I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to any of the music pieces you may see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.

Chapter 16: Daywalker

I awoke to my stomach growling like no other, it even made the room shake a little. I slowly got up and opened the door to the lonely jail like cell. I didn't really care that it lacked any comfort nor blankets, I just wanted the sleep. I had slept on worse, the floor of the time chamber for one when Vegeta made me sleep out there once. At least the jail cell's temperature didn't change with the blink of an eye. Gohan and the boys woke up in tune with their stomachs a few minutes later and I searched out Spiderman's ki. I found it outside the building, but coming back in quickly like he had to run an errand. I noticed the Black Cat's ki in the building as well, but much lower like she had powered down.

Before I could look into that though, I received a painful yelp in my ears, "Trunks, MY TAIL IS GONE!" Goten wailed.

"Hey what's the deal? Mine is gone too, but Gohan and Verto still have theirs!" Trunks whined.

"Sorry guys but you were about to transform, I couldn't let that happen ya know!" Gohan explained.

"What kept you two from changing?" Trunks asked. Boy that kid doesn't miss the facts much.

"We didn't look at the moon," Gohan said quickly, giving me a mental nod through my thoughts. Well another secret saved. "Let's see if they have anything to eat," Gohan suggested, already walking in Cat's general direction. This of course eliminated the worried and angry expressions the boys were carrying. After five or six turns in hallways, we found her in some type of lounge. She was no longer dressed as the Black Cat with silvery white hair, but as her true self, Felicia Harding with blonde, and a basic schoolgirl type outfit on.

"Finally, you four slept long enough!" she muttered aloud, but in a noticeable gentler tone then it had been.

Goten didn't catch on, "Who's the new girl?" Felicia smiled slightly while Gohan tried to explain that she had just powered down and it was like the Super Saiyan change.

"So is she a Super Saiyan too?" Goten asked, naive brain in full gear. I chuckled at the poor boy, starting to wonder if the clueless genes skipped around, since Gohan was pretty smart, yet Goku and Goten barely had a brain outside of fighting.

"No stupid, she just has a similar transformation. You can be such an airhead sometimes Goten!" Trunks claimed, talking like the prince he was.

"Hey, are you guys hungry?" A voice said from behind. I turned to see Peter Parker, otherwise known as Spiderman, coming in the room, bright smile on his face.

"Who's the new guy?" Goten asked.

"That's Spiderman Goten, he's just out of his outfit, but the energy signal is the same, okay bro?" Gohan explained, exasperated already.

"You mentioned food, may I suggest the nearest all you can eat place, we tend to eat a lot," I said, speaking for everyone else. Peter seemed to accept that, probably glad that we didn't suggest some high dollar fancy place.

"Well I know of one about a block and a half from here, pretty decent there. Just watch the egg rolls, they've never agreed with me," Peter suggested.

"Good, let's get going, boy am I hungry!" Gohan said loudly as our stomachs were all growling in eager anticipation.

Peter's jaw remained planted on the table in front of his food as he watched us dismantle the buffet he took us too. Felicia kept a disgusted look as she watched us, probably thinking about pigs. We just ignored the general astonishment in the room, most of the onlookers couldn't even lift their food to their mouths.

"Hey those people are looking at us," Trunks whispered.

"Let them, its not their concern," I muttered in between handfuls. When we got up for round five, the manager stepped in the way.

"Are you all enjoying your meal?" he asked.

"Must be if I'm still eating it," I said, going past him. Piling more food on I went back to the table to the still gawking onlookers.

"You said you ate a lot, but geez!" Peter gasped.

"You outta see us with good food," I grinned and dug in again. After eight trips our pace finally slowed a bit and we polished off our huge appetites with a pie...for each of us.

Felicia found her tongue and finally spoke, "Good god, how do your families keep food in the house?"

"Rich parents," Gohan grinned.

"Well when do you guys want to go track down the goblin?" Peter asked, lowering his voice a lot.

"Now works, the sooner we get going, the better," Gohan said, getting up.

As we headed out the door, I saw the manager hanging a sign on the door reading: "Will close at Noon today." I chuckled and followed everyone down the street where Peter and Felicia could change.

