The Protectors
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Season 1:
Saga 0: TBA
Ch2
Enemy Revealed,
The Story of the Protectors
Last time in the story, we began with the mighty saiyan warrior Goku having a pleasant time with his family and friends. However, that all quickly came to an end as they sensed a new and powerful entity heading towards Earth. Hearing the call from King Kai and having no time to lose, Goku and the rest of the warriors head out to their destination. As the battle had already started, Substitute Soul Reaper Ichigo Kurosaki and his fellow friends were holding off the enemy forces. It was proving to be a little difficult as the enemies kept on coming. Just as Ichigo was about to be blindsided, Goku appears just in time to join in the fray. Will he be able to get along with the others and will they be able to succeed? Find out right!
We resume our story with Ichigo and the others still in a bit of shock at what had just transpired. Having a bit of time catching his breath, Ichigo forcefully uses his Zangetsu to push back the creature who had him pinned down a little, then proceeds to continue to stare back at Goku.
"Seems like we made it, just in time." Goku thought as he looks at the battle taking place around him. After a couple of seconds, he was sure enough it was the right spot where King Kai said.
From down below, the others were still looking at the saiyan still trying to wonder what's going on. "Who the Hell is that?" Renji decides to ask in confusion.
"I have no idea." Rukia decides to answer the other soul reapers question, for also she didn't know the answer. The other 3 didn't say much because, for the only thing they knew was that a man came out of nowhere and struck the enemy to the ground.
Ichigo continues to stare at the back of the saiyan patiently while figure him out. "What's going on? I can't sense this guy's spirit energy." All these questions Ichigo had were going have to wait. As more of those unknown enemies were still coming at them, like flies to rotten food.
Willing to stop looking at the scenery for the moment, Goku turns his attention to the substitute soul reaper with a wondering look upon his face. "Hey are you ok?" Goku ask out of curiosity and a bit of worry.
"Yeah I'm...Wait hold on! You can see me?" Ichigo asked as he looks back the alien even more confused than he already is.
"Yeah, I can see. Why wouldn't I be able to see you?" Goku looks a little confused by what the redhead meant. "Oh I think I get it. You must be those other fighters King Kai told us." Goku smiles as he might figured out Ichigo and the others identities.
"What are talking about..and who Hell's King Kai!?" As so many questions were going through Ichigo's head, one of the creatures attempted to strike down Ichigo while was turned again.
"Look out!" Seeing the attack coming, Goku pushes Ichigo's shoulder down and fires a blue energy beam attack at the incoming enemy. "I'll have to explain later. In the meantime, we got to take these things out before they do anything too dangerous" Goku turns the other direction of the oncoming enemies as the creatures continue to stare angrily at the two heroes.
Goku wasn't worried about the situation, for he knew that he can take these fiends down easily. "Seems like they just keep coming. If that's the case, then I'm glad we made it just in time." Goku said while gets ready to fight. "We?" Ichigo was confused by what the saiyan meant by those words.
As Rukia and Renji were continuing to hold off the enemy with intense struggle, a few of them were blasted away by a blue energy ball. This cause the two of them to look in the direction of the unknown attack. To their surprise, it was revealed that the attack belonged to Vegeta floating down to their level with his arms crossed.
"Another one?" Renji says sounding surprised of Vegeta's sudden appearance right before them.
Not knowing of the danger behind her, Rukia was about to be blindsided as a creature attempted attacked from behind. That is until Krillin appeared out of nowhere and delivered a strong kick to the side of the creature's head.
"Are you ok?" Krillin ask the girl soul reaper if she was alright after what had happened. "Yeah." She nods yes her head as a response.
Rukia and Renji weren't the only ones to receive any unexpected help. As Chad was also struggling with the enemy, Piccolo also appeared out of nowhere and blasted one of the creatures behind the darker male with a yellow energy beam.
"Thanks." Chad thanks as he looks back at the namekian for the help. "No problem." Piccolo response back while in back to back position with Chad.
