Chapter 1: Introductions
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Water gushed from a holding container as it's door clicked open. Around it were shouts and screams of madness, the room tinted a dim orange with the glare of the raging fires across the ceiling and floor. The many control panels and monitors crackled with the hiss of electric current, and the walls were crumbling and falling apart from the damage they had received.
A light cough rang through the air, a figure limply falling from the container onto their knees. It blinked once, it's vision blurry from it's presumed slumber. The fogginess began to wear off, slowly, as the figure stumbled to its feet. "Where am I…?" The voice asked itself, it was the voice of a female, mildly deep and commanding for that of a woman. She held her hands out in front of her face, admiring the golden brown color of her body.
"She's escaped!"
"Forget that! Let's worry about ourselves and get the hell out of here or we're lunchmeat!"
"Yeah he's right, fuck that I'm out of here!"
She heard three distinct voices frantically talking among themselves from just ahead, voices fading until it was a deaf area save for the howl of the flames. She looked up, only then did she notice the chaos that surrounded her. Did she do this? She did not think so, as she had no memory of it. She had no clue of how she would even be able to manage something as wild as this, she was just an ordinary human in her own mind.
Actually, she did not know this either. She had no memory of anything prior to falling out of that holding pod, she didn't know what she was or who she was. The woman turned around, catching a glimpse of herself in the reflection of the pod door. Emerald green eyes along with smooth, straight white hair that just barely passed the end of her neck. She also happened to notice that she was only wearing a black bra and panties, her skin still dripping wet from the fluid she was slumbering in.
No big deal. There was no one around to see, even if it were she was quite proud of her figure. Curvy and toned, muscular arms and a six pack to compliment it. As she examined her specimen thoroughly, a loud explosion rang in her left eardrum reminding her of the situation she found was in. Her bright green eyes darted to her right, a labcoat hanging limply from the coat rack. She reached over and snagged it from its hang, equipping it and firmly buttoning it up. Didn't want any flames licking at her skin as she prepared for her next action.
Her feet tensed against the cold hard steel that was the floor, and she took off in a dash. Her eyes widened at the surprising speed she was moving, her mind hardly able to keep up with her newfound physical prowess. She found herself nearly running into pillars and walls as she zoomed through the facility looking for the nearest exit.
"Hey, it's the project!" Her run screeched to a halt at the sudden call-out from her left. She cast a glance over there, finding two men pointing assault rifles at her frantically. "Whoa whoa wait a minute!" She exclaimed, pressing her palms out at them to motion for them not to fire.
"You shouldn't even be here right now!" One of them shouted back at her, panic evident in his voice as if she were some kind of monster.
Was she?
She didn't even know her own name, she definitely could not know if she was some sort of threat to them now. "I assure you I have no clue what you're talking about right now, so just put your guns down okay." She tried to speak in a calm soothing voice, but it came out as commanding and antagonizing. The guys in front of her, they were having none of that tone from her whatsoever. Simultaneously they raised their guns, taking aim.
"You're not going to kill us! Fire!"
"Wait!" She tucked her head behind her left arm, righting arm jolting outwards in one last attempt to motion for them to stop. A few seconds passed, and she wasn't dead on the spot. She peeked out from behind her limb, to see a glowing blue light emitting from her right hand. "What the hell…" She muttered softly. Her glance shifted over to the two men, both paralyzed in fear. One of them appeared to break from his trance, taking aim again.
"You mean us no harm huh!? Like I thought, die!"
"Wait!" She shouted again, this time upon her shout a strange blue beam of light bolted from her extended palm crashing right into the two men and lighting the area in a brilliant explosion. She was taken aback, slowly backing away from the scene until she felt her back nudge up against a pillar. The dust began to settle, in the place where the two men were just a few seconds ago, was nothing but a burning fire from the explosion. She held her hand in front of her face, mind running amok with thoughts and ideas.
"What the hell did I just do to them?" Another explosion from her right side brought her back to reality. This place was going down, and she had to escape.
"If you are hearing me, this is Chief Scientist Dr. Minin M. Mirti!"
She snorted at the name, what a tongue twister that could be depending on the middle name. Imagine if it was Minin Mitu Mirti or something.
