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 8: Gotenks returns
The next day was summed up with one simple word: hectic. We spent most of the morning helping with the evacuation, mostly because the traffic jams had caused multi-car pile-ups. The military was a bit overwhelmed with getting everyone out of the city and patrolling at the same time. After most of the civilians that were going to leave were gone and out of the city, Vegeta met with the military heads to discuss how the battle was going to go. Simply put, anyone who wasn't on the Special Forces team would stick by Capsule Corp and fight there should the Zerg get past. Most of the troops wanted to fight on the front lines so the city wouldn't be harmed, but Vegeta would have none of it, everyone knew the city was going to get torn up, and badly. Besides that little fact, the human fighters would be much more effective back and around home base, which now looked like a fort with all of the defense systems that Mom set up. Everyone got divided into the same teams again, Tora and I were to hold up an air position a bit North and East of home by about three miles, right above downtown, Seventeen and Buu would be on the ground there. Ahead of that area would be Gohan and Broly, who was still not very happy about Gohan jumping him like he did. Oddly enough, he had no room to talk about rage and insanity. South of them would be Goku and Vegeta, followed by Borgos and Shugesh. Bardock and Fasha were further to the south side of the city, as were the other earth fighters. After taking a tactical sweep of the area we'd be fighting in, everyone went back home to wait out the Zerg, who were still advancing slowly but surely.
At first Seventeen and Buu were going to remain in front of us, however Tora and I noticed something we could do to back them up. By shooting out the lower base of the large buildings there, we could get them to topple in any direction and right down on the Zerg. Not only would we smash a bunch of them, but also it would hinder their movement on the ground. Since Gohan and Broly would be closer to the edge of the city, it was a pretty good bet that we could slow the Zerg down dramatically. Everyone was handed four more Senzu beans early on, but that's all that were left of them. Four o'clock in the afternoon passed by and the Zerg were still about one hundred miles out. Random soldiers paced around the compound and also manned the many weapons Mom set up around the buildings, not everything was automated. Around six o'clock I saw Chichi walking around the place for a while, looking for something with a general scowl on her face. After she went through the lobby three times, she finally stopped, classic death glare all over her face.
"Where are those two?"
"Who Chichi?" Goku asked.
"The boys of course, Goten and Trunks! They were playing with Marron in the backyard and now I can't find them anywhere!" I searched out their energy, quickly finding it as it was higher than most humans and they weren't around anyone else at the time. I picked them up on the far east side of the city, even Marron's smaller ki showed up clear as day. Eighteen shot her head up in alarm when she finally detected it.
"Great, what are those little brats doing this time?" Vegeta muttered, heading for the door. The loud alarms went off suddenly, the bright red lights went off everywhere.
"Crap, the Zerg are almost here! Everyone to your posts in the city!" Vegeta shouted.
"What about the boys, and Marron?" Videl asked before anyone else could. Eighteen was out the door pretty damn fast, being android I couldn't detect her energy, but it was pretty obvious where she was going.
"It's in me and the kid's area, we'll get em out before the Zerg get here! C'mon kid!" Tora motioned for me to follow quickly. With that said, everyone flew off to their respective areas, Gohan and Broly flew ahead of us. As I took off into the sky, I noticed very dark and red colored clouds approaching from the east, as if to darken the skies before hell is unleashed.
"Hey Mom, what is with the clouds?" I asked through the scouter.
"I don't know, they started showing up once the Zerg got within fifty miles. It might be something of theirs, something they will do is block out the sun and sky. That will make solar powered things run out of power. I've got plenty of generators here, but anything not connected to them is going to stop working!"
"Alright, I haven't used the gun at all anyway," I said, shutting off the scouter and following the vapor trail that Eighteen had left behind. Dodging between buildings, I got a good look at the horizon. Even under the dark red clouds I could see a different cloud, a very massive one stretching in either direction, south mostly.
"There they are Tora!" I pointed out.
"Great, listen kid, you go help her find those three, I'll hold post here. We can't allow the Zerg to get far, go now!" he ordered. I powered up some more, catching up with Eighteen pretty quickly. The determination coming off her face rivaled a mad Chichi, so naturally I was a bit cautious.
"I don't really need your help you know," she said coldly.
"You're getting it anyway, I don't wanna see Marron get hurt either," I said, "And it won't happen."
She smiled slightly at this, "I see not all of you Saiyans are the cold bloodthirsty fighters!"
"You should know me by now, let's go!" I said. We made a beeline for the boy's ki signal, dodging buildings that were in the way.
