Another Clash
Although he had since quit fighting and leading an army, trying to bury the past and move on, Lego was in a rather spacious room on the airship he stole, and was flying about in the room, and was throwing random punches and kicks, a combination of fighting styles from across anime and video games.
There was a moment where he stopped, and was flying in the air, a white Ki aura around him. He still had his brown hair and eyes. But he had a moment of self reflection.
He looked at his hands. The hands of a person who didn't exist. Digitized words that almost no one read. But even beyond that, he thought about who he represented. The will of a guy whose life had only just begun. Someone who knew nothing about his place in the world, still learning everything.
Shaking, he then randomly shouted, "Damn it all." He started clenching his fists until he started bleeding. This past week left a toll on him. It always did. Because that's what he did best. Fuck up to the point it left a toll on him. A toll that fucked with his mind.
"It's that bastard's fault," Lego said to himself, thinking about someone. "If it weren't for him…!" He gritted his teeth as cracks formed in the mask he wore constantly as a character in his stories. "Tchrrrrrrr! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Lego shouted at the top of his lungs in the training room he was in, his aura bursting and briefly turning golden, before resuming as the blank white it normally was.
The next day was a… confusing one.
When the passengers of the airship (consisting of characters from his stories, as well as yet to be utilized characters) woke up the next morning, they found that the ship was hovering in the middle of the sky, not moving in any direction. Lego normally had it moving just so it would move and there would be a light breeze to anyone who stepped outside of the airship on the catwalks strapped to the sides of the ship for when they landed at random locations, though they had yet to land at one.
Bardock was on edge. More than the rest of the crew. It was like he was on edge for all of them. He wasn't too surprised that the characters who were human weren't worried, but he felt like they were treating this too lightly.
On top of that, Lego hadn't made an appearance yet.
Bardock was leaning against the guardrail on one of the catwalks outside of the ship, when he heard a door open behind him. He turned around to see the Villain Izuku from Lego's story Fixing the Holes in Society walking up to him. The door opened automatically, as Izuku adjusted the tie of his suit, and it closed as Izuku approached Bardock, before standing beside him.
"I miss the constant breeze," Izuku said suddenly to Bardock, trying to start a conversation.
"What're you here for?" Bardock asked him. "Just get to the point."
"To say I'm worried about the author is an understatement," Izuku said. "Personally, I don't see him finishing any of our stories unless he just starts caping everything off as short and simple, like his author friend Tale." Izuku sighed. "His attention span is so small."
Bardock raised an eyebrow at that. "...why do you know these things?" Bardock asked. He considered himself to be the closest to Lego, so it was weird that this Villain Izuku commented on those aspects of Lego.
"You'll know one day," Izuku said. He turned to look at Bardock. "Have you bothered looking for the author?"
"No, I-" Bardock stopped talking suddenly, which made Izuku raise an eyebrow, before Bardock turned to look in the opposite direction of Izuku, towards the nose of the airship, though it was rounded, and made a gasping sound. "That… that energy!"
Izuku looked in the same direction, and let out a, "Hmm…"
The two instantly ran inside the ship towards the bridge. Inside of the bridge, at the front of the ship, a majority of the people were gathered.
Everyone was alert and alarmed for a good reason. Bardock's eyes widened in shock and fear at who he saw outside of the ship, floating in front of it. Even if they were far away, Bardock could see him from over a mile away. Figuratively, and literally.
It was Evil.
The one being who Lego made who was far stronger than almost everyone on the ship, except maybe the author if he wanted to knock Evil down a notch. He was floating, his arms hanging by his sides. There wasn't anything intimidating about him except for his presence; the presence of a man who has committed nearly everything that was wrong, and the presence of a Demon God and final boss.
Xeno Trunks was gritting his teeth and holding his sword by the handle. "H-He found us!" Trunks exclaimed. Although almost everyone were fighters, Evil was still a threat they couldn't handle. Shallot, easily one of the strongest on the ship, was no match for Evil.
"This is an interesting development," Villain Izuku commented, perhaps the only person who wasn't cowering in fear and pissing their pants. "Is he here to kill us, or not?"
