This is a random idea that popped into my head while I was reading a thread on Gaia. They said DBZ should never be crossed with anything, and now I am crossing it with GW just to piss them off.
Capsule Corps.
Pluto sighed under her breath, wondering what in all the nine hells had possessed her to come here looking for help. The little logical part of her brain that was forever whispering 'I told you so' informed her that she'd come here to find one Prince Vegeta of the Saiyins and convince him to jump dimensions to assist a defenseless country in a world that had only recently ceased a war of immense proportions and already needed a peacekeeper or two.
She told logic to can it and get the hell out of her head. Then she told herself smacking Vegeta with her Time Staff wouldn't help her cause much, no matter how satisfying it would be or how much he deserved it.
"Prince Vegeta," She said quietly, cutting right through his ego-puffing speech about himself and how he didn't have to help her if he didn't want to and other such manly nonsense. "I don't mean to be rude, but I'm not asking you to come with me. I'm telling you in no uncertain terms that you will do as I say."
"And are you going to make me?" Vegeta all but sneered up at her, crossing his arms.
"Yes, I am." She informed him. "I do not have time to argue with you. You are coming, whether you like it or not, am I understood?"
Sanq Kingdom
Relena winced as the bedrock of the palace shook again, knocking what little was left standing in the large room to the floor.
"Queen Relena, you must leave!" One of the officers gathered in her spacious office cried. "It's dangerous here!"
"I'm not leaving." Relena said quietly. "I'm sorry, General, but as long as the Sanq Kingdom still stands, I will stand with her."
"But your Majesty!"
"General, I'd like you to take your remaining troops and clear the city." Relena said calmly, staring out the huge bay windows at the raging fires in the distance. "Get everyone you can out the west gate and bring everyone else into the palace."
"But-" the General started, but fell silent at the plaintive look the queen turned on him. "I'll see to it immediately, your Majesty." He said, bowing slightly and hurrying out of the room.
Relena sighed and continued staring out the window, watching the slow but steady advance of a small group of mobile suits through the surrounding forest. It had been a mistake to reinstate the Sanq Kingdom after retiring from her post as Vice Foreign Minister. She realized how much of a mistake it was now, with an army on all sides and no allies to rescue her.
The Gundams had been destroyed years ago, so she couldn't hope for them to come. Her friends were all either dead or a long way away; they wouldn't come for her either. Her only option was hope the army left the capital alone. If not... well, that's what her pistol was for.
"Queen Relena!" A young servant exclaimed, bursting in the door. "Queen Relena, you have to see this!"
"What is it?" Relena asked the girl, wondering what might have gotten her so excited. "What's happened?"
"You have to see this, your Majesty!" The servant repeated, grabbing Relena's wrist and dragging her across the hall to the main security office. "Look, your Majesty! We're saved!"
Displayed on the center monitor was an image of two people. One was a man, much shorter than the woman next to him. He was dressed in some kind of strange armor and carried no weapon. The woman was tall and thin, dressed in a black and white uniform with a very short skirt and no sleeves, and carried only a tall silver staff.
"Who are they?" Relena asked, turning to the servant. "Where did they come from?"
"I don't know, your Majesty, but that man blew up a mobile suit!" The girl seemed slightly out of breath, and her face was flushed with excitement. "He shot some kind of light from his hands and blew it to bits!"
Relena stared at the girl, then at the screen, wondering if she'd somehow heard wrong. No one could shoot light out of their hands. And even if they could, how can light destroy a mobile suit?
Then the woman raised her staff and began to glow dark purple. Her lips moved, as if she was saying something too soft for the audio pick-up to catch. The glow gathered at the tip of her staff and coalesced into a dark orb, which shot away from her, leveling two mobile suits and a goodly stretch of trees behind them.
The woman looked at the man and said something else. The man nodded, saying something in reply. The woman smiled, closed her eyes, and disappeared. After a moment, the man jumped into the air, destroyed one last suit, and flew towards the palace.
At the Palace
Vegeta landed in the courtyard of the mansion, scowling. He refused to think of something so small and plain as a palace. It looked more like a school than a home.
After a short moment, two women ran into the courtyard. The one with dark red hair was dressed in an obvious uniform and carrying a weapon of some kind. The one with light brown hair wore a long, strapless white gown with- of all things- flowers around the hem, and a thin gold circlet in her hair. She was probably the ruler here.
"Who are you?" The brunette asked quietly, stopping a few feet from him. "How is it you can fly?"
"If you don't know, why should I tell you?" Vegeta asked, noting with some satisfaction that they were both around the same height.
The woman sighed under her breath. Vegeta decided that she must be very proud and sure of herself.
"Queen Relena!" Someone called, running out of the house. "Queen Relena, the city is clear!" The man pulled up short upon seeing Vegeta and immediately reached for the weapon strapped to his waist.