To a normal person, seeing Spiderman "web-sling," as he called it, would be quite the sight. Add the Cat doing similar and four Saiyans flying through the air and you've got instant front page. During the flight to where he was leading us, we sensed a big ki spike in the direction we were going.

"Hey Spiderman, you said he was trying to free this super powerful dude right?" Trunks asked.

"Yeah why?"

"I think he just did," Gohan interjected.

"Damn, lets get moving!" Spiderman shouted, letting the webs shoot quite far to pick up his pace. Cat ran out of rope to shoot so Gohan swooped down to carry her the rest of the way.

"Mmmm, you wanna crash at my place tonight?" Cat asked rather suggestively.

"Uh...heh heh..." Gohan laughed and groaned at the same time, blushing. We came up on a large building that said OsCorp on the side, the powerful ki was inside, along with one other. Landing, Spiderman started climbing the wall on one of the smoke stacks.

"Ahem, Spiderman, did you forget?" Gohan asked while blasting the outside wall and leaving a big hole. Spidey seemed to mentally slap himself and jumped down to enter the building.

"This way," he pointed and led the way, running all the way. We came up to a large and heavy metal door, the ki sense was just beyond it. Gohan made short work of the door with a punch and knocked it clear across the room. Entering I saw the Goblin on a glider, cackling like crazy.

"Is that him?" Trunks asked, pointing to the dude in green spandex that was laughing along.

"Yes, that's him, we have to be careful," Spiderman suggested as he stared at Electro and then a bunch of robots that stood nearby.

"Spiderman! Your too late, now say goodbye!" Electro cackled and crackled with energy. The robots came to life and came after us.

"Oh I hate robots!" Spiderman grumbled.

"No problem!" Gohan said, lifting into the air. Six robots in all came in our direction, Gohan took them all on. A few seconds later six headless bots landed on the ground and promptly blew up.

"No matter, I'll destroy you myself!" Electro screamed happily and shot a beam of electricity at us. Gohan put up his hand to block the blast, but then changed his mind and fired a blast back to intercept. Electro gasped, probably at Gohan's ability, then poured energy into his beam. Gohan countered easily, not struggling much if at all. Electro's energy began to wavier and fade, Gohan put some more in to apply the pressure. Goblin started to move towards us and fired a missile at Spidey. He dodged, and it hit Trunks. Every non-Saiyan in the area gasped, louder when the smoke cleared to reveal Trunks unscathed. He charged a blast and tossed it at the glider, sending Goblin flying off and into a discarded robot, the glider exploded. Electro finally gave out and collapsed to the ground a moment later.

"Spiderman, though he is beaten now, he would easily escape and overpower you again. I suggest you allow me to finish the job so he cannot hurt anyone again," Gohan said, standing over Electro with a hand outstretched.

Spiderman looked down, sadness in his ki signal, "You're right, proceed." Two seconds later Electro was dust and the blue portal appeared in the middle of the room.

"That's our ride Spider person! Thanks for the meal!" Goten said happily.

"Thank you for helping me out, couldn't have done it without ya!" Spiderman said wrapping up the Goblin in webbing. The Cat then came over and stood before Gohan.

"Uh...guess this is goodbye now," Gohan said with his family grin.

The Cat approached slowly and gave him a playful peck on the cheek, "Bye now handsome, come back another time and we'll take care of business!" she said in a seductive voice. Gohan blushed and ran shyly through the portal, out of options. The boys and I followed, they made gagging noises the whole way.

"So are we going home now big brother?" Goten asked.

"I don't know Goten, I hope so!" The portal turned red and opened up, revealing a dark sky in the middle of a city at night. Immediately the ki sense that the people were giving off felt way different.

"Hey Gohan, you feel that? It's like I'm getting two different races of humans. I feel more of the normal kind, but the other has a lot too, and slightly stronger," I whispered. Gohan remained silent, but nodded, glancing around at the environment. I then sensed some of the unfamiliar ki nearby in an alley, five of them, and coming closer to us, but moving rather odd. All five stepped from the dark alley in a group, eyeing us with huge grins display on their faces. They looked human enough, but my senses knew better, sensing they were very cold in temperature compared to humans.

"What do we have here? Four little humans out this late, you kids are up past your bedtime!" the leader said. He had on a black vest with chains hanging in various places, as well as ear piercings, classic punks.

