Chapter 19
"AHHHHHHH!!" Kara screamed as the ship buck violently on the ground. It tumbled over and over throwing all loose objects and most people around. Ranmata and Kara lost their brace holds and Tara and Joey let go of Ranmata the second they felt him fall. The four of them twirled and hit each other over and over as the ship tore through the earth and stuttered to a stop.
When everything had settled and the light flashed on permanently, Ranmata shakily stood up. He lifted a sheet of metal that had been ripped off the side of the ship when he had banged into it. Kara sat up unharmed but looked very much agitated.
"That was NOT fun!" Kara yelled at him. Ranmata just smiled as Tara and Joey struggled from under the emergency blankets. Ranmata quickly grabbed the blankets and Tara stood up unharmed. Joey was even better off.
"Well we're here," Ranmata shrugged. "What more can I do?"
Kara grunted then reached a hand up to scratch her ear. She was amazed when it came back stained with sticky red blood. Ranmata saw her expression and immedently went over to examine her head. There was a small gash on her temple that was oozing blood.
Tara squealed and covered her eyes. Ranmata frowned and grabbed one of the blankets and ripped a piece off.
"This will hold it until we find the Saiyans," Ranmata told her and covered the wound with a small piece of the blanket. He frowned with within a few seconds it was soaked through. Kara quickly sat down on the ground and Ranmata was forced to follow her.
"Just a flesh wound," he comforted Tara. "It will be find." Of course Ranmata had seen dozens of cuts and scraps and such before, he was a scientist. And he knew how hard head wounds bled. But he helped with children or minor wounds so he had never seen such a wound bleed so much. After a few minutes he still couldn't stop the flow and decided that they had to find the Saiyans. Or Kara might bleed to death.
***
All the Saiyans, remaining humans, Nameks and androids turned to one spot in the sky.
"They're here," Bra commented. "What will we do now?"
"Let's at least see if they are our allies or foes," Dende said before they could go shooting off. "It would be a dreadful shame if they were here to help, not to destroy."
"He's right," 18 nodded. "Let's just go see what they want first."
"You come too Dende," Goku told the God of the Earth sternly. "We don't want anything happening to you."
"I'm perfectly aware of that!" Dende protested. "But what about Mr Popo?"
"I'll stay here," Mr Popo popped up from watering his plants. "I will just get in the way anywhere else, don't worry about me."
"But-"
"Come on everyone," Goku grabbed Dende's arm and pulled him in the air. "We have to get going now, if they are an enemy we have to stop them."
Mr Popo watched as they all disappeared down to the Earth's surface. He sighed contentedly and worked on his plants some more.
***
Tranculus looked at his handiwork of the farmhouse when a buzz in his chest became a message.
"Android, stop your destruction and report to the two captive Saiyans and concentrate on taking the other Saiyans."
"No," Tranculus smirked. "I'm having too much fun. In fact, I think I'll let your mindless Saiyan, Prince Vegeta go, just for fun."
"What! Activate your shut down system until the Insect Group reaches you! This is an order from Master Nabukia."
"You wish," Tranculus shut off the transmission permanently. Then, he assessed a program in himself that kept Vegeta under his control. He mentally hit the 'off' button. Then, with a satisfied smile he finally noticed the new ki on the Earth. His mouth dropped open.
"It can't be," Tranculus said amazed. "One of the creators."
***
"This sucks," Trunks sighed. Gohan and Trunks were stuck in their little cave with no food, water, entertainment and the knowledge that Vegeta could kill them if he wanted.
"Would you stop saying that?" Gohan said in his shut-up-you-damn-hybrid-before-I-slowly-rip-your-kidneys-out-with-a-spoon-and-make-you-eat-them.
"But this sucks!" Trunks protested. "Utterly, fully and totally sucks! It sucks like a vacuum, like Goku at dinner, like a bloody black hole! This sucks more then-"
"Trunks," Gohan said in that voice again. "I'M GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE IF YOU DON'T' SHUT FREAKING UP!" Gohan converted to his spoon-what-spoon-I'll-use-my-bare-hands voice.
