Okay, before anything else, here's the Reviewer Responses...
Reda: Yes, I am awesome awesomeness, and so is Alex (or is it 'and so are Alex'?). Ugh, this two people thing is confusing sometimes... And Vee, I know what it's like to wake up before you're finished sleeping! It happens to me a lot!
Dragon Fire: I hope you can use the computer now! And don't worry, I'm not holding it against you that the review's short, believe it or not, I've seen LOTS shorter! (ex: 'i like', grammar errors and all...) And I hope Chaos isn't mad at me for taking so long to get this one out...
supersaiyaman: O.o Wow, I've got another fan! COOL! I hope you stick around! Oh, and don't worry, you'll be seeing some of their new powers as this story goes on...
Now, back to the regular stuff...
Hi! I'm back!! [Shocked readers]
Alex: Um, I think you've been away for too long...
Alex Ultra: ... Yeah, no kidding. Oh, and by the way, I've got school (college actually), so updates are pretty much going to be when I do get enough time to write these and am inspired enough for it...
Alex: ... You mean you aren't inspired?
Alex Ultra: Well, no. Actually, my fics are on my mind like, 24/7. It's just that I never find myself in the mood to sit at the computer and type for three hours (average, seriously!), along with the time to do it. It's rare for me!
Alex: Yeah, so instead you play Diablo II?
Alex Ultra: ... OKAY!! On with the story!
Alex: HEY!!
Alex Ultra: And here's a preview!
Kewe/ fighting/ pass/ nifty wall/ metal/ fights/ "WOW"/ big.
How was that? Still confused? Oh well... that's what I'm here for!
~~~~~~*** PASSAGE ***~~~~~~
"Um, how about you take heads, and I'll take tails." "Yeah, fine by me." Alexander's head was the one that nodded, so it's safe to say he had heads.
"Okay, Kanoovf? Could you flip for us?"
"Uh... sure." Kanoovf took the coin, without even looking at it, and flipped it from about ten feet off the ground, mimicking the way Alex had done it earlier. It went another ten feet higher, then came to the ground, digging a small hole from just spinning so fast.
Alex dug the small coin out from under the dirt it threw up (it didn't land hard, it was just spinning so fast that it dug in the dirt...) and looked at how it stopped. "Heads!"
"Cool!" Alexander started walking toward Kewe and stretching his muscles.
Alex smirked and stood beside Kanoovf.
Kanoovf looked confusedly at the human. "Don't you want to fight?"
"Hmm? I AM fighting! Remember?" Alex smiled and watched Kanoovf's reaction; he was confused for only a moment, however. Then he put on a 'whatever' look and decided to watch the fight.
Alexander and Kewe were deciding on the terms of the fight. "Right here, right now. The monsters are part of the field, including the ones in the air. Okay?"
Kewe nodded, and powered up. Her eyes glowed purple as her scales shimmered, creating a similar effect to the Super Saiyan transformation. When finished she was at a new level of power, and she seemed to have grown bigger, if only a bit. As far as coloring, her eyes had changed from green to a deep shade of purple, and her scales seemed to shimmer constantly, changing color all the time.
"My turn?" Alexander didn't even wait for a confirmation before powering up himself. Without even unfolding his arms he pulled his head back and stared into the sky. As his ki surrounded him in that golden aura, he closed his eyes and brought his arms to his sides. After about three seconds like this, he brought his head down and flexed his arms. His eyes shone bright white as his ki pulsed and ripped through the air. Slowly, his coloring changed from bright yellow, to that familiar bright orange.
Slowly, he calmed down and looked at his hands, relatively unchanged. "Whoa... I didn't know I had lost that much power!"
Alex suddenly looked like she struck on something. "Or have I?" She smiled just as quickly. "No, I guess not, just re-focused..."
"Huh?"
"Nothing, just thinking out loud."
"Oh."
"Shall we get started then?"
"Sure." Alexander took the first punch, launching himself off after the shimmering form before him.
Smiling, she blocked it and brought her knee to his gut. While he sputtered for a while she spun and slammed him in the back with both fists, sending him into the ground.
While she powered up an attack, she found herself blocking one that came from the hole, her own attack forgotten.
