#get flung into the stratosphere. idiot.

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day 5 of 30 min sketch monday w @revalito! we used the character generator from day 4 again, and my new guy is also an immortal in the same universe :) and they're gay for each other ofc bc im incredibly predictable. sketch on the right is the sketch i did of hades' character--check out his post for his version!

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Part 1, Part 2

Yall need closure and I love it XD Also, I’ll combined the Infinite requests, I can use them together :)c

Prompt:

In a hazy room full of cubes... monitors seemed removed from the area as if it was reconstructed as a steel-prison, Amy slowly awoke to find herself laying on some floating cubes, hovering up and down.

In panic, she threw herself off and stumbled upon getting up, looking around.

“...Still think you’re right?”

She gasped and turned around, but saw nothing.

Her eyes squinted through the haze, but nothing was there...

Suddenly, the scene shifted as Infinite stood perfectly still in front of her, the cubes floating around her were giving her an illusion... he folded his arms and stared straight at her.

“Y..yes.” Amy had to take a second, her body felt heavy and her eyes were hurting.

Where was she?

How long had she been separated from Sonic?

“...Then.” he closed his eye.

“...I’ll have to make you wrong.”

He lifted his head up and slowly opened his eye.

The cubes flew around and then charged her, pining her up in the air and spreading her out as she struggled but each limb was tugged out and held in place.

He floated up a moment, lightly moving a claw to her face...

“If I can’t have the power of which you speak...”

She struggled, trying to move her head from his grasps. Her grunts and strains only made him remove his hand, looking more intent on whatever he was planning to do...

“Then I’ll simply take it from you.”

He took, daintily, a cube that was floating around into his hand.. and twisting it slightly in his hand...

He shoved it into her.

At first, Amy’s painful cry indicated she was resisting it, but with further aggressive propelling, he was able to push it within her being and it disappeared.

Her eyes started to flicker and she flung her head around.

“W-What...” she cried out, “Have you done to.. to me!?!? AHHH!!!!”

She fainted in the pain.

When waking up, she looked around,...

She was lying on the ground, and once again she felt weak and heavy....

Her eyes strained once more...

Through the fog..

“...Amy..?”

Amy’s ears didn’t hear anything... but a voice suddenly shifted in her mind, and she looked up.

From the fog... Sonic’s form appeared, standing strong above her.

“Sonic..” her eyes flickered and dilated.

“Sonic!!!” She jumped up, embracing her love-time love as she held him and cried, before all feeling seemed to be drained from her.

“I... I missed you so much...”

Sonic’s hand began to lift to her side.....

As Infinite’s replaced it in image, and held her closer.

In a truly evil laugh, he rose it up to almost a howl of wicked pleasure and delight.

He had won.

He was now right.

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Sonic raced on when Tails finally told him why Chaos was so adamant about trying to destroy him.

With lightning speed, he slid to a cliff where Infinite had told him to meet him...

Looking at his communicator, that also held a map and location device, he scanned around for any sign of him.

Already growing frustrated, and not sure what Infinite truly wanted with Amy... he clenched his fists and swung his head around.

“INFFFINIATE!!!” he called out. “Show yourself, you coward! What have you done with Amy!?”

A husky laugh was heard... one that still crawled up the skin and left cold chills in it’s wake, stabbing at the wounded heart and crushing the soul in it’s very sound...

Sonic hunched slightly, his face showing a bit of a fear for the first time- but not for himself- but for what this creep may want with Amy...

“Let her go! Where is she!?” Sonic almost spun himself completely around in a twirl of sorts, positioning himself direction in front of Infinite.

Infinite chuckled lightly from his loud laughter a moment ago...

He knew he had won.

He swiped his hand out and cubes came flying around him.

One... in particular a mass of them, remained by his side.

“You long to see her so... desperately?” he smirked under his mask.

“Very well...”

He looked as though he was about to- NO! He attacked!

Flying straight for Sonic, he began to tussle with him, leading him closer and closer to the edge...

