Chapter One: A memory away, a memory fade-away
Characters:
Neko
Terrel
Lurex
Sky
Sky's father
Goku
Bulma
Trigger
Musha
Tore
Oru-chan
Link
Lilly-chan
Blake
Scorpion
-12 years later-
Neko quickly pulled on her shirt. Today was her big day. She knew being 16 is hard.
"Hey, female." A male higher-ranked saiyan snarled up the stairs to her room "Are you coming or what?"
"Don't call me female." Neko growled back "I am as equal as you."
A crowd of people began laughing at the remark. Everyone knew males always came before females! It's just the way it is! No matter how strong the female is!
Neko began making a rather fast pace down the stairs, then her foot caught under her other foot, and she tumbled down the steps, and landed in front of a crowd of her own kind of people.
She looked up and slowly reached out her hand to her male school-mate.
He sighed "Any strong saiyan would never ask for help." He kicked her arm out of the air.
She struggled to get up "Well, I am just as saiyan as you, you know!"
"Yes, I do know. But your female, and your to re-produce and stay home. That's your life. Leave the fighting to us. Are you coming or what?"
She looked at the other's glare at her.
"No thanks." She said, grabbing her arm "Besides, I want to pack before my trip."
"Obviously you've never been on a trip to where ever Master Freeza sends you. It's obvious."
"Why do you say that?!" She protested.
He yawned "Because you'll be in a small space pod for more then ten hours. How do you suppose you can pack in little room?"
Neko searched her mind for a wise remark, but nothing came.
The saiyans laughed at her, then left her alone.
She looked at her arm and noticed the bone was bruised, so she wrapped it up, and sat down in the eating room and waited for her father to return from work.
The door slowly cracked open, and her father walked in.
"Hey dad." Neko muttered.
"Aren't you going to get ready for your away-mission?" He asked, sitting down in front of Neko, and slipped his armor off.
Neko shook her head "No, it's okay."
"You sure?"
She nodded.
"What happened to your arm?"
Neko looked at the cloth "Oh... nothing..."
The door opened again, and father turned around and said in a cheery voice "Oh, hey Mist. How was work today?"
"It was okay." She said, then spotted me "What's wrong, Neko?"
"I was thinking about the dream I had last night."
"Can you tell us?"
Neko shrugged. She never kept secrets from her parents before "I saw this space pod with a small child in it that looked a lot like you, dad, but a new infant... and I saw me as a baby, but some other girl held me. She was pretty and had long dark blue hair like mine, and ivy-green eyes like mine, as well... but she wasn't you mom. Where did I get my looks from anyway?"
Her parents looked at one-another, then my dad turned to me "Neko, you have to get ready."
She nodded, knowing her parents will try to keep this from her as long as possible.
"I've got to go pick up my mission plans from Zarbon in a couple minutes, so I better leave now." Neko decided as she got up slowly.
Her parents wished her good luck as she flew off into the polluted sky.
There were other saiyans in the air, probably doing the same thing as Neko was.
Neko arrived a little late, and looked around the main hallway. She looked around at the giant wall with spikes on it, and a flashing image of someone dying on it appeared in her mind, and she jumped back, and crashed threw a door.
She turned around and came face-to-face with Zarbon, and behind him was Master Freeza.
Neko quickly fell to her knees "Pardon my rudeness, Master Freeza!" She begged, then looked up again and spotted King Vegeta. He has a younger child, also named Vegeta. Prince Vegeta is probably older then Neko by only a few months.
"Who is this?" Master Freeza asked Zarbon.
Zarbon glared at me "Get up."
Neko quickly shot to her feet, and solitude "Scouter Neko, here for mission."
"You look pretty tough for little girl." Master Freeza smiled.
"Well," Neko said, crossing her arms "I train with my father, Bardock."
"Oh, yes, Bardock. The one who sent away his new infant..." Master Freeza said, and Zarbon nodded in agreement "I never knew he had a daughter, as well... Neko, is it?" Reading her mind like an open book.
Neko nodded "Sire, yes sir."
"And you came for your mission?"
Neko nodded proudly, then blushed when she saw Prince Vegeta watching her carefully.
"Okay, then." Zarbon said, taking the place of talking "Go to ship 24.75. That ship will go to planet Namek. I want you to blend in with them. You have only one year to come back with useful information about them. You know what happens when you betray Master Freeza, female."
Neko bowed down "Of course." And flew out of there as fast as she could.
She landed in the ship yard, and forgot her ship. She even forgot the planet she was to take over!
"Here for ship 29.14?" An engineer asked her.
She looked blankly for a few seconds, then nodded "Yea, I guess."
She curled up into the small space pod remembering what the males told her, and thanked them softly to herself.
Neko always had her parents there, threw war or trouble. But now she was experiencing loneliness and an abandoning feeling she has never felt before.
Neko began thinking about what Namek would look like, and before she could decide, the space pod crashed, and the door began slowly hissing open.
She got out, blocking the bright sun from her eyes, and looked around "This place is different from the picture book I had of planets..." She remarked, then began walking around trees that looked like ones back at home, but they seemed different to Neko. Maybe because there weren't many at home because her race didn't care about their planet much, just destroying and enslaving others.
A small saiyan girl leaped in front of her, but this one didn't have a tail like her. The this must be what the Nameks looked like?
This amused Neko for a few seconds, until the girl looked at her strangely "You look hungry. Want to come to my house? Daddy can help feed you."
