"The square root 753 times 7 to the power of 32 equals the radius distance of x plus π times 3.4. What is x ?"
Gohan sighed as he read his questions in the maths book his mum had given him. He ha already answered 60 questions already, be now he was beginning to get bored. He sighed and placed the book on a desk before lying on his bed and staring up at the ceiling.
Don't worry guys…once we get to the planet we'll bring you back…don't worry…
He inhaled deeply, then exhaled again, blinking slightly. He titled his head to the side, looking over at the suitcase he packed for himself. There he could see glowing through the zip the glow from the Rectain Ayra had given him.
What on earth is it?
He shook the thought out of his head and stared up at the ceiling again.
"Hm. I know!" he said sitting up quickly and pulling something out from under his pillow.
He smiled cheerfully and began flicking through a large photo album full of pictures of him and his family and friends.
"Who cares about studying? Sorry mum but this is more fun!"
"Oh, I hope Gohan's studying…" said a worried Chichi as she walked up and down the living room clutching a tea towel in her hands.
"Don't worry Chichi. He's a good boy, of course he's studying" smiled the Ox King.
"Yes but you don't know what kind of influence his father and his friends all have on him! And –" she paused slightly and clenched the towel tightly in her hand before screaming madly, "OH NO! Gohan forgot his Science books! Gohan!!!"
-knock knock-
Ayra poked her head through the wall for a moment as she blinked at Gohan, "Um? I hope I'm not disturbing you?"
Gohan looked up from the photo album and quickly closed it, "Huh? Oh…no no its fine"
Ayra smiled an stepped inside with two mugs in her hands, "Here," she said passing one of the mugs to Gohan, "I hope you like it…hot chocolate Bulma said it was called, is that right?"
Gohan nodded and blushed slightly as he took the warm mug in his hands, "Thanks" he said, taking a long sip from it.
"What were you looking at?" asked Ayra curiously as she stood beside Gohan, still cupping the mug in her hands.
Gohan blushed as he picked up the photo album, "It's…er…photos of me and everyone…it's kinda embarrassing really…"
Ayra smiled and took the photo album as she sat on the bed and began to flick through the pages. There were lots of different people in this book, some of which were either Piccolo, Goku, Vegeta, Bulma or Gohan. Some were of other people.
"Are these your friends?" she asked, pointing to a large group of people.
Gohan sighed and nodded, "Yeah, they're the only reason we came on this trip"
Ayra nodded slightly as she looked back at the photo. Everyone seemed so happy. She sighed and closed the book, passing it back to Gohan.
"I…I'm sorry. A…about your friends…it was the only way I could…" she sighed and drank the last dregs of liquid from her mug before passing through the wall.
Gohan blinked and stared at the hot chocolate in his mug, sighing slightly before leaning back on his bed, placing the mug on his chest as he stared back up at the ceiling.
"Just a few adjustments here…some minor tweaks there…a few more screws and…YES!" cheered Bulma lifting up her goggles onto of her head and holding up a small metallic walkie-talkie type thing in her hand.
"Hey! Everyone!" she shouted, passing through her laboratory wall.
She ran into the centre of the ship (here they all agreed should be the main meeting place and they made sure that they wouldn't have any rooms built upon it) and waved the walkie-talkie about at the rest of the group.
"Hey guys!" she said cheerfully, "I finished! I finally managed to get the other one finished!"
"What is it Bulma?" asked Goku curiously
"Watch silly…now…a TV…" she glanced about and a large wide screen TV appeared, "Ah! Here we go!" she got a wire from the walkie-talkie and connected it to the TV then turned it on.
"Hey! Chichi! Rochi! Ox King! Over here! Gohan's birthday present! Guys! Hello?"
"Huh?" said Chichi looking about the room oddly
"What is it?" asked Rochi who looked up from his magazine
"That's weird. I'm sure I heard Bulma's voice…"
"Chichi!" cried Bulma though the walkie-talkie, "Remember the other present I got Gohan? The one that wasn't finished and I was fiddling with at the table? Pick it up!"
"Huh? What's going on?" asked Gohan as he walked into the room, a chocolate moustache covered his top lip.
