The time machine hummed pleasantly as it travelled along the multi-coloured worm like tunnel towards its destination. Gohan sat quietly beside his brotherly friend, who had drifted off to sleep. He had clearly caught as much sleep as Gohan the night before but there was too many thought roaming through Gohan's mind to allow him to catch a wink.
Had he allowed Trunks to go one step too far with complying with this journey? Maybe if he had talked to Bulma he wouldn't be in the clearly dangerous position he was placed in now. While he trusted his own ability and that of Trunks to take care of themselves they still had no idea what to truly expect. Was this really the right thing to do? Not at that moment it wasn't.
Suddenly a siren wailed in to life and the entire time machine was encased with a glowing of red warning lights.
"What's going on?" began Gohan aloud in a sudden frenzy of panic. Gohan was about to check the machines monitors when his question was answered. A loud bang rang out from metres above the reality moving machine, with such force it slammed its passengers forward and then forcefully back in to their rally type seats. (Remember to wear your seatbelts kids!)
"Don't want to train yet," muttered Trunks thickly, while still partially asleep. Gohan cracked the younger Saiyan atop his crown making him grab his head. "Hey! Didn't you hear me!" whined the recipient finally coming to.
"Are you deaf or something Trunks, were under attack!"
"Oh... OH," blurted out Trunks finally catching on to the situation.
"Trunks you take a look outside and see what's the cause of all this. I'll man the ship the best I can."
"I'm on it." Trunks quickly headed to the ladders that lead to a submarine type opening hatch. Once there he quickly spun open the lock and slowly lifted the ships hatch. He made sure to keep his head directly behind as a source of protection. Another blast came thundering in fractionally catching part of the time machine. Trunks slammed his back awkwardly gasping in pain and dismay. He peered round the corner of the hatch ever so carefully but as he did so a blast wisped past his hair burning it from purple to black.
Trunks held out his hand in shock as small strains of his hair began to freefall. If he didn't have the benefit of intense martial arts training he would have been a goner there for sure. From what he had seen a small lime green ship almost half in size from the time machine was hovering at tremendous speed behind them. If it had not been so dangerous, Trunks would of taken it as a toy at face value. Nonetheless it didn't seem to have a great deal of defensive capabilities, just two menacing laser guns hanging from each side.
Trunks began to quickly build up some ki in his left hand." I'm going to try something," he notified down to the now pilot of the ship. Gohan feeling the growing power emitting from Trunks called back up.
"Be careful that thing doesn't backfire on the time machine or we're done for. It might be able to hold up to these laser but that could cause some critical damage."
"Don't worry I'm an expert," called back Trunks cheekily grinning as he fired his ki blast with full force round the side of the hatch. The timing was perfect the rogue ship was firing elsewhere and given the velocity of the blast, there was no way for it to evade it. Trunks clearly didn't take in to consideration that it could defend against it.
As if on cue a huge spider like web appeared in front of the ominous ship, neatly rebounding the offending ki blast back in the direction it came. Trunk's eyes were the size of saucers as he watched his perfect plan coming back to haunt him. 'This is bad. This is really bad.' He quickly shoved his head back down the hole and yelled at Gohan:
"DOWN, make us go down NOW!" Without any negotiation Gohan grab the controls pulling them towards him, in turn forcing the ship in to an epic diving maneuver (YTMND :P). This caused the hatch to come crashing down on Trunk's head knocking him unconscious in one single blow. The whole ship shuck once again but with an even greater force than before. They been hit for sure and thinks could only get worse.
"Arriving at destination," alerted the machines control panel. Gohan starred at the screen. It was true all he had to do was avoid the blasts for a few more minutes while they passed in to the new time code.
"Now entering autopilot."Gohan looked at the screen blankly and sweat dropped at the huge predicament he was now in. 'Great idea Bulma.' Another blast resounded from the time machine as it took further blows. If the time machine was a boxer it would surely be out for the count at this point.
"Critical damage, returning controls, don't die." This time Gohan just stared at the control panel. 'Was that supposed to be funny?' Wasting no more he once again focused taking hold of the now unstable controls. As he turned the machine to one side ever so slightly over doing it caused it to perform a full barrel roll. Gohan bit his lip as he heard Trunk's body slap along the tough floor. 'Sorry.'
That's when he saw it in front of him. A giant menacing structure, which had thick black smoke rising frequently from its stand point. The intimidating structure was shaped akin to what could only be described as a giant ant (ants look nasty ok), threatening to pierce anything which stumbled in to its path. He felt a familiar power source emitting heavily from within. It sickly crawled inside his skin causing him to almost choke in bitter disgust.
