I know, I know… but I'm not dead. I'm not gonna update as fast, but I won't take 8 months again either.
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Now the long awaited 5th chapter!
Gotenks enjoyed being the center of attention, it gave him the opportunity to show off, and right now everyone was giving him their undivided attention. Each and every one of the warriors in the room was wondering if the strange kids, kid, or whatever, really had a power level of 50,000. Most of them thought it impossible, but the kid had already managed to take out 3 of Frieza's elite warriors, and he hadn't even broken a sweat.
Gotenks was enjoying the attention, but not the lapse in action. He looked around the room and saw that everyone was just staring dumbly at him. Gotenks spread his feet shoulder length apart and placed his hands on his hips in annoyance. The best thing about his normal fusion, was that he looked pretty intimidating with his cold black eyes and serious posture.
The three full Saiyajins in the room watched the boy take out Guldo. 'That was pathetically easy for them.' Vegeta thought. He wasn't familiar with the new member, so he didn't know how strong the guy was, but he judged by the dumbfounded faces of the rest of the Ginyu Force that he shouldn't have been that easy to get rid of.
Frieza had been quite surprised at the children's display of power, and he didn't like surprises very much. This did peak his interest, however, so he just smirked and propped his head up with an elbow. 'Ah, they just keep getting younger and younger these days', he thought to himself, 'This technique is quite interesting, but I suppose it could also be a threat… maybe I'll just keep one of them, they do have potential…'
"Hey, hellooo?" Gotenks broke the thoughts of everyone and brought them back to reality, "What the hell are you guys staring at?"
The sudden comment snapped the Ginyu Force out of the shock they had over seeing Guldo's Body Bind defeated.
"Guess Guldo's out." Jeice said straightening up from his hunched over, incredulous position.
"Yep." Recoome said grinning toothily.
"Looks like I'll have to hold try-outs again…Hey! Anyone wanting to try-out for the Ginyu Force needs to sign…" Captain Ginyu shouted to the room, stopping when he was interrupted by Gotenks.
"Ah ah ah! Trust me: there won't be a Ginyu Force left once I'm done with you." The fused Saiyajins snickered while wagging a finger at the group of mutants, he then powered up a little causing a blue aura of power to surround him. . "I know I look awesome, but you can't gawk at me all day. I got things I need to do. So…" His playful expression hardened after a moment as he crouched into fighting position and said two words. "Let's go."
"You don't actually want to try to fight us all at once do you?" Burter hissed and chuckled a little as if that was a joke.
"I sure do, now hurry up, I don't have all day to spend kicking your ass." Gotenks grinned when Burter went still and growled.
"I'm sure you have a pretty impressive power level kid," Burter hissed, "But if you think we believe you have a power level of 50,000 at your age then you're kidding yourself!"
"Yeah, Guldo was nothing compared to the rest of us!" Jeice said confidently.
Gotenks lips slowly perked up into a smirk, "Good. Because he was nothing compared to me too."
"You brat! We'll flatten you!" Burter hissed, powering up.
"Bring it on!" Gotenks got ready for an attack.
"Why don't you give it your best shot kid?" Jeice said unwisely, really believing that the kids power could not be 50,000.
Gotenks smirked at the invitation. The fused boys looked upwards and scratched the side of their head in fake consideration, "Hmmm… okay."
Quicker than anyone in the room could see, Gotenks appeared amongst the Ginyu Force. He stuck out his left leg and spun so fast he was a blur, using the extended leg to knock the mutant aliens back except for Captain Ginyu who moved out of the way in time.
"What?" Vegeta said out loud looking at the fallen mutants and their opponent. His eyes widened in shock. "How can they be so fast!?"
"Uh, what happened? Did you see?" Raditz asked no one while staring at the scene before him.
"No, I must have blinked…" Nappa was unusually stiff. He noticed the kids power level go up just a second ago, it was now at 60,000. Nappa was an elite Saiyajin warrior, and he had purged hundreds of planets, but these kids power levels made his look like nothing.
The three Saiyajins attention returned to the battle when Gotenks spoke.
"Humph! Y'know you guys aren't as tough as you said you were!" Gotenks taunted, sticking his tongue out.
"You-brat!" Jeice panted while getting up.
"Ugh, what happened?" Recoome said while getting up and looking at a huge crack in his armor.
"That kid hits like an asteroid." Burter got up, holding his broken armor as well.
