Ch 20
Goku and the girls neared the city. They could hear blasts going on and several buildings being smashed to the ground following the blasts.
"Who could do a thing like this? The whole city, gone in just minutes!" Gohan looked wide eyed as the pile of rubble that had been a busy city not half an hour before.
"Umm…I-I don't know, but I'm sure don't wanna be here when they come back." Krillin stammered. They landed on one building that was still standing.
"It looks as if this was a war zone!" Haruka said awed.
"Whoever did this must still be here somewhere." Makoto looked around while Krillin cowered behind Gohan.
"Something is approaching." Hotaru said quietly. Everybody turned to see what Hotaru was watching. From the rubble three figures stood, walking towards them. Faster than a speeding bullet where before stood Haruka, Michiru, and Hotaru now where Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Saturn.
Goku narrowed his eyes, but relaxed immediately. "Relax you guys, it's only Piccolo, Choatzu, and Tien." He smiled.
"About time you got here." Piccolo snarled.
"What happened? Where are the bad guys?" Goten asked.
Tien shrugged. "They disappeared after they did this." He sat on one of the boulders.
"Yeah, but they're still here somewhere." Piccolo said grumpily, glaring at the Outers who where still gaping at him.
"How can you tell?" Minako asked looking around.
"Their Ki signature." Piccolo said curtly.
"Well," Haruka said eyeing Piccolo who looked very pissed at their staring. "You sure have friends out of this world, now don't you?" Haruka chuckled.
"Is not like we are entirely down to earth, if you know what I mean." Rei said turning to look at the massive destruction dismissing any kind of smart remark.
"It should be better if we divide." Ami looked at them feeling the tension in the air. "That way we can locate the enemy faster." She reasoned.
"That's a good idea. We should split, that way we can cover more ground." Trunks agreed.
"Ok then. Piccolo, you take Gohan, Yamcha, and Trunks. I'm taking Goten, Krillin, Tien and Choatzu. You guys stay here, it's safer for you." With that Goku flew away from them before the girls could say a thing against. Goten and Trunks just shrugged before following Goku.
"WHAT?!?!?! Can you believe them?!?!" Rei yelled outraged.
"They left us here like if we couldn't fight as well!!!" Makoto snarled looking in the direction where they had disappeared.
"Who the hell do the y think they are?!?!" Haruka narrowed her eyes. "We came here to fight and I'll damned well gonna do it." Haruka jumped down the building. Shaking her head Michiru followed Haruka. After Michiru, all the senshi looked for the enemy as well.
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Miles away from them, Usagi and Vegeta neared a large place. Usagi watched in awe the large isle floating on the sky, with many flowers, trees and a palace standing in the center. Vegeta landed immediately headed for the massive doors. Knocking not to gently, Vegeta crossed his arms and waited.
"W-where are we?" Usagi asked looking at the peace and tranquility that this place inspired.
"Kami's Lookout. This was the only place we stayed before going to CC. It can be the only place where something could have happened." Vegeta said before knocking again. This time a short bald man who's hands, eyes and lips where the only thing not black opened the door.
"May I help you?" He asked frightened looking at Vegeta.
"I'm here to talk with Dende. Go and fetch him, NOW!!!" Vegeta moved outside again while the short man dressed as a genie ran inside. Seconds later a younger version of Piccolo showed up.
"Vegeta, Mr. Popo said that you wanted to talk to me…and who's your friend?" Dende said calmly looking at Usagi.
"Hi, I'm Usagi, I-I can't believe that I…and you…and…oh Kami!" Usagi stammered looking at Dende.
"No, not Kami. I'm Dende, nice to meet you." Dende smiled looking at Usagi blush. Vegeta rolled his eyes and looked at Dende in the eyes.
"I'm looking for my brat. Something got over him, and this is the only place that he was in before going ballistic." Vegeta said plainly.
Dende seemed to think for a while, but shook his head. "Sorry Vegeta, but there has been nothing out of the ordinary up here. But you can look around all you want. Mr. Popo and I'll help you in all we can." Dende said.
