Chapter 8: (Part 11)
Universe 9, God of Destruction’s planet
On the other side of the galaxy, the temple of the former God of Destruction of Universe 9, quite abruptly one of its the walls exploded outward with tremendous force, debris and smoke were thrown high into the atmosphere. A billowing cloud wafted from an open hole that was created from the inside, Vardier stood near the edge of this newly formed opening. His eyes were wild and both fists were tightly clenched in front of his body. He was breathing hard as if he was attempting to release an enormous amount of pent up rage from his body. Borbon was behind him in the center of the room, her staff was propped up on its own and displaying scenes from the battles that were currently taking place on Metius. The Angel calmly addressed her lover, “Calm down Vardier. This is far from over.” The olive-green skinned man snapped around with anger distorting the normally handsome features, “Calm down?! You expect me to stand by idly after witnessing THAT?!” He pointed to the display that hovered in the center of the room, it showed Kanzō’s lifeless and headless corpse draining purple blood onto the ground. Borbon looked up at the image again seemingly disinterested in his overly passionate viewpoint, “Like I said my dear. It’s not over yet, by the end of the day we will have snuffed out the last vestiges of resistance to our reign. I just need you to be patient.” Vardier began to march over to her looking like he was not having any of it, “That little rabbit bitch just killed my best friend! I want blood! I’m going to tear them all limb from limb until they are an absolutely unrecognizable pile of shit on the f*#$ing ground! Send me to Metius!” Borbon eyed Vardier for a few seconds with a very dispassionate expression, it was as if she were a parent that was wholly ignoring the temper tantrum of a child, “Fine, have it your way. Kill them all and be done with it.” Once she relented to his demands, he appeared to relax a little and prepared himself to engage the enemy immediately upon arrival. Borbon grabbed her staff up off its resting place and pointed the head of the staff directly at his chest, “Don’t underestimate them. These Saiyans are a tricky lot.” He nodded to her and was quickly enveloped in a cascading pillar of light. Once he was absorbed into it, his body shot out of the newly made hole in the wall and off into space at speeds faster than light. Borbon merely smirked to herself, she had the warm feeling like everything was working out according to plan.
Universe 9, Planet Metius
Meanwhile, on the other side of the forest, Korian was in the midst of a pitched battle between himself, a bionic man with unwavering focus, and an unstoppable juggernaut. Korian was high in the air above the forest still in his Super Saiyan 2 transformation. He was suddenly struck across the jaw from above and to the left which collapsed his posture. Without missing a beat, he threw both arms outward firing off some point-blank energy blasts to give himself an opportunity to create space. Korian quickly flew backwards a good distance away and took a moment to evaluate the situation. The Saiyan was in it bad this time, he huffed trying to catch his breath in the brief lapses between getting pummeled by these two. Korian reached up and wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of hand, staying intently focused on blast point not far away. All of the sudden, a metal arm came shooting out from behind the veil of smoke that was hanging in the air. Korian recognized it quickly and smacked it off to the side while simultaneously using it as a point of leverage to move his body. He cut across the sky perpendicular to where he had once been but was stopped short suddenly by the appearance of Maida in his path. The giant man struck out at him with his equally large fist, it came at him with frightening speed for such a large individual. Korian caught his hand, struggling to hold the power behind it at bay. Maida just sneered at him fiendishly, “What’s the matter Saiyan? Running out of gas?” Korian pivoted himself to the outside of his arm and allowed him to press forward under his own momentum, he used his own size against him and swung himself around on that arm. A boot landed solidly into Maida’s chin which caused his head to snap back sharply, Korian attempted to move in closer to seize the moment and try to take him down, but he had forgotten all about the other one. Shinamo caught Korian unaware and off-guard, a pair of eye beams struck him in the upper left shoulder on his back which seared through his armor and burned his flesh. Korian yelped in pain and his attack pattern quickly fell to pieces when he was forced back on the defensive. He hissed through his teeth in frustration, Korian focused his energy and brought his hand forward bristling with energy against an encroaching Shinamo. Just as he was about to fire off a ki wave attack at the cyborg, Maida erupted from his previously dazed posture. Korian’s eyes snapped over quickly to the red skinned behemoth and he re-targeted him for the attack, a blue ki beam shot out from his right palm which solidly struck Maida dead on in the chest. Through the smoke emitted from the blast, he kept charging barely wavering from the attack he just received. Now both of them closed in on him in hand-to-hand combat, the three of them throwing punches, kicks, and moving to dodge at such high rates speeds that they appeared as a blur backdropped against the orange hue of the setting sun.