Neko remembered she had to blend in, so she wrapped her tail around her waist before the girl could notice.
"Yea, sure." Neko nodded. After all, that space ride did make her really hungry.
The girl grabbed Neko's hand, making Neko very uncomfortable, and the little girl smiled "My name is Sky. What's your name?"
"My name is Neko." Neko introduced, hoping she didn't have to change it to help her sound Namek.
She nodded, then began dragging Neko into the forest, then suddenly the trees broke off into an opening, and there was a house, Neko guessed, that was really old.
Sky brought Neko inside, and brought her to her father.
"This is my new friend Neko, dad." Sky said, pushing Neko in front.
"Hi." Neko said scared, although the dad looked nice enough.
"Nice to meet you, Neko." He nodded, then continued to watch a box that had images coming from it.
"That's extraordinary!" Neko gasped, and sat in front of the magic box.
"Don't you have a television of your own?" Sky asked.
"Maybe she's native." Her dad guessed.
Neko got up and turned to Sky "I'm hungry, do you have food?"
Sky nodded, then led Neko into a new room that had just a little food.
Neko helped herself until there was no more food.
"Wow!" Sky gasped "You eat a lot!"
Neko looked at her "You mean that wasn't the snack?" And looked at the mess she had caused in the room.
Sky giggled, then began to clean up.
"You're different then others I've talked to before." Neko said quickly.
Sky looked at her, then smiled "Thanks, I think..."
"Why do you help out no matter how tough things are?"
The little girl simply shrugged "I decided, since I was a little girl, that I'd help out anyone in trouble, or who ever just wanted a good snack."
Neko smiled, not knowing she was, then looked out the window and looked at the forest.
Then came hopping out was a small furry creature with big long floppy ears that made Neko want to laugh at it, but she didn't. The creature frightened Neko, because, Neko didn't know what it was.
"Hey kid, look at that!" She pointed.
Sky walked over to the window, and nodded "That's called a bunny rabbit."
"Rabbit?" Neko tried her very best to pronounce it properly.
"Yea," Sky nodded "Haven't you ever seen one before?"
Neko shook her head "Where I come from, there aren't creatures like that." And she quickly covered her mouth.
Sky nodded "Oh. That must be lonesome wherever you come from."
Neko nodded in agreement "Yea." But still was confused. Hadn't the girl found out yet? Then again, she did think Neko was native.
"Tonight daddy promised me we could star-watching." Sky said, then grabbed Neko's right hand, and tugged her into the room the father was in "My father knows a lot about stars!"
The father smiled proudly at his daughter.
Sky continued until they were back outside, and Neko noted how fast darkness came.
"Why is it so dark out?" Neko blurted out.
"Because, silly, the sun is setting, right over there," She pointed towards the entrance they walked threw from the forest.
"I thought this planet had three suns." Neko said, more surprised.
She shook her hair, with her hair flowing in the wind "Only one!" She looked as if she would laugh at Neko.
Neko closed her eyes, being prepared to be mocked, even from a low race like nameks. She's always said something dumb to get laughed at: her entire life is a laughing stock, having such low-ranked parents, she will never become respected.
Nothing happened.
"Neko?" Sky asked.
Neko slowly opened her eyes, and realized Sky was walking far ahead, and turned around to realize her new friend wasn't beside her at the moment.
Neko walked over to her, picked her up onto her shoulder, and began marching around as Sky laughed and cheered.
Just as it got dark, Neko brought Sky inside and her father asked Neko to put her to bed, because she was so tired.
Neko slipped the small child under the sheets.
"Neko?" Sky asked.
"Yes?" Neko asked, sitting down on the bed right by Sky.
"Can you tell me a bed time story?"
Neko looked blankly. Her people never babied the children like this before. "Bed time stories" were just stories told to the higher-classes to initiate them to fight harder next time.
"Well?" Sky asked Neko innocently.
Neko shrugged. It was worth a shot after all "Okay... once there was this alien who crashed on earth, not knowing where to go or what to do next. Then there was this little girl, and she helped the alien girl out, and one day the alien had to leave to continue it's journey across the planet."
"But the little girl didn't want the alien to go."
"How'd you know?!" Neko gasped, standing up.
"Don't worry!" She said, sitting up "Your secret's safe with me... Besides, people always tell me true stories at bed time... I just don't tell them that I know." And she smiled brightly.
Neko sat back down next to the little girl, feeling more uncomfortable around her... The first rule, of any rank, when blending in a race, the first instant they find out who you truly are, you must depose of them: as fast as possible... Have no mercy, take no prisoners... But Neko had mercy, and didn't want to take prisoners, but nor did she want to hurt them.
Neko watched the girl lay up next to her and slowly drowse off.
For the first time in her life, Neko felt whole. Peace settled in, and she hated it.
She quickly exited the room, and came to the father's room.
"Thanks for putting her to sleep so fast." He said amazed "Usually she's awake until midnight! It's a shame I was too busy to take her star-watching tonight.... Most likely tomorrow I will."
Neko's hypothesis was that midnight was late on this planet.
Neko nodded "Your welcome." And quickly left the house, and entered the forest feeling really bad about her own saiyan pride.
"How can I live on if I'm this big tender-foot to two species? How am I to do this? I can't stand being so nice! But how did they do this to me? Yes, it's their fault... I must kill them..." But deep down she felt as if she would go to the ends of this planet as to just saving them from any danger.
