A new day.

Age 732.

The sun rises in a distant, desolate place, lightyears away from our Earth. Slowly the light crawls over a barren wasteland.
The planet is planet Vegeta, only recently inhabited by the Saiyans. A great war has left it's tracks on the environment of the once beautiful planet. Only a few cities remain standing. And it's here,
somewhere a little outside of the outskirts of the capital city that this story begins.

The orange glow of the sun's early light reveals a rather large rock formation, the light creeping in the round dark holes carved out of the rock's side.
The warm glow wakes it's inhabitants, or at least some of them. Yes, Saiyans here, namely the low-class ones, live in cave-like structures. Far enough away from their higher ranked kin.
Inside, a young female rose from her bed. She yawned, stretched, got up and walked over to the chair she had left her armor on the night before. Putting it on, she went over what happened a few days earlier again.
For what seemed like the hundredth time, she got kicked out of a squad. Her superiors had told her she would get one last chance. Even they didn't even know what would happen to her if she blew this one too.
She would probably have to live out her life somewhere else, away from the cruel ways fellow Saiyans would treat her because of the disgrace she was to them. Come to think of it, it was a miracle she had gotten this many chances.
Staring into her own eyes in the mirror she tried to talk some courage into herself.
"Come on Gine, you can do this... For the love of the gods, start living up to what's being expected of you..."
With shaking hands she adjusted her black hair. It reached all the way to the back of her knees, so keeping it knot-free without being nervous as hell was a hard enough job. After checking if her armored skirt didn't make her butt look fat, Gine put her scouter on and finally walked out of the door. The area outside of the makeshift apartment block was quiet, pointing to the fact that most of the inhabitants were still asleep, had already left,
or hadn't even been home in days because they were on a mission. Which was most likely the case with Saiyans.
Pressing the button on her scouter, Gine set the coordinates for her destination and with a short burst of energy took off into the sky. After about thirty minutes of flying, Gine reached the base were most of the low-class squads had to report before they took off on missions. Those missions consisted of conquering other planets, with mostly low leveled fighting power inhabitants. According to their superiors, that was all 'those low-class wretches'
could handle. The one in charge of these superiors was Frieza, who called himself the Emperor of the galaxy. Rumour had it that even King Vegeta, king of all Saiyans, was no match for Frieza's superior strength.
And that was saying a lot. King Vegeta was the one who had led all of them into battle against the Tuffles, the former inhabitants of this planet back when it was called planet Plant. Due to his talent as a leader and him being the strongest, the Saiyans picked him to be their king. After ascending the throne and re-naming the planet after himself, the king choose himself a queen (of Elite-class ofcourse) and it was only a few days ago that there had been held a huge feast in the capital city in honour of the newborn prince, who had been conveniently named after his father.

