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~HIRO
'Journey to a Land Like Home'
Half an hour after leaving Earth's atmosphere, all was still quiet. The solar system of Earth was long gone, and the craft approached the human colonies of Alpha Centauri. Gohan knew he could use this opportunity to try and get provisions for Vegeta. Only Gohan's rations were on the ship. Even then a saiyan would go hungry in days. Two saiyans, one being the prince, would be hours.
"Okay Vegeta, I'm going to try and get landing clearance. We'll stock up and stretch before our long trek." Gohan informed.
"Good." Vegeta grunted. "I could use a change of scenery."
Gohan haled the signal coming from the planet. From above the planet looked much like earth. Continents, buildings, water; all were visible. Gohan stopped the ship and waited for a response. Vegeta sat back in his bench bed, legs crossed and arms folded behind his head. He wasn't sleeping, but rather in his Vegeta-esque state of meditation. Gohan was growing impatient and haled the planet again. This time he got a response in a matter of seconds.
"This is planetary control for Planet Legume; your hale has been received. How may we be of service?" The operator asked in a robotic voice.
"This is Gohan of Earth, requesting clearance for landing."
"Earth? We haven't ever had anyone from Earth here." The voice said astounded. "We have clearance, but you'll need to fill out a form."
"All right."
"How many passengers are aboard your ship?"
"2"
"Who owns this ship?"
"Uh, me I guess."
"What is your business on this planet?"
"Supplies."
Questions continued in this manner for minutes. Vegeta began to become quite frustrated. He managed to stay quiet long enough for Gohan to answer all the bot's questions. They were given clearance to land and did so. Gohan checked the gages for the planet's environment, not totally trusting the mechanical man he spoke too. He was satisfied with the instrument's reading and got dressed to go. He put on a blue long sleeved shirt under his orange Gi that was used throughout the family. His hair had grown longer than he usually let it grow. The dark-brown locks splashed long over his forehead and ears. It was cut short in the back of his head. He also put on shoes rather than fighting boots. Vegeta wore his normal saiyan armor, plus a COM link that when touched opened a channel with Gohan, who had a transmitter clipped to his sash. "Later Vegeta." Gohan proclaimed.
Vegeta just walked off his own way from the landing platform, then flew off. Gohan trotted over to the information desk to talk to some people. He entered the line next to go. The young woman in front of him was talking about getting her younger brother back from the authorities. She didn't have money to pay the fine.
After ten minutes of negotiations, Gohan intervened, "Excuse me miss, I couldn't help but over hear your situation. I have enough money, let me pay for him."
The woman turned to see Gohan. Her long brown hair shifted in a breeze during her whip around. She gazed at Gohan with large dark eyes. Even as soft as her eyes looked, she seemed upset with him.
"I don't want your help."
"Please, its fine." Gohan said as he placed a large gem on the table.
"I'll need some more stuff." He dropped a list next to the pink gem.
"Sir, I can't take your money." "Look, they can't give me change for that anyway. It's all right." Gohan again protested with a gentle smile. He shifted his view to the clerk, "Be back in a few hours. You think you could have all that by then?"
"No problem." The overweight male replied.
Gohan began walking away when he was stopped. "Sir, at least let me compensate you. I have tickets for a baseball game later."
"Thanks, but I have no one to go with."
"I meant you can come with my brother and me."
"Sure, I have nothing else to do." Gohan agreed sprightly.
"Great, I'll go get him."
Gohan paced around the edge of the platform. Feeling the wind pass through his free hair. He gazed out through the land, sensing for strong powers. It was second nature to him now. He found none much more powerful than Mr. Satan and was pretty sure they couldn't hide their power level. The people of this planet looked just like earth people. The architecture looked much like that of Earth people. One thing that was different was that the cities hovered above the planet. Beneath the floating cities was grassland and jungle. He thought he would ask when the woman he met returned. Just as he thought that, she did, along with her brother.
The boy was about the same height as Goten, maybe smaller. He had on baggy denim pants, a nylon blue tank top, and the same shoes as Gohan: white with beige laces, plain and simple. Shoes like that must be common everywhere he thought.
