Chapter 4: The Reunion and The Fight.
"I can't believe it." Said Bulma, slightly out of breathe from the hug she had just been given by Shi. It had been ages since she had a chance to talk or even see Shi. With every thing that has happened since the accident, meeting Vegeta, having Trunks, Cell and the androids, and that Buu creature. She had almost completely forgotten about the whole thing. But now, every thing seemed strange, like nothing ever happened. Her friend Shi was there with her, and he looks almost the same as when the accident happened. For a few seconds the world stopped. The she was suddenly ripped away from Shi. Almost flying through the air, she landed with a thump on her butt. Ouch, thought Bulma, what happened? She looked up to see Vegeta standing between her and Shi with Trunks at his side. Blinking for a few seconds, she was catching up on what just happened. Chichi, Videl and Gohan came running up to her. Bulma was still in shock and just noticed that they were talking.
"Bulma, Bulma!" said Chichi shaking Bulma lightly.
"Mum, ease up." plead Gohan trying to calm his mum down before she hurt anyone. Chichi relaxed her grip on Bulma and slid back a bit to sit on her feet. Videl slid in front of Bulma, staring at her in the face.
"Bulma, are you alright?" asked Videl in the calmest voice that she could muster.
"Yeah, I'm fine. What's going on?" queried Bulma, her voice slightly shaking.
"Vegeta saved you." answered Gohan who looked up. Bulma followed his gaze.
"Leave Bulma alone." said Vegeta with an edge to his voice. He had a stone glare on the kid.
"Yeah, leave mum alone." retorted Trunks with anger in his tone. Shi looked at the father and son team that were across form him. He frowned, sensing that their ki had spiked. They were going to defend Bulma. Who the hell were these two? The boy had to be Bulma's son, the hair matched Dr. Briefs, so the man must be her husband. Why didn't I get invited to the wedding? Thought Shi, I'll ask later.
"Leave now!" Demanded Vegeta while he got in to a fighting pose, Trunks following suit. "Leave now and stay away from my family." Yep, thought Shi, I was right. But he isn't human, much more of a warrior then any human could ever be. So they want to fight let's see what they can do then.
"Make me.' replied Shi, in a flat tone and with a stone stare, and he started to wait for them to make the first move.
"Fine." said Vegeta and Trunks in almost a whisper. Trunks went first. He went Super Saiyan and charged at extreme speed. He couldn't be seen, but Shi didn't need to see him. Trunks went for a kick to the head from behind. Such an attack should of worked, but Shi dodged it. He vanished leaving Super Trunks kicking a image if him. Trunks was left in mid air looking puzzled and then was whacked in the back by Shi who had just reappeared. Trunks collapsed on the ground and went out of Super Saiyan. Every one was shocked, and then almost fell off in classic anime style as Trunks began to snore. He didn't hurt him, thought Vegeta thankfully, but put him to sleep with just one hit? Shi was once again just standing and staring at Vegeta. Shi's opponent, Vegeta, went Super Saiyan but didn't attack. Let's see, thought Vegeta, how much it takes to scare this kid. Vegeta effortlessly changed to the next level of Super Saiyan 2, but still the kid stared, almost looking bored. With a glare, Vegeta powered up to his full power.
Goten had just woken up. He had been napping. Looked around the room he was in, it was one of the many bedrooms that the lookout had. He knew it was one that he and trunks had slept in almost a year before. He just noticed the energy that had woken him up. There was one person powering up. He knew who that was, Vegeta but their was a scarier energy up there as well. Goten jumped up out of the bed and charge up to the main platform. As got out and forced his way through his friends, he saw Trunks on the floor snoring and Vegeta powering up. He looked across and saw a teenager. Goten sneaked across and dragged Trunks out of view. As they got behind the friends Vegeta charged at the boy.
"Get up Trunks." Said Goten as he shook his friend. Trunks slowly came around and looked at Goten.
"Hey Goten, we got to help dad. We need to do fusion." Plead Trunks to Goten. He knew that he had to help his dad.
"Okay." Answered Goten, and they went back to fight.
Meanwhile, Vegeta was heading for Shi at full speed. He decide to knock him back, and then hit him with a Final Flash. Vegeta went to elbow Shi in the gut, but shi moved out of the way and kicked Vegeta back to where he was. What a kick, thought Vegeta, and that speed. Vegeta looked up to see that Shi was pointing a finger at him. He fired a beam at Vegeta, not strong enough to kill him, but enough to knock Vegeta down and wind him. When The others gathered around their fallen friend, they saw a shocked face. Vegeta knew that attack, one he knew all to well. The last moments played back in his mind, and he had no doubt about what just happened.
" He just……used…" struggled Vegeta between his gasps for breathe, " Freiza's…… Death beam…..Technique…." Goku heard his friend and also knew the attack. How did this "Shi" know that attack, thought Goku, he was…… and he was suddenly cut off in mid thought.
"Fu….sion. HA!' Every one looked to where that had come from and saw Gotenks standing there. He moved and stared at Shi and Shi stared back.
"You hurt my father, now I going to hurt you." Demanded Gotenks as he pointed a finger at Shi. Gotenks was an impressive warrior with a lot of power.
Shi had an opponent, Death was going to fight.