Chapter Eight - Divine Intervention
Orion fell to the ground with a thud. His vision was blurring but he could still make out Omega walking toward him slowly. Painfully he pulled himself to his feet, gripping his shattered shoulder as he did. He could faintly hear Morgan's cries from down the hall as he glared at Omega. /This is not right. It is not fair! But... I can't stop him. Not alone./
"You are not alone any more." Said a new voice from behind him. He turned to see who had spoken came face to face with several odd looking people, many of which had halos over their heads. It was the tallest of the group who had spoken. As Orion looked at them warily the man held out his hands and a glow passed from them and into Orion who began to instantly feel better. A moment later he was fully healed.
"And just who the hell are you?!" Omega demanded snarling.
"We are the three strongest Kai's, and these are our strongest warriors." Kibetin replied. "You, Omega, cannot be allowed to continue." As the Supreme Kai finished there were several flashes of gold from behind him. Goku and Vegeta had ascended to the third level while Gohan was at the second. Pikkon and Piccolo had discarded their weighted clothing before leaving Duro's planet and merely slipped into fighting stances.
Omega took a step back as he looked at the three Super Sai-jins. They looked too much like Orion's ally for his tastes.
Telepathically Kibetin contacted the others. "I'll stay back for now to tend to the injured. If things get too heated then I'll step in." His small group nodded as they lunged in at Omega together.
Omega managed to dodge around a round house from Piccolo and then smash his fist into Pikkon's face before Vegeta landed a hard kick to his chest. Orion stood where he was and watched the battle in awe. Goku and Vegeta were catching the Biodroid almost constantly, their speed and power advantage over him quite obvious. The others were having a much more difficult time, especially Piccolo who was the weakest of the group.
With a scream Omega slammed his foot into the Namek's face and sent him careening out of the room and through the hall. Just as Piccolo was pulling himself to a stop a figure appeared before him. One that part of him recognized. "Tekuta?" he asked. Then, "Wait, how'd I..."
"Parts of you know me." he said softly. "Kami knows me because we are brothers, and because all Guardians are connected. Nail knows me because we are one."
Piccolo's eyes widened as Nail's memories and knowledge floated to the surface. "Wait a minute... you look younger than Kami but far to old to be half of Nail..."
"Time is a complicated matter." Tekuta said. "More so when you deal with the passage of time between universes. When first I came to this world it was through unnatural means, means which tore at my body and soul. To survive I split into two beings. Nail and myself. He remained behind, starting over as a child, and I passed through into this universe."
Piccolo looked from Tekuta and down the hall toward the battle. He called tell Goku and Vegeta outmatched Omega by a fair amount but... he was still cautious and a bit worried. Looking back at Tekuta he saw the same idea that had surfaced inside of his mind on the face of the aged Namek.
Complex A
Trunks had become lost in the recesses of his own mind. The darkness wrapped about him tightly, holding to him like a frightened child, and tugging him into his memories. Through the haze and shadow he could see forms moving quickly. They moved about in an intricate dance with incredible precision. And then, as they neared, he was able to see who these forms were. Drifting from memories he'd long since tried to bury were Gohan and the Androids. He watched on with a feeling of despair as the darkness held him firmly in place. Every glimpse of Gohan brought back flashes of his mentor laying dead in the streets. Every glimpse of the Androids brought forth images of his world's cities laying in ruin, their people massacred.
The shadow forms shimmered and bled into the darkness as snippets of his memories flash through his mind, both sights and sounds alike. The faces of the Androids, their voices and laughs echoing through his mind and sending chills through his body. Their taunts bled into the next stream of visions, memories of this world he was on now. He could hear the Androids laughing in the background but felt much more at peace as images of Morgan and the few days he'd spent with her drifted through his mind. Then, suddenly, they were gone and replaced with the sight of her laying unconscious in The Chamber.
Morgan took a few steps back from the door as she blinked away the tears. Trunks's screams had almost died off a moment before but had suddenly burst forth to the surface with a vengeance. His aura, which had faded into nothing as his hair had begun to shift back to normal, flared back to life again. His hair flashed and turned a brilliant gold as his muscles grew larger. Slowly the energy streams that held him aloft, that were the source of the pain, began to be pushed back.
