I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to Starcraft or any of the music pieces you see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.
Chapter 18: Invasion of Body
I woke up in a dark chamber, painfully. I wasn't sure if it was the body blows or the Psi Storm hits that hurt more, both were rather bad.
"About time you little runt! I thought I would die again before you woke up!" a familiar female voice said. I looked up from the ground to see Kerrigan along the wall...she was grinning about something.
"I thought you died," I said as I sat up. I groaned as I felt a few ribs displace as I arose, I had been fighting too long.
"Didn't you hear me about being revived?" she asked.
"So I died too?" I asked.
"No, just me I'm afraid, but you might feel like you died rather soon," she said, a very present smirk was on her face.
"What's that supposed to mean, and where's that healing chamber thing at? I could use a dip in that, or maybe that nasty meat," I said as my stomach rumbled.
"I'm afraid we have something else on the menu tonight. Though his body should heal first," she said, not directly at me. A large pink eye lit up above me and a booming voice followed, only belonging to the Overmind.
"It is not necessary for the procedure, and it won't matter afterwards since it is so quick," he said.
"What do you mean? What procedure?" I asked.
"You should thank him for what you're about to receive! I don't think it's ever happened before!" Kerrigan said.
"You are to be the embodiment of your commanding Cerebrate, Verto. You and it will unite and become a more powerful being. I have dreamed of the day I would discover a life form that is able to handle a Cerebrate's inner power, and that day has come at last! You will become one of the greatest agents I have ever created!" I suddenly felt my body twitch slightly and saw Zerg attachments growing back again, only much faster this time.
"No, you said I didn't have to be this way! This isn't fair!"
"It will work out, as you will see. Your training has advanced your powers enough to handle it. True, it would be better to wait. But I feel the time is correct. Cerebrate, you may begin," Overmind said. A purple eye off to the side then lit up brightly and dissolved into some sort of blue mist. I struggled to move as the mist came near me, but I felt a clamping sensation on my tail like it had been grabbed and I couldn't move very much.
"Shhhh, it will be over soon! It is your destiny!" Kerrigan said from the side. The way Kerrigan said destiny was kind of strange, but I didn't think about it at the moment. I managed to lean up against wall just as the mist touched my skin. Instantly a bolt of energy struck and then the mist completely surrounded my body. I screamed in agony as I felt the mist lift me into the air and then started invading my pores and openings, getting in everywhere and feeling like it was tearing me apart. I tried to power up to break loose, but the battle had drained so much of my power, and I started having trouble controlling anything at that point. I screamed louder as I sensed the Cerebrate's taint start to flood my mind. I screamed everything I thought at this point.
"HELP ME! Someone Please Help ME!" My view blackened and my body relaxed as I dropped to the ground. I could feel the Cerebrate teasing my mind, weaving in and out as I lost control of myself. It wanted to fuse itself into me, for good. I resisted, I wanted nothing to do with it. I soon lost sight of everything outside and only felt what was happening in my mind. I was trying to use whatever energy I had to resist and get away from him. I felt a surge of Psi, but wasn't sure whether it was from me or not. It subsided as I imagined myself on a black field, running from the same blue mist for a long time. Soon I didn't have to visualize it, it was like I was really there and this was a never-ending bad dream. I continued to run with the mist following, it never seemed to give up the chase. I then saw some sort of stonewall ahead of me, one that stretched for miles. I heard someone on the other side.
"Hey, can I get through here?" I asked as my voice echoed through the black void.
"You'd have to do it yourself, I can't help you unless you help me!" a voice answered.
"Who are you anyway? What are you doing in my mind?"I asked.
"I am you, just a little portion that controls some of your power. Not much really, and it's no use running from that thing. It's going to fuse with you no matter what. You only have so far you can run in your own mind!"
"Then what can I do?"I asked.
"The you in this part of your mind is split in two, I represent mostly your Saiyan instincts and such, some of your ki as well. You represent our thinking mind and most of the motor controls and our Psi. He can only fuse one part if we are unwilling, and I can tell you that fusing with your Psi power would be very bad for both of us because then he could take control of both and reach the third!"
"Huh, you're the ki part of me, and who's the third?" this other me was confusing to me.
"Argh, let me explain!" I was suddenly teleported to the other side of the wall, and I heard the blue mist begin pounding on it as it started to crack. Then I turned around to see, me! He had golden hair and eyes like a Super Saiyan. He held up a mirror and I saw that I was in my normal form with Psi running through me, so my eyes were blue.
"Does that clear it up some more?" he asked with some impatience.
"I guess you really are part of me," I said rubbing the back of my head.
"I not only represent your ki power, but some of your more undesirable instincts, most of them being a Saiyan thing," the other me said.
"So you're what brings up my rage and later my power, is that right?" I asked.
He nodded and then pointed to me, "You're the pure of heart side of things, the nicer one, but also more powerful with the Psi energy due to the mystic training. I admit I wasn't exactly pleased when that old fart upgraded us like this, but when you broke the barrier and let me out again. For that I will help you now!" He grabbed my shoulders like we were old pals.
"So, uh, who's the third?" I asked, still confused at this.
"That's us combined, Super Mystic form as we call it. We can summon that great mixed energy, otherwise known as our full soul power, so it works out great. Just like being a Super Saiyan, you're angry at first when you enter the form, but later calm down. There are other things but there isn't time for that. Here's the plan, I will take your place and he will fuse with me thinking it was you. This will allow you to stay here and watch over things with our Psi safely locked up. He won't know how to pull it out because you have that information locked away in you. Now it may take me some time to break free again, this Cerebrate isn't going to be easy to break mentally. So forgive me if anything really bad happens. That's why you'll be able to watch things from here, but don't do anything foolish. If you do anything to catch his attention before I'm able to flush him out, then we're screwed! Trust me okay? Now run!" I listened intently and nodded, running the other way. What he said was just as confusing, as I was still trying to figure out what happened exactly.
