Holy crap…it has been way too long a time since I have updated this story, but better late than never as I would say. Anyway, I am writing a book that I hope will actually get published right now, as well as having lots of tests for school and stuff, so I won't have too much time for fanfiction. Still, I hope I will still be able to write stuff every once in a while, so that I can get it to you people to read.

Thanks to my reviewers:

trunks and goten - I know all of your reviews have died and gone away, courtesy of the evil fanfiction people in charge of things, but I know you reviewed the last chapter, so thanks for it. I hope you enjoy this chapter just as much.

KitsuneAkai13 - I guess I just call them a circle of reviewers since they are like the few people that consistently review for my stories. Yes, I know it was evil, but if he hadn't seen his best friend (boyfriend?) die like that he wouldn't have gone SKJ and creamed the aliens! If you liked that fight, wait until you see the one I this chapter.

And heeeeeeeeeeeeeeres the next chapter!

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Chapter 5: December 4, 2002 - Clash of the Superpowers

We stood there for a very long time, just staring. I was doing my best to look intimidating, as well as trying to figure out what my enemy's power could be like under that seemingly-unshakable facade. And he stared right back, taking in the threat of my new powers, and deciding if he would be stupid enough to try and take me on.

The silence was nearly deafening.

Deciding that the alien wasn't going to say anything, out of fear or stupidity, or maybe both, I spoke first, breaking the calm between us:

"Before I tear you apart, I want to know who you are and why are you here."

There was a short pause, and the alien seemed to relax a little, perhaps deciding that this might delay his own death.

"A little confident, Kalltorraiya-jin?" he said with an air of superiority. "You won't be doing any tearing, but, before I destroy you, I guess maybe I owe you some explanation about who your killer is."

I was half-tempted to raise a hand and blow his head clean away for even daring to insinuate that he could put a scratch on me, but I was still curious, so I declined to take any action and just listened.

"My name is Aushkin. I am one of the Shishkan, a race that is the most powerful in the universe," he continued," and long ago we were in a war with yours. Being the better of the two, we won, and all the Kalltorraiya-jin were destroyed..."

That story was slightly different from the one I had heard from the Voice, but I didn't care, his version made me believe that he had been there, which made me think that perhaps these bastards never died of old age.

"Which is why I don't know where you came from, but I will have no trouble finishing the job, and avenging my own race," the alien finished.

"So, are you the last one of your race as well?" I asked.

"Humph, that is none of your business," he responded.

"Well then, I'll take that as a 'yes'. So, I guess this means one of our races will never survive this day, either the Kalltorraiya-jin or Shishkan will end now," I shot back.

"You are like no other Kalltorraiya-jin that I have ever seen," the alien went on, looking pensive, "and I have killed many of them. I actually once saw the first one of you with green hair, the only one before you, I believe, but he was...different."

"In what way?" I said, demanding to know.

"Your eyes," he said, "they are not the same, and I don't know why. Just what are you?"

I stood strong, looking him dead in the eye and refusing to show any fear.

"You can destroy planets, kill whole races, but you can never destroy what I am.

"I am the hope of the universe; I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace; I am the protector of the innocent; I am the light in the darkness; I am truth," I shouted, extending my Ki and shaking the ground.

Getting no response I continued, gaining momentum with my words, "Ally to good! Nightmare to you!"

"Shut up!" the alien retorted with a slight wave of his hand. "You will fall to your knees and worship me like a god before this day is done."

He began to rise up into the sky, and I followed, dust whisping around my feet as my Ki took me into the air. One thousand feet up, and scarcely ten feet away, I regarded the last enemy that I would have to face in my life with an air of perfection, knowing full well what I saw in the future I beheld deep in my mind.

I will never lose.

I watched as he looked right back at me, preparing himself. He clenched his fists, and the muscles in his body strained and the Ki level I could feel from him rose steadily as a blood-red aura grew around. It was clear this alien couldn't have had half of my power, but in the last few seconds, as the rocks on the ground trembled and the glow from him began to become blinding, he was getting stronger like nothing I had ever imagined. Like me, he seemed to be pulling power from absolutely nowhere.

"Still think you can beat me?" the alien asked, falling back into a stance in the air in front of me. "I can see it in your eyes that you are afraid."

Maybe this much is true, I thought. But I can read it in your mind that you are scared too.

Taking it as a cue that we were going to start at our strongest and beat it out from there, I raised my own Ki in a similar fashion, that rapidly-becoming-familiar green glow emanating from every inch of my body. I felt myself grow ever stronger, and let the energy rise within me until I felt it plateau and I stopped, realizing we were both as strong as we would get.

