Chapter 23
YOU'RE going to do WHAT?!?!?!
Monday 9:00 p.m.
"By your own words I am your king." Roshi said as he watched the six men.
Banana looked like he was about to say something when Kinomi or rather Ichigo suddenly let out an infernal scream. Roshi watched as her ki shot up rapidly and built a greenish blue aura around her. She broke free from the men who were holding her down and shot at Roshi like a Rocket.
"AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" She screamed as she flew at him with her broken jaw forcing her mouth into a misshaped O.
Roshi had less then second to react. He didn't. The very vacant and far away look in her eyes was the last thing he saw before she drove a full powered right hook Ki Punch into his left cheek.
* * *
Ichigo was in a daze, she heard and saw and felt what was going on, but it was almost as if she were a person watching from the outside rather then herself.
Beep BEEP BEEEP!! One of the men's scouters chimed.
Ichigo opened her eyes in time to see Banana who had been kneeling over her get slammed into by something moving faster then she could make out at the time. She slowly rolled her head so she could get a better view. Standing fifty or so feet away with a bright blue aura surrounding him was Son Roshi. He let the aura drop away and he turned to look into her eyes and then glare at the men holding her down.
'And the Jerk just had to be the one to come save me' was all she could think.
Ichigo was not the most aware at the moment was she was impressed with is bravado. 'There is no way he can beat them, doesn't even matter' she thought.
She realized Roshi was talking and fought to focus on what he was saying.
"By your own words, I am your King." He said.
Ichigo heard the words. They slowly sunk in. In a moment of epiphany it is said that everything makes sense and the universe of possibilities opens up. Ichigo had a reverse-epiphany. What little hope, trust, and even sanity she had at the moment shattered like a crystal hit by a very very large hammer.
'He wants to take everything from me' was the only thing she could think. 'That was his goal the entire time. He has it in his blood. I never should have trusted him.' Her rage built in an instant and she broke free of whatever it was that was holding her back. He never even tried to block.
She saw him crash into a granite outcropping causing it to collapse and bury him under tones of rubble. Ichigo felt nothing from this knowledge. No pain, no remorse, no sadness, no joy, no anger, and most importantly, no end. She was obliviously flying towards the rubble to finish the job when something hit her in the back.
Reacting on instinct, she started to fight with the man who had attacked her. All the while retreating deeper and deeper into the corners of her mind.
* * *
Banana's scouter went nuts. He had been watching the power level of the kid who had dared to attack him. The scouter had originally said that he had a power level of 25. A person who had that low of a power level would have been turned into goo upon slamming into him, so Banana knew that he had to be stronger. But how much stronger, and why wasn't his scouter detecting his strength. The scouter couldn't find a number. It reported 50,000 and then 10, and then 40,000 and it was all over the place. But, with the way the boy was producing that flaming aura, he had to be strong.
Then all hell broke loose. Princess Ichigo suddenly started screaming and broke free from his men. Banana's scouter suddenly was reporting that she had a power level of 76,300! It was impossible. He gawked at her as she slammed into the stupid boy and sent him into a cliff-side.
"Get her you fools!" Banana shouted as she started to fly towards the collapsed cliff.
Obedient beyond measure, only Kiwi, the weakest showed any hesitation as the five of them flew after her.
'Hmmm, he thought to himself, Durian shows up as having a power level of 48,680. That is correct. Could she really have a power level of 76,000? That is impossible. She was only in the upper 20,000 to lower 30,000 range when she left.' He thought as he took off to join the fight.
* * *
Durian hit Ichigo with a ki ball and caught her attention. She turned around and threw a simple beam back at him. They soon closed in and started fighting hand to hand.
Ichigo fought hard and fought well, but she was not really aware of what she was doing. She reacted to their attacks and blocked or kicked or punched. Had there only been one or two or maybe even three of them, then she may have had a chance. As it was they were doing a significant amount of damage to her.
"Rot Beam!" Durian shouted before opening his mouth wide to shoot a green breath attack at her.
Ichigo saw it coming, but did nothing to get out of its way. She took the blast and was thrown several hundred meters away.
The attack had shredded her right ear and left her face bloody and bruised.
