Author note: By the way, the last chapter of the Dragon Ball Super manga has introduced more elements to Sadala's culture. I'm glad it mostly like what I imagined outside of this silly fanfic, except for Caulifla and Cabba never meeting. I guess Renso is an Anime-only character. Still, it means I won't have to start all over again.

Daredevils

IV

When he finished his first day at training in the desert, he went excited to his home to tell everyone about it, but when he arrived, all his mother could ask if he was alright. "Yes, I'm ok, mother!", Cabba was happy, but his mother wasn't. His father, however, wasn't surprised about it and told him he did a nice job with a high five, which made his mother gave him the evil eye. His brother was still taking care of the pet dinosaur in the kitchen.

"She is still sick," his brother told him. "I think she is dying."

"No, don't say crazy things," Cabba replied to him hoping it wasn't true, he didn't want to ruin his mood. "Maybe she will have puppies!"

"Puppies?" His brother looked at him with bright eyes. "Are you sure about it?"

"Of course! Right, father?"

He simply nodded.

"Then I will take care of them!" His brother replied with optimism.

The next morning he did his usual five hours running. He tried telling the guards about it, but no one batted an eye. Oh, man, he thought to himself. Even if he didn't know the names of every guard, they were usually kinder. By the time he arrived at school, he was looking for Caulifla to tell her about how he survived a blast and met a Metal Man, but couldn't find her. He asked one of the members of her gang in the classroom, but couldn't get an answer.

"The sis," one of the kid said, making the same kind of hand mannerism the other guy with the sunglasses, "has told us that she doesn't want to deal with the pipsqueaks, you get?" He then pointed at him with his finger. "The pipsqueak annoy her"

Annoyed was he of that guy' way of speaking. They seriously want to start a fight, but will not give them the pleasure.

"All right, thank you for your time." He told them, and went back to his place. I guess I'm alone for today.

The rest of the hour was pretty dull, as Cabba didn't really talk with the other kids of the class, or was too shy to start a conversation with any of the girls. The instructor was teaching about how the Saiyans and the Frost Empire started to work together thanks to Frost's father, but that was something Cabba already knew. The best fun he had was daydreaming, which was not something that exciting.

By the time of recess, everybody went with their usual group. He walked to the tree and sat all alone, like always. The Coliseum couldn't be seen from that part of the school, only the clean buildings of the Industrial Zone and dirty hovercars passing by. He still felt an itch on his back because of the fall from yesterday but was annoyed he couldn't tell anyone about it. Except, well, he couldn't, because he didn't manage to hit anything in the sky, only learned how to fly better. Man, how annoying, he thought to himself. He really needs some friends to talk to.

"I know! I start a fan-club for Frost!" Cabba muttered to himself. "No, wait, that's stupid. Oh, man..." He seriously needed more hobbies.

Then he looked at the sky again. I know how to fly better now. But, is forbidden.

Was anyone looking at me? Would anyone notice I'm not here? Cabba thought to himself, with his heart beating. He has never broken any single rule, except for that one time he ran away from the classroom because of stomach sickness. It was so bad he lost weight, and he was already a really slender kid. He looked behind, and no one was watching in his direction. He closed his eyes, and told to himself: "Just for one time, I'll be the punk."

The school was prepared for suppressing the powers of the kids for their education and to protect the neighbor races from any delinquent, as it had an electrical barrier that blocked any use of energy control. It was almost flawless and was a great tool to capture criminals without killing them. However, Cabba, despite disliking the way of Caulifla's gang of not obeying the rules, was aware of something they knew how to do: how to avoid the barrier. They knew the "flaw" in the almost flawless machine.

Cabba then went directly to the kid with the sunglasses, who was playing with his hand alongside the other members of the family.

"Excuse me." The kid suddenly was afraid. "What's wrong?" Cabba asked.

He then pointed with his finger. "The Sis doesn't want me to talk with you. You bring trouble."

"If you want me to help you with your homework, I can do it, but," and Cabba imitated his mannerism with his hand, even though he felt silly doing so, "I will need a favor from you guys."

The kid was interested. "What does the pipsqueak want, yes?" He asked with a smile on his face.

"I want to get out of the school, at least for some minutes. And you guys know how to. Caulifla taught you how."

"The sis, " he said with his arms crossed, "would kill me if I speak with you, so I'm not taking my chances."

"I'm doing your homework for this week."

"Not sure..."

