"Who are you?!" Tamagami #2 with the trident shouted as he pointed it at us, but I ignored its shouts as I stood up and walked over to kneel next to its fallen brother, rolling it over with a grunt before frowning at the damage to its body.
Apart from the gaping hole in the middle of its chest, the Tamagami' steel body was also covered in dents and cuts, one of its arms missing while parts of its body had rust and ash covering it.
'This is definitely magic from what I can feel, but this is worse than whatever Time Magic Towa used. This…this was time used for malicious intent.'
"Why do you feel like Master Neva?" Tamagami #1 asked as he lowered his sword slightly and I smiled as I stood up before answering.
"Because I absorbed him. Well, technically speaking, I absorbed him twice after he revived himself and took on a new body…but I also absorbed him a first time before he could separate his soul from his body. It's a very weird thing, but just know that I absorbed and assimilated into his body."
"Hmm, then I suppose that makes you our new creator and master. What are your orders?"
"Oh, nothing much. Just hang around the castle and protect the Dragon Balls like always." I answered with a shrug and #1 nodded as #2 calmed down before the two of them turned to their fallen brother and looked back up at me.
"Don't worry, I'll fix him up and he'll join you guys too. Actually, let me try something." I muttered softly as I closed my eyes, feeling out and memorizing the mystical energy of the two Dragon Balls in front of me before exerting the full brunt of my magic as I felt out for the last one.
"Well, hello there. A wizard of rather considerab-Majin Buu?" The voice sounded just as surprised to feel my energy as I was to hear it, opening my eyes to find myself standing in a black void while a surprised Mechikabura stood in front of me.
"No, you're…you're not Majin Buu. Cell? As well as Shin-nō and the other Supreme Kais? Oh, someone's been on a little hunting spree and messing with the timelines, haven't you?"
"I'm guessing you're the Mechikabura I've heard so much about, huh? I have to say, I expected someone…taller."
"Hehehe~ Oh, don't worry about this decrepit body. When I retrieve my stolen eye and regain my power, you shall see me in my prime form."
'Not if I can get to it first." I answered and he simply gave an eerie smile before his eyes widened and his smile grew.
"You're in the First Demon World with those foolish children of Abura. I'm in the Third Demon World with my apprentice."
"And I can feel your eye in the Second Demon World. What? Is this going to be like the first to it wins?" I asked and he chuckled and nodded as he cracked his back before slamming the butt of his staff onto the solid space below us with a grunt.
"Cell!" The next moment, I blinked and found myself standing back in the War Room of the castle, looking around at the concerned yet cautious looks of everyone before taking a deep breath as I nodded.
"What happened? You closed your eyes and not a second later, you're talking as if you're speaking with Mechikabura."
"I was as I tried to sense if he had the Dragon Ball, but he must have felt my energy and forced me into a mindscape where we could talk. However, it seems that he indeed does have the Dragon Ball as we suspected."
"Did he say anything about where he's heading next?" Towa asked and I nodded as I rolled my neck as I felt it aching slightly.
"Yeah, the Second Demon World. Apparently, that's where his Evil Eye is so if we want to stop him, we'll have to go there."
"An army would just make things harder. We'll go out on our own. Gomah, Degesu, Arinsu, Towa, you four stay here. I can see your face, Towa, and while I would like for you to come with, I need you and Gomah here to start of a way to seal off the castle as well as gather our army in preparation for the battle."
"Urgh, fine~ but as soon as that's done, I'm coming with you guys."
"Sure, any extra help would be appreciated." I answered before Dabura could, to which the Demon King looked exasperated as she raised an eyebrow at him before nodding with a sigh.
"That is…acceptable."
"Yeah, yeah, brother. Cell, want me to see if I can't get him up and running?" She asked while pointing at Tamagami #3 on my shoulder, to which I snorted before placing his body on the ground.
The next moment, I sent part of my mystical essence into it before another Namekian sigil appeared above his chest, the Tamagami's body being restored to pristine position before he leapt to his feet while calling his hammer to the side.
"Tamagami #3, go find your two brothers outside and defend the castle until I return!"
"As you wish, Master!" He nodded with a bow before walking out of the room, the others watching him leave before turning to me as I shrugged.
"What? Like I said, I have the abilities of Neva and the Supreme Kais so I just had to recreate what was missing while reactivating what powers them."
"…You know what? Let's just go before I start wondering what else you can do." Dabura muttered and I chuckled as I followed after him before looking over to Arinsu as she spoke up.
