Hey guys!

Welcome to Chapter 8…which I'm totally not excited about. I didn't start writing this before Chapter 7 was even finished being edited. Shut up.

How'd you guys enjoy it? A little setup to start the arc off, as all good arcs need. I just hope that I didn't make it too boring or cheesy XD

ONTO THE REVIEW REPLIES!

LorcanShade: Thank you for the review and I'm glad that you're enjoying it! I try to keep it on Gohan most of the time but there's also quite a bit happening in Universe 6 that I can't help but want to show you all xP

X3runner: Your guess is actually spot on! I'm surprised somebody guessed that this early XD And all the funny interactions are sure to come. As soon as we get passed this saga xP

Thewittywhy: Thank you so much! Stuff like characterization is something I'm always worried about so I'm glad you think I'm doing it well!

AND THAT'S THE END OF REVIEW REPLIES!

Now onto the Android 21 Sagaaaaa!

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Universe 7, Apartment, One month later

'Oh what's this? Getting all dressed up for a night on the town?' The dark voice inside Ruby's head mocked her.

Scowling, Ruby looked in the mirror. Seeing herself in the uniform she had been wearing when she first met Gohan. Tying her hair back in a ponytail while scrunching up her nose to stop her glasses from slipping down before she could adjust them.

'Shut up. I'm growing stronger every day and soon I'll be able to shut you out completely' She snapped, having gotten more and more annoyed with the voice who had seemed much more chatty lately.

'Oh really now?~' In an instant a burning, inconceivable pain flared through her body made all the muscles in the left side of her body seize up.

With a cut-off, pained cry she collapsed onto her side. Screaming in pain and clutching the left side of her abdomen with her right hand as she slowly squirmed her way up onto her knees. Kneeling on the floor panting and gritting her teeth in pain, having broken out in an almost instant sweat. Rolling her eyes to look up at the mirror she froze, her eyes shrinking in horror at the pink skin tone and black and red eye that took over the left side of her body. Her auburn hair having turned white at the root, the parts of it on the left side of her body anyways.

'N-no…What? NO!' Flaring her Ki enough that her bed struck the wall and her mirror shattered, not into shards but into a fine powder due to its fragility and proximity to her.

'Grrr…..Heh. No matter. With every passing moment, I get closer to freedom~ And once I reach the surface I'm never leaving again' The voice purred and Ruby could almost imagine red eyes gleaming in fog and shadows.

Panting, almost on the verge of hyperventilating, Ruby looked down at her hands, seeing no sign of the bubblegum pink skin tone she had seen in the mirror. Scrambling to her feet, she launched herself onto her bed and searched around in the sheets, finding her phone and quickly turning the camera on. Flipping it around she looked at herself and sighed in relief when all she saw was her normal self staring back.

'And with every passing moment…I come closer to shutting you out forever' She growled back hatefully while pocketing her phone.

'Hmph. Sure~' The voice purred as Ruby started walking out of her apartment 'Tick tock 21~ Tick, tick, tock~'

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Universe 6, Dark Empire planet 14B

"Goddammit Raditz, you useless welp. Even after a year you still can't handle something like this" Nappa growled while blasting down a soldier who screamed in pain before dropping to the ground uselessly.

Looking to his left his tail uncurled from his waist and in a flash was wrapped around something else, namely a grunt's neck. The grunt desperately clawed at the tail while it began to choke him.

"Fuck you! It's not my fault that the 'great and powerful' Nappa can't do the one thing he said he would!" Raditz snapped while crawling out of a crater. He had been knocked into it while charging an attack aimed at the planet's surface.

There was a sickening snap and the grunt dangling from Nappa's tail suddenly went limp before being dropped to the ground. Nappa turning around and glared daggers at Raditz. The burly general starting to power up a ball of energy.

"Want to try that again Raditz?"

"I-I uhhh, W-what I meant to sa-" Pipipipipip!

Both Saiyan's blinked in surprise as their scouters began to go off, unable to read the power level but able to see it approaching rapidly. Far too rapidly in both of their opinions, as the cliff face beside them suddenly cracked open and a large, dark green body sped out of the dust, past them and through the ground before hitting a boulder and abruptly stopping even as the boulder shattered into dust and pebbles.

A dark, deep, laugh from the body who had just been ragdolled past them and into the boulder. A small shockwave of some kind coming from the figure and blowing all the dust away as they stepped out of the crater, their impact with the boulder had created with a small grunt.

What stood before the two saiyan's was the tall, scarred, imposing form of Slug himself. The buff Namekian grinned while wiping some dust off one of his shoulders.

"Well well well~ Look at the little son of Katat. All grown up, even made it to the status of a Super Namekian with two fusions, well. Heh, technically one" He grinned as the dust from the cliff face was blown away by the entrance of Piccolo.

"And look at you. Getting the shit beat out of you by little old me" Piccolo grinned, cracking his neck while his eyes shifted over to the two Saiyans "Hmph. I'll leave Tien and Yamcha to deal with you two" He turned back to Slug

"Bah! Forget those weaklings over there, couldn't even handle a love tap and speaking of which, don't think I don't appreciate your strength. You may not have been born a Super Namekian such as I, but the strength you've gained is certainly substantial. Almost as great as our elite in the hayday. Why if I hadn't found a travelling Super Namekian in this universe I reckon I would be pretty screwed myself" He grinned, the wind beginning to pick up around him.

"W-what the hell!? T-that's the bastard I killed on that backwater planet!" Nappa yelled as the winds continued to pick up.

"F-forget that! I-Isn't that the guy we're supposed to be sabotaging!?" Raditz yelled, paling and pointing at Slug.

