Ben opened his eyes after the dust had cleared. At the centre there was what looked like an ordinary human, except he was wearing strange armour and had very spiky hair.
"Who are you?" Ben asked.
"It doesn't matter, you human." He answered. "You're not important."
"Hey!" Ben shouted after the man as he began to levitate in the air, but he flew off.
"Looks like you're losing your touch, Ben." Stranho joked. Ben turned into XLR8.
"That guy's trouble." Gwen warned.
"I know, that's why I need to go after him." With that he sped off.
"You can use magic to fly us there, can't you, Gwen?" Stranho asked.
"Way ahead of you." Gwen said, as a cloud picked them up and whizzed toward the direction XLR8 went.
XLR8 had caught up with the man, who was holding a small orange ball in his hand, examining it.
"What are you here for?" XLR8 asked. The man looked, shocked by XLR8's appearance.
"Why should I tell you?" The man asked.
" 'Cos if you don't, I'll have to guess you're a bad guy and stop you." XLR8 prepared himself.
" You can't stop me. You're weaker than me."
XLR8 sped towards the man, who prepared him self to catch XLR8 off guard. XLR8 turned into fourarms and landed a punch on the man, knocking him several feet back.
"You, you can transform? Fascinating. But you won't catch me off guard again." The man said, and charged at fourarms, delivering punches with a speed about as fast a XLR8, but much more powerful, and fourarms was knocked back. He turned into Diamond head as the man came for a second attack. Diamond head swung, which cut the man's face.
"How many forms has this guy got?" the man said to himself. He blasted explosive bolts of energy at diamond head, who couldn't deflect them. He eventually collapsed and reverted to Ben. The man picked him up by the arm. "The name's Raditz, by the way." He said, and looked at the watch, which was now red. "So this is what you were using to transform. Vegeta will want to hear about this." Raditz hit Ben, knocking him out cold. "First I've got to find the rest of those dragon-" He was interrupted.
"Motia Objectia!" A voice shouted, and Raditz dropped Ben, and felt himself thrown against a tree.
Gwen and Stranho landed. "Ben!" Gwen shouted, seeing him out cold. Stranho was already running at Raditz, he swung a punch, but Raditz dodged, again, and again, and again. Then he punched Stranho, cracking his helmet, and knocking him over. Gwen started an incantation, but was knocked out by more energy blasts. He walked forwards to finish them off, but Stranho grabbed his tail, making him scream and buckle over. Stranho got up, more confident.
"So your tail's your weakness. Now surrender." he ordered.
"Never!" Stranho gave his tail a twist.
"Alright! Alright. I surrender." Raditz yelled. Stranho loosened the grip a little. But as soon as he did this, Raditz had disappeared. "Behind you!" Ben shouted, having used wild vine and soaked up water to recharge. Stranho had already been struck down hard by Raditz, however, and he was running toward Ben, who was now Heatblast. He fired a thunderous column of fire at Raditz, who dodged, and fired more bolts of energy at Heatblast, weakening him.
"Ben!" Stranho shouted, he was by Gwen, and was holding a teleporter to her hand. Ben knew what to do. He went XLR8 and sped to them, touching the teleporter, and in an instant they were all home. Later, when they had recovered with the help of some magic, Stranho decided to start talking. "Who was that guy?" He wondered.
"Beats me, but he was tough, I mean he'd give Vilgax a fair fight. Maybe he'd even win." Ben answered.
"He was so fast." Gwen said.
"And strong too, like XLRarms, but with blasts of energy too. How'd he do that?" Stranho wondered, typing something into his computer.
"What're you doing there?" Gwen asked.
"I'm doing a search on energy of that description. White, glowing generated from the body. Creatures with a weakness in their tails. Nothing in the plumber's files. Oh! Wait, this is interesting." Stranho's eyes widened. Gwen looked at the screen.
"Can we please focus?" Gwen scalded.
"No, not the picture, look what it says underneath it. If you see any one of this description, contact Master Roshi for help. " Stranho read the blog.
"It's got his number there. Let's call him." Stranho said, getting out his phone.
"What if he's some weirdo?" Gwen worried.
"It doesn't matter if he is, he can't do anything over the phone." Stranho dialled the number. An old man answered.
"Hello?"
"Hi, I'm Stranho Gurten, you might have heard of me." Stranho said.
"Oh yes, I've seen you on the news. How can I help you?" He asked.
"Are you Master Roshi?"
"Yes."
"I'd like to inquire about your energy."
"Oh yes, do you want to learn how to control yours?"
"You can do that?"
"Oh yes. Do you understand martial arts?"
"Yes, very well."
"Then I can tell you what to do over the phone, but it might take a while." Master Roshi explained.
"Ok."
"First, you need to relax."
"Ok. I'm gonna give the phone to my friend now, so I can do this." Stranho handed Ben the phone.
"Tell me what he says, Ben." Stranho crossed his legs and closed his eyes.
