Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Not Your Normal 9 to 5: Overtime ❯ Chapter 1: Up the Rabbit Hole ( Chapter 2 )

Shippo picked himself up off the ground and looked towards the top of the well. Instead of blue sky he was welcomed to the now familiar ceiling of the Higarashi shrine well house roof. It was a sure sign that he had made it to the future. Another sign invaded his nose as the smells of the future assaulted him. While the dust and wood of the structure wasn't all that bad, the smells from outside took some getting used to. The future was defiantly not as clean as his own time was.

 

He quickly shook his head to clear it. Now was not the time to be comparing trivial things. He had to get help and get it fast. He leapt to the top of the well and quickly went to the door. He carefully slid it open and looked around. He was told that demons did not roam the land as they once had, and that humans would react poorly to seeing one so caution was always necessary. There were only a few people about the shrine and the way to the main house was clear. He quickly opened the door and moved toward it. He noticed Kagome's grandfather going about his duties around the shrine but still continued towards the home. He did not feel like dealing with the man's hysterics because he was a demon, and the elderly man sought to exercise him with his powers, as any shrine priest would. The only difference was the man's scrolls didn't work and his holy power was non existent. The only thing that usually happened was a paper was slapped to his forehead and the words demon be gone were spoken loudly.

 

The old man never once let the failure of each banishing get to him and tried again and again, even though he knew he and Inuyasha were Kagome's friends. He reached the door and knocked three times in quick succession. The wait for the door to open was almost unbearable. Every minuet here cost his friends time. The door finally swung open and Shippo was face to face with a human boy a little taller then him, with a mop of brown hair and equally brown eyes. Eyes that widened in surprise at seeing the demon on his doorstep.

 

“Shippo, what are you doing here? Where is Kagome and brother Inuyasha?” the boy questioned looking past Shippo to see if maybe they were further behind him.

 

Shippo stepped forward, almost pushing his way into the home. “No time to talk Souta, I need to speak to your mother right away.”

 

Kagome's brother must have heard the urgency in the young fox's words as he quickly stepped aside to let him and shouted for his mother. Mrs. Higarashi stepped from the kitchen doorway to see what her son was shouting about, a towel in one hand and a wet dish in the other. She looked with surprise at Shippo and like her son glanced around for his normal traveling companions. Before she had time to question their absence, Shippo spoke.

 

“I need your help. You have to take me to Capsule Corporation, it's an emergency. Inuyasha and the others are in trouble and I need help right away.”

 

Mrs. Higarashi's eyes widened with alarm at the statement that her daughter was in trouble. “What happened?” she quickly asked.

Shippo shook his head “no time, we have to go now please. Ill tell you on the way.”

 

The older woman nodded, hearing the almost pleading tone in Shippo's voice. “Let me get my keys.” She said.

 

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The car ride was long and unpleasant for Shippo. The encasement in the metal contraption accompanied by the noise and fumes of the other cars played havoc on his senses but he would endure it for his friends. He had told Kagome's mother and brother, who accompanied them to Satan City, what had happened in the past. Both had gone deathly pale and Mrs. Higarashi's knuckles were white as snow, she gripped the steering wheel so hard. There had been mostly silence afterwards with a few sparing questions about Kagome's condition. He told them what he knew but the details were old. Who knows what had happened since he left.

 

The drive from Tokyo to Satan City was almost two hours and that was a long time to let the mind wander. Shippo kept seeing horrible fates for each of his friends and he tried to not let each one show on his face lest he alarm the woman next to him. Souta sat in the back his eyes downcast and worried about his sister.

 

“I understand you are friends with some of the people from CapCorp, Shippo, but why are we going there. What can they do to help my daughter?” Mrs. Higarashi asked almost halfway there. She did not know the powers possessed by Lennex and the rest of his friends, she only knew that after the incident in their well, the shrine received a monthly donation from the company in a way of compensation for the trouble and because the owner and her security chief had become somewhat of friends with her daughter. Besides the donations, they also received care packages to be sent back with Kagome when she returned for periodic visits.

 

Shippo wanted to tell her the amazing truth of what they could do, but it wasn't his place to say and he advised her that they had ways of helping and left it at that. Shippo could see the answer was not satisfactory but she continued driving none the less.

