Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Sarie Mue ❯ Goku ( Chapter 2 )

[ T - Teen: Not suitable for readers under 13 ]

Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z or…well…any other pop culture reference we happen to make. I fear there are too many to mention.

Author's Notes: Well, here we are at the second installment of the misadventures of Sarie Mue. I must thank my review Bardocksgurl for her review. Although, I think you have the wrong idea about Sarie Mue. I may write her in a chapter being ridiculously powerful and smarmily perfect, but only as a joke. Sarie Mue will NEVER come out on top. And now, without further ado, on with… SARIE MUE!!

Co-Author's Notes (or, further ado): Hello True Believers! Howler Wolfe, here. This parody is the first and only fanfic I've ever worked on. I try to help UnromanticPoetess with ideas on some of her other works, but anyone who has read "The Soul," knows, she has a wonderfully deep and dramatic writing style that I just can't seem to add much to! Parody and satire are more my speed. So, again, enjoy! And a prize to anyone who can name all of the pop culture references!

Prologue:

From the depths of an endless starfield, a booming voice rang out: "Fanfiction: The Final Frontier!"

Clad in spandex-tight black pants and a too-tight orange top which did little to hide the "spare tire" bulge across his midriff, William Shatner wondered briefly where he was, but continued unwaveringly. After all, he thought, there's a show to do! Getting into it, he began throwing in his trademark pauses and emphasizing random syllables.

"THESE are the VOYages of one…Sarie…MUE! Her mission: To explore strange…NEW plots…to seek out…SOME ANIME HUNK to…fall in love with…to…BOLDLY GO where…EVERY fangirl has gone before!!!" Shatner completed his monologue, his eyes closed, his hands gripping the air in front of him, still lost in the glory of his epic performance…

"Where's the theme music?!" he shouted suddenly, looking around wildly. "My name should be right there!" he said, pointing to the middle of the starfield before him.

Suddenly, a delicate, slender, white hand grabbed his own, which appeared rather sweaty and pasty by comparison. "Watch where you're pointing that thing, Kirk!" commanded the Great Will of the Cosmos, her voice angry yet still somehow sultry and feminine.

"I've already told you," he said, now petulant and rather whiny. "I'm not just Captain Kirk! I'm William Shatner! I was T.J. Hooker for crying out loud! I am an award-winning author AND a director! I invented TECH WARS!"

Though well-aware of all these facts and essentially every other fact in existence, the Great Will couldn't help torturing him a bit more. After all, if not for his so-called directing, Star Trek V might have been worth watching.

"So, what's it like fighting a Gorn?" she asked. "Can you really construct a rudimentary lathe cannon from bamboo? Why did the Klingons YOU fought barely have any head-bumps? Did the aliens REALLY force you to kiss Uhura, or was that just an excuse? Is it true that Spock did most of the work while you just banged alien women?"

"THAT POINTY-EARED FREAK NEVER DID ANYTHING BUT…" he stopped suddenly, purple and shaking with pent-up rage. "I mean, it's just a show…get a life…" he muttered.

As she transported Shatner back to his writing desk to work on his latest failure, the Great Will of the Cosmos chuckled to herself. "Perhaps I should have just given him his own Mary Sue," she mused aloud.

"Nevertheless, his introduction, melodramatic as it was, will suffice. I now have but to grant Sarie Mue her greatest wish. I think I know just the man to fulfill it…"


Chapter 2: Goku

As reality snapped back into existence around her, Sarie Mue, rabid fangirl on the rampage, still somewhat disoriented from the sudden return of sensation, took in her surroundings.

She turned in a circle, finding herself at the foot of an impossibly-tall mountain range. She was surrounded by dense jungle growth and thought she spied curious eyes peaking tentatively at her through the foliage. Looking to the sky, she saw what appeared to be an orange pterodactyl flying above her, carrying a purple cow.

"Wow!" she giggled malevolently, letting her mind wander to fantasies of a certain purple-haired anime hunk suffering the same fate as the unfortunate bovine.

"No!" she declared to herself. "That part of my life is over. I won't dwell on the past! Trunks and I were just not meant to be."

Thus, putting her behind in the pa…er…putting her past behind her, she prepared to instead charge blindly into the future.

"Well," she said, "I guess I need to look for my NEW eternal soulmate."

