Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

Jump The Shark Some More, Won't You?

A young man with stylish shades led Videl and Trunks into their cell which was already occupied by a pair of colorful blobs that were shaped like a combo of eggs and upward rear cheeks with a pair of antennae sticking out from their heads. The green one dangled his legs like a child while the yellow one seemed to keep attention to the appearance of the police officer.

Although the yellow alien was wearing tinted glasses, Videl and Trunks could gather the fact that he was tracking them because his entire body had to turn in the direction that the alien was looking. Trunks pressed his back to the wall and crossed his arms.

"In you two go. Sit down right next to those two aliens and think about what you did, whatever that was..." the young police officer with dark shades and a stylish hoodlum cut pointed. Videl entered the cell but stayed next to the bars until officer Taro walked away and returned to watching a baseball game.

"So, when are we busting out?" Trunks pouted, pushing his back off the wall and pulling the rear of Videl's clothes as if it was his mother's skirt. "We've got all sorts of stuff to do, like finding the Dragon Balls, training, and traveling around the world. This is lame, I don't know why you didn't just beat those police officers up."

"Did you hear that, King Nikochan?" the yellow alien pointed at the two strange denizens of the cell with an alarmed look on his face. "These two human miscreants intend on busting out!"

"Do you realize what that means, King Nikochan's servant?" King Nikochan began rubbing his hand. "That means that we're busting out too! At long last, this planet that has put up remarkable resistance until this point will be ours!"

"No, this is fine," Videl looked back at Trunks once she confirmed that officer Taro was fully engrossed in his baseball game with a cigarette in his mouth, enjoying the high life of slacking off at work. "We're inside Penguin Village, right where we need to be. Now, all we need is to slip out from the cell and snag the Dragon Radar from the locker."

"What do you mean? I've got it right here..." Trunks scrounged around his pocket and pulled out the white round radar with a single button on the top side. He pressed the button, leading up to a single scanning ring passing through the radar's tracking field with no blinking dots.

"Didn't they take away your stuff before booking you?" Videl pressed her hands to her hips with a raised eyebrow. "They took away all of mine..."

"Sure, they tried, too bad for them I can move way faster than they can register, so I snagged the radar right out from their hands immediately after handing it over," Trunks gave Videl a peace sign with a lively grin on his face that was proud enough of Trunks' prowess for the both of them. "Hmm... That's odd. The Dragon Radar doesn't seem to pick anything up. I've never seen it acting like that."

"What!? You mean we landed here for no reason? You're telling me we got captured, and I handed some hick officer all my stuff for no reason!?" Videl grabbed her head, freaking out a little. "I thought you were keeping track of that thing! I can't believe it, that's it, from now on–I'm in charge of Dragon Ball tracking duty!"

"No way!" Trunks turned away, still clasping the radar in his hands while finicking around with the settings. "I'm sure I just need to find the right... Zoom level... Whoa! It looks like the signal of all the Dragon Balls is gone. Like... It's as if there aren't any Dragon Balls around the world at all!"

"How is that possible?" Videl crossed her arms with an expression of disbelief. "Are you sure you know how to use that thing?"

"My mom invented it, doofus!" Trunks stuck his tongue out. "This can only be because of one of two reasons: either someone had used the Dragon Balls and they've gone inert, or the radar's busted. It's weird though, if someone would've collected the Dragon Balls, the sky would've gone dark. And the radar seemed to work just fine just fifteen minutes ago..."