Chapter 22: Week 2: Another Coliseum Fight?!
On Zing's ship deep in space, the Emperor has just entered the room above his throne room known as "The Capture Room" as he intends to check on what almost all of his squads all lost their lives trying (and succeeding) in getting.
"Now let's see what my squads have captured during their galactic travels." He said as he began to walk down the darken room until he found the light switch, to which he then turned on, allowing him to see the new bosses for the Exiles to fight as he looked at the four cells holding the new prisoners.
The first person that was imprisoned was a little girl with tan skin, blond hair that had pigtails on the sides with sky blue eyes. She wore a sky blue dress with a black centered stripe. She had multiple slashes and bruises and burn marks all over her. And like with everyone else who has been captured, she has an obedience collar has been planted around her neck.
This little girl was one of three protectors of the city of Townsville and one of three members of the Powerpuff Girls and also known as its sweet and laughter of the team: Bubbles.
Coliseum Name: The Sweet Catastrophe!
The next prisoner was a 50 ft. tall, historical robot of rather unknown origin that was currently powered down, it had rusty, metallic, plating and bots on its chest as the robot was beginning to reboot its systems. It also had a collar on its neck.
This robotic monstrosity landed on Earth during the Cold War of 1957 before making friends with a boy by the name of Hogarth Hughes, who named it: The Iron Giant.
Coliseum Name: The Iron Atomizer.
The next prisoner was a green female alien. She had pink colored eyes and a white Mohawk and her uniform (that being a two piece dress) was ripped and torn a bit. The top of her uniform had a heart on. She had bruises all over her body and a obedience collar around her neck.
This alien female was known throughout her own galaxy as the planetary dominating force: Lord Dominator.
Coliseum Name: Lord Destruction.
The final prisoner was an adult man, not of human origin but was also from another planet like the Gems, as well as Roger and his kind were. He had a rather lanky but still muscular frame. He had a black robe over its blue skin, a blue pair of a customized blind man's glasses over its three eyes. He had scratches and stab wounds all over his body and an obedience collar around his neck.
What his name? Well let's find out shall we?
But his Coliseum Name is... Tactic For Hire.
"Wakey-wakey, my attractions!" Zing said in a sing song like tone.
They didn't wake up at his request, annoying him a bit.
"I said..." Zing began as he lifted his scepter into the air as the crystal on top of it began to glow as its magic surrounded the four. "Wake. The Hell. UP!" He used his scepter to slam Bubbles into the wall, causing her to stir before getting slammed into the wall once again, finally managing to wake up.
"Wha- What the..." Bubbles groaned.
"Good, you're awake." Zing said to her before he almost forgot stomach. "Hold on."
He then turned to the other prisoners as he used his scepter to slam Lord Dominator into the wall four times to wake her from her slumber, which was successful as the lord let out a groan of pain.
He then rebooted the Iron Giant using the power of his scepter as the Giant than opened his big eyes.
He was about to use his scepter on the new alien but the alien began to wake up on his own, causing him to stop.
"Where in the galaxy am I?" The female galactic dominator asked groggily.
"Greetings everyone, I am Emperor Zing." The alien introduced himself to the four. "It's about time you all woke up."
"Give me one good reason not to destroy you where you stand..." Lord Dominator demanded as her left hand began to heat up and her right hand began to freeze up in rather quick succession.
"Now, now, dominatrix." Zing said as he used his scepter to freeze the alien in place. "There's no need for that. I'm not your enemy here." He used his scepter once again to show the group a picture of another group. "They are."
"Who... are... they?" The giant asked.
"The white haired boy in the middle is the "Man With the Plan" named Lincoln Loud." Zing began to explain to the four. "The woman on the right is the magic user Esclipsa. The monster on the right is Globgor, the king of monsters and the baby is their daughter, Meteora." He said, explaining the Mewman family that was put the chopping block by their own kind. "The ones on the left are the humans known as Dan and Chris and the Murphy family consisting of their son Milo, their daughter Sara, their father Martin and their mother Bridgette." He explained the humans before going to the last member. "The one behind Lincoln is the quartz soldier known as Jasper." He revealed to them. "Together they are the Exiles and you four are going to fight them in my coliseum today. Not that you are in any position to refuse."
"I do have a question though." The mysterious alien said, gaining everyone's attention. "Do we get to kill them?" He asked in surprisingly perverse glee.
"If you can that is, then go nuts." Zing said. "Just make you give my people a show that they'll remember."