"Where the hell is Lego?!" Bardock shouted, looking around, not seeing Lego. Android 21 and Mira looked at Bardock. If Bardock was worried, then that meant that he felt as if he too wasn't a match for Evil.
The door to the bridge opened up behind everyone, and the occupants of the ship turned to see Lego.
Tanjiro looked at Lego instantly and began saying, "Lego, Evil's-" but he stopped upon seeing the sight of Lego, which everyone was shocked by.
He was clenching his fists, shaking, blood lighting dripping across his body, his hair ruffled and raised rather than doing it's own thing normally, and the extreme look of suppressed-but-ready-to-snap anger on his face. What was even more shocking was the fact that part of his mask was missing, revealing a portion of his face, which wasn't really anything special. He just looked like a normal person.
"I know," Lego said to Tanjiro, before his Ki aura flared, turning black this time, as he charged forward, crashing through the window of the ship and rushing Evil. "EVIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIL!" Lego shouted at the top of his lungs.
Evil was caught off guard by the sudden attack and aggressive behavior from Lego, blocking the attack. "Lego," Evil said in response as he crossed his arms to block the punch from his creator.
"DAMN YOU!" Lego yelled as he started pelting him with unorganized punches, eventually flipping and kicking Evil down towards the ground, which made him plummet instantly. Lego was quick to give chase to his unsuspecting victim.
Back at the ship, everyone was recovering and standing up from the sudden lurch that Lego caused when he charged Evil. Bardock was cautious. He had been around the longest, and was confused by what was going on.
"We should help him out," Shallot said as he stood up. "Lego doesn't stand a chance against Evil alone!"
"Weren't you incapable of helping Lego last time?" Cell from the DAU, same as Shallot, questioned. "It'd be suicide to go down there and fight!"
"But we can't just leave him!" Tanjiro said to Cell.
"You're not even relevant, since you can't keep up with us, let alone blow up a city," Cell said to Tanjiro.
Bardock was still looking out the window, when 21 looked at him. "Bardock?" 21 said, asking the unspoken question.
Villain Izuku sighed. "I'm going down," he said as he began hovering off of the airship floor, presumably with his Nanomachines. "I'll see you all when you're done waiting and twiddling your thumbs."
"Are fucking insane?!" Cell asked Izuku. "If Evil attacks you-!"
"If you can grow some balls, then I'll actually bother to talk to you and consider the shit you say," Izuku snapped at Cell. That snap shut Cell up, as Izuku flew down to the ground where Evil and Lego were fighting.
'Something isn't right,' Bardock thought to himself. 'Why is… Lego fighting? Is it because of Evil?' Bardock knew Lego wasn't a fighter type… though he never saw Lego fight.
Something was wrong. So he was going to find out.
Meanwhile, in a random wasteland below the airship, Lego and Evil were fighting. Except unlike any of the previous times they fought (despite only fighting once in the DAU story), Lego and Evil were both utilizing underhanded tactics, as well as playing dirty.
But Lego was on the offense, not letting up for a moment, while Evil merely blocked or deflected his attacks. Evil felt that something was up as he kicked Lego away into a nearby mountain, destroying it when Lego hit the mountain.
"If you just wanted to fight, you could've simply come to my castle," Evil said in the direction of where Lego was sent flying. "There wasn't a need to expose your base of operations." Evil let out a hum as he turned around to see the Villain Izuku floating behind him, having descended from the airship. "Oh? A villain Deku? On Lego's ship?"
Izuku raised an eyebrow at that. "What, never see one of me before? Considering the fact that you're meant to represent villainy as a whole, I thought you'd've seen a villain me before," Izuku commented. "By the way, he's not done yet."
Evil was then blasted from behind by a Ki Blast attack, as Lego appeared behind him, continuing his assault against his least favorite creation. "Don't turn your back on me!" Lego shouted at Evil as he chased him again, with the two continuing their fight.