As she dealt with the beam of energy, she heard some mumbling come from the hole just as the smoke cleared. And there he stood, steady as ever.
She only really heard the last word. "... SPEED!!!!" Immediately his ki flared and his body seemed to pulse and grow, every muscle doubling, then tripling in size! He seemed to almost be in pain as he screamed with every movement, and still he grew.
"What is this attack?" Kanoovf was asking himself, without realizing the person with the answer was still standing right beside him.
"Chi-Energy Supercharge. There's three of them, one for speed, strength, and endurance. This one's speed, but they all work basically the same: fills the muscles with as much energy as they can possibly stand, then ready them for that particular use. Goku has a similar technique, except this one is a far more effective, if on only one skill..."
As she said this, Alexander's muscles had stopped growing, and now shrank until they were back to their original size, but just looking at him told volumes. It said that he was ready for anything.
With a short chuckle, he fazed out, and reappeared right behind Kewe. "So, you're a speedy one, huh?"
"Well, I'm not one to brag!" Without warning, she fazed out herself and tried to slam him in the back, gathering air where he used to be, and getting a head in the gut. While she reeled from this, she was thrown away as Alexander blasted his aura.
Not wanting to slow down at all, Kewe recovered and kicked for his head. Not only was her kick blocked, but she had to block a hit from her opponent. The both of them found themselves in a volley of kicks and punches that Kanoovf couldn't even follow.
Alex had her eyes closed, apparently watching the fight through her brother's eyes.
Then, without warning, she shot her eyes open and yelped in surprise. And at the same time, Alexander was knocked out of the sky. "Aw, shoot."
Alexander was shifting around in the rubble that used to be part of the cliff they were fighting over. 'Aw, shoot. That was dumb...' He was just about to blast his way out when he sensed a volley of energy blasts coming down toward him, and guarded instead.
The first few only seemed to dig away at the rubble on top of him, then he felt the shock of a bunch of them hitting him head on. Seeing his opportunity, he dodged one blast, then simply flew out of the hole at maximum speed, digging a small trench in his wake.
Once out in open air again, he turned toward Kewe, still at maximum speed, and landed a powerful hit to her forehead.
Her shock didn't last long, and she quickly brought her head down. And it was blocked just as Alexander thrust his other fist into her gut, flew behind her kicking her in the back, and launching a massive attack down after her, which made contact with her before she hit the ground and blew up in fantastic fashion! All of this before Kanoovf even realized he had gotten out of the hole!
Kewe fell limply out of the sky, and even seemed to have lost a lot of that extra size, as well as the shimmering look.
Kanoovf looked from the unconscious Kewe up to Alexander, who was smiling widely while breathing rather hard. "Um, you are vicious, you know that?" Alexander responded immediately, smiling even more brightly and relaxing a bit.
Alex laughed from her place beside him. "Uh, yeah well. It's not like she made it easy! But I guess she's just not used to her opponents being as fast as she is, so she's not very good at predicting things!" She was silent for a moment. "Oh! Does that mean we win?"
"Uh... Yeah!! He, um, let's see if we can get her back up?"
"YEAH! She's still gotta open the door for us!" Kanoovf took off with Alex just behind.
Alexander was there first, though he just waited for Kanoovf, who would probably know more than them about how best to go about waking her.
It didn't take long, Kanoovf healed her a bit, and she woke up pretty quick. "What!? Who? Oh, right. Well, that was embarrassing! Losing to a newcomer!"
"And a human at that..."
"Human! They're human!?"
"You should have seen them when they first arrived!"
"..."
"Yeah, now can you open the gate for us?"
"Uh, sure. Follow me." She got up and flew off to where she had left the staff, and the others followed.
"Now, I'm not going to say I think it's too dangerous in there, but don't be letting your guard down..." She picked up the staff, stuck the head to the golden hole, which flashed, moving the glow to the staff. Then she smacked the head of the staff against the crystal wall.
At first, it seemed as if nothing was happening. Then it started sparkling, in similar fashion to how she had just a minute ago, vivid blues, reds, pinks, yellows, purples, and all the other colors of the rainbow mixed into a pattern-less sparkle that made the twins watch with immense interest.
