's shudders increased even more.
"Ash…what do we do…? Paul said, his gun held limply at his side.
Ash didn't look at Paul. Instead he took Christine's hand.
"Pray its quick."
Riot smiled.
"That's not my style."
Then he thrust his arms up with a scream and the wall of power exploded forth in a mammoth energy wave attack.
There was nothing the Legacy could do. They couldn't block or dodge the attack. All they could do was scream as it washed over them and send them flying through the air like flaming dolls. The blast utterly wrecked havoc for miles.
Then Riot stopped it, the power vanishing. Slowly, he looked around at all his opponents, lying broken, bloody, and beaten. His eyes stopped at Ash and Christine last. Despite the attack, they had never let go of each other's hands.
Riot's body seemed to slump over, and then he began to snicker deep in his throat. Then he stood more upright as he laced his hand into his thick sheath of bangs and his snicker became a chuckle, and finally, his hand still tangled in his hair, he reared his head back and roared his loudest laugh ever to the heavens.
He had his mother's laugh.
Vagane applauded his son's destruction of the Legacy. The fools had actually thought they could defeat him. They hadn't even come close to taxing Riot's limits.
Then his eyes were drawn to two other figures as they headed towards where his daughter was fighting with her remaining opponents in a blazing air battle. In a second he recognized one of the Nameks he had kept as a prisoner, and the fat being that had contribued to the death of Alexia. He felt a flash of anger.
Then it faded. His children would deal with them. Whatever purpose they thought they could serve was futile.
Buu and Dende had no intention of joining the war above them, as Bloodbath currently fought with Vegeta and his family. He came because he had missed seeing something that Mr. Satan had, and when Buu had asked, Mr. Satan had told the truth. He knew he wouldn't have been able to stop Buu when he did. Buu had dragged Dende along with some protests, but the god lacked the power to beat the obese being and hence had come along.
"Celeste!" Buu said as he finally came to her body. His eyes began to tear. "No! We have to heal her!"
"But Buu…" Dende said.
"Don't talk! Use your talent! I'll use mine!"
"BUU!"
Buu looked up at Dende. Dende's face looked grim and sad.
"She's gone Buu. She's dead." Dende said.
"She's not!"
"Yes Buu, she is. I'm afraid that no amount of healing…"
Buu reached forward and grabbed Dende by the front of his outfit, yanking him forward so the Namek was face to face with him. Dende gasped. In his anger, Buu looked as bad as his evil counterpart.
"When I was fused with my evil half, I knew many things. One is the true quality of life. In some, it is is nigh impossible to extinquish, especially in a soul like Celeste. There is still a spark in there, I know it! And while we might not be able to find it, WE ARE GOING TO TRY!" Buu snarled, letting go of Dende as he stepped back from Celeste and lowered his forelock.
Dende didn't protest as he thrust out his hands, trying to do what Buu believed he could do and call the last spark of life back from oblivion.
Slowly, the terrible wound in Celeste's body began to close, as Dende repaired the tissue. But it was dead tissue. He was essentially preparing a corpse for burial and he knew it.
Buu did not, as beads of sweat broke out on the being's flabby head.
"Come on Celeste…it's not your time…come back...I know you can…you're too strong…come on…come on…" Buu said in more and more despair. But Celeste did not move. She didn't start breathing again. Her flesh stayed cold.
"Buu…" Dende said, trying to help Buu confront the final truth. "She's gone."
Buu drew back his head, looking at Celeste's prone body.
And then in a flurry of motion, he began pounding on her chest, carefully but firmly so he wouldn't break any bones, in his version of CPR.
"Beat! Damn you, beat! You're not done yet! No! NO!" Buu said as he continued to pound on Celeste's chest.
"Buu…there's nothing you can do…" Dende said. Slowly, Buu stopped his pounding, looking at Celeste. More tears began spilling from his eyes.
"No! NO!" Buu said, pounding the ground. "This isn't right! She wasn't supposed to die! No! She and Erik were supposed to love each other, get married, be happy! She wasn't supposed to die! THIS ISN'T RIGHT!" Buu screamed, raging over the cruelties of fate.
