Chapter 21
Krillin
After Shen's escape, Krillin, with the Chief's permission, had started a manhunt for him, and his assistant, who Master Roshi confirmed was Shen's brother the infamous Mercenary Tao Pai Pai. For three days they searched for them, letting the media know that they were dangerous criminals and everything; but they got no results. Civilians flooded the Police's hotlines, but all of them were only rumors or idiots looking for their fifteen minutes of fame. Nothing concrete was coming in, and Krillin was starting to lose sleep over it.
On the fourth day, he once again woke up way too early. Eighteen woke up with him; and looked at him. "Krillin, go back to sleep." Krillin tried to get up, only for his powerful cyborg wife to push him back down and hold him down. "You need your rest," she pointed out, "And as your wife, I'm not letting you wake up too early for the fourth time in a row." Krillin took a deep breath, Eighteen had a look in her eyes that told him 'this is for your own good.' "I really hate this," Krillin said, "Those guys hurt so many people, and I can't find them. Their goons sent my daughter to the Hospital, and I can't do anything about it." Eighteen nodded as she got on top of him and looked into his eyes. How could I have gotten her as my wife? Krillin wondered as she looked at him with those icy blue eyes of hers. She could have nearly any man, or woman, she wanted, yet she stuck by him.
Krillin did as she suggested and went back to sleep. He would need his rest.
Marron
Marron woke up and immediately started stretching before putting on her gi and weighted clothes. After warming up and getting to the training room she worked her heart out along with her Dad. Marron didn't forget how she had lost the fight with that two-bit pretty boy thug. She wouldn't let it happen again, she would train her heart out. When Goten got back, she was going to be so strong, he'd need to go Super Saiyan to beat her! "Whoa Sweetie, you're really going at it now," her Dad commented. "I need to get stronger," Marron said as she did another rep with their weights, "Dad, I lost that fight with those thugs. We don't know how many more are out there like that pervy pretty boy. If I don't get at least five, no, ten times stronger, then I'll be useless!"
Krillin nodded and Eighteen watched them and commented, "I think you need to focus on being more skilled. You beat almost all of them, except for their leader, or whatever he was. From what I've heard, those punks aren't very experienced. Strength is important, but I think honing your skills would be better. I suggest watching for openings; and using Kaioken more selectively to hit the jerks hard." "Yeah," Krillin agreed, "That's perfect for you, Marron. We should practice that." "Alright," Marron agreed. After stretching again the three of them headed out to their backyard.
Krillin and Marron powered up and immediately started sparring. Krillin was furiously attacking, Marron struggling to keep up, but she knew he was holding back. She kept her eyes and mind open to watch for an opening. Krillin went for a roundhouse kick, and Marron saw it. "KAIOKEN!" she quickly yelled and landed a palm strike before Krillin could throw his kick. Krillin backed away and smiled. "That's it, keep going," the more experienced martial artist told his daughter, and they kept on going. Every time Marron landed a blow, Krillin went faster, pushing her. Eventually, he landed a hard kick to her stomach that drove the wind out of her and she stopped, holding her stomach. "Oh man! Are you alright, Marron?" her Dad immediately said when he saw he actually hurt her.
"G-Give me…a minute…" Marron managed to say as she floated down to the ground and made herself stand up so her diaphragm could fully expand as she breathed. Marron needed two minutes to really recover, and Krillin said, "Alright, I think that's enough." He saw the sun start to rise and said, "I gotta get ready to work." Krillin ran inside to shower and get in his uniform, leaving Eighteen and Marronn alone. "After all this is over," Eighteen said, "I'm gonna make your Father take a vacation. Take us somewhere nice, like a tropical island. Spend the day walking the beach and enjoying the surf or something." Marron snorted, "You really want all the guys there to ogle you?" Eighteen smirked, "I like seeing your Dad get jealous sometimes, besides, if anyone gets too fresh, I can break him in half."
Marron shook her head, "You're something else, Mom." She went inside and took a shower, school was canceled for the immediate future, but she heard from Kuki that it would reopen in another week. Marron got dressed in her usual denim skort with purple short sleeved shirt and red shoes and emerged from her room as her Dad got ready to head out. She heard her Mom say, "Be careful. Desperate people are the most dangerous." "I will," Krillin promised. Marron went down and gave him a kiss goodbye which he returned, and Krillin headed off to the Station, while Eighteen got to work making breakfast.
