Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Saiyan Foster Father ❯ The Carbon Alchemist ( Chapter 2 )

Children of the Stars

By Trynia Merin

Disclaimer: I don't own Dragon Ball Z or Full Metal Alchemist. Funimation and their respective owners distribute them. Atomique (Tryni), Dragon Womyn, and Black Widow are my fan chars though. Mentions of the rock group KISS and the respective members are not mine. This is a work of fan fiction and is not meant to harm or demean. I get no profit from this. Fermi (Fermi) and Bohr (Bohr) are fanfic chars.  

Prologue

From the world of the Fullmetal alchemist she'd tumbled headlong into the backwoods of what looked like China. Atomique shook her head, glancing all around her as she took in the surroundings. Almost vertical mountains shrouded in mist, resembling something off a Chinese wall scroll. Still her head vibrated with residual energies from the transit. Within her hand she clutched the tracer that would lock onto Fermi and Bohr's energy signatures.

"Ed and Al said one alchemist could find another," she whispered. Hot tears still filled her eyes at the remembrance of the two boys who'd helped her unlock her true powers. So much they resembled the fire and spirit of her two sons that it hurt inside. Although one was a spirit attached to a suit of armor, and the other with artificial arm and leg, they were a reminder of something precious she'd lost.

The blue uniform she wore was tattered and torn. She stumbled through the woods, sensing something disrupting the energies of the wood. Strange tingling of powers reached out to touch her. She ducked behind a tree and heard footsteps approaching. Military training kicked in with a vengeance and Atomique, AKA the Carbon Alchemist concealed herself.

Her true name had been concealed long ago, lest Leader and her minions track her here. She'd taken the name Sylke in that Franco romantic Prussia world where Alchemy was the main ultimate science. Swapped stories with Mays Hughes regarding childhood of her two sons she missed, while dodging the irritating Roy Mustang and the others she'd come to accidentally know. Leader's Destroyers had made their way into the Earth of the Elric Brothers, who had sent them packing just as easily.

"Why am I here?" she asked herself. Ed's own alchemy had supplied the missing raw energy to force the portal open so she could trace Leader and the Destroyers here…

"Crap," she murmured, hearing a loud car engine tempered with whining. Wind slashed through the trees as something shot past her rapidly. In her peripheral vision she glimpsed a hover vehicle. Intrigued, the Carbon Alchemist decided to track the movements to see if this vehicle would lead her to civilization of some sort. A loud pop sounded, followed by the sound of lasers discharging. Panting, Atomique ran towards the sound of the disturbance. Acrid smoke and ozone hit her nostrils as she rounded the trees and burst into the clearing.

"Hey, over here! Are you looking for me?" Atomique asked. Shards of a shiny plastic shot out as Atomique flicked her wrist. They landed in Third's way. He dodged, bringing his pistol to bear on her. Shots crashed into the plastic barrier she erected, holding against the laser fire.

"You… I don't know HOW you made it here, Atomic Girl, but you're too late if you're trying to stop us…" Third gasped.

"Tell me where my sons are, you miserable pile of shit, and I might let you live!" Atomique screamed. A flick of her wrist sent a long plastic filament sailing through the air, twisting it around her assailant.

"Never…" gasped Third, snapping the plastic like spaghetti.

"No!" Atomique gasped, forming a barrier that separated herself from the other two. She rushed up, holding the barrier long enough to check and see if the woman was all right. Panting she held up her hands to try and keep the barrier. Unfortunately two others that rushed out of the woods third and Second joined the percussive smashes of. Gunfire crackled against, shattering her barrier. She crossed her wrists, rolling well out of the way.

"Tell me where my sons are!" Atomique yelled. "You miserable pieces of slime! You killed my husband!"

Her next throw tossed several more plastic shards towards their captors. Then she flipped forwards, kicking at the two nearest, while setting up to punch the next. Unfortunately the Destroyers soon overwhelmed Her. Blows were exchanged, but Atomique was tiring. A stray blast slammed into her head, knocking her flat on her side.  

"Shit," grumbled Second, glancing at his tracking device.

"What?" asked Third.

"Two large energy signatures headed this way… their chikara is overwhelming…" Second said.

"Better get Atomique out of the way… Leader will want her alive… but if anyone else gets in the way, kill them," said Third. Atomique slowly came round, shaking her head. She managed to hobble to her feet, in time to throw up another Plexiglas barrier before herself.

