Trades
Toma stumbled into Sickbay having helped Bardock all the way from the desert. He roughly slammed himself and fellow Saiyan into the medical table. That was as far as he could take his friend—Toma had endured a lot of abuse from the electrical surges coming off of Bardock—before nearly blacking out himself.
Toma trembled as he held onto the table for support. It was difficult as he tried to regain his composer and shake off the numbing sensation that slowly crept over his body.
Yamcha helped Bardock—seeing was in pain and could barely move—and lifted his legs onto the table. The Earthlings poor timing got him shocked and clumsily stumbled into the monitor behind him. He blinked wondering just how badly Bardock was getting electrocuted from that small sample.
Chichi was beyond worried and the look in her eyes said so as Bardock grunted again, holding back his cries of pain. Pieces of him faded away like an apparition and reappeared as electricity danced along his body.
Chichi wanted to lend any kind of support she could and reached for his hand.
"Don't!" Bardock snapped stopping her and gritted his teeth under another surge. He didn't want to hurt Chichi as well.
Chichi understood by the look in his eyes and settled for staying at his bed side.
"Isn't there anything we can do?" Chichi asked aloud for an answer from anybody while trying to give Bardock a comforting smile.
"Get Turles on the line," Toma grunted while he pushed off the table and forced himself to stand on his own. "He has to have run into… something like this."
Yamcha being the closest to the Sickbay's computer hastily brought out the list of numbers. His search sped up by dire need for help and searched for Turles' frequency then highlighted it. In an instant a window hopped out the phone icon with someone who barely resembled Turles. His cheeks and forehead were covered leaving a 'T' opening for his face, "What is it?" he asked irritable.
"Can you could help Bardock?" Chichi asked with tear filled eyes, "Something's going on and we don't know how to-"
"I have other matters to worry about than patching up Bardock after every fight." Turles said coldly.
"You…" Toma swallowed, "have some nerve to refuse to help out our King!"
"Geese, how could you be so cold? He is your father!" Yamcha defended Bardock as a reflex.
"A clone doesn't have a father, he is just a copy. If you're done wasting my time I have more important matters to attend to." Turles' window jumped back into his phone icon.
"Turles!" Toma shouted at the fleeting window, wondering what to do now?
Bardock used the instant transmission to zap out of Sickbay to an unoccupied room. He couldn't stand to see them all worrying over him. It felt too much like pity, and Bardock hated being pitied.
He sat up on an uncomfortably plush bed overcome with despair. The darkness in the room only brought a little comfort from feelings of failure. The occasional surges of electricity brought extreme discomfort and the intrusive light.
Bardock grunted at another episode. Curling up helped but only a little, he lost his balance and crashed to the floor like a rock. Much the same as the weight of the universe that he thought that was lifting away. He climbed to all fours and saw two drops flee and stain the floor through his blurring vision.
Despair seemed to be a reoccurring friend to Bardock and this time was lost within it.
The day made its agonizing crawl into night as Bardock gradually dragged himself over to the table. His muscles screamed at him as he pulled himself onto the lone chair.
The doors hissed open and Yamcha trotted in. "Yo! Bardock! Are you in here?" He called barely sensing Bardock's Ki and proceeded to hastily search every inch of the quarters.
Yamcha opened the bedroom door last surprised he found the Siayan sitting alone and sulking in the dark. It was a pathetic sight in Yamcha's opinion: Bardock had no longer shown any reactions to the painful electrical surges and the tear stained cheeks put a feeling of unease in Yamcha's stomach.
Yamcha was glad he found Bardock before Chichi did. He couldn't let Chichi see Bardock a mess like this.
"Why the heck did you run out like that?" Yamcha scolded, "You had Chichi worried sick!"
Bardock said nothing but winced at Chichi's name having felt he failed her as well.
Yamcha was expecting the normally grumpy Saiyan to throw insults or threatened his life. He wasn't doing any of that now. The chilling silence between them was unsettling to the point where Yamcha unconsciously balled is right hands into a fist.
