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 Starcraft or any of the music pieces you see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.
Chapter 10: Videl's Date
"Woman! Come here quickly!" Vegeta shouted as he hauled the dead Zergling into Capsule Corp with blood dripping on his pink shirt. Mom showed up quickly, looking slightly surprised and then frightened.
"Vegeta, what is that?!" She shrieked.
"Examine it, it's dead! We found it a few minutes ago, Verto said it was part of the Zerg race he told us about!" Vegeta explained briefly. That got Mom into full scientist mode and she lead the way to her labs. Vegeta had me and Trunks stay in the lobby until he was sure Mom would be safe with the thing around.
He'll be back here soon, probably wanting answers as to how I knew what it was. I should be able to avoid saying anything about DBZ so not to screw up the timeline, but of course it's already messed up with me here. Oh well, the Zerg weren't originally a part of it, guess I better get used to this. Vegeta stayed with Mom for a few minutes while Trunks and I sat in silence.
It wasn't long before he returned, "I want some god damn answers!"
"What do you mean?" I asked.
"How the hell did you know what that thing was? You said you never encountered the Zerg that Dabura and the Kai's warned you about!"
"And that part is true, I never have! But on my world I played a lot of computer games, and one was a game called Starcraft. It was strategy warfare between three races, and one was Zerg. That Zergling we just brought back looked exactly like the ones on that game, hence my recollection," I explained, trying to stay calm.
"So you knew all about them and didn't tell us?" Vegeta started to growl a bit.
"I wasn't sure if they were the same! And if they weren't, what good is false information? It was Old Kai that told me that these creatures were the same as the ones in the game, and that was only a week ago!" I raised my voice slightly but brought it back down, remembering just whom I was speaking to. Vegeta glared at me and I returned the gaze with less intensity.
He lightened slightly though after a few minutes, "Could you recall all their species and fighting abilities now?"
"Not for certain. Just like that Zergling, I'd have to see it again to know for sure," I said, calmer now.
"Hmmm, well I do have an idea, but it's a dangerous one. I had the woman start designing a dimensional time machine for us to have around here. It wasn't my original idea, but it was all she could manage. Could we make a trip back to your world and get the information there?"
I looked at him sharply, "Yeah that would work. All I would have to do is play the game again and I could fill you in with as much as it provides for me."
"Good, I'll inform the woman that we will leave tomorrow morning for your world. She can find the co-ordinances in Trunks' spare time machine," Vegeta grunted slightly and headed back for the labs.
Trunks looked relieved, "I thought Dad was gonna blow up on you for a minute there!"
"He might have if I didn't have so much stuff locked in this brain of mine!" I grinned as I pointed to it. Trunks laughed slightly before wondering off towards the living room area, no doubt one of his shows was about to come on.
I glanced at the clock, it read four-fifteen. SHIT! I raced down to the kitchen and turned on the robots to cook me a quick meal. Fortunately they were prepared and got out the instant meals. To anyone else, the instant meals would appear to be a bunch of dirt in a bag. But the robots needed only to add water through a hydrate machine, and it popped out whatever food it was made out of. In this case, the first bag spit out a bunch of fried chicken. I started tearing into that as soon as the plate was on the table. One thing about the instant meals, they were good for something quick, but tasted lousy. Waiting for food was usually worth it. A plate of mashed potatoes showed up next, getting gulped down in a few seconds.
Mom happened to walk in during the salad plate, "Geez, got a hot date or something?"
"Funny you should mention that. I owed Videl a date for helping me watch the brats. Tonight's the night and I'd rather not do this in a restaurant," I said quickly, turning back to the plate of green beans that had just arrived.
"Oh so that's it, yeah Videl mentioned that. Don't go and steal Gohan's girl though, Chichi would smash your head in with her frying pan, as would I!" Mom warned.
"Nah, just dinner and a movie I think," I said slyly.
"Verto, what else is there? I can tell your hiding something else, out with it!" Damn, how does she do that?
"Well, Gohan kinda asked me for a favor," I trailed off.
"Oh, what's that?"
"You see, he claims that a girl from his school asked him to take her out to her boyfriend's favorite restaurant in order to make him jealous and like her more or something. I guess he doesn't want Videl to know because he thinks she would get mad," I explained.
