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 23: Youth Restored
I awoke bound to a brown and slimy wall, my hands and legs strung up very tightly by some sort of green weed. I tried to pull it out but the weeds held tight.
"No use. I haven't tried while powered up yet, but these weed things are pretty strong," Gohan said beside me, tied up in the same fashion. We were in a small and slimy chamber with brown walls and a purple floor, everything in there seemed to be alive and dead at the same time.
"So should we power up to full and bust out? That would make sense, and it would more than likely alert Vegeta and the others even if we didn't escape! Trust me, I know the Zerg can't handle us at even half power, we would tear this place apart!"
"Hold on, we're still after the Dragonball," Gohan said, looking around. He didn't have to look far, because the far wall seemed to open up and the Zerg woman came through it with the Dragonball and a few Zerglings. Gohan fortunately had pocketed the other one in a capsule when we started seeing Zerg signs, so the other one was safe as long as he still had that capsule. She tossed the ball up and down, catching and throwing again.
"I don't really see what is special about this thing, but I do detect some kind of mystical energy around it. I'll have to study it further after the conquest of earth," she said, tossing the ball to the ground on the side of the room. She came closer; her feminine features were more than obvious despite the green skin, though I was beginning to feel sick just at the sight of her. She held out a claw from her arm, it seemed to swish up on her command. She ran it down the side of my cheek and neck, making my spine quiver a little bit.
"Humph, seems much too fragile to hold so much power, but then that's what they thought of me too," she grinned, showing off green teeth.
"You were infested huh, what were you originally?" I said in a low voice.
"It's time for twenty questions Gohan, she was spilling beans earlier, let's see what another round will turn up. Then we power up to full and get the hell outta here!" I suggested telepathically. Gohan sent a silent acknowledgement.
"Funny you should say that, I wasn't exactly normal to begin with. I was born of demon blood, but oddly enough I looked so much like you Saiyans and humans that you could barely call me demonic. In our place on the far side of this universe, I actually fought the Zerg in a Terran army, until my commander got power hungry and betrayed me. He practically fed me to the Zerg to save his own ass," she sighed momentarily before grinning again, this time much more sinister.
"I truly enjoyed removing his personal guard from this plane of existence. Pity that he got away, I would have made sure that the Overmind could revive him again and again for my pleasure," she laughed a little at this. What a sick race.
"How were you of demon blood, can you explain that?" Gohan asked for me.
"Oh that, my mother was Terran, my father was a demon. Not just any demon, he was the demon King Dabura. I barely remember my mother, and I didn't meet him till I was five or so. I can still remember when he took me aboard his ship and trained me for a few years. Somehow he knew he would have to leave me behind though, and I woke up on a human colony with barely a scrap of my memory. It was long before that blasted wizard Babidi snatched control of him," she said, frowning at the name Babidi.
"So you are Dabura's daughter huh? Funny he said you were dead, but then I can see how he could be wrong about that," I said in slight surprise.
"You knew my father? Oh that's correct, I had forgotten that you earthling Saiyans had to have been the ones to defeat Majin Buu. I doubt the swarms would have pulled it off," she huffed slightly, putting her claw away.
"You knew we beat Buu, but you think you stand a better chance against us?" Gohan asked in shock.
"The answer to that is simple. First of all, Buu was not a flesh and blood type and had deeper power than anything in existence. Once Babidi found that he could not take out the Zerg, he fled to find the one creature that could. But now, thanks to you, that creature is dead. We must all give you a deep thanks for saving us a lot of time and resources," she smiled coldly. Gohan and I felt dejected right away, but then he snapped up.
"Better to kill that insane maniac than to let him live and destroy everything including you. So realistically, you are in our debt for killing that monster!" he replied in a nasty tone.
The girl smiled slightly, "Theoretically yes, but were still not letting you go until you are one of us. I hope your ready to meet your new master, or at least be bound to him, he will be here very soon."
"Oh I'm just dripping with enthusiasm," I grumbled.
"One more question, what's your name?" Gohan asked.
"I am called Kerrigan," she said. Damn, I should have known that one.
"Ok bro, its time to leave, power up to full!" I heard Gohan say through my thoughts.
