Dragonball M, Chapter 5: Clarion’s Call! The Signal! The Fate of the Universes!

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

Within this strange accord, Ochazuke's attentions fell upon her directly, and it was as if all else had fallen away, save for this strange subliminal space beyond common perception, where their energies were linked together.

"By what right do you presume to bind me?"



Now that they'd sighted the target, the allied forces of the Known Universe drew closer to their objective. Kenshiko, herself one of the new masters of the Ten Hands of Zxu'ro, held a mild lament in her heart. However, it was a part of the duty she'd taken upon herself to support the effort, and it would be better to survey and coordinate this effort by commanding the assembly from the rear.

Guardians, the reserves, more of them are coming...that leaves the Nevadians, Threshlings and the Saiyans yet to join us.

"Listen up, they're the vanguard," came the call over the allied communicator band. "Stay out of the fore of it, but establish a perimeter behind them. When they move in, draw the circle tight towards the planet."

Her view lift towards the Gotengo, where she felt the presence of those gathered on board, but in particular the martial brethren on board. Her correspondence with the Bedlam brothers had been brief, and the accounts of the Spider secondhand, yet the essence of the technique she recognized.

Whatever you're planning...you've been drawing it towards the ship this entire time?

"As much as we're counting on them, they need to rely on our support as well."

She looks at him in this place, eye narrowed.

“By the same right you used to infect me with this burning, Ochazuke. You opened a path between us, that is your agreement. Fae are about consent, and you most certainly consented.”

Another layer of binding, Ochazuke can feel something foreign mixing with his energy.

“Beware strange pathways, human. You never know what you will find there.”

Her wounds slowly begin to heal.

——————

The ships acknowledge the orders and can out, avoiding the main fight for now. Kenshiko does get a call from the small vessel that had originally come with the Gotengo.

Kenshiko does notice two streaks heading toward the fight with Cancer. Not in ships, it appears to be two individuals.

[Cthulhu_of_R'lyeh]

Ishtar powers through the blast, though her slice misses. Instead, she clenched her unoccupied hand and Vitalmancy starts sucking Efrideet’s energy from her into Ishtar.

“No! I’m not a puppet, I’m not a disposable asset! I am me, free, and you won’t take that from me!”

"Yet here you are, dancing on strings you'll never be free from." Efrideet replies, allowing her energy to be pilfered, to instead capitalize on the overextension. Grabbing the wrist of the arm holding the Sword of Damocles, she clamps down in a bid to keep Ishtar from escaping. "A sword almost as old as Time itself, brimming with power; and all you can think to do with it is cut what's in front of you. To feed on others." The Vitalmancy drain served vital for what came next. Ishtar had been willingly pulling Efrideet's essence into her own; something she had been at a loss to manage, thanks to the Sword of Damocles... But now that a tether had been managed?

"I will do what you cannot."

True Magic burning against the corruption that rippled beneath Ishtar's surface, Efrideet would attempt to burn the Ruination out of her.

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

"Yet here you are, dancing on strings you'll never be free from." Efrideet replies, allowing her energy to be pilfered, to instead capitalize on the overextension. Grabbing the wrist of the arm holding the Sword of Damocles, she clamps down in a bid to keep Ishtar from escaping. "A sword almost as old as Time itself, brimming with power; and all you can think to do with it is cut what's in front of you. To feed on others." The Vitalmancy drain served vital for what came next. Ishtar had been willingly pulling Efrideet's essence into her own; something she had been at a loss to manage, thanks to the Sword of Damocles... But now that a tether had been managed?

"I will do what you cannot."

True Magic burning against the corruption that rippled beneath Ishtar's surface, Efrideet would attempt to burn the Ruination out of her.

There is a moment of terror before Ishtar roars. A thousand lights of Ruination eruptt under her skin. For Efrideet, to purge the Ruination out takes a great deal of effort, but the implacable will she bears beats against Ishtar and slowly, slowly each of the lights start to go out.

Evenatully, weakly, Ishtar beats against her but the Ruination is bled and purged out. A thin, weak husk of a body stays in Efrideet’s grasp. Little more than skin and bones, Ishtar trembled in the ironlike grasp of her quasi-alternate.

“No…not…not again…….”

