Last time on Dragon Ball X: Unite, after receiving a call from his home world, Gokin took the others back to West City. When they got there, Piccolo arrived and took them to a safe place to hide from the Syndicate Troopers. Gokin reunited with his grandfather Hercule as well as his team of new Z-Fighters. Once at the hiding spot, they were told that Tao has been capturing Pokemon and martial artists to steal energy for the Syndicate's Doomsday Machine...and some that were captured were Goku and his friends. Using Giru to figure where Tao was located, the team discovered that he and his Trooper army have set base in some old abandoned base. They couldn't talk about it any further because some flying Syndicate Troopers managed to find them. Piccolo and Hercule stayed behind to deal with the Troopers so Gokin and his team could escape. Now Gokin and the others must find a safe place to plan their attack against Mercenary Tao...otherwise all of West City will be doomed!
We Are Team Z
After a few minutes of flying away from the island and the Syndicate Troopers, Gokin and his friends found themselves flying over a town near the sea. The town looked familiar to Gokin, Pan, Nim, Bulla, and Uub.
From his spot on Charizard's back, SpongeBob looked down at the town with a smile. "Ooh, look at all the boats. Some of them remind me of when I took my driving test in Mrs. Puff's Boating School...or at least one of the many times I took the test." He laughed sheepishly at the memory.
"There doesn't seem to be any Syndicate Troopers in town, and I'm assuming that the villagers are hiding safely in their homes." Jimmy mentioned.
Trevor was on his Aerodactyl's back. He raised a confused eyebrow. "Strange, this place looks like the best place to find some Water-Type Pokemon. How come there aren't any of Tao's Syndicate Troopers here?"
"That's because those strange creatures already got all the Water-Type Pokemon here." Someone ahead of them spoke up.
When they looked ahead of them, they were greeted by a boy with short blonde hair. With the boy was a seagull and Giru. Danny was kinda surprised to see that the boy was flying in front of them. "Wow, does everyone in this world know how to fly? Who is that anyway?"
Pan smiled in relief and flew a littler closer to the boy. "Colm! You're okay!" The boy, Colm, smiled back at Pan. "Everyone in town's safe as well. We managed to stay safe in either our homes or in the boats. Once Gull and I saw Giru flying over, we caught up to him and he said he was going to meet up with you lot. So I decided to meet up with you as well."
Nim flew over a little. "It's good to see you again, Colm. Although I wish the situation wasn't so dire." He sounded a little upset when he said that.
While no one was looking, Cosmo raised his wand up. Wanda was able to stop him. "Cosmo, don't. Remember, we lost most of our powers because of the Syndicate. Besides...ours is the one wearing a silly pink hat." She whispered to Cosmo.
Colm looked serious himself. "Come with me, all of you. I know somewhere we can talk privately." He smile a little when he looked at the three Pokemon they have out. "And I think those three need to take a break from flying." They looked over at Charizard, Altaria, and Aerodactyl. They looked like they were struggling a bit to keep their wings flapping. In fact, even Aerodactyl was panting a little.
"Oh, sorry, Altaria." Serena gently rubbed her Pokemon's head as an apology. Altaria gave off an assuring coo.
Uub smiled at Colm. "Lead the way." They followed Colm to a different location so they could talk.
Colm took the team into an old boat, the last place any of the Syndicate Troopers or even any members of the Syndicate would ever think to look. Once there, the team caught Colm and Giru up on what's been going on, not just to West City, but to Amity Park, Bikini Bottom, Retroville, and Dimmsdale. Of course, not before introducing Jimmy, Timmy, Danny, and SpongeBob to them first.
"Doomsday Machine?!" Colm was quite shocked to hear about the device. Gokin was looking out the window up at the sky. He couldn't stop thinking about his family and their friends...or even having to leave his mentor and his granddad behind earlier.
Uub gave a serious nod. "That's what Gokin and his four new friends told us."
"I forgot to ask this guys." SpongeBob raised his hand. "I know they might do something evil with the machine, but what kind of level of evil can this device do once it's complete?"
Giru was on Pan's lap, trembling in fear. "Giru don't wanna know!" Pan gently patted Giru's head to comfort him. "None of us want to wait to find out, Little G." Tierno told Giru.
