The story of how the fateful accidental meeting between a girl and a boy will eventually lead to them going on an epic journey to save the world with a small blue hedgehog at their side.
A long, long time ago, deep in the mountains, over thousands of kilometers from the city stood a small building with a well to its right and the mountain face and some bamboo trees to its left. Far off in the distance was a wild and untamed yet beautiful jungle where lizards, bugs, fish, snakes, and even monkeys lived as a river went from the mountaintop, along a small dirt road leading to the dirt building, to a sheer cliff where it cascading into a wondrous waterfall that coalesced into rather sizable pond with many fish living in it and doing their daily fish things. Of course, that was not the whole characterization of this story, for it is not about the jungle, or the building, or the Pond, or the river, or even the many animals living in this area. No, instead, this was the story of one, or rather, two certain individuals who would change the world. However, since we have yet to arrive at the place where our second great hero makes his arrival, we must instead cover the opening of the story of our first major hero to meet. "Kee Kee!" No, It wasn't the monkeys who just did their little call. Instead it was...
"Heya, mornin'!" Came a young voice as a young tailed boy with black spiky hair, red armbands, black shoes, bluish-purple clothes, and deep hazel eyes appeared on the dirt road carrying a large knife and walking on a giant wheel of a tree trunk that the child supposedly. This, ladies and gentlemen, was hero one of our great story. Son Goku, foster grandson of Martial Arts Master Son Gohan who had a tragic accident when training his beloved grandson two years ago. Now, Goku, at just fourteen years old (he was really just 12 but he didn't quite know how to count yet), had been doing well for himself despite the lingering sadness over the death of his grandfather. He had always been on the look out for the monster that had so brutally slain his grandfather, not knowing the tragic truth of what had actually happened that sad day, and he had always made sure to look over an orb he believed was his grandfather and kept himself well fed from the local berries, mushrooms, and fish from the area that he lived in. It was a quiet, peaceful life for a lonely rambunctious boy who still had yet to fully understand the situation he was in. Soon, he arrived to the residence of Son Gohan, now belonging to him, and hopped off the tree trunk wheel before taking a stance as it thumped onto the ground with a silent THUD! "Hmmmm Hmhm..." he hummed as he remembered his grandfather's teachings, taking on a square stance as he meditated before he finalized and readied for what was next. "Hmph!" He pumped as he closed his fists and ended his meditation before finally...
"ZODYAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Letting out a war cry, the boy stretched his arms to the heavens as he yelled at the wheel before grabbing it and, with a mighty grunt of effort, lifted the wheel into the air before jumping to catch up to it. Then, quick as lighting, he struck it many times, hitting it once, twice, thrice, again and again with his fists and his feet before it broke into many logs that he could use for his other day to day tasks, including making grub. Landing, he let out a small chuckle before he began to move to collect the logs. "Yay!" He cheered out as he grabbed some of the logs, happy that this task was now finally complete. "Chopping wood is done!" Before too long, all the logs were picked up and he began to carry them over to the building that he currently used for shelter while watching over his ' Grandpa ' but as he was doing so, his belly growled, unhappy at not being filled in so long. "Boy, I'm hungry..." he noted Ashe continued on his way. Once he reached the doors, he placed the logs to the side and opened the door to reveal the orb in all its glory as well as everything else inside the boys residence. It wasn't very spacious, barely enough to consider livable, but if you asked Goku, it was just right. All he needed was his grandpa and he would be alright. As he walked inside, he took a brief note of his surroundings. To his left was a small bed with no sheets and a small white blanket as well as a white and black rectangular pillow and an orange curtain with red spots that kept any light out for when the young boy was napping. To his right, there were several martial arts tools hanging on the wall as well as a mop, a red spear, and a red staff in an orange holder leaned against said wall, with Goku taking the staff and fastening it around his back via a snug tie. Finally, in front of him was a red table and a dresser that had a purple cushion on top, upon which rested Goku's grandpa, an orange orb with four stars.
Walking over to the orb, he clasped his palms together and bowed in recognition. "Grandpa," he began while still feeling the soft pang of hunger take over his thoughts. Maybe it was a bad idea to skip lunch three days in a row to train? "I'm gonna go get some grub." he said and just like that, he was leaving his residence, closing the doors behind him, and began to walk along the dirt road as his little belly continued to grumble and groan, demanding to be filled with some kind of sustenance. Yet again, the young boy's decision to skip out on meals seems to be biting him in the rear end like it had done so many times in the past 2 years and yet, he didn't mind if it meant him getting stronger to continue protecting the ones he loved and held so dear. "What should I eat today...?" he asked himself with no idea what would be on the menu.
Meanwhile, far, far away from the young Goku, there was a great luscious green valley with many rolling hills, tall sturdy trees, beautiful gentle flowers, and and massive river born from a large waterfall dividing this valley into four pieces, each with their interesting natural architecture including, of all things, loop-de-loop hills and many of the hilltops looked unsturdy, as if any significant weight on them would cause them to crumble away and collapse, sending the poor soul unlucky enough to be standing on the hills plummeting to what could very well mean their death. Of course, with the natural beauty, there was a few bridges and a long stretch of a sand road that traversed the entire path of the valley. This valley, known to its inhabitants as Green Hills, was connected to several other places due to it being only a fraction of the wider landmass known as South Island. There were many who called this region home, from the colorful bird-like flickies to small pigs, cute huggable rabbits, squawking chickens, and chittering squirrels, but none compared to the one being that unquestionably had been the island's guardian protector for the last four years ever since a storm had washed him up on South Island despite his young age. Rushing at the speed of sound was a small little ball of energy known as Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog, who, at this moment, was nine years of age and had arrived on South Island to serve as its guardian against all threats with his speed being the ability that he used to quickly go from one end of the island to the other in a matter of seconds. Of course, the animals inhabiting the island didn't know where he come from or how he got here outside of washing ashore one day, but they didn't care. He kept the peace and he kept them safe and that was enough in their eyes.
However, to Sonic, the Hedgehog with a peach belly and muzzle, red shoes, cobalt blue fur and quills (which pointed downwards), white gloves, and Green Eyes, he knew about the circumstances that had gotten him here on South Island all too well. He, of course, was not originally from here, which should be quite obvious given his differences from the island's regular inhabitants, but there was more to the story. Young as he was, he still remembered what his life was like before arriving on South Island when he was just five years old. His kind, elderly, gentle, loving Uncle, a graying blue Hedgehog named Chuck, had been his sole caretaker since...well, since before he could remember. To him, Uncle Chuck was more than just an Uncle, he was...he was dad...no matter how many times he kept on saying he wasn't nor could he ever replace his "actual" father didn't matter to Sonic. Then, one day, when Sonic was barely three, an exhausted duo of a nine year old red armadillo and five year old yellow flying squirrel appeared on Chuck's doorstep asking for a place to rest. Chuck, kind and gentle soul he was, took them in and soon one day became two and two days became a week and a week became a month and before anyone knew it, Mighty the Armadillo and Ray the Flying Squirrel, already spiritual brothers of one another, had been adopted by Chuck as his two new sons and both took on the role of Sonic's bigger brothers. Were they overbearing and a little overprotective sometimes? Sure, but now Sonic truly, earnestly missed them. He missed Ray's light gentle teasing as the two raced with the squirrel gliding along beside him, he missed Mighty always kissing his boo-boos and beating up the meanies who called him a freak and ab-aw-mee-nate-un for his on-u-see-all speed and always tried to beat him up, but most of all, he missed Uncle Chuck and his lullabies, he missed being tucked in at night and being kissed on the forehead, he missed bedtime stories, he missed it all. The young Hedgehog had a life of love and happiness and fate had so cruelty took him from it. He remembered what caused him to be separated just four years ago, because that event had been seared into his brain. Despite the clouds looking dark and gloomy, Sonic, ever the rambunctious little squirt, had boldly challenged Ray to a race around their home of Christmas Island as Uncle Chuck made dinner, his favorite, Chilli Dogs! He remembered he was bored because the little ball and paddle that Mighty had given him just weeks to keep him busy prior had snapped from being played with too much and so that was the reason for the race. Mighty was training in the garage, saying that he wanted to make any of Sonic's bullies sorry for ever messing with his little brother. As they raced and raced, soon, the clouds became darker and darker and the sky started to bark and shout at them before it started to rain, bad, with the ground becoming muddy and slippery and the wind becoming unbearable. Ray had tried to tell him it was time to go home, he tried to, but the hoglet just didn't listen and soon he slipped and fell at the wrong time as at that moment, a giant wave swept him up and dragged him into the ocean.
