Today was the day, the day he'd finally find and confront his father; Turles. He was up with the second Sun rise as usual, ready to leave the Planet that he had called home for 13 years.
His father had taken him when he went awol and created his Crusher Corps. Then he abandoned him on some backwater planet with a bunch of pathetic weakling aliens. He hated his father, he only knew him for year or so and that was when he was an infant, true he didn't really know him but he does remember The Tree of Might. The miracle tree that would grant his father immense power and make him the ruler of the galaxy rather than a low class disposable Saiyan warrior. And he left. Left his infant son in search of planets to grow the tree.
That was 12 years ago. Now his son stood in his room staring into a mirror, he'd washed and now he was just studying himself, deciding if he was really ready, if he could finally confront his father. 'Of course I'm ready, I've trained my whole life to beat him, mastered his techniques, the techniques I've learnt here and even created my own. I'll make him pay for leaving me on this trash heap planet and I'll-' "Jagama! Breakfast" a woman's voice called. It was a familiar voice, one he'd come to consider his mother's voice, though he'd never say it. She wasn't his real mother anyway. His real mother was just another person Turles left behind, he'd taken him and left Vegeta, leaving his mother to die in the horrific catastrophe that wiped out planet Vegeta and almost their whole race.
"Jagama!" she called again, concerned at what could possibly keep the young Saiyan from food. "Yeah, I'm coming" He called back a little irritated by her shouting first thing in the morning. He sighed deeply and pulled on his armour. It was Saiyan armour one of his father's spares. He'd modified it, to improve flexibility and now only wore the upper body piece, along with light violet cloth pants and brown shoes -part of his usual training clothes. Looking at himself again, he noted how much he'd grown. He'd been a skinny kid because the Planet he was stuck didn't have much in the way of food, not real food anyway, the inhabitants are herbivores and eat mainly a strange potato like vegetable which Jagama found revolting. But as he got older he'd begun searching further into the woods and found large cattle like creatures that would give him a good meal each. As a result he'd grown considerably, standing over 5" 6 already and still growing. His once messy dark hair was now cut into short spikes all going straight up bar a few which overhung his forehead. He'd earned himself more than a few scars too over the years which also seemed to age him.
"JAGAMA!?" His adoptive mother screeched as she crashed through his door. Deafening the Saiyan teen still lost in thought. He turned to the door where she stood. Kyra. She was short even for her species maybe 4ft at the most. Blue skin completely purple eyes the same as the rest of her race except she had white hair rather than green. Their planet was huge, and had a strong gravity because of it, 6 times Jagama's home planet. As a result they were all very short and stocky. She was likely the slimmest on their planet and the weakest too. She stopped as soon as she saw the Saiyan before her stunned to see him in his armour again. He truly was grown up.
"What!" Jagama demanded his voice laced with feigned contempt. She saw right through but ignored all the same.
"Breakfa-"
" I said I was coming!" He shot back before she finished. Sighing she turned and left. She loved the boy like he was her own son, cared for him since his father left him here, since he was just 5 he'd told her he would one day leave to find his father, and she's had all those years to prepare to say goodbye, yet all that happened is she grew even more attached to her adopted son, and today was the day he'd leave. Ducking under the low door frame Jagama followed to the kitchen table. Sitting down and digging in Jagama relaxed, he was always more irritable on an empty stomach. Kyra Sat in the silence for a while becoming more and more anxious.
"so..." she broke through the silence.
"So?" he replied not overly happy at being interrupted.
"Are you excited for today, leaving and travelling the stars to find your father?"
"No" he mumbled. He had been anticipating it, and he did want to, but he wasn't happy about it. He didn't want to reunite with his father and 'bond' he wanted to hunt him down and make him regret leaving him.
"No?" she responded confused by his answer
"No" he stated again louder.
"Why not? I thought you were looking forward to this"
"You thought wrong."
"Well then why are you going"
"Because he has to pay for abandoning me here like some unwanted puppy!" he relied voice raising slowly
"Well, we'll certainly all miss you here."
