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trunks and goten - Yeah, I actually rip off a lot of quotes that I like, because, frankly, I can! You will, I guarantee, see another one you recognize in this chapter! And here's even more fighting for you to enjoy…
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Chapter 6: December 4, 2002 - The Nightmare Won't End
I knew that I wasn't bound to win the way that I was trying; every attack I dished out was absorbed and then the alien healed. What I really needed was a way to blast him to tiny bits and then finish him off with what power I had left. Though such an energy blast might drain every little bit of Ki that I had left in my body wasn't what I was trying to think about at the moment, but I still had to consider it.
One thing I knew for sure though, I was very glad that I could read my opponent's mind, and he couldn't read mine, instead of the other way around. If he could see what I was thinking, he would know I was getting desperate for a way to win, and might know to kill me now before I could come up with a brainy idea. As it was, I noticed in his mind that he was getting bored, and I thought if I might just be able to make a game out of my next move, I stood a chance with catching him in a trap.
This alien might be good at fighting and made of iron, but he still had the brains of a fucking grasshopper; I could fool him easily.
"I can sense you are getting bored with this fight, as am I," I said quickly, not revealing the hand I had behind my poker-face.
"Quite right, I think I shall destroy you now," the alien said blithely.
Not the response I was looking for! I thought in a slight panic.
"But don't you think you would get bored just blowing up random planets after I'm gone? I think you would have more fun if we played a little game," I put forth.
"Yes, killing weak beings for millennia does get rather dull; torturing you would prove a lot more fun. How about a contest of energy beams? You shoot yours at me and I return with one of my own, the game is over when you or I die or the planet crumbles, whichever comes first."
I still didn't like that idea, so I decided to play with his pride and see what happened.
"No, too messy. How about sudden-death? That is, if you are up to a challenge. It goes like this: I blast you with everything I got, and if you survive you hit me with everything you got. If I survive, I blast you again, and so on until one of us is dead and-"
"An excellent idea," he interrupted, "except I am going to go first."
"Hell no!" I cried out. "We have to flip a coin!"
"What is this…coin flipping?" the alien asked, confused.
"Here," I explained, pulling a coin out of my pocket. "I flip this and when it lands on the ground, if this side shows-"
I indicated heads.
"-I win, and if the other side shows-"
I pointed out tails.
"-you win. Fair enough for you?"
"Sounds ridiculous," he retorted, "but I will entertain your stupid Kalltorraiya-jin games just to humor you. It will be the last favor you get from me."
"Very well then. Here we go."
I floated down to the burnt ground and he followed, and as I flipped the coin in air and watched it drop, I thought: This is too easy!
It bounced once and then again, spun around on a piece of concrete, and once I was sure he was focused completely on it, I used the tiniest amount of telekinesis, pushing it over to heads.
"There, I go first," I said, smiling.
"Whatever you say, just hurry up so I can finish you."
He flew up a hundred or so feet in the air and powered up, the red glow providing a perfect mark for my aim. I just hoped that this would work.
The ground around me exploded as a shock wave made a crater under my feet when I let my power loose, my aura expanding around me as I charged all the Ki I could muster.
Holding my hands in front of me I pushed the energy into my hands, and the ball of vibrant green power began to grow in between them. What few people were left alive ran away screaming as the ground shook and cracks ten feet wide broke open the Earth around me. Whole mountains fell to pieces and the buildings that were still standing in the city started to collapse altogether.
The ball of energy grew to the size of a large house above my head, and I once I knew it had all the power I could put into it, so super concentrated and unstable that a fly buzzing into it might make it explode and break apart the whole planet.
What should I call this one? I mused briefly. The Super Green Beam of Doom and Atomizer of All Things Shishkan?
The energy ball was starting to burn my fingers and I knew I couldn't hold it much longer, so I pushed it away from me with a yell.
"Screw the name!" I screamed, and I let it all go.
The ball writhed as if ready to explode, elongated, and as I pushed it up, it launched off as a beam of light so huge and bright it might have dwarfed the sun. As I felt the energy leave my hands, flying up at light-speed to meet its target, I knew he could never dodge something that huge and powerful.
But I could barely concentrate, and underneath the massive green finger of God, wider than the Earth itself, reaching up into the heavens above, I was screaming. To me it felt like, instead of just my energy leaving my body, it was my life and soul as well, and once I started it going, I couldn't stop it. It kept flowing out of me, feeling like it were my very blood and life being pulled, ripped, sucked out of my body and I couldn't stop it if I had wanted it to. It kept going, for an agonizingly long time, so it seemed, thought it couldn't possibly been more than a minute, and then, when I thought my body would be liquefied by the force and fly up on the end of the beam, I ran out of power.