"Ah a fake date! No problem, your secret is safe with me. Just don't tell Videl and keep her away from wherever Gohan and this other girl are," Mom said, seemingly having everything figured out. Somehow, this night isn't going to come out so good, I just know it.
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I changed into a black polo shirt with buttons at the top, not wanting to look like a complete lameass. I picked out black jeans so my tail wouldn't show quite as bad and grabbed some money that Mom had left out. Then I took off for Satan City at four-thirty sharp. I had to fly a little faster because it was about five hundred miles away, and I only had a half hour to get there on time. If I wanted to, I could power up about halfway and be there in a few minutes, but that would have been a nightmare with my slightly better clothes. They would probably burn off if I tried too hard, they weren't exactly comfortable to begin with. My clothes didn't come out wrinkled too badly though, and I approached the city just on time. Landing at the mansion, Videl had just opened the door, and knowing her, she had sensed me coming.
Damn, she looks good today. Shit, quit thinking that! Luckily she didn't hear me, or at least didn't say so. She was wearing a black spaghetti strap top with blue jeans, and instead of her pigtails, she had drawn her hair back into a big ponytail. I snorted slightly as I had told her that I thought she looked better with the shorter hair, therefore she grew the hair back just to agitate me. She smiled as I touched down, waving goodbye to someone inside. She walked up slowly, enough for me to be overwhelmed with her presence. My tail swished out of control in anticipation.
"So, I look pretty good today huh?" she asked.
"Uh yeah," I nodded, silently damning my tail for giving away what I was thinking.
"So movie or dinner first?"
"Either, I just ate my big meal back at home so I'm good for awhile," I shrugged.
"Movie then, glad to see you left your more undesirable manners at home today," Videl said, holding her arm out. I took it and we walked arm in arm towards the place she picked out.
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Thankfully, no one really recognized us, and I finally got my tail under control and wrapped up. The movie she picked was called "Dreamless Nights." Some story about romance, murder and rape. A female detective plays the main character following a string of these events, with one sadistic villain involved. About half way through, I felt a hand brush and rub my tail a little bit. I looked over at Videl, who was trying not to laugh.
"You looked bored, I was trying to cheer you up a bit!" she thought at me.
"Actually it is kinda interesting," I replied in my head. She frowned slightly, before grinning and giving my tail another rub, causing me to shake and gasp a little bit.
"Not in here Videl, please not in here!" I rasped.
"Aw come on, I just want to see what happens," she laughed.
"I have a pretty good idea what it might be, so knock it off!" I warned. She giggled and stopped, and the feeling faded away slowly. Amazingly, no one around us really noticed, even though the place was pretty full. The movie came to a close later on, the detective ended up getting raped as well, but in the middle of it she slit the villain's throat in desperation. We walked out hand in hand again as the crowd filed out in front of us.
"That wasn't too bad was it?" Videl asked.
"No, it was okay. Kind of a different way for the bad guy to get killed but still decent," I said.
"You're blushing!"
"Duh, you kept grabbing my tail!" I whispered a little loudly.
The conversation was cut short when someone familiar called out to us, "Hey Videl!"
"Oh, hi Erasa!" Oh great, and I bet Sharpner is the one I sense with her. Sure enough, both blonds turned up, it looked like the blond jock was Erasa's date tonight.
"Videl, what are you doing with nerd boy?" Sharpner asked.
"Who the fuck are you calling nerd boy?" I snapped at him. Obviously he thought I was Gohan, but quickly thought otherwise.
"Well, he looks like Gohan, and he's just as cute, but he's too short to be Gohan!" Erasa looked me over real fast.
"And he swore at me, Gohan never cusses!" Sharpner noticed.
"I'm glad your pea brain figured that one out. After that affair with your wrecked car and the hot tub, I thought you might have been permanently damaged. Never mind after Videl threw you out of the water park!"
The jock gasped, "How did you know about that?!"
"I should know, I was there!" I said with a smirk.
"You're that kid Verto, aren't you? But how?"
"Look, the village idiot figured it out. Faster than her dad too," I noted.
"How?" Sharpner repeated, "I mean you're bigger now…though you are still a shrimp."
I let my face darken, "You're lucky we drove you out of the house. That bitch you were dating turned out to be a killer android, the same general kind that Cell was," I said sharply before turning my back on him.
"So how could you be cute little Verto? He's about eight years old, you look to be about fourteen!" Erasa asked.
