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Chapter 6
Cerealian Ruins…
An explosion rips through the side of a broken tower and Aikon emerges through the smoke with a round shield raised. He flips backyards in the air and hits the ground on his feet.
He tosses the hilt of a shattered sword to the side, and manifests a new falchion. Five chakrams buzzsawed their way through the tower at him and he tensed.
Aikon parried the first, and struck the second down with his sword. He side stepped the third and shield bashed the fourth into the fifth.
Gas appears behind him with pure speed, a scythe in hand. Aikon ducks under the first swing and catches the blade on his shield on the second. In the same move he drives the pummel of his sword at Gas' face.
*Shilk!* A javelin appears in Gas' free hand and pierces both Aikon's forearm and the ground before his attack reaches.
Aikon…
"Fucker!" I kick Gas away, but that was just what he wanted. He created a spiked metal plate above me and brings it down like a hydraulic press. "Tch!"
I click my teeth and use my shield arm to bring two fingers to my head and teleport behind Gas in the nick of time. Thankfully, the javelin/stake is left behind.
Gas is once again on step ahead of me and spin kicks me as soon as I appear. I'm losing ground at a dangerous rate. Frankly, he's dismantling me.
He's even faster and stronger than he was as a berserker, and he's in control. He's calm and planning each move. And I can't sense his intent nearly as clear as before.
It wasn't a crutch before, but damn did it help at the time.
Gas manifests a bow and arrow in the time I take recovering and fires the arrow. It travels so fast I can hardly see it, but I raise my shield anyway.
The arrow goes straight through like the shield wasn't even there.
Not only that, it also pierced through my forearm and shoulder and kept going. My arm flops uselessly to my side and drops the now clearly useless shield.
Playing his game isn't working, not with the power disparity between us. These weapons we made were made of normal material that wouldn't last a second in our hands.
They couldn't hurt us either. They're nonfactors, unless our Ki is enhancing them. He's several times stronger than me now, so my weapons just aren't going to last against his.
Gas is walking my way, taking his time. He's toying with me. "I think I preferred when you were a slobbering monster, I really don't like how you fight."
Gas tilts his head before having some epiphany. "Ah, right. You'd prefer I punched you, right?"
Suddenly he's in my guard. I could see the movement, but I couldn't possibly move fast enough to stop him. His fist is reared back and before I know it, the air in my lungs is gone and I'm crashing through house after house.
Finally I slam through a dilapidated fountain and into a large tower structure. It's only once I've stopped that I cough up a fuck ton of blood.
With Gas…
The last Heeter watches as his prey disappears into the old Cerealian watchtower. He'll torture the Saiyan a little longer before finally letting him die. Then, the Cerealian.
Speaking of…
Gas spots Muezli still standing where she'd been since murdering his brother. "My brother's only failing, had been keeping me from simply killing you years ago."
With Aikon…
My arms are practically useless, I'm gonna have to use telekinesis to grab a Senzu. Just as I'm about to though, light shines down on me through a window. Moonlight.
'Jesus, I've been getting my ass beat all day, huh? But wait, the moon! Ha, here comes my own asspull, asshole!' The clouds part revealing more of the moon. 'Yeees! Here we go, fucker! Better warn Muezli before I go berserk…'
'Hey-MOTHERFUCKER!' Muezli jumps in fright from the mental curse. Just as I'm about to send my warning the clouds part fully and reveal…a waxing gibbous.
'Haaaah, I have to do everything myself, don't I? Fine, Power Ball it is.' Luckily, Vegeta had explained the technique in detail to the original Aikon so he could potentially transform without sacrificing any of his own power.
Funny how him being a self centered prick is about to pull my ass out of the fire.
After recovering with what would be the last Senzu I could stomach for a while I create the Power Ball and chuck it out the window.
I pull myself out of the rubble while the white ball of energy stops beyond the atmosphere.
'Sorry about earlier. Just a heads up, I might not be able to control myself, but this is kind of a Hail Mary. Just stay out of my way and destroy the Power Ball if I'm too dangerous.'
Muezli feels confused through my telepathic link, then frightened. '...you're going to transform…'
Seems she has some trauma with Oozaru, naturally. Not like we have any other options though, so… "Burst open and mix."
With Gas…
Gas watches the ball of Ki fly high into the air and burst in a blinding flash. "What's this supposed to accomplish, annoy me?"
Gas creates a sword and moves towards the broken watchtower. "This ends now, fool."
As he nears the sound of rhythmic thumping like a drum echoes out from the rubble, almost like a drum.