Ray dove in after him and tried hard, as hard as his little seven year old squirrel body could allow, to catch him, to swim to him and grab him and bring him back, to tell the hoglet everything would be ok. Sadly, it was not to be, with every second, the waves had driven Sonic farther and farther from his home, from Mighty, from Ray, from Uncle Chuck, and all he could hear was the Squirrel crying out for him in some desperate attempt to get him. Soon, though, Ray's calls vanished and Sonic was left truly alone as he drifted and floated in the vast ocean. He didn't know how long he cried that night, all that he knew was that for that day, and many others after it, he cried long and hard about what had just happened. Young as he was, he knew he had lost everything in one night and might never get it back. Days later, he didn't know how many, he arrived on the shores of South Island and from that moment on, the rest was history. Sonic however, kept his fear of the water, which he had already had before that event but it had gotten even worse after it. Now, if it was any body of water, the small hedgehog didn't even want to go near it without flashes of what happened hitting his mind once again. The inhabitants of South Island understood that and kept him away from large bodies of water, even if they didn't understand speech, which, fortunately, neither did Sonic. He didn't know how to read, how to write, or how to say words. He always refused to listen when Uncle Chuck tried to teach him how to do any of those things but when Ray taught him Sign Language, he followed it and was perfect at it. Of course, the bullies harassed him for being weird and a freak again and Mighty, like always, defended him, calling him a Prod-is-ee. Sonic had no idea what that meant but he still felt good at being called that. Having made his home in Green Hills, he had found himself a cave and made a small little nest with what materials he could find to use to sleep on and in that cave was his most treasured item, a faded picture of him, Ray, Uncle Chuck, and Mighty taken days before what happened. Sonic had always had it with him because it was such a cool photo, he thought, and he bugged Uncle Chuck for a copy because it was a picture of him with his big brothers and uncle! Now, it was the only thing that reminded him of them after just four years of being on his own.
Still, he kept himself busy and kept doing good deeds across the island, thinking that if he did enough, word of him would spread back to his home and then Uncle Chuck, Mighty, and Ray would come looking for him, find him, and they could be a happy family again. That was a nice dream right now but he knew he had to keep working hard to ensure it became real. That's why he was working so hard as of late to help the critters of South Island, specifically Green Hills, with any of their problems. He and them, unable to speak read, or write, had adapted to using sign language to communicate and so he always knew what they wanted and what was going on as well as how he could solve it. Of course, recent problems had proven to be more...difficult as he continued to journey across the island. Ever since he had turned seven, large buildings that coughed out giant clouds of gray begin to appear throughout the island while his critter friends also began to disappear one by one with weird, mean machines taking their place. When he investigated them, the buildings always had a sign of a big fat monkey looking thing with wild hair on his face, a large pink nose, glasses, a yellow and red shirt, black pants and shoes, and white gloves. To Sonic, that thing looked like an egg more than anything, so he had always mentally called him Eggman when he saw a portrait or picture of him. Even if that wasn't actually the thing's name, he didn't really care to be honest. He was disrupting the peace of his new home and that was a major crime in his eyes. Recently, he had noticed that more of his friends were disappearing as he traversed Green Hills and he had grown to realize that this meant that soon, another building would appear. Well, he wasn't going to let another one be built and ruin the home he had, not while he was standing. Thus, he continued to speed off, searching for any clue of a trail that could put him on the right path to freeing his friends.
Unbeknownst to Goku and Sonic, there was a third character in this story that would ensure they met one another in the very near future, in only a matter of days. In the jungle near where Goku lived, the tranquil silence was broken by the revving sound of an engine as a small bluish-green car tore down the road, scaring the birds and animals of the jungle and causing them to fly off or scatter in all directions from the angry sounding noise. Soon, however, the car came to a stop and out walked a young sixteen year old girl with blue eyes, blue hair, blue and white shoes, brown gloves, a purple neck scarf, a brown belt, purple socks, and an orange striped shirt with the word ' BULMA ' on the chest region. This was the young Bulma Brief, daughter of the elderly brilliant scientist Dr. Brief who had gone on a special journey of her own to find an item, or rather seven items, of immense power that could, when collected together as one, could grant any wish of the one who collected them, though the wishes could only happen once a year as the items would scatter after said wish.
Bulma looked out at the jungle before her, scanning its depths as she held a little radar in her left palm, hoping to find whatever it was that her device was scanning for. The girl let out a small huff of frustration as she realized she was unable to find what she was looking for by looking into the jungle from its depths but there was NO WAY she was going into the jungle in her current dress. Her father had given it to her and she wanted to keep it clean and pristine because you can't be a scientist if you look like a neanderthal that went through mud and dirt most of your life. Sighing, she looked at the radar in her hand to see if she had misread it. "It should be around here somewhere..." She wondered as she looked at the blinking lights on the radar and considered if she had missed something.
"Hmmm..." she hummed curiously, "Maybe it's a little more to the west?" She asked herself before turning to get back into her car. Oh well, if the item she was searching for wasn't here, then she would just need to keep searching for it. "It's gotta be around here somewhere." She said as she entered her vehicle before restarting the engine and zooming down the dirt road along the mountain. She knew she was close to the object of her desires, as her radar had already found two for her that she had nabbed on the way to her current location. The poor girl had no real clue that her little search for what she wanted would lead her to meeting perhaps the two greatest heroes of all time in a story of gods, monsters, and fighters. As of right now, though, she sped away in her car, looking for more of her items.
Back with our young spiky haired, monkey tailed boy, Goku was walking deep in the jungle while scanning the woods and trees for anything that could be viable to eat. Of course, what Goku would consider edible is different from most people. "I just ate a bear earlier..." he hummed, reminiscing on the breakfast he had earlier that day, bear steak and stew, and considered what else would be available to him. "Wonder if there's a tiger nearby..." His mouth began to lightly salivate at the idea of a juicy tiger burger or delicious tiger meatballs. Then, he heard the sound of rushing water and looked ahead to see he was coming close to the cliffs near his home. As he walked down to the edge of the cliff, he saw the pond the waterfall collected into and nodded to himself as he realized what he would be eating. "Ok!" He exclaimed, happy to have figured out what he would be eating. "It's 'bout time for once in a while." Man, he couldn't remember the last time he had a nice, tasty fish. Weeks, maybe, but it had been far too long since the last time. "Yoh!" He exclaimed as he hopped down from the cliff before grabbing onto a nearby tree branch that was in his path. Once he grabbed it, he used his momentum to swing on it three times before launching himself off it to land at a rock near the base of the waterfall where the water calmed and pooled into the pond.