Slowly, he stood up, as steam suddenly began blowing from his head. He turned and looked up at Bloodbath as she tossed Piccolo into Gohan, laughing. Ubuu kicked at her and she dodged and countered, but Ubuu flew up and away from her.Bloodbath flew after him.
"YOU BITCH!" Buu screamed, needing a target for his anger. Bloodbath would do, as Buu formed a spear of pink ki in his hand and threw it at Bloodbath. Dende saw the writing on the wall and ran for cover.
Just as Bloodbath was closing in on Ubuu, the spear hit her from behind, blowing her up with a cry of surprise. As she reformed, she turned towards Buu as he glowered at her on the ground.
"Oh good, a…"
Buu's speed was utterly amazing, as he blasted up into the air and rammed into Bloodbath head first, then zapped above her and rammed his elbow into her chest, crushing it. Bloodbath flew towards the ground, spinning and landing on her feet as she looked up for Buu.
Buu's foot smashed into her from behind as he crashed into her with a kick, sending her spinning towards another cliff face. Bloodbath righted herself and bounced off the cliff face, flipping on extentions until she was at the top.
Buu threw a ki blast at her. She leapt up as the clifftop exploded.
"Ok, you wanna play? Let's play."
Buu zapped at Bloodbath.
Bloodbath blurred away, and then nearly took Buu's head off with a punch. Buu staggered, and then Bloodbath slammed her foot into him so hard it bulged out his back. Buu flew back to the ground, crashing into it.
"Let me show you what power is!" Bloodbath said, as she thrust out her hands and black ki exploded on them, forming into a half circle shape, as if Bloodbath was trying to form a shield in front of her.
This ki shield of sorts suddenly exploded in size, growing larger and larger. Buu got up as it bore down on him.
He thrust up his hands as it slammed into him, the black power's growth pushing him into the ground. He screamed as it both burned and crushed him.
"AHHAHAHAHHA! DIE!" Bloodbath yelled.
Then a blue blast blew her right arm off, and the power faded. Buu stood, badly burned.
"I'm sorry Celeste…" Buu whispered, before he fell on his face, out of it.
Bloodbath turned around as her arm regrew, looking at Ubuu as he brought his hands back to the normal position after he had finally formed a Kamehameha.
"Saving your other half, I see." Bloodbath said.
"No." Ubuu said. "I'm going to destroy-ARRGGGHHHHHH!" Ubuu screamed as the black laser burst from his chest from behind. Bloodbath's eyes widened as she snapped her head to the side, the laser missing it by inches.
Ubuu fell, his hand clutching his wound. Riot was revealed, his finger still out as if he was pointing at his sister.
"Ooops. Sorry sis."
"Brother! These warriors are mine!"
"Mine were no challenge. I grow bored. I don't want to eat their weak souls first. I want a truly strong soul." Riot said. Bloodbath smirked.
"Fine, but I get to prepare them!" Bloodbath said. Riot himself smirked, the resemblence truly eerie.
"Fine by me." Riot said, and blurred away.
Then Gohan and Pan slammed into Bloodbath from each side, pummeling her with punches. Riot reappeared on the cliff face his sister had been on a second ago, watching his father and other sister beat on his true sister. He wasn't worried, not by them or by the remaining Z Warriors who were waiting to take a crack at Bloodbath.
Gohan and Pan blasted away, throwing up their hands.
"MASENKO!" they yelled together, and fired the attack together.
Bloodbath held out her hands and the attack slammed into them…and stopped. The golden power of the beams turned into glowing balls in Bloodbath's hands as she held them up.
Then the balls turned black and grew larger, and then Bloodbath fired them back at Gohan and Pan as black beams. Gohan and Pan dove out of the way.
"Ha!' Bloodbath laughed, and then turned and fired a ki blast that met and canceled out a Makkankosappo that Piccolo had thrown. She laughed and fired a few ki blasts at the Namek, forcing him to dodge away.
"BIG BANG ATTACK!"
Bloodbath turned as the whole Briefs family each fired a golden ball at her, Vegeta, Trunks, and Bra, that formed into one giant golden ball of terrible power that flow at Bloodbath.
