The begining of a darker tomorrow

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"Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison."
Heinrich Heine

Suki's ship entered the atmosphere of the planet earth. He had never been there before, and had actually hoped he would never have to. The planet was filled with millions of small and pathetic creatures, ones barely capable of breathing let alone standing up to the World Trade Organization. However in the recent tournament Suki had seen many talented fighters come from this planet. The android Carmine was developed here, and the human Zach was born on this planet.

This most important figure Suki wished to meet again was the Captain of the Demon's Galleon, Ryota. He had shown the most promise and would prove to be the greatest challenge of all. Although he felt the earthlings would pay up, he wished that they wouldnt, he wanted to fight the captain, he wanted to recruit him. This would make Suki's conquest on earth worth it.

As the ship landed Suki took his position in front of the door, so that as the large metal shutter began to lower, anyone whom was there for his arrival would see him.

Suki's power would have been felt by those with a power of 500 or more, So his arrival would be no secret, and likely someone would be there to meet him.

[Zach]

Careening across the sky as supersonic speeds, Zach rocketed along like a flesh and bone bullet. His speed was only matched by the growing feelings of urgency and anger. Anger was after all one of the boy’s primary motivators and it was no surprise that it’s fare was already starting to rage out of control. He would have to remember to thank they guy in black back on the tower to telling him Suki had arrived, otherwise he might have missed his chance at pounding the pintsized monster into the pavement.

Unfortunately as Zach arrived over the towering skyscrapers of Satan City, he found it difficult to spot Suki’s ship. Were he not deaf to the energy signatures of other, the boy might have been able to narrow down his search of the city. To his dismay though this was not so and he was forced to start a systematic search of the sprawling metropolis. To that end, the shirtless teen started to fly up and down every street and avenue in the city one at a time.

Thankfully though the search was short and within minutes Zach found the donut shaped vessel, parked near the heart of the city. Dropping out of the sky like a rock, Zach landed in a dramatic explosion of concrete on one knee and hand. He rose after a moment and glared across the hundred feet or so between himself and the entrance to the space ship.

“Get off my planet.” the boy rasped and clenched his fists at his sides.

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The blond man standing before him was not Ryota, but rather one of the louder individuals at his tournament. He had always paid very little attention to this particular warrior, and could not hide his dissatisfaction in the warrior they had chosen to defend their planet.

"Your planet eh, getting a little ahead of yourself"

Suki said as he levitated roughly three feet into the air, and slowly made his way down the ramp and onto the ground infront of Zach. They were only 10 feet apart at this point, and the height difference was considerable, Suki standing at a proud 3 foot 5 and Zach being considerably taller. The Juxtaposition would have been quite humorous to one who did not recognize the severity of the situation.

"I have three rules, The first is that this is a one on one fight, as soon as its not, all bets are off, and there will be consequences. Secondly You may back out once we have started to either join my cause, or pay me the 4000Z i requested.....And finally...This fight is to the death"

Suki set out the ground rules to the ruffian who had approached his vessel. Because Suki was such a monstrous power, he believed it was his duty to set ground rules, and to keep them in line.

"But to be honest, I was hoping for something a little different, are you sure you want to waste your little life on a fight with me, and wouldn't rather leave it up to one of the more impressive tournament winners"

Suki was referring to the Captain, he had indeed wanted a fight with him, but would accept Zach as a replacement only if necessary.

Suki's actions seemed highly bored, and incredibly condescending, Zach really wasn't worth his time in Suki's mind.

[Zach]

Zach stood there, fuming at the diminutive alien as he lifted off, glided forward and then set down and prattled on about how he had rules. Zach still had no idea exactly how strong the little tyrant was but reasoned he couldn’t be much more powerful then Ryota. He did realize that meant this guy was probably strong enough to give him a good run for his proverbial money but the headstrong boy was already there, the challenge was issued and he would not back down. The possibility of getting killed never entered his mind, getting seriously injured yes, but the only death he could ever envision was that of the two Saiyan’s who murdered his family and just about everyone in his home town.

