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Previously on Part 32: The finale of the Bojack Unbound Special... A moment of silence for all the ones who passed away please...
Yet another Kageto movie special
Part 33:
The Return of Cooler; The Processor Chronicles
It was a peaceful day at the Capsule Corporation. Kageto was walking to his lab. Inside were a lot of machinery with different purposes. One stood out above the rest; the medium space pod in the middle of the room. Kageto opened the hatch with a few swipes on his Hunter and entered the ship. This has become his work station lately. He started up the main computer and was sipping from his coffee. He had a lab coat on above his armour. After a few hours on working on a prototype, he had so many windows open you could see the task bar nearly full. Then an error popped up: 'Tertiary processor error. Tertiary processor not found. Please close a few windows to continue.'
"What is the meaning of this?!" Kageto yelled surprised, "What do you mean with the tertiary processor not found? What the hell happened to my processor?!"
"Tertiary processor unavailable for one year, three months, six days, 5 hours, 4 minutes and 2 seconds."
"What happened one year and three months ago? Show video log."
A screen appeared with video feed from three months ago. The ship was unmanned and was heading on a course to Earth when it flew through a space junkyard. It was littered with spaceships and parts were flying everywhere.
"HULL BREACH! HULL BREACH!" the alarm sounded on the video, "Oxygen level decreasing." The video turned blank for a moment and then it showed the front yard of the Capsule Corporation.
"Show damage reports," Kageto ordered. The computer showed a holographic image of the ship. There was a red pulsing spot on the left exterior of the ship. "Show location of the tertiary processor port," Kageto ordered yet again. The computer highlighted the same damaged exterior in green. It was taking turns pulsing in green and red. Kageto stepped outside to check it out.
"If I remember correctly, there was no hole." Kageto approached the approximate location of the hole. There was none but it looked like it was fixed.
"Maybe I should ask Bulma about it."
Kageto walked out of the West Lab and into the East Lab. Bulma was working on something with her father.
"Bulma, I need to ask you something."
"What is it, Kageto," she asked, "I'm kind of busy here. Make it fast."
"Were you aware of any hole at the left side of my ship after I gave you permission to turn it into a capsule?"
"Um... Yeah, there was a hole in the hull. Dad and I fixed it before we started the capsule process. Why are you asking?"
"I lost a processor. It was unique. A super computer can't function well with only one processor. That's why I had three but now I lost one. It just HAD to happen today out of all days. I remember I used to have like 60 windows open at the same time. Now I can only go up to 40."
"Well, I COULD try to make one for you."
"Forget it, I'll try to figure something out."
Kageto walked out of the lab and leaned against the front desk thinking what to do next.
"Can I help you?" Melinda (The secretary sitting behind the front desk in case you forgot) asked without looking up.
"No, I need to find a one of a kind processor. The only place I can think of obtaining one is at the Lab of an old friend."
"Well, why don't you go and get it?"
"That Lab has been destroyed along with a planet. It's impossible to get it now. That's why I was thinking of traveling back in time to get one."
"See, problem solved," she said with a neutral face, "Now step away from my desk and let me work. You're obstructing my view and any clients who want to come here."
Kageto chuckled and walked away. He had to think of a way to get that processor. He remembered how they disappeared at Namek after they wished everyone to Earth. He managed to plot a route to Earth before they were teleported to Earth. He then acquired the Creator's powers which he used to transport his ship to Earth instantly.
"I need to consult my time traveling decision with Destiny. I don't want anyone to be hurt by this timehole."
Kageto used the Instant Transmission to teleport next to Destiny. He was sitting on the edge of a rock watching the sea, swinging his legs back and forth.
"Destiny? What are you doing at a place like this?"
"I needed to think, that's all," he responded. He had mixed expressions and they were showing.
"What's wrong, Destiny?" Kageto asked.
"Nothing. There is nothing wrong with me."
"Are you sure? I can see you're hurt."
"I told you it was nothing!" he screamed. It took some self-control to calm down but he continued at a normal tone of voice. "I'm sorry about that. It's just... I don't want to talk about it."
"I am not the kind of person who persists. If you don't want to talk about it, that's fine with me."
"I'm really sorry, Kageto... It's just so hard."
"I understand there's something troubling you. We can talk about it if you want but not now."
"Right... So, what did you need me for?"
