NOVEL NEXT Chap 88 – Earthly Affairs: Final, Part 3/3
𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩 𝟖𝟖 – 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐲 𝐀𝐟𝐟𝐚𝐢𝐫𝐬: 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥, 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝟑/𝟑:
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{ 𝐋𝐨𝐨𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐭; 𝐁𝐞𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨 𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐰 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐬; 𝟑𝐫𝐝 𝐏𝐨𝐯 } :
" The day has finally come…"
White mantle floating aimlessly after each strong shockwave coming from different poles of their planet. The battles across the globe were reaching their climaxes as an old green alien held firmly to an aged wooden staff waiting patiently at the edge of his Lookout.
The God of Earth could only look pensive amidst the chaotic state their so-loved planet now found itself in.
*Humming* - Behind him, watering some very suspicious-looking green-leaved plants was the lookout's helper and Genie. Smiling ominous, just as he always did so. - " These will grow just fine. Ahaha. "
Hearing Popo mumbling and apathetically laughing, the elder Namekian turned his head slightly. Blooming a small smirk seeing his friend working in those herbs. After all, they were great.
Having reviewed them multiple times before for 'studying' purposes.
The old God's eyes returned towards the scenery under them, the sea of clouds that once roamed below the Lookout was now nothing more than just a long-lost view ever since the fights broke out.
He was about to return to survey the battles but stopped himself from doing so, eyes widening in a brief surprise.
Sighing loudly, he turns to his right, looking at another place right in front of him along the edges of the flying island. Firmly gripping his wooden staff.
*𝑽𝑼𝑺𝑯𝑯𝑯!!* - Faster than Kami could ever hope to perceive, an orange blur descended to right from where he was looking at.
Purple Gi quite damaged moved back and forth along the constant strong waves of wind, purple blood that was already dried could be seen around his body. The new tall new Namekian addition crossed his arms, seriously staring at his older half-part before returning to their original green skin color in a flicker of shine that left his body.
" Get down to business already. We're in a hurry here, and you know it." - Not desiring to play around Piccolo wanted to just jump back into battle, there was no time to lose.
Nodding slowly, Kami gave one last glance at the world under them. Upsetting Piccolo who could feel the situation getting more alarming by the second.
As he was about to shout, the older Namekian spoke. - " One of them…. The pink one you were fighting…. *frowns*, There's a conflict happening inside her body.*Looks at Piccolo*, It feels quite similar to what me and your 'father' were like, but the connections between them aren't the same. More so each developed to their own self, and are able to live without the other respective part theoretically ."
Eating back his anger, Piccolo was confused. Raising an eyebrow at the old God as to what it even meant by explaining that. But being the smart guy he is, it immediately clicks inside his head, causing his other two inner selves to applaud at his brains even.
" Wait… WAIT! You don't mean… That 𝒀𝑶𝑼 want 𝑴𝑬 to separate them right?! How the hell would I even go on to do that in the first place?! And why?! - Confused at how that would even work, he is not given a further say by a wrinkly hand that rests on his shoulder.
" The other half that is sleeping does not deserve what she is currently going through, a pure soul. As for the how….. You'll know Piccolo….You'll know very soon…." - Smirking, a blinding light covering Kami as a whole.
Forcing Piccolo to flinch at the sudden start of the merging process.
Before disappearing completely, Kami gave one last look at his old friend who was still creepily staring at the plants. Smiling before getting on with their business.
*𝑼𝑼𝑼𝑼𝑼𝑺𝑯𝑯!!!!* - With his body now turning into energy and making its way into Piccolo's body. It fills the Namekian in everything he needed. Power, Information, and now, he felt what it was like to be 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞.
After the merging, Piccolo's white cape and turban reappeared. All wounds he had before were now healed as well as his clothing fixed.
Flexing both arms, the strength he was feeling now was something inconceivable for him a few seconds before, it made him wonder how long it would have taken to reach such heights without this assistance from the Ex-God.
" Not gonna need this for now…." - Grabbing his cape and hat, Piccolo drops them off to the ground, leaving craters under the weighted accessories when they hit the floor. Shaking the Lookout violently with their sheer density.
Moving his shoulder in circles to get a feeling of how his new self was, smirking sharply. He could tell this wasn't something like just a small change. - ' So that's how we're going to do it huh… We somehow made it…... Plausible, I guess. Better hope it works, otherwise, we're finishing her off for good.'
~ 𝑷𝒍𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒍𝒆? 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒗𝒆 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒖𝒑 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉?... 𝑭𝒖𝒓𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆, 𝒊𝒇 𝒊𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕… 𝑰 𝒈𝒐𝒕 𝒏𝒐 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒔.~ - Happy face dropping down, his joy lasted only for a few seconds before hearing an old grumpy voice coming from his mindscape.
Trying his hardest to ignore his grumpy self now inside his mind, Piccolo turns towards Popo. Raising an arm to the Genie in a single wave. - " See you around, old friend."
Now having the old God's memories, he also held Popo as someone strangely close. Feeling like he has known the Genie for quite a long time.
*𝗨𝗦𝗛!* - Not wasting more time, he jumped off the Lookou's edge, dashing midair to Korin's place to see if there were any Senzus left around the place.
Leaving a silence to take back the Flying Island. A silence that was broken by the sound of Popo finally standing up and blankly looking at where Piccolo stood before.
" 𝘽𝙮𝙚𝙚𝙚𝙚𝙚𝙚~."
Dead eyes almost opening a hole where he glanced at before, Popo spun around, now walking away as he just finished the watering part of his day.
Now he would continue as usual… Whatever he did in his extra free time…
𝘽𝙚𝙩𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙣 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙞𝙩.
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{ 𝐄𝐱-𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐥𝐥; 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐞𝐰 𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐆𝐨𝐡𝐚𝐧 }
*𝑫𝒓𝒊𝒑*
*Huff!* - " I'm not…. Gonna let you go….. "
Clenching both of his fists firmly by his waist sides, the fierce-looking Half-Saiyan, Son Gohan, now finds himself covered in injuries from head to toe. His body shook ever so slightly at every premature motion he made, causing a wave of pain to soar through every muscle fiber of his body.
The shirt part of his Gi was already long torn off leaving his hyper-developed muscles for someone his age in display. As for the remaining part of the same cloth, they were in a bad state themselves.
Blood drips down his mouth end, hitting the grounds where he had been fighting the Majin who now stood in front of him with both arms crossed, she only moved her tail around in a strange excited manner.
No visible wounds could be seen, all of those Gohan had inflicted were now nowhere to be seen, her pink skin as pristine as ever.
" So~? Already done, Monkey Boy ~? I can still play all day you know?~" - Mouth curving into a wide creepy grin, 21 stood there as if waiting for Gohan to catch his breath back. They just had yet another clash after the boy was tossed away and brought himself into the fight.
Then exchanging yet another barrage of attacks at speeds higher than sonic ones.
However, all those fierce exchanges had reached a sudden stop as Gohan had lost his concentration for a split second, allowing 21 to take her chance and without any mercy altogether connect a powerful knee to his stomach and an elbow onto his face.
Separating each of them to one side forcefully, resulting in where they stood currently.
