After some time Cyclops found out what Wolverine called not far away took the whole day of jogging. Wolverine kept sniffing and dashing off when he got a scent. Cyclops was pretty sure he was just making it hard on him. They had never liked eachother but Cyclops did trust him, except with Jean. Eventually they got to the top of a hill and down below Cyclops spotted a small house, strangely new and clean in the middle of the woods. Wolverine signaled to him.
"There they are. Thats the same house i saw them in after the tournament. One of them is called Bulma, she is the daughter of Dr. Briefs, founder of the capsule corporation. I'm sure you are familiar." He said whilst smirking.
"I am, Beast is working on capsule tech to incorporate in the mansion. So you think they are all there?" Cyclops asked. Wolverine shrugged.
"Lets go knock on the door and find out." Wolverine said and jumped from the tree he was in and walked down the hill. Cyclops followed suit.
They knock on the door and an American looking, purple-haired girl opens up.
"Yes? Can i help you? Hé, i know you. Its Cyclops right?" She asks. Cyclops noticed how much she had grown since the last time he saw her. He extended his hand. She couldn't have been more than 14 years old last time he saw her, now, a 19 years old woman.
"Hi, yes it is. Its good to see you again Bulma. This is Wolverine, Logan. I believe you have met him before too some years ago during the 22nd world martial arts tournament?" Cyclops said, Wolverine shook her hand as well. As she looked Wolverine over she suddenly smiles.
"Ah yes i do remember you. You were one of the fighters! Yamcha look who has come to visit us?" She said. Behind her a muscular man came through the corridor. Yamcha had grown significantly, an adult now as well, very healthy looking. Cyclops smiled as he saw him and he happily smiled back. He had a distinctive Italian face, born in Milan as Cyclops could remember.
"Hello Yamcha, nice to see you again as well. Don't tell me you haven't left the country since we said our goodbyes 5 years ago?" Cyclops asked, Yamcha happily held up his arms and nodded towards Bulma.
"What can i say? Place has got me hooked after everything that has happened. Red Ribbon Army, Krakao, the tournament. The next tournament is close and i trained hard to compete again." Yamcha shooked the hands of the 2 men. "The Wolverine wasn't it? Yes, are you going to participate in the next tournament? It's only a month away." Yamcha asked. Wolverine sniffed.
"Not on my agenda bub. Last time i had business to attend to, if i participate i go in to win, i don't want to kill someone. Thats not allowed." He said and smirked. Yamcha looked surprised but then laughed out loud.
"Come on in men, what can we do for you?" Bulma asked as they were invited in the surprisingly large house.
"Actually this concerns all of you, where are to two youngsters Goku and Krillin?" Cyclops asked. As he thought about it Goku and Krillin must be 15 years old by now, not yet adults but definitely old enough to know what is going on.
"Where else? Training of course." Yamcha said with a smile. "By the way, didn't you promise to come to the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai? I didn't see you there, did you forget?" Yamcha asked sarcastically. Cyclops was a bit embarrassed.
"Uhm, something came up. You know, being an X-men doesn't give us much time off. Why, did you win?" He asked the last part as ironic as he could. Yamcha blushed, then looked down.
"Oh come on Yamcha, Wolverine is with Cyclops. If you didn't forget Wolverine was there, i'm sure he told Cyclops what had happened. It was a really good tournament, Jackie Chun surprisingly won. Don't worry, i was rooting for you the whole time Yamcha." Bulma said as she brought tea.
"Wait, i'll call Krillin." She then said as she sat down. She took her phone and called.
"Mobile phone huh?" Cyclops asked. "The Capsule corporation switching production focus?" He smiled at Bulma as she looked at him flustered a bit.
"Well yeah, capsules aren't new anymore. We have to make money with products from now. To compete with the big companies like Stark Industries. Communication is the future, the X-men might be sitting on all that fancy, mysterious technology in their mansion but the world is catching up." Bulma said like a businesswoman. "Ah yes Krillin? Hi its Bulma here, yeah can you guys come over the house for a little bit? Somebody here wants to talk to both of you, it sounds important. Okay? Thanks." She said and hung up. "Voicemail." She said.
