The Reality Vortex: New Roads

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"I, uhh... Like I said. I don't have much to say." Cuki felt all eyes on her and lowered herself slightly on the sofa in a desperate mean to hide. "Just don't worry about it."

Zenta let out a sigh before turning to see how the others reacted to Cuki. He noticed no indication of confusion from the others, no slight concern, not even suspicion. To everyone, Cuki seemed like Cuki, albeit grumpy and out of her usual cheerful persona. He also noticed that Cuki would not budge when pressed and her way of addressing things was entirely out of character for her, even in her current state. To everyone else, the girl would most likely be upset at the things that happened and she was probably holding them all in, but Zenta saw something else. He knew his student, both inside and out.

"Very well, I suppose there is no point to play this game of yours any longer," Zenta said sternly while leering down at Cuki. "You are not Cuki..."

Cuki's eyes widen in both shock and confusion at what her Master was saying. The impact of his words startled her enough where she sat up straight and turned to face him. Her reaction was genuine and pure as she remained shaken.

"What are you talking about? Of course, it's me!" Cuki said with a slight giggle. "I think you bonk your head a little when you came back from a Coin, Zenta. I've grown a bit since last time and my energy has changed, maybe that's why you don't recognize me?"

"Is that what you think?" Zenta replied.

"Well...yeah. Is it because I don't want to talk? I don't want to say much because I'm just a bit tired and I don't want to come off as rude to... certain people." Cuki shot a glare towards the sleeping Gogeta. "I know I'm a bit more hyper than this but we've been through so much."

Zenta said nothing and stood before Cuki, towering over his student. Cuki stared up and saw her reflection on his visor, her expression remained the same and she awkwardly gazed towards the others, almost as if seeking help. Zenta stayed still while his tails swayed behind him hypnotically, waiting for Cuki to defend herself in some way.

"Tell me, how long?" The Master said.

"Huh? How long what?" Cuki tilted her head.

"How long have you fooled them," Zenta lowered himself to meet Cuki at eye level, giving her nearly no room to escape. "Byakko..?"

Cuki's expression seemed to switch from concerned to calm before lowering her head. The youngster let out a long sigh as she gently pushed Zenta away from her space. Cuki said nothing to fight back, nothing to deny it. She didn't have to. A wide smirk smeared across her face as she made her way off the sofa to stand where everyone could see her. She immediately gazed right back towards Zenta, her eyes an icy blue that shined off his visor. Zenta remained undeterred by the action. Finally, Cuki's voice changed from the happy-go-lucky tone everyone knew to a deep and condescending male voice. The markings on Cuki's face lit up slightly while the girl crossed her arms over her chest.

"So, you figured it out, Zenta? I'm not surprised... At least someone in this pathetic batch saw through Cuki." Byakko's voice rang out as he waved a finger towards the group. "Shame, shame, shame on you, Breakers. I thought you all were friends to our little Cuki."
 
The series of questions launched by Lucifer towards Spina put him at a tough spot. Spina had been battling with his own purposes for a while. Before meeting with the Breakers, there were barely any active people in the world, and nothing that soothe his battle needs, putting him at a state of stagnation. Once again, he fell into the same place during the 3 years of idling. He wanted to do something, change something—and wanted to be content of a goal that he has worth taking on. The Old Saiyan look at Lucifer, whom had a devilish smile on his face. Taking the role of the leader abruptly, Lucifer wanted to challenge him, to see what decisions that would make or break the foundation of this group.

Lucifer chomped down on the candy as let out a small chuckle. “What are you going to do with defects of the group, Spina?” The angel’s eyes darted to the left towards Cuki and Zenta’s direction.

Spina narrowed his eyes, clears his throat, and became firm in his stance. He opened his mouth to give an answer—but stop the moment he overheard the tone of Cuki’s voice changed dramatically. The old Saiyan turned around to face the Young Saiyan in utter confusion.

“What... what the hell…?” Spina spoke out, seeing Cuki speak in a different manner of tone. “Byakko…?” Spina couldn’t quite recall the name at first. “Who the hell are you?”
 
Panich's eyes shifted quickly at mention of the name. She didn't say anything, but quietly observed while thinking to herself. 

Byakko... That's the person that "chosen one" was talking about... Cuki is that host...?
 
