Quick answer for SSGohanStrife
Yes there will be romance later on but it might not necessarily be between the two people you might think its going to be between! :P
"Now" smirked the man, walking over to Ayra, "Looks like we should do more tests on that Half-Saiyen, and that human woman is pretty much useless. So congratulations! You're gonna be the first whose energy we're going to take!"
Gohan blinked wide-eyed at the man, was he serious? He was actually going to steal Ayra's energy? He tried to wiggle free of the manacles but he couldn't, his energy was being paralysed too much
Ayra simply stared at the man, she wasn't moving, and she simply blinked and scowled angrily at him.
The man grinned and picked up a metal object that looked oddly enough like a gun although as he pulled the trigger a large electric blue bubble burst out of it and engulfed Ayra.
She didn't scream, nor shout, she simply closed her eyes as she was withdrawn inside the bubble.
It was silent inside. Everything seemed to shimmer like water. She could see the man laughing manically, and Gohan shouting obscenely at the man, but she could hear nothing. Then, she felt an odd feeling in her stomach, and the bubble began to change slowly to a pale gold as tiny golden particles began trickling out of her veins.
"STOP IT!" screamed Gohan as he watched the tiny pieces of energy slowly leave Ayra's body.
The man didn't move, he kept a firm stare held upon the bubble and the energy being collected inside it.
"Since when did you manage to get so powerful?!" shouted Vegeta
Shyl smirked, "Since I realised that the energy I stole could be inserted into me and I could use it for myself"
Goku and Piccolo struggled to retain their anger as they heard Shyl's words.
"So you use extra energy that your people don't use on yourself?" growled Vegeta
"Nope" he laughed, "-I- come first, the energy is given to me, then I give a small amount to my people-"
He didn't have a chance to finish, Vegeta had charged towards him at a tremendous speed knocking him out of the way and slamming him into the ship wall.
"Let's go!" shouted Piccolo as he and Goku charged through the terminal into the other ship, leaving Vegeta and Shyl to battle on their own.
Shyl wiped his lip which was bleeding a sickly yellow liquid, "Heh, a lucky shot, I'm not even ready to warm up yet" he smirked as he blasted a quick ki beam at Vegeta which Vegeta quickly managed to dodge.
"Which way Goku?" asked Piccolo as they entered the ship which had 2 corridors leading in different directions.
"I'm not sure," muttered Goku as his eyes scanned the corridors.
Gohan. Where are you?
The heat in the room grew, sweat poured down Gohan's forehead as the energy grew and grew. The light was becoming intense. The man now had to look away from the bubble. Gohan squinted through his eyelids and continued to shout to Ayra with some hope that perhaps she could still hear him.
"Ayra…" he whimpered as he closed his eyes as the heat grew more, "Super saiyen…" he muttered, "Super saiyen, turn into a super saiyen…come on…" he growled, trying to over power the poison within his body.
"This way" said Goku suddenly, pointing to the left hand corridor and charging down it.
"Ha!" shouted Vegeta, blasting at Shyl as Shyl took the blast and landed face down upon the ship floor, "Heh! You say that you're strong but you seem to be just as weak as before!"
Shyl growled, he did seem weak, Vegeta had managed to dodge or handle his attacks, and perhaps Vegeta was strong enough to beat him. He then felt a twinge and looked down at his right arm. All these tiny golden particles were being absorbed through his skin up his arm. He began to laugh.
"What's so funny Shyl?" asked Vegeta annoyedly.
"Nothing" smirked Shyl, almost unable to contain his laughter as he tried to keep it within him.
"Then lets finish the fight!" shouted Vegeta
"It's already over!" smiled Shyl, standing up, opposite to Vegeta who raised his eyebrow in a confused manner.
"What are you talking about?" murmured Vegeta to Shyl.
Shyl said nothing, and simply smirked as he felt more energy particles entering him.
"Goku! How do you know where to go?!"
"I dunno! It's a feeling! I know it's this way! Come on!"
Goku and Piccolo both came to a halt as they approached a large, brightly lit hallway filled with a bunch of doors and people that looked remotely like Shyl although their skins were a variety of colours from purples to bright reds.
"Hey everyone!" shouted Goku to the crowd, "Anyone know where the three captives were taken?"
"Goku," whispered Piccolo, "They're not going to just tell you"
"Captives?" asked a woman with long pink hair as she stepped over to Goku, "What captives? Who are you anyway?"
"I am-" started Goku when Piccolo suddenly butted in.
"He is a Saiyen and if you don't tell him where the captives were taken he'll blast you all away!"