"Due to a failed experiment there has been critical I repeat critical power failures. Most if not all of our test subjects are likely deceased due to this. I urge all of you scientists and whoever else under the sound of my voice to abandon work on your projects immediately and get out of here now! I repeat if you value your life, get out of here now!"
The voice ceased speech, and the woman took a second to look around. Something really crazy had to happen, the place was literally falling apart around her. It couldn't have been her fault. Even with her newfound destructive power, when she had fell out of that pod one of the first thing's she noticed was how everything was on fire. So was it someone else maybe, someone who could do these same crazy things as she demonstrated. Or was it like the man said, simply a lab experiment gone wrong?
Her body curved to the right, scanning the area for a exit path. Her ears caught hold of screaming, panic, and chatter coming from the direction just ahead of her. She readied herself, knowing she would have to learn to control this newfound speed she had access to if she wanted to get out of this place before it blew its top.
She took off, moving side to side avoiding any obstacles hoping to derail her. She was starting to get a hang of it. It was starting to feel more and more like just a normal running speed to her rather than being a uncomfortable burst of speed as it previously felt. Up ahead she saw a crowd of people all moving in unison towards one of many elevators, five in total, that would probably take them to safety. Or at least somewhere close to safety. The lines seemed to be jammed, and the woman didn't have time to die in a great ball of flames while waiting in line to catch the elevator.
"I've done some crazy things today, so don't fail me now." She muttered. She dashed over to a leaning piece of metal, jumping on top of it and using it to propel her towards the crowd. She gracefully hit the ground and began to rush through the crowd, much to their anger. As she tried to press her way through she was pushed and shoved around, insults being thrown every which way. Soon not just her, but more people began trying to skip line as well. She was sure at this rate is wanna going to turn into a brawl, one she would not be around for.
She seemed to had been forgotten about amidst the commotion, nearing a elevator. "Hey! Wait!" She called out to the people inside it as it's door began to close. No one inside budged, making her growl in anger at their selfishness. She slid to a halt, just managing to get her foot in between the door. Slowly it slid back open, allowing her to walk inside while flashing a shark like grin at everyone that accompanied her inside of it. "You fucks." She muttered just loud enough for them to hear.
Yet no one said a word, they all seemed to be frozen stiff in fear.
She looked over them curiously, shifting her attention to the elevator door as it closed and they began their quick ascension to what she hoped was safety. Soon the elevator came to a slow stop, and the door slowly peeled open.
"I hope you all are alright, qui-"
There was a man on the outside, who began to greet them and was about to inform them on what to do next. He broke his speech at the sight of the white haired woman standing among them, carefully backtracking. She saw this, and began to seethe in anger. With an unfathomable amount of speed she lunged forward, grabbing him by the neck. A few gasps erupted from behind her along with a scream of terror.
She ignored them and stared the man dead in the eye, her bright green eyes going toe to toe with his coal black eyes. "I'm tired of everyone here treating me like I'm some sort of monster." She spoke, voice calm and yet cold. "Tell me, what the hell is going on here huh? Who am I, what am I?"
"Release him, Ishin!"
Her head slowly turned to the side to see a short old man a few meters away from them, smoky white hair covering his head. His pale white skin gave way to wrinkles plenty, indicating his old age. She let him go, her attention fully turning to the newcomer. She scanned his body, a lab coat like everyone else wore here along with black trousers completed his outfit. She also was able to glance his nametag, making it out to be "Minin M."
"It's you? The guy on the intercom?"
"That's right Ishin. And you, you survived!? My glorious creation, I didn't expect any of our projects to survive yet you, you lived!"
"Ishin? Is that my name, I can dig it. And creation, what do you mean creation?' Her eyes narrowed in response to the latter part of his statement. Was it true, was she really some abomination created in a lab by some mad scientist. She looked fairly normal, but from her experience she could do things no normal human would be able to.
"You! You're my creation, the first and only living and breathing warrior of the Saiya-Human Achieve program. Ishin Sunai, half Saiyan, half Human. Surely not born that way, but created, no modified by me and my team. I can't believe one of them lived, us humans are edging closer to everyone of us being able to possess the destructive power and ability to transform as the Saiyan's are known for. We must quickly get you back to our headquarters for further testing." Minin praised, and praised, a wide smile gleaming across his face as he took in the woman, Ishin in all of her entirety into his eyes.