I saw the wall get broken and I ducked down behind a hill that somehow appeared there. The mist swallowed the other me and I saw Zerg attachments grow on him. He looked around with a clueless expression for a while and then vanished, leaving me alone. A crystal ball floated down and played what was going on. I saw my body twisting and writhing before relaxing. Then my eyes opened and my body rose. I didn't even feel this happening, but I was able to watch it. The other me-Cerebrate arose and crackled with my ki power. Well I hope I at least saved some time. Then it dawned on me what exactly I had done, and I wasn't even sure how I did it. I had separated myself into two, and for now it seemed to have worked. Then I frowned as my stomach growled.
"Damnit, you'd think he would have left some food in here if he's Saiyan like me!"
Interlude 18.1 – Problems -
Verto screamed some more before quieting down and rising. The Overmind blinked a few times and Kerrigan smiled.
"It is done then?" Kerrigan asked.
"Not quite," Zerg-Verto said.
"What's that?" Kerrigan asked in surprise. His voice was dubbed over with the Cerebrate's voice, but then Kerrigan realized something was wrong.
"I sense something, different, about this father," she whispered.
"He managed to split himself in two and locked away his Psionic energy, I can't access it. However the other half cannot break out either, so he really sealed it up for no one to find, and his other half will have to sit on that black plane of nothing forever!" the Overmind laughed slightly.
"But, won't that negate our plans? Weren't we counting on both energies and the possibility of using the mixed soul energy?" Zerg-Verto asked, in the mind set of the Cerebrate.
The Overmind's eye blinked a few times in thought, "Yes, but the raw ki will be sufficient, remember my child that Borgos' power increased greatly and the only one able to destroy him was Verto himself! Not even Gohan was able to pull it off, and his Psi is much lower than Verto's was. This will be a fine arrangement until Verto decides that he wants to try and break free, that will be our moment to strike. Right Verto?" Zerg-Verto grinned and nodded, his face covered in random yellows and greens with a few black stripes that slashed across his face.
"That's just fine with me!" he said, clearly representing a different side.
"Besides my children, Verto is just the bait for the rest of the Super Saiyans. We will concern ourselves with them for now! Verto's full potential can wait!" Kerrigan didn't respond, but deep down she had a very tight grin, Well, predictably you fell right into our trap, let us hope Cerebrate, that nothing goes wrong! She noticed Zerg-Verto narrow his eyes at her and give her a slightly discouraged look, as if something was indeed wrong.
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Elsewhere, on the planet of the Kais, Old Kai and Kibito Kai were watching the crystal ball intently. They had found a way to look into the other dimension by linking with the gods of that dimension. Those gods didn't mind as long as no one interfered with the current train of events, at least anyone from the Other World. While King Kai constantly contacted them for news, they were forced to reply with none just to keep it secretive. They had just witnessed what happened with Verto, Aldaris and the Cerebrate, at least on the outside.
Old Kai seemed very worried now, "Damn, I had a feeling this might happen!"
"But Elder, since Verto was able to lock away his psi power, isn't that a good thing? He can build it up inside his mind and strike when they least expect it right?"
"You're forgetting something youngling, he isn't in control of the body, only the mind! The instant he tries to take it back, the Cerebrate could easily take full control, and then he's really up a creek! He will have to think and wait for another opportunity. Knowing him he will probably not wait for the right instant to play his cards and will rush in rather rashly. In the mean time we will continue to watch. I have a feeling things may turn for the better, despite how bad they look!"
"You certainly go on your gut a lot, ancestor!"
"You expect to go by the book and succeed all the time? Sure worked with Buu didn't it?" Kibito didn't answer that and instead watched as the ball switched views to Tassadar's ship.
"Think they have an idea what just happened?" Kibito asked.
"Probably not, he didn't emit as much energy as before. More than likely they will follow the signature to that barren planet anyway. I just hope Goku and Vegeta can come up with a plan on how to handle this. If they manage to kill him, and the Overmind brings him back fully under, Verto's mind could be out of his own control! I only hope Gohan has progressed enough to stand up to this, it might be our only hope!" The crystal ball then switched to the large Terran fleet getting close to Char.
"Fools, they might have enough fire power to stand up against the Zerg, but Verto will tear apart that fleet in no time now!"
"I thought you said Verto wasn't in control?" Kibito asked. Old Kai promptly fell over.
"No you stupid Kai, of course HE isn't, but you think that the Cerebrate won't take on some of his powers now? You heard that blasted eye, the Cerebrates all have hidden power, so it will likely stack up with Verto's power. Besides what else am I supposed to call him?" Kibito shut up promptly as another ship appeared.
"Who's that?"
"Eh? Must be Aldaris' ship, it looks like a Protoss ship!" Old Kai said, crossing his arms.
"But isn't it going towards Char, not away?"
Old Kai looked closer, "That's odd, he can't be healed that quickly, could he?" Kibito closed his eyes and focused on the ship through the viewing ball, feeling little to no evil intentions from it.
"I wonder who it could be then, because we know it's not the Saiyans. They are several days away, and that's after the human fleet gets there. So who could it be?"
"I don't know Kibito, perhaps help, perhaps not. Possibly a beacon of light that we can follow until it burns out."
A/N: Next time on DBV: The Terran fleet attacks while the Cerebrate struggles to complete the fusion with Verto. As a result of the violent Saiyan instincts, he loses what control he has and Verto begins to destroy all of the Terrans in a blind bloodthirsty rage. Next time.