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 25: Jail Break
Aldaris was never so scared in his life, or as least that he could recall. He also couldn't believe how quickly the situation had shifted out of his favor. One minute everything was under control and he was having a little bit of fun from the Saiyan's expense. The next he was running for his life when the angry female suddenly got her powers back. Since most Protoss look very much alike, he was thanking the Kalah he had chosen to remain back behind the troops somewhat. The troops didn't fare that well, they were the first thing to go when she assumed her golden form. Fasha rushed at every single Zealot and destroyed them with her bare hands one at a time. Then the cybernetic dragoons were blasted apart one by one, followed by their defensive towers that held the photon cannons. They fired all kinds of Psi shots at the Saiyan, but Aldaris doubted that any actually hit. It should've at least slowed her down since it was able to down the boy when he wasn't looking, but that didn't appear to be the case. Aldaris rushed back to the main temple with his assistant Croton while the Super Saiyan was busy dismantling his army.
"Why didn't you inform me that the disruptor time was up?" Aldaris snarled as they rounded a corner with a few of his guards behind him.
"Sire, I tried to warn you," Croton argued, not bothering to include the whole taunting issue.
Aldaris ignored it all, "Where is the human female I requested? That may be the only way now to shut that bitch down!"
"Just up this way with the rest of your guards!" Croton pointed out as some rather loud explosions shook the ground of the temple.
"Okay, we'll lure them in! Call for backup troops!" Aldaris ordered, almost tripping over himself on the stairs.
Fasha was done being bullied around by these aliens. The Judicator had pushed her too far and now she was going to destroy them all. After making all of their troops look like they were standing still, she started blowing up the buildings, careful to stray away from the main temple and of course, Verto's stasis pod. Eighteen wisely stayed back until she was done fuming. When she was fused with Cell, she had seen what kind of temper tantrum a Saiyan could create before, and she really did not want to be on the receiving end of one like Cell had been when Gohan blew his top. Once most of the buildings were either dust or debris, Fasha finally calmed down. She promptly dropped to the first level of Super Saiyan to help calm herself.
"You feel better now?" Eighteen asked with a slight grin.
"Oh much better now, where did that Aldaris creep go? I've got a bone to pick with him!" Fasha declared, looking around.
"He ran to the safety of the temple once you went off like a bomb. Can't say I blame him either, here lets get these two up!" Eighteen suggested, smacking the sides of Trunks and Goten's faces. They awoke slowly, and immediately started grabbing at the devices that were around their necks. Fasha reached one hand underneath Goten's and pulled. The device didn't buckle much, so she added a bit of ki to her efforts. They snapped in half instantly and she felt their ki return to normal.
"What happened?" Trunks asked right away.
Goten took his chance to look around, "Did we do all that?"
"No, Fasha did. You two got captured!" Eighteen said.
"Can we find my daddy now?" Goten asked, giving off his usual naïve face of cuteness. Eighteen nodded towards the temple and all four of them walked inside. Two minutes didn't go by and they caught up with Aldaris, who was shuffling with something in one of the many rooms.
"Surrender dickhead, or die!" Fasha growled, holding her hand up and ready to blast his head off.
Aldaris shook his finger slightly, "Ah ah ah, I wouldn't do that! I can end the lives of all your friends with the push of this button, those ki restrictors can also cut off their air supply! Or better yet, I can simply kill this one with one order!" From behind Aldaris, a Zealot stepped out, holding a slightly panicked Videl.
"Videl! You monster, you wouldn't dare!" Eighteen snarled.
"Auntie Videl?" Goten asked, slightly scared.
"It's your turn to surrender little wench. Co-operate and she shall be spared, failure to do so may end her life in an instant! And you wouldn't want anything to happen to the children would you?" Aldaris grinned, holding a Psi blade up to Videl's ear. Videl was unable to move much, the alien was stronger than she was physically, and without any ki abilities she was helpless. But more than anything, she was scared that Fasha would ignore that little fact and attack, they hated each other with a passion ever since she arrived. Videl never thought for a minute Fasha would be right for Verto, in her opinion she was to volatile for the kid. That may have been to blame because of her Saiyan nature, but deep down Videl just knew it. Maybe it was the connection between her and Verto, he had saved her life a few times after all and she nearly grew to love him instead of Gohan. Fasha had shown signs recently of softening up quite a bit, but Videl assumed it could have only been because of Verto.
Fasha eyed Aldaris and Videl carefully, "You would hide behind a human, coward?" she growled.