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When Eighteen and I landed near where we sensed the boys, she was immediately flustered a bit.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
"What is with that energy I sense, it doesn't seem natural?!" she asked. I scanned around, slowly picking up the scattered ki of the Zerg from afar. I wasn't surprised, she hadn't been around them much. I checked their general location, until I got a trace of it nearby, more specifically, right beneath our feet.
"That's Zerg energy, or lack thereof. I know it feels weird, it looks like they're burrowing beneath the surface again, meaning they could pop out anywhere!" I stopped my explanation in my tracks. Oh no, that means, my hand went to the scouter in a flash.
"Hey everyone, you might wanna get everyone armed up there, the Zerg are burrowing beneath the ground again!" I practically screamed into it. There was plenty of commotion coming over the airwaves after I said that, followed by confirmation. When Eighteen started marching forward to continue her search, the boys' suddenly suppressed their ki. Now we had to search for Marron's much smaller signal, since she couldn't manipulate energy. There were so many Zerg around that it messed up the power sensing. The ground started shaking, and directly beneath it we heard a roar of running, like a stampede. As quickly as it began, it ended, leaving a slightly clearer feeling in the air. Right away a manhole cover popped open and flew into the air. I blasted the cover apart in the air just by instinct, ready to fight whatever was about to pop out. Imagine my slight disappointment when a tiny white flag popped out instead, waving back and forth with a very human looking hand beneath it.
"We surrender we surrender!" a familiar voice shouted before popping his head up. His fearful face flowed back into angry when he saw it was just Eighteen and I.
"Hey no fair, I thought you were army guys or something!" Trunks said, jumping out of the sewer entrance. He reached in and helped someone's tiny arm to get out, belonging to little Marron. Goten was right behind her, and all three stood before us, all of them very dirty and smelled slightly from the sewers. Marron went screaming to her mother first, who complied quickly by picking her up.
"I'd punish you two, but we don't have the time. Thanks for helping me find them Verto!" Eighteen said, lifting into the air and blasting off towards Capsule Corp very quickly. I watched her fly off before turning to the two boys.
"Get going, before the Zerg get here!"
"No way, were gonna fight too!" Trunks declared.
"Yeah, they can't beat the two of us!" Goten added.
"Listen you two, if they can do what they did to me, well imagine what they could do to you as well. Just get going, if they end up on the compound you're probably going to get a chance to fight them anyway!"
"No, we don't want to go! Who's gonna make us?" Trunks claimed.
"You know I could, don't push it!"
"Well you couldn't if we did a trick instead, let's do it Trunks!" Goten said, jumping to his friends' side. Then they lined up perfectly and started stepping close and moving their arms into position.
"Fu, sion….HA!" The golden light blinded me momentarily as the wind picked up and blew everything around. As the warrior started to emerge, I sensed something gathering all around us. When Gotenks finally came into view, in Super Saiyan mode, I got a grip on a higher power level that came off him.
"Impressed? I hope so, I'm stronger than ever!" he said in his doubled voice.
"I won't argue that point," I said, glancing around to see what just arrived.
"So, guess I pass the test then! I'll take it from here!" he said, stepping forward. I scowled, but while his enhanced power was around, it would take some of the heat off of us. Might as well let him do some damage, it'll save me a little trouble.
"Fine, but when you defuse, get the hell out of here!" I said, powering up as the familiar snarl of Zerglings hit my ears, and my eyes. Gotenks launched forward with a playful laugh, tackling a Zergling on the spot, spinning with it on the ground and throwing it into the air. He met it about fifty feet in the air and smacked it back to earth with a double axe handle. The Zergling hit the ground and almost deflated as blood spilled out of it, definitely dead.
"Hahaha, that was easy! Are they all this weak?" he asked, drifting towards the ground with a very Vegeta like grin plastered on his face. To my surprise, the Zerglings ignored me and focused their attention upon the fused Super Saiyan, swarming up around him, some not even three feet away from me.
Gotenks was still more than ready, "It seems its friends didn't like that, too bad, because now they get to have some fun too!" God damnit, this cocky brat really gets on my nerves! I glanced towards the east to see more Zerg arrive, a lot on the ground and even more in the air.
"Hey Gotenks, I'm gonna cover the flyers coming in. Don't let anything on the ground get past okay?" I shouted, rising into the air to meet the Mutalisk dragons that were flying in first.
"Yeah yeah, this'll be a cinch!"
