To Love is to Suffer...
Goku stood alone on the stage, his clothes battered and torn. He was profusely sweating, he stumbles back tiredly reaching out with his right hand to catch his balance resting up against a giant oddly shaped boulder. Peppa and Ribrozie leap up on some pillar of rocks looking down at Goku.
"That power of his is truly amazing, I don't even think with fusion I could defeat him or Jiren for that matter…" Peppa paused for a moment with Ribrozie looking over to him. "No, I'm sure, even if Korn and I were to fuse we wouldn't win…" Peppa said dryly with no hope in his voice.
"He is defenseless, now is our chance to knock him off before he can recover his stamina and go Ultra whatever again" Ribrozie recommended. Peppa frowns, he didn't want to beat Goku like that but when you have the fate of billions on your shoulder you don't really have a choice. Peppa frowns feeling even more disgusted with himself.
Peppa and Ribrozie leap toward the ground racing toward Goku when Saonel and Pirina leap down and cut them off. Peppa and Ribrozie slide to a stop taking a defensive stance.
"These guys again?" Peppa said annoyingly.
"They don't let up" Ribrozie adds in.
"Lets continue from before" Saonel challenges them. Pirina and Saonel take an offensive fighting stance.
"Our fight isn't over yet" Pirina adds in.
"This time will knock both of you off" Saonel smiles righteously.
"Can't be avoided" Peppa glances down to his left arm in his sling wondering how he will fair fighting with one hand.
"Saonel, Pirina! Don't you dare lose!" Chamapa orders from the stands. "If you fall off Universe 6 gets erased!" Chamapa yells out. Peppa's face turns to shock as he looks back up at the stands counting the Universe 6 warriors.
Peppa eyes Kale and Caulifa and realizes if he wins this fight they will be erased from existence and he will be the cause of it. Peppa looks down at the ground and then back at the Namekians with a look or intense doubt. Ribrozie frowns when she looks at Peppa seeing him struggle internally with himself.
It was clear to everyone he was fond of those two female saiyans. Peppa's was at an emotional impasse with himself. His pride would not allow him to lose to a race he considered to be lowly insects that he wiped out in his Universe but on the other hand he told the girls he would not allow them to get erased, that he would save them. Also he had his universe to think about as well. He couldn't lose for the sake of the girls and his universe but couldn't win either. Peppa gritted his teeth no matter what he did, he was going to lose something important to him.
"Everyone put more spirit into cheering!" Chamapa orders.
"No need to fear" Pirina says outloud.
"Were going to win!" Saonel says outloud.
"Let's go Peppa!" Ribrozie powers-up speeding toward the Namekians. Peppa powered-up in his base form then took a step forward to dash but found his body wouldn't move. Everyone in the stands saw it...Peppa hesitated to leap into the fight. Peppa couldn't get the image of Kale and Caulifla being erased out of his mind. He also couldn't get the thought of seeing his universe being erased either. Peppa became deeply conflicted. Sour just closes his eyes and lowers his head knowing the agony Peppa is feeling in his heart.
Meanwhile, Katopesla has cornered Kakunsa...
"So you come to be defeated? Unfortunately, for you to challenge me" Katoplesa says to an annoyed looking Kaksuna.
"Enough talk you loud mouth, just shut up and fight me!" Kakunsa snaps at him hunched over favoring her wounded ankle on her right leg.
"I shall unleash my hidden power" Katopesla reveals. Kakunsa grits her teeth giving Katoplesa a stern look. "Mode Change!" he yells out striking a pose. Kakunsa watches the letters change on the morpher of his belt to the letter B. "Raging Battle Mode!" Katopesla yells out again. The red changed to gold on his suit as well as the S symbol turned into a B. "Transformation complete" he tells her. Kakunsa just shook her head embarrassed for this warrior and his goofy poses.
"You are embarrassing" Kakunsa snaps at him. Katopesla ignores her.
"In battle mode, my attacks 300 times stronger then normal" Katoplesa explains to her.
"Yeah whatever, let's just get this over with" Kakunsa snaps at him with a dark and annoyed tone.
"Then go ahead and attack me" Katopesla challenges her. Kakunsa drops her hands to her side refusing to fall into his trap and attack him. "If you wont attack I will" Katopesla warns her. Katopesla lunges at her in the blink of an eye punching her into the wall to her shock and continues to punch her over and over in the face.
