Chapter 21: Enter the Realm of Gods! Saiyan vs Esper Continues!
Kakine was about to land his first punch in the second round until Articho - as a Super Saiyan 2 - catches his fist with his left hand. This resulted in another shockwave that blew - not enough to snap them off the grass - the trees in the fighters' vicinity back.
(Big Bang Battle - Super Dragon Ball Heroes OST plays)
The Time Patroller smirks cockily as he continues to grip his opponent's fist, preventing him from pulling away. Dark Matter responds with his own smirk as well, excited that he's facing a more challenging opponent than Accelerator and Sogiita.
"I finally have some excitement in my life." Kakine admits. "This fight may be even more interesting than when I first fought the Seventh Rank."
He then unleashes his wings out of his back and begins to flap them in an effort to force the hybrid Saiyan's grip off of his fist. Unfortunately, Articho's grip was stronger than he thought.
"Okay. Time for plan B." He thought to himself, before an idea came into his head.
"What's wrong?" Articho taunts. "Grip too tight for you?"
"This is nothing." The dirty blonde told him. "Prepare yourself, Articho!"
Using his speed and gravity, the 2nd ranked Level 5 began falling straight down toward the ground.
"What's going on?" Mitori questions from behind the tree.
"I don't know, but it looks like my boyfriend has another idea in mind." Kaibi answers, watching the livestream. "Let's hope it's not a stupid one."
"Alright, then." Kakine says. "Since using my Dark Matter to conjure weapons isn't gonna work on you, I'll have to try out one of my most reliable methods to manipulate the elementary particles."
"So is there any particular reason why you are speeding up towards the ground?"
Dark Matter smirks from this.
"This is a part of my plan." The dirty blonde declared as he continues gaining speed. "But I'm afraid this is where you get off."
"Huh?"
"It's time we go for a little SPIN!" Using his wings, Kakine started spinning around like a drill.
"WHAT, YOU'RE CRAZY?!" The Time Patroller screams, losing his grip on his opponents leg. Unable to hang on, the Time Patroller was sent soaring across the landscape.
The audience cringed as they saw that painful scene.
Kakine looks down at where Articho crashed as the dust cloud prevented him from seeing the latter.
"Destructo Disc!" The hybrid Saiyan's voice yells.
Suddenly, a yellow disc shaped projectile emerges from the dust cloud, heading towards him in an instant. He manages to move out of the way, completely caught off guard once again, but the disc vertically sliced off one of his wings.
"What the hell?!" The dirty blond boy exclaims.
Suddenly, a fist punched him away, sending him crashing back down to the ground. Dark Matter gets back up, gritting his teeth.
"What was that just now?" He questions to himself.
His opponent lands in front of him as a fiery aura fades without the Esper noticing.
"That was close." Articho says in his thoughts, his gi covered in very few dirt marks. "An attack like that would've give him the chance to finish me off. I even had to go into God for a split second. This guy is different from the foes I've fought over the years. Even if he lacks raw power in physical strength, his Dark Matter is able to increase his speed and grant him superior stamina, and is able to even keep up with Super Saiyan 2 and 3."
Super Saiyan 2 Articho then powers down to base form, much to his opponent and the audience's confusion.
"Why did return to your base form?" The dirty blonde raises an eyebrow.
"You're good. No... you're impressive." He acknowledges his skills. "For someone weaker than me, you've come quite far. As a reward, I'll show you how far I've come."
"Huh?" Kakine questions in confusion.
(Birth of a God - Dragon Ball Super OST plays)
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Articho raises his voice as the ground shakes and dark clouds form again.
Meanwhile, it's happening all over the world.
England...
Feminine eyes widened in surprised.
"Hmm. That's very peculiar." A woman with rapunzel length hair questions, as she bathes in a bathtub. She has crystal-white skin, clear blue eyes, and shining golden hair, comparing her appearance to that of a gem sold in shop.
Despite being older, her appearance is that of a 18-year-old girl. She raises her naked body out of the water as her wet hair covers her nipples.
Norway...
"Another earthquake?!" A young woman questions, feeling the shaking.
