Dragon Ball Altered Worlds: General Mazu Ep. 4

Two days pass.  Mazu stared in awe as she looked to the Tenkaichi Budokai Stadium.  Hearing the spectators cheer, she began to clap with excitement.  Krillin gulped as he looked to the fighters who were registering.  He blinked as he looked to a figure in a cloak, the shoulders being fairly broad, ending at 3 feet in length from shoulder to shoulder.  He then looked to Roshi as they walked by, Takeno and Launch following.  “Master Roshi?  Should we register?”
Roshi shook his head.  “It is already done.  We just need to head to our waiting area for the match to begin.”
Krillin gave a nod as he grinned.  “Can’t wait to start.”
Mazu watched the first round of opponents, watching them striking and blocking each other.  Her tail began to twitch with excitement, hopping up and down in place as Krillin blinked, watching her.  Launch blinks before whispering to Takeno.  “I’ve never seen her so excited.  It’s like she is sitting in front of a plate of food.”
Takeno chuckles before he whispers back.  “That’s the Saiya-jin trait.  We are hard wired for combat….and nothing gets us more excited than an imminent fight.”
Launch nods, the blue haired girl looking the man in the cloak. She gulps before she huddles up against Takeno.  “That guy is creepy.”
Takeno blinked before looking to the cloaked man, narrowing his eyes as he tried to see his face under the hood.  “Yeah….something a bit unsettling about him.”
The bald teenager looked back to Takeno, then to the cloaked man.  He then yelped when Mazu threw him onto the stone ring.  “YER TURN, SHORTY!”
Krillin lands on his feet before turning to Mazu, shaking his fist at her.  “HEY!  I WAS MOVING!”
Mazu chuckled a bit before crossing her arms.  “Well…hurry up and get this fight done and over with!  I want to fight sometime!”
Krillin rolled his eyes before turning around, then blinked as he looked to the man whom was taller than himself.  Blinking, he tilted his head.  “You look familiar.”  The man stood at 6 feet even, having a thin, but toned build, almost no body fat.  His hair was black, almost in a bowl cut.  Skin was olive, obviously of Asian descent.  He was shirtless, only wearing a pair of loose fitting dark blue pants with black slippers.  The man soon narrows his eyes, staring down at Krillin.  The bald teenager soon takes his stance, watching the man hold his arms out loosely, bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet, thumbs and pinky fingers held out.  With a shout, the announcer tells them to fight.  Immediately, the man starts to bring a barrage of punches and kicks to Krillin.  Krillin’s eyes widen as he begins to back up, blocking and dodging the strikes, the man screaming with each throw.  “WAHA!  WOO!”
“WHAT’S WITH THE WEIRD NOISES!?”  Krillin then narrows his eyes before parrying one of the man’s punches, suddenly striking him in the face.
The man falters back, the bald youth following up with a spinning kick to his head.  The man deflects it before suddenly slamming his fist into Krillin’s chest, sending him flying, the man’s fist shaking.  “WHATAAA!!”  Krillin yelps as he hits the floor of the ring, rolling to a stop.  He slowly sits up, groaning, then suddenly screams with his eyes bulging from his head as he watches the man descending down on him.  With a loud crack, the man slams his feet down on Krillin’s chest, Krillin getting the wind knocked from him as the warrior clenched his fists.  “WHAAAAAAAAaaaaaaa!”  He quickly hops off Krillin, soon smirking as he crosses his arms.  Krillin coughs, slowly standing up as he narrows his eyes at his opponent.  The fighter’s eyes widen.  “W-W-WAIT!  THAT SHOULD HAVE KNOCKED YOU OUT!!!!”
Krillin soon smirked.  “Nope….”  He suddenly takes off after him, head lowered before colliding into the man’s stomach like a battering ram.  The man gags when the air is forced from his lungs, the breath taken away.  Krillin suddenly hops up, delivering three quick punches to his face before hitting him in the head with a spin kick.  The man screams as he falters to his side.  He goes to retaliate with a punch, but blinks when Krillin is gone.  He freezes when he feels someone tapping on his left shoulder, slowly looking over to see no one there.  He averts his gaze to the right, Krillin grinning as he floated at eye level with his opponent.  Krillin suddenly slams his fist into his face, the man flying out of the ring and slamming into the wall of the arena, launching dust into the air.  Once the dust cleared, the opponent whimpered, his eyes crossed while his body twitched.  He then falls to the ground, the announcer shouting.
“KRILLIN IS THIS ROUND’S WINNER!!!”
Krillin gives a sigh of relief before holding a fist in the air, making his way to ringside and hopping down.  Mazu laughed before hugging her adopted brother.  “GREAT JOB!!!”
The shiny-domed teen laughed as he returned the hug.  “I keep this up…I might be fighting you!”
