Child of Radditz
A/N: First off, thank you for all the nice reviews. I realized that I made a mistake on the first chapter in the timeline and have fixed it. What can I say, I'm a ditz. Oh well, I hope you enjoy this chapter. This takes place after Goku fights Frieza, Namek blows up, and he crash-lands on Yadrott...
Chapter 2: Crash-landing
Goku was thrown forward roughly as the spherical ship violently jerked in its path from the exploding Planet Namek. The pod rocked as a piece of debris slammed into it. Several chunks of the dissembling planet had already struck the ship many times. Goku glanced up sharply as all kinds of alarms and lights went off. He had only seconds to escape before Namek exploded and took his ship with it!
"What do I do?!" Goku asked, glancing down at the controls desperately. Many of them had been damaged and were short-circuiting as the ship was being assaulted by the meteor storm of debris. Goku half toppled forward as the ship gave an abrupt jolt.
"Maybe this will kick start the engine," Goku said as he spied a configuration of buttons that were still in good shape. The small pod gave a sudden lurch and began blasting away from the doomed Namek.
"Yes! It worked!" Goku sighed in relief. He glanced down at himself to inspect the injuries he had sustained in his fight with Frieza. He was still in his Super Saiyan mode. There was a large gash on his arm and several cuts and bruises all over his body. Goku felt a sharp pain on his abdominal area and wondered whether it was hunger or another injury.
He had no more time to ponder it because there was suddenly a violent wave of some sort wash over the pod. The impact made the pod move astray in a wild, random path. It took a moment for Goku to realize that Namek had finally blown up and he was feeling the effects of it. The Super Saiyan gripped his arm seats as the pod spun wildly.
Suddenly, some gigantic collided head on into Goku's ship. A violent tremor shook the entire pod and sent Goku slamming his head painfully into one of the metal walls. He was momentarily dazed, struggling to see straight. Through his haze of pain, he heard several small explosions that came from the pod itself. The engines were exploding from the damage whatever had slammed into it inflicted. Warning alarms were blaring nonstop. The explosions were making the ship accelerate at an incredible speed.
The pod was shooting through space at an intense speed. And there was nothing Goku could do to stop it! It traveled farther and farther out into the unknown direction.
"A planet!" Goku exclaimed as he saw that the damaged pod was heading right towards one. He began pressing buttons at random, trying to bring some kind of control over the ship so that his landing wouldn't be fatal. Unfortunately, nothing worked. He was going to crash-land on the alien planet!
The pod penetrated the atmosphere at record speed. It gained speed as it ripped through, flashes of orange and red rushing by as it plummeted. It moved at an unbelievable speed, skidding across a rocky terrain and crashed right into a large rock pillar and was embedded on its side. Goku fell forward and slammed his face into the glass of the pod, shattering it. He felt himself slip out of Super Saiyan mode.
Goku had all of his weight pressed against the door of the pod. The damaged door opened and he was suddenly falling. His vision was a little blurry and he felt something wet dribbling down his cheek from a cut on his temple.
A grunt of pain erupted from his lips as he hit the ground. All the air whooshed out of him. For a few moments, Goku lay there dazed. He was on the verge of loosing consciousness when he felt several weak power levels surrounding him. Boy was he surprised when two large pink heads appeared over him, looking at him with a mix of curiosity and wariness. They emitted soft crooning sounds as they gazed down at him.
Goku's mind was too foggy to comprehend what was going on. He grinned stupidly as a strange explanation surfaced in his fuzzy thoughts. Obviously, these were clowns!
"Heh heh...It's my lucky day...I didn't know the circus was in town..." Goku uttered as his world slipped into darkness.
Eno let out a breath of air as he, Owt, and Eerht lowered the long, heavy slab of rock down on the ground. Even with three of them, it took hard work. He wiped the sweat on his forehead with his wrist. The sun was unforgiving as it blared down on them.
"There we go. This should give us a head start on tomorrow's work," Owt said enthusiastically.