With a lightning-like crackle and a flash, the beam vanished from in front of me as the last of it streaked into space. Squinting against the light, I looked up to see the small green star shrink to a pinprick of light and then disappear completely, fading out millions of light-years away. Smiling ever so slightly, I collapsed to the ground, still barely able to stay alive, looking down at my hands, which were burnt and smoking from the huge volume of energy that had flowed through them.
There was a long pause, and I couldn't see or hear or feel that dammed alien anymore, and I swore that he was gone.
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I just couldn't believe that it was over, and I thought that there was something wrong, that he had somehow got away, that my power somehow wasn't enough, but it was, and I had done it. But just like before, I could sense something, like when I had used the Final Flash against all of the aliens earlier in the day.
My gosh, I thought, has it really only been one day? It's more like one night if you ask me...or one nightmare...
But even as I thought this, even as I picked myself off of the ground, and told myself the deed was done, I realized with horror that it was one nightmare that wouldn't end anytime soon
I looked up in time to see something, and watched a small dot in the sky grow larger and larger and it formed into an alien, or at least part of one, before crashing into the ground a ways away from me. I flew up into the air, and looked down into the newly formed crater, seeing that the alien was missing an arm and nearly all his lower half, as well as some of his head, but was still alive. I almost wasted time laughing at the damage I had inflicted on this dammed grasshopper that thought it was invincible, but then I remembered that he could regenerate.
"Damn you!" I screamed as what was left of the alien started to move.
Flying high up into the sky, filled with the most indescribable rage, I stopped miles in the air, my Ki aura raging around me and without thinking I raised my hand and then pointed two fingers upwards. Before I could realize what I was doing, instinct took over my body and energy flowed into them, some kind of bizarre energy that felt like molten lava as it moved down my arm and came out the fingers. I had never seen anything like it, as I watched the ball of energy hover in air a few inches away from my fingertips. It was only about the size of a softball, was red like lava – burned like it too – and crackled with evil electricity. In an instant I knew exactly what it was.
A memory, something the Voice had told me during my training, about how he had once been the first Super Kalltorraiya-jin, and how he had destroyed the Shishkan world with a ball of red energy, surfaced. He said it was designed to hit a planet and send waves of energy across the surface, killing everything a split-second before blowing the planet to bits. Nothing could survive it.
If I used it, I realized, it would be over, the alien would be dust and nothing more would come of him for the rest of time. I would have won and the only casualty would be the planet I was flying over. What should I care anyway? I could breathe in space, I knew it, and so it wasn't any of my concern.
I fell back, pointed my fingers and the deadly ball of energy at the ground below and the alien that it would hit and destroy shortly before blowing up the entire Earth and erasing him from history.
He's going to regenerate any second; I have to do it now!
I was ready to do it; I was ready to win the battle and destroy the world which I had fought so long and so hard to save…but I couldn't. I thought that, even if I did win, even if the day was a victory for me, it wouldn't be for anyone else. And all those people…those children…that were still alive would be dead and gone.
Dead and gone, I reasoned in my turmoiled mind, by my own hand.
I let it go, and the energy faded into nothingness, destroying, not the planet, but perhaps my last chance to beat the alien. I just couldn't do it.
Down below, the alien floated in the air and with a splat of liquid new legs came out of him, followed closely by an arm and then just like that he was good as new. Flying up in a second to meet me in midair, staring me down and still, still looking superior, he regarded me. Just a little more power and he would have been gone…but it hadn't happened, and I was running out of clever ideas.
"That was quite a display you put on," he mused out loud. "You almost won right there, but…no way. I will never lose."
He hit me down to the ground, hit me harder than I had ever been hit before, and I couldn't see or hear or breathe anything but the cold, wet dirt around me by the time I even realized what had happened. I felt myself lose the transformation, my last hope for survival leaving me as I needed it most, and the green color faded from around me as I felt a tugging pain on my head and I was lifted up. The alien looked at me, smiling that same cocky smile from before, holding me up by my hair and spoke:
"This is a rather amusing game you wanted to play. Very well, it's my turn."
Lifting me higher, he held me up and turned me around, punching my back again and again, until I was spitting up blood and thought my back was broken. Letting me fall to my knees in pain, he kept a hold of my head and charged a ball of energy into his other hand, pointing it at my face and letting it loose.
I closed my eyes – what more could I do? – as the energy beam flowed out of him, melting away my face, slicing open large gashes in my cheeks and forehead, breaking me apart. It ended as quickly as it started, and as I was let go, I collapsed to the ground, gasping for breath amid the stabbing pain in my head, the blood dripping down my face and onto the ground.
Was this my fate? To be thrown about, blasted about, tortured like a petty animal to the amusement of my captor and enemy? I did not have a single thought in my mind that I was created to die such a grisly and pointless death; certainly I was not born to lose this fight!
