The Reality Vortex: New Roads

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Panich didn't move from her position as Spina came closer, the fur of her tail standing on end as every inch of her body told her to run away. That glare of his was strong enough to stop even the toughest of opponents. 

She flinched slightly as he raised his fist, preparing to be completely annihilated with one strike. But the blow never came. Instead... He was showing her mercy. Her of all people, who didn't deserve an ounce of it. The Princess' legs finally gave out, falling to her knees a complete and bloody mess as the older Saiyan spoke. 

"... How could you possibly understand...?" She mutter under her breath, her fingers digging into dirt beneath her.
 
The Valley of the Black Crystals

“Don’t look at me with those eyes of contempt—” Hart’s expression went to a satisfactory smile as her hands squeezed Bernkastel’s neck harder. Her gauntlet glimmering with high energy, sending out various sparks due to using more than 2 Vortex Coins at the time, leaving burns on Bernkastel’s flesh. In return, Hart’s body became constricted with serpents wrapped around her body. The cackling noises of bone caused Hart to cringe in pain, but she pressed on. Sweats formed on Hart’s forehead due to the stamina and wear and tear took a toll on her body and dripped onto Bernkastel’s face. “Just a little more…!”

As the two trapped in a struggle, either of them refused to yield. Yet, it subjected not just Hart, but Bernkastel to any attacks directed at them. The various of energy attacks parried by Gogeta came against her rapidly in a direct hit before the clone of Brachi can reach her. Refusing to let go, she turned her body, flipping both Bernkastel and herself spinning in the air, hurling both of them to near one of the Black Crystal. Yet, the blasts caused some damage—leaving it chipped on the edges. Trying her best to mustered out a word as her bones reaching breaking point, taunted Gogeta. “Bare witness, the death of a Witch!” 

Simultaneously, the omega beam split into two and went different directions by going around the slab of earth to avoid collision. Resuming its path, it went straight towards the duo. The omega beam then split once again, filling the air above them with heat-seeking attacks that tracked all the Breakers, al zig-zagged and changing direction rapidly to avoid any collisions until it hits the target.

The Second Coin Hunter grabbed hold of its stomach before being slammed to the ground by one of Cross’ dolls. Struggling to stand, the helmet came off, taking Hart’s usual appearance. Raising a single arm, the area around them suddenly changed, as rocks began to rise abruptly, creating the area into a field of hills to raise confusion on Cuki attacking them. This is evidently when the ground Gogeta, Brachi and Bara stood up rose up significantly, seeing the Hart and Bernkastel hurling to the Black Crystal down below.

The First Coin stunned by Bara attack, but seeing the change of terrain around them, it quickly ducked under Gogeta and strike him in the abdomen, launching him in the air, before releasing a spear that wrapped around the fusion’s neck to bring him down the ground. Placing its weight on the fusion’s back to prevent him from moving, the First Coin Hunter formed purple energy balls, launching them towards Brachi and Bara.



Cuki’s Apartment

Spina was trying to find words to say. Technically this is the second time he was put in a situation where he had to expressed remorse and sympathy for someone—the last time was the aftermath against Doom with the group. “I understand when you find a way, you will do anything, and everything, to achieve that. I understand that. But do not believe what your eyes are telling you. It shows limitation.” Spina turned to Panich. “Your family is still out there—and you’ll find them. But turning the world upside down won’t cut.”

He wiped the blood from his cheeks, spitting out more blood from his mouth. “There’s nothing to be ashamed to feel weak when you are lost. That what makes us grow, and we can learn from it.” He narrowed his eyes. “Something… I realized myself just now…” He shook his head. “You can stay here and wallow in desperation, or you can come with me and see for yourself of what Hart truly seeks.”
 
Both Brachi and Bara nodded as they took off from the ground, avoiding the purple energy blasts along the way, before Brachi and her clone, while on the move, started firing energy blasts of their own, while Majin Bara rolled herself up into a ball and spun around rapidly, before dashing at high speed towards the first Coin Hunter and smashing into her from behind like a wrecking ball to knock her off of Gogeta, continuing to move about to avoid the incoming Omega Beam.

Seeing the Omega Beam headed for her, Brachi instead made a dash for Hart, seeing her still in a struggle with Bernkastel and heading for the Black Crystals below. 

"I guess I have no other choice. KAIO-KEN!" Brachi said, activating the Kaio-ken power-up over her Super Saiyan Blue Evolved transformation, allowing her to catch up with the falling fighters, before grabbing Hart by the hair, intending to either throw the two away from the Black Crystals or for Bernkastel to intervene in her own way.

"For someone with a name like yours, you certainly lack it when it comes to this, especially since it misses one letter." Brachi sneered at Hart while doing so.
 
Cross negates the Omega beam by using shadow magic that complete consumed the beam heading torts Zenta and him self.

