Shift of Hearts, the first Dragon Ball Z / Tenchi Muyo! crossover posted here in about a year.
And the seventh in three years, I forgot to mention that.
By P. Dizzle tha Grand Champion
Disclaimer Stuff: This story is an original concept, I own none of the characters except the Madri Scholar (though his appearance and a slight part of his name were inspired by the Madri Priests from X-men Legends II), no money is being made off of this, I'm tired of putting that on all my stories, etc.
Rating: T, as is everything else I've done, just for safety purposes.
NOTE: After taking a break due to my creative senses burning out, it's about time for me to finally reign supreme once again. Unfortunately, I never really got to update my wrestling story yet, but nevertheless, tha Grand Champion is back in action! By the way, peeps. No way in hell is this gonna be a fight chapter. I believe the burnout started when I got to writing fights.
Chapter 21: The Magical Chances of Pretty Sammy.
First of all, we must begin with a small detailing of the events that occurred during dinnertime at the Masaki house, which was immediately after the shift of hearts that destiny had set up to bring Raditz and Ryoko together was finally complete. While Ryoko phased right through the floors and walls all the way to the table, Raditz walked down like everyone else, so as to leave everyone who didn't see their coming to be unsuspecting. This time, Sasami had some delicious soup set up for everybody, which quickly took the group's attention. Most of them, thankfully including Ayeka, didn't notice that when Raditz came to his seat next to the space pirate, he and Ryoko looked at each other with smiles on their faces. This only made it even more awesome when, following Raditz's typical Saiyan speed-eating (in this case, more like speed-drinking) binge, the two finally announced what had happened on the house roof just a few minutes ago. The entire group, with the exception of Tenchi and Sakuya, as well as the late-appearing Washu (who saw it via her telepathic connection with her daughter), was left nothing short of gob smacked and speechless at this news. But as the new couple explained their actions and thoughts to their audience, a few of them came to realize that every little thing that led to it made the whole arrangement fit quite well, and that their alignment was for the best.
Meanwhile, the look on Ayeka's face soon became one of overt happiness, as she realized that this now took Ryoko out of the battle for Tenchi, leaving only Sakuya in her way of claiming her love. However, once she brought up the event, Raditz and Ryoko failed to promise her that she was right, instead opting to point out the difference between Sakuya and Ayeka which made Sakuya better than Ayeka any day of the week as far as being with Tenchi. Surprisingly, when Ayeka threw a tirade and started to slag off Ryoko, Sakuya actually stood up for the Princess. (Her reasoning behind this is that she'd rather not let Ayeka believe that she's got no chance, since the mere idea that she could ever get Tenchi was half of her livelihood, the other half being the feeling of honor that Ayeka felt when remembering that she was the Princess of Jurai. Also, she was hoping that Ayeka would start to see her as a friend rather than as an enemy.) Despite her acrimonious sentiments towards the pale-skinned "normal" girl, Ayeka did appreciate having her as backup this once.
Mihoshi, meanwhile, managed to nearly destroy the experience once again, this time merely by saying something. She somehow managed to figure out that Ryoko wasn't going to stop coming at Tenchi from time to time, and actually asked why. Ryoko was forced to stormily explain what she had explained to Raditz much more calmly earlier. Once again, Ayeka was ticked into another argument with Ryoko. However, this one was ended by Sasami giving her some tea to drink. Unbeknownst to her big sister, this cup of tea had been laced with laxatives, which made Ayeka calm down a little, then quickly go to sleep. Luckily, she didn't fall face-first into the food, or she would have been laughed at for minutes on end and powerless to say or do anything about it. The rest of dinner went on uneventfully, and then with help, Sasami led Ayeka into the Jurai sisters' bedroom and set up their futon beds. Following this, everybody just went to sleep, Raditz going into Ryoko's room instead of Tenchi's this time.
Meanwhile, speaking of those that were asleep, we know about a group of people that were wide awake. Most specifically, a group of evil people that were wide awake. The Emporium at the Ken-Souja were going to retire for the night soon, but not quite yet. At the Ken-Souja chapel, the villains were no longer looking at the situation through holographic phantom monitors, but they continued to ponder and discuss Kagato's plan.
"So, what you're telling me, is that this was the big moment you were waiting for?" Cell asked Kagato questioningly, obviously disappointed about something. "All these fights that we've gotten into, and you were waiting for something like Raditz and Ryoko falling in love in order to come up with your plan!?"
"Need I remind you of something, Cell? Sometimes, the most effective of plans need to be triggered by subtle deeds rather than other seemingly big events," Kagato explained confidently, still smiling about the plan that he had cooked up. From the sounds of it, Kagato came up with this based on what he and his cohorts saw as far as Ryoko and Raditz falling in love, and Cell objected strongly to that fact.
