Chapter 12

Vegeta slowly opened his eyes and heard familiar gasps.  He shook his head to assure himself that
he wasn’t dreaming.  “Bulma?  Trunks?” he gasped as he saw their worried faces when he fully
opened his eyes.

“Vegeta/Papa!” Bulma and Trunks both cried happily and hugged Vegeta.

“Vegeta... you’ve come for us,” Bulma sobbed, tightening her grip.

“Papa I was so scared,” Trunks shuddered with tears in his eyes.

“Don’t worry, I’m here and everything is going to be all right,” Vegeta said softly.  Trunks let go
of his father and joined Arbok, allowing Bulma to soak Vegeta’s shirt with her tears.

“It was awful... they locked us up in this cell and said they would kill us if you didn’t show up,”
Bulma gasped between sobs.

“Whoever did this to you shall pay, I promise.”

“Awww, isn’t that sweet?” Chunli sniffed.  She and the others were at the other side of the room.

“Papa, do you know those people?” Trunks asked.

“Yeah, who are they?” Bulma said, wiping her tears away and let go of Vegeta.

“It’s a long story.  Anyway, the girl is Chunli, beside her is Captain Commando or Rick, the kid
with the spiky hair is Cloud, the guy in black is Vincent, and the guy in pink is Dennis.”  Vegeta
was about to tell the story but a whirring sound was heard.  The ceiling opened and a monitor
came out.  The monitor turned on and a familiar person appeared.

“Dr. Gero!” Bulma exclaimed.

“Ah yes, so you still remember me,” Dr. Gero said.

“Wait a sec, you sound like Dr. Itchigacki/Hojo/Bison’s scientist!” Chunli, Cloud, Dennis, and
Vincent exclaimed at same time.

“Correct, let me explain.  Let’s start with you Dennis, Vincent.  When your team defeated me in
the Makai World’s tournament, I fled to the human world to hide myself from you Makai
detectives.  I worked for a company and changed my name to Hojo.  Unfortunately, I made new
enemies, that’s you Cloud and those meddling Avalanche.  When we fought, I made it look like I
was killed since I know you won’t stop hunting me down until I’m dead.  Again, I disguised
myself and worked for a criminal organization, the Shadowloo.  There, I helped my master erase
the memories of the fighters that were chosen to “join” our organization.  Unfortunately again, the
organization was brought down but lucky for me I got away.  I needed a place to work and to
hide myself from the Makai world’s detectives and from the Interpol.  I heard that the Red Ribbon
Army is back and I couldn’t believe it.  I thought it was gone for good when it was brought down
by that monkey boy, Gokou and his friends.  The army took me again and found a place to hide
myself for awhile.”

“Well, you need to hide again!  Once I get out here, I’ll take you to Lord Koenma and get you
executed for turning innocent people into zombies!” Vincent growled.

“No, he’s mine!” Chunli interjected.

“You two leave him alone, he kidnapped my family so he’s mine.  I’ll have his head!” Vegeta
butted in.

“Sorry, I have to go now and none of you shall lay a hand on me,” Dr. Gero chuckled.

“Wait!  Why did you take us?  What do you want?  Money?  Gold?” Bulma asked but she was too
late, the monitor screen went blank.

“So, all of us are after the very same person,” Dennis sighed.

“Hmm, Hojo.  He created Sephiroth and Sephiroth killed Aeris and destroyed my hometown...
I’ll get him...” Cloud thought.

“How are we going to get out of here?” Rick groaned.

“I don’t know...  let’s go back to sleep and maybe we can figure something out,” Chunli yawned
and snuggled close to Rick and they went to sleep.  Bulma and Trunks also snuggled close to
Vegeta and went to sleep too and the others as well.

***

“Brrr.  It’s so cold,” Bulma mumbled in her sleep, snuggling closer to Vegeta’s warm body.

“Why is it so cold in here?” Cloud asked himself groggily and got up.  He found the floor covered
with a thick mist.  “Guys, wake up!” he cried, waking everyone up.

“What is it?”

“Look,” he said, pointing at the floor.

“This place gives me the creeps,” Trunks whimpered, hugging Vegeta’s leg tightly.

“Humph, I have no intention of staying here any longer,” Vincent growled and walked to the
door.  He clenched his fist and punched the door.  The door cracked and broke to little pieces like
a glass.  “What the heck?!!  This door was frozen solid!”  Vincent stepped outside and found the
hall covered with ice, the whole place was frozen solid.  “You better take a look here,” he told
everyone.

“I wonder what happened now?  This is getting really creepy,” Cloud shuddered.

“We better get out of here,” Rick suggested.

“No, we’re not going anywhere until we find Dr. Itchigaki or whatever he calls himself now.
We’re here, this is our chance to finish this army off and get our hands on that mad man,” Dennis
interjected.

“Yeah, let’s go!” Chunli agreed.

“One question, where could we find him and the other head members of this army?” Cloud asked.

“I think I know,” Vegeta answered.  “Come on, I’ll lead the way.”  Vegeta led them to an
elevator.  “We’re going to the highest floor.”

They got there in a few moments and they stepped out of the elevator as soon as the door opened.

“I think I’m going to be sick,” Bulma groaned as they saw a group of people laying on a puddle of
blood.

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