A/N: What Have I done! Not another one! Is there something wrong with me that I can't write a simple story with one plot, and maybe a few subtle tiny twists? Why why?
Apart from that, I made this chapter slightly longer than my usual 2500 words. I think this one ends up at around 3000. I may suffer temporary lapses of sanity near the end of the chapter. Ignore them and continue reading. Now stop wasting your time reading this author's note and read the chapter already!
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Disclaimer today done by Rincewind the Wizzard, Professor of cruel and unusual Geographies (UU) (book)
Rincewind: You're going to hurt me
Min: Nonsense! Disclaimers are a kind of hurt preventative. Besides I have loads of potatoes, hot steaming, in great big baths of melted butter, with chives and bacon,
Rincewind: Potatoes! No wait a minute! No more adventure none! I'll set the luggage on you!
Luggage: *Glares menacingly *
Min: How does it do that if it doesn't have any eyes? Anyway, all you have to say is that I don't own DBZ, you or anything that starts with the letter X.
Rincewind: You all ready said it, so I don't have to * runs away *
Min: Damn. Thank you.
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Chapter 12: Demonic Intervention
The screams all around filled her mechanically enhanced ears
The sights of the fires danced in her strangely human cybernetic eyes
The hot breeze flowed across her digital sensor ridden skin
But that didn't really matter to her anymore. As 18 watched the devastation and horror that consumed the ancient city before her, she found that she no longer reveled in the pain of others, in destruction and chaos. What changed? She wondered, and then glanced down to the left, at the short warrior beside her. Well, there's that. She looked ahead again, and the other. My little girl. Her eyes hardened in view of the chaos that presented it's self. For some reason her nature abhorred it now, though she supposed that it made sense. Machines where the opposite of chaos. Each of the parts had to work in perfect harmony with each other; otherwise the machine would break down.
" You ready Hun?" Asked Krillen.
" Always. Do you have the net?" She asked quietly. Krillen patted the strange sac that he had slung over his shoulder. It shimmered an eerie electric blue, always shifting and changing.
" Then lets go kick some demonic ass"
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" I wonder why Mummy and Daddy asked me to go look for the dragon balls, then rush off into the forest like that?" Goten wondered aloud as he skimmed over the top of a cloud, leaving a little tail of whiteness as the result. He clutched the Dragon Radar in his small hands, and readjusted the heavy duffel bag that already held 5 of the 7 magical Dragon balls. The bag slipped again and Goten, with no other available option, Held the radar in his teeth and rested the bag in the small of his back. Reaching up to grab the radar again, the bag promptly slipped once more. He let out a frustrated humph and saw a tall building in view. Goten took this opportunity to land ad fix that stupid bag for good!
He set down on the roof of the building and examined the bag, trying to find a way to shorten the strap. He fiddled with the metal buckles and brushed his unruly hair out of his eyes. As he worked, he began to realize that he was not alone. He looked up to find a girl, who looked to be about 8, with blonde hair and large liquid brown eyes, that peeked up at his shyly from underneath the brim of her dainty white broad brimmed hat. Her dress was light and embroidered with flowers, built for summer. She had little white patent leather shoes.
" Hi!" Said Goten " Who are you? What are you doing on the roof?" He asked.
"My name, is . . . Denise. Who are you? You're cute!" She said, batting her long eyelashes at him.
" Hi Denise! I'm Goten!" He wrinkled his nose " But I dunno why I'm cute. My brother's girlfriend says I am, but I don't know. Girls are icky!" He declared. Denise let out an enchanting giggle.
" Gee Goten, you're funny! Hey, What are those funny orange balls!" She asked curiously, leaning forward to peer into his bag. Goten inhaled and found that she smelled like strawberries. He instantly forgot to ask her why she was on the roof in the first place.
" Those are the Dragon balls! When you get all 7, then a magical dragon appears to grant you any wish that you want!"
" Wow, Any Wish Goten? Anything in the whole wide world?" He voice was almost eager, urgent.
