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 17: "Tree of Might Saga" (Final)
"Who are you?" Sailor Moon asked.
"I am 'Turles', captain of one of Lord Freeza's the elite units known as 'The Crusher Corps'."
'That name, Freeza,' Sailor Moon thought. 'Is he responsible for all these attacks…?"
"I must say that I am glad to have finally have met you, my brother," said Turles, as he faces Goku. "And your son's skills were shown to be impressive, which I saw when he took down the brothers Raisin and Bran."
"That's nice and all, but I want my son back, and I want you off my planet," Goku said.
"You see, that's where the problem lies," Turles said. "YOU killed our brother Radditz. That sort of thing has to be answered to."
"But he committed suicide trying to kill Goku!" Krillin yelled.
"Besides, I need this planet to harvest the fruit of this Tree of Might…"
Pause.
"In the meantime, let me show you a trick we proper Saiyans know," Turles said. "As I saw, your boy doesn't have a tail."
"That's because we had it removed, in order to prevent him from going ape," Sailor Moon said.
"I see. Well, you see, you can never really get rid of the tail; it's part of our survival mechanism. Thus, with a bit of pressure here on the kid's back…"
SPLURCH!
"Gohan!" Goku said.
"He got his tail back!" Krillin yelled.
"And now, I can do this," Turles said, as he throws a Lunar Ball up into the air…
BANG!
"Gohan, don't look!" Goku said.
"Look at…what, Dad?" Gohan said groggily, as he sees the fake moonlight. "Huh-?"
Seconds later, Gohan become Gohan-ozaru.
"RROAR!" Gohan-ozaru said.
"Aw, man!" Goku said. "Chi-Chi is going to kill me for this…"
"And there you have it," Turles said. He then turned towards Gohan-ozaru.
"Gohan, kill them!" Turles replied.
However, Gohan-ozaru turns towards Turles, and emits an energy blast at Turles.
FWOOSH!
"What?" Turles said in surprise. "But how-?"
"I taught my grandson how to control his instincts, thanks to my Bene Gesserit training," Sailor Moon said. "No matter the form, he will always be human."
"Oh, really?" Turles said, as he avoided another attack. "Luckily, the fruit of the Tree of Might will do the trick in dealing with my nephew…"
Turles quickly grabs a piece of fruit from the Tree of Might, with appeared to be a lumpy apple. He then takes a single bite…
FWOOM!
"Goodness!" Krillin yelled in fright. "Even I felt that burst of energy!"
"And now, a quick demonstration of what the fruit of this glorious tree can do," Turles said.
In short order, Turles made short work of the Z Warriors.
"Oof!"
"Ahhh!"
"Argh!"
"Growlf!"
"And that's that," Turles said, as he lands near Goku. He then raises his left palm at Goku.
"You know, now that I've met you, I realize that I prefer to be unique, Kakkarot," Turles said. "Well, good-bye-"
Suddenly, a vessel appears out of nowhere.
"What?" Turles exclaimed.
"You…you don't think we'd be out of options, yeah?" Sailor Moon managed to say. "As they, 'Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer-!"
Tho-Ohki, in starship form, hovers into position.
"Me-aw!" Tho-Ohki yowled.
"Say good-bye to THIS!" Bulma said, as she discharged a heavy weapons barrage.
FWAM! FWAM! FWAM-!
One of the energy discharges hit Turles, knocking him back into the Tree of Might.
BAM!
This causes the ripened fruit of the tree to fall to the base of the tree.
"Goku," Sailor Moon said, as she picks up one of the fruit. She then presents it to her son.
"Take this, and end this fight with your brother," Sailor Moon said.
Goku looks at the fruit, then at his mother, and then towards the heavens…
"Dad didn't take special aids to win a fight; he relied upon his skills and his experience to beat his opponents," Goku said with determination. "I'll do the same."
"Okay," Sailor Moon said proudly.
"Cool. KAIO KEN X5!"
And, with that, Goku deals with his brother.
BOOM!