Still breathing vastly, Gohan exhaled profusely wanting to make his body relax to some extent.
Not achieving much besides his muscles stemming their aching slightly as he locked eyes into the Majin's figure, black iris holding a determination that he built his entire life so far up to this moment.
Yes, he still is a child, even if he aged mentally and physically a lot inside the HTC. He still couldn't let go of his childhood self.
He nonetheless had a lot to learn and grow ahead of him, and each day since he exited that place he noticed how different he now looked at things.
How his friends and family had it. - ' I can't allow myself to fall….. Dad.… Mister Piccolo…AuntMei…. Krillin and the others too…. They all hold the responsibility…. And the strength to protect our home…. Power enough to Protect, but also Destroy if needed….'
This was one of the many things he learned in practice, an old classic saying. - ' 𝑾𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒑𝒐𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒃𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔. '
A bit too spidey-sweety down the tongue of a phrase? Maybe.
But up until this point, the boy never got it fully, he was powerful for all he knew from others always complimenting his strength and development.
It made him realize the power he held, unlike his aunt who fought purely for the fun of it if you don't look at the things she had planned to teach them about the extraterrestrial dangers along the way.
Gohan did find fighting to be exciting, even now his heart was racing as his Saiyan blood boiled at the thought of jumping back in and fighting the pink girl a bit more….. He held back…
Knowing his body wasn't in the best of conditions, and that this fight was not for his entertainment like the ones he had with his friends and family so far.
This one could very well end up resulting in everyone's death.
After all.....
The strongest one here at the moment as far as everyone knew......
𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝒉𝒊𝒎.
Losing here means that there won't be someone to take the Majin from all he knew.
Teeth clenching, Gohan tries to think of something. There had to be something he could do!
And amidst the pink girl's laugh, he jerked up slightly. A power that appears to have been concealing itself just surged right above them. Glancing up, his eyes widened catching only an orange streak of blur.
*𝑩𝑨𝑴𝑴𝑴𝑴* - Piccolo, appearing in a rapid movement of a blur drops into the Majin using both legs, to his annoyance she just raised both arms in a block, not stopping her laughing section, his sharp fangs showing as he extended his whole body to dropkick the girl away.
*𝑽𝑼𝑼𝑺𝑯!!* - Shockwaves erupted to all sides as she was shoved away sliding across the ground.
The Namekian had exerted enough force to send her sliding across the ground a good few feet before he backflipped and landed on Gohan's side, kneeling to the boy's height, already supporting him stand up straight with a hand by his shoulder and stretching his free hand holding half a bean to his mouth.
At first, he was going to yeet the half-senzu from where he stood from afar, but seeing how the boy was barely able to stay up.... It was best not to risk it.
" Eat it, we gotta have every bit of power you can muster for now, Gohan. Also, as a matter of effect, I have a plan." - Easing the boy, Piccolo watched as he ate the bean and with its almost instantaneous reaction brought him to a bit more than half his full strength, though all serious injuries were pretty much healed.
~ 𝑨𝒄𝒕𝒖𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚, 𝒊𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒎𝒚 𝒑𝒍-~ - ' Not the of times, old geese.'
Eyebrow twitching a bit to his now old self-interference, Piccolo sighed.
Giving a few light taps on Gohan's shoulder, the now Orange Namek stood up to shoot a serious look at the laughing pink creature in front of him. Not liking how his kick just now was intercepted just like that.
' The power gap between this girl and the other two is ridiculous….. And she's stronger than before…... Alright, time to shine!' - Going back to reality, Piccolo lowers his body into his stance while ignoring the voices in his head talking about how he just self-hyped, then starting to encourage him to beat the pink out of the girl in front of him as if they were watching a WWE match.
Still stunned at his friend and teacher's new appearance and power, Gohan was in his own little world, through a body shove from his now orange friend brought him back. - " *Smirks*, Did the girl scare you that bad brat?"
Playful saying out loud while not taking his eyes off the Majin, Piccolo tried to make the situation be more light.
And it worked, jolting up and taking his own stance resembling Piccolo's and Son Goku's. Gohan shook his head left and right and a white aura of Ki flared around his body, driving the Namek to have his own light orange one to follow.
" Sorry Mister Piccolo, lost myself there a bit!"- Closing his face once more, both warriors now stood side by side ready to jump in.
Now that both of them were ready, Piccolo found it was the best time to whisper something that earned him a reluctant and confused nod from the boy.
As for the girl who just casually watched the interaction? She was just grinning like a fiend, ceasing her laughter to start twitching in desire. Hugging her arms while blushing in a sign of extreme lust for what was about to come.
Desire to experience more from what strange power the Namekian got out of nowhere, she didn't care where he got it from. All she cared about was that the boy-toy now had his 'daddy' at his side, and that should make it way more interesting seeing how he just pressed her back.
" Finally caught up to your little family reunion~? Now we can finally play some more!"- * 𝑩𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑴!!! *
Dashing forward in a pink line of blur, she had dug her feet on the ground leaving a crater full of cracks that stretched for over a kilometer inside their surroundings. Now changing once more their flattened battlefield to a place full of rocky formations that sprung from the ground.
Blitzing in, right as she was about to make contact with both of her opponents, they nodded in synch while pulling the classic strategy of each separating to one side in a rapid dash. Compelling the Majin to choose who to go for.
Obviously, with a large maniacal grin under her mask, she made a sharp turn towards Piccolo. Who already was expecting that, they couldn't really win in terms of speed as of right now, so he needed her full attention to try and do his thing.
Sensing his aggressor approaching bearing not the best of reasons, he spun midair using his right leg to kick the Android's hand away as she tried piercing his chest using it in a similar way to a spear.
Successfully countering the attack he used the kick's momentum to do a whole new spin and rapidly arched his leg to a reverse roundhouse kick to her face.
*𝑷𝑨𝑴𝑴!* - " TSK! " - Clicking his tongue he saw the girl snatch his ankle right before he struck. Letting out a mocking chortle, 21 yanked Piccolo and spun him above her head as the Namekian yelled and cursed, feeling the swirl in his stomach even though he only drank water.
Regaining his balance as he was spun around, Piccolo used his free leg to shove a frontal kick up the Majin's masked face, the force of the strike was enough to destabilize her for a moment and stop her motion so he could escape from her grip, though it was still not enough to crack the Mask given her own Ki making the thing even more durable.
" We need to get that thing off before we can go on, Gohan! " - Like he was switching fighters in a game, the hybrid shot from behind him toward the girl at full velocity.
Roaring and landing a cross punch right across her mask, and even tried to continue in a barrage, though he lost his luck as she had already returned to normal and blocked all of the attacks using her right forearm before sidestepping one of his punches and leaning into him with a back kick.
Gohan's body curved as he was tossed away to the side, grimacing in pain. 21's eyes returned to Piccolo as she felt him on her side. Smirking, she stretches a hand forward prepared to shoot a blast at the seemingly standing still Namekian.
" Has your hope been lost already, green-daddy-do?" - Pink and black energy igniting to life she shot a small blast in his direction, the orange guy just smirked as his body was hit and completely destroyed by the blast leaving 21 bewildered if it was that easy.
No, she knew the Namekian.
It would never end this quickly.