Korian caught Maida squarely in the face with a punch which drew blood from the big man’s nose, but he was rewarded for his efforts by a kick to the gut by the cyborg Shinamo. Korian’s frame collapsed as all the air was forced out of his diaphragm with a painful gasp. He couldn’t delay and give them time to recover, he clamped down on Shinamo’s leg before he was able to withdraw it. Korian pulled as hard as he could drawing him forward into a knee that slammed the cyborg in the chest. Shinamo grunted in pain as the strike was slammed into his armored body with such great force that his organic innards felt the heft of the blow. Korian spun him around quickly without delay and launched him directly into his partner. Shinamo bowled into Maida who just managed to catch his body before it struck him directly. He looked up at Korian with surprise as the Saiyan threw his arms forward with them making contact at the wrists, his first two fingers and thumbs slightly extended and other digits curled against his hand, “Kyūbiko-ha!!!!” Korian cried out loud as a large golden beam careened from his hands toward the pair hanging helplessly in the air. The beam swallowing up the two foes as it was carried off into the sky like a cascading glimmer.
Korian was panting heavier now from the level of exertion he was forced to maintain against both of them at once. Although his current level of power was a far cry from his previous god ki enhanced state, his Super Saiyan 2 was fierce enough to deal out damage against them when necessary. Korian’s senses perked up when he saw Maida still hanging in the air where he had previously been, his arms were crossed in an ‘X’ style block to absorb the blow from his Kyūbiko wave. He was bleeding on his extremities and appeared to be a bit scorched. Korian was stunned that even that hadn’t finished off this man, it was simply unreal to him. Korian quickly thought to himself, “If I push to Super Saiyan 3 then maybe I can overwhelm them, but it’s been so long since I used it, I don’t know if my body can handle the strain.” His thoughts were interrupted once Maida opened his arms and revealed Shinamo inside the bear hug, his metallic arms shooting out at high speed to close the distance between them. While Korian moved to defend himself from a physical attack, what occurred was something he wasn’t expecting. The arms separated to either of him instead of coming in to hit him like before. The fingers splayed on each hand; two red shining points of energy erupted from emitters in the palms of each metallic hand. Korian said to himself very analytically, “F@#! me.” Two large red energy beams came at him from either side and quickly engulfed his body. Maida chuckled to himself and patted Shinamo on the back, “Good work bucket head.” Shinamo didn’t react to the praise as he retracted his arms back to their normal length. The smoke quickly billowed away from the point of impact and Korian’s haggard form was turtled up in a block that left most of his armor blasted away from the attack. His gi pants were burned in a few places and a large hole was opened up over his knee, but he otherwise appeared to be in one piece. He shivered from the pain his body was feeling as he uncoiled himself from the defensive posture, “Is that all you’ve got?” Maida’s eyes narrowed and he wasted no time in giving Korian his answer. Maida closed on him quickly and threw a punch which slammed directly into a forearm which Korian raised in time to block the attack. It stung like hell, the power that he was able to dish out after their protracted battle was on a completely different level. Shinamo came circling around them like a shark circling its prey, Korian noticed this out of the corner of his eye and made mental note so his attention didn’t waiver from Maida. Instead of attacking Maida directly to break contact with him, Korian chopped at his elbow joint of the arms that had thrown the punch into his guard. Maida showed surprise that he was able to move so quickly even after guarding against such a heavy blow, truth be told that Korian’s right arm was numb as hell, but he couldn’t stop now because if he let them get the advantage it would be over in an instant.
After the big guy’s arm collapsed from the chop, Korian spun inside Maida’s mighty frame. Shinamo reacted to this by coming in on Korian quickly in an attempt to stave off any plans he might have to survive this encounter. He took hold of the arm he had been working on and rotated his hips sharply, he threw Maida over his shoulder toward Shinamo. The two collided in mid-air and Maida being the much larger of the two men, it was one of hell of an impact on the much smaller cyborg. Korian wasted no time to press the attack on them, as Maida collided with Shinamo, it threw the cybernetic warrior completely off balance as he tried to maneuver himself around Maida’s large body. Korian was there in a flash, he slammed a sharp side kick into Maida’s back which further cemented him to Shinamo. He went on a blitz attack and pressed hard into Maida’s body with several rapid punches, Korian called out in kiai to press forth more power into the attacks. The furious combination of punches continued to rain in on Maida’s body, straights, hooks, and uppercuts were all pummeled into his body. Shinamo erupted with quick speed and pushed off his partner who was absorbing the physical damage for him. He managed to climb up and over Maida’s body while Korian remained focused on his attacks. The cyborg came down on top of Korian with a swift right straight from above. Korian was slammed by the punch in the chest as he had been focused on beating the tar out of Maida’s body. He fell down out the sky in a stunned state, not only had he expended a lot of energy on the ki attack from before, but the continuous physical exertion from this series of attacks had really drained his stamina.