The girl shielded her eyes as a sudden blinding flash emanated from the Sai-jin. The room shook savagely as a rumble tore free of The Chamber. The shaking floor knocked her to her feet just as the door to The Chamber was blown off its hinges and across the room into the wall with a loud clang. Morgan stood up slowly and stared at the door for a moment before turning to look into The Chamber again.
Trunks floated in the air a moment longer, looking quite different than before with long golden hair hanging down his back. And then, in a flash of gold, his aura vanished and his hair returned to normal as he fell to the ground, something falling from his clothes and clattering across the floor. Morgan rushed over to him and knelt down beside him quickly. She could tell he was still breathing but checked his pulse anyway just to be safe. With a sigh of relief she began trying to wake him up.
Hallway to Complex B
The blinding flare of light that had formed in the hall only a moment before faded away to reveal a single Namek looking at his hands. With a smirk on his lips Piccolo looked down the hall toward where the others were still fighting Omega. His new power boost put him beyond Pikkon in strength and almost even with Gohan's maximum. He was about to make his way back to the battle when a power spike behind him caught his attention. /Trunks! Damn that was quite the power kid. Well, the Supreme Kai was right about you at least, you'll be fine. Have a peaceful sleep, we'll handle things from here./ Lifting into the air Piccolo surged through the hall and returned to the battle.
He sped past a shocked Gohan and Pikkon and slammed his knee into Omega's stomach. The Namek knew the attack wouldn't phase the Biodroid but it distracted him long enough for Goku and Vegeta to come in from each side and slam his head between their fists. Omega stumbled backward and Rainova, the female Kai, came up to him with a powerful kick to his face. While doing next to no damage it caused him to 'stumble' into Rakor's fist with a mighty crack.
"That's it!" Omega shouted, his aura flaring massively before a blast of KI shot up through the ceiling. With a burst of speed he shot up through the opening he'd created, the Z Warriors in close pursuit. As they broke free into the daylight they saw that Omega had company, a much larger person. "Meet Goliath!" he called down. "Don't worry about him though, he's not staying long."
Omega floated around in front of Goliath and waited there a moment. Suddenly the large Android's body began to peel open. The Z warriors watched in wonder as Omega floated backwards and into Goliath who then closed up. As his body sealed shut sparks began to flare up around him and then a full aura appeared as his body shifted and mutated.
"Shit, he's transforming!" Vegeta cried as Omega's energy began to build. "Somehow he's merging with that infernal machine!" With a snarl the Sai-jin prince launched into the air but by the time he reached Omega the transformation was over and the new Omega back handed Vegeta away with ease.
The transformed Omega was now 15 feet tall, had a dark gray skin tone, glowing red eyes, and long spiky white hair. "I am invincible!" he roared in a deep baritone and laughing. Omega floated in place as all the warriors launched in at him, including the Supreme Kai and Orion, and began to attack him. He just laughed as he shrugged off their best attacks.
"This is absurd!" Vegeta cried as he slammed his foot into Omega's head with no effect.
"Gohan!" Goku called as he pulled back from the fray of battle. His son turned just as Goku powered down to normal. Upon seeing this he nodded and powered down as well before joining him.
Vegeta saw them and growled, "This is no time to be taking a break Kakkarotto!"
However his look of anger turned to one of shock and disbelief as the two warriors moved through some bizarre motions calling out, "Fuuuuuu! Sion! Ha!" as they did. As their fingers touched they began to glow and phase into each other. A moment later there was a blinding flash light and the father son duo was replaced by a single figure in a blue and red trim vest like jacket and purple pants with wildly spiky hair.
News Chopper, less than a mile from the battle
A few moments ago:
"As you can see, the damage done by last month's fire is already being erased. The forests around Crystal Rivers are reclaiming the..." the reporter stopped as the ground beneath the chopper began to shake violently. "Wait, there seems to be an Earthquake! This has never happened before, there isn't even supposed to be a fault line in this area." As he finished the quake died off.
He looked around not sure what happened. Then, as he was about to continue his report another quake hit. He turned back to the pilot. "Get in touch with the studio, get me a live feed! Something big is going on out here, I can feel it."
