The Fight for Universe 11
"The principle of liberty and equality, if coupled with mere selfishness, will make men only devils, each trying to be independent so that he may fight only for their own interest." ~Unknown
Cus teleports above the ruined city with Saltz floating next to her. Saltz looks around surveying the city in flaming ruin looking down to see various alien races trying to rescue one another from the rubble. Scattered around are seven out of the ten Pride Troopers battered, beaten, bloody, unconscious but as Saltz noticed alive, Peppa didn't kill them. Toppo was down but two other Pride Troopers had regained consciousness and were near the fighting watching Peppa and Jiren clash violently through a building with Peppa unleashing a brutal combo of punches and kicks at Jiren.
"So this is Universe 11…" Saltz said with a dark voice muffled by her face mask looking over to Cus.
"It is, I'll leave you to it. Now I must join Whis at Grand Zeno's place." Cus reminded her.
"Understood. I'll take it from here." Saltz replied in a dark muffled voice from her face mask. Cus teleported away. Saltz looked up, feeling Jiren and Peppa's power hearing their thunderous fight in the heavens above.
"There they are! Yes! Just look at them go! Outstanding Peppa!" Saltz said with pride in her voice.
Saltz powered-up with a clear aura and flew toward the fight. At the same time base Jiren and Super Saiyan 4 Peppa clash violently in the sky Jiren parrying Peppa's attacks as Peppa tries to parry and evade Jiren's attacks to some success but still getting hit, but Peppa doesn't give up, he was relentless getting in some clean shots against Jiren when they both felt Saltz's power. Peppa kicks Jiren away looking to his left with Jiren looking to his right.
"PEPPA!" Saltz called out in a vengeful and hateful muffled voice. Jiren paused, assessing this potential new threat. Peppa just smiled wickedly with a look of relief and gladness seeing Saltz was alive and well.
"Hey! Yeah! Welcome back Saltz! Glad to see reports of your death were greatly exaggerated." Peppa smiled evilly at her. Saltz just laughs evilly back.
"Well, well, what can I say my dear cousin Peppa I am the best better then all the rest!" Saltz proclaimed evilly.
"Now what." Jiren said in an annoyed tone. Saltz gave him a look.
"Oh don't worry I'm not here for you. I'm here to kill my cousin Peppa and his new friends who left me to die on Planet Prison." Saltz informed them. Peppa just laughed evilly.
"This is great, I'm free of Korn, I get to fight both you and Jiren! This is more then I could ever ask for. This is the best! I'm going to have so much fun! I'm so glad you're alive Saltz!" Peppa said in a dark and evil tone.
"You do realize she is here to kill you." Jiren pointed out. Peppa casually waved Jiren off.
"Yeah, yeah, everyone hates me and is always trying to kill me, that's nothing new. Doesn't change how I feel about her." Peppa answered in a dark tone.
"And just how do you feel about me Peppa!" Saltz demanded taking an offensive stance in the air raising her right hand forming a shadow claw.
"Well he is in trouble again." Lagss pointed out as the Area Core Warriors looked down watching the fight.
"Just let it play out a little longer." Hearts ordered.
"I respect you Saltz. You are my idol. My role model. The only person I ever looked up to. The only person in our family who treated me like an equal. You are the reason I became an Evil Saiyan and decided to destroy the future of others!" Peppa answered her truthfully. Saltz just smirked under her face mask, her heart was glad to hear it.
"Oh my dear cousin Peppa…my, my lucky me. I'm flattered but look at you now. Just a hollow shadow of your former glory wandering around lost in the multiverse with that wanna be god." Saltz said in a nasty and spiteful tone toward him, masking her real feelings and showing her jealousy that Peppa follows Korn the false god of the Saiyans instead of her and now Peppa is following Zamasu and his crew.
"What about your feelings Saltz? You keep asking about Korn's and mine's feelings on matters but what about yours? Is it all hate and wanting to kill us? What is it you truly want? What do you care about?" Peppa demanded to know, glaring at her. Saltz glared back with Jiren watching intently at the interaction between the two cousins.