She made her way threw the forest for many miles until she looked up and spotted billions of tiny dots in the sky.
Neko tried to reach out her hand to hold them because they were so beautiful to her, but she just grasped air.
"They must be miles and miles away," She noted carefully "so..." But then she cut off her own thought with a sharp look-away "No. I am going to be the most fierce saiyan female warrior in the universe! I'm going to show Zarbon who to boss!" And she decided to walk back to Sky's home to check on them.
But when she arrived, a blaze of fire scolded her skin and eyes, and she held her arm over her face and gasped as she saw the house collapse, with sparks flying in every direction, even into Neko's hair.
Neko embraced herself at first. At least her secret was safe... But why did she start running?
Neko covered her hair, and wrapped her arms around her face, and leaped into the house, just as another wall collapsed right by her, causing a big gush of hot air, but not affecting Neko. She was stronger inside then what her looks give away.
She rushed over to Sky's room, but it collapsed. Neko knew deep down that no race with such a low ki could survive that, but she kept digging at the ashes until her fingers began aching, but she insisted on trying.
After a few minutes, she could tell she was either going to save Sky, or die trying, and she knew there was no saving Sky.
Suddenly there was a hand on her shoulder, and she looked behind her to see a boy, around her age.
"You've got to get out of here," He said.
"But Sky!" Neko said, with tears coming to her eyes, then began trying to claw at the ashes.
The boy, amazingly, lifted up Neko into his arms, and leaped outside where a girl was. She has blue hair to her shoulders, and welcoming eyes.
"You almost got yourself killed Goku!" She scolded the boy.
"I'm okay, Bulma." He said, smiling, then dropped Neko to the ground harshly.
"Who's that?" Bulma asked.
"She was in that burning house, trying to dig a hole."
"Dig a hole?"
Neko sat up, with her tail laying along the ground behind her, twitching. It was burned severely, but she wasn't about to admit it.
"She has a tail also?!" Bulma yelped.
"I thought only boys had tails..." Goku said confused "Then she must be a boy!"
"You fool," Neko growled, then got up, and saw Goku had a tail, and she laughed softly "That explains your powers."
Goku's tail began wagging "What are you talking about?"
Neko was suppose to be the first saiyan on Namek, but what was this boy doing here?
"What's your name?" Bulma asked.
Neko looked at the boy. He seemed to be only months younger then Neko herself, and he had an exact resembling image of...
"Kid?" Bulma asked, waving her hand in front of Neko's face, but Neko grabbed her hand, not letting it go, staring at the boy.
Then he must be...
Goku stared at Neko.
"Your Kakkarotto!" Neko said, letting go of Bulma's hand to point at Kakkarotto.
"Kakka-who?" The boy asked, confused.
"But what are you doing on planet Namek?" Neko couldn't find a solution to her problem no matter how much she searched her mind.
"This is planet Earth," Bulma said, almost about to laugh at Neko "You must of taken a wrong turn here or there in space."
"Kakka-who?" Kakkarotto asked.
"How did you forget who you are?" Neko asked softly, then spoke up "Have you ever had poisoned food?"
The boy shook his head "Not that I know of... But I love food."
Neko crossed her arms "Of course: Your saiyan."
"Sai-who?" Bulma asked.
"I must of taken the wrong space pod... and Master Freeza is going to have my head for that!" Neko sat down.
Bulma looked at her friend Goku "Do you understand anything she just talked about?"
Goku shook his head.
"Then again, you don't understand much." Then she looked at Neko "Miss, do you need help?"
She pointed to the pile of ashes "I need a new home."
"We'll help." Goku volunteered "I wouldn't mind sharing my food with someone else."
Neko nodded "I guess." She knew she had to get away from them as soon as possible to continue this journey to get a new space pod, after it burned up in the flames as well.
That night, Bulma and Goku made their beds from leaves, and fell asleep, after much hassle from Bulma from being too uncomfortable.
Neko sat in front of the fire, hugging her knees close to her. How could Kakkarotto of forgotten his past mission? Had he been poisoned? But he was smarter then that, although male saiyans tend to be much more stubborn.
She looked at the fire, not knowing what to do next. Should she abandon these two? Maybe it'll end up just like Sky's family. But what made the house catch fire so quickly?
Neko got to her feet, and looked at the forest wall.
There suddenly, from nowhere, stood a young female. Older then Neko, but only by a few years. She looked a lot like Neko, but a lot different, like the scar over her right eye, and she seemed more thin and wore different clothes.
"Who are you?" Neko asked, with her tail recoiling around her waste protectively.
The girl looked over at Neko "Is Goku here?"
"Oh, the kid?"
She nodded.
"He's sleeping right now. Who are you, and where do you come from?"
"I came to see if Goku is still here... It's been so long..." The girls' eyes began to drift off into the distance behind Neko "If only I never left..."
"What are you talking about?" Neko asked, stepping towards the girl "Are you and old friend?"
She looked blankly "You could say that."
"Well, want me to wake him up?"
The girl began to twist and entwine into the air, then suddenly shaped into a giant red angered dragon, and twisted around Neko before Neko could flinch, then the dragon turned into Sky.
"Sky?!" She gasped.
The little girl held out her hand.
Neko reached for it, and the split second they're fingers touched, the little girl burned up into blue flames.
"SKY!" Neko gasped, then shocked awake, seeing she was still in front of the fire.
