I have been waiting for this chapter forever. Finally two more important characters are going to be introduced and this story will get going!

SE is what I refer to as Saiya Enhanced. That means that they were treated with the Saiya Project.

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SPACE

Cauli stood at the bridge of his lead cruiser. Below him were several other alien species working the controls and other small tasks. He stood looking out the large windows at the stars that seemed to fly by his ship. "Sir," one of the small pinkish Blistolians grunted, interrupting the General's daydream. "It's Doru sir, shall I connect him?"

Cauli sighed. "Very well." A large screen came down from the ceiling, covering the windows view that Cauli had been gazing out at. The large screen flickered on to a close up of Doru sitting in his head office. "High Chancellor Doru, it is a honor you would contact me directly." Cauli bowed politely, trying to keep the contempt towards Doru out of his voice.

"Don't put that servant act on for me General Cauli, I do not need your fakeness." Cauli straightened his back and smiled tightly at the screen.

"As you would then."

"I called you to redirect your fleet to quadrant twelve to bring down some resistance against the Empire. We will send General Xemit in your place to Hakken."

Cauli growled inwardly. 'Damn, I wanted to see the seer on Hakken before it was destroyed.' "We will change course at once." He said out loud to Doru. The figure on the screen nodded and the screen went black. Cauli turned to the Blistolian. "How long will this new mission take?"

The Blistolian pulled out his pocket computer and did the calculations. "Less than a day to get there and back, plus a few hours to clear out the resistance."

"Change course and be quick about it." Cauli barked to all the officers on the bridge. "I want to be in and out of this as quick as possible."

---------------------------------------------------------------- PLANET ODOM (Quadrant 12)

The entire world was in flames. Even the atmosphere seemed to be tainted red from the massive fires below. The rebels had attacked this manufacturing planet for Akuma's Empire. The young blue haired woman felt vomit rising in her throat as she looked upon the remains of her squad. The rebels had taken them by surprise and only a handful of her fellow soldiers remained. "Damn it, we aren't going to make it off this hell hole!" she screamed towards the blackened sky.

"Don't panic yet. We can still win this." Her companion replied tensely, brushing back his sooty hair.

"How?" wailed Celera.

Karo beside her winced as another blast of heat came towards them. "Because, I have a feeling." Another blast came flying at them from the rebels. Screams of pain and death followed the bright light as two more of their squad fell to the blackened ground.

Celera choked on another cry as she realized their were only seven of them left. "Karo, I think you were just promoted." She looked at the others in their group and they nodded.

Karo grimaced and began to formulate a plan. 'Great, why do I have to come up with the plan? Celera is the smart one.' He turned to her to ask for her advice but stopped when he realized that she was crying in the arms of another soldier. He frowned at their closeness. 'Always seeking comfort in some man's arms. She isn't in any state to think clearly.' His eyes softened as he saw the tears run down her face. 'Okay, a plan, I need a plan.' He pulled his eyes of her and searched frantically for an opening. He found one a couple of hundred yards away. 'We need to de-capsulate a ship to get out of here, but the only opening is directly in their line of fire.'

Karo could feel the rebels getting closer. He shot at them desperately as he continued to try and work out a plan. The others followed him and they also volleyed blasts at the rebels. The fire around them roared as it grew higher and the heat became even more unbearable. "We need to do something now commander!" an SE soldier with blonde hair yelled at Karo.

"Alright!" Karo shouted over the roar. "We are going to launch a ship from over there." He pointed towards the clearing. "That means that someone has to de-capsulate it, another two to guard the ship while the others get on.' He looked at the blonde soldier that had spoken and threw him the capsule. "You de-capsulate and I, and Lero will cover you. The rest of you make a run to the ship, shooting if you have the power left. Everyone got that? Good! GO!" Karo jumped out from their hiding spot and began to shoot ki blasts at their attackers. Lero, who had been holding Celera, followed close behind him. The others began to attack also as they ran towards the clearing.

