A/N: The last sequel in the trillogy, everything is coming together to end up in here. Thanks to everyone who followed along and read all three. I hope you enjoyed, your caramel points will be calculated and toffee's will be distributed thusly sometime thereafter.
Squall and Joey had flown out of the city, far beyond the limit into the outskirts. There was nothing but groves of trees and high grassed meadows and fielded plains. But finally they found what they were looking for, they crossed over into the more mountainous area with rocky hills and caves. Squall and Joey were both possessed and under some kind of strange spell, nobody knew and the two teenagers didn't even know why. All then knew was to follow the voice that spoke to them in their dreams, a voice belonging to a young man in darkness.
"Look." Squall pointed ahead and Joey followed his direction. "In there."
"Right." Joey nodded and the two sped ahead.
The two flew into the cave Squall was headed for. Inside it was dark and nobody could maneuver around inside without a light, not these two though, they knew the way almost as if led on instinct. After a few minutes of jagged edged twists and turns and sharp rocks closing in, a light appeared at the end of the tunnel. Joey and Squall flew out of the hole in the wall and entered a cavern lit from below with torches of flame. The two flew down and as they reached the bottom, they slowed down to a hover and landed softly, immediately going into a kneeling bow. A voice laughed quietly to itself, it was a very familiar voice too, Joey would know. It was the same voice that had haunted him in his dreams, beginning with the nightmare he had while training in the forest with Vegeta, and through his illnesses as he tried to sleep and recover in vain.
"Ah, so you've finally arrived." The stranger grinned.
"Yes." Squall and Joey nodded, their eyes closed and faces aimed downwards.
"Excellent, so we can finally carry out our plan." He smiled evilly. "Bulma will pay for what she has done."
This young man was about the same age as Joey and Squall. He was very sleek and lean, nobody would suspect he had such power. He wore a uniform with the Ginyu Force logo on it. His hair was greenish and resembled almost that of Trunks' with eye length bangs, but he had two long dark horns coming out straight the side of his head. And his name was Tsukage.
"Master, what should we do about Trunks?" Joey asked as he looked up.
Tsukage was silent, he stood up off his stone throne and stared upwards for a moment before smiling. "Kill him."
"As you command sir." Joey said and a grin appeared on his face.
"The plan is now in motion."
"Right." Squall and Joey nodded, standing up.
"Let's go." Tsukage stepped forward and the three powered up before bolting up and out through the crevice. They flew back out of the maze like tunnel. "Joey, you and Squall will return to Capsule Corp. for the necessities, then you will report back to me, understood?"
"Yes."
"Good." The light from the day outside could be seen ahead. "Keep me in contact." Tsukage put on his red scouter and turned it on with a beep. They flew off in branching directions.
Elsewhere, back at Capsule Corp...
"What happened?" Bulma asked, still decimated that Joey had vanished.
"I don't know, Squall must've taken him somewhere." Sepiroth replied, angry with himself. How could he have not known that something was wrong with his younger brother?
"Don't blame yourself," Trunks stood up. "Squall's been acting really weird lately."
"I know, but I didn't do anything about it. What kind of brother am I?" Sepiroth growled sadly.
"Hey, my brother's gone too. I'm just as much at fault." Trunks sighed quietly.
"Hey, don't put the pressure on yourself." Everyone looked over when Vegeta spoke. "Stressing yourself out isn't going to help our situation any more." He paused and looked away, speaking in a mutter this time. "I've told Joey that since day one and he didn't listen to me, so don't make the same mistake, or you could end up in the same position that he's in now."
"Dad, it's not your fault either." Vegeta didn't reply to Trunks.
"Hey, what's that?" Vegeta gasped, standing up suddenly. Sepiroth and Trunks turned around quickly and gasped, also sensing what Vegeta had just felt.
"I dunno, but I felt it too." Sepiroth looked in his direction.
"Whoa, there's two of them." Trunks could feel their energy siglal. "Who are they?"
"Wait, I, I recognize those power levels." Sepiroth concentrated and gasped, opening his eyes.