"What's to say this even works? What if it doesn't? What if it backfires and leads to our death somehow?" Cell speculated fearfully. All of his teammates could see that he was a little bit freaked out because of how something like that backfired on him before, and Gohan ended up killing him as a result. Of course, he intended for it to backfire, but the resulting power was too much for him. He'd rather not see another backfire in the "break of resolve" plan ever again.
"Cell, take it from me. I know this works," Garlic Jr. intervened, walking over towards Cell and Kagato so as for them to acknowledge his presence. "If you have any kind of un-darkened heart, when you see beautiful love like that get destroyed just as it begins to truly blossom, your entire resolve breaks. Whether slowly or quickly, that is the event of destiny. You see, Cell, there are two separate breaking points in the world. The breaking point that drives one to rage, and the breaking point that destroys someone from within. So far, we've only reached the first one. We have to go straight to the second one, and I don't see how else to do it."
"Yeah, but not even this is guaranteed to work," Nagi finally spoke up, stepping up as well. "I'm not saying this isn't a good idea, or that it isn't worth a shot. I'm just not entirely convinced that there's no chance it doesn't work, you know?"
"Coming from the one who wants to destroy Ryoko so badly, I'm surprised. I thought you would've been chomping at the bit to do this," Garlic Jr. commented, causing Nagi to scowl in a near fit of rage. Ryoko's the reason she was this way. She's the reason Ken-Ohki ever got injured in the first place, the reason he was living through a glass jar giving power to the Souja. And if there was anything she'd rather do than make Ryoko pay, one would be hard pressed to ever find out what it is.
"Damnit, I know I'm gonna regret saying this, but I want to be on the front line for this!" she finally screamed out, not leaving too much time between the buildup and the release of aggression. Finally, something came to her, in the form of a very good question. "But how are we supposed to keep the others out of the way?"
"We don't. They simply get killed in the crossfire," Kagato answered, re-injecting himself into this conversation. "It makes the effect a little worse." Upon hearing this, Nagi shared in the smirk that was visible through Garlic Jr. and Kagato's faces. Even Cell had to admit now that the idea seemed a little better and more effective now than it did before.
"But as for now, we have to retire for the night," Nagi reminded her comrades, after which she turned her head in the direction of Ken-Ohki, who was beginning to get a little tired on that pillar. She walked over to him, and knocked on the glass dome that was on the pillar. Of course, he responded by stopping the buildup of energy that was beginning to wear him out tonight. The glass dome receded, and Ken-Ohki leapt off and went onto Nagi's shoulder, returning the color-differentiated and power-enhanced Ken-Souja back to the original Souja that it once was.
"Okay, Ken-Ohki. It's time to rest. We don't want you using too much power," Nagi said to the cabbit, following which he made his trademark "Chou!" noise. Garlic Jr. looked at Nagi and saw how much she cared for Ken-Ohki, which once again brought upon him a hint of irritation.
Meanwhile, at the Capsule Corporation, Vegeta made one last-minute phone call before going to sleep. Going into an area of the house that was quiet at this time, and dialing in a familiar number that he knew all too well, the Saiyan Prince held the phone up to his ear, patiently waiting for someone to answer the phone. After about sixteen seconds of ringing, the phone was finally answered, with a certain friend's tired "hello?" for an answer.
"Kakarot, it's me," he said quietly, so as not to wake anyone up. "Good to see you're still awake."
"Oh, hi Vegeta," Goku replied tiredly on the other end, followed by a yawn. Right then, Vegeta realized that the guy was obviously about to go to sleep, if he wasn't asleep already.
"If you're still awake, listen to me. I don't think we're done bothering Raditz about Ryoko," Vegeta began, a smirk coming onto his face as he said this. "I get the feeling that maybe something happened. I'm going to stop by your house to pick you up tomorrow so that we can go and check it out."
"Uh… okay, but could I please get off the phone right now? I need to get some sleep," the tired Goku replied. Vegeta's pride was almost sickened at the idea that Goku not only was only halfway paying attention, but that he was bluntly asking Vegeta to let him go to sleep. It was nearly enough to make the Saiyan Prince's blood curl. However, he resisted the urge to completely kick the crap out of anyone and instead opted for a reply of…
"Fine. Go get your sleep. I have mine to get to right now anyway. But tomorrow, get ready."
He hung up immediately after saying that, without even looking back at all to even try to realize that something was going wrong about this whole thing.
