GambolMuse

Dragon Ball: Legacy (Mogtaki and Vena Sera)

Clearly her joking around and light-hearted banter wasn't calming Viral quite as she'd hoped. Everyone was stressed over this mission but they should really try to laugh or smile, it made things less stressful. Still she should try to joke around a little to help everyone relax even if it wasn't working out initially. "Uh... Actually gender makes a difference in a lot, now that you mention it," Yumi retorted, holding up a hand and counting off her fingers, "Body shape, plus I guess women and men are better at some things than the other, like oh I don't know... Having kids?" Suppressing laughter as she no doubt just disturbed Viral to no end she grabbed hold of him beneath his arms and lifted him up, getting well over the trees so they could pick a direction to head in. "I never said it was better, I said you could do it if you'd prefer. I can't know what it is you want," she answered back before looking over at the brothers. Seeing them in the air as well she smiled and glanced at her passenger curiously, "Well, which way do we go? Just point it out and I'll get moving."

"Well... But what about folks who don't use trees, you know? Just saying buddy, because you like trees doesn't mean everybody does. They're not like smoothies, everyone loves smoothies." Takeshi didn't mind trees as long as they weren't in the way of his house, which he figured was probably the reason anyone got rid of a tree, to make room. There were probably loads of trees back where East City was ages ago, now it was all buildings and roads, that was just how things worked really. Not every planet could be like T'charrl's and overflowing with trees. Grabbing Shu as Yumi and Viral took to the air he waited for his brother to get a secure hold, smiling amused when he used a curse word. "Heh, uh well kicking Saiyan ass means-"

"TAKESHI! Don't teach him that word!" Yumi screamed across the way, narrowing her eyes at the eldest brother, "I'll come over there if you keep talking like that!"

"And do what, your hands are full!" Takeshi shot back, feeling somewhat bold today. That bravery was quickly washed away when Yumi started coming over, quickly clamming himself up and shaking his head which to his relief staved off her fury. Exhaling as she turned away from them he smiled in exasperation before looking down at Shu, his eyebrow twitching in mild irritation. "Ah... Saiyan butt buddy, don't use that word. Just because I use a word doesn't always mean you should," he pointed out dutifully, though there was no small degree of annoyance towards Yumi in his voice, "It means we're going to go fight them and make them pay for the people they hurt and all that, you know? And it doesn't mean we'll actually kick their butt, it's uh... Something you say when you're going to fight someone."

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Yumi was just trying to keep the mood light with a little joking around, but clearly Viral wasn't having any of it. Being all stern and overly serious was just exhausting, you had to know when to laugh or relax. She supposed though carelessness was bad here too given what they might be getting themselves into, but still cracking a smile wouldn't be awful. With the shuttle properly concealed they should be on their way with their search as the longer they stuck around the greater chance they might be spotted. But where did they go? Other than vague coordinates they had nothing do go on, and with islands so sparsely spread out it wasn't as though there were many markers to go off of. They would find it though, Viral would somehow pick it up even if it was hidden. "What does my height have to do with any of this? That's awfully rude you know," Yumi teased, adopting a faux-offended expression as she released Viral's arm. "Or is it because you're humiliated to be helped by a woman? I get it, you don't want my help because of that." Huffing she turned around briefly and folded her arms, suppressing a giggle before turning back and grabbing hold of her friend by his sides, slowly lifting them up into the air. "You're coming with me no matter what, unless you want to fly with Shu or Takeshi?"

If Shu wanted answers he'd have to talk to someone a bit smarter than he was, all he could do was try to dismiss problems or distract him. Doing just that Takeshi tried making trees the big topic for them and was relieved when Shu bought into it. "Yeah they take a while, but they'll grow back and that's what's important, you know? And who knows how the trees grow here, maybe they grow really fast!" Whatever helped Shu sleep better at night, though of all the things to fret over why did it have to be a handful of trees? Talk about some weird priorities. Seeing Viral and Yumi preparing to get a move on he figured they should as well, getting ready to piggyback his brother until the little guy brought up another idea. "Huh, you wanna do that again? Sure, I mean it worked really well and all so why not?" Made it a bit easier on the both of them and if nothing else it was practice for Shu. Copying what Yumi was doing he linked his arms beneath Shu's and held him against his chest before slowly flying up, smirking as he met their friends in the air. "Alright, let's go kick some Saiyan ass!"