"I'm Scry and this is my brother Faj." The woman introduced.
"Pleased to meet you, I'm Gohan."
"Follow me to the game." Faj announced and jumped from the platform. Gohan stepped off after him, clothes flapping in the wind. Faj gazed up at Gohan, surprised to see him falling with him. Faj landed on an inward platform which mechanically closed as he ran into the structure. Gohan was cut off by the closing walkway and door. He searched hard for the boy's power. It was the strongest he had felt yet on this planet, Legume. Still small. He followed the energy around the building and caught the boy at the exit. In a surprised tone, "You suck!"
Scry met them at the launch pad. Gohan sensed her waiting.
"Sorry, I should have warned you he does that." She apologized.
"No problem."
"You sure are crazy, I've never seen anyone catch him that fast."
"Let's go to the game!" The hotheaded boy yelled.
"I almost forgot. Follow me Gohan." Scry said. The two males followed Scry to an edge of the landing pad that had red zigzags painted on it. Immediately a hover cab zipped in from the cluster of business structures. They boarded the white floating car and said they were going to the game. The machine driver acknowledged and went off. He zoomed through the business structures, banks, and sky scrapers with mechanized perfection. During the ride, Gohan asked Faj why he was fined.
"Because cops suck. They just target me."
"We're here." The driver muttered.
"Thanks." Gohan said as he paid the fare with another small ruby. They jumped from the cab, Gohan giving Scry his hand.
"Where did you get all these jewels Gohan?" Faj questioned.
"I found them on Earth. I lived in a much unexplored area for a year. There are lots of cool stones." Gohan answered. Scry flashed the tickets as they walked into the building. The scanners read their seat numbers and a light lit up on the path to their seats. Gohan commented on how cool it was as they followed the red light path. They sat down just after the game had started. No one had scored yet and the home team, the Nix Slammers, had yet to bat. Everyone in the stadium was sitting in their seats, not really yet into the game. They cheered when a big strike out happened that ended the Panther's at bat. The Slammers lead off player stepped up to the plate. Hover cameras swarmed about as the first pitch went by. 'Strike One.' The umpire screamed. The second pitch went by. "Strike Two." Then the third was hit into the ground and bounced back. The batter took off at first plate. Cameras followed his run. The infielders caught the ball when the batter, whose name Gohan found out was Belidra, had only reached about halfway to the base. The throw to first easily caught him out. The game continued in that fashion in to the 7th inning stretch.
"Now, some lucky fan from the audience will have a chance to win a million shimmies if they can hit a pitch from the machine over the fence." The announcer boomed over the stadium speakers.
"I used to play baseball back on Earth. Just in my high school." Gohan notified Scry.
"The lucky fan is in seat number 8223D, lower level."
"I actually just played in Gym."
"Gohan that's you." Scry screamed ecstatically.
In moments Gohan found himself in front of the plate facing an automatic pitching machine. He was nervous, but still tried to push down his power as much as possible. He took a deep breath. "All you have to do is hit a homerun over the wall. You have 3 pitches. If you hit a homerun more than once, then the prize is doubled." Gohan nodded confirming he understood. The pitching machine wound up and the buzz could be heard over the little noise the crowd made. Gohan felt his hart pumping as the first pitch shot out of the machine. Gohan swung a little prematurely, expecting a faster pitch and the top of the bat hit the ball, but that was enough. The ball went sailing on an angle toward the fair pole with all eyes focused on it. Gohan's stance made the ball just land outside of the fair pole, a foul ball.
"Oh, too bad. Well, don't worry, two more pitches are on their way." The announcer falsely comforted Gohan. He lent into the machine operator's ear and suggested that the speed be increased a little. Pitch two came and Gohan battered the blistered ball, sending it straight over the back wall and into the crowd.
"Wow, you've one a million shimmies. Congratulations! Ready for pitch number three?" The pitch steamed from the robot at an unmatched pace by humans. Gohan took the blow right on the skull.
