Chapter 8: Search for the Dragonballs
One-Star Dragonball: Goku & Ash
After stopping at the Capsule Corporation, Goku, Ash, and Pikachu headed off to find the
first Dragonball. Ash was worried that Chi-Chi might yell at Goku for going off on another
Dragonball Quest but Goku said that he wasn't afraid of facing Chi-Chi's wrath (actually, he
was but right now, he would do anything to help his new friends).
The Dragonball Radar lead them to a volcano. Ash hopped up and down because the volcano
was extremely hot. But Goku wasn't even flinching. Goku ended up picking up Ash and placing
him on Nimbus which was their mode of transportation.
"According to the radar, the One-Star Dragonball is right in the volcano."
"How are we going to get it?" Ash asked.
"I'm not sure. Even I wouldn't be able to stand up to that boiling heat."
"But I know someone who can," Ash said.
"Pika. Pika-pikachu? [Uh-oh. You're using Charizard, aren't you?]
"We've got no choice, Pikachu. You saw how Charizard stood up against the lava in
Blaine's gym. He can stand up against this lava."
"Pikachu." [But he's disobedient.]
"So were you."
"Pika-pika. Chu-pikachu." [That's different. I just met you.] Ash
took out Charizard's pokeball.
"Charizard, go!" With a flash of light, Charizard formed itself between Ash and Goku.
"Charizard, we need you to go down into the volcano and retrieve the Dragonball." Charizard
took a look from Ash, to Goku, to Pikachu. It then scratched itself with its hind leg and
laid down.
Ash moaned. "No matter how hard I try, it just won't listen to me."
"Pikachu." [Told you.]
"It's okay, Ash," Goku said. "We'll find some other way."
"Pika-pi, pika, pikachu!" [Ash, Goku, head's up!] Everybody (including Charizard, it was
curious) looked to the sky to see Atron streaking toward the volcano.
"It's one of those Super Squad Seven Saiyan or whatever they call themselves!" Ash cried.
"Charizard, I'm pleading with you, you have to go down there and retrieve the Dragonball!" But
Charizard just continued sleeping.
"Fine," Ash said. "Then I'll just go down there and retrieve it myself."
"Ash, no, that's too dangerous!" Goku cried.
"Pika-pi, chu! Pikachu! Pika-pika!" [Ash, no! Think of the others! Think of Misty!]
But Ash was oblivious to their pleas. He started sliding down into the volcano.
Goku looked from Ash to Atron then leaped onto Nimbus.
"Let's go, Nimbus!" Goku and Nimbus shot up into the air to confront the villain.
"KAMEHAME-HA!" Goku shouted as he unleashed a powerful energy blast. Atron dodged it.
"MORPH-TO-DRAGON!" Atron cried. There was a flash of light and soon, Atron looked like
a red dragon.
"You think looking like a giant lizard is going to scare me?" Goku asked.
"How about a giant lizard with a bad case of heart burn!" Atron shouted as a stream of
red fire emitted from his mouth. Goku dodged it and countered with another kamehame-ha which
Atron dodged as well. Goku leaped off Nimbus and launched a power punch which Atron took in
stride.
Charizard watched the battle intensely. It really wanted to join it but it felt tired.
It wanted to sleep.
"Pikachu, pika-pika-pi?" [Charizard, why won't you help Ash?] Charizard looked at the
little electric Pokemon with a "are you crazy glare?"
"Charizard-char-zard-char-char?" [Why should I stick my neck out for a human?]
"Pika-pikachu-pikachu!" [Because he's your master.]
"Charizard." [I'm my own master.]
"Pikachu!" [He's your friend!]
"Char-charizard?" Charizard had a point. Pikachu could
remember times when he saved itself, Pidgeotto, Bulbasaur and Squirtle but none when Ash stuck
his neck out for Charmander. Or Charmeleon. Pikachu decided to get desprate.
"Pikachu-pika-pi, pika-pikachu-chu." [Because if it wasn't for Ash, you would be on that rock,
dead!]
"Char?" [What?]
"Pika-pikachu?" [Don't you remember?]
*
Brock sat staring out the window of the Pokemon Center. He couldn't get the image of
that Charmander out of his head. As everybody knew, water beats fire and if the Charmander
was let out in the rain, its tail flame could go out and it could die.
Misty came with some soup. She noticed Brock staring out at the thunder cloud-filled sky.
"What's wrong, Brock?"
"I wonder if anyone came to pick up that Charmander," Brock replied. Ash and Misty
lowered their heads in thought. They were obviously thinking of the Charmander as well.
Laughing disrupted their pondering scene. They looked to see a group of boys huddled
around a table booth. One of the boys had a pile of pokeballs on the table.
"Wow, you sure have a large collection, Damien," one of the boys commented.
"Don't you know it," the one called Damien replied. "And I caught them all by myself."
"Pikachu." [What an ego.] Pikachu commented. One of the boys looked through the
pile. "Hey Damien," he called. "I thought you had a Charmander."
"I did. But it was so weak, it couldn't beat the weakest opponent."
"He doesn't realize that if you train a Pokemon right, it can defeat any opponent," Ash
muttered.
Damien continued. "So I left it on a rock."
Brock gasped. "He was the one who abandoned that Charmander!" He started to head toward
the table, a look of pure disgust on his face.
"It's probably still on that rock, wagging its tail so hard, the flame would go out,"
Damien continued.
Brock then picked Damien up by the collar. "Go get it," he ordered.
"Why should I?"
"That Charmander's been waiting for you. If he stays on that rock any longer, he could
die!"
"So what? It was too weak to battle. It would've died anyway"
"You have no right calling yourself a Pokemon Trainer, abandoning your Pokemon like
that," Ash accused.
"That's right," Misty chimed in.
"You have no right to throw yourself into other people's business," Damien came back.
Ash, Misty and Brock stared down Damien and his friends. Each ready to use their respective
Pokemon to teach the other a lesson. Even Pikachu was ready to punish Damien for abandoning
that Charmander.
Nurse Joy stepped in between the groups. "All right, that's enough. Pokemon are not to
be used for personal battles. It is an insult to the Pokemon and their trainers."
*
"Pika-pi-piiiika-pikachu. Pika-pika-pik-chu?" [Ash saved you from the brink of death and this
is how you thank him?] Charizard looked from Goku fighting Atron, to Ash climbing carefully
down into the volcano. Pikachu's argument worked. Charizard was torn between its own
aggressiveness and the devotion of a Charmander.
Meanwhile, Ash felt his hands grow uncomfortably hot as he went further into the volcano.
Even Blaine's gym hadn't been this hot, even before Team Rocket literally froze it.
Something shiny caught Ash's eyes. He looked to see a round orb lieing on a ledge. It
was gold-colored with one red star in the center.
"That must be the One-Star Dragonball," Ash said excitedly. He started to climb around
the edge of the volcano.
