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Chapter 3: Foolish words
They landed on her island unsure of how to approach her. Balla looked up from cooking. There was a strong discipline to her features and in her rigid posture. She could feel her hart hammering away in her chest as they approached. Piccolo glaring at her had been bad but at least she could keep her back to him now she was surrounded. "Dew rep martu thakisy te able miter mi." She said trying to stop shaking.
"She says we are welcomed to eat with her" Piccolo said narrowing his eyes at her. She flinched at his voice without even realizing it.
Bulma smiled and tried to calm the little girl. Her eyes were still darting wildly when Bulma bent down and spoke to her. "Here take it. It's a translator, it will allow us to understand you." Balla blinked at her not able to understand the heavily accented gibberish. Bulma tried to pantomime what she wanted and only gained more curious looks from Balla. Bulma finality put the translator on her self and turned it on. She tried to say hello to Balla when the translator stared to screech. Balla backed away covering her ears trying to escape the sound. Bulma readjusted the output and tried to speak to her. Balla wouldn't listen to her and kept backing up until she ran in to Piccolo. He stared at her and she froze in her tracks and allowed Bulma to place the translator on her and turn it on. "Go on try it out." Bulma smiled at her.
Balla looked shocked the words were still heavily accented but they made sense. "You can speak like me?"
"No." Bulma said "That thing on your ear is translating what I say so it makes sense to you."
"Th-Thank you lady blue hair." Bulma smiled at Balla's unique way of addressing her. Balla's eyes went wide. She had never heard her own voice sound so strange. The tones were gentle, high and light not at all like her sometimes deep and ruff namcken and the accent was very odd. Balla laughed it was a, hi tinkling sound. She caught her self mid laugh and frowned clutching her ears. "Come eat I cooked it my self." She could hardly believe she was the one speaking.
The fish was the size of a small whale and no one could identify it. Chi-Chi was amazed maybe all the food she brought wasn't necessary, but at least the paper plates, napkins and silverware were. Everyone sat down around the fire. Balla put a small slab of fish on each plate, bowed to them and said eat in peace. She stepped back with out taking any for herself and stood stiffly with her hands clasped behind her back. No one moved for a minute trying to understand what she was waiting for. Goku's stomach growled impatiently. He examined the food on his plate deciding whether to ask for more or not. He downed it in one gulp and smiled. "Do you wish to have any more Goku?" She stepped up to him taking his plate in slightly shaky hands. Please, Please let him be happy. Please let him just go away. She thought swaying nervously.
"No thanks that filled me right up." Balla exhaled the breath she didn't know she was holding and went back to her space out side the ring of people. It was incredibly strange to see Goku turn down food. Especially when it was one of his favorites. Everyone wondered what could be so bad that Goku's iron stomach couldn't handle it. Chi-Chi took a tiny taste and discovered apart from being slightly burnt, salty and a bit bitter it was tasty and very filling. She decided to get another bite and her elbow hit her water glass knocking it off it's perch. Balla ran like lighting caught it with her brown saya-jin tail. Balla handed the glass back to her.
Chi-Chi poked at her tail and Balla frowned at her. "Where did you get that?" Chi-Chi asked.
"I was born with it." Balla said trying to figure out what she was going to do next.
"So you're a Saya-jin?" Chi-Chi said not really believing it.
"My father was. How do you know of the Saya-jin?" Balla was shocked first a nameck and now this woman knew of her father's people. "What kind of people are these?" She frowned it seemed like the situation was going from bad to worse.
"My husband is one" Balla examined Goku from head to toe. Goku didn't seem to mind it. He stood and turned around giving her a better look. She looked at him sideways trying to see any thing she may have missed. "Is that woman trying to make a fool out of me? That man is no more sayen than the blue haired woman is." She thought.
"You can't be. A real Saya-jin would never dishonor himself by hiding his tail." Balla blurted out forgetting her manners. She clasped a hand to her mouth and stepped back. "He is going to kill me now for sure. At least my family will be waiting for me." She stood waiting for him to strike her for the insult.
"I am one. I am not hiding my tail. It was removed when I was just a child." He said it like it was nothing. That made Balla frightened again. What kind of man could speak of that crime so lightly?