As Uryu was also continuing to fight against the enemy with his powers, he was immediately backed up by Yamcha, Tien and Chiaotzu who fired a lot of energy blast at the enemy. The sight of this made the quincy feel still surprised and a little relieved for the assist.
"How many more of you are there?" Uryu looks back at the 3 heroes being a little confused.
"A few more than you think kid." Tein and the others take their stance, as they were ready to continue the fight.
It didn't stop there. as Orihime was continuing on using her powers to shield herself from harm for a while. However, said power field was then shattered by one of the enemies. Causing her to stumble to the ground.
Just before the enemies were about to strike down at her, they were given surprise strikes to their heads by none other than 18 with a powerful kick and Buu with a powerful punch.
Orihime sighed in relief for the quick save. "That was a close call." She sighs with a bit of a smile.
"Hey look out behind you!" 18 looks at the redhead as she tries to warn her about two more of those creatures try to strike her from behind.
However, that avoided as Gohan appeared out of nowhere and delivered a powerful upwards axe kick to both of them, which sent them flying upward.
As both creatures were up in the air, Trunks appeared out of nowhere as well and gave the two creatures a powerful downward kick of his own.
Telling by where the creatures were falling, they were about to land right on top of Orihime as they were falling in pain. That part was avoided as Goten managed to grab her in time before they landed.
This caused the creature to land into the hard ground head first, which ended up with the creatures making craters on the ground.
"Are you ok, miss?" Goten ask in a bit of a concern tone while floating and holding her in the sky. "Yes." She replied back in a bit of a relief and confusion. Wondering how she was able to be rescued by a child who just so happens to be flying.
"Who are you guys?" Ichigo looks back at Goku still a little shocked and confused by the whole situation that's going on.
Goku didn't respond back just yet, as he continues to look at the oncoming enemies up ahead. Realizing the current predicament, Ichigo holds his guard again anxiously waiting for the threat to attack again.
"Like I said, We're going to have explain later. For now we got to stop these things." Goku said to Ichigo. The soul reaper knew the other man was right, there were no time for explaining. The only things that matters for the moment was to stop and defeat the creatures.
"Very well." Ichigo sighed as he knew that this wasn't going to be that much easy.
"Good to hear...By the way, my name's Goku." The saiyan introduces himself out of the blue while continuing to take his fighting stance.
"Please to meet you. I'm Ichigo." The soul reaper returns the favor by introducing himself back to the saiyan.
Goku looks back with a bit of a grin. "Well then Ichigo, Let's hope we get out of this alive." As a response, Ichigo grins back at the saiyan's words. "Let's hope so."
As the next round has begun, Goku, Ichigo and the other heroes charges the enemies with full force. It was at that point the turnaround of the battle as the heroes combat with the enemies at hand. Combination of melee strikes and blade slashes went flying with each enemy that came in their way. On top of that, there were even combinations of ki energy and spirit energy attacks hitting and beating the enemies. One by one or maybe even more, the evil forces was quickly dying out by the hands of the combined might of the heroes.
However, it wasn't over as more of the evil forces continued to come out of the dark portals looking to kill the those that got in their way. "Damn, these guys don't give up that easily." Ichigo sighs over the sight of there being more of them.
"I know, but we can't give up now." Goku agrees with the substitute soul reaper. However in spite of the odds, Goku continues to keep his guard up ready for the next wave to come.
"Ready for another round?" Ichigo wasn't all that frilled hearing that question from the saiyan, as he just sighed and continued to hold his guard for more to come. "What choice do I have? This is becoming a pain in the ass." Ichigo puts his up zanpakuto getting ready for the next wave.
The creatures kept on coming through with a thirst for bloodlust in their eyes. Getting ready to continue their destructive onslaught on the heroes, that is until they stopped and lowered their guard. Just before they could continue their attacks, all the creatures looked up saw a person they were extremely familiar with.
"Enough!" A voice calls out in the upward direction to the invading forces to seist what their doing. After hearing that, the creatures did what they were told and stopped fighting. To the heroes surprise and confusion, especially Goku and Ichigo, there was someone in the sky that neither of them even recognized.
