Vigilante Bardock: I have some news: A new character will appear in this chapter!
Isaiah: Why are you still the author of this story?
Vigilante Bardock: Shut it! Or else I will make that one potential shipping in my head come true!
Isaiah: You wouldn't dare... You know she hates me as much as I hate her!
Kicker: Too late, he already did it.
Miko: Son of a-! (Turns into a Prime, grabs forge, runs after the author)
Vigilante Bardock: I own nothing! (Proceeds to run off before getting pounded by Miko/Solus' forge)
Instruments of Destruction
Solus' POV
"Optimus?" I whispered, reaching out to touch him only for him to grab my hand and swing me into the nearest wall. "Optimus, what's gotten into you?!" I exclaimed as I looked at his face only to see a mask….. "Shadow Dragons!" I screamed as I jumped away as he tried to hit me. He hit the building behind me and caused it to instantly crumble to dust.
"Such power…." I heard Kicker whisper. "I can't believe this is what Bardock meant when he said that Isaiah holds back when fighting." He turned to Gilbert and exclaimed, " Bardock! Why didn't you tell us you have a freakin' Doomsday for a son!"
"That's just in Prime form," Gilbert replied, pulling out his guns, "If we're not careful, he could end up literally crushing you all to dust!" He started to fire at whatever weapons Isaiah was carrying. He then turned to Kicker, "Nova!" he said, "Go to Onyx and Anime's location so you can rescue them!" Kicker nodded before transforming and driving away to their location. "Knock off his mask!" He exclaimed, "It's the only way that you can relieve him of the Shadow Dragons' control!"
"On it!" I replied as I pulled my hammer, and started to run towards him. "Hey, Optimus!" I exclaimed as he turned to face me, "It's HAMMER TIME!" I screamed as I swung my hammer at him, Harley Quinn style. He blocked it with something that looked like the weapon that Neo used when we faced off Barricade earlier. What is that weapon? I thought as I jumped away from him.
"Be careful!" Neo exclaimed, "He's carrying an ancient Aztec weapon known as a Macuahuitl or war club." I looked at the said weapon. "Ordinary Macuahuitl have obsidian edges on the sides, making them deadlier than if it was lined with steel!" Isaiah jumped at Neo, who tried to dodge his attack but ended up being sliced by Isaiah's war club. "GAH!" He exclaimed as he held his hand to his bleeding side. "But in this case, its sides are lined with ununtrium!" he groaned in pain.
"So stay out of Optimus' way," Sentinel remarked as he transformed into a literal walking 2 cannoned tank, "Got it!" He began to fire at Isaiah until his tank treads were sliced by the war club. "GAH!" he screamed as he transformed and fell on his back. Isaiah walked up to him and was ready to deliver the final blow until Gilbert jumped and punched him in the face. The result caused him to stop for a minute to look at us. A piece of the mask cracked and fell off, revealing a glowing red eye.
"Did we get it off?" I asked.
"No," Gilbert replied, "The mask has to be entirely off of his face in order for him to regain control. If anything he'll be discombobulated for about a few minutes." Isaiah then tried to slash at us only for him to stop and hold his hands to his head as if pain. "He's trying to fight off the control." He said.
"Get it off…." We heard Isaiah say, "Get it off before….." It was at that moment that Kicker came back with both Russell and Brielle. Leave now ...before I….hurt you!" he exclaimed as he grabbed his head as if he were in extreme pain.
"What's going on?" Kicker asked.
"Optimus is trying to fight off the Shadow Dragons' control," I replied, "Nemesis and Sentinel are injured." I turned to him, "What about you?" At that moment, more people wearing a mask with the same markings as Isaiah's appeared and went into a combat stance.
"Well, that happened…." I heard Sentinel groan as he and Neo got back up and tried to fight.
Onyx's POV
That's just... How did Kicker put it? Prime. Yeah. That was just Prime. Not only did I manage to get my butt kicked by these guys but also lead them here to us. Yep. Things were really looking up for me right now.