Once he made sure his balance was well kept and maintained, he began to undress himself to prepare for his little fishing excursion to get some well needed grub. First to go was the staff, which he placed neatly behind him, then his shoes, then he untied his white belt and let his dougi fall off shoulders before removing the bottom portion and placed it to the side. Now properly undressed and ready for action, the young boy then finally turned around, raised his tail, and... PLUNK! the tail made a small plunking noise as he carefully plunged it into the water. He shivered a little from the chilly feeling of the water, but maintained his calm and patiently waited. Fishing was an art of the patient and it made for good training, his grandpa always told him and he found it to be correct. Then again, when was his grandpa ever wrong? After a few minutes, he noticed a large blue fish with a white underbelly and orange fins swim rapidly at his tail, opening its large maw to catch the stray cat or monkey dumb enough to be doing this. At just the right moment, as the fish reached the tail, Goku pulled it out of the water, causing the fish to breach and clamp its jaws on nothing but air while Goku smiled at it. Seriously, this was far too easy, where was all the challenge? "Hohohhhhhh!" He yelled out as he committed to a diving kick which made impact with the fish in the head, with the force of Goku's kick likely turning its brain to mush and dying instantly while its eyes turned white.
With the fishy for now defeated and ready to be put into Goku's belly, he dove in after the body, laughing to himself as he grabbed its tail and pulled it to the surface. Quickly, he put on his dougi, his shoes, and his staff and began to drag the massive fish up the road back to his home where he could chop up this fish and make it his meal. "A big fish, a big fish!" he cheerily sang to himself as he dragged his haul back home to consume. As he arrived on the road, he saw his house in the distance and continued on the way back while humming his little diddy, not realizing he was about to have a date with destiny and go on a journey where he would eventually meet his best friend, nay, his brother in all but species and blood in a matter of days. The sound of something was making its way and it sounded like it was speedily coming closer and closer to him by the second, roaring angrily as it came down the road. "Huh?" Goku pondered aloud as he turned his head to look behind him at the noise in curiosity. "What's that sound?"
Meanwhile, for the young Bulma, after a few corrections, was now finding herself on the correct way to the item that she was searching for. It was only a matter of minutes before she arrived at the place, grabbed the item, and then went off to search for the rest of them. Smiling to herself as she begin to think on what her wish would be, she almost didn't notice the little boy on the road in front of, key word being almost. "IIEE!" shrieked the boy as he stood stock still and Bulma let out a gasp of surprise and shock, desperately turning her little car at the last minute to avoid killing a little kid by accident. She didn't want that on her conscience or her record, think of how that would hamper her search for the wish granting items!
With a successful turn just centimeters from the boy, her car came to a stop with its back facing towards him and she breathed a sigh of relief before she peered out the window and glared at him while shaking her fist. However, the boy was the first to comment after he caught his breath. "Y-you surprised me!" he exclaimed before he began to investigate her car.
"H-hey, that's dangerous!" Bulma yelled out angrily, herself not completely at one hundred percent after the near accident that almost killed a little boy.
Of course, the boy who was unused to other people being around him immediately assumed the worst of the girl."Y-you monster!" he exclaimed to the vehicle, which he believed to be the origin of the voice as he had yet to see the person inside it who was the one who actually spoke. "You're trying to steal my catch, aren't you?!" He angrily shouted, holding the tail of his catch close to his chest. Immediately, the boy dove underneath the car and began to...actually lift it off the ground with some great effort and strain. Bulma could only let out shocked exclamations as her car went from being on the ground to being carried with her in it. What in the hell had she gotten herself into?! "TEEHHH!" Goku shouted as he threw the car further down the road, Bulma letting out a little shriek of surprise as her car crashed down onto the ground. Of course, that wasn't all Goku had in store. Immediately, he untied his staff from his back and brought it out for this epic battle with this evil monster that was trying to take his grub! "Come on!" He exclaimed loudly, challenging the beast as he raised his staff with both hands in a warrior's stance. "I'm gonna fight you!" He exclaimed with a war cry.
"Owwwww..." Bulma groaned as she crawled from where she was sent from the force of the boy's throw back to the passenger side window, pistol in hand.
Goku exclaimed in fear at the sight of this weird, ugly creature before him. "Ahh!" He shrieked, getting in an even more battle ready stance. "A weird yokai crawled out from the monster!" He yelled out Ashe took on a prepared stance, ready to have an epic clash with this ferocious looking yokai that angrily glared at him with a weird curved looking thing in its hand.
Bulma, of course, was having none of it. "Y-you little brat!" She yelled out as she fired at the boy. Screw keeping him alive, this is what she gets for being nice!
Of course, what she didn't expect was for the boy to take the gunshot head on and only be sent back by it before groaning as he shot up, holding his injured forehead. "OWWWWWW! OWWW, OWWW!" Goku yelled in agony as the pain from whatever the hell just hit him in the skull. Whatever it was, it was loud, strong, and painful to have hurt him so badly. "Wh-wh-wh-what was that just now!?" He yelled in fear before immediately gravitating towards a wicked fear. "Yokai Magic?!"
"G-g-gah...!" Bulma yelled out as she realized she might've bitten off more than she could chew here..."N...No way, No way...!" She fearfully yelled at she realized the kid had just taken a gunshot to the head and the only thing wrong was him was a small bump on his forehead as he began to slowly get and grab his staff to prepare for battle. "Wh-why didn't you die?!" What was this kid?!
"Dummy!" Goku yelled at the disgusting, vile yokai that dared to attack him when near grandpa. "You think somethin' like that would kill me?! My body's as strong as stainless steel!" He exclaimed as he got up and grabbed his staff, raising it above his head to prepare for a battle against this yokai and hopefully stop its rampage before it could hurt anyone else. "Yokai...this is the end for you!" He roared as he began to charge.
Bulma, in an instant of self-preservation, dropped her pistol and raised her hands in surrender as she realized she had no other way out. "W-wait a second!" She exclaimed, wildly waving her hands to prevent the boy from attacking her and potentially cracking her skull in two with one blow from his staff. She didn't want her father to be told she died while on this quest she had gone on herself. "I-I'm not a Yokai!" She begged, hoping the boy would realize his mistake quickly. "I'm a human!" Hopefully, that worked.
"Huh?!" Goku paused in confusion mid-charge. Another human, like him, finally coming towards him. "A human?!" The idea was beyond belief for the small orphaned boy. "Really?!" He asked, hoping that the whole thing wasn't fake and that it was a human standing before, granted an ugly one, and not a yokai. The supposed human took this pause in the fight to climb out of the vehicle excitedly, hoping to prove themselves as human and not a yokai.
Bulma gulped as she realized she needed to sell this to make sure this idiot didn't make a massive mistake. If she said the wrong word or did one thing wrong, that would be it for her. She would be dead and likely forgotten by everyone but her father. "Of course!" She frantically nodded as kept her hands out in a calming motion. "Just like you!" She hoped the boy realized she was telling the truth. "Look! Look!" She begged as she directed attention to himself. The boy hummed silently as he did a once over.
Immediately, Goku pointed his staff at the human, still not fully believing what they were saying. "Don't move!" He warned as his staff was directed at them in a menacing fashion. "Not a muscle!" As he got closer, he felt it was necessary to clarify. "You're really distrustful." Then he began to look over this human. First, a quick scan of their front revealed nothing really incriminating against them being a human, they were wearing a belt, a lil satchel, a dress, and their chest had two round, squishy looking balls on it. He wondered how they would feel if he squished them...Then, he investigated their left side and found nothing out of the ordinary there. Next was its back where he again saw nothing out of the ordinary except that the human's hair had been twisted into something unnatural looking and a bulge that he assumed was their butt. Finally, he looked at their right side and found nothing out of the ordinary much like their left. As he arrived in front of the human, while nothing said otherwise, there was still something off about how this human looked. He just couldn't place an eye on it. "You seem really different from me somehow..." He hummed in thought as he brought a fist to his chin to think about the human in front of him. However, after a few seconds of thinking it over, he finally figured out what looked to be so different between the two of them. "You look really soft and weak!"