*𝑼𝑺𝑯!*
And right she was to suspect the same, making an appearance to her side by burning a large quantity of Ki into a rapid movement, index, and middle right-hand fingers pointing at the girl's face as a yellow supercharged small beam was at the tip of them, having purple electricity dancing around it like crazy.
What she had just destroyed was just a weak clone from the Namekian.
Her eyes widened seeing and feeling something that she didn't quite expect. Even trying to move out of the way using one of the signature techniques Goku had.
Smugly looking at the Android, Piccolo's whole body started to sear up from his shoulders in a fiery orange aura, before 21's very eyes a pillar of orange and fiery golden flames rose to the skies.
Blinding the shocked Majin momentarily, and messing up her teleporting as she lost concentration of her surroundings. Disappearing from within Piccolo's giant orange and golden aura, she appeared a few meters away already fine.
Annoyed at the scare she received and ready to shout out to Piccolo, only to be stopped seeing his appearance.
Still having the beam in his hand, he put it back to his forehead to finish charging it up. A face full of disappointment now bore into his Gigachad-like face at how easily he scared the girl.
Body Hulked up in a giant manner, now standing at 3,23m/10'6f, way taller than his usual 7'5f/2,26m. Skin having an even stronger tone of orange. As well as a new Namekian pride symbol shining in a light yellow on his back, it had appeared briefly before his new appearance took place.
This, was the 𝑻𝒓𝒖𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝑴𝒂𝒔-
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𝐎𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨.
With red eyes piercing into the Android, he gave her a small head nudge. Leaving her confused at the act until a white aura zoomed in front of her, her eyes lowered just in time to catch Gohan's uppercut incoming. Moving sideways, she dodged it ready to pounce back the favor.
" You know, better not look away when you're already fighting someone else. " - A low voice coming from behind her made the Majin jerk up in place, she was about to teleport away once more. Through this time she wasn't even given the reaction time to do so.
' Wait… WAIT A FREAKING SECOND!?!.....This is bad! THIS IS BAD!!!!! HOW DID I NOT SENSE-' -* 𝑩𝑨𝑴𝑴𝑴!!!*
" AGHHUHH?!?!" - Having brought his leg all the way back, Piccolo kicked the shorter girl like she was football right in the middle of her back aiming towards the skies. A small quantity of blood was spat out from within her mask as her pink body shot upwards from ground to sky attitudes in less than a full second.
" You know, making you feel all-powerful just to hit you with everything at once seems to work better than I expected." - Nonchalantly watching the girl spin and twirl while flying up, his hand still stuck to his forehead was finally finishing charging up the attack.
Taking in a breath, Piccolo's eyes looked down at the ground level where Gohan was at, looking up in greater awe than before.
He now understood why the Namek wanted them to make her feel like she was in control for some time, at first he didn't understand knowing their power really wasn't enough… But seeing how the bulky new Piccolo had so much power, Gohan understood this wasn't a fair fight from the moment the taller orange alien returned.
It even broke him a bit out of his mind full of worries, giving him some time to relax in curiosity at the new form his friend/teacher was displaying.
" Wow….. Just Wow, that's so cool Mister Piccolo! Did you also become something like Super Saiyan Two?!....No… The gap between both states is 𝑾𝑨𝒀 wider than Super Saiyan and Super Saiyan Two…" - Starting to babble about how different and what equivalent Piccolo's form would be.
The boy revealed his studious side once more, having a great understanding that he got from the Owl about how Saiyan forms worked. She did know them quite in detail, so she was the perfect teacher for Gohan to learn about his own mostly extinct race.
" Hmm.... Something like that….Oh, Guess You two are the first to see it too. You know, the funny thing is that the dirt head bird knew about it somehow... But she likes being all mysterious about everything and I didn't know what she was on about... Now...*grins*... I get what she meant by me '𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒕 𝒚𝒆𝒕'"
Voice now way more serious and grumpy sounding than before, the orange Namekian gets his attention back up towards the sky, around the altitude clouds would float where the Android had just come to a stop.
Hovering now far away from the ground level for Piccolo to start his real final plan. One that he was already on the move to execute knowing the girl had some type of weird teleportation technique to get out of his sight in a blink of an eye.
Floating up a few meters above the ground while slightly leaning his torso forward, Piccolo shot his eyes wide open and stretched his arm charging the beam forward, though it didn't fire and just left a small sparkling yellow energy that had purple lightning twinkling across its sides.
He repeated the action a few more times, bringing in a rapid motion his arm to his forehead and forward to create more sparkings like the first until there were about two dozen small energies identical to the first hovering in front of him.
Groaning while eyeing every single one of them, all this while the boy who only watched from ground level seemed to happen as if Piccolo had just made two or three movements in his eyes.
Now done, he opens both of his now enlarged hands and clutches half of the sparkling energies in one hand and half in the other.
Purple electric bolts rage around his fists as the Orange giant stretches them both toward the skies, already having his target locked into his red irises.
All that build-up Ki is now finally ready to be released.
" { 𝑵𝒂𝒊𝒍 𝑮𝒖𝒏 } "
*UUSHH!!!* - Both of his hands open, finally letting free a raging inferno of multiple { 𝑺𝒑𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒍 𝑩𝒆𝒂𝒎 𝑪𝒂𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒏𝒔 } at the same time. One after the other they shot repeatedly in a storm of Ki small rays.
As they cut through everything in a few moments and arrived at their destination who was massaging her back in pain, she could regenerate, but the pain was still there.
Now that she stopped ascending 21 was ready to teleport back to the ground level and show them she wasn't scared! That was just a momentary scare, wasn't it?
That was answered as she stretched a hand to her forehead so she could allocate their energy and go back.
*𝑽𝑼𝑺𝑯!!!* - " Eh? " - Said action was interrupted by a Special Beam that had pierced right under her armpit and left on her shoulder. Completely ripping the arm apart from her body in an instant, showcasing a gooey pink gory array.
Not an ounce of resistance was found from said attack.
And the same should be expected from the other tens that were coming after it. Next, it was her other free arm, then her legs. Finally, another set of five beams lined in a horizontal row pierced through the mid-section of her abdomen cutting it in half.
Now only her breast area and head floated in place while her limbs were all scattered through the skies. One would think. - ' She's a Majin, this is just a cake of a walk to reattach everything!'
Surely, this was no long-lasting damage. And the one firing didn't need it to be.
All he needed was to have a clean target, that couldn't pull anything to meddle in his aim. And seeing how she couldn't react in time to process her whole body being torn apart.
Piccolo was sure she wouldn't be able to escape the last.
*𝒁𝑼𝑺𝑯!!!* - A beam penetrates the middle of her Mask, the after-impact from the hit scatters what remains it had and the Android's face to tiny bits.
As seen from the others, the broken pieces of the mask emanate a strange purple towards 21's body parts. This time, Piccolo wouldn't make things harder on them as he had an idea of how to deal with these because of his new Kami part.
He was already floating up close after firing the last beam, getting to watch as 21 saw him in the last moments before she got her head blasted to bits. Just standing there with his arms crossed.
Behind him, also floating around these clean skies was young Gohan, who watched in relief believing that without that thing the woman wouldn't be as problematic.
