Chapter9: race against time

Trunks & Zara stared wide-eyed at where their youngest son had just stood. Talius smirked as he threw Trunks into a tree & jumped down from his own. Zara started shaking. No…she thought. How could I have let this happen! They can't be gone!  She lowered her head & electricity flickered down her. Trunks stood up, rubbing his neck, as he stared over at his wife as a red aura flared up around her, surprising Grund. Grund looked down in surprise as Zara broke out of the hold & quickly gave a round house to his gut. Trunks went SSJ & drop kicked Talius before looking back at Zara.

"Any ideas?"

"Maybe. They probably will still be in orbit, if we hurry then we can catch them." Zara said & Trunks nodded.

"Not ssso fassst!" Talius said as he got up. Grund got back up as well & made a Grunting noise.

"Tough talk Grund, but you can't keep us here!" Zara said before moving back to Trunks.

"Wanna bet?" Talius sneered before turning invisible. Grund tilted his head to the side before going back into the shadows. Trunks & Zara looked round to see where they went before they both got a heavy blow to the head. They stumbled back a bit then looked around a bit.

"Camouflage, I hate it when he does this…" Zara breathed as she looked round again Trunks nodded & looked round also. Zara sensed some movement behind her & jumped up into the air, floating there, to see what it was but ended up having Talius's tail round her neck.

"I can't believe you fell for that!" He said. Zara rolled her eyes.

"Don't you mean I can't believe I fell for that?" Talius looked confused before Zara powered up & electrocuted the lizard &, grabbing his tail, swung him round then let go, sending a ki-blast after him.

"Hurry, we don't know how much time we have before they get away!" Zara called down to Trunks. He quickly looked round for Grund then took off, or at least tried. He looked down to see Grund's hand holding on to his ankle. Slowly Grund came up, out of the ground. Trunks stared at him in shock as he resurfaced. When Grund was back up, he swung Trunks around & smashed Trunks in to the ground then swung him around again & smashed him in to the ground on the other side. Trunks glared at Grund before powering up to try & get the big guy off. Grund made a laughing noise & absorbed all the power from Trunks' golden aura, making him go normal again.

"Trunks! Don't power up near him! He's made out of pure dark energy & can absorb your ki!" Zara yelled down at him.

"You couldn't have told me that before!" Zara rolled her eyes before diving down & kicking Grund in the face until he let go of Trunks. She then put up a pinkish shield round the to keep Grund out.

"Can't he just absorb his way through this."

"Don't worry, I have a plan." The bubble shield turned in side out & started to glow yellow as Zara filled it up with ki. When she was done, Grund stared up at the energy ball & made the annoying laughing sound again. Zara frowned at him before throwing the ball at him.

"Try & get out of this one!" She yelled as the ball flew towards the big guy. He attempted to block it but he started to be sucked into it. He looked up at it & there was a little bit of tension between him & the ball as he started to get sucked in then the ball got a little smaller. Finally, he got pulled into the ball but instead of exploding it just stayed there. Zara stared at it.

"Weird, it should have blown…"

"Does it really matter? We have to go!" Zara nodded & grabbed his hand before sensing up around the planet. She smirked & they both disappeared.

A/n: sorry, I ran out of ideas. Next time they'll be on the ship &…you better read the next chapter when it's here to find out!