by Aoi Kami Sarah
Part Three

Dragon Ball Alternate Dimension - Generation Z by Aoi Kami Sarah
Part Three

CAPSULE CORP
       "Hello?" `Tasha called as her huge boots clicked down the walk way. The sound echoed off Capsule Corp's distinctive dome structures. She approached the front door and knocked a few times, but no one answered. Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw someone dart from one building to another.
       "Hey! Hello!?" she called. `Tasha shrugged. "Where the hell are you, Ado, ya cheatin' bastard? When I find out who she is you're gonna wish..." Frustrated, but still dedicated she sat on the front door stoop and waited for Adonai to come home.

       Vegeta towled off from his mid-afternoon workout and stepped out of the gravity chamber. He was surprised by the tall girl, standing there waiting for him to emerge. She had her hands in the pockets of her leather jacket.
       "Are you Vegeta?" she asked in an emotionless voice.
       He smelled a faint air of fear around her, and there was something else; something familiar; her short, plum-colored hair or her deep hazel eyes.. perhaps the way she glared at him.
       The Prince snorted. "So what if I am?"
       Her anxiousness pulsed around her as she took a step closer to him. They were now only a foot apart. She pulled her left hand out of her pocket and revealed what she had been hiding.
       Vegeta's jaw dropped and he was immediatly at a loss for words. In the girl's hand was a three inch disc bearing a blue, muli-pointed star on a silver field. It was blue and silver. She flashed the afternoon sunlight off of the emblem into his eyes and swiftly pulled her right hand out of the other pocket. Before Vegeta knew what was going on he was on the ground. The drug she injected him with worked instantly, paralizing the most powerful warrior in the galaxy.
       With hardly any effort at all, Yaffa picked him up and threw him over her shoulder. Then she ran into an open garage.

       `Tasha stood up and followed her curiosity around the perimeter of the house. Just as she passed a window on the southern side, she saw a very strange sight: a girl carying a full-grown man across the lawn. 'Tasha blinked a few times and layed low.
       'What the..?' she thought. 'That's that bitch from the Cog...!' Suddenly, her memory came back to her. 'Tasha had been knocked out that night, and all this time she thought it was rufies! She gnashed her teeth and watched the girl duck into the garage. She then jogged up to the side of the entrance. She knew that this girl was up to no good, but what could she do against someone that strong? And that man, he looked a lot like Adonai...
       Her train of thought was jarred off track by the deafening sound of rocket engines. The roof of the garage exploded, raining rebris around the girl as a space ship crashed through it and in the blink of an eye, blasted off into the blue.

*
       Koro's car settled into its parking space. She and her boy cousins were deep in conversation about the upcoming big game and subsequent dance of which committee she was chairwoman. Soma sighed as she got out and closed the car door. She was the first to see the explosion. She let a small cry escape her lips, dropped her books and pointed at the plume of smoke.
       "Oh my God, what happened?!" Korosette cried and ran towards the garage.
       Kashtan and Okano flew ahead of her and made sure the area was safe. Kash discovered the black girl curled up on her side and covered with dust.
       She coughed as he picked her up. "Are you ok?"
       "Yeah..." she sputtered and wiped the dirt from her face.
       Soma jogged over. "`Tasha? What happened?!"
       "That bitch..." she wheezed. "That bitch blew it up with... a space ship.."
       "What!?" Koro growled, feeling deeply violated. "WHAT BITCH!?"
       `Tasha began to reply, but pointed past them instead. They all turned to see Adonai saunter over to them. Just before reaching the group, he faltered and fell.
       "Adonai!" Soma shouted and ran to him. She held her brother in her arms.
       "That.. bitch..." he muttered and lost consciousness.