Upon hearing this, the alien then began to cackle manically... he was then joined by Lord Dominator as she laughed manically as well, concerning both the Iron Giant and Bubbles as they glanced at each other from their cells.
A few hours later...
Lincoln, Jasper and the others were roughly pushed into the coliseum as the guards quickly closed the door behind them.
"Oh come on!" Lincoln complained.
"Are you god damn serious?" Dan complained in annoyance.
"Oh great!" Milo complained as he rolled his eyes.
"We're back here?" Sara said in annoyance.
"Apparently sweetie." Bridgette said as she comforted her daughter.
"I wonder who we have to fight this time?" Globgor asked.
"Beats me." Eclipsa said as she shrugged her shoulders.
"I just hope they're ready to die." Jasper said as she cracked a smug smile as well as her knuckles as she then summoned her helmet to ready herself for the upcoming conflict.
Suddenly they hear the sound of something from above them, causing the group to look up. What they was Foster on one of the ship's floating platforms as the alien then took out a microphone as he then addressed the crowd above them all.
"Welcome everyone! It's so good to see you all again in the coliseum! Today we have the return of Lincoln Loud and the Exiles! Give them a hand folks!" The alien general said to the citizens who all either clapped for the group and called out jeers to the group... the result was 50 for both of those options. "Today, we have some brand new fighters to add to this roster. Let's bring them out now!"
Suddenly, the doors that housed the Xenomorph queen a week earlier were opened once more as Bubbles, the Giant, Dominator and the blue alien all walked out into the stadium.
The Exiles were a bit surprised and a bit bewildered at their new opponents. When Lincoln saw Bubbles, he was even more surprised.
"Wait a second, is that Bubbles? From the Powerpuff Girls?"
Sara also looked over and saw girl in question. There was no mistaking it.
"Now that I'm looking at her in person, you're right Lincoln, there's no mistaking it. That is her."
Bubbles looked up and saw Lincoln and Sara looking at her in surprise.
"Wait, you two... know me?" Bubbles asked in confusion. "I never seen either of you around Townsville before."
"I'm Lincoln and I'm from Royal Woods." Lincoln introduced himself.
"And I'm Sara and I am from Danville." Sara introduced herself.
"I know were supposed to fight and all but I should thank you and your sisters, Blossom and Buttercup for saving not just your hometown but the entire world multiple times you've been on active duty." Sara thanked the super powered girl.
"Yeah, Bubbles. You're hardcore!" Lincoln said as he then held out his hand. "I would be honored to shake your hand."
Bubbles blushed at the praise she got from the two as she looked at his hand and grew a bit nervous but shook it off as she took the boy's hand and shook it.
"T-Thank you." Bubbles said meekly before asking. "So why are you guys here?"
"We were going to ask you the same thing." Sara said.
"Judging by that collar around your neck, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that you got captured by Zing too?" Lincoln suggested.
"Yeah." Bubbles said ashamed. "You guys too?"
"Yeah." Lincoln said also ashamed.
Before they could continue, Foster cut in.
"Begin!" He demanded as he then floated up to the ceiling to avoid the damage of the battle.
The blue alien then laughed as he got into a stance before he then blitz over to Lincoln and Sara before he grabbed them both by their faces and slammed them into the ground, much to their group's shock.
"Lincoln! Sara!" Chris shouted in shock before immediately getting decked in the stomach.
The alien then followed up by blitzing the rest of Milo's family as well as Dan by backhanding Martin across the face which sent him flying into the wall before he managed to grab Dan by the face and brutally headbutt him in the nose before kicking Bridgette in the throat, causing her to gasp for air as she fell to her knees as the alien finished up by blasting a sneaking up from behind Milo back with a energy blast from his hand, which sent him flying into a wall.
As Lincoln and Sara got up, they immediately regrouped with everyone else that the blind alien attacked earlier.
"Are you guys okay?" Sara asked as she helped Chris up.
"I'm alive..." Chris groaned.
"Whoever that guy is, his hits like train." Dan groaned as he clenched his bleeding nose as Lincoln helped him up. "Lucky shot."
"It's your own fault for not having your guards up." The blue alien said as he got into the same stance again as mystical blue aura manifested around his body. "I hope you said goodbye to your loved ones!" He then looked at the group. "Eeny, meany, miney..." He began as he began to choose who he would kill off first... before his eyes glowed white as he set his sights on Milo, Sara and Lincoln, who all immediately noticed as they each got into a defensive stance. "Children go first."
But before he could rush them, the alien felt a hand on his shoulder. Looking behind him, he saw Lord Dominator was the one who stopped him.
