[IC] Dragon Ball Gaiden

[Genon]

As they approached the observatory, Juze's pace quickened. His wound hurt something fierce. He'd never been injured this seriously before, but he had to deal with the pain. He could feel another power inside the observatory. It was another one of those aliens.

But as made to walk through the revolving door, Wu stopped, holding his shoulder and groaning in pain.

"What's wrong?" Juze asked, rushing to his aid.

"Ugh..." Wu groaned.

"Talk to me, Master!"

Wu looked down in shame. "It's my arthritis. I can't fight that thing like this! You go on ahead!"

"Are you serious...?" Juze said, putting a hand to his forehead in disbelief. "Go help the civilians or something. I'm dealing with the murderous alien on the loose where my parents work."

With that, he pushed his way through the revolving door.

It was utter chaos inside. Bodies lay on the ground, with visible claw marks and body parts ripped off. Some were half-melted from acid sprays. Others were blasted apart by an energy beam.

"Oh God..." Juze said, before throwing up on the floor. His vision swam. The trauma of his injury, mixed with the murder of so many people, was getting to him.

He got to his knees, putting a hand to his face. Of course, Wu wasn't around to hear his plight, or feel his emotional trauma. He couldn't call him: He'd left his phone at the dojo. He wasn't going to bother him telepathically about this, either. Not when he was busy getting the civilians to safety.

He was spoiled, he knew it. But not enough that he couldn't learn to suppress it.

He heard screaming from the floors above. He needed to move, or his parents would die.

He didn't want to. His legs felt like solid lead. But he needed to.

He needed to.

COME ON! MOVE! MOVE DAMN YOU! he screamed in his own mind. He forced himself up, inch by inch, until he was back on his feet.

That was a start.

He pushed himself forward, one foot at a time.

He had killed one of these monsters, he could do it again.

He started running. And then sprinting. He made it to the stairs. He started flying up the stairs diagonally. Faster. Faster. Faster still.

Until eventually, he caught sight of that little green bastard holding his mother by the collar on the top floor, next to the telescope. His father was trying to smash its head in with one of the nearby computers, to no avail.

He screamed. It was something between rage and panic. He flew. He crashed into the Saibaman, and the next instant he was out the window, holding it by its remaining arm over the town. He had collided into it fast enough that the force of his impact had ripped the arm it was grabbing his mother with clean off. It was probably still stuck to her lab coat, spurting purple blood everywhere, just like this thing's stump was doing to his nice, clean gi.

This thing was going to die, because he wasn't going to give it a chance to survive. Not after everything it did to his town. And what it would've done to his parents.

Its mouth opened, and it fired a green ki beam directly into his face. The rage had increased his power, however. It only left mild burns. He, on the other hand, had jabbed his thumb directly into its left eye while it was distracted with that blast. It shrieked in pain.

He lifted it up as it writhed, bit, and kicked at at him, ignoring the pain of its eye and delivering shallow cuts in several places but too panicked to think of using its acid.

He broke its spine over his knee. It screamed again, this time so injured that its attempts to claw him was more like the pathetic scratching of an unruly cat that had been picked up by its owner against its will.

But it managed to get a good grip on his arm, which then tightened like a vise. It began, against all logic, to laugh.

But Juze wasn't going to let it explode this time. He knew its tricks. Taking some rock from the ground below in an instant, it swam up through the air, enveloping his fist. He grabbed its head and crushed it like a grape, splattering him with purple goop as its eyeballs bounced off his face. He let the corpse fall.

And only then did he realize what he had done. Everything went black.

When he woke up, he was in a hospital bed, with fresh bandages on his cuts and his parents looking over him.

[Weird Tales]

Hunter Zero

Location: woods outside of East City

Interactions: @IceHeart@Eviledd1984@Double@Bartimaeus

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His distraction seemed to do the trick and the two people below made quick work of the goons, but his attention was drawn to the green creatures who appeared to be giving chase to another person who seemed to be possess strong power. He didn't dwell too much on the man since the creatures were chasing him and they were his target. Hunter flew after them and took aim with his shotgun. He noticed a couple other fighters join the fray and attack the green creatures. He fired off a blast of energy directly at a few of them which gave off a small sized explosion.

When the smoke cleared Hunter could see that a couple of the creatures had turned their attention to him with evil smirks on their faces. They flew at him with great speed and Hunter responded by firing off a couple more shots from his gun. The creatures however were ready for it and took evasive maneuvers dodging the attacks. They were soon upon Hunter and took aim with kicks in his direction. He managed to block one with his shotgun while the other hit him right in the gut, which sent crashing down to earth at high speed. He smashed into the street pavement below causing the asphalt to crack and split apart like a brittle cookie.

Hunter grunted as he pulled himself up from the ground and breathed heavily as he got back on his feet. In front of him standing about eight feet away where the two green creatures. Now that he was able to get a good look at them he got flashbacks the very few times he had gone and seen a film and one of them were about little green men invading the planet. He assumed that these creatures must be aliens of some sort, he hadn't seen anything like them on his travels across the world. Either way he knew that they didn't come in peace and were a potential danger to the planet.

The aliens were cackling with the same wicked smirks on their faces.

"I'm going to try and wipe those looks off your faces. Prepare for a lot of pain green men" he declared and strapped his shotgun on his back. He was going to use unarmed fighting to try and conserve more energy since he wasn't sure how many other of these things there potentially could be. Hunter got into a fighting stance and held his fists up to his face in a boxing stance. He waited for the creatures to make the first move and they did.