"The subject of this week homework is the tragedy of The fallen emperor Ize the Wise. You know how much the teacher loves that story, and it would suck if you missed just a detail, which I know all of it."

"How much does he love that story?" the kid asked, incredulous.

"Like Caulifla loves bitter juice."

The kid became convinced with that statement. "Ok, pipsqueak, for a guy made of bamboo you know how to convince a fellow comrade. I'll accept your offer for only this time, just as long as the Sis doesn't know, you get?" Cabba nodded. "All right! I have the right man for you: Zukni, come!"

One of the members came running. He was a tall kid with remarked muscles, a tanned skin, and fearsome eyes. He is scary.

"Zukni, the pipsqueak wants to get out of the school, teach him the way, you get?"

Then he suddenly started to cry while keeping a straight face.

"You would run away from school?" his voice was rough, but it was hard to take seriously due to the rain of tears coming out of him while keeping a straight face "I understand, this place sucks."

He was scary.

They went to the boy's bathroom on the second floor. "There is a hole below the third toilet, " Zukni said, while still crying with a stoic face. "No one knows how it came to be, but my brother believes it was made by someone who knew the way: the way of breaking the rules."

"Oh, right, I guess." Cabba was having a hard time taking him seriously and was almost giggling.

"And you're just the right size. Only Sis can pass through here."

"You mean Caulifla was here?" Cabba raised his voice, only for the crying boy to shush him up.

"I didn't say anything."

This guy is crazy. He went to the third toilet and found the odor nauseating. Caulifla is crazier. He passed through the hole while holding his breath, and kept crawling through it. Two minutes later, he was outside the school, with no one around. He opened his mouth and took a long breath. "All right, just some minutes."

He jumped and started to fly to the Industrial Zone.

...

While he enjoyed the feeling of the wind on his face, he couldn't help but feel his heart beating out of caution. If someone discovered he escaped from school, it would be horrible! He would bring shame to his family's name! But, it was part of the fun. He couldn't get close to the hovercars of the zone: the cars went too fast, even the slower older models. He went flying to the sky, trying to reach the highest altitude possible, but had to stop, as he was having a hard time breathing. He was having more fun than school.

He looked down on the capital. He could see the palace of the King above the hills of Lad Sarced from there. A giant building where the principal tower was watching directly the Coliseum. He didn't know how the king looked like, as he was a very private man, but everyone at school spread rumors about him. Some said he was 20 feet tall and that his power was only comparable to Frost; others said he had a secret daughter. Cabba only knew he was a heroic fellow, as he worked with Frost for many years fighting in wars.

Then, an explosion happened outside the Coliseum.

The alarms started to sound, and the SDF towers to bright all around it. Even though he was flying, his legs started to tremble.

An attack? But, who could be attacking? He noticed how the vehicles from the army were moving in that direction.

"Want to watch really close, Pipsqueak?"

Behind him, was Caulifla flying with her arms crossed. She was smiling, and Cabba was terrified.

"My name is Bamboo, I want to be a member of the Sadala forces, so for that, I'm going to screw the rules, right?"

"P-please... don't tell the teacher! I just wanted to fly for a while!"

"I won't, I won't. I also know the feeling of just wanting to fly for a while. Feeling free like the wind, without nobody telling me what to do, enjoying a good brawl. It feels good, right?"

"Y-yeah, but you do it all the time!" Cabba said to her. She didn't care. "I only did it this time!"

"You are a goody-two-shoes, you know that?" She looked at the direction where the explosion came from and grinned. "I won't tell anyone you were here, if, you keep me company for the time being. Let's watch real close the show!"

"W-what? But it could be dangerous!"

She then flew really close to him, putting her face just in front of his. He felt nervous.

"Yeah, isn't it exciting?"

He blushed. She wasn't wrong.

...

The area was surrounded by the forces of the militia making sure no one got close to the criminal. The barriers which suppressed the energy from the area were destroyed. The street was surrounded by soldiers knocked down on the floor because of that man. Wearing nothing but pants and a metal mask, the green man was punching the soldiers who were trying to restrain him, to no avail.

"You!" One of the soldiers said. "Surrender, or we will be forced to shoot to kill!"

"Try it!" The green man screamed at them, aiming his arm at them. "If you dare, you apes!"