As the day carried on, many fighters would fight each other, Krillin and Mazu joining.  However, one fighter seemed to stick out.  That was the cloaked man.  He did not seem to give any effort.  Krillin watched in horror as he watched the cloaked man, at the start of the round, punch a man in the face, sending him out of the ring immediately.  The fight lasted less than 10 seconds.  Takeno frowned as he kept his eyes on this man.  Finally, Mazu would take her place in the ring, her eyes locked on a taller man.  This man was muscular, wearing no shirt with a red sash around his waist, his fighting trousers purple.  Yellow leggings are tucked over his black shoes.  Upon each forearm, he had green and red armbands.  His head is shaved bald, but remarkably, even though he is human, he has a third eye in the center of his forehead.  Mazu blinked before tilting her head as she looked to it.  “Do you see better with that?”
Her opponent lifts a brow as he looks to her.  “The better for me to see you die by my bare hands, girl.”
Mazu narrowed her eyes at him.  “Hey…there isn’t supposed to be any killing here!”
The man rolls his eyes before looking back to his master, whom is wearing a green Hanfu robe.  His hair on the sides is bluish-gray, wearing a pair of sunglasses with facial hair at each corner of his upper lip.  Upon his head is a strange hat, appearing to be a crane.  This is Master Shen of Crane School.  Upon the chest of his robe is a kanji called “tsuru” in which means “crane”.  Shen gives this man a nod before he and Roshi begin to stare each other down.  Soon, the two hermits lift a hand to each other, middle fingers in the air.  Beside Shen is a young man, close to Krillin’s height, his skin pale, cheeks red.  He wears the same clothing similar to Shen’s own.  His cheek is bruised from his fight with Krillin, whom won the match.
Mazu lifts a brow when she witnesses this, then turns to her opponent.  “What is your name?”
The three-eyed man gave a sly smirk.  “I am Tien Shinhan….Master Shen’s top student.  Why would you want to learn the name of the man who will kill you?”
The young girl giggled.  “I just want to know who belonged to that butt I am about to kick!”
Tien growls before he gets into his stance.  Mazu smirks before getting in her Kame stance, staring him down.
Launch blinks before leaning over to Takeno with a smile.  “He’s kinda cute.”
Takeno’s eyes widen before he looks to Launch.  “What the hell!?”
Launch giggled a bit.  “Awwwee…the big bad warrior getting jealous?”  She kisses his cheek, Takeno’s cheeks turning red.
Tien and Mazu continue to stare each other down, long moments passing between them.  “FIGHT!”  Right away, Tien rushes in, slamming his fist into Mazu’s cheek, her eyes wide.  Roshi and Krillin cringe from witnessing the strike, Launch as well.  Takeno just crosses his arms as he smirks.  Mazu growls before she follows up with a kick to his ribs, Tien grunting before taking a hit to the face.  Mazu quickly drops down, sweeping his legs out from under him.  Tien flips backwards, landing on his feet again.  He begins to throw multiple ki attacks.  Mazu quickly dodges every one of them, rushing towards Tien, slapping one away from her before she is on him.  Tien quickly launches his Machine Gun Punch, Mazu grunting and yelping as she blocks some attacks and takes hits of others.  She quickly fires a blast of ki, it slamming into his chest, sending him into the air.  She starts to follow him, taking off.  The descendant of the Three-Eyed Clan quickly turns to her, fingers spread out in front of his face as he screams.
“SOLAR FLARE!!!”  At that moment, a blinding light is released from his body, Mazu screaming as she covers her eyes.
“I CAN’T SEE!”
Tien grins before he flies towards her, hitting her in the stomach as she bows over, her eyes wide before slamming his elbow into her back, sending her to the ring.  She slams down into the stone, groaning as she looked up.  Tien grinned, powering up, his muscles bulging.  “Heh….I’ll…I’ll kill you!  Just like Master Shen wanted!”
He then blinked as a voice echoed through his mind.  “Is that what you really want?”
Tien blinked.  “W-what?  Who is that?”
Tien quickly turned his attention to Roshi as the voice continued.  “I am Master Roshi of Turtle School.  You know that deep inside…what you are doing is the wrong path.”
Tien grit his teeth.  “But…if I do not do what is asked…he will kill Chiaotzu.”
Roshi frowned.  “You do not worry what my old friend will do, Tien Shinhan.  I will handle him.  You just focus on your fight and give it your all.”
Tien suddenly screamed.  “NO!  I MUST DO WHAT HAS TO BE DONE!  I WILL NOT RISK IT!!!  GAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!”  Suddenly, two more arms sprout from his back, Tien panting before all four hands point their fingers to Mazu.  “DODON RAY!!!”  Bright spheres of energy form at the fingertips.  With an explosive blast, beams of energy are released.