Whis' eyes followed after Cuki during the movements, his position unchanged on the sofa. His soft stare remained the same as well, but the warm smile also flattened and in addition, he spoke with a flat tone in following Spina's question.

"A strange entity that seemed to live within her body. I had meant to question Zenta more on this once he returned, but I suppose the best way to learn is asking directly now."

He lifted lips in a warm smile once more, his tone polite.

"So I concur with Spina; who the hell are you?"

As soon as Byakko spoke the word, "friends", Gogeta's loud dual voice rung out in an audible snore. A snot bubble soon expanded out from his right nostril as he snored a second time, popping once it grew too big shortly.
 
"I am not surprised you fail to remember me, little Spina. Then again, we barely had time to talk the first time." Cuki-Byakko said as she flicked specks of dirt off Cuki's arm. "Maybe I should finally make a proper introduction to you all..."

Cuki's eyes quickly faded to white and her body instantly dropped to her knees. An odd mist started to appear around the Breakers seemingly out of nowhere while Cuki's body began to show cracks. The girl's breathing got heavy until she jutted her body around slightly before placing her arms in front of her to hold her up on the ground. Finally, a ghost-like apparition surrounded by the mist appeared behind Cuki's back and floated up to show his true form. The spirit morphed into the shape of a man with long white flowing hair, icy blue eyes, large cat-like ears, markings identical to Cuki's, and an extravagant looking Kimono. His presence was chilling, but, oddly enough, empowering. 

"Ah, much better," Byakko said as he gazed down towards the others. "I believe you might remember me now, Spina. Cross might remember when we had our fun game of tug-o-war with that Orb during the Doom fight."

"I will ask again, how long have you fooled them?" Zenta said.

"Ugh, you and your persistent questions... If you must know, about three years or so. After you were graciously erased, Cuki completely lost her mind. From there, I took over and remained dominant ever since. I had to protect her, after all." Byakko said as he held out his hand, a long smoking pipe materialized from the mist and landed in his hand. "I made a deal with Cuki after the fight, saying that if any of her so-called 'friends' can identify me, I would return her body. I am a man of my word, but I'm upset it was you of all people to figure it out..."

Cuki's body shivered before her blank eyes showed her normally green pupils. She gasped loudly before falling into a coughing fit, this time in her normal voice. The young girl continued like this for several seconds before finally letting out whimpers of sorrow. She wallowed in her spit and tears as she was heard holding back her tears. It wasn't long until she painfully pushed herself up to her feet, struggling to just stand. However, one look towards her Master and it was all it took to make her crumble down into tears. For the first time in three years, Cuki, the real one, saw her Master return, something she thought would never happen. She rushed towards him and instantly wrapped her arms as tightly as she could around his waist, burying her face into his fuzzy chest that muffled out her cries of joy.

"How touching, but I still cannot see how she can like a vile creature such as yourself..." Byakko said as he took in the fumes of his pipe. He turned to Spina and the others. "To those unaware, I am Byakko, the being who resides within Cuki. She was the being I picked to be my host and she is incredibly precious to me. I am rather disappointed in you, Breakers... I thought Cuki meant more to you. She had so much faith in you lot."

As Zenta comforted his student, the girl sniffled and hiccuped to ease her crying. She was still shaken but mostly back to her senses. She turned to face the Breakers and her sad face quickly shifted to rage. 

"For three years none of you saw anything wrong with me?! Nothing at all?! Nothing to hint that, oh, I don't know, maybe it wasn't me?!" She shouted before coughing and catching her breath. "I thought we were friends!!"

"Now, now, Cuki..." Zenta tried to comfort the girl.

"No! I spent three years watching them walk by and see nothing wrong! I thought I meant something to them! I thought I was a friend! But no! Instead, what do I see? A bunch of idiots who care more about their dead universes than what they have now! A traitorous swine who nearly killed me in my weakest and most vulnerable point! And best of all, the leader, our beautiful Witch of fucking Miracles, befriending the very man who dragged her name and everyone else's to the damn floor! And he's not even one of us!!!"

Cuki was in no condition to move around but she hastily made her way towards the sleeping Gogeta, her breathing getting heavier the longer she stared at his carefree, stupid face. Never had Cuki looked more threatening and serious than now, even during the Doom fight. Some of her wounds reopened and it was clear she was in extreme pain. 

