Rifts and Changes
Chapter Fifteen: The Man From STANEX or But Funny's More Important!
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z or any of its characters and properties. I also do not own anything/anyone that I make a cultural reference to in this story. I do however own the characters that I created, even though their templates are people I know
A/N: Okay. So I caved. And this new flavour of Fanta has pretty much given me a much needed buzz. The Fanta is back people! :-D I know I've been taking the mickey with these cliffhangers but you know what. Blame comics!! Every single frickin one ends with a cliffhanger! Fantastic Four, (OMG! THE HERALD!) Spidey, and not to mention this new Identity Crisis mini series. The suspense on that one had me going bonkers!
On Tocopherat…
"I am honestly failing to see how this is a good idea Mr Inerl." Gohan said.
"All things happen for a reason Gohan. You must simply trust that this will work out for the best." Inerl replied.
"Uh…huh." Yamcha said. "Okay, Gohan. What's the plan?"
"Forgive me, I'll need about ten minutes to draw up a diagram. Then I shall be able to explain the plan in full detail." Gohan replied. "Mr Inerl, do you have any paper or pencils?"
"I'm sure we can find an equivalent." Inerl said as he led Gohan away.
"What the heck was that?" Trunks asked.
"That was Gohan, age 17." Nicholas repled. "Pre-self confidence."
"Pre-maturity." Natalie added.
"Pre-Videl…so to speak." David snickered. Andrea slapped him upside the head. "Ow!"
Elsewhere on Tocopherat…
"We're going to meet the King now." Medilan said, addressing Mara. "Please, be on your best behaviour. He is…well, not the sanest of people."
"Uh huh." Mara said, looking uninterested.
"Don't worry sir, she'll be fine." Dimethic said, smiling knowingly. They entered the castle and proceeded to the King's main hall. They walked down a very long hallway. The floor was covered with a red carpet, with gold edges. Mara chuckled to herself, saying how even on this planet, the royals were all the same. On the walls of the corridor, were pictures of all the previous monarchs. Only one caught Mara's eye, as it looked out of place. It was of the previous King, but instead of the portrait being only of him, his wife and two children were also there. Mara couldn't help but think of her own family. Or rather, Videl's family.
There's no use of thinking about them now, they're dead. Was all Mara could think. They finally arrived at the door of the King's main hall. Two guards were there, wearing similar uniforms as Dimethic and the rest of Medilan's crew.
"The military protects the King?" Mara asked. Dimethic nodded.
"The King is feeling uneasy these days, what with that legend nonsense and all." Dimethic replied.
"Nonsense, right." Mara said. They followed the guards into the hall.
"Presenting Medilan Sterylin and his two officers." The Guard said.
"Officers?!" Mara hissed. Dimethic gave her a look that screamed 'SHUT UP!'
"Medilan, it is very good to see you my son." King Raben said. Mara noticed that the King was a lot older than she was expecting him to be. Tocopherans were known to age very slowly in looks, similar to Saiyans, however their life spans were more like humans. King Raben looked over to Mara and suddenly looked very nervous. "HOW…DARE YOU!" Before anyone could register what was happening, the King was strangling Mara telepathically. She began to choke.
"Your Majesty!" Medilan cried.
"I trusted you Medilan! I trusted you, and you bring this Decolain into my court!" The King strengthened his hold on her. Her face was beginning to turn blue.
"Sir, I beg of you! Let her go!" Medilan said. "She is on our side! She is the one who killed the Decolains! She destroyed the Earth!"
"You expect me to believe that?!"
"I am asking you to believe me! I have no reason to lie to you!" Medilan said. The King paused a while and then let Mara fall to the ground. She began to cough violently. Dimethic went to her aid.
"Fine." The King said. "I hope this trust I am placing in you doesn't cause me regret." The King said. He left with several guards following him.
"That did not go as well as I'd hoped." Medilan said.
"You don't say!" Mara hissed.
