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y'all. My step-grandparents are southern and it's rubbing off on me.
~^~ Chapter 9 - Meld, Scourge of Man ~^~
Bulma tiptoed into the gravity room to see something that made the wrinkles of stress on her face fade away immediately.
"Aww, isn't this sweet?" She said loudly, and immediately Trunks and Akura parted lips, and Videl jumped off Gohan's lap. All four of them turned bright red.
"I take it you boys are kissing your girlfriends goodbye?"
Trunks and Akura jumped at Bulma silmultaeneously shouting in protest. Trunks wheeled around and noticed Gohan and Videl only responded by looking at eachother longingly.
Trunks thought,
With a light noise as if leaves drifting to soil, Shin and Kibito descended to the floor.
In his normal courteous tone, the Supreme Kai prompted, "Well I suppose it's time to go. Earth cannot wait much longer." A bead of sweat dripped down his purple forehead. "It's already announcing a threat."
"What!?" Trunks said, closing his eyes to sense what was going on. Gohan followed suit, along with Bulma.
Akura waved a hand in front of Trunks' face, not realizing what he was doing. Videl shot her a look, and Akura leaned against Trunks' back trying her hardest to sense Ki.
~^~
A black proliferation eminating the very aura of chaos was hovering in a tranquil, rigid position above an abandoned street, immediately recognizable as Main Street in Ginger Town. The moonlight shone down on him revealing every last grotesque feature. It had the body of Perfect Cell, yet what was once green was now black, and vice versa, so it looked like a shadow with sickening green spots. It's eyes were blood red, giving off a light scarlet glow, and they weren't open more than a mere slit. The mouth was entirely gone. From the back of the head a pink tentacle as Majin Buu once had jutted out, and looped into the base of the neck. It stuck out of the abdomen and served as the tail, extending long, sinewy and whiplike, always twitching. Pink cords ran through the creature's body, pulsing. On the arms protruded scarlet-tinted scythes with a deadly gleam. The feet were meancing talons. It had a strange, organic pulsing to it, and the body, although it had muscles clearly defined, seemed to be almost fluid. It did not speak, for it had no mouth, but rather, it's thoughts pierced the mind of any it pleased, with such a profound acoust that all life functions were nearly halted.
Worldwide people ceased activity to listen to the sinister, rickety thoughts, that seemed to radiate a rickety sound. I am Meld. I am no Android, and will not toy around with your foolish planet, and waste my time on ravaging and killing. The people of Ginger Town began to reveal themselves at this statement, hopeful that this new threat wouldn't begin a new era of crisis.
The noise of tank treads filled the air as the nearest army surrounded Peppermint City. Meld simply ignored the force.
I will spare your planet in return for two loathed individuals by the name of Gohan and Trunks. I need to capture them alive in order to exact my vengeance upon them. Refuse to give me information on their whereabouts and I shall destroy your planet in a heartbeat. He grinned and closed his eyes. Meld let out a low, sinister laugh, and severed communications.
~^~
Akura threw her arms around Trunks, and Videl nearly started crying over Gohan's shoulder.
"Why does it want you Trunks?" Akura asked. She was sick of being the only one not knowing anything.
"Because Gohan and I are the only ones who can stand up to it. It's too arrogant to destory us impersonally."
"Bulma." Gohan looked up from Videl's embrace. She cocked her head at his query. "Take refuge with Videl, Akura, Chi-Chi and Ox-King while we're gone."
The girls simply stared at him as if their hearts were broken. The Supreme Kai and Kibito remained still.
"I've been preparing for this, just in case." She said, proud in her own inginuity. Trunks grinned at her.
"Always have been, huh Mom?" She flashed a smile at Trunks and the three women followed the Kais, Trunks, and Gohan, who had already walked together in a group.
"Videl, I'll see you soon." Gohan said, "I...love you." Videl replied, "Be careful Gohan!"
Trunks and Akura stared at eachother for a few moments and nodded at eachother, and the Shin put a hand on Trunks and Gohan's respective shoulders. Kibito put his hand on Shin.
The girls gasped as Trunks, Gohan, Kibito, and the Supreme Kai all dissappeared into nothingness.
~^~
A shadow phased in a line through Peppermint City, coming to rest atop an old Capsule Car. It's foot firmly planted into the engine, Meld glared down into the windshield at a suprised and terrified occupant.