Adelon: Steeling the Faith [Open!]

It was all a simple misunderstanding... Or something. Besides what fun is an RP if everything is hunky dory? ;P

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"N-No, I don't doubt that Viral! I'm just saying it's a big planet, and we really didn't have too much to go on to start with. I mean sure we had coordinates, kind of, but can we check those now?" She wasn't completely sure how all of that worked, she knew what coordinates were and that was about it. As far as signaling went she didn't think it was such a good idea considering it now; even if they moved the signal would have come from the ship, if they moved then the ship would still be in the same spot, didn't matter where they went. She would just have to trust Viral knew where to go and follow his lead then. Continuing to lay down branches on the shuttle they made certain to cover every square inch they could, with Yumi being particularly uncertain about this camouflage of theirs. Shy of digging a hole and burying their ship though it wasn't going to get much better than this.

Takeshi wished he could give Shu the answers he wanted, but he wasn't going to pretend to have them either. Their father had to have reasons for what he did and while they were never explicitly stated he was sure they were lousy ones; kidnapping your sons and their friend, subjecting two to experimentation and the other into conscripted service, nothing justified that kind of treatment. It was a miracle Shu was even as cheery as he had been recently given how much had been done to him, he had every right to be as bitter and angry as his older brother. "Well know the nice thing about trees? Give it enough time and they grow back, so they won't be gone forever. And like I said there's loads more, so it's not like we got rid of them all," Takeshi explained, pausing and pulling Shu aside as Yumi came over and laid branches over the door to conceal it. "I doubt they're eating leaves, huh? Probably something growing in here that whatever lives here eats, or maybe they eat fish from the water, who knows." Did people even live on this planet? They hadn't seen the entire world to be fair so there could well be a city somewhere, though the world felt oddly empty to have one.

There, that should do it! From here on the ground it looked out of place but a quick glance above reassured Yumi their cover wasn't nearly as bad as she feared. If anyone got close enough they would obviously notice something was amiss, especially if they checked the recently overturned soil where she'd uprooted the trees, but it was as good as they'd get. Dusting her hands off again she smiled at the three men of the group, going to Viral's side and grabbing hold of his arm with a wink. "That does that, which means its time for us to fly. How do you want to do this, ride on my back or I'll carry you?" she asked, tilting her head as she sized her friend up, "If I'm carrying you I'll probably hold you under your arms, if that's okay. Otherwise it could be a little awkward."

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"Sorry about that, I'll be nice to the windows," Yumi said with a smile, floating down and beginning to tear limbs free from the trees. She wasn't sure how well this would work either, it would be pretty obvious after all it was just a pile of branches on the ground. Their only hope was no one would bother coming to investigate it thoroughly and discover the ship buried beneath them. With Viral piling up branches as well she began taking from his pile too, doing her best to make their obvious pile seem as natural as possible. "So do you have any idea how we're going to find this place? I never saw anything while we were flying," Yumi mentioned as she set down a branch and dusted her hands free of chips, "I'd say let's try that signal thing now, it's maybe our best chance. And they're only going to find us if they're looking for us right? Maybe we can do it quick enough they don't notice?" Otherwise she didn't know how they found find it save for flying all over the whole planet. That would work, but it would mean using loads of Ki just moving around trying to find the building. If it was under water too they might never find it, hopefully Viral had some other plan in mind.

