Gohan Ball Z

!SPECIAL EFFECTS! "THOUGHTS

Chapter One

In the northeast part of the planet, several miles west of the city of Monti Innevati, a powerful warrior who greatly valued his beauty and physical appearance watched a large, ten by ten feet monitor placed on the opposite wall of his mansion-sized castle. He had long green braided hair while wearing a tiara and earrings that were reminiscent of a high-class prince. He was very vain, regarding himself to be superior to all others due to his background and inhuman good looks. His light blue skin and golden eyes glistened in the light as he wore a long blue cape, pink arm warmers, blue leg warmers, and blue trunks. Along with the clothes he wore, he had dual shoulder pads and brown boots along with a blue scouter that told him how powerful his potential opponents were.

Zarbon watched the screen which showed a picture of a mountain. As the lord of the manor regarded the screen as he sat in his king's chair, a servant came running in.

"All is ready, Lord Zarbon!" an anatomical creature that looked like a cross between a crocodile and a buzzard announced.

"Good. Release the Krakadon!"

At that point, a fire-breathing dragon with green, leathery skin and even darker green scales, huge bat-like wings, and solid black eyes broke out of a large mountain. The dragon's one hundred foot long body which was also fifty-five feet in width took to the sky, its four limbs with claws at the end grasping the air as it moved faster and faster.

"How long will it take to get to Vanderberg Village?" Zarbon asked.

"Less than five minutes, Lord Zarbon!"

"Good. Make sure I can see the destruction of that village as it happens. I gave those people every chance to bow down to me and they refused!"

"Yes, Lord Zarbon!"

Upon hearing his servant's confirmation and watching the creature on the video screen make its way towards its destination, Zarbon reclined in his chair, relaxing and smiling at the idea of the destruction of the village that had rejected his rule. Other villages and cities would learn much from the destruction of Vanderberg. Then Zarbon rocked his head back and laughed at the future demise of his enemies.

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As the colossal dragon ravaged the outer perimeters of the Vanderberg Village working his way inward, a middle-aged man ran towards his home where his son worked in the backyard, chopping wood and cultivating the vegetables in their garden.

"Haru, come here!"

Haru was a teenager of medium height, weight, and build with short-cropped, light brown hair and brown eyes. Despite his seemingly high agility with which he had run to his father, the boy was sickly with the area of his solar plexus being caved in.

"Yes, Father. I've…"

"That's nice, Haru. But you need to leave the village!"

"Leave the village? What do you mean I have to leave the village?"

The father regarded his son for a moment.

"I have a friend from whom I want you to learn. He can also heal you of your maladies. After you've worked under him for a few months you'll come back here fully healed. By then I'll train you to be an elder of the village," the father said with a knowing look.

"Ooh! I get it! Where do you want me to go?" the boy retorted as explosions went off several miles away.

"Here, take this note and show it to my friend whose name is Master Gohan. He's bald and old, but he's a great master healer who can teach you things I cannot."

"How will I get there, Father?"

"About that."

The man waved his hands creating a portal. "Walk through the portal, and you'll be right there. Now go!"

"All right, Father! I'll see you again!"

"As soon as the boy had walked through the portal, the explosions got closer and closer until the very house the older man had occupied at the moment blew up, killing him and everyone else in the area. As it was the whole village had been destroyed along with most of the people living there.

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As soon as Haru had walked through the portal, he found himself several feet in front of a short, bald, stubby old man with small dark eyes and a bushy white mustache and eyebrows. He wore a Chinese martial arts uniform, which consisted of a sleeveless orange jacket over a long-sleeved black shirt. He also wore a green hat.

"Who are you and how did you find your way here?!" the old man stated.

"My father told me you were a great healer, Master Gohan," Haru answered as he handed the note to the old man.

Upon seizing the paper and reading it, Master Gohan nodded his head.

"All right. Your father was a good friend of mine so I'll help heal you of your malady."

"Now that we've been introduced let's get started."

However, at that moment, bombs went off around them. Then half a dozen dark green jets with huge, jug-sized centers came bearing down on them.

"What the…" Haru gasped as he looked up.

"We're under attack!" Master Gohan screamed.

"Oh, no!"

"Take cover!" Master Gohan called out as he grabbed the boy and dove for cover.

Before Master Gohan could do anything else, a near-miss missile explosion sent Haru up flying into the air, rendering him unconscious.

!BOOM! went another missile destroying the cottage house. Another missile barely missed Master Gohan who dove out of the way.

"Runaway and take cover, Haru! I'll try to get them to chase me!" Gohan called out as he ran away as fast as his stubby legs could take him.

"Yeow!" Gohan called out as a bomb came close to blowing him up. Then he noticed the unconscious form of Haru in the shrubbery several yards away from him.

"Idiot! Our orders are to bring the old man in alive!" an officer sitting behind the pilot of the lead military jet with an insignia of two white R's side by side with a red background to it called out, noticing the lifeless form of Haru on the ground.

