A/n: this is the first A/n I've ever written before I finished the chapter…
Okay for those of you confused as to what the heck is going on, here is a short update on all of my plotlines:
Main: Gohan and Videl. Gohan is leading the Demons Depression and Hopelessness away from Satan City to the lookout, where the supreme Kai will * hopefully* take care of them. Videl is having some serious internal conflict over weather to visit her friend in the hospital or go find the second Demon that plagues the city. However this was resolved last chapter, but we don't know the result.
Gods: Dende, Supreme Kai, and Kibito are all at the lookout devising a master plan to save us all… I think.
The Dead Kai Suian is on her way back to the Check in station in order to kick some serious demon butt (she captured them in the first place)
Piccolo: Has his own plotline that I haven't really elaborated on. He has a task from Dende to gather all of the Z fighters
America: Currently Declaring war on Small Island in the middle of the ocean. Also crazy new general is sending an attack on theses two mysterious 'radar ghosts' that show up all the time. Obviously demons are running this show
Paris: Chaos and Panic are spreading er, Chaos and panic.
India: scared people everywhere. 'nuff said.
Freaky little malformed demons: Seeking to revenge their creators, for creating them. Lots of weird little chants about broken promises. There were almost 3, but one disappeared because of a decision.
Krillen & Family: Um not sure where they are going quite yet… I have a plan though!
Sarah Stromsburg & Satan city police force: Believe it or not but she does have her own plot line. However right now it consists of her being quite injured and the police collapsing from exhaustion. She seems to think that the mysterious being that she chased was not human. Perhaps she is right…
So that's what, 9? Geeze I'm starting to confuse myself and I already have another 2 waiting in the wings, at least one of these, which will appear this chapter!
The Official Sound tracks of this story are Eve 6: It's all in your Head, 311: From Chaos, and Danko Jones: We Sweat Blood. Because they are what I listen to as I write.
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Disclaimer today done by The Oracle (from a movie)
Oracle: There dear, why don't you sit down?
Min: Um, miss; I was wondering if you would do my disclaimer? So that I don't get in trouble?
Oracle * takes out a smoke and lights up* well, that's up to you , Destiny isn't fixed, and you know that, in your heart you won't get sued. Oh, and don't worry about the vase…
Min: What vase? * A vase crashes to the ground*
Oracle: You don't truly own any thing. It's all an illusion created for you. This Dragon ball Z is simply another aspect of the program. You should know that. You don't even own your own body, now get going. Have a cookie. You'll feel better when you finish eating it.
Min: Um thanks?
Oracle : oh, and I think that you will need at least 3 reviews before you next chapter is posted….
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Chapter 8: Confusion
* Pop *
Suian paused to straighten her clothes and fix her greying blue hair. Her skin was the colour of the ocean, and her eyes as stormy. She had a worn square face, and her glare could send you hopping up and down if she so much as thought the word ' Toad'. She surveyed her surroundings and found herself standing on a yellow road, surrounded by fluffy clouds. Above her sat a smallish green planet with a house, a road, a car and a few trees. Yes, this was indeed the planet of King Kai. She frowned, and the air had to resist the urge to dive out of the way and find cover. Her instant Transmission was way off. She was probably out of practice as well, but she wouldn't admit it if she had landed upside down in a trash can, on a completely different planet.
She stormed up to the planet's surface, the slight change in gravity meaning nothing to her. A monkey ran screaming from her path, followed by a flying grasshopper. However he wasn't fast enough and was caught by the peeved Kai.
"You, Bug. Get me…" She paused to read his mind, " King Kai. Tell him to come with all haste"
Gregory swallowed and squirmed from her firm grasp and bolted for King Kai.
Suian stood there and waited. Inwardly she smiled :: I've still got it!:: Outwardly she was still as calm, composed and overall stern as the moment she landed. King Kai stumbled out of his house and took one look at the currently deceased Supreme Kai, and resisted the urge to hop up and down on one foot.