"Gohan, are you alright?" Faj screamed from the dugout. "Yeah, why?" Gohan asked oblivious to the ball that had just struck him. -~_~-
"That was so awesome how you just took that pitch like it was nothing but the wind. I can't believe that they hit you, you are strong." Faj battered as they took their cab ride to Gohan's ship. Scry had been quiet since the incident. Gohan decided to give her the money; after all, he didn't need it out in space. The currency on the planet meant nothing to anyone.
All of a sudden, Gohan realized how dark it was outside and blurted, "Vegeta!. How could I forget? Oh man, he's probably totally ready to kill me now." Gohan couldn't have been more wrong. Vegeta was having a lot of fun at the local bar. The prince had had a little bid over his limit and was now in a hotel room with a purple haired girl he confused with Bulma, or at least that would be his excuse. He was in the middle of that ordeal when he got a call from Gohan.
"Vegeta, I'm sorry I'm late. Look, I'm at the ship now and ready to go. I got the supplies." No answer. "Vegeta? You there?"
"Listen child of Kakarot, I'm in the middle of some very urgent business. Uh, Prince Stuff. Go away."
"But I..." The signal died when Vegeta broke the remote. When he turned back to business he found an unhappy woman.
"Are we gonna do it or what?" The violet haired woman asked."
"No woman, not when you nag like that!"
"Hey, don't call me that." For a second when she spoke, Vegeta sensed a change in her. He paused.
"What?" She commanded.
"I-" Vegeta baffled. Then he realized something, how was it that everything here was just like on Earth? They even spoke the Earth language. No language or customs of their own. Vegeta being even rasher when he's had a few seized the woman. When he grabbed her naked arms and pulled her to his face, which wasn't a long way up, he saw a change. A change in her eyes, they were different.
"What is this!?!" Vegeta demanded an answer. "Now! Tell Me!" Just then others burst in. Grab him one called. Vegeta of course slapped him aside. As he did this, the unconscious man changed to a blue glow and disappeared. Vegeta stood, baffled. His attackers wasted no time in taking advantage of the situation. Vegeta was held from behind and beaten by the other 4 men in the throng. The woman he was mating with now also joined the group, but as a man. Vegeta struggled for a moment, but decided to waste no time and charged to super saiyan. The golden glow shocked the mob for a moment, but the fighters held strong. Vegeta was being beaten even harder at this form. Time for level two he thought. With a thrust of his arms, all the room was leveled by his immense strength. The blue hypnotic light left in the place of the people he killed enthralled him. It pleaded with him to touch it. Vegeta gave into his curiosity and felt a zap as he engaged his index finger to the glow. He felt week, either from the foreign alcohol or from the fight. He would think he could've handled it though. From where he touched the light, a being grew. One of similarity to Vegeta. Actually, it is me.
Vegeta threw a fist, but it seemed slow, and it was. Vegeta missed his clone, which began to pummel him with fists. In seconds, Vegeta felt drained of his power. The savage beating continued even when Vegeta had been blistered into a sleep. Every so often though, Vegeta opened his eyes, to see a mirror image of himself pounding him into dust. "I expected more from you Vegeta. At least some resistance." The reflection taunted him, lifting Vegeta's arm and letting it fall. "I guess we can't have to of you running around. Looked like I will just have to eat you." The clone began to slap the prince, but he had other plans. Focusing totally on his opponent Vegeta caught the hand, "Eat this!" A large Ki blast of yellow super saiyan light shot from the extended arm of the spiky haired warrior. Immediately the figure disappeared, restoring Vegeta's strength. Vegeta fell back on the bed relieved. But immediately jumped to his feet. -~_~-
"Well this is my ship." Gohan told his new friends as he exited to air taxi.
"Can I go with you Gohan?" Faj asked.
"Absolutely no!" Scry shouted answering for Gohan. "He is going on a very dangerous mission. You are too young."
"Yeah, sorry Faj." Gohan added. "I'll come visit you though." As Gohan went to board the ship, more of the people from Legume showed up "Hey what's up?" Gohan questioned. They only kept approaching.
