The Misfits, Series 1: The Beginning of All Things

by Lord CyroMinion

The 28th Budokai has passed. The threat of Buu was 10 years ago. Goku and the Z-Senshi thought their lives would finally slow down from there. They'll soon learn just how wrong they really are when they are thrown into a massively confusing merger of many realities, meeting many new friends, but making new foes... Progressive-Crossover of many series, minus GT's plotline/plotholes.

11. Part 10: Weak of Will, Strong of Mind

-----DISCLAIMER-----
Nina © Capcom
Clint, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Devin, Dusty, Dan, Neil © Themselves
Goku, Radditz, Vegeta, Piccolo, Juuanagou/#17, Juuhachigou/#18, Mr. Buu © Akira Toriyama
Heero Yuy © Sotsu Agency Co. Ltd
Steve Williams, Dwayne Johnson © Themselves (Their ring names are © WWE)
Paula © Shigesto Itoi
Jackson, Teresa, Oyatsu © Me
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Part 10: Weak of Will, Strong of Mind

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 1:12am; Canton, Ohio)

Around 6.5 miles to the east of Clint's house, on Waynesburg drive was a medium sized house which was one of few that decorated the nearby landscape. Much like Fohl Village was in the middle of the boonies, so was this place. However what most did not know was that this was the house of Dan Laubacher, one of the Misfits who was training himself in order to become a protector of the good and peaceful. He was also on a hell-bent mission for revenge, on the terrorist organization known as Al-queda, of which one of their own operatives admitted to his face that they had been responsible for the devastating attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City, and also the Pentagon in Washington D.C. In addition, Dan himself had been mysteriously picked as a priority one target, and they had even used someone Dan now called a friend to try to get to him without being discovered. She was a young woman by the name of Teresa Hamilton, and her family had been held at TNT-point by a pair of the Al-queda fanatics.

However before the first of the terrorists had died, Dan and others present during that particular attack had been told a 'secret operative' had given them information stating Dan would one day directly threaten the leaders of Al-queda, regardless of the horrible attacks or not. Dan and the other Misfits had never actually found this 'secret operative', and it had him worried greatly. What if they decided to try at him, or even Teresa again? It was true she was now training alongside him and Radditz, but the rest of her family was just as vulnerable as before, and Dan's own family were not ki-shooting, flying superheroes now. Either of their families could be put at risk.

It was because of this reason, and reasons prior that Dan had built himself a special garage, roughly 20 feet wide, which would serve as a kind of workplace. He had not gotten to break the place in too much, but he had gotten one object to examine, one that had been infact from the attacks on him: a strange, tuba-looking gun that the first Al-queda operative had used to both paralyze him and then Devin in a strange electromagnetic field that prevented most movement. If it had not been for Nina's quick intervention, Teresa would've been forced to shoot both him and Devin dead, and then if it had not been for Clint and his 'miraculous' Super Saiya-jin transformation, all of Canton and most of Akron and several other nearby towns would've been blown to Hell by a final bomb that had been rigged with enough power to critically wound someone as strong as Frieza in his first form at point blank range.

Dan had looked over the weapon a few times, but between the many training sessions with Radditz and Teresa, he found he had little time to put his makeshift garage of fancy stuff to use. However that might soon in fact change, as Dan discovered that his teacher had both been able to recently attain Super Saiya-jin himself, and wanted to do some control training with Goku and Vegeta. Secondly, Radditz had now also just the day before started a part-time job at the McDonalds on Faircrest Ave. That had been making Dan curious about Radditz. Also, the earlier day the taller Saiya-jin had neglected to get Teresa immediate attention because of an idea of his that he didn't even want to tell Dan, making the two of them spar each other enough to look like they had been roughed up. Dan had wondered deep down if Radditz had really become one of them, or if Piccolo had been right all along on his original suspicion that Radditz was using them to get stronger.

It was all of this on his mind that had kept Dan from sleeping that night. In fact, he had opted to going to his new personal garage to check up and see if he could make progress on possibly reverse-engineering that tuba-like gun, or remaking it as a weapon of their own. However, he was still having trouble understanding just what to make of it. It didn't help the weapon itself had been wrecked up, being dropped on the hard street by the original user when he had been fatally wounded by Nina's angry vengeance. Dan had wiped some sweat off of his head and taken off his special tinted goggles. He walked outside of the garage and looked up and down the road, as if contemplating just what he should do. He however had not immediately noticed a small creature walking up to him. That is, until he heard a soft "Meow" at his foot. Dan looked down and saw a small cat snuggling up against his leg, purring low, and meowing at him.

The cat looked up at him, and meowed lightly. Dan looked over the cat more closely, the light from his garage revealing some of its' features. It had been a grayish and black striped cat, and it looked rather well groomed, with a pair of strange yellow-orange eyes that glowed in the light.

Dan, not having much else to do, bent down and picked the cat off the ground and held it against him, "What's a little guy like you doing out here?" he asked it.

The cat merely meowed at a high pitch. Realizing the feline wanted to be pet, Dan decided to do exactly just that. He pet the cat for about 10 seconds, all the while wondering why it was here of all places, since cats' didn't usually hang out in his neck of the woods. However, Dan's vision suddenly brightened as if he had been caught in a Taiyoken attack. Dan suddenly blanked out, although he thought he had heard a faint meow as his vision had gone white.

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 1:25am; Canton, Ohio)

Dan soon came to his senses. However to his surprise, he had found he was still standing along the road near his garage, and he still had his arms holding up the cat, or at least he had thought so, until he noticed there was no longer any cat in his arms. In fact, it was as if it had jumped out of his arms while he blacked out. Dan shook his head, wondering if for a moment he had some sense of deja vu or something. He sighed to himself and walked back into his garage. However when he went to look at the tuba-like weapon again, he noticed something different near it. A small looking capsule-like object with what appeared to be a push button on one end was laying right next to the gun.

"Where'd this come from?" Dan asked to himself, "It looks like one of the capsules on Dragonball." He grabbed the capsule, and hit the button, and threw the capsule on the ground.

The capsule erupted into smoke, and unveiled... several more capsules. "More of them!" Dan said in bewilderment.

He bent down and grabbed all of the new capsules and set them down on the table, however a green capsule in the set caught his interest.

"Go ahead Dan. Take a peek." said a new voice that made Dan jump nearly to the roof of his garage.

The capsule fell to the floor and the button pressed. The capsule erupted into more smoke, but now in it's place was an object that made Dan's heart chill to the bone.

"It's... it's another one of those guns!" he stammered, looking at a fully functional version of the same tuba-like gun that had been used by the first Al-queda operative, the same gun used on him.

"Yes, I'm sure you remember quite well of those guns." echoed that voice again.

"Who's... who's there!" Dan called out, not sensing any new energy signatures, or any of those of his own friends.

"Don't bother yelling out loud. I'm not near you, I'm IN you." the voice replied, concealing a chuckle.

"IN me! What're you talking about?" Dan asked. Suddenly, he felt his leg move, but it was not totally at his own command. Then his other leg began to move, until Dan noticed he was walking over to a nearby mirror.

"Take a look at yourself, Einstein." the voice said to him, as Dan looked into the reflection.

He looked pretty much normal, at least until he suddenly saw his eyes go from green to orange, and saw his mouth move, as the voice spoke with his own mouth, "Hiya Dan! Nice to meet you!"

Dan regained full control of himself and jumped back in horror, his eyes reverting to green, "Shit! What the hell?"

"Hello there Dan!" the voice spoke out loud again, now sounding to be from within Dan's own mind, "Nice to finally get the chance to get acquainted with you." Dan was horrified at this. Something was running around in his head, and it did not seem to be a good sign.

"What are you! What're you doing inside of me?" Dan asked in anger.

"Oh don't be that way Dan. I'm here to help you actually." the voice replied.

"Help me? With what?" Dan asked.

"Are you so dense! I'm talking about those fools Heero and Radditz of course!"

"Why would I need help with them? They're on the same team as me." Dan replied.

"Oh... not anymore... I should also say I'm also here to help you in dealing with the other 'Misfits', as you call yourselves. You see Dan, I've grown to like you since we met on the plane back to Canton. Even though I did try to have you killed in the past, I realize how much of a mistake it would've been if those Arabic goons had succeeded in getting rid of you. You're of much better use to me alive than dead."

"Wait, we've met before!" Dan asked.

"Well, you don't know me personally, but I know of you. Back then, I just looked like a normal boy around your age, nothing really sticking out at all."

Dan had however finally absorbed the last words of the voice's other statement, "Wait! YOU sent Al-queda after me?"

"Yes Dan. Back then, I realized you had ambitions for joining the military. I knew with your training from your friends that if you had joined your country's army in a future campaign against Al-Queda, that you'd be the strongest soldier, and you would even destroy their own leaders. With that knowledge, I tipped Al-queda in about you, and they sent in that girl Teresa to kill you, hoping to cover their own tracks, but things didn't go quite as planned, however I'm actually glad they didn't now that I've gotten to know you better."

As Dan listened to this, he realized, "So you're the one who gave him this gun, aren't you?" he referred to the tuba-like guns, both the broken one on his table, and the new one laying on the floor.

"Yes Dan, and it's not a tuba, it's actually a Concussion Pulse Gun1. Something that worked well in restraining powerful enemies with electromagnetic bolts. That's why you and your other friend were unable to move when that operative shot you." the voice explained.

"So then why me! Why try to kill me and then change your mind! Hell, who are you anyways!" Dan demanded.

"If you need my name... call me Oyatsu2. As for why I changed my mind about you: let's just say you have special powers within that make your friends look like party poppers. Also, your misgivings for Radditz and Heero have also left you vulnerable to my possession. Let's just say you shouldn't go petting creatures you don't know anything about." the voice replied.

Dan then growled, "So... that cat..."

The Voice cut in, "Was ME. YES DAN. The little kitty kitty was ME! I can change my shape and form as I please! I told you, I was much similar looking to a boy of your age on the plane. Then I took the form of an elderly woman when I tipped Al-queda about you, and then I recently was also a few animals, including the cat you pet. Your blacking out... that was me seeping into you."

Dan took all of this as calm as he could without going into a state of rage, "So exactly what do you want with the others?"

"The others. I want them out of the way, rather dead or alive. My master told me a long time ago to await a sign of supernatural proportions, a day when several realities would become one. On that day, I was to destroy the ones who would rise up from the aftermath, and you and your other friends the Misfits are among them. Oyatsu replied.

Wait, he must be one of the dark forces Dusty kept saying was coming. Dan thought to himself.

Oyatsu's voice picked up, "So Dusty somehow knows of us I see."

"What!" Dan cut in.

"Don't bother trying to hide your thoughts. I can see them as well. Heheh." Oyatsu chuckled.

"No matter. Just how do you expect to defeat all of my friends anyways! If you think I can defeat them all, you're sadly mistaken!" Dan replied.

"Hahaha... I'm quite aware of their origins and their powers Dan. Maybe on your OWN you might not be able to defeat them but with my help, taking down your friends, most of them anyways, will be a piece of cake! Oyatsu replied.

Now Dan chuckled, "Explain to me how I'm going to be able to take down a Super Saiya-jin 3, four Super Saiya-jin 2s, and two normal Super Saiya-jins, in addition to the others?"

"Simple, for one, there's not going to be any Super Saiya-jin, not 1, not 2, not 3, not anything else that might come after 3! Why you ask! Well, let's step outside and over to the nearby field, and I'll demonstrate." Oyatsu replied, as Dan noticed his body picking up into the air uncontrollably, and moving over to the field nearby on the other side of the road. He then sat down, and then he noticed his body kneeling into a meditative stance.

"Ah yes, I remember also your little bet with Piccolo. Such a pest he is, thinking you and all humankind are such weaklings." Oyatsu chuckled to Dan, "With my help, you could personally show him just how strong you really are!", but he then looked to the sky, and Dan could only wonder what was about to happen.

"What is this?" he asked.

"Sing along with me Dan! You're about to play a big role in the change of the future!" Dan tried to fight the urge to do this, however soon both Dan and Oyatsu's voices began to sing in unison, "Heptae... capnae... ramtae... keltac... delruma... charnuu... reacay... durta... daru... ca... DURTY DURT DUR! I CURSE UPON ALL WITHIN FOUR DOZEN MILES... I CURSE UPON THEE ALL THAT THERE IS NO NEED FOR SUPER SAIYA-JINS!" Dan's mouth then stopped, as he suddenly began to glow an immense white color, and then a large pillar of white energy shot up from his body and straight into the air.

Soon, the pillar erupted outwards, bathing Dan's entire neighborhood, and beyond, in a bright white light that made night into day, at least according to him.

"What... what the hell did I just do!" asked Dan.

"WE just placed a special curse upon all of your friends that will remove their ability to transform to Super Saiya-jins as long as the words 'DURTY DURT DUR3' are uttered by anyone within earshot of the affected. No matter how powerful, no matter how many levels they can go, if they can transform before, they can't do so for several hours after they hear those words. Basically if your friends try to transform, I or you can just utter it to revert them back to base form!"

"Damn... that is a devious power. But wouldn't this light make it so obvious that something's up!" Dan growled.

"The light is something only we can see, not them. It's an additional advantage for us within the area of the curse's affect. It both allows us to know where we can use the curse, and also to give us good vision at night."

"Alright, I admit it, it'd be good against Alex, Vernon, Clint, Jason and Radditz. But still, even without their Super Saiya-jin levels, Goku and Vegeta would kick your... our asses before we could do anything, not to mention how strong Piccolo, #17 and Buu are without a transformation." Dan replied.

"You think that's all I had set up for your pathetic friends, Dan? For shame. Go over back to your garage, and look inside the two yellow-coded capsules. You'll soon understand." Oyatsu explained, as Dan's body lifted up again and floated over back to his garage.

Dan willingly grabbed the pair of yellow-coated capsules, and unsealed them. The first capsule appeared to have two dozen tiny looking glasses lined up in a row, all with corks in them. The second one revealed a strange looking gun that Dan had never seen before. It looked relatively like a prototype, except that in the shaft near the front of the gun was a glowing green crystal that pulsed on and off.

"And exactly how are these going to help you defeat my friends anyways?" Dan asked, not getting the picture.

"Figures... only your friend Clint would probably know what that gun there really is, but anyways that weapon is a SHRINKING BLASTER4, as in a "oops, did I turn you into ants?" type of Shrinking Blaster. I noticed something from your winged friend named Nina. She has a special power that she's used on your two friends Alex and Vernon in the past, shrinking them to the size of mice. In this state, their powerlevels appear to be cut down by 90, making them extremely weakened. I was given blueprints by agents of my master, and created a much more potent version of her shrinking attack, in the form of a weapon. This little beaut will be able to shrink anyone it affects down to the size of ANTS, making them more than a thousand times weaker rather than only 10 times weaker. In other words, not even an ant-sized Goku or Vegeta would stand a chance against you Dan! Hell, I don't think an ant sized BUU could take you down!" Oyatsu laughed wickedly as he explained this.

Dan narrowed his eyes, looking at the glasses in front of him, "So then the glasses... they're for containing..."

"Your shrunken friends, and the corks will keep them from being able to hold enough air to do much more than maybe watch in helplessness. It won't quite KILL them alone, but my master won't care as long as they're neutralized and kept from interrupting his plans." Oyatsu explained.

"There's just one problem with all of this. Buu's much stronger than you realize, and Piccolo's nearly 33 stronger without his weighted clothing." Dan said, still not thinking Oyatsu's plan would fully work out.

"Yes... I now realize that. Buu's a little more of a tough case than any of the others. His strange magic structure might make the shrinker blaster useless on him entirely, however I got one other power that should stop EVEN him at FULL power. Oyatsu explained, as he used Dan's ki abilities to pick up one of the tiny glasses and levitate it over outside and into a nearby street, "I think I should give you a demonstration." Using Dan as his eyes, he moved Dan's head from side to side, and then narrowed them on a small rabbit around 40 feet away. He floated Dan's body over close to the dormant, and now uncorked glass.

Dan watched in horror as Oyatsu forced him to out stretch both of his hands forward at the rabbit. "MAFUBA!" screamed their combined voices, as Dan witnessed a green and vaporous energy snake out and hit the innocent rabbit, and watched as the rabbit began to distort and swirl around within the green field of energy several times, slowly getting smaller and smaller, until the vapors finally turned into an energy beam, which Dan forced down into the small glass at his feet. He then noticed Oyatsu making him cork the bottle, which now contained the helpless rabbit inside of it, tiny as a large fly.

