After weeks of relaxing, I can safely say that I'm back! Phew, holidays were quite the turmoil, no? Anyways, I shall give my explanation below.
Back to the cast, they continued to watch the last 3 (non-DLC) fighters.
The other fighter shows a scientist with glasses and long bushy auburn hair. She has a gold ring on her left middle finger, and black nails. She wears a pair of hoop earrings, a sleeveless, blue and red short dress with black stockings, black arm sleeves, and blue and red heel boots. Her eyes are similar to Android 18. As she eats a pink macaroon in one bite, she lies down, facing the opponent. "Don't bother me, and don't get in my way!" As she gets into her position, her skin turns pink, hair turns into a much paler palette of pink, and her ears pointed and gains a tail. Her attire changes to a black tube top, keeping the black arm sleeves, and also gaining white baggy pants. Anno writes: "Android 21".
"Wait, android? But she's clearly a Majin…" Weiss questioned at the android/majin.
"She's an android, her appearance in her true form is the result of her having all of the traits of the Z Fighters, Frieza, Cell and Majin Buu rolled into one." Ren said
"Didn't we hear something similar? Oh wait…Cell…" Pyrrha said before realising.
"Like Majin Buu, she also prefers sweets and confectioneries, her favourite being macaroons."
"Maybe if we meet her, we could be sweet buddies?" Ruby nudged Nora.
"Yang, before you want to hit on her, I suggest you don't unless you want to get arrested." Ren warned the grinning blonde staring at the majin.
"But why? She's '21'! Amirite?" Yang joked, making the whole cast groan.
"Jokes aside, it's reveals in a private talk that while she may have the appearance of an adult, she is actually less than ten years old, and regrets not having an adolescence, finding it awkward when small children call her "ma'am"."
Yang and the others went silent for a few seconds.
"Before anyone asks, I'm still fine with her. Just need to pick the flower the moment they bloom." Yang quickly countered. "Why is this game trying to label me as a pedo? As if Gotenks was worse…" she thought silently.
"So, 21 is like an adult Ruby, but with her still childish mind." Weiss said, earning a punch and a pout from the cutely fuming Ruby.
21 starts her first Ultimate: Sweet Tooth. Android 21 turns the opponent into a dessert and then eats the opponent completely in the sexiest way, regaining some health.
Most of the guys cross their legs really tight to prevent others seeing their 'tent' and the girls hid their lower areas with both hands to prevent any 'leaks'.
"Oh yeah, how do those sweets taste?" Ruby and Nora asked.
"According to Android 21, the taste of the confections created via this technique depend on certain factors such as the person's power and the nature of the person in question which 21 attributes to the growth process she used to mass produce large numbers of mature clones of the Z Fighters and the villains as well as their artificial nature." Ren stated.
"So, the stronger or mature the fighter, the better the taste?" Velvet said.
"Something like that, when 21 ate Frieza, she said it's so fresh and flavourful that she gave it an 80."
"Wonder how we taste then," Coco wondered.
21 does her next Ultimate: Excellent Photon Full Course. 21 envelops in a dark and crimson red aura and produces a beam attack that explodes as it hits along the ground. She then flies into the opponent, hitting them with a flurry of dash attacks, before striking them to the ground and fires a Ki blast from on top of them.
"Yikes, overkill much?" Yatsu said.
"Like I said, ain't no kill better than overkill~" Yang sang.
The next fighter is shown to be Goku again, but the cast were relieved that it's not Black. As he powers up, everyone expected his Super Saiyan form, but instead of gold hair, the hair and irises are now cyanish in colour, paired with a vibrant, fiery, electric cyan blue aura. "Let's both do our best!" The annotation says: "Goku (Super Saiyan Blue)"
Everyone was amazed by the colour change.
"Neptune, are you sure you're not related to me?" Sun jokingly asked the sea boy.
"Just because he has my hair colour, that doesn't mean he's like me!" Neptune answered with annoyance.
"Ren, can you fill us in on Goku's new form?" Yang asked.
"Sure, that's Super Saiyan Blue, shortened from Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan. It's a form that combines the power of Super Saiyan God with the first Super Saiyan form." Ren told the group.
