[Dragon Ball Super OST – The Earth's Fate]
残り:四の影/ Remnant's Four Shadows
End of Remnant, Episode 12: Sparks for the Flames
[The Former Headquarters of the Red Dragon, Tharsis, Mars, CB Universe]
Noire sat on his throne stuffing his mouth with food only to see Alqadr kicked the door open to come in.
"Alqadr, did you get rid of those…"
"What about Gardow?" Alqadr said cutting him off. "You and Towa have been reviving villains left and right, what about him?"
"Pfft, I don't need him anymore when I have numerous evil scientists." Noire said as he snapped his fingers.
In came several scientists from different worlds all under a Voyd Pearl, and Noire rose up and dismissed them.
"I've got an army of robots from Wily and Eggman, clones and mindless ninjas from Danzo, and Skynet's Terminators at my beck and all! Why would I waste my time on that feckless speck who failed to do his job?" Noire said sternly. "Now get out, I have a meeting with Towa. I need you for something. I've having that cunt; Madam Margaret and her girl squad monitor the Astral Gate to make sure no one leaves or enters this planet. They're monitoring from the police station we took over. Now leave me to my meal."
"Of course, my lord." Alqadr said hiding his malice as he left.
"That guy is going to betray you."
[Cues: Courage the Cowardly Dog OST – Katz Theme]
Noire turned to see Katz, one of the people Towa had put as one of his generals.
"Katz, I can assure you Alqadr isn't going soft on me, he's a violent hedonist. As long as he can get his fix, he'll do whatever he has to." Noire remarked. "But…just in case…send someone to tail him. If he is going soft, I want his corpse hanging in my bedroom."
"Of course, it will be done." Katz said before leaving the room.
[Music Ends]
[-]
Pibby, Alloy Boy, Spike, Merlina was up on the rooftops of the city looking down at the police station. Spike had managed to contact his crew, who was overjoyed to hear he was alive. However, the takeover of the planet by Griseo's forces made it an issue to just pick him up with the ship as they were monitoring the skies. Spike wished Ed had not left the crew.
"We're outnumbered, and we can't call for help. We need a pla-Is that the shark guy?" Merlina said seeing he was walking up to the station.
[Cues: Courage the Cowardly Dog OST – Katz Theme]
Footsteps coming up to the roof they were on got their attention and they hastily hid as the door opened. The door opened to a woman in the chauffeur outfit with a sniper rifle and a duffel bag.
"I'm in position." She said to her communicator.
"Mercy, have him terminated immediately. The boss will see it my way in not taking any chances." Katz said as Mercy turned off the communicator.
She got into position to line the shot. Spike was still injured but wanted to get up to take her out only for Merlina to go on ahead sneakily. She was sweating rather nervously…until it hit her. Mercy was using a sniper rifle. Good for long range and at a distance…not for close range. Merlina brought her claws out and lunged at her.
"What the hell?!" Mercy screamed having a humanoid cat lady tackle her sinking claws into her flesh.
"Get something and shoot her already!" Merlina said as Spike got his pistol.
Merlina was thrown onto her back only for her and Mercy to hear a click of pistol. Mercy looked up in time to see the bullet that tore between her eyes. The blood splattered in the air as the corpse fell off the roof into the street with a loud splat.
"What the-GURH!"
Alqadr used the distraction to slash the girl at the front door guarding the station. He gleefully took advantage of the fact Griseo had not attempted to see if aura could be awakened in any of the people he gathered. The bleeding girl tried to scream, but she could only gurgle before getting her neck snapped.
Alqadr tore out the girl's heart and turned to see Mercy's corpse along with the four on the roof.
"I guess we're even. So, I won't take your hearts…because…." He said before pausing to bite into the little girl's heart.
The four gagged as even went to tore out Mercy's own to eat.
"…you've led lambs to the slaughter." Alqadr finished before going inside the station.
[Music Ends]
The screams did not help the probable guilt of letting someone like him go on a murderous rampage. Spike just called his crew telling them to come get them….and to hurry.
"The sooner we get away from him, the better." Alloy Boy said as Merlina was dusting herself off.
"Agre-"
SMASH! One of the mooks was thrown through the window smack into the wall of the building they were on.
"Why don't we move someplace else?" Alloy Boy said nervously.
The four decided to make a hasty retreat.
(A/N: I wanted to centralize this chapter on Alqadr and the four to set the domino effect of Griseo's end. After all, Griseo's the perfect foil to Yuki if one thinks about it. In fact, they do actually have a common similarity of basically being kicked down by others. Though how they handled it is starkly different. But what about our heroes? Next chapter answers that.)
