Ichigo and the others continued to travel on Oolong's van in search of the final Dragon Ball. They seemed to have been driving in a field of desert, with large mushroom trees shown to be everywhere where they were going.

"We're really close now, guys! Just one more Dragon Ball to go!" Bulma exclaimed as she checked on her radar while sitting on a couch. Though as of now she stopped wearing her bunny outfit, and in exchange got to a town where she buyed an Arabian outfit. It wasn't really her style, but it was far better than that horrendous outfit she previously wore.

"You know, you really are a massive coward, you know that?" Ichigo stared blankly at Oolong, knowing well that the pig could hear him. "Whenever there's even a little bit of danger, you always turn the other way and run!"

"Hey, gimme a break here, all of you just stubborn!" Oolong called out from his driver's seat. "I'm only trying to stay alive here!"

"Though that Boss Rabbit guy was really weird." Yamcha commented, sitting somewhere else farther than Bulma. "Any direct contact you make with him and you're good as done when you turn into a carrot."

"Yeah but the defense behind that is laughably easy. I mean all you need is some long ranged weapon, or any tool to have to hit him with instead of your fist." Ichigo shrugged off as he held a paper bag with him. "It's really that simple. But hey at least I got the clothes I needed."

"Still, that was a little brutal when you sent that rabbit through a wall with your Power Pole." Bulma commented, remembering the sounds of the walls being crashed through. There were injuries placed on the Boss Rabbit, but nothing too awful, just that he was sent unconscious.

"Nah, I only taught that self centered prick a lesson. I'm pretty sure he won't be stupid enough to bother people again with the beating he got. Then again it wasn't even that bad." Ichigo shrugged off.

"Say, I've been meaning to ask you guys something. I know that the Dragon Balls can grant all kinds of wishes and all, but what exactly did you guys want?" Oolong asked from the driver's seat.

"Hohoho, I never told anyone about this, did I?!" Bulma giggled as her face went red from the excitement. It made Ichigo groan as he rolled his eyes. "A perfect boyfriend! That's what I want!"

"WHAT?!" Oolong shouted in disbelief, trying not to turn around to look at Bulma as his jaw dropped. "A BOYFRIEND?!"

"Of course!" Unknown to Bulma, Yamcha was also in shock from the wish. "What's wrong with that?"

"We're risking our lives to help with this, and you're gonna go ahead to waste a single wish on some fucking boyfriend?!" Oolong replied back.

"What?! You take that back!" Bulma was insulted by this as she glared at Oolong. "You wouldn't really understand it anyways!"

"A boyfriend…?" Yamcha repeated that word, being in shock from the realization, albeit being disappointed as well. "Man, I don't think even my wish is that bad. All I wanted was to get rid of my fear of women."

Unbeknownst to the gang, there was someone standing over on top of a mushroom tree. It was Mai who was standing there as she watched the van driving by. It was a good thing she sent that cyborg bird to track where the Dragon Balls were with them. "Emperor Pilaf, we're currently at point Ho-15. There is only a single van driving through" Mai informed him with a walking talkie in her hand.

"Excellent! That must be the one! Proceed with the plan!" Pilaf called back on talkie.

"Understood." Mai nodded before she went on to contact Shu next. "Shu, can you see the van?"

"Yeah, I can see it right up ahead!" Shu replied back.

Back with the gang, they were now shown to be still passing the road, with Bulma and Oolong now arguing with one another. "Bulma, I'm going to ask you nicely this time: Can you please reconsider your wish? Surely you must have something that's better than anything to have a stupid boyfriend. Can't there be anything else that can be split between all of us? Like have all the gold riches in the world!" Oolong exclaimed.

"Oh well thank you very much for your criticism, Oolong, but I'll pass!" Bulma rebuked. "It's funny to hear you say that, considering not once have you come in useful the entire time!"

'Oh brother, they're not gonna stop at all…' Ichigo thought to himself, not bothering to listen to their petty skirmish as he moved away from Bulma, sitting on the opposite side.

"Uh, hey kid…" Ichigo looked boredly at Yamcha. "Aren't you gonna stop them?" Yamcha pointed at the two arguing.

Ichigo shrugged his shoulders and continued to look at the window instead. "Why bother? Let them settle with their own shit. This has nothing to do with me in the first place." he answered.

Ichigo widened his eyes when he saw a rocket heading straight for them. It was then that he jumped right through the window, leaping towards the rocket. Ichigo went ahead to try and kick the rocket away, but the contact he made with it exploded, sending Ichigo hurling away from the van as he kept rolling over on the ground.

"Ow… that one stinged." Ichigo managed to get up, rubbing his leg in doing so. "Just what the hell was that?" he asked himself as he saw the van stupidly stopping driving. "Why the hell did they stop?!" it was then that another rocket shot against the van, which destroyed the van as it became split in two. "Oh shit!" Ichigo started running after the van to check and see if everyone was alright. He saw a strange mechanical robot hopping over to the van and getting inside.

It took Ichigo seconds to reach the van, and by that time he saw the same robot from before taking away a large briefcase with its mechanical hands. He had a bad feeling on the briefcase that was being stolen, but he first made sure to check if everyone was alright. To his relief they were, as they were just blown away from the force. And along that, his bag was still safe as well and wasn't damaged.

"You guys alright?" Ichigo asked.

"N-Nevermind that right now!" Yamcha exclaimed as he managed to get up outside the van. "That thing just stole our Dragon Balls! You gotta get them back!"

"He's right! That creep can't take them at all! He shouldn't have gone too far!" Bulma exclaimed, pointing over at the direction where the robot went.

Something felt slightly familiar about this. Nevertheless, Ichigo did just that. He called forth the Magic Carpet just so he could find whatever took the Dragon Balls with them. As he was flying in mid air with the carpet, Ichigo could swear he did feel a human presence nearby when they were driving earlier. Actually if he did focus, he could feel two presences, human ones for that matter. Ichigo went after the sources, but somehow they were getting farther away from him.