Was...was he serious?! "Well, of course I am! You're a boy and I'm a delicate girl!" Bulma exclaimed, rather insulted at this boy's stupidity. Had he never seen a girl before?
"' Girl '?!" Goku yet out a squawk of surprise at what he had heard. "You're a girl?!" A real life girl, the mythical creature his grandpa had always told him about, right here?!
Huh, apparently so. "What a country bumpkin!" Bulma exclaimed at the realization that indeed, this boy had never seen a girl before. "You've never seen a girl before?" She asked curiously. Surely he must've had a mother or aunt or sister looking after him, he couldn't have actually never seen a girl before. Otherwise, how would in the world would he be able to exist?
Goku shook his head. "This is the first time I've seen another human..." Then he looked at her with a far off distant look in his eyes as he remembered his dear old Grandpa. "My dead grandpa said that if I ever met a girl, I better be nice to her!" Wise old Grandpa, so wise, so smart, Goku really did miss him and his wisdom and teachings. They would be so helpful to the young boy.
"See, you've got to be nice to me!" Bulma smiled at the boy and winked but he ignored her and looked at her backside yet again.
"So girls don't have tails. Huh..."
"Huh?"
"Hmm...Interestin'..."
It was at this moment, as the boy scanned her backside, that Bulma looked down and saw what was obviously a fake tail wiggling in the wind attached to his butt. Bringing a hand to her mouth, she chuckled at the tail, finding the whole situation funny. ' Heheh! ' she chuckled internally as well. ' How stupid! ' She didn't dare voice her thoughts aloud for fear that the boy would conk her on the noggin for saying them to him, but that didn't mean she couldn't mock his intelligence in her own thoughts. ' This kid's wearing a fake tail! What, does he think it looks cool? ' The whole idea was ridiculous that she almost found herself nearly loudly snorting which would surely have led to her getting knocked unconscious.
"By the way," Goku spoke up once his little investigation was finished, "What kinda monster was that?" he asked, pointing his staff at the downed beast. "Did you catch it?"
"It's not a monster, it's a car!" Bulma exclaimed, seriously surprised at the sheer lack of knowledge this boy had of the outside world. Did his grandfather teach him anything to know about the modern world or was he just as clueless as his grandson?! "A machine made by humans!" She clarified juuuust in case to understand what that meant as well. Hopefully the boy knew what machines were...If he didn't, she was going to scream!
Goku jumped on this 'c ar ' as the girl put it and hopped a few times, testing it out. "So this is a car!" He said in amazement. "I've heard about these." Then he bounced a little harder on said ' car ' to test out how strong it actually seemed but was a bit saddened to see that it wasn't some kind of mighty thing. Instead it seemed...incredibly weak. "Hmm..." He hummed in disappointment. "Hmmm..." He let out another hum with a final bounce. "It's great, but weak!" He stated as he hopped off it. "Does this mean you're from the city?" He asked with total curiosity. He had heard a lot about the city from his grandpa but he had actually never only seen it before so he hoped this ' girl ' could take him to it one day if she was actually from it.
Bulma crossed her arms and pointed out west. "Well, yeah..." She confirmed, likely making the young boy extremely happy. "Far west from here."
Goku nodded and then walked over to his catch, which had been left abandoned due to the interaction between the girl and boy, picking it up before turning back to the girl. "Come to my house!" He told her as he lugged the giant fish over his shoulder. "Since you're a girl, I'll give you some food!" he insisted, indicating said food he would give her to be the fish he caught earlier.
"You better not do anything weird." Bulma warned after checking on the damages done to her car. As she followed, she took note of how big the fish was compared to the little boy and yet he was carrying it with little difficulty. "You're really strong for such a small kid." She complimented, already buttering him up for a plan that began to take shape in her mind. If she was smart and played her cards right with this kid, she could just make it work.
The boy chuckled proudly at the compliment as the pair continued to walk to his home. "Grandpa trained me!"
' He sure is a weirdo. ' Bulma thought to herself as she put her plan together. ' But that strength of his could really come in handy. ' Hopefully, this worked out for her benefit.
As they reached the doors to Goku's home, he threw the giant fish to the side and turned to the girl behind him. "Wait here a minute!" he said excitedly as he rushed into his home. He was so eager to introduce Grandpa to the girl he had just met, he couldn't wait to tell him all about how he met met her and then...well, he didn't know what to do next, but he hoped it would be fun!
"What a shabby little place." Bulma stated as she looked at the home from the outside before she walked inside, following the boy. "Hm?" she hummed questioningly as she noticed the boy was standing in front of a dresser bowing to something that was orange and bright and glowing. Wait a minute, it couldn't be, could it...Had she really just found it?!
"Grandpa, look!" Goku exclaimed as he brought his head back up from his bow and signaled to the girl behind him. "It's a girl! A girl came to our house!"
"THERE IT IS!" Bulma exclaimed, pointing at the orb on the boy's dresser. "THE DRAGON BALL!" Quick as lightning while giggling like a madwoman possessed, she came to the orb, which she called a Dragon Ball, and slowly brought her hands to grab it, failing to notice she had knocked the young boy aside in her dash to the Dragon Ball. "It really was here!" She cheered gleefully as her eyes shined and sparkled and her mouth drooled a little. "Just like on the radar!" She would never doubt her tech again!
However, the girl was stopped when Goku grabbed her waist to keep her from grabbing his grandpa, who she wrongly called a 'Dragon Ball', whatever that was. No one was going to touch his grandpa unless it was him! "Hey, don't touch grandpa!" He yelled angrily at the blue haired girl who dared to touch his grandfather. "That's grandfather's memento!" He roared fiercely at her. "Girls can't touch it!"
Bulma rolled her eyes in exasperation at this silly boy. He seriously couldn't actually think that one of the legendary seven Dragon Balls that granted wishes when brought together was his grandfather. Ok, if he so genuinely believed it to be so, she would have to pull out her secret weapons. Opening her little satchel, she reached in to grab the other two Dragon Balls that she had on her already. "Fine, fine, I guess I'll just explain it to you." She said as she grabbed them before pulling them out and showing them off to the boy. "Look!"
"Ah!" Goku exclaimed at the sudden surprise. "Y-you have two of grandpa?!" To see three grandpas at once...that was grandpa overload!
Bulma chuckled as she gently set down the two Dragon Balls on the red table near her while the boy, who she still didn't know the name of, held his ball close. "These are called Dragon Balls." She clarified as she ensured they were gently secured on the table and wouldn't roll away anytime soon. If one started to roll away and she had to find it again, that would be a disaster.
"Dragon...Balls?" Goku questioned, puzzled by the name for his grandpa. What, were these balls made of actual dragons?
Bulma picked one of her two up, the one with two stars on it, and examined it while smiling before continuing her explanation. "I found this one in the cellar at home and wondered what it was, so I asked a bunch of people but no one was able to tell me." The blue haired woman shrugged before she went further. "After doing a lot, and I mean a lot, of research, I found a document that finally explained everything to me." She told the boy with shining glee in her eyes, remembering the moment she found that document after all her research. So many hours, so much time, none of it was wasted and now she was on the verge of the greatest scientific discovery of all time! "These are called Dragon Balls, there being seven in all. They all shine brightly, and have stars on them numbering from one to seven."
Goku brought grandpa up to his face and looked closely before exclaiming in shock. "You're right! Grandpa has four on him!"
Bulma turned to look at the boy's Dragon Ball. "Oh, that's the Si Xing Qiu. The first one I found was the Liang Xing Qiu!" She explained happily. Then she brought up the other one and looked at it with some curiosity. "I found this one ten days ago after searching all around a valley in the north." God, that was a cold experience. Hopefully she would be more prepared next time. "The Wu Xing Qiu." She explained before setting it back down on the table.