People down below started to pick themselves off the ground and looked up to the two creatures they saw high above them, now nothing more than a slightly mixed red and green glow that shook the ground around them and grew steadily. Tapping into my Kalltorran half, I could look into their minds; I could see what they were seeing before them; I could feel what they were feeling in their hearts.

It was time to begin the last and greatest fight in the history of the universe. I would make the world tremble at the sheer power I held within me, and by the time I was done, that dammed alien would bow down to me!

All those innocent people-

The children...

that they had killed would be avenged. I would make him pay for the nightmare he had unleashed on the people of the world!

I fell into my stance as well, gauging the strengths and weaknesses of my opponent through the blazing fire of green and red around us. If I hadn't been trying to concentrate I would have thought that this must look like the Christmas from Hell.

Without warning, the alien struck first, coming right for me with a flash, a fist outstretched. I thought I would have been able to dodge it like those from all the other aliens, but it became clear when I was doubled over with pain that he had hit my unprotected stomach like it was nothing. He was just so fast that I couldn't avoid it, and for a split second I felt vulnerable, until I flew back to avoid the next punch and then forwards again to attack.

My first blow was a kick right to the side of his quite-hard and spiky head, but he wasn't fazed so I punched toward his face. He reached up and caught my fist like it was the simplest exercise in the world and ground the bones in my hand together as he pulled it downward. He smiled at me, and I realized that he was treating me like a helpless child - toying with me like I was just something to be messed around with.

I clenched my teeth and my anger rose, my power following closely behind, and I kicked out again, making sure he would feel it. Our powers were surely the same now and he fell back, striking back toward me and I was able to block his fist and hit again.

This fight was quickly becoming fun, I realized, and our fists and feet blurred around us, blocking and being blocked so fast I couldn't see them. I was moving completely out of reflex, learning his techniques and improving my own fighting style just by seeing him do it. Looking into his mind, however dark and scary it had to be, at least on the surface I seemed to be capable of predicting his next movement ever so slightly.

Falling back, he shot an energy blast toward me and I hit it to the side with my hand, watching it hit a mountain far below and explode in a massive ball of red fire. However many people that might have died was beyond my ability to calculate, but better them than me. I don't think I really would have stopped to care, besides, going down there to save the lives of the stupid humans would probably get me killed.

I looked down to my partially burnt hand and the alien looked right at me, still smirking, as if to say he was still holding back. I didn't believe it, I could easily see I was starting to win; even if it seemed as if he had the upper hand, I was totally undefeatable.

I shot forward again, catching the alien by surprise and punched him right in the center of that ass-ugly face, sending him staggering backward in the air. I started moving my hands in front of me at super speed, gathering energy in a series of complicated movements as I invented another attack on the spot. The alien seemed almost confused, and couldn't do anything before I finished and crossed my arms across my chest and then thrust my hands forward, touching the thumbs and forefingers together and launching out a blinding energy blast. When it hit there was a huge explosion and I watched in satisfaction as the alien went flying into some building down below, smoking like he had caught fire.

Burn you bastard, I thought. Burn...Burning Attack...

I figured if I ever used that energy attack again I might call it by that name, it was as good as any, and I laughed as I went down to the rubble that used to be the building, thinking I might not ever have to use it again.

But the alien wasn't though yet, and exploded out of the rubble, kicking me away in anger. I hit the ground on my feet and they dug small trenches in the dirt as I stopped myself before I was forced to duck to avoid the alien's fist aimed at my head. I saw an opening and punched upward, catching him in the stomach and again sent him careening helplessly away from me. Not wasting another second, I took chase and hit him in the air before I was hit myself and we went flying in opposite directions. The alien started to charge a ball of energy and I did the same, throwing it toward him as he threw his. Somewhere a few hundred feet above what was left of the school they collided and pushed back and forth before destabilizing and exploding, shattering some buildings below and shaking the ground with a huge boom.

Taking advantage, I flew upwards toward the alien, and just as he was about to hit me, I imagined transporting myself behind him, not surprised in the least when it worked, and I hit him in the back with an elbow before kicking him aside. It wasn't another half of a second before he was back and I couldn't help wondering how much punishment he could take before breaking in pieces.

We fought more, and I forgot momentarily about his huge tail, much to my dismay, when he flipped forward and hit me in the face with it, almost cutting me in half with the foot long knife blade on the end of it. He tried it again and I dodged back, getting a small cut on my chest and then his fist found a way to my stomach and then he phased away from my next attack. Unable to figure out where he went, I sent out a energy blast but he wasn't there and I was sent flying downward.