By the time Ichigo got to where the two of them were at before, he could see the same machine he saw before. Unfortunately, whoever the two were they have long since gotten away. And the machine itself was left open. "Shit, looks like I didn't make it in time. Bulma is not gonna be happy about this one…" Ichigo told himself before he started flying back to where everyone else was at.

"I just hope that Ichigo is able to get those Balls back…" Bulma muttered to herself as she kept pacing with her arms folded in worry. "But damn it, I should have known it was gonna be like that."

"What do you mean?" Puar asked in confusion.

"I mean that out of all the people in the world, we can't possibly be the only ones that know the existence of the Dragon Balls. There have to be other people that know about it as well, it was written in an old book after all…" Bulma answered.

It was then that Ichigo came back in everyone's view as he rode on the carpet before he landed on the ground. "Bad news, I wasn't able to make it in time. The Dragon Balls in that briefcase were taken."

Hearing this piece of information made Bulma bend to her knees, having a devastated look on her face. "Ahhhh! It's all over now! They have all the Dragon Balls now, maybe even the last one! My wish of a perfect boyfriend is all gooooone!"

Ichigo rolled his eyes over this. "You're such a drama queen. Calm the hell down already, I still have 2 more Dragon Balls with us." he pointed over to the bag that was tied to his hip.

Bulma shot her eyes wide when she looked over at the other small bag that Ichigo had with him. Hearing this immediately boosted up her confidence as she got up and started laughing. "Hahahaha! Those fools! They forgot to take a few, like they actually thought they could outsmart us!" she boasted. "We can find out where they are with my Dragon Radar! C'mon, let's go! I'm the one who's going to get all 7 of them in the end!"

"You're kidding, right? Where the fuck can we even go? We don't have a vehicle anymore! Hell, I don't think the kid's carpet can fit all of us on there!" Oolong exclaimed in annoyance.

"Well, uh…" Yamcha scratched his head from behind, knowing that he had to step up in this. "Actually, I still have a hovercraft with me. It might not fit all of us in it, but we should be able to improvise."

"Oh, that's great!" Bulma went ahead to hug Yamcha, making the teenage bandit blush a furious shade of red when he felt a girl touch him like this. "Of course I should have known you would have been the one to save us from this! You're just the best, Yamcha!"

Yamcha kept shaking like a leaf, feeling like he was about to lose consciousness. "Gyaaaaaah!" he let out a yell, to which Puar tried to calm his master down. Though Bulma either looked like she didn't notice or didn't care.

After managing to calm Yamcha down and splitting Bulma away from him, Yamcha managed to regain some nerve to release his capsule in his pocket to reveal a hovercraft. Yamcha got in the front seat to be a driver, with Bulma immediately copping right next to him. Puar and Oolong were at the back, and Ichigo would just be flying with the carpet right next to them.

Inside a castle that stood in the middle of nowhere in a desert, Pilaf opened up a briefcase that Shu successfully managed to bring back without so much as trouble. When Pilaf opened it up, he could see the Dragon Balls inside them that were glowing. Needless to say, he became ecstatic when seeing them, not bothering to count. "At laaaaast! I finally managed to collect all 7 Dragon Balls!" Pilaf exclaimed in joy, not knowing he only had 5 instead.

"Uh… Emperor Pilaf…" Shu tried to speak, realizing he made a mistake once he counted how many Dragon Balls were there. But Pilaf wasn't listening right now, instead he was just tiptoeing around the room in celebration. "Sire…"

"We… don't exactly have all the Dragon Balls…" Mai spoke. "There's only 5 of them."

It was then Pilaf stopped and turned around to face his minions with a devastated look on his face. "But… That can't be! Did you check everything else?!"

"We did… we only have 2 missing…" Shu replied back in nervousness.

"YOU FOOLS!" Pilaf screamed at his minions, being enraged that he was being informed about this just now. "You call yourselves agents?! Next time, make sure to actually count them before taking them!"

"We are very sorry, sire. We have no excuses for this…" Mai bowed her head in apology.

"I mean, I still think that 5 Dragon Balls are pretty good on our side…" Shu remarked.

It was then that their own Dragon Radar began to buzz, showing a signal of their location of the last remaining Dragon Balls coming right towards them. "What's this?" Mai went on to check their radar on the screen, and she made sure this was not some glitch as she fixed it earlier. "Sir, I don't know how, but the last Dragon Balls are coming towards us!" she informed.

"What?! You're kidding me!" Pilaf was shocked by this, but nevertheless he grinned like a mad man. "Our luck has turned around! It must be those same people from before! Mai, Shu, let's greet our guests with some traps installed for them!"

It had taken less than an hour for Ichigo and everyone else to make it over to the destination to where their Dragon Balls had been stolen at. When they did make it, most of them were amazed to see an enormous castle residing in the middle of a desert.

"Wow, just look at the size of that thing!" Bulma exclaimed, being impressed by the sheer size of the castle.

Yamcha was shown to be breathing heavily, now finally having space for being with a girl for the longest time. Puar came over to his master's side. "Are you okay, Yamcha?!" Puar asked in concern.

"I'm… fine…" Yamcha panted. "All I have to do is just grant my wish of getting rid of my fear of women, and then I'll finally be free of this stupid curse."

"I guess our only way to enter would have to be through the front doors." Bulma remarked as she saw the large doors in front of everyone. "Though I don't think we're gonna be let in that easily. Well, Ichigo, you're gonna force the doors open."

"Yeah, yeah, I was just about to." Ichigo already got directly in front of the doors before pushing his hands onto them. He began to budge at least one of them with force, struggling somewhat to get them open. But nevertheless he managed to do so anyway.

When he did so, he and everyone else were surprised at how dark the inside of the place. It was as if it was some small cave they were stepping in. This didn't stop most of them as they walked in anyways.

"This is nuts, it's like everything is nighttime in here." Bulma commented, looking around wherever she could, with the quiet atmosphere being unsettling.

"I think we should be careful here though. I don't think our enemy is some petty thief this time around." Yamcha remarked, looking around to see if there was something that could show up at any time.