"So, what…" Yamcha started with a leveled tone trying to provoke a reaction of any kind, "Is this you giving up?"
Bardock finally leaned forward setting his elbows on his knees for support to what he was about to confess. "I have my doubts that I can get us through this." Bardock's eyes narrowed defeated.
Yamcha punched Bardock under his chin with enough force to knock the Saiyan out of his chair. He knelt over the fallen Bardock and roughly grabbed him by his armor.
"So do the rest of us! But you're not the only one caught in this mess!" Yamcha closed one eye trying to tolerate getting shocked. "What the hell made you think you were the only one who had to handle everything?" Yamcha dropped Bardock and stood up flexing his tingling hand, "All of us helped. Never heard of one person doing anything alone… Listen, you're hardly ideal, but even when things look at their bleakest you still somehow push through. And you know… that's probably what Chichi admires about you."
Bardock couldn't believe what just happened. Yamcha managed a good sucker punch knocking Bardock into back to reality. He sat up and rubbed his busted lip with the back of his hand. Was Yamcha trying to give him a pep talk or look for a fight?
"Nobody is dead yet." Yamcha continued, "If you're going to just quit then stay out of the way. But Chichi, Toma and I are at least going to try and figure something!"
"How is Chichi?" Bardock finally asked as if ignoring Yamcha's last comment.
"Still worried about you enough to have all of us look for you," Yamcha folded his arms still not comfortable with the idea of these two together. "She'd rather be sharing in your pain than to let you go it alone. That's just how she is."
Bardock's gaze fell to the floor, "any thing else I should know?"
Yamcha smirked with a glint his eye. He really wanted to see if Bardock was back to normal. "She just couldn't wait to put her arms around her precious pumpkin, little teddy bear, honey Bun! Bardock-chan!" Yamcha mocked nuzzling his own clasp hands making kissing noises.
Bardock sat there turning red with rage and embarrassment at the pet names.
Yamcha stopped, "Uh-oh!" He made a mad dash for the door, but it wasn't fast enough and busted through it.
Bardock gave chase, "YAMCHA! YOU'RE DEAD!!!" Bardock yelled at the human.
"FoundhimforyouChichibye!" Yamcha said as he ran by Chichi for dear life.
Chichi was sprinting down the opposite direction in her search and stopped, "What?" She asked not understanding a word Yamcha said. Then her face lit up when she saw Bardock. She called out to him and felt a pang of disappointment as he passed her.
Bardock screeched to a halt and jogged back, "I'llbebackinasecond." he continued his chase.
Chichi blinked confused and flinched upon hearing a crash. She sighed, "We'll I'm happy to know nothing's wrong."
"Truce! Truce!" Yamcha cried while poorly defending himself.
"Knock it off you two!" Toma scolded with authority getting Bardock and Yamcha to stop pounding on each other, however, Yamcha had Bardock in a headlock. "I've all ready issued orders to Vegeta to begin a galactic wide evacuation. We should prepare to get out of here as well."
"Wait a second!" Chichi protested, "The Dragon Balls are trapped with our friends! Won't that stop all the catastrophes going on for at least a year?"
"There hasn't been any sign of that happening. Natural disasters are getting more violent and we need to save those that we can while we can."
"Hey," Yamcha shoved Bardock away, "isn't there something we can do?"
"It can't just end like this." Chichi said, "There has to be something we can do! If only if there was a way we could pull everyone out of there…" Chichi's shoulders slumped disappointed.
Bardock could've sworn he heard Piccolo's voice and narrowed his eyes with confusion. Piccolo was trapped but Bardock still heard it: incoherent and faint like a whisper.
The three star ball had the Piccolo's voice. And Bardock's head shot up in realization and dashed down the hall without warning. "Come on! There might be something!" he yelled over his shoulder.
"Bardock!" Chichi called and glanced around for an explanation. The guys just shrugged knowing nothing. She gave chase more out of concern than curiosity unlike the guys who were only curious.
