"We went through everything in Nabiki's room, smashed everything that could have hidden it," said Genma. "He MUST have it with him."
"Then with the lamp in our hands," began Soun.
"Our futures will be secured," finished Genma.
"MMMMPH!" said a girl tied up in a steamer trunk.
There had to be something like that around, even if the genie was gone, reasoned Vegita. Perhaps the blue-haired woman could find such.
He had to have a kingdom worthy of his name.
Vegita returned to his attempts to achieve Super Saiyan IV. He knew it was there. He would reach it. The only things left to know was how and when.
If there was only someone to give him a proper workout.
"RANMA SAOTOME! FOR MAKING AKANE CRY, PREPARE TO DIEEEEE!"
WHAP!
Vegita glared at the person creasing his cheek with an umbrella. "Why for you want to annoy me?"
"You're not fooling anyone, Ranma! I heard all about it!" declared Ryoga.
"Ranma, Ranma, Ranma," growled Vegita. FWOOOM! fwish-fwish-fwish-fwish "I am Vegita, Prince Of All Saiyan. GET MY NAME RIGHT, FOOL!" BLAM!
Vegita prepared to turn away when he heard an unexpected sound.
"Not so... fast, Ranma."
Vegita frowned, more thoughtfully this time. It had only been a minor attack in Super Saiyan I mode. The human was not only conscious, he was still standing! True, his feet had dug furrows that stretched the twenty yards from where he'd been hit to where he'd finally stopped. For a human, this was fairly impressive. "Train harder. THEN come back and face me."
"You're not getting away from me, Ranma," said the boy, a moment before collapsing.
Vegita shook his head. Boy definitely had the right attitude, if only he could back it up.
"You are not authorized to proceed further," said the hologram, standing before the vault.
"Which makes it even more intriguing to me," responded the gnarled little old man. "What silky darlings or treasures might be beyond that door?"
"Nothing which you could use," said the hologram. "It's been long enough that silk has long since become dust. Let the past remain the past, child."
"I'm fully adult, sweetie," said Happosai with a leer. "What a pity I can't touch you."
"A 'pity' is not the word that I'd use," said the hologram.
"I suppose not," said Happosai before bounding directly through the ghost to begin tapping with his pipe at the door in question. "Hmmm. Solid construction. Reinforced stone, at least a meter thick."
"Three meters," said the hologram. "I really wish you wouldn't do that."
"Now, now, don't deny an old man some fun in his reclining years," said Happosai.
"Don't you mean 'declining' years?" asked the hologram.
"No, I was just being nostalgic. Saw this display of these Lay-Z-boy recliners with heating massage at the flick of a switch in Sapporo. Tried it out. If only you had one here," said Happosai with a wistful sigh.
"I'm surprised you're even still here, there's no food, no water, and the air is not being renewed. Eventually you will use up the available oxygen," pointed out the hologram.
"I might have a rocket in my pocket, but it's not the kind that will get me back home," said Happosai. "Ah, here we go!"
The hologram watched impotently as Happosai hit several points on the door, then leapt back before cracks began snaking through the rock.
"After a couple of fool students imprisoned me in a cave, I decided to learn a technique that might be useful in just such a manner," confided Happosai as he waited for the dust to settle. When it had, he beheld-
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