They both lunged at him with their claws outstretched and sought to tear into him. Hunter was ready for them and performed quick evasion movements to avoid their claws and counterattacked with several powerful punches to the creatures head and chest areas. His blows caused them to stagger back, but they came again at extremely quick speeds and began to attack with great ferocity. Even as he blocked their attacks, he could feel that these aliens were incredibly powerful and Hunter wasn't even sure if he could handle one of these things let alone two of them.

One managed to get a good blow in and he felt its claws slash against his skin. The second one then shot out a strange liquid from its head at him. Hunter quickly dodged and was thankful that he did when some of the liquid caught his right arm around the forearm area. The liquid burned through the sleeve on his jacket and burned his skin. He felt it and it hurt bad. These things whatever they were could shoot acid and it looked deadly. The creatures slowly approached him with their arms outstretched and still smirking at him. Hunter pulled out his hunting knife from its holder on his belt and gripped it tightly in his hand.

"Looks like I'm going to be getting some knife practice in boys" he said to the aliens as he held his knife at the ready for an attack. The creatures cackled and attacked. Hunter wasn't sure where the other fighters were or how long he could keep fighting these aliens, but he would give it his all if necessary.

[Chev]

Tabaga's scouter suddenly beeped as it picked up an incoming power level behind her.

"What the hell?!" She exclaimed in an angry tone as she turned around and saw a large amount of acid coming directly at her. For the most part she was dodge most of the acid spray but a few smaller droplets hit her armor.

She narrowed her eyes at the enraged Saibaman coming at her and resisted the urge to wipe the acid off her armor. The stuff would burn through her hand easily. Tabaga launched herself at the green creature and saw that this one was going to be quite a bit more difficult to deal with than the other one. It seemed to be a little bit stronger then the previous one and it was clearly angry about the death of the previous one.

"Bring it!" She shouted as she launched a barrage of energy blasts at the Saibaman who though barely, was able to dodge some of the more damaging blasts. Tabaga thought she had it for a moment as she fired another barrage at it, but it had somehow managed to break through the barrage and slammed her directly in the head with it's elbow.

Tabaga went flying backward and slammed into the ocean below and let out a roar of rage as she launched herself back into the air and aimed herself directly back at the green creature. She was bleeding from the impact from her head and her vision was a bit off. The damn thing had gotten in a good hit. She slammed into the Saibaman's stomach head first and sent it flying backward. The two combatants stared at each other.

Malfunction.

Tabaga let out a groan. Her scouter looked as if it was damaged. It was still operational but everything was badly garbled on the readout. The blood flow coming from her head was decreasing a bit but her vision was getting slightly worse.

Time to get serious

The Saibaman let out a howl of anger and launched itself at her as Tabaga let out a battle cry and and did the same thing. After a furious exchange of blows, Tabaga elbowed the creature in it's neck and it let out a cry of pain. Before it could finish, Tabaga got behind it and swiftly broke it's neck. She felt a burning coming from her hands and she let out a shout of pain. Her palms were smoking from where acid had somehow gotten into contact with her hands.

Damn it!

The Saiyan Woman swiftly flew down into the water in an effort to get the acid off of her hands.

[Double]

East City

@Eviledd1984@IceHeart@Weird Tales

The stranger couldn't help but swear to himself under his breath. He wanted to lure the Saibaman to a more remote location before fighting them in earnest. Unfortunately, there were a couple of fighters in the city who had other ideas. Two of his pursuers broke off to fight a different target each. That meant the stranger's plan of luring them all away had already failed. Fine. If these humans were going to insist on fighting in the middle of a populated city, then he supposed there was no reason for him not to do the same.

The stranger suddenly halted without any kind of warning and spun his body around. He used his arms to clothesline two of the pursuing Saibamen, leaving them momentarily stunned. The third was far enough behind that it stopped in time to avoid being struck. It instead sprayed its acid its prey. That prey, unfortunately, was no ordinary opponent. He quickly reached for one of the stunned Saibamen and shoved it out to take the spray for him. It wouldn't kill the Saibaman, as they were usually pretty resilient against their own acid, but it sure as hell wouldn't be a pleasant experience either. Without missing a beat, the stranger reached out and used his index and middle fingers to draw a line of Ki energy in front himself. The line glowed a moment before shattering into energy shards that flew forward to shred into the Saibaman who was still recharging its acid spray. But while the sprayed Saibaman was still recovering, the third had recovered from the surprise clothesline from earlier and managed to latch itself onto the stranger's chest with a mischievous grin on its alien face.

"Hmph, just try it!" taunted the stranger, who seemed to know exactly what was coming. The Saibaman's body began to slowly glow. But unknown to it, the stranger's body began spark with electricity. All of sudden the stranger easily pulled his arm free, his electrified body momentarily stunning his attacker. The stranger had to think fast, "You obviously. Do not know." he grabbed glowing Saibaman by the neck and hurled it higher into the sky, "Who you're FUCKING WITH!" he watched the Saibaman explode, its attempted suicide attack becoming a resounding failure. The stranger then glared in the direction of the other two Saibamen, who now seemed to be almost hesitant to continue fighting him, "Finally sinking in, eh? But it's TOO LATE!" the stranger shot forward to charge at the two Saibamen, no longer bothering to hide his rather high battle power.

