A/N So I know I said the Resistance chapter was starting this chapter, but it'll start up next part. Surprise...
Nexus HWR 9.0 Zeppelin:
Two weeks before the 'No Matter What' Pact was made.
A small boy lifted off the ground and flew across the sky with a look of awe and adventure on his face. "Wonder why those Saiyans aren't using these power-mask thingies," Son Goku said while glancing down at the bracelet on his right wrist. "I guess I'll find out," the child laughed and spun through the sky. His spiky black hair somehow stayed in its strange shape the entire flight even while his brown tail waved around behind him.
Goku had not mentioned it to his friends often, but being turned back into a child did not make him as upset as many people would be. Quite the opposite actually; he loved being a kid again, especially since he felt like he was still at full strength. The spiky haired boy shot across the sky in a blur of white. He flew over forests, deserts, rivers and huge lakes. In the center of one giant lake there was a foggy area, and as he flew through it he could see huge dark pillars sticking up in the sky around him. At the top of these shadowy figures, he could see two red eyes that darted down to look at him.
"Amazing," Goku said in awe. He kept flying and left the fog, then flew over the rest of the lake pretty quickly as well. The young/adult Saiyan warrior flew up into the clouds as he continued north, but he found they were much thicker than he had expected. He actually had to push through the clouds to get up above them, and then his coal-black eyes widened at the most magnificent sight up ahead of him.
He continued soaring through the air, but slowed down to admire the floating city on his right. Even though it was already above the clouds, it still hovered up higher than the cloud's floor level. Huge waterfalls dropped off of floating rocks around the main island, and on top of those smaller rocks were huge turrets and cannons, along with glass buildings that looked like military or research facilities. The main island itself was covered in tall white skyscrapers, amazing domed buildings, and there were bright lights emitting from all over the place.
Goku came to a stop right as he was about to go past it. He wanted to keep flying, but this city was so amazing he just had to look. He gazed inside and saw flying cars zipping around in between the tall buildings, while on the streets of the city, people rode animals that Goku had never seen before. Animals of all different shapes and sizes, all saddled up with individuals, couples, or even entire families riding on top of them. Above the roofs of the skyscrapers and domes, large floating bubbles of different colors drifted around the sky, and a closer look showed they were full of light. Each bubble had a large amount of light matching its bubble's color stored in it, and Goku tilted his head to the side in confusion, wondering why that was. There were golden bubbles, and green ones, blue ones, and even a few black ones near the outsides of the city.
"Hmm," Goku hummed, frowning as he stared at the city that he could not feel in front of him. "I can't feel anyone, but I know they are there. They must all be wearing their things," he looked down at the PB-6 on his arm again and then turned his head left to look into the distance the direction he wanted to go before. I can still feel them, but, he looked back at the floating city, I might not be able to find this place again. Without Instant Transmission or ki-sensing, I could miss my chance to check this place out forever.
The little boy smiled and flew forward, "Here I come!"
Two days later...
"Goodbye Son Goku!" a man with naturally squinty eyes and two white wings on his back waved after the man flying away from him. Pagaya stood at the edge of a half-destroyed city, with the civilians of the city all standing behind him.
"We'll never forget you!" Pagaya's blonde-haired teenage daughter standing on his left called up into the sky with her hands cupped to her mouth. Conis lowered one arm and rose the other higher, waving it excitedly up at the child looking back at them.
Goku smiled down at the nice people all waving to him, and he called back, "Be careful now. Thanks for all your help Mr. Pagaya!" He added and directed his attention to the man whose furry brown beard connected with his mustache and covered up his mouth completely. The guy and his winged daughter both had antennae on the tops of their heads that matched the color of their hair. Goku waved at the older man, then turned and flew off across the sky. "Those were some nice people," he said in a thoughtful way, then grinned ear to ear and giggled, "and they made some great food! I should come back here sometime, if I can find the place."
Back behind him, the citizens of Skypiea watched as their hero flew away. "Who will lead us now?" a person asked in the middle of the crowd once the little boy was out of sight.
"It should be Captain McKinley!" someone yelled.
"No!" a gruff man wearing a black shirt with a purple 'G' on the front left of his chest called out. He was wearing a white hat that signified him as the leader of the White Berets, the group of men gathered in rows behind him, most of them looking bruised up from the recent battle that left half of their city in ruin. Captain McKinley looked around at the citizens gathered at the edge of their city, he looked up at the islands around where the facilities and turrets keeping them trapped were all just piles of rubble now. "We do not need another leader like Loki."
"Captain McKinley!"
"You are nothing like him!"
Pagaya turned from watching the sky where Son Goku's dot disappeared in the distance, and looked across the crowd back to the White Berets. "McKinley," he called over in a calm voice unlike the rest of his fellow civilians. "Every one of us saw you fighting Loki's beasts, we know you were only working for him to protect us!"
"It does not matter," Captain McKinley stated firmly, and his troops stood in solidarity behind him. "Skypiea is in need of a true election. No magic, no trickery, this country needs an honest Governor." The White Beret Captain looked back at the bearded angel-winged person calling over to him, "And although I will not be running, if I were to choose someone to lead us, it would be you Pagaya. You and your daughter brought Son Goku to us to free this land of years of tyranny."
All the people calling for McKinley started turning and looked over to Pagaya who they all knew and respected as well. Someone who agreed chanted, "Pa-ga-ya! Pa-Ga-Ya! PAGAYA!" The city cheered for the man and Pagaya stood still in place with sweat dripping down both cheeks.
"Excuse me I don't think-" Pagaya started quietly.
"I know you can do it father," a soothing voice said next to him. Pagaya turned to see his daughter with her blonde beautiful pigtails, smiling into his eyes and nodding in encouragement at him. Conis whispered, "I believe in you."