"Er, I'll go sit over there," Trunks hurriedly. Suddenly a rumble hit the cave and would have knocked over the two demi-Saiyans if they had been standing. Vegeta walked in through the hole that could serve as the only door.
"Brats, what the hell are you doing in here? Hurry up and get out, there's a strange power level nearby and we have to check it out. Kakarot is already going there and I won't let him beat me."
Gohan and Trunks exchanged disbelieving looks.
"What?! Get out here and fly."
***
"Easy," Ranmata helped Kara walk down the ramp of the ship. Ironically, the part of the ship to impact the ground first and be totally destroyed was the medical bay. Kara's head was wrapped in makeshift blankets but they were already soaked through. "Careful, I don't want you falling!"
"What are you my mother?" Kara asked irritably as she leaned heavily on Ranmata. "I'm not an invalid you know!"
"Fine, you can walk by yourself," Ranmata let go of her shoulders and he almost fell to the ground. He quickly caught her though with a knowing smile. "See?"
"Shut up," she mumbled as she reached the end.
"Well, I have to find the Earth Saiyans," Ranmata freed one of his hands and reached for his black bag of gadgets Tara had carried for him. He pulled out a device that looked remarkable like a smaller version of the original Scouter. He lowered Kara slowly to the ground so she could sit and placed the green/grey machine over his right eye.
"What's that?" Kara asked curiously.
"It's based on the original Scouter designed by Freeza but I've added several modifications," Ranmata chuckled a little. "It was too primitive, I spent the first day just trying to understand the old wiring before I could do anything with it."
"Cool," Kara said drowsily. Ranmata quickly grabbed her before she fell over.
"No falling asleep," he ordered sternly. "You have a major concussion and I do NOT want you to slip into a coma. Tara, make sure she stays awake."
"Alright," Tara seated herself beside her older sister happy to have something to do. Ranmata fiddled with a few buttons on the side before it started to beep.
"Good, it stall works," Ranmata smiled. "Hey, those are huge power levels," he frowned. "Hey is that an android? Model 3452AF23. What is it doing here? I sure hope it hasn't caused trouble."
"Hey look," Kara raised an arm to point to a few white lights heading towards them. "It's some light."
"That Saiyans," Ranmata nodded and clicked his Scouter. "This isn't the best place for first contact but.." He looked around at their crash site. Fortunately for them it was mostly away from civilisation but there was a farm house and barn crowded with people not too far away. Ranmata sighed, he would have to take care of that somehow.
He turned as the people landed, close enough to talk but also close enough to run if danger came.
Ranmata chuckled a little. These guys wouldn't need to run from him if they started fighting. His years of studies and building had all but killed the Saiyan strength and battle lust. He had theorised on the Super Saiyan bit, it was probably just reacted when he had seen the image of Kara in trouble. He quickly shook those thoughts from his head, he had to concentrate on now.
Three more powers landed next to the original ones. Ranmata looked at the stone-faced group with surprise. He had expected more. He raised his hands in a friendly gesture.
"Hello! Are you guys the Saiyans?"
"Why?" The tallest black hair one asked suspiciously. Ranmata recalled from his notes that that must be the one called Goku. Possibly, he hadn't been able to study for the last little while and he could quite remember. He reached into his bag and pulled out the disk he kept all the information on the Saiyans. The group in front of him tensed and dropped into battle modes.
Ranmata looked surprised at this. He waved his hands back and forth quickly. "Wait, wait! I'm here to ask for your help. But it seems like you need mine too."
"We don't' need help from a weakling like you!" the one Ranmata defiantly knew as Prince Vegeta sputtered.
"Not power level wise," Ranmata smirked and ignored the defensive looks they were giving him. "But I see you have an android infestation. Model 3452AF23, it's an older model but I can see it's probably causing you trouble."
"How do you know this much about the android?" Vegeta snarled.
"I created the designs for it," Ranmata rechecked his notes and identified the people in front of him.
"You!" Gohan asked his voice mingling with disbelief and anger. "How could you!"