"I doubt that most of you probably can't wait to see the back of me." He replied icily.
"Oh come on, you know that's not true. You've really changed everything around here. Especially after you took care of those invaders, you know they came round every 5 years. Since you took them out people aren't afraid to build towns and come together. In the last 6 years alone we've advanced in leaps and bounds. You are single handedly responsible for that." He sighed, she brought that up every time she could. He didn't do it to help out they disrupted his training he had no idea that they continually attacked the planet.
He quickly finished before he stood and walked to the door, ready to leave, to say goodbye forever.
"Thanks, by the way for everything. I... I'll miss you. Goodbye" he spoke the words softly, uncharacteristically. Taken back the woman who raised him just stared mouth open, eyes wide. He turned to leave. Seeing him leaving she snapped out of it and rushed to embrace him as tightly as her small stature would allow.
"Goodbye Jagama. Know that I love you. Always my son." she said finally, freezing him in place as she spoke. Then he pried himself out of her grip and without looking back he was gone.
'I love you too mom' he thought before boarding his ship resting outside.
It was a piece of junk. Missing outer plating and most of it's inner furnishings, it barley flew. He knew it would be a one time flight. No second chances and no turning back. He crouched by the controls and initiated take off. Taking one last glance at the only person in the universe that loved him through the window.
2 years later
Leaving cryo-sleep Jagama stretched and approached the display. '2 hours left' He walked over to the window and looked ahead, there it was. Earth. 'Finally, I'm finally going to prove myself, prove I'm better than him' Strapping himself down he braced himself to enter the atmosphere. He knew his ship would be destroyed he just needed it to take the initial shock and he would fly down to the surface.
Within moments of entering the atmosphere the top and side of his ship where torn off, gasping for air trying to adjust to the sudden change in air pressure Jagama didn't notice the fire spreading throughout the ship until the heat lashed at his side. Instincts kicking in he stood tearing off the straps and began charging a blast to try and get out of the ship as quickly as possible. Flames lapping at his back he released his Ki in every direction breaking free of the ship he quickly flew to the left and watched as the flaming wreckage of his ship crashed down into the earth.
Self satisfied Jagama lowered himself toward the nearest city to begin searching for his father. He took note of the massive destruction around him and seeing it was still fresh he thought his father must be nearby. Without a scouter he would just have to search the old fashioned way. He flew through the city fairly quickly and found nothing only devastation moving onto the next closest city which sat just on the horizon he again found nothing he did think he saw someone but they ran off very quickly. Hours of getting no where later he decided to try and signal his father or anyone who could direct him. Firing a large blast into the sky and watching it explode like an enormous firework he waited. Not 10 minutes later a beautiful blonde with piercing blue eyes descended before him eyeing him with a cold lifeless gaze, shortly followed by a young man with black hair and identical eyes holding the same cold glare. Jagama was surrounded, and the tension was all but unbearable.
"See sis' I told it wasn't Gohan." The boy spoke breaking the stand-off. The blonde who Jagama now understood to be his sister her rolled her eyes at the comment. Relieving Jagama that her gaze was now off him.
"Yeah, yeah but they do look pretty similar though" She responded.
"I guess but he's not wearing ora-"
"Who are you?" Jagama demanded tired of being ignored. The boy narrowed his eyes, while the girl just Chuckled lightly.
" We're Androids. I'm 18 and that's 17. Now since you're not Gohan, who are you?" She said.
'Androids?' "Jagama. Do you know wh-"
"What is this 20 questions? Come on 18 let's have some fun already." 17 interrupted taking on the tone of a spoiled child.