"I hope you had your revenge." She said with a look shock and repulsion. Balla touched her own tail, which was brisling.
"How did you cook that fish?" Chi-Chi tried to take Balla's mind off of tails.
"I pulled it from the water, cleaned it, rubbed bean paste in to it and cooked it. My grandfather taught me to how cook." She said with a hint of pride in her voice.
"What kind of beans were they?"
"Ajisa brought from my home."
"I don't think I have ever herd of those. Could you show me them?" Balla nodded and went to the far side of the little island. She returned with a threadbare sack that seemed to be made of a decaying fabric patched with unfamiliar plant fibers. She opened the small bag and showed Chi-Chi the slightly wrinkled brown beans.
"This is almost a full crop. The bushes don't give as much as they used to. They don't like the cold"
Chi-Chi held a bean up. "These are senzu beans. Where did they come from?"
"Nowhere until my ship crashed." Everyone stopped talking and listened to hear if she would say any more. Balla stared in to the core of the fire, willing her emotions to stop and the tears waiting in her eyes to evaporate. It was stupid to cry about something that you couldn't change. Besides it was none of their business anyway.
"Are there any other Saya-jin are left?" She asked trying to draw attention away from her self.
"My husband Goku our sons Gohan and Goten. There is Bulma's husband Vegeta and their son trunks"
"The Prince here?" She muttered to herself.
"Yes, But he flew off some where. Did you know him?" Chi-Chi answered looking curiously at Balla. Her rage grew and clouded her fear. Balla ripped off the translator and let it drop to the ground. She blasted up in the sky not caring what happened to her when she landed. Gohan was curious got up to fallow her but Goku laid a hand on his shoulder and stopped him.
"This is between her and Vegeta." Goku had recognized the fire that had sprung up in Balla. A low rumble started in the sky as ki crackled around her. The rumble died down and deep guttural scream replaced it. Balla was cursing Vegeta's name with every namecken and Saya-jin cuss word she knew. She was calling him out. Gohan looked up at and her wondered what she was trying to accomplish. Balla landed the rage had burned off a little and she had just realized that he was going to die very painfully. She felt a power flare up suddenly in the west he had herd her and was coming. Balla had to get herself out of there quick. The sun was going down and soon the cold would get her then she would be a sitting duck. She started to run as fast as she could ignoring the chorus of angry and confused voices around the fire only looking back after she was on the next island to her horror she saw Piccolo behind her caching up fast.
Balla ran as fast as she could but Piccolo was faster and caught her like she was standing still. "What are you? How do you know Vegeta?"
"Let me go. He is coming." When he didn't respond Balla swallowed her pride and pleaded with him. "It doesn't matter. Let me go night is coming and he will catch me then."
"You are going to tell me what is going on if we have to stand here all night."
If she didn't tell him what happened quick Vegeta would find her. "It is a vary long tale. Is your ship strong and warm?"
"It is but why should I take you there?"
"The nights here are bad the whole world is coved in ice and the cold eats away at things." She was scanning the sky looking for impending death.
"Our ship is damaged that is why we had to land here. I don't know if it is repaired yet. How do I know you aren't making this up and have some of your friends waiting to ambush us?"
"I am the only one here my parents are dead Vegeta killed them. I have to get out of here. Take me to your ship."
That explains the shouting and the running. He thought releasing her "It is not my ship it is Bulma's ask her." Balla ran back to the fire the sun was setting she didn't have much time. She ran back to Bulma's side and put the translator back on.
"Lady Bulma may I please get on your ship. Piccolo wants me to talk to him and the sun is going down it will be cold soon." And I am afraid your man is going to kill me she added silently.
"The part of the electrical system is broken. I don't know if the heat will work."
"I can give you all the energy you will need for tonight. Please let me get on board your ship. It is going to get very cold soon and every thing will ice over." Balla fell to her knees pleading with Bulma.
Bulma thought Balla had to be exaggerating. "How have you survived here?"
"I have lived here for a long time. I am stronger than the cold. Will you take me to your ship?" She begged her shaking fingers brushing Bulma's leg.
