Life After Armageddon

Episode 2: The Demon Realm of Darkness

As the Tenkaichi Tournament ring exploded into thousands of pieces Trunks, who was caught in the center of the explosion was sent rocketing from the epicenter of the blast into a wall! "Damn, my arm. what the hell could have caused that?" said the protector of Earth as he got back to his feet, with an apparently wounded left arm.

Whatever it was, he was going to be the only one to find out, as the explosion threw the spectators into a tizzy. While tournament officials were trying to make the stampeding crowd move in an orderly fashion the dust and smoke from the explosion where the ring once was finally cleared and it revealed not one, but two figures. One had dark green skin and the other a light blue skin, both had blood red eyes, neither was very tall or had any remarkable amount of muscle mass but that didn't matter as Trunks could sense an incredible fighting ki coming from each individual.

"Who, or should I say what the hell are you two?" said Trunks in a very angry tone of voice, the figures simply ignored him though and continued to look around the now devastated Tenkaichi Tournament arena "Hmmph, it would seem we arrived in a location other than the one we expected, the Heavenly Plane must have moved since we last surveyed the planet, wouldn't you agree Trabajos?" said the dark green skinned creature. "Puertas, I think you are correct in your assumption, we must locate the heavenly plane immediately"

Trunks felt he had waited long enough to get a reply, and he fired off a small kikoha blast that whizzed past the two targets into a pillar that was promptly destroyed, finally he had their attention. "Don't you dare ignore me!" said an infuriated Trunks. Trunks raised his fist to the pair and said, "I heard you talking about the Heavenly Plane, what is it you want with it and what do you feel gives you the right to do what you did to this stadium?" Trunks continued, "Whole families were in here and while most people got out I have no doubts that the explosion of power you two released was more than enough to kill several of them"

"Is that so?" said Puertas, "You have no need to be concerned over their fates, because soon all the other human beings on this planet will share in their fate, yes soon every single human will be dead!" Puertas cracked a slight smile before saying, "You see, the planet Earth has violated the Demon Laws and now we of the Demon World of Darkness are allowed to take control of it and govern it as we see fit!"

"De-, Demon World of Darkness" stuttered Trunks. "Such a thing actually exists?" asked Trunks still somewhat in shock, "Indeed it does and thanks to the Earth violating the Demon Laws the planet is now ours for the taking" said Puertas. "But what about the Heavenly Plane?" asked Trunks, to which Puertas responded, "We are going to the Heavenly Plane to open the gateway between this Earth and the Demon Realm of Darkness so that Lord Dabura can take his place as ruler of the Earth."

"That doesn't make any sense!" exclaimed Trunks, "How can you be on earth if he cannot?" he asked. "Your questions are beginning to annoy me, but I shall answer them before killing you, since you seem to be so interested in the Demon World of Darkness." said Puertas. "Due to the Earth having gone over a year without a Kami, the Demon Realm of Darkness was able to begin entering it, however the gateway was small and the more ki you possess the harder it is to fit through it and that made it impossible for Lord Dabura to enter the gateway, however after years of practice he perfected a technique that would allow us, his two greatest warriors to enter the gateway and gain access to the earth."

"All is clear now," Trunks said before powering up "I'm not going to let Demons takeover the Earth! Not after I worked so hard to free it from the Androids!" This got a chuckle out of Trabajos who had been somewhat quiet while Puertas was talking to Trunks, Trabajos then went to say, "Fool, your power while impressive is not in our league!"

Trunks watched amazed as they powered up to a level far above that of the Androids, way beyond them to a level even higher than the Cell he fought in the other timeline after he had absorbed Android #17, and while Trunks was for than a match for him, there was only one Cell, whereas he would be fighting two opponents in this case and his left arm was in bad shape to boot!

"I'm nowhere near my greatest power now, nowhere near it at all." Said Trunks to Puertas and Trabajos before cracking a smile and continuing "Nowhere near it, but now I'll show you it, I'll fight at full power and kill you before you can bring your Lord unto the Earth!" Trunks then transformed into a Super Saiya-Jin, but he didn't stop there he kept pushing himself and went beyond that level to Ultimate Super Saiya-Jin! His immense ki alone was enough to make the sky grow dark and make thunder start crashing around the remains of the stadium, finally Trunks completed his powerup with a blood curdling scream that ripped huge chunks of rock out of the ground!