"Thanks, that's all the information we need!" Gohan shouted, as he started powering up. My silver aura appeared as well once I followed suit, the mystical energy of my deep power felt good to tap into, but no longer intoxicating. We uttered a loud yell, maybe scream, I was too busy to tell the difference. The weeds started to loosen, but I kept going higher. Our combined ki started making the air move, and made the Zerglings fly back into a wall. Kerrigan was having trouble standing as well. Just before we reached full power, the weeds snapped off easily, allowing us to land on the ground and continue undaunted. I reached my full power just after Gohan did, our silver auras lit up the room as well as the eyes of Kerrigan. I quickly noted that I felt right on par with Gohan, power wise. The Zerglings hissed and jumped towards us. They seemed to move quite slowly now, or it was all the power I was going to fight with. Either way, the first one still got punched hard in the chest, hard enough to break through the skin and grab a hold of its rib cage. I yanked on the protective bones, ripping them out in a vat of blood and killing the creature instantly. Its claw clipped the side of my head, but barely registered any pain. Gohan's kill was just as grotesque as mine, but he simply kicked its head straight off. Kerrigan started raising her arms, and the blue Psi lightning surrounded us again. It struck in the same places, but for some reason it didn't hurt like it did before, in fact we barely noticed it. The look of shock on her face was priceless, but she kept up her lightning storm.
"Damn, they're starting to tap into their Psionic power. I can't hold them," she whispered as if someone was listening. Gohan threw a small ki blast at her, and it pushed her out the so-called door and far back into the complex, out of sight. He grabbed the Dragonball and pocketed it.
"Okay, which way is out?" he asked.
"How about straight up?" I asked, drawing my arms back, "Galic gun!" The red beam cut through whatever this building was made of and we found the outside air above it. Flying through, I saw something very odd going on. Once we were clear, I looked back to see that the far inside of the building was being stitched back together. The outside was spurting blood, but the inside was already starting to heal.
"Wow, buildings that regenerate?" Gohan asked amazed.
"How about we don't find out?" I asked, firing another Galic gun into the Hive cluster. This time I put more power into the blast, and the hive collapsed in on itself. Gohan spotted some flyers heading towards us, the Kamikaze types.
"Blast them!" I shouted, sending a few small blasts at them. They dodged, until Gohan fired a wide blast at them, leaving nothing but smoke behind. I saw the purplish ground start to recede, meaning we had destroyed that portion, but a lot of the Zerg army was missing.
"That was too easy, they let us escape," Gohan pointed out as we flew away.
"They probably don't care at this point with the main invasion force only a few days away, let's get back to Capsule Corp," I suggested as I turned up the heat a bit and flew for home.
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We only needed about seven minutes to get back since we had powered up to full, the trip was fast. Vegeta and Trunks stood on the front lawn, scowling and waiting.
"What the hell took you two so long, and why are you powered up?" he roared when we landed. Then he must have gotten a good look at all of the Zerg blood on our clothes. A trickle of something went down my cheek; I rubbed my hand over it to see my own blood. That's right, damn Zergling did brush by.
"The Zerg attacked again eh?" he asked.
"Not exactly, they had the Dragonball, and we got to meet their leader. She was also Dabura's daughter," I explained.
"She is that goof's daughter, was she as weak as I think she was?" Vegeta snorted.
"She was not strong at all, but she could control Psi. She used some sort of lightning attack on us, and we couldn't sense it, it knocked us out the first time. Later she tried again when we were powered up and it didn't do much, so it had to have been a Psi attack," I replied.
"We'll get the extreme details of Psi figured out another day. Trunks go get the woman and her dragonballs, let's get this ordeal finished!" Vegeta ordered as Trunks dashed inside quickly. He was gone for about five minutes before anyone else came out. The three of us stood in silence, other than Gohan and myself powering down, we were probably lighting up any ki sense for a few galaxies. Mom came up with a large bag in hand, orange objects just inside it.
"And what the hell were you two doing to get messed up like that?" she asked.
"Getting the Dragonball?" I asked with a slight grin.
"Boys," she muttered aloud. I sensed Bardock, Fasha and the other Saiyans in the lobby, and they emerged a few minutes later, looking a bit roughed up. Must have been training. Mom dropped the balls on the ground and all seven of them glowed brightly.
"Okay, now where is Goku?" she asked.
"Probably eating," I joked, catching a slight glare from Bardock and Gohan.