"What's it too ya sleazebag?" Trunks mocked them.

"You should learn to watch your mouth little brat, just for that you go first," the leader said and took a step forward. The other four started to move around us, encircling. Each of us dropped back in a fighting stance, facing each corner, unsure what may actually happen. The punks opened the mouths and hissed at us, and then I saw the fangs.

"Gohan, why do their teeth look like Mr. Piccolo's?" Goten asked naively.

"Goten, I think they're vampires. They suck your blood out and make you one of them if they bite you on the neck!" Trunks yelled at him.

"That's bad! Don't let them bite me big brother!" Goten wailed.

The vampires laughed and hissed, "Don't worry kido, it won't hurt long. Then you can enjoy the good times!"

"I'll show you a good time, it'll last about three seconds," I smirked.

The leader kept laughing, "Okay boys and girls, let's get this show started!" he said loudly as the vamps started to circle. I hardened my stance, ready for one to pounce. All of a sudden something hit the leader square in the head and he seemed to burn to ashes from the head down, leaving a silver stake. A spinning blade tore through the air and hit two of the other vamps, they burned up as well.

"It's the day walker! Run for it!" one vampire said to the other. They ran side by side and made it about twenty feet before a dark figure jumped down in front of them, drawing a sword. They tried to attack him as he drew the sword, only to be cut apart and burned up while losing both arms.

Goten and Trunks seemed to stutter there for a second, "COOOL!" They said together. The dark figure approached and re-sheathed his sword, cautiously looking us up and down. When his face came into view, I saw a very short haircut, nice looking shades, a black vest and cape like coat.

"You kids should not be out this late, vampires are about," he said with a very deep voice.

"Sorry, but were looking for some great evil we were sent to defeat, know where we can find one?" Trunks asked without thinking.

Gohan glared at him, "What my friend means is that we were sent to handle any serious problems you may have. I'm Gohan."

"Blade." he said. Well that explains that, I was face to face with the vampire hunter himself. What didn't make sense though was the fact that we had just left what I deemed to be the Marvel Comics world and yet, there was Blade in a completely different one. Then again, it's probably just another parallel universe thing. That sure wouldn't be anything different right now.

"I can sense that you are not totally human Blade, but you're not one of them either," Gohan asked.

"I am half human and half vampire. I have all of their strengths, none of their weaknesses, except for the thirst," Blade said sharply.

"Does that mean you drink blood too?" Goten asked, taking a step back.

"No, I have a serum to help me block the thirst," Blade said, not really smiling nor frowning, "You kids should go home."

"No vampires will dare mess with us Blade. You hunt them right? We can help!" Gohan asked.

"What good will you do? This isn't a kids game!" Blade growled a bit. Gohan held up a demonstration blast to a nearby wall, it vanished.

Blade jaw slipped a little, "In that case, follow me." We followed the dark knight through many alleys to a large office type building, a lot of vampire ki at the top, along with a large one.

"This is Decan Frost's hideout, he was a vampire I was hunting when he tried to resurrect a vampire myth called the blood god. He succeeded and turned into the Blood God, but he forgot that he might still be sensitive to certain things. I was unable to beat him, but the sunlight drove him off before he could finish me off. Then he found that moonlight damaged him as well, so only once a month will he have a chance to come out, that once is tonight. And tonight he will meet his end." Blade seemed to go into a preacher speech. I blinked sharply as he explained what was going on. Something about it just didn't fit, but I didn't bother saying anything either. Timeline changes were beginning to be automatic for me now.

"On top of that building right?" Gohan asked.

"Correct, whoa, hey!" Blade suddenly shouted at Gohan lifted into the air and grabbed his arm to lift as well. Me and the boys followed as he ascended up to the top where the was a large gathering of vampires along with the large power, who only could've been Decan. Landing on the roof, Blade gathered himself, then shouted so loud you'd think a bomb went off.

"FROST!" The door on the roof opened, and surrounded vampires came pouring out and surrounded us. Decan Frost appeared, looking very similar to the movie version, with red eyes.

"Blade, glad you could make it to my coming out party. Your friends thirsty?" he smiled and spread his arms. The other vampires hissed and surrounded us.

