Lookout: Heroes

**Lookout: Heroes** is the story of the Lookout Crew of Universe 41, a slightly different Universe and slightly different characters, but nonetheless, at the core, the same people.

**Main Characters**:

* Kuzey - The heart of the group, and most charismatic
* ZionThreeX - A man with unfathomable amounts of ki, and who puts this to good use.
* Goten - Without a doubt, the fastest one of them all. He makes DBZ fight speed look slow in comparision.
* Vegito 7900 - The physically strongest one of them.
* TOAA - An enigmatic person who's very old, and presumably, trapped in his powered armor. Uniquely, doesn't rely on any type of ki whatsoever.

**Others:**

* Silver Shenron

**Side Characters (after timeskip):**

* Ethan - a ninja, who's head of the Combat Division at Lookout.
* Jamez - a scientist, who works at the Science Division at Lookout.
* P.G - the voice, and back up. In charge of providing essential support to the fighters during battles.
* Ghoster - an outcast who dabbles in magic.
* Majin Man - a protector and vigilante of West City

**Villains**

* Snakeonaman
* Nova
* Rasetsu
* ??
* ??
* ???
* ????

## Snakeonaman Saga

### Prologue

The battle was raging on, having reached its crescendo. All around them there was chaos. Kuzey had not planned for it to end up like this, as in his mind, the plan was simple, all of them going in, taking down the soldiers, and finally, Snakeonaman. Naturally, it had progressed anything but this, as unexpected factors from both sides chimed in, including an underestimation on just how strong Snakeonaman was.

Kuzey and Snakeonaman were locked in battle, exchanging punches, ending with Kuzey catching one of his fists, and vice versa, grunting as they struggled to gain control over the other. Kuzey could literally feel his bones in his arm cracking, but he wasn't going to let up anytime soon. Kuzey's earcom was going crazy, the sound of his allies bursting in, interrupting each other, screaming.

"Aiyo what the hell man?!" he could hear Vegito ask. Apparently, it was directed towards Goten, who Kuzey could see flashing by in the corner of his eye. The red streak was being chased by a hoard of soldiers who fired their blasters after him, narrowly staying ahead of them, smashing into any other soldiers that were infront of him.

"Oh please, you can't possibly mean to tell me that you had all that under control." Goten replied, in a surprisingly stable voice for someone who was running faster than anyone else in the world.

"You knocked me over!" Vegito shouted.

"It was an accident!" Goten said, drawling. Above him, Kuzey could see soldiers flying away, before getting hit with a pillar, crushing them against a wall, knocking them all out, and a roar, undeniably Vegito's.

"Come on!", he shouted, whereupon Kuzey could hear the sound of gunfire in response. "Vegito? Vegito?!" Kuzey started, before it transformed into a shout of pain. Snakeonaman was overpowering him, forcing him to his knees.

"Graah! Fascinating! A small group of fighters doing what an entire world could not! How?! How did you manage to make it this far?! Why?!" Snakeonaman shouted, in equal fascination and rage. Kuzey stared defiantly into his eyes...

### Chapter 1

Kuzey sneezed, the "ach-oo" echoing throughout the mountain range he currently found himself in. He had travelled far and wide to find this place. A snowstorm was raging on, making it hard for him to see infront of him, forcing him to cover his eyes with his arm, feeling the cold winds striking at his skin. He was here for a reason, and that was to find ancient weapons that would aid him in the battle to come.

Kuzey had recieved a vision of sorts of things to come, and came in contact with an old sage that told him that a ruthless, malevolent beast was approaching Earth, and that he needed to prepare. Naturally a bit sceptic at first, Kuzey got to witness firsthand what this man-beast was all about, and realised that he needed to act quickly, before time was running out. The old man had directed him here and told him that deep within the mountains, there was an old storage for ancient weapons that would help him, and thusly, he set out.

"I can't see shit!" Kuzey shouted angrily and powered up with a kiai, his aura flaring up, repelling the wind and providing him with warmth. "Huh. Now why didn't I do that sooner?", and continued trekking on, now ankle deep in snow. Marching on, further and further, deeper into the mountain range, he eventually stumbled upon a room. His aura lighting it up, he entered only to find absolutely nothing.

"What? No, that's not right. Wha-What the hell?"

His gaze scoured the room, as he looked for anything that could open up, a hidden entrance, a secret stone, anything. Settling on a crack in a wall that looked oddly symmetrical, he placed the palm of his hand on it, and ink started flowing through into the crack. Kuzey had always been gifted with special abilities. Somehow, he could control and manifest ink. He didn't know why, but so far, the ability had only been useful for sketching and for playing pranks on people. He could hear that the ink was flowing through pipes, all around the room, crossing each other, as lightning on the wall flared up and started spreading out, until eventually, the previously empty room now was filled with golden lines, pulsating, emitting a soft vibrating humm.

The entrance to the room shut close, as a stone gate slid down and essentially trapped him inside. Behind him, in the centre of the room, a pedestal rose from the floor, a single blue crystal cube on the top of it. He figured, against all common sense, that he should touch the button, which he promptly did. Everything started to shake and around him, within a certain radius, a bright light shone down from the sky and started beaming him up, a sort of portal leading him somewhere he didn't know. As he got sucked up, all he could see was all the colors in the rainbow passing him by, along with a million stars, before he landed somewhere, at a room that looked essentially identical to the one he had left. The difference being, that here, it was night. Had he time travelled? It wasn't until he stepped outside that he finally realised what was different.

He wasn't on Earth anymore. The black sky above him, with the white stars twinkling at him left him in awe, as he realised that he was on a celestial object. It looked like a barren, desolate, dead city, or what remained of it, white and grey buildings standing on even paler ground. Jesus, where the hell was he? Looking up to the left, he could see a yellow sun burning in the distance. It took him a while to notice that he was breathing. In space. Technically, there shouldn't have been atmosphere on the planet, which meant that there had to be a force field of sorts sustaining the area with air.

Taking a few steps out into the city, he felt a slight unease at the complete silentness of the place, and his suspicions were proved correct. He wasn't alone.
A figure thirty feet infront of him leapt into the sky, catching his eye, and started firing green blasts at Kuzey, who reacted instantaneously, leaping towards the right. Too late did he realise that it was a diversion, as the figure had moved to his right, landing a solid kick at his back, sending him flying forwards, tumbling around, before he eventually got up and stopped his movement. As he looked up, he found himself face to face with a man charging at him, swinging his left arm at him. Before he could make contact with Kuzey's face however, Kuzey blocked the swing with his own left arm. "Wait!" Kuzey shouted out, trying to get contro of the situation, but to no avail. Both of them grunting as they tried to overpower the other, the stalemate was blocked as the man spun around and charged another kick at Kuzey. While landing the kick as well, Kuzey blocked it this time, and as such, was only pushed back a few feet.

"I'm not here to fi--" Once more, the man charged at him.

"Wait! Wait! I said **wait**!" Kuzey shouted, holding his right hand out, for each word raising his voice more and more, until he finally was shouting. At the final "wait", a stream of ink shot out from his palm, hitting the man in his stomach, knocking the wind out of him and sent him crashing to the ground backwards.

Now, the man stopped, a confused and wary expression on his face.

"...Who are you?"

Kuzey studied the man. He had tall spiky black hair, a stern expression on his face, and wore some kind of armor, predominantly white, with some gold in the mix as well. Underneath all this, some full-body covering blue jumpsuit.

"I said, who are you?" the man asked, sharper this time.

*He speaks English!* Kuzey thought, relieved and surprised, and answered: "My name is Kuzey. I was sent from my planet to search for ancient weapons that may help us survive an oncoming alien invasion. I ended up here by accident, as the building over there", Kuzey pointed at the temple he had stumbled out from "is linked to a place that we have on my planet."

"Ancient weapons? How do you-it does not matter. They are long gone. Destroyed."