A FEW MINUTES LATER
       Adonai came to with fists flying. Fortunatly, he was still sufficiantly sedated and Kashtan and Okano were able to hold him down until he realized where he was. He stared up at the sky, his back pinned to the ground by his cousins and tried to make sense of what had happened.
       "Get off me," he grunted and the boys immediatly backed off. Ado got to his feet. "`Tasha, where'd Yaffa go?"
       Rather than answer, she pouted, walked up to him and slapped him. "That's the bitch's name? Yaffa?"
       Ado scowled. "Where did she go?"
       `Tasha opened her mouth to curse him out, but grimmaced and held her hand instead. "OW! Damn! What're you made of? Stone?!"
       "WHERE DID SHE GO!?"
       "I DON'T KNOW!" `Tasha screamed in reply. Everyone else stepped back a few paces. "She was carying some guy into the garage and the next thing I know, a fuggin space ship almost kills me!"
       Korosette bit her lip. "Some guy? `Tasha, what did he look like?"
       "Short, lotsa muscles, big hair that stood up like this," she lifted her dreads up over her head.
       "Grandfather..." Soma whispered.
       Ado grunted. "Imposible."
       "Oh, so I'M the liar?" `Tasha folded her arms.
       Korosette clapped her hands together and ran into the neighboring garage. "I have an idea!" Adonai jogged after her.

*
SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN
       The sun was setting. It was going to be a beautiful sunset. Everyone on board the elite cruise ship had gathered on the top deck to watch. Eight friends stood together and smiled.
       "I think I speak for the rest of us when I say, we can't thank you enough for this, guys," Goten hugged his wife around the middle. Everyone nodded.
       "It's no problem. We wouldn't have it any other way, Goten," Trunks replied and did the same to his own wife.
       The breeze picked up Akiko's hair and she snuggled against Trunks' chest, giving herself in to complete relaxation.

CAPSULE CORP

       "According to the tracking device that Yaffa OBVIOUSLY doesn't know is aboard the ship, it's headed to the other side of the damn galaxy, and fast!" Korosette looked at the screen as the information she requested popped up. Her brows were knitted tightly together and her eyes burned with anger. "That bitch is gonna PAY," she hissed.
       "Is there another ship ready?" Ado stared at his cousin. She nodded and pointed to the craft behind her as she entered commands which opened its entry door.

       Outside the garage, Soma, Okano and Kashtan attended to `Tasha, who was still recovering from the explosion. Soma fretted. "What did that girl want with Grandfather?"
       "I dunno, but he's a pretty big guy for a chick to be picking up and carying around like that."
       Kashtan was about to ask her if the attractive girl was no longer dating Adonai, when they all started at the sound of rocket engines.
       "Not again!" `Tasha cried and ducked-and-covered.
       "Adonai!" Soma called out and ran into the garage.
       "Soma, wait!" Okano tried to catch her, but the girl was flying and already ahead of them.
       "Stay here!" Kash yelled at `Tasha who had no desire to get any closer. He ran into the garage and saw Soma open the cargo hatch of the ship as it began to lift off. She ducked inside just at Okano caught up with her.
       "Damn it!" Kash cursed and flew up after them. "I'm gonna totally regret this..." he grumbled as he pulled the cargo hatch shut behind him.

       `Tasha covered her eyes with her arm as the ship burst through hyper space and disappeared. She blinked at the blue sky and slumped her shoulders. "Thanks for nothing, Adonai."