"Hold up man, you can't have all the fun." She began as she glared the group with a sinister look. "I'm having a turn."
As soon as she finished saying that, she placed her right hand onto the ground as ice began to form on it before shooting out as giant spikes from it towards the group as they scrambled to get out of the way, ultimately separating Dan, Chris, Martin and Bridgette from Lincoln, Sara and Milo with Dominator facing the three kids while the blue alien facing the adults.
Immediately after doing that, the alien went on the attack as he ran over to Martin first as he went in for a kick.
However as the extra-terrestrial charge at him, it felt like time slowed down as he heard a voice in his head.
"Martin, he's going to go for a kick. When he does, duck and sweep his leg with your right." The voice in his head suggested.
Deciding to do as the voice told him and noticing that his target was getting closer, he chose not to question it as he ducked and sweep the alien's legs with his right, causing him to fall onto the ground on his back.
Needless to say, the alien was surprised.
"That's something you don't see everyday." The alien said as he hopped back onto his feet.
"We earthlings are full of surprises." Dan said as he turned his hands into spiky flails.
Martin turned to his wife and fellow adults. "Wait Dan, I want to take this guy on first."
"You sure?" Dan asked curiously.
"Of course. I think my power just manifested. And I think I can use it to take him down." Martin said as he got into a fighting stance.
The three then looked at each other in concern before Bridgette let out a sigh.
"Well, I don't like it but I understand." Bridgette said as she stood back.
"Alright Martin," Chris said. "we'll stay back, but we're here if you need us."
Dan sighed deeply as he turned his hands back to normal. "Fine, just don't die on us you hear me?!"
Martin nodded as the alien spoke. "It seems you wish to die first."
"Maybe, we'll have to find out don't we?" Martin said as he closed his eyes to calm his nerves before opening them up as the two circled each other.
With Lincoln, Milo and Sara, they were facing Lord Dominator... and they were starting to lose, badly. Despite having her outnumbered, it was mostly two on one as Sara's power was mostly support at best. So she chose to stay back and only get involved in terms of emotional support, it was just the optimistic jinx from Danville and the Man with the Plan from Royal Woods to take down the evil tyrant from another galaxy.
But while they had the number advantage, what was causing Dominator to mop the arena floor with them was that their opponent had way more experience in fighting then Milo and Lincoln did, she was displaying that pretty thoroughly by forming an ax out of molten lava and breaking through Lincoln aura blades with a mighty swing.
"What?!" Lincoln said in shock as he stared at his broken blades before immediately jumping back to avoid an overhead strike from the tyrant's axe once more.
"Hold still, you little pain in the neck!" The green woman demanded as she began to swing wildly at the boy.
Lincoln continued to dodge Dominator's swings until he found himself literally back into a corner. Realizing that the female alien was attempting another overhead strike, Lincoln jumped out of the way as the ax came down, causing the floor to melt a bit.
Looking over at Milo, he saw that he was thinking of something.
"Milo, what are you doing just standing there?!" Lincoln shouted at him in annoyance. "I need your help!"
"I'm trying but I don't know how!" He said as he then stomped onto the the ground, creating a deep fissure and separating Dominatior from the two boys, finally giving the two a chance to breathe.
"What do you mean you don't know how?" Lincoln whispered annoyed. "What did you call that just now?" He stated, pointing at the fissure the Murphy boy just made.
"What I mean is that I don't know how to weponize this effectively." Milo whispered back as the two stared at Dominator, who was staring back at them in annoyance. "Stomping seems to be the only thing that can work when I use this power."
Realizing what Milo was talking about caused Lincoln to face palm himself. "I can't believe I forgot to ask this to you guys eariler."
"Well whatever it is, now's a good a time as any right?" Milo asked.
Lincoln then began to whisper to him so Dominator wouldn't hear them. "When you close your eyes, do you see... another version of you in there?"
Milo shook his head as he began to whisper as well. "No, but why is this important?"
Lincoln sighed as he began to explain why. "Well, remember when I was fighting Jasper and she punched me right through my stomach?"
"Yeah, that must've been painful." Milo whispered.
"It was very painful." Lincoln whispered. "When I was blacking out from the blood loss... I saw another version of myself but it was completely white, like my battle aura." He grimaced a bit at the memory. "The other me told me that I'm immortal now and if I merged with him I would be able to beat Jasper, but there was a catch."
"What would that be?" Milo whispered.
"I would have to train my body so that I can use them at their fullest potential and not get so exhausted while using them." Lincoln whispered.