"All of them?!" Kuzey asked, feeling his heart drop down.

"Correct."

"Oh no..." Kuzey said, burying his head in his hands for a second. "Well, all may not be lost yet. Perhaps you can help me.", to which the man raised an eyebrow. "What's your name?"

"My name... is Zion. ZionThreeX."

### Chapter 2: The man of the three X's

"Zion...Three X?"

"Correct." he replied, and took on a relaxed posture, arms down his sides, sharp eyes reading Kuzey, but overall, it seemed like Kuzey had gained his trust. "And I am afraid that you are going to have to leave. As I said, all the weapons have been destroyed." he added, a look of sadness briefly flickering through in his face, before it became unreadable again.

"What happened? I mean, here. This... place, it used to be alive, right?" Kuzey said while looking around. "Did everyone die out?"

Zion said nothing.

Adding together all the details he noticed, Kuzey concluded by asking "You lived here too before, didn't you? Listen man-" before he was interuppted.

"You needed help. There is one thing I neglected to tell you. Not all weapons were destroyed." Now it was Kuzey's turn to remain silent. Zion started to explain that there had been one weapon that managed to survive the destruction that had befallen all the other weapons, due to that weapon fusing with Zion.

"The weapon had been given the code X.X.X., which stood for... its' meaning is very hard to translate into this language, but in ancient Saiyan, it were different words, synonyms, for energy."

"Saiyan? Is that what you are? A Saiyan?"

"Correct."

"What did this weapon do, anyways?"

"It has boosted my energy to near endless levels. And...I do not know what more exactly, but I can also shape the energy however I wish." As if to demonstrate, Zion shot out a green energy beam from his right hand, shaping it into a long flail, swinging it at Kuzey, before it retracted just before it made contact. "Similar to the ability that you demonstrated earlier, I suppose.", refering to the ink Kuzey shot out.

"Oh no, that's-that's much more impressive" Kuzey said, pointing at where the energy flail had been seconds ago. He paused for a few seconds, before deciding to take things head on. "The alien that is invading us will be extremely powerful. Can I count on your help?" Kuzey said, moving closer, and holding out his hand.

Zion hesitated for a long time, until slowly, he took Kuzey's hand and shook it. "For the sake of you and your people, I will help you. I do not wish the same fate that happened my people to befall upon you." His eyes darkened for a split second. "But after this, I shall return here, and you will not follow. Is that a deal?"

Kuzey nodded. "Yeah. Thank you. Now we just need to get back to my planet." and with that, they backtracked the way Kuzey came from, and entered the room he came out from originally.

"This room..." Zion began. "I thought this place had been destroyed ages ago."

"What is this room?"

"Legend has it that there were certain places that the Saiyans did not build. That an even older race than ours built it, for purposes that we do not know. Never figured out. We probably never will either." Breaking out of his reflections, he asked Kuzey "How did you come here?"

Kuzey motioned for him to come over to the centre of the room where an identical piedestal stood, and pressed the button. The two of them flew back and seconds later, Kuzey was relieved to see that they were back on Earth. The snow storm was still in full effect, and the door was now open again.

Tensing up at the cold, Kuzey glanced over at Zion to see if he had any reaction. His face was burled into a frown, and it was hard to read. "This is...snow?"

"Yes." Kuzey replied. You're familiar with it?"

Zion nodded. "I have seen snow be present in many different worlds, always accompanied by cold." The wind was fierce as always, and was deafening. Zion remained unmoved, however.

"Come on! Let's get out of here!" Kuzey shouted over the wind, and as he took to the skies, Zion followed suit, as they headed back to civilisation, leaving the cold behind them.

### Chapter 3

The man biked through the city in a rush. He was late, and he had at least 50 people he needed to deliver mail to. Plowing through a red light and narrowly dodging a car, he took a second to reply to the angry shout of the driver with a gesture, before braking, as he had arrived at the location of the first recipient. Muttering for himself, he shoved the mail through the mailbox, before turning around and left, heading to the next person.

Once he had finished delivering the mail, he took a short break, leaned against a wall and closed his eyes for a second. He fished up his phone from his pocket and made a call.

"Yo, dad."

## The Return Saga

### Chapter 1

20 years had passed since disbanding of the core of Lookout. Inc, leaving it in the hands of others. All was peaceful. ZionThreeX had ventured into places unknown in space, determined to learn more about his powers. Vegito 7900 resided on the actual Lookout, enjoying life, and training, but mainly... just relaxing. Goten was caught up in the family life, what with his wife, children and now, grandchildren. He'd gotten a job at a delivery company, and was, for obvious reasons, their best employee. Kuzey had gone dark, but last they heard from him, he was pondering a career as an artist.

The only one that had remained active as such, was TOAA. For him, the fight was never over. He'd gotten some new upgrades, now utilising a hoverboard, which, fancily enough, doubled as a shield. He'd soar around the world and act as a superhero, and quite frankly, enjoyed it. Today, however, would prove to be the cataclyst that changed it all...

"TOAA, you there?" a voice buzzed into his ear.

"I'm here, P.G." TOAA replied. "What up?"

"We got a situation in the middle of West City, a hostage situation of some kind. Seems awfully noisy, better check it out."

"Alright, I'm on it." TOAA replied, and tapped his hoverboard slightly, and it increased speed, blasting off.

At West City, there was quite a scene. A Namekian had caused quite the damage and was holding two people hostages. They had been suspended from a lamp post and hung in the air, tied with rope. "Aaahahahaha!" the Namekian roared. "None shall stand in my way!" he said towards the crowd of people who were gathered, held back by police barriers. He was interrupted, however, by a hoverboard that slammed into the street, landing nose first, evoking a cheer from the crowd. A blur soon landed ontop of it, squatting.

"Not if I have anything to say about it!..." TOAA said with a bombastic tone, before realising who it was. "Goddamnit Jeff, this again?"

"Not 'this again', no no! This time, I'm prepared for you! Your tranq darts won't work on me this time!" the Namekian named Jeff bellowed.

TOAA sighed. "You called me in for this?" he asked through the intercom, and got a stiffled laugh in response. "Oh fine, I'm here, let's do this." TOAA stepped down from the hoverboard, and looked at Jeff for a second. There was tension in the air...

...which quickly was broken as TOAA turned around and started walking toward the crowd.

"...What the hell?! I'm here, you shit! Fear me!" Jeff asked, offended. In response, TOAA pressed a button on his wrist, and quicker than Jeff could react, his trusty Light Blaster shot out of the hoverboard and falled through the air, whereupon TOAA caught it and fired a Light Ball at Jeff, hitting him in the stomach and knocking him backwards, causing a small explosion.

"You guys okay?" he asked the hostages. They nodded in response. "Don't worry, I'll have you down in no time." TOAA pointed his left arm at them, and two knives shot out, cutting down the rope and caught them. Gently putting them down on the ground, he heard a cheer from the crowd, and the police to boot.

"Thank you very much!" one of the hostages said.

"My pleasure." TOAA said and jumped into the air, landing on top of his now active hoverboard, and took off once more, all the people cheering and looking after him. One man, however, did not cheer. He just stood, hands in pockets, and looked after him, smirking.

"What now, P.G?" TOAA asked.

"Nothing, actually, it's all good. Mang, swing around back here, we still haven't settled who won at basketball."

"P.G, please, you know I kicked your ass seven ways to Sunday." TOAA replied, grinning, hearing the groan P.G made. I'm just gonna take another patrol around, after that, I'm done."

"Alright man, talk soon." the intercom went silent. TOAA sat down on his hoverboard, and started running some software updates on his interface.

Loud beeping interrupted his thoughts, and a red light blinked. Viewing the map, he saw that something had happened in East City. No point bothering P.G about it, he thought, and set a course straight towards East City. Arriving at the scene of crime, he raised an eyebrow at what he saw. Some kind of...lava monster? was throwing a tantrum and wreaking havoc, sending cars through buildings and scorching the ground.

