Reda: Okay, Vegeta's gone now. Goku's gone with them to make up somehow for the money loss. I can't even begin to imagine what Vegeta has in store for him. Vee's gone. Trunks is gone. So, I'm all alone. Again. That means I have a story to write with no interruptions. I wonder how long it will last.

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Chapter 33: Battle Psyfoam

Okay, now to see some real action. The "bad guys" have been introduced, and so now it's time for the "good guys" to win. Huh, I make it sound so easy, don't I?

And so the fight truly starts, the fight against evil, against Psyfoam and his crazy creation. Sadiran, picked up almost dead from one certain planet and mutilated into a warrior slave, who thinks of nothing else but serving his master. There's no reason to feel sorry for him, though. Whatever Sadiran was is gone; the ones who feel sorry for evil ones with their power...begin to feel sorry for themselves, if they even get that chance. But if one soul out there does feel sorry for Psyfoam...I will say I do too; it's not until you hear his story from his point of view that you even possibly feel this way, but that story's in the sequel. Boy, I need to stop confusing you guys by thinking too far ahead; I getting bad about that. Sorry.

Now, back to the battle...Oops, I hope I didn't ruin anything...

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Reda breathed as deep as she could for someone out of breath. Landing next to Vee, she smirked, but her grin quickly turned to a frown as she jumped and flipped to dodge another of Psyfoam's blasts. When Vee screamed, she couldn't decide if it was in pain or in rage, and with the smoke clearing, she found no answer.

Vee was staring at Psyfoam, his mouth just closing as he shut off his yell. Reda had a thought, concentrated on her friend's power level, and had to shake herself to keep the shock from taking her. Vee, how far can you take this transformation? How far will you risk it, and how the hell can you stand it like that?

She could feel the pull of the 5th transformation, the pull that wanted her body to meet the ground. It was strong on her, so strong she could barely keep it and dodge at the same time. How can you do that, Vee? If only you worked on defense just a little bit more...Oh, what am I saying? Vee works on attack strategies just like I work on defense strategies; we fight together, but we still make no progress against Psyfoam. If there were only another way to combine our powers, a way to fuse that wouldn't take forever to learn or keep us fused forever. Why can't my miracle wishes ever come true? Oh well; can't do anything about it now, so I might as well just continue to defend Vee and myself so he can attack Psyfoam. That's all I'm good for anyway.

Reda turned her gaze to Psyfoam. His black cloak barely shifted in the breezes they threw at him. His strange, fluorescent eyes continued to stare at them, making her shudder and work extra hard to bite down the shivers that crossed her back. Psyfoam seemed focused on Vee right now. All of his attention was on Vee, and he had his hands lowered (not even in a defense posture) while his eyes just burned into the young Saiyan...

"No! Vee, look away..." She shouted, but her friend's scream as he gripped his head and fell to the ground on his knees, clearly showed that her warning was too late. Reda gripped her fists to her side, accepting the fact that she could do nothing to help Vee now. "Agh! Damn you, Psyfoam," she whispered into the wind.

Vee continued to scream as Psyfoam's yellow eyes just stared at him with anger. The young male Saiyan yelled as he writhed on the ground in agony, lightning bolts simultaneously shooting between joints on his body. It was quite obvious that he was in pain, but Reda knew she could do nothing; she watched, helpless to stop it. Even if Psyfoam continued to torture Vee long after the youth had given up all his Super Saiyan transformations, even though her eyes began to cloud with tears of worry, Reda did nothing to help. Psyfoam was her master; she couldn't disobey her master...

"Hey!" Reda shouted, suddenly realizing what thoughts had just passed through her head. Obviously, it was harder to peel away from Psyfoam's rule than they thought; it was almost as if she couldn't do something unless he allowed it. What a thought that was. "Psyfoam! No!"

The evil being didn't even blink to acknowledge he had heard her. Reda didn't think about that, though; she didn't have to ask herself to know what she had to do next. Reda sped up in front of Psyfoam, pulled her fist back, and punched him straight in the face, right in those freaky eyes of his. She may be only good for defense, but sometimes attack was needed, so she wasn't a complete loser in the attack department, as long as the guy she was attacking was caught unawares.