After landing, Gine went inside and reported at the front desk. Behind it sat a green, lizard-like creature who looked at her from top to toe, raising an eyebrow.
"You're back AGAIN ? Seriously Gine, I thought this time they'd finally sack you for good..."
Gine was used to these kind of remarks, but it got to her a bit none the less. "Very funny Zasarn, now could you please do your job and assign me to my new squad ?"
"Short-tempered today, are we ?" said the alien as he reached out his hand. "I'm gonna need to scan your scouter...again..."
With a sigh, Gine took the pink glassed device of her ear and handed it over. Her hands were still trembling. Noticing the girl's nervousness, a mean smirk appeared around the clerk's mouth.
"Why so nervous girl, you know you don't stand a chance...I don't even get why you're still trying to..." As he spoke those last words, a number of symbols showed up on the screen of the device he had just plugged the scouter into.
Gine couldn't see them because the screen was turned away from her sight. His smirk turned into a smile. And it wasn't a nice one.
"Oh...Ooooh you're gonna love this one..." he said sarcastically. Handing the scouter back over, he even started laughing. "You're toast !"
Just as sarcastically, Gine mimicked his laughter, taking the scouter from his hand with a rather rough gesture. "Ha ha ha..."
She put it back on her ear to see what the small pink screen was showing now. As always it just told her where her 'comrades' were stationed, not who they were. All she could tell now was that is was the thrity-first division, and that there would be five of them.
Walking the corridors of the base, her heart pounded in her chest. She felt it would bang right through her armor by the time she finally reached the door of the place where the squad was held up. Behind it, she heard voices and she couldn't help but overhear what they were discussing.
"...already late !" stated a higher pitched voice. This was clearly a woman. Another, deeper voice soon replied. " Ah come on Fasha, ya gotta at least give this guy a chance this time..."
Again, the female apparently named Fasha replied. "What makes you think it's a guy Tora ? Sexist bastard..."
A third voice was heard this time. By the sound of it, this guy was rather large. "Don't blame Tora for bein' sexist Fasha, it's not his fault we been around YOU so long we can't even tell if you're a guy or a girl anymore!"
With that the group burst into laughter. Or at least the guys, since the girl clearly didn't see the joke. "Fuck you, Shugesh !"
Their laughing came to a stop when the door behind them suddenly opened. They all gazed at the petite figure who was standing in it. Gine felt as if she could instantly sink into the floor as all those eyes went over her.
"Uhm...Hi...I'm Gine, the new girl" she hesitantly walked over to them, tripping over her own feet. All four of them frowned. She surely wasn't making a good first impression. And her posture didn't really help at that too.
Gine was rather small for a Saiyan, even for a female. That and her excessively long, crazy hair made her look even smaller than she already was. Add rather skinny to that, what made that she wasn't exactly the perfect example of what you would picture yourself when hearing the name 'Saiyan'.
A short haired woman, wearing pink accesories to go with her armor, stepped up to examine Gine more closely. This was clearly the one named Fasha.
"Is administration shitting us ? They really sent us this skinny little...thing ? Please tell me I heard you wrong. You're just hear to deliver a message, right ?" Her gaze went straight into Gine's eyes.
"Uh...N-no...You heard me correct...I..."
Frowning again, Fasha crossed her arms. "Well whoever assigned you to us sure has a bad sence of humour..."
"Turn it down a notch, Fasha..." said a voice, coming from behind the four warriors standing before Gine. Thisone was different from the others, she hadn't heard this one before. It sounded more strict, which was maybe why the group immediately split up into two groups, revealing the person behind them. The guy sitting on a chair behind them had spikey hair, pointing in almost every direction and was wearing black armour with brown shoulder pads. He had apparently been staring at his boots before the squad had split. But when he noticed Gine he looked up and walked over to her.
"So..."He started. He looked her over entirely before stopping at her face. His eyes were a dark, onyx kind, Gine noticed. "You're our new...recrute...My name is Bardock, I'm the captain of this team. I'm sure you've heard of us ?" Bardock crossed his arms as he said that last part, expecting that Gine answered exactly what he wanted to hear.
"Uh...Y-yes sir, I..." Gine took a slight step back. Somehow she felt uncomfortable standing this close to him. A little late, she noticed she had even started to blush. Her boots looked very interesting all of a sudden.
"I HAVE heard of you and your crew. I've been told you are known for being able to handle he most difficult tasks in our class..."
"Exactly, which makes me wonder why they would assign someone like YOU to our team. We've all heard of you too, and we know your...'reputation'."
With those words Gine's courage had finally hit rock bottom. These guys were not going to make it any easier on her.
"But I'll be fair to you. We'll give you a chance."
Hearing that, she almost jumped in in relief...And excitement"Oh ! Thank you sir ! I...!"
"Hey !" Bardock interrupted her. "Did I say this was a free ticket to a definitive spot on our team or something ?" He came closer again, as if to threaten her. "Let me make this clear. You're gonna have to proove yourself.
You're gonna have to work just as hard as the rest of us. I wanna keep up the team's good rep and if you jeopardize that even for a tiny bit..." His eyes narrowed. If you make the smallest step out of line,
you're out. If you endanger one of us even once on a mission, you're done for. You got that ?"
"Yes sir, I got that..." It took a few seconds before she had recovered from the impact of Bardock's outburst. "I promise I will work very hard and-"
"I asked if you understood, I didn't ask for you whole backstory. Now step aside..."
Gine did as she was told, not shocked at all by how he acted towards her. She was used to being treated this way.
Bardock passed her without even looking. The rest of the team quickly followed in his tracks. He stopped right before leaving the room "From now on, you will adress me with 'captain'. We haven't been assigned a mission so far,
so you will start training with us tomorrow morning at six. Be there." As soon as he said that, they took off to wherever they were headed, leaving Gine behind.
Making sure they were out of hearing distance, she sighed deeply. "Great..."
This was not gonna be easy. Life as an outcast seemed closer than ever now. But, this being her last chance, Gine wasn't planning on going down that easily this time. Flying back home she knew she wasn't going to grant anyone the pleasure of watching her fail again. Ever.