"AAAAHHHHH" She yelled back as she fired off a huge one-handed conical beam of bluish-purple light. The beam vaporized about three miles of grasslands and rolling hills. Unfortunately, it missed all six of the Saiyans.
A shadow moved behind her and she spun around to fight it. Two sets of hands grabbed her arms and started to drag her down towards the ground.
"Nooaaaahhh!!" She yelled as she brought her arms together smashing Papaya and Mango into each other. The two unprepared warriors fell out of the sky dazed.
An arm came from behind her to put her into a strangle hold.
Pineapple spoke into her ear as his other hand reached around to grab her left breast. "Oh no you don't bitch, I haven't gotten my jollies from you yet"
Without even thinking her left elbow shot back and slammed into his ribs. She felt a rib snap and heard him exhale in pain.
When his chokehold weakened, she spun around so that his arm was still draped around her neck, but Ichigo was now facing him. Pineapple tried to back away, but did not get very far before she slammed her knee up into his groin. She grabbed his left foot as he was flung up by the impact and yanked him down to drive his groin onto her other knee.
Pineapple spun up and away from her in while pulling himself into a fetal position.
"Trryy ta raathe nee ill YAAHHH??" She screamed at him before flying up to fire a ki blast at point blank range right into his crotch.
Suddenly, a large ki ball slammed into Ichigo's left side exploding and pushing her away from Pineapple.
When the smoke cleared, one could see a large bloody gash running from her side starting over where her kidneys would be to the middle of her back.
Ichigo barely noticed. She didn't care about the pain. Right then she really didn't care about much of anything. She just wanted everything to go away and leave her alone.
* * *
"DIE YOU STUPID BITCH!!!" Banana screamed as his ki ball hit Ichigo in the side.
He then looked on in disgust and horror as Pineapple stopped his upward movement and arched back towards the ground. Blood and bowels were falling out of what had just moments ago been the warrior's lower abdomen.
"Stop playing with her and kill the bitch! We can have our choice of any REAL Saiyan woman we want once we get back to Saiya!" Banana ordered as he powered up to his maximum level of 56,300 and took off to attack Ichigo.
* * *
Hours away, Tee was peacefully sleeping in his bed when Boxers started pounding on his window.
Bang Bong! "Hey wake up! Tee get up now!!"
"Ok, Ok, I'm up! What do you want?" Tee said groggily as he jumped up to open up his screen door to his balcony and let Boxers in.
"I was meditating and I felt something. Feel the air, reach out with your ki, tell me you feel it too." Boxers said as he moved into the room.
Tee closed his eyes for a moment. "I don't know, there might be something going on over there," he pointed to the northwest, "but I couldn't tell you. Why didn't you call Roshi and let me sleep? He is a lot better at this sort of thing anyway." He said indignantly.
"I tried! But I got his mother and she screamed bloody murder at me and hung up the phone." Boxers explained.
"Let me guess, you used a pay phone so you couldn't just call Roshi's computer with the private link Slip set up." Tee said flatly as he went over to wake up his computer.
"I was in a hurry, Okay?" Boxers said back.
"Sure whatever." Tee said sarcastically.
"What's this?" Tee said as his computer came on to reveal a blinking message icon.
Tee opened the message and read it quickly. "Damn it Slip!" He said out loud.
"What?" Boxers asked as he came over to read the note on the computer.
To Boxers and Tee,
Roshi said he needed your help. It obviously has to do with that girl.
I would suggest that you let Roshi handle his own problems and just go
Back to bed when you get this message.
Slip
"Oh crap! It says that the message was sent at 8:34! Its 9:08 now! Despite what Slip thinks, if Roshi skipped out of his house and asked for our help, there has to be something major going on. Come on let's go!" Boxers yelled as he ran out the door and took flight.
"HEY! Wait up! I still need to get my gi on!" Tee yelled after him.
* * *
Ichigo landed near the spot where Pineapple had fallen. She as she watched Banana fly in at her she was not even aware of the dieing man behind her. Nor was she aware of the four other men who were flying in to attack her.
"AAAAAHHHH" She yelled as she fired of a Flare attack at Banana.
"Kiahhh!" Banana yelled as he shot a wave of energy in to disperse her cone of super heated ki.