Suddenly one of the rocks gave away and Ash lost his gripp. He dug his hands into the
side, hoping to find something to hold on to. Surprisingly enough, he found it to be a flat
ledge. Ash looked up and a figure stood there. It was Giovanni.
"You're the guy who controlled the Nikaron," Ash accused him.
"I am called Giovanni. Leader of Team Rocket."
"Team Rocket? I should have known." Ash struggled to pull himself up but found that it
was futile. "What are you doing here? We defeated the Nikaron back in Nerima."
"That's right, Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town."
"What? How'd you know my name?"
"You wouldn't understand the influence of an powerful organization such as Team Rocket."
Ash remembered Jessie saying a similar expression when he went to battle for his Earth Badge.
"Why is Team Rocket interested in me?"
"Because you have the most powerful Pikachu in the world. And...."
"And what?"
"Oh, nothing. You're a stubborn little boy, aren't you?"
"What's it to you?"
Giovanni chuckled. "Defiant too. I guess stuff like that just runs in the family."
"Huh? What does that mean?"
"It means it's time to say good-bye, Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town." And with those words,
Giovanni stepped on Ash's fingers. Ash desprately hung on for dear life. But the man's feet
were just too much for him. Ash let go and fell the remaining length to the lava pool.
Pikachu, Charizard, Goku, and Atron saw Ash and the Dragonball.
"The Dragonball!" Atron cried. Then, "MORPH TO MONKEY!" Atron transformed into a red
spider-monkey and dove into the volcano. Hopping from crack to crack, he landed on the
Dragonball just as the ledge broke and he too started to fall to the lava pool.
"MORPH TO GIANT BALD EAGLE!" This time, he was a giant bird that made a Pidgeot look
weak. He picked up the Dragonball with his talons and took off into the air.
"PIKA-PI!" [ASH!] Pikachu cried. Charizard looked and made a frantic decision: to save
Ash. Flexing its wings back, the giant dragon-type Pokemon dove into the volcano. But Ash was
falling to the volcano faster than Charizard was and he was ahead of it.
Goku and Pikachu watched with horrid expressions. For a moment, it looked like Charizard
was going to catch up. Ash fell and fell until...
SPLASH!
**
Two Star Dragonball: Piccolo & Brock
"I still think we should've taken one of the others," Brock said as he rode on top of
Onix.
"We don't have any choice," Piccolo said as he flew along side the former Gym Leader.
"If we don't get the Dragonball before the Saiyans do, they could plunge the world into utter
chaos. I'm not going to let what happened to Namek happen to Earth."
"Was Namek your home planet?"
Piccolo nodded.
*
Chaos loomed all around them. Namek's three bright suns have long-sinced died out. Now,
there was darkness. Piccolo, Krillin, Vegeta, Gohan, and Dende watched as the planet began
cumbling. {This is just like when Frieza destroyed Vajita,} Vegeta thought, thinking of how
Frieza effortlessly and maliciously murdered every member of the Saiyan race except for an
elite few. Himself, Nappa, Ravitz, and Kakarott. {Now, Namek is going to be destroyed. With all
the worlds that are falling to Frieza's wrath, how long will it be before Earth becomes its
next target?} Vegeta's pondering (which was something he rarely does) was interrupted as Bulma
lowered the Capsule Shuttle I down.
"Hop on," she called. Piccolo carried Dende and the two Nameks got on. Krillin followed
and then Gohan. Vegeta wanted to follow suite but Bulma had already shut the door and began
taking off.
Inside, Krillin looked out a view window and saw Vegeta staring at them taking off.
"Bulma, wait, we forgot Vegeta!" He called. Bulma looked at him like he was off his
rocker. He wanted to save the animal that killed Yamcha, Tien, Chao-Zu, and Piccolo and came
close to murdering Goku, Krillin and Gohan?
"Are you out of your mind, Krillin? We have to get out of here. Besides, since when
were you so simpathetic about a Saiyan?"
"I'm not simpathetic," Krillin defended. "But Vegeta did help us in defeating The Ginyu
Force and he even healed Goku. It's the least we can do." Bulma sighed and knew she would
hate for what she was about to do.
Bulma set the Capsule Shuttle I into a hover position and activated an extercom system.
"Well?" Her voice boomed out. "Are you coming or not? Come on, you stupid Saiyan. We
don't have all day!"
"Women," Vegeta muttered as he floated up to meet them. "Makes me wonder why they even
began existing." Vegeta joined his new allies and they all headded back to Earth while Goku
stayed and battled Frieza on the destroyed asteroid that was once Namek.
*
"Look over there?" Brock called. He pointed to a lake just in the distance. "The
Dragonball radar says it's somewhere in that lake." Brock and Piccolo stopped at the edge of
the lake.
"Onix is a rock Pokemon and rock Pokemon are weak when it comes to water so I won't be
able to help you much."
"That's all right," Piccolo said. "I prefer to go at this alone." Piccolo removed his
cape and turbin and dove in. Brock stood with Onix. Brock just happened to look up when he
saw a streak of light.headding to their location. He released Zubat.
"Zubat, go find out what that streak of light is."
"Zubat." [Right.] Zubat flew into the air, headding toward the streak. The light
suddenly zoomed passed the flying Pokemon, leaving it in the dust. Brock gasped as the streak
of light formed itself into Dreadlock, one of the Super Saiyan Seven Squad.
"Vulpix," Brock called. "I choose you." Vulpix was the most powerful of all Brock's
Pokemon. It was given to him by Suzie, a Pokemon Breeder in Celedon City. Although Vulpix
wasn't a Rock Pokemon which was his specialty, Brock had to learn about other Pokemon if he
wanted to become an expert Pokemon Breeder like Suzie.
Vulpix formed itself. "Vulpix," it cried. It was a Pokemon expression that had no
english translation. All Pokemon had an expression (it was the best human description for it)
they used every time they came out of a pokeball.
"Vulpix, fire spin!" Vulpix let out an intense fire blast that swirled at its target:
Dreadlock.
"Concentrated incindiary projection attempting damage. Activating countermeasures." A
forcefield appeared around him which allowed him to dive through the fire spin attack.
"Long-range scanners identified source. Engaging." Two laser cannons appeared on
Dreadlock's back and fired. The blasts were much more powerful then Vulpix's fire spin and
sent it, Brock, and Onix running.
Zubat, having recovered from its initial contact with Dreadlock, fired its sonic blast at
Dreadlock. The sound waves struck Dreadlock and sent him plummeting to the ground.
"Enhanced audio projectile sneak attack," Dreadlock identified. "Source identified.
Neutralizing." In place of one of the laser canons, a long tube appeared. A bag that looked
like it was made of plastic shot out and enclosed Zubat.
"Zubat!" Brock cried.
"Vulpix!" [Zubat!]