Neko had then realized she had become a soft earthling.
She laid down, feeling the heat from the fire pat down onto her body, causing her to come close to breaking a sweat, then slowly drifted off into sleep, being scared of having another nightmare, but never wanting to think that she was actually scared of something.
"You want to become a warrior?" Goku asked surprised "That's cool. I never thought of what I want my job to be... but I love to fight."
"It's in your blood." Neko nodded.
"And my race is a fighting race?"
Neko nodded slowly as they sat down by the banks of a river. Bulma was busy washing her clothes.
"That's cool." He nodded, then turned to Neko "Want to fight?"
"Only amateur saiyans fight for that reason." Neko turned her nose up.
"What happened to you?"
Neko looked at Goku "What do you mean?"
"You were so nice... at first..."
She shrugged "First appearance isn't everything."
He lowered his head "Yea, I guess so... Can you tell me more about saiyans?"
"I think I shouldn't. I'll let you wait for your older brother or dad to pick you up."
"Wow, I have an older brother?"
Neko didn't want to say that she was his sister, yet. He'd catch on, hopefully.
Neko nodded "His name is Raditz. I don't see him, often, because he's usually on a mission out in space..." She paused for a second, noticing she was giving-way feelings, and crossed her arms "Not like I care about him anyway."
Goku leaned back, using Neko's back to prop himself agents "That's sad. Family's should love each other."
Neko shook her head "If only you would listen to your saiyan blood inherence."
"How do I do that?"
"Just..." she looked at the ground, and clawed that the dirt "Follow your instincts."
"How do I do that?"
"You just need to follow what you think is right."
Goku nodded, now understanding where this girl came from "You were forced into fighting your entire life, weren't you?"
She got up, picking him up by his shirt "Look, kid, I've always had the dream to be the first strongest female warrior, even if it kills me. Nobody can force me into it, because I love fighting. No, I adore it. I love to break my bones in combat, and never surrender. I will be the champion of all. Don't you yet understand who I am to you?"
"A bully?" He guessed.
"No, you moron! Your older sister!" And threw him at the ground, and sat back down.
Kakkarotto looked at Neko suspiciously, then sat down in front of her "You may not want to talk to me right now, but I just wanted to tell you that, how ever mean you can be, I think your one of the kindest person I've ever met."
"I better get a moving."
"Why now?"
Neko shrugged "I've got to find a space pod, return home, and get executed."
"Why would someone want to hurt you?"
"Because I accidentally switched space pods in the first place, and ended up here. I'm suppose to be on a place called Namek!"
The boy held her hand "You don't have to go. It was an honest mistake, anyway."
"But, you see, you can't understand what little mistakes turn into. Your too immature."
He glared his eyes "Don't call me immature! I'm perfectly mature... Why would they execute you if you beg for mercy?"
"Because no saiyan begs. Besides it'll be an easy process. I'll arrive home, they'll realize that they lost a warrior to Namek, and find out I switched with that warrior, and they'd be-head me. They do it ruthlessly. I've seen them do it before many times. I had to watch my own grandfather's execution once."
"And you didn't stop it from happening?"
She shook her head "He betrayed all saiyans and befriended a race. That's purely wrong if a saiyan becomes friends with anyone."
"I'm friends with humans."
"And your wrong."
He looked shocked for a second, then he shook his head "Your wrong, we can be friends with this race. I mean, I'm living a perfect life."
"A weak life." And she tied her hair back with a strand of goat skin.
They both got up, and looked down.
"That's a big drop." Goku said.
"Can't you fly yet?"
He shook his head "No... Am I suppose to be able to?"
She crossed her arms "Whatever, kid." She felt inside she was making a mistake for calling a male "kid", at home she would of been punished for it. Her old teacher has left her scars on her arms for discipline.
"Hey, Goku!" Bulma shouted from far-off. She had a basket of clean clothes in her arms.
Goku turned around, and his foot slipped on a mossy rock, and he fell down the cliff.
"AHHH!" He screamed, then silence.
"Goku!" Bulma yelped, dropping the clothes, and coming to the edge "We have to save him!"
"I can fly, just not that fast," Neko nodded, and slowly, but surely, got to the bottom of the cliff where there was a small thin river.
There laid Goku.
"He landed on his head." Neko said, surprised, then gently lifted him into her arms, and returned to the top of the cliff.
"Here," Bulma said, tossing out a pill, then it formed a car "Get in, we'll get him to the hospital.
Neko stared at the contraption, scared. It just came from nothing!
"Get in," Bulma snarled, and Neko obeyed, having no other choice, having her little brother in her arms.
During the ride, Neko looked at Goku's eyes twitch, then opened a little "Your... a good warrior..." And fainted again.
His blood began pouring down Neko's arms as they arrived at the hospital. Neko didn't even notice the blood. Not like she hasn't seen it before.
They rushed him to the emergency room, and after an hour of care to Goku, a nurse walked out.
She nodded "Goku will be okay."
Bulma let out a sigh of relief.
"But, however," She continued "His memory of the past week or so would be gone completely."
Bulma looked at Neko "I guess he wont remember you... You'll have to do all your conversations all over again."
"No need," Neko cut in "I'm leaving now anyway. Don't speak a word of me to Goku ever again, hear me?"
She nodded "Yea, but why?"
"Because." She growled, then left just as Bulma was walking into Goku's room.
"Hey, Goku..." She began to talk to the injured boy.
