BM: Here's the next chapter, quite soon huh? It was originally my day for saturday cartoons however upon being told that nothing worth watching was on we decided on more writing and FYI 6teen with the CGI barbies is EVIL!
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Marron stood with Mr. Announcer, breathing rather heavily as he raised her hand.
"And the winner of this year's Tenkaichi Budokai is, Marron Chestnut!" he shouted, raising her hand in the air. Trunks climbed back into the ring, looking slightly shocked. He knew he could easily overpower her, and yet she'd managed to beat him. Tactics. Incredible. Goten let out a whoop and swooped into the ring, already over the fact that she had beaten him as well. He grabbed her in an embrace and she grinned as he lifted her up in the air. Trunks smiled at his friend's antics and walked over, shaking her hand then pulling her into an embrace as well. The younger fighters all surrounded her, exclaiming that she was amazing, asking how she'd pulled it off. She giggled as Pan began skipping around her shouting "Marron's number one! Number one, number one, number one YAY"
Bra, despite having claimed that that activity was quite childish on several occasions, joined in, and soon all of the chibis were skipping around in a dance. Pan started to rise slightly in the air and Goten quickly placed a hand on her head, reminding her to keep the radical displays of strange powers out. She giggled slightly and apologized before continuing her dance.
"Well, the other fighters seem to have no hard feelings, huh?" Mr. Announcer said with humor, watching the other fighters congratulate her as well before leaving. A boy he remembered as having fought quite well approached, having dark skin and a Mohawk. He shook her hand tensely.
"You fought really well" he said, though he seemed depressed. She blinked.
"What is it"
"It's nothing" he replied, keeping his chin up. She nodded once and he turned to go then he saw people in the stands beginning to vacate and the rest of the strange group of warriors he'd seen many times approach, along with a part of the group who had appeared with Son Goten. The famous baseball player let out a whoop.
"That was great strategy Marron!" He exclaimed happily "Man, I thought for sure it was gonna be Goten and Trunks in the final battle"
The girl shrugged "So did I, but then I decided to think a bit about it. It was pretty much luck though. Goten and Trunks both knew they had me outgunned, and they were a bit relaxed" she said, directing a look in their direction "I know they were both holding back too"
"W-what?" Goten asked "W-we wouldn't"
"You're both horrible liars, now stop. Plus, they weren't allowed to go Super Saiyan or flight or anything"
"Anyway, Goten made the mistake of trying to throw me out of the ring with one of those force punches, like Goku used on Chi Chi, and I knew that the force could easily be redirected. You must've been getting a bit desperate, huh?" she asked. He chuckled, giving the Son Family Grin™ "Then Trunks decided that he was gonna try for a quick knockout, like Vegeta did to him and Goten. I knew that those moves were only good for a surprise attack, which they were at first. Luckily for me, I'm a bit faster than him" she replied, and he shrugged.
"Can't blame a guy for trying" he replied "After that, he tried it again, and I was expecting it. That was his mistake. Those moves are easy to redirect into a throwing move"
"Where'd you learn all this stuff?" Yamcha asked. Marron grinned.
"My mom and dad!" she replied. Yamcha blinked.
"Krillin and Eighteen taught you all that"
"Well, I WAS home schooled. Part of that was learning about passed battles and whatnot. Came in handy, huh?" she asked, winking at Goten and Trunks.
"So, it was pretty much luck" she said finally. Goten and Trunks then shook their heads.
"It was tactics" Trunks replied. She shrugged.
"Yeah, but tactics involve a large amount of luck too" she replied "Okay, we all get the point!" Yamcha exclaimed finally, shaking his head "Anyway, let's all get back to Capsule Corps"
"Capsule Corps.? Do you think I could tag along then?" the boy with the Mohawk asked "I'd like to ask Bulma Briefs something"
"Umm…I guess" Yamcha replied, looking at him curiously "Who are you"
"My name is Uub" he replied simply "Okay, well, come on then" Yamcha replied, shrugging. The group began to walk and Raven fell into step with Marron.
"That fight was impressive" she said, congratulating the girl as they walked toward the parking lot "You fought well"
"I've already said it, they held back"
"At first, maybe" Raven replied "Then they figured out they were losing, and let loose a bit more. Trust me, I could tell"
"But they weren't allowed to fly" Marron argued "I remember once a little girl invited me to race her, and I declined because I knew she would fly circles around me. Unless her flying went far downhill, she can probably fly circles around those two"
"But, they couldn't go Super Saiyan"
"True, but don't you have a powered-up form as well?" Raven asked. Marron blinked.
"Yeah, but it's nowhere NEAR as strong as Super Saiyan, and they can go to Super Saiyan two, but I can only go to level one of Super Chikyu-jin. I'm almost there, but not quite"
"My point, Marron" Raven said exasperatedly "Is that you are stronger than you let yourself believe, and that you fought very well today. Don't sell yourself short. And at the end of it all, luck or not, it was you who was awarded the title of strongest in the world, not Trunks or Goten." the girl walked off and Marron smiled.
