Calabro Conversion Part IV

Episode XXVII: Super Zuk vs. Catalara

Joe busted through the door with a strong punch to the metallic door that divided him between his destinies. He walked down the stairs and appeared at the gym. He walked onto center of the gym, with the symbol of the mighty Panther decorated the basketball court. "CAITLIN...SHOW YOURSELF, YOU TRAITOR." Zuk shouted, with much anger in his voice. "Why Joe, I never knew you could ever be mean! I set a goal for myself to accomplish and because you just won't die, I failed. For your intrusion on my plan, you will die this time and you wont come back again!" Caitlin leapt down from her hiding spot at the folded bleachers. She walked toward him, "If it's a fight you want, then I will give it to you. But you won't ever hit a woman...would you? I mean, you are so noble and heroic, isn’t it against your morals?" She circled him in a comfortable walk, examining his body. "You know, I could have used a strong man like you." She placed her finger on his chest and circled it around in a seductive manner, "You can replace Brian, he wasn't the greatest defender, but he was the best I could get... But you...you are much stronger, care to join me...I can make it all up to you." she continued seductively. She motioned to kiss him, but Joe pulled away, "Never...I would never betray my friends and fellow school mates just to succumb to your whims. I'm sorry, but...bitch...your going to die." Joe replied. "Ok...I can take a hint. All muscle and no brain, just like the others. I can play your game and beat you in it." she clapped her hands. Another figure appeared from Caitlin's hiding place. "Well Joe, after watching your every move, I did pick up on a few tricks and made up a few of my own with Caitlin" replied a voice. When the figure entered the light of the gym, Joe's eyes widened, "TARA! You too...I don't believe it." he said...he shook all over; he didn't think that those two would get back together; he wondered how they became friends again. But one thing for sure...was that this is going to end here and now!

"Alright, Joe. You had your fun, yes Tara and I got back together in hopes of wrecking havoc on everyone. I don't know why I want to...maybe because it's fun. But...now, the finishing touch...Tara...FUSION!" Joe stepped back, "No...No...Don’t do it!" But it was too late of course. The two already stood parallel to each other and began the dance to join two into one, to combine two people into one super person. "FU-SIO-N...HA" They danced reflexively as they stated that phrase and finished with touching their palms together. A bright light shined around them as the two joined together as one ultimate combo of the two. A few seconds later, the light disappeared, leaving one combination remaining. "We are Catalara. The victor, the champion, we are the strongest. The antithesis to all Super Scholars." she stated. Obviously she was powered up pretty high enough as it was, and if Joe's instincts were right, she had been trained in an advanced form of martial art. "Haha, Joe. We are not finished yet." She clenched her fists and summoned forth her energies as a swirl of Golden "chi" surrounded her. "No...You got to be kidding me, no way could they accomplished that, even with fusion." Joe said to himself. Catalara shouted aloud as her hair raised grew to a little beyond her shoulders, and stood up slightly, and changed to a gold, and her eyes became a deeper emerald green. Then in a single poof, Catalara had become a Super Scholar, but not any ordinary scholar; Joe vaguely recalled seeing this exact form before.

