Ch.18: General White and Muscle Tower

We were able to get to her house without harm. I was welcomed into her home. I was able to get Goku into the rocking chair before I passed out on the floor.

I woke up to a cold blast of wind. I was up and standing before I could fully awaken. I stumbled as I saw the men go done thanks to Goku. I yawned and blinked. I was on my knees. I shook my head to clear the dizziness. I took the offered mug of warm drink. I was energized and up after that. I got a quick rundown of what was going on when I was asleep.

Goku was about to run out into the cold until I clamped my hand on his shoulder. I looked to the nice people.

"May we borrow some warm clothes; we do not want to freeze solid before actually getting there."

The little girl gave her warm clothes while her mother gave an old pair of hers me. We thanked them outside their home. I looked at the "snow". I scooped up some and took a bite. It was really cold, but it melted into water in my mouth. I "hm"ed and ran along with Goku.

I grabbed the Bo Staff and made it to be longer. I ran in front of Goku to deflect the bullets. I swept away our enemies. I felt Goku hop onto my back as I extended and dug the Bo into the ground. We catapulted up onto a ledge. I gave the Bo Staff back to Goku. We started to hear a man's voice speak up, but we didn't know where he was.

Alright, so this place is called Muscle Tower and the man challenged us to get to the top. We accepted, naturally. We went into the door nearest to us. There was a couple of men, they were ordered to attack or do what they want. I didn't really like the look in some of these men's eyes when they looked at me. Goku and I took half of the men each.

We noticed at it was really warm in here, so we shed our warm clothes. I could feel we were being watched, but I had some shivers run through my spine. It didn't feel right. Once we got readjusted, we climbed the stairs. We were greeted by the largest man we had ever seen. We had to beat him if we wanted to head to the stairs.

I had a feeling that he was different. He spoke and looked like a person, though really big person, but he didn't really feel alive. I let Goku take the first shot at the man.

The man did a punch. Goku jumped up to the chains while I hung onto the camera in the corner of the ceiling. Goku landed on the man's shoulder and punched him in the jaw. I let go of the camera as the man fell down.

"Only a little bit more and we'll be able to save the village chief!"

I nodded, but I had to grab the man's hands to throw him across the room. I looked at Goku's dumbfounded face when the man was fine.

"You need to be more vigilant even after you think you have won the fight. Not doing so will make you arrogant."

I turned to the man and side stepped his powerful stomp. I side swiped to knock him off his feet. He landed with a big thud. When he got up, he spewed a small rocket from his mouth. In that instant, I knew he wasn't human. I landed a hand on the side of the rocket and fluidly changed its direction towards the metal head. It blew off his head and some skin grafts on his chest along with his shirt. Goku started to panic.

"Wah! You blew his face off. You did a bad thing!"

"Oh, come on. He wasn't human and his intent was to hurt and even kill us. See he's still moving!"

It was true. The now known robot was twitching and attacked me again. When I was about to attack it, it suddenly stopped. I motioned Goku to give me the Bo Staff. I tapped it on the floor to make it longer, my height. I poked the robot. It fell over. I stood straight and gave the staff back. We moved to the stairs.

"Come on let's go!"

"There really are all kinds of different people in the world."

"Yes there are, now come on!"

At the top of the stairs, we came upon the outside. I furrowed my brow in confusion. What was the outside doing inside? Suddenly we jumped the side before odd looking knives pierced us. Goku landed on a rock while I landed next to it. Then a voice from nowhere sounded.

"Good job making it to the fourth floor! But your smooth infiltration ends here! Not only has there been no one who has ever defeated me, there is no one who's been able to see me face to face! You'll both die right where you stand!"

Then he proceeded to laugh. I raised an eyebrow before we had to dodge some metal stars. I motioned for Goku to knock the man down. He nodded and threw a rock and hit the man in the face. He fell down. He wore strange clothing. Grandpa told me something that described the same design.

"Hey, you look like a ninja. Are you a ninja?"

He looked at me before straightening up.

"Yes I am."

I eyed him. "From what I can tell, you are a novice ninja. Though you are too old to be a genin, you don't have enough skills for even a chunnin. But then again, you must have something up your sleeve to be here in the first place."

Mr. Ninja was steaming mad, but puffed out in pride that I recognize that he was a least a bit strong. Then we "played" hide-and-seek about three times before racing. He did throw a dirty trick, throwing some spikes so that we wouldn't be able to run with our cloth shoes. Goku went back to the house and got the wooden sandals. I leaped over the spikes entirely and landed on Mr. Ninja's back. He laid there face down with me sitting on him cross legged.

I heard the voice, General White, tell Murasaki, Mr. Ninja to stop playing around. I felt Murasaki shift under me and muffle an affirmative. Well, that was no fun. I got off of him to walk over to Goku. I grinned at him and laughed.

I looked back at Murasaki. He pulled out a sword and jumped at us. I snickered when Goku stuck the staff into the ground. We hopped away. We bellowed in laughter when Murasaki hopes around in pain with his new tail. I used my tail to hook onto Goku's to swing him in the air. Goku got down and pulled his staff out of Murasaki's rear end. I was rolling on the floor in laughter at this point.

I sat up to watch Goku fight Murasaki. I still had some giggles left in me. I got up finally when Murasaki's sword broke. I heard that they were going to fight bare handed but I was suspicious of his hidden hand. Goku was able to dodge the crescent blade when it came from the front. I appeared behind Goku to catch the blade when it came back around. I was mad now.