"Wait, Goku's a god now?! How much is he gonna impress us?" Jaune was shocked at the word 'god'.
"No, they have the Ki of god but they are not gods unless they choose to become one. Goku is a God among Saiyans. He isn't a God in conventional way, just super powerful, that is all - it is just a title." Ren calmed the knight.
"This form can be accessed by absorbing the powers of a god, activating them and then transforming into a Super Saiyan, or through vigorous Ki control training with a deity with godly Ki and then obtaining that Godly Ki for oneself."
"But how did they get god Ki?" Pyrrha questioned.
"A ritual is needed in order to achieve the Super Saiyan God transformation. It requires five righteous Saiyans to perform and a sixth Saiyan to channel the ritual and Ki into. The selected Saiyan to ascend will have the two Saiyans next to the target place their palms on the user's back, while the user faces away from the group. Next, instead of concentrating their Ki into the body, they must pour their heart into them. Blue aura appears around the group, shrouding each individual in the ritual. At this point, the user begins to experience a significant amount of pain. A blue aura starts to appear from one of the Saiyans, eventually transferring it into the Saiyan who is about to become god through the other five Saiyans. The user rises up and becomes a pinkish-red silhouette of themselves. Next, the user becomes a shadowy figure, before emitting a huge light and appearing again in their natural form. The end result is the user's ascension into the Super Saiyan God form." Ren flipped two pages of the encyclopedia and showed them a slightly pink-skinned and magenta red-haired Goku. His eyes become more detailed and the irises become red. His overall body structure appears to become younger and thinner in frame and build. His aura resembles a raging fire.
"Someone get me some water, because he's only FI-RE, baby!" Yang's nose bled as she swooned over his aura as it resembles the moment she activates her Semblance or the time she got angry (when some Ursai during initiation ripped of one strand of her hair).
Goku shows his epic Ultimate: Evolved x10 Kaio-ken Kamehameha. Goku unleashes his Kaio-ken, which gave him a reddish-pink aura over his cyan blue aura and attack rushed the opponent. Sending his opponent flying, he fires his x10 Kaio-ken Kamehameha and dives into it. He then punched through his opponent, resulting an explosion.
Speechless, everyone was amazed, but mostly Yang.
"Kaio-What?" Yang said, not realizing the TFS joke she made.
"Kaio-ken. It is a technique that multiplies the user's Ki for a "heart beat" - thus increasing their power and speed and enabling them to inflict serious damage to opponents who are considerably stronger than them. However, the downside of the Kaio-ken is that it takes a heavy toll on the user's body, making them more vulnerable to enemy attacks. While in the state, the user's aura color becomes crimson. The technique requires the use of Ki control to handle it properly." Ren told the blonde buxom.
"So, it's like a Super Saiyan, but not a real Super Saiyan…Argh, it's so confusing!" Ruby clutched her head.
"Not really, the Kaio-ken's weakness is that its surge in power is rather brief compared to the Super Saiyan mode that makes its power up permanent, and it thrashes your body afterward. It puts a much greater strain on the body than any Super Saiyan forms do, except Super Saiyan 3. When Goku first learnt Kaio-ken, x4 is enough to leave Goku in agony."
"Ouch, really hope my Semblance doesn't do that." Yang hoped.
"Only if you don't go overboard…" Blake told the brawler.
The following fighter is shown to the cast as Vegeta. Similar to Goku Blue, he powers up, and turned cyanish blue. "You'll find I'm not as naive as Kakarot..." Anno says: "Vegeta (Super Saiyan Blue)".
"Why am I not surprised?" Weiss deadpanned.
"If Goku can, Vegeta can too. Speaking of which, does he have a Saiyan God form?" Blake asked Ren.
"Of course, but it's only available in the manga." Ren showed them a Super Saiyan God Vegeta, but instead of magenta red, he possesses crimson red hair.
"Damn, now I have to choose between Goku and Vegeta…" Yang thought in her mind. "Wait, isn't it better if I take both?"