"Is this a private party, or are WE invited?" asked another voice from overhead. Second flicked his head around to see a young man hovering in midair. His black hair whipped in the wind, while his fist blazed with energy.

"Who's that?" Atomique asked.

"Hey miss, are you okay?" Gohan asked.

"I don't know who you are, but this is not your affair, earthling…"

"Stay back… whoever you are… they'll kill you…" Atomique gasped.

"I'm Son Gohan… miss… and I don't abandon a defenseless woman… my dad wouldn't hear of it!" he said with pride. "I feel sorry for these poor creatures… especially when my dad Goku shows up!"

"Destroyers," said Atomique, chuckling. Two of the Destroyers were kicking and smashing at her barrier as before, finding their blasters ineffective.

"Better ease up on that barrier. You don't look so good," said Gohan as Atomique strained to maintain the plastic.

"They're smashing it to pieces…" she gasped.

Second and Third activated their shielding. They tumbled out of the way as the youth suddenly materialized in their midst, throwing rapid blasts of some sort of chikara at each. Third brought his rifle to bear, channeling a blast of his own incendiary mix towards the newcomer. He blurred out of sight, materializing behind Second, and landing a solid punch that send the Destroyer crashing into a tree. Barely did Third have a change to activate his teleport belt to vanish out of range of a sizzling firebomb. All around them the trees exploded into flames.

"Okasan!" Gohan yelled. "We're in here!"

"Who… how long will it take him to get here…"

"He's on his way… the whole place is crawling with these… creatures…" Gohan panted, punching and kicking his way through the other Destroyers materializing all around him. "Why are they after you?"

"They murdered my husband and tried to steal my children. I tracked my kids here… but I can't let these monsters stop me…"

"Your children?" Gohan gasped, reaching her side. He sent rapid blasts of energy from his flying hands in both directions.

"Two boys, twins… just babies… named Fermi and Bohr… they look like me and have strange powers…"

"Hold on… I might have seen them… are they telepathic?" Gohan gasped.

"Yes… do you know of them?" she gasped.

"Hold on… I'll get you out of this…" Gohan panted.

"Got to generate… nitrogen… to put out the flames…" gasped Atomique. She traced something in the dirt, struggling to remember the transmutation circle for nitrogen. As she placed her hands, she dropped.

"She's running out of energy…" Third gasped, while Second hurled a series of plasma grenades towards the levitating teenager. He zipped in and out, punching and hitting the Destroyers who were struggling to keep one step ahead of him.

"What the hell is this creature…" gasped Second. "His chikara is equal to one of the Four…"

"Sir… we're being destroyed… another more powerful Chikara is… ahh!" screamed the advance patrol over his comlink.

"Hold him off, I'll get behind her, and capture her…" said Third. Gohan watched as branches cracked and split with the glowing red of an increasing firestorm. From tree to tree the blazes leapt, spreading in a manner of seconds. Through the flickering blaze Gohan huddled protectively shielding the strange woman in the blue uniform. Somehow within the glowing circle, the flames were being extinguished.

"I'm an alchemist…" she gasped.

"We're okay… just let me get rid of those goons," said Gohan, panting in the increasing heat.
"You keep generating that nitrogen… Just don't burn yourself out… all we have to do is hold out till… there he is! DAD!"

Blue energy slammed into the raging flames. It pressed down, shoving trees aside in a trench of widening earth. From overhead another figure surged with chikara that broke the scales of Third and Second's chikara meters. For a moment, Second could swear that the Star Child himself was hovering there, sending beams of energy from cupped hands to scrape a huge trench around the blazing acreage to stop the fire from consuming the whole forest.

All of the lizardlike beings were covered in scaly reddish skin, while their red and blond hair was fastened up under their helmets. Long coats of armor were stitched together of animal hides and plastics, studded with scrap bits of metal. Son Goku wondered why Third's coat looked so much like soda can pull tabs linked together. Next to him, Second and the others had similar armor, held together with rivets and safety pins. Buckled overtop were harnesses with various bits of technology reminding Gohan of what Freiza's troops used. Kis flickered; each boosted by the gems they wore on chains around their necks. A quick glance to their belts showed what appeared to be transdimensional circuitry, to a trained scientific mind like Son Gohan.

"Otosan, down here!" Gohan yelled up.