Pagaya looked at his daughter for a few more seconds, then back at the crowd and announced, "I will run for Governor, but we must still have the election." As he said it though, the election seemed unnecessary at the sound of the roaring applause and cheering from the citizens of the city. Pagaya chuckled at the civilians who really just wanted someone other than their old leader, but he would try to be more than just that. The old man looked back outside of their city, Thank you Son Goku for giving us this chance.
Son Goku was flying fast away from the sky-city, but his mind was elsewhere. I wonder what that Loki guy meant? I'm not very good with riddles, and that's all he spoke in! "Kings will rise and Kings will fall, there is but one who rules them all." Is that the King guy who Gray was talking about? Or, umm, what was that other thing he said about swords and hearts? Goku hummed to himself but shrugged and smiled as he decided not to think too hard on it. He flew down into the mass of fluffy clouds and started laughing at the feeling of pushing through them.
"Now," he hummed aloud. "Where are those-" he stopped right in the middle of a cloud. Goku blinked a few times and he snapped his head right and left. "Weird," he mumbled. "Where did they go?"
Goku shot down fast out of the clouds so he could see for miles of landscape around him. He looked one direction, and a few hundred miles away he could see an end to the land, a huge scar on the landscape. The Saiyan smiled as he recognized the crack and followed it left with his eyes. He looked out to the east and then kept turning to look northeast, and then north of his current position. His eyes narrowed at a cluster of mountains in the distance. They were so far they looked blurry to him, but they must have been some of the tallest things on the planet, because he could still not see their peaks.
Goku started flying towards those mountains, as he had a strange feeling about them. As he flew though, he wondered aloud, "Where did those three Saiyans go? They seemed really strong." He lowered down until he was flying right over the ground, and he swerved in and out of creatures and monsters all over the rocky waste he flew over. There were dark creatures and monsters eating each other all over the place. He slowed down and looked up to see a flock of Fearows and Spearows flying across the sky. Out of nowhere a Grimm bird dropped out of the sky. Its wingspan was five times the size of the largest of the Fearows, it had black feathers, sharp talons, and red eyes on the white skull on the outside of its face.
The Nevermore descended and the flock of Pokemon scattered. It followed one Spearow in particular and dropped its claws towards the bird. A Fearow shot in and slammed into the side of the Spearow, knocking it to the side right as the Nevermore's talons were closing. Goku frowned as blood splashed out of the bigger brown creature and he heard the screams of the Pokemon up in the air. He looked around him at all the Aragami that started marching his way. They were disgusting, bloodthirsty monsters, and a few of them he could see scars that looked like they were dealt by human weapons. If the humans never finished the job though, he figured the monsters won those fights.
Goku started narrowing his eyes at all these monsters. Tien, he thought, and stepped to the right to allow a diving Grimm wolf to fly past him. What have you been doing all this time? Weren't you going to clear this place out on your own? To get enough power so we could fight again? Goku caught a monster by the wrist of its claw it just swung at him, and he yanked the creature's face in front of his own. I haven't seen one of these in over a year. We cleared all of them out on Awul. His hand started glowing gold and the creature's face took a look of surprise for a split second before it exploded.
The other Aragami and Grimm hesitated. Large golem-like monsters with red lines going through their bodies like visible veins kept marching towards Goku. The Gohma stepped on a few Grimm and did not look like they noticed. One of them punched down towards him, but Goku had enough. He pulled his arms in and yelled, "Haaa!" A golden aura surrounded him, and his hair shot up spiky and blond. The little boy yelled louder and his aura grew brighter, and started ripping apart the monsters around him. They reeled away and pulled back their arms, but their bodies disintegrated in Goku's golden light.
Goku finally stopped powering up and he let his hair drop back to its normal black spikes. He took a calm breath and looked around at the empty landscape for a hundred yards around him. There were still monsters all over the place and the young Saiyan boy frowned. He did not have time, nor did he want, to go around destroying every monster on the continent covered in them from the feel of it. "I want to find those Saiyans," he mumbled childishly. The boy crossed his arms and he closed his eyes. The pouting look on his face faded and he looked much more serious as he focused his mind.
The three I felt could have entered a city. Maybe they put on Power Blockers too. Or maybe, they are hiding their energy. If I try sensing harder, then, perhaps… Goku's eyes snapped open and his head pointed to the northeast. "There," he said, a big grin appearing on his face. They were in a much different location than where he felt them last time, now they were a lot farther away and their energies were fainter. A golden aura surrounded him again as he transformed into a Super Saiyan. "Gotta get there fast in case they disappear again."
With that, the Super Saiyan flew into the distance. He crossed miles in mere seconds, and hundreds of miles in minutes. He rose higher off the ground as to not disturb people below when he crossed over a town with high walls. As he flew over though, the people pointed up and shouted at the glowing golden blur flying above. Goku almost wanted to fly down to them and talk considering when he flew in their airspace he felt quite a few powerful figures down there, but once he crossed into their space he also lost feeling of the faint Saiyan energies he felt. He shot out of the town and tried locking back on, but their energies were even fainter than before, or gone, he could not tell. Did they feel me coming and try to hide? That doesn't make sense, I have one of these PB thingies on.
Goku looked at his right wrist and the silver bracelet on it. "Maybe if I take this off…" He hummed to himself and thought about what Gray told him. "Really strong guys will come find me if I take it off," he started, an excited look coming to his face. He reached for his wrist, ready to get in an amazing battle at this very moment. As his left hand touched his wrist though, he felt three powers rise in the northeast. "There they are!" His train of thought was derailed and he put his arms back at his sides as he flew off.
