[Opening: Project M Theme]
FusionFall Infinite
Season 7
Chapter 49: Making Progress
[Base, Vice, Outer Towns]
Joshinari was in the midst of making sure confirmations were assured. It was another day in the hideout, it had close to two weeks
"Miss Kanamori, I suppose things with the operation towards V-2406 are coming along." Joshinari said on his BlackTab sized down to a smartphone.
"Things are progressing. Desmond has secured his person in charge of the operation. I've taking the liberty of sending you her wanted poster." Sayaka said as he looked at it. "Quite a bounty."
"You don't get small potatoes for beating the likes of Madara. Most warpers are terrified of him, warper or not." Joshinari remarked.
"I do have to ask why there isn't some major Uchiha warper clan." Sayaka said.
"Easy, the Curse of Hatred will eventually drive them to kill each other…especially if they want the ultimate eye powers. Plus, most people typically cull any chance of that." Joshinari said. "Just be careful, the Roundtable is making targets out of the lot of us. Desmond's on their shitlist and I don't know who they'll send after him."
"Stay safe, Mr. Blackthorn. And tell your daughter that I said hello." Sayaka remarked respectfully.
"Take it easy, Sayaka." Joshinari said before hanging up and sighing tiredly.
He, Ryker, and Kaze had been lightly training and as the days passed…they did go out to visit their families before turning returning to base. Joshinari went to join his cousin and their associate who were having energy drinks. Ryker instinctively tossed one for Joshinari who caught it and opened it before plopping on the couch with them.
"What's the haps?" Joshinari asked.
"We just got gone watching WNN. Seems the Roundtable and Rendo Nexus are going to war." Ryker said as Joshinari looked over at him.
"If we're lucky, they'll kill each other." Kaze said hopefully.
"Don't be so naïve, there's a chance the winner of the two will eat the other organization and be a bigger problem. I talked to Loveless yesterday, one of the Roundtable's lesser members trying to jump her to make a name for herself. That dumb bitch is splattered all over Cherie's front lawn. Don't mess with a mama bear." Joshinari said with an air of relief. "Seems the Roundtable has a rule. If you're 'targeted' and you managed to beat or kill the people after you, you get the group's respect, and they leave you alone."
"Really?" Ryker said as Kaze looked annoyed.
"Are you shitting me?! Then why the hell are they taking so long?!" Kaze roared. "I could be in bed with my wife now."
Ryker's phone had rung and he was Dimentio to which he put it on speaker.
"Crap, I am so sorry I didn't call or any-"
"Don't fret. Your immediate family comes first. We're fine, Israphille fought Battle Beast. Their fighting lasted a week. The place they took the fight to is a wreck and it ended in a draw. Battle Beast has it declared it a win for Israphille so we're safe from the Roundtable." Dimentio said. "Bad news, he can't interfere with those going after you and the others. He's still bound by the rules."
"Can he at least tell us who's likely to come after us?" Ryker asked.
"He did leave us a bit of a hint. The leader, Madara, and Kid Buu are off the table. They're on a bit of a blood feud that Geist Naruto. So it's not those three. Look, just be ready. We can't interfere because of the Roundtable's bullshit rules. Battle Beast is toeing a line by giving me this information. If you're with others who are targeted, you'll have a better chance of fighting together. Good luck." Dimentio said before hanging up.
Kaze got up.
"I'm leaving." Kaze said.
"Now?" Joshinari asked.
"Yes, I need to get Super Saiyan 4 as soon as possible. 2's stable, but 3 ain't worth side. Considering I got a Turbo add-on to it. Four might be primal, but I can at least control it." Kaze said. "So, there's a place I could go. Conton City, the same universe Ryo's been in."
Joshinari and Ryker gave understanding nods as Kaze took his leave.
[-]
[Earth, Universe 13 (My Hero Academia), DBG-22]
It was just another normal day…as normal as it could get for them. It was not every day some being from above comes down to make you submit. Their God of Destruction was not on the planet at the moment, but the people of Japan were still shaken. They thought things would not get weirder. They were very wrong.
Bakugo was fuming. He and his class were basically held hostage by some one who they could not beat and said person made Japan kowtow to them. Bakugo felt powerless. At the moment, the class had met up Taokoba Beach to all talk and get a break from everything.
"Bakugo's not taking it well." Shoto asked.
"No, he's not. He's been ranting my ear off." Izuku said. "What about you?"
"My dad has been quiet. He hasn't dragged me to training…he just asked if I was ok." Shoto said. "I think the whole thing shook him up."
"FUCK!" Bakugo said throwing a rock into the ocean. "Damn you, Jalapeño! I wish you come back here so I can smack some explosion in your face, you cheating bastard!"
