Dragon Moon Z! – By Ocramed
Disclaimer: SM, R1/2, DBZ and other properties belong to their respective owners.
Note: This story is a multi-genre story. C&C are welcome.
Special Note: This story is part of the SMST/TRT series, and is inspired by Team Four Star's Abridged Parody series.
Part 13: "The World's Strongest Saga" (I)
A week later…
"I still can't believe you tolerate that pervert," Usagi said, after Bulma tell Usagi that she's going over to Kame House to spend time with Lunch.
"Well, I'm only doing it in order to help protect Lunch," Bulma replied. "Her, I can't believe she tolerates Roshi's…idiosyncrasies."
"More like idiocy," Usagi said.
"What about you? You can come with me."
"Well, I'm not really in the mood to visit anyone right now," Usagi said. "It's just, well…"
"Say no more," Bulma said. "I'm not going to push you into doing anything you're not comfortable in doing."
"I appreciate that," Usagi said with a gentle smile. "But DO have fun."
"Feh, with Roshi? Oh, please. I'll be lucky enough to leave Kame House without a paw print or two…on my butt…"
The day wears on. Usagi spends some time with Bulma's mother, Pantsu Briefs, helping to tend to her garden, when she gets an emergency alert on her wrist communicator.
"Mmm?" Usagi said, as she looks up to see the emergency alert beacon lighting up on her wrist communicator.
"What is it, dear?" Pantsu asked.
"Um, probably nothing," Usagi said. She didn't want to scare Pantsu into thinking that something had happened to her daughter…
"I'm going to step out for a bit," Usagi said. "You want anything?"
"Oh, could you pick up some milk, cheese and butter on your way back?" Pantsu asked. "I want to make this great pasta dish that I saw on the KBC Food Channel."
"Um, sure," Usagi said. She then turned towards Tho-Ohki, who was trying to tend his own vegetable garden, with his little work hat and garden tools...
"Now, be good while I am gone, okay?" Usagi said gently.
"Me-aw!" Tho-Ohki said with an enthusiastic nod.
And, with that, Usagi took to the skies…
Upon arriving at Master Roshi's place, Usagi could see signs of an intense struggle.
"What the heck happened here?" Usagi said, as she examined the clues that had been left behind…
"Kreek-!" said a familiar source.
Usagi quickly turned around to see-
"Saibamen?" Usagi said. She then noticed key difference in the way that looked. For one, these creatures were blue instead of green, and, for another, they appeared to be wearing half-masks and cybernetic implants on their temples.
"Kreek!" screeched the Saibamen, as they attacked Usagi.
"Ah!" Usagi said, as she dodged one attacker, swiped another attacker, leaps over another, and kicked yet another attacker. She then pulls out two magic swords, one that she had earned a long time ago while stuck on an alternate Earth that was steeped in magic, super-science and chaos, while the other belong to her late husband…
"Greetings, Moon Princess," said the sword.
"Hey, Princess!" said its mate.
"Hey, Mars, Venus" said Usagi, as she whirled around the blades, before shifted her feet into a fighting stance.
Mars was a Rune sword powered by the fragment of the power of the Olympian god of war, and was given to Usagi after she earned her freedom while fighting for an alien warlord in a series of gladiatorial games. Mars was the mate of Ranma's Rune sword, Venus, which was fueled by the fragment of the power of the Olympians goddess of love.
The cybernetic Saibamen rounds upon Usagi for another attack. However, Usagi was much more prepared to deal with her attackers.
"Kreek!" screeched the first Saibaman, as it leaps at Usagi.
SLICE!
Usagi cleaves the first Saibaman in half vertically with Mars, as she whirls around to cleave the second Saibaman in half horizontally with Venus.
"Kreek-!"
SLICE!
Usagi then stabs the ground with Venus, causing energy shards to erupt that blasted the remaining Saibamen into the air.
BOOM!
She then aims Mars at these same Saibamen, and discharges an energy blast that instantly vaporizes them.
FWOOSH!
"Kreek-!"
Usagi calms down, as the remains of the Saibamen drift away. She really didn't need to deal with this sort of nonsense right now…
"What's wrong?" Venus asked.
"I miss Ranma, that's what," Usagi said.
"Do not worry, my Princess," Mars said. "He WILL return to us."
"I know, but it's been so long…"
Just as Usagi was on the verge of crying again, she noticed the cybernetic implants on one of the dead Saibamen. Steeling herself, Usagi cautiously goes over to the dead Saibaman and kneels by it. She stabs the swords into the sand, and reaches to pull the implant from the Saibaman.
SPLURCH!
"Hmmm," Usagi said, as she examines it. "This looks like some kind of control and communications node…"
Usagi then takes out her advanced computer, a metallic object which was the size and look of a credit card, and taps it next to the implant.
"SELMA, visual," Usagi said.
A holographic image of a woman appears. She bore an eerie likeness of Usagi's mother Ikuko Tsukino.
"Yes, Captain Tsukino-Saotome?" asked SELMA. SELMA was an advanced "artificial intelligence" (or AI) that had been given to Usagi from her time as a "fugitive retrieval specialist" (or FRS) whiles a member of the Federation Marshal Service. FRS personnel are trained to track down and retrieve the worse of the worse, infamous criminals, and could be on assignments for months at a time without direct support, and even out of the Federation's territorial jurisdiction. In one instance, Usagi had to journey into the past, on Earth, to assist another marshal, to retrieve fugitives who had escaped into the past. It must be noted that Usagi was sorely tempted to remain there, due to the fact that she did miss home…
At any rate, each SELMA units typically had holographic images of their users' mothers, which were deemed as a psychological advantage for the user. Ranma, being a marshal himself, has a SELMA unit that had the holographic image of his own mother as well. Of course, this was not uniformly required, since a few had images of father figures and lovers.