He shot straight towards the powers and moved faster than before so he would not lose them again. Traveling so far east so fast made it so he was arriving somewhere much later in the day from where he left. The suns were in the middle of the sky when he left only a few minutes before, but were halfway down in the west when he was finally getting close. Goku spotted the area that the powers were coming from and his face lit up. It was late summer, but down below were mountains of ice. The mountains were not huge, but they were large craggily peaks of ice and rock with no real solid ground between the mountains. The area seemed in-traversable by foot with spikes of ice sticking up every few feet and no real path to walk on.
A few of the peaks had openings in them, or big black doorways right below the peaks with little flat platforms outside them. "People must live here," Goku said as he flew by a mountain. He flew at the door's level and looked inside to see a man with a big white beard, blue skin, and a golden crown on his head sitting alone at a table, seeming really sad. Goku felt one of the Saiyan's energies drop fast so he ignored the old icy guy for now and flew off faster.
He spiraled around two more mountains and finally the ground below him started to show signs of the powers he was feeling. Whatever the three Saiyans were fighting was invisible to him, and Goku slowed down as he realized that whatever it was had to be wearing Power Blockers. He slowed down and furrowed his brow, as he originally came with hopeful expectations of the Saiyans, but now that he thought about the Saiyans he had met before, he did not have high hopes that the ones they were fighting were going to be bad people he would want to help them with. In fact, he thought it would be the contrary, and he would most likely wind up fighting these Saiyans in a few seconds.
Goku sped back up and shook his head around. Whether or not he had to fight the Saiyans or help them, he had to get there and join in. He lifted up over one last mountain, one where the ice at the top was cracking and an avalanche started on the western edge because of the shaking ground. He flew over the top of the mountain and looked down over the other side to see the three Saiyans were closer to the mountain than their enemies who vastly outnumbered them. And when he saw the army standing and floating before his fellow Saiyans, he realized that the reason he could not feel their energies was not because they were wearing Power Blockers at all.
In front of the two floating Saiyans and the injured one down on a knee behind them, was an army of robots. The bi-pedaled steel men had glowing red eyes on their shiny silver faces, rocket launchers on their wrists, jets coming out of the soles of their feet, and many in the front rows had wires sticking out of their circuitry. There were several crumpled-up sparking robot carcasses on the floor in front of the Saiyans and below their flying opponents. All three of the aliens had bad injuries, but the bald one in the back down on his knee was missing his entire left arm. He was grabbing his bloody shoulder with his remaining hand and taking heavy breaths in pain.
"I told you we shouldn't have come this way," one of the black haired men with short hair growled back to the injured one behind him.
"Heh, sorry guys," the bloodiest one muttered in reply. He had two scars going vertically down over his eyes from his forehead to his cheeks. "Didn't see the trap coming. You were right," the man started coughing and blood splattered out of his mouth.
"Shit," the third man with long black hair that spiked down his back to his waist cursed. He did not look behind him, but he could tell his comrade with a missing arm was not doing well. "Bora," he muttered quietly. "Take Dobaka and get out of here." The short-haired man on his left side glanced at him and then at the army in front of them. The robots were raising their arms and all charging attacks simultaneously. The one with long hair kept speaking, "When they fire, go. I'll stop their attacks and stall until-"
"Hey there!"
The muscular Saiyan man who was speaking darted his eyes up in the sky as did his two companions. They stared up in the air at a young boy with a brown tail sticking out behind him, making all three of them go wide-eyed as the tail looked very similar to the ones they had wrapped around their waists. The kid flew down so that he was floating in front of the two older Saiyan men between them and the enemy army. The boy wore an orange fighting gi that looked much different from their Saiyan armor, but his hair looked similar to a Saiyan's, just like his tail. He floated there facing them and the long haired one shouted, "Who are you?"
"I'm Son Goku," the kid greeted. The men in front of him dropped their jaws.
"No you are not," the guy with long, spiky, black hair snarled back at him.
"Apragus, look at his hair," Bora said. He was about to shout something along the same lines as his partner, but the kid's hair had spikes that he recognized well. "Does that look-"
The robots all fired their weapons. Goku felt them coming and he spun around in midair, not expecting such powerful attacks to be shot by those robots. His hair shot up golden and his body surrounded in a golden aura that had the three men behind him staring in awe. Goku lifted up his right hand and yelled out as the red beams all collided with him. His hand moved like a blur smacking into every single red beam and knocking them off to the sides. Huge red explosions erupted to Goku's left and right sides, and then the small boy flew between them and up to the closest robot to him. The robot's red eyes seemed to grow in that split second before Goku slammed a fist forward and knocked its head off.
"He's, a Super Saiyan," the man on the ground whispered. He pushed himself up and staggered forward, all the while staring in amazement as Goku tore apart their enemy army. "Then, that's really him?" Dobaka asked, looking up at his companions for verification.
"Might be," Apragus said. He crossed his arms and glowered, losing his shocked look while staring off at the powerful child. "If so, we must report back right away."
"Abandon the mission?" Bora asked.
"We already failed," Apragus said. The muscular and least damaged of the three Saiyans glared ahead at the boy who finished off the last few robots before letting his golden glow go away. "Boy, come here," Apragus shouted and Goku spun around. He flew over towards the long haired Saiyan and stayed at eye level with him, even when the man tried floating up a little to look down at the kid.
"Hi! What are you doing here?" Goku asked.
"None of your concern," Apragus replied. He crossed his arms in front of his armored chest, armor that Goku recognized well, it being the same armor that Bulma used to make for them based off of Vegeta's space armor. "Are you really Kakarott?" He asked, and the other two Saiyan men glanced at him confusedly.