Pushing her way through forest, humming Cha La Head Cha La to herself, she came upon a gently flowing stream. Looking down at her reflection, she was momentarily taken aback by her again-changed appearance.

Her hair, which had been jet black in her scenario with…she forced herself not to tear up…Trunks…was now long, straight and blond with a red bow tying it back from her too-cute face, with its round, dimpled cheeks. She was clad in pink fighting armor, highlighted with yellow swirls and designs. Though to be honest, for "armor," it covered precious little of her soft flawless skin. While still wide and overly-expressive, her eyes had changed from green to an unearthly blue.

"This is great!" she squealed. "I'm, like, Britney Spears, Warrior Princess!"

Turning to skip joyfully alongside the stream, she failed to notice an exposed tree root bearing the label, "PLOT DEVICE" in her path. The toe of her knee-high pink boot caught the root at just the right (wrong) angle and sent her careening through the air, her arms flailing uselessly as her mouth opened ridiculously wide, action lines squiggled their way around her, and sweat drops flew every which way…

With a terrific "SPLASH" highlighted by a bright yellow background, she landed in the stream. Suddenly, the once gently-flowing stream transformed into a rampaging river, carrying her swiftly downstream toward sharp, jagged rocks, each of which bore a small tag reading, "CONTRIVED PLOT COMPLICATION."

Closing her eyes, tears flowing from them in over-exaggerated, gushing streams, she braced herself for impact with the deadly boulders. Feeling the hard THUD of her body against one of the rocks, she waited for death to take her away, but something strange happened. The rock let out a startled cry.

Strange, she thought. I didn't know that anime rocks let out startled cries.

Opening her eyes to examine the unusually verbose boulder, she was startled to see not the rock she expected, but the muscular and quite naked body of one Son Goku.

As she fainted into darkness, her last sight was of Goku, characteristically confused, scratching awkwardly at the back of his head with one hand and a spray of water vapor from the stream labeled "Funimation" covering Goku's (ahem)…you get the idea.

She awoke in a sweat, feeling rather nauseous as her stomach turned over and over and over… Opening her eyes, she saw that it was not just her stomach.

Whistling to himself, a now fully-dressed Goku sprinkled a bit more pepper over his catch, keeping one hand constantly turning the spit over the campfire he'd made.

With a high-pitched squeal, Sarie Mue broke free of her bonds and floated three feet above the spit, a blare of trumpets accenting the red and green flashing background. Landing, she screamed angrily at Goku:

"RRRMEHRRGGHARECHHDLRG…" pausing to take the apple out of her mouth, she continued, "What in the WORLD is wrong with you?!! You don't just roast people on a spit, you (We're sorry, but in keeping with Funimation standards, we cannot accurately repeat what Sarie Mue actually said. Instead, we will provide you with a more suitable substitute. Thank you for understanding.) silly person who is a jerk behaving quite naughtily!"

"You mean you're not a fish?" Goku asked, his black eyes wide and innocent.

"Of course I'm not a fish!" she shouted. "Do I have gills? Or scales, for that matter?!!"

"Well," Goku replied. "Not anymore, I had to clean the scales off for cooking…" he said, gesturing to a bright pink pile Sarie recognized as her armor.

Looking down at herself, she realized she was covered only by a convenient cloud of smoke from the fire, labeled, not surprisingly, "Funimation." Blushing a bright red, she quickly rushed to put on her armor, tree branches and foliage appearing mysteriously to block any clear view of her nude, nubile anime form.

"So you're NOT a fish then," Goku said, finally catching on. His face fell as his Saiyan stomach let out a loud rumble.

Now dressed and over her initial anger, Sarie realized that the tall, dark-haired Saiyan was meant to be her eternal love.

He looks even better-built in person than on the screen, Sarie thought to herself. And he is the hero, so he must be the best! He's always so nice and caring and… And I've yelled at him! I'd better try to make it up to him.

"I'm sorry for not being a fish," she apologized. "I know you must be starving…You probably have to eat a LOT to feed that lean, muscular…" she paused as she again became lost in thoughts of his powerful Saiyan body. "Sorry!" she continued. "Why don't I fix you supper?"

"GREAT!" Goku shouted. "I'll get the fish."

Taking his shirt off, he dove into the water, Goku was only below the surface for a few seconds before re-emerging, a 250 lb. bass in tow.

"Do you think this will be enough, uh…what's your name?" he asked.