Izuku hummed at what he was seeing. Around him, members of Lego's stories appeared from the Airship, including Bardock, Android 21, Shallot, Tanjiro and Inosuke who were both being held by Bardock via some psychic powers he learned using Ki, Lego's creation Katsuku who had also requested to be here, Roronoa Zoro, and Joker from Persona 5, who was flying on the back of his ultimate Persona Satanael.
"Come to watch the fight?" Izuku asked his peers.
"This is fuckin' insane!" Inosuke commented. "I can barely see them!"
"This is not even their full power, let alone full speed," Shallot said to Inosuke in a worried tone. "I'm not even sure if this planet will last if they continue fighting and do end up going all out with no regard for the planet."
"Is there anything we can do?" Android 21 asked.
Bardock grunted. "No… I don't think there is a thing we can do." Everyone turned to look at Bardock. While it was debatable on if Bardock was the strongest amongst the characters of Lego's stories (excluding Lego and Evil for obvious reasons), hearing Bardock say that they wouldn't be able to do something was something that the group didn't expect to hear, Izuku more so than the rest.
"I guess even Saiyans know when retreat is a better option," Izuku commented.
Shallot was looking back and forth between Bardock and Izuku, before saying, "Oh screw this!" Turning Super Saiyan God, Shallot flew towards Lego and Evil with the intent on joining the fight.
Evil and Lego were continuing their fight, trading blow after blow. In a way, it was becoming similar to Goku and Vegeta as the two fought. "Despite being so rusty," Evil commented as he and Lego fought, blocking a punch with his left arm, "you still hit hard!" Evil then pelted his creator with a right hook that sent him back a bit, before Shallot came in and clocked Evil across the face with a kick, in turn sending Evil flying.
Shallot turned to look at Lego. "I'm here to hel-" he was cut off when Lego rushed him suddenly, grabbed him by his leg, before rapidly descending to the ground and slamming the Saiyan into the dirt, before slamming him back and forth several times.
"DIE DIE DIE!" Lego shouted as he threw Shallot around in a circle, before letting go, with Shallot hitting a large pile of rocks.
This was a surprising turn of events for the characters of Lego's stories, Evil more so than the rest of them. Evil knew Lego as the type to protect his friends and allies, not hurt them. Evil hesitated to resume attacking Lego, and instead of rushing his enemy, turned to look at the cast of Lego's stories.
"Any of you know what the hell is going on with that idiot?" Evil said to them, though he wasn't surprised when he got no response. He scoffed. "Useless." He moved his head to the side in the nick of time as Lego attempted to attack him once more. Evil in turn swiftly raised his knee before bringing his hands together as he hit Lego down to the ground once more.
Evil flew towards Shallot while Lego was disorientated. Shallot was getting himself out of the rubble he was in, when he saw Evil. "Explain what the hell is wrong with that idiot," Evil said to Shallot.
"Hell if I fucking know," Shallot said in a pissed off tone as he stood up. "I was here to help kick your ass, not get my ass kicked."
"Tch," Evil glared in Lego's direction, his vision seemingly zooming in on his adversary. "There is only one person who is meant to commit evil deeds, and that's me."
Shallot slowly stood up. "Were you making a pun about yourself?"
"Shut it Saiyan," Evil stated. "Do you want to die as well?"
"He'll kill me first before you end up getting to me," Shallot retorted as Lego stood up across from them. Evil looked back at Lego.
"Don't hold me back," Evil said to Shallot, implying that they were fighting together now. Honestly, with the way things were going, Shallot would've likely helped Evil calm Lego down anyways.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Lego yelled as his aura flared, rising several feet into the air.
"There's a bit of that power of yours," Evil commented, talking to himself, and Lego who didn't hear him. "You're far from what you used to be." Evil's hair began to rise, before it turned a dark red color, his aura having changed to a dark red on the outside, the aura black on the inside. His demonic presence seemed to increase as well as he entered a form that all observers would note was similar to that of Super Saiyan. "And still not enough to defeat me!"
Lego's shouting merely continued as he charged Evil and Shallot, with the two unlikely allies bracing for impact and ready to clash with the author.
Until Lego was pelted with a red Ki-Blast from above him to the side, which made Shallot and Evil raise their heads, before turning to look at the deliverer of the attack, finding a Super Saiyan God Bardock as the launcher of said attack.