[Eviledd1984]

@Double @Weird Tales

Bururi

The blue alien stopped in mid air and directing his body towards the green little men, He was hoping for them to follow him instead of chasing after the other man. But he was not complaining as he needed to get rid of these monsters, Firing at one or two of them with his finger beam to try and bring their attention towards him and not to the other two. If he was successful then one of the beams would hit their arm or at the very least their shoulder blade, However if it failed then it would miss and he would have to plan something else to try and lower their numbers.

Their was a lot of these green little aliens, He wondered where they came form and who was controlling them if their was a master. "Come and get me, You acid spitting freaks" He yelled out loud for them to hear him. Once they flew towards him he would try to stay far away form them as he didn't want to be hit by their acid spit.

However if they come close to him then he would have to fight them by using his energy blades, Although he would have to avoid close combat with these things. If it would have to come down to it he would have to cut these things into mince meat.

[IceHeart]

Cheral Castella

Location: East City

Interactions: @Eviledd1984@Weird Tales@Double

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Thankfully nothing chased her as she made her way home, the problem was by the time she got there who knew how much more damage those little green men would do to the city. She was just about to start flying, certain that she wouldn't be followed anymore, when a black van hard-braked right in front of her, stopping her in her tracks. Quickly a bunch of men in suits leapt out of the car and saluted her.

"We came as fast as we could mistress, hopefully in our haste we have everything you need." Cheral gratefully nodded and leapt into the back of the truck, there it was, her previous suit waiting for her.

"Hurry and help me get in this!"

"Right away!" The men shouted as they quickly started strapping her into the suit. As it was still in the prototype stage it unfortunately had not been capsulized yet. Just putting it in a capsule would be easy, but what she really wanted to do was to design a device that would allow her to instantly don it without having to take the extra time to get into the suit. With all the help from her family though she was fully decked out in record time.

She quickly checked the suit to make sure it was properly powered and everything appeared to be in order. "I'll happily give you guys a recommendation to my father later!"

"Thank you Mistress Castella!"

Cheral laughed and instantly felt confident, just feeling the suit on her skin gave her a powerful sense of security, to the point it seemed like she could feel the electricity crackling through her arms and legs. She was ready to fight and save her family's investments in the city and the civilians of course. Jumping out of the van she flew back toward ground zero of the alien attack.

There was certainly a lot of fighting going on, but she was going to assume that only the green dudes were the only ones actively attacking the city. One fighter seemed to be rather competent in fighting multiple of the creatures while another, some kind of hunter looking person seemed like he was having some trouble. Figuring it was better to make sure as many potentially allies were available if there were more of them, she dove down on the nearest one to her position that were staring down the hunter guy.

As their eyes were glued on him and his knife, it allowed her to get in quite close before her target suddenly noticed her descent. With a gleeful cackle, it looked up and raised it's arms overhead to defend. At the last moment she flipped herself over and brought an armored boot down hard on the creature. The extra momentum from the flip broke the alien's guard and it stumbled back a few steps in surprise. Cheral found she had to regain her own footing though form the force of the attack so she wasn't able to fully capitalize on her fierce assault.

The other Saibaman nearby turned to face her in response to her attacking the other one. Cheral's armored visage looked at it for a moment while keeping tabs on her initial target.

"No, shoo! Go play with the guy with a knife like you were just about to do!" She then re-positioned herself so that she was behind the other Saibaman which would hopefully make it loose interest in her, a sort of out-of-sight out-of-mind type thing as the creatures did not seem that intelligent. It seemed to work but almost instantly the one she attacked decided to start its own counter attack.

The Saibaman charged her, lashing with its nasty claws to tear her apart, but Cheral was going to have none of it. It was a bit awkward fighting something so small but she managed to parry and blow all its attacks, she heard a bit of a clang as the claws hit her arm but the armor held firm and her blocks were solid. She tend lashed out herself and knocked away the Saibaman with a kick to the head, the alien tumbled on the pavement for a bit before righting itself.

"All I know little bobble head, is that you decided to mess with the wrong city! This part of town is under my family's protection so that mean's you're going to have to pay the price!" The alien of course didn't understand her and instead tried to douse her with a geyser of acid. She rather, ungracefully, dodged to the side and ended up rolling on the ground in her haste.

"Hey! Watch the suit, it's not finished yet! Don't be a poor sport since your stupid little claws can't rip through it!" She glared through her visor, the creature was strong, but as long as she avoided the corrosives her suit should give her a substantial advantage over the enemy. She was about to pound the acid out of this little bugger!

[mattmanganon]

Po scouted ahead of the pods, flying low and fast across the terrain. This was, without a doubt, one of the most beautiful planets he had ever seen. Ry-Gal had always been a barren wasteland and he had heard that Vegeta had much of the same. But this had green grass, lush and vibrant tree's. He let out a gleeful giggle as he pressed a button on the scouter and picked up a lower-level of 300. Pretty pathetic but more noteworthy than the 5's and 6's that seemed to be littering this beautiful ball.

Landing, he looked around the building that he had found the power level at. All he could see outside was a small girl rhythmically punching the air. He pressed a button on the scouter. 25... again, rather pathetic, but better than previously. He watched her punching the air over and over. It was amazing, like a Saiyan without a tail. But she was kinda cute. He continued staring from his concealed place on the roof, until, finally, the girl grabbed a plank of wood and threw it at him. The plank hit him square in the forehead. He didn't react as it hit. He continued to watch her.