“You certainly talk a lot for someone so tiny.” the blonde responded, paying little heed to what his opponent was saying. He already knew all about how this guy was trying to extort money from earth, and he would not stand for it. Additional details were pointless, he was here to put a stop to the pintsized dictator’s plans, not talk about them. “Besides, I think I already said everything that needs saying. Time to put up or shut up.” Zach added and raised his clenched fists.

Not taking anything to chance, Zach powered up his body armor technique and formed the translucent, protective shields around his legs, chest and forearms. Since he knew this guy probably possessed something near the Captain’s capacity to fight, he was going to proceed cautiously at first and not rush in, as much as he’d like to just try and pound that purple and white face into the pavement. With caution in mind Zach started forward slowly, keeping his arms up about his head and chest and armor well fed with energy.

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Suki listened to the young man's attempt at cool one liners, it mattered very little to him what the man had to say, and the moment he was done speaking Suki thought to himself.
Well then maybe next month I will get a challenge.

Zach began powering up, and to no surprise Suki was less than threatened by the man's power level increase. He was indeed so incredibly certain that Zach was no threat, that he would not even bother to power up, his Powerlevel was resting right around the 20,000 mark, give or take a couple thousand, and this was all Suki was convinced he would need. His head cocked slightly to the right, as a sheen appeared over the legs, chest, and arms of Zach's body.
A defensive Ki barrier?

But more intreaging was the obtuse fact that Zachs Midsection was not being covered by the Ki, was he aware of this flaw? Perhaps he was still charging up, maybe he wasnt down yet.

"Well....I will give you as much time as you need, to er....get prepared"

Suki was disappointed, he felt as though he was now babysitting rather than fighting, if the man wasnt even going to put his entire guard up, there was no point in fighting with him. In suki's mind, one good beam through the mid section would kill the lad, but if he did that it would be a waste of a long trip.

Suki stood, his arms still crossed, and his feet levitating inches above the ground, his tail, on the earth below him.

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(Sorry didnt change accounts, but you know its me)

[Zach]

As Zach closed in on the alien one step at a time, the other didn’t ever seem to be trying to prepare himself. Even worse, the little jerk went so far as to accuse him of not being prepared. The indignities he was suffering from this longwinded shrimp were mounting up and his temper had exploded once because of it, thankfully in the safety of Ryota’s ship. Now though he was face to face with the little monster and nothing was stopping him from planting his fist on the guy’s face. Granted he had to assume the alien was male, if not then he’d be in an awfully awkward position, having his personal rule not to fight a woman.

Enough was enough though, Zach was very quickly ceasing to care what gender his opponent was, all he wanted to do was hit him, and that’s what he tried to do. Having had all he could take of the changeling’s attitude, Zach’s temper exploded once more and he rushed the last few feet, attempting to slam his right fist directly into Suki’s nose. He wasn’t sure if he’d hit or what measure of success to expect so the punch was the opening to a combination that would hopefully have ever increasing likelihood of doing damage with every shot thrown. Following his right would be his left elbow intended to cross the other’s face and then following that his right knee, aimed for the aliens torso. Due to the size difference between them, it was difficult to aim for Suki’s stomach or the chest without the likely hood of hitting both so Zach made no distinction between them.

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The humans anger was just what Suki had been waiting for, he had watched zach in the tournament, and knew the human was run by his emotion, and this was just one more thing to give suki a deadly advantage. Zach was moving quickly, however the one true benefit to Suki's size was his superior speed to most larger opponents, However it was not to dodge, but rather the attack before Zach could land his blow.

As the tail that was so peacefully laying on the ground struck out, like a rattlesnake to a mouse, and forward into the mid section where zach was unguarded. The tail being Suki's most powerful limb would make a devastating impact into the area below Zachs chest.

