Dragon Ball Z: Pushing The Limits!
Chapter 1: The Fourth Child! A Branching Fate Tied With A Red Ribbon?!
Queen Casava held her child to her chest for the first time, her second child Komatsun burbled quietly. His black hair was long, and nothing like her other son's. They were finally developed at this point, with Vegeta getting sent off on his first mission years back, she felt nostalgic. But she could feel that something was going to go horribly wrong.
Planet Vegeta was on a collision course with death, as the Saiyan's master Freeza geared up to destroy the planet under orders from a being they long thought was dormant. She was doing this so Komatsu could live on, and Vegeta wouldn't have to worry about his baby brother.
Komatsu looked up at his mother as she looked back down at him, her onyx eyes full of worry and doubt. The little Saiyan had no idea what was happening, or even who this person was. All he knew was that he could breathe without some disgusting slop being pumped into his mouth.
He smiled up at his mother as she scanned him with her scouter, she was warm. Her eyes held worry in them, but she was strong. His power totaled out to an even four hundred and fifty.
Casava snuck over to the pods, "Komatsu, please grow up and fight for those you love! Do that for me, okay?" she asked as Komatsu's happy smile fell to a confused expression.
She punched in the coordinates to a planet called Earth. It had a low power level overall, so it would be a total cakewalk if anyone were to bother him. Also, he'd be safe. She closed the pod door as she realized she was running out of time.
"DON'T FORGET ME, KOMATSU!" she yelled to him as he fell asleep peacefully. The Saiyan planet became smaller and smaller as the pod flew towards Earth. The young prince's fate was in the hands of the universe now.
Komatsu woke up, feeling that he was on a different planet. He opened his eyes and stretched, the door to his pod opened.
"It's opening!" A new voice yelled.
Komatsu smiled widely as his stomach growled. He stood up and strode out of his pod, his armor was the regular white and gold of his family, with the symbol of House Vegeta on his breast. His hair stuck up in a backward direction away from his face, stopping at the base of his neck toward the top of his head it spiked out in every direction, and his tail was lazily wound around his waist. During his journey through space, he'd grown up to be about the same age as his brother was, which was fourteen.
The clicking of safety catches made Komatsu smirk.
"On your knees! Hands on your head!" a soldier yelled, raising his rifle.
"I'm hungry, you all will have to do…" Komatsu snarled his mental facilities allowing him to speak. He shot forwards, ripping the gun from the soldier's hands and bending it, dropping it while still holding that child-like smirk.
He then smiled, and the squad was reduced to screams.
Commander Red was worried, nothing much usually rattled the leader of the world's most ruthless militant group… but the last report from the recon squad on the border of the base was simple and quick. It was scrawled on a datapad.
Monkey kid destroyed us all.
He shivered when he first read that message. He still did, but he sent out the one person among his staff that was ballsy enough to bring in the Monkey Kid. That was Gero's lab assistant, Ms. Charlotte Salvoe. She was batshit crazy, but maybe she could bring the kid into the fold.
Charlotte walked through the forest, her heart pounding as her blue eyes took in every detail of the crash site and the massacre around it. Her eyes scanned the area for this mysterious Monkey Kid. She saw that the odd spheroid shape was open as she heard squelching noises and snapping of bone from within. She saw a young teen in odd gold and white armor with a blue bodysuit spattered with blood and scuffed up.
"I can see you, you know," he said, smiling as she stepped out from the cover of the dense foliage. The boy stood, seeing her for the first time.
"Huh, I didn't know Earth had such beautiful females…" He grunted, peering closer at her. He marveled about her long and bushy brown hair and azure eyes.
"Where are you from?" she asked.
"If you must know, I am a Saiyan from Planet Vegeta, the son of King Vegeta the Third. I am Prince Komatsu, first of his name. Those fools made a fine meal…" Komatsu sighed, taking a jacket off one of the masticated corpses and pulling it on over his armor.
Charlotte smiled as he stood back up, he was only a teen, but he took on at least five or six men at once… and ate them once they were dead.
He was going to be fun.
Komatsu was led back to the base. It was a castle-like compound with so many soldiers and odd mecha running around. Komatsu was amazed by the Earthling's technologies. He looked around like an excited puppy, taking everything in.
