A/N: I've heard that Yajirobe doesn't make an appearance in DBGT, but he's making a very small cameo here. Also, just a bit of forewarning, there's a lot of things happening at once in this chapter so rather than describe say "Gohan threw a few punches and then fired some ki blasts and a ways away from him Trunks was doing basically the same thing...etc etc." I'll just take one character through most of his fight scene before moving on to the next. Oh, and no need to tell me that Akira and Pan are taking their sweet time getting to the battle to help, it's just going to be one of those DBZ things where time on the battle is moving at a different pace than everywhere else (don't forget how long those last five minutes of the Goku/Frieza battle lasted).
A/N: Phantom 1 asked why Akira didn't just I.T. himself and Pan to the battle instead of going to Korrin's tower. There are two very good and important reasons for this. First, both he and Pan are weak after the 'Saiyan Heritage' lesson because they only had one bean left and had to split it. Second, I screwed up and had them too close to earth when the fight began and since I don't want them showing up just yet, I needed to give them something else to do. ;) I hope that clears up the confusion for everyone.
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Chapter 44
"Ahhhhhhhh!" Krillin screamed as Pan and Akira appeared out of no where.
Pan smiled warmly at him, "Good to see you too Krillin."
The former monk took a moment to regain his composure before finally saying, "Akira? Pan? You're supposed to still be over a week away, how did you guys get here?"
"Instant Transmission," Pan said matter-of-factly. Krillin opened his mouth to ask another question, but Akira cut him off.
"There's really no time to explain, we need to see Dende."
"Dende's on the Lookout, just above us," a voice said from behind them.
Akira turned and said, "Thank—whoa!" he did a double take as he noticed a large cat holding a staff and a small bag standing next to a short, fat, slightly balding man with a Katana strapped to his side.
Pan smiled as her friend stared at the growers of the senzu beans. "Akira, I'd like you to meet Korrin and Yajirobe; they're the ones that supply us with senzu beans. Korrin, Yajirobe this is Akira, he's...he's a friend."
The group exchanged a quick hello, Korrin handed over the bag of beans, and then Krillin, Akira, and Pan flew up to the Lookout.
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Gohan threw a punch, dodged three kicks, and then tossed a few quick ki blasts at the four dozen aliens that were attacking him. He was moving as quickly as a level two Super Saiyan possibly could, but with so many attacks coming at him from different directions, he was still having trouble keeping up.
Several feet, fists, and other less identifiable appendages were swinging at him with lightening fast speeds. Rather than try to block all of the attacks, he flew higher into the air, hoping to put some distance between himself and the alien soldiers.
When he had gained enough space, he turned and filled the sky with rapid- fire ki blasts, taking down nine warriors and injuring several others. The remaining aliens pushed through the onslaught with little or no regard for their personal safety, surrounding Gohan before he had a chance to fly further ahead. The Saiyan had been hoping to continue attacking from a distance until their numbers were sufficiently whittled down for him to take them in a head on confrontation. Now that that plan was out the window, he would have to fall back on Plan A: beating the crap out of them until either they ran away or another plan came to him.
He watched the aliens carefully, looking for a cluster of weaker fighters. There weren't any.
"I, uh, don't suppose we could just talk this over, could we?" he asked with a smile. A couple of the warriors chuckled evilly, but Gohan doubted it was his joke that they'd found entertaining.
Without warning, The Super Saiyan flew at the nearest aliens, hoping to catch them off guard and punch through the sphere of fighters. However, as soon as he moved, the rest of the aliens collapsed around him. The first ones to reach him simply grabbed hold of him to keep him from moving or defending himself; the rest busied themselves by pounding on him from every possible angle. Gohan was quickly bruised and bloodied from the barrage of assaults that kept coming as he struggled to break free.
Finally with a Herculean effort, he managed to throw off several of the aliens that were holding him in place. Then with a roar of rage, he pulled another of his anchors off his back and used the poor creature as a club, knocking most of his attackers back before tossing the bloody pulp that had once been one of Ammit's warriors to the ground.
Gohan could barely see out of either of his eyes, which were nearly swollen shut, but that hardly made him any less deadly. The anger cursing through his veins pushed his power level to new heights as he smashed into the aliens like a one man wrecking ball. His fists and feet flashed out with impossible speed, sending fighters flying. For a moment the aliens began to fall back under his relentless assault, but then their numbers started to slowly overwhelm him once again. Every time Gohan went after one, two, or even ten of the fighters, the other twenty-five or thirty aliens would attack him with ki blasts or sucker punches from his blind side and with two nearly swollen-shut eyes, all of his sides were blind sides. The Super Saiyan killed a few more enemies, but his defenses were beginning to weaken and even more attacks were slipping through.
Then, as he held one of the warriors that had gotten too close and smashed his knee into its gut, a vicious blow caught Gohan in the right temple; the Saiyan nearly blacked out for a moment and the warrior he had been attacking slipped from his grasp. The alien immediately powered up a huge ki blast and fired it point blank into Gohan's face.