"So, any good ideas?" I asked as we were cornered. Things were not looking good by the looks of it. I could already tell that we were going to lose this fight. That is until Gundam contacted us.
"Is Neo with you guys?" She asked, typing away on a keyboard, "I have an idea."
"Kinda busy at the moment in case you haven't already noticed!" I replied, "Whatever it is that you want to tell us, it can wait!"
"Actually," Gundam replied, "I was going to tell you that I had an idea involving Neo. It may help you in your current predicament."
"I'm listening," Neo replied as he pulled out twin swords in defense. "And I think I know what you're going to say next." Miko and I looked at each other in confusion. "I'll do it!" Neo said. He turned to us and said, "Cover me!" With that, he jumped into the air, screamed, "Nemesis Prime: Sword Impulse Mode!" A jet flew overhead and had 2 swords on it. Neo jumped and the mini-jet detached from the battle pack and attached 2 long swords to his back. He grabbed the 2 swords, landed, put them together, and ignited them.
"Cool!" Miko exclaimed, "I want something like that!"
"Can't really do that right now!" Gundam explained, "All Impulse Modules are only programmed with Isaiah's heat signature and DNA!"
"Guess we'll have to make do then!" Gilbert exclaimed as he jumped at the controlled kids, clashing swords with his own son. " we just have to fight on our own!" He turned to Miko. "Solus!" he exclaimed, "See if you can shatter one of these guy's masks!" Miko nodded as she ran toward a girl that we encountered earlier and started to swing her hammer at her. Instead, Miko's opponent was saved by a girl that was wearing an outfit similar to Brielle's...
"Anime!" I exclaimed as I started to fly in the air, "I found your sister! You try to pry the mask off her face while I distract her!" Seeing what I meant, Brielle nodded and ran toward Bethany, about to punch her, but hesitated to do so when she looked at her. Seeing this opportunity, her sister grabbed Brielle and slammed her into the ground. I flew towards Bethany and attacked her by throwing some of my steel feathers at her. Instead, she dodged and deflected them back at me. The result was me having my wings damaged by my attacks and falling from the sky.
"I can't do it!" Brielle exclaimed as she got up, "I can't hit my own sister!" She turned to me, "I just can't bring myself to do it!"
"You gotta remember," I grunted, blocking all of that Chara girl's attacks. "She's not the one attacking you, it's the Shadow Dragons that are making her do this!" I fired several missiles at a guy who was wearing an outfit similar to that one RWBY character, Mercury Black. "Don't imagine her as your sister! If you do that, it'll weaken your will to fight, allowing her to kill you!" The masked Mercury character fired at me several times before getting hit by Daniel.
"Hey!" He exclaimed as he literally dodged a bullet aiming for him, "If you're done talking, I'd like to remind you that we're currently in the middle of a fight right now!" He then pulled out a huge blaster and fired at the Masked Mercury before being subdued by him.
"What do we do?!" I screamed as I was beginning to get tired from this, "It's not hard to knock these guys down," I exclaimed as I hit Bethany hard enough to give her a concussion but instead she just stood there with that mask still on her face. "It's getting them to stay down that that's the trick!" After that, I was hit on the back of my head with something hard.
Before I blacked out, I could see that everyone was suffering the same fate that I had.
Neo's POV
When I woke up from being knocked out I decided to take a look at my current surroundings and saw that we were inside of some kind of bunker. "You're finally awake." a voice said in front of me. I looked to where the voice had come from only to find a man that looked about Gilbert's age. "And here I thought that Kakkarot put you out of commission for good." He made a motion toward someone who walked into the light, revealing it to be Isaiah in his Prime form, wearing a fixed mask after the previous one was damaged by Gilbert earlier.
"What happened…." I heard Kicker groan as he emerged from being knocked out, "The last thing I remember was being hit by something that was the size of a bus…." He looked up and saw the man with Isaiah. "Who are you?!" He exclaimed.
