Dragonball Alternate Dimension
Chapter Eight
Note:
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The Z Warriors flew across the country-side. Bulma followed behind them in a large air-transport vehicle. Roland and Kita rode the converted 23 bike. Vegeta lead them to the place his wife had said the ships would be in just a few minutes. He couldn't wait to fight. He raced to the site. Goten and Trunks flanked him. Akiko, Pan, Marron, Bra, Akago, Gosan, Uubu and Eighteen followed them. Krillin, Mira, Hinode, Nichibotsu, JJ, Niji, Mr. Satan, Yamcha, Gohan and Videl brought up the rear. The hills rolled under them, the area was green, but barren of trees for miles. The sky was blue and a few greyish clouds hung on the horizon.
Soon, Vegeta slowed. The clouds were moving in a most uncharacteristic way. Everyone stopped and gaped at the sight. 1,100 sleek, greyish-blue saucer-shaped ships darted into formation. The Z Warriors lined up and waited for their orders. Doors slid open and about fifty blue-haired soldiers poured out of each ship.
"Mon Dieu.." Roland stared at the unbelievable sight through his sunglasses.
The Emperor came forward as the soldiers fell into ranks. As he came closer, Mira thought frantically to her nieces and nephew.
"It's Chonekken!!"
"WHAT!?"
Akiko glared at the man who most probably was the cause of the strain which killed her mother after her birth. She wanted to lunge at him now, but waited for Vegeta's order.
"This is quite amusing," the Rasha leader smirked. "I didn't expect such a warm welcome. Perhaps Earthlings are not quite as backwards as we assumed."
"You know what happens when you assume, Chonekken!" Akiko couldn't stop herself.
"What?" he turned his attention to the young woman and stared at her in disbelief. "An impurity!? How do you know my name!?"
"That's privileged information!" she quoted Pan and the younger girl smiled wryly. "Point is, you're going down."
"Oh really?"
"Point is," Vegeta cleared his throat. "I've lost the battle for this world once or twice to these people. I'm on the winning side now and you will not defeat us."
"Oh!" Chonekken laughed. "You're threatening me, that is so charming! What do you think a handful of Earthlings and half-breeds are going to do against us? We are legion," he indicated to his troops. "If you surrender now, I can assure you that less of you will perish."
"I'm a Saiyan. Surrender is never an option."
"Very well." Chonekken raised his arm and prepared to move his army forward. A rumbling in the distance stopped him.
Goten pointed west to the approaching jets.
"Oh no! What are they doing!?" Akiko moaned at the oncoming Earthling military. Chonekken grinned and threw his hand down, ordering his army to attack. Most of his army charged the military. The rest met Vegeta's army head on and the War of The Rasha began.
Hinode and Nichibotsu raised their arms and forced more than fifty percent of those Rasha in the sky to the ground. They were baffled momentarily, but it didn't stop them from firing off bolts at the fighter jets. The sky was soon filled with puffs of smoke as F-15s and saucers were attacked. Chonekken flew at Akiko, but Vegeta cut him off. They tangled in the sky.
JJ and Niji hung back and waited for their time. Once people needed healing, Niji would be there. JJ kept an eye on the sky, and soon saw an opportunity for his specialty. He flew in close to Krillin and Marron as they were begin buffeted by twenty or so Rasha.
"Here comes!" he shouted. The Zs nodded and JJ pointed. His dragon spiraled out from his fingertips and encircled the enemy. They were so distracted by its flaming mane and accompanying illusory fireworks, complete with sound, that the father and daughter were able to subdue the lot of them.
Videl took on three at once and got a touch of a denki attack. She cried out in pain, but kept fighting. Gohan heard her and immediately went super-Saiyan. He rushed in and creamed the three Rasha.
Everyone had at least three Rasha to handle. The Saiyans were having a field day. One by one, their fights became more and more intense. The Rasha half-breeds held their own, but the other's had all they could do to keep from being electrocuted.
Things were looking rough. Vegeta and Chonekken were consumed with their fight, but a cry from Bra caught the Prince's attention. He turned in time to see the end of what must have been a thick bolt of lightning from a female Rasha soldier hit his little girl.