Back on Earth, Satan City…
"Come on! You've got to get out here some time!" A random reporter yelled. There were literally hundreds of media personnel on Mr Satan's front lawn. The man himself was hiding in his TV room. Hoping that they would all go away. Of course, that was not going to happen in this lifetime but he always managed to have some delusional form of hope. His phone rang for the umpteenth time that day.
"I wish they'd just leave me alone! Instead of being out there, trying to find out what's happened to my daughter, I'm stuck in here hiding from the stupid media!" Mr Satan cried. The answering machine beeped.
"Mr Satan, this is the STANEX corporation calling for the fifth time today. We need to talk to concerning your daughter's whereabouts. Please call us back as soon as you get this message. Thank you." Beeeeeeeeeeeeep.
"STANEX? I wonder who they are…"
On Tocopherat…
"Okay! I have the plan!" Gohan said, returning with a very big piece of paper. Everyone sweat-dropped as Gohan laid it out on the table. It was a very detailed drawing, almost like it was photographed. "Thanks to Mr Inerl, I have been able to draw out the layout of the King's castle."
"We're going to attack the King's castle first?" Trunks asked.
"Trunks, please, it's rude to interrupt." Gohan said curtly. Trunks sweat-dropped in confusion. "Now as you can see from the diagram, I have split us up into two teams. Team One will enter from the top of the castle, as this is where most of the guards are. Team Two will make a more stealthy entrance in the back, through one of these windows." Gohan said, pointing to each diagram. "Trunks, will the communication machines work on this planet?"
"Hold on, lemme check." Trunks said, as he fiddled with the ear piece. "Brrrring, brrrring!"
"Uh, hai? Moshi Moshi?" Goten said. Everyone around him sweat-dropped.
"Can you hear me?" Trunks said.
"Yes…but who are you?"
"It's Trunks you idiot!"
"Woah…how'd you get inside my head?"
"Believe me, there's enough room for two more people in there."
"…What's THAT supposed to mean!?"
"Enough you two. I get the picture." Gohan sighed. "Any questions?"
"Yeah, seeing as we're being named Team One and Team Two, congrats on the originality by the by, do we get codenames?" David asked.
"Um, sure." Gohan said.
"We're having codenames?!" Everyone asked, some excited, some shocked and one laughing (Nicholas).
"It makes sense. We can't exactly run around spouting off our own names. If Videl or one of those guys hears 'Andie, look out!' she's gonna know it's us." Gohan replied.
"Dude, why Andie? Why can't I be in danger?" Nicholas asked.
"Why would I be in danger in the first place?" Andrea asked.
"You should be more careful! You can't afford to get caught." Inerl said. Gohan stared at the three of them in disbelief.
"It was just an example!" Gohan said.
"Ohhh."
"I put dibs on the codename 'Vash the Stampede'." David said. (1)
"No fair!" Many of the guys protested.
"Come on, I'm the most qualified." David said. "I'm blonde."
"We can be too!" Trunks and Goten protested.
"Not anymore!"
"Oh yeah…crap."
"Okay, David has the dibs or whatever." Gohan said. "Codenames please, for the purpose of central command."
"Anyone else feel like they're in an SNL skit?" Goten asked. Nicholas, Trunks, David and Natalie raised their hands. "Good, not just me then."
"Tall Bishi, reporting for duty sir." Nicholas said, as he saluted. Gohan rolled his eyes. (2)
"Puppeteer sir." Andrea said. Zophen looked uncomfortable as Gohan waited for him to say his codename.
"Can I not just use my own name sir? I feel embarrassed."
"Sorry Zophen, no dice."
"Very well, then I choose the name Max Power." Zophen said. Drake burst out laughing.
"That's the name of an English mag for guys!" Drake said.
"That's where I got the name. I saw some in Ms Bulma's bathroom." Zophen said. All eyes turned to Trunks.
"Hey! I'm married!" Trunks protested.
"And what?" Goten said, enjoying every minute of Trunks' embarrassment.
"Fine, then a simple Z will suffice, I suppose." Zophen said, looking very embarrassed.
"Mental note, Zophen suddenly kicks in with standardised Japanese when he's embarrassed." Andrea said. Gohan moved down the line.
"Cutie Pie!" Goten grinned.