The pilot nodded. A moment later the reporter head his superiors voice in his headset. "What is it Nathan?"
"I'm not certain sir, there've been two quakes out here in the last few minutes and... I another one's starting!"
"We're not on a fault line Nathan. Look, I know you want to get your 'big break' and all..." His superior droned on but Nathan wasn't listening. His eyes were glued to the distance where a massive explosion had just occurred. Quickly he grabbed his binoculars and looked just in time to see Omega float up into the air where Goliath was already floating.
Tapping on his cameraman's shoulder he pointed in their direction and spoke to his superior. "Matt, look at my feed! Holy Shit! There's half a dozen of them! Three of them look kind of like that Angel guy from the other day at the mall!"
As Omega and Goliath were merging Nathan heard Matt let loose a string of curses as he looked at the feed. "I'm putting you live right now, if the network dosen't like it they can kiss my ass."
Nathan glanced at the camera as the blue light blinked on indicating a live feed. "Ladies and gentle, I'm about three miles outside of Crystal Rivers where I've stumbled onto something spectacular! What you are seeing is live. The three with the gold glows resemble the Angel sightings from earlier this month. I don't know about the two green guys or the three oddly dressed fellows, however they seem to be working together to fight the large demon like creature...
"My word! Halos! The two green guys and the three Angels all have halos over their heads! This dosen't look good though. They seem to be giving everything they've got but the Demon isn't even noticing them. Wait, two of them have pulled back from the battle... I just heard something that sounded like a name... Carrot maybe? I don't know, but the two have lost their glow and are doing something odd..."
Nathan shielded his eyes as flash of light came from Gohan and Goku. There was a gust of wind that rocked the chopper for a moment and then they could see again. "Somehow two of the Angels have... seemingly merged into one new being! There, that flash, now he's glowing as well!" Nathan's eyes nearly popped out of his head as a sudden kick from the fused warrior sent Omega toward his chopper and into the ground only a few hundred yards away.
The Battle
Vegeta could do little more than stare at the fused warrior as it floated past him toward Omega. The Supreme Kai and the others all pulled back as Omega looked him up and down. Piccolo gave him a glance as he passed. "Careful Gokan, you've only got twenty minutes." The fusion nodded, a determined look on his face. Suddenly he vanished and reappeared inches from Omega just before smashing his foot into Omega's head and sending him into the distance.
"Would somebody tell me what the hell just happened!" Vegeta demanded.
"We fused." came the double voiced reply of Gokan as he glanced back through the gold aura and blue lightning. "I'll handle Omega, but be ready just incase." he said before vanishing again.
"This is ludicrous!" Vegeta cried. "He... he's almost even with Omega and he's only at the second level!"
"The difference is greater than you realize." Rainova said. "Hopefully it's not to great."
Omega had pulled himself out of the ground and was staring into the distance, anger raging inside of him, when Gokan landed a few feet before him. "You!" he cried. "I'm going to kill you!"
Gokan pointed above his head. "See that, it's called a Halo. I'm already dead. You'll be joining me shortly."
"I am invincible!" Omega shouted as he lunged in at Gokan. The fusion smirked, he was right. The 15 foot bulky body of Omega was powerful, but it was also pitifully slow. The Biodroid's fist passed through thin air as his target vanished.
"Looking for me?" Gokan asked from behind him while cracking his neck. Omega whirled around lashed out with a kick but the fusion vanished once more. This time he appeared right in his face driving his knee into Omega's nose and toppling the large warrior. He flipped up into the air above him gracefully and then dropped back down like a ton of bricks into his abdomen. Lifting into the air again he did a back flip kicking Omega in the jaw as the Biodroid tried to get up and sending him sliding along the ground for a couple dozen yards.
The cameraman above was getting as much of the fight as possible. The fact they were in a large clearing was helpful, the fact that they were going quite fast wasn't. He noticed this and flipped the switch on his camera to high-speed mode and what was previously vanishing fighters became semi-visible people within blurs.
As Omega regained his feet he finally landed a bone crunching blow to Gokan's head that sent him back out into the clearing again. Omega charged in and the two locked into close combat. As they did Pikkon landed at the clearing's edge with Piccolo floating overhead. While Pikkon charged energy through his whole body the Namek pressed to fingers to his forehead and began to charge his own attack. Meanwhile Vegeta had stopped a few dozen more yards above Piccolo and held his arm down toward Omega as he too charged energy.