Meanwhile, somewhere out, deep in space, far away from the Earth's solar system, the Madri Scholar was in the midst of looking for something, and what looked like a young woman, apparently about 5 years or so older than Ayeka would appear to be to the naked eye, was standing alongside him. She resembled Sasami in that she had blue hair and pink eyes. However, her hair was a bit darker, and she was taller than Sasami, probably even a little bit taller than Tenchi. She wore some kind of royal or holy garment which basically consisted of the colors blue, white, and pink, which along with the accentuated glow she had, suggested that she was some sort of heavenly figure.
The area they were in was on a planet with an essential blue sky whose light was basically the color of every single thing that was on the planet. Currently, the Madri Scholar and the heavenly beauty (and this is not just giving the girl credit on her looks, she really is a kind of heavenly being) were standing at the edge of a pond, deep within a forest, stacked with trees, and this planet's usual highlight of blue. Overlooking the pond, the two apparently had no idea that they were being overlooked by some kind of blue phantasm that looked exactly like Vegeta did back before the planet Vegetasei was destroyed, with the old rit outfit and all. The only difference was his radiant blue phantom colors.
"So, please tell me again, what is this wand supposed to do?" the young woman asked, her voice just as beautiful as her figure. Though he was trained well enough to not lose focus in the face of beauty or fall in love at all during his work, the Madri Scholar did notice that for the first time in years, he was in the presence of something awesome.
"I don't even know for a fact whether it exists anywhere around here. But I believe that if it does, it may just be what we need to rid ourselves of all this villain mess," the Madri Scholar replied in confidence. "Due to this realization, I couldn't even overlook the Masaki house to see if anything happened with the pairing I had planned."
"You mean Raditz and Ryoko? I believe that something has happened," the woman replied, turning to him with a knowing smile on her face.
The Madri Scholar looked at her for a moment, then floated forward over the pond, going to its center before he finally came down into the water. It had that chlorine feeling to it, as if this was actually pool water. What's more is, it was colder than any pool or pond or ocean that one could ever find on Earth. However, the Madri Scholar was quite used to this, having experienced more diverse climates and seen more situations than that guy in the realm of the Teen Titans that saw every war in the history books.
Focused upon his search and acquire mission objective, the Scholar didn't need to swim or breathe or anything. He was more or less an omnipotent being, destined to never grow old or die unless he was destroyed somehow. This also meant he could breathe underwater and in space. The first few minutes of floating underwater and looking around in every direction only resulted in the sight of many different types of fish, a pearl similar to the Mermaid's Tier that Krillin had tried to win over that other Maron girl with back after Garlic Jr.'s first comeback was finished, and walls of rock which turned out to have nothing of value whatsoever. He was starting to get tired of this seemingly useless search, so after muttering something about how he'd never find the wand he was looking for at this rate, the wizard priest Scholar started to fly upwards to get out of this pool of a pond. However, before he could escape, something came up, literally roaring, at a super high speed rate and almost completely gobbled him in whole. Fortunately, he had noticed in time to sidestep it. It was a giant eel that apparently came up from the center of the floor of this place.
"You've got to be kidding. I never thought there were more than one of these things! And the one I remember seeing was in the depths of Noki Bay, at the Island Delfino in the Mushroom World! This is remarkable!" the Madri Scholar exclaimed, marveling in the complete and utter massiveness of the sight before him. Meanwhile, as he was in this expression, he started sinking, going downward, towards the very ocean floor that this eel came storming upward from. The eel, with its gaping mouth open and aqua blue teeth showing, was actually going downward as well. Barely noticing this, the Madri Scholar thought it was kind of strange, even after the eel closed his mouth close to the ocean bottom. The chlorine smell and feel started to dissipate a little, the lower and lower the Scholar and the eel went. Soon, the Scholar found himself touching the ocean floor, which actually felt a little damp and murky. He also noticed that down here, there was virtually no chlorine scent whatsoever. At the same time as he now realized that this alien eel was the source of the pool-type chlorine that filled up this water, the eel turned to him with its mouth closed. Its bright green eyes could have spooked just about anyone, and even slightly unnerved the Scholar himself.
The blue alien eel then jerked its head several times towards its left, with a relatively small grunting sound. And yet, even as relatively small as the eel's grunt was compared to how he could be sounding, the Madri Scholar actually wondered if the woman over the pond heard that. Another thought that went through the mind of the all-seeing wizard was one that he actually spoke it out:
"What in the realms is he doing? Is he trying to dance?" he asked himself, sweat dropping from his face as he continued to understand absolutely nothing that this eel was doing. "If so, then he could surely benefit from turning in more than one direction." But then, the eel started straining a little longer than one split second each time he turned in that direction, and the Madri Scholar began to understand. Wait a minute… that's it! He's obviously telling me something's that way!
