"Retreat! Retreat!"
Only three of the masked soldiers have the strength to stand, two helping their comrades that are still awake flee within the castle, only five men successfully get away while twenty five fully grown and trained man lie on the ground unconscious. Mark, who suffers only minor bruises and dirt stains on his clothes, stands straight with his head held high laughing in an uproar.
"Gyahahaha!~ That's right! You better run! And give us our friends back too!"
Goku remains in a fighting stance and shouts loudly.
"We'll beat anyone you send our way so you better just give up now!"
Inside, watching in a mix of fear and fury, Pilaf watches the pitiful display of his men being made into toys of two mere kids.
"They're just a monkey brat with a red stick and a stupid teenager with a head too big for his shoulders! How can my army be so incompetent!"
Pilaf snaps his fingers and is carried by Shu, who lifts the stool the emperor stands on, over to a computer console. Pilaf sneers as he starts typing away.
"If my idiot men cannot handle these intruders then my machines will! Go, Pirate Robot Mark Two!"
Pilaf presses a large button and grins as he looks up at the screen.
Goku and Mark start to make their way inside, but Goku jumps back pulling Mark along by the belt, saving him from being filled with lead as a line of bullets stops them from entering. From above, hanging on the castle towers and walls like gargoyles, large machines with long skulls and weapons for hands zero in on the duo. The front doors of the castle slam shut as the androids all jump from their perch and to the ground.
Mark's eyes nearly bug out of his sockets at the sight of the terrifying contraptions.
"Pirate Robots?! Just one enough to kill an entire army unit! We're out of our league here, kid! I'm not exactly bulletproof!"
Goku takes his Power Pole and begins to spin it as he holds it forward. The Pirate Robots all fire away, yet despite the powerful rounds, not one bullet makes their mark as Goku deflects them all!
"These things look tough... But I'll prove tougher! Power Pole, Extend!"
Goku holds out his staff in one hand and swings with great effort as he bisects quite a few Pirate Robots. Mark can only stare in awe before Goku brings him back to reality, by throwing him right into the locked doors, having made an opening with the initial attack. Mark's tough frame breaks through the sturdy wood, although the martial artist tumbles with a series of grunts and groans, standing to his feet as he shouts at Goku.
"Just whaddya think you're trying to do, you maniac?! You nearly killed me!"
"I'll hold these guys off! You go ahead!"
"Huh...? B-But those things'll tear you to shreds!"
A Pirate Robot slides up to Goku, their feet being able to switch between talons and feet with treads, swings down its sword for the boy only for him to block it. Goku pushes the blade back and swings at it, breaking the weapon and destroying the skull in one fell swoop.
"I said I'll never lose again when my friends are in danger! Bulma is really smart, Oolong always makes me laugh, and Bikini teaches me a lot that isn't fighting! If I lose them..."
Three more surround him, each swing their blades with calculated speed and precision to dice any man into pieces, yet Goku evades them all with ease as he swings his staff to break their limbs off and destroy their skulls with graceless style. Like a monkey fighting for its life.
"It'll be like losing Grandpa all over again! I won't let that happen!"
Unaware to Goku, Bikini and Oolong have escaped and were hiding behind a pillar. Oolong himself looks on in surprise.
"He always seem like he didn't really care and was just along for the ride... I can't tell if I should be flattered or worried for the poor snot."
Bikini brings a hand to her chest with a heavy heart as she watches Goku fight desperately. Though he dominates the robotic foes, they simply come without end from the castle towers, replacing every one that is destroyed. She isn't sure how or why, and frankly she could careless for the reason, for all that matters is that she can feel Goku's exhaustion. He is wounded, he is starving, and he hasn't gotten any proper rest. He's running on fumes.
"We have to help him!"
Oolong stands in her way with his hands out.
"Hey! For once I agree with you, against my better judgement, but seriously!? What can we do?"
"We have to help Goku and Mark at thr same time... I know! We can guide Goku and Mark through the castle to find Bulma! We just have to get him out of that crowd!"
Oolong grows a tic mark on his head and gestures to the ever present robot army.
"Nice of you to come up with a plan, but we'll get skewered trying to free that blockhead! I'm grateful for the brat but I ain't suicidal!"
"It won't be suicide if we transform... I can speed right through and grab Goku and you can turn into something small and unnoticeable... I'll give you an opening!"
