Megatron slammed his hand on the desk when he saw the result of the battle in sector 5. The Gundams were more powerful than he had realized. Megatron felt organic spasms and immediately calmed down. Besides, there was nowhere to run. That unit could not refuel or resupply. They could be swept by a different attack from a different area. Megatron continued to watch his screen and think. It appeared that the foot soldiers were not reliable troops. They followed orders but were mercilessly slaughtered by Dinobot and his crew. Casualties for the battle seemed to be, for them, light. Without a C/R chamber, Dinobot might expire on them, but the damage was probably not fatal. The humans were not damaged; one had been in the hands of the foot soldiers for a few minutes until intervention from another source, one of the two large mobile suits, had saved him. The little creature with them had disappeared on the screen, but then so had the three humans. Megatron assumed that they were in the suits because they always disappeared when no enemy was around. And yet, another green blurb appeared on the radar. Another soldier? Megatron watched all of the other green blurbs follow the first green blurb away from the fighting. A withdrawal, then. Megatron grew more furious when he saw the radar report of the number of foot soldier casualties. Many hundreds had been lost. Megatron could not control his rage any longer and reverted to dragon form.
Tuberoff walked up and asked, "Shall I assault sector 2?"
Megatron thought quickly, "What strike force?"
"Mobile dolls."
"Yes, only send the Taurus dolls, keep the Virgos as a reserve. I might need to wipe out survivors and the Virgos would be quite dandy for doing that."
"Very well Megatron, the Taurus will attack sector 2." Tuberoff went to get the Taurus charged and begin the assault on sector 2.
Sector 2 was a quiet spot, ideal for meditation. That was what Piccolo was doing. As T.K., Ryan, Patamon and Charmander rested under a nearby tree, Piccolo arose from his restful meditation and glanced around. There was still no sign of any enemy or ally, for that matter. The air moved and there was a wind. It was a quick wind. Piccolo checked himself to make sure he was not generating it. He wasn't. He turned around and there were masses of large flying objects flying at him. They appeared to be planes with a single engine gun.
"I don't have time for this." He quickly powered up. Piccolo flew to meet them. The rush woke up T.K. and Charmander.
"Patamon, wake up, something's wrong." Patamon woke up fast because he could hear despair in T.K.'s voice. He saw Piccolo charging toward the fleet of what still looked like planes.
"Quickly, T.K., we must help him." The three left Ryan Stiles under the tree asleep. Meanwhile, Piccolo had reached the first wave of mobile dolls. They had fired toward Piccolo ever since he came at them. Piccolo righted himself and then when in action. He chopped the first suit toward the ground and opened up a frenzied attack on the close followers. The metal suits were not designed to fight one like Piccolo and it was obvious now. Darting left and right, Piccolo left holes in the ranks. The Taurus quickly transformed and the beam cannons followed Piccolo's movements more closely. Piccolo was forced to change tactics to hit and run. He was still pegging the Taurus suits, but at less of a rate. In the enemy base Tuberoff took direct command of the Taurus suits and decided to redirect the attack.
"This menace is quite unique. A change in strategy will be appropriate." Megatron overheard Tuberoff in the station.
"What is it?"
"A mighty and scrappy fighter, he's just running through the mobile dolls."
"On radar."
"Megatron we can get a rear Taurus to show us what he sees, the enemy, he hasn't got through the first quarter, yet."
"On screen."
"Who is that? I've never seen anything like him before," said Megatron, another battle was about to jump from his control.
Nappa entered, "The remaining foot-soldiers have returned with Raditz." Nappa looked, "That green guy is very familiar. I beat out his guts on Earth."
Megatron turned and said, "Really, well then maybe we can stop him." Tuberoff changed the target on the mobile dolls from the Namek to the three characters approaching from over the ridge.
"Let's see how they like this."
T.K. and crew ducked as the first wave of Taurus fire came at them. The surge surprised most of them. Taurus suits came charging at them. Piccolo made a final lunge at the suit in his immediate front and then bulleted toward the suits now charging at T.K. Patamon and Charmander stepped forth to meet the attack.
BOOMBUBBLEPUFF!
Patamon managed to divert one of the dolls. Charmander opened a corresponding flamethrower that only served to melt one the Taurus suits beam cannons. That gave Piccolo the time he needed to catch up.