People were just looking at as if he lost his mind.
"Bakugo, you don't know if he could hear you!" Izuku pleaded.
"Good, if he's listening, he can suck a-"
A shockwave sent several tumbling to the ground as Bakugo paled see a massive energy blast coming down right at him. Bakugo scrambled off the beach along with most of class as the energy sphere crashed into the sand making glass crystals around the blast zone. In the middle of it…was Kenji Blackthorn. They watched them get up.
"Hey, what the hell-"
[Cues: My Hero Academia OST – Uncontrollable Evil]
Kenji was not in the for games as he looked up see the person who put in the ground was floating down. For everyone unaware and not in the know, they saw a creature. A muscular lizard-looking creature with deep purple skin and several white armor-like carapaces on his chest, shoulders, shins, and head. His red eyes glared down at them as if they were trash.
"Nope."
That was the shared thought of the class as they bolted. They did not even want to a chance.
"Cooler. You really think they're let you in the upper level of the Roundtable?" Kenji asked. "Last I checked, I don't exactly got high praise and neither do you as a discount Frieza!"
Kenji backflipped out the way of the energy that hit where he once was.
"Contemptable shitheel. I will make sure your corpse is hanging off the back of my ship." Cooler roared.
"I'd be scared, but you and your cronies sneak attacked me and my crew. Battle Beast at least fought my family straight up." Kenji said taking a fight stance as he floated up in the air to meet him. "Frieza wannabe."
"Say that again, I dare you!" Cooler said powering up.
[Cues: Super Smash Brothers Melee - Final Destination (ItsJokerable Remix)]
The weights on Kenji's person had glowed signaled they were deactivated, and he cracked his back.
"Make me." Kenji said as Cooler lunged slugging him in the jaw.
Cooler kneed him in the stomach before attempting to swat him into the glass only for Kenji to grab his wrist throwing him into it. Cooler let his ki flare incinerating the glass around him before flying up to trade blows with them. Their speed was something what most of the class had never seen before and it was not helping that their punches sent shockwaves as they were moving around with their flash stepping. With his tail, Cooler smacked him into a nearby restaurant.
Kenji looked to see an uneaten cheeseburger to which he took and ate it in a few bites. Cooler's red eyes glowed as he fired two thin purple beams from them into the restaurant and blew it up.
"Guys, we need to help." Izuku said.
"And get killed?" Kamanari asked.
"No. We can't fight them, but we can ensure that civilians are pulled to safety." Izuku said as he rushed out.
[Cues: Secession Studios – Annihilation]
At the restaurant, the dust cleared to reveal an energy shield that began to glow. Omnious and haunting music blared as the ground began to shake. With a roar, it shattered blowing people and debris away as Kenji came up transformed into a Super Saiyan getting Cooler to a kick the midsection sending him crashing through a building.
The Pro Heroes, heroes-in trainings, civilians, and villains just watched Kenji floating glowing with a power they had not seen before. Not one to be bested easily, Cooler let out a scream as the ground shook as he began to transform. Cooler grew in height, gain four or more horns on their heads, gain a spike on each forearm, gain a white tip on his tails, and his eyes turned pure red with the skin around them going pitch black. The form had caused her bio-gems to grow on their arms, legs, and sharp blades to come out of their wrists and ankles at the back.
[Cues: Dragon Ball Z Budokai OST – Challengers]
A rocking theme rolled right in as the two stared each other.
"Death awaits, monkey." Cooler said as a bio-visor slid over his mouth.
"It does. And your Grim Reaper is here." Kenji said darkly.
The two lunged exchanged blows in rapid succession zipping all around the city. Slowly, most people were having a time keeping track only barely able to do my shockwaves a few of their clashes made. Punch parries, blocks, and all out trying to hurt the other.
Cooler leapt back as he put his middle and index fingers together and charges an energy sphere on the tips. He then swings the energy sphere around, creating a large arcing razor-sharp energy blade that he swung at Kenji. He appeared to have bisected Kenji and several buildings in two only for 'Kenji' to reveal to be an afterimage.
Kenji appeared right in front of Cooler to punch in the jaw, but Cooler caught his next punch.
"You just can't quit won't you!" Cooler said as Kenji headbutted him before piledriving him into the street leaving a crater.
Kenji backflipped on his feet as Cooler got up with blood trickling down his head.
Kenji drew their right hand back and charges a green energy sphere.
"Trap Shooter!" Kenji said before waving his hand forward and fire several, compact, powerful energy sphere bullets.
Cooler moved to dodge only for him to realize the spheres were following him. Kenji whirled on Cooler with a knee to the chest hitting Cooler's gas pocket.
