Turles overlooked the carnage of the planet, feeling a tad bit of nostalgia for this happened in a similar manner before, during their first arrival on the planet Oxerth.
Their number hadn't learned much since last Turles sent his crusher corps to deal with them, Turles only blasted a concentrated blast in an arc, the beam piercing downwards through the planet, upon a fertile plot of land and he smirked, eyeing the devastation the others had wrought. Bending down, Turles then dropped the seed, one of many he's since been lucky while cultivating the tree of might on the many worlds since his revival and watched as the tree begun to grow at an accelerated pace.
"Not much longer, what a show this is." he cackled, hovering upwards while earth, rock and nature were pushed aside for the only tree that mattered now, as roots and the first signs of the tree came into sight and bursting through the ground did Turles decide to land upon the tallest part of it while managing his balance. The tree shot upwards, expanding, growing larger, roots now tearing into the nearby desolate metal bases and then through infrastructure of the nearest cities, all the while the crusher corps continued to take their time, sadistic in their culling of those who called the planet their home.
"This tree of might you cultivate, it's speed is certainly terrifying to behold in person. And… it gathers it's growth due to the planet it is festered on." Turles turned to face Elec arriving, with his three siblings, eyeing the tree and occasionally, the devastation and slaughter as if it all was all beneath them. Arrogance, though Turles knew the feeling, he replied in the same manner he was spoken to. Disinterest.
"Yes, it is marvelous. Now have you enjoyed the show my crusher corps have shown? I would put their power as strong as King Cold is when he ruled the Cold Force, when he was the emperor of the Cold Empire. But they eat only what I say they can eat… I gorged on the fruit, I'm certain that I am stronger than everyone in the universe at this point. A for why I've not yet acted on that assumption and attacked Frieza and his ilk? I've plenty enough time more to gather power before I test against that overgrown snake."
"Another world from my flightpath, mirroring your own flightpath has concluded that another world that had been used by this wondrous plant of yours to feed you and your force, has also mysteriously reappeared as well." humming, Turles shrugged while replying. The matter didn't matter to him, only the fact they now have a list of worlds they already drained the nutrients from reappearing, meaning more use for their seeds for the tree of might. Means more power.
"We shall await the hour when it is ripe for tasting. Then I shall eat. Then, the crusher corps shall feast. After… you and your own can partake, your head bounty hunter too should you wish. Just remember the pecking order, what scraps we leave you are at our discretion."
"Of course Turles, after all… we didn't do anything besides offer our carefully extracted information to our combined cause, while you and your… Crusher Corps have been doing all the heavy lifting as of late."
"We were on the fringes of the universe, turning around the way we came shall now be reward for our efforts, now that it is or close still, that our previous route through space shall offer us the very same spoils we've indulged the tree of might upon.
'My other benefactor hasn't seen me as of late. I wonder where that demon female went to. The arrogance she spewed, as to say that I am below such a creature.'
It didn't matter in the end, he's had more than enough time to destroy entire planets, drain the life force from them in the form if the tree of might and grow all the more stronger for it.
"Hmm… only a few more hours, Elec. Gentleman, lady… sit a spell, the tree shall be ready soon enough. Enjoy the festivities, the crusher corps do put on a well enjoyable fireworks display." Turles took a seat and watched, knowing the time intimately for the tree to sprout it's bounty for him to enjoy, tree already now looming over the planet, draining the planet of everything.
'Hmm?' he turned when someone appeared nearby to him, startling the Heeter Force siblings, Turles looked at her clearly.
"Well? Who are you and I'll decide from there if I should turn you to dust, listen to what you've got to say… or allow the Crusher Corps to brutalize you like woman should be used like." at that last part he cackled, hoping to see some kind of disgust… or fear though she didn't react as he thought. His scouter didn't pick up anything from her though, which while he smirked, had him wary all the same and so he remained in a posture that would better react to her-
"-I've come here for you Turles, Saiyan and leader of the Crusher Corps. To offer you an alliance." her eyes, red eyeliner that over a part of her eyes and onto the sides of her upper cheek, her wavy hair with two horn-like appendages that came from the top of her head and the robe that tightly fitted her body… The fact she held a staff like a weapon like that could stop Turles should he want to take advantage, made him lick his lips… in appreciation of her physical body.
His eyes narrowed soon after, for her words carried a hint of arrogance within them and Turles, beautiful woman or not, didn't suffer arrogance from others to live.
"Speak quickly!"
