"This is stupid, why did I agree to even come on this stupid vacation?" Vegeta muttered angrily to himself as he leaned back against the wall of the beach mansion Bulma brought them to. She invited Krillin's family and the Sons to stay as well so the Prince was stuck without his training room, along with these fools.
"Come on Trunks, I want to see the game you kept talking about," Goten moaned as his friend ran around holding a laptop.
"I'm trying Goten, but Minecraft runs my battery life down fast, so we have to find somewhere to plug it in." The small eight and nine year old boys were sprinting around the house looking for plug sockets, when Gohan finally stopped them.
The older boy was also kind of annoyed he had to come on this family vacation since he was planning on spending some alone time with Videl. He was trying to make the best of it though and sighed at the kids in his hands as he lifted them up. "Bulma didn't want us all playing video games the whole time we were here, so she built this house without any outlets."
"WHAT?!" the two younger boys shouted in panic.
"What's so special about this Minecraft game anyway?" Krillin asked as he walked in the room with a glass of water in his hands. Goku and him were hanging out in the kitchen, though with all the wives/girlfriends at the spa for the afternoon, it looked like one of them was going to have to try and make lunch.
"It's so much fun," Trunks replied with a huge smile and started rambling on and on about building and fighting monsters. He didn't even notice his best friend walk over and open a closed door near them that was supposed to be locked, but the boy's superhuman strength broke in without him even realizing he broke it.
"That does sound like fun!" Goku exclaimed. "Are the monsters hard to beat?"
"Yeah!" Trunks exclaimed.
"Hey Trunks! Why don't you try plugging your computer into this?" Goten leaned his head out the door and everyone walked over and looked inside.
"Oh, so we're not allowed to play video games but mom brings one of the inventions she's working on?" Trunks asked sarcastically as he ran up to it and looked for a cord slot to plug his laptop into.
"Hey boys, I really don't think you should be messing with Bulma's toys," Krillin warned them.
"Let them do as they wish," Vegeta called over from the other room where his back was still leaning against the wall. "The woman will yell at them when she returns and they'll learn their lesson."
"But won't she yell at you too for letting them?" Krillin asked Bulma's husband who flinched and then marched into the room the rest of them were in.
"Out, now!" the Prince demanded.
"Found it!" Trunks shouted at the same time as his dad and he shoved his cord into the large machine sitting in the center of the room.
The machine started to beep very fast and everyone stared at it with wide-eyes. Suddenly a small blue dot on the front of the machine shot a laser out horizontally across the width of the room and then scanned downwards. "Scan complete. Welcome."
"Um, I think we should get out of-" Krilin began, right before the six of them froze and then vanished as the blue light pulled back into the machine. The large monitor above the object turned on and showed six figures getting virtualized until they looked almost completely the same as on the outside, except more, pixelated.
"What happened? Where are we?" Gohan asked and looked around at the strange darkness surrounding them.
"I don't care, but I'm leaving," Vegeta stated and jumped up in the air. The Prince fell face-first on the black ground and then pulled himself back up, jumping and falling in a similar fashion. "The fuck?! Why can't I fly?!"
"Maybe you're doing it wrong?" Goku offered and tried jumping himself, only to fall on his face and grab his nose as he stood up. "That hurt," he said and then tilted his head to the side, "Wait, that hurt?"
"Look!" Goten pointed above Goku's head and they all saw nine little red hearts floating above him. As they looked around at each other, they each had ten hearts above their heads except for Vegeta who had eight. However, his hearts were slowly going back up to ten.
"What's going on here?" Trunks shouted and looked around at the darkness. Slowly, the black scenery was starting to shift, but unlike the people standing there, the scenery was much, much more pixelated.
Gohan looked around as the black above them turned blue and had some large square white clouds floating around. A huge square-shaped sun was straight above them too, but it didn't feel like a normal sun. "I think we're inside Bulma's computer."
"Minecraft," Trunks whispered as he looked down and saw the sand form beneath his feet. A few feet to the left of him started the shoreline that stretched as far as he could see in one direction, while hitting a small grassy cliff the other way.
"Wait, we're in the game?" Goten asked his friend.
"Let me try something," Trunks told them and then turned his head up to the sky. "System! Explain the rules! Protocol One! Two! Three! Four!"
"Protocol Four initiated," a voice that sounded a lot like a robot Bulma shouted. "Explanation of the Virtual Game Self-Implanter. This machine is designed to allow the user or users to play their favorite games for real. In event of a dangerous game being played, once killed, the player will return back to the real world."
