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Oh, and I can hold my breath for forty minutes.
WARNING: THE ABOVE TEXT IS LIES FROM BEGINNING TO END
The Ultimate Largely Massive Pointlessly-Named Big Final Bout Super Tournament… 5!!! – Chapter 16!
Last time on Dragonball Z:
DJ: This whole hero thing was fun while it lasted… but isn't a true hero supposed to stop all the fighting and killing? I just seem to be prolonging it. As soon as one enemy is killed, another one just rises up to the challenge. Then they go and get to know people. They create alliances. Hundreds, maybe THOUSANDS of people killed… and now there's even a clone of ME put on my own subconscious slaughter list. Geez, why not just put up a great big sign TELLING me that my greatest enemy is myself
Everyone in the area was left speechless as DJ slowly walked off in one direction.
Amy:………DJ? Where are you going?
DJ: I'm outta here… Please, don't follow me…
Amy: DJ, wait!
Amy looked back at where DJ was walking, but he had gone. Feeling all her energy drain out of her body, Amy sank to her knees, allowing tears to roll down her cheeks.
Amy: …DJ…
It seemed Sephihimoto had also left for the moment, leaving only his evil, manic laughter to fade into the distance.
In the great arena (well, the third one anyway), Leanne and Hawk were battling in mid-air, seemingly oblivious to the events occurring within the audience. It wasn't until Leanne narrowly caught a left hook from Hawk that she noticed the movement.
"Hey, where's DJ going?" Leanne asked. Her answer was a right fist to her forehead. While Leanne was immobilised, Hawk kicked her back down to the marble floor.
"What's wrong, Leanne?" Hawk asked as he drifted down, his feet planting firmly on the floor. "You're a sitting duck…"
"Jeez!!!" Leanne cried as she sat up, rubbing her forehead. "Was THAT part of some special move of yours?"
"No." Hawk replied.
"Hey, Leggy's down…" Miyamoto remarked.
"Would you shut up about my legs?!" Leanne cried. "Or would you like a reminder of what the feet on the end of them feel like!?"
"Is it like this?" Hawk asked as he sent a sweeper kick from Leanne's right side, hitting her back and causing her to fly forwards.
"You mean bastard!!!" Leanne cried, trying to get up. "I'll BREAK you for this!" Leanne suddenly fell back down and winced in pain. "That is, when I'm not hurting so bad…"
Back in the corridors, it seemed that Leanne wasn't the only one having problems.
"Where could DJ have possibly gone to?" Lisa asked.
"I have no idea…" Gokan replied. "Let me think. If I needed a place to be alone, where would I go?"
"Especially in a huge yet busy area like this!" Kage added. "Wait a second! Hey, Delon, you were training here alone, right?"
"Yeah, I remember you were alone when we found you…" Zeon said. "You know places of solitude, don't you?"
"Yes, I do…" Delon spoke. "But a lot of my training and concentration locations are either top secret, difficult to access, or just wouldn't appeal to DJ…"
"But still, DJ obviously wasn't himself since a few moments ago…" Zori said. "We'll have to check everywhere! We should split up and search! We'll use a ki beacon to tell each other what's going on…"
"Zori, what's a ki beacon?" Sarah asked.
"It's a ki shot that we fire up into the sky. When it explodes, it lights the sky up so that people from miles around can see it. It's perfect!"
"Still, who should go where?"
"I've already anticipated this…" Amy announced. "OK, Lisa and Zori search the hotel, Sarah and D-Chan, search the rest of the main area. Registration, the souvenir shop, everywhere! Zeon, you check the wreckage of arena A, Bakaryu check the wreckage of arena B! Angel, check arena C…"
"How come?" Angel asked. "That's where we came from?"
"DJ may have gone back for some reason. Besides, you'll get to see Hawk in action! Anyway, Thomas and Jedite are checking arena D, Gokan check E and Xell can go with Hitomi to check if he's at arena F. Delon, check the food courts, Zin and Kage, go to the bar and hot springs area…"
"Yeah! Let's get drunk!" Kage cheered.