"I'm coming…" answered the voice as Son Goku swept into view.

"About time," Gohan gasped, and turned to his new friend. "That's my dad, Goku…"

"Goku?" she asked. Energy blazed just behind her. She turned to see one of the gold-eyed lizard beings appearing just behind Atomique.

"Get out of the way!" Gohan cried as he raised his hand. Atomique was pushed aside as Gohan stepped before her. Third's weapon shot out, crackling around her. She dropped to her knees, struggling against the energies that surrounded her.

"Leave her ALONE!" Gohan screamed. In seconds Gohan zipped right next to third. His punch slammed into the creature's gut, crunching bones and rending flesh in his rage. Atomique rolled over, while Gohan pummeled third into a bloody pulp.

"Wait… what's…" spoke a voice almost identical. Energy surged and whipped the inferno into a maelstrom of expanding heat. Second saw the remaining four Destroyers felled by rapid kicks and punches, followed by blasts of pure gold chikara. Third lay still on the ground; while the one called Gohan panted overtop. His hair had blazed into gold, while the mental energies crackled with molten hot lightening. Close by, the newcomer also had blazed into a similar form.

"They have… a secondary transform like the four…" Second gasped. "Third…"

"I don't know who you are, but you made a BIG mistake," said the newcomer.  

Identical in stature to the youth, he levitated towards the body of the woman, and the youth hunched over them both. Third's hand barely twitched from the bloody mangled mess that Gohan had made of his body. Through the haze of pain, she glimpsed an orange fighting outfit, stretched overtop of a blue shirt covering a powerfully muscled chest. Long legs clad in loose baggy pants carried him closer after he touched his blue booted feet to the ground.

"Dad…" gasped the one called 'Gohan'.

"What's going on here? Is she the source of the ki?" Son Goku asked, glancing at his son. If they were father and son, why did they look so close in age? Surely Son Goku could only be in his mid twenties at the most, while Gohan was little more than eighteen tops. Eerily they could be brothers, which reminded her of another father and son pair very dear to her. When they were both alive.

"This is YOUR fault, fool. You didn't need to interfere. We only want the woman," said Second.

"Oh really, and why is THAT? If you wanted her so badly, why are you blowing up this forest and threatening innocent people? I don’t' think THAT's the mark of a congenial visit, do you, Dad?" Gohan asked.

"No way, son. Look, I don't know who you are, but around here, I don't like people beating each other up without a good reason. In case you haven't heard, this land belongs to the Son family. This means him, and me. So if you don't want me to hurt you, get lost," Son Goku said firmly in a higher pitched voice than she would have expected for a man of his height and stature.

"They want me. They won't hurt you if you let me go. I can handle them…" Atomique protested.

"Nonsense, you're too badly injured to stand. Let my dad handle this," Son Gohan said, helping her to sit up as he huddled protectively over her.

"You know nothing about me…" said Atomique sternly, pushing Son Gohan's hand away. "You two should leave well enough alone."

"If you were a threat, my dad could sense it, he's got this ability to…" said Son Gohan. "And if you're okay, and you say that your children are…"

Already Son Goku's blasts of energy had suppressed the greater part of the fires. Smoke choked the air around them. He raised his fists into a defensive position, gold ki flickering around his form. "You guys have one chance to explain yourselves, and it had better be good. I don't like having to resort to violence, but you've already endangered countless lives with your fires…" Son Goku said, narrowing dark eyebrows sternly.

Second interrupted, "Enough of this! Stand aside now, native human or we'll kill you all! That woman is a criminal escaping Destroyer jurisdiction. She's not from this dimension, and she's a wanted fugitive Alchemist. Her army has been terrorizing people needlessly on her home planet, one which we're trying to liberate…"

"Yeah, right," Atomique spat. "You just had to try and convince the Ishballans that YOU were their only chance to save them… and force them to attack the Military…"

"Lt. Colonel Roy Mustang was a fool to face us with just you and those oversized brothers. You think you've saved YOUR life and THEIRS by grabbing Fifth's disc and coming here to this backwater dimension? If you give us the Atomic Talisman, you can go free and save these poor natives their skins," Second said.

"Here it is. Now go to HELL," she snapped, pulling something out of her coat and tossing it down. Son Goku saw Second catch a small red glowing object in his hands.

"Thank you, now was THAT so hard?" he snickered. Passing it to Third, he smiled.