"Guh!" Cooler said before throwing him into the barrage of blasts.
[Music Ends]
Kenji sensed a presence and dodged the way from being crushed by a giant foot. He looked up to see Mount Lady and a few Pros had gotten their nerve to intervene. Unfortunately, Cooler used this to slink away leaving Kenji alone.
"You bastards let him get away." Kenji said before dodging a plume of fire.
"Personally, I don't really care. You're under arrest." Endeavor said.
"I'll give you a chance to walk away. I'll give you a chance. Walk away." Kenji said. "You don't want to do this."
"No, I'm ready sure we do-"
A shadow loomed. Cooler had returned backed up with the Big Gete Star with a legion of Meta-Coolers.
"Not so tough now, are you monkey?" Cooler boomed. "You dare compare me to Frieza, but look at you! You, who are the laughingstock of the multiverse. You are a joke of reality warper and husband. It's public knowledge about your wife's miscarriage." Cooler said.
It went quiet as everyone around those two just felt that they heard something they probably should not have heard. Kenji's Super Saiyan formed dropped as his hair clouded his eyes and shook. All the doubts, the fear, and the worry swirled, but then calm came with a reminder of what he fought for.
"It's laughable, you've nearly half of your teammates and your woman can't even keep your seed alive after being mangled." Cooler said haughtily. "But you're all alone now…your teammates won't be alive much longer, not under the people I came with. So, enjoy favor your last moments on this planet."
Cooler's power flared up again raising his hand and gathers their energy in the form of a giant yellow-orange, sun-like energy sphere in seconds. One that was half the size of the Earth itself that Cooler sent down. As the people of the planet were panicking, Kenji calmed down before glowing bright white.
[Cues: Official Goku Drip Theme - Ultra Dripstinct]
Kenji, with a wave of his hand, stopped the sphere dead in it's tracks as more triumphant music began to ring out. One all to familiar to certain people as Cooler looked horrified.
"No. Your words won't get to me. They won't break me. I believe in my teammates, and I believe in myself. I don't have to compare my siblings…I am what I am." Kenji said he floated up as his warper energy surged. "No doubt more doubts, no more restraint. I have the potential…I merely need to pull it out from within."
White flames surrounded flicker as the sphere started to dissipate. Cooler sent his Meta-Coolers to rush Kenji only for them to burn up in the white flames. Cooler twitched the moment he saw a glint of silver in Kenji's eyes. With a mighty roar that rocked the planet, Kenji attained a new level in power emitting a bright flash, a near blinding one that lit up the universe itself. The light would fade revealing Kenji. His hair was slightly spikier and more solid, with silver highlights and oftentimes having loose strands. His eyes take on a more stern, defined shape, sporting silver-colored irises and visible pupils. A complex silver, purple and blue aura consisting of rippling, fire-like energy, complete with sparkling particles traveling upwards whirled around him.
"Remember what I said Cooler? Your Grim Reaper awaits." Kenji said glaring at Cooler who clearly was terrified.
The way he spoke confirmed it for Cooler, the complete calm and control was evident. It had not been done before, but a precedent was set achieve Ultra Instinct through Shin Warper's Will, a dual awakening.
[Music Ends]
Cooler's smugness would further be crushed to see the Black Warpspark arrived which mean his allies were very likely dead.
"It's over, Cooler!" Megan said over the ship's loudspeakers.
"NO! It's never over." Cooler said turning aim at the ship.
In a flash, Kenji was in front of him and had his wrist squeezing the bone that getting a yelp from Cooler. Cooler tried punching him only for Kenji to catch and break Cooler's other hand getting Cooler to scream. Kenji forced him down into the street.
"It is over." Kenji said before striking Cooler's head with four fingers digging into the Ice-jin's forehead. "And you're already dead."
Kenji pulled his fingers back and walked away. Kenji returned to his base form as Cooler screamed as his body began to uncontrollably bulge and bloat. His nerves throbbing and his eyes going bloodshot leaving Cooler to stumble for only a second before he exploded. First his head exploded before his chest combusted splattering bits of Cooler's body and blood all over the place before the lower torso fell to the ground.
"So Endeavor, still want to put me under arrest?" Kenji asked as the No. 2 Pro Hero looked nervous. "I thought so."
Down teleported in Kenji's teammates all happy to see their leader.
"Kenji, that was amazing!" Megan said hugging her husband.
"Yeah, but let's celebrate when we leave this universe." Kenji said as Meg was glaring at Mt. Lady. "Um, Megan? What are thinking?"
"She tried to crush you, and I think I should teach her some manners." Megan said before walking ahead.
"And how exactly are you going to do that?" Mt. Lady said trying to regain some bravado.
