I know I said 15 reviews, but forget about it.

**but we insure you that we'll have the second chapter to Operation: Pay Back out soon. we would also like to thank our only two reviewers so far. SFG and Shadow of a Rose**

And Shadow of a Rose I really don't know what Spawn is about, I stopped reading comics when I read one about Batman in med-evil times and something in really freaked me out.

**yeah it scared her so bad she wasn't able to sleep for a long time, but I'm pretty sure that if we knew what Spawn is about then Goten probably would be reading it.**

Since S.W. did it last time I'll do it now, we don't own Dragon Ball Z or its characters and if you think we do then you're an idiot.

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"You know you and your friends a very lucky; not that many people would have survived something like that." Trunks blinked a few times to clear his vision and saw an old looking guy in a white coat. "I'll go inform your family. You know they were worried about you, you've been out for 3 months." Just as the man was about to leave Trunks grabbed his wrist.

"Wait a minute, where am I and who are you?" The man grinned at Trunks and checked off a few things before placing a clipboard at the end of Trunks' bed.

"Just look around you son. Oh, and if you want to see your friends they should be on the other side of that curtain." The man said before walking out. Trunks looked around; he was wearing a white gown, lying in a bed, with tons of machines attached to him. The whole room was white, with a fresh crisp smell to it, (I don't know about you, but that's the way it would smell to me) and on the side of his bed was a counter with pills scattered all over it. Well there was no doubt in Trunks' mind, he was in a hospital and that old looking guy was a doctor.

"Hold on, he said my friends were on the other side of the curtain. Hey Goten! Uub! You guys dead!?"

"No, but I wish I was. Then the pain wouldn't be so bad. The doc told me that I at least had a few broken ribs and the bones in my right leg were shattered. When they found Uub his arm was twisted behind his head and he had some damage done to his kidneys, don't ask me how. You can't talk to him right now cause he just got back from surgery and is still out cold from the gas they gave him. You had the less damage, just a broken tailbone and you were in a coma for three months."

"I had a broken butt!!!!"

"Well that's what a tailbone is." Trunks' family choose that time to came in, and poor Trunks didn't have time to think before Bulma latched on to his neck, begin to cry, and say things like; "My baby's alive!" and "Don't you are do something like that to me again." and other things like that. (Just in case you want to know Goten's and Uub's families already came to visit)

"I'm sorry Mrs.Briefs but visiting hours are up, you and your family can come back tomorrow when your son and the others are ready to go home." Bulma let go of Trunks and walked out with Bra following behind after she gave Trunks a quick hug.

"Brat I thought you would have had more than enough sense to have not driven off the road." Vegeta said while walking out.

"I'm still amazed that you guys had such little damage done to you." The doctor said, now looking at the clipboard on Goten's bed.

"What do you mean Dr.Capcom?"

"When you were found, you were buried under tons of toxic barrels. But what surprised me was that some of the barrels were open, yet there was no sign that toxic waste was spilled on you. If toxic had spilled on you then it would have eaten trough your clothes, burned through your skin, and chewed through your bones. You wouldn't have been alive today. My guess is that the barrels that were open were empty. Well get some sleep; you'll be leaving tomorrow." Dr.Capcom said putting the clipboard back, turning off the lights, and leaving.

"Hey Trunks do you think those barrels were empty?"

"No Goten I don't. Ever barrel was full I'm sure of it."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~(Tomorrow mourning, and everyone is at Capsule Corp.)~~~~~~~~~~~

"Then Trunks said that every barrel was full. And right now I'm confused."

"That's very interesting Goten but why don't you go back to the party?"

"Hey Mom, I got that soda you wanted."

"Thank you Trunks. OM MY KAMI! TRUNKS WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR SKIN?!"

"What?" Trunks looked at his arms and legs to see that his skin was a light orange color. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"

"Hey Trunks don't freak out you don't look too bad with a tan." Goten bent down to pick up the soda Trunks had dropped, when he noticed something strange about his hand. It was green!! Goten fell out of his chair and begin to back up to the wall as if doing that would make his green hand go away. "I'm turning into Mr.Piccolo!"

"Mrs.Bulma! Mrs.Bulma! Mrs.Bulma! Mrs.Bulma, please help something's wrong with my skin!" Uub came running in; his skin was white and he black stripes all over him. "Trunks when did you get a tan, and Goten why are you so green are you sick?"

"Okay there's only one way to fix this problem, let's go to my lab." And so that's where they were in Bulma's lab waiting to see if she could find a cure for whatever they had. "Well I've come to one conclusion."

"What is it?"