“Er, grr, rah!” Sonic fought but was pushed to the edge and grabbed by cubes down by his foot.

“Wha-huh!?” He rotated his arms in swirls, before looking down to behold them starting to engulf him.

“H-hey! Play fair!” he felt them forcing his hands down to his sides, tightening around him, before leaning him horizontally off the edge... still clinging to the cliff side.

“...Do you know... What cliff this is?” Infinite raised a hand, walking over the cubes that created a small, broken bridge over Sonic’s captured body.

Sonic still struggled, not looking down before moving his head to glance over his shoulder at the drop.

His eyes widened, suddenly recognizing the terrain.

“This is where...”

“Yeesss.... Where you’re friend and I first squared off in ideologies.” he lifted the other hand up, as if his mind was elsewhere, he began to monologue.

“Every since that day... I’ve despised your friend... And that’s when I realized... I believed her.”

He suddenly shifted his eye down to Sonic, narrowing it in rage.

“Her foolish notions and idiotic ranting actually opened my eyes to a reality of new life... new... power untouched!”

“Which eye?” Sonic smirked, still trying to play it cocky.

Infinite was momentarily snapped out of his venting, and looked down a bit offended at Sonic’s interruption.

He laughed again.

“You’re friend claimed that... hope and love.. could save you all.”

He bent to a knee.

“Even me...”

“How’s that working out for ya?”

“Well...” he crooked his neck, looking over to the mass of cubes. “Better I’d say then you... if I can’t have that untapped power... why not- steal it?”

Sonic’s mouth suddenly hung a bit open and he looked to the mass, not sure what Infinite was getting at.

The cubes in the air all dispersed to reveal Amy, who gently floated to the ground.

Her eyes blinked and she beheld her Sonic, nothing more.

“Sonic... Oh, Sonic!!!” she ran forward.

“Amy!” Sonic struggled in his trap, but was still laying down over the side of a huge drop! “Hang on, Amy! I’m-!”

Infinite, while Sonic kept answering, rose up and turned to her, before she embraced him and happily went on with her doting remarks for ... ‘Sonic’.

“Oh! Where have you been!? I’ve been so bored without you, ya know. You really shouldn’t leave without saying goodbye.”

Sonic’s whole being seemed to slow down rapidly.. as his eyes scanned the strange moment between the two...

Infinite tenderly looked to her and lightly took a quill and began to affectionately stroke it out.

“You see..? How easy it is to acquire anything I so desire... even ‘eternal power’ as she called it.. but you know what I’ve discovered through... unlocking this... unknown power?”

He suddenly smacked Amy to the ground.

“Ow.!” Amy flinched on the ground, gripping her torn ear....

Sonic’s eyes widened, shifting to thrust his head up, “NO!”

Infinite chuckled into another maniacal laugh again.

He rose his head up and turned to look at his hands.

“You see..? Why take the power... when I could destroy it?”

“AMY!”

“W-what did I do wrong..?” Amy’s tears covered all of Sonic’s vision... as he suddenly violently tensed from within the grasps of the cubes...

“You did nothing wrong...” Infinite turned back to her from over his shoulder, and spoke as if kindly to her.

In Amy’s mind, she looked up to see her hero, a wicked look in his face, speaking as if in Sonic’s cocky and arrogant voice.

“I just think pain is stronger than beauty.”

“AHHHH!!!!”

Sonic suddenly started to turn savage, his fur turning more darker as he broke from the cubes, causing Infinite to fly up and watch as Sonic tumbled down.

“...Fool.” he moved towards Amy, picking her up as she clutched her ear in still pain.

“...Yes... I think I’ve found something more.. powerful than your hope and love...”

He pinched her ear, moving her hand that was defending it away, and taking pleasure from her wincing away.

“...Suffering.”

“AMY!”

“Hmm?” Infinite turned in shock suddenly, getting whammed into by a rocket-speeding hedgehog.

