Forgive me if this chapter delves into some inappropriate areas (Of course, no little girls will be fondled). I'm not rewatching these, I'm just doing these based on memory so it's not exactly the same as OG Dragonball. Also, it took me a little bit to upload this because Fanfic was not co-operating. As soon as it was able I got this up. So, I hope you enjoy.
Last time on Dragonball: Gine, her Grandpa Gohan, Dr. Briefs, and Peppermint had lost all their capsules were forced to trek the perilous diablo desert on foot. This caused the group to have an unfortunate run-in with the desert bandit Bruncha, and her shapeshifting sidekick Earl. Managing to defeat Grandpa Gohan in a fight, Gine quickly grabbed her group and rushed off the scene with her Nimbus, Bruncha swearing to pursue.
Gine was zooming across the sky carrying the two old men on her power pole like they were buckets of water. Suddenly Peppermint, who was a fly clinging onto her shoulder, poofed into a pig and was barely clinging on, with one hand on Gine's shoulder.
"This is tricky," said Gine all lopsided, "We need to land."
Soon enough, Nimbus brought them back to the sand below.
"That was refreshing," said Dr Briefs, the rush of air bringing him back to his senses from his delirium.
"Yes, and thanks to Gine rushing us out of there, we have less of a trek through the desert," said Gohan.
"That's great!" said Peppermint. "How long now?"
"It seems we have about one week left on foot," said Dr. Briefs.
"ONE WEEK! ALL THAT ZOOMING AND WE STILL HAVE ONE WEEK LEFT!" cried Peppermint. He started digging a hole. "We're dead; we can't survive that long,"
"We might," said Gine.
"I got it!" said Peppermint. "How about Gine just carries us out of here in 5 minute stints, we'll be out of here in no time!"
"That's not very convenient," said Gine. "I'd have to stop every five minutes, plus I might drop all of you. I only did that because we were desperate."
"Oy vey," said Peppermint, giving up the ghost.
"Sorry, this is the case, young pork, but we don't have vehicle."
"What would that change?"
"Well, we'd only be in this desert for a couple days; also we'd have some protection from the sun." Peppermint suddenly looked very nervous, pacing back and forth and muttering to himself.
"Pig, is there something you're hiding from us," said Gohan.
"Look, I actually do have…one capsule on me, but it's mine! I knew if I told you about it you'd make me give it up!"
"YOU COULD HAVE SAVED US ALL THE HEAT STROKE!" cried the group at Peppermint.
"Hand it over, Pig, or I'll say you know what," said Dr. Briefs.
"Fine!" Peppermint tossed the capsule and out popped a camper.
"It's a bit worn down," said Gohan.
"I only use it for emergencies," said Peppermint.
"Crossing the dessert wasn't one," asked Gine.
"It doesn't have a lot of mileage on it."
"Yet it can certainly protect us for the night," said Dr. Breifs. He patted Peppermint on the back. "Well done, Porky."
Once inside the camper, Peppermint started driving, but seeing as they were on rough terrain, it was a bit of a slow and bumpy start. Gine and Gohan helped themselves to the kitchen, there wasn't a lot of food, at least not enough to last everyone and Gine a few days. There was enough water for everyone however. Gohan, Briefs and Gine got to work cooling themselves down, they each even took a bath. When it came time for dinner time, Gine and Gohan split the food evenly amongst the group. Gine could manage at least for tonight, seeing as she didn't exert that much energy.
"I have an appetite too you know," said Peppermint.
"Grandpa deserves more, he had to fight today," said Gine.
"And Gine save all our butts," said Gohan. "She deserves an extra helping."
"Grandpa, you're spoiling me, this food needs to last until we get back to civilization, or until I find something we can eat."
"Do not look at me," said Peppermint.
"Why would we eat you, Peppermint?" said Gine. "You're probably not that tasty."
