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[Lord Raziere]

Ver-Valna, Talsaiga
"Hmph. I leave such speculation to you. I have no knowledge of their real motives or why Lokote was made this way aside from the fact that it has not changed since it was used to sabotage Val-Kagra, only what we've been told and Serin-Misas occasional visits where she speaks in riddles. Again, no one is crazy enough to tell you where Lokote or Serin-Misa is. Bad business dealing with those. They are clever, and I do not want any part of this insanity aside from protecting my people and this planet. I can tell what other kind of people you are: warriors, planet destroyers, dangerous people with dangerous goals. You take risks that I cannot condone. I know I cannot stop you, but I will not be the one who causes a catastrophe to happen just because of whatever insanity makes you think any good can come from dealing with Lokote. Nor will I cave to any threats of planetary annihilation. At least then Lokote will be useful and you will be dead if they decide to leave you out of the wish. Leave. I'll entertain you no longer, offworlders. Find out these things yourself, if you so desire to be so foolish. Guards, escort them out gently."
She stands strong, not backing down and tries to shoo you out with her hand while the guards gather around to emphasize that the audience is over. She had important Overpearl stuff to attend to, which probably included preparing for the fallout of whatever fiasco they cause in trying to get to Lokote.

Talsaiga, Somewhere Else

Spoiler: Lokote and Serin-Misa

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Serin-Misa looks through an orb at this conversation. She was dressed in strange garb of a Talsaigan: cotton clothes woven herself and wielding a wooden staff, a rabbit mask obscures her face.
"Aah.....ah! Yes! This is definitely interesting. Someone actually wants to wish upon you."
"Good! Its been so long."
"Haha nope! Not on my watch! You know I can't let that happen! Your going to Do A Thing if I let them wish upon you. Can't let that happen. I know you, you tricksy dragon. Best part is, I just have to wish upon you to make things that will stop them! Yes indeedy."
Serin-Misa said while doing a strange jig.
"....Which I will twist to my amusement, y'know that right?"
"Yes, but you'll still have to grant them! the wishes to prevent people from coming to you! I have tricks to make sure they do, even with your tampering. yes indeedy."
They were rivals. Centuries long rivals, Serin-Misa and Lokote. Neither trusted the other, for they both knew how clever they were. Lokote knew that his twisty mind is the product of Serin-Misa's twisty mind. And they both knew you could not trust another twisty-mind-person. Serin-Misas desired to protect Talsaiga, which involved keeping people away from Lokote. But Lokote desires were less clear. They would always be at odds. And their battle of wits seemingly eternal.
"I know. You have been pretty good about in the past. Very well, shall we play another round? hehehehehehe."
The 6ft small serpentine bronze dragon answered back with his eternal trollface grin while stroking his long mustache-like whiskers.
"Yes. Yes we shall. Time for another game of Trickster Chess! By the way, is what the little green one said true?"
"Maybe it is. Maybe it isn't. Maybe you should wish for the destruction of Talsaiga to find out. Who knows? Shouldn't you?" Lokote said always with that endless grin.
"Maybe I do. Maybe I don't. Shouldn't YOU already know whether I know in your omnipotence/omniscience?"
They stare at each other, not trusting the other if they try to answer. The staredown goes on for a long moment, then Serin-Misa makes her first wish:
"I wish for Ankrynna the Cursed Warrior to know their location and motives."
"Granted! She now has the worst sense of direction in the world."
"Haha! I have telepathy! I will simply give her anti-directions so that she finds them in the process of getting lost on the way to her anti-destination! I have outwitted you! Yes indeedy."
"Good first move. ....Will all of them work so well?"
Game. Set. Match.

Tournament
It seems that Knight of Mystery's luck is running out, Saoma is slowly pushing him back with her cat-girl style martial arts, and just when all hope seems lost....something happens:
"SAAAAAOMMAAAAAAAA RATAAAAAMEEEE!!!!" a female voice suddenly yells from the crowds. Saoma stops her attacks and turns to look, wooden in her movements to see her 4 to 6 fiancees standing there, angrily.
"No! No! I came here to get away from you crazy people! I don't want to marry yet! I'm young! I want to be free! Not hitched to you crazy jealous people!"
"No, you get out of that stupid form RIGHT NOW, and come marry one of us, husband!"
"No! I used to hate it, but then I realized that you all hate it more! And soon, I've come to decide that I'm bi-gender! That I can identify as both however I want! This form taught me that I didn't have to be a man among men to be strong! And that I can enjoy other things in life while still being strong!" Saoma says in a heartfelt speech, then finishes it with:
"Besides your just jealous that I look better in a dress in this form than all of you." with catty swagger.
At least Masala, Tarasai, Shanakan and Luxana all facefault at this. Saoma then turns around while her fiancees seem to star preparing various weapons to kill her.
"Yeah, they're going to stick around, no matter what I do. I'm out, Bye!"
Saoma Ratame then jumps out of the arena and runs away, pursued by her various fiancees with martial arts weapons. The Announcer blinks and raises his hand.
"Winner......Knight of Mystery..."

En route to Talsaiga
"Oh. hm. The thing is about our mistakes and failures, Vodkana....is that we all have those kind of worries. We worry when we will slide back, or screw up. Yet, for most of us....the world doesn't care. It doesn't have the time to watch you and keep you from screwing up. You have to learn to watch yourself. Your close friends and family can help watch you, to keep you from sliding down, but.....Everyone else shouldn't be burdened with that. The only people who should have society watching their mistakes and holding them publicly accountable for their actions are politicians. And you, Vodkana are no politician. So unless you plan on being a ruler, learn to watch yourself- and even if you are a ruler, watching yourself isn't a bad idea. To be self-aware, to be your own vigilant guard against your demons. The only thing that prevents you from doing all those things is your own decisions. Anything else is just a pathetic excuse that people invent to evade responsibility.

The world cannot be responsible for you, Vodkana, not forever. Learn to be responsible for yourself. Not even Starlight can be responsible for you forever, once this is all over, she probably has stuff to do in Equestria or something, who knows? If you want to be free, your own Nyagato, you can't have it both ways. You either let people decide everything for you and be safe in others watching you, or you learn to be responsible and watch yourself without any needing to. I'd learn to shape up sooner or later if I were you though- no one's patience is truly endless. You can keep crying and worrying about it, but at some point someone will snap at you for not doing anything, or just leave and consider you a lost cause if you don't stop worrying, and start doing something about it."
Android 23 is getting a little tired of worrying about things and not doing actual things.
"Return, Chandelure. Go, Golisopod."
The strange buff insect pokemon comes out. Umbreon gets a free turn.

Crescent Moon Hill
Tarasai meanwhile shatters the mirror blast with a distant shockwave kiai. He is pretty sure that three robed figures are just more humans under its control. He instead chooses to focus on the building that arose from the ground.
"Flowing River Dragon Fireworks!"
He does a strange kata in the air, a celestial serpentine dragon of blue ki gracefully forming around him, then suddenly rushes forward at the building, curling around it then exploding into various smaller ki blasts that then explode as well to try and destroy the building itself, hoping that'll be more effective than trying to attack the three robes.

[igordragonian]

En route to Talsaiga

"Confuse Ray!" Vodkana commanded aloud.

Vodkana folded her ears.
"I...see... nya...'


Ver-Valna, Talsaiga

Vodkana stared at Trombone Jr. "You sure are scary for a child.. nya. I LIKE YOU!" she said and squeezed him into a hug.
"Ny..nya? But you still haven't told me about your dress!" she said to the OVerpearl.

Crescent Moon Hill

Fenrir decide to cover for Tarasai, by attacking the three robes, with wild berserk attack.
"This reality do not belong to you!"

Tournament

Knight OF Mystery blinked under the helmet.
Huh?

Then he has realized. He won!
He waved his fists into air, making the crowd roar.
"Another mysteriouse victory for the Knight Of Mystery!' he has announced.
If there is a Kai of luck- she is probably a teen girl, with a very bad taste.


Fenrir raised an eyebrow. "That...was the strangest battle I'v ever seen. And I am saying it, as one who has fought Masala-sama.'

[Frozen_Feet]

[Talsaiga]

Trombone Junior looks mildly distressed when Vodkana hugs them. "Please let go of me", he says with a deadpan voice.

Once they're down, they look at Masala. "We don't need the Overpearl to tell us where to find the dragon. You still have that radar, right? For this Lokote thing to be running around, I think it's safe to presume its dragon balls are active and in one central location. If we can find an energy signature, we can just fly my ship right where they are."

[Lord Raziere]

Talsaiga, Somewhere Else
"Heheheheh, fool. See? They've got a direct route to me! You've already lost, Serin-Misa! And you made the best most powerful warrior on this planet less effective by making her easily lost! I can see them telling you how your a big idiot even now! Which one do you think will be the snarkiest about it? Android 23, Artic, or Apfel?"
"Shut up! I'm thinking! Aha! I cancel my first wish!"
"Granted. Ankrynna has now forgotten what she was doing."
"Now I wish..."
he couldn't just say "get rid of the Dragon Radar" because Lokote would no doubt tiwst it by replacing it with some else that would fulfill the same basic function therefore....
".....for them to have MORE Dragon radars!"
"Granted? But....but.... now they all point different directions! Darn it, you made me twist it to my own disadvantage."
Lokote couldn't resist twisting the wishes. It was his nature to do, regardless of the benefit.
"Haha! I knew it!"
Then he communicates telepathically to Ankrynna
The offworlders are in this direction....don't kill them, they mean well, just subdue them until they give up....

