Golden Wing Z

!SPECIAL EFFECTS! "THOUGHTS

Chapter One

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Booster Gold had a round, square face with fair skin, dark blue eyes, and a petite pointed nose. His blondish/yellow feathered hair was wavy and short-cropped. While he was of average height, his frame was barrel-chested with the muscular definition of an Olympic athlete under his clothing.

However, despite his superior physical attributes he had found himself working at a factory. The authorities had caught Booster gambling on his college football games, thus he had been thrown out of sports and college.

Unknown to Booster who was working late again was the fact that unsavory characters were talking with his boss who was also there late in his office a couple of floors above him.

"It's not going work, Gavin! Now get out of my office!" Gerard Bekins shouted as he pounded the desk in front of him.

"My boss is going to get what he wants no matter what you think. As it is, the timewarp machine has already been placed inside this factory. So it's gonna happen whether you like it or not!" the well-dressed thug said with a toss of his head to the left then the right as the two especially large men behind him stood them motionless, glaring at the factory boss.

"You can't do that!" Bekins demanded.

"It's happening now." Then Gavin took out a device and pressed a few buttons on it, causing Bekins to sweat nervously.

"Where did you place that machine?!"

"It's on the first floor along with all the other equipment you have. There's nobody there so we can run some tests."

"Wait! A guy is working there now! Turn it off!"

"There's no turning back now! If the schmuck working for you gets blasted out of existence, that's just too bad for him."

As Booster put some technological devices together, he heard a humming noise. Then he turned towards the sound and saw a glowing light which was a few yards away from him.

"What the…"

"Booster, get out of there!" his boss screamed from the audio system. However, the glow expanded towards him while Booster stood there like a deer in the headlights.

"Aaaaagh!" the young man screamed as he vanished into thin air.

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In an undetermined space of time, Booster found himself lying on the thick, soft green grass of the jungle, having left a dent in the ground after having crashed into it. Upon rousing himself, he looked up to see large palm trees filled with strange, high hanging fruit and a couple of rushing rivers a few yards away. There were even sounds of wild animals roaring not too far away.

As he looked up and took stock of this strange environment, he noticed what looked like a giant-sized man from Booster's current vantage point on the ground regarding at him which caused him to get up with a start.

"Easy now. You made a large noise when you hit the ground. And you're not even from around here are you?"

Booster's eyes blinked as the old man walked over to him, leaning on a cane as he made his way towards him.

"Is that a giant creature walking with a cane? And why is he wearing those strange clothes?" the man turned child thought until his vision cleared up and he had come to his presence of mind. Then he realized that he wasn't in Kansas anymore.

"Greetings, my name is Son Gohan, but you can call me Grandpa," he said with a friendly smile.

Grandpa Gohan was a short, stubby, bald old man with small dark eyes and a bushy white mustache and eyebrows. He also wore a Chinese martial arts uniform, which consisted of a sleeveless orange jacket over a long-sleeved black shirt. In addition to that, he wore a green hat.

"Huff, where am I? And what happened to me?!" Booster gasped when he noticed that he had age regressed to the body of a three-year-old child with the same blond hair and blue eyes he had always had. Thus the short, old man seemed like a giant to him.

"You're on Mount Paozu? Where did you come from, little fella?"

Then Booster looked around, realizing he wasn't 0n earth anymore, at least not on the earth he had known.

"I'm from a land far far away," the boy answered.

"I see. So what is your name anyway?" the old man asked with his eyebrows raised.

"My name's Booster Gold?" the boy said as he rubbed his head.

"Hmm? Where are your parents and family?" Gohan asked.

"I don't have any family. My parents and sister disowned me a long time ago."

"Hmm. Well, little fella, have you ever heard of martial arts?"

"I've haven't had too much training in martial arts, but I do OK," the little boy answered.

"Well, I'm a great martial arts master, and since I don't have any heirs I'll train you in my fighting style before I pass away," the old man stated, noticing the potential the child had.

"Um, all right."

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Over fifteen years, Booster had grown in size, strength, and power, becoming much more a martial artist than he or anyone he had known in his previous life would have thought possible.

"Huff, I've done the best I could for you, Booster. Now it's about time for me to pass on," the old man stated as he struggled to stay conscious.

"You can't die now, Grandpa!" Booster said tearfully.

"My death was going to happen sooner or later, but cheer up. You coming to live with me and learn martial arts have helped me to stay alive longer than I would have otherwise. However, I want you to go out into the world and seek your fortune. This world has many places to go and people to see. Thus you've been cooped up here for too long."

"All right, Grandpa."

"You know where all the maps are. I've also told you where to bury me. Farewell, little fella." With that, the old man closed his eyes and passed away.

Upon burying him near the garden he had created, Booster got some supplies in a backpack. Then he made his way far away from the place he had called home for over a decade.

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After traveling hundreds of miles away from Mount Paozu, Booster camped out near a stream in a clearing, gathering fruit and water from the area while fishing from the stream. Upon finishing a meal of trout and food from his supplies, he broke camp and started up again on his journey.

Later as he made his way through a desert, he heard something. Up from the skies, half a dozen dark green jets with huge, jug sized centers came bearing down on him.

"What the… I'm under attack!" Booster gasped as he looked up.

Before Booster could do anything, the explosion of a near-miss missile sent up him flying into the air, stunning him.

"Oh!"

After another missile barely missed Booster who had leaped out of the area of the explosive device, he took off running.

