Chapter 8 | ||
Friends, Foes, AND, What The Fuck? |
The six warriors looked above them at Shoua's backup. There above them stood two beings, one a female, the other a male. Each being with sword in hand, and a similar gi to that of the six warriors. The two looked down upon the six with slanted eyes, and the bottom of their faces covered by devious ninja-like masks.
"We always come with Shoua. Do you think that that pathetic Genocide Fleet can defeat Hmong? That's pure stupidity." The female said.
"Haha! You guys have the stupidest job! You're boss sucks hard!" Kenshou teased.
"She isn't our boss; we have to watch over her that's all." The male said.
"By order of the King Xiong, huh?" V added.
"Yes, by order of the King Xiong. That and that you six must die." The male replied.
"Well if we die, we're takin' your sorry asses with us." Jou threatened. With his words, Jou took his fighting stance, and placed his sword comfortably in his right hand.
"You idiot Jou! Can't you tell who they are?" Neng accused, thumping Jou on the head with his fingers.
"No... am I supposed to know?" Jou replied with stupidity.
"They're Kiri and Sueko!" Tou said.
"Oh!" Jou and Kenshou said together. The two stood looking at the others with stupidity written on their faces.
"We are Kiri and Sueko, and we are also here to rid of you fools." Kiri, the female, said.
"If you really wanna play like that then." Tou said, with a blank expression on his face. Tou flew towards them at the instance he finished his sentence and surprisingly Kiri and Sueko lunged themselves downward towards the other five. While above the others, Tou quickly release an enormous ki blast from both of his hands towards the trapped Shoua. As soon as the blast left the hands of Tou, Kiri and Sueko flung themselves in front of it, and neutralized it with their own.
"HA! This is fun." Tou exclaimed from above. Tou once again lunged himself towards the two, who stood next to Shoua now. The two held their ground and slashed at Tou with their blades, quickly and swiftly. Tou still flew past them, as the cuts slit nothing, but space. "Damn body copies!" Kiri yelled, as she took another slice at another body.
"HA! You two call yourselves backup!" Tou said from somewhere. He had appeared in hundreds of different places. His carbon copies had numbered at least two hundred, and were flying all about space. One copy had been standing still next to Shia, and seemed to be conversing with her. "They'll be distracted by the copies, trap them with some energy spheres like Shoua. I'm counting on you Shia." The copy had said. Shia quickly released two spheres and they both enveloped Kiri and Sueko. The numerous copies then dispersed, and only one Tou had been left. "That was too easy!" Tou exclaimed.
"Nice job Tou, but we wasted time. Shoua looks like she's reached full power." Neng said, pointing at Shoua's sphere.
"Yeah, she does look like it, and she's probably gonna break out of the sphere any second. Shia go get the Dragonballs! NOW HURRY!" Tou yelled. "Give your energy to her guys, quick!" Shia disappeared in an instant, and the other five quickly began to place their palms on the exterior of the sphere. Rays of a white color began to emit into Shoua and her power was increasing enormously. The rays of energy continued, and her power grew more and more. It seemed that she was absorbing all of the energy, and not letting any of it escape her grasp.
"SHIT! STOP!" Neng screamed. The other four stopped and looked at Neng with puzzled faces.
"Why?" Jou asked with his usual confused look.
"Don't you see what's happening? She's still absorbing it. She can exchange the type of energy she needs and the type she doesn't need. She's just letting the energy we're giving her as her barrier of defense." Neng quickly explained to them. The other four looked at Shoua quickly and concluded the same as Neng.
"Damn! You're right Neng. We have to get ready for battle then because it looks like she's coming out." Kenshou said. The sphere began to glow a blinding white, and it suddenly exploded with energy rushing in all directions, which blinded the five for a moment. In the center of the huge sphere of energy was Shoua, and she had reached her full amount of energy, something almost never achieved. "DAMN! She's glowing!" Jou exclaimed. She saw who had trapped her in the sphere and she had set her first priority by destroying him first. She placed her hand in front of her, her palm outwards and released an energy blast. The energy blast was pint-sized compared to others, and it traveled slowly. "What's that?" Jou asked the others.
"Wait and see. I dare you." Kenshou replied, with a laugh. The blast had almost reached Jou finally, and Jou quickly released an enormous blast to neutralize it, but his blast had no effect on it. The small, slow blast suddenly enlarged and split into five blasts, which increased into speeds beyond light, and struck each of the warriors. Tou had been carried off on his beam into another galaxy, and V had been knocked unconscious by hers. Kenshou's gi had been torn into rags, as the left arm, right leg, and the mask of the gi were singed into nothingness, with blood running from his body. Neng had his hands full of blood, and his face struck with the color of death. Jou was the worst as his arm had been entirely blown away, and his chest had a bloody hole in it. The warriors were sure to die any moment, as Kenshou, Neng, and Jou were in no shape of battling her.