"All we know is that it's something evil and needs to be stopped." Danny said seriously. Trevor looked pretty worried. "But how? Mercenary Tao's got a lot of Pokemon and even some of the strongest martial artists." "And even the Turtle Hermit himself." Serena added.
Bulla looked pretty upset herself. "We could really use Dad's help right about now." "But he's been taken by those creepy little guys." Shauna looked down in sadness. "Without guys like Goku around, it might be impossible to save the world from Tao."
"No, Shauna." Everyone turned their heads to Gokin. The male Saiyan was still looking out the window with his back turned to his friends. "It's never impossible to be a hero." When he finally turned around, everyone else saw the serious and determined look on his face. "Listen, guys. This isn't the first time our world has faced a crisis like this, and whenever we're in a situation like this, Grandpa and his team of fighters was always there to save us. Right now, they're the ones that need saving. Grandpa, Dad, Master Piccolo, they've been trying to train us so we can be the kind of heroes our world..." He closed his eyes for a bit and shook his head. "...no, the entire universe needs. Now's our chance to step up and be the kind of heroes that Grandpa Goku believes we can be!"
As Gokin continued his speech, he turned his head to give Jimmy, SpongeBob, Timmy, and Danny a friendly smile. "My time with these four have taught me that I can't keep relying on my family to save even a single planet." He turned his smile over to the four friends he made in Kalos. "My time with you guys in the Kalos Region taught me that lesson too." He gave his whole team a friendly smirk. "In times like this, we'd have to take fate into our own hands. It's time to show the universe that the next generation of Z-Fighters is here to protect it from enemies like Mercenary Tao and the Syndicate!" Gokin walked over and held his hand in the middle. "Who's with me?"
There was a few seconds of silence, everyone else just stared at Gokin...Finally, Pan smiled and place her hand on top of Gokin's. "I'm in. Leader or not, you're still my little brother, Gokin." She gave him a teasing smirk. "What kind of big sister would I be if I'm not around to save your tail from trouble?" Rather than being annoyed, Gokin gave Pan a silly grin.
"I'm not out of this either. If my best friend's gonna fight, I'm going in too!" Nim place his hand on top of Pan's.
Bulla smirked and place her hand in the middle. "You didn't really think I'd miss out on the chance to kick some butt, did you?"
Soon Uub, Serena, Shauna, Tierno, Trevor, Jimmy, Timmy, Danny, SpongeBob, and even Giru placed their hands in the middle as well. "We're in, Gokin." Uub told the leader.
Gokin smiled...but another hand was placed on top of the pile. Surprised and confused, everyone turned their heads and saw that Colm had a determined smile on his face. "Count me in."
Gokin smiled and nodded. "Thanks, guys. I knew I could count on you." He gladly told his friends.
Everybody smiled at each other. "Great...but, what do we do now?" SpongeBob suddenly asked. They all took their hands off the middle.
"Well we first need to know what kind of old base Tao's in." Serena said.
Bulla pulled out her Holo Caster again and pulled up an image of the base. She began to look at the image carefully. "Hmm...Well, from what I'm seeing, it looks like a base that used to belong to some army from a long time ago."
Jimmy walked over to look at the image himself. As he was looking, something in the image caught his eye. "Hey, there seems to be something on one of the broken towers of the base. Bulla, can you zoom in on the tower?" Bulla nodded and zoomed in close to the top of the broken tower. "There!" Jimmy pointed at what he saw earlier. Everyone looked at the image, and they saw a familiar looking logo on it. It kinda looked like a red ribbon with two white Rs on it.
"Hey, I think I remember seeing something like that before." Nim looked down at his belt. The same logo they were seeing on the image was also on Nim's belt buckle. "It matches the logo on my belt."
"What kind of symbol is that anyway?" Colm asked.
"It looks like some kind of red ribbon." Shauna answered.
"That's what both my dad and Aunt 18 said." Nim placed his hand on his chin, trying to remember. "I think they said that it was the symbol for an army known as...the Red Ribbon Army?"
Timmy raised an eyebrow. "Red Ribbon Army?"
"I've heard Mom talk about that army before." Bulla turned her head to the others. "Apparently, it's some ruthless army that tried to take the Dragon Balls a long time ago. They'd hire just about anybody to make sure no one gets in the way."