"Work before pleasure, dude…" Zin reminded.
"Hey, chill… it's just my sense of humour…"
"There's no time for that! Who knows where DJ could be?" Amy cried. "I'm sure there's another place around here somewhere… anyway, that's where I'll be searching. We'll all meet back in the main area in an hour, OK?"
"You got it!" Everyone called as they rushed off in their respective directions.
'DJ, please be OK…' Amy thought as she left.
"Excuse me, ma'am, but has DJ checked in, by any chance?" Zori asked the hotel receptionist.
"I'm sorry, but I'm unfamiliar with the contestant names…" she sighed. She was as tall as DJ, but with straight black hair, blue eyes, blue eyeliner and a pair of the biggest earrings Zori had ever seen! She was wearing a very low-cut top as well… hey, Zori! This is no time to be describing the receptionist! Think about DJ!
"Umm… he's the one with black spiky hair, green eyes, usually overly-optimistic, but he was kinda sad when he left…" Zori said, though unable to break off his gaze…
"May I ask you kindly to stop staring?" the receptionist asked. Zori blushed and snapped back to attention.
"S-Sorry!!" He cried.
"So you should be! I didn't get this job just for people to stare at my bust!"
"In that case, you should do a better job covering it up…" Zori grumbled as he left the desk. That little conversation got him nowhere. 'I hope Lisa-Chan's having better luck than I am…'
"DJ, where are you?" Lisa called as she raced down the corridor leading to the room in which she, Amy, DJ and Leanne were staying. "Hey, I know you always beat me at Hide and Seek, but this isn't funny!" Finally reaching their room, Lisa pushed and pulled at the door in panic, remembering that she had the key a few minutes later. A deft twist of the key in the lock later and Lisa had made her way into the room, but DJ was nowhere to be found. All that was there was a few suitcases with some of DJ's stuff scattered around. 'He wasn't thinking of leaving without us, was he?' Lisa thought to herself. She allowed herself to fall onto DJ's bed, fumbling through the only open suitcase. As the bed stopped bouncing and stabilised, a sheet of paper fell from inside the case. 'Hey, what's this?...' Lisa grabbed the sheet to inspect it further. That's when she realised that it wasn't just a sheet of paper; it was, in fact, a photograph. To be more specific, a photo of DJ, Amy and Lisa at a summer resort last year. Lisa had decided to play a prank and change Amy's bikini top setting to "off", so Lisa was grinning cheekily behind Amy, Amy was catching her bikini top and narrowly escaping humiliation, and stood next to her was a very embarrassed-yet-excited DJ. Had the camera not included an automatic shutter, the guy behind it would have been at the edge of anticipation! Lisa knew that, as embarrassing as it was, DJ would never go anywhere without this picture. It was official: He was still on the island.
"There's still time!" Lisa called out as she raced back to the ground floor of the hotel.
Meanwhile, kicking stones and pieces of debris around was a very bored Mystic Zeon.
"Why did I have to be stuck searching a wreckage!?" Zeon cried. "I'm NEVER gonna find anything!" Zeon did a little more searching, then some kicking rocks about, then some more searching, and then kicking even more rocks about. "Damn it, this is BORING!" he yelled as he kicked a rock at the now abandoned Commentators' Booth. Zeon's look of boredom changed to a look of bewilderment as he heard multiple cracks from the booth. "What's that noise?" Suddenly, the entire booth fell off its hinges and crashed right next to Zeon! "Whoa… I'd better not go around doing THAT again…" Zeon soon shrugged off his terror and took a peek inside the dislodged booth. "Hey, a can of beer! Ah, crap! It's empty!!!"
Bakaryu was having similar problems with his designated search area. 'I'm gonna get Amy for this…' he thought as he peered down the massive crater that was re-created after the last ki attack that hit. 'No, he's not hiding down there… That's it! If I don't find DJ here soon, I'm gonna go look in the food court! In fact, Amy never mentioned the ferry bay, so maybe he's there?' Bakaryu's last idea was the Commentator's Booth, which was abandoned, but not easily about to fall down. Jumping up to the window, Bakaryu grabbed the windowsill and peered through the broken window.