Characters:
Neko
Terrel
Lurex
Sky
Sky's father
Goku
Bulma
Trigger
Musha
Tore
Oru-chan
Link
Lilly-chan
Blake
Scorpion
-12 years later-
Neko quickly pulled on her shirt. Today was her big day. She knew being 16 is hard.
"Hey, female." A male higher-ranked saiyan snarled up the stairs to her room "Are you coming or what?"
"Don't call me female." Neko growled back "I am as equal as you."
A crowd of people began laughing at the remark. Everyone knew males always came before females! It's just the way it is! No matter how strong the female is!
Neko began making a rather fast pace down the stairs, then her foot caught under her other foot, and she tumbled down the steps, and landed in front of a crowd of her own kind of people.
She looked up and slowly reached out her hand to her male school-mate.
He sighed "Any strong saiyan would never ask for help." He kicked her arm out of the air.
She struggled to get up "Well, I am just as saiyan as you, you know!"
"Yes, I do know. But your female, and your to re-produce and stay home. That's your life. Leave the fighting to us. Are you coming or what?"
She looked at the other's glare at her.
"No thanks." She said, grabbing her arm "Besides, I want to pack before my trip."
"Obviously you've never been on a trip to where ever Master Freeza sends you. It's obvious."
"Why do you say that?!" She protested.
He yawned "Because you'll be in a small space pod for more then ten hours. How do you suppose you can pack in little room?"
Neko searched her mind for a wise remark, but nothing came.
The saiyans laughed at her, then left her alone.
She looked at her arm and noticed the bone was bruised, so she wrapped it up, and sat down in the eating room and waited for her father to return from work.
The door slowly cracked open, and her father walked in.
"Hey dad." Neko muttered.
"Aren't you going to get ready for your away-mission?" He asked, sitting down in front of Neko, and slipped his armor off.
Neko shook her head "No, it's okay."
"You sure?"
She nodded.
"What happened to your arm?"
Neko looked at the cloth "Oh... nothing..."
The door opened again, and father turned around and said in a cheery voice "Oh, hey Mist. How was work today?"
"It was okay." She said, then spotted me "What's wrong, Neko?"
"I was thinking about the dream I had last night."
"Can you tell us?"
Neko shrugged. She never kept secrets from her parents before "I saw this space pod with a small child in it that looked a lot like you, dad, but a new infant... and I saw me as a baby, but some other girl held me. She was pretty and had long dark blue hair like mine, and ivy-green eyes like mine, as well... but she wasn't you mom. Where did I get my looks from anyway?"
Her parents looked at one-another, then my dad turned to me "Neko, you have to get ready."
She nodded, knowing her parents will try to keep this from her as long as possible.
"I've got to go pick up my mission plans from Zarbon in a couple minutes, so I better leave now." Neko decided as she got up slowly.
Her parents wished her good luck as she flew off into the polluted sky.
There were other saiyans in the air, probably doing the same thing as Neko was.
Neko arrived a little late, and looked around the main hallway. She looked around at the giant wall with spikes on it, and a flashing image of someone dying on it appeared in her mind, and she jumped back, and crashed threw a door.
She turned around and came face-to-face with Zarbon, and behind him was Master Freeza.
Neko quickly fell to her knees "Pardon my rudeness, Master Freeza!" She begged, then looked up again and spotted King Vegeta. He has a younger child, also named Vegeta. Prince Vegeta is probably older then Neko by only a few months.
"Who is this?" Master Freeza asked Zarbon.
Zarbon glared at me "Get up."
Neko quickly shot to her feet, and solitude "Scouter Neko, here for mission."
"You look pretty tough for little girl." Master Freeza smiled.
"Well," Neko said, crossing her arms "I train with my father, Bardock."
"Oh, yes, Bardock. The one who sent away his new infant..." Master Freeza said, and Zarbon nodded in agreement "I never knew he had a daughter, as well... Neko, is it?" Reading her mind like an open book.
Neko nodded "Sire, yes sir."
"And you came for your mission?"
Neko nodded proudly, then blushed when she saw Prince Vegeta watching her carefully.
"Okay, then." Zarbon said, taking the place of talking "Go to ship 24.75. That ship will go to planet Namek. I want you to blend in with them. You have only one year to come back with useful information about them. You know what happens when you betray Master Freeza, female."
Neko bowed down "Of course." And flew out of there as fast as she could.
She landed in the ship yard, and forgot her ship. She even forgot the planet she was to take over!
"Here for ship 29.14?" An engineer asked her.
She looked blankly for a few seconds, then nodded "Yea, I guess."
She curled up into the small space pod remembering what the males told her, and thanked them softly to herself.
Neko always had her parents there, threw war or trouble. But now she was experiencing loneliness and an abandoning feeling she has never felt before.
Neko began thinking about what Namek would look like, and before she could decide, the space pod crashed, and the door began slowly hissing open.
She got out, blocking the bright sun from her eyes, and looked around "This place is different from the picture book I had of planets..." She remarked, then began walking around trees that looked like ones back at home, but they seemed different to Neko. Maybe because there weren't many at home because her race didn't care about their planet much, just destroying and enslaving others.
A small saiyan girl leaped in front of her, but this one didn't have a tail like her. The this must be what the Nameks looked like?
This amused Neko for a few seconds, until the girl looked at her strangely "You look hungry. Want to come to my house? Daddy can help feed you."