"You said give it your best shot, that wasn't my best and you would think the 'most elite warriors' could take a hit." Gotenks grinned at the looks of rage on his opponents faces. Burter and Jeice's tempers went first.
"We'll teach you!" Burter and Jeice attacked simultaneously, throwing a furious punches and kicks, that all missed their target. Gotenks weaved in and out of the paths of the powerful blows as if they where in slow motion. What's worse, his smirking expression never changed and he didn't even look out of breath.
"Guess I went and fused for nothing." The boys voices came as one and in a second he easily flew away from the still attacking aliens, which threw them off balance and nearly caused them to fall over.
Gotenks laughed as he watched the two aliens expressions as they waved their arms in effort to stay upright. 'What losers, but they're funny.' The powerful child suddenly had a mischievous thought. He smirked and called out to the frustrated Ginyu Force.
"Hey guys! Check this out!" Gotenks crossed his arms over his face in the shape of an 'X'. "Super-Ghost-Kamikaze-Attack!" He powered up and swung his arms down, his cheeks blew up and a puffy white substance floated out of his mouth.
Everyone's eyes went wide as the white balloon like things started to move and take shape. The things began to look like tiny men with no legs, and then as their faces formed everyone realized that each of them looked exactly like their creator. The whole room was speechless, even Frieza's eyes went wide at this strange new development.
One of the ten white ghost things looked up and said cheerfully, "Hey what's up!"
"What are you staring at!?" Another piped up.
"Nyah!" Another, stuck his tongue out and pulled on his lower eyelid.
The others where doing anything from spinning in circles, to picking their ears, and chasing each other around like toddlers.
"What the hell?" Vegeta said, it was unusual for Vegeta to show any emotion, or to even feel it for that matter, but the events within the past half-hour were enough for him to have slightly lost control of his composure, especially now with these weird cloud puffs flying around.
Currently everyone was thinking along the lines of Vegeta, they where wondering what the hell those things where. They however didn't get to dwell on it long as just then Gotenks shouted, "Huddle!"
All eight ghosts huddled around their leader, as he whispered the plan, all of then where careful to avoid touching each other. The occasional, "Uh huh!", "Right!", and "Got it!" where the only parts which could be heard.
"Okay ready!" Gotenks stepped away from the crowd of ghosts and lifted a finger in the air. He swung it down dramatically so that he was pointing at the Ginyu Force. "ATTACK!"
Eight ghosts hurled themselves, full-speed, at the Ginyu Force. Inches away from their targets, every one of the Ghosts stopped short, and looked over the Ginyu Forces sholder, various looks of awe, curiosity, and interest on their faces. The temptation was too great and the Ginyu Force as one whirled around to see what it was. Of course in a fraction of a second they realized, 1) there was nothing there and 2) they each had two ghosts attached to their backs. The ghosts had enough time to smirk evilly before they all began to glow, and before the Ginyu Force could even react, the all exploded in a puff of purple smoke.
Everyone was dead quiet, well except for Gotenks who was rolling on the ground laughing and saying, "I can't believe they fell for that!", but other than that everyone was in complete and utter shock.
Meanwhile on King Kai's planet.
It had been pure coincidence that King Kai had shifted his antennae in the correct direction. He had been extremely surprised at what he felt. "Where did that power come from?" He asked out loud trying to figure out who it was who had this new power.
The first thing he realized, however, was that Frieza was there as well. "But this is just a kid! How does he have this power? Oh, if Frieza gets his hands on this one the universe is in big trouble."
The Kai could sense that the kid was fighting with Frieza's men and although he had no doubt the kid would meet his doom there, he decided to keep watch on him.
On the other end of Snake Way…
King Yemma sighed as he continued to whittle through the ever growing stack of paperwork that came with his job. 'Damn that Frieza…I haven't had any down time for decades!'
"Um…King Yemma sir?" One of the oni that ran the check-in came up cautiously.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?!" King Yemma shouted to the terrified oni. "WELL?!"
"Um.. sir, there are reports of a mysterious child fighting Frieza's men…" The oni said quickly.
"Fighting? So what does that have to do with me?" King Yemma asked impatiently. So the kid was going to be demolished like every other being who crossed Frieza. That wasn't news.
"Um…He's winning." The oni said carefully.
"Well then…wait, WHAT?" King Yemma looked over at the oni who was less than 1/10th his size. "You can't be serious! A kid you say? Impossible!" The giant red judge sat back and crossed his gigantic arms. "We would have noticed if there was a power like that. What's this kids name?"
