Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Chosen One ❯ Chapter Twenty-Two ( Chapter 22 )

The Chosen One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Gohan laid on his bed, thinking. He had enjoyed himself a lot on the planet Gabria. He knew he would miss it. He looked to his left and saw his school supplies. Gohan mentally slapped himself; he hadn't done a thing academically in the two weeks he was on Gabria. He pulled Hamlet out of his bag and began reading.

"What's shaking?" Krillin asked as he walked into the room. "Hamlet, huh? I remember having to read that. I only remember one line, though: 'Frailty, thy name is woman!'"

"What did you just say?!" an angry female voice yelled from the hallway.

"No, no, no! It's a line from a play! Seriously!" Krillin shouted, panicked. Gohan began to laugh.

"You mean to tell me you don't remember the 'to be or not to be' soliloquy?"

"Well, now that you mention it . . ." Krillin trailed off.

"How about some of these quotes? 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' 'Brevity is the soul of wit.' 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't.' 'O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!' 'The play's the thing in wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.'"

"All right! All right!" Krillin exclaimed. "I've got it already! You don't need to recite the whole play for me!" Then, they both heard a noise from Gohan's closet.

Gohan and Krillin looked at the closet. "Did you hear that?" Gohan asked. Krillin nodded. "It sounded a bit like giggling." Gohan flung open the doors of his closet.

"Umm . . . hi," Sephra said sheepishly. She had been sitting in the corner of Gohan's closet.

"Looks like we have a stowaway problem," Krillin commented. "I thought that had been taken care of." He took Sephra by the arm. "Come with me."

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"WHAT?" Bulma exclaimed.

"Yeah," Gohan said. "Krillin is escorting her up here right now."

"Gohan, go get the satellite phone, would you?" Bulma asked. "We need to tell the king, or we may be accused of abduction!" Before Gohan could move, however, the entire spaceship shook and abruptly began moving to the left. Bulma began pulling the stick in the opposite direction, but all she accomplished was shaking the ship.

"Bulma, what is going on?" Gohan shouted.

"Everyone, get up to the bridge now!" Bulma yelled into the microphone. "We're caught in a tractor beam!"

Gohan focused on his left. "There's some sort of space station," Bulma remarked, but he paid it no heed. What he could feel was worse.

"Bulma, there are nothing but Roxians in that space station."

"So I see you managed to get caught in a Roxian military outpost, woman," Vegeta commented as he entered the bridge. "Nice going." Then, a voice entered over the communications channel.

"Attention crew of the captured ship! Surrender now, and we will kill you painlessly! Resist, and you will suffer!"

"Gee, nice choice," Android 17 commented sarcastically.

"So, what do we do?" Tien asked.

"There's only one thing we can do," Piccolo said. "We fight, and we tear this outpost to shreds!"

"There are a lot of Roxians in there," Gohan stated. "We'll have to make like James Bond and sneak around."

"I'll go," Android 17 volunteered. "Just let me change my handgun." With that, he ran off.

"Let me go, too," Krillin said. "I can be fairly good at sneaking around."

"It's your height, right?" Gohan joked. "We need one more person."

Yamcha slowly raised his hand. "If you need someone to sneak around, I'm your man." At that moment, Android 17 walked into the room. He pulled out his new gun: a .44 magnum revolver.

"A .44 magnum," Android 17 said. "Most powerful handgun in the world."

Krillin had his arms crossed. "Can we leave now, Clint Eastwood?"