Chapter 12
(The battle begins!)
After finding Demetrium's ship, filling it with fuel, and going through a whole lot of yelling and punching Demetrium for forgetting to give them money, the gang arrived on Yoidstar. They stood gazing at the ancient and decayed temple. The Destroyers were nowhere in sight. Their tracks in the dust had been covered by the wind.
"So where are they?" Kriluin asked. "Well there's their ship" Demetrium stated, pointing to a ship in the distance. "Think they're inside?" Kriluin asked. "No. They would have seen us coming and had plenty of time to get here." "Then they're probably in the temple. Now can we just get this over with? I shouldn't be wasting my time on morons like them" Vegeta complained. "Don't let their brain capacity fool you Vegeta. Those guys are very powerful" Demetrium replied. "Whatever. Let's just go!"
They entered the temple. The entire building consisted of one room. Marble columns lined the perimeter and the walls were plated with some kind of smoothed and polished rock. At the far end of the room was an elevated platform with 8 small pedestals, 7 surrounding one in the center. Upon the pedestals were 5 of the bliss stones. On the ceiling over the stones was painted a mural of different natural beauties. Canyons, desert, plains, forest, ocean, space, and tundra. The 7 murals were fixated over their corresponding stone and around a golden plate in the center of them all.
The stones gave off the only light in the otherwise dark room. But their light spreads far, making it easy to see. The purple and green stones were missing. The Destroyers were nowhere in sight.
"...well this is a trap if I ever saw one" Vegeta says. "Where are they?" Kriluin asked. "Maybe they just expect us to leave the stone on the pedestal and go" Goku suggested. "No. I don't think so" Demetrium said. "Let's just steal the stones and go home" Frieza suggested. "We came here to stop them from destroying planets, not to steal bliss stones" Demetrium reminded him. "I can't sense their power anywhere" Goku said. "This is strange. What should we do?" Demetrium asked. "Put down the stone!" the voice of Flank shouted. "What?" Demetrium asked. "Flank! Shut up you idiot!" the voice of Flionk shouted. "Where did that come from?" Demetrium asked. "I can't tell. There's too much of an echo" Goku said. "If they're so close, why can't we sense them?" Kriluin asked. "I don't know" Demetrium said. "They're cowards! They're afraid of us!" Vegeta said.
"Ok. Whoever the hell you people are, just put the stone on the pedestal and go away" the voice of Flionk commanded. "Make us!" Demetrium said. "Ok." he said, and the Destroyers came down through the roof. "Our ship is wired to blow up the planets at the push of this button. If you don't give it up in a few seconds, we'll start blowing up planets!" Flionk threatened, and pointed to a remote Razor was holding. "Oh no! What'll we do?!" Kriluin asked. "We'll have to give it to them" Demetrium resolved. "No, you idiot!" Frieza shouted. "It's just a few planets! What if they become invincible?!" "Don't worry" Demetrium reassured them as he walked up to the pedestals, gently rolled the green stone from his box and into its correct place, and walked back to the entrance with the others.
Flionk laughs maniacally. "Thanks for the stone, whoever you people are" Flionk said. "Wait a minute. If you were right up there, why couldn't we sense your power?" Vegeta demanded. "Well ya see, Flank here likes to play hide and seek a lot, so we're all really good at hiding our power" Flionk explained. "...what's wrong with these guys?" Vegeta asked. "Ok we brought you the stone, so get rid of that remote" Goku said. "The joke's on you. Those planets are all uninhabited" Flionk said and tossed the remote over his shoulder. Everyone stood silent for a while. "We killed how many people to save some uninhabited planets? Ha ha ha!" Frieza laughed. "Shut up!" Goku shouted.
Kriluin whispered something to Goku. "Hey, ya know Kriluin, you're absolutely right!" "What are you talking about?" Frieza asked. "I didn't notice at first, but don't those guys remind you of the Ginyu force?" Goku asked. Frieza squinted at the Destroyers. "Hey, your right!" "Yeah, and they're just as stupid" Vegeta stated.
"All right, whoever you people are, get out. We got stuff to do" Flionk ordered. No one moved. "I said get out! What, do you want an autograph or something?" "We're not here to worship you. We're here to kill you." Demetrium told them. "...and you would be?" Flionk asked. " I am Demetrium Halien." "Now I remember that name! Your the son of Baros Halien, the famous rock and roll artist! Man, you've grown since I last saw you. You know, your dad and I were friends way back. Then he started with this 'why are you trying to take over the universe' crap, so we took him out. So have you come back for revenge? Well I'm sorry to say, your little army doesn't stand a chance." "Enough talk. Let's fight!" Demetrium said. "Sorry, but like I said, we've got stuff to do. Hold them back guys!" Flionk commanded. The other Destroyers form a wall in front of him. "We can't let him place that stone!" Demetrium shouted. "Too late!" Flionk said as he put a glove on, and took the purple stone out of his pocket. Goku and Vegeta went straight to super saiya-jin 3 and flew at the Destroyers protecting Flionk. They were followed by the others. But before they could pass them, Flionk placed the final stone. "Ha ha ha ha! I shall rule the universe!" he shouted. With that, the other Destroyers scattered and returned to his side to watch what happened. "We're too late!" Frieza cursed. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha!.........ha?" Everyone stood silent and waited for something to happen. Nothing does. "Stupid legend!" Flionk shouted. "Told ya" Demetrium said to Kriluin. "...RAAHHH!!!" Flionk shouted in rage. The ground began to shake. The temple began to collapse. "Run!" Kriluin shouted. Everyone left, even the other Destroyers. "I think he's finally gone over the edge" Razor said to the other Destroyers.
Cracks appeared in the planets surface. "I think he's going to destroy the whole planet!" Goku said. "And this is just him powering up!" Demetrium informed them. The temple finally fell and the quaking stopped. When the dust cleared, all that was left was the cracked floor, Flionk, and the pedestals with the stones, which hadn't moved or cracked at all.
Flionk stood exactly where he was, fists clenched and breathing heavily. "All right Demetrium. You wanted a fight? We'll fight. What would you prefer, a battle of the bands type thing, of just plain old fighting?" "I think my boys would prefer flat out fighting if it's all the same to you." "Fine then" Flionk said, and the other Destroyers flew to his side. "Let the battle begin!"