"What's going on?" He asked Scry who had joined the mob. "Gohan, they're not what they appear to be!" Vegeta called as he shot forward leaving a sloppy stream of energy behind him. He threw a yellow ball of Ki toward one and kicked another in the head. The one who had been kicked changed to his form of blue light. Immediately every one came after Vegeta. Gohan was in awe of the vapors left behind from the one Vegeta had killed. "Don't touch it!" The yellow haired prince shouted at Gohan but it was too late. In the absence of the Luguminite, was a mirror of Gohan. For a moment, Gohan stared at it, wondering if he was crazy. "Shit!" Vegeta shouted as he destroyed another Luguminite.
Gohan took a hit to the head from his clone, who cackled hysterically. Vegeta had his hands full with about fifty blue gremlins throwing fists at a miraculous rate. Vegeta shot back leaving an after image. He felt for their powers. It was incredible, each had the strength of a super saiyan. Gohan's clone pummeled him relentlessly, but Gohan was far from finished. In a rapid burst of energy that leveled each opponent, he was mystic. Long hair standing straight up, glazed silverfish and black. His muscles doubled, and his power more than quadrupled. Vegeta felt this strength and was not to be outdone. He raised his power as much as possible, his body shook with the ground. Still, the wraiths didn't even pursue him.
Gohan easily dispensed of the creatures attacking him, except for his image. He stood back and waited. Gohan looked back at himself and felt faint. His power dropped, and the clone pursued. Gohan threw a fist that went wide. His vision began to shift and bend. All he could feel was his power draining and fists clashing with his body. Gohan opened his eyes and saw the jaw unlatching of the creature. He is going to eat me. Gohan watched the jaws come closer in slow motion. He shut his eyes as a beam of green light flew past him and into the wraith. It fizzled out of existence. "Gallant Gun!" A distorted voice pierced through Gohan's ear. In moments Gohan felt his energy returning. He remained in mystic form until the absorption was complete and his hair fell back in place. "Thanks Vegeta." Gohan flustered out of breath. Vegeta turned to see an army of ghosts flying at him. He charged back at them. Sending multiple blasts at them. More ghosts appeared in a glowing light. Another wraith reached into the empty vapors and pulled something out, no, someone. It was a gnarled, hunched beast, twenty feet tall, and with large eyes, it sprang into the air at Gohan. Gohan jumped into the air above the beast. Its mandible hung low and drool flung from it. Gohan noticed the inside of his stomach. It was filled with faces, crying and screaming in pain. Faces of many peoples and races. Many species had perished under these creatures attack.
"These are the soles of the universe that I have eaten. You will join them." An agonizingly deep voice announced.
"We'll see." Gohan powered to mystic once more and shot like a bullet towards the creature. It moved away, but Gohan changed his path in time to catch a fist in its gut. His hand seemed to be attacked from the inside. The beast cackled hysterically at Gohan's foolish plight. Gohan battled the abdomen for seconds and grabbed something in side. The beast twisted and tangled. His laugh turned to a cry of pain. Gohan pulled out of the stomach and released the sole in his hand. The green ghost flew into contact with one that Vegeta was battling. Vegeta gained the upper hand in the fight. Gohan thrust his hands in and out of the beast, freeing soles as he did so. More of the blue wraiths disappeared in a collision with the green soles. Vegeta finished blasting them, and joined Gohan in freeing the soles from the beast. It took only a minute to deplete the resident ghouls. And soon, the beast was left, and it was a shadow of it's former self. Vegeta rose a hand, fired a blast, and it shifted away from the beast.
"Listen child of Kakarot, he must die unless you want this to happen again."
"We have to give him a chance like my dad gave you."
"I will not be like Kakarot." Vegeta said, but retreated to the ship. Gohan smiled and joined him.
Okay, it's a little longer than the other chapters. I'm just building the characters up, the first part of the quest had actually been obtained. If you haven't guessed then you'll have more clues coming up as too what it and the quest are. Review and give me suggestions. Oh yeah, I loved to be flamed too. It makes me happy that I bother you so much. And, if I messed up any American aspects you can tell me. I'm from Japan. I have seen all eps released in both countries though.
