YTSK II: Chapter XXXVI

In Universe Date: 28 December 2021

Yan growls. "*Sigh*... did DH really just pull a transformation out of his ass just so he could dodge my bullets? I think I lost a few braincells from that rap battle. God, I hate men so much. When the time is right, I will stop at nothing to reduce every last male on Earth to mountains of skulls and rivers of blood, and rightfully so. Gah. Once my teleportation cooldown is complete, I will torture DH and make him rue the day he ever picked a fight with me. Only a matter of time..."

Meanwhile, in R'lyeh...

DH thinks out loud. "Alright, Yan's gone, what now? Hmm - alright, first of all..." DH shoots a Kamehameha at the last remaining puddle of healing juice, evaporating it. "Now Yan won't be able to use it." He suddenly realizes: "Wait! Maybe I should've used it to revive... oh well, it's too late now anyway. *Sigh*... Now how will I go about defeating Yan? If only I could ascend through the ocean and reunite with the squad, this would be so much easier."

He then hears a familiar voice. "I can help you with that, son" Jake mapping exits a ventilation shaft and jumps on the floor. DH screams "FATHER!" and runs at Jake, before hugging him. "Father, I thought you were dead!" "How so? I was just screaming at you through the ventilation shaft to use ultra instinct" "Well I thought you were contacting me from the spirit world since I saw you on a cloud" "You saw me on a what?" "Nevermind. Father, how did you survive?"

(Narrator here: I know I said Jake spoke to DH with a spectral voice in the last chapter, but that's because I didn't know Jake was still alive and interpreted the sound as that. I'm confused sometimes.)

"Well, You see, back in 2020 Yan had swallowed my entire upper body. My heart stopped functioning but my brain remained intact. When Yan was defeated, she spent a night sleeping inside her vat of healing juice. Then, as the healing juice flowed into the carcass that was my upper body, my soul began to return from death, and I woke up. When I opened my eyes, I found myself surrounded by a pool of stomach acid. Slowly I began to climb myself up. When I exited Yan's mouth, my body gradually began to grow back to normal, and I jumped out of the vat. I knew Yan would awake soon, so I entered a ventilation shaft to hide myself."

DH responds. "I'm so glad you're alive, father. I thought I had lost you forever. I... I love you" Jake smiles. "I love you, too." Tears burst from DH's eyes.

Jake collects himself. "The reason I revealed myself was to help you return to the plane. There is a double door nearby with which you can exit this lair into the ocean. Yan used it to examine aquatic life, but you can torpedo through the ocean if you exit while covered in oil."

DH nods and picks up a nearby oil barrel, throwing the fluid onto himself. He then follows Jake to the double door.

As DH prepares to exit, he turns to Jake one last time. "Father, I still have one question. How did you know I could enter ultra instinct?" "I read it in one of the Sibylline Books that Yan recovered" "The WHAT?" "We're running out of time, just go!"

As DH plunges into the ocean, he feels the immediate effects of the oil's extreme buoyancy. Without any effort on his part, he is rapidly propelled upwards through the water, the pressure around him decreasing rapidly as he ascends.

The darkness of the ocean begins to give way to lighter shades as DH rockets towards the surface. The sensation is exhilarating yet surreal as he watches the underwater world blur past him in a rush of bubbles and currents.

Before he knows it, DH breaks through the ocean's surface with astonishing speed, emerging into the open air above. He's launched into the sky like a human projectile, oil slick shining brilliantly in the sunlight.

The squad's plane comes into DH's view. As he flies through the sky, he starts to lose momentum. In order to reach the plane, DH shoots a Kamehameha to the opposite direction. The recoil propels him towards the plane, his body bursting through the plane's hull and entering the passenger cabin. Shocked, Zed exclaims: "DH! You're alive!" DH screams: "I NEED THE BIOLOGY TEXTBOOK, NOW!"

*To be continued...*