Uub narrowed his eyes in seriousness. "I remember Goku telling me about something like this when we were training on the Lookout. It's more than likely that Mercenary Tao was hired by the Red Ribbon Army to kill Goku so they can find the Dragon Balls without him getting in the way."
"But Grandpa managed to defeat him and stop the Red Ribbon Army from using the Dragon Balls!" Pan said in realization.
"So that's what Tao was talking about earlier!" Gokin realized something important. "His pride as a ht man was crushed after he was defeated by Grandpa, so he changed into a cyborg and trained himself for many years just to get his revenge."
"Man, that guy sure knows how to hold a grudge." Tierno mentioned.
"That fiend! We've gotta get to that base and save Gokin's grandpa and his friends!" SpongeBob declared. He held up his trusty bubble wand.
"But how?" Timmy asked with a shrug.
"First, we do some training." Gokin answered. "We'll need to be ready for anything Tao throws at us when we get to his base."
"But, G-Meister, your grandpa and his friends are pretty strong and Tao's Troopers still managed to take them!" Trevor pointed out.
"Yeah, they did...but only when they were fighting alone." Gokin said. This confused the others. Still, Gokin turned his head to Majuub. "Uub, do you still remember the rocky area where we had our first ever spar against each other?"
"Well, sure. It's hard to forget that place. You and I fought each other with everything we got." Majuub answered. "Why?"
Gokin gave his friends a smirk. "Because that could be our temporary training ground. Guys, I've got a plan."
Gokin and his team left Colm's village behind. They flew off to the rocky area where Gokin and Majuub had their first real spar...it was also the same place where Goku first fought Vegeta a long time ago.
Once the team got to the area, they got right down to work with their training.
First off, Gokin was setting up some pads on the floor for Tierno's training. Tierno even got his Pokemon dance team of Crawdaunt, Roserade, Talonflame, and Hawlucha out. Gokin waited until Tierno and his Pokemon were ready. Once he saw his friend nod with a smirk, the Saiyan shot a small ki blast from his hand to signal them to start. The object of Tierno's training is to either avoid or blast the pads placed on the ground. Tierno dance his way over to Gokin slowly, avoiding the pads. Crawdaunt and Roserade were dancing through themselves, they were even blasting the pads away with moves like Bubble Beam and Magical Leaf. Gokin smiled and tossed some pad in the air to Talonflame. The Scorching Pokemon dance dashed with Quick Attack to avoid some of the pads, and got some good with a combination of Brave Bird and Flare Blitz. Hawlucha danced around both on the ground and the air, pulling off an impressive dancing combination of Acrobatics and High-Jump Kick. Once he and his Pokemon made it to the other side, Tierno finished off his dancing by giving his smirking Saiyan friend a high five.
Nim protected himself with a barrier. What was he blocking? Stars, both from Timmy's Star Shooter and a Swift attack from Shauna's Sylveon. Suddenly, while the stars were firing, Timmy quickly gave a wink to Cosmo and Wanda, the two of which winked back. With a poof, Timmy quickly changed into his hero form: Cleft, the Boy Chin Wonder. Nim and Shauna didn't really expect that to happen. Timmy, or rather Cleft, charged in with a robot arm coming from his utility cleft and began to bash the barrier with it while Sylveon kept using Swift. With a shout, Nim launched his barrier at the attackers, pushing them back. Shauna returned Sylveon and brought out her Delphox. Timmy changed back and got his Freeze Glove, he shot ice in Nim's direction and Delphox used Mystical Fire. Nim created a clear orb of energy in front of him. It caught the two attacks, turning them into steam inside the ball. Nim wasn't done there, he tossed it on the ground, releasing the steam to create a smokescreen.