Vegeta shook his head before turning away. Quickly Usagi followed him.
"Ok, where do we go from here?" Usagi looked at Vegeta.
Vegeta looked back at her with a scowl on his face. "We? We? There is no we here brat. I'm going to go find him and you are gonna stay here." Vegeta said sternly.
"But-"
"No buts'. You're staying here." Vegeta turned away.
"What?!? Oh no you won't!" Usagi ran standing in front of Vegeta. "You're not leaving me here. This was my idea to come looking for him, and you tagged along!" Usagi yelled hotly.
"Hmph, you are not going anywhere, you're only gonna be a burden to me." Vegeta kept walking. Usagi growled, you could almost see steam coming off her head, but before she could make a smart remark she smirked and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Fine, go without me, I guess that you would have more luck looking for him in the dark than letting me help you since you must have a link tying you to him like the one I share with him, now don't you?" Again Usagi smirked looking as Vegeta stopped dead on his tracks and turned looking at her. However her smirk disappeared when she was Vegeta's expression. Vegeta's face paled, his emotions ranged showing shock, disbelief, and confusion.
"Link? What link?" Vegeta narrowed his eyes.
"Well, the link that Mamo-chan and I share. I know where he is just as he knows where I am and if I'm in danger if we concentrate hard enough." Usagi was taken aback.
"And since when have you had this link?" Vegeta frowned.
"I-it has been there since I can remember. It was with me since the Silver Millennium." Usagi whispered. Vegeta seemed to think about what she had just said. His oldest son was already soul bonded with Kakarott's daughter, and he knew that nothing would break that link.
Shaking his head he looked at her. "Fine, let's go."
Behind them Mr. Popo and Dende approached them. "Umm…Vegeta, Ms. Usagi, I think that you should wait until tomorrow since it's already too late to go find him at this hour." Dende smiled politely. Usagi looked at him funny, looking over the edge of Kami's Lookout Usagi saw the stars over the velvety darkness of the night. "If you want, you can spend the night here. I know Mr. Popo just baked some cookies that I know you'll like." Dende said.
Just then Usagi's stomach began rumbling, but not too hard as to muffle the sound of Vegeta's stomach rumbling too. "Hehe, I think that I'm hungry." Usagi smiled nervously. Crossing his arms Vegeta shook his head and entered the palace.
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"KA-ME-HA ME-HA!!!" Goku saw for the second time on the day as his blast went up in smoke. Glancing to his side he could see Krillin, Tien, Choatzu and his son lying unconscious on the ground. Tired and beaten he prepared to send another blast to his attacker.
"KA…ME…HA ME…HA!!!" Goku watched as the black shield protected the 'general from his most powerful attack, absorbing it instead of making damage.
"What? Is the little Saiyan tired already? But I'm just starting to have fun with you." One of the 'generals' chuckled.
"I think that we where too rough on them." The other laughed on a very girlish kind of screech. Behind them another appeared wearing a feral smirk on his face.
"It's time to go guys. I think we've done enough damage for today and you know she will like to play with them before she kills them." The new arrival's smirk widened.
"But they're fun to play with."
"Enough, I'm finished with the other lot of fools. We should head back, I'm sure she's having fun with her prince by now, but we have to report progress."
"Fine, we're going spoilsport. Well," They turned to Goku "Until next time, and I'll recommend you go help those pesky senshi before the other two that that guy sent kills them." The 'general' smirked evilly before disappearing into thin air.
Goku looked in loathing at the space where the Triad had stood before their words sank into his head. Cursing under his breath, he gathered the now barely conscious Z fighters on his charge and blasted to find the girls.
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"Hmph…Urg." Makoto fell into a heap to the ground unconscious, joining half the senshi on lalaland.
"What a pathetic little bunch, not worth our time." The men looked at the remaining senshi with cold almost inhuman eyes.
"Well, what did you expect from weak humans like them." His partner smiled showing her canines, a cruel look on her face.
"Why you little!" Haruka pulled out her sword. "SWORD BLASTER!!!"
