Chapter 36: Fusion Failure
"Awe so the angel's got its wings back!" Casica beamed as sarcasm dripped from her every word. "To bad we'll just have to clip them again before we kill you... Well with the exception of the Queen... My Lord has taken a lusty interest in you..." She grinned evily and winked at Vegeta.
Vegeta roared with anger and hatred. "I won't let that vile, cowardly fiend violate my daughter in such a disgusting manner! He is so low on the scale I wouldn't even let him breathe the same air!" His aura flared and red electric sparks shot through it. "I would rather die." He finished in a low, evil tone.
"Perhaps we shall grant your wish insolent ape!" Masikle hissed challengingly.
"It's your move succubus bakas..." Vegeta smirked characteristically and flared his aura in a show of strength.
"You think you can beat us with such a puny aura and miniscule power? Surely you jest!" Casica mocked unleashing her own black aura twice the size of Vegeta's.
"I may not be able to but I know at least two of us who can..." Vegeta smirked as he eyes Kaynaros and Pallahan.
"A robin's wings are easily broken in a stiff breeze... Especially when it flies alone..." Casica said with a oddly excited look in her eye but and blank countenance.
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"This place is huge!" Talinia whispered as they flew ever onward.
"I know but we have to hurry and set up a perimeter in case something goes wrong..." Tario said quietly. They had yet to be noticed or at the very least yet to be destroyed.
"Aarian, take some of the others and teleport to the far side. Then get out of here for the time being, we may need your powers again soon." Talinia said urgently.
"Right!" Aarian responded grasping on to some of the slower flyers and disappearing far off on the other side of the battle.
"I just hope that this goes well..." Tario said worried.
"In the end Daricus will lose... It's just a matter of if he takes us all down with him..." Talinia said in a serious tone. "But I have faith in these warriors and theirs hearts. As long as we have that on our side, there's still hope yet."
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"As if we need to do this to destroy you but you see I like to crush one's spirit and make them beg for death." Casica began. "So what better way to do that then to take away your ONE advantage?" With that she held out her hands and sent little black lightning bolts out to each of the Uniteds. The bolts hit directly in the chest on each and each let out howls of pain. Brolli and Vegeta looked on in horror as they started splitting apart into the two original beings.
"This... Can't be happening." Brolli muttered dumbstruck as Elsie and Trunks came apart first followed by Goten and Carlia.
"Oh but it is!" Masikle beamed as Bardock and Zani split next.
"Looks like there's more flaws in Kaiokarsha's system than he thought." Bardock said with a wince as he held his chest. Soon, Goku and Dalina split leaving Gohan and Pallas in a blatant struggle and Kaykora and Naros barely parted. Gohan and Pallas finally split when Pallas's strength gave out.
"Well, well, we seem to have a fighter here sister..." Casica said with an evil smile plastered on her dark face. "Let's see how long the hold under the full force of my attack..." With that she launched one massive beam from one hand at Kaynaros but still they stood their stronger than ever. "What... What is this?..." Casica said shocked when they barely budged apart.
"We have one thing going for us none of the other fusions did." It responded with a all to familiar smirk on its face.
"And what's that?" Casica said stopping her attack.
"We have become one in a way no being can tamper with... We are one in love... You can not come between two people as devoted to each other as us. You may kill one but even through the traverses of time and space a bond of true love can't be broken so long as a soul lives."
"So you're saying the problem lies in the fact that you have souls?" Masikle probed. "Then remove the souls, remove the bond... But that won't really matter you be dead... Or just gone..." Masikle shrugged then nodded to her sister who's eyes lit up.
"DESOLATE SOUL ATTACK!" Casica screamed and a solid black beam charged from her hand and right through Kaynaros into the ground behind them. Its eyes shot open and it struggle to moan out in pain as tiny multi- colored glowing sparks traveled up the beam.
"What are you doing!" Bardock screamed running towards it. When he drew near a black electric beam shot him away.
"It's so simple really. Each of those lit specks are pieces of their souls. Once all the specks are gone, they have no more souls, no more life, no more anything." Masikle explained. "They'll completely cease to exist."
"I WON'T LET YOU DO THAT!" Gohan screamed as his body writhed and contorted. He started to glow and his body shifted and changed. He had ascended and finally matched his father in power once again.
"Let's go Gohan maybe we can distract them enough to stop the attack!" Goku shouted as he transformed to level four.
"Goody time to play." Maskile smirked as they leapt in to the air.
Vegeta's rage ran out of control within his body. "I swore to protect you and I will!" He shouted as he let lose his newly acquired level three form and charged towards Kaynaros who had dropped to its knees. "I REFUSE TO LOSE YOU NOW!!!" The black beam hit him and pushed him back but he soon gained the upper hand and slowly started his charge again.