The Doll with the cannon arm bashes its cannon arm at the clone its been after. Just like the first time it is actively avoiding any thing that may hit a Black Crystal.
 
The Valley of the Black Crystals

The Omega Beams continued to light up the sky, splitting rapidly and aiming to attack anything in sight as the terrain continue to change rapidly. Despite Cross’ attempt to negate the beams with Shadow Magic—it was completely consumed. Instead, the beams splintered further, one of them went through and slammed against Cross’s arm, pushing him towards Zenta. Engulfing him with high energy that attacks them from the side, another series of beams shattered the sky above them hurled down to the rest of the group.

“Preparations is done.” Lucifer look down, unable to see anything to the light shows erupting below him, “I’m sure the Breakers are handling this just fine.”

When Brachi grabbed Hart’s hair, due to the momentum that both Hart and Bernkastel were currently in, only left her with large chunks of hair, rather than stopping it. The women continuing hurling forward to the black crystal at a faster rate than before. Omega Beams hurling behind Brachi and slammed against the fusion, engulfing them with high intense energy that rocks the very atoms within her body as she flung towards the nearby hills.

The First Coin Hunter skidded back against the terrain by Majin Bara. Preparing its body, the Hunter dashed forward in blistering speeds. Ripping the ground apart, the Coin Hunter threw a punch directly at Bara’s face—with so much force, launch her back towards Cuki. Spreading its arm wide, a series of energy balls appear once more, it launched towards the two, and bombarded them with bombs. All calculated moves to force them to use more attacks. Turning around, it walked back to Gogeta and grabbed the chain around the fusion’s neck as its stomped his head through the dirt. “Hellfire.” An explosive of flames erupted on the chains, engulfing the man as Omega Beams hurling towards them.

The Second Coin Hunter raised his arms above head and caught the cannon arm. Still taking damage, it lifted the doll with the cannon arm, and toss it back to Zenta and Cross—to add more pressure. “Javelin Rain!” Spears of light energy came out of the ground around Zenta, Cross, Bara and Cuki, capable of ripping through flesh easily.
 
Cuki wanted to run toward the Second Coin Hunter but found herself being smacked by Bara. The rage of not being able to do anything useful continued to fuel her. More and more, her attacks showed no mercy to her targets, even if they happen to be her friends. As Bara smacked on to her, Cuki skidded on the floor with the Majin before shoving her off. Cuki grew angrier and grabbed the Majin by her antennae, swinging her away before ripping the appendage clean off. Due to the nature of her energy and hands, Bara’s antennae and body would have metallic spikes erupt from her thanks to Cuki touching and shoving her off. 

Zenta quickly took another skip backward to avoid the Omega Beam just mere inches from touching his face. He felt the heat and knew that there were several beams all over the place, each one chasing the Breakers. He turned his head to see Cross thrown at him, catching him and bouncing back to give the Magic-user a few seconds to compose himself. He landed near Bara and sensed how Cuki treated her. He frowned and placed Cross on the floor behind him before turning to the ground and notice energy rising up from it.

Not good…

Zenta took a deep breath and slammed his hands together and lowered his body slightly. His entire body was glowing with a blue aura as he made sure Cuki, Cross, and Bara were behind him. The ground around them turned into a slight crater as his hands and tails were starting to glow a bright blue color. Anticipating the moment, Zenta spun around as soon as the Javelin Rain shot out of the ground. To the others, it looked as if a trail of blue energy circled around them gracefully. It was so quick that it barely looked as if Zenta moved but his bloody hands showed a different story. The Javelin Rain aimed at the small group would show the spears cut clean in half, some mere inches from the others. With the concentrated energy Zenta used, he managed to at least protect the ones behind him, although it did set a toll on him considering he was not in peak performance.

This took a bigger toll on me than I thought… I must be careful.

The move Zenta did gave the others a few precious seconds to attack, ones which Cuki did not hesitate to use. Cuki rushed out from behind Zenta and dashed to the second Coin Hunter, her teeth bared and her energy-claws growing even longer. Once she grew close enough, she lifted her hand to claw at the Coin Hunter’s stomach.
 
Bernkastel winced an eye closed from the gauntlet burning into her skin, the pain pulling her just barely out of her trance. Despite that, she still held that look of pure malice on her face, each word from Hart's mouth only made her even more angry. There was something about Hart that made her feel complete disgust. Hart, an Alter Being, had a goal shared by every person that was part of her; to destroy the Breakers and protect the innocent. At surface level, it sounded heroic enough.