There was an enormous explosion of dust and debris as the Saiyan slammed into the ground. When the cloud cleared, Gohan was on his hands and knees at the bottom of a large crater; his hair flickering between gold and black as he struggled to maintain his transformation.
One of the warriors dropped down next to him and kicked him hard in the ribs. The Saiyan was sent flying out of the crater, landing on the ground in a heap; his hair turned black and remained that way as he coughed up blood.
Gohan weakly looked up as the alien hopped out of the crater and leered down at him. The Saiyan's mind was racing to come up with a way to fight back, or escape, or just survive, but he came up blank. There was no escape this time.
The black armored warrior raised his fist, let out an animal-like roar, and swung down at Gohan's head.
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He turned and looked back at the aliens, his aqua eyes blazing with battle lust. As he watched, eight aliens fell to the ground, their bodies coming apart at several different places.
If Trunks had thought that the rest would become disheartened and flee after such a terrifying display of power, he was sadly mistaken. If anything, the sight of their comrades' shredded bodies only seemed to galvanize the warriors.
"For Ammit!" they called out as they charged the Saiyan.
In one graceful motion, Trunks cut the first alien to reach him completely in half, spraying the three behind it with gore. Twirling his blade expertly, Trunks turned and sliced an oncoming warrior from shoulder to hip. He then brought the sword into a blocking position above his head, just as an alien was bringing a two-handed blow down upon him. The creature shrieked in pain as its hands were severed. Trunks silenced it by firing a large energy beam into its face a second later. Rotating the handle in his hand, he jabbed it into the chest of a warrior behind him all the way to the hilt.
Then, as he brought his sword around to hit his next target, several ki blasts crashed into him, followed quickly by a spinning heel kick and a vicious uppercut. Trunks' beautiful blade was knocked from his hands under the force of the assault.
Years of training allowed the Saiyan to smoothly switch to hand-to-hand fighting without missing a beat. Even as the sword slipped from his grasp, Trunks had already balled up his other fist, which he promptly used to send the warrior that had kicked him plummeting to the earth far bellow. The Super Saiyan quickly sent a ki beam chasing after the falling alien for good measure.
As he turned to face the rest of his opponents one of them threw a right hook at his face, but Trunks saw it coming and tilted his head back just enough to avoid the blow. As the alien's fist sailed by him, the Saiyan caught the warrior by the wrist, pulled him forward, spinning him around and grabbing the fighter by the neck, holding him up as a living shield.
The other warriors didn't even hesitate in rushing forward and continuing their attacks. Trunks used the hapless alien to block many of the attacks, but still took several painful blows to his back and face.
Seeing the futility of his current strategy, Trunks threw his hostage at a large group of fighters, charged up a ki beam and shot it at the distracted aliens. The beam ripped through the former shield and killed several warriors on the other side of him. Even as the dead and injured fell, the rest of the fighters surged forward, attacking Trunks with reckless abandon.
'Man, don't these guys ever back off?' the Saiyan thought as he braced himself for the onslaught.
For several minutes he seemed to be holding his own, until one alien managed to land a punch, and then another, and another, and finally one of the more powerful aliens struck him in the back, a nauseating crunching sound rang in Trunks' ears. Suddenly his limbs didn't seem to want to obey his brain anymore and his defenses, as well as his chances of winning, disappeared completely.
The Saiyan's power was now falling at an alarming rate. Less than a minute after the shot to the back, Trunks, unable to hold his ascended form any longer, reverted back to a normal Super Saiyan. He was desperately trying to find a way to gain some breathing room, but his assailants had completely surrounded him and were now hammering him from all angles.
Then a mighty kick to the face caused the bloodied Saiyan to fall from the sky like a stone, landing with a sickening thud a few feet from his sword. He tried to rise to his feet, but collapsed to the dirt as his hair became lavender again. Several aliens landed between him and his weapon, powered up ki blasts, and prepared to finish him off.
One of the aliens sneered and said, "Farewell weakli—" His sentence was stopped short a gray haired man in a white shirt and black pants who had just appeared behind him. The human had thrust the Saiyan's sword through the creature's neck and out its mouth. The other warriors of Ammit took a step back in surprise at the unexpected development.
Not wasting a second, Yamcha pulled the balled out of the alien's throat, scooped up the unconscious Trunks, and sped away. A moment later the angry shouts of the remaining fighters told him they had recovered from their shock and were giving chasse.
Though he was still one of the top five strongest full blooded humans alive, Yamcha knew that his power was nothing compared to the aliens chasing him; they would catch him within seconds and then it would all be over with. He chanced a glance over his shoulder and found that they were right on his heals.
"Tri-Beam!"
A large ki blast passed just over Yamcha's shoulder and slammed into his pursuers, sending several of them crashing to the ground. He looked up and smiled at Tien and then the two humans sped towards the mountains, looking for a place to hide.
They didn't notice the energy wave until it was too late. A second later they hit the ground at the base of some large boulders and were down for the count.
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A/N: Uubu and Vegeta's fights will be in the next chapter. I was just going to do it all in one long chapter, but decided that it worked better as two (plus that gives me a little extra time to work on their fights as well as chapter 46).