Journey Part 3 New student, Mai the mercenary!

With Capsule Corp spread thin, Bulma had them seek it from Kakarot and his group instead. The territory was just not in the right place. King Furry was defintely not going to help send the Army to a place that did not adhere to the Planetary Accords.

Independence had its price, after all. They wanted self-governance, so they had to self-protect.

"I don't mind, but you have to agree to the "Laws" that my people do." Handing over the mandates, it contained a 25 point year plan of the changes that would take place. Accommodating of Galatic Threats and safety measures. "The biggest is the forming of Underground bunkers to help fend off extraterrestrial threats."

"The Red Ribbon Army.. left us well enough alone. Dealings with the Carrot Gang helped keep us from being a priority." The village head slid through the different prompts. Besides the tax that stays at 10% of revenue no matter how big the place becomes, everything else looked fine. "How long until someone can come to help enforce the law?"

"Right now, some robots with basic controls will be handed over." Removing 20 robots from his Internal Space, he smiled at the finishing of the solar-powered workers. "They will also pull up the Poisonous Mushrooms in the area for storage."

The robots looked human in every way. Besides having an artificial tail around the waist like a Saiyan and a numerical number on the cheekbone for designation. Joint artificial creature project Kakarot was doing. Towa supervised the progress to see how it takes for them to develop sentience.

"At least the currency in use is still Zeni." The village head nodded. "I hope the rest of the members of teh Carrot Gang can be stopped as soon as possible."

The robots having a power level of fifty and growing by one with the solar energy absorbed by the month would be just fine until people could be redistributed.

As the formalities ended, Kakarot and Bulma went on their way. They were even taking the Rabbit Car with. While they drove and chitchatted about how the world would be changed more, A woman in a trench coat reported on them.

Her black hair flowing in the wind. A trained mercenary was expected to deal with all sorts of situations. Any regular person would think she was nuts wearing tat in the desert heat.

"Reporting from point HO-15, there is a single car driving through." The respect she had for her boss had already gone over the last few weeks. The Dragon Ball hunt cause the lives of so many other mercenaries. "Dr.Bulma Briefs of Capsule Corp is inside with the one who caused the incident in Grummes Land."

Radio: I am almost in position Mai. Just keep me updated a little longer.

As she listened to the report back, the mercenary known as Mai lamented on answering the AD in the newspaper back then. It had been nothing but trouble getting the few dragon balls and escaping the Ribbon Army that was starting to retaliate even further against the Capsule Corp Army.

So many people realized the world had bad people in them. Chichi was good at getting a plan across and calling for various reforms in every region.

"Its all on you now! Make sure you get that Dragonball! Emperor Pilaf should be happy we finally obtained another one!"

Watching the drivers proceed, only a small nudge to her soul said to get far away. Something about the operation was just.. silly. This guy took over Gurumes village.. he has to have tricks up his sleeve.

'Its not to late to abort, is it?' Mai felt as if her life flashed before her eyes in a warning. 'I should tell Shu to abort!'

As the car reached the destination for the trap, a rocket was shot towards the driving car.

*Scckkrchh!* Bulma swerved to get out of the way, a fin of the car cutting through the ground before wrecking into a mushroom tree in the process. Confused at what just happened, Kakarot jumped out after seeing if she was ok.

"I can't believe someone took a shot at us!" Bulma was fine besides her having a slight bump from hitting the window. "More people of the Rabbit Gang already?"

"Only picking up two." The scouter detected one moving away pretty fast. Most likely by car or truck. "I will take care of the one who shot at us!" As he moved, a robot on four legs rocketed towards their location.

Inside operating the robot was a fox man of sorts. Wearing a purple ninja outfit of the olden era. Kakarot got between the vehicle and the robot. The Foxman was named Shu; he rembered at least the humanoid was not that violent in the end.

But the hear and now was a different matter.

"I want the Dragonball punk!"

"You could have caused serious harm with that rocket!" The concussive force doing most of the damage was not the biggest problem. The skin was stronger, but the eyeballs themselves were still a weakness. "Damn, it burns!" Not to mention toxins from the mushrooms possibly. "I am gonna kick your ass!"

"The hard way it is then!" Pointing with the firing arm, Shu forgot he just fired the rocket already. He needed to reload it. "Just a minute!" As if that would happen, he made the mistake of taking his eyes off him. "Now, how to get this to work.."

The humanoid was having difficulty getting the mech to work as he needed.

Breaking the dome in, he stared at Shu with barely restrained anger. Tail wrapping around the controls preventing any movement.

"Alight, little fox dog person thing.." Kakarot was about to give the chance to give up. ".. no need to get yourself..."

"Sha sha!" In a feat that would make Dale Gribble proud, Shu tossed sand into Kakarot's face. "Escape time!" Hitting the escape button would have been the end of it, normally. "Huh?"

Wrapped around his foot, Shu was pulled out of the seat straps from the counterforce. The chair flew off into a mushroom stalk harmlessly. The overall feeling the little creature was not that evil and could be talked down. However, the last attack was just to much.

"I was gonna spare you at first!" Kakarot raged as he couldn't see but defintely could sense the location. Throwing him forcefully out of the cockpit onto the ground, he couldn't keep calm just yet. "Say hi to king Yenma for me!"

*Fwoosh!* The full blast of Ki wiped Shu out, leaving a small dust pile. Bulma watched from the side with the scouter on. Seeing a strand of magical energy enter Kakarot during the process she wonder what set him off like that.