The pig sighs pointing to a small hole in the wall they crawled out of.
"No offense, Bikini, but your magic isn't exactly powerful enough to send these guys off their feet! You barely made a hole big enough for yourself to escape!
Bikini sweats a little at the remark. However, she steps from behind the pillar and enters a low stance.
"Then I'll have to try something else! Please body, don't fail me now...!"
Bikini focuses her sight on the Robot Pirates as she focuses her energy through her emotions, as she always has, yet now she struggles trying to send the flow into her hands. Her horn glows brighter and brighter with a different energy, familiar yet unique from the magic she so often used, harsher and far less focused. A bright ball begins to form in her cupped hands that soon grows too big for her fingers to contain the immense energy.
She remembers that Starswirl said she should be able to use this technique. Mark had taught her that there's nothing wrong with fighting for others. Even with her own distaste for violence, this is no time for pacifism, it truly is do or die.
A Pirate Robot zooms right over to her having scanned a new heat signature rising exponentially. Bulma, watching from her cell having heard Goku's desperate cry, now pounds against the glass wall in vain to get to her sister. Oolong shouts in surprise hoping that Bikini would stop her attempt to dodge the incoming blade. Goku watches in slow motion as Bikini is about to be cut down despite all his efforts.
At the last moment, Bikini thrusts her hands out for the Pirate Robot.
"KAMEHAMEHA!"
A blinding flash of light followed by the entire area shaking the ground and castle is all Pilaf can see on his screen. He knocks against the screen with his balled fist.
"What the-!? It went out! What's going on out there!?"
Mai stands at another console and realizes something frightening for her.
"T-The cameras sir! They've been destroyed! All but the interior and backyard entrance."
"WHAT?!"
Bulma looks on in hope. Optimism has never been her thing, but she saw it herself, the untapped power of her sister is capable of anything.
Goku couldn't believe his eyes. It was on instinct upon seeing Bikini unleash her own Kamehameha the he used the Power Pole to push himself high into the air. Her energy expanded on a level similar to Master Roshi himself, utterly vaporizing the Pirate Robots, and shaking the castle so much that its foundation began to crumble upon itself.
Mark miraculously found himself unharmed under the safety of the interior of the castle, yet saw the whole thing, leaving his jaw on the ground in absolute shock.
"Is this a nightmare or a dream...?"
All eyes slowly return to a panting Bikini. The horned girl falls to her knees with a groan.
"T-Too much energy..."
Goku hurries to her side with the biggest smile on his face.
"Bikini! That was so cool! Yours is way bigger than mine!"
He helps her stand on her own and she looks around dizzy.
"Was it...? I had my eyes closed... Are they all gone?"
Oolong waddles over finally calming down from the intense display of power.
"You nearly blew us all to kingdom come! Sheesh, be careful next time, what if you hit the castle!?"
Bikini's eyes shoot open and her head snaps to the castle.
"That's right! Bulma is still in there!"
Goku holds up the Dragon Radar.
"Along with the Dragon Balls!"
Oolong groans taking charge as he walks ahead of the two.
"May as well kill two birds with one stone..."
Goku tilts his head at the pig.
"You're not going to run away?"
Bikini also blinks with wide eyes.
"It isn't like either of us could stop you right now..."
Oolong grits his teeth before shouting back at the two.
"Quit your yapping! You think I haven't tried already?! It's just... Tch! Really hard to leave you guys alone now after all we've been through. I may as well see this through by now!"
Goku snickers pointing at him.
"I knew you liked us!"
Mark then shouted at the group from within the castle entrance.
"There could be more any second, you three! C'mon!"
"Waaahh! My sister could be dead! I can't handle this kind of stress!"
Bulma wails from inside her cell but her cries fall on deaf ears. Pilaf had turned the microphone inside her cell off to spare himself from her sobbing. He looks between his two subordinates angrily.
"Have you two made the call yet?"
Mai nods after swallowing a gulp.
"Yessir! The Red Ribbon Army received and answered our distress call! Lieutenant Gebo is returning shortly within a few hours!"
Pilaf sighs shaking his head.
"Better him then that jerk, Garlic. Bring up the interior cameras! If they made it inside then we'll trap them!"
Shu points to a screen and exclaims in shock.
"B-But sir, look! They're running past them all...! O-On...!?"
