Well, good news for you SOL fans; I've finally gotten my butt in gear to write the sequel. I already had some parts written but now I'm doing more work on it so it's somewhat in decent condition. However, I won't be posting it until I'm done with this story that you're obviously planning on reading. Otherwise you wouldn't be here...I think. Anyways, just wanted to get out a shout out to all of you faithful readers.
And now...I think I'll shut up.
Each man watched their screen as time passed by. The ship was on full alert and each crew member was at their battle station, ready for anything that would rear its ugly head. Reports from Earth had informed them and several other ships that an invading force was on its way. Rushing towards the coordinates chosen as the front lines, about forty other ships had joined them, ready to protect the Earth.
Minutes continued to slip away. Was there a force coming here? What if the coordinates were wrong? Maybe the invaders decided to back down instead. Or they turned to go in another direction. Nervousness was running rampant throughout each and every ship.
Suddenly, the radar detected something. As the soldier in charge of the radar looked at it, all he could see was that one ship was heading this way. Was this the force that they were alerted about?
Sudden, more dots appeared on the screen. It looked like hundreds of them were there. So this was the force they were notified about.
"Captain, enemy dead of ahead," the man called out. The captain turned his head towards the soldier.
"How many are there son?" he asked, voice full of authority.
"There appears to be many of them. Definitely more than our defenses can handle. Shall we call in some reinforcements?"
The captain thought for a moment before giving his order. "Radio in the second line. Tell them to send more ships. An additional fifty should do fine."
"Yes sir," another soldier said before heading off to complete the order. The rest of the crew continued to sit in silence, waiting for the next order to be given.
Suddenly, the communications officer spoke up. "Sir, we are receiving a comm. link with one of the ships. Shall I patch it in?"
"Affirmative," was the captain's response.
A moment later and suddenly a voice was projected over the speakers. "Mayday, mayday, this is Ship EA 306. We are under distress and request assistance, over," a young man's voice said.
The sound of weapon fire could be heard in the background as the voice went silent. The captain didn't hesitate a second. "Ship EA 306, this is the Battleship Red Star. You have permission to seek refuge. We will cover you as you flee to safety, over."
The voice replied instantly, "Thank you so much. May Kami favor you in battle." The comm. link shut off after that.
"Alright men, we're going in. We have a civilian ship in distress and we're gonna bail 'em out. Our reinforcements will back us up," the captain proclaimed to his crew. A cheer roared through the crew, the soldiers getting pumped for battle. This was what they had volunteered for.
Moments later, the ship began to move forward, heading towards the incoming force. Following the battleship's lead, the other ships began to move as well. Soon the ship could make out the lights of many ship weapons being discharged. "Prepare the ship's weapons," the captain order.
The closer the ship flew towards the battle. The more anxious the crew became. It was almost time.
Suddenly, they could make out a small ship, somewhat damage, hauling ass. Behind the ship, a large force of battleships began to appear.
"When that ship passes us, I want to fire all weapons," the captain announced. Many "yes sirs" came in answer. Shortly, the small ship flew by the battleship, giving the crew its cue.
Immediately, the ship began to discharge its weapons, the blitz beams flying through space. As the beams began to fade, lights began to shine in the distance, signs of something exploding. The ships next to them and down the line also began to fire their weapons, the Red Star firing again as well. Soon the lights of many explosions lit up the horizon.
However, just when it seemed like nothing would happen, beams from the enemy came flying back. A few ships were destroyed, exploding into balls of flames, while others only took minimal damage.
"All units, fire at will!" the captain roared as the ship began to fire back.
Meanwhile, the small ship that the Earth's forces had saved was enjoying the sudden calm it felt.
"May Kami favor you in battle?" Trunks asked at the brink of laughter. Never before had he heard Gohan use such words. It was too hilarious to pass up the opportunity to laugh at the saiyan's expense.
So he laughed his head off.
With Goten.
Gohan turned his head to glare out the two hysterical saiyans. After all of this business on Earth was concluded, he was gonna teach these two young ones a lesson. Oh yes, they would learn some respect.
Suddenly, the radar blipped, stopping the saiyan's laughter as they straighten up in their seats. Soon after, a larger fleet flew by them to join the battle that was occurring behind them. Slowly letting their breath out, Trunks finally said "Well, at least you finally made use of those humans."
Gohan let out a laugh. "Funny, I could've sworn I heard that humans couldn't be of use to anything once."
"Well, who ever said that hadn't met you Gohan," Goten said grinning from ear to ear.
"Remind me to tell that to Raditz. I'm sure he'll appreciate it," Gohan said as he looked forward. A serious expression soon crossed his face. "And we're almost there."
Trunks and Goten looked out the window and saw their objective: Earth. It was once said to be a very lovely planet; covered in blues, greens, and whites. Now though, it looked more grey, the blues and some white still showing.