Vegeta demonstrates his first Ultimate: Galick Niagara Pummeling Gun. Charging up with a blue aura, he sends his opponent flying with a kick, he teleports above his opponent and mercilessly pummels the opponent to the ground and ended it with a Galick Gun.
"I'm so gonna try that move next time." Yang said.
"Didn't I remind you, Yang? It's dangerous and impractical if we spam use our Aura as offense." Blake reminded.
"Not the beam attack, the pummeling, silly cat." Yang chuckled while Blake blushed in embarrassment.
Vegeta shows an improved Ultimate: Final Flash Attack. After unleashing a seemingly regular Final Flash, Vegeta reels back and gathers energy into one giant punch before propelling the energy forward in one immense concussive blast and sending the opponent flying.
"Ok, if possible, I want both of them as husbands." Yang muttered silently.
The screen went black, signaling the end of the move showcase.
"Well, I guess that's all of them. What do you all think?" Ruby asked.
"It was good, most of them seems powerful and we could learn a thing or two…" Fox replied.
"But I have something to say! Which is your favorite character? Reason too." Yang asked the whole group.
"My favorite guys are Majin Buu and 21! I hope when we meet we can be sweet buddies…" Ruby thought of her and them hanging around at a sweets festival.
"Mine is the mature Gohan, o-only because he's an intellectual!" Weiss stuttered with her false excuse, the real one being that Adult Gohan was handsome and serious looking, but wouldn't dare to admit it.
"H-Hit's my favorite…" Blake admitted silently, with Yang taking her chance.
"Oh really? You like him because you have a crush on him?" Yang poked at Blake, making her blush in annoyance.
"NO! I Don't! He's just admirable and he even shows mercy and honors his opponents even if he's an assassin! There's a difference!" She retorted in denial.
"You love Hit man!" Yang hollered, while others groaned again at her pun.
Otherwise, everyone giggled and snickered while Blake turned even redder.
"I noticed the way you stare at him while turning red. Don't deny it." Yang continued.
Blake tried to make another denial but she knows she's cornered and there's no way out of this. "Why does Yang have to be so annoying?" She thought.
"And are you sure it's not because of this?" Yang slowly pulled out a book that made Blake blanch in horror.
"When you were out training, I stumbled upon your… 'literature' under your pillow when I slept on your bed and read it and I can see why you love him so much." She teased even more.
Blake was about to pounce on her and rip her to shreds, before Yang put her hand up and stopped her.
"And before you freak out or get mad at me, I totally respect your interests because I have my own as well. Even Weiss and Ruby accept you as that." Yang continued. Ruby and Weiss smiled and made sure they won't consider Blake different and still consider her their teammate and friend. Blake felt relieved.
"Alright, back to the topic, everyone!" Yang clapped her hands as they continued.
"Our's Trunks. Gotta admit, the way he uses his sword's impressive." Yatsu and Jaune said as they stare at their respective swords.
"I guess, every hero? They're all admirable and we can learn their resolve to protect the world…" Pyrrha said, still unsure which she liked.
"Piccolo's mine! I want his bombs! Oh, oh, Ginyu too! His poses are hilarious!" Nora exclaimed.
"Teen Gohan's mine. I admire his resolve and hopes." Ren pointed out.
"21…In-in a good way!" Velvet stuttered.
"What about you Yang?" Coco asked.
""Umm… it's-"Before Yang could continue, Ruby interrupted.
"I know, either Goku or Vegeta, both as a Super Saiyan God Super-ack! Owiee…" Ruby accidentally bit her tongue.
"Let me help, friend Ruby." Without hesitation, Penny walked towards Ruby and plunged her lips into Ruby's, slowly caressing the bit tongue with hers. Ruby stared blankly for a few seconds before blushing furiously, while the others had different reactions.
