Chapter 30: Betrayal, Hope, Revenge, and Regret

(Opening Theme: Unbreakable by Fireflight)

Cashew Village

Jade was woken up by the sound of her door opening. "Brocc?" she said, then saw the silhouette, it was too short to be Brocc. "Who's there?" the Majin girl asked. Gunfire went off and a bullet bounced off of her. Jade reacted quickly and blasted her attacker's body with a ki ball, knocking them back before going in. Brocc, Bage, Barit, Beate, and Shurayuki all emerged from their rooms, carrying their attackers. "We're under attack!" Bage yelled. "No! These aren't soldiers!" Shurayuki yelled, and they all heard the sound of a crowd outside. "What the fuck!?" Brocc yelled as they all ran out of Jinbei and Kamiki's house. Outside was a crowd of villagers, mostly men but there were women as well, armed with hunting rifles, shotguns, cleavers, sickles, knives, rakes, and torches. The Villagers pointed their weapons at everyone. "What are you doing!? We're here to help you!" Beate yelled at them.

"We all saw what the Neo-Red Ribbon Army did!"

"You can't help us!"

"They're too powerful to beat!"

"If you surrender, we'll at least get to live!"

This and many more things were yelled by the Villagers. Barit stepped forward and summoned ki into his hands, then clapped them together as hard as he could, the clap sounded like a hundred cannons going off all at once, making the Villagers all duck in fright. "Now that I got your attention," the Namekian said, "Do you really think that handing us over to them will be the end!? You will all be enslaved! The fruits of your labors will be used to enslave even more! You've heard what they do with their Units, and those are their own! What do you think the soldiers will do to your families!? We risked our lives protecting you! And this is how you repay us!? Kenshiro must have been the exception, because I know that he would be disgusted to call any of you his kin!"

The Villagers were all paralyzed with fear until one man with a beard and a large barrel chest stood up, "Slavery is better than death! At least while we're alive, we have hope!" "Hideaki refused their demands!" Shurayuki pointed out, "The Neo-Red Ribbon Army's High General told us that he will decimate the Village now! Even if you hand us over to him, every tenth of you will be killed! You and your families will be starved! Is that really how you wish to live!?" The sound of a shotgun going off sounded, and a horse whinnied as Sheriff Jiro rode a horse between the Villagers and everyone from Conton City. "Go home! Hideaki-sama and I already discussed this! We're not selling anyone out! Go home!" Jiro demanded. "You can't stop all of us Jiro!" one woman with a rifle said. Jiro pointed his shotgun right at her and said angrily, "Listen to me! I'm still the law here! And I will enforce the law! If I see anyone take one step closer armed with a weapon, I'll blow you straight to Hell!" Jiro backed up his words by cocking his shotgun, "These people came to us when we needed help the most! They've risked everything, even though almost all of them don't know us! If you want to send them to be enslaved, you'll do it over my dead body!"

The air was so tense that you could cut it with a knife, no one daring to move lest they provoke a riot. After fifteen of the tensest minutes in Jade's life, the Villagers started to leave. Over five minutes the crowd all left, leaving Jade, Beate, Brocc, Shurayuki, Barit, and Bage alone with Sheriff Jiro. As soon as they were gone, Jiro put his shotgun in a holster on his horse, and started shaking badly. "Jiro," Shurayuki said as she went and put a hand on his shoulder, "Thank you, so much." "I could have killed them! I would have! This isn't right! We're all kin here! We've known each other for generations, I grew up with almost everyone here, and we almost killed each other!" Jade heard the Sheriff starting to sob and Shurayuki took him inside Jinbei and Kamiki's house, leaving everyone else outside. "Ungrateful bastards!" Beate cursed. "They knew what they would do, and they still tried to sell us out to save their own skins!" Bage said.

"Fuck this! I'm out! If this is what they do to me, I'm gone," Brocc said, stomping back into the house. The Saiyan headed straight for his room and checked his things. He packed everything and slung his pack on his shoulder after dressing in Tien's Gi. He turned to the doorway of his room and saw Jade there. "Brocc, don't go," she said. "Why not? They tried to kill us! They were going to send us to be those Neo-Red Ribbon Army's cyborg bitches. I'm not dying for these people," he said as he went to his doorway, Jade was still there, dressed in her blue pajama bottoms and t-shirt. "Jade, we don't owe them anything, we don't have to stay here," he told her. He didn't know how he felt about her, but he cared, and he didn't want to see Jade get hurt. "Please, they were scared, scared people do stupid things! And it wasn't the whole Village! There's a lot of good people here still that need our help," the Majin girl said.

