Dragonball Extreme
Chapter Two
Lee's Attack
Elsewhere, an important decision was being made. Three shadowed figures stood around an orb. The orb's light extended into the vast darkness of the room.
"Is he the one? Part saiyan and part dragon god?" questioned a figure.
"Yes." replied another.
"He is although he doesn't know it." said the thired.
"He is a danger to the plan." said the first.
"Well shall we eliminate him?" asked the second.
"No. We'll make him one of us." said the thired. "He is much more valuable alive."
"How about this 'Son Goku'?" asked the first.
"He is to be eliminated." said the second.
"Is that not a bit extreme?" asked the thired.
"No. He is but an annoyance. Not to mention he's foiled all other attempts to dominate the Earth." said the first.
"And the girl?" asked the thired.
"Information unknown." said the second.
"Too bad. Well then. Subject 'A' will be assimilated. Then we will use Subject 'A' to eliminate Subject 'B'." said the thired as Lee's image and then Goku's appered in the orb.
Lee lay underneath a tree with his back against the trunk and the rubble of the android's body scatered about the ground at his feet. He couldn't seem to keep his eyes open and soon he was fast asleep.
"Shinlon." came a voice. "The time has come for you to awaken. Awaken to your true power."
Lee opened his eyes and saw a namekian man standing over him. The namek wore a long white robe with a red vest over it. He carried a wooden staff in his right hand.
"Who are you?" Lee asked.
"I am Dende. I am the God of the Earth, the creater of the Dragonballs, and the sorce of half your power." the namek said.
"Umm...well, since we got that straght, why did you call me 'Shinlon'?" Lee asked.
"All will be revealed in time. For now, I will simply unlock your true power and bring it to it's full potential." Dende said placeing His hand on Lee's head.
An erie blue light eminated around Lee as his hair blew upwards and his power surged. When everything went back to normal, Lee looked up at Dende, woundering what was going on. Before he could say anything, his energy and strength raised beyond anything he had thought possable.
"Now go and put your new found strength to use." Dende said as he slowly faded away.
Goku had finally gotten Lunako to calm down enough to tell him what was wrong. He listioned quietly as she told him about her nightmare. After she was done, Goku couldn't think of anything to say.
"It was just a dream. Besides, that guy probably has other things on his mind anyway." Goku said softly.
"Demo, what if something were to happen to you? I'd never forgive myself.." Lunako whispered.
"Nothing's going to happen. You worry too much. Forget about what I told you earlier and get some sleep." Goku said.
"Demo..." Lunako begain.
"No buts. You can stay in my room tonight if it will make you feel better." Goku said with a grin.
"Is that a come on!" Lunako gasped with a blush.
"Perhaps." Goku said with a cocky smile.
He picked Lunako up and carried her off to his room.
"You're so evil." Lunako said as she layed her head against his chest and drifted off to sleep.
Lee awoke from his sleep feeling very energized. He stretced, then stood and turned in the direction of home. It was three A.M. and a little late to be going home, but Lee planed to sleep in his own bed for at least nine more hours. Before he could even get out of the forrest he had been in, something hard met the back of his skull. Lee fell as everything around him blured, swirled, then went blank. What felt like a few minutes later, Lee slowly opened his eyes. As his vision focused, he found himself in strange surroundings. He was laying on a stainless still gurney surrounded by metalic medical tools. He tride to sream, but gaged on whatever had been shuved down his throwt to keep him quiet. Infront of him was a screen filled with flashing images of battles, dragons, and Son Goku, the legendary martial artist.
The images quickly changed as Lee begain to lose conciousness. The images continued to flash as his eyes were held open by small metal prongs. The images changed back and forth quickly showing Goku, explosians, dead bodies, and then Goku again. Lee's subconcious begain to associate Goku with evil. Small headphones were placed over Lee's ears.
"Goku...evil...death" said a mechanical voice.
"Kill...evil...obay" it repeated over and over again.