She appears as a seemingly swarthy skinned young girl that wears overalls on her bare skin and seem not to wear any undergarments, here she holds several tools. Her silver hair is braided, her ears pierced with large circular earrings and she also wears glasses.
"I don't think so, Marian." A thin feminine white-skinned boy told her. He is dressed in primarily yellow and black. He wears a tight-fitting shirt and pants as well as a dark stole around his shoulders. He has blue eyes and waist length blond hair. Sometimes he'll be mistaken for being a girl. "There have been news reports about these seismic activities happening everywhere."
"They must be exaggerating." Marian deadpans.
"No, Thor's right on this one." A blond girl wearing a witch's hat and cloth covering her right eye confirms. She's seen dressed in a revealing outfit, a low-cut neck line that goes down below her navel. She has a long cape, and has a ribbon wrapped around her. "But there's more to it. I sense a strong power happening in Japan."
"A strong power?"
"Yes. And you're gonna find this hard to believe. The power I'm sensing now is divine." The young girl continued. "As in, the power of a god."
"Wait, what?!" Her colleagues exclaimed in disbelief.
"That's impossible, Othinus." Thor argues. "There's no way that can be a god. Right?"
"I'm afraid it is." Othinus confirms. "But this energy is different. I've never sensed anything like it before. If we don't count my reality warping powers, whoever possesses this is far stronger than almost all of the saints and magic gods. Including myself."
The young blonde gazes up at the sky in deep thought.
Meanwhile, on an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean...
A young girl suddenly wakes up from her nap, from all of the shaking, while she was holding a gorilla doll. Although she is literally deaf, she can feel the vibrations on any surface she touches.
Just then, she felt the vibrations of large foot steps heading towards her direction. She looks up and sees what appears to be a giant gorilla walking towards her. Not a Great Ape, but literally a normal looking gorilla that's the size of tall buildings.
The large creature sits down a little bit away from her, so not to accidentally smosh her.
"You feel that?" The girl asks her friend in a series of hand gestures, revealing to be sign language. "It's another earthquake."
The gorilla looked at her for a moment, before using sign language as well.
"I'm not so sure." He replies, even though he wasn't directly speaking. "It's bad enough the island is already unstable as it is."
"Do you think he has found you?" She questions further, afraid of what's out there.
"I don't think so." He continued. "But anyway, I believe this is just the beginning."
"The beginning?"
At the bottom of the ocean...
A school of fish started swimming in a panic as the water around them began rumbling. Then, something really big swam past the scared fish. It had three rolls of razor sharp spines.
Connected to the spines with a large reptilian creature that towered over the fish. It felt the vibrations as well, gazing upward for a moment.
In Tokyo where Academy City is next to...
A young girl with midnight blue hair tripped from all of the constant shaking, landing on her butt. Her hair was braided into two pigtails and wears a flower hairpin on the right side of her hair. She has yellow colored eyes and a petite body figure.
"A-Another earthquake?!" She stutters in panic, glancing everywhere.
"Yeah, and it feels pretty close too." A boy with spiky hair pointed out. He is a teenager with yellow eyes and a vertical scar on his left eyebrow. He hair is spiky dark-red with short bangs. "It's identical to the previous ones that occurred almost a week ago."
"I wonder where are they coming from, Soma?" The young girl questions, slowly standing up.
"I don't know, Megumi, I don't know." Soma told her, looking in the distance.
Somewhere, underneath Mount Fuji...
A large green serpent with multiple heads, roughly around 8, slowly opened its reptilian eyes, sensing all of the vibration from the constant shaking. The monsters creature gazes above, inside of the large cavern of the dormant volcano.
"Hissss." The large snake telepathically spoke, with a feminine voice. "Those surface dwellers are at it again. Don't they ever take a break?"
Elsewhere in the central part of the Japanese countryside...
Inside a small normal looking Japanese house, Bardock is watching the real-time footage of his student beginning to transform once more against his opponent.
"So you finally decided to bring out the big guns." He correctly deduced as a young woman in her 30s walk in with some tea before sitting next to him. She has black, chin length hair and brown eyes.
"Is that the same Articho you mentioned before?" She asks her husband. "The boy you used to trained and your descendant?"
"Yep." He simply answers, not taking his eyes off the holo screen. "And it seems he's not holding back now."