"Onix!" [Zubat!] Dreadlock then turned toward Brock, Onix, and Vulpix and resumed
firing its laser cannons.
"Scattershot!" A burst of energy in a spiral formation knocked Dreadlock into the
lake. Brock turned to see Piccolo holding the Two-Star Dragonball and extending the index and
middle fingers of his free hand out.
"Thanks, Piccolo."
"Don't thank me yet, kid. You get the Dragonball back to Capsule Corp. I'll handle
'Metal Man.'"
"I can't. Not without Zubat."
"You're willing to sacrifice yourself for a pet?"
"Zubat isn't a pet, it's a Pokemon! It's my friend. Would your friends abandon you in
times of danger?" Piccolo thought back to all of his battles. Against Ravitz, then Nappa and
Vegeta, followed by Frieza and the Ginyu Force, Garlic Jr., that crazy Doctor Gero and the
Saiyans who planted the Tree of Might. Gohan had been Piccolo's closest friend, ever since
they trained for the eventual battle against Nappa and Vegeta. Over the years, they became
more than friends. It was like they were one and the same. Like twins in the spiritual
sense. Piccolo then realized that the feeling Brock had for this Zubat was the same feeling
Gohan had for Piccolo and vice-versa.
Turning toward the bag, Piccolo tore it apart, freeing Zubat.
"Thanks, Piccolo. Zubat, Vulpix, return! Onix, let's go!" Piccolo threw the Dragonball
to Brock and stood toward faced the metallic being that escaped from his watery grave by using
jet thrusters.
Piccolo split himself into copies and all the copies threw themselves at Dreadlock.
"Passion Scanners indicate that duplicates pose no harm to self. Activating DNA scanners
to confirm original. Original found. Taking out now." Dreadlock shot forward and struck the
original Piccolo. The clones immediately molded back into the real Piccolo. Dreadlock's
punches were like battering rams to Piccolo's green-covered skin. The final blow was when
Dreadlock pounded Piccolo's spine and sent him crashing into the ocean. He then took off
after Brock.
*
Onix was fast but the trees were serious obsticles. Brock had to place his arm out to
protect his eyes from the pointy branches. He clutched the Two-Star Dragonball with his body
and hoped that they could get back before Dreadlock got to them.
His hopes were diminished. Dreadlock swooped down and knocked Brock off Onix. Onix,
seeing its master down, lunged at Dreadlock but was knocked out by Dreadlock's powerful fists.
"Primary target achieved. Retrieving and returning to base." Dreadlock took the
Two-Star Dragonball from Brock's unconscious form and took off.
**
Three-Star Dragonball: Kojiyoshi & Yamcha
"So then I say 'hey, if you have a problem with that, you should get a job!'"
"And what did he say?"
"He said, 'I did. That's why I said it.'" The two laughed as Yamcha finished the joke.
"You're a real riot, Yamcha," Puu'ar groaned. The three were riding Yamcha's hover car. Gohan
managed to salvage and repair it from when the pirates who planted the Tree of Might crashed
into it. Even got the loans paid up thanks to a carefully crafted story from Yamcha about how
it fell apart a few days after and threatened that if they (the company that made the hover
car, not Capsule Corp. surprisingly) didn't provide the rest of the payment, he would sue them.
Kojiyoshi looked at the Dragonball Radar. "Down here, Yamcha." Yamcha set down in a
field and all three hopped out.
Moving the Dragonball Radar around, Kojiyoshi lead the former thief and the shape-shifter to a
hollow tree. He reached into the tree and pulled out the Three-Star Dragonball.
"Wow, this was the easiest Dragonball Quest in history," Yamcha commented.
"I'm not sure, Yamcha," Puu'ar said.
"I'm afraid she's right, Yamcha. Look!" Everybody looks toward the sky to see Reptide
jet down at them like a speeding bullet.
"Hand over the Dragonball, Earth ssssssssssssssssscum."
"No way, snake face!" Yoshi said. "Yamcha, get the Dragonball out of here. I'll handle
short, green, and ugly."
"Just do as he says, Yamcha," Puu'ar agreed as she took off back to the hovercar.
"All right, Snake-Man. Let's see how you do against Pokemon power! Bulbasaur,
Charmander, Primeape, Porygon, Machop, I choose you!" He threw five pokeballs out at once and
they took the shape of the said Pokemon. Yoshi leapt onto Porygon and rode him like a surf
board as all of them charged at Reptide. Porygon catapulted Yoshi and the boy launched feet
first at the genetically-engineered Saiyan. Reptide swung his tail and knocked Yoshi away.
Bulbasaur unleashed its razor leaf while Charmander used his flame thrower. Reptide
pulled his head, arms, legs and tail into its body like a turtle and the leaves and fire
missed it. Reptide, still inside his "shell," swung his tail and knocked out Bulbasaur and
Charmander.
Porygon used its hyper beam which knocked Reptide against a tree. Reptide recovered and
uprooted a whole tree. He swung it and knocked Porygon out.
By this time, Yoshi recovered and started punching Reptide but Reptide fired an energy
beam at Yoshi, knocking him against Porygon.
Machop and Primeape's mega punches were used against each other thanks to a well-timed
jump courtesy of Reptide. Reptide chuckled and took off with the Three-Star Dragonball in
tow.
**
Four & Five-Star Dragonball: Krillin, Duplica, Gohan, and Sabrina
As it turned out, the Four and Five-Star Dragonballs were located right near each other.
So Krillin and Gohan took Duplica and Sabrina out to retrieve them. Krillin and Gohan flew and
Sabrina and Gohan carried the Dragonball Radars. The radars took them to a high mountain. So
high that it popped the ears of even the mighty Krillin.
"So where are the Dragonballs?"
"I don't know," Duplica replied, holding Ditto in her arms. "But I hope they don't have
them." She pointed up to see Yin and Yang fly down. Joining hands, the two Saiyans formed a
powerful energy ram and swung it toward the heroes.
Ditto stretched itself and transformed into a glass dome which actually stood against the
blunt of the energy ram. It then transformed into a duplicate of them (only one of them) and
flew up at them. Yin and Yang nodded at each other and both punched Ditto.
"Kadabra, go! Full psychic attack!" Sabrina ordered.
"Kadabra!" Energy waves flew at both of them and actually sent them crashing
into the mountainside. But they quickly recovered and joined hands again.
Energy flowed between both of them and suddenly, they combined to form a single creature. It
wasn't as large as the Nikaron but it was definitely as powerful. The creature and both faces,
both arms, but only a single pair of legs.
"Now we'll destroy you," Yin-Yang said. They picked up some boulders and began tossing
them at the two girls. Sabrina quickly used her psychic powers to move the boulders out of the
way. But she wasn't prepared for the ice-ball Yin-Yang got from the top of the mountain. The
two girls and two Pokemon were squished under over a half ton of snow.
