CHAPTER 9
"SO YOU'RE SAYING THE CHILD IS UP THESE MOUNTAINS AND INTO THE PIAAPART PLAINS." Said Ox King, as he stood at the foot of the mountain behind his giant flaming castle.
"Yes sir, she isn't too far, it shall take us a day, the most, in order to retrieve the child." Replied Tienshinhan, the ex prisoner.
"The Piaapart Plains, I heard that place is full of evil spirits!" Trembled Oolong.
"Well, it was a graveyard for the brave warriors of the ancient times." Said Tien.
"Brave warriors?" Asked Goku, as he secured the heavy backpack around his waist.
"Oh man, just like rumors say! I c-can't do this Goku, I have a thing against evil spirits. They say you can hear their cries and woes surround the vast plains, and they kill any who ignore their pleas!"
"Hahahahahahaha," Laughed Goku, "Oolong, I hate cowards like you."
"Gee thanks for the motivation kid."
"Well my Lord, we're off, we're going to retrieve the child." Bowed Tien.
"And don't forget Ox King." Said Goku as he turned around to face the burly man.
"YES, I PROMISE YOU, YOU WILL OBTAIN THE DRAGON BALL I HAVE WHEN YOU COME BACK."
"Thank you sire." Replied Tienshinhan.
The Ox King felt a blunt pain in his chest. He started to regret he threw such a kind man behind bars. He really didn't give him or anybody else a chance. The huge man lifted his axe and placed it upon his shoulders. He lifted his head and looked into the brown orange skies. The wind blew upon his face, as it quickly evaporated his falling tears.
"YOUNG MAN, PLEASE BRING MY CHI CHI BACK IN ONE PIECE, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"
"Yes, you will have her no other way my Lord."
"Don't worry, big guy, we'll get your daughter back, I'm sure Grampa would've helped you out too, I'm just doing what he would've done." Smiled Goku.
"YOU ARE A GOOD CHILD MY BOY, NOW GO! SEARCH FOR MY PRECIOUS DAUGHTER."
"Aye, aye captain!" With that Goku started to hop up the mountainside, leaping from crag to crag.
"I HAVE FED YOU WELL YOUNG MAN, THERE IS NO REASON FOR YOU TO FAIL ME NOW."
"I won't." With that Tenshinhan crouched down and proceeded to spread his muscle bound arms.
He slowly looked up, and with one tremendous leap, he jumped up eighty five feet into the air, soaring past Goku and onto a nearby crag.
"Whoa, how'd you do that?" Screamed Goku, as the man's speed and pressure blew his black hair wildly around. Goku quickly latched onto a nearby branch, for balance.
"To the impossible there is no intelligent explanation, it is simply done by disconnecting and not believing in the ever present reality."
"Cool, whatever you said!" Laughed Goku, as he tried to hop up as high as the gentleman did.
Tien broke out a little smile and continued his trek up the mountain.
"Hey guys wait for me!" Screamed Oolong.
"Just turn into a bird or something!" Screamed Goku.
"I can't transform!"
"You said that already and you lied!"
"Oh-oh yeah, hehe, silly me I guess." With that Oolong quickly transformed into a hawk and started to take flight and flew past Goku and Tien, in one swoop.
"It really feels good to know how to fly, eh guys?" Asked Oolong, as he grinned at the pair below.
"Yeah it does."
To his surprise, there was Tien flying right next to him , with the same exact ease as the transformed pig himself.
"What- thee- how'd you how can you?"
"In the realm of reality, impossibility is always only a distant possibility." Replied Tien.
With that he zoomed past the stunned Oolong with gusto. Flying straight up ahead on the mountain's jagged side.
"What's with you and the prophetic sayings buddy!"
"Ooooooohhhhhhh, I want to fly like that too!" Screamed Goku. The boy jumped up and down with glee as he scaled up the mountain with sheer excitement. "Oolong, Mr. Prisoner I want to fly too! Yay!"
Meanwhile down at the base of the mountain the Ox King watched as the trio quickly disappeared from his vision as he looked up at them.
"HA, HA THOSE KIDS ARE CRAZY." Smiled the Ox King, "YOU THINK THEY'RE GONNA FIND MY DAUGHTER PUROPOI?"
"Hmmmmhmmh." Smiled the white creature.
"RIGHT, NOW TO KEEP MY PROMISE, I REALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHERE THAT ORB IS." Sighed the Ox King.