"Hotspot." Drake said.
"Uh uh son, copyright infringement." Nicholas said, shifting his eyes.
"But…"
"Change it!"
"Fine! Inferno." Drake said, looking very annoyed.
"Don't worry honey, he just has bad memories of that name." Natalie said, sweat-dropping. "Shorty. And if anyone makes any jokes, you'll eat my fist."
"Hai!"
"But why?" Gohan asked. Everyone turned blue in fright.
"Well for Nick's sake mostly. If I had chosen the one I wanted, he would've started crying."
"Which was?"
"Mrs Seth Cohen." Natalie said, as she suddenly went mushy. (3)
"Gohan!!" Nicholas said, looking murderously at Gohan.
"Fine, Shorty it is. Next!" Gohan said nervously.
"Mowhawk." Uubu said. Gohan looked confused. "It's what my friends back home call me."
"Are you sure you know why?" Gohan asked. Uubu then looked more confused than Gohan did.
"I wonder which one of them will break and start crying first." David said.
"I think I'll move on." Gohan said.
"Awww!" David said.
"I don't think I've ever been so out of the loop in my life." Gohan said, choosing to ignore what was going on.
"Not so Gohan! You were in the dark about your stalkers for years!" David pointed out.
"You're not helping Dave." Nicholas said, as he saw both Trunks and Gohan shudder involuntarily.
"Vash! I'm Vash the Stampede!" David insisted. "Gohan! Gohan! Nicky isn't playing by the rules!"
"Nicky?" Many voices asked in amusement.
"Baka! I can't believe you told on me!" Nicholas said, punching David in the arm.
"Owww! Quit it!" David cried as he kicked Nicholas in the shin.
"Why you little…!" Nicholas said as he flicked David in the head. After a beat, they both locked in combat.
"EVERYBODY SHUT THE HELL UP!!" Gohan yelled. Everyone blinked in surprise.
"Geez Gohan, relax." Nicholas said.
"Yeah, we were just playing." David added.
"Well this is no time to play!" Gohan said, hiding the fact that he was blushing. "Now, who's left?"
"Me Daddy." Pan said.
"How about Pan-chan?" Drake said.
"Shut up Drake!"
"Geez! Okay, P-chan!" (4)
"P-chan? He wasn't that the name of the pig on…" Goten said.
"Ssshh." Trunks shushed him.
"But it was! I know I'm right! I still can't believe she never realised…"
"Sshh."
"I am not using a codename that's named after a pig." Pan cried angrily.
"But the pig was so cute! And very spunky. Kinda like you!" Goten grinned.
"You never know when to shut up do you." Trunks said, pretty much answering his own question.
"Poor Ryoga. I always liked him." Andrea said whistfully.
"I know! She can be osage-no-onna!" Goten said. Pan was currently wearing her hair in a pig-tail. (5)
"Fine!" Pan said, very annoyed.
"Yamcha-san?" Gohan said.
"No."
"…I beg your pardon?"
"I don't want one."
"But…"
"I am far too old to be doing stuff like this Gohan."
"But…"
"Unless there is dire need for it, no way." Yamcha said firmly.
"But…"
"I'll tell your mother!"
"Okay, sorry!" Gohan said, bowing humbly.
"Amazing…" Gohan's friends said in awe.
"Everyone, study this map as close as possible. We leave in an hour." Gohan said, leaving.
"Gohan-kun?" Nicholas said in a very high pitched voice.
"Yeah?"
"Where are you going?" Gohan stopped in his tracks and refused to turn around. It didn't matter anyway, because everyone could see his ears had turned red out of embarrassment.
"This is usually the part where the leader retreats into his office while his troops prepare for battle." Gohan said, very quietly.
"Gohan-kun?" Nicholas said, in the same voice. "We're not playing war!"
"I know that!" Gohan said, turning his around very menacingly.
"You know, I understand your brother so much better now." Trunks said, as Goten nodded in agreement.
A little while later…
"Gohan? Where on Earth did you get these suits?" Nicholas asked.