"Caulifla, I can't see," Cabba told her, as they were inside a cardboard box right in front of the action. It was Caulifla's idea to sneak behind the soldiers with it, as the two of them could fit under it. Naturally, Cabba thought her plan was dumb, but she insisted on it. "Come on, trust in me! I've done it countless times!" she told him, and he sadly couldn't say no.

"Look! Look! That man is beating the hell out of them!" She took away her face from the hole, smiling at the fighting, letting Cabba see the action. The soldiers were trying to incapacitate the green man with their stun weapons, but he was going all out on them. "I was hoping to see them go all out, though. What a bunch of wimps!"

"He is a prisoner Caulifla, not a terrorist." Although Cabba never saw someone with that skin before. "What do you think he is?"

"My, my, I didn't think Namekians could give such good fights". That voice. Cabba saw a woman getting close to the scene with such calm and elegance, capturing the attention of everyone in the street. There was no doubt about it: that gray uniform and spiky hair shaped like a hedgehog, and those earrings in the form of bulls.

"Look Caulifla, is Taura!"

"What?! My aunt?!" She took him out of the hole in order to see better, but Cabba, in a sign of that rebellious spirit of that day, didn't allow himself to be forced off that hole. The result of the small confrontation led to a single eye from the two of them leaking through that small hole. "She is going to kick his ass!"

"You!" The man went running against Taura and tried to strike her down with his fists, but she avoided the punches without any sweat.

"Pirina-boy" Taura replied smiling and with a monotone voice, "I do not take kindly to criminals who would insult my race, now..." She took his arms from behind with enough force that he started to scream from the button of his lungs, "behave."

"I won't allow you to return me there! I won't allow you!" With some struggle, the man launched an energy attack from his hands, trying to hurt her. It simply rosed her, but the attack managed to go to the building behind them, making a giant hole on it. Caulifla was thrilled about it, Cabba was terrified.

"Do you realize that building had innocent civilians?" She put more force, making him scream louder. "You bastard, I will not forgive you this!"

Alongside the screams coming from the man, Cabba witnessed something he was not meant to see at that age: the man arms were straight up ripped by Taura, with purple blood bathing her. Cabba almost screamed, but Caulifla stopped him before he could. "Don't yell!". Many of the men then rushed at the armless man, screaming in pain, giving him a metal collar along the mask. The man then calmed down, as if nothing happened.

"Take him to the cells again. I didn't expect these pirates to be so annoying."

Someone walked directly to her while the men were taking the prisoner: a woman with silver hair, wearing a green uniform similar to the ones from the Forces. She gave Taura a towel, which she accepted without issue and cleaned herself up. She smiled at her. "Thanks for coming." She then looked at the soldiers. "All right you people, whoever was responsible for allowing the prisoner to escape will clean up the Metal Men excrements next morning, find that idiot and bring him to me! You hear?"

"Yes, madam!" Everybody responded.

When everybody left, Caulifla was the first one to leave the cardboard box. She looked at the surroundings but didn't see anyone. "Is okay, you can come out now!"

Cabba, rather shy, left the box. He was scared, with his heart beating more than ever.

"Are you okay? I know it was rough, but..."

"His arms were torn apart... That was torture..." Cabba said, very nervous.

"You didn't hear aunt Taura? He is a Namekian. They are famous for their regenerative abilities! Those guys can regrow their body parts with no issue."

"A-are you sure?"

"Of course I'm sure! When am I in the wrong?"

Cabba then looked at the building. There was a huge hole in it because of that man, but was mostly fine. The lack of soldiers there meant no one was hurt, Cabba hoped.

"Do you think someone got hurt?"

"Can't say, but, is better to not remain here for much longer. Those guys are probably still around."

"Right... Oh my god!"

"What?" Caulifla asked, looking at Cabba tremble like blue jelly.

"I wanted to fly for a few minutes, but ended up missing the class! They're going to kill me!"

Caulifla looked at him with an incredulous face.

"You have no cure, Pipsqueak." She then started to fly, "Follow me then, I can help you give Zanar a good excuse!"

"A good excuse?"

"Yeah, we tell him you had diarrhea again."

"But that's not true!" Cabba screamed, trembling like jelly in an earthquake. "He will know it!"

"Stop whining, considering how slender you are, he will not notice!"

She started to fly. Cabba was still scared, to the point he almost forgot how to fly. It was like before when he had trouble rising from the ground. However, he heard a noise and his instinct returned, following Caulifla without a problem.