Talsaiga Ver-Valna
"Right! We can just use the dragon Radar to get us right to them!"
She takes out her bag and pulls out a Dragon Radar.
"Huh, there is a lot more in here than I remember, oh well."
She presses the button and goes flying off in the direction it points. Android 22 flies after her.
"Wait! I detect a great power level coming from that direction!"
"No worries! I can take on anyone, mommy! For I am Super Majin Masala!"

Ankrynna the Unstoppable is approaching. For all those who sense ki, her ki is like an unrelenting flood, ever rushing forward towards you, a flood unending like a infinite amount of bulls charging in one direction forever. For those who use scouter, the PL shows up as: ???,??? PL. For those who have sensed Hailing for comparison, this one doesn't seem as powerful by raw numbers, but there is something....else about it that you can't quite place that is still something to be feared.

En Route to Talsaiga
"Ey chin up. Its not as hard as I make it sound sometimes. Once you get practiced at it, it becomes normal. It gets easier to control if you do it consistently and constantly."
The confusion hits! Darn. That was always a problem.
"Golisopod, switch out. Go, Lilligant."
The flowery lady pokemon bursts out with a curtsy. Unlike Golisopod, Lilligant had Her Tempo, and could not be confused. Still a free turn for Umbreon, but if Vodkana went for it again, she would respond with Petal Dance, a powerful grass type move. Sure it would lock 23 into it for three turns but it was so powerful she knows that almost any pokemon would faint from the attack.
Android 22 notices Starlights silence and whispers to her.
"Nothing to say about mind-wiping? I admit, I don't like it at all. We shouldn't HAVE to wipe memories to solve things. But I'm honestly not sure how you convince millions of people to stop being revenge-happy at once. A person can be convinced and persuaded, a crowd can't. While a news report.....I'm not sure how effective they actually are. People hear what they want to hear. and those are all the people who will listen. I guess if we ever get the chance, I could try to give them a speech, but would they want to hear it?"

Tournament
"Next up! We have in one corner, Mr. Thisunit! A big guy with metal skin, he seems quite the immovable object to defeat! Is he from some far exotic land? Is he a traveler, come from a land of metal men who are steel of body but soft of heart!? Who knows!"

In This corner, we have Crash The Maelstrom! One of the greatest, if not THE greatest sharpshooters on Earth! It said that while he has 66 billion zennie bounty on his head for his capability to destroy entire cities with his steam-powered arm, he is a known pacifist and has figured out a gun martial arts to defeat his foes non-lethally! His preferred weapon is a revolver, Crash! what do you have to say to everyone?"
"Do you like Love And Peace?" Crash says in a cheerful voice
"Well....yes...of course.."
"Then we're good. because everyone likes love and peace. Everyone."
He finishes the last word in a creepy deep tone
"O.....Kay... then....uh...fight!"

[Emperor Ing]

Talsaiga - Ver-Valna

As you wish. Apfel bowed respectfully to the Overpearl as he turned to leave with the rest of the group.

As the group begins to collect the dragon radar, Artic is suddenly struck. Hold on! He states. I can sense it too. Massive power-level. Coming from there. He points.

Apfel looked in that direction and activated his monocle-scouter. Even 500 years in the future during the era of the Galactic Frieza Army, scouters, particularly common models, were known to outright explode upon exposure to a sufficiently large power-level. Usually around 20k-30k. Even high-end models reached their limit at 500k. In this time period, the problem was worse. Fortunately there was a way to circumvent the problem by employing a ship's scanners. These massive consoles employed a sensory suite that could scan everything from the geographical and atmospheric contents of a world in seconds, to individual power-levels with a capacity whose upper-limits are yet to be identified. Thus, Apfel's model of scouter, in addition to its cosmetic changes, sent a signal to his ship to scan power-levels within his line-of-sight, and return a simple float readout. The only flaw is that if the ship is out of range or the console is disabled, the scouter is only slightly more useful than a glorified eyepiece.

Even with this technology, the readout was illegible, as the six-digit number jumbled itself seemingly at random, as though at every moment, the scouter were deliberately trying to return a number between 100,000 and 999,999. Either way, Apfel could tell there would be trouble, and he didn't need latent psychic ability to determine that.

It's coming for us, isn't it? Ieez pointed out. We need to lure it out of this city.

Agreed. That one is a Planet Annihilator. The helpfully concise Imperial term for someone capable of reducing a planet into an asteroid field.

Come on! Apfel then glowed with his violet aura, and flew in the opposite direction of the oncoming source of energy, Ieez following, Artic moving in the direction of the ship to get his newly updated power armor.

The Void Skull

Aaah, they wouldn't believe me. Apfel continued. Ahm one of th' good guys, member? Naaw, I...blackmailed you! Yeah, I caught ya doin' somethin' so bad...so...bad, you just...you'd do anythin'. But i'm a good guy so it's-zip! Gone. Where'd it go? Nobody knows!

Baaah, what am I sayin'? The Incirrian leaned back grinning. They don't need to know nuffin'. Who's gonna stop me?

Crescent Moon Mill

The rubble shoots upwards into the air as it tries to collapse the building from under itself. What loose stones there are fall seemingly in slow-motion to the ground. However Tarasai has created a hole inside the now visibly hollow structure. A hole that remains stationary even as the stones and mortar that make up the building disappear into the hole's shape, only to reappear once past it.

Fenrir bats away two of the robed humans, though the third is able to avoid it, floating away.
<You do not exist.> He simply hears as the human throws a hand violently across his body and a violent telekinetic force attempts to strike Fenrir, trying to knock him onto the side of one of the continuously rising stone structures.

[Frozen_Feet]

[Talsaiga]

"Wait what do you mean 'lot more'?", Trombone Junior tries to ask Masala... but she and Android 22 are already gone before they finish the sentence! Then they feel the approaching Ki and freeze for a moment. "Wait, shouldn't you...?", they try ask from Apfel etc., but they manage to fly away too, leaving Trombone Junior standing in the dust.

"Oh this is just great."

They stop to think. There suddenly being more dragon radars, and this massive ki heading for them at practically the same instant, are massively implausible. Especially when they happened just after Trombone spoke their suggestion to Masala. Somehow, the enemy must be eavesdropping on them. It seems like Talsaigan superstition on Lokote's omniscience is not completely baseless.

But why would the dragon just happen to be watching them? Dragons sure know a lot, but they rarely consciously access most of their knowledge unless granting wishes. Wait... that's it, isn't it? Talsaigan dragon balls supposedly grant limitless wishes. For the dragon to stick around, the balls must be gathered. So.... someone is constantly wishing on them both to know what's going on and to foil any attempts to find them. Who? Probably that Serrin-Misa person.

Trombone Junior decides to put their theory into test. "Oh ha ha", they say, giving a blase look at the sky. "Very funny, Serrin-Misa. I see you noticed our landfall and decided to spy on us. Very clever of you to send others on a wild goose chase. But know that I, Trombone Junior, Son of Kataz, will not be so easily fooled. Two people can play this game, and now we will see whether genuine Namekian dragon lore can beat your two-bit imitations."

---

[Tournament]

Lilith stares at the announcer in disbelief. "Metal skin? How can you tell through all those clothes?", she blurts out in confusion. This catches on and soft murmur spreads through the audience. Is the announcer right? Or is this some publicity stunt?

Meanwhile, the heavily clothed juggernaut steps into the ring. The whole battleground trembles because of its weight. "This unit likes peace and love", it says with a hollow, brazen voice. "In name of Lord Trombone the Second, it will spread peace and love across the whole galaxy. All opponents of peace and love will be exterminated."

It looks down on Crash.

"This unit will now inflict great physical pain on you untill you yield. Peacefully and lovingly. Of course."

[igordragonian]

[Talsaiga]

Vodkana was a lot of things, but she wasn't a fast thinker.
She blinked just as Trombone Jr. did.
"Nya? Care to explain what is going on?"


En Route to Talsaiga

"No~ nya! My kawai Umbreon! 23-sama you are so ruthless! nya' Vodkana whined.

She hasn't answered the seriouse talking- still.. processing it all.

The Void Skull
Cup chuckled.
"Merororow! I donno! Maybe Zarbon and his new secretish fancy fighting suit! Merrowowowow!"

Crescent Moon Hill

Fenrir yapped in pain, as he were thrown into the rock.
But he growled with rage.
"You will FEEL my existence! In your face!' he roared jumping again, slashing at him with his axe, rage blinded.

[Frozen_Feet]

[Talsaiga]

Trombome Junior gives Vodkana an annoyed look, wordlessly saying "not now", but then they get an idea. They step closer to Vodkana and beckon towards her, while still looking up to the sky. "As you can see, I have a Goddess of Destruction on my side. If you do not yield these unnatural dragon balls you have made, she shall enforce the Law of Gods and incinerate all of Talsaiga for your sins."

