Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Chosen One ❯ Chapter Ten ( Chapter 10 )

The Chosen One

Chapter Ten

Gohan, Vegeta, Piccolo, and Krillin descended toward the Roxian facility. Suddenly, Krillin stopped. "Hey, you guys! Wait!"

Gohan, Piccolo, and Vegeta stopped and turned to face Krillin. "What is it, Krillin?" Gohan asked.

"Well, I had been thinking," Krillin said.

"You're not chickening out on us, are you?" Piccolo joked.

"No, of course not!" Krillin responded. "It had occurred to me that the Roxians may have security devices that would alert them to intruders like us! They may already know!"

"Look, if they knew, we'd be in the middle of a battle!" Vegeta said.

"Nevertheless, Krillin may be right," Piccolo said. "It would probably help if we push down our power levels."

The four landed on a landing pad and walked up to the door.Gohan tried to find a handle or something to open it, but found nothing. He slipped his fingers between the door and the wall and pulled. However, the door was locked.

"Hey, guys! Look at this!" Krillin said to the others. "I think I found how to get in! There's some writing here, but I can't read it."

"Stand aside, baldie!" Vegeta ordered as he looked at the door controls. Then, he swore loudly. "It's a retinal scanner! Only authorized personnel can get through!"

"Perfect," Piccolo groaned. "Now what?"

Suddenly, Vegeta blasted the device. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" Piccolo exclaimed.

Vegeta grabbed a wire. "What does it look like?"

Gohan laughed. The idea of Vegeta messing with electronics seemed absurd. However, hot-wiring the door seemed like their best bet. A few moments later, the door opened.

"Okay, this is just too weird," Krillin remarked. "Not only is Vegeta doing things the subtle way, but now he's also an electrical wizard."

The group sneaked through the hallways of the facility, Vegeta interpreting directions to the command room. On two occasions, they encountered a security drone, but each time, Piccolo punched a hole through them with a Special Beam Cannon before any alarms were sounded. Finally, after what seemed like half an hour, they found their way into the command room. As soon as they entered, Vegeta shut the door and locked it.

"One thing that concerns me," Gohan said as he laid his helmet down (the air pressure inside the facility was at a normal level), "is that we didn't see any Roxians around. This may be some sort of a trap."

Vegeta pointed at the central computer. "Look at that. I don't know about you, but it looks like it's online to me." He started to charge an energy blast.

"Vegeta, wait!" Gohan exclaimed. "I think we should try to figure out just exactly what the Roxians are doing here. The more intel we have, the better." Gohan looked around the room and saw several tanks near the walls, each bearing the same inscription. Gohan pointed to a tank. "Vegeta, what does it say on the tanks?"

Vegeta looked at the tanks. "It says 'krypton.' Why?"

"So that's what they're doing here!" Krillin realized. "It seems they're harvesting krypton from Quarr's outer core! But why?"

Gohan walked up to the computer and hit a few buttons on the keyboard. "Hey, Vegeta, do these keyboards have the same letter arrangement as the ones on Earth?"

"Yes, why?"

Gohan cracked his knuckles. "Well, I'm going to try to hack into the main server."

"What? Since when do you know how to hack into a computer?" Krillin asked.

"Over the past summer, I took a Web design course," Gohan explained. "I happened to make friends with a hacker. He taught me a few tricks, but I'm nowhere as good as he is. Okay, Vegeta, I'll need you to interpret for me."

"Right now, there's a password screen," Vegeta said. Gohan began typing away. In a few minutes, Vegeta told him he got past the password screen. He now had access to a data log. Gohan opened the data log and Vegeta began to scan it. In a few moments, he was clearly puzzled.

"Strange," Vegeta remarked. "It seems they're using the krypton in a series of fissions, and they're trying to produce water and oxygen."

"Does it say why?" Krillin asked.

"Did I tell you why?" Vegeta snapped. "If it said why, I'd tell you!"

"Okay, jeez! I was just asking!"

"Gohan, scroll down more," Vegeta instructed. Gohan obliged, and Vegeta continued to read. He shook his head. "It doesn't say why. I guess we'll have to beat it out of a couple of Roxians."

Gohan backed out of the data log, but then, a message flashed. "Damn!" Vegeta exclaimed. "We're being traced! Get out, NOW!"

Gohan frantically tried to back out. "It's no good! We're stuck, and I can't kill the trace!"

"Get out of the way!" Vegeta yelled. Gohan dived away as Vegeta blasted the computer to pieces.

Suddenly, alarms blared and lights flashed. "Alert! Alert! Central computer has been destroyed!"

"Smooth move!" Krillin yelled. "You just set off the security system!"

"Krillin, it was a Catch-22," Gohan said. "If Vegeta hadn't blown up the central computer, we would have been caught anyway."

Suddenly, there was pounding on the door. "Open up!"

"The Roxians!" Krillin exclaimed.