"I've come to offer you something that which you should be capable of but as it stands, I've yet to notice it from you. You've been watched for a long while… and until now, I was content to ignore you and your so-called team…" a huge, hulking presence emerged from some kind of portal, oval in shape and purple glow emitting from it. Hovering behind her, though looking ethereal… more see through than solid, was someone who Turles thought looked almost clown-like-
"-I've a request of you young warrior, and in return for your service I shall reward you richly beyond your wildest dreams. All I require now… is for my ally here, to consume those little fruits you've been growing on the fringes of those who may stop you. I am… Demigra." Turles didn't know who that was, though he noted two others appear behind the woman, a warrior with green eyes, red colored skin with a what appeared to be some darker color of pink which was the rest of his body, wearing a mask of some kind which obscured its face, the only other thing Turles noted of it was the swishing tail and the two horns. The other one
"These are my servants Jenemba is… from another timeline, for as I've come to understand, he wasn't formed in this one." timeline? Turles blinked, then sneered at her and this warrior, eyeing him and then the other. Noticing that yes, they wore matching masks.
"The other is from this timeline, Hatchiyack was his name… the body was his, that is until I made for the mutant Tuffle called Baby to assimilate his body, then took over it before it could resist. I've other servants, temporarily sent to hell but I'll secure it soon enough. Placed there recently and I'm-"
"-Hang on there female, the ghost… Demigra has mentioned that he wants use of my fruit. What do I get out of such a trade, for I'm sure you will have nothing I want." he watched the woman scowl for a brief amount of seconds, the ghost Demigra only chuckled before replying.
"I can offer you the knowledge of how to… ascend. You must have heard of the legends of your race." Turles gazed hardened, very much intrigued in the idea of more easily gained power. He turned to the woman, a nod beckoning her to finish speaking, which she understood a moment later, looking confused until Turles nodded at her subordinates.
'She is slow.' he thought.
"Ah, y-yes. My other servants that I've lost temporarily are one called Cell and the other named Hirudegarn. They were both destroyed by a mutual enemy, the Saiyan's and their allies from earth. "
"Ascending as a Saiyan… Naturally I'd ask you to tell me of this first. You want my help after all. Stick around, enjoy the festivities with my allies, the Heeter Force." the ghost nodded, replying.
"My servant, Towa shall relay to you how to ascend."
(Gohan-POV)
"Only three more days to go huh. How you been Krillin." Gohan sat with Krillin, Goku and Yamcha in Master Roshi's house with Master Roshi also with them and Oolong sat there gorging himself on his lunch; chicken wings from some fast food joint. Krillin sighed, chuckle escaping his lips as he laughter nervously.
"That shadow dragon guy only got me… Eighteen has been babying me almost as much as Marron when she was younger. I heard you spared one of them Gohan. Not surprisingly. A cute dragon girl, hope you're not trying to make a move-"
"-I'm n-not Kron Krillin. I gave Oceanus a choice to hand over her dragon ball and walk away. She and Nouva Shenron were enemies, now they can in time be called allies. Maybe, they could be counted on in the future. They do hold the name Shenron as well. The others we dealt with didn't blink before they started destroying things."
"Well, they did damage a lot of buildings and even Tien's place was hit by that water throwing one. Nouva also done plenty of damage to the city, lesser than Broly and that one that killed you Krillin." Goku stood, finished eating, turning to Master Roshi still hurrying in the kitchen, packing plates from the bags and bags of fast food that Gohan brought with him.
"Ah! Master Roshi, give me another plate! I'm still hungry." Goku sank back down into his seat, his face then turning serious.
"Speaking of Kron, I've felt his power from here and he's started training again. If we didn't have to worry about this tournament that Lord Beerus and the uh, Lord Champa had set up, then I would have asked him for a spar. Or spars… it's good that we've got time to just train, eat and relax. Chichi making me work… I've got to get back to the farm." his father stood, a look of disappointment shone upon his face, also eyeing the rest of the food, still a little left.
"Father… two words… 'Multi-Form'. the Multi-Form' technique is how I get my work done, also good for training too for siphoning my Ki unequally to clones which need more Ki to train while leaving clones that are doing chores, among other things."
"Yeah what a versatile technique, you should go ahead and use it Goku, it would certainly make your wife happy. You know, do the chores… work the fields and all the while you yourself and not your clones can do other things, like-" Krillin was interrupted, as Goku nodded while shouting.
"-I would use it but uh, yeah, seems a lot like cheating to be honest with you two. And Chichi is sharp, she would pick up on me using it to slack off." Gohan shook his head, letting outa sigh. It was a cheat, sure but without the updated 'Multi-Form' technique, he would have been only capable of one thing, which in Gohan's mind was to provide with his family. He'd give up fighting for it no sooner than when Pan was born if anything, but with it, he was able to work and train; among other things with it and even keep up his education as well.
"Look dad, you'll see the benefit from using it, I know I have and Krillin, you aught to utilize it as well. Anyway, I'm going to go home, then prepare to do some training. Perhaps with Piccolo or maybe I'll see if Kron is in the mood to have a partner to hit against. Later's." he went for the door, then turning sheepishly.
"Uh, right! Thanks for the lunch Mr. Roshi, it was pretty good."
