"Let me do this." Granolah said with a frown and Meruem sighed as he shook his head while looking at the three Heeter Clan members tied up tightly in chairs in front of them.
"No, this is an interrogation, not a stress-venting session. You're far too worked up to try and interrogate them."
"Then at least let me be in the room?" He asked and the two stared at each other before Meruem simply pointed at the door.
"Stand guard and make sure they can't escape. Now, time to wake them up." The clone muttered as he turned around and unleashed a burst of ki right into their systems, smirking as all three gasped awake from the rush of energy.
While Macki, the cute girl, and Oil, the big guy, were slightly disoriented from their abrupt sleep, Elec's mind on the other hand only took a few moments to wake up right before he glared at the clone.
"You~!"
"Me. Firstly, before we say anything, know that you're currently about a couple thousand lightyears from any help on our home base and the moment I even feel even a slight shift in your ki, I will respond with full force and kill you. Also, make sure to take note of the four guys in the corners of the room as well as Granolah standing at the door as they are authorized to shoot on sight the moment you try anything." Elec frowned as he glanced quickly at the four men in the signature blue and gold armour of the Imperial Empire with their arm blasters aimed at them before smirking as he saw Granolah leaning against the door with a frown.
"Granolah, old friend. Double what he's paying you and I'll even throw in a bit more if you let us out."
"So, I get to kill you twice?" Granolah asked with a frown, which made Elec confused before his eyes widened as Meruem spoke up with an amused tone.
"He knows you killed his mother."
"The hell I d-!" Before he could finish speaking, Elec froze as numerous holographic images appeared around them with a snap of Meruem's fingers, the clone sitting down on the chair in front of them as he watched the leader of the Heeters look at each one in shock before it faded to reveal an anger burning in his eyes.
"So, you found out, huh?"
"I did and the only reason you're not dead is because Lord Meruem here wanted to get some information from you, but know that if you don't answer any of his questions…" The Cerealian trailed off, but Elec just looked amused as he chuckled while shaking his head.
" 'Lord' Meruem, hahaha~! Oh, you are such a fool. Can't you see this guy is just using you like I was? Do you even know who he is?"
"Oh right, I haven't introduced myself. The name's Meruem, ruler of the Imperial Empire born from the ashes of the Frieza force and a genetic Colarctian-Namekian-Saiyan hybrid that also contains the DNA of three different Saiyans, one Namekian, King Cold and Frieza. Pleased to meet you." The simple and happy greeting was far more menacing than it sounded as both Macki and Oil went still while Elec paled, Granolah enjoying the fear dancing in the man's eyes as Meruem leaned closer.
"As in…the Emperor Frieza?"
"That's the guy. Anyway, I won't waste much of your time and I know you are a busy guy so I simply wish to ask you a couple of questions. In response, I won't erase you, your siblings here and your entire planet from existence. How does that sound?" Granolah knew that Meruem was too soft-hearted to kill anyone other than Elec, but it seemed to work as Macki and Oil gave their older brother pleading looks.
"…Hah, fine. However, you swear on your name and pride and you won't kill us?"
"I swear. So, firstly, tell me the names of the strongest fighters under Cooler."
"There's just five. The first two and strongest of the two are two I'm sure you're aware of, Turles the Tyrant and the Demon Namekian Slug. They are just simple rumours, but there's word that Turles is able to eat this mystical fruit that empowers him tremendously while Slug is a Namekian a few centuries old that grows stronger every day by absorbing the life energy of all those he beats in battle."
"We know that. The other three you mentioned, though. Who are they?"
"That's his Armoured Squadron. Dore the Beppa-seijin, Neiz the Zalt-seijin and their leader Salza the Brench-seijin. They are to Cooler what the Ginyu Force was to Frieza except they only have three members and all three are stronger than the Force combined."
"Hmm, I see. Well, that's most of the basic information so let's get down to the big stuff." Meruem spoke with a smirk as he leaned close and Elec couldn't help the flash of fear that raced through him as the Android gave him a menacing smirk.
"Tell me how many men Cooler has in his army as well as the location of him, Turles and Slug."
"Report from the Eastern Quadrant, your Highness! 20% of the planets under our command has been destroyed and taken over by a group of mercenaries dressed in blue and gold Frieza Force armour that looks to have been upgraded!"
"Report from the Western Quadrant, your Highness! 30% of our planets have been stole and the bases on them captured and the infantrymen there executed as a message! This was done most likely by the same group in the Eastern Quadrant as alerts show that the enemy simply shows up out of thin and disappears after every attack has ended."
"What of the Northern Quadrant? Do we not have soldiers there?" An elegant voice asked as it came from a tall Colarctian that stood with his pure red eyes emanating cold gaze in the middle of his ship's cockpit, his skin a deep purple with a rather muscular physique.
Covered in the same white exoskeleton as most Colarctians, the being had a thick purple tail with a white tip, a spike extending from each forearm and four white horns extending from his head to form some kind of crown.
