Disclaimer: I do not own any of the DBZ characters. I don't even own Dr.
Igiegakie. His name sounds familiar but I have no idea what from.
Morning came and Goku opened the fridge. His face fell when he found no food, no drinks and no ice cubs. All he had last night was Vegeta's leftovers. Vegeta didn't eat his vegetables, go figure, so Goku and Krillin were the first to dive in them. Vegeta let him in the house when it began to rain. The last thing he needed was a monk and a saiyan with a cold.
Goku sighed as he closed the fridge door. He stumbled his way to the couch that could fit five people and plopped down on the sheets that were on his bed. The couch wasn't even comfy and he had to sleep on it. Krillin fell asleep on the floor and Piccolo was outside since the rain stopped. Vegeta was in his own room and Goku felt rather lonely. He needed to find his son. The stories he read in the book made him think about what kind of pain Gohan could be going through. Goku shook his head from the thought. Gohan was strong. He probably escaped for all he knew. Better safe than sorry. He needed to continue his search.
'I wonder if Gohan's okay,' Goku thought to himself. 'I bet he escaped and heading home. No, I would have noticed his ki and we're miles away from home. Why do I have a bad feeling about this?'
Goku's silent thoughts were drifting as his friend Krillin slowly woke up. He didn't notice his friend's awakening since his head was up at the ceiling and his thoughts were somewhere else. Krillin lifted up his head and saw Goku staring up at the ceiling.
"Morning," Krillin mumbled as he slowly got up to his feet. "Do you know what time it is?"
"Not sure," Goku answered with his head to the ceiling. "Past breakfast time and before lunch. There's no food in this place and I'm starving."
"I know what you mean." Krillin got up from the floor and sat down next to Goku in the couch. He stretched out and sighed. "I wonder how Gohan's doing?"
"I was thinking the same thing Krillin. It worries me though. Dr. Igiegakie experiments on animals and doesn't even give them a chance to live."
"Don't worry Goku. Gohan is a tough one. There's no way that Dr. Igiegakie can put up with a saiyan like Gohan. I bet he's too scared of Gohan's power and locked him up without food or water. I mean, Gohan probably locked him up without food and water and.oh never mind. I'm just making things worse."
"How come we can't sense his energy," Goku asked turning to Krillin. "I hope he's not dead."
"Gohan's not dead," Piccolo said as he walked up to the two.
"Piccolo," Goku cried. "When did you come back in? Did the bugs attack you and drain your blood?"
"Funny," Piccolo huffed. "For your information I had a vision with Gohan in it."
"Really." Goku sat himself up. "What was it about?"
"I'm curious myself," Vegeta said coming out of his room. "And I noticed all my food was gone from the fridge! Who ate it all?"
'I hope Vegeta doesn't point fingers at me,' Krillin thought as he sunk down in the seat. 'I hope he blames Goku!'
"I opened the fridge and noticed that there was no food," Goku said. "I was too tired to eat."
'Goku how could you!'
"But I want to hear what Piccolo saw in his vision."
'Yeah that's it, change the subject.'
"Fine," Vegeta grunted. "Let's hear what the Namck says before the monk becomes my breakfast."
'I am so dead.'
"It was only a blur," Piccolo began to say. "I saw Dr. Igiegakie and this giant computer he was working on. Next to it was this odd shaped glass object and something was inside it. I couldn't tell what it was but my guess was that it was Gohan. Dr. Igiegakie was putting a needle in a machine and then it went into the glass object. That's all I saw."
There was silence in the room.
"Then what are we waiting for," Vegeta said snapping everyone back to reality. "Let's get out of here and find that brat!"
"That's so sweet," Goku said standing up. "You care for Gohan."
"I owe him my life. I could have been killed by Cell but that brat took that blast for me."
"Then what are we waiting for," Krillin said stepping up. "Let's hurry on out of here and find our friend!"
"Let's go," Goku cried.
Vegeta stepped up to Krillin.
"You ate my food monk and you better run."
Gulp!
****
Black.blonde.gold.sharp black.black.blonde.gold.sharp black.
Dr. Igiegakie watched as Gohan's hair turned those shades of color. From regular, super saiyan, super saiyan level 2, and mystic. He kept his information in the little notebook he had beside him. The extra liquid he added to the Extiuion was making Gohan change from regular, super saiyan, and even mystic. Dr. Igiegakie was interested with the whole thing because he never seen a super saiyan before or even the tapped powers of Gohan.
"Very interesting," Dr. Igiegakie said studying Gohan closely. "Whatever that one vile was made you too over powered in energy. I can see that you're trying to fight it and trying to stay in one state. Wow, a super saiyan."
Dr. Igiegakie was so interested in Gohan that he didn't notice his computer light blinking. He didn't even hear the small beeping it was making, just the sound of the power of a super saiyan. The beeping, however, did grow louder and Dr. Igiegakie finally noticed the computer screen.
"Oh no," he said as he dropped his notebook on the ground. "The body temperature is rising and over one hundred and ten degrees. You can't handle that power!"
Dr. Igiegakie typed in a few keys and grabbed a few test tubes. He added one liquid to another and mixed them up. He used a needle and filled it up with the two mixtures. He stuck the needle in the machine near Gohan and injected it into Gohan's shoulder. Within seconds, Gohan passed out and his body temperature was slowly dropping. Dr. Igiegakie sat down in his chair and sighed.
"That was close. I thought for a minute there he would die. I can't let that happen to him. He will make me famous and my father's life won't be in vain. Now that he's unconscious I think I'll take what I need from him. I'll need to take a blood sample and see how his body is taking in the injections. The last one had to do some damage to the body. What it is I do not know yet. I hope it didn't cause too much damage. Enough lolly-gagging, time for work!"
****
"This is useless," Vegeta yelled blasting a few trees. "We've been searching for days and still haven't found that brat! Why in the name of Kami can we find him?"
"Dr. Igiegakie probably has a ki barrier around him," Piccolo said dusting off a few leaves from Vegeta's blast. "But Vegeta is right. We have been searching and found nothing."
"Maybe we're looking in the wrong place," Krillin said. "We're only what, fifty miles away from Goku's house? Maybe he's not in the area or even on this planet? I wish we had a sign."
"Or something that can help us find Gohan," Goku said with a sigh. "Why is it getting harder and harder to find him? I don't even know where to look."
"So we've been walking around for days to only find nothing," Vegeta cried. "I'm about to give up on this search! Let's face it, we'll never going to find him so why don't we just give up! You still have a second son, what will you be missing?"
There was silence in the woods. Goku stared at the ground while everyone else kept their silence.
"We'll I'm not going to give up," Piccolo said. "I knew Gohan since he was a child. I know that he will stay strong and survive whatever Dr. Igiegakie pulls on him."
"Piccolo's right," Krillin said. "I'm not going to give up either. Gohan's been through worse. He may need to see a psychologist after what he's been through, but it will only be for about a few months."
"Ha," Vegeta said with an eye roll. "Dr. Igiegakie probably turned him into a mouse and ate him. From what remember from that book, that brat probably already killed himself for all we know. You read what he did to his experiments. I bet Gohan couldn't take anymore and decided to just kill himself."
"You're wrong," Piccolo cried. "Gohan will not snoop that low to that level."
"If he can't take it anymore then he probably did!"
"He can fight it!"
"How do you know Namck? We can't sense him, we can't find him, we don't even know where he is! Let's just give up!"
"I'm not giving up!"
"I'm not either," Krillin said. "I believe that Gohan's still out there. We can't sense him but I know that he's alive! Goku will agree one hundred percent, right buddy?" Goku still stared at the ground and was sitting on a rock. He kept his silence. "Goku, you believe that Gohan's alive, right?"