"Unless she rebuilds the entire place herself first," Eerht remarked dryly, looking past Eno. Eno turned a bit to find what would usually be a strange scene but one which had become common to the Yadrottojins in the past few years.
Seven-year-old Mikan was effortlessly carrying a pair of the slabs over her head with both arms. She easily walked over to the intended spot and placed both of the pieces of stone on the ground. Then she busied herself with rearranging them so that they stood up as walls.
"Does she even need our help?" Owt asked, scratching the back of his head.
"Does it look like she needs help?" Eerht quipped.
Eno just smiled. The years had gone by fast since Mikan had arrived on Yadrott. Many things had changed, some for the better and some for the worst. Either way, Eno had gotten the adventure he had been praying for. Raising little Mikan, even though everyone had helped, was quite a trip.
It had been only a suspicion that Mikan was a Saiyan at first. After watching the contents of the cube, it had been confirmed. Much debate had been made on whether it was really safe to keep a Saiyan child in the village, but in the end, Eno prevailed and Mikan stayed in his care.
Fatherhood had been difficult at first. Especially since he didn't know how to handle a Saiyan child. When Eno discovered that Mikan had a tail, he had wondered what its purpose was. He found out one night when the moon was full and bright. Chaos divulged everyone when Mikan transformed into a giant hairy creature with catastrophic power. In fact, it was Mikan in this beastly form that had created the lakes near the village. It'd taken a few times, but Eno and the other warriors eventually learned that the tail had caused these changes and it was severed.
From there, Mikan had grown up to a sweet but headstrong child. Eno and the other warriors trained her constantly. The only problem was that she had kept hurting them unwittingly with her strength.
Then-when Mikan was only four-the pirates began their raids on Yadrott. The space pirates had immense power and easily dominated Eno and the other warriors. They still raided Yadrott randomly, blowing up whatever they pleased, taking a sadistic pleasure out of the Yadrottojins' fear, and stealing what food they had. Yadrott was no longer a care free, peaceful place it had once been. Eno had been relieved that despite these drastic changes for the worst, the Yadrottojins managed to live on. Even if the pirates still randomly dropped in and spread more terror.
"Mikan!" Eno called out to the little girl.
Mikan grinned proudly at her handy work and then flew over towards them. A bright smile was plastered on her little face as she landed next to him. "Look Eno! The village is almost like it used to be."
Eno smiled. "Little one, you mustn't work so hard. Save some for tomorrow, there will be plenty of time to finish."
"But don't you want the village to be back to like it used to be?" Mikan tilted her head and blinked, the small ponytail holding all of her hair to the right side of her head bobbing. He large blue-green eyes looked at him with a mixture of innocence and curiosity.
"Of course I do! But not the expense of my favorite little warrior," Eno cooed and tousled her hair affectionately.
Mikan giggled and launched herself at him, wrapping her arms around his leg tightly. Eno sucked in a sharp breath as he felt the bone in his leg break. His eyes widened as he fought the urge to scream hysterically in pain. The muted sound of cracking could be heard in Mikan's ear and she realized what she had done...again.
"OH MY GOSH! I'm so sorry Eno!" Mikan cried, jumping back and covering her mouth with her hands.
Eno forced a smile through his pain. After all, this hadn't been the first time it had happened. "Don'...worry...not...bad..."
"A-Are you sure?" Mikan asked.
"Yes...go play...I-I'll go...see Nayc," Eno assured her even though he was in agony. "Go play..."
"Okay," Mikan looked at him a final time and then ran off obediently.
As soon as she was gone, Eno gasped and struggled to stay upright. He brought two fingers up to his forehead and imagined the medic ward, a place that had become quite busy ever since Mikan arrived. He concentrated, felt himself dematerialize, and then reappear in the warm little building before collapsing onto the floor.
"Eno!" the healer Nayc shrieked in surprise and ran up to him to help him up. One look at his injury brought an amused look to her face. "Mikan?"
He nodded and winced as another jolt of pain came from his leg. Nayc chuckled. "It looks like whoever said parenthood wasn't easy was more correct than they'll ever know."
