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 11: A New Development
As we came back inside Capsule Corp, all we could hear were cheers from the soldiers, several directed at me. To be honest I wasn't really sure what happened. One second I was struggling and about done, the next I had blown the huge asteroid completely away and wasn't even tired. It wasn't like I had turned Super Saiyan and powered up; well it was kind of like that but I didn't feel any different. Then again I was mad enough at the time to not care either way. Vegeta and Piccolo were giving me the suspicious eye at the moment and I didn't truly feel like returning it. Bardock wasn't really an appealing face to view either. I hadn't been sure how much time had passed during that whole incident, but the fact that Goten and Trunks were no longer fused was a good hint.
"Hey way to go kid!" Yamcha said once I entered the door, several soldiers cheering behind him. I grinned sheepishly and passed by towards the holoscreen, where Mom was bearing a big grin.
"I don't know how you did it, but you did. You didn't have to pull a Goku and drag it out there ya know!"
"I'm not so sure he did that purposely woman," Vegeta said from directly behind me, scaring me a bit as I gazed back and looked up. "You're tapping more of your power by the day, and you didn't lose control of yourself this time, that shows improvement at least. If it hasn't been fully unleashed by the time the Zerg are gone then we will be using the time chamber! Is that clear?" he said with the death glare attached.
I gulped slightly, "Yeah I got it."
"I'm almost tempted to go make use of it now, but we'll wait. Now then, everyone heal up! We are going to be departing shortly!"
"Where are we going this time Vegeta?" Gohan dared ask first, though everyone was wondering.
"You and the boy are staying here, the rest of us are going to take the fight to the Zerg out there! We are going to show them just how fruitless it was to attack us. We are going to crush their will to fight!" Vegeta stated like a clear-cut general of action. Most of the Saiyans in the room save Goku seemed to enjoy that little speech, Goku was in search of food already.
"But why can't we go? I'd love to splatter a few more of them myself!" I argued.
"You and Gohan will take care of the group that is out at sea, they are still there correct woman?" Vegeta asked, glaring at the screen.
"We'll let's see, yes the Zerg groups that never moved in are still out there. About twenty thousand a group, eight in all. That includes the one out at sea. They are about fifty miles apart from each other to the north and east. I don't know Vegeta, that's a lot of Zerg still and you won't have the advantage of soldiers nor my technology out there," Mom said in a worried tone.
"We will manage, Gohan and the boy should be able to tear apart the group by sea, barring some disaster doesn't happen. This is how wars are won, woman! When the enemy can't beat you, you must strike back quickly if possible! Crush their will to fight and you crush the enemy for good!" Vegeta reasoned. Well he has a point there.
"Alright I guess, not like I can stop you anyway," Mom dragged off, barely whispering the last part before returning to her computer console.
"Good, let's go," Vegeta barked and marched out the door. Fasha turned when she got to the door, giving me a solemn look that I returned.
"Girl, get out here!" Vegeta barked again from outside. She obeyed right away, gazing back as she turned and walked out the door.
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"Guess that leaves you and me man," Gohan said, grabbing a seat on the couch.
"For now, but while I'm sure we can take em, its going to be tough. Everyone here will need to be prepared to fight the Zerg some more ya know, just in case they get here before we can stop them all," I said.
"Yeah, Bulma, can you make sure of that?" Gohan asked.
"No prob, I'll let everyone know!"
"Can we fight too big brother?" Goten asked.
"I think not young man!" Chichi began.
"Chichi, let's be realistic about this, the boys are more than likely to get drug into the fight one way or another. Telling them they can't will only entice them to get involved, not that they haven't been already," Mom said, causing Gohan and the boys to gasp in shock.
"Really, we can fight too?" Trunks pulled at Mom's leg.
"Only on the compound," Mom said, shaking a finger.
"Awwwww," Trunks whined.
"And no fusion," I said, recalling the events of not long ago.
"Feel fortunate I'm gonna let you two fight at all. You can shoot them down from a distance okay?" Mom said, chuckling slightly while tending to her satellite video, which seemed to be on the blink at the time.
"Are the Zerg interfering with it again? Those clouds did that right?" I asked as I came up beside her.
"I don't think so, the satellites are intact, and that weird cloud is gone. I can't get a clear-cut reading on anything over the earth or in space. It's almost like there's some kind of dampening field up there. It's not bad, but its getting annoying," Mom said as she looked confused now, something I rarely ever saw.
"Well the Zerg aren't technological that I know of, they mostly destroy technology. So if they are still intact, it can't be the Zerg, maybe it's a solar flare or something," I said, finger to my chin.
"Too bad Vegeta's hell bent on your fighting skills and you have no interest, that brain of yours could rival my own someday. No, it's not that, solar flares aren't generally strong enough to affect our satellites. We'd have to be orbiting Venus for that to happen. It's something else Einstein," Mom said, checking over computer coding as she was speaking.
"How many times must I say it? I'm not that smart, I just pay attention," I muttered loudly.
"Takes plenty of brains just to do that kido, think about it," she said. Good Point. The alarms sounded suddenly, causing some to jolt a bit.
"It's the Zerg, they're not far from the docks," Mom announced, showing a video screen with a large orange cloud of Zerg coming in off the ocean.
"Let's go," Gohan said to me, rushing out the door.
"Good luck you two!"
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Gohan and I quickly flew out to the ocean docks, seeing the Zerg cloud right away.
