The Three Legendary Saiyans
Chapter 103: Lightning Storm.
Even Trine felt impressed upon bearing witness to the display of the boys' creation of The Super Saiyan 2 Double, his own armour crumbling from the damage taken by Gotenks' Ghost Attacks, taking in a moment to take a breath and feel the heat generated by electricity in the air; the familiar tinge of heat wherever the bolts sparked even when the electrical power was not his own.
"I must commend your abilities as a Fusion, not many are capable of breaking my armour nor my weapons" Trine remarked; his armour, helmet and weapons crumbling under the damage inflicted by Gotenks' attacks, the two boys watching from behind the veil of golden fire including the indigo/teal lightning bolts.
With Trine's armour gone; the two boys beheld the full scope of Trine's true body, riddled with burns and scars from flames and electrical shocks but his eyes radiated hatred towards the boys for breaking his armour, the air around his body appeared to shimmer with a sudden rising temperature as bolts of blue lightning coursed out in all directions which even Goten and Trunks had to retreat slightly to avoid being shocked.
Though both boys avoided the initial arcing blasts of electricity; Trine moved his hand up and pointed at Trunks, his blue lightning coursing around and burning the flesh on his arm before the arcing blast left his almost-bony finger in a vertexing blast that burnt at the very air as it travelled towards its target.
Trunks raised his arms to defend against the blast with a rise of his own energy when his own indigo lightning sparking and caught the blue lightning bolt, the two separate bolts coursing around Trunks' own aura before extending out towards Goten's aura too, Goten's own teal lightning also catching both the indigo and blue lightning bolts in a wonderous chain
With an expression of strength; Goten and Trunks both erupted with golden flames, the forked bolt of electricity Trine fired striking and clashing against the coupled bolts of lightning generated by the duo of Super Saiyan 2 User's, even Trine smirked in impressed wonder by the two teenage boys deflecting one of his own unrestrained attacks.
"HA! Was that the best you got? I can redirect your electrical bolts all day!" Trunks gloated with an air of smugness about him; though Goten wasn't so sure judging by the fresh burns suffered to Trunks' elbows and forearms as well as the burns he'd suffered himself to his collarbone, pulling his shirt up to mask the wound.
Trine didn't respond; the fresh burns having not gone un-noticed to his trained eyes, muttering his attack under his breath in the guise of an Unspoken Technique before firing off another Skyward Electric Lancer at the boys, the same occurrence repeating itself as Goten and Trunks once again expelled their energies to inflate their auras and channel their own electrical currents into deflected another bolt of electrical lightning though the redirected bolt soared far away from Trine only to be pulled down towards the ground but Goten and Trunks both suffered a new burn to the backs of their hands.
While Trunks was busy gloating to Trine over defending against the electrical lightning bolts, Goten noticed that the bolts they'd deflected were being directed down to the military instillation directly beneath them and pulled into a series of lightning rods coupled to a large technological device that Goten couldn't quite identify.
Lowering his skyward position; Goten spied dozens of soldiers trying to get the device active, the machine opening up to reveal another technological device that Goten did recognise on sight, a railgun hooked up to the machinery by numerous cables.
Without warning; Trunks broke out into a run instead of flying he actually ran on the air with tails of his indigo lightning trailing behind him, with both hands open and charging energy orbs of his own while Trine grinned at the charge and the blatant attack, as Trunks noticed the electric blue currents flaring out from Trine's skin; he turned his hands away from Trine himself and fired his energy orbs out behind him to gain a burst of explosive speed resulting in a tremendously fast shoulder charge directly into Trine's exposed body. Even Trine didn't see that type of attack coming as he spat up saliva and blood from the assault.
Even though Trunks landed a successful blow against Trine; he failed to retreat before the electric blue current around the foe connected with the teenager, shocking him with so many volts that Trunks' eyes lit up from the electrocution.
With Trunks trapped in his electrocution; Trine moved forwards to deliver a kill shot by gripping both sides of Trunks' head and frying his brain, inching ever closer to end the young boy's life when a bright blue beam of energy struck Trine in his shoulder; burning at his already searing skin to a blackened crisp and halting his deadly final attack.
The break in concentration freed Trunks from Trine's electrocution as Goten's beam attack had been a successful distraction, though both now knew that relying on their aura redirection technique wasn't 100% reliable after Trunks had nearly been killed.
The train of thought of the two boys breaking as Trine's greaves splintered off from his body; blue bolts of electricity sparked out from his feet and burned away at his skin just as before, black clouds forming in further from the heated atmosphere caused by his electrical power to an extent that a natural storm was brewing from Trine's sheer might.
