Chapter 11: the plan

Vegeta charged at Findla, flaring his aura to life as he did so. The saiyan prince twisted in the air and swung his forearm round to catch the alien at the last second. Findla stumbled backwards and Jacina jumped forward.

"My turn!" he yelled and his suit lit up with red lights that went down his chest. Both Jacina and Vegeta smirked as Jacina jumped forward and started kicking at high speeds. Vegeta weaved between them and used a swift round house to knock him side ways.

Jacina managed to flip himself onto his feet and lower himself into a fighter's stance. Vegeta smirked and motioned Jacina forward but Jacina only shook his head. Vegeta slowly looked over his shoulder just in time to see Findla land a heavy punch on his jaw, sending the prince backwards. Jacina jumped up and sped in front of Vegeta, managing to land a kick to Vegeta's chest and send him flying down but Vegeta managed to turn in the air and skid to a halt on the ground, on his feet.

He watched the two aliens carefully. It appeared that Findla was the strongest and Jacina was the fastest. And together they made a great team.

The others all watched from their positions on the ground. Emily had gone to work healing Zara's arm and now she was staring up at the three floating in the corridor.

Goku frowned at her side as he watched.

"This isn't going to work. They're playing with him." Goku informed the group in an uncharacteristically serious tone. He was right. Emily frowned and got up.

"Then I better go help him!" she announced and took off before the others could stop her.

Emily reached Vegeta just as he kicked Findla away. Jacina appeared behind him and Emily phased into view, swinging her fist round to catch the alien round the jaw whilst Vegeta ducked. When he straightened up, Jacina had been sent to the ground and Emily was smirking at the prince, waiting for a 'thank you'.

She never got one.

"Onna! I do not need you interrupting my battle! Go and return to your mate and baka father!" he yelled at her. Emily bristled at his words and had a comeback on the tip of her tongue before a sharp blow came in contact with the base of her skull, catching her off guard and instantly knocking her out. All saiyan/kalroo eyes widened as they watched her fall and Jacina simply laughed hysterically as he watched M Trunks catch his wife and carry her to the sidelines.

"So much for fusing." Zara muttered as she watched Trunks then brought her attention back to the mad duo laughing round a scowling Vegeta.

"How dare you! There was no excuse for that! She was of no concern of yours and defenceless!" Vegeta yelled, over exaggerating but still mad. He exploded into the next stage of super saiyan; his hair growing to his knees and his pupils appearing once more while his eyebrows disappeared. Vegeta then lurched forwards to attack the bulky Findla just to see him be pushed to the ground by a hyped up level three Goku.

Goku continued to attack Findla from there, barraging the alien with faster then light punches that even hurt through the large, gold metallic suit.

Jacina decided to help his brother but before he had moved even three centimetres he had Vegeta to deal with. The saiyan prince dropped kicked the thin alien and then continued the combo with three more kicks and then a beam of energy that sent him ploughing through a wall.

The others all frowned and watched from the sidelines.

"There has got to be something that we can do." Gohan said through gritted teeth. M Trunks looked to Zara who had an expression that matched Gohan's identically.

"Hey, you've been around spaceships and alien technology for the better part of your life right? Do you think that you'll be able to work the controls?" he asked. This surprised Zara but her expression quickly turned to one of thought as she stared at the older version of her childhood playmate.

"I should be able to. It looks like a delta classed war ship with a few modifications. Why?"

"Because if this is the place that's keeping the boys in their dreams then we should be able to release them from here." Mirai explained. Zara's face brightened.

"I see, you want someone to go break them out. I'm on it!" she said and with that she disappeared.

Gohan looked to Mirai.

"And what do we do?" he asked.

"What ever we can."

Findla did everything he could to block Goku's punches with his fore arm and soon found an opening. Findla jolted his knee forward and caught Goku in the gut, causing the mighty super saiyan to double over in pain.

Findla laughed coldly at him and glanced to his brother fighting a frustrated Vegeta. Or rather avoiding and laughing like a mad man.

