Wings of Blood
Chapter 1: Back tracks
Swirling colors of radiant purple and golden yellows flashed along the cosmic energy walls of time, space, and the unknown. Vast vortexes of energy surround the ever transforming landscape. An echo of screams shout into the strange world of energy swirls, the screams belonging to 2 falling shadows. The shape of a young dark haired girl, and a purple haired young boy could be made out. Who are these shadows? They are Trunks and Pan.
After being blasted by Android 30's ultimate nuclear energy blast, the young Sayian's feared they would join Goku in the realm of the dead. But miraculously enough, Trunks and Pan were not destroyed by the nuclear beam. Somehow the android's beam had caused enough nuclear radiation and unstable energy, that the force of the blast ripped a hole in space and time. Thus propelling Trunks and Pan into the space hole and out of danger.
And while Vegeta and the others had to deal with a recently mutated Super Sayian 4 creature in their world, Trunks and Pan now had their own problems. "OOF" Pan and Trunks grunted, the 2 teens had slammed down into solid Earth rather painfully. "Uh OW……man that really stings" Pan said, "No kidding it feels like my head's been rolled over by a tank" Trunks groaned. The Sayian's slowly staggered upon their shaking, wobbly legs.
Though in physical, mental, and extreme biological exhaustion, Trunks and Pan were glad there was a ground to stand on. The girl scratched her orange bandana grumbling "Man I need an aspirin, we must have been floating around for hours. Feels so good to be able to put my feet on something other then air". Trunks rubbed his eyes tiredly "Felt more like years to me, just be thankful that we made it out of that freaky light show in one piece Pan".
After a few moments of psychological staggering, the memories of past events rapidly entered the teen's minds. "How did we……oh my god, I almost forgot……GRANDPA" Pan shouted. Trunks and Pan immediately looked around, expecting to still be surrounded by Android 30 and his mechanical minions. But Trunks found no androids in sight, neither could he find Goku or anyone else for that matter. "Where'd he go Trunks?" Pan said.
The boy hummed softly "I'm not quite sure Pan, I don't see him and I don't sense him either so that pretty much leaves us right back where we started". Curiously examining her small soft hands, Pan's blinking young eyes were slowly trying to focus back into normal reality. "It's weird, the last thing I remember was being hit by that weird beam and……grandpa Goku, he protected me from it" Pan said. Trunks nodded as he also remembered that.
The area they had landed in was actually a grassy hill, directly behind them was a large forest. At the bottom of the hill was a city, the city that had always been closest to Goku's home. "Hey, if that's the city I think it is then that means" Trunks started, "Were back HOME" Pan cheered. Indeed, it seemed the energy vortex had simply temporarily removed Trunks and Pan out of harm's way. The Sayian's sighed with a great deal of relief over this.
Trunks and Pan quickly flew down into the heart of city, eagerly hoping to find their family and friends celebrating somewhere. But after soaring over the first couple of blocks, the teens slowly started to notice something very, very strange was going on. "Why is everything so quiet?" Pan asked. The people on the streets walked without a single word spoken, no cell phone chattering, no angry fights, no friendly greetings, just absolute silence.
Trunks blinked "Okay did we wind up in the wrong city or something, because this is starting to wig me out". Nodding her orange bandana in agreement, Pan exclaimed "It's like a ghost town but everyone's right here. There's no talking, no laughing, no crying, it's like their all too scared to talk or something". The two Sayian's slowly touched down on the ground. Trunks needed to ask someone, find out if this is home or someplace else.
"Excuse me sir but could you tell me where Orange Star High School is?" Trunks asked, a man in a dark blue leisure suit blinked oddly "Orange Star?". Politely nodding Trunks continued "Yeah the high school, you know the one in Satan City?". Even more confusion molded the man's bewildering face, his eyes blinked "You sure you got the name right, cause I've never heard of Stan city". Pan crossed her arms frowning "He said Satan City.
You know Satan, as in Mr. Satan, my grandpa, the world martial arts champion, the man who defeated Cell?". But no matter how many times Pan said it, the man seemed completely clueless as to everything she talked about. Orange star, Mr. Satan, Cell, nothing seemed to ring any bells. "I'm sorry miss but I don't know what your talking about" the man said. This only caused Pan to get further and further annoyed, the girl angrily growled.
