DRAGON BALL Z
REUNION
CHAPTER XI: AISHIKURU
BY
Sgamer82
Bulma got to the control room with no trouble. The Overseers guarding the entrance were no match for a well-aimed Kienzan from Krillin. Bulma entered the room with Tenshinhan and Chaozu behind her.
"Can you work the machines Bulma?" Chaozu asked.
"No problem." Bulma answered, "Vegeta taught me to read the standard computer languge used by Frieza's flunkies. This language is the same one."
Bulma tapped keys on the console in front of her and activated the surveillance systems to find the others in the mine. Just as she activated the audio pickups everyone in the control room heard a now familiar cry.
"KA-ME-HA-ME-HAAAA!!"
They saw Rutega blast the head off an Overseer that was holding Gohan in the air. Gohan hit the ground with a thud and a battle erupted as Overseers gathered around him, Cauliflo, and Rutega.
"What happened?!" Ten asked
"I don't know," said Krillin, "but we should probably expect company around here real soon."
"You are right." Said Oran, "The Overseers will surely converge on us when they realize that no one here has activated the radiators."
"What about the clamps?" asked Bulma.
"They are remote controlled." Oran said.
Krillin and Ten wasted no time, they entered the hall and prepared to fight anything that came at them.
"Chaozu, stay in here and stop anyone that gets by us." Tenshinhan instructed his partner.
Chaozu nodded as Bulma spoke up. "I'll try and see if I can change the radiators' programming to affect the Overseers and not Tsrufaiya."
"You can do that?" Oran asked in surprise.
"Hopefully." Bulma answered.
"What's going on with the others?" Krillin asked.
Bulma activated the surveillance to see the others. Yamcha, Goten, and Trunks were attacking the Overseers that went past them trying to relieve the pressure from Gohan and Rutega. Vegeta was already blasting into the battle, a bloodthirsty look in his eyes. Of course, that's nothing new. Bulma thought as she looked for Goku.
He was doing the job he was assigned and moving through the air shooting at Overseers that were bundled in groups. Piccolo remained where he was, as if something was telling him to stay put. Bulma panned in on the Tsrufaiya, many were clutching their bodies in agony because the Overseers activated the clamps. The other Tsrufaiya, the ones that no longer had their tails, were ripping the tails off the others relieving their pain. The ones not removing tails were attacking the Overseers with varying success.
She saw something else though, standing in the sidelines. I was a creature roughly ten feet tall. Wearing some kind of new armor that looked oddly familiar. It had spines covering its body where there was no armor. The spines were dripping with a weird black fluid. Bulma wondered what the thing was until she saw the face. It bared an evil smile that she had seen a short while ago. "My Kami," she gasped.
"What is it Bulma?" Krillin said from the door. Already there was a banging sound coming from the door to the corridor to the control room.
"It's Iciicla, she transformed." She said as another thought occurred to her, "And I think she made some kind of armor out of the Rocks."
"That's the Ruler?" Oran asked, wide eyed with fear.
Chaozu took a closer look at the monitor bearing Iciicla "I think she's right. That leg armor looks like Stalagma. Krillin, look."
Krillin looked from the door, "Hey, I think you're right Chaozu. That is Stalagma. It looks like she broke him in half."
By now Tenshinhan was looking, "What's that black stuff?"
"Some kind of poison, maybe?" Bulma said, her scientist mind going a mile a minute. The banging sound outside grew louder and Chaozu, Ten, and Krillin began preparing for battle again.
* * * * *
Yamcha looked at the chaos around him. He had already beaten a few Overseers but it had taken a lot of energy to break through the chitin on those bugs.
If I don't figure out a better way to fight these things, I'll be out of strength real soon. Another Overseer came at him. He dodged but when the insect went by it opened up wings and used them to stop itself and start attacking Yamcha from the air.
Great, these things can fly. But then his old desert bandit instincts kicked in to give him an idea.
He immediately charged a Sokiden and let it fly. The bug dodged but with some expert maneuvering Yamcha moved the energy ball behind the Overseer and sent it right underneath its wings. It blasted by the wings and hit the soft inside of the creature destroying everything but the shell, which shattered on impact with the wall of the large cave.
