Chapter 6: The Missing Pieces
Hey everyone and welcome back to another chapter. Once again sorry for the lack of an update, my internet was recently shut down, and I have also been preparing another fanfiction. To answer your questions again:
1. Yes, Broly did escape Hell with the other villains.
2. Yes, all villains escaped together, but most are in hiding since it's pretty obvious they can't beat the Z-Fighters head on.
3. The radiation poisoning Chi Chi got was from Ki so it killed her faster.
Now let us begin. Disclaimer in chapter one.
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Goku was standing on a street. He was wearing his casual clothes and taking deep breaths. Suddenly a hand appeared on his shoulder. It was Clark Kent's
"Are you sure you're ready for this, Goku?" Clark asked him.
"Clark, I told you, I'm ready to drop my 'self-centered idiot' attitude." Clark looked at him for that comment. "Lois' words, not mine."
"Well then we can go." The two then started walking towards their destination, the Daily Planet. Goku was going to meet Clark's friends. They entered the building and headed straight for the elevator. As soon as they reached the top floor, Goku was amazed at what he saw. It was a giant room filled with many work tables and people. He was never in such a place. The closest he ever got to a work room was the raddish farm he was forced to work at by his late wife. They were soon aproached by a woman with short blond hair.
"So you're that new guy?" The woman told Goku.
"Uh, I don't know what you're talking about." Goku replied trying to sound inoccent. And failing.
"It's okay Goku." Clark interrupted. "This is Chloe Sullivan. She's one of my oldest friends. And she knows about us."
"Oh. Nice to meet you. I'm Goku." Goku introduced himself, offering a hand to Chloe, wich she took.
"Yeah, you too." As Chloe and Goku shook hands, she couldn't help but notice Goku's hair. "You ever think about getting a haircut."
"What's a haircut?" Goku asked.
Chloe giggled at that. She then looked at Goku who was serious. "Oh my God, you're serious."
"Okay let's move on." Clark said as he tried to avoid an akward situation. He and Goku kept walking through the office.
"What is a haircut?" Goku asked, once again dead serious.
"I'll explain later." Clark told him as they kept walking. They then ran into a young caucasian man with orange hair. He and Clark embraced in a bro hug. "Goku this is Jimmy Olsen. He also knows. Jimmy this is Goku, the guy I told you about."
"Nice to meet you." Jimmy told him as the two men shook hands.
"Yeah, you too."
"Um, do you think you could let me take a picture of you in your suit." Jimmy asked him.
"If you promise not to call me Lighhtning."
"Deal." Jimmy said exitedly. After he said that a middle-aged bald man exited from a door at the end of the room.
"That's Perry White. My boss. He doesen't know about us being superheroes." Clark whispered to his friend. Perry then walked over to them. "Uh, Mr. White, I..." Before Clark could finish, Perry put a finger in front of him.
"Do you have something on the new superhero?" Perry asked him.
"No."
"Then please spare me, Kent, I already have enough on my mind as it is." Perry told him.
"Like what?" Clark asked him. As soon as he did, the elevator opened. Out of it stepped a bald man in a black trench coat.
"Like him." Perry replied. The man then started walking over to the three men. Nobody seemed to notice him, exept Chloe and Jimmy, who had concerned looks on their faces. The man then stepped in front of Clark, Goku and Perry. "Why do you have to come here to get the paper?"
"People always look at me strangley when I go to stores. Here they don't. I do own this place after all." The man said as he extended his hand to Perry, who put a newspaper in it.
"You know this comes out tomorrow, right?" Perry asked him.
"I like to be ahead of most people." The man then started to walk away, but stopped in front of Clark and glared at him for a moment. He then continued to walk while giving a glance to Goku, who didin't react. Lex then entered the elevator and exited the building, while Perry entered his office.
"Who was that?" Goku asked.
"Lex Luthor." Clark said with contempt evident in his voice. "The richest man in Metropolis and owner of LexCorp. And secretly a criminal." Goku was surprised at that last comment.
"Then, why don't you expose him and catch him?"
"We can never find enough evidence." Clark's phone then started ringing. He picked up. "Yeah. Okay." He hung up. He then turned to Goku. "It's Bruce. They need you at the Watchtower." Goku nodded and ran off.
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Justice League Watchtower
In the main control room, Batman was standing with Green Lantern. Goku then arrived through the portal, in his superhero gear.
"Took you long enough." GL told him. Goku ignored him and walked past him and towards Batman.
"So what do you need me for? A giant robot? An alien invasion? Mad doctors?" Goku asked enthusiasticaly.
"You won't be punching anything today." Batman told him to wich Goku groaned. Batman then showed a picture of a canyon to Goku. "Do you recognise this place?"
"No."
"It's the place where Clark found you." Green Lantern told him.
"So?"
"You came from a breach." Batman began. "Breaches leave specific energy signatures. So we isolated the places with that energy and excluded entry points from before, and isolated two locations." He then showed a map on the computer with two red dots on it. "A deserted island in the Pacific Ocean and an abandoned subway station in Gotham City."