Weiss' face was scrunched up with a mixture of red and awkwardness as she nearly had a heart attack when she saw the sudden kiss. Blake was slightly taken aback but recovered quickly. Yang's face almost split in two with a mischievous smile that appeared on it and took the opportunity to snap some shots. Jaune and Pyrrha covered their blushing faces, Ren just remained neutral while Nora looked with a grin. Coco squealed but Velvet hid both her ears and face as she got flustered. Yatsu and Fox just kept their face straight while Neptune whistled a sexy tone, making Sun elbow him while chuckling. But, in WBY, Coco's and Velvet's thoughts, are one and only one thing: "I wanted to kiss her too…"
"OhmyOumwhatisthiswhydidshekissmesuddenlydidshereallylovemewhydidshekissI'mnotreadyforthisthisistoomuchforme..."From there on Ruby's overly fast thinking became incoherent until the reaper herself doesn't know what she's thinking of anymore. After a while, she regained her senses.
"Penny what on Remnant are you doing?!" Still blushing Ruby pried the girl of off her, leaving a thin saliva trail.
"Oh, master has embedded my saliva fluids with healing properties. But this is my first time trying this new function." Penny said with a smile and a rosy blush.
"Whoa whoa whoa wait wait. Does that mean…" Before Jaune could finish, Nora ended the sentence and repeated in a singsong tone. "It's Penny's and Ruby's first kiss~ It's Penny's and Ruby's first kiss~" Before realizing what she did "…Oh."
True, Ruby was kissed before, but never in the mouth, mostly on her cheeks by her obsessive siscon sister and her father when she was a toddler.
With a heavy atmosphere, Yang's (who also suddenly realized her baby sister's lips were stolen) eyes turned red with Weiss and Blake getting their weapons and, before they could pulverized the orange haired android, Ruby defended her with her tearing puppy dog eyes and puffy cheek pout combo.
"Can you all please don't hurt her?" Ruby whined in a sad voice, giving almost every female there squealing with nosebleeds and hearts in their eyes except Jaune, Ren, Yatsu, Sun, Neptune and Fox.
"Of course!" every girl except Penny said while hugging Ruby at the same time.
"What was that?" Fox asked Jaune.
"Ruby just used her forbidden puppy dog pout. It will make anyone agree to anything if they see it. Consider yourself lucky that you guys can't, it means you're immune." Ren warned.
"Why was it forbidden?" Yatsu asked.
"Few instances. Weiss had to help Ruby copy everything for one whole term, Blake had to play kitty with her despite Blake disagreeing, Yang nearly destroyed the owner of a food shack for charging Ruby expensively. Pyrrha and Nora had to put this up for weeks before giving in. And don't remind me the last time when Torchwick kidnapped her, he stole from almost every sweet store and confectionery for hungry her." Jaune shuddered.
"Wait, Blake had to play kitty for her? Need to record that!" Sun said between laughs.
"I wondered why he went from Dust stores to snack shops. But I have to admit you're good if you can resist this." Neptune praised.
Well, after three minutes of hugging Ruby, who nearly died of broken body and suffocation, to which the girls apologized, they continued talking more.
Extra: Dragon Ball FighterZ Manga Trailer + We Were Angels
Halfway through, they heard the TV still playing.
They see the TV playing what looks like compilations of the video they saw as wells as some manga panels, showing similarities in the manga. After the Frieza vs. Goku scene, seven orbs gather and Shenron appears.
They all marveled at the dragon's appearance.
"Wait a minute, the dragon looks different from the dragons I read in history books." Weiss pointed out.
"My people's/Anima's way of interpreting dragons are different. Vale dragons were considered evil, but Anima's dragons were considered auspicious. Animan dragons, which were reclusive and known as "water spirits", were said to reside at the bottom of lakes or oceans, and in the foggy skies. Unlike the Valian variety that are clearly terrestrial beings, they often live in lairs or caves in mountains. Valian dragons are portrayed as much portlier creatures, with big claws and large, leathery bat-like wings. They look like giant lizards, and are often depicted with spines or rough scales. Animan dragons are wingless, serpentine creatures." Both Blake and Ren explained.
After that, a song played as it continued playing many scenes.
(Cues "We Were Angels" - Hironobu Kagayama)
(A/N: Sorry if I can't put the lyrics…Rules…)
The scenes include various intros, then the Dragon Ball FighterZ logo.
"Wait, is this a video game?! I wanna get my hands on it!" Yang hollered, since she's a fan on fighting games.