"Please look after him for me, Cell. My husband seems to think that he's strong enough to face these guys head on, so make sure he doesn't bite off more than he can chew."
"And why would I do that?"
"I know you, dear." She said back with a smile and Dabura just shook his head as I smiled and nodded.
"Don't worry. He'll come back safe and sound."
"Along with you. Just because I ask you to protect him doesn't mean you must sacrifice yourself to make your plan work." She clarified and I chuckled and shook my head.
"Don't worry, I'll make sure both of us get back home."
"Now, let us depart. Remember, all of you do not leave the sanctity of the castle and protect our people."
"Yes, Lord Dabura!" Degesu spoke with a bow, Gomah and Towa nodding at their brother who nodded back before placing a hand on my shoulder as I focused on the energy of Warp-sama floating high above in the sky.
"See you guys when we get back. Kai Kai."
On a planet in the Eastern Galactic Quadrant, sobbing could be heard as humanoid green-skinned beings with mandibles and dressed in ragged clothing were forced into groups by a vast number of different beings dressed in the uniform of the Cooler Force.
Floating in the air above them was another being whose body was covered in a white exoskeleton made out of a keratin-like material, his tail swaying in the air behind him with his hands held behind his back and a pair of dark black horns sticking out from the side of his head as his dark red eyes glared disdainfully down at the slaves that were being transferred to the new farm.
Froz did not know why the new lord of their species wanted to start making entire planets full of nothing but the most fertile and potent flora in the universe, but he didn't wish to anger the man lest he be killed like most of their species was when Cooler wanted to make sure no one took his power away.
"My lord!" We have gathered every intelligence being on the planet!" One of the soldiers exclaimed with a salute as he floated up, to which Froz nodded before smirking amusedly as he looked down at the trembling crowd below him.
Good, fear was good. It meant that they weren't going to be stupid enough to try and run away.
"Hello, wonderful citizens of Drakquak C12. I am Froz, commander of Eastern Galactic Squadron No.17. As of today, you shall be transported to a new home where you, as well as your descendants and your descendants' descendants, will be living out the rest of your lives being farmers and providing fertile produce for our Lord Cooler!"
"Well, that doesn't sound like a fun life." Froz's eyes widened as he spun around right as he felt his body growing cold, his eyes blinking a few times at the ape humanoid alien floating in the air behind him while holding his head up by one of the horns.
"Damn, I guess Lord Meruem was telling the truth when he said that we got far stronger than the others." Garana muttered as he vaporized the head in his grasp, looking down at the numerous blasts being shot at them from below before smirking as a bombardment of piercing shots shot accurately through the skulls and into the heads of the men that fired them.
"Garana, you know you're supposed to be taking them out, right?" Bonyu spoke with a smirk as she continued to snipe at anyone that tried to hit the hostages while floating above their troops in the sky, to which Garana rolled his eyes before roaring along his men as they charged down to liberate the planet below them.
The battle, or massacre to be more specific, lasted less than a few minutes as the newly trained forces who also had their potential awakened by their Emperor were far stronger than the mediocre soldier of their enemy's army, Garana feeling slightly ecstatic at the fact that he was able to take out a Colarctian with ease.
"W-Who are you?" The ape-humanoid looked up to see the thankful and joyful expressions of the Drakquakans before smiling and saluting by placing his hands flat onto his chest with the fingers splayed out like wings and the thumbs interlocked, Bonyu and the army doing the same along with all of them giving a slight bow of their head as Garana spoke.
"I am Garana, soldier of the Imperial Empire and today, I am here at the behest of our Emperor to liberate the universe from the clutches of the evil Cooler! Monaito, ready to extraction!"
"One moment!" Monaito's voice echoed through the radio as everyone of the army placed a hand on the shoulder of their fellow soldier besides them right before Meruem appeared besides Garana with a smile and a hand on his shoulder.
"People of Drakquak! Remember who it was that liberated you and I hope that you all join our endeavour to make the universe a better place!" Meruem rolled his eyes at Bonyu's shout right before he teleported them to the next target, vanishing once more right as Bonyu shot a blast through the skull of one of the two Colarctian officers floating in the air.
The other growled as he went to transform, but his eyes widened as Garana blasted past him with a dark purple heart slowly pumping in his grasp, vaporizing it with an energy blast right as Bonyu erased the two corpses falling from the sky.
