The Female Warrior

Chapter 10 - Pinball of Death

DO NOT OWN DRAGONBALL; ALL characters and scenes belong to their respective owners, Akira Toriyama and Toei Animation. I only own the scenes and people not correlated into the canon series.

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(y/n)'s pov

As we run down the hallway, I glance at the walls in an attempt to find an exit. I soon hear what sounds like other voices talking and slow down. Goku follows suit, and soon everyone else stops too. In the forked hallway ahead, Emperor Pilaf and his gang come around the corner.

We all stare at each other like deer in headlights before Bulma points at Pilaf. "Have you made your wish?" Emperor Pilaf stiffly shakes his head no as sweat runs down his face.

Goku immediately pulls out his powerpole, pointing to Pilaf with two fingers with his pole held at the ready. "Give me back my grandpa!" Pilaf and his gang shriek before running away, their hands flailing in the air. Yamcha points after them. "Quick, get 'em!" Everyone bursts forward, rushing after them.

Goku and I run side by side, gaining a lead on the others. However, at the end of the hallway there are four different passageways. Bulma looks at each passage. "Now which way!?" Yamcha looks at the passages, dumbfounded. "Uh, what do you think Goku?" Goku blinks. "Gee uh, I don't know!" I groan and rub a hand over my face. "Nothing is easy for us."

As soon as I glance at the passages again, the ground rumbles and a wall shoots out from behind us, knocking us into one of the passages. We all scream as we are launched into an arcade-themed room. As we hit the columns in the room, we all got bounced in different directions before pinging off of another beam. Just like pinball. I inwardly sigh as I continue to get bounced around.

My eyes open wide as I hear something coming at me so I plant my feet firmly, barely dodging a large pinball. The ball then continues to roll, hitting Goku. I then watch as the ball continues to roll around, seemingly trying to squash us. As I dodge it again, I try to think of a way out of here. Goku beats me to it by raising his fist and punching the pinball. This is deemed unsuccessful as Goku is sent flying into a wall, the ball rolling away to find a new target.

I get up to go help him when Yamcha whistles for us. I turn his way and notice him and the others leaving through an archway. "Come on Goku and (y/n)! We're leaving!" I nod and run his way, Goku hot on my heels. In the hallway, we pause to let Bulma, Oolong and Puar catch their breath before running again, the pinball having followed us through the archway.

Bulma shrieks the whole time and I grit my teeth. Goku is doing the same, seeming frustrated that he couldn't punch it into oblivion.

We turn left and then right before finding ourselves on a downhill slope. Soon, there is a small cubey on the side that we jump into, the pinball speeding by us quickly. We all breathe in relief as Oolong shakes his fist out of the hole. "Take that you over-sized ball! You lose!"

It seems however that he spoke too soon as the ground rumbled and the pinball came back up the hill. We yelp in surprise and run deeper into the hole, finding out that it is a corridor. As we run, I feel Ivy's bracelet bouncing on my skin. Using it to give me strength, I continue to run faster, encouraging the others to do so as well.

Bulma furrows her brows at Oolong angrily. "You just had to open your mouth, didn't you!?" Oolong growls at her while running. "Well it's not my fault, I didn't know that the ball had an IQ!"

We continue to scream as we run before Oolong throws his hands in the air, on the verge of tears. "I don't want to die like this! I'm not wearing clean underwear." My face scrunches up in disgust as I move away from Oolong. We run farther and farther until we are hopping across uneven floors that looked like dominoes. We jump nimbly off of the last one before landing inside of a new room, one with red walls.