Author: Nadz
Email: vegitto02 at yahoo dot com

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DragonTek (Part I: The Invasion Saga)

Chapter 04 – The New Enemy

"Lord Omega, their defenses are useless. Their United Earth Military's resistance is futile and could do almost nothing against our initial bugger army," Dagger gloated as he bowed before his master.

"What about Tekkaman Blade?" Omega posed in a razor-sharp voice.

"I put him out of commission. He shouldn't be bothering us anytime soon, my lord."

"And the spider-crabs that remain on the surface?"

"I ordered them to die and release their blood. Soon, the fledgling plants will rise from it," Dagger replied with glee. "And when they bloom after they are ready, victory will soon be ours, my lord."

"I am pleased, Dagger. Return to the Orbital Ring and remain there," Omega ordered.

With that, Omega dematerialized from the main chamber.

"He's in stable condition," said Aki. Aki and Freeman were looking through the observation window into the room below. On the bed lay the mysterious young man that Aki and Noal had found.

Noal and Milly stood patiently by his bedside, waiting for him to awaken, and Freeman wondered how he could have survived his bodily injuries, and above all, the crash. There was no trace whatsoever of any space ship at the crater; where this man came from was another mystery altogether.

'What is that light?' thought Blade as he opened his eyes.

"Chief," Milly said cheerfully, "he's awake."

As his vision came into focus, he noticed several thick circular light bulbs embedded in the ceiling overhead. To his left stood two people – a blond male dressed in blue and a short teenage-aged brunette girl standing next to him. The girl gave him a small wave and smiled.

'Who are these people? Are they Radam too?' Blade wondered as he tightened his body. Milly gasped as the man suddenly leapt out of his bed, knocking Noal aside. Her eyes became wide open with fear as the man wrapped his forearm around her neck, threatening to choke her. He pulled her backwards.

"Who are you? Are you fighting for Earth? Or are you with the Radam? Answer me!" yelled the newcomer. He continued to survey the area around him, looking for any potential dangers lurking about.

"Let her go!" pleaded Aki as she spoke into the microphone.

"What do you think? Don't we look human enough to you? We're fighting for this planet," Noal answered angrily at the strange man. 'Who does this guy think he is?'

"Is that so? Then why am I in your prison? Why did you bring me here?"

"You're in the Space Knight Command Center, not a prison. My name is Chief Freeman, and I head this facility. Now please let Milly go, and we'll be able to help you."

Blade quickly released the girl, who ran to Noal's side and stuck her tongue out at him.

"Ok pal, now you have to give us a couple of answers. Who are you, anyway?" barked Noal.

"My name? I'm… I'm sorry, I don't remember."

"Don't pull that horse crap on me. Talk before I…"

"Listen, I don't have time for your questions. Chief Freeman, can you help me?" asked Blade.

"In what way?" the man replied with a calculating face.

"I need a space-ship. I need to return to the Orbital Ring so I can fight…" he was saying as he was cut off by the emergency siren. The room began to flash red, and Aki ran out of the observation room.

"This way," said Noal to Blade as everybody ran towards the Mission Command Room.

"What you see here is the destruction taking place at one of the many big cities being destroyed by the enemy," said Freeman as they all watched the viewscreen in the Mission Room, as big as a tennis court.

"With all the technological advances made, we seem to hardly be able to hold our own," he said.

"That's right, and if you don't help me now, there won't be anything left to defend!" Blade yelled.

"Even if we are to give you a ship, what could you possibly do? Some of the best pilots in the Air Force couldn't achieve anything. What makes you think you can?" Freeman asked, scowling.

"I told you, we can't sit here wasting time! Just give me a ship!"

"And how did you know that the enemy is called Radam? Where did you learn—"

"Look, all I need is a ride to the Orbital Ring!" Blade interrupted; his voice flooded with desperation. "Let your best pilots fly the ship; all I need to do is get up there. Just give me a chance, if I prove useless, then the worst is that I wasted some of your time."

"I'm sorry," Freeman replied, shaking his head. "I can't allow that."

"You looked like a reasonable guy, Chief, but now you're being anything but! Out of my way!"

"The hell?" Noal yelled as Blade shoved past him and escaped into the corridor.

'I have to find a ship. Somebody here has to know where one is… Damn, they're after me!' the mysterious man thought, seeing Aki and Noal following in pursuit. 'I have to lose them now… that girl…'

As Blade pushed past various personnel in his way, he saw a corridor to his left. He ran into it, only to find Milly there. Without wasting a second, he slammed the girl into the wall, causing her to yelp.

"Where is it? Where is your space ship?" he demanded, yelling in her face.

"The Blue Earth… eighth floor … hanger three," she choked, terrified for her life.

"Thanks," Blade said as he let her go. He followed the girl's directions and slammed through the stairwell door upon approaching it. While he ran down the stairs, Aki and Noal caught up with the girl.

"Milly!" Aki said concernedly. "Are you okay?"

"I'm fine… he's headed for the Blue Earth… I'm sorry," she still choked. Noal nodded to Aki as the headed for the elevator.