They followed Bardock's jet stream once out of the ship and flew over the desert to the border of a forest. There they found a village full of cottages that looked like they had almost been burned to the ground. Most of the people around were trying to salvage what they could while the rest were recovering in tents scattered around.
Their unexpected arrival gave a few of the villagers a start.
Greycloud lifted the sheet to his dwelling in a small cave. He made his way over even with a splint on his right leg, a crutch under his right arm and a patch over his left eye. "Somehow, I knew you would be returning." Greycloud said. "I guess the same to happen to you." Greycloud said upon Bardock's and Yamcha's bruises and so few in numbers.
"Believe me this was different." Yamcha replied with hint of a smirk.
"I don't see your Grandson anywhere?" Chichi noted concerned, "Is he all right?"
Greycloud exhaled with disappointment and dropped his gaze. "I can only hope. Shortly after we returned from welcoming you, we found our home attacked. I did what I could but they wound up taking him in the process." He looked up, "I had hoped he had managed to escape and return." His face shown the signs a worried guardian
"Sorry to disappoint you." Chichi said apologetically.
"Not at all," he shook it off for the moment to do business, "I did say I was expecting to see you again. However, I can only trade information upon payment first."
"What?" Yamcha and Toma said.
"So," Chichi asked folding her arms, "just what would be considered proper payment?"
"Long ago, we lost two and three treasures in the Devastation. One was a blade made of flame, brandished when the fledging Phoenix spread its strong wings. As the Phoenix parishes to flame life lost is restored. The other is a virtually invisible double edged blade that cuts like the wind and strong enough to slit any known material. The same gave birth to twins collecting deadly rays from an unworthy opponent and revisits its master with an unfortunate fate."
The Earthlings and Saiyans stood there confused with the riddle, "An Invisible Double-Edged Blade?" Toma thought aloud.
Kakarot smirked at his prey as he held a firm grip on the hilt. Goku squeaked, and clutched at the blade as his warm blood seemed to slide on glass.
Bardock reached into his armor and brandished a box. He simply tossed a blue and orange capsule in front of Greycloud.
The Mage's eyes widened surprised almost fooled into believing Bardock had pulled some magic trick on him. The technology was unlike any he had seen as a glass casing popped out of the small capsule. Inside was a small bust of Phoenix and on either side or it were twin diamond kitana's.
Greycloud held his free hand over the casing as it shattered and the three objects arose fusing together. He snatched the bird like hilt and slashed jewel blade towards the desert in one smooth movement. He unleashed a wall of flame and turned a few dunes into a line of molten glass. "Satisfied, now what do you need?"
"So that's what Kakarot's swords did." Toma said scratching his head as the Earthling were in awe.
Chichi shook back to reality, "We need to know if it's possible to pull people out of a time storm. Surely you know that Liana and your grandson Prince Emit can perform such a strange time traveling technique."
"Hmm…" Greycloud thought about it, "I know it is possible but to pull such a feat… Hold on a moment." Greycloud pulled out a cell phone.
Bardock and the others fell over, "You mean to tell us that after all that magical bullshit you still need cell phones!"
"This plan is only good on Giya and its moons. Now quiet I'm on the phone."
"So does he or doesn't he know?" Toma asked.
"We have to wait and see." Chichi said trying to be patient as she nervously bit her lower lip.
"…Are you sure? … Fine, there is bound to be a pair among them…" Greycloud looked annoyed and unsure. "… Then will you… Hmm? ... I see… Well all right, thank you, bye." He hung up.
"Well?" Toma asked.
"There is a way. Not long ago someone with that ability abandoned the technique in a capsule giving it to some Traders."
"So, then where are the Traders?" Bardock asked.
"They said they are on Terra. But there are some conditions."
"Fine, what are they?"
"They are requesting…" Greycloud furrowed his brow, "a double date as payment."
"You've got to be kidding me." Yamcha whined and began to tease, "Well, guess you and Bardock are up on this one Chichi." He said as Chichi gave him the evil eye, the teasing was a little embarrassing.
"Not exactly," said Greycloud snatching everybody's attention again.
"What do you mean?" Toma asked.