"North, You have been dead for how long?" She asked quite sternly. King Kai swallowed and looked nervous
"Ummm…. 7 no 8 years" He said, looking shiftily for a way out
" You of course know the rules concerning dead kais?" she asked, adding another level of intensity to her glare.
" Yes?" he said, praying that that was the right answer. His current trainee popped her head out the house. She long dark hair, with disturbing purple eyes. Suian decided right away that she was one of the Phaiakians; mostly known for their speed, dancing, and seamanship. The girl looked to be about 14, marriageable age in that culture.
" King Kai?" She asked hesitantly, " Who is this strange woman?"
" Nothing Nausikaa {1}, go back to you meditation!" He told her sharply
" So you do know the rules," She said disapprovingly. Kais were allowed to keep their positions after dying if they had another training under them. IF they had no trainees then they were only allowed to keep their position for ten years. Plan A was now ruined.
" Oh King Kai, I also wanted to mention to you, I got a mental message! My people are going to bring me back in about two weeks!" The girl, Nausikaa said happily before darting back inside. King Kai sweat dropped and started to back away slowly. Suian allowed her self a predatory grin. Maybe plan A wasn't ruined after all.
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Goku wiped a small trail of blood from his mouth, then looked approvingly at Vegeta, who had just dropped out of his own Super Sayian transformation. Goku did the same and went over to pat the man on his back. The prince simply growled.
" C'mon Vegeta, one more! Best 14 outa 28?"
" No Kakarott. I've had enough of you insufferable presence for one day." The permanently ticked Vegeta replied, and turned, about to blast off to his home at capsule corp. when a large explosion surrounded him.
This wasn't the spectacular bright light Ki variety either. No, it was more the fiery ball of napalm, with billowing smoke and giant roar kind of explosion. Goku was enveloped in a similar explosion a few seconds after. The smoke cleared to revel Goku and Vegeta in fighting positions, otherwise unharmed. A large grey fighter jet zoomed towards them, machine guns blazing at full bore, trying in vain to damage them.
Goku dodged them without a thought, and Vegeta deigned to catch the tiny projectiles in his gloved fist. The plane turned away at the last second. Vegeta crushed the bullets in to so much scrap metal, and threw it over his shoulder, inadvertently taking out a plane that was swooping in behind them. It tore through the windshield and missed the pilot's head by inches. The unfortunate lump of lead found it's way to the gas tank, spilling the blood of the plane in a long arc behind it.
" What the hell is going on Kakarott?" Vegeta yelled over the noise of the plane going down.
" Gee Vegeta, I don't know. It looks like the military has decided we're a threat after all" Goku did a neat little Arial flip that landed him on the other side of an incoming jet. He disabled it's engines with a neat little ki blast. The pilot quickly ejected, in order toi not be caught in an explosion
A sudden barrage of bullets collided with the pair, coming from 3 directions at once.
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The Pilot of plane 27 stared steely death at the figures in front of him. He signalled I his radio for planes 2 and 15 to aid him in a classic f-3-3 manuver {2}. They swooped in, Machine guns blazing. There was a terrific cloud of debris smoke and fire as a result of their attack.
Each pilot pulled out of his or her dive in a perfectly synchronised fashion. However, when the operator of 27 turned back to survey the damage, he discovered that the only thing that had happened were that the targets had suffered a few holes in their GI's. HE was still staring in shock when a beam of light took out his right wing engine.
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" Vegeta, do you think that it's a good idea to take down all of these planes?" Goku asked, piercing another fuel tank with a small ki ball.
" They attacked us, that gives us the right to destroy them" Vegeta replied, blowing off yet another engine. The forest below was littered with the burning carcases of damaged planes, and the air was populated by humans drifting down in dark green parachutes, like the fluffy seeds of some bizarre tree.
" Well, lets try not to kill theses people okay?" Goku pleaded
" Fine Baka, just don't complain to me when this comes back to bite you in the ass."