He grinned as Charlotte led him up to the commander's quarters.
"So… my name is Charlotte Salvoe, what's with the coat?" she asked.
Komatsu smirked, "I like it, that's why," he said.
That coat would soon become famous throughout the army as the symbol of Captain Gold.
But first, he had to meet with Commander Red. They stood before the office door as Charlotte knocked briefly.
"Come in, Doctor Salvoe," a gruff voice said from the other side. They stepped into the office as Komatsu fought down a laugh, the man was absolutely short! Komatsu was just as tall as him but he was only a teen.
"So you're the guy who killed and made a lunch out of my men?" he asked, his red hair was in an odd style. He only had one eye.
"Yes, I apologize, but I was quite famished from my trip here… I assume you want to kill me, little man?" Komatsu scoffed, closing his eyes as he heard the now familiar click of a gun echoed in his ears.
"Don't try it, you'll just waste your bullets…" he chuckled as Red put his pistol away.
"No, I want to recruit you, you can join us and eat a lot of good food, drink all you can drink, and have all the babes you want! Money is no object!" Red said.
"That IS tempting… but those material things I have no need for. Just battles, give me those and I'll work with you," Komatsu sighed, looking up at Red and Charlotte, he noticed that she was only a couple of years older than him at this point.
"Okay, we will, welcome to the Red Ribbon Army, Private Komatsu Gold," Commander Red declared, snapping into a salute.
Komatsu copied him, smiling.
"I heard that Captain Gold ate a whole recon team once!" A private related, sweating a bit as Komatsu passed by the barracks.
He was a man on a mission today, why? Because it was the pre-deployment day! He always visited Charlotte on those days to spend some time with her. He and she had bonded over how many times Komatsu ended up in the infirmary and how she would end up in there with him because of all the experiments her boss, Doctor Winston Gero, made her do. She mainly ended up with burns as Komatsu usually ended up with way worse injuries, always coming back stronger.
"Oh yeah? I heard he has the hots for Doc Salvoe!" another piped up as Komatsu smirked, it was true, he did have what humans call a crush on Charlotte. She was kind but really brave. He knew she liked a confection called a macaron and would buy her some every valentine's day.
"I wonder why his men all have gold pauldrons on their armor…" another private asked.
"Atten… TION!" Komatsu snapped as the assembled privates looked like they just saw the face of God. They scrambled to their positions as Komatsu smiled.
"To answer your questions, yes… I did eat those men, they were gonna go AWOL, so I guess I was karma. To number two: mind your damn business, and three, because they're my handpicked Golden Squadron, do you understand?" Komatsu snarled as the privates nodded.
"At ease, and the one who said that I had 'the hots' for Doctor Salvoe, go outside and do a hundred push-ups, sit-ups, and a hundred laps wearing weights! I will check to see you did them when I get back. If you don't… you'll be my next meal!" Komatsu snarled, using his threat of eating them as an intimidation tactic never got old.
"Y-yes, sir!" the private squeaked as he scrambled out.
Komatsu left and went over to the lab, seeing Doctor Gero pass by him, he had a thick, bushy mustache and long hair. He mumbled to himself as he passed. Komatsu ignored the mumbling and went into the lab. It was large and full of light, it was a former air hangar. He walked over to the workbench, hearing Charlotte humming cheerily as she worked on something… or rather, someone.
"Shoo… bop… boom boom, bop!" she hummed as she wiggled cutely side to side.
"Havin' fun, Charlotte?" Komatsu ventured.
"Gah! Oh, don't scare me like that, Komatsu!" she gasped, whirling around as she almost toppled over her radio. Her glasses almost slid off her face, she caught them and put them back on, he grinned.
"Aw, c'mon… you love it!" Komatsu taunted, holding up a small box.
She gasped, "Macarons! Thanks, Komatsu!" she exclaimed, hugging the captain.
"Y-you're welcome… I'm gonna-" Komatsu was interrupted by the alarm going off. The next thing he knew was nothing but chaos, his men had gathered. Everything was going to hell as the group rushed around, trying to save what they could.
"Sir! There's a strange kid busting up the base! What're we going to do?" One of his men cried he was panicking.
