The Wrath of Z (26)

Walking up off the shores of the Silver Coast early in the morning, a man walked up in an all black suit.

A black mask with three white circles across the forehead.

He had his sights set on Silver City, the peaceful beach city off the coast to the south of Arbok.

"Today, marks the dawn of a new era. Where I take over the country and rid the world of this evil plague."

He started flying upward, then propelled himself toward the city.

Z held up a hand in the air. A gigantic mass of black lightning formed in an instant. "Experience a taste of despair."

He sent it down straight toward the middle of the city.

Buildings started blowing away like paper, the ground started caving in from its gravity.

*clang, clink, clink, chink!*

Chains wrapped around the entire orb of lightning.

The entire mass exploded.

Silver City experienced massive damage, but even so, it was saved from total destruction.

Standing in the large crater down below, was Asnoth. "So you showed up huh?" he said.

Z looked down on his opponent. "You did well to stop my Black Orb. What's your name?"

"You don't need to know my name, but I know who you are."

Asnoth was powered up already.

He flew in to attack the enemy.

The first punch missed. Z grabbed his wrist, pulled him to the side, then elbowed Asnoth in the back.

Asnoth was sent back to the ground in a loud crash. He got back up. "*What kind power does this guy have? Off one hit?"*

Z waited for his opponent to return.

"You think I'm coming back up there?" Asnoth smirked. Both of his hands filled with white lightning energy. "Twin Lightning Beam!!" He shot a massive beam of energy up at Z.

"Ah, I see. This would've killed any normal warrior." Z's right hand became charged with black energy. "Black Laser."

A massive black laser shot out of Z's hand. It had black lightning dispersing out of it.

It instantly swallowed up Asnoth's attack and destroyed half of Silver City.

Hundreds of people died in an instant.

Asnoth was on his back in the middle of the track that the laser traveled on its path to destruction. He was still feeling the effects of being electrocuted by the black lightning.

Z flew down to his level and set his feet on the ground.

Asnoth's eyes were all white, but he was still conscious, hyperventilating.

"I see you're the arrogant type. I hate people like you." Z got closer to his ear and whispered, "How did it feel to have someone else's lightning overpower yours?"

Asnoth clenched his teeth and jumped up on his feet.

Z punched him in his face the second he got up and sent him into a skyscraper.

The entire building collapsed from the impact.

Z looked around. "The nobles of this city should be dead for the most part. Time to move on."

He flew away.

--

In the wastelands outside of Starlight Square, Nigel and Niwea were training.

Niwea shuddered.

"What's wrong?" Nigel asked him.

"There's some massive dark energy heading this way, fast."

Z saw the two training down below.

He flew down to their level. He pointed at the embroidered emblem on Niwea's shirt. "You're from a noble family huh?"

The two of them were frozen from shock, it took no time at all for Z to make it there.

"*He's not human."* Niwea thought.

"I'm sorry, but because of your family lineage, I must kill you here and now." He held his hand out.

"Wait!" Niwea yelled. "Black Laser."

*thwoom!*

 He showed no mercy. The blast left a long wide crater.

But Niwea was still alive. In front of him was a wood armored Nigel, arms crossed in a X form, only this time his armor was much thicker and redder than normal.

The front of his armor was charred black. It began healing quickly. "Great Tree Armor, Redwood!"

The cracks in the wood started glowing blue green.

Z was surprised. "You actually took that blast head on and can still stand?"

Niwea was shocked too. "When did you get this?" he said.

"I've had this for a while. When I fought Carnage I couldn't use this because I had already used Giga Heal once. But I'm fired up now!"

Z appeared annoyed for a second, then calmed down. "So you didn't take damage from that? Is that what's going on here?"

Nigel let out a grunt, "One thing I'm amazing at is defense!" He swiftly threw a punch that connected, but it was blocked by Z with one hand.

"Don't get ahead of yourself, you're still not on my level."

Niwea charged up some light energy. "Great Pulse of Light."

A wide beam of white light shot out at Z. He held out his other hand. "Black Laser."

A large wooden hand came out of Nigel's armor and balled its fist around Z's hand.

The beam was swallowed up, allowing the light pulse to hit Z.

It wasn't doing damage though, he was just getting slid back while blocking. "That's an annoying ability. I can't have that noble kid interfering."

Nigel ran towards Z quickly, ready to attempt another attack, but Z swiftly got behind Niwea before they could react and palmed his head. "Die, noble child."

"AHHHHH!!!" Niwea was getting his head electrocuted with black lightning.

"NIWEA!!" Nigel screamed. He bolted over, throwing a punch to get Z off Niwea.

Z dodged, it worked.

But Niwea was unresponsive. His body was experiencing frequent spasms from electrocution.

Nigel set his friend down. "Okay." he said, "I'm mad now."

The blue green energy leaking from the wood armor's cracks turned red.

The ground under Nigel started caving in more and more. "Atomic Mass."

The ground gave out a large cracking noise as it caved in deeper. "Times one."

He flew straight at Z. "I don't know what you're plotting but it won't work." He held out his hand.

Nigel easily moved it out the way and smashed his fist into Z's jaw with a right hook.

*bam!*

 Z was sent flying.

Nigel unleashed a furious combo of power attacks, but was still moving fast.

Z was smashed into the ground.

*boom!*

 Z got up. "What is this? This technique."

Nigel talked. "Atomic Mass. A forbidden technique passed down by my family. Each time it's activated my body weight increases by a hundred times without altering my size. So right now my body carries the weight of a hundred men! Not so easy to block now huh?"

Z dusted his suit off.

"Oh. So that's what this is. That just means I'll have to fight more seriously. Hrraaaaagghhhh..." Z powered himself up. He launched himself. It almost seemed like he disappeared.

*wham!*

 Nigel took an uppercut to the torso. *"Impossible...he was never fighting for real..."*

 Z then gave Nigel a barrage of supercharged black lightning punches. His armor started chipping away.

Thirty hits, fifty hits, eighty, they kept on coming.

Soon Z was hitting Nigel's actual body. He finished with a straight right to his chest.

*crack!!*

 You could hear the crack of Nigel's rib cage.

He was launched at least fifty meters.

The impact of the punch hit the wind around it too, which broke the ground.

Nigel was too tired to use Giga Heal. His Atomic Mass technique wore off.

Nigel stood up, slowly healing himself. "If I go down, then who'll save Niwea?"

A hand rested on Nigel's shoulder.

He looked to see the body attached to the hand.

It was a refreshed Airson. "You can still save him." he said.

Nigel had tears in his eyes, "Don't die out here."

Airson smiled. "I won't. Miraka made me promise."

Nigel hurried and grabbed Niwea and flew away to a hospital.

Airson looked at his opponent. "You're Z right?"

Z remained silent. "You shouldn't have come here."

Airson charged his energy up, and went Super Ultrasonic from the jump. "You shouldn't have either."