Landing on the ground beside Evil and Shallot, Bardock looked at Evil. "If you try to wipe us out after we're done stopping Lego, I'm going to haunt you for eternity."
"You and the millions I've slaughtered and ended," Evil retorted as the three of them took fighting stances.
The dust began to settle and they saw Lego glaring at them, scratching at his face, particularly where part of his mask was missing on his cheek. "Kill…" he stated, before his Ki began to flare again, his pupils disappearing as he charged towards them again.
Evil smirked as he charged Lego, with Bardock and Shallot close behind him. Evil was able to land the first hit against Lego, before pelting him with punches. Bardock then charged in and hit Lego in the face with a knee from the side, and kicked him away. Shallot intercepted and hit Lego into the ground with both of his hands, before blasting him with several normal Ki Blasts.
"Here!" Evil shouted as he formed a red Ki Sphere in his hands, before aiming the attack at Lego. "Have a gift! Death Bomb!" He shot the ball forward at Lego, who was still lying in the dirt and dust cloud.
Unexpectedly to Shallot and Bardock, but not so surprising to Evil, Lego suddenly dispersed the dust cloud with a golden aura surrounding him, before he blasted the Death Bomb with a random beam of energy, destroying it.
"So he turned Super Saiyan," Evil commented. "Finally."
"I thought he was just a human!" Shallot exclaimed. "He can turn Super Saiyan?!"
"I saw him do it once, but I thought it was just because we entered a random world with the Shonen Jump powers circling through it," Bardock commented.
Evil turned to look at them, a bit surprised. "You mean he has never turned Super Saiyan in your presence?" They shook their heads, with Evil turning to look at Lego. "Guess he really did try to forget who he was." Evil formed a Ki Blade. "I suppose I'll remind him of his place!" He let out a war cry as he charged Lego.
Lego dodged the first slash, before he too formed a Ki Blade, and he began parrying Evil's attacks. However, soon, both of their blades clashed against one another and Evil was trying to overpower Lego's with brute force. "You're being pathetic!" Evil said to Lego in a mocking tone, winning the clash so far. "You know better than to size me up!" Lego growled in response, and with his free hand pulled out a pistol from seemingly out of nowhere and began to shoot Evil in the stomach while pushing him back. The author knocked the blade to the side, before aiming at Evil's head with the pistol.
He would've shot him in the head, if Bardock didn't come charging in and kicked Lego away, the gun flying out of his hand as well.
Shallot shot several Ki Blasts at Lego from a distance, and then charged in, each blast hitting it's mark before the Saiyan began to pelt Lego with a barrage of physical moves.
"Wolf Fang Fist!" Shallot shouted, hitting Lego with both of his palms. Lego spat out blood as he was knocked away.
Evil was charging up a familiar Ki Blast attack as he cupped his hands and brought them back. "Ka… me… ha… me…" A red ball of Ki formed in his hands, before he thrusted the ball forward. "HAAAAAAAA!" The energy then flew forward as it turned into a beam, the attack heading straight for Lego.
Lego nearly got hit with the attack, but he caught himself in midair (though he was still flying away from the Kamehameha) and conjured an actual sword, before shouting, "FULL COUNTER!" The Kamehameha then returned to sender with double the power, easily overpowering the blast Evil sent.
Evil dodged, and growled. "He's going beyond!" Evil shouted at Bardock and Shallot, as Lego's Ki began to flare, with more shouting as he went beyond Super Saiyan into Super Saiyan 2.
Bardock scoffed as he returned to his base form. "Guess I'll get serious too." Bardock began shouting as he transformed into a Super Saiyan 4, his body armor breaking apart as he transformed, and his hair growing absurdly long and spiky.
Lego rushed Evil with the sword, and Evil began parrying with a Ki Blade. Shallot looked at Bardock and asked, "Isn't your god form stronger than Super Saiyan 4?"
"Don't talk to me about power levels!" Bardock shouted at Shallot, before he gathered Ki in his fist and began charging towards Lego.