~Skillet-Monster: Peyton Parrish Cover~
Gas raises a bald eyebrow as the rhythmic drumming grows louder and faster. The ground and rubble begins shaking and Gas finally puts all the pieces together when he looks back at the white orb hovering in the sky still.
Like a full moon.
"NO!" Gas lunges for the rubble, sword raised, only for an enormous fist to emerge from it and slam into his entire body.
"GAAHHH!" Gas rockets away, bones rattled and blood flying. Oozaru Aikon fully emerges from the tower by throwing both arms out and shattering it with a roar.
Noticeably, the Great Ape was still fully clothed. Aikon when creating his clothes always designed them to have similar properties to the Saiyan Armor and its ability to stretch and grow.
That way he wasn't naked when he turned back, and he didn't have to search for his Senzu pouch afterwards.
Gas eventually stops mid air and he fights to remain conscious. 'I nearly blacked out from one punch. I'll need to be careful if I'm going to win. Need to get the tail.'
Just as he finishes the thought he notices an enormous shadow cast down on and around him. He looks up and gasps when he sees not only his Oozaru adversary above him, but also the massive boulder he was holding that was even bigger than him.
The Great Ape throws it down so hard it instantly becomes like a meteor coming down on him. There was no time to counter or dodge, so he walled up.
He created a bubble of Ki around and makes a great shield that he braces under with both arms. The boulder explodes from the sheer kinetic force behind it and blows away everything for miles.
Muezli is fortunately far enough away that she only feels the shockwaves from the impact. She watches on in shock and horror at the devastation.
'How did the planet survive an army of these monsters?'
Miraculously, Gas' Ki Barrier survived the impact, but only just. Gas breathed a sigh of relief from within the cracked bubble, only to flinch when he saw Aikon coming down just as fast with both arms raised behind him.
The Oozaru's arms come down like hammers and shatters the barrier like it wasn't even there, then continue on to slam into Gas and his shield so hard the land shatters once again for miles.
The Oozaru settles after the attack, and in the lull of its rage Gas emerges from the dust cloud, bloody and ragged. Aikon spots him almost immediately and breathes fire down on him.
Gas races to escape the flames that melts through the landscape around him. He barely escapes the onslaught into the sky before turning and creating dozens of floating ballista.
The ballista releases their bolts all at once. As they near the Oozaru he snorts in a sort of bored agitation and raises both arms out. He brings his hands together and claps with enough force to blow the bolts away and knock Gas out of the sky.
"Kch! Damn monster!" Gas pulls himself up and sees the Great Ape charging an intensely concentrated orb of Ki in his maw. If that hits him, he's dead…
Oozaru Aikon growls as the orb condenses and roars as he fires it. It takes all of Gas' speed and instincts to throw himself out of the way in time.
The attack sears the earth as it disappears into the mountains before detonating into a cataclysmic crimson explosion that erases the mountain range in its entirety.
Gale force winds reach all the way to Muezli who falls to her knees and gapes at the destructive power on display.
Gas is visibly sweating now watching that same devastation. He snarls at Aikon and races at him, sword in hand. The Oozaru goes to backhand him, but Gas flies in an arc over Aikon, moving for his tail.
"This ends now, monst-GUH!" Before he could get to the tail, the tail got to him. It whips Gas out of the air and he careens into the earth. Gas immediately leaps to the side to avoid the giant foot that stomped down on where he'd laid.
Gas blitzes at Aikon's head and projects a giant Ki construct of his fist to punch the Ape across the face. Aikon's head turns with the blow, but that's all. Gas keeps going though, and starts laying into the beast with punches and kicks with giant Ki limbs.
A final punch is launched but the Oozaru has a malicious grin at the last second before catching the strike in his jaws. Gas gasps and cracks appear in the construct immediately.
The fist shatters and Aikon's teeth close on Gas' left arm. The savage Saiyan throws Gas into the earth once again, only this time, bereft of one arm.
"AAAAAH! GAHHH! H-HAAA!" Yeah, having your arm ripped off hurts a lot as one could imagine. Gas screams and fails on the ground, blood gushing between his fingers and cold sweat coating his skin.
*Gulp* He barely manages to unclench his eyelids just in time to watch the monster standing over him swallow his arm. His breathing comes in short gasps, the terror is creeping in.
The Oozaru scoffs at its now meek prey. The hunt is spoiled and worthless now, it would have to find new prey or simply destroy everything it could see.
Through the haze of his primal mind he recalls the green haired one had great destructive power, nevermind the fact it was a one off attack. She would make for a decent hunt.
Aikon turns a savage grin in Muezli's direction despite the distance between them, and she could feel his notice. Muezli gulps, but then remembers what the Saiyan had mentioned before transforming.