"These are battle suits that Bulma-san made for us." Gohan said. The whole team was standing there in Saiyan body uniform. (Like the ones Vegeta wears)
"Well I like 'em!" Nicholas grinned.
"Well I don't." Natalie said, annoyed.
"Why? I think you look great."
"You would." Natalie was unfortunately standing next to Andrea. "There's no way I'm wearing this."
"But…" Gohan started to say.
"No. Way." Natalie said. "I only have a little self-esteem Gohan, and standing next to Andie in a body tight suit is not increasing it. No offence."
"None taken." Andrea replied. Natalie left to go change.
"But you didn't bring anything else to wear!" Gohan said.
"Oh yes I did!" Natalie said, as she returned. She was wearing blue jeans, a wife-beater and a loose hooded jacket.
"Okay, I like this one much better!" Nicholas grinned.
"Oy…" Gohan sighed.
Back on Earth…
"I feel kind of guilty." Remy said.
"You shouldn't. This is your house." CJ replied.
"But we just left everyone there with all those kids."
"So? They're not our kids."
"How can you be this way?"
"Years and years of practice." CJ replied. Remy looked at her in shock. "Besides, Vegeta's driving me crazy. I know he's Trunks' dad but if that man calls me an annoying onna one more time I will have to hurt him severely."
"Goten's doomed…" Remy muttered.
"What?"
"Nothing!" Remy said. BRRRING BRRRING! "Oh the phone! I'll get it! Hello?"
"Remy? It's Mrs Briefs. Can you and CJ come over here? We've got a bit of a problem. There's a man here, he says he's from a company called STANEX and he wants to speak with CJ." Bulma said.
"That's weird, how does he know CJ?"
"How does who know me?" CJ asked.
"Okay…we'll be right over." Remy said.
"Where are we going?" CJ asked, folding her arms. Remy sighed.
"I hate to do this." Remy said. She grabbed CJ's ear and started to drag her out of the door.
"OWWW! RAMONA, YOU LET GO OF ME!!" CJ yelled.
"You must listen to your elders." Remy said. "There's someone who wants to see you."
"Fine, I'll go. Just let go of my ear!"
"No. I'm not that stupid!"
At the Capsule Corp…
"I told you, we don't know where Videl is!" Chi-Chi said.
"I find that hard to believe. You are her family after all." The STANEX man said. He was dressed in a suit, but he was wearing dark glasses and a hat. Chi-Chi was finding it very hard to take him seriously, because several of the smaller children had decided it would be funny if they hung off his arms, legs and neck. "Can we do something about these kids please?"
"They seem to like you Mr Sagara." Chi-Chi said, trying not to laugh.
"Where is Miss Fujitaka?" Mr Sagara asked.
"She's on her way." Bulma said. "How did you know she was here?"
"It's my business to know." Mr Sagara replied. His face started to turn blue. "Seriously, I think this little one is crushing my windpipe."
"Kids, get down please." Goku said. He was currently lying down on the couch, reading a manga. They all, miraculously, obeyed. Everyone stared at Goku in shock but he just kept reading his manga. "Poor chiyo-chan!" (6)
"Thank you." Mr Sagara said, clearing his throat.
"What does CJ have to do with Videl's disappearance anyway?" Chi-Chi asked.
"I am fully aware that she is dating your youngest boy Mrs Son."
"How in the hell…?"
"I know her personally." Mr Sagara said. Chi-Chi gave him a dirty look. "Oh please, not like that! Ew!"
"ITAI!" A voice was heard yelling from outside.
"That would be her right now, if I'm not mistaken." Mr Sagara smirked. Remy and CJ burst through the doors.
"Okay, okay, okay, we're here! NOW LET GO!" CJ yelled. Remy did so. "I'd better not be bleeding."
"Well if you weren't so friggin stubborn!" Remy said, as she sighed. "Okay, so where's this suit that wants to see CJ?"
"I'm the suit." Mr Sagara said, looking slightly mystified.
"Right, what do you want with her?" Remy asked, folding her arms.
"I can speak for myself you know." CJ said, as she was promptly ignored.