 

Shippo's eyes widened as the city became visible from the highway. Satan City was different from Tokyo in a few ways. Due to Capsule Corporation being based there, the city received many benefits from the corporation making the city look almost futuristic. It had many domed and circular structures through ought the city along with the classic square buildings. There was also the introduction of hover vehicles which could be seen zipping here and there around the city. The rest of Japan, and the world, had slowly been incorporating these things into their way of life, but much more slowly then Satan City.

 

Seeing the city had a profound effect on Mrs. Higarashi and Shippo felt the car accelerate faster. The woman's worry for her daughter translating itself into the burst of speed to reach their destination quicker. Shippo silently urged her to go faster still and tried not to fidget as their destination was quickly coming closer.

 

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They had arrived twenty minutes later at the Capsule Corporation business building located in the business district of Satan city. The building was almost fifty stories high and housed a lot of the business offices, as well as a few labs that CapCorp used. Shippo knew that the bigger and more specialized labs were housed at the headquarters of the company, which also served as the home to the owner, Bulma Briefs and her family. Lennex also stayed there, but sadly while he had been there, he did not know the way, and neither did Kagome's mother. She however knew the location of this building as she had attended a few meetings here concerning her shrine and the sudden interest capsule corp. had taken in it.

 

They had walked through the doors quickly and approached the desk. Shippo used his fox magic to make himself look like an ordinary human boy, and stood by Souta as Mrs. Higarashi spoke to the woman behind the desk. What he heard was not helping his mood

 

“As I told you before ma'am, our security chief is a very busy man, and he doesn't like to be interrupted. If your name is not on his list of contacts we are given, we can't just buzz him for any person off the street.”

 

Shippo didn't like this lady at all. The words and her facial features were polite and nice, but he could tell it was mostly a façade and that they were being treated like they were not on the same level. Shippo would have just gone in search for his friend, but try as he might; he could not locate his power signature. Wherever Lennex was, he was not using any of his ki.

 

“I understand the rules you have to abide by miss, but this is an emergency. My daughter is in trouble, and according to this boy,” she pointed at Shippo “he can help her. I receive donations and other things from this company, its not like I'm a total stranger, please page him for us.”

 

The girl behind the desk looked skeptical at the story as she looked at Shippo.

 

“Ma'am, I don't want to sound rude, but why would a boy his age be telling you what course of action to take? If you have a child in trouble, wouldn't it be best to call the police? Our chief of security is not an officer of the law and doesn't help the general public. I'm sure you understand.”

 

Shippo had had enough. He stepped forward and looked at the girl with his hardest glare he could muster.

 

“I know Lennex very well and he can help my friends. If they die because of your inability to help, I will personally make sure you pay for it.” He practically snarled the last part, his anger and other feelings finally boiling to the top.

 

The secretary took a step backwards and regarded the young boy and shook her head.

 

“Threats don't work in this office little boy. If your friends are in that much danger then the police station is just down the street. I suggest you go there.” She said raising her face up and closing her eyes, clearly dismissing the three of them.

 

Shippo would have done something rash had not a voice interrupted him.

 

“Hitomi, I'll handle Mrs. Higarashi and her sons from here it wont be a problem.”

 

The voice made the girl go ridged and she quickly bowed to the owner of the voice. Shippo's eyes lit with hope as he saw the man standing before them. He had met him briefly once before but knew him to be one of Lennex's closest friends. He stood over five and a half feet and his lanky purple hair parted down the middle to frame his face. He wore a business suit and a pair of black reading glasses.

 

The secretary spoke softly while still bowing to the man. “Of course President Trunks, had I known you knew them I would have sent word to you they were here.”

 

“Its ok Hitomi, could you fax these for me and see about picking up these items from the dry cleaner for me. That would be great.” Trunks replied handing her a stack of papers. He turned towards the three visitors and motioned down the hallway to an elevator. They rode the elevator for what seemed like forever and Trunks made small talk with Kagome's mother. Shippo wanted to talk about the real reason they were here, but at Trunks request, he waited till they were in his office.

 

The exited the elevator and walked by another woman who sat behind a desk. Trunks greeted her politely and opened the door behind her and waved them in. Shippo's eyes widened at the site of the office. Not from the sheer size of it, but because almost the entire back wall was nothing but window, and they were very high off the ground from what he could see. Trunks shut the door and walked to his desk, sitting on the corner.

