Cinder's path of destruction
The loyal warrior flew his way towards the great city, so fast it looked like it was only the wind, he wore a cold stern face as he made it to the less wealthy section of the capital, he floats over the slums, people unaware of his existence until he announces himself.
"Citizens of the capital, the empire you serve has made you weak, your pitiful power levels are laughable, but there is a chance for you to grow stronger!" he spoke while the people below were very confused, who was this red-skinned person, and how was he flying?
"If you don't believe me, then allow me to show you what real power looks like!" Cinder powered up, his intense ki blew away several people near him, causing them to panic, he then raised his left arm and fired multiple ki blasts from the palm of his hand, slaughtering the people in his path.
Citizens were being vaporized in front of each other, buildings blowing up, screams pierced the air as fire spread through the slums, Cinder remained floating still, making sure to send the message to humanity, the weakness of their empire.
Even outside the slums, people were growing more confused, shocked and terrified, guards were trying to calm them down, but to no avail, "What the hell is going on?" a soldier asked while noticing the smoke before him, shocked at the amount of damage being caused.
"There's no way it's the rebels, right?" he muttered to himself, it's not possible that the rebel army would be bold enough to attack them head on, or how they got inside their walls, this was very worrying to him, the soldier ran to safety inside the nearest barracks, wishing for it to all be over.
Soon enough, an entire chunk of the slums was in flames, countless people burned to ashes or left as skeletons, the burning debris covered Cinder's figure, with glowing eyes piercing through, he was successful in spreading his message.
Imperial palace
Word had quickly spread of the slum's destruction, even reaching the ears of the emperor while he was with his minister, "I can't let this destruction go on much further, we must take action now!" he shouts, they were in a dark room lit up by torches, about to unleash their weapon.
"You're correct your majesty, now step forward and fulfil your destiny as emperor!" Minister Honest encourages him, the kid would look nervous, but with a deep breath he approaches their weapon, the royal bloodline's last resort.
Outside of the palace, more people were growing worrisome of the carnage in the distance, fearing their own lives, but they would feel rumbling, they turned back to see something rise from the palace, the Imperial Guardian Shikoutazer.
Over 500 meters in height, the giant machine was easily noticeable by Cinder, glaring at the mech with interest "Humanity can create something of this caliber, not entirely stupid as I thought", The emperor would try his best to pilot the mech, managing to lock onto his target.
"FIRE!" he commands his machine to fire hundreds of missiles at Cinder, with a smirk, the blue-eyed warrior dodges every missile while reaching closer and closer, the kid was shocked how quickly he moved, but he didn't expect him to already be mere inches from the mech's head.
With a single kick to the head, the Shikoutazer was stumbling backwards from the impact, "WHAT!" the emperor was clearly surprised, he fires even more missiles, blindly trying to get a hit on him, but Cinder grabs one of them and throws it towards the palace.
The minister felt the rumbling of the building taking damage, slamming his fist onto a table "If only those damn Jaegers were here to help, we'd have more of a chance!", but he realized how the best generals fell to this threat, filling him with more dread.
As the fight raged on, Cinder was feeling unsatisfied "There must be more to this machine than being an easy target", he continued to give the emperor a hard time, kicking the legs and targeting more of the weak spots, though something caught him off guard.
The Shikoutazer's chest opened to reveal an eye, energy was being charged from it until it fired a huge lazer beam, it covered him up as it burned everything in its path, taking more lives in the process, but afterwards the enemy was still there.
"I see it still has more to show" the alien muttered, the only form of damage he took was some burn marks on his armor, he was only annoyed, but impressed none the less "If you're not done yet, then show me the rest of your firepower!".
"How is this even possible?!" the kid shouted, he was in panic mode "I won't allow you to kill any more of my people!", Cinder was able to hear his words from the machine's hidden microphone, he takes a glance around, and after a few seconds he lets out a laugh.
"Stop me from killing them?, well look at this" he moves slightly to the side, revealing the damage caused by the giant beam "Killing your own people yourself, mistaking your hubris for righteousness, savages like you love hiding what you truly feel"
The kid emperor was shocked at what he was doing, killing innocents in the crossfire, but at the same time...he felt his pride was on the line, pride as an emperor of his nation "How dare you accuse me of such crimes, I'll destroy you!".
He fired even more missiles, with Cinder still dodging all his attempts, he even tried to hit him with the Shikoutazer's fists, but to no avail, the alien is too fast for him, the red-skinned man fired a large blue ki blast towards one of the legs, momentarily crippling it.
