Dragonball: The New Saviors chapter:2
(A real slow start but no fear from chapter 3 on its chuck full of plot and action thrown in just for good measure.)
"Hey Goten, all this talk about sparring is getting me amped up for another round. You interested?" said Trunks who had obviously not gotten his full workout today.
"But Trunks, isn't the power going out all over the place? How can we use the gravity chamber?" inquired Goten.
"We could use the one inside the spaceship, no one uses that thing anymore and it is separate from Capsule Corps' power supply."
Uub was still staring blankly into the sky pondering about the anomaly within the black hole. This was until he was broken out of it by Goten. "Hey Uub, Trunks and I are going to train, maybe you can pick up a few tips or something." Said Goten.
Uub looked at the two and was intrigued to see the fight. He knew Goten and Trunks were about even in strength and wanted to see if there was any change in their tactics. Every fighter knows that good tactics would win over power. Uub got to his bearings again, "Sure thing, maybe I'll referee you two." So all three headed to the ship that read Capsule 3 along the outer wall.
Resembling the model Goku used to travel to Namek, this newer model had larger thrusters on four sides of the sphere meant to hasten space travel and to accommodate the gravity room that went up to 700 times the Earth normal gravity. Inside there were two floors instead of one. The lower floor made specifically for training while the other for serious space travel. Having no need for it Bulma had just left it on one of the launch pads for a rainy day.
Inside Capsule Corps Vegeta and Goku suited up and were receiving the mission briefing from Bulma within the well lit laboratory. "For some odd reason any drones we send out malfunctioned when they got close to the anomaly so what I need from you two is some insight on what is going on out there." Said Bulma. "The spaceship on the launch pad marked Capsule 3 that should be prepped and ready to go so when you're ready head on in and take off." "Roger that!" Vegeta confirmed.
But then, Goku stopped in mid step "Bulma, how long do you think this should take? Chi Chi would be mighty worried if this takes a while." Said Goku. "Kakkarot I'm sure your woman can last a minute or two without your stomach.". It was obvious that his interrupted training had also gotten to him. Then Bulma blared, "Hush Vegeta, I wouldn't count on you to know the heart of a woman." "Hmp. Says you." Retorted Vegeta with his nose up. The blush around his face spelled otherwise as Goku snickered under his hands. "Goku, I'll make sure I tell Gohan to relay the message. Otherwise you shouldn't be more than a half an hour." Answered Bulma with a reassuring smile.
Goku and Vegeta stepped onto the launch pad as they looked upon the city in panic. Sirens blaring and lights going in and out of power as the skyline looked like a huge beacon trying to signal for help.
I hope we this thing gets finished with fast before the Earth destroys itself. Thought Goku. Meanwhile inside the city a float paraded the streets with the world renowned savior of the world on it Mr. Satan. Then with his fingers up in "Victory" position and as confident as ever he said:
"People of the world, do not let your fears and desires defeat you. I Mr. Satan, protector of all mankind shall be sure to protect each and every last one of you during this time if strife so stay calm and listen to your elected officials on this matter."
The citizens cheered and some awed at the calm and reassurance brought upon by the speech as looters, worriers, and all of the mass panic stopped immediately as they all up and went home knowing Satan was watching over them.
Inside the lower half of the shuttle, the boys Goten, Trunks, and Uub were warming up being ready to go into a swift sparring match.
"I say we set the parameters from the start the first question being whether or not you two want to go Super Saiyan or not?" asked Uub. "Nah, no need to pull out all of the stops so soon, I wouldn't want to beat up the face of the president Capsule Corp to bits now. What would the fellow employees think?" Goten said with a grin.
Trunks was burning mad now, Goten seemed to be wiser with the mouth than ever. Trunks figured that hanging around with Goten let Trunks own personal qualities rub off on him. This particular one being the ability to verbally get under your skin. He also hated the fact that his responsibilities were beginning to get in the way of his training. Of course he wasn't so intent on becoming the strongest but he could only have one of the two worlds and he knew which one he was going to roll with.
"I'll make you eat those words Goten and I'll be sure to make it as painful as possible." Trunks retorted. "Enough of that now, when I throw down my hand you two can begin to battle." Uub said with his hand held straight in the air. The eyes of the two warriors were interlocked and ready to go. In another second or two a rivalry that started since they were children would once again be tested true against one another.
The room got dead silent until the floor started to shake. "Hey I thought we agreed on no transformations Goten?" screamed Trunks. "Ah ha, so you were counting on it!" Goten laughed. "Guys this is serious, what is going on!" Uub yelled.
Up top on the second floor of the same spaceship: Goku and Vegeta were seated inside their respected seats upon the ship. "Pre thrust initiated, Main thrusters are go." Said Vegeta. "Remember guys, once in orbit stop the ship about 1000 yards away from the anomaly before you can get some reconnaissance photos, engage only if you need too but there should be no reason for any of you to exit the ship so you should be fine." Said Bulma on the communication screen located to the far right of the computer console. "Then Blast Off!" yelled Vegeta. With that the ship went straight into the sky like the rocket it was and it's unstrapped in passengers on the second floor where floored as the ship hit top speed through the atmosphere.