"You must excuse me, but before I conduct any business, I always must introduce myself. Especially to someone as beautiful as yourself." Mr Sagara said, bowing humbly.
"Uh huh…what are you selling?" Remy asked, raising an eyebrow. Mr Sagara smirked slightly.
"A quick wit as well? My, you are full of surprises." Mr Sagara said.
"Don't talk like you're so familiar with me bub." Remy said.
"Um, there's something you should know…" CJ tried to say, but she was interrupted.
"Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Mr Sagara." Mr Sagara said, removing his hat and lowering his dark glasses. Remy was suddenly as mystified as he had been.
"Uh…hi." Remy said, as she smiled. His eyes are gorgeous! Why would he hide them with those horrible glasses?!
"Hi." Mr Sagara smiled. She's beautiful! She looks familiar though.
"You shouldn't wear such dark glasses!" Remy said, then blushing. What the hell?! Brain, you're not helping me in front of the cutie!
"I kind of need them to see." Mr Sagara said, chuckling at her. "The shade is my choice. I think it gives me an air of mystery. What do you think?"
"Um, well, I, hehehe…" Remy started to blush even more.
"Um, can I ask why you're turning into a bumbling idiot?" CJ asked.
"It's a flaw! When I'm near a cute guy, I say the first thing that pops to mind." Remy whispered back.
"And you said that because?"
"His eyes are gorgeous!"
"Don't most people grow out of all this?"
"I'm not most people."
"That's true in more ways than one."
"Hey, I wasn't the tomboy remember? I just wasn't the boy crazy airhead either."
"For your safety, I had better be the former."
"Oy, another romance?!" Claudia said, annoyed. "You'd think with all the googly eyes going on around here we were in a soap opera or something."
"Yeah!" Daniel and Adrian agreed.
"I'm agreeing with the twins? I've hit an all time low." Claudia said.
"I have no idea what's going on!" Maria said, frustrated.
"Welcome to my world." Cory said.
"CJ, you never told me you had such a beautiful friend." Mr Sagara said.
"She's your friend too." CJ said, exasperatedly. Remy and Mr Sagara blinked.
"Come again?" Remy asked. CJ sighed.
"Knuckleheads!" CJ said, slapping them both upside the head. "Remy, this is Alex. Alex, this is Remy." (7)
"…You lie!" They both exclaimed.
"I do not." CJ said. "And if I were in a better mood, this would be very amusing for me. But I'm not. So, what the heck do STANEX have to do with Videl?"
"Ahem." Alex said, recomposing himself. "You know very well. We are a division of the government."
"Or so you think you are." CJ replied. "Alex, who are you kidding?! STANEX is the world's nosy neighbour."
"Hey! The world was threatened and we need to stop it from happening again!"
"The world will save itself the same way it has decades before you were born." CJ said.
"By whom?"
"By brave warriors, who don't need a thank you or a big fat cheque after they're done." CJ said rather coldly.
"It'd be much appreciated though." Krillin said, as the other warriors nodded in agreement. Alex looked insulted. CJ sighed.
"Look, I'm sorry but you know how I feel about your company." CJ said.
"My father's company. And you know my stance on it too." Alex said. "These changes have to happen slowly."
"Do you know what they're talking about?" Chi-Chi asked Remy.
"I can't believe that's Alex!! If I'm not careful, I'm gonna be the Babe to his Benz!" Remy said. "Ah, how I weep for myself."
"Why do my sons hang around with such strange people?" Chi-Chi asked no one in particular.
Back on Tocopherat…
"Okay, everybody have their communication channels turned on?" Gohan said through the ear piece.
"Yes Boss." Everyone replied.
"How come Gohan chose Boss as his nickname? It's so unoriginal, so uninspiring, so…" Nicholas sighed.
"The one you wanted Bishi?" Drake asked.
"Shut up!" Nicholas said. "You're grounded when we get back."
"So this is why you wanted codenames, for frequency reasons!" Zophen said.
