Chapter 4: The Newest Super Hero

AN: Told ya I'd try to get it up fast (in my case, fast is sometime within a week). So I still don't own DBZ or a candy company or any people, living, dead, or somewhere in between, that may accidently find their way into this story. I have to make up names! If there's really an Ichu City out there, I'll feel really stupid. Of course, once I was writing something where someone was talking about Sydney and the main guy was thinking it was Austrailia but it was actually in Nebraska. A few weeks later, I was looking in an atlas and I saw that there actually is a Sydney, Nebraska. So, please forgive me if I make up something that actually exists. And also forgive me if you are related to, know, or actually are a truck driver yourself. Just read, you'll find out why I said that. I did a very stereotypical job at writing some.

The sounds of windows rattling filled the empty streets of Ichu City as the ground shook with the oncoming force of a great object. Vegito turned around to look at what had scared the people so badly. Whatever was coming, it obviously had a frequently followed schedule.

If the jawbreaker had eyes, they would have been the size of very small saucers. Coming from what seemed like minutes ago to be just an empty plain was a giant semi-tractor trailer, even in normal person standards. The cab had two front windows and the back was as long as one of the city blocks and as tall as the buildings. Whatever was in or was about to be in this strange automobile, it was obviously something big.

Vegito dashed out of the path of the approaching bohemoth just before it would have made him a windshield splatter, except that one would have been made out of candy. "What on earth is that?!" he exclaimed as he watched the collossel truck move through the city streets and slowly but surely come to a hault in the town square of Ichu... City. Should it be called the "city square"? I've never understood how to name settlements! Sorry about that.

Our sweet hero watched as double doors on the cab swung open and two burly truckers stepped out.

"Geez, Carl," said the second one, "I told ya to hit the brakes eariler."

"Well, if you could steer, Earl, I would've, but we'd get in big trouble if we runs over any of the buildins here."

"You shut up! I've been doing this here job fer over nine years, and this is only yer fifth!"

"My daddy was in charge of motion for twenty years, and my Grandpa before that. He was the first one when this here industry started."

"I've still gots more sperience, Carl," Earl replied. "Now, stop yer feudin and let's get us somethin ta drink afore we gets our shipment."

"Ten four, Earl," Carl answered as they entered a nearby bar, the one building that he had not seen the citizens of the town flock into.

"This is strange," Vegito thought. "Whatever's been going on in this town, it's been lasting for decades! I need to research this more."

He flew under the swinging, western style doors into the bar, where one nervous bar tender stood waiting for the two large men to order, though it was obvious what they wanted.

"Root Beer for me," Earl began.

"One fer me, too!" Carl added. The server quickly nodded his head and returned with two very frothy mugs of... water.

Vegito watched as the men continued to drink, and once again came to the conclusion that these bumbling oafs would be of no help to him, as they'd probably be too full to drive in a short while.

"I'm getting really annoyed!" the demented voice exclaimed. "There's been no plot development for the last seven pages and me giving up is getting really old! Can we please get some new ideas?!"

Vegito suddenly found himself in a room full of frying pans.

"N... never mind!"

Vegito was back where he finished off, wondering how in the name of Dende he was supposed to find out what the problem was. As he flew out the door of the bar, he gazed around in shock for a moment. The streets were still empty, but the problem was in that fact. The truck had disappeared.

"That's the last grain!" the coffee flavored sucker screamed. "I'm going to figure out what's going on in Ichu City even if it kills me!"

He flew into every building he could find in the town, but it was the same picture everywhere. The citizens were huddled into small groups, not even daring to breathe loudly. Many seemed to be praying and wishing as they squeezed tightly together with their families, friends, and total strangers who just happened to be in the same vincinity when twelve o'clock hit. Things looked bleek for our hero's cause.

Vegito planned to check out one last building. If there wasn't anything there, he was leaving and forgetting that this entire thing had ever happened. He went inside, expecting to see a similar picture, but then stopped.

The building was empty. Not a soul was to be found inside of what appeared to be the main foyer of a large office. As he prepared to look in the offices and cubicles, he thought for a moment. "This place seems familiar," he said softly, and suddenly, it hit him like an incredibly powerful ki blast.

"Of course! This is the first place I checked! The one where the workers where fighting with Mr. What's-his-face! Either they're all hiding deeper inside or I've found the root of this problem!"

Just then, a man in a security uniform carrying a long range fire arm burst into the lobby. He looked around for a minute, then spoke in his walkie talkie. "I don't see anything. Are you sure you saw something move?"