Finally getting the picture, the all-seeing eye of the universe, who has apparently proven several times that not even he can be perfect, turned in that direction, and saw something. He came over to it, and picked it up by its long handle, only to be disappointed by finding that it was not what he was looking for. He furrowed his head in annoyance before floating up to the surface of the chlorine-filled pond, officially finished with this part of the world.
Meanwhile, standing over the surface of the pond, the woman was turned around and was looking to the sky, apparently thinking about something. A peaceful type of worry was visible from her gaze at the stars, which actually showed more than another.
"Sasami," was the name that escaped her mouth, before the Madri Scholar suddenly surfaced behind her. She turned back around as she heard the sound of something splash up from underneath the waters, and saw a soaked Scholar, without the happiest of looks on his face. He actually looked quite irritated at this point, to be perfectly honest. What's more, he was holding a wand, but it was not the one that they were looking for. He was holding a mostly thin and white wand with a pink star on it.
"As you can see, Tsunami," the Madri Scholar finally reported, "I did find a wand. But it wasn't the one we were looking for. It's more of a whore wand than anything else."
"Well, just because we couldn't find it yet doesn't mean we never will," Tsunami said with a semi-forced cheerfulness about her, trying to encourage the Scholar somewhat. "You did make a step forward, leading to this search in the first place."
"On that note, I did manage to sense its presence, and I still can, which means it does exist somewhere in this world," the Madri Scholar added, catching on to the positive attitude that Tsunami acted upon just now. Just as soon as he finished talking, he zoomed from floating over the center of the pond to standing right beside Tsunami. "Meanwhile, Tsunami, we have to think. How do we break the news to Sasami without getting her hopes up too much?"
"Oh, come on. You have to give her more credit than that," Tsunami replied condescendingly, taking the comment as if the Scholar was suggesting that Sasami was very quick to jump to hopes.
"I know she isn't exactly an irrational young girl, but still, we can't pretend that there's no chance she will jump at the mere idea of this," the Madri Scholar advised her in disagreement. "I mean, this is a fantasy, a dream, of hers that we're talking about here, that could get rid of all the nightmares this part of the universe is dealing with."
"I'm still very confident in Sasami. I don't think she'll be so rash, even if this is something she's always wanted to do," Tsunami expressed once again, then turned around, only to find that the all-seeing eye of the universe was gone.
And while the night passed on Earth, the Madri Scholar returned to our blue planet while Tsunami stayed in space to ponder on the issue of the wand that she and the Scholar had been searching for. The Vegeta-like phantasm
Once daylight was in full bloom over the planet earth once again, the Son family home was visited by a familiar being, which would happen to be the real Prince Vegeta, as he is today. Just coming down on the ground right next to the home, Vegeta walked the few steps around it to the door, then knocked on the door, without the usual pleasant quietness one would expect from a knock on the door. The door was opened shortly thereafter, but rather than Goku, Vegeta found his son, Gohan, dressed somewhat too casually for his own good.
"Oh, Vegeta. What's up?" Gohan greeted his father's friend and rival, smiling and extending his hand for a high five. Vegeta accepted the high five with a smirk on his face and just walked by the adult teenager, getting into the house.
"Good to see you're awake, now what about your father? Is he awake?"
"Well, yeah, but he's actually gone out in the woods again. This time, he took Goten with him, though. I think they're supposed to come back soon, like in the next ten minutes," Gohan explained to Vegeta, walking in and closing the door behind him.
"With any luck, the Satans are going to arrive in the next ten minutes as well, and I probably won't be able to take Kakarot with me for a little deed we need to pay the Masaki house," Vegeta replied with a small touch of frustration in his voice, prior to which he had stopped walking.
"The Masaki house? Why do you need to go there?" Gohan asked plainly, which obviously told Vegeta that he really didn't have a clue what he was talking about.
"I thought you would've found out by now, but I bothered Raditz yesterday about something that was kind of bothering me. It had to do with him and Ryoko, but also those troublesome terrorists that are giving us problems," Vegeta replied, turning around to Gohan with the same smirk on his face, except it grew a little darker, indicating mischief.
He's got that cruel smirk on tight. Uh-oh. It's either he knows something good, or I've gotta get out of here, Gohan thought, knowing exactly what that smirk could mean. However, before he could start to back away, Vegeta spoke up.
"I know something, Gohan. Something about Raditz and Ryoko, that I don't even think they realized," was the statement that came out of his mouth. Now Gohan was interested. His eyebrows were tilted upward, and he began to come a little closer. Vegeta immediately caught on that he had the boy's attention now. "Gohan, I have strong reason to believe that Raditz and Ryoko are in love."