His joy was short-lived as that purple strange energy leaving the mask tried to search for the Android parts.
Yelping at the creepy feeling the energy carried, he noticed how Piccolo opened a palm in front of him and created a white pouch of cloth that had a strange symbol written in black paint on its front. All it took for him to create the pouch was a small use of his Clothes Beam.
What did the symbol written in it mean?
' 加護 ' - Meaning; '𝑫𝒆𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒐𝒕𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏'.
" Where do you think you're going? { 𝐌𝐚𝐟𝐮𝐛𝐚!!}" - A Small twirl of green energy stretched from the pouch and caught the purple inside its spinning motion, being taken hold and pulled inside the small pouch with great reluctance.
Wrapping up the pouch, the orange man lets out a sigh. - " That's one problem out of the way….. Now…. Gohan….."
Not even turning around, they both started to descend following the pink one's pieces that also did the same, chunk by chunk she was regrouping her body back together…. It could be felt that something wasn't like before, some type of internal conflict had been brought up after destroying the mask.
Inside their mindscape, Kami pointed it out to the one in control, who agreed already having felt the strange change. Tucking the pouch inside his Gi in a secure placement, this was the time to decide this girl's fate….. Or better saying…
" Do you wish for this girl you have been fighting, to perish, or be left alive?" - Asking out of nowhere, he finishes what he would ask the boy—now doing so after they fully touched the ground following the half-healed Majin.
Still having his back turned to Gohan, awaiting the answer he would be given.
Which to say the least, did take the young halfling by surprise as he took a step back and wondered why the sudden question after what they've seen from the Android so far….
Though he still replied nonetheless, all while running his hand across the back of his head. A habit he got from his dad, it appears.
" Uh-? I mean…. She did let out some unforgivable things about Mom…. And the way she spoke about already having killed us all somewhere else in another time…Soo…..." - His final decision was as clear as crystal water no matter how he looked at it.
Even after clashing, he couldn't feel one inch of goodness displayed. Every punch, and kick they exchanged was only fueled by the desire to fight and lust for murder.
A monster, no matter how he evaluated her. There was no better definition, someone who if let out loose would kill and destroy everything without looking back.
" Thought so. And you aren't wrong… Now moving on, I want you to answer me the same question after what I'm about to do.
Mind stepping up and stand in front of me for a moment."
Confusing the hybrid, Piccolo made yet another pouch into his palm. Using his free one to wave to a spot in front of him a few feet from the almost fully regenerated pink girl…. Or was she purple?....
A strange mix and swap was happening every time she healed up more of her body…
Nodding seeing Gohan step up, Piccolo gained a serious look. Stretching both arms forward while still holding tight to the small sealing pouch.
" Alright, Old Man…… Help Me here….. 𝐌𝐚𝐟𝐮𝐛𝐚!!!!!" - A giant storm of green exited Piccolo's body and took in a large area around them. About two hundred meters in full diameter. He chose to make it as wide as possible so what was about to go down would be done easier.
Gohan who was walking past the orange tall mountain let out a - 'Wooow' - seeing the spectacle of green eat everything inside his visions and hiding the exterior completely.
He had heard about it before, never in deep details. But it was mentioned by his aunt when she was telling a story about the old evil Piccolo who was almost defeated by his father's master.
*Tap* - *Tap*
Taking his position, Gohan watched the process that was going on with the girl finally come to a conclusive end… The Pink one stands as the one which she ended up in the end.
It left the boy stunned… He almost backed up in surprise as the girl looked at him and tilted her head bearing complete innocence behind her look. Blue eyes scanned him and the giant Orange Grill Master who was behind him.
She opened her mouth as if to ask what happened when a surge of memories hit her, the poor pinky cried out in agony as she clenched her head.
Watching the girl who was now completely unknown to him in pain left Gohan stunned, he was about to run to help her when a giant swirl of green energy enveloped him and the Android spun more fiercely.
Both of their hairs flowed up widely, the pain in the new 21's head was cracked up to eleven as she screamed loudly. Leaning back a bit the Hybrid turned to Piccolo as he was going to say for the Namekian to stop.
His words were stuck in his throat as all he received even before stating a word the Orange one gave him a blank stare. - " I said, answer me later. The other one didn't come out yet."
" Ahh…. I will pay you back for that orangey senzu head!!!" - Still clenching her head, her color smoothly transits to a faint dark purple which had darker spots at her limb's ends. Sclera blacker than ever as blood red iris swims inside them.
" 𝑵𝒐…. 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑…." - Her head jolts in a crazy snap and now her eyes are blue, her sclera returning to its clear innocent white as she frowns in the sea of regret she now carries, remembering the atrocities 'they' committed.
" YOU'RE NO FUN!!! WEREN'T YOU WHO MADE ME!!!! LITTLE PINKY HYPOCRITE!!" - In another snap, the one who now spoke out was the purple one.
𝑰 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕… 𝒘𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒉𝒖𝒓𝒕 𝒏𝒐 𝒐𝒏𝒆… 𝑳𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕… 𝑻𝒉𝒂𝒕'𝒔 𝒆𝒏𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉….𝒀𝒐𝒖… 𝑾𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒂…𝑴𝒆𝒓𝒆….. 𝑴𝒊𝒔𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒄𝒖𝒍𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏…."- Yet again, pink affirmed.
" NO!!!!! SOMEONE WHO WASTES THEIR TIME PITIFULLY REBUILDING A COPY OF THEIR OWN SON HAS NO PLACE TO SPEAK!!! YOU MIGHT BE AS WELL BE EVEN WORSE THAN ME AHAHAH!" - This time, purple managed to stay. The Mafuba still twirled around them strongly.
It made Piccolo wonder how deep was the connection between these two. He was trying to bring the Purple Majin out and leave the Pink one as the one in control. Kami was aiding him all the way through to try and make sure the technique would have new uses for the task at hand.
' If we put too much pressure it'll bring both of them inside… I don't think we'll see that Pink version of hers if that happens….' - The link between them was tight, if one won completely over the other, who knows what would happen to the other half.
~ 𝑻𝒓𝒚 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒕, 𝒊𝒇 𝒔𝒉𝒆'𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒂𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅. 𝑰𝒕 𝒎𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒌, 𝑰 𝒅𝒖𝒏𝒏𝒐 𝒑𝒇𝒇.~ - Speaking his mind out while lying on their couch, Helix brought everyone to silence.
" Gohan…. Beat the purple out of her, 𝐥𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲." - Speaking in a tone as if not acknowledging his own words, Piccolo watched as Gohan clenched his fists tightly.
Understanding what the Namek meant, and taking on the challenge to help the other half he just witnessed. - " Hai! "
He took a step forward, keeping an eye out for any changes. As soon as he took in to approach the purple Majin growled loudly and exploded in speed towards the boy.
Matching her action, he also took a dash forward to meet the girl's advance.
Resulting in both of them disappearing from their respective locations leaving dozens of sonic booms to delay behind them..
*𝑩𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑴!!!* - Just for both to clash using each other's forearms in an encounter point, the craterous ground slumping down flat yet again by the tremendous shockwave pressure that ran across the whole battlefield.