Suki would use that opportunity to levitate backwards, as Zach would no doubt continue his onslaught of punches and elbows, Suki's only intention was to continue dodging the hits, which now must have been slowed by the attack to his stomach. Swaying side to side, avoiding the attacks as they came barraging at him, suki found them getting strangely close to his fairly fragile Icer body, and this would not do.

As the attacks continued, suki would throw out the occasional strike to the midsection, using his tail as to not throw off his ability to dodge the oncoming strikes. Meanwhile when his tail was not jabbing the poor man in the abdomen, it would be joining Suki infront, helping to block the thrusts that were getting to close for comfort.

"You are joking right? I mean do you not notice that obscene blind spot?"

Suki stated bluntly as the tail continued its massacre of Zach's stomach

The two were moving very quickly making it difficult for outside viewers to see exactly what punches were being thrown, however the occasional still frame could be seen by all. Zach's anger could only be growing, and Suki was ready for him to escalate combat to the next level. beyond punches

[Zach]

With the first exchange Zach gasped out a breath of air that had been forced from his lungs and tried not to groan as a result of the hard strike to his midsection. Suki’s intuition was correct in that Zach continued his barrage, unfortunately none of his strikes were landing and he was taking hits without any reward. The boy had tightened his abdominals, warding off some of the power of the blows to his midsection and pressed on, trying to land just one good punch. His anger was still blind him too much to realize that the alien’s extra long appendage same with a disadvantage. It’s length made it easier to grab a hold of then an arm or a leg.

Zach didn’t realize he was throwing the fight away himself until the alien taunted him again. The teen’s mind had been so clouded by his rage induced desire simply to hit Suki that he had forgotten about his own fighting style. The taunt brought it back though, he left himself open on purpose, he always did, now if only he could get that opening he needed.

Still plenty angry but thinking clearly enough to get a strategy going, Zach threw another combination for the alien’s head, although his left punch this time was a feint. He’d wait for that next impact to his gut, deal with it as best he could and with his half retracted left hand, attempted to grab hold of Suki’s tail. If he managed to get his hand firmly clamped on, the boy would drop his offensive with the right and immediately attempted to clamp that hand on again before lifting off with a burst of his flight power and going into a spin. The idea behind the entire plan being to fling Suki out like a yoyo on the end of it’s string, and then smash him into the ground bellow.

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Suki continued as they had, it had become rythmic, neither one changing style, and suki was alright with this, no matter how hard he flexxed, the pain would eventually get the better of him, it always did with humanoids. However Zachs next movement was unexpected which was both soothing, and surprising to Suki, whom had been worried the fight was going no where fast.

Once Zach had a firm grip on Suki's tail and began flying upward Suki began flying with him, in what appeared to be a quite comical view. Suki being dragged along by his tail, however as Zach began the motion of spinning Suki made a sharp turn around, and zach could feel a powerful tug from the Icer's tail. The thick monstrous tail pulled Suki Into zach, so that both of Suki's legs were planted firmly on Zach's already battered stomach, and Suki would push with all of his strength on Zachs stomach, in an attempt to separate the two, and cause both, to be flung in opposite directions.

Regardless of if this was succesful, suki would not allow himself to make such a powerful impact into the ground, as the moment his body made its way to the ground, he stuck both arms out, and using his levitation forced the ground below him to break, to those watching the small stones could be seen flying around Suki in such a manor that by the time suki touched the ground, the gravel would break his fall.

Suki allowed this feeling of disapproval to sink in, he didnt like being dirty like this, nor did he like it when other creatures thought they had gotten the better of him, and it was for this reason that Suki decided that hand to hand combat was no longer going to be his choice of battle.

"Alright blondie"

He said, levitating back up onto his feet, and wiping the dust and gravel off of his shoulders

"That was your chance to attack, now I will take mine"

With that his eyes narrowed, and the rocks around him began to rise, some smaller than others, but all of them now levitating in the air. His fingers clenched as they began to rise, small amounts of Purple Ki seeping from the bottom of the stones. Suki was raising them up, using his telekinetic powers to attack Zach from a distance

"Hrrrrrraaaaaa........Alright....lets play CATCH!"