"You're searching for these?" Came Goku's innocent question. Why would anyone be searching for any of these throughout the world?
Bulma yawned as she continued to speak about the Dragon Balls. "Yeah! Collecting all seven is going to be a real challenge!" She shrugged while smiling of her future victory.
"But what are you collectin' them for? To make a rosary?" a funny image of the girl in a traditional dress wearing said rosary popped into Goku's mind.
Bulma gave a soft chuckle at the mere in their right mind would you the legendary Dragon Balls for something as silly as that? "Yeah right!" She waved at the mere suggestion. "When you collect all seven, something amazing happens!" She began with her voice filled with wonder as she told what happened when all seven were brought together. "After reciting the magic words when all seven are together, Shenlong, of the God of all Dragons, appears and will grant one wish, no matter what it is!"
Goku gasped in amazement at the girl's story. "Th-that's awesome!" Not just any dragon would be summoned, but THE God of Dragons. Goku bet he was as awesome as he sounded. He could only imagine what he would wish for if he brought all seven together on his own. Probably a big meal or an even bigger home, or maybe even bringing back grandpa! After all, the girl said he would grant any wish, no matter what it was.
Bulma shrugged at the boy's wonder, smirking as she continued to reel him in. her plan was going along swimmingly, now she just needed to find a perfect fait accompli. "Apparently, the last person to collect the Dragon Balls became a king!" She exclaimed proudly. Oh, the idea of being a queen made her heart swoon at the thought of dozens of suitors going after her so she could find the perfect man for her after all, but she already had a perfect idea for what she would wish for that was far less exhausting. "Buuut-" She stepped in before the boy got too excited. "apparently, after a wish or two is granted, the Dragon Balls scatter and cannot be found for a year, so right now I'm trying to bring them back together." She hummed before standing up and smiling as she talked about her wish. "And I've already decided on my wish!" She happily proclaimed as she pumped her fists. "I was reeaaally tempted to decide on an eternal strawberry that never runs out but it's gotta be this :... " She paused for dramatic effect."...A Wonderful Boyfriend!" The boy gasped in awe and softly applauded as Bulma turned her attention to the boy. "Well, that's the gist of it." She shrugged. "So hand over the Si Xing Qiu!"
Goku yanked his grandpa away from the girl's grubby hands. "No way, this is grandpa!"
"Huh?! Don't be so stingy!" Bulma angrily exclaimed at the boy. "What's the big deal? It's not like you're using it for anything!"
"BEHH!"
Did this brat just-?! Nevermind, calm down Bulma, calm down. How to-Ah-ha, she got it! Maybe some bribery could work. "I know what you want!" she said as she looked at the little boy with a sly, confident smile. Of course! What boy wouldn't want this opportunity when it was presented in front of them. The boy raised an eyebrow, probably wondering what she could mean. Bulma began to slowly lift up her dress so the boy could look at her panties and her butt. She knew how ravenously pervy boys and men were so she figured this would be the perfect way to get the boy to give up his Dragon Ball. "You want a peek, don't you?" She asked as she smiled while keeping her dress up. "How's this? You can even touch it a little if you want if you give me your Dragon Ball." So scandalous! Surely this would wo-
"Why would I wanna touch your dirty ol' fanny?"
"IT'S NOT DIRTY, YOU RUDE LITTLE BOY!" How dare he?! She always made sure she was clean and pristine. Seriously, she hoped someone, or some creature, was at least some kind of gentleman because it was quite clear that this idiot was nothing close to the word (Over on South Island, an ocean away from these two, in Green Hills, Sonic the Hedgehog inexplicably sneezed). This strategy worked on every other boy she had interacted with before, so why didn't it work on him? Oh well, back to the drawing board with this one. "The hunt must go on!" Yet again, she snapped her fingers. "I know! Why don't you come with me, we could be partners!" This was the plan she had privately been thinking on when she saw the boy's strength. Hopefully, she could convince him to say yes. "What do you say?" She gave a warm, inviting smile.
"Go hunt the Dragon Balls?" Goku asked in curiosity.
Bulma shrugged but still remained friendly. "Sure, why not? Staying here forever would be boring, right?" She smiled as the boy nodded a bit absent-minded. Hook, line, and sinker, hehehehe. "You would get to see so many new things and learn so much," and come in with the finisher, Bulma! "Your grandpa would be very proud of you!" She hoped that with that, she was able to convince this kid to agree.
"Really?!" Goku exclaimed happily. "You think grandpa would be proud if I went?!"
Nailed it! Oh Bulma, you! Why are you such a genius? "Of course he would, kid!" She lied as easily as she breathed. Honestly, his grandpa was unknown to her but this kid was so goddamn gullible so it honestly didn't matter, her plan had worked regardless. "Seeing is young grandson that he raised venture out into the world all on his own, learning all about the great cities and crossing the desert and seeing the ocean!" Hopefully, that was more than enough.
"Alright, that sounds like a lot of fun!" Goku shrugged as he smiled at the girl. "I guess I'll go."
"This'll be great!" Bulma snapped her fingers and winked at the boy. "So we're partners?"
Goku nodded in suspicion while still holding onto Grandpa tightly. "Alright, but I still get to hold onto grandpa."
Bulma grit her teeth a little at that but still smiled at him. "You drive a hard bargain, but have it your way." She said while closing her eyes but laughed a lil internally. 'That went perfectly! Oh Bulma, why are you so brilliant?! After the wish is made, the Dragon Balls will fly off in different directions and cannot be found for a year, so it doesn't matter anyway. This kid will be the perfect guard because of his strength!' And so, the pair were off on their journey to find the remaining four Dragon Balls that had yet to be discovered by any of them as of yet. "Now then!" Bulma exclaimed happily as she dug into her satchel and pulled out the radar searching for and finding the Dragon Balls. "Let's start this fun adventure of ours!" She gave a prideful laugh as she put her hands on her waist and puffed out her chest. "I have a very big intellect, don't ya know?" She paused before adding with a little mutter, "...Although my face is cute too..." She then looked at the boy and held up her radar, pointing at it. "This! We'll use this!" Said radar pinged twice, indicating it was still active. The boy gave a hum of confusion at the sight. "This is the Dragon Radar!" She exclaimed while pointing out its features. "It's an invention I created that picks up on subtle energy waves emitting from the Dragon Balls!" She exclaimed happily, proud of herself for her own invention. "Look," she exclaimed while pointing at three dots on the radar located extremely close to one another. "these three are the ones that we have right now and the closest one is..." She looked over the radar and decided. "over there, about 1200 kilometers to our west!" The poor boy was confused the entire time.
"I don't get it..."
Bulma ignored his confusion and looked for another invention that her father had made and gifted to her. "Since you destroyed my car, I'll have to bring something else out." She said as she began to dig into her blue satchel to find the invention that she was searching for. As she was doing so, she decided to ask the boy what his name was since it had been bugging her. "By the way, what's your name?"
"Me?" Goku flicked his tail absent-mindedly and pointed at himself before responding when the girl nodded. "I'm Goku, Son Goku." He then pointed at her. "And you?"
immediately Bulma froze as she realized what was likely to come next. She should've been use to it by now but her name still made her flinch. "...Bulma..." she muttered.
The reaction was immediate as Goku began to laugh at the girl's poor name. "Bulma?! Haha, what a weird name?!"