"Well, first of all it was my life on the line," Ranmata looked up to return the glares the fighters were shooting at him. "And second of all I had an evil boss. I didn't know what he was going to do with it."
Ranmata pulled the Scouter away from his eye a little so he could see more then the green screen was showing him. There was the legendary First Super Saiyan, Goku, The Prince Vegeta, the two Nameks Piccolo and Dende, the two androids he had discovered while in a bar with a few drunk explorers, the hybrids Trunks, Bra, Goten, Gohan and Pan and one human he remembered faintly from a bio-scan one of Nabukia's ships had taken a few years ago. The reincarnation of Buu, Ubuu.
"We come in peace," Kara joked on the ground chuckling a little. Ranmata frowned when he saw she was starting to pick at the bandages on her head. He knelt down beside her and adjusted them.
"Stop that, you'll only make it worse," he scolded. That got a reaction from the tough-faced group. "You wouldn't happen to have something to help with bleeding would you?"
Goku reached into a pouch on his belt and slowly flew over to Ranmata as if still trying to decide if he trusted the teen or not. He handed over a green bean.
"This should heal her," Goku told Ranmata. Ranmata took the seed and popped it into Kara's mouth. She chewed once and swallowed. Almost immedently she perked up and pulled the bandage off much to Ranmata's distress.
"Hey!" he looked at where the wound would have been. Instead all there was on her head was a deep red stain. Ranmata breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks Goku," Ranmata shifted the scouter so it covered his eye again.
"How do you know my name?" Goku asked as the rest of the fighters came over to hear an answer.
"You are well-known in space," Ranmata grinned. "I was hoping for your help. May be we'd better try this again," Ranmata straightened and offered a hand to Goku, a standard human gesture Tara had taught him. "Hello, my name is Ranmata of Inter-planet Colony 5647T784A, former Saiyan and ex-scientist to the Warlord Human Nabukia, the Black Shadow and Licensed Ship-boost on several different Galaxies. We can be of assistants to each other. What do you say to that?"
"AHHHHHHH!!" Kara screamed as the ship buck violently on the ground. It tumbled over and over throwing all loose objects and most people around. Ranmata and Kara lost their brace holds and Tara and Joey let go of Ranmata the second they felt him fall. The four of them twirled and hit each other over and over as the ship tore through the earth and stuttered to a stop.
When everything had settled and the light flashed on permanently, Ranmata shakily stood up. He lifted a sheet of metal that had been ripped off the side of the ship when he had banged into it. Kara sat up unharmed but looked very much agitated.
"That was NOT fun!" Kara yelled at him. Ranmata just smiled as Tara and Joey struggled from under the emergency blankets. Ranmata quickly grabbed the blankets and Tara stood up unharmed. Joey was even better off.
"Well we're here," Ranmata shrugged. "What more can I do?"
Kara grunted then reached a hand up to scratch her ear. She was amazed when it came back stained with sticky red blood. Ranmata saw her expression and immedently went over to examine her head. There was a small gash on her temple that was oozing blood.
Tara squealed and covered her eyes. Ranmata frowned and grabbed one of the blankets and ripped a piece off.
"This will hold it until we find the Saiyans," Ranmata told her and covered the wound with a small piece of the blanket. He frowned with within a few seconds it was soaked through. Kara quickly sat down on the ground and Ranmata was forced to follow her.
"Just a flesh wound," he comforted Tara. "It will be find." Of course Ranmata had seen dozens of cuts and scraps and such before, he was a scientist. And he knew how hard head wounds bled. But he helped with children or minor wounds so he had never seen such a wound bleed so much. After a few minutes he still couldn't stop the flow and decided that they had to find the Saiyans. Or Kara might bleed to death.
***
All the Saiyans, remaining humans, Nameks and androids turned to one spot in the sky.
"They're here," Bra commented. "What will we do now?"
"Let's at least see if they are our allies or foes," Dende said before they could go shooting off. "It would be a dreadful shame if they were here to help, not to destroy."
"He's right," 18 nodded. "Let's just go see what they want first."