The glowing subsided, leaving an opening behind. "Well, there you go. Hurry up, it'll close in a minute." The three of them went on through, not knowing exactly what to expect (well, Kanoovf knew, but that's beside the point...).
After a short time, the doorway closed behind them. "Well, now what?"
"We go on, what else?"
"Yeah, okay."
A screeching scream from not too far off alerted them to an attack. A strange creature with hard black skin jumped out from their left, with large claws and teeth bared.
A swift hit to the jaw was enough to kill it, as well as leave a bloody mess on Alex's fist. "Ugh, what was that?" She used some of her ki to burn the smelly mess away.
"Black Razor beast, they aren't too bad when on their own, but they usually hunt in large groups." He smiled a little. "Welcome to the northern half!"
Crack!
A sound from behind them alerted them at the last second to a rather large group of similar beasts. "I'd say the first one was just a distraction..." Without any warning, a bunch of them gathered together and formed a powerful energy attack between them, which they promptly fired at the travelers.
Alexander stepped in front of the blast and stopped it with his bare hands, only to have it separate into a bunch of smaller blasts that went around and took him on all sides.
Kanoovf smirked, amused. That is until he felt a spike in the ki of both of the twins.
As Alexander emerged from the smoke, flaring ki causing his clothes to flap in the wind and make him look very heroic, Alex was showing much the same attitude.
As Kanoovf watched on, Alex moved beside Alexander, sister beside brother, and continued to power up. The both of them were shouting in an angry/focused way, never taking their eyes off the group of strange creatures before them.
Almost as if taking some kind of invisible cue, the both of them opened their eyes wide and brought their fists to their sides, which were shining with a great power.
"TWINS FURY!!!" As they both said this in unison they blasted their gathered ki toward each other, creating an even larger, more powerful attack that they both launched toward the unsuspecting creatures.
"Bad aim." Kanoovf almost snorted as he saw the attack miss each and every one of the monsters, who dodged the light without a second thought.
But he was proven wrong when the attack shattered into several pieces, seeming to have been created for that distinct purpose as each piece found its target in the chest of a separate beast.
The twins had a smirk on their faces as they watched their little light show.
"Well, that's one thing out of the way... so let's move on." As Alex said this, the entire area was obliterated, leaving nothing but the three warriors behind.
Kanoovf was left slightly speechless by this show of power and control, but he shrugged it off thinking 'Eh, I've seen better...'. "All right, then follow me."
After a few minutes more walking (after getting out of that crater, of course...) they found themselves in some kind of valley, and on the other side of the desert-like area was a mountain range.
Kanoovf stopped and pointed to the mountains. "The next challenge is to make it through there..."
"What? Some mountain scaling?"
"What's so chall...en...ging... Uh, never mind..." As Alex spoke the mountains suddenly came to life, revealing humongous robot-like creatures decked out in the armor that made them look like mountains.
The three closest to them looked down on the little insects that activated them.
"Analysis... Number: 3. Power: Unknown. Response: Destroy."
"WOW!! Look at them! They're HUGE!!!" Alex was marveling over them, as they looked the three scraggly 'warriors' over.
"Yeah. And they're about to attack us, if we want to get to the other side, we'll have to fight our way through them..."
"You're kidding right?" Alexander was showing more than a little bit of worry in his voice. Seeing that Kanoovf was perfectly serious, he looked the monstrosities over again. "Then again, I suppose this could be fun!" The smirk on both his and Alex's face told volumes.
As they stepped forward, the Gigantrons attacked.
~~~~~~*** End of chapter 17 ***~~~~~~
Hehe, I am evil, aren't I?
Hey! I had to call them SOMETHING!!! That's what I picked!
Alex: By the way, he's referring to calling them Gigantrons.
Alex Ultra: Well, you never told me what they WERE called!
Alex: Quaderniumats (Qua-der-nee-you-mats).
Alex Ultra: 'Maybe I shouldn't have asked...' Uh... like I said, Gigantrons.
Yeah, Gigantrons... Okay! THEY'RE CALLED GIGANTRONS!!! Even if that's not their name...
DARN YOU MERLIN!! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO MAKE SUCH COMPLICATED NAMES!?!?
Okay, I'm better now. Review please!