"I need to perform a time travel but I don't want anyone to be affected. Can you help me with that?"
"Hmm, I could send you to a different dimension. I'm not sure if that'll help or not but I'll suck it up if it doesn't. I assume I have to tell the rest you're leaving?"
"Yes, that'll give them time to prepare themselves if it'll still affect them."
"Hmm, alright then."
Destiny used his powers and sent Kageto to another dimension. He was floating in black nothingness. There were stars all around him but this didn't seem to be Space. He charged up his energy and a multicolored bubble formed around him. After gaining enough energy, he slipped into the infinite light-blue body of Time, traveling into the opposite direction...
Planet Plant
Kageto is flying to the Tuffle City. He can't wait to get to Dr. Raichi so he can teach him about their technology. It all started a few years ago when he was walking through the city and spotted an old man carrying a tall heavy box. He offered to help him and he followed him to the Laboratory.
Kageto is happily thinking of that first time while flying to Tuffle City. He doesn't know the events that will soon come to happen yet. After a few hours of learning all the components of a spacepod and the basics of space travel, Kageto decided to call it a day. He was flying back home when he ran into his brother Vegeta.
"Kageto, my brother, I have to tell you something," Vegeta said before Kageto could say a word.
"What is it, Vegeta? I'm in a hurry." Kageto replied and was turning around to fly away.
"Father's dead. He was killed. Rumor has it that a Tuffle has killed him for no reason."
Kageto stopped dead in his tracks and looked Vegeta in the eyes.
"You are not lying to me? Do you really think I believe you?"
"You can believe whatever you want. I don't care about you and I don't care about my father. I am just heading to the city. If you want to go and see that old dead weakling that is your problem. And by the way, I am going to be the leader of our race. If you refuse, I welcome you to a battle at the coliseum to prove which one of us is stronger. The loser gets to leave the planet, so I recommend you to just leave the leadership over to me and don't go embarrass yourself and get kicked off the planet. At least this way you get to stay here. If you want to battle for the leadership, even though I doubt it, tell me later because I have a very important thing I must do."
Kageto appeared behind a building in Tuffle City. He walked out to the street and buttoned his lab coat closed. His tail was wrapped firmly around his waist under the coat. He casually walked into the main Laboratory as if he worked there. No one gave him a second glance. Kageto quicly entered a door with a sign that said 'Restricted Area'.
"Let's hope that Raichi isn't here," Kageto thought. He walked to his main lab and walked over to a cabinet labeled 'Prototypes'. He grabbed the processor he needed on a shelf and proceeded to leave the premises. Before he left, he saw a giant blueprint on the table beside him. On top it said: Project Blackbox. He continued reading to see what it's all about and stumbled upon some kind of embryo called: Collective Genotype Parasitic Bio Synthetic Life Form. An entire plan of that creature's life was spread out on the desk. It grew a creature with a head tentacle and was able to take control of every life form in the universe and reproduce by leaving eggs in their body.
"I-I never seen this before?! When did Raichi ever had the chance to create this thing?!"
Kageto suddenly heard voices coming through the hallway. He had to think of something fast.
"What can I do? They can't see me or the past will change. I can't let that happen. Think, Kageto, think. *lightbulb* I can try and make myself invisible! How can The Creator be everywhere at the same time? He's invisible! That's the answer!"
Kageto concentrated and said: "I wish to be invisible." Suddenly his hands started to become transparent. He was disappearing before his own eyes. "This takes some getting used to." He then realized he was still holding the processor so he put that down behind the door and hid there. Dr. Raichi and his assistant walked in.
"What do you mean have it done by tomorrow?" Dr. Raichi asked.
"Um... It was the King's orders, doctor," the assistant replied, "He wants it done for the fight between the two Saiyans. He wants to pin it against whoever wins to see if he's worthy for the title. If not, none of them will become Leader."
"I haven't even started! What, does he think that science results grow on trees?! This will take at least some months maybe years! If he doesn't understand that, he'll have to go screw himself."
"Um... sir? They could be listening to our conversation," the assistant said afraid the King had spy cameras or wire taps installed somewhere.
"I don't care. Let them listen! That good for nothing King is corrupt! Corrupt I tell you!"
*sigh*, the assistant thought, "Once you get him started on politics..."
