The Man Comes Around
Morning comes to the NEO project and a researcher named Milton. Who is looking at the screens when a light flash like the one before the Saiyan attack of Earth. Milton stares at the light and picks up the phone right next to him on his desk. Goes to his contacts and tries to call Bulma. Milton tries five time then just gives up and calls the second number he was told to call.
Colonel Stryker is watching his kid play on a playground with some other kids as he was sipping some coffee while his wife was clinging to his arm. His work phone in his pocket starts to ring in his summer tacky shorts.
The two looked at each other. Her eyes seem to beg him not to answer. While his eyes said it all. He had to answer. He was about to go into apologies and pleas for forgiveness but she seemed to wave them off in disgust.
She without a word pulled away from him. While he reached into his pocket and pulled out his work phone. He answered and his eyes went wide as Milton told him what was happening. The message given the Colonel rushed over to his son. His son was having another coughing fit like he was prone to have.
The Colonel just sort of grabbed him and then went over and pulled his wife along to their family car a SUV. She begs him to explain but he just says "Get into the panic room when we get home and don't come out!"
The family races home running through some stop lights and speeding. His son is crying and coughing when they get to the house. Bill carries him in the house followed by his wife. She is begging for him to give her an answer about what is going on but he doesn't say. Instead he takes a rifle out of a cabinet and hands it to her while getting his revolver.
He turns to his panicked son and say "You're going to have to hold down the fort Jr while daddy deals with some things. Son I love you more than anything on this planet. Stay safe for me I will be back. I promise."
The Colonel kiss him then her and exits the panic room then the basement being sure to lock and bar the door from both sides. He shakes a bit as he calls Escarole on his phone.
Escarole arrives back at the former location of the cabin. The spot where she left her brother and the woman. She didn't plan on coming back so early but she couldn't not honest think where else to go or do. She goes to the door of the house grumbling to herself.
Like a spoil child she slams the door open trying to draw as much attention to herself as possible. She looks to see Bulma alone making herself breakfast but then she sniffs the air. The two smells in the air confirms everything that she thought last night.
Escarole looks at Bulma and smiles "Maybe if he's done with you I get to have a new skull for the collection." Escarole starts walking towards Bulma when the tired looking half naked Vegeta steps out of his room. The two look at one another and a huff comes out of Escarole.
Escarole "Of course fucking not. Welcome to the family I guess." Vegeta very angry and quickly "Shut the HELL up nothing happened!" Bulma was at this point a deer in the headlights trying to figure out what was going on. Escarole "What are you talking about? It smells like you both had sex in here. What did you just do it to yourselves…?"
She stops mid sentences stops Vegeta's mortified face turns red and a sadistic smile comes over Escarole's face. She at first starts to chuckle but then Vegeta loudly growls at her. She just tries to holds in the very obvious hysterical laugh she has in her. Escarole very painfully asks "What's for breakfast?" of Bulma.
Bulma finally came to the understanding of the situation. To which she too was now giggling. Vegeta who was having none of this. He was getting ready to take a little frustration out on his sister but was stopped by a loud ringing. It was from Escarole's suit. Escarole sneered and tapped her ear.
Colonel Stryker "Princess I need you and your brother back at UNIT headquarters now!" Escarole "What?" Colonel Stryker "Wait second thought I need you on Sasebo city on Amenbo Island nine miles southwest of South city. That's my location… I need you to possibly defend a… location for me."
Escarole "What's happening?" Colonel Stryker "A ship is coming to Earth. It's ignored all hails and it matches some ancient descriptions of some ancient bogey men of some fish people. Look I don't have the time to explain all of this to you. But the point is a big chuck of hell is coming our way and I need you here now!" Escarole "Whatever you say boss." Bill hangs up the phone.
Vegeta looks at Escarole curiously "What's going on?" Escarole "Good news brother we might have just found a way off this dirt hole and a good fight too." Vegeta smiles "Good. Always nice to do a little killing with family."
The Colonel goes back to gathering up some guns then calls the rest of UNIT. Shortly afterwards TV screens and Radio stations the planet over start playing the emergency broadcast alert. Everyone the planet was soon being alerted to the coming storm.