*

       "Come on, Korosette! We have to catch up with them!!" Ado shouted as he watched the blip on the screen move further away from the center point.
       "Ado, cool your jets. First of all this ship isn't equiped with the baddass blaster rockets that theirs has and second (now that I've cooled off a little) I think that we should follow them at a distance and sneek up on them instead."
       "This hunk of shit isn't fast enough!?" he bellowed.
       "This hunk of shit, as you so politely put it, is state of the art in the stealth department. Ya ever seen Star-Trek when a Romulan spaceship goes sort of invisible? This puppy makes that look like a sore thumb."
       Ado slouched back into the chair at her left.
       "Just relax, Ado. You'll have plenty of time to get all riled up when we get there."
       "And where is THERE, Korosette?"
       She shrugged and pulled up a stellar map on the display. "Not a damn clue. They're headed into fairly remote territory."
       He watched her work and tried to conjecture what Yaffa could possibly want with his grandfather and why she took him into space.
       Just as he began to wonder where the Candid Camera was hidden, they both heard a banging sound from the rear of the cabin.
       Adonai motioned for Koro to stay where she was, but she followed him anyway. He krept across the floor and listened. The sound was coming from a storage bin on the bottom of the wall.
       Quickly, the young Prince pulled the door open and raised his hand to blast whatever was inside.
       "What the hell!?" he cried in alarm.
       "Hey, Ado. What's shakin'?" Kash grinned on his hands and knees. He scuttled out of the space, followed by Okano who said nothing, and finally Soma.
       With each additional member, Ado's face grew more crimson. When he saw his sister he exploded.
       "What do you think you're doing here?!" he screamed at them. "We left you jokers behind for a reason!"
       Korosette tried to put in that SHE didn't mean to exclude anyone, but her cousin was on a roll.
       "And how DARE you bring Soma into this!!"
       "Well, ya see, Ado, it was like this.." Kash began to explain.
       Adonai didn't seem to acknowledge his presence. He glared at Okano. "I'd expect something this stupid from Kashtan, but from you, Okano?" he seethed. "Such an act absolutly cries out for a beating. Is that what you want? Cause I can deliver!"
       "Adonai, stop it, please!" Soma pleaded with him. "It's not his fault!"
       "I don't think he hears you, Sweetheart," Koro pulled her out of the way.
       "Ado," Okano puffed out his chest and looked him in the eye. "I don't want us to be like this. There shouldn't be any bad blood between cousins."
       Ado laughed a little at this. "Bad blood, heh. You've certainly got your fair share of that, don't you? How much of a Saiyan are you again? An eighteenth?"
       "So you're saying that we should value ourselves by how much Saiyan blood flows through our viens?" he asked coldy, trying to procrastinate to avoid any possible fight.
       "I'm saying it makes you a weakling," Ado spat and took a step forward.
       Kashtan waved his hands. "Come on, guys, we're in the middle of a space ship here..." His entreeties did no good.
       Then Korosette started to laugh.
       Everyone turned and looked at her funny.
       "What the hell is so amusing, Korosette?" Ado barked.
       "Ohohohohoho! Just that I'm the weakest person in the room," she giggled.
       "You're a nutjob," Kash whispered.
       She stopped laughing and put her hands on her hips. "Adonai. Why don't you just sit down and shut up and we can all get to the task at hand: rescuing Grandfather Vegeta."
       He turned and glowered at her. "YOU'RE telling ME what to do?!"
       "YES. I am. If your little theory is so right, then you should be kissing my feet."
       "What?!"
       Koro grinned like an idiot. "I have the most amount of Saiyan blood out of any of us here."
       The boys started at her for a beat.
       "Korosette. Are you foregtting that our mother is a quarter Saiyan..?" he sneered.
       "No. I know that. What you don't know is that I'm a genetic clone of my mother. So that makes me a half-Saiyan, and closer to the Saiyan throne than you, too! OHOHOHOHO!" she cackled, but furrowed her brows. "So SIT DOWN and SHUT UP. I'm the captain of this ship! And I say everyone plays nice till we get home, got it!?"
       Okano, Soma and Kashtan rapidly saluted and took seats. Adonai stood, mouth agape for several moments before taking his own and sulking for several hours.

SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OCEAN
       Candles flickered and soft, smooth music played. Akiko came out of the changing room wearing a light blue neglige. She slithered her way to the window where Trunks was standing, looking out at the stars and the water. She put her hands over his eyes and pressed up against him.
       "Guess who?"
       Trunks grinned. "The most wonderful girl in this or any other dimension?"
       "Ooh! You are so right!"
       He turned and embraced her. Akiko pulled back and looked at his attire.
       "You are always so over-dressed..." She pulled at the draw-string of his pajama bottoms. They worked their way over to the king-size bed, but before they could begin anything, Akiko was distracted by a faint electronic sound.
       "What was that?"
       "What was what?" he mumbled as he kissed her.
       Akiko sat up and pushed him away. "There! That! That ringing!"
       Trunks sighed and got up. He opened a drawer and the strange ringing got louder. "You mean this?" he asked and held up a cellular phone.
       "Trunks.... This was supposed to be OUR time. How could you bring something like that with you?" she moaned and took it from him. She removed the battery and tossed it and the device in the trash. "Now. No distractions. No Capsule Corpotation. No kids! Just you and me. You just sit back and relax..." Akiko grinned and walked him back to the bed.
       Another muffled ringing disturbed them. Akiko growled and sat up on the bed. She folded her arms and frowned. Trunks made a face and went to the closet. The phone in his jacket pocket was ringing.
       "Give it."
       "But Kiko...?"
       "No buts!" She held out her hand. She took this one and went to the window. Akiko threw the cell phone into the ocean. "There! If you've got one more of those things hidden around here somewhere, you're sleeping on the deck!"
       "I don't! I swear!" He sweat-dropped. 'I don't THINK I do...!'
       Akiko softened and beckoned him to come to her again. There was a knock at the door. "AHHH WHAT NOW!?!"
       "Trunks, Akiko! Something's happened to the kids!"
       Akiko's aggrivation disspeared instantly. "What!?" 'Oh no, the phones!'
       Goten gave them the news and they blasted off from the ship for home as soon as possible. Goten and Rojan carried Roland. Trunks lead the way. Akiko hung back, her guilt about the cell phones plauguing her.