"Yamcha! NOW!!" he cried out to him to turn on the first moonlight generator. The beam shot up through a group of bewildered Rasha and soon some of their opponents began to grow. Trunks turned his head to the sky and growled as the light touched his eyes. Akago sneered at her opponents and backed away. Bra recovered from her hit as she transformed. Akiko clenched her fists and roared as blue fur grew over her skin. Vegeta was by far the largest of the were-monkeys and the first to begin fighting again. Soon the Rasha were being decimated. The other Z Warriors backed off and watched the spectacle, cheering and encouraging the behemoths on.
"This is crazy!" Esopus directed a battalion back.
"There's got to be a way to stop them!" Rojan hung back and looked around. He was the first to discover the MLGs. "There!" He dove down and held his hand out. It didn't take much to blow the device to bits. The Saiyans began to shrink, but suddenly, another MLG came on and they continued their onslaught. Chonekken became enraged. No species was going to out do his! Especially not a bunch of monkeys! He suddenly noticed that the only people who had transformed had tails. He charged up and aimed for the largest ape. Vegeta-monkey cried out as Chonekken's blast severed his tail. The Prince shrank down. Trunks was the second felled. Bra growled and swatted the Emperor into the ground.
As was expected, it didn't take long for the Rasha to eliminate the other two generators. Mr. Satan high-tailed it away as the last one exploded. However short lived it had been, the plan had worked. A little more than half of the Rasha army remained.
Akiko went super-Saiyan and charged at a large group Pan was tackling. The two sisters got each other's backs. Krillin recovered from a hit and looked for his wife and daughter. They were both up to their necks in Rasha. He charged in and took on the soldiers. One female soldier grew tired of his pestering and leveled her hand at him. Marron shouted as the bolt struck her father. Krillin fell out of the sky. Eighteen snarled and flew at the Rasha. She turned and zapped the Jinzonigen. Teena's eyes shut and she fell like a stone.
"Mother! Father!!" Marron dove down after them. Krillin was crumpled up and unmoving. Eighteen's body was sunken a bit into the ground from the force of impact. Marron wasted a second debating who to check on first. Her father had died in the air. Her mother, she couldn't tell. She looked around feverishly for someone to help. Niji was already helping Trunks; Mira was healing Akago. Gosan shot off bolts at a group of Rasha just above Marron's head. She cried out for mercy. His oldest sister took over for him.
"Please, I need 100 watts at 650 volts, can you do it?" the young woman had pried Eighteen's chest open, exposing the motherboard. Gosan was a bit confused, but nodded. He put his finger on the spot she pointed to and powered up to the requested amount. Teena's eyes fluttered and she sat bolt upright. Gosan excused himself to continue fighting.
"Mother?"
Eighteen's eyes weren't focusing. Her head twitched rhythmically.
"Mother, can you hear me? Do you know where you are.. who you are?!" Marron became a little worried that the android might have reverted to her old OS.
"I am Number Eighteen," she mumbled.
"Who am I!?" she prompted her.
The artificial human turned her head to her and her eyes softened at last. "Marron.." She stood up and closed her chest panel. "He's dead," Teena monotoned and sat down next to Krillin's body. The fight carried on over her head. Marron became enraged and rejoined the battle.
Super Saiyan Akiko blocked a volley of attacks and charged up. She unleashed wave after wave of huge Inazuma-has. Rasha menaced her from all sides. It was hard to tell, even with her extra-sensory ability, where the next attack would come from. A strange shock-wave caught her in the back and she spun to see the deliverer. Akiko's jaw dropped and she took the second wave without defense. This knocked her out of super-Saiyan. The older, female soldier launched a barrage of attacks which Akiko blocked the best she could. She couldn't bring herself to attack. 'Come on, Kiko, she only LOOKS like your mom…'
"Why aren't you attacking, half-breed!?" the woman snarled.
Akiko ignored her and tried to get away. She received several hits and began to succumb to her. After a thorough beating, the woman held her up by her hair and leveled her hand at her. Akiko could still not bring herself to attack.
"Prepare to meet your maker, half-breed!"
"Oh no.. not again!" she moaned.
"What do you mean, not again?" The Rasha studied her face and furrowed her brows. "Who are you?..."
"Kiko!!" Super Saiyan Gosan hurtled towards the women.
"Gosan, no!"
