A/N: "Trunks didn't want to be wished back in fifty pieces" - Remember! Boo saga never happened! Trunks has never died before!




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Chapter 4- A New Threat

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Hidorakon and Trunks parted from the short duel and took to the air.

"Ha. So, you're strong." Hidorakon said.

"Shut up! Why are you doing this?!"

"You know exactly why!" Hidorakon growled dangerously and started throwing ki blasts at Trunks.

Trunks dodged them all, but they were weak anyway. He didn't want to hurt Hidorakon, he knew Hidorakon was upset. Any person would be over the brink on insanity if their whole race were destroyed. But it was an impossible task to try and calm down Hidorakon now. The fight had started and the Kasaien warrior wasn't going to stop until one fighter fell.

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"Bulma! Bulma! Open the door!" Goten yelled through the front doors to the Capsule Corp. He banged furiously as Soshiko and Kumyo just stood and watched.

"Bulma--" Goten fell over as his fist he was pounding smashed through and broke the door down. "... ~ Cough ~... Crud!"

Without hesitation, Goten rushed through the corridors looking for Bulma. As she had been for the past week, Bulma was at work with the Kasaien space ship still trying to make sense of the controls.

"Bulma!" Goten yelled.

"Goten, what on Earth..." Bulma quickly raised to her feet.

"Bulma. We found the owner of the space ship! He attacked while we were training!"

"What?! Where's Trunks?!" Bulma suddenly panicked.

"He's fighting the guy. Kidorkon or something... can't remember his name. Apparently there's more just like him."

"Oh, my Kami! Well... can you sense them?!"

"Yeah, I can. Trunks still going strong."

"Thank goodness..."

"But... what's his name's still stronger."

"Well..."

"Could you watch Soshiko and Kumyo while I go help?"

"Huh? Okay... I'll go tell Vegeta."

"Okay."

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By this point Trunks had gone super saiyan. Even then he was having a hard time. Hidorakon seemed to be holding back and he was also using the blades he had brought back out. One misplaced move could be fatal. Trunks didn't want to be wished back in fifty pieces. Those things were sharp. He had watched Hidorakon slice a thick rock cleanly in half.

'He's psycho!' Trunks thought. Hidorakon was going all out with those blades. What worried Trunks was that Hidorakon showed no signs of tiring. In fact, he was getting faster. While Trunks felt the effects of going on for so long start to wear on.

Then suddenly all fighting stopped. Hidorakon was frozen. He quickly looked around and Trunks saw his chance. He punched Hidorakon hard in the back of the head, which sent the kasaien a few feet down. He wasn't going to let one punch defeat him, though. He glared up at Trunks who was glaring back down.

Two against one was bad odds for Hidorakon. Before he could shake off the stars from the last punch, Goten kicked him in the back, knocking the wind out of him. Hidorakon gasped and tried to get his breath back. This gave Goten time to talk to Trunks.

"Trunks, Kumyo and Soshiko are with Bulma. Vegeta's gonna be here, soon."

"Soon... hope so. Hidorakon's tough..."

"It's okay. You got help."

A ki blast shot between the two saiyans. The fight started back up.

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Kumyo paced the living room of Capsule Corp. like a caged animal. Bulma had told the brothers to watch T.V. and not to worry. But Kumyo was far too aware of the situation. Soshiko, he stood on the balcony and simply didn't budge.

"You see anything yet?" Kumyo looked up towards Soshiko.

"... Nope..."

Kumyo began to pace again.

"You see anything yet?"

"... Nope..."

...

"You see anything yet?"

"...... Nope!"

...

"You see anything yet?"

"......... No!!"

"You--"

"Will you shut up, Kumyo?! Christ sake..."

...

"You see anything yet?"

"......"

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Trunks was down and out. He had gone on for longest and his body couldn't take it. It was all up to Goten. Both Hidorakon and Goten were at full power and Goten was at ssj2. Even then he knew he couldn't last two more minutes.

"You're slowing down, Saiyan!" Hidorakon told Goten. As if he hadn't realised that...

With one final blow from Hidorakon, Goten felt his jaw shatter. The shock wave knocked him out. He was sent plummeting to the ground.

Hidorakon watched Goten fall and hit the ground with a thud. He slowly lowered himself and landed infront of the saiyan hybrid. He looked down to see his tough form had withstood the fall. There was blood coming from Goten's mouth.

