Chapter 2: First Assault
Gohan flew over the city after Vegeta, the rest of the warriors following closely behind him. They could see smoke and flames rising not to far off, and they were positive that that was where they would find the Saiyan prince. They passed a couple of buildings that they thought were most likely brought down by the meteor, the only other possibility was that Vegeta had destroyed them and if that were the case they wouldn't still be recognizable as buildings.
After a moment Gohan spotted Vegeta standing in the center of a crater that looked like it had a circumference of about thirty feet, he knew right away that the meteor had hit right there. The others by this point had scattered and started digging through rubble in search of any survivors, all except for Gohan who climbed down into the crater and walked to Vegeta. The area was lit by the surrounding flames, and as Gohan approached he spotted something very odd, there didn't seem to be anything other than him and Vegeta in the crater.
Gohan walked up next to him examining the center where the meteor should have been sitting. "You destroyed it didn't you..."
Vegeta glanced over at him with a part confused, part worried look on his face. "I didn't do anything to it...that so called meteor got up and walked away..."
Noticing the extremely confused look that appeared on Gohans face, he pointed toward the center of the crater. He then moved his hand still pointing until he reached the edge of the crater, drawing an imaginary line across the ground. Gohan looked across the area he had pointed, and saw the last thing he had expected. Footprints, they definitely weren't Human or Saiyan as they only had three large pointed toes, they sort of reminded him of the footprint a bird might make, only much larger. They led from the center of the crater, up the side of it, then vanished on the cement as the crater had hit down in the center of a road. Gohan quickly turned back toward the collapsed buildings and shouted over his shoulder "Everybody! Over here!!"
The rest of the group, which consisted of Goten, Trunks, Pan, Uub, Tien, Yamcha, Videl, and Krillin, all gathered around the crater as Gohan pointed out the footprints to them. Gohan looked over each of them, then gave his opinion on what they had to do. "Alright...let's split up into a few groups and find this creature...I don't feel anything in the city stronger than an average Human aside from us, so it doesn't seem like this thing is very strong...but be on your guard."
After spending a few minutes deciding the groups, they ended up divided into 4 teams. Despite Vegetas attempt at going off by himself, Gohan had insisted on going with him. The second group was Goten and Trunks, both of them intending to be the one who found this alien. Group three consisted of Videl, and Pan, Gohan had also insisted that Uub go along with them just in case, so that made three. The remaining three, Tien, Yamcha, and Krillin, formed the final group and the four sets headed out in different directions to hunt this thing down.
Uub was flying just ahead of the other two when he spotted something down in a small, fairly dark, courtyard. The group landed and Uub walked over to it to get a better view of what it was, and was shocked at his discovery. He stumbled back falling over, then quickly climbed back onto his feet. Pan looked over at him curiously. "What's the matter Uub?"
He just stood there, the others could tell that he was very tense. "It's a person...dead...but not for more than a few minutes..."
Everyone began looking around the area cautiously, now a lot more worried than they had been in a long time. Nothing seemed to be happening, it appeared that whatever had done this had left already. Suddenly, Pan heard the sound of something being hit behind her and swung around to see Uub laying face down on the ground, a tall man standing over him. She let out a quiet yell and Videl, hearing it, turned around to see that Uub was down. The man began walking toward the two of them as they both took a couple steps back, then he passed through a streak of light coming from a nearby window. He wasn't in it long, but it was long enough to see that he was definitely not a Human, his body had looked like it was made out of some kind of crystal, and they didn't notice any eyes or mouth in his head.
A light blue aura appeared around Pan as she powered up and flew at the creature, sending a fist into the side of its face. She hadn't expected the hit to do much, but it sent the creature skidding across the ground. She watched still in shock as the creature climbed back onto its feet, it didn't seem to be strong after all, it had simply caught Uub off guard. It lunged forward swinging its leg at her head, but she easily ducked under the attack and countered with an uppercut into its jaw, or where its jaw would be if it had one. The hit sent it flying into the air, where Pan was now waiting for it. She sent a hard kick into its head sending it back into the ground hard, forming a small crater as it hit.
She turned around as she felt the rest of the group coming up behind her, and grinned as the all stopped and looked down at the creature. "I found him!" She said with a proud tone to her voice.
By this point the creature was getting back up yet again, ready for a third round. Pan looked back down at it. "What? You want more?!"
She started to fly down at it but was stopped as Gohan grabbed her shoulder. She turned back toward her father with an annoyed look on her face. "I can handle him myself, let me go!"
She tried to break free but he didn't let go as he looked down at the strange creature. "Look..."
Everyone turned their attention back onto it as it began to glow a light blue color. Then the glow began to expand into the area around it, making it impossible to see the creature. When the energy cleared, there were a total of three creatures standing where there had once been one. Vegeta made a frustrated noise as he looked over the three of them. "Somethings wrong! Their power should each be one third of the originals, but they're all just as strong as the first one was!"
Before anyone had a chance to question it, the three crystal creatures flew up at the group of fighters. One of them went at Pan, another at Vegeta, and the third at Goten, those three began blocking and countering their attacks, while the rest of the group just watched them fight with confused looks on their faces, like they didn't know quite what to do.