"Seventeen," I replied under gritted teeth.
"Actually Dr. Briefs had some crazy invention that can decrease or increase someone or something's age. His little brother tampered with it and it turned him into this. Then it broke, so we're working on getting him back to normal," Videl explained for her less-minded friend.
"Oh okay, as long as he stays cute I don't care!"
I blushed at that remark and Sharpner growled slightly, "What a freak!" He was instantly on the ground holding his nose, Videl popped him pretty good.
"For your information, he's a whole lot nicer and much more of a man then you'll ever be! Come on Verto, let's get some dinner now!" With that said she snatched my hand and guided me away.
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"Oh I can't believe that idiot sometimes, just so inconsiderate!" Videl snarled.
"Ah, forget him, he's not worth the effort. So where we eating?" I asked, trying to get her off the subject.
"Oh, one of my favorite places in town actually. They have really good tacos there, and I know how you like those!"
My stomach growled slightly in response, "What's it called?"
"O'Flanders, they have a dance floor in there also. Let's get going before it fills up!" Videl started running happily before I could react. Damnit, she just had to pick there, well maybe she won't notice him. I already sensed Gohan in the area though, so I knew the chance of that was slim.
"Hey Gohan, Videl is heading straight for you, lower you ki!" I sent out a thoughtful warning. The response I received wasn't one of the more pleasant ones I had ever heard, but he understood and his ki level dropped to nearly nothing. We found the place pretty quickly; it wasn't that far from the movie theatre. It had a big blue sign on the front, and tons of teenagers were flowing into the place, like it was party central. This might be good, maybe we won't see Gohan at all. The place had seats all around the middle, which was a big dance floor just like Videl said, and it also had an upper level as well that surrounded the dance floor. The lights were pretty dim, and there were many flashing around the dance floor.
I picked up on Gohan's ki level pretty quickly, even though it was just as low now as any other human in the room. I had a thing for picking people out of crowds; he was on the right side on the lower level near the wall. The hostess took us to a seat on the left side of the upper level, but in clean view of Gohan's table. I turned in my chair a little bit to the left, facing more towards Videl, and not Gohan. The menu landed in front of me, prompting me to start searching for my selection.
"I hope you're hungry, I get free food here ya know!" Videl said with a smile.
I grinned back, "You shouldn't give me incentive like that!" The waitress showed up a minute later and to take our order.
"Good evening Miss Satan. What a lovely date you have tonight, what can I get you?"
"I'll have a load of the extra spicy Nachos!" Videl said.
"And you sir?"
"Twenty beef tacos, meat and cheese only please!" I said. The waitress seemed to stumble slightly when I said that.
The waitress laughed, "Pardon me, that music is up a little louder than I thought it was, I thought I heard you say twenty?"
"You did hear me say twenty, meat and cheese only please. I'm gonna eat light tonight," I repeated, only slightly annoyed. The waitress wrote it down quickly and walked off, muttering slightly.
"Hey, thanks for going out with me Verto. The only reason Dad didn't try to tag along was because it was with you and he seemed to remember how you can be. So far it's been a pretty good night, aside from that incident with Sharpner," Videl smiled warmly.
"Yeah, hasn't been too bad tonight," I muttered off into space.
"What is it?"
"Just thinking about stuff," I said.
"Gonna let me in on it," she asked.
I smirked, "No."
Videl grinned evilly, "Fine, I'll get it out of you sooner or later, it's torture time!" She got up and took the seat beside me, her hand in full reach of my tail.
"Don't Videl. Besides, you're Gohan's girl, I don't want to ruin that relationship," I said, calmer now.
"Aw, you're no fun!" she pouted slightly. A few people came by the table, waving to Videl, and then a few of the girls gave me a hungry look. Videl slid her hand up to hold a small hug while glaring simple threats at the passing teens as if to show some sort of claimed prize.
"So what did you do today with Vegeta and Trunks? Bulma said you three were out doing something other than training?"
"You talk everyday with her now?" I asked.
"Well I actually called to talk to you, but I settled for the juicy news. I want your story though," Videl grinned.
"She shut down the gravity room and threatened to keep it off until Vegeta did something other than training. He came to me for ideas, and we ended up going to a football game, and then we went bowling." I explained.
"Oh, I heard about that, the one with the severely injured and or dead refs and the riot at the end right?"