Mustering all my strength I had, I sat up in my place, mocking the alien with the sheer power of my will and inability to give up no matter how close I was to death. He looked right back at me, angrier than I had ever seen him, and from that moment on I knew I had won it all. He was expecting me to be groveling at his feet, begging for mercy, or at least unconscious and bleeding on the ground. But I was making him to be a fool by refusing to do any of the three.
"You have had enough," he lied through his unconfidence, "now it's time to finish you."
He pulled back his arm, and then let it loose as a punch to my head, giving everything he had, one that would have killed me if I had let it, but I would NOT let it happen. Never.
His fist neared me and I lifted my own arm, catching it in my hand and holding it there, absorbing the shock of the blow like nothing. I had broken though the final wall of his superiority complex, and soon after I realized he would lose, he knew it too.
I twisted my hand down, pushing back, and with a crack I broke his arm, using less and less of my power for each motion, feeling like the fighting was becoming the most natural thing in the world for me; it was as if it was what I was made for. He jumped backwards in pain, holding his fractured arm before cracking it back into place and looking like he had become almost as angry as I could. Unlike me, however, when he got mad it made him weaker, not stronger, and it showed.
"You are nothing! NOTHING!" he screamed as loud as he could.
"That's where you are wrong," I said, standing up, "I am more than you will ever be. I am a Kalltorraiya-jin!"
"How dare you!" he spat out, shaking with rage.
"You came here looking for a fight, one that you could have fun with and win, but your fun is over, your fight is too," I continued.
I powered up, yelling my power out and feeling the familiar feeling, that I was about to transform, come back. My aura spiraled to life around me, sending the alien cowering for cover and with a flash I was SKJ again.
"You may have invaded my home world, killed its inhabitants, and tried to destroy me," I yelled.
"You may have tried to take my friends, my family, and my life away from me. You succeeded only in taking away those I held so close to my heart, and you almost did the same in taking away my body in this plain of existence and my soul as well. But there's one thing a Kalltorraiya-jin always keeps: HIS PRIDE!"
With a scream, I let out all my power, my anger and righteousness taking me to a strength that I could never have reached without realizing that which I would lose if I didn't beat that alien bastard once and for all. I felt the cuts on my face widen as I screamed, fresh blood running down and into my eyes, blinding me for a second, turning my world into one of red before evaporating away to nothing. But I didn't care, I couldn't feel any pain or hurt or anything but the clear face of my goal and I knew exactly, exactly what I had to do to win.
My twisted hands clenched into fists, and the Ki was blazing about my body, shaking the planet, as I shot forward, hitting the alien high into the sky and I sent a single blast after him. With a titanic explosion it hit, and from the fading glow of the green light I saw that there was nothing left of the alien but his head and half a neck and I flew forward as fast as I could to meet it.
I punched his head across the sky, disappeared and transported to miles away in time to turn around and kick out purely by instinct, hitting it again. I went back and forth, like a super fast game of Pong and hit the alien's head again and again, hearing him scream again and again and breaking it to pieces.
I thought I heard him say something; something like that it wasn't over, like that even when he was gone that it wasn't over. Something followed by the word "son". But it didn't matter, and I hit his head down, and met it on the ground where I hit it up, out into space and prepared for the final blow.
Holding up one hand, letting that instinct take over again, I charged that same red ball that could destroy whole planets onto two fingers, creating an identical one on the fingers of my other hand.
"I'll see you in hell!" I yelled after him.
With a flash, I shot the energy balls up into the air, and they traveled with a crackling of power, sending waves of energy down and cracking the ground around my feet as the air was melted around them, leaving trails into the sky and out into space as they hit their target at the same time.
The light was amazing, blindingly beautiful, as a reddish explosion spreading in the air and filling the whole of the sky, and I swore I heard the alien scream. The light started to fade and the whole of the planet shook as the shock waves from the fiery explosion reached the Earth.
I fell to the ground, for the millionth time that day, and dropped out of Super mode, watching, carefully, as another dot in the sky grew and then crashed to the ground. Dragging myself to the nearby hole, I looked inside, knowing that there was not more that a little left, and saw nothing but a smoking, blackened skull of the alien. Gathering power from nowhere at all, pulling it from what seemed like just the air and the Earth, I flashed to SKJ for just a second, long enough to send out a blast and destroy that burnt skull, blasting it to atoms.
Unable to do anything more, my transformation fell through and I lay on the ground for a very long time, rejoicing at long last in my victory.
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So the alien is dead…and this story is FAR from over! (Laughs evilly) There is still one more chapter to go and then…PART THREE! (More evil laughter.)
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