Black Dawn: Part 3
Abduction
It was midnight over the mountain called Paozu, where the universes strongest worrier slept. Android 16 had been leaning against the wall ever since everyone else went to bed, recharging. Now, dead on midnight, he suddenly wirred into life.
He walked to the kitchen counter, picked up a pen, and looked around for something on which he could write a note. He noticed one of Gohan's study books on the coffee table, and picked it up. On the back of it he wrote, in clear, neat, writing, "Begin your training without me. Trunks and Goten are safe. I will return in two days with them."
He placed the book on the counter, then, floating an inch of the ground so as not to disturb Vegeta, he moved quietly into Goten's bedroom. The boys were both sound asleep. 16 bent down and picked up Trunks, before reaching out and grabbing Goten too. The three of them disappeared.
***
The Supreme Kai's world was pain. Everywhere, all through his body, all he could feel was pain. He could see Sugakoo's back, turned away from him. He could distantly hear Sugakoo's voice, taunting North Kai. The part of him that was Kibito was healing the wound, but the agony remained. How could this be! This worrier was almost as strong as Majin Buu! The kais hadn't been able to detect the existence of Sugakoo, until his egg was noticed by North Kai in the ruins of Namik. Even then, they new nothing of what it was, or what it could mean. They left it there, to do whatever it was meant to do. It had hatched to reveal one of the greatest fears of the Kais.
Sugakoo: Dark one. He who will bring about a new dawn to the universe. A black Dawn.
The definition all the Kais had learnt in childhood. Kibitokai new not how Sugakoo found that name, written only in the darkest memories of the Kais, but he was destined to own it, as he was destined to learn of his duty, and the part he had to play in the scheme of things. And soon, he would be immortal. Not like the Kai's, ageless until they are killed, or Garlic Jr., impossible to kill, but weak, Sugakoo's powers would be limitless.
He could hear Sugakoo moving, turning back towards him. His face was on the ground, so he couldn't see him, but he new the demon was coming closer, raising his hand, creating the killing blast, firing…
Grand Kai was, for once, not listening to his walkman. He watched as Sugakoo appeared, saw him blast Supreme Kai, looked him in the eyes when he turned to taunt the Kais, looked on as he turned to kill his master. He kept his eyes leveled on the place where Supreme Kai lay, shivering slightly. Since he had been out of practice for 2000 years or so, he was now only as strong as Freeza, but Sugakoo didn't need to exert himself too much. The fat man was confident he could deflect it, if he came in at the right moment. He launched himself into the air and hurtled towards Sugakoo as the blast shot from his hands. He arrived in front of it just in time, reaching out to catch it. The blast hit his open hands, and burnt them away. The deity watched, open-mouthed, as it traveled up his arms, leaving only ash behind it. It reached his chest, and burnt clean through it, separating his head and shoulders from the rest of his body. What was left disappeared, spirited away to other world's Check in Station. The kais gasped as one. They were all doomed to die.
***
Goten woke with a start. No wonder. He was lying in the snow, the wind whipping around him, wearing only his boxers. He got to his feet. "Wha, where am I?!" He saw Trunks lying near him, also in only his underwear. Android 16 was watching from behind him. "You are awake," he said, causing Goten to jump about a mile straight upwards. He dropped back into the snow, facing #16, in Super Saiyan form. "Why did you bring us here?" he asked.
"You are needed," he said. "You have a job to do." Trunks was sitting up and rubbing his eyes.
"Goten? Where are we?"
"We are on a planet called Rhyontou," 16 said, "This is the planet from which our enemy seems to have originated."
"Oh, so you're here," Trunks said. "Did you bring us to this place?"
"Yes. We have work to do here. It is almost time we began our mission."
"Are we going to do this mission in our underwear?" Goten asked. "It's so cold here."
"I couldn't see any clothes within easy reach, and I cannot return to get some, because Sugakoo, our enemy, may notice us. That must not happen." Goten and Trunks nodded glumly. "When do we start?"
"Now."
