Chapter 13 - Korin

Just outside the Turtle house, Chichi landed the aircraft on the front lawn blowing all grass in its wake.

Chichi ran up to the door and knocked on it while Goku and Bulma were bringing the tools and machinery to build a new radar.

"Master Roshi! It is Chichi, Goku, and Bulma! Please let us inside, we don't have much time".

Within a second, Master Roshi flung the door open. With the speed of the door flying open, you can see Master Roshi's boxers flying wildly along with it. Chichi's face got beet red, especially listening to the yoga exercises on the television behind him.

"Hiya missy." Roshi's casual reply was the final straw for Chichi.

With no hesitation, Chichi slapped Roshi right through the Turtle house skipping across the water like a rock.

Ignoring the flying Roshi, Goku and Bulma went passed the murmuring Chichi that was staring at her palm and into the house. They used the table that was situated in the middle of the room and started to do finishing touches on the Radar.

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"That radar was more smashed than we thought, took longer than I expected." That was Bulma...one hour after arriving at the Turtle House.

During this time, the others were just doing miscellaneous jobs to help her out.

"Alright, lets head out, what does the radar say?"

Everyone crowded around the Dragon Radar to see the readings once Bulma activated it. The Radar beeped twice before the map was displayed showing one blinking dot at the center. Zooming out more, everyone saw a cluster of dots with another lone dot blinking far away from them.

"Alright well if the Red Ribbon Army is collecting the Dragon Balls, the cluster is probably them."

Oolong easily deduced the obvious after looking at the cluster of 4 that was in one spot.

"If that is the case, then this person with one ball will be in danger."

Bulma pointed at the other lone dot in the distance with a worried expression.

"W-Wait didn't you guys say that there are supposed to be seven Dragon Balls? If you count the four that the Red Ribbon Army has, ours, and the other lone one, then that is six."

Chichi asked with a confused expression. Although Goku and Bulma told them about the Dragon Balls, the idea that a magical wish-making Dragon will come before them after talking to a bunch of balls made them sound insane if, to say the least.

Goku pressed the zoom button on the Radar, however, no matter how much they zoomed, they still couldn't find the last one.

"I guess we will come to that after we deal with the Red Ribbon Army. They are the immediate threat right now."

After everyone agreed, Goku was trying to convince everyone that he himself was enough.

"We are fighting the Red Ribbon Army, the only one that will come out safely would be Master Roshi!"

Goku was trying his best not to hurt the girls' feelings. Even though what he was saying had a lot of sense, the girls still could not accept that they would get left out on a potential adventure.

"You guys are making me use my final move!" Intense staring ensued between the three as they looked at each other in anticipation.

Goku inhaled deeply puffing up his chest. Sweat started beading off both Chichi's and Bulma's face as they were dying in anticipation.

He blew as hard as he could to create a gust of wind whirl inside the Kame House. Before they can react, Chichi's skirt and Bulma's shirt started to blow up to their face revealing scandalous material.

Hearts started to pop out of Oolong's and Roshi's as they were slowly dying from blood loss from their nose. They did a dive toward their closes girl hoping to revel in their warmth.

Chichi and Bulma were too busy beating the snot out of the two perverts to notice Goku sneaking out with the Radar. Once he was outside, Goku punctured a hole on the engine covering him in smoke.

"Nimbus!"

He could see the Nimbus Cloud racing toward him in the distance when the door slammed open. Bulma and Chichi had a death in their eyes as they raced towards Goku leaking lethal energy that made the grass and flowers shrink in fear. Before he could be torn apart, Goku leaped toward his savior landing on the cloud before the claws of death could reach him.

"You better not show your face again or I will kill you Goku!"

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After a couple of hours, Goku approached a small teepee that had some destruction around it.

When he was about to land, he could hear some fighting from the distance. Going towards the noise, he can see a tall tanned man beating down another individual. This individual was tall and blonde with a perfect complexion with distant anguish across his face. The tanned man was winning with a great advantage until the fight took a weird turn. The tall man stopped moving, allowing the other man to hit him in the face making him fly through a rock.

Knowing that the two people were Bora, Upa's father, and General Blue, Goku rushed toward them with the intention to help. The blonde man noticed Goku approached them and sneered.

"Halt you brat! This is official Red Ribbon Army business! Scram unless you want to die!"

He then turned back to face his opponent to finish his job. Goku leaped toward him and extended his foot to the back of General Blue. Cracks of bones could be heard as Blue could feel his spine have permanent damage from just one attack. He faceplanted on the dirt sliding for a couple of meters.

Struggling to stand up he looked a little hysterical whipping the dirt off his face.

"You monster! My perfect face! You know how much work I put into this?!"

Before he can rant any longer, Goku landed directly on his head caving his face even more to end his life.