"They ought to elect a new King, that's what they should do," Raichi continued, "How the hell does he think we can finish a collective genotype parasite in one day? Doesn't he know what 'collective' means? We need all the Tuffles to come around for a 'blood test' so we can obtain their DNA and conglomerate them in this creature. First we need an embryo that can sustain such long pairs of chromosomes."
"I'll figure something out, sir," the assistant said as he sped off.
"Don't forget my message to the King!" Raichi screamed in hopes he could hear him. Making sure he was gone, Raichi closed and locked the door. He went over to a bookshelf (I know, right) and pulled on a book to open a secret room behind the bookshelf. In the middle of the room there was a large unfinished cylindrical piece of machinery.
"Hatchiyack," Kageto thought. He picked up the processor and followed Raichi hoping he wouldn't see it floating behind him. There was a large window on the North Wall with a view to the street.
"Hidden in plain sight, huh?" Kageto remarked. The windows were tinted but someone could still look inside if they peered through the glass. Of course they'll think it's a normal room and some big project is going on but it's top secret. Raichi grabbed a wrench and looked at it full of disgust. He didn't like mechanical work but he couldn't let anyone in on his top secret plan. He would have to do everything himself.
"How about I let Kageto help me next time he's here?" he thought, "That kid will do anything if I ask him to and he won't know a thing. He'll just think it's another project. But then the problem is that he's supposed to fight his brother tomorrow for the title of 'Leader of Saiyans'. I don't doubt he'll win but there's still that chance he'll lose and will be banned from the planet. I'll lose my best and only student..." His thoughts drifted away and focused on the matter at hand and that is to finish this machine.
From the moment he followed Raichi into the room, he knew his mind was troubled with something. He conveniently remembered his mind reading powers and proceeded to use it to listen to his thoughts.
"Hmm, I've heard enough. Time to get out of here." Kageto grabbed the processor and made his way to the door. Just then he heard a voice behind him speak.
"With this I can revive the dead in an almost alive state. People don't have to worry about dying anymore and grieving. It will be the perfect afterlife."
Kageto almost felt pity for the good doctor. He never knew his original plan until now. It's way more peaceful than what it turned out in the end. "Shame on you, Vegeta," Kageto thought, "You're the one who caused this."
Kageto walked out of the Laboratory building and onto the street. He was still invisible. He then saw Vegeta arrive at the city. Kageto then remembered the talk about their father's death and Vegeta heading to the city when he bumped into him. He decided to follow him and wasn't surprised to see him heading towards the palace. The guards didn't take a second look as he entered the castle. He walked straight to the throne room where the Tuffle King was residing.
"You have summoned me, Your Majesty?" he asked.
"Yes, Vegeta, I need you to win that duel tomorrow."
"No problem, he can't win against me."
"Are you sure about that?" the King asked, "Have you ever fought him before?"
"Well, no, but he's my little brother. He can't possibly be stronger than me."
"Well, I heard through the grapevine that he beat everyone who challanged him. What have you got to say about that?"
"Pfft, I can beat them too. They're weak. They won't stand a chance," Vegeta said nonchalantly.
"In all my thirty years of ruling this planet I have learnt the hard way not to underestimate my enemies. I suggest you train harder to ensure your victory. I want YOU to become the Leader of Saiyans. NOT that brat you call a brother."
"Sir, yes sir!" Vegeta said as he turned around to leave.
"Oh and Vegeta, don't disappoint me. (Frieza's line)"
Vegeta smiled and left without answering. Kageto was figuring more and more about his past. He walked outside and flew to the ruins he always used to go when he was a kid. He was surprised to see himself sitting in front of the castle.
"I WILL win tomorrow and I will become the new Leader of the Saiyan Race," young Kageto thought, "My brother is nothing compared to me. He doesn't know the extent of my power. He always shrugged me off when I asked him to fight me and that was his biggest mistake. I can NOT lose this. I will so totally accept his challange."
He stood up and burst at full speed back to the Saiyan village. Kageto then sat on the exact same rock his younger version was sitting on. He turned visible because not able to see himself was making him uncomfortable.