"What are you doing up there, you creep?" She yelled at him. He finally jumped down. "Why are you dressed all weird?" She asked. He looked down to his battle-suit.

"What's weird about it?" He asked.

"You look stupid in that." She replied. He began slowly walking around her, sniffing at her. She started getting mad now "STOP BEING SUCH A CREEP!!!" She screamed. Before punching him in the face, he grabbed her fist and tried to deflect it, but she flicked her hands to grab a hold of his and flipped him over her head and he landed in a heap.

"How the-" she then put a foot to his throat as she twisted his arm to keep it easily controlled.

"Who are you?" She asked. Po's tail unwrapped itself from his waist, before grabbing his other foot and pulling. She slipped, putting her full weight on his throat, before falling off of him. Po sat upright coughing heavily, before he shook his head a little.

"WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!?!?!?" He yelled. At that point, an old woman in a green Gi stepped out of the house. The little girl got up and bowed to her. The woman starred at Po.

"May I ask who you are?" The old woman asked.

"Hi, my name is Tah, I'm an Elite Saiyan Warrior and I'm here for your planet. My job is to search out the strongest warriors and make sure they know who's in charge." He said with a brash, confident smile.

"Master, this boy is evil, we should-"

"Shut up, woman, the adults are talking." Tah interrupted.

"YOU'RE THE SAME AGE AS ME!!!" She screamed. The Master put a hand up to indicate that she wanted silence. Their eyes met for a second and they starred into each others souls.

"Do as you wish with the planet." She simply said. "I dont quite care what you do with it, but leave the two of us out of it." She sighed, before turning to walk back in. Tah looked dumbstruck for a second.

"Well... That's... Fantastic?" He said, unsure. "Kinda took the wind out of my sails there." He scratched the back of his head. "Ok, big guy, your turn." He said, before his hair seemed to droop a little. "Oh... Ummm... Hi. Thank you for your cooperation." He said. The woman turned to her student. "Shake, prepare a bowl of ramen for our new evil overlord." She said.

"BUT MASTER-" a stern look from the Master shut her up immediately as she bowed and walked inside.

"Come," she said to Po "We were just about to eat." Po tinned excitedly, he had no idea what a Ramen was, but it had to be better than ration packs. He walked inside and sat down at their eating table, as he had a piping hot bowl of strange food placed down in front of him. He gave it a quick sniff, the smell was heavenly. His mouth slowly crept into a big, dumb smile as he slowly giggled, then grabbed the bowl and poured the entire contents into his mouth, as he raised the bowl, the Master tried to stop him "Be careful, tha-... Never mind..." She sighed as he swallowed the entire content's of the bowl in a single mouthful, he grabbed his cheeks and fell backwards, before letting out a sigh of pure contentment.

"Heaven..." He sighed. Shake and her Master looked at each other. "Never have i tasted something so delicious in my entire life." He sat bolt upright. "MORE!?!?!?!?" He asked with an insane fervor. The master starred at him.

"Of course. Fetch him another bowl." She ordered. Po clapped a little as he watched Shake pour another bowl of Ramen and bring it over. He grabbed it and swallowed the entire contents in another flash, before, once again, collapsing and sighing with content.

"King Okura is gonna LOVE this place..." He laughed. "Maybe he'll take you two as his servants." He offered. The Master sat down and looked at him.

"Tell me, young one, why do you work for this King Okura?" She asked. Po starred at her as though she had asked him why the sky was blue.

"Well... Because he's my King. Gotta do what the King says." He shrugged. "Otherwise, what's the point in him being King?"

"Is King Okura a nice man?" She asked.

"Oh, he's the best. Gave me this suit, helped my mom out of having to build weapons of war for people, now, she can get back to making things that make her happy." He chirped.

"And what is he going to do with Earth?" She asked.

"Oh, that's simple. He's going to use it as a staging area to look for his rebel brother, then, once we're done with the planet, we'll... I dunno... Probably just make it a nice summer home? It's really pretty around here." He smiled. The Master looked down.

"He's going to bring a war to this planet?" She asked.

"Oh no, not a War, it's just one guy. His evil brother who wants to kill him and usurp the throne that is rightfully Okura's."

"Did Okura tell you this?" She asked.

"Yep, that's why i know it's right." He replied.

"Any chance he's lying to you?" She asked.

"Why would he do that? It's his throne, Negi just wants to use it so that he can enslave the universe for his own evil idea's." The Master sighed as she heard this.

"Is it at all possible that Okura is just as evil as Negi?" She asked.

"That's silly." Po laughed. "Okura is just as evil as Negi." He laughed, mockingly. At that point, there was another crash from outside, Po got up and looked out to see a Saibaman. "Hey, little buddy!" He waved to it.

"A friend of yours?" Shake asked.

"Yup, he's just a weak little scout. I found these two. They're pretty cool, swore allegiance to King Okura and everything." He said, at that point, the Saibaman dived through the door and rushed straight towards the Master, slashing at her with its claws. The Master jumped, dodged, weaved and ducked out of the way of the flailing claws "HEY, BAD!!!" He yelled. "SHE'S SUBMITTED, SHE'S ON OUR SIDE!!!"

"EEEEEE!!! KIKIKRKRKIK!!!" The Saibaman yelled something at Po in its own language, before continuing to attack wildly. Po stopped, before something inside of him changed. As the Saibaman grabbed ahold of her arm and charged a Ki-blast to throw in her face, Po's hair raised again a little, before he rushed forwards, grabbed its arm and brought his other hand down with enough force to cleave the things hand off. It stumbled backwards screeching in pain, before Po and the Master rushed forward and double-kicked it with enough force to send it flying back through the door it broke in through, before it exploded. Po's face had turned serious.