Tsrufaiya who saw Yamcha followed his example. They ganged up on an unlucky bug and forced it wings open while other Tsrufaiya shot dozens of low power ki beams into the creatures back.
* * * * *
Gohan couldn't believe himself. What a stupid mistake he had made. And now it was costing others their lives.
Well, he thought, I suppose all I can do now is make sure as few people as possible die from my screw up. He began his transformation.
He had been reluctant to do this in such an enclosed area, even though the cave they were in was quite large there was still a chance he or someone else could inadvertently cause a cave-in by using too much power. But now there was no choice. He charged his power and in doing so made his eyes become narrower and his hair stick up more. He became Mystic Gohan.
He lined up back-to-back with Rutega and started firing at the nearby Overseers as well as any that posed an immediate threat to the Tsrufaiya. Cauliflo crouched behind a nearby stone knowing her power alone wasn't enough to be any use.
He was careful to limit the power he used to prevent damage to the mine but have just enough to defeat the oversized insects attacking his friends and comrades. He saw his father and Vegeta doing the same thing.
Rutega wasn't quite so careful, but her power wasn't as much of a threat to the mine. As he fought, though, he felt an unfamiliar ki. It was trying to hide but it was there. He also saw the clamps on the Tsrufaiya not yet freed deactivate and fall off the tails they were attached to.
Bulma's in the control room, Gohan thought. She had to be, her part of the plan was to deactivate the clamps and disarm the radiators. Gohan and the others were freeing Tsrufaiya in case something went wrong and a fight broke out.
Good thing Bulma thought of that. He thought, still punishing himself over his mistake. He continued fighting and as he did the Tsrufaiya just freed entered the battle.
* * * * *
Bulma watched as the Tsrufaiya in the mine lost their clamps.
Good, the program works, Bulma thought, now to send it all over the planet. With a few swift keystrokes she sent the computer virus she developed to every computer on Kelvi.
Now, to take care of the radiators, that would be the hard part. Oran watched Bulma in awe at the engineer's ability.
"What did you do?" he asked.
"I created a virus on Earth using Rutega's clamp that removed it from the tail it was attached to." Bulma said, "it worked here so I've now sent it all over the planet.
"It should remove the clamps from every Tsrufaiya on Kelvi. The radiators are the hard part though. If they are not set specifically to what you want to be affected, they will have no effect whatsoever.
"I can come up with a way to make the radiators affect the Overseers, but it'll take a lot of time. The bugs might even be completely beaten by the time I do."
"So what are you going to do?" Oran asked.
"Instead of the Overseers, I'm going to concentrate on Iciicla, maybe come up with something to kill her. Nullify her poison at the very least." They all agreed that whatever was pouring out of Iciicla had to be some sort of poison.
"Do the others know Iciicla is there?" Oran asked, obviously worried about the friends he had fighting down there.
"I would think so. Everyone we've met concerning Frieza couldn't hide his power. They were dependent on scouters. Iciicla shouldn't be any different unless..." Bulma suddenly realized, she wasn't wearing a scouter when the Z-Fighters first saw Iciicla.
"Oh, no..." she began to frantically look for some kind of PA system. She had to warn the others. She finally found a switch marked EXTERNAL SPEAKERS and turned it on.
* * * * *
Iciicla watched Goku fight the Overseers. He didn't seem to sense her at all.
My practice with ki manipulation has paid off. She watched Gohan, he seemed to sense something was up, but didn't know what. Good, she had total surprise. At least she did, until she heard Bulma yell on the external speakers.
"ICIICLA IS IN THE MINE! SHE'S TRANSFORMED AND MADE ARMOR OUT OF THE ROCKS! GOKU WATCH OUT! SHE MIGHT BE POISONOUS!"
Damn her! Iciicla thought. Now she had to act fast. Already the Z-Fighters were focusing their attention on her. She immediately charged up the attack she prepared for this.
She brought her hands in front of her palms up and a ball of energy formed in front of them. The ball reformed into a spike of energy. She sent the beam out full force shouting,
"AISHIKURU!"
