Dragonball AF : Xicor Saga : Redemption

Episode VI : Time Is Of The Essence


Xicor leapt from the edge down to the Earth below landing with a harsh thud crumbling the dirt below. Goku and the rest followed in pursuit close behind. They landed behind him but Krillin, who was still in mid air, was swatted away like a fly by the giant monkey tail.

"Krillin," Goku called out, hearing and 'I'm ok' from the distance rendered he was fine. "Kakkorot, he has control over his actions, he knows what he's doing!" Vegeta informed him. Piccolo, Tien, and Yamcha cleared the way as a giant fist pounded the spot they were previously in.

"Tien! Distract him while I power my special beam cannon!" Piccolo called out to them. Tien and Yamcha sped in front of Xicor's face and began to shout obscenities to him. Xicor, hearing and understanding them, sucked in a deep breath and roared as loud as his lungs would allow. The force of the enormous growl was enough to send them flying about 60 yards away.

They raced back full force, ki blasts in hands. They shot them directed to his eyes as Xicor ducked smacked both of them away. Xicor turned to torment his next challenger as Piccolo sprung into the air in front of him. "Open wide!" Piccolo shouted, grin on his face. Xicor, intimidated, roared a horrendous one as Piccolo shot the beam straight into his mouth, finding it strange his mouth was even open.

Xicor stopped mid growl and started to cough and cough. His throat was on fire. The giant monkey began to cough up blood as he crumbled to his knees. The red liquid dripping from his large fangs creating a large puddle in the soft soil. Krillin, who returned from his crater, saw this opportunity and seized it as he formed his destructo disc. Before he had a chance to throw it Goku stopped him, "Krillin NO! Aim for the Ki ball in the sky!" 'I remember how bad it hurt when my tail was pulled off, I couldn't imagine it cut off,' Goku thought to himself

Krillin listened to his best friend and did so. The collision between the two energies canceled each other out. There for there was no more false moon. Xicor moaned and began to shrink. The fur covering his body disappeared and there he sat in his knees with no clothing to cover his wrecked Saiy-jin body. His tail puffed up alerting others he was in pain. Still coughing up blood, his stomach started to pang with pain.

The pain had become too much as he grabbed his throat and mid section hoping for his molecules to rearrange quickly so he was no longer in this vulnerable state. "Now's our chance," Vegeta said pointing a ki blast to the teenager. "Vegeta, no! Are you crazy?" Goku asked bewildered.

Vegeta turned his head towards Goku, "We have let him go one too many times and he still tried to kill us! I think you've been bullshitting us this whole time proclaiming how strong he is and it turns out he just a low class idiot!" Vegeta still pointed the blast. He saw the smirk on Goku's face and looked in front of him. Xicor was gone.


"AHHH!" Xicor screamed as he landed in a giant lake. The second his head went beneath the abyss he started to swallow the water. The cool refreshing water traveled down his throat cleaning the cuts inside. The water chilled his stomach and it felt so good. Xicor realized he was now at the bottom of the lake and swam to shore.

Reaching the surface he coughed some and lay down on his stomach thinking of his next move. "Gee I'm naked in the middle of nowhere not knowing if I die today or not," he sighed, "and they said Gods were immortal…" He still laid there, completely relaxing his body to the point where his ki was untraceable. Not realizing what he was doing nor what his ki was doing, sleep once again claimed him.


"Pan, did you see what they did to him?" Marron asked looking over the edge standing next to Bra and Pan. "I know it's a shame ain't it? He's off somewhere naked and throwing up blood and they just sit there?" Pan questioned. "Then why don't we go find him? We can go to his ship, get him clothes and find him. Then after that he'll know we don't want to fight him," Bra suggested.

Pan quickly agreed and Marron said she'd be waiting for their return. Pan and Bra quickly rushed out of there before the men could sense their ki signatures. They remembered the area where the ship landed, but not exactly.


"Great. He's hiding his power level so we can't even find him to help him," Goten pointed out. Goku looked at his son funny and said, "But he doesn't know how. He would have hidden earlier and this is the first time I've ever not felt his ki, since he first came to Earth. He doesn't know how nor does he know how to sense ki. That's why Bic brought him here."

"Where in the world could he be?" Tien asked. "I'm not totally sure but most likely far away from here and probably by some kind of water. At least he's still on this planet, wounded like that, I doubt he'd be on another one," Trunks advised them. "Then it's settled. We go and find him and bring him back. Clear? Ok then let's go," Vegeta finished by taking north. Yamcha and Tien going south. Piccolo and Gohan searched east and Krillin with Goku rushed west. Trunks watched Goten spins in circles. When he stopped and fell over, he pointed in a direction. "Ok lets go that way," Goten said taking to the air, Trunks right behind him.


"Look down there! It's his ship! But it looks a little damaged," Pan told Bra. "Yea," she said nervously. 'What instead of realizing we don't want to fight him, he just kills us?' Bra thought to herself. She returned from her deep thoughts as a distant voice called, "Come on!"

Pan walked in the opened hatch and gawked at all the expansive looking equipment. The interior didn't look damaged and broken like the outside did. "O my heavens Pan look! It's your Dad and your grandfather and everyone else," Bra exclaimed staring into a six foot screen with latitude and longitude grids. Little dots with names represented the named people. The computer hadn't always known their names, but after a couple days on Earth, the smart-chip of the entire system knew whom to look for and where. "Hmm, that's how he found the lookout in the first place. Hey look there's Xicor. He didn't go to far after all," Pan said more to herself.

