Finally, after chasing that disgraceful midget for so long, they had finally caught up with him.
Standing on the new planet's green grass, Gohan looked towards the mountains he was certain that the wizard had crashed on. After catching up with him, they had put the ship's weapons into overdrive, shooting the ship down onto this nearby planet.
Aside from the purple sky, the place looked a bit like Earth, just minus the ugly grey clouds; not to mention that the sky was pretty clear on this day.
"So tell me again why we have to go with you?" Trunks asked as he and Goten walked up to the warrior and stood next to him.
"Cause I want your company," Gohan replied sarcastically. "But I guess you could always stay here with that blonde girl following you around."
"You know, I think I'll enjoy this little trip," the oddly colored saiyan said. "You ready to go?"
With Goten chuckling in the background, the older Son said "Glad you changed your mind." Then with little effort, he launched himself into the air, heading towards the mountains he was sure that Babidi had crashed on. The other two saiyans caught up with him soon after, followed by some questions.
"So why is it you have a bone to pick with this guy?" Goten asked.
"He was the guy I ran into back on Helzar," his brother answered. "And he really pissed me off back there."
"So what did he do to you? Must've been something bad," Trunks commented.
"I rather leave it at that," Gohan replied. It probably wasn't the best idea to tell these two what exactly had happened.
Fortunately, the younger saiyans took the hint. Sure, they could've annoyed Gohan into telling them what they wanted to know but that would've taken quite some time and their destination was coming up soon. Hopefully they'd find out when they got there.
But that didn't mean they were out of questions.
"So what's with you and that human girl?" Trunks inquired.
That question caught the saiyan off guard. "Huh? What are you talking about?"
"Don't play dumb with us. We've seen how you've acted with her," Goten joined in. "You usually don't have that kind of patience with people other than us and even then, that's kinda pushing it. So what's up?"
Well, these two had done their homework, that was for sure. Though he could've said that it was none of their business or refuse to answer, these were the guys he had lived with, fought along side with, and pretty much become family with. If he pushed them away, there wasn't much he would have left besides a Namekian in his head, and you could only do so much with that.
A low growl echoed in the saiyan's head then, telling him that his resident Namek had heard that thought. He'd just have to apologize later or something.
"I guess you got me," Gohan started. "Me and the girl have gotten a bit close you could say. I know, you'd think I'd be the last saiyan to ever be involved with a human like that, but I guess things change."
"I'd say," Trunks commented. "So what have you done with her?"
"I think you'd know by now," was all that was said.
"You mean you've…" was all that the saiyan prince could say.
"That's right."
"Really? Gohan…wow…" Goten said.
"Is that all you two can say?" Gohan asked looking at the two.
He was met with silence; that was until…
"So can we try her out too?"
That one comment nearly made Gohan drop out of the sky. "No! What are you thinking?!"
"Well, if she's willing to have you, then maybe she might have us," Goten reasoned as Trunks nodded his head.
This caused the elder saiyan to growl. "You two even try anything, and I'll make sure you never reach home, got it?"
Both fighters looked at their brethren and came to the conclusion that it would be best for their health and well being if they didn't continue on that train of thought. It made perfect sense to them but their comrade didn't seem to agree.
Was that girl really that good?
Deciding to get back on track, Goten said "So how close are we to that crashed ship?"
Relieved that his little brother had chosen a different topic this time, Gohan responded "We're almost there."
Sure enough, the moment they had passed the point where grassy plain became rocky mountain, the three saiyans found the ship they were looking for. It was laying on its side on the mountain slope, burnt and damaged from the crash and all the damage it had sustained in outer space, thanks to their own ship's weapons.
Now it was time to board the vessel and pay its owner a visit.
Babidi was frightened. Ever since he had escaped from that weather torn planet, that saiyan had come after him with a vengeance. The guy had chased him for who knows how long, and had succeeded in forcing him to crash land on this planet. As far as the wizard knew, he was nowhere near enough to call for help from Dabura, or even receiving any in time to save himself. He was all alone with what ever fighters he had accumulated during his journey through space.
And unfortunately, none of them were strong enough to take the saiyan down.
Through all of his stops on various planets, never had he encountered a being like Bojack, especially after powering him up as he had done. Any other fighter he had met and promptly taken control of wasn't even in the same ballpark as these two. Scratch that, the same sport!