“UGH!” his eye flinched in a violent vibration, being carried higher and higher into the atmosphere.

“What is this!?!” he was amazed by Sonic’s immense and wild power.

“How is this possible?!”

“SHE.” Sonic gritted his teeth together, his eyes turning white.

“WAS.” through the intense airspeed, he reached a hand slowly up through the pressure of breaking the stratosphere and wrapped a gripping hand around a stunned and frozen Infinite.

                                     “RRRIIIIIIGHHHHTTTTT!!!”

                                           “NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!”

A power of great quantities suddenly engulfed the two. All the cubes, with Infinite’s spread power flew rapidly in the air like backwards rain; being called in his hour of need.

The power was so great... this.. negative chaos, stirred by immense, raw emotion he had never seen nor witnessed before.

He strained to push Sonic back, feeling reality shift so quickly around them into black and white lines... thus was how fast Sonic was rocketing him out of the known universe.

“It... It’s... imp...imposs....ible....” He was straining against the pressure, more so against the squeezing sensation around his throat.

His eye widened then, Amy’s voice coming to mind.

Hate, power, force… it isn’t eternal. Those things wash away with time and corrosion… It’s unfulfilling. Some even call it-

Madness.

He felt his body giving way on him... his hands that were holding somewhat Sonic’s power back suddenly gave way...

Waning in consciousness...

A power you can never possess! Or control! A power that is both infinite and ever-lasting! Infinite only means your power never wanes, but eternity means it never dies! Never stops growing! Infinite is simply reaching ones limits of absoluteness! 

His eye began to roll back into it’s socket... Each word she spoke was perfectly relaying in the back of his mind... As though he could relive the exact scene... that voice..

Her voice...

But what I have and know to be greater reaches no limitations, no end, and no possible way of stopping it from advancing far into the eternities of time and space!

“I...” losing oxygen and the will to live, Infinite....

Ceased.

If you’ve seen every possibility.. then you have to know- Love has no bounds, and Hope can’t be defeated!

This is not the dimension where I die!

                  “This is the dimension.. where you realize you lose!”

Dark Sonic suddenly quoted the rest- as the cubes all around Sonic, trying to catch up to his speed, suddenly exploded.

Amy... still out of it and mind-controlled on the ground, felt a searing pain as the cube sped out of her being, and twitched violently in the air.

Amy got her hammer out.. still weak from it’s effects, and slammed it down on the cube, as it exploded anyway.

She panted, before looking up to see the explosions of what looked to be stars out in the sky.

“...Ha....Ha... You can’t replace love, Infinite... you can only manipulate it.” she fainted then.

Waking up, she saw Sonic holding her close, his head down with slight sounds of mourning, before her eyes batted to life and she held a hand to his lowered face.

“...Emm... Son... Sonic..?”

He rose his head up in a quick jerk, and looked back to her.

“...Amy..?”

She smiled.

“Told ya...” she beamed, but weakly so as he helped her lean on his shoulder.

“Heh. You sure did.” he wiped something from his eyes and then smiled back to her, having tended her hurt ear and head already.

“...Love.. never dies...” she felt weak, and started to fade again.

“Woah-woah-woah! Hey now!” Sonic caught her from sliding off of him and tried to keep her up. “Amy, you can’t faint again... I ... I need you to keep celebrating with me, alright?”

“... Is he..?”

“...No.” Sonic turned his head away, as if feeling like a failure.

“He teleported through dimensions... I think he’s too weak to come back anytime soon though...”

“Heh. More time to reflect on.. erk... me being right.” she lightly gloated, a small giggle escaping her soft breaths over her lips.

“...Amy...” Sonic tenderly looked down at her, worried.

“...Is this all he did to you?” he tried to hold it together, act calm, but Amy could tell as his hand reached to test her ear- that he held himself back in more rage.

Light blue turned darker still... and she stopped him before his imagination ran just as wild as his feet.

“No.” she gripped his hand.

“I’m...” she started to slip away.