And with those words dozens of stones began flying at Zach rapidly. the smaller ones would likely do little harm, but some of the larger ones were moving fast enough to cause considerable damage if they should make direct contact. How would zach react to this new onslaught

[Zach]

Zach was delighted when he managed to get a firm grip with both of his hands on Suki’s tail and as planned, ascended and attempted to go into a spin with the intention of slamming the alien into the ground. What he didn’t intend for was for his organic yoyo to come back up it’s string and plant both feet in his gut.

“Huuuuhhhh!” the boy gasped as his body deflated from the impact. Suki didn’t need to do much pulling at all to free himself. The boy’s abdominals barely stood up to the initial impact, let alone the constant pressure of the alien trying to get away from him. Zach’s grip faulted as did his power to fly, landing the boy on his back some distance away from his opponent. Letting out a soft groan as he climbed back to his feet, Zach noted with some displeasure that his maneuver hadn’t left a mark on Suki and he’d been rewarded with a double kick to the stomach.

By now his innards were aching enough to sap a bit of his strength and coordination and the alien still didn’t even look as though he was trying. Grumbling, Zach straitened himself and raised his arms back to a defensive posture about his head while his opponent started to manipulate a field of purple energy.

“Oh crap…” Zach commented more to himself then to anyone around him and tensed up. He wasn’t sure what to expect, it was evident that Suki was playing with him by now and whether he was going to chuck boulders at him one at a time or all at once Zach couldn’t tell. The answer came quickly as the purple energy field his opponent was manipulating launched a formation of rocks that numbered in the twenties and thirties. Given the distance between them and the speed of the rocks, Zach had little time to react. He knew fighters of his general strength were able to do some pretty fun things, like punch holes in the ground, uproot trees without breaking a sweat and yes, even punch through solid rock. He himself had never done so before but no wasn’t the time to quibble over such details.

Summoning up his strength with a mighty roar, Zach launched himself towards the barrage of stones, blasting some of the larger rocks apart with his fists. The smaller ones zoomed passed his body, slashing nick’s a cuts in his sides, his arms and shoulders. The armor about his legs and chest protected him from any more severe skin abrasions but the first blood had been drawn and it was of no surprise to Zach that it was his own. Still charging forward, after passing through the lithic storm, Zach tried to keep up his momentum, pouring energy into his power to fly. He intended to fly directly over the alien and swing his knee down just as he was passing by. With any hope it’d catch him in the face.

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The stones flying through the air, and in an impressive display of power Zach is able to destroy most of the large ones that would have caused the greatest damage. Suki was surprised at the human's resilience, he had not expected him to put up such a fight, let alone be able to counter so effortlessly.

Although his speed was visibly shaken, it was still impressive that with such a torn up abdomen he could react as if nothing was wrong, and this impressed suki to the point where he had wanted to say something, however Zach was so fast approaching, that rather than Speaking, Suki decided a counter would be wiser.

As the human approached Suki raised both hands up into the air, his nose curled slightly as a bead of sweat ran down his forehead. Zach would now be flying straight into a large rock, as Suki's motion had pulled yet another large chunk out of the ground. Although this was a slower rock, it would effect his flight path, or cause massive damage.

Suki shot off the final chunk of earth directly at the warrior, in order to stop his direct assault.

Suki watched the back of the stone intently, waiting to see what would come of it, if it was successful the fight may be over, however Suki doubted that this would be the case, So long as the human was forced out of his flight path his job was accomplished and he would be able to continue fighting from there.

[Zach]

Bleeding from a dozen places and careening towards his opponent with every ounce of speed he could muster, Zach charged the Changeling in an attempt to crash his knee into the little monster’s face. Unfortunately for him with the speed he was traveling and steadily weakening state, it was no surprise that the great stone Suki threw up to block his path was unavoidable. In the final few feet Zach tried to change direction, but the flying boulder was too quick and plowed right into him.