The poor girl flushed in utter embarrassment. Why or why did she have to be named that?! "Shut up! It's not like I'm fond of it myself!" Despite her attempts to get him to stop, the boy kept on laughing so loudly and rambunctiously. Damn, she hated this brat already and it had only been a few minutes. Hopefully there was someone who could put him in his place and get him to treat ladies with proper respect. (Once again, Sonic the Hedgehog found himself sneezing for reasons unknown to him). 'He's so annoying!' Bulma grumbled angrily in her thoughts as she opened a red box with dozens of capsules inside it. 'This is why I hate kids!' Then she brought her attention back to the box. "What number was it again?" She questioned before she finally found it. "Ah, 9!" She exclaimed happily as she grabbed the little capsule and began to ready it for deployment. She popped off the lid and then tossed it to the side, pushing Goku out of the way to make sure he didn't get hurt. As she plugged her ears, a loud boom was heard that shook the quiet air of the world surrounding them, causing Goku to shriek in panic and surprise. Soon, the smoke cleared and Bulma smiled as she began to walk towards what was in the capsule. It was a large white bike with a glass dome on top, with the letters and numbers AF4029 on the back as well as the word Capsule 9 on the sides of the wheel. "All right," Bulma cheered as she walked towards the bike. "Let's go!"
Goku, however, was panicking and freaking out. "Y-yokai magic!" He shrieked in fear as he stared at the bike. "You really are a yokai, aren't you?!" The terrified boy glanced at Bulma, who was in the thing now, with fear in his eyes. He knewhe shouldn't have trusted this strange girl who said she was a human, it was clear she was lying so he wouldn't hurt her!
Bulma rolled her eyes as Goku approached the bike slowly and poked at it with his staff. "I'm not a yokai!" She repeated, already getting far too exhausted with this dumb boy's antics. "Everyone in the city uses Hoi-po capsules." She explained, hoping it would sate the fears of the tailed boy. It didn't because he kept on poking at the bike with his staff. "Just hurry up and get in!" She barked impatiently as Goku continued his poking until he was satisfied and did as he was told, then they were off.
Meanwhile, back with Sonic the Hedgehog, he was still running at the speed of sound to get to where he needed to be, finding the quiet of the entire part of Green Hills extremely unnerving. Usually, green hills was bustling loudly with the activity of the flickies and other native critters of the island, but right now, it was as silent as the ocean, which scared him. What happened to have caused everyone to leave the area so suddenly without him knowing about it? So odd, he had to keep investigating this further, maybe he could find someone who would explain everything to him at a later date. As he kept running, he closed his eyes as he thought to his brothers and Uncle Chuck, as well as his puppy Muttski. Muttski was a small Mobini hound with tan fur, brown splotches on his back, right ear, and right eye, a brown tail and belly, and crystal blue eyes who was always able to keep up with with the speedy little hedgehog. Sonic had gotten him when he was only a few days old and they had never been separated until now, always cuddling together, always going on lil races when Mighty and Ray couldn't. he loved his puppy more than life itself and now he didn't know what he was going through. The poor dog was only three when the five year old Sonic was separated from everyone and everything he knew. He could only hope they were doing ok. As Sonic continued thinking, he suddenly felt an odd presence near him. It felt...whimsical, mighty, powerful, like it was the power of an ultra powerful being that do whatever it wanted whenever it wanted, within reason. Thus, he followed the source of this energy and soon came close, feeling the immense pressure from the source before opening his eyes to see an orange ball with a single red five pointed star on it. Huh, curious. He came to a sudden halt and walked over to the ball before picking it up, feeling a surge of the mystical energy from before flow gently up his arm and through his body. What in the world was this bizarre tiny ball and why was it in Green Hills of all the places it could be in?
His thoughts were cut off as he heard a deep voice in the distance shout in his direction. "Mai, I found the Dragon Ball! Look!" Sonic looked up from gazing at the ball to see a...short fox...no wait, that's a dog...with ginger fur covering his body and a tan face and paws while wearing weird looking purple clothing, a white sash, black socks, and flip flops with a small sword on his back pointing directly at him.
"I see it, Shu...In the hands of that little furry hedgehog...thing..." Came a more serious, feminine voice belonging to the person right next to this 'Shu' as they it had put it. It was a girl, Sonic could deduce that much from the vocal pitch and the extremely long black hair, and she was the same species as Eggman, whatever that was. She had on red lipstick, red eye shadow, and was wearing a teal trench coat with red stars on both shoulders, a brown belt with some kind of holster attached to it, beige slacks, and brown boots. Whoever these two mysterious figures were, Sonic had a hunch they meant business and not the nice kind of business either, especially if they were looking for whatever the world this ball in his hand was. Just from holding it, he could feel its immense power, it shouldn't fall into the wrong hands.
Holding the ball tightly, he watched as this 'Shu' and 'Mai' approached him, narrowing his eyes in suspicion. Once they were close enough, the dog began to talk. "Hey there, little guy." Shu spoke in a friendly tone, waving at him as he approached. "We've been searching for that thing for forever. Thanks so much for finding it!" He outstretched a hand to him, as if expecting the hedgehog to just hand it over. Sonic shook his head no and yanked the arm holding the ball away from the dog while glaring at the duo menacingly. He didn't trust these two as far as they could outrun him and he very much doubted that either of them could come close to even his slowest speed, especially the dog. "Hey, what the-?! Just give it here-" Shu reached for the ball, grabbing Sonic's arm in the process, leading to..."Ow, he bit me!" Well, don't touch him!
Mai, who was watching this interaction from the sidelines, rolled her eyes as her colleague failed to get the ball before walking up to the hedgehog herself. "Look, can you talk?" The hedgehog shook his head no. Ok, that makes it more difficult. Wait..."Then how can you understand me?" She asked, her brow raised in confusion. The hedgehog made a mouthing motion and then pointed to his ears. Of course! "So you can understand mouthing, eh?" A nod. Alright, so now it was time to get to the crux of the issue. "Look, kid, just give us the Dragon Ball. We need it or our boss will be very cross with us, alright? So just hand it over and we'll be out of your hair...fur...quills...whatever." She said as she reached for the ball, hoping to not get the same treatment as Shu.
Sonic tugged the ball away from the woman despite what she said, glaring at the two with grave suspicion, not sure if he could trust them with an extremely powerful ball or not. Realizing they would keep trying if he didn't do something, he decided to try out his sign language, figuring it was the best way to speak for right now. "What does your boss want with this ball?" he signed, eyes flicking between the two. He hoped they understood him when he was talking like this, otherwise they would be getting nowhere with this conversation. "How can I be sure that I can trust you with it to not do something extremely bad?" he continued his question as he kept his glare up. If they said the wrong thing, then they would be sent flying.
"What's he doing, Mai?"
"I think it's...sign language..." The woman sighed in frustration. Of course the hedgehog used sign language to speak and not his actual voice. God forbid he did that. She dragged her hand down her face in a show of her frustration. This job was never so easy, was it? "We don't know what you're saying, kid. If you're asking about what our boss wants with it, we don't know." She shrugged as she pondered what Pilaf wanted with the Dragon Balls. "Probably to conquer and rule the world or something."
Sonic's eye twitched as that all but confirmed that these two weren't good people. "Ya, so now that we explained it, can you just-" A kick to the gut sent Shu flying.
"If you think I'll just let you give this thing to your boss so he can be a villain," He got in a ready stance, preparing himself to charge full speed at them. "Then you two bozos got another thing coming for both of you!" Then, he started to rev up his legs for a speedy dash attack at them while the woman pulled out the thing from the holster and pointed it at him and the dog took out his sword, both ready for battle. In a matter of seconds, Sonic charged and the girl used whatever she had in her hand, but instead of whatever flying out of it making direct impact, Sonic easily dodged it and slapped the thing out of her hands before turning to the dog and kicking him hard to the ground. Then, before either could react, he spun around them and kicked the girl's legs to put her off balance before punching her face. Once that was done, he began to run around them over and over and over again, with the longer he was doing it causing him to gather more speed and that speed creating more winds that grew stronger and stronger. In a matter of minutes, a cyclone of blue surrounded the dog and girl before they were sent flying off into the distance, screaming for their lives with their weapons following quickly after them. There, now with that figured out, the hedgehog could now focus on far more important things, like what in the world was happening on South Island. However...he looked at the ball in his hands. If two incompetent villains like those two wanted this thing, then maybe it would be a good idea to find anymore of them, just in case. He felt the sheer power and energy radiating from this strange orange ball and if they fell into the wrong hands, than Sonic was afraid what could happen, doubly so if the boss of those two turned out to be Eggman. Rushing off, he continued his journey, ready to restore the order of Green Hills and find the rest of these strange balls.