He flies around, firing more ki blasts strong enough to push the machine back, he lands a strong uppercut to the head, a loud echo from the impact caused a shockwave and further hurt the emperor from the inside.
Cinder was already getting bored of this fight, shaking his head in disappointment "Pathetic, I expected more from this technology, but it's still only primitive compared to a simple ship from the Frieza force...", he fired flies back to charge up an attack "Magnetron!"
His fist was surrounded by flaming blue ki, suddenly he aimed his arm forward, firing a flaming blue beam attack, the flames covered the Shikoutazer's torso, the attack forced the mech to crouch down in defeat as steam covered the burns.
The emperor was fearing the worst, trying to do everything he can to fight back, but the mech remained unmoving, Cinder turned his head towards the palace, spotting the minister before looking back at the Shikoutazer, smirking with an idea.
"If threatening your life won't be enough to bring out your full power, then let's see what this can do" the alien spoke menacingly, the kid looked confused by his words, but noticed he was facing towards the palace, fear rising much further.
Cinder suddenly flew towards the palace, Honest, after seeing him fast approaching, quickly jumped and tried to escape, but the alien was already in front of him, grabbing him by the throat.
"Minister!" the kid shouts, he was oblivious to anything this man has done, still having a strong connection to the old man, Cinder stared at the machine as he held the man, Honest choked as he tried to scream and escape.
"Please let me go, I'll give you anything you want, money, power, just let me live please!" Honest pleaded, but the attacker showed no sympathy, staring at him with killer eyes, there was no means for escape for the minister, only death.
With a sadistic grin, Cinder forced the man to face the emperor before he stabs him with his sword, slicing upwards before the bleeding body fell, he stomped on it and yelled for a fight "Now show me your full power!", his voice echoing through the battlefield.
With heavy breathing and struggling, the emperor let out an angry scream, suddenly the ultimate teigu started changing, slowly revealing monstrous flesh, big eyeballs on each shoulder and kneecap, and the face with sharp strained eyes and sharp teeth.
It grew a tail as its steaming aura rises to the air, the Shikoutazer lets out a strong violent roar, this was its non-natural trump card created by alchemy, purge mode, its presence scares off millions of citizens still left, further crippling the trust of the people.
The alien was impressed so far, hoping this would bring a good fight, the warrior smirked with delight "Good, that's what I want to see!", he flew towards the machine as it was charging up a purple energy ball from its chest, the real battle had just begun.
Right before the Invasion
Cornelia's knowledge of the enemy allowed them to have an easier time planning, she was leading the charge to infiltrate Bliz's ship, with her was Chelsea, Lubbock, Mine, Leone and Taeko along with her soldier friend, Cornelia being the strongest of them.
They roamed through the forest with nervousness, but Mine would ask a curious question to lighten things up "So if you trained with them, does that mean you can fly too?", the blue-eyed girl would confirm with a nod, but it was a little complicated.
She replied with a sensible answer "Yes, but doing so would leave you guys behind, and I can't carry everyone on my back", this makes a lot of sense to everyone, so they don't question her one bit, Mine was satisfied with the answer.
"Good thing the boss went to gather some allies willing to help, most of the revolutionaries are distracted by the war to notice the bigger problem" Chelsea mentioned casually, knowing the rest of the army won't believe their outlandish descriptions.
The team was reaching closer to their destination, from afar they can see the crashed ship in the distance, the rest of the team was at awe of the sight, Cornelia remained neutral, already used to its tech, the team moved forward with no hesitation.
Once they made it inside, they sneakily roamed the hallways, there seemed to be no other workers inside, leaving them to assume Bliz only had 107 and Cinder with him, "Let's split up" Cornelia quietly spoke, having Taeko and Leone by her side.
The team was separated, leaving Chelsea with Mine and Lubbock "Oh great..." she muttered to herself, knowing their history of arguing, but they quickly proceeded, impressed by all the technology they were seeing, they then spotted a large door that opened itself.
Inside the room was tons of advanced computers, most of their data was stored in this very room, "Wow, I never would have thought to see something as amazing as this" Chelsea says in awe, walking around the large room with great interest.
Lubbock would look at one of the monitors, scratching his head with confusion "That's weird, I can perfectly read the words on here...", all the computers had the Empire's language, since they can perfectly understand their enemy's words, it was safe to say they studied their language to understand them.