Korian righted himself before he hit the treetops and hissed in pain at the heavy-handed strike that Shinamo delivered to his chest. The armor he had been wearing was barely holding together, several pieces were missing and most of the structure was splintering with cracks on the surface. Shinamo had quickly circled around behind Korian, sending two beams out from his palms that cut through the air with frightening speed. Korian barely managed to twist his body to avoid getting struck directly, but they came so close that the spikey ends of his hair were wafting smoke. Maida soon made his unwelcomed presence known, the behemoth of an alien was bleeding from several cuts on his body, but he was more than enthusiastic about putting an end to Korian’s resistance, “You’re going to pay for that monkey boy!” While Korian’s attention was caught up with the sudden appearance of Maida, a flying kick slammed into his back which caused Korian to cry out and lurch forward right into Maida’s waiting arms. The large red skinned man snatched up Korian in a bear hug and began to squeeze him with all his might. Korian gasped from the crushing force that was quickly applied on him. He struggled with all his might but in terms of raw power he was completely outmatched. Maida grunted as he brought his arms tighter around Korian’s chest, “Die you son of a bitch!” Korian’s legs were kicking against Maida’s lower extremities both as a last-ditch effort as well as a panic reaction to being constricted. Korian’s hair fell back to dark brown as his eyes rolled into the back of his head and his consciousness began to fade to black. Maida wasn’t going to be satisfied until he completely destroyed him, he wasn’t going to assume anything after Korian survived Borbon’s assault. He acknowledged that he was one tough bastard, but everyone had their breaking point and he was going to ensure he stayed dead this time.
Out of a raging golden flame came a cry, “PAPA!!!!” Super Saiyan 2 Shihori was in mid-air with both swords drawn, she brought her arms crisscross over her body to slash at Maida’s head in a scissor pattern. Shinamo moved quickly to prevent Maida from losing his head, the cyborg intercepted Shihori’s blades with his extending metal arms, trapping one of them from reaching their mark. Maida was surprised and released Korian from his grasp so he could defend with a free arm to catch the other weapons against his forearm, the Saiyan tumbled helplessly out of the air to the ground below. Shihori saw her father fall from the air and angrily grit her teeth, “I’ll kill you!” Shinamo’s eyes began to glow as he centered Shihori in his sights. She released her grip on Kanzō’s former sword so she could bring her hand to bear with ki being charged up in her palm. The sword was wrenched free and tumbled harmlessly to the ground below them. She tried to fight fire with fire and if Shinamo was going to attempt to take her down then she was going to ensure he would suffer the same fate. The blast never came as Gotenks appeared from the opposite direction and drove a flying knee into Shinamo’s head, “HYAH!” Gotenks called out in a kiai as he delivered the solid blow to the cyborg’s cranium. The shock of the blow released Shihori from his clutches and allowed her to quickly maneuver out of the line of fire. Maida’s attention was grabbed by this new arrival, “What the?!” Shihori came at him full force with her sword slashing down at his body, but Maida clapped his mighty hands around her blade between before it found its mark. He eyed Shihori angrily and then looked to her furious face with a smirk, “I see so you must’ve killed Kanzō. Now that’s surprising.” He chuckled to himself, “Today is turning out to be an interesting day. Hopefully, you’re more of a challenge than your weakling father.” Shihori tugged against his mighty grip on her sword and noticed it had barely cut into his thick skin. She looked at him now more focused and sneered at him, “Alright, let’s dance, you big asshole!” She pulled herself forward using the hilt of her trapped sword and buried both of her boots into Maida’s face. The force of the blow causing him to fly backwards across the sky while Shihori gave chase to her foe.