Trevor got his Tyrantrum to stomp around to attack something. That something...was his own Raichu, only the Electric-Type had glowing green eyes and dodged Tyrantrum's Dragon Claw attack as well as Poison Fang. Raichu quickly got Aerodactyl with a Thunderbolt attack before he could use Crunch. However, Raichu was knocked off his feet with Aurorus's Earthquake attack. Turns out, Danny was overshadowing Raichu, but the Earthquake attack forced the ghost boy out of the Pokemon. Danny was quickly caught by Aerodactyl, who began to dive down with his Sky Drop attack. Danny turned intangible just before Aerodactyl could finish the attack. The ghost boy turned visible again...only to be smacked by Raichu's combination of Quick Attack and Slam. Trevor's Aerodactyl, Florges, and Aurorus fired off their attacks of Ancient Power, Moonblast, and Frost Breath once Danny crashed to the floor. Danny got up and gasped once he saw the attacks coming his way. Thinking fast, he took a deep breath before he unleashed his Ghostly Wail to intercept the three attacks. Trevor braced himself, the Wail didn't just deflect the attacks, it actually knocked all five of Trevor's Pokemon away. Danny stopped his attack and panted in exhaustion. Trevor opened his eyes...just as a glowing ring formed around Danny and split in two, changing the ghost boy's look. Trevor saw that Danny was now a normal teen with black hair and blue eyes. Danny looked at his hands before he gave Trevor a sheepish smile.
Jimmy got out his Hyper-Cube and pulled some of his tools from inside the cube. He and Bulla were in the middle of making some new stuff for Giru. The little machine apparently thought it tickled and couldn't stop moving a little. Both Jimmy and Bulla looked at some blueprints Bulla made for Giru's design. After looking at it carefully, the two of them smiled and shook hands before getting back to work.
SpongeBob came charging at Serena's Chesnaught for a karate chop, but the Grass/Fighting-Type got his arms together to form his Spiky Shield attack. The needles poked the sponge and bounced him away a bit. Serena smirked just before she commanded her Pokemon to attack with a Body Slam attack. SpongeBob gasped once he saw the Spiny Armor Pokemon jump up high and got ready to slam against the sponge. Panicking, SpongeBob's eyes quickly moved around in different directions...that is until he spotted Nim forming another barrier around himself. Seeing this gave the sponge an idea. He got his bubble wand out and quickly blew a bubble around himself. His bubble shield protected him from Chesnaught's attack as well as bounced the Pokemon away, the bubble quickly popped after that. Serena was surprised, but she smiled and nodded. Both Pan and Colm were working together against Serena's Absol and Altaria. Along with flying lessons, Pan even taught Colm how to fight and defend himself. Both of the Pokemon moved in to attack, Absol aimed a Night Slash at Colm and Altaria fired a Dragon Pulse at Pan. Pan flew up to dodge the attack and Colm narrowly avoided the slash. Pan fired some ki blasts at Altaria and Colm tried to attack Absol with some swift punches and kicks.
Up in the air, both Gokin and Majuub were attacking each other with swift and fast punches and kicks. Below them, Gokin's Pokemon were doing their own training. Greninja threw multiple Water Shuriken attack at both Charizard and Marowak. Charizard flew around a bit before he smacked the water stars with both Wing Attack and Shadow Claw while Marowak deflected the stars with his Bone Rush. The Bone Keeper Pokemon used his Bonemerang attack and threw his trusty bone...but Greninja used his ninja reflexes to dodge the bone. Both Lucario and Heliolisk were in the middle of their own spar, with Lucario using his Close Combat and Heliolisk using his Return. Lucario and Heliolisk fired their Aura Sphere and Thunderbolt at each other just as Gokin and Majuub each fired off a Kamehameha Wave, even Charizard fired a Flamethrower, Greninja shot an Ice Beam, and Marowak fired off his Focus Blast. While all seven of the attack were unleashed, Gokin's sixth Pokemon, the legendary Xerneas, also joined in...only his horns gave off a very bright glow.
Gokin and his team were taking a breather after training for a good couple of hours. Though they were surprised, as well as confused, once they saw Danny in human form, the ghost boy explained that this is how he looks and that his ghost half was the result of an accident after seeing his parents' ghost portal from the inside. So, now they know about Danny Fenton as well as Danny Phantom.
Before Danny could talk about it further, Jimmy and Bulla walked over to the group with big smiles on their faces. "Gang, we've got a little surprise for you!" Bulla happily told the gang.
Shauna and SpongeBob beamed happily. "Ooh! I love surprises!" SpongeBob said. "So do I!" Shauna agreed. "What is it?"
Jimmy had his hands behind his back. "During training, Bulla and I worked together to give Giru quite an upgrade. Behold. We present to you..." Jimmy paused long enough for Giru to fly out from his spot behind the boy genius. "Giru 2.0!" Both Jimmy and Bulla proclaimed. "Giru, Giru, Giru." Giru floated proudly between Jimmy and Bulla.
