Okay, another chapter. Rah! Plus now I get extra credit for doing this
story. Double rah!! So. Last chapter I promised a romance, a threat, and
fight results. 'keedokee, I don't own the DBZ characters, yadda yadda, blah
blah blah, you know the song and dance by now. Let us move on then!
{{to what?}}
oh shut up.BTW, mindspeak is marked by ~these. ~
Provocation and Reunions
Hovering high in the air, Vegeta and Phoenix matched wills.
"See if you can beat this!" Vegeta yelled. He powered up to SSJ 4.
Phoenix yawned.
Vegeta shot forward, aiming a punch at her head. She dodged. He kicked at her mid section. She avoided it again.
From down on the ground, the aerial battle looked like a noisy blurb in the sky. Suddenly the two fighters puled apart.
Vegeta was mildly out of breath, and extremely annoyed. None of his attacks were getting through!
"Ready to admit defeat, Vegeta?"
"AARGH!" He shot forward towards the annoying brat; but she had disappeared!
Vegeta hung in the air, confused.
A tap on the back spun him around.
Phoenix pointed down.
Momentarily not thinking, Vegeta's gaze followed her hand.
WHAP
He staggered back, clutching the nose that her knee had just smashed.
"In the immortal words of SwordMaster Neo," Phoenix yelled triumphantly, "You have become soft! Like bean curd!" Vegeta raised his hands.
"BIG BANG!"
The huge beam of energy smashed into Phoenix, knocking her over in the air. Slowly she managed to raise a shield against the attack, while Vegeta kept pumping energy into it.
"Flying Dragon Ascension WAVE!"
Phoenix's attack, a flaming white dragon of energy, curled up Vegeta's beam and engulfed him in light. When the serpent reached him, the resulting explosion terrified the spectators on the ground.
"Vegeta-chan!"
"Tousan!"
"Hahaha-"
"Shut up, Kamui!"
As the explosion slowly dissipated, all on the ground could see Vegeta plainly falling.
"VEGETA!" Bulma shrieked.
Phoenix swooped under Vegeta, catching him gently. Carefully she deposited him on the ground and flew to her laptop, shifting into her normal body on the way.
"He's not breathing!"
"I know, I know, gimme a minute-"
*Vegeta is al-*
FWUMP
Before the final keys could be typed, a swift kick in the ribs knocked her to the ground. She sat up gingerly, messaging bruised ribs.
"What did you OOF!"
Another blow to the ribs.
Phoenix looked up blearily through her haze of pain to see two angry Saiya- Jins and a Namek advancing stiffly towards her.
"Please. I didn't mean to! It was an accident! I can bring him back!" she cried.
"How?" challenged Goten. "He's been brought back his allotted three times!"
"Besides," continued Gohan, "We don't even have the DragonBalls!"
Piccolo roughly grabbed Phoenix around the throat, cutting off the supply of air.
"Morgan.help.."
With a fearful look at the enraged Namekian fighter, Morgan raced over to the laptop and finished the sentence.
Piccolo, beginning to understand, released Phoenix. She weakly reached out and hit the enter key.
"He's alive!" they heard Bulma shriek.
"He's breathing! She did it! Vegeta's alive!"
Just as Phoenix managed to shakily stand up, Trunks ran up and crushed her in a monster hug. (not just any hug, a MONSTER hug!)
Phoenix just kind of stared.
"Aren't you slightly.um.mad.that I killed your father and all?"
"But you brought him back, too."
"."
"Oh calm down," Trunks said, laughing. "I'm not mad, and I can see you didn't mean too. My otosan brings out the worst in some people a lot."
"I honestly didn't-"
"Phoenix."
Both Trunks and Phoenix turned around. Piccolo, Gohan, and Goten stood humbly before them. Phoenix sub-consciously moved to stand behind Trunks.
"Phoenix.we need to say.gomen nasi.and arigato."
Phoenix just stared.
Piccolo abruptly spun around on his heel and marched into the forest.