[igordragonian]

Vodkana blinked. And then smiled a devourer smile.
"Yeah! Nya! Be warned! I am Vodkana Princess Of Destruction! I am hungry for snacks and destruction, and I am all out of snacks!" she glowed with a purple aura of divine ki.

[Lord Raziere]

Talsaiga, Somewhere Else
"Oho? Somebody actually offed ol' Beerus and installed a replacement? That means she is the strongest person in the universe! Wouldn't you say, Lokote?"
"That does sound like a logical conclusion based upon the things they said."
Lokote said whilst smiling.
"Good! We finally get a use for our weakest Cursed Warrior to take out a threat to the planet! Yes indeed."
"Ya mean Ol' Bav-Nil? The male homofusion who wished for the power to defeat the strongest person in existence in one punch? That guy? I remember that guy, it was funny when he punched Ankrynna with that attack and it had no effect. Its literally useless for defeating anyone that ISN'T the strongest being in the universe!" Lokote said while snickering at both the memory and at Serin-Misa.
"Exactly! I wish Bav-Nil was there and knew about the situation!"
"Granted. There is only one Dragon radar and its pointing the right direction."
Serin-Misa broadcasts her thoughts back at Trombone
Lil' Namekian thinks he knows everything huh? Well behold, the cursed warrior, Bav-Nil!!

Ver-Valna
Suddenly a male Talsaigan appears in front of Vodkana.
"Finally." Bav-Nil breathes. "The Successor to Beerus, here which means I can finally use this attack! The attack I wished for! The attack that will defeat the strongest person in all of existence and no one else! I've waited so long. Behold, Daughter of Beerus I will end your reign of terror with......

THE INFINITY PUNCH!!!"
He jumps forward with his fist shining, the PL of his fist rising up to Infinity.The rest of his body is only 1000 PL though. The fist shines with a strange light,the power limitless, vast within its depths, power unending....Android 23 sees the attack, and yells, her hand outstretched.
"Vodkana! No!"

Meanwhile Ankrynna and Masala meet, Ankrynna crashes into the city streets, the Talsaigans around her run away while cheering her on yelling
"Don't give up! Don't give up Ankrynna the Unstoppable!"
"I NEVER DO!" She answers back.
She steps out of the crater and points her coral spear at Masala, a female homofusion in with strange additional warrior tattoos.
"Offworlder! I will give you this warning! Get off the planet before I throw you off! I won't allow you to use the Talsaigan Dragon Balls! I am the strongest of the Seven Cursed Warriors! I guarantee you: you cannot beat me. Do not even try!"
"As if! I never give up!"
"Neither do I. Its what makes me strong! Show me your determination, no matter how foolish!"
Masala puts away her Radar and cups her hands together and a shining ball of light forms.
"Kammy-hammy-HA!"
The blue beam goes blasting forward and hits Ankrynna head on, she didn't even bother dodging....and when the smoke clears she was completely unharmed.
"what....the? How?"
"Simple. I am Ankrynna the Unstoppable! I wished for immortality! To be unstoppable and unbeatable in battle from Lokote! And I got it! There is nothing in existence that can defeat me!"
She laughs jovially.

Tournament
"Good. We are brothers in fighting for Love and Peace then. I am in this tournament to donate the prize money to Love and Peace after all." Crash responds.
"Wait is that name of a charity or....?"
"No. I'm literally going to donate to the concepts of Love and Peace themselves. I trust nothing else to get results for what I desire. Which are Love and Peace."
The Announcer raises his hand. "Alright then! Fight!"
Crash draws his gun, he is quick on the draw and fires off a first stunning ki blast from his revolver, incredibly accurate and incredibly fast. You didn't get to be the greatest sharpshooter in the world without being the fastest gun in the West.....City. It was truth to the point of being gun Iaijutsu.

((As for how the Announcer knows....um....he shouldn't....um...should we edit that?....))

Crescent Moon Hill
Ok, this was getting too mind-bending. If this being was consistent about psychic trickery as he thought, these images were probably illusions meant to trick him. Tarasai decides to do a trick: His Style was at its most basic was manipulating shockwaves and vibrations. Shockwaves can pass through any medium. And Earthquakes were just really big destructive vibrations. Therefore he slaps the ground with the open palm his left still useful arm, put his power into it to cause an earthquake, shaking the ground. An illusion would be affected by this ways that would be inconsistent with actual matter or wouldn't be affected at all, thus telling him things he wouldn't know otherwise, and something as disruptive as an earthquake would have to throw them off somehow, given how disrupting it was.

He also reflects on the fact that this artificial earthquake was oddly still less destructive than any city-destroying ki blasts or world-ending beams. Funny how this was the less destructive option. Even through at high enough levels, even this Style could theoretically generate a shockwave to shake the planet apart by abusing the same principles he was- such was the art of Geopuncture. Its like acupuncture and pressure points. But with plate tectonics.

[Emperor Ing]

Talsaiga

It's not following us. Apfel reported to Ieez as his scouter indicating the distance between them was increasing at a rate of their fly speed. That means whatever it is, it can't sense power-levels, otherwise it would go after the strongest threat right away. Logically, anyways. But there was another one that came out of nowhere. A power of a thousand, accompanied by a power whose readings reached 85,999,999 before the ship's sensors stopped reading the power, as continued sensing risked a catastrophic overload.

So those were the upper-limits of ship scanners.

Also they have a fighter stronger than Hailing by many orders of magnitude. They're going to be eviscerated.

But Vodkana and Masala were there.

Damn it!

We're going back. He says, only to see that Ieez has already come to that conclusion and is flying in their direction. Quick learner. Apfel then races back.

...


One of the first things he is able to pick up is that the post-Hailing power level was simply someone's hand. Someone allied to the Talsaigan who gave off the inconsistent six-figure power-level. Apfel was aware of the existence of techniques that enhanced the power of body-parts. While nothing of this magnitude, the principle of their weakness was still the same.

You were sent by Lokote, were you not? Apfel asked. He is aware of our presence. But...that would mean he can wish upon himself. No, he has help. He then looks into the sky. Are you listening to us right now? If you are there, then listen: Nobody needs to be hurt. Stand down. Let's talk. He then looks back down at Ankrynna.

Even though she can hear me, I doubt she is listening. I'll deal with you all then. He extends a violet ki-blade from his right hand, raising it vertical in front of his face in a duelist's salute, left arm behind his back. I am Lord Apfel. Segmentum Governor of Segmentum Cirra and the third strongest being in the known universe.

Stand down. Nobody needs to be hurt. He repeats.

Ieez, meanwhile, is surrounded by a crimson aura as his features elongate and lengthen into something more monstrous and predatory, hunching over forward with sinuous limbs poised to strike at any moment, yet maintaining a slim, aerodynamic silouhette as this form is built for speed, even as his power has increased to 180,000.

If you have to fight, we can't do it here. He says. Too much risk for collateral damage.

Crescent Moon Mill

Fenrir dispatches the last human without difficulty. It seems that at best, they are glass cannons.

Tarasai's earthquake shatters the ground, cracks and fissures forming, snapping like a gigantic pane of glass, rather than stone. Just as the ground shatters, the horizon itself shoots into the sky as Tarasai and Fenrir are swallowed into the abyss until the ground meets them, violently. However the ground is surprisingly soft, and will absorb a good chunk of the impact that those not gifted with the ability to fly have.

The ground being a misty, dark indigo field of ectoplasm.

A figure rises out from the ground, formed from ectoplasm before it takes shape, and color, taking the form of a towering 10 foot tall Arcosian with grey carapace, violet coloration, and two massive ivory horns climbing upwards from either side of his head, wearing a suit of armor that while extremely rare in the present age, will be a common sight among the armies of his successors 500 years in the future.

What a rush! Emperor Hailing exclaims with a smile, hovering inches above the ground as his right hand glows with black and white ki. I've never killed and eaten a God of Creation! He then extends his right hand, forked ki-lighting arcing outwards towards Tarasai. Make sure you cook evenly, got it?

((No, this isn't the real Hailing. What he's fighting has Hailing's moves but he's more level-appropriate for Tarasai.))

[Frozen_Feet]

[Tournament]

The crowd gasps as Crash points his gun at "Mr. Thisunit" and pulls the trigger. The blast hits the juggernaut squarely to the chest, causing its heavyset clothes to billow and flap. Could this fight be over before it started? The juggernaut's state is hard to measure, as it is not a living thing, so even those in the crowd capable of sensing Ki feel nothing about it.

But no, after a second of silence the juggernaut steps forward, unfazed by the blast. The shot was completely absorbed by its thick armor plating, it didn't even manage to move the heavy machine. "This unit is not impressed. Now commencing countermeasures." It kneels and its massive hands dig into the stonework of the arena - and then it tries to flip over the half on which Crash stands.

Meanwhile, the crowd is murmuring. "Thisunit" took a gunshot just like that? Maybe he is made of metal after all!

