Chapter Three:

Toryiama's Dream.





The interior of the Capsule Corporation had never looked foreign before. Bulma could hardly make out the halls that were once so familiar through her tear filled eyes. It seems like an eternity had past since she left her dead father on the Tengoku amidst the chaos. Finally though, she reached her destination; her father's lab.

"Papa… Papa, I hope you knew what you were doing," Bulma sniffled. Then her eyes grew wide staring at screen in front of her. She gazed at the screen in awe as a giant blue print was shown, and the entire room began to move. Bulma could not believe her eyes as the entire room began to transform. The screen then changed and Bulma read it's message aloud. "Enter activation code to initiate launch sequence for 'Toriyama's Dream'? What activation code? And where is this thing? It's huge... It couldn't possibly fit anywhere near here." Suddenly the computer blipped.

"Locating file, 'Final Message.' File found." The metallic voice droned as Dr Brief's face appeared on the screen.

"Hello, Bulma. If you are seeing this message, it means my worst fears have finally been realized... and that I am dead." The video stated. Bulma tried and failed to swallow the rapidly forming lump in her throat. "I had prepared for this day. As I speak, the Capsule Corporation building is transforming into the bridge of a spacecraft called "Toriyama's Dream"." The computer blipped again and the screen went black.

"File Corrupted. Enter activation code to initiate launch sequence for 'Toriyama's Dream'."

"Papa…." Bulma whimpered as her fingers flew over the keyboard typing in the word 'capsule'.

"Incorrect. Enter activation code to initiate launch sequence for 'Toriyama's Dream'." Stated the machine as Bulma typed in her name. "Incorrect. Enter activation code to initiate launch sequence for 'Toriyama's Dream'."

"C'mon, Bulma," she exclaimed as she ruffled her hair. "Think... what would Papa use as an activation code?" Bulma asked aloud as she slowly looked around the room. She found the book her father was talking about, 'Exodus: The Dream of Toriyama.' Bulma smiled and typed in the word 'Exodus'. Suddenly the entire room came to life.

"Launch sequence initiated. Thank you for choosing Capsule Corp Star Ship 'Toriyama's Dream.' Please buckle your safety belts," the computer cheerily responded.

"Safety belts? But why would I need a safety belt," Bulma wondered aloud. Then the entire Capsule Corp building began to rumble. The room in which Bulma was standing rotated 180 degrees. The left wall slowly slid away to reveal a panoramic view of the landscape outside the building. In front of Bulma, the main control panel of the ship rose from the floor. All around her, other control stations rose from the floor also. "What's happening," Bulma screamed as she ran over to the huge window where a wall used to be. She looked out as the ship began to rise off the ground.





A flash of light, and then nothing. Where Yamucha should have been… nothing… nothing at all. Gokou's eyes widened in horror as the scene replayed in his mind.

"You," Gokou growled as his eyebrows vanished from his face. "Damn you! They couldn't even defend themselves!"

Gokou tilted his head back and screamed. He lowered his head and looked directly at the Saiya-jin who killed Yamucha and screamed again. Golden energy flashed everywhere, and Gokou tilted his head back and screamed for the third time. The light was so blinding that Gokou could not be seen, only heard. The Saiya-jin covered his eyes from the blinding light. When the light dissipated crackling energy surrounded Gokou as his now knee length hair fell somewhat into place. Super Saiya-jin 3 Gokou leveled his gaze at Yamucha's murderer. "You have no honor! You take the lives of innocent men and women! People who can't even defend themselves!"

"Heh. Worthless scum, just like the rest. He wouldn't even had made a good slave." The Saiya-jin smirked. Without warning, Gokou attacked, smashing the Saiya-jin's nose into his face. "Ah! Shit! That hurt," yelped the Saiya- jin as he tried to stop his nose from bleeding. The Saiya-jin then attacked Gokou with a punch. Gokou easily caught his hand. "How can you move so fast? This can't be happening!"

"I'll give you till the count of three to get away from here. You're pretty fast. Use that speed and run away," Gokou stated flatly as his dropped the Saiya-jin's fist. "Hurry up." The Saiya-jin looked at Gokou for a moment and then burst into laughter.

"You want me to run away…. Form you? Ha," laughed the Saiya-jin. Then he felt Gokou bury his fist in his gut.

"I said hurry up." Gokou whispered harshly as his fist plowed deeper into the Saiya-jin's abdomen.

"Die," the Saiya-jin barked as he sent a ki blast straight a Gokou's face. The blast caught Gokou off guard and the Saiya-jin quickly put some distance between himself and Gokou. Unfortunately, he backed right into Vegeta.

"I'm impressed. You managed to get away from Kakarotto after you pissed him off. Very good," Vegeta whispered into the stunned Saiya-jin's ear. "But not good enough." With a flash of intense power, the Saiya-jin was disintegrated.