"Argh, Trunks go call Chichi," she pointed inside.
A few minutes later he came back out, "Chichi said he would come soon." Just after he said that, a certain Saiyan teleported in out of nowhere. He was sporting a white shirt, a black vest, and green pants; and was munching on a big piece of ham.
"Huh, well would you look at the great Kakarot. I see the harpy wouldn't let you dress in your training garb again," Vegeta laughed in a mocking tone.
"Yeah, she put them all in the wash before I could grab one," Goku whined slightly.
"Enough chit chat, let's get this over with," Mom said, stepping up to the dragonballs and holding out her hands.
"Eternal dragon, by your name we summon you forth, SHENRON!" The sky darkened, lightning went off above us, and the wind picked up. The light show that followed really did rival Porunga's, and seeing a beam of light twist and bend in so many directions was kinda neat to see. Then the light beams swirled around in the air, forming green scales with a yellow belly.
"YOU HAVE AWAKENED ME FROM MY SLUMBER! I WILL GRANT YOU TWO WISHES! WHAT IS YOUR FIRST WISH?" And I thought Porunga had a loud voice, geez, I thought as I winced just a bit.
"I still say he looks like a big snake," Gohan muttered behind me.
"Hiya Shenron, good to see you!" Goku started.
"YOU AGAIN? WHAT NEEDS TO BE FIXED THIS TIME?" Shenron asked. I smirked slightly, the dragon was right on today.
"Please erase the earthlings memory of the evil Majin Buu so good Buu can live freely among us. You can leave them for my friends and family though," Goku stated wish number one.
"IT SHALL BE DONE!" the dragon's red eyes glowed very bright momentarily.
It only took a few seconds before the beast spoke again, "IT IS DONE, WHAT IS YOUR SECOND WISH?" Vegeta stepped up; it looked like he wanted to do this one. Goku let him by as he got closer to Shenron, staring and glaring up at the beast.
"Shenron, I have a question before you grant the next wish. Can you restore this boy Verto to his previous age, but leave his power as high as it is now?"
"I CAN RESTORE HIS AGE, BUT HIS POWER WOULD BE DECREASED GREATLY BECAUSE OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT. IT HOWEVER WOULD INCREASE HIS POTENTIAL," the dragon roared. I frowned at the words Decreased Greatly.
"Fine, restore him to his previous age, but keep his power intact as best you can!"
"IT SHALL BE DONE!" A golden light surrounded me and lifted into the air, taking me with it. The ball of light then blocked out my vision, and I felt my ki drop a little bit. Some of my body mass seemed to decrease a bit, but I didn't really detect much of a change. The ball dropped me back on the ground in the same standing position I was in. I opened my eyes and glanced around, everything and everyone was bigger, a lot bigger. My thoughts were clearer than they had been in awhile. I felt no random Saiyan instinct or other teenage thoughts affecting my brain activity, though that problem was greatly reduced by Old Kai. I did feel the drop in ki pretty well, and it made me feel pathetic while everyone else felt much stronger. The dragon had probably taken close to two thirds of my power away, maybe more. By my best guess, I was probably close or even with Piccolo's maximum power, maybe a little less than his.
"YOUR WISHES ARE GRANTED, NOW I BID YOU FAREWELL!" I looked up to see the dragon turn bright gold before vanishing. The dragonballs remained their golden color and rose into the air. Lightning struck around them as they flashed a few times before splitting apart and zooming into the distance very fast. The sky cleared up a moment later, leaving a bright blue day like nothing had happened. A sudden realization dawned on me as I examined the once again smaller form of me when compared to everything else. This sucks.
-
"Oh come on boy, I know your stronger than this!" Vegeta laughed as he had kicked me to the floor again.
"Yeah, I was, you made the wish remember!" I groaned and picked myself off the floor of the gravity chamber. What really sucked was that he was at Super Saiyan two, but frankly he could have been at level one and still able to kick my ass very easily. Last time we had sparred this heavily to test my powers, I beat him at level three rather convincingly.
"You make a good point, I guess we'll have to build up all that power again after the Zerg are destroyed," he said, flying forward and nearly punching my head off. Then he made me glad I didn't eat anything that morning with the next hit. I hit the gravity room wall with a lovely thud, leaving a dent where my body had been. It didn't really help when he had still had five hundred times gravity going the entire time.
