A/N: The next two chapters. Hope you come back, guys...
Ch.21
Aiko drifted into the darkness of the room. "Hmm... Interesting. A big hole in the floor." Vegeta snorted at her.
"Well, let's go!" Goku nodded and jumped in. He was followed, in this order, by Vegeta, Gohan, Aiko, Zjun, and Supreme Kai.
"You five are crazy! How can such insanity be shared completely among five separate individuals?" the Kai demanded. Aiko smiled.
"Shen, first of all, you're following us." This was ignored. "And then there's the fact that we're all Saiyan, at least in part. It must be in the blood."
"What puzzles me is is how a female can be so, so... insensible!" AIko frowned.
"What, now it's my fault?" she queried. "Hey, I didn't ask to be a part of this. I know you're stressed, but keep the blame for Babiti off of my shoulders!" With that she flew down to fall beside Vegeta.
With a sudden approach, light told them they'd reached the first floor. Aiko landed neatly while Zjun fell on his back. Everyone else had landed, and they were immediately 'greeted' by a strange creature.
"What the heck?" Aiko muttered. The guy was white, literally, and lizard-like with an oversized head.
"My name is Pui-pui. I've been sent to inform you of your situation. There are three levels, with a fighter on each. I am the fighter of this level, level one. You need not worry about what's on the other levels. You'll never make it past me."
Vegeta and Zjun snorted in unison. "I beg to differ." they muttered. Zjun turned and grinned at his teacher, while Vegeta continued to glare at the new challenge with disgust.
"So, who will I send to oblivion- huh?" The five Z-fighters were trying to pick who got to fight Pui-pui by playing paper-scissors-rock. Shen looked on in horror as Vegeta won and prepared to meet Pui-pui's challenge.
"You're insane! Babiti only has the best fighters from the four corners of the universe to defend him! One of you alone will not stand a chance against him!"
"Then obviously, Babiti forgot to look in the center of the universe." Zjun sniggered.
"Earth, center of the universe?" Aiko smiled.
"Must be." She sat down. "From what I've heard, people try to destroy it often enough."
"Ready?" Pui-pui sneered. Vegeta nodded. "Then let's begin!"
Ch.22
Pui-pui moved so quickly that at first it seemed he had the advantage. Then he made the mistake of insulting Vegeta. Once Pui-pui started tauinting him, Zjun grinned. "Now he's gonna get it. And if he doesn't get it from Vegeta, it's gonna be from me." Zjun said cockily. Aiko rolled her eyes while Shen stared on in shock.
"You can't be serious?" he yelped. "You would never be able to defeat one of Babiti's henchman!"
"Watch me." Zjun muttered under his breath.
"He won't have to, Supreme Kai." Goku said. "Look!" Everyone looked up as Pui-pui flew into a wall, then slid to the ground. He took his time standing back up, and when he did wiped some blood that had trickled to his chin.
"Well." the alien taunted. "You aren't such a weakling after all." Vegeta didn't comment for once. Then, just as Vegeta was preparing for an attack, they appeared on a dusty, reddish planet with large boulders. No warning, whatsoever. There was also a noticeable change in gravity.
"What the...?" Gohan exclaimed.
"Babiti's back to his fathers' tricks." Shen said softly. Pui-pui laughed as he saw the group staring around in near wonder.
"This is my planet. The planet where I was raised!" He called. "As you have noticed, it's not nearly like your pitiful planet." Pui-pui stooped and picked up a rock. "The gravity here is three times that of Earth!" he taunted, dropping the stone. Vegeta smirked at him.
Zjun was staring around in wonder. How had they gone from a spaceship to another planet in the blink of an eye? It was cool...
"Yes, I can tell the gravity has changed, butI don't even feel it!" Vegeta laughed, not moving. Zjun bit his lip. That was true- the gravity room went much higher than that. This wasn't even training level.
"You're bluffing!" Pui-pui cried after a moment of stuttering. Vegeta smirked.
"Maybe I am." he said in a teasing tone. "Maybe I'm having trouble keeping myself standing. But Maybe I'm telling the truth." His face went blank. "Maybe I'm far superior to you in strength." The smirk returned, even more at home now. "You'll never know until you attack."
Zjun snickered at the bluff. It was convincing, seeing as how nobody had moved a muscle since arriving there. He had to credit Vegeta- the teenager wouldn't have been able to toy with him that long.
"You... But... How!" Pui-pui stuttered. He yelled in fury as he charged Vegeta, calling his nonexistant bluff. The Saiyan drew back, and punched the alien square in the face, sending him flying into one of the boulders and kicking up a blinding could of dust.
As the dust cleared, everyone could see Vegeta hopping on the balls of his feet, grinning like he was having the time of his life. Zjun pumped his fists with excitement. This was hilarious!
Vegeta stopped bouncing and the grin turned to a smirk. "Apparently, you discovered too late that I was not bluffing." he taunted. Before Pui-pui could move, Vegeta fired an energy blast at him, annihilating the alien, along with the boulder he had been embedded in.
"Yee-hah!" Zjun yelled, jumping into the air with what seemed like boundless energy. Aiko just grinned and slapped her twin.
"I knew he could do it." Goku said dismissively.
"Ahhh..." Shen's voice was quavering with shock. His face was contorted, with his eyes so wide they looked like they were ready to pop out of his head. Zjun was about to comment on that when Gohan spoke up.
"Now what?" As if to answer his question, the door in the ground opened up.
"Well, down we go then." AIko said. Zjun grinned maniacally.
"Off we go, into the wild dark yonder, flying down, into the ground!" Zjun sang as he followed the others into the 'big hole in the ground', as Aiko had put it.
"It's just a game to them." Shen realized, flabbergasted, as he descended after them, the door shutting them all into darkness above him.
