Following the dragon Ball radar, Tony led the team towards the hidden passage that led underground. The palace was located deep into the earth surrounded by lava, but it didn't look demonic. The palace looked classy and had a lot of greenery around it.
Seeing the palace grounds in the middle of the lava lake, the team was definitely surprised as it wasn't in their expectations. Before the team could fly towards the palace, the team was attacked by an arrow that was shot at Tony. It was a surprise attack for Tony as he hadn't expected anyone to bypass his sensors that could map an area of 200 meters around him. But, the arrow wasn't registered on the sensor and shot him directly.
The sudden impact caused him to almost fall into the lava and left a mark on his armor. Stabilizing his flight, Tony tried to find his enemy but couldn't locate it. None of the kids could find the enemy either and the only one in the know was Terry.
Seeing that Tony was fine, the enemy started to attack the kids. Tony shot down the arrows with his twenty funnels that flew out from his suit.
It looked hopeless for the others but Tony already had an answer. However, before he could act, the enemy attacked first with an unexpected move.
The foe appeared in front of them suddenly and glared at them. It was Medusa, the beautiful woman with a snake's lower half and multiple snakes as hair. Regardless, it wasn't the snake power that was a threat. It was Medusa's ability to turn anyone to stone, which was the real threat.
Without any resistance, the kids were turned to stone along with Roberta. Even Tony was about to turn into a stone statue, but Terry cancelled it. Terry was a martial artist that was connected to the planet and could utilize the energy from the world. That connection and type of energy allowed him to avoid such abilities, especially because he had vast amounts of experience against various abilities. It wasn't his first time facing the petrification.
Medusa was alarmed and quickly became invisible to attack from afar. However, Tony acted quickly and unleashed his funnels. They spread out and released an energy wave that allows Tony to locate the target, and blast Medusa senseless.
It was a dangerous battle and showed Tony that he hadn't been able to counter such abilities. Without Terry, he would have died. Tony wasn't the only one as well since the kids were learning from the experience and understanding different ways to fight.
Tony didn't kill Medusa and she disappeared while the curse was undone. After seeing Cerberus disappear, he understood the game and played along or some of them would die.
Finished with Medusa, the team flew towards the palace. But, this time they were on cautious and unleashed a barrier for protection.
Just as Tony expected, an attack came just as they crossed halfway.
Six harpies came at the team and unleashed sonic screams from different directions. It was strong enough to shatter metal and turn bones to dust. However, the barrier could even stop a city destroying bomb. So, it shouldn't have been a problem.
It shouldn't have been a problem, but the frequency was changed and Tony saw the barrier start to crack when he had been studying their attack.
'Damn my curious nature!' Tony promised not to act careless during battle next time because he almost caused the children to die. The sonic attack almost turned their insides to mush.
Tony shot them down before the kids died while Roberta gave them emergency treatment.
"It feels like he is training us or testing us through various means." Terry commented after the harpies disappeared. He couldn't help but come to that conclusion since it was clear to anyone that such combatants wouldn't be able to stop them.
"Agreed, but what is the test for?" Tony also thought the same thing.
"Are you guys insane? He is definitely trying to kill us all. Why not consider that he forgot to change his tactics or just kept the plan on hand? Not everyone changes their plans on the go." Bulma disagreed with their assessment as she had almost been killed. She couldn't consider a death trap a test.
"Master, Miss Bulma isn't wrong." Roberta agreed with Bulma as she had come across such situations before.
"Maybe, only talking with the Ox King will answer that question." Tony muttered as he sped up ahead.
Goku had been watching everything and trying this best to follow the battles. However, the speed was above his paycheck and he couldn't see a thing. It was the first time in his life seeing so many powerful beings in one place. Before arriving on Fire Mountain, Roshi was the only strong being he had met.
Going through the current situation encouraged Goku to work harder when he would go to Roshi for training.
"Such a majestic palace for a monster, how sad." Bulma commented as she landed in the garden in front of the palace.
"That's rude, miss Bulma. Background of a person doesn't decide their aesthetic tastes. Lord Yamcha has excellent taste and he is a bandit." Puar said he heard those words as he felt she was making fun of Yamcha.
Ignoring the pointless discussion, the team walked towards the palace and was promptly teleported.
Goku only noticed when he saw that everyone had disappeared and he was not in the garden anymore. He was inside a large room filled with black rocks and lava.
Inside the room that was extremely large, there was a red dragon. It was not very big, but a lot bigger than an elephant. Goku didn't fear for his life or look for help as he glared back at the beast that was eyeing him viciously.
The red dragon roared majestically to make Goku submit and the young boy roared back with an excited expression as he was seeing something new again. He was starting to really love the adventure.
Seeing the child roar back, the dragon shot fireballs at him and Goku avoided them while using his pole to destroy the ones close to him.