It asked in a mirthful voice.
The hapless man stuttered a yes, and seconds later his car was vaporized by a blast by Meld's fingertip.
The few cars that were out at the very early morning hour swerved into random positions and their owners scattered in all directions. Meld walked slowly among the masses.
A young boy tripped over a gutter hole onto the pavement and started crying. His mother ran past him and turned back. The brunette desperately asked him to get up and began to help him. The boy asked, "Mommy will we be okay?"
His mother looked at him with watery eyes. "Of course, we just have to run now!" A shadow fell over her, and the little boy started crying again. The woman fell on her knees and sobbed.
"Please, don't!" Seconds later her torso and her son's head were rolling down the pavement, slopping blood all over the scene.
A crimson ball of energy engulfed Peppermint City, and the casualties rose.
~^~
Akura pulled on her sunglasses, her ponytail whipping in the wind. Videl shilded her eyes and Bulma wore her Capsule Corp. baseball cap, piloting their skycar.
"Where are we going?" Videl shouted against the wind.
"You'll see!" Bulma chuckled to herself, and the two other women looked up to see a rapidly approaching column of stone so unbelievably high it seemed to ascend into space. Akura felt her mind blur as she tried to comprehend it's size, and not one of them could see the top.
~^~
Kai and Kibito looked on from a safe distance on the tranquil planet of the Kais. Not a living being outside the vegetation existed on the utopia, and a foreboding silence filled the air, devoid of activity save the strivings of one young man...
Flashes of lights and explosions riddled the horizon. No battle was being fought, no war was happening on the sanctum planet in the heavens. One man, wielding a mighty sword, was brandishing the ultra-dense weapon at hypersonic speeds, creating shockwaves rippling gently among the grass as he swung the blade.
Kai looked on with a pompous grin, and lifting the hand he had been using to cover his eyes, called out, "Hey! Trunkyhan or whatever your name is! Why don't we try out your weapon on a few rocks and metals to see how strong it is?"
A shadow had appeared before him smirking as soon as he finished the sentence, raising the sword, preparing to attack a metal cube Shin had conjured as a hitter would strike a baseball...
~^~
Meld descended on the crater he had created mere seconds before. He laughed, surveying the chaos. The military closed in, a ring of tanks now surrounded him with their impossible size and numbers to his single presence. Jets swooped overhead, scathing the sky. An amplified voice spoke out from the largest tank.
"Meld. We have you surrounded. Surrender yourself or we shall open fire. You have 10 seconds to comply."
Meld sat perfectly still, as the countdown commenced.
"3...2...1...and open fi-"
The millisecond that the general had given the order to open fire on Meld, the entity had raced through each and every tank smoothly, making popping noises as each occupant was smothered by his tail blade. All 100 of their number exploded seconds after he repositioned himself on the crater, watching the sky.
~^~
"Welcome home girls!" Bulma chuckled, hopping out of the skycar atop the Lookout. The two followed, a bit slower, taking in the surroundings with awe. It was a magnificent and dense platform in the sky sitting atop a single pole only a few meters in circumference, tiled beyond where the eye could see and decorated with several buildings and trees. It was amazing the trees or anyone else could survive at that altitude. A small, greenish figure the size of a child was rapidly approaching laughing. Akura shrieked and jumped into Videl's arms.
"Is...is...is that a martian?" She asked, chewing on her nails. Videl humphed and dropped Akura.
"Dende! It's okay girls he's a Namekian, I'll tell you about our adventures on his planet in a minute!" Bulma hugged Dende, which was a feat due to their difference in height. Akura and Videl sheepishly approached. Bulma turned to face them.
"Welcome home! I'll be back, I have to pick up Chi-Chi, Ox-King and Roshi!" Bulma zipped off in her car toward the Earth below, leaving the two dazed and confused young women with the Namekian magician.
~^~
With a mechanical clicking, a small missle was deployed from a bomber above Meld at an amazing rate of speed. The other jets rained fire on him, and in the distraction Meld shot vainly at the fighters which were destroyed as he was peppered with debris and lead. The bomb descended on him dead on, and within seconds his atoms were nothing more than a gigantic chain reaction.