Jumping off the hoverboard, he landed behind the monster, and drew it's attention with a sharp call, prompting it to turn around.

"Hello there! Who are you?" he asked the monster. It merely roared and started running towards TOAA, shooting out lava from its outstretched arm.

"Oh deary me!" TOAA exclaimed as he dodged the lava, as he began running towards the lava monster, and leapt over it, doing a flip, grabbing a hold of it, and kicking it far away, up in the air, creating a shockwave that broke many glass windows. With incredible speed, TOAA moved towards the lava monster and intercepted its flight, smashing it to the ground with two hands, creating a huge crater, and a dust cloud, in the desert they currently were above. Remaining in the air, wary of any potential retaliation, he soon decided that he made the right call. The lava monster was now furious and spammed lava blasts at TOAA, who dodged them all effortlessly.

"Yeah, you need to calm--" TOAA started, before getting interupted due to getting hit with a huge cascade of lava generated by the lava monster. Fortunately, just before, he crossed his arms and errected an energy barrier, shielding him. As the lava passed, it revealed an undamaged TOAA, dissapating the shield and standing tall.

"TOAA, the hell is going on? I'm hearing reports of a lava monster!" P.G's voice bellowed in the intercom.

"Don't worry, I got it." TOAA replied and ended the transmission. He decided to land on the ground, and before the monster had any chance to retaliate, he held out his right arm and fired off tasers, which knocked the lava monster out cold and caused it to revert to its human form.

"Who the hell is this?"he asked, and started running facial recognition.

"That....is...Ambrient. Whoever the hell that is." P.G's voice butted in.

"Well, whoever he is, he's going to jail." TOAA said and picked him up by the shoulder, and started walking towards his hoverboard. Nimbly jumping on, he set off towards East City Prison. At the outskirts of the city, the same man from before stood, binoculars in hand, smirking. Soon, he had enough to be able to kill TOAA, once and for all...

### Chapter 2

The following days had been busy for TOAA. Averting attacks on cities here and there, he could not for the life of him figure out why attacks on cities were increasing, especially since the attackers knew that they didn't stand a chance. This puzzled both him, P.G, but also his old friend, Silver Shenron.

"And yeah," TOAA said, his hands flying in the air exasperatedly, "I still don't get why they're attacking, we're up to like, 50 attacks/hour. It's ridiculous."

"That is a tad excessive, I admit." Silver Shenron said. The two stood ontop of the roof at Lookout. Inc's headquarters. Well, TOAA was sitting down on a sunchair. "I can try to see if there are any ulterior motives at hand." Silver Shenron said, after a long moment of silence.

"Sweet, that'd...be nice, tbh. I kinda miss barely doing anything." As if the universe had decided to be a dick, another alert of an attack beeped in TOAA's interface, this time in South City. "I litterally just sat down!" TOAA said exasperatedly, but got up. He did have a job to do, after all.

"I'll let you know if I find out anything." Silver Shenron told him, as TOAA stood on top of his hoverboard. With an approving nod, TOAA set out. As the dot that was TOAA slowly got smaller and smaller, Silver Shenron turned around to see that P.G had made his way on top of the roof as well.

"Can I do anything for you?" Silver Shenron asked.

"Nah man, just wanted to chat, is all." P.G sat down. "I have a bad feeling about all of this. I've reviewed footage over and over again from each and everyone of the attacks, and I can see a pattern of sorts."

"Oh yeah? What's that pattern?" Silver Shenron asked.

"...They all seem too easy. It's like, they're content with getting their asses kicked. That can only mean one thing." P.G held up a finger. "Someone's behind all of this. What if..what if someone's targeting TOAA? I know, I know, sounds absurd, but--"

"No, that doesn't sound absurd at all. On the contrary, it sounds very logical indeed. Tell you what, I'm gonna see if there is something else we can pick up. But for now, let's assume you are correct." SS sat down. Clenching his hands into fists, he put them together, and closed his eyes, taking a deep breath. The world around him seemed to dissolve, and was replaced with space. All around him, the black, cold space, illuminated by the white dots that were stars. Images flashed by, of alternate timelines, things of the past, days to come, until they were replaced with something else. SS sat face to face with a demon, gigantic, with very vague details, seemingly consisting of clouds with red highlights. It was grinning, and held out it's right arm. Its hand was now right infront of SS, sharp claws converging in the middle, forming red mist. Out of the red mist, a man with brown hair and a black leather jacket stood, smirking.

"I see you, Silver warrior... Your days are counted...and it's all about to escalate..."

With these words, SS had seen enough, and he broke the connection, and the real world materialised. His eyes were wide open, and he had to take a moment to gather his bearings.

"You okay man?" P.G asked, concern visible in his face.

SS got up. "Y-Yeah, I'm fine. But we must hurry." SS broke into a quick march, P.G following.

"SS man, what'd you see?" P.G asked, but got no answer. They made their way down from the roof, into P.G's office. SS turned around, and put his hand to P.G's head, allowing the vision of the smirking man in the leather jacket flash through into P.G's mind.

"Woah!"

"You have seen this man?" S.S asked. It's been a while since S.S spoke like that, and P.G knew that it had to be serious.

"Hang on, lemme check with the footage. It'll take a while." P.G said. As he viewed everything, S.S noted that he became paler and paler the longer he sat. After he had finished viewing everything, he looked at S.S dead serious. "Dear God... it's... he's been there. All the incidents. He's been there. It's like I thought. What if, he's researching TOAA?"

"We need to talk to TOAA about this, as soon as he can." S.S said.

"TOAA, when you're done with the incident, get back here as soon as possible. You copy?" P.G spoke into his phone, which was a direct intercom to TOAA.

"Gotcha." he got as a reply. However, it would take a couple of hours before TOAA returned, as the incidents just piled up on one another, and the noon had passed into evening. P.G and SS stood on the roof of the Lookout. Inc building, as they saw the dot that was TOAA getting bigger and bigger. Eventually, he landed on the roof.

"What have you found?" TOAA asked.

"Well," P.G said, tossing a device at TOAA, who caught it, and promptly pressed the button, and the image of a man popped up. "this guy. You seen him before?"

TOAA remained silent. "Mmm....nope. Can't say I have. How come?"

"This guy has been present during every single incident you've interfered in the last couple of days. Now, this could've been just a very extreme coincidence, if it wasn't for SS seeing him in his visions." P.G said.

"Not only that, but that man seems to be connected to some demonic entity." SS said. "It was unlike anything I had ever seen."

"So what are you saying?" TOAA asked. "That someone is out after me?"

"You...or Lookout Inc. in general." SS said. "Either way, exert caution."

"Noted." TOAA said.

"You're not worried about it the slightest?" P.G asked. "I mean, what if--"

"I got it under control." TOAA said. "Don't worry. Now, is there anything else?" TOAA asked.

"Well, we do have a new software update, if you're interested." P.G said.

"Yeah, I'll run that now, I suppose." TOAA said, and they all headed down from the roof, into the building.

The following day, would prove to be the moment in time that changed everything.

### Chapter 3

TOAA sat in the relaxing lounge of Lookout. Inc, relaxing on a couch, feet on a table, watching the TV. It was his favourite program on, the Bubbies, a highly entertaining, and surprisingly adult show, very mature. P.G jumped over the couch he sat in and landed next to him, also putting his feet up on the table.

"Ayy it's Bubbies!" P.G said, and took out two beers from his satchel, and handed one to TOAA and opened his own with a capsule opener.

"How the hell am I supposed to drink? You know I don't need anything like that." TOAA said and handed it back. P.G smirked and chuckled slightly. "Aaah, that was your plan all along, wasn't it?" TOAA asked. "You little shit."