Dan had realized of the move Oyatsu just made him use, "That's... that looked like that 'Evil Containment Wave' used in the early Dragonball series!" he gasped, feeling a slight bit drained, but unlike what he had heard about the Mafuba, he did not feel like he was about to die. It must've been because he was so strong he could survive using it.

"It's called the 'Mafuba', you simple-minded fool. Oyatsu chuckled back.

"But how!" Dan asked. "I guess it's only fitting I tell you a little more about myself. It'll help explain how I know the Mafuba." Oyatsu started, "You see, I know far more about Goku, Vegeta, #17 and Piccolo than you realize. I'm actually from THEIR part of the now-merged universe."

"You're from the Dragonball universe! I've never seen you before though!" Dan exclaimed.

"Well DUH, genius. I'm not on that poor excuse for a 'retelling' that your TV shows every few days, I'm someone NONE of those guys have any idea about! However I know a few of their own friends, or at least I used to." Oyatsu grumbled back, "Do you remember of a pair known as Oolong and Puar, Dan?"

"Wait, vaguely I remember them. They didn't get much screen time, and all that. One was a pig, and the other I think was a floating cat-thingy." Dan recalled.

"Sigh... close enough. Puar and Oolong went to the same shapeshifting academy as I did. I used to know both. However Oolong was an idiot. He got kicked out for stealing a girl teacher's panties, and he never mastered his shapeshifting powers. Puar on the other hand... she had potential, but she5 stopped too soon. Whereas I went beyond their level of knowledge, and even more. I was witness to many a battle on their world, even got to know Goku, Vegeta, #17 and Piccolo well enough, and it was through witnessing the Piccolo Damiaou ordeal and the 23rd Budokai that I learned how to use the Mafuba. I know Goku, Vegeta and Piccolo almost as good as they know themselves, and I know their deepest fears and weaknesses!"

"And Buu and #17?" asked Dan.

"Buu's going to be the ultimate example of the Mafuba's true potential. Screw Piccolo's so called 'counter-Mafuba'! He might be able to counter it, but he's the only one who could. Buu has no way of doing so! As for #17, he might be unique, but he is still human to an extent. The shrinker blaster will do fine for dealing with him."

"Still, that doesn't explain why use ME to do all of your dirty work!" Dan asked indignantly.

"Because, first off, they won't initially expect one of their own to turn on them, least of all you. Remember, Piccolo and them are more concerned that RADDITZ will turn on them, than someone like you." Dan then sulked in realization, as Oyatsu continued speaking, "Secondly, you're currently vulnerable to being possessed by me, even if it's not 100. Third, as I said, you have powers of your own you don't yet realize. In fact, it's time I revealed one of them to you!

Dan suddenly felt his power boiling up from within, and he looked into the mirror as he saw a flare of golden energy surrounding him, along with a faint pulse of yellow in his nearly shaved hair. "No way! That can't be right!" Dan said in horror, as he watched his ki aura become a solid gold, and then his hair fully transform to gold, standing up like needles, and his eyes turquoise. "Alright, this is getting ridiculous! I had to be seeing things!" Dan growled.

"That is not an illusion Dan. You see, you too have SOME amount of Saiya-jin blood. I'll admit, there's not much, nothing close to even that of a half-breed, but it includes the Super Saiya-jin gene that all Saiya-jin possess. Therefore... well you can see it with your own two eyes!" Dan heard the shapeshifter speak, as he gaped at his new power in awe, "Additionally, you're a little more powerful still than you would be without my presence. You could say I'm forcing some of your hidden power to the surface6. Not all of it, as even I don't have that kind of mastery, but with all of this, it should be more than enough to take out those putrid Saiya-jin, and the rest of the weakling Misfits you call 'friends'!"

"Wait! That curse of yours! This means it never worked!" Dan smirked.

"I said anyone who ALREADY could transform will be unable to transform when the curse is affecting them. However you're unaffected since I forced your transformation out AFTER I invoked the curse. I did that intentionally in order to prevent your friends from using it against us. You see Dan, I don't like to lose... so sorry for any trouble you're about to endure, but frankly I don't give a damn anymore!" Oyatsu cackled, erasing the smirk on Dan's face. Dan suddenly felt a surge of pain in his head, both physically and mentally.

"Now Dan! It's time I try exercising my FULL powers on you! Nighty night trooper! Oyatsu said, as Dan's mind blanked out and was pushed to the dormant position. Oyatsu smiled as he know realized he had full possession of Dan's body.

"Yes! YES! Soon master! Soon I will rid you of these troublesome knats!" he chuckled, although now his voice sounded just like Dan's own, as the dormant laughter faded into the night...

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 5:20am; Canton, Ohio)

Radditz had been practicing early on his training grounds that morning, wanting to get in his extra training ahead of time due to the limited hours provided by the fact he now had his job at McDonalds. Radditz had quickly learned that Neil had more knowledge on him than he had realized. Apparently he had watched the 'Dragonball' series as avidly as Alex and Devin had, and after some explanations, Neil had learned that Radditz had been planting a sensu plant, and also explained of the growth in Alex, Devin and the other CSHS Misfits' strength over the recent two weeks. Radditz had even tried to offer Neil training, but Neil explained that his schedule was a lot more packed than theirs, and he was unable to take up training for now.

As Radditz continued a special lonely kata of his, he was not totally aware that he had company approaching from the eastern direction, until he had seen the figure of Dan flying in at a leisurely pace towards him. Dan's up at this hour? He's usually one of the late trainers. Maybe he's trying to make up for lost time by getting here earlier.

Dan landed softly a few yards from Radditz, as the taller Saiya-jin looked over at Dan. However although he did not realize it, he was not looking at Dan, but Oyatsu, who was still in possession of Dan's body. Also, he appeared to be wearing a new outfit, a type of shiny and reflective black overcoat which while dazzling to the eyes, didn't look much like something one would normally train in. Oyatsu was also sporting a very dark shade of sunglasses.

"Welcome. Odd outfit there Dan." Radditz greeted.

Oyatsu chuckled, "Hey there, what're you doing here so early?"

"My job doesn't exactly give me as much time to train the way I'm used to, so I'm getting up earlier." Radditz explained, almost wondering if he should've bothered telling Dan. Shouldn't he have figured this out himself? Radditz thought.

Oyatsu smiled at Radditz, "Good, perfect. I need a good early morning spar."

"Dan, what're you doing here so early anyways?" Radditz asked him.

"Exactly as I said Radditz, I need a good wake up exercise, and Teresa's not ready to fight me at full power, so I figured since you're here..." Oyatsu replied, still mostly acting much as Dan would, "Why don't you take out your scouter and scan me a moment?"

Radditz looked at him and raised an eyebrow, "If you say so."

Perfect. Once he starts taking my powerlevel, I'll powerup and cause it to explode! In case I don't succeed today, at least that long-haired asshole won't have a scouter anymore! Oyatsu thought to himself.

Radditz put the scouter on his eye and clicked the button. His eyes widened slightly.

"38,250? That's a very large jump from yesterday!" Radditz exclaimed, "Dan, what kinda training did Dusty's group give you two!"

"It wasn't Dusty's training that did this Radditz, trust me, Dusty's training wouldn't allow me to do THIS." he exclaimed, as he suddenly transformed to Super Saiya-jin in front of Radditz's eyes. Radditz's eyes bugged out, both at Dan's change, and at the reading on the scouter, which had already climbed over 320,000. However as to Oyatsu's expectations, Dan's powerup caused Radditz's scouter to top out at 352,000 before the scouter beeped and exploded, destroying the piece of scanning technology.

"Dan what the hell are you doing! You just broke my scouter! Wait a minute! This thing blew up at 352,000 and not 240,000 like I thought! Holy shit! What kinda scouter was this thing!" he then remembered, "And how did you managed to become... become a Super Saiya-jin! God damn it, you're Saiya-jin too!"

"Yes, apparently only a tiny bit, but enough to possess the transformation gene." Oyatsu explained, a small hint of a smirk on his face, "Oh sorry about the scouter, I didn't think my powerup would actually destroy that thing. I must've gotten stronger than I thought." he then said, as if it were a mistake.

"Well, I guess it's not a huge deal... but why the hell did it go all the way to 352,000 before it exploded?7" Radditz replied.

Oyatsu then replied as-if, "Because apparently you've forgotten the real limits of a red scouter. They've always climbed to 352,000 before they explode. Too bad you didn't have an Overclocked scouter, or that wouldn't have happened."

"I guess not but... WAIT! Just how in the blue hell did you know about the Overclocked scouters! Those were only starting to be developed long back when Vegeta, Nappa and I finally tried to challenge Frieza's power, and even then, only a Green overclocked had been developed before Kakarott sent the Planet Trade into ruin!" Radditz then bellowed in disbelief.

Oyatsu reached into his pocket, as he discarded his sunglasses, and he pulled out another scouter, this one with a blue lens, and the ear piece of the scouter had a strange insignia on the side that had never been seen on a scouter on the show before, and the normally white shell seemed painted with blue stripes matching in color to the lens.

Radditz's eyes bugged out, "That's it... that's an overclocked scouter! A blue one much like Nappa's rare one8! That old one of his could've probably have seen Frieza's true powerlevel at his 100 state back in those days! But how the hell did you get one of those!"

Oyatsu didn't really reply directly at him, but it still made Radditz's blood chill slightly, "596,700... about what I had expected from the transformation", and he then pointed it at Radditz, "81,600 for you as you are now."

Radditz narrowed an eye slightly at Dan, as he wondered, His ki feels slightly diluted, as if something has intoxicated him or something. I'd better watch out.

Oyatsu however spoke up again, "Radditz, let's test this little thing. Try going Super Saiya-jin yourself. I wanna see what it'll say!"

Radditz sighed, and quickly transformed, releasing all of the extra power loose. "1,055,000 degrees. Impressive Radditz."

Radditz smirked, temporarily forgetting his worry in awe of his powerlevel, "Over a million huh? I guess those scouters really are improved."

Oyatsu's smirk turned to a neutral expression, It's time to see if this curse is truly as effective as it should be! He then smiled, "Well you know what they say." he spoke up.

Radditz looked at him, totally lost to what he was cluing at, "Uh well, what do they say?"

"Durty Durt Dur!" Oyatsu called over, making sure it was loud enough for Radditz to hear.

"Durty Durt Dur?" Radditz replied in confusion, and Oyatsu smirked, realizing now there was no way he hadn't heard it. Even if someone said it to themselves it would invoke the curse on that person.

Radditz suddenly felt a strange sensation, as he began to see his ki aura flicker quickly from orangish-yellow back to blue. His hair reverted from gold to black in an eyebeat, as did his eyes back to black from turquoise. A strange sputtering sound, much like a fart emitted from his ki aura as Radditz suddenly found himself reverted to base form.

"What the hell?" Radditz grumbled, as he attempted to transform back to Super Saiya-jin, but his ki aura only flashed to a healthy-blue with sputtering fart noises accompanying it.

"Dan, do you know what the hell just happened!" Radditz asked, noticing that Dan was still transformed, much to Oyatsu's delight.

YES. YES YES YES YES YES! IT WORKS PERFECTLY! he thought to himself, as he flashed a horribly evil smirk at Radditz. Radditz, chilled to the bone, looked at Dan nervously, as he recognized something slightly more sinister to his ki.

"Dan, are you alright!" Radditz asked.

However he was not answered by a comment, but by a violent blow to his stomach, sending him flying back several yards and smashing through a nearby tree and uprooting it. Radditz collided with the ground painfully, badly knocked for a loop.

Oyatsu quickly dashed over and stood above Radditz, "Yes Radditz! I must say I am extremely well! My curse worked! You can't become a Super Saiya-jin now for 12 hours!"

"Dan, what the hell are you doing!" Radditz coughed, hacking a small amount of blood.

Oyatsu reached down and grabbed Radditz by his hair and pulled his face to level with his own, "Sorry if I hurt you a bit too much Radditz, it's just you've not exactly gotten on my good side today." he spoke with a sinister grin, "And yes, my ki has changed much as you believed. Call it sinister if you wish, but you're the one who's been hiding too much from us!"

"How did you know I noticed the change!" Radditz spoke with widened eyes,

"I can read some of your thoughts now within a distance of me. As for the scouter, if you must really know... it was a gift, one of MANY gifts from my new friend!" Oyatsu said. Believing he had hurt Radditz enough, had lowered his powerlevel to only 20 in the case someone else might head over his way, in order to partially conceal it.

However Radditz had noticed this and suddenly unleashed a powerful Double Sunday in his face at point blank rage. Oyatsu was smacked back about 20 feet from the large pushback of the blast. Although he had not felt much more than a small rock's throw from the blast, he had failed to noticed a capsule had been knocked out of his overcoat.

Oyatsu smirked, "So you're gonna be rough today, eh Radditz? Fine by me!" he said, as he made Dan's green eyes suddenly shift to a terrifying orange which made Radditz lose his composure. Oyatsu quickly dashed in and kicked Radditz in his stomach, cracking the front of his armor, although not enough to totally destroy it, and sent Radditz hurtling over 50 yards away, where his body tore into the ground, and left a small trench dug up. Radditz had barely been able to keep conscious from that kick alone.

How... how the hell... did he make my Super Saiya-jin powers vanish! What's making him do this! Oyatsu smirked, his eyes Dan's usual green again, "The curse I mentioned... it removes anyone's ability to transform to any level of Super Saiya-jin at the mention of the words 'Durty Durt Dur'."

"Then how the hell are you still transformed?" asked Radditz.

"Because hot-shot... I must make a confession, I am Dan... somewhat Dan... but Dan is not currently available to speak with. Let's just say I've kicked his consciousness off the top of the hill for now! I found out about Dan's Saiya-jin gene, and managed to unearth his transformation AFTER the fact that we invoked the curse, which makes us IMMUNE!" Oyatsu replied, as he pulled out the Shrinker Blaster from the capsule in the left side of his overcoat, "Sorry Radditz, no hard feelings, but since you were on Dan's mind, I realized I should get rid of you and that pesky scouter of yours first!" and he pulled the trigger, covering Radditz in a green, laser-like beam that caused him to quickly diminish in size, down until he was only the size of an ant.

Oyatsu looked at him through the overclocked blue scouter on his eye, "Powerlevel 72.4. For a gnat, that's super-strong, but against me, that's nothing!" Oyatsu cackled, as he focused his newly found mental powers from Dan to grip Radditz and lift him into the air. Too injured to attempt a struggle, Radditz soon found himself falling into a tiny jar which was quickly corked from above.

Oyatsu stuck the tiny bottle in his overcoat and laughed, "There we go! One down, seventeen more idiots to go!" he sang to himself, as he wondered who to make a move at next. His gut instinct told him that he should probably go after someone strong next, as he had the feeling there was going to be SOMEONE coming towards him to see what the hell was going on. He realized that maybe he should move to a nearby field and wait for the next foolish Misfit to come his way...

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 5:15am; Canton, Ohio)

Back up at Alex's house, Alex had earlier gone back outside to prepare for Goku and Vegeta, as well as Vernon and Jason's arrival. However while he did see Goku and Vegeta come out, he had noticed Jason and Vernon were late.

Goku walked over to Alex, "Hey Alex, we're going to head off on free-lance training today. You are free to do what you want. I think you three deserve at least a small break from having us coddle you all the time for your achievements."

Alex grumbled, "If you say so Goku. Is that why Vernon and Jason aren't here?"

"Yes brat, we called them in early today to let them know they didn't need to come here. You live next door, so we decided to tell you here in person. Now go off and do whatever you need. We're not going to be here today." Vegeta replied, and Alex sulked as he saw Goku and Vegeta fly off into the distance.

Although he could tell Little bastards are probably heading to the abandoned arena to train each other. Figures. Alex decided he would just rest off the day, and do some low-level training, such as running around his house in laps, in order to compare himself now to what he could've done back during the week of the 3rd.

As he ran around, he realized just how bored he was that day. "This sucks! I wonder where Jason and Vernon went off to? We should go and train each other if Goku and Vegeta are gonna pull that shit on us!" Alex growled.