Brocc tried to go past her, but she put her hands on his bare chest and looked up at him. She was blushing as she said, "Brocc, if you stay…I'll…give my virginity to you, for real." The blue-skinned Saiyan looked down at her, Jade was an exotic beauty by most standards, her tentacles were styled like short hair, and her black sclera and white irises made him think of night skies with stars, while the red circles on her cheeks looked like she was always blushing. For all her confidence, she was still young, two months away from 17 she had told him. Yet here she was, offering that to him, to protect people she didn't even know. Brocc sighed and lifted her chin to kiss her. "I'll take that offer now then."

He swept her off her feet and carried her to his bed. He kissed the Majin girl again and kissed down her chin and neck before lifting her t-shirt. He lightly kissed her breasts and nipples, before lightly biting down on her left breast. Jade moaned at that and he did it again, making her moan more. He left a trail of hickey's down her body as he went before pulling off her pajama bottoms and panties to see her wet, hairless snatch before him. He moved to take off his pants when Jade sat up, still blushing as she said, "Let me do it." Brocc nodded and let Jade remove his pants and underwear and letting his manhood show. He laid on top and said, "I'm not done just yet." He led his left hand down to her snatch and rubbed it softly, making her groan in pleasure as she lifted her head to kiss him. He hesitated for a moment when he saw the look in her eyes as his hand pleasured her.

She was in love, she thought so much of him. He quickly kissed her back and their tongues danced together, she moaned into his mouth as she came, and he quickly adjusted himself. As he entered her she wrapped her arms around his back, rubbing up and down as he plunged into her. "Brocc…Ohhh…slow down please!" Jade groaned, and he slowed down for her, relishing the feeling. She was the tenth girl he ever had sex with, and the third virgin, and he would swear he was enjoying this the most. He kissed her again and rubbed her head tentacles as he went faster, Jade's pleasured moans filling the room as he pumped into her faster and faster until at last their climax came. He lifted himself over her, and she had that same look in her eyes as before, this girl loved him. Brocc gently stroked her head and told her, "I'll fight for them. But…don't expect me to die for them." "I don't want you to," Jade responded.

While they were doing this, Barit was outside arguing with Bage and Beate. "They tried to stab me with a knife!" Beate yelled. "They tried a net on me! Like I'm a fucking animal!" Bage said. "They're afraid! They got stupid! And aside from that, you're not hurt, are you?" Barit argued back. Bage turned red, "IT DOESN'T MATTER! WE CAME HERE TO HELP THEM, AND THIS IS THE THANKS WE GET!?" "Yeah! This may be Kenshiro's home, but it ain't mine! I don't owe them shit!" Beate agreed. Barit saw that he couldn't use logic, like that ever worked on a Saiyan, so he changed tactics. "Oh, I see. You're scared. You don't think you can win, so you're going running with your tails between your legs," the Namekian said. Beate looked at him with murder in her eyes, "What does that mean?"

"You heard me. You two are cowards, running away from a fight because you think it's too tough. So much for Saiyans being the 'Warrior Race'. I guess that chicken shit Raditz was the rule, rather than the exception," Barit said. "Fuck you!" Beate said, "I'm no chicken!" "Prove it," Barit said, looking her in the eyes with a smirk. He knew that even with her Super Saiyan form he was much stronger than her. Beate glared at him and said, "I'm staying then! I'll kill every one of those Units, and then I'll shove that High General's dick straight down his throat!" "I'm staying too," Bage said, "I can't let my fiancé think I'm a coward." Barit turned around and smirked, they fell for it like a ton of bricks. They all went inside as Sheriff Jiro was leaving with some hot tea in hand. "Take care, Jiro," Shurayuki told the Sheriff. "Thanks, Shurayuki-san. Good luck," Jiro said as he got back on his horse and rode off.