Bloodbath whacked it off into the distance. Her power was even more terrible.
The explosion lit up the whole sky as Bloodbath laughed and floated down onto the ground. Everyone followed her, surrounding her. They all showed wounds and burns from their fight, but Bloodbath showed not a scratch
"Is this your best?" Bloodbath said.
"No! We have barely begun! YOU WILL BOW DOWN BEFORE ME, BITCH!" Vegeta roared, powering up. Everyone did likewise. The earth rumbled from all the power of the saiya-jin, hybrids, and Namek.
Bloodbath looked around at them all, at Piccolo as threw off his cloak and hat, at Vegeta and his family as golden lightning crackled on and around them, at Gohan, the only one with black hair due to his Mystic talent, and Pan, his daughter, and in a way, her cousin, looking every bit as powerful as her father with her blazing golden hair. And finally…her father, Goten, his lack of eyebrows making his eyes look even harder, as he stoood as an SSJ3, quite willing to destroy his daughter.
"KILL HER!"
They all flew at her.
Bloodbath raised her arms.
"Seven Deadly Sins…" she whispered, and then thrust her arm out.
"WRATH!"
A black blast exploded from her hand, aimed right at Trunks. Trunks tried to put on the brakes, but his attempt to dodge was futile as it hit him. He screamed as it exploded, blowing him away. His cry of pain was echoed in Vegeta and Bra as Trunks was smashed into a cliff face by the beyond-powerful explosion
"GLUTTONY!"
Bloodbath fired a huge ki projectile at Goten. Goten gasped as it bore down on him. For a moment it opened, looking like a giant mouth. Then it clamped down on him, and Goten screamed as teeth seemed to pierce through his skin before the ball exploded, blasting him into the ground. His hair contracted and faded back to black as he passed out from the pain.
"SLOTH!"
Red chains of energy suddenly ripped up from the ground below Gohan, wrapping up and around his limbs, stopping him dead. Gohan screamed as the chains of power both immobilized him and burned him, and then they exploded, lancing burning agony through every cell in his body as he was thrown up and then came crashing down. Pan shrieked as her father was brutalized and defeated.
"LUST!"
Bloodbath held her hand out at Piccolo, and then fire exploded from her hand and the ground in from of Piccolo. It washed over him, an inferno of torment. Piccolo screamed before an explosion blew up from underneath him, sending his smoking body crashing into another cliff face.
"ENVY!"
Pan was trying to help her father when Bloodbath fired the green blast at her. She screamed as it slammed into her, carrying her backwards into another cliff. The blast exploded, burying her under tons of wreckage.
"GREED!"
Bra gasped as Bloodbath suddenly fired thousands of small gold ki projectiles at her. If anyone had had a chance to examine them closely, they would have seen they looked like coins. Bra tried to block as the innumerable projectiles slammed into her, but the assualt was too much and she was consumed by explosions. Vegeta screamed again as his other child went down to Bloodbath's attack as Bra was thrown backwards, hitting the ground and not moving as her hair turned back to the colour of her mother's.
And then, Vegeta was alone. He looked around at the ruined bodies as Bloodbath lowered her arms, smiling at him.
Vegeta bellowed his rage, the ground tearing up around him as his tail lashed around furiously.
"I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE FOR MY SIN, YOU WILL NOT DEFEAT ME! NOT NOW, NOT EVER!!!!!!!!!" Vegeta roared as he flew at Bloodbath.
Then the same red energy chains that had locked Gohan into place burst up around Vegeta, wrapping around his arms and legs. Vegeta gasped as he was caught. He had expected a whole new attack, not for her to repeat an old one!
Bloodbath smiled as her black aura exploded around her. A brief golden flash and she was in her mimicry of SSJ.
"Only you, "Prince" Vegeta, would have the arrogance, the PRIDE…to think you could have taken any of my previous attacks…very well…YOU CAN HAVE THEM ALL!"
Then Riot thrust her hands forward, and all the blasts and projectiles that she had thrown at her oppenents beforehand erupted from her hands, her body, everywhere, bigger and even nastier then before. They bore down on Vegeta as he was locked in his chains.
