Chapter 46: Rage Unleashed
(Opening Theme: Animal I Have Become by Three Days Grace)
Conton City
The Supreme Kai of Time, Barit, and Hit all stood with their backs to each other, surrounded by an army of ghouls. "There's no end of these things," Barit said. "No, there is an end, it's just that there are so many that the end is not in sight," Hit commented, "Can't you do something about them, Chronoa?" The Supreme Kai of Time shook her head, "I've already formed three barriers to allow the wounded a place to recuperate, plus the barrier around Conton City to keep these monsters contained, plus a barrier to protect the Time Nest. This is taxing my concentration as it is." "Then I suggest that you head for safety, as long as you're alive then we have a chance. We'll accompany you," Hit said as his purple ki aaura flared out around him, as did Barit's. "Thank you," the Supreme Kai of Time said as the three of them charged into battle. They left a trail of destroyed ghouls in their wake as they used their Time Stop ability to kill ghouls by the dozens before making their way to one of the safe zones the Supreme Kai of Time created. The Supreme Kai of Time sighed as she returned to her smaller child-like form and entered the barrier. "Focus on healing, we'll handle the killing," Hit told her as he and Barit turned around and went back to work.
Rachel and Beate were still battling Yuu along with Kenshin. Yuu was now taking them all seriously as he went on the offensive, blasting at them with ki and commanding his ghouls to attack them as well. Rachel used her Hamon to make a net out of her wool and wrapped up ghouls with it before pulling the net closed, slicing the ghouls to pieces, while Beate focused on destroying them with Hamon strengthened ki blasts. Kenshin was struggling to keep up the pace, his breathing was starting to weaken, and his Hamon grew weaker as a result. Kenshin then saw as Kaoru and Kenji were surrounded by vampire Namekians, their movements too fast for either of them to defend against. "KAORU!" Kenshin yelled as his ki aura flared around him as he flew straight through ghouls to reach his family. "SHIN-HITEN MITSURUGI STYLE! AMAKAKERU RYU NO HIRAMEKI!" Kenshin was a blur as he shot forward and sliced through two vampire Namekians at once before his energy ran out. "KENSHIN!" "TOU-SAN!" Kaoru and Kenji yelled as they blasted Hamon strengthened ki balls all around, blindly hoping that they would hit.
Miraculously, their desperate attack worked, destroying the rest of the vampiric Namekians. Kenshiro then flew down and lifted Kenshin up, "You need to head to one of the safe zones. You're too tired to keep fighting. All three of you." "I can still fight," Kenji said, but it was clear how exhausted he really was, the fighting had been going on for three whole hours, with barely any time for anyone to truly catch their breath. "We need to go now," Kaoru told Kenji, and lifted him up as Kenshiro focused power in his left hand and pointed a straight path to a safe zone, yelling, "Super Galick Gun!" The ki blast destroyed all ghouls in their path, leaving an opening for them to fly straight into the barrier that the Supreme Kai of Time had created. As luck would have it, it was the same one that the Supreme Kai of Time had taken refuge in. She was busily treating wounded Time Patrollers with her healing powers when she saw the Himuras and Kenshiro arrive.
"Wait there! I'll get to him as soon as I can!" she told them. "Supreme Kai of Time how are we doing?" Kenshiro asked. "To be honest, not that well. We've already lost two-fifths of our Time Patrollers. The rest are in safe zones, my doctors and healers are doing their best to treat the wounded, but we couldn't get any Healing Pods, and their healing powers aren't as efficient as a god's. The fact is that we're just too drastically outnumbered! Every Time Patroller has to have killed at least a few hundred of the enemy, but more just keep coming! If it wasn't for that damn darkness, the sun could probably destroy most of them," the Supreme Kai of Time told Kenshiro. "Pearl is most likely fighting Shadlyn now, Barit and I think that she's the one creating it. She might need help, we need someone to get out of the barrier and help Pearl," Kenshiro said. The Supreme Kai of Time shook her head, "It will take too much concentration to make a hole in the barrier, if I do, then one or all of the barriers I made will fall. Someone has to teleport to her." "I'll see if Rachel, Amaya, Bage, or Hirohito can go!" Kenshiro said; and flew out to see where he could find them.