Morgan tapped her friend on the shoulder. "If I could have a word.." She yanked on Phoenix's collar to drag her away. When Morgan deemed them far enough away, she pulled Phoenix down to whisper furiously in her ear.
"You nearly fried our asses in frying his, you know. I've never seen these characters get so fore boding or.well, mean.before! Why didn't you fight back?"
Phoenix shrugged. "I didn't want to earn more enemies than I needed-and being trapped in a movie doesn't seem like the best place to have a lot of enemies."
"Yeah, I second that emotion. We need some backup power-at least until we can trust these guys." She gestured over at the senshi by the stirring Vegeta.
"Bring more people, like Karli and that little crazy dude."
"KT?"
"Yeah, that one."
Phoenix sat down and lifted the laptop onto her knees.
*Karli and KT are in this world. *
A warp hole opened by near Vegeta and two figures fell out of it. Morgan and Phoenix ran over to them.
"Why are we running?" asked Morgan.
"They landed on Vegeta," replied Phoenix. "That's never a good thing."
When the reached their prone friends, they were relieved to see that the impact had knocked Vegeta unconscious again. Phoenix dragged them off and set about trying to wake them up.
"KT, KT, wake up!"
snore.
"Hmmm.KT! POLICEMEN!!
"AHHH! It wasn't me! I'm-whoa.I'm in a cartoon! Is that normal? Am I crazy?"
"Yes and yes. How to explain.KT, did I ever show you that comic book RayEarth?"
"I'm.no."
"(sigh) Three girls are sucked into a magick world through the floor and now they have to save it-the world, not the floor."
"Oh.Sweet!"
"Oww.my head." Karli hesitantly sat up and looked around. "I suppose I should wonder why every things gone cartoon, but I think I wouldn't understand it anyway."
"Good girl, Karli."
"Oh!" she cried. "Phoenix! Short Kid whose name forgot! Morgan!"
"His name is KT, Karli."
"Oh."
"Baka.I think someone sat one me.." Vegeta stiffly sat up, rubbing his head. "Whoa! New people!"
KT's eyes dilated. "Is that Vegeta?!" He ran over to the fuming Saiya-Jin Ouji and began examining him, spouting questions as he went. (Think of a humming bird on caffeine- FLIT!FLIT!FLIT!FLIT!)
"Oh wow! It is Vegeta! How did we get here? Can I be powerful? Why are the DragonBall Z characters here? How come we're cartoons? Is Vegeta really shorter than me?" All of this was said in one breath and five seconds.
Phoenix answered for him.
"I don't know, yes, no clue, just because, and a huge, resounding, yes."
Snort from Vegeta.
He came up and stuck his face in KT's.
"What do you mean, 'shorter than me?' You're not exactly Mt. Fuji yourself, brat!"
"Whoa. He talks!"
Phoenix jumped between them.
"I'd better get you some power before you get in a fight with Veggie."
"What about me?" complained Karli.
"Calm, calm, beaucoup de calm."
"Say what?" Karli was mystified.
"It means 'calm, calm, lots of calm.' My French teacher says it without stop."
*KT and Karli have power levels of 19000*
Purple and yellow flames surrounded the two teens. Once again, hair grew longer, eyes altered slightly. Karli's long locks had become shorter and wilder, and KT's began to resemble Goku's.
Karli held up he hand, admiring the violet glow.
"Does this mean we get to fly?" she asked excitedly.
"Of course," Vegeta sneered. "Don't you know anything?"
Karli ignored him, so he just growled and walked away.
"So, how do we do it?" All eyes looked expectantly at Phoenix.
"I.um.I'm gonna let Trunks field that one." She shoved the Saiya-Jin in front of her.
"Well.um,((cough)).just focus your energy so it um, supports you. Like this." He closed his eyes and summoned his ki. It surrounded him in a blaze of orange and lifted him gently off the ground.
"Cool!"
"Wow!"
"Loser."
"Shut up, Kamui!"
"Okay, now everybody else try."