"*sigh* Look at me... Full of life and not knowing what's going to happen next... I can't believe Vegeta forced Raichi to turn his best invention into an evil Ghost Warrior producing machine. An that parisitic creature... I wonder if Raichi ever made that. It's not like he would tell me about it. It certainly didn't show up at the arena, that's for sure. All this technology... Thrown away by a selfish spoiled brat. Left to rust in the remains of the Laboratory. Then he has the guts to complain that we don't have enough technology. Who is the one who destroyed it in the first place?"
Kageto then realized he was talking to himself so he sighed. He was that far so why not continue? "I guess I can't hold it against him now, can I? I already forgave all of his sins. My forgiveness covers these sins as well. There is no going back."
Kageto stood straight and gathered his energy. A multi-colored bubble formed around him causing him to enter the light-blue entity of Time. He reappeared where he started this journey in the first place. He then used the Instant Transmission to appear next to person closest to the Capsule Corporation Research Facility; Bulma.
"Damn it, Kageto! You have to stop scaring me like that!" Bulma screamed terrified.
"I'm sorry, Bulma. It wasn't my intention to scare you like that. I just needed to get back to Capsule Corporation as fast as I could. You were my homing device."
"What the..."
"Let's just leave it at that," Kageto said as he rushed off to the West Lab. He decided to insert the processor in one of the safer internal processor ports. The entire system rebooted to adapt to the new processor.
"Reboot complete. Welcome back, Kageto. Unfinished processes detected in recently installed hardware."
"That's new. I never heard of a processor being removed with some unfinished business. Computer, please decode these processes."
"Decoding... 15%... 33%... 79%... Decoding complete. Displaying data..."
On the screen was a digitalized version of the plan to create the Collective Genotype Parasitic creature; Project Blackbox. The unfinished process was a slight change in the original plan. The embryo has been given the regeneration ability which allows it to regenerate from every fatal injury.
"Hmm, this is interesting. It's not like I'm ever going to make this but still... I wonder what'll happen if this thing was ever released in the universe. That would not be good."
*Incoming Transmission from... Fasha*
"Hello?" Fasha's voice could be heard through the intercom.
"Yes, Fasha."
"Oh, Kageto. We have bad news. The Namekians are in trouble and we're heading over there right now. I'm standing next to the spaceship in the backyard. Could you come here please? We're about to leave."
"Yes, Fasha, I'm coming. Hold on."
Kageto shut down the computer and exited the ship. He pressed in a panel on the side of the ship turning it into a capsule. He then used the Instant Transmission to appear next to everyone who is departing to Namek.
"Is everyone here?" Goku asked to the group of fighters.
"Yeah, we're all here," Bardock announced. Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Krillin, Master Roshi, Oolong, Kageto, Fasha, Tora and Yajirobe entered the ship. Bulma and her parents waved them goodbye as the ship ascended and exited the Earth's orbit.
"Where is Vegeta?" Goku asked.
"He took a ship and left," was Krillin's answer.
"Hmph, idiot," Fasha commented.
After a long spaceflight, they've reached Planet Namek. Krillin was glued to the window. There was a giant grey thing on Planet Namek.
"What the hell IS that thing?" Piccolo asked.
"Well, I'd say that small one is trying to eat the big one," Krillin commented.
"We've got no time to lose, let's land this thing," Goku said as he took control of the ship.
Everyone exited the ship as soon as it landed.
"We need to investigate what's going on," Tora said. "Let's split into three teams."
"Great idea, Tora. Of course we can already guess who would be in which team. Are you ready, Kageto?" Fasha asked.
"Born ready."
"Good, we're heading over to the giant grey planet. Let's go."
The Fate Protectors made their way over to the massive structure. Goku and the rest were walking in a random direction until they stumbled onto a long row of handcuffed Namekians being escorted by giant robots. A Namekian warrior dared to attack one of those robots but he ended up in a net and dragged away.
"Hey! Who the hell are you guys?" Krillin asked. He recieved all of the robots' attention. "Leave these Namekians alone. What have they done to you?"
The robots were speechless as they were slowly walking over towards the group of Z-Fighters. Goku stepped forward and took a battle stance.
"Well well well, I would have never guessed the Super Monkey would meddle with my business on this pitiful planet," a metallic voice said. The robots all stepped aside and a metallic figure with a tail stepped forward. It was Cooler.
"*gasp* Frieza!" Krillin shouted.
"Shut the hell up, Earthling!" Cooler yelled annoyed, "I am Cooler."