"You come too Dende," Goku told the God of the Earth sternly. "We don't want anything happening to you."
"I'm perfectly aware of that!" Dende protested. "But what about Mr Popo?"
"I'll stay here," Mr Popo popped up from watering his plants. "I will just get in the way anywhere else, don't worry about me."
"But-"
"Come on everyone," Goku grabbed Dende's arm and pulled him in the air. "We have to get going now, if they are an enemy we have to stop them."
Mr Popo watched as they all disappeared down to the Earth's surface. He sighed contentedly and worked on his plants some more.
***
Tranculus looked at his handiwork of the farmhouse when a buzz in his chest became a message.
"Android, stop your destruction and report to the two captive Saiyans and concentrate on taking the other Saiyans."
"No," Tranculus smirked. "I'm having too much fun. In fact, I think I'll let your mindless Saiyan, Prince Vegeta go, just for fun."
"What! Activate your shut down system until the Insect Group reaches you! This is an order from Master Nabukia."
"You wish," Tranculus shut off the transmission permanently. Then, he assessed a program in himself that kept Vegeta under his control. He mentally hit the 'off' button. Then, with a satisfied smile he finally noticed the new ki on the Earth. His mouth dropped open.
"It can't be," Tranculus said amazed. "One of the creators."
***
"This sucks," Trunks sighed. Gohan and Trunks were stuck in their little cave with no food, water, entertainment and the knowledge that Vegeta could kill them if he wanted.
"Would you stop saying that?" Gohan said in his shut-up-you-damn-hybrid-before-I-slowly-rip-your-kidneys-out-with-a-spoon-and-make-you-eat-them.
"But this sucks!" Trunks protested. "Utterly, fully and totally sucks! It sucks like a vacuum, like Goku at dinner, like a bloody black hole! This sucks more then-"
"Trunks," Gohan said in that voice again. "I'M GOING TO EAT YOU ALIVE IF YOU DON'T' SHUT FREAKING UP!" Gohan converted to his spoon-what-spoon-I'll-use-my-bare-hands voice.
"Er, I'll go sit over there," Trunks hurriedly. Suddenly a rumble hit the cave and would have knocked over the two demi-Saiyans if they had been standing. Vegeta walked in through the hole that could serve as the only door.
"Brats, what the hell are you doing in here? Hurry up and get out, there's a strange power level nearby and we have to check it out. Kakarot is already going there and I won't let him beat me."
Gohan and Trunks exchanged disbelieving looks.
"What?! Get out here and fly."
***
"Easy," Ranmata helped Kara walk down the ramp of the ship. Ironically, the part of the ship to impact the ground first and be totally destroyed was the medical bay. Kara's head was wrapped in makeshift blankets but they were already soaked through. "Careful, I don't want you falling!"
"What are you my mother?" Kara asked irritably as she leaned heavily on Ranmata. "I'm not an invalid you know!"
"Fine, you can walk by yourself," Ranmata let go of her shoulders and he almost fell to the ground. He quickly caught her though with a knowing smile. "See?"
"Shut up," she mumbled as she reached the end.
"Well, I have to find the Earth Saiyans," Ranmata freed one of his hands and reached for his black bag of gadgets Tara had carried for him. He pulled out a device that looked remarkable like a smaller version of the original Scouter. He lowered Kara slowly to the ground so she could sit and placed the green/grey machine over his right eye.
"What's that?" Kara asked curiously.
"It's based on the original Scouter designed by Freeza but I've added several modifications," Ranmata chuckled a little. "It was too primitive, I spent the first day just trying to understand the old wiring before I could do anything with it."
"Cool," Kara said drowsily. Ranmata quickly grabbed her before she fell over.
"No falling asleep," he ordered sternly. "You have a major concussion and I do NOT want you to slip into a coma. Tara, make sure she stays awake."
"Alright," Tara seated herself beside her older sister happy to have something to do. Ranmata fiddled with a few buttons on the side before it started to beep.