"Soon to be a headless human!" he warned. Fasha sighed and weighed her options. On one hand she could surrender and they would have to rely on the idiot to get out of this mess. On the other she could sacrifice the girl's life and save everyone else, but Verto would hate her for it, even with the dragonballs. Damn, I wish his softness hadn't rubbed off on me!
"Forget about me Fasha! We can use the dragon balls to get me back! Do whatever it takes to take these guys down!" Videl shouted, getting Aldaris' surprised look full front. Everyone had the same reaction, but Fasha then powered up, ready to give it a go.
"No you can't!" Aldaris said out of fear. Then something struck Fasha in the back of her head and she dropped from Super Saiyan into unconsciousness. It was the Psi blast from a small dragoon squad crawling in, making the Judicator rest a bit easier. Goten and Trunks received the same, as did Eighteen.
"Excellent timing my comrades! String them up with the others!" Aldaris ordered. Videl was instantly saddened that her little act of defiance came too late.
"Do not worry my dear, you will die in due time, but not yet!" Aldaris laughed crazily as his assistants took everyone to holding cells, making sure to attach the ki restrictors. Videl just happened to glance down the hall and see a patch of dark hair vanish around the corner, but without her ki sense, she couldn't identify who it was.
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"Oh no, not Fasha!" Tora said in disgust as the Zealots tossed her into a cell. The boys received similar treatment before the aliens finally left.
"Blast it, they were our last hope too!" Bardock snarled from his own cage.
"Not exactly," Fasha grumbled as she managed to sit up.
"What do you mean girl?" Vegeta barked.
"The big haired moron is somewhere loose in this base. Eighteen and I know he made it here safely. We just need to wait for him to find us!" Fasha said with slight hope.
"THAT IDIOT?! He couldn't find his way out of a paper bag! I give him an hour if he's lucky!" Vegeta growled, sitting down again, "Just what made you think he could make a difference?"
"It was Eighteen's idea, but we never expected them to use a hostage!" Fasha admitted.
"That dime store mannequin thought that up? She needs reprogrammed if she's really that desperate for a plan!" Vegeta grumbled, turning away from the conversation.
"Nevertheless, he is our last hope now! Hopefully he won't do something stupid, like get himself captured!" Bardock grunted, sitting down as well.
"I'm hungry!" Goku announced.
"Shut up!" all of the adults groaned at once.
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Mr. Satan closely hugged the walls as he followed those who took his daughter. Many times he was forced to duck back into the dark halls that seemed to outline the inwards of this temple, and thus lost track of them on more than one occasion. After what he deemed to be a mile of creeping around, he came to a solid door with a small window at the top. He peered through it to see several jail-like cells inside. The door handle was oddly shaped like a dial of some sort. He found it easy to open just be turning it however.
He slammed the door after rushing in, "Videl! Videl! Daddy's here!"
"There is no one named Videl here, my apologies," a light and older voice said. Satan crept forward slowly, coming up to the only two occupied cells in the hallway. Inside were two Protoss aliens, set across from each other. To Satan, one looked like a warrior type, the other more like an old politician.
"You must be a Terran from this planet, how did you get in here?" the warrior asked.
"Snuck in, you aren't gonna tell your bosses or anything are ya?" Satan asked nervously.
"No, I'm afraid we're prisoners here for awhile. My name is Tassadar, this is my comrade Krator," Tassadar nodded to the impatient Zealot across from him.
"Uh, Hercule, Satan," he said nervously.
"Ah yes, the father in-law of one Son Gohan if I recall correctly. Afraid were all stuck in a fix here, aren't we?" Tassadar asked with his friendly old man voice.
"The kids aren't married yet. I don't suppose you know where to find them would ya?" Satan grumbled, glancing around.
"Your friends should be in the next brig, two levels down," Krator said. Satan didn't waste a minute in heading for the door.
"Stop my friend, we can help you! We know this base inside and out, and I know Aldaris has a close eye on that area just in case someone tries this, you will need some help!" Tassadar claimed.
"Uh sure. What do I do here?" Satan asked, looking at the strange designs on the control panel.
"Push the gold button, then the blue, then the gold again!" Krator said. Satan did so and the bars around Tassadar's cell vanished.
"Excellent," Tassadar exclaimed as he graciously left his prison and freed Krator as well. As soon as Krator was out, a loud alarm sounded, followed by crashes from outside that shook the huge building ever so slightly.
"Uh oh, is that the break out alarm?" Satan asked.