*
THE NEXT MORNING
       Korosette was the first up and checked the controls. She knew her ship was infailable, but wanted to know where it was taking her. A blue blip at the top of the monitor told her Yaffa's ship had landed on a tiny planet not in any of her directories. She zoomed in on the coordinates and locked the destination in. They would arrive just as the others woke.

*
       Akiko finally fell alseep around 6 AM. Bulma had given them as much information as possible. She kept her cool as she tried to help the parents, but her tail thrashed anxiously as she spoke. Bulma was scared. Her husband was missing too.
       Two missing ships, one destroyed garage, six missing family members. Akiko told herself that if Vegeta was with them it was all right, but she wasn't comforted. Vegeta wouldn't have blown a ship through the roof of the garage and certainly wouldn't have left without telling anyone. There had been no witnesses.
       As exhaustion finally took over, she watched her husband breathe and prayed that when she woke up everything would be normal.

*
       Adonai was the first out of the ship.
       "Ado! Wait we have to test the environment!!" Korosette screamed after him.
       "If Yaffa came here, it's fine." He breathed deep to prove his point.
       Koro threw down her testing equipment and caught up with him. "Fine. Die."
       Kashtan and Okano exchanged glances and followed Soma and the others.

       Before them lay a vast desert. Rocky prominences jutted out occasionaly and strange varieties of plants were scattered in their shade. Just ahead on the horizon was the outline of a city. The sky was pale, almost white and the sand was just as colorless. The heat was stifling. Korosette mentioned more than once as they treked across the desert that the temperature was exactly 110 degrees farenheit.
       The city lay along the banks of a wide, clear river in a fertile valley. Plants grew in abundance and people went about their daily business.
       The teenagers looked around as they walked up one of the main streets, passing merchants hawking wares and food. The people were fairly dark-skinned and dark-haired. They wore loose-fitting garments made from a rough fabric. Among the crowd Adonai noticed people dressed in black from head to toe. Their clothes were tighter and only their eyes showed through a break in the fabric that was wrapped around their heads. They carried large arabic-looking broadswords. He was about to turn and mention to his friends that they might want to stay away from them when he saw his sister approach one of them.
       "Excuse me, could you direct us to the person in charge?" she asked in her usual, sweet tone of voice. The masked man looked at her funny.
       "Soma...." Ado grumbled.
       "The Emporer resides in the Palace," the man replied.
       Korosette popped up next to Soma. "Where exactly are we?"
       "In the market district."
       "Um, no. I mean, what planet are we...?" she was cut off as Adonai covered her mouth.
       "That's enough, Koro."
       "Are you aliens?" the man asked.
       Kashtan laughed as he noticed how differnet his colorful friends looked from the locals. "What makes ya think that?"
       "Follow me. I shall escort you to the palace."
       "Thank you so much!" Soma cheered.
       Ado rolled his eyes and pulled his sister aside. "You cannot be so trusting, Soma."
       "He seemed nice..." she pouted. Okano furrowed his brows.
       They followed the Imperial guard to the Palace.