"Goku," Piccolo said staring at the sitting saiyan. "He's your son. You have to have faith in him."
"I don't know," Goku admitted. Piccolo and Krillin stared at him in pure shock.
"What do you mean," Krillin said getting into Goku's face. "You don't believe in Gohan!"
"I do, don't get me wrong. It's just that.I don't know where to look, were to search, who to ask, I don't know anything! If I only told him about that shadow and told him not to go in the woods then maybe he would be safe. I should have taken the leaves into the woods."
"Stop blaming yourself," Krillin said. "Dr. Igiegakie would have gotten Gohan one way or another. We can't give up Goku. You're son is in danger! You have to save him! He's your own flesh and blood! Gohan would never give up so why are you?"
Goku looked up at Krillin and smiled.
"You're right," Goku said getting up. "I should never doubt Gohan and his abilities like that. C'mon, I have a son to save!"
"That's the Goku I know!"
"It's about time."
"This is worse than poison ivy."
****
Gohan slowly awoke and felt something licking his face. He push a furry thing out of the way but it came right back and started licking his face again. He opened his eyes up a bit more and saw a gray animal with its tongue out and tail wagging. It finally hit him and realized that it was dog, er, wolf.
"Hey girl," Gohan said slowly getting up picking up the wolf cub. Then he realized something that she had. "Boy."
Gohan smiled and petted the male wolf cub. The cub barked and attacked his finger. The little guy wanted to play and Gohan couldn't help but laugh.
"How did you get in here little guy?"
"I put him there," Dr. Igiegakie said with his hands behind his back. "That's your dinner."
"My what?!"
"I know that you haven't had a touch of food in days so I decided to feed you. I found him in the woods and thought it might provide good meat for you."
"It's a cub," Gohan said pointing to the cub with rather shaky hands. "I'm not going to eat a cub! That's insane. I'm not even hungry."
"Not hungry," Dr. Igiegakie said with an eyebrow raised. "I thought saiyans had huge appetites."
"Well whatever you jab me with certainly decreased my appetite and I'm not tired at all. I haven't slept for days and I know I have circles under my eyes."
"Silly saiyan. You have no wrinkles because you had a good nights rest. You had a fever and not you're back to your normal body temperature. I just need to know how you feel besides the lack of appetite and shakiness."
"Why do you need to know that," Gohan asked petting the cub. "You put me through all of this and you want to know the side effects so you can test more on me?"
"That's the basic point," Dr. Igiegakie said with a smirk. "So, how do you feel?"
"Actually," Gohan said putting his hand on his chest. "I feel like my chest is shrinking and it's getting harder to breathe. I'm starting to feel Closter phobic."
The small wolf cub looked up at Gohan with worry eyes. Gohan winked at the cub and made his breath come out hard and rigid. Dr. Igiegakie watched as Gohan leaned on the glass barrier and how his face became rather pale. It sounded like his breath was being forced out and Dr. Igiegakie opened a small window in the glass tube.
"Looks like you need some oxygen," he said as he grabbed Gohan's arm.
"Looks like you need a new subject," Gohan said as he punched the doctor with his fist. Dr. Igiegakie was sent flying back and Gohan exited out of the small door. He grabbed the cub along the way and quickly ran.
"My pets," Dr. Igiegakie cried as he opened a door. "Grab him and don't let him escape. I need him back alive!"
Four giant rats came out of the door. They were twice the size of a car and they looked rather hungry. They found Gohan's scent and quickly followed it. Dr. Igiegakie quickly went to his computer and typed in a few things. He wiped the blood coming out of his nose and growled in frustration.
Gohan had no idea where he was and finding an escape was easier said than done. Everything was spinning around and Gohan was having a few hot flashes. He didn't have much energy left and whatever the doctor gave him was taking a huge effect. He was tired and couldn't think straight. The only thing that came into his mind was escape and he needed help to do so.
****
"So then the blonde said, 'I ordered baby back ribs not MY baby's back ribs,'' Krillin said laughing at his own joke. He stopped when no one else was laughing. "Don't you get it, baby back, her baby....Oh never mind!"
"Why did we bring the monk, why," Vegeta mumbled to himself. "I knew we should have taken the three eye guy."
Goku chuckled softly. Not noticing that Piccolo stopped right in front of him, Goku slammed into Piccolo. He rubbed his sore nose.
"Geez Piccolo," Goku said as his voice changed to a high-pitched whine. "Give me a warning before somebody gets hurt."
"Quiet," Piccolo shouted. "Relax and try to feel what's around you."
Goku blinked but listened to what the Namck was saying. He closed his eyes and concentrated hard on the things around him. To his surprise, he found something.
"Gohan."
"Right," Piccolo said. "It's weak but it's still there. Hurry, we don't have much time!"
"It's too far away," Vegeta cried. "By the time we get there and get that brat-"
"I don't care Vegeta," Goku cried as he ran. "We better get their first before we guess what may happen next."
Vegeta growled under his breath as he quickly followed Goku and the others.
"We might be able to get there faster if we used the Instant Transmission," Vegeta shouted. "Or did you forget about that Kakkorot?"
"I'll try." Goku placed two fingers on his forehead and concentrated on Gohan's weak power level. He growled in frustration since Gohan's ki was appearing and then disappearing. "I can't get a steady power level!"
"Then run faster," Piccolo shouted.
****
'This was a bad idea,' Gohan thought as he pressed his back against the wall. 'I'm too weak and I can barely keep my mind straight. I have to get out of here before Dr. Igiegakie catches me.'
Gohan pushed himself off the wall with the small cub in hand. He wobbled down the hall and hitting his shoulder on it whenever he felt dizzy. Gohan was having problems concentrating and his shaking body wasn't helping any. The small wolf cub looked up at Gohan and licked him on the hand for encouragement. Gohan smiled down at the cub but then realized that he wasn't alone. He looked behind him and saw one gigantic rat.
The rat was black with a white face. Its teeth were bigger than a regular rat's teeth and it's claws looked prehistoric. Gohan gulped and quickly ran but his body could take him so far. He made it to the corner of the hall before clasping to his knees. His breath was rigid and his feet felt heavy. Gohan looked at the cub in his hands. The cub was getting heavier and heavier every second that passed.
Gohan saw three other rats come from the other side and noticed that he was cornered at the end of the hallway. They looked hungry and Gohan couldn't find a way to escape.
"I'm sorry," Gohan said to the small cub. "I wish I can get you out of here. If I let you go then the rats will eat you." Gohan looked up and saw a window above the rat behind him. He stood up and grabbed the corner before he fell. "Maybe there is a way to get out of here."
Using what energy he had left, Gohan jumped on one of the rats and jumped through the window. Glass went all over the place and Gohan landed hard on the ground. The small wolf cub tumbled out of Gohan's grasp and shook away the dirt. He started barking when the rats went through the wall and Gohan laid there motionless on the ground. The cub ran over to Gohan and started barking in his face. Gohan managed to open one eye and smiled at the small cub.
"Run little guy," Gohan said. "Get out of here before Dr. Igiegakie uses you as an experiment. Go back home to your family."
"Yap yap yap," the small cub barked. He then began to whimper.
"I'll be alright," Gohan whispered before going into a world of darkness. The cub nudged Gohan but saw the rats making their way to the demi-saiyan. The cub quickly ran off when he saw Dr. Igiegakie coming out of the broken wall.
"I give you shelter and treat you better than my than the rest of my subjects and this is how you repay me," Dr. Igiegakie said with a mask of anger. "You try to escape your fate. Now you made me mad. My loyal rats, take him back into my lab so I can teach him a lesson that he'll never forget."