[Hawkflight]

Ver-Valna, Talsaiga
"Hmph. I leave such speculation to you. I have no knowledge of their real motives or why Lokote was made this way aside from the fact that it has not changed since it was used to sabotage Val-Kagra, only what we've been told and Serin-Misas occasional visits where she speaks in riddles. Again, no one is crazy enough to tell you where Lokote or Serin-Misa is. Bad business dealing with those. They are clever, and I do not want any part of this insanity aside from protecting my people and this planet. I can tell what other kind of people you are: warriors, planet destroyers, dangerous people with dangerous goals. You take risks that I cannot condone. I know I cannot stop you, but I will not be the one who causes a catastrophe to happen just because of whatever insanity makes you think any good can come from dealing with Lokote. Nor will I cave to any threats of planetary annihilation. At least then Lokote will be useful and you will be dead if they decide to leave you out of the wish. Leave. I'll entertain you no longer, offworlders. Find out these things yourself, if you so desire to be so foolish. Guards, escort them out gently."
She stands strong, not backing down and tries to shoo you out with her hand while the guards gather around to emphasize that the audience is over. She had important Overpearl stuff to attend to, which probably included preparing for the fallout of whatever fiasco they cause in trying to get to Lokote.

Starlight bent her front legs in a bow. "I apologize if we upset you. My friends mean only the best," she said, before turning around and following the others out.

[Talsaiga]

"Wait what do you mean 'lot more'?", Trombone Junior tries to ask Masala... but she and Android 22 are already gone before they finish the sentence! Then they feel the approaching Ki and freeze for a moment. "Wait, shouldn't you...?", they try ask from Apfel etc., but they manage to fly away too, leaving Trombone Junior standing in the dust.

"Oh this is just great."

They stop to think. There suddenly being more dragon radars, and this massive ki heading for them at practically the same instant, are massively implausible. Especially when they happened just after Trombone spoke their suggestion to Masala. Somehow, the enemy must be eavesdropping on them. It seems like Talsaigan superstition on Lokote's omniscience is not completely baseless.

But why would the dragon just happen to be watching them? Dragons sure know a lot, but they rarely consciously access most of their knowledge unless granting wishes. Wait... that's it, isn't it? Talsaigan dragon balls supposedly grant limitless wishes. For the dragon to stick around, the balls must be gathered. So.... someone is constantly wishing on them both to know what's going on and to foil any attempts to find them. Who? Probably that Serrin-Misa person.

Trombone Junior decides to put their theory into test. "Oh ha ha", they say, giving a blase look at the sky. "Very funny, Serrin-Misa. I see you noticed our landfall and decided to spy on us. Very clever of you to send others on a wild goose chase. But know that I, Trombone Junior, Son of Kataz, will not be so easily fooled. Two people can play this game, and now we will see whether genuine Namekian dragon lore can beat your two-bit imitations."

[Talsaiga]

Trombome Junior gives Vodkana an annoyed look, wordlessly saying "not now", but then they get an idea. They step closer to Vodkana and beckon towards her, while still looking up to the sky. "As you can see, I have a Goddess of Destruction on my side. If you do not yield these unnatural dragon balls you have made, she shall enforce the Law of Gods and incinerate all of Talsaiga for your sins."

Starlight would have flown off with the others, but she wasn't about to leave Vodkana and the child behind. When Trombone started addressing Serin Misa, her first instinct was to erect a privacy bubble, but she restrained herself, realizing that this Namekian child was far more capable than any Equestrian foal. So she remained silent and let him carry out his plan, for now.

Vodkana blinked. And then smiled a devourer smile.
"Yeah! Nya! Be warned! I am Vodkana Princess Of Destruction! I am hungry for snacks and destruction, and I am all out of snacks!" she glowed with a purple aura of divine ki.

Starlight followed along. "Vodkana ... just, make sure you don't kill us, too?" she said.

Ver-Valna
Suddenly a male Talsaigan appears in front of Vodkana.
"Finally." Bav-Nil breathes. "The Successor to Beerus, here which means I can finally use this attack! The attack I wished for! The attack that will defeat the strongest person in all of existence and no one else! I've waited so long. Behold, Daughter of Beerus I will end your reign of terror with......

THE INFINITY PUNCH!!!"

He jumps forward with his fist shining, the PL of his fist rising up to Infinity.The rest of his body is only 1000 PL though. The fist shines with a strange light,the power limitless, vast within its depths, power unending....Android 23 sees the attack, and yells, her hand outstretched.
"Vodkana! No!"

As this warrior attacked, she immediately began scanning him for any vulnerabilities. People like this tended to monologue, and she intended to use every second of it to her advantage. The first thing she realized was that only this warrior's fist had a high power level, the rest of him did not. So, hypothetically, if she cut off his fist, he should be rendered impotent. Also, she noticed that he said his attack could only defeat the strongest person in the universe, a fact she stored in the back of her mind. She wasn't about to risk it, though, and as he attacked, she attempted to envelop him in a force field, holding him out of reach of Vodkana and the child.

One of the first things he is able to pick up is that the post-Hailing power level was simply someone's hand. Someone allied to the Talsaigan who gave off the inconsistent six-figure power-level. Apfel was aware of the existence of techniques that enhanced the power of body-parts. While nothing of this magnitude, the principle of their weakness was still the same.

You were sent by Lokote, were you not? Apfel asked. He is aware of our presence. But...that would mean he can wish upon himself. No, he has help. He then looks into the sky. Are you listening to us right now? If you are there, then listen: Nobody needs to be hurt. Stand down. Let's talk. He then looks back down at Ankrynna.

Even though she can hear me, I doubt she is listening. I'll deal with you all then. He extends a violet ki-blade from his right hand, raising it vertical in front of his face in a duelist's salute, left arm behind his back. I am Lord Apfel. Segmentum Governor of Segmentum Cirra and the third strongest being in the known universe.

Stand down. Nobody needs to be hurt. He repeats.

Starlight glanced at Apfel. "23 and I have this, you go help the others," she said, keeping most of her focus on her telekinetic spell.

[igordragonian]

Talsagia

"Don't worry, Starlight I just-" Vodkana started to explain.

"NYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYA!!!" Vodkana yelled dramatically as she was punched with the infinity punch.
She blinked.
"Are you trying to scare me!? Nya?! What the nya is wrong with you?!" she slapped the strange violent talsagian.



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"You foul demon! I won't let you hurt Tarasai-sama!" Fenrir barked, and jumped trying to slash the strange alien.

[Hawkflight]

Starlight's eyes widened as she realized she was too late. The Talsaigan punched Vodkana ... and nothing happened. She let out a sigh of relief and tightened her telekinetic grip on the warrior - they weren't moving an inch.

[Lord Raziere]

((Ok, this'll be a little confusing to navigate, so.....bear with me....))

Talsaiga, Ver-Valna
"!? Your not the strongest person in the universe!? Noooooooooooooooooo....." Bav-Nil falls to his knees, defeated.
Hehehehehehe! I called your bluff, precocious Namekian child! Yes indeedy! and I only needed to use the weakest of the Cursed warriors to do so! and your are fools, foolish fools of foolishness that foolishly think threatening to blow up the planet will work! I will survive such an explosion, and will have the moral high ground if you do, hehehehehehehe! If you really were the type of people to do that, you would've just blown up the planet before you landed to find me in the remains then try to make a wish. Of course, I planned for that to. I've had six centuries to make them after all. Give up! Talsaiga may look peaceful at a glance, but I can awaken many threats sleeping and locked away to stop you, there will be prices to pay, but there always is a price to pay. I'm the only one knows Lokote enough to make wishes safely!
"....Hm, ok this guy seems to see us, and he is trying to wish us off the planet. he can't do so directly because of Lokote.... and there is a seemingly unstoppable warrior over there....Yeah, my plan? We can't stay around here. Every second this Serin-Misa keeps us here is another second he can come up with some way to exploit Lokote to get us off with a twist he can find acceptable. We need to get moving to Lokote. Fast. 22! Masala! We move to the Dragon Balls! ASAP!"
"What about Ankrynna?"
"If she really is immortal or unstoppable or whatever, it doesn't matter what we do. She is a balrog sitch at best. Any time we waste trying to figure out the twist to her immortality is, again, another second Serin-Misa buys. and an immortal warrior, no matter how strong or weak, can buy a lot of time. We MOVE! NOW!"
Android 23 grabs the radar and flies forward as fast as she can while Android 22 and Masala follow
"Heeey......I wanted to hold it...."

Meanwhile Ankrynna responds to Apfel
"Sorry gramps, but I'm Ankrynna the Unstoppable! I don't give up! Ever! And it doesn't matter how strong you are- no attack hurts me, not since the wish, two centuries ago! I took a vow to protect people from Lokote, and I cannot give up on that vow you see. To use my fighting prowess to keep people from destroying themselves with their own desires being twisted into his playthings! I haven't found a way to defeat Lokote himself yet- but I haven't given up on the idea! I'm just waiting patiently until I find a way is all! Have at you!"
She leaps forward at Apfel, but her intent is not to kill, but only to clash her spear with your blade and try to knock Apfel out with a punch. Curiously her PL swerves downwards when going on the offense, but goes upwards when someone attacks her.

