Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Alternate Universe ❯ Quests ( Chapter 5 )

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"I'm to old for this, you know!", Dr. Briefs yelled, as he ran for his life from the huge, red, flesh eating, not so nice - dragon. The dragon had two horns, two tiny, seemingly useless wings on its back, and huge claws. It ran on four legs.

The dragon, obviously toying with its prey, lowered its huge head and snapped at him, and Dr. Briefs evaded it's teeth, and an early death… for now.

"Hey, can't you just give me a break!? It's not like I have a lot of meat on me anyway!", he yelled looking over his shoulder at the dinosaur. The dragon formed an evil grin on its face, and snapped at him again.

"Yikes!"

From the dragons' lair, Gohan watched witch big eyes how the creature snapped at Dr. Briefs for a second time, and shuddered. "That was close!"

Then he saw Dr. Briefs frantically search for something in his bag, and after a few seconds he pulled out a small object and threw it on the ground. The object seemed to explode, and the dragon was startled, and halted right in front of it. The smoke cleared, and a huge capsule house appeared. The dragon had a puzzled look on its face, and it sniffed the roof. Dr. Briefs ran as far away as he could from the monster, and hid behind a rock. The dragon took a bite out of the roof and munched on it.

"Yum!", it seemed to say, and with a happy look on its face, it started to eat the capsule house.

"All right, Dr. Briefs!", Gohan quietly cheered. Now that he was sure Dr. Briefs was save for a while, the little boy walked towards the yellow, spotted eggs, witch where larger than he was, and started searching between the nesting materials for the dragonball. Rummaging between the leafs, twigs and dirt, he suddenly heard a loud crack. He jumped up and looked at where the sound was coming from, but he didn't see anything.

He continued searching, feeling under the eggs, for the dragonball. Again, a loud crack was heard. Quickly he turned around again, getting a little scared.

Then he felt something move inside the egg he was touching, and he immediately let go and jumped to the other side of the nest.

Gohan sweat-dropped. What was going on here?

Then the cracking sound came from all around him. Gohan felt the fear squeeze his stomach, and he felt like leaving the dragonball and getting the heck out, but to get out of the lair, he would have to go through the eggs. The eggs where now wildly moving and bouncing around, and cracking open. Paws, tails and claws reached out of them, and Gohan pulled his knees up and put his hands over his eyes. His tail wrapped around his legs, as if it had a mind of its own, and was scared too.

"Please don't eat me! Please go away! Please don't eat me! Please go away!", he whispered, wishing the creatures to just go away as he shut his eyes.

The cracking sound stopped, and Gohan stopped breathing, trying to hear any other sounds. He heard a strange squeaking sound. He carefully spread his fingers to take a peak….

------- -------- -------- Capsule Corp, a few minutes earlier…. ------- -------- ------- ---------

Yamcha, with Bulma still in his arms, landed softly on the front lawn at the Capsule Corp. premises. He quickly but carefully put Bulma on the grass.

"This is just horrible!", Bulma whimpered, whipping a tear away with a shaking hand.

Yamcha took her shoulders and pulled her in a hug. He quickly stroked her back a few times and softly pushed her away again.

"Bulma, get your guns, knives and whatever to defend yourself! We can't panic now!"

"I'm so sorry, Yamcha! I was so stupid to put you all in danger! I should have known better!"

"You couldn't have changed anything today, babe. You're not to blame…", Yamcha said.

"Yes I am! I hailed that… that U.F.O.! I…", she stammered.

"You couldn't have known! Get yourself armed! We have to go help your father with the dragonball and make that wish as soon as possible!" Yamcha said sternly, as he took her hand, and entered the house with her.

"Wait, let me call dad! Maybe he already found them, and he'll be ready to make the wish!", Bulma said, as she pulled her mobile phone out of her pocket.

"Dad.", she told the phone, using voice-dialling. The phone dialled her fathers number, and immediately her father answered the phone.

"BULMA!! WHY YOU…!! I should have known you would just run off! What the heck happened!?"

"Dad… it's horrible! The aliens are hostile, and they hurt our friends! They mean to take me off this planet and kill me, and they threatened to destroy Earth! Please tell me you found all the dragonballs so you can wish them away, and make Earth invisible for them!" , Bulma yelled in one breath.

"See! I told you it was too dangerous! Damnit!....sigh….I have all the dragonballs, except one! This one is a bit…. Difficult… it's in the lair of this big red nasty old dragon I once shot when I was younger… Dragons don't forget so easily, you know! That thing is going to eat me or burn me to a cinder for sure! And I didn't even bring a stun gun!"

"Allright… just wait for us! Yamcha will follow your ki-signal, and we'll come and help you! Just wait for us, okay?",

"There's no time… I'll find a way! But get over here, and do it fast!"