Neko remembered she had to blend in, so she wrapped her tail around her waist before the girl could notice.
"Yea, sure." Neko nodded. After all, that space ride did make her really hungry.
The girl grabbed Neko's hand, making Neko very uncomfortable, and the little girl smiled "My name is Sky. What's your name?"
"My name is Neko." Neko introduced, hoping she didn't have to change it to help her sound Namek.
She nodded, then began dragging Neko into the forest, then suddenly the trees broke off into an opening, and there was a house, Neko guessed, that was really old.
Sky brought Neko inside, and brought her to her father.
"This is my new friend Neko, dad." Sky said, pushing Neko in front.
"Hi." Neko said scared, although the dad looked nice enough.
"Nice to meet you, Neko." He nodded, then continued to watch a box that had images coming from it.
"That's extraordinary!" Neko gasped, and sat in front of the magic box.
"Don't you have a television of your own?" Sky asked.
"Maybe she's native." Her dad guessed.
Neko got up and turned to Sky "I'm hungry, do you have food?"
Sky nodded, then led Neko into a new room that had just a little food.
Neko helped herself until there was no more food.
"Wow!" Sky gasped "You eat a lot!"
Neko looked at her "You mean that wasn't the snack?" And looked at the mess she had caused in the room.
Sky giggled, then began to clean up.
"You're different then others I've talked to before." Neko said quickly.
Sky looked at her, then smiled "Thanks, I think..."
"Why do you help out no matter how tough things are?"
The little girl simply shrugged "I decided, since I was a little girl, that I'd help out anyone in trouble, or who ever just wanted a good snack."
Neko smiled, not knowing she was, then looked out the window and looked at the forest.
Then came hopping out was a small furry creature with big long floppy ears that made Neko want to laugh at it, but she didn't. The creature frightened Neko, because, Neko didn't know what it was.
"Hey kid, look at that!" She pointed.
Sky walked over to the window, and nodded "That's called a bunny rabbit."
"Rabbit?" Neko tried her very best to pronounce it properly.
"Yea," Sky nodded "Haven't you ever seen one before?"
Neko shook her head "Where I come from, there aren't creatures like that." And she quickly covered her mouth.
Sky nodded "Oh. That must be lonesome wherever you come from."
Neko nodded in agreement "Yea." But still was confused. Hadn't the girl found out yet? Then again, she did think Neko was native.
"Tonight daddy promised me we could star-watching." Sky said, then grabbed Neko's right hand, and tugged her into the room the father was in "My father knows a lot about stars!"
The father smiled proudly at his daughter.
Sky continued until they were back outside, and Neko noted how fast darkness came.
"Why is it so dark out?" Neko blurted out.
"Because, silly, the sun is setting, right over there," She pointed towards the entrance they walked threw from the forest.
"I thought this planet had three suns." Neko said, more surprised.
She shook her hair, with her hair flowing in the wind "Only one!" She looked as if she would laugh at Neko.
Neko closed her eyes, being prepared to be mocked, even from a low race like nameks. She's always said something dumb to get laughed at: her entire life is a laughing stock, having such low-ranked parents, she will never become respected.
Nothing happened.
"Neko?" Sky asked.
Neko slowly opened her eyes, and realized Sky was walking far ahead, and turned around to realize her new friend wasn't beside her at the moment.
Neko walked over to her, picked her up onto her shoulder, and began marching around as Sky laughed and cheered.
Just as it got dark, Neko brought Sky inside and her father asked Neko to put her to bed, because she was so tired.
Neko slipped the small child under the sheets.
"Neko?" Sky asked.
"Yes?" Neko asked, sitting down on the bed right by Sky.
"Can you tell me a bed time story?"
Neko looked blankly. Her people never babied the children like this before. "Bed time stories" were just stories told to the higher-classes to initiate them to fight harder next time.
"Well?" Sky asked Neko innocently.
Neko shrugged. It was worth a shot after all "Okay... once there was this alien who crashed on earth, not knowing where to go or what to do next. Then there was this little girl, and she helped the alien girl out, and one day the alien had to leave to continue it's journey across the planet."
"But the little girl didn't want the alien to go."
"How'd you know?!" Neko gasped, standing up.
"Don't worry!" She said, sitting up "Your secret's safe with me... Besides, people always tell me true stories at bed time... I just don't tell them that I know." And she smiled brightly.
Neko sat back down next to the little girl, feeling more uncomfortable around her... The first rule, of any rank, when blending in a race, the first instant they find out who you truly are, you must depose of them: as fast as possible... Have no mercy, take no prisoners... But Neko had mercy, and didn't want to take prisoners, but nor did she want to hurt them.
Neko watched the girl lay up next to her and slowly drowse off.
For the first time in her life, Neko felt whole. Peace settled in, and she hated it.
She quickly exited the room, and came to the father's room.
"Thanks for putting her to sleep so fast." He said amazed "Usually she's awake until midnight! It's a shame I was too busy to take her star-watching tonight.... Most likely tomorrow I will."
Neko's hypothesis was that midnight was late on this planet.
Neko nodded "Your welcome." And quickly left the house, and entered the forest feeling really bad about her own saiyan pride.
"How can I live on if I'm this big tender-foot to two species? How am I to do this? I can't stand being so nice! But how did they do this to me? Yes, it's their fault... I must kill them..." But deep down she felt as if she would go to the ends of this planet as to just saving them from any danger.