"So Vegeta and Broly might have landed there?" Goku asked for clarification. Batman nodded. "So why do you need me?"
"Because if Broly is there, we'll need someone that knows how to deal with them." Green Lantern clarified. "And from what you've said about Vegeta we might need you to calm him down."
"Okay. I'll go to the island you got to the train station." Goku told GL.
"No you won't go to to the island." GL said.
"No I won't go to the island." Goku repeated.
"You will go to the subway."
"I will go to the subway."
"Let me go first."
"Letting you go first." Hal then walked into the portal smirking. Goku then came to a realisation. "What just happened?"
"He fooled you." Batman told him.
"How?"
"Perhaps his will was greater than yours."
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Gotham City
Goku was now walking in a closed off subway station.
"What exactly am I looking for?" Goku asked Bruce through comms.
"Any trails that might have been left behind."
"Got it." Goku said as he signed off the comms. He looked around for a bit before spoting something in the ground. He knelt down and picked it up. It was a brown piece of alien-looking armor. The one Vegeta wore. This got Goku interested so he sped off.
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Back at the Watchtower
"Are you sure this is his armor?" Batman asked him.
"Definetly." Goku answered.
"Did you see anything else?" Green Lantern asked him.
"I don't know." Goku replied. He then started thinking and remembered something. "Wait. I do remember something. I think it was a footprint."
"Then go back and bring me a picture of it so I can analyse it." Batman told him throwing him a camera.
"Got it." Goku sped off into the portal
Batman and GL waited five minutes before the portal opened up again revealing Goku with an ice cream cone in hand.
"Did you seriously stop for ice cream?" Green Lantern asked. "Did you at least bring us some?"
"Was I supposed to?" Goku asked as he licked his ice cream.
Batman however immediatly got to the point. "Did you take the picture?"
"Sure." Goku threw him the camera. Batman then connected the footprint to the type of shoe that would make it and started identiffying possible suspects.
"Found him." Batman exclaimed.
"That quick? How?" GL asked him.
"Well when somebody of importance buys shoes it's usually noticable. And there is onlly one person here we could consider a suspect." Batman then presses a button and a picture of a certain bald businessman appeared on the monitor. "Lex Luthor."
Green Lantern looked surprised while Goku had a scowl on his face and started walking to the portal.
"Where are you going?" GL asked.
"To pay a visit to Lex." Goku replied as he shifted to Super Saiyan.
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Metropolis
Sun had justvset in Metropolis. Many street lights were turned on, as were the lights in the apartment and business buildings. However, the building that stood out the most was the LexCorp building. It was so large and it towered over even over the Daily Planet. On the top of it were giant letters that spelled out 'LexCorp'. On the top floor was the office of it's CEO, who was currently in it. Lex was talking on a phone, presumably to business partner. As soon as he finished, a shadow of a fully grown man flying outside his window.
"You should probably get in. Wouldn't like Superman getting jelaous." Lex told Goku. Lex wasn't surprised at this sort of thing. Superman gave him a visit similar to this one after their first encounter. "I'm more of a person to start with formalities. How's Clark?"
That question earned a surprised look from Goku, while Lex kept his calm attitude.
"You should at least try to cover the scar." Lex told the spikey-haired hero as he powered down.
"What did you do to Vegeta?" Goku asked him, bearing a serious look on his face.
"Sadly, I don't know who you're talking about."
"You were on the place he arrived."
"So there were breachers."
"What?"
"When the energy residuals left from breaches were detected by LexCorp satellites, I went to investigate personally. On the first two spots there was nothing but in Gotham, I found this." He then pressed a hidden button under his desk wich revealed a hidden monitor which showed Vegeta's full armor cracked and broken on most spots. "At first I thought it was some fool playing with things he doesn't understand and these things got her by accident. And then you showed up. It was obvious you were a breacher."
"So?" Goku asked him.
"I thought maybe we could help each other. I help you find a way home, and you and whoever came with you stay away from my universe." Lex told him.
"Forget it. All the people I met here, Clark foremost, told who you are and what you're doing."
"Really? Well did Clark by any chance told you about our shared past?"
"Shared past?" Goku asked, confused.
"In the past, Clark and I used to be friends." Goku's eyes widened at that statement. "Not only that, we were best friends. When we were younger, Clark saved my life. We became friends instantly. Actually having real friends, as little in number as they were was the one major difference between me and my father. However, in a hard time of my life, when I needed friends, Clark turned his back on me. That's what slowly turned me into this. Into my father."
Goku was shocked to hear this story. Not only were Clark and Lex friends, but, if Lex's version of the story is true, then Clark left him behind at a moment of need.
"My offer still stands. Think about it. I will help you find your 'missing pieces' and you can go home." Lex told him. Goku then started walking to the window, but before he could leave, Lex asked him something. "What was your name again?"
"It's Goku." Goku replied as he jumped out of the window and started flying.
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Done. I'm once again, so incredibly sorry for keeping you waiting for so long. But as I said, I have been thinking of starting a new fanfic. It will be called Agents of S.T.A.R.: a crossover between The Flash (2014) and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. which I hope you will enjoy.