Afterwards, Lee was lifted and carried to a room filled with different armer. His clothes were removed and then replaced by a strange type of armer that looked like a cross between saiyan and ancient samarai armer. A few minutes later, Lee regained conciosness to see that he was back in the clearing where he had been training. He felt uncomfortable and looked down at his clothes and saw, much to his suprise, that he was wearing strange armer.
"Was it a dream or a nightmare?" he asked himself as he ran a shackey hand through his hair and looked up at the moon.
"Conditioning is complete." said the first shadow figure.
"Good. Any problems?" asked the second.
"None as of yet." the first replied.
"Good. Everything is as planed." said the thired.
The next morning, Lunako stood on the balconey of her room, watching the sunrise.
"What am I going to do?" she moaned as she looked down.
"Well first, you can stop talking to yourself." Goku said, his mouth very close to her ear.
He sliped his arms around her waist and held her to him. He tossed her brade over her shoulder and kissed the back of her neck.
"Second, if it will make you feel better, I'll watch my back from now on." Goku said.
"I look at your arms and see how powerful you are. If you wanted, you could crush the life out of me, so I shouldn't worry about you, but I do. I just don't want to lose you." Lunako said sadly.
"You wont. I'll be back this afternoon. I've got to go to work. Someone's got to keep us living in the lap of luxery, ne?" Goku asked playfully.
He turned Lunako around and kissed her so gently, she thought she'd cry. Then he turned away and left. He had been working to support Lunako for the last six years. He did mostly deconstruction and got paid well for his thurogh work. Lunako smiled as she watched him go, then she turned and continued to watch the city wakeing up.
Lee sat in his appartment holding his head. Images and information wouldn't stop cluttering up his mind. There were too many to sort out. He needed answers, and the only one he knew that could give them was Son Goku, a man who had supposedly died a hundred years ago. But Lee would have his answers. He would find Lunako and make her tell him where Goku was. Deep down inside his soul, a conciousness not his own begain to awaken.
Lunako sat on the sill of an opened window waiting for Goku to get home, and watching dark storm clouds gathering. As thunder begain to roll, Lunako begain to sing to herself.
"As traveling across the sea,
From the unknown country,
The wind passes gently behind my ears,
Will you tell me if people live,
With the same bewildering feeling inside,
To love someone
Or to be loved by someone,
I wounder what those feelings are like?
I can only vaguely from afar.
I want to cherish the feelings,
That has started inside me.
The fate trembles my heart like the wind."
A knock came to the door, interupting Lunako's singing. Relunctantly, Lunako got up and opened the door, only to find Lee.
"LEE! I mean, hi, Lee." Lunako said putting a shackey smile on her face.
"Hello, Lunako. I heared you singing. You have a wounderful voice." Lee said polightly.
"Domo Arigato, Lee." Lunako said regaining some composure.
Lee smiled polightly, but the it didn't last as his eyes flashed a crimson color and he grabed Lunako's arm.
"L...Lunako, quick...tell me where Goku is...please." Lee begged.
"Lee I don't..." Lunako begain, but her words died down in her throwt as Lee staired at her with evil crimson eyes.
Lunako grabed a saber from it's sheath on the wall. She had been trained by a great swordsman and could use the sword like a pro.
"What the hell is wrong with you!" she yelled as she pointed the saber at Lee.
Lee grined as he walked into the appartment and shut the door behind himself.
"You're comeing with me." Lee purred.
"The hell I am! Get back!" Lunako said swinging the sword at Lee's head.
"Yes, you will." Lee said as he easily dodged Lunako's sword swings.
Lunako fired a chi blast point blank into Lee's face, then flipped away from him just barely missing the couch. Lee growled angrily as he threw his own blast, hitting Lunako in the chest and throwing her to the floor. Lunako jumped back up and saw that the blasts that were being thrown were destroying some of the furnature, so she quickly picked up her saber and lunged at Lee. Suprisingly, he blocked with his katana. The sound of metal against metal echoed throughout the appartment building as the two battled. Lunako found an opening in Lee's defence and slashed his jaw, just as he also found an opening in her defence and slashed her arm that she wasn't useing to fight with her saber. The two cried out in pain at the same time and lept awy from one another. Inraged, Lunako lunged at Lee once more, but this time he was ready for her. He caught her wrist with his free hand and twisted it until she droped her saber.