Vegeta ran to the window as everyone looked outside, "Yes, Joey and Squall, they're back."
"My gosh you're right, it's them!" Bulma began to cry with joy as Joey and Squall came into view. She rushed to the door and opened it right as they landed on the ground. "Oh Joey!" She ran outside and hugged him, they nearly staggered back by the force.
"Huh? Whoa!" Joey was taken off guard by the sudden embrace.
"Oh I was so scared." Bulma began to cry with happiness as she held her son. Joey looked over at Squall confused, he just shrugged back. "Are you alright?" She gasped, looking up at his face.
"Yeah, mom." Joey tried to act convincing, still a little shocked and nervous at the response.
"Squall, what was up with that?" Sepiroth ran outside.
"What?" Squall grew nervous, they weren't supposed to be spotted.
"Joey!" Vegeta boomed as he stormed outside. Bulma let him go and Joey turned to face Vegeta. "What the hell is wrong with you? You're nothing but a stubborn teen with an oversized ego!"
"Shut up, dad!" Joey yelled and Vegeta paused for a moment, taken with shock, he still wasn't himself, talking back to them with such a disrespectful tone. "You can't tell me what to do, old man! I'm not your kid and I never will be, I belong to nobody but myself and I can make my own choices! I'm alone. You said it yourself Vegeta, you said I was a man, well it's time that I be one. I can do things on my own, make my own choices. I'm different than all of you." Joey stopped speaking and he and Vegeta just stared at each other for a moment.
"Come on Joey, let's go." Squall went inside and Joey eventually followed.
"Why that arrogant, spoiled little brat!" Vegeta fumed angrily. "After all that I've done for him!"
"Wow, take it easy dad." Trunks gulped, trying to calm his dad down. "Remember, he's a teen."
"They are up to something, and I'm going to find out what." Sepiroth watched Squall and Joey run outside the other door and off into the distance. "Trunks, come with me." He flew off.
"Hey wait up!" Trunks flew after him.
"Oh, good luck boys." Bulma sighed. Vegeta patted her shoulder with his strong hand for support, gripping her arm tightly, watching them disappear.
Meanwhile...
"What, what's the meaning of this, tell me what happened?" Tsukage roared angrily.
"We didn't expect to be spotted, it was a mistake sir." Squall explained after they'd met back up with him at an isolated location in a forest.
"Nothing went wrong, we managed to get a clean getaway." Joey replied, he was out of his bandit cloths and back in his dark trench coat getup.
"Very well, that's good enough. I've made a margin of room for error, you're not perfect."
Tsukage turned around and walked over to the ledge and looked down over a vast field. He smiled to himself, it was perfect. There was a deep sound coming up above in the sky, the three looked up to see dark clouds gathering around. A storm was coming.
"I thought I saw them go this way." Trunks was whispering to Sepiroth as they tried to follow any trace of Joey and Squall.
"Hey wait, look over there." Sepiroth pointed and they rushed over. They landed behind the rocks above them and listened.
"This is the perfect setting, for revenge." Tsukage was saying angrily to himself. "Bulma will pay for what she has done. She abandoned me as a baby and my dad had sent me back to my home planet where I would eventually take control before it was destroyed. I am one of the last survivors left and I have to make my vengeance known. The honor of Captain Ginyu, my father, will not be forgotten! Planet Ginyu and all of the Ginyu Force will go on forever!" He smiled.
"Did he just say..." Trunks stammered.
"That Bulma was his mother?" Sepiroth was shocked, he turned to Trunks. "Damn man, how many step brothers do you have?"
Trunks was silent for a moment before speaking back up, "We have to go back and tell the others." Trunks flew off immediately, Sepiroth followed.
"Come on, we need to get everything ready for the big day." Tsukage turned back around to Joey and Squall, who had also joined him alongside the ledge. They looked over at him. "Let's go back to our headquarters for the time being, we have some things I need to take care of." He powered up and took off in blinding speed.
"Yes sir, as you command." Joey and Squall nodded, following Tsukage as he flew off into the sky.