FALLEN
The two warriors have been fighting for hours and they were both very tired but neither of them wanted to give up.
'I have to win, it's the only way to save Trunks!" Vegeta thought while getting on his feet after receiving a ki blast that sent him flying through a mountain.
"Something is not right here, usually when fighting Vegeta keeps talking about his pride, but now he just trying to kill me. This fight means something else for him but what?" Gokou said to himself panting.
"Where did he go?" Gokou said when he couldn't see or sense Vegeta anywhere. "I don't like this one single bit." He said when he saw a ki blast coming at him he retreated in the air but it followed him, then come a second, a third, a fourth and so forth soon they were so many of them that Gokou began to worry about how to avoid them. He got hit by five of them and couldn't believe how powerful they were but by the time he got his composure back, all the scattered and guided ki blast fused together to form an enormous one that hit him at full force. Seriously injured Gokou fell on the ground unable to move.
"It's over Kakorott." Vegeta said while landing at his side. He lift his hand ready to finish Gokou off when suddenly a ki blast transpierced his hand and another threw him feet away.
"Gokou, are you alright!"
"Piccolo!" Gokou said.
"Impossible I killed him!!! Damn you Namek!" Raditz said with rage. Vegeta painfully got on his feet and fired.
"Give up it Vegeta!" Piccolo said while deviated the blast.
"Never!" Vegeta replied while trying to power up.
"Why are you doing this? Is it because of Raditz." Piccolo asked.
"I don't know what you are talking about! Now stay out of this! That fight is between saiya-jin!" Vegeta said.
"What do you mean by that Piccolo?" Gokou asked while gathering the little strength he had left.
"Your brother is alive Gokou and he tried to kill me, lucky me for my head wasn't damage during the fight and was able to regenerate the rest of my body it took me awhile but I did it! I have to thanks Kami for the help though." Piccolo said while giving a senzu bean to Gokou.
"NO!" Vegeta said falling on his knees when he saw that his last hope to defeat Gokou was gone.
"No he can't be alive!" Gokou said.
"Yes he is and I have the feeling he's the one behind that mess." Piccolo said.
"Is it true Vegeta?" Gokou asked the prince but this one was looking at the ground while saying.
"It's over he's going to kill him."
"That's right Vegeta you failed, so its bye, bye Trunks!" Raditz said on his ear and cut the communication.
"NOOOOOOOOOO! No, no." Vegeta said while tears began to roll down his cheeks.
"What on the world?" Gokou said surprised.
"Vegeta, what's wrong?" Piccolo asked while trying to help him on his feet.
"Get away from me! This is your fault! Your are responsible for the death of my son!" Vegeta said while hitting the Namek.
"Your son's death?" the two warriors said together.
"It's true Kakorott, Raditz is alive. He killed Bulma and kidnapped my son and the only way to have him back was to kill you." Vegeta said.
"I see that he's back to his old tricks again." Gokou said while clenching his fists.
"I should have known, I am sorry Vegeta." Piccolo said.
"Your apology won't bring him back, moron." Vegeta said angry.
"But the dragon balls can!" Gokou said.
"I think we should find Raditz first, maybe its not too late for your son." Piccolo said.
"But how? He was able to hide for years without us suspecting a thing!" Gokou said, Vegeta was lost in his thought while taking the device out of his ear.
"What is this?" Piccolo asked.
"Raditz was able to communicate to me through this." Vegeta said sighing.
"Oh, did he give it to you personally?" Piccolo asked.
"He's not stupid, he must have p…" Vegeta began to say than stop when he remembered something. Raditz asking him not to kill Yamcha. "Wait a second he wasn't telling me not to kill Yamcha but Bruno! Why?" Vegeta said to himself.
"What are you mumbling about?" Piccolo asked him.
"They know each other!" Vegeta said aloud.
"Uh? Who are you talking about?" Gokou asked puzzled.
"That blond guy I think he might know where Raditz is." Vegeta said while eating a senzu bean Piccolo offered him.
"Are you sure about that?" Gokou said while trying to remember the young man that was shielding Yamcha.
"Yes, I bet he's working for him." Vegeta said while taking off.
"No one in his right mind would work for Raditz!" Piccolo said following him.
"I know, but something tell me that guy knows him pretty well more I think about it more I am sure of it." Vegeta said remembering that he heard Bruno curse in saiya-jin tongue once but thought it was his imagination. 'He was spying on us all this time'
"Well even if its true where do we find that guy?" Gokou asked.
"We go ask Yamcha." Vegeta said.
"Well I think we'll get there faster with my instant transmission technique." Gokou said while putting his two fingers in his forehead and while the two warriors touched him and vanished with him.
"Damn it I was so close! Shit I could I be so stupid forgetting about the Namek regeneration abilities it was all over Dr Gero's notes! Calm down you still have one more card you didn't play yet it is dangerous but I have no choice, its only a matter of time before they find me." Raditz said after cutting the communication with Vegeta. He then got in his car and drove toward late Dr Gero's lab.
"I better keep my ki at is minimum so they don't pick it up!" he said while speeding toward his destination.
Gokou, Piccolo and Vegeta reappeared in front of Yamcha who let out a little shriek of surprised. Vegeta walked strait to Bruno who was sitting on chair very pale.