Morning came and Goku opened the fridge. His face fell when he found no food, no drinks and no ice cubs. All he had last night was Vegeta's leftovers. Vegeta didn't eat his vegetables, go figure, so Goku and Krillin were the first to dive in them. Vegeta let him in the house when it began to rain. The last thing he needed was a monk and a saiyan with a cold.
Goku sighed as he closed the fridge door. He stumbled his way to the couch that could fit five people and plopped down on the sheets that were on his bed. The couch wasn't even comfy and he had to sleep on it. Krillin fell asleep on the floor and Piccolo was outside since the rain stopped. Vegeta was in his own room and Goku felt rather lonely. He needed to find his son. The stories he read in the book made him think about what kind of pain Gohan could be going through. Goku shook his head from the thought. Gohan was strong. He probably escaped for all he knew. Better safe than sorry. He needed to continue his search.
'I wonder if Gohan's okay,' Goku thought to himself. 'I bet he escaped and heading home. No, I would have noticed his ki and we're miles away from home. Why do I have a bad feeling about this?'
Goku's silent thoughts were drifting as his friend Krillin slowly woke up. He didn't notice his friend's awakening since his head was up at the ceiling and his thoughts were somewhere else. Krillin lifted up his head and saw Goku staring up at the ceiling.
"Morning," Krillin mumbled as he slowly got up to his feet. "Do you know what time it is?"
"Not sure," Goku answered with his head to the ceiling. "Past breakfast time and before lunch. There's no food in this place and I'm starving."
"I know what you mean." Krillin got up from the floor and sat down next to Goku in the couch. He stretched out and sighed. "I wonder how Gohan's doing?"
"I was thinking the same thing Krillin. It worries me though. Dr. Igiegakie experiments on animals and doesn't even give them a chance to live."
"Don't worry Goku. Gohan is a tough one. There's no way that Dr. Igiegakie can put up with a saiyan like Gohan. I bet he's too scared of Gohan's power and locked him up without food or water. I mean, Gohan probably locked him up without food and water and.oh never mind. I'm just making things worse."
"How come we can't sense his energy," Goku asked turning to Krillin. "I hope he's not dead."
"Gohan's not dead," Piccolo said as he walked up to the two.
"Piccolo," Goku cried. "When did you come back in? Did the bugs attack you and drain your blood?"
"Funny," Piccolo huffed. "For your information I had a vision with Gohan in it."
"Really." Goku sat himself up. "What was it about?"
"I'm curious myself," Vegeta said coming out of his room. "And I noticed all my food was gone from the fridge! Who ate it all?"
'I hope Vegeta doesn't point fingers at me,' Krillin thought as he sunk down in the seat. 'I hope he blames Goku!'
"I opened the fridge and noticed that there was no food," Goku said. "I was too tired to eat."
'Goku how could you!'
"But I want to hear what Piccolo saw in his vision."
'Yeah that's it, change the subject.'
"Fine," Vegeta grunted. "Let's hear what the Namck says before the monk becomes my breakfast."
'I am so dead.'
"It was only a blur," Piccolo began to say. "I saw Dr. Igiegakie and this giant computer he was working on. Next to it was this odd shaped glass object and something was inside it. I couldn't tell what it was but my guess was that it was Gohan. Dr. Igiegakie was putting a needle in a machine and then it went into the glass object. That's all I saw."
There was silence in the room.
"Then what are we waiting for," Vegeta said snapping everyone back to reality. "Let's get out of here and find that brat!"
"That's so sweet," Goku said standing up. "You care for Gohan."
"I owe him my life. I could have been killed by Cell but that brat took that blast for me."
"Then what are we waiting for," Krillin said stepping up. "Let's hurry on out of here and find our friend!"
"Let's go," Goku cried.
Vegeta stepped up to Krillin.
"You ate my food monk and you better run."
Gulp!
****
Black.blonde.gold.sharp black.black.blonde.gold.sharp black.
Dr. Igiegakie watched as Gohan's hair turned those shades of color. From regular, super saiyan, super saiyan level 2, and mystic. He kept his information in the little notebook he had beside him. The extra liquid he added to the Extiuion was making Gohan change from regular, super saiyan, and even mystic. Dr. Igiegakie was interested with the whole thing because he never seen a super saiyan before or even the tapped powers of Gohan.
"Very interesting," Dr. Igiegakie said studying Gohan closely. "Whatever that one vile was made you too over powered in energy. I can see that you're trying to fight it and trying to stay in one state. Wow, a super saiyan."
Dr. Igiegakie was so interested in Gohan that he didn't notice his computer light blinking. He didn't even hear the small beeping it was making, just the sound of the power of a super saiyan. The beeping, however, did grow louder and Dr. Igiegakie finally noticed the computer screen.
"Oh no," he said as he dropped his notebook on the ground. "The body temperature is rising and over one hundred and ten degrees. You can't handle that power!"
Dr. Igiegakie typed in a few keys and grabbed a few test tubes. He added one liquid to another and mixed them up. He used a needle and filled it up with the two mixtures. He stuck the needle in the machine near Gohan and injected it into Gohan's shoulder. Within seconds, Gohan passed out and his body temperature was slowly dropping. Dr. Igiegakie sat down in his chair and sighed.
"That was close. I thought for a minute there he would die. I can't let that happen to him. He will make me famous and my father's life won't be in vain. Now that he's unconscious I think I'll take what I need from him. I'll need to take a blood sample and see how his body is taking in the injections. The last one had to do some damage to the body. What it is I do not know yet. I hope it didn't cause too much damage. Enough lolly-gagging, time for work!"
****
"This is useless," Vegeta yelled blasting a few trees. "We've been searching for days and still haven't found that brat! Why in the name of Kami can we find him?"
"Dr. Igiegakie probably has a ki barrier around him," Piccolo said dusting off a few leaves from Vegeta's blast. "But Vegeta is right. We have been searching and found nothing."
"Maybe we're looking in the wrong place," Krillin said. "We're only what, fifty miles away from Goku's house? Maybe he's not in the area or even on this planet? I wish we had a sign."
"Or something that can help us find Gohan," Goku said with a sigh. "Why is it getting harder and harder to find him? I don't even know where to look."
"So we've been walking around for days to only find nothing," Vegeta cried. "I'm about to give up on this search! Let's face it, we'll never going to find him so why don't we just give up! You still have a second son, what will you be missing?"
There was silence in the woods. Goku stared at the ground while everyone else kept their silence.
"We'll I'm not going to give up," Piccolo said. "I knew Gohan since he was a child. I know that he will stay strong and survive whatever Dr. Igiegakie pulls on him."
"Piccolo's right," Krillin said. "I'm not going to give up either. Gohan's been through worse. He may need to see a psychologist after what he's been through, but it will only be for about a few months."
"Ha," Vegeta said with an eye roll. "Dr. Igiegakie probably turned him into a mouse and ate him. From what remember from that book, that brat probably already killed himself for all we know. You read what he did to his experiments. I bet Gohan couldn't take anymore and decided to just kill himself."
"You're wrong," Piccolo cried. "Gohan will not snoop that low to that level."
"If he can't take it anymore then he probably did!"
"He can fight it!"
"How do you know Namck? We can't sense him, we can't find him, we don't even know where he is! Let's just give up!"
"I'm not giving up!"
"I'm not either," Krillin said. "I believe that Gohan's still out there. We can't sense him but I know that he's alive! Goku will agree one hundred percent, right buddy?" Goku still stared at the ground and was sitting on a rock. He kept his silence. "Goku, you believe that Gohan's alive, right?"
