Dragon Ball GX, Side Story: The Alchemic Saiyan

Chapter 28: A New Player In The Game

Alphonse Elric

As we stared at the form that had appeared from thin air, Edward appeared to be in more shock than me. It was a giant woman, only slightly smaller than the one with a red eye known as Sloth. However, she looked nothing like him. Whereas Sloth was wide, unkempt with long dirty hair, sluggish, and had carnivorous serrated teeth, the woman's form came with glittering blue eyes, a more lanky and svelte body, smooth skin, short and wild but clean brown hair, a blue halter top, looser martial arts style green pants, and white boots, as well as golden bracelets versus metal shackles. To be honest, she was rather pretty aside from the muscle twinges on her face, much in contrast to Sloth. In addition, she appeared to be of Drachmenian descent, evident in her musculature, akin to Armstrong but more feminine.

"Who the hell are you?" Edward asks in astonishment, apparently having never met or seen her before even with his secret knowledge.

"I go by several names among my sisters; the seductive speeder, the female flashpoint, the queen of quick, but to my enemies and my mother, I' am known as Brash, and I have no time for games, we are here to study you Not-Edward, the monster who impersonates the eldest son of Hoenheim" she says with rapid speed, as though she was in a rush; she certainly lived up to her name, even her speech was hurried.

"Well, Brash, I have two things to say; one, I wanna know what you are and how the hell you're able to turn invisible even to my keen eyes, yet also be immune to my Ki sense, and two…you can call me by my Saiyan name, Rekinju! (A/N: Japanese portmanteau of Rekinjutsu-shi, translates literally to Alchemist)" Edward screams as he powers up more, his aura faint red like the sunset.

"So that is your name, Rekinju, I will remember, and so will my Mother, then come, we fight now!" the girl shouts as she curls her hand to goad my brother on.

"Fight? HA! This won't be a fight, it's gonna be a smack down, the only reason you got that hit in earlier was cause you took me by surprise, lets see how you do when I actually try" Edward laughs as he falls into a battle stance with his right arm pointed to the ground and at his opponent, the other held over and behind his head with his right leg forward and his other behind.

"Why you little…YA pokazhu vam, vysokomernym sushchestvom iz-za! (Translated from Drachmenian/Russian, I will show you arrogant creature from beyond)" Brash shrieks as she clenches her fists and stomps her feet.

"Then come and get me you bitch!" Edward laughs as he curls his fingers to antagonize her. In an instant, she vanished, the speeds at which seemed to surprise even Edward.

"What the…where'd she go?" my brother remarks irritatedly as he pans his head around to search for her.

"Brother, why not sense for her life force like everyone else?" I suggest, hoping it would work.

"You think I haven't tried? That was the first thing I did when I couldn't see her with my eyes, but somehow…she's able to completely mask her Ki signature, I've got zilch, I'm fighting near blind here!" Ed screams nervously. I gasped upon realizing how serious this was; if Edward could not sense her whereabouts, she could employ stealth against Edward, something that was supposed to have become impossible since Edward gained his new powers.

"Well even if I can't sense you from a distance, I'll know when you come close, I have very good motion detection abilities cause I can feel the subtle vibrations that go through my Ki film when something passes near it!" Ed shouts as he calms down and just stands in place.

Suddenly, I felt something pass me, and a moment later, Edward swung his left elbow, catching the Brash creature in the face and sending her flying at a 70 degree arc, straight up into the catwalks surrounding the basement.

"HA! Told ya, just being fast enough to evade my eyes won't save you, I can feel you move around, so you'll either have to go a lot faster, or up your game, cause your bag of tricks isn't cutting the mold as it is!" Edward snorts derisively, causing the female thing to snarl and climb to her feet, then leap back down to the ground and slug Sloth in the face.

"Ow…what is it? I want to rest before I have to dig again" he rumbles slowly.

