Life After Armageddon

Episode 3: The Giant of Anger, The Rage of Spopovitch!

Blackness, the last thing Trunks remembered, was blackness, as he opened his eyes he realized that he was in the mortal realm still, currently buried under a pile of rock and rubble from the explosion of the arena that the last ki blast he remembered being hit with had buried him under. "Guess I better get out of here" muttered Trunks before raising his hand just a tiny bit and firing a small Kikoha blast that parted the rubble. After dusting himself off Trunks thought to himself, "Hmmph, I must not have been out too long, none of the usual media vultures are here. and the Briefs City Police haven't arrived yet either it would seem."

"I'm too weakened to go after them right now, but I can sense their ki and they are a good ways away from the Heavenly Plane. they are taking their time going there since both of them are weakened, but especially the one, Trabajos, he must be really injured after the way I pummeled him. Once I finish healing up I should be stronger than I was before and more than capable of taking down the two of them without much of a problem. but by then they might have had the time they need to let this Dabura creep onto the earth and from what I gathered he's an entirely different dimension from them in terms of power."

Trunks had his thought process interrupted when he heard loud groaning; he turned around to see the body of an absolutely HUGE man laying just a few yards away, bleeding profusely. "Damn, whoever he is, he's in bad shape, but if I get him to the Capsule Corporation building he might make it!" Trunks exclaimed before picking up the large man, who was pretty much a living wall of muscle, and taking off to the Capsule Corporation building.

Meanwhile, in the Demon Realm of Darkness, Dabura stood at the gateway between the Demon Realm and the Heavenly Plane, the proud Demon thought to himself, "300 years ago I finished my conquest of this half of the universe, turning it into the Demon Realm of Darkness. Ever since that point I had my underlings keep a close eye on all of the waypoints between my massive world and the other half of this universe, and for a while it seemed my glory would never spread beyond this half of the universe, until recently that is. Yes, when the Kami of Earth died, he received no replacement within the period of an Earth year, a violation of the Demon Laws made at the dawn of creation permitting us to begin attacking the Gateway. I found this development surprising, the god above him must not have been paying attention to the Earth, and his incompetence has given me this wonderful opportunity. Even in the many years since he has not once checked the status of the Earth, this has allowed the gateway between the Earth and my realm to weaken substantially. Soon I will join the two halves of the universe together and be the ruler of one Demonic Universe of Darkness!"

Trunks arrived at the Capsule Corporation building and carried the large man into the medical facilities, where he turned him over to the doctors who told him that while he looked like he was in bad shape, he'd more likely than not survive. Trunks checked the time and realized only about an hour had passed since his battle with Puertas and Trabajos, he then sensed their ki and realized they were about halfway to the Heavenly Plane, "Damn, I'm too weak to fight them now and have a realistic chance of winning, just because I didn't damage Puertas enough in our last battle. I could defeat Trabajos easy now.. but I'm not sure about Puertas, I don't have a choice though! I have to go now even as slow as they are going, I wont be able to catch them if I wait any longer!" said Trunks before running out of Capsule Corp and taking off for the Heavenly Plane, intent on beating Puertas and Trabajos to it.

Elsewhere, on a planet far away from the Earth, the Kaioshin of the East along with his guardian, Kibit stood atop the seal leading to the first level of Madoshi (Warlock) Babidi's spaceship. "Finally the decisive battle is at hand, the Madoshi is cornered!" Said Kaioshin before continuing, "We cannot afford to lose, Kibit, we must win, no matter what we absolutely must win! If we don't Babidi will eventually discover the location of Majin Boo and then all of creation will be at risk." Kaioshin then turned his head to look at Kibit, much to his surprise Kibit had a large Kikoha charged in one hand that he was about to throw towards the seal of the ship, "Don't put more energy into the blast than necessary, you want to have as much strength as possible for the battles ahead"" Kaioshin told Kibit, who nodded before lessening the size of the Kikoha and blowing the seal apart! With that, Kaioshin and Kibit descended into the darkness of the ship.

In the Capsule Corporation Medical Center, the condition of the large man Trunks had brought to the center earlier had stabilized and he was resting however he was shifting about uneasily in his hospital bed, it was dismissed by doctors as a nightmare but something was definitely wrong. Inside the mans head the last things he remembered before passing out from loss of blood kept replaying over and over again. It was exactly the same each time, Trunks the savior of the Earth had just won a match that he, Spopovitch was watching when all of a sudden the ring exploded, the force with which the debris hit him had nearly killed him, but somehow he survived that. But that was not all; he had despite the massive injury remained conscious and was the only person to witness much of the verbal exchange between Trunks and the two demons, Puertas and Trabajos, then for a moment everything went black. When Spopovitch faded back into consciousness he saw Trunks, now with glowing golden hair pounding on one of the demons without mercy, much of the demons blood landed on the face of Spopovitch and ran into his mouth, he was too weak to spit it out and ended up swallowing it. The horror then replayed from the start once again and Spopovitch had no choice but to experience it all over again.

Trunks had overtaken Puertas and Trabajos, and as such he had beaten them to the Heavenly Plane, and judging by the position of their ki, he had a few minutes to spare when it hit him! "Karin's part of the tower is directly below me, I wonder, have any new senzu grown since Gohan fed me the last one all those years ago. If so I'll be able to recover to full strength, and since I'll have recovered completely from the near death state I was in I'll be even stronger than I was before! And with them still weakened, winning this battle should be no problem." Trunks thought to himself though "But my father would have despised me stooping to such tactics, and I much rather die fighting with honor than be victorious through such means." Trunks, his mind made up used his strength he had recovered since dropping off the large man at the medical center, to transform into a Super Saiya-Jin. "I don't think I'll be able to raise my strength to the next level, so I'm just going to have to hope that this is enough" Trunks thought to himself as he saw the forms of Puertas and Trabajos come into view, as specs in the distance rapidly approaching his location.

Back at the Capsule Corporation Medical Center the events kept replaying in the head of Spopovitch, the sense of horror he felt was soon replaced with that of an incredible anger, he kept getting angrier each time the events replayed, so much anger that it filled his body and it felt as if he was about to explode, when finally, he woke up. "The blood! It's the blood!" said Spopovitch as he stood up, a nurse entered the room and watched as the large man fell to his knees, "why did I have to swallow the blood?" Spopovitch asked looking to the sky. "Um sir-" the nurse began, only to be interrupted as suddenly a violent red ki surrounded the body of Spopovitch and pulsed thus destroying many things around it, "Wha-, what is happening to me?" Spopovitch asked in a terrified voice. "Stop it! Stop the pain!" demanded Spopovitch, just as his eyes went completely red and his body began to hover in the air, "I must stop it, MYSELF!" he shouted at the top of his lungs. It was as if Spopovitch was no longer in control of his body, at least not completely, as he suddenly blasted through the roof of the Capsule Corporation building leaving his one witness, in awe.