"No, that means were under attack, but by who I wonder," Tassadar rubbed his chin slightly in thought. Satan reached out with his rather new ki sense, picking up the odd signals the Protoss gave off pretty quickly. Then he noticed the scattered ki that he had grown to despise.
"It's the Zerg, I'm sure of it," Satan said.
"How can you tell that?" Krator asked.
"I felt em," Satan answered with a slight scowl.
"Do not fret about my comrade here. He simply does not understand your kind much, just as your kind does not understand us," Tassadar explained for him.
"Uh, whatever," Satan was a bit confused and dumbfounded, not a new feeling for him either.
"Come, we should proceed to the main power chamber. I think I know a way we can free our friends before anyone notices!" Tassadar said as he started for the door. Satan reluctantly followed along with Krator, who never took his eyes off the human.
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Aldaris' scowl grew more now. The Zerg had not been detected thanks to the Saiyan female destroying most of the sensors around the base.
"Call down some of our forces from space! We must repel the Zerg long enough to make our exit!"
"Understood Judicator, reinforcement troops are warping in now!"
Outside, the numerous Zerg troops poured into the remains of the base, ant the extra Protoss forces engaged them right away. The two races of aliens battled it out, neither side pushing more than giving. After about ten minutes of a bloody battle, Aldaris noticed something, or more specifically, someone creeping around the far side of the base.
"Zoom on that figure there!" Aldaris ordered. The video faded from the battle and into the figure that was slinking towards the still intact Stasis pod containing the Saiyan child. The figure revealed itself to be a humanoid female, but she looked green with large talons on her back.
Aldaris recognized her right away, "Blast it, it's Kerrigan! She's trying to take the child from us, we must not let her do it!"
"Calling in more troops Judicator!" Croton announced.
Kerrigan looked slightly relieved that her forces had stayed the Protoss for the time being, it gave her the time she needed. Suddenly a bright flash went off in front of her, and a few Protoss warriors appeared there.
"Give it up Kerrigan, the child is not going anywhere!" one Zealot said, drawing his blades.
"Oh please boys, spare me the speech!" she said, drawing up her inner powers. She cast a storm of Psi energy onto the warriors, shocking them to the point that they simply fell to the ground dead.
"Pitiful!" she grinned, turning her attention to the Stasis pod.
"Okay little man, time to get you some help," she said, typing in a series of commands on the console. When they didn't work she frowned and walked to the front of the capsule. With one hard hit, her talon broke the side of the capsule, and the green fluid poured out along with the boy. He was still in a hibernation state, and she expected him to be like that for awhile, he looked to be quite injured as well. As she unplugged the wires hooked to him and scooped up his limp body, she cast a glare towards Aldaris's window before taking off into a hard sprint.
"You'll pay for this Aldaris, I guarantee it!" she silently thought at him.
Aldaris bared his teeth for the first time, "Not likely you ugly abomination! She's getting away, send the scouts to stop her. She cannot be allowed to get away!" As Kerrigan entered the countryside, she saw the air ships warp in and chase her down, firing Psi laser beams at her feet and before her.
"Silly Protoss," she mumbled, and activated her cloak. It covered both her and the boy, allowing her to continue her trek with the dumbfounded Protoss ships looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Damn it!" Aldaris roared in anger. The remaining Zerg in the base were finished off quickly once more of the air ships arrived, but more Zerg started to fill the skies, sweeping towards the base quickly. These Zerg were orange, blue and red in color, giving the impression that other Broods were attacking again.
"Ha! Looks like she got the best of you!" Videl taunted from the sidelines despite still being held by the guards.
"Quiet girl, I may take my frustration out on you next!" Aldaris snarled. While Videl was very saddened that the Zerg had gotten a hold of her friend, Videl was more relieved that he was out of Aldaris' clutches.
"Judicator, more Zerg are arriving! Should I send for more troops?" Croton asked.
"Yes, we mustn't be overwhelmed when we have plenty of backup troops in space!"
"Judicator, I'm receiving a strange reading from the Zerg Overmind!" another Templar announced from the panel showing the entire Earth.
"What is it doing?" Aldaris asked.
"It's, lifting out of the ground!"
"IT'S WHAT?!" Aldaris shouted in shock.
"It appears to be leaving the planet, the other underlings are following suit!"
"Oh damn it all! They have the child and now they're running for it, have our forces track them! We will deal with them in time, right now we shall deal with the remaining Zerg here and then the Saiyans!"
"Yes Judicator, dispatching carrier units twenty-five and twenty-six to follow!" the Templar announced, relaying the signal. Right after he did, the power suddenly went down in the command center, and emergency lighting came on. When the power went off, so did the shields, to which the Zerg did not hesitate to attack the outside of the temple with their kamikaze flyers.