"I've had…. Just about enough of this farce" Trine growled with such anger that blue bolts of lightning sparked out from his now-exposed feet and skyrocketed himself up into the upper stratosphere, from his absurdly high position his electricity coursed through the upper atmosphere and quickly began generating black clouds around himself all the while his blue lightning kept sparking around in all directions preventing either of the boys from flying up to his elevation.
Though flying far below from Trine's position and the lightning storm shielding him from them, Goten and Trunks both exchanged a glance to each other and dropping down a few feet lower before taking the stances of Goten's Kamehameha and Trunks' Double Buster Cannon, even Trine watched with caution at the familiar sight of an incoming energy assault but did nothing and instead watched at the two beams fired from the hands of the youth's.
The two blue beams soaring through the air against the bolts of lightning forking over the beams as if drawn to the pure energy, the blue lightning coursing and curving over the beams as they drew closer and closer to Trine's body until the energy from the beams was drawn away and dispersed by Trine's blue lightning.
"The fuck?!" Trunks yelled in shocked horror; his own energy attack pulled in and taken by Trine's abilities to take command over natural lightning and its ability to pull in and absorb pure energy akin to their beam attacks.
"Trunks; you don't need to swear like that, I'm annoyed too" Goten reprimanded his friend; though angry himself it did not detract from trying to keep a clear head even in the heat of battle.
"We can't fly through that storm and our beams won't work… we need something bigger, something stronger" Trunks shouted in anger; bellowing his frustrations while staring directly up at Trine's position, standing the eye of the storm; Trine just grinned with vindictive pleasure in the face of Trunks' bellowing.
"What about your Super Saiyan 3?" Goten turned to Trunks with a broad smile when referencing Trunks' ability to transform into the higher form, eager to see Trunks undertake the epic transformation without fusing into Gotenks prior.
"Can't maintain it for enough time to break through that storm… it won't last a minute with my energy and stamina being what it is" Trunks dismissed the idea of using his own Super Saiyan 3, the drain the form puts on his body would force him to pass out after only a few seconds.
"Oh… wait, what about that?" Goten glanced down at the ground in shame for even suggesting such a tactic when he knew all too well how draining Super Saiyan 3 was from witnessing Goku and Raijin utilising the transformation and using it themselves as Gotenks, while looking at the ground; a certain machine caught his eye.
"What? You mean that lightning rod thingy?" Trunks commented on the machine far below them; recalling how the lightning rod/pylons had pulled down Trine's earlier electrical attacks and even now were pulling down and absorbing energy from the lightning storm overhead.
"Yeah; with all the energy we and Trine have released that's been sucked up by that thing it just might be the trump card we need to win!" Goten exclaimed with a tone of excitement; the idea of firing a giant gun sounding appealing to both the boys.
"Sure, let's give it a shot" Trunks gave an exasperated sigh at Goten's ability to keep a clear head while he became hot-headed, but the idea of firing the giant gun did indeed appeal to him, nodding in agreement with Goten just before both boys dropped down from the skies to the platform where the weapon lay in wait.
The Soldiers around the weapon stumbled backwards in shock as two teenage boys exhibiting the fantastic power of Super Saiyan 2; some soldiers training their assault rifles at the two boys while others scrambled to draw the firearms and dropping the handguns with one firing a shot on reflex, the bullet soaring directly towards Goten's head before being stopped in its path as Trunks reached out and snatched the bullet from the air.
"Impressive, I've never seen a boy pick a bullet out of the air after its been fired" A Man dressed in the deep green uniform bearing the stripes and medals of high rank and distinguished service, his face marred by a long burn scar
"I take it you're the commanding officer?" Trunks crossed his arms as he spoke, trying to give off an aura of strength when facing a man of distinguished military rank, though his air of power went completely over the military man's head.
"That I am, my name is General…" The Genetal confirmed Trunks' assumption; moving to give his name before being cut-off by Trunks' rude abrasiveness.
"Your name doesn't matter as time is crucial, do you see that up there? That's the enemy and our powers can't reach him but we think your weapon here can" Trunks barked; rudely cutting off The General before he could give his name, floating up into the air and placing his hand against the weapon before cracking a large excited grin at the prospect of firing it.
"What my friend here means General is that your weapon has drawn in a great deal of energy from our battle with the enemy creating that storm, with that power we may be able to land the decisive blow to end this fight" Goten corrected Trunks' notion only he spoke more politely of which The General gave a more approving glance towards though he still appeared resistant to their request.
"General, what the boys say in correct, The Electromagnetic Pulse-Wave Railgun has been fully charged by all that lightning and electricity from the earlier battle in the sky" A Soldier spoke up and being out of turn earned him a stern look from his commanding officer, the soldier shying away even though he'd given the two boys the information they needed.
