A/N Hey guys! Been a while, but I finally finished this chapter last night! I know a lot of you have been waiting a long time for this, so I hope you enjoy the most important chapter of Nexus so far!
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Nexus HWR 12.5 The Rogue:
Mount Vegeta
"Goku! What's happening?" Sora shouted as he flew after his shorter but older friend.
Goku shook his head without turning around. Something's wrong, Goku thought, as the energy he could sense from all the Saiyans on the mountains was frantic. Saiyans were flying up from their houses, some came crashing straight through their roofs while Goku and Sora flew towards Mount Vegeta. They were coming from the Training Mountain, but Saiyans were lifting off of Mount Salad and all of the other tallest mountains in the range. Hundreds of Saiyans, maybe even over a thousand from what Sora could see, flew up towards the tallest summit in the world.
"EVERYONE LISTEN TO ME!" A voice roared. It echoed over the mountains and everyone flying towards Mount Vegeta froze where they were. A bright golden light flared above Mount Vegeta, and the light got brighter as the center of it flew high above the top of the tallest mountain. Everyone stared at the golden light and the single figure in Saiyan armor inside it, his hair spiked up in a single golden point above his head. Sora froze where he was when he saw the man inside that golden light. He could see the scars on his face and the green coloring on his armor that easily distinguished him as the Saiyan King, but it was his presence that made Sora's body coat in sweat.
Goku's eyes grew wide at the sight of his father's face. Bardock floated above Mount Vegeta looking the direction that most of his people were in. Most of the other tallest mountains were west of Mount Vegeta, so they were all looking to the east at their King who had three suns behind him, giving him an even brighter glow. Through all that glow though, the Saiyan race and the brown-haired Keybearer could all see Bardock's facial expression. He looked so mad that 'furious' or 'enraged' were not nearly enough to qualify his anger.
Bardock was beyond livid. His hair spiked harder and lightning sparked out of him, the mountain below him trembling from his might. "I CLAIMED THESE LANDS!" Bardock roared, while the entirety of the Saiyan race watched him. Bardock took a deep breath, then spoke calmer but with so much fury in his voice it was hard to imagine that he was anything but irate. "I claimed everything within fifty miles of this mountain, and I gave my word that the towns around Mount Vegeta were under my protection." Bardock looked around, and he let out a yell, "AND WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE WITH WHAT I SAID, THAT IS THE WORD OF THE SAIYAN KING!"
Bardock snapped his head to the left and roared at another portion of his people, "At this moment, men attack the towns I have put under my protection! Towns I have given my word that I will protect! THAT IS THE WORD OF THE SAIYAN KING! It must mean something to my people, as for someone to disobey the Saiyan King in his own lands, IS TO SPIT ON THE ENTIRE SAIYAN RACE!" Bardock's fists clenched so hard at his sides that blood trickled between his fingers and fell to the mountain below.
Sora heard growls and snarls coming from around him, and he darted his eyes around to see every Saiyan in the vicinity except for Goku had their teeth bared. They were snarling and their faces were twisting to look nothing like men and women. They look like, animals, Sora thought, and he did not even scold himself afterwards for the thought, as he was genuinely afraid of these people at the moment. He rose his gaze back to Goku's father, and he gulped at the sight of a man who bared his teeth much scarier than the rest of his people.
"We are under attack by an army!" Bardock shouted. He snapped his head back and yelled, "KILL EVERYONE WHO DARES DEFY ME!"
"RAaaaaaa!" A few dozen Saiyans screamed after Bardock's yell.
"RIP THEM TO SHREDS!" Bardock roared, his teeth seeming sharper while his golden hair waved inside his aura.
"RAAAA!"
"BRING ME THEIR HEADS!" Bardock bellowed.
"RAAAAAAAA!"
"And if any Saiyan man or woman returns without blood on their hands," Bardock yelled, then snarled and screamed, "I'LL KILL YOU MYSELF!"
The scream that followed was earsplitting. Sora would have covered his ears, but it was only that loud for a second. A second after they started screaming, the scream became more faint, and Sora realized why as every Saiyan around him had flown off at full speed. They left trails of white behind them, most of them flying straight off the sides of the mountains and down the slopes to find the people their King claimed were attacking their lands.
A woman with long spikes of hair going above, behind, and to the sides of her head, flew down to the surface of Mount Vegeta and right to her house. She landed on her front porch and pressed a hand down on the forehead of the small girl who ran forward next to her. "Let me at 'em mom!" the girl yelled in anger, all riled-up from the King's speech. Another young girl stayed closer to the porch behind her sister, and Okara pushed the girl in front hard on her forehead to throw her back towards the younger girl. The girl who got pushed had huge spikes of hair similar to her mom's going out in every direction around her head, while her younger sister had spiky hair tied back into a ponytail. "Ouch," the older said as she fell from the push her mom gave her.
"You'll stay here," Okara ordered, no room for argument in her voice. "Caulifla," Okara started firmly when she saw the look of rebellion rising in her older daughter's face. "I'm trusting you to look after your little sister," Okara growled, still a look of animalistic fury hidden on her face behind the serious guise she was putting on until she could get to the battle herself.
"Rrg, but she's not even," Caulifa began, only to receive an even harsher glare from her mother. The young girl shied back from that look, and she muttered, "Alright alright, I'll stay."
Okara turned to the other girl, "Kale, make sure Caulifa doesn't run off."
"Mm," Kale hummed affirmatively, then backed off a little as Okara snapped her head away.
As soon as Kale hummed in response, Okara dropped her mask of self-control and snarled like a beast. "Now," she growled, "time to get some blood on my hands." She surrounded in a white aura that shook the ground beneath her, and she shot off of Mount Vegeta in an instant.
High above Mount Vegeta, Bardock growled something loudly to the men below him, and the last ten warriors still floating above the Saiyan Mountains flew off. Three of them surrounded in golden auras, their hair spiking up before they flew off, making Goku stare in awe as he had not expected that. He watched with wide eyes as his older brother Raditz was one of the three whose hair shot up gold, as the other day when he watched his older brother and father fight, they had both gone straight into Super Saiyan God form. Raditz yelled at the other warriors around him something furious that made their blood pump faster, and most of those people roared after he shouted it.
Bardock's crew were the ones who did not roar along with Raditz, though they did smirk to each other in bloodthirsty ways. "A thousand bucks says I kill more than Fasha," Shugesh bet the man in front of him.
Tora laughed, and then laughed harder as the woman behind Shugesh slammed an elbow into his back and knocked him into the side of the mountain they were flying down. "Not if I get a head-start," she shouted behind her, then her hair shot up golden like three of the others in front of her already were. She flew away inside her golden veil, and then a roar sounded behind her and a golden eruption blew apart a mound of snow near the summit. Shugesh flew down the missile surrounded in gold, shooting down past Tora and after the short haired woman on their team.
Back at the peak of Mount Vegeta, only Sora and Goku still floated before Bardock. Bardock seemed to be waiting for them since he had not flown off yet even after his rage-fueled speech. "Keybearer, I don't have time to waste protecting you, so just find yourself some armor and get somewhere safe-"
"I'm fighting too," Sora said without hesitation. "If people in the towns around your mountain are in trouble, I need to protect them." He rose his right hand and his Keyblade formed in it. "You may not think much of me as a fighter, but people think that these mountains are a safe haven. Millions of them gathered here, and I won't leave them."
"Me too," Goku told his father.
"Hmph," Bardock grunted. He looked back and forth between the boys in front of him, then he nodded and said, "Alright. Have it your way. Go find a town and protect it," Bardock commanded. He turned to the east himself and growled, "I'm going to head off the enemy. I don't know who it is. I don't know who would dare." On the day the King was set to make his move on the Resistance. It is no coincidence. Bardock continued to the boys, "But we received calls from over a dozen villages at the same time. Explosions, fires, chaos everywhere. Whoever is attacking coordinated this attack with the intention to destroy everything I swore to protect. They spit on my honor by breaking that promise, they tread on my pride!"
Bardock screamed, then he growled in such a guttural way that it was hard to think it was coming from the throat of the man in front of them. Bardock turned away, and he snarled, "Go. Tear apart your enemies. There is no prison on my mountains," Bardock finished, then he flew away in a trail of golden light that could barely keep up with him.
Goku watched as his father flew away, and he had a bad feeling inside him. He lifted a hand and opened his mouth, but he could not shout 'wait' like he wanted to. He closed that hand into a fist, and then he turned to Sora looking as serious as Sora had ever seen him. "Let's go," Goku said.
Goku flew to the right, and Sora called after him, "Follow me!" Goku looked over his shoulder as they flew over the mountain's edge, and Sora was staring straight down and to the south a little. He could feel a strong presence of darkness in that direction, while Goku could feel nothing after he flew off the edge except for other Saiyans around the mountain range. Many of the Saiyans including himself had been too riled-up by Bardock that they never took a moment to put their Power Blockers on before flying off the mountains.
The short Saiyan boy let Sora take the lead. He could not feel any Saiyans in the direction they were flying, but he believed that Sora was leading them to enemies. He also knew that if he could not feel any Saiyans, that most likely meant that no one was trying to protect the town they were heading towards. "It's up to us to save as many people as we can," Sora called out as he shot down the mountain faster than he had ever flown before. He picked up speed even more and the wind rushed by him so fast that it became visible, giving him a sort of aura as he pushed through the air. What is going on? Is it the Ant King? I thought he was going after the Resistance. I thought we were going to have to rush to their aid in a few hours. Why is this happening? Sora sped up even more as the darkness he felt grew even more unsettling, Or is it even the Ant King at all? Is he still going after the Resistance? If so, do I leave the Saiyans to protect their own lands to go help my friends instead?! Goku would never abandon his family and people, even if I asked…
"Sora, we'll figure it out," Goku said, and Sora looked over his shoulder again to see Goku nod at him in a reassuring way. "This, our friends, Kairi, we can do this," Goku assured.
Sora nodded back, then he picked up his speed even faster than he knew he could. I want to believe you Goku, Sora thought, yet an unsure look came to his face. But we're in uncharted territory here. This is going to be crazy.
To the east of Mount Vegeta, floating above one of the smaller mountains at the edge of the fifty mile radius Bardock swore to protect, was a man who wore a suit of tight-fitting black armor that accentuated the muscles all over his body. He had no color to his outfit at all, except for the dark purple cape that he wore that doubled as a cloak pulled over his front to cover the left half of his body. He had a black scouter on his head, pitch black on the metallic part over his left ear, and a black-tinted glass lens over his left eye. He had a horizontal scar over the left side of his face beneath his scouter, and his mouth was curled up on the left side in a menacing smirk. His black armor had long sleeves, and his right arm that was uncovered by the open half of his cloak showed that his sleeve went all the way to his wrist under the metal glove and white wristguard he had on.
"It is good to be back," the man said, then he laughed darkly, his voice echoing in the ears of thousands in the mountain range ahead of him. The five right below him also heard his voice and lifted their heads to look at the man's back. He floated forward, and he lifted his right fist to clench in front of him. His hair was black, with three large spikes pointing up above it that dipped to the left, many more smaller spikes sticking off the right side of his head, and pitch black bangs that spiked down to cover his forehead. "Rogue Ravagers," he said, and the man unclenched his right fist to create a ball of red energy over his palm. "Destroy everything. Kill them first and sort out the bodies later. A thousand for every humanoid head. A hundred thousand for each Saiyan head. Do not stop until I give the order." The Rogue tossed his ball of red energy up, brought his right hand up to the side of his head, pressed a button to turn off his mic, then smacked his right hand forward into the red sphere dropping back in front of him.
The energy ball flew off of Turles' smack and shot straight into the top of another mountain near them that's peak was just a little lower than the one below him. The five below Turles followed the attack's trajectory and watched as it blew the top of the other mountain apart completely, including the small village that was on top of it. Turles waited a few seconds after, watching the red dome grow over five hundred meters in diameter before it started to vanish. Then, Turles' head snapped up, his mouth straightened, and in a deep voice he stated, "Go." The five below him vanished, shooting off the top of the small mountain so fast that it was like they disappeared.
