A Troublesome Fiend Episode 2: Kidnapped!

[Vegeta]

Once Keishoumaru had come to and explained herself, Vegeta's brain started to work in high gear. Now that he had an idea of who to look for, he now had an idea who he was going to pummel next. Now it was a matter of figuring out how to find him. Sensing out a demonic presence would be like a needle in a haystack since over the decades the little pests had wormed their way from the Demon Realm and they were a healthy chunk of the Earth populace by now.

'Come on, any half-wit villain with a hostage leaves some way to track back...' Vegeta looked down at the device in his hand and turned it over this way and that. If he didn't have his own brats and a newfound grudge, he would snap at the woman that they didn't have to do a damn thing. Unfortunately, they were in this mess.

"Hn, as unlikely as it may seem considering we're in a temple, is there a mechanic here? Perhaps we can rig this to lead us to him or wherever his little workshop is. If the device is meant to indicate to her whether she's closer or not, it must have some sort of connecting signal."

If he had a more delicate touch and better knowledge of such things, he wouldn't bother hunting someone down to do it and do it himself. But he wanted it done right and without any issues, so he felt better about getting someone more oriented in such a craft. There was no way he would turn it over to Kakarot. His dark eyes glanced about each individual. None of them smelled like a grease monkey of any sort, but he couldn't be sure.

The tracking was not the only issue on his mind. There was more to this than simply kidnapping a child and pissing the mother off with the wrong folks. He remembered Sanzo noting that someone must have really had it out for them...But if that were the case, they would have done something much more substantial or more personal. Unless that was intended for later on. Vegeta's eyes narrowed. Something didn't add up.

[Son Goku]

Hmm...So it seems like it was all a big misunderstanding. That brought a smile on Goku's face. Things were much better when everyone got along and reconciled their misunderstandings. It looks like this Kaizen fellow was the one that set everything up, even Goku got that connection. But what surprised the tall warrior was Keishoumaru's comment on what Kaizen looked like. Someone who looked similar to Goku with white hair and horns...

"Wow, Vegeta. It looks like there's an evil demon me going around and kidnapping kids." Goku's face frowned in seriousness. He has met with evil look-alikes before. Turles came into mind, but he's dead and didn't have white hair or horns.

"His name is Kaizen, huh?" Goku smiled in anticipation, wondering if this one was a strong warrior that he would fight against.

"I wonder if the reason why he tricked Keishoumaru-san here was because he's too weak to face us one-on-one." Nonetheless, they definitely needed to find away to track him so they could get the kid. Goku couldn't sense any other large ki around that he wasn't familiar with, and that was troubling.

A sudden thought occured to Goku. If this was some evil counterpart of his...

"Hey, did this Kaizen guy have a goatee?" He asked...in all seriousness.

[Cho Hakkai]

"You're welcome, my friend. That does paint quite the picture." Hakkai chuckled at Gojyo upon hearing the other demon's comment at the two Son Gokus. He didn't doubt that they weren't alike, as they had already started to discuss food and fighting. Nonetheless, it was good that Goku finally had someone he could relate to at least. Hakkai could relate more to Sanzo, but was best friends with Gojyo as the latter man saved his life. He quickly pulled himself out of that train of thought as it would only lead to a piss poor mood.

What a confusing mess they had fallen into. Hakkai was mostly out of the loop, something he loathed, as he stood by Sanzo while the video played. Obviously his redheaded housemate had fallen prey to some plot against him. He remained silent as Sanzo steadily got angrier as the seconds passed by. Hakkai had no idea who the short guy was on the other side of the priest, though he did look vaguely familiar. Perhaps he had seen him in the newspaper at one point. Who ever he was, he managed to get involved in what ever it was that Gojyo was involved in.

For all appearances, it seemed like Gojyo had kidnapped the female demon's child. However, that was bullshit and everyone who could possibly know him - even Yanma - would know that he could never even lift a hand to a child let alone kidnap one. Hakkai's normal distant smile remained on his face as he mulled things over in his thoughts silently. He was pulled out of those thoughts by the approach of a police woman he had never met before. Unlike Gojyo, Hakkai was the farthest thing from a womanizer and didn't bother to go out of his way to introduce himself. If the time arose when it was polite to do so, then he would but otherwise he remained uncharacteristically silent. It didn't stop him from watching her walk away in the corner of his eye though. He may have been a gentleman, but he could look at the menu.

