Chi-Chi was the first to awake in her room of the group. The room was made for Royalty from the moment she walked into it she was reminded of her father and Earth. She remembered what it was like in those early days so young and stupid, dreaming of a Prince and her happily ever after. She remembered the blue skies and birds chirping. She wanted to go to her window and look out and see her home, but she knew better. Dr. Briefs had told her the village and her family castle were gone. Kakarrot had it all demolished just for fun.
She got into her gi and then into the bloodguard uniform. She went to wake the other only to find that Trunks wasn't in his room then she came to Erasa's room. She opened the door to find Erasa and Trunks naked sleeping next to one another.
A blush took over her face as she slowly closed the door. She muttered to herself 'Well good for them.' Then she loudly knocked on the door like she concluded she should have done originally. Loudly she said "Erasa its time. I'm going to go get Trunks." She said smirking playing dumb.
Trunks had jumped up in placed and was relieved that Chi-Chi as far as he knew she didn't open the door.
Erasa was slower and groggier like she had been up longer than Trunks had been. She knowingly asked him "A bit jumpy, are we?" Her fingers danced on his leg.
He blushed looking quite embarrassed "I'm sorry but I'm afraid of my family's response to all of this."
Her face soured "I don't think my family or anyone else for that matter would like this either."
Trunks nodded "You're right your former comrade's response minus Videl would rather be more extreme than mine family." (The two of them were getting up and started to get dressed.) "Do you really believe him? That this guy's going to help us I mean I got a bad feeling about this."
"I told you trust me. Videl told me all about her brother and what he's like." She said facing away from him.
Trunks smiled "Don't worry I trust you Erasa." He hugged her.
She nodded "I'm starting to see that."
Old Kai put his hands down "Well that's its sonny that's all I could do."
Gohan looked at the Old Kai with big eyes. Old Kai gave him a nodded and Gohan stood up and tried to go Super Saiyan like last time. Gohan felt himself surge with more power than he ever dreamed of as neither his eyes nor his hair changed. His hair stood up like he was a Super Saiyan. His aura was white, and he might haven't looked it, but he was leagues stronger then he had been.
Videl said marveling at the power she was feeling "Wow. That amazing Gohan!"
Supreme Kai and Kibito were starry eyed at this development.
Supreme Kai exclaimed "I knew my ancestor was a genius and not just a perv!"
Old Kai pouted "Shut your mouth youngster. Now I believe you owe me a kiss from your girly."
Videl smile and joy died in seconds as she trembled in a fury. "Hey now! You said that this would make Gohan strong enough to beat the Emperor! This isn't not strong enough to beat him!"
Old Kai frustrated "The deal was for me to do it, not to beat him!"
Supreme Kai sighed "Elder that may be true, but this isn't a time for this. Regardless of the fine print the spirit of the deal this was about beating the Emperor."
Old Kai spat out the word "Traitor."
Supreme Kai put his face into his hand "Gohan you and Videl go train while we try to find a solution to your whole god problem."
Gohan and Videl meet in the field while the Kai's meet underneath a tree with a crystal ball.
"So how was the nap?"
She yawned "Good. Better than just sitting there like you honey."
"At least I got a bathroom/lunch break."
"See there was positives to this experience. Now I remember you said something about teaching me Kaio-ken?"
Gohan chuckled "I do recall something to that affect but there has been something that's been bugging me…"
"Let me guess the fact you bit my shoulder?"
Gohan blushing the reason the mark for some reason was personal "Right. When my dad and mom gave me the lesson on the birds and bees, they sort of never said anything about that. I really sorry if I hurt you…"
"Gohan, I was kind of expecting it actually."
"Really?" Gohan was intrigued.
"It's not a human thing it's a Saiyan thing. My asshole of a brother got that from Livy when he was like sixteen. Livy gave him some story of sort of a mating ritual of your alien half. So, I really wasn't surprised."
"Well okay. It's kind of weird that you knew more about my body then I do."
"Not only me… Okay now onto Kaio-ken."
The Kai's were looking into the crystal ball. The Supreme kai felt compelled to ask.
"Ancestor can Saiyan even reach god ki?"
Kibito "I've never heard of any mortal never mind them reaching that kind of power."