Turles stared straight ahead, and then a figure appeared in front of him. The man who appeared had golden spiky hair, an x-shaped scar on the left side of his face, and held a red-skinned head with horns on it in his right hand. The head Bardock held was of one of the five who just shot off the mountain below Turles, making Turles lift his eyebrows up at the sight of one of his most powerful warriors already decapitated only seconds after he sent him out. He was only able to look at his former subordinate's head for another second though, as Bardock clenched his hand and crushed the dead man's skull into mush, blood splattering in every direction around his hand.
"Turles," Bardock growled as the blood dropped from in front of his face to give him a clear view of the man floating before him.
"Bardock," Turles replied, the left corner of his lip curling back up as he said it. "Why do you call me by that name? You yourself branded me as the Rogue."
"A brand you took as your own with pride," Bardock snarled. He floated forward, and then Turles' hair shot up into a single golden spike above his head that made Bardock stop and glare even more furiously at him. The transformation was effortless and Turles now had the same golden glow as the Saiyan King himself. Bardock growled as he floated in place across from the Rogue, "I have heard rumors about your little band of mercenaries since you fled these mountains."
"'Little band of mercenaries?'" Turles scoffed. "No, your majesty," Turles sneered in a sarcastic voice. "Ever since I was banished, my forces have grown exponentially. Every bounty hunter on Aebrith reports to me. I have an army at my beck and call." Bardock's eyes grew wide at this statement as Turles did not look to be lying, yet he had heard nothing about it. Turles knew what he was thinking, and the Rogue laughed before taunting in a threatening tone, "You have heard nothing about me since my last defeat. Nothing, truthful, that is," Turles said, and he smirked menacingly as a figure floated up behind him. Bardock's blue eyes widened at the sight of the woman whose spiky black hair fell halfway down her back. He glared at her, but she did not appear nervous from the look. Instead, Toufu floated closer to Turles' back and the Rogue just smirked larger at Bardock's enraged expression. "Toufu is my lover," Turles remarked, and the woman behind him flew ever closer. She got right behind him and looked over his left shoulder with a malicious grin towards the Saiyan King. "Or should I say," Turles continued, and his smirk spread to both sides of his face, "she was my lover."
Toufu's smug expression filled with confusion, and then shock and horror as a squelching sound echoed through the air. The woman lowered her shaking eyes slowly towards her own chest, and she coughed before she even caught sight of the arm sticking through her torso. Blood splattered out of her mouth and got all over the steel arm sticking out the back of Turles' purple cloak. His cloak was ripped off his body by that single punch, and Turles never turned around to see it float away or the woman on his arm gasp out his name. She held out her right hand in confusion for Turles' back, and Bardock could see inside her eyes that she still loved him, feeling that there must be some sort of mistake. Turles yanked his steel left arm out of Toufu's chest, and as the woman fell behind him, he spoke in an uncaring tone, "Now that I have made my move, I no longer need such an easy to manipulate spy. To think," Turles laughed, while the woman falling below him started closing her eyes, "she actually believed it when I told her I cared." Toufu hit the mountain below, dead on impact with no guard around her body.
Bardock looked down at the traitor, and he could see tears on the sides of her unmoving face. He lifted his gaze back to Turles, and spoke in a dark voice, "You have tarnished the name of the Saiyan Race. You're a pathetic excuse for a Saiyan, and I should have seen it before making you into a God." Bardock lifted his arms, and his hair shot from golden to red, returning to its usual spiky shape in the same moment. "Now, I am going to correct my mistake," Bardock stated, and he snapped his arms into positions of a fighting stance with no holes in it. His muscles looked leaner and less bulked than his powerful Super Saiyan form, yet even with the Power Blocker on, Turles could now feel that Godly energy so much more powerful than anything else on the Saiyan Mountains.
Turles took a deep breath, then he yelled out, "Haaa!" His own spiky golden hair turned red and returned to a shape identical to that of Bardock's. "I am stronger than the last time we fought," Turles claimed. He lifted his left arm through the bright red flaming aura around him, and he turned it over so Bardock could have a good look at it. "A Mythril-Adamantite-Vibranium hybrid," Turles claimed, "the strongest metal any scientist on Aebrith has been able to engineer as of yet." He clenched his left hand into a fist, and he snarled, "It's much better than the one you tore off. I should thank you for that." Despite what Turles said, his mouth dropped into a frown at the memory of the removal of his old arm, and his aura flared violently at the memory.
"You snuck into my room while I slept, and you plunged a dagger into my chest," Bardock snarled back. "You were lucky I was slow from the blood loss, or you would have lost a lot more than your arm."
"Perhaps," Turles replied. "But that was then, and this time will be different. Prepare yourself, Saiyan King," Turles growled, and he turned his body side-face, raising his own fists into a fighting stance of his own.
The two figures enwrapped in flaring red auras flew towards each other screaming. They punched their right fists forward. The clash of their fists lifted all the snow off the ground in a mile radius below them, making blizzards out of the swirling snow with how fast the wind pushed off of them. Cracks ripped through the ground and nearby mountains, and the entire planet started to shake…
All around the Saiyan Mountains, battles broke out between the region's guardians and those attacking it. Not all who were facing the invaders were Saiyans from atop the mountains. There were millions of people living in the safety of the region protected by the Saiyan King, and many of those people were fighters themselves. Many of the larger towns and the several larger cities in the mountain range had defensive systems. Even though they believed in the Saiyan King's protection, they knew that Aebrith was a scary and dangerous place that they may one day need to protect themselves from.
Above Cornelia, five airships flew over the summit the large city resided on, firing lasers and dropping bombs on the city below. Inside the castle in the center of the city, Queen Sarah stood on the tallest tower and yelled into a walkie talkie in her hand, "All forces, focus fire on the largest ship! If we take down their leader, we may route the enemy!"
Turrets all over Cornelia stopped firing at the other airships and all aimed inwards towards the largest ship with the biggest cannons on it. Inside the control room of that airship, Yondu slammed his hands on the bars of the metal cage he was trapped in. "Let me out of here you damn bastard! We don't stoop this low! We don't massacre civilians!" He punched his fists into the cage again, but the mutinous crew of his ship ignored him and continued firing down on the mountain below. Yondu's loyal crewmates lay scattered dead around the outside of his cage, as few of them as there were. "Damn it Taserface! Let me out of this damn cage!" The blue-skinned man roared.
The new captain of the Eclector, Taserface, spun around and laughed at his former captain. "This ship is mine now, Yondu! Each of those civilians is worth a thousand dollars. Think about how much we'll make destroying an entire city! You're too weak to realize-" BOOM! An explosion ripped apart the hull at the front of the cockpit. The Eclector's systems failed and it started dipping out of the sky while the men inside screamed in their flaming ship, only for their screams to be cut off as they ship exploded.
"Good work!" Queen Sarah shouted into her walkie. "Now get rid of the others-" The base of the tower she stood on cracked from all the damage, and the entire tower started falling forward. The Queen toppled over the ledge and started falling down to her castle below, while her advisors who reached for her over the tower they were also on started falling as the entire stone tower crumbled. The Queen fell towards her city and watched as dozens of the turrets around it were blown apart by volleys from the ships she had taken their focus off of. Two more enemy ships got hit with devastating blows from her forces' turrets before she hit the top of her castle, so she at least knew that her final order had gotten through before she died.
As the two ships lost control of their engines and took dives towards the mountains below, many of the crew inside went for the smaller ships in the hangar bays to try and escape in. They fought over limited space with limited time to escape, and barely anyone made it out of the first ship that slammed right into the summit, destroying the rest of Cornelia's central castle with its crash landing. The next ship fell closer to the debris of the Eclector, down towards the snowy slope of a taller mountain to the east.
Running down the southern side of Mount Salad far beneath the wide mountain's atmospheric summit, was an entire pack of werewolves running on all fours. Jacob Black let out a howl after his eyes darted up to show him that there was more than sparse flaming debris falling towards them this time. The ship dropping into their pack was large and mostly intact. Their pack split down the middle with Jacob leading the part that ran to the left of where the ship was falling. The ship crashed down on the right side of the wolf over six foot tall, and he kept up his pace despite the snow rising up all around him and his pack making it harder to see. He did have to come to a full stop as he came out of the snow cloud though, as there were two wolves standing on two feet in front of him on a lower part of the mountainside.
The wolf on Jacob's left was hunched forward, had golden fur all over his body except on his muzzle and his chest, and he wore a pair of green suspenders. Lavender cackled while looking at the creatures coming out of the snow below the crashed and flaming ship. "Those aren't regular wolves. I'd go as far as to call them humanoids, I'm sure the boss will agree." He licked his lips and cracked his neck to either side.
The red wolf on Lavender's left side was a little thinner than his brother. Basil had on black gloves and a black cape flapping behind him with gold on the edges. His tail was much thicker than his older brother's, and he stood up straighter to show that he had a muscular set of pecs even if his arms were thinner than Lavender's. Basil the Kicker lifted up his right leg and bent it at the knee while glaring forward with a straight expression on his face.
Jacob Black stomped a step farther down the mountain and bared his teeth at the more humanoid-looking wolves. He could take either wolf form or human form, so he could not call to them and ask what they were doing, but from their appearances he could already assume. They were invaders. It was all he needed to know. He took another step forward, and then another wolf-man appeared. The muscular wolf with blue fur and his arms crossed appeared so fast between his younger two brothers that Jacob froze in place. His pack could sense his fear, but they were all afraid as well from the sight of the red all over Bergamo's hands that were not blue like the rest of his body. "You two haven't finished this half yet?" Bergamo the Crusher questioned, making Jacob's eyes grow wide as he wondered what Bergamo meant by 'this half.'
Bergamo lifted his right hand and opened it into a palm, while Lavender lifted his own right and replied, "No need to rush, brother. We're just killing time before the big fish arrive. This whole pack won't even be worth a single one of those Saiyans." In Lavender's palm formed a ball of dark purple light that terrified the werewolves ahead of him. Bergamo had a ball of red light growing in his right hand, and under Basil's right foot formed a pink sphere of energy that he kicked forward right as his brothers fired their own attacks.
"We'll get the bodies later," Bergamo said while the explosions tore apart their enemy's forces. "Focus on the Saiyans, I can feel them coming."
"Idiots didn't even put on Power Blockers," Lavender remarked while looking up the side of the mountain they stood on. "Against three of the strongest five Rogue Ravagers, they should have prepared better."
"Let's find a good spot to ambush them from," the youngest of the three began. Basil's older brothers looked back at him, and he continued, "The average Saiyan is weaker than us from what the Rogue said, but I do not want to meet a Super Saiyan God in battle unless we need to."
"Do not worry little brother," Bergamo scolded. "You are stronger than you think. Now prepare yourself, they come!" Bergamo's body surrounded in a red light and he let out a roar. His brothers howled as well, then they shot up in the air towards the cluster of white lights flying down at them.
"Those idiots are coming right for us!" A Saiyan teenager with long spiky hair yelled madly, a huge smirking snarl on his face. He rose up his right hand and created a ball of yellow energy on it, then slammed that hand forward and fired a beam of light at the wolf-man closest to him. The red wolf kicked his energy beam and redirected it up in the sky, then before the Saiyan could even drop his jaw, Basil followed up with a flurry of kicks into the man's chest.
Three Saiyans cornered Bergamo close to the ground, and all three of them slammed their fists into the blue wolf at the same time. Their punches were not enough to break through his rough skin, but the wolf did wince and the Saiyans smirked at the sound of his pain. The red aura around Bergamo suddenly doubled with the pain he felt though, and his body grew in size. Bergamo reached his hands out and clenched two of the shocked Saiyans by their faces. His claws were now large enough to wrap all the way around them, and he slammed their heads together towards the third one's. The third was smart enough to back up though while throwing his arms out to the sides and forming red energy blasts in each hand. He saw his comrades get their heads slammed together and start falling, and he yelled out in anger before slamming his hands together and firing towards the ten foot tall wolf.