"NOOOOOOOO!"
They all hit him at once. The explosion was utterly gargantuan, so big it even consumed Bloodbath, knocked over Riot's cliff, and made Vagane. as he watched from a distance, fall over. Even Spike was blown off his feet from the shockwave.
The explosion faded, leaving only huge clouds of smoke. Riot floated down to the ground as Bloodbath healed the damage done to her.
The smoke cleared to reveal Vegeta, covered with burns and injuries, but still on his feet.
"Noooo…" Vegeta whispered, as blood poured from his mouth. Then his knees buckled and he fell, face first, to the ground, unmoving.
Bloodbath smiled, as Riot walked up to her, applauding.
"Well done sis. You badly hurt them all and yet managed to keep them alive so we could share."
"Sharing is good…the only thing is…who do we kill first?"Bloodbath asked.
"They're all helpless…we can be creative…make them suffer even more…" Riot said.
"Ah decisions…decisions…"
"Take your time, children." Vagane called, laughing. He was quite pleased. At last he could become Creation. He may as well let his children have some fun.
"Thank you father…now…"Bloodbath said.
"No!"
Bloodbath and Riot turned at the weak voice, as Son Goku staggered over a cliff. How he had managed to make it over the wrecked landscape with his ruined body, indeed, how he was even STANDING, was an absolute miracle. But he was, as he stumbled towards the two, breathing heavily.
Riot almost fell over laughing.
"You? You want to fight us? HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!" Riot laughed. His sister joined him.
Breathing very heavily, Goku almost fell over. But he didn't, as he approached the two.
"I caused all this…your sins are mine…I have to stop you…I HAVE TO!" Goku tried to yell, but all that came out was a weak groan as he staggered up to Riot and began flailing at him.
Riot didn't even move, putting his hands on his sides as Goku repeatly punched his face. Small cracks were heard as Goku broke three fingers, his bones soft and weak from the drain of power that was now infused in Riot and Bloodbath.
Having no luck, Goku stumbled over and began punching Bloodbath in the face. It only broke more of his fingers, as Bloodbath smirked at Goku's futile efforts.
Then she grabbed him by the arm. Goku tried to scream as she broke his wrist, but all that came out was a low groan.
"Nice effort…really, I must commend you…" Bloodbath chuckled, as Riot walked over to her side.
"You know, in a sense…you are our father too…your sons gave us the building block…Vagane made us perfect and the beings who will rule everything…but you gave us the power to begin…and the power to lay waste to all your friends!" Riot said, laughing.
"Damn you…!" Goku hissed.
"You know brother, we really should give him a reward for bothering to come all the way over here to stop us." Bloodbath said.
"Yes…I know!"
Riot spun Goku around, breaking more bones. Goku groaned as he suddenly found himself looking at the prone Z Warriors scattered all around.
"You can choose who will be the first to die!"
Goku gasped in horror.
"C'mon, choose! We don't have all day!" Riot chuckled.
"Never…NEVER!" Goku hissed. Riot grabbed him by the chin and forced Goku to look into his cruel black eyes.
"Then you shall die first."
Goku, despite his wasted body, managed a look of fury and defiance that matched any he had ever given.
"Then so be it!" he hissed.
Riot sighed and dropped Goku.
"You're no fun." He sad, as Goku struggled to get back up. Then he kicked him in the head, and Goku moved no more.
"Hey wait!" Bloodbath said, looking over as Goten began to stir. "He's waking up!"
Riot smiled.
"Well, when you least expect it…you're elected."
Goten's vision was clearing when he was suddenly yanked up and brought face to face with Bloodbath. She smiled.
"Do you have a kiss for your daughter now?"
Goten spat in her face. The saliva lay for a second and then sizzled into nothingness.
"Fine by me." Bloodbath said, and twisted Goten's head in preperation of breaking his neck.
"Wait sis!" Riot said, and Bloodbath paused to look at her brother. "Anyone can quickly snap a neck! Why don't you do it…slowly?"
Bloodbath smiled at the suggestion.
"Yes, that sounds amusing." Bloodbath said, and began to twist Goten's neck.