A deafening roar, the very sky went red as a mushroom cloud of fire and smoke rose against the horizon. Massive shock-waves brushed over the Earth, toppling trees, sending all remnants of life flying, the force of the detonation creating a crater hundreds upon hundereds of miles wide. So great was the sound that none could comprehend the horrible explosion. It's vast energy rippled the heavens. Fire scorched the clouds, as the atomic nightmare faded into the now barren land. There were no survivors.
~^~
Trunks and Gohan sat, very bemused, before the Elder Kai, as he sat, his hands extended, muttering some ancient chant. Though skeptical they were they continued in their indian stance, resisting the urge to fall asleep.
Elder Kai drooled a little, looking down at something.
"HEY!" Trunks roared, angrily, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"What? Oh, I am, err..."
"YOU'RE READING A COMIC BOOK AREN'T YOU?" Trunks went red in the face, along with Shin.
"What? This? No!" He said, hiding a magazine behind him. "I am studying the ancient uhh...runes, yeah that's it!" He reared up a little, acting disgraced by the very thought.
Gohan snickered and Trunks dropped a bead of sweat. "Two more hours Kai! I've had enough!" Trunks sat back down.
Elder Kai smiled a little. "Yes, I suppose that's all I need."
"What? You said a day and a half?" Gohan said seeming a bid downtrodden.
"Ooh yes, I thought it would be more suspenseful for you to save Earth at the last second."
Both Trunks and Gohan resisted the urge to beat him blind. All three gazed into the crystal ball nearby.
"Hey! Did they really destroy him?" Trunks asked hopefully.
~^~
Bulma arrived on the lookout once again with Chi-Chi and the Ox-King, both of them windswept and exhausted. She hopped out of the car, bouncing a little off the impact and running grinning toward Dende.
"Dende?" She asked, approaching the small green man, who was looking slightly dismayed. "How do Akura and Videl like it?"
Dende looked up slowly as if he was choking. "Uhh Bulma..."
Bulma's serene expression immediately changed to one of anger, and she shook Dende violently, her hair tossing in the wind.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?"
"They're in...there..." Dende said lamely, as Bulma dropped him, pointing to a room adorned with hourglasses. She stared at in in awe.
~^~ Chapter 9 - Meld, Scourge of Man ~^~
Bulma tiptoed into the gravity room to see something that made the wrinkles of stress on her face fade away immediately.
"Aww, isn't this sweet?" She said loudly, and immediately Trunks and Akura parted lips, and Videl jumped off Gohan's lap. All four of them turned bright red.
"I take it you boys are kissing your girlfriends goodbye?"
Trunks and Akura jumped at Bulma silmultaeneously shouting in protest. Trunks wheeled around and noticed Gohan and Videl only responded by looking at eachother longingly.
Trunks thought,
With a light noise as if leaves drifting to soil, Shin and Kibito descended to the floor.
In his normal courteous tone, the Supreme Kai prompted, "Well I suppose it's time to go. Earth cannot wait much longer." A bead of sweat dripped down his purple forehead. "It's already announcing a threat."
"What!?" Trunks said, closing his eyes to sense what was going on. Gohan followed suit, along with Bulma.
Akura waved a hand in front of Trunks' face, not realizing what he was doing. Videl shot her a look, and Akura leaned against Trunks' back trying her hardest to sense Ki.
~^~
A black proliferation eminating the very aura of chaos was hovering in a tranquil, rigid position above an abandoned street, immediately recognizable as Main Street in Ginger Town. The moonlight shone down on him revealing every last grotesque feature. It had the body of Perfect Cell, yet what was once green was now black, and vice versa, so it looked like a shadow with sickening green spots. It's eyes were blood red, giving off a light scarlet glow, and they weren't open more than a mere slit. The mouth was entirely gone. From the back of the head a pink tentacle as Majin Buu once had jutted out, and looped into the base of the neck. It stuck out of the abdomen and served as the tail, extending long, sinewy and whiplike, always twitching. Pink cords ran through the creature's body, pulsing. On the arms protruded scarlet-tinted scythes with a deadly gleam. The feet were meancing talons. It had a strange, organic pulsing to it, and the body, although it had muscles clearly defined, seemed to be almost fluid. It did not speak, for it had no mouth, but rather, it's thoughts pierced the mind of any it pleased, with such a profound acoust that all life functions were nearly halted.