"Why I outta-" Peppermint excused himself. When he was alone, he started muttering to himself. "These people are pack-muling me, getting me out of my sweet spot with the village, feeding me that pill, taking my capsule, forcing me onto a dangerous journey all for some wish granting orbs they're probably not even going to let me use." A lightbulb then appeared above Peppermint's head. "Of course if I knew how to find these orbs, I could just cut them out of the deal instead." Peppermint made his way back to where the others were finishing their meal.
Meanwhile, Bruncha and Earl had caught up to the old Camper on their speeder.
"That has to be them, so they did have a capsule!" said Earl.
"This is great," said Bruncha. "We'll just sneak up on the group, and get the jump on them right as they exit their camper."
"How are they going to exit their camper Bruncha?"
"We'll just make a noise, and when they go to investigate…Wham! That's when we'll get them."
"You're such a genius Bruncha!"
They snuck up close to the Camper windows, just as the sun was going down.
"So, tell me again," asked Peppermint. "How are you going to find these…'Dragon balls'?"
"I have a Radar," said Dr. Briefs. "Each blip is a Dragon ball waiting to be found."
"And…you only need three more right?"
"Yep, then we'll have all seven," said Gine.
"And how exactly will be able to make a wish then?"
"You have to summon the eternal dragon Shenron, and then he will come forth and grant any wish," said Gohan.
"I can't wait to see what you're going to wish for Grandpa," said Gine.
"Should I make the sound now Bruncha," said Earl.
"Change of plans Earl," whispered Bruncha. "We need to regroup."
They stopped by in their little hideout, which happened to be nearby.
"What's the plan Bruncha?" The bandit had grabbed the small dog and shook him.
"You heard what they were talking about, Earl?! Dragon balls! Wish granting orbs! They nearly have the complete set! This is the greatest score we've ever found!"
"Oh, so we're stealing those instead!?"
"Yes we are, as well as their little radar! We're going to acquire those Dragon balls for ourselves so I can finally have my wish granted!"
"Yippee!"
"That's right! I won't be shy around boys anymore!" Earl got blank in the face.
"What? That's your wish?"
"You're surprised, why do you think I live in a desert, there's too many cute boys in cities."
"Here I thought you would wish to be super rich so you wouldn't have to steal anymore."
"Earl, I'm ashamed of you, there's more to a woman's wants than just being successful and rich. I want to have a quiet life, fall in love, get married, and have a family maybe."
"Bruncha, you're friends with me, I saw you confident and sure of yourself around those old men and Peppermint. Are you sure you can't talk to boys?"
"There's a difference Earl, boys around my age who would consider me good looking, and would want to ask me out and get to know me." Bruncha got all blushy just thinking about it. "Those are the ones that make me clam up. I want my dreams to come true Earl, and if we have to rob the honorable Master Gohan and his family, then so be it!"
"Aye Aye, Bruncha!" said Earl, now fully on board.
Bruncha was not the only one interested in the balls; Emperor Basmati still hadn't given up in his pursuit of the Dragon Balls.
"Good news Emperor," said Ton over radio. "According to the radar, there are four dragon balls in the diablo dessert, all in close proximity."
"Excellent," said Basmati from his castle. "After this we'll only need one more Dragon Ball, and then the wish will be mine!"
"What's this about yours!?" said another voice over the radio, a female, croaky one.
"Ours, I mean ours, my dearest Jasmine. You know everything I do is for our empire," said Basmati.
"When's that roast duck getting here? You said I could have roast duck!"
"It's coming, my dearest, it's coming...HURRY UP AND GET THOSE DRAGON BALLS!"
"Yes sir!" Him and Won were currently zooming across the Diablo dessert using mech suits. "The Emperor desperately wants those dragon balls, Won," said Ton over radio. "We must acquire the four in close proximity tout suit."
"Why are the four in close proximity," said Won. "You think someone else is gathering them?"
"Just makes it easier on our end, Won."