LATER
Reda: Yes, I am awesome awesomeness, and so is Alex (or is it 'and so are Alex'?). Ugh, this two people thing is confusing sometimes... And Vee, I know what it's like to wake up before you're finished sleeping! It happens to me a lot!
Dragon Fire: I hope you can use the computer now! And don't worry, I'm not holding it against you that the review's short, believe it or not, I've seen LOTS shorter! (ex: 'i like', grammar errors and all...) And I hope Chaos isn't mad at me for taking so long to get this one out...
supersaiyaman: O.o Wow, I've got another fan! COOL! I hope you stick around! Oh, and don't worry, you'll be seeing some of their new powers as this story goes on...
Now, back to the regular stuff...
Hi! I'm back!! [Shocked readers]
Alex: Um, I think you've been away for too long...
Alex Ultra: ... Yeah, no kidding. Oh, and by the way, I've got school (college actually), so updates are pretty much going to be when I do get enough time to write these and am inspired enough for it...
Alex: ... You mean you aren't inspired?
Alex Ultra: Well, no. Actually, my fics are on my mind like, 24/7. It's just that I never find myself in the mood to sit at the computer and type for three hours (average, seriously!), along with the time to do it. It's rare for me!
Alex: Yeah, so instead you play Diablo II?
Alex Ultra: ... OKAY!! On with the story!
Alex: HEY!!
Alex Ultra: And here's a preview!
Kewe/ fighting/ pass/ nifty wall/ metal/ fights/ "WOW"/ big.
How was that? Still confused? Oh well... that's what I'm here for!
~~~~~~*** PASSAGE ***~~~~~~
"Um, how about you take heads, and I'll take tails." "Yeah, fine by me." Alexander's head was the one that nodded, so it's safe to say he had heads.
"Okay, Kanoovf? Could you flip for us?"
"Uh... sure." Kanoovf took the coin, without even looking at it, and flipped it from about ten feet off the ground, mimicking the way Alex had done it earlier. It went another ten feet higher, then came to the ground, digging a small hole from just spinning so fast.
Alex dug the small coin out from under the dirt it threw up (it didn't land hard, it was just spinning so fast that it dug in the dirt...) and looked at how it stopped. "Heads!"
"Cool!" Alexander started walking toward Kewe and stretching his muscles.
Alex smirked and stood beside Kanoovf.
Kanoovf looked confusedly at the human. "Don't you want to fight?"
"Hmm? I AM fighting! Remember?" Alex smiled and watched Kanoovf's reaction; he was confused for only a moment, however. Then he put on a 'whatever' look and decided to watch the fight.
Alexander and Kewe were deciding on the terms of the fight. "Right here, right now. The monsters are part of the field, including the ones in the air. Okay?"
Kewe nodded, and powered up. Her eyes glowed purple as her scales shimmered, creating a similar effect to the Super Saiyan transformation. When finished she was at a new level of power, and she seemed to have grown bigger, if only a bit. As far as coloring, her eyes had changed from green to a deep shade of purple, and her scales seemed to shimmer constantly, changing color all the time.
"My turn?" Alexander didn't even wait for a confirmation before powering up himself. Without even unfolding his arms he pulled his head back and stared into the sky. As his ki surrounded him in that golden aura, he closed his eyes and brought his arms to his sides. After about three seconds like this, he brought his head down and flexed his arms. His eyes shone bright white as his ki pulsed and ripped through the air. Slowly, his coloring changed from bright yellow, to that familiar bright orange.
Slowly, he calmed down and looked at his hands, relatively unchanged. "Whoa... I didn't know I had lost that much power!"
Alex suddenly looked like she struck on something. "Or have I?" She smiled just as quickly. "No, I guess not, just re-focused..."
"Huh?"
"Nothing, just thinking out loud."
"Oh."
"Shall we get started then?"
"Sure." Alexander took the first punch, launching himself off after the shimmering form before him.
Smiling, she blocked it and brought her knee to his gut. While he sputtered for a while she spun and slammed him in the back with both fists, sending him into the ground.
While she powered up an attack, she found herself blocking one that came from the hole, her own attack forgotten.