The others got a good look at Giru, so far the only difference they saw on their metal friend was that he now has a big black Z on his chest. "Hmm...I don't know, guys. He still looks like the old Little G to me." Tierno raised an eyebrow.
Timmy crossed his arms. "I think you're starting to lose your touch, Neutron. I don't see anything 2.0 about him."
Jimmy just smirks. "Perhaps a demonstration is in order, Turner. Giru, activate Attack Mode!" Giru quickly changed from white to red. He also had two missiles on his shoulders and his hands were replaced with two spike balls. "Giru, Giru. Attack Mode activated! Giru locked and loaded." Giru fired his missiles at a nearby boulder, blasting them into a bunch of smaller rocks. Giru locked on the rocks, then he flew up and smashed them to pebbles with his spike ball hands.
The others were quite amazed by what Giru just did. "Impressive." Danny commented. "So Giru can now hold his own even more in a fight? That's pretty cool." Nim said.
Bulla smirked at them again. "Oh, you guys haven't seen anything yet." She asked them something odd. "Can we get a volunteer to attack Giru?"
The others, minus Jimmy, gasped a little at the request. But, Colm raised his hand a little. "Uh...I'll do it."
"Thank you for volunteering, Colm." Jimmy calmly said. Giru floated down next to the boy genius. "Don't hold anything back, let him have it." Jimmy added.
"Okay...?" Still confused, Colm charged up energy for an attack he made up himself. "Sorry about this, Giru!" He spread his arms apart and seagull feathers made of pure blue energy formed around him. "Seagull Feather Barrage!" Thrusting his arms forward, Colm fired his energy feathers over at Giru.
Giru's eye locked on the attack. "Activating Defense Mode!" With a brief glow, Giru changed from red to blue, his weapons were gone and replaced with arm shields. When the arms are put together, the shield had the same Z on it as well. Giru raised his shield in front of him and was easily deflecting Colm's Seagull Feather Barrage.
Colm stopped his attack and was even more surprised like the others. "Not only can our little metal buddy attack with powerful weapons, he can even use a very sturdy shield to defend himself from any kind of attack." Bulla explained with a smile. Giru raised his arms in triumph just before he changed back to his normal form.
"Wow! That's amazing!" Majuub exclaimed.
"Way to go, Giru!" Pan walked over and gave her machine friend a hug. "I'm so happy for you!" Giru had a blush on his face. "Giru, Giru, Giru."
Serena, while still amazed by Giru's upgrade, turned to Gokin. "Looks like things are going great for our group now that Giru's more capable of fighting, eh?"
Gokin smiled and nodded. "Sure is." His expression turned serious. "Okay, guys, that training we just went through should do the trick."
Trevor looked kinda worried. "Are you sure we're ready, G-Meister? Shouldn't we do just a little bit more training?"
"There's no time for that, Trevor. We have to stop Tao from stealing anymore energy from martial artists and Pokemon." Gokin said seriously.
SpongeBob happily agreed. "Yeah, we can do this! It's time to save the Pokemon and martial artists of West City from Tao and the rest of the Syndicate! We can win because we are..." The sponge stopped himself and had a confused look on his face. "Wait, what's our team name?"
"Oh, right. We still don't have a name for our team yet." Majuub remembered. "Yeah, it never really seemed that important at the time, did it?" Timmy asked. Tierno shook his head. "Sure didn't."
Shauna tilted her head a little. "So, what's the team gonna be called?"
Gokin smiled and closed his eyes. "I admit, I've been struggling with the team name ever since the Shadow Dragons were defeated. But, after my adventures with Jimmy, Timmy, SpongeBob, and Danny, I've finally got the perfect name for our team." As the others turned to the Saiyan, Gokin opened his eyes to smile at his team. "From now on, we are...Team Z!"
Everyone else looked at each other, talked to themselves...finally, they all smiled and agreed on the team name. Even Cosmo and Wanda agreed to it.
Gokin smiled happily at his friends. "Okay, guys, huddle up. It's time to go over the plan." The members of the newly named Team Z huddled up and began to go over the plan to stop Mercenary Tao and save West City from the Syndicate.
At the old abandoned base of the Red Ribbon Army, a couple of Doomsday Troopers were guarding the entrance to keep anyone from breaking in.