"Don't fight back. It's useless." Lee said, pressing the tip of his katana to her neck and drawing a drop of blood there.
He jumped hehind her, still holding her wrist. He sheathed his sword and bent Lunako's arm back and up makeing bones pop at the breaking point. If anymore pressure wa applied to the arm it would surely shatter.
"GOKU!" Lunako screamed.
Lee grabed the back of her neck with his free hand and shuved Lunako against the wall
"That pretty little voice, I hope it carries. Heh." Lee laughed as he teleported out of the building still holding Lunako.
"He was not suppose to kidnap the girl." said the thired shadow figure.
"He is acting on his own. He is no longer under the influence of the conditioning." said the first.
"It is his other self. It has awakened. This could go one of two ways. Either very good or very bad." said the second.
"It's not fair. We should do something." said the thired.
"It's no longer our concern." said the first.
Goku walked into the appartment carrieing a dozen red roses that he hoped would cheer Lunako up. He stoped cold in his tracks when he saw some of the furnature destroyed and Lunako's saber on the floor with blood on it.
"Lunako! Tenshi! Hey!" Goku yelled as he went from room to room, but found no one.
When he got to the kitchen, a man with black spikey hair, dark skin, pointy ears, and wearing a fighting gi, sat at the table. Goku staried at the man in bewilderment, but that soon turned to anger.
"Who are you! Where is Lunako!" Goku growled, only barely able to controle himself.
"I am Jared. Lee took the girl. He was under our controle and suppose to come kill you, but his other self awakened. Now he'll kill you and the girl." the man explained.
"Where is he?" Goku asked.
"You can not find him. Not yet. When he is ready, he will find you. Be prepaired." Jared said as he disappered.
"Wait! Dammit!" Goku yelled.
What he had feared most was now comeing true.
Goku sat at the kitchen table five hours later, stairing angrily off into space.
"Hello, Son Goku. You look upset. You miss Lunako, don't you?" Lee's voice asked telepathicly into Goku's head.
"Lee! Where is Lunako!" Goku yelled at the voice.
"I'd miss that body of hers too. Kami, she has a beautiful voice. Have you heard her sing? Oh well anyway. You may want to come and save her." Lee said in a bored tone.
"You stupid son-of-a-bitch! If you touch her, so help me, I'll kill you!" Goku roared.
"Ha! You're too much. If youwant to save Lunako, meet me at the old abandoned construction site at the edge of the city." Lee said with a mocking laugh.
Lee stood in the center of the construction site waiting for Goku to appear. Hanging from an exposed rafter beem in an old building that the walls had long ago fallen down, was Lunako in a cacoon of ropes. Her hair had fallen from it's brade and the wind tore at it as the rain soaked her to the bone. Not that her condition was worring her any since she was out cold. Lee heard the faint sound of a motorcycle approaching, makeing his lips curl into a cruel smile. Goku stoped the motorcycle and jumped off. He was wearing his blue gi with his Nyoi-bo straped to his back. He hadn't bothered to hide his tail like he had been doing. He figured he might need to transform into his Super Saiyan Four form, but he was waiting to see. He didn't want to if he didn't have to.
"You're going to pay for hurting Lunako, you asshole!" Goku hissed vehenamently.
"Hmph. Come and get me." Lee replied with a smirk.
Goku literally flew at Lee as a trail of dirt and dust flew up behind him. He smashed his fist into Lee's nose with an audible crack as Lee's nose broke. Lee seemed to pay it no mind as he slamed his knee into Goku's gut, droping the older man to his knees. Goku quickly sweep kicked Lee's legs out from under him. Lee started to fall, but caught himself by placeing a hand to the ground. He kicked at Goku, but only scent his foot through an after image. Lee looked all around and saw Goku laying Lunako gently on the ground. He was going to fight and rescue Lunako at the same time. He tore the bottom of his tunic and tied the clothe around the gash in Lunako's arm to keep it from bleeding anymore. Then with a determand look on his face, he stood and glared at Lee.