"You can actually read, amazing" Mine jested, much to his annoyance, but he remained focused, the pink-haired sniper reads through topics that interested her, she gasped "They've been collecting teigus?", this shocked everyone in the room.
Chelsea crossed her arms with a worried look "With everything they have, I fear how they'll use them", if Bliz's team was this advanced with their machines, who knows what they can do to weaponize their world's super weapons, giving them chills.
But Night Raid's detective continued looking through files, there were a bunch of topics to read about, Saiyan civilization, Frieza and his empire, even other planets throughout the cosmos, she had no words with the amount of data available, but she manages to find what they were looking for.
Their mission objective, but instead of reading it herself, an Ai voice spoke after she pressed a speaker button "Planet 4032-Green-877 of the northern quadrant is to be conquered and made as a home planet", Mine and Lubb approached to have a closer look.
The voice would continue speaking, giving everyone the bigger picture "Afterwards is the conquering of other planets to expand our army, soon it will be able to compete with Frieza's, his defeat aiding Lord Bliz to becoming emperor of the universe".
They weren't shocked by their ambitions, but the power difference between them and these aliens made them fearful, "Who would have thought they would also be power hungry maniacs" Chelsea tried to joke around, but she had another idea.
The detective managed to find a data pad with all the info inside, it was in the form of a wrist bracer "Good thing they have these lying around, now let's find the others", her companions agreed as they slowly exited the room.
The trio were successful in learning even more about their enemy, as well as other info that may be useful in the future, all that's left is to defeat them, the hardest part of their mission, so far things are going smoothly, at least for now.
Shortly after Cinder left to terrorize the city, Bliz remained seated on his throne, reflecting on everything they've accomplished in this planet, but for some reason he felt something off about the atmosphere of his ship, turning his throne around and standing up.
He looks around to see what's wrong, having a gut feeling he isn't alone, until he was suddenly attacked by Leone, but he quickly grabbed her arm and slammed her on the floor, she coughed out blood after rolling on the cold floor.
Bliz activates his battle mask, his red eyes glowing once more, he was concerned of this sight, watching as the lion woman slowly rises holding her arm, "How did a human get inside my ship?" he wondered, but his got his answer as Cornelia shows up.
It was now clear how they got inside, the tyrant looks at Cornelia before chuckling "I was willing to welcome you with open arms and grant your wish, but it seems you would rather die with the rest of these apes...", these insults made her sick.
"I do hope for a way to bring them back, if they would want to be, but I'll do it without all the war mongering" she spoke with defiance, Taeko and her assistant get into their battle poses, Leone looks ready to attack, but the blue-eyed girl glanced around "Where is your friend?".
Bliz pointed towards the entrance "I sent him to send a message to your dear Empire, soon there will be a change of leadership...", everyone knew he was planning to take over their nation, though Cornelia already knew more to his motives.
She clenched her fist with determination "No matter what, I won't let you take over my home just so you can settle a beef!", Taeko suddenly goes on the offensive, but the towering menace threw an effortless uppercut, launching her backwards.
Leone tried to attack once more, but he slams her against the wall with his tail, he lets out a laugh "Very well, I'll have to show you and your friends my immeasurable power!", his powers up with a terrifying purple aura, his ki shook the floor beneath them, and this was only a fraction of his strength.
Chelsea and her group could feel the power inside the ship, causing them to panic and quickly move "If that's the leader himself, we're in big trouble!", they would run as fast as they can until they're near the main hall, but what stopped them was the sight of Cornelia being punched outside the ship.
Cornelia flies up while rubbing her face, but the sight of Bliz fast approaching forces her to be on the move, shooting ki blasts around to keep him at bay, but the tyrant was not affected, tanking all the blasts before he grabs her face, punching her gut and throwing her forward.
The girl grits her teeth before rising back into action, but before her opponent can make a move, Mine shoots him with a lazer attack from pumpkin, which only annoyed him "More worms want to play along?", distracting him enough for Cornelia to kick his head.
To her surprise it makes him slide back, but only slightly, and he didn't look too bothered by the damage, his only response were death beams being shot towards her, she was lucky she saw some of his moves beforehand, so she knew how to escape them.
"Damnit, I can see why he's the big cheese" Mine prepared for another sniper shot, but Bliz would notice her, charging another blast to fire at her, but the blue-eyed warrior continued attacking, making sure he stayed focused on her.