"I see you're not the only one having trouble. Looks like you underestimated us." He said and turned his steely gaze back to Goku. Goku just frowned at the creature. He had hit him with everything he had yet he still looked perfectly fine. Those suits had given them a real edge in this battle. He would need help…

Vegeta swung fist after powerful fist at his opponent but Jacina simply weaved between them with ease. This frustrated Vegeta to no end. So far he had hit the creature once and only once and the battle suit had absorbed all the energy from his attack to help increase the creatures speed. Now he was just wasting energy as he kept flinging punch after kick after blast at the skinny little devil.

"Vegeta! We can't beat these guys like this! We're going to have to fuse!" the arrogant prince heard 'Kakarot' yell at him. Vegeta just brushed it off as he followed a round house with a barrage of punches driven with frustration.

"Vegeta! Listen to me! I know you hate it but we'll have to! We need more power to defeat these suits!" Goku tried again but it was obvious that Vegeta wasn't paying attention.

Goku growled then translocated away from Findla. The next thing everybody knew, Jacina had been thrown into a wall by an unforeseen blast.

"Vegeta! I'm serious! Think of the kids! If we fuse then this whole mess can be sorted out quickly and we'll be done with it! Just, please Vegeta, think of your son!" Goku begged and Vegeta frowned as he stared at the hole Jacina had made.

"Fine Kakarot, but it better work." The proud prince grumbled, crossing his arms and retreating. Goku smiled and, as they landed, made sure he was exactly six paces away from his partner.

"Don't think for a second that I will allow you to perform that little trick! I've seen what it can do and I know just how to stop it!" Findla yelled and charged forward. When he was only a few inches away from Goku's face, Gohan's right foot collided with the alien's face.

"I think you will because you now have to deal with me!" he yelled and in a flash he had powered up to full within his mystic form.

Findla frowned and tried to get past Gohan but every time he got close, the demi-saiyan slammed an attack into him to stop him.

Mirai smiled and watched and then saw Jacina climbing out of the wall he had been thrown through. Within an instant he was at level three super saiyan and was driving the speedster back.

Goku and Vegeta smiled at each other and then looked straight ahead and brought their arms up so they were horizontal and pointing away from the other saiyan.

"Fu…!"

Gohan kicked Findla hard around the head and sent him flying into Jacina. M Trunks then followed through with a double punch to each of the brother's guts and sent them flying backwards.

"…Sion…!"

Goku and Vegeta had finished stepping towards each other while moving their arms in an upward arc and were now in a pose with their arms in the same position as they had started and their outer knee was pointing to the other saiyan.

Findla had thrown his brother forward, into the two demi-saiyans and was charging up a blast to throw at them when he spotted how far the fusion dance had gotten.

"No!" he yelled and in a desperate attempt at stopping it, he threw the blast at the saiyans while their sons were still preoccupied with Jacina.

"…HA!"

Goku and Vegeta were now leaning over side ways so their index fingers could touch while they both still faced front with their feet a shoulder's length apart. A large sphere of white light that crackled as the Findla's blast blew up harmlessly against it engulfed them both. All of the warriors were watching as it began to die down and the form of a man with silver fur and long silver hair began to emerge.

"Super saiyan five Gogeta at your service." He announced and the others all expressed what was going through their head. The two brothers panicked while the demi-saiyans rejoiced.

Gogeta smiled at the scene then noticed a fifth figure lying on the floor further away from him, her eyes threatening to open as she obviously felt his energy.

"Trunks, Gohan, get Emily and go help Zara. I'll take care of things here." He announced and the men in question looked at him in surprise.

"What? Dad, I mean Gogeta, don't you want our help?" Gohan asked as M Trunks grabbed his wife.

"Don't worry about me Gohan, i'll be fine. Just go find the girl and help her." The fusion commanded and Gohan had no choice but to comply. The three then flew off down the corridor to find Zara. Gogeta watched them go then smirked Vegeta's infamous smirk at the brothers that were cowering in front of him.

"Shall we begin?"

