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Dragon
Ball New Generation
The Ii-Shenron Saga
Chapter
20 - A Race Against Evil
"Here
they are!"
Everyone turned around to see Sage descend from the sky holding
Piccolo over his shoulder. Sage placed him gently on the
ground and stood up.
"He seems okay except for his arms."
"Poor boy!" Popo exclaimed when he saw his
injuries. Dende quickly asked for Sage to bring him inside
the Lookout so he could treat him with some old Namekseijin
medicine.
"It'll be okay Piccolo." they told him.
After
he was gone, the remaining people outside talked about what to
do next.
"Should we go challenge him again?"
"Isn't it too dangerous?"
"What about the Saiya-jin?"
"I can handle it."
"No you can't."
The talking continued until Pastri and Linni exited the Room of
Time and Spirit.
"What are you all chatting about?" Linni inquired.
"Oh you're both finished!" Hazell exclaimed. She
then updated them with the latest happenings.
"Is Piccolo okay?" Pastri asked.
"He will be. Dende is tending to him now."
Android 18 told them.
"So what are we going to do about Ii-Shenron now? Who
knows what he's up too..."
"He's out to find the Dragon Balls..." came a
reply. They turned around to see Dende walking outside
with Shin Piccolo. They were all surprised to see his arms
okay.
"So I see you know how to regenerate now." said Android
18.
"Wow...wouldn't that be useful." Rue laughed.
Piccolo smiled.
"I didn't know Nameks could do that! Dende told me
how to do it." His face then grew hard. "Now to
more important things. Ii-Shenron is after the Dragon
Balls now."
"WHAT??!!!"
"Are you sure?"
"I thought he was after the Saiya-jin?"
"Not anymore. He wants to be invincible, but he needs
the Dragon Balls first."
"That's terrible!" Pastri cried.
"We must get those Dragon Balls before he does, but
how?" wondered Thyme.
Dende placed a hand on Piccolo's shoulder.
"The answer is right here. Piccolo can sense the
Dragon Balls. He can help."
Piccolo smiled, and hope was restored.
"Okay, then." Android 18 started, "Hazell and I
will enter the Room now and the rest of you do something about
those Dragon Balls."
They all agreed. Android 18 and Hazell entered the Room,
and Piccolo, Rue, Sage, Thyme, Linni and Pastri went in search
of the Dragon Balls.
"Please be careful. I couldn't stand it if you all
get hurt." Popo told them.
The group flew off.
"Okay Piccolo do your stuff!" Sage said.
Piccolo closed his eyes and concentrated. After a few
seconds, he opened his eyes and turned to them.
"There is one in the east over there," he pointed,
"I think ten kilometers away."
Then a sudden energy vibe hit them and they realized it was Ii-Shenron.
"We better be careful." Linni said.
"And we better hurry!" Pastri added.
***
A
few hours later, the two teams had tracked down the Dragon
Balls. The bad news was that Ii had tracked down five of
them. The other two were in the safe keep of the heroes.
"Where
are the other two Dragon Balls?!" Ii growled.
He knew that the kids had found them somehow.
Probably because of the Namek, he thought.
"I have to find them, and when I do, I will kill them
slowly for doing this to me! I will track them
down..."
Ii was about to fly off when he felt it. A couple of
energies. He laughed at the young fighters mistake.
"Dumb humans...you think they'll try to escape me by foot,
but they fly instead so I can feel their energy."
Ii flew off towards them.
"Its that kind of thinking that will get them killed.
Preferably by me!"
***
"What are we going to do? Ii has five of them."
said Thyme.
"At least he doesn't have all seven" Rue told his
friend. They nodded to the good news. When were
about to head back to the Lookout when they sensed it.
"Its Ii-Shenron!" Pastri cried.
"How did he know we were also tracking down the Dragon
Balls?!" asked Rue.
"It doesn't matter. All that matters is that he
doesn't get his hands on the other two remaining Dragon
Balls." Piccolo told them all.
Sage looked around and snatched the balls out of Thyme's hands
and handed them to Pastri and Linni.
"What are you doing Sage?" Thyme asked.
"You both take the balls and get out of here. The
rest of us will keep Ii at bay. It should buy you enough
time."
"Are you crazy?" Linni exclaimed.
