Chapter 8: Meteor Shower
It was about ten o'clock in the morning when Dende suddenly jerked his head toward the sky, being the first to sense it. It was only another few seconds before the rest of the group could feel hundreds of powers entering the planets atmosphere. Uub narrowed his eyes as he began to lift into the air. "They're here..."
The rest of the group began to lift off of the ground following Uubs lead as Dende jogged over to Gohan holding out a small cloth bag out to him. "Here...these are all of the senzus we have left, there only five so use them sparingly..."
Gohan nodded lightly toward Dende. "Thanks...I get the feeling we're going to need every one of them."
The team then headed off in the direction that they could sense the nearest set of meteors entering the atmosphere, at least that was what they intended to do. They had hardly even gotten off of the lookout when they heard Bulmas voice behind them. "Wait!!! Come back!!!!"
Everyone stopped and turned around, Vegeta having an extremely aggravated look on his face. "What is it woman! We can't waste any more time than we already have!"
"You have to listen, you're all going to have to split up and intercept as many of those meteors as possible before they reach the ground! According to the computer in my ship those things are going to completely level at least ten or twenty cities if you don't stop them!"
Vegeta scowled and turned back in the direction he had been going, completely ignoring Bulmas warning. Everyone else watched him go before Gohan spoke up. "He'll be fine on his own, the rest of us will split up and try to knock the meteors away from as many major cities as we can as quickly as we can!"
Everyone else just nodded and took off in different directions, not wanting to waste any more time. Trunks stopped himself as he passed over a fairly large city, glancing into the sky he could see more streaks of light than he count coming down toward the Earth. /Alright...time to get to work/ He thought to himself as he launched upward toward the approaching enemies.
As Trunks rose higher into the air, he saw a large crystal like rock coming down toward him. He instantly recognized it as the same material that the creature they had fought just a week before had been made of. He pulled his fist back and continued toward it full speed, slamming his fist into the meteor as hard as he possibly could. The crystal shattered into hundreds of smaller pieces and Trunks watched with a content look on his face as the harmless pieces began to descend toward the ground. That look quickly turned to a look of complete confusion as the rocks suddenly stopped in midair and began to move back toward each other. It only took a moment for the pieces to form together into a creature identical to the one he had fought back in West City. As the creature turned toward him he could see more meteors coming down from the corner of his eye. /Shit! This is not good! I can't fight this thing and stop all of those meteors at once, and even if I do destroy them I'll probably just end up with even more enemies! This is one of those situations where you can't win no matter what you do.../
His thoughts were interrupted as the creature flew silently up toward him and sent a single fist toward his face. The fist simply passed through an image as Trunks appeared behind it slamming a knee into its back. The creature went sailing through the sky as small pieces of it broke off and fell to the ground. Trunks took the opportunity to try and deflect an approaching meteor away from the city, he began charging energy in his hand and thrust it toward the rock. He put just enough strength into it to knock it away and not destroy it, unfortunately his plan was disrupted. The creature he had just knocked away appeared in the beams path and knocked it into the atmosphere. As the meteor streaked by, there was no longer anything he could do to stop it. He watched as it slammed into the center of the city instantly vaporizing about a tenth of the city in a massive explosion.
He flew toward the creature that had blocked his attack his beam in a rage. As he approached his purple hair spiked and began to glow golden as his eyes turned a blueish green. He began to pummel the now defenseless creature, breaking it apart piece by piece. He floated back away from it and began to do rapid hand movements, then quickly thrust both hands forward as a golden wave of energy erupted from them. "BURNING ATTACK!!!"
Whatever was left of the creature was almost instantly vaporized in the attack, but his break didn't last long as he sensed the meteor that had slammed into the city coming back up at him in the form of another of the "Prism" creatures.
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Meanwhile, Yamcha and Tien weren't having any better luck with the creatures. Several had already hit the city they had been trying to guard and the two of them were now holding off seven of the creatures at once in the skies above the smoking crater that had been a city. Both of them were in their silver super forms, but even so they were outnumbered and not doing that great.
Yamcha was spinning in circles knocking away any of the creatures that came at him, three of them seemed to have focused entirely on him and that wasn't making things easy. He spun around as one of them approached him and a hard knee into its chin sent it flying hard into one of the ones that had been attacking Tien. The two were out of the fight for just a few seconds before they came flying back in at their targets.