It must have been last year, when the Android Clones wrecked havoc upon the peaceful land of Middlebury/Southbury. After the long battle and the victory with the C-Crew, the appearance of Perfect Calabro, which was none other then the old Calabro Clone redesigned to realize new powers and capabilities based heavily off the Calabro Cells after his power up. After the Joes spar with him and Calabro’s opening duke out, Perfect Calabro managed to beat all the male scholars and leaving only the women the defend the school. Well after a massive 4-way fusion, the newly formed Super C powered up as an “Ultimate Scholar.” That…was what stood before Joe as Catalara. The hair of Catalara grew to her hips. The color changed to fairly dark brown with light golden streaks racing to the bottom of their hair. The eyes changed to a bolder green and lightning raced from their eyes around their body. Although Joe was very much impressed with it’s transformation and beauty. Joe realized that this might be a very difficult fight. “Is that all you got, girls. Let me show you power equal to your Ultimate Scholar form.” Joe clenched his fists and instantly blasted into his Super Scholar form, “Now…for ROUND TWO!” As he shouted aloud, his aura rose all around him and spread out in gigantic seismic waves, which swept across the gym floor. His muscles greatly increased in size, his face became thinner, his golden hair, swept down to his ankles and his eyebrows disintegrated from his face. The overwhelming power took Joe a few minutes to control as he breathed heavily. “Yes, I have maxed out my full capabilities. You are looking at the Joe at 100% power! Something that will easily defeat you.” Zuk replied. “You have forgotten one thing,” The fusion spoke, “You have already lost.” And with that she rammed her shoulders into Zuk’s stomach and kneed him high into the sky. She teleported above him, right to where he was knocked too, and slammed her fists into his head and he fell to the ground. But Joe got up, a little shaken, but not stirred. He breathed heavily again; “One thing I hate this form is that it takes its toll on my body if I stay in it too long.” He whispered, “But here goes.” He leapt into the air and in a dance like procedure of kicks and spins, Joe managed to slowly, but surely gain some advantage in this fight by scoring some hits. Catalara decided to wildly punch at Joe as a counter-attack. She wildly swung her fists and Joe pulled himself back from each swing, and everyone he couldn’t get away from, he blocked it with his arm. Catalara swung hard at his stomach, but Joe blocked it with a punch aimed right at her fists, Catalara tried again, but Joe repeated with his fist. Then a roundhouse kick to block the next punch, that is, until Catalara, covered her face with spread out palms and shouted “TAIO-KEN” and the brightness of the room glittered and instantly shined to a blinding white. Joe couldn’t move and see for a brief moment, all that Catalara needed. She smacked him down on the gym floor, and Joe rubbed his eyes for a moment, that is until he heard, “MIMIC ATTACK…Kamehameha.” She cupped her hands and quickly thrusted them forward and out spurted the familiar blue energy beam as incredibly large as ¼ the gym itself. Joe sensed the energy despite his blindness, he decided to quickly counteract with his own, but he has to be careful to aim correctly or he’s done for. The beam slowly descended to just a few feet away from Joe, but he slowly chanted under his breath, “Ka…Me...Ha...Me…” He cupped his hands quickly and thrusted them forward, “…HA!” and a smaller replica of the one in front of him shot out instantly and three times faster. It punctured the Chou Kamehameha of Catalara like a needle to a balloon and pushed it toward her. The Chou Kamehameha broke into two bolts and flew off to the side and blew up on the bleachers. Joe flew up at incredible rates to score another blow, Catalara fired a small bolt of energy to catch him off guard, but Joe smacked it away with his right arm and lifted his knee and connected with Catalara’s face. She flipped back and toppled onto the gym floor. Joe fired the Kamehameha Gaeshi as another pop-up while she was down. He fired the beam in regular Kamehameha style, but Catalara flipped up and ran away from the beam, just as Joe thought and with a slight movement of his arms, the path of the beam changed as well. He kept on following her with the beam, until she managed to catch a second to turn around and stuck out both of her hands and attempted to absorb the weaker blast. She took the hit and the beam collided. But as the smoke cleared, it had no effect. “Haha, Joe, you think that you can win, I am slightly stronger then you. You are just slightly faster, but not enough to beat me, I will find away around you.

But as Catalara tried to perform another attack, a shout was heard from the rafters above the gym, Joe looked up and he saw Calabro falling with his sword raised high above his head over the fusion, “Calabro…don’t do it.” He shouted, but it wasn’t enough. Catalara stood wide-eyed at Calabro and was frozen solid in fear. And with a simple swipe when he was a few inches off her, he sliced the fusion in half. But unlike most slices, the body did not slice into two pieces of the single fusion, but each part of the entity broke back into Caitlin and Tara. Both were wounded and beaten, especially Tara, who was unconscious. Calabro landed a few feet away with his sword pointed at Caitlin, whom was only marginally harmed. “You…you…how dare you slice your way through victory. I will not let this stand.” Caitlin yelled.

But another figure landed next to Calabro, “Well…sit down, bitch.” As an extending Spork shot toward the ex-scholar and it caught Caitlin in a tight grip between the prongs. Chicky had her where she wanted her to be. “Wow, you guys had this all planned out. I’m impressed.” Chicky and Calabro smiled at each other, just as Stephanie decided to land next to Chicky. She whipped out her Healing Wand and muttered a few chants, “Now…to cure her of her evil. Healing Power…commences.” A wave of pure sparkles of energy laid itself on to her. She sputtered into massive spasms from the good energy eating at her evil heart.” Joe realized his Super Scholar form and watched the transformation of Caitlin begin.