"Alright whatever" she replied. Sighing again. The boy grinned maliciously and disappeared from view. Tensing up Jagama looked around for the boy only to be kicked across the street by the blonde. Jagama attempted to right himself before landing but was stopped dead with a fist to his spine delivered by the boy. Jagama sweeped his legs around to trip 17 but the Android simply hovered over his leg before delivering a hard knee to the face sending Jagama back across the street. Groaning the young Saiyan lifted himself up, blood now streaming down his face, and assumed a defensive fighting stance. Both Androids now stood before him 17 grinning, 18 smirking. Jagama switched his stance and charged. He flew straight at 17 fist extended but twisted his body swinging his heel into the blonde. Both attacks missed but still spinning in the air Jagama fires a scatter shot ki blast at them and landed returning to his stance with a smirk. It was wiped off his face however when the smoke cleared revealing both Androids completely unharmed. Flying straight up Jagama unleashed more and more Ki blasts onto the Androids, seeing that they hit the ground and not their target Jagama turned and received a kick to the temple sending him hurtling back down into the street. 17 landed in front of him while 18 remained airborne, seeing his opportunity Jagama unleashed a burst of ki pushing the Android back before charging a large concentration in his fist and flying towards landing a powerful blow to the Android before collecting more ki and releasing a powerful blast on 17 before he hit the ground. Surprised at the power of the attack, 18 did nothing to stop Jagama from charging forward with a second ki blast and throwing it at her. Snapping out of her shock she dodged before sweeping Jagama's legs and double kicking him into the air where 17 having recovered from the previous attack was waiting with 3 body shots followed by a heavy roundhouse. Pissed and not waiting a moment longer 17 fired a super powerful blast knocking the Saiyan through 2 skyscrapers before he crashed into the ground unmoving, bones and armour shattered.
And that's where she found him, broken and bloodied he lay in the middle of the street in a crater of his own making. She let out a silent gasp when she saw him and immediately rushed to his side to examine his injuries and check for a pulse. The first thing she thought was how young he looked she guessed he was 14 -15 at the most. Brushing a raven lock behind her ear she noted his strange armour. Though shattered it looked pretty futuristic with the strange shoulder pads and protective plates around the waist. It looked ...alien. Carefully she began to lift his arm over her shoulder to drag him back to her hideout.
She set him down on the bed before collapsing into a chair in exhaustion and drifting off a moment later. Waking an hour or so later she began to remove his armour which really just fell apart as she tried to pull it off, she grimaced at the state of his torso, it was burnt and bloodied. Quickly she ran to retrieve her first aid kit and began dressing his wounds as best she could. Satisfied with her work she carefully rolled him over and immediately felt sick. In the small of his back a shard of his armour protruded from right in his spine. She quickly and carefully eased it out noticing something move in her peripheral vision. Cerulean eyes focused and quickly widened. It was a TAIL! a freaking TAIL!? Pausing briefly to wonder at it she them resumed her work and began stitching and bandaging his remaining wounds.
6 days later
The first thing he noted as he began to wake up was the sound of breathing. It was irregular and often punctuated by soft sighs. His body tensed as he felt the soft fabric on his fingertips and then his back and the comfortable feeling of whatever his head was resting on. He tensed again as he remembered the androids and the feeling of concrete smashing against his back as he was knocked out. He shot up suddenly hands tearing the sheet as he gripped it and frantically searching his surroundings for the androids. His eyes settled instead on the startled form of a raven haired girl who appeared to be in her early twenties. Blue eyes stared back wide and blinking as she recovered from her surprise. She began to open her mouth to talk to the boy before he beat her to it. "Who are you?"
"M-my name's Videl, Videl Satan... Are-are you... Okay?". He ignored her question and looked down at himself.
"You did this?" he asked gesturing to the bandages.
"Yeah, sorry it's a bit slap-dash but you were bleeding pretty bad I-" She stopped short as he stood and started towards the door.
"Hey! Kid you can't leave, you need to be resting st-" He whirled on her and pointed a finger at her and began slowly advancing causing her to retreat slowly.
" DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME WHAT I CAN AND CAN'T DO!" She fell over as she tripped backwards on the medkit. He looked down at her eyes and immediately regretted turning on her, she was just trying to help, he may very well have died had she not found him. His eyes softened slightly. He turned again and started toward the door when he felt a shooting pain run through his spine. He froze in place. 'she didn't. She wouldn't'. Slowly he turned his head and there gripping the end of his tail was the raven haired girl.
