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Brutal2003: What's his angle? Good question! You'll have to keep reading to find out.

Chapter 4

Vegeta and the other fighters stood in what was left of Bulma's backyard, facing the four aliens.

"There's not really any point in asking why you've chosen to attack us." Said Vegeta. "Since it won't make any difference, once we've destroyed you!" And with that, he transformed into a super saiyan and took off into the air. Lance, being one of the attackers, decided to accept his challenge and the two of them started exchanging blows in the sky.

18 was staring down an overweight warrior with purple skin and four legs, as well as a pair of arms. She raised her fists at her sides and narrowed her eyes.

"Cyborgs. That's how you were able to take us by surprise."

The fighter, who was named Quiver, smiled.

"We prefer the term 'artificially enhanced'. Anyway, you're one to talk. I'm not sensing any energy from you either."

The corners of 18's mouth rose slightly.

"Well, since we can't sense each other's power, I guess there's only one way to find out which one of us is stronger."

The two of them wasted no more time on talk. They disappeared from sight and the sounds of their fighting began ringing throughout the garden.

Krillin was squaring off against the white-skinned alien, Mingen. He held his hand out in front of him and shot off an energy wave. Mingen easily batted it away, but that was just a distraction. Putting on a burst of speed, Krillin appeared above Mingen's head and hammered him down towards the ground. Mingen managed to right himself on the way down and landed on his feet.

He looked up at Krillin and then reached for the case strapped to his back. Pulling it loose, he threw it up into the air. The case opened and out of it flew several thin sheets of glass. They all started flying around Krillin, except for one that levitated near Mingen. With a grin, Mingen stepped into the glass sheet and vanished.

"What the!" Krillin immediately got punched in the back of the head. He turned around to see Mingen grinning at him from one of the mirrors surrounding him. He fired an energy wave at him, but Mingen just moved to the side, disappearing from Krillin's view again. He then felt a kick to his back. Mingen was now in the mirror behind him.

"Forget this!" said Krillin. He dropped down to the ground so that he was no longer surrounded by the mirrors. Cupping his hands together and placing them by his right side, he started focusing energy between his palms. "Kaaa…Meee…"

Mingen stepped out of the mirror he was in and raised his arms above his head. Purple energy began to form in his hands.

"Ha..Me..Ha!" Krillin thrust his hands forward and the mighty kamehameha wave burst from his palms, rocketing through the sky towards his opponent.

Suddenly, Mingen's eyes turned white and all the mirrors lined up in front of him. He then brought his arms down and the beam of energy, he'd been forming raced through the mirrors. Each one amplified its' power so by the time it left the last one, the beam was burning a bright red!

It hit Krillin's kamehameha and smashed through it, like water bursting through a dam. Before Krillin even realized what was happening, the beam hit him and his senses were overloaded by burning pain.

While this was going on, Trunks was duking it out with Dolt. The purple-haired boy clearly held the advantage in the fight. Dolt kept striking out at Trunks, but thanks to his smaller size, and greater speed, the little warrior was easily dodging all of his attacks. Dolt was starting to lose his temper. He reached out to try and grab Trunks but ended up getting head-butted in the face. He reared back with his hands over his nose and immediately received a fist to the stomach. As he curled up, Trunks clasped his hands together and smashed him in the back of the head. Dolt hit the ground, head first, and wound up buried in the dirt. It was similar to how he'd ended up against Videl, except that he was now upside down.

'Oh… Why me?' He thought mournfully. But then he felt a hand grab his ankle and pull him free of the earth. Trunks was having fun with this guy. He wasn't ready to stop just yet.

18 and Quiver broke apart and landed on the ground. Quiver spat a tooth out of his mouth and grinned at 18.

"You pack a pretty good punch."

18 wiped some blood away from her own mouth, but her face remained impassive.

"Wish I could say the same for you."