Bra smirked and turned around looking for any kind of room where he stored clothing. After finding the kitchen, the bathroom, a woman's room, probably Princess Bic's, Bra finally came across a male looking room. A soft yet dark looking green colored the walls as black drapes, covers, and rugs added some masculine definition.

The steel door slid shut behind her as she cross the room to a dresser of cherry oak and black granite. She opened the drawer and removed black silky boxers. She closed it then opened another drawer pulling out thick white gi pants. Bra turned around hearing the door slide open and saw Pan holding steel toed combat boots and a long black wrap.

They smiled to each other and left the soundless room into the hall. Reaching the big screen again, Pan pinpointed Xicor exact location. "OK, ready?" Pan asked. "Then ever," she replied. The two girls left heading further south to Cold Fire Lake.

The fourteen year old Pan and sixteen year old Bra spotted Xicor lying on his stomach sound asleep. The nervousness of his intention to attack them slowed them down. Pan nudged his shoulder. No response. She looked at Bra who looked back. She gently touched his face as a blue eye opened and looked at her. Pan and Bra dropped the clothes and went to run but Xicor called out, "Wait, stay where you are and don't turn around yet."

The girls heard him groan standing up and shuffling from putting his clothes on. "You can turn around now," he told them. As they turned back around they saw him finish tying the black wrap around his waist. "I see you found my ship ok," he smiled. Bra noticed he was actually quite benevolent and generous with a beautiful smile.

They smiled back. "Um, Mr. Xicor… I was just wondering, um, if you could maybe not kill my daddy," Pan's hands were behind her back as she looked at the ground. "Ok, I promise you Pan. But I can't promise you I won't rough him up a little," Xicor smirked and turned around to the water to wash his face. Pan started walking towards him as Bra reached out for her shirt, missing.

She kneeled next to him. Pan looked up at him and asked, "You're just like grandpa aren't you? You never wanted to fight right?" He nodded in agreement, "So I guess that makes you my uncle huh?" He smirked and gave her a noogie. Her giggles and laughter bought Bra's attention she smiled at them.


Vegeta searched through blizzards and snow caps. Not a trace. He had previously felt Pan and Bra flying around. He kept telling himself Bra would be ok, she would defend herself. Plus Pan was with her. But convincing himself that his little girl was out of harms way wasn't enough.


"See anything Krillin?" Goku called over. "Not a thing man this place is empty." 'Come on Xicor where are you?' Goku thought to himself. He remembered when Kid Buu destroyed Earth and toke the lives of his sons. He felt worthless and undeserving. He feels almost as bad for Xicor, on the exception that Goku knew his youngest son was still alive… somewhere.


"Hey Trunks, doesn't this place remind you of home?" Goten asked. Sensing Trunks stop he turned around. "I thought we were home," he asked more then said. "Well where are we then?" "I thought you knew Goten! O great! Now we have to wait until everybody meets back at the lookout. We must be across the world to not feel any familiar ki."

"And here I thought we were going in circles," Trunks said to himself. Goten laughed, "Well the world is round!" Trunks sighed and left the conversation at that.


Tien and Yamcha had finally caught up with Vegeta. "We couldn't sense or see him anywhere, how was your luck?" Yamcha asked the prince. "Not any better. I've scoured the who-" He stopped mid sentence picking up a different ki. It was Xicor. But he wasn't alone. Bra was with him as well.

Tien and Yamcha looked at each other in question until they too felt the ki situation. "NO!" Vegeta bellowed and took off in that direction. Tien and Yamcha close behind.

Xicor and the girls landed on the lookout and were greeted by ChiChi, Bulma, 18, Marron, Dende and of course Mr. Popo. "Xicor I'm really sorry for making false accusations of you," Dende said from at least 1-½ feet below Xicor's head. Xicor smiled saying, "Don't say you're sorry, you make it sound like you're a sorry person. I know your not so try saying apologize instead. As for the accusations, it's ok, I know the insurance of your people were in favor."

"Your a lot more sophisticated then Goku is, that's for sure," Bulma said, gaining a group laugh. Xicor blushed through his tan skin and presented his white teeth again, "Can't help it, the Gods must speak with elegance or we sound ignorant. At least that's what my mother told me." Mr. Popo suggested migrating back inside. Agreeing the group followed him in. Xicor in the back of the group looked around the beautiful sanctuary. His tail lazily swinging back and forth behind him.

Gohan raced back to the lookout with Piccolo only feet behind him. Finally getting there he looked down below to see Xicor walking in back of the group heading towards the building. 'He must be taking them prisoner, this ends now, sorry father,' Gohan thought to himself then calling out, "Hey Xicor, you ungrateful bastard. Your rain of torture ends now!"

The group below looked up to see Gohan form a stronger ki then he should have. "Stop you don't know what you're doing!" Xicor shouted back. By this time Vegeta and the rest had returned, even Goten and Trunks. Goku didn't stop Gohan, they all thought they saw what Gohan had concluded he witnessed. "HAHH!" Gohan yelled shooting.

Xicor dodged the blast and looked behind him to see the ki hit the pillar. "AHHH!" ChiChi screamed as that cement pole started to fall in her direction. "NOO!" Goten shouted trying to race to her rescue, Goku behind him. Like a deer in headlights ChiChi was stunned to the point where her life flashed before her eyes. Goten and Goku immediately stopped hearing the loud boom and being blinded by thick dust clouds around the area.

"O my Kami, MOM!" Goten called out. Goku stood stunned at the sight of the pillar crushing his petite wife.