Master Rochi looked about the room curiously to see where the noise was coming from then he spotted a black walkie-talkie on top of the table. He walked over to it and picked it up, turning it upside down and looking at it oddly
"Hey Chichi! Turn the thing around so we can see you with the camera, and that red wire, plug the wire in the TV"
Rochi looked at the walkie-talkie angrily and shouted "It's me not Chichi Bulma!"
Bulma blushed as the TV screen showed a very annoyed master Rochi, "Opps! Sorry Rochi! Go on plug the wire in the TV then you can see us!"
"See my little Gohan?!" cried Chichi, dropping her linen basket, "Give Me That!" she snatched the walkie-talkie out of Rochi's hands and instantly plugged it into the TV, "Oh Gohan! Thank heavens you're ok! What is that on your face?! Have you made sure he's washed properly Goku?!" asked Chichi annoyedly.
Goku scratched his cheek, pondering as Gohan wiped his face quickly, "Hey mum!" he said waving with a smile, "Hey Grandpa! Hey Master Rochi!"
"Gohan?! You've been studying right? I just got your results through of your last test but I'm not going to open them. You better be studying you are? You better be! Goku make sure he studies!"
"OK ok! Chichi calm down!" said Goku laughing and walking up to the TV, "You know Gohan, he'll study well."
"Well…alright. How are you Goku?"
"Peachy keen as ever"
"How's the food up there?"
"Delicious…although not as good as yours"
"Oh Goku you're making me blush. Have you been-"
She stopped as from part of the ship there could be heard a loud CRASH noise. As the electricity went out for a moment and everyone lost balance, falling to the floor.
"Huh?" said Piccolo, standing up abruptly, "I'll find the girl…see what's what…" he quickly marched down the hallway.
"Oh man, oh man, oh man!" said Ayra typing away at the keyboard down at the ship's core, "Oh this is not good!" she kept muttering to herself.
"Hey, Ayra…what's going on?" asked Piccolo, appearing out of the shadows.
"We're under attack" she muttered as the ship shook hard again and another loud noise could be heard.
"Under attack?" he raised an eyebrow, "By whom?"
"According to the computer," she said, typing away at the keyboard again and staring at the screen, "Hrm…oh no…" she muttered, "They're Jugentles…"
"Gohan? Goku? What's going on up there?" said Chichi with a panic-stricken voice
"We don't know Chichi! Just hang on…wait until Ayra comes along, she'll know…"
Ayra and Piccolo stepped through the walls. She looked at all the expectant faces and took a deep breath as the ship took another hit. "We're under attack by Jugentles…They go about on ships attacking other ships until they give up some energy to help their race survive."
"So what?!" growled Vegeta as he began to power up, "I can just blast those idiots away!"
"No." said Ayra simply, "It's not their fault! The technology that they have runs completely on energy. When their population died down and their planet, Tolintus, was destroyed they didn't have enough energy to sustain themselves. That's why they getother's energy. I will not allow you to hurt them."
"What? Are you crazy?!" shouted Chichi through the TV screen, "You want my Goku and Gohan to get hurt?!"
"No. I just don't want theJugentles hurt either…it isn't their fault that their planet was destroyed."
Vegeta spat, he seemed to have a face of pure loathing as another blast hit the ship.
"So…what are we going to do?" asked Bulma with a slight hint of fear as another, much stronger blast hit the ship.
Ayra pondered for a moment then said, with a serious look, "We can settle. They are after energy…although this ship is propelled with energy it actually has its own amount of energy that is never wasted. We can give them some of that. They'll leave us alone after that. Promise."
Vegeta growled and folded his arms gruffly, "I don't see why we have to do this. They're thieves after all"
"Listen guys" said Goku to the TV, "We'll have to talk later…see you!"
Bulma unplugged the walkie-talkie from the TV, "So we just wait?"
"I'll put the surrender signal on…" said Ayra as she passed through the wall.
"You ok Vegeta?" asked Bulma
"Yes? Why?" he growled
"You…you just seem a bit tense that's all"
Vegeta answered her by turning his back on her.
Suddenly the ship shook from everywhere, knocking everyone off balance.
Ayra clicked her fingers and the launch pad opened, already a terminal had been set up between the two ships so people could pass between the two.
Seeing no on in the terminal she blinked oddly, "Um…hello?" she asked, peering about the metallic chamber.