"Frost, this is where you end." Blade hissed back. Blade then pulled his sword and charged Decan. He cut across Decan's middle section, and the upper body started to fly off. Then blood came out of both ends and pulled the body back together.

"You can't beat me Blade!" Decan mocked. Then he punched him hard and fast so that Blade could not even follow it, knocking Blade back. Right when Blade got back up, Decan circled him three times and back to his front before he could even react. Then he gave him another blow to the chest, sending him sprawling. He charged Blade again, only to get his head blown off by a ki blast from Gohan. Blood regenerated it and he looked over in amazement. The other vampires hissed and began to circle towards Gohan.

"Boys now!" I yelled and powered up quickly to rush the vampires. Six of them turned and raced towards me. One of them tried to punch and another kick, but they were too slow. I kicked one in the head so hard that it came off and its body burned away. The rest I vanquished with small ki blasts to the heart area. Turning around, I saw that the boys had wiped out a dozen others in similar fashion. The last two fell to small ki beams shot from my fingers.

Gohan was having a stare off with Decan, which involved Decan sweating a lot under the collar.

Then he stopped shaking and smiling slightly, "I just realized that I can turn everyone now," he cackled and his whole body turned red and expanded into a huge wall stretching to the ground. It swirled with colors, just like blood. The wall began to move towards us, cutting through the building as well.

"Fly!" I screamed as it closed in quickly. All four of us flew in the other direction as the blood red wall passed through the buildings and followed quickly. Below me I could feel humans become vampires in a snap, no biting was taking place. Decan was simply passing through them and they turned just like that.

"Gohan, we can't keep letting him do this! He's changing everyone in the city into vampires just by chasing us like this!" I shouted.

"Put up an energy shield and let him pass by. If he resumes his original form we'll blast the hell out of him!" Gohan ordered. Trunks and Goten put theirs up, as did Gohan, but mine faltered due to inexperience on what I was blocking and it failed as the blood red wall passed right through me. I panicked at first, and then gathered my energy to fight the change, causing me to lose focus and fall to another rooftop.

"Verto!" Gohan shouted. Decan reformed into his regular body on the same rooftop that I fell on, looking me over as my body tried to reject the vampirism, as well as me personally.

"Come to my side, join us!" Decan hissed. Gohan jumped down in front of him and blasted his whole upper body clean off. I began to falter on fighting the infection off, my tail twitching a lot, and I began to fall asleep, using too much energy to fight it. Then I blacked out.

I woke up on a cold metal table, an old guy with a long beard was standing over me, and a nurse on the other side.

"How do you feel son?" the old guy asked. My tail was twitching a little bit.

"Normal, depending on your definition. What the hell happened?" I asked.

"You were infected, but somehow your body fought off the infection, its completely gone. I wasn't sure what to make of it until your friends over there said you were part alien, I suppose that explains it," he said.

"Well my tail might be part of the body's defense system, though you'd have to ask Gohan," I explained. Sitting up, I saw Blade on the far side of the room, Gohan Goten and Trunks closer to me.

"What happened to Frost?" I asked.

"He got away, he turned into blood and slithered away after Gohan blasted off his top half, then we brought you here," Trunks explained.

"Wait he infected a lot of people, what about them?" I asked again.

"Unfortunately we can't save them all, all we can do is fight the existing menace," the old man said.

"Well let's track down Frost again, let's try to trap him in the daylight when the sun comes up!" I suggested.

Blade looked up, as did Gohan and the boys, "Good idea kid, except that he left without much of a trace!" Blade snapped.

"We can find him though!" Gohan said, lifting his head up to sense energy. I did as well, sensing the higher number of vampire ki, then I located the big one, not far away.

"There he is guys! Lets get him before sunrise gets here!" I shouted, blazing off before anyone could say a word.

I took lead in the search for Decan, and really I was kind of pissed that he tried to change me into a vampire. Soon I felt Gohan and the boys catch up, and Blade was in a car below us.

"He's up ahead!" Gohan called out. I saw Decan on the ground, waiting on us it seemed.

"Oh you didn't turn, that's quite a surprise youngster. They must've been able to cure you before it took effect. What a shame, I'll just kill you instead!" he cackled, charging us. I didn't waste a breath this time and pulled my arms back.

