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Super Saiyan Aftermath

Chapter 5 Unannounced Guest

Mere seconds after his conscious decision to kill all inhabitants, Cable reconsidered. He was not evil, like those he intended to crush, just angry. He was set up by the headmaster, Cid, just when he was beginning to trust people again. Well never again. Cable was in all out Super Saiyan 2, his speed was incredible. He was back to the base within forty-five seconds. As he touched down on the small planet-type heavenly body, his barrier melted the top-soil. He blasted open the first door, racing down the corridor and opened the door at the end. As it closed, he let the barrier dissipate around him.

"I am back from a successful mission," he said as he held the intercom button on the door panel. He didn't wait for a response as he pushed the button into the console, breaking it and sending sparks out. A grin laced his face. He stayed powered up, breaking down doors instead of opening them. He ran straight to the headmaster's room only to find Darle waiting for him.

"Hello, boy." Darle sneered as Cable entered. The sight just added to the reason why Cable was there at all. Without warning Cable's body was racked with pain. As he convulsed on the ground he reached to his back and pulled off what was left of his suit. As he examined it, he noticed several sharp objects protruding from the inside. With a grin, he crushed the suit. In the very next instant Darle had punched Cable in the forehead, expecting results he didn't get.

Cable's grin grew wider as he grabbed Darle's hand. "You don't get it, do you, old man? You're not a threat to me. Just sit down." with his final command, Cable squeezed as hard as he could, breaking the bones in Darle's hand while still holding it. Darle looked around frantically and grabbed a vile from Cable's bandoleer. He downed it immediately, biting through the stopper. Almost instantly his had repaired itself. Cable realized his left arm was still broken. He grabbed a vile himself and followed the same course of action Darle took. He felt his left arm heal completely.

"Now this is a real treat, just the man I wanted to talk to." Cable commented, "or rather, kill." As his words ended, Cable flung Darle into the nearby wall. He instantly appeared in front of Darle. With a quick crouch, Cable punched Darle in the bridge of the nose, knocking him through the wall. Cable casually followed him into the next room, emitting a powerful aura again. Darle couldn't get up before Cable kicked through the ground, bringing his foot up under Darle, lifting him into the air, where Cable followed up with a powerful elbow to the chest. As Darle was falling, Cable booted him into the nearby wall, headfirst. Darle stopped with his head inside the wall.

"Aren't you just as bad as me? Doing this to another person?" Darle asked, the pleading sound in his voice quite apparent.

With a huge grin Cable responded, "Gee, I guess I am." with that, Cable punched Darle through the ground, his head splitting the wall on this level and the one below. 'I bet that hurt' Cable thought to himself. "I think you have had enough, I want to leave you with the pain of losing to me, I took your son's life and I could just as easily take yours." Cable calmly said. For some reason though, Cable jumped through the hole Darle made, and continued to punish him.

Blood running freely from his mouth and nose, among numerous other places, Darle pleaded, "You said you were done! I thought you were going to let me live! Stop it, please stop it." No response was heard, only the sickening sound of Darle's head being punched into a solid steel wall. As he thought was going to die, a vile fell from Cable's bandoleer. Darle seized the opportunity and blasted Cable in the face, only hoping for a stun, and getting it. He grabbed the vile and downed it as fast as he could.

Darle's body puffed up. His wounds were healed, and now he was stronger and faster. He now transformed and thought he could match Cable this time through, but was sadly mistaken. Cable showed no mercy, was even more aggressive now. Perhaps taking the vile angered him more.

"Trump card, my boy." Darle said out of the blue. He grinned, showing lost teeth and blood. "Die!" Darle bellowed as he launched an attack into the ground. Cable was momentarily puzzled, but a moment later when nothing happened, he began the attack on Darle again. But Darle was prepared, he had created his six energy balls again. This time they were much larger, their orbiting nexus around Darle made his defense all but impregnable. Cable hardly flinched as Darle tossed one lightly at him. He caught the ball and flung it back at Darle with vigor it almost took Darle off-guard. Almost. But Darle merely focused two of the now five balls to bounce the other off.

This time Darle flew at Cable, using the orbiting power balls as a shield rather an attack. Cable couldn't land a punch without it being deflected off to the side. He punched at Darle while bouncing back. He fired a blast at Darle, hoping to crush the energy balls. It was to no avail, as Darle dodged and increased the size of each energy sphere. Each was now his size. He fired them around Cable, all orbiting without going beneath him. Cable realized the plan an instant too late. Darle flung the energy balls upward, out of the impending explosion, as soon as it died down enough, he launched the five spheres into the rubble, trying to expel Cable to the next dimension.