Shinamo shook off the hit that this newly arrived fighter had delivered to him. He eyed him suspiciously as Super Saiyan Gotenks hovered in the air in a very cocky manner, “We don’t like it when you attack our friends, you robotic dickhead!” Gotenks launched himself forward ready to throw a mighty right hand but before he was able to come close to landing the blow, his body separated back into Super Saiyan Goten and Trunks. The boys both careening off to either side of Shinamo and coming to a sloppy mid-air stop. Goten and Trunks looked across at once another with Shinamo in between them. The cyborg shot them both a quick glance and analyzed their strength in present form, “I believe you’ve both made a grave miscalculation.” Shinamo snapped both his arms out to the sides with red colored energy being quickly discharged from the emitters on his palms. Both Goten and Trunks barely managed to avoid being singed by the high-powered energy as it shot past them at great speed. Trunks called out to Goten from across the sky, “Alley-oop!” Trunks created a golden energy ball in the palm of his hands and launched it up into the air above Shinamo’s head. The cyborg quickly followed the energy blast and saw that the other one had quickly moved there to meet the attack. Goten positioned himself as the energy attack came inbound and he ferociously spiked Trunks’ attack down at Shinamo. The energy ball came slamming down into Shinamo who brought his arms forward to fend off the attack. The blast exploded shortly after and created a large cloud of smoke. Shinamo suddenly appeared next to Trunks with his metallic arms smoking from the impact of the blast, “Nice try, but you’ll have to do better than that if you wish to best me.” Trunks was surprised and quickly overwhelmed by him as he grabbed him by the throat, the metal hand clamped down tightly on Trunks’ throat leaving him unable to breathe. Goten rushed down from on high to engage with Shinamo and help his best friend before he could hurt him any further.
Meanwhile, Korian laid on the ground where he had fallen, his body was at rest near a pond in a small clearing. His head and one of his arms were partially submerged in the water, he suddenly gasped for air since water was getting into his lungs. He coughed and gagged until his airway was cleared, he weakly pushed himself up and took a look at his surroundings. He noticed that he was alone but could hear the sounds of battle a short distance away. He thought to himself, “The kids could be in trouble, they need me.” He pushed himself to get up off the ground, but his injured body started to shake, and he collapsed down near the water’s edge. His eyes settling on the calm water in front of him, he noticed the reflection of something bright in the sky, it was fully sunset now and a dark orange glow settled in the air as the sun steadily disappeared from view. “I just need a minute to rest, that’s all. Yeah, then I’ll go help them.” He could barely move at all but managed to roll over onto his back, so he didn’t have to be face down in the dirt, his arms and legs were sprawled out to the sides. Korian saw that there was a large moon in close orbit with the planet. It was exceptionally close and took up a sizeable portion of the skyline, his eyes seemed drawn to its alluring beauty against the darkening sky. He would always watch sunsets with Shihori when she was younger, it brought him a sense of calm as his body relaxed. “Shihori would really enjoy this view.” He wistfully said to himself as he let out a cough of pain. He stared at the celestial object in the sky, his thoughts falling on all the members of his family. Korian’s tail began to twitch and he suddenly felt all tingly inside like something had come over him. His heart began to beat faster and his breathing more erratic. His mind began to race as to why he would be suddenly feeling so roughshod; his body wouldn’t listen as his eyes were intently focused on the lunar object hanging low in the sky. His mind wandered as thought back to long ago, something his mother Parserii once told him when he was a little boy. His recollection was jumbled but he could recall her words being about full moons and wild beasts. At the time he thought she was telling him stories just to scare him. Korian’s body began to swell as his heart pounded faster, his veins became exposed and his facial features began to contort, being more animalistic, more ape like in form. He cried out now with sharp teeth and red eyes taking shape, he seemed to be in a great deal of pain. As his body started to grow in size, what was left of his armor cracked and gave way from the damage it had sustained. His ripped undershirt tore off due to the increase in body mass as he grew larger in size. Korian now stood up covered in dark hair all over his body, only his gi pants, belt, bracers, and boots remained intact once the transformation neared its apex. His crushing weight collapsed the ground beneath his feet and his thrashing tail swept aside a large swath of trees in its path. He had transformed into an Oozaru, a giant feral great ape that viciously growled as it continued to transform. The transformation suddenly began to erupt in golden energy which changed the brown color of the great ape’s fur to golden just like the Super Saiyan transformation. The golden great ape stood up to its full height and threw back its head and arms in a thunderous roar.