"What?" Ishin seemed to be completely out of the loop. "You mean to tell me, I'm some government lab project? Like hell I am!"
"We don't think of you like that Ishin, yo-"
"I'm what?" Ishin cut him off. His eyes went wide, and for some reason this began to bring a grin across her face. A shark like grin, the one that would make kids back away from you in fear. "I see what's going on. I was your little test project, you took me away from whatever life I had to turn me into some sort of model that you would use to make all your little men into super soldiers. Why does this not surprise me? The government was always up to no good that much even I can remember."
"Nonsense! We had good intentions for this project Ishin, we all did. This was for the good of all humankind! No longer would we have to rely on strange aliens from other worlds, we would become those beings and drive these infesting Saiyans from our planet and once again become the dominant species of Earth!" The scientist protested, but Ishin had no interest in anything he was saying. She looked over him, her usually bright green eyes now casting a gold glance over him.
She was no fool, and would not be taken as one. She may not have had exact memories of whatever life she had before this, but she still knew how governments worked. There was a catch, there always was one. Only difference is, she was not stupid enough to be baited. "Oh really? You're tired of relying on the strength of… aliens, so what do you do? Take whatever you could get from them and pump it into me? Isn't that still relying on their strength? Am I not strong because I have their genes in me thanks to you? Bunch of hypocrites, you make me sick."
"I-I, That's not true!" Minin stumbled back at the accusation. In his mind he knew what he was doing was right, but in his heart he couldn't justify her being right or wrong.
"Hmph." Ishin turned her back to him. Another explosion went off, setting off a chain of explosions. She cast a glance over her shoulder at the mayhem, then she scanned her surroundings for an exit. She soon found it, in the form of a large hangar door that would likely take them to the outside. She began to walk towards, an air of silence filling the air as everyone around watched without a word. They had just seen her nearly maul a man in front of their very eyes, they knew to keep quiet.
Minin however, was persistent in his recruitment of her.
"There's a button on the left that will open that door, press it." He spoke to her, and without turning around she gave a nod in return. She came up to the big red button and hesitated. She wasn't sure of it, maybe it would shock her upon activation or drop some big trap from the ceiling to encase her. Anything could happen at this point she was sure of it, and it took great weight in her decision making. She took a glance back at the old man, his features contorted upright in a innocent smile. Despite his truthfulness, she couldn't bring herself to like him. The thought of him undressing her and probing her bare body injecting all sorts of foreign fluids along with whatever else they did to her, it unnerved her. It wasn't right, not at all. What was worse was he didn't seem to know how wrong this was, or at least did not care.
Her head snapped back to the button and she mashed it with haste.
Nothing happened.
Clank. She jumped slightly at the loud noise the door gave off, and cringed at the equally loud squeaking noise the old metal made as it began to rise from the ground. Her eyes followed it up until it was no more, gone inside the facility's roof. She then looked towards her destination. The sun was still high in the sky, a bridge leading across a rapidly flowing river, along with palm trees flanking both sides of it. A perfect picture honestly, one you'd see in a brochure. Much different than what she expected. Judging on how the lab looked she expected hell outside.
"Ishin, are you ready!?" Minin called to her, already outside ready to cross the bridge. Behind him were a line of others, but judging by their expressions they'd most likely part their sea of life for her to make her way through. They were that afraid of her.
"I'm not going with you." She answered bluntly.
Minin's eyes narrowed, watching her as she approached him. She stopped, standing right besides him shoulder to shoulder and continued, "Like I said I'm not about to be some government lab rat. You can do as you will and likewise so will I, don't bother trying to stop me."
He sighed, reaching into his pocket and dancing around in it until he came up with what he was looking for. "I'd hate to do this, but you leave me no choice." His hand lunged for her thigh just barely scraping her skin due to his incredibly short reach. "What the hell!?" Ishin spat, leaping back but he gave chase with what she identified as a taser in his hand. He swiped at her repeatedly, every attempt to tag her missing but becoming and closer. For an old man his speed was impressive and he would have been hit his mark had his wingspan been longer.