Suddenly, the tyrant would be attacked by more people, Leone trying to claw at him, only to be kicked and shot by a ki blast, leaving her very hurt and fatigued, Taeko used her scythe, but he was too fast to be hit, he grabbed her leg and slammed her against Leone.
"I'll crush you" Bliz says before stomping on both, hurting them badly, but Cornelia would come in with a loud punch with crushing king, the ki being let out pushed the other women back, but Bliz was continued to be slightly entertained "You've been training, I would have guessed so".
He quickly gut punches her towards the sky, flying up, smacking her back with his tail and firing a purple beam attack from above, causing a bunch of damage in their radius, as smoke rose to the sky he laughed "I can blow up the earth if I really wanted to, but I'd rather keep it intact".
But as he was enjoying the carnage, he noticed Mine's weapon was shining brightly, she was pouring every ounce of fear and anxiety into this attack, her emotions empowering pumpkin, suddenly a large blue electric blade formed from the barrel, this was its trump card.
"I'll make sure you never laugh again!" she yelled, running into the action with fire in her heart, Leone, with all the energy she had, picks her up and threw her towards Bliz, ready to cut him in half with her electric blade, but he didn't look intimidated, only impressed.
He flew at her with a clenched fist, Mine was able to hit him, but that didn't do enough damage, the tyrant punched her stomach into a tree, but after she was further away from him, she would fire her blade as a beam attack, screaming the loudest she ever had.
Bliz only stood still, challenging her beam head on, the blue lightning shot across the landscape, all this output was beginning to be too much for pumpkin to handle, so after the attack was finished, it broke apart, the debris cleared to reveal Mine breathing heavily.
Her hair was no longer in twin tails, her clothes tattered and pumpkin laying on the ground broken, but glowing red eyes pierced through the debris, Bliz was still very much standing, having few burn marks on his armor "You did more damage than I expected, you impressed me girl...".
She was terrified by what she saw, scared that her weapon had fallen apart, the towering alien slowly approached "I'll give you a warrior's death", but before he can get any closer, cross tail was trapping him, giving him confusion.
"Now!" Lubbock shouted for anyone to make a move, Cornelia rapidly punched his chest, faster than any regular person can see, her aura exploding while she connected every punch, but before she can continue, he shot a death beam through her shoulder.
The blue-eyed girl fell on the floor, covering her wound in pain, he broke free from cross tail and looks at everyone's defeated expression, giving him joy "You all gave me a decent warm up, humans aren't as weak as I thought", he would chuckle, but he stopped when Cornelia had confidence on her face.
She shook her head "That may be true Bliz, you are way stronger than any of us humans, but there's someone else that can challenge you, someone that's not human, a saiyan...", this left him speechless, remembering Planet Vegeta's destruction.
He was very concerned by this revelation "What, how can there be a saiyan when their home world was destroyed, and HERE of all places?!", he knew of their potential, if they were to get stronger, they would be able to challenge him, now he was visibly upset.
Everyone else would be concerned that she would reveal that to him, but she continued to speak "Daikon will be the one to beat you, only he has the power to take you down, he might even be the legend Frieza fears, the Super Saiyan...".
He has had enough of her words, Bliz glanced toward everyone near him "I'll deal with all you vermin later, right now there's a much bigger threat to my power to take care of, savor your lives while you can...", he slowly floats in the air before taking off, this was the most concerned he has been on this crusade.
"I'll chase you down to the depths of this planet until I find you, you cannot hide for much longer, saiyan!" he shouted, flying in the air to find his most dangerous opponent, but on the inside, he felt this could be a worthy foe, his hunt for Daikon had just started.
Cornelia remained on the floor, with all her allies surrounding her, concerned for her life "Don't worry about me guys, everyone else's lives matter way more than my own, as well as the freedom of our world", she took heavy damage, but it wasn't super critical.
Night Raid was aware of her connection to Akame, fearing this would hurt her even further if she were to die, "You can't die yet, what about Akame?" Leone asked "If you're gone, she'll never be the same again...", this was very much true, they don't want that to happen.
Cornelia thought about that, Green's death was the death that stood out the most "It was painful watching my friends die in front of me, it haunts me to this day, I can't allow Akame to fall deeper and deeper into her own despair", she slowly stood up.
Chelsea wipes some sweat off her face before looking at Mine, noticing her tired expression "Are you going to be alright without pumpkin?", the pink sniper thought about it, wondering what she's going to do after all this is said and done.
