The Android's Wings Chapter One

The Android's Wings: A Dragonball Z / Outlaw Star Cross Over Fic by Aoi Kami Sarah

Chapter One

It was another brilliantly beautiful day. Another dawn greeted the town and its people smiled as they woke. Commerce bustled, children played and the town was alive with energy and enthusiasm.
When the ship plowed into the local potato farmer's fields, everyone was naturally very surprised. The word spread as fast a rumor in a small town and within moments, all the inhabitants were crowding around the smooth, yellow spaceship. There was some discussion as to whether this was an airbus, but the one man who had left the village once in his entire life protested that he had never seen an airbus that large and strange-looking before.
A stranger in a long cloak saw the commotion from the road and made her way towards the wreck. She pushed gently past the rural folk and climbed up the crumpled fuselage.
"Hey, lady! I don't know if that's such a hot idea, there!" a man protested. "There could be horrible space aliens inside!" He pulled his cheeks out with his fingers and made what he considered to be a horrible face. "They'll eat our brains and turn our cows inside out!"
Most of the crowd moaned with trepidation and a few of the village women fainted.
"That would be something," she replied and kept climbing. The crowd stood back and watched.

The hatch was still compressed and difficult to open; a good sign; any beings inside would not have been exposed to the outer atmosphere as their ship fell to Earth. Air hissed through the opening as she pulled the hatch free and tossed it aside as if it were a sheet of paper. The crowd stepped back a few paces and muttered to itself. The interior was dark and the ship was on its side. She slid in across the floor and stood on the far wall.
'They must have been able to pull up at the last moment,' she thought as she touched the doors to the cabin. The nose had suffered little damage. "This better be good," She gripped the crack where the doors met and pulled them apart easily. Inside, a few small instrument lights still blinked their warnings to the crew. One man was slumped on the screen. A small pool of blood glistened in the dim blinking lights.
"Great," she sighed and pushed back her cowl. "I go to all this trouble and he's dead." She pulled his head up by his black hair. "AND ugly. Woof." She let his head fall back down and was surprised to hear a groan.
"Oh. Sorry, pal. You sure are close to it, though.. and you are rather unattractive." She reached around and picked him up. She slung him over her shoulder and began to drag him out of the cabin.
To her left, static hissed into life. The blond woman stopped and waited. It resolved itself as the auxiliary power was allotted.
"Wait! Please don't leave me!"
"Huh?" She turned and looked in the direction of the voice. There was a glow brightening around the center column. She dumped the body on the ground and investigated.
On a monitor, flickering with white noise was the image of a green-haired young man. "Please," he begged. "Don't take my brother. Don't leave me!"
"Your brother?" she asked.
"Yes, please. He needs help and I'm the only one who can give it to him. You must take us both!"
"What if I don't want to take either of you?" she crouched down and raised a brow.
"Fine. The Aux Power will give out in another 15 minutes and we'll both be dead. Just please don't separate us."
"But... You're just an artificial intelligence..."
"Yeah. I wasn't always. Please. I can transfer myself to that portable unit over there. Take me too!"
She looked around and saw what looked like a lap-top plugged into the console. "Ok.. whatever. At least you don't take up much space."
"Thank you! Thank you! You are my Angel!"
"You don't know me very well, kid."
"Kid!" A tiny camera whirred as it zoomed in and scrutinized her. "You don't look a whole lot older than I do."
"Looks can be deceiving."
"Well, tell me you name at least, Angel."
"It's Number Eighteen. Who are you?"
He was silent for a moment. He raised a brow and smiled. "I'm Harry. Harry MacDougal."

Stay Tuned for The Android's Wings Chapter Two by Aoi Kami Sarah