"I just hope he doesn't go overboard." Bardock's wife pointed out, taking a sip of her tea.
"We Saiyans tend to do that." He eye rolls. "But we're not stupid enough to risk blowing up the planet we're currently living on."
"I'm glad for that." She nods, while smiling.
Just then, the father of Son Goku surprises his wife by wrapping his arms around her waist.
"Say, want to do something exciting later?" He questions, his tone of voice had a familiar feeling to it.
"R-Right now?" The beautiful woman was taking aback from this. "I know that Yuki is at school and Ame won't be back for a couple of hours... But what if the neighbors hear us?"
"Aw come on, Hana." He grins cheekily. "I'm sure they wouldn't mind, as long as we're not too loud. And perhaps I can get you pregnant with a Saiyan child."
Hana gasps at this.
"A Saiyan child?" She blushes shyly. "Let me pull out the futon."
"Perfect. Bring it in here. We're going to do it while watching this. I don't want to miss the action." Bardock suggested as he begins moving stuff out the way, so both him and his wife will have plenty of space for some love making.
Not too far away from the battle...
A small party of three warriors carrying weapons were watching the fight as they remain concealed in the forest. One of them was a girl with shoulder length pale purple hair in a bobcut hairstyle with short fringes and golden brown eyes. Like Junko and Touma, she's no older than 15. She is also well-endowed for her age. Her most signature weapon she wields, however, is a javelin.
"Isn't that the Saiyan that was mentioned?" A girl wearing a purple shirt, a red short skirt, andwhite thigh-high socks questions with curiosity. Her hair is tied in a ponytail and has a small smiley-face as a decorative ornament. She also sports an ahoge on top of her head.
A girl with hair tied in a ponytail and has a small smiley-face as a decorative ornament questions with curiosity. She also sports an ahoge on top of her head.
"It would seem so." Another girl with long, blond hair that's let down and blue eyes answers before looking at her best friend. "What do you think, Itsuwa?"
"You're absolutely correct." Itsuwa agrees with her. "We can thank him for the heads up, Tsushima."
"What, the perverted lolicon?" She frowns. "That guy was disgustingly complimenting my attractive legs."
"Yeah, he did the same thing about my breasts." The purple haired saint blushes shyly. "But he's surprisingly good at giving us advice on finding a boy to go out with."
"True." Tsushima nods, closing her eyes. "But if he ever does anything weird like that again... Let's kick him in the balls."
"But wouldn't that make you fall in love with him?"
"Rats!"
"Well, you did the same to our de facto leader." The ponytail girl deadpans. "So perhaps the two of you will fall in love and have babies."
"W-WHAT?!" The blonde woman blushes out of embarrassment. "Don't be ridiculous! There's no way that an Amakusa warrior like myself will EVER fall for a perverted pope like him!"
"Haaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!" Articho finishes screaming as a fire divine looking aura emits with a loud sound.
Kakine had a shocked expression on his face and began sweating for the first time in a fight.
"What is this??" He questions in disbelief.
Back with the audience, everyone was surprised in disbelief and awe.
"He's changed." Mikoto utters in disbelief. "A new form?!"
"I can't sense his power anymore." Arisa says to herself. "But I can feel this overwhelming pressure in the air. Is this-?"
"THIS is Super Saiyan God." The Time Patroller explains in a calmed and confident smile. "I obtained this form through absorbing god ki. And now I've learned to control it for myself. Prepare yourself! You're in for a surprise!"
"Did he just say God?!" Their friends exclaimed.
"He was telling the truth after all." Arisa continues to talk in her head in awe. "That's what he wants to surprise me with. That beautiful form. He looks like he's in his base, but with magenta red hair. And that divine aura... it looks like the actual colors for fire. I love it!"
"He looks skinny." Mitori points out. "That transformation must've made him lose a few pounds from those muscles of his."
"And the hair looks the same in his normal appearance but red, and that fiery aura... it's different to the jagged ones he's displayed before in his regular Super Saiyan forms." Junko comments with the same awestruck expression.
"Whoa." Rakko exclaimed. "Is this the power of a Saiyan?"