Barit took a deep breath and said, "I'm surprised, thought for sure you'd screw him." "Jiro's gay, and already has a boyfriend," Shurayuki replied, "But that's not important right now. We don't have much time, and we need to come up with a plan to survive until Kenshiro returns." "Like what? We're outnumbered, and they have a Unit that's strong as Hell, she could probably take out someone like Super Buu easily. We don't know how strong the other Units are either, I think the ones the High General brought were their strongest ones. I can't put a number on their Power Levels, but they were stronger than I am right now. Barit, you and Shurayuki might be able to take them, but Unit 124 is on a whole other level. We might, MIGHT be able to delay her, but that'll be risky," Bage said. "The other problem is that we need to protect the people too. We can't protect them and keep ourselves alive against the Units either," Barit pointed out.

Brocc and Jade came out, still smelling of sex. He reached into his bag and pulled out a dozen Healing Capsules. "This is all I got. That's two each, one is a Large Capsule, the other is a Large Regenerating Capsule for everyone. Unless you got more," Brocc said. Everyone shook their heads as they took the Capsules he offered. "Look, I got an idea, we can't protect everyone, but we can at least get people out of the Village, maybe to a City? What's the closest one?" Brocc asked. "It's Parsnip City, 560 miles to the Southwest," Shurayuki answered, "The problem though is moving people. Even if we all went as fast as we could, carrying four people each, it'll still take time we could use to set more traps, and get any Villagers that will fight into position." "Jade, you're a Majin, can you…stretch out your body and carry people out?" Brocc asked. "I don't know, I've mostly just…contorted my body around to dodge attacks or stretched out my limbs to attack, I've never really done anything with my whole body before," she answered.

"Let's go outside and try it," Brocc said. They went back outside and Jade took a deep breath, exhaling loudly before she apparently deflated, flattening out on the ground, and then stretched out until she resembled a green puddle about 57 feet across. "Jade, can we walk on you? See how stable you are?" Brocc asked. "Okay," Jade said. Brocc, Bage, Barit, Beate, and Shurayuki all stepped on Jade. "You alright, Jade-kun?" Shurayuki asked. "I'm fine, you guys aren't hurting me," Jade answered. "Can you fly like this?" Brocc asked. "Not fast," Jade said, and demonstrated by lifting into the air and then flying around a circle, at best she was going 12 mph. "The problem is concentrating to keep that form," Jade explained as they got off her and she returned to her usual form. "What about Candy Beam? Could you turn everyone into candy, and as soon as you get to Parsnip City you could turn them back?" Beate asked. Jade shook her head, "Sorry, but I'm not like Majin Buu. I can maybe turn someone into candy for five minutes, and then they'll turn back." "That's plenty of time!" Shurayuki said, "If you fly all out, then you'll reach Parsnip City in four minutes." "But wait, how many people are we talking about here?" Jade asked.

"If we just get children, their Moms, the elderly and the sick we're talking about…1037 people total," Shurayuki answered. Jade turned a lighter shade of green at that, "I've never turned that many into candy at once! The most I did were these five bullies picking on Pearl! Even if I can turn them all, they might turn to normal faster." "Brocc, if I draw you a map, can you head to Parsnip City, I mean all out, there and back as fast as you can?" Shurayuki asked. "Yeah," Brocc said. Shurayuki ran inside and came out two minutes later with a map. Brocc took the map and quickly went Super Vegeta 2 and flew off to the Southwest. Everyone watched him go, they were all surprised when he returned a minute later. He flew down to them and deactivated Super Vegeta 2 form, gasping for breath. "Man, I've never flown faster in my life. Jade, think you can keep it up for one minute at least?" he asked. "Maybe," Jade said. "Alright, I'll tell Jiro and Hideaki to gather the Villagers and hope they'll give our plan a shot," Shurayuki said.

While she left to gather the Villagers, everyone else took showers and had breakfast. To everyone's surprise when they were cleaned up, Bage chose to wear Academy Saiyan Armor, white gloves with red pants and long sleeves, and the armor was green and black with red edging. Beate also wore her green and red Academy Saiyan Armor, while Brocc settled to wear a whole Vegeto outfit, Barit wore his normal clothes, and Jade wore her brown Shinobi outfit. No one said why they wore the clothes, but they were pretty sure they knew the answer. Shurayuki called them and they all flew to the Village Square and saw everyone was there waiting for them. "Alright, we got them, but a lot of people aren't happy," Shurayuki warned them, "We need to be as sensitive as we can to get them to agree with us."