Shoua's figure disappeared because light had become too slow to keep up with her, and she began to cut Kenshou and Neng up. Blood shot from their mouths and counciusness was disappearing, and so was life. Jou on the other hand had encountered what was coming to him, a fury of the same slow, small ki blasts, each and every one in Jou's vision, but he could do nothing against them. He watched as Kenshou and Neng were being killed and he saw his end coming soon.
Meanwhile on Chikyuu, Shia had summoned Shenlong, and had been sensing what had happened to her cousins. She began to tear up, but she didn't let her tears go. She rose her head up towards Shenlong and requested, "Great Shenlong, please help my cousins, oh please."
"Your wish has been granted." Shenlong said with his usual stiff and serious face.
"What have you done Shenlong?" She asked him.
"I have granted your wish. Now what is the other?" The great dragon asked.
"Can you please wait?" Shia asked Shenlong. Shia began to sense her cousins once more, but nothing had changed. Tou was still unsensable, V unconscious, Kenshou and Neng still being attacked, and Jou still badly injured.
"You haven't changed a thing! YOU LIAR!" Shia accused Shenlong.
"I have granted your wish. Now what is the other?" Shenlong repeated.
"DAMN YOU!" Shia yelled, and she released an enormous ki blast towards the dragon. Shenlong disappeared, and from the sky his voice said, "I will return in 2 days to grant your second wish." Shia dropped to her knees, and bent her head down. Tears began to roll down her cheeks, as Goku, Gohan, Goten, Piccolo, Trunks and The Ten Senshi looked from the newly built Kame House. She wiped the tears from her eyes and yelled into the sky "SOMEBODY HELP THEM!". Vegeta knelt next to Shia, and said to her quietly, "You helped me, it is time for me to return the favor." Vegeta then grabbed her hand and disappeared into space, as Goku, Gohan, Goten, Piccolo, Trunks and The Ten Senshi followed.
Meanwhile in space, Neng and Kenshou had been cut in most of their joints, and the blood would not stop flowing from their bodies. Jou had been struck with the numerous blasts, and his body was in shambles. Jou was close to death, and he could tell.
"Don't die on me Jou!" A soothing voice from afar yelled. Shia had granted all of them the ability to breathe in space, and Mina had rushed to Jou's battered body. "Don't die on me Jou!" Mina repeated.
"If I don't..." Jou said, as he coughed up some blood, "then will you..." He coughed up more blood, "go out with me sometime?" Jou finally said, as he smiled at her.
"Yeah... I will." Mina replied, returning the smile, and giving him a little kiss on the cheek. Goku and Vegeta had already tried to engage in combat with Shoua, but she had been busy finishing the death cuts upon Kenshou and Neng. Goku released an enormous KameHameHa towards Kenshou and Neng, and Vegeta quickly removed the two bodies from their place. The KameHameHa slammed into a ball of energy and barely effected the barrier of energy enveloped upon Shoua. Shoua turned around to face Goku, and looked at him with her blazing eyes and shot out an enormous eye blast, equal to Goku's KameHameHa. Gohan quickly shot out a KameHameHa to neutralize the blast, as Piccolo came down towards Shoua with his fists clinched. Shoua suddenly reversed Piccolo's attack, and slit his arms off with ease. She then blasted his body into pieces. Goten and Trunks had now fused together and Gotenks had reached Super Saya-jin 3. Gotenks' twenty Super Kamikaze Ghosts rushed towards Shoua, and each ran into Shoua's barrier and exploded before even touching her. Luckily, Piccolo regenerated and he returned next to where the Senshi had been. Vegeta placed the bodies aside, and released hundreds of ki blasts at Shoua; her barrier halting each and every one. Shoua screamed and all the energy she had absorbed shot out towards the Z fighters. The Z fighters continued their attacks on Shoua, but most of them failed.
By now, Shia had been looking for Tou, who had been blasted into the other side of the universe, and she hadn't found him. Shia quickly awoke V, and healed her only to the point where V could battle again. Shia took her leave to Jou, and kept him alive, and that was all she could do, as Mina stood by him. The two battered bodies of Kenshou and Neng were badly wounded and they were healed only back to consciousness. Shia had begun to run low on energy, but was the strongest to fight currently. With this in her mind, she darted toward Shoua, in one of the moments where the Z fighters had rested, and began to perform her Sword of the Holy Gods. Her heart was not into it though; as she had known that it wouldn't be enough, and she started to perform it when from out of nowhere came Kiri and Sueko. The two had blasted out of their spheres and had begun to absorb the energy of Shoua's barrier back into the others.