I nodded grimly before realizing something, "Why didn't you show up and try to stop him or something?"
"Stop Vegeta at his favorite habit? Ha, good luck to me then!" Videl laughed, "So how did Bowling go, didn't I hear you did that on your planet?"
"Yeah, only destroyed a few pins. Shot my first perfect game," I smiled with pride.
"Wow, congrats, this calls for celebration you know!"
"I think I've had enough of your celebrations," I said, earning a punch to the arm.
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Our food showed up a few minutes later while Videl was discussing her boring day. I tore into my tacos quickly, but not nearly the speed I normally ate, much to Videl's relief. She was right, the tacos were pretty good, and soon they were pretty gone, only an aftertaste left.
"You call that restraining?" she asked with a piece of jalapeno hanging out her mouth.
"Depends on who you're talking about," I chuckled and pointed out the spicy object. She blushed slightly and no more words were spoken until she was done.
"Hey, want to hit the dance floor? I saw from Vegeta that you Saiyans can really cut the rug!" Damnit, then she'll see Gohan for sure.
"I'm not a dancer, never have been," I said truthfully. That part was true, what I didn't mention was that it was part of gym class back in high school.
"Oh I love this song! Come on!"
"Fine, but don't blame me if it becomes a scene," I muttered as she yanked me out of the seat. We stepped onto the busy wood floor and took positions. The song was a rock ballad, one of my favorite types despite my love for heavy metal, generally slow but a higher pitched chorus. We locked opposite hands, her other hand under my shoulder blade and mine under her rib cage. The dance floor spread out from us, as everyone had stopped to see the champ's daughter and her date dance. I silently prayed that I remembered how to slow dance. She led the movement in tune with the song, slowly stepping left. I followed and flowed into the beat easily, thanking Dende again in the process for not allowing my feet to trip, assuming it was even him. We continued without interruption and for most of the dance her eyes were on me or closed. We separated a few times in a twirl or whatnot, but kept contact at all times. In the midst of it all, I thought I could see a feint blue aura surrounding my skin much like the bowling ball earlier in the day. It seemed to glow through my hands and then surround Videl, but it faded and I disregarded it when I didn't feel anything.
"Hey Verto, why is Gohan here with another girl?" Videl asked in barely a whisper while keeping beat with our dance movements.
I stared into her big blue and pure eyes, "How did you know?"
"Seen him earlier, figured you might have had something to do with it since you requested the date. I can tell things like that, and I'm picking up his thoughts pretty strongly in here. Right now their focused on me and you, so we're giving him a good show," she explained quietly. I sighed and stepped left with her.
"You want the real truth? He's doing this girl a favor by going out with her and making her boyfriend jealous I guess. He thought you would be mad if he told you or if you found out," I said.
"Well, I am a bit mad at him for that. He could have just asked me, but now he's gonna get a taste of his own medicine!" Videl said in a barely audible tone.
I heard the song start to end, "What do you mean by that Videl?" She didn't answer, but she did turn slowly so Gohan would see us in clear view. Then she leaned forward a bit and smoothly raised her hands towards my neck and head. I didn't react, figuring this was part of the dance. It turned out to be part of her dance all right. She leaned forward quickly, and her lips captured mine faster than I could, or in this case, wanted to react. At first I panicked, eyes wide open, but she didn't release, and I stepped up and returned it with a slight motion of my lips. We held the kiss for a solid ten seconds, ten seconds I wanted to hold and forget at the same time. There were loud gasps around us, though I knew where the loudest one was coming from. Videl finally retracted a little bit and held a grand smile as the song ended and some clapping broke out.
"You're gonna make someone really happy someday, I can tell," Videl grinned slightly and tugged slightly on my hand to signal us to get off the dance floor. Not after I die here in a few minutes.
-
I wasn't sure if I was gonna get plowed over by Gohan right away or not, but it seemed that his plan with the other girl worked. The boyfriend showed up and the two confessed to him while Videl and I watched from afar. Gohan quickly backed off of the pair and let them get together, and then made a beeline for us. Oh boy, do I need to do a Kaioken escape now, or later? Videl smiled brightly when he showed up, and I became more than a little weary of myself and my surroundings. I quickly scanned for where the nearest exit was despite the fact that Videl was holding my hand pretty tight so I didn't run off. Gohan stared at me pretty hard, then sighed.
"I suppose I deserved that didn't I?" he asked.