"I don't care about anything anymore. Nothing at all." Saltz said in a dark and hateful tone muffled by her face mask. Peppa narrowed his eyes at her.
"I exist for one single purpose and that is to put an end to you, my very own dear cousin who I hatefully hold close to my heart." Saltz answered honestly.
"I see…" Peppa said in a dark voice but Jiren noticed the slightest subtly of sadness on Peppa's face.
With the erasure of their Universe 2, killing Peppa was all Saltz had and she would follow him to the ends of the multiverse and to the farthest reaches of the other world destroying everyone and everything in her way to chase down, fight, and kill Peppa.
In truth, Saltz loved to hate Peppa, she loved to chase him down, she loved killing anyone in her way of him, she loved fighting Peppa, she loved messing with him and forcing him to get stronger so he could be a greater challenge to her. Saltz respected Peppa's drive to become strong, his unyielding spirit, and how through everything he remained pure hearted in his desire to become stronger and ignored things like politics and peoples stances on good and evil.
For Peppa, if you were strong it didn't matter if you were good or evil, it didn't matter what you believed in, stood for, or fought for. None of that mattered nor did Peppa care as long as you were stronger then him and he could learn something from you Peppa wanted to fight and kill you. Saltz learned very quickly in their younger days Peppa's mind was always focused on the fight and seeking out the next strongest opponent.
In order to stay at the forefront of Peppa's mind and to keep him chasing after her Saltz realized she herself had to become strong, the strongest of all to keep Peppa chasing after her while she chased after him. As long as Saltz was stronger she realized Peppa would always seek her out and fight her taking pride in fighting a relative stronger then him.
More then that Peppa would come in and assist Saltz if she was in trouble because he would not tolerate someone else killing her. Just like with Korn they had to be killed by him. It was the only way for Peppa to prove to himself he was the strongest of them, of the family. Korn's motivation for power was to keep Peppa at his side. Peppa's motivation for power was to break free of Korn's shadow.
Saltz's motivation for power was she wanted to keep Peppa's attention on her chasing each other across the universe spreading death and destruction in their rivalry to kill one another. Saltz realized the more they hated one another the more it showed they really cared about one another bringing back to mind that hate was the purest form of love.
Korn, Saltz, and Peppa's hate and rivalry for one another motivated them to be the worst, most vile, most evil versions of themselves, each one wanting to outdo the other two to achieve their own separate goals. Korn wanted to rule their universe as a self-proclaimed god with Saltz and Peppa under his control as they built a strong house and a family.
Peppa just wanted to be free to fight the strongest individuals across the universe and finally, Saltz wanted them to be a team and travel across the universe conquering and enslaving worlds to build her underworld empire apart from Korn's ideology of a ruling family house.
Each one is willing to do whatever it takes to force the other two to conform to their dreams or goals even if it means killing one or both of them. That's how much they hated and cared about one another. They each sought greater power to stay relentlessly in each other's lives and be in each other's way.
However, because Peppa defeated and locked Saltz away in the family prison, took her son. Saltz felt betrayed, abandoned, outraged at her injustice, by the two very cousins whom she hated and held in high affection.
With Peppa staying by Korn's side all these years only fueled Saltz's rage and need for revenge. Saltz wanted to prove Peppa wrong, he should have chosen her and stayed by her side instead of Korn.
As much as Saltz loved and respected Peppa she also hated and wanted to kill him for his sin against her. The only way Saltz would forgive him is if Peppa fought, and fought until he died gloriously by her hand. That's what Hearts saw when he read Saltz's twisted mind.
"Peppa, my flesh and blood that defeated me, took my son, and left me to rot in that prison cell for a decade. The Evil Daughter of House Poole, the Evil Saiyan Saltz, the World Breaker, all these labels do not matter anymore, my name does not matter anymore. Prepare yourself my dear cousin Peppa because after this battle there is gonna be only one survivor. Either you or me, unless you join me and stay at my side." Saltz told Peppa in a dark, evil, and muffled tone.