Eyes went wide, jaws dropped and panic swept in. Work was abandoned, schools halted, phone lines over taxed, cars started to jam the streets and entire communication systems were frozen in a millisecond.
Yamcha desperately tries calling the Shinhan's but couldn't reach them nor Krillin due to the panic and overtaxed phone lines. Yamcha decided he will have to fly over to them but then thinks about where Bulma might be.
Yamcha thinking "Wait Tien can take care of himself. But Bulma who knows what trouble she could get into during an invasion. I better go make sure she is alright and safe before I help Tien and Kunlun save the world."
Krillin on Master Roshi's island watching the TV heads out for Tien's location. Mumbling to himself "Kami I wish Chi-Chi was here." Krillin jumps into top speed leaving a sleeping Roshi passed out on his folding chair on the beach mumbling in his sleep "O right their Princess."
Vegeta finishes putting his gloves on. Bulma "So you going to take me along or what?" Both Vegeta and Escarole looked at her like she had three heads and Vegeta barked "No!" Bulma arms folded "Why not?"
Vegeta "For so many reasons that I can even count but the long and short of it is your useless and you're going to get in the way. And not ever for a damn second should you ever think that I would ever take you with me willingly when I am going into battle."
One long screaming session and brutal as hell verbal take down later. Escarole and Vegeta are flying towards the location of the Colonel and Vegeta is carrying Bulma. Bulma looking very satisfied after her victory. Meanwhile Vegeta was looking like he was contemplating just dropping her.
Escarole chuckling "You know I think I no longer want to kill you woman. I feel after what I just witness not only do you deserve life but that I am more than willing to welcome you into the family. Vegeta I have not always agreed with you decisions but this is one I can really get behind."
Vegeta bitterly "Say another word and I will rip your tongue out!" Escarole just happily "I was just congratulating you on your bold choice. And Bulma I think we can start off on a new foot because after that I think we just became friends." Bulma smiling "Well thank you for your support!" Escarole "No thank you my new sister. Thank you." Vegeta flashes her a death glare that Escarole shrugs off.
Falling out of the sky is a tubed shaped object falling on to a city. The city is Central city and in vision of the Palace and UN building lands the ship. The object as black as night almost eating the sunlight that dares hit it stands ominously on its four. The wind created by the falling black star knock over buildings and a forest to where it landed.
The ship is the biggest thing for hundreds of miles as large as a mountain but all metal and dark. An eerie silence to hold as the population had rushed to hiding spots. No one wished to make a noise while some army guys and cops approached the superstructure. The King in his bunker, the Prime minister in his far away. News cameras pointed at the thing.
The palm haired Saiyan Turles in his RIT armor comes out of a hatch at the top of the structure. Soon following Turles is a red headed demon with small horns, pointed ears with orange skin. The two look out over the city and beautiful place that be the Earth. Turles takes deep breath.
Turles happy "Aw smell that fresh air not recycled non-sense. Just the right amount too. Not too much not too little. Hell this planet is like what some of the old timers said Salada looked like. A cosmic paradise if I've ever seen one. Shame about the fact it's all about to die brutally."
Commander Zeeun "Shut up mercenary and plant the damn tree." Turles "No." Commander Zeeun confused "What?" Turles "You heard me. No!" Commander Zeeun "Why?" Turles "Well for starters I take orders only from Lord Slug but mostly because you didn't say Please." Commander Zeeun "Are you kidding me?"
Turles "Never been more serious about anything in my life buddy. You think I take orders from you asshole? I only take orders from number one and your boss because he pays me. You don't pay me so why in the fuck would I take orders from you.
That this point Turles is in Zeeun's face and has gone from happy to growling and his hand goes around Zeeun throat as he begins to strangle him. As Turles is strangling him Zeeun with great effort spits out a "Please".
Turles lets him go and asks "What was that?" Commander Zeeun "Please plant the Tree of Might Turles." Turles calmed down "Why yes my polite friend. I will in fact plant the Tree of Might and may I thank you on your courtesy on asking so politely."