"Let. Go." He grit out through his clenched jaw.
"Not until you promise to rest until you're fully recovered."
"I am fully recovered". He shot back.
"You'll be full recovered when you don't have a steady stream of blood leaking out of your back!" She retorted. He sighed deeply.
"Fine, just let go." She smiled triumphantly and released the furry appendage. Jagama visibly relaxed and tightly wrapped it around his waist to avoid another attack.
"What's with that anyway?" She queried head tilted slightly.
"I'm a Saiyan. Saiyans have tails." He answered with a shrug. Her brows furrowed.
"Saiyan?" He sighed and sat down on the bed.
"An alien race of warriors from planet Vegeta. Apparently almost all of us were wiped out by a meteor." She snorted
"That's a load of bull." He turned to face her.
"You think I'm lying?" She was looking at him like he was an idiot.
"You look too human to be alien, that tail has to be some kind of birth defect." She stated matter of factly.
"Believe what you want." She shrugged and stood.
"Whatever, I'm gonna get you some clothes, any preferences?"
"My armour?"
"Broken, shattered. What's up with that anyway, why'd you have armour on, and more importantly what happened?" She sat back down realising she had a lot of questions and looked at him expectantly.
"That armour was Saiyan armour, it was my father's. And as to what happened, the Androids attacked me, I couldn't beat them, they're just too well co-ordinated."
"Wait, did you actually fight them?"
"Yeah."
"Do you think you could beat them?"
"Maybe, I'm definitely stronger now, but two against one... I'm not sure. I hit that guy with one of my strongest blasts and he was up less then 10 seconds later. It's like they were toying with me." It hurt his pride to admit it, but she'd obviously seen the state he was in, there wasn't any point pretending they didn't completely outclass him.
"Please you have to try, there's rumours about someone who's been fighting them, I don't know if it's true but apparently he wears orange, and he... shines with gold light. It sounds stupid but..."
"Don't worry I'm gonna make get payback sometime. I won't stop until they're dead." Her eyes shined with hope. She jumped up off the bed and headed to the door.
"Great I'll be back ok." With that she was gone.
20 minutes later she came back with black cargo pants, grey boots and a crimson tank top. She dropped them in his lap and turned around. He looked at her confused. "What are you doing?"
"Hm?"
"Why are you standing there looking at the wall?"
"Waiting for you to change"
"Ah" He dressed quickly replacing his torn training clothes. "Done"
"Great, so... Tell me about yourself, I still don't know you're name."
"If I must but you're going to have to accept the fact I'm an Alien if you want to Believe any of it." She frowned.
" Fine, I believe you."
2 weeks later
"You're progressing well Videl, but you're never going to be able to stand up to the Androids." She frowned from where she lay on the floor.
"Come on Jag, I'm so much stronger now and I can do ki blasts and everything!" Jagama scowled in response.
"For the hundredth time stop calling me Jag, and if you would quit you're whining for a second I'd teach you an attack that could actually damage one of them even if you're the one who fires it!" She rolled over and sprung to her feet.
" I'm ready, show me!" The young Saiyan shook his head but obliged.
"Watch carefully" He raised a hand and began charging the blast, a thin purple layer of ki appeared before him like some sort of shield before he pulled his hand back and fired a powerful flame shaped blast, also purple, it was short range but had quite a large area. As the blast stopped a second blast like a spiral came up from the ground where the first blast landed and continued for a moment before dissipating. Videl's jaw was wide open as she gapped at the area where the attack hit.
" You're... You're gonna teach me... that?!"
"Yes but it takes time to charge so you'll only have one shot and you'll have to catch them by surprise." She nodded numbly.
