A loud thud could be heard through the corridor as Professor L was slammed against the back wall of his cell. Commander Zuccil smirked darkly as his guards closed and locked the cell door. The Professor looked morbidly through the bars at his captor.
"You won't get away with this, Zuccil." he said weakly.
"Don't make me laugh old man." said Zuccil. "Once your little brat and her over-heroic friends get here to rescue you, I'm going to defeat them, arrest them, and take them before Lord Sprout…for their execution."
"Don't you harm one hair on Jarelle's head, you…you…!" Professor L searched for the best words.
"Me what, Professor? You want to call me a filthy Saiyan, don't you?" asked Zuccil. "You want to make some crude, racist comment about the fact that I'm not from your planet, don't you? You humans are all the same."
"You're a traitor is what you are, Zuccil!" said Professor L.
"No, Professor, you are the traitor. I'm doing what my government tells me to."
"I highly doubt that the King of Saiyans would approve of your behavior!"
"If you're speaking of King Trunks, it won't be long before his dethroned and his son Nappa will take his place. And when that happens, Planet Vegeta will be under total Trifecta rule, just like Earth and Namek."
The Professor couldn't believe what he was hearing. He collapsed to the ground as Zuccil walked away laughing maniacally. He pushed his hair out of his face and held his forehead. He had to find some way to warn Jarelle and her friends. He had to tell her and Goshin what Sprout was planning.
Meanwhile, Goshin and the others were landing outside the detention complex. VJ and Nail surveyed the area for guards. Goshin and Jarelle used their sensing abilities to try and find the Professor. Nail grimaced at what he saw.
"This doesn't look good, Goshin." he said. "This place is crawling."
"I can get us inside." said VJ.
"You sure you can make it that far, VJ?" asked Jarelle.
"No, but I can sure as hell do my best." said VJ.
"That's all anyone here can ask of you, VJ." said Goshin with a smile.
"Have you found the Professor?" asked Nail.
"Yea…but if we come out on top of him we'll never get him out." said Goshin.
"Why's that?" asked VJ.
"He surrounded; guards, turrets, and Zuccil is roaming around." said Goshin.
"If we come in on top of him, they'll swarm us and even you won't be fast enough to get us out." said Nail.
"I'll be too exhausted." said VJ.
"So where do we go in?" asked Jarelle.
"Two floors below," said Goshin, "We'll have to hoof it from there, but we'll at least be able to take the guards and traps in chunks instead of all at once."
VJ nodded affirmatively. The rest mimicked him and placed their hands on VJ's shoulders. VJ put all his energy into his ghosting technique. The gang seemed to melt into the ground.
To Goshin it suddenly seemed like he was being sucked through a garden hose. A foreground of soil rushed by him at lightening speed, the soil turned to steel, and then suddenly they were standing in a prison corridor.
Just as they appeared in the prison, guards moved in on them. Turrets fired from above and below as Goshin and the others moved to avoid them. Nail used his Mystic Attack to destroy the turrets while the others fought off the guards.
In his tower in the center of the capitol city, Sprout watched as the alert came up in on his main viewing screen. He grimaced at what he saw and immediately turned to his comm. link.
"ZUCCIL, WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?" he barked.
"A minor break in, My Lord." said Zuccil over the comm., "Nothing I can't handle myself."
"Make sure of it, Zuccil!" said Sprout. "I have plans for the Professor and I can't execute them without him!"
"You have my word, Lord Sprout," said Zuccil, "the intruders will not leave this prison alive."
Sprout shut off his comm. link.
"So, Goshin, you took his bate after all." said Sprout. "Weather you succeed or not makes no real difference to me. It just means you wasted time for training that you will never get back…"
He stood, turned on his heel, and walked out of the tower control room.
Back at the detention complex, Zuccil smirked darkly.
"So, Goshin, you're soft spot for the Professor pulled through after all." he said. "Just as I planned…"
He made his way toward the only place Goshin could go to once he got the Professor out.
Goshin and the others were fighting frantically. Goshin himself got caught in the chest with a turret blast and knocked backwards. Jarelle jumped to catch him and help him up.
"Goshin, I don't know if we can make it." she said.
"Yes we can," said Goshin, "cause if they really wanted to keep us away from the Professor we'd already be dead."
He got up as Nail destroyed the turret that hit him. He and Jarelle blasted a gang of guards who were closing in to get VJ alone. VJ jumped up and started kicking the ones they'd missed in the face.
"Guy's, we gotta keep moving!" said Goshin.
He ran and tackled his way through a group of guards and ran for the end of the corridor that would take them up to the Professor's cell. The others fired energy blasts in every direction as they followed him. Goshin did a hand-spring and blasted at the remaining guards as the others ran through the door to the stairs. He followed just as the door slammed shut.
VJ blasted the handle so to slow them down if any of them came too. The young warriors ran up the stairs as fast as they could in their exhausted conditions. They burst through the door, blasting its handle as well, and we're astounded by what they saw; the turrets we're all deactivated and there were no guards.
The Professor had heard the racket they made and looked out his cell at them.
"JARELLE! GET AWAY! IT'S A TRAP!" he warned.
"I know that, Dad." said Jarelle.
They ran up to the Professor's cell and Nail proceeded to destroy the lock with his Special Beam Cannon. The Professor walked out and smiled weakly.
"It's good to see all of you, but it would have been better if you'd stayed behind." he said.
"We would have come here weather you we're here or not, Professor," said Goshin, "besides, we're not going to just let you rot in prison."
"Thank you all," said the Professor as he knelt down to Jarelle and smiled, "especially you."
Jarelle wrapped her arms around her father's neck as a tear ran down her cheek. Professor L hugged her back and he seemed to be suddenly ten years younger. The next instant, Goshin's eyes widened with shock; he looked over as the others caught what he was sensing.
"I hate to break up this celebration, but we've got company." he said.
"Looks like those guards aren't too happy about being beaten by a bunch of kids." said VJ.
"I told you, it's a trap. Zuccil wants you all dead." said the Professor.
"We knew that before we landed on the planet, Professor." said Nail.
"And you all came anyway?" asked the Professor.
"Like I said, Professor, we would have come no matter." said Goshin.
"You're just the reason we came when we did." said VJ.
"Guy's there's too much power there," said Jarelle, "even a Super Saiyan would have a hard time with that."
"She's right, Goshin." said Nail. "We've got to escape while we can."
"Right, let's go!" said Goshin.
With Professor L at their heels, they ran in the opposite direction toward the transport hanger…and right where Zuccil wanted them.
Goshin forced the door open and saw literally nothing. The room was so large that without any light, a person couldn't tell where the room ended. From what they could tell, the room was just an on going floor into a black abyss.
They walked into the room and looked to around to see if see anything with light filtering in from behind them. Without warning, the door slammed behind them and suddenly the room was just a black void. Surrounded by nothing but darkness and air until a huge power level made itself known just ahead of them.
"Zuccil…"said Professor L.
"How studious of you, Professor," said Zuccil from the darkness, "I'm amazed you came up with that before the little brats."
"You won't get away with this, Zuccil!" Goshin snarled.
"My dear boy, I already have." said Zuccil. "Surely you knew that the old man was nothing more then the bait for my trap?"
"We're not down and out yet, Zuccil." said Professor L.
"Oh but that's where you're wrong, Professor." said Zuccil. "You see, there's far more to me than meets the eye."
A bright flash of light exploded from just ahead of them. The Professor and the kids shielded their eyes to keep from going blind. When their eyes adjusted to the light they looked up to see it was Zuccil…as a Super Saiyan!