Life After Armageddon

Episode 5: The Gateway is destroyed! Is all hope lost?

"Now it's your turn!" screamed an enraged Spopovitch as he lifted his bloody boot off what was the head of Trabajos, Puertas however didn't budge. "Impressive techniques" said the demon, continuing "however I doubt you would of defeated someone like Trabajos if he wasn't already considerably weakened, and I'm in far better condition than he was, therefore you wont even be able to touch me!"

Elsewhere on the Heavenly Plane, Mr. Popo hid in terror; doing his best to avoid being caught in the crossfire of combat that broken out, unfortunately for Popo he was hiding in the room where the fighting would ultimately come to a head at, the gateway between Earth and the Demon Realm of Darkness. Trunks, while severely hurt was still in Super Saiya-Jin, and he began summoning up all the remaining power he had for one last strike at Puertas who was currently using his speed to run circles around Spopovitch who couldn't land a blow on the powerful demon.

Meanwhile deep in space, Kaioshin and Kibit stood face to face with Pui- Pui, a henchmen of the Madoshi, Babidi. Pui-Pui showed little fear of the greatest of all living gods, "Who dies first?" he asked. Kaioshin and Kibit glanced at each other and nodded, before Kaioshin fired a Ki Aigan blast at Pui-Pui! Pui-Pui easily dodged the attack and prepared for a counterstrike, but before he could do so he was caught off guard as Kibit entered the fray, tackling Pui-Pui against the wall of the ship! Pui-Pui managed to throw Kibit off of him before regaining his fighting stance, "I guess you both know you stand no chance against me in one-on-one combat!" said the servant of Madoshi Babidi. "Don't flatter yourself," said Kaioshin coldly. "Either one of us could easily kill you in single combat, however when the fate of all creation is at stake we are more than willing to throw the code of bushido out the window."

Pui-Pui gritted his teeth and took a step back, he didn't seem to be quite as confident as he was at the start of this confrontation. Pui-Pui decided to test Kaioshin to see if he was actually stronger him, Pui-Pui fired a Kikoha blast at his highest power directly at Kaioshin! Kaioshin simply stuck his hand out and caught the blast on his open palm, before dissolving it. That simple action made Pui-Pui lose his cool; he couldn't even think straight he was so panicked, and that was just the opportunity that Kaioshin was looking for! Kaioshin, with incredible speed moved behind Pui- Pui before knocking him to the ground with a well-placed punch to the kidneys! When Pui-Pui got up he had lost track of where Kaioshin was in the room, he quickly turned around, but he wasn't there. Pui-Pui slowly moved around the room, keeping an eye on Kibit when all of a sudden he felt all of his muscles locking up, and he soon couldn't move! Kaioshin reappeared, "I had to move at my highest speed so you couldn't see me while I tried to store enough energy to do this technique," said Kaioshin. "It paralyzes the flow of ki through your body making it impossible to move, Kibit finish him off now while I can still hold him!" shouted Kaioshin.

Kibit nodded before suddenly spreading his arms out their full horizontal length and powering up a large red ball of ki, "Servant of Babidi, this is your end!" shouted Kibit as he brought his arms closer together creating a tiny, yet tremendously powerful ball of energy that he fired at Pui-Pui! Pui-Pui struggled to try and regain control of his ki so that he could dodge the attack, but it was to no avail as the energy blast finished it's journey, hitting Pui-Pui but instead of instantly killing him, the blast went inside of his body and exploded from the inside! All that remained of Pui-Pui was the blood splattered on the ground; Kaioshin and Kibit had emerged victorious over one of Babidi's top henchmen.

Puertas had maintained a solid upper-hand on Spopovitch since the on one- on-one battle between them had begun, mainly because of a slight speed advantage that Puertas enjoyed he was able to dodge the attacks of Spopovitch, that was all about to change however as Trunks who had been gathering his remaining ki for one desperate attack had finished gathering his power! While Puertas continued to dodge the attacks of Spopovitch while taunting him with casual punches to the face, Trunks waited for the right moment and when he saw it he launched himself at Puertas who froze, stunned at the sudden burst of ki coming from where Trunks (who he had pretty much forgotten about) was! Trunks buried his fist deep into the stomach of Puertas and for a moment it seemed like time had frozen as saliva came flying out of the mouth of Puertas, just before he went rocketing through several walls!

"Yes!" Trunks exclaimed, before dropping out of Super Saiya-Jin and back into his normal condition. Spopovitch looked on, surprised at the sudden show of strength by Trunks. "What are you doing? Go on and finish him while you have the chance! I don't have the energy left to do it!" Trunks, unable to move, urged Spopovitch. In the meantime, Puertas had pulled himself out of the rubble that Trunks incredibly powerful punch had buried him in, a scared Mr. Popo went running out of the room. Puertas turned around and right in front of him was his target, the thing he came to breakdown, indeed Puertas had found something, something not unlike a large pulsating blue sphere, shielded by an incredibly powerful magical aura. Indeed, Puertas had found the portal to the Demon Realm of Darkness.

"Kaioshin is even stronger now than he was when he killed my father," said a surprised Babidi. "No matter, I still have Yakon and even if they get past him, my magic is greater than that of my father," thought the Madoshi. Babidi watched through his crystal ball as Kaioshin and Kibit ruptured the seal and went to the next floor of the ship. On that floor Babidi had nothing but a few pathetic henchmen that were defeated with little effort, he could only watch as Kaioshin and Kibit ruptured the last seal and arrived on the bottom floor of the ship, the only thing between them and himself now was a room containing Maju Yakon.

Meanwhile, back on Earth, Puertas had unleashed a volley of energy blasts on the portal in his effort to destroy the magical shielding surrounding it, but before he could finish he was interrupted when Spopovitch walked up from behind the distracted demon and connected with a hard punch to the back that sent Puertas rocketing up against the portal! "Lets finish this!" shouted Spopovitch, Puertas pulled himself up and fired a Kikoha blast at Spopovitch, but Spopovitch saw it coming a mile away and easily dodged the technique before burying his fist in the jaw of Puertas! Puertas after taking Trunks highly damaging blow, plus expending a lot of his energy attacking the portal was now too slow to dodge the attacks of Spopovitch!

Spopovitch was now in full control and he continued his sledgehammer like blows to the body of Puertas, each time knocking him up against the portal, Puertas was no longer trying to dodge as he realized that the blows of Spopovitch were strong enough that each time he got rammed into the portal it was starting to weaken the magical shielding, and so he decided to simply let Spopovitch continue to pound him.

Popo who had ran off earlier had watched a determined Spopovitch walk into the room where he had fled from Puertas, and now some time had passed, anxious to see the outcome of the battle Popo snuck around the corner where he saw Spopovitch beating the demon to a pulp! At first Popo felt relieved until he felt a large disruption in the magical shielding had been opened up, he opened his mouth to shout at Spopovitch to stop but before he could Spopovitch connected with another blow that caused the worst possible thing to happen, the magical shielding that had kept the Earth and the Demon Realm of Darkness separate collapsed. The unthinkable had happened; the two realms were joined together.