May woke up, her head pounding in her skull, as she tried to remember what had happened to her. The last thing she remembered was working in her garden, worrying about Piccolo. Then, there was someone behind her casting a shadow, and finally nothing.
May opened her eyes slowly. It took a moment for her vision to focus, but once she could see well enough, she noticed that she was in some sort of little room. It had a window on one side, but she was too low to look out at anything but the sky. Her arms were tied behind her back at her wrists and her ankles were joined as well. She lay on her side on the floor of a round room; at one end was a chair and what looked like several consoles with buttons. At the opposite end was a bed and two tall boxes that looked to serve the same purpose as dressers, but they didn't have any handles.
May then noticed that whoever had tied her up had made one major mistake; instead of being blindfolded, she had been gagged. It was a dumb mistake that would allow her to escape if she could find something to cut the bindings around her wrists. She had very little maneuverability, but she could bend her knees and allow herself to slide across the smooth tiled floor. As she slid over to one of the boxes, she examined it for a way to open it.
In a corner of the box was a small button that she pushed with her head. As soon as she had pushed it, the bottom drawer opened to reveal nothing. It was empty. She sighed in frustration and pushed it closed before opening the one above it. Using the bed as leverage, she lifted up to her knees and looked inside. As luck would have it, there were weapons in this drawer, including what looked like one of those ray guns from the old movies, and a knife still in the sheath.
After rising to her feet, though unsteadily, May maneuvered her back against the box so that her hands could reach into the drawer and draw out the knife. Unsheathing the knife, she lay back upon the bed and began to work at the bindings on her wrists.
Piccolo growled in anger, his power shooting up, which caused the other fighters to look at him in slight surprise. "What have you done with her?" he hollered, anger clearly registering to the woman before him.
Adora smirked at the reaction she had received; this was all going according to her plan. "She is safe, for now."
Gohan was worried, not only for May, but for what Piccolo might do should he let his anger get the best of him. As he watched the Namek, his power kept rising.
"If you must know, I killed Radditz," Piccolo then smirked at the angered reaction of the woman, "He was a weak, sorry excuse for a warrior."
Adora was fuming by now and shouted, "He was a great man!"
"He was going to destroy the planet. We had to stop him," Goku said.
"You helped him, so you will die as well," Adora said, and motioned for several of her little minions to attack.
Three of the purple aliens launched themselves at the fighters, while the three others stayed behind with what looked like weapons of some sort. Goku, Piccolo, and Vegeta were targeted by the aliens, and soon launched themselves into a battle. The other four, Krillin, Goten, Trunks, and Gohan, stayed behind to keep an eye on the other enemies.
One of the aliens fired an energy beam from the weapon straight at Gohan. He barely dodged it, and soon the others were dodging blasts from the other weapons. As they tried to get close enough to destroy them, the others continued their battle in the air.
The little purple aliens were strong, but nothing that two full-blooded Saiyans and a pissed off Namek couldn't handle. Goku and Vegeta had powered up to Super Saiyan, and managed to work somewhat together. The two aliens collided, their energy hitting each other, and destroyed themselves. Piccolo, who had already powered up, simply hit the being into the air, and fired a ki beam at it, disintegrating it instantly.
Gohan and the others had managed to get past the energy beams, though not without a few scratches, and destroy the other aliens. This left only the woman, Adora, standing before her ship, with an odd satisfied smirk gracing her lips.
May managed to cut the bonds binding her wrists, but not without a few cuts to her arms. Once free, she tore the sleeves off of her shirt and used the shreds as bandages to her wrists.
"All right," she said to herself, "Now to find a way out of here and find out where I am."
She searched the front of the ship, but the controls were in some odd language that she couldn't read. 'One of them has to open a door outside,' she thought.
Across the panel, there were several important looking buttons on one side. One was red, one was blue, and one was green. Now, which one should she push? She didn't want the ship to suddenly take off with her into space, or to suddenly blow up, but she had to decide.
"Eeny, meeny, miny mo," she said to herself, landing on the green button. "Here goes nothing," closing her eyes, she pushed the button. Nothing happened.
A few seconds later there was a rumbling sound that shook the entire ship. One side of the flooring began lowering and she soon found a ramp leading outside. She happily bounded out of the ship and onto the sandy ground. Looking around, her spirits fell again as all she could see was a vast land of nothing but sand. It was a rocky desert with no sign of life for quite a ways away.
She climbed onto a high rock to get a better view and saw what looked to be flashes of light in the distance. Even if it was just the sunlight reflecting off of something, that something would either be man-made, or be water that she could follow to civilization.
Deciding it would be better to take her chances away from whoever it was that had captured her, she set out on her journey towards the flashes of light.
Adora's smirk was aggravating on Piccolo's nerves. He was worried for May's safety and also he was very mad that he hadn't been able to anticipate such a move on the enemies behalf.
"You think you've won," Adora sneered, "the fight has just begun," and her armor began to glow an even brighter golden color as it appeared she was powering up. "I have waited so long for this day, and you will not take my revenge from me."
She launched herself at Piccolo who barely had time to dodge the fist she swung at his middle. She caught his side and it somehow ripped through his gi and cut through the skin on his right side. She then lashed out her foot towards his head, but he again dodged it, although not fast enough as it sliced through his right shoulder.
Adora had somehow made herself into a large sharp weapon. The armor she had on, now that he had a closer look, was connected to her in such a way that it made her stronger, faster, and more dangerous than she would have been without it.
Vegeta powered up and charged her, his fists poised to attack, and attempted to knock her out of the sky. Unfortunately, as soon as his fist connected, a surge of electricity shot out and he hollered out in anger and pain as the voltage sent him hurtling to the ground.
He rose from the crater he had made, and sneered up at the woman who looked down on him with a satisfied smirk. "You can't touch me. I will deal with the rest of you once I have taken care of the Namek."
A/N: I like a woman who can take care of herself and doesn't need to be rescued. Although, I also enjoy when the woman is in danger and the guy comes to the rescue. Either way, just so you all know, I have to have happy endings and this story will definitely have a happy ending no matter what happens.