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The many escapades of Zarbon: Volume Two

Zarbon is targeted for revenge

Zarbon was hanging out with Perfect Cell, Kermit, and Shallot over at Cell's arena out in the middle of nowhere. "Yeah, me and my girl both enjoyed the dinner outing with Gajeel and Levy that we had last week," said Shallot as he was telling a story to the others, "They have some amazing restaurants over in Magnolia Town."

"Well tough luck for Roshi as Magnolia Town is one of the places that he got himself banned from," Call remarked, "You know, at this point it would be a lot quicker to list all of the locations that Roshi is not banned from."

"Oh, I just remembered," Kermit began, "Levy was one of the fatasses at the fat camp where Zarbon screwed up by letting that Mineta boy drop dead, which eventually led to Mineta's resurrection as a tall and rather muscular homunculus bent on revenge against Zarbon."

Rolling his eyes in mildly annoyed exasperation, Zarbon said, "Get on with it, Kermit."

To Shallot, Kermit asked, "How's Levy doing right now?"

Shallot opened his mouth to speak, but he got cut off as he and the others all heard Mineta cry out, "About damn time I was able to track your sorry ass down!"

The guys all turned to see Mineta, tall and muscular, stride right towards the arena, a look of fierce determination on his face. Zarbon could tell full well that the returned boy was there for him. The elite space warrior from another planet was nervous, but he stood his ground with Cell, Shallot, and Kermit all backing him up on this one as Mineta approached.

Gesturing to the guys with Zarbon, Mineta snarled threateningly, "The lot of you had better get out of my way right now! It's only your jackass buddy behind you who I wanna wreck!"

"Look kid," Shallot began as he attempted to reason with the vengeful teen homunculus that stood before him, "I can understand, maybe even appreciate a little bit as well, your reason to be mad at Zarbon. But that's not going to be fixed by you getting revenge on him, especially if said revenge involves inflicting grievous bodily harm, if not something worse, upon Zarbon."

Mineta turned sharply to face Shallot, giving him his focus. "So what am I supposed to do, huh? Just let him get away with letting me die?!"

"I'm not saying that you aren't allowed to get back at him for how he allowed his gross negligence to screw you over," Shallot clarified, "All I'm saying is that it can't be bitter revenge. There has got to be a better way to settle this, young man."

Mineta, looking a bit shaken, took a step back. He looked down at his feet as he considered the saiyan's words. However, Mineta soon briskly shook his head. "No!" Mineta exclaimed, "No, I have to destroy that bastard who had allowed me to die! It's the only way I'll feel better!"

The guys all saw, to their sad regret, that there was simply no reaching the troubled Mineta. "...If you do kill Zarbon," Kermit began, "Does he have to remain dead for good, or would it be cool if the other guys and I use the Dragon Balls to bring Zarbon back to life after you've gotten your revenge on him for screwing your life over?"

"He's gotta die and stay dead!" Mineta yelled, "Nothing else will be enough to satisfy me!"

Sighing in a regretful tone, Kermit replied as a single tear fell down the side of his face, "...Very well." Kermit then powered up to his strong form as he, Cell, and Shallot all stood ready to defend Zarbon. "Do it, pussy. No balls."

"Like even the lot of you guys together will be enough of a force to overcome the power of my massive gains!" Mineta declared, "I can take whatever pounding you all can dish out, then pound all of your asses right back!"

"OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHOOOOOOOO!" Zarbon cried out in aroused, sensual pleasure.

"Not that kind of pounding, you fucking bastard!" Mineta screamed at the elite space warrior from another planet. The homunculus teen took a step forward, but stopped when he and the others there heard the vengeful, challenging cry of a monstrous beast. Looking in the direction that the cry came from, Mineta saw something that made him go wide-eyed with sudden alarm, prompting him to turn tail and flee.

As Zarbon and the guys all cheered in celebration for being saved from Mineta again, they heard that same cry again. They all turned to look to see the source of the cry, and as such they saw what had made Mineta flee; it was none other than Palkia, the legendary Pokémon, standing right next to Dawn who looked none too happy as she eyed Zarbon.

"Ready to get your ass whooped, you damn jackass?" Dawn practically snarled at Zarbon. With dry looks on their faces, Cell, Shallot, and Kermit all took off, leaving Zarbon to fend for himself on this one. To his credit, Zarbon knew that he wasn't going to be getting out of this one scot free.

Author's notes;

The saga of the returned Mineta aiming to get revenge on Zarbon continues, although it's stopped for the time being because a ten-year-old girl who was able to make a primordial space deity her bestie wanted to bring her displeasure with Zarbon to the front counter. Anyway, the next escapade will see Zarbon and some friends go to a human solider camp to help with training for combat in an ongoing conflict. Take care.