"Eh, all good lad…" his voice trailed for Gohan was already out the door, then bouncing upwards and taking off a full speed, a determined gaze in his eye.
(Cinder Fall-POV)
She'd been given a place for herself, though she quickly put it up on the market and got one of those small but compact, Capsule-kept homes for herself and lived in the West City. Or she did until the place had been impacted by a monstrous battle, much more power than she was able to use, so she didn't get involved.
She made contact with Salem though, finding out that she left willingly with the Saiyan Kron all those years ago, giving up on the war she trained Cinder for was… hard to hear for her. For what was the point of her using Cinder when she was just going to throw in the towel and leave. But now, she found out about why she waged her secret war back on Remnant with her rival. Her reason being? She wanted to die and to do so on their old home planet was to gather the relics and bring them together in order to call on the brother gods, and instead she left with someone she thought was capable of destroying her outright with his overwhelming power he hid until the moment their world was invaded.
Now, Cinder was told by Salem that the ancient Grimm Queen had a mortal life span due to those on Earth helping her with the curse of immortality placed upon her by the brother God of darkness; also finding out that both of them were also defeated by Kron outright was also a lot to take in but Cinder managed.
Now, she found herself a bounty hunter job and kept her nose to the ground, hoping to afford herself a gravity chamber for herself to use, her new job as a bounty hunter paid handsomely for her wallet. It was also an easy job given her advantage in power she had available compared to the humans of planet Earth, for most of them were as weak as the humans back on Remnant; weaker still for they all lacked aura or semblances unlike where she came from.
"You can stop shooting at me fool, you're only going to ruin my jacket and I like this one." she flickered forwards, kneeing the male in the back and then stepping on his downed form after, one high heeled boot now on his neck, choking him.
"You finished." he gargled something, so she only smirked and released some of the tension on his neck, then standing off of him to hear him speak.
"S-Stupid bitch!! I'll-" she knocked him out by throwing him upwards with a kick, his face hitting the side of the wall of the alleyway he thought to escape in.
"Hmmm?" she found her senses pick up a nearby Ki, flying overhead. Still struggling to utilize this valuable skill, it made finding where others who used similar powers easier than using the Frieza Force scouter, though lacked an accurate gauge to numerically assign a value to whomever or herself she was sensing.
"Feels like that Jaina kid, Kron's daughter. She must have sensed me, the brat was coming down here." annoying, the kid was uh… Cinder looked at her, seeing Jaina Belladonna though she was very much older than last she seen her that few amount of times. She also had eyes that matched someone like Mercury's father or Cinder herself.
"Your Jaina… only taller. Anyway, nothing to see her my dear, just someone who tried to get out of the city without paying-"
"-I See. I was just looking around. I've not been around for a while, West City has seen better days. I don't know you though. Right then, I'll leave you to it."
"Before you disappear on me, tell me why you've got older than last I seen you. Just curious and I've got time. He isn't going to vanish on me." the girl shrugged, moving closer a few steps.
"I'm from another timeline, my timeline is in a word; fucked. I need a whole lot of training and even then, I don't believe it will be enough. But in the mean time, a day more and I can head back, Bulma has been going over my time machine. The last I tried to use it, it didn't work. With her expertise, my ship will be fixed and I can finally leave. I wasted a few days in space a while back. How do you know Jaina- the younger one from this time." Cinder replied, this girl wanted to yap? Well, Cinder already finished work, he won't be waking up anytime now.
"I don't know her personally, I have uh, history with her father. Your father, lets leave it at that. Well then, I need to find another mark after I deliver this guy. Saving up for a gravity chamber so that I can get powerful… if I was, I might have been capable as help when this hole of a city was attacked. Could have made a good amount of money for doing so."
"Money? Good luck with that. I heard there was going to be some kind of tournament. Not sure if I was going to either wait and watch it or go concentrate on training. Besides the city looking like to close home… I am still hesitant to leave. Also, take this." she threw a capsule for Cinder, who caught it easily.
"It's a gravity chamber, one of father's older ones I took before I left Earth, my earth I mean... Good luck with that. I've heard of you from my mother, that you were once an enemy. You've seen how my father and his people set upon enemies, so keep a clean record. If you want a sparring partner, I'll fight you, just flare your Ki north of the city and will sense you." the elder Jaina pointed, Cinder looking towards the ground and seeing the guy was now waking up and trying to sneak off.
'Insolent brat, though I won't say no to a sparring partner. Could also be a way for me to get closer to her mother… and from there, her father.' she wouldn't deny it, she lusted after power still and felt that she always would. Kron… he has the most, all gift wrapped in an indomitable and perfect… body, a fierce warrior of great renown. Sure, he had been taken over, mind controlled but whatever. Whatever she could, she would aim for her new goal and in the meantime, lust after him from afar where his possessive wives wouldn't see.