"Hey! DJ, you there?" Bakaryu called. No response. "Damn it, he's not here!" Jumping down, Bakaryu started making his way to the ferry bay, where everyone first started on this island…
Things were a little more interesting for Angel, as she could search for DJ and watch the fight at the same time! Still, it was a lot harder due to the fact that there were about a million cheering fans around! Still, since Leanne and Hawk were beating the crap out of each other, Angel kind of doubted that DJ would be at this arena, particularly after the talk that went on. But while she was here, Angel figured she should cheer Hawk on.
"Go get her, Hawk!" Angel cheered. "Get her with the Flamewind attack again! If she tears her sailor suit, she won't know whether to fight you or defend her dignity!.........Oww! No, no! You're supposed to hit HER! BEAT HER BUTT, HAWK!!!!" Down on the stage, Leanne had just blasted Hawk back with a Raigeki (Thunder shot) attack.
"Hey, that hurt!" Hawk yelled.
"Ah, so guys DO have feelings after all?" Leanne joked, giggling. OK, that just got Hawk riled up…
"Feel THIS!!!!" He yelled as he rushed toward Leanne and sent a Flaming Uppercut attack to her chin, sending her spiralling about twenty feet high into the air! Upon her descent, Leanne landed harshly on her head, balancing for about ten seconds before falling onto her back.
"Whoa! Leggy's down, and this time she's out!" Miyamoto cheered. "This makes Hawk "Saiyan Badass" Flamewind the winner!"
"Hey, Hawk!" Angel cheered. "Way to go, babe!" But her screams of praise were drowned out by the audience's own cheers! Hawk, not one to let that joke slip, walked up to Leanne and leaned over her so that his eyes met hers.
"I bet you're only feeling TWO things at the moment…" he taunted. "Embarrassment at where your joke led you… and pain. Let's not forget the pain…"
"I wish I COULD forget the pain!" Leanne yelled, holding her head. Hawk was about to go and find Angel, when as he turned around he nearly walked into her!
"Whoa!" Hawk cried, nearly falling backward. He would have done, too, if Angel hadn't pulled him into a hug. "How'd you get down here so fast, Angel?"
"Plot device, Hawk!" Angel smiled.
"You jumped down using the audience members' heads as stepping stones, didn't you?"
"Yep. Anyway, I got some bad news…"
"What's up?" A look of concern crossed Hawk's face.
"Well…" Angel started. "DJ's kinda gone missing…"
"What!?" Leanne cried, sitting up. "I saw him leaving, but I just assumed he was going for a soda, or something…"
"It's worse than that… DJ now believes that he's the same as all those bad guys he's beaten over the years! We don't know where he's gone!"
"Have you checked the food court?" Hawk asked.
"Delon's checking over there. That reminds me, we should all keep a look up at the sky. If it lights up, try to sense some ki being released. That'll tell us who's found DJ…"
"Well, let's carry on searching!" Hawk cheered. "He's probably at the hot springs! They're relaxing in times of need, after all…"
"Yeah, and we can help Zin and Kage too! They're searching the hot springs and bar at the moment. Let's go!" Angel, Hawk and Leanne ran South to get to the desired area. That is, until Leanne decided to run up and kick Miyamoto into the wall.
"And for the last time, SHUT UP ABOUT MY LEGS!!!" She yelled.
"It's a very good thing… that I'm not programmed to feel pain…" Miyamoto said.
"I'm hungry!" D-Chan whined as she and Sarah checked and re-checked the areas of the Main Area.
"D-Chan, there'll be time to eat later…" Sarah sighed, worriedly. "We have to find DJ! Let's check the Souvenir shop again…" Sarah pushed open the saloon doors to the Souvenir shop, with D-Chan in close pursuit. "Let's see… DJ really likes flashy stuff, so maybe he's in the lighting section?"
"Can I please get something to eat?" D-Chan asked.
"D-Chan, can't it wait?"