Shu was going to have to get comfortable with the idea of fighting pretty quick here, they weren't going to be able to put it off forever. Of course to fight they were going to need to find the damn place first and so far they hadn't a clue where to look. With the ship setting down Takeshi got himself out of his harness before beginning to do Shu's as well, sighing when he continued to press the subject of their father. "I don't know buddy, you'd have to ask him yourself, I can't tell you why he did what he did," the older boy answered, throwing the straps aside for his brother to get out, "Anyone else I'd say he was trying to help you, but I mean... This is our old man, he's not exactly the nicest guy around, you know? If he wanted to help he picked a really crappy way of doing it." Waving Shu along to get out of the shuttle as well he shut the door behind them, raising an eyebrow as he saw Yumi and Viral covering their ship up in branches. "Well... Maybe there was nothing living in these ones then. Maybe they left because of that reason, because some predator wanted to eat them. So who knows, we might have just done them a favor," Takeshi mused, shrugging his shoulders before giving Shu a smile and ruffling his hair, "Don't worry too much, okay buddy? There's loads of trees here, I doubt we took away the only home they could have."

Adelon: Steeling the Faith [Open!]

They couldn't keep fighting like this, the bandits and the men in suits were just too much for them. If they stayed around much longer and continued to fight on someone was going to be seriously hurt or worse. After sending Amuné down after Cecil, Ethan took a moment to gauge his options; the fighting was worst up above deck, yet if he left Amuné and Cecil without help this woman might go after them. If he could get those two, get back onto the deck, then maybe they had a fighting chance. At least to get out of here, he no longer cared for the job they were on. Taking advantage of the woman's dazed state he rushed for the stairs leading deeper into the ship's belly, desperate to grab his friends and go. Before he'd even reached the bottom of the steps the sound of wood shattering spooked him, and after a brief pause he raced into the hull to find it... Empty. Baffled Ethan entered the room and glanced up at the hole above him, astonished to find it led all the way up and out of the ship. And way up in the air above? Cecil and Amuné.

By this time there were scarcely any bandits left, then it was simply dispatching the children to finish up here. These criminals were already pitifully warn out from such poorly trained fighters and it made them easy picking, they would be done with this job in no time. Dispatching another man with an overcharged shock the four men advanced further onto the deck, heading for where Nymira and Zander were taking refuge from their attackers. Using the ice gauntlet they destroyed a handful of crates and slowly whittled away their limited cover, making a sort of sick game out of uncovering their location. "Come out and surrender, save everyone the trouble," the man with the gauntlet taunted, taking aim at another set of crates. Out of his view Nymira was tensing up behind the thin material, bracing for the sting of ice tearing through her flesh.

Expecting an attack on her person Nymira prepared for the worst, and yet it appeared it wasn't her who was under attack. The sound of the deck being split and wood scattering all over was the first sign something had changed. Lifting her chin she glanced up in the air curiously and gawked at Cecil high above in the air, Amuné tucked under one of his arms as he dropped back to the floor. In a vicious display his hand shot out and grabbed hold of the man with the gauntlet, yanking him headfirst into the hard floor before the limb retracted. Now fully alerted to the new threat the other three men turned on Cecil, yet that didn't prepare them for his onslaught. Another was taken by the neck and lifted high, thrown down then onto the deck with a bone shattering crunch that made even her seasoned stomach churn uncomfortably. Where was all of this coming from? How was he doing this?

"A Machina?! Damn it, put that thing down!" the lead man shouted, glaring at Cecil as he flicked the lightning rod to its full length. Seeing the hand come for him this time he swiftly ducked to the side to avoid being grabbed, a bandit becoming the next victim as he was grabbed by the head, Cecil's massive palm covering his face and pushing him back and into a wall, denting the structure and practically embedding him there. A combat class, here? None of them should even by out yet never mind in the hands of some bandits, just what in the world was happening here? Growling in frustration he glared at his final remaining ally and gestured towards Cecil, determined to have him beaten. "Tear him apart and bring me his core, I'm not going to allow this to go on any longer!"

