Bonds of Friendship
"Hahaha, the monkey managed to survive, but that's too bad!" an overly zealous Roh, the Supreme Kai of Universe 9 yells out. Korn looks up at him and glares.
"My name is Korn, a saiyan of House Poole!" he proudly proclaims for those who can hear him.
"I don't care, if you're anything like that other saiyan Goku, then prepare yourself!" Roh yells out. Korn narrows his eyes at him and starts walking farther and farther away from the edge of the arena an area he did not like being at all. He kept perfect eye contact with Roh while sensing everything around him. "We the strongest warriors of Universe 9 will demolish all of you!" Roh continues to boast. Korn just smirks and scans for Goku whom he sees fighting the Trio De Dangers of Universe 9 Basil, Bergamo, and Lavender.
"Appears Universe 9 is after Goku from the start I wonder why" Korn says deep in thought.
"What did you tell our loathsome saiyans about this tournament Pell?" Heles asked kindly.
"That we are putting together a strong team of warriors to compete in a tournament that we are being forced to fight in and if we lose our universe gets erased" Pell answered back.
"You didn't tell them who is responsible for reminding the Zenos and brought all this about?" Heles gave Pell a quizzical look.
"No, I was more concerned in getting them on our side" Pell let out a heavy sigh.
"I see…" was all Heles said. She goes back to watching the fighting.
Korn watches the fight with interest gaging the power of the three wolf people and Goku. Universe 7's Beerus, Supreme Kai Shin, Old Kai, and Whis their angel talk converse about why Goku is pacing himself instead of using Super Saiyan Blue to get rid of them all quickly.
"We can't wait!" The Zenos yell out in one voice.
"Whether or not Goku-san alone can break the formation of those three will be a highlight" The Grand Priest commented.
Beerus orders Goku to just knock them off and not waste his stamina trying to beat them. Goku yells back he knows that. Korn continues to watch the standoff. He stalks them from a distance studying Goku trying to learn all he can about him. The fight kicks off as Goku takes on all three De Dangers. Lavender tries using his poisoning technique on Goku who encases himself in a clear barrier made of ki to protect himself. Korn smiles and mimics the technique Goku is using to shield himself from Lavender's deadly touch.
"Interesting, I'm confident this will come in handy later" Korn said in a low voice and lowers his ki barrier. When it's clear Lavender wont win he switches off with Basil who begins laying down his attacks. Korn just smiles most wickedly thinking to himself "Show me another attack I can pirate and use to defeat you all" Korn watches Bergamo switch in and fight with Goku next.
Meanwhile Frieza faces with Napapa whom he has at his mercy. Roselle a humanoid bat, who greatly resembles a Gargoyle or winged demon in appearance. He had green skin and an extra eye on his forehead which was red in color tries to sneak up behind Frieza who points his right hand over his left shoulder and fires a red beam through his left wing. Frieza makes a comment to himself about it's about time for him to really start having fun. Frieza walks over to Roselle with a sinister smile.
"I've decided to use you as my plaything" the screams of Roselle could be heard. Frieza uses his Death Beams from his fingers to torture him. Korn glances over to watch Frieza and shakes his head.
"He reminds me of Winter but with Peppa's loving personality" Korn comments. He looks back at Goku and watches him struggle under the Trio De Dangers continuous attacks.
"How's that? Once you enter, it's like an antlion pit with no escape!" Korn crosses his arms and looks up at Roh in the stands listening in. "The inescapable Trio De Dangers' Triangle of Death!" Roh said overly excited. Korn just shook his head with a smirk thinking this kai is way too into his warriors with his tacky naming. Korn flashes back to him and Peppa mediating on a lush and green world perfect in beauty.
Korn was wearing a black short sleeve shirt, with a grey gi and a black sash with black boots. Peppa had on the shoulder strapped, thin brown and black saiyan armored vest, with a back sleeveless undershirt, black sweatpants, and brown boots. Both their tails were moving around on their own. West Kai through an arm around each of her saiyan students and brought them both in close for a hug squeezing their faces close to her much to their discomfort. She was young, beautiful, and a playful goddess before she was brutally murdered and eaten by the monster of Universe 2 Zuu.
Korn shakes the memory from his head with a sad look on his face.