"Um!" The little oni rustled through his notes on a clipboard and read out, "He calls himself…Gotenks."
"Gotenks?" King Yemma rustled through his own files and mounds of paperwork. "No, that's not right! I don't have Anything on this kid!"
"W-what?" The oni seemed surprised, actually many of the oni that where within hearing distance looked up in surprise as well.
'This kid's got a lot of explaining to do.' Thought King Yemma, 'He should be here soon. There's no way he'll survive…'
Gotenks finished laughing and stood, still holding his sides. "That…was…so…FUNNY!" The fused boys where once again laughing and carrying on.
The Ginyu Force steadily got to their feet as the huge purple puffs of smoke faded away. They were covered in black soot from the explosion.
"W-what was?" Jeice gasped out.
"Woah." Recoome dully stated.
Burter growled a bit. None of them were used to even having competition., so none were prepared to face this.
And Gotenks was going easy on them.
'Hmm… maybe I should turn Super Gotenks and blast them away along with Frieza…' Gotenks thought, finally calming down after another fit of laughter at seeing the Ginyu Force covered in soot. "Nah! I'm going to give you one more chance to give up! I'd take it if I were you!"
The Ginyu Force, of course, wasn't going to take it (at least not with Frieza sitting behind them) and so they just glared at the boy and tried to think of a way to kill him.
Recoome moved to the front of the group and stood as sturdy as the giant he was.
"What's up with this guy?" Gotenks looked at the soot covered giant mutant.
"Hey Recoome? What the blazes are you doin'?" Jeice looked up at his teammate who towered over him.
Recoome grinned toothily and then opened his very large mouth. "Recoome BOOM!"
A huge light blue energy blast fired out of the large aliens mouth and straight at Gotenks.
"Geez, is this guy stupid or what?" Gotenks crouched down and prepared to knock the, relatively weak, ki blast away when suddenly he was enveloped in a bright white light.
The ki blast when right through thin air and hit the wall behind, just barely blowing the hair of the two boys on either side of it.
"Huh?" Two voices said, this time coming from different people. Goten and Trunks turned to look at each other then at the same time shouted, "You're you!"
"No way! We had at least 5 more minutes! And we barely used any of our power!" Trunks said crossing his arms.
"Yeah that is so weird." Goten said looking at Trunks, "What do you think happened?"
"I don't-" Then Trunks stopped, "Hey that green toad guy was the one that could stop time right?"
Goten nodded but didn't seem to follow.
"Well he must have stopped time, but the length of our fusion stayed the same, so he basically used up our time." Trunks tried to explain holding up a finger to show he was making a point.
"Oh…" Goten said blankly.
Suddenly laughter could be heard from the group of mutants. The aliens were all laughing smugly and Jeice said in a taunting voice. "Awww. Are you all out of juice?"
"Hey! We're talking here!" Trunks said over his shoulder. "Geesh. Now where was I?"
"Should we just fuse again?" Goten asked, tilting his head to the side.
"Nah, that was getting to be boring. I'd rather embarrass these losers in my own body." Trunks said smugly.
"Ay Burter, look. Their power levels dropped down to almost nothin' again." Jeice said to the taller mutant.
"Hey, you're right!" Burter hissed, checking his scouter.
"So who wants to take these rugrats out?" Jeice grinned while he cracked his knuckles.
Recoome blinked, still confused from the sudden loss of his target, then laughed, "Me."
Trunks looked over at the Ginyu Force then hammered one fist into his other hand, "That's right! Hey, Goten. Why don't you fight this guy for me while I go get something?"
"Huh? Whatcha gonna get? 'Cause if it's food, you better bring me some too!" Goten said.
"I'll show you later, okay? Just give me two minutes." Trunks said with a smile, before running back out the door.
"What? Where's he going? The bathroom?" Burter asked.
"Don't tell me that cocky brat actually ran away! We didn't even beat him up at all." The mutant captain said.
"Nope. Trunks had to go get something. So I'm gonna fight you!" Goten said cheerfully.
Most of the audience sweat dropped.
'It's painful to see someone who looks so much like a Saiyajin act like that. What a clown.' Vegeta thought, clenching his teeth a bit. 'But still, power like that doesn't come out of nowhere. Both of those boys must be strong. Scouters are less than useless here.'
"Nuh-uh, kid. You can't really want to fight me one your own, do you." Recoome asked.
"Um…well yeah." Goten said putting up his arms in his fighting stance. "Don't worry. I'm ready!"