However his senses soon picked up something, someone was coming his way, and the powerlevel was stronger than his Super Saiya-jin 2 powerlevel, but it wasn't Piccolo, Buu, #17, or even Goku or Vegeta returning to see him.

He then raised his eyebrows, "Nevermind... now I remember. That's Paula's ki. Why's she coming here though? I thought she was doing some kind of thing of her own or something." Sure enough, Alex soon was able to make out Paula's flying figure incoming towards him at a moderate speed, at least to him.

She then stopped near his yard and landed over at Goku and Vegeta's house.

Alex looked over to her, "They're not home right now Paula!"

Paula looked over to Alex a bit startled, "Figures I'd miss them, but why're you still here?"

"Goku and Vegeta are having us all train free-lance today. I think those two just wanna train with each other without us in the way though." Alex replied, a bit annoyed at the two Saiya-jin in question.

"Then why aren't Vernon and Jason here?" Paula replied.

Alex sighed, "Good question. Both of them must be training each other away from me to keep me from getting stronger." he then ended with a jealous growl.

Paula sensed out with her own ki detection, "No... Vernon's over by Canton South High, and Jason's back at his own home, or wherever he is when he's idle."

Alex sensed out as well, and found she was right, and he sweatdropped, "Oh... they must be sitting today out, bunch of lazy-asses." He then looked to her, "Exactly why are you here though?"

Paula looked over to him, "Nina's not at her house, and she seems far off from here, not at the place we usually meet." Paula replied truthfully, although not to the point she was totally blunt about her own training. She didn't want Nina to get mad at her, but she didn't want to lie either, "I was actually wanting to see Goku before he ran off, but I guess I didn't get here soon enough."

However she suddenly perked up as she looked to Alex, "Hey Alex, you wanna spar with me?"

On the outside Alex's expression didn't change, but inside, he grew slightly worried. He felt too odd about fighting girls for some reason. It wasn't out of sexism or any of that, as he had many favorite women fighters in video games, but because it just didn't feel right.

He was about to just truthfully decline her offer, when Paula looked southward with a strange gaze, and spoke up "Wait! Hold that thought. Something feels off down about 1/4 of a mile from here! I think it's at Dan, Radditz and Teresa's training spot. Radditz's ki... it just vanished, and Dan's has spiked a good deal. It's higher than yours as a normal Super Saiya-jin even!"

Alex suddenly perked up, "Really? Dan's ki? How is that possible? And you say Radditz's ki vanished?"

"Well, it spiked as well, a little bit less than your Super Saiya-jin 2 level, but then it suddenly dropped to normal, and then his ki felt like it shrank down to nothing." Paula explained.

Alex looked over south, and he realized, "Dammit! You're right, I don't sense him at all, and I actually feel something slightly off about Dan's own ki." Alex replied.

Paula looked back a bit, "Yeah, I was about to say that. At least you're not slacking off with ki sense."

"Of course not!" Alex boasted pridefully, "But you think we should check it out?"

Paula sweatdropped and nearly facefaulted at the rather dumb-sounding question Alex asked, but she shrugged it off, "Yeah, I think we should." Alex quickly lifted to the air and shot off southward in a ball of ki. Paula jumped to the air and sped off in the same direction, right behind Alex.

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 5:22am; Canton, Ohio)

Oyatsu's ki sense suddenly snapped to life, as he looked northward. As he attuned his senses, he soon discerned the signatures. Aha! I sense a weak ki and a medium level one! I think one of them's Alex... and yes! The other one is the girl named Paula. They're both heading right for here!

He then tapped the button on his scouter and pointed it in the direction he was sensing Paula and Alex from. One of the numbers read out to be 28,075, which Oyatsu was assuming to be Alex in his base level, and the second number read out at 2,060,000, which he figured was Paula's. Oyatsu grumbled, Paula's gonna be priority one in this situation. She could kick my ass even in Super Saiya-jin form as she is now, but if I can get her with the shrinking blaster, she should be easy prey. Alex I don't need to worry about so much as long as I can affect him with the curse before he can attack me. They might or might not be suspicious, but I should still have the benefit of the doubt behind me right now. he thought in his head.

Within about 15 to 20 more seconds, Alex and then Paula had become visible to Oyatsu's eyes, as they spotted Dan standing in the field, looking calm as a rock. The two weary Misfits landed about 20 yards away from him, and looked over.

"Dan! You okay!" Alex called over, "We sensed Radditz's ki vanish, and yours spiked! Did someone attack you?"

Although Alex was not aware of the true nature of Oyatsu, he was not telling a complete truth. He knew already that there had been no other kis near either Dan or Radditz. Oyatsu then had a devious idea play into his head, as he looked over at them, "Yes I was attacked! In fact, it was Radditz who attacked me! It turns out Piccolo was right after all." He noticed Alex and Paula walk in another 10 yards towards him.

Although he knew he could make a move on them now, he was weary of Paula due to the fact her higher powerlevel allowed her to dodge from a closer range than Alex could. He wanted her almost within arms distance before attempting to shrink her.

"Where is Radditz anyways!" Paula called over, not totally convinced, although she did remember Piccolo grumbling about Radditz's true allegiance a couple of times before, so she couldn't totally rule it out.

"I'm... sorry, I had to kill him. He transformed to Super Saiya-jin, and I had to transform in a desperate attempt to hold him off." Dan explained.

Alex walked over another 4 yards and growled, "Dammit, so that's why your power spiked, and it must also explain the difference in your ki as well." Alex replied, having known that Radditz wasn't the most truthworthy soul according to the show, and misguessed the malignance in Dan's ki to be that of the anger caused by using early Super Saiya-jin transformations.

Paula however was still weary of Dan's claim, "Where is his body Dan? I don't see him anywhere." she replied, looking around. Oyatsu almost decided to pull his shrinker blaster on her right then and there, but he knew the sound it made would ruin his surprise attack.

He thought over quickly and replied, "Uh, his body vanished! I think Emna-Daiou decided to make sure his body and soul were sent back to Hell!"

Alex walked in closer, almost right up to just out of arms reach of Dan, and Paula moved in a little closer now too, although she didn't come more than another 2 yards closer.

Come on you little bitch, get closer! You're too far away! Oyatsu growled mentally. However he was not prepared for the fact he had just ruined his surprise attack. Paula's own stray telepathic powers were close enough that she heard his last thoughts loud and clear, and she had also been able to tell it was NOT Dan's thoughts she had heard.

Crap! What's going on? she thought to herself. She then heard a mental voice in her head /You idiots! Don't get any closer to him/ it had said. Paula realized this was actually Radditz's own voice, but she couldn't pinpoint exactly where he was speaking from.

Paula's expression stiffened, and she growled mentally, as she suddenly zanzokened at Dan. Oyatsu had not been able to pick up on her realization until it had been too late to react. His eyes' nearly popped from his head as he Paula deal him an incredible blow to the chest which sent him careening over 100 yards away, until Oyatsu's body smashed into a nearby tree, and smashing it over.

Alex suddenly saw Paula reappear in a punching position where Dan had been standing and went agape in shock, "Paula what the hell did you do that for!"

"That's not the Dan we all know, Alex. This guy is different." she spoke up with a fierce voice, looking over to Oyatsu's crumbled body near the collapsed tree.

"Whaddya mean not the Dan we know!" Alex demanded.

"He's lying to us! Radditz never attacked him. Dan apparently attacked him INSTEAD, as I had been suspecting." Paula replied, as she looked over at Oyatsu and zanzokened in close to him, "Who are you? What've you done with Dan!"

Oyatsu went agape, "How the hell did you know!" and then he had only then realized it, "SHIT! You can read minds too, you nosy bitch!"

"Bingo." Paula flatly replied, "Now out with it." she growled, as Alex had flown in close behind her.

"Hahahaha... Durty Durt Dur to you, suckers!" Oyatsu called off, as he unexpectedly jumped up and belted the unprepared Alex in the face, sending him flying about 30 yards away, causing him to dig into the ground and leave a trench.

Alex growled in pain, and flipped up, "YOU FUCKING FAG! WHOEVER YOU ARE, I'LL KICK YOUR ASS!" as he attempted to transform to Super Saiya-jin 2, however as Alex attempted to concentrate, all he got aside from a slight powerup was a sputtering fart noise emitting from his aura.

"What the fuck! I'm not changing! What the fuck!" Alex growled.

"No Super Saiya-jin, 1 or 2, for you little man!" Oyatsu growled and raspberried him.

Paula was astounded, "This is your work, isn't it!" she growled at Oyatsu.

"Hahaha! The curse works even on those who aren't already in a transformed state when they get affected!" Oyatsu replied back.

Alex growled over at Oyatsu, his anger at not being able to transform and because of this so called 'curse' apparent on his face. "Fuck it! I don't need Super Saiya-jin to kick your ass anyways!" he growled.

Paula looked over at Alex desperately, "Alex!" But Alex had already jumped up and charged at Oyatsu, his feral rage overcoming every rational attempt to make him back off.

Oyatsu cackled, "You're making me take you down in the wrong order, but oh well!" as he quickly unsheathed the shrinker blaster and shot at Alex, hitting him square on in the middle of his blind charge, causing Alex to quickly shrink down to the size of an ant.

Paula gasped in horror as she realized, Alex's powerlevel's dropping severely! That's why Radditz's strength dropped so fast! He must've got shrunken just like Alex is! I gotta keep that thing from shooting me! she thought as she zanzokened and kicked Oyatsu straight in his back, causing him to fly forward, and drop the shrinking blaster in mid fall. Paula growled and darted in with a second kick to the stomach which sent Oyatsu straight up into the air.

However, Oyatsu, despite his pain, was still able to keep some of his composure, and he realized Paula was moving far quicker than he realized. He knew a direct assault with the blaster would be useless, until had suddenly had an ingenious idea. Letting himself fly further upwards, he pretended that he was still not in control of his ascent, as Paula followed him upwards. He suddenly pulled his sunglasses back out of the overcoat and put them on. Paula had not seen in close enough to realize this, else she may have been able to realize what Oyatsu's plan had been as she flew in closer.

Oyatsu saw her fast approaching, and fanned his hands over his eyes, "Block this you bitch! TAIYOKEN!9"

Paula squinted, and then screamed out in pain as she suddenly saw a blinding flash overcome her vision. She still sensed Oyatsu, but the pain in her eyes was keeping her from making too many sudden movements.

Darn him! I can't believe he knew how to do that! she mentally screamed.

Oyatsu dashed back to the ground and quickly grabbed the Shrinker Blaster. And he flew up at Paula. Not realizing he had so quickly recovered the gun, she was helpless to dodge the laser of shrinking energy, not being made from any kind of sensable energy, and she growled as she realized she had been hit, and quickly flew in a random direction as she had shrunk down to the size on an ant. She had managed to regain her vision, but she knew there wasn't much she could do. Her powerlevel was extremely weak now, even against Oyatsu.

Although she might have been in a rut, she wasn't going to go down without a fight. She jumped up and appeared right in Oyatsu's face, firing off a large artic blast of PK Freeze in his face. However the 'large' blast was also affected by her new sized and was now barely more than a small gust of air that could emit from a person's nostrils.

Oyatsu chuckled and quickly swung his hand and smacked Paula's tiny form to the ground, rendering her unconscious before she even hit the ground, "That tickles!"

Reactivating his new scouter, Oyatsu had sensed Alex and then Paula's new powerlevels. "24.9 and 1,828.8... again, for ants, that's probably strong and even godly, but even Paula's new powerlevel wouldn't tickle me in base!" he laughed, as he soon used his own telekinetic powers to grab tightly onto the shrunken Paula and Alex, the latter of which was still conscious, and cursing like a waterfall as Oyatsu pulled out another glass and uncorked it.

"Might as well put these two fools in there together. It'll save me some bottles! Hahahah!" Oyatsu then placed both of his defeated adversaries in the bottle, and then sheathed the bottle and the shrink ray back into his overcoat.

He laughed to himself. "Yes! That's three down, 15 more to go!" He then decided to look around, and think over his strategy.

"Of course, this has to make the rest of those Misfits very cautious. I doubt they're going to just let me have any benefit of the doubt now. Oh well. It might make good use to go after some of them before they can react!" As he sensed around, he felt the closest group of kis happened to be gathering near the vacant lot across from Devin's house.

"Ah, that fat bastard Devin and his little gang!" He then pointed his scouter in their location. He got about six or seven ki readings. One was around 19,250, another was 19,150, a third was 15,325, a fourth around 17,500, a fifth was around 18,750, a sixth was 25,100, and a seventh was 25,125. "Hahaha! A cluster of weaklings! Even the one of them that could transform is unable to! At least, he will once the curse is invoked on him as well! Bwahaha! Time to net me seven more suckers!" Oyatsu cackled as he picked up to the air and flew off at high speed, unaware that a capsule of his was still lying in the field, unaccounted for...

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 5:56am; Canton, Ohio)

Meanwhile, about a mile or two south of Devin's vacant lot, Heero was grumbling as he ran around the immediate area, decked out in level 4 training clothes, with Virgil on his tail, wearing level 4 training clothing of his own, and wielding the large specially-weighted mallet that Devin gave him the other day. Heero was mad at Devin for making him take over Virgil's training for the day. Devin had claimed he wanted to try to get in some more training with Clint and the others, and that he needed a break from the annoyance that Virgil caused.

It was only now that Heero was beginning to realize just why Devin had some misgivings towards Virgil. Although Heero had not been prank-called on the 10th like Devin, Virgil had his own ways of getting to Heero. He had the tendency to swing the mallet to the ground way too often, and the tremors and the loud booms were giving the former-Gundam pilot a serious headache. The worst part about it was that Heero, like Devin, was not allowed to actually retaliate at Virgil, and only dodge his attempts. Heero tried a couple times while waiting on Virgil to recover to concentrate some ki into doing a Kamehameha or a Soukidan like Clint or Jason's, but Virgil was recovering faster than Heero could focus for a good shot.

Virgil was getting better at his movement, to say the least, and much to Alex's great surprise, he had actually lost 4 pounds in the last couple of days, although Alex commented to him at McDonalds the day before that his appetite was going to quickly negate that, which caused Virgil to call him a trashcan, which had made little sense to any of the others. Devin had even ratted on him about how he had no sensibility when it came to trying to attack a much stronger or faster opponent, which had gotten him compared to Alex, who growled venomously at Devin for that comment. Heero was thinking about turning back and dumping Virgil back on Devin's hands for the remainder of the day, but he suddenly felt a strong energy, at least stronger compared to himself and Virgil, coming in his direction from the south.

His eyes then narrowed, "Dan's ki. He must be coming to the others for more training or something. I don't sense Radditz down at the field they usually both go, but where's Teresa? She was with Dan when they arrived yesterday."

He then realized something, "Wait, why is his energy so large compared to last night!"

He looked over to Virgil, and called, "Virgil, just run around for a bit. I need to take care of something!"

Virgil shrugged to himself, "Whatever then." as he started to smash the mallet into stationary objects of no interest.

Heero flew up into the air and flew off towards Dan's ki energy. Soon he managed to get a glimpse of Dan, and noticed his aura was gold, much like Alex, Jason, Vernon, Goku and Vegeta's were when they were 'Super Saiya-jins' or whatever.

"Is he one of those Saiya-jin too!" Heero said to himself, as he shot off to intercept Dan.

However as he got close, Oyatsu suddenly saw him and flew towards him. BINGO! Heero's coming right at me! He's a sitting duck! Heero had little time react as Oyatsu decided to skip deception this time and quickly axehandled Heero from behind and sent him plowing down into the ground.

Heero smashed into the ground and flipped over painfully. Although he was still conscious, his body was almost broken up from Oyatsu's attack. The shapeshifter quickly pulled out the Shrinking Blaster and shot Heero, causing him to shrink down to the size of an ant.

"Powerlevel 15.5 and dropping slightly. No contest!" he cackled and levitated Heero into the air, but he had not been paying complete attention.

SMASH Oyatsu's concentration was lost as he felt a slight force hit him right in the head. He looked up, noticing a dented in mallet had rested itself on his head, and Virgil had been floating above him, trying to smash the shapeshifter unconscious while focusing on Heero.

