Spirit - Another Dragon Ball Fanfiction

Chapter 76: Showdown With A Sniper

The three Turtle School students helped set Master Roshi down on a rock. "Ow, ow, ow, ow..." Master Roshi muttered. "Are you alright, Master Roshi?" Goku asked. Master Roshi nodded. "I will be, with some rest. Now, you boys go on. Stop fretting over me." Goku, Yamcha, and Krillin all stood still for a moment. "Go on!" The three of them blinked, then nodded. "Sure thing." Yamcha replied. Goku used Instant Transmission to go off while Yamcha turned towards Krillin. "C'mon, buddy. We should go, too." Krillin nodded, smiling. "How about we go check on Tien Shinhan?" Yamcha shrugged, smirking. "OK, sounds good- look out!" He tackled Krillin and Master Roshi as a thin blue beam of energy narrowly missed Krillin's face. They cautiously stood up, looking around frantically. "Where did that come from?!" Krillin exclaimed. Tien landed nearby, and Yamcha faced him. "Well, speak of the devil." Tien smiled. "Yamcha, Krillin, glad to see you two still up and about." He looked at Master Roshi. "Master Roshi, I'm happy to see that you're alright. You had me worried for a second." Master Roshi chuckled. "I had everybody worried for a second, apparently. Don't you start worrying too much about me, now. I'll be fine. You three go and find our attacker." All three of them nodded and dashed away to seek out the sniper. 

They dodged a few more energy shots, eventually finding cover behind a large boulder. Yamcha glanced back at his friends. "Alright, guys, let's see what we can do here." He took a step forward without looking and almost ran straight into Gohan. "Oh! Hey, Gohan! Piccolo, did you two also get attacked by our sniper?" Piccolo frowned, folding his arms and glancing over his shoulder. "You might say that." "Well, what's our next move?" Krillin asked Piccolo. The Namekian scoffed. "Why are you asking me specifically?" Krillin raised his hands. "Well, you're the best strategist here!" Tien grimaced as he studied the surrounding area. "Hmmm..." Piccolo seemed to get an idea. "Wait. I've got a plan." Yamcha rolled his hand in a go on gesture. "Yeah?" A small grin spread across Piccolo's face. "Here's what we're going to do." 

"Are you ready, Gohan?" "Yes." "Then let's do it." "Right!" Gohan hid on his perch atop a chunk of rock on the fighting stage and waited as hundreds of tiny pink lights hovered around the fighting stage, looking for any victims to attack with a blue blast of energy. Piccolo had explained that the tiny lights reflected an energy blast that was shot by someone. They had to find that person and take him out. Everyone waited patiently, until finally an orb got right into the spot where Piccolo wanted it to be in. He reeled his arm back, then swung it forward, and thanks to him being a Namekian he was able to stretch his limbs to an incredible length. Piccolo's arm stretched more and more until it finally hit one orb. The blue blast was fired and almost hit Piccolo's arm, but he retracted it just in time. He looked at Gohan. "Well?" Gohan looked down at Piccolo. "I saw it!" He pointed. "It came from that way." Piccolo nodded. "OK." He faced the Earthlings. "Keep your energy hidden and we'll approach." "There aren't many places to hide on the way there. We'll be wide open." Krillin brought up. Piccolo smirked. "We'll see about that. Yamcha! Pick up that boulder there." "Um, OK." Yamcha hefted a large chunk of rock up. "Now toss it." "Alright. Here goes!" Yamcha threw it forward, and once it sailed a fair distance, Piccolo shot an energy blast and the rock burst, sending dust everywhere. Tien nodded. "I see." Piccolo nodded. "Let's move!" 

They slowly walked through the smoke, keeping their guard up and watching for any signs of a threat. Piccolo stopped. "Hold on." "What is it, Piccolo?" Gohan asked. Piccolo bent down, picking up a pink orb that fit in the palm of his hand. "He might've been using this to keep track of our movements." Suddenly, Krillin pointed upwards. "Look. There's another one up there." Everyone saw it hovering down out of the smoke. Suddenly, both orbs turned gold, and another blast of energy hit the one in the air and rocketed down towards the group. They all jumped away quickly, and Piccolo grimaced at the orb he was holding. "So these have the ability to search for our location, huh?" He tossed away the orb. But as he did, the orb appeared to shatter and vanish. Piccolo glanced down at his hand. "Heat signatures?" Another blast came at them, and Gohan turned and looked at it in surprise. "Huh?"  

Both Omni-Kings studied the area where the group was located in, looking a little confused. "They haven't moved in a while over there." Future Zen-Oh said, pointing at the area. "I wonder what's wrong." Zen-Oh said. "It appears a sniper is lurking." Grand Minister revealed. "A sniper?" Zen-Oh asked. "Yes." Grand Minister replied, "Someone who hides and shoots enemies from far away." "Wow. Snipers are amazing!" Zen-Oh remarked. "Yeah, amazing!" Future Zen-Oh agreed. 

Marorizu studied the body of an unconscious pig-like humanoid who was from Universe 6. "Hmmm. That gunshot-like sound from before..." "Hey, Marorizu!" She looked up to see Goku and Vegeta walking up to her. "Why are you slacking off, sister?" Marorizu's eyes widened. "Get down, you two! There's an invisible sniper around here!" Vegeta scoffed. "That's laughable. All we have to do is dodge-" An energy shot whizzed past his face and hit the ground in front of him. Both Goku and Vegeta jumped back and got down on their stomachs. "Where is that guy shooting from?" Goku exclaimed. "Hmph! Some warrior that person is, if they're resorting to such a cowardly tactic!" Vegeta remarked. He slammed his fist into the ground. "What an annoying enemy!" 

"P-Piccolo!" Gohan exclaimed as he stared at his mentor, who was now quite literally unarmed. Piccolo grunted in pain, but he managed a smirk and glanced at Gohan. "You OK?" "Yeah, but what about you?" Piccolo grimaced again, shouting in effort, and then he just grew new arms. Then, he turned towards Gohan, Krillin, and Yamcha. Tien wasn't present due to having gone off on his own, though he said he had a plan. "Looks like I was right: he's using our own heat signatures against us." "Our body heat?" Krillin asked, "We can hide our energy, but we can't hide that." Piccolo smirked. "I know. Fortunately..." He fired a beam of energy at a rock, and while the beam didn't destroy the rock, it did heat it up. "What we can do is heat up our surroundings to confuse our enemy." Everyone began to follow Piccolo's example, heating up the rocks around them. But after a few moments of tense silence, hundreds of blue lasers began waving all over the place. "Yikes!" Yamcha narrowly avoided several. "Is he...?" Piccolo began to ask. Gohan finished the thought: "Is he eliminating our places to hide?!"