WHAM!! Ichigo knocked his leg away with her left arm as he attempted to kick her in the face.
Banana looked into her eyes trying to get a read on her. He saw death. Cold, hard, and emotionless her vacant gray-blue eyes stared back without focus. Then Papaya swept her feet out from under her and she turned to attack him.
* * *
'Aggghhh, the whole left side of my face feels like it caved in' Roshi thought as he came to.
His lungs burned. 'Crap! I'm rebreathing my own air! If I don't get out of here, I'll suffocate.' He thought as he coughed up some blood and tooth fragments.
Roshi slowly expanded his ki until he could push his way out of the pile of rubble.
He assessed his situation as he pulled himself up onto the top of the collapsed Cliffside. He had three broken teeth, an extremely bad headache, a stiff neck, bruised shoulder, and various scrapes and other bruises. 'Ouch,' he thought as he stretched cracking several joints painfully. 'What the heck did she do that for? I swear, if I live to be a million I won't understand the way women think. Thankfully she didn't break any bones'
Roshi tried to sense Boxers or Tee and could not, meaning they were a very long ways off. He could still sense seven other ki sources in the area. One of them was growing faint quite rapidly, but he could see Ichigo fighting so he knew she was not the one dieing.
Stretching himself out and feeling his bruises he realized that this was not going to be an easy fight, especially if he had to worry about Ichigo attacking him for no reason. 'I'll deal with her later when she can explain why she attacked me' He thought to himself as he reached up to see if he communicator was still working.
It was cracked and the mic piece was hanging on by a wire, but it beeped so it was still working.
"Hey Slip, you there?" He asked into the mic.
"No, I'm busy now, leave me alone." Slip replied before cutting off the link.
'Ah crap, guess I'm on my own until Boxers and Tee show up' He thought before launching himself towards the battle.
None of the other combatants noticed him as he flew up, which allowed him to access their fighting abilities.
Kinomi, no, he reminded himself that her REAL name was Ichigo, was not fighting anything like what she did yesterday. It was like she was in a drunken stupor and not thinking about her actions. She was only fighting reactively. And she was fighting poorly.
Roshi watched as one of the men grabbed her long braid and flew in the opposite direction she had been going, causing her head to snap around like she had been clothes lined. She forgot all about the man she had been chasing and started fighting the brute holding her hair.
The fact that they were mostly playing with her and she was allowing it bothered Roshi. 'She is bleeding excessively from multiple injuries and still has a level over 60,000. She is out numbered, but still, she is almost asking to get killed. And these guys are not even that good. Well, either they are not that good, or they are being very sloppy because they know she is not much of a threat.' He reminded himself.
"Hey if any of you guys in the MORON SQUAD wants to have a real fight, I'm waiting!" Roshi called out as he flew up and landed 50 meters from were the group of men was trying to beat Ichigo into paste.
Roshi saw the leader look up to glare at him.
"Oh, so you aren't dead yet? What do you think you can prove boy?" He touched his scouter, "You have a power level of 5,000. You may have survived an attack by that weak pathetic bitch, but you are no match for us. Durian, you and Mango go take care of that worm."
'Call me a worm will ya, well then I'm the strongest worm they've ever met. Hmmm 80,000 should be high enough to make them think twice.' Roshi smirked at the thought.
"YEAAAAAAHHHHHH!" Roshi yelled as a white aura formed around him. He took off to attack.
Durian flew up and punched right through Roshi's after image.
WHAM!! Roshi hit the man, who had identified himself as Banana when he had talked to Ichigo earlier, in his left ear shattering his scouter and launching him into the air.
"RRHaaaaa" Roshi yelled as he slammed his fist into Banana's gut.
Roshi sensed someone forming a ki attack behind him and he spun around to see a short squat man who had not been named standing over Ichigo's unconscious form.
"GET AWAY FROM HER!" Roshi yelled as he flew in to block the man's attack. He didn't particularly like her at the moment, but he was going to be damned if he let someone kill her like a downed horse after he had saved her life twice.
"Rot Beam!" The largest one yelled before sending a green beam of light out of his mouth at Roshi.