The creature that was attacking Vegeta sent a hard fist across his face knocking him through the air, but the Saiyan stopped himself quickly. He flew back at the creature kicking it in the chest, then flipped over it before it could go anywhere kneeing it in the back of its head. It flew down at the ground, hitting hard, but quickly flipped back onto its feet sending a ball of ki up at the prince. Vegeta easily knocked it into the sky as the creature flew up attacking him with a flurry of punches, which he dodged with hardly any effort. He then slammed a fist into its gut, doubling it over, and sent a kick where its face should have been putting back into a crater in the ground.
Goten was having slightly more trouble with his fight, but was still winning fairly easily. The creature had only landed a couple hits on him so far, Goten had managed to block all of the other attempted blows. Pan was winning her fight with just as little effort having fun dodging all of the creatures swings with ease. It was only another minute before all three of the creatures were in a pile on the ground. There was a flash of light and the creatures merged back into one. It only took Vegeta a second to realize that something still wasn't right. "Everyone, be on your guard!!! Their powers somehow added together, this is three times stronger than the original!!"
Everyone looked at him in shock, before Trunks spoke. "Then we have to take him out fast! Before he can get any stronger!!! HAAA!!!!"
A golden aura flared around Trunks as his hair spiked up and turned the same golden shade as the light surrounding him. In the blink of an eye he was in front of the creature pummeling with rapid punches, each blow chipping a piece of crystal off of its body. He stopped his assault with one hard punch to the center of the creatures chest, forming a small crater where his fist had connected. The alien stumbled back from the blow, and had no time to recover before Trunks' foot connected with the side of its head sending it flying out into the middle of a nearby road. Trunks was about to go at it again when a bolt of energy hit it from above blowing it apart, then it vanished in the thick smoke.
His hair dropped back down to the way it had been before as he looked up to see his father floating there with golden hair, his palm pointed toward the spot that the creature had been laying. After a moment his aura vanished as well and his hair turned black again. When the creature didn't climb back out of the smoke, Vegeta yelled down at his son. "Get one of the pieces! Your mother will want it..."
With that he turned and flew off toward Capsule Corp., Trunks picked up one of the pieces of crystal and, after looking at every briefly, flew off after him. Gohan looked around at everyone once he had left and said "Well, I suppose we should be getting home too...Goten, grab Uub, we'll take him with us."
Goten listened and soon he flew off with Gohan, Videl, and Pan. It was only another moment before the rest of the group split up and headed their separate ways, all of them unaware that they had only won the fight to defend West City. The fight for the Planet Earth was about to begin.
Gohan flew over the city after Vegeta, the rest of the warriors following closely behind him. They could see smoke and flames rising not to far off, and they were positive that that was where they would find the Saiyan prince. They passed a couple of buildings that they thought were most likely brought down by the meteor, the only other possibility was that Vegeta had destroyed them and if that were the case they wouldn't still be recognizable as buildings.
After a moment Gohan spotted Vegeta standing in the center of a crater that looked like it had a circumference of about thirty feet, he knew right away that the meteor had hit right there. The others by this point had scattered and started digging through rubble in search of any survivors, all except for Gohan who climbed down into the crater and walked to Vegeta. The area was lit by the surrounding flames, and as Gohan approached he spotted something very odd, there didn't seem to be anything other than him and Vegeta in the crater.
Gohan walked up next to him examining the center where the meteor should have been sitting. "You destroyed it didn't you..."
Vegeta glanced over at him with a part confused, part worried look on his face. "I didn't do anything to it...that so called meteor got up and walked away..."
Noticing the extremely confused look that appeared on Gohans face, he pointed toward the center of the crater. He then moved his hand still pointing until he reached the edge of the crater, drawing an imaginary line across the ground. Gohan looked across the area he had pointed, and saw the last thing he had expected. Footprints, they definitely weren't Human or Saiyan as they only had three large pointed toes, they sort of reminded him of the footprint a bird might make, only much larger. They led from the center of the crater, up the side of it, then vanished on the cement as the crater had hit down in the center of a road. Gohan quickly turned back toward the collapsed buildings and shouted over his shoulder "Everybody! Over here!!"
The rest of the group, which consisted of Goten, Trunks, Pan, Uub, Tien, Yamcha, Videl, and Krillin, all gathered around the crater as Gohan pointed out the footprints to them. Gohan looked over each of them, then gave his opinion on what they had to do. "Alright...let's split up into a few groups and find this creature...I don't feel anything in the city stronger than an average Human aside from us, so it doesn't seem like this thing is very strong...but be on your guard."
After spending a few minutes deciding the groups, they ended up divided into 4 teams. Despite Vegetas attempt at going off by himself, Gohan had insisted on going with him. The second group was Goten and Trunks, both of them intending to be the one who found this alien. Group three consisted of Videl, and Pan, Gohan had also insisted that Uub go along with them just in case, so that made three. The remaining three, Tien, Yamcha, and Krillin, formed the final group and the four sets headed out in different directions to hunt this thing down.