"Darn right you did! Next time, just tell me straight up! I wouldn"t of had a problem with it!" Videl said with a smile then a frown.
"Sorry about dragging you into this Verto," he said, erasing any thoughts I had of escaping for a few minutes.
Videl smiled warmly, "Oh that's okay Gohan, he's one hell of a good kisser!" We both blanched slightly, turning pale to blush in five second or less.
"So Videl, want me to walk you home now?" Gohan offered.
"Not a chance, Verto gets that pleasure because I was on the date with him!" Videl's eyes flashed angrily, "You can walk me home on our dates though," she offered, making his face lighten up.
"Alright, I'll see you guys later then," he said with fake acceptance.
Videl yanked my arm towards her, "Bye Gohan, call me if you can get through the Hercule saved the universe line!" She waved while pulling me towards the door.
"If I survive the next week I'll be shocked," I muttered.
"What do you mean by that silly? You're tougher than nails!" Videl pointed out.
"I'll bet that he'll show up to train and turn me into mush before the weekend is over," I grumbled.
"Aw, jealousy is in the air. Just like the birds, the bees, the flowers and the trees!" Videl misquoted purposefully.
I groaned in reply, "Shut up."
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We walked back to the Satan mansion in silence, hand in hand. As we reached the mansion, we found the lights were all off.
"That's funny, there's usually a main hall light on, even this late," Videl whispered.
"You need me to come in?" I asked.
"Nah, I know my way around, I'll see ya later Verto!" She said happily, opening and closing the door. I sighed, What a night. I slowly drifted into the air, having a strange feeling going by my senses. I made my way to about a thousand up, and the mansion not quite as impressive that high up. Slowly I flew towards West City under the cloudy night sky. I found myself not moving very fast towards home, and I simply coasted through the air. A nagging feeling became present, followed by strange fluctuations in the air again. I felt compelled to go back to the mansion.
My own version of an Inner Krillin was happy to provide some insight, 'Well of course dummy, you just kissed her!'
'Yeah, but I don't often feel compelled to go back once I leave!' I argued. Inner Krillin shut his mouth, he knew I was right. My thoughts drifted to the Zergling we found earlier, and it reminded me of android Twenty-one for some reason. The vision of Twenty-one having Videl by the throat entered my mind once again. I watched it without interference, Videl was held by the no-longer gloved hand. But then the hand changed into a purple colored claw, and the body changed into a purple skinned and hideous dog thing. I saw a Zergling that had Videl up by the claw, ready to slice her head off. That's when it hit me, I had to go back. I powered up and flew back to the mansion quickly, fear running down my face.
I landed in front, and the door was still open. That's funny, she closed it. I spotted some sort of maid running down the street a moment later, answering that question. I entered cautiously, eyes darting towards the shadows for any signs of movement and seeking out any ki fluctuation. I searched for Videl's ki as well, but she seemed to have masked it so I couldn't track her down precisely. That and Buu's weird energy signal was making it difficult to sense anything else. I lifted into the air and floated through the many halls slowly, eyes darting in the darkness.
There's definitely something or someone here that isn't supposed to be here. I could have flipped on a light, or made one with a ki ball, but then my position could be given away if I did that, and I would lose a tactical advantage. That was something Vegeta had taught me and Trunks pretty well by using Capsule Corp as a dark tomb and playing seek and destroy. I knew flying fast would give off too much ki, so I kept it to a float and very slight movement. Soon, not even the Satan City lighting illuminated anything for me, and I had to go on wit and cunning myself in the blackness of the mansion. I entered a large dark hallway with little in the way of doors, some kind of tunnel through the lower parts of the mansion. I grazed a few walls on the way down, but nothing sounded. I began to smell traces of extremely fresh blood in the air. I gritted my teeth and hoped that it wasn't the worst case scenario.
I got about halfway down the hall from what I could tell, going on ki sense alone, before I noticed a breathing sound coming rather heavily in the air. Then I heard another start up in a similar rhythm. Then another, and soon I detected four distinct patterns that were completely similar to each other, but to no other animal or human I ever knew. I heard a new pattern form directly ahead of me, with more of a ki signal behind it. Slowly that ki signal began to unravel itself, until I knew whom it belonged to. With that done, I directed my attention to the heavy breathing, and I saw four pairs of glowing eyes lock onto me and the figure just a few feet ahead of me in the hall. I began to charge a ki ball in my hands, without lighting it yet, right away all four pairs of glowing greens were set to me. So, they can sense energy too.
