Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball Z, or the characters of Akira Toriyama's creation. I do however, own the story, and the characters of my own creation.
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There is an incredible explosion of energy as Shadow is thrown back to the edge of the roof and S'kur's claws dig in to the top of the opposing side. The two have created a massive gapping hole in the roof and the following two floors down. As Shadow regains his balance, Shade and Vector fly by again and he throws his brother the sword. Shade catches the blade and fire an energy blast at Vector while rushing at him with increased speed. As Vector blocks the blast, Shade smashes the hilt of his sword into Vector's face, smashing his nose.
He then swings cutting Vector's chest right over the since healed burn. The two are getting in to a heated battle and there are no signs to indicate the true winner. As for Tarah's fight it is now going more in her favor as she has just cracked Malena's arm. Malena flies down out of pain, and Lenora takes full charge of the fight. Malena stops on the ground near the rubble from one of the damaged buildings. Lenora now begins to fight more aggressively than she has been trading every blow that Tarah can give out and blocking fewer on purpose. As for Tarah she is trying to bock as many as possible all the while she has a smirk on her face.
As S'kur and Shadow do battle high above, S'kur notices the Saiyan favoring one side. As the battle grows more intense, he throws his plan in to action. He trades blows with the Saiyan and suddenly uses his tail to pierce the guarded side. As the tail begins to move Shadow smiles and spins slightly causing the tail to scrape over the armor, and with that he grabs the tail and spins S'kur around and smashes him in to all nearby surfaces, over and over again.
"I didn't think you would be dumb enough to fall for that, but I guess you really are as dumb as you look." With that he releases him off toward the sky, and fires a huge blast of energy after him. As it strikes S'kur it bounces him up even higher in the air and yet S'kur doesn't seem to feel anything. He simply drops back toward the ground like a stone. Using his momentum he crashes down on Shadow and bounces up knocking him further down. He then fires a concentrated blast of energy at Shadow, detonating it on contact. The explosion sends him flying down the building crashing on to the fist floor breaking the windows all across the floor. Shadow rebounds shooting out of the hole, and charging at S'kur.
Vector flies past the building trying to trick Shade in to opening himself to an attack. Vector then settles for an energy blast. As Shade concentrates on the blast he travels through the portal and appears behind Shade hammer punching him in the spine cracking the armor. Shade responds with a flash kick knocking Vector back and an energy arc aimed at his neck. Vector is struck and sent back for a moment. During this battle Tarah and Lenora begin to fight more fiercely ad Lenora looks to be losing badly. This is until Malena returns with a metal cast she quickly formed from the readily available rubble. She is blocking more with the cast than anything else and takes the pain to fuel her fighting.
Tarah is more than annoyed with the double teaming and tries to devise a plan to stop it but with the two of them attacking as often as possible, she has no time to put a plan in to motion. Shade watches the fight below and chooses an open patch in the fight to throw the sword to Shadow. Unfortunately Vector and S'kur were both waiting for this and S'kur knocks the blade back toward Vector who grabs it and hurls it at full strength right at Shadow. As the blade nears his head, it vanishes in to a portal and pierces Shades chest. He screams out in pain, and pulls the blade from his chest, slashing at Vector, cutting deep in to his body at the waist. The blade does not pierce him entirely, but cuts very deep.
Malena looks over to see Shade get stabbed and the ensuing injuries. She yells out and attempts to fly to his aid when Lenora yells at her and she dodges and energy blast headed at her head. She reluctantly returns to the fight and focuses more intensely on injuring Tarah. S'kur and Shadow fight even harder against each other and S'kur notices an increase in the Saiyans power level. S'kur spins and fires off several of his spines yet Shadow dodges them moving in between the mass of spikes. He catches the last of the spines and launches it back at S'kur. It slices straight through his left shoulder yet it is not in a spot to do any permanent damage.
Shade's wound is bleeding profusely and he is losing consciousness. However he keeps fighting and lets the adrenaline kick in for as long as it can. Shade charges as much of his power in to the blade as he can and it almost seems to be that the blood it self glows on the blade. He continues to slash at Vector, with each swing becoming even more forced and sloppy. Shade then falls from the sky smashing into the ground, followed by his sword striking the ground next to his head. He coughs and looks up at this friends battling overhead. Shadow yells out on the roof, grabs S'kur and launches him at Vector as he flies down to his brother. He grabs the sword and apologizes, as he flies back at the two mercenaries.
He screams out and slashes at both as he unleashes arks of energy with each swing. As he continues his assault there is a flash of light and Duke returns with an unconscious Vulcan over his shoulder. He drops Vulcan and gathers his strength after the long journey. Tarah noticing Duke, crushes Malena's cast causing a scream of intense pain. She fires a huge ball of energy frying the remains of the cast and injuring the arm again. Duke looks over at his crew and mentally tells them to retreat. Vector flies down first to prepare for transport.
Tara slaps Lenora across the face and flies over to the rest of the crew. S'kur continues fighting Shadow and knocks him back with a powerful roar. He launches an intense blast of energy from his mouth. His target is not Shadow but Shadow's friends. Lenora fires a blast at S'kur's, and detonates it harmlessly. With that S'kur retreats to Duke's side along with the rest of the team. Once they all gather Duke and his vanish through one of Vortex's portals.
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Wow, seems the Saiyans didn't do so hot against Duke's mercenaries. That'll leave a grudge. Anyhoo, that marks the end of chapter 11. But wait, I'm not done?! Nope, Duke isn't going to get off that easy. Not that it wasn't easy in the first place, but why would I make it even that simple? Because I like to finish epically, and this will be one ending to rank with the good stuff. Read chapter 12 to find out what happens when Duke tries to leave Planet Vegeta!