"Oh wow, it is Launch!" Krillin walked forward. "Hey! L-"

He stopped as dozens of Oni turned their weapons his way.

"Oi, lay off him you bastards, I know that twerp." Launch raised her hand, causing the Oni to flinch and back away.

The kids and teens watched as the young woman stood up, dark blue eyes glistening and blond hair swirling as she stepped down from a golden throne.

"Who is this girl?" Yamcha asked quizzically, "And why's she leading the Oni?!" He pointed his sword at Launch. Causing the Oni to raise their weapons again. "Don't you realize these monsters are pillaging the surrounding islands and the villagers of the coastlines?!"

"Yamcha!" Krillin shouted, "calm down, I'm sure Launch has a reasonable explanation, she's my…" he paused, "uh, she trained with…" he paused then scratched his head.

"I'm technically a fellow student of the Turtle School, Master Roshi ordered them to find me, then they stuck me in a ridiculous little getup and made me cook and clean."

Krillin stuttered, "uh, sorry, Roshi said we had to find a…" he paused, looking at Chi-Chi and Launch, "pretty girl…"

Chi-Chi looked shocked and weirded out, while PaoPao merely smirked. "Muten Roshi's appetite for women is as legendary as his fighting prowess, in certain circles of course." Jazz for his part narrowed his eyes.

Launch walked up to the group. "You're saying my boys went out to the villages and were a little rough with those folk?"

"Your boys?!" Yamcha growled.

"My boys, my men, my troops," Launch chuckled, "my band of merry demons."

"Why are you hanging out with demons?" Chi-Chi asked. "They don't look very nice."

"I'm not exactly nice either, brat," Launch cackled, "besides, these bastards needed someone like me to whip them into shape. After all, you abandoned us to drown when the island sank."

"We didn't know you were on the island!" Krillin shouted.

"Oh? Then what did Roshi say? That I just disappeared? Didn't he tell you where I went? Or was he too busy looking after your chrome dome and the monkey brat?" She frowned, "where is he anyway? Gave me a ton of trouble when he destroyed the island."

"Goku?" Krillin gulped, "you were on the island when he blew…"

"Are you an idiot? Of course, I'm on the island we are on now, the island that's been partially blown to smithereens. Anyways, where is he?"

"Oh, he can't fit in those doors. He's still big."

Jazz was the first to react, rushing past everyone else and transforming into as large a creature as possible, he ended up taking the form of a blue whale, curled around his friends like a shield. Before they could shout or protest, the sound of bullet spray and swords being drawn filled the air and Jazz grunted in pain.

Flame burst outwards, causing the Oni to scream and retreat.

Yamcha was the next to react, followed by PaoPao. They leaped out in unison, wincing as they observed Jazz's wound-riddled form, and launched towards the oni on either side.

Chi-Chi was next leaping up and firing a point-blank ki blast forward to the best of her ability. Hercule, Miguel, and Krillin were frozen in shock at the turn of events.

"But… why's she attacking us!?" Krillin shouted in confusion.

Jazz groaned as another round of gunfire pierced the thick hide of the blue whale. "Krillin! It's not Launch! I think she's been possessed by the Sleeping Princess."

"What?!" Krillin shouted in shock.

Launch glared at Jazz's eye, bright and green despite being in the body of a blue whale. Her frown then twisted into a sadistic grin.

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Goku was exhausted. After 10 minutes of covering his eyes, he had somehow returned to his normal form, throwing down a capsule, he got out his clothes and weighted gear again, but the transformation and Kamehameha left him exhausted.

"I just wanna sleep." He lay on the ground, covering his eyes to avoid the moonlight. Just as sleep was about to take him a dull whoosh filled the air and he leaped to his feet. A dart grazed his head, spearing the ground where he was laying just seconds before.

Rising out from the darkness, three oni, garbed in dark blue ninja clothing from head to toe, approached Goku.

"It looks like he's no longer big…"

"Hmmm… yes brother, it must have taken much out of him, he must be tired."