The author was on the defensive as Evil started to go on the offense, more so than before, pelting Lego with attack after attack, their blades clashing. They struck for a moment in a power struggle between the two blades, and Lego glared at Evil and shouted out in a war cry. From the corner of his eye, he saw Bardock coming towards them, and so Lego shoved Evil away from himself, before grabbing Bardock's fist once Bardock threw his punch, catching the fist almost effortlessly, stopping Bardock in place. Then Lego flew forward towards Evil and slammed Bardock against him. He was about to swing his sword at them, and would've probably cut through them if Shallot didn't catch the blade with his hands, though he was struggling to keep it from slicing him into two.
"What the hell…" Shallot began as he glared at Lego, who was gritting his teeth and still looked mad. "...are you doing?! Why are you attacking us?!"
"DIE!" Lego merely shouted as his left (the same side that showed part of his face) eye's sclera turned black while his pupil turned white, which shocked Shallot for a second, though he didn't let his guard down.
Shallot gritted his teeth, before he began powering up, trying to unleash the full power of his Ultra Instinct, and broke the blade of Lego's sword, and then kicked Lego away.
"Thanks for the save," Bardock said to Shallot, who tossed the broken blade to the side.
"No problem," Shallot replied.
Evil merely scoffed. "Charge him and overwhelm him!" Evil shouted at Bardock and Shallot, while igniting his aura with a yell. Bardock and Shallot both did the same, before the three charged Lego, with the intent on stopping his rampage.
However, the three of them simultaneously attacking him didn't seem to help them, as Lego was keeping up. It almost seemed as if he was getting stronger while they fought. At one point, Lego grabbed Bardock and Shallot's fists as they threw a punch at him and pulled on their arms so they headbutted each other.
Evil teleported behind Lego, attempting to slash at him with a Ki Blade at his blind-spot. However, Lego turned and blocked the attack with his own Ki Blade. With his free hand, Lego charged up a Ki Blast that would've dealt significant damage to Evil if he fired the attack and it landed.
However as Lego fired it, Evil disappeared, and was replaced by the Villain Izuku for a brief moment, before he vanished behind Lego, and delivered a right hook to Lego's face, the Ki Blast randomly shooting out while Lego was stunned.
Izuku put his hand forward towards Lego, his palm facing Lego, before he shouted for a second and knocked Lego back with wind pressure. Taking a moment to look at the Saiyans and Demon, Izuku said, "I'm disappointed in how you three couldn't put up a fight, or at least end this."
"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Evil questioned as he looked at Izuku. "You're Quirkless and you think you can do better than gods?!"
"I expected more from you than Bardock and Shallot, considering you're his creation, but that's what I get for expecting you to be special," Izuku cooly remarked, before a sword materialized in his hand. "Let me go clean up your mess." He was in front of Lego in a second, taking over the fight, and giving Lego a beating as he cut him up and knocked him back.
Lego hit the ground after Izuku slammed him into it, and he coughed up blood. Before he could get up, Izuku jumped above him, pulling out a mask, and then slammed it onto Lego's face, where his broken one was usually positioned around his mouth.
There was a burst of energy that pushed back the onlookers, including Evil, although it was only by an inch. When it dispersed, Izuku was picking an unconscious Lego off the ground, and looked unamused.
"I'm sorry, but what the fuck was that?!" Bardock shouted, dropping to base form, same with Shallot and Evil.
"Dude, you're telling me that you could've done that the WHOLE FUCKING TIME?!" Shallot yelled at Izuku, ticked off by what happened.
"We're not going to talk about how he did what we, the ones capable of blowing up galaxies, could not whilst he is also Quirkless?" Evil questioned, which made Bardock and Shallot more alarmed and aware about Izuku's power and what he accomplished.
"I'm heading to the ship to give this idiot medical treatment," Izuku said. "It's absurd how much blood he's lost, even though he's the author and can give himself whatever powers he wants." Evil's eyes widened at that. "Likewise, y'all need rest too." The Villain Izuku then began flying up to the airship, where everyone began following.
Questions would need to be answered.