"How are they doing that?" Shia asked herself. Shia had realized what had happened now. Shenlong granted her wish after all; he had altered the thoughts of Kiri and Sueko. Kiri and Sueko had now drained away the entire barrier of Shoua with the help of the distractions of the Z fighters. Kiri grabbed Nasumi (Kiri's Sword) and Kiri disappeared, leaving her sword in space. A cloud of mist surrounded the sword and the cloud of mist flew around Shoua. Shoua looked around as her energy barrier had been removed and she had returned to her normal, manageable self. She noticed the mist and began to yell, "KIRI! WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING?" The cloud of mist suddenly began to flash lightning, and electricity began to surround it. Kiri, still not visible, yelled to her sword, "Nasumi! Kogoeshinu!" and the mist around Shoua froze. The huge clump of ice began to float off in space, but was held by Kenshou, who was back to full energy from Shoua's old barrier. Then Sueko began to chant quietly to his sword, Akuma, "Oh, unholy sword of thy great devil Akuma, grant thy wish to destroy thee enchanted, in which my sister have if cursed." In an instant the sword began to glow a dark and evil red hue, and a spire of fire came upon the sword which was out of Sueko's hands and floating straight up in space. The spire of fire began to grow into a larger spire, and finally Sueko commanded to the sword, "Akuma! Kogasu!" The spire began to move and enclosed the mass of ice inside, and burnt the block into ash, including Shoua.
"WOW! You guys killed her!" The five other Hmong said. "How can someone be that strong, yet die so easily?" Piccolo asked the Hmong.
"Easy Piccolo-san. Us Hmong have low physical defenses, but when it comes to offense we kick ass. So if we don't pay attention for just one second, and you're shot gets us, then we usually lose." Kiri explained.
"I see. So you two waited until she didn't notice to absorb her energy and then you used it against her." Piccolo concluded.
"That's exactly it. But I'm sure Xiong tried to fool us." Sueko replied.
"That sucked! She's supposed to be a General, and she lost so easily. That was gay." Neng said with a disappointed look on his face.
"Then how come you got whooped up?" Sueko teased Neng.
"Shut up! Why did you kill Shoua anyway? Aren't you her backup?" Neng retaliated.
"Yeah, but we didn't feel like backing her up anymore. I'm sure that wasn't the real Shoua anyways. Shoua isn't that weak." Kiri said.
"Ok! WE believe you." Jou said, sarcastically. Shia kept her secret in, and did not want to tell them what had really happened, but she knew it would be better if Kiri and Sueko stayed their allies. The Z fighters had taken off back to their home world, and the Senshi were still stranded in space.
"Who cares? They're on our side now, and that's that. Let's go wish the Earth back-I was getting used to that planet." Kenshou said.
"Did all our friends get killed?" Rei asked the Hmong.
"Yeah, but don't worry. We'll wish them back." V reassured her.
"I just noticed something," Ami said, looking around space, "Tou is gone."
"You're right. Where is Tou?" Neng said, also looking around him.
"Did he die?" Kenshou asked.
"DON'T SAY THAT!" Kiri said, with a worried face. Tou and Kiri always had a special connection especially two years ago at the Hmong New Year, when Tou fell in love with her.
"Well who cares if he died? We can bring him back with the Dragonballs then." V said.
"Oh yeah! Let's go." Neng said. "Shia, lead the way to Chikyuu. We'll have to hang out there for a while so we can make the wishes."
"Ok." The other 6 Hmong said, as they disappeared taking the Senshi with them.
Meanwhile on the other side of the universe, Tou had absorbed all of the energy of the beam and luckily was not damaged by the energy. Tou had been driven into an awkward atmosphere of a mysterious planet, and had lost all sense and detection of his cousins, who were conveniently not mourning his lost. Tou gazed down into the atmosphere, as he saw an eerie and astonishing dark, black, dead planet. Tou quickly warped onto the planet, and found himself on a planet much like Earth. There were tall skyscrapers like in America, and the bodies of water were black with death. Tou walked around the barren wastelands searching for life; intelligent was just an option to him now. He entered a burnt and dark skyscraper building, where he gently blasted away the dismantled doors to enter. Within the building he saw horrific images-human-like bodies hung from the ceiling where pools of blood splashed onto the floor, still fresh with red. From above he heard a growl, and Tou crouched to touch the blood. As he dipped his finger in the blood to observe it, a loud sound came from above and a ten-legged, spider-like creature crashed down onto Tou's floor. Tou quickly stuck his hand outwards towards the creature, while still crouched, and released a small, yet effective blast that destroyed the beast. "Is this a joke?" Tou joked to himself.
"Why this is only the first wave of phage. Don't worry; the Hmong army will be in this system to clear it out." A familiar voice said from the same above floor.
Tou quickly rose from his crouched position, and grabbed his sword steady in his hands. "Who the hell are you?" Tou yelled towards the broken ceiling.
The voice said from above, "You of all people should know a Hmong General when you see one."