Goten cried out in pain as his muscles contracted and began to tear, his spine creaking painfully as it was contorted in a way it was never meant to be. Riot and Bloodbath laughed at Goten's cry.
Then the scream pierced the air, a voice the timbre of a thousand thunders, a war cry that blasted across the battlefield, the world, and beyond. Riot and Bloodbath looked up.
Then a mountain split open as the fires of hell themselves exploded out as Redemption flew up from his makeshift grave, his wings flapping a bit before they straightened out. Backdropped by the terrible fire and red lightning, he truly did look like the Angel of Death, or a demon from hell. In reality he was neither and both, a power so fierce and violent it even struck Riot and Bloodbath deeply.
"No…impossible! I didn't hold back with that blast! It was lethal! You're supposed to be dead!" Riot said. Bloodbath let go of Goten, and he seized the moment to fly away.
"I get that a lot." Erik said, his voice tinged with darkness as he slowly floated down to the ground, power burning the stone and rock beneath his feet away.
Vagane was utterly stupified. He couldn't believe the boy had survived. Riot and Bloodbath shared his disbelief.
Goten landed next to Erik.
"Erik! I knew you weren't dead! You're too strong for that! Hold them off while I find the Senzu beans and then…"
"No."
Goten looked at Erik.
"What?"
"No Goten. This is my battle, my vengeance. Stay the hell out of my way."
"No Erik! Don't start doing this again!" Goten said as he stood in front of Erik. "You're not fighting alone! We'll stand by you! We have too! They're so strong…!"
"Goten…" Erik whispered, as he raised a hand. Goten stared at it as the black metal fingers crackled with blood-red energy.
"Move, or I'll kill you myself."
Goten shuddered, and then he stood aside.
"Thank you. You were always a good friend Goten, don't ever change. I am sorry about your daughter…but she was dead the second Vagane got his hands on her. I have to destroy what he made of her. I know you understand."
Goten was silent as Erik walked on. Riot had finally recovered enough to regain his cockiness.
"So, Mr. Scary finally decided to wake up from his nap. Good! I didn't hurt you badly enough the last time. LET ME SAY HELLO AGAIN!" Riot yelled, and fired a black blast at Erik.
Erik whacked it aside, not stopping to move. It exploded off in the distance as Riot gaped. No one had ever blocked one of his blasts!
Erik stopped, looking at the two. Then he looked around at the prone Z Warriors, all lying in bloody heaps. Erik looked off in the distance, seeing that the Legacy was in the same state. He looked back at Riot and Bloodbath.
"Oh please! Don't tell me you're surprised! They couldn't hold a candle to us! Father made us perfect! We are the epitome of survival! You can't hope to defeat us!"
Erik's eyes blazed with fury, as he brought his hands up.
"They'll be no mercy for you…I'LL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU GAVE MY FRIENDS!"
And then Redemption screamed as red and black energy erupted from the ground underneath him. Riot and Bloodbath recoiled at the sheer power.
Goten felt it slap across his mind again, even worse then before. Dear god, Erik's calling on the darkness again…he's giving even more of himself to it…no Erik please, you'll go to the point of no return! Don't do that for power!
But Erik was beyond thinking rationally. All he wanted was revenge as he continued to scream.
Then his wings snapped out and began growing bigger. Goten gasped as they extended in length and size, and then with a metallic shriek they seperated, giving Erik two sets of black metal bladed wings. The same black metal suddenly erupted down his back, forming a long metallic length unil Erik had a metal tail that ended in three barbed blades. The blades snapped like a mouth, as it the tail had a mind of its own. Finally, the ends of Erik's waistlength blood-red hair split open to reveal metal points. It seemed like Erik no longer desired to have a body made of flesh and blood. The only thing that allowed him to be recognized was the V scar that crossed over his right eye.
Riot and Bloodbath looked at the new Redemption, a sort of Omni-Redemption. Riot laughed.
"You fool. We are father's greatest success, and you are nothing but his failure! I think it's time you went off to join your whore!" Riot said, and flew at Erik as he stood there, power crackling on him
Erik dodged to the side, and Riot pistoned his fist right into the black metal of Redemption's wings. He yelled, and then Erik backhanded him, sending him flying backwards. He crash-landed near his sister.