 

“How can I help you Mrs. Higarashi?” he asked her, crossing his arms.

 

“This boy needs to talk to your head of security if it's not too much trouble.” She replied a bit sheepishly. While her daughter was in danger, she recognized the president of Capsule Corporation from all the magazines and news broadcasts he was in. He was considered one of the most sexist men in Japan and had somewhat of a following of female fans. While she was older then most of the girls lusting after Trunks, she was still a woman.

 

Trunks focused his gaze on Shippo and raised an eyebrow.

 

Shippo decided not to waste anymore time and in a puff of smoke he dropped his illusion, revealing his demon features.

 

“Well that explains the weird power reading I was getting from you.” Trunks said as he recognized the demon. “Trouble in the past my little friend?”

 

Shippo nodded his head “You have no idea. I need to talk to Lennex quickly. My friend's lives are at stake.”

 

Trunks nodded his head and reached for the phone on his desk, pressing a button on it. Mizumi, cancel all my appointments for the rest of the day and please have the chief of security report to capsule corp. headquarters immediately as if his job depended on it.”

 

A voice replied back “yes Mr. Briefs.”

 

Trunks looked back at the trio before him. “I can sense your haste Shippo, but let's wait for just a bit more so we can talk with everyone ok. If you'll come with me I have a personal hover car that will get us to CapCorp HQ in no time.”

 

Shippo hated to put more time in this, but at least they were moving forward now. He prayed that his friends were all right as they walked to the location of Trunks vehicle. The building had a kind of garage in its top floors, and an access door for entering and exiting. They quickly got in the blue vehicle and trunks powered it on and took them out into the open sky. The three grabbed on to what they could, as none had ever been in a hover car before and stared out the windshield as the continued on to the next destination of their journey.

 

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Shippo had been to the dome shaped building that was CapCorp headquarters a few times before, but the sheer size of the building always seemed to amazing him. Trunks had quickly and efficiently got them to the building in a quarter hour and landed the hover car in the back landing pad used by the family. As soon as the three of them had exited the vehicle, Trunks pressed a button on the side and the car disappeared in a cloud of smoke. From the cloud, a small yellow capsule remained, one that Trunks pocketed inside his business jacket. He motioned them towards the large building and led the way inside.

 

Souta stared at everything in child like wonder, and even Mrs. Higarashi looked amazed. It was a far cry from a shrine home, what with all the robots running around doing chores to the lavish rooms they passed by. The home of Bulma Briefs was defiantly one that was long overdue to be featured on lifestyles of the rich and famous. Shippo however followed right behind Trunks, a determined look plastered on his face. Nothing was going to stop him now that he was this close. He would get the help he needed.

 

The quartet wandered through the halls and up a flight of stairs to the second level of the building. They followed their lavender haired guide out a sliding glass door onto a very large balcony that overlooked the grounds outside. Shippo noticed two girls leaning against the railing of the balcony both in bikinis and both with drinks in their hands. One was blue haired and easily recognizable to Shippo, Bra Briefs. Lennex's girlfriend. The other was a blond haired beauty and was in deep conversation with Bra. Further down the railing a barbeque stood flush against the rail and a short man with a mop of black hair stood in front of the cooking machine, flipping patties of meat and rolling metal spears stuck with vegetables and meat over to cook the other side. He wiped the sweat from the warm day and the hot coals off his forehead and smiled at the two ladies seated behind him. These two mirrored the girls by the rail, only a little older looking. From the looks of it, Shippo was about to interrupt a pleasant sunny day gathering.

 

“Trunks, what are you doing home so soon, please tell me you did not skip out on work again?” the older blue haired woman spoke, a frown upon her face.

 

“No mother,” Trunks replied motioning to the people behind him. “I brought company, someone wanted to see Lennex very bad, and was making quite a scene at the office.”

 

Shippo had the grace to flush a little but quickly shook it off. He stood to the side of Trunks so the rest of the people could see him easily.

 

“Shippo, what brings you to the future?” Bra asked setting down her drink on the rail and approaching the little demon that Lennex had befriended, the blond girl following in her wake.