END OF CHAPTER XI
REUNION
CHAPTER XI: AISHIKURU
BY
Sgamer82
Bulma got to the control room with no trouble. The Overseers guarding the entrance were no match for a well-aimed Kienzan from Krillin. Bulma entered the room with Tenshinhan and Chaozu behind her.
"Can you work the machines Bulma?" Chaozu asked.
"No problem." Bulma answered, "Vegeta taught me to read the standard computer languge used by Frieza's flunkies. This language is the same one."
Bulma tapped keys on the console in front of her and activated the surveillance systems to find the others in the mine. Just as she activated the audio pickups everyone in the control room heard a now familiar cry.
"KA-ME-HA-ME-HAAAA!!"
They saw Rutega blast the head off an Overseer that was holding Gohan in the air. Gohan hit the ground with a thud and a battle erupted as Overseers gathered around him, Cauliflo, and Rutega.
"What happened?!" Ten asked
"I don't know," said Krillin, "but we should probably expect company around here real soon."
"You are right." Said Oran, "The Overseers will surely converge on us when they realize that no one here has activated the radiators."
"What about the clamps?" asked Bulma.
"They are remote controlled." Oran said.
Krillin and Ten wasted no time, they entered the hall and prepared to fight anything that came at them.
"Chaozu, stay in here and stop anyone that gets by us." Tenshinhan instructed his partner.
Chaozu nodded as Bulma spoke up. "I'll try and see if I can change the radiators' programming to affect the Overseers and not Tsrufaiya."
"You can do that?" Oran asked in surprise.
"Hopefully." Bulma answered.
"What's going on with the others?" Krillin asked.
Bulma activated the surveillance to see the others. Yamcha, Goten, and Trunks were attacking the Overseers that went past them trying to relieve the pressure from Gohan and Rutega. Vegeta was already blasting into the battle, a bloodthirsty look in his eyes. Of course, that's nothing new. Bulma thought as she looked for Goku.
He was doing the job he was assigned and moving through the air shooting at Overseers that were bundled in groups. Piccolo remained where he was, as if something was telling him to stay put. Bulma panned in on the Tsrufaiya, many were clutching their bodies in agony because the Overseers activated the clamps. The other Tsrufaiya, the ones that no longer had their tails, were ripping the tails off the others relieving their pain. The ones not removing tails were attacking the Overseers with varying success.
She saw something else though, standing in the sidelines. I was a creature roughly ten feet tall. Wearing some kind of new armor that looked oddly familiar. It had spines covering its body where there was no armor. The spines were dripping with a weird black fluid. Bulma wondered what the thing was until she saw the face. It bared an evil smile that she had seen a short while ago. "My Kami," she gasped.
"What is it Bulma?" Krillin said from the door. Already there was a banging sound coming from the door to the corridor to the control room.
"It's Iciicla, she transformed." She said as another thought occurred to her, "And I think she made some kind of armor out of the Rocks."
"That's the Ruler?" Oran asked, wide eyed with fear.
Chaozu took a closer look at the monitor bearing Iciicla "I think she's right. That leg armor looks like Stalagma. Krillin, look."
Krillin looked from the door, "Hey, I think you're right Chaozu. That is Stalagma. It looks like she broke him in half."
By now Tenshinhan was looking, "What's that black stuff?"
"Some kind of poison, maybe?" Bulma said, her scientist mind going a mile a minute. The banging sound outside grew louder and Chaozu, Ten, and Krillin began preparing for battle again.
* * * * *
Yamcha looked at the chaos around him. He had already beaten a few Overseers but it had taken a lot of energy to break through the chitin on those bugs.
If I don't figure out a better way to fight these things, I'll be out of strength real soon. Another Overseer came at him. He dodged but when the insect went by it opened up wings and used them to stop itself and start attacking Yamcha from the air.
Great, these things can fly. But then his old desert bandit instincts kicked in to give him an idea.
He immediately charged a Sokiden and let it fly. The bug dodged but with some expert maneuvering Yamcha moved the energy ball behind the Overseer and sent it right underneath its wings. It blasted by the wings and hit the soft inside of the creature destroying everything but the shell, which shattered on impact with the wall of the large cave.
