!!! "One of the beams accidentally flew from Vegeta in the direction of the reporter. The small pixelated picture turns black, then only flickering and noise ...



Bulma turns off the sound and looks perplexed at the still firing Vegeta.

Goku is also obviously confused. "What the hell is Vegeta doing?"

Fortunately, one cannot say about Yamcha ... "He ... He's preparing the substation! He's chasing away anyone who would interfere with our plan!"

Kame got it too. "YES !!! And at the same time he lures 24 to this place with his energy attacks! Friends, this is our only chance now! Goku, you and Piccolo, you have to go to Vegeta IMMEDIATELY! Hide in the substation until 24 arrives , then we can stop him! "

Son - Goku has doubts. "But if Vegeta chases everyone away, how are we supposed to control and adjust the substation?"

But Krillin points to the television. "Look, Son - Goku! Vegeta is already taking care of it!"



On the screen you can see Vegeta cutting off some fleeing workers and pushing them all to a corner. Thereupon he lets long golden threads sprout from his hands, which form a cage around the crowd of workers.



Bulma recognizes Vegeta's clever move. "The technicians! He's holding them!"

Piccolo is ready to leave and I turn to the door. "Ok, now we know what he's up to!Son - Goku, we have to go, 24 is definitely on the way to him! "

"Exactly! Let's go!" He turns to go.

But not everyone seems to agree with the plan ... "Just a moment! Son - Gohan stays here, is that clear?!?" Chichi grimly puts her hands on her sides and stands up in front of Son - Goku.

Gohan, however, is fully committed to helping in the fight that follows. "But mom, I have to help protect Piccolo ..."

But Son - Goku disagrees ... "Chichi is right, Son - Gohan, this time it's really too dangerous, you'd better stay here ..."

However, Son Gohan is not that easy to turn off. "But you could use my help! Piccolo could use my help!"

Piccolo looks grateful to his former "student". "The way you think of me is touching, Gohan, but ... Stay here, it's better that way."

Gohan gives up with a heavy heart."Well, if you think so ..."

Chichi triumphs. "Well then! It's better that way too! I'm glad you are understanding, Son - Goku!"

Son - Goku winks mischievously. “Thank you, my darling.” Then his gaze changes, he becomes unusually serious. "So, let's go!"



With these words everyone runs out of the house, blows up in the air and rushes towards Vegeta's energy location as fast as possible.

But they are not the only ones ...



MEDIUM ENERGY SOURCE DISCOVERED

DIRECTION SOUTH - WEST

DISTANCE: 1965 KILOMETERS, 862 METERS

ALTITUDE: 251 METERS ABOVE SEA LEVEL



Piccolo's trailer again, Vegeta! But this time none of these troublemakers is around! This time nobody will interfere with him, and Vegeta is too weak for him!

24 is approaching Vegeta's location at maximum speed. But wait, what is it?

Several energy signals are also moving towards this location, where there is a large magnetic field ...
Those fighters again! And they are much closer than himself!

But this time he won't show any mercy ...



Our friends quickly arrive at Vegeta, who awaits them with a big and nasty grin.



"Well, what did I promise you ??? Here is your substation and the associated staff!" With his hand, like a salesman, he points to the premises and the workers who are shivering with fear.

Kame is amazed at Vegeta's act. “Well done, Vegeta!” Then she puts on a grin. "But did you have to throw sooo a rabatz for that? You even appeared in the news!"

Vegeta looks a bit poisonous, but finally grinning at her. "Did you know a better way? Until these weaklings come here with reinforcements, enough time will pass before we have settled with 24!"

But Goku is a little more skeptical. "Hopefully Vegeta is right ..." he thinks to himself.



Vegeta lets the cage around the workers disappear with a wave of his hand."HEY, HER DA !!! Go into the plant and bring it into a state that corresponds to the same as in the substation that went up this morning !!!"

The workers look at him, shocked. One raises his voice. "Are you crazy?!? Then this city will have no more electricity, chaos will break out, you cannot ..."

All together: "IMMEDIATELY !!!!!"

"Well ... Of course ... Will be done immediately ...!"



And he runs into the plant, the others follow him after a moment's hesitation.