Interlude 8.1 -Gotenks vs. the Zerg-
After Verto took off into the air, Gotenks took most of his time mocking the Zerg as they arrived. A few Zerglings dove at him, only to get beat up right away and killed quickly. Gotenks finished off one with a simple knife-edge chop, before looking up at the pack forming ahead of him.
He held up a hand and waved it, "Next!" The Zerg finally got tired of seeing their comrades being beaten so easily, and rushed forward to the fused child. Gotenks eyes lit up slightly, and his grin got wider, "About time!"
He then flew through the advancing Zerglings, punching and kicking from side to side, knocking whatever he hit into the air with thunderous blows. From outside, the view of this looked like rows of Zerglings flying in the air like they were stepping on land mines, with one bright glow moving back and forth, not missing one. Since there were so many, his punches and kicks had to be faster and not quite as strong, therefore he wasn't killing them upon impact, but it did injure most of them. When he reached the end one such time, a Hydralisk stood perched before him, hissing with its huge jaws salivating.
"Whoa, that's a big one! Wanna play?" Gotenks smirked and dropped into a fighting stance. The Hydra spit its green needles at him instead, hitting his arm.
"Ow, what the hell were those you freak? Just for that I'm gonna make this slow!" Gotenks sped forward, barely missing the huge talon the hydra swung at him, and smacked the hydra in the back of the head with a backhand. The hydra rocked forward and fell, smacking the ground with its face. Gotenks saw this and laughed crazily at this sight. There wasn't a particular reason, he just thought it was funny. So did the hundred or so Zerglings that had circled up around him again.
Gotenks stopped laughing but kept his grin wide, "Ah, some more huh?" he asked, grabbing the hydra's huge tail. Then he swung the creature around him in slow, but soon fast circles, hitting every Zergling that got a bit too close and almost taking their heads off with the mass of the hydra plus his swinging speed. Once the Zerglings became smart enough to stay back, Gotenks simply swung the hydra one more time, this time into the far distance until no one could see it anymore.
"Guess he went for a ride, I wonder where he will land?" Gotenks put a finger to his chin to think that one over. When he did this, several Zerglings swarmed up around him and jumped on him right there, clawing and biting for all they were worth. That didn't last too long, as his golden aura surged and he pushed them all off.
"Look what you did, you scared my landmark legend of a face! Oh that is it! Super Saiyan three!" He gathered his power and pushed it into himself, spreading his Super Saiyan power for all his was worth. His muscles bulged two about twice their original massive state, his hair grew long to his waist, and his eyebrows vanished. The Zerg backed up a little bit, the large ki coming off of him was no doubt making them think a little bit, if they could that is. Once his transformation was completed though, they all rushed in again. A few of them collided with each other, hitting nothing but air.
"Haha, your moves are so predictable! I coulda dodged that in my normal form!" Gotenks claimed. Then he charged ki into his hands and started blasting, taking out Zerglings right and left.
"Man these things are easy, why are they even a threat?" he asked no one in particular. More Zerg arrived, more Hydralisks this time, making him have to up the power just a bit to take them out, but that wasn't a big deal.
"Well, at least there's plenty to give me a good workout!" he muttered, and kept blasting. Just as he took out the hydra group, more arrived, this time mixed in with Zerglings, and this time it took more than one small ki blast to kill them.
"Wow, I guess there are a few tougher ones around!" he said, grinning slightly and firing more massive balls of explosive ki into the Zerg crowds. More Zerg spilled in, making him wonder if they were going to stop coming in or not. He had already wiped out what appeared to be four squads of them, and it looked like numbers six and seven were going to be arriving shortly. His energy started to get a bit low, so he powered up just a bit more to keep up the effort.
Ten more minutes passed by, and Gotenks was getting tired of blasting them. Ahead he had wiped out what looked like thousands of Zerg, at least by his count, and more were spilling in, quickly. It was all he could do to keep them at least five feet away from him at all times at all angles. He wiped out another Hydralisk only to be greeted by silence.
"About time, I thought they'd never end," he muttered, lifting into the air. The ground shook slightly and a large elephant-like creature came tearing around the corner.
"Hello," he said in surprise. The Ultralisk barreled straight towards Gotenks with its tusks out front, knocking all the dead Zerg aside and ready to tear the fused warrior apart.
"Okay big guy, you want it that bad? Cosmic Halo!" he shouted, forming a ring like disc and throwing it around the Ultralisk. The elephant Zerg looked at the ring, turning its head slightly in wonder before Gotenks squeezed things together and held the elephant with his ki ring. The Ultralisk cried out in pain, struggling to get free.
