Reiko's Arrival
Prologue:
"Errr…come on you worthless piece of junk!!!" Reiko yelled and he slammed his fist into the spaceship's control unit, "Come on, come one…yess…" The beaten and battered ship flew up off of the ground. The army beneath it stared up amazed that the 16 year-old kid had managed to launch the old pod.
"What are you waiting for…fly up there and get him!!!" the army Sergeant, Leitar, yelled to his men. Dr. Keitar stood by his side and thought No, my creation…my wonderful creation…
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Chapter 1:
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"Come on Goten, give me another!" Goku called. He was sparring with his son.
"Here comes…" Goten called back. He threw a few punches and kicks, which Goku blocked or dodged very easily.
"Come on, is that all you got?" Goku asked and he threw a single punch that caught Goten's face, and he flew across the backyard.
"Owwww…Kami, dad, I wasn't ready."
"You always have to be ready." Goku said. He put his hands on his hips, mimicking his wife, Chi-Chi.
"You always gotta be ready…" Goten whispered and he flew at his father and punched him in the nose.
"Ahhh…ooh…I think it's broken….geez…" Goku wailed in pain, some false some very much real.
Goten chuckled and said, "You always gotta be ready…tut tut," but Goku didn't hear him, he was trying to look at his crumpled nose.
"Where did you learn to punch like that?"
"Mom taught--" Goten started to say, but he was cut off.
"Do you feel that?" Goku asked, no longer joking but dead serious. He even stopped trying to look at his deformed nose.
"Yea, I feel it. I'll go get Vegeta and Trunks, you go get Gohan and Krurrin." Goten said. Goku nodded, then they flew off in different directions to get their friends.
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"C'mon Vegeta, they sensed a new power and we gotta go check it out." Trunks pleaded with his dad.
"No, let Kakarrot figure it out. If we're lucky, he'll be blown to bits." Vegeta snapped.
"Please…." Goten and Trunks pleaded together.
"Oh, alright." Vegeta agreed, inwardly delighted, and he threw a towel around his neck. Then they all flew off to the appointed place.
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"What is it?" Trunks asked as he stared at the ship that had just hit the ground. It was still smoking from the atmosphere and bits of dust had yet to settle.
"I don't kn--" Goku started, but jumped back when there was a slight movement of the hatch (door). "Get ready." He warned and they all took a fighting stance.
The hatch slid open and black shadow fell across the ground below instead of the usual light. The machine was smoking and the person inside coughed. He took a slight step forward and almost fell.
"Get…back…now…" the person in the ship whispered and sucked in a breath like it took a lot of effort. A few seconds later three other ships hit the ground and one person stepped out.
"Open up boys." he called and waved towards the other two ships. The ships fell open and dozens of soldiers filed out in rows of three, weapons cocked and ready to fire. They pointed the weapons at the person who had warned the Z gang to back away. He slowly walked out of the dark ship, clearly limping.
"Go back, Leitar. Kito will need you now that I'm gone!" he yelled, as a challenge.
"Hahaha, Reiko, you're so very funny! I don't see why Sir. Kito needed you in the first place. You are so weak." Leitar laughed.
The fine hairs along the back of Reiko's neck bristled up. "Kito…never…tells his men anything anymore, does he." Reiko said as a fact and grinned. He crouched down, grimacing in pain, and concentrated. Red sparks flickered around him, growing larger till they engulfed his body. The flashes of red disappeared, revealing Reiko had changed. His once long royal blue hair was a flaming red, almost moving like flame itself, and his canine teeth were clearly visible, enlarged a few times to normal canines. His previously jet-black eyes were a bright, fiery red. In places were he had no clothes (i.e. face and arms) were striped with red, tiger-like stripes.
"Wha…what?!" Leitar and the soldiers gasped in disbelief and fear.
"You…you're Red Fox!" Leitar exclaimed, and another man, upon hearing the name, rushed out from behind him and gasped.
"Red Fox, come back, now." This new man commanded harshly.
Red Fox (Reiko) bared his teeth, looked up, and spat, "You honestly think I would go back to you?!" He then, still in the crouched position, slammed his palms into the ground, which caused red sparks of living ki to travel along it. Then all the soldiers, in their burning uniforms, dropped to the ground, dead.
"We'll come back and get you…and the girl too! There's nothing you can do to stop us!" Leitar yelled. Then he and the other guy, Dr. Keitar closed up the ship, fired it up, and flew away.
Red Fox changed back to the way the Z fighters had seen them first, with blue hair. He limped over casually to them, grinning, and said, "So Bardock's on Earth now, is he? Haha."
"I'm not Bardock," Goku said, "I'm his son, Goku." Goku was confused and he showed it.
"Sorry Goku. You two really look a lot alike." Reiko said and patted his back. Then he limped past him to Vegeta. "Vegeta…still…" Reiko looked Vegeta over and continued, "…evil?" Reiko took a step closer to Vegeta to where their noses were almost touching. "You don't recognize me?"
"Um…" Vegeta started, racking his brain and searching his face for any recognition as he jerked his face away. Man, when did he last brush his teeth? Or at least use mouthwash." he thought to himself. Vegeta shrugged.
"Um hum…yea…that's cause I'm different now. I have your hands Vegeta…bloodstained hands. Blood of the innocent." Reiko noticed the puzzled expressions on their faces and said, "Let me explain. It was 15 years ago, I was only a yearling then, and I was staying with my grandfather because both my parents had died. That was when Vegeta came, him and his little army, and decided to wipe out everyone on the planet, all the plants and animals to…not just the civilized peoples. When he found Grandpa and me, he killed Grandpa and considered killing me, but thought it'd be more fun if he left me alive. He thought it'd be funny to see what the new inhabitants would do to me if they found me.
"Well, when they finally did come and they did find me, I was no match for their money and technology. They decided to perform some experiments on me, so they attached me to a few machines and sucked of my blood out, and replaced it with demon blood, hoping that, like them, this change would cause mutation. And it did. They rejoiced over me, they taught me the demon powers I acquired through the mutation and gave me some of their own too. I came to look like this," he beckoned to himself, "so very different from my normal body. They made me their killing machine. I was sent to planet after planet and village after village killing. Taking the life of those they could not benefit from and killing those they could so they would not have to return the favor.
"They used their mind control powers to control my every move. I was locked in a cell every night and expected to eat the carcasses of the ones I killed. I was treated to psychotherapy everyday I was not used to destroy others.
"One day I overheard Keitar talking to another of his colleagues that they were gonna do the same thing they did to me to a human girl from earth. That this one girl had to potential to be stronger than me while surviving the processes herself. It's a chemical thing that keeps us alive through it and it is very rare. They did this same experiment to countless others and I was the only one out of them who survived. Now they think this girl will too. I don't know anything about her except you is related to you," he nodded towards Goku and Gohan.
Everyone was silent. Trunks was glaring at his dad, and Krurrin shuffled his feet in the dirt and dust.
"Who could this other girl be?" Goku thought out loud and Gohan joined him in thought.
"Kami…it's Pan!!!" Gohan shouted. Everyone of them looked at him as his ki burst around him and he flew as fast as he could to his home. The others followed him.
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