"Bad Virgil, BAD!" he chuckled at the fatter Misfit. Virgil growled, but Oyatsu zanzokened behind Virgil and smashed him across the head, sending him flying to the ground as he had Heero.

Virgil had lost consciousness after cratering, and Oyatsu quickly shrunk him down as well, not even bothering to take his powerlevel. "How ironic two more of them happened to be separate from the other five." Oyatsu concentrated and telekinetically lifted both the ant-sized Virgil and Heero, and pulled out another empty, uncorked bottle, and placed the two inside of it.

Corking the bottle, he quickly hid it out of sight as well. "Five down, thirteen more losers to go." he chuckled, and flew off closer north, to continue his evil mission.

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 6:02am; Canton, Ohio)

Meanwhile, at the vacant lot near Devin's house, both Clint and Devin had not been slouching. Devin had been keeping tabs on all of the energy changes in Dan, Alex, Radditz, Paula, Heero and even Virgil. The evidence he had been getting was suggesting that Dan was attacking or subduing the others for some unknown reason. He had asked Clint to powerup to his Super Saiya-jin level, while he made a quick beeline into his house and picked up a phone, and called Vernon's house, sensing he was still there.

As he had hoped, Vernon's voice picked up, "Hello?"

"Vernon, it's me. Listen, we've got what might be a big problem heading in our direction." Devin replied.

"What's wrong Devin?"

"I think Dan is attacking us one or two at a time. Radditz first appeared to vanish from my ki sense, and a few minutes later so did both Alex and Paula, and then just a couple of minutes ago Heero and then Virgil vanished." Devin explained.

"You say you think it's Dan? Why?" Vernon asked.

"For one, his energy has spiked intensely. Stronger than Clint's while he's in his Super Saiya-jin level, and two, his ki feels just a little bit tainted. I think you and Jason's help will be much appreciated. I think he's still at his place, so go grab him on the way down here if you could." Devin replied.

Vernon nodded to him, "Alright then Devin. I'd better transform to 2 on the way down here and have Jason do similar. If Dan is going after us, try not to attack him directly if he confronts you. I don't think you guys would be able to take him unless you were all still grouped and had Heero and Virgil with you."

"Well we'll have little choice if he decides to go after us, which I'm sure he will. Just hurry Vernon, because I got a bad feeling about this."

"See you in a bit." Vernon replied, and quickly slammed the receiver.

Devin sighed, and sensed out. Dan was just about to the lot, and he had no idea what to expect, so he quickly rushed back out and regrouped with Clint, who had also rounded up Dwayne, Steve and Dusty nearby. Dusty was astonished to hear that Dan might be attacking the others, and Dwayne and Steve put their guards up.

Devin called out, "I've called Vernon. He and Jason will be heading here to back us up. Let's just try to keep Dan held off until he does. If I remember, he can't sense powerlevels yet, so he shouldn't notice them coming." Clint nodded, now transformed at his Super Saiya-jin like level.

Oyatsu was now coming within visual range of the vacant lot. He had furrowed his eyes, having sensed that Clint's powerlevel had risen a large amount. He aimed his scouter in the direction of Clint's energy, getting around 348,240 for his new powerlevel.

He then realized, Damn. I forgot, Devin can sense ki, and I think Clint can too! One of those two bastards must've been closely monitoring my actions. That means I'll have to immediately invoke the curse. Although Clint's powerlevel even now is less than mine, he's close enough that he could pull something, and I'd rather not take a risk, especially since I lost about 100,000 degrees from my injuries from Paula.

It was then however that his scouter chimed erratically. SHIT! Two other powerlevels coming from the northeast! 1,362,000 and 1,264,300!

He sensed in the direction of the two powerlevels. Shit! Damn that Devin! He called out for Jason and Vernon ahead of me! They're on a quick beeline here! I'll need to be fast, else I'll have to invoke the curse twice in one battle, and I'm still not fully healed from Paula's attack on me earlier. I should've tried to find a sensu bean first! Soon, he spotted the five targets he had originally came to find, and he quickly landed to the field below, standing now right in front of the five he had come to take.

"Dan, what're you doing here?" asked Dusty, wisely deciding to ask him questions to stall him. Oyatsu grumbled, realizing at this point Dan's consciousness was starting to struggle. It probably realized Dusty was one of the next targets and was trying to win back some control to warn him.

Oyatsu smirked, "You guys wouldn't mind a nice and relaxing spar, now would you?"

Devin grumbled, not in the mood to totally play games, "Out with it Dan. Why is it everyone you're running into suddenly 'disappears'?"

"Hmmm... Well for Radditz, he attacked me. Turns out Piccolo's little suspicions were right from the beginning. I was forced to deal with him because he attacked me at the field." he lied intentionally, just to get Devin annoyed, which had worked.

"Cut the shit Dan! I know better! You went to him, and you attacked him! Where is he, and what did you do with Alex, Paula, Heero and Virgil!" Devin growled.

"They're right here." Oyatsu smirked, patting his overcoat, "As will all five of you soon enough!" he then quickly pulled out the Shrinker Blaster and shot a green laser at Dwayne, but Steve shoved him out of the way, thinking it was something like the tuba-gun at Canton South.

Dwayne watched in shock as Steve was quickly shrunk down to the size of an ant. Dusty, Clint and Devin also looked on in shock.

Then Clint's eyes bore a look of realization, SHIT! I recognize that gun! That's why he's been taking us down so easily! He must've taken lessons from Nina that shrinking someone weakens their powerlevel! He spoke low to the others, "Devin, Dusty, Dwayne, I need your help. I think I can stop him, but I need you to distract him for me, and try to protect Stone Cold! Dan could kill him easily in his current state!"

Oyatsu grumbled, "Making a plan? I hope you're ready to be disappointed, and Durty Durt Dur to you!" Devin, Dwayne and Dusty gaped on in shock as Clint's powerlevel had quickly dropped over half. His hair had darkened several shades, and his aura was now a strange dark teal color, with fart noises coming out of his aura.

"What the hell!" Clint explained, realizing he couldn't fully powerup to Super Saiya-jin now.

"Idiot! You can't transform for 12 hours now!" Oyatsu cackled, and quickly jumped at Clint and slugged him back into a nearby ditch, causing Clint to tumble backwards for a few seconds.

Oyatsu however had not fully reduced Clint's powerlevel, as it was still reading at roughly 124,000 according to his scouter, "What in the blue hell! His powerlevel's still over 100,000 degrees above what it should be!"

Devin then realized something from hearing this comment, and had managed to see the scouter on Dan's eye, "Where the hell did you get that scouter! That's not the one Radditz had!"

"A gift of mine from a friend!" he said, and charged forward at Devin. However Devin jumped back and Dusty and Dwayne simultaneously kicked Oyatsu in the chest as he flew back, but they only knocked him back 2 inches, and he quickly smashed Dwayne across the face, and then teleported behind him, and smashed him in the back, causing him to embed into the ground.

Oyatsu pulled the Shrinking blaster out again, and shot at Dwayne's near unconscious body, causing the other wrestler to shrink down to the size of an ant. Steve, still shrunken, growled in anger and charged in at Oyatsu, but his blows were barely even noticed by his enemy. Oyatsu chuckled and quickly swatted Steve out of the air, knocking him for a serious loop.

However Devin had taken time to charge a new technique, and pointed out a glowing finger, "DODOMPA!10" and shot a large, but thin beam of ki from a fingertip which smashed into Oyatsu, however the attack was finding little purchase, and at best leaving a small friction burn on Oyatsu's face.

He turned to Devin, "Such pathetic attacks! You expect that to actually harm me!" and he jumped at Devin, who only barely managed to dodge an incoming kick.

However before he could turn to make a second attack, Clint's voice shouted out, "THEN BLOCK THIS PUNK!" as Oyatsu saw him hovering a flat, circular plane of ki energy above an outstretched hand, and then Clint hurled it forward at Oyatsu.

Dodge it, Dan! he thought to himself.

Oyatsu cackled, "You think some stupid disc is going to harm me!" However Oyatsu suddenly heard Dan's mental voice shout out DODGE IT YOU IDIOT! IF IT HITS YOU, WE'RE BOTH DEAD!

And Oyatsu suddenly realized the attack, "Shit!" as he jumped up and just barely cleared the Kienzan11 about to slice him in half. However the lower end of his overcoat had not fully evaded the disc, and an uneven part of it had fallen to the ground.

Clint growled, Finally he got his head out of his ass! Now if I can just keep his distracted with these, we can hold him off until Vernon and Jason arrive! he then raised his hand again, forming a second Kienzan.

"Devin, Dusty, get Steve and Dwayne and get back!" Clint called to them as he tossed the second disc up at Oyatsu.

"Shit! I hate this attack! I don't think our powerlevels are different enough for me to survive a direct hit!" the shapeshifter growled as he narrowly evaded the first Kienzan, and then had to strafe right to avoid the second. However Clint regained control and made the Kienzans alter course.

Oyatsu growled, Dammit! He's really trying to kill me! He then realized he had to reveal himself, "Are you so certain you want to kill your friend, you idiot! He's not exactly himself!"

Devin growled, "So you're not really Dan!"

"Make no mistake, this is Dan, but only his body is aware, not his mind!" Oyatsu replied.

"You possessed him!" Dusty called up, a look of anger melting in on his face.

"Yes Dusty! I have possessed your best friend!" he then realized he could do something with this, "Are you just going to stand back while I do as I please with him, potentially even getting him killed on your other friends' cutting discs!"

Dusty growled, "Clint, stop your attack! You heard him! He's got control of Dan!"

Clint growled, "I know that, but I'm not trying to kill him!" however he covered his mouth at the last second, realizing he had just blown his own plan.

"AHA! Now I get it! You keep me busy enough with your otherwise fatal cutting discs, and buy yourself time for Vernon and Jason to arrive! Well sorry, you just blew it!" Oyatsu growled.

Devin was taken off guard, "Wait you knew they were coming! How! Scouters can't pick up their powerlevels without exploding!"

Oyatsu chuckled, "THIS scouter can, but I also sensed them coming Devin! You thought Dan still couldn't sense ki, didn't you?"

"JUST SHUT UP!" Dusty growled, plowing upward into the air at Oyatsu.

"IDIOT! You just made the same fatal mistake as Alex!" Oyatsu shouted as he dashed down at Dusty and smashed into him, fist to face. Dusty went plummeting to the ground below, causing a large enough tremor to shake the area.

Clint tried to redirect his two Kienzans forward at Oyatsu, but he quickly dodged both and shot a Double Sunday, both blasts colliding with the flat sides of the Kienzans and shredding the cutting ki discs apart. Clint growled and started shooting several more Kienzans in rapid succession, but Oyatsu cackled as he shot down each one.

"Losing your composure? Hahah! It's fruitless, you idiots! Even if Jason and Vernon were here, they would be of little more use to you than now!"

Devin growled, "They'd floor your ass to the ground and you know it! You sensed their ki!"

"Maybe NOW they could, but all I have to do is say one phrase within their earshot, and they lose their ability to transform for 12 hours, just like Clint did!" Oyatsu chuckled, "I placed a curse around a 40 mile area. Anyone within the curse's range will lose their ability to become Super Saiya-jins of any kind for 12 hours whenever the words 'Durty Durt Dur' are uttered within their earshot!"

Devin looked up in shock, "Shit! No way!"

However Oyatsu had been so focused on his boasting that he had failed to notice a silent Kienzan flying straight at him. He only picked it up as it was within inches of him, and dodged as fast as he could. However the Kienzan had managed to slice a small cut into the side of his leg, and also his overcoat now had a large tear in the side.

Oyatsu's eyes darkened in rage as he turned to Clint, "You bastard! You actually hurt me!"

"That WAS the idea, you son of a bitch!" Clint called back, throwing another Kienzan.

Oyatsu growled, and quickly blasted the second kienzan out of the air, however he had realized the first kienzan had never dispersed, and was only lucky that he turned in time to duck it and prevent being beheaded. Clint jumped back while he was distracted, however his leg soon landed on something rigid. He looked down to see something flat lying on the ground.

His eyes narrowed, Of course! His gun! I might be able to end this now if I can get him to shoot at me! He then formed another Kienzan and shot it in low at Oyatsu, followed by a second Kienzan aimed at his head.

Oyatsu heard the twin Kienzans and growled, "Why don't you just give it up! You can't hit me with a accurate enough shot!"

Clint smirked, "Why don't you make me give up? You're losing your cool!"

Oyatsu growled, "I'll make you give up, so badly you'll want me to end your pain! I hope you like being a bug!" he then pulled out his shrinking blaster.

Devin growled, "Clint watch out!"

However Clint smirked, "Try it!"

"Fine!" Oyatsu shot the blaster at Clint. However Clint reacted and suddenly used his ki to pull up the flat object near him on the ground, an abandoned section of a mirror.

Devin looked on in confusion, and Oyatsu's eyes widened as the shrinking ray reflected off the mirror in front of Clint. Clint lowered the mirror to watch the beam snake back at Oyatsu.

However Oyatsu grinned evilly, "PSYCHE!" as the beam suddenly REFLECTED off of HIS overcoat, and split off into two directions, one beam heading at Clint, another at Devin.

Devin had managed to jump aside in time, but Clint had been horribly taken by surprise by the nasty change in his luck and was hit by the other beam, shrinking down to the size of an ant.

"SHIT! His coat's made of some reflective material!" he squeaked, as he tried to fly over towards a safer place. However Oyatsu quickly reacted and appeared above him, swatting him to unconsciousness. He then shot the blaster towards Dusty's fallen form, causing him to shrink the same. He attempted then to shoot at Devin, hoping his shock would keep him rooted in place.

However Devin swiftly dodged, and his aura flared up to an intense black, much similar to the anger flashes he had been experiencing in the past couple of days. He clenched his right fist, and slowly, what looked to be a sword made of ki flared in his hand.

Oyatsu looked at him through the scouter on his eye, "475,000! That's higher than Clint when transformed! Shit! Shit shit! He's transforming!"

"CHEW ON THIS YOU BODY-STEALING ASSHOLE! CRESCENT SLASHER!" Devin screamed, as he swung the sword of ki with intense energy, flinging a powerful wave of energy straight at Oyatsu.

"SHIT! 736,200 degrees! I gotta dodge... AAARGGH!" Oyatsu had not been able to dodge, as the wave smashed into him, erupting into a dark-blue pillar of energy. Oyatsu was sent flying backwards, and smashing into a tree way down on the edge of the field.

However, while he was knocked for a loop, he did not plow through the tree and merely slumped to the ground. Devin gasped in pain, the attack he threw having drained him to near-death, and lost hold over his mysterious powerup, and fell to his knees, able to do little more than breathe.

"Dammit... that was... unreal! What did I just... do to him! Wait! Vernon and Jason are here!" he gasped, as he turned his attention northeast-ward, seeing Vernon and Jason, both transformed as Super Saiya-jin 2s, fly in close.

"Down here! I'm over here!" he called up, and the new arrivals shortly decided to land in close. The two ran over to Devin.

"You okay?" asked Vernon.

"Used too much power, but I got him. He's over there slumped against that tree. He got the others good. He's got some kinda... shrinking gun and..." however Devin's attempt to explain was interrupted by the shrill whine of a large blast heading right at him, fired from the still conscious Oyatsu's left hand.

Vernon realized he had no time to deflect the shot and save Devin at the same time, so he improvised and shoved his friend out of its' path. However only Jason was able to see that behind the ki blast was a shrinking laser. Vernon had barely been able to deflect the ki blast when he was hit by the shrinking ray, and shrunken down to an ant-sized morsel. Jason gasped in horror, and noticed that Devin was now totally unconscious, not having enough stamina to stand after being shoved out of the way.

Oyatsu painfully jumped up, and growled, scanning his own hand with the scouter on his face, "Damn that Devin! He cut down my powerlevel another 50,000 degrees with that little desperation attack. Now he's definitely becoming an ant!" he growled as he shot Devin's unconscious body with a follow up laser from the shrinking ray, causing him to shrink down quickly.

Jason growled, "ENOUGH IS ENOUGH DAN!"

Oyatsu looked over to Jason, "Ah, the last one standing is you Jason. I don't count Vernon, with how weakened he is now being so small."