"Ok now, listen to the centre of your body, and hold your hand in a cupped way and... bring out the energy you can hear." Ben repeated what Master Roshi said. A glowing ball of light appeared in Stranho's hands.
"Wow!" Gwen gasped. "I guess he's alright after all." She sat down and tried to do the same, failing to.
"I guess it's harder for you Gwen, you haven't done as much martial arts as me have you?" Stranho said.
"Well, at least I've actually got a power now." He said. Ben handed the phone to him.
"If you like I could teach you something called the Kamehameha wave too. For a small fee." Master Roshi said.
"I guess we can't do that over the phone." Stranho said. Gwen looked suspicious.
"What's he asking for?" She asked.
"He said he could teach me something called the Kamehameha wave for a small fee."
"Sounds suspicious to me." Gwen said, quite loudly apparently, because Master Roshi then said.
"Who's that in the background?"
"Oh its just my friend, she thinks you're some psycho or something."
"How dare she call me a psycho? If you're that worried about me, one of my students can teach you instead, what's your address?"
"32 Whitley way, Bellwood, Virginia." Stranho Explained.
"He will arrive shortly. To pay, just keep the phone on for a 3 minutes." So they waited, and watched TV for a while. Later, there was a knock at the door. Stranho went to answer it.
"It's weird." Gwen said, "This is happening strangely fast."
"I know." Ben said. Then Stranho came back, followed by a bald boy, a bit older than them. Even though he was short with a high voice.
"Hi." He said, extending a hand to Ben, who shook it, noticing a firm grasp. "I'm Krillin."
"Ben Tennyson, but I guess you know me." Ben said smugly.
"Oh yeah, you fight crime and stuff. So, Stranho, we might need to go outside to do the Kamehameha Wave, It's pretty powerful, and you may not get it the first time, or even the hundredth, but with what Master Roshi told me, you're very good with energy." Krillin explained.
"Ok, come on then, this way." Stranho led him to the back door. Ben got up.
"Hey, Gwen, you coming?" he asked.
"Nah." Gwen said.
"So, what was it you fought that was so powerful?"
"He looked like a human, but he was super strong and fired energy, and also he had a brown, monkey like tail." Stranho said.
"Hmm, weird. I've never heard of anyone like that. But anyway, the Kamehameha Wave. You put your hands back like this, just watch me the first time." Krillin put his hands in cup shapes on either side of him.
"And you put them together as you bring energy into the hands, then you say. KamehameHA!" He shouted the last part, blasting a bright blue beam into the sky.
"I see, so, like this?" Stranho copied what Krillin had done, creating a dimmer, white beam.
"Well, you've got the energy bit down, just controlling it so that you can form it into a Kamehameha wave." Krillin said. "You just keep practising, you'll get it." And with that, he took off, leaving Ben and Stranho looking shocked.
"They can fly too?" Ben asked.
"It would appear so." Stranho said, then tried the Kamehameha again, blasting a brighter white beam, then collapsing.
"Are you alright?" Ben asked.
"Yeah, It's just that energy takes a lot of, well, energy." Stranho gasped.
Later, there was a call from Krillin. "Hey, Stranho, we've got a problem, that guy you were talking about is..." The phone was cut off.
"I think Krillin needs our help. He said that Raditz is there and the phone went dead." Stranho spoke into a small communicator to Gwen, for she had gone home.
"I'll teleport there, you do the same." Gwen said. Ben turned into XLR8.
"Where did you say that guy lived?" He asked.
"At Kame House. An island off the coast, look it up on Google Earth with Upgrade, I'm teleporting. Meet you there." Stranho said, and climbed into the teleporter. He found himself in the scene. Raditz was fighting with Krillin and an old man who Stranho assumed was Master Roshi. But he appeared to have no difficulty fighting them. Gwen and XLR8 appeared. "Guys, we have like 30 seconds. Here's the plan. Gwen, use your magic to paralyse Raditz now. Ben, go Heatblast and fire as much fire as possible at him." Stranho said, and they did it. Stranho went into the house and went to the top floor by the window, and took his bio-suit off. Then he began to focus, to charge his energy up. "Kaaaaa.....meeeeeeeeee......haaaaaaaaaaa........meeeeeeeeee........" A blue ball appeared in his hands. He looked out the window, and aimed at Raditz, who was still under flames from heat blast.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Stranho yelled, the beam went out the open window and hit Raditz directly. The window shattered. Stranho jumped out the window to see if Raditz had been defeated. He looked a little singed. "Well done you managed to singe my leg hairs a little. I wouldn't have expected it from you, though. But I just came for the Dragonballs, and I have them now, so..." Before Raditz had finished, Ben, as Touchstone, tackled him to the floor. Even this mighty warrior couldn't lift touchstone off him. But then he blasted, sending the stone creature flying up, then into the sea. He looked angry now. Gwen quickly fired a tornado at him, but he dispersed it easily. Stranho used his full speed to try and grab the tail again. It worked, as Raditz didn't expect that speed. Stranho twisted the tail hard, making Raditz scream.
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