She feebly tries to use the sword, but it tumbles out of her grasp. She weakly summons a small ball of Hakai and attempts to place it against Efrideet’s chest.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

Praxat sends a call out to Ochazuke and Zaofan. Telling them about how she freed two dozen people from cells on Cancer's moon when it was still intact. How she used her Bio-Electromagnokinesis to free them. How she contacted for assistance.

How she used her Bio-Electromagnokinesis to clear a path. How if it wasn't for the GP showing up that she and two dozen people would have perished including Totoma’s father.

[Sub-Zero MKA]

The moon exploded. A great many things happened in sequence, many all at once. The end result was that the moon, or a portion of it, was engulfed in an explosion with such force that Sarada, Parsley, and Avoca were sent flying into deep space. They had been fortunate that there was an atmosphere of sorts within the moon that allowed them to breathe. In space, there was no such luxury. As such, Sarada hastily wrapped her sister and best friend in an energy field that preserved what little oxygen remained from the area they had been standing. It wasn't much, but it was better than simply suffocating in the empty void of space.

There! she realized upon seeing Cancer near the moon's core. She could feel the Creation energy pulsing within the egg. She didn't know what it was or what it was for, nor did she care. Her only objective at that point was caving Cancer's face in and tearing her head off. She was going to pay for Ruco.

First the flesh had been throttled, then in moments a hollow cold spread through his being as it was destroyed. Hissing escaped through Koorimaru's clenched teeth as he pressed a silent scream through them, his staring eyes bloodshot as his blood boiled furiously, raising veins through his temples.

"...you...dare...?!" He strained weakly.

The moment that Parsley cast off with nullification only seemed to amplify his digust, and he further poured his malice into the Phantom Phase.

"Savour this morsel of your own substance, Godling!"

The heat and fury of the planetoid mass exploding washed its cruel relief over him, and with the cold vacuum of this formerly sacrosanct space, Koorimaru managed to gain part of his being, but for the fury that filled his face. The shape of her hand, carved into his skin...

Then he spotted Cancer at the core of the moon, still rendered in that familiar shape, it seemed, but clutching towards something that should have been her antithesis. But this manifestation of Creation, he remembered with the utmost clarity even if it was behind another's eyes.

"Hm-hm-hm-hm...suburashii," he said, temples twitching as the blood pooled through the veins there. "What it must be to turn others whilst being chained to an immutable nature~!"

Recalling his six Capsule Drones to his side, Koorimaru fanned them out beside him.

"I'd endured this farce for long enough, NOW DIE."

Gesturing with one hand towards the rubble over Lantro, he gripped them psychokinetically and tossed them towards Cancer while six Death Beams burst out from the Drones as he broke away into flight towards her.

The beams and debris hit her wave of Hakai and simply vanish, though they cancel the Hakai aimed at Koorimaru out.

Almost in a dreamlike state, Cancer looks at him and then is suddenly right in front of him. She backhands him through a chunk of the moon like one would swat a fly.

Her eyes track him, then she appears by him and kicks him into Parsley and Sarada.

For scant seconds that felt forever long, Koorimaru's world was flooded with pain. Had he drawn a breath, the first strike would have knocked the air out; as it was, only silence gripped him as he fell through the surface of the moon. Carrying on through the agony, another blow fell upon him and sent him speeding away.

Yet the Frost Demon's purpose was singular and he had his eye, so to speak, on the prize.

More a reflex than any conscious action, his form wrapped into a hastily formed Void Tunnel intent on carrying him closer to the Egg of Creation.

Koorimaru was hellbent on getting to that egg. Whatever it was was of great import to him; so much so that he was more than willing to fight a GoD one-on-one just to get to it. Parsley narrowed her eyes and cast her gaze on the egg. Whatever it was, Observational Focus would reveal it.

He pops out within feet of it, but so is Cancer. Such is her speed that she was already back in place by the time he tunneled there.

She looks at him, eyes red, and Koorimaru finds a Will pressing against his own.

She is attempting to hypnotize him.

For all your bluster and smooth talk, you're just like the rest of us, she thought as she watched him struggle against a God. She wasn't surprised he lost his cool so quickly; she would have too if she had been in his shoes. Still, it wouldn't do to float idly and watch him fight alone so fervently. It wasn't like Sarada needed a reason to fight, but she especially had a bone to pick with this one.

