We flew directly to the coordinates without a second thought; during the trip, I felt anxiety and vengeance.
"Cherik." I answered the communication line.
"What is it?"
"If they've been stealing souls from planets everywhere, we might not be strong enough, even with the fusion. I think we need to train more."
"The more time we waste, the more people die. We have to stop this threat before it gets any stronger. Even a day in the chamber would give them far too much time to do whatever they please. We'll just have to bet on the fusion to stop them."
"And if it doesn't stop them?"
"Then we didn't try hard enough." After that, we said nothing for the remainder of the trip. We arrived within an hour, but it was an hour too late; there were no life signals anywhere and cities were on fire and destroyed everywhere. I turned on my scouter to see two power levels, one immensely powerful and another one, weak and fading away. "Cellio, you see where they are too, right?"
"Yeah, I do."
"I've got a plan in order for us to fuse and possibly do some damage in the process. But we'll need to sacrifice one of the pods."
"I think I'm onto your plan. Use one of the pods as a projectile in order to distract them long enough?"
"Bingo."
"I'm in. We'll use my pod, I just hope the king doesn't mind."
"I don't think he will. Now let's go, time's wasting." He grabbed his pod and we both flew full speed to the location of the final 2 levels, where the 2nd one was finally gone and absorbed into the higher one. Within a few seconds, we saw Frisk, but they were nothing like how they were before. They've grown demon horns, claws on black tipped fingers, their eyes were black with red pupils and they still had that demonic smile that spread across their face, along with a red and black aura that surrounded them. Without a single warning, Cellio launched the pod at full super saiyan 2 force, causing a direct hit and resulting in a massive explosion that created a dust cloud large enough to be seen from space.
"Cherik, now!" We stood together and performed the ritual without a single flaw in the process. The smoke cleared from them releasing their energy in rage and rising from the crater. They looked at us in a demonic rage and had a faint realization.
"So... you two decided to join the party after all. And it looks like you picked up a few tricks."
"I'm not going to let you keep this madness up any longer. I'll make sure you are stopped here and now."
"Heheheh, go ahead. Try me..." They unleashed their dark soul charge, exploding their power immensely, but we went super 2 right off the bat, equalizing our strength.
"This ends now." We rushed forward and locked in a pushing match, but we corkscrew kicked them into the ground. They got up and began to slash at us with glowing red claws, but our aura protected us from major damage; we blew them away by exploding in a wall of fire.
"Finally... you're not weak and worthless anymore." They summoned a jagged red sword, and as that happened, we combined our signature magic weapons; Cellio's spike whip and my double edged longsword to create two magical sword whips. We used our superior skill to dodge and strike, they didn't even land a hit on us, until we misjudged one strike and they stabbed us through the side of the torso.
"AAGHHH!" We collapsed and our vision blurred while our fusion wavered.
"No, we have to keep it together Cellio. It's the only way. We're saiyan warriors, we can handle this."
"You're right. Let's crank this up to level 3" As Frisk removed the blade, causing more damage because of the edges, we glared them away with a powerful energy shock. We stood and healed the wound enough to let us keep fighting, then we let out a mighty battle cry, grew out our hair and became super saiyan 3, causing noticeable intrigue and fear to be shown in their face.
"You're finished, demon. Time to die." We rushed forward and shattered their sword as they attempted to block; we then speed blitzed them into the ground, wrapping them in our sword whip, we threw them into the air and prepared a Nova crusher. Raising our left hand into the air, forming a giant red energy ball, while charging a nova blast in our right hand; but before we could fire it, we fell to the ground, feeling extremely drained.
"Cherik, what's happening?"
"It must be the fusion. It's dramatically increasing our energy drain in 3."
"We should have trained before. But no use arguing, we need to finish this now!" We absorbed the energy and powered up to full, creating two energy gauntlets and flying upwards.
"You're finished!" We struck with both fists, causing a huge explosion of power and draining everything we had left. After that blow, we all fell to the ground and powered down back to base, completely depleted of energy. We weakly looked up to see them gravely injured and bleeding out, but stumbling towards us.
"Gotta admit... I was pretty scared... But too bad that... you're all out of power." They held out their hand and used all the determination they could to summon their sword. They dragged it towards us, slowly, but inevitably; we knew this was the end.
Within Frisk a familiar glowing golden figure watches from the confines of an imprisoned soul
"No, they won. They won! That's obvious enough. No, I can't let this happen." He began to beat the walls of the blackness, trying desperately to break free.
Frisk shakily raised their sword, and stumbled backwards, but they steadied themselves and raised it again, preparing to deliver the final blow.
Stryker's punches seemed to do nothing, and he just slid down to the floor.
"No, I failed them. I'm sorry guys." A green glowing hand rested on his shoulder, then a dark blue one and so on until 9 glowing colored figures surrounded him. Stryker looked up and saw the soul constructs of his students essentially telling him not to give up. "You're right, they need us, we can't lose hope." Together, they began to punch the barrier in synchronized movements; the combined force of each punch began to shake the walls of the soul, and cracks started to develop.
We closed our eyes and prepared for the final blow, but they spasmed to one side and missed us completely. They then began to lurch, almost as if they were being punched, before white beams of light began to shine from... cracks on their body.
"No! Stop it! You're supposed to be under MY control! Stop it!" The cracks and beams began to increase all over while we watched in mystery.
"All together now! Charge!" The 10 soul figures rammed straight through the wall and shattered it, releasing every absorbed soul trapped within this beast.
We watched as a hole appeared in their chest, and as they screamed in agony, their body dissolved while releasing a vortex of white souls, departing for the afterlife in a brilliant beam of light. We watched, shocked and confused at what just happened, but then the 9 souls hovered around us, with the 10th one joining a little later, a golden one.
"Stryker... thank you." We looked over where Frisk disintegrated, and saw their red soul hovering there; we approached it, and heard multiple voices tell us the exact same thing.
"Do it!" We grabbed the soul and crushed it in our grasp, not allowing for this threat to surface ever again. The souls somehow healed our torso wound and gave us a little more energy. We flew to the pod that remained, but before leaving, we left a small energy cluster to sink into the core of the planet.
"There's no point in letting this dead, ghost planet live anymore. Destroying it is a mercy." We climbed into the pod with the souls hovering around us. As we departed, we snapped our fingers and let the planet explode. We made it back to Cauliferon, defused and gave the one pod remaining back to the king, he understood we needed to do what we had to. We teleported to Earth and announced the threat was over, causing a collective sigh of relief everywhere.
Inside the lab, we walked into the stasis room, allowing the souls to return to their own bodies; then, Cellio and I together gave Stryker back his soul. A golden light enveloped him and he gasped, signifying he was back. He looked at us and just smiled.
"You guys did it. Thank you. I'm sorry I made this happen, I should have never gone alone." I simply put a hand up to stop him.
"Don't worry, everything's fine now. We stick together, we're a team, and we protect each other until the end." I held out my fist and the three of us fist bumped, signifying that we would stop any threat together. Lots of lives were lost during the rampage, and many allied planets were destroyed, and they were all the most well developed apart from Earth and Cauliferon, but they were all avenged, thanks to-
"Cellerik. I think I like that combination." I said this while looking out into space from my home world.
A/N: Just so you guys know, this isn't the end, I'm riding this train far beyond what you see here. Again, just wondering if you guys think I should label this as Undertale/DBZ instead of just DBZ. Please let me know, but otherwise, hope you enjoyed and I will see you next time.