"What!?" Gohan screamed out, with complete surprise and pandemonium written all over his face, as he was completely disbelieving of what he was hearing at the moment. When did he suddenly become the love judge? "Hold on a minute! What do you mean!?"
"Nagi and Kagato made references to it. I thought of it as a mere taunt to upset my pride, seeing as how I'm not quick to make friends with many people, especially ones that are prone to making personal mistakes like Ryoko, but then I realized that their every move seems to be synchronized and planned out, and it's not based on the past. It's as if they completely know us now just as well as any of them ever did before. Then, I realized that whether they were taunting at me or they were just trying to tell me something I didn't know in a way that would make it seem like they were taunting me, just to upset my pride, that I had to find out. So, yesterday, I explained it to Raditz, and I demanded to know whether he and Ryoko loved each other. His reply was one of complete uncertainty. I believe he was thinking about it. I don't know exactly how he answered my question in his mind, but I'm waiting for Kakarot so that I can take him to go bother him about it, and/or find out." Vegeta answered, detailing everything from the notion he had to the confrontation with Raditz. Then, he noticed something. The house seemed a little emptier than before, for some reason. Having an idea as to what it could be, Vegeta went to the kitchen. He found that no one was there, and there was no food simmering over any stove. Stereotypical yet correct, his assumption was also kind of obvious.
"Wait a minute! Your mother's not here, is she?" Vegeta finally asked. Now, this one was a much easier thing for Gohan to answer than Vegeta's suspicion about Raditz and Ryoko, which he proved when explaining that his mother had gone with Goku and Goten, hoping they'd be able to share more quality time together, as well as find some fish or something else that they could add to tonight's dinner.
"Amazing, isn't it? I thought she wasn't here, when I didn't hear her yelling about how she refuses to believe it, and she can't have two outlaws for in-laws," Vegeta disclosed, sending the son of the aforementioned irritant mother into a nervous laugh.
"Hold on. Outlaws?" Gohan then asked.
"History," Vegeta answered. Just as he expected, in one word, Gohan was able to grasp the point of what he was talking about.
"Oh, yeah," were the words Gohan used to express that he did get it. Suddenly, the duo could hear a discharge of air, and in their midst stood two people that Vegeta happened to be talking about. What's more is, they were holding hands, as a couple would. As Gohan looked on with a confused expression on his face, Vegeta merely smiled.
"Hey!" Ryoko greeted cheerfully, waving to Vegeta, while Raditz extended his arm towards the Saiyan prince with his thumb and index fingers stuck out.
"So I see you both finally couldn't keep away from each other," Vegeta jested, trying his hand at humor while saying he was right at the same time. Raditz scoffed, closed his eyes, and flashed a bright smile at the mere idea that Vegeta seemed to be implying somewhat.
"No, we didn't do this and that," Ryoko replied, sticking to words. "We've got more important things to worry about right now, like waiting for most of our friends at home to get over it, beating the crap out of those bad guys, and bothering all of you guys about it to no end, which is why we woke up early and snuck out in the first place."
And since I can't think of what happens next in that scene, I believe that now would be a good time to check out what's going on at the Masaki house… where Ayeka is sitting there on the sofa, unable to pay attention to her soaps, except this time it's because she's boiling over in frustration at not hearing dishes get cleaned and water running down the kitchen sink. Ryoko was supposed to do that today, and she was counting on the fact that Raditz would wake up early and probably even convince her to do the same and get her chore done for once. However, this was unfortunately not the case, for some inexplicable reason. Looks like she didn't change for Raditz after all. But then, she heard footsteps trailing down from over her. Someone was coming downstairs. Once that someone came downstairs, that someone turned to notice Ayeka, then approached her.
"Ayeka, I checked in Ryoko's room, and I didn't see her or Raditz there, or anywhere in the house. Have you seen them?" the person asked. She could hear, and see once she turned around, that the person was Tenchi himself, wearing a green shirt and blue jeans. Even in a casual outfit such as that, she thought he was glorious.
"Why, no, Lord Tenchi, I haven't seen either one of them," Ayeka replied honestly. "I thought for certain that they were still in their room sleeping, seeing as how I'm hearing nothing from the kitchen. But that's just like her, don't you agree? It's her turn to do the dishes, and now that she wakes up early, that demon woman has to go sneak out of here. She has absolutely no respect for her own responsibilities. And apparently, that ruffian Raditz is no better than her. Personally, I think you should just throw them out if they're going to skip their chores like that, wouldn't you?" Tenchi was barely even listening to Ayeka's disingenuous continuation, through which she tried to take some of Tenchi's favor away from Ryoko and Raditz. He was sweat dropping at this incredibly "entertaining" situation, before suddenly getting called upstairs by two kid voices. But it wasn't two kid girl voices, it was two kid guy voices.