All of a sudden, Giru landed in front of them and flailed around wildly. "Giru, Giru, Giru!" The Doomsday Troopers fired rays from their tridents at Giru, but the little machine quickly changed into his Defense Form and used his shield to protect himself from the attacks. The Troopers were so busy with Giru, they didn't even notice a pink beam that fired from a nearby bush. When one of them DID notice, it was too late. The beam hit both of them, and instead of destroy them...it just turned the two Troopers into chocolate.
Giru changed back to his normal form and turned to the bush. "Uub did amazing! Giru happy!" From behind the bush, Majuub stood up and smiled at the machine. "Couldn't have done it if you hadn't distracted them, Giru."
Giru flew over and landed on Majuub's shoulder just as he gave off a little whistle. "The coast is clear!" At the call, the other members of Team Z came out of their hiding spot and went over to Majuub and Giru.
"Now we get inside." Pan said. "But how do we do that? Tao could still have the place locked up tight." Nim asked.
"That's not gonna be a problem for us." Gokin turned to the Ghost Boy. "If we lock hands with each other, Danny can use his powers to turn us intangible and we can just phase us into the base."
Danny, now in his Ghost Form again, smirked. "Yeah, that shouldn't be a problem." "Then let's commence!" Jimmy proclaimed quietly. After that, the team locked hands with each other. Once everyone held on, Danny used his ghost powers to turn the whole team intangible. With help from Gokin, Pan, Bulla, Nim, Uub, and Colm, Danny was able to fly them right through the gate and into one of the areas of the base.
Once they were inside a dark room, Danny turned everyone visible once again. Once they were visible, Colm looked at his hands. "So, that's what it feels like to be a ghost."
Shauna shivered a bit. "It was kinda strange, but also pretty amazing." "Don't worry, Shauna. You get used to it after a while." Gokin assured her.
"Now where are we?" Serena asked, looking around.
Jimmy looked around the room they were in. It seemed to be full of a bunch of tools and blueprints. "Hmm...from the look of this place. I'd say this could be a room where they build some sort of artificial fighters, or Androids for short."
Bulla looked at one of the blueprints in the room. "It might also be the very room where Tao turned himself into a cyborg in the first place. Look at this." Everyone looked over the blueprint in Bulla's hands. True to her word, it included images of Tao before he became a cyborg and some parts for his cyborg body.
Nim took a closer look at the blueprints. "It looks old, but I can see some changes on it. They look like they've just been done recently..." He narrowed his eyes at some of the changes. "Strange, some of them haven't even been finished."
"I'd say that the new marks on these blueprints for Tao have just been made by Professor Calamitous." Jimmy said after taking a better look himself. "He must've visited this world just after getting the Syndicate together and made some improvements to Tao's cyborg body."
"So, how come some of these haven't even been finished yet?" Pan asked. Jimmy shrugged. "He was considered a man who could never finish anything when I first encountered him. When I met him again, he could finish his sentences, claiming he took some classes to help correct his flaw."
Serena looked over the blueprints again. "Well, judging by some of the changes, I'd say Professor Calamitous might be relapsing."
SpongeBob looked around the room. He saw some pods. Curiosity got the better of the sponge from Bikini Bottom, he walked over to the pods and looked into one of them. He gasped at what he saw inside. It looked like a tall person with a red/orange mohawk wearing a black undersuit with white armor. SpongeBob screamed and tumbled off the pod, he accidentally hit a button with his foot just before he hit the floor.
The others heard the scream and turned their heads to SpongeBob...just as the pod he was looking into began to open up. "SpongeBob! What have you done!?" Timmy snapped.
"Sorry, I didn't mean to! I just saw a person sleeping in the pod and it scared me!" SpongeBob quickly explained himself. The pod finally opened up completely. Everyone else braced themselves to fight. The figure inside opened his icy blue eyes and slowly got out of the pod. Shauna was kinda scared and hid behind Gokin. The person looked around him, he looked over at the kids who kept their guard up. Then, he turned to SpongeBob who was still on the spot where he fell. The person walked over to SpongeBob, the sponge was now trembling in fear.
Gokin and Uub were ready to jump in and protect their friend. However, to everyone's confusion...the person gently lifted SpongeBob back on his feet. "Are you hurt?" The person calmly asked the sponge.
