Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction / Fan Fiction ❯ The Uncanny Dragonball Z! ❯ Battle Plans ( Chapter 7 )

"Is that so?" Vegeta asked, with a smirk, power building up around him; "Well, let me introduce you to something called a Spi..."

Suddenly, Goku lunged in front of Vegeta, knocking him off his feet, "Wait! Vegeta! No!"

"Get off me, Kakkarott!" Vegeta shoved his arch-rival away and got to his feet. Wolverine merely looked annoyed and anxious to fight.

"Well, what are we standing around for, Bub?" He asked, "I haven't even broken a sweat..."

"Vegeta! Wolverine!" Goku gasped, "Knock it off!"

Suddenly, Vegeta and Wolverine looked at each other than over at Goku, both wearing the same look as they advanced on the other saiyan.

"Now, wait a minute here..." Goku started, hands spread in a gesture of helplessness, though he was by no means helpless, "I don't think this is the right time..."

"Get him!" Logan yelled as both he and Vegeta jumped on Goku, starting another round of sparring with three people instead of just two.

On the sidelines, both Bulma and Chi Chi sighed and shook their heads. Jubilee wandered over to watch and was amazed at the sheer strength she saw in both Vegeta and Goku, the speed and agility as well.

She was, at first, afraid for Wolverine, but after he'd gotten up for the fifteenth time with healing wounds and jumped back into the fray, (Goku and Vegeta were good sports, keeping it all on the ground for once), she turned her attention elsewhere, knowing that Logan could take care of himself.

"Are you feeling better, Julibee?" The boy who was close to her own age, Gohan, asked, coming up behind her. She turned and smiled, dark hair falling into her eyes.

"Much." She smiled, "Your mother's great, you know. She hardly left my side. And from what they tell me, neither did Bulma."

Gohan smiled, shoving his glasses up further upon his face, "Yep, Mom's like that. She knows how to take care of people. Just look at Dad and me!"

The dark-haired girl she'd been introduced earlier to as Videl, came over and snaked her arm possessively through Gohan's. He flushed and tried to shrug her off. Jubilee blinked and raised her eyebrows at them.

"Hiya, Jubilee!" Videl said, smiling, "I see you and my boyfriend are getting to know each other."

Jubilee would have had to be blind and deaf not to catch the emphasis she put upon that single word; boyfriend.

"Uh, Videl..." Gohan said, "Why don't you go help Mom in the kitchen with dinner..."

"But..."

"Please, hon?"

"Oh, okay!" Videl seemed not to be able to resist those baby browns. Jubilee covered her mouth with her hand, trying to hold in her giggles.

"Sorry about that," Gohan said, blushing red beneath his eyes, once Videl had gone, "She gets a little possessive around other girls."

"She doesn't have to worry about me." Jubilee said, walking away, snapping a colorful display of light over her shoulder, "Though, girlfriend better check her attitude at the door."

Off in the distance, Piccolo looked anxious. Flying over to him, Rogue looked around, a slight tingling sensation coursing along her skin. "Do you feel that?" He asked, without looking at her.

"Yeah," She whispered, the air felt heavy, oppressive; "Like the calm `for a storm..."

"I've seen something...someone...in my meditations since you have arrived..." He tried to explain. She nodded and he explained what he'd seen. Gasping she nearly fell from the sky.

"Magneto!"

"Who?"

Without answering Rogue flew back down and landed with a heavy thud upon the ground. She ran back inside to find Gambit leading Jean to the sofa. The woman's hair was hanging in her eyes and when she looked up at Rogue's entry her face was a pale as a sheet of typing paper.

"Jean? Ah...ah felt..." Rogue gasped, recognizing the look in the other woman's eyes, "Is he here?"

Jean shook her head. "No, not yet," She said, her voice soft, "But he will be. Soon."

"What are you morons babbling about?" Vegeta had sauntered into the room, followed by Goku and Logan, each of them drenched with sweat and dirty. Logan wiped his face on his tee-shirt and drew his thick brows together as he listened.

"He can't come here!" Jubilee cried, "I'm assuming we're all talking about the same guy, right? Cause I can feel something weird and it has his name all over it!"

"We can all feel it, Sugah," Rogue said, touching Jubilee's dark hair, "This strange place must be making us more sensitive than normal."

"Magneto..." Storm said, almost to herself, static lightning crackling around her clenched fists, "First he tries to take over our world and now wants to come here. I won't allow these good people to harmed!"

"I wish Scott were here." Jean was saying. She missed her husband dearly and he always knew what to do in every situation. Or, at least, it always seemed that way. But, after a moment's hesitation she shook her head and rose to her feet, looking at each and every one of them with hard jade-green eyes.

"We must prepare." She said.