*
       In the throne room under a high, vaulted ceiling and on a throne made of a lusterous platinum-colored metal, sat the Emporer. His head was as shiney as the throne and his girth fit it snugly. He rolled a ring made of the same metal around his index finger with his thumb nervously and stroked his long beard with the other hand.
       "Well? What does it say!" he barked at a woman wearing a fine, linen cloak that obscured her face. In front of him, she passed her hands over a wooden bowel filled with hot water and various herbs and animal parts. The Emporer waved his hand in front of his nose. "Hurry! That smells horrible!" The sooth sayer spoke.
       "Emporer, the day shall come
       When in a golden flame
       Your reign will be undone
       By the one who knows your name."
       "Damn it all!" he roard and stood up. The sooth sayer remained in her pose.
       "Sire, what I see, I see."
       He slumped down into his throne again. The sound of footsteps made him look up. "Ah! Yaffa. Report."
       "Emporer Donburi. I have brought you the man called Vegeta from the planet Earth. He is sedated."
       "Very good."
       Yaffa paused.
       "You are DISMISSED."
       "Sire, you promised you would let them go..."
       "I do what I like!" he barked. "Your service to me has not ended. My guard has just informed me that you were followed by another ship and five aliens are on their way here as we speak."
       Yaffa's eyes bulged. 'Adonai!'
       "Yaffa, do not concern yourself with anything but service to your Lord." The Emporer warned. "You are dismissed. For now."
       When she had left the room, the sooth sayer spoke up. "Sire, if she is so irksome, why do you continue to keep her as a slave to you?"
       "It amuses me." He grinned again. The grin grew into an evil laugh. "I don't care how ridiculously powerfull the Prince may have gotten since last I saw him. Soon I will kill Vegeta myself and nothing will stand in the way of my greatness!"
       The sooth sayer bowed her head, but said nothing more. The cloak obscured any reaction she might have had to his proclaimation.

*
FIFTY YEARS AGO

       It had taken decades to build Bistro-sei into a decent habitat for its new inhabitants. Donburi's Palace took the longest to construct. It was immense and carved by lazers from the living rock. He strode down its corridors to an elaborate bedroom only he was allowed access to. Inside, on a bed, was a cryogenic chamber.
       Donburi ran a finger along the glass, still fogged up from the freezing process. The figure inside was almost imperceptable but defintily feminine.
       "Tonight my dear," he whispered. "You shall awaken and rule along side me. Would you like that, Viceroy?" Looking out the tall windows at the stars, he was suddenly reminded of an appointment and quickly left the room.

       In the throne room a young woman wearing a long cloak bowed before the be-tailed monarch.
       "What do you see?" Donburi asked in a hushed and reverent tone.
       She muttered and incanted spells over a pot of bubling magical ingrediants.
       "Emporer, the day shall come
       When in a golden flame
       Your reign will be undone
       By the one who knows your name."
       Donburi furrowed his brows and rubbed his thick lips with his forefinger. "So... what does that mean exactly?"
       "What I see, I see."
       "Rubbish!" he screamed and ran a hand over his balding head. "Tell me if you value your life!" Donburi tried to sound as frightening as possible "Or I shall show you tailless weaklings my power!"
       The sooth sayer bowed. "It seems that the person who knows your secret will be your undoing."
       "Eh.. what secret?" he asked nervously.
       "I would assume you have changed your name?"
       "Ah! Yes. That's it. But no one alive could possibly know that!" Donburi's heart went into his throat. 'The Viceroy!' he thought. 'She knows my Saiyan name! If I wake her up I'm done for! This profesy will come true and all I have will be gone!' He laboured over this issue for a few hours before returning to the room.
       "I'm sorry, my dear. This is for my own good." He lifted a sledgehammed up over his head and brought it down on the western wall of the room. He carved a niche out and placed the stasis chamber inside. "Perhaps when my fourtune changes we can be together. You'll still be young and beautiful, just like the last time I saw you, Kalifura." He kissed his fingers and touched them to the foggy glass before sealing her in.