At first, SpongeBob blinked a couple of times in confusion, but he smiled happily at the person in front of him. "Oh, I'm just fine. Thank you for asking."
The person smiled at SpongeBob. "You are welcome." The kids lowered their guard just as the person turned his head to them...mainly Nim. "Android 17 match confirmed."
"Android 17?" Timmy raised a confused eyebrow. "How...do you know my dad?" Nim asked. "Dad?" The person was confused, but he gave a gentle smile again. "I see, you're 17's son."
The team was still confused, but they couldn't question the man again. Why? "Hey! Who's in here?" Because someone else just entered the room. The team quickly turned to fight...however, instead of some more Syndicate Troopers, two different figures entered the room. Nim was quite surprised. "Dad? Aunt 18?" Indeed. The two that just entered the room were Nim's dad, Android 17, and his aunt, Android 18.
17 was pretty surprised, yet also relieved, to see his son again. "Nim? What are you doing here?" 18 looked and saw the person with the other kids. "I get it. It was you kids that woke up 16."
"16?" Team Z looked back over to the person, Android 16. "Yes. I am the newer model of an android that got destroyed a long time ago. I am Android 16.2" 16 kindly introduced himself.
"Wait, so this tall guy was made here by you two? How were you able to do so without Tao and the Syndicate knowing it?" Bulla asked the two androids. "We've been using this room to rebuild 16 long before Tao and his new friends took over the base." 18 answered the Saiyan Princess.
Nim's eyes widened in realization. "So that's what you and Aunt 18 do on Wednesday nights!" 17 nodded a bit. "We were waiting until the right time to reactivate 16. Actually, we were gonna do it today with the way things are right now. So, you kids kinda beat us to it." 17 turned his full attention to Nim again. "What are you even doing here anyway, son? I thought you and your friends found a safe place to hide."
Gokin stepped up to answer for his friend. "We came here to try and stop Tao's plan to steal martial artist energy and Pokemon energy."
Gokin explained to the three androids what he's been doing so far with Jimmy, Danny, Timmy, and SpongeBob. "Sounds like you've been through a lot." 18 commented after the explanation.
Gokin nodded seriously. "We have, and we're still not done yet." "That's right. We still need to find Tao and stop him from stealing anymore energy from this world for their Doomsday Machine." Jimmy added.
"Only problem is we have no idea where Tao is in this base." Colm mentioned. "Yeah, we don't even know where to find the martial artists and Pokemon he's kidnapped." Majuub added with a shrug.
Now it was 17's turn to smirk a cool smirk. "Well, I guess it's a good thing 18 and I spend some time around this old base to rebuild 16, isn't it?"
The team turned their heads to the two androids. "Wait! You mean you might know where Tao is hiding?" Timmy asked.
18 nodded. "If Tao's stealing energy for this team of his, then there's only one place in this base best suited for energy stealing...The central control unit." Now it was 18's turn to smirk. "You kids just made things a whole lot easier for me and 17 since you woke 16 up. Now we can shut this base down completely without feeling any guilt."
The team just looked at each other in confusion. "So...you're able to easily shut the whole thing down?" Danny asked. "Sure do. Follow us." 17 said. He and 18 took the lead. Gokin, the rest of Team Z, and even 16 were quick to follow them.
In the biggest area in the entire old Red Ribbon Army base, there were several glowing pods all over the walls with either martial artists or Pokemon in the pods. The pods also had some tubes, connecting them to an even bigger pod, extracting the energy from those trapped to feed the Syndicate's Doomsday Machine. There was also a computer, showing how much more energy is needed from West City.
In the middle of the huge room, Mercenary Tao looked at the many, many, many pods with a smirk. "Yes, that's it. Just a little bit more to go, and the Syndicate will be one step closer to finishing the Doomsday Machine. Finally, my dream of having my revenge is finally close at hand! Nothing could possibly ruin this beautiful moment for me!"
Just after the cyborg mercenary said that, everything around him just shut off completely. The absorbing pods, the computer, everything! "What? What's the meaning of this!? We couldn't have blown a fuse, I made triple sure we had enough power left in this old base to last for decades!" The more Tao went on, the angrier he got. He wanted answers and he wanted them now! "Someone must've shut the power down, but who!? I'll find that pest and kill him myself!"