"Ha ha, very...funny," Eno puffed as she left him at a chair and went to fetch her medical supplies.
"I've never seen someone in the healer's ward as much as you, Eno. That little Mikan of yours must really be strong," Nayc commented as she gently began moving his leg and testing to see how hurt he was.
Then she put both of her hands on the spot that the bone had been damaged and closed her eyes, concentrating. A white ball of light appeared in her hands and then absorbed mysteriously into the injury. Almost immediately, the pain disappeared and Eno felt as good as new.
"Ahh, wonderful. You'll have to teach me that trick someday-" Eno was cut off when there was a sudden rumbling sound and then a slight tremor in the ground. A loud echo of a something crash-landing could be heard.
"W-what was that?!" Nayc cried, clutching at a table in shock.
"I'll go find out," Eno rushed outside to see that other warriors were doing the same. Eerht saw him and jogged up to him.
"Do you think it was a pirate?" Eerht asked, frowning at the west where the sounds had been heard from. They couldn't handle another raid, not this soon!
"Let's hope not. Gather the forces, we'll head out there as soon as possible," Eno ordered. Eerht immediately moved to comply.
Eno made his way over towards the crash site. Right behind him were flocks of the other warriors in the village, all nervous but willing to fight if need be. Eno scanned the distance and was surprised to find no giant crater like they had when Mikan's pod had landed.
He scanned the dusty landscape carefully. Nothing looked out of the ordinary. It was as it had always been, desolate and empty. Then he spotted something irregular lying limp on the ground.
"Be alert! I see something!" Eno called. Gathering as much courage as he could muster, he lead the warriors towards the figure. He felt an enormous source of power emanating from the prone body, but the life force was weak and barely traceable.
It turned out to be a humanoid, of Mikan's kind. Male, obviously. Tattered garments of purple and orange covered half of his muscular body. Scratches and bruised quite literally littered the light skin and some were still bleeding. Unruly black hair jetted out from the top of his head. His eyes were half-open and he was groggily looking at nothing in particular.
Eno's curiosity got the better of his judgement and he stepped forward to examine the stranger. Owt and Eerht were right beside him. They crowded around him and peered down at him, fascinated at the man. He uttered something about a circus being in town? Then his eyes closed and he went still except for the occasional rise and fall of his chest.
"What's a circus?" Owt asked, frowning.
"Maybe it's some type of food," Redneval offered.
"Wow, he's like me!" a familiar voice suddenly remarked. Eno turned to find Mikan standing quietly near them, staring down at the body intently.
"Mikan! What are you doing out here? It could be dangerous!" Eno scolded.
Mikan looked up as if surprised. "I-I felt as if I belonged out here."
Before Eno could say anything else, there was a sudden blast of light and an ear-splitting explosion near by. A violent tremor coursed through the ground and sent many of the Yadrottojins including Eno sprawling. Several other explosions began coming out of no where and Eno saw what was the cause of them in the sky. Cries of mutual fear went up around him at the all too familiar attack: the space pirates.
"WE HAVE TO GET BACK AND PROTECT THE VILLAGE!" Eno screamed at his warriors. Most didn't hear him as they sprinted in a flurry of panic as the blasts of energy rained down on them.
He felt a burst of power and glanced over to find Mikan powering up and grabbing onto the unconscious being's bloody and bruised arm. She looked up, desperation in her large eyes. "Eno!"
"Go back to the village!"
"What?! No! You need help-"
"JUST DO IT, NOW!!!"
Mikan hesitated for a second, flinching as another explosion rained pelts of dirt onto her. She clung onto the large humanoid with one arm and put two ringers in front of her face, using the teleporting move Eno had taught her. As soon as she and the stranger disappeared from sight, Eno jumped back to avoid a blast of hot green light.
Then the area around him suddenly became darker. Fear instantly rooted in Eno. He looked up and felt his eyes widen in shock.
A/N: I hoped you liked it. Read and Review!