*
PRESENT DAY: BISTRO-SEI

       The kids followed the guard up the steps to the Palace. Adonai wasn't the only one who noticed that more and more guards appeared to 'escort' them as they got closer.
       "Man, I don't like this!" Kashtan whispered to his cousin.
       "Yeah, it pretty much sucks. I'm not detecting too hefty Ki power from anyone, but that doesn't mean they're not sitting on it."
       Kash nodded.
       "Relax," Adonai hissed. "Leave everything to me. Make sure the girls don't get hurt."
       This didn't comfort Soma at all. She clung to Koro's arm as they walked up the steps.
*
       "Welcome to Bistro-sei!" a large, bald man with a bulky middle threw his arms out wide in greeting. The crown on his shiny head seemed out of place, but by the way the rest of the Bistro-jin around him acted, he must have been their leader. "I am Emporer Donburi. We receive so few visitors to our world and..."
       "Where's Vegeta?" Adonai blurted.
       The others struggled to stay balanaced. Okano noticed that a few of the gaurds had a similar reaction.
       "Uh... come again?"
       "My grandfather was taken to this planet by a woman named Yaffa. Where are they?"
       "I'm sorry!" the Emporer grinned and layed on the treacle. "I have no idea what you're talking about! But perhaps if you accept my hospitality we can find him for you!"
       Adonai narrowed his eyes.
       "That would be great!" Korosette stepped forward. "I appologize for my cousin's rudeness."
       "Cousin?" he asked. "You're related?"
       "Yeah, we sort of all are..."
       "To .. this Vegeta?"
       "In one way or another, yeah."
       "Well, then you must all be very anxious to find him. First, let us accomodate you!" He clapped his hands and servants escorted them to their quarters.

       Adonai, Okano and Kashtan were in one room next door to Soma and Korosette's. The first thing Adonai did, even before arguing with Okano was break down a hole in the wall between the two rooms.
       "Adonai! For fuck's sake your gonna get us thrown outta here!" Koro bellowed.
       He didn't answer. Instead he pushed a tall wardrobe in front of the hole. "All right, this is what happens. I'm going to look for Grandfather." He pointed at the boys. "You jokers, stay here. Anything happens to Soma, I kill you." Without waiting for an agreement, he left the room.
       "I'm sorry, Soma," Koro hissed. "I hate him." She grabbed her cousin's hand and headed out into the hall. "Ok, boys. You go that way. We'll go this way."
       "What!?" Kashtan and Okano both exclaimed.
       "We'll spit up. We can cover more ground this way. Ado is right about one thing: that fat, bald jerk Donburi is hiding something. I gotta feeling Grandfather is in this palace somewhere. We'll go snooping and meet back here in an hour."
       "But but but...!" Kashtan stuttered.
       "Oh what are you so afraid of!? You're a Super Saiyan for cryin' out loud!"
       "Oh yeah!" Kash grinned and before he could argue again, the girls were gone.
       Okano reached out his hand. "Soma, wait!"
       Kash raised a brow. "They're gone already."
       "Shit."
       "Come on." Kash went back into the room.
       "We should go after the girls!" Okano suggested.
       "Pfffff," his cousin scoffed. "Korosette's invincable. Let's think of a plan, go out there, find Vegeta and get the hell outta this creepy place."
       "You mean, have ME come up with a plan, you lazy bastard."
       "Well, YEAH!" Kash laughed and put his hands behind his head. He found a nice spot against the wall next to a wardrobe and leaned back. Already weakened by Adonai's make-shift passage-way, the wall collapsed and Kashtan fell into it.
       When Okano recovered from laughing himself silly, he walked over to give him a hand. "You are so predicable!" he chuckled.
       "Dude, there's something in here..." Kash whispered. Okano blinked at the tall, bubble-like object in the cavity of the wall. It was dusty so Kashtan wiped the glass cover. "Maybe it's Vegeta!"
       "It's been in there a long time, Kash. And it's probably been sealed up in there for a reason."
       "Yeah, well..." Kash began. An electronic voice barked out briefly from a tiny speaker in a language they didn't understand. <<"Auto-wake innitiated. Defrost time in 3.7 cycles,">> The boys looked at each other and bolted out of the room.