"Leave us alone and I wont kill you!" Goku yelled.
"Our fight is not over yet, Son Goku! It wont be over until you are dead." Lee growled.
Lee pulled his katana as Goku pulled his nyoi-bo. With a battle cry, the two men flew at one another. Lee aimed to bring his sword down the middle of Goku's skull, but Goku quickly blocked with his bo. He pushed Lee back, only for the younger man to wrench the bo from his hands. The nyoi-bo was thrown across the constructionsite where it landed far out of Goku's reach. Lee slamed his sword down on Goku's shoulder and cut a deep gash there. Before Goku could react, Lee moved quicker than Goku could see and begain to slice the older man up. A gaping wound went from shoulder to wrist on one arm. Goku's side had been cut revealing rib bones, his left leg had been sliced open at the calf muscle. Goku stagered backwards realing from his wounds. He quickly straightened himself and painfully pointed his good arm at Lee and begain to throw a barage of blasts. Lee quickly dodged all of them. Inraged, Goku flew at Lee with his last ounce of strength. Lee grinned as he charged at Goku holding his katana ready. Goku's fist crashed into Lee's face, just as Lee's katana pearced into Goku's chest and come out his back. The two men stood stuned for a second, but it was Lee who regained his wits first. He pushed the sword further into Goku's chest as far as he could get it to go. Then he twisted it from side to side. Goku screamed in pain so loudly that he woke Lunako. Lunako sat up groggly and saw Goku grab Lee by the neck and slam him into the ground face first. Then Goku pulled the sword from his chest with another cry of pain as blood gushed out and splatered the ground. He threw the sword to the ground and stagered away from it.
"Bastered." Goku growled as he kicked Lee in the head hard enough to knock the younger man out.
"GOKU!" Lunako screamed when she saw how badly wounded Goku was.
"Lunako!" Goku yelled back as his vision started to darken around the edges.
He stagered and fell to his knees, as Lunako ran to him and caught his arm. He slumped over onto Lunako almost pushing her to the ground, but Lunako acted quickly and sat on the ground so Goku could lay down with his head in her lap.
"Goku, hang on. I'll go get help." Lunako said with a reassuring smile.
"I didn't think. I should have known that sword was magic." Goku said as his breath begain to come out ragidly.
"Stop talking." Lunako said as she brushed a strand of his hair out of his face.
"Promise me you'll take care of yourself." Goku said as he took her hand.
"Goku, hold on!" Lunako exclaimed.
"Promise me." Goku said.
"I promise, but stop talking like your not going to be alright!" Lunako protested.
"Damn. Never thought it'd be over so quickly. Didn't get the chance to find the others." Goku said with a weak smile.
"Others? What?" Lunako asked.
"I'm sorry...for not listning to you. You were right. Lee was going to kill me, but don't worry. You're going to be just fine without me. Ai...ai..stiteru yo...Tenshi. Don't forget me...kay?" Goku said sadly.
He let out one last shudering breath and was gone. Lunako put an arm under his neck and grabed one of his shoulders in with her other hand.
"Goku? Goku! Goku! GOKU! Wake up! Don't do this to me! Don't do this! Oh god...NOOOO!" Lunako screamed, shakeing Goku as hard as she could.
She buried her face in his hair as she cried bitterly. A gold light ingulfed his body, then with a blinding flash, the body was gone.
"UUUUUUUUWWWWWWAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Lunako screamed out in dispare. All she had ever known had been taken from her in an instant.
She sat unable to do anything but shake as her screams vibrated and echoed off the broken walls and could be heard almost throughout the city. Nothing would ever be the same again.
To Be Continued...
Next: Dragonball Extreme: Chapter Three: Betrail