"It's your turn to perish this time..." Hidorakon said, extending the blade on his hand.

Goten's eyes widened slightly, but all he could see was a sideways blur. He could hear Hidorakon and he was afraid. He couldn't move. He was completely paralysed.

Hidorakon didn't enjoy taking lives; he always killed for a cause. This time was an exception. He hated this guy for what he was, not for what he had done. But according to neighbouring planets, saiyan children had killed many. They had even had a saiyan boy on their planet. Said to be a weak, exiled prince. He became a Kasaien, but even he turned his back on them.

The saiyans had come back for him, and it was arranged that if Monkizu, saiyan name, Jida was given back to the saiyans, the Kasaiens would be left in peace. Monkizu though ran off to another planet with his Kasaien girlfriend and was unheard of since.

The saiyans were evil monsters. Hidorakon had to rid the universe of their presence. And he had to do it quickly. If it weren't going to be him, then it would be his King, Orcon.

Hidorakon all of a sudden began to feel uneasy. Retracting the scythes on his hands, he stood straight up and took a look around himself. All he could see was the clearing and surrounding forest. He shifted his glance up to the sky and again, saw nothing out of the ordinary. He couldn't make sense the feeling he had. Then it hit him - It was an energy. But this one was way more powerful than he was. In fact, he was dwarfed by it.

Hidorakon glanced back down at Goten and then at the direction of the ki. Constantly switching glances, he tried to make up his mind whether to stay or to run. As the ki came closer, it became stronger. He was deathly afraid and knew that sticking around for any longer could be fatal.

The ki disappeared. Small beads of sweat began to form on Hidorakon's face. He knew whoever was there were hiding themselves. Hidorakon's sensing abilities weren't exactly what you'd call 'top notch' anyway.

Slowly stepping back, Hidorakon took another look around, but like before, he could see nothing.

There was a sudden sharp stabbing pain in his back that forced him to fall to the ground. Gasping for breath, it took a while for Hidorakon to register what had just happened. A while wasn't long enough. There was another shoot of pain that made his stomach do a 360-degree flip. He brought up a mouthful of blood as he realised what had just happened. He could feel his energy begin to drain from him. Whatever had hit him had hit right through him. Right through his chest. Every breath he tried to take just consisted of blood, even though a large part of his lungs had collapsed.

Taking his foot out from the gore, Vegeta could sense the creature's energy wither with the now lifeless body.

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"You see anything yet?"

Soshiko was now brimming with a faint energy. His brother was really getting on his nerves.

"You see--"

"Wait! Yeah, I do!" Soshiko ran up to the edge of the balcony. Kumyo wasn't far behind.

There was Vegeta with Goten and Trunks under each arm. Hopefully Hidorakon had been defeated.

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Bulma could hear the boy's pounding feet stampede down the stairs. Maybe they had seen Vegeta, Trunks or Goten.

"What is it?" Bulma asked.

"They're back!"

"But Goten looks beat!"

"Huh?! Oh, my Kami!" Bulma ran up to the door - only to forget there was no door. She ran outside the building and saw her husband lower down to the ground carrying Trunks and Goten.

"What happened to you lot back there?!" Bulma yelled.

"They need help." Vegeta said plainly.

"Well, get them into rejuvenation and tell me all about it, got it?!" Bulma ordered.

Vegeta gave a small grunt. He didn't like to be ordered around. But he did as he was told. After all, it was only Bulma.

Bulma just watched on with a look of worry. Something was terribly wrong. Two of the strongest fighters on Earth had just been beaten. That was bad. Real bad.

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"Oh, Bulma, Where's Goten, is he okay, where is he, where's my little boy?!" Chi-Chi couldn't stop herself from lunging in the building and frantically yelling for Goten.

"It's okay, Chi-Chi, He's in rejuvenation. Telling by his progress he's going to be just fine." Bulma reassured Chi-Chi.

"Ooh..." Chi-Chi hissed between clenched teeth, "I hope so!"

As soon as Vegeta caught Goku walk in the doorframe he decided it was time to make tracks. If there was one thing he hated besides loosing fights it was being in the same room as that third class baka.

"Why'd ya break the door down, Bulma?" Goku asked.

Everyone fell over.