"All done? Too bad," he said mockingly. I got up slowly, gathering what ki I had in preparation.
"I'm not quite done yet!" I shouted at the floor, powering up the best I could, "Kaioken!" The red aura surrounded me and made my body swell a little bit. The strain was definitely there, something I would need to build back up, but it wasn't near as bad as I had felt before. I rushed behind Vegeta and caught him across the cheek just as he returned the blow. With the added Kaioken strain, the punch had a bit of an extra load behind it. Vegeta staggered back a bit, but I definitely heard a snap in my left cheekbone. I dropped the Kaioken powerup and sat on my knees, holding my cheek in pain.
"Okay, that hurt," I muttered.
"All right boy, I suppose I shouldn't fight you like this. It would hardly be fair to me to fight someone so weak! That's enough for today, your sweaty carcass is going to stink up my gravity chamber, get out!" Well at least he admits fault there, but then I know how he is about others being stronger than him. I stumbled out of the chamber, holding my face and grabbing a towel to whip the blood and sweat from it.
"Well look who lived," Fasha said from the couch, smiling slightly.
"Yeah well, I tend to hang around like an annoying pest," I chuckled a bit, standing up a bit more straight. Things between us sure did feel different, other than size. I could still sense the bond, but its intensity decreased was now, at least from my point of view. I wonder when that will kick back in.
She didn't respond to that, "I can't hear anything, did the prince bash your brains in that badly?"
"I think the age change did something to it," I said, watching her smiling face flash into a frown pretty quick.
"That is correct boy, the age change practically dissolved it and it won't be back until your mature again. You may still have traces of it, but that is about it. She doesn't belong to you for now, and you don't belong to her either, but remember our deal girl!" Vegeta snapped before slamming the huge metal door, turning on the chamber a half second later.
"Your deal huh?" I asked.
"Yeah, I had to agree to the whole waiting thing, something I don't know if I can do. But if it does make you feel better, you'll be getting plenty of sleep for awhile, that smell is gone," she explained.
"Oh that one that seems to drive you crazy. Well I'm not having much of a mind for that stuff right now, just training again," I said, scowling at my power loss.
"Well at least those Zerg scars are gone," Fasha said, pointing to my chest that had been healed up, though I suspected the dragon had something to do with that.
"Your face looks a little funny," Fasha laughed a little.
"Thanks, Vegeta just broke it. It isn't the first time either, should be okay in a few days," I said, touching it lightly, and getting a sharp response.
"So what is this hyperbolic time chamber like anyway?" she asked.
"Oh that, well imagine a small place for your food, beds and bath with a door leading to this dimension. Then around that little house like area, nothing but a big white void, that's about what its like," I said with a shrug.
"Sounds weird, but coming from you that's normal!"
I scowled, "I'll remember that next time Vegeta is issuing death threats."
"You know that's the second time you've said that to me when I call you weird, this isn't a trend is it?"
"Keep talking, you'll find out." My ki senses picked up on several signals coming from the lobby, several Saiyan and several human.
"Looks like the party is here," I said, getting up and motioning for her to as well.
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Everyone in the Z gang gathered in the lobby, Mom had set up a small pedestal in the middle and chairs all around for some kind of holographic presentation. Krillin and Eighteen had sent Marron away with Goten and Trunks while the adults were sorting things out, but the kids stayed pretty close, they needed to know this stuff too. Vegeta stepped in a few minutes later, picking a spot on the wall to stand at. Mr. Satan and Buu arrived with Videl lastly, as he would be our public correspondent when things got really out of hand, which we fully expected. Again I noticed his ki was a bit higher, or maybe it was the fact that he was standing next to Buu. I disregarded the issue as Mom waved me over to the pedestal and handed me a remote for the presentation. Earlier we discussed who would be giving the speech, but since I was the only real Zerg expert around, I would be doing it and she would assist. She would handle the other stuff, like armor, weapons and communication items and issues.
"Ahem!" she cleared her throat, getting everyone's attention.
"Verto, please begin," she said, stepping to the side.