"Dangers!" one Zeno yells out. "Triangle!" the other Zeno yells out. Korn turns his attention back to the fight. "Wow!" both Zenos yell out.
"Danger's Triangle. The tacky name could be quite catchy" the Grand Priest comments with an amused look. Vegeta hammers away punching two powerful warriors away from him really fast. He glances at the fact that Goku is in trouble and grumbles "Damn Kakarot" Vegeta turns to head to lend aid to his comrade when Peppa appears in front of him with a wicked smile. Vegeta gives Peppa a stern look.
Meanwhile Korn watches Goku start to buckle under the constant attacks of the Trio De Dangers. With a heavy sigh Korn leaps forward and jumps the Triangle of Death standing back to back with Goku.
"What is he doing?" Heles asked.
"I dunno, let's just see how this plays out" Pell answers back.
"Why the hell are you wasting time on these mutts you're a saiyan, you should be seeking out stronger opponents" Korn scolded Goku.
"You're the saiyan from universe 2? I saw you watching the fight so you should know how troublesome they are" Goku smirks. "You can't sense their energy" he cautions Korn.
"And with three at once, it might be a little tough" Korn acknowledges finding it very difficult to keep track of their movements.
"The fool entered the Triangle of Death of his own volition! Universe 9 warriors join forces and throw those two from the fighting stage!" Roh orders.
"It's finally my turn" says Hop a feline humanoid female warrior with purple fur and yellow eyes. She has long red nails that she uses as weapons. She is accompanied by Hyssop a warrior with a humanoid shape with a large spiky body. He had a necklace with two green beads and a red bead around it. His large size made him one of the largest warriors in the Tournament of Power. Along with them Oregano is a humanoid alien with red skin, and white hair.
Their followed in a different direction by Chappil a metallic dragon-like creature and is called "Iron Skin Battler" due to his metal skin. With him is Comfrey is a humanoid amphibian looking warrior. Sorrel a white furred anthropomorphic female rabbit. She has red eyes, seemingly short height and it's unknown if she's still in her young years. She wears a large orange cap that has a long, yellow stripe going down the middle, red scarf, ripped shirt, brown gloves, and green shorts. She watches as her fellow warriors gather around Korn and Goku.
"Now its two versus eight" one Zeno says. "Lots are fighting!" The other Zeno says. Both Shin and Pell both comment saying the other universe's saiyan are together and wonder if both will be ok against the overwhelming odds.
"I believe our Saiyan is only temporary teaming up with Goku to gauge his strength and to use him to assist him in eliminating the other Universe 9 warriors so he doesn't have to spend that much stamina doing it himself" Sour comments outloud to Heles and Pell who turn their head to him then back at the fight deep in thought.
"It's a beautiful strategy" Heles admitted.
"Also he will foster a warrior's bond with Goku which may serve him later on in the tournament when they do fight. There may be some hesitation on Goku's part" Pell added.
"Or worse Korn's part" Heles worried.
"Neither, their saiyans. They love to fight and when they do fight out of respect for one another they both will go all out to defeat the other. It's just the way saiyans are" Sour corrected both of them. He casually watches the fighting across the arena.
"There's eight of them so we each get four" Goku tells Korn.
"Roger that" Korn replies eyeing his opponents. Korn flies forward at Lavender when the other two form the Triangle of Death around Korn. Goku flies forward yelling out "No you don't!" and starts attacking Basil.
"I'll show you Universe 9's power! Go crush them!" Roh cheers.
"Hey watch out for his poison!" Goku warns Korn.
"Already on it!" Korn erects his ki barrier around his body like he saw Goku do pirating the same technique. Korn evades all of Lavender's attacks then knocks him away only to be met with with attacks from Hop. He quickly dodges her deadly claws.
"You dodged it, but you won't escape the next one" Hop warns Korn. Korn glares at her taking a defensive stance. "I'm going to tear that handsome face apart" she smiles wickedly.
"Sorry your not my type" Korn teases her. Korn rapidly fires ki blasts at Hop who dodges getting in close then going on the attack. Korn evaded each one of her deadly attacks.
"Go on say it! Say tear my face apart, please!" Korn gracefully dodges her attacks with an annoyed face.