She turned around and shrugged to the others.
"What's that?" asked Gohan, pointing to a large, metallic black sphere, (kinda like a disco ball) dangling from the top of the terminal ceiling.
Suddenly the ball opened and a thick purple smoke seeped through it.
"No! They can't be that desperate!" cried Ayra, placing he arm against her nose and mouth, "Y-you gotta run!" she spluttered, coughing hard.
Everyone began to cough uncontrollably, their eyes began to sting, their heads felt heavy, their legs weak and it seemed as if the room was spinning. They began to run, but the gas was so thick, it was filling their lungs.
After several minutes, the gas cleared and a group of men came on board, all but one carrying a large gun.
"Heh! Well done men!" said the man without the gun, he had longish hair (Trunks longish ;) ) that was a deep royal purple, his skin was a brownish yellow. He wore an odd outfit that seemed slightly like Vegeta's, although it was much more richly decorated and was white. His ears were pointed and his nails seemed to be inlaid with gold,"Seems as if they didn't know what hit 'em!"
"Why, Shyl. It's interesting to see you again, alive" muttered Vegeta as he leaned against the wall coolly.
"What?!" cried the man with purple hair, "You…you didn't get affected by the gas?"
Vegeta smirked "I know your tricks Shyl. That's how I beat you last time…I'm surprised to see you again. Too bad you don't remember me."
The other men who were standing around Shyl aimed their guns at Vegeta.
"No" ordered Shyl, "Find all the other occupants…I know there's more. I'll deal with this one"
Vegeta and Shyl stood in a staring contest with each other as the other men draggedthree black bundles away.
"So…Vegeta" growled Shyl, a pure sense of loathing within his voice, "Why are you here? Amongst these humans?"
Vegeta chuckled as he stood up from his leaning position and stretched slightly, "If you took careful attention Shyl you should know that only one of them is human, unobservant as ever!"
Shyl frowned and growled as he glanced Vegeta up and down, although the growl quickly changed into a smirk, "Heh. Saiyen Prince…I see you've no tail left. Did someone manage to chop it off you just like I managed to do?"
Vegeta's anger flared, "Don't be ridiculous! You did not chop it off!"
"Whatever you say," said Shyl coyly.
Wha…what…where?
"Huh?" asked Gohan as he awakened, he glanced about the room. It was white. He room was entirely white. He tried to move his arms although he couldn't, he glanced up at his wrists where there were manacles strapping him down.
He growled as he tried to snap them with his strength, although he found it impossible to do so.
"Hm. I see you can't get out of there can you earthling?" said a person coming towards him. This person was about the same size that Vegeta would be. He wore a long cloak about himself and had his long green hair tied back in a pony-tail, he had sunglasses covering his eyes, and he wore pink rubber gloves over his hands "It's made of the second strongest metal in the universe, no one can break through it."
"We'll see!" growled Gohan, as he tried to power up into a super saiyen totrying to break his wrists free. He clenched his teeth together as he attempted to make his energy flow through him, but there was a problem, he could feel his nerves and blood pulsing the energy through him, but nothing was happening.
He growled still, putting as much power as he could into snapping the manacles. Although, after a futile attempt where nothing happened he relaxed himself, glaring at theJugentle.
TheJugentle also growled angrily, "What are you?! No earthling could do that!"
Gohan said "What? I didn't do anything you moron!" hestared angrily at the man.
"I could feel your energy pulsing about your body!"
"Nothing happened!" shouted a frustratedGohan
"That's because we injected you with a paralysis poison, it stops your energy reaching you so you cant power up, and it makes it easier for us to extract it from you. But that doesn't mean I can't still feel your energy! Tell me how you can carry so much you earthling!"
Gohan curled up his nose and frowned menicingly at the man.
The man frowned at the stubborn boy, he then turned about sharply and picked up an odd contraption that looked like a GameBoy and held it up to Gohan.
A series of odd bleeps came from the thing when the man said, surprisedly looking at Gohan, "What the-? It can't decide whether you're an earthling or a saiyen. Which is it boy?!"
What? Gohan's a saiyen?
