The Reality Vortex: New Roads

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Hart narrowed her eyes seeing the bright beam of death coming towards her. She couldn’t possibly defend herself nor Ultraman against the devastating attack. Accepting her fate along with Ultraman, Hart closes her eyes and brace for impact, but Cuki step in and redirect the blast towards the sky. She’d opened her eyes, and the only thing Hart see is Cuki placing her foot on Gogeta’s back, attempting to break his arms. It happened so fast, but Hart and Ultraman is still around, the latter seemingly out cold from the battle. “Ultraman…” She touched his face, seeing his body filled to the brim with bruises, cuts and burn marks.

The rain disperse and the clouds clear as the sun brighten up the day, but the atmosphere otherwise remained heavy. Feathers fell on the ground, Lucifer descending from the ground. “What a marvelous showcase of strength you all displayed.”

Landing gently on his feet, Lucifer interjected the conversation between Bernkastel, Brachi and Cross. “No need to worry about that. There’s a cleanup crew for these kinds of things. Besides, I don’t think the media would like that, do you think?” He pointed to the chopper recording all the footage the ordeal. “Best leave them alone.” The tall angel looked ahead, seeing Cuki displayed angered towards the fusion. “Ah, so you finally decided to make your move…”

Lucifer’s blue eyes narrowed at Cuki’s reactions, walking towards their location. It seems that Lucifer was about to stop them, but in actuality.

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Spina looked around, recovering from the headbutt he’d received earlier. “Tch… What a damn mess.” The old Saiyan commented on the devastating destruction, but his main worry was the fact that Cuki exploded in anger. “Cuki?! What the hell is wrong with you? You been so off lately!” Spina dashed towards her to put a stop to her action, but Lucifer appeared in front of him. “What!?”

Lucifer, grabbing hold of him, gave out a warm smile. “Let’s see how this plays out, shall we? You’re the leader of this group, right? Or a glorified secretary to the Witch of Miracles? Either way, A leader should let consequences take toll, to make people fall in line.”
 
Cross says "I do agree with you on that Bernkastel. We can trust my people with gathering the coins and we can trust them to be protected." Cross sends Asmodeus "Gather the Coins as well. Out side of healers/medical and rescue crews of those units need to be on it." Asmodeus sends back to Cross "Yes my master."  Cross says "I have a feeling that Ultraman was a gunny pig for this Coin Collector as well as a means to an end."
 
Gogeta blinked, watching on as his attack went skyward with a perplexed expression. The wind still lightly whipped around his body in his transformation, but he slightly straightened himself and stared back at Cuki in front of him when she spoke her first line to him.

"Huh?"

His eyes widened a bit, the sudden blocking of his energy causing his pupils to lose color. He barely moved, but hacked lightly in pain as the long blue spiky hair receded back to its normal height and black color. Completely off guard and with no energy to lessen the extent of the blows he received, Gogeta lost consciousness as soon as his head was slammed into the floor.

His arms barely moved in resistance to Cuki's intense pulling, yet no response came directly from the fusion himself as his bowed head hung and whipped around a bit only in the occasional tug from Cuki's movements. Yet at the end of her final sentence, a strange cry seemingly rung out across the sky from a familiar, feminine voice.

"HELP ME!!"

Nearly inaudible due to the pained cry and sheer loudness of the screech, it ironically served in place of Gogeta's lack of response in his unconscious stupor under the weight of Cuki's movements. Yet as quickly as it had rung through, the same cry had no follow up or semblance of energy behind it, returning to the same scene of Gogeta's arms beginning to strain and crack under Cuki's torture without a response from their owner.
 
Cuki snarled under her breath after witnessing Gogeta being unconscious. The cry in the background caught her attention but ultimately did not stop her from her pulling back Gogeta's arm past the point of no return. A sickening snap echoed within the group as the young Saiyan released Gogeta's arms, watching them limp on the ground. 

"It's a shame you weren't conscious to feel it. Maybe you would have learned a lesson. I guess you can say Bernkastel's cruel nature rubbed off on me a little or maybe you really set me off. I'm not quite sure myself..." Cuki lifted Gogeta by the back of his gi and locked her intense gaze to Panich.

