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"Really? You wished for cosmetic surgery?" Piccolo squinted down at Bulma, who was marveling at her perked buns. Bulma grit her teeth, turning to Piccolo with a glare.

"Mind your own business! I can do whatever I want with my wishes! Do you know how hard it is to maintain my youthfulness, especially around these Saiyans!?" Bulma shouted, though her face fell as a realization crossed her mind, her shoulders drooping. "O-Oh no. We could've used that to wish Goku and Vegeta here!"

Piccolo gasped, eyes wide as he and Bulma stared at each other. The thought hadn't crossed either minds, and now the Dragon Balls were gone for a year. Piccolo groaned, running his hands down his face. Why hadn't he thought of that?

"What's going on?" A voice spoke up, catching their attention. The two whipped around, coming face to face with Y/n, who looked up at them in confusion. "Why did you summon the dragon?"

"Oh," Bulma's eyes widened before a grin spread across her face. "Oh! I completely forgot! Y/n can help!"

"Help? With what?" Y/n looked back and forth between the two, Bulma, who looked ecstatic, and Piccolo, who looked unsure.

"You have to beat the Androids, Y/n! Team up with Piccolo and go defeat the Red Ribbon army!" Bulma exclaimed, clenching her fist.

"Some really bad people have shown up. And without Goku and Vegeta, I don't have any backup. If only someone hadn't lost the communicator or wasted the wishes..." Piccolo muttered, crossing his arms. Bulma growled, nearly popping a blood vessel as she slowly turned to Piccolo with a murderous look in her eyes.

"You didn't think of it either!" She yelled in his ear. Piccolo groaned, turning around.

"For now, I'm going to head back and check out the situation. If I think I need help, I'll come back for you. Just lay low, I think they've been spying on us," Piccolo said. With those words, he took off back towards the Red Ribbon base. Even with his power boost, he wasn't sure he could take on both Gammas, and whatever this Cell Max was. There was a chance he had to come back for Y/n anyway. But until he was certain of that, he was going in this alone.

"I've decided our next move," Magenta spoke with a smirk, catching the attention of those around him, and Piccolo as well, who was disguised as a guard again. "Since Piccolo didn't work out, I think our next target should be Goku's eldest son, Gohan."

"How are we going to go about that? If I remember correctly, he lives at Capsule Corporation. You know, the headquarters of our enemy." Dr. Hedo eyed Magenta skeptically. Magenta rolled his eyes, standing up as he approached the computer across the room.

"From what our scouts have told us, Gohan spends a majority of his time away from Capsule Corp.. He's in college right now, so if we can approach him, we might be able to lure him here for the Gammas to take care of," Magenta said.

"And how do you propose we do that? I don't think he'd willingly come." Dr. Hedo followed after Magenta, who chuckled.

"Why, we use his friend, of course." Magenta clicked a button on his remote, a familiar face to Piccolo appearing on the screen. It was a briefing of Y/n, though as he read through it, it was a very outdated one, from before her memories had been unlocked. "We've run a background check on this girl, Y/n. She's human, but close friends with not only Gohan, but Goku and Bulma as well. We could kill two birds with one stone by getting rid of them both. We kidnap the girl and use her as bait to lure Gohan here, and no one will ever know what happened!"