"Where is he? Where is Raditz?" Vegeta asked him while grabbing him by the collar.
"I don't know what you are talking about!" Bruno replied.
"Wrong answer!" Vegeta said while slapping him so hard that he hit the wall.
"Stop this!" Yamcha said while trying to go at Bruno's aid, but Piccolo stopped him.
"Let me go! Gokou what's the meaning of this?" Yamcha asked surprised, but Gokou looked the other way not proud of this.
"One more time, tell me where Raditz is hiding?" Vegeta said while bringing Bruno back to him.
"I told you, I don't know what you are talking about." Bruno said bravely which only got him another smack from Vegeta. He fell on the floor and spat some blood but determined not to talk. Angry Vegeta began to hit him harder, furious Yamcha freed himself from Piccolo and made Vegeta let go of Bruno by head-butting him.
"Are you deaf? He said that he doesn't know!" Yamcha said, Vegeta grabbed the Z warrior by the neck and started squeezing while picking him off his feet.
"Vegeta!" Gokou said but Piccolo signed him not to intervene, the warrior sighed and looked away. Yamcha tried to make Vegeta let go of him but with no avail, he couldn't believe that his friends won't come to help.
"Why?" He said while choking. Seeing that Yamcha's friends were serious on not helping, Bruno slowly got on his feet and said.
"Let him go I'll tell you were he is."
Vegeta dropped Yamcha that began to cough. "You'll find Raditz in a tower located in the middle of the desert going south from here." Bruno said.
"Bruno" Yamcha said sadly while looking at him.
"I am sorry Yamcha." He said looking away.
"For your sake we better find him there!" Vegeta said while flying away followed by Piccolo and Gokou. Yamcha got on his feet and said.
"Bruno, explain yourself!"
"I am an ACC agent and our work is to protect the planet against alien invasion…" Bruno began to say having in his mind to tell him everything even if it meant the end of their relationship. The three warriors made it to the tower where they found Bulma and Trunks.
"Oh thanks goodness you are alright!" Bulma said when she saw them.
"Where is Raditz?" Vegeta asked.
"He left long before you got here." Bulma said.
"Something tells me he's up to something." Gokou said.
"I believe so, if not he wouldn't leave them behind." Piccolo said.
"Do you think Bruno might know where he is?" Gokou asked.
"Don't know." Piccolo replied.
"I can always beat it out of him." Vegeta said while making his fingers crack. They head back to Bruno's mansion for questioning.
"I swear I don't know where he is now!" Bruno said scared.
"Think harder!" Vegeta said.
"I don't know where he lives, the only one that can tell you is his wife but I have no contact with her I swear!" Bruno said.
"Who is she?" Piccolo asked.
"She's the scientist who brought Raditz back to life with unrivaled technology, no one knows for sure where she came from not even the ACC agency could trace her history, we just call her Dr Yakusoku that's all!" Bruno said quickly.
"Yakusoku! Are you sure about that?" Vegeta asked anxious.
"What is it Vegeta?" Piccolo asked surprised.
"Nothing. I am sure that our friend here is not telling the truth." Vegeta said.
"I told you all that I know!" Bruno said.
"Liar!" Vegeta said while approaching him.
"I…I…maybe Dr Gero knows!" Bruno said.
"Dr Gero" Gokou said.
"Yes, one day he showed up with a program that he wanted me to modified and told me Dr Gero wrote it!" Bruno said.
"Darn it!" Gokou said.
"Who is he?" Vegeta asked.
"The master mind behind the Red Ribbon Army, but Gokou defeated him a long time ago!" Bulma said.
"Let me guess you spared his life." Vegeta said.
"You have no room to talk, Vegeta." Yamcha said to him and the two men exchange deadly glare.
"Do you know where he is?" Piccolo asked Bruno who said no.
"Well I read somewhere that he has a lab in the mountains outside of North city, but don't know exactly were." Bulma said.
"Better that than nothing, let's move out!" Vegeta said while taking the lead followed even by Yamcha.
"Where are you going?" Bruno asked him.
"Helping my 'friends'." He replied leaving.
"No, it's too dangerous!" Bruno said but they were long gone, the young scientist thought for a moment and followed them in his car.
Raditz sat in front of the two pods containing Juunana-gou and Juuhachi-gou pondering if he should free them or not.
"These two are too dangerous for my taste, but knowing Vegeta he won't hesitate to send me back to hell. Either way I am doomed, I can't hide here forever. Damn it they are here!" He said when he sensed Gokou and the others approaching. While holding the neutralizer in one hand and began to type the command to open the pods with the other hand. The two cyborgs got out of their pods and stood in front of Raditz.
The z-fighters were still looking for the lab when a big explosion shook the entire area.
"What was that?" Yamcha asked.
"I don't know it came from over there." Piccolo said, when they reached it there was nothing left but rubble in the place Dr Gero's lad was hidden.
"What happened here?" Gokou asked.
"I wish I knew." Vegeta said.
Above them the two jinzouningen were watching.
Raditz had released upon the world Dr Gero's abomination! Can the z-fighters stop this new threat? Don't miss the next chapter of Unforgivable. "Raditz's Atonement!" Later and thanks for your reviews!