Calabro Conversion Part IV

Episode XXV: The Attack!

After the vicious attack at the Continental Room at the Junior Ring Dance, the call for attack was unanimous. Now all that was needed was to plan something to get into the warship, the Nelffaggar. But while the Calabro Crew got organized and was ready to hold a meeting to discuss the necessary actions, Richard and Joe decided to search for Mike to investigate his actions in the recent fights. Well, Richard and Joe flew from the school to the probable first location that they may be. A small canyon area outside of Middlebury was a serene spot that Mike usually likes to hang out in where he can gather thoughts or be alone for a while. “Well, if he is anywhere, he will definitely be there!” thought Joe. The two Super Scholars blasted off with their “chi” surrounding them and they took off to their destination.

When they landed, the quiet canyon was empty, as it would seem to the normal naked eye. But Joe and Richard both felt his “chi”. So Joe placed his middle and pointer finger on his forehead and told Richard to grab his shoulder and in an instant, the two teleported to the exact location of Mike’s. When they searched the area, they were in a valley, to the very center of the canyon. Mike stood at one side and another Mike, with a scarred face sat restrained at the other end. “Mike, what in the hell are you doing?” asked Richard. “I have to do something, I have to help. Get away from here…NOW!” his voice raised a little, and he pushed Joe aside and he walked to his replica. Joe and Richard stood away as Mike continued to his clone. Mike reached out his hand and touched the chest of his replica, “This is because I know…that if placed in your position I would’ve done the same thing. Through this act of sacrifice may we be absolved of our sins.” Mike said, his face filled with compassion. The replica spoke in a husky voice, “For two years I have been caught in hell. I came to this reality to try and end that suffering…perhaps through this act we should both find a solution to our problems…” Mike nodded, then, a surge of energy sparkled from Mike’s arm. Lightning swirled around his arm and extended around his and the clone’s entire body. The lightning began to draw the two closer together, until they seemed to squish into each other, forming a single entity. A ball of condensed energy covered the two. Harsh winds and lightning sparked toward the two viewers, who could only cover their eyes and watch in awe. After a minute the energy ceased and only one being stood there. He wore a more military-esque trench coat, and dark pants with rocket boots. The Matrix-style glasses remained, but Mike’s hair retained some of the gray that had decorated the sides of the clone’s scalp. Also present was a scar going across his left eye. His eyes had gone from bright blue to a more tranquil gray. His shotgun appeared to have larger barrels, but otherwise remained unchanged. “THE MERGING IS COMPLETE….” The new Mike spoke in stereo. “I…am the ultimate being…billions of entities joined to form one super powerful entity.” he replied in a singular voice, which was obviously the dominant one for this form. No facial features were changed and his size only grew slightly with what appeared to be increased muscle and speed. Joe and Richard rushed to their companion and questioned him, “What the hell just happened here?” asked Joe. Mike could only stare back at him; he took a breath and began. “When your Mike and the scarred one fought, your Mike sensed something different about him than the other clones. Quickly he learned he wasn’t fighting a clone, but rather himself in an alternate reality where Mike did not help you in your battle with Li Eclud. Mike nominated himself to be wished first so he have the chance to merge with his alternate selves and become incredibly strong and fast, an act which was suggested to him by Kaio-Sama. Caitlin was the one who wished the alternate Mike to this plane. She has been conspiring with the enemy. Your Mike managed to trick the clone and appeal to himself. They were both wandering beings with no idea of purpose. The transformation we realize now is radical. It is strange, however. Billions of alternate Mike’s were absorbed to form me, and not one of them regrets or rejects that act. They are all…selfless. I feel much stronger and with my new body and powers, I feel stronger than even you Zuk, I have power that equals and possibly surpasses that of a Super Scholar.” Joe and Richard were impressed, indeed his power increased tremendously and he had become invaluable like the others, perhaps even more so!