"Screw their comfort," Beate said. "Beate, we need them to agree, or do you want to handle two jobs of protecting yourself and them as well?" Shurayuki asked. Beate spat on the ground and said nothing. Jade decided to step forward then and began, "Good morning, I know how early it is for you, but we wouldn't have asked this if it wasn't absolutely necessary. As you know, today, the Neo-Red Ribbon Army will make their final assault. My friends and I have fought to keep you safe, however, we cannot protect everyone from an all-out attack, we are only a few, and they have more Units, soldiers, snipers, and tanks than us. We can't protect you all, and ourselves at the same time. We have decided to evacuate the children of the Village, their mothers, the elderly, and the sick, and anyone else that wants to go. We will be taking you to nearby Parsnip City, and come back when the fighting is over."

The Villagers all started talking then as spouses and children talked, and old folks argued against leaving, saying things like 'I was born here, I'm gonna die here!' For fifteen minutes they talked until High Priest Hideaki managed to quiet them down. "My people!" Hideaki said, "Our land can heal! Our homes rebuilt, but our children at least must be evacuated away from the fighting! Our future is at stake! You all know my granddaughters, Kagura and Yuri, you know that I would rather suffer a thousand deaths than see them come to harm, like their parents! For this reason, I am sending them away! I will stay here, as your High Priest, but the future High Priestesses shall go, that they may carry on our traditions. I ask you to do the same as well." "But how will they do this!? Parsnip City is too far away, and the roads aren't good," one woman with an infant asked.

Jade answered, "I have the power to transform anything I want into candy. I will do the same for everyone that wants to leave, and then we can easily carry you to Parsnip City, where you will return to your regular forms." "WWWHHHAAATTT!?" the entire Village erupted when they heard this. Jade glowed with a pink aura as she picked up a rock and hit it with Candy Beam, turning it into a chocolate bar to demonstrate. "I can turn it back as well," Jade said, and again used Candy Beam to turn the chocolate bar back into a rock. This silenced the Villagers then. "I promise, you won't be hurt by this! We'll make sure you're in a safe place before you turn back to your normal forms. Please, I know that this isn't normal for you, but it's the only way. We only have the Neo-Red Ribbon Army's word that they won't attack any minute! We need to get your kids to safety at least!" Jade said, then got on her knees and bowed to them as well, "I beg you, let us help you."

There was much talk among the Villagers then, many of them surprised at Jade's humility. After another thirty minutes of talk, Hideaki again got them to quiet down, "What say you?" Mothers took their children and husbands helped those too old or sick to move on their own. The woman who asked earlier how they would go said, "We will go." "Then, return to your homes, gather food and what money you have, and clothes. Take only what you need," Hideaki said. "Jii-san!" two miko ran over to Hideaki, they had the High Priest's high cheekbones and blue eyes, though one was clearly older and taller. "You need to go too," the taller one said. Hideaki patted their heads and said, "It is the duty of the High Priest to be there for our people. It is yours as well, the women and children, the old and infirm will need you to be there for them now. Let us go, you need to pack, Yuri, Kagura." Hideaki lead his granddaughters away to pack, leaving Jade and everyone else in the Village Square alone.

While they waited for the Villagers to come back to the Square, everyone stretched out and warmed up as best they could, getting ready for the battle ahead. "Remember to work together," Shurayuki said when they finished, "Don't worry about killing more than each other, focus on surviving. Use every dirty trick you can think of, honor is only for the living, while the dead can't enjoy it. This is war, not a tournament, don't you dare hold back." "You sound like you're going somewhere," Beate said. "I am, as soon as Brocc gets the noncombatants out, I'm going to their Camp, and see if I can't sabotage a few things while I'm there," Shurayuki answered. "You really think you can?" Bage asked. The kunoichi nodded, "Of course I can. It'll be easy, a little poison here, some rocks there, take down a few officers on the way out. It won't be too different from infiltrating some Yakuza." Shurayuki had a grim smile on her face as she said this.

After two hours, the Villagers all arrived, carrying packs with food and clothes in them, not much, but enough for at least three days. "Alright," Jade said, "Everyone that's going, get together as close as you can, it might be cramped, but it'll make this easier for me. Brocc, get ready." Brocc powered up to Super Vegeta two and got his bag ready to put the evacuees inside. Jade glowed pink as she focused her power like she never had to before, her short tentacles raised up and pointed at everyone that was going as she shouted, "CANDY BEAM!" The beam surrounded them all, everyone looked confused as they felt the sensation, until at last in a puff of smoke, they were all candy. "There are 1044 people," Jade said as Brocc quickly got them all into his bag as fast as he could. "GO! AS FAST AS YOU CAN!" Shurayuki yelled. Brocc flew into the air and blasted off towards Parsnip City.

