Castle Exploring of the Pilaf Gang
"Alright, gang. We should be reaching the location of the Dragon Ball soon." Fu informed, looking at the screen for a bit.
"This definitely gets me feeling all excited, searching for the Dragon Balls again and not have to worry about things too hard. Maybe I could've had someone come with me." Bulma looked out the window shield.
"Yeah, traveling alone can be fine and all, but an adventure is always better when you have other people around you to make things more fun and find some pleasure in the journey." Fu stated with a calm tone.
"Wow, if I didn't know any better, I say you were trying to flirt with me. Not that I don't mind from a stunning looking young man like you." Bulma complimented, maybe she could get Fu to become her boyfriend.
"You flatter me, but I'm not in the market for any romance. I'm just a man who is so focus on the science and magic research, I guess you could say it's because I always have a neck for wanting to do things that most people would think it's weird." Fu explained a little about himself.
"I guess I can understand that. It's always the curiosity that science can make anything into an adventure that you'll never know what's going to happen." Bulma agreed.
"(Just like now with this experiment.)" Fu thought smirked.
"Oh, it would appear we have arrived at the location." Fu alerted, looking ahead and Bulma became shocked to see the place.
"You mean in that?" Bulma asked.
The space RV stops in front of a very large building that turns out to be a castle though there is a tiny bit of darkness coming off from that castle, and Bulma is looking a little scared when seeing it for the first time.
"Okay, it's no big deal. It's not like anyone is home or anything." Bulma chuckled a bit.
"(Alright, time to see how the Pilaf Gang have been doing.)" Fu thought hoped this would be fun for Ash.
(Inside the Castle)
"Is everything back to how it was?" One man asked.
"Yes sir, everything is in tiptop order." One woman responded with a salute.
"All good from the other areas I checked, sir." One short dog man reported.
"Excellent, and now, after all this time… The Pilaf Gang will make its ultimate comeback that no one will be able to stop! The world shall belong to Emperor Pilaf!" Pilaf shouted with excitement that he is back for world domination.
Emperor Pilaf is a small, blue, imp-looking creature that wears a green, red and black tunic with a frill on the neck. He also wears blue pants and cream shoes and a multi-colored hat. In the middle of his tunic, he has a kanji that means "fried rice".
"I can't believe we made it back home after all these years. It felt like a nightmare that we were never gonna come back." Shu smiled, jumping with joy.
Shu is a short anthropomorphic Shiba-inu dog with ginger or light brown fur covering his entire body, and a tan face and paws. His shinobi shozoku (ninja uniform) consists of a purple hood, a purple kimono with a yellow shirt underneath it, purple hakama pants, a pale blue or white sash, black tabi socks, and straw waraji sandals. He usually carries a wakizashi (Japanese short sword) on his back.
"It has been a difficult road for us considering we were almost killed by the Red Ribbon Army, but we were able to escape death by the skin of our teeth." Mai said seriously, and proud as well.
Mai is a fairly tall woman with blue eyes and long black hair with bangs. She is often seen wearing red eye shadow and lipstick. Mai wears a teal trench coat with a red star insignia on each shoulder, a brown belt with a pistol holster attached to it from the right hip, beige slacks, and brown combat boots. Her overall uniform resembles that worn by Soviet secret agents portrayed in old spy films. Breasts size: E-cup.
"After everything we went through, the reward of being home is finally here! All those years we had to hide out after the Red Ribbon tried to end us, force to live out in the streets and making money in those dead-end jobs!" Pilaf recounted all the days they had to scrap by.
"It was so humiliating! So frustrating that I wanted scream!" Pilaf was angered.
"You have been screaming sir, once a week on Sundays." Shu pointed out.
"Shut up! I don't to hear that from you, the dog who has been howling at a full moon every month!" Pilaf snapped at Shu.
"H-Hey, I don't do that every month! Maybe after two or three…" Shu corrected that fact a bit.
"But even so, we were able to make one business a success by selling some delicious ramen and using our self-taught mechanic, even creating our own business that we found ourselves living the highlife!" Pilaf smirked.
"And now we are finally home, and we can begin our conquest of the world!" Pilaf declared.
"Sir, what about the Red Ribbon Army?" Mai asked.
"What about those losers?" Pilaf asked back, not caring about that group in the slightest.
"From what we heard, those cowards suddenly went into hiding for unknown reason and haven't made a single move since. I say we take this opportunity to make our move then we'll have our revenge!" Pilaf stated.
"Very well, we shall make preparations at once." Mai bowed.
Shu then notices a beeping sound coming from the throne room and went over to see the beeping button that is making the sound.