'With how huge this place is, there's no way someone could just let in without placing a few traps when they were the ones who stole the Dragon Balls. Although I might have a feeling who it might be…' Ichigo thought to himself as he walked in front of everyone else, wanting to make sure if any traps were placed then he would be the one to take most of them head-on.

Ichigo turned a corner to his right side, being the only place he could turn around at. Unknown to him though, one of them accidentally stepped on a trap when a piece of the ground just disappeared in the view. There were rumbling noises heard from this until pillars shot from the ground in random patterns in an effort to crush them. Bulma crawled on the ground when one pillar came right at her. Oolong barely managed to get to another side by running, and Puar leaped backwards away. Bulma on the other hand was being pulled in the air by another pillar on the ground, and she would have been crushed if not for Yamcha, who kicked the pillar in half to save Bulma's life.

Ichigo looked up to see a pillar heading down his way before it smashed right onto his head. Ichigo grunted from this before he tried pulling it back with one arm while bringing out his Power Pole, and smacking against the pillar which got smashed in half. "Graaaaaagh!" Ichigo began to destroy all the pillars that came at him, swinging his pole at them, destroying the pieces each time he swung at them. Yamcha was doing some work as well, destroying the pillars with his bare hands, though Ichigo was doing it at a much faster rate.

After breaking most of the pillars that came at his way with his pole, Ichigo looked around to see if everyone else was still with him. Good news was that no-one was relatively harmed to begin with, and that was a relief. "You guys alright?" Ichigo asked out of concern for them.

"Just barely…" Bulma breathed as she began to get up again.

"That's it!" Yamcha bursted out of the rubble he was trapped in before, gaining a furious look. "It's time for some payback right now!"

"Oh thank you, you saved me!" Bulma exclaimed as she came to hug Yamcha, who's anger subsided just when she came in contact with him.

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" Yamcha immediately backed away from everyone else and proceeded to take deep breaths, with Puar being by his side. Bulma was only left confused by this now.

"It's safe to say there are definitely traps here, that much is obvious." Ichigo pointed out, ignoring Yamcha's outburst. "We'll have to move around more carefully."

"Nooooo! That trap didn't work!" Pilaf exclaimed in shock as he watched the camera on screen within the room he was in. "Who even designed this trap in the first place?!"

"Uh, sire…" Mai looked awkwardly at her emperor as she stood next to him. "You were the one who did that."

"Erm…" Pilaf gained a look of embarrassment as his face flushed red, knowing he was the one who made that. "Nevermind then. We still have more traps for them!"

"I don't really mean to butt in, but I hope you didn't mind if I made a modification to the next trap they're about to be in." Mai informed Pilaf.

"Hm? What modification?" Pilaf asked his agent in interest.

"You'll see soon enough…"

Ichigo and the others had their backs pressed against the walls as they leaned onto it while walking slowly, with Ichigo taking the main direction. So far they hadn't encountered any trap in the span of a few minutes, and there would most likely be a trap very soon. Ichigo already confirmed his suspicions when he saw an arrow that led them to take another path.

"The hell is this supposed to be?" Ichigo asked when looking down at the arrow.

"Is this another trap?" Oolong asked, being the last one to sneak behind the group.

"There's no way. No-one could be dumb enough to fall for something like this." Bulma commented.

"Let's just keep going and turn in another direction." Ichigo told everyone, as they still headed onwards to proceed with caution.

They saw another arrow that pointed to their left, but the others only went to the opposite side instead. They kept going at this, just so they could have a proper direction to go to. They kept turning from one point to another, until Ichigo and the others stumbled onto a dead end. Once they got there, Ichigo widened his eyes when he realized what he and the others stepped into. "Shit, it's the wrong way!" Ichigo exclaimed as he was about to head back, but by that point it was too late as a wall closed down, making everyone get surrounded with no way to get out.

"You reversed the direction of the arrows?" Pilaf gave Mai a questionable look.

"To be fair, emperor, it's a bit obvious for anyone to fall for such a simple trap." Mai rebuked.

"Normally I wouldn't like something like this without my permission, however since all of them are trapped, I'll let it slide this time." Pilaf looked back at the camera. "Finally, the last pair of Dragon Balls will be all mine!"

"Emperor Pilaf!" It was at that moment that Shu bursted in the room, seeming to be out of breath. "I checked everything in the car they came in, but I couldn't find a single Dragon Ball in it!"

"It's not there?!" Pilaf seemed to have been surprised by this before looking back at the screen. "That means that one of them must be carrying them!" he exclaimed, but the problem was he didn't know who it was that had it.

"If I were to suspect, it might appear that boy with the bag on his hand." Mai pointed over to Ichigo's bag.

Yamcha and Ichigo have been trying to break through the walls, using all their strength as they unleashed barrage of punches and kicks, Yamcha even going as far as to use his Wolf Fang Fist to break through, but all of their attempts resulted in each failure. Ichigo let his bag rest off somewhere else.

"Damn it! Nothing we do works!" Yamcha exclaimed in frustration as he rested his hands against the wall they were trapped in. "The walls are too strong!"

"You got that right, what are these things even made out of?" Ichigo clenched his fist as he saw there was no damage at all, even when he kept hitting at full strength. 'No choice. I'll have to use my Kamehameha to get us out of here.' he thought to himself.

"What's the matter?!" Everyone looked over to see that a television screen popped up, and it showed Pilaf behind the screen. "You're not finding it easy to break through my double reinforced steel walls, can you?!"

"Who are you supposed to be?!" Bulma demanded to know.

"I am Emperor Pilaf, and you will do as I say!" Pilaf announced himself on the screen, which made Ichigo make a small snicker when hearing that.

"So you're the one who stole the Dragon Balls!" Bulma exclaimed.

"Yes, this is true, but unfortunately I seem to be missing a few. I know one of you still has the 1 and 5 star ball with you! I'll make things easier for you if you hand over the balls immediately, if you do not you will surely regret it!" Pilaf threatened them.