Her aura flared as she burst into motion. She arrived an instant later, poised to tackle Cancer back into the moon's core. God Ki began to cycle through her aura.

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

The moon exploded. A great many things happened in sequence, many all at once. The end result was that the moon, or a portion of it, was engulfed in an explosion with such force that Sarada, Parsley, and Avoca were sent flying into deep space. They had been fortunate that there was an atmosphere of sorts within the moon that allowed them to breathe. In space, there was no such luxury. As such, Sarada hastily wrapped her sister and best friend in an energy field that preserved what little oxygen remained from the area they had been standing. It wasn't much, but it was better than simply suffocating in the empty void of space.

There! she realized upon seeing Cancer near the moon's core. She could feel the Creation energy pulsing within the egg. She didn't know what it was or what it was for, nor did she care. Her only objective at that point was caving Cancer's face in and tearing her head off. She was going to pay for Ruco.







Koorimaru was hellbent on getting to that egg. Whatever it was was of great import to him; so much so that he was more than willing to fight a GoD one-on-one just to get to it. Parsley narrowed her eyes and cast her gaze on the egg. Whatever it was, Observational Focus would reveal it.



For all your bluster and smooth talk, you're just like the rest of us, she thought as she watched him struggle against a God. She wasn't surprised he lost his cool so quickly; she would have too if she had been in his shoes. Still, it wouldn't do to float idly and watch him fight alone so fervently. It wasn't like Sarada needed a reason to fight, but she especially had a bone to pick with this one.

Her aura flared as she burst into motion. She arrived an instant later, poised to tackle Cancer back into the moon's core. God Ki began to cycle through her aura.

Parsley, the egg is the last reincarnation of the Beast God’s wife, the creator deity named Prant.


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Sarada, Cancer, without breaking eye contact with Koorimaru’s, kicks out and plants here foot straight in your gut. The blow is powerful enough to cause you to vomit and send you flying back towards your sister.

[Cleric of Hell’s Brigade]

Praxat sends a call out to Ochazuke and Zaofan. Telling them about how she freed two dozen people from cells on Cancer's moon when it was still intact. How she used her Bio-Electromagnokinesis to free them. How she contacted for assistance.

How she used her Bio-Electromagnokinesis to clear a path. How if it wasn't for the GP showing up that she and two dozen people would have perished including Totoma’s father.

You dock at the Coldlight and successfully get the innocents into the medical unit, where the start going through detox.

You are also given few energy supplements to help you with your exhaustion.

[Sub-Zero MKA]

Parsley, the egg is the last reincarnation of the Beast God’s wife, the creator deity named Prant.

Parsley's eyes nearly bulged out of her head when the truth about the egg was revealed. Prant! That name conjured memories of the recent meeting between herself, Ochazuke, and Zaofan and the fallen Goddess' husband and daughter. A deal was formed between the five of them, with Prant being at the center. Father and daughter held up their end of the bargain, and the means by which her side could uphold theirs was just within her grasp.

With one smooth motion, she pulled out the communicator given to them by Beast God. "I found your wife!" she said which holding a hand out toward the egg. God Ki glistened around its space and she attempted to teleport it over to her by means of Mirror's Edge.

Sarada, Cancer, without breaking eye contact with Koorimaru’s, kicks out and plants here foot straight in your gut. The blow is powerful enough to cause you to vomit and send you flying back towards your sister.

That was, without a sliver of doubt, the hardest she had ever been hit. Bile erupted from her mouth as her momentum was completely reverse and she was sent flying back toward Parsley.

That... was stupid, she silently admitted. She managed to right herself before slamming directly into Parsley. She rubbed her torso and winced when a hot pulse of pain radiated at the lightest touch. As Ki continued to cycle through her, she streaked that way again. That time, she intended on going about her assault more intelligently. As she approached, she swung her fist.

Crimson Flash sent a myriad of punches at Cancer, while Prideful Spirit would make sure they got her attention away from Koorimaru. After that... well, she would think of that when it came time for it.

[grampagen]

He pops out within feet of it, but so is Cancer. Such is her speed that she was already back in place by the time he tunneled there.

She looks at him, eyes red, and Koorimaru finds a Will pressing against his own.

She is attempting to hypnotize him.

Koorimaru collapsed in a pain-ridden heap at her feet. Straining to prop himself up, his body curled and contorted.