As the sun had finally set in the diablo desert, Won and Ton approached the camper. Gazing through a telescope, Won was able to see through the lit windows who was inside. He saw Gine, Gohan, Dr. Briefs, and Peppermint. He paid particular attention to Gine.
"Attention Ton, it seems someone else is gathering the Dragon balls."
"I gathered that, Won," Ton rolled his eyes.
"It's that freakishly strong girl we ran into earlier."
"WHAT! The one who killed all those wolves?"
"Yep, her," said Won. They nervously looked back at the camper.
"Well now what?" said Ton. "She won't give those up without a fight."
"Maybe we don't have to fight her," said Won.
"She won't hand them over if we ask, Won," said Ton.
"I didn't say that, I have something to take her out of the picture without her even knowing."
"I think it's about time we hit the hay," said Dr. Briefs.
"How about some juice before bed?" said Peppermint.
"Why are you being nice all of a sudden?" asked Gohan.
"Anything to make you guys hate me less," said Peppermint, filling up some glasses.
"I don't hate you Peppermint, I just wish you'd be better," said Gine.
"Aw, you're making me blush, this is me being better."
"Why does the juice smell funny," said Gine.
"Uh, I put in a little kick to make you stronger in case we run into that bandit again."
"We don't need that," said Gohan.
"Didn't you say you were tired earlier? The desert can do things to you."
"I guess," said Gine. The three of them took a glass of juice and downed it, and then got very sleepy. Gine however was just drowsy.
"I don't feel much stronger, but I do feel a tad drowsy, must be more tired than I thought."
"Time for shut eye," said Dr. Briefs who yawned.
"Good night Gine," said Gohan, who headed up to bed. Gine was still up however.
"That was enough Sleepy grass to knock someone out for eight hours," muttered Peppermint.
"You know Peppermint," said a sleepy Gine. "You're not so bad once people get to know you. The problem is you just had nobody to care about you, if you're my friend will you promise to be better."
"Sure, kid," said Peppermint, hoping she'd just fall asleep already.
"That's good, if you really want a wish so badly, I'll share Grandpa's with you."
"I don't think it works like that."
"Grandpa said it was a gift for me, so I choose how it goes. You have to promise not to kidnap girls anymore."
"Okay," said Peppermint.
"That's good," said Gine. "I'll go to bed now. How many beds do you have?"
"Two," said Peppermint.
"I'll sleep with Grandpa, you can have the couch." Gine stumbled up the stairs. She then found her Grandpa sleeping in the bed and snuck under the covers to snuggle up next to him.
Outside, Won and Ton had rushed up the camper. Won pulled out a miniature bomb from his pocket.
"We just stick this under the camper, and it will take the whole thing with it. We can then pull out the dragon balls from the wreckage. I'll just set it to a minute, so we have enough time to get away."
"What a great idea Won!" said Ton. After the time was set, all Won had to do was stick it under the camper, problem was…it was stuck to won's hand.
"It's stuck!"
"Get it off Won! Hurry up! I can't die here! I have a wife at home!"
"So do I!" after much struggling, Won instead reset the timer to 10 hours. "There now we have enough time to get this off my hand and on the Camper."
After Gine and the others were asleep, Peppermint made his move up the stairs for the Dragon balls. He had to be careful regarding Gine, as he wasn't sure how sleepy the Sleepy Grass actually made her. He wasn't going to try anything with her. He went straight for the Dragon balls.
"There you are pretties," said Peppermint, "Now where's the Radar, don't tell me it's on the old man." He snuck over to where Dr. Briefs was sleeping. He started feeling around inside his coat, when it wasn't on one side; he began to search the other side. That's when he heard the sound of something moving downstairs. He panicked he didn't see where Gine was in the dark, could she have gone back downstairs to check on him.
The sound was actually Bruncha and Earl. Earl had turned into a key to get into the Camper. They heard movement upstairs. They figured one of the older people had to use the bathroom.
"Quick Earl, turn into Gine." Earl turned into a near identical version of the girl.