Mazu rubs her eyes, groaning before she is able to see.  She looked up, eyes wide as she suddenly drew her hands back.  “KaaaaMeeee…”  Soon, a sphere of bright blue energy forms within her cupped grasp, narrowing her eyes as Tien’s attack rushed towards her.  “…HaaaaMeeee…..”  She quickly thrusts her hands upwards.  “HAAAAAA!”  Suddenly, the Turtle Destruction Wave is released from her grasp, zooming up and slamming into Tien’s attack.  The beams collide, both fighters gritting their teeth.  Sweat begins to trickle from Mazu’s forehead.  “YOU’RE SERIOUSLY TRYING TO KILL ME!?  THAT’S NOT COOL!”
Tien suddenly growls, all four arms starting to shake with strain.  “I…HAVE…NO…CHOICE!!”
“THERE IS ALWAYS A CHOICE!”
Her opponent begins to growl.  “I WILL WIN!!”
“NOT IF I HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY ABOUT IT!!  I HAVE MY OWN TRICKS!!”  She seemed to suddenly vanish, the Dodon Rays slamming into the floor of the ring.
His eyes widened.  “WHAT!?”  He then blinked when he felt something poke his shoulder.  He turned to see Mazu, eyes wide.
Mazu grins, soon spreading her fingers in front of her face.  “Look what I learned!  SOLAR FLARE!”  With the blinding light, Tien gives a shout , faltering.  The Saiya-jin girl chuckles a bit.  “My turn.”
She suddenly kicks him in the stomach, making him gag before quickly delivering an uppercut, sending him higher.  She bolted towards him.  Mazu suddenly rams her head into his back, making him scream before flipping over and kicking him in the chest, sending him down to the ground.  She quickly speeds passed him, landing on her feet in the ring before holding her hand up, Tien crying out when he lands in her grasp.  He groans, his two extra arms fading away.  She looks up before dropping him outside the ring.  “THE WINNER!!!”  The crowd cheers as Mazu dusts herself off, Tien weakly groaning before looking to Mazu.
“Y-you….killed….Chiaotzu…..”
Mazu tilted her head before looking to Master Shen, who was turning to deliver a Dodon Ray blast to Chiaotzu until Roshi rushed over and grabbed his wrist.  Shen turned to him with wide eyes.  Roshi suddenly delivered a punch to his stomach, Shen’s glasses shattering when his eyes bulge from his skull.  With a grunt, Roshi kicks him into the air, quickly drawing his hands back.  “KAMEHAMEHA!”  With the release, it slams into the Crane Hermit, sending him high into the sky.  Chiaotzu blinked, soon looking to Roshi as the old man panted.  Roshi turned to Chiaotzu, giving a less-than-toothy grin.
Tien panted before looking to Mazu, blinking as she reached into her sash and revealed a small, green bean.  She soon kneels down making him open his mouth before dropping it in.  With a look of confusion, he chewed and swallowed.  Within moments, his eyes widen as his bruises and ailments disappear before he soon stands up.  “W-what was that!?”
Mazu chuckled as she happily ate one, her bruises fading.  “A Senzu bean.”
Tien still looked confused, looking to her.  “I….I tried to kill you…w-why would you give that to me?”
Mazu crossed her arms.  “Well….you meant well…even though you went about saving your friend in a wrong way.  I can sense you are actually a good person…who holds friendship dearly and would do anything to keep their friends safe.  I hope that me and you could be friends.”  She soon held her hand out to him.  Tien blinks, gently taking it as he looked down to her.  She then chuckled.  “Plus…I want to fight you again…someday.”
Shinhan smiled.  “You are a very strong fighter, Mazu.  I would like that.”
Soon, Krillin would be on the stage, arms crossed over his chest as he waited for his opponent.  He then blinked, the cloaked man stepping up onto the ring.  He gulped, soon getting in position to fight him.  As soon as it is called, the cloaked man rushes Krillin at a blinding speed.  Krillin, given no time to react, suddenly shouts in pain when there is a loud crack.  The cloaked man slammed his heel into Krillin’s thigh, having snapped the bone in half.  Krillin collapses onto the ground, screaming as he held his thigh.  Mazu jumps up.  “KRILLIN!”  
She quickly rushes over to his side, the announcer blinking before looking to the cloaked man.  “Uhh…the…winner?”
Mazu frowned before looking to the cloaked man.  “HEY!  THAT WAS UNCALLED FOR!!”
Her opponent, a wolf-like humanoid, blinked while seeing her standing up to such a strong fighter.  He suddenly gulped before running off, his tail tucked between his legs.  The announcer blinked.  “Uh…due to an apparent forfeit…Mazu will now fight the Cloaked Terror!”  The cloaked man turned towards her, Mazu gritting her teeth.  Suddenly, he takes a single step backwards off the ring.  Everyone gasps, the announcer blinking once more.  Mazu gave a frown as her eyes stay locked on him.  “Uh…Mazu…is…Champion?”  Suddenly, the entire stadium exploded in cheer, Mazu frowning as she walked away, helping Krillin leave.
