I wish I owned DBZ, but I don't. I own DVD's and tapes, but it just isn't the same. I also don't own the right to Starcraft or any of the music pieces you see selected, just copies of merchandise, such a shame. The artists that created them are geniuses and we all must bow to them.
Chapter 5: Battle for Satan City
I honestly thought Mr. Satan might be part Saiyan, because he was out the door faster than anyone. Over the past two days he had started training a few people that signed up, but once it was break time he was back in the Capsule Corp compound, helping out. And let's face facts, even if a few semi-strong humans signed up, it would take a good while before they could come close to even Videl at this point. He wasn't the only one a bit alarmed about Satan City being the target; Buu was the other that looked seriously disturbed.
"Bee is still at home, Buu must help Bee!" he said in his squeaky high-pitched voice.
"We're all going to help Buu. Okay, let's all go and stop them!" Goku said, rising to his feet.
"So then everyone is going?" Mom asked, sounding slightly surprised.
"Unless you want that city razed to the ground and thousands of people killed woman, I would suggest you call ahead to the proper authorities to start evacuation," Vegeta said, pulling on a glove over his hand. Mom was on the phone in a red-hot second, calling the king.
"Let's go guys!" Gohan said, a bit anxious to get out there. We all followed out the door and took off into the air, catching up to Hercule a few minutes later, who was flying as fast as he could.
"You guys are going to help, right?" he asked.
"Yeah of course we are, after all we can't just let the champ's city go down right?" Goku said as a joke, though no one really laughed. Satan looked slightly relieved as Buu flew up beside him.
"Mr. Satan take Bee back to base, Buu do the rest!"
"But Buu, I'm gonna fight those things too! You can get Bee!"
"No, get Bee and go!" The look on Buu's face wasn't one that I wanted to remember, but I did recall it as leaning on the edge of pissed off. Buu grabbed Satan by the top of his armor, so he could go faster since they were starting to drop behind. We arrived at Satan City about a half hour later, the roads were jammed full of people trying to get out. There was a massive amount of vandalism going on too, something Gohan and myself didn't really find appealing. There were regular army troops waiting on the far side of the city, near the bay and marina.
My scouter flipped on, "Zerg signals approximately fifteen miles away, estimate twenty minutes before arrival!" That's not much time. We'll have to evacuate these people while holding them off. We landed at the command center the troops had set up, and Vegeta went directly inside along with Goku.
"You're the special forces aren't you?" a random soldier asked.
"Yeah, that's right," Tora said, grinning slightly that so many humans looked up to us.
"Good 'cause there's a lot of Zerg heading this way!" the soldier replied. I heard a scream nearby in the streets, but no scattered ki signals were going off, meaning it was just humans over there. Gohan was already heading in that direction, I followed him quickly. We rounded the corner to find a bunch of thugs mugging a blond girl and a blond guy, both of them teenagers.
"Give it up you two! The Zerg are going to be here any minute, just give us the dough and we'll be on our merry way!" one thug said, a gloved hand on the blond's purse. The blond guy was trying to fight off the three other thugs, but was getting beat down pretty bad.
"Hey! Unless you four want to deal with me, drop the purse and go!" Gohan shouted, catching the attention of all six people.
"What the hell do you want kid, we're busy here!" the lead thug said.
"Tony, that's one of them Special force guys that are trying to take out the Zerg!" The other three thugs suddenly had a bad case of the jitters, not that I could blame them. The leader, Tony, gave us a good look over, before promptly dropping the purse back into the blond's hands. Then he was running for the hills along with his crew.
"Hey, thanks for the help. We were just trying to get out of the city and those bums jumped us and, w-w-what? Gohan?" the blond guy said, I now recognized his bloody and bruised face. The other one was defiantly Erasa; I could hear that ditzy giggle from a mile away.
"You two are a part of the special forces?" Sharpner looked shocked as hell.
"Yeah, but that's not important right now. The Zerg are just a little bit that way, get outta here while you can!" Gohan urged them, but Sharpner had more questions.
