Seven years have passed since the war. In that time, all of us have grown much stronger; at the moment, my base power is the same as my super saiyan power when I fought Zoltris, and Cellio just barely surpasses me; Stryker is doing a good job at keeping up, being at around 3/4 of my power. During the years, we reformed and recruited over 1000 planets in total, with another 200 being independent. We have needed to fight many opponents over the years, but the three of us have been more than enough, and with our transformations, we haven't yet faced an opponent who can best us. Earth has developed extremely fast thanks to all the partnerships we made and now humans are capable of intergalactic travel. The magic school in the monster city has been growing tremendously due to more and more people discovering their magical abilities, so the monsters have it pretty good; Mettaton even became an intergalactic star and he's having the time of his life. About two years ago, we met the new guardian that traveled between universes, he looked like Kami, but was much younger, he said his name is Dende; one good thing that came out of this is that he revamped the time chamber to allow unlimited access.
Now, today I was training alone, just outside my now much bigger prize money bought, house, and I just began to think. I felt that there was more behind super saiyan, like there was another level I don't know how to achieve, but I know I'm close. I decided to push everything I had to its limit, so I called Cellio and Stryker, telling them to meet me at the lookout. They arrived and almost instantly began asking questions.
"What's the emergency bro? A new enemy?"
"No, actually. I need the help of both of you. Cellio, I know you feel it too; super saiyan 2 has been an enormous help over the years, but it just feels incomplete, like there's something beyond it."
"Yeah, I know what you mean. After training so long, I can also feel it just calling me."
"So what do you think you guys need to do? And why do you need my help with it?"
"I need to push my body to it's absolute limit. So what we're going to do is go into the time chamber and I want the both of you, at full power to blast me with your combined attacks. Don't you dare hold back on me."
"Cherik, if it doesn't work, it just might kill you."
"That's a risk I'm willing to take Stryker. Now are you coming or not?" They thought about it for a moment, but then nodded at me. We walked into the chamber and closed the door, then we each powered up to maximum. "Remember, don't hold anything back! Hit me with everything you have!" I began to charge a Nova Blast and they charged their signatures as well. We all fired, and I felt their power overwhelming me, seeing the orb slowly come closer. I gave it everything I had, but it wasn't enough; I couldn't give up now though. I held on and looked deep inside, finding a hidden power, stronger than anything, and letting it out in one big explosion. Once I let it all out, my blast annihilated their combined attack and almost blew them out of the air. The power I felt was immense, far greater than super saiyan 2; I felt my head be a little heavier and realized my hair had grown out. Stryker and Cellio looked at me in awe; I just gave a smile, then passed out from energy exhaustion.
I woke up in a bed in the plaza of the chamber, I heard sounds of combat and looked out to see the two of them training. I looked around and saw Stryker's senzu pouch; I took one out and ate it, recovering completely. Stryker looked over and saw that I was awake, so they flew over to me with smiles.
"So, how are you feeling buddy?"
"Better after taking that senzu." Cellio slapped my back.
"Dude, that was amazing what you did! Wanna dub it super saiyan 3?"
"Sure. But when I transformed, I realized that the power it drains is immense."
"Yeah, we saw. After a few seconds of transformation you just collapsed and your hair went back to normal." Stryker said this as he was grabbing something to eat.
"Cellio, what do you say? Wanna try to access it?"
"I don't want to risk having myself disintegrated, thank you very much."
"No, don't worry. In that one time I transformed, I figured out what to do; wanna try?"
"*sigh* Alright fine, let's do it." We walked out into the training area.