She takes aim at the Power Ball overhead and fires a very small portion of her Radiant Spear at it, destroying it easily. Aikon watches in confusion but as the light of the Power Ball fades, the Oozaru growls as it begins shrinking.
Muezli breathes a sigh of relief.
With Aikon…
When I regain my awareness, I'm on my hands and knees. My head is reeling from the aftershocks of my transformation, the beast still running rampant in the back of my mind.
It's…an experience.
Once the world stops spinning I rise to my feet and look for my opponent. I spot him on one knee one arm short of a full set.
Ah. Well then. Take that, I guess.
There's a weird taste in my mouth…
"Hnnnn! Must…seal the wound." Gas pulls himself up and proceeds to cauterize the gushing wound where his shoulder should've begun. "Hrrrrgh!"
"That looks like it hurts a lot. Sorry 'bout that. Want me to get the other one, even you out?" Gas snarls at me for my cheek, and it just makes me smile harder.
"Don't think you've gained the upper hand." "Ha!" "My power is still greater than yours!"
Then he does something interesting. With a growl he creates a new arm made up of his purple Ki. That's some control he's got…
Despite this his power is still cut in half, and I'm just a bit stronger after my transformation. He's still stronger, but not enough that I can't put up a fight.
And that's all we need right now. 'Hey, how are you holding up?'
'I had to use a little bit of energy to turn you back to normal, but I should be ready in a minute or two.'
I crack my neck in preparation for the rough battle ahead. "So what would you call this, round 3?"
~(VCB-R1) No Scared (Midnight Malice)~
"More like, sudden death." Gas rears his Ki arm back and throws it forward. What I didn't expect was for it to stretch and grip my face in the blink of an eye.
The arm continues extending and I'm very rapidly back in town. The grip on my face doesn't loosen while I'm smashed through house after house. It's not until I kick the appendage away that I'm free.
Rather than return to Gas, the hand grips a near wall and Gas basically hookshots himself at me. The false arm then grows and comes down like a club.
I hop out if the way as the ground beneath me shatters before I spin kick Gas across his face, sending him through the wall.
I charge up a Spirit Javelin but Gas is faster and fires a mouth beam. 'Shit!'
*BOOM*
With Muezli…
The Saiyan boy was losing ground quickly. She watched explosions rock the city and two trails of indigo and crimson Ki zip through the streets.
They were getting closer. A lot closer… TOO CLOSE!
Aikon and Gas slammed into the tower she was on top of and almost immediately smash through the roof on either side of her.
Both fighters looks surprised to see her, before Gas snarls at her and Aikon looks panicked for the first time since they'd met.
Gas' new appendage became a large scythe and he swung two cleave them both in half. Muezli felt a hand on the top of her head and it pushed off of her hard enough to make her duck under the swipe.
Aikon then brought an ax kick down Gas, sending him down through the tower.
"You need to run and don't stop for anything. He knows just as well as I do how much power you've got packed into that attack. He knows you're an actual threat now. I'll keep him off you till it's ready."
Muezli nods and leaps off the tower just before dozens of serpent-like Ki arms rip through the structure homing in on her.
She ran through the streets as fast as she could, but the only thing that kept her from being caught immediately were the razor sharp Ki rings shredding through them.
So began a long game of cat and mouse…and monkey?
Gas came down on her with a giant energy fist reared back, but Aikon kicked him in his sternum and followed after him. Several blows were traded, bringing down building after building with Gas still having a clear physical advantage.
Aikon's Instant Transmission bridged the speed gap though, and was the only reason Muezli was still alive. Gas was losing his temper and swung wide with his enlarged Ki limb.
Aikon slammed a Spirit Javelin into Gas' chest point blank, sending him airborne. Aikon landed several blows with his teleporting after each strike.
Gas looked like a pinball before he finally countered by swinging his arm into where he predicted Aikon would appear and sending him into the ground.
Gas' eyes snapped to Muezli next and he fired a giant ball of Ki. Just before it landed though, Aikon appeared in front of her and tackled her out of the way.
He flew out of the range of the explosion with her hanging over his shoulder. Gas cut them off with his arm in a scythe form again. Aikon throws her over Gas' horizontal swing and ducks beneath it.
Ki sparks and crackles around Aikon's fist before he slams it into Gas' nose. "HRAAA!" With a scream he sends Gas flying past the clouds.
With Aikon…
His energy is dipping. He's being reckless and burning through it fast enough that I'm actually hurting him.
I hold out my arms just in time for Muezli to land in them princess style.
"What do you think he's doing up there?"
I could feel his Ki spiking and growing erratic. "Throwing a tantrum from the feel of it. Get ready."