After breakfast, Marron grabbed her deputy badge and pinned it on her shirt. She was going to head out on patrol, but then her Mom stopped her, "And where do you think you're going?" "Around," Marron evasively said. Eighteen shook her head, "Not alone you're not." Marron groaned, "MMOOOOOMMM!" "Don't 'Mom' me. You were nearly killed the last time you fought alone. If you think I'm going to let you try your luck again without some serious backup, you're dead wrong. Or, I could send you back to your room to study for the next seven hours," Eighteen said, a smug look on her face. Marron crossed her arms and glared at her, and Eighteen crossed her arms as she glared back at her.
Marron had a good glare, but Eighteen was a pro, and she relented, "Fine." Eighteen smirked as they both headed out of the house and started walking through Satan City. Marron had her senses wide open, looking for any trace of superhuman ki. For the next three hours they looked around the City, Marron feeling her muscles tighten as time passed with no sign. She nearly screamed when her Mom touched her shoulder. "Take a minute, breathe," she told her, and led her to a bench to sit down. "Deep breaths don't rush it," Eighteen told Marron. Marron did as her Mom told her, and her body started to relax. "You can't fight if you're too stiff. Keep your mind and body relaxed," Eighteen continued. After five minutes, Marron felt better; and they continued their search.
After another two hours of walking, Eighteen suggested they stop and grab lunch. "I'm not that hungry," Marron responded, and then sensed a ki signature flare up. "You feel that?" she asked, and quickly ran in the direction she sensed the ki coming from. They saw five masked men with auras around them coming out of a bank. Marron was ready to fight, but Eighteen reached them first. One of the masked men saw her and said, "Out of my way, Beauty Queen." Eighteen tucked her hair behind her hair in response and said, "Are you involved with Shen? Tell the truth, and I'll only break half your bones." The masked men looked at her and laughed. Eighteen saw Marron and raised her hand, "Stay there, Marron. This won't take long." One of the masked men, who looked like a bodybuilder, flew at Eighteen yelling, "Out of the way, bitch!"
Eighteen caught the man's kick and then squeezed and snapped his leg. The masked bodybuilder screamed in pain, and the other masked men stepped back. Eighteen kicked the man in the ribs hard enough to send him flying into two others, knocking all three of them out. "Last chance boys," Eighteen told the last two masked men, "Tell me where Shen is, or I'll get real nasty." "She's just one woman! We can take-" the masked man didn't get to finish, as Eighteen suddenly appeared and kneed him in the balls, hard enough to make Marron wince. "One left," Eighteen said, and glared at the last masked man. "I'LL TALK! I'LL TALK!" he yelled and ripped off his mask showing that he was a bald man with big ears and a scar on his right cheek, just as the police arrived with Krillin and Videl leading them.
"Now, tell the nice police officers everything, especially the cute bald one," Eighteen told the last masked man, and he yelled, "I WILL! I WILL!" "Eighteen," Krillin said, "Do I need to ask what happened?" "I was just doing my civic duty as a citizen," Eighteen told him. "I'll tell you everything!" the formerly masked man said, falling on his knees to Videl, "Just keep her away from me!" "You're under arrest," Videl said as she took the man into custody. He actually sighed as he got in the police cruiser.
Goten
Goten honestly thought they would solve the problem of Primus Cerebus's Super Androids in one day, two days tops. He had been wrong, so wrong! Primus Cerebus had constructed factories for the Super Androids on four planets of the Idego's solar system, and they had to fight their way to destroy all of them! Luckily, there was a Resistance among the Idego against Primus Cerebus, and they were happy to lend them spaceships to take them to the planets where the Super Android Factories were. They were now working on the third one now, Gotenks leading the way in his Super Saiyan Three Form, destroying Androids as fast as he could while Pan and Bra were behind him, destroying everything in site in the factory. The battles had been fierce, everyone except Goku and Vegeta had to use senzu beans to heal serious injuries at least five times; and even Goku and Vegeta needed them after they destroyed the second factory. Zenkai helped make them all stronger, but they were quickly running out of senzu beans.
Right now, Goku, Vegeta, and Gohan were outside the factory, dealing with reinforcements from the last one. Everything was rumbling and exploding as the combined Vegeta and Son families fought against the Super Androids. The Androids were all spherical with thick tubelike arms; but the metal they were made of was unique; and could repair itself if the central processing computer of the Android wasn't destroyed. Goten and Trunks had to rely on Gotenks's power to keep up, and even though Gotenks was stronger than ever before thanks to his component's Zenkai, he was still struggling to keep up with the Super Androids.
