>>5690723“Karn, what's going on?” Meloka asks, you turning to face her.
“Trouble with Ubo's fellow Kryptonian.” you tell her, then reach out telepathically to Ubo. “Ubo, can you hear me? Ubo?”
But nothing happens. You don't connect to anyone, a moment later Raven reaching out to you.
“I haven't been able to reach him ever since he got into his homeworld's star system.” she <span class="mu-i">thinks</span> to you, worry in her tone. “Its like he's just...Gone.”
“Don't worry, I'll get him.” you answer her, then refocus your mind. If you can't reach him telepathically, then you'll just have to find him by his overwhelming ki. So, you focus everything into your ki sense, your reach stretching all the way out to the Kryptonian's world, you sensing everyone from King Cold and Freeza to Superman's strength, but don't feel Ubo's overwhelming power anywhere. You mutter to yourself, searching out for the feel of his energy and not the overwhelming amount of it. Perhaps he's been in some battle of his own, exhausting himself. “Dammit Ubo, where are you?”
It takes you several moments, but then you feel it. You sense a whisper of his strength, it several millions if not billions of times weaker than his power ever was. Which immediately worries you, you focusing entirely on his energy and teleporting right to his side. You appear near a man, but he couldn't be Ubo. This man next to you isn't Ubo, his frame and musculature are all wrong. The man standing with his back to you is too thin to be Ubo, his strength nothing close to the man you knew. Something's wrong.
“Who're you?” you ask the figure, it turning around. But it is in fact Ubo, his face looking drawn and haggard as he looks at you, not recognizing you for a couple seconds. “Ubo?”
“Who.... Karn? Is it really you?” he asks, even his voice lacking its usual booming quality. “No, not real. Another hallucination. Have to get back, have to destroy the mind distuptor before it's too late.”
“Ubo, its me.” you say, reaching out and carefully grabbing him by the shoulder. As he is now, even Chilli's wife Megumin could break him in half, so you're forced to be careful. “It's really me, its Karn. What happened?”
“You...You're really real.” he says in disbelief, reaching up with his gaunt fingers and touching your face. “You found me. I thought I was going to die here.”
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