Suddenly a crash sounded out behind her and 18 turned to see Krillin lying in a small crater with smoke coming off of him. Mingen stood in the air, grinning. His mirrors were placing themselves back in his case, which closed up on its' own.

"Oh, no! Krillin!" 18 instantly forgot about Quiver and jumped down into the crater. She knelt beside Krillin. He was unconscious. Most of his shirt had been torn away by Mingen's beam and there were burn marks all over his body. He was still alive though.

'Well, what d'ya know? Looks like the ice queen's got a soft spot after all.' Quiver thought to himself. 'Now's my chance, while she's distracted.'

He got into a 'power-up' position and started concentrating. The outlines of his body started turning white.

Meanwhile, 18's sharp hearing picked up Mingen's sniggering as he gazed proudly at what he had done. She stood up and glared at him with murder in her eyes. Without a word, she took off into the air, heading straight for the white-skinned warrior.

"Hold it!" Quiver suddenly appeared in front of her. "You can't switch opponents in the middle of a match. These are supposed to be one on ones."

Tired of their callous attitude, 18 threw a punch at Quiver and her fist went right through his head! (Not through as in blood and brains everywhere, through as if his head wasn't even there.)

"What? An illusion?"

With 18's arm still through his head, Quiver grinned and punched her in the stomach, hard. He floated back a bit.

"I probably should've mentioned this earlier. I can separate and condense my body's own molecules." He punched her again, in the face. 18 tried to strike back with a kick, but her foot just went through his body. "This, of course, means I can hit you, but you can't hit me."

He then kicked 18 with all four of his legs and hammered her down to the ground.

Dolt was barely able to keep himself in the air. He was tired out, his body had taken a beating and that little brat hadn't even broken a sweat!

Trunks was hovering in the air a little way away from Dolt. He had a confident smirk on his face and his arms were crossed. Dolt growled in frustration.

'That cocky little… Let's see how he likes this!"

Dolt pointed his left arm towards Trunks and pressed a button on his wristband. A thick cable shot out and wrapped itself around Trunks.

"What the –? Hey!" Trunks started struggling against the metal coiled around him.

Dolt gave a little laugh and pressed a second button. The cable began retracting back towards him, dragging Trunks along with it. Dolt made his left hand into a fist. He'd knock the scrawny brat's teeth out, without even having to throw a punch.

Trunks saw what was about to happen and screamed as his hair spiked up and turned gold and his blue eyes turned green. With no problem, he broke free of the cable and charged towards the alarmed Dolt, charging ki into his clenched fist.

High above Capsule Corp, Vegeta and Lance were exchanging vicious blows. Vegeta struck Lance in the face, who then lashed back with a kick to the kidneys. Vegeta spun with the blow and delivered a punch to Lance's head. As the alien was sent flying backwards, he fired an energy wave in Vegeta's direction. Vegeta quickly shot off his own blast that hit Lance's wave and caused a small explosion.

Out of the smoke, Lance came speeding towards the prince. Catching Vegeta by surprise, he managed to land a punch to his forehead. Vegeta was able to stop himself before he flew too far back. He could feel a thin trickle of blood running down from the cut on his forehead, but the wound was not serious. And judging by the look of him, Lance was in far worse condition than he was. He was out of breath and his guard wasn't as solid as it had been at the beginning of the fight. All Vegeta needed now was to get in one good ki attack and this one would be over.

Lance couldn't believe he was thinking this, but maybe he'd underestimated these saiyans. Vegeta, although somewhat bruised from his attacks, was showing hardly any signs of fatigue.

'Now there's a warrior!' He thought to himself. 'I feel lousy for doing this, but it's the only way I'm going to beat this guy!'

He unhooked his cape from around his shoulders and, with it in his hand, flew straight towards Vegeta.

The saiyan smirked. It was obvious what was going to happen. Lance was going to throw his cape in Vegeta's face and then attack while Vegeta was blinded. Like he was going to fall for such an amateur trick!