Keeping their pace they flew straight for the planet. Before them, they watched as the planet grew bigger and bigger until it encompassed their whole viewing window. As they looked on at their target, the radar picked up another ship flying towards them. Checking the radar, Gohan saw that the ship was flying at them, headed towards the planet. If they kept at their current trajectory, the ships' paths would eventually intersect. Speeding up, Gohan wanted to get to the planet first, not wanting to risk a last minute encounter with any human ship.
Surprisingly, the other ship adjusted its course and speed to once again head straight towards the saiyan ship. Gohan frowned. What was going on here?
After a few more attempts to avoid the impending collision, each try being thwarted, Gohan swung his head around to look at Trunks and Goten.
"Guys, brace for impact! We gonna get hit!" he yelled.
Mere seconds after Gohan said those words the ship was slammed into by the other ship. Jerking violently, the three saiyans were thrown from their seats, crashing into anything in their path. From the left side of the room, the wall caved in on itself as the nose of the other ship broke through it.
Once the aftereffects of the crash settled down, Gohan leapt to his feet pissed. He had had it up to here with everything that had happened on his way to this miserable planet and now he wanted to take his frustrations out on the first person he saw.
Storming over to the ship's nose, he slammed his fist into it, puncturing the ship's hull. Piece by piece, the saiyan tore the wall apart till there was a hole big enough to walk through. Without even looking to see if the other two saiyans were okay, Gohan stepped into the opening.
Watching with wide eyes, the youngest saiyans were astonished. Never had they seen Gohan this mad. It was extremely rare if he had ever lost his cool. And now, Trunks and Goten were offered an opportunity to watch their comrade unleash his fury at someone. It was almost too good of a chance to pass up.
Scrambling onto their feet, the two saiyans ran after the eldest saiyan, catching up to him moments later. They were sure to keep quiet because of Gohan's silent fury. They had no intent on attracting that disaster.
Picking up a familiar ki, the saiyans traveled down corridors, passing every single door they encountered. It was starting to bug the younger two why the ki was so familiar. Though irritated, they kept quiet. Gohan was still in his dark mood and didn't seem to care if that ki was familiar or not. He just wanted to beat the living hell out of them and be done with it.
Finally, they stopped at one of the doors. Instead of opening it the normal way, Gohan kicked the door off its hinges, the door crashing to the ground with a huge dent that exhibited the force behind the saiyan's kick.
The room wasn't a very big one. It appeared wider than it did long. The wall opposite was yet another large window looking out to the planet beyond it. The room itself was made of wood, a contrast to the metal throughout the ship. The remaining walls were colored black or some other very dark color, a red trim marking the corners between the walls and roof. A crossbar of metal pipes were the only things metal in this room. Dividing the window into several rectangular pieces, the red colored bars went from one side of the window to the other and from the roof to the floor.
And standing in the middle of this room was none other than Bojack.
Standing in only his white pants, his arms crossed over his light green chest, the pirate smirked at the saiyans. "I finally found you," he said smugly.
A look of hatred wrote itself on Gohan's face. What was the deal with this guy? Why wasn't he dead yet and what did it take to kill him? The saiyan began to growl the longer he looked at the green man.
Trunks and Goten just stared at the man bewildered. Hadn't they beaten this guy already? Twice? Why was he here of all times? Couldn't this wait?
"You know, it took me awhile to find you three. It wasn't easy I'll admit," Bojack said. "And you know? I finally figured out how you've been able to defeat me."
"Oh? And how's that?" Gohan said through clenched teeth.
Bojack smirked. "You haven't been beating me. You've just been blowing holes in the ship and hoping that space would take care of me. While I'll admit you learned a couple new tricks the last time we met, but this time…you won't have the option of blowing me out into space."
Suddenly, Bojack turned his body around and aimed his hand at the large window. Gathering energy, he fired a ki blast at the glass, creating a large hole in it as the edges of the glass melted. However, instead of a sudden suction of air escaping into the vacuum of space, nothing happened.
With his look of hatred soon becoming amazement, Gohan stared at the large hole. How was this possible? Shouldn't they be flying through space right now?
"I bet you're wondering what's going on," Bojack said. Looking back at the surprised saiyans, he crossed his arms over his chest again. "This ship has a force field function that keeps the air of the ship inside the ship, just in case something like that happens. Very remarkable, don't ya think?"
Gohan straightened out his posture. "Goten, Trunks, I want you two to go to the ship's control room. Pilot the ships to Earth."
Both saiyans looked at Gohan in puzzlement. "And how do you think we'll be able to pull that off?" Trunks said. "Both ships aren't in the necessary condition to enter the atmosphere."
"I don't care. Crash the ships into the planet. We're gonna land on Earth no matter what," Gohan replied.
Neither saiyan could think of a response to this. Finally giving up protesting the decision, Trunks and Goten headed out of the room, Goten hanging back a little. "You kick this guy's ass, you hear me?" the young saiyan said.
Gohan turned to look at his brother, giving him a small smile. Raising his arm up, he gave him a thumbs up and then turned his attention back to Bojack.