"Videl, move now!" I whispered. I fired the ki ball just as she moved out of the way, making it explode in the middle of the four breathing sounds, showing me exactly what I expected to see. I grabbed her hand and flew towards the other side of the hall quickly.
"How did you know?" she gasped.
"That connection I have with you is starting to get pretty handy you know, and we ran into one of those today already. I recognized the breathing pattern," I said, hearing the creatures start after us, but we had a pretty good head start for someone without night vision.
"I masked my ki perfectly, how could you tell where I was?"
"Not sure, must have been guided subconsciously, but let's not fret about that. How do you get the lights on in this, place?" I asked, just as the lights came on when I said the words. I stopped and stepped in front of Videl, waiting for my enemies to come down the hallway. Four figures soon ran up to us, stopping short and preparing to attack. It was just as I thought, four with purple skin, claws, and barely any fur at all with a bony and muscled up exterior. Four Zerglings.
"What the hell are those?!" Videl gasped. I couldn't blame her, anyone would have reacted this way.
"Go back and wake your dad and Buu! Tell him you seem to have lost a few maids or butlers, we'll check it out once these four go down. It's pretty tight in here so I may have to fight them head on, go now!" I shouted, powering up a little more than Vegeta had against the one he beat earlier. The Zergling mouths were drooling, almost foaming now. All four charged without fear. I dodged past the first one and hammered the second one with a chop to the back. The third one received a kick as well as the fourth. Ending up on the other side, I charged ki into my fingertips. The first two had recovered and were coming at me, one moving right on the heels of the other, and lining up nicely.
I charged up a little more power and fired, "Special beam cannon!" I shouted, pointed straight at the first Zergling. The beam cut right through it starting at the head and going out the rear, striking the next one right away and putting it down too. The other two quickly charged forward side by side this time. I held up my palms and drew them back in anticipation.
"Destructive waves!" I shouted, as two ki waves flowed from my hands. I aimed a little high just in case they jumped. One did and the blast engulfed it. The other one somehow ducked under and got it's back burned halfway off, literally. Even the bones and blood vessels were showing just where it had met my blast, halfway lobbed off and everything. It ignored the pain and leapt at me, swiping its claws just as I was pulling my arms back to guard. I spun as it went by, blasting it when it landed and killing the last one. A line of blood formed on my cheek, the little bastard had managed to cut me pretty good. I sensed Satan and Videl coming back, but Buu was still sleeping somewhere.
"Oh my god, what the hell are those things?" Satan asked first.
"Zerglings, nasty little creatures too from what I've seen," I said, kicking one atop another to clear the path. Videl and Satan slowly walked up to them.
Satan nervously stepped past, "Are they dead?"
"Yeah, I got em. C'mon, let's see what happened down here!" I said, leading the way down the path. We reached the end where I found Videl and the Zerglings, and the floor had red all over it. The butler lay sprawled on the ground, bleeding out it seemed. He was long past dead, his neck had been broken and his head was turned all the way around.
I ignored the body, "What's behind this door?"
"An old training room I have. Haven't used it in probably about five years," Satan said, double taking at the body.
"Okay, I'm going to open it, stand back!" Videl and Satan complied and I bashed open the door, sending the door flying to the other side of the room I just opened. An overly grotesque smell hit me the instant I did, and I sneezed by reaction.
"Oh man, what is that!" Videl cringed.
"Smells like someone dropped the bomb!" Satan suggested. I ignored the stench as best I could and floated into the room. It held an upper level that we were on with a railing, but the lower level seemed to be emitting the stench.
"Lights on!" Satan shouted. The room lights came on, drawing a hiss from below. I saw ten Zerglings marching around on a purple, smelling surface that seemed to be alive itself.
"What the hell?" Videl shouted this time. Question of the day. In the middle of the room lay some kind of structure, it stood up about twenty feet in the huge room and seemed to have some kind of dark green hole inside of it that glowed brightly. The Zerglings saw us and hissed and growled wildly.
"Oh man, I don't want any part of those things!" Satan said.