Roshi turned, seeing the attack, he cupped his hands. "KA....ME....HA....ME.......HA!!!" Roshi held the attack powering it up until Durian's green beam had almost hit him. Then he released it. Roshi's Kamehameha was about three times larger then the Breath attack Durian had launched. It absorbed the Rot beam effortlessly as it sped towards the large man.
WHOOOOMMMM!!! The beam exploded on impact. When the dust and smoke had settled, Durian was seen smoking with most of his upper armor blown off. Also, rather then sporting his former double Mohawk hair style, was now completely bald.
Roshi then spun in the air to catch an incoming fist.
"You must be Mango, Care to tell me who the fat guy and the short fat guy are before I have to kill you all?" Roshi said as he wrenched the man's arm around forcing him to spin into the oncoming beam Banana had fired at Roshi.
Boom!
When the man refused to say anything he threw him down into the ground and charged at Banana again.
After several successive blows to Banana's stomach and face, he landed and threw the man down at his feet.
"I give you the option to leave now. If you stay it will only force me to kill you." Roshi said firmly.
Banana and his goons slowly started to circle around Roshi like sharks.
"You are quite the warrior, but I do think you are mistaken." Banana said as he wiped some blood off of his forehead.
"Oh really?" Roshi replied cockily. "Why is that?"
Banana started laughing. "You really are clueless. You claim Saiyan heritage, but you are clueless." He whipped around and pointed. "That Boy is the moon. It is rising over the horizon as we speak. It looks rather full to me boy. I would say you have about a minute to kill us before we all go Ouzaru. I don't think you can, so it is over for you." He laughed.
"Ignore the bitch, we can come back for her. Spread out and break things, he can't catch us all." Banana laughed and then took to the air with his men.
Roshi's mood fell like a meteor. 'KAMI NO! HOW COULD I MISS THAT!?!?! The effects of the full moon last three days! Oh Kami... Options, Options I need to think of my options.'
The short fat man stopped in his retreat and fired one last ki ball at Roshi.
'Kill you and raise my chances by a long shot' Roshi thought as he watched the ball race at him.
"KAMEHAMEHA!!!!" he yelled. The ball of ki splattered like a snowball against the head of Roshi's Kamehameha.
Roshi watched with regret as the beam vaporized Kiwi. 'I didn't even know his name'
A distant explosion as one of the goons blew something up shook Roshi out of his stupor.
"Oh Kami help me! What can I do?" He said aloud before starting to really think. 'Option A: Blow up the moon. Can't do that there are 5,000 people working at CC's lunar plant. Option B: Give Ichigo a senzu and hope she doesn't attack me. Not if I can avoid it. Option C: Get close enough to them to cut of their tails with a Kienzian. And get stomped into snail snot. Option D: Kiao ken. I tried it once. It hurt too much to keep it up. But I am a lot stronger now, so who knows, I might be able to do it. Oh Kami I don't want to rely on mights and maybes. If I fail to do it right, I will be too hurt to even try to fight.'
Inspiration struck Roshi.
"SLIP THIS IS LIFE AND DEATH SO BY KAMI YOU HAD DAMN WELL BETTER ANSWER ME!" He yelled into his mic.
"Ok I'm here keep your pants on jeesh your girlfriend to much for you or something?" Slip snapped back.
"Don't you have the GKSS running yet?"
"No, it is not exactly one of my priorities right now." An electric popping noise could be heard in the background. "There, the computer is reconnecting to the satellites now. If that is all I have things I really need to be doing." Slip said back in an indignant tone.
"Slip shut the fuck up and listen to me for once in your life. I am fighting FOUR tailed Saiyans. The moon will be up in about oh 30 seconds. I need you to evacuate the moon base, and I need you to do it NOW!"
"You want me to do WHAT!? Ha ha nice joke Roshi. There are over 5,000 people on the moon. I don't find this funny you know. Let me see what the GKSS says about that." Slip shot back.
* * *
Slip dusted herself off and brought up the screen for the GKSS just in time to watch as four icons stared to flash and increase in power. Four Ouzarus were forming.