As quickly as it had appeared it started to drift out of his sight and so did the attacks from the persistent fighter from behind. 'That smaller ship must be with them. That's the enemy, that filthy energy it's them for sure,' thought Gohan to himself now starring back to see if he could catch one last glimpse. When it didn't come he looked back ahead and noticed that the worm tunnel was quickly shrinking.
"Nearly ther ahhhhh!"Screaming out loud he got out of his seat and grabbed Trunks holding the younger close and grabbing hold of the back of his seat. The speed of the time machine had suddenly erupted like a sprint runner from the blocks and it was gaining all the time. Gohan peered on as he saw the tunnel end and huge towering buildings come in to site. The humming in the time machine suddenly cut and he felt the ship start to freefall impendingly.
"Oh no, I've got to stop it," he quickly strapped Trunks to his seat and powered up to super saiyan. He bundled himself out of the time machine and tried to match the speed of the falling machine. Underneath he could see Tokyo in full swing. It was the end of the working day and thousands of commuters were making their way home from a long stressful day. The last thing they wanted to see was...
"It's a monster!" a young girl screamed out loud, pointing towards the falling Saiyan. Panic quickly manifested its way through the streets. People started to run carelessly in to the middle of the road others hid behind trees.
"What's that it has with it? My god I think it's a bomb. Run for your lives!" The streets quickly cleared along with the motor car owners as only Gohan, Trunks and the time machine remained in the vicinity. Gohan quickly positioned himself under the time machine. It was going to hurt like hell but he had no other hope to stop it. He began to push up against it, decreasing its terrifying speed. The 'bullet' time machine powered on forcing Gohan's back to connect intensely with a car bonnet which had been abandoned in the commotion. While the force of the machine crushing him hurt it was nothing more extreme than what the super saiyan had ever experienced from years of fighting.
He quickly propelled himself up holding on to the time machine as he began to look around. 'Looks like I managed to scare the whole street off. Not bad for our first day here. Better not stand around and wait for the reaction, things could get very messy.' Wasting now time Trunks bounded off looking for a desolate area for which to lay low for the night.
As the commotion in Tokyo slowly began to subside a worried engineer hastily progressed towards her leader's office. The door in this case was a gigantic metal shutter. She rang the bell and the light above turned from red to green as the loud shutters withdrew their defence and allowed the girl to progress. She looked upon the colossal fish tank like container, which held billions upon billions of transparent white entities. Their faces all pushing to look at her and banging their hands monotonously so as to request freedom but as they had no physical form no sound was heard. She looked up past the first balcony and on to the second where she noticed her matter of concern peering down at her while holding on to the banister.
"How nice of you to join me Galaxia, looking at your expression I can assume you failed?" questioned the man knowledgably. The young engineer peered down towards her feet. She knew she was in for it now, he hated failure and always punished 'throughly.'
"Look at me when I speak to you bitch," he commanded in a threatening harsh tone that caused a sharp jump from the girl. She peered in to his eye, his one eye on his one half of his face. The other half was completely metal due to the modification his body had been through. (I bet you want to know what right? Not telling :P)
"I'm sorry sir I put all my heart in to taken them down. You must believe me..." she begged trailing off at the end. She paused, waiting on her master's next move. In the blink of an eye he appeared infront of her. He held her cheek in his hand softly rubbing it.
"Do take those glasses from your face," he requested softly while still slowly caressing her skin. She complied while feeling heat begin to radiate briskly across her cheeks. "And now your hair let it down." Once again she did as requested removing her held up blond hair and letting it flow down to her shoulders. Now he pulled her youthful body close to him and peered left eye to right eye. "Our mission is nearly over and because of that I'll go easy on you today. But tonight you will service me to my hearts content. Go change in to something more appropriate." Galaxia nodded in acceptance. "Yes Sir Axel, I'll be back momentarily." With that she left his presence to prepare for the nights service. Axel walked over to his tank of hope. The inhabitants looked at him with deep revulsion, they knew they were there because of him. Why? That was nothing to do with them but he had stripped them from their bodies. Axel ran his hands along the tomb of souls and smiled at them.
"Soon this journey will be over and she will be returned to me as she should have never been taken." He closed his eyes and began to drift his mind in to the past. The long dark past which had made him who he was and brought him to where he was.
I enjoyed writing that one it was a lot more fun :D. I changed the chapters as this was meant to be the start of chapter 4 but I still need to work out some of the stuff I'm doing with Axel's past. Either way I hope you enjoyed cya next time I hope.
P.S. Thanks for the two reviews I've had very much appreciated.