Zeeun gets to his knees trying to get more air as Turles chuckles. Turles "Babe not in front of so many spectators have some class. Later though." Commander Zeeun barking "You're a fucking lunatic you know that." Turles "You sound like my brother, family, random strangers, phycologists and all of those served heads I keep next to my bunk for personal reasons." He winks at Zeeun. Zeeun spits at his feet.
Turles "Come on laugh a little. It was just a joke and what's wrong with a little strangulation and necrophilia humor you're a fucking demon for fucking King Kai's sake! Grow a thicker skin." Turles turns and fires a blast into the Earth a ways way from the ship. He takes out the seed in its container in the pocket of his suit.
Turles "Let all the world know that I just killed it." He smashes the glass tube and tosses the entire thing into the crater made by himself. Upon doing so the sky goes as red as blood. Turles "Huh well that's neat."
Cloud form out of the red and it beings to start to rain but it rains blood. The Earth shakes as corrupt tendrils violently push their way out of the Earth. The entire city is overwhelmed by them as the roots smash building, crush cars and landed on people. The roots seem interested in killing people and absorbing their remains.
Turles watching the hell scape unfolding in front of him say "Well that's pretty metal but I think we can do better." He presses his scouter and says "Could we please release the demonic army." The sides of the ship opens up and winged demons come pouring out of the ship. The demons go after anyone in sight as they begin ripping people apart and blowing up buildings.
Turles snaps his fingers and says "Now that it! That's what I'm taking about that's metal as all fuck. This is better that Frieza day. O look that one just got disemboweled that's just awesome. Hey Zeeun you got to see this it's amazing. Wait get me some popcorn please."
It was just then that Lord Slug emerged from the ship and gave Turles a glance. Turles "I guess the popcorn can wait." The massive truck of the tree burst through the ground in front of the ship. At least twice the size of the ship punching into the air. Branches burst forth and on them black leaves turning greener as the forest and plant life around the Earth starts to turn black.
The death spreads everywhere along with the red sky, the demons and the roots. The Tree begins to steal life from the seas as they turn red and fish dead hit the surface. The planet itself begins to die to the notice of all of the Saiyan's and Z-warriors.
A single fruit emerges from the tree red ripe full of the stolen life from Earth. The Tree knowing its master lets a branch lower to sort of hand the fruit to the three on the roof of the ship. Turles with a raised eyebrow "I didn't realize it was sort of sentient." He pulls off the fruit and goes to hand it to Lord Slug.
Turles "Well here you go boss." Lord Slug and Zeeun look at each then Turles. Turles "What?" Commander Zeeun "You take a bite first." Turles "Wait you think that its poison?" Zeeun waves his finger around. Turles looks to see the blood red sky with blood rain and roots eating the life out of Earth.
Turles shrugs "Fine. I'll do it first." Turles takes a big bite out of the fruit. He chews it in his mouth for a second then swallows. Turles trying to think says "You know it tastes like flesh and souls not bad but it does have a strong after taste but…" He stops mid-sentence. His eyes go wide his body gets bigger his skin seems to get younger. The many scars on him disappear and his face looks as though he just found nirvana.
Lord Slug and Commander Zeeun look at each other again then back at Turles when he screams out in pleasure "Of all the drugs and sex I have had in my life this is by far is the best thing that I have ever had or could ever have!" Turles is now feeling his face when Slug's hand reaches over and takes the fruit out of his hand.
Lord Slug in one bite eats the entire remaining head sized fruit when he just sort of opens his jaw kind of like a snake and engulfs it whole. He swallows the thing and soon seems to have a similar reaction that Turles had.
As Lord Slug is having his trip. Turles punches a hole through the ship taps his scouter and yells "Crusher Corp get out here were getting in on the action. I need to test this power on something."
The Shinhan's and Chiaotzu looking to the red sky and the plants around them dying while they were on their camping trip are confused as Krillin arrives and Piccolo makes his presence known. They all look at each for answers but find none with each other.
King Kai "Listen folks was just used taking a moment to relieve myself takes me awhile because I'm old and all of a sudden you have an evil tree of death growing on your planet. Sucking the life out of it which seems to be placed there by an ancient demon and an insane mercenary. So I must ask why are you people constantly in danger?"