~HIRO
'Journey to a Land Like Home'
Half an hour after leaving Earth's atmosphere, all was still quiet. The solar system of Earth was long gone, and the craft approached the human colonies of Alpha Centauri. Gohan knew he could use this opportunity to try and get provisions for Vegeta. Only Gohan's rations were on the ship. Even then a saiyan would go hungry in days. Two saiyans, one being the prince, would be hours.
"Okay Vegeta, I'm going to try and get landing clearance. We'll stock up and stretch before our long trek." Gohan informed.
"Good." Vegeta grunted. "I could use a change of scenery."
Gohan haled the signal coming from the planet. From above the planet looked much like earth. Continents, buildings, water; all were visible. Gohan stopped the ship and waited for a response. Vegeta sat back in his bench bed, legs crossed and arms folded behind his head. He wasn't sleeping, but rather in his Vegeta-esque state of meditation. Gohan was growing impatient and haled the planet again. This time he got a response in a matter of seconds.
"This is planetary control for Planet Legume; your hale has been received. How may we be of service?" The operator asked in a robotic voice.
"This is Gohan of Earth, requesting clearance for landing."
"Earth? We haven't ever had anyone from Earth here." The voice said astounded. "We have clearance, but you'll need to fill out a form."
"All right."
"How many passengers are aboard your ship?"
"2"
"Who owns this ship?"
"Uh, me I guess."
"What is your business on this planet?"
"Supplies."
Questions continued in this manner for minutes. Vegeta began to become quite frustrated. He managed to stay quiet long enough for Gohan to answer all the bot's questions. They were given clearance to land and did so. Gohan checked the gages for the planet's environment, not totally trusting the mechanical man he spoke too. He was satisfied with the instrument's reading and got dressed to go. He put on a blue long sleeved shirt under his orange Gi that was used throughout the family. His hair had grown longer than he usually let it grow. The dark-brown locks splashed long over his forehead and ears. It was cut short in the back of his head. He also put on shoes rather than fighting boots. Vegeta wore his normal saiyan armor, plus a COM link that when touched opened a channel with Gohan, who had a transmitter clipped to his sash. "Later Vegeta." Gohan proclaimed.
Vegeta just walked off his own way from the landing platform, then flew off. Gohan trotted over to the information desk to talk to some people. He entered the line next to go. The young woman in front of him was talking about getting her younger brother back from the authorities. She didn't have money to pay the fine.
After ten minutes of negotiations, Gohan intervened, "Excuse me miss, I couldn't help but over hear your situation. I have enough money, let me pay for him."
The woman turned to see Gohan. Her long brown hair shifted in a breeze during her whip around. She gazed at Gohan with large dark eyes. Even as soft as her eyes looked, she seemed upset with him.
"I don't want your help."
"Please, its fine." Gohan said as he placed a large gem on the table.
"I'll need some more stuff." He dropped a list next to the pink gem.
"Sir, I can't take your money." "Look, they can't give me change for that anyway. It's all right." Gohan again protested with a gentle smile. He shifted his view to the clerk, "Be back in a few hours. You think you could have all that by then?"
"No problem." The overweight male replied.
Gohan began walking away when he was stopped. "Sir, at least let me compensate you. I have tickets for a baseball game later."
"Thanks, but I have no one to go with."
"I meant you can come with my brother and me."
"Sure, I have nothing else to do." Gohan agreed sprightly.
"Great, I'll go get him."
Gohan paced around the edge of the platform. Feeling the wind pass through his free hair. He gazed out through the land, sensing for strong powers. It was second nature to him now. He found none much more powerful than Mr. Satan and was pretty sure they couldn't hide their power level. The people of this planet looked just like earth people. The architecture looked much like that of Earth people. One thing that was different was that the cities hovered above the planet. Beneath the floating cities was grassland and jungle. He thought he would ask when the woman he met returned. Just as he thought that, she did, along with her brother.
The boy was about the same height as Goten, maybe smaller. He had on baggy denim pants, a nylon blue tank top, and the same shoes as Gohan: white with beige laces, plain and simple. Shoes like that must be common everywhere he thought.