"Ah, so we just have to kill each other to get out of here eh?" Vegeta looked over at Krillin and cracked his knuckles, charging the short man.
"Ahhh!" Krillin started running and jumped, making it just to the next layer of sand before jumping again and landing on a flat grassy area with a few small trees around. Vegeta kept chasing him and swinging his arms as he did.
"So if we die, we'll go home?" Trunks asked the System.
"Negative," the computer stated and everyone stopped moving and looked up. "Function not yet installed. System incomplete. Pain restrictors also inactive at our current level."
"So what will happen if we die in here?" Krillin shouted up at the sky.
The computer seemed to hesitate for a second and then stated in a monotone voice, "Your mind will go blank, no longer being a part of the game but not being able to escape the computer either. Your consciousness will be lost as data in our system."
"That's ridiculous!" Gohan shouted, but the computer didn't have anything else to say and kept quiet.
"Hey, does anyone else notice the sun is moving across the sky really fast?" Goku asked no one in particular, and nobody paid the third class Saiyan any mind. If they had, they would have noticed that in the last three minutes, the sun had moved from directly above them to halfway down in the west.
"How are we going to get out of here?!" Krillin exclaimed and tried flying but couldn't do it.
"The women will be home in a few hours, they'll see us missing and this door open and figure out what's happening," Vegeta explained simply.
"A few hours," Trunks repeated in a whisper. As the others all talked, he slowly tilted his head up in the air, just as a large shadow passed over the land. "Every day is ten minutes here!" The others all stopped and turned towards the kid who was shouting, "We need to get out of the open before nightfall."
"Why would we need to do that?" Vegeta asked as the sky got one more interval darker and another. A much darker shadow covered the grassy terrain and sandy shore.
"Because night is ten minutes long too, and I have the difficulty set on hard!" The others all looked at each other and didn't really know what the big deal was.
Storm clouds began to form above their heads and a loud crack of thunder was heard above them. Rain started pouring down and a lightning bolt hit a nearby tree as the sky got even darker. The tree burst into flames and everyone snapped their virtual heads over to it and stared at the realistic flames. "GRRR…" something growled on the right of the group.
They snapped their heads that way and saw three humans with green, rotting skin. The creatures were walking with their arms outstretched, "Zombies?!" Gohan shouted, taking a step back as two more appeared and they all seemed to lock onto him.
"HISSHISS," Krillin looked back and his eyes widened three times the size of normal at the sight of two huge spiders with glowing red eyes running towards him.
"Goten move!" Trunks shouted towards his spiky haired young friend. The younger boy looked back at a creature that didn't have any arms and was walking right towards him. "That thing isn't your friend!" he yelled about the green thing, "It explodes when it gets too close to you!"
Goten's eyes popped huge as the thing started to puff out and hiss loudly. He jumped backwards, but it wasn't enough. The green creature popped in a large explosion and sent the kid flying farther than any of them expected, right off the sand and into the water.
Goku heard clattering behind him and turned, looking through the pouring rain and at the army of eight skeletons standing between him and the lake. His youngest son lost five hearts above his head in that explosive attack earlier. A few of the skeletons started shooting at Goten and the father heard his boy shouting in fear. The man with spiky hair put two fingers to his forehead, but his Instant Transmission wasn't working. "Ah!I forgot!" he lifted up his arms, "Kame, Hame…" no energy was forming on his hands and Goku moaned, "Kamehameha Waves aren't working either?!"
"Dad look out!" Gohan shouted over at his father who was standing pretty still. Only two of the skeletons were shooting out in the water at the little boy who was swimming farther away from them into the ocean. Goku was the target of the rest of them and the man barely had time to blink as three arrows slammed into his chest.
"These things are getting annoying!" Vegeta yelled as he punched another zombie back from him. He was still at full health and grinned as he got in the rhythm of pushing back the enemies over and over again. He wouldn't admit it, but he was watching Trunks and seeing how his son defended himself. The lavender haired boy was the only one who had any experience here.
The elite Saiyan Prince heard a hissing noise that was getting louder and he remembered hearing the same thing from that green creature that attacked Kakarott's youngest earlier. He knew he couldn't let it explode on him, and even if their strength and powers had gone away, his reaction time was still better than almost every being in the universe. He sprinted forward and jumped up in the air, swinging down on the zombie in his way and then spinning.
Once he was turned, he saw the green thing about to explode, but its chest deflated and it stopped hissing. Hmm, it tries to blow itself up to kill me, but it knows when it won't be able to. These things have intelligence, "Trunks, how do I kill these inferior beings?" The man received no response and snapped his head to the right where he last saw his son fighting a few spiders. "Trunks! What are you doing?!" he yelled at his son.