The Ox King started to walk back to his castle, he stopped when he stepped on a piece of an earthenware vessel. The burly man bent down to pick up the red fragment,
He stared at the drawing of a little child, a drawing of the once happy village he destroyed.
"OF ALL THE CRUEL ACTS I'VE COMMITTED PORUPOI, THIS HAS TO BE THE WORSE, EH?" Teared the Ox King as he stared at the flaming horizon ahead of him.
The huge explosion rocked the earth below the King's feet as a massive black cloud of destruction suddenly ripped its way through the red sky.
"WHAT WAS THAT!" Exclaimed the Ox King.
Out of the burning horizon came forth the Red Ribbon android.
"WHO ARE YOU?" Screamed the Ox King.
The Major didn't respond but kept it moving at a slow and steady pace, towards the perturbed ruler.
" HOW DID YOU GET PAST MY MOUNTAIN GUARDIANS!"
The cold android continued walking up the hill toward the Ox King. The castle behind him had a huge hole, the hole he created just seconds earlier, in order to get to the other side. The Ox King stared at the damage to his castle and gripped on tighter to his axe. The walls were made of the finest and strongest fire stone and granite this planet could produce, and it was destroyed into ashes within seconds.
"Are you the Ox King Gyo Mao?" Asked the Major as he approached the burly man.
"WHAT'S IT TO YOU? AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO YAJIROBE AND HIS MEN ?"
"Answer the query."
"YOU FOOL YOU HAVE TREKKED UPON MY TERRITORY FROM HERE ON IN, I ASK THE QUESTIONS! NOW TELL ME WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY MEN!
The android soon reached the King and stood four feet taller than the big man. He stared down onto the King, belittling his presence. Puropoi flew over and quickly hid behind the King, he trembled in the Major's presence as he started to fade away.
"I did to them as I am going to do to you, if you do not cooperate."
"WHY YOU!-" The Ox King quickly lifted his axe up.
"My purpose is to obtain the dragon ball and a small child."
The Ox King's eyes lighted up as he realized that the robot was talking about Goku.
'WHAT DOES HE WANT WITH THE DRAGON BALL?' thought the Ox King, 'WHAT IS SO SPECIAL ABOUT THOSE ORBS?"
"I HAVE NO IDEA OF WHAT YOU ARE ALLUDING TO!"
"I have detected them," said the android, as it stared into the King's eyes," The four physiological indications that a human being is lying, you are producing all of these signs on an unavoidable level." The Major's sunglasses started to blink little red lights as he said that.
"GRRRRR, I SAID GET OUT OF HERE!" The Ox King swung his axe onto the android shoulder, but to no avail.
The Major held onto the blade of the axe with his own bare hands. The Ox King struggled to press the axe down, knowing, it would be to his advantage if he could at least cut his hands.
"The pressure you are producing is 2000 psi."
The Ox King continued to press down on the android, ignoring his calculations.
"The pressure that I am producing is too, 2000 psi. The force is balanced."
"WHY DON'T YOU JUST STOP YAPPING AND FIGHT BACK !" The Ox King tried to lift the axe back up to try and hack the overbearing nuisance in front of him once again. The axe stayed in the palms of the Major as if were part of his body. The Ox King struggled to bring it back up, but to avail.
"Weak human even when I lie to you in order to boost your morale you still do not show any increase of strength."
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN?"
"My psi is greater than yours man, we can never be on equal grounds." With that the android lifted the Ox King up with the axe and threw him over his massive shoulders.
As soon as the Ox King landed on the ground, the Major's hands quickly collapsed into a machine gun and shot at the injured King. The bullets rained upon the poor King as his body rattled to the greeting of the hard pellets.
"Foolish human, resistance is futile. You should've cooperated with my demands, and refrain from retaliation."
The Major turned around and looked up at the mountain ahead of him. "According to the GPS inculcated in my systems, up this mountain lies the Piaapart Plains."
The raging fire continued to burn around the village and castle. The Major stared onto the burning horizon. "The scent particles of the child I am after was definitely here, I have detected them, and with him should be a dragon ball, according to recent intel from HQ."
"I will trek up this mountainside and continue my search for the child and dragon ball." With that the Major hopped onto the jagged rocks and climbed up the steep blood burgundy mountain. "He must be on his way to the Piaapart Plains."