"GRR THIS IS NUTS, how can you possibly be stupid enough not to know who my grandpa is, he's Earth's greatest champion, he fights evil and all that stuff" Pan shouted. The man's eyes immediately widened at mention of Earth's champion. Chilling pricks of fear curved their icy fingers upon the man's neck, Trunks watched in amazement as the man grew terrified. The leisure suit man gasped "Look kid we already got a champion, you hear me?
We have a champion to protect us and were happy, happy, happy, HAPPY DAMMIT! But if I want to live long enough to ever feel happy again, I got to stop talking about him right now. Or else I could be viewed as disturbing the peace, or make someone late for work or AH, gotta run, bye now" the man shouted. In a matter of seconds, Pan and Trunks were left in the man's dust. The man had screamed and ran off as if propelled by absolute terror.
Trunks and Pan just stared at each other with complete disbelief. However, the frantic man they had just spoken to was not alone. Suddenly the streets had literally become a ghost town, everyone was gone. People were running and racing to get as far away from these streets as possible. "What is going on here? Has the whole town go nuts, what are they so afraid of?" Pan asked. The girl's companion looked to the sky and immediately gasped.
"I think I know why Pan" Trunks said shockingly. Both Pan and Trunks looked to the sky and couldn't believe it, their eyes locked in frozen shock. A white skinned, alien creature was blasting buildings with single beam laser attacks. The alien laughed a rusty, cold, feminine voice. White skin and purple armored scales fitted the body of the sleek, reptilian attacker. Finally the words managed to reach Pan and Trunks terrified lips "FRIEZA".
Frieza cackled "Oh my, this is too much fun. I can't believe the reports said that Zarbon and Dodoria were killed on this planet, what a bunch of losers. How could they possibly have lost to creatures with such puny power levels? Huh?".
The scaly creature looked down and noticed 2 stragglers; he licked his black cold lips and slowly descended down towards Trunks and Pan.
Frieza smirked "I guess not every worm on this planet is spineless. I hope you're going to be more fun then those rodents I chased off; otherwise I'm going to get bored quite easily".
Trunks growled "Just stay the hell away from us Frieza".
Pan nodded "Yeah jerk, you don't know who you're messing with".
The alien grinned "I was going to say the exact same thing, but enough idle talk. What do you say we have some fun before I vaporize this mud ball?".
"Just try it freak show. As soon you do, Goku's gonna mop the floor with you just like he did on Namek" Trunks snapped.
Frieza blinked "Huh? What are you talking about; I've never been to Namek. And what's a Goku, is that some sort of slang word?".
Pan angrily added "Don't play dumb, my grandpa blew you to pieces once and he can do it again".
Frieza frowned "I don't know what sort of drug you're on brat boy, so I suggest you get your facts straight before you start making up lies".
"Boy? I'M A GIRL YOU MMP" Pan screamed.
Before Pan could cuss out any further enraged obscenities, Trunks quickly cupped his hand over the girl's mouth and laughed nervously.
Trunks laughed weakly "Uh could you excuse us for a moment?".
"Hm?" Frieza replied in total confusion.
The boy quickly took Pan back a few feet and tried to calm her down. The wily girl growled as she broke free of Trunks grip.
Pan pouted "What do you think you're doing, come on, let's go teach that creep a lesson, maybe if we smack him around a bit it'll jog his".
Trunks cut her off "SHHHH! Keep it down; I don't think Frieza is lying".
Pan rolled her eyes "What are you talking about? Of course he is. You can't just forget something like getting creamed on an exploding planet; he's got to be lying".
Trunks insisted "But Frieza didn't just get creamed, he got KILLED, and now he's back here just fine and dandy, coincidence?".
Pan blinked curiously "Wait a minute, AH your right, he is alive, how did that happen?".
"UGH don't you ever listen?" Trunks groaned.
Pan asked "So……what exactly does this mean then?".
Trunks sighed "It means that we may not be out of wonderland just yet, I think were in a different timeline".