The crowd screamed and began to run into the doors which must've been their homes.
"Wait wait!" shouted Goku before sighing, "Well done Piccolo…"
Piccolo shrugged and folded his arms crossly and 'hmphed'
A man peeped out of the doorway and Goku quickly pulled him out before he could do anything.
"Tell me" said Goku softly
The man looked up at him fearfully, "Please!" he begged, "I don't know! We're a peaceful society! Our king protects us! He gives us energy which others races give us! Please we know of no captives!"
"Wait a minute!" growled Piccolo, taking the man by the scruff of the neck, "What did you say? Other races give you energy? That's not true is it? Come on, we know how you really get it!"
"We don't!" blubbered the man, "Other races give energy to us!"
"No you steal it!" barked Piccolo
"That's not true!" shouted the woman who had now creeped out of her doorway, "We take great pride in being a peaceful society, and no one steals!"
"Wait a minute Piccolo," aid Goku, placing his hand on Piccolo's shoulder, "is it possible that they don't know that they've had surplus energy? Could they have been lied to like Ayra had been?"
Piccolo side-glanced Goku for a moment and frowned, dropping the man.
"People! We think that you are all being deceived!" shouted Goku to all the peeping faces
"Deceived? What are you talking about?"
"You king has been stealing energy from other races…by sucking it out of them…you have had surplus energy for decades"
"What?" gasped some stunned faces of the crowd
"Don't listen to him! He's a saiyen! They're nothing but trouble!" shouted some older members of the crowd
"Listen you idiot!" growled Piccolo, "His son, best friend and our guide were all taken away by your men, now you tell us or we'll-"
"He's not a Saiyen! Look! He's not got a tail!"
"They still lie! Quick! Order the men to come and kill them! Quickly!" shouted various members of the crowd
"No no! Wait!" shouted Goku, waving his arms up in the air, "Please! Tell us where they take the energy at least!"
"They take it to the laboratory!" shouted one man pointing down the corridor before his wife knocked him over the head with what looked like a frying pan
"Don't tell them that you idiot!"
"Thank you!" shouted Goku as he and Piccolo head down the corridor towards where the man had pointed.
"I said stop it!" screamed Gohan through the intense heat
She can't still be alive…no…can't think like that…she has to be…
"Ayra! Ayra! AYRA!" he screamed closing his eyes as tears began to trickle down his cheeks and he clenched his fists.
What was that? He could clench his fists? He opened his eyes and looked at his hands as he opened and closed them easily
I can move…the paralysis poison's wearing off…if Ayra could just hold on slightly longer…
The man glanced down at his wrist where a small dial was set up like a watch.
"Huh?! Not even a fifth of her entire energy has been taken yet?! This can't be! The master would be unstoppable by the time I empty her out!"
Gohan squeezed his eyelids shut as he clenched his fists and growled, trying to snap the manacles. He could feel the metal bending slightly, although the pain that he was gaining from it was excruciating.
If this damned poison would wear off I could snap these in an instant…come on!
Suddenly he heard a small snap and he opened his eyes instantly as he fell to the floor and landed with a cat-like grace. The man obviously hadn't noticed Gohan's escape; he was too busy marvelling over the amount of energy being collected from the other captive.
Gohan growled, he wasn't strong enough yet to blast the man away like he so wished, instead he charged at him, punching him hard in the cheek.
The man toppled over and fell amongst a table full of test tubes.
Gohan turned about to where Ayra was as the bubble slowly began to disappear. There she was, hanging like a lifeless rag doll.
"Gohan!"
Gohan turned about, seeing Goku and Piccolo in the doorway he ran up to them and hugged them.
"Dad! Piccolo! They took her energy! And Bulma! I don't know what they did to her!"
Piccolo marched over to Bulma and easily snapped the manacles off her as he took her in his arms and felt her pulse.
"She's still alive" he said, frowning at her, "Yet her energy's being suppressed"
Goku looked at Ayra and took her in his arms, she turned and mumbled something as he did so, "She's still alive" he eased a sigh of relief.
"Let's head back to the ship before Vegeta and that Shyl guy destroys it" said Piccolo, heading for the doorway.
Goku nodded and was followed by Gohan. Gohan stopped at the doorway and turned to frown at the man. Almost with and instant sense of pure hate he ran over to the man and dragged him (his energy was still being partially suppressed) over to a pair of manacles in which he locked them around the man's wrists. Gohan grinned and quickly ran out of the doorway back with Piccolo and Goku.