Moori "Yeah I was kind of wondering about this disaster myself. That if it was normal and it appears to not be." Kami "No I very much isn't." King Kai "Wait how did you jump on this line?" Moori "Well it is a conference call. You are talking to more than one person." Nail "Hi Moori." Moori "O hi Nail how you been." Piccolo screaming "Focus we don't have time to chitchat." Kami "You didn't have to yell."
King Kai sighes "Thank you Piccolo. Two very evil people just planted an evil tree that is killing your planet so that it can make a fruit reserved for the gods intended for hell to give themselves strength and youth."
Tien "So we can stop it right?" King Kai "I have no clue just giving you the heads up on it." Launch "The gods proving their usefulness again." An angry "Hey" comes out of King Kai, Kami, and Moori. Krillin "Well I guess we got to save the day again. Wait where's Yamcha?" The group shrugs.
Yamcha flying at full power is heading looking around at the devastation caused by the tree. Rushing towards Bulma aura with a worried look upon his face. Yamcha thinking "Bulma please be safe. Please be safe. Don't be doing something really stupid for no reason. Like you seem to like to do."
Yamcha looks down to see the red seas and all the dead fish. Yamcha "O my Kami who the hell am I kidding. She's probably right know picking a fight with a hell hound because she didn't like the way it looked at her."
Bulma "O my Kami this doesn't look good at all." She and the Saiyans are look at similar devastation to Yamcha. Escarole "Yeah this bad but I've seen slightly worse." Bulma "What? What could be worse than this!?" Escarole "No one as of yet is getting raped. Cause I have seen a shit ton of that." Vegeta nods his head to that statement.
Bulma's eyes go wide and her grip around Vegeta tightens. She looks into Vegeta eyes and asks "You won't let anything happen to me will you?" Vegeta averse his gaze from her and tries to mumble without letting Escarole hearing it "Of course not." To which Bulma smiles then kisses him on his check much to his annoyance.
After that Yamcha in his gi comes flying over to the three and then matching their speed. All three turn a bit to face him. Escarole "O its the beta male." The Saiyans turned back forward with only Bulma still looking at him. Bulma smiled and nodded at him for coming for her.
Yamcha wide eyed stares at Escarole and asks "So what's the deal Bulma? Why you hanging out with the aliens? In particular the one that killed me?" Escarole "Stop whining you got better." Yamcha now angry "Yeah that's not the point."
Escarole "O really." She fall back and stares him dead in the eyes. Escarole "If you really have a problem. I am more than happy for you to take it up with me." Yamcha frightened "I…I…No problems here." Yamcha pretends to laugh for a bit. She lightly tap him on the face then joins Vegeta back in front of the pack.
Vegeta look at Escarole snorted then said "Beta male" and Escarole shook her head in agreement. Yamcha sort of lowered his head as the group rushed streamed towards the ruined island.
A root had smashed into the plateau covering a great deal of the island with rocks and the winged demons were swarming the place. Sound of death, screams and gunfire were coming from the place.
The group stopped and Yamcha spoke up "Aw so maybe we don't bring Bulma into an active war zone." Vegeta "So what part of this planet didn't just become an active warzone." Yamcha nodded after looking around.
Vegeta "Where is he?" Escarole "Follow me he has a beacon." Yamcha "We should be trying to help all these people." Escarole "Sure whatever you say beta." Vegeta and Escarole took off and Yamcha was soon to follow them.
The group landed in the spot that Escarole pointed to. The suburb had changed a great deal since just earlier in the morning. Multiple houses were on fire and dead bodies were everywhere. They looked towards at the Colonel's blood spattered house. There was a stack of dead demon bodies at the front door and holes in the roof.
Yamcha "Doesn't look like anyone alive in there." Escarole "Belief me if he was dead I would be the first to know." She strolled up to house causally pulling the dead bodies out of the way and poking her head into the structure.
A shot rang out and a ton of buck shot hit Escarole in the face. The lead stops died the moment it hits her face then just falls to the ground in a pile of deformed chucks. The smoking shotgun in the hands of Colonel Stryker.
Escarole looks at him and he shrugs. Colonel Stryker "Sorry thought you were one of them." Bill was bleed, his face was battered, his clothing torn, an eye closed by a punch with a broken eye socket. He was simply all kinds of messed up.