"As for you, you're nothing but a beast. A senseless brute who loves destruction, huh? You started this whole mess and now the Breakers gotta carry this huge load. We can't get a break, huh?! Can't get a damn break! All I wanted to do was just ask some simple questions and leave! But no! You had to start a fight, didn't you?! You two nearly destroyed the entire city twice in one damn day! You're just a--"

Cuki caught herself midsentence and placed a hand over her face before taking a deep breath. 

You must learn to control your outbursts, Cuki. Zenta's voice rung in her head. These strong emotions cloud your judgment, preventing you from viewing the whole picture. The sooner you learn to control yourself, the wiser your decisions become...

Cuki's lower lip trembled before shaking her Master's voice out of her head. She rubbed her face, particularly her eyes, as she glanced up towards the others, then Panich, then to Gogeta in her hand. Almost for a brief moment, she came to realize what she did, however, she refused to take back her stance. Her grip tightens on Gogeta's Gi as she tossed the Saiyan in Panich's direction. She continued to take several deep breaths before speaking out, her voice cracking slightly. The guilt, rage, and confusion seemed to overwhelm her but she continued her act to Panich, nonetheless.

"Unless you want to end up like him, I suggest you sit back and let the more experienced members handle the bigger jobs. I barely manage to get the information we needed anyway, no thanks to you. So if you're done for today, I recommend you keep your mouth shut, stop picking fights, and pick up that trash. You'll be the one to carry it." Cuki pointed to Gogeta's body. 

Cuki looked up towards the ground, pausing for a moment, before picking up a random Vortex Coin. She stared at it before gently tossing it repeatedly in her hand. The Coin slipped from her hand and rolled into some rubble, disappearing. Cuki's shoulders slumped, her tone of voice soft, and her demeanor now weak. She turned to the Breakers, frowning. "I... I wanna go home..."
 
Seeing this going on, coupled with her outburst, Brachi then did something she only did whenever she felt a certain friend of her was getting upset. She simply walked to Cuki and gently embraced her, remaining silent for the time being, but letting the distraught Breaker know that she was there for her regardless.
 
After Cuki’s explosive outburst, placing all her anger by snapping Gogeta’s arms, then tossing him away like a ragdoll, Spina could not believe what he was seeing nor hearing—the shrieking scream came out of nowhere, but definitely not from any of the girls near him. The devastating destruction, the countless of people being caught in the fight and turned into Vortex Coins. He’d look up, seeing the Helicopter capturing all the footage of what unfolded that lead to Ultraman fighting in tears. 

Whether they accept it or not, the Breakers’ reputation is on the brink of self-destruction.

“This isn’t normal.” Spina grinned his teeth. “Cuki hasn’t been acting right. I... I don’t know how to respond to this.” 

“Don’t be so naïve and duck undercover, Spina. I’m sure you Breakers are far more capable of this.” Lucifer spoke in an elegant tone. “A bit of advice… this marvelous show peaks the example when people succumbed to intense emotions or narrowed their minds to a specific goal. When one acts out and they cannot be controlled through reasonable and rational means, you have to dealt with them accordingly with strength. Make them fall in line or break them to do so.” Lucifer explains. “And we still need information regarding the Coin Hunter… and Cuki holds the cards. Before things escalated, you need to assert control through your display of power. Gogeta will undoubtedly not learn from this, but you, Spina, definitely will take heed on this knowledge for the future.” 

Spina narrowed his eyes at Lucifer before returning to Cuki once more. “Right…” He wasn’t confident of Lucifer’s statements, but it was something to keep in mind. Walking towards Cuki and Brachi, taking a quick glance over to Hart and Ultraman in the crater, the Old Saiyan spoke. “We cannot leave until we have the information about the Coin Hunter, otherwise, all of this would be a gigantic waste of time. I assumed you have such intel?” His voice was stern, waiting to see how will Cuki respond to him.