Then there are many scenes in a chronological order: Goku's battle with Frieza on the destroyed Planet Namek, Teen Gohan's fight against Perfect Cell, Gotenks and Adult Gohan fighting Kid Buu, Goku finishing Kid Buu with the Spirit Bomb, Beerus fighting Goku in space, Hit facing Super Saiyan Blue Goku, Future Trunks' bout with Goku Black, and various combos and finishers, finally with Beerus holding an unconscious Goku in space.
The song ends with the Dragon Ball FighterZ logo on the screen.
Everyone was tearing in nostalgia and amazed by the beautiful song that left them in tears.
"It's…beautiful…" Weiss muttered in shock.
"This is beautiful... This song perfectly represents the singer's love and care for his friends…" Blake thought.
Ruby and Jaune thought of one thing after listening to the song: they needs to mature. They know that if they still act the way they are, people might think they're irresponsible and weak as a leader. They both decided to train harder to show the world that people can change.
All of a sudden, the casing flashed for a moment and went back to normal. Everyone was away from the casing when this happened. After the light show, Ren slowly approached the casing and opened it, revealing a… disc, but three eighths of it. A title was written on the disc as Ren read it out loud: 'DBFZ DLC Fighters'.
"There's DLC?" Fox questioned.
"Yes, but the disc is unplayable. Then, a bright light shined the whole room, to the surprise of others, revealing the disc as half now.
"So, if we wait, eventually we'll be able to play the disc." Blake calculated.
"Following Blake's theory, it might be true, but for the time being, we'll wait." Yatsu said. Ren put the disc back in its casing and placed it on the table. Ruby grabbed a red marker and wrote on a paper, taping it on the wall. Paper reads out: 'Future Discs to be Played'.
"That was interesting, so, will you do the honors Ruby?" Weiss told the reaper to take out the disc and put in the next disc and pressed play.
To everyone hoping and wishing for the DLC fighters, I, with every ounce of my body, deeply apologize from the bottom of my heart. Torches and pitchforks down! Before you start raging, please hear me out on this one, all right? As I said, I'm still a greenhorn in the writing profession. So, when it came to the end, I had a sudden change of heart to include the DLC only AFTER it all has been revealed. That also means if I, by some point write a chapter on SSBU, will have to wait later after the release date for more confirmation on DLC packs. Writing a story with an incomplete DLC is like baking a pie quickly till you made it half-baked. So until all 8 DLC fighters have been released, I won't write the DLC yet.
And with that out of the way, I'll answer a few questions after I went hiatus:
Guest (May 6): I live in Malaysia, where it's near the equator. So, there no four seasons there, just rain and sunshine.
Guest (May15) and Jlargent: Yes, I included it in an upcoming poll.
derrickfoo0: Wish partially granted (really sorry concerning the DLC). I included Dead Rising in a poll, but I can't say the same for Middle Earth. So far, their skills showcase videos were OK, but some skills were simply normal. And I have zero knowledge on MMORPGs or something similar. Thanks for the praise and wish, though.
And during my rest, yes, I saw E3, and was hyped seeing a few games, mostly the Let's Go and Smash Bros. In my mind, Sakurai literally did the impossible: make the largest crossover game in Nintendo history, and make a link between a mobile game to a handheld game. Resident Evil 2 was realy good as Leon looked younger and better. Spider-Man was awesome as it's a complete boss fight in one of the trailers, but I really wished to see who Spider-Man saw before the trailer ended. AC Odyssey was, once again really progressive. From Syria to Egypt, now they have Greece. I can wait for new stuff they had for Fallout 76 and Doom Eternal. Devil May Cry got me when I saw Dante near the end of the trailer. Just Cause 4? More skylining... Kingdom Hearts' extra Disney tie-ins made me include it in the poll. Octopath hit me in the feels seeing a 2D JRPG with old school FF battle layouts and the graphics were stunning. More bloodshed and flashy kills in Hitman 2 for me, and more rage after seeing the Cuphead DLC.
For now, I'll work on the Persona 5 arc and as always, reviews are mostly welcome.