Saltz yelled out powering-up with her Evil Aura blowing Peppa and Jiren back as they looked at her feeling her power effortlessly climb up to their level of power. Hearts eyes widen. Lagss gave a nasty and ruthless look. Zamasu looked offended that a mortal such as her commanded a power that could rival a god. The Tuffle twins looked down with disgust.
"Oren, Kamin, take Saltz immediately, she is a threat to not only Peppa but to our plans!" Hearts ordered.
"With pleasure." Oren said.
"Thought you never asked." Kamin said.
Both twins powered up and flew down toward Saltz. Saltz stopped powering-up looking up to see the Tuffle twins flying down at her. Saltz smiled evilly when she saw they were Tuffles.
"Oh look Peppa your new friends our joining the fray! Great, it's been a decade since I last killed a Tuffle with my bare hands. Finish your fight with Jiren, while I warm up and kill your new friends!" Saltz said a hateful and racist voice flying up at the Tuffle twins. Peppa turns his head looking up at them about to clash.
Oren caused a blinding flash of light temporarily blinding Saltz while Kamin took possession of her body. Jiren and Peppa watched as Kamin and Saltz fused into a Tuffle-Saiyan hybrid as Saltz's form changed to reflect a Kamin with Saltz's Saiyan features like her hair, tail, with white hair, skin, and solid blue eyes.
"Damn you Tuffle scum! How dare you use such a disgusting and cheap trick on my cousin!" Peppa said hatefully looking at the abomination before him.
"Stay out of this Peppa or I'll body jack you next." Oren warned, then looked over at his sister.
"Hey kamin, how is the body?" Oren inquired.
"Amazing!" Kamin answered back powering-up.
Peppa clenched his fists in anger and disgust. He didn't get Saltz back only to have her body jacked by a Tuffle, mind controlled, only to be taken away from him and her power to be used by a Tuffle. Peppa could not stand that insult and disgrace on their family name let alone to a relative like Saltz. She deserved better then that, then this.
"It's bursting with power!" Kamin said in an excited voice.
Peppa was beyond furious. This was Saltz's power she worked for, how dare that Tuffle just body jack her and claim all her hard work. Oren and Kamin, reminded Peppa of Meji Zuu, he was an artificial Tuffle like them who absorbed peoples bodies taking with it their memories and powers.
Meji Zuu was Universe 2 variant of Majin Buu and Zamasu of their universe all wrapped up in a nice righteous Tuffle package who was created to wipe out the remnant of the Saiyans living on the Tuffle homeworld, but Meji Zuu quickly grew beyond their control and had higher universal ambitions then just wiping out the remaining Saiyans. It took Korn and Peppa fusing into the Evil Saiyan Kopa to defeat him once and for all, but not before he killed their West Supreme Kai Nishi.
Hearts read Peppa's mind and saw that what Oren and Kamin did not only triggered these traumatic feelings and memories in Peppa and it sent him into a blind rage as he power-up screaming out in outrage. Peppa didn't care if they were teammates, or they had a common goal, they were Tuffles and they just body jacked his cousin humiliating not only their house but their race.
This insult would not stand with Peppa and he didn't care who he had to fight or go through. Peppa just got Saltz back and he was not about to lose her again, especially not to a damn Tuffle. That's what Hearts saw when he read Peppa's mind.
"How petty…" Hearts said in an annoyed tone.
"Something wrong?" Zamasu inquired.
"Peppa is letting his prejudice get the better of him." Hearts answered. Peppa continued to power-up looking over at Jiren.
"Take this!" Peppa said in a dark voice attacking Jiren while he was distracted watching what Oren, and Kamin did to Saltz.