"Oooh… that means we can kill him for our lady…"

The three ninja oni giggled to themselves.

"Who are you g-" Goku stopped speaking as a wave of nausea flowed through him.

"It looks like even though we couldn't pierce you, the poison's still working…" The oni charged at Goku.

The first to reach him wielded a sword, he swung down the sword at max speed, attempting to bisect Goku. Goku raised his arms in defense.

"Hahahaha! This sword will cut you to ribbons!" The oni shouted in glee as the blade made contact with Goku's forearm, only to spit in shock when the blade shattered to pieces.

Goku punched forward as quickly as he could, but the other two oni blocked the punch aimed for their leader with their weapons, a spear, and a club respectively. Their weapons shattered to pieces almost instantly causing them to shout in surprise.

"Dammit! He's still strong, even after the poison?!" The spear wielder looked at the broken remains of his weapon in regret. "Dammit, we should have been more serious!"

The leader shook his head, "we were careless, as much as I hate to admit it, he did defeat master Lucifer, we have no choice but to rely on the lady's gifts.

Goku narrowed his eyes as the oni's eyes creased like crescents, in their palms, they lifted up shards of a whitish crystal. A dark blue aura began to surround them, and they charged towards Goku with a new speed and strength.

In his eyes, even while slowed down with his weighted clothing, the oni were still slow, but for some reason, Goku felt like he was moving his body through thick mud. The ninja were strong and at the least decently skilled martial artists as they fought with vigor and ferocity. Goku eventually pulled out his bo-staff and began to swing it, blocking their punches and kicks with his longer reach, but his movements continued to grow ever more sluggish, while theirs only seemed to speed up.

"Hehehe! Feeling sleepy kid? It's the poison we gave ya!" An oni punched Goku in the gut then breathed on his face, releasing more poisonous gas into the air.

"No fair!" Goku coughed in pain, "you guys are cheating! Fight me fair and square!"

"Pft, are you an idiot? What do you mean, 'fight you fair and square?'" Another oni punched Goku hard enough to send him flying. "We are avenging our master! Nothing is beneath us!"

Goku used his bo to extend himself into the air. The oni leaped up after him, energy condensing in their palms. Before they caught up, Goku made his bo extend even further up, beyond the clouds. He breathed in the air as best as he could, fighting the hazy feeling the poison put him under, then tensed as he heard something approach him rapidly from below.

"Did you miss us!?" The three oni, wrapped in their aura, charged towards him once again.

Goku commanded the staff to shrink to normal size and dived to the ground, causing the oni to crash into each other in the air.

"After him!" The leader shouted. They began to give chase and shot small beams at Goku, they weren't enough to pierce him, but they burned and hurt much more than bullets did. His vision began growing darker and darker at the same time.

Eventually, the island began to appear as he rapidly approached ocean level. The oni kept up their relentless pursuit, focussed simply on killing their target. 100 feet from the ground, Goku, using what little strength he had, fired a small Kamehameha, slowing down his fall. This caused the oni to zoom past him. As they struggled to right themselves before they hit the ground, one of them screamed out in pain as Goku's power pole extended out once again, smashing into it and pancaking the ninja onto the ground. The other two caught themselves barely and flew to the sides.

"Dammit! We can't let him get the best of us like this!"

Goku, exhausted, crashed unto the corpse of the oni, breaking his fall. He turned over to face the sky and moon, and to face the two oni that were left that were charging towards him. The same dull thud of his heart filled his ears, but he didn't feel the transformation come on, nor did he feel the strength to move his arms. "I'm in trouble… I've got to move!" Goku trembled in frustration, fingers clenching and unclenching at his helplessness. His index finger brushed against the crystal the oni dropped when it died, and he subconsciously clenched unto it, the pain from pricking his finger on the crystal filling him with a sudden invigoration.

The two oni smirked as they flew downwards. The Sleeping Princess gave them a chance for revenge after 6 long months of wait, and they even had the power to achieve their goal, all that was left for them to do was murder the weakened monkey boy below them.