Right as the red beam flew off the Saiyan's hands, an explosion of dark purple energy blew up on the man's back. He let out an agonized roar as his armor was broken through, and then he spun around to glare at the golden-furred wolf smirking its sharp teeth at him. The man with short spiky black hair felt himself getting weaker, and he darted his eyes down to see a few Saiyans moaning on the floor below with few injuries on him. "You coward," the Saiyan snarled. "What is this?"
"They call me, Poison Blow Lavender," Lavender replied, while the man in front of him went paler in the face, black circles forming around his eye sockets. "But don't worry, the poison won't kill you," Lavender assured his opponent. The Saiyan felt a little relieved, though still angry, but then Lavender continued, "I mean, it might if it had enough time, but your time is up."
The Saiyan looked confused, then he oofed as the wind was knocked out of him. He snapped his head down and his eyes grew wide at the side of a claw wrapped around his torso, squeezing his chest and lungs. He turned his head sideways and looked towards where his red beam slammed into Bergamo a few seconds ago, to see Bergamo standing in midair looking perfectly fine. The blue wolf was also a towering twenty five feet tall, and Bergamo laughed at the Saiyan's scared expression, right before he reached over with his free hand and grabbed the man who hurt him a minute ago by the head. Bergamo put the man's head between his thumb and index finger, then he curled his fingers in more so that his sharp claws cut through the screaming Saiyan's neck. Bergamo lifted the man's pale and bloody face, and the wolf wearing a red scarf that grew with his size, put the head into the right pocket of his brown pants that also grew in size. "And another hundred thousand," the oldest of the Trio De Dangers remarked in a cocky voice. "Easy money."
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Edward Cullen screamed. He struggled to stand up, but the man standing on his back applied more pressure and the street beneath the vampires cracked in four directions.
The man standing on Edward's back pushed up on the bridge of his silver-rimmed glasses. He had long, straight blond hair, and wore a full white suit with a white overcoat draped over his shoulders. Luke Valentine pressed down harder on the other vampire's back, then he lifted his foot up a little, before slamming it down on Edward's skull and crushing it into the pavement. The entire time, the calm and casual expression on his face did not change. Luke turned to his younger brother and said, "Will you finish up already? This town has many others, and some are running away." Luke reached to his waist and pulled out a pistol that he pointed to his left side without turning. The three women who just charged out of hiding with guns and swords let out gasps of shock, right before their heads were blown off by a single shot from Luke's pistol each.
"Killing them so quickly is a waste," Jan Valentine called back to his brother. The dark haired younger vampire held his left hand around Bella's neck, pulling her close to his chest while he rested his head over her shoulder. "Though she got boring once you killed that one," he added, turning his head in and looking at the side of the crying woman's face with disinterest. "Eh, I'll still enjoy this," he started pulling her neck even farther back, her spine struggling to resist being snapped. She gasped in pain and made out sounds that sounded like cries for mercy, but she received none as Jan ripped her head right off. Her blood splashed up in the air and Jan licked it off his face as some got on him.
"Look brother, here they come," Luke remarked, while pointing his pistol up in the air at one of the white lights flying down towards them. Before the Saiyan woman in the air could reach them though, a figure inside a purple aura suddenly appeared next to the woman. The Valentine brothers looked up in surprise at the appearance of the man who floated in front of the Saiyan woman with his arms down at his sides. He had purple skin and no hair on top of his head, and his eyes were blood red. He wore a long grayish-purple coat with a turtle-neck that had indents for his muscles so that it fit him tightly, and he wore elbow-guards, wrist-guards, and boots of the same colors.
"Who are you?!" The Saiyan woman snapped at the assassin in front of her.
"A single strike to the front," Hit said, lifting his right fist.
"An invader huh?" The woman yelled, and she rose both of her arms above her. She froze, and the two Saiyans dropping from above her and the vampires watching from below all stared at them in confusion. Hit did not move, but there was suddenly an indent in the Saiyan's armor both on the front and back of it. She coughed, and then she dropped from the sky, lifeless.
Hit then rose his gaze to the Saiyans dropping towards him while screaming in rage. "Nothing personal," he said, suddenly floating behind both of them. They started turning to the assassin who had both of his arms raised already with his fists at their chest levels. "Just a job." Two more dead Saiyans fell from the sky.
Jan Valentine could not help from sweating profusely, and even his more composed older brother had to wipe some sweat from his forehead. "Damn," Jan said in his high-pitched voice, while wiping some sweat and blood from his face with a steel pistol. "These Ravager guys aren't half bad," the vampire remarked.
"No, they are not," Luke admitted, albeit reluctantly.
In a nearby town of Nibelheim, only one mountain away from the one the vampires were in the midst of ravaging, only one man from the town was still in it. All of the others had evacuated while he had faced off against the single invader who murdered a few of the townsfolk before his opponent had arrived. "Not even a Saiyan," the monster growled in a mechanical, deep voice. It stood almost twice as tall as its opponent, in a body made of what looked like silver steel that had glowing blue lines going through it to make it look like inside the silver casing there was pure energy inside. Even the monster's eyes glowed bright blue while it spoke, no mouth on its body moving as it did, "yet you manage to evade my attacks?! How?!"
The monster ran forward, and a portal appeared in front of it that it sprinted straight into. Dyspo's eyes darted every direction around him. The lean but muscular rabbit-like man had tall ears sticking off the top of his head. His purple ears twitched and his yellow eyes darted to the side where a portal appeared in the air. The speedster came out of the portal so fast that his fist was inches from Dyspo's face as soon as the portal opened, and then Dyspo's head ducked down and his right fist punched upwards. The rabbit-man wore a tight black outfit with white gloves and boots, and he slammed one of those gloved hands into the monster's chest and knocked it backwards.
"Your initial reaction time is impeccable," the steel beast began, while turning right and sprinting away with white lightning bolts coming off of his body. Dyspo gave chase, only for the figure he was chasing to disappear into another portal.
"You're not getting away this time!" Dyspo shouted, chasing the figure straight into the portal. Once he was inside, Dyspo's breath hitched and he found himself too awestruck by the swirling blue vortex to calm down and face his enemy.
"The Speed Force is overwhelming to those not used to it," the monster said, behind Dyspo before the fighter even realized it. Dyspo ducked, only for a foot to catch him in the side of the face and knock him up in the air. His opponent leapt up and slammed a fist down on Dyspo's stomach, making the purple-furred figured spit up in pain. "You dodge predictably," Dyspo's opponent said, then grabbed the rabbit-man by one of his legs. Without his speed, Dyspo was at a serious disadvantage, and his enemy knew it. The steel speedster dragged Dyspo out of the Speed Force and swung him to the right into a wall they appeared next to on the same mountain they vanished from.
A wall of the Town Hall of Nibelheim ripped apart with Dyspo's smash into it, but his opponent did not let go after bashing him with a building. He whipped the village's guardian up over his head and down on his other side, then did the same the other way, then back and forth ten more times before bringing Dyspo down again into his own knee. Dyspo's bruised and bloody body bent over the speedster's knee, and then he grabbed Dyspo by the back of his head and lifted the battered man so his face was in front of the glowing eyes of the monster. "I am the God of Speed," the faster fighter proclaimed. "You never had a chance."
"And what about me?" a voice asked from above. The speedster dropped Dyspo fast and sped backwards to a safe distance as he had not seen this man approach. He looked up at the Saiyan who had short spiky black hair going straight up above his head, and who wore a set of black armor with blue highlights on the stomach, sides, and shoulder-pads. "Wait a second," Tora growled as his eyes grew wide at a closer sight of the figure who just proclaimed himself the 'God of Speed.' "I know you," he said, and the realization hit Tora like a ton of bricks. He looked up and saw another two Saiyans flying down towards him, then he surrounded in a gold aura and his hair turned golden at that same moment. His enemy who was about to attack while his opponent was distracted hesitated at the sight of that golden hair, and that hesitation gave Tora the time he needed to shout, "Tell the King!"
The other Saiyans looked confusedly down at Tora who they stopped flying towards when he first looked at them and turned Super Saiyan. Tora continued, "The Rogue isn't the only one here! That bastard down there, is Savitar!" Savitar's glowing blue eyes narrowed as the Super Saiyan knew him by name. Tora continued shouting, though he lowered his eyes back to his opponent as he did, "This bastard isn't one of the Rogue's men. He's one of five who lead the Capital 50. One of the 5 Guardians of the Capital." Tora's teeth bared, and then he shouted, "Let the King know, Meruem is here!"
"You refer to the King in such a disrespectful manner," Savitar remarked up to the Super Saiyan. Tora lowered down right in front of Dyspo who was staggering back up to his feet. Savitar continued, "I will have to teach you your folly, Saiyan." Savitar sprinted forward, moving so fast without even making a portal that he was in front of Tora in an instant. As Tora punched forward, Savitar appeared behind him simultaneously, and he elbowed Tora in the back of the head.
Dyspo lifted back up his fists, and Savitar turned his head sideways to glare at the other figure who was going to get back into the fight. "He's mine," a voice growled on the other side of Savitar as Dyspo. Both looked over, and they saw Tora back on his feet, a grin on his face that looked bloodthirsty, and not a scratch on him. "Do not interfere, or I'll kill you too."
Dyspo backed up a step, then he nodded and turned to run. I'll get the rest of the civilians out of the area. The Saiyans are scary, but at least that one saved me. I do not think they will be able to save everyone else without help though. The fighter who prided himself on his speed winced as he ran away, and he grimaced at the pain he felt all over his body and especially in his right leg. Even with this pain, I will still be faster than most enemies other than that 'God of Speed.' I need to find Kunshi and save as many people as possible.
While the protector of Nibelheim ran off, Tora glowered at his opponent who just hit him two more times before vanishing into a portal when Tora was about to make his counterattack. "You are so fast," Tora said, while turning his head and glaring towards the beast who he could not feel, but still sensed behind him as soon as he appeared. "But your punches feel like they come from a child-" Savitar chose that sentence to run forward into the Speed Force. He ran for miles, picking up speed the whole time he ran through that void, then came out right in front of Tora with a punch so hard that it was visible on the Super Saiyan's back, sending the spiky haired man flying so hard backwards that he smashed through a dozen walls of four houses and made each one collapse.
Tora found himself laying under a pile of debris with a screaming pain in his solar plexus. "Alright," he snarled, and the debris all around him started shaking. He shot out of it into the sky and dove for Savitar while screaming, "Now, I'm pissed!"
Two Saiyans shot around the side of a mountain that an avalanche was crashing down. Huge chunks of snow were bouncing off the steepest slopes and out in the air towards the men who swerved away from them inside of their white auras. One chunk was too huge too dodge, so the man with longer hair than his comrade flew straight through it and blasted the giant snowball into pieces. As the snow blasted away from him, three rockets flew straight towards the long-haired Saiyan who crossed his arms and put up a guard to protect himself.
Sixsix shot through the exploding snow after his rockets. The bounty hunter from the planet Sotoragg wore a suit of red armor over his entire body, with small cannons sticking out of his wrists, purple guards on all his joints and his sides, and a black mask over his face. On his rounded mask were four glowing red lines cutting in from each corner diagonally towards the center of his face but stopping before they would have met in the middle. On his back was a jetpack firing out streams of red flames that melted the snow behind him as he chased after a Saiyan.
The Saiyan who got hit by his rockets clenched his teeth inside the explosion that was much larger than he was expecting. He survived it though, and he shot out of the flames with his right fist pulled back. Sixsix doubled the amount of power in his jetpack, doubling his speed to raise him above the Saiyan's fist as the man punched it. The Saiyan was a smart martial-artist though, and as Sixsix flipped over his head, the Saiyan in burnt armor punched his other fist straight up above his head. He tore off the jetpack on Sixsix's back, then he opened up his fist into a palm and yelled, "Haa!" The kiai he fired was strong enough to shatter the armor on the back of the mutant to reveal its gross and bumpy yellowish-green skin.
Sixsix let out a bloodcurdling screech, then the bounty hunter spun around and rose both of his arms to point at the Saiyan. Bright yellow lights glowed inside the cannons on his wrists, but the Saiyan was much faster and shot forward in an instant, grabbing the assassin around the wrists and crushing his cannons straight into his arms. Blood splashed out from cracks in the armor, then the Saiyan snapped the bounty hunter's arms backwards, then pressed his feet against Sixsix's chest and pulled back. He ripped Sixsix's broke arms straight off of his body, then he spun around and slammed the mutant's arms so hard into its head that the force of the blow shattered Sixsix's mask and snapped his neck at the same time. As the bounty hunter fell from the air, the Saiyan snapped his head back up and started flying as fast as he could again.