"No, it can't! Sarah, it sounds almost like my tummy's calling out for DJ!" Sarah couldn't help but giggle at this.
"OK, but be quick about it, D-Chan." Sarah instructed. "Who knows how long we have left…" D-Chan raced off to find some food while Sarah explored the lighting section. There were all kinds of items on sale! Lava lamps, disco balls, plasma orbs, fibre optic shapes, strange glass cubes with bending lights and morphing optics… but no DJs!! "Damn it!" Sarah cursed. "DJ, honey, where ARE you?"
"Hi, Sarah!" D-Chan chimed, carrying a bag of candies. Of course, D-Chan was happily munching away. She must seem pretty confident that they were going to find DJ. "Ya know what? This place could really use an Initial D arcade. DJ would love that! We'd find him easily if they had one of those!"
"Wait a minute…" Sarah pondered. "The arcades may have been destroyed, but maybe the site itself isn't useless! Come with me!" Sarah grabbed D-Chan's arm and dragged her East.
"Wait, Sarah!" D-Chan cried. "I need an arm to eat my candies!"
Thomas, Jedite and Gokan had met up in the corridor connecting Arena D with Arena E.
"Find anything?" Jedite asked.
"Not a thing…" Gokan replied. "The whole place was empty! How about you?"
"It was exactly the same. We thought we'd found DJ under a chair, but it was just a cat…"
"Don't ask us how we mistook DJ for a cat…" Thomas added. "Mind you, with HIS agility…"
"This is getting us nowhere!" Gokan called. "Let's go find Xell and Hitomi. It's likely that they've got the same conclusion, since they're also at an empty arena…" Gokan walked off to Arena F, with Thomas and Jedite close behind.
"Attention, everyone." Bulma's voice spoke. "The match between Gokan and Bakaryu will begin in ten minutes!"
"For crying out loud, Bulma, not now!" Gokan cried as he hurried his pace. Thomas and Jedite maintained their speed, however.
"Hey, Jedite?" Thomas asked. "What do you think of D-Chan?" Jedite suddenly blushed.
"Huh? What's brought this on all of a sudden, Thomas?" he questioned.
"I'm not sure, really… I think it's something to do with how I feel for Leanne… COULDN'T, of course, be the fact that I noticed you checking D-Chan out when Amy was organising the search party…"
"What!?" Jedite cried out. Hey, it was beginning to look like the roles had reversed! "Thomas, aren't you supposed to be the shy one?"
"Yeah, I know… but I think Leanne's helped me open up, and be more confident, you know? Besides, I caught you staring…"
"I was daydreaming, OK?" Jedite's blush intensified.
"Hey, you two! There's no time for that!" Gokan reminded. Xell and Hitomi met Gokan, Jedite and Thomas half-way. "Oh, no! You two didn't find him either?"
"He's just vanished without a trace!" Xell cried "We can't find him anywhere!"
"Yeah, the arena was completely empty!" Hitomi added.
"It was so empty we could hear our voices echoing! In fact, I heard Hitomi's stomach growl and echo too!"
"Xell!" Hitomi cried, playfully jabbing Xell with her elbow. "You promised not to tell people about that…"
"Hey, no I didn't!" Xell replied, sticking his tongue out. "Hey, you guys heading for the food court?"
"Actually, we were heading for arena F to find you guys…" Jedite said. "But I guess we could check the food court to see if Delon's found him…"
"Of course, we should also check if D-chan's there…" Thomas teased.
"Did you say something, Thomas?!" Jedite said through his teeth.
"Not a thing!" Thomas laughed as he ran into the food court.
"Hey, get back here!" Jedite called as he followed, with everyone else close behind.
Delon was sat facing the door of the food court when Gokan, Jedite, Thomas, Xell and Hitomi walked in.
"Hey, aren't you guys supposed to be looking for DJ?" Delon asked.
"Yeah, but we can't find him…" Gokan replied. "So we thought we'd try here…"
"I've been sat here all the time, so that no-one can get in or out without me knowing."