"I'm Scry and this is my brother Faj." The woman introduced.
"Pleased to meet you, I'm Gohan."
"Follow me to the game." Faj announced and jumped from the platform. Gohan stepped off after him, clothes flapping in the wind. Faj gazed up at Gohan, surprised to see him falling with him. Faj landed on an inward platform which mechanically closed as he ran into the structure. Gohan was cut off by the closing walkway and door. He searched hard for the boy's power. It was the strongest he had felt yet on this planet, Legume. Still small. He followed the energy around the building and caught the boy at the exit. In a surprised tone, "You suck!"
Scry met them at the launch pad. Gohan sensed her waiting.
"Sorry, I should have warned you he does that." She apologized.
"No problem."
"You sure are crazy, I've never seen anyone catch him that fast."
"Let's go to the game!" The hotheaded boy yelled.
"I almost forgot. Follow me Gohan." Scry said. The two males followed Scry to an edge of the landing pad that had red zigzags painted on it. Immediately a hover cab zipped in from the cluster of business structures. They boarded the white floating car and said they were going to the game. The machine driver acknowledged and went off. He zoomed through the business structures, banks, and sky scrapers with mechanized perfection. During the ride, Gohan asked Faj why he was fined.
"Because cops suck. They just target me."
"We're here." The driver muttered.
"Thanks." Gohan said as he paid the fare with another small ruby. They jumped from the cab, Gohan giving Scry his hand.
"Where did you get all these jewels Gohan?" Faj questioned.
"I found them on Earth. I lived in a much unexplored area for a year. There are lots of cool stones." Gohan answered. Scry flashed the tickets as they walked into the building. The scanners read their seat numbers and a light lit up on the path to their seats. Gohan commented on how cool it was as they followed the red light path. They sat down just after the game had started. No one had scored yet and the home team, the Nix Slammers, had yet to bat. Everyone in the stadium was sitting in their seats, not really yet into the game. They cheered when a big strike out happened that ended the Panther's at bat. The Slammers lead off player stepped up to the plate. Hover cameras swarmed about as the first pitch went by. 'Strike One.' The umpire screamed. The second pitch went by. "Strike Two." Then the third was hit into the ground and bounced back. The batter took off at first plate. Cameras followed his run. The infielders caught the ball when the batter, whose name Gohan found out was Belidra, had only reached about halfway to the base. The throw to first easily caught him out. The game continued in that fashion in to the 7th inning stretch.
"Now, some lucky fan from the audience will have a chance to win a million shimmies if they can hit a pitch from the machine over the fence." The announcer boomed over the stadium speakers.
"I used to play baseball back on Earth. Just in my high school." Gohan notified Scry.
"The lucky fan is in seat number 8223D, lower level."
"I actually just played in Gym."
"Gohan that's you." Scry screamed ecstatically.
In moments Gohan found himself in front of the plate facing an automatic pitching machine. He was nervous, but still tried to push down his power as much as possible. He took a deep breath. "All you have to do is hit a homerun over the wall. You have 3 pitches. If you hit a homerun more than once, then the prize is doubled." Gohan nodded confirming he understood. The pitching machine wound up and the buzz could be heard over the little noise the crowd made. Gohan felt his hart pumping as the first pitch shot out of the machine. Gohan swung a little prematurely, expecting a faster pitch and the top of the bat hit the ball, but that was enough. The ball went sailing on an angle toward the fair pole with all eyes focused on it. Gohan's stance made the ball just land outside of the fair pole, a foul ball.
"Oh, too bad. Well, don't worry, two more pitches are on their way." The announcer falsely comforted Gohan. He lent into the machine operator's ear and suggested that the speed be increased a little. Pitch two came and Gohan battered the blistered ball, sending it straight over the back wall and into the crowd.
"Wow, you've one a million shimmies. Congratulations! Ready for pitch number three?" The pitch steamed from the robot at an unmatched pace by humans. Gohan took the blow right on the skull.