"Alright guys, we've all discussed the Zerg invasion, and some of us have had some run-ins with them. We called you here today to give you the whole scoop, lights please." The lights dimmed, I hit a button and a three-dimensional picture of a Zergling popped up, slowly turning in the air. Wow, she really went all out with this stuff. I was about to explain what a Zergling was when a loud roar reached my sensitive ears. I picked up a large ki signal from above, and soon a loud gush of air just out the door. Mom ran over and pulled it open, I could see that a large capsule spacecraft had just landed outside, the door and ramp opening slowly. The large ki I sensed was wavering a bit, and felt injured somehow. Mom stepped out for about two seconds before Vegeta had already charged out the door in a full protective mode. There was a long silence before he stumbled back in, helping somebody stagger a bit. The figure was definitely a Saiyan, the tail showed it all, limp at his side. The black hair was very bloody, as was the face, and the remaining clothes were in shreds and his chest was bleeding from multiple cuts, at least an inch deep for all of them.
"Kakarot, Senzu bean now!" The bean was tossed less than a second later, Vegeta shoved it in the Saiyan's mouth. After swallowing, the cuts and bruises healed instantly, and the unknown Saiyan wiped the blood from his face before looking up at Vegeta.
"Thank you prince," he said as he lifted his head up for us to see.
"Broly!" Goku gasped.
"That's right Kakarot, its me again, sorry to disturb you. I was attacked on a planet in space a few systems away, I barely made it back here to warn you," he began before Vegeta cut him off.
"Is one of the things that did this right there?" he asked, pointing at the holographic image.
Broly's eyes went as wide as dinner plates, "Y-Yes sir, there were a lot of those, other types as well. Their tactics were of none I have ever seen before, and thus they were able to injure me. They are on their way here," he tried to tell us.
"We know, were in preparation for them now. They are called the Zerg, and we plan to thwart their invasion attempt. I request that you remain here and help us fight them," Vegeta said, not ordered.
Broly nodded and grimaced, "Yes sir, I plan on killing every last one that I can! I was able to fend them off for quite a time in small numbers, but larger numbers eventually overwhelmed my power!"
"Good, sit down, we were just going over the beasts," Vegeta said, pointing towards the couch next to Goku. Goku was a bit nervous to sit next to Broly, but not like Gohan was. Bardock and the crew were busy trying to figure out just who the hell Broly was.
Bardock reached the conclusion first though, "You resemble the former Commander, Paragus. Well, barely," he noted.
Broly scowled a bit at the mention of his father, "I suppose I should, since I am his son! Nothing I take pride in!"
"Continue brat!" Vegeta barked, slamming the door and ending the introduction.
"For those of you who don't know, this is a Zergling, smaller type of Zerg. These little devils are built for close combat primarily, but have excellent jumping abilities. It's best to take these out from a distance if you are not confident with your close range fighting skills, but these are the weakest type of Zerg. Unless they are hitting you in numbers, they shouldn't be a huge problem. Be careful about their speed and crazy tactics though, they ignore pain. Beware the sharp claws on all of the legs, they can rip a hole in even the toughest Saiyan skin, I can assure you of that myself," I said, flipping the button Mom showed me. A picture of a Hydra popped up next, showing it a bit smaller than the Zergling.
"Now this model isn't to scale, these beasts are actually about fifteen feet tall or so. This is a Hydralisk, or just Hydra for short. These can fight close range as well, but they really shine when fighting at a distance. Watch out for their green needle spines that they shoot out from their mouths. Their scaly skin is harder than a Zerglings' so unless you use a slightly higher-powered blast, you won't break it. Its best to fight them up close and avoid their talons here. A risky way to take one out with low power is to fire at its mouth while its shooting spines, your call there I guess," I flipped to the next one. A large elephant creature showed up next, big tusks even for the small scale.
"Ultralisk, high powered mauler at close range, and its big enough to take down a transformed Saiyan. Watch the tusks and shoot it down from a long range with a strong blast. They are for the most part slow, but as Shugesh and Borgos told me, they do not all share that weakness, so be weary," I suggested, flipping to the next one. We started the flyers after that, starting with the Overlord controllers.
"Now it may be possible to cause the Zerg to run out of control and even turn against each other if you destroy enough of these, but it would probably take about the same amount of time to just kill the Zerg in question. These things also become transports for the ground Zerg, so taking these out could disrupt communication and delay ground troops, which is a must!" The next picture of a dragon like creature was next, with big flapping wings.