P.G laughed. "More for me, I suppose." and opened the second beer bottle, chugging it down. This moment of levity was soon killed, however, as the program was interuppted with breaking news, prompting jeers and "oh come on!" from both TOAA and P.G.

The woman in the news started speaking. "...We interrupt with breaking news, as Supreme City is under attack by an unknown number of assailants. Coinciding with this is the mass breakout of all the prisoners that have attacked the cities of the world lately, as well as this broadcast.", whereupon a video started playing. It was the man in the leather jacket.

"Hello. I'm gonna make this short, cause I haaaate dragging things out. I'm looking for TOAA, and TOAA **only**", with emphasis on only, "and am requesting his presence at Supreme City immediately. The fact that I'm holding, not only the mayor and the king of the world hostage, but also two of Lookout. Inc's own, should suffice as motivation." he stepped aside to reveal the king of the world, but also Maroyasha and Michael Iron as captives. "If he doesn't arrive within 10 minutes, they shall die.", and the transmission ended.

"The question now stands; where is the world's protector, and will he face this man?"

TOAA shut off the TV, and got up, along with P.G.

"Go." P.G said. "I got you covered from here.", and the two rushed to where they needed to be. TOAA jumped out of a nearby windown and landed on his hoverboard, and sped away. P.G rushed to his office, put on his headset and started reviewing what he could find, looking through CCTV cameras in Supreme City.

"Alright, so they're literally in the middle of the city, and...damn, you better watch out. They've got a lot more hostages than just the three they showed, and it's a trap, for sure." P.G's voice told him.

"I gotta take that chance." TOAA replied.

"Listen, if it gets too much--"

"It won't."

"But SS can--"

"He said me only, P.G. I think both you and I know what will happen if someone else than me also shows up."

P.G realised he was right. "...Alright. But be careful, stay sharp."

As TOAA arrived in the city, he could see that people were gathering all around. He hopped off his hoverboard and landed, in the centre.

"I'm here now! Let them go." TOAA said.

"Oh now, not that simple." a voice resonated. "If you can get to them, they're all yours."

Fair enough, TOAA thought, and took a step forward. The ground infront of him lit up and exploded, and a figure leapt into the air, revealing itself. He recognised the being as the criminal known as The Alpha, a guy with radioactive abilities. His arms were glowing and he had his leg stretched out, intending to axe TOAA. TOAA leapt backwards as The Alpha hit the ground, and started lunging at TOAA, with glowing, burning hands. TOAA merely deflected, or dodged, every single lunge The Alpha made.

"I don't have time for this! Oatmeal, change the system settings to Lookout levels!" TOAA shouted.

"Affirmative." Oatmeal replied, and a beep confirmed the change. His hud changed as well. As The Alpha shot out a hand resembling a claw, TOAA counterattacked and punched him away, knocking him into a nearby skyscraper and continuing to fly further. Soon, they all appeared. Ambrient, Vauban, Adam Baker, but they were no match. It wasn't long until everyone had been defeated.

"Are you done with this game now?" TOAA asked, annoyed.

"Not...really." the voice said, and smoke bombs got thrown at TOAA's feet, and at the hostages. TOAA's vision wasn't impaired by smoke at all, he could still distinguish all the hostages. He merely leapt into the air...which was exactly what the man in the leather jacket wanted.

In the building behind TOAA, he stood on the twentieth floor, and fired off his weapon at TOAA, some form of shock-collar that hit his neck, and clasped around his throat, shocking his armor. As he fell down, he tried to remove the collar, but it shot out metal wires enforced with some sort of pink electricity, and planted themselves to the ground, sending him crashing down as well. As he was about to chop off one of the wires with a karate chop, lava burst out from the ground, encasing his right arm and quickly cooling it down, leaving it trapped in a pillar of rock. He tried breaking free, but the more he struggled, the more the collar buzzed. His other arm wasn't spared either, as it recieved the same lava treatment. His legs got caught in some sort of glowing gel, courtesy of The Alpha, who had returned from TOAA's attack. He tried breaking free, but realised something. His armor was drained of all power. For now, he was essentially a normal human, in a suit of armor.

The man in the leather jacket had made his way out of the building and now stood infront of TOAA. "Well now. I finally have you."

"What do you want?" TOAA asked him, his voice low, but with a cold edge to it. If looks could kill, the man would be stone dead.

"I, am going to prove to the world that there's no such thing as 'heroes'. I'll break their hope by showing them how you fail, to save the ones you swore to protect."

"Who are you?" TOAA asked. The man walked away and grabbed a megaphone. "Citizens of Supreme City, and the World! Today, marks a historical day. The fall of your hero. The death of the king of the world. And most importantly...the end of Lookout. Inc."

P.G and SS watched in horror from P.G's computer screen at the scene.

"Do something!" SS shouted.

"I'm trying, I can't! I can't get through!" P.G screamed.

With a growl of anger, SS closed his eyes, and a thunderstorm formed over the skies of Supreme City. The sound of thunder shot like cannonfire, and silver lightning illuminated the dark clouds. One lightning bolt struck down, intending to hit the man in the leather jacket, but it got repelled by an energy dome that surrounded the square. The man in the leather jacket made a dissaproving sound. "You really think I didn't prepare for that?"

SS opened his eyes, coming to face with a furious P.G. "Are you mad? You could've gotten him killed!"

"I had to try." SS replied sternly. The two locked gazes for a moment, before P.G's facial expression changed, and he rushed back to his computer.

"Speaking of having to try..." P.G said as he typed away at his keyboard.

"What are you doing?" SS asked.

P.G looked at SS. "Contacting the others."

Back at the city, things were looking grim for TOAA. The man in the leather jacket had him exactly where he wanted him.

"So, without further due, let's experience, the failure, of your guardian." The man took out a remote from his pocket and pressed a button, revealing...

The king of the world was held in the air with one arm by The Alpha, choking him. Two other hostages were at the mercy of Ambrient, who had surrounded them with lava. The city itself was at the mercy of a meteor approaching, and to make things worse, Vauban and Adam Baker were working together, together operating a cannon that pointed at the moon, where they had placed a giant mirror, which was to scatter and reflect the laser, effectively wiping out every city in the world. And finally, the man revealed Maroyasha and Michael Iron, who were tied together with ki ropes, and were struggling. They were caught at the mercy of some sort of death machine, suspened between two metal claws, and if they snapped shut, they'd be crushed.

"No..." TOAA said. He roared. "Let them go!"

The man laughed in response, and the crowd that looked on had fallen dead silent. TOAA started struggling against his bonds, but stopped, his head hanging down, and mumbled something.

"What was that?" the man asked, mockingly.

"I said...you win." the man laughed in response. "Of course I do!"

"But...before...you win, entirely, do tell me. Why? And who are you?"

"You know, I could just ignore you and watch you fail, you know that? And I think I'm gonna do that." the man walked away.

"No! Wait! Wait!" TOAA shouted desperately. The man smiled wickedly, and pressed a remote, and everything started to get in action. The claws were slowly getting wider, getting ready to snap down at any second. The lava approached the hostages, closer and closer.

The world froze in shock. TOAA's shout echoed throughout the square they were in. People looked on in horror. The man in the leather jacket smiled manically, his plan a triumph. P.G was desperately sending a signal through to any Lookout. Inc's to come and help TOAA, SS looked on in complete silence. And then...

### Chapter 4

In the outskirts of West City, Goten had had a busy day. His wife, Charlotte, was outta town, his children were all grown up and had since moved out, and now, one of them, Nebula, was visiting. However, he had followed Charlotte into town, leaving Goten to watch over his grand-kids, little Vivo and Ares. Vivo was slightly older than Ares, Vivo being 8, Ares 4. The house was a mess, the kids running around.

Goten saw that they were about to wreck the living room as he stood in the kitchen, whipping up a batter of custard. "Oh no you don't!" Goten shouted at Ares playfully, rushing over to the living room and picking him up as he ran by. "That's quite enough of that, young man, what do you think you're doing?"