"Looks like it's our turn," Gohan said. "Masenta blast!" Gohan sent a million laser blasts
at them.
"DESTRUCTO-DISK!" The two power moves were reflected back at their owners. The two
members of the Dragonball Crew fell down the mountain. Gohan fell right on top of Krillin.
Yin-Yang landed a sonic blast to a snow bank and snow piled down all four of them. They
then took off with their acquired possession.
**
Six-Star Dragonball: Ayako & Vegeta
"Babysitting," Vegeta grumbled. "I can't believe I'm stuck babysitting."
"Well I wasn't exactly jumping for joy to get you as a partner myself," Ayako said. The
two were headding off toward the crater where Ravitz's spaceship first landed.
{After all this time,} Vegeta thought. {To return to the place where this all began.}
It was Ravitz who first came to Earth to see why Kakarott didn't destroy it. When he found his
brother had become a goody-goody, well, that was when Goku fought, defeated him, fought
himself and Nappa, also won. Goku was indeed the most powerful Saiyan in existance.
{Then again,} Vegeta thought, {there aren't that many Saiyans left in existance.}
"Vegeta, stop!" Ayako shouted. "We're here!" Vegeta set Ayako down in a field. Not
far was the crater. Vegeta and Ayako ran to the edge of the crater.
Ayako gasped. "There it is." The Six-Star Dragonball was resting perfectly in the
center of the crater.
"I'll go down and get it," Ayako volunteered.
"No," Vegeta said placing a hand in front of her. "You're too weak to get it. Only
someone with a power level of at least 500 can get it. And you're not even at 300." As much
as Ayako hated to admit it, he was right. She just didn't have the strength to carry it out of
the crater.
Vegeta leaped down and proceeded to the center of the crater. Ayako paced up and down as
she waited for him to retrieve it.
Suddenly a laser blast struck the ground in front of Ayako. She looked up to see Energon
swoop down to face them.
{What can I do?} Ayako thought to herself. {My water Pokemon aren't powerful enough to
tackle that creature.} She looked around and saw something. It was a piece of metal. Ayako
didn't know that it was a piece of Ravitz's spaceship that had broken off in the original
crash. All she knew was that it was a great distraction.
Vegeta looked up to see Energon. Forgetting about the Dragonball, Vegeta flew up to meet
this enemy.
Vegeta's punches were like flashes to the naked eye. But Energon's blocks were faster.
Vegeta couldn't believe it. He was one of the most powerful Saiyans on Earth and yet this guy
was beating him like he was a weakling.
"BIG BANG ATTACK!" Vegeta cried as he unleashed his most powerful energy attack. But
Energon just stood there.
"You are a fool, Vegeta," Energon insulted. "I can absorb your energy and channel it
back at you!" And Energon proved his statement by throwing Vegeta's big bang attack back at
his face. Vegeta was thrust back.
"Hey ugly!" Energon turned to see Ayako throw the chuck of metal at him. The metal hit
him dead on and actually made the Saiyan grunt. But Energon threw a single laser blast at her
which she took in the chest.
Energon was about to go down and get the Dragonball when Vegeta grabbed his leg and swung
him around in a move similar to shot-put. Energon was flung into a tree.
"That's it," Energon said. "Now I'm mad." He unleashed a fury of energy beams at Vegeta
and Ayako. The two tried to dodge but they were overtaken. They fell.
Energon then took the Dragonball and held it up into the air. "With this, Satastro will
be ruler of the whole universe! And I'll be his right hand man." He then took off.
**
Seven-Star Dragonball: Bulma & Misty
The Seven-Star Dragonball was the easiest to get. It was just lying in a tree near
Goku's house. Bulma and Misty took a capsule-car to get it.
"We have to be careful," Bulma explained. "Chi-Chi doesn't know about this and the less
she knows, the better." The two females snuck along the forest. Not far away, about fifty
feet away, was Goku's house.
Bulma started to feel the insides of each hollow tree they come to.
"Why can't you use the Dragonball Radar?" Misty asked.
"Because this version doesn't have pinpoint accuracy. We have to do this the old fashion
way." They each started looking around. They were so entranced in their task, that they
didn't hear Chi-Chi walk up to them.
"Hi, Bulma. What's up?" Bulma jumped so high, that Reptide, who was coming back with
the Two-Star Dragonball, saw her.
"Chi-Chi, hi, um... What's up?"
"Nothing. What brings you out here."
"Uh... We're just... Looking for something."
"Looking for what? What could you be... Oh no, you're not on a Dragon Quest again, are
you?"
Misty could see that they were busted. "We have no choice, Chi-Chi," she explained. "We
need to get them before they get them."
"Who's they?"
"I'm they." Misty, Chi-Chi and Bulma looked to see Satastro flying down to destroy them.
"Oh man," Bulma complained. "Of course with my luck, we had to get the leader."
"What do we do now?" Misty asked.
"RUN FOR IT!" Chi-Chi cried. Everybody took off toward Chi-Chi's house. When Satastro
arrived, he found that the three girls (well one girl and two women) were all carrying blunt
objects. Chi-Chi carried a broom handle, Bulma had a set of cutting knives, and Misty clutched
two of her pokeballs in both hands.
Chi-Chi swung her broom handle but Satastro grabbed it out of her hands and broke it in
half.
Bulma threw some knives but Satastro set up a quick forcefield to block the knives.
Misty didn't know what to do. When she talked to Prof. Oak, he said that the pokeballs
could protect her but how. To see, Misty threw a pokeball at Satastro. It actually hit him
in the forehead before landing and opening up to reveal Psyduck.
"Help!" Misty cried as Satastro began walking toward her. Psyduck ran up to Satastro
and tried head-butting him. It then slashed him with its claws and even tried stepping on his
feet. All this Satastro found amusing but annoying.
Psyduck was actually getting furious. It began to glow a dull-white color.
"What's happening to it?" Misty asked. Everybody (including Satastro) watched as
Psyduck grew into a three foot blue duck. It evolved into Golduck.
A Pokedex like Dexter would define Golduck as a water-psychic Pokemon. Meaning it's main
advantage is water. But Golduck also has properties of a psychic Pokemon. It's also much
more in control of its abilities.
Golduck let loose a confusion attack that sent Satastro flying from the house. Following
him out, Golduck then used a disabel attack which held the Saiyan in the air. And for the
coup d'gras, it unleashed a powerful water blast that would put a Blastoise, the most
powerful water Pokemon in the world, to shame.
"That creature of yours has good power," Satastro commented. "But it takes more than
power to defeat a Saiyan." As proof, he drived his fist into the ground creating a tremor
that threw Golduck into the ground. It then fired a single laser blast that knocked Chi-Chi,
Bulma and Misty out.
Satastro found the Seven-Star Dragonball and held it up in triumph.
"SUPER SAIYAN SEVEN SQUAD, ASSEMBLE!" The voice trumpeted out.