"Gohan, are you alright?" Faj screamed from the dugout. "Yeah, why?" Gohan asked oblivious to the ball that had just struck him. -~_~-
"That was so awesome how you just took that pitch like it was nothing but the wind. I can't believe that they hit you, you are strong." Faj battered as they took their cab ride to Gohan's ship. Scry had been quiet since the incident. Gohan decided to give her the money; after all, he didn't need it out in space. The currency on the planet meant nothing to anyone.
All of a sudden, Gohan realized how dark it was outside and blurted, "Vegeta!. How could I forget? Oh man, he's probably totally ready to kill me now." Gohan couldn't have been more wrong. Vegeta was having a lot of fun at the local bar. The prince had had a little bid over his limit and was now in a hotel room with a purple haired girl he confused with Bulma, or at least that would be his excuse. He was in the middle of that ordeal when he got a call from Gohan.
"Vegeta, I'm sorry I'm late. Look, I'm at the ship now and ready to go. I got the supplies." No answer. "Vegeta? You there?"
"Listen child of Kakarot, I'm in the middle of some very urgent business. Uh, Prince Stuff. Go away."
"But I..." The signal died when Vegeta broke the remote. When he turned back to business he found an unhappy woman.
"Are we gonna do it or what?" The violet haired woman asked."
"No woman, not when you nag like that!"
"Hey, don't call me that." For a second when she spoke, Vegeta sensed a change in her. He paused.
"What?" She commanded.
"I-" Vegeta baffled. Then he realized something, how was it that everything here was just like on Earth? They even spoke the Earth language. No language or customs of their own. Vegeta being even rasher when he's had a few seized the woman. When he grabbed her naked arms and pulled her to his face, which wasn't a long way up, he saw a change. A change in her eyes, they were different.
"What is this!?!" Vegeta demanded an answer. "Now! Tell Me!" Just then others burst in. Grab him one called. Vegeta of course slapped him aside. As he did this, the unconscious man changed to a blue glow and disappeared. Vegeta stood, baffled. His attackers wasted no time in taking advantage of the situation. Vegeta was held from behind and beaten by the other 4 men in the throng. The woman he was mating with now also joined the group, but as a man. Vegeta struggled for a moment, but decided to waste no time and charged to super saiyan. The golden glow shocked the mob for a moment, but the fighters held strong. Vegeta was being beaten even harder at this form. Time for level two he thought. With a thrust of his arms, all the room was leveled by his immense strength. The blue hypnotic light left in the place of the people he killed enthralled him. It pleaded with him to touch it. Vegeta gave into his curiosity and felt a zap as he engaged his index finger to the glow. He felt week, either from the foreign alcohol or from the fight. He would think he could've handled it though. From where he touched the light, a being grew. One of similarity to Vegeta. Actually, it is me.
Vegeta threw a fist, but it seemed slow, and it was. Vegeta missed his clone, which began to pummel him with fists. In seconds, Vegeta felt drained of his power. The savage beating continued even when Vegeta had been blistered into a sleep. Every so often though, Vegeta opened his eyes, to see a mirror image of himself pounding him into dust. "I expected more from you Vegeta. At least some resistance." The reflection taunted him, lifting Vegeta's arm and letting it fall. "I guess we can't have to of you running around. Looked like I will just have to eat you." The clone began to slap the prince, but he had other plans. Focusing totally on his opponent Vegeta caught the hand, "Eat this!" A large Ki blast of yellow super saiyan light shot from the extended arm of the spiky haired warrior. Immediately the figure disappeared, restoring Vegeta's strength. Vegeta fell back on the bed relieved. But immediately jumped to his feet. -~_~-
"Well this is my ship." Gohan told his new friends as he exited to air taxi.
"Can I go with you Gohan?" Faj asked.
"Absolutely no!" Scry shouted answering for Gohan. "He is going on a very dangerous mission. You are too young."
"Yeah, sorry Faj." Gohan added. "I'll come visit you though." As Gohan went to board the ship, more of the people from Legume showed up "Hey what's up?" Gohan questioned. They only kept approaching.