"Mutalisk, or Mutas for short, the basic fighting air unit. Can throw hard chunks of acidic bone projectiles at a high rate of speed, avoid those and your home free, but they can maneuver pretty well. Its smaller brother, the Scrounge, is the one you have to watch out for. They are Kamikaze flyers that rarely come alone and tend to just swell up and plow into you. Take these out from a distance, taking it out up close risks it blowing up and getting acid on you. Trust me, it sucks when that happens," I said, flipping through a few of them.
"Now Mutas can evolve into other forms as well, this one here is called a Guardian," I began, pointing it out.
"Looks like a floating crab or something," Tora joked.
"Funny you should say that, that's what I call them too. Crab or no crab, it can shoot out acid spores from above. It does not like to fight in the air, and can't move very fast either, so that's your best bet. It mainly hangs back and shoots at buildings and stuff from afar like a siege weapon you could say. Its brother the Devourer likes to fight in the air, it'll shoot out large, purple, suffocating acid clouds that can hinder your movement and allow the kamikazes to come in on you. Both of these types have a lot of range, but neither have any kind of speed," I flipped the next one over. A new and slightly freaky looking picture showed up next, the face of this thing was truly evil with its red eyes. Its body waved back and forth on the ground like a snake, even though it had tiny legs.
"This little bastard is the Defiler, it doesn't fight, but it does infect so to speak. It can release orange clouds that make it hard to see your target, and it may even block some ranged attacks, but I don't think it would take a ki blast. If all else fails you can fly through the cloud and take out whatever is hiding on the ground. Another thing it can do is throw large amount of red acid spores. Do not let these get on you, they can start breaking up your skin and cause a lot of damage, making you quite vulnerable. The only plus is that it can't shoot the spores nor clouds constantly, so it needs to build them up again after using it up," I glanced at Chichi, who was freaking out at the picture of the Defiler. I had to admit, that thing looked pretty nasty, and its skills were definitely not something to trifle with, and I flipped again.
"This is a Queen, though its not much of an attacker. It shoots green spores that hinder movement and I believe that she can infect others with parasites. I'm not a hundred percent sure about what all that can do, but it may involve some sort of infestation outside the Zerg hives. That's about it for her. Probably won't see many of these, she is weak, though she may be a good scouter. I think they mostly hang around the hive clusters. Here is a Drone, a basic worker for the Zerg, it gathers whatever resources they rely on. That has been just about anything from what I've seen, including the dead bodies and trees. They are weak when it comes to attacking, and are easily disposed of. That does it for the known Zerg types, now for buildings," I said, flipping one more time. The picture turned to a constantly changing slide, flipping through random Zerg structures, until stopping on the one I wanted.
"All Zerg structures should be destroyed, but this one is the one you really don't want to see. It is called a Nydus canal, and must be wiped out the instant you see it; it can be a point for Zerg reinforcements. It looks like a long tunnel underground from one point to another, probably some sort of mystical warp point that the Zerg use, similar to Goku's Instant Transmission. If you want to make it easier, take it out as quick as possible, now this…" I said, changing to the image of the hives, "… this is the primary hive cluster, the main command center if you will. There are different types of hives, depending on how long or how developed the base is. This one here is the most advanced. Now all Zerg buildings have to be sitting on this purple stuff called Creep, which is produced by the hives and Creep buildings, some of which can act as guard towers. These are important to take out as well to halt Zerg progress and beat them back. One final thing, we may run into slightly advanced forms of all those Zerg types, some that are tougher and what not. They can evolve quickly, and I'll bet it depends on tactics of whatever commands them. That's all I have," I said, handing the remote to Mom.
"Thank you son. Now I have a few goodies I came up with for the Zerg battle, first of all this," she said, flipping to a picture of her new gun type.
"These little Buster guns are capable of disintegrating a Zergling on the spot, or at least close to that anyway. I made plenty of these just in case you run out of power or something, and Dad is making some at the other building to supply the King's army with. I'll include those with every armor pack," she flipped again to the armor, "This is the same basic design as Saiyan armor, except the suit is much harder and resistant to acid, but don't go testing that theory if you can help it. The armor is a Saiyan proof alloy I came up with, so it should take a basic punch pretty well and should guard against those close range Zerg, but again that is in theory." She said, flipping off the screen.