"Hold it!" yelled the two guards at the bottom of the stairs. Both grunted and fell over as Blade kicked them hard in their guts. The two men crouched on the ground, breathing heavily from the attack.

'Eighth floor,' Blade read the sign before entering the appropriate floor. 'Here we are.'

Running down the hallway, he saw a sign for Hangar Three on his right. Opening the door, he stopped short and marveled at the splendid-looking Blue Earth parked before him. He was soon distracted as he saw Aki and Noal enter the hallway several hundred feet away.

"Damn!" he whispered as he ran into the ship. 'Those two better not stop me…'

Noal and Aki gasped as soon as they entered the hanger; the strange man had already started the take-off sequence. The two ran into the ship's hatch just before the aft doors shut and dove to the floor as the rear thrusters grumbled. Pulling the lever, Blade nodded in satisfaction as the ship shot forward through a long tunnel that led to the surface. At the end of the tunnel was a long ramp that curved upwards towards the sky. Aki and Noal grabbed onto what they could as the craft fired along the ramp and reached the end.

"Shiiiiiitttt!" yelled Noal, grimacing as the Blue Earth fired directly upwards towards space.

"I'm so glad you got here," said Dende, the current Kami (God or Guardian) of the Earth. An aged Namek, he had been watching the planet for well over a hundred years now. He started to resemble the old Kami, often reminding Mr. Popo of his former benevolent master. Mr. Popo and the God were appalled by what they saw; the last time they had noticed such death was during the age of Maajin Buu.

"Dende, it has been a while," said Pan, who had seen him often as a youth. That was the time when her Grandpa Goku was alive – the days when they had traveled the galaxies in search of the Black Star Dragonballs. What an incredible journey that had been – she, handsome Trunks, and her grandpa adventuring together without having her mother Videl around to scold her. She remembered how she cried and helped her grandpa regain his humanity and become Super Saiya-jin 4 in order to fight Bebi and the evil Shenrons, including the deadly Ii Shenron. Those had certainly been threatening times.

'Grandpa, why did you have to leave us… leave me… so soon? Without even saying good-bye?' the aged woman thought sadly, but she soon turned her head and looked lovingly at her grandson Goku Jr.

"My greetings and respects, Kami-sama. My father told us to bring Pan-san and my mother here," said Vegita as he stood near the women. "Dende-sama, will they be safe here?"

"Yes, Vegita, for the time being," the Namek responded reassuringly. "I chose to make this palace visible only to you, so the aliens won't be able to find us here."

"Kami-sama, what are we to do now?" Goku asked, nervously scratching his head.

"Patience, Son Goku, let the others arrive first," the green man replied, raising his palm.

"Others?" he asked as he felt a strong yet familiar chi. "Oh, we haven't seen them in a while."

"Welcome, Ichiro, Megumi," Pan greeted them as they walked on the terrace towards her. Ichiro and Megumi, Kenshin's father and mother, respectively, returned the greeting and turned around, waiting for Akira, Ichiro's father, to land with his wife, Anita.

"Hello, there," Akira said as he landed. Soon after him, Kenshin arrived with Nio on his back.

"Oy, Kenshin, Nio," Goku said as his cousin walked over towards him. "Good to see you again."

"Yeah," he replied, a traumatized expression on his face. "And the same to you, Goku."

"Hey, kid," Vegita said as he walked over to his two cousins. Kenshin was cousins with both Goku and Vegita, since his grandmother Anita, of Trunks's line, married Akira, Goten's son. Goku and Alena were by no means blood-related, however.

"Hey, Vegita," Kenshin said as he lay his little sister down. "That was terrible."

"The word 'terrible' is too small to describe it," Vegita replied, patting Nio on the head.

"Hi, Vegi-niisan," came out her soft, squeaky voice, and Vegita picked her up in his arms.

"Pan-san," Ichiro said suddenly, "Where is Gejin-kun? Didn't he want to come?"

"He did," Vegita answered him as he continued to pamper Nio. "But he went to look for my sister first and bring her here; it shouldn't be a big deal."

"Yes, I agree," Pan said. "Now that almost everybody is here, we can discuss things."

"Yeah, I'll just relay to father whatever you tell me," Vegita added.

"So, I guess the first thing we should—" Dende started but was interrupted by Goku.

"Kami-sama?"

"Yes, Goku?"

"I'm hungry, can't we have a little snack first?"

Kenshin and Nio stared at Goku Jr. and Vegita Jr. as they gobbled up their food. A dozen plates and bowls piled up next to the two young men. Pan only burnt a beet red in embarrassment.

"Please, can I have some more?" asked Goku innocently.

"Well… Goku, that was your tenth bowl," sighed Popo.

'Some things never change,' Pan smiled, remembering her grandfather's voracious appetite.

"Ok, psycho, so what do you plan to do now?" Noal barked as he an Aki burst into the cockpit. Noal threw Blade out of the pilot's seat and regained control of the ship. The young woman sat by her navigational controls, stabilizing the vessel. Blade only smirked and sat in another seat.