Psyfoam fell back, surprised to be hurt, and Reda ran to Vee's side. Electricity snapped up at her, but she dodged it without really noticing what she had done, it was that automatic. She leaned down to check Vee's pulse because his screams had stopped, his breathing was low, and...he was just unconscious, not dying. She blew out a breath of relief. Thank the Kais. Vee, how many times must I tell you not to scare me like that? I may not love you, but our friendship is so close I'd die if you did, at least emotionally. That's part of the reason I work so hard to keep you alive. Now, I wonder if I can grab those senzu beans before Psyfoam can get at me.

She looked over to the area where she had left the Z warriors to fend for themselves, and groaned. Krillin was out, and he had been the main one with the senzu beans. Supreme Kai was lying on the ground, bleeding a little heavily, which meant he wasn't going to be much help in this fight. Great! Two down...three down already. Of course, Vee will get up soon, senzu bean or no, hopefully. Reda caught sight of the battle between Goku and Sadiran; her brother seemed to be doing fairly well, which was probably why no one was stepping in to help. If he keeps this up, Goku will be at SS5 in no time...maybe. Gohan was the only one of the Z warriors who seemed to be missing right now. Where?

"Reda! You bitch!" She froze at that voice, and didn't have the chance to warn herself against turning to face it.

By the time she realized what she had done; it was already too late. Psyfoam was doing his eye thing now, and she hadn't been smart enough to close her eyes in time. She should have known he would try that, she really should have, but by that time Reda was already plunging into a world of darkness mixed with fire.

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Goten watched his father battle Sadiran; he could hardly stop gaping at the Super Saiyan 4 transformation. Dang, that must be hard on Vegeta! He studied every move, every attack, every block, every punch, every jump. He sucked it all in, preparing to make Gotenks awesome enough to fight Psyfoam and at least bring the evil being to his mad knees; he could at least do that for his father. Goten flinched without realizing it when Sadiran's claws suddenly lengthened, catching his father by surprise, making defense impossible in that position. He had to stop himself from clapping when his father, pinned up against a cliff face, tore out of the claw grip, tearing his clothes and even his skin and then charged up a quick Kamehameha Wave, flashing the energy blast in Sadiran's ugly face.

"Goten, are you ready?" Trunks asked him, already walking the right distance away.

Goku's son turned to Vegeta's son, his eyes still seeing Goku's every move, his heart still feeling every emotion. He nodded, and then let himself connect to Trunks. He still gripped onto his father, but he was one with Trunks now; they breathed in the same nervous breaths; they blinked at the same exact time; they even thought the same thoughts as they began the first movements to the Fusion Dance.

"Fu...sion..." Goten and Trunks were completely in sync with each other, and they both knew it; they were one. "Ha!" The shout was almost triumphant as if they were proving that they could do the impossible just like their fathers.

In a flash of pulsing light, Goten and Trunks added their power together, added their personalities together, added themselves together. Now, they were truly one, and Gotenks was back.

After so many years of being gone from the face of the universe, Gotenks was quite a sight to see. He looked like an adult now; he not only looked like an adult; he was an adult. His clothes were still the same, and so were his facial features; he was taller, he still held himself like a cocky person (not cocky kid, cocky adult), but he was still the same Gotenks, just grown up.

"Wow, it feels good to be back!" The fused youth shouted so he could be sure everyone heard him.

Vegeta turned his head to look the other way because the fusion warrior had more power in SS3 than he did, Piccolo couldn't decide whether to be surprised or proud, Eighteen hardly noticed, having just found the senzu beans, Goku gave Gotenks a quick smile before jumping away from Sadiran's attack, Reda saw the fused warrior just before blacking out and gave him a happy, confident, yet worried look. Psyfoam slowly turned away from the unconscious Reda and Vee to face his newest opponent.

"So, the Great Gotenks is here to fight me. Should I be scared?" Psyfoam said in a mocking tone.

Gotenks walked toward him, the cocky air of confidence about his steps. "Yes, you should," he answered, ignoring the mocking part. "I am greater than you, and you're about to be annihilated by my awesome moves so you should be scared, Psyfoam."

