Fullmetal Alchemist Fan Fiction / Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Saiyan Foster Father ❯ Not the Four star Dragon ball! ( Chapter 3 )

Children of the Stars

By StarbearerTM

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.  

Chapter 1

Third waved his hand over it and snarled. Glowing yellow eyes widened behind the visor concealing them. Son Gohan and Son Goku closed ranks around the female, watching closely as the six Destroyers encroached from all sides.

"You really think you can fool us? Why is the Talisman drained of most of it's power?" asked Third, glaring at Atomique.

"You asked for IT… not the power. You really don't comprehend that they are only like those fake philosopher stones," said Atomique. "The true power lies within…"

"You and your Four Who are One think you're so smart, hiding the talisman…" Second snarled.

"Wait, I'm detecting seven traces of like energy on this planet…"

"What are they talking about?" Son Goku glanced at them confusedly. "What are you doing here? Don't make me have to hurt you!"

"You thought you could play stupid? We've traced the Talisman here! You have all seven! You aren't going to fool US!" laughed Second, grabbing Third's tracer.

"Wait, that looks like the Dragon Radar…" muttered Son Gohan, glancing at the small device they held. Although it was vastly different, the gleaming blips recording seven different traces struck a bell of familiarity in his mind.

"Then you DO know… tell me now, Atomique… did you send your two friends Dragon Womyn and Black widow here with the talisman to destroy them? And hide them here?"

"Look, this is getting annoying," said Son Goku. "Just go and leave us alone! This means nothing to us!"

"Oh, but it does. And we'll get the truth out of you one way or the other. The Talismen belong to the Leader of the Destroyers! And we'll get them even if we have to destroy the whole stinking planet!"

"Kuso, that does it!" Gohan gasped.

"You said it," Son Goku agreed. Extending their fists, both men started to bellow at the tops of their lungs. Second and Third barked to their soldiers, training their weapons to fire on the two men. Gold chikara crackled off the scale as trees and rocks swirled around the two glowing men. Their hair swirled upwards into golden spikes while their entire bodied seemed to grow in stature momentarily. Flames of mental force spiraled into gold auras as they shifted into a state that seemed painfully familiar to the Destroyers.

"That proves they must have the Talisman. The chikara is identical in nature to the Four…" Third gasped.

"Destroy them!" yelled Second.

"Are you really going to try that?" asked Son Goku, glancing down at them as energy weapons discharged. A fast flurry of his hands blocked each beam headed his way.

"Great Dragon, they're too powerful!" yelled one destroyer.

"I have no time for this… evacuate!" yelled Second. He pressed his teleport belt, flashing out of existence. He appeared just next to Third, reaching down to touch his comrade. Cold hatred burned in his eyes as he faced the youth protecting the two women. Energy blazed from his weapon, barely scratching the youth. Third and Second vanished in the reality rip.  

"And don't come back," Goku snapped as he saw the rip fold in on itself. Nodded to Gohan, he exhaled, letting the gold in his hair fade. The spikes drooped and leeched of chikara, returning his appearance to normal. Atomique blinked, shaking her head.

"How on Earth… that's impossible…"

"Not when you're able to become Super Saiyan," said Son Goku.

"Hey miss… are you all right?" Gohan asked, leaning over to look at the woman.

"I think… it's gonna hurt," she gasped, holding her stomach. Instantly the other, which must be the father, was next to her, helping to support her as she lay.

"I've got her Gohan. Are you sure you're okay? Do you need medical help?" asked Son Goku.

"I'll be all right… with a little rest. You two shouldn't have interfered…"

"It's our job, right?" Son Goku glanced at Gohan.

"Hmm," Gohan nodded. "Just who were those guys? And what is all this about Talismen?"

"I'll tell you all, but I have to warn you, if you offer me shelter they may well try to attack me again. They're searching for some items from another reality, and I fear that something in yours is giving them a false positive…"

"Those devices they had… what do they track?" asked Son Gohan. "Don't worry, I'm a scientist… well I will be…"

"Gohan's pretty smart, next to Dr. Briefs and Bulma," said Son Goku.