"Mistress Kakunsa is getting beaten!" Vikal looks down in horror with overwhelming concern from the stands.
"Defend yourself!" Jimeze calls out to her from the stands.
"This will finish it!" Katopesla throws a fast right but Kakunsa catches it with her left hand giving him a malicious glare.
"I have had enough of you!" Kakunsa says in a dark tone. Kakunsa gives Katopesla a hard right in the abdomen.
"You were hiding your strength to?!" Katopesla hunches over leaning against her. A blue aura appears around Kakunsa as she unleashes a devastating volley of punches upon the helpless Katopesla. Multiple explosions go off around the taks with the Zenos looking pleased.
"They have started fighting again" Future Zeno says outloud with excitement. "Isn't it fun!" Zeno replies to him.
Korn opens his eyes to see if he can see and little by little he can make out images, other warriors and rock formations. His vision gets a little fuzzy and blurry at times but for the most part he can start to see and use his eyes again. Korn smiles evilly to himself, from the stands some of the warriors point out Korn can see again. This catches the attention of Universe 2 stands and Vikal who looks greatly relieved Korn was no longer moving around with his eyes closed.
"Alright! I can finally see again!" Korn whispers to himself rubbing his eyes waiting for what he saw with them to come into better focus. "Now I can really share my love with the other universes" Korn runs his right hand through his hair with a crazed look about him. He takes a step forward grinning like a kid on christmas about to go on the attack when he hears Heles voice in his head.
"Wait, Korn" Heles speaks into his mind. Korn just looks up blinking.
"Heles?" Korn whispers in a low voice.
"I shall convey to you the beautiful plan of Universe 2" Heles replies to Korn, then he suddenly got a serious look on his face he uses Instant Transmission. At the same time Frieza notices Hermila, Prum, Zirloin, all converge on a weakened Goku with Korn teleporting a few feet away from him. Goku looks up with a sterned face glaring at Korn with the other three Universe 2 warriors standing looking down at them from high rock formations.
"Everyone at once?" Goku inquires very tiredly taking a few steps forward and falling on one knee breathing hard. Korn holds up his hand signalling the others to hang back.
"Love is always a surprise attack, it comes unexpectedly" Korn answers Goku but really that was meant for Peppa. Korn wonders if Peppa has it in him to defeat the Namekains of Universe 6 even at the cost of losing Kale and Caulifa or if he would sacrifice their universe on their account and take the loss. This was the outcome Korn had feared when Peppa had started to get close to those two.
"Well done my Universe 2 warriors! Splendid!" Heles laughs outloud commanding the attention of everyone in the stands. Heles holds up her right fist and continues with "Now, end that exhausted man's suffering!" Heles orders her warriors. Korn clenches his fists, this was not honorable to him. Win or lose he would rather fight Goku one-on-one at his best or on equal grounds but with the lives of billions of people in Universe 2 Korn realized like Peppa did early on you have to win even if it's not a beautiful win.
"Fight for me to Korn-sama!" Vikal yells out from the stands.
"Hey you!" Beerus yells out to Heles from across the way. "Fighting a tired out Goku with four warriors is unfair!" Beerus complains. For once Korn found himself agreeing with Universe 7 God of Destruction. Like Peppa, Korn found himself in a situation he truly did not like nor want to be in.
"Hm, scream all you want. That man is a sure threat to Universe 2" Heles looks away from Beerus and back down at the stage where they have Goku surrounded. "For our Universe 2 to win, we cannot overlook this chance" Heles says in a dry voice. Korn lets out a sigh and found he could not argue with her logic and reasoning either.
Korn knew if given time Goku will gain back his stamina like he did with Kefla and if he were to achieve Ultra Instinct again there be nothing Peppa nor him could do to stop Goku from tearing apart their universe's warriors, of that he was sure of. If their universe didn't hang in the balance Korn wouldn't mind letting Goku try to attain Ultra Instinct again. He would love the thrill of that challenge. However, this was not fun. This was to decide which universe would be allowed to survive. There was no good or evil, just survival or easure.
"Here we go, Prum! Now is our chance to show our love!" Hermila tells him.
"Yes, Hermila!" Prum answers back.
"Prepare yourself. It's time for your punishment!" Korn tells Goku in a dark tone. Goku returns the dark look.
