Fluttersaiyan

                                                Chapter 19: The Battle for Equestria Begins

Xendo and I stared each other down for a while. We were floating about 500 feet above the outskirts of Ponyville. Why did this guy seem so confident? I don’t really think he was that strong. I was using the Kaioken, even if he was stronger, I could just power up and take him out, right? But he was just sitting there.

“So, are you going to do something? Or are we going to sit around floating here all day?” He asked me.

“I don’t know, you’re the one who wanted to enslave this planets people. I’m here to stop you from doing that, and you aren’t doing that at the moment.” I said smartly.

“Oh really so if I tried to do this,” He put his hand out, pointing directly at the center of Ponyville. An orb of purple energy began to form. “You would try to stop this?”

I began to tense up, ready to move in case he actually used it.

“Oh, is someone ready to make a move?” He asked. “Then, MOVE!”

Suddenly he fired the orb straight for the center of Ponyville. I instantly moved right in front of it and smacked it away with the back of my hand. It flew straight up into the sky before it blew up in a small explosion.

“Well, well, well! We’re a fast one aren’t we?” He smirked.

“Okay, that’s not funny!” I shouted angrily.

“Oh really? Well if you didn’t like that, then how about you try these out!” He shouted. He suddenly fired off ten more energy orbs.

“Yaaahhh!” I shouted as I powered up to Kaioken times two. I immediately begin firing my own orb at each of his, exploding as they made impact with each other.

I flew straight forward towards Xendo, cocking back my fist. He stood there as I got closer and closer. I swung hard, right at his face but missed at the last second. He dodged my attack. I stopped and spun around, there he was right behind me. He swung right for me, but I put up my forearm and blocked his punch. He brought his knee up into my stomach throwing me back. I floated back a couple feet holding my stomach, coughing, trying to catch my breath. I was hit so hard that I came out of the Kaioken.

“Is that all? You mean that with all of your power it takes one knee to the gut to stop you? Pitiful.” He said.

“Ah, I-I wouldn’t celebrate j-just yet.” I said breathless. “Hrrg, AAAAHHH!” I shouted as I powered up the Kaioken again, this time going times five right off the bat.

“So, you still have some fight left, good. If it had ended so quickly I would be disappointed. After all, you are the strongest opponent I’ve faced yet.” He said.

“Oh really? Well that certainly makes me feel special.”  I said sarcastically.

“So, Dako, was it?” He asked.

“Yeah, what do you want?” I asked.

“Do you really think you can beat me? I understand that you’re trying to play hero, and you’re making quite the noble effort to protect this place. But honestly, do you think you can beat me?” He asked.

I’ll be honest, that kind of sent shivers down my back. I wasn’t to sure if I could beat him, but I sure as hell would try.

“I don’t know, but I guess we’ll find out, won’t we?” I replied. I flared up the aura on my Kaioken to show him I wasn’t afraid to fight, no matter the outcome.

“That’s the spirit!” He said smiling sinisterly. “That the SPIRIT!” He shouted as he flew straight at me.

He swung his leg wide trying to kick me in the ribs, I bent back and let his leg fly right over me. I straightened back up. In a fraction of a second I decided that if I wanted to win, and end this quickly, I would have to try and roast the living shit out of him. I cupped both of my hands together and held them out in front of me, then I let loose.

“Aaa-AAAHHH!” I screamed as I put every ounce of energy I could pull up that quickly into one solid blast. A bright beam of energy burst from my hands, a beam the size of a school bus flew straight for Xendo. He took the full brunt of the blast.

“Well, at least, I didn’t, drag this crap out, like in, Dragon Ball Z.” I said to myself panting lightly. I knew I hit him, there was a ton of smoke blowing through the air. The smoke began to thin out and blow away, it appeared that I got him.

“No, no fucking way! You gotta be shitting me!” I shouted in disbelief. As the smoke cleared I saw him floating there, his hands out in front of him, and him smiling, or more like gritting his teeth. The only damage it appeared I’d done was slightly char his clothing and armor, smoke still rising from them.