Something was wrong, something was terribly wrong here. As Ethan was racing up the stairs he could hear men yelling and the sound of something slamming into the deck, something human. He had just come up through the door of the cabin when the bandit was thrown back into a wall, his eyes widening seeing the blood splatter as his body all but crumpled from the impact. This wasn't right, this wasn't right at all! They were supposed to be using non-lethal tactics, nothing came of their killing anyone. Heroes didn't take lives, they found ways to solve problems without doing that! "Cecil, stop! Don't hurt them!" Ethan shouted, scrambling out to try and put a stop to things.

"You got it, I'll tear this heap of scrap into shreds," the man responded, grinning as he reached into his coat. Pulling free a two-pronged blade he flipped a switch on it, a spark igniting in between the halves before flames engulfed the blade itself, glowing white with intense heat. This would sever his metal body in a single strike, no fancy machinery was going to help him with this. Advancing on Cecil he prepared to take a first strike, raising his arm to swing the blade and send an arc of fire his way. At the height of his swing however the flame was suddenly snuffed out, a strong gust of wind reducing his intense fire to nothing more than smoldering embers. Baffled the man looked to his side and saw Ethan standing there, turning to raise his weapon on him as well. Before he could get his sword lit again he found himself on his back, having been tripped up by a wire that somehow ended up behind him, before a knee was driven into his back and the sword wrenched from his grasp. Trying to break free the man found a blade at his throat then, unable to move at all now.

"Cecil. Put Amuné down and step away from her," Ethan said firmly, sounding unusually cold as he kept his eyes on the man beneath him. The sound of electricity crackling made him turn his head to the final man advancing on him, glaring at the weapon in his hand. Releasing his grasp on his captive's arm he threw a hand to the side and knocked the final man into a wall nearby, knocking him out on the impact. Then, grabbing a hand full of his captive's hair he slammed the man's face into the deck, probably breaking his nose as he knocked him out as well. "We're not supposed to kill, you know we're not supposed to," he continued, finally getting to his feet. Despite his face glistening with sweat and feeling incredibly lightheaded from expending so much magic he stalked towards the Machina, reaching out when he got there and taking a handful of his shirt, pulling him close, "So why are you killing people, huh?!" Ethan screamed, tears welling up in his eyes as he shouted, "We're the good guys, we don't do that!"

Was that it then? The fight was over? The men had taken care of the bandits for them and Ethan just knocked the final two out, so that must mean they had won. Nymira couldn't relish that fact however as it appeared two of their own were about to get into it, furrowing her brow as Ethan began screaming. Where was his happy, absurd demeanor? This was unusual, was he like this before they met? Using the crate at her back for support the Dimuran pushed herself to her feet, wincing as her body threatened to collapse under its own weight, the exhaustion taking its toll. "Don't fight you two, we're comrades. And we've won, it doesn't matter what happened or how..." Nymira interjected, sighing as she watched Ethan continue to glare at Cecil, "He saved our lives, that should absolve him of anything he might have done. Just let it go."

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"You're an Earth-shark, we're not on Earth. Besides, don't sharks attack sharks?" Yumi asked quizzically, not sure whether that was even true or not. Rather than argue with Viral any more or play trivia she opted to go ahead and secure them a landing spot, and to do so she had to clear some trees below. Not a problem, something as simple as that she could do in no time. After just a moment of picking out the perfect site for it she went ahead and knocked down one tree after another, maybe even getting a bit carried away as she made sure there was more than enough room for their ship. Once satisfied it was large enough she flagged her friends down to join her, stepping away as the shuttle set down on the soil. "See, nothing to it! Our ship should be just dandy as long as we keep it hidden here," Yumi declared with a smile, walking up to the cockpit and hovering before it, playfully knocking on the window before Viral, "Think we should try hiding it some more? Maybe... I don't know, put some branches over it? I mean its kind of exposed now that there's no trees here."