Cuki glared down towards the sleeping Gogeta, nearly whispering to him.

"You know what Hart told me..? She said that even the good things I did don't matter simply because I'm a Breaker..." Cuki took a sharp breath and balled her hands into fists before holding down Gogeta by his hair and pulling her other fist back. "I stopped you from outright killing Hart and Ultraman! I saved the city from you when you were drunk! It means nothing now!"


Cuki began to punch Gogeta's face while pinning him down by his hair, not caring if he woke up. As she assaulted the Saiyan, she turned to stare at Bernkastel, eyes wild with rage and loathing for the Witch.

"You have no idea how hard I screamed for you, Kettles. I wanted a miracle! I NEEDED one! But you never heard me..! Instead, you turned your back on me and took this... this garbage! This man ruined our lives and you stuck your neck out for HIM? He destroyed the entire city twice and you continue to defend HIM?" As Cuki made her points, she would punch Gogeta, not caring if the man fought back or not. She stared intently towards Bernkastel as she abused the Saiyan. She was entirely out of breath but she continued anyway. "And yet you continue to fight through everything to defend HIM after everything he's done to us?!"

Cuki stopped punching the man and quickly wrapped her hands around his throat, shaking him violently.

"You gave HIM a miracle but not me?!"

"Well, she did say she wanted to be the cruelest Witch of all time, I believe she fits that statement quite perfectly." Byakko chuckled. "Tossing aside those she cares little for simply because they bore her... Is that not what you said a long time ago, Ms. Bernkastel?"
 
Whis’ smile quickly faded as Cuki erupted into her rage. He sat still, his face flat in watching on in his unchanged position on the sofa. His eyes followed the movements, and he slowly uncrossed his legs.

From the first initial hits, Gogeta’s head visibly bounced along the cushions from the blows thrown down onto his face. His cheeks and nose contorted from being struck and just after the third hit, blood began to trail down his nostrils.

It wasn’t until Cuki applied the choke that Gogeta finally woke up, his eyes wildly darting around the room. His hands instantly shot up to try and pry Cuki’s arms away and off his throat in vain, visibly squirming on the couch.

His dual voice rung out hoarse and barely audible over the ruffled sounds of the cushions being kicked around.

“Bern!! Bern help!!”

At the cries from Gogeta, Whis also turned his head slowly towards Bernkastel, his eyes staring her cat form down in anticipation of her response.
 
Panich simply watched on almost in horror as Cuki attacked Gogeta like a wild beast. It seemed like a repeat of before when she had broken his arms, only... He was awake now. 

The princess had her issues, but this group was on a whole other level.
 
Even Brachi was blinking at the sudden act of rage which Cuki displayed, before she noted a pink blur passing by and hiding behind her.

"Bara?" Brachi asked.

"W - w - what's going on?!" Bara asked.

"I know as much as you do..." Brachi said, clearly confused.
 
Bernkastel's eyes were wide throughout Cuki's ranting, immediately cringing away as soon as she began swinging at Gogeta. What could she even say as an answer-- there would be nothing to calm Cuki's rage, in fact, even if she tried to put anything into words, it would only make it worse. Bernkastel only chalked up the change in her demeanor as a result of Zenta being turned into a Coin with no definite answer as to when he would have returned; it came as a shock to hear such words of contempt coming from someone normally so reserved.

Her paws tightly dug into the cushions, trying to so much as attempt some kind of retort but she didn't have one. At least, any thought that began stopped when Bernkastel was forced to look up and see Cuki outright strangling Gogeta. Clumsily leaping out of her chair, she scrambled over to the couch before getting in between the two, trying to scratch at Cuki's wrists in a bid to get Cuki to let go of him.

"If it's me you have a bone to pick like everyone else, then take it out on me, not him!" She hissed in a mix of desperation and anger. "Have you forgotten that woman plotted to kill us?! I risked my life for you all to save you from her insane plan-- That we're even in one piece should be enough of a miracle, especially now that Zenta returned to you, shouldn't it?!" Instinctively, the cat bit down on one of the girl's hands with a loud rebellious yowl. "So let him go!"
 
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