Tournament
"Waaaah! What do you have against the ground!?"
The Ground was the greatest supporter of Love and Peace in the world! It held up and supported everyone unconditionally and it barely moved or caused trouble! It was the most peaceful loving thing ever! It was then Crash realized.
"You lied to me."
He jumps up from the flipping arena and lands on the the half still standing, suddenly angry.
"Love And Peace."
He holsters his gun and brings up his cybernetic arm, charging up ki.
"LOVE AND PEAAAAAAACE!!!!"
He says as he fires a power beam from his cybernetics capable of destroying an entire city. So scary. Whatever shall we do. Yankar sniffs at this power output and rolls his eyes at the unevenness of his fighting- he had only one arm to fire the beam from, so if it was destroyed he would be out of luck. Not to mention it was a cybernetic, so it got rid of muscle he could've used to train his arm to destroy far more than a mere city.
"How pathetic. At least the last fighter trained properly, even if he did resort to a stupid super form tactic. Which is for scrubs. Cybernetics are for cowards who can't even train right."
"and if the Mr. Thisunit really is a robot?"
"Then while they themselves are not cowards, they are proof enough that someone else was cowardly enough not to fight their own battles by making one."
There was nothing more painful than watching amateurs try do what you do best.

Crescent Moon Hill
"Hailing!? I admit, your full of surprises. Whatever you are. You've somehow seen him in action."
Tarasai conjures boulders to block each forking blast then uses telekinesis to send the rocks back at Hailing as they shatter from the ki hitting them.

[Frozen_Feet]

[Talsaiga]

Trombone Junior is a bit surprised and highly annoyed by sudden telepathic contact, but keeps their calm. "What bluff? You just send some nutjob to punch a Goddess of Destruction. Or, wait, did you honestly think that wish would work? Dragons cannot grant wishes which would directly lead to destruction of people who are stronger than them." Then, they turn towards Vodkana. "What's your strongest attack?"

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[Tournament]

The juggernaut observes Crash's cybernetic arm. "Danger to local area detect. Moving to intercept." It steps infront of the beam. There's a brief flash of light, and then... the beam is swallowed into the juggernaut's maw. The leftover energy is great enough that it incinerates the clothing disguising its body, but the actual arena (and the audience) are left unharmed.

Now, everyone can see the juggernaut for what it is: a moving set of armor, given life by Lord Gero's mechanical contraptions. Its eyes, mouth and belly are glowing angry orange, a side effect of containing all the energy from Crash's attack. "You have been proven dangerous to the premises. Swift removal is in order", the juggernaut remarks, then dashes towards Crash with superhuman speed, with the simple intent of tackling him out of the ring.

[Hawkflight]

"....Hm, ok this guy seems to see us, and he is trying to wish us off the planet. he can't do so directly because of Lokote.... and there is a seemingly unstoppable warrior over there....Yeah, my plan? We can't stay around here. Every second this Serin-Misa keeps us here is another second he can come up with some way to exploit Lokote to get us off with a twist he can find acceptable. We need to get moving to Lokote. Fast. 22! Masala! We move to the Dragon Balls! ASAP!"
"What about Ankrynna?"
"If she really is immortal or unstoppable or whatever, it doesn't matter what we do. She is a balrog sitch at best. Any time we waste trying to figure out the twist to her immortality is, again, another second Serin-Misa buys. and an immortal warrior, no matter how strong or weak, can buy a lot of time. We MOVE! NOW!"
Android 23 grabs the radar and flies forward as fast as she can while Android 22 and Masala follow
"Heeey......I wanted to hold it...."

Starlight nodded curtly. The second 23 started talking, she threw up a privacy bubble spell. She couldn't say for certain that it would work for long, as Serin-Misa could just wish to see through it, but it bought them some time.

"No time," she said. "We have to go. I've summoned a privacy bubble, and it probably won't last long. Apfel will buy us time, now move!" With that, she gave a flap of her wings and shot off after the Androids, keeping them within her privacy bubble.

He holsters his gun and brings up his cybernetic arm, charging up ki.
"LOVE AND PEAAAAAAACE!!!!"
He says as he fires a power beam from his cybernetics capable of destroying an entire city.

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Wait, how does he have cybernetics in this time period?

[Emperor Ing]

Talsaiga, Ver-Valna

In addition to being rather slow, at least from his point-of-view, the attack was unusual. It was precise, purposeful, but the intent to catch his World Blade was obvious. Nevertheless, he played along, stopping the spear with his blade, while raising his free hand to catch the punch, if only to gauge the so-called immortal's strength.

The Talsaigans suffer. Apfel answered back, watching Ankrynna intently, gauging her intentions and moves. Mothers watch their children grow sick and die, yet cannot do nothing for fear of their desire of their children's health being heard by Lokote. Entrepeneurs cannot invent, innovate, or improve the lives of Talsaigans for fear of how Lokote will twist their ambition.

And you're waiting?! Apfel hovers off the ground before twisting his body to try and kick Ankrynna in the side as their upper bodies are still clashing.

You've already given up! Just as he finishes this, Ieez has finished his flyaround, flying right for Ankrynna, intent on delivering a solid kick right to her head.


Crescent Moon Mill...?

That's Emperor Hailing to you, Godling-ARGH!! He raises his arms to block the shrapnel, using his own telekinesis to reduce their velocity to harmless levels. Though in so doing, he's vulnerable to Fenrir, who axes him on the side, the blade embedding into his flesh. Though clearly in pain, it only seems to widen his psychotic smile, as though the sensation were pleasurable to him.

Ahahah! That was rude! He giggles from the pain, flash-stepping out from Fenrir's melee range. Rude rude rude! Now you're going to be rude and dead! He exclaims, reappearing in midair, arm extended behind him as though he's going to throw that large glowing black Ki ball from his hand at Fenrir. Which he does, then repeats the motion with his other arm, doing this six times, sending three of the spheres towards Fenrir, and three towards Tarasai.

It doesn't matter if you resist anyways, the fact that you are here already makes you mine. He continues. Would you like to know what I really am?

[igordragonian]

Crescent Moon Hill

Fenrir froze. If not for his berseker mode- he would freeze in fear. Instead his instincts kicked in- he jumped, dodging the first, and the second- but the third were too fast for him- he gotten hit sent flying into a world of pain, which numbed his body- but he was still awake. As berserker, he didn't felt pain- but his body.. refused to obey him. He bled from everywhere coughing blood.
"A devil! Only a devil would try to harm a god!'

Tournament

Fenrir still tried to adjust to his new arm, his daughter still stared at Tarasai, while his son at Tigra.

Fenrir looked. "That... some impressive machinery.. I wonder who is fonding this?"

Talsaiga, Ver-Valna

Vodkana face pawed.
|Nya... it's such a pain for my pretty gentle brain!' she blinked.
"My strongest attack? she sighed.
"Nya... it's a tough question. For what purpose? Destruction? Sealing? I'v got few trickes.. what do you need?'
she looked at the one who punched her.
"Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo... I am still waiting for an apology.' she glared at him using her Paralyzing Gaze. (Like Beerus, stare and making Vegeta crap his pants out of fear..)

[Lord Raziere]

Tournament

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To answer your question:
He is a parody character, don't think about it too much.

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His arm is steampunk cybernetics, don't think about it too much.

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If THAT doesn't satisfy you...

Ok fine, He is actually a genetically engineered human from Age 3400 whose colony ship crash landed on a random world, and his cybernetic arm is made by the descendant of ones of its surviving mechanics from old CC designs based on Red Ribbon cybernetics, and then due to a fight with his enemy also with a cybernetic arm of his own, created a rift in time that sent him back to the current age in the wild west, where then he disguised it as steampunk tech that people can accept, but still has bounties due to the destruction it causes. None of this is particularly relevant. or has anything to do with anything else.

Crash is surprised as the Juggernaut....rams into him, and he crashes into the wall and falls to the floor outside the ring, knocked out.
"Ouch! That is brutal! One hit and he was doooone! Hm, but I have to think about whether destroying the ring is a valid move. I didn't expect someone strong enough to do so could exist!

Hm. I'll let this one use of destroying the ring pass, but the rules are going to be updated so from now on, there will be no more destroying the ring! It interferes with the out of bounds rules.

Anyways it stand revealed that this he is actually walking talking armor! What a turn of events! Who could possibly stand up to a man made of metal!? Winner: MRRRRRR. THISUNIIIIT!!!!"

