Chapter 54: War World (part 2)
The robots all crowded around me and fired at me. It was painful, but I had endured worse in the past. It wasn't so much the blast itself, but the duration of the blast that had started to do harm to me. These were the same robots that had brought superman to his knees before.
As I was being blasted by the robots, John Jones was on the outside sitting within the crowd that was watching. He wanted to help, but knew he couldn't. Instead, he had slowly been trying to manipulate the crowd to be in my favor.
After being tortured by the energy beams for about five minutes straight, the robots stopped and Mongul spoke to me again. "After watching you a while, I question if you are really an earthling. I had heard they were all weak."
"Believe what you want Mongul, but why don't you come fight me instead of sending robots to do the job for you like a coward?"
At this moment all the people in the crowd started to chant "FIGHT THE EARTHLING, FIGHT THE EARTHLING, FIGHT THE EARTHLING". I had even heard a few people yell "Coward" boldly enough.
Mongul wasn't happy hearing the chants of the crowd, but didn't let it show. "The people have spoken, but I fear I will win this fight too easily, I'll have Draaga fight along side you. Maybe then it will be a bit of a challenge for me?"
I knew Mongul would never do such a thing, so I assumed it was a trick right away, but agreed anyway. "If that's what it will take for you to fight with me, sure".
Mongul had some of his underlings go and heal Draaga before whispering something to him that I couldn't hear. Not long after, Draaga was standing beside me and Mongul was standing across from me preparing to fight.
Mongul was the first to move as he threw a punch towards my face. With all my hours of training, I could have evaded it, but I decided to take the punch to gauge how strong he was, almost instantly regretting it.
The whole time I had been alive in Vegeta's body, nothing aside from the alien beam that melted my skin had caused as much harm to me as his punch did. His punch knocked me a good 20 yards away, drawing first blood. I quickly got back up and ran towards him, wanting to throw a punch of my own and testing out the extent of my own strength.
On my way to him, Draaga had stuck his foot out, tripping me, instead of falling, I rolled into a front flip and then threw a punch at Mongul. I now understood why he wanted Draaga to 'help' me. To the crowd iit would appear he was helping me, while really he would be hindering me as I fought Mongul.
We fought non stop as we traded blow after blow for minutes, hours, and then days. Draaga had tired out within the first day, leaving Mongul and myself to fight the next two on our own. Both of us were exhausted, bloodied, and beaten. I couldn't see properly, my vision was blurred with my own blood and my swollen face. I had been on the verge of passing out multiple times, but I refused to give up and continued fighting.
The planet called war world which had looked apocalyptic before, now somehow looked even more damaged from all our fighting. My whole left arm had multiple broken bones and dangled to my side, but my right worked fine enough as I still swung it with all my might repeatedly. I occasionally threw in a kick or two or even a headbutt when I could as well.
Draaga had woken up at some point and became a hinderance for me again. With both of them teaming up on the already exhausted me, I stood no chance. With my bad vision and exhausted body, I lowered my guard slightly and Mongul capitalized on it as he tackled me to the ground, his weight holding down my body as he sat atop of me and repeatedly punched my face.
I didn't know how long I had been getting punched in the face, I felt I had lost consciousness for a second there a few times, but Mongul continued to punch at my face as if he was in a trance.
As this was happening John Stewart and Hawk girl had arrived on the planet and was assisting John Jones on the outside as they brought down the protective barrier and then flew in to rescue me.
They pulled Mongul off of me and then came to my aid. As I laid in a crater shaped as myself looking like a squashed bug, bloody, broken, and twisted in unnatural ways, something inside me snapped. "ST-STEP ASIDE, LET ME FINISH MY FIGHT!" I said as I dragged myself up off the ground and barely held myself up in a standing position.
Superman had just arrived on the scene and looked down at the mangled me. "Moonlight, we can take it from here. Go get some rest".
I weakly shook my head. "No, I need to finish this on my own".
John Stewart put his hand on Superman's shoulder. "He seems to feel strongly about it, let him finish his fight, we won't be far away anyway".
Superman nodded his head and the league members all flew to the side as Mongul and myself faced each other again.
"You will regret that" Said Mongul who had been gaining his breath and strength back while I had been talking to my fellow league members.
Mongul started running towards me, looking to beat on my face some more. I had been using ki this whole fight to keep myself from falling apart and to shield myself from certain attacks, I just hadn't used it offensively. Seeing Mongul running towards me and the league members not far away, I decided to stop playing around and built up my ki as fast as I could.
As I built up my ki, my muscles tightened and my veins throughout my body bulged while I gritted my teeth. My feet started to sink into the ground and the nearby rocks floated around me. I thought of the shame I had showed my teammates just now, my slow progress as I had trained each day, and then of Sammy as she had laid beneath the rubble of Gotham Orphanage. Her image replaced by others I also cared about as I was too powerless to help.
My Ki grew and grew and the approaching Mongul had slowed down noticeably. The stronger my ki got, the slower his approach was. I didn't stop there, I kept building up my ki as the people I cared about swam in my head, fueling me.
Suddenly, clouds began to form above as lightning struck around us all. Superman and the others started to look worried and Mongul ran even harder, fighting against my ki as he tried to get closer to me.
Out of nowhere, a golden aura flashed and then overtook my body, the ground beneath me broke apart and shot up around me as a blast of ki shot out from me, sending Mongul flying away from me.
The league seeing the changes happening to me as my hair turned from white to golden yellow and my eyes from white to green, started to get worried. They had no idea of what was going on and got even more worried when the ground started to break apart. Luckily they had all been flying to the side and were off the ground or they would have went flying like Mongul.
Superman called out to me. "Moonlight, stop, youre going to kill someone".
Hearing Superman's words, I came to my senses and looked at the surrounding area before looking at Mongul who was a good 50 feet away from me. My speed was so fast that it looked like I had suddenly teleported to him even from Superman's point of view. I then grabbed Mongul and moved just as fast as I teleported beside my fellow league members. "Grab ahold of me, were going home". I said.
"What about Mongul?" John asked as he looked at Mongul who was being held like a doll in my hand.
"He enslaved, killed, and robbed many people. Does it matter?" I replied.
"It does" said Superman as he looked at me sternly.
I scoffed at Superman's response. "I won't kill or torture him if it makes you feel any better, Now grab onto me, unless you want to take the long way home using Johns ring." I was clearly annoyed and the league members didn't say anything else as they all grabbed onto my arm and I beamed them to my castles beaming room on earth.
I had a system notification, but ignored it as I walked the league members to the castles elevator. On the way, the league members were in awe of the beaming technology and room, their eyes wandered every which way as I led them and then pressed the button for the throne room.
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