Disclaimer: I don't own the DBZ characters I use here. Nor do I have any claim to characters I borrow from other stories. Most of the main characters are of my own invention, as is the plot of this story. But little else is.
Cryos and Kentra soared across the sky. Cryos couldn't help flying a few loops and rolls. He was home! I've never felt so alive as when I'm here on the Earth I grew up on. He thought as he did a barrel roll around Kentra.
She smiled at him and commented. "Someone's in a good mood today."
"I'm home." He said simply. "How do you like the place?"
"It's nice," She told him, "but on Ba'Ran, we always lived near the water. People fished in the ocean, children ran on the beach, until that day…"
Cryos spoke up to distract her from her own memories. The ones of the decimation of her homeworld were still painful. "We could have a beach house if you want."
"No…" She muttered. "Not yet anyway. Maybe someday, but not now."
"It's ok." Cryos said as he stopped his flying tricks and took her hand. They flew side by side for several minutes before Cryos pointed down at the ground. There, hidden in the trees was a small little house with a capsule addition on the side.
Instead of landing right outside the front door as he normally would have, he guided Kentra to a small pond formed by a tiny waterfall running down a cliff. There were trees all around hiding it from view, so Cryos figured that his grandmother wouldn't be able to find Kentra there.
He left her by the pond and went to see Chi-Chi. He paused at the door for a moment, unsure what to do, before knocking on the door.
"Coming!" Called a voice from inside the house. Cryos heard uneven footsteps slowly moving towards the door, until his grandmother stood at the door. She looked at him in amazement for a few moments before she screamed out "CRYOS!" and shoved the door out of the way to give him a big hug.
"Oh, Cryos." She said as she hugged him. Cryos saw that she didn't look nearly as youthful as she had even a few short years ago. She no longer stood up straight, instead she was hunched over. Her hair had no gray left in it at all, it had gone completely white like Vegeita's. And the glasses she had worn since Cryos was little had thickened to the point where they made her eyes look huge.
Cryos almost couldn't believe that this was the one person that even Vegeita feared.
"Cryos?" She asked him. "What happened to your back?"
For a moment he couldn't figure out what she was talking about, then he realized that he was still wearing the shirt that had gotten the Kelbrid's acid spit on it. The acid had eaten a hole in the back of his shirt.
"Oh, nothing." He told her. "Just got into a fight with some little aliens who spit acid."
"What?! I knew it was too dangerous out there for you out there! From now on you're going to stay here with me!"
Cryos sighed, Chi-Chi had always been overprotective of her kids and grandkids. "Listen, grandma. We've found Mom and Dad. All we need is everyone's help to get them back from this alien creature that took them."
"What!? My little Gohan is in trouble?" She ran off back into the house. "Don't worry Gohan! Mommey's coming to get you!" Chi-Chi came back to the door with several guns and a few thousand rounds of ammo.
Who keeps letting her have guns? Cryos thought as he wrestled her back into the house. He soon found that Piccolo was right and Chi-Chi was just as strong as ever.
He shoved her into a chair and held her down by the shoulders. "Listen!" He shouted at her. "There's nothing you could do that would help them right now! All you can do is wish us luck."
She stopped struggling and began to cry. "I feel so helpless." She sobbed.
"It's ok," Cryos comforted, "Me and Zeethra will be there. And Trunks and Piccolo and you know Vegeita's not going to be left out of this. And we've found even more people there to help us too."
"Who did you find?" Chi-Chi spoke through her tears.
"Oh, well Zeethra found Mewtwo. He's this cat like alien with psychic powers. I found Zon, a bug alien who's almost as strong as me. I also got some aliens who call themselves Kelbrid to help. And there's Kentra, she's-" Cryos suddenly realized he's said too much and stopped, but it was too late.
Chi-Chi stopped crying instantly, grabbed Cryos and started shaking him. "Who's Kentra!" She demanded. "Is she some kind of alien floozy? She is, isn't she?! I knew it! Where is she? I'll kill her right now!"
She was on a rampage, Cryos knew better than to get in her way. He turned tail and ran, ducking under the flying bullets and running back to the pond where he'd left Kentra.
"What's going on?" She shouted as he flew overhead.
"Grandma decided that's she'd rather be introduced later. Now come on before she finds us!"
"Is your whole family completely INSANE!?" She screamed as she tried to catch up.
"Yeah, pretty much. Now come on, we've got to beat grandma to the Capsule Corp. building."
Cryos flew as fast as he could, literally dragging Kentra behind him. Chi-Chi could get to the Capsule Corp. building in about a half-hour, so they didn't have much time.
