Chapter 12: Boss Battle: Mariko Kurama Krae'Nakh sped toward the power level, more convinced that it wasn't a diclonius now that he realized it was in flight.
However, his suspicions were reignited when he found the source of the power level was inside of a flying machine.
The machine came to an abrupt stop when the pilot saw him. Krae'Nakh scanned his power level, 4, and moved on.
The 846 was coming from inside the machine, so Krae'Nakh ripped the door off and landed inside.
The soldiers within the machine fired their weapons, and Krae'Nakh caught all of their bullets and threw some back, killing the soldiers.
The only beings left alive were 2 terrified scientists, one female he didn't recognize, and one male whom had been at the graveyard when he fought Nana for the first time.
Neither of these beings possessed the power level he was searching for, but he traced it to a large metal crate in the middle of the holding bay.
Intrigued, the saiyan went to open it when female spoke up. "Wait! I understand that you came here to fight, we brought her to do just that, but not only is she unable to fly like you, but we've kept her confined since birth. She can hardly walk and if the fight destroys the helicopter and she falls into the water, she won't know how to swim, someone like you couldn't possibly accept a victory like that, right?" She said, hoping beyond hope that she was right... and she was.
"All right, I'll just kick my feet up till you land this thing." Krae'Nakh said, taking a seat in the "helicopter" as it was called.
Elsewhere
Lucy, Nana and Sato left a note for the noncombatants and went chasing Krae'Nakh, believing even he would need help against something that powerful.
They traced the presence of the unseen being to beyond a bridge with a blockade set up.
As soon as the soldiers saw the dicloni, they opened fire. But not only did the dicloni use their vectors to deflect the bullets, but what they learned from Krae'Nakh as well.
Lucy and Nana flared their auras, Nana's being a brighter pink than Lucy's light red, and took flight, Lucy to the left and Nana to the right.
Nana rendered all of the soldiers on her side unconscious... and was surprised to see that Lucy had done the same.
"You didn't kill anyone?" Nana inquired. To which Lucy replied "I only killed before because I felt I had to, I don't anymore."
As if to prove this, one last soldier appeared and fired at Lucy, who used, not her vectors, but her aura to deflect the bullets as she walked up to the man, snatched the weapon from his hands, and snapped it over her knee.
"Get lost." Lucy said in her usual tone which sent the man fleeing in terror.
Sato just stood there with his mouth hanging open, he knew they were powerful but he hadn't expected this.
"Are you all right?" Nana asked, causing the man to snap out of it.
"Y-Yeah, I just... wow." Sato said, unable to find any other words, causing both dicloni to blush.
"That's definitely one word to describe them." A familiar voice spoke up, causing both dicloni to react differently.
Two more humans came up to the trio, Lucy backed away defensively, Sato closed in with her, and Nana ran toward them joyfully.
"PAPA!!" Nana shouted as she threw herself into Kurama's arms, reunited at last.
"I must say, I never expected you to ally yourself with Nana after learning she's my daughter." Kurama said to Lucy after he had finished embracing Nana.
Lucy just looked at him and Kurama could tell she was trying to figure out what to say.
"If you have something to say, then say it. Nothing's changed between us." After he said this, Lucy knew exactly what to tell him.
Crimson Rose Cannon
She threw the attack at a toll bridge booth (don't know what the building's called) and disintegrated it, leaving Kurama frozen in shock.
"That saiyan taught me how to fight like him so I could entertain him better. You come after me again and I'll go back to that facility, kick the door down, kill every single human, and release all the dicloni you tortured into insanity and let them kill as many humans as they want. Leave. Me. Alone."
Kurama just stood there, completely shocked, but then let a out breath and said "It's out of my hands, General Director Kakuzawa, the man above me, has ordered the use of the most powerful and deadly of your kind. You should already sense her."
And Lucy did, but before she could reply, the second human, Bando, spoke up."ENOUGH OF THIS CRAP! WHERE'S THAT FUCKING SPACE CADET!"
"Introducing himself to your superweapon." Lucy said.
Elsewhere
The helicopter came to a landing and Krae'Nakh jumped out with his hands behind his head as he walked forward, waiting to meet this new fighter.
As he cleared a good distance, the humans wasted no time getting their last ditch effort out and ready. In less than a minute, a voice addressed Krae'Nakh.
"Are you the one I get to kill?" The voice asked him, to which Krae'Nakh replied "Heh, I'm the one you get to FIGHT, if you wanna kill me, then you're going to have to work fo- hu-huh!?"
Krae'Nakh had turned around to face his opponent and found himself breathless, his opponent was a diclonius, and the same age as Krae'Nakh, and absolutely gorgeous.
"W-wow, w-who are you?" Krae'Nakh stuttered out with shallow breaths and flushed cheeks.