"Definitely another brood or what not controlling this group Gohan. Don't know if that means they are different in breeds or what, but it may mean a whole truck load of new tactics!" I said as I looked at the swirling cloud of creatures coming slowly closer.
"Yeah, we better watch out," Gohan said softly.
"So what you think, just blast em all right now?" I asked.
"Sounds easier to me, let's do it!"
"Hold on!" a voice called from below and behind. We looked back and down to see none other than Mr. Satan standing on the pier, staring out to sea with a wicked grin on his face.
"The champ will single handedly eliminate the threat with nothing but my fists right here and now!" he declared, throwing a finger into the air and taking off the red cape that matched the armor he wore.
"Mr. Satan, which one of your fantastic fighting skills will you use in this great battle?" a reporter asked from behind, a mic shoved way outward from the crate he was hiding behind with the cameraman. Oh give me a break! I don't care if he can use energy now, this is ridiculous! Satan seemed to ignore the reporter completely, and rose off the ground, flying on his own free will towards the orange swarm that was coming closer.
"Oh the humanity, the courage! Mr. Satan is going out to take on all of the Zerg invaders by himself!" Ignoring the reporter, Gohan and I sped after him, letting our power rise slowly to the maximum.
"Good, I was hoping you guys wouldn't hang me out to dry there," Satan muttered while keeping a somehow straight face.
"And let the World champ get all the glory? I think not!" Gohan joked, causing all three of us to chuckle slightly. Up ahead of the Zerg pack I saw some kind of disruption in the air. At first I thought it was just heat radiation coming off the ground. But then I realized that it was nighttime and it wasn't that warm outside anyway. That and I knew the ocean water here was not that warm either. I stared closer, trying to focus on the air. It was hard to describe really, it was still clear air, but I noticed very slightly wavy shapes of air floating around. I scanned with my ki senses, only to find a brick wall of nothing in the air, which startled me to no end. I could sense the scattered Zerg feeling just fine, but between the Zerg and us there was a whole lot of nothing floating around. It came complete with gap-like holes here and there where I could sense regular air. The only other time I had ever sensed a void in ki was when I ran into myself on my mission to my past, but this can't be related! I slowed down as I noticed this development, unsure of what it meant. Gohan must have caught on as well, as I saw him slow and stop along with me. Unfortunately Satan had not developed his sensing skills well, or was too blind to notice the little detail, and kept plowing forward. Then he came to a sudden and very hard stop. He jumped back in the air, holding his head sharply and crying in pain a little bit. He looked around for the object he ran into to make him stop, but also found nothing.
"W-w-what's going on? Is this a new trick by the Zerg? Feels like I slammed my head into a steel wall!" he shouted in stuttered surprise. He flew back over to us, still holding his head and very confused.
"So what's the deal?" he asked.
"I don't know, there is something out there, but I can't feel anything from it. Nothing at all," Gohan explained, watching the area in front of us intently. I watched the Zerg through the area in question, wondering just what might happen. To my surprise, they stopped in mid air and seemed to have a stare off with us. But we were at least a mile away, and probably three fourths of a mile from where Satan ran into the invisible wall. The Zerg air troops started to file outward, and I could hear them all hissing battle cries. Then the flyers rushed towards us hissing and singing their battle cries. Gohan and I dropped into mid air stance, ready for when they finally got to us, only to gasp in wonder when they never came. Out of the air, two blue balls of light flew outward and struck a Zerg Mutalisk, killing it on impact with a fiery explosion. From the light I detected a few things: First, it was not a ki blast, and second, whatever was out there was packing enough heat to give the Zerg a fight. Then the rest of the Zerg flyers swarmed forward and then started attacking in their various ways as a horde of blue lights flashed all around, impacting Zerg left and right. When the kamikaze flyers struck the invisible air, something blew up with a large fireball, but I could not figure out what it was because it left no debris behind. While the battle with the air was going on, I saw multiple distortions moving around and about, especially in the battle zone. Whatever the case was, the number of blue light balls and laser beams proved to be superior to the Zerg in initial numbers and quickly cut them to shreds. Zerg body parts that remained fell harmlessly into the ocean, splashing down gently.
"What the hell?" Gohan asked. I didn't answer as I saw the distortions moving around again. This time the distortions moved towards the Zerg Overlords, ones that were no doubt full of troops. The blue balls of energy sprang outwards like missiles and starting to tear up the Overlords next, and even caught a few of the ground troops that fell out and were dumped into the ocean water. In less than ten minutes, all of the Zerg troops were wiped out by the invisible force that I could not sense at all, leaving us slightly clueless. The entire time we remained quiet, other than staring in wonder. The distortions then moved around some more, seemingly moving up and away. Gohan, Satan and I remained still until the strangeness seemed to evaporate like water in the air, no trace of it whatsoever.
"What just happened?" Satan asked.
"I don't know, but it seems that somebody just saved us a lot of trouble. I wonder who?" Gohan asked.
"Hey guys, good job wiping out those Zerg so quickly! Come back to base, something strange has happened!" Mom's voice came over the scouters, startling me slightly.
"Yeah, we noticed something strange too Bulma, on our way back!" Gohan punched the button on the side for transmission and turned to fly back. Satan followed quickly, as did myself, but a slight whisper of a sound caught my attention. I turned my head up and around towards what I thought was the source, and I saw a small brown colored spec high in the sky, moving away from the area.
A/N: I'm sure many of you readers have already figured out what this means.