The Reality Vortex: New Roads

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Valley of Black Crystals

As Cuki listened to Lucifer explain a little about the Black Crystals, she frowned and released her knees form her chest before laying down on her back. Without knowing what will befall on them, the least she can do is take this moment to rest and relax. She stared above at the towering Black Crystals and seemed to have an emotionless stare on her face. She wondered how she got into this situation. All she did was open up to Panich and be nothing but nice to the others, yet, this is the respect she was given. She remained motionless and spread out on the floor, waiting for her fate alongside Lucifer. The look on Cuki was one that resembled death and bitterness.

"Save us..." Cuki said softly, just enough for Lucifer to hear her. "Do you... Do you think they'll save us or would they move on without us? I understand them not wanting to help you... but what about me? I would save them if they were trapped..."

Cuki barely moved as she spoke to Lucifer and despite not trusting him, her mind was too weak to resist anything he said to her. The youngster had too many thoughts rushing through her head and an overwhelming sense of betrayal from the recent events.

"What about... me?"
 
Gogeta blinked, watching on as Bernkastel launched into her small combo of strikes. He blinked hard a couple of times, speaking his mind bluntly.

"Huh...you don't know how to fight at all. But the attacks worked-"

Gogeta snapped his head back to reality, seeing Ultraman spike Bernkastel to the ground. Yet before he could react, Gogeta was dragged down like a sinking anchor, the fusion yelping loudly as he was flung forward towards Bernkastel. He grunted, grimacing and barring his white teeth as his eyes sharpened into a fierce glare and rapidly spun around with his arms. The golden and blue aura flame exploded outwards, Gogeta letting out quick battle cries in flinging out his arms and hurtling around the small little area to match and block each blow thrown from Ultraman at the blinding speeds to give Bernkastel room to recover. Gogeta quickly brought his hands together in the famed Kamehameha pose, yet his pointer and middle finger curled up a bit. A drastic blue and golden ring of energy pulsed outwards, and through the mechanisms of Ultraman's own energy, Gogeta suddenly seized hold of it using the similar technique his fusee used against the raging Broly.

Gogeta continued to float down towards the ground, empowering the barrier comprised of Ultraman's own energy to lock him into place in the air in front of him. His eyes widened violently, his dual voice shaking the cracked and indented ground below.

"NOW!! HIT HIM AGAIN!!"
 
Brachi scowled at this.

"I'm disappointed in you, Panich. I thought you were better than this. But clearly I was mistaken. In that case, go ahead! But let me tell you this, if you think you can achieve this so easily, you are dead wrong! And you Coin Hunter, you shall rue the day you chose to make the wrong decision of facing me!" She said.

With that, Brachi got into her own fighting stance and began to power up herself, her Super Saiyan Blue Evolved aura now surging around her like a torrent of blue flame as Majin Bara backed off, giving Brachi the clearance to gather more of her strength, as she clearly was intending to show Panich who's boss!

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Bernkastel gripped her abdomen with her arms as she rolled over out of the indent her body left at the bottom of the crater, her eyes squeezed shut. Unlike her numbed cheek, the knee to the stomach was a potent blow. She held back the instinctive urge to vomit what little food she had eaten that morning even though it hurt her more to keep it in. Not to mention her skull practically throbbing each time Gogeta exchanged blows with Ultraman above her.

"Owww... that hit like one of Lambda's candy bombs." 

Her legs wobbled like jelly but she had to will her body to move. Of all the places to be struck, her stomach was the one area that didn't react well to sensations like pain. Despite the response of her body wanting to freeze up under a fear response, Bern felt encouraged to continue. She had to keep getting up, and keep fighting, even if it felt like she was hitting concrete.

Yet I've felt far greater pain than this! Your first mistake was bringing those ugly memories back!

Upon hearing Gogeta's command among the loud ringing of her ears, Bernkastel got a running start and leapt into the air at the two. "I won't quit! I'm not done!!" Immediately she crouched just under Ultraman before throwing her fists in alternating hooks at his stomach and the lower ribs. If two fists weren't enough, she'd throw four, or six, or a thousand, but all were made with intent behind them to fell her opponent.

"I'll keep going until my knuckles split open!" Bernkastel grunted between throws. "Feels like I'm punching lead..."
 
Reality Metropolis

The rising momentum in power attacks came to a sudden stop; the Kryptonian felt the weight of his own energy holding him stationary in the air. Struggling to move body against Gogeta’s suppression, Ultraman’s mouth sprung wide opened on the repeated blows against stomach and ribs. Initially, the attacks felt weak, but as time passes on, the blows became stronger on each hit.

The Kryptonian lifted his head against the suppression of his body as veins became apparent around his neck. His eyes darted all over until it glowed completely golden, pulsing outward of energy as it spread around himself. The constraints of his energy shifted forward to engulf both Gogeta and Bernkastel—reversing the fusion’s technique against them. He extended his arms forward and grabbed them by their faces with his large hands and putting huge pressure on them to the point that his fingers dug in their skins.

“Kryptonian Electric Strike!” Ultraman shouted as he rushed towards the ground as he held onto the two and slamming both against the rough surface. Then immediately, as he pulls them up from the ground, teleported to a new environment in a lone building in Metropolis, smashing them against the windows, then teleported once more—to other part of the area, smashing them against them pavement in a section of the town utterly abandoned. A surge of electric emitted from his hands against Gogeta and Bernkastel, lightning sparks seen for miles as it hurled towards the sky.