"So, has he passed through at all?" Hitomi asked.
"……no…"
"DAMN IT!" Jedite yelled. "I really need to talk to DJ as well…"
"About D-Chan, right?" Thomas asked. "I mean, who better to ask than her male counterpart?"
"Thomas, I do NOT have a crush on D-Chan!" Jedite blushed. "I mean, sure she's cute, funny, beautiful, cuddly, sweet, caring, bubbly, energetic, sexy…"
"Ahem!!" Everyone cleared their throats to indicate that Jedite was going a little overboard.
"…yeah, but I don't have a crush on her!"
"Hey, have you seen that cute little way she has of walking?" Gokan asked.
"Nope…" Thomas replied.
"Not me…" Delon added.
"I only have eyes for Hitomi!" Xell cheered.
"Yeah, it's so cute the way she wiggles her…" Jedite stopped. "… umm… oh, my God, I have a crush on her!" Upon hearing this, Gokan burst out into a fit of laughter.
"Hey, I wonder how Hawk's doing?" Xell suddenly asked. "Has he had any luck finding DJ?"
"Just keep an eye on the sky…" Delon replied. "If it lights up, we'll know…"
Zin hesitantly stepped into the bar, not wanting a rewind on the events that happened last time some of the people were there (like Lisa and Veggie's fight). Not that many people were there this time, though. Just a few drunks and a rather relieved bartender.
"Good evening, sir!" The bartender welcomed Zin. "What can I get ya?"
"I need information." Zin replied. "You wouldn't happen to know where DJ is, would you?"
"That would be me: Derek Jones Smith! At your service!" Zin just groaned. This was the wrong guy.
"Forgive me, sir, but you're not the DJ I'm looking for…"
"Ah, then you must be wanting the Hot Springs manager: Demetrius Jeremiah Zuchinski!"
"Huh? No!"
"That girl who went
after the referee: Danielle Jackson?"
"Oh, my God, how many people are
there on this God-forsaken island named DJ!?" Zin yelled before regaining his
posture. "Look, the guy I'm looking for has black spiky hair, green eyes and
has these really cool green metal shoes. He was in here earlier smashed off his
face singing Particle Man…"
"Well, he hasn't been here…" Derek replied. "Heck, he must be the only DJ in the entire world who I don't know a thing about!"
"How ironic…" Zin said under his breath. "Well, I guess I'd better go help Kage in the hot springs. Thanks anyway…"
"Wait a second!" Derek called as Zin turned to leave. "Are you sure you can't stay for a beer?"
"I'd love to, but I can't. If we can't find our friend DJ, we could possibly all be screwed." And with that, Zin left the bar.
Sliding the entrance door to the hot springs open, Zin laid eyes on Angel, Hawk and Leanne.
"Hey, Zin!" Leanne cheerfully greeted. "What brings you here?"
"The same thing that brought you three here…" Zin replied. "I take it none of you has found DJ yet?"
"That's why we're here…" Hawk said. "We were hoping he'd be here. He's not in the bar, then?"
"The bartender described about half a dozen DJs, but none of them are who we're looking for…"
"That sucks…" Angel sighed. "But hey, with Amy's plan, at least one of us has got to find him!"
"That's right! All we have to do is keep searching and think positive!" Leanne cheered. "I mean, that's what DJ's always taught us, right?" Before anyone could add to this, the room was filled with girls' screams, and Kage practically tore the door to the female side apart to get through, quickly closing it behind him to stop numerous objects from hitting him.
"…………Kage?" Delon asked.
"YOU were in the female side?!" Angel added.
"Yeah, I was…" Kage admitted "But one thing's for sure, DJ wasn't…"
"How could you think that DJ would be in there?" Leanne asked. "I mean, he's a GUY!"
"Exactly!" Angel teased.
"Angel!" Hawk cried. "Not you too!!"
"What's the problem!?" A
random girl who had poked her head through the door retorted. "You want to put
us under the false impression that guys have feelings?"
"We DO have feelings, bitch!" Hawk, Kage and Zin yelled.