He saw Rachel and Beate still battling with Yuu, Yuu had seemed to gain an advantage over them and had knocked them back with two hard punches each. Kenshiro quickly flew down and blasted at ghouls before they could get their hands on his friends. Beate sat up and groaned before spitting some blood out her mouth, "How many times have we killed that fucker?" "I lost count after seven-hundred," Rachel groaned. "Rachel, someone has to teleport to Pearl, she's fighting Shadlyn now, we think she's the one making this darkness. If she's killed, it should go away, and destroy these monsters," Kenshiro told her. "No, I can't, I need to see him dead," Rachel groaned. Her eyes started to glow as her fangs grew longer and the blood red aura surrounded her. "See if the other warpers can help," Rachel said as she and Beate flew back into the fight with Yuu. Rachel's left-hand tore into Yuu's throat, while her right stabbed through his chest. "OVERDRIVE!" Rachel screamed as Hamon energy tore through Yuu's body, making him scream as did she, pouring more and more power into his body as she yelled, "TAKE IT! TAKE IT ALL YOU LUNATIC!" Yuu's body glowed as bright as a sun before he exploded from all that Hamon energy surging through him, and Rachel collapsed. "Rachel!" Kenshiro yelled as he picked her up. "I'll get her to safety," Beate volunteered. "Alright, be careful," Kenshiro told her as he handed Rachel to Beate, who flew to one of the Supreme Kai of Time's safe zones.
Kenshiro flew up to see Bage, Amaya, and Taoretta were all standing back to pack, unleashing white fire at the vampires surrounding them. The vampires were destroyed in a flash and Kenshiro went to them. "Listen, we need a warper to teleport out of here, Shadlyn's responsible for this darkness all around, if she's dead, then we can win this. Pearl's fighting her, but she needs help," Kenshiro told them. "I can't, I'm running on fumes," Taoretta complained, "I'd need at least an hour to rest before I can teleport anywhere." "Same here, after that blast. Sorry man," Bage told him. Amaya shook her head, "I'm sorry, but I need to make sure that Bage is safe. I'm sure Hirohito is fine though, he's focused on rescuing people instead of fighting, he should have plenty of power." "Where is he?" Kenshiro asked, looking around. It was hard to spot one child in the chaos of Time Patrollers battling with vampires and ghouls, ki blasts were erupting everywhere and smoke filled the air, not to mention the unnatural darkness that was covering Conton City.
"HERE!" Hirohito declared as he popped up in a puff of smoke. "You know what you gotta do, right?" Kenshiro told Hirohito. "Get outside, save Pearl, help kill Shadlyn," Hirohito said. "Right," Kenshiro said, "then get to it." Hirohito's eyes glowed red for a second before he opened up a red and black portal and flew inside. Kenshiro, Amaya, Bage, and Taoretta were then hit with a massive dark green ki blast, knocking them into a wall next to the Time Nest. Yuu Lupei stood up, fully regenerated once more, looking pissed off as power crackled around him like lightning. "I'm going to break all of your bodies. I'll tear all your limbs off, and then, you, Zou Bitch, I'll fuck you in every hole you have, for the next THOUSAND YEARS!" Yuu yelled as he blasted red ki balls at them. The four of them quickly flew to avoid his blasts and Kenshiro flew at Yuu. Yuu blasted at Kenshiro full on, and Kenshiro fought to reach him before his right hand shot out and slammed four fingers into Yuu's forehead before he was finally blasted into the ground. "Hokuto Shinken," Kenshiro weakly smiled, "Gekitsui Shi."