Just then, an empty wall behind him blew off. Tao quickly spun on his feet, only to come face-to-face with Gokin and his friends. "You won't have to look far, Tao. We saved you the trouble of looking, and came right to you, tin can." Bulla gave the cyborg member of the Syndicate a smirk that's similar to Vegeta's smirk.
Tao was a bit surprised. "What? You brats?" He was talking about Gokin, Danny, SpongeBob, Jimmy, and Timmy. He and the other Syndicate members were informed about what happened in Amity Park and Bikini Bottom. Tao turned his eyes to Androids 16, 17, and 18, and it became clear to him once he saw the Red Ribbon logo on 16's armor. "Now I know how you shut this base down. You enlisted the help of Dr. Gero's traitorous androids, didn't you?"
"So what if we did?" Danny asked back. "Next time you try something like this, make sure you do it in a place that no one in this world is familiar with." 18 told Tao.
Gokin stepped up a bit to confront Tao. "This has gone on long enough, Tao! It's time to save West City from you and this Doomsday Machine you and the rest of the Syndicate are charging!"
Tao calmly glared at the Saiyan in front of him. "You foolish child. I'm so close to having my revenge, do you really think I'll give up that easily?" "The whole base has been shut down, so you can't extract anymore energy from these martial artists and the Pokemon!" Gokin argued. Tao calmly chuckled. "You really think that by just shutting down the base here in this world will stop the Syndicate from charging up the Doomsday Machine? I don't think so." Tao slowly turned his back away as he continued. "You see, my boy, even if you shut down this base, you still have a couple of more worlds to save from the Syndicate. Both Dimmsdale and Retroville are under our control, leaving the Syndicate free to collect more energy for the Doomsday Machine."
Gokin narrowed his eyes. "Then we'll just have to go there and stop them!" "I expected you to say something like that, you are indeed Goku's grandson." Tao turned his head to the team. "Where are our families, Tao? Tell us!" Pan demanded. "Look around, little girl." Tao waved his hand to the many pods in the room. "You can find members of your families hidden in these pods. "However..." Tao snapped his fingers. In front of him came a bunch of new Syndicate Troopers, all of them looked like mutant martial artists, and they came in different colors. "It's not like I'm just gonna let you free anyone here."
Timmy looked at the new Troopers and grinned. "Cool!" Nim, Danny, and Serena gave him annoyed looks, so he quickly corrected himself. "I mean, oh crud." SpongeBob gulped in fear. "What are those Troopers called?"
"Why these just happen to be the newest line of Syndicate Troopers ever created by Plankton, Calamitous, and even myself. And since they're designed to fight like the finest martial artists in the universe, I've decided to call them the Syndicate Fighters." Tao answered with a smirk. Then he turned his attention to Gokin. "You and your little friends may have gotten lucky with both Vlad and Plankton, but it won't be the same around here. I'm going to see to it that your journey to save your worlds comes to an end."
Gokin still looked serious. He didn't even take his eyes off of Tao as he got his Power Pole out. "It's not just me, Jimmy, SpongeBob, Timmy, and Danny fighting this time, Mercenary Tao. Now you have to deal with all of us. Prepare to face Team Z!" The Team Z leader declared and got into a fighting stance.
Tao just chuckled a bit. "Team Z, eh? Very well then. I'd like to see how your entire team fight against my Syndicate Fighters. So, show me how powerful your team can be...Gokin."
"Believe me, I will." Gokin turned his eyes to the only other two Saiyans with him. "Pan, Bulla! Let's go Super Saiyan!" Both Saiyan girls nodded. "Right!" With a shout, Gokin, Pan, and Bulla powered up to their Super Saiyan forms.
"Get them!" Tao ordered the Syndicate Fighters. They snarled and charged at Team Z and the androids. "Let's go!" Gokin declared. Team Z and the androids shouted and charged right back at the Syndicate Fighters.
They've made it to base and are now ready to fight Mercenary Tao and his Syndicate Fighters to save the martial artists, the Pokemon, and all of West City from the Syndicate! Will the newly named Team Z be able to win, even with the androids on their side? Will Tao come out on top for the Syndicate? How much more energy does the Syndicate need for their Doomsday Machine!? The epic fight for West City is set to begin next time on Dragon Ball X: Unite!