"Huh?" Casica thought but shrugged and poured more power into the attack. Still Vegeta pushed on. In her distraction Gohan flew up and planted a spinning heel kick to the back of her head. The attack broke and bits of soul went flying back into Kaynaros just before Vegeta drove on top of them and knocked them out of the way of a second try from Casica.
"How dare you!" Maskile shouted raging forward and giving Goku a knee to the gut so hard it cause a small earthquake. He plummeted to the ground and landed not far from the others. Bardock and Zani pulled him in to the huddle. Gohan soon joined them care of Casica and a double punch to the back.
"I... I've never... been hit so hard... in my life." Goku choked out through the blood pouring from his mouth. "This isn't going to be easy." He added with a slight smile.
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"Sorry to have to do this to you, but the strong the people using the crystals the stronger their power... You're going home now." Aarian said teleporting the cleric off the planet snatching the crystal. "Go Super Talinia and make this stronger." She suggested telepathically.
"On the count of three everyone power up and hope for the best." Tario said telepathically. "With any luck there's enough energy floating around we can do this unnoticed."
"Ready?" Talinia asked in the same manner. Everyone responded yes.
"One... Two... Three..." They all began powering up as high as they could. When they had all achieved their max and the Supers were transformed they began the ritual of linking the crystals. They linked quickly despite the great distance apart and a green protective dome shot up into the air with them just inside.
"What is this?" Masikle pondered eying the dome. "I wonder where it came from... I don't sense any other powers around, do you?" She looked at Casica.
"No but it doesn't matter. We can break this shield easy..." She said with a smirk.
"And so we shall." Masikle bea,ed and the two began pelting the shield with relatively small ki balls. All were deflected or absorbed by the shield.
Suddenly Vegeta who had been clutching Kaynaros protectively howled out in pain. Everyone's attention shot to him and even Casica and Masikle stopped shooting long enough to see what happened. Vegeta shot up and looked down at his stomach. He had somehow developed a large wound that was gushing blood. He turned around to see if anyone had been behind him only to reveal the wound went all the way through and blood gushed out his back as well. "I'm sorry Kaykora... I failed you." Was all he uttered as he dropped to his knees weak from the loss of blood.
"VEGETA!" Goku screamed rushing to his side. "Hang in there Vegeta!" He said desperately. "You've gotten worse injuries than this and pulled through little buddy."
"Did you hit him?" Casica asked a little confused.
"Don't think so." Masikle responded with equal confusion.
"Doesn't look like I'll be seeing this one to end like all the other times Kakorrot. If she gets through this I want you and Bardock to take care of her. And tell her I love her." Vegeta said collapsing to the ground. Goku picked him up and looked at him sadly.
"Vegeta..." Goku whispered.
"Swear to me that you'll do this for me Kakorrot!" Vegeta hissed weakly.
"I swear." Goku whispered as a tear rolled down his cheek. "You have been a good friend to me Vegeta even if you didn't mean to."
"Suck it up Kakorrot... You talk like I'm not coming back... Now get off your ass and beat those bitches back to Hell... Or the future... What ever the Hell it is..." He smiled as his eyes closed and his body went limp in Goku's hands. In that moment the last bit of goodness in Casica woke up.
"What have I done..." She whispered. "Whole worlds destroyed on a wimb just because I could... All those people killed... All those people..."
"TRAITOR!" Masikle hissed and she slammed Casica down into the shield. However instead of bouncing off or being zapped, she sank right through. When she landed with a thud in the middle of the group a massive black energy beam shot out of her and into Masikle who started growing larger in size. "Now I have all the power and I shall crush you all!"
"That can't be good." Trunks commented.
"Not at all..." Goten added.
"Let's try re-fusing and see if we can do it." Elsie said figuring that now that the one who de-fused them was seemingly dead, they should be able to fuse again. The four chibis were able to re-fuse but knew even then they weren't strong enough to take on Masikle.
"Goku, Gohan, Bardock, Brolli." Tario said telepathically. "We have enough power to make you all go into spirit mode and maintain the shield over the others. Get ready because you'll only have 10 minutes to beat the living crap out of her and get back in."
"Right." Goku responded laying Vegeta out on the ground. He looked down at his bloody hand then clenched it tight.
"Power up as high as you can first because you can't once you enter spirit mode." Tario warned so they did as he said.
"So all four of you are ready die? So cute." Masikle mocked as she waited for them to leave the dome. "I'm ready to play..."
"Get ready to go into Spirit mode in three... Two..."
