Disclaimer: I don't own dbz, and I can't think of anything funny to add.

Ok, I'll take time to answer a repeatedly asked question. We all know what happened to Vegeta (evil grin) but many people are wondering what happend to Gohan and Piccolo. At the beginning of the story, Gohan left to space because of a severe crisis. Picollo went with him. I did this for 2 reasons: a)My next saga is about them. b)They both have an excuse for not losing to Turan. I mean, think about it. Gohan would've had to lose because he didn't have SSJ, and I REALLY didn't want to make him lose. It seemed more fitting to have Vegeta lose instead. And if picollo had stayed....he would've beaten the crap out of Turan. Seriously, while he isn't as powerful as the other saiyajins at full power, he could easily beat them without their ssj powers. It's all a matter of balancing, and I know it turns some people off. But hey, now Kururin and Tien get to beat people up. ^_^

SOrry about the mistake with chapter 3 -_- Lousy update......

Enough of my long winded introduction. Without further ado, lets join our heroes.....

P.S. Go read Acyla's "A Crappy Fic." Funniest damned thing I've read on this board, (though that's probably cause I'm in it ^_^)


Chapter 5: Hopeless Odds



"M-master, we have a problem."

Trisor approached Turan in fear. The red haired giant sat by a small fire, casting dark, flickering light over the small room. Turan sighed, he wasn't in the mood. He brushed his hand through his thick red hair softly, thinking of something, ANYTHING he'd rather be doing then dealing with yet another problem with the gaurds. "Did you put the prisoners back in the cell?"

"Y-yes my lord."

"Then I trust you to deal with this problem, whatever it is."

Trisor was taken aback. "But we have intruders, my lord! They're the humans-"

Turan's voice rose softly, warningly "I said you can deal with it."

But the alien could not take a hint. "This is really serious, they're-!"

SLAM! The soldier was suddenly pinned against the wall, swinging like a pendulum, a massive fist enclosing his neck. Trisor cried out, but it came in a bubling gurgle. Turan put his face right up to the sobbing creature. "Now listen to me closely. I am busy, I am tired, and if you say one more word to me and disobey me, I'LL BREAK YOU INTO 10,000 TINY LITTLE PIECES!" He smiled thinly, "Do I make myslef clear....?"

The creature, entangled as he was, nodded vigorously.

"Then get OUT!"

Turan threw Trisor out the door, where he landed in a heap. Trisor got up and ran away, as fast and far as he could.

Turan sighed and sat back down. These idiots I lead. He continued to ponder his battle with Goku. He chuckled softly to himself. It's been so long. I still remember back when Bardock was my hero. And now I'm fighting his son. He chuckled I should be thanking Goku for killing Tales, not fighting him. "Ah, but it's a family thing I supposed. I have to avenge my brother's death, no matter how much I despised him." Turan said out loud. He lay back softly in his chair, and began to sleep again, hardly aware of the tense battle commencing not a half a mile away form him.......


"Um g-guys? What do we do now?"

Chao-zu spoke in a frightened squeak. The four were backed into the wall, surounded by soldiers of all different colors and sizes. The cafeteria was now a disaster, after Kururin had unleasehd his fury. More soldiers were approaching, with guns, and the situation was beginning to look hopeless. Tien looked around, baring his teeth at the group. "Is there any way out of this hell hole? We can fly away once we leave the cafeteria."

Yamcha absently kicked a gaurd which had been sneaking up on him. "Yeah, the exit's right over there. But how are we gonna get through all of these guys?"

Kururin remained fairly calm, though still angry. "Relax, none of them are fighters at all. At least from what I've seen so far. They're just cowards and bullies, a mob."

Tien spoke up, "There are about twenty in here, think we can take them?"

Evil smiles slowly spread across the fighters faces. Yamcha laughed for the first time that day, "I haven't had a good brawl in a long time."

Tien started to glow slightly, and he grinned wolfishly at the now frightened pack of soldiers, "Yeah, it'd be nice to loosen up these old muscles...."

Kururin looked at the cowering gaurds mockingly, "Yeah sure. I've had just about enough of this little mob.May I lead off, Tien?"

"Yeah, sure."