"Woman you have issues!" Korn retorted wondering why all the crazy ones so far have come after him. He thinks back to Nink of Universe 4. Hop tried to back flip kick but Korn dodged it but failed to see Lavender dash forward and slammed his fist into his gut. Goku yells out to Korn to see if he is okay but is met by attacks of his own by Basil and Chappil.
They taunt Goku into attacking them. Goku throws a hard punch but finds Chappil lives up to his name of the iron-clad battler. He didn't even budge from Goku's powerful punch. Roh makes another loud boast in his warrior's iron-clad skin. Old Kai and Beerus make comments how annoyed they are with Roh and his irritating naming habits. After some more taunting Goku renews his attacks on Chappil throwing punch after punch in vain effort.
Goku gets knocked away and is surrounded by Basil, Bergamo, Chappil, and Comfrey. They tell him he is a fool if he thinks he can take all of them on himself.
"They're both being pushed back" Shin notes watching Korn and Goku getting closer to the edge of the arena. Champa of Universe 6 cheers on Universe 9 to spite his brother Beerus.
"Champa why are you cheering on other universes?" Beerus yells at his brother from a fair distance in the stands.
"Because without Goku or that Korn guy Universe 7 and 2 will be easy pickings!" Champa snickers. "They aren't even contenders, go Universe 9!" Champa eagerly cheers.
"You bastard" Beerus scuffs at his brother's remarks. "Still those guys…" Beerus turns his head back to the fighting. Korn is flying back fast as he is relentlessly assaulted by Lavender and Hop. All he can do is keep up his ki barrier and block the attacks as they force him closer and closer to the edge.
"What's wrong are you scared of my poison that much?" Lavender laughs mockingly. "You can't win through defense only!" he mocks him throwing his fast poison jabs at Korn's barrier.
"These guys are getting too cocky…" Korn says under physical duress. Meanwhile, Goku jumps out of the way of Chappil flaming breath.
"Good, just knock them off! Then we'll take care of the rest!" Roh comments and points. "The first to disappear will be Universe 7 and then Universe 2!" Roh proclaims. Beerus gives him a hard look. Heles just listen then looks at Pell who bites his lip with a stern face cheering Korn on in a low voice. Heles glances over at Korn who once again is struggling against another warrior like he did with Nink.
"Where in trouble. At this rate, both really will…" Shin gives a worried look not wanting to finish his train of thought. Heles simply crosses her arms and leans back. She may loathe the saiyans of her universe but she has complete faith that Korn will turn this around in his favor. She proclaimed she believes in her fighters and Korn is one of her warriors so she will believe in him as she watches him intensely.
"Are Goku and his friend gonna lose?" one Zeno ask while the other replies "Too bad" in an apathetic tone. Korn realizes if he doesn't break Lavender and Hop's coordinated attacks he is going to go right off the edge. They leap out of the way as Hyssop fires a volley of Ice icicles at Korn trying to breakthrough the barrier and give Lavender an opening with his poison jabs. When the dust clears Korn's shield is gone and his right hand is frozen solid much to his horror.
"Korn!" Pell yells out worried.
"That's what they were after" Sour comments with no emotion but a growing amusement in watching Korn struggle after boasting in his power prior to the start of the tournament.
"How's that? Hyssop's attack is Absolute Zero!" Roh tacks on another nickname to his warrior's attack. Korn glances up, remembering fondly of West Kai and how she would come up with cool nicknames for their attacks that they still use today in honor of her. "The one-touch-ends-all freezing attack instantly freezes to the bone on contact!" Roh zealously explains.
"Heh, good to know…" Korn whispers to himself and takes a defensive stance.
"Oh no he is surrounded…" Pell stresses out. If Korn is defeated he knows he will catch Heles ire about him replacing Rabanra.
"This will end it" Lavender says while glaring at Korn. He dashes forward to attack.
"He is my prey!" Hop lunges forward. Korn waits for the last possible second then quickly uses the pointer finger and middle finger of his left hand to his forehead and uses Instant Transmission to teleport away. As a result Hop deadly slash attack strikes Lavender instead. "Oh no!" Hop yells out surprised. Chappil and Comfrey call out to Lavender worried taking their eyes off of Goku.