"Galic gun...FIRE!" I blasted at Decan directly, the beam cut through him and shredded him apart. After the smoke cleared, I observed in shock that he was regenerating. It was bizarre, he was so much weaker and yet survived. I gotta remember that this won't be the only time I encounter someone like this. At the very least I'll get the practice now. Gohan and the boys then jumped up and we all blasted the hell out of Decan. He splattered all over the road time and time again, only to regenerate again. That's when Blade showed up and waited for Decan to regenerate.

We got ready to blast again, but Blade stopped us, "No wait." Decan reformed and noticed Blade for the first time.

"Blade, how nice of you to come, your friends are very entertaining," Decan laughed. Blade held up a pack of test tube vials.

"What's that? Your serum? Can't save ya now buddy, but if your thirsty hang on cause here I come!" Decan yelled and ran towards Blade. Blade hand tossed the vials straight at Decan and I saw all of them hit. The blue liquid inside poured into Decan's body, affecting him. Then he started to puff up, and his clothes ripped off as he turned into a huge blood red balloon. Then he exploded, splattering once again. We waited a few seconds, and then saw that he didn't reform, his energy signal was almost gone.

"What was that stuff?" Gohan asked.

"EDTA, has an interesting affect on vampire blood. Figured I'd try it," Blade explained.

"I'm not done yet you vermin!" came Decan's voice. We looked up to see him slowly reforming, though he was having trouble maintaining it due to the chemicals. His body came together slowly, then he proceeded in actually puking up the blue fluid and his ki rose back to where it had been before.

"Guess we just hold him off now," Gohan said, powering up to Super Saiyan, though it probably wasn't necessary. When his hair turned gold, Decan's red eyes suddenly shrank in fear. In the distance behind Decan, I could see daylight starting to come.

"Hey Gohan, try to keep him in the air, I see the sun starting to come up," I thought at Gohan. Though he didn't acknowledge, I knew he got the message as he glided towards Decan and began to relentlessly beat him up. Decan may have had new power of a mythical Blood God, but he damn sure wasn't going to beat Gohan with it. I noticed that Gohan wasn't even blasting him anymore, not that it mattered since he would just reform. Then I realized why, he'd be too tired from taking blows that he would not notice the sun come up behind him. In between pumblings, Decan tried to punch at Gohan, only to miss, though it didn't seem like Gohan had even moved.

"Argh, curse you!" Decan spat.

"Why me? You already are!" Gohan proclaimed.

"Arghhhh, I will find a way to kill you, or turn you!" Decan declared.

"I doubt that Frosty, you will be dead!" Gohan smirked with confidence.

"You forget, I will never die!" Decan laughed crazily.

"Well part of me believes you, but my friend behind you disagrees," Gohan pointed behind Decan.

He spun to see the start of a sunrise, "Shit!" and he began to dive to the ground.

But Gohan was already there with a ki blast charging up, "MASENKO...HAAA!" Gohan yelled as the blast pushed Decan into the sky, where he exploded in the sunlight. Gohan landed back on the rooftop we were on.

Blade came up, "Thanks," was all he said, before turning around and walking towards the roof door.

The blue portal appeared a few seconds later, "That's our cue to go, nice meeting you Blade!" Gohan said. Blade just sort of nodded and turned and walked away. The portal closed behind us and turned red again instantly.

"Well that one was short guys, maybe were about done," Gohan said.

"Shoulda let me finish that one off, I owed him big time," I muttered, scowling.

"I could have, but I didn't want you or the boys' inexperience to be a factor. Either way, job's done. I'll make it up to ya with a good match someday," Gohan replied calmly.

I grinned back, "I'll hold you to that!"

The portal tunnel then vanished and we found ourselves in a familiar cave.

"About time! I could be training you know!" came a familiar voice.

Power levels:

The Saiyans stay the same

Green Goblin: 2,000

Spiderman 3,000

Black Cat 5,000

Electro: 200,000 (proven in Spiderman episodes when he decimates everyone)

Vampires: 100-500(varies)

Blade: 1,000

Decan Frost AKA The Blood God: 10,000

A/n: I originally planned to go a lot further with this alternate reality bit, but I also wanted to get further into Verto's story rather than linger with the alternate reality issues. For you avid fans of crossovers, you probably won't be disappointed with what I have in mind in the future.