"Hey Veget-kun," called Nappa. Vegeta began to shake with rage the minute he heard Nappa's voice. "If I decide to let you live... you'll have to teach me that trick," the larger Saiya-jin shouted.

"Damn you!" Vegeta roared as he began to race toward Nappa. Suddenly, Gokou was in his path.

"Vegeta! Don't worry about him! Get all the people to safety," said Gokou as he spun ands slammed his knee into the gut of a Saiya-jin about to blast him. "Find Dende!! Get him to heal the wounded if he can," he screamed as three Saiya-jin began attacking him at once.

"Your talking kinda loud, there Kakarotto... what's this you said about this Dende being able to heal people," Nappa asked with a large smirk.

"Shit," Gokou snarled. He tilted his head back, stretched his arms out to both sides, and screamed. He again glowed with energy and the Saiya-jin that were attacking him were pushed back by the force of his power.

"How that hell can golden boy be that powerful!?!?! There hasn't been a power like that since the Legendary Super Saiya-jin," Cursed one of the three Saiya-jin.

"Damn! I'm the most powerful Saiya-jin in this legion and I can't even touch him," cursed another.

"Let's get our asses outta," The third one began. He stopped mid-sentence and blinked.

"What was that," asked the dumbfounded second Saiya-jin.

"What was what... I didn't say anything." With that all three shrugged and rocketed toward Gokou.

"BAKKA!" Gokou roared as he tilted his head back once more, and erupted into intense golden power. As Saiya-jins got closer, Gokou put both hands out in front of him. "Kame," he hissed as he pulled his hands to his side. "Hame." The power between Gokou's cupped hands began to grow. The Saiya-jin never even faltered. The just kept getting closer and closer and closer. Then closer still. Gokou could almost smell their breath. "HA!!"

In a flash, it was over. The Kame Hame Ha consumed the Saiya-jin in a great explosion, blinding Gokou and even Nappa himself shortly. Finally, the smoke cleared. Of the Saiya-jin, nothing was left. Gokou slammed his fist into the face of a Saiya-jin trying to attack him from behind and tried to comprehend what had just happened.

"…They didn't stop… those idiots didn't stop," Gokou muttered to himself.





Nappa was actually impressed by what he was seeing. It appeared that the loss of the tail created a new form of Super Saiya-jin. He would have to look into that. However, right now he had other matters to attend to. Looking over the chaos his men created and were creating, he watched the people running in fear. Some people held on to their dead, screaming, waiting for death themselves, others simply threw themselves off the edge of this…what was it called? The Tengoku? No matter. It, along with everything else would soon be gone. However, now, he was interested in the one called Dende.

"Look at them... Like little ants... I wonder which one of them is Dende," Nappa wondered aloud. At that moment, his saw Karin, who was carrying a bucket full of senzu. Nearby, he saw Dende kneeling down to heal someone. "Bet it's one of them... but which? Oh well."

"I have all the senzu I could find," Karin said. Then a blast ripped through Karin's chest. He fell face first into the bucket of senzu, dead. Nappa simply pointed at Dende, and he and the person he was healing exploded, killing at least ten nearby people. Gohan and Kuririn were near enough to witness Dende's death. "Nice explosion."

"DENDE!!!" Gohan screamed. It was too late though. All that was left of the young Namek-sejin was the old wooden cane his predecessor used.

"Juuhachigou, Dende, "Kuririn whispered as he squeezed his eyes shut. "MONSTER!" Kuririn rocketed toward Nappa, and slammed his fist into the Saiya-jin's jaw. Nappa's head whipped back toward Kuririn, as he does so, he spat up a little bit of blood.

"Insolent. Didn't that blonde give you the message?" Nappa growled.

"What," Kuririn asked, stunned. Nappa just smirked and smashed Kuririn over the head with a single fist, sending Kuririn plummeting down. As Kuririn fell, The Great Saiyaman rocketed toward Nappa. Kuririn stopped just in time to see the fight.

"MA SENKO!!!!" For an instant, Gohan glowed with power, and then that power was all pulled into the palms of his hands. He pushed his hands forward and unloosed the blast, which slammed into Nappa's chest. Nappa is pushed back, but before he can react, Gohan slammed his heel into the back of Nappa's head. Gohan spun and slammed his other heel into Nappa's nose. Blood poured from Nappa's nose, and Gohan buried his fist into the giant's gut. Nappa doubled over, and Gohan back away.

"Good job, brat," Nappa rasped as he straightened to his full height.

"I haven't even started yet, Nappa," Gohan snarled in reply. Nappa looked at the boy and smiled.

"You won't get a chance to either," Nappa mused as he swatted Gohan from the sky like nothing more than an insect. "The Death Blow," Nappa bellowed as he pointed at Gohan, but before he can fire, he is smashed from behind by Piccolo.

"It takes a brave man to man handle a boy," the Namek-sejin gruffly stated.

