Chapter 4:
"We need to get going, now." Reiko said as he burst into the room. "We need to get the other three."
"Whadaya mean?" Gohan asked.
"They're coming back. We need to go where they will land so they don't destroy everything."
"Let's go." Goku said, all to willingly.
Reiko, Goku, Gohan, and Pan rush to the door. Reiko stopped when he noticed Pan coming and said, "Pan, you can't come, it would only put us all, and more importantly…you…in danger if you came. Sorry."
"But I wanna go--" Pan said but Gohan cut her off.
"Reiko's right, you'd only make us more vulnerable and you could get captured yourself. You can't go."
"But…I wanna help…"
"No." Gohan said sternly.
She knew once Gohan had made up his mind, it would stay that way, but her mother was not so stubborn.
"Baka…" Pan muttered under her breath and she turned around and threw herself on the couch, "grrr…see ya later. Baka."
Reiko, Goku, and Gohan ran out the door and flew away. A few minutes after they had left Pan walked into her parent's room and searched it. Grr…where are they? She pulled out a few drawers and pushed through everything. Eww…dad's underwear. She pushed the drawer back in and continued her search. Kami…why does he hide those things. She went into his closet and searched the pockets of his older fighting gis. Ah ha…I found them. She almost exclaimed and clapped a hand to her mouth. Clutched in her palm was a small bag of senzu beans. She quickly left the room and went into the living room where her mom was vacuuming.
"Hey mom, I found some senzu beans, dad and the others might need them. Can I take them?"
"Yeah…" Videl answered, not fully hearing the question.
"Ok, thanks mom." Pan said and ran out the door.
"No, Pan, don't go!" Videl yelled and ran out the door, but Pan was already gone. "*sigh*…there is no stopping that girl."
"Why are you back so soon…I thought you'd at least wait a day to train new men." Reiko yelled at Sergeant Leitar as the hatch door opened.
"That's why we came today, we didn't want you to expect us. But, alas, your pitiful ex-race have the 'seeing' power. Ahem…Doctor, please…"
Dr. Keitar emerged from the ship, holding a small, black controller with lots of buttons and lights.
"We wouldn't want your friends to get in the way, so I would like to test out my new invention. I was originally planning to use it on Red Fox but…you will serve as well enough guinea pigs." Dr. Keitar said, he then flipped a few switches and pressed a button and a large, pink, blob, looking a lot like chewed bubble gum, was launched towards the Z fighters. Reiko was spaced out from them and he didn't know what the blob was, but he knew it was bad.
"Get out of the way!!!" Reiko yelled frantically, but it was too late. The pink blob hit the ground in a little explosion of pink smoke. After the smoke cleared Reiko saw an almost clear, pinkish shield covering them.
"What is that?!" Reiko yelled as the Z fighters hit and ki blasted the shield to no avail.
"That is called the Shield of Death. Tacky name, I know, but…it gets the job done. It keeps people and mutants, like you, under force and slowly deprives them of life, by not letting any air in or out. It is completely unbreakable accept for if you break this con…oops, I told you too much." Dr. Keitar said and chuckled.
"Take it off them…now!" Reiko yelled and began the transformation into Red Fox.
"You want to fight Red Fox…well then…we will." Leitar said. He took a fighting stance and pulled out a sword, "You know what this is, right Red Fox?"
"Of course, how could I forget. It's the very same sword you used to butcher my people and feed to you dogs!" Reiko yelled and glared at him and the weapon.
"Very good, Fox. I hope your memory is that good when I'm through with you, I want you to remember every moment of it." Leitar jeered and powered up. Reiko, too, obtained full power and took up his fighting stance. He chanced a glance at the other Z warriors and saw they were okay, for how long? I don't have much time. Reiko thought.
Then Leitar charged up and aimed a Ki beam at Reiko's face. Reiko blocked it easily and powered up a Ki beam of his own. He aimed it at Leitar's right arm and fired. It hit though it caused little damage, just clipping his arm shallowly.
"You are nothing without us, Red Fox! You cannot obtain your full power successfully and you will remain weak forever!" Leitar jeered.
"I will never come back to you and your torture! You and your entire race disgust me. All you want is more killing machines so you don't have to get your own hands dirty. You little piece of scum…of--" Reiko retorted and Leitar flew up and slapped his face.
"Never speak against the force that will destroy you, it will only cause them anger and you a more slow and painful death." Leitar yelled. Reiko was stunned at the ferocity of the attack and Leitar kicked him in the stomach.
Reiko yelled in pain. He collapsed to the ground and had a glimpse of the other Z people. Goten was about to pass out and Trunks was trying to bring him back to consciousness.
"That baka kid had better hurry up, or I'll--" Vegeta cursed.
"Vegeta, save your breath and our air. We don't want to spend our last minutes hearing you talk about the naughty death things you want to do to Reiko." Goku snapped and Gohan nodded and sighed. Vegeta growled and cursed under his breath. Baka Kakarrot and his dumber-than-a-fucking-rock kid.
While they were talking, more fighting was taking place. Of course, no fight would be complete without insults, as they have proved already. (Leitar had a 'Yo Momma' insult.)