"To think she'd gift us these crystals, is she stupid?" The ninja oni said to its leader.

"We do not know what the Sleeping Princess thinks, all we know is that she was with Master Lucifer than longer than any of the rest of us." The leader smirked, "this helps her too, don't forget."

They prepared an energy attack to kill Goku, not noticing that he clenched the third, dropped, a shard of the Sleeping princess hard enough to cause his hand to bleed, or that his eyes had changed from their standard black to a fierce gold.

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Launch, or, the Sleeping Princess possessed Launch, fired a beam of dark blue ki at Krillin. Krillin, to his credit, leaped out of the way.

"Launch?! Possessed?! But why?!" He turned to Jazz, "how did this happen?!"

Jazz, who struggled to keep his wits about him as he tried to fight off the oni surrounding him retorted back sharply, "I don't know! I just… I could feel vile ki! It's unmistakable!"

"You can sense ki?!" Krillin shouted.

"I thought we established that!" Jazz, in the form of the fire demon he took to scare the perverted Music Producer, swung his massive gorilla-like fists into the crowd of oni surrounding him. His transformation had thick, powerful, dense bones, dense and knotted muscle, and a layer of thick blubber and even thicker crocodile-hide and scales, making him nearly impossible to kill with pistols. Even then, being shot at definitely hurt, and his regeneration and healing could only do so much. Whenever a stronger weapon pierced his body, flames would burst out, scaring off the oni or burning an unfortunate one to a crisp.

Further along, PaoPao and Chi-Chi fought in a furious tag team. With Pao-Pao taking care of mid-long range enemies with her sword, ki techniques, and talismans, and Chi-Chi taking care of close range and mid-range enemies with her fists, hammer, helmet laser, and helmet axe, the two of them seemed almost invincible, mowing down oni left and right. Yamcha however shocked Jazz the most, the bandit wasn't lying when he said he had experience fighting the oni, he seemed to move as if he could predict the future, every time he struck, dodged, charged, or pulled back, it seemed as if he knew that an attack, feint, dodge, or rally from the enemy was coming. It was as if they were performing a well-choreographed movie, and if not for the blood that flew from the bodies of the oni, he would think Yamcha was simply performing. At the same time, Jazz glanced over to Hercule, watching as he did his best with the five Oni that surrounded him and Miguel, while he hadn't yet won the battle, the two oni that lay crumpled at his feet showed that he could continue to hold his own for a little while longer.

'Right now, however', he thought, glancing at Launch, 'She's the biggest issue.'

Launch had made a beeline from Krillin after blasting a hole in Jazz's whale form, Krillin blocked her attack but was pushed back, even while wearing the weighted gear. Krillin was a talented martial artist, and amongst them was likely the strongest, at least in terms of total ki, not counting Goku, but Launch moved unnaturally, and Jazz couldn't get a feel for her ki's magnitude. He could feel that it was the same as that of the Sleeping Princess, but as opposed to the massive stores of energy within that diamond he crushed, the energy suffused through Launch's body seemed no greater than Hercule's. Yet, despite that, beams of ki rained down from above and multiple strikes with force capable of shattering stone came from Launch's delicate-looking hands and feet.

"What's wrong chrome-dome, are you unable to hit a girl? Why are you even practicing martial arts if you can't even hit me?!" Launch clenched her first, swinging forward with all her might.

Krillin rolled out of the way, Launch was faster than him, but her movements were untrained, more reminiscent of a street fighter than of a practiced martial artist. "I don't want to fight you Launch!" He leaped up into the air, then blasted out a shot of ki to redirect his movements just as Launch burst past him. As she sailed to the ground her nose began to twitch. Krillin grinned, "when you sneeze, your personality flips, right? I don't know why you're so mad, but it should be normal, after this, right?"

"AAAACHOOOOO!" Launch's hair turned black, and her eyes darkened until her irises were almost the same shade of black as her pupils. "Oh… oh my." Black-haired Launch looked around, then at Krillin.