"Now it's our turn!" Goku yells out as he turns Super Saiyan. He lunges and throws a ki ball at their feet that explodes and blows them right off the edge and eliminates them. They appear back in the stands seconds later.
Korn reappears next to Hop and strikes her across the face with his frozen ice fist. Hop is sent flying back as Korn uses Instant Transmission again to appear underneath her and slams his feet into her back sending her high into the air. Korn teleports in front of her then aims his punch and strikes her once more.
"Good bye crazy lady!" Korn snickers. Hop goes flying back to the ground hits the edge of the arena with her back and bounces up and off the arena eliminated.
"Impossible they knocked off three warriors at once!" Roh yells out horrified. Even Sidra their god of destruction has a shocked look on his face.
"Ohh" one Zeno says. "That was amazing" the other one says. "It was instant" the other Zeno adds.
"What just happened?" Heles blinks in surprise.
"They took advantage of a decisive moment" Pell said in a relieved tone. Glad his faith in Korn was not misplaced.
"By freezing Korn's hand they rush to finish things when they had the advantage and could have won had they stuck to their original strategy but their coordination became sloppy" Sour commented disinterested.
"Korn caught them off guard and Goku-san reacted to that which was also impressive" Whis added to Sour's comment over hearing him.
"It's the warrior race saiyan's instinct to sense the decisive moment of victory" Old Kai yells out looking over at Heles who nods and looks back at Korn with a smile. Beerus scolds both for having so much trouble with buffons. Right as Korn lands back on the ground a spider web like substance shoots out and wraps around the fist of his hand.
"With these threads of mine you can't move anymore!" Oregano mocks Korn.
"Well done, Oregano" Hyssop tells him while standing to his right side.
"This pathetic attack wont restrain me" Korn replies annoyed. He pulls back swinging the thread over his head then powers up with a clear aura. The thread splinters and the block of ice shatters. Then as his power builds a blazing red aura erupts as his hair, eyebrows, and eyes turn blood red.
"Don't underestimate me a Super Saiyan God!" Korn proclaims his terrifying power can be felt everywhere. They look on in fear. Korn dashes forward landing powerful punch and kicks on Hyssop forcing him back toward the edge. Hyssop tries to throw a punch but Korn instinctively dodges it and strikes Hyssop in the gut a powerful ki attack West Kai taught him. Korn quickly opens his fist into a full palm.
"Talk to the Hand!" Korn yells out as a massive ki blast erupts from his hand. Its edges where black and that shifted red with lighting around it. The force of the energy was enough to send Hyssop and Oregano over the edge. Korn stands there with a serious look on his face.
"Talk To The Hand?" Heles looks over at Pell who smiles fondly.
"Yeah, West Kai was always such a prankster. For Korn to use her techniques and even yell out the goofy names she had for them is a great sign of respect. He must have really loved her to…" Pell wipes a tear. Heles smiles fondly looking back at Korn.
"Maybe I was wrong about these saiyans of ours. I just couldn't see the love and beauty they displayed by their actions" Heles commented.
"In a way they were your agents of destruction carrying out your duties while you slept as a way to show their love to you until you destroyed their planet" Sour kills the mood.
"Yes, well if we survive this thing I'll make it up to that race on account of those two" Heles retorts looking back at the fight.
"More and more keep falling off" Zeno says while blacking out more of universe 9's profile pictures. "Its great, six of them fell!" the other Zeno says. "Thats right" the other Zeno adds. Roh and Sidra looked horror struck upon hearing that they have lost a total of six warriors to two.
"They got me to" Sorrel says appearing before them to their shock. Bewildered wondering when she was eliminated. Meanwhile Rosello begs for mercy from Frieza who is only getting warmed up. So to save himself he throws himself off the arena and eliminates himself. Sidra was furious as he scolds Rosello for his cowardice.
"Seven members of Universe 9 have dropped out" the Grand Priest announces to everyone. Roh desperately cheers on the Trio De Dangers. The continued existence of Universe 9 rest in their hands. Bergamo is in a heated fight with Super Saiyan Goku while Basil is being overpowered with ease by Super Saiyan God Korn. Korn knocks Basil away only to be attacked from behind by Lavender. Korn's body reacts quickly and evades each poison jab while he lays in with the punches and kicks across Lavender's body.