"Goku," Piccolo said staring at the sitting saiyan. "He's your son. You have to have faith in him."
"I don't know," Goku admitted. Piccolo and Krillin stared at him in pure shock.
"What do you mean," Krillin said getting into Goku's face. "You don't believe in Gohan!"
"I do, don't get me wrong. It's just that.I don't know where to look, were to search, who to ask, I don't know anything! If I only told him about that shadow and told him not to go in the woods then maybe he would be safe. I should have taken the leaves into the woods."
"Stop blaming yourself," Krillin said. "Dr. Igiegakie would have gotten Gohan one way or another. We can't give up Goku. You're son is in danger! You have to save him! He's your own flesh and blood! Gohan would never give up so why are you?"
Goku looked up at Krillin and smiled.
"You're right," Goku said getting up. "I should never doubt Gohan and his abilities like that. C'mon, I have a son to save!"
"That's the Goku I know!"
"It's about time."
"This is worse than poison ivy."
****
Gohan slowly awoke and felt something licking his face. He push a furry thing out of the way but it came right back and started licking his face again. He opened his eyes up a bit more and saw a gray animal with its tongue out and tail wagging. It finally hit him and realized that it was dog, er, wolf.
"Hey girl," Gohan said slowly getting up picking up the wolf cub. Then he realized something that she had. "Boy."
Gohan smiled and petted the male wolf cub. The cub barked and attacked his finger. The little guy wanted to play and Gohan couldn't help but laugh.
"How did you get in here little guy?"
"I put him there," Dr. Igiegakie said with his hands behind his back. "That's your dinner."
"My what?!"
"I know that you haven't had a touch of food in days so I decided to feed you. I found him in the woods and thought it might provide good meat for you."
"It's a cub," Gohan said pointing to the cub with rather shaky hands. "I'm not going to eat a cub! That's insane. I'm not even hungry."
"Not hungry," Dr. Igiegakie said with an eyebrow raised. "I thought saiyans had huge appetites."
"Well whatever you jab me with certainly decreased my appetite and I'm not tired at all. I haven't slept for days and I know I have circles under my eyes."
"Silly saiyan. You have no wrinkles because you had a good nights rest. You had a fever and not you're back to your normal body temperature. I just need to know how you feel besides the lack of appetite and shakiness."
"Why do you need to know that," Gohan asked petting the cub. "You put me through all of this and you want to know the side effects so you can test more on me?"
"That's the basic point," Dr. Igiegakie said with a smirk. "So, how do you feel?"
"Actually," Gohan said putting his hand on his chest. "I feel like my chest is shrinking and it's getting harder to breathe. I'm starting to feel Closter phobic."
The small wolf cub looked up at Gohan with worry eyes. Gohan winked at the cub and made his breath come out hard and rigid. Dr. Igiegakie watched as Gohan leaned on the glass barrier and how his face became rather pale. It sounded like his breath was being forced out and Dr. Igiegakie opened a small window in the glass tube.
"Looks like you need some oxygen," he said as he grabbed Gohan's arm.
"Looks like you need a new subject," Gohan said as he punched the doctor with his fist. Dr. Igiegakie was sent flying back and Gohan exited out of the small door. He grabbed the cub along the way and quickly ran.
"My pets," Dr. Igiegakie cried as he opened a door. "Grab him and don't let him escape. I need him back alive!"
Four giant rats came out of the door. They were twice the size of a car and they looked rather hungry. They found Gohan's scent and quickly followed it. Dr. Igiegakie quickly went to his computer and typed in a few things. He wiped the blood coming out of his nose and growled in frustration.
Gohan had no idea where he was and finding an escape was easier said than done. Everything was spinning around and Gohan was having a few hot flashes. He didn't have much energy left and whatever the doctor gave him was taking a huge effect. He was tired and couldn't think straight. The only thing that came into his mind was escape and he needed help to do so.
****
"So then the blonde said, 'I ordered baby back ribs not MY baby's back ribs,'' Krillin said laughing at his own joke. He stopped when no one else was laughing. "Don't you get it, baby back, her baby....Oh never mind!"
"Why did we bring the monk, why," Vegeta mumbled to himself. "I knew we should have taken the three eye guy."
Goku chuckled softly. Not noticing that Piccolo stopped right in front of him, Goku slammed into Piccolo. He rubbed his sore nose.
"Geez Piccolo," Goku said as his voice changed to a high-pitched whine. "Give me a warning before somebody gets hurt."
"Quiet," Piccolo shouted. "Relax and try to feel what's around you."
Goku blinked but listened to what the Namck was saying. He closed his eyes and concentrated hard on the things around him. To his surprise, he found something.
"Gohan."
"Right," Piccolo said. "It's weak but it's still there. Hurry, we don't have much time!"
"It's too far away," Vegeta cried. "By the time we get there and get that brat-"
"I don't care Vegeta," Goku cried as he ran. "We better get their first before we guess what may happen next."
Vegeta growled under his breath as he quickly followed Goku and the others.
"We might be able to get there faster if we used the Instant Transmission," Vegeta shouted. "Or did you forget about that Kakkorot?"
"I'll try." Goku placed two fingers on his forehead and concentrated on Gohan's weak power level. He growled in frustration since Gohan's ki was appearing and then disappearing. "I can't get a steady power level!"
"Then run faster," Piccolo shouted.
****
'This was a bad idea,' Gohan thought as he pressed his back against the wall. 'I'm too weak and I can barely keep my mind straight. I have to get out of here before Dr. Igiegakie catches me.'
Gohan pushed himself off the wall with the small cub in hand. He wobbled down the hall and hitting his shoulder on it whenever he felt dizzy. Gohan was having problems concentrating and his shaking body wasn't helping any. The small wolf cub looked up at Gohan and licked him on the hand for encouragement. Gohan smiled down at the cub but then realized that he wasn't alone. He looked behind him and saw one gigantic rat.
The rat was black with a white face. Its teeth were bigger than a regular rat's teeth and it's claws looked prehistoric. Gohan gulped and quickly ran but his body could take him so far. He made it to the corner of the hall before clasping to his knees. His breath was rigid and his feet felt heavy. Gohan looked at the cub in his hands. The cub was getting heavier and heavier every second that passed.
Gohan saw three other rats come from the other side and noticed that he was cornered at the end of the hallway. They looked hungry and Gohan couldn't find a way to escape.
"I'm sorry," Gohan said to the small cub. "I wish I can get you out of here. If I let you go then the rats will eat you." Gohan looked up and saw a window above the rat behind him. He stood up and grabbed the corner before he fell. "Maybe there is a way to get out of here."
Using what energy he had left, Gohan jumped on one of the rats and jumped through the window. Glass went all over the place and Gohan landed hard on the ground. The small wolf cub tumbled out of Gohan's grasp and shook away the dirt. He started barking when the rats went through the wall and Gohan laid there motionless on the ground. The cub ran over to Gohan and started barking in his face. Gohan managed to open one eye and smiled at the small cub.
"Run little guy," Gohan said. "Get out of here before Dr. Igiegakie uses you as an experiment. Go back home to your family."
"Yap yap yap," the small cub barked. He then began to whimper.
"I'll be alright," Gohan whispered before going into a world of darkness. The cub nudged Gohan but saw the rats making their way to the demi-saiyan. The cub quickly ran off when he saw Dr. Igiegakie coming out of the broken wall.
"I give you shelter and treat you better than my than the rest of my subjects and this is how you repay me," Dr. Igiegakie said with a mask of anger. "You try to escape your fate. Now you made me mad. My loyal rats, take him back into my lab so I can teach him a lesson that he'll never forget."