Jiren quickly turned to face Peppa rapid firing ki blast while Peppa countered with his Disappear attack. Peppa flew at Jiren, attacking him like a feral monkey. Jiren effortlessly dodges all of Peppa's punches and kicks then gives a hard left across Peppa's face, off balancing him. Peppa braces with his foot then starts attacking wildly at Jiren both of them parrying each other's attacks while Jiren noted Peppa used the Yacchina Fist to make his attacks stronger and more accurate. Toppo regained consciousness struggling to get back up in his base form. Peppa and Jiren grapple with one another.
"Get out of my way! I have to get her back!" Peppa yelled out in a distorted voice in rage.
"You attacked me." Jiren reminded Peppa.
"I wont let anyone take her from me! I wont let anyone beat me! I will fight and fight, because it's the only way she will forgive me!" Peppa told Jiren in a dark voice powering-up even more.
"Then why attack me? I don't understand you or your intentions!" Jiren said calmly trying to reason and understand Peppa but being pushed back by him.
"That Tuffle b*tch has her body and is holding her mind hostage. If I can't defeat you and complete my mission, Hearts wont order them to release her at my request! Then I'll lose my cousin all over again. I wont let that happen! I'll defeat and kill you all!" Peppa yelled out.
Peppa grew more enraged and his aura transformed back into his limit breaker Super Saiyan 4 state. But even this form wasn't enough as Jiren twisted Peppa's arms and kicked Peppa away in the gut.
Peppa gilded back to his feet landing on the ground with Jiren flying at him. Hearts held out his hand and increased the gravity around Jiren causing him to crash into the ground unable to get up from the amount of force holding him down. Peppa looked up at Hearts in anger at him intervening in his fight.
"Nice job Jiren." Hearts complimented him looking over at Peppa.
"Kamin you can give him a try now." Hearts ordered. Hearts released Jiren from the force of gravity lowering his hand. Kamin-Saltz appeared in between Jiren and Peppa. Jiren and Kamin-Saltz leapt in the air and started to clash violently. Peppa just clenched his fists in anger and growing outrage. He hated this, this wasn't fun anymore.
"HEARTS! JIREN AND SALTZ ARE MY OPPONENTS! HAVE KAMIN RELEASE HER AND STAY OUT OF MY WAY!" Peppa yelled at Hearts in rage.
"Peppa you have done enough here. Stand down or I'll let Kamin keep your cousin's body." Hearts ordered.
Hearts snapped his fingers and Peppa appeared next to him on his left hand side next to Lagss with Zamasu standing off to the right of Hearts glaring at Peppa. Peppa just clenched his fists. Despite his limit breaker power, Peppa could do nothing.
He couldn't attack and kill Zamasu because he was immortal and worse yet he was merged with the body of a Saiyan so fighting him and killing him will only make him stronger. Peppa could attack Lagss but he didn't know what she could do or how strong she was. Then there was Hearts, Kamin would only listen to him so if Peppa didn't fall in line Hearts wouldn't give the order to release Saltz.
Peppa let out a frustrated sigh powering back down to his base form walking to the edge crossing his arms watching the fight between Jiren and Kamin-Saltz. Hearts just smirks as Lagss and Zamasu look back down at the fight. As the fight between Jiren and Kamin-Saltz started to heat up Jiren was struck at his side by Oren who hoovered next to Kamin-Saltz.
"Hey let me join in on the fun." Oren smiled.
They both sent a ki blast at Jiren who blocked it and dropped violently into the ground looking up at them annoyed. They land on the ground a fair distance away from him. Peppa turns his head seeing Zamasu descending down to them landing in between Jiren and the Tuffle Twins. Jiren and Zamasu glare silently at one another then out of nowhere Zamasu goes on the attack.
"Tsh, everyone wants to fight Jiren, but he is mine to fight!" Peppa said in a possessive tone. Peppa watches the two throw punches and dodge each other's attack effortlessly.
"Don't you dare touch a god with those filthy hands." Zamasu ordered. Jiren just glared at him.
"What did you expect Zamasu? For him to just stand there and let you hit him? The nerve!" Peppa said in a scornful voice.