Goku nodded his head, and the other two more-injured men besides Apragus lowered their bottom lips. "So if you guys know my Saiyan name, you really are Saiyans?" Goku questioned, his face already lighting up. "That's great. You aren't bad guys right?"
Apragus looked agitated by the question and in an aggravated voice he responded, "Come with us." The man turned to the slightly shorter, and more pudgy man next to him. "Bora, get Dobaka. We're returning."
"Where are you going?" Goku asked.
"You are coming with us," Apragus told him. Goku frowned that he was not asked, but he lifted up his eyebrows and started smiling after the next sentence the Saiyan told him. "We are returning to see the King."
Just Off of the East Coast of Awul
One Week Ago…
"Is everything to your liking Kurosaki Ichigo?" A young woman with light skin, long black braided hair, and a red tunic on questioned the younger man leaning against the wall to her right. They were in the frontmost section of the largest of three flying airships heading east across the Great Ocean. There was a clear glass window in the front of their control room showing the bright blue sky ahead of them and the white clouds they were flying just above. The two of them were standing on the upper level of the room, while a lower level down the stairs to either sides of them had a dozen people sitting behind computers and control panels to fly their giant zeppelin.
Ichigo was leaning on the wall but staring past the stairs next to him and out the window of their airship. He caught glimpses of both of the other airships in their convoy to their sides, but could only see the very front parts of them. He turned his head to the woman in command of this mission and nodded, "Yeah Toto, everything's fine." Ichigo had his hands in his pockets and he pushed off the wall with a foot. "How long does it normally take to get to Remano?"
Toto walked away from Ichigo and up to the railing of the second level they were on. "Only a couple of days. The newest airships have max speeds of three hundred miles per hour, so this will actually be my fastest run to Aebrith yet."
"Alright," he said, and he leaned off the wall while stretching his arms up over his head. He stepped away and put his hands down into his sweatpants' pockets and started walking for one of the staircases. "I'm going to head to the passenger section."
"King Alibaba told me to let you stay in the cockpit," Toto began, turning to the teen who did not stop.
Ichigo walked down the stairs and without looking back he said, "Yeah, but he didn't tell you to keep me up here. I'm just going to go look around," he finished.
The young woman in charge of the fleet sighed and waved him off. "Suit yourself."
Ichigo walked back through the front of the zeppelin until he reached a set of double doors. From this side of the doors he did not need a passcode or card or anything so he just kept walking and the doors slid open on their own for him. He exited the front section of the giant blimp and instantly the place seemed a lot bigger. The front section also had rooms on the sides for the crew and special guests, (which he didn't realize Alibaba thought he was before getting on), so both sides of him in the passageway he just walked through were walled off making it a narrow hallway. The room he just entered though, he had to pause a moment to take it all in.
It was not his first time seeing the inside of the extravagant machine, but it never ceased to amaze him. The sides of the blimp were white but the material that made up the vehicle was translucent so he could see outside anyway. Both the inner and outer parts of the zeppelin's white walls were clear though there was some space between them that was full of elements that kept them afloat. There were no windows because of this, it really seemed like they were outside except for the white tint to their surroundings. He had a much better view of the other zeppelins on either side of them now, but he was not looking outside. Ichigo's eyes were wandering around the blimp that if he were to compare it to somewhere else on his world, it would be an airport. There were sections for sitting near doors that would be used for exits when they landed. Televisions and computers were almost as scattered as chairs for all the passengers to use for their entertainment and to pass the time on their way to Aebrith. The chairs here were much nicer than in an airport, soft recliners and couches where he could see friends and family sitting around talking and eating. The food they were eating probably came from one of the restaurants scattered around the floor, or even on the second level fifty feet above him that there were staircases leading up to.
Ichigo started walking down the twenty foot wide aisle in the direct center of the zeppelin where no food stands, shops, or luggage could be kept. There were some other people walking on it, though most people were sitting down. He spotted a couple of Rhodari guards coming his way wearing matching red uniforms and green hats with small rims on them. The two guards were talking to each other, and Ichigo moved a little to the left to walk past them, but when they noticed who it was about to walk past, one of them almost jumped out of his shoes. The other person looked interested as well but the man who jumped really overreacted.
Ichigo continued to walk but the two stopped and he tried to hold in a groan as he turned to them. Below the rims of their hats he spotted headbands that were not completely covered. One of them had a swirly circular symbol on the center of the headband and the other's symbol looked like a gourd. Ninjas, he thought, while out loud asking, "What?"
The more nervous of the two had jet black hair and big bushy eyebrows. Ichigo recognized the headband he was wearing as one belonging to a Hidden Leaf shinobi. The teen did not look much older than Ichigo, just like the blonde haired girl on his left. The boy looked at Ichigo with big eyes and took a deep breath which made the taller, spiky orange haired teen lean back. "It is an honor to meet you Kurosaki Ichigo the King has spoken very highly of you and we are to make sure you make it to Remano safely and as fast as-"
The blonde girl jabbed an elbow into her comrade's side and he hunched over in pain with his tongue stuck out. "You're speaking too fast Lee," Temari said with an annoyed look on her face. She turned back to Ichigo and tilted her own head up to look at him down her nose. "So, you're the 'hero' we're supposed to be guarding?"
Alibaba I'm gonna strangle you, he thought angrily. "Not really," Ichigo said aloud in a bored tone though his face showed more the annoyed expression that matched his thoughts. "Ichigo," he introduced himself, nodding his head at the kunoichi.
She grinned as she was half-expecting some snob who must have requested Alibaba's help and told the King to call him a 'hero.' The look on this teen's face was not a happy one though and she chuckled. "Temari," she said. "And this guy here's Rock Lee."