Finally Ishin had enough. He had become predictable in his attack pattern, going for the same repeated alternated sequence of aiming for her arm and then thigh. Once again she swiped at her arm, and Ishin with the arm that wasn't under pressure grabbed his attacking wrist and yanked him to the floor. He hit the ground hard chin scrubbing into the concrete ground of the bridge, taser sliding off into the water below.
"Ishin… you are making a big mistake! This project will be the key to success for all hum-"
A large explosion erupted from under the bridge, shooting up sand and water high into the air right besides them. Cries and screams of fear filled the sky as the water along with sand and large chunks of concrete quickly began to hurtle towards the earth. Ishin dodged a few pieces, turning back to see there was no bridge to the other side. Just the fragment they were standing on and the one on the far side that led to the mainland. She gritted her teeth, sprinting back towards the lab.
She slid to a stop, touching the lab wall and pushing herself off of it to propel herself back towards the direction in which the mainland lied. It felt like every second she ran she was getting faster and faster, her bare feet able to ignore the pain any normal person would be feeling stepping on the many rocks and pebbles embedded in concrete. Once she was at the fragment's edge, she leapt.
And she soared through the sky.
"Ishin wait! You mustn't!" Minin called to her, but it fell on deaf ears. It was a jump no mere human could dream was possible. If she ever had doubts about this experiment stuff being a cover up for just a random kidnapping, it died with this. Things seemed to slow down in the air, enough for her to turn and cast one final hateful glance at the facility. She saw Minin on his knees, a hateful glare in his old eyes. She knew it, he never cared for her like he went on about. What he seen wasn't his beautiful creation flying away from him, but a bag of money being tossed into a area which he could not access. Whilst in the air she pressed a single palm out, focusing all her anger and intensity into her hand as she did with her fear and security earlier when she sent that thing out that eradicated those two men.
A green ball of light, no bigger than a roll of socks, slowly formed at the palm of her hands.
"No way… how could she already know how to bring forth her ki…? T-That's amazing." Minin stuttered in wonder. He quickly realized what she was aiming for, his eyes widening in fear. "No Ishin you don't have to do this! You're free to go, Ishin DON'T DO IT!"
"Ha!" She jerked whole body forward just as she landed on the opposite side of the destroyed bridge. The green ball of ki whizzed into the facility with blinding speed and once it made contact, everything ignited into one big explosions. Explosions began to pile on top of explosions, and it seemed it would never end, like the place would just detonate forever until the end of time. Out of the plume of smoke came a shining metal object which landed just besides her body, hard enough to leave a small crater in the concrete where it landed. It was a metal briefcase which upon impact opened right up. Ishin turned to her side to see the documents inside it.
She hastily gathered them into her hands and stuffed them into the pockets of her now filthy and tattered lab coat. She would have to get some new clothes as soon as possible for her apparent new life. Standing to her feet she could see the skyline of a city just up ahead. She began to walk there, taking out the documents just as fast as she stuffed them into her pockets and beginning to read them carefully.
"Saiyan-Human Acheive guide page 5 - This is a small tutorial on how a saiyan transforms and how to develop your specimen enough to the point where they reach the state known as a Super Saiyan. These Saiyans have special cells in their body that no organism is known to possess, known as S-Cells or Rigma-Cells named after the scientist who discovered them, Dr. Ito Rigma. It has been discovered through testing on willing Saiyans that the more of these a Saiyan has, the more likely they are to access this Super Saiyan state. When a high number of these are possessed it usually takes a very emotional experience to trigger the transformation, but one can also learn this form simply by being taught to focus their cells in their body with the teachings of a fellow Saiyan who has already achieved this state. This state is known to greatly increase the power of these saiyans, along with their hair changing to a golden blonde color."
"S-Cells? That's what they've been injecting into me?" Ishin pondered aloud, discarding that particular piece of paper onto the ground figuring it wasn't anything else relevant on it. She began to read again on the next page.
"To further increase the chances of transformations in our experiments, whether through voluntary or involuntary manners we extract blood samples from other Saiyans in the area and inject them into our products while at the same time tweaking their genetic makeup so that they can substain these transformations. This is the basis of the Sayian-Hu-"
Ishin discarded the paper, watching them as the wind picked them up and began to drag them along the ground. She gazed down at her limbs, she felt disgusted. To know that there was possibly ounces upon ounces of blood flowing inside her that wasn't hers made her sick to her stomach. Was it even safe to have so much blood inside of you? Maybe they drained some of her blood, before injecting that which did not belong to her. Maybe they didn't even do that, maybe they were just smart enough to be able to pick the S-Cell things out of the aliens bloodstream and put it directly into her.