*
       Soma and Korosette sneaked down hallways and into rooms looking for any clues as to Vegeta's whereabouts, but came up empty handed. They were about to double back to meet up with the boys when they ran into trouble.
       "You're supposed to be in your guest quarters. Emporer Donburi's orders!"
       "Uh..." Korosette thought fast. "Well, my friend here had to use the little girls' room and..." The soldiers took a step closer. "Guess your not gonna buy that, huh?" One of them licked his lips. "Ok, that's gross."
       Soma stared at the men, frozen in place. She had never once been in danger and didn't know how to react. Her cousin grabbed her hand and tried to run, but the other guard stopped her. The lip-licker grabbed Soma around the waist and wagged his tongue at her. "Please don't!" she cried.
       "Soma!" Koro struggled in the guard's grip.
       As the man moved in to touch her, Soma dissappeared. All three people blinked.
*
       Soma opened her eyes. She was standing in the same place, but everyone was gone. She took in a deep breath and lowered her head. She knew exactly what had happened, even though it had never happened to her before.
*
       Korosette started to hyperventillate as the licker moved towards her.
       "Hey, Chawan, that's not appropriate behavior," his comrade suggested.
       "Aw, come on, Osho. I never get to have any fun!"
       "Don't you even THINK about... LICKING ME!" Koro squirmed. Suddenly Soma appeared in front of her, grabbed her arm and just as suddenly the men were gone. "How the.. what the... huh?!" Korosette looked around feverishly. "Did we just Shunkan Ido or something?"
       "No. I folded space." Soma started walking back to the rooms. "Once we get back to the boys, I'll unfold it again and we'll be back with them."
       "So..." Koro jogged to catch up. "Where are we?"
       "In the palace, in another dimension. It's virtually empty here."
       "I see... Um, Soma? How long have you been able to do this?"
       "About two minutes!" the girl giggled. "Moma always said that Adonai and I were special cause we were born between the worlds. I guess this is my special power!"
       "You think Ado can do this?"
       "If he can, he doesn't know it yet." She became serious "We must find him. We must find Grandfather Vegeta and get out of here."
Koro nodded and followed her.

*
       A guard slouched to the ground under Adonai's fist. He narrowed his eyes and creapt around a corner. Just inside the next room he could see the feet of a body lying on a table. There were Capsule Logos on the soles of the boots.
       "Grandfather." Ado hissed and waited for an oppertunity.
       "Hold it right there!" A voice called out.
       "Shhhit." He turned around and faced the guards. "Look guys. I don't want to kill you, but I will."
       "It's all right," a woman with plum-colored hair sticking out of her head-wrap stepped forward. "He's not a threat." She waved the other soldiers off and pulled her mask down.
       "Yaffa!" Ado growled and grabbed her. "You've got some serious explaining to do!"
       "You're in no position to be making demands, Ado. I could scream and have the whole palace here in a second."
       "And I could kill everyone in this place in a second. Why did you kidnap my grandfather?!"
       "I don't have much time to explain. I'm on your side. Donburi forced me to..." she cut off as she saw another contigent of Imperial guards coming towards them. "I'm sorry..." she whispered and stabbed him with a needle she had hidden in her sleave. "Again."
       Ado slumped to the ground.
       "Good job, Yaffa!" Donburi cheered as he approached. "Now I have the Prince and the grandson. The others are being rounded up as we speak. We'll have a grand execution this evening. It'll be spectacular!"
       "Execution!?" she gasped.
       "Oh, does that make you sad, Yaffa? Did you like him?" he laughed. "Then you should be my attendant for the ceremony!"
       "What!?"
       "You protest?"
       "Don't kill him, please!"
       "Would you rather I kill your mother, father and little sister instead?"
       Yaffa gnashed her teeth. "No, sire."
       Donburi laughed as they hauled Adonai away. Yaffa sat on the floor and hung her head.

*
       <<"Defrost complete.">>
       The pod's lid hissed as it decompressed and opened. Inside, the Viceroy breathed lightly. Her gown was in the same condition as it was 73 years ago. Her skin was un-ravaged by the affects of time, but the effects of stasis had changed her black hair to pure white. Her eyes fluttered open. "Bejiita..."