I slipped Goku's staff off of his back to attack Murasaki. I was able to hit him about 5 times before he fell unconscious. Then about 4 more Murasaki's came out. I just as easily knocked them out. I then noticed Goku chasing the original Murasaki up so stairs. I had a running start before jumping onto the upper ledge.

Murasaki seems to letting out someone. He called the man Android #8. I didn't really know what Android ment, I got ready to fight. The big man came out. I noticed that he feels human but different. He was ordered to kill me and my brother, but he refuses to do so, even at the risk of his life. I relaxed my stance and smiled. Though, I frowned when General White ordered Murasaki to destroy the big man. I can tell that Goku won't let it happen so I let him take the staff from me to jump the distance to destroy the remote. Goku also punch the weak ninja unconscious, for good this time, across the building.

Goku and I walked back to the big man next to the stairs. He smiled and thanked us. He asked for our names. I smiled.

"I'm Son Kagome. This here is my little brother Goku. What's your name?"

I smiled at him. He blushed as he gave us the same name as he was called, Android #8. We learned that he didn't like fighting which explained why he didn't defend himself. I had to remind Goku that not everyone we met would like to fight. He just shrugged. I sighed.

We were reminded of our original mission. We were lead to the next floor by Hacchan. I decided to call him that since his other name was hard to understand. The floor itself was a maze so great to have help. When we walked up the stairs, Hacchan pointed to the walk next to us.

He said it was the fifth floor. He didn't know what was in it, but we let it go. We got to the top of the stairs we saw the man who is General White. He congratulated us for coming to the top successfully.

"In fact, I am so impressed that I'd love to have you both join our army. The lady here can be stationed with me up here while you boy can be one of our soldiers."

I felt my eye twitch. I blew a raspberry at him.

"No way, we wouldn't want to join it ever!"

Apparently that wasn't his ideal answer since now we are falling through a trap door. When he showed his face in the only door in the room, he demanded us to give our Dragon Ball and Dragon Radar over. We refused. Hacchan questioned our motives for finding the Dragon Balls.

"We don't really want to use the Dragon Balls. One of them was a memoir of our dead Grandpa, so we are looking for it."

"Oh, good, you guys really are good people."

I smiled at him before tensing for a fight when the wall moved. Behind it looked like a huge fat, blubbery pink alien. The thing's name was Buyon

Buyo, is my fat cat. The chubby kitty had a calico splotched fur. His colors were mostly white with brown and black blotches.

I shook my head from the image of a cuddly cat to the pink monster whose tail hit me. I crashed against the wall. I fell to the floor in a daze. I shook my head again to Hacchan next to me. He was huddled against the wall, scared. I got up.

I winced since my back was now sore. I watched Goku's melee attacks to no damage to its rubbery body. I was beside Goku now to see if think of something. Suddenly, lightening from the thing's antennae struck us. It was a burning and numbing sensation. We fell to the floor.

I felt something slick wrap around my waist. I was in someplace hot and moist. I panicked. I expelled my energy. I climbed the throat and busted out its teeth getting. Cool air hit me as I hissed in pain. I looked at my right foot to see my shoe was dissolved off, and I have acid burns on the skin of my foot. My foot had reached its stomach before I could get out. Goku was in front of me. I saw that he performed the Kamehameha wave, to no affect.

Buyon tried to eat Hacchan after we refused to give up the Dragon Balls and Radar. I jump kicked the tongue to make the thing drop Hacchan. I had caught Hacchan in my arms. I set him down gently away from the monster. I saw him blushing, but I smiled.

I turned back to the monster. My foot had mostly healed, but it was still tender. I had a chill go down my spine at its hungry stare. Wait, chill. I ran to the wall.

"Goku, get somewhere warm," I shouted.

I punched a hole in the wall causing the outside freezing air to rush in. I ran far from the hole so I wouldn't freeze like Buyon did, as I expected. I was able to punch it, making it crack and shatter into pieces, before I collapsed.

I felt rubble fall on me until I was warm again. I was held against a warm chest. I looked up. It was Hacchan. He was blushing a bit. I smiled in thanks.

I was let down when we were back on the top floor. I felt something pinch me on my mid-section. That was when I noticed he tried to shoot me. Goku had a mini fight with him. He had landed behind a station. I went over to see what was taking him so long. I lowered my eyes to his crouched form. He laughed awkwardly. I motioned for him to get up he did so.

He started to walk past me but I had my hand on his chest. He stopped and looked at me an eyebrow raised. I frowned and slid my hand down to his stomach to his lower back and into his back pocket. I could feel his form tense and shiver at my touch. My eyes left his for a moment to see the thing I grabbed in his back pocket. I pulled it out slowly when my eyes locked onto his darker ones full of anger and something else I couldn't place.

I saw I pulled out a large gun. It was awkward in my small hands to hold. I smirked and broke the thing in half.

"I don't want you to pull anything sneaky and cheap. Now, please lead the way to the village chief."

He did as was told. I let the other go on ahead. I told them I was going to make sure General White would not bother anyone any more. Soon as I saw them in the window outside, I turned to the man in question. He had a smirk on his face. I gave him one, but it was much crueler.

"Now, I need to you to take me to where you recorded all of our movements throughout this tower."

He frowned.

"And why would I do that?"

I walked over a leaned up to him. I was shorter than him so I had to look up at him. He stood his ground and stared down at me. I placed my hand behind his neck. I clamped hard on it. He cringed at the pain.

"Because, you don't want to make me angry. I am almost as forgiving as my baby brother, but just not the same."