Bulma shook her head the child was almost hysterical. It was better to just let her come with them and hopefully she would calm down some. "Do you have any thing you need to bring?"
"This is all I have." She held her sack like it was a sacred relic. Bulma couldn't help but think how pitiful that was. She was really starting to wonder what had happened to the child to leave her in this state. Krillin looked over at Balla, He had never see a more scared and skittish person in his life it was rather sad. He decided to try to make her calm down a bit. Balla felt his eyes on her back. She turned around to see him making fish lips and crossing his eyes. She watched him confused and mimicked the expression hoping it was some kind of greeting. Goku watched and started to laugh. Chi-Chi sighed smiling Goku was just like another kid sometimes. Vegeta watched the whole thing perched on the edge of the island. He was mildly surprised to see the girl kneeling near his wife. He knew as soon as he saw her that she had to be the one yelling from earlier. "Stupid Kakkarott, why do you hang around with these morons? What are you going to do with that trouble-making bastard? She shakes with fear, as she should. I should have sent her to hell with her traitorous father. Stupid thing I don't except changes from the weak. " Balla felt his eyes on her. She stared straight ahead with cold focused eyes. She glared at him with all the anger she had inside of her. She wanted to speak but it was taking all her willpower not to run from his sight. Balla knew his power and was afraid. She imagined how horribly he was going to kill her where she stood. She shivered as his eyes continued to drill in to her. Balla desperately wanted to run away and find some place to hide. She turned to leave only to see Piccolo watching her out of the corner of his eye. She was trapped and there was nothing she could do about it. These people were so much stronger than she was. Trunks and Goten almost ran her over. They could have cared less what was happing around them. They were off on there own little world. The last of the food was put away and every one prepared to go. Bulma was worried about how the little girl was going to power the ship. Vegeta walked over to take Bulma back. He smiled when Balla cringed and tried to hide her face as they past. Balla let out a sigh relieved and confused. Why didn't he kill me? I offended him and he let me live. Does he have something else planed for me?
Balla picked up the bag of senzu beans. She was defiantly going to need them tonight. Balla waited for a few minutes before powering up to fly. Goku watched her wondering why she was so afraid. She blasted off like a rocket leaving a muted yellow tail of ki. Balla knew she should conserve energy but her fear of Vegeta had made her embarrassed and angry. Now all she wanted to do was run from this place and leave them all for the cold. The night was going to be long and hard and she wasn't going to get any rest. If she didn't focus she could end up dead and if she survived Vegeta might kill her as soon as her power was no longer needed. Either way she was probably never going to see the light of day again.
The ship was the largest ship she had ever seen. Her mouth hung open it was hard to believe that something that big could even move on it's own. Balla started to regret ever seeing those strange people. Bulma was waiting for her just inside the hatch. Balla pushed her doubts aside and put on a brave mask. "Where is the engine?"
"Follow me." They walked along through the cool hallways in silence until Balla felt brave enough to ask a question.
"How did Goku's lady know about the Nameck's sacred plant?"
The question stopped Bulma cold. She answered the best way she knew how. "A friend of ours grows them on a planet far from here. Why do you speak nameck-go and know so much about them?"
"My Grandfather was a Namek-jin." This really confused Bulma. There was no way this child could have known all the nameck-go she knew if that wasn't true but there was no way she could be related to a nameck. It was physically imposable. Bulma guessed that perhaps one had adopted this child before she ended up here.
"Here it is." The room was small by their standards with white rounded walls. There were control panels and consoles jutting out from the walls. The air smelled faintly of burnt plastic and electricity. Most of the consoles were far larger than Balla herself and they made her feel rather nervous.
"Do you have lines that take power in to the ship?" She said trying to forget how large the room was. Do I even have enough power to run this huge place?
"You mean wires to the ship's electrical system?" Bulma handed her the lines and was rather curious to see what the girl did with them.
Balla grabbed the wires surprised that they were almost as thick as her fingers. "I need to hold the ends and have silence while I find my way." She took one in each hand and let power wash over them. The pail yellow glow grew and covered each piece of equipment as she entered the system. Every one was standing in the doorway watching except for Vegeta who Balla happily noticed was missing. Balla's eyes glazed over as she felt her way through the power system. It was far larger than she expected and she got lost in the complex interconnections. It was far harder to move about in than her pod the very system seemed to be trying to purge her from it. Balla was franticly trying to find her way out when she felt the skin on the back of her neck twitch. She calmed her self and retraced her steps finally finding the way out. "Bulma, could you plug these in. I can't see the ports."