'This guy looks more ridiculous in person than in the show. If I remember he did have two minions with him, one being a female and the other a dog, and I'm pretty sure all of them really sucked at their job.' Ichigo thought to himself, not feeling the least bit threatened.

"Like hell! As if we're gonna give it to you in the first place!" Bulma got closer to the screen and gave a taunting look. "Bleeeh!"

Pilaf growled at this, being angered at someone defying him like this. "So that's how you want to play, huh?! If you refuse to hand me over the Dragon Balls, then I will do something horribly perverted to you!" Pilaf exclaimed before he went on to push a button, or at least what sounded like one!

Just then, a machine claw came out from above and snatched Bulma away, right before it just disappeared. Everyone else was surprised by this, while Ichigo seemed to be more so interested as to what might happen next.

"Let me go you damn thieves!" Bulma cursed out when she got to another room where Pilaf and his minions were at all while she was still trapped by the claw that snatched her away.

"You fool! I am the great and powerful Emperor Pilaf, and I will be the one to give orders around here! Now this is your last chance to tell me where the last Dragon Balls are!" Pilaf demanded to know.

Bulma only gave him the middle finger as her response. "Fuck off! Like I'd tell you anyway!"

"I see… you really wanted to be humiliated, don't you?" Pilaf began to chuckle to himself, sending shivers down his minion's spines. "Then it appears I have no choice." there was a drool that was shown on Pilaf, with Bulma looking horrified with what she thought might happen next.

"Please, Emperor, have mercy!" Shu pleaded.

Bulma shut her eyes tightly, trying to rebel by somehow turning away as much as she could. She just had to open her big mouth, and now she might get molested, or worse even raped where everyone else could see her. She was trying to embrace for the worst because of what was about to happen. And then…

… Pilaf blew a kiss on her.

Once seeing that nothing else was happening, Bulma opened her eyes and turned back to face Pilaf, who already seemed to be blushing profusely, and the minions were covering their faces with their hands to hide the embarrassment. "Huh?" Bulma was utterly confused by this action. "What was that?"

"I… I blew a kiss to you…" Pilaf kept looking up and down at Bulma and the floor beneath him. "Bet you wanna tell me where they are now, don't you!"

"S-So perverted!" Mai exclaimed.

"Don't mention it like that!" Shu exclaimed.

"Is that… all you're really capable of?" Bulma gave a puzzled look, which in turn made Pilaf look at her in disbelief. This made Bulma start laughing, realizing how ridiculous this was becoming. "Hahaha! That's seriously all you could come up with?! I mean I thought you would have stripped me nude and tried a Hero-Hero, or a Puff-Puff, or a Kyoi-Kyoi, or some Inguri-Monguri!"

"GE — GEHHH! WHAT A LASCIVIOUS WOMAN! H-HOW WERE YOU ABLE TO LIST OFF SO MANY PERVERTED THINGS?!" Pilaf quickly got to the controls just so that he could get Bulma away from him. "BEGONE WITH YOU!"

"Hehehehe…" Ichigo covered his mouth with his hand, trying to hold back his laughter as much as he could. "Ahahaha…" but it was becoming difficult to do so when seeing the absolute failure on Pilaf's "perverted" action, if you could even call it that. "Hahahaha!" he couldn't take it, and he started to burst out laughing.

"I think she might be pushing it! Otherwise he might do something really horrible!" Yamcha exclaimed in worry.

'Well that's one big disappointment.' Oolong thought, no longer getting excited that Bulma didn't receive any actual punishment.

"Y-You're joking right?" Ichigo still kept up his laughter, now holding his hands over his gut. "If he can't go beyond sending someone a kiss, he might as well can't do anything!" he continued to laugh out loud. That was until Bulma came back and landed down on the ground. "Though I'm curious, what did all those words mean earliest from Bulma? I only know what the Puff-Puff means, but that's about it."

"Damn it all! That girl must have some thick skin if she can't fall to any perverted attacks!" Pilaf exclaimed in anger as he clenched his fists, fuming that his trap had no effect on her to begin with.

"Emperor Pilaf, how about knocking them out with the sleeping gas and then search for the Dragon Balls?" Mai suggested.

"That's right! We could always do just that!" Pilaf then ran over to the controls. "Let's put them to sleep."

There was gas leaking from the pipes to where the television was placed at. This took out everyone by surprise, having not expected something like this to happen. Puar tried to get away from it by flying above in the air as much as he could, but the gas reached everywhere within the walls, and before long Puar was the first to be knocked out.

"W-What the hell is this gas?!" Oolong tried to run away to wherever he could so he couldn't get affected, but alas he soon passed out as well.

Soon enough, Yamcha and Bulma became affected as well and got knocked out. Ichigo remained the only one to stay awake, but even so he was losing consciousness rather quickly. "Shit…" he cursed out, trying to think of something, but by that it was already far too late as he got knocked out and just laid on the ground.

The walk that trapped them began to open, revealing Pilaf and his minions, who wore gas masks to cover their faces, though Pilaf was the only one who didn't wear it. "Hahaha!" Pilaf laughed at them. "Just look at them! They thought they could outsmart me?! Alright, now let's search where those Dragon…" Pilaf began to feel drowsy, the gas starting to affect him as well. "Dragon Ba… Ba…" he began to rub his eyes, but it became futile as he fell into his slumber as well.

"Emperor Pilaf!" Shu and Mai got to Pilaf's side once he got knocked out. "He wasn't wearing the gas mask!" Shu exclaimed the obvious.

"It's ironic he became a victim of his trap as well." Mai commented, releasing a small chuckle in doing so. "Anyway, you take the Emperor back to his chamber, I'll go look for the ball." Shu nodded his head before he began to drag Pilaf back. "Now then…"

Mai got to Oolong's side and began to search from head to toe where the Dragon Balls could be at, only to end up with nothing. She approached Yamcha's side, only to end up with the same result as the pig. Mai then got to Ichigo's side and searched on his body, but this time she felt something a little more heavy on his side. "What's this?" she wrinkled her eyebrows when she picked up on Ichigo's sag before ripping it off to reveal a 1 Star Ball. "There's one! Now to find one more, although if I remember… he did have a bag with him as well." Mai got to the said bag that got away from Ichigo, before she searched it inside. Once she got past the orange clothing, she found a 5 Star Ball there as well. "Finally, we have all 7 of them now! We can summon the Eternal Dragon!" she exclaimed in excitement.