"Sounds like the gun is ready to be fired!" Trunks puffed up his chest; letting his powerful aura spark and burn away at the air around him, his aura suddenly being pulled away from him just as before and drawn into one of the many pylons running along the Railgun.
"You seriously want me to deploy this experimental weapon? And entrust it to you?! Just who the fuck do you think you are!" The General questioned with a tone of disbelief, even though the two boys had flown down out of the sky to meet him and the enemy forming a literal lightning storm over their heads.
"Yes, that's exactly what we're asking, our powers alone won't defeat Trine but the energy absorbed by this machine should be just the trump card we need to win" Goten stepped in front of Trunks; noticing that his friend was one push away from exploding with anger and irritation, speaking so politely and addressing the dire situation so much so that The General's stern expression softened when speaking to the more polite boy.
"This recoil of this weapon is difficult to bear even for my fittest soldiers! I highly doubt two teenagers can handle it!" The General posed the risk of firing that particular weapon; all those who'd tried to fire it manually had been admitted to the infirmary for emergency care after the kickback and recoil had shattered the bones of ordinary humans and he questioned whether two teenage boys despite their powers were capable.
"Can any of your soldiers stand up much less move is three fifty-hundred times Earth's Gravity?" Trunks remarked and countered; staring up at The General as the man stood much taller than Trunks did.
"No" The General took his time to reply; unable to comprehend what such weight could even feel like where any normal human would be crushed under the astronomical weight and made quadriplegic as a result.
"Then let us fire it, we'll endure the recoil and save your soldiers the trouble" Trunks remarked with confidence in his tone of voice; he and Goten by his side lifting the Rilgun with all their hands and using all their strength just to angle the weapons line of fire at Trine's position.
The General looked to Goten and Trunks; looking back up to the growing storm high above them with Trine at its eye, knowing full well that this alien invasion's other Elite's were fighting elsewhere and the ringleader was still nowhere to be found, "Fine, but it you both break all the bones in your arms then I am not liable!".
"Fair enough!" Trunks yelled; grabbing a hold of the left side of the Railgun and Goten taking hold of the right side, the duo lifting the weapon and angling its pronged barrel towards the eye of the storm where Trine charged in wait, the bolts of lightning descending to the ground via the storm being pulled into the lightning rod pylons and further charging the weapon.
With the lightning rods acting as pylons; Trine screamed as the military technology pulled his electrical power away in separate directions all the while Goten and Trunks both were stood together; their hands forming a four-handed focal point for their own energies at the base of the de-coupled railgun.
"Can you boys use it?" The General asked; his eyes still prying at the two boys despite their Super Saiyan strength and ability to fly, his stern expression left little emotion other than contempt.
"Yeah; we can power this thing on our own, just be ready on that arming trigger!" Trunks spoke back to The General; coyly sliding a hand over the railgun like a magnificent new toy, once the other soldiers had attached the power cords to the weapon; the weapon hummed into life as the electricity coursed into the machine, The General flipping a switch from his station triggering the weapon to open and prepare for firing.
High above the railgun's position; Trine floated at the centre of his electrical lightning storm, the black clouds forming a vortex around his very being, with his blue electricity coursing though his very bones illuminating his skeleton through his burnt skin, not needing any words to declare his assault all the while his blue electricity formed into a spear of electricity and lightning aimed for the instillation where Goten, Trunks and the army were priming the railgun for an immediate firing sequence; the barrel of the weapon aimed at Trine's position even though according to The Generals readout the percentages of striking the target were only 70% but he ignored it and put his faith into the boys' supernatural power.
"Fire!" Trunks, Goten and The General shouted at the top of their lungs; the teenagers pooling all the energy they had to spare into the weaponry, the railgun's barrel opening up and crackling with electricity between the rods and prongs before emitting a sonic boom upon firing the electrical pulse.
With a bursting sonic boom; the railgun fired the full charge of Trine's own electricity directly back at him in his drained and weakened state, his death cry barely heard over the booming pulse of the railgun arcing through the air, high above; Trine tossed his Lightning Lance down into the shot from the railgun, the shot fired assimilating the Lance into its own volume of electricity before striking Trine dead centre, the force of the shot wiping away his life instantly.
With a great cheer from the soldiers below after the black clouds dispersed following Trine's death; Goten and Trunks both fell back onto their backs utterly drained of all their strength but laughing as they'd successfully conquered an Elite, giving each other a fist-bump as a sign of victory and looking up at the blue skies with smiles on their face before an occurrence turned their victorious smiles, the cheers of the soldiers and the open sky into a deafening silence.
High above the battlefield; the blue cloudy sky tore open into a radiant white rift stretching across the skies as far as the human eye could see indicating that the tearing of reality had finally reached Earth.