One-Star Dragonball: Goku & Ash
After stopping at the Capsule Corporation, Goku, Ash, and Pikachu headed off to find the
first Dragonball. Ash was worried that Chi-Chi might yell at Goku for going off on another
Dragonball Quest but Goku said that he wasn't afraid of facing Chi-Chi's wrath (actually, he
was but right now, he would do anything to help his new friends).
The Dragonball Radar lead them to a volcano. Ash hopped up and down because the volcano
was extremely hot. But Goku wasn't even flinching. Goku ended up picking up Ash and placing
him on Nimbus which was their mode of transportation.
"According to the radar, the One-Star Dragonball is right in the volcano."
"How are we going to get it?" Ash asked.
"I'm not sure. Even I wouldn't be able to stand up to that boiling heat."
"But I know someone who can," Ash said.
"Pika. Pika-pikachu? [Uh-oh. You're using Charizard, aren't you?]
"We've got no choice, Pikachu. You saw how Charizard stood up against the lava in
Blaine's gym. He can stand up against this lava."
"Pikachu." [But he's disobedient.]
"So were you."
"Pika-pika. Chu-pikachu." [That's different. I just met you.] Ash
took out Charizard's pokeball.
"Charizard, go!" With a flash of light, Charizard formed itself between Ash and Goku.
"Charizard, we need you to go down into the volcano and retrieve the Dragonball." Charizard
took a look from Ash, to Goku, to Pikachu. It then scratched itself with its hind leg and
laid down.
Ash moaned. "No matter how hard I try, it just won't listen to me."
"Pikachu." [Told you.]
"It's okay, Ash," Goku said. "We'll find some other way."
"Pika-pi, pika, pikachu!" [Ash, Goku, head's up!] Everybody (including Charizard, it was
curious) looked to the sky to see Atron streaking toward the volcano.
"It's one of those Super Squad Seven Saiyan or whatever they call themselves!" Ash cried.
"Charizard, I'm pleading with you, you have to go down there and retrieve the Dragonball!" But
Charizard just continued sleeping.
"Fine," Ash said. "Then I'll just go down there and retrieve it myself."
"Ash, no, that's too dangerous!" Goku cried.
"Pika-pi, chu! Pikachu! Pika-pika!" [Ash, no! Think of the others! Think of Misty!]
But Ash was oblivious to their pleas. He started sliding down into the volcano.
Goku looked from Ash to Atron then leaped onto Nimbus.
"Let's go, Nimbus!" Goku and Nimbus shot up into the air to confront the villain.
"KAMEHAME-HA!" Goku shouted as he unleashed a powerful energy blast. Atron dodged it.
"MORPH-TO-DRAGON!" Atron cried. There was a flash of light and soon, Atron looked like
a red dragon.
"You think looking like a giant lizard is going to scare me?" Goku asked.
"How about a giant lizard with a bad case of heart burn!" Atron shouted as a stream of
red fire emitted from his mouth. Goku dodged it and countered with another kamehame-ha which
Atron dodged as well. Goku leaped off Nimbus and launched a power punch which Atron took in
stride.
Charizard watched the battle intensely. It really wanted to join it but it felt tired.
It wanted to sleep.
"Pikachu, pika-pika-pi?" [Charizard, why won't you help Ash?] Charizard looked at the
little electric Pokemon with a "are you crazy glare?"
"Charizard-char-zard-char-char?" [Why should I stick my neck out for a human?]
"Pika-pikachu-pikachu!" [Because he's your master.]
"Charizard." [I'm my own master.]
"Pikachu!" [He's your friend!]
"Char-charizard?" Charizard had a point. Pikachu could
remember times when he saved itself, Pidgeotto, Bulbasaur and Squirtle but none when Ash stuck
his neck out for Charmander. Or Charmeleon. Pikachu decided to get desprate.
"Pikachu-pika-pi, pika-pikachu-chu." [Because if it wasn't for Ash, you would be on that rock,
dead!]
"Char?" [What?]
"Pika-pikachu?" [Don't you remember?]
*
Brock sat staring out the window of the Pokemon Center. He couldn't get the image of
that Charmander out of his head. As everybody knew, water beats fire and if the Charmander
was let out in the rain, its tail flame could go out and it could die.
Misty came with some soup. She noticed Brock staring out at the thunder cloud-filled sky.
"What's wrong, Brock?"
"I wonder if anyone came to pick up that Charmander," Brock replied. Ash and Misty
lowered their heads in thought. They were obviously thinking of the Charmander as well.
Laughing disrupted their pondering scene. They looked to see a group of boys huddled
around a table booth. One of the boys had a pile of pokeballs on the table.
"Wow, you sure have a large collection, Damien," one of the boys commented.
"Don't you know it," the one called Damien replied. "And I caught them all by myself."
"Pikachu." [What an ego.] Pikachu commented. One of the boys looked through the
pile. "Hey Damien," he called. "I thought you had a Charmander."
"I did. But it was so weak, it couldn't beat the weakest opponent."
"He doesn't realize that if you train a Pokemon right, it can defeat any opponent," Ash
muttered.
Damien continued. "So I left it on a rock."
Brock gasped. "He was the one who abandoned that Charmander!" He started to head toward
the table, a look of pure disgust on his face.
"It's probably still on that rock, wagging its tail so hard, the flame would go out,"
Damien continued.
Brock then picked Damien up by the collar. "Go get it," he ordered.
"Why should I?"
"That Charmander's been waiting for you. If he stays on that rock any longer, he could
die!"
"So what? It was too weak to battle. It would've died anyway"
"You have no right calling yourself a Pokemon Trainer, abandoning your Pokemon like
that," Ash accused.
"That's right," Misty chimed in.
"You have no right to throw yourself into other people's business," Damien came back.
Ash, Misty and Brock stared down Damien and his friends. Each ready to use their respective
Pokemon to teach the other a lesson. Even Pikachu was ready to punish Damien for abandoning
that Charmander.
Nurse Joy stepped in between the groups. "All right, that's enough. Pokemon are not to
be used for personal battles. It is an insult to the Pokemon and their trainers."
*
"Pika-pi-piiiika-pikachu. Pika-pika-pik-chu?" [Ash saved you from the brink of death and this
is how you thank him?] Charizard looked from Goku fighting Atron, to Ash climbing carefully
down into the volcano. Pikachu's argument worked. Charizard was torn between its own
aggressiveness and the devotion of a Charmander.
Meanwhile, Ash felt his hands grow uncomfortably hot as he went further into the volcano.
Even Blaine's gym hadn't been this hot, even before Team Rocket literally froze it.
Something shiny caught Ash's eyes. He looked to see a round orb lieing on a ledge. It
was gold-colored with one red star in the center.
"That must be the One-Star Dragonball," Ash said excitedly. He started to climb around
the edge of the volcano.