He turned to the right while he was flying east, and he felt his comrade with shorter hair who had gone on ahead when he was intercepted by Sixsix. His fellow Saiyan was caught in another battle, and he ground his teeth but decided to ignore the battle. He reminded himself what Tora told him, and he flew towards the part of the sky that was dyed the deepest red. The pressure in the air increased, and the Saiyan did not want to get closer to the battle that was making the air so much heavier around him. He got as close as he would dare, then he yelled, "King! There are more men here than the Rogue could gather on his own!"
Bardock flew back from Turles for a second, though he did not take his eyes off the Rogue as he floated between his enemy and the young Saiyan man reporting to him. Turles smirked at Bardock, despite the bruise on his left cheek, and he remarked, "So, they have discovered my borrowed soldiers."
The Saiyan King's eyes narrowed, and he heard the man behind him finish yelling, "The Capital 50 are here, including the 5 Guardians!"
Turles is not the real enemy, Bardock thought immediately after hearing that. Meruem, you have made your move, and you used Toufu and Turles to do it. The Saiyan King's teeth ground in anger, but he did not look as full of rage as he was a few seconds ago, and Turles started to feel a little nervous. Bardock's expression became calm after what he just heard, Losing myself to my emotions is what the Ant King wants. His strength is in his intelligence. If I can see through his moves, his tricks, his traps, we can win this day. The fact that he is using these tactics means that he does not believe overpowering me is his best option. If I fall for this provocation and go after him without first taking care of the Rogue, I'll need to face them both at the same time. If I take the Rogue first though, he will attack me as I finish Turles. The time most fighters let down their guards is right as they finish their opponent… but he knows that I know that. And now that I know he's here, I can be sure that he will have a backup plan, and five others after that.
Bardock's lips curled up. The adrenaline rushed through him as he became full of excitement. The thrill of fighting an opponent like the Ant King was more satisfying than the anger he was fighting Turles in. The vengeance he sought-after was only a part of why he was so full of emotions that were bringing out his innate Saiyan nature. Because as much as Bardock pushed for peace, he was a warrior at heart, and Meruem was not the only one who had been bored in recent times. The Saiyan blood in him pumped harder and faster, his red eyes glistened with a rush of exhilaration. Turles snarled, his lips opposite Bardock's with how deep they were dipped down. "If this is not the final battle," Bardock began, and his aura started flaring out larger than ever, growing much bigger than Turles'. The Rogue stared at his King in shock, then Bardock finished from behind him, "Then I do not have time to waste with you, Rogue."
Turles started turning his head to see Bardock spinning his right leg towards his face. He was too slow to turn, too slow to even lift up his guard, yet Bardock accounted for the chance that he would be, and he changed his attack from a kick to a doubled fisted pound straight down on top of Turles' skull at the last moment. As Turles flew off of the attack, Bardock flew right after him and grabbed him by the left arm, pulling it backwards and planting both of his legs on Turles' back. "Oh no you don't!" Turles screamed as he felt the King trying to rip off his new mechanical arm. Turles' left fist opened up and a small hole opened in the center of his palm that was only a foot in front of Bardock's face as the Saiyan King pulled his who arm up.
Bardock snapped his head backwards to avoid the beam of red light that shot out of the hole in Turles' hand, then he let go of the man's arm with his hands and pointed them down instead at Turles as the Rogue was spinning himself around. As Turles finished spinning, Bardock saw that in his right hand that had still been below him, Turles had a small ball of purple energy clenched hard in his hand like it was so condensed that it was actually a very powerful attack. Both of Bardock's hands glowed bright blue, and he yelled out while firing a massive beam down at the man below him. The two of them screamed together, with Turles firing his sphere up into Bardock's beam, and then firing dozens of other purple spheres up into the back of the first one to fight against Bardock's attack.
The Rogue was sweating as he yelled out, firing over and over into the beam that seemed to get wider every second. The long-haired Saiyan watching from afar opened his eyes huge and backed away even farther at the sight of Bardock's face though. Unlike the panic in the Rogue's expression, Bardock started laughing as he pushed down harder into his own attack. "What's wrong Rogue?!" Bardock screamed, and his beam doubled in size, absorbing the purple spheres beneath it. Turles stopped trying to push back against it, and he flew away instead, but Bardock swung his arms up so the end of his beam chased after the Rogue. "YOU CAN'T ESCAPE ME THIS TIME!" Bardock screamed.
"I wasn't trying to run!" Turles shouted, spinning around and pointing his left hand at the beam he had gotten a little distance from. The hole in his left palm grew wider and Turles steadied his arm by grabbing its wrist with his flesh-and-blood hand. Bardock's attack slammed into the Rogue's open palm, and the attack started absorbing into it, getting smaller and smaller. Turles grinned as his energy absorption was working, then his eyes opened wide and his jaw lowered at the sight of the Saiyan King flying over the top of his beam. Bardock had released his attack, one of the reasons it was not as big as it was originally along with Turles' absorption powers. Turles still thought Bardock was on the other end of the attack though, so he was not expecting him to come flying over the far end of his beam with his right hand risen and a whitish-blue sphere of light on top of it that had a red tint like the aura all around him.
"RIOT JAVELIN!" Bardock roared, and he threw the sphere down at Turles so hard that it could not hold its round shape. It moved so fast that it stretched out and sharpened, slamming into the Rogue so hard that it tore through his armor and into his body. Turles brought his arms inwards and grabbed the attack to stop it from fully impaling him, but he still coughed up blood as it had gotten pretty far before he stopped it. "Hmph," Bardock grunted, slightly impressed that Turles managed to save himself. "But it's no use," Bardock said, and Turles realized it at the same time, snapping his head back up to see the beam he had not fully absorbed flying towards him at point blank range. He had no time to lift his hands back up to stop it, and all he could do was absorb the attack already in his chest, while swinging his other hand out at the beam. Bardock's attack engulfed his right hand instantly, and only then did Turles bring his left arm up and try to stop the rest of the already smaller attack.
"No, NO!" Turles screamed, as the energy around him tore at his body. "RRAAAAA!" His body surrounded in an even stronger red aura that shook the entire beam that he was starting to absorb with his left arm. The steel of his arm was not melting or ripping apart, but his skin was burning and he screamed in the searing agony. "BAARRRDOCCKKK!" Balls of purple and red light flew off of Turles body and smashed out of the edges of the blue beam around him, tearing dozens of holes in the attack. The Rogue's attacks scattered along the edge of the Saiyan Mountains, and Bardock fired blue spheres of his own after the attacks that were heading in the direction of the lands he swore to protect, blowing them up prematurely.
Bardock stopped grinning so madly at the beam in front of him as it completely blew apart. Damn, he did not take the bait. Is he even watching? The Saiyan King who intentionally made it look like he had let his guard down, like he was toying with Turles, had to get serious again as the Rogue snapped a gaze up at him that looked so enraged that it would be foolish not to take him seriously. Turles lifted his left arm that he had absorbed so much energy in already, and the arm shook violently as it pointed at Bardock. Bardock thought about all of his own Godly energy that Turles had absorbed with that arm along with the Rogue's own power. This is serious, Bardock thought, while flying high up in the air so that the suns were above him and giving him a shadowed appearance to the man looking straight up at him.
Turles squinted as he gazed towards the suns, but he grinned anyway even though much of his body was in pain. He had to grab his own left wrist again, because his arm was shaking so hard that he needed to steady it. Not that I could miss with an attack like this, Turles thought, then roared, "VENGEANCE CANNON!" Blue, red, and purple energy combined inside Turles' arm to make the beam a dark purplish-black color as it flew out of the Rogue's body. It came out of his arm and grew wider than his own palm at an inch past the hole, and it widened like that continuously to create a giant cone of energy above Turles' body that shot towards Bardock.
The Rogue could see his enemy on the other side of the dark beam. There's nowhere for you to go! He thought, his lips curling up as he pushed more energy into the attack. This time, I WIN- Out the right corner of Turles' eyes, Bardock appeared out of thin air. Bardock's right arm snapped forward before Turles even had time to lower his arms from his current attack. Bardock grabbed Turles around the neck and clenched. "Ack- aggh," Turles grabbed up at the hand around his neck and tried to tear it off as Bardock was crushing his trachea. "Ka-ack-how?" Turles managed to gasp out.
It was time for Bardock's flat lip to curve up at the corners. "Spacial disruption. I mastered it like anyone does, through training. Recently, I've been trying to teach it to my son," Bardock grinned more and tightened his grip around Turles' neck. "Kakarott," he finished, and he saw Turles' eyes grow huge in shock, then his left eye got a different look in it and Bardock snapped his head to the right. A beam of red energy shot out of Turles' eye and gashed the left side of Bardock's face, blood splashing out away from him. Bardock snarled, but while he pulled away from Turles, the Rogue had lowered one of his hands from Bardock's that had loosened its grip on his throat. Turles had his open left palm hovering inches in front of Bardock's sternum, and the enraged Rogue yelled in a hoarse voice, "Aaahhhcck!" A purple coating surrounded his steel hand, then the light shot off of it into Bardock's chest and exploded in a blast so powerful that it pushed Bardock one way and Turles the other.
Turles flew out of the air, wincing in pain from his own blast that had caused him even more damage than he had already taken. The Rogue grabbed at his neck and breathed in fresh air after he steadied himself, only for his face to twist in pain. He coughed a few times, like his trachea had been permanently squished thinner so he could not take such deep breaths. "Damn you, ack ack, Bardock," Turles growled, looking up at the smoke from his explosion that he could see a silhouette in. When the smoke flew in every direction away from the Saiyan King, Turles' eyes grew wide at the sight of the red-haired Saiyan staring down at him with his arms crossed in front of his chest. He had no burns on his body like Turles did himself. From point blank, the Rogue thought, backing up in the air a few inches, he managed to put up a guard in that instant strong enough to avoid taking damage?! Impossible!
"What's the problem?" Bardock questioned from behind his opponent. Turles stared forward in shock as the figure he was staring at in the air faded away. "Is that fear I smell on you, Rogue?"
Turles tried spinning around, but the punch he threw while he turned flew through empty space. His confusion as to where Bardock went was replaced by pain a second later when an elbow slammed him straight in the nose. What is this speed?! Turles thought. He flew backwards off the elbow doing flips over himself through the air, then he snapped himself upright and swung a fist at the man flying straight towards him. His fist went through Bardock's body, and the visage of the Saiyan King faded around him as he flew into it. "We're both Gods," Turles snarled, "so how?!" He could feel the man standing on the air right behind him. The two were back to back with only inches of space between them.
"'How?'" Bardock repeated. Turles spun in that moment his King spoke, swinging his left arm around at the other man. Bardock snapped his own right arm out and grabbed Turles' left mid-swing, stopping it and all its momentum. A shockwave rippled through the air at the sudden jolted stop of the Rogue's blow, and Turles stared at his own arm in shock as he had put all his force into that blow. Bardock was grinning madly at him though, two trails of blood going down the left side of his face from the gash on his cheek, his red aura flaring three times the size of Turles. "You thought because you became a God, you were my equal?" Bardock yanked Turles arm towards him, pulling the Rogue's fist and forearm between his body and right armpit, then squeezing it tightly with his right arm.
"What are you doing?!" Turles shouted, punching forward with his other arm as Bardock trapped him in place. Bardock used his left hand to block the rest of the Rogue's punches, and he lifted his knees to block each one of Turles' knee attempts as well. They were too close for the Rogue to try a kick, and Bardock was watching his left eye closely for a sign of that laser attack possibly returning.