"Disgusting." She muttered, casting those thoughts aside as her eyes rested on what was now in front of her. A large bustling city, flying cars whizzing through the sky and the buzz of chatter aloft in the sky. The setting sun illuminated the whole place in a glistening orange glow, and way off in the background she could see the sparkle of water. Makes sense why there was palm trees populating the entire area, this place must have been built near a shoreline.
She walked, and walked, curving her way through the surging sea of life. Now that automobiles had taken to the air, the ground was free to be used for feet as pleased. No longer were there concrete roads, instead long wide marble paths that ran in between buildings and formed intersections where the humans who chose to walk could do so. She also seen quite a few of them flying, something she vaguely could remember quite a few of humankind being able to do before everything went dark.
She could never get a hang of it apparently, seeing as she couldn't do it now. Well actually she didn't know, she hadn''t tried. Ishin had done a lot of crazy shit in the brief time of her 'rebirth' as she coined it. She backed herself into a dark alleyway, where she was sure no one was listening. She began to focus in her mind, trying to push herself up physically from the ground. Nothing was happening, she was sure she would look very dumb had anyone saw her.
She tried again, using her same tactic. She was putting so much strain on literally trying to force herself off her feet into the air that a large vein made itself apparent in her forehead. Her tongue hummed with the sound one made when putting forth a tremendous effort, like lifting a very hefty object.
"You dumbass what are you doing?" She broke her focus, spinning on her heel to see a group of three kids hysterically laughing at her.
Ishin was not amused.
"Are you trying to fly ma'am?" The little boy continued, casually hovering up into the air much to her astonishment. His little lackeys followed suit, she took special note of one of the brats; kid had a tail. Like a little monkey's tail it idly swung behind him as he laid afloat in the air. That must have been those aliens made reference to by Minin, those saiyans.
The boy spoke again after her prolonged silence, "It's really easy ma'am. I can teach you, but it's gonna cost you." Ishin's eyes narrowed, watching as his friends eyes lit up with a mischievous gaze and a smirk flashed across their faces. "Cost me, what's your price?"
"Well I would say let us see your boobs, but ehh they don't look impressive. Maybe it's that baggy ass nerdcoat you're wearing. How about you let us see your butt ma'am!"
"Yeah!" The other two piped up behind him.
The woman's eye twitched. Not only was she just insulted, she was also just asked to prostitute her body to little kids who looked no older than thirteen to learn how to fly. Her angry face quickly contorted into a maddening grin, a chuckle escaping her lips.
"Uhh ma'am? You okay? Is that a yes?"
"I'll kill you before I do that, no actually I'll just kill you right now and be done with it!" Her grin faded as fast as it came, she pressed her hands together and began to slowly walk towards them. They were having none of that.
"Shit she's gonna kill us, let's get out of here." The main kid shot up into the sky much to the chagrin of his friends. The two other boys looked at themselves and then at the angry Ishin, before darting into the sky as well. She looked up at them in disgust, but also noticing something falling from the sky. It landed on the ground with a soft plop, a book it seemed. Peering down at it she could read the title clearly, "Groundbreaking Science - Written by Son Gohan, illustrated by Trunks Briefs."
She picked it up, inspecting it thoroughly. One of those perverted brats might have dropped it, serves them right. She flipped it over hoping there would be a summary on the back. Sure enough there was.
"From the mind of world renowned scholar Son Gohan, this book will break down the enigma that is Ki, how to use it to increase your fighting capabilities and how to take to the skies the way humans always dreamed. This book will also detail many other advances in the field of science with help from young prodigy Trunks Briefs. Unleash your potential, both physically and mentally."