When the Juggernaut exits the arena and Masala repairs the arena using her magic the Announcer then says
"Next up: we have ultimate beastfolk, the warlord who has gathered armies under him greater than any beastfolk across the globe, feared across the world for his rage and his axe, yet at the same time, the perfect gentleman for any tea party, the one, the only, FENRIIIIIIR!!!!!!!!!"
It was a mix of crowd cheering and booing at this one. Adoration and hate were too sides of the same coin unfortunately, and for every fan there was a hater, especially for conquerors. Beastfolk cheer him as a figure of strength against humans while humans hate him as an beast pretending at being human.
"Meanwhile in this corner, one who also has beast folk heritage, an outcast from his village for his fox-folk mother heritage who died from a mob killing her from mating with his father, he left them behind and learned the way of the ninja. Since then he has traveled the world in his rivalry against the ninja of lightning, and proved himself to be the loudest most chaotic assassin ever! Meet the deadly, the unpredictable, the Hundred Man Explosion Ninja......Nesuto Kuzanaki!!!"
In a puff of smoke, Nesuto appears. He is blonde-haired, blue eyed, with orange ninja gi, nine fox tails and fox ears. Complete with orange ninja mask over the bottom half of his face.
"Well 'allo gramps. I'm off ya in the cobber I will, believe it! Ya tea-drinking monocle bloke, I drink 'ard whiskey for breakfast with me ramen. Literally! Believe it! You and your slime-arm going all the way down, gramps! BELIEVE. IT."
Yankar comments
"Wait, your 15. How can you drink? Also, orange and blonde hair? Real original, goku fanboy."
"Oy! old 'nuff to kill, old 'nuff to drink, dems the rules! and I have no blonkerin' clue who this goku chap is eh? Original colors, do not steal! Believe it! I'mma get me that prize money! the assassination jobs have been running dry lately. Ironically, I get to beat up an important political whatsit anyways! Ain't that a kick in the luck?"
The Announcer lets Fenrir have his say then says
"Begin!"

Crescent Moon Hill
Tarasai uses his kiai to deflect the three blasts with his left palm and says calmly.
"Yes please, that would be appreciated."
He then runs over and tries to heal Fenrir while the False Hailing monologues.

Talsaiga
Bav-Nil stammers out:
"S-sorry! I didn't know you weren't the strongest being in the universe! I've been waiting so long to beat them that I....I kind of jump at any chance I get to finally use it.....Wait did that Apfel guy say he was the third strongest? oooh, maybe it works in degrees, and if I attack him, it will have one third of the effect!"
It looks like he is strongly considering attacking Apfel to test his theory out. This is probably anything but wise.

Meanwhile Ankrynna takes all the blows....but not even a mark shows up on her as she gets hit around and she gets up smiling.
"Nope. Told ya. Never give up. Trust me, I'd know if I did. In fact, I'll just save you some time right now: my wish is literally powered by my determination! Lokote's "twist" is that I only have my unstoppableness and immortality as long as I never give up on anything! and I never have! I never got why he went so easy on me. But I'm not complaining. I know to not give up, so I won't, because its simply not beneficial for me to do so! I'm still unhurt, so your clearly WRONG!"
She charges forward at Apfel again, still just as strong and fast.

Meanwhile Lokote snickers at the Cursed Warriors. Oh Ankrynna! How foolish of you. Serin-Misa says
"Hey, these guys are flying to us......and I don't know what they're saying!"
"Would you like to know? only one wish..."
".....No, you have a plan if I do that. I can see it your eyes. Yes indeedy. I don't know what, but you'd do something if I wish that."
Lokote only keeps smiling. He was going to teleport them right here so that they could tell him themselves, but of course, Serin-Misa was too wise to leave him such an obvious opening.
"No, I need better information than that. I need the REASONS why they are here, trying to come to you, if I can take away their reasons to come to you....Yes. I wish to know the reasons why they are here!"
Lokote's eyes flash red.
"Granted."
".....Whats the twist? and wheres my knowledge?"
".....You'll see!" Lokote says while giggling.
"Utukku! Confounded dragon! You've delayed it somehow!"
"That is true, in a sense." Lokote says, smug while he strokes one of his whiskers.
"No matter! I will simply buy more time! I shall......UNLEASH THE KRAKEN!"
He sends out a telepathic signal.

The four suddenly encounter a giant kraken burst out of the ocean trying to grab them with its arms, the Android dodging out of the way while Masala conjure a replica pokeball and says
"Oh hey a Tentacruel! Go pokeball!"
It spins flying towards the kraken and....bounces harmlessly and falls into the water, useless. Pokeballs unfortunately do not exist. The androids try to flying over, but the tentacles seem extend impossibly long and high, as if they were miles upon miles long.

Out in Space
Various ships heading for Nyagato have suddenly changed course and know that Vodkana is on Talsaiga. As well as General Blizzan knowing that Apfel is on Talsaiga as well. General Blizzan was an Arcosian who loved war, his spiky bio-armor red as blood, a visor over his mouth. If war were a woman, he would marry her. However because of the empires control over everything, he and war had entered into a long distance relationship, and he so dearly wanted to get back together.
"Apfel.....your betrayal shall bring me glory! I shall bring your head to Hailing, it will be a surprise, and he will be delighted! and why not start a war while I'm at it? a Glorious, world invading, WAAAAAAR!!?? AHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
His ship speeds towards Talsaiga as well, with his army within.

[Emperor Ing]

Talsaiga - Ver Valna

That's not determination, that's stubbornness! Ieez exclaimed.

Royal Shield. Lord Apfel raised a Ki barrier against Ankrynna's attack. The only reason you're here, fighting us, is because Lokoti and Serin-Misa perceive us as a threat. Don't you see? We're the "way" you've been waiting for! He considered his strategy. Chances are Lokoti was simply lying to her, but something has to do to break through and implant a kernel of doubt. To win, all he needs to do is to convince her to give up.

Then Artic arrives, landing in his new and improved armor with a heavy thud that breaks the stone beneath him.

You need to go. He says to him, and to Ieez.

Huh?

Serin-Misa's stalling for time. I can hold this one off. Go regroup with the others. At that, Ieez and Artic fly off in the direction of where 23 and the rest are.

Crescent Moon Mill

My name is Katolou, I am Aszendi. False Hailing answers, allowing Tarasai to heal Fenrir.

To those knowledgable of the races of the universe, the Aszendi are a race of sentient plant-like aliens that can be found throughout the known and unknown universe. It's not unheard of for explorers pushing the boundaries of known space to find colonies of Aszendi waiting for them. They are among the oldest of the space-faring races, with no known historical document suggesting that they weren't always extraterrestrial. However their numbers are and always have been rather small.

What makes them remarkable is their biology. They appear as animated crystalline trees. Their movements incredibly slow and deliberate. Their average power-level is 25, though they are not known to demonstrate ki usage nor are capable of utilizing it. On the cellular level, they have more in common with plants and even inorganic minerals than animals. Furthermore, every Aszendi is incredibly intelligent and utilizes vast psychic power. Even the weakest of them are capable of warping reality to certain extents, while the most powerful of them are borderline omnipotent beings who can bend forks and unmake the laws of physics to what ever they wish with equal ease. Many primitive and even some advanced cultures worship the Aszendi, though more often it's just a single individual, as deities. Even intergalactic civilization respects the Aszendi as oracles. It's not unheard of for these aliens to predict the future with remarkable accuracy and clarity through pure intellect and logic alone. Aszendi can live for tens of thousands of years, and many have seen the rise and fall of innumerable planetary, galactic and intergalactic nations.

According to the aliens themselves, the Aszendi were bioengineered from another race known as the Grell who sought to create a race of psychic batteries for their use. The Aszendi turned on their creators and underwent a campaign of genocide that eliminated all trace of their existence from the universe. So thorough was their campaign that there is zero evidence outside of the word of the Aszendi that they ever existed in the first place. This would be the last time the aliens acted as a united force. They are known to congregate and form Schools. Groups of Aszendi contemplating mysteries of the universe, the most simple of which even the most gifted of the universe's scholars can scarcely imagine.

Their goal, as a species, seems to be finding a way to attain higher mental states of being, and go about doing this in different ways. Some construct colossal structures to collect "cosmic energy" which are then linked together with other such structures, forming networks of this vast energy source no other races of the universe have successfully utilized. It's been theorized the existence of Ki usage among the races of the universe comes from an Aszendi experiment into cosmic energy gone wrong, however no evidence can confirm this and no Aszendi themselves have knowledge of it. Then there are those who can remain dormant for centuries, even millennia. They regard movement and motion as a waste of energy, preferring to interact with the world through their minds alone as they meditate and expand their consciousness. The most powerful of the Aszendi practice this discipline, and it is for this reason that many of the most destructive empires throughout universal history, including the Arcosian Empire, give Aszendi a wide berth, for even Emperor Hailing would think twice before arousing the wrath of a meditating Aszendi. Finally, there are Aszendi Parasites who seek to increase their power through the consumption of the consciousness and souls of the other, "lesser" sentient races. These beings are cruelty and evil personified who can and do everything it takes in order to attain their next level of expanded consciousness.

And I will the Universe's last living God. Can you even imagine? False Hailing extends an arm, which glows black briefly. Fenrir and Tarasai feel a wind pick up, quickly gaining in speed, becoming a gale, then a hurricane, then a tornado force wind. False Hailing doesn't appear affected. The Universe will be consumed in a new epoch of terror.

Won't that be fun?! The False Emperor grins maniacally.

[igordragonian]

Void Skull

End of scene. Aye?