"How did a bookworm end up on a team that saves the world, I don't get it," he scratched his head.
"You don't have to get it Blondie, but you stick around any longer and you'll get a first hand look. He's only a bookworm because of his mother, but the battlefields are a different story. Now get outta here, I don't wanna have to save your ass!" I shouted from behind Gohan.
"Brat! Get up here, we're going to fight the Zerg before they get to the city!" Vegeta's voice rang in on the scouters, scaring the blonds and us all at once.
"Who was that?" Sharpner asked.
"You remember Vegeta don't you? That was him," I grinned slightly as Sharpner's face went pale.
"C'mon on, let's go Erasa!" he said, throwing down a capsule to reveal his sports car. They jumped in and were leaving tire marks in no time, allowing Gohan to breathe a little easier.
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We ran around the corner to see Vegeta barking orders to the human troops. A man decked out in commanding gear saluted him as he did this.
"If we fail, then leave the city. There won't be anything left of it then!" Vegeta growled, rising into the air. The rest of the team did so as well, following the prince as we flew off towards the Zerg signals. We didn't have to fly far to start seeing them, we held position a mere five miles from the outskirts of the city. There were tons of them, I couldn't believe how many there were. Vegeta looked pissed and excited all at once, no doubt he could smell a nasty battle as he cracked his knuckles. The horizon clouded up with dust because of all of the ground troops, covering up most of the flyers. There were a lot of those to, much more than we had seen before. When the lead forces got within three miles, Vegeta powered up, a signal we agreed on earlier. The rest of us powered up as well, clouding that scattered ki feeling for a moment with all of the golden power in the air. Most everyone who could kicked up to Super Saiyan two, the rest of the fighters up to their maximums, myself at what I could get out of my mystic state.
"Spread out!" Vegeta barked as we flew apart and lined up. He charged a Galic gun blast behind him as Goku prepared a Kamehameha. I charged my own Galic gun attack, as did everyone else with his or her respective moves. The dust cloud the Zerg were kicking up got a bit closer, as we were in the air now anyway, but just barely off the ground.
"On the count of three, fire!" Vegeta ordered. One second, I could see the glowing green eyes of Zerglings. Two seconds, the Hydras were hissing and dripping saliva. There were huge Ultralisks with them this time, the elephant like creatures with super sized tusks, and there were a lot of those. I heard some flyers utter their own little battle cry that sounded like something a dragon would produce.
"Three!" Then all of us let loose probably the most colorful display of ki blasts ever, all in one wide line and straight towards the Zerg advancement.
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One plus about releasing such a big blast to start with, all the small fish on the front lines won't be a problem later. That held true in this battle, I didn't see very many Zerglings or hydras after the initial attack, unless you count their dead corpses of course. The battle had been going on for about thirty minutes, and the Zerg were still flowing in. Vegeta used his master tactician skills and dictated where everyone should go shortly before the Zerg recovered from our massive blast attack that had wiped out probably about a third of them before we sent it into space and away from the surface. He and Goku would be up front and primarily on the ground, since there seemed to be more of the ground troops anyway, Gohan and Broly would be there too. Teams five and six would stay back from the big brawl, but would also be on the ground. Team seven: Krillin, Tien and Piccolo; would remain back and take out any Zerg that may have gotten past us. That left me and Tora assisting Bardock and Fasha in the air, taking out a lot of different flyers. It was decided that since Goku, Vegeta, Gohan, and Broly were apparently more accustomed to physical battles, that they would take on the Zerg on the ground and the rest of us would primarily be using ki blasts and try to avoid taking damage. I didn't have a problem with that as I had taken enough hits from the Zerg to know what it was like; besides I preferred energy attacks anyway. There were plenty of Kamikaze flyers that flew in, only to get blasted the instant we saw them. I remembered what it was like to get hit by one of those back on planet Kanassa, and it wasn't something I wanted to repeat. The others were Mutalisk flyers, Guardians-which were the heavy assault flyers that resembled crabs. There were a few Devourers too- the other heavy assaults that shot acid crap into the air.