As she dealt with the beam of energy, she heard some mumbling come from the hole just as the smoke cleared. And there he stood, steady as ever.
She only really heard the last word. "... SPEED!!!!" Immediately his ki flared and his body seemed to pulse and grow, every muscle doubling, then tripling in size! He seemed to almost be in pain as he screamed with every movement, and still he grew.
"What is this attack?" Kanoovf was asking himself, without realizing the person with the answer was still standing right beside him.
"Chi-Energy Supercharge. There's three of them, one for speed, strength, and endurance. This one's speed, but they all work basically the same: fills the muscles with as much energy as they can possibly stand, then ready them for that particular use. Goku has a similar technique, except this one is a far more effective, if on only one skill..."
As she said this, Alexander's muscles had stopped growing, and now shrank until they were back to their original size, but just looking at him told volumes. It said that he was ready for anything.
With a short chuckle, he fazed out, and reappeared right behind Kewe. "So, you're a speedy one, huh?"
"Well, I'm not one to brag!" Without warning, she fazed out herself and tried to slam him in the back, gathering air where he used to be, and getting a head in the gut. While she reeled from this, she was thrown away as Alexander blasted his aura.
Not wanting to slow down at all, Kewe recovered and kicked for his head. Not only was her kick blocked, but she had to block a hit from her opponent. The both of them found themselves in a volley of kicks and punches that Kanoovf couldn't even follow.
Alex had her eyes closed, apparently watching the fight through her brother's eyes.
Then, without warning, she shot her eyes open and yelped in surprise. And at the same time, Alexander was knocked out of the sky. "Aw, shoot."
Alexander was shifting around in the rubble that used to be part of the cliff they were fighting over. 'Aw, shoot. That was dumb...' He was just about to blast his way out when he sensed a volley of energy blasts coming down toward him, and guarded instead.
The first few only seemed to dig away at the rubble on top of him, then he felt the shock of a bunch of them hitting him head on. Seeing his opportunity, he dodged one blast, then simply flew out of the hole at maximum speed, digging a small trench in his wake.
Once out in open air again, he turned toward Kewe, still at maximum speed, and landed a powerful hit to her forehead.
Her shock didn't last long, and she quickly brought her head down. And it was blocked just as Alexander thrust his other fist into her gut, flew behind her kicking her in the back, and launching a massive attack down after her, which made contact with her before she hit the ground and blew up in fantastic fashion! All of this before Kanoovf even realized he had gotten out of the hole!
Kewe fell limply out of the sky, and even seemed to have lost a lot of that extra size, as well as the shimmering look.
Kanoovf looked from the unconscious Kewe up to Alexander, who was smiling widely while breathing rather hard. "Um, you are vicious, you know that?" Alexander responded immediately, smiling even more brightly and relaxing a bit.
Alex laughed from her place beside him. "Uh, yeah well. It's not like she made it easy! But I guess she's just not used to her opponents being as fast as she is, so she's not very good at predicting things!" She was silent for a moment. "Oh! Does that mean we win?"
"Uh... Yeah!! He, um, let's see if we can get her back up?"
"YEAH! She's still gotta open the door for us!" Kanoovf took off with Alex just behind.
Alexander was there first, though he just waited for Kanoovf, who would probably know more than them about how best to go about waking her.
It didn't take long, Kanoovf healed her a bit, and she woke up pretty quick. "What!? Who? Oh, right. Well, that was embarrassing! Losing to a newcomer!"
"And a human at that..."
"Human! They're human!?"
"You should have seen them when they first arrived!"
"..."
"Yeah, now can you open the gate for us?"
"Uh, sure. Follow me." She got up and flew off to where she had left the staff, and the others followed.
"Now, I'm not going to say I think it's too dangerous in there, but don't be letting your guard down..." She picked up the staff, stuck the head to the golden hole, which flashed, moving the glow to the staff. Then she smacked the head of the staff against the crystal wall.
At first, it seemed as if nothing was happening. Then it started sparkling, in similar fashion to how she had just a minute ago, vivid blues, reds, pinks, yellows, purples, and all the other colors of the rainbow mixed into a pattern-less sparkle that made the twins watch with immense interest.