Sarie Mue, gazing longingly at his taut form as tiny rivulets of water rolled down his manly chest, did not answer immediately. When his words finally did force their way into her ears, she answered, startled, "Mue!"

"Oh! I know this one! You're a cow!" exclaimed Goku. "My turn!"

Goku hunched over in his best monkey impression…well, when he wasn't Oozaru or Super Saiyan level 4… his arms scratching his head and back as he jumped up and down, still bending his legs.

"No!" she yelled. "I wasn't saying, `moo!' My NAME is Sarie Mue!"

"Really?" Goku asked. "That's a really dumb name!" he said, laughing.

"Well I didn't pick it out!" she said in a huff. "Do you want me to cook for you or not!"

Holding up his hands placatingly, Goku attempted to apologize. "Sorry! Sorry! I just meant that it SOUNDED really dumb…I mean…ah…"

"NEVERMIND!" shouted Sarie. "Let's just go so I can start cooking this fish."

Holding the fish by the leg and Sarie Mue by the tail…er…holding the FISH by the tail and Sarie Mue by her leg, Goku launched into the air, blasting towards the Son home, thoughts of food permeating his mind so that he did not even hear Sarie's surprised scream as they barely skimmed the tops of trees and mountains.

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Meanwhile, at the Son house, Chichi busied herself with cleaning, all the while thinking of new ways to be a loud, annoying, obnoxious, and essentially pointless character who becomes involved in silly subplots in almost EVERY saga to DRAG OUT the wait for the most interesting and anticipated battles FOREVER! And most of these subplots were not even included in the manga, and just end up being pointless and distracting and…uh…sorry…So Chichi was at the house.

"Hello Chichi," a sultry feminine voice purred from behind her.

Turning suddenly, and automatically assuming a fighting position as if she actually did any important fighting, she was shocked to see a floating starfield with a pair of flawless, delicate white arms all the way down to her tapered red fingernails.

"Who…What are you?" she asked, her voice trembling.

"I am the Great Will of the Cosmos, Chichi…and I have a surprise for you!" uttered the starfield.

"What kind of surprise?" asked Chichi.

"Well, I have good news and bad news," the Great Will told her. "The bad news is that it is rather inconvenient for the young girl I am currently helping that you exist in this dimension…so I'm going to have to fix that small problem."

"What's the good news?" Chichi asked her.

"Well, I promised a has-been sci-fi actor a love slave if he did an announcing gig for me, and you're it!"

Not giving Chichi a chance to respond, she snapped her fingers, and Chichi blinked out of existence and into the waiting arms of `El Capitan."

"Then again," the Great Will mused to herself, "That was probably bad news for her, too… Oh well."

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Arriving at his home, Goku dropped the fish and Sarie Mue unceremoniously at the door and entered, calling out, "I'm home, Chi….hmm…That's strange. No one else lives here. Why was I about to announce that I'm here? Oh well," he said with a shrug.

Sarie, her legs still shaky from flying, dragged the fish into the house, pausing occasionally to wipe huge drops of anime sweat off her forehead.

Considering her lack of prior cooking experience, she did an excellent job with dinner. She scaled and gutted the fish in just under three hours, working constantly with only a few stops to go outside and take deep breaths to recover from the nausea induced by scaling and gutting a 250 lb. fish.

She then stuffed the fish into the oven, despite the fact that the oven was less than one third the size of the fish. Thank Kami for anime tricks, she thought.

She finished the rest of the meal quickly, rushing from point to point in a blur, pausing as she worked at several different stations, tossing a salad, checking the fish, cooking a pot of rice…

Sarie was just taking the fish out of the oven when Goku entered the kitchen for the twenty-seventh time complaining of crippling hunger pains. Finally, her patience with him had nearly run out.

"I ALREADY TOLD YOU I'M DOING THE BEST I CAN!" she shouted, her head growing to three times its normal size as she put her hands on her hips.

Goku looked at her, momentarily confused. She reminds me of someone, he thought. I just can't remember who…

Regaining her composure, Sarie continued. "But it's done now, so we can eat!"

Sarie set the food out on the table and sat down. Dropping her fork she bent over to retrieve it. She suddenly heard an unearthly, almost demonic sound that struck terror into her very soul. Sitting up quickly, she was astounded to see two things:

1. An empty table.

2. Goku, sitting back in his chair smiling, rubbing his distended gut.

"Well, that wasn't very good, but there sure was a lot of it!" he said, with what passed for a compliment from the rather unmannerly Saiyan.