"Sire, the alarm system seems to be going off. I think there is coming approaching your castle." Shu alerted.
"What?" Pilaf didn't like the sound of that.
"Pull up the surveillance screen. Let just hope it's not the Red Ribbon army." Mai clutched her fists, hating that the moment they were having was ruined.
Shu pressed the button, and the surveillance screen came down from the ceiling showing a bit of static at first until the full picture is shown, now it shows five people and one strange yellow creature at the front door.
"Who are those fuckers?" Pilaf asked.
"I don't know, they appear to be travels." Mai said.
"Too bad we can't hear what they're saying, but I can definitely tell that they're here for something. Oh, maybe they heard about me and want to join my empire!" Pilaf smiled excitedly.
"I don't think so, I have a feeling they're here for something else. Hold on, no… It couldn't be that." Mai shook her head, there's no way they could've known about that.
"What is it, Mai?' Pilaf asked.
"I don't want to jump to anu conclusions, but I think they might be here for the Dragon Ball we have." Mai said.
"What?!" Pilaf and Shu gasped.
"But how is that possible? No one should know that we have a Dragon Ball with us, we've been making sure that no one would know about it, not since we found it in a dumpster!" Pilaf yelled, refusing to give up his Dragon Ball.
"Quickly! Activate the blockade of the door! None of them must ever be allowed in!" Pilaf ordered.
"Huh, Sire. We just got here, we haven't installed the new security system we talked about." Shu pointed out.
A sudden booming noise caught their attention to look at the screen again to see that the younger boy has somehow punch through the large door and they all ran inside.
"No! They're already inside?!" Pilaf screamed in fear.
"Activate every security system we have right now! I want them dead at my feet!" Pilaf ordered.
"Yes, sir!" Mai and Shu saluted and ran for the control room.
"I won't let you out of my hands, my precious. You're going to help me conquer the world." Pilaf smirked at the one-star Dragon Ball he pulled out from his clothes.
(With Ash and Others)
"Ash, was it really alright for you to break the door like that?" Lana asked with a deadpan expression as they run through the hallway.
"Nobody was answering and the place looked abandoned, so I figured we should let ourselves in." Ash proclaimed.
"Let just be careful, there might be traps here." Fu warned.
Suddenly turret guns pop out of the walls on the upper level close to the ceiling and points down and starts firing some bullets at the intruders, Lana and Bulma became scared while Ash and Fu were able to deflect them away and Fu fired some ki blast at those turrets.
"Okay, that just happened." Bulma gulped.
"It would appear the ghost of the king who used to live in this castle is haunting and wants us dead!" Lana said in a spooky tone, scaring Bulma.
"Just kidding." Lana revealed that she was joking, but more bullets came at them and Pikachu deflects them with his tail glowing white.
"Ghost or not, someone is definitely here and doesn't want us to be in this castle." Fu pointed out.
"It must be because of the Dragon Ball being here. Let's go!" Ash said.
"Hold on, we can't dodge bullets!" Lana pointed out that she and Bulma aren't fast like them.
"Then I'll carry you!" Ash held Lana onto his body with extra support from his tail.
"We better hurry because they make the floor open up." Fu carried Bulma on his back.
"Let's go!" Ash shouted and they ran fast.
Thanks to all the training Ash and Pikachu have done in the gravity room, they are able to easily dodge the oncoming barrage of bullets from the turrets while keeping the girls safe, and Fu is able to keep up with them very close.
Lana looks up at Ash's face, seeing how brave he is running into the hallway of bullets while also being so caring and careful to keep her safe from harm. This moment is making her heart skip a beat and her cheeks turn a little red, she held him a little tighter putting her life in his hands.
They managed to reach the end of the hallway bursting through the door.
"I think we should be safe." Ash said, then notices that Lana is still clenching onto him.
"Huh, Lana, you can let go now." Ash said.
"Oh, right." Lana realized that the danger is over and let go.
"You were really amazing out there, Ash. So awesome! Thank you for protecting me." Lana complimented him, which causes Ash to blush a bit.
"Oh, huh, you're welcome." Ash smiled. Pikachu tilts his head in confusion on why Ash is acting like this.
"Bulma, how close are we to the Dragon Ball?" Fu asked.
"Let see, the radar says that it's… above us." Bulma checked the Dragon Ball radar.
"That means we have to go up." Lana said.
"And probably face more deadly traps along the way." Ash added.
"Well, we could try taking the elevator over there." Fu pointed at one door that looks like an elevator.
Everyone went inside the elevator pressing the button for the top floor and going up, but the self-proclaim Emperor was not happy about this.