A/N: First off, thank you for all the nice reviews. I realized that I made a mistake on the first chapter in the timeline and have fixed it. What can I say, I'm a ditz. Oh well, I hope you enjoy this chapter. This takes place after Goku fights Frieza, Namek blows up, and he crash-lands on Yadrott...
Chapter 2: Crash-landing
Goku was thrown forward roughly as the spherical ship violently jerked in its path from the exploding Planet Namek. The pod rocked as a piece of debris slammed into it. Several chunks of the dissembling planet had already struck the ship many times. Goku glanced up sharply as all kinds of alarms and lights went off. He had only seconds to escape before Namek exploded and took his ship with it!
"What do I do?!" Goku asked, glancing down at the controls desperately. Many of them had been damaged and were short-circuiting as the ship was being assaulted by the meteor storm of debris. Goku half toppled forward as the ship gave an abrupt jolt.
"Maybe this will kick start the engine," Goku said as he spied a configuration of buttons that were still in good shape. The small pod gave a sudden lurch and began blasting away from the doomed Namek.
"Yes! It worked!" Goku sighed in relief. He glanced down at himself to inspect the injuries he had sustained in his fight with Frieza. He was still in his Super Saiyan mode. There was a large gash on his arm and several cuts and bruises all over his body. Goku felt a sharp pain on his abdominal area and wondered whether it was hunger or another injury.
He had no more time to ponder it because there was suddenly a violent wave of some sort wash over the pod. The impact made the pod move astray in a wild, random path. It took a moment for Goku to realize that Namek had finally blown up and he was feeling the effects of it. The Super Saiyan gripped his arm seats as the pod spun wildly.
Suddenly, some gigantic collided head on into Goku's ship. A violent tremor shook the entire pod and sent Goku slamming his head painfully into one of the metal walls. He was momentarily dazed, struggling to see straight. Through his haze of pain, he heard several small explosions that came from the pod itself. The engines were exploding from the damage whatever had slammed into it inflicted. Warning alarms were blaring nonstop. The explosions were making the ship accelerate at an incredible speed.
The pod was shooting through space at an intense speed. And there was nothing Goku could do to stop it! It traveled farther and farther out into the unknown direction.
"A planet!" Goku exclaimed as he saw that the damaged pod was heading right towards one. He began pressing buttons at random, trying to bring some kind of control over the ship so that his landing wouldn't be fatal. Unfortunately, nothing worked. He was going to crash-land on the alien planet!
The pod penetrated the atmosphere at record speed. It gained speed as it ripped through, flashes of orange and red rushing by as it plummeted. It moved at an unbelievable speed, skidding across a rocky terrain and crashed right into a large rock pillar and was embedded on its side. Goku fell forward and slammed his face into the glass of the pod, shattering it. He felt himself slip out of Super Saiyan mode.
Goku had all of his weight pressed against the door of the pod. The damaged door opened and he was suddenly falling. His vision was a little blurry and he felt something wet dribbling down his cheek from a cut on his temple.
A grunt of pain erupted from his lips as he hit the ground. All the air whooshed out of him. For a few moments, Goku lay there dazed. He was on the verge of loosing consciousness when he felt several weak power levels surrounding him. Boy was he surprised when two large pink heads appeared over him, looking at him with a mix of curiosity and wariness. They emitted soft crooning sounds as they gazed down at him.
Goku's mind was too foggy to comprehend what was going on. He grinned stupidly as a strange explanation surfaced in his fuzzy thoughts. Obviously, these were clowns!
"Heh heh...It's my lucky day...I didn't know the circus was in town..." Goku uttered as his world slipped into darkness.
Eno let out a breath of air as he, Owt, and Eerht lowered the long, heavy slab of rock down on the ground. Even with three of them, it took hard work. He wiped the sweat on his forehead with his wrist. The sun was unforgiving as it blared down on them.
"There we go. This should give us a head start on tomorrow's work," Owt said enthusiastically.