"I don't blame you either. Vegeta and I saw one of these things rip a few humans apart pretty easily. Get out of the room, I need to seal it and destroy those things!" I ordered. I recognized the green structure, it was one that could transport Zerg to its location from far away, and meaning reinforcements would be easy as long as they were on the planet. I scowled as I floated just above it and pulled my arms backwards. I decided that the odd structure needed to go first.
"Galic Gun!" I shouted, shooting the red beam straight at the canal so to speak. I hit dead on and it exploded after a few seconds, sending a huge mesh of organic material splattering about. The Zerglings went into some kind of frenzy and started jumping up the smooth walls to get to me. I charged ki into my hands and unleashed a rapid-fire blast attack, hitting each one multiple times and killing them with the first hits. As soon as the creatures were dead, I blasted the remains of the purple matter on the ground, just in case. It seemed to be receding anyway once it's structure was gone, but I wanted to make sure. With the canal gone and the Zerglings dead, I made my way back up the hall toward Videl and Mr. Satan, firing a blast behind me on the way out to seal up the tunnel.
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"Yeah Bulma, can you put Vegeta on?" Mr. Satan bravely asked while Videl was bandaging my face.
"What do you want?!"
"Yeah uh, Vegeta? Verto and Videl are back over here, and some of my maids and servants were killed by some kind of vicious animals. Verto said they were Zerglings or something, you know anything about em? Whoa, that's weird, he hung up!"
"He didn't hang up, give it a few seconds," I muttered. Sure enough, the door flew open as Vegeta charged in at Super Saiyan two, powering down just as quickly.
"There were Zerglings here boy, as in more than one?" Vegeta demanded. I filled him in on the fourteen Zerglings I found, plus the canal in the room that would have been a staging point for an attack had I not found it.
"Good work boy, the woman is still collecting data on the one we killed earlier, and we have a mission tomorrow. For tonight, remain here and protect the Satan girl, they may still come back to find out why their supply line is gone. Be back at Capsule Corp at ten so we can get going!" Vegeta ordered before stomping out and slamming the door behind him.
"Wow, what a people person he is," Satan muttered aloud.
"What is your mission tomorrow?" Videl asked.
"We have to make a trip to my world in the past, there is information about the Zerg there. I know a lot about them, but it's a distant memory that I need refreshment on," I explained, sagging slightly on the couch.
"Man, all your guy's talk about different dimensions and stuff can really mess a guy's head up, I'm going back to bed," Satan said, much to my delight.
"I'm gonna stay up and make sure Verto doesn't need stitches for that nasty cut!" Videl smirked slightly, causing Satan to chuckle.
"That's the last thing that boy will need," Satan laughed as he walked up the stairs. We waited for the sounds of snores to fill the house before speaking again.
"Sooo, how do you know of these things anyway?" Videl asked again.
"Well, just like Pokemon is a TV show here and there, well the Zerg were on a computer game I used to play a lot. It was a strategy warfare game involving armies from space, Zerg was one of three races on there you could play. These Zerg are almost identical to the ones on there. That's how I knew about them," I said, not noticing Videl had taking this chance to slip her hand around my shoulder.
"What were the other races?" she asked.
"Terran and Protoss I think. Terrans were basically humans with advanced technology if I recall," I said.
"Hmm, well what about this?" Instantly my tail was grabbed.
"Videl, please don't," I begged.
"Hey, thought you would want a reward for saving my butt again, and giving me such a great kiss. I'm just repaying the debt," she cooed slightly, rubbing her hand across the tail gently. There was an instant reaction, and my body went out of control the more she rubbed. My eyes rolled backwards a little and feral sounds came behind it. My breath shuddered a little bit, as my arms and legs started to twitch a little bit and my ki suddenly poured out. There was a sudden urge to kill something and I did my best to surpress it. Videl's facial reaction changed to fear and she promptly stopped. Whatever was happening to me took a moment to finally break, and she relaxed just as I did. When I did, I was on cloud nine, a feeling that lasted quite a little while too.
"Videl," I whispered.
"Shhhh, just go to sleep. Sorry, I won't do any more," she whispered in my ear. Soon after, I fell asleep with my head rested against her thigh. I woke up in the middle of the night briefly, realizing that my underwear was a bit wet, and it wasn't cause I pissed on myself. Blushing furiously, I sagged back off to sleep, shaking my head at what she had done. At the same time I was relieved that it didn't go farther than that, because I simply wasn't sure what my instincts were trying to do.