Vernon had growled at that, realizing his situation was much worse than when he had been shrunken by Nina on the plane to Japan, or when he argued too much with Alex. He knew even with his Super Saiya-jin powers intact that he wasn't going to dare make a move on Oyatsu. It was times like this he wished he had a way to contact one of the higher-tier Misfits like Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo, #17 or even Buu.

Jason looked over to him, "You're not really Dan, are you?"

"You're half right, Jason. This is Dan's body, but I'm not Dan's MIND. I'm someone completely different. Dan's body makes a good vassal for takeover." the shapeshifter admitted.

"Yeah right, your powerlevel is much weaker. Wait a second! You're a Super Saiya-jin too!" Jason had suddenly realized, also making Vernon look on in surprise.

"Yes, Dan's not even a half-breed, but he has the transformation gene, not to mention my presence is allowing him to hold it longer than he probably normally could. He has no control at all right now, so you can't really blame him, nor do I think you could really kill him." Oyatsu smirked, "And with that, I spit Durty Durt Dur in your face!"

"Durty Durt Dur? That's MY line you... what the hell!" Jason was cut off as he realized his powerlevel was dropping fast. Vernon had also heard both mentions of the dreaded phrase, and had began to weaken even more than before. Within less than 2 seconds, both Vernon and Jason were back in base form, their aura giving off fart-like noises as both tried to transform again and failed.

"What the fuck is this!" Vernon growled.

"Now now boys, there's no need for Super Saiya-jins! Because with this handy curse, not even GOKU could maintain it once it plays into affect!" Oyatsu cackled. With little effort, even for his slightly damaged body, he zanzokened and smashed Jason to the ground, dazed and nearly unconscious, and then quickly swatted the ant-sized Vernon to unconsciousness. He then aimed his shrinking blaster at Jason and quickly shot him, shrinking him down to ant-size.

He chuckled to himself, "Aside from Clint and Devin's little parlor tricks, that wasn't too hard. However... now I'll be playing in the big leagues soon. There's no way in hell Goku, Vegeta, #17, Piccolo or Buu DIDN'T sense all of that. They'll know by now I'm not to be scoffed with." he then found Steve and Dwayne's shrunken forms, and pulled out a bottle, and placed both wrestlers inside of it and corked it shut.

He then did similar to Clint, Dusty and Devin, putting them in a second bottle. Then finally he placed Vernon and Jason inside of a third bottle. Now he had taken out another seven of his targets, which basically rounded off all of the 'newbie' Misfits, and even one of the more experienced ones.

"That's twelve down, another 6 or so to go, and the hardest of the lot!" Oyatsu grumbled, however he then tensed up, "Wait a second! What is this? I feel something strange inside of Dan, like something struggling to make it to the surface... no it's not his conscious mind, it's something else."

He soon gave into to the urge, and called out a strange phrase, "SCULPTOR CURTAIN!" What happened next was one of the most odd experiences Oyatsu would know. He suddenly felt like his body was becoming lighter, almost lighter than before. He also began to notice a lot of the burns, cuts and bruises and other injuries on his body began to fade away. Although there were still a few signs of damage left on his body, it was as if he had healed a decent amount. He also felt stronger than usual. He keyed his scouter and looked at a hand again. The reading was now around 609,300 instead of 596,700 as he had before.

"That... healed me a little! OH YES! Now I'm gonna bring the pain on those asswipes! Screw their sensu beans, I don't need them with this!" He then noticed something odd with his ki sense.

Although Goku, Vegeta, #17, Piccolo and Buu had all appeared to be gathering towards each other, some of them suddenly appeared to break off into separate pairs, Piccolo and #17 in one pair, and Goku and Vegeta in a second, leaving Buu on his own. It appeared to have happened at about the same time he had started to heal.

"What the hell are they doing? It looked like they were all gonna come at me at once, but now they split up and broke off in several directions again. Something's odd about all of this." Oyatsu decided if they weren't coming to him that he'd sit down and rest a little more to try to relieve the remaining aches of pain in Dan's body. He also knew that Piccolo, #17 and especially Buu were going to be the hardest to trick. Although he did notice that Piccolo and #17 were apparently heading in his direction, they were not moving as fast as they probably should.

It was then he realized something as he sensed out, he couldn't sense his own powerlevel at all. Although the SCOUTER had done fine enough in giving him a reading, it was as if he had vanished off the ki radar. He then noticed something else shocking as he looked at the fallen mirror Clint had tried to trick him with. He didn't see his reflection at all, although he could still see Dan's body through his own eyes.

He realized, "The 'Curtain' part, it must hide my ki and my physical appearance! I don't know what this power is, but it's just gave me a brand new respect for Dan's powers. I must've truly chose right! Those assholes can't find me right now! I'll just lay low and wait for them to get close. With this, I might be able to take all of them without a fight!" Oyatsu cackled, as he sat down again, and rested his mind for the coming conflict...

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 7:03am; Canton, Ohio)

Roughly one full hour had passed before Oyatsu realized that both #17 and Piccolo were coming in close to him at last. For the last 30 minutes, they had been hovering around the nearby neighborhoods, as if lost in looking for something. Oyatsu had realized also by now that his cloak had worn off, now able to see his reflection in the laying mirror, as well as sense his own powerlevel. He quickly heard the roaring sound of Piccolo and #17 flying in close, and spotted the two of them coming from a little to his south.

The Namekian and cyborg had apparently spotted Dan, but instead of firing down and attacking him, they decided to land about 50 yards away from him. Piccolo had wondered just what had been going on with the disappearances of all the others. All he knew for sure was that Dan was apparently at the center of the chaos, and according to #17 and his own ki senses, that his powerlevel was over 20 times its usual stage. He then realized that Dan had transformed to Super Saiya-jin as well, which had explained the aura around him. #17 on the other hand, had been restless, apparently it was not just because of Dan's apparent attacks, but something else had him jumpy. He had also realized Dan's powerlevel was much higher than the others, and he also detected a strange apparatus on his person, but nothing else.

"Piccolo, stay on your toes. He's concealing something under his coat, I think a kind of weapon."

Piccolo scoffed, "If it's a gun, then his gesture's useless. I can't remember the last time any of us were ever harmed by any kind of cannon or conventional firearm."

#17 smirked, realizing Piccolo made a lot of sense, "Perhaps your right. Hopefully we can get all the answers out of him. Should we just kick his ass now or not?"

"No, I wanna see if this is even Dan we're dealing with anymore." Piccolo replied, making #17 blink at him in confusion.

Meanwhile, Oyatsu had taken use of their conversation to gauge their powerlevels with his scouter. He grumbled at he looked at Piccolo's reading, a "94,617,600 ". From his experience with overclocked scouters, that indicated that the scouter had hit the peak of what it could scan for one person. Unlike the normal scouters, overclocked scouters didn't explode when reading a powerlevel exceeding what it could see, but merely added " "s depending on how much higher the powerlevel might've gone. #17's powerlevel on the other hand was erratically going back and forth from "90,500,000" to "94,617,600 ".

Bleh! Damn #17 and his mechanical implants, they're messing up the scouter somewhat. He almost thought about reaching into his overcoat for a Navy Blue Scouter model, but then figured that he'd not actually need it for now.

He decided that perhaps a little bit of collective banter could fluster one of them, leave them open to an attack. He had already had a different capsule clenched in his hand, the yellow-coded one he had shown Dan the other night.

"Hello Piccolo and #17, nice day for a meeting!" he acted almost as if he had known nothing of the recent hours.

Piccolo frowned at him, "Dan, just what the hell are you up to? It's seems that all of our students are just disappearing after you meet with them. Are you trying to turn on us!"

"Why Piccolo, you wound me. I'll have you know that Radditz was taken care of because you were right about him." Oyatsu quickly thought to try to use Piccolo's own accusations at Radditz against him.

Piccolo's eyes narrowed, "What do you mean?"

"Come on now, I'm not stupid. You told us quite a few times that you never trusted Radditz fully. I mean, don't you even want to know WHY he asked both of you for so many sensu beans the other day?" Oyatsu said.

Although Piccolo was cautious, the seed of doubt had planted itself in both his and #17's minds.

"I know what you're talking about. Radditz never took the bean, did he?" #17 replied, making Piccolo look to him.

"What! What're you talking about, #17!" the Namekian growled at him.

"I was keeping tabs on his powerlevel after he left that day. It never really spiked, which happens to Saiya-jin when they eat sensu beans."

Piccolo growled, "Then... it's true... he HAS been hiding something from us!"

"No, you don't understand Piccolo, I could see in his eyes what he was thinking... I think he was intending to grow a sensu PLANT, so we would have more beans!" #17 replied back.

Oyatsu's eyes widened, WHAT! Damn... that would make a lot of sense if that's true! And that means I have to go and destroy this plant before it can grow!

Piccolo's eyes furrowed, "Grrr... that moron! We've tried that in the past, and none of us have ever gotten it to work without Korin's help!" He then looked to himself, "But still... if that was what he was hiding..." he turned to Oyatsu, "You're still lying to us Dan! Even if Radditz DID turn on us, it would NOT explain why the others would do the exact same thing!"

"Hehehe... I didn't say I was totally innocent Piccolo. Radditz got what he deserved, but so did the others, and you two are about to join them!" Oyatsu screamed as he uncompressed the capsule in his hand and formed the Concussion Pulse Gun, and shot 5 quick blasts of electro magnetic energy in the direction of his enemies.

Piccolo and #17 growled and jumped before the blasts could reach them, however unexpectedly, three of the shots had suddenly lifted into air, flying right at #17.

"#17 LOOK OUT!" Piccolo warned, and #17 managed to dodge the first shot, but the other two swerved up and smacked into him.

#17 screamed in agony as the two shots filled out over his body and paralyzed him. The shot he had dodged had curved back and smacked into him too, inflicting worse pain. #17 fell out of the air, his composure totally destroyed with so much electromagnetic energy surging his body.

Piccolo looked on in shock and turned to Dan, "Dan, what the... SHIT!" Piccolo had little time to even talk, as Oyatsu had taken advantage of #17 being a distraction to form Kienzans of his own and toss them up at Piccolo. He managed to dodge the first one with only a shredded cape, but the second and third ones would not miss. The second was now vertical to the air and sliced across one of Piccolo's shoulder, completely severing his right arm off, and the shock of the attack froze him enough that the third Kienzan lopped off his left arm from the elbow down.

"AAARRRGHH! DAMN YOU DAN! When I get my hands on..." however Oyatsu was not going to give Piccolo much chance to do more, darting up in front of Piccolo and releasing a bright Taiyoken right in the namekian's face, causing him to lose control of both his vision, and also with the loss of two of his limbs, he had little ability to keep his ki under control and began to fall to the ground.

However Oyatsu quickly pulled the Shrinking Blaster and shot the Namekian quickly, and even the powerful and seasoned Z-warrior was no match for the ray, shrinking down literally to the size of an ant. Knowing the threat of Piccolo able to grow his size, he quickly swiped the shrunken Piccolo from the air with his free hand and put a hard squeeze on his body, causing many of his bones to break, and leaving him on the brink of unconsciousness. He unsheathed a clean bottle from his pocket and threw the battered, shrunken Namekian inside. He then turned to #17, both now blinded, and additionally paralyzed in a state of extreme agony.

Oyatsu laughed menacingly, "Poor poor widdle #17, turns out being a cyborg isn't always so great! You might have unlimited stamina, but you're body attracts electricity far better than the normal human body, and that's why you couldn't evade my pulse blaster! By the way, just so you know, that was the same gun that Al-queda operative used to try and kill Devin and Dan four days ago!"

#17 growled, "So... you're not Dan at all!"

"No... I am called Oyatsu. I am an entity that recently came into possession of your friend's body. Funny how such a weak fighter like him could so easily overcome two 'veterans' like you with a little bit of thinking!" Oyatsu replied, and shot #17 with the shrinker blaster. #17 growled as he was reduced to little more than an ant-sized morsel.

With his small size, the energy field surrounding him intensified its' power over him, and he only utter, "Damn... you... but you... won't last long... she..." and then he passed out, and the electrical field dispersed around him, allowing Oyatsu to pluck up off the ground and place him in a different jar.

"Oh well, I got plenty of jars to spare, but I can't risk Piccolo breaking out, he would've been much harder to beat again than #17 was."

Now he realized that only four remained: Goku, Vegeta, Nina and Mr. Buu. He knew there was no way Goku and Vegeta at least weren't on his way to him now. Buu was probably not going to be too far behind, but he then realized something odd.

"Why can't I sense Nina? She should be around here somewhere, but it's like she has her powerlevel down so low I can't sense it!" And then he remembered, "Shit, Radditz's sensu plant! I'll need to remember to drop by his and Nina's house and destroy it later. However I won't make it there at this point unless I drop Goku, Vegeta and Buu from the picture." he then thought to himself, "Maybe I can buy some time with that ability of Dan's."

He was about to scream out the words of Dan's healing/masking power, when he saw something incoming at his location fast. SHIT! SHIT SHIT SHIT SHIT! They're already transformed! Those bastards transformed already! They could easily drop me without revealing their position to me!

He took in a deep breath, although Goku and Vegeta's powerlevels were colossal to what Oyatsu had remembered, he realized something, "Of course, they'll probably want to talk to me too, find out just what's going on. No doubt they'll probably want to try to keep from killing Dan. I'll use that to my advantage. I just hope at base level they don't prove to be much worse than #17 or Piccolo are." he mused to himself, as Goku and Vegeta's figures became visible in the air.

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 7:08am; Canton, Ohio)

Goku and Vegeta had spotted Dan from their sky-high vantage point. Both were staring at him with looks of anger, mixed with confusion. Vegeta had been wanting to blast Dan first and then ask him questions later, but Goku was curious. He already knew that Dan himself was not controlling his actions, but another from within was controlling him. He had told Vegeta, and the prince growled about it, but told Goku to keep on extremely high guard. Both knew that if Dan had managed to take down #17 and Piccolo, that he would be a serious problem, weak powerlevel or not, and that was why both had transformed to the highest states possible.

The two high-tier Misfits floated in a few yards closer, cautiously watching Oyatsu from below, waiting for him to make a move. However when about 40 seconds passed with nothing but building tension, Vegeta and Goku cautiously decided to lower their altitude about 30 feet, to the point were they weren't too far off the ground, but able to make a quick movement if Dan pulled something.

Goku decided he would start off and called over, "Dan! What are you doing? This is crazy!" Oyatsu didn't immediately respond. He looked almost as if he were in a trance. Goku and Vegeta blinked at that.

Vegeta growled, "Dammit Dan, speak up! We want to know what're you're trying to pull over our eyes!"

Oyatsu still appeared somewhat to be in a trance, but then his eyes suddenly flickered from turquoise to orange, and he looked over to the two Saiya-jin. He breathed in deep one time, and then spoke up, however instead of Dan's voice, Oyatsu's own voice thundered out of Dan's mouth, "Son Goku, Vegeta, long time, no meet." Goku and Vegeta's eyes raised in surprise.

Goku responded, "So, it's Dan's body, but not Dan's mind."

"How observant of you, goofball." Oyatsu replied.

"What the hell do you want! Why are you attacking us?" Vegeta asked.

Oyatsu responded, "I'm very sorry. It's not anything really all that personal, Vegeta. However certain people I work for long for you and your Misfits out of the way, and I have been sent to do the job. Dan's conscience was locked in a struggle, due to his misgivings to Radditz and even Heero. Because of this, I was able to possess him and use him to my own means. You wouldn't believe the kind of potential he holds!"

Goku was curious, "Who are you anyways? You almost seem in a way like I should know you."

"I guess that familiarity shouldn't be a serious surprise. I used to know two of your own friends Goku, and I also am quite aware of you and Vegeta's own little antics. I even know a lot about #17 and Piccolo as well." Oyatsu replied.

"That doesn't tell us who you are! Out with it, you brat!" Vegeta growled impatiently.

"Geez you are impatient Vegeta." Oyatsu grumbled, "Do you two happen to remember Oolong and Puar?"

"Of course we do, why do you ask?" Goku was confused.

"Because I know them from the same academy they went to when they were young." Oyatsu explained, "I am called Oyatsu. I am a shapeshifter in my natural state, much akin to those two, except while those two stopped, I kept learning more and more. I also learned other abilities, one of which allowing me to possess the body of someone who is struggling with their conscience, much like Dan."