"Sending this emotion to you!" Prum yells out, his floating orbs float around the area.
"Prepare for our Love Symphony!" Hermila strikes a loving pose. Korn just cringes painfully at the sight and sound of the two thinking "Why is this crap always happening to me!" Korn watches the orbs form a heart. Hermila fires his blaster at Prum's belly which reflects the blast at the orbs in the giant heart formation. Korn watches impressed as a giant heart made of energy flies at Goku. Goku gives a stern look as the attack gets closer but is knocked away by a Death Beam.
"Huh, what just happened?" Prum asks outloud.
"Freiza!" Korn says spitefully remembering the screams of how he tortured Vikal. Goku turns his head looking over his shoulder to see Frieza standing a fair distance behind him with an evil sly grin.
"Alright it's Frieza!" Krillin cheers from the stands. Freiza appears protectively in front of Goku.
"Thanks...Frieza..." Goku says in a low voice owning him again. Frieza justs laughs.
"Think nothing of it. I will handle these ones and allow you to rest up but don't take too long" Frieza cautions Goku who nods in understanding. Hermila, Prum, and Zirloin were about to go on the attack but Korn stops them again and they hang back as Korn walks up to Frieza.
"You tortured and hurt Vikal" Korn said coldly to Frieza who just laughs at him.
"Oh that bird girl? I do wish she had hung on a little longer I did enjoy her screams" Frieza stares at Korn with a sinister grin. Korn clenched his fists tightly feeling his power swelling inside of him like a maelstrom of rage.
"I alone will be your opponent, prepare yourself!" Korn transforms into a Super Saiyan Rose. His hair and bread that bright pink color, with that godly ki flowing around him, even his brown colored tail wiggled around freely. "Guys watch over Goku, don't let him escape. This wont take long" Korn orders and narrows his eyes at Frieza who looked insulted holding out his hands transforming into his golden form.
"Leave it to us!" Zirloin, Hermila, and Prum said at the same time taking an offensive stance.
"To avenge Jimeze and Vikal, I'll show him the pain of lost love!" Korn said with a dark voice full of anger and vengence. Vikal holds her hands to her chest looking down at Korn deeply moved by his display of love for her and Jimeze.
"He is so honorable...it's hard to believe he was the same one with the other two when they attacked my planet. After coming to know him it's become hard to dislike him…" Jimeze says out loud.
"This is for them" Korn proclaims self-righteously. Frieza and Korn take their stances staring at one another. Nothing else needed to be said. Korn lunged forward throwing a fast right that Frieza caught effortlessly and returns the favor with a fast right to Korn's gut. Korn screams out in pain, just as Frieza lets go of Korn's fist and gives him a fast left across the face.
Korn goes smashing through some rubble tumbling across the rocky ground getting back to his feet. Frieza points his finger out to Korn firing a volley of Death Beams. Frieza destroys the path and covers it in dust. Frieza pauses for a moment scanning the area silently. Other warriors break away from there fights to watch the fight between these two god tier warriors.
The dust is dispersed in all directions by Korn's powerful aura. Korn stands there glaring at Frieza who just smiles back at him. Korn lunges again at Frieza who throws a punch but Korn counters by teleporting behind putting his fists together slamming them in the back of his head smashing him into the ground. Korn pushes off of Frieza's body leaping in the air creating a ball of energy throwing it down at Frieza causing an explosion.
Frieza leaps up from the flames flying into the air where Korn and Frieza exchange a series of punches and kicks with one another with Frieza gaining the upper hand kicking Korn back down to the ground smashing through some more rock formations. Hermila, Prum, Zirloin, and Goku watch intently along with the people in the Universe 2 and 7 stands. No one able to utter a word or look away incase they miss something important.
Korn leaps at super human speed toward Frieza locking hands with them as they twist and turn through out the air with Frieza managing to spin Korn right side up and kicks him in the gut. Korn at the same time knees Frieza across the face. They move at inhuman speeds all across the stage getting in the middle of other warriors still fighting. They punch and kick at one another relentlessly each taking the others hit and hitting back with no care for there own well being.
Saonel and Pirina are blown back with Ribrozie sliding back to one knee. Peppa watches both auras speed past him as things get more intense between the two. Korn and Frieza reappear in the barren hellish landscape of the stage glaring at one another lunging once more. Both warriors throw punch after punch at one another hitting the other as hard as they could neither one blocking.