"Unless she rebuilds the entire place herself first," Eerht remarked dryly, looking past Eno. Eno turned a bit to find what would usually be a strange scene but one which had become common to the Yadrottojins in the past few years.
Seven-year-old Mikan was effortlessly carrying a pair of the slabs over her head with both arms. She easily walked over to the intended spot and placed both of the pieces of stone on the ground. Then she busied herself with rearranging them so that they stood up as walls.
"Does she even need our help?" Owt asked, scratching the back of his head.
"Does it look like she needs help?" Eerht quipped.
Eno just smiled. The years had gone by fast since Mikan had arrived on Yadrott. Many things had changed, some for the better and some for the worst. Either way, Eno had gotten the adventure he had been praying for. Raising little Mikan, even though everyone had helped, was quite a trip.
It had been only a suspicion that Mikan was a Saiyan at first. After watching the contents of the cube, it had been confirmed. Much debate had been made on whether it was really safe to keep a Saiyan child in the village, but in the end, Eno prevailed and Mikan stayed in his care.
Fatherhood had been difficult at first. Especially since he didn't know how to handle a Saiyan child. When Eno discovered that Mikan had a tail, he had wondered what its purpose was. He found out one night when the moon was full and bright. Chaos divulged everyone when Mikan transformed into a giant hairy creature with catastrophic power. In fact, it was Mikan in this beastly form that had created the lakes near the village. It'd taken a few times, but Eno and the other warriors eventually learned that the tail had caused these changes and it was severed.
From there, Mikan had grown up to a sweet but headstrong child. Eno and the other warriors trained her constantly. The only problem was that she had kept hurting them unwittingly with her strength.
Then-when Mikan was only four-the pirates began their raids on Yadrott. The space pirates had immense power and easily dominated Eno and the other warriors. They still raided Yadrott randomly, blowing up whatever they pleased, taking a sadistic pleasure out of the Yadrottojins' fear, and stealing what food they had. Yadrott was no longer a care free, peaceful place it had once been. Eno had been relieved that despite these drastic changes for the worst, the Yadrottojins managed to live on. Even if the pirates still randomly dropped in and spread more terror.
"Mikan!" Eno called out to the little girl.
Mikan grinned proudly at her handy work and then flew over towards them. A bright smile was plastered on her little face as she landed next to him. "Look Eno! The village is almost like it used to be."
Eno smiled. "Little one, you mustn't work so hard. Save some for tomorrow, there will be plenty of time to finish."
"But don't you want the village to be back to like it used to be?" Mikan tilted her head and blinked, the small ponytail holding all of her hair to the right side of her head bobbing. He large blue-green eyes looked at him with a mixture of innocence and curiosity.
"Of course I do! But not the expense of my favorite little warrior," Eno cooed and tousled her hair affectionately.
Mikan giggled and launched herself at him, wrapping her arms around his leg tightly. Eno sucked in a sharp breath as he felt the bone in his leg break. His eyes widened as he fought the urge to scream hysterically in pain. The muted sound of cracking could be heard in Mikan's ear and she realized what she had done...again.
"OH MY GOSH! I'm so sorry Eno!" Mikan cried, jumping back and covering her mouth with her hands.
Eno forced a smile through his pain. After all, this hadn't been the first time it had happened. "Don'...worry...not...bad..."
"A-Are you sure?" Mikan asked.
"Yes...go play...I-I'll go...see Nayc," Eno assured her even though he was in agony. "Go play..."
"Okay," Mikan looked at him a final time and then ran off obediently.
As soon as she was gone, Eno gasped and struggled to stay upright. He brought two fingers up to his forehead and imagined the medic ward, a place that had become quite busy ever since Mikan arrived. He concentrated, felt himself dematerialize, and then reappear in the warm little building before collapsing onto the floor.
"Eno!" the healer Nayc shrieked in surprise and ran up to him to help him up. One look at his injury brought an amused look to her face. "Mikan?"
He nodded and winced as another jolt of pain came from his leg. Nayc chuckled. "It looks like whoever said parenthood wasn't easy was more correct than they'll ever know."