"More like the power of a Saiyan god." The popstar corrected her. "Saiyans have a lot more power than you know. As in 10 times... No... 100 times more."
"Then how exactly did he absorb god ki?" The Railgun questions.
"His Saiyan cells did." She answers simply with a smirk. "Whenever Saiyans experience near death, they come back more powerful than before. I seen it happened quite often. Their cells can absorb the damage from their opponent's attacks. As long as it doesn't overwhelm the cells to the point their enemies' blasts vaporize them. We call this a Zenkai Boost."
"Zenkai Boost, huh?" Mikoto raises an eyebrow. "That's literally unfair and broken. Guess fighting a Saiyan is going to be a real pain after all. Which means if Articho gets stronger in each battle, then so can Mitori. Not to mention she's also an Epser."
"I am standing right here, you know. You're lucky I didn't bring my liquid metal with me, otherwise I would've stripped you naked." The purple haired teen pointed out. "Considering the fact I can beat you, even if you're level is higher than mine. But don't forget that ranks doesn't make you the better fighter. Power and skill do. And since I'm part Saiyan, I have the potential to take on six of the seven Level 5s."
"A Super Saiyan God?" Hana questions her husband, while she bounces on his cock. "Can you explain that to me, Bardock?"
"It's one of the two old 'legends' in Saiyan history." Bardock explains, groaning. "Happened not long after the first Super Saiyan appeared, who was then given energy by five other Saiyans with righteous souls to use against the evil Saiyans. But because he didn't anything about god ki and mastered it to control the Super Saiyan God form, it wore off of him and in the end he perished."
"Wait, so the first Super Saiyan you told me before is also the first Super Saiyan God?" She asks, moaning.
"That is correct." He told her, thrusting into his wife harder.
"I guess that resulted to this- oh yes fuck me baby!" She screams in ecstasy, before covering her mouth to muffle her moans. "Sorry, lost control of myself their."
"Damn. It's difficult explaining when we're doing this." Her husband groans. "Let's just keep fucking and watching the fight and I'll tell you everything when we're done."
"Deal."
And so the Saiyan flips Hana over in the missionary position, holding her legs while pounding her tight pussy.
"Ya wanna know something?" Kakine asks.
"What?" Articho responds.
"I know that you're power has increased and I lack the power to beat you with brute force. But... for the first time, I've never been so excited fighting against someone who actually understands me."
"Yeah." He chuckles, sliding across the bottom of his nose. "Let's do this!"
Regenerating his right wing, the Esper charges toward him, ready to throw a punch.
However, the Time Patroller - still emitting his fiery, divine aura - stops the attack with his arm before giving a battlecry and counters with a roundhouse kick to the stomach, pushing the Level 5 back. Not giving up, Kakine charges toward him again, but Articho prepares another super attack.
"Prominence KamehameHAAAAAAA!" The hybrid Saiyan yells, launching a beam of energy, that also resembles fire, at his opponent. His blast caught Kakine by surprise as the beam hits him, resulting in another explosion.
(Music ends)
Smoke rises from the aftermath and Articho turns away with his arms crossed.
Suddenly, he senses the Level 5's energy and uncrosses his arms before turning around, and sees Kakine survived his attack head on as the latter's wings have shielded him just moments before the blast made contact.
"Where do you think you're going?" Kakine asks, lowering his wings.
Articho remains unfazed by his question and remains still.
"Heh." Dark Matter grins. "I'm sorry, did I hit a nerve there? I blocked your attack at the last second with my ability. You're not doing that again. Now... it's my turn!"
He then dashes toward him, ready to fire his feathers at him as a distraction and get behind him. Unfortunately, the Time Patroller's eyes widen, releasing a barrage of punches all over the Esper's chest.
Kakine yells in pain and the force of the punches sent him flying to Articho's left, crashing through multiple trees almost down to a kilometer away from the hybrid Saiyan.
"Charging at me head on like an idiot three times, while I'm in my God form?" Articho taunts with an unimpressed expression. "Come on! You can do better than that, can't you?"
Kakine sits back up, getting on one knee as he looks at the fresh bruises he received from Articho. He then grimaced in pain and disbelief.