"SLIP THIS ISN'T A JOKE! I will give you five minutes to evacuate as many people as possible, but it is better if I end up killing every one of the people on the moon then if I allowed these Ouzarus to kill every person here on Earth now EVACUATE THE FUCKING MOON!!!" Roshi screamed at her before his link went dead.
"Roshi?!?? ROSHI ARE YOU STILL THERE?!?!" Slip screamed.
There was no answer.
Slip stared at her computer. "This can't be happening." She watched as the computer tagged eight people. The most powerful Ouzaru had a power level of 564,000 then there was one at 430,000 and two at 360,000. It showed Boxers and Tee at 28,400 and 24,500 respectively, AND an hour away. Then it showed Roshi at 112,000 '112,000 is good but he is majorly out matched' Slip thought as she found the last icon representing Ichigo as being unconscious.
Slip grabbed a camera and set it up to point at her computer. She was not about to broadcast the damaged wreck the rest of her lab was in.
'Oh my parents are going to kill me when they get home. I don't even want to think of how much this is going to cost us.' She thought before activating the communication relays.
"Computer open the Alpha priority Emergency channel. Authorization Slip Son Briefs, ID number 15524485A." Slip waited for the computer to tell her that the channel was open.
"This is Slip Son Briefs. I am hereby ordering an emergency evacuation of the Lunar Base. I repeat EVACUATE the Lunar Base immediately. This is not a drill. I have reason to believe that the Moon will be destroyed within five minutes. Please by Kami get off the moon now." She said before she lost her voice and shut off the transmission.
Slip recalled how she had acted earlier that evening. "Oh Kami what have I done?"
* * *
Meanwhile, the ship Slip's parents had taken had just landed on Namek. While they had set the computer to ignore all messages, it could not be set to ignore an Alpha priority message of any type.
"Alert, Alpha Priority Message incoming." The computer reported right before Goshu walked out the door to head down the ramp. He had been surprised to detect both Piccolo and Nail waiting for the ship to land. Even though he had come on the trip specifically to work with the two of them, it was unlike them to come to him. So, he had been in a hurry to see what the two Nameks had thought was so urgent that they had not waited for him to come to them.
"That girl had better have a real good reason for sending an Alpha level message. If she just wants us to come home so she can sluff of responsibility again, I'm cutting off her allowance." Slips father complained.
"Well Frank, we will just have to go to the bridge and see what the message is." Teddy, Slip's mother said to her husband.
The two of them walked up to the bridge and after hearing some screaming, Goshu followed.
"I'm going to call her and see what is going on." Teddy said.
Oh no you are not." Frank said. "This has got to be a sick joke just to get us to call her and tell her what do to. There is no way this is a real message! WHAT does she mean EVACUATE the LUNAR BASE?!?!" Frank screamed. "They Moon isn't going to just BLOW UP! I HAVE HAD ENOUGH OF HER STUPID IRRESPONCIBLE JOKES! Evacuate the Moon! Does she have any clue how much that is going to cost. Not only in time but fuel and products and resources!..." Frank was and accountant and had married into the family for the money. He could have gone on forever, but Goshu cut him off.
"What is that on the screen behind her?" He asked as the message repeated.
Teddy looked closer at it and then had the computer zoom in on the monitor that was behind Slip.
"The label on the monitor says that it is the Global Ki Surveillance System. I hate to say it but I have no idea what it might be. Slip is using Bulma's old lab, and there is a lot of stuff in there that was never carried over or updated when they built the bigger building." She said.
"We need to go back to Earth now." Goshu said quickly.
"WHAT!! This is my vacation. No stupid joke of my daughter is going to ruin it. We can deal with Slip later. Like I said, the moon isn't just going to blow up!" Frank shot back.
"If what I am seeing is right, it very well might be going to be blown up." Goshu said.
Before Frank could go purple in the face yelling anymore, Teddy clamped her hand over his mouth. "Could you explain just how you came to that conclusion?" Teddy said.
"Ah, yeah." Goshu started. "As you well know ki is the energy we manipulate when we fight."
"Yes, we know, but what does it have to do with this situation?" Teddy asked calmly.
"Well it can be detected by various machines, and I think that this is what that Global surveillance system is doing. It tracks Ki." Seeing the impatient look in Teddy's eyes, Goshu finished his explanation. "Ah, that screen there shows four Ouzarus, and my son Roshi fighting two of them."