Carrying the bag of money, Mazu was frowning as her head hung low.  Takeno did not look too pleased, as well.  Launch looks to Mazu.  “Mazu…you should be happy.  You won!”
She gave a low growl.  “No…I didn’t.  My victory was stolen from me and he hurt Krillin!  Just glad Tien and Chiaotzu were nice enough to take him to the hospital.”
As they headed out of the stadium, Takeno’s eyes shifted to the cloaked man as he was walking out.  The teenage girl gave a growl from behind clenched teeth, quickly approaching the cloaked man.  Takeno’s eyes widened before he grabbed his daughter’s wrist, stopping her in her tracks.  She looks back at her father as he gives a stern look.  “Mazu….leave him be!”
Mazu narrowed her eyes.  “NO!  I WANT TO ASK HIM WHY HE FORFEIT!  I WANT TO KNOW WHY HE CHOSE A COWARD’S LOSS!”  She suddenly pulled away from Takeno.  Stomping towards the cloaked man, Mazu grit her teeth.  “YOU WAIT!  I WANT TO TALK TO YOU, COWARD!”
The cloaked man stopped, slowly looking back.  Takeno kept his eyes on him, feeling rather uneasy about him.
Mazu reached out to grab his shoulder.  “YOU OWE ME AN-“  Without any given warning, the cloaked man spins around in just a blur, slamming his fist into Mazu’s stomach with such force, it created a shockwave around them.  Takeno’s eyes stared on in shock as his child was lifted a foot off the ground, bowed over with wide eyes, losing her breath.  She lands on her knees, tears trickling from her eyes while she struggles to breathe.  The man soon spoke, his voice rather deep with a tone of regality to it.
“You dare lay a hand upon me, child?  You have no idea of whom you are dealing with.”  Roshi and Launch rush over to help Mazu up to her feet, the girl still coughing.
Takeno began to walk towards the man.  “That….voice….”
The cloaked man looked towards him, slowly reaching up to his hood.  “You should have taught her better than that, General Takeno…”  He soon lowers his hood.  Under the hood was a man with brown hair, the hair wild, standing straight up with a pronounced widow’s peak.  Around his mouth was a mustache and goatee.  His left eye was shut, a sickening scar around it.  Dropping the cloak, he would reveal the Saiya-jin Battle armor beneath.  Long shoulder guards extended out, colored earth orange.  A brown tail swayed back and forth, soon wrapping around his waist.  Upon the left side of his chest was the mark of the Saiya-jin Royal Family.
Takeno’s eyes became wide.  “K-King…Vegeta!?”
The Saiya-jin King gave a chuckle.  Mazu soon looked up to him, gritting her teeth.  “You…..”  She suddenly shout before leaping up, delivering a hard punch to his cheek.  King Vegeta grunted before looking to her.  With a snarl, he smashes his fist into her, sending her flying.  Roshi narrowed his eyes to attack until the Saiya-jin King spun and kicked him in the chest, sending him flying as well.  He turned to Launch, holding a palm out to her until Takeno roared, soon slamming into him with his shoulder.  The King staggers before delivering a one-two punch to Takeno’s face before slamming his knee into his stomach, Takeno’s eyes wide as blood forced from his mouth.  Takeno falls to his knees as he holds his stomach in pain, the King soon heading over to Mazu who was unconscious on the ground.
“You have been slacking, General.”  King Vegeta knelt down, picking Mazu up in his arms.  Takeno struggled to stand.
“W-why….are you here!?  Why waste your time with me!?”
The King tilted his head as he looked to him.  “Out of principal, General.  You shamed me by giving me this scar…and as King…I must make things right.  You have an hour to find me, old friend.”  King Vegeta soon smirks.  “Just follow my energy.”  In a flash, King Vegeta soon took off into the sky, vanishing into the clouds.
The former General growls before he slams his fist against the ground.  “THAT BASTARD!  I’LL KILL HIM!!”
Roshi groaned as he got up, looking to Takeno.  “A…A general!?  You were a General!?”
Takeno sighed.  “Yeah….”  He quickly stood up.  “Second in command to General Bardock.”
The old man gave a frown, Launch quickly approaching Takeno and grabbing his hands.  “What are you going to do?”
“I have no choice but to face him.  He has Mazu…”
The turtle hermit stood straight, dusting himself off.  “Best get moving, Takeno….I..”  The saiya-jin suddenly took off into the air, heading towards the Kame House.  Launch frowned a bit.


King Vegeta has finally revealed himself and his plan to seek revenge upon the one who scarred him...none other than Takeno, Former General of the Saiya-jin Army!  Will our heroes have what it takes to defeat this menace!?  Next time on Dragon Ball Altered Worlds!