What an adventure this will be.
Chapter 25: Cold Reception
After their encounter with Colonel Silver, Goku and Kisa decided to pursue the next Dragonball on the radar. This time their journey lead them into a snowy mountain range. It became impossible to fly the nimbus with the cold, so Kisa decided to pilot one of Colonel Silver's airplanes. Bulma had taught her a little about flying capsule vehicles while they were in the city. Unfortunately this did nothing to help Kisa as the planes mechanisms simply froze up in the subzero temperatures, causing it to crash into the snow soon after. It took a while for Kisa to regain consciousness, but when she did, Goku was nowhere to be found. She slowly tried to stand up and began making her way towards the wreckage. She was freezing. Absolutely freezing. But luckily relatively unharmed by the crash. She hugged herself in an attempt to regain some warmth and slowly made her way inside the wreckage. No sign of Goku. No sign of her backpack either. Where could he have gone? He couldn't possibly be death, he was way tougher than she was. If she survived, so did he. She sighed and sat down on a piece of metal, searching through her pockets for anything useful. She found only a handkerchief and.. the dragon radar! Perhaps she could use that to locate her backpack. Hopefully it still held the five-star Dragonball inside. She dusted some snow off of the radar's screen and pressed on the top button a few times. She could still see the Dragonball they were originally after. She was a lot closer to it now then she was before. However there was another reading close by. That had to be the five star ball. Kisa smiled. Finally some good news.
Kisa had been walking through the snow for what seemed like hours before happening upon a local village. Unfortunately, the cold was just too much for Kisa's body to handle and she slowly fell to her knees. She tried crawling through the snow but eventually she couldn't move at all anymore. Was this the end for her?
There was only darkness surrounding Kisa. Darkness and voices. Voices of people she couldn't recognize. Was she dead? No.. No, she was definitely alive. She ached all over. But strangely enough, she did feel a lot warmer. "…be okay?" She heard one of the voices ask another. She recognized this voice. She tried to move her body, but to no avail. Instead she tried opening her eyes, slowly but surely she began to see again. She was in a small home with pink walls lying on top of a bed in what seemed to be a living room. Next to her stood a young girl with orange hair, an older woman wearing a purple dress and.. Goku? Goku smiled at her and held her hand. "Hey! You're awake! Don't worry Kisa, you're safe here. These people saved me from the cold too." She nodded at him and looked at the little girl standing next to her. "I found you near the forest. You were frozen stiff, so I brought you home to warm up. The name's Suno by the way." Kisa slowly tried to sit up with help from Goku and spoke. "Thanks for the rescue. I'm Kisa." Suno smiled at her. "I know who you are, Goku told us all about you. He was really worried, you know." Goku blushed. "Uh yeah.. I'm just glad you're okay." Kisa smiled at him and spoke. "So, where are we?"
"Snowfall village." The older woman told her as she continued working on something in the kitchen. After a few seconds she walked over to Kisa and handed her a cup of hot chocolate. "There you go, dear. That should help you warm up." Kisa silently thanked the woman. "I also found this near the plane." Suno said, holding up Kisa's backpack. Kisa sighed in relief. "So tell us about yourselves. What are you doing all the way out here? We don't get a lot of visitors." Suno asked them. "We came out here looking for a Dragonball." Goku said, reaching into Kisa's bag and holding up the five star ball. "They look like this." Suno's eyes opened wide and the older woman dropped her plate in horror. "Are you with the Red Ribbon army?!" The older woman asked them as both she and Suno backed away from them. Kisa raised an eyebrow at them. "What makes you think that?"
"We're no soldiers. But we did run into some on the way here." Goku added. "Thank goodness." The older woman said in relief. "The red ribbon army came to our village a few days ago, they forced every man in the village to help them look for the Dragonball."
"Including my father.." Suno added. Kisa frowned at that. "I guess the army didn't have enough soldiers to search through the entire area. It doesn't surprise me that they forced people into slave labor."
"If there aren't that many soldiers, then why didn't the villagers fight them?" Goku asked. "Because the army's too strong! They have weapons!" Suno said sadly. "And if we don't do what they say, they'll kill our village chief. They are holding him hostage inside Muscle tower."
"Perhaps if we give them your Dragonball, they'll go away?" The older woman suggested. Kisa frowned and spoke. "No, there's another Dragonball nearby. They won't stop until they've found that one as well."
"Don't worry." Goku said. "We've fought the army before, we can beat them." Suno gasped. "What? Are you crazy? You're just.." Before she could finish her sentence, a large rumbling noise outside interrupted her. Kisa walked over towards a nearby window and looked through it. Outside of the house stood an army tank, with in front of it two soldier's holding sniper rifles. "It's the army." She said quietly. "You two better hide." The older woman told them. Kisa smirked. "No worries. We're stronger then we look." With that she opened the door and walked outside, Goku following closely behind her. "Would you look at that? We've been looking all over for you kids." One of the soldiers said. "You've found us." Goku said. "Now what?" The soldier smirked and immediately fired his gun at the two of them. After about a minute of gunfire, both Goku and Kisa stood in front of them unharmed. "Is that all?" Kisa asked them mockingly. Goku jumped up and charged the soldiers, knocking them both out with a single kick. "Unbelievable!" Suno said, running outside towards Goku and Kisa. "You really are strong." Goku smiled. "Thanks. So which way is the tower?"