"It's an honor!" Lee exclaimed and snapped straight up again.
"You said that already," Temari mumbled at the idiot next to her.
"The King said you saved his life," Lee said in a rushed voice, ignoring Temari completely. He pushed his face up closer to Ichigo's. "So you must be incredibly strong!"
Ichigo nodded, not caring much to explain his strength right now. He felt like if he said anything this guy was just going to jump on it and keep on rambling so he stayed quiet. Lee did not need him to say something for him to go off of though, and he started asking all sorts of questions which made Ichigo sweatdrop. Temari noticed the taller teen looked uncomfortable and as much as she wanted to watch the 'hero' squirm, she grabbed Lee by the arm and tugged him the way Ichigo just came from. "Let's go. We have rounds to do."
"Wait! But I-" Lee had turned for a second to shout at Temari, but when he looked back Ichigo was already walking the other direction with his back to them. "Oh, well, I'll find you later when I am on break Ku- Ichigo!"
"Can't wait," Ichigo muttered under his breath. A cheer of happiness rang out behind him and he dropped his jaw as somehow Lee must have heard that. This is ridiculous, he thought and looked around for a seat. He saw an empty section nearby and walked towards an empty chair. The teen felt movement in the bag on his back and he sighed, taking it off as he got to the chair he would be sitting on for the next few hours if possible.
Ichigo dropped the bag down on the floor and it hit with a thud. "Ouch!" A high pitched voice exclaimed from under the flap over the top of his bag. The flap got pulled open and a stuffed lion climbed out of his luggage. "Hey!" The lion pointed one of its round hands at Ichigo and waved it around. "Be more careful, did you forget I was in here?!"
"I didn't forget," Ichigo stated blandly while getting comfortable in the recliner. He leaned his head back while Kon gawked at him for his purposeful mistreatment. "What do you want Kon?"
"Whoa! Is that what we're inside?" Kon asked in amazement as he had climbed on the chair and looked through one of the walls at one of the other zeppelins outside.
Ichigo shrugged as he took another look himself. "I'm pretty sure this one's bigger," he said.
"Whoaa," Kon gasped out. He seemed to forget all about Ichigo roughly dropping his carry-on with the cool environment he suddenly found himself in. "Ichigo look, a Big Belly Burger," Kon pointed over at a restaurant, the one with the longest line of any away from the counter. The stuffed lion spun and looked up hopefully at the teen, "Please?" he begged. Ichigo did not look down. "Please, please, pleeaaasseee!"
"You're not taking my body just so you can eat a burger," Ichigo said, leaning his head back and rubbing his temples as he wished Kon would just be quiet already. He rubbed for a few more seconds then stopped as he was expecting Kon to keep saying 'please.' He looked down and the stuffed lion was gone. The teen looked left and right and groaned as he didn't see Kon anywhere.
He put his hands down on the armrests to push up, but stopped himself and just slouched back in his chair. We're inside a zeppelin miles up in the air above an ocean, where is he gonna go? Ichigo put his head back and closed his eyes.
"Attention passengers," a speaker system that covered the entire zeppelin Ichigo was riding announced.
Ichigo was sitting on a chair, watching Rhodari television that still managed to get a signal over the Great Ocean. The screen blanked for a minute though so that everyone watching would pay attention to the captain's message. Toto's voice continued over the ship, "We are nearing the coast of Aebrith. We will arrive at the capital of Leam, Remano, by nine o'clock tonight. Until then, enjoy the view as we approach the largest continent on Nexus."
"Whoa!"
"Look!"
"It's amazing!"
Ichigo tried to drown out their voices but he finally conceded and stood up. He turned to the left side of the blimp where people were lining up at the curved wall and leaning into it so they could all look down and far ahead of them where a coastline was coming into sight. Ichigo stared out there and he heard a little girl on his right whisper up to the woman holding her hand, "Mommy, it's so big. How many people live here?"
The mom's bottom lip was dropped as she took it all in. She looked at amazing island formations near the coast and mountain ranges just barely visible above the horizon. It was less cloudy than the day they left so it was easy to see their destination and all of its magnificence. She closed her mouth though and clenched her young daughter's hand tightly. "It's my first time coming here too baby," she whispered. "So I don't know, but a whole lot I bet."
"More than home?" The girl asked.
"Maybe," her mom responded. "Let's ask your father when we get to Remano."
"Is he really there?" The girl asked, her head pointing down and her face getting a sad look to it. Ichigo was trying to just watch the approaching coast but it was hard not to eavesdrop on the family since they were so close to him. "What if he's-"
"He's there," her mother assured confidently. She knelt down in front of her small daughter and held both of her hands right now. "King Alibaba promised that the list of missing friends and family us citizens of Rhodar gave him would be given to the King of Leam. The people of Leam did the same thing, so anyone who got separated from family, like you, me, and daddy, could find each other." The mom gave the girl a reassuring smile, "And sure enough, your daddy was looking for us all over, just like I told you he was."
The girl's sad look was gone and she nodded happily at her mother. "Mm!"
Ichigo found his own lips curling up but he did not catch himself. He felt good so he smiled for a second or two, until he noticed something behind him that made him spin around and lose his smile. He watched as five guards went running down the aisle in the middle of the blimp towards the front. He jogged over as he spotted a couple of people he recognized.
"Oi," he called out as they were moving too fast and about to go by him.
The ninjas turned and Temari kept going while Lee paused for a second. The Leaf shinobi turned to Ichigo who snapped, "What's happening? Where are you all going?"
"We just got word," Lee began. "Our radars picked up on something. It's approaching the-"
A chill ran down Ichigo and Lee's spines and the two of them went wide-eyed. Other people on the ship who were starting to get nervous at the sight of all the rushing guards began freaking out as they got the same feelings and were not experienced fighters like the teenagers. "Weary travelers," a deep, horrifyingly deep, voice began.
