The Reality Vortex: New Roads

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Cross lunches needles made of bones. As the Dolls were being remanded by the engineer.

Cross says "Got you."
 
“Wouldn’t that result a gigantic explosion? Well, I trust your judgement.” Spina rolled his shoulders and fell into a fighting stance. Left foot forward and right foot behind and slightly to the side. He raised his fists—one out front, parallel with his chest, and the other facing the ground. Liquid particles appeared, hovering around his torso.

Hart continue her pushed sword against the duo. Veins bulging on her forehead as more eruptive energy outburst from her body. The specks of light became more apparent, hurling more of it across the land.

Seeing that Hart isn’t losing any steam, even at being pushed at a halt, Spina raised his left arm up, targeting at the Rainbow Ranger. “Flowing Strike: Water Pressure Strike!” The liquid particles hovering around him spun around rapidly until it smashed against one another and release an liquid pressure towards Hart. It hurled towards her attack, rapidly attacking her in conjunction with Cross' bone needles attack. “Hurry it up!” 

Cringing at the pain, Hart let out a thunderous roar as the collision rages on.
 
"It is now or never, Lady Bernkastel."

Zenta swiftly dodged any debris coming towards him and Bernkastel while keeping a small distance between him and Hart. He noticed Hart was pushing herself too hard and sensed her body held multiple entities. He did not understand it but it reminded him of his student. Nimbly hopping from place to place, once Hart's attack and the others collided, he landed next to Spina with Bernkastel. He gave Bernkastel a full point-blank view of Hart from the front and even gave her the opportunity to launch her attack with Spina and Cross.

"The spotlight is yours, Lady Bernkastel. Show this Hart your true resolve!"
 
As Cross’ and Spina’s rapid fire attacks blasted Hart, small pellet sized energy spheres began to slowly fire at Hart’s back. Each blast had little power behind it, but the annoying shots continued on and on in exploding in little fiery balls of smoke along her side and back.

Gogeta panted heavily from where he laid on the ground with one eye half open, the complete exhaustion clear on his face. His right hand shaking in repeatedly jabbing it forward to fire off blast after blast, each time requiring him to recover and steady himself before attacking again.
 
Panich's glare turned to a sad frown for a mere second, before joining the Breakers in their pursuit toward Hart. Following the other assaults, the Saiyan princess followed Brachi and Bara, rocketing forward and passed the blade. She grunted loudly as her body slammed into Hart's, holding her like a vise grip and using her ki like a jet in the opposite direction to keep the Alter being from going any further toward Bernkastel and the others.
 
"That's the idea. Better her than the rest of us at any rate..." Bernkastel replied. "I'll push her out as far away as possible but be ready to take cover behind the rocks." She raised her hands off Zenta's shoulders and into the air above her head, opening her eyes that glinted a pale green as more energy coursed through her arms. Throughout the illusion Lucifer put Hart under, Bernkastel heard every word that came from her false sense of security.

"Your existence causes you that much suffering, huh? Considering how meaningless death is in this world, it's only natural your only solution would be to destroy this world after killing me as retribution. It was all to get Voice to come down and smite you himself, wasn't it?" Bernkastel asked rhetorically. In her shaking hands grew an amorphous green mass made of all the energy left in her body; sweat dripped down the side of her head as her heart pounded against her ribcage, practically hearing it in her ears. "As the last witch left with the power to change fate, the Breakers' fates wasn't for anyone to decide but themselves. Since you were so fixated on killing me, Lucifer's trick made your willpower falter too much. As a consolation prize, you'll still get what you've been seeking... just not quite as freeing as outright erasure--"

The mass of energy grew in size above Bernkastel's head until it eclipsed the clearing and overshadowed the immediate area, transforming its shape into a leviathan whale. Not a summoned amalgamate of her cat familiars, this time it was the embodiment of Bernkastel's energy-- a conduit of her very will. "Enjoy your thousand-year sleep deep underground, HART KIMBERRRRR!" With a scream at the top of her lungs, Bernkastel heaved her arms with all her might from Zenta's back. "YOU LOT, TAKE COVERRRR!"

The giant leviathan sailed through the air emitting an echo in time with the witch's battle cry, a glittering emerald comet shooting straight for Hart as it opened its mouth wide, rows of crystalline teeth lining it as it bit down on Hart's sword. It aimed to crash Hart down into the valley with her sword, grind her meters deep into the canyon left by the explosion if it had to. All that Bernkastel focused was ensuring Hart would be consumed by detonation of the few crystals hovering in that area.
 
The shocking collision between Hart and Brachi remain stationary in their place; either side not moving much from their place. “Just a little more…!” Cracks formed on Hart’s face, starting with the forehead, then rapidly spread throughout her body. Her body was severely losing power, and the bombarded attack from Gogeta, Cross and Spina didn’t make things easier for her. Her concentration dropped for a second after being struck on the back by a Ki Blast, and that was enough to feel the overwhelming pressure Brachi exerted. Hart tightened her grip onto the hilt of the blade, as she tried to regain her momentum and strength and drive Brachi and Majin Bara back.

Suddenly, Hart grunted when the Saiyan Princess attacked her back, causing her to loosen her gripe on the hilt. Distracted, she felt being push away from Brachi, allowing the latter to push onward. She recovered her gripe, but all the momentum she had built was seemingly lost.