Cuki’s Apartment

Spina narrowed his eyes when Panich absorbed the crystal given by the Coin Hunter. He smirk as his instincts is beginning to take over upon a surge of strength forming in front of him. “Fine, then die.” The Old Saiyan extended his arms forward, pulled them back for a brief second before making a “stance of a ferocious beast”. He placed one foot forward, creating cracks underneath his boots. Responding in kind of the power Panich had display, the rush to save Cuki is critical.

Without hesitation and making the first move, Spina sprint forward rapidly, launching several rapid punches towards the Saiyan Panich—each of his hits contains malicious intent to cause the most destructive damage. 

The Coin Hunter landed on the ground, extending their arms wide. “And that’s done. All we need is her, and everything will come full circle. I’ll entertain you for a few more moments.” They crossed their arms, and a sudden beam of heat vision sprung forward towards Bara, Cross, wisps and the jacks, blasting them towards the ground. “Coin Activation….”



Valley of the Black Crystals

Lucifer frowned when Cuki questioned the motives of the Breakers recusing them. “Why are you telling me this? As you said, most likely, they will come to you since I’m still relatively new the group—well, whatever group they tried to be anyways.” Lucifer grabbed a patch of dirt in his hands. “You been with them for three years—seems odd that you even have this idea in that head of yours and telling me of all things. Why wouldn’t they save you?”

The angel paused for a second, and before Cuki could answer, Lucifer smiled. “Oh, but then again, when one is a weak person, they tend to find ways to justify their statements by blaming others for problems.” He turned to Cuki and seeing her in that state. “When someone is pushed to a corner for a variety of reasons and became affected by such… mortals have a knack of overcoming such. Some chose power, some are able to break such weakness… and some will just lay waste in the pool of their own pity.” Lucifer turns to Cuki with his eyes—hinting no judgement. “Are you the one that lay waste in your own weakness?”
 
It was not long after the beams stop hitting a jack or wisp they started once more being a distraction.

Cross says "Like her brother form your time line Brachi, Panich chose weakness and foolishness." It seems that the heat vision only pushed him down. A chill went down Panich's and the Coin Hunter's spines. A fear of death and demotion some how encroached in there minds.
 
Cuki's Apartment

With newly heightened senses, Panich blocked and countered Spina's attacks almost with ease. It was amazing how much she had changed since she had last sparred with him. With eas new fist incoming, there as another hitting back with just as much force, the blows fully intending to kill the older Saiyan. And seeing an opening in the speeding fists, the princess slammed her head against the other's before grabbing hold of his arm and slamming him back into the ground. 

"Don't take it personally, think of this as another of your little challenges... Only with much more dire consequences." Panich gave a toothy, evil grin, raising a fist and encasing it with ki to slam it against Spina's skull. Any fears she may have had being clouded by the growing insanity.
 
Majin Bara grunted a little, but she easily recovered before Brachi teleported by her side. Seeing the Coin Hunter preparing to activate a coin, Brachi immedaitely responded by teleporting in front of the Coin Hunter and blasting him at point-blank range with a Full Power Energy Wave before he could even finish his sentence of whatever Coin he was about to use, remembering that Coin Hunters were at their most vulnerable when attempting to do so, blasting the Coin Hunter backwards and allowing Majin Bara to join in with a Majin Kamehameha which also hit the Coin Hunter.

"Not this time, Coin Hunter." Bara said, already working out something to see if she could upend him in her own way.
 
As the electrical surge had finished, Gogeta laid on the ground with a heavy grimace. Smoke billowed off his blue fur covered body, his left eye shut and panting heavily. His eyes widened in a pained grunt, both feet shooting up and slamming into Ultraman's stomach, and vaulting him away over his head in a small tumble-like kick.

However, Gogeta slowly rolled over onto his stomach, still lying on the floor and his arms shaking heavily from the damage. He panted heavily, his labored breath showing the significant damage left in the wake of the other attack as he struggled to grin at Bernkastel next to him.

"Hey...this is getting pretty hard. Can...can you teach me...Ultra Instinct now? I don't...think...I can...take him...without it."
 
Cuki silently listened to Lucifer and his words, the word 'weak' seemed to strike a nerve but it appears that Cuki had no energy to react. Oddly enough, Cuki's body showed cracks on her skin, similar to the incident with the Doom fight. She could not think of anything to say to Lucifer or think up an answer to anything he said. She struggled to keep herself awake but knew that anything can happen with both her and Lucifer hostage.

"I don't want to lie and waste away, but what can I do now?" Cuki frowned as she continued to give a dead gaze to the crystals around her. "I'm completely exhausted, mentally and physically... These crystals give me an uneasy vibe, makes sense why we were put in this trap."

Cuki closed her eyes as her tone got slightly darker.

"Rest assured Lucifer, my will is strong, it's the Breakers I worry about. Each Breaker has something that makes me doubt them... They reek of narcissism. I've spent the last three years with them and not much has changed about how they view each other. When the newbies arrived, it only exposed deeper faults within the group," Cuki bared her teeth, snarling. "And now look at them, enemies of the public. I have done nothing wrong! Nothing! But yet, here I am, hated and despised by everyone. People wish to kill me despite saving them twice from that loudmouth fool (Gogeta). What good can the mortals do if they view everyone the same? They certainly have the power to overcome many things but do so at their own leisure, regardless of whoever gets caught in the way..."

Cuki paused for a moment, realizing what she was saying and shaking her head. 

"This lack of sleep... it has me saying nonsense..."
 
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