Ichigo and Lee spun towards the front of the ship while Temari spun around like the five guards in front of her. In between Ichigo and Lee, and the rest of the guards, a single figure stood in the aisle. He had an all black cloak covering his entire body with a hood up that shadowed his face. He was six feet tall and his dark appearance scared the ship silent in seconds.
"Who are you?" Temari snapped at this figure. She reached behind her back and pulled a two-foot long rectangle of steel off her back. One button press though and the steel extended over twice as long and then spread to the sides, revealing a beige fan as tall as she was with three red dots on it as it was spread out to its full width. "And choose your words carefully," the sand kunoichi warned him.
"Your ships are surrounded," the figure stated. He was not facing Temari's group, but Ichigo and Lee who did not back away from the man only twelve feet away from them. He continued in his deep scary voice, "We will be taking control now."
"Why? Who are you?" Lee shouted at him.
"'Why?'" The man repeated back in a voice that made Lee's face cover in sweat. "Because aboard these vessels are supplies that you are bringing to our enemies. Leam will lose this war. The Emperor assures death to all who stand against him."
"Your allegiance is to the Emperor?" Temari questioned. "Then you should know that we have a non-aggression-"
"Bringing weapons to our enemies is the definition of aggression!" The man roared. His right hand slid out of his sleeve and it was dark blue skinned. He was holding a silver hilt and out from one side of it came a red blade of light. People gasped at the sight, then the fighters preparing themselves got nervous as out the other side of the lightsaber came another blade of red.
"Oh my God," someone said in a horrified voice on the right side of the blimp. At first some people thought she was talking about the apparent Sith on board, but those who turned to her saw she was looking outside and they did the same. There were hovercrafts out there, flying speeders covered in turrets, and on those vehicles were other cloaked figures holding lightsabers along with regular soldiers holding firearms.
Ichigo looked back and forth between the ships surrounding the blimps outside and the Sith inside. A bead of sweat rolled down the left side of his fave, Kon! Where the Hell did you go?!
Ichigo! Why are you all the way over there?! Kon thought in panic while hiding near a big group of people instead of standing directly in front of the terrifying enemy.
"Sith Lord," a voice called out, coming from behind Temari and the other guards. They turned and spotted someone in a red tunic walking towards them from the bow of the airship.
"General Toto," Temari said and moved to the side as the slightly older woman approached.
"Is that what we should call you? Or do you have a name?" Toto questioned the man in an annoyed and cocky voice.
"You need not know my name," the Sith began. "All you need to know is-"
"No," Toto stated firmly. The Sith spun his double-sided lightsaber and pointed one end towards Toto which made all the guards around her tense up and raise their weapons. Toto smirked and took a daring step towards the Sith so she was in front of all her guards now. "It's time for me to tell you something. You say we're supplying your enemies like this is some important war you need to win and we're endangering you by doing this. I know however, that the Sith invaded Leam unannounced. I know that this is an unwarranted war of aggression. So I will tell you again, no. No you can not take control of my ships. No you will not stop us from trading with our allies."
"We have you surrounded," the man repeated and he started to raise his free hand to point at Toto.
When she saw him lift his hand she rose her own and pressed a button on the remote in it. "Commander Rhodey."
"Yeah General?"
"Do it," Toto stated.
The Sith hesitated, then spun his head right as did everyone else around them as a loud explosion went off over there. Floating in between their mothership and the next zeppelin down was a man made of iron, a silver man floating there in the air with glowing blue jets on his shoes and gloves propelling him up. One of the speeders in between the zeppelins was going down, but as they watched that burning wreckage fall, everyone's eyes started darting around to look at the outsides of the other zeppelins.
The sides of the huge blimps started opening up all over the place, and out from those holes flew more and more metal men. Dozens of them flew out and surrounded each and every one of the small ships and vehicles "surrounding" the zeppelins. In a matter of seconds, being surrounded took on a whole new meaning.
The Sith Lord was staring outside and shaking with rage, but he turned back when Toto started speaking again. "Listen closely you scum," the former gladiator growled. She rose up a sword and an eight-pointed star on it started glowing. Her whole weapon started to glow, then she pointed it down at her enemy. "You may be winning your war against Leam, but if you really want to start a fight right here, you'll get the two front war you're asking for. And you. Will. Lose. Rhodar is not a nation to be toyed with. Tell the rest of your Cooperative buddies that too. Ever try taking one of our ships again, you won't get away with losing just one speeder."
Toto rose up the device in her hand and spoke into it, "Rhodey, if any of them try fighting, kill them all."
The Sith snapped his head left and right and he could not see any of his men preparing to fight. He growled before turning back to Toto, "You insolent-"
"If you do not get off my ship in the next five seconds, you'll leave without your head," Toto said.
"Yeah!"
"Do it Captain!"
Passengers around the ship suddenly felt a lot safer. The chills they felt before were gone and this mysterious man seemed a lot less threatening. The Sith opened his mouth to respond, but Toto started counting down. "Five, four…"
"This is not over," the Sith snarled.
Toto glared into the eyes she could faintly see under his hood, and she snarled back, "I hope not."
The Sith slashed his lightsaber down at the floor and sparks and smoke surrounded him. A second later, the smoke was gone, and so was he. Toto darted her eyes around as did a few of her guards, but when she looked over at Lee, even her fastest soldier shook his head at her showing he did not see where the Sith Lord went. Toto lowered her Household Vessel and smiled at the power just being in King Alibaba's Household gave her.