"Wow you really are pretty weak, even Majin Buu got out of this one!" Gotenks didn't bother to add that he had only used it on Buu. The elephant-like creature kept its response of grunting and wailing in pain as the ring squashed it more and more.
"Hurts doesn't it? I'd ease up on ya, but this is too funny watching your stomach trying to come out your butt! HAHAHA!" The elephant moaned and groaned for several more minutes, until Gotenks seemed to get bored with his prey, and more Zerg started coming in, drawing his attention away. He finally let the ki ring cut right through the Ultralisk, cutting it in half and watching all of the insides come spilling out.
"That is so cool!" he declared proudly, before turning to see the next Zerg. It was more hydras this time, making Gotenks shake his head in disappointment.
"Oh please, didn't I beat up all of these already?" They started spitting needles, making Gotenks dodge away as he gathered energy for his next attack.
"Oh I gotta use this one!" Then he crossed his arms in front of his chest, and his cheeks swelled slightly. "Super Ghost Kamikaze attack!"
Several white ghosts came flying out of Gotenks' mouth, already formed and ready to go, as he had a lot of time to practice his fusion form. After he spit out about fifty of them, he had them line up and barked out orders as the Zerg stood back and watched his army.
"See all the creepy crawlies around here, they're the enemy, mess em up!" With that said, the ghosts flew off in random directions, heading straight for the Zerg, whose force had quadrupled in size since he had last looked at them, but it didn't matter. The Zerg tried to attack, and naturally paid for it, as they had never seen the attack before. After many Zerg were left lying with their fellow dead, the ground shook again, and another elephant came around the corner. Gotenks smiled slightly, before getting a good look at the beast. This one was a bit different though. First of all it was a bit bigger than the previous one and its tusks looked more developed. Its skin looked like steel, and it ran with great speed. Gotenks shrugged and fired a small ki blast. The blast exploded without any effect, making Gotenks take another look.
"Okay, so you're a bit tougher huh? Well that's fine, I've been meaning to use this attack!" Gotenks brought his arms behind him and started charging the blast. The elephant only grunted at him and walked slowly up.
"Super Wonderful Legendary blast Times fifty!" he said, making up the name for the gold beam that was forming. Then his whole body flashed with gold, and then it faded, as did the Super Saiyan glow. Goten and Trunks still held a small blast behind them, not realizing the other was there until they tried to fire the massive blast, to no avail.
"Oh no Trunks, we split already! We were doing Super Saiyan three too long!" Goten whined.
"Yeah I know Goten, its just that we have big grumpy here who didn't even flinch at a ki blast. Man, I won't wanna have to fight this thing without using energy!"
"Then let's do a double Kamehameha!"
"Yeah, good idea!" The Ultralisk stepped a bit closer, sniffing the air slightly as it didn't quite understand the one target had turned into two. Both boys went Super Saiyan and stood side-by-side, stretching arms toward each other.
"Ka, me, ha, me, HAAA!" Both shouted, firing the huge blue blast at the hugely advanced elephant. The large creature couldn't budge an inch before the blast enveloped it. When the smoke cleared, only the creature's tusks and feet remained, everything else had been vaporized. The boys were both out of breath now, constant fighting started to take its toll. The streets filled up with Zerg around them as they lined up back to back.
"Man Goten, what now?" Trunks asked.
Goten shook his head, "I can't believe how many there are Trunks!"
"This isn't any fun!" Trunks whined. A rain of ki blasts came down around them, splintering the Zerg where they stood, spattering purple Zerg blood everywhere around.
"Didn't I tell you two to move it once your defused, well now you are. Get outta here and back to base!" Verto shouted from the air.
"Oh, right!" Trunks said, a bit taken aback at his brother's tone.
"Go, while you have the opening!" Verto shouted again, blasting at Zerg air forces that were flying at him.
"C'mon Trunks, this way!" Goten pointed out as Trunks was a bit lost staring at the Zerg battles going on around him. Goten slapped the back of his head, bringing him back to reality in a heartbeat. Goten rose into the air and sped off towards the Capsule Corp compound. Trunks followed, looking back constantly in worry while Verto kept blasting every Zerg in sight. Now I see why big brother is out here instead of me. He's brave enough to stand and fight. I must become like him.
Verto then blasted a tall building they had been close to, and Trunks watched it slam over like a tree was falling, right onto several hundred Zerg troops on the ground. The twin terrors passed by Seventeen and Buu a minute later, laughing slightly as Seventeen mostly watched while Buu turned the Zerg ground troops into chocolate and either stomped on them or ate them.