"Uh Huh! They can even wish people back from the dead! My daddy got wished back twice!" He said proudly
" Is that so Goten? Why are you gathering them?" Her voice was honey. He wrinkled his nose again, an action that made Denise giggle.
" Daddy says we've got to wish this supreme Kai lady back to life, but I'm not sure if I want to 'cus she sounded kind of mean". A flash of panic crossed Denise's eyes for a moment, so fast that Goten wasn't even sure he had saw it
" Well, that's not any good! Wishes should be used for fun things, like getting stronger, or all the candy in the world! Not for wishing ugly evil old hags back to life!" She said, picking up a smooth orange ball, gazing intently at her reflection in it. " Don't you agree Goten?"
" Yah, But Daddy said it was really important!" He said earnestly
" It couldn't be that important if he sent you to do it instead of getting them himself! Do you know what I think?" she said, leaning closer to his ear. " I think he wants you to use them to make any wish you want" she whispered. " Just think. All the food you could ever eat. Every toy ever invented" Her breath caught for a moment, and in an even lower whisper " You could finally be able to best your friend Trunks" She pulled away, and smiled at him secretively. Goten gazed up into her eyes and got lost in their liquid depths.
" Yah . . ." He breathed, visions of him beating Trunks once and for all, of him sitting atop a giant mountain of food. But then he thought about his dad, and his urgency to bring that Kai lady back to life. He frowned. As if reading his thoughts, Denise, slowly put the ball aside and sat before him, taking his powerful hand in hers.
" Their wish can wait. What's important right now is that you are happy Goten. No One is as important as you are in the whole wide world. Take them. Fulfill your biggest wishes, your deepest desires. Your worth it Goten. You can't let them bully you around forever"
" But I love mum and pa, and brother and . . . How could they be mean to me Denise" Goten's mind was writhing with confusion and angst.
" They don't love you Goten. That's why your father didn't come back until now. They are just using you, to get them the dragon balls for their bad wish. You have to stop them from taking them away from you. You deserve it Goten. The whole world is yours, along with anything you want."
" Anything I . . ."
" Anything Goten."
" I need to get the rest," He said shakily, as he tried to get to his feet. Denise placed a hand on his shoulder. He bent over to pick up the recalcitrant bag.
" Leave it here with me Goten, I'll keep it safe for you until you return" He nodded dumbly, his little mind still awhirl with the things Denise had said to him. He grabbed the Dragon Radar and checked it for direction, and blindly flew off southeast.
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As soon as the little boy flew off, the girl named Denise threw off the perfect little Sun hat, and her liquid brown eyes hardened into something more solid and strange. An odd, half crazed smile graced her innocent face. She picked up one of the Dragon balls, and gazed at her reflection in the curved orange surface. Grinning back at her was a wild haired girl with murder in her gaze and insanity in her smile.
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" Videl, are you all right?" Gohan asked nervously as he held the fainting girl in his strong arms Her head lolled back oh his arm and her eyes fluttered open. She Gasped and got her footing slowly, still not leaving the protective circle of Gohan's arms, totally unaware of the crowd around them, arguing over what should be done with the demons captured so fortuitously in the Net.
" I'm fine," She confessed, " But I feel really strange, almost like, someone's controlling me from the out side. My limbs feel all tingly" Her voice had an odd Timbre that He hadn't hear from her before. She looked up at him though her long lashes. " It's almost like it's telling me to do . . . Things" She said, again her voice odd. Her eyes were a much deeper blue, the pupils oddly dilated
" What Kind of things" His voice lowered with worry
" This." She said, and stretched out on her toes to give Gohan a kiss. He blushed furiously, but stopped as an unnatural heat flooded from her lips into his, tearing a searing, almost painful path up to his brain, until the feeling took over all his thoughts and emotions, burning out everything else. He began to attack her mouth with a fury only matched by her own. Desperately they tore at each other's clothes, Gohan's shirt ripped down the middle.