Yet how could Bernkastel call Ultraman a hero but not Hart? What was the incongruence? In her track record of villainy, Bernkastel's acts of evil never strived for anything other than to provide a fleeting moment of amusement; including the ones she'd used as her pawns. Hart wasn't the same-- she truly believed the wrongs she did would make everything right. But what exactly was she 'correcting' by flooding the world with Dark Energy? If Doctor Doom himself wasn't immune to its toxic effects, who was to say everyone else wouldn't just completely lose their sense of self to madness? Maybe that would be her last laugh-- if not even Voice could fix an Alter Being and undo it, he'd likely erase everyone infected with dark energy along with Hart to start over. In a world where death was meaningless, being erased would be the only way to be freed. Bernkastel couldn't call that a heroic ideal-- no matter which scenario would happen, Hart didn't give anyone a choice in the matter.

'I'll fight to protect the Breakers' future'... that's what I said, didn't I?
Bernkastel, in her increasingly fading vision, could only see blurs of the others fighting the Coin Hunter clones as she and Hart descended into the chasm.

"... You're wrong. Lambda escaped her hell," Her choked voice was strained and barely audible as the two fell. The snakes withdrew back into her sleeves, replaced by two large magic circles from her hands. "I knew I wouldn't be so lucky."

If this all was a result of me granting that wish... I can end it with me too. The real one is in front of me-- this is my choice alone.

"At this point... it's go big or go home."

Bernkastel's body glowed purple, barely conscious enough to use the energy Lucifer bestowed to her. With a flash of the magic circles a large force field formed a dome, encapsulating Bernkastel herself with Hart and the black crystals that floated below in wait to explode from their collision. Knowing how destructive one crystal alone was, Bernkastel willingly sealed her own fate. As her last stand, her barrier closed everything off from the others; they weren't going to break through it in time without risk of getting caught in the blast.

It's better this way. You all didn't need to fight to live a second time, the witch thought with a small smile. With this, the miracle of a bright future can be granted for you... too bad I won't get to see it. Maybe in a thousand years you'll forgive me. Do I even deserve to want such things? It's okay... right...? Bernkastel shut her eyes tightly as she felt her back come in contact with the damaged crystal.
 
The with Doll Cannon was flung back just far enough so it can charge the Clone that tried to flung it torts Cross. With the same aim as all the other attacks.

Cross says "That sucked." Cross is unparsed by the hit Cross thinks "If I know my stander shielding magic would did it I would not bothered with consuming darkness."
 
Brachi yelled out in pain as the Omega Beams hit her, but she remained conscious enough, now royally pissed, dashing at high speed towards the first Coin Hunter, having seen her attack Bara, with the Majin recovering and using her body manipulation to recover, although grunting at the sudden spikes on her, before simply using her Transfiguration beam to turn the spikes into chocolate before using her Body Manipulation to avoid the javelins and making her charge back to the first Coin Hunter, spotting Brachi towards her while charging two fiery energy spheres.

Upon reaching the first Coin Hunter, Brachi had prepared an energy wave of herself along the way, before coming to a halt right in front of the Coin Hunter while merging the two spheres into one.

"I can do that shit too!" She snarled, blasting the first Coin Hunter with the Prominence Flash attack at point-blank range, while Brachi's clone had been dispelled because of the Omega Beam, a clear indication it did some damage to her, but the amalgamate itself remained strong and in fighting condition, except she was now really pissed off and wanting to defeat her adversary right here, right now! 

Majin Bara teleported beside her and unleashed a Majin Kamehameha to assist Brachi with her attack, having had enough of this enemy.
 
Gogeta’s eyes widened to the brim from the first strike to his stomach, barely aware of his surroundings as the First Coin Hunter slammed him onto the ground with the chain around his neck. He panted heavily, his head in a daze and having the slight freedom to catch his bearings thanks to Brachi’s initial intervention.

His eyes focused in as Hart’s open taunt filled his ears, Gogeta’s eyes immediately narrowing and his arms pushing off the ground in a heavy wobble. His dual voice rung out in pain, cracking a bit.

“No!!”

Gogeta hacked suddenly, his cry interrupted by the First Coin Hunter slamming its foot down on the back of his head, his face slamming into the ground. He grunted, dirt cascading down off his face once he was able to push back; the momentary intervention of Brachi’s strikes giving him enough of a window to push back. He grimaced, his eyebrows twitching while he cried in pain in reaching out with both hands to grab onto the firey chains holding his neck, the blue flames of his aura surging to diminish any of the damage of the magical fire.

Gogeta quickly vaulted up once his head was out of the chains, spinning in a heavy kick to the First Coin Hunter to knock it back into Brachi. He immediately bolted into a sprint; surging forth away from the incoming Omega Beam in a desperate bid to close the gap to Hart and Bernkastel.

“Burn Castle!!!”

As Bernkastel’s back came into contact with the black crystal, Gogeta was mid sprint and roughly five meters away in his attempt to stop her sacrifice.
 
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