Bardock continued grinning, and ignoring what Turles asked, he shouted, "WE ARE NOT EQUALS!" Bardock squeezed Turles' left arm tighter between his right arm and body, and he lowered his right hand to Turles' left shoulder where he wrapped his fingers around the top of the Rogue's arm. Bardock clenched with his fingers, and Turles let out a scream of pain as steel crunched in his grasp. "I AM THE ORIGINAL SUPER SAIYAN!" Sparks flew out of the elbow joint, and a loud creaking echoed through the sky as the metal of Turles' left forearm started to get crushed between Bardock's arm and body. "WHO ARE YOU?!" Bardock clenched harder and steel crunched under his fingers. Turles shot his other hand over to try and pry Bardock's right hand off, but Bardock intercepted the Rogue's right hand with his left. Bardock caught Turles' hand in an awkward position, and before Turles could even shout 'Wait,' Bardock clenched with that hand as well and bent two of Turles' fingers back so far that they snapped. CRACK CRACK!
"AHHH!" Turles let out a scream, and he lifted his left knee in an attempt to get away from Bardock. This time when Bardock brought his own knee up to block, he brought it up so much faster that he hit Turles first, slamming his knee straight into the Rogue's gut and bending the other Saiyan over his leg. He kicked down with his right foot to knock down Turles' leg that already lost most of its force, then he pulled backwards with all his might on both arms he was still holding. He twisted Turles' right arm that he only had gripped by the hand, but pulling the man's left shoulder from the position Turles was in over his leg, it was too much for the Rogue's arm to take. The tearing sound of Turles' left arm from his body sounded more like flesh and bone than steel and wires. Bardock tugged one really hard time on the left and let himself fall away from Turles' body this time, as long as he took the left arm with him.
Blood splashed out of Turles' arm along with some black fluid substance. Bardock looked down at the arm he had gripped in his right hand, This thing is tough. Stronger than the rocks at the top of Mount Vegeta. His eyes lingered on the arm for a few more moments, and then Bardock's lips curled up into a devilish smirk. He lifted his gaze to Turles who was screaming in rage and grabbing at his left shoulder with his right mangled hand. "YOU BASTA-" Bardock flew forward and interrupted the Rogue's shout by swinging Turles' own left arm across his body and into Turles' face. The steel fist dented Turles' face in and made blood splash out his mouth in one direction, then the other as Bardock back-handed Turles with his own arm. He smacked him back and forth with his own crushed steel arm that Turles was regretting making so strong all of a sudden.
If only- my scouter- he didn't break- Turles' jumbled thoughts could not finish as Bardock finally dropped his arm to just put his hands together in one fist over the Rogue's head and bring it down harder than any of the previous attacks. Turles' eyes bulged, his teeth clenched forcefully, and he felt like his spine was getting bent. He flew out of the sky so fast that the air he flew through turned white and made a path down to his body to show the trail of air he displaced. Turles hit the side of a mountain and though high in elevation, he flew straight through rock for nearly a mile before coming to a stop. He coughed up blood at the bottom of the hole in the mountain, a hole that created a crack going up from the top of it and down from the bottom so that the mountain itself looked to be splitting. Turles could not turn left in the position he was in, but he did not need to look at his missing arm to understand the condition his body was in.
Turles lifted his mangled right hand and opened it up into a palm in a lot of pain. Gotta, get, Hit. A flashing red energy surrounded Turles' hand. He won't dodge, unless, Turles grimaced, but he floated off his back and started moving up through the hole in the mountain. His body was bruised and bloody, but he grit his teeth and continued rising. Beating him was never, the top priority, the Rogue sped up through the mountain, and he fired his attack ahead of himself.
Bardock watched as the flashing red light got closer and closer, but he saw Turles sneaking up right beneath his own attack. "You fool!" Bardock flew down and around the blast with little effort, slamming a knee into the face of the man who was hiding behind it. Before Turles could get thrown off the knee, Bardock snapped an arm down and grabbed the man by the black fabric of his armor. He pulled back towards him, and he leaned his head down to glare straight into Turles' eyes that were flickering colors. They could not stay red and shifted to black while only half-open and bloodshot. Bardock glared into the dark eyes of the Rogue, and he growled in a low voice, "You could have been such an asset to the Saiyan race." Turles' eyes grew a little, and Bardock clenched tighter on his armor. "Why?" Bardock whispered. In his head he saw all the Saiyans he tried to warn about Frieza laughing at him, minutes before they were all slaughtered. "Why are Saiyans, so foolish?" He hissed it, and then he glared deep into Turles' eyes. "You tricked me. You had a spy. You're one of the smarter ones amongst us, but you're working with the Ant King. That monster will betray you-"
"I know that, but I have-"
"Nothing you have planned he hasn't already thought of," Bardock snapped at the man he was holding up by the front of his shirt. Bardock's fist clenched with the black fabric of Turles' uniform in it, and he continued in a deep growl, "Every possibility. Every 'idea' you think you had, is something he either thought of and convinced you was your idea, or something he knew was beneficial to him."
"Mutually beneficial," Turles corrected, grinning with a mouth full of blood at the Saiyan King.
Bardock slammed his other fist into Turles' grinning face and knocked that smug look right off it. "You fucking fool," Bardock growled. "He feared me, he feared the Saiyans, and you gave him everything he needed to know about us. He watched you. He used you. Not just for your help with this attack, he used you as a reference, and as much as I hate to admit it, you are the epitome of our race." Bardock leaned down and looked into Turles' confused eyes. "I was not surprised when you tried to kill me. You were the first person I did not trust who succeeded in becoming a God. I wanted to have faith in the Saiyans, because I had managed to make them keep peace since the War against the Kryptonians. They only keep that peace because of fear of me though, and once you got that power, you no longer feared me." Bardock let go of Turles' shirt, and he brought his hand up from Turles' chest to his throat, grabbing it again so tight that no air would escape this time. Turles had no strength to fight back with either, and Bardock just crushed the life out of him while looking into his eyes. "So few among us have the capability, to be more, on their own. I could never say it in front of our people, but my son, Kakarott, is what I wish Saiyans could be more like, what I wish I myself was more like."
Turles look of pain and suffocation mixed with fury now as Bardock brought up the last man who killed him while he was being killed again. Bardock continued in a whisper, "It's why I won't just accept Prince Vegeta as the King, because the Saiyans cannot go back to being the way we were. Changing an entire people is delicate work, and I do it without telling anyone what I'm doing. You though," Bardock hissed. "You make me think, that everything I am doing is for naught. You are the worst of Saiyan kind, and you brought out the worst in me." Bardock's mouth curled back up, and he continued in a bloodthirsty tone, "As much as I like to think I'm better, I'm not. I'm back to my old Frieza days right now. I feel like I could destroy an entire planet, just for shits and giggles!" Bardock's red hair waved around in a sudden gust of wind that seemed to stroke the flames of his aura and made it grow even larger. This made Bardock look terrifying to the choking man below him whose vision was getting blurry and thoughts were fading, replacing solely with the emotion of fear. "I AM THE STRONGEST IN THIS WORLD!" Bardock yelled, while the sky turned red around him and the mountain range shook below. The countryside around the mountains, the deep south and the continent to the north, the oceans on either side of Aebrith, and lands half a world away felt the trembling from Bardock's primal instincts taking hold.
Bardock had been ignoring the attack Turles shot towards him and missed a few seconds ago. He could see the flashing red light coming down from above him, but it was barely any brighter than his own raging red aura. One of Turles' last thoughts as his mind faded was wondering whether or not his signal could be seen, because the attack Bardock thought was meant for him was exactly where Turles planned it to be. Bardock realized this as Turles was torn from his grasp and he was slammed in the gut by a purple fist.
The "Legendary Assassin" Hit pulled the Rogue Saiyan away from the Saiyan King with his right hand and slammed his left fist forward into Bardock's gut using his signature Time-Skip attack. Bardock hunched over the fist, but his red eyes shot up to Hit's own eyes and his bloodthirsty expression vanished in an instant. "I was expecting Meruem," Bardock said, and his hands snapped in to grab onto Hit's forearm before the assassin could pull his arm back. Hit's eyes widened as no one had ever taken a punch like that from him before and only flinched like they were expecting it. His arm vanished from inside Bardock's grip though, the Saiyan King's arms crossing fast as he had been clenching the assassin's arm with all his might. Bardock let out a gasp and spit flew out of his mouth as another fist slammed him in the back. "You're pretty good though," Bardock said, closing his mouth and making sure he did not let out any more noise of pain. He turned his head sideways and glared back at the assassin behind him who floated back with Turles in his peripheral vision.
Hit stared at Turles' battered body and understood why the Rogue signaled him to come. He kept his eyes on Bardock while he examined Turles out the corners of them. Turles' eyes were mostly shut, he looked broken and on the verge of unconsciousness, but he still managed to mutter, "Run, idiot." Hit's chest snapped forward while his head and legs flew back, as Bardock slammed him so hard in the spine with an elbow that Hit could hear his own spin grinding. He flew forward and clenched harder on Turles as he had almost dropped the Rogue when he was hit. Hit flew through the visage of Bardock in front of him and it faded away instantly. He snapped his head around and glared at the man with his elbow extended who had appeared behind him in an instant, who smirked at him like the fight was under his control.
Can I beat this man? Hit thought, one of the few times he had ever had the thought in his life.
Bardock glared into his eyes, and he growled in a deep voice, "Give me that traitor." The next time he hits me, I'll warp behind him in that same moment. I can only use it once more today, so this time I'll snap his fucking neck then strangle the Rogue until… Bardock's enemy vanished, but Hit did not appear in front of him. He prepared himself for a hit in the back, but no attack came. Bastard listened to Turles and ran. Smart move.
Sora and Goku flew down the side of Mount Vegeta for miles before they reached the city Sora sensed a powerful darkness coming from. Goku did not feel any other Saiyans already in the town, but he knew that some had put their Power Blockers on first before flying off the mountaintops so there was still the possibility of allies in the city. When they flew right over the city, the two of them were able to sense all of the people inside it, and for a city the size of what they were heading towards, there were not nearly enough people inside it. Sora and Goku each knew what this meant, though from the amount of smoke and fire coming from the city as they approached, they already suspected as much.
"This is terrible," Sora said as he flew down over one of the tallest remaining skyscrapers in the city. There were several felled buildings littering the streets below, and flames engulfed almost the entire city. Goku sensed a few strong energies coming from the south, surrounded by thousands of weaker ones. That area had the most people in it of anywhere in the whole city. He thought about going around and saving the stragglers around the city, but in a single second, the strong people who he thought could protect those innocents disappeared. Their energies vanished and Goku's eyes grew wide as he knew what that meant.
Goku shot away in a white blur across the city without wasting even a second to shout to Sora. The Keybearer was surprised, but he chased after Goku's blur as fast as he could since he knew where the small Saiyan man would be going. Goku flew over a mile in an instant, and he dipped down between buildings to swerve around the city to a square in the south of it. The city was built on a flat plateau sticking out of the tallest mountain in Saiyan lands. They were low enough down that the slopes of other mountains near them made it look like the city was surrounded by walls on most sides, though the closest wall was the vertical slope of Mount Vegeta in the north since their city stuck out of its south side.
Goku flew to the area he sensed the most innocents, and he shot in front of a white energy blast headed straight for a crowd of over three thousand people. He flew in front of a group of children who huddled together and hugged each other in fear while the adults behind them screamed or backed up farther into the panicked crowd. Everyone stopped trampling each other, and a shocked silence fell over the entire crowd as the white blast coming towards them shot straight up into the sky and exploded above the city. The city was bathed in white light for a few seconds with everyone staring in awe, except for Sora who pulled back and yelled out a 'Protect' magic in fright.
Sorry Sora, Goku thought, though he knew Sora could handle the blast he sent up in the air anyway, or at least he hoped his younger friend could. Goku refocused and lowered his gaze from the sky to the figures floating before the crowd. The two of them floated above the square that was somehow clean despite every other open space in the city being covered in rubble. Even the flames around the square were smaller and more spread out than in the rest of the city, and Goku suspected the strong fighters who were here protecting the civilians were the ones to thank for that. You gave them time, Goku thought, as he glared forward in a serious and angry way. I'll make sure it means… Goku's fists unclenched and his expression took a turn.