"So, first, let's go straight to 2." We powered up and stood there. "Now, just like we transformed before, we need to summon every last ounce of energy within us, find the hidden source within you, break the barrier!" I began to charge, and once I hit my limit, I kept going, no matter how much it hurt. As I was screaming while powering up, I could tell Cellio was feeling the same, but we pushed through it. I felt something though, I felt my hair beginning to lengthen, and I could feel the power slowly trickle out; I looked even further and found the reservoir of power from before and let it out in a raging war cry, we both did. There, standing face to face with each other, were two super saiyan 3s. I instantly powered down to avoid unconsciousness and so did Cellio, but it took a toll on us; we fell to our knees, gasping for air and feeling weakened, barely able to stand in the intense gravity. Stryker quickly ran over to us and gave us each a senzu before we collapsed.
"Wow, you weren't kidding Cherik, the power drain was intense. But the strength itself, that was incredible."
"Yeah. Now, how about we spend this time training and working on improving our stamina for this form?"
"Sure. Stryker, how many senzus did you pack?"
"About 20. That won't be enough for an entire year, especially with the two of you. Good thing Toriel taught me how to infuse magic with food, it'll make what we have last a lot longer."
"We should be fine bro. Now then, Stryker, stop talking and let's get to training."
The three of us trained intensely, while at the same time, Cellio and I were slowly improving our super saiyan 3 stamina. By the time the 9 month mark rolled around, we were able to hold the form for a good half an hour. Thanks to Stryker learning to infuse food with magic, we were able to cut down our senzu consumption by a ton, each quarter bean infused with magic being as effective as a whole one. By the time the year ended, the three of us were nearly twice as strong as we were before; I was at 32 million, Cellio hit 33 million and Stryker hit 25 million. Cellio and I can hold super saiyan 3 for a good hour now without much strain, which is really going to help.
We stepped out and went to my place to clean up. While we were hanging out at my place, Stryker got a call and by the look on his face, it was serious.
"When did this happen? Where are they? How many? Alright. We'll be there soon." He hung up and turned to us with a serious expression. "We need to leave for the school, now. One of the students went nuts and began... began taking the souls of the others... One of my best too... Their name is Frisk, a red soul, and they're powerful. Hopefully we can catch them on time." He held out his hand and we both grabbed his arm to teleport to the school. There was fire and holes everywhere. Stryker took immediate action and flew into the school and we did the same. We rescued humans and monsters alike, some of them didn't respond, their bodies were warm, but they had no function to them, they were soulless.
"I think that's everyone. Cherik, where's Stryker?"
"Right here. Where is Toriel?" He said as he was healing another student of his.
"She's over there, injured, but alive." I pointed behind me to the coughing goat lady; Stryker ran over and began to heal her.
"What happened to Frisk? I got the call from Undyne."
"Frisk... they... I don't know what happened. I was in the middle of teaching and they... they just stormed in without warning... blasting me aside and stealing the souls of the other children. They tried fighting back, but it was no use." She was beginning to cry. Stryker turned to us.
"That's impossible though... a human can't steal the soul of another human. Unless of course... oh no." A frightful look came over him as he began to think, when Asgore, Undyne, Sans and Papyrus showed up to help with the effort, this put his mind a bit at ease, but still not fully.
"What's wrong man? What's the oh no?"
"A human soul can't absorb the power of another human soul unless it's mine, the golden soul of potential. That is unless, at least in theory, they have a monster soul absorbed into them. How many students are soulless?"
"I counted 9 in total." I said to him, but when I turned, I saw his worried look just got wore. He stuck out his hand to produce... nothing.
"Oh no."
"What's wrong?" He turned to me with horror in his face.
"I can't create or access my save points. This means that they absorbed enough souls to outclass my determination pool." Cellio and I shared his shock, and Cellio spoke up.
"So does this mean we can't go back? None of your screwy time resets?"
"Exactly. We only have one shot to defeat Frisk and if I go down..."
"Game over." I finished his sentence. We stood there in silence while the fire department put out the school and everyone else huddled around us. Stryker looked around at the crowd gathered and spoke up.