Old Kai "He didn't ask you. And yes, I don't remember where, but I do remember that mortals can indeed achieve god ki. We just need a Saiyan that knows a few things."
Kibito "Well considering there are maybe two pure Saiyan's left. One who isn't going to helpful obviously the other who doesn't know a whole lot about his people."
Supreme Kai "He's right Tarble can't help him with this."
Old Kai "You youngsters have no imagination do you. We're in the otherworld. We don't need a living Saiyan to tell us. We have access to the dead. Remember? We can have one of them tell us what we need to know."
In the ball appeared the image of a female Saiyan with droopy spike hair. Her hair at a glance looked like Kakarrot but well removed but if anything, she looked a lot more like Tarble. She had bags under her eyes she look nearly middle aged which meant that she was a very old Saiyan on the cusp of old age and soon after that death.
Supreme Kai arms folded "Ah. I don't think she'll help."
Old Kai "You know her?"
Supreme Kai "I know every Guardian of every world even if they killed their predecessor to get the job. She was trained by the Guardian of Plant until the war between the Saiyan's and the Tuffles, she turned on him. Her son the King and her first grandson turned out as big of monsters as she was."
Old Kai "I suppose it might be a tough sell, but that would mean Tarble is also one of her grandsons. Maybe that would convince her to help. These mortals have strong family bonds after all."
Kibito "I suppose but I doubt she will be very helpful."
Old Kai "Yeh have little faith. She was a Guardian chosen by originally by another. There must be a reason for it. Now bring her here. We can find out whether or not she will be of any help and let's hope that nothing between now and then interferes with our plans."
The door to the executive office opened. It was large room with a big desk that Cyan was sitting behind. He had a bottle of champagne and two glasses, one of which he was drinking from. He had a grin on his face. The other couches in the room were filled by a bunch of officers from many different branches of the Imperial military.
Cyan with his glass raised in a jovial tone "Welcome all of you and don't be worried these our fellow conspirators. All loyal to me and our cause of freedom."
Chi-Chi's team enter warily as they took their helmets off. Behind Chi-Chi came Dr. Briefs, the old man was quick across the room. He had been hidden in a trooper's uniform. The old doctor seemed oblivious to the tension in the room between the two sides. Cyan and Dr. Briefs shook hands. Cyan offered him a glass and Dr. Briefs gladly took it.
Dr. Briefs "Thank you my boy."
Cyan "A toast to new friends."
They tapped glasses together. The Doctor seemed quite at ease.
Erasa came behind Trunks. He whispered to her "You know I've got a bad feeling about this."
Erasa whispered back "Yeah I'm getting poor vibes myself. Don't worry I got your back."
Trunks blushed and whispered back, "Good to know."
Dr. Briefs and Chi-Chi took chairs right in front of Cyan. Chi-Chi was not having any of this. "If you intended to put me at ease with all of this Cyan, you have failed."
Cyan's hand went to his chest "You realize none of these men are armed? If wanted to betray all of you it would have been better to try it the moment you took your rooms. I assure you the plan is to kill the Emperor and destroy the royal family Gero."
Dr. Briefs "As much as I would like to believe you. She does bring a good point. This isn't what we agreed."
Cyan "Situation has changed. Fortune smiles on us. Dr. Gero is dead. Died peacefully in his sleep having given the universe yet another monster I'm told, with this the Emperor will be quite busy. If there was a single thing in this universe that bastard cared about it was that man. Now their nothing he cares about, but the funeral will have him call in all the family. Commodus has already been recalled for this reason. My agents tell me that similar orders have been given. This will be the perfect opportunity to strike."
Dr. Briefs "That does sound tempting but giving you any of our people requires a great deal of trust on our part."
Cyan "I would hope so. If you would be stupid enough to hand that kind of information over to someone wearing this uniform, there wouldn't be a Resistance in the first place. I misspoke early I merely meant that I need you people to rise up with mine when the time comes. I give you the names of mine so you can tell yours who to trust when the shooting starts. Not everyone is here but I can hand you the rest."
Dr. Briefs "If that is the case how many soldiers do you have?"