Tournament

Fenrir gulped, nervous.
Strangely, he could relate more to his haters, than to his fans.
He did awful things... more than killing- he has encouraged the beastmen to hate more- and all of that because of a personal grudge. How shameful.
Fenrir wanted to give in to self pity and close himself at some cave and sulk over his sins.
A true gentleman take a responsibility for his sins. He is trying to fix them- and when he can't- he will just do his best to do good to the world. Is place in Hell is probably promised, but it doesn't matter.

Fenrir bowed.
"May the best win,, but please don't insult the gift of Masala-Kami.'' he said with a dry smile.

He took a stand, deciding not to rely yet on the slime arm, which he still had to get used to.
This young lad probably will attack hm first- no need to rush. He stood in what he pretend to be a defensive stance. But in real he has prepared to slam the young ninja with a punch, at the moment he will get to his reach.


Crescent Moon Hill

Fenrir gotten up, panting.
"Thank you, Tarasai-sama' he whispered to him.
"I can relate to that Katolou. I really am.' Fenrir said with a wild grin.
"Destruction, violence, fear.. doesn't it make you feel strong? Like you.. are exisiting more than others? I have been there,' Fenrir picked his axe.
"But you are wrong. You are just making yourself.. hollow." He strained his muscled to stay in place.

Talsaiga

Vodkana rolled her eyes.
"Nya. I'll forgive you on two conditions.' She gazed at him again.
"First, help us find the stupid dragon and the stupid mage who created him nya,,,'
She leaned forward with a very mean grin.
"The second is to take me, on date for a Talsagian weekened! nyaahahah!"


Out in Space

Slushie's search didn't well. But he always had the luck to be at the wrong place and time.
He surfed the space, when he has noticed, some emprial ship.
He decided to call it.

"Helllllllllllllllllllllllo dude! Watsuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup?" The Duke greeted the poor commander.
"I could use some help, ya'know?"

[Frozen_Feet]

[Tournament]

The juggernaut stomps to the audience arena and sits down. Everyone gives it a wide berth, with many people, Lilith included, staring it in disbelief. Having a demonic suit of armor walking around on its own is sort of distracting them from the current match. What can Fenrir and Nesuto do to reclaim their attention?

---

[Talsaiga]

Trombone Junior is annoyed by the weird digression between Vodkana and Bav-Nil. "Forget about him! When I said 'strongest attack', I obviously meant for destruction! We're going to take a chunk out of this planet..."

Trombone Junior pauses for a moment, sensing the Kraken and seeing its massive tentacles rise high above the horizon. "... starting with whatever that is! Kill it! Kill it with fire!" Pitch of their voice probably rose by an octave there.

[Lord Raziere]

Tournament
"Shadow Copy Technique!"
Suddenly Nesuto splits into multiple bodies of himself, taking different stances
"How ya gonna beat tons of us, mate!? We gonna off ya in the cobber with numbers we wi-"
"So basically, the Shishin No Ken then?" Yankar cuts in.
".....No its the SHADOW COPY TECHNIQUE! Original technique, do not steal! Believe it."
Suddenly the small hoard of Nesutos charge straight at Fenrir, though some of them hang back and throw little ki-shuriken at him.

Crescent Moon Hill
"Ah. I understand."
He takes a stance, his eyes narrowing.
"You are nothing but a monster then. A fallen member of a more noble kind. No more mercy. Flowing River Dragon Fireworks."
With a graceful kata he fires the flowing celestial dragon shaped ki beam so that it wraps around False Hailing and explodes, then explodes some more. Then he follows it up by unleashing a suddenly flurry of blows that sending out a cascade of kiai schockwaves filling the air radiating outwards from his fists like someone throwing tons of pebbles into a pond and watching their ripples chaotically blossom and expand, the once peaceful Kai suddenly exploding into action.

Out In Space
"Ah my Duke."
He says he lets him into the ship. Poor how? This was a great opportunity to teach him how fun WAAAAR was! Give him a proper upbringing. Young kids like him need a good mentor figure if they were to rule the empire!
"I was just on my way to bring a dangerous criminal to justice on Talsaiga. There will probably be a big battle. I'm sure you would love to join in! Why I bet you could learn so much from me and even impress Hailing if you follow along. Y'know what they say, you aren't a true Arcosian until you've experienced the fury of full battle and bathed in the blood of your enemies!"

Talsaiga
"Uuuh.....Well for the second condition.....I'm kind of already taken? With myself? I'm already fused I mean, we kept each other company for many years, Bav and Nil, and it'll just be so weird.....can I even be jealous at myself? Especially when all of me is going to be participating? Your very weird, beer cat girl."
he considers the first one.
"and um......hm. I dunno.....Serin-Misa......Hm....I don't know is he my ally? or is he not? I can never tell. He tried to prevent us all from getting to Lokote, but we seven are the ones who succeeded....of course now that we realize all our wishes for great power come at weird limitations we see the mistakes we made.....wonder when the other five coming? I remember one of them needing to act like a cliched supervillain to maintain their immortality and power, but my memory is foggy about the other four? Its not as if we stay together as an organization at all, we came to separately and made our wishes individually and just ended being called the Seven Cursed Warriors because of it.....as for where Serin-Misa and Lokote is.....they're in the Swamp of Lokote. Serin-Misa kind of one of the few Talsaigans crazy enough to live on land."

"Hm, that might be true, but here is the thing: the wording of the wish is that I can't give up on anything. Anything I start, I have to finish. And I vowed to keep people away from Lokote to make sure people wish on him and get screwed over by doing so, see? I stop fighting you, that means I'm giving up on fighting on and break my vow, that means well.....I don't know what happens if I lose this immortality. Lokote might've set it up so that when I lose it, I will die of old age and crumble to dust! And I can't leave Talsaiga undefended! I don't know if it counts, but Lokote is such a legalistic technical wording jerk that I can't take that chance!"
She tries to evade the wording paradox your trying to put her in while attacking furiously, constantly stabbing with her spear. She knows she can't get locked into a "giving up no matter what choice you make" situation because it could spell her doom.
"I haven't given up on solving Lokote, I just haven't had any good ideas on how to do so, and there is no proof that you can actually do that, and even if you CAN, I must still work to make sure to protect you from him!"

[Emperor Ing]

Crescent Moon Mill?

The False Hailing attempted to block the ki attack with his hand, but the living energy simply avoided it completely, coiling around him and detonating, repeatedly as he was pummelled by Tarasai.

Were I the real Hailing, I would thank you for the pain you have inflicted. A visibly heavily wounded Hailing states, his grin somehow only getting wider. The pain doesn't slow him down, if anything it only makes him stronger. He flash-steps out away from Tarasai before flying at him at terrific speeds, circling around him clockwise, counterclockwise, above, and below, changing directions seemingly at random. All the while attempting to pummel him with a flurry of punches.

Your thinking is limited, Godling. He continues. When your souls fuel my apotheosis, I will devour this universe into a new era, and all will be drawn into my waking nightmare.

Every one who has ever lived will experience their every fear. Their families shall disown them. They will be shunned by their friends. Their occupations lost. They will be buried alive. Chased down endlessly by mad beasts. Torn limb from limb. Everything that they ever cared about shall be the vehicle of their own destruction, and they shall be forced to endure it all as the cycle continues. After I have feasted upon the last living soul of this universe stripped of all but fear, I will stand as the sole remaining God, and unmake Universe 13-Universe 13? False hailing stumbles on this thought. No, that is not possible. This is Universe 7.

And then I shall remake it. A new, more perfect universe reborn from the ashes of the old.

Talsaiga - Ver Valna

It's a risk, but something and someone has to give. What if I told you... He began, maintaining his defensive posture as he tried to parry and dodge the immortal's thrusts. It were possible to have wishes granted as Lokote does, but they are never twisted?

The Void Skull

((I think so, unless you got something left you want to do.))

[igordragonian]

Void Skull
Ok. Just wanted to make sure/.

Crescent Moon Hill

"You will hurt too many innocents. I won't let you!!!!" Fenrir barked, and jumped at him, with blind rage sending a powerful punch at him!


Tournament

"This is.. quite annoying!" Fenrir barked, and his muscled pumped up, he charged forward, letting all of them to hit him, and the ki shuriken as well.
He felt it all... a little. He was already annoyed!
Fenrir tried to trust his beast senses, and to punch the real punk!

Out In Space

"Ohhh.. groovy dude! I was just looking for him, all over the space!" Duke slushie sighed with a relief.
"dude.. furry and blood bath.. aren't cool..' Slushie said with a groan. Sure, he did exploded two or three planets- but it wasn't so bloody- it's the same as some people don't mind eat meat, but they would be disgusted seeing how the animals are slaughtered- annihilating planets ... wasn't so personal...

"I like Talsagia! They have such a groovy waves! Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude!" the surfer said with excitement.

Talsaiga

"Nyahahahaha!!!" Vodkana laughed.
"You are funny! Nya! You are lucky, that 23-senpai, doesn't allow me to force relationships anymore. Weird? This word meaningless to me. Nya. I have seen dozens of cultures, and I have educated I can do what ever I want. Taboos are for mortals! Nyahahaha!" Vodkana laughed again.