"Listen everyone. We need all of you to stay indoors and don't let in anyone except for members of the royal guard, myself, or my friends here. Until Frisk is gone, we need everyone on alert. Return to your homes immediately!" Everyone more or less calmly went back home, with others running for their lives. The three of us huddled together in order to sense Frisk's power, and we found it about 200 miles away. Before we left, I asked Stryker a very important question.
"So what exactly are we dealing with here?"
"My 10 most powerful students combined into one... demon. They're capable of flight and ki manipulation, and they are incredibly strong. With the power of 10 combined souls and quite possibly a monster soul, we're talking a low ball of all their parts times 10 or a high ball of all their parts times one hundred."
"Jeez, whoever thought we would need math to beat someone. But what were each of their power levels?"
"Frisk was at 80,000. the others were 75,000. 60,000. 58,000 and the rest were all around 55,000." As he said it, I plugged the numbers into my scouter to get a total power of.
"Around 6 million low balled or 60 million high balled. That's not as terrible as I thought it would be, just let one of us two take them on, we'll make sure everything goes alright." Stryker put his hand out to stop us.
"No, it's probably for the best you guys don't come along. Before you say anything, this isn't about honor or proving a point; Frisk now has the ability to manipulate the timeline any way they see fit, so why haven't they done so already?." I stood there, mouth about to say something, then stopped, he did have a point. "They want my soul for some reason and if someone other than me interferes, they'll just keep reloading or even resetting until they get what they want. The best course of action is for me to fight alone" I walked up to him and put my hand on his shoulder, looking right at him.
"Are you absolutely sure you don't want us backing you up from a distance?"
"If you guys go, they'll just screw with the timeline until they find a way to kill you along with me... Besides, I' won't take any chances, I've got this on my side." He powered up into his soul charge mode and smiled at me; I simply gave him a grin and nodded.
"Alright. Go take them down." He nodded at us and flew off in the direction of the large power.
Stryker POV:
Frisk wasn't very far, but it seemed odd that they would just be standing in one place. I found them in the middle of a rocky area, they looked the same, purple and blue striped sweater, messy bowl cut hair, but their eyes were open, revealing their red color. They looked up at me with a wicked smile, I flew down and landed right in front of them. They spoke, and their voice was the combined voice of all the souls they absorbed.
"Hello Mr. Stryker, what do you think of me now?"
"Frisk, what happened? What caused you to do this?"
"Are you really that dense? You caused this." They said it with a snarl and hatred in their voice.
"I caused this? Frisk, all I've ever wanted to do was to teach and encourage you to train your powers for good. You were one of my best students."
"Not because of that you idiot. The underground. My personal play place was stolen from me, by you."
"What? What are you talking about?"
"Before you fell down the mountain, I was the first to go down, discovering my own power of determination. I walked through, resetting so many times on so many adventures, just to see what would happen. At first, I just wanted to get out, so I only hurt whenever necessary, until Flowey requested me to do one of two things. Kill them all or befriend them all. At first, I tried being nice, making friends with everyone, freeing the monsters, but something felt off, a feeling I couldn't describe, an itch I couldn't scratch with that ending. So, I began to kill intentionally, loving every single second of it, the power coursing through me, increasing with each life taken." They grinned and laughed evilly at this, before their face turned back into one of hatred. "Until that damn flower got in my way one last time, absorbing the souls for himself, this time they didn't rebel and after killing me too many times to count, they eventually reset the timeline back to before I landed, but one major difference happened in the world." I don't know why I stood still, listening, but I wanted to know more, I didn't want to hurt them, not yet at least, not until I knew it was the only option available.
"What changed?" They pointed directly at my soul with a menacing stare.