When they both arrived at the classroom, Zanar was immensely angry due to Cabba losing the fourth time he has ever spoken of the fallen emperor as a subject, but as Caulifla predicted, he was convinced Cabba was having another case of diarrhea due to his immense problem standing up. Cabba was trembling.

"Cabba", Zanar interrupted the lesson, and looked at him with his soulless glasses, "If you're feeling sick, I can give you the rest of the day."

Zukni started to cry in his seat while looking at the teacher with a straight face. "Why he gets the free pass and we don't?"

"Because unlike you, he enjoys my lessons."

Cabba got out of school with the feeling those guys will annoy him more than ever, but couldn't care less, as he was still traumatized. The arms of that man getting torn apart very slowly by a hero were not something he was meant to see, but keep repeating in his head. He couldn't believe it was possible someone like Taura could do so something so heinous, even if that man arms could regrow if Caulifla was right. He went to his home without following the captain' methods, simply flying faster. He arrived 30 minutes without getting tired like last time.

When he entered his home, his parents were in the kitchen along the pet velociraptor, who was trying to get up but had a hard time doing so. His parents were sort of puzzled.

"Why are you here so early, Cabba?" His mother asked.

Cabba wanted to say the truth to them, but had a hard time doing so, and kept trembling.

"Let me guess: Diarrhea." His father asked with a disappointing look on his face.

"Yes." Cabba bluntly lied to their faces.

"Oh, sweetie. Not again." His mother said annoyed while looking for some pills.

"Is she alright?" Cabba asked while looking at the dinosaur.

"We called the veterinarian, son. She is not going to have puppies."

And the day kept going worse.

...

Despite Renso being occupied for the day, Cabba went to the Meteor Desert. He was holding a bag full of toilet paper just to convince his mother of letting him go. Flying managed to calm him down, but he seriously wanted to talk with someone about what he witnessed and knew of someone he could talk with.

"Hello, friend!" Cabba happily greeted the Metal Man after landing on the floor. The blue-eyes giant greeted him with his train-sounds. "Choooopo!" He was still working on his stone castle. "It's looking better than before, but, why are you still working on it?"

The Metal Man then pointed at the desert, where another Metal Man with red eyes was working on a bigger rock-castle. "Oh, another one. Are you two competing?"

The Metal Man nodded.

"That's cool! Do you need help?"

The Metal Man nodded his head again and allowed him to help. Cabba grabbed a stick and made a river in the sand, surrounding the castle. Then the Metal Man spit on it, making the castle have its own lava river. The Metal Man was quite pleased with this, and so was Cabba.

After finishing, the two sat close to the castle. The Metal Man brought a giant cup made of metal with lava to drank, and he kindly shared some with Cabba, which he refused. After finishing the drink, Cabba, somewhat shy, told him what happened earlier, which made him spit lava in his direction out of the shock, but missed by good fortune.

"I wanted to tell someone this, but I can't really tell anyone I ran from school just to fly for a while. I'm scared, I didn't expect a hero to do such a thing." The Metal Man released some steam from his body, and carefully put his hand on the child's head. Cabba smiled. "By the way, I still don't know your name, how should I call you?"

The Metal Man did the usual train sounds, which Cabba couldn't understand at all.

"I'm sorry, I don't understand anything you're saying." After a moment thinking about it, Cabba grabbed the stick, and wrote all the letters on the sand. "How about this, I tell you a sound, and it will help me understand your name, all right?" The Metal Man nodded. It took him around 20 minutes, but he managed to found the name of the creature: "AUTA MAGETTA"

"Magetta? That's a cool name!" Cabba said, and Magetta blushed at the commentary. However, something in his eyes changed. Magetta was looking at one of the towers, and out of nowhere, shot a spit of lava in that direction. Cabba freaked out and looked in that direction, and saw a hooded figure running away. His legs started to tremble again.

Oh man, who is that? Then Magetta got up and started to run to the tower, making noise with every step. He kept shooting his spits in that direction, with the tower barely surviving the shots. Well, if I'm around him, I'm sure I'll be fine! And Cabba went flying to the tower. Magetta stopped shooting, as the hooded figure ran off, and Cabba couldn't see anything on the stone floor of the tower.

He kept looking, and found something: a spiky orange fruit on the stairs of the tower.