"Wow," Krillin said, as he looks around. "Who would have thought that this tree would bear this kind of fruit?"
"Let's gather a bunch for later," Sailor Moon said.
"You think we'll need it for later?" Krillin said.
"I want to study these things. Maybe we can change the nature of this tree for something good..."
Bulma hovered Tho-Ohki close to ground.
"Me-aw!" Tho-Ohki yowled happily, being glad that his mistress was fine.
BEEP-BEEP!
"Krillin, make sure that Gohan is okay," Sailor Moon said, as she raises her communications wrist band close to her face. "Bulma."
"Hey," Bulma said over a secured channel. "Is everything okay down there?"
"I hope so," Sailor Moon said. "I just hope that Goku can end this madness…"
Meanwhile, the battle between twin brothers rage within the roots of the Tree of Might, even as Turles delivers a blow to his brother's jaw.
BAM!
Goku held his ground, as he performed a flip kick that rocks Turles' lower jaw.
CRACK!
"Nice," Turles said, as he spits out a tooth. "You learned to fight well."
"I had my grandfather Gohan, father Ranma, Master Roshi and my friends to thank," Goku said.
"Why are you so endearing to these people?" Turles said. "They are NOT Saiyan, Kakkarot. And you killed OUR brother for them?"
"I didn't kill Radditz," Goku countered. "He was given a chance to stand-down, but he ended up killing himself and me, just to win a victory."
"As a Saiyan should," Turles said, as energy began to coalesce around his hands. "I should have been the one to be sent to this planet instead of you. Otherwise, I would not have to kill you."
"And I will do whatever it takes to defend my family, my friends and my home planet from the likes of you," Goku said. Unknown to Turles, Goku has been secretly drawing energy directly from the Tree of Might, as a primer for his final attack.
"Please, stand down," Goku begged.
"No," Turles replied. "This is good-bye, my brother."
"I know," Goku said, as he, at the last minute, jams a Spirit Bomb directly into Turles' stomach.
"Ack!" Turles said. He looks at Goku expectantly, before closing his eyes for good.
Goku, with one final determination pushes forward.
"YAH!" Goku yelled, as he forced the Spirit Bomb, with his brother "attached" to it, into the heart of the Tree of Might…
BWOOSH!
With the alien tree utterly destroyed, wanton destruction aside, most of the energy that was taken by the Tree of Might was restored to Chikyuu.
"Ohhh," Gohan said, as he reverted back to normal.
"Well, it looks like Gohan is fine," Krilliin said.
"Goku?" Sailor Moon said, as she tried to scan the area, even as it snows yellow balls of energy.
Goku emerges from the debris of the tree looking tired.
"Goku?" Sailor Moon said, as she takes her adopted son in her arms. "It'll be okay…"
"It still hurts, Mom," Goku said. "I lost two brothers now."
"But you gained a family of your own," Sailor Moon said, as she refers to Gohan.
Goku breaks from Sailor Moon's hug, and then goes over to his son.
"Daddy?" Gohan said.
"Son," Goku said, as he picks up his young child, before hugging him fiercely.
"Aw," Krillin said. "What a picture perfect moment…"
'We raised him right, Ranma,' Sailor Moon thought, even as Tho-Ohki lands for Bulma to pick up the survivors…
Later, at Capsule Corp, Bulma looks at the seeds extracted from one of the fruits from the Tree of Might.
"Well, we got our work cut out," Bulma said, as she placed the seeds into a test tube, where it would be moved into a storage facility. "Studying these seeds might allow for the creation of a new type of tree, one that won't suck the life out of entire planets…"
Bulma then turned towards Usagi, who ate yet another fruit from the Tree of Might.
"And if you keep eating these fruits, it'll take a medical examination determine your gender, Usagi."
Usagi shrugged, as she finished off another fruit from the Tree of Might. She pretty much "hulked out" without turning green…or dumber.
"But they taste SO good," Usagi said, as she took another bite out of the fruit of the Tree of Might. "Mmmm-humph!"
Fin.
Next Time: "The Lord Slug Saga"