Going back up to the second floor, then to Ryoko's room, Tenchi was absolutely shocked to find that there were three people inside the room. One, was the Madri Scholar. The second, was someone he hadn't seen in a bit of a while: Tsunami, one of the Chousin goddesses, the one that's linked to Sasami. The third, was a child, slightly taller than Trunks and Goten. He wore a strange-looking blue and yellow vest, and around his waist was a teal green sash over the top of silky white pants. He also had black shoes and black wristbands on. His hair was standing on end Super Saiyan style, but was actually mostly black, while the sides and back were in that purple/silver mix which was the color of Trunks' hair. His eyebrows and pupils were also black. He was smiling in a bit of a playful and brash way, with his hands on his hips.
"Scholar? Tsunami? And… wait a minute, who's this?" Tenchi barely managed to utter in his surprised state.
"Any more surprised at seeing the three of us here, and you probably would've fainted," the cocky kid stated, catching Tenchi's attention a little bit. "Didn't Ryoko ever tell you guys about me? I'm Goten and Trunks, fused together for thirty minutes at a time, thanks to a ridiculous dance we learned about from dad and Piccolo. Anyway, I came here to bother Sasami, and apparently, so did they, but for some kind of important reason. That reminds me. (calling downstairs) Sasami, come up here! We've gotta talk to you!"
"Hold on just a second! Calm down! She's outside, in the fields with Yugi and Ryo-Ohki," Tenchi informed the trio in front of him, mostly the impatient child of the trio. Said impatient child merely replied with a simple, "Oh."
Meanwhile, over on the planet of the Grand Kai (not to be confused with the land of the Supreme Kais, that place has lavender skies, not pink skies) the Northern and Western quadrant King Kais were arguing in front of the Grand Kai's mansion again, and the Greek legend person Olibu, the sweat dropping tag team of Krillin and Yamcha, and the West Quadrant's pride and joy, the majestic green warrior Pikkon, were right behind their respective teachers.
"Even if all three of your boys behind you all faced Pikkon at once, there's no way they could beat him!" the West Kai egotistically claimed, shouting in the North Kai's face.
"Oh, yeah!? You're dead wrong! I know that in a serious fight, Olibu could clean up Pikkon faster than your boy took care of Frieza in Hell the first time!" the Northern (and our favorite) King Kai shouted right back at the West Kai!
"Sorry, North Kai! But Pikkon is the strongest fighter in the history of HFIL! There's no way I'm letting you say any of your puke level punks are better than him!"
"Whoa! Calm down! We ain't ready to have another tournament yet!" a certain voice was heard booming from on top of the mansion. It was actually the Grand Kai, who was dressed in his blue vest and jeans outfit once again. The Grand Kai did a somersault jump all the way down from the roof to the outside floor before them, then turned on his boom box - which he had purposely set up there - to Warren G's "Regulate" from 1995, after which he started to do several break dancing moves. After he stopped and turned off the boom box, he noticed that the two Kais and the students behind them actually were kn their knees with their heads bowed in respect towards him.
"Alright, you can stop bowin' now," the Grand Kai said, excusing them to stand up and look at him once again, which they immediately acted in accord with. "Now, I sent y'all here to tell you about a serious situation that's goin' down on Earth right now."
"Pardon me for asking, Grand Kai sir, but… what's Earth?" the West Kai asked, annoying the North Kai and his three top pupils behind him to an extent.
"The blue planet in the North Quadrant, West Kai. Now you know this from Olibu and Goku already, and I know you've been following this, so stop trying to set up shop for another fightin' tournament, man," the Grand Kai answered, adding his disappointed two cents into it as he did so. "I actually came here to tell y'all some very important news about the situation there. But first, I'm gonna need a few friends to finally get over here."
And as if right on cue, Sasami was standing before the two Kaiosamas, and standing in front of her, alongside the Grand Kai, were the Madri Scholar, Tsunami, and Gotenks. All of them appeared in a flash, Kibitoshin was also there, and none of the members were actually touching each other. Somehow, he had managed to bring them all there via Instant Transmission without them having to establish any physical contact. One would think it must have been some kind of Kai magic or something, but it actually had to do with the Madri Scholar. How, we will not tell you, but we will leave you to wonder. Kibitoshin stood back and watched the entire discussion go down, hoping to have some news to report to the others.
"Now, if you guys were following the situation on Earth, you know that Kagato, Cell, Garlic Jr., and Nagi, the four scourges of the universe responsible for Krillin and Yamcha being here instead of alive, are currently within a very powerful spaceship and in the plotting stages of some plan to take down the Earth's special warrior forces, the combination of the many Z-senshi and the Masaki clan. From there, they will have nothing standing in their way of taking over this part of the universe. However, we have discovered something that has the capability to grant us the power necessary to stand up to those unholy bastards in power," the Madri Scholar explained to the people before him.