Meanwhile in a village somewhere along the coast of the seas, a man was running way from a nearby monster. He was badly beaten and bruised. Blood poured from his mouth and eyes as his leg muscles convulsed in pain and shock from hitting the soft ground.
"Huh, huh, huh, he has returned, the D-d-d-The Demon King has returned! He has returned!"
The man had an army fatigue on. His clothes were torn apart and burnt. The bruised man ripped through vines and shrubs running away from the impending danger. "Gener—Ge-!" Called out the man, as he went through the dark thickening jungle. His body was covered in seaweed and sand, whatever he met out there was on the beach and was closing in on to their base fast.
"General Blue! General Blue!"
The soldier ran faster and faster into the night jungle towards the base breathing heavily as he finally approached the steel doors.
"General Blue! General Blue! He's Here ! The D-Demon King is HERE!"
The two other soldiers guarding the gates stared at the oncoming victim as he quickly approached their proximity. They flashed their searchlights towards the man to identify in the dark atmosphere.
"What's going on soldier?" One of them asked.
"I-I-It's my team ,they're gone, they're all d-d-ead. They've been killed by his monsters, HE'S BACK!"
"What do you mean gone?" Asked the other cadet, " Soldier get yourself together and explain me your status, what's going on?"
"The Demon King he's here, he's back, and he's gonna wipe us all out!" Screamed the frightened soldier, "Please you have to tell the General!"
"The Demon King?" Asked one of the other soldiers confusingly.
"Rick, I think we should take this guy in, I think we may have something serious on our hands."
The two officers turned around to escort the injured cadet into the base.
As the trio walked in, soldiers were seen training and exercising. There was a basketball court on the left of the base and a shower room. A huge hangar was on the far corner of the base towards the south. A huge Red Ribbon Army flag could be seen waving in the center.
"We might wanna take that down guys, even though he could fly, it would be harder for him to find us. That'll give us the chance to arm up." Said the hurt soldier to his comrades.
"Are you a fool? We are not going to lower our flag for no scum of the earth, and definitely not for any wild animal running amuck out there!"
"Where's your common sense! Don't let your pride be your deaths, this thing is beyond normal! It isn't just any wild animal you know! It's the demon spore of Lord Piccolo!"
"Quiet, you two! Now come on cadet the General's quarters is right here."
"No need for me to see him." Said the booming voice.
The three soldiers looked up onto the tall blond hair blue eyed man. He was wearing a brown fatigue, and a policeman cap. He had a saber on his left side and a pistol on the right. The fair skinned man walked down the metal steps as his leather boots created an echoing clack sound, that drove fear down the other soldiers' spines. General Blue, was one of the commanding Generals of the Red Ribbon Army. His many badges reflected the white light of the fluorescent lights that lit up the base, almost blinding his nervous colleagues. The General was entered into the army as a small boy of fifteen. At only sixteen he was recommended to go into an assignment that involved obtaining a dragon ball in a secure military base. The country of that military knew of the secret mission of the Red Ribbon Army and wanted to know why they were after these so called magical orbs. Twenty men were sent to the base to retrieve the orb.
After a bloody gunfight between both sides only five of the Red Ribbon spy team remained remained. The military quickly surrounded the five men, but captured only four. The youngest cadet Blue escaped by the skin of his teeth. After the report of the failure was sent to Red Ribbon HQ the young sixteen year old was told to resolve the issue or perish.
He managed to go back use what he utilized before to escape, telekinesis. An ancient form of ki control . The lad forced himself into the base with such stealth and profession, that fifty six soldiers were dead before the base recognized the invasion. When the base figured him out, they threatened to end the lives of the four remaining soldiers held hostage. The boy already knew the base in and out, thanks to reconnaissance map he memorized days earlier. Even though it was nighttime, this mission wasn't anymore difficult for him to accomplish, the dusk only made it harder for the them to pinpoint the boy's exact position. Before the military could come up with another ultimatum, news reached them of the dead hostages in the cellar, the young cadet Blue had finished them off himself, now there were no obstacles holding him back. No ultimatums. The report sent a shockwave down the opposing military's spine, they quickly tried to regain themselves while the child killed every single one of them with his bare hands. With outstanding success he managed to obtain the dragon ball and completely decimate the base single handedly. When push came to shove the boy learned it was do or die, even if that meant gutting his comrades with his own cold fingers.