Super Saiyan Goku leads Bergamo to the edge. Then dodges an attack moving behind him quickly using a ki blast to blows him away. Then he gracefully dodges Basil and hurls two ki blasts at him. Meanwhile, Korn powers up more feeling even stronger. His blazing aura is beautiful yet terrifying to behold. Korn's raw power is enough to blow Basil back toward Bergamo.
The Trio De Danger stand at the edge of the arena looking down into the void with utter fear and desperation. Goku appears to their right and Korn to their left.
"Let's do this brothers!" Bergamo yells out. "Triangle Danger Beam!" they all yell out in unison. They fire at the saiyans. Korn yells out turning into his Super Saiyan Rose form once again.
"Korn follow my lead!" Goku orders. Goku gets into the Kamehameha stance. Korn quickly mimics him as they both build up energy. Goku yells out Kamehameha as Korn follows suit. Goku turns into a Super Saiyan Blue as he fires a massive blue light that transitions into a white beam. Korn's beam is dark red that transition into a pink color. Their beams overlap and create a power beam of a terrifying color and light. It absorbs the danger beam slams into the dangers as they go flying off the edge and are eliminated by the saiyans.
Everyone stops fighting to glance over at what is happening even Vegeta and Peppa who were going at it hard matching each other punch for punch and kick for kick in their base forms put distance between themselves to stop their fight and look over at what is going on.
"Ten-n warriors have fallen?" Sidra stutters in horror. He looks up at the Grand Priest and the Zenos in utter fear. Wondering what will happen to Universe 9. Zenos call out each name as they darken the display pictures on the godpad.
"Wow, they're all black" one Zeno says. "All Dark, Universe 9 is gone!" the other Zeno replies. "Yeah, all gone" the other Zeno replies back. They give a creepy laugh that makes even the bravest warrior shudder.
"All Universe 9 warriors have dropped out. They have been wiped out. Therefore Universe 9 will be erased!" the Grand Priest proclaims. Everyone has stopped fighting at this point as they bear witness to horrible tragedy about to unfold.
"Zen-Oh sama!" Roh desperately calls out in an attempt to plead for his universe. Korn looks up at him and Hop in the stands specifically.
"Yes!" both Zenos say out loud. Their hands raised high glowing with an awful bright light. "Squish" they both say in unison and just like that a clear white aura appears around them and they disappear forever to exist no more. Korn's eyes widen in utter horror looking at Roh and Hop's face as they cease to be. Universe 9 disappears completely from the multiverse along with all its planets and its inhabitants to exist no more.
Korn notices a dark and evil smile on Universe's 9 angel, Mojito.
"They're gone...what have I done…" Korn powers down. He raises his hands and looks at them as they shake uncontrollably. He balls them up into fists and presses them against his face unable to get Roh and Hop's horror struck faces from his mind before they disappeared and then the smile on their angel afterwards.
Beerus asks about Universe 9 itself in which Whis replies to him "It's disappeared it's completely bye-bye".
"They really just erased an entire universe full of life…" Heles eyes were wide with horror. Pell had a shocked expression and Sour looked like he couldn't even care less. Peppa lowered his fists.
"Man, they didn't even hesitate…" Peppa had a serious and bewildered look on his face along with Vegeta. Universe 9 has been completely erased having seen it with their own eyes, everyone realized the gravity of the situation they are in once more. Goku powers down and gives a concerned look over to horror-shocked Korn who lifted up his head with tears streaming down his eyes. He was distraught and grief stricken over the state of the situation they were in. but more than anything he blamed himself and Goku for what happen to Universe 9. He gives Goku a cold dark stare.
"What have we done?" Korn face softens. Goku walks up to him and places his hand on his shoulder.
"What we must in order to survive. It will only get worse from here my friend" Goku tries to comfort the grief stricken Korn. Korn lowers his arms wipes his tears and nods to Goku not realizing that all this tragedy that is about to unfold is because of Goku reminding the Zeno's about the Tournament of Power so he can fulfill his desire to fight the strongest warriors in the multiverse. The Grand Priest looks down at both saiyans with an evil smile…