Special #3: Rebirth of Evil
Zuk has always been through many battles. Usually victorious or even close on the first try. Never would lose a battle, or even give up if the fate of the world is on his shoulders. But one thing for certain...he is definitely not a mat student. Certainly passing geometry for the year is one battle, not even the super scholar inside him can beat for some reason. I don’t even think a fusion can bypass those postulates and theorems.
If people remember the legend of the Super Scholar. It’s that a student becomes engraged, either by anger, jealousy, sorrow, and even frustration. Can allow that student to surpass the ability that he/she is performing at that moment in that transformed state. Zuk and the others changed in the essence to fight. But also that when the Super Scholar’s energies become challenged, they may upgrade to an even stronger form, the Super Scholar level 2. This happens also, since the body has become used to the sudden changes and the great power increase. The final known state, the Super Scholar level 3, is also the extra boost when the level two form just isn’t enough. But because of the serious muscle cramps before and the stress during, it can cause great harm, if used for a great deal of time.
But enough of that. Zuk couldn’t use his strength to battle through math. Therefore, like many before him and many after him, he had to go to summer school. There he would train in the fine world of geometry to fine tune his skills.
Summer school is the most interesting of places according to Zuk. Here students from around other, local regions to save up on teachers and resources. Zuk walked into the geometry room for the first time that day it all began. He sat down in one desk and waited till the class was ready to start. He started to look around the room a little. Wow, what a bunch of weird people, he thought to himself. But one guy in particular he wasn’t very happy about. He was a fairly big guy, looks like a wrestler or something. But it was his strong eyes and such that gave our hero...a bad feeling.
Then Tara walked into the room and sat next to Zuk, “Hey Joe, how’s it going. I take it you didn’t pass either.” She said to him. Zuk nodded, “But, Tara, you are pretty smart, why are you here?” he asked. “I am only smart when those alien creeps show up, after that, I am not exactly what you call...bright, especially in Geometry.” she answered. Then the teacher walked in ( five minutes after everyone else, of course!) Class began.
Even during the 1 hour and a half class time Zuk was there, he couldn’t keep his eye of this big wrestler guy. He felt some connection to him. Then, the big guy turned to look at Zuk and gave him a deadly grin, and then an angered look. “Ohh boy!” Zuk said to himself as he faced forward and worked on his class work.
Then class was over...Having been dismissed, Zuk ran out to the bottom of the stairwell, where he saw yet another familiar face. “Hey Devon, didn’t expect you here.” Devon looked at Zuk, shook his head and said, “Well, that’s funny, although I would never ever expect you here.” then he laughed. Zuk shrugged his shoulders and walked out. Then before he was able to leave the school, Devon stopped him. “Listen, Joe. I got to tell you something. I heard about the legend of the Super Scholar and realized you were one of them, can you show me how?” Zuk then answered, “Well, I am not sure. Usually people are gifted with “powers” from the aliens above. After the death of Perfect Calabro, none of us had been able to use our powers. But....wait a second. I think I can figure it out. I remember the good Calabro clone. Before he died, he told Tara to construct something else before they left planet Earth. It was a satellite transmitter, that relayed the false energy signatures of the alien species. It was used if other menaces attacked and we had no way to reawaken our powers. I think if we turn on this transmitter, we can reawaken our powers.” Devon.. a little shocked and confused, thought, that maybe they should try to find the transmitter to turn it on.
The next day, Zuk bumped into Tara on their way up to geometry class. “Hey Tara, do you remember when the good Calabro clone showed you the transmitter to get our powers going again. I sort of need it.” Zuk asked. “Umm...Well, I think he buried it deep in the trails around the school. I am sure he buried it by the river. But I can manually turn it on right now. I have the remote to operate it, just in case.” she answered. Zuk raised an eyebrow, “Ok, can you turn it on for me.” She nodded and pressed a switch on the remote and instantly Zuk felt the familiar surge of energy racing through his body as the transmitter faked the signatures of their foes. He felt the dramatic increase of power and strength, as well as the pain as his muscles doubled in size. “Whoa, hardcore! Now to see if I still have it.” he said as he shouted in a roar, a golden fire surrounded him as he levitated a few inches off the ground and he instantly changed into a Super Scholar level 2, like the good old days. “Still got the good stuff.”
