Chapter 2
:Lord Slug lands
Disclaimer: I Do Not Own Dragon Ball Z. All rights are owned by their respective owners,Toei, Toriyama, etc. This is purely a fanfictional work done by a simple fan done for fun. I do no get profit from this in any way.
The east side of the world lay devastated but for some reason it remained. "Hey Chiaotzu, are we still alive?" asked Launch as she and Chiaotzu came back to their senses and found themselves covered in dirt and surrounded by devastation around them. "Yeah... I think?" said Chiaotzu as he lifted himself up and looked around their surroundings. However Launch was the first one to get up to her feet and look up to see the remains of the destroyed object disintegrate in the atmosphere in a beautiful show of meteor showers. "Wow, checks it out. Its beautiful isn't it? They must've had ta destroy the whole freakin' thing!" said Launch as she mistakenly believed that it was her friends whole were the cause of their salvation. However something caught the corner of Chiaotzu's eye and he turned his attention to East City where they once were to find that there was a large purple crab-like object that didn't belong at the edge of the city. "Oh wow, what is it?" asked Chiaotzu in wonder at the new arrival. "Well we won't know just standin here so come on let's check it out!" practically ordered Launch as she ran back to the city and the object while followed closely by Chiaotzu.
Meanwhile a crowd gathered in front of the huge metal object which had steam coming out all around it which indicated that it was cooling down from its landing. The enormous structure was obviously a spaceship and hundreds of people had gathered to the event in wonder of what it could possible be and why it was there. Pretty soon a ramp with stairs dropped down and a man in a black and white armored space suit similar to the Saiyans with an "S" symbol on the left breast-plate came out. At first he briefly covered his eyes from the glare of the Sun with his forearm as if he was unused to it before he then looked down at the innocents of the crowd. "Alright men, let's do this!" ordered out the apparent commander and then hundreds of soldiers in identical uniforms came out and down the stairs in files of two. They formed into a single rank on the ground and stood at attention while the rest of the men stayed in perfect attention on the stairs. "Attention! we hereby claim this planet, from this moment on belongs to Lord Slug supreme ruler of the universe. Anyone who resists will be exterminated." declared the leader in front of the men. However, the crowd just balked at this supposed threat and just laughed at the name 'Lord Slug'. It was then that Launch and Chiaotzu managed to squirm their way to the front of the crowd to see what was going on.
"What's everybody laughing about? These guys look pretty serious." said Chiaotzu as he recognised that they were a serious threat. "Well I ain't scare of em' so we ain't leavin!" yelled out Launch, as fearless and aggressive as ever. "On my mark, FIRE!" ordered out the alien army leader as the soldiers then started shooting out energy beams like firing squads at the crowds, making them run and scatter in fear. At seing this remorseless act Chiaotzu leaped into action to try and protect the endangered people. He charged headlong into the hailstorm of yellow energy fire screaming his head off in a battlecry with the energy blasts either going over his head due to his short stature or randomly off to the side and one or two that he simply swatted aside due to how weak they were. When he finally got close enough he leaped up in the air and came down to kick the squad leader's face right through his helmets' visor. Chiaotzu then blocked a punch from the soldier right next to him and then systematically began fighting the rest of the soldiers. The soldier who's visor Chiaotzu had smashed was now exposed to the Sun's rays and it almost seemed to be harmful to his skin as he began clutching at his face and wandering around in agony. Meanwhile Chiaotzu continued to fight against the horde of soldiers but he was much stronger than them so he had no problem taking them down.