"Let's just say I'm someone whom Bardock is very familiar with," he turned toward Gilbert who was tied up and stripped of almost everything except his clothes and mask. "Or should I call you by your real name, Gilbert Lopez?" He smiled as he pulled off the mask, revealing his face. "I have to say, I'm quite impressed with how you were able to hold out for as long as you did." He leaned closer to Gilbert's face. "Of course that's nothing compared to what you did me." He turned toward Isaiah, "It's amazing how your son and this copy," he spat, pointing at me, "haven't unlocked their abilities." He turned toward Gilbert in disgust.
"What's he talking about Gilbert?" Miko, now conscious, asked, "I thought you said that this creep had a vendetta against you!"
"I do as a matter of fact," The man replied, "The only reason why I haven't killed your friend is because of who his mother was." He turned to Isaiah, "Despite the fact that he has an uncanny resemblance to his father, Kakarot here has the intelligence of his mother." He turned to Miko. "Intelligence that has been wasted on people like you."
Trying to stall for more time I decided to get his attention by asking him a question, "I understand why you'd kidnap Optimus," I began, secretly deploying a minibot the size of my fingernail in the hopes that it would send a signal, "But why would you go to certain lengths to kidnap other kids?"
"Good question." The man replied, "And to answer your question, it's simple: each child is the offspring of a member of the famous vigilante group known as Team Saiya and Gilbert here," He pointed to Gilbert, "was their leader."
"Wait, what?" Miko inquired, "What does this have to do with Isaiah's mother?"
"Enough questions!" he screamed, "You already know too much." He turned toward me and placed a knife next to my cheek. "Besides," He began, cutting into my cheek. The result caused Isaiah to put his hand to where the cut would have been. "It's time."
I raised an eyebrow "It's time for what?" I was becoming annoyed by his constant riddles and inconsistent babbling. I wanted answers and I wanted them now!
"It's for me to exact my revenge!" he chuckled as he made a motion toward 2 grunts who grabbed Gilbert and dragged him away. "What better way for Bardock to die than at the hands of his children!" He laughed maniacally.
"Wait," Daniel remarked, "Children?" The man nodded his head as 2 other figures came out of the shadows, revealing themselves to be Alyssa and Alana wearing masks similar to Isaiah's mask, indicating that they were under his control as well.
"You didn't really think I wouldn't know about Bardock's other 2 children," he smiled, "Why, I couldn't think of a more appropriate ending for Bardock and his children!"
"What are you going to do to us then?" Kicker asked, "Make us kill each other just for sport?"
"No…." The man replied, "I'm going to make you watch the Last Children of Mexico die!"
The moment he said that memories flooded to the surface of my mind. I remember it as if it were yesterday. As if I was there watching it myself:
Isaiah, Lacus, and Bethany were watching their favorite cartoon when there was a broadcast interruption where the woman was speaking and there was a video of a giant orange mushroom growing out of the ground. She said that these mushrooms were located in Mexico and that they were growing rapidly. "Mama!" Isaiah said, "Giant orange mushrooms are growing out of Mexico!" When Rosa heard that, she ran to where they were sitting to see what they were talking about. When she did, she held Isaiah close to her chest as if she was afraid of losing him. What none of the 3 realized then was that they had just witnessed history happening before their very eyes.
It would go down in history as the day Mexico died. Her children that lived in faraway lands would weep for their murdered brothers and sisters. Their mother, dead. Their brothers and sisters, murdered in cold blood and without explanation or reason. They wept for themselves, for their fate was uncertain. Out of the 129.2 million people that died that day, only 10,000 of Mexico's offspring survived only because they weren't with their brothers and sisters to die with. From then on, the 10,000 survivors would be called "Last Children of Mexico"
"Nemesis?" I heard Russell say, "Nemesis!" he repeated loudly, snapping me out of my trance.
"What is it?" I inquired.
"You blanked out when the guy said 'Children of Mexico.'" Miko replied, "What did he mean when he said that?"
"I'll tell you later." I replied, "Right now we need to stop Optimus and his family from killing each other."
"Too late," Kicker replied, "They're starting right now." I turned my head and saw a window that showed an arena of some sort. In it was Isaiah, Alyssa, Alana, and Gilbert. They were going to fight to the death.