Suddenly one of the rocks gave away and Ash lost his gripp. He dug his hands into the
side, hoping to find something to hold on to. Surprisingly enough, he found it to be a flat
ledge. Ash looked up and a figure stood there. It was Giovanni.
"You're the guy who controlled the Nikaron," Ash accused him.
"I am called Giovanni. Leader of Team Rocket."
"Team Rocket? I should have known." Ash struggled to pull himself up but found that it
was futile. "What are you doing here? We defeated the Nikaron back in Nerima."
"That's right, Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town."
"What? How'd you know my name?"
"You wouldn't understand the influence of an powerful organization such as Team Rocket."
Ash remembered Jessie saying a similar expression when he went to battle for his Earth Badge.
"Why is Team Rocket interested in me?"
"Because you have the most powerful Pikachu in the world. And...."
"And what?"
"Oh, nothing. You're a stubborn little boy, aren't you?"
"What's it to you?"
Giovanni chuckled. "Defiant too. I guess stuff like that just runs in the family."
"Huh? What does that mean?"
"It means it's time to say good-bye, Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town." And with those words,
Giovanni stepped on Ash's fingers. Ash desprately hung on for dear life. But the man's feet
were just too much for him. Ash let go and fell the remaining length to the lava pool.
Pikachu, Charizard, Goku, and Atron saw Ash and the Dragonball.
"The Dragonball!" Atron cried. Then, "MORPH TO MONKEY!" Atron transformed into a red
spider-monkey and dove into the volcano. Hopping from crack to crack, he landed on the
Dragonball just as the ledge broke and he too started to fall to the lava pool.
"MORPH TO GIANT BALD EAGLE!" This time, he was a giant bird that made a Pidgeot look
weak. He picked up the Dragonball with his talons and took off into the air.
"PIKA-PI!" [ASH!] Pikachu cried. Charizard looked and made a frantic decision: to save
Ash. Flexing its wings back, the giant dragon-type Pokemon dove into the volcano. But Ash was
falling to the volcano faster than Charizard was and he was ahead of it.
Goku and Pikachu watched with horrid expressions. For a moment, it looked like Charizard
was going to catch up. Ash fell and fell until...
SPLASH!
**
Two Star Dragonball: Piccolo & Brock
"I still think we should've taken one of the others," Brock said as he rode on top of
Onix.
"We don't have any choice," Piccolo said as he flew along side the former Gym Leader.
"If we don't get the Dragonball before the Saiyans do, they could plunge the world into utter
chaos. I'm not going to let what happened to Namek happen to Earth."
"Was Namek your home planet?"
Piccolo nodded.
*
Chaos loomed all around them. Namek's three bright suns have long-sinced died out. Now,
there was darkness. Piccolo, Krillin, Vegeta, Gohan, and Dende watched as the planet began
cumbling. {This is just like when Frieza destroyed Vajita,} Vegeta thought, thinking of how
Frieza effortlessly and maliciously murdered every member of the Saiyan race except for an
elite few. Himself, Nappa, Ravitz, and Kakarott. {Now, Namek is going to be destroyed. With all
the worlds that are falling to Frieza's wrath, how long will it be before Earth becomes its
next target?} Vegeta's pondering (which was something he rarely does) was interrupted as Bulma
lowered the Capsule Shuttle I down.
"Hop on," she called. Piccolo carried Dende and the two Nameks got on. Krillin followed
and then Gohan. Vegeta wanted to follow suite but Bulma had already shut the door and began
taking off.
Inside, Krillin looked out a view window and saw Vegeta staring at them taking off.
"Bulma, wait, we forgot Vegeta!" He called. Bulma looked at him like he was off his
rocker. He wanted to save the animal that killed Yamcha, Tien, Chao-Zu, and Piccolo and came
close to murdering Goku, Krillin and Gohan?
"Are you out of your mind, Krillin? We have to get out of here. Besides, since when
were you so simpathetic about a Saiyan?"
"I'm not simpathetic," Krillin defended. "But Vegeta did help us in defeating The Ginyu
Force and he even healed Goku. It's the least we can do." Bulma sighed and knew she would
hate for what she was about to do.
Bulma set the Capsule Shuttle I into a hover position and activated an extercom system.
"Well?" Her voice boomed out. "Are you coming or not? Come on, you stupid Saiyan. We
don't have all day!"
"Women," Vegeta muttered as he floated up to meet them. "Makes me wonder why they even
began existing." Vegeta joined his new allies and they all headded back to Earth while Goku
stayed and battled Frieza on the destroyed asteroid that was once Namek.
*
"Look over there?" Brock called. He pointed to a lake just in the distance. "The
Dragonball radar says it's somewhere in that lake." Brock and Piccolo stopped at the edge of
the lake.
"Onix is a rock Pokemon and rock Pokemon are weak when it comes to water so I won't be
able to help you much."
"That's all right," Piccolo said. "I prefer to go at this alone." Piccolo removed his
cape and turbin and dove in. Brock stood with Onix. Brock just happened to look up when he
saw a streak of light.headding to their location. He released Zubat.
"Zubat, go find out what that streak of light is."
"Zubat." [Right.] Zubat flew into the air, headding toward the streak. The light
suddenly zoomed passed the flying Pokemon, leaving it in the dust. Brock gasped as the streak
of light formed itself into Dreadlock, one of the Super Saiyan Seven Squad.
"Vulpix," Brock called. "I choose you." Vulpix was the most powerful of all Brock's
Pokemon. It was given to him by Suzie, a Pokemon Breeder in Celedon City. Although Vulpix
wasn't a Rock Pokemon which was his specialty, Brock had to learn about other Pokemon if he
wanted to become an expert Pokemon Breeder like Suzie.
Vulpix formed itself. "Vulpix," it cried. It was a Pokemon expression that had no
english translation. All Pokemon had an expression (it was the best human description for it)
they used every time they came out of a pokeball.
"Vulpix, fire spin!" Vulpix let out an intense fire blast that swirled at its target:
Dreadlock.
"Concentrated incindiary projection attempting damage. Activating countermeasures." A
forcefield appeared around him which allowed him to dive through the fire spin attack.
"Long-range scanners identified source. Engaging." Two laser cannons appeared on
Dreadlock's back and fired. The blasts were much more powerful then Vulpix's fire spin and
sent it, Brock, and Onix running.
Zubat, having recovered from its initial contact with Dreadlock, fired its sonic blast at
Dreadlock. The sound waves struck Dreadlock and sent him plummeting to the ground.
"Enhanced audio projectile sneak attack," Dreadlock identified. "Source identified.
Neutralizing." In place of one of the laser canons, a long tube appeared. A bag that looked
like it was made of plastic shot out and enclosed Zubat.
"Zubat!" Brock cried.
"Vulpix!" [Zubat!]