"Yeah fighting can be bad, but sometimes you gotta do it, you know? I mean if there's bad guys hurting people then sometimes its the only way to stop them. If you want to just do good then fight the bad guys, and keep people safe and all that." Seemed fairly straightforward to him when he put it that way. There were good and bad ways to do anything, not just fighting, and Shu always fought for good. The little guy didn't have anything to worry about, it wasn't like he had a track record of doing bad things as the older boy did. "I mean... I don't know buddy, I really don't. If he was trying to make it so you could control yourself then maybe that's why?" It was beyond them to explain why the King did what he did, and frankly Takeshi couldn't care less what the reasons were: conscripting and torturing your own children and their friends was a shitty thing to do, no reason would justify what had been done. Watching Yumi leave the ship he went silent for a moment before blinking curiously as the sound of trees crashing sounded off, glancing to Shu as he expressed his worry over it. "Uh... Well there are other trees down there, yeah? They'll find another home, that's all!" he chuckled nervously, silently wondering why of all things that was what had Shu bothered.

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"Hopefully we find it without having to be attacked though, I'd prefer if our ride back isn't ruined by this," Yumi commented with a slight smile, "And I won't drop you, don't be ridiculous. We don't know what's in the ocean here either, for all we know its filled to the brim with sharks. Or... Alien-shark... Things." What even lived on this planet anyways? Considering it seemed to be mostly water she could assume there were loads of big fish, and some of those fish were liable to eat them if given the chance. Yeah, swimming wasn't the safest idea then. It made more sense of them to land the ship and then fly towards the facility, provided they could even find it. In order to land though they needed an island for it, and after a brief search they spotted a dense island not far off, perfect for concealing their shuttle. "You want me to go clear some trees? Sure, easy enough," Yumi agreed as she undid her harness and slid out of her chair. Winking at Viral she stepped into the back of the ship, pulling the door wide open and giving the brothers a wave before jumping out to do her work.

It wasn't super easy convincing Shu that things were going to be alright, especially when there were little voices of doubt in his own mind. "Bad things happen to everyone buddy, and good things happen to everyone. I mean you gotta take the good with the bad, you know? That's life," Takeshi answered back, "And doing more fighting isn't always a good thing Shu. Just means I piss off more people than you do," the older boy added with a laugh, rubbing at his neck, "And what's it matter what dad thinks? He's a jerk, you shouldn't worry about what he thinks about you. Uh... And Krom said something about that before, why he kept you. He said it was because they were trying to get you to control your Oozaru. But know what? They did it in a really shitty way, there's other ways to help that other than doing what they did. We'll do it ourselves, right? And it won't be half as bad as what they did." They didn't need their father or any of those scientists, they had Vegeta and Aito, and Shu had him and all his friends. Speaking of why was Yumi coming back here? Glancing at her curiously he furrowed his brow as she threw the door open, raising them slightly then when she simply dropped out of the ship. "Uh... Okay then..."

So Viral just needed some trees cleared right? No problem, she could manage that much! Landing on the forest floor she was surprised by just how cool it was down here, expecting it to be a bit more like a jungle, hot and humid. The air was pleasantly crisp and untainted by smells that came with civilization though, it was shockingly refreshing. She wasn't here to sight see or appreciate the wilderness however and had to snap to the task at hand. Waving to Viral in the shuttle above she gave her knuckles a crack before sizing up the trees immediately around her. Most were fairly tall and thick, and it wasn't like knocking down saplings would do any good anyways. Taking stock of her first tree she cocked her arm back and threw a punch, splitting it on the point of impact and causing it to topple over with a resounding crash. Kicking the stump into bits she proceeded to do the same thing to another tree, and another, until there was a landing site large enough for the shuttle. With a triumphant smile she looked up again, waving to Viral to signal it was clear.

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There had to be a way to improve Enki, it was just like any other skill a person could have. Granted not many people were making giant mechanical suits appear out of thing air but Yumi figured anyone could improve if they tried. Whether Viral could or couldn't anyways didn't matter much at the moment as now was not the time to be practicing techniques. Shame they hadn't the mind to think of it before though, could make this whole job of theirs much easier. What could also make this easier was knowing just where in the heck to go, seeing as they didn't even have a location for the facility yet. "But how are we going to know if we're close by? If it's underwater like you said then we're never going to spot it up here," Yumi commented, frowning as she peered down at the ocean below. Flushing slightly when Viral took a small jab at her she sighed and gave a nod, trying to find an island that was large enough for them to both land and hide the shuttle on. "Oh, right over there! That one looks good!" she declared, pointing to a well grown island just up ahead, probably one of the few natural ones. There was plenty of tree coverage to keep their ship concealed, and so long as they could find it again on their way back it shouldn't be a problem leaving it so hidden.