What's Dr. Igiegakie going to do to Gohan? What pain will Gohan go through? Will Goku and the others save Gohan in time? Review and you will see.
Morning came and Goku opened the fridge. His face fell when he found no food, no drinks and no ice cubs. All he had last night was Vegeta's leftovers. Vegeta didn't eat his vegetables, go figure, so Goku and Krillin were the first to dive in them. Vegeta let him in the house when it began to rain. The last thing he needed was a monk and a saiyan with a cold.
Goku sighed as he closed the fridge door. He stumbled his way to the couch that could fit five people and plopped down on the sheets that were on his bed. The couch wasn't even comfy and he had to sleep on it. Krillin fell asleep on the floor and Piccolo was outside since the rain stopped. Vegeta was in his own room and Goku felt rather lonely. He needed to find his son. The stories he read in the book made him think about what kind of pain Gohan could be going through. Goku shook his head from the thought. Gohan was strong. He probably escaped for all he knew. Better safe than sorry. He needed to continue his search.
'I wonder if Gohan's okay,' Goku thought to himself. 'I bet he escaped and heading home. No, I would have noticed his ki and we're miles away from home. Why do I have a bad feeling about this?'
Goku's silent thoughts were drifting as his friend Krillin slowly woke up. He didn't notice his friend's awakening since his head was up at the ceiling and his thoughts were somewhere else. Krillin lifted up his head and saw Goku staring up at the ceiling.
"Morning," Krillin mumbled as he slowly got up to his feet. "Do you know what time it is?"
"Not sure," Goku answered with his head to the ceiling. "Past breakfast time and before lunch. There's no food in this place and I'm starving."
"I know what you mean." Krillin got up from the floor and sat down next to Goku in the couch. He stretched out and sighed. "I wonder how Gohan's doing?"
"I was thinking the same thing Krillin. It worries me though. Dr. Igiegakie experiments on animals and doesn't even give them a chance to live."
"Don't worry Goku. Gohan is a tough one. There's no way that Dr. Igiegakie can put up with a saiyan like Gohan. I bet he's too scared of Gohan's power and locked him up without food or water. I mean, Gohan probably locked him up without food and water and.oh never mind. I'm just making things worse."
"How come we can't sense his energy," Goku asked turning to Krillin. "I hope he's not dead."
"Gohan's not dead," Piccolo said as he walked up to the two.
"Piccolo," Goku cried. "When did you come back in? Did the bugs attack you and drain your blood?"
"Funny," Piccolo huffed. "For your information I had a vision with Gohan in it."
"Really." Goku sat himself up. "What was it about?"
"I'm curious myself," Vegeta said coming out of his room. "And I noticed all my food was gone from the fridge! Who ate it all?"
'I hope Vegeta doesn't point fingers at me,' Krillin thought as he sunk down in the seat. 'I hope he blames Goku!'
"I opened the fridge and noticed that there was no food," Goku said. "I was too tired to eat."
'Goku how could you!'
"But I want to hear what Piccolo saw in his vision."
'Yeah that's it, change the subject.'
"Fine," Vegeta grunted. "Let's hear what the Namck says before the monk becomes my breakfast."
'I am so dead.'
"It was only a blur," Piccolo began to say. "I saw Dr. Igiegakie and this giant computer he was working on. Next to it was this odd shaped glass object and something was inside it. I couldn't tell what it was but my guess was that it was Gohan. Dr. Igiegakie was putting a needle in a machine and then it went into the glass object. That's all I saw."
There was silence in the room.
"Then what are we waiting for," Vegeta said snapping everyone back to reality. "Let's get out of here and find that brat!"
"That's so sweet," Goku said standing up. "You care for Gohan."
"I owe him my life. I could have been killed by Cell but that brat took that blast for me."
"Then what are we waiting for," Krillin said stepping up. "Let's hurry on out of here and find our friend!"
"Let's go," Goku cried.
Vegeta stepped up to Krillin.
"You ate my food monk and you better run."
Gulp!
****
Black.blonde.gold.sharp black.black.blonde.gold.sharp black.
Dr. Igiegakie watched as Gohan's hair turned those shades of color. From regular, super saiyan, super saiyan level 2, and mystic. He kept his information in the little notebook he had beside him. The extra liquid he added to the Extiuion was making Gohan change from regular, super saiyan, and even mystic. Dr. Igiegakie was interested with the whole thing because he never seen a super saiyan before or even the tapped powers of Gohan.
"Very interesting," Dr. Igiegakie said studying Gohan closely. "Whatever that one vile was made you too over powered in energy. I can see that you're trying to fight it and trying to stay in one state. Wow, a super saiyan."
Dr. Igiegakie was so interested in Gohan that he didn't notice his computer light blinking. He didn't even hear the small beeping it was making, just the sound of the power of a super saiyan. The beeping, however, did grow louder and Dr. Igiegakie finally noticed the computer screen.
"Oh no," he said as he dropped his notebook on the ground. "The body temperature is rising and over one hundred and ten degrees. You can't handle that power!"
Dr. Igiegakie typed in a few keys and grabbed a few test tubes. He added one liquid to another and mixed them up. He used a needle and filled it up with the two mixtures. He stuck the needle in the machine near Gohan and injected it into Gohan's shoulder. Within seconds, Gohan passed out and his body temperature was slowly dropping. Dr. Igiegakie sat down in his chair and sighed.
"That was close. I thought for a minute there he would die. I can't let that happen to him. He will make me famous and my father's life won't be in vain. Now that he's unconscious I think I'll take what I need from him. I'll need to take a blood sample and see how his body is taking in the injections. The last one had to do some damage to the body. What it is I do not know yet. I hope it didn't cause too much damage. Enough lolly-gagging, time for work!"
****
"This is useless," Vegeta yelled blasting a few trees. "We've been searching for days and still haven't found that brat! Why in the name of Kami can we find him?"
"Dr. Igiegakie probably has a ki barrier around him," Piccolo said dusting off a few leaves from Vegeta's blast. "But Vegeta is right. We have been searching and found nothing."
"Maybe we're looking in the wrong place," Krillin said. "We're only what, fifty miles away from Goku's house? Maybe he's not in the area or even on this planet? I wish we had a sign."
"Or something that can help us find Gohan," Goku said with a sigh. "Why is it getting harder and harder to find him? I don't even know where to look."
"So we've been walking around for days to only find nothing," Vegeta cried. "I'm about to give up on this search! Let's face it, we'll never going to find him so why don't we just give up! You still have a second son, what will you be missing?"
There was silence in the woods. Goku stared at the ground while everyone else kept their silence.
"We'll I'm not going to give up," Piccolo said. "I knew Gohan since he was a child. I know that he will stay strong and survive whatever Dr. Igiegakie pulls on him."
"Piccolo's right," Krillin said. "I'm not going to give up either. Gohan's been through worse. He may need to see a psychologist after what he's been through, but it will only be for about a few months."
"Ha," Vegeta said with an eye roll. "Dr. Igiegakie probably turned him into a mouse and ate him. From what remember from that book, that brat probably already killed himself for all we know. You read what he did to his experiments. I bet Gohan couldn't take anymore and decided to just kill himself."
"You're wrong," Piccolo cried. "Gohan will not snoop that low to that level."
"If he can't take it anymore then he probably did!"
"He can fight it!"
"How do you know Namck? We can't sense him, we can't find him, we don't even know where he is! Let's just give up!"
"I'm not giving up!"
"I'm not either," Krillin said. "I believe that Gohan's still out there. We can't sense him but I know that he's alive! Goku will agree one hundred percent, right buddy?" Goku still stared at the ground and was sitting on a rock. He kept his silence. "Goku, you believe that Gohan's alive, right?"