The three then flew off; Mike wasn’t using his rocket boots that suggested that he could now fly without the aid of technology. But there were more powers that he must discover through meditation and self-discovery in order to get the full feel of his abilities. With that in mind, Joe decided to take everyone to the meeting place at the school to discuss the plans for the attack. Everyone was to be there, Mr. Calabro, Bastedo, the new Mike, Zuk, Philibuster, Stephanie, Chicky, Richard; even Andrew Dylag made an appearance. He too had an idea to help in the counterattack. With all that concluded, the conversation began. The outline was simple. Calabro began his discussion, “There should be two teams, Alpha and Omega. Bother teams will enter the warship that we concluded as the mother, the Nelffaggar. All members will enter the ship after the shield system is disabled. There, Joe will use his teleport to enter the docking bay area. There the two teams will split, either going to the east or west corridors. Alpha will take west and Omega will take east. Some objectives to take in mind are to destroy all clone manufacturing machines, as well as to plunder the treasury for information on the new establishment for the Zephlin as well as some items that we can use as necessary. Andrew Dylag has offered his services as a commander of the strike force to attack the warship with his Star Lancer squad. These ships will attack the ship head on and use highly concentrated burst lasers to take out their shields and will use their ion cannons to subdue all communication and electronic equipment. So be prepared in case the lights go out and make sure you all have a Super Scholar with you so he can detect energies and bash doors that are electronic and give out when the ion cannons take affect. Is that understood? Then we attack tomorrow at noon. We should all assemble in he gym.” Calabro exited the conference room and the others followed. They had a big day tomorrow.

The next day, everyone gathered together. Mostly people designed to dress in stealth apparel to add more success to the mission. Joe and Philibuster choose a tight black spandex one-piece outfit with heavyset boots. Mike stuck to his same dark outfit. The girls choose skintight apparel as well as they all fitting one description. Calabro choose a deep dark Hawaiian Shirt with a little white and purple on the flowers. Andrew has readied his ships from Oxford Airport and readied for his command to disembark and attack. Everyone huddled to Zuk who was in the very center of the crowd. Each person grabbed him and readied for the announcement. Mike, who claimed to be stronger than all the others, stood off to the side a bit, but still was in earshot of Zuk. Then, Calabro gave the order. Andrew called his squad to leave the airport and attack head on. Flying in the small one-man fighters, were his group of 12 men in metal shells, which were all armed with their burst lasers. They viewed through their view screens the massive warship. Each fighter broke into a set of four and took aim at the four shield generators on each corner of the ship, “Yo, check this out sir. There are 2 high powered laser batteries on the hull and they seem to have spotted us.” Replied Rogue 2. “I see, evasive maneuvers. We’ve got to take out the shields and send Zuk the ‘ok’ so that he can get in.,” replied Andrew, who was Rogue Leader. Each fighter took a few shots at the main hull and the laser was absorbed by the blue transparent shield system. But of course, Andrew allied with Rogue 1 managed to use his high powered cannons and take out the shields while only taking very minimal damage himself, Andrew gave the call, “Zuk, its down, make your way into the docking bay. But be warned, it is very likely that their shock troopers are waiting for any form of breaking and entering. We are taking out the power with the ion cannons now.” Andrew commented on the radio signal to Joe. Joe rallied the signal to his mind. He snapped, “I got it, here we go.” He said. He placed the two fingers on his forehead and in an instant the group took toward the docking area of the Nelffaggar. It was quiet. Only a set of 5 fighter ships were in the bay and it looks from the screen portal that Andrew had his hands full with a few fighters. “Well, lets go to work, let’s take it to him.” Said Calabro.

Joe led Alpha Squad with Bastedo, Chicky, Stephanie, and Richard. The others went with Philibuster as Omega Squad. However, Mike had since vanished after being teleported to this ship with the others. The group was beginning to grow frustrated with the new Mike’ mysterious and dark attitude. Joe moved to the bay doors toward what he thinks lead to the barracks. He hoped to run into a few troops and hit them before they retaliate and know that the group was around. The doors opened and 3 patrolling Cerebrates saw them and attempted to fire their automatic laser rifles. But Chicky managed to take them out with her newly forged Spork. It fired and extended with the prongs as sharp as blades, punctured the three at once and pinned their carcasses against the wall. The others moved on and fought a few more warriors, but nothing even blemished Stephanie’s arsenal nor Richard and Joe’s fighting techniques. But they reached a fairly large hole on the floor. They all looked down, Calabro mentioned to them that this was a barracks station where troops are readied with an elevator platform, it seems. If we were to jump down and blow parts of it, we can cripple their forces. Joe lets go down. Joe and Calabro leapt to the bottom the two-story drop to the floor. Joe landed, followed by Calabro, back to back. Calabro unsheathed his blade and Joe took a fighting stance in a squatting like pattern. The area was filled with Zealots and Cerebrates alike, some were armed, and others were not. Creatures armed themselves quickly and made efforts to circle them and kill them. But as they moved in closer, Joe fired up his “chi” in a wild and untamed flame of energy that sparked a blink of fear into the warriors. But they weren’t scared off. That is, until Joe blasted his “chi” with a full body stretch and a splash effect of energy waved like a tsunami across the barracks station, eating the armored carapaces of the creatures. Most of them died from this attack, lying in their torn bodies. But a few Zealots survived and attempted to harm Joe while he was preoccupied. But Calabro’s quick slashes from his mighty blade finished them. Joe looked up and gave Richard a nod that the area was secured.