Tsrufaiya who saw Yamcha followed his example. They ganged up on an unlucky bug and forced it wings open while other Tsrufaiya shot dozens of low power ki beams into the creatures back.
* * * * *
Gohan couldn't believe himself. What a stupid mistake he had made. And now it was costing others their lives.
Well, he thought, I suppose all I can do now is make sure as few people as possible die from my screw up. He began his transformation.
He had been reluctant to do this in such an enclosed area, even though the cave they were in was quite large there was still a chance he or someone else could inadvertently cause a cave-in by using too much power. But now there was no choice. He charged his power and in doing so made his eyes become narrower and his hair stick up more. He became Mystic Gohan.
He lined up back-to-back with Rutega and started firing at the nearby Overseers as well as any that posed an immediate threat to the Tsrufaiya. Cauliflo crouched behind a nearby stone knowing her power alone wasn't enough to be any use.
He was careful to limit the power he used to prevent damage to the mine but have just enough to defeat the oversized insects attacking his friends and comrades. He saw his father and Vegeta doing the same thing.
Rutega wasn't quite so careful, but her power wasn't as much of a threat to the mine. As he fought, though, he felt an unfamiliar ki. It was trying to hide but it was there. He also saw the clamps on the Tsrufaiya not yet freed deactivate and fall off the tails they were attached to.
Bulma's in the control room, Gohan thought. She had to be, her part of the plan was to deactivate the clamps and disarm the radiators. Gohan and the others were freeing Tsrufaiya in case something went wrong and a fight broke out.
Good thing Bulma thought of that. He thought, still punishing himself over his mistake. He continued fighting and as he did the Tsrufaiya just freed entered the battle.
* * * * *
Bulma watched as the Tsrufaiya in the mine lost their clamps.
Good, the program works, Bulma thought, now to send it all over the planet. With a few swift keystrokes she sent the computer virus she developed to every computer on Kelvi.
Now, to take care of the radiators, that would be the hard part. Oran watched Bulma in awe at the engineer's ability.
"What did you do?" he asked.
"I created a virus on Earth using Rutega's clamp that removed it from the tail it was attached to." Bulma said, "it worked here so I've now sent it all over the planet.
"It should remove the clamps from every Tsrufaiya on Kelvi. The radiators are the hard part though. If they are not set specifically to what you want to be affected, they will have no effect whatsoever.
"I can come up with a way to make the radiators affect the Overseers, but it'll take a lot of time. The bugs might even be completely beaten by the time I do."
"So what are you going to do?" Oran asked.
"Instead of the Overseers, I'm going to concentrate on Iciicla, maybe come up with something to kill her. Nullify her poison at the very least." They all agreed that whatever was pouring out of Iciicla had to be some sort of poison.
"Do the others know Iciicla is there?" Oran asked, obviously worried about the friends he had fighting down there.
"I would think so. Everyone we've met concerning Frieza couldn't hide his power. They were dependent on scouters. Iciicla shouldn't be any different unless..." Bulma suddenly realized, she wasn't wearing a scouter when the Z-Fighters first saw Iciicla.
"Oh, no..." she began to frantically look for some kind of PA system. She had to warn the others. She finally found a switch marked EXTERNAL SPEAKERS and turned it on.
* * * * *
Iciicla watched Goku fight the Overseers. He didn't seem to sense her at all.
My practice with ki manipulation has paid off. She watched Gohan, he seemed to sense something was up, but didn't know what. Good, she had total surprise. At least she did, until she heard Bulma yell on the external speakers.
"ICIICLA IS IN THE MINE! SHE'S TRANSFORMED AND MADE ARMOR OUT OF THE ROCKS! GOKU WATCH OUT! SHE MIGHT BE POISONOUS!"
Damn her! Iciicla thought. Now she had to act fast. Already the Z-Fighters were focusing their attention on her. She immediately charged up the attack she prepared for this.
She brought her hands in front of her palms up and a ball of energy formed in front of them. The ball reformed into a spike of energy. She sent the beam out full force shouting,
"AISHIKURU!"
END OF CHAPTER XI