"Launch?" Krillin asked hesitantly.

"Oh? Hi Krillin! How are you doing?" Launch smiled.

Krillin grinned and walked over.

"It's a trick!" Jazz charged forward.

Krillin, distracted by Jazz's shout, barely dodges a blade-like shot of ki aiming for his neck. Launch's smile turned into a sneer as she charged forward. Meeting her halfway was Jazz, whose mass and speed allow him to keep up with her greater power, causing both of them to be blown back from the force of their clash.

"Krillin! Go get Launch!" Jazz shouts, "the oni are mostly taken care of, but we can't handle this on our own!"

"But…"

"We don't have much more time! The island sinks when the moon stops being full!" Jazz held his arms up to block Launch's ki blast, wincing as his forearms burned away. "If enough of us gather together, we can take her without hurting or killing her!"

Krillin gulped then nodded, backing up and running towards the exit. Jazz turned to Hercule and Miguel.

"Follow him, and stay outside, if we can't win in time, the island will sink, if that happens, go to Master Roshi."

Hercule clenched his fist, "I can't just run away!"

"Who says I'll let you leave?" Launch streamed past Jazz and raised her fist to cut down Krillin, "You'll all stay here!" A talisman flew in her face, causing her to scream out in pain and agony. PaoPao swung her blade, slicing down on Launch's chest. PaoPao was blown back by a burst of aura, her momentum causing her to crash into Jazz.

"JUST LEAVE!" Jazz shouted as he struggled to catch PaoPao.

Launch ripped off the talisman and prepared to fire a ki blast at the pair, but was interrupted as several guns and rocket launchers fired off her way. The sky went white with the mix of explosives and missiles. Yamcha rushed over to Jazz's side, helping him and PaoPao up, and Chi-Chi stood ahead of them, firing out a defensive blast of ki to deflect the weakened beam flying towards them.

"Leave! We'll handle her for now, come back with Goku, we need all the hands we can get!" Yamcha shouted.

"But…"

"A true warrior knows his duty!" PaoPao shouted, "shouldn't you have realized by now Krillin?"

"Realized?!"

"Why do you think she's trying so hard to stop us from leaving after she knew Goku was outside?! She can't deal with him and all of us together!"

Launch attempted to charge at Krillin, but Jazz used a ki blast to knock her back.

"I wonder…" Launch smiled at Jazz, "how did you know it was me?"

Jazz didn't respond, instead, he got into a fighting stance.

"Oh well…" The sleeping princess grinned, "I'll tear the information from your corpse."

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Jasper(Jazz) Duncan

Age: 15 (and 10 months), physical appearance: 15-16

Hair color: Red

Skin color: white

Race: Quarter Caucasian(White American of English-Irish descent), Quarter Asian (Korean), Quarter Black(African-American), Quarter Hispanic (Cuban)

Height: 5ft 9inches | 175 centimeters (69 inches, nice)

Weight: 157 lbs | 71 kilograms (the namekians granted him a pair of 10, 15, and 20 kilogram wrist and ankle weights. (3 sets of weighted clothing in total, 4 parts each, 22 pounds, 33 pounds, and 44 pounds respectively, currently using 15 kg (33 lbs) weights.

Skills: Decent Sports Talent for Age, Semi-Above Average Intellect for age, intermediate martial arts skills, average ki control, good pain tolerance, trap building, intermediate weapons mastery, basic boxing, basic mma, street fighting skills

Powers: Magic Materialization (Fire) (Intermediate Understanding)

General magic: Rudimentary Understanding

Max Power/ Pump Up,

Shapeshifting, Mastered Skill level (indefinite)

Noble Werewolf (dormant)

Powerlevel: 54, will raise to 81 temporarily when using Pump Up/Max Power

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Afterword?

"Expect next chapter in like, soon."

"Like, soon" my ass, sorry for the extra long hiatus, I got a new job, but I'm releasing chapters simultaneously to try and make up for it.