"Well that was, unexpected," a voice said behind Ichigo and the teen spun around with a pissed off look on his face. Kon held up his hands defensively, but Ichigo pulled back his foot anyway and punted the stuffed animal.
Lee watched Ichigo in surprise but before he could question it, Toto called him over as they had a lot of work to do as they were about to fly over the Emperor's lands after threatening his men. Ichigo walked away and he stared down at the stuffed lion that pushed its back against a garbage can. "Where the Hell were you?" Ichigo growled.
"What did you want me to do? That guy was scary Ichigo!" Kon exclaimed.
"Yeah," Ichigo muttered, "that's why I needed you to come over so I could give you my body."
"Well," Kon began, twisting his foot on the ground and lowering his head. "You could always give me your body now-" Ichigo punted the stuffed animal again and it screamed as it flew off, "It was worth a try!"
The Far South of Aebrith. Present.
"Heyyyyyyyyyyyy! Hellloooooooooooo?" Timmy Turner moaned loudly. "HELLOOOOOO?!"
The young boy looked around in the dark room he was in. He tugged his arms forward and winced in pain. The chains on his wrists were tight and he looked to his right side at the hand held up above his head and pinned to the wall. He could see blood dripping down from beneath the brace on his arm, just below his Power Blocker where he felt like his circulation was almost being cut off with these powerful chains. It was pitch black in the room, but one of Timmy's numerous wishes over the years included night vision. Everything was tinted green, but he could clearly see his hand and the droplets of red dripping down his arm to his exposed chest.
"HELLO?!" Timmy shouted again. He struggled in his chains but neither his arms nor his legs could pull away from the wall at all. He opened his mouth and breathed fire, but the flames hit the wall across the small room from him and then sputtered out without anything to catch onto. The room he was in was a steel box with nothing in it except for him and his chains. He was strapped to the wall in nothing but his pants, and the pink hat on his head that he would not let go of no matter what. "I'm going to get out of here!" Timmy yelled. His eyes started glowing red and two beams shot out of them, crashing into the wall across from him and digging in to the steel foundation. He pushed his head farther forward and made his beams stronger, and his eyes widened as he saw they were actually managing to burn through a little.
CLANK! Timmy's head slammed back against the steel behind him so hard that a normal man's head would have cracked, or exploded. His eyes pushed open wider as his face felt like it was getting flattened by some huge invisible force in front of him. His irises darted to the right side of the room where there was a part of the wall with cracks going vertically up it, and in between two of those cracks, a thick door of steel opened up. Timmy clenched his teeth angrily as this was not the same position the door opened up in last time. "Hey! HEY!" Timmy shouted as the door slid inwards and a figure stepped inside his box.
The figure was no taller than Timmy himself, but he was thicker than Timmy was. The person walked in and despite Timmy being able to see, the person's body was entirely black as if he were standing in shadows. Timmy could tell he had clothes on, and that the person was looking at him telling from the face-shape in the shadow, but he could not see his captor's eyes. "Who are you?" Timmy asked, making his voice sound serious and angry. "Why do you have me here?! WHY?!"
"Shut up already!" The boy in front of him shouted. He at least sounded like a boy from his voice, and a boy around Timmy's age at that. Timmy' scrunched his face in frustration at the boy's remark, and using his mind he tried to force the person against the back wall. The fatter boy lifted up his right hand though and in it formed a wooden staff. He did this in the same instant that Timmy attacked, and the fat boy pushed his staff forward into the invisible force Timmy shot at him.
Timmy stopped trying to attack with his mind and instead opened his mouth again. A fireball the size of the room shot at his opponent, but the boy swiped his staff down and the ball of flames dispersed. Hiding behind the flames was Timmy's real attack though, as several powerful bolts of lightning shot forward and hit the boy who was not expecting them. Timmy smirked, and then fell into despair as his opponent did not even flinch as he was slammed by all those lightning bolts. "Tell me," Timmy growled at the boy before him. He rose his voice and yelled, "Who are you?!"
"Can you stop screaming?" The other boy asked. Timmy looked shocked as it sounded like this person was the one annoyed with him. "I soundproofed this room, but I swear I can hear you all around the castle."
"Castle?" Timmy asked, for the first time getting an idea of where he was. "Where are we exactly? What is this place? And who are you?!"
The person walked towards Timmy and then suddenly floated up in the air to the point in front of where Timmy was strung up in chains against the wall. "You're not in any position to be asking questions," the other boy taunted. He leaned forwards towards Timmy and closed his eyes. Timmy could feel someone entering his mind though and he closed his own eyes, appearing in his own mindscape. The person walking through it opened his eyes wide and spun as a figure appeared in there. The Timmy in his own mind was not the same little boy strung on the wall though, unlike the fat little boy who stayed as his same, small, shadowy self from outside the mindscape.
"Whoa!" The fat boy shouted, stumbling back inside Timmy's mind as an eight foot tall bodybuilder in a pink hat appeared in front of him.
The walls of Timmy's mind turned red and the bodybuilder of Timmy's Form 3 shot forwards at his opponent. The other boy rose his arms to telekinetically stop Timmy, but the force that slammed into him was much too weak to stop this powerful form. He pulled back his right fist and slammed it full force into the fat boy in his mind. For a second, Timmy knocked the black right off of his opponent, making him visible to Timmy inside his mind. They left Timmy's mind in that same instant he punched the other boy though, and they both snapped open their eyes wide as the larger boy flew away from Timmy and into the opposite wall.