"Sure." Gohan replied, his eyes shifting. On Team One were the powerhouses of the teams. With Gohan were Zophen, Pan, Uubu, Drake, Nicholas and Andie. Team Two consisted of Yamcha, Trunks, Goten, Natalie and David. "Okay, Drake is going to release fireballs into the air when we get up to the roof. That is Team Two's signal to start getting into the building. Yamcha-san?"
"Don't worry Boss, I memorised that map. We'll be fine." Yamcha said. "Just try not to die okay?"
"Thanks so much for the words of encouragement." Pan said, sweat-dropping.
"Pan, are you sure you're well enough to…?" Drake asked.
"Don't ask stupid questions Summers, I'm fine."
"Geez! Excuse me for living!" Drake huffed.
"Okay, let's go." Gohan said. Gohan, Pan and Uubu proceeded to raise their chi levels. Nicholas made two copies of himself, so to conserve some energy. Andie proceeded to telekinetically lift them all to the roof. A guard at his post noticed them outside.
"Intruders! Get them!" He yelled. There were at least 50 troops on the roof of the castle, divided up into ranks. The first rank started to fire blue lightning balls at them. Gohan quickly deflected them with some chi blasts. The second rank provided back up for the first as they started firing electric arrow bolts at them.
"Blue lightning balls, electric arrow bolts, I'm sensing a pattern here." Nicholas Prime said.
"We're almost there. When we land, get ready. The final rank has started to attack yet, so we don't know what they're going to throw at us. Please be careful, and watch each other okay?" Gohan said.
"Right!" Nicholas #3 said as he jumped out of Andrea's telekinetic bubble and onto the roof.
"Bishi!" Gohan yelled.
"I'm really sorry Gohan. I just thought it'd be helpful if one of my clones had the personality of Wolverine." Nicholas Prime said.
"NOT HELPFUL!" Gohan yelled in despair.
"Yeah dude, Samurai Jack would've been so much better." Nicholas #2 said.
"Ah…" Nicholas said sheepishly.
"We're here. Attack!" Gohan said.
Meanwhile…
"They are taking way too long." David said.
"Not everyone's a speedster like you." Trunks said.
"Even so."
"Don't worry, I'm sure they're okay." Goten said. David smiled.
"My, my, what a role reversal." Yamcha said. "Trunks used to be the more insightful one while Goten was the one who only realised the obvious. And that was on his best day."
"Hey!" Trunks and Goten exclaimed.
"I think Gohan's morning training regiment has gotten to him." David said.
"By 'him', who exactly do you mean?" Trunks asked demandingly.
"Gee, I wonder!" David replied sarcastically.
"You're awfully quiet." Yamcha said to Natalie.
"I'm worried too."
"They'll be fine."
"It's not that. I'm just wondering if it was wise to leave Gohan with Nicholas and Drake. They'll drive him insane." Natalie said. Everyone face-faulted.
"That's what you're worried about?!" Yamcha exclaimed.
"Well yeah! When we were seventeen, Gohan was always the shyest one out of all of us. He hardly tells anyone off, even when they deserve it." Natalie said. "And Nick knows how to push his buttons. Drake's the same; he gets it from his father after all."
"Come on, this is a serious battle. They wouldn't do that!" Yamcha said, sweat-dropping.
"Oh yes they would. I can bet you've they've already something to make him angry." Natalie said.
As if on cue…
"Hahahaa!!" Drake and his three fathers laughed loudly.
"Bishi! Inferno" Gohan yelled.
"Boss, it's funny!" Nicholas Prime replied back.
"It's not helping!" Gohan yelled. Nicholas #2 had decided it'd be funny to see what happened if Drake set the guards' behinds on fire. Of course, being soldiers with the strict orders not to leave their posts, it was rather (evilly) funny to see them burning while trying to fight of Gohan, Pan and Uubu. Zophen just stared in shock, occasionally beating off the random solider that rushed towards him. Andrea was busy stopping the soldiers from falling to the ground and dying.
"But funny's more important!" Nicholas #2 said. Gohan's left eyebrow twitched.