"Voicewhat?" Wolverine asked. Bulma looked at him curiously. She then giggled.
"You men don't get out much do you?" She said. Suddenly Wolverine got up, he started sniffing the air and then grunted.
"So, do you guys have anything to do with the red ribbon army disappear..." Wolverine stopped mid-sentence and sniffed again.
"What is it Logan?" Cyclops asked and got to his feet as well, Yamcha got up before him.
"I smell..." He started to murmur and at that moment a figure came crashing down through the roof. Cyclops ducked whilst seeing purple flashes and a blue suit. Psylocke.
"Bulma get out of the room!" Yamcha yelled as he took up a fighting stance. Wolverine took out his claws when Psylocke gave him a kick in the face. He went spinning behind the couch whilst Yamcha came in with a flying kick. Psylocke dodged his attack though and tried an uppercut which Yamcha then blocked. She then swung around with her psi-blade which Yamcha cleverly dodged. He then tried a leg sweep but she cartwheeled out of the way right into the path of Cyclops. He grabbed her psi-blade arm and twisted it around her back, he heard her grunt as he twisted her arm around as far as he dared without breaking it.
"Cyclops, Wolverine. Wasn't expecting you here." Psylocke said, trying to wriggle free. She tried stepping on his foot but he avoided it, she also tried to headbutt him but he blocked it with his other hand. Wolverine got up from behind the couch, claws still out. Yamcha approached her.
"Who are you? Why did you attack us?" He asked a got up close in her face. She stopped wriggling for a moment. Before Cyclops could tell Yamcha to back off Psylocke gave a chuckle.
"Thanks." She said, then pushed off of Yamcha's body to make a flip over Cyclops, who lost his grip on her. She kneed him in his head, knocking him onto the ground. Wolverine jumped over the couch with a scream and slashed his claws at Psylocke but she blocked them with her psiblades. In the momentum of the movement Psylocke slid underneath him and pushed with both feet into his stomach. Next thing Wolverine knew he was flung over to the other side of the room and crashed into the wall so hard he went through. In a quick flash she grabbed the table in the middle of the room and smacked Cyclops against the side of his head as he tried to keep his balance from being hit in the back of the head.
Cyclops was seeing stars as he too was flung against a wall. Yamcha kicked her in the head and did a rapid number of punches on her back before she grabbed his fist and twisted him around. In mid-air he recovered and planted a foot in her side. They moved so fast Cyclops had a hard time following them. She staggered back but retaliated with a heel kick in his face and then another leg sweep which knocked him on his ass. He recovered quickly again though and created what Cyclops could only describe as a ball of light from his right hand and planted it into her stomach. Psylocke gasped as it pushed her on the ceiling with a crash and a loud cracking sound and she bounced back onto the ground.
Yamcha then calmed down for a second and allowed Psylocke to recover back on her feet. She tried a spinning heel kick and followed that by a spinning backhand but Yamcha dodge both of them. Cyclops saw Yamcha jump on top of Psylocke and grappled her into a vertical armbar. But he had forgotten about her blade and she swung it across his leg, slicing through the trousers and sending Yamcha in a scream of pain. He let her go instantly and as he fell backwards she turned and thrust her blade right into his shoulder. Yamcha went onto his knees. Psylocke readied her blade to give the fatal blow when Wolverine crashed into her from the side and through the other wall. Yamcha collapsed.
Cyclops got to his senses and rushed outside, seeing Wolverine and Psylocke wrestling on the ground, she had lost her Psi-blade. After a few kicks and hits Wolverine got the upperhand and hurt Psylocke badly with a knee. She rolled away but got up, flustered. Then Cyclops hit her with his optic blast. She flung away against a tree making a loud scream.
Wolverine and Cyclops waited for her to get up. She struggled up, grunting and holding her stomach. She looked at them for a moment, then ran.