Shurayuki then turned to Jade and put her hand on her shoulder, "Jade-kun, where I am going, you can't follow me. If I had more time, I could bring you, but right now you're too inexperienced, and innocent." "I'm no virgin anymore," Jade protested. "I don't mean like that. I mean that your soul isn't stained with murder," Shurayuki told her, and Jade grew paler. "I am going to poison as many of the enemy as I can, some will die painfully, others will be dead before they hit the ground. And, I will do everything in my power to kill High General Sato Hisashi. That is the true path of the shinobi, to kill however you can, and without a trace of remorse. Can you help me with that?" Shurayuki asked. Jade swallowed and shook her head. "I thought not. Jade, I've gone easy on you, my own parents were far less merciful to me, for that, I despised them, and when they were killed by their enemies, I did not mourn them. I did not want you to feel the same hatred for me. You could be a powerful warrior, but as a shinobi, it will take me years until you can even touch my shadow. Do you still wish to remain my apprentice? I understand if you wish us to part ways now," Shurayuki told Jade. Jade went to her knees and bowed to Shurayuki, "Even if it takes me a hundred years, I will follow you."

Shurayuki sighed then, and handed her a Capsule, "Open this, and you'll find a map to all the traps we've laid, show it to everyone who's stayed. Also, I have marked a few hidden caches of poisons and poisoned weapons as well, should the need arise. If I am successful, you may not need this. If I fail, you will need them to survive the battle. Sato Hisashi is a man with nothing left to lose, and I am his worst enemy, I am sure he will not die easily." Shurayuki said nothing more as she flew off into the sky as well, heading for the Neo-Red Ribbon Army's Camp.

Meanwhile, not thirty seconds after leaving Cashew Village, Brocc turned back to see he was being followed, the Frost Demon with the uneven horns and the two identical looking women were flying after him at top speed. "Oh fuck me!" Brocc cursed as he blasted ki balls at them one-handed while his other hand held the bag holding the Candyfied Villagers. The three Units easily dodged his attacks and blasted ki balls at him in return. Brocc quickly dodged as fast as he could, wondering what he could do. He kept on heading for Parsnip City, dodging ki balls and blasts the whole time, zig zagging and flying in circles as fast as he could. He lost track of time as Parsnip City came into sight, and sensed that the Candy Beam was wearing off already! "SHIT!" Brocc yelled as he flew down and dumped the candies onto the ground a mile away from the entrance to Parsnip City. One second later the 1044 Villagers all returned to their normal forms, looking dizzy.

"What happened?" one woman asked as the Units caught up to them. Brocc quickly raised a ki barrier around all the Villagers as the Units sent a massive black ki wave at them. Brocc's ki barrier took the hit and he struggled to keep it up, these Units were among the most powerful of the Neo-Red Ribbon Army, and he was just one Saiyan. With a mighty howl he poured more ki into his barrier, and deflected the blast back at the Units, making them scatter. He let the barrier disappear and yelled at the Villagers, "GO! I'LL KEEP THEM OFF YOU AS LONG AS I CAN!" The Villagers screamed as mothers grabbed their small children and ran to Parsnip City as Brocc flew at the Units. The Frost Demon swiped at Brocc with his tail, but Brocc caught it and swung him around into the younger woman. The older woman attacked from below, landing a hard kick to Brocc's chin. The Saiyan brushed it off and blocked a punch from her before kicking her back and hitting her with Perfect Shot. This was the distraction that the younger woman needed to get behind Brocc and get him in a Full Nelson Hold.

The Frost Demon landed a solid kick to Brocc's solar plexus, knocking the air out of him before pummeling his head with punches and kicks. Brocc blasted the Frost Demon away with Dimensional Cannon and yelled out as he flew down, the younger woman still holding on as they crashed into the ground. That was enough to make her let go and Brocc quickly jumped up to get away from her, only to be kicked from the side by the older woman. The younger woman jumped up and both of them went at Brocc. The Saiyan could barely keep up with the two women, their coordination and speed was overwhelming as he was forced back by them. He jumped back just enough to get into position, blocking a punch from the younger woman and yelled, "Reverse Mabakusenko!" His ki blast hit the older woman dead on, sending her flying back. Brocc seized his chance to then land a punch to the younger woman's stomach before grabbing her head and blasting her in the face with a point-blank Break Cannon, decapitating her. That was when the ki blast tore through his back and out his chest, and then three more tore through his stomach and legs.