"So you survived too, eh? And I thought Vegeta-kun would have been more efficient. Oh well," Nappa chuckled as he reached back and grabbed Piccolo's antennae and ripped them off. Piccolo reared back and screamed. "Did that hurt as much as you make it sound like it did...? Sure hope so," Nappa gloated as he kicked Piccolo's face in. Piccolo began to fall toward Tengoku.

"Damn you," Piccolo snarled as he began to right himself.

"Enma-Daiou already did that," Nappa smirked as he pressed the button on his scouter. "Army this is your leader. Fall back, we've had enough fun for now." With a flash all the Saiya-jin, including Nappa disappeared.

"Nappa," roared Gokou exactly on second to late. "Shit! Is every one all right," Gokou asked as he landed on Tengoku.

"What do you think," shouted Kuririn in response. "Dende, Karin, and Juuhachigou are dead, along when about a million other people! Bulma, Chichi, Pilaf, Ten, Chaozu, Yajirobe, Ox King, and Marron are nowhere to be found!"

"I know... this is really bad," Gokou agreed as his golden hair grew shorter and finally turned back to it's normal black color. "I don't know how were gonna win this one, to tell you the truth. Gohan? Are you and Piccolo all right?"

"I'm fine, I just hurt like hell," growled Piccolo as his antennae regenerated.

"I'm okay, Otousan. Have you seen Gotenks," Asked Gohan.

"He'll turn up," Gokou replied.

"Does someone want to explain why the entire Saiya-jin armada just disappeared," Vegeta roared as he joined the others.

"Nappa said they had had their fun for now," Gohan whispered gravely.

"Damn... we gotta find a new hiding place for all these people! If we don't, we might as well surrender to the Saiya-jins right now," Gokou snarled as his hands balled into fists. "Shit." At that moment, a huge ship came into view. At the center of the ship sat something that resembled the Capsule Corp building.

"This can't be good." Kuririn mumbled. Huge doors on the under belly of the ship opened. A beam of blue shot down and tractored the entire platform into the ship.

"What the hell is this," Vegeta roared as the huge doors closed, locking them in. "Asshole! Someone had better answer me!"

"Papa!"

"Otousan! Oniisan!"

"Trunks?"

"Goten!"

Both boys stopped as the their fathers walked forward.

"Goten! Is you Mother safe," Gokou asked as he knelt down and ruffled his son's hair.

"Hai, Otousan," the little boy replied with a huge smile.

"Trunks! What the hell is going on," Vegeta roared at his son.

"Umm. I really don't know. I was still Gotenks when I got here… But Gotenks took Videl and Mister Satan to the bridge," Trunks replied as the scowl slowly slid off his father's face.

"Bridge? Who's running this thing," Vegeta quizzed.

"Mom," Trunks replied.

"WHAT?!!? How does she know how to fly a," Vegeta began.

"Papa, this is Mom," Trunks reminded Vegeta as he, Gokou and Goten walk.

"My obnoxious woman." Vegeta though as he made his way to the bridge.





Nappa was filling somewhat disappointed. This was turning into another wholesale slaughter, and he had so hoped that Kakarotto or at least Vegeta would be able to put up a fight. Their power was nowhere near his. He smiled to himself as slowly trudged the open field that was once a farm, now it was filled with the Saiya-jin armada and dead bodies. They had even managed to keep a few of the humans alive. They would not make good slaves, but at least they were entertaining. For the moment.

He didn't know what it was, but something was itching at the back of his mind. Something that he missed. Suddenly it hit him.

"Where is Raditzu," Nappa asked realizing that the Saiya-jin in question had been missing since before the assault on the Tengoku.

"I know not, sir," replied Maize, Nappa's second officer. Nappa's energy began to flare as the anger rose inside of him.

"Find him," Nappa rumbled. Maize nodded.

"What am I to do when I find him, sir," Maize asked.

"I don't care what you do. Just bring him in alive." Maize nodded and turned away.

"No need to lose your cool, Nappa. I'm right her," Said Raditzu with a smirk as he landed softly behind Nappa.

"Nappa," he hissed. "You dare call your God by his birth name? Address me as SIR, you incompetent fool," Nappa bellowed as he spun and grabbed Raditzu by his collar.

"He's lost his mind," thought Raditzu. "Alright. Sir, what did you wait to se my for." Nappa's face drew closer to his own.

"You're very lucky, you know that? I did not have to warn you about the new scouters. I could have let you become a mindless killing machine just like the rest," Nappa whispered. "You should thank me. You have your mind, and your not dead," Nappa spat as he let go of Raditzu. "Where were you when we assaulted the enemy?"

"I was eating, sir," replied Raditzu like a good little soldier. "I regret missing the battle, sir." Nappa nodded to himself and strode away, satisfied with Raditzu's explanation.

"He's finally gone off the deep end. Maize is the only one besides me not being controlled by those things, and I can't trust him. Hell, right now I can't even trust Tocino. Looks like I'm on my own for now."