She went to slide the book into her pocket, and once again realized she was without pants. Luckily the long lab coat she sported bore a few pockets deep enough to squeeze the book into. This would be invaluable to her. Once she found time to settle into a place she could at least rest in every night, she'd dedicate her days and nights to studying this book thoroughly. She would also take the time to train herself in fighting. She threw a few rapid punches and kicks at the air, taking note of the incredible speed she was doing so at. It was astounding, her eyes could barely keep track of the blur her limbs had become in those fleeting moments.
Her mind was made up on what she was going to do. As much as she hated the idea of being a mindless government project, she couldn't help but be enticed by the idea of these 'Super Saiyans.' It was mainly the last part which interested her, where it said this form would grant a massive power boost. It was something in her that began to long for power, at the very thought of the word her body would become all warm and fuzzy. Ishin couldn't help but think it was this Saiyan DNA that was already inside her that had her feeling that way.
The real question was, how would she go about this. "If there are so many of these creatures on the Earth, I should have ample chances to get samples from them. I already have a basic enough understanding on the injection progress and with much study of this book I'll be well versed on science and this Ki stuff. I could try to convince them to help my cause and if they refuse then… I'll take my samples by force." It sounded like a simple enough strategy, she figured with one year to herself she would learn everything she needed to learn to prep herself for this mounting task. Ishin, the Saiyan Hunter. Had a nice ring to it she must admit. She pondered on how accepted these Saiyans were on Earth, had to be pretty accepted for human kids to be hanging out with what could mask as their counterparts, only with added tails.
If that was the case she had no problem with being seen as a bad guy, because who was going to stop her. She had only now began to truly feel herself once she seen how fast her attack speed already was. Given a year of training, mastery of ki and a ingrained memory of human anatomy into her mind, she could become unstoppable. Add to that this 'Super Saiyan' state, Ishin could only imagine what a monster she could really be.
Such a thought brought a wide grin to her face, which soon morphed into a gleeful cackle. "You bastards took whatever life I had away from me, so I'll just become as strong as possible and maybe then I'll consider lending a hand. Or maybe I'll just enslave you all humans and human monkeys alike." She glanced at her hands, making a fist and then releasing it.
For now though, would be the task on where she would lay her head every night for the foreseeable future. She continued towards the end of the alley way, which began to delve into a downwards slump. It got progressively darker and darker, the light of the sun barely reaching as the slump turned into moldy brick steps which carried her down into what was quite the site.
It was a city, literally below the city up above. Only this one, was dark and mostly abandoned. Humans, her race was a peculiar city. Instead of remodeling this place, they literally managed to build an entirely new metropolis on top of this city completely hiding it from sight.
Amazing.
As she progressed deeper she touched down on the streets, noticing old ground based cars lined up along the streets. Despite having little memory of her life before this she still remembered vague bits, one of them being her always wondering what they did with the old cars. They seemed to have disappeared off the face of the Earth, well actually they did. She now wandered was every major city like this, built right on top of another. It would explain why some of these cities like this one sat on was appeared to be a giant foundation like the one you would build a house on top of. Only they built cities on top of these, and managed to preserve the old ones inside of it.
She spotted what appeared to be a warehouse, a tinge of sunlight from above reflecting off it's roof. "Perfect."
She looked over what she had declared her new home for the time being, a gaping hole on one side of the large warehouse. It wouldn't matter though, not like many people resided down here. Robbery wouldn't be a problem, she literally owned nothing. Her only problem would be food, for now she would have to resort to petty robbery herself from the surface city. It wasn't really her style, but then again so wasn't starving to death.
Ishin chuckled, "Ahh well…" She said to herself. "I'll be humble for now, big things are in my future. After all, I'm going to be the first human 'Super Saiyan.' And no one is going to hinder me of my goal." With that, she walked forward beginning her trek to her temporary home.
Whoo! I always wanted to write this, finally got around to doing it. To clarify on the wishes, in this timeline U7 was granted three wishes for winning the ToP and one of them was given to Vegeta, who decided to wish back the Saiyans as a race who would become the protectors of the universe almost like a police force for when he and Goku were no longer around.
Now that that's out of the way, I hope to have the next chapter up in the coming weeks. The concept of Ishin's character is one I've had for almost two years and my mind has worked her character out to a complex tee. She'll be no normal protag I can assure you of that. So if you're interested stick around, leave a follow/fav and even a review if you'd like and I'll see ya next time. Peace!
-MeltyScream