"Stay here." He ordered the two of them. "I need to have a talk with the others." He ran out through the door and shot into the air. Shake and her master walked out and looked into the sky.

"What did that thing say?" Shake asked.

"Judging from his reaction, i suspect it said it was ordered to kill us all..." She replied.

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As Po reached Jagen and Korun, he landed and looked them over. He landed and starred at them. "You gonna handle this one?" He asked himself. "Yes, i've got this..." He looked up at the two of them. "I... We..." He balled his fist, before his hair raised a little. "Hey, what the hell have you told the Saibamen?" He asked. "We were supposed to come here and capture the planet, not kill everyone that's surrendered!" He groaned. "How is King Okura supposed to-" At that moment, the scouter beeped. He pressed the button a few times as he looked around. "Hey, there's a power signature out there that's pretty big... Kinda looks... There aren't supposed to be other advanced scouts on the planet." He turned and looked up at Jagen and Korun "Should we investigate or hope the Saibamen can handle it?" He asked. His scouter was telling him that the Saibamens chances of handling it were slim and getting slimmer by the second.

[Birdboy]

oof

[Double]

East City

@Birdboy@Genon@IceHeart@Eviledd1984@Chev@Senseless@Weird Tales@mattmanganon

The two Saibamen had no time to process what was happening. Their opponent charged into them with a Battle Power they couldn't hope to match. The stranger landed a mighty punch across one of the Saibaman's face, knocking the head clean off for an immediate kill. But that was only just before he whirled around and slammed a Ki blast into the face of the second Saibaman, blast its head off and killing it as well. With both his opponents down, and remaining Saibamen appearing to be handled by the intervening Earthlings, the stranger took off back into a City for a short distance. He found he what he was looking for, a bar named The Jasmine Glass, and quickly hurried through the back door.

"It should be... here!" he rifled through a bag behind the counter, pulling out a metallic device with a sky blue lens that he fit over his right ear and eye. His old Scouter. If there were Saiyans on this planet, then the easiest way to determine their numbers and location would with this device. Of course, it would also be like lighting up a flare to signal the other Saiyans of his whereabouts, but right now that wasn't important. Reached up to activate the device when...

"There you are, Negi! Where the hell have you been?" the familiar feminine voice said. It was Jasmine, owner of the bar. Her father was the one who originally opened the place and named his daughter after it, thought Jasmine often preferred to go by Jazz for short. She looked plenty mad, almost appearing to have an energy aura that made her short greenish hair stand up and seemingly having a vein popping out on her forehead, "I sent you on a grocery run ages ago, I thought those green monsters got you! Hey... what's that on your face?"

The stranger, Negi, had no time for long explanations, "I know who sent those monsters, and I'm going to go stop them." he moved to leave but felt a hand yanking him back by an arm.

"Oh no, you're not skipping town on me! I want an explanation!"

Negi felt himself getting frustrated, enough that forced himself free of her grip, "There's no time, Jazz! I'll... I'll explain it all if I... when I come back. You're going to start learning things about me, bad things, and some of them are going to be true. But... I never meant for this to happen." he didn't have time for anything else before he rushed out and flew back into the sky. Jazz knew he wasn't entirely human, she'd accidentally caught a glimpse of his tail once, plus she already had a vague idea that he was avoiding someone. But she didn't know anything else beyond that.

One he was back up in the sky he finally activated his Scouter. It picked up the signals of four other Scouters, so there couldn't be any more Saiyans than that. But those Saibamen had been well trained, and only one Saiyan used them to such effect. Negi pressed the button to begin transmitting so that all the other Saiyans with Scouters could hear, "Jagen, I know you're on this planet! If you're here to kill me, then you should have come yourself."

Meanwhile, on the Archipelago, Korun was getting impatient, "Who cares about the damn Saibamen?" he said to response to Po, "I just want to know when I get to beat the crap out of that punk "Prince" of ours!" as for Jagen, he remained silent for a moment, taking a short breath and then speaking.

"It's Negi, it can't be anyone else. Chances are those Saibamen are already dead." he didn't sound very bothered, though, Saibamen were comparable to robots or tools, them being lost wasn't exactly a devastating blow. Almost as if to confirm his suspicions, all three Scouters simultaneously detected the activation of an additional Scouter. Even Tabaga, off on her own would also detect the fourth Scouter. And all the Saiyans would hear the familiar voice of Prince Negi transmitting to them and calling out Jagen in particular. Jagen pressed the button to return transmission, "Letting me see your location so soon? You're getting sloppy, Your Highness. But very well, come to us then we will finish this."

"Hehehehe..." Korun chuckled, "...That's right, come to us little Prince."

"If that's what you want, Jagen." said Negi, still transmitting to all the Saiyans, "I'll defeat you all, and my brother will be next!"

"You're only one Saiyan, Your Highness." Jagen, never losing his cool, "There are limits to what even an Elite like yourself can do alone. Do you really think you have the strength to win this fight?"

Negi cut off the transmission and then swore under his breath, "He's probably right... I can't do this all on my own." then he remembered there were several Earthlings that were helping to fight the Saibamen in East City. It was his only shot, so Negi flew in search of those Earthlings. Hopefully they had finished off the remaining Saibamen by now. When he did eventually find them, Negi approached and without any pause addressed each of them.