A hard to understand voice replied from the device, saying something to the extent of, "Yes, I did."

"Well, I'm not sure what you saw. Unless whoever it was left, including the odds of someone being here at this hour today, I'm not sure what that small round thing was."

"Great, they must have huge security here," Vegito thought. "I could try searching this place for answers, but with these weirdos who knows what they might do if I'm found. I better leave as soon as this guy moves on." He remained perfectly still, watching the guard slowly search the premises.

The man finally turned back to where he had suddenly entered from. "There's nothing here," he said to his unseen partner in conversation. "I'm going back."

"Now's my chance!" Vegito thought. He quickly darted toward the door when a gun shot stopped him in his tracks.

"I saw you move, whoever you are!" the security guard exclaimed, obviously bluffing eariler. "I can't see you anymore, but if you move again before I find you I'll make sure I hit next time!"

Vegito was frozen in mid air. The bullet had grazed his sugary outside coating, but he was fine, otherwise; just in a state of shock.

"Smooth move," the gruff voice thought. "This is all your fault, Kakarott!"

"How's that?" the softer one replied.

"If you weren't so stupid I could have easily figured out that this man was bluffing and I wouldn't be in the pickle I'm in now!"

"Oh yeah, right. If it wasn't for me, I'd be a pile of sugar right now."

"Knock it off!" the normal demented voice chimed in. "I need to focus on not being seen. You two are really ticking me off right now!"

The security guard was deperatly looking for whatever he saw moving out of the corner of his eye. Several minutes passed while Vegito tried not to move a granule and the man searched. After a good long while, the human shrugged. "It must have just been a bug," he mumbled, really leaving this time. Vegito flew outside within the next second.

"Well," he thought, looking around and seeing no sign of the semi but still noticing the drivers drinking, "at least I've found the source. If only I knew what was happening, though. I could stop it. Too bad Mister NRA had to come and attack me just then, I'd probably be done with this mess by now!"

Vegito was sick and tired of the whole thing. "Why I am worried about this stupid place, anyway? I don't even know where I am. Of course, there are people in trouble. That's probably why...."

"I'm wasting my time here! Why am I not trying to get home and out of the accursed form?"

"Because I need to help people in need!"

"You would say that, you baka."

"What's that mean, anyway?"

"Exactly."

"What did I tell you two?! I thought this fusion thing worked differently. I should be of one body AND mind. AND MIND! Please calm down until I... what in the name of Kami is that?!"

Vegito, once agian trying to control his strange spilt personality problem, had managed to turn around to face the front of the building. Through all of his endless and annoying search, he had never taken the time to actually see what any of the buildings said. This one was one of the most interesting things he had seen any where. It was even weirder than some of Bulma's hair styles!

The building seemed to be made totally out of marble, which looked odd since the rest of the town was made with wood and cheap stone. The top had two tall pillars, between which was placed a large, King Kong like statue, but this one had a man's head and appeared to be holding a diamond. Directly underneath, golden letters stated that this apparently was the Yogoboso C. Z. Empire, 1360 Main Street, Ichu City, Japan, 43218-4506.

As the jawbeaker took in this apparently amazing sight, and wondered who would put their full mailing address on their building, another explosion shook the town. This snapped our hero back into attention, and reminded him of why he had shown up in the first place, as the explosions hadn't been explodeing for last hour or so.

The coffee flavored candy slowly, but surely, put all of the strange clues together. "Let's see," he began, planning to run over everything in his head once more, obviously a reflection of his more Goku side, "strange explosions that the townsfolk seem to be used to, a company that doesn't have the day off even though everyone just came back to life, a giant truck, citizens fearing this so much they don't dare breathe when thinking about it, the front of this building... that's it!"

Vegito dashed back off toward where he had come from. A small cluster of mountains boardered the town (did I forget to mention that?), seemingly made of sheer rock. Vegito knew exactly what was going to happen next.

"I'm leaving! Nothing is making sense here! Why did I waste my time on such foolishness?" He took one last glare at Ichu City before moving on and forgetting about this whole incident. Just then, something in the mountains caught his eye.

It was the truck. It seemed to be parked next to a mine that he had apparently missed eariler. "There we go!" he exclaimed, racing down.

"Curse your foolish ways, Kakarott," the gruff voice managed to sneek out before Vegito gained control of both of himselves again. Hey, he was getting used to it!