No one's POV
When the four entered the arena, they all stood still for a moment. For about 5 minutes straight, no one spoke or moved. Then, out of nowhere, Optimus threw his fist at Bardock, who dodged it and used this chance to hit Isaiah in the underbelly. It didn't work as Alyssa threw herself in the way and blocked it with her hands. Bardock looked at his own daughter in shock because he had never taught her anything like that. When Alana ran up behind him and tried to hit him only for Gilbert to dodge her.
"Fight it you three!" He said as he backed away from them, "I know you're strong enough to fight!"
"I don't think so!" The man said over the speakers, "the masks not only brings them under my control, but it also makes them mentally relive certain memories of you."
"What are you talking about?" Bardock, inquired as he dodged a slice from Optimus' sword. "My son doesn't have memories of me until I met him!" Bardock dodged another slice, jumped on Isaiah's sword, and tried to kick him, but instead, Isaiah grabbed him by the ankle and swung him around. Gilbert hit the nearest wall and coughed as he slowly got back up. "Answer me, Shen!"
"Exactly!" Shen replied, "Imagine how he felt about having no father to turn to all those years. No one to play football, play catch, go to the park and fish or worst of all, never looked up to!"
Gilbert coughed as he looked at his children who were in front of him, ready to strike at the moment's notice. "I swore never to do this again, but against you, Shen and to free my children, I must!"
Gilbert stood still for a moment taking a deep breath as he did so. At first, nothing happened. Then, the rocks around him began to float off the ground slowly. Then his hair began to stand up and slowly shift from black to a gold-yellow. His eyes morphed from a deep mud brown to a brilliant aqua-green. His transformation was complete. He had become a Super Latino.
"Now we're getting somewhere!" Shen remarked maniacally, as he snapped his fingers, causing Alyssa to transform into Lightning Sapphire.
"What?!" Miko exclaimed as she witnessed what had happened, "Alyssa has powers too?! And Gilbert?!"
"Let's hope Alana doesn't have powers otherwise Gilbert's dead." Kicker replied. "As it is, he's already having trouble facing off against Isaiah as Optimus Prime."
Gilbert blocked a blow from Alana as he dodged Isaiah and Alyssa's projectiles. I gotta get those masks off! He thought as he shot and energy blast toward them. But how? That was when Gilbert had an idea. A dangerous idea. If I do this…..He thought as he knocked Isaiah off his feet. It'll be the last thing I'll ever do…
Thinking fast, he jumped into the middle of the room and turned back to normal. Isaiah, Alyssa, and Alana noticed this and ran toward him while Isaiah and Alyssa pulled out their weapons.
"What's he doing?!" Brielle exclaimed, "If he doesn't move he'll die!"
"That's his plan…" Neo whispered.
Gilbert looked at each of his children as they ran toward him with the intention to kill him. He couldn't blame them. They were under Shen's control and couldn't do anything about it. Gilbert smiled as Alyssa and Isaiah's blades entered through his body while punching the masks on Isaiah and Alana's faces and headbutting Alana in the face.
"NO!" Team Prime and Brielle screamed as they witnessed a legendary hero die in front of them.
Shen just smiled but frowned immediately as he noticed something happening to the masks that the 3 were wearing.
They began to crack and fall apart piece by piece until they fell off completely freeing Isaiah and his sisters.
However, the first thing they saw was not pleasant…
Isaiah's POV
The first thing I saw was my hands on a sword handle. I was confused at what I saw until I looked up. I had just rammed a sword through my father. Shocked and horrified at what I had done, I let go of my sword and screamed as I saw blood on my hands. Alyssa and Alan were doing the same thing too but then ran to our dying father.
"D-dad" I gasped in horror as his life was fleeing from him. "I'm so s-sor-"
"Sh….." Gilbert shushed as he looked at all of us. "None of you knew what was going on…" He looked at each one of us. "All of you have grown into wonderful people." He turned toward Alana, "Alana," he whispered as he caressed her face with his hand, "You are the most strong-willed girl I've ever known in my family history….. You will grow into a strong and independent woman just like your mother…" He turned toward Alyssa, " I always knew that you were Lightning Sapphire….."
