“Oww Fuc-“ but before Zemaku could finish Speaking he got a gut punch from Joe. “Damn it.” Zemaku screamed. “What the hell?” Zemaku groaned.

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“So then, is this all you’ve got?” Joe asked. “Not quite.” Zemaku yelled before seemingly trying to go for a direct hit, but Joe was ready; he slashed his Flamsword at Zemaku’s chest but someone jumped in to stop it.

“Hello I am Hanamichi, you can call me the saviour.” The mysterious man said “Get the hell outta here” Zemaku Yelled. “This is my fight and mine alone” hyaahh Zemaku yelled and lunged at Joe, but Joe just began to speak cryptically once more "What the torch set aflame, watch it burn, watch it fade. Watch the rebels gather around; they think they can all surround.”

"Joe," Zemaku said, "they left."

"Oh, but their afterimages are still here," Joe said.

"What?" Zemaku asked.

Suddenly, Lea seemingly jumped out of a bush, launched a fireball at Joe, and then disappeared.

"Damn, what the fuck just happened?" Zemaku thought to himself.

Then an afterimage of Goki... fell asleep and disappeared.

"Did Goki just fuckin' troll me?" Zemaku said in surprise before bursting into laughter. "That sick bastard! He may have been an evil fuck, but he gave me the greatest gift of all—a good laugh," Zemaku said, then looked at Joe.

"Yeah, this fight will happen another day. I need to train to defeat you."

"Don’t you dare," Joe said. "I—I do not want to destroy you, but I have to. Don’t make it hard for me," Joe said.

"Well, if your heart is almost black, as you said it was when you first appeared and destroyed Lea’s village, then I don’t see why I should care."

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Toji’s afterimage laughed and said, "I knew you would eventually make the right choice," before vanishing.

Alright then Hanamichi “the saviour” you handle Joe and with that Zemaku ran off.

I can’t go into the Lucid Room just yet—not without first finding a Plasgun. I just hope that the others will be okay on their own, Zemaku thinks to himself. He runs away extremely fast until he thinks he’s a good enough distance from Joe.

Zemaku soon realizes that Lea was following behind him.

“Why did you follow me? I thought I told you to go with Goki and Toji.”

“Well, that’s the thing. Toji told me to go with you to help you on your journey. We all made a plan to help you out with afterimages. Goki decided to have his afterimage fall asleep because he figured it would lighten the situation, and Toji agreed since he thought it would help you make your decision. It was only after we separated from you that Toji told me to follow you. He figured you’d need an ally with you, as he didn’t want you to reach a breaking point and become vulnerable enough for Thumb to manipulate you,” Lea said.

"Damn, he’s that worried? Well, I can’t say I believe that Thumb could control me, but you never know. Honestly, I would love to pull a Vegeta and say what he said to Bobidi in DBZ when he tried to mind-control him," Zemaku said with a smile on his face.

"What’s DBZ?" Lea asked bluntly.

"Oh, right. You’ve been in cryostasis for at least over a thousand years. Dragon Ball Z is the continuation of a story called Dragon Ball, and it’s basically about the journey of Goku as he fights to protect his friends," Zemaku explained.

"Then who’s Vegeta?"

"An alien prince who came from the same planet as Goku. In the scene I was referencing, the villain Bobidi was trying to get Vegeta to kill what’s called a Supreme Kai, which gave me my favorite quote in fiction. I’ve loved it since before the war stopped. The line is: 'It will take more than head games to stop me. You may have invaded my mind and my body, but there’s one thing a Saiyan always keeps... his pride!'" Zemaku said passionately, screaming the word pride with an odd, autistic-like obsession before then saying, "Ahem. Um, sorry—I had a DBZ obsession as a kid."

"No, it’s fine. This is honestly the first time I’ve ever heard you talk about your personal life before the war. It’s kinda refreshing," Lea said.

“Wow, that sucks,” Lea said.

“Yeah I know” Zemaku responded “anyways let’s get going.” Zemaku said. “Right.” Lea continued and then they ran alongside each other, to get a Plasgun for Zemaku.

Oh by the way, Zemaku said, continuing the conversation, "I was saved by this person that these people from a village I saved called “the saviour.” Zemaku told Lea.

“The saviour?” Lea questioned, “Yeah the Savior” Zemaku said, “he called himself Hanamichi.” Zemaku Continued. “Hanamichi could it be?” Lea said.

Chapter 18 End!