"Ha ha, very...funny," Eno puffed as she left him at a chair and went to fetch her medical supplies.
"I've never seen someone in the healer's ward as much as you, Eno. That little Mikan of yours must really be strong," Nayc commented as she gently began moving his leg and testing to see how hurt he was.
Then she put both of her hands on the spot that the bone had been damaged and closed her eyes, concentrating. A white ball of light appeared in her hands and then absorbed mysteriously into the injury. Almost immediately, the pain disappeared and Eno felt as good as new.
"Ahh, wonderful. You'll have to teach me that trick someday-" Eno was cut off when there was a sudden rumbling sound and then a slight tremor in the ground. A loud echo of a something crash-landing could be heard.
"W-what was that?!" Nayc cried, clutching at a table in shock.
"I'll go find out," Eno rushed outside to see that other warriors were doing the same. Eerht saw him and jogged up to him.
"Do you think it was a pirate?" Eerht asked, frowning at the west where the sounds had been heard from. They couldn't handle another raid, not this soon!
"Let's hope not. Gather the forces, we'll head out there as soon as possible," Eno ordered. Eerht immediately moved to comply.
Eno made his way over towards the crash site. Right behind him were flocks of the other warriors in the village, all nervous but willing to fight if need be. Eno scanned the distance and was surprised to find no giant crater like they had when Mikan's pod had landed.
He scanned the dusty landscape carefully. Nothing looked out of the ordinary. It was as it had always been, desolate and empty. Then he spotted something irregular lying limp on the ground.
"Be alert! I see something!" Eno called. Gathering as much courage as he could muster, he lead the warriors towards the figure. He felt an enormous source of power emanating from the prone body, but the life force was weak and barely traceable.
It turned out to be a humanoid, of Mikan's kind. Male, obviously. Tattered garments of purple and orange covered half of his muscular body. Scratches and bruised quite literally littered the light skin and some were still bleeding. Unruly black hair jetted out from the top of his head. His eyes were half-open and he was groggily looking at nothing in particular.
Eno's curiosity got the better of his judgement and he stepped forward to examine the stranger. Owt and Eerht were right beside him. They crowded around him and peered down at him, fascinated at the man. He uttered something about a circus being in town? Then his eyes closed and he went still except for the occasional rise and fall of his chest.
"What's a circus?" Owt asked, frowning.
"Maybe it's some type of food," Redneval offered.
"Wow, he's like me!" a familiar voice suddenly remarked. Eno turned to find Mikan standing quietly near them, staring down at the body intently.
"Mikan! What are you doing out here? It could be dangerous!" Eno scolded.
Mikan looked up as if surprised. "I-I felt as if I belonged out here."
Before Eno could say anything else, there was a sudden blast of light and an ear-splitting explosion near by. A violent tremor coursed through the ground and sent many of the Yadrottojins including Eno sprawling. Several other explosions began coming out of no where and Eno saw what was the cause of them in the sky. Cries of mutual fear went up around him at the all too familiar attack: the space pirates.
"WE HAVE TO GET BACK AND PROTECT THE VILLAGE!" Eno screamed at his warriors. Most didn't hear him as they sprinted in a flurry of panic as the blasts of energy rained down on them.
He felt a burst of power and glanced over to find Mikan powering up and grabbing onto the unconscious being's bloody and bruised arm. She looked up, desperation in her large eyes. "Eno!"
"Go back to the village!"
"What?! No! You need help-"
"JUST DO IT, NOW!!!"
Mikan hesitated for a second, flinching as another explosion rained pelts of dirt onto her. She clung onto the large humanoid with one arm and put two ringers in front of her face, using the teleporting move Eno had taught her. As soon as she and the stranger disappeared from sight, Eno jumped back to avoid a blast of hot green light.
Then the area around him suddenly became darker. Fear instantly rooted in Eno. He looked up and felt his eyes widen in shock.
A/N: I hoped you liked it. Read and Review!