Then she looked at him a bit wierded out herself.
"Nyyyyyya.. ok. protect us. But while doing that, lead us/|

Vodkana gasped, when she has realized what Trombone Jr, is asking from her!
"Nya!!! You are so cute!!!" she cuddled the poor kid.
"I guess, my Ki Tray would fit- or even better- the Busy Resturant Eve Technique! Nyaahahah!" she laughed with excitement.
Destruction!
Whoho!

[Lord Raziere]

Outer Space
"Oh you silly kids and your concept of peace. I'm sure its just a phase. You'll come around when we get there."
They then speed off towards Talsaiga.

Tournament
He finds the right one and the rest poof out of existence, Nesuto skids back and stops.
"Very well ya blokin' gentlewhatsit. I'm gonna use me Hurricane Shuriken! It cuts through anythin'!"
As he gathers his energy into a blue disc over his raised palm, Masala calls out.
"oooooh! Thats the Destructo-Disc!"
"Um excuse me, the proper name is KIENZAN, plebeians."
Yankar says with her arms crossed and arrogant air.
".....No! ORIGINAL TECHNIQUE! DO NOT STEAL! BELIEVE IT!"
He throws the blue destructo-disc at Fenrir.

Crescent Moon Hill
"Aha! You sense it to. The shift. I thought I was imagining it for a second there. Yet you aren't the source. Strange. I can sense another power far off. One that is demon-like in its energy. perhaps they are the source of the change? Someone is changing things and its not you."
It was time to start ending this.
"But you are a fool. You will never forge a new universe out of fear. Fear is old as time. It will be the same universe, new faces, but the same old conflicts, the same old wars, the same old desires. People will simply invent happiness and anger and war and safety and so on and so forth to escape fear once again, for what are mortals but animals that evolved past the fear of starvation and predators? Your plan will be simply be repeating what has already come and gone, there is no point to it. Divine Rush!"
He then unleashes a long attack routine of punches and kicks to send him flying then flash step so that he is behind him then kick him around like a pinball, no longer hold back he kicks him to the ground and tries to finish him off with one final use of Flowing River Dragon Fireworks.

Talsaiga
Android 22 tires of being delayed and deicides to use a fast solution that Starlight will hopefully accept.
"STUN WIDE BLAST!"
And fires off a big beam at the kraken, energy coursing through it and making it go rigid and sink into the sea.
"Lets go!"
They take off again.

"Yes of course....."
Bav-Nil says to Vodkana.
"R-Right this way...."
He begins flying away.

Ankrynna thinks upon this.
"That.....would be worth it....but....I don't know what will happen. Serin-Misa....would you resurrect me....if I went against my oath?"
Well.....yes, but only because your literally the strongest fighter on the planet- the only one who ever got to 100,000 through pure training and determination alone! You'll be needed to teach others how to become just as strong eventually! Yes Indeedy! and I know of the untwisted ones. I w- er.... want to be in a world where mine are untwisted as well, but unfortunately that is not the world we live in. I shall make do.
She nods sadly at this.
"Very well. I give up on fighting you."
Anykrynna stands aside. She then turns grey, and dissolves into dust, pure old age catching up to her and crumbling her to nothing within seconds.

"Lokote, I wish for Ankrynna to come back to life."
"Very well, BUT! She can't get the same kind of immortality again. Thats the twist"
He said while gathering soda and popcorn.
"....What are you preparing, accursed dragon? You Did A Thing! Cancel it!"
"Cancel what?"
"The wish!"
"Which one?"
"The.....one where you tell me their motivations!"
"Can't. Its not fulfilled yet. I can only cancel wishes that have been fulfilled. You don't what is being canceled, so its not going to happen. Its not possible for you to be specific enough, so it can't be stopped."
Lokote said with an eviller version of his eternal grin.
".......Aaaaaaaarrgh! Confounded wish-serpent! I wish for a Cursed warrior to appear to stall them!"
"Hehehehehe.....Granted."

Suddenly Ankrynna pops back into existence.
"Huh? I saw......golden clouds......a red sky.......souls walking down a blue road....and now....I'm back here....alive.....huh....strange."
He PL is a stable 100,000 now. apparently immortality makes PL readings go haywire- since a person attacks conflicts so much with their defense, there is no consistent way to measure how strong they are.
"I'm....gonna go lie down and let one of the other Cursed Warriors handle this.....I've just had a literal death experience....I don't want to talk about it."

Meanwhile suddenly a strange Talsaigan in dark overdramatic cape and her army of minions teleport in front of you.
"Behold! I am Til-Kiza! Arch-Villain Protector of Talsaiga! Behold my Army of Protective Doom!
My evil plan is to prevent you all from getting to Lokote so that I may win favor with the people then eventually get voted to be leader of all Talsaigan nations, so that I can persuade the Seafloor Empires to accept me all as their Empress and then hundreds years from now, I can RULE THE WOOOOOORLD!!!! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!"
Masala blinks at this.
"....But that doesn't sound evil at all!"
"The child speaks lies! Attack! Evilly! Keep them fromg etting to Lokote!"
The horde of Talsaigan warriors under her command rush forward. Android 23 deals with some of them by conjuring a bokken then flash stepping so she knocks them out with an Iaijutsu strike, while 22 takes her own group of them with a barrage of stunning ki-blasts creating a zone of ki blasts that they could get out of the way from, the ki detonate and making them fall to sea, stunned- they wouldn't even drown, for they could breathe underwater. Masala takes her own group by stretching her arm, wrapping all around the ground then throwing them all into the sky. But there were always more Talsaigans warriors coming!

[Emperor Ing]

Crescent Moon Mill

I know nothing of this shift. False Hailing answers. Perhaps it is correlated with the probability of the continued reign of the Arcosian Empire has suddenly and inexplicably dropped.

Fenrir's fist catches False Hailing off-guard, knocking him down, leaving him vulnerable to Tarasai's brutal counterattack. False Hailing then dissolves into the ground, reverting back into ectoplasm. The environment flickers for a moment with the image of some kind of underground chamber, before another figure rises from the ectoplasm, taking the form of Lord Apfel in his pressed uniform. He extends his World Blade, and makes a duelist's salute.

They are the mortals of the Kais. The so-called Gods of Creation have failed this universe. The bicentennial rampages of the God of Destruction Beerus. Bojack. The rise of Emperor Hailing and the Arcosian Empire. Majin Buu, and the destruction of the Legendary Super Saiyans. I know you think the same way, Godling. The Kais do not intervene against Hailing yet you strike out against cultists on a small region of one terrestrial world. Taking a fighting stance, False Apfel fires a flurry of needle-thin Ki Lances at Tarasai.

You have gone rogue. You want to kill me to save these humans. Sacrifice one mortal to save hundreds.

The only difference between us is scale. I want to sacrifice quintillions to save nonillions.

So stop resisting! False Apfel growls. Tarasai may note that his manifestation is of someone who, despite his great strength, is weaker than Hailing.

Tarasai - Ver Valna

The real Lord Apfel nodded wordlessly at Anykrynna's request, too stunned to give a response. He's lived a long time and has seen many great, wondrous, and horrible sights across hundreds of worlds. The world-ocean of his homeworld Cirra, the impossibly massive megastorms of Arcos, and the gross hedonism of the world's Emperor. Met literal time-travelers from the future, and learned his ancestry is that of his peoples' greatest hero.

Seeing someone turn to ash after they give up, then immediately pop back into existence? Yup. Strangest sight.

He then shakes his head to regain his composure. Okay, that happened. Anyways. Serin-Misa, I know you can hear me. We want the same thing. Your dragon is strangling this planet.

Talsaiga - Sky

Artic and Ieez arrive just in time to see the veritable horde of Talsaigans bumrushing 23 and the others, seemingly at the direction of one lone figure in a magnificent cape. Clearly that figure must be immeasurably powerful with such a luscious and luxurious cape.

Ideas?

Charge. Go for the one in the cape. The others have pretty small power levels.

At that, the two head straight into the mass of Talsaigans. Artic in his armor simply flying through the mass like a juggernaut, whereas Ieez's speed-based transformation allows him to maneuver between gaps with startling speed.

[igordragonian]

Talsaiga

(Waiting for FF-sama's reply)

Arcosian Party?
"Ugh. Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude...' Slushie sighed.
|Anywaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay- let's make a selfie for my Facecosmos page!" he half hugged the commnader and made a selfie- he started to type a post of status:On our way of capturing a criminal!!111

Crescent Moon HMill

Fenrir growled.
"What matter, is what in your heart! Tarasai-sama's heart filled with compassion toward us mortals! He want to preserve us! You- want to destory! And you don't have to die- just.. STOP!!!" He sent a punch with a new level of rage- inspired by Tarasai- a Zealot Rage.


Tournament

Fenrir raised his formed hand- only to let it get cut again.
The.. slime regrow itself.
Fenrir grinned a toothy smile.
"Masala-dono is too generous... I bet, she would like me to try this arm, to show my admire for her!" he mambled to himself.
He streched the Buu-hand clumsily, to take a swing for a powerful- yet slow and clumsy punch at the energetic kid.