The glowing subsided, leaving an opening behind. "Well, there you go. Hurry up, it'll close in a minute." The three of them went on through, not knowing exactly what to expect (well, Kanoovf knew, but that's beside the point...).
After a short time, the doorway closed behind them. "Well, now what?"
"We go on, what else?"
"Yeah, okay."
A screeching scream from not too far off alerted them to an attack. A strange creature with hard black skin jumped out from their left, with large claws and teeth bared.
A swift hit to the jaw was enough to kill it, as well as leave a bloody mess on Alex's fist. "Ugh, what was that?" She used some of her ki to burn the smelly mess away.
"Black Razor beast, they aren't too bad when on their own, but they usually hunt in large groups." He smiled a little. "Welcome to the northern half!"
Crack!
A sound from behind them alerted them at the last second to a rather large group of similar beasts. "I'd say the first one was just a distraction..." Without any warning, a bunch of them gathered together and formed a powerful energy attack between them, which they promptly fired at the travelers.
Alexander stepped in front of the blast and stopped it with his bare hands, only to have it separate into a bunch of smaller blasts that went around and took him on all sides.
Kanoovf smirked, amused. That is until he felt a spike in the ki of both of the twins.
As Alexander emerged from the smoke, flaring ki causing his clothes to flap in the wind and make him look very heroic, Alex was showing much the same attitude.
As Kanoovf watched on, Alex moved beside Alexander, sister beside brother, and continued to power up. The both of them were shouting in an angry/focused way, never taking their eyes off the group of strange creatures before them.
Almost as if taking some kind of invisible cue, the both of them opened their eyes wide and brought their fists to their sides, which were shining with a great power.
"TWINS FURY!!!" As they both said this in unison they blasted their gathered ki toward each other, creating an even larger, more powerful attack that they both launched toward the unsuspecting creatures.
"Bad aim." Kanoovf almost snorted as he saw the attack miss each and every one of the monsters, who dodged the light without a second thought.
But he was proven wrong when the attack shattered into several pieces, seeming to have been created for that distinct purpose as each piece found its target in the chest of a separate beast.
The twins had a smirk on their faces as they watched their little light show.
"Well, that's one thing out of the way... so let's move on." As Alex said this, the entire area was obliterated, leaving nothing but the three warriors behind.
Kanoovf was left slightly speechless by this show of power and control, but he shrugged it off thinking 'Eh, I've seen better...'. "All right, then follow me."
After a few minutes more walking (after getting out of that crater, of course...) they found themselves in some kind of valley, and on the other side of the desert-like area was a mountain range.
Kanoovf stopped and pointed to the mountains. "The next challenge is to make it through there..."
"What? Some mountain scaling?"
"What's so chall...en...ging... Uh, never mind..." As Alex spoke the mountains suddenly came to life, revealing humongous robot-like creatures decked out in the armor that made them look like mountains.
The three closest to them looked down on the little insects that activated them.
"Analysis... Number: 3. Power: Unknown. Response: Destroy."
"WOW!! Look at them! They're HUGE!!!" Alex was marveling over them, as they looked the three scraggly 'warriors' over.
"Yeah. And they're about to attack us, if we want to get to the other side, we'll have to fight our way through them..."
"You're kidding right?" Alexander was showing more than a little bit of worry in his voice. Seeing that Kanoovf was perfectly serious, he looked the monstrosities over again. "Then again, I suppose this could be fun!" The smirk on both his and Alex's face told volumes.
As they stepped forward, the Gigantrons attacked.
~~~~~~*** End of chapter 17 ***~~~~~~
Hehe, I am evil, aren't I?
Hey! I had to call them SOMETHING!!! That's what I picked!
Alex: By the way, he's referring to calling them Gigantrons.
Alex Ultra: Well, you never told me what they WERE called!
Alex: Quaderniumats (Qua-der-nee-you-mats).
Alex Ultra: 'Maybe I shouldn't have asked...' Uh... like I said, Gigantrons.
Yeah, Gigantrons... Okay! THEY'RE CALLED GIGANTRONS!!! Even if that's not their name...
DARN YOU MERLIN!! WHY DO YOU HAVE TO MAKE SUCH COMPLICATED NAMES!?!?
Okay, I'm better now. Review please!
LATER