"The Traders are requesting that the double date be of…" Greycloud swallowed hard, "the same sexual category."
The Earthlings and Saiyans looked at each other a little grossed out.
"Sure there isn't any other way?" Yamcha asked.
"They wouldn't agree to anything else." Greycloud separated the swords and limped back to his home. "By the way they will be at Stargazers tavern. Good luck"
"We have to back to Terra." Bardock said and snorted irritated.
"Who the hell is going to pilot that bucket?" said Yamcha, "Even Bulma had a hard time with parking."
"Oh!" Chichi's head shot up at an idea, "The other day Bardock and I found a docking bay full small scout ships! Come on!" Chichi led the way back
OoO
In no time they were in space and getting sick from Yamcha's crazy driving. He mastered the small scout ship the size of a small air plane. Toma caught sight of the auto-pilot switch and immediately flipped it much to everyone else's relief.
"Aw! That's no fun!" Yamcha complained.
"AND NIETHER IS GETTING SPACE SICK!" Chichi bonked Yamcha on the head.
"Enough!" Bardock shook off the disorientation on the verge of puking, "We need to figure out who is going to get that capsule."
"Well," Chichi sighed. "With Bulma missing that leaves me out. Would we have to do anything… uncomfortable?" she shuddered.
Yamcha's eye brow momentarily quirked at that idea then shook it off. "It's a good thing good friends do stick together!" Said Yamcha confident he wasn't going.
"The hell if I'm going!" Bardock protested getting shocked again.
"I don't want to do this either," Toma shoved Bardock to sit down, "but what else are we going to do? We don't have other option if they have the only card we need."
"It's pretty obvious that Bardock can't go." Chichi said, "He would attract too much attention in his current state." Chichi fought back the urge to go to Bardock's aid.
"Also," Bardock added, "just because Babidi's out of the picture that doesn't mean his men are gone as well." Bardock tossed over the bandana to Toma.
"Then you mean…" Yamcha then cursed, "Damn it!"
"Right," Toma tied the headband around his head covering the 'M'. "Then that means it's up to us Yamcha. And if this plan is going to work then we need to make it believable. If you're going to be with a Saiyan then you have to have the mark of one." Toma said.
"What does that mean?" Yamcha arose up from the drivers' seat.
"Do you guys trust us?" Toma asked.
"Of course I do." Chichi said.
Yamcha folded his arms unsure about that, "Need to if we're going to work together."
"All right," Bardock said and winced as he got shocked again, then shook it off.
"Bardock!" Toma called and Bardock jumped to feet putting his arms around Chichi as if to hold her back.
Toma lunged at Yamcha and the Earthling cried out as the Saiyan sunk his teeth into the junction of Yamcha's neck and shoulder.
"YAMCHA!" Chichi cried as she struggled to get out of Bardock's grip. She nearly stumbled as he let go as Toma back away. She quickly whipped out her handkerchief and dabbed at Yamcha's wound, pressing down to clot the bleeding.
"What the hell was that for?" Yamcha shouted at the Saiyan and noticed a large flesh colored band-aid on Chichi's neck and ripped it off.
"Ah!" Chichi yelped out of pain and immediately slapped her hand over where the bandage was as the secret was out.
Yamcha caught a glimpse of a few scabs in the pattern of teeth marks. "When did you-" Yamcha jumped to his feet, "You bastard!"
"No! Yamcha it's not what you think!" Chichi tried to explain putting herself in front of Yamcha.
Bardock only smirked, "She's still pure if you're worried about that part."
Chichi's gaze fell to the floor embarrassed.
"See." Said Toma, "If you're going to be with a Saiyan you have to have the mark of one." Toma wiped away Yamcha's blood from the corner of his mouth.
Yamcha grumbled over to a passenger seat and plopped himself down. "Are we there yet?"
"In a ship this small it might take a week." Bardock estimated wincing again.
OoO
Yamcha loathed the plan right from the beginning. He took another big gulp of the foaming sour green drink and grimaced as it burned in his mouth then felt like razors sliding down his esophagus. He slammed the mug on the steal counter feeling better.