Worldwide people ceased activity to listen to the sinister, rickety thoughts, that seemed to radiate a rickety sound. I am Meld. I am no Android, and will not toy around with your foolish planet, and waste my time on ravaging and killing. The people of Ginger Town began to reveal themselves at this statement, hopeful that this new threat wouldn't begin a new era of crisis.
The noise of tank treads filled the air as the nearest army surrounded Peppermint City. Meld simply ignored the force.
I will spare your planet in return for two loathed individuals by the name of Gohan and Trunks. I need to capture them alive in order to exact my vengeance upon them. Refuse to give me information on their whereabouts and I shall destroy your planet in a heartbeat. He grinned and closed his eyes. Meld let out a low, sinister laugh, and severed communications.
~^~
Akura threw her arms around Trunks, and Videl nearly started crying over Gohan's shoulder.
"Why does it want you Trunks?" Akura asked. She was sick of being the only one not knowing anything.
"Because Gohan and I are the only ones who can stand up to it. It's too arrogant to destory us impersonally."
"Bulma." Gohan looked up from Videl's embrace. She cocked her head at his query. "Take refuge with Videl, Akura, Chi-Chi and Ox-King while we're gone."
The girls simply stared at him as if their hearts were broken. The Supreme Kai and Kibito remained still.
"I've been preparing for this, just in case." She said, proud in her own inginuity. Trunks grinned at her.
"Always have been, huh Mom?" She flashed a smile at Trunks and the three women followed the Kais, Trunks, and Gohan, who had already walked together in a group.
"Videl, I'll see you soon." Gohan said, "I...love you." Videl replied, "Be careful Gohan!"
Trunks and Akura stared at eachother for a few moments and nodded at eachother, and the Shin put a hand on Trunks and Gohan's respective shoulders. Kibito put his hand on Shin.
The girls gasped as Trunks, Gohan, Kibito, and the Supreme Kai all dissappeared into nothingness.
~^~
A shadow phased in a line through Peppermint City, coming to rest atop an old Capsule Car. It's foot firmly planted into the engine, Meld glared down into the windshield at a suprised and terrified occupant.
It asked in a mirthful voice.
The hapless man stuttered a yes, and seconds later his car was vaporized by a blast by Meld's fingertip.
The few cars that were out at the very early morning hour swerved into random positions and their owners scattered in all directions. Meld walked slowly among the masses.
A young boy tripped over a gutter hole onto the pavement and started crying. His mother ran past him and turned back. The brunette desperately asked him to get up and began to help him. The boy asked, "Mommy will we be okay?"
His mother looked at him with watery eyes. "Of course, we just have to run now!" A shadow fell over her, and the little boy started crying again. The woman fell on her knees and sobbed.
"Please, don't!" Seconds later her torso and her son's head were rolling down the pavement, slopping blood all over the scene.
A crimson ball of energy engulfed Peppermint City, and the casualties rose.
~^~
Akura pulled on her sunglasses, her ponytail whipping in the wind. Videl shilded her eyes and Bulma wore her Capsule Corp. baseball cap, piloting their skycar.
"Where are we going?" Videl shouted against the wind.
"You'll see!" Bulma chuckled to herself, and the two other women looked up to see a rapidly approaching column of stone so unbelievably high it seemed to ascend into space. Akura felt her mind blur as she tried to comprehend it's size, and not one of them could see the top.
~^~
Kai and Kibito looked on from a safe distance on the tranquil planet of the Kais. Not a living being outside the vegetation existed on the utopia, and a foreboding silence filled the air, devoid of activity save the strivings of one young man...
Flashes of lights and explosions riddled the horizon. No battle was being fought, no war was happening on the sanctum planet in the heavens. One man, wielding a mighty sword, was brandishing the ultra-dense weapon at hypersonic speeds, creating shockwaves rippling gently among the grass as he swung the blade.
Kai looked on with a pompous grin, and lifting the hand he had been using to cover his eyes, called out, "Hey! Trunkyhan or whatever your name is! Why don't we try out your weapon on a few rocks and metals to see how strong it is?"
A shadow had appeared before him smirking as soon as he finished the sentence, raising the sword, preparing to attack a metal cube Shin had conjured as a hitter would strike a baseball...