When Sanzo moved towards the injuried demoness, Hakkai followed. Although he appeared for all intents and purposes to be relaxed, he would be ready to fight at split second's notice. However, the woman was far too exhausted and beaten to even try to pick a fight and chose to rather explain the situation. Although his smile never faltered, a muscle in his cheek did twitch as he remembered that Gojyo's ass owed him, them, money that was spent on the demon in front of them. Hakkai wasn't about to let go of that one lightly, as they were not rich, and in fact enjoyed the new cleanliness that seemed to stay around their house as Gojyo got back into his good graces.

"Calm down miss, you'll open your wounds again." Hakkai got closer to her before she managed to undo his hard work. He healed people to near perfection when he chose to do so, but he wasn't taking any risks with the condition that she was in. "We'll find your child. Won't we, Sanzo?" The demon had been crouching by Keishoumaru, and now turned his full 'you'll agree or suffer' smile to the priest that usually seemed in charge of their small group. When it came to children in danger, Hakkai was deadly serious given his past. It didn't matter that he had said that Gonou was dead, he still shared memories with his past persona and therefore took certain things with a grain of salt.

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[Genjo Sanzo]

At least his luck was with him on some level. The demoness wasn't fighting him. That was a bit of headache that he was spared, though with his luck, things were just going to snowball from here. And good god, she needed to take some parenting classes. Not like Sanzo was one to talk, but at least he'd never leave a kid to wander around on their own.

What she was telling him, however, was a rather interesting tale. It wasn't uncommon for demons to arrive on earth anymore. For the past few decades, demons had been filtering in fairly regularly. While many monks were not happy about it, there were too many demons now to 'take care' of. And if they weren't breaking any laws, then they couldn't theoretically do anything. Once a demon had a limiter on and was working along the humans and anthros like anyone else, then it was a lost battle.

Though they could pitch their hissy fits when a demon went on a rampage. This was going to introduce a week of monks spewing righteous indignation.

It was a good thing that Police Girl had already moved on.. The last thing he wanted was for her to start quaking in her boots and stockings because this woman was talking about beating them up. It wasn't hard to figure out that she was talking about the police kicking her out for being a public menace. Or trying to.

The priest let Gojyo speak to the woman for a moment, rocking back on his heels, keeping his arms in the sleeves of his robes as he mulled it over in his head. From everything that had been told, it seemed that they had a culprit... A half-breed demon named Kaizen who resembled the second Son Goku. All in all, Sanzo almost felt bored. It was a textbook villain move. Send an innocent woman into the line of fire after laying the blame on... Well, who were these people anyways? At least everyone was contributing, though some of them were idiots.

It didn't matter. He glanced to Hakkai, a twitch appearing his brow, though the rest of his face remained calm. "Yeah, yeah, whatever Hakkai. We'll find the kid." He retorted, shifting before pulling a hand out of his sleeve, holding a new cigarette. His other hand emerged, holding his lighter, as he brought the cigarette to his lips, about to light up-

... What the fuck?

The blond priest turned his head to give the idiot Son Goku. ... The tall idiot Son Goku. For a full moment he just stared at him before looking at Vegeta. "... Is he serious?" Even the chimpanzee that was like a son to him had never voiced something that idiotic. A goatee? Really?

Somehow, his cigarette hadn't fallen out of his mouth. Clicking the lighter, he lit the cigarette before tucking his lighter away, rising to his feet. Vegeta had said something, what was it? Ah. A mechanic...

"I doubt there's any monk here worth shit when it comes to mechanics-..." Trailing off, he blinked once before reaching up to rub his temple. Ignoring the others for a moment, he turned towards the monks and woman cleaning up the rubble. "... Fucking hell. I should've thought of that myself." Without another word, the priest began to walk away, heading towards the group. Though he couldn't be heard clearly, the police officer in the yellow militia outfit paused in the middle of lifting a pretty decent-sized chunk of rubble. The young gave a nod, looking confused-

And was then being dragged back to the others by her collar. Once he was close, Sanzo pulled her in front of him, holding her up to Vegeta.

"Take the capsule from Vegeta, and find some way to track it."

With that, he dropped her.