Meanwhile at Capsule Corp:
"Bulma, have you seen Goten around?" asked Gohan. "No, as a matter of fact I haven't seen Trunks or Uub either." Replied Bulma. "Bulma something is really wrong here. I don't sense them here or anywhere close." Gohan said with worry setting in his face. "Maybe they are playing some trick of some kind, you know those two." She said trying to lighten the mood. "If your that worried Gohan I'll give them a call." She then dialed Trunks number on his phone. "Out of area..but this thing is so powerful it should work anywhere on Earth…what could he be" Bulma said with worry setting into her voice. "I think I may know", Gohan interjected "look." He sat down on a chair to look at the readouts from the start of the takeoff.
Usually when shuttles take off check is used judging time it takes to leave the atmosphere and the weight onboard that affects take off. Gohan was looking at something that had come up but he had brushed off as a malfunction.
"Look Bulma," Gohan said while typing "the ship is about 500 pounds overweight but due to the extreme thrust power we couldn't tell." She gasped as she looked at the readings. "Oh my what a miscalculation, I so ashamed of myself, but hey they should be back within the hour right." She stated. "Yes but I think we should check up on them anyway, who knows what kind of errors the miscalculation has upon the flight pattern." He said while punching into the computer complicated math which would vary into what would be the ships new coordinates for the landing sequence. Bulma at that time had went to another terminal to make contact with those on the ship until a report came in first.
Goku's voice came through the speaker "Hey Bulma you didn't say Goten, Trunks, and Uub were coming too." "Dammit Kakkarot they stowed away!" Vegeta yelled.
"Oh so they really are up there with you two." said Bulma with relief. Screams going on in the background where being heard from the three stowaways being pummels by a less than happy Vegeta, and Goku watched on not knowing why they were being punished anyway.
"Hey Bulma, are we there yet?" Goku asked much like the child strapped into his seat. "Jeez Goku, your still such a kid!" she scolded "You should be no more than fifteen minutes away from your point of observation." "OH GAWD MA HELP ME!" , she heard Trunks scream. Then loud bangs where heard as Bulma and Gohan flinched in hearing fist hit flesh and people being reprimanded for clowning in on the mission.
"Bulma," Vegeta finally said "is the extra weight of these brats in any way having affects on out travel here on the ship." Gohan came in from behind Bulma with the results "According to this you'll just have to stop 12 minutes earlier of your original stopping point to make up for the time for the rear thrusts to cut off. During landing you would have to…" At that point Bulma cut in. "Did you say a full twelve minutes, Gohan they had fifteen left to go." "Which leaves us three minutes to cut the powers from foreword thrust to nothing or at least in reverse." Stated Vegeta. "Uh….Vegeta.." Goku interjected. "Quiet Kakkarot I need to think." "Vegeta were getting close to the anomaly!" Goku shouted. Vegeta looked into the window as the ship was coming to a head of this large swirling blue and black hole that had lightning flashing from the inside. "Oh no…" he uttered with his eyes widening.
At the moment Trunks jumped onto the console and began a full reverse thrust so the ship would propel itself backward. It began to work until the engines themselves gave out and the power in the ship went dead. "Trunks what did you do?" asked Goten. "It wasn't me you idiot, the anomaly is draining the ships power. We got too close to it." "What should we do now?" asked Uub. "I'm not sure right now." Trunks said with a sigh.
Slamming his fist into his hand Goku said, "Wait what if I go outside and use the Kamehameha to get us going in the other direction." "That might actually work." Trunks thought aloud. "Great then I'll head out." Said Goku until the ship stated to move with great speed in the wrong direction. "This can't be good." Said Goten. "Feh.i'm glad your so remarkably receptive." Vegeta said to Goten. Goten's face began to sour until Uub spoke. "We're being pulled in!" shouted Uub while at the window. "Then I have to get going." Said Goku as he went into the airlock and was being ready to go outside. He tied a harness to himself and the steel cables left in the ship's hold.
Outside, deep space was empty besides from the pull that was going through the area. Then Goku got into stance. KA ME HA ME HA! With that a huge blue beam came out of the warriors hands and was sucked right into the anomaly. "Oh no!" Goku then became a Super Saiyan 2 But had to be careful no to use so much power that his helmet breaks open.
"Then another attack! "KA ME HA ME HA!" The huge beam was sucked in faster than the last and so was the most the ki of Goku as if the anomaly was being fed by it. "This is it…" Goku said to himself as he noticed just how close they had gotten to the anomaly in a short time. He headed back inside to tell the others what is next.
"Guy's there's nothing I can do, this thing feeds on ki. I can't even summon my ki right now. I feel all tired." Goku said. He didn't want to give up just yet though; he could never live it down if he did anyways. "There has to be another way!"
Trunks sat rubbing his chin in deep thought but nothing was coming. If this thing was feeding off of electrical power and ki. This was really weird. "Uh guys, I think we had better brace ourselves." Goten said as he looked outside the window. By the time everyone looked in Goten's direction a huge blue light came through the window and no one could make right from left and all sound had vanished.