"I know who sent those monsters, and I plan to go stop them. If you think you can help, then feel free to follow me." he would leave before waiting for an answer. Either they would follow him or they wouldn't, that wasn't a decision he could make for them.

[Chev]

@Double

Ocean

The waters around the area where Tabaga had submerged herself to get rid of the acid were somewhat calm at the moment. Until a moment later, a swirling vortex emerged from the water and the fuming Saiyan emerged from the vortex.

I hate Saibamen.

She tried reading her scouter only to see nothing but garbled readings once again. She lightly smacked the device until the readings cleared up for a few moments and she was finally able to listen in to whatever communications were going on.

"-location so soon? You're getting sloppy, Your Highness. But very well, come to us then we will finish this."

"Oh no...I know that voice." She groaned aloud. "You couldn't have done the galaxy a favor and died with Planet Vegeta." Wait a second...Is one of the royal family here? On this little blue dirtball?

"If that's what you want, Jagen. I'll defeat you all, and my brother will be next!"

For a moment, Tabaga was torn. She had the chance to start a life on this planet. She could avoid the entire fight and hope that Price Negi could defeat the other Saiyans here. She could hide out and sit on the island she had found and enjoy the sun and the sound of waves crashing against the shore.

Her own thoughts back before she had gone into suspended animation five years ago were coming back to haunt her. The Saiyan race is nearly gone. If we want to survive we can't be conquerors anymore. We need to create a place in this galaxy where we are no longer feared but rather respected.

Tabaga looked down at her hands.

How much blood had once coated these hands? How many aliens had she murdered over the years? How many of her own people had she beaten to a pulp while training in her younger days. How many times had she seen a look of terror on some poor person's face before she killed them?

How many times had she laughed as she had done it?

Tabaga sighed heavily.

I refuse to be that person any longer. As far as I'm concerned at this point, this world, no matter how annoying it may be will be under my protection and be my responsibility. Maybe the people will even be grateful.

She rose into the air and locked in on Prince Negi's scouter. It had to be the one near a few other somewhat less powerful power levels and she shot off in that direction, taking special care to avoid the other Saiyan power levels she was picking up.

[Eviledd1984]

@Double

Bururi

The young alien was slowly lowering the numbers of the Saibamen, But it was quite a daunting task because of how strong they were. "Damn" He cursed under his breath, Seeing the little green men coming right at him shot at them. Aiming his finger shooting his finger beams at them to try and lower their numbers. Most of them dodging his beam attack and heading straight for him, As they came closer towards him he readied his energy blades that outlined around his hands.

When the Saibamen came closer he slashed at two of them who came closest to him, Slicing only one of them in half. The other had his arm cut off which seemed to really piss it off. Noticing that the girl form before that was having trouble with those hoodlums was back, And she was in a robotic suit of some kind. He was curious how she came across such a fascinating tool.

He noticed during the close quarter scuffle that some acid was spat onto his clothes, Ruining his shirt and was touching his skin. "Double damn" He spoke though gritted teeth. Getting rid of his shirt and looking at the wound where the acid had hit him, It left a bit of a acid burn mark on his torso.

After he had finished killing the rest of the Saibamen he flew away, Where he was going was to see if their was anyone that could tell him where these things came form. Stopping his flight looking around when he was close proximity to the city, And he wondered if he knew anything about what was going on. "Hi, Are you alright? Did you get hit by those little green aliens?" He asked landing a few feet away form him.

[Genon]

Juze

When Juze woke up in the hospital, he almost immediately demanded to head back out again, feeling the convergence of powers in East City. He'd only been out for a few minutes--he'd fainted from emotional shock, not physical injury. His claw wound, and the burns here and there, still hurt. He knew from his own reading that the skin was the body's most sensitive organ, so shallow wounds like that would cause a lot of pain even if they weren't as dangerous as a deeper wound.

But he wasn't in any danger right now. That was good.

He knew that there were others out there that could be in mortal danger. Those aliens were relatively easy to deal with, but, somewhere on this planet, were three other alien powers who felt like they were in another league.

They would need the backup. He knew this.

It took some arguing. Yes, he knew he was wounded. Yes, he knew that he was willingly walking into a battlefield. Yes, he knew that the beings he'd be going up against were likely trained to kill, and wouldn't hesitate to use their full power. Yes, he knew that he could most likely die. Yes, he knew that his parents would be distraught if they lost him.

But, as scared as he was, he knew he needed to go. His strength was respectable, for a ki user. He would be necessary.

So, with his wounds dressed and disinfected, he arrived in East City and just as Negi showed up and started giving information on their true targets.

"Wait for me!" Juze managed to get out he sped off after Negi.

He was off to some great quest, flying through the air to challenge beings from the stars.

He had to admit, it kinda felt...exhilarating.

[mattmanganon]

Po's jaw hit the floor as he heard the voice of the traitor. "Oh... My... Gods..." He groaned as he heard the traitor issue the challenge. "Sorry, Po, but i'm gonna take it from here." He said to himself "Yeah, no question about that." He then pressed the comm-button on his scouter. "Boo-ya, traitor, when we're done with you, i'm gonna use your tongue to paint my pod!" He giggled. "I'll have you know that i am the traitor killing machine, hand picked by King Okura for the purpose of killing your sorry ass."