Escarole seemed ready to lay into him some verbal abuse but seeing him she just rolled her eyes. Escarole "Come on time to go." She fully stepped into the house but he shook his head 'no'. Her eyes glazed over "Why?" He pointed down to the basement were the panic room is. She feels the area and senses the two humans there.
Colonel Stryker "I'm not leaving them alone." Escarole "Well do you want me to save the world or not?" He looks to the ground upon that question and she walks over to him and grabs ahold of him. She places him on her shoulder much to his disagreement.
Escarole starts to carry him outside as he protests to the waiting group. Vegeta "Are we ready to go?" Bulma "Are you okay?" Yamcha "Why are you forcing that man to come with us?" Escarole "Yes. It was just a shotgun. And because if I don't he will just get himself killed and that's not the way I want to die."
Colonel Stryker with all the force he could muster yelled "STOP!" To that Escarole grabbed ahold of him again and then placed him in front of her. She looked at him with eyes rolled as he spoke. Colonel Stryker "I am not leaving this spot!"
Escarole "Again how do you expect me to save shit if I'm here guarding you and your stupid family?" Colonel Stryker "The Prince is stronger than you. He can deal with it. I need you here!" She growled at that statement he continued. "I have a panic room. That I can rest in. Where I can fix myself at. But the room will only buy time they will get through."
Escarole stares at him hoping that her force of will will make this problem go away. Bill gives a one eyed glare that says it all. He's not moving and neither is she. Escarole turns to Vegeta and says "Better get going. I guess it's up to you to get all the glory now."
Yamcha barking "Wait a friggin second. This is insanity Bulma you need to get into that panic room to!" Bulma "What!?" Yamcha "Bulma the Earth is bleeding right know and demons are rampaging through the streets. This is not the time for your pride. You need to survive!"
The group in general is taken aback by this sudden outburst by Yamcha. Bulma is general confused on how to respond and both Escarole and Vegeta seemed impressed. While Stryker doesn't really know who Yamcha is and just was taken aback by all the noise as he's a little shaky.
Vegeta "He's right woman you are staying here." Bulma "Come again?" Vegeta "I sense a lot of power coming from what I assume is the epicenter of this nightmare. I don't need to have… distractions when I am trying to fight. Sister I am trusting you to honorably defend our family name. Beta you stay here you will only get in my way. Woman stay safe."
Vegeta takes off at his last words leaving a stunned Bulma, Escarole and Yamcha for three separate reasons. Yamcha just figured out who he was losing Bulma to. Escarole just was given a vote of confidence by her brother. Bulma just got put on Vegeta's priorities list and was definitely winning the Prince over.
Escarole shakes off whatever the hell that was and barks out at both Bulma and Bill "Get in the basement. Now!" With that Bulma helped Bill get into the house and into the basement as Escarole was busy not knowing how to react to what just happened.
Yamcha watching Escarole annoyance at not knowing how to react walks over and asks "Are you okay?" Escarole "Shut up Beta." She goes to a dead body of one of the demons rips off an arm and starts eating it raw.
Escarole mumbling to herself "Stupid fucking Vegeta. Trusting me. Acting like an equal now of all times. Never a nice word but now that these stupid people are doing all these stupid things to confuse me. Now he acts like a brother. Really fucking really."
Yamcha hearing a bit of it "You know it is okay for you to get along with your own brother right?" Escarole "Shut and mind your own business pretty boy. And what the hell do you care I killed you should be rubbing it in that I have a miserable personal life with a brother that doesn't care a demanding father and only one friend!"
Escarole takes a big bite out of the dead demon. She just starts loudly chewing hoping to drown out his laughter but Yamcha doesn't laugh instead he look like he is pitying her. This makes her feel far worst then the laugh. She was now an object of pity.
Escarole angry "What are you fucking looking at!?" Yamcha looks a way and say he's "Sorry!" Escarole thinking "Why did I just spill my guts out to this lower lifeform? The longer I stay here the weaker I seem to be getting. I should leave now."
Turles "Well. Well. Well look at what we have here a couple of survivors boys." Yamcha and Escarole look above to see Turles and his Crusher Corp. Escarole smiling upon seeing Turles's tail.
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