Next Day
Jagama and Videl slowly made there way to a wide open space I'm the middle of the city, it was a large crater formed by the Androids little over a year ago. This would be their arena, the deciding battle loomed. Whoever lost would die. Jagama eyed Videl warily, she was older than him, almost 10 years older, and yet he felt responsible for her, she seemed so fragile to him and he was sure she was, but whether she knew or not she seemed completely sure of herself and her young alien friend. He hated their plan even though he was the one who devised it, that's probably why he hated it. Because if it all went wrong, it would undoubtedly be his fault. The only comfort he found was that if it went wrong he'd die, at least that way he wouldn't have to live with his guilt. He turned to her, " Are you sure you want to do this? I won't hold it against you if you back ou-"
"FOR THE LAST TIME I will not back out!" He sighed.
"I just- you could die Videl. They won't just knock you out, this is serious. If it goes wrong it's over... I just need to know you understand the risks." He looked away, He'd grown irritatingly attached to her over their time together, despite their age he thought of her as a little sister, while she was mature and serious, it seemed like a front she put up to hide her stubborn attitude.
"Jag... even if it was certain death, I'd follow you into it. To be totally honest, I don't really have anything to live for at this point... I will die fighting. No matter what." She stated firmly, she knew the risks even before the first out of hundreds of warnings from Jag, but she'd already made her mind up long ago, she was Videl Satan she wasn't going to stay at home and hide while someone else took care of the bad guys for her, no way.
"Okay" The Saiyan relented albeit somewhat reluctantly. He gestured to a half destroyed building for her to hide in while he fired the signal. He spread his stance lifted an arm above his head and fired the same large ki blast he had on his first day on Earth. Roughly 5 minutes later two specs appeared on the horizon. He braced himself, unconsciously holding in a breath.
17 landed first and it was clear he recognized the Saiyan, He'd received quite a nasty blast from him the last time they met and was sure that he'd killed him. Apparently not, how disappointing. 18 followed moments later already smirking at the defiant teen before them. This was going to be fun. "Hey 17 remember when I said 'did you hit him hard enough' and you said 'yes obviulsy'?" He grunted slightly already predicting what she was about to say. "I don't think you hit him hard enough" She finished.
"Guess I'll just have to rectify that now then won't I." He charged forward phasing out of sight for any normal fighter, Jagama saw it though and he could already tell it was gonna really hurt but, it was part of the plan.17 landed a hard hook to the temple sending the Saiyan down into the dusty ground. That was Videls que and as such she ran out in front of the Androids icy gaze. She stood protectively over Jagama. " What's this" 17 smirked. " Did the Gohan look-alike get a girlfriend?"
"Leave him alone!" she shouted. It only encouraged the Android.
"You know you really shouldn't bring pretty girls to a battle who knows what might happen?" He said as he menacingly took a step toward her- perfect right where she wanted him. She pulled her hand back and thrust it forward releasing the large and powerful ki blast Jagama taught her. Meanwhile Jagama phased toward 18 and using a techniques he learnt on his home planet increased his spread and unleashed a powerful barrage of punches and kicked that even the Android couldn't keep up with before phasing back into view on the other side of her she turned to swing at his new position but having already predicted it he jumped back behind her as she turned and fired a quick barrage of powerful blasts, another technique from home. The blasts sent the Android flying as Jagama once again raised his speed and phased out of sight Videl disappearing milliseconds later as he picked her up and carried her away out of sight before returning in less than a second. He quickly analysed the Androids states, 17 was still smoking but beginning to shift while 18 was already picking herself up. He was torn, get 17 while he's down and possibly even finish him but risk exposing himself to 18, or ignore 17 and focus on 18 and risk a full recovery from 17. Then a thought occurred to him, why not both? He flew forward giving 17 a swift kick in the gut to get him airborne before charging toward 18 and unleashing a blue ki blast at her with one hand while charging a second more powerful blast with the other, the ki blast struck 18 square in the back pushing her forward onto her front just as 17 fell from the sky landing right next to her, she glanced up at the Saiyan just in time to see him release the ki he charged in a massive blast burying the two Androids into the ground, the attack kicked dust and smoke up in it's wake so the now exhausted Saiyan remained floating above waiting.