"What?!" Yuu yelled, before his head started to become deformed as parts of it inflated, before his head then exploded. Bage helped Kenshiro up and said, "Nice one man." "It's not over yet," Taoretta pointed out, as Yuu's head regrew from his body. "He said he absorbed the lives of all the people he turned. Can you guys sense how much he has left?" Kenshiro asked. Taoretta looked at Yuu as Amaya fought with him for a minute before she managed to stab the top of his head with a kunai and said, "Whatever Rachel did to him weakened him a lot. I can sense he has less than a thousand lives left." "Is that all?" Kenshiro sarcastically asked as they flew to help Amaya.
The Middle of the Ocean
Pearl's fist collided with Shadlyn's, creating a shockwave that sent the ocean around them rippling out. Their fist collided again with equal power, neither Majin willing to back down. Pearl's moves were fast and powerful, combined with experience that she was putting to good use now to counter all of Shadlyn's blows. Shadlyn may have had more power, but she had rarely fought against anyone who was her equal or superior, only those weaker than her. Her fighting experience was a shallow pool compared to Pearl's ocean. The two of them flew back and Shadlyn focused Destructive Ki between her hands while Pearl focused her own ki in hers. "HAKAI BLAST!" Shadlyn screamed as she unleashed her attack. "KAMEHAMEHAAAAA!" Pearl screamed out as she unleashed her own attack. The two collided, Pearl's blue ki and Shadlyn's dark ki contrasting like night and day. "Damn you! Just die already!" Shadlyn screamed as she poured more power into her attack. "FUCK YOU!" Pearl screamed back as her power surged into her attack, tearing through Shadlyn's and slamming right into her, sending her flying off for miles.
I can't keep this up… Pearl thought, she didn't want to admit it, but she was holding back. Knowing that her Mama was inside of Shadlyn was preventing her from truly going all out, every decisive blow she could land, she held back, not wanting to take her Mama's life. She was wasting her energy and time, and Shadlyn seemed to still have plenty to spare, it was all a matter of waiting Pearl out at this point. A dark portal opened up above Pearl, and Hirohito flew out. "Pearl! What's going on?" the young shinobi warper asked. "Shadlyn went after my family. She ate Papa, and she tried to absorb me, but Mama pushed me out of the way in time; and was absorbed instead. Shadlyn says she also absorbed an alternate version of Helles, Universe 2's Goddess of Destruction," Pearl explained to him. "You look awful," Hirohito bluntly said before tossing her a Healing Capsule. Pearl used it and sighed in relief as her energy was restored. "Let me guess, since you know your Mom's in there, you're holding back," Hirohito said.
"Yes," Pearl admitted. "You're an idiot, we can always bring her back with the Dragon Balls," Hirohito bluntly stated. "I can't kill my own Mama!" Pearl yelled back, "I don't know what makes you warpers so twisted, that you think normal people's lives don't matter, but they do to us! Just because I can bring her back, doesn't mean that I'm willing to send her to Otherworld." Hirohito swallowed at this and sighed, "Fine. I'll help you then. I'll go inside Shadlyn and get your Mama out. Then you need to take Shadlyn down, HARD! Conton City is being overrun, too many Time Patrollers have been killed or too wounded to keep fighting, and Yuu Lupei is harder to kill than Deadpool. We think Shadlyn's causing that darkness that appeared before Yuu and his Army of the Livign Dead showed up, if she's dead, then the sun will shine through and kill his army, and hopefully weaken him as well." Pearl pulled Hirohito into a hug and said, "Please, just save her, and I'll do anything you need."
Pearl and Hirohito looked and felt as Shadlyn's ki power flared up. "Alright, keep her distracted, and try not to get her head until I get your Mama out," Hirohito told her. The boy then said, "Alright, Raven, Salem, time to help out." Pearl watched as Hirohito changed in front of her. Dark energy surrounded him; black and purple flame like veins appeared on his arms and ran up to his face, his eyes turned crimson red with black slit pupils, as a black diamond shaped mark appeared on his forehead. "See you soon," the transformed Hirohito said with a voice that sounded like an army speaking at once as he opened up a dark portal and went inside it. Shadlyn flew at Pearl like a missile and Pearl stood her ground.