Turning to the shocked army below him, Garana let out a monstrous roar as he unleashed the full brunt of his ki, Bonyu doing the same as she charged forward along with the army as Garana lifted a fist to the sky.
"For The Empire!"
"For The Emperor! HOORAH!"
In the Western Galactic Quadrant, chaos reigned on a battle field as one army dressed in the Frieza Force armour hid behind cover while another army in a large base with castle walls and dressed in the Cooler Force armour shot them at them with every weapon they could get inside the base.
"Broly! To the left!" Cheelai shouted as she moved from her cover with her pistol out to shoot an accurate barrage of headshots that dropped some of the army they were facing before diving back into cover, Broly spinning in the direction she was pointing to stare at the large watchtower.
The moment the men in it noticed him looking at them, they along with the other towers quickly spun their gatling lasers towards him and unleashed a storm of blasts, but the Saiyan simply growled as he charged right through it with a roar, ki bombs flying from his body and blowing the others up in a spectacular explosion.
"Broly! Left tanks!" Paragus shouted as he punched clean through the chest of a soldier before spinning around and using his body to buy him time to dive into the cover besides Cheelai, who simply aimed her guns at an angle before shooting a barrage of blasts that curved through the air and made the battery of the mechanical guards explode right as Broly spun and threw a condensed ki bomb with a roar.
"Not bad! What's next?!" Paragus asked Cheelai and she quickly took out a holographic map before turning to the men gathered in the cover around them.
"Men! I need a Formation 7 to the centre! Keep them suppressed on this side! Team 2! Blow up the reserve generators and clear out the moment you do!"
"Yes, ma'am!" Voices shouted through the radio before Cheelai put it back, not even looking to the right as an enemy dove through the cover only to get three bullets to his throat and through both eyes that sent his brain matter flying out the back of his skull.
"See?! You're a natural!" Paragus shouted with a grin before rocketing back into the chaos of battle with a roar, Cheelai smiling proudly at his compliment before taking a deep breath and standing up once more with a look of determination in her eyes as she sniped the enemies that Broly turned his back to.
"Ma'am! We have destroyed all reserves and are now out of the blast zone!" Cheelai grinned at that as she threw one of the enemies into the ground with a slam while shooting his friends trying to sneak up to them from behind, pressing a hand to her radio while blasting open the skull of the soldier trying to get out of her hold.
"Great work! Broly, it's nuke time!" She shouted and Broly turned with a grin before rocketing up into the sky, the Cooler Force confused at the man's actions and the enemy running back as far as they could right before looking up just as an emerald-green star dove head first into the ground with a nuclear explosion that ripped the entire base to atoms.
"Monaito, Slixz has been liberated. Where next?" She asked as the entire army linked up arms while Paragus left a reminder in the form of a note stabbed far away from the carnage and close to the city nearby, placing a hand on Broly's back at the same time as Cheelai right as Meruem appeared next to them with a smirk and teleported them onto their next target.
"Go wild." Their leader spoke before he vanished once more and they all grinned as everyone readied themselves right before attacking while the Cooler Force base was still shocked to see an entire army appearing out of nowhere.
"For the Empire!" Cheelai shouted as Broly lit up with his aura and leapt through the air, Paragus not too far behind as the entire army roared as one.
"For The Emperor! HOORAH!"
"How many has it been?" Granolah asked as Meruem appeared in his seat once more, to which the clone simply looked to be in thought before answering.
"About a hundred or so. They're making quick work of most of the bases as well as leaving notes of invitation to those that want to fight along with us."
"That might be because your army is also vastly stronger than Cooler's after that thing you did this morning. What was that actually? It felt as if I did a couple of years of training in just a few seconds." Granolah asked with a smirk as he clenched a fist and Meruem smirked as he remembered the Dormant Potential he used from Guru's memories.
He couldn't believe that he forgot about that one ability that would skyrocket the power of his army, but thankfully, he managed to think of it just before the armies left and decided to see if it would work.
It did and everyone nearly tripled in power when he was done, but Broly and especially Cheelai surprised him as they grew ten times stronger than he was to the point that he wondered if he could still beat the Saiyan even with Kaio-ken x20.
Thankfully, the Saiyan was one of the most wholesome and loveable Saiyans he's met so there was no cause for alarm.
"That was just something I picked up in my training, but what I want to know is how much longer we're going to keep flying."