Before everyone knew it, nighttime came around, with the full moon being presented outside. Hours passed by ever since the sleeping gas was used, and the effects of it started to wear off as Pilaf managed to wake up. After being informed on successfully gaining all 7 Dragon Balls, Pilaf became ecstatic and went outside his castle to summon the Dragon in full view along with his minions joining him. Soon, the entire world would be ruled by him.

At the same time, back at Pilaf's castle, Ichigo and the others were waking up as the gas effects were wearing off. They realized soon enough that the last remaining Dragon Balls they had with them were gone, making almost everyone panic.

"We're really screwed now!" Bulma hanged her head with her hands, becoming increasingly worried by the second. "What if they already summoned the Dragon and got their wish granted?!"

"We can't be sure! Even if they did get whatever wish they wanted, we can't just stay here any longer!" Yamcha threw a desperate punch against the wall, but nothing even put a dent in it. "But these walls are too strong! Nothing we do works!"

"What did Pilaf say about the walls again? Something about being made out of double reinforced steel walls?" Ichigo asked as he looked around. "I guess there's only one way out of this, since our normal attacks don't have any effect on this thing."

"Wait, you mean your Kamehameha Wave? Of course! It's our only way out of this!" Yamcha exclaimed with some hope in his voice. "You have to hurry!"

"I was getting there!" Ichigo retorted back before he went on to strike the stance, cupping his hands together to charge the beam he was about to fire. There was no time to waste now. "Ka… me… ha… me…" the familiar sense of energy gathered between his hands was seen. Now all he had to do was expel it out now. "Ha!" he fired the blue beam of energy as he thrust his hands onwards right at the wall. The Kamehameha managed to successfully break through the wall, and though it was quite limited, Ichigo did manage to cause a hole large enough to cover the size of a person's head to their torso. "Sorry, but this is all I can do."

"That's good enough!" Yamcha quickly got the hole, and could easily peak out of the hole. He was able to see the outside, and he was relieved to know that Pilaf and his gang still didn't summon the Dragon. They still had time. "They're right there, and it looks like they're just about to summon the dragon! We still have time! Puar, do you think you can turn into some bat and fly down to steal one of the Dragon Balls?"

"Yes sir!" Puar immediately did just that as he turned into a bat before flying off through the hole.

Bulma looked over at Oolong, who was just lazily looking at all of this without a care. "Oolong, help him out already! Why are you just standing around?!"

"Huh?! Me?!" Oolong pointed to himself in confusion. "Why do I have to?!"

"JUST MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL OR ELSE I'M GOING TO SCREAM PII PII!" Bulma screamed at Oolong with an infuriating look handed to him, pressuring him to go along.

"Alright, alright already!" Oolong turned into a bat as well and filed through the hole, not wanting to provoke Bulma any further.

Soon enough, Puar and Oolong were flying as fast as they could go to get to Pilaf and his goons. "Rise, Eternal Dragon, and hear the wish of he who summons you!" Pilaf announced the commands.

After that, all the Dragon Balls that gathered together started glowing in a bright manner, and dark clouds began to appear and covered the full moon. Lighting struck the balls, which made it glow brighter than ever. Everyone stood in sheer awe at the magnificent glow of energy, even more so when a colossal pillar of yellow energy emerged right from the balls, taking the vast shape of a massive dragon.

"Uwaaa! Waaaaah!" Oolong stopped in his tracks once he saw the massive dragon right before he turned back into his normal form.

"We're too late! The Dragon's already been summoned!" Puar exclaimed, as he returned to his normal state as well.

"Holy shit! That dragon is huge!" Yamcha exclaimed in shock as he stood to look at the sheer size of the dragon.

"It's all over now! They're not gonna make it!" Bulma exclaimed, fearing that the world may very well be at that little goblin's hands.

"Tell me your wish…" Shenron's voice boomed as he spoke, looking down at the frightened people below him. "I will grant any 1 wish you have."

"M-My wish? Ah, y-yes of course, just for a second…" Pilaf backed a step away, gulping at the intimidating dragon before him. "Just let me be ready…"

"Shit, shit, shit, shit! Isn't there anything else we can do?!" Yamcha backed away, clenching his fists in desperation to do anything else to stop Pilaf.

"Not if I have anything to say about it. You two might wanna back off." Ichigo spoke, and the two of them split apart from one another before Ichigo maintained his stance of releasing the same wave of energy he did before. "Kame… hame… ha!" Ichigo fired the blast next to the hole he fired at, making the hole bigger than before. He would have to keep doing this until he and the others got past through this.

"You dry my patience. Hurry and speak your wish!" Shenron spoke with impatience at being kept this long, his large red eyes glaring down at Pilaf.

"I-I'm sorry! It's just that I've never done this before! I-I'll get to it right now!" Pilaf replied back, now mustering the courage to speak his wish.

"This is really bad… we might wanna run away…" Oolong crept a step backwards, with Puar being right next to him.

"I don't know what else to do right now…" Puar answered.

'Hey, wait a minute! As long as I can wish for something before he does…' Oolong gained an idea in his head. The dragon still didn't have a wish granted to him, so there was still hope left. With that said, he started running towards where Pilaf was as fast as he could, his action shocking Puar.

"Now… for my wish…" Pilaf began to dramatically raise his hands, now fully ready to make his wish. "I w-want—"

"—A GIRL'S PAIR OF PANTIES!" Oolong screamed out at the top of his lungs as he got behind Pilaf and his goons, making his wish come out first.