During class, Joe felt incredible smarter then usual with his new found power. He was able to complete his geometry proofs with ease and time to spare. So, he began to day dream about his adventures, fighting to save humanity. Then the large guy interrupted Joe’s thoughts with a light smack to the head, “Hey buddy, it’s time to go now. Don’t you have better things to do?” he asked. Zuk didn’t really appreciate this guy’s interruption. In fact he was starting to not like this guy. Out of instinct Zuk grabbed this guy’s arm and gripped hard, to scare him off with his incredible strength as he changed into the Super Scholar form. “Ohh, your almost hurting me, you little punk.” he answered to the grip. Then he tossed Zuk to the opposite side of the room and he splattered against the wall, very hard. So hard, he left a slight pressed image of himself against the wall. Dazed and confused, Zuk got up. “Wha...who are you?” The big guy grinned, “My wrestling buddies call me, Brawly, because of my big size. But you see, I am much stronger then you ever seen. I know all about your “gift.” You are a Super Scholar. But I...am the real Legendary Super Scholar.” He clenched his fists and shouted as loud as he could as his large body mass increased into a massive being. His hair stood straight up and angled away from him. There he stood, all 6’ 6” of his huge body. Zuk stood wide eyed. He thought him and the others were the only Super Scholars. But he did vaguely recall Philibuster telling a story of a wrestler who was the first to ever change. But, he is a legendary Super Scholar...What does that mean exactly to us. Brawly stood there, with his arms crossed, “As you can see, I am the legendary Super Scholar. I am stronger then the regular Super Scholar (level 1) because I am the true Super Scholar. You and your friends are mishaps that were luck to change, but you are not that strong. At least as compared to me.” he said.
Zuk grinned, “We’ll see!” He dashed toward his opponent and rammed into his stomach, full force. But he felt nothing and Zuk was grabbed again by Brawly and he threw him out the window. Joe landed with a loud thud in the rear parking lot of the school. As Joe tried to get himself up, Brawly hovered down again right next to Joe. “Well, looks like the end for you. When I finish you off, I will get all your other friends also. I am the only true Super Scholar in the universe.” He began to channel energy to his clenched fist from his golden aura. Then he opened his hands and fired a huge fireball at Zuk. But, our hero guessed at the appending attack and placed his two fingers over his forehead and concentrated as he teleported directly behind Brawly, instantly. Then, angry at Brawly for messing up his day. He decided, to change to Super Scholar level 3. “I know it’s going to hurt me in the long run, but I have no choice.” he thought to himself. He clenched his fists and shouted aloud as a large “chi” flame surrounded him. Then his Super Scholar hair grew longer, to shoulder length. Then he shouted longer as the hair then extended all the way to his ankles. His bright golden eyebrows disintegrated and his eyes changed to a deeper emerald. Then, Zuk stood there, really pissed off in the strongest form he can obtain.
Small lightning bolts swirled all around his body. Then, he said, “You are going to feel a fate worse then death. Only Perfect Calabro has forced me to use this form, and he is long gone. You shall feel my wrath. I will not kill you. But I want you to feel the loss of a battle, and that I will make sure you feel defeat.” Brawly grinned, “We shall see.” Brawly rammed into Zuk as fast as he could, and Zuk didn’t realize and he was hit the ground. Brawly leapt into the air and slapped his hands together and shouted, “CrAsHeR bAlL.” Then he threw a good sized ball of energy right at the floored Joe.
But Joe got up and shouted aloud and he created a transparent shield made of “chi” and the ball absorbed it. “Try this, KAME-HAME-HA!” he shouted as he cupped his hands quickly and thrusted them forward to fire the familiar beam of energy. But Brawly stuck out his hands and he created a whirlpool made of light and it sucked in the beam Zuk shot. Then, Zuk stopped the Kamehameha, and he felt a sound behind him as he turned to see the whirlpool of light behind him and it fired his Kamehameha right back at him. It was just as fast as he wanted it to be, but he wasn’t fast enough to dodge it, and so it hit him. He flew off and crashed into the basketball hoop and it crashed to the floor. Zuk got up, a little shaken, but not stirred. He wasn’t going to let this punk take him out. Joe flew into the air and the Renzoku Energy Dan (firing small fireballs really fast, like a machine gun!) Brawly dodged a few, but it was too fast for him and he was pinned to the ground by one and then pummeled by the rest. A large smoke covered the blast radius of his attack. Then Zuk summoned a larger ball of energy and checked it at the smoke debris and then a loud bang as it ripped into the ground. The he heard a loud shouted of pain and agony. Joe turned and let go of his Super Scholar power to his normal power and began to fly off.
But Brawly emerged from the smoke, he was bloodied up and cut up also. But he was very pissed off. As Zuk flew away, Brawly, lifted a hand into the air and flattened his palm out as he created a large disk of energy. “Hey Zuk, see if you can take my kienzan (energy disk) on for size.” he said. And with one powerful thrust he tossed the disk toward the Joe, who was aware of the attack. But he tried dodging it, but it followed him. Joe tried to fly faster, but the kienzan also sped up to him. Then the kienzan reached him and cut nicely around his left arm. Zuk cried in pain and fell to the ground. He shuddered in agony as Brawly landed next to his body. Then he curled his arm back and was ready to knock Joe out for good, then kill him. The thrusted his arm forward to punch Zuk...But then a hand caught his fist.