She handed Bulma the lines and lifted her braid up. "Plug them in where?" Bulma said not knowing where to look.
"In the back of my neck." Balla said pointing near the wounds that had appeared just below the hairline.
Bulma's eyes widened she had never heard of any one doing that before. "You are going to be the battery?"
"Yes." Bulma shook her head and inserted the wires in to her neck. Balla set Burma's translator on the ground. Bulma stepped back as Balla started to power up. A ball of crackling yellow white ki surrounded her and fed in to the ship. The ball faded away in to the generator. They could all feel the vibrations of the ship coming to life around them. She could feel a searing pain as the power left her it felt like the ship was trying to swallow her whole. Balla teetered back and forth almost falling but she managed put some senzu in her mouth and start chewing. She closed her eyes and thought. "I am so weak. The eldest child could kill me without much effort. How am I ever going to get my revenge?" Bulma handed her the translator and Balla turned it on herself. "I will probably have to do that every three hours."
"Are you all right?" Chi-Chi was very upset by the entire thing. She had never seen someone eat more than one senzu at a time. The girls clothing was smoking a little and it looked like she was tired.
"I will be fine, no worries Goku's lady."
"Call me Chi-Chi." She smiled warmly at Balla. Balla looked up at her realizing that she was the only person that she had met today that didn't set her on edge.
"How did you do that?" Gohan's mouth was still open slightly.
"My grandmother taught me. I used it to power my pod."
Goten and Trunks looked at her. Trunks whispered something in to Goten's ear and they both started to laugh. Balla glared at them. "Strange boys I don't know why they think I am a bunny. What ever that is."
Piccolo looked at her and spoke in nameck-go. "You still have a questions to answer." Balla looked at the floor she wished that he had left with Vegeta.
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Chapter 3: Foolish words
They landed on her island unsure of how to approach her. Balla looked up from cooking. There was a strong discipline to her features and in her rigid posture. She could feel her hart hammering away in her chest as they approached. Piccolo glaring at her had been bad but at least she could keep her back to him now she was surrounded. "Dew rep martu thakisy te able miter mi." She said trying to stop shaking.
"She says we are welcomed to eat with her" Piccolo said narrowing his eyes at her. She flinched at his voice without even realizing it.
Bulma smiled and tried to calm the little girl. Her eyes were still darting wildly when Bulma bent down and spoke to her. "Here take it. It's a translator, it will allow us to understand you." Balla blinked at her not able to understand the heavily accented gibberish. Bulma tried to pantomime what she wanted and only gained more curious looks from Balla. Bulma finality put the translator on her self and turned it on. She tried to say hello to Balla when the translator stared to screech. Balla backed away covering her ears trying to escape the sound. Bulma readjusted the output and tried to speak to her. Balla wouldn't listen to her and kept backing up until she ran in to Piccolo. He stared at her and she froze in her tracks and allowed Bulma to place the translator on her and turn it on. "Go on try it out." Bulma smiled at her.
Balla looked shocked the words were still heavily accented but they made sense. "You can speak like me?"
"No." Bulma said "That thing on your ear is translating what I say so it makes sense to you."
"Th-Thank you lady blue hair." Bulma smiled at Balla's unique way of addressing her. Balla's eyes went wide. She had never heard her own voice sound so strange. The tones were gentle, high and light not at all like her sometimes deep and ruff namcken and the accent was very odd. Balla laughed it was a, hi tinkling sound. She caught her self mid laugh and frowned clutching her ears. "Come eat I cooked it my self." She could hardly believe she was the one speaking.