"Thank you, Raven"
"You're welcome. Now come on. I'm sure you'd like to know why we're here"
The Z Senshi sat in chairs, on couches, on stairs, on banisters, on cushions on the floor, and various other scattered places as the team the council had assembled finished explaining the situation. Bulma sighed.
"So, we get to clean up another mess, huh?" Bulma asked "Looks that way" Kid Flash replied "The only question I have left for the moment is why they picked us up too" Jinx said, turning to Lance. He shrugged.
"Because they sensed you two are on the line between good and evil and could go either way?" Kid Flash offered. They both snorted.
"Yeah right" they replied simultaneously "Hmm?" Pan floated up to Lance's eyelevel and he stared at her blankly.
"Whadaya want?" he asked.
"You're not a superhero?" she asked "No"
"But, you have superpowers donchya?" she asked "Yeah, I guess"
"Do you have a costume"
"Yes"
"And you like to beat up bad guys"
"He LOVES it" Kitty replied before he could answer. He glared at her.
"Then you're a superhero!" Pan exclaimed, her logic leaving little to no room for debate. "It's a good thing you're here too, it sounds like this is a job for a bunch of superheroes like us" she said, pointing to the room. He raised an eyebrow.
"What, you all have powers?" he asked. She nodded sagely.
"We do!" she held out a hand and a glowing ball of ki rose above it. He stared at it for a moment, then looked back at her, then back at the ki.
"What, you can throw beams AND fly! That's not very fair" he muttered "They all can. They can throw beams and balls of ki, they can fly, most of them can power up to earthshaking levels, they have super strength, and their ki can take many forms of attacks"
"Even her?" he looked at the deceptively sweet girl who seemed to be contemplating something.
"I don't know" Raven confessed "I haven't met her before"
"Really? And you seemed to know so much" he drawled. It was then that a bellow rang through the house.
"WOMAN! FOOD"
"Clamp it Vegeta! If you'd pay attention and feel around with your ki a bit, you'd notice we've got guests!" she shouted. Footsteps sounded in the hall and a short man with a flame of hair on top of his head walked in. Lance looked at him in confusion as the blue haired woman glared at him.
"What's going on!" he shouted. He looked at them and his eyes focused on Raven and Starfire, then on Superboy and Wondergirl, then flew to Robin, and finally Jubilee where they lit with recognition. The rest he simply glared at "What are THEY doing here"
"We get to clean up another mess" Bulma replied "It would seem a bunch of magical gems, seven in fact, have fallen into the hands of some bad people, and when they're all together, a mystical being will appear. Familiar, right?" she asked. He glowered.
"The dragonballs"
"No, these ones are called the infinity gems, and the being is a cosmic entity who will very likely wipe the face of reality clean"
"WHAT"
"Yup. So, we get to stop the bad people before they do something stupid without realizing it"
"Umm, yeah. Problem" Static Shock, who had introduced himself as Virgil Hawkins, broke in "One last piece of information"
"What's that?" Bulma asked "You remember all that stuff about "Being destined to take part in a war" and whatnot"
"Yes" Bulma replied, a sense of foreboding coming over her "Well, umm…" he trailed off "We have a scroll. An old one. It talks about this war, only in that mumbo jumbo language" Kid Flash said "It says:
Seven gems with seven powers Three bads become one evil Warriors called from three universes The new generation United they shall face the evil And united they will triumph"
"I don't understand that very well, but it sounds like the trouble we've found" Chi Chi replied "Yup. It goes on to describe each of us. A daughter of evil fighting for good, a prize from a distant world, a fighter with the speed of mercury, one who controls things like the god Thor, the youngest fighting for the goddess Hera, a boy with the name of the wings of day and a girl with the wings of night, one with the mind to have strength of the gods, one who controls fate and unsure of her path, one who shakes the earth with justice in his heart, one with the might and the sting of a bee, one who fires arrows with all the force and speed of Cupid, one whose power is deceptively beautiful, one who travels as if no longer tied to this world, and finally, one who controls the fury of winter"
"So, you were destined to join in this fight" Gohan said, his fingers knitted together "Then, we don't know about the next part, but maybe you will:
The modest hero, the curious, number one, the one with the name of a hero passed, the charmer, the beautiful tactician, the one who was met before his birth, the one who was an enemy before his birth, the princess, the new warrior from another world, the daughter of the three-eyed crane, the son of the scientist and the bandit"
Bulma read through it and looked at the Z Senshi in confusion, then back at the scroll. Then, recognition lit her expression.