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They strode down a narrow boulevard as the sounds of chaos emanated from every street corner. As they walked, they would casually push things out of order. Sometimes a it would be a stack of Oranges, neatly piled up, that they would send crashing to the ground. Some times he would take offence at neatly ordered bricks and send them to the earth below in a nicely disordered pile.
She would find people, and eliminate all forms of rational thought, send them gibbering, generally make them feel the need to run off screaming. Destruction followed their path.
"Sister, this bores me," Replied the man, flicking all of the pictures in one home at strange angles.
"They are already in too deep for there to be much for us to do Brother." Replied the purple woman. She peeked into a bedroom where a man was sleeping with his wife. She dropped a mouse onto the covers, and then watched as they awoke, and screamed in irrational fear as the mouse squeaked. They ran out the door, still in their nightclothes. It only elicited a half-hearted chuckle from the Purple and black demon.
" Hmm, we may be able to milk a little more out of this city though. The French are quite amusing" He replied and, walked out of the house with his sister, setting fire to the oven as he did so. More screams of panic were heard. " They may even take it into their heads to form a resistance of some sort. Won't it be fun to crash that party?" He asked
" Yes, I suppose you are right," She answered, and passed her hand over the eyes of a sleeping homeless man. He awoke and screamed: « AHH là sont des bogues rampant à l'intérieur de ma peau! » {3} "They are rather amusing" she chuckled.
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" I hope that you've buffed up on your French, Hun"
" Erm, Qui?" replied the short formerly bald man known as Krillen
She only chuckled and flew onwards.
" Like you could do better…"
«Mais, mon amoureux, j'ai été programmé par Gero, et cette langue incluse. Je peux parler espagnol, portugais, japonais, anglais, allemand, italien, et naturellement, français. » {4}
"Oh…"
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{1} This name, and the name of her people I stole off of Homer's Odyssey. Nausikaa is a princess who helped Odysseus (She also developed an instant crush on him, but that's not the point)
{2} f-3-3 Fighter – 3 planes – formation 3 please note that I made this up. It doesn't exist and has no bearing on the story whatsoever.
{3}Translation: AHH there are bugs crawling inside of my skin! * this is where I wonder why I don't put the demon's lines in French, then I realise that this is too much work.*
{4}Translation: But, My lover, I was programmed by Gero, and that included language. I can speak Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, English, German, Italian, and of course, French.
A/n: finishes her own cookie, then looks around. Sorry for the short chapter, but at least it's out fast. Playing with English to French Translators is fun! I apologise for my probably terrible French grammar, because I haven't taken it in over a year (Please note that even though I did do freakishly well in French, and even won the French award, I do not feel that I can speak a word of the language, nor understand how it works. This is a testimate to the Albertan education system, and the wonderful method of budgeting done by Ralph. Who, by the way we still seemed to like after learning about his drinking problem, and his masterful handling of the Mad Cow crisis [Quote:" Any respectable farmer would have shot, Shovelled, and shut up"] Not that I have anything against Ralphie there, but our education system really sucks. Alberta is the richest province in Canada, yet we still couldn't seem to afford new textbooks in my old Jr. High to supply all of the classes with. GO figure.) Okay, I'm done.
I would like to award 50 mini bags of chips to Night elf who correctly guessed that Mortisha and Gomez come from the Adams family. Happygohangirl gets about 10 bags for getting it second : p
Okay, tell me from which movie 'The oracle' comes from and win freedom from the Agents for a whole year! ^_~
And, I am considering starting another fic based on The Odyssey, featuring Goku as Odysseus. It would start with them all going to namek, and then, Goku gets taken off course for doing something stupid, and his adventures would mirror that of the Odyssey. This sound like a good idea? It would probably be about 24 really long chapters. (Mirroring the 24 books in the Odyssey) and I'm not sure if I would like to do it as an epic Poem. (Again, as the original was done) tell me what you think?
Oh and yes, as a final request: please review?