This psionic pressure...no!

His eyes were wide, bloodshot, widened out from their sockets as he stared blind fury into the fleshy earth below him, and as he dragged trails of it beneath his black fingernails, sounds of defiance choked out from behind his throat as he attempted to shield his mind.

Whether he could resist successfully or not, a part of his inner nature was nonetheless laid bare before the Goddess of Destruction. His aloof sensibilities that played with his refined airs were not merely founded upon a high opinion of himself, it was twisted from an inner darkness conditioned from an indignity that was not dissimilar to Cancer's attempted subjugation.

Saradasuke...stole my life's work...Inda'ren...culled my soul for Remnant...Asha'rah...!!!

Deeper than all else, however, was a calculated ambition that animated this Arcosian's heart, and a seething hatred for all those that would dare to presume to stand over him from the lowest of the anthropoid races to the mandates of heaven and hell themselves.

It was not merely egotism, but ultimately the drive to live, and it would be on no terms but his own.

I will slay every last one of you...once I seize the Heart of Prant,I'll-!

"KYAAAAH-!!!!"

Koorimaru threw his fists downward with such force they bled, and from within him the Calamity Barrier expanded, carrying the lacerating force of thousands of microfilament Death Beams out in a radius heedless of his surroundings.

[KingofPie]

The moon explodes apart.

The shockwave alone batters the M-Fighters and knocks most off their feet, and the only reason there is any breathable air remaining is some strange magic still clinging to the debris (though fading fast). The second Fortress lay exploded and gone, with the third having cracked apart. Massive chunks of the moon drift off, and the one that has Karine, Held, Totoma, Charco, and the denizens of the ruined second fortress now floats away into space, no longer lit by Lantro’s broken hoop light. Of the attackers remaining, about half still stand there. Karine is still imprisoned in the sphere.

Koorimaru, Parsley, and Sarada drift into space, and the three can see at the heart of the planet, freed of the moon carapace, is Cancer next to a glowing egg of Creational energy. The vampire looks at the three and Hakai surrounds her as she blasts them all with it. Lantro, you lay buried under some rubble nearby.

Sasheem, you are potentially dying. Partially absorbed by the moon, you where at the epicenter of the explosion. Even your majin constitution is hard pressed to save your life right now.

Sasheem, barely able to speak let alone move or even heal, gurgles screams of anguish. The only thing on his mind is that he doesn't want it to end. Not here. Not on this stoopid world. Fumbling around, barely able to even see, he almost instinctively zaps his antennae across the ground, in an attempt to turn whatever was left into some sort of food or sustenance. Water, fruit, meat. Nothing fancy. Just whatever would give him energy to survive further.

[grampagen]

She looks at him in this place, eye narrowed.

“By the same right you used to infect me with this burning, Ochazuke. You opened a path between us, that is your agreement. Fae are about consent, and you most certainly consented.”

Another layer of binding, Ochazuke can feel something foreign mixing with his energy.

“Beware strange pathways, human. You never know what you will find there.”

Her wounds slowly begin to heal.

The foreign presence ebbed into this space, yet within this strange ethereal resonance, Ochazuke's presence did not stir from his waking meditation.

"Fae...there is only one Fae here at Sakin's side. Whatever covenant you presumed was drawn in your own blood."

The layer of binding swept over him, and he remained, seated upon the firmament of his own will.

"To claim victory from nothing...perhaps your regard for me is as little as the faith you have in your methods."

As her energy mixed with his, Ochazuke was a quiet study. There was a spark of something there that was far greater than his singular presence. When he spoke next, the Mastered Kiai a reverbed upon the spiritual matter she laid bare.

"Divest your lie." What consent would there be for her bleeding upon his ship? "Behold the truth." A pact made upon unravelled lies like a foundation of sand.

And when she drew from this binding of the spirit and ki into her physical flesh, the faith of thirty billion souls upon the Heka he channeled with him since Reshlan shook with a reverb as he spoke a command to her essence, fixed upon these two places.

"Shatter."

[grampagen]

Praxat sends a call out to Ochazuke and Zaofan. Telling them about how she freed two dozen people from cells on Cancer's moon when it was still intact. How she used her Bio-Electromagnokinesis to free them. How she contacted for assistance.