He was quickly approaching the carved out rock wall. The scene slowly became clearer as he raced down at super flying candy speed, which isn't as fast as you'd think it would be. The giant semi was backed up next to the entrance of a man made cave, and large machinery was lifting huge pieces of rock from a conveyor belt that led out of the opening in the face of the mountain to the back of the truck.

Vegito stared at it for a minute. "Could this possibly be what the commotion in the town was all about?" he thought. "Wait, it has to be! The truck is there! Curse my Gokukarott side! Oops! Hey, no fighting, I know you want to!"

...............................

"Holy Kami, it worked! They didn't fight! I'm free to be Vegito! Yeah!!!!!"

Suddenly, a voice came over an unseen intercom system. "Clear Area 51!" The jawbreaker tried to figure out what the point of that announcement was, when exactly one minute later, one of those lovely explosions went off.

Even though it came from inside the mountain, it was enough to send Vegito flying backwards to where he was when he had first seen the truck again. So, he had to fly back down one more time to where he once was, which was really annoying.

"This is obviously some sort of mining operation," Vegito said, taking in the scenary once again. "But what could they possible be after? All I see are plain stones." He flew down closer to the truck so maybe he could figure out the exact situation, after all, how long has this mystery been dragged along through these last two chapters (AN: Yeah, I know it's been annoying, just imagine how it's been from my side!)?

Upon closer investigation, the giant semi was actually on a very big lift of some sort, which was how it was taken away without the two original drivers. The stones were very large, probably weighing about 500 pounds each, nothing for Vegito, but in his present state they could have been very dangerous.

Many of the people who were supervising or operating the machinery were some of the ones who had been complaining about having to go to work eariler in the day. None of them seemed very happy about their jobs, and it was as if they were forced to work here because of this corporation's huge, over bearing impact on Ichu City.

"What could all of this mean?" the flying/ fighting ball of candy thought. "There must be some way to figure it out, and for me to help these people!" Realizing that nothing could help him completely slove this puzzle from his present position, he flew inside of the mines to get a closer look and to search for answers.

Machines of all different sizes and types were inside of the tunnels. Very unethuiactic workers were running the machines or helping to load things on to them, and even a maintience worker was seen in a few of the corridors. Vegito didn't see anything that would let him know what in the whole of King Yemma's creation was being mined out of this large, defaced rock, though.

Our hero couldn't take it anymore. For one, he was sick of this town, and two, he couldn't stand the fact that these last two chapters had been dragged along like someone who had just been knocked senseless with a frying pan. "I'm going to slove this problem and slove it quickly!" he exclaimed, just like what happened when he was checking out the caverns (it could have taken two more pages, but it was short and to the point!).

The jawbreaker decided that the best thing to try would be to somehow get the attention of one of the workers, and then get whoever it was to actually listen. The first part of this hadn't worked while he was in town, but Vegito figured that adding in the factor of how miserable these people seemed to be, they would probabaly do anything to stop whatever horrible deed they were doing for this Yogoboso guy.

He flew back through the caverns in a desperate attempt at getting someone's attention. However, he hadn't taken into account that the machinery would be making such a loud noise and covered up his high pitched chipmunk like voice. Vegito raced around, trying to find at least one person who's ears weren't filled with the grrs and rumbles of the excavation.

The situation looked hopelss. Finally, he stopped in the middle of one of the busiest parts of the mine, looked at all the occupied workers, and then exclaimed, "Will anyone ever listen to me?!!"

Unfortunantly... wait, no, fortunantly, just then everyone stopped working for a spilt second and heard the cry. Slowly, they all turned to face the center of the room to see what the source of the interesting voice was.

"Did, uh, anyone else hear that?" one man said as they all stared at Vegito but didn't register his presence.

"Yeah," a woman answered. "What was it? It couldn't have been the boss, his voice isn't that demented!"

"I'm right here!" Vegito replied, happy that he was finally getting some attention. "The piece of candy hovering in what I think is the exact center of this chamber! See, I'm moving!"

Silence filled the room as the coffee flavored jawbreaker suddenly became obvious to the whole group. Then, they lost it. Some fainted, others screamed, and many began running.

"Wait!" he cried, the echoing effects of the cavern being the only reason anyone could hear him at all, "I have a message for your salvation!"

Everyone stopped and slowly walked back toward Vegito, both afraid of what may happen to them if this strange creature got mad, others hoping that they might be freed from this rock prison. Vegito smiled to himself (since he doesn't really have a mouth) and thought about how he could finally find out what was going on, not really knowing what he would do about this.