"Good job, hotshot!" the blond man barked as soon as he saw the blue bolts flying past the windshield. "The laser guns on the Ring are firing right at us! What are you going to do now? Aki!"

"Roger," she responded, activating the shields and maneuvering the ship around the turret blasts.

"Thanks for the lift, you two," Blade muttered as he floated towards the back door.

"What are you talking about?" Noal yelled, turning around to him.

"I'm going to fight them," the man said, narrowing his eyes, "…outside."

"You can't do that," Aki pleaded, also turning around. "There's no oxygen! You'll die!"

"Wrong!"

"You're going to get yourself killed, kid!" yelled Noal, but it was no use. Blade had already gone into the chamber behind the door. "Cut off power to the airlock. There's no telling what that guy will do."

'Finally!' thought Blade, witnessing the power fade from within the airlock chamber. Pulling out his emerald crystal, he uttered the magic words and burst from the ship in green brilliance. Aki gasped as she saw the bright green shape fly out in front, and she gaped as a figure emerged after it shattered open.

"If you really want to know my name," the armored warrior said, pausing before turning around, "It's Blade. Tekkaman Blade."

'Now to destroy those Radam buggers,' he muttered to himself, firing the thrusters on his back.

"His name… Tekkaman Blade?" repeated Aki. They watched in both wonder and fear as Blade tore through the buggers that approached.

"Alena! Can you hear me?" called Gejin as he surveyed the area around him. Tears filled his eyes, for the buildings of the university and the city containing it had been turned to rubble. Several people scurried about, but the area was mostly empty. Most of the ground had been covered with the purplish ooze that seeped into nooks and crannies of various structures.

"WHERE ARE YOU?" he yelled desperately. The father lowered to the ground and looked around, worried that she may have been trapped underneath the rubble. After overturning several slabs, his gut wrenched with sadness. Dozens of mutilated human corpses littered the area; some of their bodies had been chewed to death; others had been burned from the ooze. Yet, some others appeared to have been pierced by sharp claws that had ripped through their torsos.

'I can't even feel her chi anymore. Where is she?' he thought as he tried to concentrate.

"You won't find her here," a voice whispered, startling him.

"Who's there?" he jerked his head upwards.

"You needn't worry about your daughter. You should worry about yourself," the voice purred.

"Where is she? What have you done to her?" demanded Gejin, tightening his fists as he looked around his person. 'Damn, where is that voice coming from? This isn't good… I can't sense it!'

"Are you afraid yet?" it began to chuckle.

"Show yourself, coward. If you had courage, you would face me!" Gejin continued to yell. The feeling of dread that had accumulated in his chi had now increased tenfold into intense fear; yet, the man could not locate its source. Save for the scurrying of others, dead silence was all that was audible.

"Come out, or I'll force your spineless shell out!" he growled, forcing a white aura to flame around his body. Gejin was strong, but not as strong as his son, who could become a Super Saiya-jin.

"You think I am a coward? Aren't you the one feeling fear… great fear?"

'I've had enough!' Gejin thought, releasing a powerful area blast that shrouded his person. When the light from the attack faded away, the old man looked around the rubble that had been cleared away by his energy assault. Yet, he continued to sweat nervously; there was no sign of anything, or anyone.

"Hee hee, hee hee, haa haa, ho ho," the voice laughed. "What a nice little trick…"

"Damn you," Gejin cursed under his breath, still failing to zero in on the speaker.

"… And for that, I will give you a little treat. Behind you!"

Gejin quickly turned around and struck, hitting nothing. There was nobody in sight.

'What? Nothing here?' he thought to himself, now terrified for sure. 'I was pretty sure it—'

"What!" Gejin yelled as he looked down and saw a large armored hand cover his mouth. Within a second, excruciating pain seared through his body. The pain ran through every blood vessel and fired through every nerve, paralyzing the man. Gejin felt as if he was bathing in a furnace; he had never felt such agony in his entire life. The pain continued to tear through him, sucking out his vital energy.

'Please stop! No!' he screamed in his mind. He begged for the suffering to end; yet, it seemed as if the attacker was feeding him more energy for the sole purpose that he would remain alive for more endless torture. Gejin cried in pain and terror, wondering what he had done to deserve such a punishment.

"Do you know how long I had to suffer? Do you even realize? All this time, I waited patiently. All this time, I have watched your lineage …" the voice rasped, its tone hinting at anger.

Gejin only continued to shriek in pain.

"… And now, after being free, I will begin its extinction, starting with you, you pathetic… old… weak… Saiya-jin."

"I…" Gejin whispered as he suddenly felt the pain stop, but he gasped when he felt the object rip through his chest. The man helplessly looked down at his torso, only to see the blood-coated ruby blade that had punctured him jerk downwards. The man cried out in pain, and he began to suffocate as his sight began to lose focus. His blood dripped to the ground, and the hand released him. Gejin crashed to the dirt below, losing consciousness quickly as the pain seared through his convulsing person.

"Viyolita… Alena…" the fallen man choked. "Vegita…"

A final stab of the ruby edge silenced him forever.