Dragon Ball: Super Goten

Chapter 3 Fierce Battle, Cyborg Tao Pai Pai!

Having obtained the Dragon Radar, Goten headed towards the nearest Dragon Ball. Meanwhile, another force was secretly working to achieve some goal by collecting all the Dragon Balls. They were dressed in white robes and wore hooded jackets, making it impossible to see their faces.

There were three of them. One of them, a rather fat guy, stood on the far right. On his other side was a tall, thin guy. Although he was the shortest and looked the most useless among them, the other two treated him with utmost respect, as if he were more important.

The tall man spoke first: "Lord Carrick, you've finally returned! This time, we must rule this world!"

The fat man chimed in, "Yes, this time we'll make Earthlings our slaves!"

Carrick: "Shut up! You two idiots! I've failed twice already. This time I've finally come back, so I have to be careful. This time I'm going to use the Dragon Balls to become the strongest demon on Earth! Palos (the tall guy), Dora (the fat guy)! Go find the Dragon Balls for me, and wipe out all the scum you encounter along the way!"

Palos and Dora: "Yes, sir! We joined because of Lord Carrick's great aspirations, and we're ready to go through fire and water for him!"

After saying that, the two took off their coats and flew into the air in a flash, using their unique sensory abilities to begin collecting the Dragon Balls...

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In the Temple of the Celestials, the newly appointed Celestial, Tenten (Dandy), a Namekian, had already sensed the evil power emanating from the two as they moved. He asked Mr. Popo, who was standing nearby, whether they should take action now. However, before he could answer, another sharp voice interrupted their conversation, "What are you worried about? They're just two pieces of trash. Let them do as they please. Once they return to the mastermind, we'll wipe them out in one fell swoop. Until then, just observe their movements carefully."

The speaker was Piccolo, also a Namekian and a member of the Z Fighters who had fused with the former Kami. He had fought alongside the Saiyan Goku against Raditz, who had invaded Earth, and was also the teacher of Gohan, Goten's older brother.

So, following Bick's advice, Tian Tian decided to observe the situation further...

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Returning to Goten's perspective, following the radar's guidance, Goten finally arrived near the Dragon Balls. He leaped off the Flying Nimbus and began searching for their exact location.

However, just as Goten was focused on finding the Dragon Balls, a sudden, violent explosion ahead drew his attention. Goten rushed over and hid behind a tree to observe the situation.

In front of them stood an old man dressed in green with the character for "crane" written on it, and another man dressed in a pink cheongsam with the character for "peach" written on it, wearing a black undershirt. His hands were no longer human hands, but modified mechanical hands, and half of his head had also been modified.

The two men sternly threatened the group of thin-looking elderly people and children in front of them: "Hand over everything you had on you, or we won't be so polite!"

Faced with the two men's intimidation, the group of elderly, weak, sick, and disabled were completely too frightened to move and hesitated to take any action. Just as the woman in pink impatiently picked up a little girl as a warning to others, a figure suddenly darted out and instantly rescued the little girl from the woman in pink's arms.

Man in pink: "Who? Who is it!"

Green clothes: "You're on your right!"

Following the green-clothed man's suggestion, a little boy with a crab-like head gently put down the boy he had just been carrying, turned around and looked at the two robbers, coldly saying, "You two, after all these years, you still can't change your ways and are still doing this kind of pointless thing."

The two men exclaimed in disbelief, "You bastard!" Looking at the familiar child before them, the trauma of the past instantly returned to their minds. They demanded, "Sun Wukong! You...you...how did you shrink again?!"

Sun Wukong smiled dismissively and answered the two casually, "What's wrong? Your tone now is completely different from before. Are you afraid of me? Hehehehe..."

Upon seeing this, the man in pink instantly flew into a rage, saying, "Afraid? Do you think I, Tao Pai Pai, would be afraid of a little brat like you? What a joke! I don't care if you're Sun Wukong or not, today I'm going to avenge myself!" He then immediately leaped forward and threw a powerful punch.

Goten saw the iron fist coming at him and hurriedly caught it with his right hand, but the powerful punch still knocked him back a distance. Tao Pai Pai, seeing that his attack had been blocked, immediately continued to throw several punches at the kid in front of him, not intending to give his opponent a chance to breathe.

Faced with a punch that was more than twice as fast as his mother Chi-Chi's, Son Goten kept dodging and finally became excited. He thought that this time he might be able to grow a lot. With this in mind, Son Goten immediately began to counterattack. After dodging Tao Pai Pai's right punch, he used his left punch to strike back, knocking Tao Pai Pai away.

Tao Pai Pai, who had been knocked away, had just stood up with a somersault when Sun Wukong was already in front of him.

Before Tao Pai Pai could react, a series of cross punches landed on his abdomen, the force so strong that Tao Pai Pai's tongue was sticking out. After this small attack, taking advantage of Tao Pai Pai's moment of recovery while clutching his stomach, Son Goten leaped into the air and delivered a spinning whip kick to Tao Pai Pai's face, sending him flying.

Knowing he couldn't defeat the brat before him with his fists and feet, Tao Pai Pai decisively disarmed himself and aimed his right hand at Goten, gathering energy. Goten, of course, knew what Tao Pai was going to do, but he had no intention of interrupting him. Goten knew that in the Dragon Ball world, blocking and deflecting projectiles was extremely important, so he had to bravely take this step.

Seeing that the brat had no intention of avoiding the attack, Tao Pai Pai mocked, "Hahaha, you idiot, do you want to die? Then I'll grant your wish!"

Sun Wukong: "Attack with all your might! I will take your full-force attack. Attack with the intention of killing me!"

Tao Pai Pai felt underestimated upon hearing this, so he turned the power level of his energy device to maximum and shouted, "Die, you brat! Super Dot Wave! Maximum power!"

A yellow beam of light shot straight toward Goten in an instant. Goten stood upright with his arms outstretched, and caught the beam with his bare hands as it came. Withstanding the powerful impact, Goten realized that in the Dragon Ball world, beam attacks were just something to watch; in reality, they were no joke. But since things had come to this, he could only grit his teeth and continue to exert his strength to resist the attack.

Son Goten forcefully resisted Tao Pai Pai's Dodon Wave, trying to gather his power in his palms and limbs. After ten seconds of adjustment, he finally felt a little better. At this moment, the little girl who had just been rescued saw that her hero seemed to be in trouble, so she shouted loudly, "Come on, come on! Don't lose to that kind of guy!"

Hearing the cheers, Son Goten suddenly felt a surge of power from somewhere. With a forceful effort, he sent Dodonba flying. Then, with a sudden attack, he slammed his head into Tao Pai Pai, sending him flying like a meteor.

Seeing Tao Pai Pai's defeat, Master Crane, the green-haired one, immediately slunk away. After dealing with the two, Goku realized that he had come to find the Dragon Balls. So, after asking the villagers, he finally obtained the six Dragon Balls as a reward for his rescue.

Just as Wutian was about to leave, the little girl called out to him. Wutian was wondering what she wanted when she unexpectedly kissed him on the cheek.

The little girl blushed and whispered, "Thank you, this is my thank-you gift..."

Sun Wutian (Wow, kids are so innocent, their way of expressing gratitude is so direct): "Oh, I'm off then, see you again sometime."

The little girl only realized she hadn't asked the person's name after they left, so she called out in the direction Wutian had gone, "You still haven't told me your name!"

"Son-Go-Ten!" came Go-Ten's reply from the horizon...

(The Dragon Balls have been collected so far, including the sixth and third-star Dragon Balls.)