Lucifer stood there with a warm smile. He’d turned his head slightly, seeing the helicopter from the News Network flying away, but more importantly, about the source of the scream. “Hmm…” Choosing to let that alone for a while, he’d turns to the rest of the Breakers to see what will come next.
 
Cross say kindly to Cuki "once we finished with this headache we can go home. Thanks to your new punching bag (Gogeta) and Panich I don't think we have any time to relax."

One Cross' troopers head torts the source of the screaming.
 
Cuki gently slipped out of Brachi's hug, appreciating it but clearly not in the mood for one. She awkwardly looked at Brachi then to Spina before giving Spina a reply.

"Errm, Hart told me that a man named Connor McKnight was the one asking her to make these specific cards in order to make a statement and build a collection of something," Cuki looked over to Hart, frowning. "And he's also Hart's father."



The rubble surrounding the Breakers began to shake as tiny gremlin-like creatures, no taller than the group's ankles, popped out from under the debris. They had large unblinking hollow eyes and a tiny bag on their back to collect things. Their bodies looked as if they were sculpted entirely out of diamond and they all had a crystal-like core in the middle of their bodies. The top of their heads trailed off into a whip-like antenna that helped them locate items.

At first, there were only a few, but within a few moments, the entire area appeared to be surrounded by them, almost like an infestation. The creatures all scurried to the Vortex Coins scattered about the area and lifted up them up with weak psychic-like energy and placed the coins in their little sack on their backs. They seemed to only target the coins, quietly cleaning up the area and treating the coins very carefully. Once they stuffed the coins in their bag, they ran off, hiding within the debris.

A couple of these creatures were trying to lift a coin out from under Spina's foot but were unable to nudge the coin, even with a group effort. They resorted to desperately push and shove his foot off to no avail. It looked as if they were trying to save the coin. They had no hands, so they had arms that were sharp and jabbed at everything they touched. The Gremlins poked at Spina's ankle with their sharp diamond-like arms.

At best, it felt like an annoying pinch.
 
Lucifer noticed the small creatures picking up the Vortex Coins. “And like always, these little things shows up. They often appeared when a large scale of Vortex Coins appeared at once. No one really knows what they do with them nor their origins.” Lucifer rubbed his chin. “But that’s another topic for another day.” 

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Spina narrowed his eyes at Cuki’s response. Despite the explosive emotions from earlier, the young Saiyan seemingly had returned to normal, well, at least, what he thought was normal. “Connor McKnight… so he’s the girl’s father and the apparent Coin Hunter. Then that’s what we need to find and ask why he is targeting Vegetto.” The old Saiyan felt the pinch on his ankle, noticing a horde of small creatures collecting coins before disappearing. He looked down, lifting his foot on the Vortex Coin he was stepping on to let the creatures take it. He was confused but didn’t went further than that if Lucifer’s statement about them being the supposed cleanup crew was accurate.

He walked over towards the crater with Hart and Ultraman remained. “I’m cutting this short, so we don’t do any more damage here. Where is Connor McKnight?” Spina asked.

Hart narrowed her eyes. “Currently attacking your apartment complex.”

Spina’s eyes widened. “….What?”

“This was a diversion. My father told me that he was planning on attacking the heart of the apartment complex. He never planned on getting Vegetto—that was just a ruse to get you to come out and search for him. Once he knows you’ll be heading our café, he’d spike Ultraman’s drink with a powerful substance that removes rationality and increased his strength.” Hart hugged onto Ultraman. “I don’t know what’s in the apartment complex, but that’s where is located.”

Spina was confused. What can they possibly be after in their home? There was nothing in value that they could take. Then it dawn on the Old Saiyan, causing him to face everyone else. “Everyone! We need to go back home, now!”
 
Cross says "It maybe be one the coins that still in hibernation." Cross thinks "If that was the case I would gotten a report." Cross is ready to teleport back wend every one is ready.

Cross sends Asmodeus "Since the coin goblins are doing there part of the cleanup after one of these kind of events; go back to our normal cleaning and recovery opts. Do hand any the coins over to the Coin Goblins." She sends "Yes my master."
 
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