The sight was almost comical as the teen’s arms and legs each protruded from behind the rock as he was flattened against it. The boulder’s flight was short however and a moment after he crashing into it, the stone’s path to it to the ground where it’s weight nearly squashed Zach’s body beneath it. The blonde teen coughed out a mouth full of blood as the rock rolled off of his torso to rest thankfully elsewhere, and let out an extended groan of pain. Now he was bleeding from a dozen and one places and was pretty sure by the sharp stinging in his sides, that he had at least a few broken ribs. He could mend the bones though if given time but at the moment the shock of what had just happen to him was still sinking in, as evidenced by the look of awe frozen on the teen’s face.

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Suki was panting from the massive attack he had just performed, this was evident by the vein throbbing on his forehead. He watched as no sign of zach appeared, he had expected the Human to come out from the left or right, however he simply disappeared. Suddenly much to Suki's amusement, the boulder landed with a loud

CRASH

Below this boulder as Suki would quickly see, was none other than zach, whom had been unable to dodge it. His body appeared broken, and the young man stunned. This was suki's chance to have a little fun.

Suki casually floated over to the teen whom was now on the ground writhing in pain. His tail slowly reachin around Underneath his arms, and pulling him upwards.

Because of suki's small size, he only needed to pull zach up, so that he was now sitting on his knee's This way, him and Suki were at eye level. Should the teen decide to fight back, suki would simply constrict with all of his might, further crushing the ribs that were in such pain.

"Stupid Human, I have to admit you pushed me further than I had expected, but unfortunately its time for the part of the battle that is to the death"

Suki held up his finger and pointed directly at Zachs chest before it finally hit him...

"Wait....Im not satisfied, as long as we are doing this, I would like to make it a little more fun."

Suki changed from a finger to a fist, and began slowly and rhythmically throwing jabs into the fighters torso, where he had been weak the entire fight.

"You know where your problem lied human, was this stomach, you make no effort to protect it, what kind of asinine strategy is that"

Each jab was slightly harder that the last as Suki continued. It should be noted that suki did not have his tail around Zachs throat, simply around his chest, he didnt want the human to accidentally slip into death without suki's permission, he wanted this to be slow and painful, the same sadistic manner as always

[Zach]

Zach laid on his back for the few moments it too Suki to notice him and snake his tail around the teen’s chest. Zach cringed as the alien’s appendage applied pressure and lifted him up, causing his arms to dangle up and out to the sides. His breathing was stilted, marked by sharp stings of pain every time his diaphragm tried to move his ribcage and blood continued to trickle slowly down the side of his mouth. His senses started to come back to him when Suki pointed a single finger towards his chest and that started to speak to him, making it sound very much like the alien intended to torture him to death.

Zach gagged as Suki changed from pointing his finger at his chest to aiming a fist at his midsection and then plunging it in. Zach’s abs were already wrecked, providing little protection from the alien’s punch. Another punch followed suit, and then another. The poor boy grunted, gagged and gasped with each shot to his unprotected stomach, the blows sapping more of his strength and spreading a sickening sensation of defeat through his body.

‘No! I can’t let him win, too many people are depending on me.’ Zach thought to himself as he helplessly took punch after punch. ‘I have to stop him, slow him down at the least, I’m the only one here who can. This entire city is helpless, all of these people…’ Zach’s mind continued to race as his rage and desperation to save lives, even at the cost of his own boiled within him.

“Rrrrrr… I won’t let you win!” he screamed as his crimson aura exploded all around him, engulfing both he and his opponent. The blood seeping out of the many wounds in his skin burned away as Zach ascended into his transformed state. The body’s body was already at it’s limit but he was determined to try it didn’t matter what he accomplished as long as he tried. With that thought in mind, the blonde roared once more, every working muscle in his body tensing up as he attempted to grab a hold of the alien’s tail one more time and free himself from it’s constricting coils.