Sarie, still in a state of temporary shock, first said nothing, then began to mutter to herself… "It was here…I'm sure…I cooked it and I put it here…maybe I just thought I…No, it was here…"

"Well," said Goku, rising from his chair, "I guess I need to repay you for the meal."

"What?" asked Sarie Mue, confused.

"Well when…" he paused, his face again clouding over, "someone maybe used to live here… Anyway, she would cook, and then she'd insist that I repay her."

Sarie, realizing who he must have been talking about decided it best not to remind him of her name, but pressed on anyway… "How exactly did you do that?" she asked slowly, almost afraid of the answer…

"Well, she got me to do some of the things that I saw once in one of Master Roshi's books… I'm not sure why, but she seemed to enjoy it anyway. It's fun I guess… It's almost as fun as fighting. You see, first I would carry her up the stairs and then we would (We're sorry. But due to the standards of Funimation, we cannot repeat the very frank and extremely detailed description of both normal and some highly unusual and questionable acts performed by Goku and…um…whoever it was that used to live with him… Nevertheless, we have done our best to provide a suitable substitution which will in no way stick out as an obviously doctored, watered-down version of the original material. Thank you for understanding.) play a game of "MahJong."

"REPAY ME NOW, MANMEAT!" Sarie, who apparently couldn't wait to play "MahJong," (Know what I mean, `ay? She likes "games." GAMES, `ay, guvnah? Nudge nudge wink wink, say no more…) shouted, tiny hearts appearing above her head.

"Yeah! That's just what she used to say," Goku responded, picking her up with a resigned sigh and carrying her up the stairs toward the bedroom…where the "MahJong" board was (Hint hint nudge nudge wink wink say no more!).

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Six minutes later, Sarie Mue was on the bed, alone, looking up at the ceiling and wondering what exactly had happened. It had been nice…she thought…up to a point…while it lasted…maybe?

"Well," she said aloud to herself. "Perhaps it was just a coincidence that he suddenly remembered he had a baby dinosaur to go feed three seconds after we…or HE finished the game of "MahJong" I was…kind of…enjoying… I guess I just expected that he'd stick around at least until I was tired of playing "MahJong." I barely feel like I've even played. Maybe "MahJong" just isn't that great of a game… Or maybe Goku is just a really bad "MahJong" player."

Shaking herself out of her reverie, she sighed. "Well. I'm sure he'll be back soon. And then we'll talk about it."

So she waited.

And waited.

And waited.

And waited some more.

She continued to wait.

Then, after waiting, she went on to wait.

Eventually, Sarie Mue, rabid fangirl on the rampage, became Sarie Mue, lonely old lady in an empty house. It was on a particularly lonely day, as she sat and talked to the fourteen cats she had acquired over the years, that Goku chose to return.

"Boy!" exclaimed Goku, looking as young and chipper as ever as he opened the door with a loud CRASH, which nearly startled the frail Sarie Mue out of the rusted pink armor that now practically hung off of her emaciated frame, "It sure is hard work watching over seventeen generations of baby dinosaurs. I'm starving! What's for supper?"

Sarie Mue arose from her rocking chair, the wood and her knees engaging in an impromptu creaking contest, and took a wheezing breath to prepare to shout at him. As all the years of loneliness and waiting played like a bad home movie over and over inside her mind, she remembered the mental anguish she had suffered on his account, the lonely nights, the endless days…all because of him. She barely knew where to begin. She could barely force herself to speak, but finally, she managed to croak out what she had most wanted to say to him all these years…"You're a lousy "MahJong" player!"

Sadly, the strain and the shock of his return were too much for her failing heart, and she keeled over onto the floor, dead.

Goku, confused, scratched the back of his head with one hand as her last breath rattled out of her.

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Floating once again in an endless starfield, Sarie Mue felt the warm presence of the Great Will of the Cosmos. Despite the horrors she had suffered, she somehow still felt a warm spark of hope arise within her. She would finally have another chance! A chance to find her TRUE eternal soulmate who would BE THERE…someone who would care for her…someone who…KNEW HOW TO PLAY A DECENT GAME OF "MAHJONG" FOR CRYING OUT LOUD…perhaps someone like…like….

Chapter 3: Krillen