“Really? Ha-ha ha-ha! Did you underestimate me that much?” He laughed to himself.

“FUCK IT!” I yelled as I flew straight at him. I began swinging wildly, sending a volley of punches straight at him. He either dodged right out of the way or blocked every hit, catching my fists in the palm of his hands.

I pulled back one of my fists and wound up for the power shot, then hit as hard as I physically could. He caught my fist right in the palm of his hand, and he didn’t let go. He began squeezing my fist.

“AH! Let go!” I yelled in pain.

He didn’t let go, so I swung hard with my other fist, right for his face, hoping that then he would let go. Of course, that didn’t work either. He caught my other fist as well, and began to squeeze again.

“Aaah!” I yelled as I felt the bones shifting. I think if I weren’t screaming so loud I would’ve been able to hear my hands cracking. I had one last move to make in a moment of such desperation. I pulled my head back, and hit him square on the fore head in an intense head butt.

That worked, his head flew back, his eyes shut tight in pain, and he let go of my hands. Sure it stopped him, but it hurt me like hell too. It doesn’t matter how strong you are, human, saiyan, it hurts. At least now I was free.

“So, you want to play rough, huh?” He said with a menacing smile.

He flew at me and started swinging wildly at me in return. I made my best attempts to dodge as many swings as I could, but a few connected. I dodged, blocked, and countered. While I was pre-occupied with his wild swinging he blasted me with an energy attack out of nowhere, but it wasn’t exactly a blast, it was an intense flash that blinded me in a second. There was no way to avoid it, as soon as I knew what was going on it was too late. I was blinded, I was floating there rubbing my eyes and blinking like crazy trying to regain my sight. Suddenly I felt him slam me right over the top of the head, I was sent flying straight down towards the ground.

I was hit so hard that I came out of the Kaioken, again. I tried to slow my self down, and I had to fast. Since I still couldn’t see I had no way to tell how far I was from the ground. I felt myself stop moving and had avoided crashing into the ground, that was one problem solved, but I still couldn’t see. Seconds after stopping as I continued blinking the white began to fade, and I could see blue, and then clouds. I felt the top of my head with my hand, it was still sore. Then I remembered that I was still in the middle of a fight, and began looking around for Xendo. I couldn’t see him anywhere, I began looking all around frantically searching on the horizon, in case he decided to leave and try to destroy Ponyville.

Xendo suddenly appeared on top of me, about 25 feet above me.

“Surprise! Rrrgh, AAAAAH!” He shouted as he threw both of his hands out in front of him. He fired a bright beam of light purple energy straight at me. In a split second I had to decide whether I would dodge or try to block it. I chose to block, which probably wasn’t the best thing. I shot my hands outward and caught the beam. I held back with all my might, but I could feel myself slipping, if I didn’t try to blast it back I might be engulfed by it.

“Raaaggghh!” I heard him grunting as he forced even more energy into the attack.

“Nnnooo!” I yelled trying to hold the beam back. He kept putting more and more into it. I would use a lot of energy in this, but I would need to in order to get out of this.

“You fool! Thinking you were any match for me! I’ll admit, this was fun, but now it’s time for you to die! AAAH HA-HA HA-HA HA!” He shouted as he finally went all out, letting every ounce of energy fly.

I felt myself being forced back towards the ground. I was able to hold the beam off, but I couldn’t hold my ground. I was getting closer and closer to the ground. The intense wind and heat of the blast was blowing away and melting snow all around and below me. I felt my feet hit the ground. The ground was soft from the melted snow, and I began to sink in as the beam kept pressing down on me. The grass all around me was starting to rip out and blow away from the intense winds. I was now a foot into the ground, the soft soil blowing out of the way leaving a crater.

“They say for some lessons you only get to learn once! Well by now I’m sure you’ve learned to watch who you mess with! Too bad you won’t live long enough to apply your newfound knowledge to the rest of the world!” He shouted.