Pilaf himself could feel his eyes practically shoot out of his head, yet Bulma looks on with great relief and glee, as Bikini turned herself into a horse and speeds down the hallways carrying everyone on her back. Although inaudible, Bulma changes her tune on a dime, laughing in jubilation much to the silent ire of the emperor. Pilaf shakes himself out of his stunned stupor and barks his orders.
"Then activate one ahead of time! They're headed for the reinforced microwave trap! We'll stop them dead in their tracks, wait for sunrise, and that glass ceiling above will cook them alive until they turn to bones!"
"Yessir!"
Bikini skids to a stop in a metallic hallway. Goku and the others hop off of her back. Ahead of them is a solid steel wall. Goku and Mark attack it, but Goku shakes his head holding the Power Pole, whereas Mark held his now bruised hand.
"Not even my Power Pole can break this..."
"W-Why did I think punching a metal wall was a good idea!?"
Oolong shouts pointing behind them as the way back vanishes.
"Another wall just slid up from the ground! We're trapped... Again!"
Bikini transforms back into her human form and rubs her horn before firing a magical blast to the walls. However, it nary made a dent.
"I-I... I can't use my magic too well either. That Kamehameha took a lot out of me."
She falls to her knees and sits on the ground. Goku sits next to her sighing himself.
"I'm way too hungry to try one myself. It's real bright in here too."
Oolong pats one of the walls down searching for any exit through an opening or even a vent.
"Well there's that glass window up above. You can see the full moon pretty easily from here."
Mark does the same on another wall.
"Full moon, huh? With how this room looks, we'll be in trouble when the sun rises."
Goku looks up past the window at the full moon. His tail idly dancing about.
"You know... My grandpa died on a full moon. A monster is supposed to show up every time there is one but I never found it. I always black out every time I looked at the sky. Actually, I never really got to see the moon be full before because grandpa wouldn't let me."
Bikini nods trying to empathize.
"You were alone for a long time but- Wait. W-What was that about you and the moon...?!"
Oolong slowly turns to Goku with sweat starting to pour down his brow.
"H-Hold up if I'm putting two and two together then...!"
Mark looks between the two still unaware of the approaching danger.
"Hey, piggy! What's with you? You look ghost white! You too, Bikini! We'll find a way out of here, right Monkey Boy!"
Mark tries to laugh the intense tension away but soon finds the source of their shared dread. Goku's tail goes stiff with the fur standing on end, his eyes turn a bright red as his face shows great surprise and discomfort, his heart pounds with such force that it can be heard throughout the room. Bikini shakes him trying to calm him down.
"G-Goku! Son Goku! T-Try to hang in there for us-!"
Mark and Oolong pull her away from him as he begins to grow exponentially in size.
"Why does the weird crap always happen to me...?!"
"So he's a monkey werewolf!? And WE JUST FIND THIS OUT?!"
Goku's body ripples in musculature as he increases in size, his clothes tear away with the Four Star Dragon Ball falling onto the ground, even his face stretches out to form a snarling muzzle with fur growing over his body. He breaks through the glass ceiling, and many other walls of the castle, his tail lashes about utterly destroying one of the metal walls keeping the trio in captivity. Bikini, after using her magic to snatch the Dragon Ball, turns back into a horse and carries the two away down the collapsing corridor.
"We still have to find Bulma!"
Oolong points ahead to a hole outside.
"If we stay in here any longer then we'll be pancakes!"
Mark hops off and starts running ahead.
"I'll find her! You two get to safety, NOW!"
Much to her dismay, Bikini relents, and flees with Oolong outside.
Mark continues sprinting down the crumbling hallways with his heart racing madly.
"Oh man, oh God, oh God, oh man how'd I end up in a bad place like this...! Please, if there really is a God up above, get me out of here with that girl-! Huh?"
Unaware to Mark as he ran about randomly, he finds himself following... Something. He can feel himself being moved in the right direction, despite the ever changing foreign layout that falls apart around him, as if guided by an unknown hand... He finds Bulma abandoned in her cell, the poor girl pounding away helplessly against the glass wall.
"Hiyah!"
Mark strikes the glass himself and breaks it with ease, freeing Bulma as he takes her hand and points to a window.
"No time to explain, we gotta go! Now!"
"Way ahead of you!"
The two leap out of the window and onto the ceiling of a lower floor, the ground around them falling away as Goku rampages through the castle. Bulma hops and clings onto Mark as tight as she can shouting in his ear.