Lona released Akiko. Gosan cupped his hands. "Kameha... meha!" The woman fell from the sky. Akiko was bewildered. Gosan took her by the arm. "You ok, Kiko?" She stared, mortified at the body below her, but nodded. She couldn't bear to tell him what he had just done. They took off to find new opponents.
Gohan blinked as the other-worldly Saiyans departed. 'How did that boy know how to..?' His thoughts were interrupted by a fresh battle.
Pan and Marron were now fighting back to back. They were getting pushed closer together. Suddenly a dark brown streak whizzed by, dragging a few of the more powerful enemies with it. "All right, Uubu!!" Marron cheered and continued to fight.
Some of the more powerful Rasha had found excellent competition in Goten and Trunks. The young men saw that they were fighting closer and closer. They made eye contact and smiled mischievously. Goten put his hands to his face. Trunks mimicked him.
"Taiyoken!"
They both darted away.
Pan and Marron's group became thicker as more Rasha joined in.
"Haven't they ever heard of one-at-a-time!?!" Pan gasped.
"Guess not.." Marron was going to make a silly comment when she was struck with a side splash. She collapsed and fell to Earth. Pan tried to help, but the electrical attack did its job and side-stepped from Marron to her. She lost consciousness and fell beside her friend. One Rasha soldier with high ranking stripes on his uniform followed them to the ground. He sneered and put his foot on Marron's back. He began charging up.
"Esopus! No! They're already out, what's the point!?"
"The POINT!?! Rojan, have you been paying attention!? There's only a handful of us left!"
"That doesn't make this right!"
While the brothers were arguing, someone was sneaking around.
"You know, you really are pathetic."
"At least I have honor."
Esopus was about to turn his attack in Rojan's direction when he lost his footing. The body he had been standing on disappeared in a light puff of smoke and a flurry of white doves.
"What the!?" he searched out with his mind for the culprit. Kita gasped and flew away. "Come back here!!"
Roland looked up in time to see her fleeing the scene.
"KITA!! Que'st ce que tu fait!?"
The Rasha Prince released a thick bolt which wrapped around the magician. She cried out briefly before she exploded.
"NON!!!!!!!"
Roland charged his bike at the blue-haired Prince, Esopus's older brother brought him down with a fairly gentle attack. Roland crashed to the ground, alive, but badly hurt. Niji, the tiny healer saw this and when the Rasha had departed, she sneaked in and began to heal him. She was shocked to see wires protruding from the man's right forearm. The skin healed and grew over top of the mess and Roland came to.
"Kita... S'il vous plait, petit fille.. elle assistez.."
"I'm sorry, I don't know what you're saying.." the little girl pouted. She got the drift, but knew it would do no good to say anything.
Goten and Trunks stood on a small hill some distance from the fighting. They performed a dance they hadn't done in a while. Leaning in towards each other they touched finger-tips and shouted, "Fusion-ha!!"
Gohan and Videl found that those who had not already perished were the strongest Rasha. Gohan, even in Super-Saiyan mode, had a hard time keeping the bolts away from himself and his wife. Hinode drew some of the fire away from them by re-directing the electrical energy into the atmosphere. Nichibotsu saw what he was doing and flew in front of his brother.
Hinode stopped casting spells and gave him a puzzled look. "What's the matter, Brother?"
He pointed to the sky. Clouds were gathering.
"So?" Hinode didn't see what he was getting at and kept diverting the attacks.
Nichibotsu grabbed his hand and startled him by speaking. "A storm, Brother," he advised. Suddenly Hinode understood.
"Oh, no..."
Akiko, Gosan and Akago met a dozen troops with similar fire, but like the others, they weren't making as much progress with these cream-of-the-crop soldiers. A large ki attack dispelled a bunch of them at once. Gosan turned to see its origin. "Who's that!?" he pointed to the newcomer. Akiko raised her eyebrows.
"Dunno, but I hope he's on our side."
The stranger joined their fight. "Hey, Sweet," he purred in a voice that was half her uncle's and half her lover's.
Akiko stared at him. "Who are you!?"
"Gotenks," he smiled and blew away another Rasha.
Uubu darted in and out of fights with various groups. There were still about a hundred and fifty Rasha left. Thousands lay dead across the landscape. Vegeta pushed Chonekken further and further. His golden hair and green eyes weren't enough to intimidate the Emperor. He was hell bent on taking this world, and the more of his people that went down, the more he wanted it.
