Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon Ball New Generation ❯ A Race Against Evil ( Chapter 21 )

Chapter 21 - A Race Against Evil

"Here they are!"
Everyone turned around to see Sage descend from the sky holding Piccolo over his shoulder. Sage placed him gently on the ground and stood up.
"He seems okay except for his arms."
"Poor boy!" Popo exclaimed when he saw his injuries. Dende quickly asked for Sage to bring him inside the Lookout so he could treat him with some old Namekseijin medicine.
"It'll be okay Piccolo." they told him.

After he was gone, the remaining people outside talked about what to do next.
"Should we go challenge him again?"
"Isn't it too dangerous?"
"What about the Saiya-jin?"
"I can handle it."
"No you can't."
The talking continued until Pastri and Linni exited the Room of Time and Spirit.
"What are you all chatting about?" Linni inquired.
"Oh you're both finished!" Hazell exclaimed. She then updated them with the latest happenings.
"Is Piccolo okay?" Pastri asked.
"He will be. Dende is tending to him now." Android 18 told them.
"So what are we going to do about Ii-Shenron now? Who knows what he's up too..."
"He's out to find the Dragon Balls..." came a reply. They turned around to see Dende walking outside with Shin Piccolo. They were all surprised to see his arms okay.
"So I see you know how to regenerate now." said Android 18.
"Wow...wouldn't that be useful." Rue laughed.
Piccolo smiled.
"I didn't know Nameks could do that! Dende told me how to do it." His face then grew hard. "Now to more important things. Ii-Shenron is after the Dragon Balls now."
"WHAT??!!!"
"Are you sure?"
"I thought he was after the Saiya-jin?"
"Not anymore. He wants to be invincible, but he needs the Dragon Balls first."
"That's terrible!" Pastri cried.
"We must get those Dragon Balls before he does, but how?" wondered Thyme.
Dende placed a hand on Piccolo's shoulder.
"The answer is right here. Piccolo can sense the Dragon Balls. He can help."
Piccolo smiled, and hope was restored.
"Okay, then." Android 18 started, "Hazell and I will enter the Room now and the rest of you do something about those Dragon Balls."
They all agreed. Android 18 and Hazell entered the Room, and Piccolo, Rue, Sage, Thyme, Linni and Pastri went in search of the Dragon Balls.
"Please be careful. I couldn't stand it if you all get hurt." Popo told them.
The group flew off.
"Okay Piccolo do your stuff!" Sage said.
Piccolo closed his eyes and concentrated. After a few seconds, he opened his eyes and turned to them.
"There is one in the east over there," he pointed, "I think ten kilometers away."
Then a sudden energy vibe hit them and they realized it was Ii-Shenron.
"We better be careful." Linni said.
"And we better hurry!" Pastri added.

***

A few hours later, the two teams had tracked down the Dragon Balls. The bad news was that Ii had tracked down five of them. The other two were in the safe keep of the heroes.

"Where are the other two Dragon Balls?!" Ii growled.
He knew that the kids had found them somehow.
Probably because of the Namek, he thought.
"I have to find them, and when I do, I will kill them slowly for doing this to me! I will track them down..."
Ii was about to fly off when he felt it. A couple of energies. He laughed at the young fighters mistake.
"Dumb humans...you think they'll try to escape me by foot, but they fly instead so I can feel their energy."
Ii flew off towards them.
"Its that kind of thinking that will get them killed. Preferably by me!"

***

"What are we going to do? Ii has five of them." said Thyme.
"At least he doesn't have all seven" Rue told his friend. They nodded to the good news. When were about to head back to the Lookout when they sensed it.
"Its Ii-Shenron!" Pastri cried.
"How did he know we were also tracking down the Dragon Balls?!" asked Rue.
"It doesn't matter. All that matters is that he doesn't get his hands on the other two remaining Dragon Balls." Piccolo told them all.
Sage looked around and snatched the balls out of Thyme's hands and handed them to Pastri and Linni.
"What are you doing Sage?" Thyme asked.
"You both take the balls and get out of here. The rest of us will keep Ii at bay. It should buy you enough time."
"Are you crazy?" Linni exclaimed.
"Hate to say it, but it might be the only way." Piccolo turned to the girls.
"Take the Dragon Balls and go! Make sure to keep your power levels suppressed so Ii doesn't sense you. I think that was our mistake."
Linni and Pastri weren't sure about this, and Rue, who could sense Ii's speed told them to go now. For their sake, the two girls flew off as fast as they could.
"Be careful!" Piccolo called after them.