~^~
Meld descended on the crater he had created mere seconds before. He laughed, surveying the chaos. The military closed in, a ring of tanks now surrounded him with their impossible size and numbers to his single presence. Jets swooped overhead, scathing the sky. An amplified voice spoke out from the largest tank.
"Meld. We have you surrounded. Surrender yourself or we shall open fire. You have 10 seconds to comply."
Meld sat perfectly still, as the countdown commenced.
"3...2...1...and open fi-"
The millisecond that the general had given the order to open fire on Meld, the entity had raced through each and every tank smoothly, making popping noises as each occupant was smothered by his tail blade. All 100 of their number exploded seconds after he repositioned himself on the crater, watching the sky.
~^~
"Welcome home girls!" Bulma chuckled, hopping out of the skycar atop the Lookout. The two followed, a bit slower, taking in the surroundings with awe. It was a magnificent and dense platform in the sky sitting atop a single pole only a few meters in circumference, tiled beyond where the eye could see and decorated with several buildings and trees. It was amazing the trees or anyone else could survive at that altitude. A small, greenish figure the size of a child was rapidly approaching laughing. Akura shrieked and jumped into Videl's arms.
"Is...is...is that a martian?" She asked, chewing on her nails. Videl humphed and dropped Akura.
"Dende! It's okay girls he's a Namekian, I'll tell you about our adventures on his planet in a minute!" Bulma hugged Dende, which was a feat due to their difference in height. Akura and Videl sheepishly approached. Bulma turned to face them.
"Welcome home! I'll be back, I have to pick up Chi-Chi, Ox-King and Roshi!" Bulma zipped off in her car toward the Earth below, leaving the two dazed and confused young women with the Namekian magician.
~^~
With a mechanical clicking, a small missle was deployed from a bomber above Meld at an amazing rate of speed. The other jets rained fire on him, and in the distraction Meld shot vainly at the fighters which were destroyed as he was peppered with debris and lead. The bomb descended on him dead on, and within seconds his atoms were nothing more than a gigantic chain reaction.
A deafening roar, the very sky went red as a mushroom cloud of fire and smoke rose against the horizon. Massive shock-waves brushed over the Earth, toppling trees, sending all remnants of life flying, the force of the detonation creating a crater hundreds upon hundereds of miles wide. So great was the sound that none could comprehend the horrible explosion. It's vast energy rippled the heavens. Fire scorched the clouds, as the atomic nightmare faded into the now barren land. There were no survivors.
~^~
Trunks and Gohan sat, very bemused, before the Elder Kai, as he sat, his hands extended, muttering some ancient chant. Though skeptical they were they continued in their indian stance, resisting the urge to fall asleep.
Elder Kai drooled a little, looking down at something.
"HEY!" Trunks roared, angrily, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?"
"What? Oh, I am, err..."
"YOU'RE READING A COMIC BOOK AREN'T YOU?" Trunks went red in the face, along with Shin.
"What? This? No!" He said, hiding a magazine behind him. "I am studying the ancient uhh...runes, yeah that's it!" He reared up a little, acting disgraced by the very thought.
Gohan snickered and Trunks dropped a bead of sweat. "Two more hours Kai! I've had enough!" Trunks sat back down.
Elder Kai smiled a little. "Yes, I suppose that's all I need."
"What? You said a day and a half?" Gohan said seeming a bid downtrodden.
"Ooh yes, I thought it would be more suspenseful for you to save Earth at the last second."
Both Trunks and Gohan resisted the urge to beat him blind. All three gazed into the crystal ball nearby.
"Hey! Did they really destroy him?" Trunks asked hopefully.
~^~
Bulma arrived on the lookout once again with Chi-Chi and the Ox-King, both of them windswept and exhausted. She hopped out of the car, bouncing a little off the impact and running grinning toward Dende.
"Dende?" She asked, approaching the small green man, who was looking slightly dismayed. "How do Akura and Videl like it?"
Dende looked up slowly as if he was choking. "Uhh Bulma..."
Bulma's serene expression immediately changed to one of anger, and she shook Dende violently, her hair tossing in the wind.
"WHAT HAPPENED TO THEM?"
"They're in...there..." Dende said lamely, as Bulma dropped him, pointing to a room adorned with hourglasses. She stared at in in awe.