The two of them clashed together, Shadlyn punching Pearl's face hard enough to twist it 180 degrees, and Pearl kicked Shadlyn's stomach hard enough to nearly tear right through her. Pearl's head twisted back to a normal shape as she summoned a Vanishing Ball and blasted it straight into Shadlyn's stomach. The Majin woman took the hit and responded by stretching her arms out and grabbing Pearl's tentacles, making her scream out in pain as Shadlyn pulled her in to a head butt. Shadlyn opened her mouth wide at Pearl's face and Pearl sensed the Destructive Ki coming. She poured her own ki into her right hand and stopped it just as it was about to hit her face. Pearl and Shadlyn stood there, neither one ready to give up as they summoned more of their power. With a desperate cry, Pearl pushed the Destructive Ki back down Shadlyn's throat, and watched it explode, destroying Shadlyn's body from the chest down, and sending Pearl flying across the ocean until she slammed into a rocky beach. The Majin girl quickly got up and frantically looked around, thanking every god she knew that there were no people on the beach.
Shadlyn came flying over, her wounds healed, and smugly crossed her arms. "You know, I might be persuaded to leave your world alone. All you need to do, is promise to be my slave for the rest of your life, and do whatever I say, and I'll tell Yuu to pack up and go," Shadlyn said with a vicious smile. Pearl wiped her face and said, "I'll join you when the sun dies out!" "That can be arranged," Shadlyn said, then grabbed her head. "What!?" Shadlyn yelled. Pearl smiled as Hirohito jumped out of a portal, carrying an unconscious Buudikka and Helles. "I got them. Now take that bitch down," Hirohito told her before jumping into another portal. Pearl cracked her knuckles as white smoke swirled around Shadlyn, changing her until her outfit was a platinum set of Saiyan Armor. "You're dead now," Pearl said as her eyes glowed red with hatred.
The weakened Shadlyn couldn't see as Pearl's foot collided with her head, spinning it around like a top. Pearl then grabbed her twisted neck and blasted right through her stomach, before kicking her high into the sky. Shadlyn's injuries healed, only for Pearl to grab her by her face and look her dead in the eyes. "This is for every person you killed. And if any alternate version of you shows up, they'll get even worse," Pearl said as she pulled open Shadlyn's mouth. Pearl poured an Ill Blast from her mouth and into Shadlyn's. Pearl's attack burned as it tore through Shadlyn's body, destroying all in it's path completely. In a few seconds, Shadlyn was reduced to a head, and Pearl mashed her head into a tight ball and kept up the Ill Blast, destroying every trace of Shadlyn. Pearl's wrath and energy were completely spent, and she fell from the sky, making a crater as her unconscious body hit the beach below…
Conton City
Kenshiro and Barit were the only Time Patrollers still standing, Amaya, Bage, and Taoretta were too wounded to keep fighting and had to retreat into one of the safe zones. Kenshiro and Barit were too exhausted to fly and were completely surrounded by vampires and ghouls. "Well, Barit, it was a Hell of a ride," Kenshiro said as the monsters slowly came closer to the two barely standing warriors. "Yeah. I'm sorry for all those Mom jokes I made about your Mom. She was a better warrior and person than most," Barit told him as he offered his hand to Kenshiro. They had one last attack left, one that would take a huge chunk out of this army. "Thanks man," Kenshiro said as they grasped their hands together, and focused what little ki they had left. Suddenly, a yellow ki blast appeared from above, it was Beate, making room for Kenshiro and Barit. "Knock it off you two, you ain't dead yet!" Beate yelled as she grabbed them and actually tossed them into the nearest safe zone.