"I see what you're getting at." Milo said as he began to close his eyes and focus himself. "Perhaps I can talk to this... "other me" but it might talk sometime to do so."
"Don't worry. I'll keep her distracted while you and him talk." Lincoln whispered. "Just don't take to long."
"What are you two whispering about?" Dominator said annoyed. "Whatever plan you come up with, it's not going to work, just get into a fetal position already and spare me the trouble!"
"Not happening, lady!" Lincoln said as he jumped over the fissure at charged at Dominator once more...
Jasper ran towards Bubbles and threw a punch at the captured girl, who jumped back.
"Whoa, stop. I don't want to fight you." Bubbles said as she put her hands up in a defensive position.
"Well, sucks to be you runt." Jasper said as she threw another punch which Bubbles decided to grab onto her fist. "Cause I want to fight."
Jasper then followed up by throwing a barrage of fast, swift but still brutal punches, which the Powerpuff girl was having a bit of trouble with trying to defend herself from. Jasper then decided to change tactics by using her helmet to headbutt the super-powered individual in the face at the slightest opening... which she found and took the opportunity to do so.
When she did, she headbutted Bubbles hard in the head as hard as she could, which not only broke through the little girl's defense but also sent her flying and crashing into the coliseum arena wall with such force that it cracked.
"Ha! Is that you have to offer, Powerpuff Girl?" Jasper asked in a coldly disappointed tone as she began to walked towards the downed, kindergartner, super heroine. "Such a disgrace, you'll never be like your sisters! How can you protect Townsville when you can barely protect yourself?"
As Bubbles began to get up, Jasper's words were not the only thing ringing in her head as her vision was briefly blurred. After shaking her head, she got her senses back in order. Remembering Jasper's words, she knew that the Quartz was right. For so long her optimistic, wide eyed, idealism and trying to see the best in everyone has held her back from reaching her full potential as a super heroine of her hometown back on Earth.
Maybe it was time to break the shackles of pacifism and let loose her vicious and "hardcore" side once again...
Glaring up at her opponent, (who was seconds away from stomping her into the ground) with a fierce expression on her face, she spoke. "I'm just getting started..."
With that out of her mouth, Bubbles immediately flew up to Jasper's midsection and delivered a thunderous punch to it, causing Jasper to gasp as the air was knocked out of her non existent lungs as she stumble back a bit before immediately she then recieved a uppercut to her chin which caused to back flip before she landed on her hands and knees in pain...
With Jasper right where she wanted her, Bubbles spoke.
"You know something Jasper?" Bubbles said as she took a deep breath to calm as she began to remember the times that she let her anger get the best of her. "You were right about one thing..."
"Really, and what would that be?" Jasper said as she struggled to get into a fighting stance.
"I will never be like my sisters." Bubbles said as she flew straight at Jasper, who had her guard up... only for the Powerpuff girl to fly around her defense and behind her as then delivered a brutal kick to the orange soldier's back, causing her to stumble forward a bit.
As Jasper looked back, she received a brutal punch to the face, which shattered the visor of her helmet and caused her to stumble backwards.
Bubbles then continued. "With us super powered individuals, we all live in a world of glass as we need to control ourselves so we don't lose control or people will die."
Jasper then chose to spin dash at her young opponent from an angle that she wasn't expecting... only Bubbles to simply fly up and caused her to miss entirely as Bubbles continued talking when Jasper got out of her ball form.
"But you can take it can't you Jasper." Bubbles said as she then floated back down with determination in her eyes. "What we have here is a rare opportunity for me to cut loose and show you just how powerful I can be when I'm NOT being so bubbly and cute..."
Bubbles then finished up by flying straight at opponent and delivered one of her most strongest uppercuts she's ever had to give. An uppercut so powerful that not only did it cause Jasper to be sent flying into the air, but also caused everyone to stop fighting against their respective opponents as they tried to process what was going on.
Jasper was being sent through one floor after another until she found herself outside the ship itself before Bubbles met and with a incredibly loud sonic scream, the quartz was sent flying back down onto the arena floor, creating a big crater and causing the entire ship to shake.
The only ones who were not fighting was Eclipsa, Meteora, Globgor and the Iron Giant.
"You're going to have to do the fighting dear." Globgor said as he stared at the giant robot. "I'm keeping my eyes on the giant just in case he tries something.."
"Alright," Eclipsa said as she handed her daughter over to her monster husband before heading over to Lincoln, Milo and Sara's local. "Be careful."