"It's going to take a lot of explaining. And the Talismen except for mine are nowhere on your world. So why they're getting seven readings…"

"I've got a suspicion," said Gohan. "But Dad we'd better get back to our home where it's safer…"

"Right. I'll be happy to carry you, if you don't mind," said Son Goku. "I think we have some Sensu beans…"

"Yep… about two left," said Son Gohan. "Let's get her home…"

"This is going to be different," she coughed. Blood dribbled down her silk jacket as the man's father cradled her in his arms. Atomique felt herself being swept up in the youth's strong arms.

Atomique saw the man known as Son Goku lifting his fingers to his forehead. The quick snatching sensation of teleportation slammed over them all and they were someplace else. Carefully Goku carried his charge into the rear of the small place. All around were the traces of Chinese architecture mixed with other things.  

"You'd better tell us everything you know," said Gohan quietly. "C'mon dad… she says she's looking for twins… could it be the same ones that…"

"Who were those… things?" his father asked, laying her on a rather conventional sofa in a living room of the domed dwelling.

"Destroyers," Atomique whispered. "From the world of my origin…"

"Okay, you're from another dimension, right?" Son Goku asked. "Where is that exactly?"

"Well, to start with, the place I just came from was not where I was born and spent most of my life. That world is already fallen to the Destroyers… the one I came from was where I was staying till Destroyers kidnaped my children…"

"What place was that? You're wearing what looks like a military uniform, are you a soldier?" asked Son Goku, sitting down in the chair opposite the sofa. He folded his long legs. Son Gohan wandered off into a back room of the home.

"Well, on the world of my origin, there was a war, but not the one I just came from. The Destroyers are creations of evil technology, responsible for creating an Armageddon on my planet… which is probably what you'd call an alternate Earth… are you familiar with SF, and parallel dimensions?"

"Um I know about other dimensions," said Son Goku, blinking. "Like the next one we go to when we die… and I know about life on other planets. In fact…"

Son Gohan returned, leaning over with something between his fingers, "Easy, just eat this… it will help you feel better…"

"What is this…?" she mumbled.

"I don't know what they have on your world, but it should help fix you up," he said. "We call them Sensu Beans… they're equivalent to 20 days of food…"

"What manner of pharmaceutical is this? A natural cure?" Atomique grunted, struggling to sit up. However, Gohan pinned her down with a strong hand on her shoulder.

"Don't worry, we have two left, right dad?" asked Gohan as he glanced back at his father.

"Yes. What were you saying about parallel something or others?" said Son Goku.

"Parallel earths?" said Son Gohan. "I overheard what you just said."

"Yes. The earth I'm from was eclipsed by dust when a comet struck it, thanks to the Destroyers. They're from my world's future, and used their technology to change the present of my world so they could exist. They've got the ability to jump across dimensions as you have seen. Anyway, the only force able to fight them on my world were the Four who were One. Four rock stars who had powers granted to them by powerful magical items from a civilization long hidden. They each represent an element. Four were known, but three were lost. The power to use them passes on from parent to child, or husband to wife…" said Atomique, feeling power slowly returning to her body.

"Okay… but you said the world you just came from isn't the same place you were born…" said Son Gohan.

"Yes. In a last battle, my friends, family and children were scattered across space-time by a scientist… called Space Ace. He used his power to scatter us across the multiverse so we'd survive if the Destroyers ever defeated us. Of six billion people in the world, only a few hundred survived under the protection of the Four: the Star Child, Space Ace, Cat Man, and Demon. They had the Four Talismen, and gave the remaining three to the females among them capable of wi4elding them… the Atomique, the Black Widow, and the Dragonlitch. You have guessed which one I possess, and the other two… are supposedly here."

"Black Widow and Dragon?" asked Son Goku. "Do you suppose…"

"Tell us everything," said Son Gohan firmly.

"They have equipment to track these Talismen across space time. They need them to balance the energies of our world so they can remake it in their image. But they cannot truly defeat us if they don't have all seven…"

"Like the Dragon Balls?" asked Son Goku.

"What?" she asked.