Megan activated her Power Watch before making her selection and transforming emitting a bright orange flash that grow.
"By evening the score." Meg said in her To'kustar form.
Megan was massive white colossal humanoid muscular yet feminine creature with a large fin on her head, which is black at the front and orange at the bottom. She has blade-like growths on his shoulders and spikes on his waist. She also has orange arms with two black lines and white fins on the elbows, wristband-like outgrowths on his wrists and orange eyes on his head with two extra eyes protruding on his cheeks, one on each. She sported gray shoulder pads with orange spikes, gray shoes, and orange wraps around her forearms and calves. Her arm and head blades are also serrated.
Mount Lady was exactly 2062 centimeters in her giant form. Megan in her To'kustar form? 3050. Megan's grin looking at Mount Lady had the hero gulp nervously.
"If I apologize, well you…"
WHAM!
Megan probably did the most demoralizing thing she could. She kicked her in the womanhood. Mt. Lady's breath was taken as everyone winced. Megan transformed back and walked back to the team who teleported back to their ship leaving Mt. Lady to shrink down to her normal size…falling to her knees before letting out a bloodcurdling scream of agony. Across universes, people felt that pain.
[-]
[Space, Universe 13 (My Hero Academia), DBG-22]
Back in space, the Outsiders were taking a load off after their victory against the Roundtable.
"Master, surely you are aware that this is going to greatly increase your bounty?" Layla remarked.
"I don't really care for a bounty anymore. I just need to be strong to lead my team and fight with my family." Kenji said as Megan sat on his lap.
"Speaking of family…we'll have a second chance at being parents." Megan said as Kenji lit up. "Can we go to a Time Chamber this time?"
"Yes!" Kenji said lifting her off of him. "Yes, we should."
"One thing to deal with. The mess we left behind, seems this universe is under the protection of a guardian with a chain of command. This universe has a God of Destruction. Jalapeño Spicer." Stewie said bringing up his profile and wanted poster. "Got one for his partner."
"Scoville Slaughterer" Jalapeño Spicer – 1,000,000 – 8th Rank – Active
"Angel of the Unlucky" Tequila – 1,750,000,000 – 6th Rank – Active
Kenji took one look at Spicer and his eyes widened.
"What is it?" Brian asked.
"Something to investigate." Kenji said. "But for now, I suppose we should send Mr. Spicer something of a peace offering so he doesn't attempt to come after us or raise a stink. Any suggestions?"
"Pokémon Eggs." Stewie said as everyone looked at Brian. "I'm kidding. Brian can't get them pregnant."
Brian punched the kid genius in the shoulder for that.
"What about the Gwen in storage?" Brian said. "She has been sitting on ice."
Kenji had looked into options on doing that, but never went through with it. Gwen was a little shit, but selling her seemed like overkill, which was something the team mostly agreed on…except Brian. Considering they already had what they wanted from her, and she was not a threat to them.
"Just to make sure this guy doesn't get a bad impression I'm going to get something we can actually use as a peace offering." Lana said as she moved to the vault.
Gwen was floating in a containment tube put in a white bodysuit. Her memory for the most part was wiped of ever meeting them and as far as she knew and chunks of her past. Her personality was intact and as far as she remembered was her first name.
"Ok, she's ready." Stewie said using telekinesis to unlock the pod's restraints to lift the pod out.
"Seeing he's a new warper, I figured this would be really useful to him." Lana said coming in with a hilt. "Sword of the Thunder God, sound good enough?"
"Yeah, that'll do." Kenji said. "Let me handle the message."
Everything was packed up in a containment before Kenji finished writing the letter.
"So, what are you going to tell him?" Megan said.
"Enough to convince him to take her in and not to ask questions of her origins." Kenji said before they all packed it together in a storage unit.
A delivery service was called to take the package and it was sent off. With that out of their hair, Kenji took control of the ship before piloting it ahead, ready to leave this universe. Once he had, there were two people who breathed a sigh of relief.
"And I suppose we should point Alex in Jalapeño's direction. I'm rather surprised he could create a Destroyer…that will definitely up his bounty." Kenji said thoughtfully.
(A/N: I had hinted from the get-go that Kenji was the Michelangelo of siblings, mentioned to have a lot of a raw talent for the craft of fighting and being the most athletic. But he was clouded by heaps of self-doubt caused by him comparing himself to his brothers and his sister. But when push came to shove, Kenji nutted up and achieved greater power. Of course, not without consequence, but that's another story. But what's with DBG-22? Well, that multiverse is setting for an upcoming fanfiction. Not mine, though. A good friend has decided to come back to fray. SonikNaoko is back and be on the lookout for a new story from him: The Spice of Destruction.)