"Goku," Piccolo said staring at the sitting saiyan. "He's your son. You have to have faith in him."
"I don't know," Goku admitted. Piccolo and Krillin stared at him in pure shock.
"What do you mean," Krillin said getting into Goku's face. "You don't believe in Gohan!"
"I do, don't get me wrong. It's just that.I don't know where to look, were to search, who to ask, I don't know anything! If I only told him about that shadow and told him not to go in the woods then maybe he would be safe. I should have taken the leaves into the woods."
"Stop blaming yourself," Krillin said. "Dr. Igiegakie would have gotten Gohan one way or another. We can't give up Goku. You're son is in danger! You have to save him! He's your own flesh and blood! Gohan would never give up so why are you?"
Goku looked up at Krillin and smiled.
"You're right," Goku said getting up. "I should never doubt Gohan and his abilities like that. C'mon, I have a son to save!"
"That's the Goku I know!"
"It's about time."
"This is worse than poison ivy."
****
Gohan slowly awoke and felt something licking his face. He push a furry thing out of the way but it came right back and started licking his face again. He opened his eyes up a bit more and saw a gray animal with its tongue out and tail wagging. It finally hit him and realized that it was dog, er, wolf.
"Hey girl," Gohan said slowly getting up picking up the wolf cub. Then he realized something that she had. "Boy."
Gohan smiled and petted the male wolf cub. The cub barked and attacked his finger. The little guy wanted to play and Gohan couldn't help but laugh.
"How did you get in here little guy?"
"I put him there," Dr. Igiegakie said with his hands behind his back. "That's your dinner."
"My what?!"
"I know that you haven't had a touch of food in days so I decided to feed you. I found him in the woods and thought it might provide good meat for you."
"It's a cub," Gohan said pointing to the cub with rather shaky hands. "I'm not going to eat a cub! That's insane. I'm not even hungry."
"Not hungry," Dr. Igiegakie said with an eyebrow raised. "I thought saiyans had huge appetites."
"Well whatever you jab me with certainly decreased my appetite and I'm not tired at all. I haven't slept for days and I know I have circles under my eyes."
"Silly saiyan. You have no wrinkles because you had a good nights rest. You had a fever and not you're back to your normal body temperature. I just need to know how you feel besides the lack of appetite and shakiness."
"Why do you need to know that," Gohan asked petting the cub. "You put me through all of this and you want to know the side effects so you can test more on me?"
"That's the basic point," Dr. Igiegakie said with a smirk. "So, how do you feel?"
"Actually," Gohan said putting his hand on his chest. "I feel like my chest is shrinking and it's getting harder to breathe. I'm starting to feel Closter phobic."
The small wolf cub looked up at Gohan with worry eyes. Gohan winked at the cub and made his breath come out hard and rigid. Dr. Igiegakie watched as Gohan leaned on the glass barrier and how his face became rather pale. It sounded like his breath was being forced out and Dr. Igiegakie opened a small window in the glass tube.
"Looks like you need some oxygen," he said as he grabbed Gohan's arm.
"Looks like you need a new subject," Gohan said as he punched the doctor with his fist. Dr. Igiegakie was sent flying back and Gohan exited out of the small door. He grabbed the cub along the way and quickly ran.
"My pets," Dr. Igiegakie cried as he opened a door. "Grab him and don't let him escape. I need him back alive!"
Four giant rats came out of the door. They were twice the size of a car and they looked rather hungry. They found Gohan's scent and quickly followed it. Dr. Igiegakie quickly went to his computer and typed in a few things. He wiped the blood coming out of his nose and growled in frustration.
Gohan had no idea where he was and finding an escape was easier said than done. Everything was spinning around and Gohan was having a few hot flashes. He didn't have much energy left and whatever the doctor gave him was taking a huge effect. He was tired and couldn't think straight. The only thing that came into his mind was escape and he needed help to do so.
****
"So then the blonde said, 'I ordered baby back ribs not MY baby's back ribs,'' Krillin said laughing at his own joke. He stopped when no one else was laughing. "Don't you get it, baby back, her baby....Oh never mind!"
"Why did we bring the monk, why," Vegeta mumbled to himself. "I knew we should have taken the three eye guy."
Goku chuckled softly. Not noticing that Piccolo stopped right in front of him, Goku slammed into Piccolo. He rubbed his sore nose.
"Geez Piccolo," Goku said as his voice changed to a high-pitched whine. "Give me a warning before somebody gets hurt."
"Quiet," Piccolo shouted. "Relax and try to feel what's around you."
Goku blinked but listened to what the Namck was saying. He closed his eyes and concentrated hard on the things around him. To his surprise, he found something.
"Gohan."
"Right," Piccolo said. "It's weak but it's still there. Hurry, we don't have much time!"
"It's too far away," Vegeta cried. "By the time we get there and get that brat-"
"I don't care Vegeta," Goku cried as he ran. "We better get their first before we guess what may happen next."
Vegeta growled under his breath as he quickly followed Goku and the others.
"We might be able to get there faster if we used the Instant Transmission," Vegeta shouted. "Or did you forget about that Kakkorot?"
"I'll try." Goku placed two fingers on his forehead and concentrated on Gohan's weak power level. He growled in frustration since Gohan's ki was appearing and then disappearing. "I can't get a steady power level!"
"Then run faster," Piccolo shouted.
****
'This was a bad idea,' Gohan thought as he pressed his back against the wall. 'I'm too weak and I can barely keep my mind straight. I have to get out of here before Dr. Igiegakie catches me.'
Gohan pushed himself off the wall with the small cub in hand. He wobbled down the hall and hitting his shoulder on it whenever he felt dizzy. Gohan was having problems concentrating and his shaking body wasn't helping any. The small wolf cub looked up at Gohan and licked him on the hand for encouragement. Gohan smiled down at the cub but then realized that he wasn't alone. He looked behind him and saw one gigantic rat.
The rat was black with a white face. Its teeth were bigger than a regular rat's teeth and it's claws looked prehistoric. Gohan gulped and quickly ran but his body could take him so far. He made it to the corner of the hall before clasping to his knees. His breath was rigid and his feet felt heavy. Gohan looked at the cub in his hands. The cub was getting heavier and heavier every second that passed.
Gohan saw three other rats come from the other side and noticed that he was cornered at the end of the hallway. They looked hungry and Gohan couldn't find a way to escape.
"I'm sorry," Gohan said to the small cub. "I wish I can get you out of here. If I let you go then the rats will eat you." Gohan looked up and saw a window above the rat behind him. He stood up and grabbed the corner before he fell. "Maybe there is a way to get out of here."
Using what energy he had left, Gohan jumped on one of the rats and jumped through the window. Glass went all over the place and Gohan landed hard on the ground. The small wolf cub tumbled out of Gohan's grasp and shook away the dirt. He started barking when the rats went through the wall and Gohan laid there motionless on the ground. The cub ran over to Gohan and started barking in his face. Gohan managed to open one eye and smiled at the small cub.
"Run little guy," Gohan said. "Get out of here before Dr. Igiegakie uses you as an experiment. Go back home to your family."
"Yap yap yap," the small cub barked. He then began to whimper.
"I'll be alright," Gohan whispered before going into a world of darkness. The cub nudged Gohan but saw the rats making their way to the demi-saiyan. The cub quickly ran off when he saw Dr. Igiegakie coming out of the broken wall.
"I give you shelter and treat you better than my than the rest of my subjects and this is how you repay me," Dr. Igiegakie said with a mask of anger. "You try to escape your fate. Now you made me mad. My loyal rats, take him back into my lab so I can teach him a lesson that he'll never forget."