"WHAT?" Pan shouted.
Trunks repeated himself "Somehow we must have landed in an alternate reality, one where Goku doesn't exist. Things are different here. That's why Cell hasn't been killed yet, that's why were not in Satan City, and that's why Frieza is still alive. Everything is different here".
Pan scratched her head "But if that's true then who was the "champion" that guy was talking about?".
KABOOM!
The duo screamed as a powerful energy blast suddenly blasted them to the ground. A growling Frieza snarled hisscowling lips at the Sayian's.
Frieza sneered "HELLO, forget someone did we? Now if your quite finished with your bantering, I've got a planet to eradicate. And I'll start things off by eliminating you two, FRIEZA BEAM FIRE".
Massive stream like energy beams blasted at Trunks and Pan's feet, the Sayian's leapt to the sky and immediately returned fire. Frieza gasped seeing 2 massive energy blasts heading right for him. The white alien dodged the blasts as they exploded beneath him, Frieza smirked a playful little smile.
Frieza chuckled "Naughty little devils aren't you? You've been hiding your power all along, now it all makes sense. It was you that killed Zarbon and Dodoria".
Pan gasped "Say what?".
Trunks scoffed "Now who's the one babbling? We didn't kill your flunkies Frieza; we just got here about 10 minutes ago".
"It doesn't really matter now since both of you are about to join them. Now have a taste of my KIENZA DISC" Frieza said.
Two deadly pink energy discs composed of razor sharp energy flashed from Frieza's hands. Trunks and Pan gasped as they dodged the discs, they spun around and quickly followed the two Sayian's.
Trunks gulped "Pan, don't let those things touch you, there razor sharp".
Pan nodded "I know, grandpa told me all about them AH".
The girl squeaked as a slice of her black hair and orange bandana was nicked by the blades. Trunks was also having trouble dodging them, their speed was incredible. Even if Trunks and Pan's power levels were far higher then Frieza's, with the discs in play, they won't have enough time to fight back without being sliced.
Trunks frowned "I sure hope this works……HIYA".
SHINK!
The boy removed his crystal sword from his belt and sliced it against the kienza disc. Frieza gasped as his disc was destroyed, Trunks sighed happily.
"Now for my turn HA" Pan added gleefully.
The girl fired a powerful blast at the disc, but the spinning beam blade sliced it in half. Pan didn't realize Trunks sword was much sharper thenhis energy blast was. The blade rapidly approached the defenseless little girl.
Trunks screamed "PAN GET OUT OF THERE NOW".
Pan shrieked "TRUNKS".
BONK!
The disc suddenly dissipated in front of Pan's eyes. Frieza groaned as his eyes bulged out of his skull, a throbbing wound painted painfully over his purple skull. It appears someone had slammed a very large, very powerful black hammer over Frieza's head from behind. Frieza dropped to the ground.
Trunks rubbed his eyes "What the hell? Is that……fog? Yes, yes there's actually fog forming behind Frieza".
Pan blinked "Forget the fog, where'd that hammer come from?".
The hammer suddenly lifted itself in mid air and shot off into the smothering smoke like fog. A dark shadow could be seen inside the fog, the hammer returned to the shadow's hand. The loud clanging of a bell soon became noticeable. A cold, dark, powerfully chilling bell.
Frieza winced "UGH what in blazes is that infernal sound?".
"That is the sound of your funeral bell Frieza; beware for it calls forth your angel of death" a dark voice called out.
Frieza scowled "SILENCE! Enough of these parlor tricks, show yourself. I demand you tell me who you are".
The voice continued "Very well. I am the shadow that haunts the servants of darkness, I am the reaper to all that is evil, I am the hand of DEATH itself. You have been charged with crimes against humanity Frieza, as well as countless acts of genocide and manslaughter. By the swift hammer of justice, I WILL NOT allow you to harm anyone else. You have been found guilty of these crimes, and so forth, shall be PUNISHED for your sins.
Frieza hissed "Just who the hell do you think you are?".
The voice answered "I am justice, I am Hell's fury, I am……The Judge".
To be continued……