Under the cover of night, two octopus-like robots swiftly moved across the wilderness.
"Target found! Target found!"
"We finally located them!"
Hiding behind a large boulder, the two robots stealthily observed the house where Yuujin and his companions were staying.
The robot operators were two familiar characters from the original Dragon Ball series, Shu, a ninja dog person, and Mai, a sharp-eyed girl in a military uniform, both servants of Emperor Pilaf.
"Mai, what should we do now?" Shu whispered, afraid of alerting their targets.
"Isn't it obvious? We're going to snatch the Dragon Balls from those people!" Mai replied coldly, a glint flashing in her eyes.
"But that guy Yuujin and that Sun Goku are really strong! We're no match for them."
Recalling their previous encounter, Shu's face filled with fear. Just a few days earlier, following orders from Emperor Pilaf to find the Dragon Balls, they had run into Yuujin's group. They had been thrilled to find several Dragon Balls on them and tried to seize them, but were quickly defeated in one move. Not only did they fail to get the Dragon Balls, but they were also punished by Pilaf.
"Idiot! We just need to avoid direct combat. Now, you'll quietly plant a bomb on their house, and then we'll..."
Mai whispered her plan to Shu, who soon nodded in realization.
"Oh, as expected of you, Mai!"
"Hmph, once we get their Dragon Balls, Emperor Pilaf will definitely praise us."
"Alright, let's begin."
"Got it!"
Operating their robots, they carefully approached the house, making no noise.
But at that moment—
"Those two again, huh?"
Yuujin, who was asleep, opened his eyes, feeling annoyed at the disturbance. With a casual wave, he sent an energy blast out the window.
"Huh? What's this?" Shu, who was just about to set the bomb, instinctively caught the glowing sphere with his robot. Mai glanced over, both of them looking confused.
The energy blast flickered in the robot's hand, pulsating with a seemingly limitless energy that looked ready to explode.
"Mai, I have a bad feeling about this."
"I... I do too..."
Just as Shu was about to throw the strange object away, the energy ball exploded—
Boom!!!
"Ahhh…"
In the deafening blast and their screams, Shu and Mai, along with their robots, were sent flying like shooting stars.
"Ugh…"
"What's that noise outside, Yuujin?"
Goku continued to sleep soundly on Yuujin's chest, but Bulma and Tights, lying on either side of him, woke up, groggily asking about the noise outside.
"Just a couple of cockroaches. It's nothing, go back to sleep," Yuujin reassured them.
"Oh…"
If Yuujin said it was fine, then it was fine. Bulma and Tights held onto his arm and drifted back to sleep...
The next day—
After breakfast and a short rest, Bulma packed up the house into a capsule. Yuujin and Goku summoned their dark and Golden Nimbus, and the four of them set off once again. According to the Dragon Ball radar, the sixth Dragon Ball was on Frypan Mountain. With the speed of the dark and Golden Nimbus, they soon arrived at the mountain's vicinity.
"Wow, there's a mountain on fire over there!" Goku pointed excitedly.
"Is that Frypan Mountain? It's so hot," Bulma commented, wiping the sweat from her forehead.
"I read something in the papers about Frypan Mountain. It used to be called Pleasant Mountain, but ten years ago, a fire spirit fell from the sky, and the place has been burning ever since. I didn't expect it to be real," Tights said in surprise, looking at the mountain in awe.
Perhaps calling it "Blazing Mountain" would be more accurate, as the entire mountain was engulfed in unquenchable flames, the heat reaching them even from afar.
"If that's Frypan Mountain, how do we find the Dragon Ball?" Bulma asked, looking concerned.
"It's simple. Just use the Banana Fan to put out the flames," Yuujin replied casually.
A mere blazing mountain wasn't much of an obstacle. If the Banana Fan didn't work, he could just use another energy blast.
Just as they were about to fly toward Frypan Mountain, a cry for help echoed from below—
"Ahhh!"
"Help! Help!"
"Don't come any closer!"
Down below, a dinosaur was chasing a young girl about Goku's age. As she ran, she called for help.
"That little girl's in danger!"
"Yuujin, we have to help her!"
Bulma and Tights looked alarmed, urging Yuujin.
He was about to help, but when he saw the girl below, he chuckled.
"No need; she can handle it herself."
The others looked confused, but they soon understood.
The girl, who had been running, suddenly turned and threw a blade from her helmet. The spinning blade flew through the air and sliced through the dinosaur's neck with a swift motion.
"Ahhh…"
"Scary! So scary!"
The blade circled back and reattached to the girl's helmet, but she kept screaming in fear. Then, pressing her hands to her forehead, she fired a beam from her helmet, blasting the dinosaur's remains to dust.
Goku and Yuujin didn't react much, but Bulma and Tights could only watch, speechless.
Despite her cries of fear, the girl had dispatched the dinosaur with brutal efficiency. Looks could be deceiving!
"Let's go down and take a look," Yuujin said with a slight smile as he guided his Black Nimbus lower.
Meeting her here was unexpected, but it was a chance to introduce themselves...
To be continued...