[h2]Earth - Proving Grounds[/h2]

Rufus caught movement in the corner of his eye and when he turned to see the offending icecube another person intercepted the makeshift missile.  The newcomer was a rather remarkable young-woman with three eyes, which was quite uncommon, and sucked on the ice-cube to dissolve it in her mouth.  He also quickly noticed the annoyed individual from the spectator seats, another woman who no doubt found his behavior rather unbecoming.

[color=violet]"You two...Is this any way to act in a place of honor?"[/color]  The ice-cube snatcher asked, Rufus also heard the other woman say how he was eyesore but he was not about to try two conversations at once.

"Keh, a place of honor my foot.  This place was built to cultivate the strong, not pamper some fools who don't know their place."  Rufus glared over at his previous opponent who at this time was being quickly whisked away for treatment.  The guy wouldn't show up to pay the debt, probably just run away in fear; which had been his intention in the first place.  Certain people would not take the hint without some sort of threat placed against them, and if he had actually paid, well he'd just beat him up again and tell him to get lost.

"Which is no doubt the reason you-" He was going to say more like how she was here to prove her metal or something when an annoying, and rather large, human showed up.  He was very well-built and tall, even in werewolf form Rufus was still smaller then this man in black.  He was also a very annoying human.

[color=black]"If you want to seem weaker than everyone else here then please keep talking, otherwise put a muzzle on that mouth of yours Mutt,"[/color] he said, marking the man for a beating sooner or later.

"Pretty smart-mouthed for a human."  Rufus smirked, and made a great show of baring his teeth and licking his claws with his long-pink tongue.  "I would love to show you true power by ripping out your throat; however..."  Rufus growled a bit and looked around, "I've drawn to much attention to myself because of all your antics.  Tch, guess I'll have to stop for the day."  While he wanted nothing more than to bully the man into submission, Rufus was a jerk to be sure, but not stupid; he still wanted to be able to fight in the Proving Grounds after all.

A male enforcer Android, one of Earth's newest defenses and rather strong tournament judges, had shown up where the small group was.  "Rufus Grindstone, your actions in the last match were uncalled for and you have managed to make the spectators attack you.  You shall be suspended for a week before you are allowed back on the floor, please come with me."

"Fine, but keep your metal hands off me."  Rufus glared at the android, who was of course rather unimpressed and started to walk along with the enforcer off the grounds.  "Keh, I'll fight all of you guys later and teach you some respect!"  As he walked Rufus changed, becoming smaller and decidedly less hairy until he was fully human.  "You'll be begg-Off, tch fine I'll shut up."  He was going to say 'begging for mercy' but the android had enough of his bluster and delivered a crushing blow to his stomach, almost making him bend over from the impact.  So in a less than gracious manner he was hauled off.

[h2]Earth - Defense Force Lab 23[/h2]

The machine sprung to life and even on was rather...unremarkable to work at.  The machine hummed, all the parts working as they were suppose to and the artificially ki switch had been turned on.  It was a rather interesting sensation to feel the fake ki signature, it was familiar yet wholly unnatural and had the unique ability to essentially [i]'throw'[/i] its ki signature toward the duplicate device on Namek which in turn did the same.

"All Systems Green I see, quite good."  Jeene grinned as she looked on her technical pad which showed all the different parts of the machine in green, indicated everything was working properly.  "Alright, lets give the signal to our boys on Namek to send one of them over.  Time to see if this baby of mine works!"  With a tap on the screen, the message was sent.  She waited for a moment, then there was a flash of light inside the machine.

Quickly she skipped over to the Ki transmitter and opened the door, what she saw was not at all what she was expecting.  "What on Earth is this!"  Instead of finding a tech person from Namek inside, what instead greeted her was an alien she had not encountered before.  A rather frog-like individual inhabited the teleporter, with large eyes and even what appeared to be gills on its neck.  While the appearance of the being was shocking, it was the state the being was in that was more so.  The alien was missing its right arm, his left was intact and the webbed hand was in a position on its forehead, two fingers, the sign of instant transmission.  Blood was spewing from where the arm had been and massive bruises were everywhere on the creature's body, at this rate it was not going to last long.

"Get me an emergency aid kit, call the lab doctor, and get me some help here now!"  Jeene ordered her robotic companions who quickly hurried to comply.

"The-ugh, Ki-signal allowed me to get away...huh to think it was actually an artificially source."  The creature then coughed up some blood as Jeene tried to get it to calm down before it bled to death.

"Be quite and stay still or you won't make it before help arrives."  A robot returned with the emergency kit and she quickly started to apply bandages and compresses to everywhere she could to try and stop the bleeding.  As she worked, she made note that apparently her device acted as a Ki beacon as well to instant transmission users even from...wherever this creature was from.


"I don't have long to live," Jeene tried to get him to stop talking but the being just shook its head.  "No you have a need to know, I thought we would be safe after the death of that tyrant Freiza, but to think his connections were so brutal.  They'll stop at nothing to take back what was sold to them!  Yes, my planet was one of Freizas, sold on the market to the highest bidder, guess they came to collect."  The creature started to cough some more and Jeene was quickly finding her first-aid was not stopping the flow of blood quickly enough, there was little doubt he wouldn't make it even if help arrived that instant but the medical personel were at least 3 minutes away.

"Well maybe now you'll have a chance..."

Jeene kept trying to save him but the aliens ki was falling rapidly and soon would be gone, "At least give me a name..."  She felt she had to ask before he passed away.

"Yusi Throsa...come to think of it your form...could this be Earth?"  There seemed to be a glimmer of hope in Yusi's fading voice.

"Yes..."

"Well just maybe we can all be saved then..."  With that said, Yusi's eyes clouded over, and his body fell lifeless in Jeene's arms.

Another flash of light appeared as one of the personel from Namek managed to use the device to cross over to the other side and said, at first enthusiastically.  "Yes we did it!  We can-What the Crap is going on here!"  The voice turned from enthusiasm to terror at the bloody mess in the teleporter.

Jeene thought for a moment before gently laying down the body, "I don't know, but quite possibly everyone in this Galaxy is in danger."