The boy hit the wall and yelled out in pain and anger. "You shouldn't have fought back!" The boy shouted, and he rose a hand and fired bolts of lightning at Timmy. Timmy did not flinch though as he glared down at his new worst enemy. The kid attacking him lowered his arms as he saw the lightning had no effect. "Hmm, looks like you wished for lightning immunity as well." Timmy's eyes started to open wide and he opened his mouth to yell a question at the other boy, but the boy lifted up his right hand and clenched, making Timmy roar in pain. "You are getting weaker, one of these days I am going to get into that mind of yours, and then, you're all mine." The boy turned from a heavily panting Timmy and started walking for the door. "I wish the walls in here could withstand his energy attacks. And fix up the damage already done too while you're at it."
Timmy's suspicions were confirmed and he snapped his gaze back to the opposite wall. The burn holes where the beams that shot out of his eyes dug through vanished in a puff of white smoke and the wall returned to its former glory. Actually, Timmy suspected that the wall was much stronger than it previously was. The steel door closed behind the dark figure who left the room and Timmy yelled out in frustration. He narrowed his eyes and they glowed red. Beams shot into the opposite wall and he made them even hotter than the ones he used before, the hottest energy beams he could make. After a full ten seconds of doing this though, Timmy stopped with his beams and stared at the wall behind them while he started panting again.
The wall had no damage at all. There were not even any black marks around where his beams were hitting to show the wall had felt the heat. He struggled harder against his binds, but as he did the chains seemed to get tighter and he roared as his hands and feet were pulled away from his body tighter so that his chains had no slack at all. "What do you want from me?! Who are you?! RAAAA!"
A/N Surprise! Goku! Ichigo! Timmy! The return of the giants! Haha hope you liked the chapter as a lot of you have been asking what Goku and Timmy have been up to. We see what happened to Goku right after he left the group, but now he's going to see the King?! And Timmy, who is that monster with him?! How did he get a fairy? Ichigo heads across the ocean in Rhodari zeppelins to trade with Leam, but tensions are high with the Emperor and the Sith who follow him. Thanks for reading! Quick list this time:
One Piece: Pagaya, Mckinley, Conis, Skypiea
DBZ: Saiyans, Goku (Kakarott), Vegeta, and admittedly just some new Saiyans I made up, I know right? Crazy! XD
Fairly Oddparents: Timmy Turner
Naruto: Temari, Lee
Magi: Alibaba, Toto
Star Wars: Sith Lord, Emperor
Marvel: Loki, Rhodey
Bleach: Ichigo Kurosaki, Kon
RWBY: Grimm, Nevermore
Pokemon: Spearow, Fearow
God Eater: Aragami
Asura's Wrath: Gohma
KCSupido chapter 47 . 3h ago
God, what you did to Mario is so cold... Although, maybe he had a few 1-ups hidden away ;p
Great chapter as always!
Thanks for the review! Sad for Mario... ;(
qwerty chapter 47 . 9h ago
I'm guessing this is Mario before the event of the Super Mario Galaxy Series, where the Universe was literally destroyed as a result of his fight with Giant Bowser. I'm sorry if I sound butt-hurt but you just killed the most god-damn iconic character in gaming.
Sorry for killing off a fav of yours. Even if it was Super Mario Galaxy Series, (and no I haven't played, but I watched a playthrough of the final battle to see what you were talking about), I was wondering if Mario had more powers in it or something, but Mario could still just punch or kick without power-ups. The universe blowing up was because Mario punched Bowser into the sun, while in low gravity so it wasn't much of a hard punch, and Bowser somehow made the sun explode, and the sun exploding sucked in the rest of the universe. Anyway, it's a tough break for Mario but I mean, he gets killed by a few punches from turtles and mushrooms, so... ;( sorry
Espada-001 chapter 47 . 2h ago
God damit, poor Kuwabara losing Yukina like that is so sad T-T! And while Kuwabara was brought back to my attention a thought came to mind. Why the he'll hasn't he started breaking people free and starting a riot!? I know his powers are surpressed while he's locked up but they're turned off when he has his power back, and you've already shown that Law's shambles power can work on the suppressors so Kuwabara's dimensional sword should be able to cut through them like butter. I mean Rabin the Manga his sword could cut through space and create wormholes to travel large distances instantly. As for his broken thought process right now if he's to distraught to break himself out then the moment somebody takes the device off of him he's most likely going to go from heartbroken to absolutely livid in a matter of seconds over what happened to Yukina. As for Mario while I've never been the biggest fan of his games it's definitely sad to see him die like that. And anybody able to detect energy for quite a distance around is definitely going to notice Gon's power spike especially since his power suppressor fell off. It'll definitely be sad that Gon's going to die as well and hopefully once he's done all he can hope fully he can destroy himself so that Meruem won't be able to absorb his power and become even stronger. And poor Netero being replaced by Captain Ginyu although the moment he started acting strange the first thought that came to mind was that it was Captain Ginyu. Well that's all I have for now although I can't say I was happy with how things went down, but that has nothing to do with bad writing as it's just me feeling sad for Kuwabara. So until next time have a good day and I look forward to the next chapter.
Yeah, that was, brutal. Yukina! Also, as for why he doesn't break out, he is in the Capital, surrounded, and maybe he has tried it before. With the King showing up to watch certain matches though, and other Lords are also seen making bets on the matches, that attempt may have failed, we don't know. Plus, though his powers may not have been nullified during the fight, the torture bracelets they wear would be turned on if anyone started trying to, let's say, cut off all the others' suppressors. Anyway, just a consideration since the months right after when they were captured haven't been mentioned much except for the last chapter. Also, as for anyone feeling Gon, that may be true for inside the city, but most cities have power blockers around the outside so likely no one felt him. Mario! Gon?! What happened to him? Who knows? Haha nice at calling Captain Ginyu though! Thanks for the review! Thanks again to everyone reading this story, and 'till next time!