" Aghh!!" - Trying his best, the hybrid boy noticed that the Majin's strength had been reduced by a considerable amount.
Though his own wasn't pristine itself, Gohan had grown a lot in technique, power, and mastery of his own fighting style in this one battle.
And he wouldn't let that advancement go to waste.
Snucking from under and disconnecting their arms, the boy spins his whole body horizontally to the left. Successfully dodging a knee from the girl who anticipated his move from under.
Her surprise was evident as Gohan completely dodged her as if he now had a good idea of her movement patterns.
Speeding up once more to be right in front of her face, right fist already ready to strike in a jab.
Until he heard a half-cut tongue click in annoyance from the Majin, not really understanding he continued with his move until he stopped his arm right in front of 21's face.
He just realized before hitting how her eyes returned to the blue ones from before, not sure how to proceed as from what he had heard before, she was the good one here. She also took in the scene and felt disgusted at how the Purple one was using her.
" 𝑺𝒐𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒉𝒂𝒏! 𝑯𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒚 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒎𝒆 𝒐𝒇𝒇! 𝑺𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒐𝒏'𝒕 𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒚𝒊𝒏- 𝑼𝒈𝒉!?! " - Trying to snap the Half-Saiyan out of it she's cut mid-sentence as her eyes lose their beautiful blue sea of colors to a red bloody one.
" Thanks, pinky!" - Using her tail, she swoops at Gohan's feet in a smooth spinning action while lowering her body.
" Oaahh?! - *𝑷𝑨𝑴𝑴𝑴!* - UGHMM!!!" - And connects an elbow to his face before he could truly fall.
Feeling the elbow almost splitting some of his facial bones, Gohan didn't allow himself to fly away as it would be resulting in him exiting the Mafuba's effective area.
And for Piccolo to be there all concentrated on keeping it up, he did know it must be a technique that requires incredible precision.
Right as his body slingshots itself away from the girl's elbow he stretches an arm towards where he would be tossed.
Not having time to fully adjust his Ki he just blasts in that direction, completely destroying everything in a few kilometers radius.
Now canceling his momentum, he twirls his body in a way that looks quite painful, coming from under once more. This time he achieves his objective as the Android had just retracted her arm from attack before.
*𝑩𝑨𝑴𝑴𝑴!!* - Shoving a right uppercut under her chin, retaining enough force behind it to snap her whole head up to go watch the sky as he did his work.
Her face now looking up, he already brings out his left arm forward and readies his right one, cocking it back yet again.
Whole body leaning forward, Gohan clenches his teeth openly. - *𝑷𝑨𝑴-𝑩𝑨𝑴!!!* - Delivering a one-two sequence that was led by a coming-up hook to her ribcage region and capped up with a straight right punch in the middle of her chest.
Not really caring if it was inappropriate, he used his whole body, putting all the strength behind it to make the best out of this hit.
*𝑩𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑶𝑴!!!!* - Succeeding as a dozen powerful waves of pressure followed the Majin after a few instants once the sound barrier realized it had been broken as she was flung away with her body rolling around the ground in a dirty eating manner.
Everything around the landscape could only shake after each successive wave cut through the skies and ground levels as if God were angrily combatting one another.
And in a way, they are.
*𝑼𝑼𝑼𝑺𝑯𝑯𝑯𝑯!!!* - As she hauled roughly through the soil, what was left behind the purple girl was a long open trench that was made purely using her body as a shovel.
Gohan had made sure to redirect his punch downwards after connecting so she would stay inside the range they needed her, though he did wonder why she simply didn't teleport away like she did before.
His answer came in the form of the very annoyed Majin spitting out a mixture of blood and dirt as she supported her body to kneel up.
" Piiiiiiinky!!?!?! Stop messing around~...- *Eyes Twitching* - …. YOU REALLY WANT US TO DIE?!?" - Angrily shouting, 21 stomps her tail aggressively on the earth in annoyance, each hit raising more and more debris and dust as she digs into it repeatedly.
" 𝒀….𝒀𝒐….𝒀𝒐𝒖….. 𝑾𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒊𝒔𝒉…𝑨…𝒏𝒅….. 𝑰… 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆… 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆… 𝑭𝒂𝒕𝒆…." - Tail stopping its motion, Purple felt how uncannily her left arm started moving on its own in a very short spasms, the left side of her face also felt strangely numb.
The half of her face she could feel was flared full of inquiries, the left arm took hold of her right one quickly. And now she was being held down by herself.
" Miss…." - Cleaning a stray string of blood that was making its way down his mouth, Gohan gaps at the Android's new strange look.
Half of her face was now Pink, having those gentle blue eyes that held deep regret inside them. From what she created and had become.
The other part faded to Purple, who was way more disorganized and unhinged, yearning for nothing but destruction inside her hazardous red eyes. All it wanted was to fight and cause free disturbance to everything and everyone.
Somehow managing to take control of their mouth, Pink struggled to keep the other part of herself out of her way as she glanced at the boy.
Gohan didn't know how to take on the situation, he knew there were some people with evil within their hearts that couldn't be argued with…. But how should he go on now seeing that the same being had both the most pure heart, and also the most wicked one?
" 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒇𝒆𝒆𝒍 𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒆𝒕 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒅𝒐𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒘𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒎𝒖𝒔𝒕.
*Smiles while looking at the ground*
𝑻𝒉𝒊𝒔… 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒖𝒍𝒕 𝒐𝒇 𝒎𝒚 𝒐𝒘𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒐𝒓 𝒄𝒉𝒐𝒊𝒄𝒆𝒔….
𝑺𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒇𝒓𝒐𝒎 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒗𝒊𝒄𝒊𝒐𝒖𝒔 𝒎𝒂𝒏…. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒎𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒍𝒚 𝒂𝒊𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑭𝒖… 𝑰 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒃𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒎𝒚 '𝒃𝒆𝒍𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒅' 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒅𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒏𝒕 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕….. 𝑨𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒄𝒉 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒖𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅, 𝒉𝒆 𝒉𝒂𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒕𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒋𝒆𝒄𝒕 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒔𝒊𝒅𝒆 𝒉𝒊𝒎 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒆𝒆𝒎𝒔…..
𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆…. 𝑼𝒈𝒉… 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆…. 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒍𝒐𝒕 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆….. 𝑩𝒖𝒕… 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒂𝒔𝒕 𝒏𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒚 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒓𝒆 𝒊𝒕 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅…… 𝑺𝒐 𝒑𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆….."
Looking at the young half-Saiyan who was struck in place lost inside his own thoughts, tears streamed down her blue eyes.
" 𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆…. 𝑰 𝒅𝒐 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒘𝒊𝒔𝒉 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒌𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒚𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆….. 𝑰𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒏 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒅 '𝒍𝒊𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈'?....." - Her body started to move around in sharp and wild movements, Purple's red iris was shrunk while shooting killing looks at both the arm holding them down and the boy.
In a last strong body twist she manages to free herself and immediately after starts to try and rip out the side of her face that was pink. - " 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐏 𝐓𝐀𝐋𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐍𝐎𝐍𝐒𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐄!!!"
Seeing the other part now sprout forth once more, Gohan's eyes shone as if coming to an understanding.
The technique they were inside was destabilizing both sides as if trying to drag them apart, the crazy switching that was happening was a show of that.