Dodging the sword, the first guy sent a blast that sent Sailor Uranus to join the 'unconscious' group.
"Tsk, tsk, tsk. Now that wasn't very nice." He smirked looking at the barely standing Sailor Neptune, and Sailor Mars. "So, I guess you two are the winners, tells them my dear, what have they won." He smirked.
"Well, let me see. You just have won a one way ticket to hell!" She gathered energy on her hand, but before she could send the senshi to oblivion, the Triad stood before her. "Hey, get out of the way!" She whined.
"No time for this, you know our masters want them alive for further torture." One of the Triad snarled at the girl.
"Fine," then she turned to the senshi "We will see again, sailor brats, count on that. And then you'll get to claim your price. Mwahahaha." With that all of them left.
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Minutes later, Goku appeared carrying Krillin, followed by Goten carrying Tien and Choatzu. From the opposite direction Piccolo and Gohan came, Yamcha swung from Trunks' shoulder, apparently unconscious. (FD: sorry I couldn't resist :) Just then, and only then Sailor Neptune and Sailor Mars let their transformation fade, falling to the ground trying to catch their breaths.
Quickly Trunks thru Yamcha's body to the ground (FD: couldn't resist either ^-^;;;) running to Ami's side, just as Goten ran to Minako's. The girls started to gain consciousness by the time that everybody had arrived.
"Did someone memorize the license plate of the semi that run me over?" Makoto rubbed her head.
" 'Fraid not, I was too busy trying to kill those guys." Haruka stood up and walked to Michiru. Wrapping an arm on Michiru's waist, she hauled her up and started to attend her wounds. After making sure that Michiru was all right, she went to Hotaru. Picking Hotaru's small form up, she walked to Michiru who cradled her on her arms.
"Are you girls ok? I'm such an idiot! I shouldn't have left you here without any of us to protect you." Goku looked regretfully at the senshi.
"It doesn't matter now. It seems that you too had your fare share of bad guys anyway." Michiru looked at the battled Z fighters.
"How did this happen? How did they beat you like this?" Rei asked looking surprised at their conditions.
"This guy just appeared from nowhere and knocked out Goten and Trunks with a single blow after attacking Yamcha." Piccolo grunted. "He almost got me, when he said something about how 'she' would like to kill us personally before he disappeared.
"That's almost the same thing that happened to us." Goku frowned. "These two guys just came and started attacking us, I sent them a Kamehameha wave to them, when this strange looking dark shield made with magic stopped it, making it bounce back to us." Goku explained.
"Yeah, that knocked Krillin, Tien, Choatzu, and myself rather quickly." Gohan rubbed the back of his head looking sheepishly.
"After that I kept fighting them, but those shields kept protecting them. That's when another appeared and they left." Goku said angrily.
"I think that's all about us, now tell us what happened to all of you?" Trunks asked.
"After you left we went looking for the enemy on our own." Makoto said as if it was the most obvious thing to do. (FD: well, now thinking about it, it was the obvious thing to do.)
"Ha, like you could do anything to stop them." Yamcha snickered before being thrown to get 'reacquainted' with a near by wall.
"Well, it seems like you couldn't either." Haruka snapped.
"I bet you didn't even land one hit on them." Makoto smiled evilly.
"C'mon girls, clam down. We have to think what to do next." Goku put a hand over Makoto's shoulder. After that, he frowned. "Id they came for us, they surely went to find Usagi and Vegeta." He growled. At this the girls paled significantly.
"I'm sure Vegeta can take care of himself and Usagi, besides, you hear them when they said that they wanted us alive." Piccolo said calmly.
"Hey you guys, I think it's better if we head to CC and see if mom can find a way to track Mamoru down." Trunks reasoned.
"I-I don't know…" Goku looked around.
"There is nothing else we can do here. It's better if we rest first, then we can go ask Dende if we can use the Chamber of Spirit and Time. This guys are tougher than I thought." Gohan looked at his father.
"Fine, lets go rest. I just hope that wherever Usagi is, that she is safe." Goku looked to the sky one more time before heading to CC.
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