"What…what are you doing?!" stammered Vegeta in pure shock from Shyl's maniacal outburst.
Suddenly there was a bright white light. Shyl grew bigger, a horn sprouted out of his head, he grew a tail, his back hunches itself over as his legs became bent and his arms became muscular and his fingers grew incredibly long with matching fingernails.
Shyl laughed, "Ha! The power! I've never received so much of it! The person who's energy this belongs to must've been strong! Mwhahahaha!"
Vegeta frowned This energy…it…its so…
He couldn't finish, Shyl had blasted him hard with multiple ki beams which blasted about of his mouth. Vegeta had no time to think, he was too busy dodging everything. He didn't even have time to attack, even though he was a Super saiyen this new version of Shyl was far the stronger and faster. Vegeta had to constantly block, he didn't have a chance to counter attack.
Goku, Gohan and Piccolo ran through the terminal to encounter a battle scarred ship and Vegeta was constantly being attacked by a strange creature.
Bulma awoke and simply stared in awe at the two, as did the rest of the group, "Vegeta…" she whispered, she attempted to move but found she was unable to, she simply had to lay in Piccolo's arms, staring at the fight.
Ayra opened her eyes and looked up, staring at Goku whose eyes were on the fight. She shifted her gaze to Gohan who was standing beside his dad. She blinked softly and then made herself slip out of Goku's arms.
"Huh?" said Goku, bending down to pick her up again, although she waved her arm, insisting that he leave her.
Carefully, she pulled herself up and stared at the fight. Gohan looked at her with curious eyes. She was far paler than before; perhaps due to her energy being lost, she seemed to have a look of tiredness over her. Her hair had no sheen; her clothes looked tired and bedraggled, she seemed empty.
Vegeta, noticing a moment of chance quickly blasted a ki beam at Shyl, Shyl managed to easily deflect it into the side of the ship.
Ayra blinked and seemed to take no notice of the continues ki blasts being thrown everywhere, she stepped towards Shyl, as if in a trance.
"What the-? Get her outta here!" shouted Vegeta as Shyl charged towards him, slamming him into the wall, clutching him by the throat.
Goku frowned, should he go help? Vegeta hated it when people came to his aid…what should he do?
"Ayra!" Gohan shouted, "Come back! It's too dangerous! Vegeta can do it himself!"
Ayra, almost as if she couldn't hear the shouts of everyone continued to move forwards until she was behind Shyl. Vegeta gasped for air, when Shyl suddenly released him and dropped him to the floor as he turned about to face Ayra.
She glared at him, "Give me back my energy" she whispered, barely able to speak
Shyl smirked and laughed cruelly, "Give back –your- energy?! I don't think so!"
Ayra sighed softly and closed her eyes, "Give back my energy…or else"
Shyl smirked and opened his mouth, ready to produce another ki blast.
"Ayra move!" screamed Gohan.
Gohan suddenly found himself lunging through the air in a direct collision course between the blast and Ayra. He clutched onto her tightly and screamed as the ki blast engulfed them both.
"GOHAN!" screamed Goku as the ki blast exploded.
It took a moment for the temporary blindness to wear off. Everyone's eyes were fixed on one point. The point where Gohan and Ayra were, now, nothing remained.
Shyl looked at the spot where the two kids were, he inhaled then looked at his hands, suddenly he realised that he had returned to his original form
The energy…where did my energy go?
He lifted his head up and turned to the group, standing there with shocked expressions.
"Did I?" he whispered, a sudden sense of sorrow echoed in his voice.
"They're…" whispered a shaken Piccolo
"You…" mumbled Goku to Shyl as he tried to control his anger
"Bastard!" yelled Vegeta as he and Goku blasted Shyl simultaneously for several seconds.
Shyl lay there, staring up at the ceiling of the ship, his body burnt, blood seeped from his forehead.
This…just this moment…its brought me back…why…
Goku stepped over and looked down at Shyl. A shadow covered Goku's face, was he crying, or snarling? He couldn't tell.
"Kill me…" whispered Shyl
Goku shook his head softly, "No…that's too good for you…Piccolo…take him back to his ship…I need to be left alone for a while…" with that, he stepped away from Shyl and walked through the wall of the ship.
Piccolo eased Bulma to her feet, she couldn't move properly, but Vegeta hobbled his way over to her. She covered her mouth with her hand as she refused to look away from the last spot where Gohan was.
Piccolo gruffly took hold of Shyl and threw him into his ship, before turning away from him disgustedly and stepping back to the ship. He sat next to the spot where Gohan was and began meditating.
Gohan…