Piccolo turns to Goku. "Come on, Son - Goku, we have to go in too, 24 could be here any minute ..."

“Yes, you are right, Piccolo!” He turns to the others. "You wait here! When 24 comes, tell him Piccolo is in this substation, but don't attack him, do you hear? He'll cut you down easily. Remember that we don't have any more magic beans. If a fight." but cannot be avoided, keep it as short as possible and try to hide somewhere!"

Krillin has serious doubts about this instruction from Son - Goku ("What if 24 attacks us after all?"), But he still agrees with all the other fighters in their "Yes!" a.

Vegeta grins at Son - Goku. "Pah, Kakarott, you don't give me any orders, is that clear?!?"



Son - Goku grins back at Vegeta.

And Piccolo and Son - Goku run into the substation ...



Inside, the workers are feverishly making arrangements for the condition of the substation, and the presence of Piccolo and Son Goku inspires them. They move hectically back and forth between control panels, valves and a very large black box in the middle of the work. This large box is undoubtedly the main distributor of the work, and its matt black metal surface is certainly brilliantly suitable for reversing the polarizations of a certain cyborg battery ...



Piccolo says to Goku: "I'll be up in the control room, which is right over this ... thing."Apparently the Namekian doesn't understand too much about technology, especially since it says" main distributor "on the main distributor, oversized and clearly ...

Fine, do that, but when 24 comes don't try to fight him. There is a certain lack of space here, which makes fighting even more difficult anyway ... "Son - Goku looks around the plant appraisingly.

"All right, let's just hope 24 falls on this ..."



But Piccolo cannot finish his sentence, because suddenly a siren sounds.



One of the workers looks up, startled. “Oh no !!!” He runs to a console next to the distributor. "The main distributor has got a leak! We have to shut it down immediately!"

Son - Goku holds the worker tight. "NO !!! Keep this state!"

"Just not !!! Otherwise a gigantic strong magnetic field will form around the work that ..."

Piccolo looks at the worker with a grin. "Is that so ...? Well then, thank you very much for setting up the distributor, we didn't want more ..."
But the worker's face is getting whiter and whiter. "No, we have to switch off immediately! The distributor cannot take such strength! And the electric field will kill anyone who even comes near it!"

Son - Goku is listening. "How can we protect ourselves from that?"

"NOT AT ALL !!!"



The wriggling and wildly thrashing worker somehow manages to get out of the grip of Son - Goku and runs to another control station. He's getting even paler ...



“It's too late!” He holds a walky-talky to his mouth. "Evacuate! I repeat, evacuate! Get out of the factory! The distributor is ..."



But all of a sudden a blue lightning bolt shoots out of the main distributor and hits the hysterical worker with a screwdriver attached to his work belt. It is literally grilled ...



Outside of the factory, the situation has worsened dramatically ...
24 has meanwhile arrived and is now floating high above the site of the plant. He looks at the fighters standing around in front of the entrance to the plant, apparently waiting for something ...

"Scanning of the building not possible. Too strong electromagnetic interference" reports his analysis program.



24 lands behind her back and approaches her. Nobody notices him. But suddenly the front door is thrown open and several people run out of the building. One of the fugitives collides with Yamcha, stumbles and falls right in front of his feet. He quickly gets up and runs after the other workers, who are leaving the site as quickly as they can.

Yamcha is whirled around by the push, can catch himself and looks with an ashen face directly into the face of 24.



"He ... He ... He is ... There ... 24 ... Is there ..." He stammered a few more words, perplexed.



All fighters jerk around, see 24 and also freeze.



"Where's Piccolo?"



Nobody can answer him because they are not sure whether the substation has already built up enough amperage. It's definitely not as much as this morning ...



“I ask for the last time: where is Piccolo?” He raises his hand and aims at the fighters, who take a few steps backwards. All but Kame and Vegeta ...

Kame builds up in front of him. "If you want to see him, you have to get past us first!"



But Kame doesn't feel particularly comfortable with these words. She knows only too well that 24 could kill them all at once if he wanted to, but she had no choice: They had to buy time until the substation had built up enough energy to (hopefully) deactivate 24 ...



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