Super Dragon Ball: Paradise Hysteria

A Hero's Comeback

At long last, Planet Earth has seen the last of the Machine Mutant invasion threat as the final blinking red light on the determinative drone fighting to their final signal compelling them to keep going went out. Chayote hovered above a smoldering wasteland where she once was sure there were villages and small towns. Now it was all cluttered with scrap of some sort of thrashed alien robots.

This was quite the sight to awaken to, but, at the very least, based on what Kami Upa and Dende told her, the others did a fine job at repelling the alien invasion. It wasn't like Chayote was all that shocked. By this point, they were getting superb at this. They've been repelling alien invasions ever since Bardock's crew first crash-landed on Earth. Machine Mutants were just another bunch to add to the list.

It was surprising to see how much damage they inflicted on the planet. Obviously, it was nothing even remotely close to the devastation after the Android Conflict, but this might have just made it all worse. When the planet was just jagged rocks and bottomless falls straight into the boiling mantle, Mr. Popo had to employ his terraforming magic to fix the planet's surface and restore its nature. Meanwhile, devastated cities on perfectly intact land required much more manual effort from people. Papaya Island was just recently fixed and opened for business after the Tournament of Doom that seemed like forever and a half ago.

There were so many bread crumbles for Chayote to pick up. She was fortunate that her immediate need to see if her son was okay just so happened to coincide with the nexus point of the activity of her friends. Everyone seemed to center in West City, at the Capsule Corps. Chayote could sense the Ki of Piccolo, Krillin, Yamcha, Tenshinhan, and even Yajirobe. Things must've gotten bad if even Yajirobe got involved. Burning with the want to hold her son again, Chayote pressed her elbows to her sides and blasted off in a rapid burst toward West City, taking no time at all to hover above a relatively untouched by the warfare metropolis.

Maybe it was wrong taking the long way around the world, but Chayote wanted to see the extent of the destruction she slept through by herself. Based on what Kami Upa told her, it was entirely transfixed on the eastern side of the globe with the Machine Mutant army landing directly in Orange City and leveling it to the ground. Chayote nearly lost it when she first heard it, it was wise of Kami Upa to tell her that Navy was with Bulma on the opposite side of the planet at the time before telling her that the invaders reduced their hometown to pebble-spewing, tremorous craters.

"Well, well, if it isn't Chayote..." Lapis looked up at the approaching Saiyan with an emotionless look. He seemed to have a few scrapes decorating his face and tears over his outfit and jeans but otherwise looked okay. Based on the diminished Ki signatures of the rest deeper inside Bulma's business complex, the rest were far worse for wear.

"You should be proud of that kid you trained. She took initiative and gathered the Dragon Balls to restore your body to prime shape," Bardock, who also didn't seem too badly bruised, walked out from behind a small warehouse, waving hello to Chayote. With the Saiyan berserker wearing a sleeveless shirt underneath a short-sleeved Hawaiian shirt, all of his cybernetic enhancements were visible to the naked eye on top of the few bandaged spots across his body, where he suffered some damage.

"Videl," Chayote muttered. "Is she okay?"

"Chayote-san!" Videl's shriek sort of answered that question as the brat straight-up crashed into Chayote with a mad tackle. Trunks and Bulma followed them shortly after. "When you didn't show up for so long after we asked the Divine Dragon to heal you, we were so worried!"

"Relax, kid, you did good. I sort of had to bust out of that stone shell like a hatchling chicken, and it took some time. I had some serious stone bed sores to work through, you know," Chayote smirked, gently nuzzling Videl's back and calming her down.