"W-what is it?" a man seated in a large fork lift asked.

"Well," the piece of candy began, suddenly realizing that if he made it totally obvious that he had been lying he wouldn't get any answers, "I first need to make sure that this will work by hearing your sides of the story. Then we will rise against Yogosaki!"

"You mean Yogoboso?"

"That's what I said! Now, what is going on?"

An awkward silence followed, the workers not sure if they should do this in case the plan didn't work or this weird thing flew off and they got caught with telling an outsider about "the industry". Finally, a young woman spoke up.

"I'll tell you," she began. "You see, Ichu City was once a very poor town with nothing to give it any income at all. Then, one day, while Mr. Yogoboso was climbing in these mountains, he was nailing in a support pike when he came across... it. He knew that he could use this mineral to help save our city, so he started a mining company. But things got out of control, and Yogoboso has pretty much taken over the town. He's even... no, I can't say anymore! The walls have ears!"

The other workers rushed to her side, many shocked that she gave away so much of the towns secret, Vegito feeling as if he had just gotten nowhere fast.

"What exactly are you mining... even though I all ready know, I'm just making sure you do!" he said, forgetting that he was supposed to have a plan all ready.

"I can't say!" the girl replied, completely shaken about what she had said earlier. Just then, they heard heavy footsteps coming toward them.

"They know!" a man exclaimed as everyone began panicing. "We're done for!" The workers ran around in pure terror, which wasn't helping them any and most managed to get hit at least once; Vegito was slapped seven times in the frenzy.

The footsteps grew louder, and suddenly, the gruff looking businessman from eariler burst in accompanied by four armed gaurds and a troop of very scared workers. "What's going on?!" he exclaimed. "Nothing's been carried out of this chamber in five minutes!"

"Sir," a fifth guard who appeared from no where said, "I think you might want to listen to this. This is what was said while they weren't working."

"Let me listen," he said, putting on a headset which was attached to a portable tape player. The people Vegito had been talking with quivered in fear, while many turned to the woman mouthing things like, "It's been nice knowing you."

Mr. Yogoboso's face said everything. As he reached the end of the conversation, he slowly took off the earphones and put on a face that would kill any lesser man. The soon to be accused trembled, and prepared for the worst.

"What..." he began slowly, trying to keep his composure, "on... Earth... was that creepy voice!!!" he finally exclaimed, causing everyone to fall over with their legs sticking up in the air.

Vegito, not knowing Yogoboso's usual nature, quickly responded, "It was me, you slave driver! Now your reign of terror shall end!"

"What do you mean?" he replied, while the others had managed to stand up and were now fearfully watching the confrontation. "If it weren't for this idustry, Ichu City would be done for! We would have nothing, but I have saved us! Can you call that slave driving?"

"When the citizens of your town run in fear from your trucks and your wrokers are afraid to talk about your operation, I think that qualifies as some sort of slave type laboring situation."

"We have to keep it secret," the businessman quickly responded. "If we didn't other companies would come to these mountains and ruin me... I mean, our town!"

"Whatever, you liar," the jawbreaker retorted, running short on clever phrases that he hoped was making Mr. Yogoboso feel less in power. "I will still defeat you and finally put an end to these last two chapters (Cheers are heard from readers all over the web page)! Now, what exactly are you mining, again?"

Yogoboso laughed viciously. "You don't even know what's going on? I should have guessed as much. Few know of the real story behind the Yogoboso C.Z. empire!"

"What's C.Z.?" the coffee flavored candy ball exclaimed, getting quite irritated and also realizing that he had been found out.

"C.Z.?" he repeated with an evil grin. "Why, the rocks are full it! It's one of the most valuable resources in the world, and we excavate up to three hundred pounds a day after we separate it from the rock that it is embedded in. C.Z. made this city, and me!"

"For Dende's sake, what the HFIL is it?!" our very irriated protagonist screamed, just wanting to put an end to these shinanagins.

"You want to know what C.Z. is?" the man replied, enjoying the way he was playing this sucker.

"YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Fine I'll tell you." Vegito expected the worst, some sort of new atomic explosive or a metal that could make armor unpenitrable. "It's... ... ... ... ... ... ... cubic zirconium!"

If Vegito wasn't a jawbreaker that relied on flying for everything, he would have fallen over with his legs sticking up in the air.

As the wild take that actually didn't happen finished, the candy ball burst into demented high pitched laughter. "THAT'S what C.Z. is?!" he exclaimed through his chortles. "You could have at least made a terror reign from something useful!"