Peppermint peeked downstairs and saw Gine walking around. Oh she was looking for him, probably wondering why he wasn't asleep. Maybe she noticed something funny about the juice, maybe she was going to beat him up for not being a good guy. For safety's sake, he turned into Dr. Briefs, a shorter pudgier version; she wouldn't beat up this guy.
"Oh Gine, you're awake," he imitated. "You're probably wondering where Peppermint is, I lent the pig my bed."
"You didn't need to do that," said squeaky voiced Gine.
"Hey if we treat him, he might not rob us in the night."
"He still might," said dot eyed Gine.
"You noticed the juice smelled funny," short Briefs sweated.
"Yeah he's not good at making it." Earl imitated, while Bruncha was hiding in the closet.
"Oh yeah, it was terrible," said Peppermint still in character.
"I saw something outside, I want to show you," said little Gine.
"Okay, but only if we go out and look at it together." Peppermint was hoping if they walked long enough, Gine would forget about the sleepy time incident, hopefully within five minutes.
Once they were outside, Bruncha saw her chance to search upstairs for the balls. They were not where they were normally stored. Oolong had stashed them in the Old man's coat when he was looking for the radar. Realizing the balls had to be on the group's person, maybe the old man left the things in his bed. She began to search around the bed for anything round, finding something distinctly round shaped, but kind of small…what was that giggling noise she was hearing?
She tore off the blanket and her eyes popped out of her sockets. Her hand was at the lower part of Dr. Briefs. He was still in bed! And she was playing with an older man's junk! She jumped back in shock and disgust. But if Dr. Briefs was here, who was Earl leading away? Bruncha's sudden shout made Gine stir, not wanting to be ambushed in a small space, she quickly bolted.
Out in the dessert, Earl was still leading away Peppermint.
"What was it you wanted to show me, Gine?"
"Not much, except that you've been had," said Earl, turning back into himself.
"Earl!" said Peppermint, right as he changed back.
"Peppermint!"
"You were going to rob us blind!"
"You were going to do the same thing!" They then raced back to the camper. Earl found Bruncha outside and hiding. "Bruncha, what are you doing out here?"
"I don't want to talk about it," she said adamantly. "Change of plans, we'll wait until morning and take their Dragon balls by force.
Gine had awoken, and went downstairs to see what the noise was about.
"I thought I heard something, hey where's Peppermint?" Peppermint was hiding in the closet. "Eh, he'll come back; this is the only safe place for miles. Besides, it's his camper." Gine then went back upstairs to go back to sleep.
Peppermint sighed, "She's right, guess I'll have to steal the wish from under them once they get them all."
The next morning, Won and Ton had finally managed to get the bomb off of Won's hand and stuck it under the camper, with only an hour left to spare.
Everyone in the group was waking up, all prepared to get on the road again.
"Maybe someone else can take a turn driving today," said Peppermint.
"It's your Camper, we thought you would like to drive," said Gohan.
"It's tiring and hard on the back," said Peppermint.
"I'll do it," said Dr. Briefs. "I'm well rested, and had pleasant dreams last night."
Dr. Briefs sat in the driver's seat and began to adjust the seat for his height.
"Gine how about we make some breakfast," said Gohan.
"There's something behind us," said Gine, looking out the rear window. "It's coming towards us."
"I think I know who it is," said Peppermint, "Everyone out now!"
Bruncha and Earl were speeding towards the group's camper, and just to ensure they couldn't go anywhere Bruncha fired a missile at the vehicle, severely damaging it. Luckily the group had rushed outside before the missile struck.
"You're not getting away this time!" said Bruncha. "Hand over everything valuable you have and I'll go easy on you."
"You're not taking anything we have," said Gine. "You can't bully people like this."
"I'm not bullying, I'm negotiating; I'll give you a means to escape this desert if you hand over your valuables."
"That's an ultimatum," said Gine.
"You know a lot of big words kid," said Earl. "But we know your Grandpa will go soft on us, and you don't want to fight us."
