>>5205942You remember back to your fight against Jiren, and the unstoppable force he was. How no matter what you tried, no matter how angry and more powerful you made yourself, he just kept coming. Nothing you did could take him down, and he brought you to the very edge. And in that moment, hopeless and exhausted, one step from defeat, you'd found that next level. A power beyond Berserker God. But you hadn't understood what happened at the time, and only now as Ultra Instinct Karn takes another deep breath, do you get it. His entire body suddenly glows silver, and the next instant he's standing BEHIND Apex Karn. A moment later, three silver beams fire out your furry alter self's back, and another one through his sword, shattering it.
“Wha...?” Apex Karn asks, stunned, as the force of the hits blows him away. That silvery glow begins shattering, revealing that godly Karn's hair is now pure white as he turns to face you now.
“I get it now.” you say, closing your own eyes and relaxing, taking a deep breath of your own. Not to focus on calming yourself, but to brace yourself for what's about to happen. You search deep within yourself, to that molten-hot Berserker rage you've kept locked away, and with one thought undo years, decades even of restraining your wrath to maintain full and complete control of your power. That rage surges up within you, power exploding forth as a near-feral scream is torn from your throat. “GRRRRYAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!”
After several intense moments of war inside of your soul, you and your rage once more truly become one. No longer are you suppressing it, nor is it controlling you. But you are one and the same, and as you open your eyes you find that your aura has shifted. No longer a bright, violent green, it's now a softer teal, matching the cold fury in your heart. You will NOT lose to anyone, especially to a version of you who abandoned his roots to play god.
“The real battle starts now.” you say, not even bothering to take your fighting stance as Ultra Instinct Karn stares you down. Then to your surprise you and your godly self both hear something, and turning to your right see that Apex Karn is standing! In fact he isn't even bruised from the hits he took!
“Not bad, I knew you had another gear in you.” he says cockily, rolling his right shoulder with a smirk on his face as he walks forward. “Now THIS is more like it! And that we're all finally ready and warmed up, how about we do this right? Last Karn standing wins!”
He then clenches his fists, golden aura blazing up around him as he shouts. You and Ultra Instinct Karn copy him, all three of you roaring as you bring yourselves to one hundred percent before all charging each other in the center.
“HAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
-Saiyan Conqueror Quest 171 Epilogue II End-