The voice belong to a bit muscular man with pale white skin and red eyes, who looked a little young, as though he was around 18 through 20 years of age. He had long black hair that reached his back and a dark goatee to match. The clothes he wore consist of black baggy pants similar to Goku's, red boots with black trim with a belt to match, a half black patcho like piece on his chest with red trim, and two silver gauntlets on each wrist, with exception of a purplish like stone on his right gauntlet.
Even though the creatures had stopped fighting, Goku and Ichigo kept on holding their guards up. For they knew deep down that this new guy who entered the battlefield wasn't at all friendly. In fact, after both of them felt the guy's power they were a little surprised by how strong he was.
"No doubt about it, that's the energy I sensed before and telling by that, he seems to be the one in charge of these things." Goku thought as he clenches his fist.
As for Ichigo, he had similar thoughts to what the saiyan was thinking. "Not good. Whoever the hell the new guy is, he's strong." Ichigo thought as he continues to look at the enemy.
As the new enemy continues to look at the battle field, he turns his attention to the two heroes in the sky and gives them a wicked grin. "So this is what they sent to stop me now? A remaining saiyan warrior and a soul reaper?" He mocked the two heroes.
The mocking aside, Goku and Ichigo were actually caught off guard by how the new threat figured out what they both were. "I'm only gonna say this once. Leave this place now, you're not welcome here!" Goku angrily warns the new threat to leave the planet. "Yeah, but first tell us. How did you know what we are...and who the hell are you?!" Ichigo demand to know the answer to his question.
The new enemy continued to grin and just shrugged off what they both said before he could speak again. "You'll both learn in due time, I guarantee it." He replies back as he begins to vanish away from the heroes. "Hey!" Ichigo yells out as he has so many other question on his mind. However, he was too late as the enemy has completely vanished along with the rest of his forces.
The others were a little relieved by enemy's sudden disappearances, but even left them with so many questions on their minds. As for Goku, he was feeling partially feeling the same way as the others. He was a bit relieved because, he didn't know weather he was truly strong enough yet. However like the others, he was also a bit of confused. For he had a lot of questions of his own. Starting with who was that mysterious man and how did he know about him? However, Goku knew he probably had to wait for a while to find the answer to his questions.
"Hey, are you ok?" Goku turns his head to the soul reaper asking if he was alright. "Yeah." The soul reaper nods his head yes as a response to the saiyan's questions.
However, that didn't make the redhead feel any better as he then rationally and immediately grabbed Goku by the collar of his shirt and gi. "Ok, start talking! I have a few questions for you don't mind." Ichigo continues to glare at Goku while continuing to hold him by the collar. "For starters, he called you a saiyan. What the hell is that supposed to be? Secondly, how did you know where to find us?" It was pretty clear at that moment that the saiyan warrior was in an uncomfortable position as the soul reaper tries to interrogate him like that out of the blume.
"Hey take it easy!….One step at a time, ok?...Almost just as confused as you are right now!" Goku begs Ichigo to calm down for him to possibly explain the whole situation.
Fortunately enough for Goku, he was about to receive a sudden call from King Kai in the middle of Ichigo's interrogation. "Goku!...Goku, are there?" The Kai tries to get in touch with the mighty warrior.
"Hey what's up King Kai?" Goku looks up into the sky wondering what King Kai wants. "I need you to come to my planet right now. We need to discuss about the current situation." King Kai informs Goku to come stop by his planet.
"Who is he you talking to?" Ichigo thought in confusion, as he wonders to whom the saiyan was talking to or about for that matter.
"I'm not sure if I can King Kai. I'm kind of in the middle a hard spot right now." Goku explains to the Kai about Ichigo's somewhat interrogation.
"Bring your new friend with you. He's technically someone we need for this too and don't worry about his friends. I talked to Piccolo before you guys entered the battle to handle them, once the battle was over of course." King explained to Goku.
"Seriously? Alright if you say so." Goku says as he was finishing up talking with King Kai. "Seriously what?" Ichigo says while still being confused by the saiyan's words.