"You too." Globgor said, taking the infant in his claws. "Now head on over there, the kids need your help."
Eclipsa nodded as she had her parasol at the ready as she quickly went over to the children... who one of them was taking quite a beating.
Lord Dominator was blasting both molten lava and a freeze beam at the man with the plan's aura, which manifested into a giant pair of bony ribs, and it was beginning to crack and break.
"C'mon you little pest." Dominator taunted. "You can't keep up that pitiful defense forever!"
Lincoln blocked out the tyrant's words but knew that she was right. His rib defense was starting to show signs of shattering. He himself was beginning to show signs of fatigue as he collapsed on one knee as a result of Lord Dominator's intense heat and frostbite freezing capabilities.
"Time to be dominated, you little brat!" The green female said as she began to charge up a big ball of lava and ice.
Knowing it was going to take some time for her to gather up the energy she needs, Lincoln collapsed as his rib-cage defense vanished from his body as the boy then fell on his face.
Noticing Lincoln was too exhausted to move, Sara quickly ran over to the boy and scooped him up. She then shielded the young boy from the upcoming blast.
"Time's up you morons!" The tyrant yelled as she chucked the ball of lava and ice at the two, Sara braced for impact as she continued to shield Lincoln even if it killed her.
However, Eclipsa quickly flew in between the two and put up a barrier of purple magic, which not only block the combined elemental ball but also sent it back to it's sender.
"Oh no..." was Dominator's only response as she put her guard up... only for the ball to literally blow up into her face.
The explosion sent the alien bully flying black to Milo, who finally opened his eyes.
Getting up but not noticing the Murphy, Dominator screamed out in frustration. "This can't be happening. I am Lord Dominator! I make the likes of you all squirm at the mention of my presence! I am your ruler you bunch of brats! I am superior to you! I am-"
Before Lord Dominator could finish her tirade, she let out a scream as her body was encompassed by a light purple energy before it then burst into pieces as Milo had his hand out as purple smoke was coming out of it, revealing that he was responsible for the alien's death.
"A-Are you guys okay?" Milo asked nervously, trying to process what he just did.
"We're f-fine." Sara said in shock at what she saw her little brother just do.
Eclipsa covered her mouth in shock at what she just witnessed, even dropping her parasol in the process.
Milo fell onto the ground as shock overtook him.
Up in the Emperor's throne room, Zing was also shock at Dominator's demise.
"Looks like Lincoln and Jasper aren't the only ones I need to watch out for." Zing stated as he continued to watch the fight. "I'm going to have to watch out for that Murphy boy and his family as well."
Back in the coliseum, the alien fell to the ground in a heap as Martin stomped down onto his chest as Dan, Chris and Bridgette surrounded him.
"Surrender." The Murphy demanded. "We both know this battle's over. I don't want to continue to fight you just satisfy my own ego."
Smiling up a bit, he relented. "I yield. Martin of Earth."
Bubbles meanwhile went over with Jasper's gemstone in her hand, giving it to Eclipsa.
"Here you go." Bubbles said as she handed the gem to the elder woman. "I assume she's with you?"
"For now." Eclipsa responded.
Looking over at green blood that was splattered over towards Milo, Bubbles had to ask. "What happened to the green lady?"
Before Eclipsa could respond, Milo did exactly that a bit reluctantly.
"I kill her..." Milo said as tears began to stream down her face as he clutched his head in a scared way. "She's dead because of me."
Getting up quickly, Milo then ran out of the coliseum in tears, blowing his way past the guards and ignoring his friend's pleads.
Sensing that the battle was now over, the crowd above them cheered wildly at the spectacle they just saw as they enjoyed every single, brutal, minute of it.
Foster then came down on his floating platform as he spoke once more.
"What a battle, kind wish we seen more from the Atomizer and Globgor but whatever! Let's give another round of applause for the Exiles!"
The gray audience clapped and cheered for the exiled pariahs. But they tuned them out as they could only think of one thing in their heads at the moment...
"Milo..."
And so, the so the first sign of blood on the Exile's side came in the form of Lord Dominator, but what will happened now that Milo had actually killed someone because his generational curse which have now been amplified by the space smoke.
Also, watch out Milo. Cause it looks like Zing is going to be on the look out for your development.
What will happened to everyone else and can they get back to their respective homes?
Find out next time on "The Exiles!"
This is going to be my last chapter for this month and I won't be updating it for a few weeks as I want to update of my other stories before coming back to this, so that's what I'll be doing.
So goodbye for now and have a happy Halloween and stay safe.