"We had left that area to the Heeter Clan seeing as we were in an alliance with them, sir, but unfortunately, they seem to have cut off all communication three days ago." One of the smaller yellow aliens spoke up before he fell over as a gaping hole opened in between his eyes, no one daring to move out of fear as the Colarctian frowned and shook his head.
"Then send some people to figure out just what the hell is going on. As for these…armies, I've already have a plan in mind for them."
"Tell me. Does that plan include us, Cooler?" A giant Namekian dressed in a brown robe with light orange clothing underneath asked with a sadistic yet amused smile as he sat on his chair, the Saiyan with a dull grey skin and dressed in gray and black Battle Armour just snorting as Cooler turned to him with a raised eyebrow.
"And if it does?"
"Which Quadrant has the strongest fighter?"The Namekian simply asked and Cooler turned to one of the attendants who quickly typed on their pad before answering with a shaky voice.
"T-The Western Quadrant, sir. From the familiarity of the energy to our systems, we have reason to believe that it might be a Saiyan."
"One of the ones who defeated Frieza?" Cooler asked as he looked at the attendant, who simply typed some more before the Overlord frowned slightly as the attendant shook their head.
"N-No, your Highness. It appears that those two are still on the planet Earth according to our monitor drones."
"Hmm, Slug, you are to head over to the Western Quadrant and kill anyone who does not follow our empire. And yes, you are allowed to absorb them." Cooler answered with a roll of his eyes and Slug grinned as he stood up, grunting as he rolled his shoulders before looking down to see his fellow commander standing up.
"I'm going to the Northern Quadrant to see if there might be anything that might lead to us knowing just who this group is."
"Good. You and Slug head over and check whether our allies are still alive or not." Cooler ordered and Turles simply nodded while Slug shrugged as the two of them made their way towards the spaceships.
"You!" He barked while pointing towards the nearest attendee, who quickly shuffled forward with a bow.
"Call Salza and the Armoured Squadron and tell them I have a mission for them."
"Lord Cell. Is something the matter?" Warp-sama asked as Dabura and I appeared in front of him, to which I smiled as Dabura spoke.
"Yes, we would like to travel to the Second Demon World, Warp-sama."
"Of course. What is the code?"
"A101." Dabura answered and Warp-sama's eyes glowed before we were both pulled into the kaleidoscope, feeling my eyes nearly pop out of my skull before I groaned as we appeared floating in front of the smaller Warp-sama in the white void.
"Hello, Lord Dabura, Lord Cell. Destination?"
"The Second Demon World." I answered and the fish simply nodded before I felt myself being pulled through space and time, my body spinning to and fro as it felt as if I was put in a tumble dryer before I shot out head over heels into a light green sky on the other side.
"You can warp through space and time within a split second but you can't an extra few seconds of the same process?" Dabura asked with an amused smirk as I stopped spinning and glared at him while steadying myself.
"Unlike you, I'm not used to that process, especially since I've only been through it a few times." I said with a huff and he smirked right before we both looked down right as a giant octopus-demon monster rose up high with a sadistic grin.
"Oh, be quiet." I grumbled as I sent a blast right through its teeth and into his stomach, but I was a bit surprised as the following explosion simply knocked it out instead of sending blood and gore flying everywhere.
"Right, the Krakens of the Second Demon World. I forgot about these." Dabura spoke up as I looked around, stretching out my ki sensing as far as I could only to sigh as I didn't feel anything other than the monsters that inhabited this world.
'I really don't want to have a conversation with him, but if it's the only way to find him…' I trailed off as I activated my magic sensing and immediately ignored the malevolent energy that tried to invade my mind, frowning as I shifted through the numerous ones around me before groaning as I felt a familiar energy latch onto mine.
"Ah, magic sensing, eh? Quite the basic of skills and yet so powerful." Mechikabura whispered with a pleased smile as I opened my eyes, the two of us staring at each other as I crossed my arms.
"Considering you latched onto my energy very quickly, I'm guessing you're already in the Second Demon World and perhaps closer than I am to finding your eye."
"I am, indeed. However, I will not celebrate yet as that tends to lead to one becoming arrogant in one's ways as I can attest after they pulled out my eye."
"What is your end goal here? You get your eye back and then…what?"
"Domination. I want everything and everyone to belong under my control. The concept of free will will be naught but a thing of the past and the world will becoming nothing more than my playground."
"So…your dream is something a child can come up with?"
"Sometimes, the dreams of a child are the aspirations of a man. Is that not how it was with you, Cell? Dreams of becoming powerful and look at you now. If it were not for the gods, I would not be able to find a being stronger than you in the entirety of the multiverse."
"Urgh, why does everyone read my mind? Is it too much to ask that you all simply keep your mind reading to yourself?"
"How can I when you have the taint of Zeno on you? Oh, there have been a few other beings throughout the timestream that have the same vile taint of that Omni-King, but none with the level of potency that you have. That however makes me wonder. Just what makes you so special? Why did Zeno pick you out of the quadrillions and quadrillions of beings throughout the cosmos? Tell me, Cell. Let me know."