"Alright, I want you to explain to me how the hell did you do it?!" Evil said to Izuku as he confronted him, with everyone who watched/participated in the fight present in the room as Izuku finished wrapping bandages around Lego. "How in the hell did you beat Lego?!"
"I'm not obligated to answer that," Izuku retorted, "nor would I want to." He glared at Evil. "You are the type of villain I despise; the ones that only slaughter for no reason, and the ones people stereotype us villains as."
Evil's aura flared and he charged a Ki Blast aimed at Izuku. "You think you can scare-?!" But suddenly his aura dispersed, to everyone's surprise, except Izuku.
"You think you can harm me?" Izuku questioned in a deadly serious, quiet tone. It was clear to everyone that Lego had another OP character amongst the batch, and that it was Izuku.
Evil scoffed. "So he kept an overpowered character…"
"He gave me a little gift like he gave everyone else here," Izuku said. "Bardock can use the Super Saiyan God forms as well as Super Saiyan 4. Shallot is the strongest character in the DAU and can fight on par with Bardock. Android 21 is capable of controlling her 'evil' side, no pun intended. Tanjiro can use Haki and the powers of the Demons he tames. Inosuke is part demon and has Ice Powers, the list goes on." Izuku looked at Evil. "But what I want to know is why the hell you're here, and how you found us."
"I agree," Bardock said. "You didn't attack us, but even still… you have a motive."
"Spill it Cringe-Lord!" Katsuku shouted at Evil. "Why the hell are you here?!"
"Did you just call me cringe?" Evil questioned Katsuku. "What the hell does it even mean?!"
"Look, just tell us why you're here so we can get this over and done with," Zoro said to Evil.
"Fine," Evil said, before he pulled a letter out of one of his pockets. "Lego invited me here for the sake of a… truce."
"A truce?" Bardock questioned. "Give me that!" He took the letter from Evil, and began reading it, and it confirmed that Lego was indeed trying to make a compromise with Evil. "...huh. He's not lying."
"So then… Lego really did just attack him?" Tanjiro said. "But why? If he invited Evil over, then why attack him?"
"His mask was breaking, so it might have something to do with that," Android 21 commented. "From what I observed, he got stronger the less of his mask he had on him. Like it was a… limiter…" 21, and then everyone realized what happened and why he kept getting stronger during the fight. His mask had been breaking apart slowly as Bardock, Shallot, and Evil fought him.
"And it also clearly blocks out his anger," Izuku commented. "After all, he's never really angry like he was down there that he indiscriminately hurts any of us. So in a way… it blocks his power and anger."
"So then he really is part Saiyan?" Bardock asked, surprised.
"He's got a little bit of everything in him," Evil said, knowing Lego better than them… for the most part. "Same with me. Hell, he made me with the regard that I would be one of the strongest, capable of taking anyone down." He scowled. "That clown and I have been fighting for over a hundred years. The fact we haven't won against one another disappoints me still."
"Alright, then level with me here," Joker said as he approached Evil. "Do you both have lore and a backstory?"
"...yes," Evil said. "Why?"
"Oh god, he's got a shitty character on purpose," Katsuku remarked. Everyone kinda mumbled whatever at that, with Evil not caring.
"I'm going to stay here until this idiot wakes up to tell me what the hell is going on, and why he wants to make a compromise, so in the meantime, I'll be staying here, and none of you will or can try to change that," Evil said.
"Hmph," Izuku smirked. "Funny. You're only here because he wants you to," Izuku said to Evil, referring to Lego. "But do anything to any of us… I will kill you." Izuku glared at Evil, who glared back.
"I guess it settles it then," Evil said. "I will be a… part of this crew now." And no one was happy about that.
I had a rough start to last week, so I started this chapter going on some of my negative emotions as fuel which is why this chapter was formed. I only finished it because this chapter was actually something I wanted to finish, because I do want to recycle Evil for future encounters and what not. And it opens my doors to more bullshit.
Anywho, yesterday was actually my birthday too, so I tried to get this out before it, but I failed. So, instead, here we are the day after it. Regardless, I had a damn good day.
Alright, see y'all next time.