"You go and find the Xingese foreigners, the ones grouped with the strange boy with closed eyes, no doubt this monster has already met and assimilated them into his group, they are a liability should the shielding our mother, sisters and I use ever fail, now go take care of them, and try not to wreck the place, you're so clumsy sometimes!" she shouts rapidly before vanishing in a burst of speed again.

"Ugh…what a pain, oh well, find the funny eyes man, kill him, then back to digging" the hulking Sloth groans as he heads for the elevator. Realizing he meant May and the others, I gasped and panicked.

"Brother, she's sending Sloth after May and the others from Xing!" I scream, causing Edward to snarl.

"WHAT, TAKE CARE OF THEM! Oh that's it, I'm through playing games!" he bellows as his crimson aura flares even brighter, and the ground buckles a little, then with a burst of wind that pulsed through the area, he stared at the shocked Brash.

"I'm…gonna…FUCKING SMASH YOU!" Edward bellows as he leaps at Brash, and carries her into the opposing wall, then through it, bursting out into Drachman territory. I would have mentioned this to my brother, but I had to save Ling, he hadn't unlocked his powers, he was still almost as defenseless as the others were!

"Armstrong, Sloth is after Ling and the others, make sure that he doesn't get to him, I'll try to hold the big brute off!" I shout, which snaps General Armstrong out of her daze.

"Right, Miles, sound the alarm and make sure that word reaches Prince Ling and his friends to prepare themselves just incase Al should fail! Al, I hope you know what you're doing" she shouts as she rushes off to warn my friends.

"Alright Sloth, its just you and me, bring it on" I shout as I fall into my battle stance and curl my fingers to indicate I'm ready to go, with a blinding rush of speed, Sloth burst toward me and vanished from view similar to what Brash had done.

Ling

As an alarm blared and we began to pile out into the hallway as we followed Buccaneer, I wondered what was going on that required us to get to a safe place.

I got my answer just barely after that thought was finished, as the base began to rumble whilst Edward bellowed, "I'M GONNA FUCKING SMASH YOU!"

"What the hell?" Buccaneer comments with confusion, Randall and Katherine also staring in the direction of the sound, followed by the rest of us. As another loud crash echoed through the base, we winced as we hear a wall collapse.

"Whoa…he sure seems mad, surely Sloth isn't that much of a threat is he?" I remark out loud to myself, wondering what could make Edward go overboard like this.

"Compared to what Edward is now, no, we're all just grease stains beneath his boots in comparison, something else must have happened" Envy comments with a serious tone as he focuses too.

Without warning, there was a gust of wind, and something barreled past us, followed by another something. Upon slowing down enough, the figures revealed themselves to be Alphonse, and a giant hulking homunculus with a red right eye, the former having been thrown into the wall down the hall with tremendous force. This obviously had to be Sloth the Indolent, he matched Edward's description perfectly.

"Must…kill…man with closed eyes" a slow and lethargic voice grunts as he turns his head down and looks me square in the eyes, causing my sweat glands to kick into hyper drive as my face became drenched in a cold perspiration of fear.

"Found…you…now…die, so I can finish digging" he drones lazily, reaching a giant hand out for me.

"AAAAHHHHH HA HA! Keep away from me, I'm too important to dieeeee!" I shriek as I narrowly dodge his suddenly fast blow, the ground where I'd been standing moments earlier now a small crater where his palm had impacted.

"YOUNG LORD!" Fu and Lan Fan shout as they leap onto the creature's back and place adhesive bombs on the creature's back. I got the idea, and we quickly ran away from the center of the hallway.

"Everyone take cover!" I shout as we kiss the floor and cover our heads. Moments later, 6 high power explosives rocked the passage, and a big pressure wave swept over us following the blast. After several seconds, we got up to see if the bomb had done any damage, and I was pleased to see that Sloth was missing his right arm, half the right side of his body, and all but the bones of his right leg.

"Ow…" he groans as he barely keeps himself from collapsing.

"YES! You got it" Katherine shouts enthusiastically, pumping her fist in victory.