Ares just laughed.

"You're lucky you're that cute.", Goten said, more to himself than Ares. For a guy who's named after the God of War, he was really damn adorable.

"Grandpa? Can I go out and play with Echo and Topazo?" he heard Vivo ask.

"Hmm..." Goten said, feigning consideration.

"Please?"

Goten chuckled. "Alright."

"Yes!" Vivo shouted.

"You're playing at Echo's house?" he asked. Vivo nodded.

"Say hi to his parents from me!" he said as Vivo ran out. Ah, well, might as well relax. Looking back at Ares, he found that he was staring back.

"Damn, you are cute."

His attention was soon turnt on the TV, however, which had started up on it's own. Goten raised an eyebrow. "The hell?"

It looked like the centre square of Supreme City, the square of Justice. The headlines at the bottom of the screen: "TOAA captured, hostage situation gone out of control". That wasn't good at all. Looking closer at the hostages, he realised that he was looking at something going out of control. But he noticed that TOAA's left hand had moved, it went from an open palm to a fist. The man that was standing infront of TOAA was holding a gun against TOAA's head. Oh shit.

Just then, something in Goten's pocket started beeping and vibrating. He took out a small device, which was blinking in a bright blue light and emitting a beep.

"Whassat, grampa?" he heard Ares ask. Goten thought back to when they all parted.

"Take this. If it ever bleeps, it means that I need you guys." TOAA's voice echoed.

Goten dropped Ares, ran upstairs, got changed into a fresh set of clothes, ran down, caught Ares, put him down on the couch, put a bowl of his favourite cereal into his hands, switched the TV to his favourite show, The Bubbies, and ran out, running through the wall of his living room, and headed straight for Supreme City. Wow, he hadn't run through things for ages! His aura slowly shifted to red as he gained speed, and he could feel the speed running through his veins, muscles, his essence. His eyes turned red and he got a determined look in his eyes. The Red Comet was back.

--

Up at the Lookout, Ian had just gotten out of the Hyperbolic Time Chamber. He more or less resided there, and ever since his wish to be able to stay there as long as he pleased, whenever had been granted by Supreme Shenron, he pretty much lived in there, training and becoming even stronger than he was before. Now, though, he just felt for relaxing. Changing clothes from the tattered Saiyan armor into his new attire, the previous attire having been discarded a couple of years ago. The air was thin up at the Lookout, but very cool and refreshing, and he took a deep breath.

He walked over to Nacule and some servants who were gathered around a small TV, they were watching the news. They greeted him when he arrived.

"Quite the situation that has arisen." Nacule said. Nacule was the new guardian of the Lookout, who watched over the Earth. He had appeared out of nowhere one day, but a lack of Namekians who knew the art of Dragons made him as good as a choice as any, and he proved his worth, many times having given wisdom to fighters, and particularly, Vegito.

"Hmm?" Vegito asked, but got no answer. He puffed the guy next to him, another Namekian, and a good friend of his, Venus. Venus just looked at him, then motioned at the TV, as if to say that he too should just watch instead of talking. His eyes widened as he read the text: "TOAA captured, hostage situation gone out of control". He too, saw that TOAA's left hand had clenched, and just then, a beep was heard from inside the Lookout, presumably from Vegito's old clothes. He remembered what TOAA said, that when that beeped, he would need them the most. Vegito got up.

"What are you doing?" Nacule asked.

"I'm going down to help." Vegito replied.

"That's not a smart thing to do. Remember what the I.F.A issued against you."

"To hell with that!" Vegito said, and walked away, towards the edge of the Lookout. "My friend needs me, and I'll be damned if I don't help him!"

Vegito stared down at the world. His time of exile was over. Vegito 7900, the Infinite Force, had returned, and with that, he plunged down, over the edge of the Lookout, towards the Earth, and took flight towards Supreme City. The Earthbreaker had returned.

--

ZionThreeX sat down in deep concentration, meditating, trying to percieve god ki. He was billions of miles away from Earth, and had made his way to the famed Kalag'i'Xa, the home of the ancient Celestial Beings, who were as powerful as gods. Being celestial apparently meant that food, water, air and other essential things weren't needed, as Kalag'i'Xa was nothing more than a dead planet, a rock floating adrift in space, accompanied by some smaller bodies.

"Focus. Open your mind. Don't think. Feel." one of the beings, Cist'ahalo, said. "You're so close to attaining god ki."

And something connected within Zion's brain. He could feel it. Energy pulsating through his nervous system, his muscles, bones. He opened his eyes and everything felt more alive. Colors were clearer, hearing was that much better. Looking at his hand, he saw a faint green aura flickering, as if a veil that hung and was blowing in the wind, akin to northern lights. Looking at the Celestial Beings, it was as if the sun was glowing into his eyes, that bright was their ki. He understood. He finally had it. He had attained God Ki. Or at least, now he had a beginning.

"Do you see now? This is what it means, to be a God." Kana'jo said.

Zion looked at them. "I...understand." But something else lurked in his mind. Something...someone...something was off. Shutting off the god ki senses, he reverted to normal ki, and traced something back on Earth. All familiar energies were moving. Goten, Vegito...and now, Kuzey. All headed for the same direction, they were about to converge.

"What's going on at Earth?" he asked. One of the Celestial Beings took out a small orb and placed it on the ground, and it projected an image of TOAA. Captured. At the Justice Square, along with a bunch of hostages. As the image zoomed out, he saw all the traps the hostages were in. And then, the device he was given bleeped. And he remembered.

"I have to go back. I'm sorry. My friend is in danger." Zion said, and got up.

"Don't worry, we won't go anywhere. Your training may not be complete yet, but one day, you shall return, ZionThreeX."

Zion nodded and reaffirmed that sentiment with a smile. "Yeah. Now, what's the quickest way to Earth?" In response, one of the celestial beings stepped forward. Jalaka'thor.

"Grab onto my arm." he said. Zion obeyed, and they blasted off in a ray of light, headed towards Earth. A few seconds later, they were approaching Earth.

"You can handle it from here. Good luck, Zion." Jalaka'thor said.

"Thanks." Zion replied, and watched him blast away again, heading back towards Kalag'i'Xa. Zion started flying, and took off, racing towards Earth. The Ki God was on his way.

--

Kuzey had been busy. Trekking, drinking, pursuing his art career, and generally mopping around, keeping a low profile. Letting his hair grow out and some sunglasses certainly helped, as he was virtually unrecognisable from the Kuzey of past, the Warrior Artist. As a matter of fact, this day marked the anniversary since his art collection had seen some kind of recognition and become slighyly successful. What other better way to celebrate than to get some drinks?

Kuzey was slurping on a chocolate milkshake at his local shack, the Shark Bite, and was looking at the TV. "Joe, could you put on Channel 5? My favourite show's on."

"Sure thing, man." the bartender named Joe replied. Zapping through the channels, he had arrived at channel 5... which had been replaced with breaking news. He saw the headlines. "TOAA captured - hostage situation gone out of control". Snapping out of his half-asleepiness, he raised an eyebrow at this. A confused expression soon became a horrified one as he looked on. TOAA was captured, and there were hostages too. The camera focused on one of the hostage takers in particular, a being made out of lava. Not long after that, something in his pocket started bleeping. Taking the bleeping thing out of his pocket, he saw that it was the device TOAA had given him, all those years ago. He had to do something.

"Damn, that's quite the situation, isn't it--" Joe asked, turning around to face Kuzey, who had dissapeared, leaving the money for the milkshake on the counter.

Kuzey's plan was to take on the lava creature. Flying to a nearby lake, he dived straight down into it and drilled his way through the earth, allowing the water from the lake to come flowing through in it. Sensing the energy of the lava creatures, well, all the people there, actually, he navigated his way through the ground. Kuzey became lost in thought for a second, guilt overcoming him for letting TOAA do things alone. Returning to the present, he steeled himself. What the hell had he been doing? The Warrior Artist was coming home.