"Waagh! What is going on here!? Get me outta here, RIGHT NOW!"
"I'M WORKING ON IT!"
Mark stumbles and hops between growing gaps, showing great agility, and even greater luck as they miraculously make their way to the ground. The falling towers and falling debris nearly act as stairs for the two as they scream their heads off.
Eventually, a mistake had to be made, but just as they're about to fall they float in a golden bubble safely to the ground. Bikini and Oolong both show great relief. The sisters hug each other tightly.
Bulma wails with tears streaming down her cheeks while Bikini pats her back.
"Bikiniiiiiiiii! I wanna to go home!"
"I'm just glad you're safe! Thank goodness!"
Oolong nudges Mark with a sly smirk.
"No offense, but you really showed us what for! I was sure you'd end up crushed or something!"
Mark, after calming down from the constant near-death experience with every step he had just taken, throws his head back in boisterous laughter.
"When I say I'm gonna do something, I do it! I couldn't let the world be without such a pretty girl anyhow!"
Bulma stops crying at once as her head snaps to Mark in a mix of stunned praise and a slight blush on her face.
"You know exactly what to say to a girl! I might not need those dumb Dragon Balls after all."
Before the group can properly relax, a deafening roar reminds them of Goku's monstrous state, especially as the earth quakes around them with each step he takes to them. Oolong steps back shivering in place.
"Can't believe this is how I'm gonna die..."
Mark has a broken smile on his face as he watches the Giant Ape raise a foot to crush them all.
"T-This was one crazy dream but... I'll wake up soon, yeah...? Y-Yeah! Any second now...!"
Bulma points ahead with lingering hope.
"B-Bikini! You can make a shield to stop that, right!?
Bikini nods holding her hands out. The shimmering golden barrier made from her horn cracks under the weight of Goku's stomping. It holds, but more and more cracks form with each stomp. Bikini lowers herself with each attack blocked.
"Goku...! This isn't you! You worked so hard to find us, to save us... Please, Goku!"
Her horn shines brighter than ever with a desperate power flowing into it. All that she had left, her emotions and power, tears in her eyes as she cried out in a last ditch effort.
"PLEASE REMEMBER WHO WE ARE! WHO YOU ARE!"
Bikini erupts in a pulse of unparalleled power. While the group remained mostly unaffected, they were starstruck to find Goku frozen in place, but more frightening is the scene in the sky. The moon itself set far faster than it had any right to, and the Sun flew right into the sky, turning night to day in an instant! Goku, paralyzed in a golden layer of magic, soon began to shrink in size until he returned to normal. He lays out on the open sandy ground unconscious.
Bulma blinks before falling on her knees with her shoulders slumped.
"I can't believe that worked...! Bikini! Y-You actually saved us all!"
Mark throws Oolong in the air, to which the pig couldn't be any more happier with just being alive, let alone in one piece.
"Ahahaha! W-We actually made it out alive, porky! Hahahaha!"
"I ain't ever going on another adventure again after this! I'm good and done with the excitement! Forever!"
Bikini pants having spent all she had, yet a smile grows on her face as Goku sits up, her magic unknowingly healing him of his injuries.
"Huh? What happened? Everything went dark again! What happened to the castle? ... And my clothes?"
The group laugh together as Goku remains confused for a good while.
After catching him up on everything, as well as finding some clothes among the rubble, Goku reels back in sheer shock.
"I'm the monster?!"
Oolong nods patting his back.
"Yeah but don't feel too bad. It ain't like you can really control what you're doing when you're like that."
Bulma rubs her chin leaning against Mark's car.
"Plus you forget everything that happens too. Really, it's more like a curse. Poor Goku..."
Bikini shakes her head.
"No... I think it's something that is a part of Goku. We just have to be prepared for it! Now I know I can stop him if he turns again!"
Bulma sighs in relief at that.
"That's true, and pretty convenient too, because we don't have to waste a wish on that!"
Goku tilts his head at her.
"Waste a wish? Don't we only have one Dragon Ball now...?"
Bulma sneers and gestures ahead to Mark, who continues to dig around in the rubble of the castle, she holds up the Dragon Radar showing all seven Dragon Balls being present.
"Including the Four Star Bikini managed to get from you before you went full King Kong, that blue midget was so set on getting away with his life, he left the Dragon Balls behind while running away!"
Mark walks over carrying the remaining six.