Meanwhile, back with Goku and Bulma, the two were racing down the road once again as they began on their journey to the next Dragon Ball, with the poor boy screaming in fear and shock at the speed the two of them were going since he had never gone that fast before if ever. A nearby monkey that was eating an apple watched as the bike zoomed by it with a shocked expression. "Th-this is crazy!" Goku exclaimed in total surprise. "It goes faster than I can run!" He exclaimed as he grabbed hold of Bulma's petite waist, hoping to use it as some sort of stability while they were going this fast down the road, though it was quite clear that Bulma was not a fan of what Goku was doing with her.
"Hey, don't touch me in any weird places!" The girl squeaked out in anger as they continued zooming down the road. In another twenty minutes, the bike she was driving soon found itself coming upon a bunch of twisty roads and hills. However, as they reached another hill, what Bulma expected to be a small little fall instead turned out to be a sharp launch point as the bike zoomed off the hilltop! "WAH!" She shrieked in fear as the bike caught some major air.
"GIEH!" Goku yelled out behind her in a similar sentiment as they flew off the hill and right onto the ground in front of before the bike mercifully rolled to a slow stop and ceased its movements. As it did so, the driver and the passenger let out a big sigh of relief and the boy even chuckled some as he tried to cover from the sudden surprise he had gone through. "Ahhh, I can't believe that!" He boomed in stunned fascination with the bike. "Did you see that just now?" He asked Bulma the obvious question since, yes, she saw that as she was the one driving, after all. "We flew in the sky!" Grandpa would be so proud of him taking flight while he was at the very start of his journey across the world to find the legendary Dragon Balls.
Bulma breathed heavily as she collected herself from the sudden surprise she had undergone. "Well, yeah..." She replied, still trying to calm down from the sudden adrenaline high that she had suffered moments ago. 'I-I didn't think that drop was going to be so sharp...!' she thought to herself as she calmed down from the experience and her life was no longer flashing before her eyes. However, it was at that moment she felt a little tingle going down her body. Getting off the bike, she looked back at Goku and smiled, hoping that the boy would understand what she meant when she said what she was going to say or he would be truly lost. "I'll be right back!" She said as she pointed at the woods. "Just wait a minute while I go take care of something, ok?" Sadly, her hopes were not to be.
"Eh?" Goku chirped out as he tilted his head in confusion. "What? Where are you going?" Came the innocent question.
"Man, you're really thickheaded!" Bulma screamed in fury at the boy. "When a lady says those kinds of things, it means she's going to go pee!" She explained in frustration.
"Ya mean take a leak?" At that, much to Goku's confusion, Bulma let out an angry growl before charging off into the trees. "Huh?" Goku hummed as he watched the girl disappear into the foliage. "Why is she goin' that far to pee? She could have done it right here..." He said to himself in curiosity. "What a weirdo." He shrugged and started to lean on the bike as he waited for Bulma to return. However, after a few minutes of waiting, he heard a shrill, feminine scream from the trees, which caused him to turn his head in surprise before realizing what was going on and running off to check what was happening. "What now?" He asked aloud. "Maybe her peepee was bitten by a snake?" However, as he got close to the screaming, he saw what the problem was and gaped. "Ah!" Now he saw why she was screaming her lungs out.
A giant blue pterodactyl was holding a terrified, screaming for her life Bulma in one of his hands. "Who the hell are you?!" He squawked angrily, "Her friend?!"
Goku shook his head no. "I just met her." He then pointed at the pterodactyl. "Are you a friend of hers?" He asked in curiosity.
At that, the Pterodactyl gave a sly smirk and darkly laughed before wrapping Bulma up in his tail and using his hands to grab some rope. "Yeah!" He lied ever so grimly. "I have something to talk to her about, so just wait here, ok?!" He asked as he put Goku in front of a tree and then began to use the rope to tie around him before finalizing with a final tug that made sure he wouldn't be going anywhere.
"I got tied up." Goku stated as the Pterodactyl took with his prize, laughing as he did so. Goku looked up at the Pterodactyl and asked, "How long should I wait?"
As Bulma squealed in surprise, the Pterodactyl lipped his beak in anticipation as he laughed. "It's been a while since I've had a girl for dinner!" This would be a fantastic meal!
The girl in the talons of the monster, angry by her partner's lack of doing anything, waved her fist at him and bellowed out, "WH-WHAT ARE YOU DOING?! HELP ME!" and in case she needed to clarify why she needed to be helped for this braindead moron, "I'M GOING TO BE EATEN!" She followed that up by yelling, "IDIOT! STUPID!" Immediately afterwards. Why did she have to complete dumbass like him as her partner?
"Huh?" Goku raised an eyebrow. "Oh!" He finally understood why she was yelling at him. "She wants me to help her!" Then, using his tail, he began to untie himself from the rope. "She shoulda said that earlier!" Were all girls as confusing as her?! He sure hoped not! Soon, he was untied but he noticed the pterodactyl was getting farther and farther away from him. "That monster!" He yelled as he remembered its trickery. "But I can't fly..." What a dilemma, if he couldn't-wait a minute! "That's it!" He said excitedly as he ran towards the bike and hopped in it before trying to figure it out. "Hope I can drive it!" he said before looking over the thing to figure out how to get it to move. "I'm pretty sure she turned this thing here..." He said as he grabbed the handles and revved them, causing the bike to turn, which he let out a surprise squeak as it did so. "Y-yay!" He cheered happily as he began to ready the bike to chase the monster. "It moved! Hurray! Hurray!" And just like that, the boy raced down the road on the bike, screaming at the velocity he was going at as he did so. How anyone could stand going this fast was anyone's guess! Soon, he found a hill that was able to launch him directly at the pterodactyl. "GOOOOO!" He yelled out as the bike took to the air. "Just a little more!" Then, the bike started to fall mid-air. "Awwww!" He exclaimed in disappointment as he stood up. "I still didn't reach it!" Oh well, he could still jump for it. With his powerful little legs, he jumped straight for the pterodactyl who gasped in surprise at seeing the boy who was rocketing straight towards him. Now that he was close enough, Goku pulled out his staff and yelled out, "Staff, extend!" and just like magic, the staff got twice as long as before, long enough to reach the monster now. And so, he began to swing it at the beast. "Have a taste of my super nyoibo!" He yelled as he brought it down on the pterodactyl's neck. With a yell of fury, the staff made contact and the monster's head fin was snapped off before he was hit on the back of the neck, killing him instantly and causing him to let go of the screaming girl. As the three fell to the ground, Bulma still shrieking her lungs out the entire time (would she ever stop that? All humans could survive falls from this height, albeit with some minor boo-boos), Goku yelled out, "Peace!" to the dead monster before aiming his staff and throwing it at just the right moment as years of hunting paid off for him to have excellent aim. Once that was done, he landed on the ground safely and looked up to his partner, smiling happily at her. "That sure ended well!" He said as he looked at Bulma expectantly, hoping to be praised again and again for doing such a wonderful job at rescuing her from the monster. However, all he got was the sound of crying.