Morning came and Goku opened the fridge. His face fell when he found no food, no drinks and no ice cubs. All he had last night was Vegeta's leftovers. Vegeta didn't eat his vegetables, go figure, so Goku and Krillin were the first to dive in them. Vegeta let him in the house when it began to rain. The last thing he needed was a monk and a saiyan with a cold.
Goku sighed as he closed the fridge door. He stumbled his way to the couch that could fit five people and plopped down on the sheets that were on his bed. The couch wasn't even comfy and he had to sleep on it. Krillin fell asleep on the floor and Piccolo was outside since the rain stopped. Vegeta was in his own room and Goku felt rather lonely. He needed to find his son. The stories he read in the book made him think about what kind of pain Gohan could be going through. Goku shook his head from the thought. Gohan was strong. He probably escaped for all he knew. Better safe than sorry. He needed to continue his search.
'I wonder if Gohan's okay,' Goku thought to himself. 'I bet he escaped and heading home. No, I would have noticed his ki and we're miles away from home. Why do I have a bad feeling about this?'
Goku's silent thoughts were drifting as his friend Krillin slowly woke up. He didn't notice his friend's awakening since his head was up at the ceiling and his thoughts were somewhere else. Krillin lifted up his head and saw Goku staring up at the ceiling.
"Morning," Krillin mumbled as he slowly got up to his feet. "Do you know what time it is?"
"Not sure," Goku answered with his head to the ceiling. "Past breakfast time and before lunch. There's no food in this place and I'm starving."
"I know what you mean." Krillin got up from the floor and sat down next to Goku in the couch. He stretched out and sighed. "I wonder how Gohan's doing?"
"I was thinking the same thing Krillin. It worries me though. Dr. Igiegakie experiments on animals and doesn't even give them a chance to live."
"Don't worry Goku. Gohan is a tough one. There's no way that Dr. Igiegakie can put up with a saiyan like Gohan. I bet he's too scared of Gohan's power and locked him up without food or water. I mean, Gohan probably locked him up without food and water and.oh never mind. I'm just making things worse."
"How come we can't sense his energy," Goku asked turning to Krillin. "I hope he's not dead."
"Gohan's not dead," Piccolo said as he walked up to the two.
"Piccolo," Goku cried. "When did you come back in? Did the bugs attack you and drain your blood?"
"Funny," Piccolo huffed. "For your information I had a vision with Gohan in it."
"Really." Goku sat himself up. "What was it about?"
"I'm curious myself," Vegeta said coming out of his room. "And I noticed all my food was gone from the fridge! Who ate it all?"
'I hope Vegeta doesn't point fingers at me,' Krillin thought as he sunk down in the seat. 'I hope he blames Goku!'
"I opened the fridge and noticed that there was no food," Goku said. "I was too tired to eat."
'Goku how could you!'
"But I want to hear what Piccolo saw in his vision."
'Yeah that's it, change the subject.'
"Fine," Vegeta grunted. "Let's hear what the Namck says before the monk becomes my breakfast."
'I am so dead.'
"It was only a blur," Piccolo began to say. "I saw Dr. Igiegakie and this giant computer he was working on. Next to it was this odd shaped glass object and something was inside it. I couldn't tell what it was but my guess was that it was Gohan. Dr. Igiegakie was putting a needle in a machine and then it went into the glass object. That's all I saw."
There was silence in the room.
"Then what are we waiting for," Vegeta said snapping everyone back to reality. "Let's get out of here and find that brat!"
"That's so sweet," Goku said standing up. "You care for Gohan."
"I owe him my life. I could have been killed by Cell but that brat took that blast for me."
"Then what are we waiting for," Krillin said stepping up. "Let's hurry on out of here and find our friend!"
"Let's go," Goku cried.
Vegeta stepped up to Krillin.
"You ate my food monk and you better run."
Gulp!
****
Black.blonde.gold.sharp black.black.blonde.gold.sharp black.
Dr. Igiegakie watched as Gohan's hair turned those shades of color. From regular, super saiyan, super saiyan level 2, and mystic. He kept his information in the little notebook he had beside him. The extra liquid he added to the Extiuion was making Gohan change from regular, super saiyan, and even mystic. Dr. Igiegakie was interested with the whole thing because he never seen a super saiyan before or even the tapped powers of Gohan.
"Very interesting," Dr. Igiegakie said studying Gohan closely. "Whatever that one vile was made you too over powered in energy. I can see that you're trying to fight it and trying to stay in one state. Wow, a super saiyan."
Dr. Igiegakie was so interested in Gohan that he didn't notice his computer light blinking. He didn't even hear the small beeping it was making, just the sound of the power of a super saiyan. The beeping, however, did grow louder and Dr. Igiegakie finally noticed the computer screen.
"Oh no," he said as he dropped his notebook on the ground. "The body temperature is rising and over one hundred and ten degrees. You can't handle that power!"
Dr. Igiegakie typed in a few keys and grabbed a few test tubes. He added one liquid to another and mixed them up. He used a needle and filled it up with the two mixtures. He stuck the needle in the machine near Gohan and injected it into Gohan's shoulder. Within seconds, Gohan passed out and his body temperature was slowly dropping. Dr. Igiegakie sat down in his chair and sighed.
"That was close. I thought for a minute there he would die. I can't let that happen to him. He will make me famous and my father's life won't be in vain. Now that he's unconscious I think I'll take what I need from him. I'll need to take a blood sample and see how his body is taking in the injections. The last one had to do some damage to the body. What it is I do not know yet. I hope it didn't cause too much damage. Enough lolly-gagging, time for work!"
****
"This is useless," Vegeta yelled blasting a few trees. "We've been searching for days and still haven't found that brat! Why in the name of Kami can we find him?"
"Dr. Igiegakie probably has a ki barrier around him," Piccolo said dusting off a few leaves from Vegeta's blast. "But Vegeta is right. We have been searching and found nothing."
"Maybe we're looking in the wrong place," Krillin said. "We're only what, fifty miles away from Goku's house? Maybe he's not in the area or even on this planet? I wish we had a sign."
"Or something that can help us find Gohan," Goku said with a sigh. "Why is it getting harder and harder to find him? I don't even know where to look."
"So we've been walking around for days to only find nothing," Vegeta cried. "I'm about to give up on this search! Let's face it, we'll never going to find him so why don't we just give up! You still have a second son, what will you be missing?"
There was silence in the woods. Goku stared at the ground while everyone else kept their silence.
"We'll I'm not going to give up," Piccolo said. "I knew Gohan since he was a child. I know that he will stay strong and survive whatever Dr. Igiegakie pulls on him."
"Piccolo's right," Krillin said. "I'm not going to give up either. Gohan's been through worse. He may need to see a psychologist after what he's been through, but it will only be for about a few months."
"Ha," Vegeta said with an eye roll. "Dr. Igiegakie probably turned him into a mouse and ate him. From what remember from that book, that brat probably already killed himself for all we know. You read what he did to his experiments. I bet Gohan couldn't take anymore and decided to just kill himself."
"You're wrong," Piccolo cried. "Gohan will not snoop that low to that level."
"If he can't take it anymore then he probably did!"
"He can fight it!"
"How do you know Namck? We can't sense him, we can't find him, we don't even know where he is! Let's just give up!"
"I'm not giving up!"
"I'm not either," Krillin said. "I believe that Gohan's still out there. We can't sense him but I know that he's alive! Goku will agree one hundred percent, right buddy?" Goku still stared at the ground and was sitting on a rock. He kept his silence. "Goku, you believe that Gohan's alive, right?"
"Goku," Piccolo said staring at the sitting saiyan. "He's your son. You have to have faith in him."