One side was being pulled out while the other started to regain its footing….. And it was obvious who was the one being pulled out of the Majin.
After all, Majuba was an Evil Containment Wave.
Turning towards the one holding up the green swirl that spun around their surroundings, Gohan had his answer.
" Mister Piccolo! I want to help her!" - Shouting in determination, he didn't wait for his response before flashing away in an explosive burst of white Ki.
And to his actions, Piccolo smiled widely. - " Not even knowing her, or what she did and still wishing to help…. You truly are Son's brat……Fine then!"
Pushing his arms even further, the Namekian strengthened the pulling force behind the move. The effects were seen immediately after as the Majin's move started to have its gooey composition be pulled bit by bit.
"HAAAH!!!" - Cutting the distance in between them, Gohan arrives already spinning, trying a backhand punch that the Majin ducked under, going for a headbutt that connected on the boy's stomach.
"UGH!! HAAAH!!" - Not losing his bearing even after the blow and some spitted blood, Gohan raised both arms above his head and after linking both hands he descended them a double ax to the girl's back and as she fell he made sure to line his knee for her to already fall in yet another move.
Forcing her hand away from the pink side of her face. - ' She is getting weaker!' - Not letting go of this golden chance, he swung up his knee, and connected right under her chin.
Tossing her body up while frowning.. - " I'm sorry Miss! This will hurt a bit!" - So he could start to barrage her in a sea of punches as if he had turned into a certain green-haired both who learned he could kick after a few seasons.
His body started to appear to have more than ten arms simultaneously because of the afterimages he created attacking at such high speed.
Punch after punch he would see small chunks of her body floating away towards the pouch Piccolo held to. Getting to put every single drop of the power he retained from that half-senzu.
*𝑷𝑨𝑨𝑨𝑴𝑴!!!* - After Gatling-gunning the Majin in hundreds of punches, he finished off greatly as he used his whole body in a straight punch that he made sure to finish its full swing downwards. Forcing the girl to go on yet another trench-digging trip using her body.
This time inside the ground.
Her strength was reduced by each passing second since Piccolo had started the Mafuba, and now was way closer to Gohan's current one for the boy's benefit.
And this was what Piccolo wanted since getting some enlightenment from Helix…. Of all the people inside his head he didn't expect to, it did make him feel kind of bad.
Anyway, the Orange head's therapeutic problems aside for now. 21 started standing up from inside her hole, trying to teleport away as she felt strength leaving her body at a rapid rate.
To her joy, it ultimately worked….
*𝑽𝑼𝑺𝑯!*
But to her doom, it teleported back up to be right in front of Gohan. Her face was grimacing through far too many emotions as she couldn't understand why the Pink one could interfere so much.
" Uh….. It's working…." - The grumpy voice from Piccolo brought her back to reality, she was about to angrily ask what he was talking about 'working'....
…
..
.
Silence, her voice didn't come out. Trying to reach for her neck, her arm felt like it needed oil because of how stiff it felt…. And so she looked down to see what it was about….
Leaving the Purple one to want to shout to the heavens seeing half her body pink, a perfect half-to-half coloration.
" Here is where you and I end." - The control of her vocal cords was no more Purple's.
Her only manner of communication was what was left of her face, an arm, and a leg. That brought the worst from the depth within the Majin.
Going unnoticed by Pink at first, her whole body side started to emanate a strange black-pink aura inside her body at first, then expanding outside.
Even if they both shared a mind, each had an individual stream of thoughts.
When she and the others got to notice, it was when the aura had finally become large enough for it to be seen. It brought the Pink side to be shocked seeing how desperate her other self had become.
' 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰 𝐰𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧…. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐦𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐫𝐞𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫…. 𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐘 𝐂𝐎𝐑𝐏𝐒𝐄 𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐘 𝐖𝐈𝐋𝐋!!! 𝐀𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐇𝐀𝐇𝐀!!!' - Manically laughing inside her mind she went.
As for the others, it was indeed a hassle… The Pink side sighed and gazed towards the other two.
At the end of the day, the one she wanted to destroy would be the one to be doing her a favor….
" She plans to kill us both… You all might not know, but to fully destroy a Majin you need to destroy every single particle in their body. Doing an explosion using all our remaining power from our insides…. Will result in the total extermination of the both of us... The best I can do is hold it back to Earth is somewhat fine..."
Carrying a relief in her voice, she felt happy. There was no need for the killing her other party had been doing ever since the day she let her loose out in the world.
It was inevitable, even after attempting to contain the Evil Part inside her for a good couple of years bore no fruit whatsoever.
Now… she could- " 𝐖𝐀𝐈𝐓!!! That isn't fair! She is the one who committed all those atrocities she spoke of, isn't she? Why do you also have to pay for them?!"
Quite annoyed at how things came to be, Gohan takes a step closer to the girl. Jolting her up from the sudden shout.
Looking at the spiky black-haired fellow, she couldn't help but smile. Now having full control of their mouth and ears. - " Adults got to pay for their acts…. It might not have been me… But the body-"
" I'm sorry Miss…. But what I hear… is as my AuntMei says; ' A full load of bullshit'! You had no choice or ins! Why do you also have to share a fate that isn't yours!" - He took yet another step.
Bewildered at the sudden burst, she could see the visible frustration in Gohan's face. He couldn't bear to watch as someone who didn't have anything to do beat themselves up, he already had his Aunt do so in Namek.
The Owl always had grand plans for the Hybrid, and he hugged the hype. It made him feel special.
When he saw her kind of lose herself as if blaming that she might have been forcing her ideals into him, it made him feel pretty annoyed. Though he ate it all up and spoke to his Aunt in a way that would make her feel better.
She has the heart of a child in some ways and a genius mind that always takes others into consideration. He couldn't be rude with her….
As for the Majin Miss in front of him…. She has been blaming herself for everything since showing up.
And from what little he heard…. 𝑺𝑯𝑬 𝑫𝑰𝑫𝑵'𝑻 𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑵 𝑻𝑹𝑼𝑳𝒀 𝑫𝑶 𝑨𝑵𝒀𝑻𝑯𝑰𝑵𝑮 𝑯𝑬𝑹𝑺𝑬𝑳𝑭!
He's an intelligent boy, and he could tell.
Both she and the purple one were two different people who had basically nothing to do with one another besides appearance-wise.
She shouldn't be blaming herself for something that she didn't have any control over whatsoever…..
" If you're so set on blaming yourself, why not just work it up then? Help others, discover a way to reverse the things the other prick did. There are other ways, why do you feel like dying is the only way?!"- Taking another step, the boy had truly snapped.
In a different sense.
Sweating from the background while continuing his technique, Piccolo could only be amused, not expecting to see this 'Snapped Gohan' again. As for the Good Majin, he did feel sorry she might die too…. But wasn't ALL that bothered by it.
' Remember seeing him like that…. what…. Twice?' - Trying to remember, he hums go himself.
~ 𝑶𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝑮𝒐𝒌𝒖 𝒎𝒆𝒔𝒔𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒊𝒏 𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒎𝒑𝒍𝒆 𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒓𝒂𝒕 𝒘𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒓𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒌𝒊𝒅 𝒃𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒅𝒊𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒘𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑰'𝒅 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒅 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒅𝒂𝒅 𝒅𝒖𝒎𝒃 𝒃𝒆𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒃𝒂𝒄𝒌 𝒕𝒐 𝒕𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒎…~ - Helix was the first to remember, they all shared their memories so it was a faster job at least.