Until suddenly they were torn from each other by rough strong hands
They gasped for breath and instantly tried to get back again; their Bodies burning with the sudden and unnatural desire that had sprung from that simple kiss. Gohan watched in horror from within himself the things that his body was doing.
" NO!" Videl Screamed. " Let me Go!" She said struggling against her assailants. She tore free and began a different kind of assault on Gohan who had also gotten free of his captor as well. Videl's mind was screaming at her body to stop, but nothing she tired would make herself desist in her ravages
" What in Kame's name are they doing!?" They hear a voice cry in the background. Again the hands dragged them apart Gohan let out a beastly moan of rage, His pupils dilated to the same degree as Videl's. They had both gained a tiny Red rim around their irises.
Gohan was dragged away, and Videl felt herself held back by a pair of small strong hands. She struggled against the boy, and screamed in anguish as Gohan was thrown into a room and the door locked. She couldn't stop.
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Vegeta came to the lookout to a very unlikely scene. The two gods were bickering over some kind of blue net. The little black genie was cleaning up, but the biggest shocker was Kakorot's first brat and that girl practically raping each other on the spot. He put down Bulma and, Trunks pulled up behind.
" What the hell do they think they are doing?" Vegeta yelled and strode up to the couple, and tore Gohan away, which took a surprising amount of force. He simply struggled out of his grasp and went back to the girl. Vegeta frowned and instantly knew something was wrong. He signalled to Trunks, who took the hint and grasped Videl by the shoulders. They pulled the two apart, who instantly struggled with all their might against them. They broke free and crashed into each other again.
The other occupants of the divine space had also noticed the situation and various cries of surprise were heard all around
Vegeta gave out a growl of rage and tore the boy away, who bellowed with rage. He dragged the unfortunate Demi- Sayian away and threw him, into the nearest room, which happened to be a bathroom.
The girl broke Trunks' Hold and ran towards the room where Gohan was being held. Furiously she tried to attack Vegeta who easily blocked her misguide blows, and put her out with a rather harsh blow to the head. She slumped over and Vegeta picked up her limp form and tossed it in another nearby room and melted the handle and lock into one un-moveable mass.
He then turned his attention to the brat of Kakorot who had managed to break down the feeble reinforced steal door of the bathroom. He immediately charged at Vegeta, who was the nearest person to Videl's Ki, and obviously in his way. He threw a few wayward rage filled punches the prince's way.
" Let's take this outside Brat" Vegeta growled and kicked the unsuspecting Gohan out into the open air. The battle had begun in earnest.
Gohan immediately went onto the offensive, throwing a barrage of angry red ki blast's Vegeta's way. Which he deflected, in favour of not destroying the complex of the lookout. Vegeta flew up to meet the boy with a punch to the stomach, which Gohan kindly returned with a badly aimed kick to the head. His technique was sloppy and unfocused; all of the boy's thoughts lay with Videl and his Rage.
Vegeta took it upon himself that he had to beat the brat into his senses, as there was something most obviously wrong with him. He delivered hit after devastating Hit, each which Gohan denied to dodge or block, letting the full force of each hit him as he threw his own hits upon the prince.
Vegeta delivered a devastating blow to the boys stomach with his knee, then threw him down again with a double hammer punch. Gohan managed to regain his composure in mid air after a lengthy fall and immediately charged Vegeta again, Blind with rage.
" I'll kill you!" He screamed
Vegeta dodged the charge and re appeared behind Gohan to kick him in the back of the head. Gohan flew back from the impact, smashing though several palm trees. Vegeta fazed out and reappeared behind the teenager and delivered several powerful blows to his stomach and abdomen. Gohan groaned in pain and tried to struggle to his feet, wiping blood from the corner of his mouth.