"The modest hero is Gohan! Think about the Cell Games"
"Ah!" Videl nodded "Of course"
"The curious is Videl" Gohan said with conviction "That's the main reason she's here today"
"Okay, so who's number one? An android we haven't met maybe?" Chi Chi asked "Actually" Bra said, holding back a laugh "I think it's Pan" the group laughed and Bulma nodded "Most likely. So the one with the name of a hero passed is obviously Goku" she said "Then the charmer is either Goten or Trunks. Considering that both Pan and Goku have been named, the one who was met before his birth must be Trunks, which means Goten is the charmer" she wrote the names on a pad of paper "An enemy before his birth…I don't get it. We don't know anyone like that, from what I can tell"
"It's him" Vegeta stated simply, pointing at Uub. The boy blinked and turned to him with wide eyes.
"What do you mean? I"
"That's why his power is so familiar!" Yamcha said with a nod "He was"
"Okay, we'll explain that to him later" Bulma said, marking him down "What was your name sweetie"
"Well, umm, Uub, but I don't think"
"Right, Uub. Okay, the princess"
"Me!" Bra exclaimed happily. Bulma sighed.
"Apparently so. The beautiful tactician, who is that?" she asked "Marron" All those who were present at the end of the tournament stated. She blinked.
"Okay, why?" she asked, writing it down "Because, Mom, you're looking at the new champion of the Tenkaichi Budokai!" he exclaimed, pointing at Marron. Bulma's eyes widened and Vegeta stared for a moment, then broke into laughter.
"So, you were beaten by her, huh?" Vegeta said. Trunks shrugged.
"Tactics, Dad, you should know all about those" he replied. Vegeta snorted.
"Of course, I helped teach her" he replied. Trunks choked on air.
"YOU"
"Of course" he replied, as if it should have been obvious. Trunks glowered and Goten chuckled.
"okay, back to the clues. The new warrior from another world would be…hmm"
"I think that's me" Fife said. She blinked.
"Okay, what was your name again"
"Fife"
"The daughter of the three eyed Crane being Wisk, and the Son of the Scientist and the Bandit being Tray, that gives us our all-star lineup." She looked it over and paled "Which means that it's almost entirely children. That must be the bad news" she said, turning to Virgil. He nodded.
"Yup, that's the gist of it"
"Don't worry Bulma. Remember what we were saying just this morning?" Chi Chi asked "The newest generation is powerful and has the potential to be the greatest group of warriors the world has ever known"
"Yes, but"
"Calm down Woman. We saw what Gohan did when he was twelve, you know what Kakarot was like when he was young, according to Yamcha, Chi Chi nearly ended his life when she was younger. I have been teaching Bra myself" Vegeta said, surprising everyone "There's obviously nothing we can do about this, we've seen the types of entities that came up with this…list" he said, fighting his vocabulary due to the presence of children "Don't worry Mom! We'll take care of EVERYTHING" Bra said confidently. Bulma smiled "Yeah, and Gohan and I'll be there. So will Trunks, Goten, and Marron" Videl added "So, the greatest threat to everything we've ever known, and I'm useless once again" Bulma sighed. Tien sat back in anger.
"There has to be something we can do"
"Well, whatever it is, you may want to do it fast" Marron said "because I'm picking up something strange coming straight at us"
The Z Senshi reached out with their ki and Bulma groaned.
"We need to get them someplace safe" Krillin said, pointing to the group "I mean, whatever it is, they've obviously got a plan and know a few things we don't. They need time to get a strategy together"
"But where? They know about all our places if they've really got Dr. Gero on their side"
"I can think of a place they don't know about" Eighteen said simply. She motioned to Raven, who blinked but stepped forward. Whispering in the girl's ear, she motioned to Krillin and to Goten. The dark girl nodded, and her eyes glowed. Goten and Krillin both shivered.
"Hmm…not bad Eighteen" Krillin said. Goten looked confused.
"Where is this"
"It's where I grew up" Krillin said simply "Now get going, they're coming on fast"
"Right then, everyone, you know the drill" Goten said, placing two fingers to his forehead.
"Good luck. Later, I have something for a few of you" Chi Chi said. Goten nodded then waved, and the group of destined warriors disappeared. The energy they sensed kept coming closer, and Bulma shivered.
"Whoever it is, they're so dark" she said "I know" Chi Chi replied "And there's a lot of them. I don't like it"
"We can't even fight back!" Yamcha exclaimed "I don't like this anymore than you do, but it's not our battle" Teal said simply, touching his arm lightly "We have to leave this to the new generation"
"So, what do we do?" Chi Chi asked "I suggest we go someplace they do know about, but will also buy some time" Eighteen said.
"Roshi's island?" Krillin offered "Good idea, let's go"
BM: Okay, so don't stone me, or anything horrible like that. I just think that it's about time the new generation did some serious learning of taking care of business
JJ: At any rate, that's the end of the chapter. Hope you liked it