His remarkable durability and resourcefulness has risen him up the ranks faster than any other General in the army. At the tender age of twenty one he became the youngest General of the Red Ribbon Army. Now at twenty six his ferocity was worse than ever, but what hid it ever so well was his crystal blue eyes, that reflected the rays of the moonlight ever so slightly, his soft face, and bright blonde hair. The young man walked towards the trio, as they and the others saluted him. There was an aura of insurmountable confidence about him. His piercing eyes and calculating walk, from the top down he was the embodiment of the ardor and strictness of the Red Ribbon Army, General Blue. Ice cold Blue.
"Well ruffian, where did you come from?" Asked the General in his sharp British accent. He took out a tissue from his pocket and raised it up to his mouth.
"You're a mess, why is that?" He asked, as he scrunched his face in disgust.
"W-w-ell G-general sir, forgive my appearance, b-but my team and I were sent to the depths of the sea to search for the dragon balls themselves, on your permission that is of course, b-b-but we were—"
"Didn't I tell you I already knew what happened?" Shouted the General as he continued to hold up the tissue to his face. "You know, nothing gets on my nerves more than a dirty man."
"I'm s-sorry General." Bowed the cadet.
"If you really were you wouldn't have sullied my presence with your careless appearance!" Yelled the General, " Take care of him gentlemen."
"Yes Sir."
"P-p-please sir no! I ha-have a girlfriend back home, s-s-she's expecting a kid in two months, please Sir, for my child, please!"
"Wait!" Shouted the General, the soldiers stopped in their tracks, as they tried to drag the pleading cadet to his death.
"How rude of me," said the General, as he stared onto the ground," Sometimes cruelty takes the best of me." He then gazed up into the starry sky.
"Forgive me." He said as he turned around to face the tearing cadet. "Forgive me."
"Men, please just take his head off, and send it off to his love back home. That way Daddy can always be there."
"Yes Sir."
"N-no, Pl-pl please Sir! Noooo! PLE-ase! NOOOO!"
"Really, where are my manners?" Asked the General to himself.
"O.K. men we have pressing matters upon us!" Yelled the General Blue, the surrounding soldiers started to line up with their artillery.
"Good, good, just like I've already told you, you all have armed yourselves, because what is about to come through these gates and into this base will be the most horrifying thing you'll ever witness. Now the source in which this creature came from, is more horrific than it, but since close to eighty percent of you won't make it out alive after today, he'll be the last and most horrifying thing you'll ever see! Do you all understand!"
"YES SIR! GENERAL BLUE SIR!"
"OK, excellent then, because he's already right behind you guys."
The frightened soldiers turned around to uncover a giant pray mantis like creature. It stood about seven feet tall, and five feet wide. Its body had a protruding green exoskeleton, its eyes bulged out just as those of a mantis. Except they were red, but the same ominous stare. Its blood covered mouth was that of a shark. It had huge wings, four to be exact. It had scythes for hands and stood on hind legs, legs of a lizard. Its big emerald tail swished back and forth, exposing the jagged spikes at the end of it, complimenting the three horns on its head.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" The men opened fire unleashing their collective fury onto the beast towering over them.
One by one the bullets fell down, causing no harm to the agitated creature.
"FIRE THE URANIUM SHELL!" Screamed one Lieutenant as the men started to fall back, shooting as the went along.
"WHAT IN THE WORLD IS THAT THING?"
"WHERE IN THE HECK DID IT COME FROM?"
"JUST SEND IT BACK TO THE HELL IT CAME FROM!" Screamed a nearby Sergeant.
BOOM!
The sound of the tank shells could be heard ripping through the air as it collided onto the giant monster. Helicopters fired down rocket grenades and .50 caliber bullets upon the surrounded creature. Smoke soon covered the area as the onslaught and mayhem continued. The continuous firefight lighted up the night sky, giving show to their unmerciful slaughter.
As the smoke cleared, and the firing subsequently died down, the shadow of the monster could still be seen standing in the same exact position. Motionless.
"Is it dead?"
"It's not moving."
Within seconds the monster's body collapsed into pieces, as its head rolled off its neck, and wings slowly rip apart.
"YYYYYEEEEAAAHHH, WE KILLED THAT FREAK!"
"WHO ARE WE MEN?" Screamed a Lieutenant.
"THE RED STORM! HUHUHUHUHUHU!"
"You IMBECILES!" Screamed the General.