"Get out of here!" Komatsu ordered as he tried to sense where the kid was.
"What about you, sir?!" another yelled.
"Just go!" Komatsu screamed. He cared more for his men than his own life, and he would rather die than see them hurt or even killed.
They all left as Komatsu took to the skies, trying to see the kid from the air. He found him tearing through Staff Officer Black's mecha, Komatsu started to clap as the kid, who was dressed in a ridiculous orange gi and had palm-tree shaped hair looked up at him.
"Helluva show there, kid!" Komatsu praised as he beckoned for him to come over to him.
The kid obliged as Komatsu led him outside.
"Oh wow! You're like me! You got a tail!" the kid cheered. He had a wide grin on his face as Komatsu stared at him in shock.
"I thought I was the only one left… you'll finally be a good challenge, I am Captain Komatsu Gold, Prince of All Saiyans, you're threatening my men and my home. Your reign of terror ends here, Low-Class!" Komatsu snarled, whipping off his jacket and taking his stance.
"Hey! I'm Son Goku, nice to meetcha! Your friends hurt a friend of mine, and I'm here for the rest of the Dragon Balls!" Goku greeted, smiling and taking a length of redwood out of a sheath on his back.
"Oh yeah? I'm sorry, but you're gonna have to go through me!" Komatsu huffed, launching at Goku giving him barely enough time to narrowly dodge. He skidded to a stop, using his Power Pole to help stop himself.
Komatsu let his power loose for the first time in years, ever since he was recalled to the base, he trained by Image-Training. Mentally and physically getting stronger and stronger. He was stronger than this kid by a long shot.
"HYAH!" Goku yelled, clashing with Komatsu, who grinned childishly.
"Hehe… not bad, kid! But not good enough to beat me!" he praised, vanishing only to appear behind Goku and kick him to the floor. Goku was torn up, his gi in rags and his body intensely bruised.
"C'mon, get up! You low-class trash! How can you still breathe with you being so weak?!" Komatsu snarled, kneeling down to Goku.
"Y-you… big… bully!" Goku grunted, standing back up and taking an odd stance as a bright blue ball charged between his hands. Komatsu flipped backward as he snarled at him.
'What?! This kid's power is skyrocketing! This is going to be fun!' Komatsu thought, his child-like smirk going into a wide grin.
"KA… ME… HA… ME… HAHHH!" Goku roared as Komatsu brought his hands up to stop it.
'The… lab! It's on the other side of where we're fighting!' Komatsu thought as he tried to physically push it back.
He was slowly losing as he pushed back with all his might. He couldn't give up, but the beam started to overpower the wayward prince.
'Charlotte… I'm sorry.' Komatsu thought as the beam tore through the area, leveling it and destroying the lab.
Komatsu faded into unconsciousness as Goku continued his rampage through the base.
Gero had no time, he already had his darling little Charlotte in his clutches and wasn't going to let go anytime soon. Little did the mad roboticist know that he was playing with fire. Komatsun awoke with an intense jolt of fear and adrenaline fueling his body. His tail was whipping around as he retrieved his jacket and pulled it on over his now ruined armor.
"Oh god, Charlotte!" he yelled, staggering as fast as his injured body could towards the ruins that made up the now-defunct lab. He saw only one thing from his friend left behind. It was her lab coat, spattered with burn marks and singed. He picked it up in his stinging hands, burying his face into it.
"Charlotte…" he choked out. His first friend, his first love. Was gone. A Polaroid photograph fluttered to the ground.
He picked it up and saw that it was him asleep alongside her, she took the photo herself and kept it for all of those years in her lab coat pocket. He let out a strangled gurgle as he looked at the photo again.
'Why her?! Why did she have to die?!' He thought pitifully, stuffing the photo into his own jacket and leaving the coat behind.
'Son Goku… you will pay for crossing me, Komatsu, Captain of the Gold Squadron, Prince of All Saiyans! I swear I'll make you suffer, and then and only then I will find my place in this godforsaken universe!' Komatsu thought, his grin wide as he blasted off, his dark purple aura flaring.
A.N: Let me know if you like this or hate this! Komatsu DID eat those guys… but hey, food is food, right? Read and Review.