[Police Girl]

Well that was humiliating. Knowing her face was as red as a tomato, Seras just offered a wave to Gojyo as she all but ran away, heading towards the monks.

Why, oh why, did she have such horrible timing? No, she couldn't catch Master Sanzo during one of his moments of lucidity, or when he was enjoying a drink or cigarette. No, she had to catch him while he was in the middle of a serious discussion with a rather odd group and a youkai woman who looked like the everlasting shit had been kicked out of her.

This is going to be a paperwork nightmare... A soft sigh escaped her. She didn't even want to think about how much she was going to have to do before she left for West City in a day or two.

No rest for the wicked.

Part of her had to wonder what they were all doing there. It seemed fairly normal for Master Sanzo and Goku-chan to be here, since the priest was the head of the temple and the kid followed him everywhere, but someone from Capsule Corp? And two of the full-time employees of Shangri-La?

Though I have to admit... That cook's kind of cute. I've never really gotten a good look at him before. Unable to help herself, she gave a bit of a peek over her shoulder. She was almost disappointed when she didn't see him watching and quickly turned her gaze forward again.

Stupid, stupid, stupid. You're not here to bloody oggle men. You're here for work.

With that in mind, she greeted the nearest monks and began to work, lifting the rubble. It was going to be another long day and the need for a heating pad at the end...

At least, until she heard someone calling her name. Turning, with a rather heavy burden in her arms, she blinked her blue eyes at the priest in surprise. Wait, what did he need now?

"Police Girl. You're not a complete failure at mechanics and engineering, are you?"

"Um... That would be correct..." She said slowly, taken back, nodding. "At least, I don't think I- URK!"

And suddenly she was being dragged back to the group of rather scary individuals, blinking at the monks who were watching their head priest drag her off like it was a daily occurence. Then again, it probably was, just with Goku-chan instead of her. Another grunt escaped her as she was jerked forward to stare at the spiky-haired man who looked every bit as friendly as Master Sanzo himself.

"Um, all righ- Oof."

Somehow managing not to fall on her ass, she shook her head out before reaching into the compartment of her utility belt- Sometimes, she almost felt like a superhero with that belt!- and opened one up, a small kit falling into her hands. Opening it up, she pulled out an eyepiece that fit over her eye- It was of Capsule Corp, naturally- that magnified her vision. Closing that eye to avoid giving herself a headache, she held her hand for the capsule. Normally, this equipment was used for fine-tuning and repairing her own weapons, especially the BMF, but... Well. She'd have to make do. Once the capsule was in her hand, she closed her other eye and opened the eye with the magnifying eyeglass and went to work to find the homing device.

"I'm not going to have to add this to my paperwork, am I?"

[Keishoumaru]

"No, he didn't," Kei replied the taller Goku's question. She was certain the man didn't have one. "He had small horns on his chin though."

At this point, Keishoumaru was left to wait and watch the gathered people around her. Though she felt relieved when Hakkai assured her of their assistance she was nonetheless still feeling tense being around them, particularly around Vegeta and the black-haired Goku. She felt weak and powerless, much like a lesser demon would feel like when in her presence.

Despite her unease and worry, she was becoming aware of how fortunate she was that her life was spared and that her victors were willing to help her this much. If she was in their shoes, she can't say she would have done the same. With the way she's treated Gojyou and his companions, she never thought that he would even acknowledge her in a positive way. Everything happened because of her misunderstanding and stubbornness. Her pride still prohibited her from showing much gratitude, but even she knew when to admit that she was wrong.

"S..." Her voice trembled to say the words as she spoke softly so that only those near her could hear. "S...Sorry, about what I... did and acted...back then..." Kei stared at the ground to try and hide her shame. She wouldn't dare look at anyone with such a shameful look. Kei can count with one hand the number of times she truly apologized in the millions of years she's lived. All the Kaioshin would probably be laughing at her right about now.

[Vegeta]

"Hn...Perhaps. But I can't help to wonder whether there's more to it. I almost want to think it's a distraction however I can't imagine why." If it was someone searching for the Dragon Balls, surely they'd realize they had used them a few days ago. His lips twitched, since Kakarot probably had yet to realize his father and brother as well as another Saiyajin were all hiding out at Capsule Corp. He wanted to see the stupid look on his face when he realized. That was what he got for taking off, the dumb bastard.