However, unbeknownst to the young warrior he was being watched onboard the ship by four sinister figures. "Look at those pathetic weaklings, they cannot even stop that little midget kid!" said one gruff sounding alien with an ugly brutish face and bat-like wings as they watched a hollowgraghic projection of Chiaotzu fighting. "They are pathetic I agree, but he's more powerful than he looks, his techique is superb." said another more humanoid looking alien with sky blue skin, blond hair, small goat-like horns and a softer more intelligent sounding voice. "Lord Slug, should we intervene?" asked the little frog-like alien. The figure in question identified as Lord Slug was seated in the middle of the room on a golden chair like a throne and flanked by his three minions. (A/N: BTW He's a young Lord Slug in this story already right here, so just imagine him young. If you'll just bear with me it'll all be explained later on.) Lord Slug just looked grimly at the screen for few moments until he got up and walked up to the hollow projector and stood there with his hands behind his back contemplating on something. "Sire?" questioned the tall handsome alien, confused as to his master's inaction. "I'm going down there myself! It would be bad form for our men to be getting shown up by a tadpole on the first day of a new conquest and I want to show this planet the terrible power of its new ruler. Besides, it been a while since I've had the chance to stretch my legs." said Slug with a wicked smile, his evil minions chuckled knowingly behind him as they thought about all the fun they were going to have.
Back at the battle, Chiaotzu found himself in the middle of five guards trying to overwhelm him with numbers by leaping at him to assault simultaniously. Seeing Chiaotzu in danger of being surrounded, Launch leaped into action from her hiding place behind a broken car to help her friend. However Chiaotzu needed little help as he quickly dispatched three of the guards in mid-air one after the other and then landed facing the other two. Two more guards landed behind Chiaotzu and prepared to catch him in a pincer movement with the first two guards. "Chiaotzu duck!" ordered Launch as she ran up from behind the first two guards. Chiaotzu was caught surprised by Launche's appearance but he did as asked and ducked down just as the two soldiers behind him launched beams at him. The beams missed Chiaotzu and went on to hit the two guards in front as they were too distracted by the running crazy woman coming up behind them. Launch ran in between and through the two smoke clouds that now occupied the two soldiers positions and made a running leap up above Chiaotzu's head to skillfully take out the two guards to the rear.
"Wow! Nice one Launch..." said an amazed Chiaotzu after getting back up and wondering where she'd learned those moves. "Thanks, ya know a girl can't help but ta learn a few things afta hangin around with you guys for a while." said a boasting Launch as she flashed a victory sign with a prideful smile on her face. But then she was interrupted by an opportunistic guard who rapidly gave her a punch to the stomach before she could get her guard back up. "Heeeyyyy!" yelled out Chiaotzu at the injustice of hitting Launch when her guard was down. Chiaotzu quickly picked up the fallen beauty and got her out of the way moments before the soldiers blasted their position. But as he was making their getaway Chiaotzu's black bonnet hat with a red ball was blown off and he lost their momentum when he reached out to try and grab it back but it was too late and he then had to make a forced landing nearby.
The black and red bonnet rolled over and stopped at the feet of Lord Slug himself. "My, my, people are just so careless with their valuables nowadays." said the hooded Lord Slug sarcastically as he picked up the article and lightly threw it back as hundreds of his soldiers bowed in respect and submission. Chiaotzu immediately caught it and put it back on his head but didn't take his eyes off Slug as he immediatly recognised that he had to be the head bad guy of these men. "Hey you! You're the boss of these guys aren't you? We never did anything to you, so why did you come down here causing all this trouble? You're guests here you know?" exclaimed Chiaotzu as he continued to cradle Launch's body. Suddenly the three henchmen of Slug appeared in front of their master in space suits similar to their men. "Our master Lord Slug has commandeered this planet, you are his guests now. Follow his edict and you shall live, or you can join the countless others who have tried to resist and died." declared the more humanoid looking alien. "No! You don't scare me! Just what do you want with our planet anyway?" questioned a boiling Chiaotzu. "It's simple, we're going to terrafreeze it and convert it into our own personnal star cruiser." proudly boasted the alien as if it was an everyday occurence. "But, you can't..." squeaked out Chiaotzu as his face and body became stiff as the revelation stunned him. "Of course we can you fool! You're in denial, wake up... boy. Look, just stay out of our way, you're out of your league here. You're playing with the big boys now." the blue skinned humanoid alien arrogantly said, attempting to intimidate him.