A stunned Puertas and Trabajos backed up as they felt the ki of Trunks rocket past that of their own and to amazing heights, Puertas quickly regained his composure though and said, "While your ki might be greater than that of ours individually, as a team we will fight and defeat you!" Trunks replied "Enough talk lets get this over with!" before firing a large kikoha blast that Puertas dodged, but it distracted him long enough to allow Trunks to catch him with an elbow to the jaw, which he would follow up with a well placed punch to the stomach that sent Puertas flying towards a pillar, but he caught himself and recovered in mid-air while Trabajos punched Trunks hard in the back, stunning him and stopping him from getting any more momentum!

Puertas took advantage of the situation launching a kikoha blast at Trunks that connected sending his body flying through the air towards Trabajos who would smash him into the earth with a two-fisted strike! Trabajos and Puertas then hovered over the prone Trunks and unleashed a spectacular volley of ki blasts; they kept up the assault for a good 30 seconds before letting up.

"I don't sense his ki anymore, he's dead" proclaimed Trabajos, Puertas shook his head "No, I don't think so, someone of that power would not be defeated by such an attack as that." Puertas was right, his suspicions were confirmed when Trunks appeared in front of him from out of nowhere and drove his right knee deep into the stomach of Puertas!

Blood flew from the mouth of Puertas as he began his descent towards the ground, which was quickened when Trunks launched himself into his body like a missile driving Puertas into the ground with such force that he found himself in a massive crater! With Puertas out of the way for at least a little while, Trunks turned his attention to softening up Trabajos. He wasted no time in getting underway as one-on-one either of these two were completely defenseless against him, even though he was using only one arm.

While in the air Trunks pummeled Trabajos using just his right hand while weaving out of the way of all his punches and kicks before launching a kikoha blast at point blank range that sent Trabajos rocketing towards the ground, but in an amazing display of speed Trunks beat him to the ground where he knocked Trabajos back into the air with a kick to the back and began juggling him in the air with his kicks for a bit before letting his body hit the ground hard.

Finally it was time for the coup de grace, Trunks held the demon up by the neck and punched him in the stomach repeatedly before charging up a massive ball of ki, but just as he was about to release it he felt a massive ki and looked towards the sky where he saw none other than Puertas who must of recovered while he was busy playing around with Trabajos!

Puertas had an absolutely MASSIVE ki blast he was holding back on laughing manically he said "Your so determined to save your precious earthlings, well your going to fail!" Puertas continued, "If you don't power down to the state you were in before we began fighting I'll vaporize this whole city!"

"Damn", uttered Trunks as he powered down to his normal condition, he didn't have a choice. Puertas smiled satisfied before saying "What a fool you are, now you certainly don't have enough strength to stop this! Demon Flash!" cried Puertas as his ki blast began to descend on Briefs City!

"Damn it! I don't have enough power to transform again, I'm just going to have to take it head on!" thought Trunks before launching himself towards the blast in an effort to bounce it into the atmosphere! Trunks latched onto the blast and tried to direct change it's course, but it was just too powerful and it was starting to drive him further towards the earth! "I cant let it hit.. I just cant, only one option remains, I just hope I can survive it!" With that, Trunks stuck his hand into the huge ball of ki and created a hole large enough in it for him to pull his entire body inside the blast!

While screaming in pain from the inside of the huge blast Trunks used what little power he had left to try and powerup as high as he could, the energy Trunks powerup created was enough to change the course of the blast and launch it towards space, Trunks meanwhile, nearly out of power fell out of the blast and to the ground, defeated.

Puertas laughed along with a recovered Trabajos who he told to finish off Trunks! Trabajos launched a ki blast at Trunks while flying towards the location of the Heavenly Plane that Puertas had just sensed the location of, when the ki blast hit Trunks and exploded, Puertas and Trabajos felt his ki no more..



Next Time: The Giant of Anger, The Rage of Spopovitch!