~ 𝑾𝒂𝒔𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒅 𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒊𝒏 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝑲𝒊 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒎𝒂𝒌𝒆 𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒆 𝒕𝒐 𝒖𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝒖𝒑 𝒂𝒍𝒎𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒖𝒍𝒍-𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒊𝒕 𝒅𝒊𝒅𝒏'𝒕 𝒂𝒍𝒊𝒈𝒏 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒔𝒕𝒖𝒅𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒂𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝒑𝒔𝒚𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒄𝒔? ~ Laying down on the couch in their mindscape and staring at the ceiling, Nail got the second part.
A collective hum followed his words.
~ 𝑾𝒆𝒍𝒍… 𝑰𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒍𝒍 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒇𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒍𝒍𝒚 𝒅𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒕𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈…~ - In his old tone, Kami got back to his concentrated state. Telling Piccolo about the ins and outs of the Mafuba, even if their knowledge was shared.
Two minds are better than One.
" I… I…." - At a loss for words, the girl didn't even know where to start…. How was a child like this giving a life lesson?
*𝑻𝒂𝒑!* - Just three meters away from the Majin now, Gohan wanted his answer. This wasn't a question anymore. He would help, there wasn't a 'decline' option here.
Standing in front of her while glimpsing directly into her different colored eyes that hosted each of her different selves. Black Hair that stood up as if he was in his Super Saiyan Two state moving from the strong winds of the Mafuba.
Not elaborating further, he took up his last longer step. His right arm fell behind him as his left sprung forward going for a slap.
In the last beat, she did try speaking.
" But-"
*𝑺𝑳𝑨𝑷!!!* - Slapping the Purple side of the Majin's face so it would be perfectly aligned with him while the Pink one would be faced away having a flabbergasted look.
Gohan floated up ever so slightly to be at her head level. His facial features wrapped up to be way more wild than before.
His eyes swirled in a familiar anger he had felt before when his mother was threatened before as if making it full display now that Gohan wasn't willing to let someone innocent die.
A power that came to the response of his needs, to save someone or stop someone.
He too wanted to be a hero, even if he had to be a bit forceful in his ways.
" Miss….. 𝑱𝑼𝑺𝑻 𝑨𝑪𝑪𝑬𝑷𝑻 𝑴𝒀 𝑫𝑨𝑴𝑵 𝑯𝑬𝑳𝑷!!!!"
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Hair flickering to a strange whitening tone, his anger finally bursts out once more out of its jail. One that wasn't aimed at the girl in question, but more at himself...
That if he could not save just the one in front of him….
𝑶𝒏𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒏𝒈𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒐𝒏….
How could he take on the responsibility like those heroes he watched?....... How could he be like his father and aunt he admired so much?
*𝐁𝐀𝐌𝐌𝐌𝐌𝐌!!!!!* - Hitting the Purple side caused the Evil one to cease her exploding attempt as a thunderous sound raged across the Mafuba's Storm, multiple violet lightning bolts took place of the blue ones Gohan once had as his white aura also expanded to take in a far more diversity of pink, violet and red colors.
"𝐇𝐀𝐀𝐀𝐇!!!!" - Power raising with each heartbeat by the hundreds and not stopping, Gohan's power surges so high that Piccolo has a hard time keeping up the technique going given the waves of pressure shooting off from the boy's sole raging aura.
The same boiling aura digs the ground around them multiple times in a row, each one followed by a giant gravity pressure wave making the ground everywhere around them tremble as well as every pole of Earth and outer planets around the Solar System from the force Gohan exerted.
Truly a strength worthy of a Beast of a Warrior.
" NOW!!!!" - Following Gohan's punch while keeping his feet firm on the ground, Piccolo shouts as he puts everything he has into pulling the other Majin inside the container pouch.
A mix of two resolved shouts was all 21(Good) could hear, the feeling of losing her conscience was quick to start its take over as the last thing she felt was the great power the youngster had stored deep inside him. - ' Even for someone like me…….. Thank you…..'
*𝑽𝑼𝑼𝑼𝑼𝑺𝑯!!!!!* - Gohan's punch and the Mafuba are the perfect combination to make sure the evil within the Majin is finally brought out by force. Careful to not blow away the other Pink part, Gohan's iris spun in a bloody new color as his fist was thrust into Purple's side of the face.
Purple's Self in a raging screech gets finally yanked out from the body's side that is still hers, all the purple spots shooting off in a gooey manner from the Android's body and almost being sent flying as she completely detaches from 21. However, before she does so a green storm of energy snatches her body and starts to spin her in its insides
Leaving the Evil version to curse loudly as she is rapidly lulled into the pouch Piccolo held to, the Namek was fast to tie it up with a sigh.
Shooting Gohan a thumbs up before snorting at how the brat didn't see it as he had his back turned to Piccolo, and was more focused on who he had to move forward and snatch before she fell face-first down.
Through, Piccolo flinched, taking another look at the boy and blinking twice before trying to clean his eyes….. Watching as Gohan's hair now strangely almost white and uncannily tall fell to his base's regular blackness.
He did catch the sudden burst of power the Hybrid just had, but he didn't pay close attention to any physical changes…. This one was a first that he didn't remember hearing about….
But, all in all. He only ended up accepting it while shaking the small pouch In front of his face that was now the new jail and home for the evil Majin inside it. - ' Perhaps another one she kept as a 'surprise'?..... How much more you are going to keep to yourself, bird….'
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Unconscious, 21 slept calmly. No more torment or killing to be done.
She could rest peacefully now.
Holding her up by the back and waist, Gohan gently puts her on the ground. Giving her figure a last look before standing up.
Just as he did, the world around him started spinning for a moment ending up in him falling to his back.
Laying there breathing lightly, he heard a couple of steps approach by his side, followed by an orange aura burning away.
Piccolo, now back to his original green and having hidden the second pouch in his Gi, crouched beside him, stretching a closed fist for the boy. - " Tired, I presume."
" Eheheh….. I'm…. Tired…… Hungry…. And wanting a shower…." - Although wasted, Gohan shakily stretched his arm to fist bump the green's one.
Both shared a look of accomplishment for a moment before they heard a shout from the skies, a very familiar one.
Looking towards the direction it came from, then remembered being where that Giant Saiyan had tackled both Saiyan Brothers towards using each of his arms…
" Oiiii!!! You guys alright!? I felt a crazy power from all the way back there! That was incredible Gohan!!!!" - Screaming from the top of his lungs, Gohan who was still closing in a pretty worn-out outfit smiled while proudly waving at Gohan.
" Kakarot there's no need to leave me deaf!" - Speeding across the air beside him was Raditz, annoyed at first but then also giving Gohan and Piccolo a prideful smirk.
How could the 'great' Raditz not expect his nephew to grow strong? He too needs strong opponents to spar!
He did receive a laughing apology from his young brother as they closed in.
Jokes aside. He was happy about not his own growth, but how far he lived to watch the Saiyan race evolve.
And he would be around to watch it go even further beyond.
