>>6121496“And because of that, it's time to die.” you finish, exploding forward. He tries to raise his right defensively, but you catch his wrist in your hand, throwing it aside. Severing it at the elbow with a left downward chop, keeping him from utilizing perhaps a second arm cannon. Dropping the severed arm as he staggers back, you then blur forward again, firing a backhanded right chop at his neck. Your Energy Body-clad hand decapitating the machine with a single strike. Its body drops, collapsing like a puppet with its strings cut as you catch the head in both hands.
“H-Hold on. W-Wait!” it begs, but you're done. With a grunt of effort squeeze, smashing the machine's head near-flat in a spray of sparks and fluids you don't recognize. Dropping it at your feet, you glance back over your shoulder, where you see the blonde dashing back away, missing a leg as its stump at the knee sparks. Looks like she's got that well under control, you turning your focus back to the one who escaped. That bug man, crippled as it was couldn't have gotten far, but you need to make sure it doesn't escape with whatever these bastards showed up for.
“Now where'd you go?” you mutter to yourself, returning to the junction and taking the now-right-most one, following the trail of spattered blood. However, it stops after only a dozen feet inside the aisle, just far enough back to avoid eyesight from you and the others, where the blood is joined with some other fluid you don't recognize. And from there, the blood trail stops completely. “The hell?”
You ponder this a moment, until after a few seconds' consideration realize that the bug man isn't so unfamiliar. It has the same spotted pattern as 'Perfect' Cell, perhaps this... THING, is the imperfect one? For what you felt of it's energy, it did feel similar enough. Perhaps that is an earlier transformation? But why would it be skulking about in its first form, when its 'perfect' form is so much stronger? However, as you sit there and ponder this, suddenly your instincts scream out at you in warning. But before you can react on them, something stabs into your Energy Body, which you'd kept active. Right at the base of your skull, piercing into your armor and almost stabbing you directly! If that hit had been just a little stronger, it could have paralyzed you, or worse!”
“GAH?!” you exclaim, staggering forward and whirling around only to see the bugman is perfectly fine, no signs of its previous damage as it jerks its tail free of your Energy Body with a snarl.
“Damn!” it exclaims, landing on its feet with a sound similar to Freeza's own. “That technique is bullshit! Your power should be mine!”
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