"Onix!" [Zubat!] Dreadlock then turned toward Brock, Onix, and Vulpix and resumed
firing its laser cannons.
"Scattershot!" A burst of energy in a spiral formation knocked Dreadlock into the
lake. Brock turned to see Piccolo holding the Two-Star Dragonball and extending the index and
middle fingers of his free hand out.
"Thanks, Piccolo."
"Don't thank me yet, kid. You get the Dragonball back to Capsule Corp. I'll handle
'Metal Man.'"
"I can't. Not without Zubat."
"You're willing to sacrifice yourself for a pet?"
"Zubat isn't a pet, it's a Pokemon! It's my friend. Would your friends abandon you in
times of danger?" Piccolo thought back to all of his battles. Against Ravitz, then Nappa and
Vegeta, followed by Frieza and the Ginyu Force, Garlic Jr., that crazy Doctor Gero and the
Saiyans who planted the Tree of Might. Gohan had been Piccolo's closest friend, ever since
they trained for the eventual battle against Nappa and Vegeta. Over the years, they became
more than friends. It was like they were one and the same. Like twins in the spiritual
sense. Piccolo then realized that the feeling Brock had for this Zubat was the same feeling
Gohan had for Piccolo and vice-versa.
Turning toward the bag, Piccolo tore it apart, freeing Zubat.
"Thanks, Piccolo. Zubat, Vulpix, return! Onix, let's go!" Piccolo threw the Dragonball
to Brock and stood toward faced the metallic being that escaped from his watery grave by using
jet thrusters.
Piccolo split himself into copies and all the copies threw themselves at Dreadlock.
"Passion Scanners indicate that duplicates pose no harm to self. Activating DNA scanners
to confirm original. Original found. Taking out now." Dreadlock shot forward and struck the
original Piccolo. The clones immediately molded back into the real Piccolo. Dreadlock's
punches were like battering rams to Piccolo's green-covered skin. The final blow was when
Dreadlock pounded Piccolo's spine and sent him crashing into the ocean. He then took off
after Brock.
*
Onix was fast but the trees were serious obsticles. Brock had to place his arm out to
protect his eyes from the pointy branches. He clutched the Two-Star Dragonball with his body
and hoped that they could get back before Dreadlock got to them.
His hopes were diminished. Dreadlock swooped down and knocked Brock off Onix. Onix,
seeing its master down, lunged at Dreadlock but was knocked out by Dreadlock's powerful fists.
"Primary target achieved. Retrieving and returning to base." Dreadlock took the
Two-Star Dragonball from Brock's unconscious form and took off.
**
Three-Star Dragonball: Kojiyoshi & Yamcha
"So then I say 'hey, if you have a problem with that, you should get a job!'"
"And what did he say?"
"He said, 'I did. That's why I said it.'" The two laughed as Yamcha finished the joke.
"You're a real riot, Yamcha," Puu'ar groaned. The three were riding Yamcha's hover car. Gohan
managed to salvage and repair it from when the pirates who planted the Tree of Might crashed
into it. Even got the loans paid up thanks to a carefully crafted story from Yamcha about how
it fell apart a few days after and threatened that if they (the company that made the hover
car, not Capsule Corp. surprisingly) didn't provide the rest of the payment, he would sue them.
Kojiyoshi looked at the Dragonball Radar. "Down here, Yamcha." Yamcha set down in a
field and all three hopped out.
Moving the Dragonball Radar around, Kojiyoshi lead the former thief and the shape-shifter to a
hollow tree. He reached into the tree and pulled out the Three-Star Dragonball.
"Wow, this was the easiest Dragonball Quest in history," Yamcha commented.
"I'm not sure, Yamcha," Puu'ar said.
"I'm afraid she's right, Yamcha. Look!" Everybody looks toward the sky to see Reptide
jet down at them like a speeding bullet.
"Hand over the Dragonball, Earth ssssssssssssssssscum."
"No way, snake face!" Yoshi said. "Yamcha, get the Dragonball out of here. I'll handle
short, green, and ugly."
"Just do as he says, Yamcha," Puu'ar agreed as she took off back to the hovercar.
"All right, Snake-Man. Let's see how you do against Pokemon power! Bulbasaur,
Charmander, Primeape, Porygon, Machop, I choose you!" He threw five pokeballs out at once and
they took the shape of the said Pokemon. Yoshi leapt onto Porygon and rode him like a surf
board as all of them charged at Reptide. Porygon catapulted Yoshi and the boy launched feet
first at the genetically-engineered Saiyan. Reptide swung his tail and knocked Yoshi away.
Bulbasaur unleashed its razor leaf while Charmander used his flame thrower. Reptide
pulled his head, arms, legs and tail into its body like a turtle and the leaves and fire
missed it. Reptide, still inside his "shell," swung his tail and knocked out Bulbasaur and
Charmander.
Porygon used its hyper beam which knocked Reptide against a tree. Reptide recovered and
uprooted a whole tree. He swung it and knocked Porygon out.
By this time, Yoshi recovered and started punching Reptide but Reptide fired an energy
beam at Yoshi, knocking him against Porygon.
Machop and Primeape's mega punches were used against each other thanks to a well-timed
jump courtesy of Reptide. Reptide chuckled and took off with the Three-Star Dragonball in
tow.
**
Four & Five-Star Dragonball: Krillin, Duplica, Gohan, and Sabrina
As it turned out, the Four and Five-Star Dragonballs were located right near each other.
So Krillin and Gohan took Duplica and Sabrina out to retrieve them. Krillin and Gohan flew and
Sabrina and Gohan carried the Dragonball Radars. The radars took them to a high mountain. So
high that it popped the ears of even the mighty Krillin.
"So where are the Dragonballs?"
"I don't know," Duplica replied, holding Ditto in her arms. "But I hope they don't have
them." She pointed up to see Yin and Yang fly down. Joining hands, the two Saiyans formed a
powerful energy ram and swung it toward the heroes.
Ditto stretched itself and transformed into a glass dome which actually stood against the
blunt of the energy ram. It then transformed into a duplicate of them (only one of them) and
flew up at them. Yin and Yang nodded at each other and both punched Ditto.
"Kadabra, go! Full psychic attack!" Sabrina ordered.
"Kadabra!" Energy waves flew at both of them and actually sent them crashing
into the mountainside. But they quickly recovered and joined hands again.
Energy flowed between both of them and suddenly, they combined to form a single creature. It
wasn't as large as the Nikaron but it was definitely as powerful. The creature and both faces,
both arms, but only a single pair of legs.
"Now we'll destroy you," Yin-Yang said. They picked up some boulders and began tossing
them at the two girls. Sabrina quickly used her psychic powers to move the boulders out of the
way. But she wasn't prepared for the ice-ball Yin-Yang got from the top of the mountain. The
two girls and two Pokemon were squished under over a half ton of snow.