The fish was the size of a small whale and no one could identify it. Chi-Chi was amazed maybe all the food she brought wasn't necessary, but at least the paper plates, napkins and silverware were. Everyone sat down around the fire. Balla put a small slab of fish on each plate, bowed to them and said eat in peace. She stepped back with out taking any for herself and stood stiffly with her hands clasped behind her back. No one moved for a minute trying to understand what she was waiting for. Goku's stomach growled impatiently. He examined the food on his plate deciding whether to ask for more or not. He downed it in one gulp and smiled. "Do you wish to have any more Goku?" She stepped up to him taking his plate in slightly shaky hands. Please, Please let him be happy. Please let him just go away. She thought swaying nervously.
"No thanks that filled me right up." Balla exhaled the breath she didn't know she was holding and went back to her space out side the ring of people. It was incredibly strange to see Goku turn down food. Especially when it was one of his favorites. Everyone wondered what could be so bad that Goku's iron stomach couldn't handle it. Chi-Chi took a tiny taste and discovered apart from being slightly burnt, salty and a bit bitter it was tasty and very filling. She decided to get another bite and her elbow hit her water glass knocking it off it's perch. Balla ran like lighting caught it with her brown saya-jin tail. Balla handed the glass back to her.
Chi-Chi poked at her tail and Balla frowned at her. "Where did you get that?" Chi-Chi asked.
"I was born with it." Balla said trying to figure out what she was going to do next.
"So you're a Saya-jin?" Chi-Chi said not really believing it.
"My father was. How do you know of the Saya-jin?" Balla was shocked first a nameck and now this woman knew of her father's people. "What kind of people are these?" She frowned it seemed like the situation was going from bad to worse.
"My husband is one" Balla examined Goku from head to toe. Goku didn't seem to mind it. He stood and turned around giving her a better look. She looked at him sideways trying to see any thing she may have missed. "Is that woman trying to make a fool out of me? That man is no more sayen than the blue haired woman is." She thought.
"You can't be. A real Saya-jin would never dishonor himself by hiding his tail." Balla blurted out forgetting her manners. She clasped a hand to her mouth and stepped back. "He is going to kill me now for sure. At least my family will be waiting for me." She stood waiting for him to strike her for the insult.
"I am one. I am not hiding my tail. It was removed when I was just a child." He said it like it was nothing. That made Balla frightened again. What kind of man could speak of that crime so lightly?
"I hope you had your revenge." She said with a look shock and repulsion. Balla touched her own tail, which was brisling.
"How did you cook that fish?" Chi-Chi tried to take Balla's mind off of tails.
"I pulled it from the water, cleaned it, rubbed bean paste in to it and cooked it. My grandfather taught me to how cook." She said with a hint of pride in her voice.
"What kind of beans were they?"
"Ajisa brought from my home."
"I don't think I have ever herd of those. Could you show me them?" Balla nodded and went to the far side of the little island. She returned with a threadbare sack that seemed to be made of a decaying fabric patched with unfamiliar plant fibers. She opened the small bag and showed Chi-Chi the slightly wrinkled brown beans.
"This is almost a full crop. The bushes don't give as much as they used to. They don't like the cold"
Chi-Chi held a bean up. "These are senzu beans. Where did they come from?"
"Nowhere until my ship crashed." Everyone stopped talking and listened to hear if she would say any more. Balla stared in to the core of the fire, willing her emotions to stop and the tears waiting in her eyes to evaporate. It was stupid to cry about something that you couldn't change. Besides it was none of their business anyway.
"Are there any other Saya-jin are left?" She asked trying to draw attention away from her self.
"My husband Goku our sons Gohan and Goten. There is Bulma's husband Vegeta and their son trunks"
"The Prince here?" She muttered to herself.
"Yes, But he flew off some where. Did you know him?" Chi-Chi answered looking curiously at Balla. Her rage grew and clouded her fear. Balla ripped off the translator and let it drop to the ground. She blasted up in the sky not caring what happened to her when she landed. Gohan was curious got up to fallow her but Goku laid a hand on his shoulder and stopped him.