Kururin's arm shot out, and he expanded his ki rapidly, bashing over three goons. In a blur, Tien and Yamcha rushed the group, fists moving too fast to see. Soon, the whole room was in pure chaos. COnfusion reigned, as the gaurds, in terror, started punching and kicking their fellow comrades to get out.

Kururin took out his pent up anger in spades, dealing massive blows. Tien was laughing out loud, and crushed soldiers with a body he used like a club. Yamcha just moved too fast to really be seen, dealing quick, jarring blows to the enemies. In the mass confusion, a ki blaster went off, and the lights blacked out in a frightning flash.

For two long seconds, silence reigned. Then the whole room lit up again, as a samall, deadly yellow blast of ki crashed into another soldier. Chaos ensued once more, except this time the room was frequently lit by ki blasts as Chao-zu took target practice with his dodompas.

No soldier escaped, and the four fighters walked out, not a scrape on their bodies. The adrenaline rush they revieced from the fight gave them confidence. Oh yes, I've missed this. Tien thought gleefully, absently smashing his fist into the face of another goon trying to escape.

Yamcha, however, knew the battle was far from over. "You guys, there are hundreds of these people, we need to move NOW."

Kururin finally calmed down, "Ok Chao-zu, lead us in the right direction."

"Ok, follow me everybody!" Even Chao-zu, who normally didn't like fighting, was feeling somewhat smug. His aim had been flawless.

THey took off the ground, but the others were not far behind....


"IN HERE!"

#18 and Lunch were thrown roughly back into the cell. Lunch rolled around and slammed into the wall, while #18 landed in a rather...compromising position on Mutenroshi.

"Well now..heh heh" The man started cackling.

SMACK! The old man pratically flew across the room, and landed in a heap on the floor by Oolang. He slowly sat up, and rubbed his head gingerly, but did not look the least bit ashamed of himself. Miserable old fart. #18 thought sourly. Then she sat down again, and put her head between her knees. She was trying desperately not to cry.

I was completely hopeless, that moron could've done anything with me. The laughter, the pain, she shuddered, tears forming in her eyes. If it hadn't been for Kururin....

Angrily, she clenched her fists. Once again, I had to be saved by that weakling. Oooh, why did he have to show up, I could've..... But she stopped herself. She knew she couldn't have done anything. She had been at their mercy, and Kururin had been the only one to save her again.

Though she hated to admit it, she was proud of the man. He had stood up to a mob, and deep inside she knew he could take the cowards. And it had been VERY satisfying to see her oppresor flattened against the wall.

But it was the way he had been so angry, so enraged by her pain, that almsot endear-

"So YOU'RE here."

#18 looked up, irritated at the intrusion of her train of thought. "So, you finally woke up, huh? Leave me alone, Vegeta."

Vegeta was crouched against the wall, clearly still in pain. Warm blood crawled his face, the terrible gash down his cheek had not healed at all. In the light, she saw that his armor was literally broken, a huge chunk of it was missing. Vegeta spoke somewhat mockingly "How did you end up here? Did you fight the baka as well? Or are you just weak, like them?"

Sighing, the android sat up. She saw the argument coming, but she didn't care anymore. "No, the bastards snuck on me while I was sleeping. Why are you calling ME weak? Aren't you supposed to be "Super Vegeta?" How could you POSSIBLY lose," she retorted bitterly.

Vegeta's face darkened, "Don't you talk to me that way, bitch." He smirked, "I heard they had been planning quite the entertainment for you-"

#18 stood up, eyes flashing. "Don't you DARE call me 'bitch'..."

The other humans slowly backed away, sensing a fight ensueing. Vegeta started to painfully crouch in a fighting stance. #18 laughed, "Like your in any condition to fight. Besides, you power up too much, the floor here'll electrocute you. Even so, in the state your in, I bet even Kururin outside could beat you..."

Vegeta froze, "You mean the cue-ball's here? Trying to save US?"

#18 nodded, "Yeah, and there were three others. The three-eyed one, Tien I think, a pale mimish sort of person, and a fighter with a large scar on his cheek."

VEgeta sat down and laughed bitterly, "So we got THOSE weaklings coming to our rescue. Turan'll destroy them."

"Turan?"

Vegeta slammed his fist to the ground in anger, "Yeah, I remember the baka now. My father used to pick on him when he was a kid. Turan was a weak child, apparently, and was teased for his red hair and short tail. His brother was another weakling, tales, whom Kakarot supposedly killed."