"Do we have any idea on what these guys look like?" He then hiccupped.
"None," Toma leaned back against the counter scanning the crowds for any possible sign of these traders.
Yamcha swiveled around on his stool when he caught sight of a petite human like red-head with her hair up in a ponytail and braided. Her clingy green dress could hardly be called appropriate covering the important areas while revealing her mid-drift and only one shouldered.
Yamcha was entranced as she walked around them and gestured for two drinks
"Well, hello." Yamcha went into flirt mode.
Toma whacked him with the back of his hand to stay focused.
"What?" Yamcha said like he wasn't doing anything wrong.
"Oh, you guys together?" A deep voice came from the mouth of the cute red-head.
Yamcha yelped in surprise as the color drained from his face. Toma just slapped his own forehead embarrassed.
"Can't take him anywhere any you know?" Toma said trying to recover in case this was who they were looking for, "By the way we're here to meet a pair of traders. Don't suppose you've seen any?"
The red-heads eyebrows twitched with a smile and reached for the drinks, "Follow me."
"Oh gosh!" Yamcha whined shaken, "Isn't anything here what it seems?"
"If this is going to work you better hope not." Toma said giving him the evil eye.
"Hey, Yamcha!" Chichi called over the scouter. "Bardock said if you can do this without a hitch he'll get you three air cars."
"They better be new and not used," Yamcha grumbled.
The red-head led them to a booth and scooted next to her/his buddy and motioned them to sit. The red-heads partner looked like he could be a butch pro-wrestler that no one wanted to mess with.
"So, I take it you are the guys Greycloud talked about?" He said and smirked at Yamcha's paled reaction to his heliumnated voice. "I'm Mace and this is my three times in a row Queen: Poinsettia."
"Lovely nick name," Toma commented as he unwrapped his tail from his waist.
"Queen Poinsettia is not just a nick name but a title I've won." Queen Poinsettia said resting 'her' head on Mace's shoulder.
"I see we've missed yet another competition." Toma said impressed and patted Yamcha on the shoulder, then pointed with his tail, "This is my skittish partner Yamcha and I'm Toma."
They eyed the bite marks on Yamcha, "Pretty brave to pair up with a Saiyan," Said Mace.
"Um… listen about why we're here," Yamcha reminded.
"Easy now," said Mace signaling for more beverages, "how about we just enjoy ourselves? So where are you from?"
"Earth." Said Yamcha.
"What?" Queen Poinsettia quizzically tilted 'her' head, "Earth was destroyed after Giya's devastation."
"True, he's from Earth?" Toma said putting an arm around Yamcha's shoulders, "Quite rare isn't he?"
OoO
"How are they doing down there?" Bardock asked and only winced at getting shocked developing a tolerance. He observed from a building across the way glad the tavern had large windows.
"Seems like there just getting to know each other." Said Chichi listening in on her scouter. "You're friend Toma is doing a good job of getting things moving. Hopefully it will be enough to get us that capsule. Yamcha needs to learn to relax a little, Bulma complained he had a lot of trouble with their first date, too."
"They need to hurry this up! We don't have the time to play this little game."
"Are you sure you shouldn't be resting up Teddy Bear?" Chichi asked giving him that concerned look.
Bardock grunted, "I wouldn't be able to if I tried." Then he turned to Chichi suspicious. "How the hell did Yamcha know about the nick names?"
OoO
Mace was crying making everybody feel really awkward. "My father doesn't understand you know? I like dance! It's not that much different the martial arts!"
"Well, I see what you mean when you put it that way." Yamcha said finally warming up.
"I'm glad somebody understands!" Said Mace still sniffling and wrapped his burley hands around Yamcha's smaller masculine hands at being understood.
OoO
Chichi stood up as she caught sight of something in the corner of her eye. She stared in awe as a whale-like ship flew over head and saw a flea in the sky that could've been a person chasing after it. The only peculiar thing about the sky flea was how it fazed in and out completely erasing it's ki as it vanished.