Everyone was doing rather well, the Zerg numbers were plenty, but they all came straight at us from the same general place, making it easy to fight them. Bardock instructed us to spread out, about five hundred yards away from each other in the air, a tactic that worked quite well. We didn't see much of what was going on the ground as clouds of bloodied dust clogged the air, but just the sounds told us there was a war going on, enough elephant body parts were flying through the air. No doubt Vegeta had something to do with that, though it was hard to say it was just him. This seems too easy for seven thousand troops, I thought as I blasted another guardian through whatever the thing called a chest.
An overlord floated slowly by, trying to get past my field of vision, like I couldn't sense it. It met its end a second later, the damn things were just too slow, especially sense they didn't appear to be evolved at all. I glanced around briefly to sense the others around me in the air. Their energy was a bit on the low side, but that was to be expected after using mostly ki blasts and not physical strength. Since most of the Zerg air forces used some sort of acid in their attacks, it just wasn't a good idea to risk any of that getting on our suits, not everything was completely acid proof. The overlords however, I enjoyed ripping those apart with my gloved hands. I found a few that contained troops for transport, but very few. Not only that, but I tended to cut those up so quickly that the troops couldn't get out fast enough, as the flyers had to descend to let them out. Since most of the time they couldn't descend quick enough, the troops or drones would fall out and plunge a long way down into the ground war that was going on. If they survived the fall, they didn't last much longer than that with six Super Saiyans on the ground, never mind the android and a magical creature of terror that were directly below me.
The amount of troops eventually started to run dry, at least in the air. The Mutas and Guardians were coming toward us in smaller and smaller numbers. Their Kamikaze friends were sometimes mixed in with them, but rapid-fire ki blasts were mopping up the floor with them. None of these Zerg seemed tough at all, making me wonder about that. Then again we weren't fighting them hand to claw either. Are these things not being upgraded or evolved all the way, or are they already up there and we're just too powerful? I hope it's the latter, but the Overlords are still slow. I know they can move faster than snails in the air if upgraded. If I remember right they are pretty quick and comparative to the faster Zerg flyers, and those are usually the start of evolved forms with the Zerg. Of course this isn't exactly artificial intelligence that were fighting here.
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The air troops died out soon after, and I saw very few afterwards, bordering on slim to none now, down to maybe five flyers per minute, rather than hundreds. I took the post battle time to really catch my breath; the constant ki blasting took its toll. The dust and blood cloud started to recede from the ground, giving us a good look at what happened with that war. Seventeen and Buu didn't fight that much, since they were back towards the city more. Shugesh and Borgos had definitely seen some action, their armor was bruised and beaten a bit, a few cuts on Shu's leg, but nothing too bad. Gohan and Broly emerged from the battle, looking quite roughed up, not to mention the amount of Zerg blood all over them. I sensed Vegeta power up one last time before letting it fall again. Then he lifted up, no blood on him at all. I shook my head slightly since he had probably gotten it all off with that last powerup in attempt to mock everyone else as he and Goku rose into the air. Vegeta had a very bright smirk on his face.
"Now that was what I was expecting. They're still inferior creatures, but at least they made me try this time!" he said. Piccolo, Tien and Krillin flew up behind us, their energy hadn't dropped much, as not many Zerg troops got by us.
"Is that all of them?" Tien dared ask.
"For now, what a shame, I was just getting warmed up too!" Vegeta chuckled with arrogance.
"Hey guys, is that first round taken care of?" I heard Mom ask over all of our scouters.
"First round?" Krillin suddenly had a bad case of the jitters.
"Yeah first round of seven thousand, are they gone? Because another round of about eight thousand Zerg is coming your way, and my scanners are detecting slightly different variations of all of them! Their skin or scales are a lot tougher with this group, and they're faster now too!"
"Oh crap, they hadn't even upgraded yet, I thought so!" I said without thinking straight.
