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One Step Closer to the Edge; Transformation: SSJ2
Topic Started: Mar 31 2014, 11:31 PM (84 Views)
Reina
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He was so fast…

Fighting the Tuffle King had proven to be battle neither Reina nor Aiden were prepared for. Despite the deception of Mentik being a larger man, he was a demon on his feet. After Reina’s bout with him, Aiden had stepped in leaving her to mop up the mechanical mayhem unleashed on them. They were demons of what felt like their past lives, risen to walk the world again. Except these weren’t really the embodiment of their horrors, rather just hollow shells meant to look like them. All the same, nothing was more satisfying than watching Rosencrantz’s face mold around the point of her fist on contact.

Reina rounded the corner as Mentik landed yet another hit, leaving Aiden staggering - bloodied and bruised. Despite having broken at least his arm in her fight with him, he hardly had a scratch, unbothered by it. It was easy to feel intimidated by the incredible weight of his ki signature, how it far outweighed theirs, but Aiden kept on fighting, and Reina knew she would too.

A volley of golden ki crashed together just inches from Mentik, the resulting explosion catching him completely off guard. Reina appeared at Aiden’s side as Mentik bounced like a ragdoll off the ground, giving them some space even if it was short lived. All around them, war was breaking out, barely held at bay by Brock’s men - at least what was left of them. Their numbers were fading fast, and if the King’s army had made it, the Tuffle legion was holding them at a distance.

We could really use that cavalry right about now,” Reina commented as she reached out to steady Aiden while he caught his breath.

“Something’s happened,” he replied, his eyes turning towards the darkened sky, knowing their time was quickly running out. “They should have been here by now.” It was easy to fear the worst, that the virus had already been unleashed on the Saiyans, but Aiden held onto hope that they weren’t too late.

The Tuffles would need some kind of weapon to unleash their biochemical weapon on the entire planet,” Reina said with some relief. Having experienced the effects of the virus first hand, she knew there was be no mistaking when the deed had been done. What could they possibly have had planned to enact their xenocide on the Saiyans.

Reina’s eyes turned skyward as thick dark clouds suddenly rolled in from above the plumes of smoke spilling out of the city of Rein. They bubbled and boiled like some kind of living entity driving the clouds to blot out the sky and shroud the world in even more darkness. With a gasp it came to her - a weather machine. The Tuffles were going to infect the clouds and rain their poison down on the people.

You see it now,” Mentik said with a smile as he appeared before them again, dusting off his armor with the palm of his hand. “You see your fate. You and the rest of your barbaric race.

You can’t possibly want this. The death of an entire species.

You would know better about that than me, wouldn’t you? Your race is responsible for countless acts of xenocide. This should seem familiar to you, bittersweet.

“There are innocents on this planet. People who had nothing to do with any of this. Do you really want their deaths on your conscience?” Aiden pleaded with him.

Were my people not innocent when the Saiyans waged war on us? They destroyed our numbers to the threat of extinction without so much as a care for our women and children. The Universe will be a far better place when the Saiyan race has been eradicated and this planet is rightfully under Tuffle command again.

There was no denying the horrors the Tuffles had been through, driven to these lengths to take back what was rightfully theirs. Reina may have been a Saiyan, as ruthless as the rest of her race, but she wasn’t needlessly reckless. As much as she wanted to see Mentik as truly evil - she couldn’t. Reina and Aiden were strangers to that dimension, despite being surrounded by Humans and Saiyans, this wasn’t really where they belonged. She didn’t doubt that what he was claiming her race had done was true, but she couldn’t idly stand by and let New Vegeta be taken. Reina herself would likely fall victim to the plague they planned to spread on the masses, and even if they escaped, something told her they would hunt her.

This had to end here.

Now it’s time you see what hell is really like…

Aiden charged on the Tuffle leader, swinging and hitting the air where he’d been only seconds before just as the ground beneath his feet opened up and Mentik reappeared, slamming him down into the ground. The two men disappeared from sight beneath the makeshift opening that Mentik had likely triggered with proximity, leaving Reina to watch in horror.

AIDEN!!!

Reina dropped down seconds later, landing in a pool of light several stories below the surface in an empty warehouse. She could guess what it had once housed, likely machines of mayhem constructed by the Tuffle legion to battle the Saiyans. It amazed her that all this time such a terrible threat had been lingering right beneath the people’s feet. She couldn’t say that she was all that surprised though - Rein was a shithole, and the Tuffles had taken advantage of it being long forgotten by the law.