"Looks like it's our turn," Gohan said. "Masenta blast!" Gohan sent a million laser blasts
at them.
"DESTRUCTO-DISK!" The two power moves were reflected back at their owners. The two
members of the Dragonball Crew fell down the mountain. Gohan fell right on top of Krillin.
Yin-Yang landed a sonic blast to a snow bank and snow piled down all four of them. They
then took off with their acquired possession.
**
Six-Star Dragonball: Ayako & Vegeta
"Babysitting," Vegeta grumbled. "I can't believe I'm stuck babysitting."
"Well I wasn't exactly jumping for joy to get you as a partner myself," Ayako said. The
two were headding off toward the crater where Ravitz's spaceship first landed.
{After all this time,} Vegeta thought. {To return to the place where this all began.}
It was Ravitz who first came to Earth to see why Kakarott didn't destroy it. When he found his
brother had become a goody-goody, well, that was when Goku fought, defeated him, fought
himself and Nappa, also won. Goku was indeed the most powerful Saiyan in existance.
{Then again,} Vegeta thought, {there aren't that many Saiyans left in existance.}
"Vegeta, stop!" Ayako shouted. "We're here!" Vegeta set Ayako down in a field. Not
far was the crater. Vegeta and Ayako ran to the edge of the crater.
Ayako gasped. "There it is." The Six-Star Dragonball was resting perfectly in the
center of the crater.
"I'll go down and get it," Ayako volunteered.
"No," Vegeta said placing a hand in front of her. "You're too weak to get it. Only
someone with a power level of at least 500 can get it. And you're not even at 300." As much
as Ayako hated to admit it, he was right. She just didn't have the strength to carry it out of
the crater.
Vegeta leaped down and proceeded to the center of the crater. Ayako paced up and down as
she waited for him to retrieve it.
Suddenly a laser blast struck the ground in front of Ayako. She looked up to see Energon
swoop down to face them.
{What can I do?} Ayako thought to herself. {My water Pokemon aren't powerful enough to
tackle that creature.} She looked around and saw something. It was a piece of metal. Ayako
didn't know that it was a piece of Ravitz's spaceship that had broken off in the original
crash. All she knew was that it was a great distraction.
Vegeta looked up to see Energon. Forgetting about the Dragonball, Vegeta flew up to meet
this enemy.
Vegeta's punches were like flashes to the naked eye. But Energon's blocks were faster.
Vegeta couldn't believe it. He was one of the most powerful Saiyans on Earth and yet this guy
was beating him like he was a weakling.
"BIG BANG ATTACK!" Vegeta cried as he unleashed his most powerful energy attack. But
Energon just stood there.
"You are a fool, Vegeta," Energon insulted. "I can absorb your energy and channel it
back at you!" And Energon proved his statement by throwing Vegeta's big bang attack back at
his face. Vegeta was thrust back.
"Hey ugly!" Energon turned to see Ayako throw the chuck of metal at him. The metal hit
him dead on and actually made the Saiyan grunt. But Energon threw a single laser blast at her
which she took in the chest.
Energon was about to go down and get the Dragonball when Vegeta grabbed his leg and swung
him around in a move similar to shot-put. Energon was flung into a tree.
"That's it," Energon said. "Now I'm mad." He unleashed a fury of energy beams at Vegeta
and Ayako. The two tried to dodge but they were overtaken. They fell.
Energon then took the Dragonball and held it up into the air. "With this, Satastro will
be ruler of the whole universe! And I'll be his right hand man." He then took off.
**
Seven-Star Dragonball: Bulma & Misty
The Seven-Star Dragonball was the easiest to get. It was just lying in a tree near
Goku's house. Bulma and Misty took a capsule-car to get it.
"We have to be careful," Bulma explained. "Chi-Chi doesn't know about this and the less
she knows, the better." The two females snuck along the forest. Not far away, about fifty
feet away, was Goku's house.
Bulma started to feel the insides of each hollow tree they come to.
"Why can't you use the Dragonball Radar?" Misty asked.
"Because this version doesn't have pinpoint accuracy. We have to do this the old fashion
way." They each started looking around. They were so entranced in their task, that they
didn't hear Chi-Chi walk up to them.
"Hi, Bulma. What's up?" Bulma jumped so high, that Reptide, who was coming back with
the Two-Star Dragonball, saw her.
"Chi-Chi, hi, um... What's up?"
"Nothing. What brings you out here."
"Uh... We're just... Looking for something."
"Looking for what? What could you be... Oh no, you're not on a Dragon Quest again, are
you?"
Misty could see that they were busted. "We have no choice, Chi-Chi," she explained. "We
need to get them before they get them."
"Who's they?"
"I'm they." Misty, Chi-Chi and Bulma looked to see Satastro flying down to destroy them.
"Oh man," Bulma complained. "Of course with my luck, we had to get the leader."
"What do we do now?" Misty asked.
"RUN FOR IT!" Chi-Chi cried. Everybody took off toward Chi-Chi's house. When Satastro
arrived, he found that the three girls (well one girl and two women) were all carrying blunt
objects. Chi-Chi carried a broom handle, Bulma had a set of cutting knives, and Misty clutched
two of her pokeballs in both hands.
Chi-Chi swung her broom handle but Satastro grabbed it out of her hands and broke it in
half.
Bulma threw some knives but Satastro set up a quick forcefield to block the knives.
Misty didn't know what to do. When she talked to Prof. Oak, he said that the pokeballs
could protect her but how. To see, Misty threw a pokeball at Satastro. It actually hit him
in the forehead before landing and opening up to reveal Psyduck.
"Help!" Misty cried as Satastro began walking toward her. Psyduck ran up to Satastro
and tried head-butting him. It then slashed him with its claws and even tried stepping on his
feet. All this Satastro found amusing but annoying.
Psyduck was actually getting furious. It began to glow a dull-white color.
"What's happening to it?" Misty asked. Everybody (including Satastro) watched as
Psyduck grew into a three foot blue duck. It evolved into Golduck.
A Pokedex like Dexter would define Golduck as a water-psychic Pokemon. Meaning it's main
advantage is water. But Golduck also has properties of a psychic Pokemon. It's also much
more in control of its abilities.
Golduck let loose a confusion attack that sent Satastro flying from the house. Following
him out, Golduck then used a disabel attack which held the Saiyan in the air. And for the
coup d'gras, it unleashed a powerful water blast that would put a Blastoise, the most
powerful water Pokemon in the world, to shame.
"That creature of yours has good power," Satastro commented. "But it takes more than
power to defeat a Saiyan." As proof, he drived his fist into the ground creating a tremor
that threw Golduck into the ground. It then fired a single laser blast that knocked Chi-Chi,
Bulma and Misty out.
Satastro found the Seven-Star Dragonball and held it up in triumph.
"SUPER SAIYAN SEVEN SQUAD, ASSEMBLE!" The voice trumpeted out.