"AM I EVER WRONG! WHAT DID I JUST SAY?"
"But Sir, we've finished the nuisance right in front of your eyes, and with no losses." Smiled the soldier in a nearby tank.
"WHAT DID I SAY EARLIER!"
"U-u-uh, you said that most of us would be gone." Gulped the now shaken tank man.
"GONE DEAD! EXACTLY! THAT IS WHAT I'VE SAID!" The General pulled out his saber, "YOU FOOLS!"
Without a moment's notice the mantis like creature swooped down and gulped down the frightened tank man. It appeared out of nowhere in the night sky.
"OH MY G-" Another man was sliced in half by its huge gleaming scythes.
"FIRE!"
The bullets rained upon the monster once again, and again there was no effect. The creature grew more and more agitated as helicopter rounds, and rockets, tank shells and grenade launchers were tossed towards him. It walked through the mayhem slicing and eating the men as it went along.
"CALL HQ! CALL HQ!"
"It's no use! This thing's already cut off all communication lines!" Yelled the General," You imbeciles the only thing that monster did was shed its skin, that's why it seemed as if it died back there! When in reality it just flew up into the sky!"
"G-G-GENERAL BL-" Another fifteen men were chomped down with such speed, that it seemed that their sudden appearance only existed in the General's imagination.
Blood spilled, guts splurged. Screams emanated. Brains and skulls were flying everywhere as the monster made its way through slicing and dicing the tanks and helicopters, pure mayhem shook the very core of every soldier, as the first time in the longest time they were once again face to face with their old enemy.
Tanks flew fifty feet in the air. Uranium shells were stopped in midair as the creature swung it back towards the helpless men.
"RRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
The monster's piercing scream disabled the surrounding soldiers as they fell down to cup their ears. Unfortunately that rose up the death toll, as the screeching sound exploded the heads of the poor cringing men.
"I will not tolerate THIS IN MY OUTFIT!" Screamed the General, as he pulled out his saber from his side.
The General charged towards the monster cocking his blade back. As he approached the beast he dodged its swinging arms and hopped on to one of its scythes. He managed to quickly hop off of that one and swung onto the one atop of him. The General then swiftly lunged his saber into the creature's skull as his own eyes glowed a glimmering blue. With one clean strike, the saber embedded itself into the monster's head. The sapphire light that emanated from General Blue's eyes whipped around his head and traveled down onto the sword.
The creature let out a shrilly noise as it tried to scream the name of its creator, "PPPPIIIIIIICCCCOOLL-" It was abruptly interrupted as the blue aura around the blade suddenly rushed into the creature's head causing its eyes to roll back and mind to go blank. As the monster's body started to go limp; it fell down dead vibrating the cement ground.
The General ripped off a nearby shirt from a corpse and wiped his blade clean.
"Disgusting." Grimaced the General.
"What did he just do?" Asked a nearby cadet.
"He just shut down the monster's life force from inside." Replied another soldier.
"Wow, this guy's amazing."
"I know, and to think that he did all of that with his mind."
The General placed his saber back in its sheath. He walked over to the remaining soldiers, with his handkerchief up to his face. "What are you buffoons looking at? Clean this filth up now!"
"Yes Sir!"
The soldiers scrambled over to clean up the destruction and death that laid along the large island base.
General Blue looked back and clicked on his walkie talkie, "General Blue to HQ, Blue to HQ."
"General Blue!" Responded the voice from the walkie talkie.
"No need to worry, the situation is completely under control now."
"Men! Take a photograph of the creature and send it over to HQ!" Commanded the General, "I'm not sure what it is, but the monster uttered what seemed to sound like pickles."
"Pickles?" Asked the voice.
"Yes, one of my men came running in; claiming that the monster was the child of some sort of a demon."
"Repeat that name again." Ordered the voice on the electronic device.
"Pickles, or Picc- something, I'm not sure."
The General could hear muffling on the other side of the walkie talkie, with the sounds of scrambling feet and loud whispers.
"General! We are going to transport a helipad over to your base to pick the corpse up! No matter what do not move it!"
"Got that." Blue then shut the walkie talkie. He clamped down on it as he stared at the motionless beast on the ground. He began to wonder what kind of excitement, fear or terror crept up onto the souls of these men to sound the way they did. All he mentioned was pickles.
"Hmph, demon child." Snorted the General as he began to walk away.