She made her way threw the forest for many miles until she looked up and spotted billions of tiny dots in the sky.
Neko tried to reach out her hand to hold them because they were so beautiful to her, but she just grasped air.
"They must be miles and miles away," She noted carefully "so..." But then she cut off her own thought with a sharp look-away "No. I am going to be the most fierce saiyan female warrior in the universe! I'm going to show Zarbon who to boss!" And she decided to walk back to Sky's home to check on them.
But when she arrived, a blaze of fire scolded her skin and eyes, and she held her arm over her face and gasped as she saw the house collapse, with sparks flying in every direction, even into Neko's hair.
Neko embraced herself at first. At least her secret was safe... But why did she start running?
Neko covered her hair, and wrapped her arms around her face, and leaped into the house, just as another wall collapsed right by her, causing a big gush of hot air, but not affecting Neko. She was stronger inside then what her looks give away.
She rushed over to Sky's room, but it collapsed. Neko knew deep down that no race with such a low ki could survive that, but she kept digging at the ashes until her fingers began aching, but she insisted on trying.
After a few minutes, she could tell she was either going to save Sky, or die trying, and she knew there was no saving Sky.
Suddenly there was a hand on her shoulder, and she looked behind her to see a boy, around her age.
"You've got to get out of here," He said.
"But Sky!" Neko said, with tears coming to her eyes, then began trying to claw at the ashes.
The boy, amazingly, lifted up Neko into his arms, and leaped outside where a girl was. She has blue hair to her shoulders, and welcoming eyes.
"You almost got yourself killed Goku!" She scolded the boy.
"I'm okay, Bulma." He said, smiling, then dropped Neko to the ground harshly.
"Who's that?" Bulma asked.
"She was in that burning house, trying to dig a hole."
"Dig a hole?"
Neko sat up, with her tail laying along the ground behind her, twitching. It was burned severely, but she wasn't about to admit it.
"She has a tail also?!" Bulma yelped.
"I thought only boys had tails..." Goku said confused "Then she must be a boy!"
"You fool," Neko growled, then got up, and saw Goku had a tail, and she laughed softly "That explains your powers."
Goku's tail began wagging "What are you talking about?"
Neko was suppose to be the first saiyan on Namek, but what was this boy doing here?
"What's your name?" Bulma asked.
Neko looked at the boy. He seemed to be only months younger then Neko herself, and he had an exact resembling image of...
"Kid?" Bulma asked, waving her hand in front of Neko's face, but Neko grabbed her hand, not letting it go, staring at the boy.
Then he must be...
Goku stared at Neko.
"Your Kakkarotto!" Neko said, letting go of Bulma's hand to point at Kakkarotto.
"Kakka-who?" The boy asked, confused.
"But what are you doing on planet Namek?" Neko couldn't find a solution to her problem no matter how much she searched her mind.
"This is planet Earth," Bulma said, almost about to laugh at Neko "You must of taken a wrong turn here or there in space."
"Kakka-who?" Kakkarotto asked.
"How did you forget who you are?" Neko asked softly, then spoke up "Have you ever had poisoned food?"
The boy shook his head "Not that I know of... But I love food."
Neko crossed her arms "Of course: Your saiyan."
"Sai-who?" Bulma asked.
"I must of taken the wrong space pod... and Master Freeza is going to have my head for that!" Neko sat down.
Bulma looked at her friend Goku "Do you understand anything she just talked about?"
Goku shook his head.
"Then again, you don't understand much." Then she looked at Neko "Miss, do you need help?"
She pointed to the pile of ashes "I need a new home."
"We'll help." Goku volunteered "I wouldn't mind sharing my food with someone else."
Neko nodded "I guess." She knew she had to get away from them as soon as possible to continue this journey to get a new space pod, after it burned up in the flames as well.
That night, Bulma and Goku made their beds from leaves, and fell asleep, after much hassle from Bulma from being too uncomfortable.
Neko sat in front of the fire, hugging her knees close to her. How could Kakkarotto of forgotten his past mission? Had he been poisoned? But he was smarter then that, although male saiyans tend to be much more stubborn.
She looked at the fire, not knowing what to do next. Should she abandon these two? Maybe it'll end up just like Sky's family. But what made the house catch fire so quickly?
Neko got to her feet, and looked at the forest wall.
There suddenly, from nowhere, stood a young female. Older then Neko, but only by a few years. She looked a lot like Neko, but a lot different, like the scar over her right eye, and she seemed more thin and wore different clothes.
"Who are you?" Neko asked, with her tail recoiling around her waste protectively.
The girl looked over at Neko "Is Goku here?"
"Oh, the kid?"
She nodded.
"He's sleeping right now. Who are you, and where do you come from?"
"I came to see if Goku is still here... It's been so long..." The girls' eyes began to drift off into the distance behind Neko "If only I never left..."
"What are you talking about?" Neko asked, stepping towards the girl "Are you and old friend?"
She looked blankly "You could say that."
"Well, want me to wake him up?"
The girl began to twist and entwine into the air, then suddenly shaped into a giant red angered dragon, and twisted around Neko before Neko could flinch, then the dragon turned into Sky.
"Sky?!" She gasped.
The little girl held out her hand.
Neko reached for it, and the split second they're fingers touched, the little girl burned up into blue flames.
"SKY!" Neko gasped, then shocked awake, seeing she was still in front of the fire.