With a quick and hard head butt Omega knocked Gokan backward before slamming his massive fist into the fusion's stomach. Gokan doubled over and spat up blood as the large Biodroid backhanded him away hard. "Thunder... Flash... Attack!" Omega spun around as the fire like energy surged toward him. He held out his arms as the attack reached him.
"Special Beam Cannon!" Piccolo cried.
His call was then followed by Vegeta's. "Big Bang Attack!"
The two new attack slammed into Omega with a brilliant flash. And then, suddenly, the energy began to dissipate. Omega's mouth was wide open, the energy being pulled from the attacks and into his body. "What! No way!" Gokan cried. "He can absorb energy attacks!" /Now what? I can't use the Spirit Bomb, he'll just absorb it!/
Omega stood his ground smirking and laughing. "Is that the best you've got!? All that did was make me even stronger!" he grinned as he looked over the warriors. "The three most powerful Kai's and their greatest champions!" he laughed madly and the ground began to shake as he flexed his power. "The strongest beings in existence and you're no match for me! I love it!"
Suddenly he launched forward through the clearing and straight at Pikkon. The long dead alien didn't even see him coming as Omega's fist slammed into him knocking him for over a mile and into a mountain where he slipped into unconsciousness. Next he turned skyward and lunged up with Piccolo. He was above and behind the Namek before he'd even seen the Biodroid move. A quick and sudden chop to the back of his neck had him plummeting to the ground.
He turned and looked skyward at Vegeta and grinned. The Sai-jin prince clenched his fists in anger. /I trained my ass off for two and a half decades to reach the pinnacle of Sai-jin power! Then this... this upstart freak of nature surpasses me! I wont HAVE IT!/ There was a blinding flash of gold as Vegeta charged down at Omega angrily.
"No, Vegeta!" Gokan cried shooting forward as well. However Vegeta reached Omega first and began to lash out at him madly with his feet and fists trying in vain to land at least one blow.
Complex A
Morgan hadn't liked the sounds of the thunderous explosions or the way the ground shook every so often but she'd stayed by Trunks's side. At last, after several minutes of trying to wake him, he began to stir. "Trunks... come one Trunks wake up!" she called.
His fingers flexed and he groaned in pain. "S... ser... um." he choked out. At first Morgan didn't understand but the next time she heard him. She looked through his pockets but couldn't find it. Glancing around the room quickly she glimpsed it laying along the far wall. Climbing to her feet she ran over to it and picked up the small capsule. Trunks had shown her how they worked before and she quickly depressed the tab dropping it to the ground.
When the smoke cleared she bent down and picked up the small case. Running back over to Trunks she flipped it open and found a single syringe laying inside a foam mold and a small vial of neon pink liquid attached to the lid. With a shaky hand she took the syringe and pushed it into the vial drawing out all the fluid. Calming herself as best she could to help keep her hand steady she found a vein in his arm and slipped the needle in injecting the brightly colored fluid.
As the syringe emptied she pulled it free and tossed it aside. She knelt by Trunks again and watched as the bruises and burns on his body suddenly began to heal. A second later his eyes opened and he sat up. "Thanks... Morgan." he said holding his head. "But you better move clear... I don't know what's going to happen when that thing fully kicks in..."
"But..."
"Please. I don't want to accidentally hurt you somehow." She watched him a moment longer before nodding and leaving. As he watched her go Trunks grasped his head as a pain lanced through his mind. He tried to get to his feet but the pain worked its way down into his chest making it hard to breath and he slumped over holding his head with one hand and his chest with the other.
Morgan stopped dead in her tracks just inside the hall as a loud scream tore through the area. She looked back at Trunks worried about him and her eyes widened. His entire body was rippling and pulsing as he managed to get to his knees. He threw his head back and screamed at the pain that tore through him.
Next Chapter
It's all or nothing next chapter as Omega decides to destroy everyone in his way and become Supreme Ruler of Everything. The Serum's doing something to Trunks, for better or for worse has yet to be determined. It's time at last for the final battle between good and evil.