"You know that you don't stand a chance against me," Bojack said as he moved into a fighting stance.
Getting into his own stance, Gohan responded "You're a dead man Bojack. I'll see to it personally that you will be."
As the two fighters stared each other down, neither making the first move, they could vaguely feel the sudden movement of the ship as it began the last leg of the journey to Earth. Despite this, both fighters continued to wait for the other's first move.
Then at once, both fighters leapt at each other, letting out war cries. As the warriors neared each other, Gohan dropped towards the ground, sliding on it, attempting a slide tackle. Bojack leapt out of the way, twisting his body around and firing a ki blast at the sliding saiyan.
Gohan batted the blast away and countered with one of his own, which Bojack once again jumped out of the way. This time, the pirate charged at the saiyan as he was getting back to his feet, kneeling on the ground.
As the green man threw a punch, Gohan blocked it and immediately countered with a punch of his own, hooking Bojack in the face. As the man stumbled backwards, Gohan unleashed a flurry of punches, ending the barrage with a backhand that sent Bojack into a wall.
Regaining his balance once his feet hit the floor, Bojack spread his arms out to either side of him, gathering his ki. Soon, green balls of energy appeared in the space pirate's hands.
"Galactic Buster!" Bojack cried out as he thrust his arms in front of him, the twin ki balls becoming one before it launched itself out Gohan.
Gohan easily danced out of the way of the large attack as it created a second, much larger hole in the window, flying out into the recesses of space.
As soon as Gohan was ready, he charged at his opponent, throwing a roundhouse kick at the green man's head and connecting. Bojack once again crashed into a wall, falling to the ground and breathing hard, his head throbbing with pain. How the hell did this weakling get so strong? It was almost mind boggling. His speed was overwhelming, completely different than the last time they fought.
As Gohan stared his opponent down, anger still running rampant in his system, he sent a message to Piccolo. (Looks like that bonding thing you've been doing this whole time finally paid off)
The saiyan heard a dry chuckle. (No problem Kid. It was either this or getting our butt whooped every time we got in a fight)
(Well then, just sit back as I hand our little friend here his ass)
(Better make it quick. You don't have as much time as you think)
Taking a slide glance at the window, Gohan nearly cursed. They were moving much faster than what he thought they would be. He was gonna have to finish this fight pretty soon if he wanted to be somewhat prepared for the impact with the Earth's atmosphere.
However, while Gohan had his attention at the window, Bojack had recovered enough to launch another attack, nailing the saiyan with a vicious uppercut.
As Gohan seemed to float in midair defenseless, Bojack used the same hand he had used to uppercut his opponent and grabbed the saiyan by his armor strap. Pulling towards him, he raised his knee up and kneed Gohan as he flew right into it.
Opening his mouth as spit flew out of it, Gohan recovered quickly and grabbed a hold of Bojack; his right arms wrapping around the raised leg and left arm securing the arm holding him. Leaning back, Gohan firmly planted his feet on the ground and lifted Bojack into the air. Before the space pirate could react, the saiyan threw him across the room towards the gapping holes in the window. Managing to recover in time, Bojack landed on his feet, skidding a couple more feet before coming to a stop.
Without hesitating, Gohan fired a ki blast from his mouth at Bojack, who in turn crossed his arms in front of him to block the attack. Once the blast had dissipated, Bojack immediately saw his opponent right in his face, his fist connecting right into the pirate's face.
As Bojack stumbled backwards, Gohan landed back on the ground and pivoted his foot to launch a side kick at the large opening the pirate had left around his chest. His foot successfully hit the target and threw the space pirate straight through the gapping hole in the window.
Before Bojack could react to try and get back into the ship, Gohan twisted his body to where he was facing the hole with his arms raised and his hands crossed by his forehead. "Masenko Ha!" the saiyan shouted as he quickly gathered his ki and launched his attack, nailing Bojack and sending him into the Earth's atmosphere.
As Bojack flew further away from the ship and into the atmosphere, slowly suffocating from the lack of air, his vision soon took on a reddish tint as he felt his body beginning to heat up to dangerous levels. Soon enough, he could feel his skin burning off his back and igniting into flames. Bojack couldn't even muster the willpower to scream as pain flooded throughout his body. His vision became completely red, followed by black as his body was consumed in flames.
Gohan watched as Bojack burned up in the atmosphere. It was about time that guy died. Soon the whole ship jerked, throwing him off balance. Regaining it, Gohan soon saw the room he was in heating up and becoming a tint of red. Quickly deducing that that was not a good sign, he left the room fast before he also shared Bojack's fate. As the saiyan hurried down the corridor, he felt the tremors of the ship as it punctured the atmosphere. Soon, Gohan gave up trying to get to the control room as he steadied himself against the wall.
This was going to be a very rough landing.
To Dragongirl: Lol, I got ya. Well, both characters will be on Earth at the same time, so they're gonna have to run into each other at some point.