"…Because I'm broken." I said with a smirk and a shrug, chuckling as Mechikabura's smirk drop to give me a frown and a scoff.
"Keep your secrets, then. I'll have my Evil Eye soon enough and when I do-!"
"You'll beat me?" I asked with a grin as I felt a hand on my shoulder before shattering the mind spell around us, shocking Mechikabura as I appeared a few meters in front of him with a hand raised to his face.
"Let me see you try. Hell Storm!" I growled as I unleashed hundreds of blasts right into his face, each with enough energy to eradicate a small planet while Dabura quickly leapt back and out of the way of the blasts.
However, the Glind deserved his title of 'Dark King'as he simply created a barrier in front of him that also absorbed and redirected my attacks back at me, to which I stopped my barrage while also rapidly cancelling out the blasts with ones of equal power.
"Reverse tracking through the mind scape and then the teleportation of the Kais. Oh, you have some good techniques there, Cell." Mechikabura rasped out as he floated in the air and I frowned as while he was nothing more than an old demon with a hunch-back, the terrifying ki and magic he was releasing sent chills down my spine.
'Damn, he really is as strong as they said he was.'
"Mechikabura! I, the Demon King Dabura, hereb-!"
"Oh, no one cares what you say, Dabura." A commanding and elegant voice spoke up with an amused yet bored tone and Dabura glared at its source as Demigra appeared from thin air with a smirk.
"Demigra."
"Glad to see you're no longer under Babidi's control. May I say that seeing you as a slave was definitely the most entertaining thing I've seen in the past three centuries…other than watching your buffoon of a brother struggle to keep your armies under control."
"Don't speak ill of my family, Demigra. After all, they're not the coward that ran away the moment his side began to lose."
"Oh, I am a big coward, but it is the brave men that sacrifices themselves and dies while we cowards live on to fight another day." Demigra said with a shrug and Dabura frowned as the Darkness Sword appeared in his grasp with a flash of light.
Mechikabura just seemed amused by their interaction even as he created layers of barriers around him to stop my curved ki blasts, looking at me amusedly as I simply shrugged.
"You were open. Like now." I said as I flicked a hand up and he simply hummed as he brought his staff down and stopped the ki blast from impacting him, but I simply flicked my fingers outwards and the ki blast quickly scattered out into many, surrounding him from all sides as I clenched my hand once more.
Immediately, the hell zone of blasts quickly slammed down upon him, but my eyes widened as each one just bounced off of him and dropped to the ground, only exploding after they got a safe distance away from him and making me frown as I saw him raising an eyebrow.
"Time Magic?"
"Among other things." He answered and I sighed before shaking my head as I took a deep breath, raising my arms to the side right before hundreds of violet ki strands shot out from my fingertips and sliced through the air towards him.
Instead of taking or blocking the attack, Mechikabura frowned a bit as he quickly stabbed his staff down and unleashed hundreds of his own dark purple ki strands to clash with mine, both of us smirking as he spoke.
"God ki…Of course you can use it. If you absorbed the essence and body of Majin Buu, then you also absorbed the essence and skills of everyone he has absorbed which in turn also includes all of the Supreme Kais. That and with the earrings on you that have such a sickly presence to them which I have only felt on another Kai, you've most definitely fused together with that wretched kai Shin-no." I was not as surprised about him knowing about Buu and the absorption as I was about the fact that he could feel the pure energy that radiated from Shin-no's earrings.
Not even Degesu or Arinsu had told me about it and they were the only other Glinds I knew about.
"I guess having lived for centuries helps a lot with battle tactics, huh?" I said with a smirk as I raised my right index finger above me, ignoring Dabura and Demigra going at it in the far distance as I flexed my ki and created dozens of different scarlet orbs all sparking with electricity.
In response, Mechikabura's energy launched into the water before making it rise up high, the water itself bubbling as steam began to rise up into the sky right before I grinned as I flicked my finger towards him and unleashed a storm of energy blasts at him.
Frowning as I saw him turning the water into hundreds of tentacles that he used to swat away the blasts, I smirked as I reached forward with my magic before surprising him as I pulled control from one of the tentacles and smacked him far into the distance.
'So, magic is the way, huh? Let's add a bit of god ki into this.' I thought with a frown as I reached out with my magic towards the malicious energy of the world around us before Mechikabura grinned as hundreds of clones appeared floating in the air around me.
The next moment happened in the blink of an eye as we all raised a finger to the sky and dark clouds gathered above us…
Right before we all dropped our fingers and a literal hail of lightning rained down upon the Dark King.
A/N:And a chapter done~! Sorry for the late upload, but since work decided to hold the welcoming party for the new employees today(including yours truly since I joined late December last year) it was a few hours of pizza, beers and just chatting.
I just got home now and I'm in a vibe right now but I decided to force myself to write out this chapter and Deadbeat's chapter before I go to sleep.
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