"MWA HA HA! Having trouble, brother?" Bloodbath laughed. Riot glared at his sister.
"Looks like I'll have to pick up the slack. YAHHHHH!" Bloodbath yelled as she went "SSJ". "You might have dodged my brother, Failure, but I'm faster then he is, and with this, you will NEVER HIT ME!" Bloodbath crowed, and blasted forward towards Erik at insane speed.
She ran right into a cracking punch, and with a yell of surprise she flew past her brother and crashed off in the distance. Riot looked behind himself in surprise as Vagane gasped.
"YAAAHHHHHHH!" Bloodbath screamed as she came blazing back, trailing an aura of black power as she blasted at Redemption.
She snapped a kick at him, but Redemption dodged aside, snapping out his talons. Bloodbath screamed as they pierced through her, and then she screamed louder as Redemoption's tail swung around and began slashing at her face, eating it like a mouth. Her beauty quickly generated into a mass of torn flesh and bone as Erik tore at it.
"SIS!" Riot said, and leapt forward to attack again. But Erik simply snapped his arm out and threw Bloodbath into Riot. The two fell and immediately bounced to their feet, Bloodbath's face healing into a look of fury.
"YOU BASTARD! TAKE THIS!" Bloodbath shrieked, throwing a black blast at Erik. Riot did the same.
Erik knocked them off into the distance with his arms. Goten's jaw finally hit the ground at Erik's progress with the two clones of Agony.
"This isn't possible…they are supposed to be his superior…he can't be doing this…!" Vagane gasped as he saw Erik manhandle his children. Riot and Bloodbath were as stunned as their father.
Then Riot laughed.
"You think you're gonna win? HA! We're just playing with you! Now we'll get serious, and you'll learn that you can NEVER BEAT US!" Riot yelled, and he and his sister flew at Erik.
Erik flew up into the air, away from them, holding his arms out.
"You are wrong."
Goten felt the darkness slap across his mind again, this time so violently it nearly made him pass out. Then Erik screamed as the blood-red lightning crackling on his form began lancing out, burning into the ground and sizzling across the air. Riot and Bloodbath stopped short, watching.
"I don't care if I have to plunge civalization into ruin, I don't care if I have to crack this planet in half, I don't care IF I HAVE TO TEAR HEAVEN AND HELL ASUNDER, I WILL WIPE YOUR STAIN FROM EXISTENCE, ONCE AND FOR ALL!" Erik bellowed, and then his blood-red aura expanded and exploded around him. Dark clouds gathered above and flshes as more huge lighning bolts came crashing down around Erik in an aura of destruction.
Erik snapped his talons out of his hands as his wings grew barbs, along with the blades at the end of his new metal tail. His eyes glowed red, and then he looked down in the distance at Vagane.
"And after I am done with you…your father." Erik snarled.
"Never!" Bloodbath said.
"We won't let you touch him!" Riot added, powering up his own dark aura. The planet shook from the forces coming off the three beings in the sky as they prepared for a war of supremacy.
"Oh yes…you see…your father has taken many special things from me. He took my family. He took my humanity. He took my peace of mind and my sanity, my hope for the human race. And then…he took the life of the woman I loved…he took my future."
Erik glared eyes of pure murder on Vagane.
"And now…I'm going to take something very special from you, Vagane…YOUR LAST BREATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The darkness's greatest warrior has been born from the tears of a boy, the grief of an adolescent, and the unimaginable fury of a soul…
He's seen the ruin of everything he loves.
Now, he seeks the ruin of one man.
Paybacks are hell.
Next Chapter: UNHOLY TRINITY
Editor's Notes: Originally, Chapter 7 and 8 were going to be one chapter, but I decided to split them up so there would be a shorter waiting time.
Who was that long reviewer? Hopefully, it will be you!
Well Nik Nak, Spike didn't get to say much here. On the other hand, Riot beat the crap out of Buffy. Happy?
Why is no one looking for my anime references? Ah, you're no fun.