The two of them continued trading blows with the creatures as more meteors went flying past, and before long it had become a two on eighteen fight, more of the creatures flying in to join the battle. Despite being outnumbered, the two Humans were able to hold their own. Suddenly the eighteen creatures stopped attacking and all floated away from the two warriors slowly. Yamcha and Tien floated closer together watching them carefully. "Yamcha...what are they doing?"
"I don't know...but it can't be good..."
One of the creatures floated forward glaring down at the two, then the rest of the creatures all flew at the one in front of them. As the seventeen others slammed into the one, there was a blinding flash of light and a gust of wind that blew the two fighters back several feet before they regained control of themselves. As the light cleared the two of them got into their fighting stance, ready for anything. Where there had been eighteen warriors just moments before, now stood one at least twice the size as any of the originals. Yamcha swallowed loudly as he felt the power radiating off of the new being. "This is not going to end well....."
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Vegetas eyes shifted as he looked at the creatures circling slowly around him. He couldn't count how many there were exactly but he guessed there were about one hundred, and they looked like they were going to attack him at any second. He tensed his muscles as the huge group warriors suddenly stopped circling and began flying in toward him. "I am the prince of the Saiyans...and I will not...be defeated...by an army...of living...ROCKS!!!!!!" He screamed as the group reached him, his massive aura blowing them all away from him and even vaporizing the closest few.
His aura settled down to reveal him now covered in red fur, his tail twitching slightly as he glared at the creatures around him. "I'm not wasting any time with you!!!!"
He launched into the largest group of them and began ripping them apart faster than they could even react. He managed to destroy about twenty of them before they all separated so that he could only go after one of them at a time. /Damn...they're smarter than I thought...no problem though, it'll just take a little longer to finish them./
He headed for one that was in the sky directly ahead of him when there was a sudden bright flash of light behind him. He quickly spun around to see a ball of light, all of the creatures were flying toward it and seemingly vanishing the instant they hit it. "What the hell!!"
He was caught off guard as the creature that he had been going at a moment before kneed him hard in the gut. He spun quickly around sending a one handed blast of energy that completely engulfed the creature, destroying it instantly. He turned back around to see that the glowing ball was now gone, replaced by a single crystal warrior. Vegeta wasted no time attacking, and flew straight in at the creature slamming a fist into its chest hard. It flew down into the ground hard, massive pieces of Earth raising out of the ground around the crater that formed from the impact. He watched as the creature climbed back onto its feet easily and began flying back up at him. /What!? That would have killed any of the rest of them!!!/
The two began fighting in the air, Vegeta sending his foot at the creatures face hard as a large fist slammed into his gut. Both attacks connected and the two warriors flew back away from each other before regaining their balance. As soon as they had recovered the two flew in and began matching each other blow for blow. After a minute of fighting a punch slipped past Vegetas defenses, which he was barely able to dodge. The mistake however ended up forcing him to go entirely defensive, having trouble blocking the creatures rapid attacks. /Damn it, even as a Super Saiyan 4 I'm having trouble with him! If any of the others are fighting a creature this strong...they don't even have a chance!!! I guess I just have to hope that this is the strongest...or we may actually be in over our heads.../
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Uub flew down after Pan as she fell toward the ground unconscious. The two of them had been doing fine against their opponents up until they had decided to merge, after that it went downhill quickly. He was halfway to her when the creature they had been fighting appeared in front of him kicking him hard across the face. He was transformed now, but still no match for his opponent. He suddenly stopped in the air as someone caught him, as the person let go he turned around to see Goten floating there in his SSJ2 form. "Hey, thanks Goten...but I thought you were off fighting over West City...I know I felt you."
"I'll explain that later...but we have more important things to worry about right now..."
Goten glanced down and Uub followed his eyes to see Gohan floating back up holding Pan. He was also SSJ2 as he reached the other two. "Goten." He said as he nodded toward his belt.
Goten quickly grabbed the bag of senzu beans and pulled on out, putting it in Pans mouth. After a moment she woke up looking at Gohan. "D...Dad?"
He smiled and let go of her as she floated beside the rest of them, looking down at the creature that was glaring up at their small group. Gohan glanced over in the direction of the lookout. -Dende...can you hear me?-
-What's going on Gohan?-
-I need you to contact the others and have them all meet up with me, Goten, Uub, and Pan. The way things are going we're all going to need to work together if we're even going to have a chance in this fight.-
Gohans conversation was quickly ended as the Prism they were fighting flew up at the four of them and they all prepared to continue their fight.