However, her thrill quickly turned to terror as many of us witnessed the spectacle of homunculi regenerative powers for the first time, the process both gross, yet utterly fascinating. For Katherine and May however, it was enough to make them scream. As Sloth's flesh poured over his bones in a show of alchemic sparks, May and Katherine both nearly passed out, slumping onto the floor from the sight that was unfolding.

"Owww…what a pain" Sloth deadpans sluggishly. "Must…kill…man with closed eyes" Sloth repeats with his dragged out speech as he looks back in my direction and begins to advance. As the creature slowly backed me into a corner, I noticed Lan Fan was upon the creature's back.

"Lan Fan, get away from him!" I scream as he raised his huge hands and grabbed her in one of them.

"Aaaahhhh, Help me!" she screams as he held her in front of his huge ugly face. Faster than the eye could blink, I noticed Fu upon his gigantic hand, slicing it off in one fell swoop. As the hand hit the floor, it began to disintegrate as a new one grew in, and Lan Fan leapt away before I could utter any words to her. Snapping back to the situation at hand, I realized Sloth was still dragging closer and closer toward my position, and May and Katherine where in his path, both still too dazed to focus. I had to save them! As I ran to grab the girls, Sloth blipped for a moment, then vanished. I grabbed the two ladies, leaping up and running for the closest door the moment I felt they were secure in my arms, when Sloth just reappeared in front of me, holding his hand high above his head to strike me down as he inched closer and closer.

Envy

As the foolish human prince just stood there, about to get pummeled to dust, I knew I had to do something so I morphed my right arm to that of my true form and slugged Sloth in the face, sending him flying through a wall with a mighty crash. Yet even after realizing he was safe, the moron still stood there in gaping like an idiot.

"Ugggghhhh…what a pain" Sloth groans as he picks himself up out of the rubble, his jaw healing rapidly till the damage was gone.

"RUN YOU DAMN FOOL!" I yell to the puny prince holding the two women. He looks up at me and his jaw dropped as he blazed out of the door no longer frozen with fear of Sloth, but with the fear of the limb from my true form. "Uhhh… killing people is a pain, gotta do it quickly so I can finish digging and sleep" Sloth says as he gets ready to go after Ling and the others. But I wasn't about to just let Sloth ruin the new life I was enjoying, I finally had friends, and most of my other siblings now cared about me, I'd sooner sacrifice myself to save them than go back to being a pawn for my wicked Father. Leaping in front of his path, I blocked him from his prey with two outstretched arms.

"Get out of the way…no time to play with you Envy, got to kill the man with the closed eyes so I can get closer to sleep" Sloth moans as he gets closer.

"NO! I want to talk to you; why are you doing this? We can make you human, we could help free you from Father, and more importantly, from your pain" I plead, hoping my brother would be able to understand and listen.

"Huh…Ugh…to many words, annoying" he growls slowly, my plea having fallen on deaf ears apparently.

"Very well then, I'll just have to smash you, and I hate having to do this to you little bro" I sigh as I prepare to hit him hard so I could protect my new family.

However, surprisingly, Sloth began to chuckle!

"Cute…but, can you hit…what you can't see or sense smartass?" the hulking simpleton cracks uncharacteristically, causing me to drop my guard a moment as I try to process this intentionally antagonistic remark.

The next moment, I felt him plow his fists into me like a freight train; damn those laws for conservation of momentum! He continued this onslaught for the next few minutes, and I began to feel confused; something was seriously wrong, usually, when he moved at these speeds, he had tremendous control issues, how was he able to do hairpin turns like Edward, who moved as gracefully as a river no matter what speed, how could Sloth, who didn't have the ability to eject propulsive Ki emissions from any point on his body to change his trajectory in an instants notice, move like this?

"You're…moving quite unusually, how can you be this agile along with your speed, last time I checked, you were as graceful as a train wreck" I remark, his increase in agility very odd.

"A secret…you won't live to find out" Sloth laughs as he prepares to charge me again. But before he could strike me, Ling leapt in with his blade, having slicked off Sloth's head and hands in three blindingly successive strikes, landing gracefully.