"Chill, Hawk…" Angel sighed, placing both her hands on Hawk's shoulders. "We're just playing…"
"We are?" The girl asked. Kage threw a rubber duck at her.
"Shut up…" He said, coldly.
"Hasn't anyone seen the ki beacon yet?" Leanne asked.
"I don't think so…" Kage replied. "I sure haven't seen any flashes…"
"You pervert!" The same annoying random girl yelled.
"I meant flashes of LIGHT!" Kage yelled. "Now if you bother me again, I'll set VEGETA on you!" This sufficiently (and finally) shut the girl up. Suddenly, from somewhere in the middle of the female springs area, a certain Saiyan voice said "Somebody mention me?" and was followed by more screams and the sound of two dozen angry females pounding a Saiyan prince into the dirt.
At the North-west side of the island, where the ferries docked and departed, a young male figure with spiky hair was busy exploring, or maybe planning a set route. First he headed toward a docked ferry, then took a long look at the island, then back at the ferry.
"Ah, damn it, he's not here either!" Bakaryu yelled. Yes, what we forgot to tell you was that the spiky hair was white and he was looking back to see if anyone was using a ki beacon. "Man, where did that overly-optimistic food monger go and hide himself?"
Well, since the others had no luck, it was all up to Amy. Taking a familiar route to the East, Amy didn't even notice a large puddle she was walking in, nor a crater in the wall, where she blasted Vegeta earlier. Stepping out into the open, Amy was greeted with a moonlit sky, but seemingly nothing else. She was about to give up hope and turn back, when she noticed the dismembered main unit to Dance Dance Revolution. 'Hmm… maybe…' Amy stepped down across the battered arcades, looking behind the battered unit. Even though she recognised the figure she saw sat there, she decided not to say anything, but instead just sit next to him and watch the moon in the sky.
"………I asked you not to follow me….." DJ spoke.
"You know I could never leave you…" Amy replied. "After all, you never left me…" A long silence took its place after Amy finished her sentence. "DJ? What's the matter, really? What's on your mind?" Amy was only greeted with another silence.
"I don't know…" DJ finally replied. "I've just been thinking…"
"Come on, DJ, we both know that's a very dangerous thing!" Amy smiled, trying to lighten things up. DJ didn't respond. "That bad, huh?"
"It's worse than bad, Aimes…" DJ sighed. "I mean, I always just assumed that I was the good guys and the bad guys were, well, the bad guys, but how is it in their perspective? I must be the bad guy in their point of view, so I guess that makes me the same…"
"No, DJ, it isn't true!" Amy cried. "You've always fought to defend the innocent! Remember back when we first met and that crazy guy Dr. Hot wanted to melt me into a puddle of goo? I mean, I'd never done anything to him, and he was gonna kill me… but then there was you, DJ… he tried to take your newest friend away forever, but you stopped him from doing that, and eventually he just kinda vanished! Since then, you've fought off anyone who's tried to harm us! And when you think about it, you've only killed beings whose only purpose is to kill…" Even after this speech, DJ remained silent. It was unsure whether he was taking it all in, whether he was still depressed, or if he'd even gone to sleep.
"Don't you get it?" Sarah called from the start of the arcade. "It's like a circle of life thing! You're like a natural predator to evil!"
"Hey, come on… what's that supposed to mean?" DJ asked.
"It means that you're here to defend the good of everyone! Like if someone goes around killing innocent people, he gets put in the electric chair and fried. You only kill those who live to kill, and you don't even need to be a chair to electrocute them, so you're OK! But where does that leave Sephihimoto? He's killed a whole bunch of people and they didn't do anything!"
"Come on, DJ! Cheer up!" D-Chan chimed, still munching on her candies. DJ looked behind him to see Sarah and D-Chan, then gave D-Chan a look of bewilderment.
"Umm… you sure those are candies, D-Chan?" he asked.
"Yeah, they're pressed candies, made by SenzuCom. They're pretty tasty! Want one?"
"D-Chan… when you say SenzuCom Pressed Candies, you wouldn't happen to mean Senzu Compressed Candies, would you?"