Rushing towards the enemy, Goku found himself facing a lava wave as the dragon swung its tail. Knowing that he couldn't handle the heat, Goku tried what he had just seen from Terry. He created a Ki barrier by quickly pushing out his Ki outside and creating a dome. It wasn't perfect and didn't have the hexagonal design, but it helped Goku survive the wave.
Taking heavy breaths, Goku saw the creature flying in the air and charging. Hesitating whether to test his new skill, Goku decided to attack with his pole and quickly extended it and hit the dragon from the side.
The attack took it by surprise and the beast was thrown to the side while the left wing was broken from the impact. It tried to fly but crashed into the lava pool.
Goku was about to continue when he saw a door open at the end of the room. He decided to leave the defeated dragon and left the room to arrive in a room filled with training equipment.
Inside this room, Goku found a little girl with long black hair, a dragon tail and two bumps on her head that were not covered by her helmet. She was the same size as him.
"Are you my new friend?" The little girl asked as she looked at him and found him cute looking.
"We can be friends. But, who are you?" Goku was okay with making friends as he had no hate for anyone. He was extremely pure and childish.
"My name is Chichi, what about you?" Chichi was the daughter of the Ox King and the dragon witch.
"My name is Son Goku. Chichi, where can I find the Ox King?" Goku asked as he got closer to the girl.
"Father should be in the throne room meeting with a guest."
"What about my friends?"
"I don't know." Chichi shook her head and jumped back as Goku was about to touch her private parts with the pole.
"Pervert, what were you doing?" Chichi was angered by his actions and demanded an answer.
"I was just checking if you had balls and a peepee. Oh sorry, I wasn't supposed to do that." Goku replied and then remembered that Terry told him not to do it.
Chichi was not fine with his apology, "You think words are enough for that disgusting act, then you are extremely wrong. You will pay the price. Fight, and show me your worthiness so that I may allow you to live." Chichi was a princess type girl with arrogance as she commanded everyone and decided the hierarchy through strength because of her father's influence.
The fight was unavoidable because of her violent nature as a dragon and Minotaur.
Goku didn't understand the big words and dodged the flying axe that came at him. It was extremely fast and sharp, as it cut apart the metallic posts beside Goku.
Following that attack, Chichi unleashed a red beam of energy from the red Ruby on her helmet. The attack was extremely fast and destructive as it burned the sold floor like nothing and hit him on the chest, sending him crashing into the dumbbells.
"Ow ow" Goku cried out as it burned his skin and left him naked.
Chichi was impressed by the resilience but was embarrassed by his nakedness.
"Put on some clothes!" Chichi said as she covered her eyes.
"I don't have any clothes on me. They are with Bulma. Let's finish the fight and then I wi get my clothes." Goku replied as he took hold of his pole and saw the ground under him shake.
The ground tried to devour him so he jumped on to his flying cloud and avoided the earth Spears heading for him.
Chichi closed her eyes and had relied on the earth to sense but now that he was in the air she had to peak through her fingers and fight.
"Ughh, Earth Golems crush him!" Chichi was annoyed by his nakedness and created earth Golems. The ground rose up and changed into the form of five meter tall warriors with sword and spears.
Trying to dodge their attacks, Goku came close to the ceiling and was almost hit by giant earth fists.
Seeing that he avoiding her attacks very well, Chichi allowed Goku to get close while dodging his pole strike and unleashed a surprise attack.
Goku was hit by the lava tail strike as he had forgotten about the tail and it fractured his bones, and burned his skin very heavily.
Goku screamed from the pain but retaliated at the same time with his pole, and sent Chichi crashing into the wall as the pole extended.
Chichi was hurt and angered as she followed it up with a dragon breath that scorched the whole room.
It all looked hopeless for Goku when he blocked the breath attack with the Ki barrier and with his tail he used the pole to hit Chichi in the head.
Chichi stopped her breath attack and blocked the pole with her axe. This allowed Goku to jump on to the cloud and close the distance between them. He realized that he could was stronger physically while Chichi had too many long range attacks.
The short distance was easily covered as Goku kept stabbing at Chichi with the extended pole, forcing her to dodge and use short moves.
Goku easily dodged the bullet type moves with the cloud or he would have been asked countless times as Chichi was faster. Getting close, Goku had the flying cloud turn up to cover his body and Chichi's sight.
The cloud crashed into Chichi and she tried to block it, only to see it pass through her and Goku used that opportunity to catch Chichi into a hold. Hugging Chichi, Goku smashed his head against Chichi before the girl could unleash a heat beam from her eyes.
The heavy handed headbutt stopped her attack and Goku finished the fight with a well placed punch to the abdomen that sent her flying across the room. Following that, Goku smashed her with the pole from above and Chichi was a human shaped crater.
Seeing that Chichi wasn't getting up, Goku fell to the ground.
"You are really strong, Chichi." Goku muttered as he felt extremely tired after using up Ki without knowing how to control it. His body had been unconsciously using it to save him from the dangerous attacks and when he used the barrier. It weakened him because there was no real mastery behind it.
