Detective Vegeta was not fazed upon Zenta’s claim that he wasn’t giving his all—it was apparent based on his movements and posture during the battle. He did offer a disagreement of Zenta’s thoughts regarding the Breakers’ mindsets. “I think, considering of what’s on the line here, their minds are wandering in a dark place. While I agree that they shouldn’t bone-rushed, but we are in the nest of the enemy, so it’s not surprising that they’re high on adrenaline right now. Everything is on the line.”
He walked around, testing out his new, peg leg. It’s still going to get some used too, but it was better than being carried (and devoid the possibility of being dropped again). “Well, hopefully, since we gained yet another ally, we can push through this fight once more and stop Doom’s plans.” He walked towards the door, by himself, and seen an immobilized Raune on the floor. “Oh, I always was curious about your ability, but it seems that you can’t move for a bit. Since you carry me, it’s fair to help a young lad out.” He grabbed Raune, putting his arm around his shoulders and walked towards the entrance. “Your speed is rather incredible—so much that you have duplicates of yourselves.”
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As the battle concluded, the mysterious door opened—deep inside is nothing more than pure darkness. Silence riddled across the empty void. No windows, no visible doors, nothing. If one enter it, their bodies would instantly heal and any damage will be disappeared—it seems to be a gesture, a pity recovering from Doctor Doom. Once everyone managed to enter this room, the mysterious door will shut immediately from behind.
Spina turned around, seeing that the door shut behind them. “S-shit!”
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After a few moments of darkness, Spina looked around, bumping into Vegetto, Kassava and Bernkastel because he couldn’t see well in the dark. “Man, wished I had Raune’s eyesight to see damnit!” His voice was riddled with anger, still resonating from what had happened earlier.
“Is this another damn trick from this robotic coward?” Spina touched the walls to feel something, anything, like a door or something like that, but nothing shown up. “There’s nothing here.”
Immediately after Spina touched the walls, rows of screen appeared throughout the room. It had a depiction of Doctor Doom’s back with a machine firing off massive amount of energy. “You tried to place a curse on Doom, but my will cannot be contained by such measly abilities.” He turned his head slightly, suggesting that Cross’ attempt to make him ill failed. “Breakers, it seems that you managed complete Zenta’s trial, well, more like provide me any last-minute details of what I need, anyways. Another victory for Doom.”
“Victory!?” Spina got angry. “You’re a goddamn cheating bastard!”
“Cheating? Hardly. This is nothing more than a strategic move I made in accordance of your pathetic fools’ thoughts. Doesn’t take Doom much to make sure everything falls into place. Once an opportunity rose, I took the chance to make my plan finally up and running.” Doom turned around in front-view to face the Breakers in the room. “I couldn’t risk having you fools storming in my castle, so I needed something to distract you, keep your minds busy at the time.” Doom eyed Bernkastel and gave out a chuckle. “When the Witch of Miracles insistence of doing the trials to prove your worth, Doom decided to manipulate her desire to lively up her boring life for this little game—she couldn’t pass on playing with you fools like figurines.”
Doom faced the group again. “Of course, it was easy to construct the device…” He moved to the side, revealing the machine had Voice trapped inside of it. He was slamming his tiny hands on the glass, but nothing worked. “This divine being and the power of this mysterious tools…”
“H-help!” The voice cried out. “Get me out of here!”
“This godly being invaded my domain and saw the fruition of my goal and ran off to give you the details of my plans, it did manage to add a problem. Once you found out, you would skip the trials and go straight for me… so I took the chance to bring the trials right now to keep you occupied, under I built this powerful machine. As usual, it worked out in Doom’s favor.” He pressed a button on the machine, which send massive amount of energy across the screens, except for one that had Doom, to a different image—the image of their universes (except for one).
“Bear witness to all the worlds in real time.” Doom raised his arms. “Total annihilation awaits them.”
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Detective Vegeta narrowed his eyes, seeing his world, for the first time, in decades, he saw his own family. Tears came down as he was unable to keep it together. “Why are you doing this? This is beyond insane! No one should seek destruction of the universe! Even you, someone of high intellect, should see the foolish of such thoughts!”
Doom eyed the detective. “Yes, Doom is someone of high intellect, but I don’t expect someone, especially you worms of low intellect to possibility understand my drive.”
“Lower Intellect!?” Spina shouted. “How about you come down here and face us like a man, you damn coward!?”
Doom chuckled. “I have no need to lower myself to your standards now. I have all the cards in the table—the only reason why I even letting you lots live is because you amuse me. You remind me of the Fantastic Four and another powerful entity I encountered back in my world. Always trying to have the upper hand, but in the end, Doom will always come, no matter what.”
Suddenly, another door appeared in front of the Breakers, different from the mysterious door behind them. “If you wish to come to me, you just have to go through a horde of enemies, and hopefully, by the time you come to me, your world still exist.” Doom laughed. “I’ll be waiting.”