"Ichigo right?" Goku turns his attention to the soul reaper. "Listen you and I need to go somewhere real quick right now." Goku tells Ichigo.
"What are you talking about and what do you mean by that?" Ichigo says being even more confused by Goku's words.
"I'll explain the rest later, but for now we have to go." Goku puts his fingers on his forehead, as he was ready to leave. "Wai-" Ichigo tries to get a word in, but he was too late as Goku uses his instant transmission to teleport them both to King Kai's realm.
Seeing this occur, the rest of Ichigo's friends were even more shocked and surprised to see both Ichigo and Goku just vanish into thin air. "What the hell!" Renji shouts out in disbelief. "Where did Ichigo and that other guy go?" Uryu also says in disbelief wondering what had just happened.
"There fine." Ichigo's friends turn their attention to Piccolo's voice. "Listen up, we need the rest of you to come back with us." The namekian told the others.
"Why should we?" Renji questions the green male on why they needed to go with the z warriors.
"Unless you want to know what's been going on and help decide the fate of the world, I would suggest you come with us." Hearing that from piccolo certainly got their attention. For what has happened today, they would probably have no choice, but to believe in what Piccolo is saying.
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As the battle had started and took place a couple of minutes ago between Ichigo and his friends against the unknown enemies, Kisuke was somewhere talking with particular people for a very important chat. It would seem that the location this chat to take place in some sort of small house. Inside said house, Kisuke has seemed to be talking with two women. Telling by their voices, one sounded elderly and other sounded as though she was at a mature age of 20.
"I see...so he has returned." The elderly voice says in a worried disappointing tone about the whole situation.
"Unfortunately, yes. He already touched down with his army as we speak." Kisuke lowers his head for the upsetting update he gave.
"Telling by what you both said, it sounds like he's not a good force to be reckoned with." The other women summs up on what they're up against.
"That's pretty much the whole point." Kisuke knew she was wrong, the force that came down to Earth wasn't to be taken lightly.
"This is bad...What do you suggest we do now? I'm not really all that strong anymore to fight him again." The elderly woman wonders what the blond had in mind. Luckily for her, Kisuke had the solution to begin with. "King Kai and I have came up with an idea to gather new ones for the moment." He explains.
"New ones?" The elderly voice was a bit surprised by what the former soul reaper captain had just said. "That's right. I already talked to the Head Captain about this and he of course approved. So what I'm asking for now is if you have anyone you had in mind?" Kisuke continues to explain.
As the elder women continues to think about this, she looks up to the other woman hoping she may have the answer. "How about you? Why don't take my place?" The elderly women offers the other woman to take her place.
Unfortunately, she nods he head no as a response and declines her offer. "I'm going to have to pass on that. If don't remember, I lost my powers a while ago." The other women sounded a little upset saying that.
"I see, then might I ask if you had anyone to suggest?" kisuke grins at the other woman hoping for the right answer. As a bit of a quick response, she grins right back at him. "As for a matter of fact, I actually might." She tells him still with a grin.
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As Z warriors and other 5 heroes were making their way back to Capsule Corp, Goku and Ichigo have finally made to King Kai's planet via instant transmission.
"Ok were here." Goku says as he takes his fingers off his head. What Goku didn't expected to happen next was Ichigo then giving him a bit of a bonk on his head. "Oww...Jeez...What was that for?" Goku winces in a bit of pain as he covers the spot on his head.
"For starters, you could have told me when you were going to do something like that, dumbass! Secondly, where hell are we!?" Ichigo demands Goku to spill the beans.
"Hey, take it easy alright? I said I would explain the rest later. Just give me a second to think first." Goku tries to calm Ichigo down.
"Aww good Goku, you made it just in time and I see you brought the soul reaper like I told you to." King Kai says as he comes up to the two heroes sounding relieved.
"...And you are?" Ichigo says as he was even more confused by the sight of King Kai, for he have never met someone like him before.