“Amy..?” He felt her hand loosen and quickly pulled her up again.

“Amy! Stay with me! Come on!”

“I told you... you shouldn’t.. emm... be worried...” she was.... she was-!!!

“Amy...” In her blur, she noticed something clear falling from Sonic’s face...

Her mind failed her in comprehending it, only lasting on last thought...

“...This... is the universe...”

“Where we won.” Sonic clutched her hand, “But I can’t celebrate until you promise me... promise me you’ll be alright.”

He held her hand up to try and lift her, but she fell back and laid down, forcing him to move over her.

“Amy... Please...”

For the first time, Amy heard something in Sonic’s voice she couldn’t recognize, something unfamiliar to her.

A loss of all hope?

“Sonic.. don’t lose... hope...” she barely got the words out, before fainting out of existence again.

The teams all stated Sonic would spend hours by her bedside, still fighting a now doomed Eggman, but coming back to tell her all about it.

Her coma was induced from the heavy, drug-like, effects done to her brain... she was like a breathing vegetable for a while...

Her body recovered faster than her brain did.

Sonic proved her right time and time again, always coming in with another exciting story, showing his heart by acting it out and getting excited as if she was reacting to him.

Over and over he would imagine her laugh, her smile, and even a light flirtation that he knew wasn’t so ‘light’ in the end.

He would play with this pretend.. never giving up... never surrendering to Infinite’s lies.

He knew.

He was proving it to the rest of the teams, the world even.

When sitting by her bedside as usual, and finally seeing her stir to life, and open her eyes to smile at him-

He knew he was proving it true. 

That Amy was right.

[recentanimenews]

How Master Roshi's Sacrifice in "Dragon Ball Super" Keeps the Original Manga's Lessons Alive

Spoilers for Dragon Ball Super episode 105 follow!

    When you think about Dragon Ball's Muten Roshi-sama—AKA Master Roshi, the Turtle Hermit, Kame-Sennin, or whatever you've grown up calling him personally—you probably think about "pichi-pichi gals," or nosebleeds, or any other manner of perverted musings. If you've been following Akira Toriyama's series from the beginning, though, you also think about one of the strongest martial artists, and best teachers, of all time. In the original Dragon Ball manga, Roshi went to extreme lengths to teach Goku and Krillin how to better themselves, and it all came to an impressively emotional head in episode 105 of Dragon Ball Super.  

    While we're smack dab in the middle of Super's high-stakes Tournament of Power arc, there's no better time to look back at Toriyama's original tournament scenarios. The Tenka'ichi Budōkai, or World Martial Arts Tournament, first kicked off in chapter 34 of Dragon Ball, way back in July of 1985, and was adapted in the anime starting with episode 20. While Goku seemed like a pudgy, non-threatening child at the time, none of his opponents could possibly predict how powerful he actually was. Muten Roshi put both him and Krillin through the wringer as far as training was concerned, from moving colossal rocks to transporting milk jugs and performing the type of farm work typically reserved for heavy-duty machinery. 

  But the true lesson Roshi bestowed upon our squat little heroes would come closer to the end of the tournament. Under the not-so-subtle guise of a contestant named Jackie Chun, Roshi entered the arena himself, going up against a hodge-podge of enemies while attempting to divert any suspicion that he may, in fact, be the invincible master himself. I mean, seriously, who could possibly get these two mixed up?!

    While one might initially suspect Roshi's intention was to prove he can beat up his own students—or maybe just find some roundabout way to get Bulma to give him a cheeky peek at something—his deceptive plan had a much more potent purpose behind it. After all, if he just wanted to wallop Goku and Krillin he could have entered under his own identity. Instead, Roshi wanted to show these young, incredibly bright and powerful students that, no matter how strong they get, there will always be a bigger challenge on the horizon. Rather than letting this tournament go to their heads, he wanted to show just how dangerous the world is, encouraging them to work harder and bounce back from defeat. 