But that wouldn't stop him from taking his defeat or death sitting down. He would send everyone he had at that warrior, though holding back his strongest in the likely chance that his enemy killed his small army. One could never have enough bodyguards, right?
"Sir, the fighter you met on Helzar is here," one of his men said. He was of the same race as Pui Pui, though his head wasn't the same as the fighter. "And it looks like he brought some others with him."
"He what?!" Babidi shrieked. This was bad; no, worse than bad. It was bad enough that the guy could tear the whole planet apart looking for him; but now he brought some friends with him. He didn't stand a chance against that!
"I want you to send Yakon to me," the wizard said, the alien nodding his head in compliance. "Then I want you to send everyone else against those monsters."
That last command seemed to startle the man. "Excuse me sir, but what do you mean everyone?"
That comment threw the Majin overboard. "EVERYONE!" he screamed.
The moment Goten and his comrades had stopped in midair above the ship, a swarm of fighters came out to greet them. Oddly enough, each one looked like that Pui Pui guy he had fought back on Namek; only with different sorts of heads on these guys.
And if he remembered right, Pui Pui was a push over. Things were just looking up for the three saiyans.
"Looks like we have a welcoming committee," Gohan commented. "Shall we accept their hospitality?"
"You first, brother," Goten answered.
From the corner of the saiyan's eye, he saw his brother disappeared with a burst of speed as Trunks drew his sword. Well, he might as well get into the swing of things. Raising an arm up, Goten fired a sizable ki blast that cut a path right through the small army of aliens; screams coming from all of the victims.
Next, the saiyan warrior charged into his crowd of opponents, both of his arms in front of him as he fired smaller ki blasts; each one hitting another alien and killing it as each one screamed in pain.
When he got close to his weaker opponents, Goten then stopped his ki blast attacks and went in for a punch, nailing one in the face and sending him flying into the ship; his foe's body becoming imbedded in the hull.
Blinking, Goten had to make sure that he had actually done that. He was fairly certain he hadn't used his strongest punch on that guy, but what he saw was not the result it had made. Either he was stronger than he thought or the guy was a hell of a lot weaker than he guessed. Part of him, namely his prideful side, wanted to believe in the former; but his warrior side was leaning more towards the latter. Very divided he was.
So he decided to go with both. Hey, at least both halves of him were happy, right?
Going back into the fray, it didn't last too much longer. The saiyans easily made quick work of their opponents; blasting them, hitting them, or slicing them into the pieces. For exercise, it was alright, but their appetite for a good fight was hardly satisfied.
"Was it my imagination or were those guys completely weak?" Gohan wondered out loud.
"I was starting to wonder the same thing," Trunks agreed.
"Well, if this was the best this guy has to throw at us, this should be pretty easy to finish up," Goten summed up.
"I guess we should go and find out, right boys?" the older saiyan said.
It was too quiet out there. At least, that was the thought Babidi had when all the fighting outside his ship stopped. Had his men won or were the saiyans just taking their time in coming after him?
Then again, it probably didn't matter. His number one fighter was running around in the dim chamber somewhere, just waiting to get his claws and fangs in some fresh meat.
Suddenly, there was a loud crashed. Looking around fearfully, the little wizard soon spied a large dent in one of the walls. Another loud crash went off again as well as the dent becoming bigger. Then the sound of metal screeching filled the room, causing the Majin to clasp his ears in pain. Why did that sound just have to be ear piercing anyways?
Suddenly, the indentation tore open, letting in light into the dark room. Then the sound of footsteps went off as the three saiyans entered, looking like angels of death.
Well, almost.
Slowly backing away as his enemies approached him, Babidi tried to plead for his life. "Stay back! Please show mercy! I beg of you!"
"It's too late for that," the saiyan in the middle said. "You've caused me too much trouble and the best way I know to stop that kind of thing is put it down…permanently."
"You-you've got it all wrong!" the wizard cried out. "I was ordered to test your abilities, nothing more!" Well, that wasn't completely true but hey, what ever saved his neck would be used immediately.
"Test?" one of the other saiyans said, a smaller version of the one called Gohan. "Who in the world would want to test us?"
Suddenly, the light behind the warriors went black; only a few rays of light shining past them. Though they didn't look behind them, Babidi sure did and nearly gave out a cry of joy.