(Control Room)
"Fucking damn it!" Pilaf cursed.
Wow, did you guys see how awesome those guys were! It was like they were faster than bullets!" Shu commented.
"That's because they were, you idiot!" Mai glared at the dog man.
"We need a way to stop them!" Pilaf was angered.
"They're taking the elevator; we can simply stop it and have them drop to their doom." Mai suggested since they have the control to do so.
While Pilaf would love to give those unknown intruders a pointless death that would put a smile on his face, he couldn't stop feeling that there is something about those intruders that they are more than meets the eyes, probably more than the Red Ribbon Army.
"Mai! Shu! We need to get our Pilaf Machine out and ready to destroy them now!" Pilaf ordered, surprising his two lackies.
"But Emperor, isn't that going too extreme! Two of those intruders are children!" Shu pointed out, not feeling like being a bully.
"I don't care! Those intruders seem to be more trouble than they're worth, and whatever they want with my Dragon Ball is going to be a problem for my conquest." Pilaf pointed out.
"I won't take any chances that the elevator will take care of them." Pilaf looked serious.
(Inside the Elevator)
Ash is waiting for the elevator to arrive at the top floor though the ride is a bit slow along with the boring elevator song, he goes stretching his limbs to ready himself for whatever he'll face next.
"What song do you think this is?" Lana asked.
"I don't know, it's hard to make out with just the sound." Bulma said, wishing that this song had some lyrics.
Pikachu felt something in his instincts that something bad is about to happen, but he can't tell what it is.
"What is it, Pikachu?" Ash asked his little buddy.
Suddenly the elevator stops when it was close to the top floor and before anyone could ask why it stop, the elevator suddenly started to go faster as they scream in shock.
"What's happening?" Ash asked.
"Looks like they've taken control of the elevator making us go down so faster that we'll die from the crash!" Fu guessed.
"No! I don't wanna die inside a stupid elevator!" Bulma screamed.
"Ash! I'm gonna break through the roof of the elevator, you grab onto the girls and follow me going up!" Fu planned.
"You got it!" Ash nodded.
Fu jumped at the ceiling and easily breaking through to create a large hole big enough for Ash and the girls to come through and he flies up, Ash held onto the girls tightly with Pikachu on his head then jumps out and jump upward from wall to wall following Fu to the top floor.
Along the way, Pikachu almost fell off from Ash, but Lana was able to catch him and held him in her arms and held him tightly.
They reach the top floor as Fu force the door to open for himself and the others to get in.
"Dude, you gotta teach me how to fly like that." Ash wanted to do that too.
"Once you get better with ki control first." Fu said.
But then their little breather was short lived when they heard heavy metal footsteps coming this way and they turn around to big robot mech with three people in each section, and Emperor Pilaf is sitting at the stop being the leader and all.
"So, you fools have arrived. Quite a surprise since we don't get that any visitors around these parts." Pilaf said acting kindly.
"Who are you?" Ash asked.
"Fool! How dare you do not know about the great and mighty Emperor Pilaf who will become ruler of the world!" Pilaf yelled.
"That's right, you're looking at the future ruler of planet earth!" Mai declared.
"And he's going to accomplish that once we get our hands on all of the Dragon Balls!" Shu blurted out proudly.
"Oh great, just what we need. People who want to use the Dragon Balls for their own gain, how selfish can these guys be." Bulma disapproved of their reason for wanting the Dragon Balls.
"Didn't you want to use them to wish up a boyfriend?" Lana reminded her with a deadpan look.
"Hey! That was different!" Bulma proclaimed with her face turning red.
"Now, you shall fall to the might of the Pilaf War Machine!" Pilaf smirked.
"Pilaf? I feel like I heard of that name before?" Bulma tried to remember why that name sound so familiar, but nothing comes to mind.
"Well, looks like we may have found ourselves in quite the pickle. Do your best to get us out of this, Ash." Fu patted Ash on the back and push him forward.
"Huh, I'm going to fight that thing?" Ash asked in surprise.
"Of course, it's time to put all of that training to the test by fighting against that strong robot. I know you can do it, just remember what I taught you about ki control and focus your energy throughout your body." Fu said, having faith in him.
Ash wasn't entirely sure about fighting a big and strong mech like the big one right before them, but he does feel excited to fight something strong that could push him to his limits and want to know how this battle will go himself.
"Alright, time to battle!" Ash smirked, ready to battle the enemy.
KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!
No, you are not reading this wrong, everybody. The Pilaf Gang are going to be the next boss fight for the possession of the one-star Dragon Ball, and you can expect that Ash is really going to show just how awesome and strong he is once the fight begins!
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