"You became the new wielder of that thing. While I fought the damn weed, the previous owner of the golden soul passed on, giving its power to you, that changed the rest of the timeline as now, you were attracted to the mountain before me and by the time I got there to continue my rampage, they were all gone, free to the world." They clenched their fists in fury. "You stole my chance at godhood and I won't let you take it from me again!" They charged forward and began to attempt to speed blitz me, throwing random hits in a blind fury, but I just blocked all their punches and kicks with one hand and sent them flying into the side of a mountain with one kick. They didn't stop, they just flew out, attempting to grab me, but I just side stepped, grabbed their arm and swung them around, then into the ground. Holding my hand over their face, I charged a planetary burst, ready to finish this, but before I blasted, they slammed their hands to the ground, summoning a field of magic blades that I jumped away from, missing my shot. I watched them stand up, laughing maniacally, then they stared at me with an insane grin.
"Did you really think that was my full power? Allow me to show you just what I was able to do." They brought out their soul, it had the layers of all the different souls surrounding it, but there was something else in the center, an upside down white soul.
"So, my prediction was right. You did absorb a monster's soul to take the power of the others."
"Yes, without your precious trait, I had to absorb and dominate a monster's soul, but a benefit of this is... I have much more in store for you." It was just a brief flash, but in that brief flash, their power exploded, I'm pretty sure it could have been felt by Cherik and Cellio. I scouted them and saw a power level of about 61 million, just as we calculated. They produced a red, jagged sword from their own magic and prepared to face me again. I summoned two golden daggers, choosing them as my signature weapons a few years ago, and stood at the ready. They jumped forward and slashed, but I blocked and parried each strike away, with soul charge, I had the strength and the skill to fend them off no issue. They wildly slashed at me with no form or reason, just strength, and I was able to block it all. I jumped over them, cross sliced their blade and sent it flying, then after I kicked them away, I fired a barrage of energy blasts; a few hit, but they recovered fast and dodged my assault. I shot a big blast as a diversion, and when they deflected it, i flew behind faster than they could react and slashed them in the back, causing major damage. They fell down, but recovered their sword, and through pure willpower they healed and resumed their attack. I realized after a while that they were getting used to my attacks, dodging them easier, landing glancing blows, getting faster, it was only then I realized they were resetting and learning as the battle went on, so I had to end this fast. During one of their large strikes, which I correctly predicted being a false one to divert my attention, I shattered through their blade, punching them into the air and summoned my daggers again, about to slice them in two as I flew up, but before I even saw their face, I felt something; a sharp, burning pain going right through my chest, then I saw their face in a demonic joy looking at me, even with their bloodied wounds.
My blades dissipated and I fell to the ground, slamming onto my back and driving the pain further; I looked down to see the red, glowing, jagged blade sticking out from my chest. I tried to pick myself up, but I coughed up blood and collapsed again. I saw Frisk standing right in front of me with their demonic smile; I grimaced and prepared to fire an energy blast, but I couldn't muster the strength.
"Awww, over already? It was just starting to get fun. Oh well, time for me to achieve what I wanted for so long." They reached down and grabbed my soul, and when they did, I felt the disconnection. I tumbled down into darkness, the last thing I saw was them absorbing my soul, but at the same time, I saw my body fall down, lifeless; then there was nothing.
Cherik POV again:
I felt Stryker's power just go out, but along with it, I felt another power just erupt, stronger than anything I've ever faced.
"Cellio, you feel that too right?"
"Let's go. Now!" We flew in the direction of the enormous surge, and arrived in just a few seconds. When we got there, we saw Stryker's lifeless body on the ground with a bloody hole through his chest and Frisk stood next to him, emitting the power. I clenched my fists in anger and immediately powered into super saiyan 2.
"Cellio, take Stryker's body back to Alphys. She'll put him in stasis like the others."
"What about you?"