"This is between her and Vegeta." Goku had recognized the fire that had sprung up in Balla. A low rumble started in the sky as ki crackled around her. The rumble died down and deep guttural scream replaced it. Balla was cursing Vegeta's name with every namecken and Saya-jin cuss word she knew. She was calling him out. Gohan looked up at and her wondered what she was trying to accomplish. Balla landed the rage had burned off a little and she had just realized that he was going to die very painfully. She felt a power flare up suddenly in the west he had herd her and was coming. Balla had to get herself out of there quick. The sun was going down and soon the cold would get her then she would be a sitting duck. She started to run as fast as she could ignoring the chorus of angry and confused voices around the fire only looking back after she was on the next island to her horror she saw Piccolo behind her caching up fast.
Balla ran as fast as she could but Piccolo was faster and caught her like she was standing still. "What are you? How do you know Vegeta?"
"Let me go. He is coming." When he didn't respond Balla swallowed her pride and pleaded with him. "It doesn't matter. Let me go night is coming and he will catch me then."
"You are going to tell me what is going on if we have to stand here all night."
If she didn't tell him what happened quick Vegeta would find her. "It is a vary long tale. Is your ship strong and warm?"
"It is but why should I take you there?"
"The nights here are bad the whole world is coved in ice and the cold eats away at things." She was scanning the sky looking for impending death.
"Our ship is damaged that is why we had to land here. I don't know if it is repaired yet. How do I know you aren't making this up and have some of your friends waiting to ambush us?"
"I am the only one here my parents are dead Vegeta killed them. I have to get out of here. Take me to your ship."
That explains the shouting and the running. He thought releasing her "It is not my ship it is Bulma's ask her." Balla ran back to the fire the sun was setting she didn't have much time. She ran back to Bulma's side and put the translator back on.
"Lady Bulma may I please get on your ship. Piccolo wants me to talk to him and the sun is going down it will be cold soon." And I am afraid your man is going to kill me she added silently.
"The part of the electrical system is broken. I don't know if the heat will work."
"I can give you all the energy you will need for tonight. Please let me get on board your ship. It is going to get very cold soon and every thing will ice over." Balla fell to her knees pleading with Bulma.
Bulma thought Balla had to be exaggerating. "How have you survived here?"
"I have lived here for a long time. I am stronger than the cold. Will you take me to your ship?" She begged her shaking fingers brushing Bulma's leg.
Bulma shook her head the child was almost hysterical. It was better to just let her come with them and hopefully she would calm down some. "Do you have any thing you need to bring?"
"This is all I have." She held her sack like it was a sacred relic. Bulma couldn't help but think how pitiful that was. She was really starting to wonder what had happened to the child to leave her in this state. Krillin looked over at Balla, He had never see a more scared and skittish person in his life it was rather sad. He decided to try to make her calm down a bit. Balla felt his eyes on her back. She turned around to see him making fish lips and crossing his eyes. She watched him confused and mimicked the expression hoping it was some kind of greeting. Goku watched and started to laugh. Chi-Chi sighed smiling Goku was just like another kid sometimes. Vegeta watched the whole thing perched on the edge of the island. He was mildly surprised to see the girl kneeling near his wife. He knew as soon as he saw her that she had to be the one yelling from earlier. "Stupid Kakkarott, why do you hang around with these morons? What are you going to do with that trouble-making bastard? She shakes with fear, as she should. I should have sent her to hell with her traitorous father. Stupid thing I don't except changes from the weak. " Balla felt his eyes on her. She stared straight ahead with cold focused eyes. She glared at him with all the anger she had inside of her. She wanted to speak but it was taking all her willpower not to run from his sight. Balla knew his power and was afraid. She imagined how horribly he was going to kill her where she stood. She shivered as his eyes continued to drill in to her. Balla desperately wanted to run away and find some place to hide. She turned to leave only to see Piccolo watching her out of the corner of his eye. She was trapped and there was nothing she could do about it. These people were so much stronger than she was. Trunks and Goten almost ran her over. They could have cared less what was happing around them. They were off on there own little world. The last of the food was put away and every one prepared to go. Bulma was worried about how the little girl was going to power the ship. Vegeta walked over to take Bulma back. He smiled when Balla cringed and tried to hide her face as they past. Balla let out a sigh relieved and confused. Why didn't he kill me? I offended him and he let me live. Does he have something else planed for me?