Zuk came to, then saw his hero. “Philibuster, you saved me...wait a second, what are doing here.” he said. “Joe, don’t you know. I am in Summer School also. I was waiting for my parents when I felt the increase in power, then I knew something was wrong. So hung around and saw this fight. Whose this loser? He isn’t a Super Scholar is he? Philibuster said, “Long story, I’ll tell you later.” Then, Brawly thrusted his arm against Philibuster’s hand so hard, a crack was heard. Philibuster shouted in pain. Brawly then smacked him down to the ground. But he got up quickly. “I can take this guy. You should get out of here.” Philibuster said. “But...wait a secon-” Zuk tried to say, but the other Joe was off and trying to battle Brawly. Zuk got up, again and then he heard a few bone cracks, a yelp, then a body falling to the ground. Joe ran to see the other Joe was beat up pretty badly.
“Listen, Philibuster, we need to fuse into Joe-squared. Then I think we can take him on.” Philibuster shook his head to the affirmative. He helped his friend out and the two stood parallel to each other as they began to perform the fusion dance. After a few bends of legs and arms, the two bent toward each other and Zuk stuck out his pointer finger, and Philibuster tried to also, but his hand still was sore when Brawly broke it, so he failed to lift his finger. As the two began to merge, Philibuster could only think, “Oh, shit, I messed up the fusion, what’s going to happen?” A great light bound the two together as a single fighter. When the light cleared, Brawly stood in amazement at what had happened, but then he laughed. Indeed, Joe-squared was created. Although because of the fusion mistake, it created a hideously fat Joe-squared. He must have weighed about 500 pounds and can only move very slowly. Then, Joe-squared flew toward Brawly and landed in front of him with a little bounce, “You bitch, we are going to wreck you. Fell the power of a fused Super Scholar.” Joe-squared said in stereo. He clenched his fist and powered up to change into the Super Scholar, as he channeled energy, the familiar golden flame surrounded him, but then, because of the mistaken fusion, Joe-squared was weaker then even the two of them separated. He then let go of his fists as he became fatigues from using the little power he was able to create.
Brawly flew a little toward the fat fusion and threw fireballs at him. Because the fused pair cannot channel any energy, they ran. Around the parking lot, even though the fattest person in the world can run faster then they were. “We gotta break the fusion and redo it. Break it.” Then, he was hit, he bounced around and landed against a wall. Then Brawly landed in front of them. He clapped his hands together and a vertically shaped kienzan appeared. Then he allowed it to fly right at Joe-squared. It came closer, closer. The pair in the mean time were trying to break fusion. Then before the kienzan was ready to hit them, the fusion broke and the two split, and the kienzan missed them and exploded in the wall.
“Dammit, we gotta do it right this time. Philibuster, no mistakes.” Then the two Joes began to perform the dance again, but Brawly threw a large fireball between them and the two flew. Then out of no where a figure flew in and with his sword, slashed at Brawly. Brawly fell down and got up. But the figure reviled himself to be...Devon. “Ok, guys, fuse. I’ll hold him off as best as I can.” The two began to fight a little. Then the two Joe’s began to perform the fusion dance again...”FU--S--IO--N...HA!” They shouted and this time it was performed correctly. Then Devon felt a hard punch to the jaw as he was knocked out. The bright light appeared again and this time, a Super Scholar Joe-squared appeared, with his glowing “chi” fire surrounding him.
“We are not Zuk, we are not Philibuster. But we are the instrument of your defeat. Say goodbye, Brawly.” Then with cupped hands together, he shouted, “BIG BANG....KAMEHAMEHA...!” Then, he fired a massive ball of energy similar to the Kamehameha, but it was twice as larger and more powerful then the Chou-Kamehameha (fully charged one!) The beam raced down the parking lot and toward Brawly, who shouted, “NOOOO...” then the beam hit him, hard.
Silence. The pair broke fusion and walked toward the bodies of Devon and Brawly. Bother were very much alive, Devon got up and brushed himself off. But Brawly, whom was so beat up, couldn’t move. “Please, spare me. I had no idea of your true power. I act like this upon instinct. I am a wrestler and I just love to fight.” Zuk felt pity for the Legendary Super Scholar. “I will help you if you promise to not harm others, and to use your gift for good reasons. If you don’t we will all be back, and this time, no holding back.” Then he reached into his pocket and pulled a Bastedo Cookie. “I wanted to save this last one for a snack, but he can make me more.” He tossed it toward Brawly, who ate it and felt his strength return. He releases his Super Scholar power and thanked them all and flew off. Never to cause trouble again. He became a hero in his own school district, fighting off the evil just like the Calabro Crew.
A lesson should be learned from all this. Although Zuk let his enemy live, he saw past his evil intentions and forced him to reform into the pure heart he once was before the Super Scholar power he received corrupted him. Zuk wanted to show the world, that we are better then Evil Brawly, that we had no reason to kill our foes, but to punish them. For if we did kill him, they we would be no better then him.