When he got to T.K. he said, "T.K., are you all right?"
T.K. rolled over from his position and said, "I'm okay."
"Good kid." Piccolo looked at the oncoming horde. His fists glowed and then he began to fire rapid energy shots at each suit. He kept up barrages. "There are too many of them," exclaimed Piccolo at an impasse.
"CHARRR!" Charmander succeeded in burning one suit and putting it out of operation with a successive slash and mega punch attacks.
"There is too much fire coming from them. Get behind this knoll." Piccolo pulled T.K. and Charmander behind the bluff. He then jumped and he continued his beam shoot on the mobile dolls. Piccolo avoided individual fire but when it became concentrated, he was forced behind the knoll. Piccolo continued firing his energy blast by tossing the beams over the crest of the hill. Soon fire slackened.
Piccolo looked, "Humph, they're going after Ryan. I don't know if I'll make it." Piccolo shot off. T.K. looked at Patamon and Charmander.
"What can we do? I know, go Patamon!"
Patamon…digivolve to…ANGEMON.
Angemon rose above the battlefield. He found his targets. "HAND OF FATE" A wide array of beam came down and destroyed a good number of mobile dolls. Piccolo just made it to Ryan. He turned to see the attack. He was shocked
"What duh?" He still went to wake Ryan. Ryan looked and saw Angemon in the distance.
"Is that my guardian angel, or am I Gary?"
"Gary, we don't have time for this." Piccolo chuckled and then realized that they were more than strong enough to destroy the enemy totally.
Tuberoff stared at the screen. He read the power numbers that had jumped in the last instant for the enemy and the decrease in numbers for the Taurus. A retreat would need to be eminent. Tuberoff slowly gave the orders. The Taurus removed themselves from the field. Angemon descended and became Tokomon.
Tokomon said, "T.K.! There is a small building up ahead!"
"We will go, then," said Piccolo.
"Let's go," chimed in Ryan and T.K. And the group went. Finally, little Tokomon saw the door.
"There!"
"Yes, but who is that at the door?" asked Ryan. The group continued to see whom the two figures were.
A boy (soon to be a man) arose from the grass against the knoll where he had been sitting. He had spent the night alone, he had not noticed anyone else. Strange things had happened to him before and no doubt would happen again. "Why always me?" he wondered. "At least I'm free for a while," he thought gloomily. He contemplated and did not see the man sneaking up behind him. Then a hand fell on his shoulder lightly. He jumped. He had never seen a black man in a white jumpsuit covered with interesting and odd decorations. There were many pockets and a nametag that read "Zeddmore."
The boy got over his excitement and asked, "Who are you and what did you do that for?"
"Sorry, kid, I'm Winston Zeddmore from the Ghostbusters. Surely you've heard of us."
"No."
"Huh, where are you from, kid?"
"Japan. I'm Tenchi Musaki."
"Okay, well Tenchi, let's see if we can find some others." Winston did not really know what to think. He had a proton suit and gun with him, but he hoped he did not have to use them. Tenchi meanwhile was walking with Winston and caught a glimpse of what appeared to be an old-time naval uniform.
The man (looking oddly like Gregory Peck) stepped forward and declared, though there was some surprise in his eyes, "Captain Horatio Hornblower, at your service." Hornblower only knew that he was not at sea and that he was not home. Here in this neutral plane, he knew he must make the best of it. Energy blasts came in from over head and Hornblower found himself and Tenchi behind the knoll under the white covered arms of Winston, who pulled them down. Winston pulled out the proton gun and lifted it over the knoll to see what came. He could not believe what happened next.
Nappa led his Saibamen against the knoll. His scouter picked up no power readings that would be considered dangerous. He grinned viciously. There was no reason to stick around. The Saibamen could wipe out the force put in front of them. But Nappa decided to look around sector 3 one more time to make sure there was no one else around. Taking three Saibamen with him, he scanned with his scouter on power levels low enough to just qualify as life. Sure enough he picked up two objects in the thicket on the savannah in front of him. Nappa peered through the bushes and found two young women there. They were asleep. Nappa left the three Saibamen instructions to destroy the thicket and its occupants if they were needed in the fight at the knoll. If not, all the Saibamen could destroy them together, or better yet, Megatron could interrogate them. Nappa left the battle for the base, not realizing what was happening at the knoll.