"How?" Alyssa cried.
"You, like Alana, are my little girl, there's nothing you could've kept from me….. Not even a secret like that….." He finally turned toward me.
"Dad I-" I began. "I'm so sorry…"
"No, I should be sorry, my son" he interrupted, "I wasn't there when you were growing up." I was going to stop him there, say he didn't know I existed until his mother told him., but he continued, "Don't blame your mother for this, she thought and knew she was doing the right thing. I would've been a bad father to you….I wouldn't have made the mature sacrifices needed to be made in order to take care of you. You would've hated me and rightfully so." He put his hand to my face, "I'm just glad that I got to see what that little boy who was growing inside my ex-girlfriend grew into. A smart, strong, independent, man. You're what I could've been had I made the right choices…." Blood began to come out of his mouth as he spoke. "Before I die, I'd like to say something to you…" He looked at me straight in the eyes. "Isaiah James Macedonio Valenzuela, Son of Gilbert Lopez and Rosa Valenzuela, I am putting your sisters into your care…." He smiled peacefully, "Love them as your mother loved you. Protect them…." He stopped speaking as the life in his eyes blew out like a candle when its flame was extinguished.
We sat there in silence as we processed what just happened. Alana. I closed his eyes and looked at his lifeless body. As I did, I felt this feeling inside, a feeling that I hadn't felt since my mother died. It was sorrowful, then it turned and began to burn like an inferno of rage. I looked at my sisters, who were experiencing the same thing.
"Are you crying over your dog of a father?" Shen said. "He was pathetic, weak, and a bigger fool than all three of you put together. I just can't see why you- hey what's wrong with her?" Alyssa and I looked over at Alana, whose head was jerking back and forth, her hair standing up in a Caulifa style.
"Papa…." she whispered, her tearful eyes closed and facing toward the window where Shen was, "I….won't…" her hair kept shifting from black to gold. "let … you… g-get….. away with this!"
She growled, opening her eyes, showing the same thing with her except with brown and light green. "Papa…. was.. a…..better man… than you ... could ever...be ..." The ground beneath us began to sink into a crater. Lightning erupted from the round where she was. Debris all around us began to float as she tried her best to keep the same fury we all felt inside.
Then it happened. She screamed so loud that it caused all of the glass in the entire neighborhood to shatter. A giant energy beam erupted from where she was, surrounding her completely and then dissipating immediately. She was no longer the innocent Mexican little girl we all knew and loved. She had transformed into a Super Latino.
Alana just stood there along with us as we began to do the same thing. Alyssa growled as her armor shifted from its original form to something that came from Hyperdimension Neptunia. Her hair began to separate into 2 long french braids and shifted to red. The color of her armor shifted from sapphire to a ruby. She had transformed into Lightning Sapphire, Super Latino mode.
Meanwhile, I was experiencing a transformation of my own: I felt myself going into Cybertron mode but at the same time going Super Latino. My armor began to shift from being blocky to more beastly in design. My hair changed from its blue color and shifted into a golden color which caused my hair to go up Cabba style. Two long cannons appeared from the back as a lion head formed on my chest. My faceplate had cracked off completely and revealed my mouth, which had grown fangs out of my canines. Finally, my hands had grown really into sharp claws. I was now Optimus Prime, Super Latino mode.
Shen looked at us in shock. We looked at him with a look that seemed to strike fear deep in his soul. Without warning, Alana jumped toward Shen and threw her fist at him when that masked Chara girl that took me came out of nowhere and grabbed her fist. Alana's face angry expression stayed the same as she stood there staring at the masked girl. Alana then grabbed the girl and threw her into the wall hard and continued to chase after Shen.