"That's right, you mentioned that they can evolve into tougher forms too! Damnit, everyone eat a Senzu bean!" Bardock growled, shoving one in his mouth. I pulled one out and ate it, my energy shot back up to full power instantly, fatigue lifted from me and I became battle ready like I just took a nap that lasted five days with full meals included. All of the ki powers shot back up to full again, except for Teams five and seven. Seventeen didn't need it, and Buu, well...
"Spread out in the same formation, with luck this battle will go the same way!" Vegeta barked as he and Goku descended once again. Everyone got into position, watching for the swarm of beasts to show up again. The scattered ki feeling filled the air slowly, but the Zerg seemed to be slowing down, maybe hesitant about facing fifteen powerful fighters again. I didn't have to be concerned for long, the beasts of the air showed up pretty soon as Bardock and Fasha started floating to the right a little bit, Tora towards the left with me. Mid way through the earlier battle we left the middle open partially, as Buu and Seventeen were waiting not far behind us as the ground troops were nil with most of the Super Saiyans in front of there on the ground, giving a pretty good defense there. The Mutas arrived and lined up first, probably about a thousand yards out. The guardians and Devourers lined up and behind them, Kamikaze's were in random positions along with a lot of Overlord's this time. Either way, I still couldn't count this many flyers; I could only imagine what was on the ground in front of Vegeta and Goku. Then as the Zerg were lining up in front of us, I could hear Gohan and Vegeta having a general conversation with Mom over the scouters, mostly on how tough the new Zerg were.
"I don't know! Fire off a shot Gohan, that should tell us!" Vegeta growled, not looking back at Gohan. I saw Gohan pull his pistol from the holster and aim it at a scaly Zergling and fire. The tiny beam hit the creature dead on and it fell to its knees, but snarled and got right back up. Oh boy. Gohan fired again, this time the dropped and didn't move again. Gohan shot it a third time to be sure and it exploded.
"Yeah, they're a bit tougher this time Bulma. It took a few shots to kill a Zergling this time!" he said into the communication system.
"Okay, I'll work on a stronger weapon, good luck guys!" No sooner did she say that than did Vegeta's power rise back up to Super Saiyan two, causing most of the Zerg in front of him rush forward to meet their maker. Then all hell broke loose again, the flyers came straight at us. I charged up ki blasts in my hands and started firing, aiming primarily for the attackers and not the Overlords, who were moving in with them. The air troops were tougher this time too, it took just a tad more energy to kill each one this time, forcing me to power up to full power again rather early just to keep up with them all. I sensed Piccolo fly up the middle and join us in blasting away at the air forces. Overlords were passing by us like crazy, mostly because if we stopped to shoot them as well, one of the kamikazes would get too close. I fired off several more shots, seeing the line before me clear up enough to charge a big one.
"Masenko-HA!" I shouted, firing a massive ki blast from my palms and into the Zerg crowd. Several guardians and Mutas dropped from the sky, right onto the advancing Zerg ground troops, crushing some of them. The Kamikaze flyers and the devourers dropped down too, but there were barely any bodies left of those who got into my beam's path. The effort was starting to strain my body, constant ki blasting was making my supply run low. I was a bit glad though, since Kerrigan had wounded me so badly, I got a bit of a boost when I got out of the healing tank. I powered up what I could and kept it up, slowly seeing the numbers in front of me dwindle. On the ground, well it was still a war zone. Vegeta and Goku were fighting in what looked like an arena. It wasn't an arena, it was just so many Zerg bodies piled up that the Zerg had to climb over them to get to the Saiyans. They had also jumped up to Super Saiyan three, signaling that they were about out of power as well. Broly had gone to his ultra form already, beating Ultralisks up like crazy, throwing a few around to crash into other Zerg that surrounded him. Shugesh and Borgos had jumped up beside Gohan, beating countless Zerg around in their Super Saiyan two forms. Seventeen and Buu then arrived up in the air, no doubt they sensed we were started to run low on power, or at least Buu did. A kamikaze flyer got past some ki blasts and slammed into Tora, causing his armor to steam a lot as the acid touched it. Buu caught him in the air and used his magic to heal, restoring Tora's power right then and there.