  In case you couldn't tell from the hundreds of planet-leveling and evil-defeating episodes that followed, it worked. Thanks to Roshi's clever means of instruction and encouragement, Goku was eventually able to stand up against the first true world-dominating threat of the series, the mighty Piccolo. 

    These and other lessons came flooding back in Dragon Ball Super episode 105, "A Desperate Battle! Master Roshi's Sacrifice!!" While it seemed as if Roshi was on a roll in this one—handily taking down Universe 4 warrior Caway, despite the fact that she briefly managed to break through his supposedly newfound willpower against seduction—the situation turned dire rather quickly. 

    His second opponent, also hailing from Universe 4, was talisman user Dercori. She proved to be a more formidable foe thanks to her illusory powers, which had an immediate impact on Roshi's ability to fight effectively.

    A victory pretty much seemed in the bag for Dercori when she used Roshi's own shadow to lock him in place like a far-flung alien version of the Nara Clan's Shadow Imitation Technique. That's when Roshi reached way back into his Dragon Ball bag of tricks to bust out the legendary Mafūba, or Evil Containment Wave, which was first used to trap King Piccolo in a rice cooker. The second time he attempted to use the move on King Piccolo… he died! Such is the power of this containment technique, for those wondering why Krillin was so concerned when he attempted the same against Dercori. 

  This isn't the only time the Mafūba has reared its head in Super. It seems like a decade ago that we were dealing with the fearsome Zamasu, but Future Trunks eventually managed to use the move against him in episode 64, however temporary the solution may have been. 

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  As taxing as this may have been on Roshi, he managed to move on to fight his third opponent of the day after going 2-0 in the tourney. And, as if to smooth out Krillin's furrowed brow in one fell swoop, he showed just how fresh he was feelin' after that bottle-poppin' Mafūba. 

    Unfortunately, his next opponent was another Universe 4 bruiser, and he wasn't happy at all about watching his two friends face defeat. Yes, it's true, Ganos looks like a 'roided-up reject from Duckburg when he transforms, but he's also one of those enemies who gets progressively stronger as the clock ticks away. 

    As predictable as his moves were, Ganos ultimately pushed Roshi to the edge, nearly pummeling him to dust before forcing him to bust some of his most fearsome moves. Roshi even tried to put Ganos to sleep through hypnosis, another throwback to the original series, but we know that only really works on Goku.

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  When the time came to use the ultimate Kamehama, the legendary blast appeared to be his final undoing. Despite a clear victory that shot Ganos straight into the stratosphere, Roshi collapsed shortly after. The moment prior, however, gave him plenty of time to call out to his former students, encouraging them once more, and even echoing the lessons he learned from them in turn. "You two are the ones who taught me that this old man still has a future and it's too early to decide my limits," he said with pure determination. "You're the ones who taught me that by continuing to aim for higher heights." 

  They were able to do that, of course, because of the lasting lesson Roshi taught them as Jackie Chun. 

  His parting advice; words to live by: 

  Roshi didn't die, of course. Major characters rarely die in the Dragon Ball universe, and when they do we know there's a good chance we'll see them again one day. It might have been a powerful death for the character otherwise, but it'll take more than a strong-stronger-strongest clod like Ganos to spell the end of the Turtle Hermit. 

  His sacrifice remains just that, though; a fitting tribute to his legacy in Toriyama's long-running series. Just as he once did under the shroud of Jackie Chun, Roshi pushed himself beyond his limit to protect Goku, Krillin, and the rest of the Universe 7 team (yes, even Freeza, I suppose). He knew an enemy that gets more powerful by the second would end up proving a potentially unstoppable force at some point, so he took him out by any means necessary. 

  Muten Roshi: For that, and for the decades of dedicated teaching that somehow even manage to overshadow your legendarily lecherous livelihood, we salute you! 

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Joseph Luster is the Games and Web editor at Otaku USA Magazine. You can read his webcomic, BIG DUMB FIGHTING IDIOTS at subhumanzoids. Follow him on Twitter @Moldilox.

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