In the sky above the forest, Goten and Trunks were battered and panting heavily from their pitched battle with Shinamo. The cyborg loomed in the sky before them with murderous intent. Trunks glanced at Goten, “How’re you holding up buddy?” Goten coughed with a trickle of blood coming from between his lips, “Could be better.” Trunks returned his focus to Shinamo who drew closer to them in the air, “Trunks and Goten, sons of Vegeta and Son Goku, although you may have managed to destroy some of us with your fusion technique, individually you’re no threat to me.” Shinamo made a move to close in on the pair but was suddenly distracted by a loud roar and commotion that came from behind. A short distance away, a giant golden great ape rose up from the forest floor below. Shinamo was stunned by the sudden appearance of such a large beast, how could it go unnoticed until now? Goten and Trunks were aghast by the abrupt arrival of this monstrous ape, “What the f*#@ is that?!” Trunks called out with a tinge of surprise and fear in his voice. The great ape caught sight of the trio in the air with its glowing red eyes and let out a loud feral roar in anger. He lunged with frightening speed at them in the air, swiping with his mighty hands in an overt attempt to take them all out at once. Shinamo quickly separated himself from Goten and Trunks, the boys each fell back so they wouldn’t get caught by this rampaging monster. Shinamo shot higher into the air and focused in on the beast, “Dumb beast! Getting in the way of my work, I’ll just have to put you down before I finish those two.” Shinamo raised both his arms above his head charging a large red orb of energy in his metallic hands. He threw it down at great speed into the roaring and rampaging beast, it exploded with tremendous force against the golden great ape’s body. A large fireball erupted from ground level that engulfed a large part of the forest in flames. Shinamo began to turn away to renew his assault on Goten and Trunks, when suddenly he heard the loud, unmistakable roar from beast below him. The gigantic ape thrashed about in the fiery forest below. Not only was he unharmed from Shinamo’s attack, but he was now more aggressively focused on the one who attacked him. The huge Oozaru leapt up off the ground directly in Shinamo’s path, the cyborg was unable to react fast enough to evade due to the stunned reaction he gave watching this beast come after him in the air. The great ape brought his enormous fists in a brutal, hammering blow down onto Shinamo body. He came shooting out of the sky like a falling meteorite from the sheer force of the blow, his body crashing into the ground below creating a deep crater with his metallic body. Shinamo was nearly crushed from one hit by the gigantic ape, his right arm was hanging by circuitry and his left leg had been sheared off shortly after impact with the ground. The great ape came crashing into the ground just shy of his position, he looked up from the ground with nothing but defiance in his glowing red eyes. The great ape loomed large over him and roared mightily over his fallen foe. The huge beast opened its mouth charging up a large amount of energy inside its sharp toothed maw. Shinamo pushed himself off the ground into a sitting position with his one operational arm. He remained continually defiant in the face of such overwhelming odds being stacked against him. He raised his arm bringing forth energy to bear in his palm, he fired the beam up at the beast with no regard for consequences. The Oozaru’s beam exploded from its mouth with great force and it collided with Shinamo’s futile energy blast, swallowing it completely before impacting him on the ground. The cyborg was lifted off the ground as the earth underneath him gave way in a raging storm of hell fire, soon after his body was torn asunder and turned into nothing more than ashes to be carried away by the wind.
Goten and Trunks were in utter disbelief of what they had witnessed. Goten stared at the raging monster a short distance away from them, “Trunks look! That thing is dressed like Shihori’s dad!” He pointed out the fact that they were wearing the same color pants, boots, and black and gold bracers on their wrists. Trunks shook his head in manner where he couldn’t come to grips with the truth, “No man, don’t even tell me that thing is Korian. What the hell happened to him?” Goten thought about it for a moment and recalled something Piccolo once told him, “Mister Piccolo once told me when he was training Gohan as a kid that he transformed into a rampaging beast. Gohan also used to have a tail when he was a kid, so maybe it’s got something to do with that.” While Goten and Trunks were busy conferring over the possibilities with one another, Korian noticed them hovering in the air and opened his mouth with a large point of red energy being built up. Trunks caught sight of a glint from the corner of his eye and he threw himself forward into Goten to knock him out of the way of the blast. The enormous beam cut the air where they had been and careened off into the distance where it exploded on impact with some mountains in the distance. Goten looked at the gigantic ape quite fearfully and quickly turned back to Trunks, “We need to get the hell out of here and find Shihori! Maybe she knows what to do.” Trunks nodded in agreement with him and both boys headed off in flight away from Korian in search of Shihori. Korian remained focused on both of the fleeing and growled in anger.