Shenron bulged his eyes out when hearing a wish like that, along with an exaggerated sweatdrop formed at his head. Pilaf, Mai, and Shu turned around to face Oolong with looks of disbelief added onto them, their eyes becoming wide as dinner plates. Shenron's eyes glow brightly, signalling that Oolong's wish has been granted. Everyone stood in utter silence, until a pair of panties appeared to fall down from the sky until they landed on top of Oolong's face, who was grinning madly at this.

By this point, Ichigo managed to successfully break through the steel walls with his Kamehamehas, making a large hole for everything else to step through easily. They have all seen what just went down. "I can't believe it! That perverted bastard actually saved the world!" Yamcha smirked.

"Unironically he wished for some pair of panties…" Ichigo commented.

"Your wish has been granted. Farewell." Shenron announced before his massive form disappeared, and all the Dragon Balls flew in the air, and one by one all of them started spreading across from different sides of the entire world. This made Ichigo gain a frown.

Oolong was still grinning wildly, temporarily ignoring the danger that previously happened before. Pilaf on the other hand was enraged, the world became so close to belong to him, only for it to slip from his grasp just like that. He could see that Ichigo and the others have escaped from his trap as well, fueling him with more rage. "SEIZE THE PIG!" Pilaf filled his command, and Shu and Mai did that without hesitation.

Oolong widened his eyes when the situation came back to him. He yelled out in fear, but he reacted too late when Mai and Shu managed to grab him, with Mai pointing her gun at Oolong's head, and Shu holding his sword at the pig's throat.

Ichigo and the others widened their eyes in shock when seeing that Oolong was being held hostage. Pilaf has had just about enough. He could order to capture the cat thing, but it was much farther to do that. Pilaf was not going to take opportunities to be stopped any further, if taking a hostage could make them listen to go back to a bigger trap just so he could fry them to death, then it should work.

"You won't go anywhere further!" Pilaf yelled out, trying to make his rage induced voice be clear. "I could go ahead and command to blow this pig's brains out if I could! You just ruined my chance at world domination! And just for that I'm going to give all of you a punishment! You three come down from here, and that weird cat looking thing! Or else this pig won't live to see another day!"

"Damn it… what can we do now?!" Yamcha cursed as he clenched his fist, seeing Oolong being in a dangerous situation. He looked over to see Ichigo, who looked like he was about to snap someone's head off with the amount of anger sufficed with him. "Hey, Ichigo, you think you can use your Power Pole to get Oolong out of there?"

"I can't be sure... I can't risk it if it won't be able to make it in time." Ichigo answered as he clenched his fists tightly, with some veins bulging from his as well.

Ichigo tried to think whatever he could. Oolong may have been a bastard, a perverted one, and a coward on top of that. But he just managed to save the entire world from Pilaf's wrath, and even he didn't deserve to have a death handed to him. There had to be some way to save him. It was then he gained an idea. Tonight was the full moon, wasn't it? And in this life he was a Saiyan. And from what he knew, Saiyans would turn into Oozarus, or Great Apes, or however you wanted to call them. So if he were to just look at the full moon… it may just save Oolong, but there was a risk if he might lose control.

It was the only risk he could make. There was no other option.

"Hey… just do what he says." Yamcha and Bulma looked at him with a surprised look. Ichigo got to his bag and handed it to Yamcha. "Just get down there and take this with you." he then gave his Power Pole as well.

"Wait, what about you? Aren't you coming with us?" Bulma asked in confusion.

"I'm going in to save Oolong." Both of them looked at him with more confusion. "There's not much time to explain. Just get down there before Pilaf somehow loses hit shit and kills Oolong."

"I just hope you have some plan up your sleeve…" Yamcha said before he grabbed Bulma with one arm, carrying her over his shoulder before hopping off.

He really hoped this worked. Ichigo looked over to see the full moon, now that the dark skies have cleared up when Shenron and the Dragon Balls disappeared. It took several seconds, but he could start feeling the effects for the first… no, second time in fact. His eyes turned red, and he could feel his heart beating as loud as a drum, so much he could barely think that others might hear it. He took a few steady breaths, and he could feel his body mass starting to become larger all of a sudden, along with his muscle mass as well. Ichigo was becoming unnaturally large for human standards, the pupils in his eyes being reduced, along with his teeth releasing a few fangs as well. His clothes started to get ripped apart, along with the red wristbands as well. "Rrrgh…" Ichigo growled, with brown getting coated all over his body. His size kept growing bigger and bigger, breaking right through the ceiling he was previously trapped, easily destroying all the steel walls from before. "Raaaaaaaugh!" he roared, and it hadn't taken long before Ichigo turned into a giant colossal monkey.

"KYAAAAAAAAAAH!" Everyone started screaming at the same time when they saw the transformation become fully finished, now witnessing the colossal ape. They were so terrified that Pilaf's gang let go of Oolong. "UWAOOOOOH!"

"HOLY SHIT!" Yamcha screamed his lungs out, being in shock at the giant furry monster.

The large ape known as the Oozaru started to yell out, pumping out his chest like a monkey before turning around to face the castle, swinging his fists wildly at the castle, destroying small parts of it in doing so. It seemed to be running out of control, focusing on destroying parts of the castle and not focusing on the humans away from him.

"Wh — What the hell is that thing?!" Pilaf was starting to back away in fear. "And what's it doing?! It's destroying my castle!"

"Damn! Is this what he meant by having a plan?! That is one hell of a crazy pull he did!" Yamcha exclaimed as he managed to get back in the room, running out of breath from running so much, and even more so from carrying a girl with him. "HEY, ICHIGO, I THINK THAT'S ENOUGH! YOU CAN STOP NOW!"

Those words seemed to have reached Ichigo's ears, despite how much distance there was between them. The Oozaru crushed a few more things along its path before turning around to see the humans, but when it saw Pilaf and his minions, it became angry. The Oozaru ripped off a good chunk of a small tower before proceeding to throw it where everyone else was. Everyone else started to panic before trying to run away as fast as they could. The tower crashed on the ground before splitting into multiple large layers of pieces, which managed to hit Pilaf's minions and sent them unconscious, with their eyes rolling in circles as stars were circling above their heads.

"This is it! We're all gonna die here!" Oolong yelled out in fear.