Indeed, Lance did throw his cape at Vegeta. The saiyan prince simply raised his hand and fired off an energy wave. But instead of being blown to shreds, like he'd expected it to be, the cape expanded into a huge black void, which the energy wave disappeared into. Faster than even Vegeta could react, the cape flew towards him and enveloped him. He reached out his hands to push the cape away, but his hands touched nothing. All around him, there was an empty blackness. It was almost like he was floating in space. Scratch that, it was exactly like he was floating in space because Vegeta was suddenly unable to breathe!

Lance watched as Vegeta struggled to free himself from the suffocating cloak. There was no chance of that happening. He didn't just wear that thing to look cool. Back on his home-world of Kyushin, their capes were their main weapons against off-worlders. Thanks to magic known only to their race, once the cape was unhooked, it would attach itself to any non-kyushin life-form. It then created its' own little pocket dimension with no air and no heat. Even the mighty super saiyans needed to breathe.

18 formed a large energy ball above her head and threw it at Quiver. While she couldn't get him with physical attacks, she'd discovered that he was still vulnerable to her energy waves. They were both on the ground and the ball she had just shot at him was too big to dodge in time, or at least she thought. The ball rocketed towards the spot where Quiver stood but, instead of exploding on impact with him, it just kept going and Quiver was nowhere to be seen.

The energy ball crashed into the far garden wall and exploded, tearing a huge chunk out of the wall and the surrounding vegetation.

"Oh, dear. There go the petunias." Said Mrs. Brief. She was watching the fighting from inside the Capsule Corp building with Dr Brief, Bulma and Marron.

"Mother! There are slightly more important things to worry about than your flowerbeds!" Bulma said in a rage. She turned her attention to the fighters.

"Grrr, come on guys! Surely you can fight better than that! Pick up the pace already!"

Dr Brief and Marron looked at Bulma with small sweat drops on the sides of their heads.

18 looked around to try and spot Quiver. She couldn't see him anywhere on the ground, or in the air. Suddenly she was grabbed from behind. All six of Quiver's limbs hooked around her arms and legs. He'd phased into the ground to avoid 18's attack and had come up behind her.

Grinning from ear to ear, he flew up high into the sky and then, positioning himself so that 18 was between him and the ground, just let himself drop. 18, unable to form a defense, was slammed into the ground with Quiver's full weight (nearly a metric ton) on top of her! A huge dust cloud went up and cracks spread out along the ground. As the dust settled, Quiver stood up and looked down at 18's unconscious form.

"Hmmm. These Earthlings are tougher than they look. Most fighters are crushed when I do that move.

Behind him, another figure crashed into the earth. Vegeta, still trapped in Lance's cloak, hit the ground hard and lay there, not moving. Lance touched down near him and removed the cape. Vegeta had passed out, but he was still alive. His hair had returned to normal and his face had gone very pale. Lance rehooked his cape to his shoulders.

'Sorry to have had to do that to you, Vegeta. When next we fight, I'll be sure to defeat you the proper way.'

Quiver and Mingen walked up to Lance.

"Well, that's that." said Quiver, dusting off his hands. "I wonder how Dolt did."

He was then hit in the back by an energy wave that knocked him to the ground!

Dolt was lying on the ground with a broken nose and minus several teeth. Trunks was in a fighting stance and he looked angry.

"I guess that answers my question!" Said Quiver, as he pushed himself back to his feet. The three fighters then began walking calmly towards Trunks.

'Oh, man!' Thought the young saiyan. 'I can't believe these guys beat Krillin, 18 and my dad! Well, they don't scare me! Though I kinda wish Goten was here. The fusion technique would come in handy right about now.'

Lance smiled down at Trunks.

"There now, little warrior. There's no need for that." He said, noting Trunks' fighting stance. "You already won your match. The trial's over."

Trunks looked up at the alien in confusion. But his attention was then drawn to the sky where thunder rolled out and dark clouds began to form overhead.