Neko had then realized she had become a soft earthling.
She laid down, feeling the heat from the fire pat down onto her body, causing her to come close to breaking a sweat, then slowly drifted off into sleep, being scared of having another nightmare, but never wanting to think that she was actually scared of something.
"You want to become a warrior?" Goku asked surprised "That's cool. I never thought of what I want my job to be... but I love to fight."
"It's in your blood." Neko nodded.
"And my race is a fighting race?"
Neko nodded slowly as they sat down by the banks of a river. Bulma was busy washing her clothes.
"That's cool." He nodded, then turned to Neko "Want to fight?"
"Only amateur saiyans fight for that reason." Neko turned her nose up.
"What happened to you?"
Neko looked at Goku "What do you mean?"
"You were so nice... at first..."
She shrugged "First appearance isn't everything."
He lowered his head "Yea, I guess so... Can you tell me more about saiyans?"
"I think I shouldn't. I'll let you wait for your older brother or dad to pick you up."
"Wow, I have an older brother?"
Neko didn't want to say that she was his sister, yet. He'd catch on, hopefully.
Neko nodded "His name is Raditz. I don't see him, often, because he's usually on a mission out in space..." She paused for a second, noticing she was giving-way feelings, and crossed her arms "Not like I care about him anyway."
Goku leaned back, using Neko's back to prop himself agents "That's sad. Family's should love each other."
Neko shook her head "If only you would listen to your saiyan blood inherence."
"How do I do that?"
"Just..." she looked at the ground, and clawed that the dirt "Follow your instincts."
"How do I do that?"
"You just need to follow what you think is right."
Goku nodded, now understanding where this girl came from "You were forced into fighting your entire life, weren't you?"
She got up, picking him up by his shirt "Look, kid, I've always had the dream to be the first strongest female warrior, even if it kills me. Nobody can force me into it, because I love fighting. No, I adore it. I love to break my bones in combat, and never surrender. I will be the champion of all. Don't you yet understand who I am to you?"
"A bully?" He guessed.
"No, you moron! Your older sister!" And threw him at the ground, and sat back down.
Kakkarotto looked at Neko suspiciously, then sat down in front of her "You may not want to talk to me right now, but I just wanted to tell you that, how ever mean you can be, I think your one of the kindest person I've ever met."
"I better get a moving."
"Why now?"
Neko shrugged "I've got to find a space pod, return home, and get executed."
"Why would someone want to hurt you?"
"Because I accidentally switched space pods in the first place, and ended up here. I'm suppose to be on a place called Namek!"
The boy held her hand "You don't have to go. It was an honest mistake, anyway."
"But, you see, you can't understand what little mistakes turn into. Your too immature."
He glared his eyes "Don't call me immature! I'm perfectly mature... Why would they execute you if you beg for mercy?"
"Because no saiyan begs. Besides it'll be an easy process. I'll arrive home, they'll realize that they lost a warrior to Namek, and find out I switched with that warrior, and they'd be-head me. They do it ruthlessly. I've seen them do it before many times. I had to watch my own grandfather's execution once."
"And you didn't stop it from happening?"
She shook her head "He betrayed all saiyans and befriended a race. That's purely wrong if a saiyan becomes friends with anyone."
"I'm friends with humans."
"And your wrong."
He looked shocked for a second, then he shook his head "Your wrong, we can be friends with this race. I mean, I'm living a perfect life."
"A weak life." And she tied her hair back with a strand of goat skin.
They both got up, and looked down.
"That's a big drop." Goku said.
"Can't you fly yet?"
He shook his head "No... Am I suppose to be able to?"
She crossed her arms "Whatever, kid." She felt inside she was making a mistake for calling a male "kid", at home she would of been punished for it. Her old teacher has left her scars on her arms for discipline.
"Hey, Goku!" Bulma shouted from far-off. She had a basket of clean clothes in her arms.
Goku turned around, and his foot slipped on a mossy rock, and he fell down the cliff.
"AHHH!" He screamed, then silence.
"Goku!" Bulma yelped, dropping the clothes, and coming to the edge "We have to save him!"
"I can fly, just not that fast," Neko nodded, and slowly, but surely, got to the bottom of the cliff where there was a small thin river.
There laid Goku.
"He landed on his head." Neko said, surprised, then gently lifted him into her arms, and returned to the top of the cliff.
"Here," Bulma said, tossing out a pill, then it formed a car "Get in, we'll get him to the hospital.
Neko stared at the contraption, scared. It just came from nothing!
"Get in," Bulma snarled, and Neko obeyed, having no other choice, having her little brother in her arms.
During the ride, Neko looked at Goku's eyes twitch, then opened a little "Your... a good warrior..." And fainted again.
His blood began pouring down Neko's arms as they arrived at the hospital. Neko didn't even notice the blood. Not like she hasn't seen it before.
They rushed him to the emergency room, and after an hour of care to Goku, a nurse walked out.
She nodded "Goku will be okay."
Bulma let out a sigh of relief.
"But, however," She continued "His memory of the past week or so would be gone completely."
Bulma looked at Neko "I guess he wont remember you... You'll have to do all your conversations all over again."
"No need," Neko cut in "I'm leaving now anyway. Don't speak a word of me to Goku ever again, hear me?"
She nodded "Yea, but why?"
"Because." She growled, then left just as Bulma was walking into Goku's room.
"Hey, Goku..." She began to talk to the injured boy.