"Did he just attacked me with his glare?!" The dirty blond boy exclaims, now completely angered by the fact that he's been humiliated so easily by a simple attack from his eyes.
"How is that possible?" Yobou questions. "Do we know any Esper that can do that?"
"Not that I'm aware of." The pregnant blonde answers, truthfully.
"This is getting ridiculous!" Mikoto rants, rubbing her head with both hands. "Now he has a technique to retaliate with only his eyes?! And don't get me started on him using them to block the opponent's attacks!"
"It's a a lot to take in, I understand." The reincarnated goddess told her.
"How can you still be so calm about it?!"
"Because I have faith that Articho will win this fight." She answers with a smile. "Always have and always will."
"That's a pretty naive explanation, Arisa." The Railgun blankly retorts.
"Damn you, Saiyan!" Kakine curses aloud. "You're gonna regret that, you hear me?! There's no need for me to hold back anymore!"
"So you finally decided to get serious?" Articho taunts. "It's about time. I always suspected that you weren't going since we first started."
"Answer me this question, Articho."
"Go ahead."
"You said the transformations drain more of your stamina than in your normal state. Then, how the hell are you not looking exhausted? I should've worn you down already."
"Oh that's simple." Articho smirks, crossing his arms again. "It's true my regular Super Saiyan forms drains more ki than in my base, but... whenever I'm in Super Saiyan God, my stamina drainage is decreased exponentially. And my speed and power, on the other hand, is even greater than when I was Super Saiyan 2. Plus, as a small bonus, this is the only form with a minor healing factor. Hate to say it, Kakine, but those attacks you gave me before I went God were all for nothing."
"What?"
"Not insane enough for you?" He continues to gloat, still smirking cockily. "Then how about I let you in on a little secret? This is the same form Goku used when he was up against a God of Destruction, and their fists that clashed nearly destroyed the entire universe that I'm from. They weren't even at their full power. And spoiler alert: I'm FAR stronger than that."
"Bullshit!" The second ranked Level 5 yells. "I may acknowledge the fact you're stronger than me in terms of physical strength, but there's no way in hell that you're superior to me! I'm Dark Matter! I can manipulate the elementary particles to make myself faster than you!"
"Speed and stamina isn't everything." Articho frowns. "Without raw power at your disposal, you have no chance in beating me. Not even your Dark Matter."
The dirty blonde eyes widened in rage. It appears that the Time Patroller stepped on a mine field.
"I will win this fight!" He yells. "You will not best me!"
"Let's see how you retain your cockiness after I tear your body apart, demolish your spirit, and punish your soul."
"Let's see how your big mouth can talk after I hit you with this!" He retorts by fire a giant energy beam at him with his Dark Matter wings.
Articho's Super Saiyan God aura dissipates from his entire body. With precise timing, he then punches the blast, and the shockwave emitting from the fist sliced through Kakine's attack like butter, sending him flying through the trees.
He then reappears behind the flying Esper and attacks with a combo of punches and kicks. He kicks him up higher in the air and uses Instant Transmission to reappear above his opponent, who gasps in fear.
With a yell, the Time Patroller then sucker punches his face, sending both fighters crashing back down to the surface, resulting in a huge explosion that shook the forest and blow the trees away.
Their friends were once again baffled by the hybrid Saiyan's words and moves he pulled off, all just to provoke Kakine to use his ability's full power on him. As for the three girls spying on the fight from another part of the landscape, they too have the same expressions as them.
"No way." Itsuwa exclaimed in shock. "The forest..."
"He obliterated most of it." Her best friend pointed out. "All that's left is a giant crater in the center of where they've impacted."
"Guess that's the power of a Saiyan for you." The girl with the ponytail answers, sweating.
Back over at the countryside, Bardock is laying on top of his wife as the two of them pant in exhausted.
"At that's checkmate." He smirks. "Looks like Articho doesn't need to even use his full power after all."
"Guess not." Hana smiles, blushing, while her husband was able to pull out of her ravaged vagina. A lot of his seed leaks out as it makes a pool on the futon, mixed with her pussy juice. "And you definitely knocked me up, Bardock."
"Indeed." He grins as he begins using some tissue to wipe up the mess he made. "Now let get ourselves cleaned up, before our son comes how."