"Of course, where are my manners? I'm King Kai. I'm the kai of this galaxy and the one who told Goku to bring you here." King Kai introduces and explain to Ichigo who is and what he does.
"What does that suppose to mean and if that's true why did you bring me here?" Ichigo still demands a couple of his questions to be answered.
"All will be explained, Ichigo kurosaki!" An elderly voice calls out from King Kai's house. Coming out of said house, was a man who was indeed old and has a long white beard.
Goku had clue who this old man was, for he never seen him before in his life. As for Ichigo, he knew the old man all too well. For that man was Genryusai Shigekuni Yamamoto, the Head Captain of the Soul Society.
"Head Captain?" Ichigo said confusedly, as he didn't know why the Head Captain was doing in a place like this.
"Head Captain? Is this guy your leader or something?" Goku looks back and ask Ichigo about the Head Captain. "You can say something like that." Ichigo answers back to the saiyan.
"Good for you to make it here, Ichigo. We have much to discuss." Head Captain then turned his attention to Goku. "...and you must be Son Goku? King Kai has told me all about you." The Head Captain strokes his long beard for a bit.
"Yep that's me, I'm Gok-" The saiyan didn't get to finish as he was once again bonked on the head, but this time it was King Kai who was responsible for that, causing Goku to hold his head in a bit of pain again.
"Don't you ever learn!? Show more respect, give the man a proper greeting next time." King Kai strictly yells at Goku for his lack of manners.
"Geez, why does everyone do that?" Goku continues to hold his head. "Anyways, you said we needed to discuss something?" Goku stopped rubbing his head and turns his attention towards King Kai and the Head Captain.
"I'm actually curious about that as well." Ichigo agrees with the orange and blue clad warrior about the whole situation.
Both King Kai and the Head Captain looked seriously worried about telling both of them about the current predicament. However, they knew pretty well that had to tell the heroes eventually for this one situation.
"Very well. We shall tell you both all that we know. Care to start us off King Kai?" The Head Captain turns to the Kai to get them started. Having no problem with that, he clears his throat and begins telling the story.
"Before we tell you why we had brought both of you here, let us discuss about the man who showed up at the end of the battlefield, shall we?" King explains to the two heroes, who frankly was still curious about that one mysterious entity who showed at the end of the battle. So for this that to really had to listen.
"Now listen carefully you two. That person you both happen to encountered today was no ordinary person to be taken lightly. In fact, he was an evil tyrant that was bent on ruling the entire world with an iron fist."
Hearing that explanation from King Kai got both heroes feel a little more worried than before. "That doesn't sound too good." Ichigo clenches his fist from hearing that.
"Indeed. Allow us to explain more." The Head Captain takes the next part of the story. "For you see a long time ago, this enemy you've met was a strong being, in which the likes of no one has ever seen before." The elder soul reaper clenched his cane.
"This threat you have encountered was none other than Lord Senso. A dark lord who is known to start wars and destruction." King Kai continues to informs the two of this evil threat.
This made the them even more worried about the current situation. For they never would expected that this enemy was that kind of enemy. "Damn, this is bad. If someone like that truly does exist, then it seem like we're in big trouble here." The thought of all this goes through Ichigo's head.
"Ok, he strong that I get, but it almost sounds like you two know first hand what he's capable of. So does that mean you faced him before?" Goku asked out of curiosity.
As a response to the saiyans question, King Kai nods his head yes in agreement. "Indeed, we have. While I still alive, the Head Captain and I were two of the few people who have fought against Lord Senso and won believe it or not."
Goku and Ichigo were a little surprised to hear that the Kai and Head Captain were strong enough to beat a person like that. "If that's true, then how did you end up beat him the first time?" Goku decides to ask the two for he and Ichigo were still curious.
"We're glad you asked, cause this concerns you being the next leader Goku." King Kai tells the saiyan. "Leader For what?" Goku got confused from what King Kai had just said. Even Ichigo was confused when he heard that correctly.