However, Chiaotzu was far from intimidated, in fact his statements and attitude only served to make him mad. "No! I won't let you do it!" yelled out as he charged at them in blind fury but he was rapidly double kneed in the gut by the humanoid alien and the husky one with wings since they moved too fast for Chiaotzu to track. His cap fell off his head, but it was caught by the smaller alien who tauntingly put it back on his head before topling him over with one easy finger. "Grrrr... If only Gohan and the other Saiyans weren't away in space." Chiaotzu muttered under his breath while he tried to get back up, thinking that nobody could hear him, but Lord Slug's hearing was much sharper than Chiaotzu realised and apparently it caught Lord Slug's interest. "Yeeessssss I love secrets. Come here boy, allow me to read your mind." said Slug as he leveled his hand up at Chiaotzu palm open and suddenly Chiaotzu began sliding towards Lord Slug as if being pulled along by some kind of energy force like a piece of metal to a magnet. Chiaotzu tried to resist but he was too weakened to do anything. Soon he had his head right up against Slugs' hand which he then used to search through the little warrior's mind.
Slug soon learned about the Earth's warriors, they're approximate history, how strong they were and how some of their strongest were off planet by reading Chiaotzu's memories. He also learned that there were seven magical orbs called Dragonballs on this planet and how they were currently inactive. Those images brought back some old distant memories of his past back to the forefront. Once he was done with scanning Chiaotzu's mind he simply threw him out onto the pavement like a piece of trash. "My Lord, what are your orders?" questioned his blue skinned underling as he and the rest of his army bowed down to him. However, Slug wouldn't respond to them as he looked up in the sky in reflection in a sea of memories. He remembered about how he and his people were banished from their homeworld by their lesser brethren using the great mystical Dragonballs. He remembered of how he returned to that place centuries later with an army at his disposal with which he used to extract vengeance on his people for him since he couldn't step foot on his homeworld due to the wish that permanently banished his people. His men captured his former people and had them watch aboard his ship as he used the Dragonballs to wish himself eternal youth. But before he could make his terrible second wish one of his brethren stepped in and wished for he and his army to be transported somewhere else, which they were. A third wish was placed in that barred him or any of the men under his command from ever stepping foot on planet Namek ever again. But now over 20 years later, thanks to a new set of dragonballs being discovered on planet Earth he has another chance, which brings us to today.
Finally, Lord Slug shook off his revery that had overtaken him for a few moments and looked back to his men with a grim face. "Start work on terrafreezing the planet immediately! I want this planet converted in the fastest possible time." ordered Slug in his grouchy-type voice. "Huh yes, yes of course my lord... But why so quickly my lord? There should be no need to hurry with this backwater planet should there?" questioned the blue skinned one, voicing the question of everybody else's minds. However Lord Slug silenced them with one cold look. Although he would normally punish such questioning of his orders with rapid and immediate execution but this time his question was invalid in point to his men. "It seems that they have some powerful friends that could pose some serious problems even to us who are currently off world and I want to have this planet operational and away before they arrive. Also it seems that there are some items of unparalelled value to me hidden on this planet and I want control of this planet so I can have them. Any more questions?" Lord Slug explained in a rather intimidating fashion which answered all their questions and clammed them up rather nicely from any more. They then immediately went to work freezing the planet. A device that looked something like some sort of probe was launched from the ship into the atmosphere and it started emitting black clouds that quickly began covering the entire planet. Dark times lay in store for the Earth.
Author's Final Thoughts: So Lord Slug has landed and the movie plot is in full swing. I modified things a little bit and am going to give Lord Slug himself a bit more of a backstory in order to cope with the fact that the Dragonballs are in slumber mode due to the fact that they were used less than a year earlier (in this case only a few months timewise) at this point and therefore couldn't be part of the plot so I had to compensate for that. Now Lord Slug seemed to me to be the only villian who was both strong enough to pose a threat and weak enough for Yamcha in this period to possibly take down. I tried thinking of several other possible villains but this one was the only one with the script where Yamcha could possibly steal the leading role and be used for it effectively. I mean let's face it, with the way Goku was in this movie Yamcha could've effectively replaced him image-wise and character-wise if things were modified in the right places. Well, this is going to be my attempt to do just that.