"Zamasu!" Toppo lands between the Tuffle twins powering-up to his god of destruction select form.
"Don't interfere!" Kamn-Saltz yelled out scornfully blasting Toppo away.
Peppa just uncurls his arms, shaking his head with an annoyed look as he sighs pacing back and forth at the edge of their floating base.
Hearts read Peppa's mind and knew he wanted to be down there throwing hands with all of them instead of being up here in time-out. Kamin-Saltz raced forward, stepping on Toppo's back lifting up his head, charging an energy attack.
Suddenly a white light shot from the night sky splitting the clouds apart striking the ground. Everyone turned their attention to the light. When the light dissipated Sour stood in the barren landscape with Korn. Peppa's eyes widened with hate when saw Korn was not only alive but he was here.
"Korn…" Peppa said hatefully clenching his fists.
Korn stood in front of him wearing white boots, baggy black sweats, a long sleeve v-neck black shirt, with white gloves, a pink uwagi with the Hakai symbol on the left side, and a black waist belt. Korn surveyed the ruined landscape, the city burning in the background, the scared people, the defeated Pride Troopers, Jiren standing alone against Zamasu, with the Tuffle twins before him.
When Korn saw Kamin possessing Saltz he was not only disgusted he was offended on account of Saltz. Then Korn looked up at their floating base to see Hearts, Lagss, and Peppa. Korn then looked back at Kamin-Saltz.
"I see, that's why you haven't acted against them." Korn thought to himself.
"It's Korn!" Jiren was shocked to see another person who shouldn't exist.
Zamasu looked not only shocked but truly disgusted at the sight of a mortal wearing clothes similar to Goku Black, but it wasn't just the clothes that offended and enraged Zamasu, it was the Hakai symbol on Korn's uwagi. A mortal bearing the mark of a god of destruction. Toppo lifted up his head, turning it to see Korn looking over to him and Kamin-Saltz.
"Korn…" Toppo said weakly.
Korn's irises turn a dark purple color as he powers up with a Hakai aura the same as the god of destruction select Toppo to everyone's shock and surprise. In the blink of an eye Korn flew forward in his base form with the Hakai aura striking Kamin-Saltz off of Toppo.
"Kamin!" Oren yelled out.
Korn bent down putting Toppo's arm around him, helping him up off the ground. Sour just watched with an emotionless look bearing witness to the events. Korn looked over to Sour with his purple eyes and a cold look.
"Take care of this as you see fit." Sour told him. Korn nods then Sour teleports away. Korn helped Toppo to a safe place and gently sat him down.
"Thank you Korn, my friend." Toppo said. Korn just nods silently then turns his head toward Kamin-Saltz. Zamasu just stands there watching Korn silently.
"That power is…it can't be…" Zamasu said in a disgusted and shocked tone.
"So its destruction then." Hearts said outloud with an amused look on his face with his arms across his chest.
Zamasu was getting ready to attack Korn from behind while he was aiding Toppo and looking over at Kamin-Saltz when Jiren slid in front of Zamasu to keep him away from Korn. Zamasu threw a punch but Jiren quickly caught it and punched Zamasu in the face sending him flying back. Kamin-Saltz hoovered off the ground with a scornful look.
"What's your deal? You're pissing me off!" Kamin-Saltz yelled out lunging at Korn.
Korn just kept staring at her with those destructive purple eyes and Hakai aura moving fluidly around his body. Korn gave Kamin-Saltz a fast left uppercut without even moving from his spot, knocking her back to the ground.
"That body and power does not belong to you Tuffle! Release my cousin at once!" Korn demanded in a dark and evil voice.
"Screw you!" Kamin-Saltz yelled out, getting to her feet firing ki blasts at Korn.
Korn didn't even move, as soon as the attack hit Korn's Hakai aura they just simply faded away. Korn then took a fighting stance, his right fist glowing with Hakai energy.
"I'm going to erase you from existence." Korn said. Kamin-Saltz smiled evilly.