The wind picked up slightly and the dust cleared only to reveal an empty crater, Jagama panicked, where are they, did the attack even do any damage? He didn't have to wonder for very long, because he was suddenly slammed down into the ground, he looked up to see the Androids floating above him, clothes burnt and charred, one or two scratches but otherwise completely unharmed. Then they were gone, just disappeared. Until they both reappeared a moment later with their feet in the young Saiyans stomach. He coughed up blood, and cried out in pain, 17 grabbed him by the throat silencing his cries and began to pummel him with one hand and choke the life out of him with the other. He kept going until Jagama stopped struggling, then he tossed him to 18. She stuck a knee out as Jagama landed keeping him off the ground, then she lifted his head back with one hand began punching him in the face with the other before tossing his limp body away. She began charging a blast but stopped when she heard her brother talking. She quickly turned her attention to him, seeing a girl standing in front of him arms raised. "-lly think you can stop us?"
"Don't underestimate me." Videl warned but she was betrayed by her wavering voice.
"We don't need to estimate anyone, they're always weaker." 18 piped up before phasing behind the girl and backhanding her across the crater they were using. 17 phased from sight causing an eyebrow raise from 18 before she caught onto what he was doing. 17 caught the flying girl and returned to the beaten Saiyan lying in his blood. He knelt the girl down in front of him while 18 lifted his head to face her. His eyes widened and his body tensed. "No stop just let her go!" He pleaded.
"Where would be the fun in that" 17 replied with a smirk. He began charging a blast behind her back. Jagama felt his whole body begin to shake, a power welled up within him, he grasped at it desperately before latching on and pulling it out as quickly as he could, a new power surged through him as he powered up in a split second. He unleashed a burst of ki, pushing back 17, 18 and Videl. Charging ki into his fist he charged at 17 fist extended, only to hit nothing. "If you thought I would fall for that again you've got another thing coming" the Android taunted, as he released a large and powerful green ki blast reminiscent of a blade. It cut through Jagamas' arms as he raised them to defend himself. He was pushed back through the air into range for 18 to deliver a swift side kick into his back, creating a large crack as the force displaced and cracked the Saiyans vertebrae. Jagama released a breathless cry of pain. 18 let his limp, broken body fall to the ground. She looked up to see her brother charging a blast to finish him off. "Wait don't you think we should let him live?" He looked at her like she had two heads.
"Why would we do that?"
"Because it's fun, it's not like he's any danger to us." He looked thoughtful.
"Maybe you're right... Gohan is certainly a lot of fun... alright but I'm killing the girl, that should rile him up no?" 18 shrugged.
"Sure whatever." She replied before lifting into the air. 17 stepped towards ignoring her cries Videl and released a small laser like ki blast through her heart, then followed after his sister.
Jagama came to about an hour later. He winced as he attempted to shift, his back, his back really hurt. He suddenly felt a sense of panic as he noticed he had no feeling in his legs, he pushed himself into a suiting position with his hands and watched intently as he tried to shift his feet. Minutes ticked by and still nothing, Jagama grew more and more panicked with each failed attempt. He gave up, he couldn't even make them twitch, he floated off the ground, barley sustaining flight due to his state of exhaustion and began surveying the area. No sign of the Androids... what did that mean? Did they think he was dead? Did they let him live? His heart stopped as his eyes fell on a raven haired body lying in a small pool of blood. He slowly floated over his limp unresponsive legs dragging along the ground. He stopped just next to her. "..v-videl? Videl are you ok?" He shook her but she didn't move. He slowly placed two fingers on her neck just under her jaw. He waited. He repositioned his fingers. He kept waiting. Nothing. He felt his eyes sting as he turned her over and noticed the small bloody hole through her chest, she was dead. He felt something wet on his cheek as he choked back a sob. "DAAAMMMIIIITT!! BASTAARDSS! I'LL FUCKING KILL YOU!" He let his tears flow freely and cried into the ground.