Jeice snickered, "I bet you two chocolate bars the kid starts crying for his mummy before Recoome's done with him."
"Yer on!" Burter smirked taking out the candy.
"Hey! Do I get candy if I win?!" Goten said, falling out of fighting stance to wave his arms around.
Recoome heard this and grinned toothily. "Sure kid. All you gotta do is avoid being pummeled to death."
"Okay! That doesn't sound to hard!" Goten smiled happily, thinking of chocolate.
Recoome just laughed and walked over to Goten, who was easily only 1/10 his size.
"Wow, you're really big." Goten said looking up at the huge mutant.
"Lights out kid." The red head said, slamming his fist downward. It took him a while to realized his fist crashed through the floor with nothing inbetween.
"Oooh, you broke the floor. You gonna get in trouble?" Goten asked looking at the damage from the side.
"H-how?" Recoome began, but decided that he should just try again. His fist was yanked out of the floor, and his left fist came swinging for the spiky haired boy. His fist when through air, and the kid stood a few inches back, and completely unharmed.
"How fast is that kid? Did you even see him move?" Burter asked.
"Naw. That's crazy. Can't you see him Burter? You're still faster, right mate?" Jeice asked.
"Uh, yeah. Of course. No one's faster than me, that's obvious." Burter answered shakily.
Recoome meanwhile had begun to attack randomly, throwing hundreds of punches and kicks, which all missed the tiny boy. Finally the giant stopped, panting from the exertion.
Goten stopped as well, looking up at the tired red-head. "Do I get the candy now?"
Recoome growled and looked down at the child. "Hold still you brat!!" He hollered, bringing back his fist to deliver a powerful right punch. It was going smooth, and the boy didn't seem to be dodging this one…
The impact could be felt, so no one doubted that the hit went through. Recoome, who as some point closed his eyes, opened them once he felt himself hit the kid.
"Do I get the candy now?" Goten whined, from were he stood holding the giants fist, which was as big as half of his body.
"He wasn't even fazed!" Vegeta said, his arms falling out of their cross. The other occupants of the room seemed just as surprised.
Recoome's eyes went wide, and he backed away from the boy. "W-what is this kid?"
"Huh? I'm a S-" Goten started when the door behind him opened. Trunks walked in calmly, but seemed surprised when he saw Recoome.
"Goten! What have you been doing? No way this guy could put up much a fight." Trunks said looking at his best friend.
"Yeah, but he's gonna give me some candy if I 'avoid being pummeled to death'." Goten said smiling cheerfully.
The older half-Saiyajin smacked his forehead with his hand. "Idiot. Didn't your mom say not to take candy from strangers?"
Goten looked startled, then worried, "Y-yeah, but he just said his name was Recoome. Then Jeice and Burter… Remember? They had a dance."
"That doesn't matter stupid!" Trunks snapped. "But… if you…" The purple haired boy looked around, then his eyes caught the ceiling. "Okay, if you throw him…" He pointed at Recoome, "up to the ceiling, I'll buy you some candy when we get back."
"Really?! Even that really, really big chocolate bar they sell at the supermarket?!" Goten said excitedly, speading his arms to show how big the chocolate he wanted was.
"Yeah, sure, whatever…" Trunks said shrugging.
"Alright!" Goten said, powering up a little. He flew at the giant, who pulled up his arms to try to defend, but disappeared before he made contact.
"Wha?" The red head began, but didn't have much time because Goten appeared behind him. The mini-Saiyajin kicked out his legs, hitting Recoome in the back and making him fall face first on the ground.
"Get ready!" Goten said happily, grabbing the huge man's legs.
"H-hey! Wait a minute!" Recoome started, but Goten had already begun swinging his around like a lasso.
"Here. We. Go!" The chibi said, releasing his grib on 'go', and sending the mutant flying straight up and through the roof.
Looking up they could see stars.
"Oops… I broke the roof…" Goten laughed while scratching the back of his spikey hair.
Trunks was cracking up. "What a hard head!" He smirked and turned towards the rest of the Ginyu Force. He pointed towards Jeice and Burter, "Hey! Blue guy and red guy! Yeah, I'm talking to you. You're only as strong as the new satellite, right?" He pointed up where Recoome went flying. "So why don't you go sit at the kiddie table, and out of the way?"
Gonna stop there. Sorry I've been gone so long. I was banned from the computer, then my internet shut off. This year has sucked for me. I'm still trying to write this story though. Trunks can trash talk like Vegeta, it's fun!