Goku looked in in worry, "I see. Do you realize how much trouble you're in Oyatsu? Dan is our friend, and you're not allow to have him, or any of the others! I don't care who you serve or why!" he then put himself into a fighting stance.

Vegeta growled as he got into a similar stance, "Really, are you such a coward that you have to hijack other people to do your dirty work!"

"Not a coward Vegeta, a wiseman. Let me put it to you clowns in a pop quiz: You've found your enemy, but he has possessed the body of one of those who you have been looking out for, like say a son, or a friend. You know you could kick his ass with ease, but the problem is that any attack you do runs a near 100 of killing the person you're trying to save! What the hell do you do? WHAT THE HELL DO YOU DO! ANSWER ME YOU PUNKS!" Oyatsu growled into an insane rage, causing Goku and Vegeta to actually back away a couple of inches at his outburst.

Seeing that he had made his point well enough, Oyatsu continued, "Well I know what you'll do! ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!" he growled as he made a sudden beeline straight at the two Saiya-jin.

Vegeta poised himself to counter-attack, but realized, "Damn me and my exposure to Kakarott's softness!" and jumped back, as did Goku, even at Super Saiya-jin 3, as Oyatsu suddenly jumped straight up into the air before coming too close to either Saiya-jin.

He cackled rather loud, "BWAHAHAHA! YOU ARE POWERLESS! YOUR SOFTNESS FOR OTHERS IS YOUR DOWNFALL!" Oyatsu growled, "AND NOW YOU'RE GOING TO SUFFER HORRIBLY FOR IT! DURTY DURT DUR! DURTY DURT DUR! DURTY DURT DUR! FALL TO YOUR KNEES!"

Goku and Vegeta suddenly went agape as they both began to notice each other powering down. Vegeta witnessed in horror as Goku's long hair slowly vanished back into his default base look, and Goku was equally as shocked to see Vegeta's hair return to a black color. Both Saiya-jin immediately attempted to power back up, even if only to normal Super Saiya-jin level, but the fart-like sounds from their aura were a shocking sign that the curse had done it's job well, even on the mightiest two of the Z-warriors.

"SHIT! What is this! Why the hell can't I transform!" Vegeta growled.

Goku was just as shocked, "I can't transform either!" Oyatsu wasted no time capitalizing on the two Saiya-jin's shock, and he aimed his shrinking blaster at Vegeta. The smaller Saiya-jin went agape as he only looked up just as he was hit, and Goku watched in a mystified horror as his friend and fellow Saiya-jin began to shrink down until he was the size of an ant.

Oyatsu quickly scanned both with his scouter, "Only 84,000,000? Your base powerlevel badly disappoints me Goku! Vegeta's at around 74,041, merely child's play to me!" Goku looked up to notice the blue scouter on his face, "Where did you get that scouter? It's not like the one Radditz had been using!"

"This scouter is a gift to me among many from those who hired me to take you out, and speaking of your brother's scouter, it's history! I broke it when I first took him down!" Oyatsu cackled.

Goku growled at him, "Damn you! What have you done to my brother and the others!"

"The same thing I'm about to do with you and Vegeta. You noticed I can shrink people, but their weakened powerlevel makes them easy to capture! I've been ordered to take you all alive if possible, but an accidental kill here and there wouldn't really hurt either if it came to it!" Oyatsu cackled.

Goku thought to himself, as Vegeta growled, "Bastard! Shrunken or not, I'm a lot stronger than the others!" and he flew up towards Oyatsu.

"Vegeta stop!" Goku cried up, but Vegeta ignored him. Oyatsu charged his ki and fired a moderate sized energy ball that intercepted the shrunken Saiya-jin prince with ease, and forcing him to the ground, where it exploded, leaving a charred Vegeta gasping for air on the scorched ground.

Vegeta made a second attempt to jump at Oyatsu, and fired off a Big Bang attack, but Oyatsu screamed a Kiai which absorbed the vastly weakened blast. He then swiped out and smacked Vegeta out of the air, causing him to smash to the ground, and knock him out cold.

He then formed two Kienzans, one in each hand, and called at Goku, "Hey catch this, hot shot!" and tossed both his way. Goku growled, and screamed out his own Kiai and dispersed the Kienzans, and made a dash at Oyatsu. Oyatsu raised his arms to defend himself, but Goku zanzokened above him at the last minute and swung a light kick into the shapeshifter's back, causing him to fly forward.

Oyatsu growled and flipped back up painfully, but Goku quickly attacked him a second time and this time he was sent flying through a nearby tree and ripping it apart. Oyatsu lay on his back in the field, badly wounded.

Damn! Damn damn damn! FUCKING BASTARD! I OUTTA KILL YOU! he screamed out mentally, not able to say it out loud with how wounded his body was.

It was then he realized, Of course! He doesn't know about the curtain! I can still beat him!

Goku stood on the ground nearby, wondering if Oyatsu was going to make another attempt at getting up. When about 20 seconds had passed without doing so, he sighed with relief, "Finally, he's down, but how am I gonna get this guy out of Dan without killing him?"

"Sculptor Curtain..." Oyatsu whispered, as he already began to feel his body lighten up. He then called to Goku, "YOU'RE NOT! TA-TA, SUCKER!"

Goku growled as he saw Oyatsu rise to his feet slowly, but as he did, Goku could swear he faded out of visibility. Goku tensed up, looking around for him with his ki sense, "Damn him! He teleported away!"

Oyatsu snickered, Idiot! He thinks I ran! Now to shrink his ass! he jumped up over Goku and landed behind him, and pulled out the Concussion Pulse Gun and the Shrinker Blaster, and fired a shot from each, which quickly combined into a single blast.

Goku turned his head, to find the large shot careening at him. However before he could jump he was shoved from behind by Oyatsu's quick reflexes, and was unable to dodge as he was hit by the blasts, and was both shrinking down to the size of an ant and then being restrained by the electrical pulses.

"What the hell! How did he..."

"IDIOT. You just thought I ran away, didn't you!" Oyatsu's voice echoed.

Goku tried to look around, not able to see Oyatsu anywhere, or even sense him with his ki. "Why the hell can't I see or sense you!"

"Ah, this time Dan IS responsible. Apparently he was beginning to gain some understanding of a new power of his. One that both heals and disguises his position, making him invisible to sight and ki sense apparently! Remember when you probably thought I vanished after I defeated Devin's gang? Well that was why!" Oyatsu replied in a fit a maddened glee, making Goku shudder.

Oyatsu focused his ki sense, lifting both Goku and Vegeta off the ground, unable to do little as he placed both inside another unoccupied bottle in his overcoat. However he realized as he had done this that he was becoming visible again for some reason.

"What the? Why is my cloak fading so quickly?" he asked in anger, and then realized, "Now I think I get it. As long as I don't try to use Ki or something along that line, I'll remain invisible. Using my ki for anything more than movement must distort the cloak and destroy it. Damn! That limits the use of this power! Maybe Dan's powers are still too underdeveloped for a serious battle." he mused, but he was impressed at his work, now he had about everyone else out of Dan's friends, except for Nina and Mr. Buu in his clutches, helpless to do more than squirm.

He knew now the worst was yet to come, Buu would not let this go unpunished, and Nina... he had no clue where the hell she had gone off to, but he figured if he could defeat Paula with moderate ease, he could defeat Nina too. He then remembered of the sensu plant Radditz had been revealed to be probably trying to grow.

"I think it's time to pay Nina and Radditz's place a little visit. I can't allow this sensu plant to be used by them, if it even grows!" he growled, as he activated a second use of Sculptor Curtain, in order to hide from Buu, just in case the Majin would attempt to intercept him along the way. He cackled madly as he took to the air and flew off in the direction of Nina's house.

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 7:41am; Canton, Ohio)

As Oyatsu flew in the direction of Nina's house, he had found himself entering the eastern end of Canton when he suddenly felt Buu's huge ki moving around close to him.

"What the hell! Buu! He's nearby! Maybe I should take care of him now!" Oyatsu chuckled, and flew off towards where he had sensed Buu's ki.

As he flew in, he realized he had reached the McKinley High School, close to the Pro Football Hall of Fame where Piccolo and #17 had gone to only days ago. He had flown around curiously, wondering why exactly Buu was still hovering around up here, and not exactly looking for him. He soon spotted Buu standing near the middle of the school's own football field, looking out northwards, almost as if he were looking for something.

Oyatsu looked at him, "What the hell's he doing? He's easy prey for me with his guard down like that! Oh well, might as well take advantage of this! I guess he won't be tough after all." as he landed only a few yards away from Buu, still cloaked with roughly another 10 to 15 minutes left before it automatically faded. He knew from experience using the guns he had would not reveal his position, although Buu might have some time to dodge the shots if he was too far away. He edged in closer, noticing Buu was still staring northwest-wards, as if he were waiting on something.

Heh, Buu you fool, it was nice knowing you! he thought to himself as he quickly shot the shrinking blaster at Buu. However as the laser was within 2 feet of Buu, his eyes opened, and a large hole opened in his large body, manipulated by his putty-like features, and the shrinking shot sailed harmlessly through without having any affect on Buu.

Oyatsu cursed mentally SHIT! HE SAW IT! I forgot he could manipulate his body that way! Buu scowled and quickly fired a small blast towards the location of Oyatsu's blast. Although it was a weak shot, it was moving far too fast for the shapeshifter to fully dodge, and he was hit, and sent flying back about 2 or 3 yards before he broke free. However the blast had done more than knock the wind out of him, the hit had also distorted the cloak provided to him, causing it to fade out and reveal himself to Buu.

Buu turned to Oyatsu, with a face of concern, "Dan, what you doing?"

Oyatsu growled, "What does it look like, you pink piece of shit? I'm here to take you out!"

"Dan not being nice!" Buu grumbled as he stared at Oyatsu.

"Hah, you wanna chide me about not being nice! I'm not the one who was responsible for destroying a fucking planet, or more!" Oyatsu growled back, and it looked as if anger were slowly taking him over, and it looked apparent he did not like Buu one bit.

"What Dan talking about? Buu no destroy planets!" Buu replied.

"You lying bastard! It was because you couldn't control your anger that the Earth was destroyed! Imagine how someone still alive felt! You killed nearly everyone on Earth before hand, because you thought it was some twisted game!" Oyatsu fumed.

"That not Buu, that was evil Buu!" Buu growled in defense.

"DON'T GIVE ME THAT!" Oyatsu screamed in rage, "YOU WERE THE REASON 'EVIL BUU' CAME TO BE! YOU COULDN'T JUST HOLD IT BACK, COULD YOU! YOU HAD TO EXPEL YOUR EVIL SIDE, AND BECAUSE YOU WERE SO FUCKING WEAK, YOU GOT ABSORBED, AND HELPED HIM EVOLVE! YOU ARE THE ONE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DESTRUCTION OF THE EARTH! I HATE YOU! I HATE YOUR GUTS! I REALLY REALLY WISH YOU'D KEEL OVER AND DIE!"

"You... you not Dan." Buu growled, his anger bubbling, "What you do to Dan! What you do to friends!"

"Nothing in comparison to the torture I have reserved especially for you!" Oyatsu growled, almost falling into a fit of insane rage again, "You being free is an abomination! It's time you got what you deserve! My masters will deal with you later." Buu growled, and Oyatsu could see a few streams of steam rush from the pores in his arms and head.

"SIT DOWN." Buu growled and smashed the ground with a sudden blow, which caught Oyatsu off guard and forced him to jump off the ground to avoid falling down. Buu raised his hand and shot a series of three ki blasts in a triangular pattern at the retreating shapeshifter.

Although not killer by any means, Oyatsu wasn't exactly in a position to simply dodge, and was hit by all three before he could think. He managed however to keep his composure and stay in the air. Buu zanzokened out of his sight, and Oyatsu suddenly felt a fist hammer him in the face. He flew down and smashed into the ground below, and Buu descended right behind him, and before Oyatsu could flip up, Buu landed right on top of his chest, although not a fatal hit, it was more than enough to knock the wind out of the shapeshifting villain.

Buu growled at Oyatsu, "ENOUGH OF THIS! BUU PISSED! GET OUT OF DAN! GET OUT OF HIM! YOU NOT GOING ANYWHERE!"

"Why don't you just kill me then, fatass!" Oyatsu coughed.

"Buu will not kill Dan! Buu will stay here until you leave Dan's body!" Oyatsu growled and flipped him the bird, but Buu grumbled at him and ignored the gesture. Oyatsu tried to struggle free, but Buu's weight held his lower body pinned to the ground like a vice.

Damn that fucking piece of chewing gum! I'LL KILL HIM! WAIT! Of course! Duh! Oyatsu looked up at Buu, and appeared to look as if the anger had drained out of his face, I gotta time this just right, or I'm screwed!

"I... I'm sorry... I lost it..." he acted as if he were to apologize, although he was mentally cringing that he would have to do such an act.

Buu's glare softened, "Who you? Why you so mad at Buu? Buu's evil side blew up Earth! But Earth was restored! Why hold grudge?"

Oyatsu grumbled softly, "You think just because your precious 'Dragonballs' can bring stuff back that it's fine to just ignore facts? The dragon can only grant each wish ONCE. You can't just act so nonchalant about something like blowing up a planet!"

Buu sighed, He does make a point there. "But why hate good Buu? Buu can't help his power wasn't enough to beat evil Buu!"

"I hate you because if you hadn't blown up for whatever reason, that peace would've come, and the Earth and its' people, they wouldn't have to suffer so much! You might not of known, but your evil self killed nearly everyone else left alive, and then he went insane and blew Earth to atoms!" Oyatsu grumbled, now beginning to focus a great deal of hidden energy into his still concealed hands.

Buu sighed, "Buu sorry okay! Buu was created like that! Blame Bibidi and Babidi! They made Buu to kill, to hurt, to destroy!"

"I realize that now..." Oyatsu replied, "But even then... I CAN NEVER FORGIVE YOU!" he then outstretched his hands right at Buu's face, "MAFUBA!"

The green blast of incarcerating energy flew out of Oyatsu's hands...

Being right on top of him, Buu had no room to dodge, and was hit immediately. Oyatsu screamed bloody murder as Buu began to scream in horror, as even his great power was unable to prevent the Mafuba from affecting him. Buu swirled around within the green vortex of energy as Oyatsu screamed like a banshee on steroids, Buu slowly shrunk down in the vortex until he was none but the size of a rat, and Oyatsu managed to fling out a capsule which had formed into a small bottle with a strange kana on the side. Buu shrieked in horror, unable to break free of the powerful containment wave.

"NOW GO TO HELL YOU BASTARD!" Oyatsu screamed as he directed Buu down all the way into the bottle, and after Buu had vanished within, he quickly corked the bottle, and reinforced it by shrinking it down and stuffing IT inside of a normal bottle like the ones he had used to hold the other Misfits. Oyatsu gasped hard, and breathed heavily, as he came to the realization that he had done it.

"YES! YES! I DID IT! WHO'S THE MAN NOW, BUU! HOW DO YOU LIKE YOUR NEW HOME! I HOPE YOU ENJOY IT, BECAUSE IT'S ALL YOU'RE GOING TO KNOW FOR THE REST OF YOUR FUCKING ETERNAL LIFE!" he screamed at the bottle in a disbelieving victory.

He then slumped to the ground, gasping for air... "I did it! I finally did it! I can't believe it... but Dan... he actually had the right stuff, I finally got Buu, and with only Nina left to deal with, I've basically all but succeeded!"

Getting slowly to his feet, he felt around, trying to sense out for Nina's ki. However much to his surprise, he could actually get a lock on her location this time.

However Oyatsu realized something, "So, that must've been what Buu was doing here! He was going to pair up with Nina to face me!" he spoke, as he saw Nina now on the horizon. The winged girl's size and large wings made it hard for him to not see her approaching. However she did not appear to be much too happy as she flew in closer to the football field.

Nina looked down and called, "Alright, whoever you are, enough is enough! It's time I put an end to this, once and for all!" she then landed out of the sky and to the ground about 10 feet from Oyatsu.

Seeing that his eyes had still been orange, she growled, "So it's true. You're the one who tipped off Al-queda to us."

Oyatsu cackled, his spirits uplifted from his battle with Buu, "Why yes, I was the one who originally sent them after Dan. However I realized how much of a mistake I almost made. Dan turned out to be far better alive than dead! I've now captured all of your friends, with the sole exception of yourself, but if you honestly think you can beat me, let's see you try!"

