A Second Chance Chapter 6

                                                                       Ancient Traps
Gin: "Where are we?"
Vegeta: "By the sounds of it, I'd say we are in some sort of cave or tunnel."
Goku: "God it stinks in here!"
Vegeta: "Did you have to point that out?!"
Toushiro: "Hang on, I think I can fix our lack of light problem."
And then there was light. Toushiro had felt around and found a stick which he lit up with kido.
Gin: "Much better."
Toushiro held up the torch higher so that he could see the ceiling. The ceiling was just high enough for him to walk in easily as well as Vegeta so long as he walked on all fours. Goku and Gin however had to crouch down a little.
Toushiro: "It looks like a tunnel."
Goku: "But to where?"
That was when Vegeta noticed something in the young captain's hand which in all explained the horrid smell.
Vegeta: "Uhh.... Captain..."
Toushiro: "Huh?"
Vegeta: "That stick you're holding..."
Toushiro: "Yeah... What about it?"
Vegeta: "It's not a stick."
Baffled, Toushiro took another look at the 'stick' he was holding. It wasn't a stick.
Toushiro: "Ah, what is that!?"
The boy dropped the torch right away. It was actually a bone.
Goku: "Looks like a bone."
Just then, Gin looked down and noticed what it was they were sitting on.
Gin: "What the?!"
Vegeta: "The floor... It's covered with bones!"
Goku: "Let's get the hell out of here!"
Vegeta: "Let's go!"
With that they followed the tunnel. Vegeta was in the lead, followed by Toushiro, then Gin, and Goku brought up the end. They held onto the person in front of them as Vegeta was the only one who could see in the dark. But they soon came to a sudden stop.
Goku: "Ow! Vegeta, what's going on why'd you stop?!"
Vegeta: "I can't go any further! The tunnel ends here!"
Toushiro: "What?!"
Gin: "Are you saying we're trapped down here?!"
Vegeta: "That's exactly what I'm saying, Gin."
Goku: "We can't go back and leave this tunnel or we'll be ambushed again. But at the same time we can't stay here either. That would explain all of the skeletons back there."
Gin: "Yeah, a real death trap."
There was limited space and none of them could turn around without bumping into each other. But luck was on there side when Vegeta tried to turn around and accidentally pushed Toushiro into the wall.
Vegeta: "Sorry about that Toushiro. You ok?"
Toushiro: "Yeah I'm-"
Moisture.... There was moisture on the wall!
Toushiro: "Wait... Water! There's water on these rocks!"
Hearing that made everyone excited and the saiyan prince rushed over to the wall.
Vegeta: "Water doesn't just seep into the ground in one spot like this, there has to be another source!"
Goku, who had grown up in the wild, knew that Vegeta was dead on! Holding out his hand he formed an energy ball that glowed brightly in the dark and held it up to the wall.
Goku: "There's evidence that someone has tried to dig here before. Probably one of these poor people that died here. Poor guys must have died from exhaustion trying to dig their way out."
Vegeta: "Well that won't be the case for us. Stand back!"
Toushiro wiggled his way out from in front of Vegeta before the saiyan prince began to dig with his bare hands.
Gin: "Can he really dig us out?"
Goku: "Trust me Gin, Vegeta can dig a small pond in one day if he had too."
Gin: "But... How?"
Goku: "Let me put it to you this way, Gin... There's a very good reason why he is sometimes called and definitely earned the title of 'Natures Living Spirit'."
With his claw like fingers, Vegeta tore away the earth in front of him. In a few seconds, he broke through.
Toushiro: "You're through, Vegeta!"
Goku: "Yes! Way to go, Vegeta!"
With one final swipe, the wall tumbled down and an opening was made. All four squinted their eyes as a bright light shined at them. Toushiro was the first to open his eyes again and what he saw was the strangest thing he'd ever seen.
Toushiro: "What is this?"
Soon the rest of them could see again and they all gazed out at the room as well. They seemed to be in some old ruins.
Gin: "Looks like some sort of mirror room."
Vegeta: "But why are these mirrors on pedestals?
Goku: "And what's with that strange beam of light?"
A crystal ball sat at the top of a pillar and shot a beam of light out of it. The beam was bouncing off of one of the mirrors and was being stopped by a pillar. As Vegeta studied the room, Goku walked over to what he thought was a door. The mighty saiyan then tried to lift it open, but he couldn't.
Goku: *groan*.... *sigh* "It's no use, I can't get this open."
Then he noticed the object in the center of the wall. It looked the same as the mirrors.
Goku: "Wonder if this has something to do with the door opening?"