"Yes, Colonel Violet!" the others snapped in response.

"He had better be alive for your sakes!" the colonel answered.

"Yes, Colonel Violet!"

Colonel Violet was an attractive young woman with fair white skin, blue eyes, violet hair, and a buxom figure. She wore protective blue glasses, gloves, and red boots. In addition to that, she wore a green flannel top with the Red Ribbon logo and orange military trousers with a red strap.

At that point, Gohan ran away from the carnage of the house that had been his home for decades. Upon looking back, he noticed Haru's dead body several feet away from him. As his feet crunched the wood wreckage of the trees on the ground, he looked up and regarded the flying aircraft bearing down on him. Then he grabbed the pieces of wood around him and threw them up at the planes overhead.

"What are you people doing here?! You've killed the kid I was going to help!" Gohan screamed, raising his fist in the air. Then he threw more pieces of wood into the air, one piece striking an aircraft, causing it to go crashing down.

A few moments later, one of the jet fighters got too close allowing the old man to jump up in the air and kick the nose of the craft causing it to smash into the plane behind it and blow up causing the both of them to eventually crash into a nearby lake.

"Send in the marines!" Violet commanded, prompting twenty men wearing light armor to come out of nowhere and blast Gohan with laser rifles.

Despite there being dozens of laser bolts shooting off in his direction, Gohan barely moved, seeming to stand still as he evaded the deadly rays.

"Move in!" the lead marine ordered as he shot forward into Gohan only to be struck with a snap kick that sent him flying back into his men.

"Oof!"

At that point, Gohan shot straight into the air right into one of the military jets that had destroyed his home.

"Hyaa!" Gohan screamed as he kicked the nose of the jet causing a chain reaction that blew the aircraft into fragments, prompting the crew to jump out of the craft with their parachutes on.

Upon seeing jet after jet get destroyed by their quarry, Colonel Violet pressed a button streaming a barely visible volume of gas out of her jet as she circled the area, staying a couple of miles over the battle.

Then the Red Ribbon marines that were still conscious organized themselves against Gohan. As it was, a third lied on the ground, another third crouched on one knee behind the first third, and the last third stood up behind both groups.

"Fire!"

Laser bolts flew all around Gohan who dodged, gliding on the ground to his left and his right as was needed to avoid the deadly energy. However, the squad of Red Ribbon marines was too thorough with their gunfire thus a few laser bolts struck maneuverable martial artist, finally dropping him to the ground.

"We got him!" a Red Ribbon Marine officer called out.

"What are you people doing here?!" Gohan called out as he stumbled to his feet, regarding the destruction of everything around him.

"We're the Red Ribbon Army and we're taking you in for questioning!" Colonel Violet called out from the loudspeaker in her jet. Then her men poised their weapons on the martial arts master.

"I'm not going anywhere, especially after you've killed the kid I was going to help! Now get out of here!" That having been said, Gohan leaped towards the marines shooting at him executing acrobatic cartwheels up and over the gunfire of his adversaries. Then he came crashing down on them, attacking, punching, and kicking the marines faster than the untrained eye could follow. In a matter of seconds, the men were on the ground unconscious.

"Send in the armored troopers!"

At that point, four 12 foot robotic-looking mechanisms came out of the forest surrounding Gohan. Each heavily armored trooper was of a metallic grey with larger-than-life limbs that shone in the sunlight, creating a blinding glare. These mecha monsters moved with a speed that belied their size as they rapidly moved in on the martial master.

Upon being surrounded, Gohan zipped into the closest armored trooper fist first with his knees bent, damaging it and knocking out the pilot with the jarring effect in the process. Then one more came running at him from his right while another came at him from his left. Instead of despairing of his situation, Gohan glided forward at the right moment, letting the two robots smash into each other.

"Stop him, you fools!" Violet ordered.

The last armored trooper leaped backward several feet and fired his huge laser cannon, prompting the fleet-footed martial artist to leap into the air up and over the cannon bolt that shot past under him. However, at the same time, Colonel Violet fired at him from the safety of her own plane, drawing blood. Despite his injuries, Gohan came crashing down on the armored trooper feet first, partly crushing it into the ground.

"It's not over yet!" Colonel Violet called out as she had her pilot fly away from the island and double back, firing at Gohan from a good distance who was barely able to recoil backward in order to avoid the deadly fire that had gotten too close for comfort.

"Cough! Cough!"

"The knockout gas is working! Now it's time to hit him with more!" the colonel announced as she pressed another button that shot a gas canister at the stunned martial artist, prompting him to fall back to the ground finally knocking him out cold.

"Yes!"

"I guess Grand Marshal Red will have what he wants after all. I don't see what use that old man would be to him despite his fighting abilities," the colonel speculated as she landed her plane near the unconscious form of Gohan and had her men bring the old man into one of their planes.

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