Hitting somewhere in the middle of the parking lot, making a huge crater in the pavement and sending a few cars flying. I stood up in time to see the alien land nearby and he picked up a car and threw it towards me. With a yell, I cut it in half with a Ki sword and the two halves went on either side, pieces of metal whirring through the air a moment before the whole thing exploded around me.

Unhurt, I struck forwards, still holding my deadly blade in my hands and slashed downwards, almost hitting the dumbstruck alien, and my next slash sent out a wave of energy, slicing a few buildings in half and cutting off his arm. My celebrations didn't last, however, and he struck back at me, his newly regenerated arm coming out of the bloodied stump and hitting me backwards. When he shot forward I punched out and he did the same, his fist meeting mine and creating a shock wave that crushed buildings around us. Matching each other perfectly, our fists and feet hit each other's at lightning speed, shaking the whole area and sending rocks and rubble flying everywhere.

I blocked another blow and took a step back, breaking a nearby light post off its base with an elbow and grabbed the ten foot long metal beam, hitting the alien in the head with it several times with loud clang sounds. He staggered backwards, and I turned the pole around, thrusting it through the alien's stomach and out his back as blood flowed from his mouth. He yelled out in pain and I punched him in the head multiple times before he threw a small blast at our feet. As the dust started to clear, he was nowhere to be found and I looked back and forth, fists poised, ready to keep fighting.

I heard a sound and looked toward it, gasping in shock as I saw the metal pole that I had just put through my foe clattered to the ground with no alien attached. Not being able to do anything about it, I was hit in the back and then I felt his hand on the back of my head, pushing me face first into the ground. I spun right side up again and blocked a few more blows with my feet before flying up in the air and sending down a series of huge blasts at him. The explosions filled the air with deafening roars and the green fireball rose into the sky from where the alien was. He shot out of the smoke suddenly to elbow me in the face, and I backflipped in air to hit him back and then he stopped.

"I'm not bowing yet you Shishkan bastard," I said, smirking.

"And you aren't tearing me apart either you Kalltorraiya-jin idiot," he shot back.

We stopped right there, about ten feet apart like we had started, and stared each other down, gauging the injuries we had caused. I'm sure I was bleeding from about a thousand different places, but I still felt fine, in fact even better than fine. He was burnt in several places from my blasts, but all the major holes I had put in him were regenerated back like new.

It pissed me off that I was made of flesh and blood and he seemed to be made up of some kind of repairable armored skin that I could break apart but not permanently.

"You're just a stupid insect," I yelled toward the alien in lieu of my thoughts.

He looked angered at that, but didn't respond and just stared at me as I refused to blink first, wondering if I could win the staring contest since I had never seen any of the aliens blink before. For all I knew they didn't have eyelids, or they were invisible membranes or something weird like that. It was clear from what I had seen so far that they were built for fighting. I wasn't really, but I was certainly more powerful than that foolish creature could ever imagine.

I took a moment to look below us, at the broken school that we two had blasted apart, most of the buildings destroyed and several large craters from the energy blasts still smoking. I was far to high up to see if there were any people left alive down there, but I still didn't care. I had almost forgotten what I was fighting for, except for pride, before my sight shifted over to an even larger crater. I couldn't figure out what that one had come from, seeing as it was a ways away from where we had been fighting, before the sickening realization came to me.

I know what used to be there...the elementary school! I thought.

It had been from when they first arrived blasting apart everything at random, and I clenched my fists in rage, my tail twitching around my waist as I thought.

There must have been...hundreds of children in attendance today...and they...all blasted apart like nothing important. Like...nothing at all.

Then and only then did I remember what I was fighting for; only then did I remember that I had to destroy this alien for all the children that had been killed by him and his dammed comrades. They were nothing but killing machines that I had to stop, and I was the only one that could stop them. If I lost the fight, there would be nothing left of anything.

I decided then, that if I couldn't succeed by just fighting like I had been, I had to think of something else. The alien was just standing in air, mocking me and saying in his head that he was waiting for me to attack so he could finish me off, become immortal, and blow up the Earth.

I thought it was just about time for me to invent another attack...

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I hope you liked the fighting, I worked for a long time on it. So, just what is this crazy attack that Jake has planned? Well, you will have to wait for the next chapter to see what it will be. I can give you this hint: it will be something very big and very green.

See you all next chapter!