The black, evil being frowned, bored at the thought of having to put up with the same annoying attitude that Vee had. "All right then. Enough talk, fusion. Show me what Goten and Trunks are made of."

"I think you know the name is Gotenks, or are you too stupid to realize that even after you just said it?"

"Now, that was the wrong thing to say, Gotenks. I warned you to keep quiet."

Suddenly, Psyfoam and Gotenks were swapping blows between each other in the air, and just as suddenly they were on the ground. Psyfoam hit Gotenks into a cliff in the distance and chased after him. The young fusion jumped out of the cliff and zanzokened into the air above his evil enemy.

"Shine Shine Missile!" The move was already going before Psyfoam realized Gotenks was in the air, which was something to say.

The ki blasts filled the area with light and explosions, and Psyfoam got lost amidst the smoke. Gotenks thought he was winning (of course) so he continued to charge his energy out without even caring to search out Psyfoam's energy; if he had just looked once for his opponent's energy then maybe he could have kept the advantage. Still, that's a maybe.

Just as Gotenks released three more ki blasts, Psyfoam seemed to appear out of nowhere and kick him hard in the back. It was hard enough to send him flying ahead of his own ki blasts, too. Gotenks put on the brakes, but it was too late to avoid his own attack. My own attack...He made me hit myself! Hey, that's how Frieza died, too...

Gotenks hit the ground and coughed as he slowly stood up amid the smoke. "Hey, Gotenks, starting without me?"

At first the voice made him freeze up, but once he recognized it, Gotenks stretched his muscles out, getting ready to continue the fight with Psyfoam. "Well, I do only have 30 minutes, Gohan. Besides, you were the one to disappear."

"Heh, sorry about that," Gohan said, scratching the side of his head as he walked out of the smoke and into the dark area where Gotenks had landed. "I just thought I'd be much better if I reminded my powers of their use."

"So, you were meditating while I got to sit back and watch Psyfoam begin the torture spree?"

"Heh, not meditating exactly. I was more or less just pulling my fighting spirit out again," he almost laughed at the way Gotenks crossed his arms and raised an eyebrow. "Okay, I guess you could call that meditating."

"Whatever. Look, I don't know how much time I have left. Are you going to help me fight Psyfoam or not?"

"Yep, ready when you are," Gohan said, suddenly growing very serious and very confident. "Actually, I have a plan. All you have to do is not be too rash and everything'll work out perfectly."

Gotenks nodded, "Right."

"All right then. Let's go. Time won't stop for us at anytime," Gohan said, lifting off the ground and heading for Psyfoam.

Gotenks shook his SS3 golden hair back and forth. Man, Gohan. You're such a nerd sometimes.

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Gohan: I'm a nerd?

Reda: (jumps) I knew my solitude wouldn't last for long! Yes, Gohan, the sad truth is, you are a nerd, though maybe not such a big one as before.

Gohan: When's "before?"

Reda: It's not your fault, Gohan. Chi-Chi's too over protective...or she was too over protective.

Chi-Chi: I'm what? How can a mother be too over protective? Bulma's not protective enough!

Reda: Now that's not true, and who said I was comparing you to Bulma?

Gohan: Reda, I think you're story is wrong.

Reda: No, it's the exact right truth because Vee and Goku are helping me write it!

Gohan: Dad's helping you with this?

Reda: Yes, it's the story of Psyfoam and we're basically the three main characters.

Gohan: You're writing about Psyfoam????

Reda: Yes, didn't I say that?

Chi-Chi: Psyfoam's evil, very evil. I hate that...that...creature!

Reda: Yes, I know, Chi-Chi, but if you think about it...Psyfoam has a very sad story. He wasn't always evil.

Chi-Chi: So what?

Reda: You guys need to give Psyfoam a chance sometimes.

Gohan: Reda, are you serious?

Reda: Oh, sorry. I forgot you guys weren't as badly hit by Psyfoam as we were. I think I know more about him than even Supreme Kai! And after hearing his story...yes I believe he deserved a second chance!

Gohan and Chi-Chi: What??

Reda: (sighs) Never mind. I'm just a crazy person, remember?

(Connection pulled)