As the four heroes raced to Justice Square, only one thought was in their head. A single sentence, shared by all of them. "Hang on, old friend. I'm on my way!"

--

TOAA was caught, with no way out. Despite all his strength, he could at most generate cracks at the rock pillars holding his arms in place. He looked in horror as the hostages were about to die, and one thought appeared in his mind. "Help."

As if his thoughts were heard, a compartment at his left chestplate armor opened up, and a small remote ejected into the air, and landed...in his arm. His eyes widened as he realised what it was, and with a grin, pressed the button.

The glass on the buildings behind him shattered as the force from the cannon aimed at the moon launched. The people underneath only had time to look up before it hit them. Ambrient was getting ready to torch the poor people trapped by him. The blast roared as it travelled through the air. The comet was getting closer, and the claw machine was just about to shut close. And then...

Goten rushed onto the scene, and everything was efficiently standing still. Grabbing the people underneath the skyscrapers, he rushed them to safety a couple of meters away. He then ran back towards the square. So many people to help. While he was running, he swinged his left arm at one of the rock pillars, smashing through it. He could see it crumble apart. TOAA's arm would be free in a couple of seconds. He kept running, settling to save Maroyasha and Michael Iron. Who in their right mind would consider kidnapping kids, he asked himself, as he jumped forward into the air, doing a spin as he maneuvered his way to the claws snapping together, passing an exploding car along the way, eventually soared through the claw machine's jaws, cut Maro and Michael free, grabbing them and landing on the ground, halting his speed and seeing everything regain its speed.

The rock pillar holding TOAA's right arm shattered, the citizens that were about to be hit by the glass shards looked around in confusion, as did everyone else around them, until someone said "I saw a red blur!", whereupon the crowd started buzzing with excitement. Maro looked at Goten.

"It's you!"

Goten merely stared back, cracking a small smile. "It is indeed, kid." Letting them go, they stood and stared at him as he turned around to face TOAA and the man that had trapped him, the smoke from the exploding car shielding him from being revealed. At the same time as Goten had done this, other people had acted as well...

"What the? Who-wha-what happened?" the man in the leather jacket asked in a mix of anger and confusion. The hostages from Lookout Inc. were gone!

"Sir!" a soldier bellowed. "The meteor!" It's..."

"What?"

"...It's reversing its course."

"What?!" the man in the leather jacket looked up, and paled when he saw that the comet indeed was reversing its course. It had stopped in its tracks, and was slowly becoming smaller.

TOAA smiled for himself. They had heard. They hadn't forgottten.

"But, who could possibly--" the man in the leather jacket asked, until he was handed a binocular, and looked up. "--No."

--

Vegito 7900 was up in the air, approaching the meteor. "Damn, you're a big one, aren't you?" he asked. Flying infront of it, it was time to put his strength to the test. The Vegito from 20 years ago would've struggled, but now?

Bracing himself to exert a lot of strength, he held out his arms as he flew towards it and...discovered that he barely had to use any strength at all. The meteor was slowing down. Hell, I could use one arm, he thought for himself, and promptly did so, holding the meteor back with one arm. Now, time to get this thing out of here. Starting to fly, pushing the meteor backwards, he charged up some energy and with a kiai, threw it away, sending it back towards space. For good measure, he flew after it again and kicked it like a football. He was pleased to see that he could control his strength enough not to shatter it, but still, somehow, using his strength freely. Must've been something Nacule and his team of Namekians did, but he didn't ponder too much about it.

Looking back at the city, he started flying towards it, as he saw the ray that was travelling through the air, and flew to intercept it. He couldn't rest now.

He hadn't made it far, however, until he stopped in his tracks, as the beam had hit something, or someone. A loud bang was heard as the skies turned orange, the beam errupting in flames, blinding everyone on the ground as it was so bright. Vegito could feel the energy shockwave from afar, and looked on in confusion, still flying closer.

The ones on the ground were just as confused. Everyone stared up, having recovered from the blinding light. And just as if someone had reverted time, the flames and ki explosion folded back, imploding, and dissapeared, just leaving smoke behind.

Everyone was confused. TOAA had an idea on who it might be, but he didn't dare hope. He was out in deep space, training with gods, and he didn't know how far his distress signal might reach.

A loud bang snapped everyone's attention from the skies to the ground, as the ground had bursted underneath Ambrient and his pool of lava, sending a cascade of water up in the air, splashing down on the lava, creating steam. Ambrient himself flew up in the air, and was knocked out. Not by the water, TOAA reasoned, but by someone. Soon, the lava had coagulated and was nothing but rock, with heavy steam rising up from it.

The hostages that were inside the former ring of lava looked in confusion at the man that had stepped forward, who placed a hand on the shoulder of one of them.

"You okay?"

"Y-yeah, I'm... wait, you're..."

Kuzey nodded in response, but motioned for him to be quiet, and stepped forward, about to emerge from the steam.

"Who's there?" the man in the leather jacket asked the figure that stood in the steam.

TOAA chuckled. "They're back up. You see, I had plans for these kind of situations, where I'd be overmanned. This...this was just the one that was reserved for the absolute emergencies. Congratulations. You made me go this far." And with those words, TOAA started striking at the left rock pillar holding him down, quick, precise strikes with just the right force in them, and the pillar cracked, freeing his left arm as well. With that, he chopped at the collar that had depleted his armor's power, breaking it and freeing himself. His power armor rebooted and the power was back online, Oatmeal loading up again.

The man in the leather jacket looked around, and then promptly took out a gun, aiming it at TOAA's head. "Die."

But then, something knocked the gun out of his hand. A pen, that had ricocheted from the ground. And then, the sight that would shock the world happened.

Kuzey stepped out from the steam, his aviators reflecting the sunlight. With one hand in his pocket, and the other lackadaisically throwing a pen up and down in the air, he tilted his head back and smiled. From the opposite side of the square, Goten stepped up on the now burnt car, both hands in pockets, and looked at the man in the leather jacket, raising an eyebrow. From the skies, ZionThreeX descended, looking judgementally down on the man in the leather jacket, and his lackeys, straight back and with a rigid posture, with the sun behind him to reinforce the effect of might. A few meters away, Vegito 7900 floated, folded arms, grinning cockily.

The entire square was in awe. The news spread like fire, as the headlines had changed from "TOAA captured - hostage situation out of control" to "The Lookout Crew Returns". The entire world was silent. Joe stood in his bar, absent-mindly wiping an already clean glass with a towel. Nacule and his Namekian friends looked on in silence, waiting to see how things would unfold. P.G's jaw had dropped and SS leaned back towards a wall, folding his arms, smirking. P.G laughed triumphantly. "So THAT'S what he meant when he said that he had it under control! TOAA, you son of a bitch!"

For one glorious moment, the Crew looked at each other, reunited once more.

God, everyone had changed, so much, TOAA thought, and, everyone else thought that as well about each other, barring TOAA, as he had remained largely the same.

This moment was interrupted by the Alpha, however, who stood behind TOAA, charging up energy in his hands, intending to blow everything up. Instantly, the heroes all got ready to act, when TOAA pressed a button on his left arm panel, and his hoverboard started hovering, his Light Blaster attached to it, aiming at the Alpha, and firing, hitting him in the stomach and sending him flying backwards, with a small explosion upon impact with a building. Instantly, the glowing gel that had encased his legs vanished, and he could walk free once more. Straightening his posture, they all stood in a circle, in silence, for no words were needed. After so long, it was as if they never had been gone.

In sync, the five turned around to face the man in the leather jacket.

TOAA walked forward to the man, grabbed him by his throat and hoisted him up in the air with one arm. "You lost. Now tell me, what was the point in all of this?"