***
Sugakoo turned on the watching Kais. "You let your master die! Now you pay for your mistake!" He lifted his hands, facing his palms towards the Kais. He let loose suddenly a volley of huge blasts in all directions. The Grand Kai's palace was set alight. The ground around was scorched dry. But most important were the casualties. East Kai was vaporized as a blast consumed her. The same blast destroyed the top half of South Kai's body. West Kai was still alive, but one arm was burnt beyond recognition. The others weren't touched by the blast. Goku had taken care of them both for it. "We died!" said East Kai, reappearing accompanied by a halo. South Kai followed a few seconds afterwards, just as West Kai stood up, fully healed, also sporting a halo. "All of us are dead!" South Kai cried, "But where's Grand Kai?"
"I'm actually wondering the same thing," Sugakoo mused, "come on, you're late." Grand Kai appeared, frowning.
"I was sure I could knock that thing!" he yelled.
"Which is exactly what I was counting on," Sugakoo laughed. "I think this generation of Kais is beyond it's time. They've all managed to get themselves killed! One of them even got blown to the next dimension by his own student! This has truly been an embarrassment that will go down in history! Time for new rule, I say! Your power, and the power of all those to whom you have given special privileges is gone, now!" On the word now, the dead Kais disappeared, taken to heaven like any normal dead person. Also, the students of the Kais were cast off The Grand Kai's planet and put with their masters in heaven. The rain of the Kai dynasty had ended, almost.
***
After Coola died, leaving planet Freeza#79 unclaimed, the colony world was overrun by cheap restaurants and casinos. It had a good number of them even before that. Zarbon and Dedoria went out to gamble frequently when they were off duty and a lot of the people who manned the watch towers often escaped to the best of them all, The Colmnopax. So this was where Saicho went. Sugakoo had told him to gather the strongest men he could. Many good men were left nameless after the army lost it's emperor. They had built new lives for themselves, low, gambling lives. If you could beat someone in a fight you could take anything from them. Saicho was coming here to find some of the people who had been in Freeza's army, to use as strong leaders in the war that was to follow, against the two planets Sugakoo had chosen. Long ago Coola had guessed which these could be, but Vegeta was one of them, and Freeza had destroyed it, so he didn't know which planets they would use, but if Sugakoo was allowed to be reawakened, their had to be two planets related in the same way the intended two had been.
"Hey," Saicho said quietly. His scouter had registered a power of 55000, which was considered incredibly strong around here. It belonged to a muscle-bound blue skinned man in front of him. "Yeah?" he turned and saw the scouter on Saicho's face. "You're quite strong," Saicho complimented, "would you be interested in joining an army of mine. Maybe taking a couple of planets I had in mind and starting a new empire?"
"Your kiddin," the man exclaimed, his muscles rippling, "that might be good. Back at the top again! Count me in!"
"Yes," Saicho said, "I certainly will, however I want to see just how well you fight, so I know where to put you in this attack force."
"Yeah," he replied, "outside. By the way, the names Kamawa."
***
Vegeta's raw almost lifted the Paozu mountain off the Earth. "Where is my son!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
Gohan stepped back slightly at this thunderous sound. Goku was inside with the old Ox King, trying to comfort Chi-chi. Who knew what would happen when Bulma heard about all this. Vegeta was powering up to Super Saiyan 2 without noticing it. "Vegeta stop it!" Gohan yelled over the echoes of Vegeta's cry. "You're not doing them any good!" Vegeta relaxed, powering down to normal. The hybrid was right.
"I new that android had something up his sleeve," he growled.
"I don't know," Gohan replied doubtfully. "He seemed pretty sincere to me, but I suppose it's hard to tell what a robot is thinking. My question is who revived him in the first place?"
"What does it matter?!" Vegeta replied, "he's taken your brother and my son!"
"He did leave a note."
"But he didn't tell us where he was going, did he! He never said why he took them! He didn't explain anything!"
"Calm down Vegeta," Goku said, walking casually out of the house. "They'll be back in a couple of days, just like he wrote in his note. Just trust me on this one, Ok?"
"Kakarot! How can you be so darn trusting!" With that, the prince of the Saiyans shot up into the air, and flew away in disgust to cool off, before facing Bulma with the news.
"He'll be back soon enough," Goku said, walking back into the house. Gohan sighed. Another battle loomed ahead, and according to what Android 16 had told them, if he could be trusted, this could be one of the most dangerous they had ever fought.