*
       Kash and Okano jogged around a corner and leaned against a wall.
       "Do you think they saw us?
       "Nah." Kash panted. "Damnit. Why can't we just crack skulls along the way!? I'm getting tired of hiding from these guys. They're so weak too!"
       "I know, I know," Okano comforted his cousin. "We don't know for sure that they're the enemy though."
       "This sucks."
       "Well, we got a half an hour. Let's take a break."
       They slid against the wall and sat down. The boys hadn't relaxed for five minutes before another group of soldiers found them. The preparied to run away, but the men seemed to be interested in something out of sight down another hallway. They muttered to themselves.
       Okano and Kashtan exchanged puzzled looks. The soldiers pointed and shouted in unison. "GHOST!!!" They ran back where they came from.
       "Ghost?" Okano asked. Then it rouned the corner.
       The woman was dressed in violet. Her hair was dischevled and errily white. Her eyes were half open. "Bejiita..." she moaned.
       "Zoinks!" Kashtan panicked. "They were right!!!" the boys screamed and ran after the guards.

       Okano slowed down. "Dude, wait. Did she say Vegeta?"
       "Maybe, who cares! I'm not waitin around to get my brain chewed on!"
       Okano stopped. "I thought she was a ghost, not a zombie?"
       Kashtan ran in place. "Who cares, man? I'm getting the hell outta her way!"
       Okano was on the verge of making him double back when Soma and Korosette appeared out of nowhere.
       "AHHHHHHHHH!!!!" Kashtan screamed. Koro slapped him. "Thanks. Where the hell did you come from?"
       "Earth, and I'd like to get back there. Have you found out anything?"
       Kashtan stopped running in place. "Well, there's something weird buried in the wall in our room and there's a ghost chasing us."
       "You've been watching way too much Scooby Doo."
       "He's right, well, maybe not about the ghost." Okano nodded. "I think we should try to talk to her."
       "Are you nuts!? She's gonna eat my brain!!!!"
       Okano motioned to Korosette who slapped Kash again.
       "Thanks. I needed that."
       "Why do you want to talk to a ghost?" Soma asked.
       "She said 'Vegeta.'
       "Nonono," Kash corrected. "It was like this; 'Bayjeetah' not 'Vuhjeeta.'"
       Soma made a face and lead the way.

*

END PART THREE
Will they save Adonai and Vegeta!? Find out in the conclusion, DBAD GZ Part FOUR! Coming soon!

ha I so lied... here's what I had planned for the end of the series...

Soma, Koro, Kash and Okano look for the 'ghost' and Adonai. They run into Yaffa who tells them where Adonai and Vegeta are, about the execution, where the antidote to the drug is then has to hurry off. Soma folds space, administers the antidote, wakes the men and all of them proceed to the throne room. Meanwhile, Kalifura, still a bit bleary has the same idea. She confronts donburi who still has his tail and is the only one who knows how to throw ki. He blasts her against a wall, knocking her out. Enter Vegeta and co. When Veg announces who he is, the sooth-sayer grins and says that at last the prophecy will come true. Donburi argues that he would be the winner, but the sooth sayer says he made it up just to get D to go looking for the prince who would surely usurp him. Vegeta prepares to kill him, still not aware that everyone is Saiyajin, not just D. Kalifura's blast shoots by him and does the job first. She walks to the throne, cursing D's body as she kicks it out of the way. The older guards prostrate themselves. Vegeta stares blankly. Mother and son both come to understand what has happened. Everyone but V go back to earth. ... oh hey, look I wrote something!

heeee....

Bulma goes back to Bistro-sei to help out the new Saiyajin empire to grow technologically. Adonai mopes. Soma tells him that now is his time. He smiles and concentrates. He folds space and shows up in the courtyard on Bistro-sei where Yaffa has stopped to look up at the sky.
~ original ending - most of my fics really have dark endings... example, 'Fumetsu No' was supposed to end with the world being uncreated by 18's wish...> Soma and her cousin Okano get closer. Adonai catches them kissing and threatens to kill Okano. Soma takes him away with her through the dimensions where they hide for a few days. Meanwhile, in Dibad, Atsuko is dying. The Cymmian atmosphere has left a blood disease in her system that has finally caught up with her. She calls the members of her family together. Goddess Mira finds Soma and Okano. Rojan explains that Rasha marry their relatives. Sisters and brothers even [which explains to everyone why Gosan and Go-chan can't seem to find mates!] Everyone makes up as Atsuko dies peacefully.

this saga was my baby. it's over 250 pages long total not counting DBAD 1/2!. I love Atsuko, but everybody's got to go sometime... please don't feel bad. She dies surrounded by her large family and they all know how much she loves them...
End. -aks

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