Planet Tuffle was quiet, the wind blowing a chill air against Pan and Hercule's bodies. Pan shivered, hugging herself to keep warm. Far away, the cackling of Baby echoed through the air.
"Now die!" Baby yelled. "Feel my wrath!"
Steel skeletons of collapsed towers jutted from the ground like broken ribs, smoke curling through the crimson evening sky. Fires crackled in the distance, drowned out only by the sound of heavy breathing.
Then the air filled with a cold blood curdling scream, Scarlet crashed through the remains of a concrete structure, body twisting unnaturally before slamming into the street below. The pavement cratered beneath her. A sharp crack echoed afterward, then another.
Baby slowly descended from above, his hair swaying in the wind. His blue eyes narrowed with cruel satisfaction as he flexed one hand. The zenkai boost he had gotten not long ago. Changed him, not just stronger. He became sharper, meaner...every strike carried a monstrous assault. Baby frowned however.
"You survived all that? I'm disappointed." Baby snarled. "I thought your spine would've snapped in half by now, but I was wrong..."
Scarlet tried to stand, her arm bent in the wrong direction. Her bones screamed at her, her body aches in every place, blood trickled down her face and her body. "Go to hell...."
Baby slowly smirked. "On the contrary. It is you who is going to hell."
Baby vanished, Scarlet's eyes couldn't keep up with his speed, her nose couldn't even pick up his scent, even when she did, It was too late. A super sonic boom erupted through the street. A hard gut punch landed against Scarlet's stomach. She spat up blood, she doubled over in agony and pain. But before she could even recover. Baby's drove his knee upward to her lower jaw, a sicking crack echoed in both of their ears.
Teeth scattered across the ground, blood spilled from Scarlet's mouth. Baby, just chuckled darkly. He watched as Scarlet had stopped moving, pushing her backward. Her body collapsed, Baby crossed his arms as he floated into the air. "That's what you get for being so cocky..."
Then a familiar voice filled the air. "THAT'S ENOUGH!" A streak of energy tore across the sky, a blur of colors. Brown, black, gold, and pink aura. Majuub arrived, landing next to Scarlet's broken body. He glanced down at her, for a moment before glaring up at Baby.
"Well well, if it isn't Uub." Baby spoke with a grin.
Uub picked Scarlet's body up as he moved her to a secure area. Every infected Tufflized person backed away, some glaring at Uub with a dirty look. Uub didn't pay them any mind, but once in a location that was secure enough. Uub sat Scarlet down, turning away from her. He powered up and flew off into the air towards Baby.
Scarlet's breathing was shallow, she was still alive for the most part, her body cried and screamed at her. Her regenerative powers were slowly working, but not fast enough.
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The ground below Majuub detonated under his quick flying speed. He charged towards Baby, throwing a flurry of punches. "You're finished!"
Baby smirked once more, blocking the flurry. "I've heard that one before, but as you see. I'm still standing." With his own flurry of punches, their fists collided making a shockwave that was powerful enough to leave an impact.
Majuub spun mid air, his leg coming in for a kick against Baby's head. However, Baby caught his leg before it could make contact. "What's wrong? What happened to all that confidence you just had?" With a twist of his wrist. Baby spun Majuub in the air, he threw his arm back and punched Majuub square in the stomach, sending him spiraling down. He crashed hard as dust swallowed everything around him.
"So much for an amateur." Baby laughed. "You're certainly no Goku, you're just his underling...his student...you will never be as strong as him."
Majuub rose up into the air from the ground, he glared daggers at Baby. "That's where you're wrong! I have one thing Goku doesn't!"
Baby didn't say a word, he looked at Uub with a doubtful look. Then Majuub threw his arms forward. "Turn into chocolate!" Majuub fired his candy beam at Baby, however. Baby countered, firing a ki blast at the on coming candy beam. It was a beam clash between the two. However, the beating Majuub had gotten from Baby was taking its effect on him. His struggle in the beam clash was getting weaker by the second.
"Die!" Baby yelled at he put enough force into his ki blast, sending it and Majuub's candy beam back at him.
Majuub's eyes widened as he was struck by both attacks. Baby snickered as he watched Majuub get hit, the way his body pulsed from the candy beam, then poof. Majuub was turned into candy. Landing on the ground below.
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Just before the beam clash had ended, Supreme Kai and Goku had arrived. Goku watched his eyes go wide. "Oh no, we're too late! Uub got turned into chocolate."
"And to make matters worse." Supreme Kai spoke as he and Goku watched Baby toss up Majuub's candy form. "He's eating him."
Baby turned around as he noticed Goku. " Ah Goku, you're alive, and here..." He swallowed the chewed chocolate as he smirked. "But you're far too late."
Not far from the battle, a roll of thunder boomed over head. Lightning struck down over the area Majuub had left Scarlet at, the sudden jolt of lightning shocked her body. Her eyes shot opened, but she wasn't herself....not anymore, she was just.....a Grimm. A Grimm that fed on fear, and negative emotions. A Grimm, that wouldn't stand down....she was like The Hound, her emotions, her thinking, all gone. All replaced with Grimm primal rage. She wasn't Primal, that part of her was gone. She was the monster that Doctor Merlot had created, the monster Salem wanted her to be. The monster, Ironwood and all the others in Remnant feared.
Steam came from her lips, she was cocooned by her Nevermore wings. Her crimson red eyes glowed as she peered out from the feathers. This was the beginning of the end, for the doomsday clock ticked quietly.