"Just do it!" He didn't hesitate and did as I asked him, all the while I faced off against this threat. I instantly rushed forward and body slammed them through 5 plateaus, then spin launching them to the ground and releasing a barrage of energy blasts. They flew upwards and landed a hit on me, but I was barely even fazed; I flew all around, making bee lines whenever I could just to land multiple solid blows; I was about to punch them into the ground again, but they grabbed my fist and launched me into a rock formation, then fired a dark red energy beam at me, which I deflected without effort and just kept up my assault. The look of slight fear and surprise as I flew forward brought me a dark joy. I grabbed them from behind in a restraining, full body grasp, powered up into super saiyan 3 and flew downwards, throwing them 5 feet into the ground, but I kept going down, pummeling them even further down, ending by flying up and hitting them with a Nova Blast. "Try resetting from that." I said as I spat into the crater. I hovered there, breathing heavily due to the amount of power I just released, but I heard something that made me freeze right there on the spot; I heard the maniacal laugh of multiple voices, then I saw them rising from the ground, a black aura surrounding them and a horrifying face with black eyes, red pupils and a warped, sharp toothed smile.
"The best part is, I don't need to. With the power of the golden soul within me, I don't even need to reset to destroy you all! My power alone is all I need, and a nice benefit to my new soul is this." Their aura exploded outwards in a large black, jagged fountain with white sparks emanating from it, similar to Stryker's soul charge, but the power increase, it was absolutely insane. I gritted my teeth and flew forward, but before I could even move an inch, I felt a punch right in my stomach, hard enough to make me stop breathing. I looked to my side to see them right next to me with that wicked smile; they blasted me to the ground with a red and black energy ball, then charged one more, bigger, to throw at me. I weakly put up my arms and charged a Nova Blast, firing as they fired theirs, but it was far too weak, only slowing the blast down a small amount. I stood up, with a lot of effort and kept resisting, but I knew that this was the end; as I was about to run out of energy, Cellio flew right in front of the blast and fired his own beam directly into it, full force, causing it to explode, sending him flying directly into me, throwing us both out of super saiyan 3. I looked up weakly to see Frisk walking up to us.
"What a shame, all that effort, all that bravado, for nothing. Stryker should have just finished me off when he had the chance, but reading his emotions now, his heart was too soft to finish it quickly." They reached their hands out, summoning both our souls from out bodies. "Your power will make a fine addition to my collection." Neither of us could move, we were out of energy completely, nothing left to defend ourselves with as they reached down to grab our souls, but they were caught off guard by a blue energy blast that shot them into a wall. I looked to my side to see Sans with a gaster blaster and a murderous look. When Frisk got out of the rocky wall, they looked at Sans, and they both said one word with an equal amount of hatred in their voices.
"You."
Sans teleported over to us and then back to the lab where we were each put on beds. I reached into an inner compartment in my battered chest armor and brought out two senzus; I ate one and gave the other to Cellio. I looked around to see Sans, Alphys, and Asgore around us. "Cherik, what happened?" I looked at Sans and then at everyone.
"I couldn't win. They toyed with me the entire time. Somehow, by absorbing Stryker's soul, they gained his soul charge ability, but it's... stronger... darker. Not even super saiyan 3 could stand up to it."
"So that's it then. We're screwed. I knew this timeline was too good to be true."
"Wait, this timeline?"
"It's fuzzy to me, but I dream of glimpses of other scenarios, so vivid, I've come to terms with them being real; visions of the past, events that happened, but I could never fully remember. That kid... no, that monster caused them all, the most recent being after they nearly wiped out the underground. I can't remember much from that final encounter, but there were a lot of vines from what I could see. After that one, something changed, your pal Stryker came along, he was different, he truly wanted to help, he was the hero we all needed." Sans said this as he looked at a picture, one that was taken after the monsters were liberated, with Stryker in the center.
"But now, they're far too strong. There's no way we can reach their level before more bad things happen." I said, holding my head in my hands.
"I think there is one way." We all turned to Cellio who had been quiet this entire time. "What if we try fusion?"
And that's where im gonna end this chapter, on a cliffhanger. By the way, guys, do you think I should re-lable this as a DBZ/Undertale crossover or just leave it as a DBZ fanfiction? Let me know by messaging or leave it in the review section. As always, I will see you next time. Peace.