Uub was flying just ahead of the other two when he spotted something down in a small, fairly dark, courtyard. The group landed and Uub walked over to it to get a better view of what it was, and was shocked at his discovery. He stumbled back falling over, then quickly climbed back onto his feet. Pan looked over at him curiously. "What's the matter Uub?"
He just stood there, the others could tell that he was very tense. "It's a person...dead...but not for more than a few minutes..."
Everyone began looking around the area cautiously, now a lot more worried than they had been in a long time. Nothing seemed to be happening, it appeared that whatever had done this had left already. Suddenly, Pan heard the sound of something being hit behind her and swung around to see Uub laying face down on the ground, a tall man standing over him. She let out a quiet yell and Videl, hearing it, turned around to see that Uub was down. The man began walking toward the two of them as they both took a couple steps back, then he passed through a streak of light coming from a nearby window. He wasn't in it long, but it was long enough to see that he was definitely not a Human, his body had looked like it was made out of some kind of crystal, and they didn't notice any eyes or mouth in his head.
A light blue aura appeared around Pan as she powered up and flew at the creature, sending a fist into the side of its face. She hadn't expected the hit to do much, but it sent the creature skidding across the ground. She watched still in shock as the creature climbed back onto its feet, it didn't seem to be strong after all, it had simply caught Uub off guard. It lunged forward swinging its leg at her head, but she easily ducked under the attack and countered with an uppercut into its jaw, or where its jaw would be if it had one. The hit sent it flying into the air, where Pan was now waiting for it. She sent a hard kick into its head sending it back into the ground hard, forming a small crater as it hit.
She turned around as she felt the rest of the group coming up behind her, and grinned as the all stopped and looked down at the creature. "I found him!" She said with a proud tone to her voice.
By this point the creature was getting back up yet again, ready for a third round. Pan looked back down at it. "What? You want more?!"
She started to fly down at it but was stopped as Gohan grabbed her shoulder. She turned back toward her father with an annoyed look on her face. "I can handle him myself, let me go!"
She tried to break free but he didn't let go as he looked down at the strange creature. "Look..."
Everyone turned their attention back onto it as it began to glow a light blue color. Then the glow began to expand into the area around it, making it impossible to see the creature. When the energy cleared, there were a total of three creatures standing where there had once been one. Vegeta made a frustrated noise as he looked over the three of them. "Somethings wrong! Their power should each be one third of the originals, but they're all just as strong as the first one was!"
Before anyone had a chance to question it, the three crystal creatures flew up at the group of fighters. One of them went at Pan, another at Vegeta, and the third at Goten, those three began blocking and countering their attacks, while the rest of the group just watched them fight with confused looks on their faces, like they didn't know quite what to do.
The creature that was attacking Vegeta sent a hard fist across his face knocking him through the air, but the Saiyan stopped himself quickly. He flew back at the creature kicking it in the chest, then flipped over it before it could go anywhere kneeing it in the back of its head. It flew down at the ground, hitting hard, but quickly flipped back onto its feet sending a ball of ki up at the prince. Vegeta easily knocked it into the sky as the creature flew up attacking him with a flurry of punches, which he dodged with hardly any effort. He then slammed a fist into its gut, doubling it over, and sent a kick where its face should have been putting back into a crater in the ground.
Goten was having slightly more trouble with his fight, but was still winning fairly easily. The creature had only landed a couple hits on him so far, Goten had managed to block all of the other attempted blows. Pan was winning her fight with just as little effort having fun dodging all of the creatures swings with ease. It was only another minute before all three of the creatures were in a pile on the ground. There was a flash of light and the creatures merged back into one. It only took Vegeta a second to realize that something still wasn't right. "Everyone, be on your guard!!! Their powers somehow added together, this is three times stronger than the original!!"
Everyone looked at him in shock, before Trunks spoke. "Then we have to take him out fast! Before he can get any stronger!!! HAAA!!!!"
A golden aura flared around Trunks as his hair spiked up and turned the same golden shade as the light surrounding him. In the blink of an eye he was in front of the creature pummeling with rapid punches, each blow chipping a piece of crystal off of its body. He stopped his assault with one hard punch to the center of the creatures chest, forming a small crater where his fist had connected. The alien stumbled back from the blow, and had no time to recover before Trunks' foot connected with the side of its head sending it flying out into the middle of a nearby road. Trunks was about to go at it again when a bolt of energy hit it from above blowing it apart, then it vanished in the thick smoke.
His hair dropped back down to the way it had been before as he looked up to see his father floating there with golden hair, his palm pointed toward the spot that the creature had been laying. After a moment his aura vanished as well and his hair turned black again. When the creature didn't climb back out of the smoke, Vegeta yelled down at his son. "Get one of the pieces! Your mother will want it..."
With that he turned and flew off toward Capsule Corp., Trunks picked up one of the pieces of crystal and, after looking at every briefly, flew off after him. Gohan looked around at everyone once he had left and said "Well, I suppose we should be getting home too...Goten, grab Uub, we'll take him with us."
Goten listened and soon he flew off with Gohan, Videl, and Pan. It was only another moment before the rest of the group split up and headed their separate ways, all of them unaware that they had only won the fight to defend West City. The fight for the Planet Earth was about to begin.