But Caitlin wasn’t ready to give in. She felt a rush of anger get the better of her and in a burst of tremendous rage, she broke through the Spork and the rust of healing disappeared. A torturous wind form her rage rocked both Stephanie and Chicky flat against the padded walls of the gym. Calabro flipped back form the rush and landed on his stomach with his sword a feet away from him. Joe flipped off high, but he grasped the basketball hoop. Caitlin finished her rush of anger and let go of herself as she felt an insane power transform her into a Majin. Her red eyes targeted Joe from his roost above, and her claw-like fingers appeared, battle-ready. Joe had one choice to make and it was all he had. He flipped off the hoop and flew a few feet high into the sky and stretched his arms high between heaven and Earth, as he summoned forth-massive amounts of energy…too form, yes, the Genki-Dama! But Majin Caitlin was not at all touched by the site of the massive Spiritual Ball of Might from the people of Pomperaug.

After a few moments, the ball was completed, “Here’s to a sweet victory for us, GENKI-DAMA FIRE!” And with all his might remaining, Zuk threw the ball toward his victim. The ball flew off to her direction at a little bit of a fast pace and rocketed toward the evil one. But Caitlin, smiled. She reached out both of her hands in front of the ball and caught it. “Here, Joe, I think this is yours, CATCH!” She repeated Joes thrust and tossed the ball right in his direction. Joe couldn’t think straight, the pressure of the level 3 form and the ball took too much out of him. He was ready to go any second and that ball would finish him off for sure. But one valiant thing stood in his away. Stephanie raced below Joe and flew straight up in front of him, and Chicky with her. Each stood in the balls path and repeated Caitlin’s defense. “This ones is for Joe’s hard work. Here goes nothing.” The ball bashed into the girls, and grinded into them, the pressure was enormous from the energy count within it. “Ahh…I don’t think I can handle it. Wait, NOW!” Chicky sputtered, as Stephanie and herself lunged forward and sent the ball crashing to the Majin before them. The action was so fast that Caitlin knew nothing of what to do to defend her self from the ball. And so the ball collided with her, flattening her with the Spiritual gift.

The ball grinded into her body and ate away at her evil, then the ball dispersed, leaving a large crater with her remains. Calabro rushed toward her and examined her, “Joe it worked. You killed her evil, leaving only her good self. She is a bit roughed up, but she will be okay. But Joe was too worn out to agree with him, he just fell backwards and was out for the count. Stephanie and Chicky picked him up and Calabro took them out of the gym.

When they opened the doors, there stood Mike Gilday, his coat tattered and burned. Blood streaked his face, and his shotgun was covered with green alien blood. “Well, its nice to see you again fusion of billions of Mikes. Where the hell have you been?” Mike explained himself, “For starters, just call me Mike. It’s a whole lot simpler that way. Second, I decided to let you guys handle the threat on board the Nelffaggar while I handled the fleets second in command. I escaped through the inter-dimension transport system, and it took me awhile to find the right reality. Did you know that Calabro is president in one reality?” Calabro smiled, “As it should be Gilday, as it should be…’

One month later…

The C-Crew stood in front of the school with many smiles and cheers. The gathering the medallion pieces was always an extraordinary sight for them to see. Philibuster locked the pieces in place and threw the medallion in the center of the circle. A large spark and lightning was followed by the appearance of the Dragon, “WHY HAVE YOU SUMMONED ME, and MAKE YOUR WISHES NOW.” The dragon commanded. “Dragon, we wish for you to rebuild every places destroyed by the aliens and resurrect everyone who died as a result of this most recent invasion.” Answered Philibuster, “SO…BE IT…” He replied as his eyes shined a blood red and instantly the school was blurred into perfect reconstruction, just like before the Pep Rally, and the blasted buildings in Middlebury returned as well. But most importantly, Bastedo appeared high above them in the sky, “Dude, I’m alive again. Sweet deal!” he said. Then, as he came crashing into the ground, he muttered, “Crap!” After recovering from his fall, he confronted his friends, “Guys, why am I always the last to get resurrected? I always miss out on the fun!” Before anyone could answer his question, the dragon continued, “NOW...WHAT IS YOUR SECOND WISH?” “We wish for everyone other then the ones before you to forget this horrible occurrence so that they may live their lives as if it had never happened.” Said Joe. “SO…BE IT.” The dragon replied, his eyes shines and dulled. “YOUR WISH HAS BEEN GRANTED, AND NOW…I BID YOU FAREWELL.” The medallion rose above everyone and split into its five pieces and into five different directions.

Richard looked form his time machine off far away as the pieces whisked past him. He had yet another mission to accomplish, He met the girl of the future and he knows she returned, “I will find you again…Trinity. I will find your purpose, daughter of a Mike Gilday that will never be...” He popped into his Time Machine and whisked back to help with the Reconstruction of his world. Hoping someday to find his kindred spirit…and perhaps learn of her purposes in the past…

THE END