51 Dr. Gero Escapes (1/2)

”Forget about that. He's getting away!” Piccolo yelled. He was the first one to chase Dr. Gero.

Everyone reacted and hurriedly chased after him. Raditz was the only one who hadn't reacted yet.

”Uncle Raditz? Are you coming?” Gohan turned around and shook Raditz.

”Ah? Oh, yeah. I'm coming.” Raditz nodded and followed. He didn't feel urgent since all he needed to do was ask Bulma for the location to Dr. Gero's lab.

They chased down Dr. Gero to a rocky area filled with numerous rocks and cliffs. Since they couldn't sense android's Ki, after Dr. Gero hid himself, they had no way to find him. Everyone once again spread out to scout.

After a while, Yamcha's Ki hit rock bottom.

”Aww, shit. He's wasting all the senzu beans.” Raditz blamed Yamcha. Everyone moved toward Yamcha as fast as they could.

A few moments later, Vegeta's and Nappa's Ki also turned faint. Dr. Gero had hidden himself as soon as the Z Team came close. Then, after finding an opening, he started absorbing the other's Ki.

Krillin and Tien Shinhan carried Yamcha, Vegeta and Nappa to Raditz to feed them senzu beans.

While Raditz was feeding them senzu beans, Gohan's Ki suddenly spiked. Dr. Gero had found Gohan alone and targeted him. Unfortunately for him, although he kept up to date with the WMA, Gohan had joined the Junior Division and had not had the chance to showcase his actual strength.

Because Gohan was just a 10-year-old kid, Dr. Gero had seen him as an easy target.

By the time Raditz and the others arrived, Gohan had already caught Dr. Gero.

”Tell me where the two scary androids are.” Gohan kept Dr. Gero alive to find out where the two androids Future Trunks had warned them were.

”I don't know what you're talking about.” Dr. Gero's eyes shook, but he kept a calm expression.

Gohan was inexperienced as an interrogator, while Dr. Gero an old and experienced man. There was no way he would let out such important information.

While they were trying to get information out of Dr. Gero, Trunks appeared in the distance, he was flying to the Z Team.

”Who is this guy? He's the one you're fighting right?” Trunks asked confused. He had earlier seen the battleground of their earlier battle with #19 and even seen the beheaded body of #19.

”You don't know? That's Dr. Gero!” Piccolo said. Since Dr. Gero created the androids, he assumed that Trunks had also met Dr. Gero.

While the Z Team was losing their focus on Dr. Gero, he himself was trying to find an opening to escape and run back to the lab. Even without the Z Team's focus, he was still surrounded by them.

Just as his mind spun furiously to find a solution, Bulma arrived in the sky, riding on a hovercar with Yajirobe.

”Hey, guys!” Bulma waved from the car.

”This is my chance!” Dr. Gero looked at the hovercar.

”I was speaking the truth when I said you had no chance of victory! #17 and #18 will be here to kill you all soon!” Dr. Gero shouted loudly and whipped a large ranged Ki beam like a rope and slug it at the hovercar. Everything it touched exploded. The attack covered several kilometers area.

Raditz had forgotten the minor details in the storyline, but once he saw Dr. Gero look at the hovercar, he suddenly remembered that Dr. Gero would destroy the hovercar to put everyone's attention on saving Bulma.

Although Dr. Gero's goal was to make sure Bulma was alive to distract everyone, Raditz felt that it was better to be safe than sorry. He quickly teleported into the hovercar and brought Bulma and Yajirobe out just before the hovercar was caught in the explosion.

”Mother!!” Trunks was alarmed and hurriedly flew to the spot the hovercar was.

”Hey, I got them.” Raditz's voice came from the ground.

”Phew, that was a close one. Thank you, Raditz.” Bulma heaved a sigh in relief after looking at the disaster created by Dr. Gero which had devastated the surrounding several kilometers far.

Bulma was curious about the androids, she thought that android just now looked similar to Dr. Gero and wondered if it really was Dr. Gero as she did not expect a scientist to come out and fight.

It took a while before the conversation moved to finding Dr. Gero's lab. Bulma had heard rumors that Dr. Gero had built a lab in the mountains near North City. As the rumors were quite old, it was also possible that Dr. Gero had moved the lab already.

Since it wasn't safe for Bulma to be here, and she lost her only mode of transport. Krillin who was the weakest of the group was given the duty to bring Bulma and Yajirobe back home. The one who suggested Krillin was naturally Raditz.

Yamcha, Vegeta and Nappa were also advised by the rest of the team to go back since their opponents were too strong for them.

Yamcha thought it was a good idea to leave right now since he had almost died twice already. Vegeta and Nappa were unwilling to leave, maybe it was their Saiyan nature driving them to stay.

But Raditz did notice that even though they did not have a fight and only had their Ki drained, both Vegeta and Nappa's Ki had increased after eating a senzu bean. Raditz assumed that Zenkai was also able to unlock some of their hidden potentials similar to Guru's ability.