History Of Beerus

Chapter 7

8 Months Later...

The cool, brisk morning calm of a Nekosei dawn was broken by a piercing shriek, followed by a series of large explosions. Five small space pods had simultaneously crash-landed on the planet, creating a row of craters several kilometers away from a certain village.

In the time since the last attack, the councils of elders of each village had prepared an evacuation plan, which was now underway - the population retreating to hide in nearby caves and underground shelters, hopefully before the invaders spotted them.

Five slim, mostly-white forms floated out of the pods, landing on the ground a few meters away from the row of craters created by their landing. A taller one, who seemed to be the leader, pressed a button on his scouter.

"There are a few hundred negligible powers a little ways away from here," the alien said, reading the data on the eyepiece. "They seem to think they can hide from us."

The others chuckled at this. The leader pressed another button.

"I'm picking up several more clumps of weak energy signatures spread out across this continent. It's hard to tell how many due to the distance."

"What about the one we've come here for?" A shorter alien asked, this one's voice lighter, seemingly feminine in tone.

The leader pressed a button again on the scouter. "Nothing so far... wait. I've got it. A strong power, approaching from the southeast."

"How strong?" Another one of the invaders asked.

"Hold on, it's coming within range now for a more detailed scan... aha. 220,000." He proclaimed, no hint of worry in his voice.

"Makes sense that he was able to defeat the first attack force, then," the female said. "Good thing you brought that prototype scouter with you."

The leader grinned - he was proud to be the first one to test the new device in an actual combat situation.

Just then, a purple, glowing point became visible on the horizon, and soon after, the champion of Nekosei landed to confront the intruders.

"So," he began, a strong note of arrogance in his voice, "are you the goons Icer sent to take care of me?"

The leader of the five stepped forward, confronting the impudent cat-alien. He was around a head taller than Beerus, but the feline met his stare with resolute determination.

"We are Lord Icer's most elite shock troopers," the alien began. "You should be honored that we have been dispatched to kill you."

Ignoring the statement, Beerus examined his foes. Aside from the leader, they were all about his height, their bodies thin and graceful, a form he definitely recognized.

"You are Arcosians?"

"Looks like the savage has some education after all," one of the aliens laughed.

"We are Arcosian," the leader began, "but not natural born."

"What does that mean?" Beerus asked, looking genuinely curious.

"We are clones, created from genetic modification of Lord Icer's DNA," he explained. "Our scientists were unable to draw out the full force of Lord Icer's mutant genes, but we are still his strongest underlings by far! All of our power levels exceed 500,000, and my power is over 1.2 million! I hope you are prepa-"

Before he could finish, the alien leader felt himself being physically pushed back by a massive aura of ki emanating from his opponent. Beerus powered up, creating a crater around him, nearly the size of one of those created by the impact of the space pods.

"Sorry, you were starting to bore me," the feline said, assuming a combat stance. "Can we fight now?"

The leader of the shock troops quickly pressed a button on his scouter, but the machine overloaded attempting to read Beerus' full power, and exploded in his face.

"The prototype!" One of the other aliens shouted. "Lord Icer is going to have our heads for losing it!"

"Oh, I don't think you need to worry about that," Beerus sneered, as he disappeared from sight and reappeared, swiftly decapitating the offending Arcosian clone with a single hand. "If he has any sense of cleanliness he wouldn't want to. It's kind of gross," he said, dropping the severed head.

The others gasped in shock and horror, all save for the leader.

"You... I'm going to..."

"You're going to what?" The cat-man mocked. "You guys pissed me off, I wasn't expecting you for another few months. In fact, Kami had to telepathically rouse me from sleep just to tell me you were here. Why do you aliens always show up when I'm in the middle of a nap? It's just rude."

The leader ignored his ranting and shouted to his three remaining troops, "Everyone, attack formation delta! Just like we practiced!" The clones nodded, and then charged Beerus, who casually dodged all of their blows, even seeming to yawn as he did so.

The female Arcosian jumped back and raised two fingers, preparing a slicing ki attack, but she never got the chance to pull it off. Raising a single paw, Beerus blasted her into dust with a powerful orange beam. Now there were only three opponents remaining.

"Attack formation epsilon!" The leader shouted, and they all flew upward and back, preparing a combination attack. Beerus was having none of it, though, and charged them, impaling one through the chest and crushing the other's skull with a powerful blow. The two bodies collapsed, lifeless, to the ground.

The leader backed away slowly, terror evident on his face. "How... how can you be so strong?" He asked, having abandoned all pretense of attempting to fight back.

"Practice," was Beerus' simple reply, as he advanced on the alien, a predatory gleam in his eyes.

"Even if you kill me, you'll never defeat Lord Icer!" He shouted, a final boast. "He's over a hundred times as strong as I am!"

"Good for him" the feline smiled. "I don't see how that's going to help you, though."

With one last burst of anger, the alien charged, taking Beerus slightly by surprise. "For Arcosi-" he began, but he was disintegrated by a single-handed ki blast before he could finish.

"That was a lot easier than I expected," Beerus said, surveying his work. Suddenly, he noticed movement on the ground. One of the aliens, the one he had impaled through the chest, was still alive, and slowly attempting to sit up.

Seeing the bodies of his comrades lying around him, and the enemy who had so easily defeated the greatest of Lord Icer's forces, he panicked, and began scrambling back toward his space pod.

"Go ahead," Beerus said, attempting to lick some of the blood off of his fur. "I'll let you go."

Not questioning his good fortune, the alien reached the spaceship, and began pressing a series of buttons. Before he could close the door, though, Beerus fired a single ki blast from his finger, striking the wounded alien in the head, instantly killing him.

"Yeah, I lied," he said, as he threw the corpse out of the ship. "I just needed you to program this thing to take you back to Arcosia. Because that's where I'm heading next." He climbed in the ship, and quickly found the button to close the door and start the engine. The ship took off, flying on a pre-programmed course back to its point of origin.

Beerus sighed, laying back in the flight couch. He had been pretty brutal with these guys, but it was their own fault for attempting to wipe out his world and murder his people. Icer was going to be in for quite a surprise when this ship returned.