 

”I need to talk to Lennex. It's very important.” The fox said solemnly to the girl he knew the most out of the group. The shorter man turned away from the grill at the statement and closed the lid, adjusting the heat to a lower setting and moving over to the now gathering group. Something told him he didn't want to miss out on this story. The visitors were offered seats around the low woodcut table that adorned the balcony and they took their seats in silence. The shorter man stood behind the chair of the older looking blonde and rested a hand on her shoulder. The younger blonde sat next to them, while Bra took a seat next to her mother, Bulma. Trunks remained standing by the doorway awaiting their next arrival. He didn't have to wait long.

 

The tall human turned Sayjin appeared out the door and nodded his head at Trunks, already feeling the tell tale signature of his demon friend.

 

“Got here as fast as I could, what seems to be the emergency my friend?” He spoke; his voice was steady and firm as he moved over to the table area. Shippo turned and gazed at his friend, hope filling his eyes for the first time since he set out on this plan.

 

“Yes, please tell us why our training session was interrupted. I was finally about to rid this world of Kakkarot's stupidity.” Another voice barked from within the building. Two men followed in Lennex's wake, one was short and wore a blue bodysuit that left his arms free for movement, and the other man was garbed in an orange dogi with blue belt and matching arm bands. Both men had hairstyles that defied the natural laws of gravity, and both were covered in sheen of sweat from the interrupted training session.

 

“Oh give it a rest Vegeta,” Bulma said rolling her eyes at her husband's words. “We may have something a little more important going on here then your rivalry.”

 

The shorter of the two new comers rolled his own eyes and crossed his arms and went to stand against the wall of the building. The other man quickly walked over to the barbeque and lifted the lid, his eyes held an almost childish wonder.

 

“Help yourself Goku.” The short cook said hiding his smile at his friend's antics. Lennex also had to grin at Goku's one track mind. He looked back at his demon friend and spoke. “I know whatever it is you're here for is important but lets have a round of introductions so everyone knows everyone ok.” He pointed at the man next to the grill who was trying to do his best to swallow one of the shish ka bobs whole.

“This is Goku one of the men who trained me early on. And this, “he indicated the shorter man in blue, “is Vegeta, another of my trainers.” He motioned to the blue haired girls.

 

“This is the owner and brains behind CapCorp, Bulma Briefs, and her daughter Bra. You all obviously have met Trunks.” He then focused to the other three.

 

“Finally we have Krillian, a long time friend of the Briefs family, his wife 18, weird name I know but there are reasons, and their daughter Marron.”

 

The little family nodded to the newcomers and Lennex motioned towards them.

 

“This is Mrs. Higarashi, owner of the Sunset shrine in Tokyo, one of the properties CapCorp has been funding for the last few months, and her son Souta. And this is Shippo, one of my new friends from the past era.”

 

There were polite nods from both sides in the way of greetings, well almost everyone was polite. Vegeta stood rock still against the wall and continued to glower at anyone who looked his way.

 

Lennex finally turned to Shippo. “All right my friend. Tell us why you're here.”

 

The little fox demon closed his eyes to gather his thoughts and then started speaking.

 

“It happened really fast, and we didn't know what we were up against until it was almost too late….”

 

 

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“Inuyasha, I'm telling you I have to return home in the next few days for a school project that I can't afford to miss. I don't know why you have to be so stubborn about this every time.” The raven haired girl named Kagome spoke to the trailing half demon sired Inuyasha.

 

Their friends walked a bit behind them, all hiding their mirth at the dog demons chastising. Miroku walked as always with his staff In hand and smiled at his traveling companion, Sango. The demon hunter readjusted the strap that was slung around her shoulder helping her carry her main weapon, the fierce looking bone boomerang known as Hirakotsue. Her demon familiar, Kirara rode on Sango's other shoulder in her kitten form, staring at the two who led their party in journey.

 

Shippo strolled just ahead of Sango and Miroku waiting for the moment Inuyasha said the wrong thing and got face planted into the ground by the subjugation spell Kagome had put on him upon their first meeting. It was a secret glee the little fox had because most of the time the stubborn half demon had it coming to him and Shippo like to see justice done.

 

“Look wench, I know you want to go back to your school place and all, but the local villagers of this area have been complaining about strange movement all around this area. Lights in the sky and strangers moving about as if they owned the place. Some with strange abilities. I personally would like to see if a new bunch of demons have surfaced and maybe, just maybe, they might have a few shards of the jewel, something your supposed to be able to sense.” The red clad half demon said a little too forcefully.