Wolverine wanted to go after her but Cyclops stopped him.
"Let her go. Yamcha needs our help right now and Goku and Krillin are still on their way." He said, Wolverine grunted but didn't resist. He was a good guy. He withdrew his claws and climbed back into the home, Bulma was already concerning herself with the wounded Yamcha. She looked up with tears in her eyes as Cyclops also entered the house again through one of the destroyed walls.
"What happened to him? He doesn't appear to have any wounds. But he is in pain and barely conscious." She said, almost screaming. Cyclops hunched next to her, Yamcha was grunting, laying on his back, his leg twitched.
"Psylocke's blade doesn't always just cut the flesh, it cuts mentally moreso. Elizabeth Braddock is a powerful telepath and telekinetic, she conjures those blades from her mind. She has Yamcha's mind convinced that he is terribly hurt in the leg and shoulder." He said as he picked Yamcha up. The dude was a lot heavier than he looked, Wolverine helped him.
"Can you help him?" Bulma asked. Cyclops sook his head.
"Not us, only the professor or Jean could help him out quickly enough, but they are too busy right now. Best bet is..." He got cut off as 2 figures rushed into the house. Wolverine had already looked up, sensed them. Cyclops recognized them immediately but noticed they were much older now and had grown a bit, but not as much as he would have guessed given their age. Their clothes, orange gi and blue sandals were the same as before, as well as their hairstyle. Goku was still wearing that orange ball around his neck with 4 dark orange stars on it, he never seems to take it off. Cyclops remembers something about it being a gift from his grandfather who raised him. Goku's hair was black and spiky and Krillin was as bald as the professor, Cyclops wondered how they will grow up.
"Yamcha! What happened? Hé, i remember you. And you too!" Goku said first angry, then shocked, then surprised all in quick succession.
"We saw the destroyed walls outside. Were you attacked? By who, why?" Krillin asked. Goku rushed over to them to take a closer look at Yamcha then turned to Cyclops.
"I know you, its Cyclops isn't it? An X-man. Who did this to Yamcha? Was it the red ribbon army?" Goku asked, he was talking really fast and moving around a lot. Cyclops gestured him to calm down.
"The red ribbon army is gone kid. You guys took care of them well." Wolverine said. Goku turned to him.
"And you, i saw you at the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai. Wolverine, yes i was disappointed i couldn't fight you." Goku said. Cyclops sighed, Goku turned back to him.
"No this was not the red ribbon army, this was done by a mutant assassin named Psylocke." Cyclops said.
"A mutant? like you?" Goku asked.
"Yes, a mutant. But not like us. She is an assassin." Cyclops said, Goku looked puzzled. Krillin stepped in.
"Like Tao Pei Pei, Goku." He said, Goku looked like he remembered. He looked serious.
"Right, so how about Yamcha?" Goku asked.
"We have to take him to Stark Tower in Tokyo, it's the closest place where he can get help. Unless you know a psychic." Cyclops said as they went towards the front door which was still open.
"Couldn't we just give him a senzu bean?" Bulma asked. Goku grunted.
"That will probably work best, no doubt. Our stash is used up though. Gotta go to Korin to get more." And he darted ahead of Cyclops and Wolverine carrying Yamcha out the door.
"No wait." Cyclops said and Goku stopped. Cyclops explained what had happened, about the dead martial artists and the fact he and Krillin were targeted as well.
"That much is clear by now." Wolverine mentioned. "Psylocke is trying to take out all the fighters that participated in the 21st Tenkaichi Budokai. We don't know why. We need help finding the others before they are killed. Psylocke escaped and is probably on her way to the next victim. We have to inform the others. We should go there to help fight Psylocke." Wolverine said.
"Right, which one is closest?" Goku asked, ready to go on the offensive as always. Cyclops weighed the options.
"I don't like splitting up yet again, we'll head to stark tower together and head for the others from there." Cyclops said. As they headed off Cyclops thought about Jean, sensing she was headed into trouble. He hoped she would be okay.