His hair stood up a little as he floated over to Jagen. "Sir, our best bet would be to cut off his tail and then use the Great Apes to finish him off. Permission to scout ahead and take the traitor's tail?" He asked. He then sneered at Korun. "One of us may as well make themselves useful."

[Weird Tales]

Hunter Zero

Location: East City

Interactions: @IceHeart@Eviledd1984@Double@Bartimaeus

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Hunter felt some relief when the lady he had helped earlier came at the green little aliens and managed to get a good blow in drawing their attention away from him. With their eyes focused on the new enemy, Hunter made his move and with his knife firmly grasped in his right hand he dashed quickly at one of the saibamen. He slashed out viciously with the knife and had his ki imbued in the blade to make it sharper. The still edge sliced into the creature's back and it gave a howl of pain in response. Hunter then followed up with a bone-crushing knee to the saibaman's back and sent the creature flying for at least thirty feet and watched it smash through the wall of an abandoned building.

He turned to see that the other saibaman had tried to attack the woman from earlier with its acid and Hunter ran over to aid her. While in mid-dash, he threw his hunting knife like a dart and the weapon pierced the creature's chest with the handle protruding out. The saibaman gave a cry of agony and in seconds Hunter was on it with his shotgun in his hands and pointed the barrel at the alien's gut. He fired off a blast of yellow energy exploded against the saibaman's stomach and bathed the area in light and created shockwave. The creature was sent tumbling backwards on the ground as it skidded over the pavement.

"I hope that made them think twice before messing with this planet" he said Cheral as he breathed in and out heavily from the intensity of the fight. Even if the two saibamen didn't come back for more, Hunter knew that this fight wasn't over and that it was going to be a very long day.

Just as they finished off the alien creatures, another person approached them. This man had long black hair and was dressed in strange looking armor. Hunter could tell that he had a great deal of power and listened to what he had to say before flying off in an unknown direction.

Even though he had no evidence to show what he was saying was true besides the dead aliens, Hunter was still open to the idea that these creatures were just the grunts for a more powerful foe. He was contemplating his course of action, but chose to fly off after the mysterious man.

[IceHeart]

Cheral Castella

Location: East City

Interactions: @Weird Tales@Double

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The hunter man quickly returned the favor to Cheral by thrashing one into a building and shotgunning her opponent in the gut. She watched as the Saibamen tumbled on the ground and finally came to a stop. The Saibamen managed to rise back to its feet, but blood poured out of the knife wound with the knife still lodged inside. The Saibamen gave a sort of mangled cry and slumped to the ground dead.

"Nice moves you got there, looks like the other one still wants some more." Cheral turned toward the wall smashed alien as it stumbled out of the newly demolished hole. The creature was breathing heavily and looked like it was about ready to fall over with one more push.


"Well I don't want to risk any more acid attacks so I'll end this with my own fire cracker! Fire Grenade!" The fired a red orb of ki at the enemy who had the sense to dodge to the side, but it didn't dodge far enough. As soon as the orb was close she clenched her fist and the ki ball exploded into a fiery inferno. The creature screamed as its body caught on fire and the plant like creature collapsed, soon to be burnt to a crisp.

A flying man came along and gave a quick shpeal about how he knew who was behind it and he could use help. He he was gone. Cheral groaned a bit as she realized there was still more to do and looked at her helper. "You know I'd actually prefer not to go but...my instincts tell me best to nip this one in the bud or there might be a lot more danger in the future. Well as long as they're only opponents of that level shouldn't be too hard, right?"

She hoped she wasn't going to regret those words as she decided to fly after the mysterious stranger.

[Double]

En Route to the Archipelago

@Genon@IceHeart@Eviledd1984@Chev@Weird Tales@mattmanganon

As as he flew, Negi occasionally glanced behind him, noting the handful of people who had chosen to follow him. So he at least managed to gain a few allies. It was no army, not by a long shot, but it would have to be enough. One of which had blue skin of all things, indicating a similarly extraterrestrial origin. Something to worry about later, for now there were other more pressing matters. Negi didn't exactly offer much in the way of conversation. His time on this planet had turned him into a man of few words, preferring to let his actions speak for themselves. Still, these people needed at least a basic understanding of who they were up against.

"The Saiyans were a warrior race, born and bred for battle and conquest. They're infamous through out the galaxy for their fighting instinct and strength that only grows with each battle they survive. Those green monstrosities were Saibamen, a technology the Saiyans co-opted for themselves and started using as grunts and disposable training opponents." really there was a lot more that could be explained, but for the time being Negi focused on the most important parts, "When you fight the Saiyans, target their Tails and Scouters. Their tails are sensitive and squeezing it can render even a ferocious Saiyan warrior completely unable to move. The Scouters they wear on their face lets them track your energy and communicate over long distances. Destroy them and they will be forced to fight blind and be unable to call for help to boot." Of course, these tips applied to Negi himself as well, and part of him didn't feel right about giving strangers the exact strategy that could be used against him. But if these people were going to be his allies, then they needed to be well-informed lest they bumble into their own demise.

But then, Negi stopped without warning. His own Scouter fired up and without warning he heard a voice going off on him with threats and taunts. As if that weren't enough, he spotted a figure in the distance flying right toward them. When they were close enough, he spotted the Scouter and armor that let him identify her as a fellow Saiyan. But her Scouter looked damaged, and the message he received was further away, coming from the group's destination. So this Saiyan was not the same person. Negi made a gesture to his would-be allies to hold a moment, wishing to confront this Saiyan on his own for now. Negi floated a little bit closer to the Saiyan woman, reaching up to turn his Scouter back on and broadcast back to the one who had threatened him. He wanted them both to hear what he had to say.