Slowly the teens rose shakily into the air.
"Ready now? Let's fly!"
"Goten! Gohan!" Chichi yelled. "Make sure they don't fall!"
Goten blushed a bit and flew beside Morgan. Gohan paired up with Karli.
((AN: yes, I am quite aware how old Gohan is. For the sake of the story, they're all basically the same age. So there! :p))
"You too, Trunks, Bra!"
Trunks rushed to help Phoenix. Bra, blushing furiously, flew next to an equally red KT.
Flying is confusing, Phoenix thought. So many dimensions.
~Yeah, but there's a great view. ~
"Whoa!" Phoenix nearly fell out of the air. Trunks was right there, guiding her back up.
"Were you.talking to me?"
"Yeah. Can you do it?"
"You mean mindspeak? Not really."
"Not at all?"
"Some times I talk to my 'voices'."
"Voices?" Trunks was baffled.
"Oh." Phoenix laughed. "Never mind."
"Umm.you can talk to other people though, right?"
"In theory, yes, but I've never actually tried."
"It's just like thinking, only you direct it to someone."
~Like this? ~
~Exactly. ~
~WOW. ~ "Hey, minna-san!" she called to everyone. Everyone stopped in the air and looked expectantly at Phoenix.
"Let's play tag!"
"Alright!"
"Cool!"
"What about me?"
"Go die, Kamui!"
The game was just getting good when a tremendous ki flared some where. Trunks and Gohan hung in the air, feeling to see if their tousans were sparring. Suddenly their faces became deathly pale, mirroring the expressions on Bra and Goten's faces.
Karli accurately guessed their thoughts.
"It's not them."
Gads! Yet another chapter done! I've never thought that I would stay loyal enough to this story to finish it, seeing as how I started it over a year ago. If you knew me, you would think it was a miracle as well. FYI, I'm going for a bit of a Monty Python style, at least in this book. Yes, there's more. I'm actually finished with the fourteen chapters of this book, and Book Two is a little.well, for lack of a better word.mushier. Whatever.
Next chapter:
*we meet our villain
*KT runs into a tree
*and Piccolo actually talks! *!psaG *
{{to what?}}
oh shut up.BTW, mindspeak is marked by ~these. ~
Provocation and Reunions
Hovering high in the air, Vegeta and Phoenix matched wills.
"See if you can beat this!" Vegeta yelled. He powered up to SSJ 4.
Phoenix yawned.
Vegeta shot forward, aiming a punch at her head. She dodged. He kicked at her mid section. She avoided it again.
From down on the ground, the aerial battle looked like a noisy blurb in the sky. Suddenly the two fighters puled apart.
Vegeta was mildly out of breath, and extremely annoyed. None of his attacks were getting through!
"Ready to admit defeat, Vegeta?"
"AARGH!" He shot forward towards the annoying brat; but she had disappeared!
Vegeta hung in the air, confused.
A tap on the back spun him around.
Phoenix pointed down.
Momentarily not thinking, Vegeta's gaze followed her hand.
WHAP
He staggered back, clutching the nose that her knee had just smashed.
"In the immortal words of SwordMaster Neo," Phoenix yelled triumphantly, "You have become soft! Like bean curd!" Vegeta raised his hands.
"BIG BANG!"
The huge beam of energy smashed into Phoenix, knocking her over in the air. Slowly she managed to raise a shield against the attack, while Vegeta kept pumping energy into it.
"Flying Dragon Ascension WAVE!"
Phoenix's attack, a flaming white dragon of energy, curled up Vegeta's beam and engulfed him in light. When the serpent reached him, the resulting explosion terrified the spectators on the ground.
"Vegeta-chan!"
"Tousan!"
"Hahaha-"
"Shut up, Kamui!"
As the explosion slowly dissipated, all on the ground could see Vegeta plainly falling.
"VEGETA!" Bulma shrieked.
Phoenix swooped under Vegeta, catching him gently. Carefully she deposited him on the ground and flew to her laptop, shifting into her normal body on the way.
