Chapter 4

"Flashback"

A/N Thanks for the reviews, everyone...Just to clarify something, I sorta
screwed up...On the timeline section of chapter 2, I said that Aliens versus
Dragonball happens AFTER GT...I spoke with Akilatem, and it seems that it
actually happens between Z and GT...Sorry!

Vegeta awoke in an unfamiliar street corner. A sign at one side of the road
said "Elm Street". "Strange," Vegeta thought, "That name...is...familiar"
A jolt went through Vegeta's head, an image trying to get through to him.
He stumbled and fell to his knees, holding his head and trying to stay
awake. It felt like his whole head was about to explode...the image was
getting clearer now, beginning to take shape...Vegeta drew himself together
and began to stand up. Then it happened again. This time, he fell over
backwards, slamming his head down on the hard concrete. Blood began to
flow..."Blood...just like...how it was..." Things were coming back to
Vegeta, the image was becoming clearer...It was a shape...a human
shape...holding out its hand...Vegeta tried to dismiss it as an apparition,
and once again began to stand up...then once again, it happened. The image
was of a girl, he could tell that so far...her features obscured, hand held
out..the other hand holding...a book...a book covered in human skin. Vegeta
closed his eyes and focused on the image, trying to see the girl's
face...and then he saw, and wished he hadn't.
The girl was Maxine, the last victim of Freddy Krueger...the one Freddy
had not killed...the one who brought Freddy to Vegeta`s world...the girl who
had helped Vegeta imprison Freddy...who had helped him finally kill the
wicked man, but at the cost of Maxine's own life.
The girl who was staring at him now, beckoning him to come, with her
outstretched hand.
Vegeta opened his eyes, and there she stood, not more than a hundred
yards away. Elm Street was darker now, as it is in the dead of night in the
summer. Maxine was still beckoning him to come. He started to run towards
her...then a dark shape reared up behind the dead girl. Vegeta slid to a
hault, riveted but at the same time horrified. The dark shape took
form...first a leg, then an arm, then a torso, another led, a head...and
then a very familiar glove. A glove with sharp blades coming off of it.

Freddy Krueger`s glove.

Now Vegeta could see that the shape was in fact Freddy. The wicked man
lifted his glove, and brought it slashing down on Maxine...as her image
vanished, leaving Freddy and Vegeta alone.

"How..why...Goddamnit, Freddy, how the hell are you back? I killed you,
damnit!"
"'Killed'?...You forget, Vegeta, what I am. I can never be killed, I'll
always come back...I'll always be here to haunt you. Always.
"@#%$ you! No...you won't always be back. Some day you'll screw up. Some
day, Freddy...and then you can go to hell!"
"Funny, funny, monkey boy...I'm afraid you're very wrong."
"Hmph...so what are you trying to do now, kill 21 MORE people? You've
done it before, but it made no difference. I still kicked your ass!"
"You may be true...but last time, I didn't have these!"

Suddenly, 20 shapes materialized behind Freddy. They quickly became
Xenomorphs.
Vegeta gasped in shock.

"You didn't expect these wonderful creatures, did you? No...not in the
least...You'll see soon enough what they can do...For now...Good night,
sleep tight...don't let the Bantics bite!
"SCREW YOU!!!!!!"

Vegeta sat bolt upright in bed. Now he remembered everything...the
planet...the trip into hell...the queen...Goku's death...how they
escaped...and how the Xeno's followed him back...

"Oh god...oh god...what a fool I've been!"
Vegeta reached for the telephone next to his hospital bed, dialed up Bulma,
and threatened to decapitate her if she didn't have Goku in Vegeta's
hospital room within five minutes. Bulma became angry, but eventually
cooperated.


Exactly 6 minutes later, Goku entered Vegeta's hospital room (Vegeta was
pissed at his 1 minute lateness, of course). Vegeta explained to him exactly
what had happened, along with what they were up against. Goku was shocked.

Upon arriving back at the Kame House, Goku was confronted with many
questions regarding Vegeta. Goku finally gave in, and decided to tell the
group.

"About 155 years ago, Vegeta and I traveled to a distant planet in order
to train. We eventually discovered that there was more to it than meets the
eye. Soon after arrival, we discovered that the planet once housed a massive
prison. However, all it's occupants had died somehow. We made the mistake of
investigating it. Sure enough, everyone was dead...all attached to the walls
with their chests exploded outwards. After a few minutes, the killers
appeared. They are called Bantics, the Saiyan word for xenomorph. A vicious
reptilian species even more deadly than the Saiyans. We fled the facility,
but before I could get away, they captured me. Vegeta reentered the prison
and fought his way to the control center, where he freed me. However, the
queen of the Aliens, the largest and most powerful alien of all, had woken
up. We fought her until we were able to flee, and escaped on our ship.
Unfortunately, the Aliens had infected me, and my chest exploded. Vegeta
killed the alien onboard, but I died. Upon returning home, Vegeta discovered
that the aliens had followed him. The details are not very important, but it
suffices to say that we defeated them. At least one more encounters occurred,
and then Vegeta believed they were gone for good. After this, we fought Bebi
and the Shrenrons. You all know, of course, that we were brought back to
life 25 years ago.
Two years after our resurrection, disaster struck. This time, it wasn't
the xenomorphs. It was one man, one piece of evil in its purest form. His
name was Freddy Krueger. He killed all of us besides Vegeta and a girl named
Maxine. She was the one who brought Freddy to our world, the only one who
could stop him. With Vegeta's help, she succeeded, and Freddy was trapped in
a jewel. We wished for everyone to forget what had happened, and in the
process caused you to forget most everything before that point. This is why
such things like our battle against Lii Shrenron is a blur, and others like
our battle against the Bantics were completely forgotten.
"Evil never sleeps" is a good way to sum up Freddy Krueger. He returned
after twenty years, and this time Vegeta killed him for good, at the cost of
Maxine's life. This happened three years ago, hardly any of us saw that
anything was wrong. Vegeta wished everything's minds to be wiped once again.
Last night, Vegeta had a dream. In it, he encountered a Bantic. The
Bantic bit his arm, mangling it. This is how you found him.
Vegeta knows that only 1 thing could do this: Freddy Krueger, the man
who controls dreams. How he gained power over the xenomorphs is beyond me,
and since both Freddy and the dream demons are done for, there isn't any way
he could be back.
That's Vegeta's story...so I suggest you all stay awake!"

Everyone sweat dropped and fell over, leaving Goku a bit confused.
Krillin was the first to reply: "Uh...Goku...are you sure Vegeta hasn't been
smoking any pot or something of the sort? Because there's no damn way that
happened..."

Goku began to see Krillin's point. The others all burst out laughing.
Vegeta's story was completely discredited, a total hoax.

Dreamworld, five minutes later...

"Thirteen days...thirteen days...thirteen...days..."