Beate screamed out as she summoned every ounce of power she had in her, pushing Super Saiyan 2 to it's limit as lightning crackled all around her. "Who's first!?" "You're the Saiyan bitch Rachel loves," Yuu said as he stepped forward, a dark red ki aura swirling around him. Beate glared back at him and they both said at the same time, "I'll enjoy killing you." Beate breathed and summoned her Hamon and blasted it at Yuu, but he dodged it before blasting his ki straight through her shoulder. Rachel watched, too wounded behind the safe zone barrier as Beate's left arm was torn from her. "NO!" Rachel screamed. Rachel focused her Warper's Will to make her body heal faster, but it was till too slow. Yuu grabbed Beate by her throat and stabbed his hand into her stomach, tearing out the Saiyan's liver. He took a bite out of it, and Beate glared at him. "You tasted better than I expected," Yuu told her. Choking through her own blood, Beate managed to say, "Go back…to Hell…" Yuu's fangs closed around Beate's throat as he drained her body of what blood was still in it.
He tossed her body aside and smiled at the wounded Time Patrollers inside the safe zone. Rachel glared daggers back at him, as her fangs grew longer and a red ki aura swirled around her as her pupils turned into slits. "I'LL KILL YOU!" Rachel shrieked. Everyone then looked up and saw as the barrier of darkness around Conton City was lifted. "No! NOOOO!" Yuu screamed at the heavens as sunlight poured in. Every ghoul and vampire around him disintegrated into ash, "THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE!" The portal that Yuu's army came in from had already closed once the last ghoul was through, and he could only watch as millions of ghouls and thousands fo vampires all turned to ashes around him. "Damn you! I'll return and finish you all off!" Yuu vowed as he summoned a new portal. "NO YOU WON'T!" Rachel screamed back as she tackled him into the portal.
Rachel and Yuu spun around in the strange aether of the portal, Yuu hadn't had time to decide his destination, and they were stuck in a strange dark limbo. Rachel clawed at his face and chest, and Yuu slapped his hands around her ears before grabbing her and pulling her face into his knee. Rachel's glasses and nose shattered from the impact, but she grabbed on to his wrists and used her own Warper power to create a portal and pulled him through it.
They collided into a bunch of dusty and abandoned tables and chairs. Rachel let him go and focused on healing her ears, so she could stand. Yuu blasted Death Beams at her, but she rolled around on the ground and avoided them before hitting him with a ki ball through his stomach. Yuu fell to his knees, and Rachel sensed that he was down to his last life. Yuu wasn't done though, as he pierced her knees with Death Beams. Rachel screamed out as Yuu stood above her. "You had such potential. You could have taken anything you wanted with your power, and yet you choose to live like these characters anyway," Yuu said as he summoned ki into his palm.
"I like it…this way…" Rachel said. Yuu laughed at her as she grabbed a wooden table leg. "This is it, daughter. Maybe there's another version of you that isn't as weak," Yuu said. Yuu blasted his ki, but Rachel rolled just enough for it to only graze her, as she snapped the table leg and forced her legs to jump up, stabbing him through his heart! Yuu gasped in shock, and Rachel got on top of him, making him fall on his back. She punched the improvised stake, nailing him to the floor of the abandoned bar. "No…don't…" Yuu weakly said as Rachel's fist slammed into his face. "Stop…" he cried as she punched him again, and again, and again. Rachel didn't see what was in front of her, all she saw was the terrible destruction he had caused to Conton City, all her fellow Time Patrollers that he had killed, and Beate's dead body on the ground. Rachel had no idea for how long she was punching before she realized that she was covered in blood, and all that was left of her biological father, Yuu Lupei's head, was a bunch of wet chunks of bone she was punching into the ground with a broken fist.
Rachel crawled off his body and pulled herself away from his body, before raising her uninjured hand and blasting the body with ki, destroying it completely. She then passed out in that ruined old bar. Conton City was saved, at a heavy price.
(Ending Theme: Bring Me to Life by Evanescence)