The man looked at him in fear, before something changed, snapped within him. His eyes turned red and a demonic laugh crackled, before speaking, a distorted voice. "Oh, ancient warrior, I see so many questions in your mind. But answers? You shall recieve none! But soon. SOON, it comes. The killer of stars, Deception, The fastest being alive, Betrayal, The Reverse and the Double, Confusion, The Descendant, Regret, and the Heaven and Earth, the splitter of skies, and more, MUCH MORE! You have not seen the last of me." the voice bellowed, before emitting black lightning, and the man dissapeared in a loud crack, nowhere to be seen.

"...What." Goten asked, completely deadpan.

"I have no idea." Kuzey replied. "Either way, we've got to attend to the hostages." Turning around, he found himself face to face with the King of the Earth, who stared at him in disbelief and awe.

Kuzey flashed a small smile.

"It's you..you're back."

"I guess we are, your majesty. Temporarily, at least." Kuzey replied, and with the others, turned around towards the crowd that had gathered. There were an awful amount of reporters, he noticed, as cameras started flashing and people gathered around them, microphones held towards them, and a barrage of questions launched at them, but so many that it was pretty much impossible to discern them.

"This is gonna be fun." Goten said, completely deadpan.

### Chapter 5

The interview was very short, but the one thing that had been announced shook the world: namely Kuzey's words.

"We're back, and we're here to stay this time." Kuzey said on stage, to the flashing lights of cameras and the sound of reporters. The air was quickly filled with questions, but Kuzey held up his hands, urging them to quiet down.
"Please, we have no intentions of answering any questions today. Now is merely a press call where we make a statement. Thank you." Upon this, Kuzey turned to the others. "Regroup at the HQ? We need to talk." They nodded.

The sun was setting, giving the sky a beautiful orange color as the alarm sounded at Lookout. Inc as the five landed on the roof, and were met by a cheering P.G and SS.
"Oh my god! The Lookout Five!" P.G shouted, greeting Kuzey with a special handshake and a hug, and promptly went to greet the others in a similar manner. "TOAA, you son of a bitch! You did it!" he said laughing.

"It is good to see you again, my friends." SS said to the group, sharing warm glances as they looked at their oldest ally.

"Likewise, Shenron." Zion replied. The two of them always had gotten along well, having felt a kinship over the fact that they were aliens and foreigners to Earthly cultures and customs. "You've helped with maintaining order during all these years, I see."

"It was the least I could do." SS replied. "So; does this mean that you have returned, as Kuzey said at the conference?"

They turned to Kuzey. "Yeah, sorry about that. I shouldn't have said that. It wasn't fair."

"Family aside, IFA's gonna be on our ass now. If they're still around, which I have no doubt that they will be after his little stunt." Goten said, motioning towards Kuzey. "If anything, they're scrambling around as we speak."

Vegito looked at Goten, bemused surprise in his eyes. "You have a family?"

"Yeah man. Charlotte, remember her?" Goten grinned.

Vegito's eyes widened. "My man! You're kidding me. Damn, you were like oil and water before. Glad to see you guys opened up your eyes." he replied, finishing the sentence with a laugh. His expression quickly turned serious. "They can stay at the Lookout, should it be necessary. I've....made some adjustments over the past years. Besides, Nacule and his team are there as well."

"Appreciate it. Thanks." Goten said.

"TOAA, has there been anything at all from IFA over the last years?" Kuzey asked.

"Nothing. And I've looked, trust me, but I haven't been able to dig anything out. It's like--"

"That's cause it didn't exist after your disbanding." P.G said, having come to a realisation of sorts. "It literally did not exist." he said, looking up. "You can't trace something that doesn't exist! But now...now! Maybe."

"What do you mean?" TOAA asked.

"Well, now we have a shot at exposing them, right?" I mean; come on. The truth can come out! The public will have your back; I mean come on, after today, they'll wanna see more of you. If the truth gets out, the public will turn on them, leaving you free!"

The group stood silent for a second, pondering his words. He did have a point.

"I still need to check with my family, first. I've been away long enough as it is." Goten said.

"Do so, then give us a heads up on what you will do. That goes for all of you. Assume that IFA is onto us." Zion said. "P.G. There is much to be discussed about this. Let's do so."

Goten and Vegito disappeared, Goten leaving a faint trail of red behind him and Vegito took to the skies. The remainders went inside to discuss upcoming events.

"So the world knows now." Charlotte said, looking at Goten. By now, Nebula had put the kids to sleep, and he joined his parents as they solemnly discussed todays events in the kitchen.

"Yeah. There's no going back now, especially since Kuzey said that we are back."

"Are you?" Charlotte asked.

Goten paused and looked at her, choosing his words carefully. "Well, yeah. I mean..." he looked away. "I can't say that it wasn't fun being back again. Besides, now there's a chance that we actually can be truly free again as a group."

"What do you mean?" Charlotte asked. Goten promptly explained to her what P.G had said earlier, and that they could fight back, potentially.

"That still doesn't change the fact that IFA will clamp down on you, on us." Charlotte said.

"Which is why Vegito offered to let us stay temporarily at the Lookout. At least until we clear the situation up."

"Sounds like a plan. Well," Charlotte said, getting up from her chair and put her hands on her husbands arms. "get it done. Fast."

"You know me." he smiled, "that's just the way I like things."

At the Lookout, Vegito was walking briskly towards the castle, when he met with Nacule. "Are the guest rooms ready?" Vegito asked.

"That they are. Impressive work down there.", Nacule said, nodding his head backwards, towards the planet below. "The ramifications...they'll be unforseeable and great, no doubt."

"Yeah, that's kinda what I figured." Vegito said, and started walking towards the castle.

"What are you going to do?" Nacule asked.

"Make sure the Lookout is ready."

At Lookout. Inc, the group was sitting in a lounge room, around a round table, having just taken seats. Kuzey looked around, clearly astonished.

"It's so....different. Nothing at all like I remember."

"You never saw it finished, did you?" TOAA asked. "We overhauled the place, majorly."

Kuzey's face gave a hint of a smile, his eyes fixated on the wall that was behind TOAA, lost in thoughts. His gaze and focus then returned to the present.

"Things to do. How do you propose we lure IFA out?" Kuzey asked P.G.

"Oh that's simple. We'll just hack them."

"Hack?" Zion asked. "It's a secret organisation of the government we're talking about. It doesn't even exist."

"No, but now that they'll be recommissioned again, their info has to be stored somewhere, right? Thus, the government is our way in."

"...smart." Zion replied. Just after that, a red light flashed and Goten appeared, sitting infront of Zion.

"Charlotte and the family agreed to stay at the Lookout. What have I missed?"

"P.G has formulated a plan to use against IFA, to possibly make sure you can go free."

"Nice." Goten said.

"Yeah so basically," P.G said, holding up a hand, "continue with your daily routines. Save people, be heroes, the more you are active the better, as IFA will have more to report about, which can allow me to trace them, and thus we can find out their whereabouts. Then; it's just a matter of getting a confession, and making it public."

"Yeah cause they'll do that." Goten said.

"Oh you doubt now. We'll have our ways, you'll see." P.G replied, waving his remark off.

"What do you mean?" Zion asked.

"During your 20-year absence, we...expanded, recruited a few people; who I intend for you to meet. Come tomorrow, at 8." P.G said.

"...you know, I intended to come sooner.", Kuzey said, looking up at the tall stone monument, dedicated to his friend that fell in the battle of Earth 20 years ago. "I don't know; I suppose...I suppose it just didn't happen."
Kuzey held out his hand and from his fingertips, streams of ink flowed out and converged, forming a black rose, which he placed down at the foot of the monument.

"If you were here; I suppose I'd just want to say: I'm sorry. Sorry that you were forced to sacrifice yourself, give up the life you fought so long for to have. And I miss you. I always will, Amir. You deserved better."

