Oookay…
Hello again, folks! Yep, after many months of scheming, plotting and planning, I've finally come up with an idea for an update! So, without further ado, here goes…
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Darkest night surrounded the Son household. There was absolutely no light to illuminate the surrounding terrain; neither moon nor star could shine through the dark clouds looming overhead, and with this darkness came an ominous feeling that something terrible was about to happen.
As if on cue, a light rumbling could be heard approaching the house as the creatures of the night fled from the surrounding trees. The source of the rumbling soon became apparent: a large mech suit was rather quietly propelling itself along on its rocket thrusters, more or less making a bee line for the small house in the clearing. It soon set itself down with a dull thud and closed the remaining distance to the house with a few quiet steps.
A quiet hiss emanated from the cabin of the mech, and two of the three occupants jumped out: a woman and a dog man. The two then crouched down in what appeared to be a crude sort of stairway, and the final occupant, a little man with blue skin, proceeded to use them as such, finally allowing them to rise once he had reached solid ground… and landed quite harshly on the dog man's hand. (I honestly don't know whether or not to call it a paw or not…) The dog man suppressed an urge to cry and simply stood along with his female companion, standing at rigid attention as their leader chuckled.
"I must say," he said as he stretched slightly, "I do truly appreciate the Red Ribbon Army's clearance bin."
The other two simply nodded and said, "Yes, Emperor Pilaf."
The little megalomaniac known as Pilaf whirled on his lackeys and whisper/shouted, "NOT SO LOUD, YOU FOOLS! You'll jeopardize our mission!"
The two lowered their heads and whispered, "Yes sir."
Pilaf smoothed his ruffled robes. "Very good. Now, as the young people say, let's do this thing." He looked at the woman and pointed to the window. "Now, Mai, go get the child!"
With a curt "Yes, sir!", Mai rushed through the window and emerged somewhat clumsily a few moments later carrying a small toddler that was the spitting image of Goku in her arms. Pilaf smirked as he felt himself begin to swell with pride and glee. "Excellent," he said. "Now, that we have this child, those other fools will do whatever we ask to get Goku's youngest son back! They'll bring the Dragon Balls right to me! Then I can finally achieve my dream, and the whole world will call me king! KING EMPEROR PILAF!"
He allowed himself a small bout of maniacal laughter as his two lackeys simply sweat dropped behind him. The laughter, however, proved to be enough to wake the sleeping toddler up. He looked around at the faces surrounding him and upon seeing no one he recognized, began to cry loudly.
Pilaf cursed under his breath and promptly jumped into the mech, closing the hatch behind him. The machine rumbled to life. Pilafs voice came through on a loudspeaker. "Well, I suppose stealth is out the window now! Can't you fools do ANYTHING right?!" The two groaned as the mech's hand lowered and opened. "Now Mai, give me the child!" He harrumphed slightly. "You and Shou will have to go on foot as your punishment for bungling this mission."
Mai sighed as she begrudgingly began to hand the toddler over to her emperor, when the little guy stooped crying and sank his teeth into her hand. She yelped in pain and dropped him in surprise. While she was tending to her now bleeding hand, Shou ran after the child, diving at him and landing harshly on his stomach with the child no where in sight. Suddenly, he felt a sharp, painful tugging on his ears and threw his arms up to find the child sitting on his head, an ear in each hand as he pulled and screamed.
Pilaf sighed from within his mech and leaned the machine down to grab the little one. "Honestly," he grumbled, "do I have to do EVERYTHING myself?" He extended the arm and made to grab him until the arm came to a sudden screeching halt. Peering around the massive appendage blocking his view, his eyes flew wide open as he saw the little toddler sitting on Shou's head with the finger of his mech clutched firmly in his hand. He paled as the little one's face grew wide with delight and he squeezed the finger, which buckled with an audible crunch. Pilaf soon began to feel his center of gravity shift, and two words entered his mind: 'Oh crap!'
With loud, shrieking laughter, the child lifted the mech into the air and over his head, slamming it down onto the ground behind him. Apparently finding this extremely entertaining, he repeated the process again… and again… and again in rapid succession. He soon became bored, however, and whirled the large robot over his head and sent it flying through the air toward the woods with Pilaf's screams echoing through the air.
He watched the machine fly off and then turned his attention to Shou and Mai, who were now quaking in fear. Finally realizing the dog man for what he was, he began to walk in their general direction, arms spread wide open, shouting "Doggie!"
The two henchmen ran for their lives to the tree line and hid. They soon heard a female voice from the clearing. "What's all that noi- GOTEN! What're you doing out here?! Oh, my poor defenseless baby! Come here, Mommy put you to bed…"
Mai was still panting as she overheard. "Lady," she said to herself, "if you only knew…"
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Well, that's it this time around. I know this one seemed a little weak, but fear not! I plan to have another chapter up tomorrow! Heck, maybe even as soon as tonight! So until then, R&R folks! See Ya!