He cried with rage and tried to charge the prince again, his strength failing, the culmination of the beating he had just received and staving off the efforts of depression and hopelessness, who still were exerting their force on his mind, even from beneath the magical shield of the supreme Kai. His arms seemed to be weighted with lead, and he threw several sluggish blows towards Vegeta. He growled in disgust at the half-breed and treated him to the medicine he had bestowed upon Videl, a sharp blow to the head.
Gohan collapsed at his feet. Vegeta slung the boy over his shoulder and threw him into a room similar to the one he had deposited Videl in, only on the other side of the complex.
He turned to the assembled group before him, whom were all staring in various states of shock and disbelief.
" Now who the hell is going to tell me what's going on?"
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"How are you sir?" saluted a soldier before his former general, who looked at him with the calm smile of some one who is undeniably insane, but still sane enough that his delusions made sense.
" Oh dear, The aliens still haven't come then?" He asked dreamily staring at a spot some two feet to the left of the good soldier. " Don't worry, they'll come for me, and we'll all be dead. All Dead" he crooned
The soldier shifted nervously and wrung his hat in his hands, his eyes darted for a way out of the white padded room they stood in.
" I've been told to tell you that we've declared war sir"
" Oh goodies, with whom?" The mans eyes were glazed
" Everyone else sir"
" Oh, their going to like that, yes they will, mark my words young Weatherby!"
" Jones, sir"
"Spoon! Give it to Royster! I do not take you up sir indeed I don't or my name's not Trucklebed! I'll have another two slices if I may?" {1}
" Of course sir"
" That's another Wicket for the home team!"
" Really sir"
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The new, and undeniably saner general strode along the line of tanks that awaited his inspection. In the distance he could see the newly completed fighter jets lining up on their runways. He had just come from addressing the troops, and he felt good.
Almost too good.
Plans and battle strategies raced through his mind. Statistics of possible losses lined up in neat orderly columns. The heat of battle began to rush through his body in an almost orgasmic anticipation of the bloody sport. His eyes gleamed with a red rim around the irises.
It was war.
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The White inverted dome ahead loomed I its vision. Finally after all its years of struggling against non-existence, its purpose would be fulfilled. Its shaky grasp on the world had wavered ever since that unspoken promise had been created. The blood spilled on it made it real.
It existed on a technicality.
It was going to exploit that to the full.
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She felt like dancing.
Sarah Stromsburg stretched her unused muscled for what felt like the first time in forever. She winced at the sound of several joints popping. She rolled her head back on her shoulders, and pushed her arms above her head.
" Miss Stromsburg! I hope to remind you that your release is not permanent. We expect to see you back in two weeks for a check up. If we find that you are not in satisfactory health, I reserve the right to detain you at the hospital until further notice. Failure to comply with the doctoral orders will result in maniac phone calls to your home until you do come." Nurse Beti gave this out with a cold glare. Sarah couldn't help but wince at the long list of restrictions that was laid out before her, the equally long list of care instructions and the shorter list of emergency situations and what she should do if they arose.
Most of the solutions followed as thus:
Don't panic. Call 911 immediately or have someone in the immediate vicinity call 911.Still, Sarah couldn't help but grin.
I'm back in action!
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{1} I've stolen this line off the Bursar of Unseen University. This is of course Disc world
A/n: okay, the scene between Videl/Gohan and was really hard to write, same with the fight scene between Vegeta/Gohan as I never seem to be able to follow them normally when written. I have also most likely surrendered my soul to the pits of subplot filled despair.
In a totally un related subject, I've recently discovered the joy of web comics. (www.keenspot.com) I recommend Men in Hats, Zebra Girl, Girlie and Boy meets boy (If gay/lesbian people scare you, avoid the last two at all costs)
Also, while searching for the chemical composition of soap, I found a recipe for napalm. Now my plans to take over the world shall finally come into fruition, as soon as I can train the mice and affix the laser beams to the shark's heads.
Guess where Rincewind comes from and win a trip for four to your home city! *
*No airfare, lodgings, food, or sanity provided. Thanks for reading Demon's and Disorder