"That's not good." Pan said, as she grabbed Uubu and Zophen by their collars and hid behind Andrea's forcefield.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!" Gohan yelled in anger and frustration. This caused a big chi blast to emit from his body and he ended up knocking all the remaining guards unconscious on the floor. Drake and the three Nicholas' all stood there shocked from the blast. Their hair was standing on end and their clothes were scorched marked.
"Woah…" They all uttered.
Back to team two…
"Was that the signal?" David asked.
"Nope, that was Gohan's chi signature." Yamcha said.
"Yep, definitely Nick's handy work." David said, nodding.
"How come you never stop him from driving my brother crazy?" Goten asked.
"Well, when Nick usually does this, and I go to tell him off…" Natalie started off.
"Yeah?"
"He gets this smile on his face and says 'but it was funny!'."
"Yeah…"
"It's just one of the cutest faces!" Natalie said, blushing and giggling.
"Add her to the list of grown ups fully back to their teen selves." Trunks said.
"Look, there's the signal!" Yamcha said. Sure enough, Drake had sent two fireballs into the air.
"I'm confused, won't that attract attention to them?" Goten asked as the team followed Yamcha.
"That's the point." Yamcha said, smiling.
In the castle…
"What is all the commotion outside?!" The King demanded, bursting into his main hall. Dimethic, Medilan and Mara were already there.
"We must be under attack." Medilan said. "Supporters of The Elder?"
"There's no way they could know of his imprisonment already." The King said.
"Unless it was…" Mara said. Before she could finish what she was saying, the double doors of the main hall blasted open. The unconscious bodies of the two main hall guards were flown across the room and landed at the King's feet.
"You!" Medilan said, indication Zophen. "You're supposed to be dead!"
"Well, I tried it and didn't like it very much." Zophen said. "Was that right?"
"It was okay, but you failed in delivery man." Nicholas (now the only one) said.
"Who are these children with you?" Medilan asked.
"He doesn't recognise us, sweet!" Nicholas said.
"I recognise some!" Medilan replied, in a somewhat childish manner. Nicholas raised an eyebrow at him.
"Oh, what a retort. I'm stung viciously."
"Good."
"That was sarcasm you idiot."
"ENOUGH!" The King yelled, obviously annoyed. "You decolains may have escaped death once, but you won't again."
"They look different from before." Dimethic said. "I sense the work of Inerl here."
"There are less of them than before as well." Mara pointed out.
"Maybe these were the ones that survived."
"It's time for the rematch." Gohan said, powering up. "And this time, I am not leaving without my wife."
Meanwhile…
"These dungeons are creepy." Goten whined. "How come we're the ones here again?"
"We're here to…" Before Yamcha could explain, thirty guards surrounded team two.
"Crap." Trunks said, rather unsurprised.
"These odds aren't too bad, just as long as we don't rush into anything." Yamcha said.
"CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!" David and Natalie yelled, as they jumped head first into the mesh of guards.
"Every minute more we spend with these people, I understand your brother more and more." Trunks said, as he watched them try to beat the crap out of thirty guards.
To Be Continued…
Finally huh?! Hopefully, the next chapter won't take as long but we will have to see guys. Bye for now!
(1) Vash the Stampede is the main character in the anime Trigun. I will go out on a limb and say he is probably the best fictional character ever. EVER!
(2) Bishi is short for bishonen which means pretty boy in Japanese.
(3) Seth Cohen is one of the central characters on "The OC" and is played by Adam Brody. Seth is one of the funniest characters on American teen television since Xander Harris. Seriously.
(4) "P-chan" is the name of Akane's pet pig on the Ranma ½ series. His alter ego is actually human, known as Ryoga Hibiki who is in love with Akane. It's a very long story. He's a very good character, very cute, lol.
(5) Speaking of Ranma ½, "osage-no-onna" means pig-tailed girl. This is what Kuno called the female version of Ranma (who indeed has a pigtail).
(6) Chiyo-chan is one of the characters in Azumanga Daioh. One of my favourite animes. She's so friggin cute!
(7) Not really a reference but you guys remember Alex right? Randomly appeared in Trunks and Goten: The teenage years. He was usually banter partner with Remy. Had a vision of owning a Benz and a Babe.