Mr. Yogoboso was inraged. "Shut up, you fool! Do you have any idea how much money there is in the cubic zirconium market?" he exclaimed.

"Of course I do," he answered with a heavy air of sarcasim. "A lot less than there is in other markets, like diamonds for example."

"This is used in millions of products throughout the world!"

Vegito's laughter finally died down. "Whatever, loser. I'm going to stop your pathetic industry and put it into more honorable hands." With that, he flew up and nailed the business overlord in the forehead, knocking him out cold.

The confection stopped for a second in order to make sure that he wasn't getting up. "Well, that was incredibly easy considering how long it took me to get to this point." Everyone then turned and glared out the computer screen at a young author... uh... yeah...

The workers, who had remained silent since Yogoboso had arrived, suddenly burst out into a spontaneous cheer. "You've saved us!" the woman who tried to tell him the story exclaimed.

"We're free to get a resonable boss!" one of the guards added. "Come on, let's tie him up and keep him from making more trouble here!" Quickly, the over worked employees rushed to help restrain their insane manager, while Vegito somehow grinned a little.

"Finally I can leave this accursed town without any regrets," he said to himself, preparing to fly as fast as a jawbreaker could.

"Wait... um... Mister!" one of the excavators called. "Who are you?"

"Don't worry about that," he replied.

"Well, we'd like to do something to repay you, who or whatever you are."

He thought for a moment about the advantages he could get for the rest of his journey from these simpletons. "Well," he began, his voice suddenly becoming very irritating to the now happy listeners, "first off, could you tell me where I am in relationship to the rest of the world, I'm lost. And secondly, if there's any way you could feed me I'd really appriciate it, I haven't eatten in ages, although I'm not sure I can since I'm now a jawbreaker..."

"Well," someone interrupted, getting incredibly confused by his ramblings, "we aren't allowed to learn much about the rest of the world, but I think the nearest town is about a hundred miles west, that way." At this, he pointed along the mountain range to the right. "And, uh, I have no idea how to feed you."

"Thanks just the same," he answered. "At least I know one thing about where I am, and I can finally get home!" With that, he blasted off toward where he had been directed, the sun just beginning to set.

"He's amazing," a woman said admirably.

"He was incredible," a man chimed in.

"And he did such cool super hero fighting stuff," a third worker added.

As they returned to their homes shortly after, they all explained to their families that they had been saved from the driving business methods of Mr. Yogoboso by an amazing new super hero. Or, as they had begun to call him, the Incredible Fighting Candy.

HEY, READ THIS, INCREDIBLE FIGHTING CANDY FANS!!!!!!

AN: Whoo hoo! That took FOREVER for me to finish. But I did, so YEAH! Sorry, I've been incredibly busy, and now that it's summer I'd like to dedicate at least two hours a day to writing, of course, I will be gone for a while. I also want to get internet. I've got soo many stories to work on, too, half of them I haven't even started, but I'd really like to have this one as my master project. Actually, ***read the next paragraph to see something special on that.*** Oh, did anyone catch my homage to Two Towers in this? Anywho, I'm trying to expand my horizons past DBZ as you can see with a few of my new works, though most include it. I've recently really gotten into shows like YuYu Hakusho, Inuyasha, Trigun, and Ruroni Kenshin, plus I'm on a big Golden Sun/ Legend of Zelda video game kick and I've been checking out the new Shonen Jump magazines, and Candyland is going to tie me to a chair and make me watch Fruits Basket... or so she says (I'm on the phone with her), so you may see those in my stories in the future. Kenshin rules! He's my hero! Well, him and a close second from Vash and Inuyasha. Oh well!

Anyway, back to this story and the SPECIAL OPPOURTUNITY I HAVE FOR YOU!!!! As you could tell since I had a four month case of writer's block on this one chapter, I'm just not meeting up with my own expectations. I've got many ideas for Vegito's adventures, but not nearly as many as I'd like, and this is where YOU come in! Once I get e mail, I'll put that address up but if it's not there, you can add to reviews any ideas you have for one of his adventures. If I decide to use it, not only will it be part of the the story, but I'll credit you and put you into the chapter, sound like fun yet? I'll contact anyone whose idea I use (somehow), and ask what you want to be called in your part, whatever name you want (as long as it fits the rating), although I will use your author name for the site in crediting you. And if you want your site name, that works, and if you aren't on ff.net, we'll work something out. Thanks a bunch, and give me those thoughts racing through all your creative minds! See ya soon!