Korn and Frieza started to kick at one another with Frieza once again getting the better of Korn blasting him away toward the edge of the stage. Korn was able to free himself from the energy beam and roll across the ground. Korn quickly rebounds to his feet leaping away from the edge only to be struck at his side by Frieza as they go back to punching and kicking one another.
"Korn is having trouble with Frieza" Sour randomly says outloud in a disinterested tone while the others watch at the edge of their seats. Sour watches Korn and Frieza teleport all around the stage punching and striking at one another. Frieza knocks Korn into another pile of rubble.
"Korn is powerful, but he doesn't seem to be a good fighter" Pell notes outloud.
"Either that or Frieza is just that strong" Heles adds in.
"It's the latter" Jimeze and Vikal say at the same time both recalling their brief fights with Frieza and how dangerous he was. They turn their heads hearing Universe 7 chant and cheer Frieza on.
"Blast it, I hate to admit it, but I'm going to have trouble with this one" Korn sits up, his body covered in dirt and bruises looking up at Frieza who is staring down at him from atop of a rock formation. Frieza just laughs down at him.
"You say that like it wasn't obvious from the start" Frieza mocks him. Korn gets to his feet looking up at Frieza for the first time with a new fond respect for his strength.
"There is no way around it Frieza you really are impressive" Korn compliments him catching his breath and stalling for time to recover.
"Surely your not playing on my mercy" Frieza laughs at Korn. Frieza narrows his eyes in interest down at Korn. "I do commend you for trying though" Frieza returns the respect back at Korn. "Now if your through wasting my time I think I will knock you off now!" Frieza yells out in a high pitched voice powering-up leaping down toward Korn who powers-up once more getting stronger as the fight progresses.
Korn and Frieza land earth shattering blows at one another as a pink and golden aura can be seen moving across the stage. In desperation to get an edge in the fight Korn rapid fires multiple ki blast toward Frieza. Frieza sees through the attack appearing behind to his surprise knocking him away.
Korn teleports in front of Frieza and knees him in the gut. Frieza quickly wraps his tail around Korn's left leg. Korn ignores it, leaning in slamming hard right after hard right at Frieza's face. Korn then uses his right leg to stomp on Frieza viciously. Only when he tries to leap away does Korn realize the trouble he is in.
Frieza pulls his tail back ripping Korn out of the air and slams him back into the ground. Frieza then fires point blank range Death Beams at him. Korn holds up his hands forming his ki barrier to block the deadly attack.
Korn yells out in anger his aura becomes massive exploding with tremendous force creating another in a long line of craters around the stage. Frieza stood there as the dust cleared looking at an exhausted Korn who was sweating and breathing heavily in his Rose form. Frieza found he was sweating and out of breath. Korn was proving to be a real challenge even for him.
Korn powered-up putting distances between him and Frieza. Frieza took this as an insult creating dozens of red energy disks to hurl at Korn who dodged all of them blowing them away one by one as he flipped around, leaped, and twirled to evade them. Frieza got madder closing the distance punching Korn across the face.
To Fireza's surprise Korn took the punch and didn't budge from his spot glaring at him with those light grey colored eyes.
"What?" Frieza backed up confused as Korn gave him a death stare. Korn punches Frieza in the chest and brought him to his knees. Frieza tries to throw some punches and kicks but Korn dodges them brutalizing Frieza in the process and knocking him away. Universe 7 got silent as they watch.
"Korn is adapting to Frieza and becoming stronger" Vegeta mutters under his breath so that only they can hear him. Korn kicks Frieza through some rubble and a series of rock formations. When the dust clears and Frieza gets back to his feet he finds the table has turned. This time Korn was standing on a high place looking down at Frieza with a dark evil grin.
Frieza has fought saiyans long enough to know the fight dragged on too long and Kron's adaptation for the battle is now getting the better of him. Korn had closed the gap between him and is now surpassing him. Frieza looked up with maddening hate for everything that was and is a saiyan.
Korn readies a Black Rose Kamehameha. Frieza powers-up in all his rage and hate shaking the very foundation of the stage.