Balla picked up the bag of senzu beans. She was defiantly going to need them tonight. Balla waited for a few minutes before powering up to fly. Goku watched her wondering why she was so afraid. She blasted off like a rocket leaving a muted yellow tail of ki. Balla knew she should conserve energy but her fear of Vegeta had made her embarrassed and angry. Now all she wanted to do was run from this place and leave them all for the cold. The night was going to be long and hard and she wasn't going to get any rest. If she didn't focus she could end up dead and if she survived Vegeta might kill her as soon as her power was no longer needed. Either way she was probably never going to see the light of day again.
The ship was the largest ship she had ever seen. Her mouth hung open it was hard to believe that something that big could even move on it's own. Balla started to regret ever seeing those strange people. Bulma was waiting for her just inside the hatch. Balla pushed her doubts aside and put on a brave mask. "Where is the engine?"
"Follow me." They walked along through the cool hallways in silence until Balla felt brave enough to ask a question.
"How did Goku's lady know about the Nameck's sacred plant?"
The question stopped Bulma cold. She answered the best way she knew how. "A friend of ours grows them on a planet far from here. Why do you speak nameck-go and know so much about them?"
"My Grandfather was a Namek-jin." This really confused Bulma. There was no way this child could have known all the nameck-go she knew if that wasn't true but there was no way she could be related to a nameck. It was physically imposable. Bulma guessed that perhaps one had adopted this child before she ended up here.
"Here it is." The room was small by their standards with white rounded walls. There were control panels and consoles jutting out from the walls. The air smelled faintly of burnt plastic and electricity. Most of the consoles were far larger than Balla herself and they made her feel rather nervous.
"Do you have lines that take power in to the ship?" She said trying to forget how large the room was. Do I even have enough power to run this huge place?
"You mean wires to the ship's electrical system?" Bulma handed her the lines and was rather curious to see what the girl did with them.
Balla grabbed the wires surprised that they were almost as thick as her fingers. "I need to hold the ends and have silence while I find my way." She took one in each hand and let power wash over them. The pail yellow glow grew and covered each piece of equipment as she entered the system. Every one was standing in the doorway watching except for Vegeta who Balla happily noticed was missing. Balla's eyes glazed over as she felt her way through the power system. It was far larger than she expected and she got lost in the complex interconnections. It was far harder to move about in than her pod the very system seemed to be trying to purge her from it. Balla was franticly trying to find her way out when she felt the skin on the back of her neck twitch. She calmed her self and retraced her steps finally finding the way out. "Bulma, could you plug these in. I can't see the ports."
She handed Bulma the lines and lifted her braid up. "Plug them in where?" Bulma said not knowing where to look.
"In the back of my neck." Balla said pointing near the wounds that had appeared just below the hairline.
Bulma's eyes widened she had never heard of any one doing that before. "You are going to be the battery?"
"Yes." Bulma shook her head and inserted the wires in to her neck. Balla set Burma's translator on the ground. Bulma stepped back as Balla started to power up. A ball of crackling yellow white ki surrounded her and fed in to the ship. The ball faded away in to the generator. They could all feel the vibrations of the ship coming to life around them. She could feel a searing pain as the power left her it felt like the ship was trying to swallow her whole. Balla teetered back and forth almost falling but she managed put some senzu in her mouth and start chewing. She closed her eyes and thought. "I am so weak. The eldest child could kill me without much effort. How am I ever going to get my revenge?" Bulma handed her the translator and Balla turned it on herself. "I will probably have to do that every three hours."
"Are you all right?" Chi-Chi was very upset by the entire thing. She had never seen someone eat more than one senzu at a time. The girls clothing was smoking a little and it looked like she was tired.
"I will be fine, no worries Goku's lady."
"Call me Chi-Chi." She smiled warmly at Balla. Balla looked up at her realizing that she was the only person that she had met today that didn't set her on edge.
"How did you do that?" Gohan's mouth was still open slightly.
"My grandmother taught me. I used it to power my pod."
Goten and Trunks looked at her. Trunks whispered something in to Goten's ear and they both started to laugh. Balla glared at them. "Strange boys I don't know why they think I am a bunny. What ever that is."
Piccolo looked at her and spoke in nameck-go. "You still have a questions to answer." Balla looked at the floor she wished that he had left with Vegeta.