Zara was on the bridge when the guys found her. She was sat in Jacina's station and was furiously going through a program that was being displayed on a small monitor in front of her. Mirai laid his wife in the captain's chair and joined Gohan over the teenager's shoulder.

"You know for a bunch of sick jerks they have a really impressive set up here." She said when she sensed them behind her. She didn't bother to wait for them to ask any questions and started explaining.

"That Molana guy just created a dream from the memories of his victim and then after they ran through it he would put them in a loop so they would just keep going through it, unable to get out. He'd then move to the next person. He'd even put a type of hold on them that this ship sustains. That's why the boys haven't woken up yet. And to stop all the victims' energy going to waste, this ship absorbs all that the victims lose to use up here. If it wasn't so sick then it would be ingenious."

The guys just blinked at her explanation then stared at the controls when it all sunk in.

"So what are you doing now?" Mirai asked over her shoulder.

"Trying to bypass the system and stop this thing. They've got a pretty impressive security system here." She told them and keyed in a something then beamed.

"I'm in. should be easy from here. They should be able to wake up soon." She announced. The guys smiled but Gohan donned a puzzled look.

"So how exactly do you know how to do this?" he asked.

"My parents were anxious to find me a useful position in their little 'enterprise' that didn't evolve too much work on the front lines so I was trained in a number of things until they found a fit. Computer programming and amateur mechanics were two of the things they decided to get me to do." She told them and then smiled as a monitor to her left stopped showing an image of Goten. A second later and the third monitor stopped showing Trunks's dream.

"That should do it." Zara announced.

"Do what?" a groggy voice asked from behind them. Emily had woken up and was now very confused.

"Zara just freed the guys." Gohan said absent mindedly as Mirai rushed to his wife's side. Emily looked at the back of Zara's head in surprise.

"She did? How? Where the heck are we any way?" she asked as she started staring round the dark room.

"This is the command centre of the ship. Everything these guys were doing is controlled through here." Mirai explained and quickly filled her in. Emily nodded slowly as she heard it.

"So that's what woke me up. Dad and Vegeta fusing…they must be very angry right now." She mumbled then shakily stood up.

"What's she doing now?" Emily asked, referring to Zara who was still working on the computer station.

"I think I found the self destruct. Could come in handy." The teen explained and an extra voice filled their heads.

[You bet it would! Set it for five minutes after I split! That way I can get off even if I don't win.] Gogeta told them from his battle, shocking them all.

"No way dad! What if you break apart with out beating them and don't remember? You'll die up here!" Gohan yelled.

"He's got a point there, you guys aren't advanced psychics. You can't keep you're minds separate during fusion and I'm willing to bet money that you won't remember." Zara added. Gogeta, as cocky as ever, laughed it off.

[Don't worry guys! I'll make time. But us talking about it is just wasting it. Set it up all ready, I'm already 15 minutes in and any less then that and I might not have enough time!] He assured them. The group looked at each other, unsure of what to do. Emily was the one to talk.

"Grr…fine! But you better finish him off! If you get yourself killed then you know mum will kill you!" she yelled and nodded to Zara who typed in the command.

"You have 20 minutes Gogeta. Use them wisely." Zara said.

[Thanks. Now get outta here!] Gogeta said in his last message. After a lot of debate the group all huddled together and Emily grudgingly used instant translocation to get them all back to capsule corp.

As soon as they were all gone a little green minion fell through a second door that led into the large room. He had been hiding in the captain's ready room and had heard everything the four people had said.

He ran to the control panel and squeaked in his incredibly high-pitched voice.

"Oh no! Only the captain and his brother know how to shut it off…oh no…" he panicked and then ran to a control panel in the back right hand corner of the room. This was his communications station. He could do what he was about to do blind folded after the amount of time he had worked on it, even with his panicked brain in the state it was in.

Within seconds he had sent all information the ship had on the little blue planet to the new headquarters of the planetary trade. Every recording, power reading and assessment was now on it's way to the most feared place in the universe…

"I knew I never should have taken this job…" the little podgy green thing moaned as he stared between the security feed from the fight several decks down to the timer from the self-destruct.

Gogeta was running out of time...