When Goku questioned about the goatee and Sanzo looked at him, Vegeta's eyes made a display of rolling back as his eyelids fluttered and closed. He licked his lips, using every bit of restraint and feeling a vein throb for the effort while he tried to answer the monk. "You have no idea how serious he is..." Was all he could manage for an answer. Abruptly, he shook his head and opened his eyes, looking dazed for a second. Only idiocy of that proportion could make his brain shut down like that. He turned to Kakarot, brow twitching, "Could you go five minutes without saying something stupid? You're bound to make someone's head explode with your idiocy!"

Even Gojyo looked flumoxed as he pinched the bridge of his nose. "Wow...Just wow. And why do I get the weird feeling we have two Sanzos here too?" Oh Gods, that was terrifying. That made the kappa shudder.

Vegeta's head whipped around to give the redhead a brief, seething look. A disposable punching bag was what he was looking at, yessir. Soft, weak and noisy as fuck. However, the others might frown on him thrashing the insect. Well, everyone but the monk was bound to frown down on such an action, the priest would be likely to find it all too amusing. The prince started on his routine of trying to extinguish the knots of rage building in him by doing a combination of deep exhalations, neck cracking and stretching. The longer this went on, the more he wanted to beat on something. Thankfully, the only other sentient being that wasn't bothersome managed to further prove his worth as he managed to find them a mechanic after all.

Once the capsule was handed over, Vegeta huffed. "The sooner this gets done, the sooner we save that child, and the sooner I can either get incredibly smashed or get something incredibly smashed up." Maybe he would do both, just for shits and giggles.

His dark eyes darted to Keishoumaru, hearing her even though he wasn't all that close. He grunted. "Parents do insane things for their offspring's well-being, so we'll overlook it this time. Just make sure you keep a better eye on her once we get her back, because if this happens again, I'll kill you if you wind up being negligent a second time." It was dubious whether she would make the same mistake twice, morons tended to, so he made sure she had some warning beforehand. Because if it did happen again and he had to step in, well, the thrashing she would receive would be so brutal they wouldn't even air it on Youtube.

[Son Goku]

Goku crossed his arms and sighed in defeat. It's like no matter what he said, someone would get annoyed and tell him to shut up. Vegeta would normally be the first to say so.

It seems like everyone else around him was thinking up of ways to find the real culprit and rescue the Makaioshin child. From what he's seen so far, they were all good folk with greater than normal power. He had no doubt that they would be able to see this through.

What surprised him more was the Makaioshin called Keishoumaru. She really wasn't what he's envisioned when King Kai told him of the threat involving her. He has fought against more beings from Freiza to Kid Buu who displayed wicked deeds than what she has displayed so far. Even Dabura, who was apparently also a Makaioshin, didn't seem so bad compared to the other villains of the past.

Just by looking at her, he could tell that she was feeling down and probably sorry for herself; an assumption that was confirmed when he overheard her quiet attempt at apology. He couldn't help but smile gently at her efforts.

Kaio-sama...I hope you're watching. I don't think she's a threat that we have to fight off just because of what she is.

Goku pouted in disapproval at Vegeta's parental advise. While it was true that she should learn from her negligence, having to threaten her like that was a little...

"Ne, Vegeta. I'm sure she didn't mean for any of this to happen. It's true that she needs to be more attentive to her kid's well being but it's not nice to just say you'll kill her if it happens again."

"Besides," Goku's face turned serious as if to drive home a point. "This isn't just some random kidnapping that anyone can pull off. This Kaizen guy has a bone to pick with us yet we don't know who or how strong he really is. If worse comes to worse, people close to us might be targeted next."

[Son Goku {Saiyuki}]

Unlike his taller counter-part, Goku was not nearly as naive nor as dense apparently. When he questioned about the goatee, he had to tilt his head and give him a funny look as well. Actually, Goku was not entirely sure what the hell a goatee was, but judging from Sanzo's reaction, it had been a stupid question. So he made a mental note not to ask something similar in the future to avoid the fan.

It also seemed the other Goku had a more finicky moral code. He kind of sided with the Vegeta guy rather than him on his threat. "Yeah, but I mean...If you're dumb enough to let your kid walk around and not watch 'em, ya deserve a beatin'. I mean, what if this guy that took her is some pervert? I don't mean like lady chasin' pervert like Gojyo but like those freaky guys you always see on the news and junk." That made the monkey shudder. Those people gave him the fricking creeps. If he had his way, he'd smash everyone of them to bits. With that in mind, he hoped the kid was okay.