"If the war is over after we solve this alien invasion, then I'll be happy to stop fighting" she would respond, the team had accomplished their goal of retrieving more info from Bliz's ship, it could be used for bigger and greater things in the future.
They suddenly heard a loud roar all the way from the capital, this wasn't a good sign, "The hell is that?" Lubbock asked, it was the roar from Shikoutazer, entering its purge mode, the team looked very concerned about what's happening, what could be over there?
Cinder vs the Shikoutazer
Their explosive fight has set the entire capital ablaze, the giant machine was doing significantly better than before, summoning a blade from its arm as it tried to attack the red-skinned man, the emperor was barely in control of it, his enraged state was all that was left in controlling it.
Cinder's punches and kicks were forcing it to stumble backwards, he was now using a bit more power to keep up, he was enjoying himself in the heat of battle, landing solid blows on its weak points "Once you have fallen, there will be nothing left to challenge my lord!".
Suddenly, the Shikoutazer opened its mouth and hundreds of deadly alchemic bugs flew towards the red alien, with disgust in his face, he fires multiple ki blasts to kill them, the emperor continued fighting wildly, firing more missiles and swinging the mechs blade.
"Despite the power boost, your style is still predictable" Cinder says as he dodges the missiles, grabbing 2 of them and throwing them towards the others, the machine then swung its tail, smacking him across the city, while on the ground, the alien wipes some blood from his face.
"If I keep stalling to enjoy myself, then nothing will get done..." he muttered to himself, the screams of the citizens still filled the air, which annoyed him, but he quickly flew back up, unsheathing his mysterious blade which shined in the sunlight.
"No more games mindless beast, I'll be finishing you off in the name of Lord Bliz" he spoke in a serious tone, the Shikoutazer remained still for a moment, watching Cinder raise his blade in the air, he powers up with his flaming blue aura and yells "GRAND CHARIOT!".
A large gust of wind would cover him up as his ki shook the city, and once the wind cleared up, he was now wearing black full-body armor, very similar to Incursio, but had a bluish color scheme, the warrior clenched his fists and flew towards the machine with greater speed.
The Shikoutazer roared as it fired multiple energy beams from its giant eyes, as well as a bunch more missiles, but Cinder effortlessly dodged all these attacks, determined to get this over with, he had his fun, now it's time for business.
He aimed his right leg for a powerful kick "Grand fall!", his kick connected against the machines core, the emperor screamed from the inside, but soon enough Cinder kicked through the mech, even making a large hole where he could see the kid from inside it.
The Shikoutazer still stood while it was deactivated, breaking the emperor free from his rage, breathing heavily while looking at his enemy, now fearing what was going to happen, the alien chuckled before aiming his arm forward "Well done kid".
He fires magnetron at the kid emperor, incinerating him into oblivion and pushing the machine forward after being shot, it slowly falls upon the city, and its impact shook the ground beneath it, Cinder then lets out a laugh, feeling accomplished in furthering their goal.
He looks at both his arms in delight "Good thing I slew the previous owner...", but he looks onward, using his built-in scouter to detect more power levels, there were multiple numbers nearby that caught his attention "Looks like my job isn't done yet".
The Jaegers and the other members of Night Raid had arrived during the latter half of the fight, extremely nervous about the outcome of this battle due to what they saw, but it's their duty to save their planet no matter how they felt about it.
The teams had split to do different things, with Daikon and the Jaegers helping any citizen they could find, Akame tagging along to be near her sister, they knew the others would try to challenge the menace behind this, with Daikon looking ahead "Let's see you put your training to the test, Tatsumi".
Cinder lands down, searching for the ones nearest to him, to his surprise 2 opponents stood before him, Tatsumi had already activated Incursio and Susanoo was in his trump card form, "So, you two are the next to die by my hand..." he spoke with intrigue.
Susanoo would speak "Tatsumi, he is an extremely dangerous foe, don't let your guard down a single bit", the alien warrior was interested in their power, though he saw there was another person with a higher power level than everyone else here.
They can see Cinder was using a teigu, Tatsumi seeing how similar their armor looked, knowing this will be a tough battle, but he pointed forward with no fear "You may have taken down the empire's greatest weapon, but you won't be doing the same to Night Raid!"
"Excellent, then show me your resolve!" Cinder says before powering up, with Tatsumi and Susanoo doing the same, the 3 warriors flying at each other, this was the blue-eyed alien's final battle as far as he knew, wondering if his Lord would eventually show up.
To be continued...