"I found them! You really think these things will grant us a wish?"
Bulma snatches them one by one to set on the ground.
"Well even if they don't, I'm somewhat satisfied by our journey! Besides, I don't think I'll even need to make my wish, right Marky Mark?"
Mark blushes and rubs his neck.
"M-Marky Mark...? Well, I guess it isn't a bad nickname if the genius of the group thought of it."
Bulma giggles, leaving Goku confused as he looks between the two.
"You two are weird... But what are we going to wish for."
Bikini shrugs.
"I wanted to wish for a lifetime supply of strawberries, but I'm fine giving up the wish for another one since I could just grow my own strawberries."
Bulma taps her chin before she hugs Mark's arm.
"I was going to wish for a boyfriend but... I found him already!"
Mark's cheeks flush even further red.
"I-I wanted to wish to be a famous hero if they were real... Or a million zeni! But, honestly, I think I'll be fine for a little while on my own!"
Everyone looks to Goku. The young boy looks to the Dragon Balls, then to his hand, closing it into a fist.
"I don't really have a wish... But I want to get stronger. I lost to someone yesterday and that's why we went through so much. If I can get stronger, then I can keep winning, and I can keep my friends safe."
Bikini offers her pinky to Goku then.
"Then why don't we go to Mr. Starswirl and Master Roshi's house? I want to get strong as well! That way if you do lose, or if you turn into a Giant Ape again, I'll be able to help!"
Goku grins and wraps his pinky around hers.
"Yeah! Hey, Oolong, what about you?"
The portly porky boy grins as he approaches the Dragon Balls.
"I got a great wish! Hey, how do you get these things to work?"
Bikini stands and looks the orbs over.
"Daddy said that this is what your supposed to do. Spread your arms wide and shout: Come Forth, Eternal Dragon!"
Just as she does this, the sky goes pitch black, and the Dragon Balls shine brilliantly before a large emerald dragon flies out of the light of the Dragon Balls. A long body with a green mane and whiskers, crimson eyes that flash with immense power, and a voice that shakes the group to the core.
"I Am The Eternal Dragon: Shenron. I Will Grant Only One Wish."
Oolong abruptly shouts before anyone can even react.
"THE USED PANTIES OF A HOT BABE!"
Everyone, even the mystical legendary dragon himself, is stunned for a moment by the sheer vulgarity yet simplicity of the wish.
"Very Well."
Shenron's eyes flash before a pair of blue and white striped panties fall on Oolong's hands.
"Heh. Nice."
Bulma blinks before she checks herself and becomes incredibly frustrated.
"WHY YOU-! THOSE ARE MINE!"
Shenron starts to rise into the sky.
"Your Wish Has Been Granted. Farewell!"
The Dragon flies into the sky vanishing into the darkness, the Dragon Balls soon following after it, before seven bright lights fly across the sky. Oolong turns to face the group with a proud smile on his face.
"Well whaddya know! The Dragon Balls DO work after all!"
Bulma is quick to start choking Oolong with her bare hands.
"I'M GOING TO END YOU!"
"Agh! Ack! H-Help! H-Huaghck! Help...!"
Bikini and Goku laugh at the sight, the Unicorn calling the Flying Nimbus.
"Bulma! I won't be coming home for some time! Tell Daddy I'll be back a little bit later, okay?"
Bulma stops strangling the pig after retrieving her underwear.
"Are you sure? I would think you'd want to go back to school or come home after everything was said and done."
However, the younger sister shakes her head.
"No way! If anything, there's so much more of the world I want to see! I just have to be prepared for the journey is all. Besides, I have my faithful bodyguard by my side! Right, Goku?"
Goku hops onto the Flying Nimbus and holds his Power Pole over his head.
"No one's gonna hurt Bikini while I'm around!"
Bulma then looks to Mark.
"They are headed to that old turtle guy's place. You're a pretty strong martial artist! Don't you want to go with them?"
Mark waves his hands before making his way to his car.
"No thanks! I've had enough action for a good while! I gotta get you home anyhow and West City is pretty far from here."
Bulma hops into his car with a giggle.
"Oh, you're so thoughtful, Marky Mark!~"
Oolong, with nowhere to go, gets in the backseat rubbing his throat.
"Someone has to be with you around."
With a final punch on the head from Bulma, the party splits up waving farewells to each other, Goku and Bikini fly off towards a new adventure!