While Seras went about working on the tracking issue, Goku quickly became bored. Actually, he had been bored since the fighting was officially over. He didn't care much for all the sleuthing stuff and this wasn't really his problem. If it came down to going and retrieving the kid, then it was likely that the guys who could fly would take off in a flash and leave the rest of them in the dust to smash through this Kaizen guy's shit.

"Why would he have a bone to pick with you guys? As far as I can tell, Gojyo has nothin' to do with ya, and he got dragged into this shit too. I doubt it would have mattered much if he just showed her your images then gave her a direction and all." If someone had a bone to pick with Big Brother Goku and Vegeta, that would make sense, but where did Gojyo fit in besides the fact that he knew the demon? And in turn, where the fuck did she fit in if she barely knew any of them? And if the guy's crummy cliche plan of suck failed, why had nothing else happened? More questions, growing more pointless the more he pondered the situation, swirled in his head.

Then they stopped as his stomach growled. On cue with the sound, he piped up regardless of what was being said or done. "SANZO!"

There was a short pause.

"I'm hungry."

[Genjo Sanzo]

There was one thing that he knew everyone around him could agree with: None of this made sense.

Gojyo would find himself a lucky son of a bitch tonight, as the priest had only shot him a glare before hunting down the mechanic in question. Right now, his mind was focused more on figuring out the key to this problem. His violet eyes narrowed as he thought hard, bringing a hand up to take the cigarette between two fingers and turning his head to blow the smoke away from the group.

The tiny, soft-spoken words from the demoness caught his attention, causing him to turn his gaze to her. Stepping over to her, he gazed down at her before placing a hand on her shoulder. "Take solace in the fact that you're smart enough to apologize. Just do not betray our trust by turning on us again when we are your allies in this search. And take heart from this experience. If we find your daughter safe and unharmed, then do not repeat such a foolish mistake. Learn from this, and you have begun to repay us."

Wait, was that Sanzo sounding like an actual Buddhist priest?

Before anyone could get too shocked over that, he turned his piercing gaze to the group.

"Let's face it. All the speculation in the world won't do us a damn bit of good until we know more about who or what we're dealing with. This halfbreed could have a grudge against Keishoumaru. He could have something against you two-" He nodded to Vegeta and the larger of the two Gokus. "-Or he could, for some reason, have something against Gojyo. None of us have shown any recognition towards him. This could be planned against any one of us, all of us, or none of us. For all we know, it's a distraction meant to turn our attention down another path while he is free to accomplish his own plans." Lifting the cigarette, he inhaled again before letting the smoke drift out of his lips, once again exhaling away from his allies.

"What we do know, is that someone who has access to intelligence and information has tricked a powerful youkai woman into acting as his pawn. So unless anyone has any bright ideas that are relevant-" He directed a Look to the taller Goku, "-then the only thing we can do is use the capsule to try to track him, or at least track any form of clue to figure out what we're doing. I-"

Whatever he was going to say next was lost as the telltale vein appeared in his forhead. Part of him realized that he was actually pretty damn lucky that the monkey had waited this long before whining.

It still didn't save him.

THWACK.

The fan came crashing down on the monkey's head. "Can't you ever learn to shut your damn trap?! There's more important things right now than your damn stomach! You're always hungry, you can wait just a bit longer, you stupid chimp!"

[Police Girl]

At least one person had the self-preservation needed to realize that staying quiet and keeping her head bowed was probably the best thing for her health right now.

Seras had been told to get the tracking device out of the capsule, and that's exactly what she was doing. Her one blue eye, studying the capsule through the lense, was studying the lovely little mechanics making up the inside of the device. It hadn't been that hard to open it. The one thing that sucked was how hard it was to see. Even with the magnifying glass, it was a bit of a bitch. Add to the fact that she was forced to work freehand without any surface to stabilize it on, and the slightest twitch of her hand could tear the mechanics apart...

The police girl, however, had steady hands, and rather astonishing focus. Even as she listened to the conversation around her, her attention was focused on that capsule, on taking apart the puzzle set in front of her.