"But how, there are no other Saiyans but us!" Teddy exclaimed. "The family spent years looking for them, and no Saiyans on Earth have tails to go Ouzaru."
"Apparently we missed some someplace and now they are attacking the Earth. If it is a choice between dieing and letting everyone else on the planet die, or blowing up the moon, I know Roshi would blow up the moon, and bye the looks of it if that thing is accurate and my memory of how scouters worked is accurate he is easily able to blow it up."
When Teddy didn't reply Goshu continued. "Call Slip she can explain things, but we need to go back. I am going to get Nail and Piccolo and be back in a minute or so, but we need to go back to Earth now."
"Ah, yeah," was all Teddy could reply.
* * *
Roshi saw one of the brutes, the one he thought was Mango transform into an Ouzaru. Mango's power level went up from around 36,000 to 360,000 in a few moments. He saw Roshi and came to attack.
'It's now or never' Roshi thought. "KiaooooKeeeen!" He screamed as pain ripped through his body. Roshi had heard stories of how the Kiaoken was performed. He knew the basics. But he did not know enough to perform it quite the right way. Therefore, he got the intended speed and power boost, but he also was damaging his body at a far faster rate then Goku did when he had performed the same thing fighting Vegeta.
Mango had a new version of the scouter. It grew with the transformation sending a holographic image into the eye rather then covering it with a lens. He watched the power level reading for the boy he was about to squash like a bug go from 112,000 to 168,000 as a reddish orange aura flared up around him. 'He would have killed us had the moon not been full. Lucky for us it is.' Mango thought as he jumped up to try to land on and crush Roshi.
"KIIIIAAAAAAOOOOOOOKEEEENNN TIIIMMMMESSSS TTTHHHHRRREEEEEEEEEAAAA! Roshi wailed. As an even larger Red-orange aura grew around him. He jumped up and slammed his fist into Mango's nose.
"AAHHHHH That actually HURT YOU STUPID LITTLE FLY!" Mango bellowed. "Now I'm going to Eat you for that!"
He swung his gargantuan fist slamming it into Roshi's entire left side.
Roshi had kicked out moments before the blow had connected slamming his foot into an onrushing finger.
While Roshi was thrown back several hundred meters, Mango growled in pain at his broken finger.
'Me 2, him 0' Roshi thought as he flew back at his foe. He couldn't help but remind himself not to be cocky. He could only sustain the Kiaoken for a few minutes, if that. If one of the Brutes got through Roshi's defenses before he could blow up the moon... Well, Roshi didn't want to think of that.
* * *
Several hundred miles away even Tee felt the sudden increased in power.
"KAMI what the hell is he fighting?!?!" Tee exclaimed.
"I don't know, but there are four of them." Boxers said back.
Tee's voice wavered. "Boxers, is that really Roshi? It feels like well I can't describe it, but he has more power now then I have ever felt before, and the isn't even as strong as what he is fighting."
"I know. We need to speed up. I doubt we will be much help, but we still need to try." Boxers said before pushing every last bit of his ki into speed.
Tee followed after knowing that if Roshi failed, they were headed towards certain death.
* * *
Ichigo slowly came to.
'Why aren't I dead?' She thought to herself. 'I didn't even get a dream this time. Only more pain.'
The land shook and something rumbled in the distance.
'The stupid bastard jerk must still be fighting the rest of the traitors.'
She tried to sit up and immediately fell back over. When she did, her hand flopped onto something soft.
She slowly pulled it in front of her so she could see what it was.
'This looks like that pouch the jerk keeps his healing beans in.' She thought to herself as she tried to open the bag with broken fingers.
Three green beans fell out onto her chest.
'It is the bag he keeps his healing beans in.'
Ichigo grabbed one of the beans and brought it to her mouth.
'If I can just swallow this, I might be able to teach all those traitors why MY family is the rightful Royal Family.' She thought as she forced it past her mashed and bloody lips.
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Author's note. Once again thank you to all of you loyal readers who read and review and even Email me.
The Smooster
p.s. you all need to read Glitch by Kitsune Maxwell Good fic it be :)