"Good, it stall works," Ranmata smiled. "Hey, those are huge power levels," he frowned. "Hey is that an android? Model 3452AF23. What is it doing here? I sure hope it hasn't caused trouble."
"Hey look," Kara raised an arm to point to a few white lights heading towards them. "It's some light."
"That Saiyans," Ranmata nodded and clicked his Scouter. "This isn't the best place for first contact but.." He looked around at their crash site. Fortunately for them it was mostly away from civilisation but there was a farm house and barn crowded with people not too far away. Ranmata sighed, he would have to take care of that somehow.
He turned as the people landed, close enough to talk but also close enough to run if danger came.
Ranmata chuckled a little. These guys wouldn't need to run from him if they started fighting. His years of studies and building had all but killed the Saiyan strength and battle lust. He had theorised on the Super Saiyan bit, it was probably just reacted when he had seen the image of Kara in trouble. He quickly shook those thoughts from his head, he had to concentrate on now.
Three more powers landed next to the original ones. Ranmata looked at the stone-faced group with surprise. He had expected more. He raised his hands in a friendly gesture.
"Hello! Are you guys the Saiyans?"
"Why?" The tallest black hair one asked suspiciously. Ranmata recalled from his notes that that must be the one called Goku. Possibly, he hadn't been able to study for the last little while and he could quite remember. He reached into his bag and pulled out the disk he kept all the information on the Saiyans. The group in front of him tensed and dropped into battle modes.
Ranmata looked surprised at this. He waved his hands back and forth quickly. "Wait, wait! I'm here to ask for your help. But it seems like you need mine too."
"We don't' need help from a weakling like you!" the one Ranmata defiantly knew as Prince Vegeta sputtered.
"Not power level wise," Ranmata smirked and ignored the defensive looks they were giving him. "But I see you have an android infestation. Model 3452AF23, it's an older model but I can see it's probably causing you trouble."
"How do you know this much about the android?" Vegeta snarled.
"I created the designs for it," Ranmata rechecked his notes and identified the people in front of him.
"You!" Gohan asked his voice mingling with disbelief and anger. "How could you!"
"Well, first of all it was my life on the line," Ranmata looked up to return the glares the fighters were shooting at him. "And second of all I had an evil boss. I didn't know what he was going to do with it."
Ranmata pulled the Scouter away from his eye a little so he could see more then the green screen was showing him. There was the legendary First Super Saiyan, Goku, The Prince Vegeta, the two Nameks Piccolo and Dende, the two androids he had discovered while in a bar with a few drunk explorers, the hybrids Trunks, Bra, Goten, Gohan and Pan and one human he remembered faintly from a bio-scan one of Nabukia's ships had taken a few years ago. The reincarnation of Buu, Ubuu.
"We come in peace," Kara joked on the ground chuckling a little. Ranmata frowned when he saw she was starting to pick at the bandages on her head. He knelt down beside her and adjusted them.
"Stop that, you'll only make it worse," he scolded. That got a reaction from the tough-faced group. "You wouldn't happen to have something to help with bleeding would you?"
Goku reached into a pouch on his belt and slowly flew over to Ranmata as if still trying to decide if he trusted the teen or not. He handed over a green bean.
"This should heal her," Goku told Ranmata. Ranmata took the seed and popped it into Kara's mouth. She chewed once and swallowed. Almost immedently she perked up and pulled the bandage off much to Ranmata's distress.
"Hey!" he looked at where the wound would have been. Instead all there was on her head was a deep red stain. Ranmata breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thanks Goku," Ranmata shifted the scouter so it covered his eye again.
"How do you know my name?" Goku asked as the rest of the fighters came over to hear an answer.
"You are well-known in space," Ranmata grinned. "I was hoping for your help. May be we'd better try this again," Ranmata straightened and offered a hand to Goku, a standard human gesture Tara had taught him. "Hello, my name is Ranmata of Inter-planet Colony 5647T784A, former Saiyan and ex-scientist to the Warlord Human Nabukia, the Black Shadow and Licensed Ship-boost on several different Galaxies. We can be of assistants to each other. What do you say to that?"