A frown touched her lips as she listened, however. Just what did this all mean? A demon targetting people who had never heard of him...

Vegeta Briefs I could understand... He did marry into a rather powerful family... But Gojyo and this... other guy? And where does this demoness fit into this? She wasn't quite sure, and she wasn't sure if she wanted to know-

... Ah, the usual behavior of Goku and Master Sanzo. She winced in sympathy for the kid before she almost blinked. Pausing for a moment, she shifted the tool to another part of the mechanics. Everything was tuned out now as she focused entirely on the capsule, hearing as the tiny screwdriver scraped against the metal as she turned it, listening to every sound. It was hard, but she could tune out sounds around her and focus on what she needed to hear when she could-

Whirrrrr.

It was barely there, but she could still hear it. A grin touched her lips; she couldn't help it. She loved the wonderful feeling of solving a puzzle. Now all she had to do was shift the holographic capabilities to track the signal instead of replaying the message... That in and of itself wasn't that hard. A few more twists of the tiny screwdriver and she closed the capsule, still grinning.

Lifting her head, Seras immediately regretted it as a wave dizziness hit her. Wincing, she closed her eye and yanked off the eyeglass, opening her eyes again and blinking those blue orbs several times to clear her vision. Once she could see, she activated the capsule.

A holographic sphere appeared where the message should have appeared. Off to the edge in one direction was a faint blip. Wherever it was pointing to, it was some distance away.

"Well, you can start with this, can't you?" Seras asked in her accented voice, holding the capsule out to the group.

[Vegeta]

"Kakarot, how many times have you heard me say nice things? And especially to people that I've beaten the crap out of?" Serious question there too, cause he was very curious as to what sort of moronic response he would get. Vegeta was not a fountain of nice nothings that was spouted to make people happy and reassure them. If you did something stupid, he would tell you. And if it was something stupid that consumed his time, caused property damage and put people in danger? Well, yeah, he was going to lay down some fricking law! "If you hadn't noticed, this would not have happened if she had paid more attention to what mattered. I'm giving her added incentive to be more diligent."

His attention shifted from the demon woman and his old rival to tap his foot during the wait. Right at the moment they were fairly useless and all he was concerned with now was that tracking device. Once the monk was done with his flowery preaching to the demon, all the while Vegeta was busy growling in the back of his throat with impatient anxiety as the girl worked on the device, it seemed that the blond had also been coming to the same deductions he had. Still... "There's been peace for a considerable time. As far as we've been able to tell, most of our enemies are dead and gone. To think someone is suddenly coming out of no where with a grudge is suspect. But a distraction would make more sense. A distraction for what however still eludes me, especially since the dragon has already been put to use." They would find out at some point anyway, it was just a matter of time.

He snorted at the smaller monkey's declaration of hunger. He could sympathize, it was coming around that time to eat. But at least he kept his trap shut about it. However, the whining of one Goku would turn into the whining of the other most likely. Then their collective complaints over their need to feed would agitate him further on top of waiting for the mechanic to finish tinkering with the device. "You may wind up having to hit someone else soon enough." The prince warned.

There. Vegeta's head jerked around to look at Seras. It seemed she was done then. 'About damn time.' Without another word, the Saiyajin prince snatched the capsule from her hand before firing off into the air, not minding for a second whether anyone got knocked on their ass from the blast of wind in his wake. If anyone else intended to come along, Kakarot could deal with them, he had no intention of being weighed down with baggage.

Flying at top speed, he followed the tracking signal. It appeared to lead to an area of the Spinach Wastes that was more or less between the two cities. An interesting location, almost seemed a little out in the open, but then again so damningly obvious that it could be overlooked. 'Hn...' He touched down on the grassy plain and started stalking towards his targetted location. His guard was up, not only incase of an attack...but incase Kakarot decided to fricking teleport in out of thin air like he tended to.

[Sha Gojyo]

"I doubt they have anything against me...I think I was more the 'convinient tool' to help with relaying that message since I had talked to Kei the most beforehand." Gojyo shook his head. Yeah, he stepped on toes in the past but this was a little weird if it were intended payback. Especially what with mixing in a beast like Vegeta. He wondered if the others of his group knew how easily he flattened Keishoumaru and even Seiten Taisei. He could testify that getting hit by the fucker hurt like hell.