"What now, find out what happened and get the power back!" Aldaris ordered.
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Mr. Satan grinned slightly, seeing his new powers put to good use finally. Tassadar and Krator had led him to the main power core of the temple and proceeded to shut it down. However he was slightly surprised that his codes couldn't shut off the core. Satan didn't care, and blasted the thing apart. The three rushed back to the prison area, which was a good ways away from the main power core. They came upon a few dozen guards around the cells, and stopped short to plan.
"What do we do? I don't think I can take that many," Satan stewed.
"You might be able to, but we won't risk it. I have an idea, just remain still for a moment," Tassadar said, concentrating hard. Suddenly another Satan appeared in the hallway, in full view of the guards.
"Can't get me you alien toads!" he said, running the other way. The guards rushed after him, leaving the cells unguarded temporarily.
"What the heck was that?" Satan asked.
"A Hallucination of you, they'll be chasing that thing for a good five minutes. That should be more than enough time to break our friends out!"
"Wait a sec, shouldn't the power be off down here too?" Satan asked.
"No, the prison cells run off a different power source, but the security codes should be the same," Krator explained for the human. The opened the first hall to discover some of their friends.
"Well I'll be, the fool did something useful after all!" Vegeta grumbled but with a smirk.
"Mr. Satan, am I glad to see you!" Goku said happily.
"I see you broke out Tassadar as well, good, we'll need the expertise," Vegeta noted. Krator went to the individual cells, releasing everyone from those, but seemed a bit stumped on what to do about the ki restrictors.
"We haven't been able to pry them off, whatever they are made of it must be pretty tough," Gohan said.
"As I figured, Aldaris would have to make these things strong enough to resist brute force on your level. However, I think a little outside force will shake these loose," Tassadar said, allowing his hand to glow blue with Psi. He grasped the side of the device around Tora's neck first, shorting it out and releasing the Saiyan. Krator did the same, carefully slicing the devices off the others with a few Psi blades he had picked up earlier.
"Awesome, it feels much better to have my power back!" Goku said with a grin.
"Agreed, feeling weak is not one of my favorite prospects!" Vegeta growled.
"Your other friends should be in the brig next door," Tassadar said, showing the way out.
"Hey, buffoon! Watch our backs!" Vegeta ordered Satan as headed straight for the other door. Inside they found Bulma, Chichi, Eighteen, Roshi, Yamcha, Buu, Piccolo, Dende, Krillin, Chiaotzu and Tien.
"Oh Vegeta! I knew you would find a way to get us out!" Bulma said, wrapping her arms around her husband despite the embarrassed look he was giving her. After removing the ki restrictors, everyone had questions for the others, which got nothing but mixed answers. Satan waited in the hall; as he didn't see his daughter in there, which made him angry.
"That Aldaris guy must still have her, if he harms a hair on her head…" he started to fume, not noticing his son-in-law behind him.
"Aldaris has Videl? Argh, if he hurt her at all he will die slow," Gohan said in a deadly low voice.
"Halt Saiyans!" a voice shouted from afar. Satan and Gohan looked up to see the Protoss guards coming back, a bit stewed that they were fooled by an illusion.
"Where is my daughter Videl? You better tell me where she is!" Satan shouted.
"Oh that other female. Judging by how upset the Judicator is right now, I'd say she's as good as dead soon. As for you, you're going back into your cells right now!" Satan scowled in disgust, and started letting his energy rise.
"You dirty aliens, you're going to pay! Ka, me, ha, me, HAA!" Satan shouted, firing his newly learned blue beam at the surprised aliens. It burned right through them and blasted a hole in the furthest wall that seemed miles down.
"Eat that!" Satan spat as he turned to the others. He was met with mildly surprised to even shocked-shitless faces from the Z fighters and company. Vegeta's was probably the most shocked, though even Buu was amazed. Everyone was, except for Goku; he was actually smiling a little.
"Hey champ, you sure got that move down didn't ya?"
"Let's just find my daughter and get outta here!" Satan said, snapping everyone back to reality.
Next time on DBV: As the Zerg escape with Verto in their custody, the freed Z fighters look to stop Aldaris from his own plans. A new plan is devised to destroy the earth with the mighty Protoss fleet and only the Z fighters can stop it. But will their combined powers be enough, and what will happen when one of them makes the ultimate sacrifice? It won't be pretty, I promise you, next time on DBV.