"What about the fact that we can't sense the Zerg very well, what do we do about that?" Krillin asked.
"I'm glad you asked, I came up with Saiyan-type scouters that only detect Zerg, and about how many Zerg signals you're facing. It can't identify the type of Zerg sense they all share the same fuzzy signal. And they also act as communicators for everyone, so don't go breaking them. I don't have very many," Mom said in a raised voice.
"Everyone will be given a few Senzu beans before the battle, but use these sparingly. They restore your strength well, but try to wait until you have no chance of coming back here to rest up. The woman will have a few regeneration tanks ready to go in her lab," Vegeta said, getting up and standing the center of the room.
"Now let's be real about this. I don't fully expect everyone to make it through this kind of planetary fight. We know the Earthlings will fight bravely, but they will need our help on the front lines. Don't waste your energy moping about the genocide we are probably going to see, we can use the dragonballs later on to clean up the damage. Save whom you can, but no blind heroics, not until we have a plan for wiping them all out. Now since there are a lot of them coming from space, I expect a lot of landing sites. If you can shoot down the transporting types and destroy early bases, do it! If you get in a bad bind, get back or call here for assistance. That is all we have for now, in about four days time we expect them to start landing. Train hard until then. Kakarot and I are taking the other Saiyans up to the time chamber for training tonight, any of you are welcome to come as well for the training. On the third night from now we will hold a final meeting here for armor and supplies. Plan to attend and for now, plan on this place being our main base," Vegeta finished, before leaving the room and heading for the gravity chamber.
"Wow, didn't know he was a speaker," Krillin said. Everyone else was amazed too, mostly at the slight hint of compassion in Vegeta's voice, very slight.
"We need to decide right now who will be fighting and who will be staying here during the invasion. I know I'm in for the fighting," Goku said.
"Yeah I'm in too Dad," Gohan said.
"Count us in," Bardock said for the crew. Broly nodded, as did Piccolo and Android Seventeen.
"I'll go, but Eighteen will stay here for the base's protection, as well as Marron's," Krillin said, catching a slight glare from his wife. Tien nodded the okay to go, but Yamcha looked unsure.
"I think you should stay here as well Yamcha, there's always a chance they show up out of nowhere when were not around," Piccolo suggested.
"Well I'll be here with Bulma of course, and you two are definitely not going!" Chichi fumed at the boys for the extra-added threat. Videl wanted to go, but Gohan wasn't going to let her due to the pregnancy factor. That discussion was ended pretty quickly by Mr. Satan, who opted to remain at Capsule Corp. Buu however would go out, we needed him on the battlefields and everyone knew it.
"I'll stay here too," Chiaotzu announced, though most people didn't even see the little guy behind Tien. It was decided then, Mom, Chichi, Videl, Eighteen, Goten, Trunks, Yamcha, Chiaotzu, Satan, Roshi, Yajirobi, Popo, Dende, and the rest of the non-fighters of the group would stay at Capsule corp. Everyone else would be going out to fight: Goku, Gohan, Vegeta, Broly, Bardock, Fasha, Tora, Shugesh, Borgos, Tien, Piccolo, Buu, Seventeen, Krillin and myself. The boys were a bit steamed when they learned I would be going out and not them, since I was younger again, but they understood it. Since I was mystic as well as Gohan, my Psi emitions would only risk a sneak attack if I were to hang around, and that is not what we needed to win this fight. I didn't want Fasha to go, but I knew I couldn't stop her. If anything this reminded me of the Treme fights, fighting off a lot of evil people at the time.
Goku suggested that everyone pair off in two's or threes for the fights since this was going to be a big battle, who would be with who was to be decided later. With the grouping sorted out, everyone who planned on training in the time chamber left to do his or her respective preparations, Popo in particular since he would have to cook. Fasha and I had our own little goodbye session, but it wasn't drawn out like most lovers, since the extreme feelings for each other were pretty much gone. After Vegeta and the others left for the time chamber, I wondered up to bed, taking an ice pack for my broken face. As I lay down in the now larger bed, I ran over the events recently, and the possible events to come.
Power levels:
Mystic Verto (teen): 550,000,000
Mystic Verto (kid): 200,000,000, Kaioken: 300,000,000
Mystic Gohan: 550,000,000
Vegeta (SS2): 420,000,000