"Last night, the Madri Scholar actually sensed something intriguing that I think you guys should know about, specifically one of you," Tsunami continued, looking specifically towards the one who can officially be called her other half, Sasami.
"So now you're finally getting to the important stuff about Sasami?" Gotenks asked, turning to Tsunami with boredom written all over him.
"Yes, we're getting to the important stuff. Now, in case none of you realized why this realm seems to be more full than usual, it's because this is the Dragon Ball realm and the Muyo realm assimilated by a series of events which was sparked by yours truly… and unfortunately resulted in Cell's escape from HFIL, and this whole bad situation coming to be in the first place," the Madri Scholar admitted, before finally getting to business.
"Alternate realm theorems will be explained later. As for now, we have an important announcement. From what I know, there is a realm somewhat parallel to the Muyo realm, which is one of the few magical realms in the entire universe. In that alternate realm, Tsunami is a candidate to be the queen of a magical world called Juraihelm, the parallel version of the majestic planet Jurai. Sasami is an ordinary girl with an annoying karaoke singer for a mother and Tenchi for a brother, until Tsunami picks her to become Pretty Sammy, a magical girl similar to the fabled Sailor Scout girls of the Mahou Sailors realm, and a champion of justice. Ironically, Sasami over here (points to the little princess) once had a fantasy about becoming Pretty Sammy in this realm. Last night, I sensed an energy, that was almost identical to that of Pretty Sammy. We don't know exactly what it is for a fact, and we haven't exactly gotten close enough to pinpoint its location, but I have strong reason to believe that it's the wand of Pretty Sammy, for some reason existing in this realm as well." A gasp of happiness came from Sasami as soon as those words were spoken.
"Wait a minute. You mean the fantasy's actually real!?" Sasami asked loudly, her eyes beaming with hope at the mere idea. "You mean I can actually become Pretty Sammy and become strong enough to save the world!?"
"Yes, Sasami. It truly can happen. But," Tsunami revealed, "only if we can find the wand."
"Well, find it already! Can you imagine what's going to happen if we do!? Better yet, if we don't!?" Gotenks intervened, much more interested now than he had been before he found out about Pretty Sammy. "Look! If we don't get this done, we may never find a way to be stronger than Kagato or Cell! That means we've got no chance of destroying any of them! Meanwhile, if we do, it's Pretty Sammy and Gotenks, the greatest tag team of all time! All four of those enemies wouldn't even stand a chance! We'd be able to beat them easy!"
"Last I recall, Gotenks, your fusion only has a sweet six minutes left, so you can be quiet now. Also, if you're okay with being nothing more than a sidekick, since Pretty Sammy would be astoundingly stronger than you, then the tag team would be perfect. You're not even good enough to defeat Tenchi or Gohan, let alone Kagato. Meanwhile, Pretty Sammy would have the potential to be strong enough to destroy each of those villains, as well as the Souja," the Madri Scholar explained, causing Gotenks and Sasami to look at him, though Gotenks' look was cross and angry, while Sasami's was one of happiness at hearing the potential amount of power that she could have, and what she could do with it. "However, I do have reason to believe that this will not be an exact copy of Pretty Sammy."
"I think I know what your reasoning is," the West Kai spoke up, after which he cleared his throat, attempting to act smart. "Before I begin, I'd like to tell you that I only have an idea of what this alternate realm stuff is, and I have no idea if I'm right, so I'm going to pretend I am. Anyway, first of all, neither the Dragon Ball realm nor the actual Muyo realm it's been merged with, I think, is actually a magic realm. Pretty Sammy, obviously, is the magical girl alter-ego of Sasami. My hunch is that this isn't the magical girl Pretty Sammy, but some kind of awesome fighter girl that would fit as our version of her. Secondly, my guess is, there has to be some universal rule where two people from different realms can't possibly be exactly the same. Also, you did say the energy you sensed was almost identical to Pretty Sammy, remember?"
"Oh, and Sasami. I have to tell you," Kibitoshin cut in. "You won't help yourself if you get your hopes up too much about this Pretty Sammy business. Remember, they haven't found the wand, and no one is close to knowing where it is."
"Don't worry, I understand," Sasami reassured the fused Supreme Kai, smiling and turning to him with a wink and a thumbs up. She then turned to Tsunami and asked her something. "Tsunami, you will keep looking for the wand for me, though, right? Because I really want this to happen, and I think we might need it to happen."