"You're cooler than Frieza?" he asked.
"Grrr, NO, you stupid Earthling! My name is Cooler!"
"Your name is cooler than Frieza?"
Cooler grinded his metallic teeth together and did everything in his power not to lose control. He wanted to toy with the Saiyan.
"It's you and me, Saiyan. We have some unfinished business. Guards! Take the rest away!"
Cooler and Goku flew away leaving the rest behind.
"Um... I think I'll go back to the ship," Yajirobe said as he was trying to make a run for it.
"Oh no, you don't!" Krillin said while he grabbed him. "You're not going anywhere."
"Uh... I'm kind of with Yajirobe on that one," Master Roshi said.
"Yeah, so am I," Oolong added.
"You're not leaving without a fight. We have to fight till the end."
"Why don't YOU fight till the end while WE go find someplace to hide?" Yajirobe suggested.
"Would you hardheaded fools stop already and fight?" Piccolo yelled as he charged at the first robot. Gohan followed him suit and they both punched their respective enemies. All they got was a sore fist.
"That hurt, Mr. Piccolo," Gohan said as he was blowing on his fist.
"Hmph," was all Piccolo said but you could clearly see he was trying to shake the pain away from his hand.
"This is useless!" Krillin remarked after his own brawl with a robot. "Don't they have some kind of a weak spot?"
"Gohan, let's try again!" Piccolo commanded, "This time put all of your energy into that punch."
"Right," he said as he followed his mentor's advice. His fist penetrated the head and caused it to explode. Piccolo broke off an arm and launched a ki blast in the opening thus destroying the robot completely. This went on for a while and more robots were coming from the ship.
Meanwhile Kageto and his crew arrived at the strange structure. They walked through the giant hole and continued forward.
"What is this place?" Fasha asked.
"It's metallic, that's for sure," Bardock remarked.
"No shit, Bardock. Is it that obvious?" Kageto asked sarcastically.
"Oh look!" Tora said as he pointed to a figure who was slowly making its way towards them. It had a tail and was completely made out of metal. Kageto was the only one who recognized him.
"Cooler!" he yelled out with a tone of disgust.
"Well, if it isn't the other monkey who delivered me quite some trouble before. I'm surprised that you're here. Well, you won't be here for long..."
Cooler was locking on his busters. In a fraction of a second, all four Saiyans were hit by an invisible blast, hurling them away quite far.
"We are like totally outmatched!" Tora remarked.
"No shit, Sherlock," Fasha said annoyed.
"Who is Sherlock?" Bardock asked.
"Yeah, Fasha, where did you get that?" Kageto asked.
"You know... I have no idea. Let's focus on the matter at hand here. We have to transform if we want to stand a chance against him. We have to work together to defeat him. No solo work."
"Yeah, you're right, Fasha," Bardock said, "Let's kick some metal ass!"
All four of them rushed towards the metal nightmare who was standing in the giant 'doorway'. *Freeze Frame here. The heroes are in mid-rush and... CLICK! Snapshot!*
(To be continued)
End of Part 33
It's as if I do these things on purpose, which I don't. What would you prefer? One short movie special with a lot of skipped parts? Or a movie special divided over two action packed chapters?
Also, this happened before the Android Saga. That means no Super Saiyan 2, no Pink Atomic Eraser, no Spirit Burst, no 'I am Super Vegeta!', no Trunks, no Mecha Frieza, no King Cold, no time holes. I conveniently left out the fact that time travel in a different dimension does not affect others from other dimensions. I didn't make Kageto ask Destiny if he felt anything because it would ruin the Android Saga plot for finding a solution to go through those time holes.
I kind of saw this coming. You are probably wondering what a simple processor has to do with everything. If it wasn't important, I wouldn't have called it 'The Processor Chronicles'. I guess my humor is back, readers. You DO know what a processor is, right? Intel Pentium Dual Core or something... That is a processor. It runs your entire computer. It can't work without one. If you have too many windows open on your computer, it runs slow. That's because the processor has to 'process' too many tasks at hand. If you want me to give you a spoiler and tell you what exactly this processor that was missing from the spaceship has to do with The Return of Cooler, don't hesitate to PM me. You can even tell me if you think you've figured it out. I left a very important clue in the video feed of the ship's journey to Earth. Have fun figuring it out!
-K
