"Hey Marron! Wake up."
Marron wakes up and pushes the covers a little further from her face. She looks up, ready to destructo disk the person who woke her up. To her surprise she saw Ricardo, kneeling over her in a black hoodie. She quickly wipes the sleep from her eyes and hugs him. She then just as quickly lets him go and slaps him.
"I probably deserved that."
"Damn right you do! You have any idea how worried I-We were?!"
"I know, I'm sorry." He finally gets a good look at her and blushes. "Um…Marron…your in your underwear."
Marron smiles as she remembers that time in the HTC. "Oh so what. You've already seen me in my underwear."
"I…whatever. I came here for a reason."
"Perv."
"No, I didn't mean it like that. Look there is trouble brewing."
"What do you mean?"
"I can't explain much right now. But I got involved with the wrong crowd. They're planning a final attack. If I can find out where and when I'll contact you. Until then, act normal. Don't let anything on. Your being watched."
"Watched by who?"
"I said I can't tell you that right now. Take this." Ricardo grabs her hand and the Dragon appears on her arm.
"What's this do?"
"It's my calling card. I can see through the dragon. And if your ever in danger I can teleport to its location. Don't tell anyone what you know. I'll see you hopefully when this is over."
"Wait!" Marron reaches out to him but he flies out of the window. "Damn it Ricardo! Stop leaving me!"
Ricardo flew out of her window onto the roof. He wanted to stay with her, but that would only put her in danger. He waited until the Goku lookalike flew over to him. "You talk to her?"
"Yeah, I told her."
"And? You think she'll listen?"
"Yeah, she will."
"Good. Now come on, before they realize you're gone." The imitation Goku placed his fingers to his forehead and Ricardo held his shoulder. He used Instant Transmission and they are suddenly on a spaceship. Just in time as there is a knocking on the door in the room their in.
"Ricardo! The master wishes to see you."
His heart dropped. Why would he want him now? Did he see him talking to Marron? As he walked to the door and out of the room he mentally prepared himself for combat. Not worrying about losing control was a plus. As he opened the door to a large room he saw only the Shadow of a man sitting on top of his throne.
"Ricardo!" His voice boomed throughout the room and Ricardo kneels.
"The time is almost near. Exodus revived us, now we shall conquer. You have a mission."
"What kind of mission?"
"The search and destroy kind. There is a man. One of us, except he goes against what we stand for. A rebel of sorts. I want you to take him out."
"As in…"
"Execute him."
"But I…"
"You dare to defy me?!" The room quakes with power and Ricardo gets into his fighting stance. The room stops shaking. "Your lucky we need you. Your power doesn't come around all the time. Now don't question me again, next time I won't hesitate to end your life. Understand?"
"Yes."
"Good. Complete this task and you'll finally be worthy of joining our final assault. Dismissed!" Ricardo exits the room. As soon as he is back in his room he drops to his knees and punches the ground in frustration.
Imitation Goku returns. "You okay?"
"No. I have to kill the rebel. How the hell am even supposed to find the rebel? Hell anyone who opposes this group of murderers is okay in my book."
"That part will be easy. I'm the rebel."
"You, they want me to kill you?"
"Yes. Don't worry, I have a plan."
"What plan?"
"Your gonna kill me. But not really me."
"What do you mean? Your starting to sound a little crazy."
"Don't worry about it. Just bring your patrol to find me. I'll be at Capsule Corp. Knowing your boss he'll send Rial, Dixon, and Lily to accompany you. You easily surpass them. When I run away you follow, they won't keep up."
"Ok."
"Now gather and your people and leave in 10 minutes. That should give me enough time to set everything up." He holds two fingers to his hands and uses IT to get out of there.
Ricardo looks around with his KI to make sure nobody was around. He then hones in his KI on his dragon. He looks around and Marron was in her room watching TV. With little effort the Dragon on her arm starts to glow. Marron looks down at it.
"Ricardo?"
"Yeah, its me. I'm close to discovering what the plan is and finishing all this. Have you been approached yet or noticed anything out of the ordinary?"
"No, nothing different."
"Seriously Marron. The slightest change in anyone's attitude or schedule? Anyone do anything different?"
"Well…my moms been acting a bit more angry towards my dad."
"Does it seem unusual?"
"Yeah, it didn't seem right."
"Your mother's been compromised. Which means she will have been listening on this conversation. In which case, you need to kill her."
"WHAT?! I'm not killing my mom."