Richard and Joe ran as leaders of the parade of troopers as Calabro covered the rear. Joe began to blast doors in and out with his “chi” balls and Richard followed his actions. But finally, Bastedo noticed that the next set of large blast doors where going to lead them to the Command Chamber. “Well, I am going to take the girls and we will move out to search this wing, you three take the command chamber and inform Andrew of our capture.” Said Bastedo. “Yes, great idea, Sean.” Replied Richard. They split again; Joe and Richard fired a small set of “chi” balls and blew the door straight out of its hinges and flat onto the ground. Calabro rushed in and slammed his mighty fist of literature into a few of the Berserkers guarding this area and slashed up their remains, “Piece of Cake…Yea, Come Get Some!” he chanted. Richard flew off to the highest point of the large chamber and searched around for any peculiarities and in the back of his mind, he saw a girl of twenty wearing a tight black outfit similar to one Mike might wear, escaping the room that they were in. At first Richard thought of something, “Wait, that’s her! That’s the girl! That’s the person from my future that I detected! Joe, Sir Calabro, cover things here, I’m going to go after her.” Richard quickly flew off to the same path the girl left. Joe and Calabro began to search for any important pieces of data that can help find where the creatures reside and of any prisoners. “Where the hell is the freakin' ship’s log?” asked Joe. But then Calabro realized something, “Wait a sec Zuk. How come this important area wasn’t heavily guarded? If this were the command chamber, wouldn’t the security levels be higher in this area. In fact, the security in this entire ship was light. I say we could be falling into a…” Calabro was interrupted with a shot of security doors closing the destroyed entrance of the chamber. Then a loud alienic laugh, a laugh that followed the decency of a large 6-foot High Lord, the very same High Lord the two encountered at the Pep Rally earlier, silence entered the room as an echo sounded of him landing on the floor. “Haha, allow to properly introduce myself. I am Noxin, newly elected leader of the Zephlin race and commander of the Zephlin Warship, the Nelffaggar. I monitored your plan of incursion on my ship and waited for this exact moment to see my chance to catching you in as small in numbers as possible. Now is my chance to unleash my full powers, as your friends are also…tied up at the moment with other things.” Replied the High Lord, “But first for my amusement, I wish you to fight my greatest warrior.” He clapped his claw like appendages and out flipped out a fighter, a human fighter standing at a 5 ½ feet tall with dark brown hair and Saiya-jin Armor. Joe and Calabro stopped and their jaws dropped at his fighter, “Perhaps you may know my champion, I am sure he fought along your side many a times, but this time he will fight against you. I give you, Brian the original, and not cloned!” The warrior took another step out of his shadowy display. “But….But…How, I thought he wished not to fight again.” Asked Joe. But Brian smiled, devilishly. He readied himself by taking a defensive stance. Joe waved Calabro to step away; this was his fight, but also to keep an eye on Noxin. He looks pretty tough himself.

Joe stood straight and tall and tilted his head to the heavens and whispered a few words to the heavens. “Forgive me Lord Kaio, I do this for the mission.” He squatted and clenched his fists together and a large wave of red energy clothed him in radiance, “EVIL ENERGY…CONSUME ME!” Was what he shouted…then, the ghostly apparitions of demons enveloped Joe in a coat of ghostly white, his eyes blew up to a blood red and his muscles increased in size, his teeth changed into fangs. But most importantly of all, his hair changed to a bright gold and stood straight up and finally, an Arabian text style M appeared on his forehead. His clothes magically changed to his Namek-jin Gi and cloak and his red sash. He ended this power up by facing his once friend and companion and hissed, “I am Majin Zuk. I have been consumed by evil to become better fit for the mission. I have reached Super Scholar level 2 with this possession. Now…FEEL MY WRATH!” he shouted. Brian, was of course not at all impressed, he too powered to his Super Scholar form and retook his stance. But Majin Zuk whipped his cape off in a swift motion and leapt toward his victim, with eyes targeted to him and mouth gaping open with his fearful fangs.

Tune in next episode as the newly changed Majin Zuk battles his former friend and companion, then we see Calabro battle Noxin. But something else is lying in the wake of all this evil… All this and more, next time, in episode XXVI: The Betrayal!