With a roar of energy Slug began to raise his power from the suppressed state it had been in before. Both of the Saiyans screaming in surprise and trying to dig themselves into the ground to avoid getting blown away. Meanwhile Piccolo grit his teeth and stayed standing in a relaxed manner, his arms crossed over his chest.

"I don't know what other vile Namekian you found in this universe but you still aren't as strong as me" Piccolo grunted as he unfolded his arms.

"Heh. Fun fact kid. When fusing with us Universe 7 Namekians. It seems like consent isn't necessary" He grinned while raising an outstretched hand in piccolo's direction.

"You…You sick monster!" Piccolo growled, sliding into a fighting stance.

"Monster. Saviour. Emperor. Call me whatever you wish. But I'm about to show you, and those little minions, true terror" He grinned, sliding his feet apart and lowering himself down with his palm still raised in Piccolo's direction and facing the sky.

"Are you deaf? I already told you I'm stronger than you!" Piccolo growled while flaring his Ki.

"Heh. Even with that power level you're still a novice aren't you brat? Power doesn't account for everything. In fact, technique plays far more of a factor than power ever will. And the dark zones of both Universes are full of technique's waiting to be pilfered" With a grunt the Emperor's Ki flared up around him again.

His white Ki formed an almost flame-like aura around him as a ball of black, wispy energy formed over his hand, a smaller aura within his flaring Ki appeared as what appeared to almost be ink began wafting off of him.

"First lesson. No one faces me and lives!" He stomped his foot off and in an explosion of earth and speed he shot towards Piccolo, his face set in dark, perverse glee.

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Universe 7, Empty wasteland

"Yeah, there we go Ruby. You're getting the hang of it!" Gohan said excitedly, bobbing and weaving around blows with a practiced ease "Though you have to twist your hips a little more. You can't just copy me and be done with it" He teased, grabbing her ankle and flinging her to the side.

Flaring her Ki the girl just leaving her teens flipped and slid along the ground. Straightening herself out once enough of her speed had been siphoned off, stumbling a bit once she came to a stop.

"Ok Ruby! Uhhhh, perhaps we should move onto Ki practice now!...Y-yeah, that sounds right" Gohan mumbled to himself, obviously still not used to being the one in charge of training.

"Uhh, yeah sure. The faster the better!" She said, hopping over to him.

"Alright. So flair your Ki as much as you can ok?" Gohan said, beginning to grow unnerved by her proximity for some reason.

He nodded and smiled, not acting off from what Gohan had seen of her over this last month but yet something in her aura, the general feeling she gave off, was unnerving some deep-seated instinct and making the hair on the back of his head raise up.

Silently, odd given his past experiences and battles, she began flaring her Ki around her. A white aura appearing around her, and beginning to peel off dirt and stones from the surface where they stood. But as her power output kept growing, so did the alarms inside Gohan's head, the teen beginning to break out in a cold sweat as basically every muscle in his body tensed up.

Ruby continued to increase her power output, unaware of the pink beginning to seep into her own white aura, a fact that had Gohan's eyes widening.

"Ruby! Ruby stop!" He yelled out while raising a hand in her direction.

A shockwave of ki and air combined hit him and made him slide back, gritting his teeth and ascending to his perfected Super Saiyan form to stop himself from sliding back any further. Looking up at her, through the stinging dust, he saw a horrifying sight.

Ruby began to scream in pain while dropping to her knees. Clutching her head as he skin began to turn pink, her hair draining of color. Her screams began to pick up in both intensity and pain, her voice cracking and cutting in and out as her voice box was pulled to its very limits. Her aura, now fully pink, beginning to grow larger and more potent.

"RUBYYYY!" The sound of a cannon going off was heard as one last shockwave burst through the wasteland.

The shockwave left cracks for miles, obliterating anything close and sending boulders and rocks flying well off into the distance. The pink Ki tearing through the earth and carving a crater large enough to fit a city inside before finally dying down.

Gohan meanwhile coughed and floated down, landing on the floor of the crater while looking towards its epi-center. Swiping dust out of the air and looking around.

"Ruby? Ruby! Where are you?" Reaching out with his senses he found her not far from him and froze.

Darkness. Darkness was all he could sense from her. Enough that he could feel his instincts trying to push his body to ascend to Super Saiyan 2. Wanting desperately to release the gate trapping a large portion of his Ki away but his more rational, logical side locked it away still.

"Ah, so we finally meet Son Gohan~" His pupils dilated at the sound of the smooth, seductive voice coming from Ruby, still hidden by dust "And about Ruby? Heh, 21 actually. She's not here at the moment. But don't worry-" A hand was suddenly gripping his face "I can take a message for her~"

His aqua eyes seemed to widen in slow motion as the world struggled to keep up with the speed that the woman had moved at, the ground cracking and flying in the air towards them, except they flew around them in an almost V-formation. The hand on his face tightening up and between the gaps in her fingers he could see her face. Eyes as red as his own blood stared at him and sharp teeth were shown in a dark, malicious grin as her body began to flex. He felt himself beginning to move, falling backwards faster than he could hope to catch himself, his eyes narrowing in a deadly glare, a snarl stretching his lips.

And then the back of his head hit the floor, and the crater exploded once more.

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Hey guys!

I'm all done with chapter 8, in a weirdly consistent/rapid upload schedule which definitely isn't usual for me. So please don't expect more of this going forward XD

Anyways I really hope you guys enjoyed this chapter! I've been planning this saga for a while, at least the major parts of it, and I'm super excited about it! But regardless! I can't wait to hear your thoughts and I'll see you next time!

Adios!