Yamcha and the others were looking over to the castle, and to their horror they saw the Oozaru Ichigo running towards them. But when the wild beast got about halfway to where they were, it just suddenly stopped, with its red eyes widening as much as possible. Oozaru Ichigo started to clutch his head in pain. "Graaaaaagh!" Oozaru Ichigo yelled out, his mind throbbing as it knelt down on the ground. "GRAAAAAAGH!" It roared as it got up, before turning around to fire off a powerful blast of energy from its mouth, which managed to pierce right through the top of Pilaf's castle, and travelled further upon until it came in contact with several mountains before destroying them.

"Holy fucking shit…" Yamcha had his jaw on the ground, seeing the amount of raw power and destruction this colossal monkey form of Ichigo was performing. He was sure that everyone else was feeling the same way as well.

Oozaru Ichigo was taking deep breaths as it looked at everyone else. He started to approach them, although his steps were more calm and focused, no indication of a savage nature he had moments before.

"What's going on here? He's being different…" Bulma muttered to herself, still being rather fearful if the monster that was her friend before might just kill them without expecting it.

The Oozaru stopped when it got close enough to everyone else, its breathing being rather ragged. "T... Tail…" it managed to speak, surprisingly enough.

"Wait, what's he talking about?" Puar asked in utter confusion, the night becoming so different with all the events that transpired.

Yamcha widened his eyes, realizing as to what this beast was talking about. "His tail!" he exclaimed. "I think he wants us to cut off his tail!" he looked over at his partner. "Puar! Turn into a giant pair of scissors and cut off the tail!"

"Right!" Puar approached the ape monster before it managed to get behind him, before turning into a giant pair of scissors and cutting off the massive tail.

Oozaru Ichigo yelled out from the pain of the loss of his tail, but nevertheless it worked as the Oozaru started becoming much smaller, and before long managed to return to his original state that Ichigo was in before… except this time he came back completely naked without any clothes to support with.

Ichigo panted heavily as he knelt over on the ground, shivering as his naked body came in contact with it. He felt almost all his strength pass away from him from how exhausted he felt after reverting back, not to mention the pain from losing his tail. Along that he felt embarrassed, with everyone seeing his nude form as they quickly approached. That Oozaru transformation really took a toll on him, not to mention his previous usages of his Kamehameha and that energy blast from his mouth drained him even more. Taking back control over the Oozaru form was more so child's play compared to his full Hollowfied transformations, the ones he didn't have proper control over his original powers.

"Hey, kid, you alright? What the hell happened to you there?!" Oolong asked as he approached the naked boy.

"Do you remember anything that happened?!" Bulma asked in concern.

"Yeah, but…" Ichigo weakly raised his head to look at them. "Can you just give me those new clothes first?" He looked at Yamcha. "And turn around please?"

"Oh, uh… sure." Yamcha dumbly nodded his head, digging his way through the bag in one hand before handing out a pair of orange clothes to Ichigo.

"Thanks…" Ichigo murmured to himself before grabbing the clothes and started to put them on.

"So uh… you remember anything that happened to you?" Oolong asked.

"... I can get the gist of it." Ichigo replied back nonchalantly as he put on a pair of underwear before putting on light green shorts that reached above his knees, looking briefly back at the destroyed castle he ruined. He then put on a blue t-shirt, and on top of that he put an orange vest before zipping it up. The was supported with a hoodie on it and two medium sized pockets that rested on each side of the zipper on his hips, and the back of the vest had a red whirlpool symbol on it. He then put on black wristbands on his wrists, and last but not least he put on blue sandals, one that could act more like shoes as they reached a little above his ankles. "There." Ichigo said, finally finished putting on his new outfit as he got up. "Now that's much better."

"So what the hell was that then?! Are you some alien or something?!" Oolong asked once more.

"That's none of my concern — ahh!" Ichigo yelped in surprise when he suddenly fell down on the ground, being confused as to what happened all of a sudden.

"Are you alright?" Puar asked in confusion.

"I-I'm not sure…" Ichigo muttered out as he started to get up again. Something felt wrong. "For some reason I'm having a hard time standing up…"

"Ah, well I guess that must be because we cut your tail. You must have been used to it for so long that your balance must have changed." Yamcha remarked with his arms folded.

"Seriously?" Yamcha then gave Ichigo his Power Pole back as well. "Well that's just great. Now it'll take a while for me to get used to not having a tail…" Ichigo said, trying to step. This felt so odd. It was as if he was trying to stand with only one leg instead of two, and it didn't help that he felt lightheaded. Well he got what he wanted, but he completely forgot it caused consequences in doing so. "Hang on, how were you able to cut the tail so easily in my Ooz — I mean my… monster form thing?" he looked at Puar. "I thought shape shifting only changes your appearance, not your power?"

"Oh, that's simple. I can change my appearance, and some of my power as well." Puar answered. "Because I was actually paying attention, unlike a certain someone…" he proceeded to glare at Oolong.

"I already said the appearance stuff was for myself! I wasn't talking about all shapeshifters being like that!" Oolong argued.

"Right…" Ichigo then looked over at where Pilaf was at, and he became a little surprised that he was still here. "I'm surprised you're still here."

"... I'm done." Pilaf blandly commented before he started to walk away, completely giving up. "You can do what you want. Use what's left of the castle for all I care."

"You sound oddly submissive?" Ichigo raised his eyebrows in interest from this.

"...Oddly submissive?" Pilaf turned around to look at Ichigo. "You destroyed my precious castle! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG IT TOOK ME TO BUILD THAT?! 10 YEARS! IT TOOK ME 10 YEARS TO BUILD THAT CASTLE! AND YOU RUINED IT!"

"Geez, 10 years…?" Ichigo scratched the back of his head. "I am trying to form some pity on you, but you decided to be a jackass and mess with my friends. So you really don't get to take any pity for me."

"AAAAAH! I SWEAR THAT ONE DAY YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS!" Pilaf screamed out.