"This better work." Calmed after not sensing any threat, he slowly pushed his magic out around his body in every direction. The dust was forced out of his eyes, getting rid of the overall irritation as well. "Haa, that was stupid."

"Huh?" Bulma gave him an odd look walking over.

"Just the outburst is all. Don't get me wrong, it was safer to kill him outright, but I had the full advantage. If not for getting pissed, he could have been captured and interrogated." Whipping his head around, he made sure Bulma was good before he took off. "I will be back in a bit; at least we have something to tinker with later."

Bulma looked at the mech and smiled at the chance to tinker with it already.

*Fwoosh!* Flying off towards the fleeing Mai, Kakarot stopped in the air in front of her. Wrist mounted gun pointing at her. It was still a better intimidator for ordinary people than a raised hand with a ki ball.

"Don't shoot!" Mai fell back on her ass, terrified.

"We need to have a talk. Do not throw sand in my face." Kakarot's tail whipped back and forth in irritation. 'This can't be an instinct thing, can it?' His sense of smell had kicked up recently, and his eyes were better than yesterday.

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Makeshift Pitstop-

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Mai, not wanting to die like Shu, surrendered herself to them. She was giving the details of her assignment to Bulma quickly. Considering Chichi was already dealing with the Red Ribbon Army with the others, she made the call to take care of this on her own.

As Bulma moved away to check something, but also notify the others Kakarot placed the Timebreaker Mark on Mai. Blinking a little at the lack of overall evil in the woman, he squatted down to her level.

"Suppress." The overall control the seal gave him was stopped. A simple reactivation would be needed to get control once again, but it wouldn't be anything complicated. "Pilaf.. he hired you and Shu. Do you really think he cares for your life currently?"

"Well.. no, but I was hired, and I have to eat." Mai said simply. She was still upset about Shu but was not going to poke the hornet's nest so to speak.

"You are smart and good enough to work with. As for Pilaf, he is smart, so I won't kill him. He will be put to work for me. Lots of work to do." Pulling an injector out, he stabbed her in the thigh. "This will help you become stronger. Awakening your dormant fighting potential and improving your health."

"Thank you.." Mai could feel a warm sensation run through her body. Then her chest almost caught fire, it felt like. "..ugh!"

Mai: Human (Unlocking Potential)

Spirit: 2,300

Ki: 16

Magic: 87

Storing the scouting data, he watched for any major health concerns. But it was just pain as the ki inside her moved with hte magic throughout her entire cellular structure. A sample would be taken later to determine the over genetic change over time.

"It will pass quickly." Kakarot stood up with his tail wrapping around the woman who just then fainted. Her cheeks redden with a weird twitch of the foot and opposite hand. "You ready, Bulma?"

"Yeah." She gave a look to Mai but didn't say much in regards to it. "Everything is stored away and we can take the jeep the move on. A nice checkpoint was coming up soon. Well, I say soon, but its a couple hours. The Village of Nam that you wanted to go to is not to far by."

"Its only a small problem I wan to help with." Kakarot showed her a digital map on locations he wanted to go to in the area. "Isuri Area, which is home to Isuri's Lake and Naraku's Footprint not far from that is the target."

"Demon King Piccolo's area. We tried searching for the Rice Cooker he is sealed in but found nothing." Bulma really hoped he was not planning on killing the Namekian before they got the chance to use the dragon balls.

"I still need to check the area for any Rifts." Kakarot was not going to let the chance slip by and allow a latent threat develop. "The concentrated energy might lead to something unfortunate happening. Like an opening leading a bunch of Dark Namekians through or something like that. Barriers are not always a 100%."

"Ok, I will watch.. the prisoner." Bulma watched him fly off but straight up. Seeing him meditating in the air, the brush of magic against her skin afterward alerted he was definitely at work already. 'Time to check in anyway with the parentals.'

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Red Ribbon Army-

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Chichi and Tights stood over a command base. The Capsule Corps Forces secured the area after a major battle. Annoyed at her clothes being burned away some again, she switched out on the battlefield.

"Yah know, you are giving anyone who looks up an eyeful." Tights observed her lover unabashed.

"If you got it, flaunt it. That's what my mom always told me." Chichi left her vest open in the front. A small burst of power alerted her to someone in the distance. "Haaa!" A ki blast fired out, sailing away before it exploded along a mountain path.

"Hey!" Yamacha called from the ground. "We found the entrance to a lab!" The two woman shot down immediately to join him. "It is really weird, though." As they moved to the lab, more and more of the forces moved away.

"In what way?" Chichi felt the hairs on the back of her neck rise up. She started powering up as they moved faster. 'What the hell is happening now!?'

"A weird circle opened up and is spreading at fast rate!" Yamacha knew what it was but also forgot the details of what it meant. "Two of our people already vanished inside it!"

"It's a Rift!" Chichi stopped about a 100 feet away from the thing. It was spreading pretty quickly and was eating away at the fabric of the Dimension. "It's not trying to merge.. its trying to overtake everything!"

*Pew!* Tights fired a ki blast at it. The energy caused the Rift to close a little but then speed up afterward.

"Have to take care of whats going on the inside first!" Chichi frowns, not liking that at all. Using the Multiform technique, she split into three. "We will take care of this; make sure to clean up everything here!"

"Umm sure.." Yamacha watched as two of the Chichi's and Tights dissappeared. Leaving him and the forces with a Chichi that shot off to search for any more trouble. "..wait for us!"