The half-Saiyan boy didn't stop punching the tree he was in the middle of destroying. He shouted up in the air, "I'm going to make us some weapons. Protect me for a few minutes!"
Vegeta growled at the fact that his son was giving him commands, but he had to keep moving anyway to stay back from the zombies and the exploding green guy. He sprinted over to his son and jumped up in the air, hitting another zombie coming up from behind the boy. The zombie got pushed farther back than usual and the Prince grinned, having noticed that happen before when he jumped and attacked. My hits become critical when I leap. This game isn't so bad woman, he complimented Bulma's work getting them in here, but then growled again remembering he couldn't get back out because she didn't complete it.
"Ahhh!" A scream was heard in the distance and Goku looked up a hill where Krillin was backing up and getting higher up on it. There were monsters swarming him from every direction and he only had four hearts left.
Goku and Gohan looked at each other from different parts of the grassy area they were fighting monsters on and they nodded. The two of them swerved between their enemies and dodged arrows as they charged at the bottom of the hill. Suddenly, two of the exploding guys appeared right in front of Gohan while he was running and the older demi-Saiyan had to stop short. "That's just not fair!" Gohan complained as he turned the other way and sprinted into the forest to hopefully lose the creatures.
"Inventory!" a young high-pitched voice shouted. Vegeta turned around and saw a small panel next to his son. The boy was staring down at it and Trunks started moving things around fast. He was glad his mom didn't make the game too realistic in that he would have to craft everything himself, instead a small screen appeared in front of his eyes that looked like the same inventory screen he saw while playing on his computer. He saw a few pieces of web from the spiders he killed and grinned madly, "Dad, catch!"
Vegeta was drawing all the monsters around them in a big circle near his son, keeping them off him while avoiding fighting them directly. The man was laughing his head off because the skeletons kept shooting at him even when they were in the back of the line. The one in the far back hit one in front of it and they started shooting each other. He watched as both fired one last arrow simultaneously and killed each other.
When he heard his son shout, he turned and saw the boy throw something in his direction. The small object dropped on the ground in front of Trunks and it looked like a bow, but a very miniature version. "What am I supposed to do with this?!" Vegeta yelled as he ran on top of the bow, making it fly into the inventory toolbar he had at the bottom of his vision. It was instantly put into the box he was currently using, which was empty, and the bow appeared in his hand.
While it was on the ground, it may have been small, but in his hand, the bow was large and Vegeta looked at his hand holding the wood. "Keep guarding me!" the young boy shouted at his dad as he made a wooden pickaxe too and started digging down.
The Saiyan Prince heard an explosion in the distance and looked out into the forest where he saw Gohan run off to earlier. He turned and looked off into the ocean, but it was very dark with only the moonlight giving them any vision whatsoever. He couldn't see the youngest of them anywhere and wondered where Trunks' friend went. The man had to keep running in a circle to keep the enemies off his boy, and run towards them and attack whenever they changed who they were targeting, but he was looking around the area while he did.
There were a few flaming trees from lightning strikes that kept slamming down into the earth. None of the others were over here anymore, as Kakarott and the bald human went over the top of a hill a minute ago and were no longer in sight. "Almost done," the boy inside the hole called up and Vegeta was grinning, no longer running.
The Prince had run over the spot where the two skeletons had killed each other, and three arrows appeared in his inventory next to his bow. "It's alright," he said confidently and pointed his bow at one of the zombies that he'd already punched a bunch of times. "Get lost," he fired the bow and the arrow flew off slowly, gravity taking the arrow and making it fall to the ground before it could hit the zombie that wasn't that far in front of him. Vegeta turned around and started running again while shouting, "THIS WEAPON IS SHIT!"
"You have to hold it to charge how fast you're shooting!" the boy inside the hole called up, understanding why his dad probably thought that.
Vegeta grunted and spun around, already pulling back the arrow but holding it this time. Tell me that in the first place, the man scowled, but his arms began shaking and he saw the bow vibrating in his arms. His mouth slowly twisted up into a grin and he fired at the zombie, throwing it backwards and to the ground where it groaned and died in a puff of smoke. Two little pieces of rotten flesh fell to the ground next to it, but Vegeta couldn't go and grab them since the rest of the enemies trampled their dead comrade and raced straight for the Saiyan.