Standing on thin legs that were bent the opposite way of a normal person's, a flabby torso with long thin arms as well, a green monster with a very hungry expression on his small chubby face was. With spikes growing out of his elbows, wrists, and backwards knees, the creature looked formidable as its bulging yellow eyes stared right at the three saiyans before it. Letting out a roar, the beast known as Yakon swung a deadly arm at them, planning on tearing them apart with its three fingered hand.
Faster than a blink of an eye, Yakon stopped his attack, his eyes wider than they normally could be. Someone, the saiyan with purple hair had moved faster than anything Babidi had ever seen and imbedded a fist right into his monster's gut, stunning it.
Then the other saiyan appeared in the air, swinging a kick that knocked Yakon off of his feet and sent him flying across the room; both saiyans in hot pursuit of him. That only left the strongest of the three still approaching the wizard, much to his horror.
"If that was you testing our abilities, I'd hate to see how pitiful your actual fighting would be," Gohan commented as he stared down the frightened alien. "Perhaps I should put you out of your misery before we get to see that awful show."
"No, wait, you can't!" the Majin cried out. "I know things you could find useful!"
"Useful you say? Fine, tell me."
That caused Babidi to smirk evilly. "Never. You'll never know the things that I know."
This didn't seem to surprise the saiyan as the wizard had hoped. Instead he raised an arm up and a ball of ki appeared in his hand. "Are you sure? Doesn't matter to me if you tell me or not."
The wizard's eyes widen. "You…you can't kill me! I'm too valuable to you alive, not dead!"
"Is that so?" was all the warrior said before he fired the ki ball; the beam nailing the alien in the arm and incinerating it.
Babidi shrieked in pain as he fell to the floor, grasping the burnt remains of his shoulder. "How could you?! How could you've done this to me?!"
"Easy," Gohan replied. "As I said before, it doesn't matter to me if you say the information you have or not. I'll just have to find it out another way if I so desire to seek it. While it would save me some effort, I'm not opposed to doing things the hard way."
Babidi could only look on in fear. This guy was actually going to kill him, despite all the stuff he knew. There just had to be a way to salvage something out of this.
"Alright…I'll tell you…but you have to promise that you won't kill me afterwards," the alien bargained.
"Fine, I'll consider it. Now talk."
Taking a deep breath Babidi began his informing. "I work for a being known as Dabura, the Demon King. You've been causing him some trouble lately and he sent me to take care of you."
"And how have I been causing him trouble?" the saiyan questioned.
"You've been killing off his pawns at an alarming rate. First was a tyrant he was using and then the space pirate Garlic Jr."
Gohan narrowed his eyes. What in the world did Frieza and Garlic Jr. have to do with each other? Something wasn't adding up. "And what did that pirate and the tyrant have to do with each other? Did they know one another?"
"No, they knew nothing of each other. The tyrant was just a part of another of person's plot. Garlic was just carrying out a mission that Dabura had given him."
So neither had anything to do with each other besides the distant connection. That solved that issue. Now for one last thing. "Okay, so where is this Dabura person at?"
For a moment, Babidi looked like he was going to resist answering that but then thought better, giving up his struggle. "He's located at the four corners of the universe's quadrants."
With that, Gohan nodded and turned his back on the injured wizard, walking away. Soon, Goten and Trunks appeared on either side of him having disposed of their freshly dead friend. "So you're just gonna let that guy live?" Goten asked.
"I said I'd let him live if he told me what I wanted to know," Gohan answered. "Though I never said anything about you two."
That caused both saiyans to grin. Turning around, they both saw the wizard trying to get on his feet, though he was having a hard time doing so. Raising an arm up, Goten fired a ki blast that destroyed the rest of the Majin, putting an end to what was left of his miserable life.
"So where to?" Trunks inquired.
"We're heading to the center of the universe," the older saiyan answered as he exited the ship through the hole the three made. "I'm not completely sure what we did to piss this Dabura guy off, but I rather deal with him now than have him hounding us all the way back to Vegeta. You in?"
Both saiyans looked at him as if he was crazy. "Do you really have to ask?" the both managed to say at the same time.
That caused Gohan to grin. "Then let's go kick some demon ass."
Fitting end for such an annoying character, don't ya think? I'm kinda proud of that scene, though I did start feeling sorry for what I did to Babidi. T hen I got hungry and promptly forgot. Hope you enjoyed this chapter. Now onto the next one!