"Did you see that?" Chichi said awed.
Bardock's gaze rose to the staggering building tops and saw the whale like frigate however the increasing shocks caused his vision to blur, "See what?" He asked unable to see what Chichi was talking about.
Chichi gasped at the familiar Ki, "That's Liana! But how did she…"
Bardock didn't question Chichi's judgment, "I doubt it's the same one we traveled with. It must be the current one." Bardock placed his scouter on.
"Why is she chasing that ship?" Chichi asked and her eyes widened in realization, "You don't supposed Emit is on that thing?"
"There's only one way to find out!" Bardock flew after with Chichi following
OoO
Yamcha glanced out the window and caught sight of Chichi and Bardock leaving, "Ah! Sorry, you know you got to go when you got to go!" Yamcha jumped from the booth and ran for it.
"Yamcha!" Toma got up after him and slowed to a trot letting Yamcha go. He hated the idea he'd have to finish this double date on his own. "He'll be back just got a case of the runs." He said out of spite going back to the booth, "Might be a while."
OoO
As Bardock and Chichi closed in on the ship they could see the pursuer was indeed Liana. She gave a cry as she whipped out her sword and fazed in ahead of the ship. She held the hilt vertically with both hands and let her sword cut off what looked like a fin along the entire starboard side.
"Bardock!" Chichi cried as the stray fin was drifting their way.
Bardock gathered his ki and disintegrated a big enough whole in the fin for Chichi and himself to get by it safely.
The frigate veered off to its right without the fin. Even though it looked like was heading to an unoccupied landing pad it was too high and would over shoot it. From what they saw Liana fazed out of sight and in on front of the frigate and tried to push back on the port side trying to slow it down.
"We need to help her or a lot of people are going to get killed!" Chichi shouted.
Bardock transformed into a Super Saiyan in the blink of an eye and raced on ahead taking position on the starboard side and pushed.
Their efforts paid off as the ship bounced once along the pad. The ship screamed as the haul was wearing down during its slide. It finally came to a stop just short of reaching the other end and possibly falling to the planet below.
Bardock dropped and knelt down catching his breath having another episode. He looked up and saw Liana jump up and smash through a window getting in. Bardock forced himself to his feet waiting for Chichi to meet up with him.
Chichi finally did after a few seconds trying to catch her own breath. "Are you okay?" She inquired.
"I was just hit by a Ship but I'm fine." Bardock scooped the out of breath Chichi and jumped up finding the same smashed window to enter from. He set Chichi down and took a step forward when he stumbled.
Bardock's left leg disappeared giving him no support. He lifted it before it could reappear into the floor and then he'd be stuck. He stomped his left foot making sure it was usable. He skimmed around to see they were an evacuated Bridge not seeing a single body.
Bardock and Chichi ran side by side following the scratches along the walls. After what they just saw they felt it was a sure way to find the swordswoman with a blade capable of downing a starship.
Liana was thrown across one intersection when a strong hand grabbed her by the ankle and pulled her to safety missing a volley of projectiles.
Once the fire ceased Bardock and Chichi jumped out of their safe place and shot a wave down the corridor. The group at the business end the wave either disintegrated or was partly blown away. Chichi ran up to examine one body and turned to Bardock.
"Bardock, you were right these are Babidi's men," Chichi said as Liana dashed passed her.
Bardock leaned on the wall as his chest vanished making it hard to breath. He saw Chichi still there worriedly biting her lower lip. "Don't worry about me, go after her!" Bardock ordered.
Chichi hesitated feeling helpless with Bardock, "Be careful Bardock." She said before doing what she could and chased after Liana.
Chichi heard a loud crash and followed where it might have come from. She came across large doors blown open and what looked like the Brig. She found the darkly clad figure at the controls on the far side of the large chamber. There was a loud hum as one by one the smaller chambers along the walls lost their illuminated forcefields.
Liana nearly collapsed, falling on her own legs exhausted going to a small chamber second to the right.