"He's not breathing!"
"I know, I know, gimme a minute-"
*Vegeta is al-*
FWUMP
Before the final keys could be typed, a swift kick in the ribs knocked her to the ground. She sat up gingerly, messaging bruised ribs.
"What did you OOF!"
Another blow to the ribs.
Phoenix looked up blearily through her haze of pain to see two angry Saiya- Jins and a Namek advancing stiffly towards her.
"Please. I didn't mean to! It was an accident! I can bring him back!" she cried.
"How?" challenged Goten. "He's been brought back his allotted three times!"
"Besides," continued Gohan, "We don't even have the DragonBalls!"
Piccolo roughly grabbed Phoenix around the throat, cutting off the supply of air.
"Morgan.help.."
With a fearful look at the enraged Namekian fighter, Morgan raced over to the laptop and finished the sentence.
Piccolo, beginning to understand, released Phoenix. She weakly reached out and hit the enter key.
"He's alive!" they heard Bulma shriek.
"He's breathing! She did it! Vegeta's alive!"
Just as Phoenix managed to shakily stand up, Trunks ran up and crushed her in a monster hug. (not just any hug, a MONSTER hug!)
Phoenix just kind of stared.
"Aren't you slightly.um.mad.that I killed your father and all?"
"But you brought him back, too."
"."
"Oh calm down," Trunks said, laughing. "I'm not mad, and I can see you didn't mean too. My otosan brings out the worst in some people a lot."
"I honestly didn't-"
"Phoenix."
Both Trunks and Phoenix turned around. Piccolo, Gohan, and Goten stood humbly before them. Phoenix sub-consciously moved to stand behind Trunks.
"Phoenix.we need to say.gomen nasi.and arigato."
Phoenix just stared.
Piccolo abruptly spun around on his heel and marched into the forest.
Morgan tapped her friend on the shoulder. "If I could have a word.." She yanked on Phoenix's collar to drag her away. When Morgan deemed them far enough away, she pulled Phoenix down to whisper furiously in her ear.
"You nearly fried our asses in frying his, you know. I've never seen these characters get so fore boding or.well, mean.before! Why didn't you fight back?"
Phoenix shrugged. "I didn't want to earn more enemies than I needed-and being trapped in a movie doesn't seem like the best place to have a lot of enemies."
"Yeah, I second that emotion. We need some backup power-at least until we can trust these guys." She gestured over at the senshi by the stirring Vegeta.
"Bring more people, like Karli and that little crazy dude."
"KT?"
"Yeah, that one."
Phoenix sat down and lifted the laptop onto her knees.
*Karli and KT are in this world. *
A warp hole opened by near Vegeta and two figures fell out of it. Morgan and Phoenix ran over to them.
"Why are we running?" asked Morgan.
"They landed on Vegeta," replied Phoenix. "That's never a good thing."
When the reached their prone friends, they were relieved to see that the impact had knocked Vegeta unconscious again. Phoenix dragged them off and set about trying to wake them up.
"KT, KT, wake up!"
snore.
"Hmmm.KT! POLICEMEN!!
"AHHH! It wasn't me! I'm-whoa.I'm in a cartoon! Is that normal? Am I crazy?"
"Yes and yes. How to explain.KT, did I ever show you that comic book RayEarth?"
"I'm.no."
"(sigh) Three girls are sucked into a magick world through the floor and now they have to save it-the world, not the floor."
"Oh.Sweet!"
"Oww.my head." Karli hesitantly sat up and looked around. "I suppose I should wonder why every things gone cartoon, but I think I wouldn't understand it anyway."
"Good girl, Karli."
"Oh!" she cried. "Phoenix! Short Kid whose name forgot! Morgan!"
"His name is KT, Karli."
"Oh."
"Baka.I think someone sat one me.." Vegeta stiffly sat up, rubbing his head. "Whoa! New people!"