"I peed myself!" Bulma cried in frustration, embarrassment, and anger as her soiled body hung limply from the mountain side, dangling there thanks to Goku's staff. Never in her life had she been as humiliated as she was now! And so, Goku and Bulma begin their great adventure, perhaps the greatest adventure of all time. What lies for them ahead? Well, stay tuned for the next chapter to find out. However, let's go back to Sonic and see how well he is doing in his quest to save South Island.
After several more minutes of running, Sonic, strange ball from earlier still clutched tightly in his left hand, finally found a hint of where all the flickies and other critters of Green Hills had gone too. Following a scent of his animal friends mixed with something fake and metallic, he came across a clearing overlooking the great waterfall and lake of Green Hills with some yellow and purple flowers and tall palm trees as well as clear blue skies with only a few white fluffy clouds dotting the air. It was a peaceful place, Sonic figured, but he frowned as he realized that it was still much too quiet for his liking. Like the rest of Green Hills, this place was seemingly devoid of any fauna except for him and that both concerned and frightened the young Hedgehog. What in the world was going on, Gaia dagnabbit?! (He can't say no-no words, Uncle Chuck always spanked his heinie until it was red if he ever did say one). Slowly, carefully, he walked forward, taking note of his surroundings, trying to sense where his furry and feathered friends were but could find wing nor tail of them.
As he jogged to a nearby hill, he saw a little machine barely taller than him rolling towards him with a single wheel underneath the body. This machine had the design ladybug with a metallic face with large bulbous eyes, giant pointy teeth, two razor sharp mandibles, and what looked like cannons attached to its sides. Dodging a blast from both cannons by jumping high into the air, Sonic curled himself into a ball before crashing right into the machine, feeling the sensation of metal cracking and bending underneath him and hearing a satisfying crunch and pop, the cobalt blue hedgehog uncurled himself before turning to see the aftermath only to see...what the-?! Sonic's eyes bulged from their sockets as he looked at what was behind him. There, in the middle of the metal wreckage, a little dizzy from all that had happened, what a small little flicky, its feathers a bright shiny blue and eyes a deep violet. The hedgehog walked up to the dazed and confused creature, who saw him and quickly tweeted out a grateful thanks for the rescue, which Sonic acknowledged with a nod before he decided to question the flicky. "Why were you in that machine just now? What happened? Where is everyone?" He signed to the bird and said critter immediately tweeted, chirped, and chittered a story where, only hours ago, it was hanging out with its fellow flicky friends in the air only to be snatched up by a weird looking creature who was large with big brown facial hair before the flicky, its friends, and a bunch of other critters were taken to what it assumed was the home of this thing, put in machines like the one Sonic had just smashed to ribbons, and let loose on South Island, unable to do anything of their own free will.
Sonic's eyes narrowed as he immediately recognized the person doing all of this stuff. Eggman was here on South Island, it seems, and if he was here, then that means Sonic had the chance to finally put an end to his vile reign and free the island for good. He signed at the flicky again, asking the critter how many of its friends it thought was on the island and it responded with at least several dozen in the area. That infuriated the young hedgehog as he realized that Eggman was now taking the free will of so many for his own purposes. As he waved the flicky off before dashing away, he made a silent vow to crush every machine that was in his path and free every critter before taking on Eggman and ending his tyrannical quest for power. And that would be exactly what he did as he ran throughout the Green Hills of South Island.
There was a flying bug machine similar to the ladybug one he had crushed and he crushed it, fleeing the flicky inside, and that was followed by a fish machine that jumped at him as he carefully attempted to cross an unsteady log bridge but he jumped and destroyed the machine, catching the falling rabbit and placed it on the other side of the bridge before it could fall into the river. As it waved a thanks before hopping away, Sonic smiled before going further along his path, three down,many more to save. He would go on to crush two crab machines holding more critters as he jumped on hills in front of him and then came across a second bridge and freeing two other critters from their fishy machine casings and placing them on the other side of the bridge. He would keep on moving, freeing each of the critter even if he would be totally exhausted by the end of it, dodging their attacks and jumping onto unstable ground that quickly collapsed under his weight once he landed upon it, all of that was worth it to save his animal friends. Eventually, he came to a bizarre looking loop hill that caused him to slide back down.
He would try again to run up it only to miserably fail, falling on his face and sliding down. As he got up, he thought, and thought, and thought, before he snapped his fingers as he realized the solution to his problem. Running a few feet back, he began to run in place, charging up before blasting forward, zooming around the loop and zooming into a hill. However, what he didn't notice was the underground tunnel that he fell into and tumbled around for a bit before coming the other side, a bit dirty and banged up but no worse for wear compared to what Eggman will be when he catches him. Despite the little hick-up in his journey, Sonic continued running forward, freeing his friends and investigating the terrain for any sign of Eggman, though as time went on, he began to doubt that the fat creature was anywhere close to Green Hills. If he was smart, he would probably be a million miles from here right now, Sonic thought as he crossed another bridge that was longer than the others, freeing his friends in the process and continued hopping off the hills that he climbed. However, as he reach the end of one part of Green Hills the sight of something seriously confused him.
There, right in front of him, was a giant ring floating in the air. It hung there, like it was asking for someone to investigate it. Sonic looked to his left, then looked to his right. Then did it again, then a third time to make sure no one was nearby. If Eggman was here, did he really not notice this giant floating ring or did he simply not care about it? Whatever, his loss and Sonic's gain, the hedgehog thought as he decided to go for broke and jumped in the middle of the ring before an odd sensation took hold of his body. It was almost like he was being pulled from where he was and into some other place far from Green Hills, South Island, and the world he knew, yet also strangely familiar and inviting. After a few minutes, the strange funny feeling and the hedgehog opened his eyes to see a wondrous world of blues and greens that shimmied and sparkled which the hedgehog let out a quiet whistle at. So beautiful and yet so strange, he thought as he stood up. However, as he did so, he noticed an intense pulling sensation, as if something even greater and more powerful than the ball he held on his person was calling him to collect it and as realized the perilous position he was in as one step meant he would be tumbling all over the place and his fate would be left up to pure chance. Making up his mind, he decided to investigate further and jumped into the fray, curling into a ball and feeling himself be bounced around him as the world spun.
Soon, he felt himself reach the center, where the pulling feeling was at its greatest and saw something blue, shiny, and crystalline at the very middle surrounded by diamonds of their own. Taking a big risk, Sonic jumped into the diamonds protecting the center while still curled as a ball and felt himself by pushed back by the guarding rocks. So he decided to jump at the guards again and then a final time, which shattered them and allowed him entrance into the center where he grabbed the blue object, feeling an immediate surge of power and energy before a strong pulling sensation as he felt his body be twisted and spun and his vision go red before going white until he felt the cool air of Green Hills in his face yet again. Realizing he was out of whatever place he had been sent to minutes ago, he opened his eyes and tried to stand up only for a sudden wave of nausea hit him and he gagged and wretched out the contents of his stomach. Whatever that place was, it didn't make him feel well at all, but then he realized he felt a strong surge of power and looked to his hand and saw a blue crystal in it and as he focused his thoughts, he felt the power coming from it and into him. It felt so strong, so unlimited, but also felt weak, like it was part of a greater whole and needed more parts. Whatever this was, Sonic just knew it would be important, just like that ball, and that he had to keep it safe from any threats to it.
So, he put it in storage and dashed off, planning to continue on his journey to rescue all his friends and defeat Eggman. Maybe he could ask one of his friends what the deal was with the crystal or the ball, but if they didn't know, then Eggman would probably stupidly explain everything. Thus, the story of Sonic the Hedgehog begins and soon, the tales of our great heroes will collide for one of the greatest legends in history! What happens next? Well, tune in for the next chapter of Chaos Ball - No Balls and Evil Eggs!
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