Then the blob came my way, "You need Buu to heal you too?"
"That would be nice Buu, I don't suppose you can wipe out about a thousand of these air troops that are still coming could you?" I asked, still firing ki blasts in front of me. Buu didn't really answer, but as I fired the energy, I felt a blue energy surround me. New power flowed in from somewhere and revitalized my slowly weakening ki blasts. Now I was cooking, with new strength I was able to fire another large and wide destruction wave into the Zerg masses, causing a lot of air troops to be taken out of the battle as they fell to the ground. I was still seeing plenty of Overlords going by, and I noticed that the ground troops were running out quickly. There were still plenty of flyers coming, which was something I found slightly odd. Must have been many more air troops this time. Buu went on to heal Piccolo, Bardock and Fasha before coming back to me.
"You want Buu take care of Zergies up here?" he asked with a bright smile.
"If its not too much trouble Buu!" I said, yelling a bit as I fired more ki blasts. I had never fired so many before, I thought it was a lot just in the previous battle, but now with tougher Zerg I had to give at least double the power output than I already was. Even with Buu's healing job, it was beating me up a bit. Buu jumped in front of me, causing me to stop firing suddenly, but not before one blast went through his gut. He ignored it and regenerated instantly, and then he flew into the clouds of Zerg air forces. They attacked him instead, no longer coming towards us in the air. The Overlords continued to pour through, but now we could blast them down as well.
"What's that thing doing now?" Seventeen asked as he flew up beside me.
"You got me, I asked to help us out and he just goes flying in after recharging our power! Take that!" I shouted as I blasted another Overlord that was flying by. Then suddenly, a large pink light covered the skyline where Buu was. Then, amazingly, the scattered ki feeling took a nosedive, like tons of them had just kicked the bucket. When the pink light vanished, probably eighty to ninety percent of the remaining Zerg air forces in front of us were gone. It turned out to be the next best thing; I saw hundreds of tiny dark spots falling out of the sky, like a brown rain or snowstorm. Buu was flying around, picking them up, and he seemed to swell up a bit as he did. Then I flew closer and saw what happened.
"That has got to be one of the most original ways to get rid of so many Zerg," I said, grinning.
"What's that?" Seventeen asked.
"You remember that little chocolate trick of his? Well the Zerg just got introduced to it. Now he's getting his reward," I explained.
"He just turned all those things into chocolate, and now he's eating them? What a creature," Seventeen muttered.
"Makes you glad he's on our side now eh?" I asked.
"Yeah, no shit!" I saw no more Zerg coming by air, and the ground forces had died out.
"Verto, come in please!" Mom's voice came over.
"Yeah what is it Ma?"
"Are you guys okay over there?"
"For the most part, why?" I asked, curious.
"Well I wasn't sure since half of Satan city is on fire!" Seventeen and I spun around to see exactly what she was talking about. Then I saw the general problem, all those Overlords we had missed were floating above the city.
"Damn, those must have all had troops in them! We couldn't hit them all without taking damage, shit! Vegeta!" I shouted. The rest of the Zerg coming at us had gotten wiped out pretty quick, and everyone that was fighting on the ground then flew up to my position in the air.
"What the devil happened boy?"
"Simple really, they overloaded everything in the air, and sent all of the transports forward while we had to deal with all of the attack flyers. Since you guys were a brick wall on the ground, they went for the upper air holes instead. The Overmind wasn't just after us; they wanted this place razed to the ground. Quite a plan that thing had this time, all of the Overlords that got past us are floating above the city right there!" I pointed out.
"C'mon then, let's wipe out whatever Zerg are left in the city! Watch your blasting since we've got buildings and humans everywhere!" Vegeta ordered.
"You guys better hurry, there's another wave heading your way. They are about fifteen minutes out, and it's even bigger!" Mom said over the scouter. Great.