"Turan dissapeared from our planet about a year before Freeza blew it up. Apparently, he had murdered someone or something, I'm not really sure. He hated all other saiyajin by then, so it's no surprise he's trying to capture all of us." VEgeta growled, "And to think I lost to him."

VEgeta sat back down. "Now leave me alone...."

#18 slumped back down as well, slightly bewildered. Vegeta was certainly as rude as he ever was, but he wasn't as cocky as she remembered him to be. Probably smarting from his 1000th defeat or something. Her thoughts were once again frozen, this time by a little arm. Pulling at her sleeve was goten. He's crawling already? Tenderly, she picked up the child, and rocked it. Goten sighed in happiness, and promptly fell asleep. #18 sighed, her almost forgotten maternal insticts kicking in. I could get to like children....


Things were not going well for Kururin and the others.

Tien deflected yet another phaser blast back towards the army following them. Chao-zu frantically led them around corners and turns, attempting to keep his concentration as he was being shot at. Kururin slammed another goon down to the ground as he flew. "How much farther do we have to go?"

Chao-zu fired a dodompa back at the crowd, and was rewarded with a scream. "We're nearly there!"

Tien threw a ki ball over his shoulder, "Good, I hope so. We can lose them in the labrynth."

Kururin groaned, "Oh WONDERFUL. The labrynth. Probably full of traps and everything. Who the hell would put a labrynth in their base?"

Chao-zu blew up an offending rock blocking the path. "It's where the stronger gaurds live, like I said."

Yamcha snorted, "Right, it's probably just there to stall us and make our lives harder. Sadistic people here."

Kururin sighed as another group of soldiers flew to intercept them. "We can't stop now, or we'll have the whole army down our throats. "

Tien stopped suddenly. "I've had enough of this." He became deadly quiet, forehead browed in concentration. and formed his hands into a triangle. His hands started to glow, and he turned towards the group in front of them. The soldiers stopped, confused. Kururin yelled, "Wait! don-"

"KIKOHO!"

A giant flash of energy blew through the soldiers, and they all disintegrated with the same look of confusion on their faces. The blast traveled onward, oblivious to the bodies it had plowed through, and made a giant hole in the ground. The cave started to shake and tremble, and groaned as though it were in pain. Kururin yelled, "TIEN! We can't use attacks like that in here! The cave's collapsing!"

Tien looked unconcerned. "Chao-zu, how far?"

Chao-zu narrowly dodged a rock twice his size. He stammered, "r-right over here!" They continued to fly through the storm of debris and boulders. Kururin looked back in amazement.

"They're still following us? Even with all this going on?"

Indeed, the whole army was following them, more scared of losing the intuders than of the cavein. Using blasters, they destroyed the rocks, and started to aim at the heroes again. Yamcha deflected a shot back. "My god! They don't quit!"

Chao-zu screamed, "HERE! Here's the entrance! Come on, quickly!"

THe earth started quivering like jello, and the entrance opened up to three different hallways. "Which one do we take?" Tien asked confusedly.

Before he could answer, howevere, a swarm of soldiers drew in from all sides. Kururin's head snapped back as a clumsy punch finally connected with his face. Yelling, he kicked the gaurd right through, splitting him in half. The fighters fought gamely, but the soldiers were winning through their numbers All around, the tunnel continued to collapse. "AIEEEE!!!!" Chao-zu was thrown into the left-most hall. Before he could get up.....

CRASH!!! A giant boulder fell across the entrance to the hall, and a strong wind pushed everyone over. "CHAO-ZU!!!!!" Tien screamed. The earth groaned and turned over, and Kururin and Yamcha fell through the right hall. This time, a steel door clanged shut, trapping the two. The higher gaurds knew the danger, and were cutting off the maze from the rest of the base. Tien scrambled as fast as he could to the center hall. He rolled over the side just as the door slammed shut. He trembled as he heard the screams of the small army, begging to be let in. The screams all rose to a crescendo, then a massive boom threw Tien to the ground once more.

Then the earth was silent.

TO BE CONTINUED

What'll happen to our heroes now? Seperated from eachother, they must navigate through the maze in the next chapter. (You KNOW it's gonna be hard.) R/R ^_^