As the smoke cleared, all that was left was part of Cable's black gi. Darle simply grinned at the destruction. He knew for sure he got Cable. He started to laugh uncontrollably. Like a madman.

"Something funny?" Cable said from somewhere behind. Darle ceased laughing immediately and searched for the source of the voice. As he was about to discover it, his nose was shattered, making his world nothing but red. "Didn't think so. Kamehameha!" Cable roared from above Darle. The energy beam poured down on Darle without relent. Just as Darle was about to give up, the beam stopped, Darle's arms still in front of him. "Stop this one!" With that, Cable began to throw energy beams that arced and slammed around Darle's arms, crushing him into the ground. With his remaining energy, Darle teleported out of the room, nowhere nearby.

"Damn it! Always running. Coward!" Cable screamed at nothing. As his anger dissipated, so did his ability to stay transformed. He fell forward to his knees, staying there for a few minutes, catching his breath. Cable got up and opened the door to the supply room when he was finished. He grabbed a crate of food and water supplies, and a rack full of oxygen tanks. With his load, he made his way to the docking bay. No one he saw tried to stop him. He wouldn't blow up the base. He loaded his ship and as he was powering it up, he realized he forgot something. Cid.

He walked off the craft he was going to take. It was all black and flat. It had a cargo room at the back, with a hallway to a bedroom on the right and a small bathroom on the left. At the end of the hall was a cockpit with easy to understand controls. He walked up to a crewman and asked where Cid was.

"Cabl...Sir, I'm afraid I'm far too loyal to betray Cid like that. I'm sorry." The obviously frightened crewman stuttered. Cable grinned at the thought. Someone afraid of him.

"Then, I'm sorry. You have to die. Do you have family?" Cable asked as though it was normal conversation.

"Yes, a wife and a son."

"Really? You look too young. Oh well. I'll 'personally' deliver the message of your death." Cable didn't know where this dark side of him came from, and he didn't like it. He couldn't stop himself. He raised his arm and pointed at the man of only twenty-five or so with his index finger, thumb up, like a gun. "Bang." The soldier fell over, not dead though, only fainted.

"HA ha ha ha. Somebody tell me where Cid is right now!" Cable said, menacingly enough to make Javlar cower.

"Here stupid boy." Someone shouted as an energy ball burst on Cable's back. He turned to meet the attacker, to find out it was none other than Cid.

"Cid, leave here, I don't want to kill you with your men watching."

"Meet me at these coordinates. They are in your ship." With that Darle showed up and touched Cid and left inside of a second. 'You got it' Cable ran to his ship and took off, right through the closed loading door. He flew his ship to the outside of a comet. He didn't want to fight the whole council at the same time. So he drank a vile and put on a space suit in the back of the ship and hopped out of the cargo door.

Now outside of the ship, Cable powered up to level 2 quite fast. In an explosion of gold, Cable was now filling his once loose suit. His muscles bulged with energy. The aura that accompanied it was very wide, with blue lightning bouncing around it. His former black eyes, now turquoise, looked on in anger at the comet. Two of his nemesis were in this installation, and he wouldn't pass up the opportunity.

"Time to die, Darle, Cid." Cable slammed his cupped hands together in front of him. A black light enveloped his hands. He began trembling with the energy he was putting forth. The muscles in his arms quivered from the initial power up. As his frontal aura changed from gold to black, his body began to quake. "Sooo....perrrrr.....Nove...." the darkness around him intensified, pushing his golden aura to his back only. "AAAHHH!!" A black beam exploded from his hands, laced with blue lightning and a golden orbit of energy. It created a sort of drill effect. It was his dream attack, never once tried. He put lots of planning into perfecting it though.

As the beam of black death approached the station, twelve golden warriors appeared out of seemingly nowhere. They put up a very strong barrier, that stopped Cable's attack right there. But he knew they couldn't stop it like that. Its drill effect would break through and kill the two in the middle. All of the warriors knew that too, it seemed. The outermost four moved into the middle, dropping the outside, but expanding the barrier.

Cable cut the blast short. He knew it took a very large amount of energy to keep it going like that. It would have broken through within minutes, but that was far longer than he could afford. He had to beat them twelve versus one it looked like. 'This should be fun' he thought, rather cynically. As he prepared to charge, the scenery changed all around him. He was on a green field somewhere. There were hills all around, a sky completely blue. An overall feeling of relaxation overcame him. He wasn't prepared for such a drastic change. The golden warriors landed in front of him some ways. They weren't really gold, but Super Saiyans.

Cable unstrapped his helmet while talking, "Let's get this party started."