With Gas…
Gas rights himself in the air and gasps for air. 'What is wrong with that Saiyan?!'
No matter how much stronger Gas became, no matter how large the gap between them came, not once did that Saiyan lose that damnable grin!
Every blow Gas dealt him only seemed to incite him further, and he keeps coming back stronger every time! He's a damn monster!
Gas started hyperventilating, that fear Bardock created years ago was coming back stronger than ever.
"You failure, you absolute failure!" Gas jerked his head up and saw the phantom of his eldest brother snarling at him. "You're just gonna let yourself be beaten by Saiyans again? By a Saiyan child?!"
"...I-if I go back down there, I might die."
"And?! He killed me, remember? So get back down there, and END HIM! NOW!"
That fear slowly turned to blind rage as Elec continued screaming in his mind. Gas dropped below the clouds…
With Aikon…
~Death Battle - Dragon Dance~
Gas slowly descended through the clouds with a dark expression. In a flash, a strange cone shaped, sword-like weapon appeared in his normal hand. "THIS! ENDS! NOW!"
The cone started spinning in three segments, indigo energy gathered around and within it. I could sense the Ki condensing and become amplified inside the strange weapon.
In a matter of seconds he'd eclipsed all the Ki Muezli had been tirelessly gathering all this time. "This is my Sword of Ruin, and with this I'll erase the both of you once and for all!"
Muezli was shaken but quickly squared up her shot despite that. Brave, but I can't leave it all on her.
I didn't want to use this till I was properly taught, but it was the most ideal attack for this situation. Also, I don't really have a noteworthy beam attack of my own.
Getting behind Muezli I put open palms around her two handed finger gun. Blood red Ki surrounds her golden hyper condensed Ki sphere. "Let's do this."
"PERISH! Enuma…ELISH!" Gas releases a spiraling torrent of indigo Ki with a roar.
"Radiant!""Kamehameha!" Muezli and Aikon respond with an enormous red Kamehameha swirling around Muezli's gold Radiant Spear.
The joint beam meets the vortex of destruction and both attacks stop cold. Gas snarls at the deadlock.
"No! No more miracles, you both die here! Hrrraaah!" More Ki is forced through his sword, static building around it. The vortex grew and started gaining ground rapidly on our joint attack. The earth beneath our feet cracked and crumbled from the pressure.
Muezli starts to slide back but stops on my chest while I grit my teeth and hold my ground.
'Not much we can do now…' I glance at Muezli and a stupid idea comes to me. Time to pull a Gohan. "Muezli!"
The last Cerealian looks at me surprised. "This is it, either he dies or we do! I can't do this on my own!"
Digging deep I release more power to keep Gas' attack at bay, but I only manage to slow it down.
"I don't have anything more to give!"
"Of course you do! Dig down deep, the power you need is already yours! Think about what that bastard's done, everything and everyone he and his have taken from you! Think about the pain he's caused and the people he's hurt, use your anger!"
Unshed tears glistened in her eyes and she growled in righteous fury. "My mother…MY PEOPLE!" The golden beam grew several times over, and her normal eye became blood red just like the other.
Good, my turn. How did that death battle song go? Power and Fury are my birthright? Heh, damn right. "My fury is my weapon! AND I AM UNBOUND! HAAAAA!"
My own eyes gain yellow iris' without my notice for just a moment and the size of our attack completely overtook Gas' vortex and dominated it instantly.
"NoooOOO-" Gas is carried off into space by the beam before he could do anything about it and was erased before leaving the upper atmosphere.
~End Song~
Muezli and I gasped for air for a few seconds, still in the same position, before Muezli noticed how close we were and shoved me to the ground.
I couldn't help but give a coughing laugh at her embarrassed face. " *cough* good fight, girl."
I hold out a fist at her and she huffs before smiling and bumps fists with me. "What now though?"
"Now? Now we sleep like the dead and feast when we wake up for a battle hard won." I yank her down by her hand so her head is laying on my shoulder and I wrap my arm around her before she can escape.
Her face gets beet red and she shoves against me, but can't escape my grip. She eventually huffs again and passes out with me with a small smile.
End Chapter
Oooooh fuck, it took me forever to finish this, I'm sorry. It's not even just the lack of time to write, I've just not been in a DB mood lately.
I'm glad y'all finally get to see the conclusion of this fight though. Hopefully it meets both your expectations and mine. I might read through it again at a later date and see if I need to make any changes.
Anyways, till next time. Hopefully sooner this time. And as always, any feedback is appreciated. I also like hearing everyone's thoughts and speculations.
Also music suggestions for fight scenes. I'm always on the lookout to add to my library, thanks!