"Yeow! I'm out in the open! I need to find cover! The technology is so beyond what I've known or read about in the past. It's a good thing I was able to talk Grandpa into having someone tutor me on the technology of this world, allowing me to learn how things work here."

The gunfire of the flying jets came perilously close, forcing Booster to leap forward as the hail of bullets passed less than inches behind his feet.

"Idiot! Our orders are to bring this kid in alive!" an officer sitting behind the pilot of the lead military jet with an insignia of two white R's side by side with a red background to it called out, noticing the fast-moving form of Booster on the ground.

"Yes, Colonel Violet!" the others snapped in response.

"He had better be alive for your sakes!" the colonel answered.

"Yes, Colonel Violet!"

Colonel Violet was an attractive young woman with fair white skin, blue eyes, medium length purple hair, and a buxom figure. She wore protective blue glasses, gloves, and red boots. In addition to that, she wore a green flannel top with the Red Ribbon logo and orange military trousers with a red strap.

At that point, Booster looked up further ahead, noticing an abandoned house. Upon running towards that house with all the speed he could muster, a salvo from one of the airships above struck the dwelling blowing it to bits before he could get to it.

"I'm going to have to make a calculated risk," the boy thought as he readied himself.

At that moment one of the jet fighters got too close allowing Booster to jump up in the air and kick the nose of the craft causing it to smash into the plane right behind it and blow up causing the both of them to eventually crash into the ground.

"Send in the commandos!" Violet commanded, prompting twenty men wearing light armor to come jumping out of one the larger planes, each one landing on his feet like a cat, brandishing silver-coated laser rifles that reflected the light of the sun.

Despite there being dozens of laser bolts shooting off in his direction, Booster barely moved, seeming to stand still as he evaded the deadly rays.

"Move in!" the lead marine ordered as he ran forward towards his target only to be struck with a snap kick that sent him flying back into his men when Booster had zipped on the ground towards him at a surprising speed.

"Oof!"

At that point, Booster shot straight into the air right into one of the military jets that had been bearing in on him.

"Hyaa!" Booster screamed as he kicked the nose of the jet causing a chain reaction that knocked the aircraft into the others as it spun out of control, prompting the crews of each airship to jump out of their aircrafts with their parachutes on.

Upon seeing jet after jet go crashing to the ground, Colonel Violet pressed a button streaming a barely visible volume of gas out of her jet as she circled the area, staying a couple of miles over the battle.

Then the Red Ribbon commandos that were still conscious organized themselves against Booster. As it was, a third lied on the ground, another third crouched on one knee behind the first third, and the last third stood up behind both groups.

"Fire!"

Laser bolts flew all around Booster who dodged, gliding on the ground to his left and his right as was needed to avoid the deadly energy. However, the squad of Red Ribbon commandos was too thorough with their gunfire thus a few laser bolts struck maneuverable martial artist, finally stunning the young man and dropping him to the ground with a thud.

"We got him!" a Red Ribbon Marine officer called out.

"Why are you people doing this?!" Booster called out as he stumbled to his feet, regarding the destruction of everything around him.

"We're the Red Ribbon Army and we're taking you in for questioning!" Colonel Violet called out from the loudspeaker in her jet. Then her men poised their weapons on the boy.

"I'm not going anywhere with you! Now leave me alone!" That having been said, Booster leaped towards the commandos shooting at him executing acrobatic cartwheels up and over the gunfire of his adversaries. Then he came crashing down on them, attacking, punching and kicking the commandos faster than the untrained eye could follow. In a matter of seconds, the men were on the ground unconscious.

"Send in the armored troopers!"

At that point, four 12 foot robotic looking mechanisms came crashing through the trees of the forest, thus they were all around Booster. Each armored trooper was of a metallic silver/grey with larger than life limbs that shone in the sunlight, creating a blinding glare. These mecha monsters moved with a speed that belied their size as they rapidly moved in on their target.

Upon being surrounded, Booster zipped into the closest armored trooper fist first with his knees bent, striking it in such a way as to knock the pilot out of the machine with the jarring effect in the process. Then one more came running at him from his right while another came at him from his left. Instead of despairing of his situation, Booster glided forward at the right moment, letting the two robots smash into each other.

"Stop him, you fools!" Violet ordered from the high vantage point of her jet aircraft.

The last armored trooper leaped backward several feet and fired his huge laser cannon, prompting the fleet-footed martial artist to leap into the air up and over the cannon bolt that shot past under him. However, at the same time, Colonel Violet fired at him from the safety of her plane, missing Booster while hitting the armored trooper, damaging his armor. Then Booster landed near the mechanical monster which lunged at him with its arms drawn towards him. Thus Booster grabbed the offending hand and executed a martial throw maneuver, causing it to go crashing into the ground with a bang.

"It's not over yet!" Colonel Violet called out as she had her pilot fly away from the island and double back, firing at Booster from a good distance who was barely able to recoil backward, executing acrobatic maneuvers to avoid the deadly fire that had gotten too close for comfort.

"Cough! Cough!"

"The knockout gas is working! Now it's time to hit him with some more!" the colonel announced as she pressed another button that shot a gas canister at the stunned martial artist, prompting him to fall back to the ground finally knocking him out cold.

"Yes!"

"I guess Doctor Gero will have what he wants after all. I don't see what use this kid would be to him, but that's what Doctor Gero wanted," the colonel speculated as she landed her plane near the unconscious form of Booster having her men carry the boy towards her.

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AUTHOR'S NOTES: Be here next time to find out what happens!