Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ One Good Deed ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

"One Good Deed" - Chapter 3

"Adults are prone to disappoint you, but children always surprise." - Khri

The mirrored back wall of the exercise room gave Khri's strike team a great view of the surprised Green. It also gave the gave the Green an extra second to see the moving shadows in the hall before she could initiate the attack. Four diacha hissed to life, filling the room with reflected light from the mirrors. Sai's blades shimmered a green and once activated resembled a polearm. The two scouts wielded swords of see-through blue light. Khri's own weapon sprouted long, slightly curved blades of white light from both ends.

"Put the control switch on the floor, slowly," Khri growled, but it sounded like spitting in the Telkarri language. She glowered at the monster, holding her diacha horizontally before her.

Recognition touched with fear burned in the black, slitted eyes, and its mandibles flared in a screech. One of the forelegs it used as a hand wrapped around a black control unit that flashed red. The Green gestured with the control unit to the wall behind it. Crawling up the mirror behind it was the coiling nightmare of a high-powered chem bomb. The Green lumbered backward closer to the bomb, its eyes fixed on Khri, and screeched again.

"Yes, you know who I am, don't you? Now lower that switch."

The Green let out another screech, this time in fury. Greens weren't the brightest minions of the hive, but they could be counted on to press the big red button when the time came. This one didn't get the chance, stopped by a glowing bolt of energy that sheared off its claw and sent the control switch flying.

Khri gasped and looked down at Junior, still snug in the crook of her arm. His hand was outstretched, faintly glowing, prepared for another blast. A warrior Namekian! I should have known...now its my turn! Her diacha arced forward and she slashed the communicator from the Green's shoulder. The shoulder went with it. Sai's blade sliced through its thorax and Khri spun away, protecting both her unarmored body and Junior from the spraying acids. What was left of it twitched as Sai eagerly sheared off its head.

"Get that chem bomb disabled now!" she snapped over the dying screech of the Green. The two other scouts were already hard at work when Khri enabled her comm array. "Status report now, all teams sound off."

"Team One, we've got one Green down. There was one chem bomb and secondary explosive hidden underneath the chem, set to go off ten marks after the chem if it didn't detonate. Both have been disabled."

"Team Two, same configuration here. The chem bomb is down but we're still in the process of disabling the secondary."

"Team Three, same as Team Two, but with one casualty. Siridan is down."

Ahhh, damn. "Sai, there are secondary explosive devices along with the chem bombs. Team One, split off and do final sweeps for hidden bombs or any other surprises. Pay special attention to the stands., and don't pull the watchers off the fighters just yet. Team Two, when you're done down there I want you to do another perimeter check for snipers. Team Three? Get Siridan out of there and commence with cleanup."

"Check, Commander."

Khri stopped pouring energy into her diacha, letting the blades fade. She felt a tug on the breast of her jacket.

Junior was looking up at her, scowling as usual, but he seemed to be a lot less determined about it. "You don't use chi, do you? You use something else. And you funnel it through those black tubes."

His reasonable tone earned him a faint smile. "We do. It's a bit like the reverse polarity of chi, if that makes sense. If I had known what you were capable of, I would've cautioned you against using that chi blast. Mixing the two energies can be...well...more than a little messy." Her smile reached her eyes. "I'm glad you did it though."

Junior's frowned deepened. "Those creatures are a threat to my conquest and I won't allow it."

Khri resisted the urge to roll her eyes. "For now, I'm not going to argue with you. I..."

"Commander?" Sai had removed his dampers and what she saw in his eyes caught her immediate attention. He was standing over the two scouts, who had kits out and were hard at work on disabling the chem bomb. "We've got a serious problem."

Careful to avoid the oozing mess on the floor, Khri moved closer. "Another one? Let me guess. There's a problem with the secondary. Timer, hardware, or something else?"

"Hardware. This one has a different system than the teams encountered or we would've heard the big bangs by now. If we deactivate the switch on the chem bomb, it automatically triggers the secondary." He glanced at the controls on his wrist. "Whatever we do, we need to do it soon. The chem bomb is scheduled to detonate in less than seven marks."

This is why scout leaders with more recent experience and training should've been assigned to this, not me, Khri grumbled to herself, pursing her lips. "Any suggestions, scouts? Is there a way to interrupt the leads from the chem to the secondary and not have the secondary go off?"

The shorter of the two, a young woman with a velvet voice, turned away from the timer assembly. "Battle Commander, we may be able to tap into the leads from the main timer on the chem bomb going into the secondary. If we can do that we can add more time to the secondary, disable the chem and then find another way to take out the secondary."

"Do it." She activated the array again. "Teams Two and Three, watch out for detonator problems, specifically with the hardware. We've got one down here."

"Check!"

Khri felt the return of the itch on the back of her neck. She walked back to the door and to Junior's surprise, knelt and set him on his feet. "You're going to let me go now?"

"Little one, I want you run." She gave his shoulder a gentle squeeze. "I trust my scouts, but I've got a feeling about this...I want you to get out of this stadium and as far from the area as you can. If you've got the chi to fly, do it." Before he could duck away, she touched his forehead and planted a quick kiss between his antennae. "Be careful, and be safe."

Turning away was harder than she thought it would be. Khri squared her shoulders and returned to her post behind Sai and the busy scouts. When she spared a glance back, Junior had gone.

"Commander, we're ready to add more time to the secondary, but we can only do it once."

Khri clenched her jaw. "Add as much time as you can. Nothing has been routine with this mission and I don't expect it to change any time soon, so we need to allow for more problems."

A loud blast shook the room, followed by a cloud of dust and debris that blew in from the open door. "Keep working on that timer!" Khri yelled as she grabbed her diacha and vaulted over the dead Green. "Don't stop working! Sai, come with me!"

"Check!"

The corridor was so choked with dust Khri could barely see. She could, however, hear an angry screech as it echoed down the hall. Her diacha flared to life and she heard Sai's weapon hiss behind her.

A ball of light flared to life and outlined the young Namekian, his hands raised and still glowing. "Junior!" Khri barked and bolted down the hall. A Telkarri was bearing down on him and it wasn't a Green.

It was a Blue...

To Be Continued...