I couldn’t do it. I couldn’t fight him off, I could only hold off his attack and hope he would tire out soon, but the chances of that seemed abysmal. It felt like all hope was lost. I had nothing else to do, but think. Think about the things that had led up to this moment. I remembered my arrival in Equestria, meeting Fluttershy, meeting all the others. Then I remembered the adventure we had together, looking for the Senzu beans.

I remembered it all. I remembered when I got hurt on the mountain, how I fought to survive, even when on the edge of death. I refused to give up and die, I refused to leave Fluttershy. And then it all came flooding back.

“Don’t worry Fluttershy, this is supposed to be your day, I won’t let anything happen.”

“I love you guys too. It’s why I knocked out Gilda for making Fluttershy cry, I care about you guys. I would risk my life to protect you all.”

“I won’t leave you, I promise.”

“Its okay now, I’m here and twice as strong. I will never leave you.”

“It’s okay Fluttershy, I won’t get hurt. Besides, the stronger I get, the harder it is for me to get hurt.”

“Fluttershy, go inside, and don’t worry about me. I’ll be back, I promise. No matter what happens. I will not leave you. Okay?”

“I love you Dako.” She said to me.

“I love you too Fluttershy.” I replied.

I began to feel angry, furious, overcome by rage. It wasn’t fair. That after all the promises I made to Fluttershy that I wouldn’t let anything happen to me, I was about to die. It wasn’t right. Just thinking about all of this seemed to really fucking piss me off. My rage continued to boil, and I knew that I had to survive, I knew I had to win. I burst back into the Kaioken, and immediately went times 10.

“Ha-ha ha-ha, this old trick again!? Go ahead and try all you want, it’s worthless!” He shouted down at me.

“No. No! NO!” I shouted in rage. “Aaahh-AAAAAHHHH!” I continued powering up.

“What are you doing!?” He shouted, his tone of voice suddenly changing to one of fear.

“Ka, me, HA, ME…” I shouted as a bright blue glow formed in my hands. I began to hear that unmistakable sound.

“Quit that! It’s useless!” He shouted.

“Rrrgghh-HHAAAAAAAAAA!!!” I screamed at the top of my lungs as I fired the Kamehame-ha.

The beam fired from my hands and blew straight into his beam, sending it flying back towards him. There was a tremendous thundering sound that shook the ground as the two beams collided, like the sound of two waterfalls hitting each other straight on. His beam kept receding, quicker and quicker, until he was the one barely able to hold me off.

“NO!” He shouted.

“KAIOKEN, TIMES, FIFTEEEEEN!!!” I shouted, putting even more power into the blast. This time, he couldn’t block the wave of energy, it slipped past his hands, and he was engulfed by the massive beam. The beam shot upward into the sky, carrying him along with it. As soon as I saw him flying away I jumped out of the hole in the ground and took off after him.

I flew straight over until I was a foot above him. He saw me, and the look of fear on his face made it all perfect. I quickly cocked back my fist and punched him as quickly and as hard as I could in the face. He flew straight down towards the ground. I wasn’t going to stop there, I used the instant transmission in order to appear right underneath him. He came flying towards me at over 100 miles per hour as I cocked back one of my legs like I was attempting to make a field goal kick in football. I waited until he was right in front of me, then I brought my knee up into his back.

“AAHH!” he shouted in pain.

I tossed him up, then kicked him in the back sending him straight up into the air. I used the instant transmission again to appear above him this time. As he came back up towards me I brought an elbow down hard into his stomach sending him back down to the ground. He fell all the way down, impacting hard, sending snow flying up all around him. I landed next to him.

“Now, it appears my job as the local superhero is done. If you can still fuckin’ move, you should drag your sorry ass outta here, before I withdraw my decision to let you live.” I said down to him in a low serious tone.

“Agh! Rrgh! Y-you, f-fool.” He grunted. “You will regret, t-this.” He said weakly as he climbed to his feet.

“Yeah, yeah, get the fuck outta here.” I said.

“You may have won the battle, but the war has just begun!” he shouted back at me as he slowly flew off.

That actually left me a little chilled. I really, did not like the sound of that.

I was surprised that I sustained the least damage.