Desperate once again, Hart roared thunderously as she tried to swing the sword prematurely in amidst of everyone bombarding her with attacks to slow her down. Yet, the few seconds loss due to Panich’s action, was enough time for the leviathan to appeared overhead. Still in mid-swing, the Spectrum Sword was caught in the fangs of the giant and shattered into pieces. Seeing pieces of fragments of the sword, and small edges of black crystals, it erupted a powerful explosion that pushed both Panich, Brachi and Bara away—but not endangering them to toxins of Dark Energy; a strange phenomenon that caught the attention of Lucifer.

The top half of the sword missing, Hart attempts to fight it off with the lower half. She drive the broken sword onto the leviathan—but it shattered on impact. The mass of energy collected by Bernkastel was great—and her own power was draining rapidly, which caused her own body to stagger in the worst possible moment. Unable to protect herself, she took the full weight of the leviathan, hurling down towards the ground with few Black Crystals, birth by the Black Lightning strikes. Hart grinded her teeth in attempt to punch it, but each strike was pathetically weak. Her efforts were absolutely futile and a sense of dread she felt—a lurking feeling that Cross placed her in earlier had finally settled: she was about to face “death”.

Hart let out a loud cry—a distinct sounds ripple through the airstream with hundreds of different voices. “No...! This isn’t supposed to happen…! You damn Witch! You damn Witch!”

[Suddenly, as Hart cursed the name of the Witch of Miracles—everything vanished The whale, Panich, Bernkastel, the Breakers, everything turned into nothingness.

Hart felt like she was floating, contrast to the fall she was in a few seconds ago. Turning her head to the right and to the left. There was nothing but total darkness around except for herself engulfed in strange yellow energy.

She didn’t know what was going on. She didn’t know what had happened. Was that another elaborate illusion cook up by Bernkastel and the “baby”? No… Hart knew this was different. This was dark. Fear invaded her mind, whom hundreds of spirits feeling the same.

Suddenly, stars burst around her, planets rapidly form, and entire nebulas, galaxies, black holes, and space itself had appeared around her. Hart, confused, looked around in all direction to understand what had happened—until she sense a presence. She slowly raised her head and saw “that”.


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The many eyes looked at several directions, except one that started directly at her. The smile went to each cheek as the clusters of stars can be seen inside his face. Hart couldn’t speak nor think.

“I see that you fail to complete your goal. What a disappointment. I went out of my way to give you the answers, and you blew it. Oh well, at least I know that an Alter being is useless. Onto my next project… thanks for the show.” It was a deadly voice of the highest caliber. A voice with authority, with promise and yet, venomous, and destructive nature.]


Hearing those words, Hart finally blinked—but in that second of closing her eyes before opening them, she was right back in “reality” once more. Her eyes widened when she realized her situation, the whale driving her downward the ground of several black crystals. Tears formed, mixing with the blood on her face as she cringed. In that split second, Hart let out a personal cry without other spirits chiming in. “Bernkastel…!!!!!!!!” She shouted at the top of her lungs, echoing through the air as her final words before the whale slammed against the ground with the Black Crystals.

The impact was great—the Black Crystals cracked easily from the sheer weight of the leviathan and started countdown. Lucifer, overhearing Bernkastel’s demand for everyone to take cover, decided to use the last bit of his power. “Magnificent Shield.” Raising his tiny hands, a powerful barrier formed himself, along with his maiden. He panted heavily, clearly exhausted himself doing that. “That’s the best think I can do, it’ll hold… I think.” Lucifer chuckled. “Get behind the shield…”

For the first time, Spina witnessed the explosion of the Black Crystals; the sheer shockwave erupted wildly in all directions. Judging from that alone, he knew the danger of the Crystals can do, and damage it can cause. Thinking quickly, Spina dashed upward in the air, seeing the explosion knocked Panich, Brachi and Bara away before the leviathan tackle Hart. Grabbing hold onto them, Spina bolted to get behind Lucifer’s shield in time, crashing onto the ground. “Hold on…!!”

After the shockwave, a powerful, almighty blast erupted from Hart’s spot. A devastating black beam tore through the ground, ripping anything in its sight. It expanded largely, that the width of the beam is about 32 km. The height of the beam was 15 m high, heading straight through the dark clouds, expanding the size of it rapidly. The beam can be seen for at very long distance, even in Metropolis, and even in other cities across the Vortex. The beam subsided; black mountains formed as a consequence, and a smaller valley of Black Crystals emerged in its place. After a few minutes, it was followed by a moment of silence in the air.
 
Cross says as Witch Dolls help Lucifer and Spina with blocking the blast "Way not we inshore it holds."
 
As Bernkastel unleashed her final attack, Zenta knew it was time to get out of the way. While the explosion raged before them, he quickly dashed towards Cuki and picked the unconscious girl by the scruff of her jacket before elegantly sliding behind Lucifer's shield. He made sure to shield both Cuki and the tired Bernkastel with his body, knowing both girls were exhausted.

I certainly hope that is the last of Ms. Hart... Zenta thought to himself, feeling his tails twitch by how drained he was. Such an unfortunate time for me to be depleted of energy... 
 
Both Brachi and Bara grunted as Spina grabbed them, which was fortunately in time as the explosion occured, with Brachi immediately ceasing her Kaio-ken power-up the moment the older Saiyan got them.
 
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