"Hate to say it, but it might be the only way."
Piccolo turned to the girls.
"Take the Dragon Balls and go! Make sure to keep your
power levels suppressed so Ii doesn't sense you. I think
that was our mistake."
Linni and Pastri weren't sure about this, and Rue, who could
sense Ii's speed told them to go now. For their sake, the
two girls flew off as fast as they could.
"Be careful!" Piccolo called after them.
The
four remaining fighters waited for Ii to show up. When he
did, Ii laughed once again at their mistakes.
"You all finally understand that you can't run away from
me?" he turned to Piccolo, "And you're back for some
more? Piccolo...what a poor excuse for a warrior."
"We didn't wait here to talk Ii! We came here to
fight you!" Sage yelled.
Thyme pulled him aside.
"Calm down...the longer we draw this on, the better it'll
be for Linni and Pastri."
"That's right." Rue agreed.
"So
where are the Dragon Balls?"
The 4 fighters didn't answer.
"I know you have them..." Ii said, "If you don't
hand them over I will fight you to get the two Dragon
Balls."
"Over our dead bodies!" Rue yelled at him.
The wind began to blow, and Ii smirked at the four.
"That is the idea."
Ii charged at the four, and they got into their fighting stands
ready to take Ii's attacks on.
***
Pastri
and Linni were still flying, trying to go at a speed that Ii
couldn't sense them.
"Do you feel that Linni?"
"Yeah. Seems like the battle just
started."
The two girls stopped to look back, and the same wind began to
blow on them.
"I wish we could go help them."
"I know Pastri, but Piccolo and Sage are right. This
is the best way we can help them. We better hurry up and
get out of here."
The two began to continue in their flight.
"Right, we have to get these balls away from Ii as long as
possible."
***
The
four fought as much as they could. Piccolo seemed to do
better than the other three, but it was still the same. Ii
was too strong for them. He then remembered what happened
before, and fired energy blasts at him again. Ii
anticipated his moves and fired one of his own. It ate up
all of his ki attacks, and Ii fired it back at Piccolo.
Piccolo tried to block the energy, but it pushed him right into
the ground and left a huge crater on the Earth.
Sage, Thyme and Rue continued to fight, and Sage shot his
shining ray attack at the monster. Ii covered his eyes.
"So it was you."
Ii waited for the light to disappear and he appeared in front of
Sage to deliver a heavy punch to the gut. Sage was stunned
and couldn't move. He didn't anticipate this for he
thought his attack would've worked again. It did before.
Ii raised his arm with his fist clenched when from behind he
heard it. Thyme and Rue were charging up their own
attacks.
"Kame Hame Ha!!!"
The two energy attacks hit Ii straight at his back, but it
didn't phase him at all. The two boys were shocked as Ii
turned to them.
"Was that suppose to hurt?"
He then fired one of his attacks at them and it made a direct
hit. The two fell from the sky onto the ground. Sage
saw this and called their names out, but Ii already had turned
around and delivered the punch he was going to deliver to him
before. Sage fell from the sky and landed in some bushes.
"That wasn't so difficult." Ii boasted.
Piccolo then appeared out of the rubble he landed in and
quickly fired some more attacks at him. Sage, Thyme and
Rue also got up and followed Piccolo's suit. When they
stopped, they waited for the smoke to disappear, but of the
smoke stood Ii-Shenron.
"This is no use." Rue confessed.
"How could he take all those attacks?" Thyme asked,
not expecting an answer.
"What a menacing monster..." Piccolo murmured.
Ii looked down at the boys.
"Was that you're best shot? Now here's mine."
Ii quickly powered up and a ki sphere appeared around his
body. He yelled and the ki expanded until it surrounded
them all.
The attack was too vast. They couldn't get out in
time. The boys all yelled as the energy enveloped their
bodies. There was a huge explosion and Ii looked at the
four bodies unconscious on the ground.
"Good riddance. They probably don't have the Dragon
Balls. If they did, the five I have here would've reacted
to them. Maybe they were trying to stall me, so then they
must know where they are! Wherever they are, I will find
them!" and with that Ii was gone.
Piccolo struggled to raise his head off the dirty ground and
spoke,
"Linni...Pastri...." and then he collapsed like the other
three brave fighters on the ground.
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