"Hey there, thought you could use my help, especially since I'm stronger now" Ling remarks with a smirk.

"Wait, you mean, you are, you mean you…but…how?" I sputter, as I realized what he meant, even though what he suggested sounded outlandish.

"Well we are familiar with the concept of Ki, so I just did a bit of creative thinking to apply what I'd learned from Edward's tales to myself, and sorta figured a tiny bit out" Ling chuckles, turning to look at my regenerating brother.

"Which means that I'm roughly on par with Sloth's level of power now, though I cannot channel it into the much needed Ki blasts, I'm still long ways from that" Ling says seriously as his gaze hardens.

"Well what about Fu and the girl?" I remark, wondering why they were no longer here.

"I gave them a direct order to get the others to safety, but I wouldn't blame them if they came back after accomplishing their task, so lets focus on Mr. Muscles here" he laughs as he holds his sword up again, and I form both my arms into swords too.

"Yeah, we'll hack some sense into you Sloth!" I scream, upon which Ling joined me and we threw ourselves at the lazy homunculus.

Edward Elric

As Brash and I picked ourselves out of the snow, I panted and laughed, wondering why I hadn't bothered to do this sooner, now I could fight with less restraint and end this quicker. As the woman shook off the impact, she snarled and looked at me.

"Very clever, very clever indeed, dragging me into the cold to try and get an advantage, but I can move fast enough that I can't freeze" she argues smugly.

"Wasn't trying to make you cold, I was trying to keep my friends out of harms way, now that we're in Drachman soil, I can cut loose" I reply with a wicked grin as I crack my knuckles, causing Brash's eyes to widen a little.

"You're bluffing, you couldn't possibly be-"

"Oh I'm serious alright! I'm as serious as you're about to be dead" I continue, cutting off the astonished Brash with a gaping mouth.

"The battle will recommence in 5…4-3-2-1, RAGH!" I roar as I fly at her with the force of 20 trains, my outstretched fists sending her flying into the air, where I promptly met her and kicked her back toward the mountains, her body impacting onto the stone walls of nature with a crash as she embeds into the stone.

"How do you like that bitch!" I shout, raising my voice to make sure its heard over the roar of the blizzard. With a roar, I felt myself struck back in the face, sending me sprawling to the snow, which was surprising, as I had unleashed more of my power, and shouldn't go down so easily.

"(Chuckles) You've got a big, fat mouth runt, I'm starting to think you're all talk; you claim to have powered up but I see nothing special still mortal" Brash remarks with a trashy tone. I laughed upon realizing she was feeling full of herself after getting in so many shots.

"What, why are you laughing? STOP MOCKING ME DAMN IT!" she shouts angrily as I continue to laugh.

"HA HA! (Sigh) You just don't get it do you? I've been holding back virtually all my power girl" I remark as I begin to power up more, my aura becoming a dark crimson.

"Wait, what?" she deadpans, apparently in disbelief as my current energy level quadruples in moments, causing my muscles to bulge slightly. As she observed the subtle but visible changes, her eyes widened.

"Let me give you a run down on how power levels work, currently my power level is roughly around 18,000 Ki units, for comparison, average humans have about five to eight Ki units of life force energy, and from what I've sensed from Envy and Pride, most Homunculi don't have above a few thousand Ki units even with immense numbers of souls in their stones" I explain, causing her to begin whimpering.

"In other words, you're screwed, completely and utterly screwed, and if I somehow can't hit you with my fists-"

(Buzzing pop)

"-I'll scatter the land with enough firepower to level a whole city once I've used my alchemy to move this whole area farther from Fort Briggs" I say with a smirk as I hold a glowing mini supernova in my palm.

"You're bluffing, you couldn't be that powerful, let alone be able to use alchemy to move an entire section of land, that would require untold levels of skill!" she shouts as I smirk more.

"Well, I guess you'll just see it for yourself missy" I laugh as I clap my hands and form a huge barrier of vibranium around the area for miles. Instants upon realized I'd summoned walls, she tried to break one down, only to rebound with a completely soundproofed thud.