"Yeah you're just a little saint buddy, lucky you," Takeshi mumbled as his hand absentmindedly nursed his head, reminiscing about the constant smacks he was given. "Things will be just dandy when we start fighting, it's not like we're new to this stuff you know? And I have no clue, we probably gotta ask Aito what he's planning to do, I mean we could just leave those guys here after we're done." That might be a bad idea though, nothing would be keeping them from starting another project. Even he could figure unless they blew the whole place into pieces there was probably some way for them to restart, simply taking the Beastmen away wasn't going to cut it. There had to be some sort of risk with destroying the place too, he could definitely see it going badly if it came to that. "I mean really we're supposed to be having some kind of truce right now, not fighting each other and all. I bet our old man isn't going to be too happy when he hears about this," Takeshi said with a grin, "But screw him, I don't care if he likes it or not. I guess taking his men back to Uuonoe would just be the icing in the cake, you know? An extra kick in the pants after we ruin his project."

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Well now that wasn't fair, Yumi knew it was going to be more complicated than just having one or two weapons to deal with. In a place where they were making Beastmen she knew the facility had to be filled to the brim with ways to handle them, otherwise keeping them in line wouldn't be easy. There were ways of doing it that didn't involve violence of course but then she doubted the Saiyans to use any of those methods. She wouldn't leave him to handle it all on his own regardless of what he said either, though she'd try to be as hands off as she could if only to not injure his pride. Frowning at the mention of ending one's own life Yumi fidgeted briefly in her seat, casting a sidelong glance out the window as she let out a sigh. "Not doing it and being here now shows you're strong Viral, I firmly believe that," she uttered after a moment, looking back and giving him a smile, "And yeah, Enki. If there's a way to do it I'm sure you can figure it out, and that would be amazing if you could. Nothing would be able to stop you then."

The ride down was proving to be a little jolting, but it did steady out some once they punched through the atmosphere. Shouldn't be long now until they were on land, and from there it was just minutes to the facility probably. There was a little nervousness on Takeshi's part, thre always was going into a battle, but really he was more excited than anything. Excited for his brother and his first two friends to be at it again, excited to be doing something actually good, something they wanted to do instead of being someone else's errand boys. Even still he was excited to see Viral back in action, knowing the guy had been out of it for quite a long time. "We have food, everyone likes food right buddy?" Takeshi asked, grinning as he patted his own stomach, "And I mean we have Yumi and Viral to help too, don't forget. Yumi's a people person, when she's not hitting you anyways, she'll figure it out. And Viral's one of them, if we can't do it then I'm sure he can." They had a way to win this fight even if they didn't know what that was yet, he was positive of it. Giving his brother a gentle punch in the shoulder he smirked, giving a slight gasp then when the ship shook briefly before glaring towards the cockpit. "Hey, watch it up there will ya?!"

Yumi immediately undid her mistake and placed her hands firmly in her lap, smiling apologetically as Takeshi shouted and Viral made a comment about her goof. "Heh... Sorry, just trying to help out." She hadn't a clue how the shuttle worked though, probably best to just remain completely hands off for the time being. Besides it looked like they were heading down now, landing was only minutes out if she had to guess. Looking out the window at the landscape she began to notice what Viral was pointing out, how some of the islands looked just strangely out of place or too perfectly shaped to be natural. So if they were looking for an island in a sea of fake ones, or as Viral said even underwater, how were they ever going to track it down? "And we have nothing to go off of, nowhere to begin looking other than a guess it's on an island," Yumi remarked with a sigh, her ears folding as she looked back at the radar, "Can we... I don't know, find a signal or something? Does the shuttle have anything like that, we can track something with?"