"Ha, I'm too fast for them," he turned and tried sprinting, but suddenly he was feeling very drained. He started running, but he noticed his speed was much slower than before, and the monsters were gaining on him. His son was coming up out of the hole and he called over to him, "I'm slowing down."
Trunks looked at the bottom right of his screen where he had eight drumsticks left and two were missing already. "How hungry are you?" He pulled out his stone sword and ran towards his dad, throwing the other one at his father who saw it appear in his inventory.
"Hungry?" Vegeta grumbled and looked around the bottom of his vision where he could see the toolbar and his own health which was down to eight after getting hit by one of those skeletons while he was weaving them around before. He saw a bar on the bottom right of his sight and he only had two and a half drumsticks there, Wait, what the… he watched as the half drumstick shook a few times and then disappeared. "Yeah, I'm hungry," he realized and told his son as they ran away. He noticed his son was faster and growled at him, "We've been here the same amount of time, how can you still run?"
"You must have been sprinting for too long," the boy explained. "When you sprint and when you jump, you get hungry a lot faster."
"Damn it Trunks," the man said and the boy kept running a few blocks in front of his father to avoid getting punched in the back. Trunks figured his dad was probably pissed he didn't tell him this earlier, but there was no time to explain. He was still at ten hearts though, which his father noticed, and he didn't like how he was losing to his son.
"It's okay," Trunks said and stopped running, holding up his sword and looking up at the sky. "The sun is starting to rise, see?" His father looked up too and noticed the darkness seemed a little brighter than before. The two of them turned their heads through the forest they'd been running through and they caught a glimpse of sunlight on the horizon in between tree trunks.
"Let's get back to the shoreline," Trunks said and started running again, annoying his father even more that his nine year old son was leading him. He silently accepted it though and chased after the boy. When he looked back, he noticed that they'd lost their enemies while weaving in between trees, but a few others were getting locked onto them.
What the Hell is that? Vegeta stopped running for a second and stared at the huge black figure standing next to a tree. Trunks turned around and saw his father had stopped chasing him and was now looking right at the… "Enderman!" the boy yelled, having only seen the creature once while he was playing and got slaughtered by it.
The father heard how scared his son was of the creature and drew his bow, going to defeat it and prove he was better at this game than his son. As he was pulling back the arrow though, he heard a bloodcurdling screech and the black thing turned around. Apparently, it had its back to him, and when it turned it had glowing purple eyes and its mouth was dropped with a purple haze inside it. He only had one arrow, but he was going to make it count and aimed straight for its face.
Vegeta fired and watched his arrow soar through the sky, flying right towards the monster. It looked like it was going to hit, and then the thing was gone. He thought maybe his arrow had killed it, but he heard his son's fearful shouts continue behind him. "We have to get to the ocean!" Trunks shouted at his dad.
The Prince was going to ask why, when he heard a poofing sound and looked a little to the right where the huge black form as large as the trees appeared. It was still screaming, and it teleported closer to him again, making the distance between them very small. "GO!" the boy shouted back at his dad who finally realized how severe this situation was and spun, chasing after his son.
The realization hit him a second too late though, as he remembered he was low on his hunger bar and couldn't sprint. He felt the hit on his back, and it was so hard that he lost three and a half health hearts instantly, knocking him past the edge of the trees and onto the sand. He kept walking forward, unable to run anymore, and he was about to jump in after his son who was already floating in the water, swimming farther from the shoreline. The man jumped up in the air, all he needed to do was land in the ocean. He got hit again, the hit knocking him flying over his swimming son and landing in the flat water surface behind him.
The Saiyan Prince sank down a few feet and opened his eyes, seeing popping bubbles above his one heart of health. I almost died, he thought with wide eyes, in this damn video game! He swam up to the surface and treaded next to his son, both of them staring at shore where the Enderman was standing, screaming at them with bloodthirsty eyes.
The sun was getting higher, and Vegeta saw skeletons and zombies on the shoreline burst into flames. The monster directly in front of them closed its mouth, and then it was gone. He saw a flicker on the far right of his vision and turned, seeing a black being down the shoreline a hundred yard. "It teleported that far?" he asked, and then it teleported somewhere else and was out of his sight for good.
Vegeta watched his hunger bar hit one drumstick to match his one heart of health. After just one night in this game. Trunks said every day is ten minutes... this might be an alright vacation after all.
A/N Hope everyone enjoyed the chapter! Found this on my computer a few minutes ago and decided to continue it but I wanted to post the first chapter to see what you guys think. Leave a comment with any questions or predictions you have or just telling me your opinion of the story. I'll be posting another chapter soon. Till next time!