"I didn't want to last time because I knew I would lose."
"That's right you would."
"Because I was tired, the only thing I'm tired of now, is you bullying us."
"You want to go?" said Bruncha. Suddenly she was met with a punch to her gut, not even seeing Gine coming.
"No," said Gine, "Leave us alone." Bruncha was left winded and gasping for breath.
"Bruncha no!" cried Earl. "Are you okay?"
"If you excuse us, we have a week long worth of desert to trek because of you." They walked a good distance away before Grandpa Gohan turned to her.
"You didn't have to do that, Gine."
"I didn't want you getting beat up again Grandpa," sighed Gine.
"I wasn't tired either."
"You would've gone easy on her; you have a weakness for women."
Bruncha and Earl, once recovered went after the group again, while Won and Ton figured the bomb must've gone off already.
"The bomb must've been a dud," said Ton. "This is all the damage it did to it."
"I'm not sure-" said Won.
"Anyways, at least now we can search this thing for the Dragon balls." The two headed inside to begin their search.
"Half a week left to go of walking," said Dr. Briefs.
"We'll be dead by the time we make it out of this desert," said Peppermint.
"I can still go and find water," said Gine.
"Or you could give us a ride," said Peppermint.
"I could drop you, we've been over this."
"Hey," called Bruncha, behind them.
"She does not know when to quit, does she," said Gine.
"I can handle this one Gine, don't need to be rough on her to get the point across," said Gohan. He got into fighting position. Earl turned into a white flag and hastily waved around.
"What do you want?" said Gine. Bruncha was out of breath from earlier.
"I just want to say…you pack quite the wallop…I didn't realize we were dealing with such strong opponents. So…I'm here to say sorry."
"Sorry?" said the group.
"Us being strong should have nothing to do with you backing off," said Gine.
"I know, I know, I'm sorry, I'll be a better person from now on and stop picking on people in the desert."
"Serves you right," said Peppermint.
"In fact, I want to give you a means out of here," said Bruncha handing over a capsule.
"Looks like a vehicle," said Dr. Briefs. "Good news everyone, we'll be out of this desert in a day or two."
"Yay!" cried the group.
"With any luck it'll be in better condition than the camper Peppermint had," said Gohan.
"Only one way to find out," said Dr. Briefs who tossed the capsule. It was a small red car, enough for the four of them to fit. "Yep, definitely a day or two."
"Thank you so much," said Gine. "Next stop, the next dragon ball!" The group then piled into the car with Peppermint at the wheel.
"I thought you didn't want to drive," said Gohan.
"I want to take this baby for a spin; it's not every day you get a free car!"
"The car will belong to me unless you want me to say you-know-what," said Dr. Briefs.
"I just lost my camper!" The group then started driving off.
"Why did you insist on giving them something?" asked Earl.
"Because Earl, this way we can track them." Bruncha pulled out a small radar, which had a blip pulling out of range.
"It had a tracker! You're a genius Bruncha!"
"I admit…I underestimated that group, especially the little girl. This can work in our favor though. They'll do all the work for us Earl, and once they have all the balls, then we'll strike."
The pair then began to follow them from a distance.
At the same time, back at the camper. The bomb had finally gone off while Won and Ton were still inside searching.
"I guess that was the bomb," said Ton covered in ashes.
"Yeah, guess so," said Won, just as shocked as Ton.
Introduced the wives of the bad guys, I'm just taking a guess of how much the pilaf gang is older than Goku, but they're not around just yet. Also, why did Gine not konk out like Goku did, because Goku when he was stronger took a while to be konked out at Princess Snake's place. Of course, it didn't work entirely on him. Even Gine is not as strong as he was then, so she still goes to sleep but she wakes up due to loud noises, which is how Bruncha doesn't get the balls. You notice how OG Dragonball was okay with showing Goku's d**k when he was little, (-_- I guess it's funny) anyway, threw a little balls humor in here. Until next time...Stay Tuned!