"Awe so the angel's got its wings back!" Casica beamed as sarcasm dripped from her every word. "To bad we'll just have to clip them again before we kill you... Well with the exception of the Queen... My Lord has taken a lusty interest in you..." She grinned evily and winked at Vegeta.
Vegeta roared with anger and hatred. "I won't let that vile, cowardly fiend violate my daughter in such a disgusting manner! He is so low on the scale I wouldn't even let him breathe the same air!" His aura flared and red electric sparks shot through it. "I would rather die." He finished in a low, evil tone.
"Perhaps we shall grant your wish insolent ape!" Masikle hissed challengingly.
"It's your move succubus bakas..." Vegeta smirked characteristically and flared his aura in a show of strength.
"You think you can beat us with such a puny aura and miniscule power? Surely you jest!" Casica mocked unleashing her own black aura twice the size of Vegeta's.
"I may not be able to but I know at least two of us who can..." Vegeta smirked as he eyes Kaynaros and Pallahan.
"A robin's wings are easily broken in a stiff breeze... Especially when it flies alone..." Casica said with a oddly excited look in her eye but and blank countenance.
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"This place is huge!" Talinia whispered as they flew ever onward.
"I know but we have to hurry and set up a perimeter in case something goes wrong..." Tario said quietly. They had yet to be noticed or at the very least yet to be destroyed.
"Aarian, take some of the others and teleport to the far side. Then get out of here for the time being, we may need your powers again soon." Talinia said urgently.
"Right!" Aarian responded grasping on to some of the slower flyers and disappearing far off on the other side of the battle.
"I just hope that this goes well..." Tario said worried.
"In the end Daricus will lose... It's just a matter of if he takes us all down with him..." Talinia said in a serious tone. "But I have faith in these warriors and theirs hearts. As long as we have that on our side, there's still hope yet."
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"As if we need to do this to destroy you but you see I like to crush one's spirit and make them beg for death." Casica began. "So what better way to do that then to take away your ONE advantage?" With that she held out her hands and sent little black lightning bolts out to each of the Uniteds. The bolts hit directly in the chest on each and each let out howls of pain. Brolli and Vegeta looked on in horror as they started splitting apart into the two original beings.
"This... Can't be happening." Brolli muttered dumbstruck as Elsie and Trunks came apart first followed by Goten and Carlia.
"Oh but it is!" Masikle beamed as Bardock and Zani split next.
"Looks like there's more flaws in Kaiokarsha's system than he thought." Bardock said with a wince as he held his chest. Soon, Goku and Dalina split leaving Gohan and Pallas in a blatant struggle and Kaykora and Naros barely parted. Gohan and Pallas finally split when Pallas's strength gave out.
"Well, well, we seem to have a fighter here sister..." Casica said with an evil smile plastered on her dark face. "Let's see how long the hold under the full force of my attack..." With that she launched one massive beam from one hand at Kaynaros but still they stood their stronger than ever. "What... What is this?..." Casica said shocked when they barely budged apart.
"We have one thing going for us none of the other fusions did." It responded with a all to familiar smirk on its face.
"And what's that?" Casica said stopping her attack.
"We have become one in a way no being can tamper with... We are one in love... You can not come between two people as devoted to each other as us. You may kill one but even through the traverses of time and space a bond of true love can't be broken so long as a soul lives."
"So you're saying the problem lies in the fact that you have souls?" Masikle probed. "Then remove the souls, remove the bond... But that won't really matter you be dead... Or just gone..." Masikle shrugged then nodded to her sister who's eyes lit up.
"DESOLATE SOUL ATTACK!" Casica screamed and a solid black beam charged from her hand and right through Kaynaros into the ground behind them. Its eyes shot open and it struggle to moan out in pain as tiny multi- colored glowing sparks traveled up the beam.
"What are you doing!" Bardock screamed running towards it. When he drew near a black electric beam shot him away.
"It's so simple really. Each of those lit specks are pieces of their souls. Once all the specks are gone, they have no more souls, no more life, no more anything." Masikle explained. "They'll completely cease to exist."
"I WON'T LET YOU DO THAT!" Gohan screamed as his body writhed and contorted. He started to glow and his body shifted and changed. He had ascended and finally matched his father in power once again.
"Let's go Gohan maybe we can distract them enough to stop the attack!" Goku shouted as he transformed to level four.
"Goody time to play." Maskile smirked as they leapt in to the air.
Vegeta's rage ran out of control within his body. "I swore to protect you and I will!" He shouted as he let lose his newly acquired level three form and charged towards Kaynaros who had dropped to its knees. "I REFUSE TO LOSE YOU NOW!!!" The black beam hit him and pushed him back but he soon gained the upper hand and slowly started his charge again.