"I don't know," Goku admitted. Piccolo and Krillin stared at him in pure shock.
"What do you mean," Krillin said getting into Goku's face. "You don't believe in Gohan!"
"I do, don't get me wrong. It's just that.I don't know where to look, were to search, who to ask, I don't know anything! If I only told him about that shadow and told him not to go in the woods then maybe he would be safe. I should have taken the leaves into the woods."
"Stop blaming yourself," Krillin said. "Dr. Igiegakie would have gotten Gohan one way or another. We can't give up Goku. You're son is in danger! You have to save him! He's your own flesh and blood! Gohan would never give up so why are you?"
Goku looked up at Krillin and smiled.
"You're right," Goku said getting up. "I should never doubt Gohan and his abilities like that. C'mon, I have a son to save!"
"That's the Goku I know!"
"It's about time."
"This is worse than poison ivy."
****
Gohan slowly awoke and felt something licking his face. He push a furry thing out of the way but it came right back and started licking his face again. He opened his eyes up a bit more and saw a gray animal with its tongue out and tail wagging. It finally hit him and realized that it was dog, er, wolf.
"Hey girl," Gohan said slowly getting up picking up the wolf cub. Then he realized something that she had. "Boy."
Gohan smiled and petted the male wolf cub. The cub barked and attacked his finger. The little guy wanted to play and Gohan couldn't help but laugh.
"How did you get in here little guy?"
"I put him there," Dr. Igiegakie said with his hands behind his back. "That's your dinner."
"My what?!"
"I know that you haven't had a touch of food in days so I decided to feed you. I found him in the woods and thought it might provide good meat for you."
"It's a cub," Gohan said pointing to the cub with rather shaky hands. "I'm not going to eat a cub! That's insane. I'm not even hungry."
"Not hungry," Dr. Igiegakie said with an eyebrow raised. "I thought saiyans had huge appetites."
"Well whatever you jab me with certainly decreased my appetite and I'm not tired at all. I haven't slept for days and I know I have circles under my eyes."
"Silly saiyan. You have no wrinkles because you had a good nights rest. You had a fever and not you're back to your normal body temperature. I just need to know how you feel besides the lack of appetite and shakiness."
"Why do you need to know that," Gohan asked petting the cub. "You put me through all of this and you want to know the side effects so you can test more on me?"
"That's the basic point," Dr. Igiegakie said with a smirk. "So, how do you feel?"
"Actually," Gohan said putting his hand on his chest. "I feel like my chest is shrinking and it's getting harder to breathe. I'm starting to feel Closter phobic."
The small wolf cub looked up at Gohan with worry eyes. Gohan winked at the cub and made his breath come out hard and rigid. Dr. Igiegakie watched as Gohan leaned on the glass barrier and how his face became rather pale. It sounded like his breath was being forced out and Dr. Igiegakie opened a small window in the glass tube.
"Looks like you need some oxygen," he said as he grabbed Gohan's arm.
"Looks like you need a new subject," Gohan said as he punched the doctor with his fist. Dr. Igiegakie was sent flying back and Gohan exited out of the small door. He grabbed the cub along the way and quickly ran.
"My pets," Dr. Igiegakie cried as he opened a door. "Grab him and don't let him escape. I need him back alive!"
Four giant rats came out of the door. They were twice the size of a car and they looked rather hungry. They found Gohan's scent and quickly followed it. Dr. Igiegakie quickly went to his computer and typed in a few things. He wiped the blood coming out of his nose and growled in frustration.
Gohan had no idea where he was and finding an escape was easier said than done. Everything was spinning around and Gohan was having a few hot flashes. He didn't have much energy left and whatever the doctor gave him was taking a huge effect. He was tired and couldn't think straight. The only thing that came into his mind was escape and he needed help to do so.
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"So then the blonde said, 'I ordered baby back ribs not MY baby's back ribs,'' Krillin said laughing at his own joke. He stopped when no one else was laughing. "Don't you get it, baby back, her baby....Oh never mind!"
"Why did we bring the monk, why," Vegeta mumbled to himself. "I knew we should have taken the three eye guy."
Goku chuckled softly. Not noticing that Piccolo stopped right in front of him, Goku slammed into Piccolo. He rubbed his sore nose.
"Geez Piccolo," Goku said as his voice changed to a high-pitched whine. "Give me a warning before somebody gets hurt."
"Quiet," Piccolo shouted. "Relax and try to feel what's around you."
Goku blinked but listened to what the Namck was saying. He closed his eyes and concentrated hard on the things around him. To his surprise, he found something.
"Gohan."
"Right," Piccolo said. "It's weak but it's still there. Hurry, we don't have much time!"
"It's too far away," Vegeta cried. "By the time we get there and get that brat-"
"I don't care Vegeta," Goku cried as he ran. "We better get their first before we guess what may happen next."
Vegeta growled under his breath as he quickly followed Goku and the others.
"We might be able to get there faster if we used the Instant Transmission," Vegeta shouted. "Or did you forget about that Kakkorot?"
"I'll try." Goku placed two fingers on his forehead and concentrated on Gohan's weak power level. He growled in frustration since Gohan's ki was appearing and then disappearing. "I can't get a steady power level!"
"Then run faster," Piccolo shouted.
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'This was a bad idea,' Gohan thought as he pressed his back against the wall. 'I'm too weak and I can barely keep my mind straight. I have to get out of here before Dr. Igiegakie catches me.'
Gohan pushed himself off the wall with the small cub in hand. He wobbled down the hall and hitting his shoulder on it whenever he felt dizzy. Gohan was having problems concentrating and his shaking body wasn't helping any. The small wolf cub looked up at Gohan and licked him on the hand for encouragement. Gohan smiled down at the cub but then realized that he wasn't alone. He looked behind him and saw one gigantic rat.
The rat was black with a white face. Its teeth were bigger than a regular rat's teeth and it's claws looked prehistoric. Gohan gulped and quickly ran but his body could take him so far. He made it to the corner of the hall before clasping to his knees. His breath was rigid and his feet felt heavy. Gohan looked at the cub in his hands. The cub was getting heavier and heavier every second that passed.
Gohan saw three other rats come from the other side and noticed that he was cornered at the end of the hallway. They looked hungry and Gohan couldn't find a way to escape.
"I'm sorry," Gohan said to the small cub. "I wish I can get you out of here. If I let you go then the rats will eat you." Gohan looked up and saw a window above the rat behind him. He stood up and grabbed the corner before he fell. "Maybe there is a way to get out of here."
Using what energy he had left, Gohan jumped on one of the rats and jumped through the window. Glass went all over the place and Gohan landed hard on the ground. The small wolf cub tumbled out of Gohan's grasp and shook away the dirt. He started barking when the rats went through the wall and Gohan laid there motionless on the ground. The cub ran over to Gohan and started barking in his face. Gohan managed to open one eye and smiled at the small cub.
"Run little guy," Gohan said. "Get out of here before Dr. Igiegakie uses you as an experiment. Go back home to your family."
"Yap yap yap," the small cub barked. He then began to whimper.
"I'll be alright," Gohan whispered before going into a world of darkness. The cub nudged Gohan but saw the rats making their way to the demi-saiyan. The cub quickly ran off when he saw Dr. Igiegakie coming out of the broken wall.
"I give you shelter and treat you better than my than the rest of my subjects and this is how you repay me," Dr. Igiegakie said with a mask of anger. "You try to escape your fate. Now you made me mad. My loyal rats, take him back into my lab so I can teach him a lesson that he'll never forget."
What's Dr. Igiegakie going to do to Gohan? What pain will Gohan go through? Will Goku and the others save Gohan in time? Review and you will see.