"Allow me to explain this one." The head captain takes over explanation once again. "Long time ago. In order to beat Senso, 6 chosen warriors were destined to defeat him. Among them were four others alongside King Kai and myself."
"When the 6 of us came together, we use all of our power against him and we were able to inseal Senso away in a dark void, hoping he would never return again. However, it seem we were wrong, as he is now free from his imprisonment." King Kai takes over once again.
"Which brings us to why you two are here. You two have been chosen by us to become a new team of an old one created along time ago. You two along with four others are hereby known as...The Protectors." King Kai reveals to Goku and Ichigo, who was again quite sceptical of the whole thing.
"Protectors? That's sounds pretty simple enough I guess." Goku says still sound confused by the whole thing. "Wait hold on. You want me to be the leader of that? I suppose it's cool in all, but why does it have to be me? Can it just be this guy right here instead?" He points to Ichigo.
"Hey don't put the spotlight on me like that!" Ichigo said he wasn't all to thrilled about the position. Afterward, he just sigh and put his hand on the saiyan shoulder.
"Besides, you pretty much helped me and my friends asses today and that pretty much makes you ok in my book." Ichigo then proceeds to give Goku a confident grin, which was pretty good enough to convince him enough.
"Ok, I'll do it, but you're gonna have to keep up with me once we face him." Goku gives Ichigo a smirk in return. "We'll see about that. Now let's go kicked this guy's ass." Ichigo smirks back at Goku's comment.
"Hey wait a minute!" King Kai yells in an annoyed tone at the heroes. "Did you two hear half of what we said? It took 6 of us to beat Senso! You still need more people, than just the two of you!"
Those words by King Kai really reminded the two heroes of that big detail that they're missing. "Oh yeah that's right, how are we going to beat him without 4 others?" Goku looks back at King Kai for the answer.
"Allow me to explain that." King Kai clears his throat. "Now listen, we have both decided that before you even think of about battling Lord Senso, you need to be a team of 6. With that being said, we need you 3 to find more of other Protectors to beat him. So you're going have to look anywhere around the world if you have to." He finishes explaining to the two heroes.
"Around the world hah? That doesn't so as bad right?" Goku looks back at Ichigo with a weird smile. "Easy for you to probably say Goku." Ichigo sighs as he wasn't all to thrilled about possibly going all round the Earth.
They then felt a little confused by the Kai's words, as they heard one detail that didn't fit for the moment. "Wait...did you say 3? There's only two of us." Goku was curious about King Kai had meant.
Before, anyone could say anything else, something was about to occur at that one very moment.
In a surprising appearance, a big gate way known as the Dangai Precipice Gate suddenly appeared on King Kai's planet. This made Ichigo more curious, to why the gate were here. "Why is the Dangai Precipice Gate doing here?" Ichigo looks back the Head Captain for an answer.
"I See they have made it just in time." The Head Captain said sounding a little relieved.
"They?" Ichigo said sounding a little confused to whom the Head Captain was talking about.
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As King Kai and The Head Captain were going to explain to Goku and Ichigo by what they meant, Someone was running as fast as she can in the Dangai Precipice world trying to get the end of gate. Telling by how she was running and painting, she quite anxious to get to the other side.
"If you wondering what we're talking about, the Head Captain and I told an old friend to bring the next Protector here with Kisuke a while ago." King Kai explains. " Telling by what they had told us, she is willing to become one."
"She? So the third one is a girl" Goku said sounded a little confused by whom he was talking about.
"Not only that she's a girl, but in tell has also told us that she has a bit of a good connection with the both of you." The Kai adds on.
At that one moment, the girl makes her way out of the gate breathing in and out heavily with her body tilted as she tries to catch her breath. She looked young, with short brown hair wearing some white long sleeved shirt with matching white shoes and above all no pants.
The sight of this caught the attention of the two heroes by surprise, for they both knew who he was. "Sgt...Yoshika Miyafuji...reporting for duty." She introduces herself with a solute while still painting.
To Be continued.
Theme: Power of Dreamer by Hiroki Takahashi (Dragon Ball Revenge of King Piccolo theme)
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