Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

Future And Present Collide

Chayote, accompanied by Lapis and Lazuli, swept through the floors using the elevator shaft in a downward plunge to the ground floor. When the three landed, emitting a powerful shock wave and shaking the ground underneath their feet, enough so that the resulting quake blew the bottom floor elevator door down its hinges, the sight of a decimated ground floor met them.

"Whoever was here, there's a guy that knows how to have fun..." Lapis whistled to himself, fixing his tie after the intense dive.

"These were innocent men! My men!" Chayote clenched her fists, lighting up with an emerald outline as her body pumped with vigor, enlarging her bulk by a few degrees.

"Chayote..." Bulma covered up before noticing something peculiar near the hole in the building. "Look, it's Krillin and Yamcha!"

The fact that they found some familiar faces, battered and bruised but alive, calmed Chayote down for the moment. Bulma rushed up to them. Krillin appeared to be in a worse condition while Yamcha took a few mean bumps but still appeared capable of protecting himself and, preferably, Bulma.

"We're wasting time here," Lapis ran his hand through his hair. "The guy who did this is just doing whatever he wants at this point while we're stuck on babysitting duty."

"21..." Krillin panted out. Lapis and Lazuli turned to the beaten shorty as if boiling water had scolded them. Lazuli picked the short stuff off the ground to her eye level and wound up a punch as if threatening to punch his head off if he didn't explain himself for uttering that number.

"The guy that... Did this... He's after someone... Called 21..." Krillin explained himself. Lazuli's grip softened, and she carelessly flung the bald fighter aside.

"Leave Bulma with these guys, one of them looks like he'll be able to help, at least." Lazuli addressed Chayote. "If that scumbag kills Dr. Puri, it's all over for the entire world!"

"Yamcha, take care of Bulma for us." Chayote handed Bulma over to Yamcha. While the blue-haired prodigy inventor appeared to be okay with Chayote handling her before, she wriggled out of Yamcha's grip and dusted off her dress, giving the oaf a mean look while Yamcha chuckled with a goofy expression on his face and tried excusing himself for having touched his ex-girlfriend, even if it was because of the spur-of-the-moment thing.

"I can sense his Ki. He's moving up the floors really fast. We can still intercept him." Chayote explained.

"We can't sense Ki, you lead the way," Lapis replied.

"And remember that everyone's in for an agonizing death if we cannot stop him." Lazuli twisted her lips upward, showing her pearly whites in a twisted crescent position. "No pressure though."

The three took off at once, Chayote first, enveloped in a salad-green aura while the pair of her spontaneous companions followed suit with no auras of their own, though, despite sensible irradiating Ki, they seemed able to keep up with Chayote, if not look a bit irked she wasn't much faster than this. The three blasted off to the outside of the skyscraper and spun around it like ethereal spring coils while Chayote scanned for the best place to bust through the building to intercept the enemy.

"Who was that?" Yamcha pointed at Chayote and her two assistants. "They could keep up with Chayote so easily. How come?"

"Damn it... Crazy guys popping up left and right..." Krillin cursed, barely able to stand back up on his feet.

"Those were Dr. Puri's assistants. It didn't appear so but they also serve as her muscle, it looks like." Bulma explained. "Who was it that attacked you?"

"Who knows?" Yamcha shrugged. "The guy showed up out of the blue, in a raging cerulean lightning storm in a Capsule Corps rocket ship. Then he just took off and started wasting people. Initially, he seemed to not care about us a lot but when we tried to stop him, he fought back."