"What's going on?" He asked Scry who had joined the mob. "Gohan, they're not what they appear to be!" Vegeta called as he shot forward leaving a sloppy stream of energy behind him. He threw a yellow ball of Ki toward one and kicked another in the head. The one who had been kicked changed to his form of blue light. Immediately every one came after Vegeta. Gohan was in awe of the vapors left behind from the one Vegeta had killed. "Don't touch it!" The yellow haired prince shouted at Gohan but it was too late. In the absence of the Luguminite, was a mirror of Gohan. For a moment, Gohan stared at it, wondering if he was crazy. "Shit!" Vegeta shouted as he destroyed another Luguminite.
Gohan took a hit to the head from his clone, who cackled hysterically. Vegeta had his hands full with about fifty blue gremlins throwing fists at a miraculous rate. Vegeta shot back leaving an after image. He felt for their powers. It was incredible, each had the strength of a super saiyan. Gohan's clone pummeled him relentlessly, but Gohan was far from finished. In a rapid burst of energy that leveled each opponent, he was mystic. Long hair standing straight up, glazed silverfish and black. His muscles doubled, and his power more than quadrupled. Vegeta felt this strength and was not to be outdone. He raised his power as much as possible, his body shook with the ground. Still, the wraiths didn't even pursue him.
Gohan easily dispensed of the creatures attacking him, except for his image. He stood back and waited. Gohan looked back at himself and felt faint. His power dropped, and the clone pursued. Gohan threw a fist that went wide. His vision began to shift and bend. All he could feel was his power draining and fists clashing with his body. Gohan opened his eyes and saw the jaw unlatching of the creature. He is going to eat me. Gohan watched the jaws come closer in slow motion. He shut his eyes as a beam of green light flew past him and into the wraith. It fizzled out of existence. "Gallant Gun!" A distorted voice pierced through Gohan's ear. In moments Gohan felt his energy returning. He remained in mystic form until the absorption was complete and his hair fell back in place. "Thanks Vegeta." Gohan flustered out of breath. Vegeta turned to see an army of ghosts flying at him. He charged back at them. Sending multiple blasts at them. More ghosts appeared in a glowing light. Another wraith reached into the empty vapors and pulled something out, no, someone. It was a gnarled, hunched beast, twenty feet tall, and with large eyes, it sprang into the air at Gohan. Gohan jumped into the air above the beast. Its mandible hung low and drool flung from it. Gohan noticed the inside of his stomach. It was filled with faces, crying and screaming in pain. Faces of many peoples and races. Many species had perished under these creatures attack.
"These are the soles of the universe that I have eaten. You will join them." An agonizingly deep voice announced.
"We'll see." Gohan powered to mystic once more and shot like a bullet towards the creature. It moved away, but Gohan changed his path in time to catch a fist in its gut. His hand seemed to be attacked from the inside. The beast cackled hysterically at Gohan's foolish plight. Gohan battled the abdomen for seconds and grabbed something in side. The beast twisted and tangled. His laugh turned to a cry of pain. Gohan pulled out of the stomach and released the sole in his hand. The green ghost flew into contact with one that Vegeta was battling. Vegeta gained the upper hand in the fight. Gohan thrust his hands in and out of the beast, freeing soles as he did so. More of the blue wraiths disappeared in a collision with the green soles. Vegeta finished blasting them, and joined Gohan in freeing the soles from the beast. It took only a minute to deplete the resident ghouls. And soon, the beast was left, and it was a shadow of it's former self. Vegeta rose a hand, fired a blast, and it shifted away from the beast.
"Listen child of Kakarot, he must die unless you want this to happen again."
"We have to give him a chance like my dad gave you."
"I will not be like Kakarot." Vegeta said, but retreated to the ship. Gohan smiled and joined him.
Okay, it's a little longer than the other chapters. I'm just building the characters up, the first part of the quest had actually been obtained. If you haven't guessed then you'll have more clues coming up as too what it and the quest are. Review and give me suggestions. Oh yeah, I loved to be flamed too. It makes me happy that I bother you so much. And, if I messed up any American aspects you can tell me. I'm from Japan. I have seen all eps released in both countries though.