Gohan glared angrily at the man before the man suddenly stepped back and laughed, "HA! You…you're a half! HA! I thought saiyen's didn't mix blood! Oh this is the greatest discovery! So they have survived! Oh the Master will be so pleased at this new information!"
A part saiyen? I don't understand…then…Goku must be…and that's why Vegeta…
The man's face suddenly changed to a frown and he turned his back on Gohan, "Hey girl!" he grumbled as he stepped away from Gohan, "You said he was an earthling you little brat! I'll teach you to lie to me!"
Girl? thought Gohan
He then heard a loud scream and Gohan's eyes widened. He managed to be able to lift himself up slightly, and he blinked. He saw Bulma, still knocked out from the gas strapped to a wall like Gohan was. He then glanced a little to his right and saw the man and Ayra. Ayra had her arms tied behind her back and had them strapped to manacles as she hung a little way off the ground, causing her shoulders to take all her weight.
The man smirked as he removed one of his rubber gloves and held out his palm to Ayra. A purple electric bubble of energy apperead and engulfed Ayra.
Gohan blinked. He couldn't tell exactly what was going on, but he could tell it was cauing her immense pain. It was almost so painful that he could actually feel her pain.
No one can last too long with that kind of pain…
"STOP IT!" he shouted, trying to get out of the manacles.
"You shut up half-saiyen! I'm teaching the little Utolian a lesson about lying!"
"I didn't know!" she shouted as she tried to take the pain upon her shoulders.
The only thing Gohan could do was watch. He tried to close his eyes but her screams couldn't make him look away. He frowned, thinking how useless he was before shouting to the man "Hey! Why are you here anyway?! Shouldn't you be collecting energy? And then go?"
The man turned about, frowning at Gohan
Good. He's stopped torturing her.
The man laughed, "Ha! We haven't done that in decades!"
"Piccolo? Piccolo? Are you alright?" came a cough
"Yeah! (cough) I'm alright. Did you find Gohan and the others?"
Goku frowned as he glanced around a corner of the ship at Vegeta and Shyl.
"What are they talking about?" he whispered
"I don't know" muttered Piccolo, "But they seem to know each other well"
Goku gave a frowning nod.
"Tell me Shyl," said Vegeta simply, "Why are you collecting energy? By the size of those guns your people have I would've thought you had enough to help save your people.
Shyl growled and pointed an accusing finger at Vegeta "It's your fault that my people had to steal energy in the first place!" he allowed his anger to subside for a moment before continuing, "We now no longer need to collect energy to help our dying race. For decades now we've had enough for us…but what's the point with stopping for just enough? Why not collect surplus energy?!"
Ayra frowned angrily at the man, "So your people steal energy of others…even the people who gladly gave you energy when you were dying out?"
"Yes little Utolian! That's exactly right!
Vegeta began to laugh.
"What's so funny Vegeta?"
"It's just that last time you were so righteous! You wouldn't dare hurt a fly. And now here you are, killing people for surplus energy, this certainly is surprising."
Shyl smirked, "A lot can change a person Vegeta. In fact, very soon we'll be taking the energy out of those people we captured"
Goku and Piccolo tried to control their anger, "They have Gohan and Bulma" he growled.
"Goku, what about Instant Translocation take us straight to Gohan and Bulma?"
Goku sighed and shook his head, "I wish I could...but I can't sense their energy anywhere"
Piccolo blinked, "You don't think?"
"I refuse to think that Piccolo, they're inside the ship somewhere. We'll get them out"
"So Vegeta" smiled Shyl, "Shall we finish what we started?"
"I'd be delighted, although, I'm even stronger than I was before" he smirked as he turned into a super sayien.
"What a coincidence" said Shyl, almost unimpressed by Vegeta, "So have I"
Shyl then clenched his fists together and yelled out loud as an extreme amount of energy began building around him. Finally a green glowing aura surrounded him and his hair began flying upwards, his veins suddenly began to glow gold, and they sweeped up his arms and legs in an array of patterns. Finally he screamed out loud causing the aura to glow violently emerald. He opened his palms revealing the eyes on the palm of his hands staring at Vegeta.
"Now," he took a breath, "I'm ready"
"Goku, once these two start fighting we'll go in and save the others" whispered Piccolo
Goku nodded, frowning at Shyl's power