"How old are you?" he asked the voice on the other end of his Scouter, "10? 12? It's obvious you weren't there that day. I'm guessing everything you know about our Planet is second-hand, isn't it? And as for you..." his gaze went to Tabaga and suddenly he was addressing both of the Saiyans, "I'm going to ask this one question of you both. What path do you intend to follow? The Warrior, who fights in earnest? Or the Soldier, who fights in order to blindly follow orders? Think about that question, and think about it long and hard. I won't fight you yet, because I'm not your enemy and I don't think you really believe that either. My brother is my only true enemy, and if he ends up being the only Saiyan I have to fight against then I would consider that a good day."

Meanwhile, back at the Archipelago, Korun found himself in agreement with the pipsqueak for a change. "Now there's an idea. We transform and reduce this entire pathetic mudball to rubble. Kill 'em all nice and thorough so we turn this place into home without having to deal with any annoying resistances." of course, Korun was taking the idea quite a few steps further than what Po suggested. As for the Commander, his usual cool stoicism cracked ever-so-slightly as they shot his two companions an uncharacteristically angry glare.

"No." Jagen said, his commanding tone a bit uncharacteristically hotblooded before it cooled back down again, "We do this as warriors. As Saiyans."

[mattmanganon]

Archapeligo

Tah constantly pulled faces as Negi spoke. "Get a load of this guy?" He giggles as he pretended to listen. "OoH lOoK At mE!" He jeered at the other 2. "I'm tHe GoOd gUy." He reached over the back of his head and pulled his nose. "I dOn't wANt tO FiGhT aNyOnE!" He then turned on the mic "IF YOU DONT WANT TO FIGHT, THEN WHAT THE HELL KIND OF SAIYAN ARE YOU!?!?!?" He screamed down the mic. He then fell over laughing.

"Well, actually, I... I'd rather not fight him." Po said.

"Agreed." Toh finally piped in.

"Well tough, because King Okura told us to take his head and I plan to deliver it still fresh!" He kipped up to his feet.

"You know, you sound an awful lot like Es when you say stuff like that."

"Screw that guy!" He sighed. He then noticed that the mic was still on. "AWW DAMN!!!" He groaned before turning it off. He then immediately stopped laughing as Korun suggested levelling the planet. "HEY!!! WE CANT DO THAT!!!" He cried. "They've got this AMAZING stuff called Ramen that is, like, the BEST stuff ever, we gotta bring someone that can make it back to Okura, he's gonna give us such a-" he then saw the look of death on Jagens face. "Shutting up..." he whispered. He then heard the news that they were fighting him as warriors. "AWWW YEAH!" he pumped his fists "We are gonna get songs sang about us! Boys, we're gonna be LEGENDS!" He then erupted in a burst of white aura. "Take us in, boss!" He saluted to Jagen.

[Eviledd1984]

@Double

Bururi

He stopped where he was was listening to what the man had to say, He only heard of second hand accounts of the sayians but mostly form the bar patrons at his mother's bar. "So these sayians are the cause of these saibamen coming to earth and destroying cities?" He asked Negi feeling his blood boiling form the reckless abandonment of human lives. Listening to the tips he was being given he knew what he should mainly target, But these sayians would be more powerful then the saibamen they had fought before. He was not sure he would be skilled enough to deal with these sayians.

Turning to face the sayian Negi with and getting into a fighting stance having noticed the figure's tail and scooter, He waited until the right time to strike. But for the most part he was going to let Negi do the talking and was waiting to be given a signal to start fighting. Again he was scared that he was going to die fighting these sayian.

[Chev]

@Double

"I'm going to ask this one question of you both. What path do you intend to follow? The Warrior, who fights in earnest? Or the Soldier, who fights in order to blindly follow orders? Think about that question, and think about it long and hard. I won't fight you yet, because I'm not your enemy and I don't think you really believe that either. My brother is my only true enemy, and if he ends up being the only Saiyan I have to fight against then I would consider that a good day."

Tabaga stared at Prince Negi with an unreadable expression on her face for a few moments before finally speaking up. "I won't lie. This isn't how I expected this day to go when I woke up a few hours ago." She said quietly. "I'll help you fight them but I don't want to see innocents caught in the war-zone."

She floated closer to Prince Negi and bowed her head towards him. "My name is Tabaga. I don't know that much about this planet to be honest. I just woke up a few hours ago after my attack ball crashed. But what I do know is that our people either have to change or die. There's just not enough of us left to carry on the way we used to."

She extended her hands towards the prince. "If you'll have me. I'll help you protect this world."

[Genon]

@Double

The flight was mostly uneventful for Juze--until someone started shouting into Negi's earpiece. The sound of the wind muffled the speech significantly, but he could still make out enough to get the picture.

"God, I can hear him from here. I didn't expect our enemies to be so loud and obnoxious," Juze piped up. Then he heard what Negi said in response. "Wait, Negi, did you just say the guy on the other end is [i]10?[/1] Does this faction we're fighting use child soldiers or do you just mature very fast?"

When Tabaga arrived, he passively observed. This was Negi's business, not his, though a new ally would be welcome. Normally he'd be over the moon at meeting two sapient aliens in one day, but after the incident with the Saibamen, he wasn't in the mood. Nearly getting your town razed will do that.