"I know, and I will, Sasami," Tsunami said, taking her own turn at reassuring the little Princess, before noticing the Kais' students behind her in the background. "Oh, you're all wondering what this has to do with you, right?"
"Now you notice them!? It's my turn to talk," Gotenks hastily decided, taking a few steps forward. "Krillin, Yamcha, I gotta tell you guys, you're both terribly missed. I - or at least Trunks - was actually making jokes about you, Yamcha, before the Madri Genius here told us you got killed. Krillin, from what I know, Eighteen was crying over you when you got killed. You guys are a big part of our motivation to kick those evil idiots' butts."
"I saw the whole thing in a vision, and it scared me a lot," Sasami added, aiding the fused kid as she turned towards the ones behind the North Kai. "By the way, I'm sorry about what happened."
"Thanks. So you're Sasami, huh? I can't wait to meet the rest of your friends," Krillin stated ecstatically.
"Your wife, Eighteen. She's kind of friends with Ryoko already," Sasami
"Speaking of wh…" the Madri Scholar began to say something, before immediately stopping himself. "…never mind."
"O… kay…" Gotenks sounded off, sweat dropping in the somewhat perceivable weirdness of the next statement.
The discussion soon mostly dissolved into pleasantries, though it did somewhat delve into a warning from the Grand Kai to the four warriors behind the Kaiosamas that they might get deployed to the living part of this realm for awhile so as to aid on the battlefield. Within minutes, the Gotenks fusion was over, and the whole thing just got boring, so the Grand Kai's guests all decided to leave.
Meanwhile, now Gohan, Vegeta, Ryoko, and Raditz were standing outside the Son home.
"Well, we've gotta go to Master Roshi's now. I can't wait to hear from Eighteen about this," Ryoko said as she and Raditz walked forward, holding hands.
"Right. See you around," Gohan said, waving goodbye to his uncle and possible future aunt-in-law, while Vegeta merely looked completely embarrassed and annoyed.
"See ya," Raditz said, effectively ending the conversation when he and the space pirate flew away. Minutes later, Goku and Chichi arrived back home, smiling, with a big yellowtail fish in Goku's arm. Noticing Vegeta ranting about something to Gohan, Goku called to him and asked him what was getting him so worked up.
"I'll tell you what's getting me so worked up, Kakarot!" Vegeta shouted angrily as he turned toward Goku and Chichi, and began walking over to them. "You left me with your son while Ryoko and Raditz came here and flaunted their relationship! They completely humiliated the living hell out of me, and he (points sharply towards Gohan) didn't help me at all! Now they're gone and going over to Master Roshi's, and you weren't there!"
"Relax, Vegeta," Goku replied, much more calmly than his smaller buddy's tirade. As he said this, he put on a closed-eye smile and slightly raised it so that Vegeta could see it, for emphasis of what he was advising the Prince to do. "Listen. Trunks was actually hiding his energy and following you when you were coming here until he noticed us, so he sneaked over to us and got Goten to fuse into Gotenks. Then, they just sped along and went over somewhere, I think to the Masaki house. I don't know exactly why they went there, but I think they actually said something about bothering Sasami and Yugi."
"You've got to be kidding!" Vegeta shouted, after which he put both of his hands on his friend's shoulders, hard. "Trunks went fused with your son to go bother those two little girls!? What is this world coming to!?"
"Well, he is a mischievous little boy," Chichi pointed out matter-of-factly, which seriously offended Vegeta.
"Shut up!" Vegeta commanded her, to which Goku immediately realized, "here we go again." However, this time, he turned out to be wrong, as Chichi just gave a haughty laugh and walked inside. Goku, after breathing a sigh of relief, followed suit.
"I'm leaving!" Vegeta yelled in frustration, before immediately flying away. He didn't even give Gohan the chance to say goodbye this time. Gohan took the opportunity to finally have a small laugh, before following his parents inside.
END OF CHAPTER, PREVIEW OF THE NEXT
-Kagato: "It sounds to me like they've gotten their hands on a wand. We have to take Sasami, now."
-Cell: "What's the big deal about that wand? It looks like an accessory for a pretty girl outfit on Halloween. Absolutely nothing for any of us to worry about."
-Garlic Jr.: "Hold on one second. Pretty girl… shoot! Is that the wand of this Pretty Sammy magical girl that Sasami can turn into?"
-Kagato: "Actually, no, but it seems to me like they're searching for it. I can't imagine what would happen if they found the right wand, though…"
-Garlic Jr.: "Well, what are we waiting for!? On the next Shift of Hearts, the first Dragon Ball Z / Tenchi Muyo! crossover posted here in about a year, we have to kidnap Sasami and keep her from the magic power in Chapter 22: Little Princess in Distress. Otherwise, it will doom our very plans!"