Gotenks, Bra, and Pan emerged in a factory to see the Super Androids being constructed on an assembly line. "Alright girls," Gotenks said, "Together! DIE DIE MISSILE BARRAGE!" "Kamehameha!" Pan screamed in her Super Saiyan Form. "GALICK GUN!" Bra unleashed her Father's signature technique, pouring everything she had left into it. All around them, machines were destroyed, stopping production of the Super Androids. Thankfully, all the factories were fully automated, no innocent lives were lost when the factories were destroyed. "All right, I think that's it," Gotenks said. That was when three Super Androids attacked the Fused Half-Saiyan at once, tackling him into a hard metal wall!
Gotenks blasted the Super Androids off of himself before attacking one, throwing a punch right through it. He then squeezed the second one in half with Galactic Donut, only for his time to run out! "OH CRAP!" Gotenks yelled as Trunks and Goten unfused. The last Super Android blasted Trunks with a laser from its hands before he could recover, and the Super Android's laser tore through Trunks's chest. "TRUNKS!" Goten, Pan, ande Bra all screamed. Bra screamed in righteous fury at the sight of her older brother struggling to breath, and lightning exploded out of her as she ascended to Super Saiyan Two! The Half-Saiyan girl flew at the Super Android and kicked it back before unleashing a barrage of ki blasts to knock it back. The Super Android quickly recovered though, and flew at her, spinning its arms faster than a buzzsaw, slamming her through another wall.
Goten was exhausted as he took out his last two senzu beans and gave one to Trunks and ate the other one himself. Pan flew after the Super Android in the meanwhile and managed to stop it from finishing off Bra. Trunks got up and the two men immediately went to defend the girls, both of the ascending to Super Saiyan Two as they went at the Super Android faster than rockets. The Super Android struggled to defend itself from Goten and Trunks as they threw punches and kicks with wild abandon. Pan and Bra saw their Uncle and Big Brother respectively fighting and joined in. All four Saiyan hybrids started to overwhelm the Super Android, pounding away at it, before it unleashed a bright light from its body, and then spun around, knocking them all off it.
"Don't give up! Give it all you got!" Trunks yelled as he blasted the Super Android with all he had. Goten and the girls joined him, all of them pouring their power into their blasts. The Super Android started to glow bright red, then yellow, and then white. "HHHHHAAAAAAA!" all of them screamed out with one last blast of power, and the Super Android exploded! Pan, Bra, Goten, and Trunks all powered down, almost totally drained. "Alright, we gotta get out of here, and Dad, Vegeta, or Gohan can blow this place away," Goten said as he helped Pan up. Trunks and Goten carried the girls out and saw Vegeta in his Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan Form finish off the last two Super Androids. "DAD! Blow this place to Hell!" Trunks yelled up as he and Goten flew a safe distance away from the factory. Vegeta fired away at the factory, and when the dust finally settled, it was reduced to a smoking crater.
Vegeta, Goku, and Gohan flew down and Gohan took Pan. "We did it Dad. Me and Bra helped destroy one of the Super Androids," Pan said, with a tired smile. Gohan smiled back as he held her close, "That's great sweetheart. You've been working hard, you should rest now." Pan was already asleep. A space ship shaped like a blue cylinder floated down from the sky, and it's landing feet hit the ground. Its side opened up to reveal the Idego who was helping transport the Saiyans, Kor-Tex. He had the tall, and thin seven-foot body that was usual of the Idego and seven fingered hands, wearing a red jumpsuit and helmet that hid his large cranium. Pan once compared him to a lollipop with arms and legs.
Kor-Tex took off his helmet, revealing his light grey skin and skull like face with one eye in the middle. "You have succeeded once again, Saiyans," Kor-Tex said as he helped them onboard his ship. "Yeah," Goku said, "But that was the toughest fight yet. If Primus Cerebus isn't planning something for that last factory, then I'll be shocked." "Yeah," Goten agreed, "I used up my last senzu beans. How many do we have left?" Gohan, Goku, and Vegeta dug through their pockets, and each pulled out one senzu bean each. "That's all!?" Trunks yelled in disbelief.
"You guys and the girls have been scarfing them down like crazy," Gohan explained as Kor-Tex's ship took off. "We'll have to divide them in half; and hope that whoever doesn't get one half doesn't get too badly injured," Vegeta said as he snapped his last senzu bean in half. Goku and Gohan did the same and passed the half senzu beans to Goten and Trunks, keeping two other halves for Pan and Bra when they woke up. "It's almost over," Goku remarked as they exited the planet's atmosphere and headed for the final factory. "Right," Goten said. He fell asleep soon afterward, dreaming of his Mom's cooking, and spending a whole day with Marron when he returned to Earth.