"It's all right, General." The brunette, presumably Relena said calmly. "He's on our side for the moment. Leave your gun where it is."
"Yes, your Majesty." The General said, not sounding very convinced but obeying nonetheless.
"How many citizens did you have to bring into the palace?" Queen Relena asked. "Will we have room in the palace itself, or will we have to house them in the cellars?"
"I took the liberty of installing them directly into the cellars, your Majesty. They felt unsafe in the main building."
"Very good, General. You have my permission to withdraw." The General bowed deeply before leaving, and Relena returned her gaze to Vegeta. "May I at least have your name?" She asked in a deceptively neutral tone that had an edge of steel to it.
"I am Vegeta, prince of all Saiyins." Vegeta announced proudly, knowing full well that they'd have no idea who or what the Saiyins were.
"Welcome, Prince Vegeta." Relena said, dropping into a graceful half-curtsy. "I am Queen Relena of the Sanq Kingdom. We thank you for your assistance to our homeland."
Vegeta simply raised one eyebrow, a trick his father had taught him when he was very young. "It's disgraceful that you needed my help in the first place, woman." He said finally. "Did you even have an army in the first place, or were you too stupid to build one?"
"Watch your tone when speaking to her Majesty!" The redhead commanded, raising the muzzle of her rifle. "Have you no respect?"
"Not for weak women." Vegeta retorted harshly. "Especially not those who can't even protect those that serve them. Like I said, it's disgraceful."
The redhead sputtered incoherently for a few moments, freeing Vegeta to talk to this weak woman of a ruler.
"What kind of defenses do you have around this place?" He asked. He was here to protect this place, so he might as well get started. "You do have defenses, don't you?"
"Of course we do, your highness." Queen Relena said. "There's no need to be rude. If you'll come with me, I'll have my generals fill you in."
Great. She didn't even handle the protection of her own city. Something was seriously wrong with this place.
Two Days Later, Preventors Headquarters
"These reports can't be accurate!" Lady Une exclaimed, slamming her palm against the thick stack of printouts on her desk. "Men cannot fly without mechanical assistance, women do not simply disappear, and two people have no chance against a regiment of mobile suits!"
"Nonetheless, the reports are true." Heero replied stoically, his neutral expression never changing. "Only seasoned veteran agents are assigned to the Sanq kingdom. None would make something up at all, much less something this farfetched. Accept the facts, Lady Une; something we have no hope of comprehending has surfaced. Deal with it." His monthly quota of spoken words used up, the brunette turned and walked calmly out of the office, leaving a sputtering Une behind him.
"How'd she handle it?" Sally Po asked, raising an eyebrow as something crashed behind the closed door. "Not well, I see."
"Hn." Heero replied. "I'm going to Sanq to see what's going on myself. You two coming?"
"Why not?" Sally Po countered, looking over her shoulder at her partner, who was lying down on a padded bench against the wall. "What'd 'ya say?" She asked.
"I don't care, onna." Wufei replied without bothering to open his eyes. "Just as long as you don't get me stuck behind some desk again."
Sally Po snorted, turning her back on the younger Preventor. "I've told you a million times, Chang, that wasn't my fault. And I was stuck in the archives at the time, so I don't know what you're complaining about!"
"Enough, you two." Heero said quietly, collecting his jacket and duffel. "We need to hurry if we want to make it there in any reasonable length of time."
The Next Day, Sanq Capital
"Sure are a lot of 'em." Sally Po commented, lowering her binoculars long enough to jot something down on her ever-present pad of paper. "I wonder why."
"Maybe because they're invading a country?" Wufei suggested with a bare trace of sarcasm.
"One known for its policy of total pacifism?" Sally countered, returning to her tally of troops. "One with no weapons, no standing army aside from an honor guard, and a population of only 40,000? There are cities that would be harder to conquer than the Sanq Kingdom."
"When the hell is Yuy getting back?" Wufei demanded, seeing he had no hope of winning this argument. "He was due 30 minutes ago."
"Who knows? In the meantime, let's eat. I'm hungry."
Inside the Sanq Palace
Vegeta was one frustrated little Saiyin prince. This Relena girl was turning out to be a lot like Kakkorot, only worse. She didn't believe in violence of any kind, not even self-defense. She wanted to talk to the soldiers camped outside the walls, as if talking could solve anything. Not only that, but she insisted on dressing like some sort of ornament or flower arrangement.
In short, he couldn't stand her.
But everyone in this benighted kingdom adored her, and that Pluto onna had warned him against killing unnecessarily. To do so would mean loosing any chance of returning to his own world. Which meant he had to put up with the annoying coward until he'd destroyed the stupid mechanical dolls without killing too many people. Easy.
Yeah. Right.
End Chapter One
And thus runs the randomness. Speaking of which, I just updated that story... Weird.