Brocc vomited blood as he hit the ground. He forced himself to turn around and saw the Frost Demon powering up a large black ki ball over his head. "Shit," Brocc said as he took a Healing Capsule out of his Vegeto gi and activated it, only to realize too late it was his Regenerating Capsule. His body healed, but too slowly for him to fly off before the Frost Demon's attack hit. Brocc screamed out in pain as he felt the attack damaging him, while his Regenerating Capsule's effects healed him at the same time. It was like being burned by fire and cooled by ice at once, his brain could only feel pain as it was damaged and healed all at once, and for a moment he wondered if he had died and was now in Hell before the attack at last exploded around him, sending him rocketing back into the ground and leaving a crater behind. Brocc coughed up blood as his body continued to heal from the damage, broken bones and torn muscles healing as he slowly forced himself back up as the two Units flew down to face him. Damn it, Zenkai doesn't work unless you're fully healed, I need at least twenty seconds before I'm fully recovered…I never tried this, but it's better than dying! Brocc put his hands to his forehead as the Units flew at him and screamed out, "SOLAR FLARE TIMES 100!"

Brocc turned and flew away as fast as he could while his body continued to heal. The Wasteland Unit 124 created was too flat for him to hide anywhere, so he focused only on flying as fast as he could to get away, without leading the Units back to Cashew Village. The Units were soon on to him faster than he would have liked, and he had to fly in more zig zags to avoid their ki balls. Ten seconds…Nine…Eight… Seven…Brocc saw them starting to catch up in the air and quickly flew straight down. Five…Four…Three… Brocc was running all out as he avoided their attacks from the air when at last he felt the surge of raw power his Saiyan blood gave him! "HELL YEAH!" Brocc crowed as his ki aura surged out like a sun. "LET'S GO!" he yelled as he powered up his ki. "TIMES TEN KAMEHAMEHAAAA!" The older woman was flying at him too fast for her to dodge the blast, and his palms actually hit her chest before his Times Ten Kamehameha blasted her out of existence.

He turned to face the Frost Demon and said, "Come on!" The Frost Demon then powered up and said in a deep monotone voice, "Activating Golden Form." Gold ki blasted out of the Frost Demon, turning it's face purple and gold, its jumpsuit hid the rest of its body though. Brocc gulped slightly but swallowed his fear and the two warriors charged at each other. Their fists clashed, sending shockwaves all around, if Unit 124 hadn't already destroyed the forest, trees would have gone flying from the force of the clashing strikes. Brocc's fist hurt but he fought through the pain and blocked a kick with his leg before landing a punch to the Frost Demon's chin and then landing another solid hit to his stomach. The Frost Demon then surprised Brocc by grabbing his fist and kicking his face with his leg before grabbing Brocc's face with its prehensile toes and slamming him down into the ground below. Brocc reached up with his other hand and slammed a hammer fist into the Frost Demon's knee with all his might, breaking it and making it let go.

Brocc stood up only for the Frost Demon's tail to then grab him by the throat as it summoned ki to its hands and blasted a barrage of ki blasts through Brocc's body. Brocc vomited blood, only his Saiyan toughness prevented him from dying right there as every major organ except his brain was punctured by the assault.

This is it…I'm actually gonna fucking die for them…

No…

I…can't die now…

I swore…I wouldn't die…

The Frost Demon's tail squeezed tighter, as Brocc struggled to stay conscious. He weakly reached into his gi and pulled out his last Capsule. He put his hand out and poured as much of his rapidly falling ki into it as he dared and blasted out, severing the Frost Demon's tail before using his last Capsule. Brocc was instantly healed and again Zenkai's amazing power strengthened him again. Brocc stood up and tore off the remains of his gi's shirt and smirked. "PAYBACK'S A BITCH!" he yelled as his fists were a blur, hitting the Frost Demon with speed and power the likes of which Brocc never thought he could have. He was too fast for his opponent to block, and soon he could feel as his opponent's bones cracked under his fists. Brocc stopped and grabbed the Frost Demon by its tail and tossed it into the air before finishing it off with Break Cannon. He took a deep breath and reveled in his new power before he remembered why he was there. Brocc smiled viciously as he flew back to Cashew Village, Unit 124 was in for a big surprise.