Ten soldiers piled on top of Gohan and began charging up. He struggled to push them off. Just seconds before they were ready to give him a contact strike which would surely end his life, he heard a sharp, stifled cry. His wife was hit. She fell out of the air. Gohan's eyes went wide and he powered up to level two. He blew off the cluster of Rasha with a burst of power and dove down to her. Videl lay, unmoving on the ground. He picked her up and screamed for a healer.
Things were looking up. With Gotenks and Uubu kicking ass and the Rasha half-breeds giving it right back to the full-breeds, the battle's end seemed in sight.
Mira looked up from Videl to the sky as she heard the first rumblings. She took her hands off the woman. "She will live. I must go!"
She flew to her family. Hanging back, away from the action she called out to them. "Akiko! A storm is coming!!"
Akiko's eyes bugged out. "Oh.. NO!!" She noticed that Rasha were already dropping off to plunge into the thunderheads. She geared up and tried to take out as many as she could before it got impossible to handle. Akago flew around and warned everyone of the danger.
"Mr. Oujisama! Don't let Chonekken get to the storm!!"
Vegeta heard her and did his best to push the Emperor away from the approaching clouds. Rasha began to emerge from them, fully charged. They sent bolts of 30 to 40 thousand amps at the Z Warriors. A smaller one of these bolts hit Gotenks. He remained in the air, but the hit separated him. Seamlessly, the young men continued fighting. The Rashaman who threw the denki snarled and charged up. He found an opening and let all he had fly.
"Trunks! Watch your back!" Goten called out too late.
Trunks felt his hair lift as if he were going super-Saiyan. In the span of less than a fourth of a second he panicked as he saw the positive charge his body naturally held reach out a streamer towards the sneering Rasha. It connected with the soldier's step leader, producing a bolt less than an inch thick, but charged at about 100 thousand amps and one million volts. Esopus, being negatively charged naturally, sent all of the electricity to the half-Saiyan.
Vegeta swung around as he felt his son's heart stop. He powered up to level three and finished toying with the Emperor. Chonekken exploded and Vegeta charged through the still falling debris as he made for Esopus.
"TRUNKS!!!!" Akiko dove down after him as he crashed to the ground. She put her hands to his chest and they glowed. "Come on, come on, don't go..." she hissed as she poured all of her healing power into him. Soon she was tapped out. He was alive, but the magic which wove his internal organs together wouldn't last. He needed more. Much more. She lay over him; her heart touching his, and wrapped her arms around him.
Akago flew down to her brother and motioned to the clouds. He nodded and they burst up towards them.
"Children, no!" Mira gasped. She could only watch as they disappeared into the storm.
As they flew up, they expelled all their negative energy. The bolts hit a few Rasha on the way. The siblings began to siphon the electrical energy inside.
Eighteen looked up at the sky warily. Goten and Gohan furrowed their blond brows. Vegeta punched Esopus's head into his chest and blew him to smithereens. The pressure changed and he looked up to the thunderheads. Lightning curled around the clouds. The remaining hundred Rasha turned from their battles and stared, slack jawed. Suddenly, the cloud exploded and the young Son siblings were visible, glowing with power, both super-Saiyans, both charged as no Rasha had ever been charged before. They leveled their hands at the group and sent unavoidable attacks on definite paths to their enemies. Both Sons sent fifty, 170 amp bolts at the Rashamen. Within the passing of two seconds, The Rasha were no more and it began to rain.
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Bulma couldn't take it anymore. She gunned the transport toward the battleground.
Rain drops matted Akiko's hair down. She didn't stir. Vegeta grabbed her arm and dragged her off his son.
"No!" she managed to breathe. "I'm all that's keeping him alive.."
"Fine, hang on." Vegeta picked him up. Akiko hung on as best she could. They weren't in the air for half a minute when she lost her grip and fell to Earth. Gohan looked up after loading his unconscious wife into the transport and flew to her. He caught her and brought her back to the makeshift ambulance.
The young woman looked up at her savior. "Dada.." she murmured and passed out. Gohan furrowed his brows and scrutinized her face.
End Chapter Eight
French:
"Mon Dieu.."
"My God.."
Que'st ce que tu fait!?"
"What are you doing!?"
"Kita... S'il vous plait, petit fille.. elle assistez.."
"Kita... Please, little girl.. help her.."