Cyan sighed "Million plus. Tiny, I know but most of the loyalists are sheep. They follow orders and rarely question said orders. However, if we take out leadership its highly unlike that they will know enough to react. In the future there might be resistance but by then they will hopefully be disarmed."
Chi-Chi "Well that's rather optimistic. I dare say it's a fantasy."
Cyan "True. It's likely that it won't go as smoothly as planned. Most battle plans don't survive first contact with the enemy. But the important point this is we have a golden opportunity. Jaco, can you get us in contact with the high command of the UPA?"
Jaco stepped forward. He looked nearly recovered from his experience, but Tights was at his side anyways "Yes I can get you in touch with them. They may need some convincing, but if they are then we'll have the entirety of UPA on our side."
Cyan "That's very reassuring after all, I know for a fact that we are quite numbered. However, I do wonder if your side could be trusted after all it was one of your that gave up the Resistance on Ericama."
A bead of sweat came down Dr. Briefs's brow "Wait what about Ericama?"
"Ericama oh I was there at meeting for that invasion."
Dr. Briefs suddenly nervous and hiding it badly "Oh right. I… Chi-Chi and I need a second to discuss matters if you don't mind."
Cyan sighed "Oh damn. You know, don't you?" Said as he pressed a button under the desk and the doors slammed open to reveal a horde of troopers as Cell appeared next to Chi-Chi. In one chop he took out Chi-Chi before she could react.
Tarble turned Super then charge Cell only to be easily knocked aside. Trunks raise his blaster to shoot Cyan only to find a sharp pain hit the back of his neck. He fell to the ground with Erasa standing over him stone faced. She had knocked him out.
Cyan grinned "Alright you know it's over. Throw down your weapons or we'll start killing you all."
Mai looked over to Erasa staring bloody daggers at her. Erasa walked over to her and took the blaster out of her hand. Erasa looked her dead in the eyes "I guess I'm more loyal than you realized."
Mai "I should have known."
Erasa coldly stated "Yes you should have."
Bulma next to Mai tried to take a swing at her that Erasa easily caught and push Bulma into the hands of an officer that easily restrained her.
Cyan taking great pleasure in all of this chuckled. "Oh, did the ruthless elite commando hurt your feelings. You people are fools. You really thought that a soldier like her would so easily turn because of a few board games and polite words?"
Mai in a calm rage "They knew we were coming. You told them."
Erasa nodded in agreement then spun on her heel "Take them away." She said while not looking at any of them.
Erasa marched up to the desk as the group was being cuffed and led away. Erasa smashed her fists on the desk. "I don't enjoy being used Cyan."
Cyan a little miffed at her tone "That's Grand Admiral to you Commander."
Erasa frustrated "I told you the night was perfect opportunity to seize them, yet you seemed will to go on with this farce until they found out."
Cyan laid back a bit into his chair "I sense an accusation in there."
"These are yours and the Princess's men. They are all your dogs."
Cyan coyly "So what. Are you saying that this was some sort of wild plot to seize the Empire, kill the Emperor, and put my mistress on the throne? I hope you have a lot more proof than wild claims Commander."
Erasa growled "I suppose not. Where are you taking them?"
Cyan smirked "Since plans changed again, Earth like before but to present them to the Emperor, along with yourself. You got yourself an iron handled trident. Your bravery and loyalty in this matter has been above the call of duty. You'll be Captain after this I assure you and in the future a position in the admiralty and later the Moffs,"
"If you think your trinket and title makes me like you Grand Admiral then I'm glad to disprove you of that fact."
"You mistake me, I encourage you to say something."
Erasa looked far more unsure "Why?"
"You were getting that trinket and title no matter what. But I do wonder what your parents must think of you?"
"Are you bringing my parents into this? After all if I recall it was their disloyal that took me away from them."
Cyan chuckled some more "Are you worried about them Commander and what might happen to both your new friends and your old family? Well don't worry your new friends will live mostly likely. He wants them alive after all. This is a great day in the Empire. This is the victory of order over the Resistance."
Erasa hissed "You don't have Videl or Gohan yet."
"We have his mother and the rest of his family. The moment he hears of this he will be forced to try and get them back. He will face the Emperor and he will lose, and it is as simple as that. It will be a checkmate."