"I don't know what's wrong with your skin." Everyone facefaulted. "But I do know someone who might know. Just give me a minute to see if I can contact him." Bulma picked up her phone and talked on it for a while before hanging it up. "He said he would be here as soon as he can. He sounded really anxious to get here."

"Ah, Bulma just who is this person you're talking about? I don't want just any person running test on my son."

"Oh, Chichi you know who he is. That little Saiyin boy who called Vegeta a jackass."

"Hello Mrs.Bulma you called me about Trunks, Goten, and Uub going trough some strange changes after they got back from the hospital." A man a little shorter than Trunks with dark tan skin walked through the door. He wore thick black boots, blue jeans lightly sagging, a red shirt, and a pretty crappy jean jacket. You could tell that it was old; it was very dirty, the sleeves had been torn off, buttons were missing and it had torn fabric. He had long jet-black spiky hair and thick bangs that covered most of his face, and a black slash mark under his right eye.(you know like those marks Gene has all over him, except he only has one and its black) A red sash was tied around his waist held tightly to a large dagger; and around his neck he wore a gold locket. To top off his outfit his long white tail wagged excitedly behind him.

"Syren what a handsome young man you've grown into." A light blush was forming on Syren's face. " And yes I did call you, I figured that you might know about what's happening to them."

"Well today is your lucky day Mrs.Bulma, I just might know. I have a theory, but to confirm it I'll need a sample of their blood and a sample of the toxic."

"Oh no, your not getting any blood from me." Goten said jumping off the counter he had been sitting on and heading straight for the door.

"Hold on Goten, I don't want to get blood from you. All I want is for you to sit down." Goten seemed to be thinking about what Syren said before he sat down. When Goten sat down Syren had a big toothy grin as he took off his large backpack that might as well have been a trunk (You know what a trunk is right, its like a big wooden box) off his back, opened it, and pulled out a golden watch. "Goten I want you to just watch the watch. Watch it swing back and fourth. And listen to the sound of my voice. Are your eyelids getting heavy? They should be. (I know but I wanted to try something different) Rest them and go to sleep." Goten head would drop then he'd jerk it back up and then it would drop again. Slowly his eyelids closed and Goten was sleeping. "Okay take the needle out and hand it to me."

"Aren't you going to say that you're not afraid of shots to him." Pan asked handing the needle to Syren.

"Nah it'll never work, his fear of needles is to great; something else he inherited from Goku. And besides this is quicker." Syren got the blood he needed from Goten. " I got it. Now Goten when I snap my fingers you'll be back to normal, ah do any of you want me to make him think his something like a chicken before I turn him back?" Everyone wanted to make a request but a death glare from Chichi and well you know the rest. "Okay if nobody wants to, Goten wake up." Syren said snapping his fingers in front of Goten face. Goten was awake in a second and he just looked around the room at everyone knowing that while he was out he had missed something, and that something had to do with the fact that his arm stung. Getting the blood from Trunks and Uub was easier and after studying it along with the toxic he was ready to tell everyone if he had an answer or not. "Well guys believe it or not but I do know what's wrong. You see the toxic waste had exto plasma in it. Man I've always wanted to work with exto plasma."

"And just what is exto plasma?"

" And Dr. what's his name, ah Capcom said that some of the barrels were empty."

"Ghosts are made of exto plasma Vegeta and Dr.Capcom is a quake. My guess is that the exto plasma had a bad reaction with their blood and caused them to mutate. By tomorrow they'll be fully transformed."

"Now we know what wrongs with us, but the real question is can you cure it?"

"Sorry Trunks I can't cure it. The only thing that can cure it something I read about in a book that belongs to my grandfather, and that something is The 9 Gems of Zaur. You have to collect all of them and after you get the gems they all will merge into three keys that open the gates to the castle that Zaur himself lives in. And before you ask Zaur is the one who created the gems. Once you meet Zaur you have to fight him. If you win, Zaur will let you drink his blood and that will cure you."

"We have to drink his blood that's disgusting, but if it'll cure me then I guess I can do that. And getting 9 gems shouldn't be too hard."

"It will be hard Goten; each gem has a guardian who protects it from anyone and everyone. There is the Gem of Heart protected by Fenris, the Gem of Earth protected by Golzat, the Gem of Fire protected by Moto, the Gem of Wind protected by Lynxca, the Gem of Water protected by Gartee, the Gem of Thunder protected by Sonca, the Gem of Lighten protected by Quarm, the Gem of Life protected by Rivab, and the Gem of Death protected by Vas. I suggest you go after the Gem of Heart first because it's the easiest, and save the Gem of the Death for last. Vas is the strongest of the guardians, and if you fight him first I'm almost positive that you'll all die. You guys should also eat a large dinner and go straight to bed. In the mourning I'll help you get ready for your journey."

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