The four remaining fighters waited for Ii to show up. When he did, Ii laughed once again at their mistakes.
"You all finally understand that you can't run away from me?" he turned to Piccolo, "And you're back for some more? Piccolo...what a poor excuse for a warrior."
"We didn't wait here to talk Ii! We came here to fight you!" Sage yelled.
Thyme pulled him aside.
"Calm down...the longer we draw this on, the better it'll be for Linni and Pastri."
"That's right." Rue agreed.

"So where are the Dragon Balls?"
The 4 fighters didn't answer.
"I know you have them..." Ii said, "If you don't hand them over I will fight you to get the two Dragon Balls."
"Over our dead bodies!" Rue yelled at him.
The wind began to blow, and Ii smirked at the four.
"That is the idea."
Ii charged at the four, and they got into their fighting stands ready to take Ii's attacks on.

***

Pastri and Linni were still flying, trying to go at a speed that Ii couldn't sense them.
"Do you feel that Linni?"
"Yeah. Seems like the battle just started."
The two girls stopped to look back, and the same wind began to blow on them.
"I wish we could go help them."
"I know Pastri, but Piccolo and Sage are right. This is the best way we can help them. We better hurry up and get out of here."
The two began to continue in their flight.
"Right, we have to get these balls away from Ii as long as possible."

***

The four fought as much as they could. Piccolo seemed to do better than the other three, but it was still the same. Ii was too strong for them. He then remembered what happened before, and fired energy blasts at him again. Ii anticipated his moves and fired one of his own. It ate up all of his ki attacks, and Ii fired it back at Piccolo. Piccolo tried to block the energy, but it pushed him right into the ground and left a huge crater on the Earth.
Sage, Thyme and Rue continued to fight, and Sage shot his shining ray attack at the monster. Ii covered his eyes.
"So it was you."
Ii waited for the light to disappear and he appeared in front of Sage to deliver a heavy punch to the gut. Sage was stunned and couldn't move. He didn't anticipate this for he thought his attack would've worked again. It did before.
Ii raised his arm with his fist clenched when from behind he heard it. Thyme and Rue were charging up their own attacks.
"Kame Hame Ha!!!"
The two energy attacks hit Ii straight at his back, but it didn't phase him at all. The two boys were shocked as Ii turned to them.
"Was that suppose to hurt?"
He then fired one of his attacks at them and it made a direct hit. The two fell from the sky onto the ground. Sage saw this and called their names out, but Ii already had turned around and delivered the punch he was going to deliver to him before. Sage fell from the sky and landed in some bushes.
"That wasn't so difficult." Ii boasted.
Piccolo then appeared out of the rubble he landed in and quickly fired some more attacks at him. Sage, Thyme and Rue also got up and followed Piccolo's suit. When they stopped, they waited for the smoke to disappear, but of the smoke stood Ii-Shenron.
"This is no use." Rue confessed.
"How could he take all those attacks?" Thyme asked, not expecting an answer.
"What a menacing monster..." Piccolo murmured.
Ii looked down at the boys.
"Was that you're best shot? Now here's mine."
Ii quickly powered up and a ki sphere appeared around his body. He yelled and the ki expanded until it surrounded them all.
The attack was too vast. They couldn't get out in time. The boys all yelled as the energy enveloped their bodies. There was a huge explosion and Ii looked at the four bodies unconscious on the ground.
"Good riddance. They probably don't have the Dragon Balls. If they did, the five I have here would've reacted to them. Maybe they were trying to stall me, so then they must know where they are! Wherever they are, I will find them!" and with that Ii was gone.
Piccolo struggled to raise his head off the dirty ground and spoke,
"Linni...Pastri...." and then he collapsed like the other three brave fighters on the ground.