Karo smiled grimly as his plan took action. Both he and Lero shot into the fire at their attackers. They could no longer see them through the smoke and depended on their scouters to track the rebels.

The ship had been loaded and began to take off with the dock door still open. Karo signaled to Lero "Go, I will cover your back!" Lero nodded and flew up towards the ship. It was then that Karo heard the blip from his scouter. "No!" he screamed as he watched a blast of light come out of the darkness. Everything seemed to slow down as he was hit with a small blast to his arm. He fell backwards and watched with horror as the blast he had seen came closer to the ship. "Celera!" he screamed as his vision grew darker.

But no explosion came. Karo saw through the gray mist that surrounded his eyes a figure in the sky that seemed to catch the energy and hold it in the air. The figure threw it back down at the rebels and it exploded on them. Using all of his energy he pulled himself off the ground and tried to hover in the air. The figure now was at his side and helped him fly to the ship. Karo last saw the dock before everything went blank.

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"Wake up you lazy oaf!"

Karo groaned and tried to see who was speaking to him through the fog. Slowly the blue began to come through and he could make out Celera's face. "Where am I?"

"The infirmary you dolt! I owe you a lunch because you were right, we didn't die." Karo began to pick out the objects around him and realized he was in a bed.

"Who, who stopped the blast?"

Karo heard Celera sigh dreamily. "It was General Cauli. Oh you should have seen him! He came out of nowhere just when I thought we were going to be blown sky high. His power is amazing! He stopped that blast like it was nothing! Then he flew into the ship holding you, his armor all shining and his face glowing from sweat. He smiled at me too! Dropped you at my feet and told me to watch you while he took care of the rebels. He shot just two blasts and they were all wiped out!"

"How long have I been out?"

Celera smiled. "A couple of hours I think. I wasn't really paying attention to time. We landed on his cruiser and you were brought here because they weren't enough regeneration tanks to go around. They actually found survivors! Cauli did! He found twenty men, four from our team, all alive, but badly wounded! We would have left them here to die if it wasn't for him. After you went here I got to actually talk to him! He wanted to know more about us and since you were unconscious I got to tell him! I just got back here a minute ago."

Celera continued to talk about General Cauli but Karo didn't listen. 'I remember him, I saw him before at HQ. He looked familiar then, but I can't remember from where.' He turned his eyes back on Celera who was still talking about the general. Karo frowned at her excitement over that man. "Are you done trying to bore me to death?" he asked her sarcastically. Celera frowned at him and began to open her mouth to talk but the door opened and in stepped the general himself.

"Am I interrupting anything?" He asked, eying the two.

Celera grinned widely and latched onto his arm. "No sir, I was just telling Karo about your amazing abilities and the way you saved all of us!"

Cauli effortlessly disentangled himself from Celera's grip and walked over to the bed. "A tank is ready for you."

"I don't need one. I'm fine." Karo responded coldly. Celera's face grew red with anger and she opened her mouth again to tell him off.

Cauli interrupted her. "I need you to be fit to fight in a day so that is an order. We are heading to a planet called Hakken and I need your expertise in battle." Karo felt himself blush slightly, much to his annoyance, at being complimented by a high ranking official. He nodded and Cauli turned and walked out of the room. After his exit two meds came in to help him to the tanks.

"Well" began Celera as she helped the medics get Karo onto a stretcher. "I am going to go then to see what the general might need." She winked coyly at Karo and bounded out of the room, her long freshly washed blue hair swinging side to side.

'Great. Now she has her eyes on that damn general. That's all I need.'

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Ha ha ha. I finally got to this point. It took almost twenty chapters but I got here! Just in case you are wondering, Karo and Celera are NOT my original characters. They are actually... That's a secret (an obvious one, but none the less). I think Doru is the only character, besides Akuma, that I made up that has a significant point in this story. Just want to make that clear.

Next chapter will be up ?