"Nice try, that's an element called Vibranium, it absorbs all kinetic energy directed at it, and thus hitting it only makes it more durable sucker" I cackle as I hold my ribs while she continues to try and break it down. After several minutes, I clapped my hands and touched the ground, moving us and the several cubic miles of battleground I'd surrounded with the wall to another location many miles west of the fort. Upon depositing the entire slab we stood on, she snarled and stared at me.

"You, moron, why are you acting so smug?" she asks with a smartass tone.

"Ha, cause you're outclassed, that's why; you're just wasting your time fighting me, and I'm wasting my time humoring your attempts to better me, so either start being serious and use all power at your disposal, or I'm just gonna atomize you, but its likely to happen regardless seeing how weak you are" I reply with a bored tone.

Surprisingly, she began to laugh, and maniacally so at an ever increasing tempo, causing her voice to sound like a sped up recording.

"You're right, I have been holding back, but its only because I was trying to follow Mother's orders and bring you back alive creature, she wants to study you, says you are special" Brash remarks with a sadistic smile. My eyebrows raised upon hearing her mention this "mother" person, something was suspicious regarding her. I'd have to find out what kind of alien Brash is after this.

"Oh, and by the way, I heard your comment earlier about not being able to sense me, and I understand what it means now; it's the same pesky ability that those Xingese bastards have. Luckily mother figured out how to counter it long ago, and so you have no idea how much I've been holding back" she snarls with a smile before vanishing.

"Wait, what?" was all I could utter with a contorted face upon realizing she was gone, then feeling the sensation of being smacked upside my skull and being sent hurtling straight to the Vibranium walls where I hit with a silent thud, all in the span of half a second.

"(Groan) That really smarted, but where-"

"Right behind you" her cold smug voice whispers as she interrupts from behind me. Upon turning around, I found she was gone and felt her boot planted in my back with a sharp blow.

"Alright, try that again you big fat bi-"

CRACK!

"YEEEEOWWWWW!" I howl as I stagger for a moment, holding my neck in surprise.

"Ha, if you're so invincible, why did I just hear your bones break Mr. Invincible?" she remarks simperingly, standing over me gloating like a damn fool as I look at her from an upside-down angle.

"(Cracking noise) OWWWWWWW! No you clueless fuckwad, you didn't break shit, you popped my neck too fast that's why I'm screaming. ACK that stings!" I retort as I move my near-indestructible neck back into place with a series of loud pops, causing her to turn a little green. I sure felt glad for reinforcing my neck and allowing for greater bone and nerve elasticity via my alchemic matter manipulation; really glad my master taught me that move.

"Gross, just…gross. I've seen a lot of stuff, but that freaks me the fuck out, having your head upside down and near your chest, like a damn cane curve, that's just disgusting to watch happen to, and even worse to watch in reverse. Reminds me of what Mother did to our Edwar-OOP! Better shut up, damn I hope I didn't give away too much" she blabbers, covering her mouth upon mention an Edward.

"Wait a blasted Amestrian minute…how does a random alien know m name? I haven't even been beyond Earth's atmosphere here in this world, how could you know my name space trash!" I bellow as I fire a blast straight through her chest by accident, my beam having been off by a few inches due to my head still readjusting from its twist.

However, a great and horrible revelation dawned upon me as I saw red sparks begin to surge around the wound in her solar plexus region, the flesh beginning to sew itself back together in moments.

"(Growl) You will pay for that Saiyan! Gryaznyĭ ublyudok obezʹyany! (Translated from Drachmenian/Russian, filthy monkey bastard!)" she shouts, vanishing with her super speed moments before I felt her boot land in my own chest.

Now it all made perfect sense; Brash, never staying completely still, and she healed with alchemy energy. This girl is no extraterrestrial, she's a homunculus!

BLAM! The blow resounds as she knees me in the stomach with steel shattering force.

Brash, the Impatient.

Then, with a swift jab straight in my face, she sent me flying.