"I'm number 35, at least, that's what they always call me, I don't know my real name." The diclonius answered him with a friendly smile.
"35? Okay, I've heard worse names, and 35's a good number. I'm Krae'Nakh." The saiyan replied to the diclonius.
"Krae'Nakh hmm, that's a weird name.. I think, I don't know that many. But do I get to kill you now?" 35 asked, snapping Krae'Nakh out of it.
"Oh, yeah y-yeah, er well, you get to fight me, and if you win, you can kill me, but if I win.. um.." Krae'Nakh fumbled a bit, not really sure what he would do after he won.
"You get to kill me?" The diclonius asked the saiyan, not knowing any other answer.
"Uh, I-I could if I wanted to, but, um, I think.. I wanna... um..." Krae'Nakh couldn't find the words, he didn't know how to say it.
"Well, it doesn't matter anyway, you can't beat me." The diclonius told him like it was a fact.
"O-oh yeah, well I'll show you! and I'll... I'll... I'LL MAKE YOU DO WHATEVER I WANT WHEN I WIN! OKAY!!" Krae'Nakh shouted with a full blush on his face which caused the girl to laugh at him, which was the last straw.
"Okay, that does it. IT'S GO TIME!!" And like that, the fight had begun with Krae'Nakh throwing out an energy barrage to tie up her vectors, but to his surprise, she had more than the usual 4... a lot more.
Krae'Nakh dodged the intial attack, but 6 more vectors came at him from the left and right, high, middle and low, leaving only one escape route, straight through.
As soon as Krae'Nakh dodged them, several more were all around him, at least 2 dozen.
Krae'Nakh remembered how Lucy and Nana's vectors were only as fast as their eyes, so Krae'Nakh made sure not to stay in one place for even half a second, he moved so fast, it looked he was teleporting around, and above the immediate area, and when he saw a moment, he struck.
But while he was faster than she could see, the diclonius was able to get her guard up before the energy blast struck home. After several similar failed attempts, Krae'Nakh then went to only safe spot left... the sky.
Krae'Nakh stopped when the vectors were no longer pursuing him, calculated the distance, and landed that far away from number 35 in a straight line.
"HEY! NO FAIR!" She called out to him. "I THOUGHT WE WERE FIGHTING!!"
"OH, WE ARE!" The saiyan called back. "I'M JUST GOING TO USE MY STRONGEST ATTACK TO BEAT YOU, THAT'S ALL!!"
As he said it, Krae'Nakh flared up his aura and held out his left arm to channel his Ethereal Eraser. The aquamarine colored energy that he channeled in his left hand darkened until it was as black as space with white lightning sparking from it, leaving cracks in the bridge he had landed in front of.
Ethereal Eraser
Krae'Nakh whirled his left arm over his head until it was behind him and then, like cracking a whip, he threw his arm out and unleashed the attack which destroyed everything in its path as it tore its way to the diclonius.
Number 35 launched all but 4 of her vectors to meet the attack head-on, the clash was explosive, with the diclonius having to plant her 4 remaining vectors in the concrete so as not to be blown away.
The saiyan was slowly gaining ground, but 35 wasn't letting go, and her vectors were over 11 meters long, Krae'Nakh had closed the distance to 8 meters and 35 wasn't tiring quickly.
Krae'Nakh smiled through the strain as his saiyan blood burned with passion, this was his life, this was his world, this was all he ever wanted. With a warcry of desire, Krae'Nakh channeled what energy he had left into his right hand and flung it along side his left.
The second clash of power caused the helicopter's rotor blades to shatter like glass and the vehicle itself turn and flip over onto its side, the two scientists, who had thought they would be safe, now feared for their lives as the most powerful diclonius fought an insignificant saiyan.
Krae'Nakh's attack was now 6 meters away and closing. 35 was pushing as hard as she could, but in spite of the threat to her life, she was having fun.
As the attack pushed past 4 meters, 35 began to realize that she was actually going to die here, she wondered what it would be like, would she see her parents, would they know it was her?
The Ethereal Eraser pushed past 2 meters and... stopped. 35 looked at the saiyan and was surprised to see him on his knees, struggling to breathe.
As her own vision faded to black, she wondered what Krae'Nakh would've told her to do if he had won.
"Ffffuuuuuu..." Krae'Nakh couldn't even curse, he was completely wiped out from putting all of his energy into that attack.
All he could do was watch as more soldiers arrived to retrieve the diclonius and come after him.
The commanding officer, a bald man with a beard, walked up to the saiyan with a weapon drawn.
He aimed it at Krae'Nakh's head and... was blown back by a light red energy blast.
Author's note That's it for this one, and I'm thinking I'll do 3-4 more and then an epilogue.