Bora stood up after shaking off the mind control and thanked Goku for his help.

"Thank you so much young one, these people keep coming for this shiny ball. It truly leaves me confused at its importance."

"That's a Dragon Ball! It can grant enormous power for those who can gather all seven of them at the same time! As long as you have the ball, they will stop at nothing to obtain it."

"No wonder..."

Goku requested the Dragon Ball for safekeeping. Although they haven't met for long, Bora could already tell this young man's character due to Kintoun. He gave him the ball and started talking about the tower the was beside them.

"This tower is Korin's tower and it stretches towards the heavens. It is said that whoever climbs it and drinks the sacred water will have their strength grow exponentially. My family has been guarding it for generations."

As he said that, a little boy peeked out from Bora's leg to observe the strange boy that appeared.

"I wonder how much stronger I can get from climbing this tower."

He knew this towers true test and how little it would help him compared to others. He still decided to do it anyways for any possible power increase.

And thus, he began to climb Korin's tower.

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(Red Ribbon Army Base)

"Hmph, it turns out that Brief isn't the one that created the Radar as our informative said but his daughter. Although his research in gravity can prove to be of great use if we can extract the information out of him. I will get to it."

A short stubby man with an eyepatch on his right eye was talking to someone on his phone. He was facing the wall seemingly admiring a picture of himself staring at the same picture. A narcissistic inception.

When a tall black man entered the room, he finished his conversation with the man on the phone and turned around in what he thought was a dramatic fashion to face his subordinate.

"Commander Black, any reports?"

"We haven't heard from General Blue for a few hours since we sent him to get the other ball, we can only assume that he is terminated or MIA."

The tall man stood straight like a rod when talking to his superior despite the height difference.

"Hmm, the other two Dragon Ball owners met up with each other. Hopefully, they will fight for the ball so we can swoop in for the leftovers."

"However, both of them are somewhat strong so I have taken your advice and hired Tao Pai Pai."

A message came from Commander from his phone as he said that.

"Tao Pai Pai has come to visit sir, I have sent him towards you with a guide."

A female secretary spoke in a monotone fashion.

"Thanks, send in Captain Yellow as well. I have a job for him as well."

The secretary was unable to leave her emotions out of her voice as she choked on her spit a little at the order. However, she knew better and gave a curt reply.

"I understand, he will be up right away."

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Facing each other a yellow tiger was sweating bullets when facing the man before him. Wearing a gi that had the words "Kill You!" sewn on the back supposed to make him look intimidating. Everything was ruined when people noticed his braid that ended with a bow.

No one could mock him because he was the most famous assassin in the world has the highest completion rate. One wouldn't escape with his life if that happened.

"Remember Captain Yellow, if you are able to beat Tao Pai Pai or survive. I will oversee your desertion and allow you to have all the tiger ladies that you want."

As tempting as the offer was, Captain Yellow knew that he wouldn't be escaping alive.

"This is my opponent? I don't even need to use my hands! I will use my tongue to kill him."

Unable to take this humiliation Yellow rushed him like the ferocious tiger that he was. Taopaipai looked at him in disdain and slightly moved to the left to avoid the rush. He stuck out his tongue and planted it through Captain Yellow's neck. Yellow stayed stiff for a second before falling with no life in his eyes.

Taopaipai was looking smug at his achievement before Commander Red burst his bubble.

"It is nice and all that you can kill people with your tongue...but why would you want to? I mean, I can guarantee that Captain Yellow hasn't washed for months..."

No sooner did Red said that Tao vomited his lunch out regretting his life decisions.

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"This tower is crazy! It has only been a few hours and my muscles are so sore! Even though this weighted clothing will help me train, I can't help but think I would have done the first run without it!"

Knowing that Taopaipai was approaching, Goku made double time and started climbing the tower in earnest while trying to conserve his stamina on the way.

Just before night came, Goku was able to see the top. Goku was literally creating rain from his sweat as he looked at the top with a hungry expression.

He finally scrambled onto the top and lay down gasping for breath.

'That was crazy! I feel like my entire body is trying to kill me with pulses of pain!"

Advancing even more up the tower, he soon came before a standing cat.

"Hello, young one! Incredibly impressive that you were able to climb with tower despite your small size in a little more than half a day!"

Korin was truly impressed with the promising child that came before him. This kind of potential is one of the kind that he is lucky to see.

Looking at Goku more, Korin could see a strange light in his eyes that made him question him. He started to use his ability to peer into his heart. But before he can fully process what information he just got, Goku leaped at him as fast as lightning.

"Cat!"

Goku then proceeded to tackle and pet the struggling cat.

Korin could feel himself lose his dignity slowly as he started to listen to the animal instincts that told him to purr.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"