Sitting up aided by Piccolo, the Half-Saiyan smiles and shoots Goku a thumbs up.
Happy that today, he became a hero for the world and the resting Pink girl.
" I did it… Dad….."
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With the threat of the allies Fu held by his side now defeated, Earth can finally breathe in a sigh of relief earning its peace once more.
The Demon didn't seem to take account of how vastly stronger even the Earthlings would have come to be in their two years of harsh Godly training inside that hellish Chamber.
Now, our warriors are finally left alone. Some are stronger than ever and pleased with what they achieved, while some stand mindful of the new paths they achieved, and others try to find the routes they should seek for the power needed to protect their home.
Many things were learned and put through various trials;
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After almost thirty minutes since Piccolo left for Gohan's aid, Krillin had finally recovered a good amount of energy to get up fine. He did take notice of the strange blue glowing shard near 18's body and tucked it inside his Gi.
Mindful that it might be important given where it stood by, before blushing and lowering himself to pick up 18 and start carrying the girl up his shoulder and then strolling closer to a snoring Yamcha.
"Up you go bud." - Grabbing him under his other free arm as if the sleeping guy were a living sack of vegetables.
Having taken everyone he jumps up in a small hop and then proceeds to start taking off in a somewhat rapid flight, being careful to not accidentally drop either of his two passengers.
His objective was all those high accumulated energies he was feeling. Those were so humongous he was sure they belonged to his best friend and the others.
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Meanwhile, far away from there in a once mountainous land was a duo of once enemies who just started to get up after a nap.
A teenager who had black shoulder-length straight hair, and the bald triclops who had seen best sleeping nights both groaned at the same time while shaking their head negligibly before starting to truly wake up.
Both sat up at the same moment, noticing the other's presence right away.
Each side staring in a strange silence as if not knowing how to go on about things….
The teenager scratched his cheek using his index finger while rummaging through his mind, trying to figure out what he was doing in the first place. He did like the battle but it still felt strange as to 'why' he was even so set in attacking these guys and those in that other Timeline in the first place....
Not having the Mask to intercept in his mind decisions the Android came to the conclusion it had something to do with the accessory after a second of pondering.
" Huh….. This is….. Kinda awkward, isn't it?…. But I guess I do owe ya an apology, old man." - Pushing a small smile out. 17, not sure how to go about this, chose to just take on the best way possible and apologize for whatever occurred while he wore the mask.
Hearing the youngster, Tien couldn't process it at first. However, after a second, he had finally put two and two together seeing that 17's face was clean of any extra complements.
" So that thing..….. I kinda get it now…. And no bad blood brat, we all have our bad days waking up on the wrong side of the bed. " - Smacking his right fist into his left palm at first, he hums understanding why these guys attacked so suddenly and with no apparent explanation besides just eradicating them.
Before supporting his arm down on the ground to get up his feet, followed by the dark-haired Android who after fully standing up stretches both arms up and looks around as Tien feels the Ki of all his friends.
Which caused him to sigh in relief seeing how everyone was fine. - " For now… *grins*... Consider you owe me a rematch, though next time don't think I will go down as easily as that…. Well… that aside… We should join the others to see how the situation with your sister and Goku and the others is."
Taking a few steps closer to 17, Tien stretches a hand down to help him get up. A look of stubbornness stuck into his face, he was set on showing a Human Earthling could still evolve further.
He did have a different type of blood running down his veins besides that of a human he was sure, but in his heart just like Goku, he is Human.
" Keeping a grudge in a time like this will not bear any fruits. *Frowns*... You guys might not be the only ones causing trouble around our area, it seems even the higher-up people were expecting to have other problems showing up."
Referring to Omega and her announcement, Tien leaves the teen confused as to what he is referring to. Nonetheless, he took the hand and pulled himself up.
Taking his footing and tapping his clothes to get some dust off also noticing how much damaged they were now while messaging his nose, still feeling the pain from the Namek's fist.
" *Whispers*, Geez…. Piccolo wasn't in the mood to play at all….. " - Finally done, he looks back at Tien and nods now having a more serious look.
" Yea, let's go becuz I wanna see if sis is fine… I hope she is…." - Not believing the two other humans could have defeated 18, the brother was slapped on the back so he would get moving and follow Tien who just started flying up
" If the worst comes to be we can use the Dragon Balls… For now prove that we can trust you guys without those things you wore, now hurry up." - Giving one last glance, Tien shoots at high speeds towards the place where that myriad of high energies signatures were located.
Close behind was a way more relieved 17, who chose to hope for the best that his sister was fine.
And even if she wasn't…. The Triclops just proposed to get her back, he wasn't stupid enough to blame them for defending themselves too.
' Guess I just gotta roll with the dice. '
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{ 𝐃𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐡'𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐬; ?????; 𝐏𝐨𝐯 ??? } :
𝑺𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆.
The only things that could be seen for at least the length of a small galaxy.
Stars shone light-years away from the surroundings, making the view even more breathtaking.
Strangely no planets were close by, only a few giant debris of rock and other minerals floated around the empty surroundings.
*𝑪𝑹𝑨𝑪𝑲𝑳𝑬!* - A red-black lightning bolt sparks to life in a random movement before ceasing its appearance by hitting a goliath of a floating rock and completely exploding the thing into tiny pieces.
No sounds were heard because of the vacuum of space…. That's how it should always be, or supposed to be.
" Dis darky gurl… Kinda annoying, not gonna lie." - A voice that belonged to a certain rat rings around the empty space, somehow defying the rules of silence and talking as if it is a normal Thursday.
Around her body, small black-red bolts similar to the one that shot out were dancing at very rapid rates.
" Yeah, she is pretty versatile…. " - Another voice coming from a Nephilin also makes her appearance sounding out from beside where the red-head was hovering.
Not precisely breaking the rules of space like Bae, but more so using her powers and Ki to make sure her voice propagates in an area of a few kilometers around herself.
They floated in the empty vastness staring in a very specific direction, where a pair of Empty round eyes also did the same while floating in place.
Their body was so black she blended with space itself perfectly well, luckily the white silhouette she had around her body made it easier to make out the thing's appearance.
*𝐒𝐧𝐚𝐩!* - Cracking her knuckles causing a small short shockwave around her to appear, still having all of her Limiting Rings on, Bae is quick to take a stance… But before pulling on the dark girl she gives a rapid peek at Iryis as if asking for permission, who nods in a 'Go Ahead' green light.
Head snapping back forward, a wide grin worthy of one of the Chaos bearers was stuck into her face.
Red slim tail wagging back and forth aggressively, the rat was finally feeling it since fighting Muun. The Excitement of fighting someone strong.
" Good on ya! Pillars are strong, Ya know? Now!!! 𝐋𝐞𝐳 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐩 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐮𝐩 𝐚 𝐛𝐢𝐭!"
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Around these three individuals who floated amidst its vast emptiness, another battle was about to break out.
We aren't sure how the seemingly first one ended but the pieces of what seemed to be once Bae's planet floating around them tell us a piece of the story.
For now, we are left to wonder.
What kind of power did this 'Inarch' possess for someone like Bae, to find it '𝑨𝒏𝒏𝒐𝒚𝒊𝒏𝒈'?
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