 

Kagome stopped in mid stride and turned to face Inuyasha, the turn came so fast that the green skirt she wore spun outwards and up a little reveling more leg then normal, something Inuyasha who tried not to notice to much, and Miroku who took a great deal of interest, both noticed right away. The latter received a sharp elbow in his ribs for his blatant interest in the other woman by a scowling Sango.

 

“First off Inuyasha, “ Kagome retorted “ I told you to stop calling me wench, its not that difficult a request, second of all, I can sense jewel shards and I don't sense any in this area. At all.” The last two words she stressed just for the half demon. “From every thing the villagers have told us it sounds like we are chasing UFO stories.”

 

The half demons ears stood a little straighter at the unfamiliar term “what's a UFO?” he asked

 

The girl from the future sighed and turned around to keep walking. “Never mind.” She muttered more to herself then to her companions.

 

It was then that things started to go wrong.

 

Kagome felt Inuyasha grab her arm and jerk her backwards, pushing the girl behind him, his other hand reaching for his sword. Their two companions behind him stopped and tensed at the half demons reactions also readying their weapons, trusting their friend's instincts.

 

“We are about to have visitors.”

 

No sooner had Inuyasha spoken then a large group of men started to appear out of the forest. They all wore identical clothing composed of gray pants, silver armor and a matching silver helmet adorned to their heads. There were five individuals who did not wear the helmet however and it was one of these that spoke.

 

“Halt. We have questions for you. Answer and we may allow you to live.”

 

Inuyasha replied by pulling the Tesuigua from its sheath. The sword transformed into the large fang that once belonged to Inuyasha's father and held it firmly with both hands.

 

“I have your answers right here.” He snarled

 

Almost immediately every man raised their arm to point at Inuyasha. He could see a slender cylinder attached to there arm ending in a hollow opening just above their wrist. He heard his friends ready their weapons behind him.

 

“Power level?” The same man who had spoken before asked. One of the helmeted men pushed a few buttons on the side of his helmet and spoke.

 

“It's the same as some of those other creatures we already encountered, the ones the locals call demons. The rest are normal humans except for the small one. The feline is also putting out a small power like that of a demon Commander Jhrall.”

 

The man who first spoke nodded and looked at Inuyasha. “You don't stand a chance friend.”

 

Inuyasha made a sound in the back of his throat “Keh, Jhrall, was it? I'm not your friend, and I don't take kindly to threats, leave us alone or leave in pieces.”

 

 

Jhrall smiled and motioned to his men. “Try to keep some of them alive.” He stated calmly.

 

Five of the normal looking soldiers advanced on the group, fanning out to get even coverage. Inuyasha didn't waste another second before raising his sword and slamming it into the ground.

 

“Wind scar!” he shouted as five energy blasts shot out from the impact zone cutting the men to pieces and causing those behind them to scatter away from the blast. Retaliation was swift as the Inuyasha observed what the cylinders on their arms did. Golden balls of energy shot out towards them from each one and he quickly grabbed Kagome and leapt to the air, evading as best as he could. Sango and Miroku also scattered while Shippo ignited a shield around him to which the energy blasts bounced off it.

Sango threw her mighty boomerang at a group of men hitting two, the sound of breaking bones could be heard across the forest. Miroku ran in close to another group and started to use his staff's razor edge to incapacitate foes, while using the staff portion to brain others into submission. Inuyasha let go of Kagome a safe distance away and quickly leapt back into the enemy. Swinging his sword in great arks. Their attackers continued to fire at the fast moving demon, but those who were unlucky enough to be close to him lost their lives to the great fang he held in his hand. Arrows started to fly around Inuyasha, as Kagome added her own special talents to the battle and he could see Shippo using his fox fire on a few of the stranglers on the flanks of group of men.

 

The battle seemed to be going well, until Jhrall and the other four men who were helmet less joined the battle. One man suddenly appeared in front of Miroku and caught the staff he expertly used as a weapon in one hand. Try as he might, the monk could not get it free from the vice like grip. Miroku quickly abandoned the staff and put a few paces between them before unraveling his sacred prayer beads around his wrist.