While Brocc fought to survive, Shurayuki had arrived at the Camp. She stopped three miles from it and used only her physical strength to jump from tree to tree outside the camp. There weren't many, but they were just enough to hide her. She took out a small telescope and looked inside the Camp, taking a better look. She saw that the Mess Tent and Barracks were close to each other, a small training ground, and that there were about a hundred guards scattered around the Camp. Units moved in and out of a tent all their own as ordered. The kunoichi considered her options, the Units were the greatest threat, next to the tanks, about five dozen that she could see. There were no planes thankfully. However, she did not know if her poisons would work on the Units, or if they did work, but that the cybernetic parts in their bodies would keep their bodies moving even after the organic parts were dead.

She had poisons that worked on contact, enough on her to kill twelve. She had poisons that had to be ingested, enough to kill about two hundred. Her weapons were all poisoned, a cut was all that was needed. The kunoichi thought about her options, she had to decide what her goals were. To kill Sato Hisashi was her primary goal, disabling the tanks and Units secondary, the soldiers were dead last. She nodded her head and decided her course of action. She slowly flew upwards, making sure not to unleash her aura before floating over the Camp, none of the guards looked up as she stopped flying and silently fell near the tanks. She rolled into the fall and got up, hiding from a guard. She looked and saw his build was similar to her own. Shurayuki grabbed him from behind and struck the base of his skull hard enough to sever his spine, killing him instantly before dragging him back. She sensed no one close, and quickly stripped and switched clothes with the soldier, making sure to keep her poisons, as well as what daggers, and kunai she could. She hid the body under one of the tanks and decided how best to sabotage them.

She walked close and put a hand on one of the treads, using a short but intense ki blast to melt the tread. She did the same with two dozen more tanks before stopping. Alright, now, to try the Units… I hope this works… Shurayuki's face was hidden by a mask and the soldier's helmet, no one suspected her as she marched through the camp, to the tent the Units were kept. One guard was waiting there. Shurayuki walked up to him and deepened her voice enough to sound like a man, "I'm here to relieve you." The guard nodded, "Alright. Don't know why we're doing this, they just stand there like statues anyway." "The High General's orders," Shurayuki responded. "Yeah, yeah," the guard said, sounding bored as he walked off. Shurayuki stood guard on the tent and used her ki sense to see how many Units were in the Tent. She sensed about twenty were inside. She waited for an hour before seeing the coast was clear and went inside. The Units were all sleeping on cots stacked like bunk beds.

She took out the contact poison and coated her hands with them, her Father made sure she was immune to almost every known poison after shoving them down her throat her entire childhood. She quickly ran, touching the faces of all she could as fast as she could until the poison was all used up. She then took out a poisoned dagger and slashed the throats of what Units weren't touched by the contact poison, making sure not to get any blood on herself. The experience unnerved her, none of them moved as she killed them, not a sound was made. When she was certain they were all dead, she left the tent and sensed for Sato Hisashi. He was in a small tent by himself, she sensed that he was sleeping. She made her way to his tent, there were no guards there. The kunoichi entered to see Sato was sleeping in a bunk on the ground. She silently took the dagger she used to kill eight Units and stabbed towards his throat.

Sato's hand caught her arm an inch away from his throat. His artificial eyes glowed as he said, "I was wondering if you would come. I'm glad that I was right." Shurayuki pushed even harder with both hands, only for Sato to push back as he sat up, stark naked. His body was covered in the scars she had inflicted on him nineteen years ago, including where she had cut off his legs and arms. Shurayuki tried to spit, only for him to cover her mouth with his hand, his artificial hand. She quickly kicked his knee to knock him off balance, but he held on and pulled her down with him. The kunoichi quickly activated Kaioken Times 20, only to feel her power start to drain. She summoned up more power, only to feel her power continue to drain. "It won't work. While most of Dr. Gero's research has been lost, we did retrieve almost everything on the designs of Android 19. We improved them for my own body," High General Sato said as he squeezed her hand holding her dagger until it snapped, making her let go.