The saiyan woman kicked at the debris under her feet, looking around the vacant room and found it empty. No Mentik. No Aiden. Down there in the facility her senses her dulled with the expert technology that filled the walls all around her, but she was certain both men were there, somewhere - and they had to be close.

Marco,” Reina said quietly, her footsteps, however quiet, still breaking the silence with each movement. “I don’t need my ability to sense your ki to find you.

Are you going to sniff me out like the dog you are?” Mentik’s laughter echoed from within the darkness where he appeared, the dim light that glimmered down through the hole in the ceiling glinting off of his armor.

I don’t think you know who you’re dealing with, so I’ll give you a chance rethink your decision. Where’s Aiden?

Are you going to kill me, girl?

By the time I’m done, you’ll wish I had…

Despite the openness of that cathedral, Mentik and Reina turned it to warzone, debris spilling from the ceiling and walls from wayward fists and ki blasts. Reina fought with everything she had left in her, clinging to the edge of her ascended form, but for all her power - she just wasn’t fast enough. Mentik planted a foot square in the center of the woman’s chest, sending her sailing through not one but two concrete walls where she landed in a pile of debris, exhausted. With barely enough reserved strength to pull her upper half out of the rocks, she lay panting, still weary from the venom they’d shot in her veins just hours before. Mentik came walking through the opening after her, his boots crunching bits of rock with each calculated step before he bent down over her and hoisted her up by the collar of her armor until her feet dangled over the floor, her chest still heaving as she tried to catch her breath. Reina clawed at his hands that gripped her, but it fell feeble. Despite being completely tapped out, she didn’t give up, her efforts making him laugh.

What was that you said? Wish I was dead, you said? Where’s all that fight in you now?” He drew back a fist and hit her hard across the face, bruising her cheek with the impact. A second hit opened a gash and his third landed right in her outstretched palm, her fingers barely curling around his hand as she tried to save herself from a beating.

I’m going to enjoy watching you die with the rest of your pathetic race. It’s too bad you won’t be here to see this planet restored to its former glory under the control of the Tuffle race as it should be. Maybe we’ll take your little human in. He was such a good incubator for our little monkey killer that I wonder what other secrets we could grow from his supreme genetics.” Reina growled low in her throat and his hand rushed up to grip her around the neck, holding her there as he squeezed off her airway turning the aggressive sound into choking gasps.

Yes, I think I will keep him around until I’ve no further use for him. I wouldn’t want him to enjoy his reprieve of the afterlife with you, now would I? It’ll be a slow painful death that will make yours look like a kindness.

It was hard to say when exactly Reina felt her careful self control snap, but somewhere behind those bare slants of her blue eyes, her limit reached its end. With the fate of her race, her mate, and herself hanging in the balance, Reina knew she wasn’t just fighting for herself anymore - that her very best hadn’t been enough up to this point. To lose here would be to lose everything she had worked so hard for...to lose Aiden after fighting so hard for so long to get him back...

...and that just wasn’t an option.

The weight of Reina’s aura spilled into sweet oblivion, opening up channels in her that she hadn’t even known existed. What had once been the peak of her potential spilled into a valley that had never been there before. That gold aura of hers filled the room, energy cackling around the edges as her hair lengthed, turning more pronounced. Reina visibly grew in size, more power than should have been capable lingering in her veins as her hand suddenly reached down and seized Mentik by the wrist of the hand that held her, gripping so hard that the bones snapped between her fingers. When he cried out, Reina’s feet touched the ground and she hopped up enough to drop her elbow down into his shoulder, forcing him down onto his knees in front of her. He might have been fast, but she had her hands on him now and more than proved who the stronger of the two of them was. She gripped his shoulder, dodging a fist that swung wide of her before she took him by that arm, shattering the bones beneath her fingers.

No! That’s impossible!” Mentik could have never calculated that Reina was anymore than a female saiyan warrior - but in that moment she was by far the most powerful one he’d ever met - gender aside. His attempts were almost laughable, but her face was carefully devoid of emotion as she reached and took him by the throat, strangling his cries.

There are 206 bones in the body,” she told him, her voice dropping several octaves as she pulled him in close to her. “How many do you think I can break before you pass out from the pain? I look forward to finding out…
Edited by Reina, Apr 1 2014, 10:18 AM.
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