"THIS SHOULDN'T BE HAPPENING AGAIN! I AM LORD FRIEZA! AND YOU ARE JUST A STUPID MONKEY!" Frieza screams out in utter madness and hate. Korn continues to build a black and red energy in his hands. "NO THIS CAN'T BE REAL! NOT AGAIN! I WONT LET IT END THIS WAY!" Frieza screams out punching the ground sending cracks throughout the stage. "IF I GO, I'M TAKING YOU ALL WITH ME!" Frieza builds energy in his right fist.
"He is going to destroy the whole stage and eliminate everyone!" Krillin yells out. Frieza goes to strike the ground but Korn teleports in front of Frieza unleashing a point black Black Rose Kamehameha stopping Frieza's attack and the beam takes Frieza clear off the stage. Korn stumbles back breathing heavily as he transforms back into his base form.
"Jimeze...Vikal...I have avenged you" Korn says weakly. Frieza appears in the stands next to the other Z-Warriors who all had pale horror struck faces. They didn't know what to say, they all just sat down realizing their whole existence rested upon the shoulders of Goku and Goku alone. Korn teleports back over to where Goku, Hermila, Prum, and Zirloin stood.
"No...Frieza…" Goku says in a low whisper punching the ground looking up to see a beat up and bruised Korn standing a few feet from him. Goku and Korn just narrow their eyes at each other in silence.
Both Goku and Korn were tired, exhausted, in pain and worn out. They both knew it. Goku wondered if thats why Korn didn't bother with a defense, did he purposely let himself get in this condition so that he can fight him on a more even playing field. Goku just smirked to himself finding it hard to hate this guy. The Grand Priest announces Frieza's elimination and the Zenos black out Frieza's picture.
"Oh no! Goku's in real trouble!" Zeno for the first time leans forward showing some concern for another being while the Future Zeno who didn't have the same relationship present Zeno has with Goku just simply says "Oh yes! This is exciting! I wonder what's going to happen next!" Future Zeno says with excitement. Zeno looks over at Future Zeno with a menacing look for the first time. The Grand Priest turns his head catching sight of this and narrows his eyes at them. Future Zeno seemed ignorant that he yurked the present day Zeno.
"Let's continue to watch, Son Goku may yet find a way out of this most dire situation" Grand Priest suggests to them.
"Okay!" Future Zeno says excitedly. "Okay" Zeno says not so excitedly looking down at Goku and Korn.
"If I just had my stamina back" Goku says under his breath. Korn just glares at him.
"So what should we do with him now that he is all alone?" Prum asks. Korn didn't like the feel of the situation they felt too much like bullies ganging up on someone.
"What do you mean do?" Zirloin inquiries outloud. "It's four-on-one, we can beat him easily" Zirloin laughs. Korn continues to get even more annoyed.
"This is our time to be in the spotlight and shine" Hermila interjects. Korn's eye twiched with him thinking to himself, "This isn't a popularity contest! This is our life!". "Let's drop him and recover our honor" Hermila grins.
"NO!" Korn cuts them off to their surprise. Goku looks up blinking his eyes at Korn. "I'm more then enough! I'll full fill the beautiful plan of Universe 2 BY MYSELF!" Korn orders, given them a stern look. They just respectfully nod. "Make sure no one interferes!" Korn orders and they obey taking up positions in high places around Goku and Korn. Once they were gone Korn looks back over to Goku.
"So you wanna fight me? I knew you had the honor of a true warrior of our race. I knew you wouldn't tolerate them all ganging up on me like that" Goku smiles getting back to his feet. Korn just smiles, his reasoning losing out to his saiyan nature.
"That's right, I'll be your only opponent for this fight. I'll be the one to punish you for dragging us into this horror show!" Korn gives an evil look to Goku.
"Then I'm up for that, though you should thank me for allowing you to have a chance to fight for your universe like the others. Zeno would have just erased all of us anyway. At least this way we can have some fun and one of us can survive" Goku tries to smooth things over with Korn given what happen in their last encounter. Korn just smirked evilly shaking his head as the two saiyans stare at one another.
"Idiot, stop! You can't win in that condition! Run Goku!" Beerus orders realizing it was fruitless to try and reason with Goku when it comes to fighting. Heles realized the same thing. Korn tho following the plan will do it his way and fight on his terms that seemed most honorable to him.
"Lets hope I bought him enough time" Frieza said in a dark tone with others just nodding looking down at Goku.
"Okay Korn, come at me!" Goku takes a fighting stance as does Korn the two exhausted saiyans grin at one another...