Nina smirked, "Very well." and she aimed her hands at him and fired a snaking black energy wave. Oyatsu jumped backward to dodge it, not wanting to know what could happen to him if it hit, but Nina quickly zanzokened behind him and gave him a vicious knee to the back, and sent the shapeshifter plowing forward, and landing on his face.

Oyatsu flipped up and growled, "Cheapshot bitch!"

"Takes one to know one." Nina replied, and fired off a blast of her Fireball spell. Not knowing what to expect, Oyatsu dodged aside, however Nina had come in close again.

"Dammit!" he growled as he barely managed to dodge her punch, and realized his body was a little harder of reaction than earlier. I need to catch her off guard! Wait, just maybe that'll work!

He then growled, "Not bad, but can you handle this?" he asked, pulling out the Concussion Pulse Gun at aiming it at Nina.

She gasped in horror as she quickly put two and two together, "It was you! You're the one who gave that Al-queda operative his stun-cannon!"

"Yes, and don't think I can't take you down with it. It worked very well on #17, someone with a powerlevel more than 40 times stronger than you!"

Nina growled, realizing she was in trouble if she got hit by the blasts, since she might end up attracting them at her. Oyatsu shot two blasts Nina's way. She managed to quickly dart past them, avoiding them. She tried to rush in close at Oyatsu to disable the gun, but she saw him unleash a torrent of shots her way out of reaction, which made it far too risky to get too close.

Dammit! As long as he has that gun, I'll have to hit him from range. She jumped back and unleashed a volley of ki blasts in an attempt to hit the gun, but Oyatsu jumped back, and called out "Sculptor Curtain!" and again began to heal some of his injuries and vanish from both Nina's sight and her ki sense.

"Damn! What the hell did he just... woah!" she couldn't even finish her sentence as four pulse blasts suddenly shot at her. She managed to dodge them all, but now she was finding it hard to even concentrate since blasts appeared to shot from several different points in front of her.

She growled, Where are they! as she continued to dodge a volley of pulse cannon shots. However, Nina's luck was quickly running out, as she suddenly took a hit from behind by a moderately strong force, and got sent flying forward and hit the ground hard. She barely managed to roll under 3 other pulse shots sent in her direction, but she growled as she realized one of her ankles had been twisted in the fall. As she tried dodging a few more pulse shots, she took another hit from a blunt force from her side, and was finally knocked forward right into the path of one of the pulse blasts.

The energy hit her and quickly covered her from head to toe, pinning her to the ground. Nina tried desperately to fight the energy, but it wasn't budging, even for her. Oyatsu cackled, still invisible to her eyes, and her ki sense, but Nina, despite being pinned down, had finally managed to sense him, but not through ki, but through apparently his magicpowerlevel.

Oyatsu however did not seem to be quite so aware of this, and cackled, "So now do you see how fruitless this is! It's over Nina, now your team is totally down for the count. Dan will make a great vassal for my new plans!"

Nina grumbled, "You know what sucks about you? You talk too much!" as she raised her hand and shot a large blast of energy from the ring on her finger. Oyatsu, not expecting her to know where to aim was smacked hard by the magic-like blast and knocked to the ground, his cloak fading, and the concussion blaster falling to the ground, still intact.

"Argh! Lucky shot you bitch, but that alone won't stop me!" he replied as he saw the energy field still strong as ever around Nina. He pulled out the Shrinking Blaster and pointed it at her, "Once I shoot you with this, not even that hidden attack of yours will do much more than tickle me! Say hi to your friends for me, I'll be sure to stick you in with one..." however Oyatsu would not be able to finish his sentence or even get the chance to fire his shrinker, as he suddenly witnessed a large ki blast tearing right through what was once his shrinking blaster, and a second blast suddenly fly past his face and smash into what had been the concussion pulse blaster. Both weapons exploded into pieces, and Oyatsu turned his head in rage to the source of the shots.

"WHO DARES!" he growled, however he turned to find a THIRD blast heading straight at his face.

The shot smashed into him, tearing through the earpiece on his scouter, causing the assembly to explode, destroying the piece of scanning equipment. Oyatsu then gasped in a horrified shock, as he saw one person staring at him with a rage he had not been expecting.

His eyes now bore a insane look to him, "I should've remembered to get you first! You fucking bitch, you broke my scouter, and two of my best toys!" Oyatsu growled over at Teresa as the other girl had her hand outstretched, prepared to fire more blasts at the shapeshifter.

"I'll say this only once, GET THE FUCK OUT OF DAN'S BODY, NOW." she growled, barely holding in rage.

"Hahahaha! You have some damn nerve, bitch! Dan is MINE, MINE MINE MINE! And you... you are going to be DEAD DEAD DEAD! I do NOT need to leave YOU alive in any way shape or form! You just signed your death warrant by coming here!" Oyatsu bellowed, as he charged in faster than Teresa could act, and gave her a hard blow to the stomach, sending her flying back over 60 yards, and smashing through the stands around the football field. However Oyatsu had quickly appeared in her path of movement, and swung a vicious blow to her back, sending her slamming into the ground face first, and she could only twitch after the landing.

Oyatsu smirked insanely, "Now you find out how it feels, to suffer true fear, girl! If you thought Al-queda was horrifying, I'll show you a level of terror they could never hope to accomplish!" as he jumped up and landed his foot in Teresa's back, and stomped down on her several times, hearing the satisfying crack of her bones beginning to break as he stamped down on her repeatedly.

Nina, still trapped in the energy field from the pulse gun, attempted to fire several magic-blasts from her ring at Oyatsu, but the shapeshifter laughed in glee, knowing Nina couldn't close the gap to hit him more accurately, and merely dodged his head aside to avoid any that did come near him. He even managed to smack a blast aside that hit Teresa's fallen form in the arm, and hurting her worse.

"Do your worst Nina! Your aim sucks from range! That popgun does little to save your friend!" He then turned over to the fallen Teresa and grabbed her and threw her over on her back. She had looked in horrible shape from Oyatsu's attacks, and she was barely able to keep her eyes open.

"I'm sorry I can't talk longer, but have fun dying!" he growled.

Nina screamed in horror as she witnessed him plow his fist all the way through Teresa's chest, and out her back, making a massive dent in the ground beneath her. However Oyatsu did not see Teresa squirm defiantly in her final moments, nor did he even see any blood around the large hole in her stomach. Her insides made it look like she was composed of jello, and Oyatsu could swear her skin was turning blue.

Then Teresa smirked in a taunting manner, "PSYCHE!" as she appeared to turn into a blue energy that wrapped tightly around Oyatsu. The shapeshifter had no time to react as the energy wrap exploded and created a massive shockwave, which washed over the area and collided with Nina on the way past.

Nina gasped in shock, "Wait a minute! That was just one of her energy duplicates! I should've known! Damn her for scaring me shitless like that!" As the dust cleared, Oyatsu realized he had been horribly tricked. While he was not as injured as he though, he had not been able to put up a perfect defense, and he was badly charred, and his overcoat looked as if it was going to soon crumble to ashes.

"Damn... her... I should've fucking known. Her energy clones!" he growled.

"Hey bastard, over here!" Teresa's voice called from behind him, as he turned to see Teresa standing near the restrained Nina.

He growled, "Damn you! Don't think you can avoid the inevitable! Your energy clones might be a good trick, but you aren't exactly strong in your own right yet! Also, your clones appear to give off erratic readings on the scouter! I just need to look at the powerlevels to know which is really you!"

Teresa smirked, "Then try to find the real me, you asshole."

Oyatsu growled, as he began to reach into his overcoat, "Such insolence, you little bitch, I'll show you... WHAT!" he suddenly realized the capsule he was trying to find was missing. He growled frantically, trying to find the capsule with his scouters in them, but he couldn't find the right one.

"WHERE IS IT!" he growled frantically.

"You looking for a capsule full of decked-out scanner thingies!" Teresa called in a sing-song voice, pulling out a capsule in her pocket, one that made Oyatsu's eyes go red with fury.

"WHERE THE FUCK DID YOU FIND THAT CAPSULE!" he growled in rage.

Teresa cackled, "You shouldn't have been so careless when you fought Radditz! Remember when he caught you by surprise? You dropped a capsule out of your coat. Turns out it was filled with these sweet scouters. I had to count nearly 280 of them, all different colors of course."

Oyatsu growled as his energy flared up in a very uncontained rage, "DAMN HIM! GIVE ME BACK THAT CAPSULE YOU WENCH, OR I'LL YOUR REAL DEATH WILL BE FIFTY TIMES MORE BRUTAL THAN WHAT I GAVE YOUR ENERGY CLONE!"

Teresa pulled her eyelid down and raspberried the shapeshifter. He snarled at her, "I'M WARNING YOU! DON'T FUCK WITH ME, OR YOU'LL SUFFER A FATE WORSE THAN HELL!" he snarled, as electrical energy began to crackle around his already erratic aura.

Nina's eyes went wide, "Dammit! Teresa, he's going to Super Saiya-jin 2! He'll easily kill you! Give him the capsule before he mutilates you!"

Teresa snarled at Nina, "I am not a coward, and I will not let this asshole control Dan without any say in the matter!"

"Bold words, girl, but you're nothing even to Dan before I possessed him, what makes you think you even stand a chance against me NOW!" Oyatsu snarled, and prepared to charge at her, but suddenly he stopped as if he had been paralyzed. He tried to move, but he could barely move a muscle, as his own fist came rocketing into his face, and knocking him back for a wild loop.

He landed on his back, and tried to struggle to his feet, but he only ended up punching himself a second time. Teresa and Nina looked on in shock.

"What the hell is wrong with him!" asked Nina.

Teresa looked on, a hint of a smile on her face, Dan... you're finally trying to break out, aren't you?

Oyatsu continued struggling to even move most of his body, but he kept beating himself up instead. Suddenly, he screamed a horrible screech, but this time, Dan's real voice was heard, and not Oyatsu, "YOU STAY AWAY FROM HER YOU BASTARD! YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE!"

Oyatsu snarled, and slugged himself in the face, "I SEE NOW! YOU LIKE HER, DON'T YOU? YOU COULDN'T BREAK OUT WHILE I WAS ATTACKING DUSTY, AND YET YOU'RE GIVING ME PROBLEMS ONLY WHEN I'M THREATENING HER LIFE! FIGHT ME DAN! FIGHT ME AND LOSE LIKE THE WEAK FOOL YOU ARE!"

He then snapped to life, and stood to his feet, although once in a while, Oyatsu would lose control and Dan would make him punch himself.

Oyatsu snarled, "ENOUGH OF THIS! I'VE HAD IT WITH ALL OF YOU!" He then bent forward and put his arms to his chest in a cross-stance, and then screamed bloody murder as he released a massive shockwave which instantly slammed into Teresa and Nina, and sent then rocketing back over 200 yards. Oyatsu felt as if his entire essence would erupt into a fiery hell, as Dan's hair began to grow in length, growing all the way down his back, and to his hips, and his eyebrows began to fade away, and his orange pupils turning red and dilated. His electrical pulses began to intensify, yet looking to be more controlled in appearance, and his muscles tensed up tight. The dust cleared, as Teresa and Nina, now freed of the pulse cannon's energy field, gaped on in horror.

"His powerlevel nearly tripled! Shit!" Nina growled, "Please... please please don't tell me he just..."

"OH MY GOD, WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM!" Teresa yelled in a mix of rage and fear.

Nina finally managed to see Oyatsu, and she cursed, "Damn our luck, Vegeta, Alex, Jason, Vernon, Radditz and Clint are NOT going to be happy about this if we all survive."

Oyatsu had finally realized of his change, and his expression was now more insane-looking than ever before. "UNBELIEVABLE! I HAVE DONE IN LESS THAN A DAY, WHAT THAT CLOWN GOKU TOOK TEN YEARS TO DO! THIS IS GREAT! I FEEL EXCELLENT! I'M A SUPER SAIYA-JIN 3!" he then looked over, chuckling at Teresa and Nina, and he realized that with his newfound powerups that he actually far surpassed Nina without having to shrink her down.

"WHAT A TWIST OF FATE, WOULDN'T YOU LADIES SAY? I LOSE MY SHRINKING CANNON, WHAT I THOUGHT WOULD BE THE ONLY WAY TO DEFEAT NINA, BUT IRONICALLY, WITH TERESA AND DAN'S INTERFERENCE, I MANAGE TO SURPASS HER IN WAY POWER ANYWAYS! DOESN'T FATE FIND THE SWEETEST WAYS OF KICKING ONE IN THE ASS!" Oyatsu cackled, and he knew he was through playing games, "NOW... PLAYTIME'S OVER! I'M GOING TO DESTROY THIS ENTIRE AREA, AND YOU TWO ALONG WITH IT! HAVE FUN IN HELL, BECAUSE I'LL MAKE SURE YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HEAVEN!" Oyatsu jumped up into the air with quick speed, and cupped his hands to the side, building energy for a massive Kamehameha, which while aimed down at Nina and Teresa's location, would more than likely have enough power packed in it to hit like a powerful bomb. Teresa and Nina looked up with a horrified expression.

"We're boned, aren't we?" asked Teresa.

"Uh yeah, we're very boned." Nina replied, until she perked up mysteriously, "Or maybe not!"

Oyatsu cackled insanely, "YES, MY PRETTY, CHARGE UP, CHARGE UP TO FULL POWER!" he looked down with monstrous intent upon the helpless remaining Misfits on the ground, "THEY'RE SO PETRIFIED THEY WON'T EVEN TRY TO GET OUT OF THE WAY!"

He then aimed his hands at them, "NOW PREPARE FOR YOUR END! HA!" he screamed and shot the massive blast down towards Nina and Teresa. Or at least that had been the plan...

Until a larger blast flew in from the west and intercepted Oyatsu's otherwise killer blast, and then directed both up into the upper atmosphere, where both blasts had exploded violently. However Oyatsu had no time to even witness this, as he had been slammed in the stomach with a walloping blow. His eyes nearly popped out, and his jaw hanging agape as he struggled to breath. He then was dealt a horrific kick to his back, sending him plummeting to the ground, and creating a massive crater.

Despite these blows, he was able to slowly get to his feet, and look in the direction of his attacker, however Nina and Teresa had still been rooted to the ground 200 yards away, so it had been neither of them. As his eyes lay on his attacker, he did a double take at the appearance of this new person. She was a woman standing nearly 5'7", with a slim build, blonde hair with shoulder length, however parted in an odd way in which the left side looked to cover her left ear, and the right side appearing to be slung over behind her right ear. Her slanted blue eyes bore into Oyatsu like a lion, as he finally registered his attacker's identity.

However, that was the last thing he would be able to think of, as he growled, "Sh... shit... I didn't... expect... a twentieth one..." as he collapsed to the ground, and his power dropping sharply, as his Super Saiya-jin forms slowly dispersed, until he was back in base.

A black, vaporous mist began to rise from Dan's body, as orange eyes appeared in the mist, looking to gaze bloody murder at his fatal assailant. The vapors began to form along the ground nearby, until it revealed the same grayish-black striped cat that he had been when Dan pet him the night before.

He looked up at Juuhachigou, or simply '#18' as many of her allies called her, and cursed, "How! How did you find this place so fast!"

#18 smirked at him, "You can thank my brother for that, you lunatic. Although I was already on the verge of finding this place, it was because of him and Nina that I was able to find you so fast. It was smart to use one of their own for your game, but I'm afraid the game is over. As you were boasting your grand plan to by brother, his internal transmitter was sending your conversation to me, therefore I had become aware you were causing trouble. You lose, I win."

Oyatsu almost looked as if he were going to personally fly up to try to strange the newcomer, but then his expression stiffened. "Maybe... maybe you're right, today. But if you really think I'm down for the count, you're quite wrong." he growled, and put a paw to his forehead, "Mark my words, cyborg bitch, you and your friends will live to regret this. I might not bother come back right away, or I might be gone for many years, but this isn't over."

#18 growled, "Enough crazy talk! Die you fiend!" she growled, igniting a Kienzan and shooting it down at Oyatsu.