"Stay calm!" Piccolo shouted. "We can beat them!"

"Move! Move, you ingrates!" someone shouted outside the room. "I said MOVE!" Suddenly, the door was destroyed and a single Roxian entered the room.

"So these are the Roxians?" Vegeta inquired. "They sure are an ugly bunch. I bet every time God creates one of them, 'Oops, I Did it Again' plays in his head!"

The Roxian turned to face Vegeta. "What's your name?"

"You're supposed to state your name before you ask for someone else's," Vegeta remarked.

The Roxian grumbled. "Fine. I'm Lt. Sagrak. Now, tell me your name!" Vegeta obliged. "Vegeta, for that, you go first."

Vegeta laughed. "Obviously, you are ignorant to the goings-on in the galaxy! If you weren't, my name would ring a bell!"

"Hey!" Sagrak exclaimed. "I remember now! Vegeta was that puny Saiyan who got his tail kicked by that weakling, Frieza!"

Krillin gasped. "Frieza, a weakling? Oh, this is just great!"

"Well, that was years ago!" Vegeta said. "Didn't it occur to you that I would get stronger? I hope you realize that I am now what Frieza had most feared!" With that, he pulled his fists to his sides and focused. Gohan, Krillin, and Piccolo could feel the Saiyan prince's power level surging upward. Suddenly, Vegeta began to yell, and he became surrounded by a golden aura. His hair turned gold and his eyes turned green. He had become a Super Saiyan.

"Now, what have we here?" Sagrak asked.

"I am your worst nightmare!" Vegeta exclaimed. "I am a Super Saiyan!"

Sagrak activated his scouter and laughed. "I see your power level is much higher than Frieza's was, but you're still no match for me."

Suddenly, something moved from the corner of the room. Gohan had charged forward, but Vegeta stopped him with a hand. "Stand back, kid! I can do this myself!" With that, Vegeta threw himself at Sagrak. He threw a punch, but Sagrak moved his head to the side. Vegeta threw a kick, but Sagrak jumped over the prince's leg. Vegeta then attacked with a flurry of punches, but Sagrak managed to dodge every one of them and disappeared.

Vegeta looked around. "Damn! Where did he go?"

Sagrak appeared right behind Vegeta. "Right here." Sagrak landed a punch on the back of Vegeta's head. Vegeta went flying headfirst into a wall and slumped down. His hair returned to normal. He had been knocked out.

Sagrak walked up to Vegeta and began to charge an energy blast. "Say good-bye, worm!" Suddenly, a pair of boots connected with his head and he went flying. Gohan landed in front of Vegeta and began powering up. In a matter of minutes he was at full power.

Sagrak laughed. "Another Super Saiyan? This is too easy!"

"I'm not just a Super Saiyan," Gohan responded. "I am at the next level. I am many times more powerful than Vegeta."

"You're just the same to me!" Sagrak exclaimed and disappeared. He reappeared behind Gohan and threw a punch. Gohan, however, turned around, ducked under the punch, and caught Sagrak in the chest with a punch. He followed it up with a kick to the Roxian's face. Sagrak went flying and bounced off a krypton tank. Gohan fired a few energy blasts, but Sagrak blocked them.

Piccolo was watching the two warriors fight when he made two realizations: first, Sagrak was not using any energy attacks; and second, Sagrak was redirecting all of Gohan's energy attacks away from the krypton tanks. Piccolo held up his right index and middle fingers and began to charge.

"Piccolo!" Krillin exclaimed. "What are you doing?" Piccolo, however, ignored him. Instead, he aimed his fingers at a krypton tank and yelled, "Special Beam Cannon!" The beam lanced forward and hit one of the krypton tanks.

KABOOM!

The krypton tank exploded with more force than Piccolo had expected. Apparently, the krypton was kept under pressure.

"NO!" Sagrak exclaimed. "You don't realize what you have done!" Immediately, the Roxian fell over on all sixes.

"Hey!" Gohan exclaimed. "His power level is going down!"

"All right!" Krillin shouted. "These goons have a weakness!"

"His power level is still to high for me to destroy!" Gohan said. "If I try, I'll blow up the facility and kill all of us!"

"Then let me do the job!" Krillin answered. He held his right arm up in the air. "Destructo-Disc!" A disc of pure energy formed above Krillin's head. He threw it and it cleaved Sagrak in two, hit a krypton tank, and exploded.

Gohan looked at the remains of the Roxian. "That's just disgusting."

"We have no time to waste!" Piccolo exclaimed, grabbing his helmet. "Let's get out of here!"

Gohan, Piccolo, and Krillin (who was holding Vegeta) were hovering outside the Roxian facility. Piccolo and Krillin flew back as Gohan charged an attack.

"Kaaa . . . meee . . . haaa . . . meee . . . HAAA!" The Kamehameha lanced forward from Gohan's hands and hit the facility, completely annihilating it. Then, he turned around and followed Piccolo and Krillin.