 

“Wind Tunnel” he cried as the vortex started pulling everything in its path into a void of nothingness. The man seemed to disappear instantly and those that Miroku had fought before were quickly pulled in. The man however reappeared behind Miroku and grabbed his wrist.

 

“Interesting weapon,” he said, “seal it or we will find out how effective it is on your friends.”

 

Miroku once again tried to free himself from his attacker but was unable to move his arm. It started to move on its own however towards Sango as she expertly fought off her own opponent with her demon slayer weapons.

 

“All right I will seal the tunnel, stop please.” Miroku said already wrapping the cloth and sacred beads around his hand sealing up the wind tunnel. The man smiled at Miroku before gripping that hand and squeezing down hard. Miroku screamed in pain as every bone in his hand was shattered. As a final insult the man twisted the arm and unbeknownst to him, caused many minor tears in the wind tunnel. He finally let go of the monk, and Miroku dropped to his knees, staring at his injured hand. The cloth fluttered in an invisible breeze and Miroku knew that the curse that was placed upon him was slowly getting out of control.

 

Sango heard Miroku's cry and immediately came to his rescue, throwing the Hirakotsue at his attacker. The man seemed once again to disappear and Sango ran to Miroku's side.

 

“Are you ok?” she asked grabbing his shoulders to get a look at his face and was quickly shoved away by the monk.

 

“Get away from me Sango; I don't know how much longer I will last. The wind tunnel has been torn; it could swallow me and anything close to me up anytime now.”

 

Sango stared at the man who on a daily basis, annoyed her, groped her, and generally went out of his way to hit on every female around her just to get a rise with tears in her eyes. While these things were annoyances, she also felt other feelings towards this man and did not wish this fate on him at all.

 

“We can get you to master Mushin; he was able to repair your hand once. We can still try while your alive houshi.” She said, using her nickname for the monk.

 

“Interesting tid bit, thanks for sharing.” a voice from behind her said. She tried to turn to face the man that had hurt Miroku, but he was too fast and kicked out at the young woman. His foot landing square in Sango's back, breaking it.

 

The demon slayer screamed in pain and collapsed into blissful unconsciousness next to Miroku, who tried to scramble away from her. His attacker had other ideas.

 

“Now now, why would we want to run away from someone who tried to rescue you, I think we should stay right here, close as can be.” He said keeping Miroku in place. The monk tried to reason with him to let him go else he would die too, but his pleas fell on deaf ears. Kirara, who had transformed into her larger cat form tried to sink her large teeth into the man, but was quickly batted away, the power of the hit sent her soaring over the trees and out of view.

 

Shippo watched it all and went after Kirara, knowing he could do nothing for Sango or Miroku.

 

Across the way, Inuyasha was having his own tough time against Jhrall and two other men. They kept moving around him quickly, almost to fast to see and laying down hits and kicks whenever they could. His lip was already split and bleeding and he had bruises lining all up and down his body from the quick strikes. These men possessed more power then most humans. He tried swinging his sword at them and swiping at them fast moving men with his claws, but all he could hit was the empty air. Had there been only one, Inuyasha was fairly confident he could have beaten them. But three of them were too much, even for him. He then heard Kagome gasp as the last helmet less man grabbed her from behind, breaking her bow with one hand.

 

He snarled in rage and went to move for her but was punched savagely in the head, two more blows followed to his kidney area, and a kick landed on the backside of his knee, causing him to go down to one knee. He was then punched and kicked more times then he could count in a matter of seconds, the world growing fuzzy in his eyes. Finally Jhrall appeared in front of the half demon smirking.

 

“I told you, didn't stand a chance didn't I?” he said before backhanding the demon in the face. To Jhrall's amazement, the demon was still conscious but only barely. He smiled before giving Inuyasha an uppercut. The force of the blow sent Inuyasha a foot into the air and backwards, landing hard on his back were he lay motionless.

 

Jhrall turned to his man holding the young woman.

 

“She giving you any problems?” he asked.

 

“No sir, unlike the others, she has almost no fighting power.”

 

Jhrall nodded and spoke out to survivors of his platoon. “Grab this rabble and bring them back to base camp, I will get some answers out of them if it kills them.”

 

The men quickly did as they were told, and Jhrall walked back into the forest laughing to himself.

 

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“By the time I was able to wake Kirara and get back to the path next to the forest, they were gone.” Shippo said, finishing up the encounter that had caused his dash to the future. “I was able to follow them by smell. Mostly their normal smells, but also by Inuyasha's blood.”