"She's not your mom. Your real mom is locked up somewhere. She's an imposter."
"Are you sure?"
"The question is are you sure? Look into her eyes and make sure before your absolutely positive that this isn't your mother. If you kill her and her blood is black, you made the right choice and she wasn't your mother. I'll explain everything later."
The dragon stops glowing and Marron hears a slight shuffle outside her room. She quickly gets to the door and doesn't see anyone. She thinks about what Ricardo said, takes a deep breath and flies downstairs to see her mother in the kitchen.
"Mom?"
"Yes Marron?" She says. Marron couldn't see the Destructo Disk her "mother" was preparing behind the counter.
"I just wanted to say I love you."
"18" looks up from her pot on the stove at Marron. "Love you too sweetie."
Marron notices the beam of sweat dripping down her face and she smiles. "Well, I'll be at Bra's house. See you later." Marron quickly flies to the door. "Oh and mom, don't forget to wash my blouse. I put it on the counter in front of the window. Bye." Marron flies out.
18 goes over to the window and grabs Marron's blouse. Suddenly a Destructo Disk goes flying thorugh the window. It slices her head clean off. Marron flies through the now broken window and looks at her dead mother. The spot where her head used to be was now oozing black blood. Marron breathes a sigh of relief that she didn't kill her mother. But at the same time she was worried about where exactly her mother was. She wanted to tell someone but feared that others might have been compromised. However she quickly deduced that this had something to with Exodus, who was Gohan's double. Therefore his double was already dead. She could trust him and him only. She rushed off to find him.
Meanwhile Ricardo had gathered his search party and they waited in his room while he leaned against the wall.
Lily twirled a finger through her hair in a failing attempt at flirtation. Ricardo was completely ingnoring her. Dixon noticed her however and was laughing silently to himself.
Rial sat there a long time before he finally grew impatient. He rushed at Ricardo and aimed a punch at his face. Ricardo grabs it and slams him into the ground.
"Do that again, and I will end you."'
"What the hell are we waiting for then?! You got us sitting here twiddling our thumbs when we have a mission. Maybe your not cut out for this."
"Maybe you should learn when to shut up." Ricardo holds a ball of towards toward his face. Rial stares down the beam in fear. Ricardo closes his hand and the ball disappears. "I'm in charge here. Anymore outbursts and I will end you."
"Whatever."
Ricardo extends his hand to Rial and he takes it.
"Now come on. We got a rebel to capture."
"Finally." They all follow him out of the building and take off into the air. Ricardo senses the KI of imitation Goku. He takes off in the direction of the power. Taking extra care to make sure the others could keep up. Their search ends at Capsule Corp. Imitation Goku was at the restaurant across the street. They land and walk up to him.
"Time to die!" Screams Rial charging at him as Lily and Dixon follow. Ricardo crosses his arms and waits.
IG blocks the attacks from all three of him and raises his KI. They are blown back.
"Damn he's strong. Help us out already Ricardo!"
Ricardo smirks and flies over to them. "Damn you guys are no help." Ricardo punches IG in the face. He staggers back a little before shooting a KI blast at Ricardo who dodges and uppercuts him into the sky.
IG looks at him and then takes off. Ricardo and the others follow but just as planned Rial, Dixon, and Lily were unable to keep up with their speed and soon it was just Ricardo chasing after him.
They land at Master Roshi's place where Oolong was waiting for them.
"Do it." He says to Oolong. He transforms into IG.
"Alright." Says Ricardo. He knocks out Oolong and drapes him over his shoulder.
"Be careful Ricardo." IG says as hides inside the house.
Ricardo flies up with Oolong still on his shoulder. He heads back and runs into his three companions still trying to catch up. "Mission accomplished."
"You beat him by yourself?!" Says Rial.
"Your so amazing." Says Lily.
"Whatever. Let's go back. Make sure you keep up this time." They follow him back to their base and report to the leader.
"We brought you the rebel." Ricardo says dropping Oolong.
"Very good." The leader fires a beam at Oolong. Destroying his body.
Ricardo silently curses to himself and mourns his fallen friend.
"Excellent, you've proven your loyalty. I can finally let you in on the plan."
IG hovers over the Son household. Afraid of their reaction to them. Ricardo suddenly appears beside him. "Ready?"
"Yeah. Let's go." They drop down in front of the house and knock on the door. Gohan answers and eyes the two. He sees his "father" and gasps. He then gets angry and knocks them both back. He turns Super Saiyan and rushes at them.