KT's eyes dilated. "Is that Vegeta?!" He ran over to the fuming Saiya-Jin Ouji and began examining him, spouting questions as he went. (Think of a humming bird on caffeine- FLIT!FLIT!FLIT!FLIT!)
"Oh wow! It is Vegeta! How did we get here? Can I be powerful? Why are the DragonBall Z characters here? How come we're cartoons? Is Vegeta really shorter than me?" All of this was said in one breath and five seconds.
Phoenix answered for him.
"I don't know, yes, no clue, just because, and a huge, resounding, yes."
Snort from Vegeta.
He came up and stuck his face in KT's.
"What do you mean, 'shorter than me?' You're not exactly Mt. Fuji yourself, brat!"
"Whoa. He talks!"
Phoenix jumped between them.
"I'd better get you some power before you get in a fight with Veggie."
"What about me?" complained Karli.
"Calm, calm, beaucoup de calm."
"Say what?" Karli was mystified.
"It means 'calm, calm, lots of calm.' My French teacher says it without stop."
*KT and Karli have power levels of 19000*
Purple and yellow flames surrounded the two teens. Once again, hair grew longer, eyes altered slightly. Karli's long locks had become shorter and wilder, and KT's began to resemble Goku's.
Karli held up he hand, admiring the violet glow.
"Does this mean we get to fly?" she asked excitedly.
"Of course," Vegeta sneered. "Don't you know anything?"
Karli ignored him, so he just growled and walked away.
"So, how do we do it?" All eyes looked expectantly at Phoenix.
"I.um.I'm gonna let Trunks field that one." She shoved the Saiya-Jin in front of her.
"Well.um,((cough)).just focus your energy so it um, supports you. Like this." He closed his eyes and summoned his ki. It surrounded him in a blaze of orange and lifted him gently off the ground.
"Cool!"
"Wow!"
"Loser."
"Shut up, Kamui!"
"Okay, now everybody else try."
Slowly the teens rose shakily into the air.
"Ready now? Let's fly!"
"Goten! Gohan!" Chichi yelled. "Make sure they don't fall!"
Goten blushed a bit and flew beside Morgan. Gohan paired up with Karli.
((AN: yes, I am quite aware how old Gohan is. For the sake of the story, they're all basically the same age. So there! :p))
"You too, Trunks, Bra!"
Trunks rushed to help Phoenix. Bra, blushing furiously, flew next to an equally red KT.
Flying is confusing, Phoenix thought. So many dimensions.
~Yeah, but there's a great view. ~
"Whoa!" Phoenix nearly fell out of the air. Trunks was right there, guiding her back up.
"Were you.talking to me?"
"Yeah. Can you do it?"
"You mean mindspeak? Not really."
"Not at all?"
"Some times I talk to my 'voices'."
"Voices?" Trunks was baffled.
"Oh." Phoenix laughed. "Never mind."
"Umm.you can talk to other people though, right?"
"In theory, yes, but I've never actually tried."
"It's just like thinking, only you direct it to someone."
~Like this? ~
~Exactly. ~
~WOW. ~ "Hey, minna-san!" she called to everyone. Everyone stopped in the air and looked expectantly at Phoenix.
"Let's play tag!"
"Alright!"
"Cool!"
"What about me?"
"Go die, Kamui!"
The game was just getting good when a tremendous ki flared some where. Trunks and Gohan hung in the air, feeling to see if their tousans were sparring. Suddenly their faces became deathly pale, mirroring the expressions on Bra and Goten's faces.
Karli accurately guessed their thoughts.
"It's not them."
Gads! Yet another chapter done! I've never thought that I would stay loyal enough to this story to finish it, seeing as how I started it over a year ago. If you knew me, you would think it was a miracle as well. FYI, I'm going for a bit of a Monty Python style, at least in this book. Yes, there's more. I'm actually finished with the fourteen chapters of this book, and Book Two is a little.well, for lack of a better word.mushier. Whatever.
Next chapter:
*we meet our villain
*KT runs into a tree
*and Piccolo actually talks! *!psaG *