 

The group sat around the table not saying a word as they listened. Even Goku had stopped his inhalation of food as the story progressively got worse.

 

“I followed them to a camp they had set up about 5 miles away. They had thrown poor Sango inside a metal cage, and tied Miroku up next to it. He kept begging them to move him away from Sango, but the man he fought told this Jhrall what could possibly happen and to be cruel they put him right next to her. For a while, he continued to beg them, then he started screaming in frustration and rage and finally he just sat there, and his eyes were almost blank.”

 

The young fox closed his eyes for a moment trying to get his emotions under control. He opened them again with unshed tears and looked directly at Lennex.

 

“They have Inuyasha chained like a dog and they kept beating on him and making Kagome watch. They kept asking questions and when they didn't get an answer they didn't like, they continued to beat on him. I know some of his bones are broken and the air smelled rank with his blood. Kagome tried to reason with them, but they continued anyways. They made her do menial chores. Moving supplies, polishing their boots. A lot of the men leered at her and made comments I won't repeat.” At this Mrs. Higarashi closed her eyes as silent tears ran down her face at the plight of her daughter

 

“From what I gathered, they are from space and they are looking for some type of power they picked up. I couldn't really understand what they wanted, but they kept saying they would find it no matter what. Something about how no power ever got away from the Kremon Alliance.”

 

“What?”

 

The group turned at the question towards the speaker. Vegeta, who had spent most of the time with a look of indifference on his face, had pushed off the wall and headed for the fox demon, a look of interest finally on his face.

 

“Tell me what they called themselves again, boy.” He demanded.

 

Shippo looked at the Sayjin and repeated the name. Bulma looked questioningly at her husband. “You know these people Vegeta?” she asked.

 

The Sayjin prince nodded his head affirmative. “They were a militaristic race, almost like we Sayjins, except they were more technologically advanced when they were around. Most of the population was just grunt soldiers. Highly trained in warfare tactics and ground combat mostly. But there were a few powerful fighters. Extremely stronger then their entire army put together. The only reason they never bothered our race was because we were the exact opposite. Every Sayjin was a powerful fighter, and at the time, the Tuffels still lived on planet Vegeta, and their tech rivaled that of the Kremon alliance. They roamed the galaxy picking fights where ever they thought they could find a challenge, until they found a challenge that wiped out its most powerful fighters. From then on they tried to continue their existence as mercenaries until what was left of them was absorbed into the Frieza's ancestor's empire. A pity because when we Sayjins finally got the ability to travel space, we wanted to destroy them ourselves. What I don't understand is what they could be doing in Earth's past.”

 

The short warrior started to pace around the balcony deep in thought. Before speaking again.

 

“Their planet is light-years away from Earth, and if they said they were looking for a power, it means they must have been able to pick up an energy reading, but there was no one strong enough back then for a reading to reach the Kremon's planet.”

 

Shippo listened to the man as he revealed more information about the enemy they had encountered and piped up. “I heard them ask Kagome about it one time. They said they had picked up the power or whatever almost four klekets ago.”

 

Krillian idly scratched his scalp and spoke, “Ok ill ask the obvious, what's a kleket?”

 

“It's a galaxy standard unit measurement. It translates to roughly nine months of Earth time.”

 

They continued to speak about the Kremon alliance and the events happening in the past, but the words went unheard by Lennex. Eight months and a few weeks ago, he was trapped in the past and in order to beat an opponent, he had to ascend to Super Sayjin, a power that would most assuredly have been enough to be picked up by the Kremons.

 

“They're looking for me.” He said quietly, but not quietly enough. All eyes turned to him. But the one that spoke came from the air above the balcony.

“Why would they be looking for you,” the floating alien Namek known as Piccolo asked with a stern look on his face.

 

“Hello Piccolo sensei, how long have you been here?” Lennex replied.

 

“Long enough, answer the question.” The green Namek retorted as he touched down on the wooden balcony next to Goku.

 

Lennex had the grace to look a little sheepish as he rubbed the back of his neck. “Maybe its time I told you guys everything that happened while I was in the past.” He said, stressing the word everything.

 

Vegeta's eyes narrowed dangerously,” Yes, perhaps you should whelp.”