"Gohan wait!" Screams IG.
"Marron told me all about your tricks. How dare you copy my father?!" Gohan sends a punch full of KI straight at IG's face.
Ricardo uses all his power to rush in front of IG. He pushes back IG with his KI and blocks Gohan's attack. The power of Gohan sends Ricardo sliding back a little but he maintains his position. "Gohan, please listen." Screams Ricardo, still struggling to push Gohan's fist back.
Gohan jumps back and Ricardo breathes a sigh of relief.
You saved this fraud so you can't be all bad. If you're the real Ricardo, then prove it."
"Hold…up." He says in between breaths. Ricardo forms a small beam in his hand and fires it across his arm. Making a slight cut. His blood flows from the cut. "Red blood. See, it's me."
"So what's he doing here?"
"He's good. He wants to help take down the imposters."
"What the hell is going on Ricardo?! Marron said you know."
"It's a lot to explain. I'd rather do it in front of everyone. Plus, I haven't seen my parents in a long time."
"Alright. But he stays in front of us." Gohan flies back into the house and gets Gotan, Pan, and Videl. They come back out.
"Ricardo. Your back." Says Gotan.
"Yeah. But there's no time to celebrate. Gather everyone up and meet at Capsule Corp." They all take off. Once everyone is gathered and checked they sit down and Ricardo starts to explain.
"In our world there existed a separate dimension. A world that closely mirrors ours, with a few changes. Everyone good here is evil there. One day Beerus visited this world and was angered when he was attacked by its people. He destroyed the world and everyone on it. But Gohan's opposite survived. He named himself Exodus and escaped to our world. He then gathered the Dragon Balls and wished for the resurrection of his kind. Now their here and they want to wipe us out."
"That doesn't explain what he's here for?" Says Ryser, indicating IG.
"For whatever reason he helped me. I think the Kai's granted Goku another favor and sent his sprit to this guy."
"If you trust him then I guess I do too." Says Zangya.
"Thanks mom. Anyway, they plan to lay siege to the Earth tonight. They're gonna kill Gohan, Goten, Piccolo, Trunks, my father and Vegeta."
"Dad can take those losers."
"In a standard fight yeah. But they designed a weapon specifically tailored to their DNA. It'll destroy them in an instant."
"Damn." Says Gohan. "That's our best fighters rendered useless."
"That's far from all of Earth's defenders though." Says Piccolo. "We still have Krillen, 18, Zangya, and the kids."
"But that's hardly enough to combat all of them."
"We can take em." Says Gotan pounding his fists together.
"Yeah." Says Pan.
"We don't have a choice."
"So the world is left in the hands of you and your friends. Make sure you crush these fools. I won't allow my grandson to lose to these freaks."
"Yes sir." They all fly back to their homes to await the battle. Soon the time approaches and they all gather in the sky. Soon they see the copies rushing from their base. They stop when they see them there. The leader approaches.
"I knew I couldn't trust you. You killed your copy and took his place. Smart."
"Yeah. Now we're gonna stop you and your whole army."
"Sorry. We'll be murdering everyone and everything."
"Doubt it. We are comprised of Saiyan, Draconian, Hera, and Human. And I made sure to destroy our copies before we left. So there's nobody that can stop us."
"Don't get cocky now boy. I am The Demon King after all."
"Yeah, at first I thought you were Dabura's copy. But you look nothing like him. So just who the hell are you?"
"I am Mira."
"Never heard of him. So lets get this over with."
Gotan's aura was the first to rise changing color from it's original blue to white. The power of the Mystics now flowed through him.
Krillen and 18 raised their power.
Pan was next. Her aura turned Gold and her hair was now gold and spiky. Her eyes became teal.
Videl raised her power level to another degree. Still lower than the others but high nonetheless.
Next was Zangya. She transformed into her Hera state.
Marron raised her power level, and was surprised when the dragon that was still on her arm, flew off and swirled around her. The black scales of the dragon create black streaks in her hair and her aura becomes black and blue. "What?"
"The dragon must've taken a liking to you."
"Cool."
And finally Ricardo raised his power level. His hair Spikes up but remains black. His aura becomes jet black. "Let's go!" They fly at them.
"The leader's mine."
"Your funeral kid." They clash fists as their teammates do battle with each other.
Krillen dodges blow for blow and returns the hits with more force. He sends Destructo Disk after Destructo Disk at them. 18 does the same.
Marron uses her newfound power to take out a lot of them with ease.
