Calabro Conversion Part II

Episode X: Onward to Arlia

Vechsurk had stood up with his lost arm and looked at it in such disgust. He then stretched out the stump of his right arm and concentrated deeply. Instantly, a new arm regenerated back from the stump before. Super Scholar Philibuster stood before him in his new transformed state, a look of anger and despair rushed through him. He wanted revenge from the death of Zuk at his hands. Calabro was still in confusion as to what Philibuster was, he had no idea of a student’s pure form, almost identical to Hitler’s beliefs of the pure Aryans with gold hair and green eyes to be superior to the normal man.

Joe prepared to make an attack to Vechsurk, when he saw someone, or something fly above and drew a sword from his back. The darkened figure lifted the sword above his head and sliced two fire fighter commanders in the front as soon as he hit the ground. The fire fighter clones, in fear scattered and ran into the school again. Then he dashed in front of Vechsurk and in front of the Calabro crew. The figure looked very familiar, with his bright red Hawaiian shirt and khaki pants and looked like glasses on his face. Caitlin glanced over to look at the new figure, who’s head began to turn and then shouted, “Its...the Calabro clone! We’re in trouble now.” The clone made no expression and then looked into Vechsurk’s eyes. The alien leader, then said, “You know, you guys piss me off, all these swords, isn’t very nice to play. Why don’t you let me have the sword and have a go?” The clone smiled devilishly and handed him his carbon copy of Calabro’s sword. “Haha, foolish clone, you will meet your...DOOM!” replied Vechsurk as he lifted the sword above his head to kill the Calabro clone. As he pulled to blade to slice the clone in half, the clone reached up and grabbed the sides of the blades, without cutting himself. Vechsurk choked for a second, he thought there was no way something like that could happen. “Looks like it isn’t just the sword.” said the Calabro clone so confidently.

He pulled his left hand back and flexed it as hard as he could and made a left hook right into the stomach of the leader. His arm and hand busted through and popped out the other side. Blood sprayed from the hole in his stomach and the mouth as the leader fell backwards and passed out into a gruesome death. The clone turned to the party assembled before him. Tara and Caitlin were getting a bit nervous, but Super Scholar Joe and Calabro were not at all worried as they began to crouch slightly and ready themselves for any surprise attacks. The clone sheathed the sword back into its place and remained motionless. Calabro stepped forward and then asked, “What the hell do you want?” The clone then replied, “I was overthrown from my evil ways and have reformed to protect myself and my real self, namely you Calabro.”

He gave a serious look into Calabro’s eyes. With empty threats pouring from the others, Calabro halted them with his hand and then said, “I believe him with the look he gave me, I understand his true feelings, let him join us, we need all the help we can get.” As much as most of them were against it, they did welcome the clone into the party. “So, how are we going to stop the invasion and save the world again?” asked Tara to the clone. “Well, we have to journey to the Alien home planet and stop them from there. Sure, we can keep stopping them over and over, but they will just keep coming back for more.” replied the Calabro clone. Everyone agreed, yes they have to go to the home planet that they knew was Arlia, as Vechsurk had mentioned earlier. “So, then. How are we all going to get there?” asked Caitlin. Tara, who pulled out a small calculator, and began to punch in various numbers and signs at a furious rate, The she said, “Well we need to take coordinates, 56543578-1242588 to reach Arlia in approximately two standard Earth weeks.” Everyone stood motionless and then Joe, who released his new power asked, “How the hell did you get those numbers?”

Unbeknownst to all of them, they didn’t realize that Tara was gifted with great intelligence upon the arrival of the clones again. “It’s all purely simple, we design a spaceship using these coordinates.” said Tara as she revealed a paper with designs for a large round spaceship. But since I am so smart, I already built it.” She then pointed to the rear of the school, where she had mentioned it was built. Everyone shrugged their shoulders and walked up the hill toward the back of the school. Indeed there was a massive spacecraft designed exactly to Tara’s specifications. They all boarded, with the exception of Philibuster, who had “other plans” to get their, he had to settle some business, and the rest moved into the cockpit area while Tara flew the ship. Still, many didn’t understand Tara’s new found ability, but then they wondered, is it possible that she could be smarter then...Andrew Dylag. Maybe or maybe not.

The spaceship lifted off and flew straight up into the place we call, space. Meanwhile, above the school and into the clouds and into the parallel dimension of the dead, a revived (but dead) Zuk head entered a building past the gates of the heavens. In there was silence and the place was empty. Far beyond the end of the building was a large figure at a desk. He was taking notes of some sort, which did interest Zuk to a certain capacity. He went over to the figure to find out what was going on. The figure, looked over to Zuk and said, “Name.” Zuk wondered why he asked, and then said, “Joe Zukoski.”

The figure, who must of been some representative of the great beyond flipped through numerous pages of a great book till he found what he wanted. “Here you are, but wait you aren’t supposed to be here yet. Have you died of natural causes?” Zuk shook his head as a no. “Well, I can see planet Earth is in trouble and I see bad visions for your friend’s departure to Arlia. So I can cut you some slack. In order to prepare you for the final battle, I will train you in some advanced forms of martial arts to help you in the near future. When you have completed your training here, I can send you directly to your friends from there. Why am I doing this you may ask? See, I made a bet with a few others that you will win, so I am only trying to help you out a little.” “Okay, sounds fair, so when do I start this new training.” asked Joe. “Right now, I guess, by the way, my name is Kaio-sama, but you can call me Kaio for short. I am the guardian of Earth, a small part of the universal religions.” replied Kaio. “First of all, to make a good test and beginning to your studies. I want you to fight an opponent you first think of, all his powers and abilities will be close to yours and his fighting styles will be exactly as he is portrayed.”

Joe tried to think hard, when the Kaio snapped his fingers and a large door to his right opened and out appeared a caped figure, he wore a turban and similar clothing style to Zuk’s. He was green faced as well as having pointy ears and an evil look. “Oh no, it’s Piccolo!” shouted Zuk. The being walked slowly into the room with an angry look, “Yes, prepare to die.” He grabbed at his turban and pulled it off and threw on the ground and landed with a thud. He whipped off his cape and it too landed with a thud. He cracked his neck and knuckles and rushed at Zuk with a flying dash. Zuk at the time had removed his cape to add the extra speed; he knew he was going to need it. Piccolo curled his right arm and flexed it for extra power and punched at Zuk. Zuk defended by crossing his arms, both fighters were locked into hard combat, fists furiously flying around trying to hit each other. They moved so fast, the attacks were almost in blurs. With a lot of growls and roars from Piccolo, he managed to get a kick and an uppercut into Zuk and he flew up into the sky. The green Namekian opened his mouth and fired a “chi” fireball from there. Zuk, sensing this, because he knew Piccolo’s fighting style, grasped his fists and shouted aloud as he burst into a Super Scholar. In a confident slap he nailed the fireball and knocked it into the side of the room. Piccolo did understand the power Zuk possessed. Zuk stared Piccolo down and rushed into him to make his attack.

Tune in next episode as the harsh training of Zuk continues as well as the Calabro Crew continuing their journey to Arlia, and the mystery they face.