The Plaza
Gogeta's eyes widened once Avalon was suddenly launched backwards from Detective Goku's strike, immediately tensing up his arms and legs under the explosion that resulted from the nearby gas station. The black smoke that billowed outward masked him from sight for only a moment; a deafening and powerful force of wind dispersing the cloud and blue flames coating Gogeta in his entire body to clear up some of the air. He glanced around in his transformed state, his blue eyes finding the two children crying out to him.
The fusion grimaced, instinctively taking a step back at the chilling sight of the civilians all gathering around them in a strange unity. He gasped at the multitude of hands bursting through the concrete below his feet, pulling his body into a small curl while the two child like Xy'phers latched onto him. He quickly threw his arms out rather than initially trying to yank the pair off him, bright and rainbow colored energy spiralling up from the ground itself to form two bright spheres in his palms.
Each blinding sphere of rainbow colored, glittering energy sucked the light from the sky itself near the fusion as he glared down at both children. The positive energy would serve as a means to directly disperse and counter the negative power growing within each child; the culminating power that mounted into a threatening suicidal explosion slightly diminishing even in the presence of the rainbow spheres next to the Xy'phers bodies. The energy attack was a direct opposite of his move used against Ultraman in Reality Metropolis; the original application of the attack returning in usage as the move used against the corrupt energy that gave birth to Janemba from his timeline.
Gogeta kept a strong glare as he squeezed the energy down into his hands, balling the bright lights into his fingers.
"Stardust Breaker!"
In an instant, Gogeta extended both arms out, the cleansing energy forced into the two Xy'pher children by each one of his hands gripping down onto their heads. The immense explosion that nearly was unleashed soon vanished, diminishing and merely weakening the children enough for Gogeta to yank them both off his body. With a disgruntled yell, the fusion hurled the children high into the air, flinging them off his body.
The power behind the attack was shortlived, however, only serving to prevent the children from detonating in their rise of energy rather than debilitating them in their entirety. Gogeta deftly formed two energy spheres shortly after tossing them, and rapidly hurled both upwards at the children in the air as his direct attempt to destroy the Xy'phers.
The Recon Hub
Cayde stopped in place of his pacing, turning his eyes up at the sudden explosion that rung out in the middle of the large, life like replica of Reflection City before him. The small blip of smoke and fire was barely seen on the massive image, but Cayde zoomed the image in on the group as Detective Goku and the Breakers gathered vanished into the smoke. The developing scene played out long enough into Gogeta and Bara's combat engagement, prompting Cayde to quickly yell over the comms.
"Contact! We have Xy'phers flooding the plaza!"
Cayde's head lifted, signaling to May with his one free hand.
"May! Keep an eye on the plaza group, I'll give bird's eye support for the RNN crew!"
The image of the children morphing from their disguised states on screen was short lived, Cayde quickly forcing activation for the Breakers at the RNN HQ as he spoke in a hurried tone.
"It's a trap! The Xy'phers were masking their presence and pretending to be real citizens; you guys have to get out of there now!"
He quickly brought the image of the headquarters into view just as Brainstorm announced her true name to the Breakers and others gathered. Cayde blinked once at the name 'Doom', but his eyes soon turned onto Vegetto once she had finished speaking.
"Oh no..."
The Reality News Network Headquarters
Vegetto glanced to the side with the same small blush on his cheeks while Brainstorm spoke, a flattery clear in his stare but the uncertainty behind the claim ever present. The idea that this woman had a perfect solution to his issues seemed so unlikely, but as she spoke before and helped him achieve some bit of his confidence to be himself once again, perhaps he could see hope as he did all those years ago in saving Reality Metropolis. He zoned out slightly, half listening in to Brainstorm's claim while he thought to himself. Yet the words she spoke confused him subconsciously; demanding a state of anger and despair did not register in his brain, but alas, his own thoughts distracted him enough not to realize what she had truly said.
Only then, did the all too familiar name suddenly snap his attention back to reality, followed shortly in the insult of 'pathetic wife'. Vegetto's eyes widened, snapping back down to Brainstorm with a shocked stare. He instinctively yanked his hands back from her grip, taking a step back and looking at her with an incredulous stare.
Her full name finally revealed did not immediately illicit a reaction from the Potara fusion; his eyes and stare unchanged in the stunned disbelief of what was happening. He glanced around to the others in the room, the projected audio of his plan to save his image at the cost of innocent lives filling the room in the stunned silence. There was no capability to defend his words, no context that could explain it away. Only another stunning and humiliating defeat once more, the entire image he worked so hard to build finally destroyed and ruined for all to see.
Vegetto had only felt such a complete defeat once before, under the same namesake given. A flood of anguish washed over him as he remembered so vicariously and vividly the atomization of Kassava's face from Doom's white energy beam. The entire foundation that his wife held for him yanked from underneath, and the inability to truly defeat the one villain that had completely gotten the better of him in every way. Doom's smug attitude and the pure confidence he had in himself began to resurface in Vegetto's memories, and instead of seeing his former wife in Brainstorm, a new face formed in his eyes on the woman across the way. Yet it was not the masked man from old at first, only his own in a dastardly smug smirk in a memory resurfacing of his own words being used against him.
"Hey! Don't get so down in the dumps, you've won every fight you've been in! You know...everyone meets their better sooner or later.
The quote that Vegetto used against Buu surfaced in his own mind, forcing its way into his brain and subconsciously explaining how his ego saw his defeat to the original Doom and now, to another of his bloodline that perfectly annihilated his image to the Vortex. Yet no acceptance of humility came from such a realization, unearthed psychological damage that had merely been pushed aside for the years after Doom's defeat by the Breakers resurfacing along with the malicious energy that radiated heavily within Vegetto.
The black energy within his body magnified dramatically at a sudden burst of heat within the room, Vegetto's eyebrows slowly narrowing now that his focus could see Doom right in front of him. His eyes remained wide as red veins slowly began to form on the edges, black lightning crackling around his entire body from thin air while he balled his hands into fists. The veins on his forehead dramatically expanded in his immense, visible trembling while his eyebrows finished their sharpening into a wild, viscous stare of pure hatred.
In a thunderous roar, Vegetto threw out his right hand in a backhand slap to send Detective Spawn flying across the room and erupted forward in a destructive blast of energy that practically shattered the entire room behind him in his wake. He tackled Valeria through the massive wall of the skyscraper, shattering through it into the outside air and hurling down towards the nearby city streets.
A blue fire began to ignite seemingly from the waves of heat that built up around his body while Vegetto floated in the air outside the RNN headquarters for a moment, particles of light radiating upwards in the flames similar to the iconic glow of Ultra Instinct in his transformed state of Super Saiyan Blue. His blue pupils nearly had a crisp gleam in them, yet still lacked refinement from the familiar silver fire. He bolted downwards towards the city street, a pure focus of immense hatred and rage spurring him forth in charging towards Valeria Meghan von Doom.