Meanwhile, Shen called on the other masked children to stop us. Among them were: a blonde guy in a black suit with black cat ears and had a belt as a tail, that Chara girl, another guy who looked like Mercury Black, Bethany as Anime, and a boy who had a Bionicle G1 Mata Nui design on him. They all charged at Alana only for her to jump and land behind them and fire an energy blast at Mata Nui, who deflected it with a shield that he had. After that, he pulled out a weapon and fired it at Alana, who caught it and absorbed its energy before firing it back at them. They all dodged the blast and split up. I was trying to pound the Chara girl when the cat boy jumped behind me and tried to touch me with his hand, which had black energy spheres coming out of it for some reason. Without thinking, I grabbed his leg with my claws and threw him into the ground multiple times.
Meanwhile, Alyssa was using her powers against Anime and Mercury by firing multiple swords at them that she seemed to make out of nothing. However, Anime and Mercury dodged them with ease at hit Alyssa in the face, causing her to crash into me, which made me crash into Alana.
"Beast mode!" I screamed as I transformed into a winged gold lion with cannons on its back. "Get on me!" I barked at them as they jumped on me. As soon as they did, I roared really loud, causing the walls around us to break apart and sending the masked kids flying.
Without thinking, I jumped into the air and started to chase after Shen until we managed to corner him.
"So what're you going to do to me, then?" he inquired. "Are you going to murder me as I did to your father?" We said nothing but stood there in silence. "Well?"
I smiled, "No," I replied. Shen smiled evilly. I wasn't done speaking, however. "At least, not without them." I turned my head toward the other kids who used to be under Shen's control. They all (except for Bethany, who had been taken away by her sister.) had an enraged look on their faces. The cat boy grabbed something like a staff and started to treat it like a baton. Toa guy pulled out a shield and a sword. Chara girl pulled out a knife. Mercury pulled out a pair of guns before loading them.
"What're you going to do to me?" Shen asked in a more terrifying voice.
I popped my knuckles. "Oh, nothing life-threatening.." And with that, we all proceeded to beat the shit out of him.
Later…
After we were finished with beating up Shen (and the other heroes went home to their home countries), I took his bloody body and dumped him in front of the nearest police station. As we looked at him being dragged in I thought about what our father said before he died. Both Alyssa and Alana knew this too.
"So what now, Isaiah?" Alyssa asked as we walked away. "What're we going to do now?" I sighed as I felt Alana put wrapped her arms around mine as if she didn't want to let go.
"At this point sis," I replied looking at her. "I don't know." I looked up at the sky as I continued, "One thing's for sure, though" I looked at them. "I will protect you with my life. No matter what."
Kicker's POV
After Isaiah had gotten home and put his sisters to bed, I stood behind him. When he turned around and saw me, he growled at me.
"What is it this time, Kicker?" he inquired. "Since I got captured, I'm not fit to be leader anymore and that I should give it to you?" I said nothing as I walked toward him. "I'm pathetic because I let my anger get the best of me?"
I stopped in front of him before hugging him. "I know what you're going through."
Isaiah stopped as he realized what I meant. "Thanks." I let go as he walked away and went away to his room.
I turned to Miko, who was watching us. "Did you take care of Brielle?" Miko nodded.
"I took the liberty of erasing her memories of our identities along with Bethany's" He replied.
"Good." I replied.
"Another Prime appeared," Neo remarked. "What do we do?" I looked at where Isaiah was. I turned to them, "We wait for the Prime to come to us." I replied.
Sorry for the long wait! So for those of you who didn't like how Gilbert died, I have a reason behind that. I thought that he was kind of a problem to write so I had him killed off. See, he was kind of based on my biological father, who was similar to Gilbert and after what happened between him and my stepmother, I decided to do this. As for Daniel, I will have him be introduced to Isaiah next chapter. As for the other heros who were kidnapped, yes I will include them in the story as well as one shot crossovers. See if you can guess who they are.
Next chapter: Still recovering from their father's death. Isaiah, Alyssa, and Alana spend some time together and upon receiving a clue from a mysterious source that leads them to the heart of Mexico, secrets behind the Mexican Genocide come to light as they find out who did it and why they did it. While they are there, Neo and the others will try to cover up Isaiah's absence without arousing any type of suspicion while searching for the next Prime. Along the way, a certain AI will awaken and try to find where the next Prime is. Take a guess!
Til All Are One!