She tried to kick him, but her strength was already too far gone to do any damage, he caught her leg and snapped her shin like a twig. "Do you remember, Oroshi? How I screamed as you carved off my arms and legs? How I begged you to kill me, only for you to cut into me again? I remember the pain, how I prayed for death, but you wouldn't let me die. For this, I should thank you. Now, I have an even stronger body, and I shall only continue to grow stronger. Although I don't have infinite energy reserves like Androids 17 and 18, the improved design of my body allows me to constantly grow my energy reserves, either by taking other's ki, or by training. For this, I thank you," Sato said as he let go of her mouth then forced her into a kiss. It was the most disgusting feeling she ever had as his tongue entered her mouth.

He dropped her to the ground then, and stomped on her stomach hard enough to force her to cough up blood. "I remember how powerless I was as you showed me my family. My Mother and Father, Maso and Saburo, my Sister, Seiko, and her Husband, Yemon, my Nieces, Yuki and Yukiko, and Nephew, Yukio, I begged you to spare them, but still you killed them all in front of me. And then, you showed me my wife, and my sons. Her name was Chikako, she was innocent of my clan's crimes, and had no idea that I was a shinobi. I told you everything I knew, and yet you carved out her heart in front of our sons!" Sato stomped on Shurayuki's stomach again, making her vomit out blood. He grabbed her by her throat and looked at her in the eyes as he slammed his palm into her nose, breaking it and snapping it flat, before punching her in her jaw, each punch knocked out a tooth. "KAZUO WAS ONLY FIVE! HE HAD ONLY STARTED TO READ! HE LOVED STORIES OF SAMURAI! KIYOSHI WAS ONLY THIRTEEN MONTHS! HE HAD ONLY BEGUN TO WALK! WHAT GAVE YOU THE RIGHT TO KILL THEM!? HOW COULD YOU MURDER THE INNOCENT LIKE THAT!? THE LAST THING I EVER SAW WITH MY OWN EYES WAS THEIR BODIES AFTER YOU SLIT THEIR THROATS!

"DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY YOU SLAUGHTERED, ONLY TO AVENGE YOUR HUSBAND!? When I recovered I found out, it was two thousand, five hundred, and fifty-five people! ALL DEAD, TO AVENGE ONE LIFE!" Sato screamed in Shurayuki's face. She knew she was beaten then. She could not fight this now. Tears poured down her eyes as she said, "I remember…all of them. One-thousand five hundred and twenty-three men, nine-hundred and forty-nine women, and…eighty-three children. I killed them all, and I will rot in Hell for all of them. Please, I'll do whatever you want, just spare Cashew Village and my son. They are innocent, as your children were. They don't deserve this." Sato looked at her with his artificial eyes as his men went in. "I have her," he told them as he tore off the soldier's uniform. He pressed his palm against her right ribs and pushed, breaking two of them. "You think," he broke two more, "that you," two more ribs broken, "are in any position to beg anything from me!?" he broke the last two ribs on her right side.

"I'll give you anything. I have millions in Zeni, you can have it all. Ancient scrolls with many powerful techniques," Shurayuki said through blood and tears, "Use me however you want, just spare Cashew Village, and my son. I was wrong, I tried to make it right with the Dragon Balls, but by the time I had them, too much time had passed, I could not bring anyone back. For years I wanted to kill myself to atone, but I was a coward, and couldn't. Don't punish the innocent, for my sins…I beg you. I'll do anything!" Sato looked in her eyes and said, "I believe you. You would be my mistress, no matter how I degraded you, just as long as your loved ones were spared, you would even fornicate with animals for my pleasure if it was for them. But I don't want that." Sato grabbed her face in between his hands and said, "The Doctor that found me was a genius, and she needed my help to expand her research, Doctor Sade. Hence I helped make this Army, just for her." A small woman entered wearing a lab coat over a uniform, she had bowl cut white hair and was obviously quite old. "You should make the perfect subject," Doctor Sade said as she looked up and down Shurayuki's body.

"Yes, perfect," the Doctor said. "You will kill those you love the most, and you will know true despair. You will be hated by all as the monster you are!" Sato said, and slammed his forehead into Shurayuki's knocking her out. Doctor Sade had two soldiers take her out to her Operating Room. "You sure you don't want her lobotomized? It would greatly help keep her compliant," Doctor Sade said. "No, as long as we keep the drugs pumping through her, she'll be compliant," Sato said. "True, it's not practical for an entire army, but we have enough Somnambulist to keep her compliant for years, but I'll put a few safeguards in just to be sure," Doctor Sade said, and left the tent.

(Ending Theme: Whispers in the Dark by Skillet)