One of the two figures in front of Son Goku was a Chimera Ant. She stared at the boy with spiky black hair that she was beginning to think was common for Saiyans to have. Son Goku, The Rogue, the Saiyan King, and now this kid. All strong Saiyans too, since he deflected that blast with ease. Oooh? Neferpitou's lips curled up. The white-furred humanoid cat Chimera Ant with long white hair and a tail half made of metal had blood all over her fingers. The sharp end of her tail was soaked and dripping blood, and there was smeared blood on the fur around her mouth. She had on a tight black outfit of strong armor that had not been broken through once, as did the man in front of her who the boy was staring at so closely that Pitou knew what was happening. Just like Black Star, she thought.
"Wh-What's- I don't-" Goku stared at the man in front of him in utter confusion, then he turned his head sideways and looked back at the horrified crowds of civilians. He turned back and tried to feel out the man in front of him, but the muscular man had on a Power Blocker on his left wrist that Goku could see since there was a lump under his black left sleeve. Goku sensed out with Haki, and he could feel a presence in front of him that seemed so familiar. He stared at the man's lips and watched as they shifted a small amount as if to breath out air. "Why?" Goku whispered, though he was having trouble wrapping his mind around this. "Why do you look, like Tien?" He asked, his heart rate speeding up faster every second.
"Be-ca-use," Tien's mouth opened and a raspy, strange voice escaped his lips. Goku's eyes grew even wider at the voice, and he gulped as the three-eyed man looked into his eyes. "It, is me," his voice sounded forced, unnatural, even as he said his own name, "Ti-ennn."
"Grrr," Goku growled, his eyebrows narrowing in and his fists clenching hard at his sides. "Did someone take you over? Where are they?! Tien! If you're being mind controlled, try and fight-"
"He's no longer with us," Pitou said, interrupting the child's frantic shouts. She floated forward and stopped on Tien's right side.
Goku turned her way, and something inside him made him feel even more confused. She, looks familiar, Goku thought, but his eyes shifted back to Tien without thinking much on it. He looked closely at Tien's chest, then up at his mouth. "You're lying," Goku said. He looked straight into Tien's eyes and said, "He's breathing, his heart is still pumping-"
"Because I'm pumping it," Pitou responded, making Goku freeze with his mouth open. "I'm working his respiratory system, his circulatory system," she smirked, "I can even control his vocal cords." Goku's mouth slammed shut and his teeth ground across each other, his fists clenching even harder. Yesss, get angry, get sloppy! Pitou's fingers were twitching and the muscular man in front of her tensed up. "He's just my puppet."
"Are you saying," Goku began, his voice low-pitched, cold, bone-chilling even. Pitou's fingers stopped moving, and Tien's body stopped preparing to attack. The hair on Pitou's neck stood on end, and every feline instinct inside her told her that she had made a mistake. "You killed him?" He snapped his head to her, an intense look of anger spread over his face.
A small creature the size of a fly attached to Pitou's right shoulder flew up into her ear. "Run Pitou!" Pouf shouted. One of Shaiapouf's abilities allowed him to split his body into hundreds of pieces, creating clones of himself that he had gathered all over the Saiyan Mountains. On the backs of every one of the King's subordinates, a small fly with Pouf's face on it was waiting to transfer the King's orders to his soldiers. This was not an order from the King though, but an order from Pouf himself. He could sense the emotions of their enemies thanks to small scales he dispersed in a special type of En, but even if he had not sent those scales at the boy as soon as he arrived, he could tell from the kid's face alone that Pitou needed to run. "Do not try to fight him!"
"Tien is strong," Pitou began, though she backed up as she said it.
Goku heard what she just said, and he did not know that there was a fly in her ear that she was speaking to. Instead, he treated it as if she said it to him directly, and he responded darkly, "Tien has not beaten me since I was a child." What the kid was saying despite his appearance confused Pitou and made her even more nervous. All of her hair was now standing on end, and then her eyes snapped open wide and Pouf screamed at her to run, as Goku's black hair shot up into a single golden spike, his body surrounded in a flaring golden aura, and his eyes turned an icy teal. "Tien, I don't know if she left any part of your brain still functioning, and I hope she hasn't, but if you're still in there, I'm sorry for what I'm about to do to you."
Even if he wasn't brain dead this kid would still kill him?! One of Pitou's only backup plans fell through, and the Chimera Ant turned her back to the boy. She surrounded in a white aura, and she shot off so fast that all the windows of buildings still close to her shattered at once. She flew fast between buildings, ducked under a tilting skyscraper that started falling right as she turned to flee, and flew through clouds of smoke to hide her presence. Power Blocker isn't enough, but if I use Zetsu I'm undefended from attacks! I can't beat a Super Saiyan, but could I survive a hit from one? Not if I'm using Zetsu for sure, but maybe even if I am using it it would still kill me! Pitou used Zetsu while inside a cloud of smoke, all the while twitching the fingers of her hands and controlling her puppet through Nen strings that could extend as far as four miles away from her.
What is this child?! There aren't supposed to be any Super Saiyans we don't know about! Did Turles lie to us? Or did the spy of his really not know about this child? What he said about 'since I was a child,' it doesn't make sense. He must be older than his appearance suggests. A midget? I need to get to the King. As long as he is not a Super Saiyan God, he will not be a risk of tiring the King out before he faces Bardock. I must get to him, because if I die, it will cause the King pain! I will never let the King feel the heartache of losing me! She knew it as well as Pouf did, that they were the few things in this world that the King cared for. It was why Pouf was so urgent in Pitou getting out of there, because although he was close to the King's side in order to protect him from physical damage, there was little he could do to protect the King from mental anguish if Pitou were to fall.
Luckily I stayed close to the King anyway in case he needed my help, Pitou thought, as she flew out of the city and around the side of Mount Vegeta towards another giant mountain. She stayed close to the ground in hopes that her white fur and hair would camouflage her with the snow on the slope, but she grimaced after a glance at her black armor. Pitou dared a glance behind her, and in that moment she almost fell out of the air as she saw all the taut Nen strings she had extending behind her snap. The invisible lines waved through the air freely, and though Pitou wondered what had happened to her puppet soldier, she was filled with so much fear that her speed multiplied by three. Her thoughts vanished and instinct told her that she needed to get to the King's side at that very moment. Tien was not far behind her when her strings snapped, and she did not dare another look behind her the entire way. She kept using Zetsu, Pouf kept shouting into her ear 'faster,' and Pitou finally dove to the ground and into a snow drift she saw. I can feel him! She thought in realization, snapping back to her senses. He doesn't have a Power Blocker on, she was panting, but she slowed her breathing down and fell silent under the snow, leaving none of her body exposed at all as she hid herself.
When Pitou took her dive, Goku was still far enough away from her that she was not in his sights. He had been stalled by his three-eyed friend at the edge of the city on Mount Vegeta. When Pitou first fled, Goku realized that she would escape should he try to stay and fight Tien first. He chased her through the city, losing sight a few times, but ultimately following her all the way to the city's edge even though Tien tried to fight him the whole time. At the edge of the city though, Tien had prepared an energy blast, and if Goku had dodged he knew it would have flown into the city and hit innocent people. Instead, he redirected it straight back at the triclops, then he attacked Tien with the power of a Super Saiyan that the three-eyed man could not withstand. Tien did not feel pain however, and he was already technically dead so any fatal wound would not do the trick. Goku knew he needed to either completely destroy Tien, or cut Pitou's means of control over him. The Saiyan boy could see the thin nearly-invisible strings of Nen sticking out of Tien's back though, and once he saw those it only took him a matter of seconds to disable his old friend's body.
Goku searched the air between Mount Vegeta and Mount Gine. He could see below him the point where the two mountains connected before their steep slopes shot up on either side so that it felt like he was in the middle of a ravine. All over the ravine was white. The closest town was the one behind him, and he could see around the curve of the mountain some smoke rising up from it. He could not sense Sora, but the brown-haired boy was not chasing him, as he had flown into the flaming city that Pitou had abandoned and got to work on saving the people trapped inside. Goku gazed around the frozen landscape, Did I lose her, or is she hiding around here? She cut off her presence completely in that smoke. It's Zetsu like Killua uses.
Goku's blue eyes darted over the snowy tundra. He searched for the cat-woman with every method he knew to use. Tien, how did she defeat you? She is too afraid to fight me at my base state, as a child. Goku began to realize it as he thought deeper on what he had seen, It's unlikely she caught you off guard. She probably had help. If so, is she trying to run to the person she thinks can help her? Makes sense. I want to meet that person. Out the corner of Goku's eyes he saw Sora flying towards his back. Chance. Goku dropped his Super Saiyan aura, turned around completely, and flew back towards Sora, There! The snow moved behind him and Goku's head snapped left.
TRAP! Pitou thought in panic, and she flew out of the snow so fast with her pounce that Sora stopped flying to stare in shock at the woman. She shot out of a snow drift and flew at her top speed around the side of Mount Gine with Goku chasing right on her tail. Goku was getting closer, but he was not gaining on her as fast as he could be. Even staying in his base state, he could have caught up to her if he really tried. When she glanced behind her though, Goku sped up more so that she would not get the right idea. KING! Pitou screamed in her mind.
"I've got you!" Someone shouted, flying up out of the snow right as Pitou flew overhead. Her eyes darted down at the sound of that recognizable voice, while Goku did a barrel-roll in midair to dodge the ant with black antennae sticking out of his blond hair. Pouf wore similar black armor to Pitou's, a black cape, and he had on a pair of gloves with sharp claws sticking out of the fingers. Too fast, Pouf thought, but large multi-colored wings snapped off of his back out from under his black cape anyway. He changed directions in midair and shot towards where Goku was rolling to. Only a few meters after he started flying towards the Saiyan boy, Goku finished his roll to be facing Pouf, and he had a ball of blue light hidden against his chest with his right hand. When Goku saw the creature's eyes grow wide at the sight of his attack, he changed the direction he was moving and flew towards the ant flying towards him.
Pitou had stopped for a second to look back, but the small clone of Pouf in her ear yelled, "GO!" Her panic multiplied as the nearly full-sized Pouf clone got shredded by Goku's attack. What had looked like a small sphere of blue on the Saiyan boy's hand turned into a cone of light that tore right through him at point blank. As Pitou continued flying away, Pouf's fly-sized clone looked back in fear at the child chasing them. His movements! I lay in wait for him and my ambush failed completely! What should I tell the King?! Is this really just a Super Saiyan, or is he something more?!
Azalea Town
In an area that used to be a town, only rubble remained where houses once stood. A fenced-in backyard near the center of the town had a large number of the town's residents inside. Only forty humanoid creatures, most of them humans, were gathered in that yard, but forty was a high number considering most of the town had been wiped out by the initial attack. The fenced-in yard was not a safe haven that the citizens of Azalea were hiding in, but the opposite. Two thin Chimera Ants that looked like a beetle and a spider-monkey mixed with humans marched over to the yard, and they tossed two humans each into the yard with the others.
"Why are you doing this?!"
"Let us leave!"
The Ants ignored the sounds of the cattle and turned to walk back into town. They would have enjoyed a good meal, but there was work to be done. They spotted others in their squad up ahead and started towards them, and the one that looked like a beetle hissed, "Where are you bringing that one? We're putting prisoners over there."
"Shut up," one of their three squad members hissed back in a whisper. She had red feathered wings on her back and pincers over the top of her red-haired head. She glanced back at the purple frog-human breed Chimera Ant and the most humanoid of their group who just had orange stripes over his dark-skinned body and a light coating of fur. The one with the fur was holding a small boy carefully in his arms, but after the girl hissed towards their comrades, the kid who had gotten calm suddenly turned into steel and fell straight to the ground.
"Damn it!" Froggy shouted, and he opened his mouth wide and spat a Nen-coated slime all over the ground around the kid. The toddler with hair only right on top of the center of his scalp slid across the floor that no longer had snow on it after the houses nearby all burnt down or exploded. The steel-coating left his body, and then as the orange-furred one leaned forward, the kid burst into flames and made the furry Ant scream in pain and pull back on fire.
"Geez, what a kid," Beetle muttered as he jogged over to help out.
"We bringing him to the King?" Spunky, the spider monkey, asked as he approached the others as well.