However before the razor disc of ki could hit the cat, he vanished into thin air, and #18's eyes went wide, "What the! Shit! That was Kai Kai! How did he gain that technique? Damn... he's gone... I don't sense him at all anymore. Hell, I couldn't sense him in his natural form before... so I guess we're back to square one." She then lowered down to Dan's nearly-dead form. He looked badly banged up, despite the feats Oyatsu had made his body endure over the last few hours. Nina and Teresa had finally been able to reach them, realizing Oyatsu had gotten away.

"How is he?" Nina asked.

#18 scanned his body, "Not good, he's got many broken bones. I'm sure nothing short of a sensu's gonna help him, but I know he was capturing the other friends of yours. Where did he put them?"

"They're in his coat pocket, stashed away in bottles. I think Buu's additionally in some kind of extra jar made to seal away demons. He actually managed to get Buu with that Mafuba pretty good." Nina explained.

As they searched Dan's body, they managed to procure several more capsules, and much to their luck, they had found a second shrinker blaster, and a third concussion pulse gun in a couple of the left over capsules. They soon found the bottles, and found their friends inside of them, many of them barely conscious or out of it due to the thinness of the air within.

"We're coming!" Teresa said, as the three women quickly uncorked the many bottles, and releasing their shrunken and mostly injured friends into the open.

Teresa had managed to finally uncork the tiny jar Buu had been locked away in, and the pink fat Majin had managed to finally break free of his prison. He looked a bit confused at first, but he cheered up at the sight of #18.

"Cyborg girl make it! You well?" he asked.

#18 sighed, "Yeah, it's over, but the guy who possessed your friend got away, and we can't sense him."

Buu aimed his forelock at Dan and healed him quickly with it.

Dan grumbled as he finally awoke, and when he discovered Oyatsu's presence clear of him, he actually jumped up and cheered, "Oh my god! He's finally gone! Thank you guys! I appreciate all you've done, even if it put my body through hell and back."

"Don't... sweat it Dan, but it was #18 here who saved all our asses, not us." Teresa replied.

Dan looked to #18, who just simply looked back, "Um, thanks then #18. Sorry about all the shit I did. That guy definitely stuck it to us all. Where is he, anyways?"

#18 sighed, "He knew Kai Kai, or instant translocation. The same thing the East Kaioshin can do. He could be ANYWHERE, and the worst part is that I couldn't sense his energy at all when he was here, except while he was inside of you, so I can't find him now. We're gonna have to keep on our toes, because he might pull this shit again, and I don't feel like having to save your ass a second time." she then ended grumpily, as she had learned by scanning the shrinker that there was a reverse setting that would undo the effects.

She quickly placed all of the shrunken Misfits in one gathered area, and shot the large enlarging laser over them. Soon, Radditz, Alex, Paula, Heero, Virgil, Steve, Dwayne, Dusty, Clint, Devin, Piccolo, #17, Goku and Vegeta had all grown back to full size. Although most of them were still either unconscious or out of it, Buu went to work and quickly healed all of them as fast as he could. Soon they all awakened, and Piccolo's arms had even been regenerated without a temporarily loss of powerlevel due to Buu's methods.

(September 15, 2001 A.D.; 8:15am; Canton, Ohio)

After getting to their senses, the other Misfits had asked about the entire situation. Many of them had first thought Dan really had been the culprit, but Goku, Vegeta, #18, Nina, Buu and Teresa vouched for him, but then #18 had to give them the bad news that Oyatsu had gotten away, and that she had not been able to sense him at all even before he did. Goku was shocked to find out that Oyatsu knew the East Kaioshin's Kai Kai. However the biggest shit hit the fan when Nina, Teresa and #18 had to reveal that Dan had not only been pushed to become a Super Saiya-jin, but that he had also reached 2 and then 3. Although Dan did attempt to transform back to 3 again, he was barely able to keep hold over 2 without almost passing out. He realized that without Oyatsu, he didn't have as much power as he did with little holding him back at the moment12.

Alex, Jason, Vernon and Vegeta were very mad to find out that three eyewitnesses were saying that Dan had managed to become a Super Saiya-jin 3 where they had not been able to yet. Vegeta however appeared to be the most angered and jealous, having tried for 10+ years without success to attain the form. Alex was a close second, and Jason wasn't happy either. Vernon was neutral, realizing Dan might still prove to be quite powerful after all. Piccolo had also been shocked to learn of Dan's Saiya-jin DNA, but Dan hastily still reminded him their bet was still on, and Piccolo grumbled at him about it. Clint was just taking it all in stride, while Radditz was actually quite impressed, although he was disappointed Dan could not hold 2 for too long, but with more training, he felt Dan might be able to overcome that without having to be possessed.

Basically, Dan was pardoned for his 'questionable' actions, however Radditz was in for some heat when Piccolo and #17 had told the others he had been trying to plant a Sensu plant. Radditz explained he would've told them, except that he didn't think the plant was actually growing well. Although Piccolo didn't yell at him, he did mentioned that Korin seemed to be the only one who could properly make sensu beans.

Soon, the rest of the team got time to induct #18 into the Misfits.

#18 didn't really show any emotion to the declaration, but she spoke over to her brother, "Well #17, I finally got here, so now what do I do? Just hang around you guys, or do I train someone too?"

#17 looked over in amusement, "Maybe I could take you to Carlson's Lot and get you a motorcycle. Piccolo and I could use some competition." Piccolo scowled at #17's comment, but didn't speak on it.

#18 decided, "No thank you, I don't care so much about driving as you two do. I think I'm going to train someone as well, or just hang around in close to #17. Where are you living anyways?" she then asked.

"Piccolo and I are staying over with Vernon, since we're his original trainers. I'm not sure if you'd be able to get in or not. We'll have to ask." #17 replied.

"Nevermind, I think I'll make due on my own place." #18 chuckled at him.

After that, a small more amount of jabber went up among the 20 Misfits, until Dan had decided to look through all the stuff in the overcoat Oyatsu had brought with him. "Maybe this stuff will actually give us more information on who he really is." he suggested.

However Teresa suddenly called their attention, "Radditz, you lost your old scouter, right?"

"Yeah, how can I forget?" he said, looking at Dan with a small glare, who cowered slightly.

"Well, I think the trade off was well worth it, take a look at these capsules." she cheered as she threw two blue-colored scouters onto the ground. In their place appeared to be large briefcases. However when they opened them, inside were rows of scouters. Each briefcase had 14 rows of ten scouters, each different colors, including Green, Pink, Red, Yellow, Cyan, Blue, Navy Blue, Purple, Orange, Dark-Silver, Light-Silver, White, and then finally clear-lenses on the bottom. Another suitcase was basically identical in contents, except the scouters all had stripes of different colors on their shells, and a strange insignia painted over the earpieces. The only difference were that there had only been nine of the blue-lensed ones. Teresa sweatdropped, realizing the missing scouter in this briefcase had probably been the one her energy clone had destroyed earlier.

Vegeta and Radditz had expressed looks on their faces that reminded one of a boy opening a large Christmas gift. Vegeta gaped at the many 'overclocked' scouters in the second briefcase, "This... this has to be some dream!"

"What's the big deal about these 'overclocked' scouters anyways?" asked Paula quizzically.

Vegeta looked at her, "They're only what you would call 'the Holy Grail' of scouters! I know scouters are not of best use anymore on those who can lower their powerlevels, but these scouters are unique in the fact that they cannot be overloaded to the point of exploding like the old models. Also, the reason they're really called 'overclocked' is that they can scan powerlevels higher than the 'normal' version of the same colored scouter. Also, there appear to be lens-shades of scouters that I've never seen before.13"

Dan then realized, "I remember Oyatsu using the blue one from earlier on Piccolo and #17, their readings actually climbed to nearly 95 million on those!"

"WHAT! Are you serious!" Radditz jumped up in shock. Vegeta reached over and grabbed the next color-code down, a Navy Blue scouter, and put it on his ear. He then looked over and pressed the button on the side, and his eyes went agape when he saw Buu's powerlevel.

"These scouters... are unbelievable, I can actually see Buu's true powerlevel. It's around 623 million degrees!" Vegeta yelled in shock.

"Really! Wow, that is unbelievable... these might actually still serve a purpose after all in training sessions! There's also so many of them I'm sure we can actually give one to each of us of some kind." Goku had replied, and then suggested. However, Dan was still rooting through some of the other capsules, until he found what looked like a slightly mangled capsule in a lower pocket.

"Hmmm... what the hell does this one have in it?" he wondered as he pressed the button and threw it to the field.

As it uncompressed, it revealed a sight that made Goku and Vegeta's mouths fall almost to the ground, but Goku's far more. "No... no way! There's just no way that can be!"

"What? What is it Goku?" Piccolo asked, a little amused at this.

"It's... it's the spaceship Dr. Briefs made for me to go to Namek over 20 years ago!14"

"The same one that was destroyed when Frieza destroyed Old Namek!" Alex had then realized as well that it did look familiar, yet really banged up.

"Yes Alex, the very same one."

It was then that Devin looked at the ship with a strange glee, "Then... that means it has..."

"A GRAVITY CHAMBER!" Dusty finished as he ran up to the banged up ship, followed by Clint, Vernon, Alex and Dan.

"Guys wait! Nothing in there probably works anymore!" Goku warned them, although he noticed the vertical rotating door open up, although slowly, enough to allow the five Misfits inside, where they saw the vertical pillar-like machine which could control a field of gravity on the upper level of the ship. Dan ran over to the controls, and attempted to dial in the buttons to turn it on, but to his dismay, he got nothing but dead air. Goku and Vegeta had followed them from behind.

"I told you, this ship is 20 years old, not to mention it should be space dust. I'm surprised the door still opened." Goku replied, "I mean, how the hell could Oyatsu have gotten my old ship when everyone except me and Frieza had been wished off of Namek before it exploded?"

"Didn't #18 say Oyatsu knew Kaioshin's Kai Kai? I mean, if I remember, that's the teleportation that doesn't require a ki signature for a destination. He might have somehow teleported there after Porguna's wish was made, and compressed the ship and ran off with it." Nina had suggested.

"Who knows really?" Vegeta piped in, "But it's too bad Bulma's not here. I'm sure she'd fix this thing up in a hurry."

"Yeah, we need gravity machines in general around here. Our training is slowing down." Devin remarked. Paula had felt guilty at that remark, knowing Nina could easily help them, but Nina would probably go into a long explanation about them not being ready again.

"Hmmm... maybe I could find a way to fix it. I have a garage at my place where I was looking over the original Concussion Pulse Gun when I got possessed by Oyatsu, maybe he left something there that can help me fix it, or maybe there's something else in one of these capsules." Dan replied, as he shooed his friends out of the ship, and hit the compression button, reverting the ship to capsule form.

Goku just looked at him, "Well, if anyone CAN fix it, they'll have themselves a gravity machine that can go up to 100 times. I'm not going to hog it for myself, and Vegeta, Piccolo, #17, #18 and Buu probably don't need it either, so you guys can fight over it."

"Well, I say... training can probably just be called off completely today... too much shit going on, and not to mention, none of us can transform anyways, except Dan, due to Oyatsu's curse." Clint mentioned. At that remark, the others looked to Dan.

"Dan, speaking of the curse, do you have any idea when it'll fade away?" asked Goku.

Dan sighed, "The entire curse will fade away in time, but it will probably be about a week to 10 days at least. Also, the direct effects of the curse last 12 hours at a time, so don't say anything stupid like that for at least 10 or more days, okay?"

"12 hours? I guess I could take a break, for today. Tomorrow though, we should probably pick up our efforts. Oyatsu's taught us that we're still not ready for what lies ahead. It seems Dwayne, Steve and Dusty's mention of dark threats was not a lie." Goku replied.

After more talking over the matters of their harsh day and near brush with total defeat, they broke off from each other for a short while.

Dan and Teresa flew back towards Dan's own house, taking some of the capsules Oyatsu had left behind with him.

Radditz and Nina decided to head back to their place to rest off the day and to make sure the former would be able to get to work alright.

#17, Piccolo and Vernon all headed back to Vernon's house, while Goku and Vegeta had taken the scouters procured from Oyatsu and flew back with Alex to their own neighborhood.

Devin headed back to his own house as well, as did Clint to his place, and Jason to his place.

#18 flew off towards the center of Canton, stating she was looking around for a mall or another shopping area, while Paula split off to her house, and also Dwayne, Steve and Dusty heading back to Dusty's neighborhood.

Heero also decided he was going to follow after Dan and Teresa and talk with them, apparently wanting to get their past conflicts out of the way.

Buu headed back to the wilderness near Devin's lot to meditate.

Although they have won this battle by the skin of their teeth, and even gained a new ally in the process, Dan's possession would only be the first of many potential threats the Misfits are going to be facing down the road. Many strive for new goals, and to figure out why they are struggling in other affairs, while others still meander around on their own business of training, but the looming threat of Al-queda and even a potential return of Oyatsu hangs over them like the storm clouds which do not like to dissipate in the middle of a summer heat...

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Footnotes:

1 Concussion Pulse Gun This was heavily inspired by Vile's shoulder-mounted Stun Cannon from the Megaman X series. The same one he uses to defeat X twice in the first game.

2 Oyatsu "Afternoon Tea". He/She/It is named along the same line of name puns Akira Toriyama used for Puar and Oolong, and ironically, also Yamcha. They are all named after teas.

3 Durty Durt Dur A 'taunt' of sorts coined by Jason and Alex in their first year at Canton South. It basically is meant to poke fun at retarded people.

4 Shrinking Blaster Inspired by the Shrinker in Duke Nukem 3D. That's the reason Clint can recognize the gun and it's function(he's played DN3D). It's also part of the reason he tried to reflect the shot off of a mirror. The "Expander" concept is slightly behind the use of the Reverse setting used to grow everyone back.

5 Note: Depending on the version, Puar is depicted either as a male or a female. The original suggests Puar is a boy, while the English dubs refer to Puar as a she. However truth is we can't really tell if either Oolong or Puar are really male or female due to their ability to shapeshift, so in Misfits, Oolong is male, and Puar is female.

6 Oyatsu can somewhat unlock the hidden powers within those he takes over or possesses, somewhat like Saichourou could unlock Gohan and Kuririn's hidden powers in the Namek saga. However it is probably better compared to Vegeta's "Majin" powerup, because usually the Majin powerup bounds you in a mental and spiritual way to the person who gave it to you.

7 If you haven't paid attention to the animated version of Dragonball, Radditz originally used a Green-shaded scouter, which is believed to read up to 22,000 powerlevel, before exploding. Vegeta, Dodoria, and later Frieza each wore a kind of Red scouter, which had a much higher threshold of somewhere between 200,000 and 400,000. When Frieza tried to use it on Vegeta at the beginning of their battle, it exploded, so I estimated around 352,000 degrees. This is also a bit of why Radditz didn't know why his scanned higher before it exploded.

8 Also, if you didn't know, Nappa appeared to possess a special one-of-a-kind scouter with a blue lens during the Saiya-jin Saga. Although in rage he breaks it at one point, I believe due to the fact it's the only one we ever see that it was probably much better than the Red scouters. In Misfits, this is why Radditz states this about a blue scouter.

9 Taiyoken "Fist of the Sun" a.k.a. "Solar Flare"

10 Dodompa "Dodon Ray" from the early Dragonball series. It's the attack Tao Pai Pai used to basically defeat Goku in their first meeting. Tenshinhan and Chaozu wield it as well.

11 Kienzan "Energy Circle Slicer" a.k.a. "Destructo Disc" for the dubbies who still don't know by now. One of the deadliest ki attacks if aimed properly, able to kill off much stronger targets, or things that cut easily.

12 Obviously, you outta realize that Oyatsu was giving Dan excess energy well past what he is used to using. If you really though Dan was going to just be able to hold Super Saiya-jin 3, or even hold 2 for any real amount of time without him at this point, you're crazy. :P

13 Overclocked Scouters are much more advanced than the original versions, and now our heroes will have a bunch of them to use, as well as normal scouters. I know I know, scouters began to lose their use in the Frieza Saga, but there's more to these scouters than merely reading numbers too. You'll see what I mean later. :P

14 Yes yes, I know the entire situation sounds crazy. Trust me, I will eventually reveal the info on how the ship survived Namek's destruction. Idea wise, Devin actually suggested this to me, because of the gravity chamber inside of it. :P