"Then you'll be erasing your own cousin from existence, fool!" Kamin-Saltz mocked.
"You misunderstand, I'm going to erase your lifeforce from my cousin's body." Korn said in a dark and evil voice. Kamin-Saltz stopped smiling when she saw the dead serious look on Korn's face. Korn raced forward in the blink of an eye and went to throw a hard right.
"NO!" Kamin-Saltz screamed out. Out of self-preservation Kamin leapt out the body of Saltz jumping back. However, instead of punching Saltz in the gut, Korn opened his hand and caught her as her body fell forward from Kamin releasing her.
"Saltz…" Peppa said in a low whisper looking down at her with a worried look on his face.
"You didn't attack?" Kamin gave him a shocked look.
"No, I was bluffing. I couldn't use Hakai on you as long as you were in Saltz's body. But now that she is free there is nothing to protect you from being destroyed completely." Korn said in a dark tone glaring at Kamin who backed away in fear feeling Korn's destructive intent in the air. Saltz's groans and swats Korn's hand away, backing up a few paces glaring at him and his new power.
"Where is that Tuffle b*tch! I'm going to make them pay for the violation I suffered at their hands!" Saltz turned around facing Kamin in furious rage, then suddenly leaned over lifting up her face mask vomiting to everyone's shock and disgust.
"I think I still have some of her inside me…gross." Saltz said, putting her face mask back on, then looked over at Korn.
"New power?" Saltz inquired, noticing the purple eyes and Hakai aura.
"It's Hakai, it's the power of destruction, of erasure." Korn explained. Peppa's eyes widened in shock and horror when he heard it.
"NO! He is like Toppo now! Where did he get that power? How did he get that power? If Hearts loses here Korn will hold the power of destruction over my head! I'll never escape or be free of him! I'll forever be stuck in the shadow of his greatness!" Peppa thought to himself. Hearts turns his head to Peppa hearing his thoughts and smiles evilly turning his head back down at Korn.
"Good destroy them all." Saltz ordered.
"That's the plan." Korn told her.
"By the way, what took you so long?" Saltz demanded to know.
"You're welcome by the way." Korn said.
"Whatever, let's hope you're more useful then Peppa. He has left us high and dry." Saltz spat.
"He couldn't act while Kamin had your body hostage. Peppa wont gamble your life regardless of the situation and neither will I." Korn said in a dark voice. Saltz was struck speechless; she didn't know how to respond.
"WHATEVER, let's just kill them all and get Peppa back forcefully." Saltz ordered.
"AHHH!" Oren yelled, lunging at Korn from his left side. Korn turned his head to Oren then raised his hand and fired a ki blast blowing Oren back. Hearts just laugh evilly staring down at Hakai Korn who stared up at him standing protectively in front of Saltz.
Peppa just stood there at the edge looking hatefully down at Korn. Peppa was consumed by jealous rage. Korn did what he couldn't. Korn saved Toppo, he freed Saltz, and turned the tide of battle in Universe 11's favor where he could not.
Now, Korn will humiliate Peppa more by doing what he couldn't, defeat the Core Area Warriors, resolve the conflict and thus save his life AGAIN and bring him back into submission. Hearts shifted his eyes reading Peppa's mind. Hearts smirked evilly knowing Peppa's heart and the murderous rage he has toward Korn and desire to truly be free of Korn, the gods, Zeno, everything.
"What's so funny?" Peppa turned his head toward Hearts.
"Just thinking how much I love mortals like you Peppa. Everything I'm doing is out of love of mortal kind and the desire to see you free to live as you see fit, free of the Omni-King, the angels, and the gods." Hearts explained.
"Oh yeah?" Peppa said.
"I'm going to save you my friend and help you be truly free of all those who keep you down." Hearts told him.
"Then I'm with you." Peppa said to him.
"Good, first let's start by freeing you from Korn once and for all." Hearts told him with an evil smile.
"Gladly." was all Peppa said as he stared down at Korn hatefully…