A man stood not far away from the monument, hidden by the trees and the night. His eyes were furious at the sight of Kuzey. It'd be over soon. As he walked away, he thought just that. It'd be over soon; for the man named Kuzey.

### Chapter 6

The following morning, at 8, the group had gathered at Lookout. Inc, specifically at one of the buildings next to the main building.

"Right. As I mentioned yesterday, we expanded over the years."

"Yeah I can see that, these buildings weren't here before." Goten said. "Damn, you expanded a lot."

"We kept it small, though. A select few know we're here. I give you," P.G put his hand towards the hand scanner and a door slided open, "the Lookout. Inc of today."

The giant room was split off by bridges going here and there, sections separated by walls, and doors leading in and out elsewhere in the building. Confused, Goten looked around, ran out and around the building, then back in.

"It's bigger on the inside."

"That it is." a voice from the left sounded. A man walked out, with thick, bushy black hair, a terse look on his face; hands in pockets, walking slightly hunched. "We can thank the latest feats in dimensional technology for that." He stopped infront of them.

"That is Hoodz." P.G said, pointing at the man.

"Hoodz? Anything to do with Hoodie?" Zion asked. Hoodz, in turn, stared at P.G.

"You're not the first Hoodz they know." P.G said to him.

"Ah." Hoodz let out, a sound of brief understanding and acknowledgment, and promptly walked away, ignoring the rest.

"That was...odd." Kuzey said, frowning.

"Yeah don't take it personally, he's just...naturally grouchy and terrible with people." P.G said. "Anyways..."

As smoke sprang out infront of them, a man appeared inside of it. Although the years had changed him, they still knew him. Ethan.

They all grinned as they greeted their old friend, who in turn was beaming.

"After all these years, still here?" Kuzey asked.

"Of course I am." Ethan replied. Since they last saw each other, Ethan had discovered the location of the Dr'A'gon Source, which coincidentally also was on Lookout Inc. ground, just a few hundred metres away, he explained. Aside from that, he had taken up the role of grounds protector and teacher to those willing to learn martial arts, but mainly, his responsibility were the children that were here.

"That is swell, man." Vegito said after he was done explaining. "I am impressed."

"Aah, it sounds much more important than it actually is..." Ethan replied, awkwardly scratching the back of his head in embarassment.

"Naw, don't sell yourself short man." Vegito responded. "You're doing important work man." he said smiling, Ethan returning the smile.

"I must go now, though. I need to finish my work here." Ethan said.

"What are you working on?" Kuzey asked.

"I located one of the missing Bank scrolls that were stolen 30 years ago yesterday. I retrieved it today, and now I need to put it back where it belongs. Until later, guys." Ethan said, and left.

The tour continued. On the opposite side of the building, a man tinkered with a device that looked highly advanced, and which was generating a stream of blue-white energy. The man in question was caught up in the work as the device started to emitt sparks and the light died out. The man slided up his mask and swore.

"Jamez?" P.G asked. The man turned around.

The man was clad in a shirt and a bowtie, and on top of that, he wore a diamond-checkered sleeveless sweater. He also had glasses and his hair was styled in a quiff that went to the side. Overall, the man screamed dork.

"Hi." The man named Jamez said, and approached the group, shaking their hands. "It is an honor to meet you guys. Truly."

"The pleasure is ours." Zion said.

"Jamez is the resident tech guy nowadays. He comes up with the latest inventions and experiments. Chances are that if you ever use some new gadget, it's his work." P.G explained.

"Huh." Zion said. "Good to know. I look forward to working with you in the future, Jamez." Jamez was positively beaming.

"Where are the others?" P.G asked Jamez.

"Majin Man's busy taking care of a case in the West Midlands District, Ghoster is working on one of his schemes, last time I heard from him, and Maro and Michael are doing god knows what. As if a response, a loud crash was heard from the floor above them. "Yeah that's probably them." Jamez said.

After taking their leave, Kuzey couldn't help but point out to P.G the lack of workers there. Overall, they had met a total of three people, and there were two more they hadn't met.

"Yeah, I gave the normal staff a day off today. It's quite busy otherwise, but if the normal staff was here they'd all want to meet you and we'd never get out of here." P.G explained.

"Makes sense." Kuzey said, as the group walked out of the building. Fittingly enough, a beep on TOAA's interface was heard. A crime was in progress.

"I got a report of a mugging in East Wind." TOAA said. He leapt up in the air and summoned his hoverboard, which he landed on. Over the soft humm of the board, he said "Well guys, I think we know what to do. Let's go." and he sped off towards the direction of East Wind, which was a small community up in the mountain hills on the outskirts of Gadent, the continent they were on.

Within seconds, the crew had set out. A flash of red light signaled Goten's departure, while the rest flew out. P.G returned back to the main building and sat down infront of his computer, ready to act as comms support.

TOAA was happy. It was an amazing feeling. Flying through the air, he felt immense joy at the fact that he and his friends were reunited, and he was quite certain they felt the same. The weather was reflecting his mood as well, as it was a sunny day with clear skies, with only the occacional small white clouds here and there. Looking down, he saw the red streak that was the aura of Goten leave behind a trail across fields, woods and cities. He smiled. The dude just had to style, intentionally leaving the trail as a sort of "still the fastest"-statement. Not far behind him, Zion, Kuzey, Vegito and SS were flying, and caught up with him.

"Well look at that!" Vegito screamed over the wind. "Goten's still as fast as always!"

"Nah, I think he's faster now!" Kuzey replied, a grin in his face. The five noticed that the red trail had stopped in its tracks and they decided to land as well, figuring Goten had found the mugger.

The muggers, as it turned out, were in complete shock. From the second Goten appeared in front of them, knocking them flat on their asses and stood with his arms crossed, to when five members of the Lookout Inc, four of them a part of the Lookout Five landed around them in a circle, they didn't quite know what to do.

"It's quite alright to be in shock, fellas." TOAA said in a jesting tone. "It isn't every day that your crime is interuppted in this way. Up you go!" TOAA exclaimed, grabbing onto their jacket collars and raising them up, which he then followed up by putting handcuffs on them. TOAA looked at Goten.
"The victim?"

"She's over there." Goten said, jerking with his thumb at her direction. She was dressed in a burgundy coat and had brown hair which she had put up. She looked at them in awe.

"Are you alright, ma'am?" Kuzey asked.

She stammered forward a "Yes", whereupon Kuzey noticed that pretty much everyone around them were also staring at them. Here and there, the occacional flash of a camera lit up, and it was dead silent, until the silence was broken by applause. First by a few, before everyone joined in.

TOAA walked up to the woman. "Ma'am, the police will be here shortly to take statements. Is there anything else you need?"

"No." She replied. "Just...it's good to have you back." While she couldn't see it, TOAA smiled behind his mask. "Believe me ma'am, it \*\*is\*\* good to be back."

Just as police arrived on the scene, TOAA got another alert of a crime. And then another one. Followed by two more.

"Hmm." TOAA said. "Guys, we got four alarms here. One of a forest fire up north, another of a prisoner escape, in fact, it's from yesterday's events. And then of a spaceship that's falling into orbit. The controls are down, and they're gonna be crashing into South City unless we stop it. Now, I'm gonna go after the convoy."

"I got the fire." Kuzey said.

"I'll join you with the convoy." Goten said.

"Me too." Vegito said. "I wanna fight these guys."

"Well, they're not the best..." TOAA responded. "SS, Zion?"

"We'll handle it." Zion said.

As the tasks had been dealt, the six split up, each group to their own direction. A red flash signaled Goten's takeoff as TOAA and Vegito flew after the red trail he had left after him. Zion enveloped himself in green energy and took to the skies with incredible speed, while SS summoned down a white thunderbolt which enveloped him as he traveled through it, also taking to the skies. Looking after them as they left, Kuzey grinned, adjusted his glasses and took off as well.