"Dragon balls. You put all seven together… and you make a wish when Shenlong comes out," said Son Goku. "Here… let me show you…"

"Is he sane?" asked Atomique.

"He is. And I think we'll get an answer to both our questions," said Son Gohan. Son Goku walked into another part of the house, and opened a wooden cabinet. He returned, carrying something cupped between his hands. It shimmered and sung with energies that floored her.

"Wait…" she gasped, seeing as Son Goku held the translucent sphere, the size of a grapefruit to her. Four small stars glittered in its heart, and she reached out to touch it.

"This is the Xi Zing Qui, the four star," said Son Goku. "I keep it to remind me of my grandpa Gohan… which my son here's named after…"

"No wonder… are there SEVEN of them?" she asked, reaching out to drag a finger over it.

"Yep, sure are. And we keep this one. It's been in the Son family for generations… or so my grandfather said," said Son Goku.

"Wait, these Talismen… are they magical items?" asked Son Gohan, leaping up.

"Yes. The one I handed to them was a fake I'd synthesized using Alchemy. The world I just came from is an alternate earth where Alchemy is the main science, and State Alchemists work for a Military run by Fuhrer King Bradley. I ended up on that world by Ace's last ditch effort… and I joined, using their abilities to learn alchemy. That's the basis of my powers. My two sons and I lived in safety till the Destroyers came."

"Two sons?"

"Yes, named Fermi and Bohr. They were born shortly before Blackwell's last attack… Blackwell's the entity who wants the Talismen. He created the Destroyers to hunt the Four Down and kill them. Now he's given them the power through Space Ace's technology to hunt us all through time and space. But if these Dragon Balls are made of the same substance as the Talismen... you're all in DEADLY danger..."

"Wait, your Talimsen… and the Dragon balls… are the same material?" asked Son Goku. She held out a silver pocket watch, inscribed with a chimera, and opened a small compartment on the back to reveal a strange gleaming object shaped like a carbon atom. In proximity to Goku's dragon ball it glowed.

"That's the same noise all seven make when they're brought together," said Gohan, blinking at his Dad.

"Weird… it's like they're talking to each other… but the Dragon Balls aren't any good unless you have all seven…" said Son Goku, scratching his head.

"Wait, that means they'll be looking for the Dragon Balls thinking they're…" said Son Gohan. "Kuso!"

"We must stop them from returning to their dimension," said Atomique. "And they also have my sons…I didn't mean to drag you into this as well…"

"Why haven't they come here before?" asked Son Goku.

"They have, don't you see, Dad. Shortly after that whole fight you and Bejita had with Majin Buu we heard reports about these lizard beings popping up. But the Z fighters have always been able to stop them…"

"You've seen them here already," said Atomique, glancing grimly at father and son.

"Good thing Goten's with Trunks… but that explains why Bejita's been training those two…"

"Wait… what's going on here…" she blinked up at the two men exchanging looks of surprise.

Son Goku sat down on the edge of the sofa, nudging her over with his hip. He took her hand in his as he stroked the back. Son Gohan nodded, "You can tell her dad. This answers a whole mess that's been happening the last few months…"

"Okay… this is weird," said Atomique, blinking up at them both.

"I think this explains everything, You see, you were looking for two boys… well I've been taking care of… Damn…" muttered Son Goku, rubbing his mop of unruly black hair.

"What's wrong Dad…" Gohan blinked. He whirled around, glancing wildly at the house simultaneously to his father doing the same thing.

"Something's here… that same ki…" Goku narrowed his eyes. "How could they…"

"Get down!" Atomique screamed, sitting bold upright.

"What the…" asked Son Gohan

"Second… second's here!" she yelled. Goku spun around to see Second materializing just behind him. As he swung a punch Second laughed and reappeared by Atomique.

"Get back!" Gohan yelled.

"What are you animals doing in my house?" Goku yelled.

"Look out!" Gohan cried. Then the whole world exploded into flame. All Atomique remembered was Goku touching his fingers to his forehead, and screaming at the top of her lungs while Gohan threw himself overtop of her. Second's loud maniac cackling echoed in her ears as she felt something slam into her full force.