Grassland; 45 miles Northeast of South City It's High Noon (12:00) Tuesday
Shadic was out and about patrolling the lands. Nothing had caught his eye yet, and he'd been out since at least 7:45. He touched down in the grassy fields he had been flying over. High noon was always an amazing time of day, especially on a sunny day like today. In a field like this one, he could look in any direction and see beautiful green scenery for miles. His favorite part about grasslands were the way the wind made ripples throughout the fields. The wave effect caused by this was another breathtaking event nature created.
Today, Shadic did not have his hammer on him. He left it atop a skyscraper in West City so if he had to call it, nothing would be destroyed in its wake. But today, Shadic did not think he'd need it. Sure, it would be nice to have, especially since he was still healing up from his fight with Reku. Shadic took one last look around before hopping back into the air. Enough resting! Time to get back to patrolling and potentially protecting the planet.
Reku was flying in from the opposite direction, fast. His clothes were almost torn to shreds and his body was covered in bruises. He was running from something and it was not too far behind. He didn’t know how the creator had resources for such a monster, but it was no use. It was unstoppable as far as he was concerned. He needed help and he needed it now. He would see a figure in the distance, and initially he thought that it was him and fired a few ki blasts instinctively, not knowing that it was actually Shadic.
Shadic started flying again when he sensed a familiar power level in the distance. Glancing towards the horizon, he saw a tiny black dot appear and start growing in size, rather quickly at that. Very few people, that he knew of, had a power like that on Earth, so his mind instantly went to Reku. Their spar was only about a week or so prior, so Shadic did not expect to see him again so soon. As the person approached, they seemingly launched a ki blast in the hybrid's direction.
'Woah Reku is already trying to have another spar? And this time he didn't even tell me about it?' Shadic thought as the ki blast slowly gained ground on him. The hybrid stopped and prepared to smack the ki blast away when somebody else suddenly appeared right before him. It was a Saiyan female carrying a small bag, wearing some black and gold armor.
"Heyyy-!" The newcomer was hit in the back by the ki blast, but because of Reku's weakened state, it did not do much damage. The newcomer turned around and glares at the approaching Reku, before shouting, "Watch where you're throwing that shit because next time, I swear to whoever you pray to, I'll-!"
Shadic grabbed the woman's arm, distracting her from her yelling, before inquiring, "Azuki, hey, what're you doing here?"
Azuki looked away from the approaching person to Shadic, "And you," She punched him in the arm, "Why did you just sit there and let that happen?" The girl was livid and there was nothing that could calm her down.
Shadic just laughed, "I was going to, but then you decided to instantaneously transmit yourself in the way."
"I'm about to 'instantaneously transmit' you to Vegeta, the long way, if you don't go tell your buddy to knock it off." Azuki looked back at Reku, who was actually getting pretty close to the duo now.
"Okay, okay, calm down sheesh. Like I said, I was about to but..." Shadic sort of just gestured towards Azuki, referencing that she literally just appeared. Then he floated a few feet closer to the approaching Reku to confirm his suspicion and see what was going on.
He cupped his hands and shouted towards the approaching figure, "Hey Reku, or whoever you are, watch what you're throwing that at!"
((azuki's dialogue was going to be #800000 but this red is trash lmao))
Reku stopped in front of the two, breathing heavily and holding his aching side. The creature did a number on him and he now he was almost here. He had to warn his friend. “Shadic, shut up for a second. You and your girlfriend need to get out of here. NOW.” He said, looking back in alarm, nothing being there, but already sensing the beast’s enormous energy. “Crap.” He muttered to himself, not expecting him to catch up so fast. Reku turned back to Shadic. “GO. NOW.”
Shadic was about to respond, but Azuki interrupted him, "First of all, girlfriend? Ew. Second, you can't just attack us, no, me and expect me to act like nothing happened." The female saiyan was still livid. That's when everybody sensed the other ki, the powerful one.
"Uhhh, what is that?" Shadic asked, looking back at the horizon Reku had just appeared from.
Azuki scoffed, still glaring at Reku, "Whatever it is, I can guarantee I'm ten times worse."
Shadic pulled his friend back, putting himself between her and Reku, "Stop it. This is serious." Shadic did not have his usual carefree tone, showing to Azuki that he was not joking. She backed off, for now. Shadic sighed as he looked at the horizon, excited and anxious to see whatever was going to show up.
“That’s the cre-Wait. WHY ARE WE STILL HERE.” Reku shouted at the both of them. He looked at Shadic, and he could practically smell his excitement, which made him all the more annoyed. He grabbed him by the shirt collar and brought him close. “ARE YOU LISTENING. YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND. IT’ll-“
Reku was cut off by a loud roar before turning back and seeing a dot appearing in the distance and it was growing bigger. The color practically drained out of his face as he realized what it meant. “…Shit.” Now that they were back in his sight, there was no getting away from it now. Reku sighed and turned to Shadic taking a deep breath. “You wouldn’t happen to have a sensu, would you?"
"Uh, we're still here because why wouldn't we be? I got a new technique that I've been dying to try out-." Shadic was cut off as Reku grabbed his shirt, shouting about how they 'had to run blah blah I'm soft.'