How she used her Bio-Electromagnokinesis to clear a path. How if it wasn't for the GP showing up that she and two dozen people would have perished including Totoma’s father.

With Cancer's moon currently having exploded, and Efrideet fighting Ishtar and Remnant right in front of them, one could imagine Zaofan would very much be short on words.

[KingofPie]

Blizzar and Durive normally would not have caught Binder off guard. But, with Ochazuke, they land a devastating blow.

Distracted by the burning inside her and by her injured eye, Lady Binder gets struck by the combined blow of Blizzar and Durive, and is sent careening into a moon chunk from Cancer’s exploded moon.

Moments later, badly injured, she casts a spell Ochazuke can sense to make herself hidden and then, feeling that connection between him and her, begins binding the two energies (hers and Ochazuke’s) together.

Within this strange accord, Ochazuke's attentions fell upon her directly, and it was as if all else had fallen away, save for this strange subliminal space beyond common perception, where their energies were linked together.

"By what right do you presume to bind me?"

She looks at him in this place, eye narrowed.

“By the same right you used to infect me with this burning, Ochazuke. You opened a path between us, that is your agreement. Fae are about consent, and you most certainly consented.”

Another layer of binding, Ochazuke can feel something foreign mixing with his energy.

“Beware strange pathways, human. You never know what you will find there.”

Her wounds slowly begin to heal.

The foreign presence ebbed into this space, yet within this strange ethereal resonance, Ochazuke's presence did not stir from his waking meditation.

"Fae...there is only one Fae here at Sakin's side. Whatever covenant you presumed was drawn in your own blood."

The layer of binding swept over him, and he remained, seated upon the firmament of his own will.

"To claim victory from nothing...perhaps your regard for me is as little as the faith you have in your methods."

As her energy mixed with his, Ochazuke was a quiet study. There was a spark of something there that was far greater than his singular presence. When he spoke next, the Mastered Kiai a reverbed upon the spiritual matter she laid bare.

"Divest your lie." What consent would there be for her bleeding upon his ship? "Behold the truth." A pact made upon unravelled lies.

And when she drew from this binding of the spirit and ki into her physical flesh, the faith of thirty billion souls upon the Heka he channeled shook with a reverb as he spoke a command to her essence bound in these two places.

"Shatter."

Standing within eyesight of Lady Binder is Durive, the smaller variant, seemingly nonplussed about having to deal with her before, now content with licking a handful of frozen broccoli as if it were ice cream. He doesn't say or do anything, aside from staring at Lady Binder and licking the broccoli. It was fairly disconcerting. He hoped it'd be the last thing she saw before she died.

[bruceleegreyhulk]

You dock at the Coldlight and successfully get the innocents into the medical unit, where the start going through detox.

You are also given few energy supplements to help you with your exhaustion.

Praxat takes the energy supplements. " I guess now I have to help with Cancer, however for me, that's going to be a problem. One I can't fucking breathe in space. Two it's fucking cold in space," Praxat said.

" Three I'm not fucking warm blood, so I lose body heat quickly in the cold, and it's cold enough in space to make me go into hibernation. The last time I was floating in space. I nearly became a floating popsicle," Praxat said.

" I do have my electromagnetic energy form. I wonder if that could be of any use?" Praxat said.

[Miburo]

Karine’s prison cracks, but withstands the blows.

Meanwhile, Charco having regained his feet, drop kicks two approaching Arcosians towards Held.

“Held! What did you do!”

Charco hand springs away, recovering from his drop kick, and lands a blast in the face of another Frost Demon.

"I don't know!" Held shouted defensively, as he neatly sidestepped the Acrosians sent in his direction, so that they would collide with Karine's sphere.

He began to rub his chin in thought.

"The spikes shouldn't have been that big....I didn't think there was enough time for them to be nourished enough to damage the moon, let alone to this----ANYWAYS."

There was little time to waste. The orb had managed to endure, somewhat.

Ki began to ripple in the palms of his hand as he dashed towards the orb.

Let's see if this can knock the rest of the shell loose..

Unicorn's Hooves Shake The Sea!

The Nevadian gritted his teeth as he prepared to impart the violent shaking, shattering energy into the orb like a localized earthquake, hopefully rocking it apart with the series of rapid shockwaves. He gave little thought to the nearby Acrosians who would likely be rendered into paste by the vibration passing into their being.