"Dad, no! Don't do anything! We'll be there in a jiffy!" Bulma said urgently.

"Bye honey!"

"Hey wait! DAD!", Bulma yelled at the phone, but the dial tone was heard again.

"Argh!", Bulma yelled, as she threw the phone on the roof of the house.

Yamcha arched an eye-brow. This girl needed anger-management badly!

"Hey, what's going on?", he asked his girlfriend for many years.

Bulma turned, and said: "Just find my father, NOW! He's going to do something very stupid and dangerous! I'll tell you while we fly there!"

"I wondered where she got that trait!", Yamcha murmured, as he lifted Bulma off the grass again.

"Put a sock in it and get going!"

Yamcha sweat-dropped, and took off to the North, following Dr. Briefs' distinctive ki-signature, a bright white ki forming around him.

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This planet was becoming a real pain. He had blasted at least 30 of those primitive aircrafts, killed over 500 soldiers, and blasted 40 tanks, and they just kept coming. He wondered if he should just leave this planet and let the Simar blast it from space, but then he'd have to answer to Lord Frieza, as to why he went all the way to the far end of the North Quadrant and back, for nothing, not even taking someone to blame.

Maybe he could blame Vegeta. That should shut him up for a while...

"Nah. That's not the way to treat a friend!", he said sarcastically, as he powered up another ki-blast and fired it at a group of tanks, destroying them immdediatly, leaving nothing but scrap metal.

"What where you brooding on now, Zarbon?", Vegeta said, as he landed at his side.

"Your demise."

"Maybe you should focus on a particular Ice-Jin `Lord', someone higher in rank. That would get us both somewhere.", he said with a smirk, and he raised his right arm, and pointed a finger at a plane, firing a thin ki-blast at it.

"Right. Me into my grave, and you in my position as commander. Thanks a lot, oh mighty prince of Saiyans. 4 Saiyans, and one nasty little half-breed!", Zarbon laughed.

Vegeta snapped his head towards Zarbon. Zarbon knew he hit a sour spot.

"Don't talk about my son like that, you bastard! Your daughter is a half-breed as well, and she's with Frieza! The only thing standing between him and you is that mongrel! You could easily take him, but you let yourself be stopped by some worthless half-breed child of a concubine you don't even give a damn about!", Vegeta hissed.

"Need I remind you you're in the exact same position as I am in!? Frieza's

got your kid too, Princeling, and he's got you by the balls! This kid means much more to you than even my daughter means to me, and you know it!"

Vegeta turned his back to Zarbon, and said: "You could take him in his first form. If I had that kind of power, I would make that sacrifice. And one day, and that day is very close, I WILL have that kind of power!"

Vegeta turned back to Zarbon, and Zarbon looked him in the eyes.

"You know what, coward!? Remember this when you hold your child safely to your heart, when I have killed Frieza to save her sorry hide, and YOURS, over the back of my heir…", he said, as he stepped closer to Zarbon.

"Sometimes revenge and honour of an entire species means more than one child. ANY child. If your not willing to avenge YOUR people, whom Frieza destroyed all those years ago, how the hell will you look at her, straight into the eye, and tell her you did NOTHING to avenge her people!? That you watched your friends and family die for nothing, let your, HER people be destroyed for NOTHING! She will have no future, she will have no planet, she will only have a cowardly father, forever bowing to the murderer of her race, until he was conveniently gotten rid of by someone else!? You are a shame to your people, and even to your half-breed daughter, Zarbon."

Vegeta powered up in an instant, forming a powerful blue and blazing aura around him, and lifted of the ground a few centimetres.

"Now, I'm going to get that woman for you, to present to your Lord, another lamb ready for slaughter to protect yourself, coward.", Vegeta said, and with an explosion of power, he flew off towards the horizon, leaving a flabbergasted Zarbon behind.

When he looked behind him, he saw Radditz and Nappa looking at him wide-eyed, and gaping, probably wondering why he hadn't killed Vegeta on the spot. But they didn't know about their pact… they were not trustworthy.

He frowned, and snarled: "Close your damn mouths and get to work!"

"Yes, sir!"

Immediately the two Saiyans blasted off after their prince. Zarbon watched them, until they where out of sight.

***There's more to that monkey killing machine than I thought! Maybe we WILL be able to end all of this, and maybe he IS sincere after al!***

He pondered over what Vegeta said to him, until a grenade exploded right next to him, and he was snapped back to reality. This time, when he destroyed another group of army-men, he actually thought about it that they could have wives and little girls waiting at home, too. But it didn't awaken his conscience, buried deep inside his soul since the day he signed in at Frieza's army, just yet…

))))))All right let me know what you think! And is sure do know something's missing… Some depth, grammar and of course…. Krillin, Chau-Zu and Tien! But you'll find out what will happen to them in the next chapter… if you even want to read it!(((((