"Don't worry. That's it up ahead." Granolah said with a nod and Meruem frowned slightly at the giant asteroid in their path before smirking at the large castle built on top of the asteroid, a landing platform sticking out from its centre with a pathway that led deeper into the asteroid itself.
"Huh, not bad." Meruem muttered as their ship entered the asteroid's safety bubble and landed, to which Granolah nodded as they turned it off before making their way towards the ship's hatch doors.
"Granolah! I see you finally decided to get a friend!" A pretty blue-skinned woman with her long purple hair styled into cornrows that ended in a ponytail spoke with a teasing smile as they walked out of the ship, the Cerealian simply rolling his eyes as Meruem smiled before surprising the woman as he softly grasped her hand and placed a kiss on the back of her hand.
"A pleasure to meet you, beautiful. I am Meruem, friend to your colleague, but he never said that beauty of your measure could be found here." The clone himself didn't know why the hell he was doing this, but he felt amused at the blush on her face as well as Granolah's groan before the Cerealian pulled him away.
"Come on, the boss will want to meet you."
"I'll see you later, fair maiden!" Meruem waved with a smile as he spun around and Granolah simply looked at his Emperor who looked back with a smirk.
"Did you actually mean that or were you playing around?"
"Truthfully, I didn't dislike doing it, but I don't know why I did it. Let's call it amusement."
"Of cour-!" Granolah stopped in his tracks and stared ahead with a frown, Meruem following his gaze before humming at the short blue-skinned man dressed in a white bodysuit with a red jacket with gold accents standing in the hallway with a frown aimed at him.
"What's wrong, Ga-Granolah?" The next to walk out of the door besides Gas was a taller, more muscular copy of the short Heeter with a short dark purple beard and a white scarf around his neck.
"Don't kill him." Meruem spoke the moment Granolah caught sight of Elec, sighing as the Cerealian was gone from his spot one moment and driving Elec skull first into the ground with a growl.
Gas was shocked but quickly spun to attack the Cerealian with an enraged growl right before being shocked as Meruem appeared in front of his attack and blocked it with his chest.
He was surprised however to feel a sting and a grunt escape his lips as Gas pulled his fist back, looking down at his chest to look at the bruise forming with a hum.
'So, he's almost twice as strong as Granolah is right now. Huh, not bad.' Meruem thought with a hum even as he cut off Gas' arms with ki blades the moment the Heeter tried to take off the restraint around his head, the shocked and horrified look on Gas' face frozen forever as Meruem cut off his head.
Catching it by the hair, he let the body fall while grabbing Granolah's right arm by the wrist right as the Cerealian went to attack, to which he looked up at him with a glare which Meruem returned with a frown.
"We have use of him for intel and we have thirty seconds before his men come here and I'm forced to blow up this entire castle." Meruem spoke up as he created an electro barrier around them to stop the barrage of ki blasts towards them, taking a glance at the two other Heeter siblings charging towards them before disappearing and knocking them both out.
Reappearing next to Granolah along with the knocked out siblings thrown over his shoulders as well as Gas' head in his grasp, Meruem let Granolah place a hand on his arm while still having his hand wrapped around Elec's throat right as they vanished from the inside of the nice base.
Appearing inside of their ship, Meruem placed them all down before pulling the entire ship with him to their home base Imperia, looking over as he watched Granolah let go of Elec with a grunt while the man took deep gulps of air.
"We'll see you later." Meruem spoke and knocked the oldest of the siblings out with a kick, taking a deep breath with a pleased smile before rolling his eyes as Granolah spoke up.
"I want first shot at him."
"Of course, just make sure you don't kill."
"Oh, he's going to wish I did."
A/N: And the War of Two Realms is at full swing as the Imperial Army go from planet to planet to take out Cooler's army slowly but surely.
However, next chapter, they'll be facing their first challenge as the commanders takes the field!
Also, Cell and Dabura are on their way to take on Mechikabura and his apprentice…or are they? Hehe~ who knows? We're going to be focusing more on that so we'll be finding out.
Another also, Gas and the Heeters are not that much of a big threat against Meruem and Granolah so the two of them taking them all out was to be expected.
Like always, you can go to my Pat-reon-.-com-/-KingCrimsonNova to read ahead on this as well as many other stories & even some that haven't been released out to this site yet. If you want to, you are free to, but if you don't want, all's good as I will still be uploading here. This is just me trying to get some extra cash.
As always, read, enjoy, review and until next week...
Ba-Bye~!