"Want me to bust out my monster form again?" Ichigo proceeded to glare at Pilaf, threatening him. He was bluffing, of course, as there was no way for him to turn into an Oozaru again. "I'll do it again if I have to."

This made Pilaf start sweating buckets from his face, now caught with fear. "O-On second thought… you can actually have the castle for yourself if you want to! I-I know that it looks run-down, but you can even use stuff there for yourself if you want to! There must be at least some valuable stuff there left, especially for travels! Just please!" Pilaf knelt down on the ground. "Spare me and let me live!"

"You might wanna do it while you have the chance." Ichigo spoke, his glare having gotten deeper. "And take those two idiots with you. Honestly all of you just suck at your jobs."

Pilaf nervously nodded his head before going ahead to wake up Shu and Mai to take them out of here. When they did, all three of them ran away with their lives.

"Well it is great that those 3 bozos finally got out. Though it kinda sucks we can't get to use the castle. Would be pretty useful to track the Dragon Balls across the world." Yamcha commented.

"No, we might as well give it up and try next year. It wouldn't really be possible to track the Dragon Balls anymore." Bulma remarked with a saddened sigh.

"What?! Why?!" Everyone else besides Ichigo were shocked by this information, and were confused as to why they couldn't find the Dragon Balls.

"Once a wish has been made with the Dragon Balls, it takes one year for them to become active and useful again. In other words, they'll just appear as round stones for a whole year, and it won't be possible to search them until then." Bulma explained.

"O... One year?!" Yamcha was in shock, nearly wanting to be fueled in despair on being shy around women for another bloody year.

"Gimme a break…" Oolong grumbled, thinking that all that travelling was nearly for nothing.

"You know I was kinda thinking of using Pilaf's castle right now." Ichigo said, hanging his hands onto the back of his head. "Not like living in it, but I was more so thinking on selling the stuff from the inside."

"Why would you wanna do that?" Puar asked in confusion.

"Well one reason for that would have to be for some of us to get money, and I could use some for myself as well. Along that, I really wanna make sure that a wrong person like Pilaf and his gonna don't get to use it ever again." Ichigo explained his reasoning. "Plus, we're gonna split apart anyway now that the Dragon Balls won't be in use for a whole year."

"You do have a good point, though it really might take awhile before we find at least a few people that would be interested to buy some of the stuff that are in that place." Bulma remarked.

"Also, I might really need to find a vehicle to use for a while till I manage to find proper balance without a tail." Ichigo said.

The gang searched inside Pilaf's castle throughout the night, searching on whatever stuff they could that would be useful to them or just sell it later on. Hours have been passing by to the point that the sun already came by as morning. They found capsules that provided food, clothing, drinks, items, and quite a lot of money as well. But during the middle of searching, Ichigo stumbled onto a certain motorcycle that peaked quite an interest, and he loved the design of it. The others helped him settle on providing food, clothing, and gas that were stuffed inside of the "pocket" of the motorcycle as capsules.

As this was happening, all the others managed to find a helicopter that suited just enough for almost everyone to fit in it. Most of the others decided to go back to the city with Bulma, with Yamcha and Puar wanting to leave the desert, and Oolong having more chances to see women there. Along that, Yamcha and Bulma decided to "spend more together", aka they finally managed to find themselves as boyfriend and girlfriend now. Along that, Yamcha and Bulma took about 20 minutes to explain to Ichigo on just how a motorcycle does work properly before Ichigo got fully used to riding the ones he was having.

As of right now, all the crew were gathered outside, with Ichigo on his Can Am Spyder 3-wheel Motorcycle, who had also been given a Dragon Radar by Bulma, just so he could find the Dragon Balls for himself next year. Yamcha and the others got onto a small airplane, with Puar and Oolong sitting at the back.

"Train hard and be as strong as Master Roshi someday, alright?!" Yamcha waved over at Ichigo.

"You bet your ass I will!" Ichigo exclaimed.

"We'll make sure to see each other again someday!" Bulma also waved at Ichigo for a goodbye.

"Make sure to satisfy your sexual frustration when the time is right!" Ichigo remarked.

"Oh fuck off!" Bulma exclaimed in annoyance as she glared at Ichigo.

"Make sure to have fun as well!" Puar waved as well with a smile.

"... Yeah." Ichigo curved a genuine smile from him. "It was fun with you guys, even though it was stupid and crazy."

"See you later!" And with that, the plane set off, and everyone bid their farewells to Ichigo.

Ichigo also bid them farewell as he waved his hand at them. And with that said, he started to drive off with the motorcycle. "Heh… I guess going off with this adventure wasn't so bad after all. I kinda liked it…" he could feel the wind brushing past his face, and he felt a smile curve upwards. "But now… nest stop: visit to Master Roshi's! Woooooo!" he cheerfully exclaimed as he rode on the motorcycle faster than before.

It was… fun.

Finally this is finished. I managed to finish the first arc of Dragon Ball known as the "Pilaf Saga" or whatever the hell it's called. Really sorry if this took so long to come out, because to be honest I've been losing focus as of lately when writing. It's not because I'm losing motivation or anything like that, it's just I can't focus properly and I keep getting distracted. I don't know why myself. I do hope this was worth it.

Now to explain a few things. I skipped on the Boss Rabbit episode because that kinda felt like it was unnecessary filler to add in this. Especially the ending, yes I know it was a joke but like… what the hell. Also on Ichigo managing to have control over his Oozaru form, like this was said his Hollow forms are far more difficult when they became unstable. Not to mention the Oozaru is only a 10X boost as well, so it shouldn't have been that difficult to take control.

If you're curious about Ichigo's new clothing, it's based on one of the clothing from Naruto in Naruto Shippuden during one of his childhood flashbacks. I don't know which episode it was, but you can search on YouTube for a Naruto AMV called "Welcome To My Life". You'll know the clothing when you see it.

Also for the motorcycle, imagine the one being used by Bulma from the Dragon Ball Evolution movie. I know that thing is like an abhorrent abomination, but that bike looks so fucking cool.

Well I'm gonna pass out from being tired. See you in a month or so.