"Well…" D-Chan inspected the bag further. "Oh, man! It was so hard to read, I didn't interpret it right!"
"How many did you eat, D-Chan?" Amy asked.
"Umm…" D-Chan started, but she couldn't say much before her whole body became slightly bigger and rounder. "Would you take 'the whole bag' for an answer?"
"D-Chan, those are for restoring energy!" Sarah cried. "And what happens with energy if you're not in any fights?"
"You start to gain weight…"
"Yeah. And…"
"And… that means you'll keep getting bigger and bigger…"
"Yeah. And…" Sarah's voice was becoming increasingly worried.
"And… gulp that means D-Chan go boom…"
"Not if I can help it!" DJ called, leaping into action. "I've been saving this trick for quite some time, but now's the best time to try it out!"
"DJ, are you sure about… whatever you're gonna do?" Amy asked.
"Of course! All great attacks and strategies need a test run…" DJ placed his hands on D-Chan's shoulders, and suddenly a powerful whit aura became visible around D-Chan. DJ concentrated really hard, and the aura from D-Chan slowly began to disperse and redirect itself into DJ.
"I get it now!" Sarah cheered. "DJ's taking the energy for D-Chan to prevent her from exploding!"
"See, DJ? I told you you're a hero!" Amy smiled. DJ wasn't listening, however. He was too busy extracting energy from D-Chan. Soon the expressions on Amy and Sarah's faces went from cheerful to a little worried.
"Umm… OK, DJ, that's enough absorption now…" Sarah advised.
"DJ, isn't that quite enough?" Amy asked. But DJ still kept drawing energy.
"Hey, this tickles!" D-Chan giggled. "But hey, how do we know DJ isn't gonna go boom?"
"We DON'T, D-Chan!" Sarah cried. "That's why we want him to stop!"
"Try to break free, D-Chan!" Amy cried. "It's our only chance!"
"I can't… this tickles too much and I can't move!" Amy and Sarah couldn't help but stare as wave after wave of energy was taken from D-Chan and drawn into DJ. Pretty soon, DJ's body was beginning to glow white.
"DJ, you've got more than enough energy!" Sarah cried out in panic. "You don't need to take any more!"
"Feel free to stop any time, DJ!" Amy cried. Then, for the first time since this new trick, DJ spoke.
"D-Chan, can you feel any pressure being relieved?" he asked. D-Chan could only nod.
"Yeah, I feel pretty much relaxed now…" she replied. "But I'm worried about you, DJ…"
"No need to worry. Since your pressure's gone, you at least won't explode, so I can stop drawing energy…" DJ took his hands from D-Chan's shoulders and held them at his sides.
"Thank God!" Sarah sighed, exhaustedly. Being scared takes it out of ya! "Hey, what about the ki beacon?"
"Oh, you need one of those?" DJ asked. "No problem!" DJ raised a hand in the air, ready to fire a ki shot, but since he'd absorbed loads of energy from D-Chan (who was still growing a tiny little bit at a time), it wasn't just a blast to illuminate the sky, but it also created a bang that ripped through the sound barrier and could be heard from fifty miles away! When the light diminished, Sarah was completely charred, Amy's attire was more or less dishevelled, D-Chan was just sat there, still growing slightly, and DJ was stood in the same position, albeit with considerably less ki than a few seconds ago.
"……………… I think you overdid it, DJ………" Sarah moaned before the four of them collapsed. Amy actually controlled her descent and landed in such a way that her face was level with DJ's.
"Welcome back, DJ…" Amy whispered. DJ just smiled and let his body relax to regain strength. What could he say? It was great to be back…
Waaaaagh!! I know we have DJ back, but we've had an entire episode with hardly any fighting! I mean, apart from Vegeta getting pummelled in the hot springs, but he deserved that. DJ, Amy, Sarah and D-Chan will be found, taken to the recovery room, and then that's where Chapter 17 will start. Now, how's Jedite gonna get D-Chan to notice him without covering himself with food?...