Then, Vegeta figured it out!
Vegeta: "I know what this is! It's a puzzle! The goal is to get the beam of light to point into that mirror on the door!"
Goku: "Say that again, Vegeta... I'm not following you."
Vegeta: "Oh for gods sake, Kakarot. Weren't you at any good with puzzles like this?"
Goku: "I'm not good with any kind of puzzle or riddle to be honest, Vegeta."
Vegeta: "Why am I not surprised... Stand back and let me show you. You and Gin as well, Toushiro. I've encountered these kind of puzzles before and on one occasion, one of Frieza's men had the misfortune of walking into the beam and got barbecued."
That was enough to make Toushiro and Gin stand well away from the mirrors and joined Goku next to the door. The three of them watched as Vegeta went to work by kicking the pillar blocking the beam away. The beam continued on it's path and stopped at a rotating mirror. Upon reaching the same mirror, the saiyan prince pulled it to the left and the mirror rotated. The beam shined into the glass and went to another mirror that was conveniently already in the right position. The beam bounced off of it and shined right at the door. The sound of a mechanism at work was heard and the door opened.
Vegeta: "Hurry! There's no telling how long it'll stay open!"
Realizing that their saiyan friend was very right, the three of them ran into the next room. The second they were through, Vegeta bolted for the door as well. Just as he did, it started to close. He had quite a bit of a run ahead of him, but it paid to be the fastest person in the world and Vegeta slid under the door just seconds before it closed.
Vegeta: "Phew!"
Goku: "Talk about cutting it close, huh Vegeta!"
Vegeta: "You can say that again."
Toushiro: "Uh, Vegeta... We've got a problem."
Vegeta sat up and looked across the room. It was the same thing as in the last one but only bigger... Much bigger.
Vegeta: "Oh you can't be serious!"
Gin: (Counting the mirrors) "I'm counting over 10 mirrors."
Toushiro: "And there's the light over there at the far left of the room and the door is, of course, on the very opposite side."
Vegeta: "Of course."
Goku: "You think you can do it again, Vegeta?"
Vegeta: "I've got a better idea."
Once he got to his feet, Vegeta told the others what to do. They were going to set the mirrors in place before knocking the pillar out of the way of the beam. With Goku, Toushiro and Gin working some of the mirrors, Vegeta walked the path that the beam would follow. If a mirror needed to be rotated, it was. After some careful adjusting, all of the mirrors were in their proper place. Now for the beam. Goku and the two Soul Reapers stood by the door while Vegeta went to knock the pillar away. With a good kick, the pillar came tumbling down! Without a second to miss, Vegeta made a dash for the door. His plan had worked and he reached the door before the beam did. When the door opened, the four of them just walked in. What they encountered in the next room was completely different. No puzzles, no villagers or anything. Just the remains of a temple and strange flowers, flowers that were unfamiliar to any of them.
Toushiro: "I've never seen flowers like these before."
Goku: "Don't touch those, Toushiro. We have no idea what they are."
Toushiro: "Oh yeah, right Goku."
Vegeta: "Am I imagining things or is that the Tricell logo on those tents?"
Gin: "Tricell?"
Goku: "Tricell is a company that was formed after Umbrella fell. They've been picking up where Umbrella left off."
Toushiro: "So it's safe to say that if Tricell is here then Zabar will be close by."
Vegeta: "You'd be right."
Gin: "There's a well lit path over there."
Gin pointed to a man-made tunnel that was next to the abandoned tents.
Goku: "That's been man-made."
Vegeta: "Then that's where we need to go."
Forgetting about the flowers, they headed towards the tunnel and what lied behind the door. Behind the door lied a lab full of cages and well protected rooms with some walls made of glass. Some of the cages held animals, some that had obviously been experimented on.
Gin: "Now that's a big rat."
Goku: "I've got a bad feeling about this place."
Vegeta: "Same here. It's quiet... Too quiet."
Toushiro walked by one of the glass walls and peered inside. The whole room was covered in blood and torn up body parts. The same thing with the other ones as well. In one, there was half of a soldier still on the floor.
Toushiro: "What happened here?"
Vegeta: "This is what the t-virus and its mutated brethren have done and why we've fought so hard up to this point."
Toushiro: "But why? Why is Zabar still doing this? Isn't his boss dead? What's his plan? What's his goal?"
Vegeta: "I don't know, Toushiro. What I do know is that he must be stopped if we are to ever win this war!"
A sudden sound and movement grabbed Goku and Vegeta's attention. Going to investigate, they caught a glimpse of something moving on the ceiling.