Gotan smiles at the fun he has while fighting. The instincts he utilizes fueled his saiyan blood. Pan felt the same.
Flute's attacks were carefully calculated. Making sure every strike was the last.
Felisha preferred to send various key blasts and fight from a distance.
Ricardo was going head to head with the leader. Colliding again and again. Finally he caught the upper hand and knocked him to the ground. Sending a huge ball of energy at him. Killing him.
They all gather together and combine their power to destroy everyone with their KI.
"We did it!" Ricardo says, breathing hard.
They fly home enjoying their newfound victory.
Ryser examined his son using magic. "Seems you don't struggle for control anymore."
"I was taught to control the dragon instead of conquering it. It has it's own conscious and voice."
"Interesting. It seems you might even surpass me. Your certainly one of a kind. I have a proposition to make for you and your friends."
"Ok."
Suddenly Zangya walks in. "You have a visitor."
Ricardo looks past his mother at the familiar blonde who sat in the kitchen. He makes his way over to her. "Hey Marron."
"Hey. Can we talk?"
"Yeah sure. Not going to get privacy here though." He points his thumb behind him to his mother who was leaning against the door right behind them.
"Come on then." She takes his hand and they fly out of the house and into the sky.
"So what did you want to talk about?"
"Um…" She blushes.
"You okay?"
"Yeah. About what you said in the Time Chamber. I hated you for it."
"I'm sorr-"
"Let me finish. I hated you. But then we didn't see you for two weeks and I…I missed you. I wanted you back. You made me so bad when you disappeared."
"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. When I learned how to control my power I immediately got caught up with this copy business. All I thought about was you though. You kept me going. Um…I don't really know how to say this. I'm not good at this kind of stuff. Um…I…L-"
"Oh my god I love you too just kiss me already!" She screams and pushes her lips against his. He returns the kiss and they don't notice the others sneak up to them.
They all clap.
They break their kiss and look at them.
"Finally!" Says Gotan.
"I didn't think you guys would ever get together." Says Felisha while Pan just laughs.
Flute looks at the new couple. "So this is what they call love."
"Oh leave us alone."
"Oh yeah. My dad wanted to ask us something." Ricardo takes Marron's hand and fly back down to their house.
"About time!" Screams Zangya. She hugs Ricardo and Marron tightly. "I was worried you would never find a girlfriend. I was starting to think you were gay."
"Mom!"
"Oh leave the boy alone Zan. I need to talk to them."
"Oh whatever. I'm just happy my son found a girl! I want grandchildren!" She says walking off.
Ricardo and Marron blush deeply.
"Anyway." Says Ryser smilling. "About that proposition. You kids have proven yourselves twice now. Your getting stronger every day. Therefore I spoke with some people and I want you guys to join the Galactic Patrol in my and Jaco's stead."
"Galactic Patrol? Exactly what do we have to do?"
"Your basically just intergalactic FBI."
"That sounds awesome!" Says Gotan.
"What about our parents?"
"I've talked to them already. Think about it, the chance to explore the galaxy, get stronger, stop bad people. You could do so much more than you can on Planet Earth."
"I don't know." Says Marron, squeezing Ricardo's hand tighter.
"It'll be fine." Ricardo says. "And It'll be a whole new experience. Come on Mar."
Pan puts her hands behind her head. "Well count me in."
Felisha puts an arm around Pan. "I'm in too. And how come he gets to call you Mar?"
"Oh shut up."
"I'm in too!" Screams Gotan with enthusiasm.
"Sounds like a unique experience." Says Flute.
"That just leaves you and Marron Ricardo."
Ricardo turns to Marron. "Look, I wanna go. But I'm not leaving without you. Either we both go, or neither of us go."
Marron smiles and wraps her mind around the idea for a good minute. "Oh what the heck. I'm in."
"Yes!" They all scream.
"Just promise you won't leave me for any alien space stripper."
"I see an alien space stripper this relationship is over. Sorry."
"Boy." She says smacking him in the back of his head.
"So it's decided. You all, along with your sister Ersa shall become Galactic Patrol. You leave tommorow. Fill a capsule with important items and meet me here.
And so they gathered their items and said goodbye to their parents. In a couple of hours [and a couple of destructo disk threats to Ricardo from both 18 and Krillin.] they were packed and ready to go. The next day they met up at Ryser's house. There they were introduced to Jaco who taught Flute how to fly the ship. And they set off on their journey.