"Rrrr…" Reiko strained to hold back Leitar's ki beam with his own. Just think of how many they made you kill, that anger will give you strength, turn it into positive energy. Goku does that all the time and look where he got… he thought and listened to himself and looked at Goku, you know, that wasn't a good idea. he though and his ki beam grew smaller. No, I…losing…must…get more…power…rrrrrrrrr Reiko bared his teeth. His beam slowly began to overtake Leitar's and he grinned. Don't get too cocky he warned himself.
"What, how is he gaining?! This can't be, he is nothing without our help!" Leitar yelled and Reiko felt his power slipping as his own ki attack pushed farther towards Leitar.
"Red Fox, you fool! It seems you now have a choice. Look at your friends," Reiko glanced towards Goku and saw Gohan, Goten, and Trunks had passed out and Vegeta and Goku were visibly struggling to hold on, "you can either kill me, or save your puny friends and their pint-sized spawn. What will it be?" Leitar asked, face a false mask of control.
Reiko looked at Keitar and noticed if he moved his hand to the right a little he could blast the controller. But then he would be killed by Leitar's ki. He was about to decide when Pan flew into the corner of his field of view. He silently cheered as she appeared and silently scolded her. She ran to the pink bubble and tried to break it by force.
"That's it….she's….the…th-the one…" Keitar gasped. He quickly pulled out a poisoned spear, as he couldn't make ki attacks himself, and aimed at her, in case she had to be taken by force, which was most likely.
"Are you guys ok?" Pan asked the Z fighters, but she received no response.
Reiko quickly thrust his hand upward and jumped in one fluid movement, his ki beam hit the controller, shattering it upon impact, and Leitar's ki swept past were he had been standing a moment before. The pink bubble broke, and pan quickly went to work, sticking a senzu bean in each of their mouths. She had no beans left. She ran up rather quickly to where Reiko stood and readied herself for battle. She flashed a grin at Reiko and quickly pulled a straight face.
"Come here little girl, I will keep you from that monster. You must be terribly frightened by him and what he tried to do to your friends. He is rather ugly." Keitar called, trying to sound nice.
"I will never come to evil aliens like you! My dad has killed alien vermin like you and he'll do it again. And so will his dad and all our friends." Pan replied, scoffing.
"Pan, get away, you'll only make this harder." Reiko said sternly. Pan shook her head no and never took her eyes of Leitar and Keitar.
Keitar yelled some battle cry and hurled the spear at Pan, and he had rather good aim. Reiko saw it coming before he even threw it and launched himself at Pan, for the second time pushing her out of the way to the ground. Pan landed with a thud on the ground as the spear sliced into Reiko's left shoulder, entering the front and poking through the his back, blood flowing from the hole. His and Pan's eyes widened, Reiko's from pain and Pan's from fear and disgust.
"Do you have any fucking idea how much that hurts?!" Reiko yelled, not even bothering to pull it out, he flew in a blind rage at Keitar. Keitar shrieked like a girl and ran inside the ship, colliding with Leitar in the door way. They both scrambled up and closed the door and Reiko slammed into the hatch. Again and again, blood continuing to gush freely from his impaled arm.
"You know what will happen if you don't return to us." Keitar yelled through the ship speakers as they launched from the ground in a cloud of dust and dirt.
"Oh my God, are you alright?!" Pan exclaimed as Reiko de-formed. Goku and the others were slowly recovering, even with the help of the senzu beans.
"I'll be fine," Reiko hissed through clenched teeth. He reached up and took hold of the spear sticking out of his arm. His fingernails dug into the wooden handle as he pulled it from it's place in his flesh. Reiko slowly pulled the spear out, biting his lower lip to keep from screaming in pain, tasting blood.
After fully removing the spear, he reached down and took out his knife from it's sheath. He stretched out his bleeding arm, palm up, and thrust the knife into his wrist, whimpering on the verge of a scream. He dragged the knife up his lower arm and up to his shoulder, screaming by then. Pan was staring at him like he was a mad-man. What is he thinking! He's gonna need a new arm! Pan thought. Reiko removed the knife from his arm and stuck his middle and fore finger into the incision. He fumbled around in his arm for a second, found what he was 'searching' for, and fiercely jerked his hand to the side. He and Pan heard a loud click.
"There," Reiko whispered and let off a huge sigh.
Pan watched in amazement as his arm slowly re-grew back to one piece. Once he was finished, he curled the newly repaired fingers. He picked up a rock and crushed it in his palm.
"Ahhh…" he sighed again, reveling in the world of no more pain.
"Wa…what…d-diyou do?" Pan stuttered in amazement.
"Well," Reiko chuckled, "my left arm is cybernetic. Meaning it's not my real arm. I lost my original arm in a nasty fight a very long time ago. It was a massive injury to my arm and head, I don't remember much of it. It's like that from my middle shoulder and down to my fingers. It's actually amazing and very light. It can re-grow as much flesh as needed for this arm, but it also has to be fully destroyed first. Which is why I, slit my arm." Reiko said and gave a tired smile. Pan nodded stupidly, not fully understanding what Reiko meant and not realizing he was hiding something.
"What happened?" Goten asked as he walked up to Pan and Reiko. The others walked up behind him, just fine. Reiko shrugged their questions off and laughed, saying, "It's no big deal. Everything's fine." and laughing more. He finally just got up and flew to Gohan's house and collapsed on their couch, asleep.