Froggy turned to his flaming comrade and spat some goo on him that put out the flames, then he spun and did the same to the kid to put out the flames surrounding him. They all let out sighs of relief after the kid got put out, then the winged girl leaned down and snapped her pincers at the child a few times. "Do that again, and you won't get another chance, brat," she scolded, and she made the final snap of her pincers right in front of the kid's face.
The boy sniffled a few times, then he looked over his shoulder at a nearby pile of rubble that made his eyes start watering.
"What's going on over here?"
The Chimera Ants about to try to pick up the boy again turned their heads in unison and got covered in sweat in unison. Two figures were walking towards them, and the one who asked had a discerning expression on his face. The tall slender Chimera Ant with antennae over his head had on black armor like almost all of the Ants, but the other Chimera Ant next to him wore no clothes at all. The hard skin of his torso was light green like it was on his face and long earlobes that turned into antennae, though his thighs and the hard casing over the top of his skull were a darker green. His arms were a dark shade of purple which also striped his lower legs with the same light green as his torso, and the tops of his feet were dark green like his thighs. The Chimera Ant King had a long thick tail swinging idly behind him striped green and a blackish green that also colored the King's pecs.
"King," the Ants said simultaneously when they saw the King approaching them. Then, the woman with red wings and pincers turned to Pouf, "This child, it has power, so we thought we should bring it-"
Meruem was facing the Ants in front of him, but the Ant King's mind was far from there. Only minutes earlier, he released thousands of Photons throughout the Saiyan Mountains. The microscopic particles made of his own Nen acted as a kind of En no range limit. The particles floated all over the mountains and attached to people atop them, and the King received information on all of them. He knew who was afraid, who was fighting and who was running, who thought they could escape him. He knew where thousands of people were at the same time, and he knew from the Photon he had attached to Turles that the Rogue was not faring well against the Saiyan King. The Rogue will have his assassin aid him soon, which should weaken Bardock more. Pitou… watch yourself. He felt his Royal Guard's fear increase and glanced next to him at Pouf who was acting normal and responding to the other soldiers, yet Meruem could see on Pouf's face that his other Royal Guard knew the situation and was working on it.
"Then, should we," Froggy began, seeing the King's uninterested look shifting all over except for why they had come to him. The frog-like Chimera Ant continued, "just take him to the rest to be turned into slav-"
The King's tail whipped in front of his body and took the head off of the purple frog-ant's body. The rest of Froggy's squad stared at him with huge eyes as their comrade no longer had a head. Meruem snapped his tail to the side and got some green blood off of it, then he questioned the falling body, "What use would a baby be as a slave?" Meruem glanced down at the child who was staring up at him with huge eyes and a confused look on its face.
Pouf glared at the other Ants in front of him who had terrified looks on their faces as each wondered if they were going to be the next one to slightly aggravate the King. Pouf began in a sharp voice, "All over these so-called 'Saiyan' mountains, people who fled the Cooperative and the rest of Aebrith to find sanctuary are being enslaved by the Capital 50 as we speak. Those foolish creatures tried to escape the King's jurisdiction, but the King's jurisdiction is the whole world!" Pouf exclaimed and threw his arms out to the sides.
The other Ants nodded along, though some of them became focused on Meruem as the Ant King cocked his head to the side while looking into the baby's eyes. The small child cocked his head to the side in the same fashion as if mimicking the King, and Meruem smiled. Then, Meruem's tail whipped down and sliced straight through the child's head and out the other side. Meruem's eyes grew wide, while the boy whose head he just slashed through started laughing at him. The other Chimera Ants stared at the kid in surprise, and the one with red wings whispered, "He did not use that ability before when we grabbed him." Meruem did not glance at her, but he did not tell her to be quiet so she continued, "He burst into flames, he threw a chunk of house at Froggy, and he tossed Jeff across the room after turning into a red-faced monster."
"He can turn into steel too," Jeff, the orange-striped furry man, added.
Everything they said intrigued the King who stared closer at the child in front of him who floated up in the air after Meruem's tail passed through him. I was too focused on the events transpiring all around these mountains to see that something incredible was right in front of me. This is why I made my move! Meruem's lips curled up. This surprise! Something happening that I was not prepared for! In this situation, how should I react? How do I deal with this child with incredible power?! He did not train to obtain it, it must have come natural considering his age. In that case, if it is genetic, then I have the potential to gain his abilities. Or I could just gain the power of one more special human. Meruem reached his hands forward and gently grabbed the child by his sides.
Meruem brought the boy close to his own face, and JackJack's eyes grew watery at the sight of the scary monster in front of him. Almost as if mimicking the King's scary face, JackJack's skin turned red and his body bulked up all muscular, making the other Ants and even Pouf stare at it in fear or surprise. Meruem just grinned more though, and the sharp-toothed monster burst into flames in fear. Meruem's hands did not get burned though, To become intangible, would be an amazing power!
"Don't!" The other Ants all turned around, and they looked back the direction they just brought JackJack from. At the same house the kid had thrown part of at Froggy, the others who were there at the time were surprised to see someone else dragging themself out from beneath some rubble. The boy with blond hair had blood all over the left side of his face, his left arm looked broken at his side, and he coughed a few times after shouting towards them. He reached his working arm forward and dragged himself farther out of the destroyed house and closer to the monsters in front of him despite his fear. "Stop it!" He could see a look on the green Chimera Ant's face while the figure was looking at JackJack that made him truly terrified.
"Another child," Pouf said, "though from its condition, I suppose it has no powers and won't be useful as a slave. Beetle," he commanded, then he turned his head to the right and looked that way with a hesitant look. He glanced back at the King, but he felt it would be rude to inform the King of something as if he did not already know it. They are coming!
Beetle understood Pouf's command without needing it explained to him. The beetle and human mix Chimera Ant marched towards the house and the boy who stopped dragging himself closer to them. "Stop," the boy whispered, tears streaking out of his eyes as the monster moved towards him. "Stay away, from my little brother!" He ignored the beast and crawled closer to JackJack, and then he reached his arm out to the boy who lost his flames and turned his head back towards the older blond boy. "PLEA-"
Crack
Dash Parr heard a bone-crushing noise that made his heart lurch. His eyes opened up and everything around him was darkness. His half-opened eyes snapped the rest of the way at the last thing he remembered. An energy blast flew through the wall, I ran to try and stop it, and it exploded right on my fingertips. Everyone, he thought, imagining the whole family he was eating breakfast with. One of those people in particular came to mind, and Dash pushed his aching arms up above him to get the debris off of him. His skin had burns all over it, but the burns were not as bad as he thought they should be after taking that from point blank. It's because of Timmy's wish. I'm strong, but JackJack has powers too. They told me being super strong is one of them, Dash felt the rubble above him moving, and he groaned but pushed harder to get it all off of him.
Two large chunks shifted and Dash pushed his way up through them to the light. He reached up to a sharp edge and grabbed onto it, and he yanked himself up over the piece of roof. He cut through his shirt as he lifted over it, and he winced as he was already not feeling well after getting knocked out by that blast. Dash plopped down on his stomach on top of a piece of roof, then he lifted his head up and looked ahead of him. Time slowed down for the speedster as what he saw caused him confusion. The sight in front of him was just that hard to wrap his mind around. On the road in front of what used to be the Loud house, Lincoln Loud's body lay on the floor, and a giant beetle monster stood on top of his crushed skull. Past this sight, stood four other strange monsters down the road that looked like combinations of animals, and another purple frog creature the size of a human lay decapitated as well on the floor.
In that instant he lifted his head, Dash focused on the final Chimera Ant though farther from all the others. Sound faded from his mind; he could not hear even his own breathing or heart beat. The edges of his vision became foggy, though right in the center his vision started to turn red. He recognized the figure standing in the center of the road twenty yards away from him. He had seen the green monster once before and been terrified, but all fear vanished from inside Dash in the moment. He stared at the hands of the Ant King that were holding a small child. The boy in Meruem's hands still had his head, but the top of the boy's skull was no longer there, exposing his brain to the world. Meruem's tail flicked to the side and some blood splashed off of it, while the ravenous beast himself chomped down, and then tore up a chunk of pink organ.
As Dash stared forward, his mind processing what he was looking at, his reddening vision started to shake. Everyone inside his vision started yelling, as it was not Dash's vision that was shaking, but the planet beneath the boy itself. There was a dam inside Dash's head, and a pressure inside him pushed against that wall so hard that cracks already lining it widened, and then the dam broke. The PB-4 on Dash's wrist shattered into a thousand pieces. Dash's eyes rolled back into his head, the mountain beneath him cracked, and the Ant King leapt up in the air away from the earth-shattering scream that erupted from the debris before him. "AAAAHHHHHH!" The debris from the house beneath him shredded in the white aura that exploded off of his body, and the three slower Chimera Ants on the road were lifted up and thrown by the power of Dash's shout. Beetle was the closest to him, and when the Chimera Ant started turning its head to the source of the scream, it was hit so hard by the force expelling from Dash that the front of its armored chest cracked and purple blood splashed out, and then it was sent flying straight into a sharp piece of debris sticking out of a house two blocks down that impaled him, then got lifted up and tossed away itself. All the citizens of the town in a yard a block away screamed as gusts of wind flew into them and lifted many of them off their feet, throwing them over the fence and making more of them tumble away. The Chimera Ant guards near them did not run towards the scream but crossed their arms and stared towards he bright white light in fear.
What is that?! Meruem thought, no longer solely excited by the surprises. He looked into the white light, and his surprised look became even more so at the sight of who it was that was screaming with his eyes rolled back into his head. He had seen the child before, heard rumors about him after that, and watched a video of surveillance from inside Pyraxas that told him what the boy's power was. He is not just a speedster though, Meruem thought, as the boy let out another bloodcurdling scream, and the shaking of the mountain beneath him doubled, the aura pulsing out of his body intensified, and cracks shot out all over the slope of Mount Gine, causing rock slides from much higher up the mountain that affected towns all over, not that they were not already being affected by the boy's immense power.
Right as the shaking started, Pitou finally had the ruins of Azalea Town in her sight. Pouf's clone shouted in her ear to wait, but whatever danger was in front of her, there was a much more imminent threat right behind her. Son Goku was closing fast, faster now that he had what he assumed to be their final destination in sight. He shot past Pitou, slamming a fist into her face as she turned in towards him in shock at how much faster he suddenly started moving. She realized it as the fist dented into her face, as did Pouf, He wanted me to lead him here! Pouf spun his head right as he flew up next to the King, his arms crossed in front of his body to protect from the strong force exuding from the boy in front of him. "King," Pouf reminded, just in case the King was too fixated on the mystery screaming child to notice the other one coming.
That one is a human, but this one is Saiyan, Meruem thought with a glance towards the boy in Saiyan armor who came flying towards him. He hurt Pitou, but she is still alive. Still, he must die… that hair again.
Weird, I feel like I recognize him too, Goku thought, while staring at the being that he knew to be the one his former opponent was heading towards. The feeling of power he got from that green figure even with the Power Blocker on made Goku itch to fight him. Goku's gaze shifted to the other figure though, the one he could sense a massive power from that appeared from out of nowhere a few seconds ago. I've never felt- wait a second, Goku's eyes grew wide in recognition, recognition that Meruem caught with his eyes as he focused on both of them at once.
Does the Saiyan know that human boy? Meruem thought, and Pouf wondered it as well. "Pouf, get back," Meruem warned. Pouf would never disobey his King, and even though he was born to protect him, he fled back in knowledge that the monsters before him were ones he had no chance against. Who is he? A Super Saiyan child? Where did he come from?
Dash's body bulked up, and he snapped his head back and roared in what sounded like excruciating pain mixed with unadulterated hatred. He grew taller, his power flooded out of him so strong that it was no longer gusts of wind flying off of his body but busts of energy that destroyed whatever they touched. His pure white eyes shifted towards the Ant King, and a name he once heard Killua say was the only thing that he could think of, the only word filling his mind. "MERRRUUEEMMMM!"