Chichi's strong desire to help led her to Liana's side. Without even asking for permission Chichi grabbed Liana's left arm hooking it over her shoulder. Getting no protest from swordswoman Chichi proceeded to take a step forward and so did Liana. They headed for the Chamber she originally was going for.
From Chichi's mouth came a gasp but from Liana's was a sigh of relief. The teen boy lifted his head from behind his knees and ran for Liana putting his arms around her.
Chichi was happy to help and stepped back watching the family moment.
Bardock had materialized but not alone as Yamcha had supported him up.
Liana finally let go of Emit grateful and turned to the others. "I thank you. However, I also understand that people are not as charitable as they used to be. You need something don't you?"
Teen Emit shrank back a little at the sight of Bardock hoping to hide his own wounds from his unsuccessful attempts to escape.
"You're right about that." Bardock grunted in pain and fell from Yamcha's support. The Earthling fell on his rear and curled at being electrocuted.
"I see." Liana walked over to Bardock as he was on all fours.
Bardock looked up and saw the swordswoman sheath her sword. She held her right hand out with only her pointer and pinky extended at Bardock. She pressed her finger tips on his forehead on either side of his 'M'. Bardock felt a soothing gentle waves pulsate from the two pressure points relieving him of his discomfort. The electrical surges erupted again only this time with not pain and Liana was unaffected. Then she brought her arm back.
Chichi took a step forward to help Bardock up and stopped herself.
"What did you do?" Bardock asked climbing to his feet.
"You're somehow out of faze with time." Liana said, "I corrected that but only temporarily."
"So, you are able to control time?" Chichi asked hopeful.
"Not as well as I used to." She looked up at Bardock's forehead then glanced at Emit, "You're brothers."
"Brothers?" Bardock said confused and took a glance at teen Emit.
"My Prince has the same mark of Babidi. I am surprised you are not a puppet."
"Please!" Chichi interrupted, "We need your help! We have friends of ours trapped in some sort of weird time storm. We need to pull them back as soon as possible!"
"Can you do it?" Bardock asked.
Liana looked away and turned back to the others. "I can but there's a problem. I gave up that technique and the traders who have it are difficult to find."
"You mean Mace and that Poinsettia?" Yamcha said finally recovered from his shock. "They're still back at the Stargazers tavern. Oh shit! I left Toma to double date with them."
Emit stifled his laugh wanting to escape as Liana folded her arms annoyed, "Those idiots still haven't decided?" said Liana.
"What do mean?" Bardock asked.
"Neither Maze or Poinsettia have a gender really." Teen Emit said.
"They are of a unique alien race." Said Liana, "When they reach a certain age they can choose if they want to be male or female. They want to be the same and that is why they are doing double date type interviews."
"That's very informative and everything." Bardock folded his arms getting inpatient. "But we're wasting time here and we need that technique as soon as possible."
"Understood." Liana nodded.
OoO
Chichi slammed her hand on the table startling Toma and the Traders, "Sorry to butt in but we need to speak with you."
"What going on?" Toma asked confused.
"Guys," Liana stepped up, "You remember that technique I gave you?"
"Uh…" said Mace, "What technique?"
"We came here to make a deal about a Time capsule!" Toma reminded.
"Oh, Yeah… that." Mace nervously laughed. "You see we don't really have it on us. This isn't going to lead to an arrest is it?"
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DON'T HAVE IT!" Chichi slapped both hands on the table pissed.
"Look!" Liana spoke up, "The two of you would not be doing these interviews if you had chosen a gender yet. So who has it?" Liana waited not getting an answer. "Don't tell me there a few worried parents I'd have to inform on their missing kids."
"Isn't that a bit childish?" Toma pointed out.
Poinsettia and Mace looked at each other then Poinsettia pulled 'her' purse out and pulled out the capsule roughly handing over to Liana.
"Thank you." Said Chichi. "You don't know how much we needed that!"
"Well since we have what we need let's get the hell out of here!" said Toma.
AN: Current fazes slowing things down: Beating my Twilight Princess record and Kamen Rider. :P