"Huh?" Casica thought but shrugged and poured more power into the attack. Still Vegeta pushed on. In her distraction Gohan flew up and planted a spinning heel kick to the back of her head. The attack broke and bits of soul went flying back into Kaynaros just before Vegeta drove on top of them and knocked them out of the way of a second try from Casica.
"How dare you!" Maskile shouted raging forward and giving Goku a knee to the gut so hard it cause a small earthquake. He plummeted to the ground and landed not far from the others. Bardock and Zani pulled him in to the huddle. Gohan soon joined them care of Casica and a double punch to the back.
"I... I've never... been hit so hard... in my life." Goku choked out through the blood pouring from his mouth. "This isn't going to be easy." He added with a slight smile.
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"Sorry to have to do this to you, but the strong the people using the crystals the stronger their power... You're going home now." Aarian said teleporting the cleric off the planet snatching the crystal. "Go Super Talinia and make this stronger." She suggested telepathically.
"On the count of three everyone power up and hope for the best." Tario said telepathically. "With any luck there's enough energy floating around we can do this unnoticed."
"Ready?" Talinia asked in the same manner. Everyone responded yes.
"One... Two... Three..." They all began powering up as high as they could. When they had all achieved their max and the Supers were transformed they began the ritual of linking the crystals. They linked quickly despite the great distance apart and a green protective dome shot up into the air with them just inside.
"What is this?" Masikle pondered eying the dome. "I wonder where it came from... I don't sense any other powers around, do you?" She looked at Casica.
"No but it doesn't matter. We can break this shield easy..." She said with a smirk.
"And so we shall." Masikle bea,ed and the two began pelting the shield with relatively small ki balls. All were deflected or absorbed by the shield.
Suddenly Vegeta who had been clutching Kaynaros protectively howled out in pain. Everyone's attention shot to him and even Casica and Masikle stopped shooting long enough to see what happened. Vegeta shot up and looked down at his stomach. He had somehow developed a large wound that was gushing blood. He turned around to see if anyone had been behind him only to reveal the wound went all the way through and blood gushed out his back as well. "I'm sorry Kaykora... I failed you." Was all he uttered as he dropped to his knees weak from the loss of blood.
"VEGETA!" Goku screamed rushing to his side. "Hang in there Vegeta!" He said desperately. "You've gotten worse injuries than this and pulled through little buddy."
"Did you hit him?" Casica asked a little confused.
"Don't think so." Masikle responded with equal confusion.
"Doesn't look like I'll be seeing this one to end like all the other times Kakorrot. If she gets through this I want you and Bardock to take care of her. And tell her I love her." Vegeta said collapsing to the ground. Goku picked him up and looked at him sadly.
"Vegeta..." Goku whispered.
"Swear to me that you'll do this for me Kakorrot!" Vegeta hissed weakly.
"I swear." Goku whispered as a tear rolled down his cheek. "You have been a good friend to me Vegeta even if you didn't mean to."
"Suck it up Kakorrot... You talk like I'm not coming back... Now get off your ass and beat those bitches back to Hell... Or the future... What ever the Hell it is..." He smiled as his eyes closed and his body went limp in Goku's hands. In that moment the last bit of goodness in Casica woke up.
"What have I done..." She whispered. "Whole worlds destroyed on a wimb just because I could... All those people killed... All those people..."
"TRAITOR!" Masikle hissed and she slammed Casica down into the shield. However instead of bouncing off or being zapped, she sank right through. When she landed with a thud in the middle of the group a massive black energy beam shot out of her and into Masikle who started growing larger in size. "Now I have all the power and I shall crush you all!"
"That can't be good." Trunks commented.
"Not at all..." Goten added.
"Let's try re-fusing and see if we can do it." Elsie said figuring that now that the one who de-fused them was seemingly dead, they should be able to fuse again. The four chibis were able to re-fuse but knew even then they weren't strong enough to take on Masikle.
"Goku, Gohan, Bardock, Brolli." Tario said telepathically. "We have enough power to make you all go into spirit mode and maintain the shield over the others. Get ready because you'll only have 10 minutes to beat the living crap out of her and get back in."
"Right." Goku responded laying Vegeta out on the ground. He looked down at his bloody hand then clenched it tight.
"Power up as high as you can first because you can't once you enter spirit mode." Tario warned so they did as he said.
"So all four of you are ready die? So cute." Masikle mocked as she waited for them to leave the dome. "I'm ready to play..."
"Get ready to go into Spirit mode in three... Two..."