Dash, Goku thought, his already serious expression hardening at the sound of all the emotions in that scream. He shifted his gaze from the boy to Meruem again, and then to Meruem's left hand where the Ant King still held something that he wanted to save for later. Goku's heart fell at the sight. He saw a small boy with the top of his head taken off, and he looked back towards Dash who sounded so sad and angry, then back at the boy again. Oh no.
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"Daddy, there're people at the door," Goten shouted upstairs.
Son Goku looked towards the door to his bedroom and sensed out to check who was waiting for him in front of his house. He smiled and put his extra orange gis down on his bed, then he flew downstairs and landed inside his doorway. "Come in," he told the couple outside his house. "Go finish the dishes Goten," Goku told the small boy still standing near the door. "I know you didn't finish yet." Goten pouted but walked away to do the chore like his father said. Goku looked back to his doorway and explained, "We just finished breakfast, then Gohan rushed out to train with Vegeta. He's really getting in as much as possible, but I'm sure he'll be there to see us all off." Goku's eyes lit up, "Is that why you're here? Did you decide to come too?"
Bob Parr shook his head, but Goku's excited look only faded a little. "Actually Goku," Bob continued, using Goku's name even though the two were not very close to show he was serious. Usually people would call him Mr. Mayor, including the people in front of him, though after using his name Bob could see Goku did not catch the tone he was trying to get by at all. "We have something serious we need to discuss with you."
"If it's about Dash, I'll make sure he's alright," Goku assured them. The parents looked at the Saiyan in surprise, and Goku continued while scratching the back of his head, "I already told Gwen, but I'll tell you too. I'll treat them both like my own kids," Goku promised.
Helen let out a sigh of relief, then she smiled at Goku and shook her head like her husband did before her. "I'm happy to hear you say that Goku, but we never doubted you would. Dash has many friends with him who we're sure will protect him…" Helen stopped herself, but Bob put a hand on her shoulder and nodded when she looked at him, telling her to continue. Goku got a confused look on her face, then Helen looked back into the Saiyan's eyes, "My son, my, other son, his name is JackJack." Goku looked surprised, as like most people in Pao he had never heard of this boy before.
"You have another son?" He asked.
"Yes," Bob replied. "But we never found him since coming to this world," he added. Goku nodded at the man and gained a more serious look on his face to show them he understood what they were going through. And he did know that pain, as he had felt it for over a year after Krillin had vanished, and for years he had thought he never found Bulma, only to learn that she had died in front of him and that his memories were erased.
"Goku," Helen started again, a pleading look on her face. "All we're asking, is that you keep an eye out for him. Dash, well he's set on making this an adventure about discovering himself. I don't want to tell him to spend his whole journey looking for his little brother, when there's the chance that JackJack never even came to this world, or that he did, but, didn't-"
Bob squeezed harder on his wife's shoulder to get her to stop speaking like that. "He's fine," Bob said assuredly. "I'm sure of it," he added, giving Helen the extra confidence she needed to shake off the terrible feeling in her gut. "Anyway, he's a three year old now," Bob continued. "As to what he looks like, it's been a while-
"He has his father's eyes," Helen corrected. "He's adorable, and he'll still be cute when you see him, if, you see him," she corrected herself so as not to sound too optimistic. After all, they were reaching out on a limb here, but the group heading to Aebrith would be seeing a part of the world the two of them had never been to.
"Well, I can't make you a promise that I'll find him," Goku began once the parents were finished talking. Helen looked down, then Goku continued, "But I promise that if I do find him, the first thing I'll do is bring him straight here. That sound good?"
Bob grinned, and Helen lifted her head with wide eyes and a smile, water resting on her bottom eyelids. "Thank you," the two parents said as one.
Present
I'm sorry, but I'm breaking my promise, Goku thought. There was no way he could bring that child to his parents now, even though he had technically "found" him.
Meruem watched as the Saiyan boy's eyes shifted from Dash to the dead boy in his arms. It did not take him half a second to put together that the two were family: it took him a tenth of a second to form the hypothesis and the rest of the half second re-examining Dash's face to see that the boy did share characteristics to the younger one he had just killed. The Saiyan's eyes shifted back to him, but they did not focus on the boy in his hand this time. Instead, the Saiyan boy looked into Meruem's purple eyes.
Those eyes, Meruem thought. It was strange. He knew that his own memory was impeccable, so there was no way that he had seen this child before and forgot about him, yet at the same time the boy looked at him and Meruem could have swore he saw recognition in the boy's eyes as well. There was a high chance that the boy recognized him as being the King, and the surprise in his eyes at that recognition was from running into the King atop this mountain, and that high chance kept Meruem from thinking too hard on it. He was about to ignore the troubling thought, when the boy's thick black strands of hair shot up in a gust of wind into one single spike. His hair turned golden, his body coated in a yellow veil of aura, and then lightning bolts sparked off of his aura without him letting out a sound. His hair swayed in the wind that surrounded him, and the ground fifty feet beneath him trembled more than it already was thanks to the screaming human boy.
Sora flew around the side of Mount Gine. Meruem spotted movement in his peripheral and shifted his vision towards Dash. The speedster's foot that stepped forward touched the floor. Meruem dropped the bloody corpse of a three year old boy, because when he shifted his vision even the slightest amount towards Dash, the Super Saiyan 2 child flew towards him as fast as the blond human was moving. Pouf stared from behind in fearful anticipation at such powerful enemies before Bardock had even appeared. Pitou groaned from under a bunch of snow that was tinting dark bluish-purple in front of her bloody face, and her eyes snapped open. Dash appeared in front of Meruem with his right fist punched forward in front of his bulked up right arm, an action that made every muscle in his body scream in pain that he ignored. Goku appeared two feet away, his left leg spinning for the side of Meruem's head, only Meruem could see through the dozen feints that came along with the kick, to see that the fist Goku was balling was actually just another fake to try and take the attention away from the momentum shifting in his left leg. Goku's leg changed directions of its kick, but Meruem's right hand lifted up in its path. He caught Goku's foot with one hand, and he caught Dash's fist with the other, and then the King decided to let out some of his power.
The sky above them turned purple with swirls of bloody red and dark blue inside it. The darkness that fell over the mountains instantaneously did not faze the two who had attacked him, but for billions of others around the Saiyan Mountains and the world, the dark aura of the Ant King brought fear to their very cores. Meruem yanked the foot and fist closer to him fast, making both the Saiyan and the human's heads come face-to-face with his animalistic grin. "Now then," he said, "it's time for my warm up."
A/N First off, I'm going to put a list of all the characters below as lots of new people from the multiverse appeared in the war this chapter.
Dragon Ball Series: Dyspo, Hit, Trio de Dangers: Bergamo, Lavender, and Basil, Goku Kunshi, Bardock, Shugesh, Fasha, Tora, Bardock, Gine, Kale, Caulifla, Turles, Tien, Krillin, Bulma, Vegeta, Gohan, Goten.
Hunter x Hunter: Chimera Ants, Pouf, Pitou, Meruem, Killua, Zetsu, Nen, En.
Ben 10: Sixsix, Sotoragg, Gwen
Incredibles: Dash, JackJack, Bob Parr, Helen Parr
Loud House: Lincoln Loud
Guardians of the Galaxy: Yondu, Taserface, Eclector
Final Fantasy: Cornelia, Princess (Queen in this) Sarah, Nibelheim
Twilight: Jacob Black, Edward Cullen, Bella
Flash: Savitar
Hellsing: Luke and Jan Valentine
Kingdom Hearts: Sora, Kairi
A/N Hope I got them all. Alright! The chapter finally comes out after a month break. Know I said I'd try to get it out before the New Year, so sorry about giving those high expectations on a chapter I hadn't started yet. As for this chapter, we get WAR! The Rogue appears in an alliance with the Ant King to attack his own people. Toufu fed Bardock false information making the Saiyans, Sora, and Goku all think that the King's armies were planning an attack on the Resistance, Turles arrives with his army of mercenaries and bounty hunters, some of whom are strong enough to take down Saiyans and even face the Super Saiyan Gods. Savitar appears as one of the King's 5 Guardians, the strongest of the Capital 50, and after beating Dyspo he faces off against Bardock's best friend Tora. The Twilight main characters get murdered by the Trio de Dangers and the Valentine brothers from Hellsing... and Bardock faces off against the Rogue in a battle that shook the world! I hope you all enjoyed the fights this chapter. Goku faces Pitou and Tien, but the Royal Guard can tell from the start she's no match and gets out of there! Meruem and Goku finally meet again after not seeing each other since the third day on Nexus, but neither of them recognizes the other yet. JackJack... ;(. Goku and an enraged Dash face the Ant King Meruem while war spreads across the Saiyan Mountains. What will happen next!? Thanks for reading! Happy New Year everyone! Time for review responses:
Limit-Breaking chapter 82 . Dec 22, 2017
Wow goku teaching gohan's nobody to go super saiyan, also amazing job with the way the saiyans are acting towards bardock about letting vegeta become king. The main reason they want vegeta is probably them thinking vegeta becomes king not because he is the prince but they show there loyalty to him if he is king and he will be so happy that he will have them become a super saiyan god as well, seriously how gullible can they be. If anything vegeta will probably tell them to quit annoying him, Or even better you have goku tell vegeta about the saiyans but he says he doesn't care at all.
As for the ant king the suspense is definetly building up now and I can't wait to see how this war is going to start, hell will it even be a war since the power of a super saiyan god vs ant king may be to much for anybody to even stand and fight especially with all that pressure hitting them.
Also turles going rough is definetly interesting to see, for all we know he's probably taking over some other land and will become a king like how luthor tried himself or how the ant king rules his own land. He probably reached super saiyan blue after he left the island.
Man so many questions and so many cliffhangers, what is going to happen next. Besides that I wonder what the gods have planned for sora since even he barely knows what to do. Either way another awesome job so far with this chapter and I look forward to the next one.
Noxagh going Super is going to be a wall to get over, sometime in the future. The war starts and I hope it lived up to the hype. Hope I surprised you guys with the Rogue showing up this chapter since it seemed like he would be a villain much later on, though he still might be with Hit rushing in and saving him from Bardock's wrath. Cliffhangers continuing on to this chapter, and we'll see if Sora's graces with the Gods can hold as he flies straight towards the Ant King! Thanks for the review, and I hope you enjoyed the chapter!
asdf chapter 82 . Dec 22, 2017
I never thought that I would ever have to say this but FRICKIN' SAIYANS AND THEIR POLITICS!
XD I laughed at this comment, and am laughing again as I write this review. Never thought Saiyan politics would come up in this story very much, and then it wound up being half a chapter. Happy New Year to you too, and I would never argue about DBZ character strength cause those feats you mention are so far past what most other characters in this can do. Thanks for the reviews!
cyber chapter 82 . Dec 22, 2017
awesome chapter, cant wait to see more, and dash found jackjack with the loud family, then there was a explosion, what happened? will see.
HAPPY NEW YEARS!
Happy New Years to you too! Glad you liked the chapter and hope you enjoyed the new one. Dash is just not having a great day, though I guess JackJack and the Loud family are having a worse one... Thanks for the review!
kg833998 chapter 1 . 13h ago
poor mine she is finally reunited with the one she loves and he is taken away from her one bad thing keeps happening first she loses pumpkin then she gets taken away from Wendy who became a heartless at the time and then she's tried to help States Revolt only to fail and get taught to be taken away from her again for good this time probably I really hope mine doesn't die please don't kill mine and let her reunite with Wendy please have them make it to not let them die please aside from that amazing story can't wait for the next chapter
also can you plese somehow put a bit of assanation classroom in this please
but please let them be with the rest of the civilians with the good guys please
Sensing a lot of love for Mine here, XD. She'll be back soon and we'll see what happens, but she is looking like she might survive after all she's been through. Surviving Konoha, slavery, and the slave revolt that got practically every person they were with killed. As for adding Assassination Classroom, I did? I don't know if you wrote it before you read chapter 9, but towards the end after the Ra's fight they appear, and Nagisa gets pretty important for a little. They'll be back, and though they're not civilians, they're good guys at least. Thanks for the reviews! Thanks again everyone for reading, favoriting, following, reviewing, and just sticking with this story up until now! 'Till next time!