"SELMA, see if you can tap into the chip of this cybernetic node," Usagi said.
"Working," SELMA replied. "Connection has been established."
"Can you do a trace on the source of these Saibamen?"
"Working. Link indicates source of Saibamen: a fortress located in the Tsumisumbri Mountains."
"Could you place the location on the Capasule Corp map overlay?" Usagi said.
"Of course."
"Hey, SELMA," Venus said.
"Miss Venus," SELMA replied.
"You are looking well," Mars replied.
"Oh, I have been watching my weight of late," SELMA said jokingly, being ironic that a holographic image cannot gain weight.
Usagi sighed, wondering how she managed to get objects of power to have their own little "clique"…
A short time later…
"Alright, we're here," Sailor Moon said, as she, her adopted son Goku and Krillin arrived at the source of the Saibamen. When Sailor Moon had asked for Goku and Krillin's help, she was surprised to have learned that Gohan and Oolong had been in the same area, which was nothing more than a vast, icy wasteland. In fact, the pair had been attacked by monsters, but that Gohan and Oolong had escaped harm.
"Goku, what do you think we'll find here?" Krillin asked.
"Hopefully Master Roshi and Bulma," Goku said. He then sees the entrance to the fortress.
"Well, there is but on way to find out…"
Goku banged on the giant door.
"Goku, I would think that someone would have spotted us coming by now," Sailor Moon said.
"I know, but it is nice being courteous, yeah?" Goku said, before he continued to bang on the giant door…
"I don't think we'll get an answer, Goku," Krillin began to say.
Suddenly, there was a booming voice that could be heard via speaker box.
"WHAT DO YOU WANT?" the owner of the voice said.
Goku looked at Krillin, then at his mother. Sailor Moon merely shrugged her shoulders in reply.
"Um, is Master Roshi and Bulma Briefs inside?" Goku said.
"NO!" the voice replied. "NOW GO AWAY!"
"I think they're lying to us," Krillin said.
"You think?" Sailor Moon replied, as she gets out SELMA from her pocket. "Thankfully, I had SELMA hack into the network that was connected to those cyber-Saibamen. SELMA?"
"Yes, Captain Tsukino-Saotome?" said SELMA, in voice mode only.
"Open that door."
"Affirmative…"
Within a few clicks, the door to the icy fortress opens up…
"Wow," Krillin said. "Thank goodness for modern technology!"
"Yeah, well, be on your guard," Goku said. "You never know if something big and nasty might just pop up to get you-"
Suddenly, from behind the Z Warriors, something big and nasty pops up through the ice sheet.
"BLUB-BLUB-BLUB-BLUB-BLUB!" the creature yelled.
"And yellow, too!" Krillin said with fright.
"Well, at least we got the big and nasty part right," Sailor Moon said, as she took out her swords.
"Guys, go on ahead," Goku said. "I'll deal with it."
"Take care, dear," Sailor Moon said, before taking off.
"Goku, good luck!" Krillin said, as he went after the Moon Princess…
The pair ran ahead for a bit until they reached an inner chamber full of…balls.
"Huh," Krillin said. "I sense a theme in this room."
"I don't like the looks of this," Sailor Moon said.
"Oh, what can a bunch of balls do to us?"
Suddenly, the balls began to bristle with large, sharp pointy things.
SNIKT!
"Um…"
"As you were saying?" Sailor Moon said.
They began to rotate at rapid pace, before launching themselves at the magical girl and the fighting monk.
"Whoa!" Krillin said, as he dodged the attacks.
Sailor Moon held her ground, as she used her sword proficiency in paired weapons to deflect the attacks.
"This is getting us nowhere," Sailor Moon said. She then turned towards Krillin.
"Krillin, I need a distraction!"
"Oh, so I can be bait?" Krillin asked.
"No, you idiot! Use 'Solar Flare Technique' and the 'Multi-Form Technique' to confuse the sensors in this room!"
"Oh, right!" Krillin said, as he first performed the Multi-Form Technique, causing him to split into multiple people.
BOOSH!
"Nyah!" said the Krillins, as they split off into multiple directions. When they got into position, then they applied the use of the Solar Flare Technique.
"Solar…FLARE!" the Krillins yelled.
FLASH!
Sailor Moon gambled that the sensors were not attuned for a sudden burst of light, from multiple sources. This would allow her just enough time to launch her own attack.
"Moon Wave SLASH!" Sailor Moon yelled, as she brought down sword at an arc, forming an "X" in the process.
SLASH!
The energy wave took down half the attacking balls, allowing the Krillins to take down the other half.
"Scatter Shot Blast!" Krillins yelled, as they discharged an energy attack that destroyed the rest of the balls.
"Yeah!" the Krillins yelled, as they merged.
"Impressive," Sailor Moon said with a smile, as she sheaths her swords back into pocket space. "You're getting better."
"Better?" Krillin protested. "That was awesome-!"
Suddenly, Goku and his opponent burst through the floor of the ice fortress.
"KAIO KEN!" Goku said, as he charged up his body, which allowed his to finish off the monster…
"Now THAT was awesome," Sailor Moon said.
Krillin merely gives up in frustration…
Tbc.