As they flew, Cryos felt someone watching him. He had a pretty good idea who it was, but didn't say anything.
Within ten minutes, the building was in sight. It was built on the same general shape that all capsule buildings had been built on for almost a hundred years, domes and spikes all around.
This building was larger than most, it was both a factory for turning out the capsules that contained everything from carryall bags to houses and it was also the home for the owners of the company. Bulma, Vegeita and Trunks were those owners.
Cryos could see the high-gravity training room that Vegeita used to train at up to 500 times Earth's normal gravity.
"That'll be the next step in your training." He told Kentra. "You can only do so much in normal gravity. It's the high-gravity stuff that makes your power skyrocket. I usually train at least one hundred and fifty times normal gravity, but you'll start off at 20 times normal. We'll work up from there."
Kentra looked a little scared at that, she hid it well, and Cryos doubted that anyone else would notice. But he knew her too well to miss something like that.
Vegeita, Trunks and Piccolo were already down on the ground. They waved to Cryos as he flew over them. Well Trunks did anyway, Vegeita and Piccolo didn't bother to move.
When the got to the ground, they saw that Bulma was there as well. Her green hair was still green. But it was obviously dyed, the roots were white.
Bulma was handing capsules to each of the fighters. She had some for Cryos and Kentra as well. She explained what they were, but Cryos didn't bother listening. He was thinking about the upcoming battle against The One.
He, Zeethra, Trunks, and Zon would probably be the only ones able to even put up a decent fight. The androids, Piccolo, Kentra and Vegeita, as strong as they were, wouldn't be nearly powerful enough to help.
Well, Cryos thought. The androids may be some help. Only because they never tire or run out of energy. Other than that, they'll be useless, unless…
Cryos was struck by a sudden idea. Completely ignoring what Bulma was telling him about whatever strange contraption was in the capsule marked with a number 12, he turned and looked behind him.
He didn't see anything, but he knew he was right as he called out. "16, is that you there!?"
"Yes." The huge, red hared android stepped out from behind a building. As intimating as he looked, android 16 was one of the gentlest beings Cryos had ever known.
"Why are the three of you hiding back there? We could use your help."
The other two androids stepped out from their hiding place. "How can he always tell that we're here?" 17 wondered out loud.
"You tell me." Cryos answered. "You're the one who's supposed to be undetectable. I can always feel you watching though. Anyway, we need your help."
"Why do you need our help?" 18 asked him. "We're not nearly as strong as you."
"Not now you aren't, but I know someone who might be able to fix that." He looked down at Elfour. "Could you get Washu to make the portal open in her lab? I want to send the androids there."
"Why is it that you only talk to me when you need something. I'm not even allowed to talk most of the time anymore!" The little droid was in one of her stints about being ignored even more than usual ever since Cryos and Kentra had gotten engaged.
"Elfour…" Cryos would talk to her about it later, he didn't have the time right now. "Just do it, we're in kind of a hurry here."
Elfour mumbled something, but Cryos didn't even care to hear it. A few seconds later, the tiny droid announced that it was done. The connection had been made.
Cryos tapped the keys on his battle gauntlet and opened a new portal.
"16," Cryos turned to the huge android. "I want you to make sure Washu doesn't do anything bad to the other androids. You're going to go to her and have her give you a supercharge." He looked at 17 and 18. "You're going to go first, 16 will watch over you, then you'll watch over him while he gets charged up."
"Don't you trust this Washu woman?" Vegeita demanded. "You've known her for over thirty years now."
"I trust her, but I don't trust her to not get a little overzealous and try experiments on one of them." Cryos answered. "But if this works, we could have three very powerful allies on our side."
One by one, the androids stepped through the portal. After they were gone, it closed. Leaving the others standing there.
Cryos looked back to Bulma, "I'm sorry, but what were you saying now?"
Bulma opened her mouth to say something, but the words never got out of her mouth. A series of gunshots rang out in the distance.
"No!" Vereita screamed. "It's that infernal woman! Cryos, quickly! Open a wormhole to get us out of here."
"Elfour! You need to connect to Elfive right now! Connect and make a portal directly there!" Cryos yelled.
"Connecting…" She hummed for several moments. "Got it. Open the portal now."
Cryos opened the portal and, right then, Chi-Chi came tearing around the corner in her hover car.
"Don't you think you're getting away from me!" She roared.
"Come on! GO!" Cryos yelled and shoved Kentra through the portal. Everyone else was quick to follow and Cryos jumped through last.