Winston's proton gun was recently charged, and now he was glad. He had little time before the Saibamen would begin attacking. Staying low, he fired at the nearest one. A brief explosion took place. And the Saibamen all started hurling more energy blasts at the knoll. Winston ducked behind it.
"Need help?" Hornblower asked, drawing out one of his two rifled pistols.
"Well, these are weird little critters, I don't know if that will work." Hornblower took off his hat and leaned over the knoll. He fired, and the bullet pieced one of the Saibamen, but that did not stop the little green guy. Hornblower went back behind the knoll. Winston turned to his other side where Tenchi had pulled out what appeared to be a sword of light.
"If I can get close, I can take care of them," said Tenchi. "Cover me." Winston got his gun and began firing again. This time, he was covering whatever move Tenchi had in mind.
"I hope this kid knows what he is doing."
The two girls woke up. The brunette yawned. She opened her eyes and saw three Saibamen and she panicked. She pushed her friend awake and tried to get up. The Saibamen were alerted to her motions. "Lita, what is it?" her yawing friend asked.
"Amy, look." Amy saw the little green devilish men.
"We need to do something quickly, I'll hold them off while you run for help."
"Are you sure? I can stay here and fight it out too."
"No, find help. They can help find me later."
"All right, I'm off." Lita started running. Amy pulled out her wand and:
MERCURY COSMIC POWER
Sailor Mercury appeared. The Saibamen, who had looked to see where Lita was running, now turned their attentions back to Sailor Mercury. She did her special attack and one of the Saibamen was disabled, but soon she was overwhelmed and carried off back to the enemy base.
The Tenchi offensive (not confused with the Tet offensive) was bearing fruit. Saibamen fell left and right as Tenchi's apparel had changed and his power was coming to surface. The Saibamen could not hold up against his relentless offensive. While the enemy focused on Tenchi, Winston picked off a good number of the Saibamen. Hornblower surveyed with a telescope.
"Winston, beyond the front line there are three Saibamen, they appear to be carrying someone in a sailor uniform."
"Let me see that." Winston stared into the telescope. He too could see her.
"You're right. Let's redirect Tenchi to there."
"I suggest a sally from here then." Hornblower drew his sword. They emerged from behind the knoll. Winston signaled Tenchi with his gun and Tenchi saw Sailor Mercury and understood immediately. The Saibamen were starting to avoid his slashing attacks but they were surprised when Hornblower and Winston came out from behind the knoll and charged. They fell back in surprise but let off a series off energy blast attacks before counter striking. Winston raised his proton gun, only to find it had overheated, as it was bound to do.
"Drat!" yelled a frustrated Winston. He and Hornblower were like sitting ducks in the middle of the action. The Saibamen were above them, ready to chop when a field surrounded them and their blows blunted and the little guys themselves bounced out of the walls.
Megatron slammed his fist on the table and fell out of his carriage to become the dragon that emerged if he gave into his emotions. The battle was not going as planned. The Saibamen were going down! They had one prisoner but no green lights had shutdown on his screen. One wreaked havoc in his ranks. The other two had been stationary but bursts of energy from their position had shown that they were almost equally responsible for the casualties. Then had come the sally, and Megatron noticed his red dots not attacking successfully the two now unprotected units in the middle.
"Nappa! Go to sector 3 and clean it up quickly!" The saiyan left for the field he had left. Tenchi's hidden power was the shield of Winston and Hornblower, keeping them from harm. Nappa's first attack, a blazing sweep from above stopped their forward motion. The prisoner was getting too far away. The best Tenchi could do was keep up the shield against Nappa. Time and time again Nappa punched and kicked and did major fireball work. He could not pierce Tenchi's shield though.
"I can hold him for now, but I can't hold this forever."
Winston asked, "How long can you hold?"
"As long as necessary, this guy packs quite a hit." Soon a loud cry was heard:
THUNDERBOLT CUT!!!
A warrior in green armor and a large sword stood with it pointing at Nappa. A huge blast erupted from it and Nappa, taken completely by surprise, collapsed, stunned. Megatron lost his patience.
"All troops retreat, now!" He had decided to cut his losses. Back at sector 3, Sage introduced himself and began to show the way, the way to where?