His brows arched as Goku got around to bitching about food. That was impressive considering how long it took him. He opened his mouth to say something about how maybe someone should just go ahead and feed the little bastard in the meantime but he looked over once tits-er Seras announced she was done. Then Gojyo was prepared to change what he planned to say when Vegeta took off like a bat out of hell. "Holy shit!" He brought his arms up, covering his face from some of the dust that was kicked up in a windswept flurry.

Once the air settled, he lowered his arms and looked in the direction that the shortstack had taken off in. Shit, he couldn't even see a fucking dot in the sky. "Okay. Seriously. What the fuck is with that?!" Flying was one thing, but to fly off like a goddamn rocket was something else entirely.

And how the hell were they supposed to follow that?! There was no telling what was waiting wherever the tracking led to, Gojyo was of the mindset though that whatever was there, Vegetable could handle. But he was worried that considering how volatile the guy seemed, the kid might wind up in the crossfire. "Now what?"

[Son Goku]

"Oi! Vegeta, wait!-" Goku sighed as he watched him blast off to the sky. Vegeta seemed more than eager to confront whoever was the mastermind behind this ordeal. Though he wasn't particularly worried about his friend, there was something in his gut that warned him some caution. Seeing as how he didn't sense any strong unfamiliar Ki around the planet that would cause Vegeta some trouble, Goku decided to not pursue. He could always catch up to him if need be.

Looking back at the group, particularly towards Keishoumaru who was showing signs of concern and trying to muster up some power to follow Vegeta, Goku walked over and placed his hand gently on Kei's shoulder to ease her back down.

"You're in no condition to follow him so please just wait here. I promise we'll get your kid back safe and sound," Goku smiled reassuringly before looking at the others.

He wasn't sure whether or not to tell them to not involve themselves any further, but the truth of the matter was that they were already involved and would most likely want to confront the culprit as well.

"Vegeta is flying fast to get to whoever did all this. I'm not sure what he'll find or come up against when he gets there but I'm sure this Kaizen is bound to be a strong enemy. I'm concerned that the kid might be caught up in the crossfire so I'll be going there as soon as I sense that Vegeta has reached the area. If any of you want to come, I'll take you with me. If you do, you'll have to watch out for yourself and each other. Even small stray Ki blasts would end up killing you if you're not careful."

"T..take me with you," Kei spoke up, staring at him with a determined look.

Goku considered for a moment, then realized that he didn't know what her kid looked like so it might be best to bring her along too.

"Oh yeah...If we find your kid there, I don't think she'll be too trusting of us strangers. I guess I'll take you along then."

Shortly afterwards, Goku sensed Vegeta's movement halt. He's probably there now.

"Yosh, Anyone wanting to come with...just grab on to me so we can go." With that said, Goku placed his index and middle finger on his forehead and concentrated on Vegeta's ki.

[Kaizen Sol]

Selypa's Edits Click the thumbnail for full image. Original image found here. Sorry Zan. It was stretching the page and driving me up a wall.

The hideout is a large sinkhole in the earth roughly oval in shape and three football fields wide. Numerous crude shanty houses are scattered across the lair, with a five story concrete tower erected at the bottom surrounded by a moat. Over sixty demons of different sizes occupy the area, all stronger than the average human. Most are equipped with weapons ranging from axes to guns. Cruel, malicious, and greedy, the demons have stockpiled many corpses and loot from their raids. Some fight amongst themselves to lay claim on each others treasures; others feast and gorge themselves aplenty.

Four armored robots fly around the hideout, spread out. Each sports two machine guns and a pair of blasters mounted on their shoulders. Their armor and design are reminiscent of the Red Ribbon Army, as evident by the insignia displayed on their chest. None speak, only reacting to attack their designated targets or any trespassers to the area. Each robot is comparable to Android 18 in terms of combat strength.

Within the tower, an android copy of Kaizen Sol awaited, smiling devilishly as the next stage of the plan is set in motion. Though he was doomed to be defeated, it was all to further his creator's ambition.

Next to him, an unconscious Amikoharu rested, shackled to the wall. She had been sedated regularly in order to not cause any unnecessary disturbances. If worse comes to worse, she could be used as a shield against at least some of the Z fighters, though there was no need to try and win the battle.

"Well then," the Kaizen copy spoke as he set the homing relay on the floor before standing. "Time to greet the guests."