Back at the fight...
Articho stands as he looks down at Kakine, who is now on his knees, wincing in pain as he holds his side.
"That was a good fight." He admits. "But as I said, without raw power, you have no chance in winning."
"In that case..." Dark Matter says as he pulls something out of his pocket. "You leave me no other choice, but to use this."
"What?!" The Time Patroller's eyes widen. "Another Shinseijū fruit?!"
"Oh, so you know what it is then?" He smirks. "I found this at the site where you defeated Katsch. It seems she must've used it to wipe your ass before you went into Super Saiyan. Let's see how much of power gap there is between her and me now!"
"No, don't!" Articho yells. "You have no idea what it can do to y-!"
But it was too late to stop him as Kakine takes a bite out of the last demon enhanced fruit. With a mighty roar, he emits the blood red and black aura Wendy possessed, except the only difference is that he's not a demon like her and Fu. The moment the Esper's aura flared up, Articho vanishes and reappears from a safe distance to avoid getting knocked back by the resulting shockwave that his opponent produced.
"Damn it!" The Time Patroller curses, gritting his teeth as he begins to sweat nervously. "The hell was that cocky dumbass thinking about eating it?! Esper or not, his human body can't handle that! And now his power has skyrocketed! Far more than Wendy's! I think I'm in some trouble here. Even in Super Saiyan God."
"This is not good." Arisa pointed out. "I'm not sure if Super Saiyan God is enough for Kakine at this rate. And Kaibi... you knew he had that fruit on hand, didn't you?"
"I did, but I honestly wasn't sure he'll use it." She told her.
"And you let him keep it?!" She screams, panicking. "Humans aren't supposed to eat the Shinseiju! Wendy was able to survive was because she was a demon. If your boyfriend stays powered up like that, he'll die."
"How do you know?"
"Because other than Wendy, there were two Saiyans who ate Shinseiju. Articho and a space tyrant known as Turles. Except that Turles ate plenty of it that gave my champion trouble back in the day."
"So it's a real pain to deal with?"
"At first." She shrugs. "But Articho managed to defeat him, and that was in his base form."
"But he could've defeated him with Super Saiyan, could he?"
"Articho didn't have Super Saiyan at the time. This was back when he was still a newbie to using ki."
"He didn't?" The other girls exclaimed. "Long story short, Turles tried to have Articho in joining his Crush Corps. He refused, saying that he has enough of 'evil bastards' justifying their actions, and got his ass handed to him on two separate occasions."
"Ouch."
"In their third and final encounter, Articho turned the tables on him. Turles is as strong as a Super Saiyan 2 thanks to the fruit's power. But Articho became stronger than that. After that, the rest is history."
"Okay, so what exactly is this Shinseiju fruit?" Mikoto asks, still confused.
"The fruit originates from a Shinseiju tree, which is the Japanese name for the English phrase 'Tree of Might'." The popstar explains. "The tree itself is about half a planet's size when fully grown. Originally, its fruit was meant for deities and dragons due to it's so called 'divine' properties, which turned out to be a myth. However, there's a very good reason why no one with half a brain risks in growing the fruit in the first place. It became so problematic that even the gods of Articho's universe made it taboo."
"Why?" Mitori questions. "It's just a tree, even if it is half the planet's size. I can understand not eating it, though. Since I'm half Saiyan like Articho, I've got all the potential power I need."
"Mitori's got a point." Rakko agrees with her. "I don't think I wanna eat something that can kill a mere human like me, even if it can give me a power up."
"It's because the tree needs a fertile world to grow on, so that it can take a planet's nutrients and inhabitants' own ki to ripen its fruit." Arisa darkly reveals with a frown. "If the Shinseiju tree is not destroyed before the fruit is ready to eat, then the planet it grows on will be nothing more than an uninhabitable barren wasteland with an endless sea of sand and remains of dead plants, animals, and sentient beings alike."
Hearing that frightened the teens, down to the core.
And as for our hero, Articho continues to gaze at his opponent as Kakine is still powering up due to the Shinseiju fruit's properties that's bringing out what remains of his human potential. It would seem that he's going to have his work cut out, no matter how powerful the Time Patroller is.
To be continued...