Before Reku could explain why he was so weak and terrified, a loud roar came ringing across the lands. Shadic saw the threat getting closer and closer and he was very excited. This fight was going to be fun, especially since he had not fought a strong beast in what seemed like forever.
Reku asked for a sensu bean and Shadic just shook his head as he responded, "Yeah, no, sorry. I didn't think I'd need one, haven't had a big fight (aside from our spar) in a long time."
Azuki reached into her small bag and pulled out a bean, holding out in front of Reku as she laughed, "Oh, you mean one of these? I got a few, but I can't loan one to a coward." She snatched the sensu back, enclosing it in her fist.
Shadic was too distracted to notice. He had been waiting for so long to protect his planet from an actual threat ever since he reached his current power, and now was his chance. He couldn't let it go to waste because Reku was scared and Azuki was angry.
Reku’s anger flared up from the girl’s behavior. “Alright fine, I’ll steal from the grave you’ll be in when you die.” He replied, looking at the man finally arrive. He had white hair and a red and black gi. HIs red aura flared up as the glared at Reku, pointing at him. “There is nowhere you can go where I won’t find you. We are going to fight, and I am going to win.” He told him. Reku simply looked at him, knowing that this was not going to go well. He looked at Shadic, beginning to chuckle, his shoulder moving up and down as he did so. “We are so going t-“
Reku was interrupted as the man’s arm stretched out using his elasticity ability, landing a punch in his jaw that would send him towards the ground. It was so fast that the average person wouldn’t have seen it happen. He flew after the half-saiyan’s falling body, tackling it in midair as they both landed into the ground.
As Azuki and Reku had their little argument, Shadic watched the threat approach. He was a Saiyan, or so it seemed. Unlike most saiyans, this guy had white hair and was wearing a gi rather than armor. This challenger was a machine of a man, with more muscle mass than Shadic could describe. It made a little bit of sense as to why Reku was afraid of him, but fear was a foreign emotion to Shadic.
He spoke towards Azuki, who was standing to his left, "Have you ever seen a Saiyan like this guy?"
She shook her head no as she responded, "Well, we have a few brutes here and there, but nobody this beefy."
Before they could continue their conversation, the opponent literally threw a punch at Reku. His arm actually stretched out and smacked the hybrid in the face, sending him towards the ground. Much like the spar between Reku and Shadic, this guy then tackled Reku out of the air and towards the ground. In the spar, that was basically the deciding attack, but Shadic had a feeling this fight was far from over.
"I can't sit idly by and watch my friend get beat up. I have to help him!" Shadic pointed at the beast, who was in the process of tackling Reku out of the sky, and shouted, "You think you can bully my friend in front of me and get away with it? I won't let youbecause that's my ninja way!"
"What? What're you even saying?" Azuki asked in response to Shadic's little monologue.
"What, you didn't like that. See, I was trying to make this fight a little more interesting, y'know, maybe make it a little meaningful since-." Shadic sighed as he cut himself off, "Bean me."
Azuki let out a little giggle, "Hah, yeah right. So you can get your little buddy back to fighting chances. At this rate I'd rather see him dead-."
Shadic clenched his fists before restating his request, "Azuki, for the love of all that is good, just bean me."
She sighed before tossing Shadic one of her sensu beans, knowing this was a fight she could not win. The hybrid caught the bean in one of his hands before charging up. Azuki knew what was about to happen, so she flew a few feet away so Shadic could complete his transformation. A bright bolt of lightning flew out of a normal white cloud, transforming the hybrid into his Shocking Super Saiyan form. Then, to conclude his set up, he made a hand sign and shouted, "Kage Bunshin no Jutsu!"
Unlike when they last fought, however, Shadic actually did something this time. Four decoys appeared next to Shadic, all in a row. The sight of five Shadics made Azuki's eyes widen as she said, "Oh no, now there's five of you? I could barely handle one!" The real Shadic turned around and gave her a smile before turning back to the beast.
One of the decoys shouted at the attacking threat, "We're gonna take you down! Believe it! Go!" Upon the word go, all five Shadic's got to work. The four decoys all flew towards the beast, firing ki blasts at him to try and get his attention. Unfortunately for the heroes, these decoys cannot harm anybody, so the ki blasts really felt more like light taps.
Meanwhile, the real Shadic swooped in to try and grab Reku from the clutches of Kane. As far as he knew, he was slightly stronger and faster than the beast, so Shadic did not think he would run into too much trouble with this task.
((azuki's actual font color is #d41414 (after laptop posting allowed me to see the official range of colors lol) ))
Reku had his arms crossed over his face as the monster kept pounding with strong punches. The half-saiyan could’ve swore he heard a bone crack under the immense pressure. His teeth were clenched together and he hated every second that went by. Kane continued without mercy, screaming a loud battle cry as he continued to do so. Kane barely noticed the light taps from the clones, focusing only on his target. From the corner of his eye, he saw something fast move in. As Kane would react at around the distance that Shadic would be able to just be touching Reku’s shirt, he threw a “backfist” at Shadic’s face intending to break his nose. ”STAY OUT OF MY WAY!" He’d yell.