Cabba was curious and grabbed it. It was warm and the spikes didn't hurt his hands. Cabba went to Magetta, and asked him if he knew what it was, only for Magetta to deny with his its shoulders. The sound of a door coming from the tower was heard, and Cabba, somewhat by instinct, hid the fruit on his bag along the toilet paper. A soldier came running to them.

"What happened kid?! I was having a nap and the next thing I know we are under fire!" He asked Cabba, like if Magetta wasn't there.

"Magetta saw a hooded figure running around and started to shoot saliva at him, sir!"

"Magetta? The Metal Man here, right?"

"Yes, he saw someone and started to shoot in response. I didn't see it very well."

"Then we must put an alarm. You kid, I'm going to call Renso to pick you up."

"Yes sir!" Cabba did a salute. He was glad he didn't lie again, only hid the truth.

...

Renso came to pick him up around 10 minutes later in his hover car. It was very late in the night.

"How the hell your mother allowed you to go to the desert without me knowing, Cabba?" Renso asked, quite angry.

"I'm sorry sir, I wanted to train my flying a little bit more."

"That's alright, but this isn't the day to do so, I have to be around. That area is dangerous, if a Metal Man sees an intruder, they will go berserk trying to kill them. Lucky for you, the Metal Man from before knows who you are."

"His name is Magetta, sir," Cabba remarked. Renso was quite curious about that statement.

"Magetta? Did he tell you his name? They are usually very quiet fellows, they only ask for lava from volcanos and they help take care of the planet. Never heard the name of them of one of them, though."

"I asked him his name, sir, with a stick."

"Heh, nice. I'm impressed." Renso smiled at that. The rest of the journey to his home Cabba kept thinking about the fruit he managed to grab. Was it the same fruit Taura was talking about the other day? How did it end up in the desert? Who was that fellow? He kept thinking but couldn't get a straight answer, only a guess.

He didn't know why he was hiding the fruit from Renso. He remembered that the fruit will give you more strength than ever, according to Taura, and Caulifla wanted it to enter the Coliseum despite being young. His heart was beating all over again, he was tempted to touch the fruit again, feel its warm feeling on his hand... but couldn't do it. When they arrived home, Renso asked him what was in the bag, only for Cabba to start sweating all over himself.

"I... well... you see..." He couldn't complete his sentences.

"Do you have diarrhea again?"

"Yes." Cabba blunted answered, feeling terrible for lying to his teacher.

"Too much juice. If you only knew of the stories I could tell you about Caulifla and her obsession with juice. You could laugh!"

"I-I guess so, sir, but I rather not to..."

"Heh, well, you're missing it! See ya later, I have to return to the desert!"

And so, Renso left in a flash. Cabba was somewhat tearful due to being too nervous.

He had the fruit, now, what does he do with it?

He entered his home. His parents weren't in sight, but his pet was. The purple dinosaur was breathing heavily, lying in the kitchen. Cabba went running to her. He touched her skin under the feathers, and she was burning. Cabba wondered for a moment, but he thought of something: the fruit. Taura said the fruit could increase your strength ten times fold: what if it also heals?

He grabbed the fruit from the bag and tried to give it to her. The velociraptor resisted it, didn't want to eat it. Cabba had to force her by putting the fruit in her mouth, but she didn't swallow. He then grabbed her mouth in order to make her, and she did. She, however, stopped breathing.

"Please, I don't want this day to get worse," Cabba said quietly to her.

She opened her eyes, and her muscle mass increased more than before. She then stood up and started to walk. The first action she did was to lick his face. She was alive and healthy once more.

"Thank goodness: not everything was terrible this day."

...

Author Note: Sadala has a giant moon, and yet these guys lost their tail to become Giant Apes. I guess is a blessing. Apparently, the name of the king is Sadala. Ha! That's a girl's name.

Did I make Cabba too flawed in this chapter? I tried to make him different from Gohan during his school days, where Toriyama tried to give him a personality (A.K.A: comical trait). I wanted to expand a little bit more on his life before the Coliseum. I think this is the right place to stop this fanfic, for now, the end of the first act. The second act shall be more interesting for me to write.

Zukni comes from "Zucchini", and the other guy's name is Mato, from Tomato. The dinosaur previously know as Toyble was inspired by Icarus, but looks more like Dino from the Flintstones. My internet sucked and I had to rewrite a part of the end. How annoying.

Update 27/11/2018: Not a lot was changed, just some typos and badly put terms like "spaceships" for "hovercars".

Update 14/04/2019: Not too many details changed, just some words here and there.